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In The Mailbox: 05.15.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 15, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.15.20 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Keep America Working Event
Twitchy: Watch Stacey Abrams’ Soul Die Before Your Very Eyes
Louder With Crowder: Barstool Prez On COVID-19 – We Did What Was Asked, Now Government Is Changing The Rules

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Robot Music
American Conservative: The Illusion Of “Free Markets” & “Free Trade”
American Greatness: Red China Arrests Hundreds Of Its Own Citizens For Speaking Out Against Coronavirus
American Power: Timeline Of FBI’s FISA Abuse, also, The Naked Dress
American Thinker: The WuFlu Lockdown Is A Colossal Blunder, also, Fauci’s Song & Dance
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily “Big Anti-GMO” News
Babalu Blog: US Returns Castro Regime To Counterterrorism Blacklist
Baldilocks: April 2020 Post Digest For DaTechGuy Blog – With More Commentary Than Usual
BattleSwarm: Plenty Of Fear & Favor, also, Joe Rogan On Biden’s Rape Allegation & Dementia
Cafe Hayek: Here’s My Preference – Mind Your Own Business
Camp of the Saints:
CDR Salamander: The Red Chinese Will Tell You If You’re Effective, also, Battle Of The Antipodes
Da Tech Guy: Brief Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, Fear, Loathing, & Hunter Thompson
Don Surber: Obama Knew, Early & Often, also, They Have No Intention Of Ending The Lockdown
Fred On Everything: Latinos, Inevitabilities, And Nativism As A Hobby
The Geller Report: CNN Poll Shows Trump Crushing Biden In 15 Battleground States, also, President Of French Pro-Migrant Group Murdered By Afghan Refugee He Sheltered
Hogewash: Breaking – Politician Suspected Of Lying, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Today’s Woke Superheroes Have Conservative Roots
Legal Insurrection: PA Health Secretary Under Fire For Moving Mom Out Of Nursing Home As COVID-19 Deaths Rise, also, MI Bureaucrats Strip License Of Barber Who Defied Whitmer’s Shutdown Order
Michelle Malkin: Top Three Reasons To Doubt The Ahmaud “Just A Jogger” Arbery Narrative
The PanAm Post: Maduro Distrusts Cuba, Appoints Iranian Personal Guard, also, Diosdado Cabello Planned, Financed “Operation Gideon” To Overthrow Maduro
Power Line: Senator Cotton Has Questions For Joe Biden, also, Observations On The Great Hunkering
Shark Tank: South Florida Democrat Shows DeSantis The Love
Shot In The Dark: Models – Garbage In, Garbage Out
STUMP: State Bankruptcy & Bailout Reactions
The Political Hat: Abortion In The Age of Coronavirus – No Tests, No Telemedicine, No Doctor
This Ain’t Hell: Air Force Base Commander Found Dead, also, SSG Ron Shurer, Medal Of Honor Winner, Dies
Victory Girls: Deaths NOT Covered In Media’s Daily Panic Porn
Volokh Conspiracy: More Thoughts On Church Closings, also, The Irony Of “The Plot Against America”
Weasel Zippers: Barstool’s Dave Portnoy Says What Everyone’s Thinking About The Virus & Reopening, also, James Clapper’s Bizarre CNN Interview About Flynn & “Unmasking”
Megan McArdle: The Triumph Of Experience Over Hope
Mark Steyn: The Permanent Emergency

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Category: Linkagery

‘Science-Denying Grandma Killers’

Posted on | May 15, 2020 | 2 Comments

If you’re in favor of ending the COVID-19 lockdown mandates, liberals will accuse you of wanting old people to die, because Orange Man Bad!

This is not satire. It is literally the entirety of their argument. Because liberals hate Trump with the heat of ten thousand suns, and because Trump is in favor of ending the lockdowns as soon as possible, liberals now accuse anyone who suggests that small businesses should be allowed to resume operations of being irresponsible. It is useless to point out to them that, for example, Costco and Wal-Mart have never been shut down, so that the lockdowns are only punishing small businesses. Likewise, it does no good to point out that nearly all deaths from coronavirus have been among people 65 years or older, so that letting a 30-year-old get her hair cut at a local salon, or have a beer at the neighborhood pub, is unlikely to cause skyrocketing hospitalizations, nor will it put any senior citizen at risk. If the staff at Grandma’s nursing home is following proper disease-prevention procedures, there is no real public health risk from letting businesses re-open. Besides which, if you want to continue hiding out at home, nobody is going to force you to go out, so you can still be as safe as you want to be. No, never mind any of that, say people who consider themselves World Famous Virus Experts™ for no particular reason (expect they hate Trump), those of us who want to let businesses re-open are “Science-Denying Grandma Killers.”

Ace of Spades uses that phrase to devastating effect in mocking AllahPundit who is now renamed “KarenPundit.”




 

Category: Ace of Spades

She Befriended the Man Who Killed Her Mother. Guess How That Turned Out?

Posted on | May 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

If you answered “not too good,” you’re a winner:

Big-hearted, gregarious and always up for an adventure, Martha McKay surrounded herself with friends.
“There was something about her that people really loved,” her sister Katie Hutton tells PEOPLE. “She left an impression on people. She had that gift.”
McKay’s family and friends were devastated when she was killed on March 25, 2020, at Snowden House, the historic antebellum-style home on Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas, she bought from her family in 2004, restored and reopened as a luxury bed-and-breakfast.
McKay, 63, was found stabbed and bludgeoned to death at the top of the stairs, near a bag filled with her belongings, as well as a utility knife.
Authorities were shocked when they pulled the body of her killer out of the lake (he’d jumped in and drowned during a police chase): it was Travis Lewis, who’d been convicted at 17 for the horrific 1996 murders of her mother, Sally Snowden McKay, 75, and her cousin, Joseph “Lee” Baker, 52, a prominent Memphis blues guitarist. . . .
Knowing how forgiving McKay was, family and friends were still shocked when she befriended him after he went to prison (Lewis was sentenced to 28 ½ years after pleading guilty). . . .
A longtime Buddhist, McKay wrote Lewis letters in prison and supported his early, paroled release.
“We were contacted every time he came up for parole,” says Hutton. “None of us would OK it except for her.” . . .
When Lewis was finally released on parole in 2018, McKay quietly gave him a job doing work on the property, Hutton says.
But before her death, she fired him. Police had heard about a theft at McKay’s house before her murder, says Crittenden County Chief Investigator Todd Grooms. After she died, Hutton read in her diary that she’d sold a chandelier for $10,000 cash, which she stashed in the house.
Travis happened to be there that day, says Hutton. “Then the money vanished. She fired him after the money disappeared,” she says.
The family is still reeling from the fact that the same man killed her sister, mother, and cousin — 23 years apart.
“We are all just in disbelief,” says Hutton.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)




 

Category: Arkansas, Crime

Democrat Concedes in CA-25 Special Election: Not Close Enough to Steal

Posted on | May 15, 2020 | Comments Off on Democrat Concedes in CA-25 Special Election: Not Close Enough to Steal

 

Even the amazing ability of California Democrats to manufacture votes through “ballot harvesting” were not enough to elect Christy Smith in Tuesday’s special election to fill the seat vacated by naked bisexual Katie Hill‘s resignation. Republican Mike Garcia won CA-25 by a 12% margin, 56-44, an advantage of more than 18,000 votes, and Smith finally conceded Wednesday afternoon. You can add Garcia’s victory to the win for Republican Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin’s 7th District, filling the seat vacated by Republican Sean Duffy’s retirement. And how did the blog FiveThirtyEight tout this on Monday?

Two Special Elections On Tuesday
Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020

For some reason, they haven’t followed up on that idea. How did they get this “bellwether” so wrong? Molly Hemingway takes a look:

The case made by Geoffrey Skelley and Nathaniel Rakich was simple: Supposedly Americans strongly prefer Biden and Democrats over Trump and Republicans, and they are particularly upset with Trump and other Republicans’ attempts to reopen the country as the global Coronavirus pandemic rages.
“On Tuesday, we’ll get a taste of whether Democrats’ electoral advantage on paper will hold up in practice, as California and Wisconsin hold special elections for two vacant congressional seats. The main event is in the California 25th Congressional District, a bellwether seat in the north Los Angeles suburbs, where both parties see a chance to add to their ranks in the House. But if Democrats are also competitive in the quickly reddening, rural Wisconsin 7th Congressional District, it could signal another blue wave in the fall,” they argued. . . .

Read the whole thing.




 

Category: California, Election, Wisconsin

Transgender Person Stabbed to Death

Posted on | May 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

The major media are ignoring this crime for some reason:

HRC is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Helle Jae O’Regan, a 20-year-old transgender woman killed in San Antonio, Texas, on May 6. Her death is believed to be the at least 11th violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person this year in the U.S., and the sixth known violent death in just over five weeks — all transgender women.
”For the past several weeks, we have learned of the violent deaths of transgender Americans at a rate that should be a shock and horror to every single person. We must all ask ourselves today: ‘What am I doing to ensure a world where a person’s gender identity is not a potential death sentence?’” said Tori Cooper, HRC Director of Community Engagement for the Transgender Justice Initiative.

Let’s get the local news story:

A 42-year old man accused of violently attacking three people inside a barbershop choked one of the victims until they passed out, then stabbed the worker to death, according to court documents.
He’s also accused of stabbing another woman several times before she ran to get help. Investigators say she was taken to the hospital but is expected to be okay.
A third employee was also inside the shop but was not hurt.
Friends came in twos and threes to the Diesel Barbershop off Bandera Road to pay their respects and celebrate a life.
Court documents identify the victim as 20-year old Evan O’Regan, known as Helle Jae O’Regan to friends.
“We’ve known her since high school and she was so sweet,” said Jazzlyn Rodriguez, a friend of O’Regan’s. “She was the kindest person.

Gosh, who could have stabbed this “sweet” young person to death?

San Antonio police arrested 42-year-old Damion Terrell Blue Campbell on Wednesday night in connection to an incident that left one person dead and another wounded at a Northwest Side barbershop earlier in the day. Campbell was charged with murder.
At around 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, officers were called to the Diesel Barbershop in the Bandera Oaks shopping plaza for a cutting in progress. When police arrived, they found 20-year-old Evan Sorrell Ford Oregan, also known as Helle, an employee of the barbershop, laying near the back door of the business suffering from multiple stab wounds. Oregan died at the scene. . . .
The employees were taking appointments preparing for Friday when the incident occurred. After speaking outside, witnesses said Oregan and Campbell walked into the shop together to schedule an apparent appointment, according to the arrest affidavit.
Campbell told the employees he forgot his payment and left the shop to retrieve it, but returned armed with a knife and a gun and ordered the employees to the back of the business, the affidavit said.
Campbell then choked Oregan until she passed out, according to the affidavit. One of the employees was able to escape, but surveillance footage showed Campbell stabbing Harrell and Oregan multiple times before fleeing from the business, the affidavit continued.

 

Probably not a right-wing Trump voter:

One of Campbell’s neighbors, Robert Abraham, said given the numerous bizarre posts and confrontations between him and Campbell, the allegations were not shocking.
“It doesn’t surprise a lot of people that were familiar with him in the neighborhood,” Abraham said.
Abraham said Campbell had repeatedly confronted him and others on the neighborhood’s Facebook group. He said at one point, the communications were so concerning, his wife urged him to call the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
“I can’t even mentally understand it. It was quite bizarre,” Abraham said of Campbell’s antagonizing comments and posts, pointing to one in which Campbell had licked park benches, making light of the pandemic.
Other residents reached out to KENS 5, not wanting to go on camera, but echoing Abraham, stating Campbell had posted bizarre videos and comments. One video shared by a member of the neighborhood Facebook group depicts what they said is Campbell in a beak-like plague mask, driving with a siren playing in the background.
“When I kind of step back and look at it, I was like — it was quite frightening, to be honest with you,” Abraham said. “You know, in light of what happened.” . . .
Shayne Brown, the owner of Diesel Barbershop, where Campbell is alleged to have carried out the attack, described the deadly ordeal in a Facebook post.
“Attempts were made to give the man whatever he wanted…cash, equipment, or whatever it took to get him out of the shop,” Brown wrote in a Facebook post. “The man made it clear that he wasn’t there for money. He then began asking the employees: ‘What have you done wrong? What have you done wrong? God sent me here to kill you because you have done something wrong! What have you done wrong?’ over and over again while forcing them to the back of the shop.”

And the moral of the story? Crazy People Are Dangerous.




 

Category: Crime, Texas

In The Mailbox: 05.14.20

Posted on | May 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Andrew Cuomo Killed Your Grandfather
Twitchy: Obama Lackey Learns The Hard Way Why You Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gunfight With Richard Grenell
Louder With Crowder: Washington Governor Jay Inslee Goes Full Nazi

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Answer To The Karen Is The Patriarchy, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The I Want To Speak To The Sergeant Edition
American Conservative: A Pandemic Of Know-Nothings, also, Time For A New National Defense Strategy
American Greatness: Flynn’s Judge Hits The Brakes, also, The Hoaxes Cry Out For Punishment
American Power: LA County To Maintain “Stay At Home” Order Through July, also, Reopening Bookstores
American Thinker: Obama’s Coup Attempt, also, Biden’s Attempt To Woo Black Voters Falls Short
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Chickens Roosting News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Media Claims Starvation, Forced Labor Camps Rampant In US Thanks To Corona-Chan, also, The Castro Dynasty’s Capitalist Treasure Vault In London
Baldilocks: The Illegal/Unconstitutional Acts Of President Obama, Part IV
BattleSwarm: BidenWatch For May 11, also, Democrats Tell Austin Businesses “Drop Dead”!
Cafe Hayek: Open Letter To Senator Josh Hawley
Camp of the Saints:
CDR Salamander: “Lies Written In Ink Can Never Disguise Facts Written In Blood”, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: OG Fascist, also, The Pritzker Disaster In Illinois
Don Surber: Mexico Investigates Obama’s Gun Running, also, They Don’t Want COVID-19 To End
First Street Journal: A (Temporary?) Victory Against Tyranny, also, The Quantification Of Death & Poverty
Fred On Everything: The Universe As Pool Hall
The Geller Report: Newly Released Documents Show That Schiff Shamelessly Lied, also, Ramadan In Niger & Nigeria
Hogewash: I’m So Old…, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: It’s Undeniable – Woke Broke Marvel Comics, also, Meet The “Let The Eat Cake” Celebrities
JustOneMinute: Good Golly Miss Molly, also, Darn It
Legal Insurrection: Pelosi Palooza – $3 Trillion House Relief Bill Loaded With Democrat Goodies, also, Wisconsin Supremes Strike Down “Safer at Home” Order
Michelle Malkin: Notes On The Coming Meat Shortage, also, Big Google Is Watching Your Children
The PanAm Post: Who Are The “Operation Gideon” Americans Captured By Maduro? also, Bill Gates’ Strange Relationship With Red China & Corona-chan
Power Line: What Does Judge Sullivan Hope To Accomplish? also, Squabbling Threatens Reopening Of MLB, EPL
Shark Tank: Juice – Rubio Calls Continued COVID-19 Restrictions “Unrealistic”; Where Is Charlie Crist?
Shot In The Dark: Today’s News, Two Years Ago (Again)
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Excess Deaths & COVID-19, also, Visualizing The Financial State Of The States
The Political Hat: New Woke Sexuality – Rabies, also, Making The Abnormal Normal Requires Making The Normal Abnormal
This Ain’t Hell: Acting DNI Grenell Declassifies Flynn Documents – With Names, also, Michigan Barber Update
Victory Girls: 60 Minutes Equivocates For Red China, Smears Pompeo, also, COVID-19 Propaganda Phrases That Need To Stop
Volokh Conspiracy: Frodo Baggins Appears In SCOTUS, also, The Limiting Principle For Congress’ Power To Subpoena Presidential Records Isn’t Hard To Find
Weasel Zippers: Tucker Carlson Lays Out Obamagate, also, Biden Promises Pathway To Legalization For 11 Million Illegals
Megan McArdle: America’s Coming Meat Shortage Shows Fragility Of Supply Chains
Mark Steyn: Quarantine Penguins & Corona Niqabs, also, Folds Like A (Pocket) Knife

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Early Release

Posted on | May 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Early Release

— by Wombat-socho

Well, I caught some lucky breaks yesterday, and I’m out of the homeless veterans’ shelter. Planning to stay out, too; the VA has put me up at the Candlewood Suites down the street from the Convention Center, and I’m going to abuse their wifi to catch up on lost blogging time over the next few days. In fact, I intend to stay holed up in my room all weekend, for I have a lot to post about. Much thanks to those of you who hit the tip jar in response to Stacy’s kind words the other day, and to those of you who bought things through my Amazon links in April.

For what it is worth, Gauleiter Sisolak has graciously decreed that some businesses may open but others may not, and the decision on which is which appears to have been made with the same careful attention lavished on the rest of the state’s response to Corona-chan, which is to say none. For example, this skin care salon is barred from opening, while barber shops and beauty salons are allowed to open for business. The casinos on the Strip are not yet open, with MGM looking to reopen its properties by “early June” and others as early as Friday. Restaurants are gradually reopening as well. This is a Good Thing, since unemployment in the state is currently sitting at 25%, mostly here in Clark County, and the state’s unemployment system is completely FUBAR, so much so that the state is considering waiving civil service rules in order to hire temporaries. The phone system is completely overloaded and the online web portal is scarcely better, so there’s a lot of pissed-off unemployed people around with time on their hands, and Sisolak may find himself staring down the barrel of a hostile legislature after this fall’s elections.

That having been said, while the local economy is struggling to get back on its feet, you can get some pretty amazing deals on hotel rooms and airline tickets if you want to come down here. Rooms at the Stratosphere and some of the downtown casinos are going for rates on Priceline not usually seen until the December doldrums, and Southwest is offering double frequent flyer miles on top of $49 fares for those who book now. (Unsolicited plug.) Stop by and say hi, why don’t you?

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Category: Fear. Loathing., Nevada

The Cult of Eternal Lockdown

Posted on | May 14, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

It is difficult to describe, and impossible to exaggerate, just how badly Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID-19 response has been, and it has been a catastrophe from the very beginning. In early March, when the country was already becoming concerned about the spread of the virus, Whitmer did not cancel the Democratic presidential primary, and indeed, there was record turnout for the March 10 primary, which turned into a “super spreader” event in metropolitan Detroit. She has since bungled practically every aspect of the pandemic, including her deliberately punitive and irrational lockdown policy. Now she would have us believe that she is the real victim of all this:

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said Wednesday that the lockdown protests are “racist and misogynistic” and called on those with a platform to discourage the demonstrators.
Whitmer told ABC’s “The View” that the protests are “really political” as demonstrators have brought nooses, Confederate flags and Nazi symbolism.
“This is not appropriate in a global pandemic,” she said. “But it’s certainly not an exercise of democratic principles where we have free speech. This is calls to violence. This is racist and misogynistic.”

I have no idea who brought nooses, etc., to these protests, although I suspect these were false-flag agents provocateurs — leftists pretending to be part of the protest and acting in ways intended to discredit Whitmer’s opponents. None of this, however, justifies her policies:

The Cult of Eternal Lockdown is always willing to seize on anything that looks like “evidence” of their own superior knowledge, while ignoring every fact that might contradict their worldview. It does not support their argument, for example, to point out that three states (New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts) have a combined 42,326 deaths from COVID-19, which is nearly half of all U.S. deaths from the disease. All three of those states voted for Hillary Clinton by landslide margins, so their disproportionately deadly outbreaks don’t support the Dumb Republicans theory of the pandemic. Nor can any of the Eternal Lockdown cultists explain why Ohio, under Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, has a per-capita coronavirus death rate 73 percent lower than the rate in neighboring Michigan, where Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has enforced one of the most draconian lockdown regimes in America.
Whitmer’s latest “scientific” exploit involved revoking the license of a 77-year-old barber who had reopened his shop in violation of her orders. Such authoritarian gestures are perfectly acceptable under the lockdown logic that prevails among Democrats and their media allies. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.




 

Category: Democrats, Fear. Loathing., Michigan
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