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In The Mailbox: 01.14.20

Posted on | January 14, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.14.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Will There Be A Sanders/Warren Showdown?
Twitchy: James O’Keefe – Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Operation Is Locking Down Twitter Accounts & Their Field Office
Louder With Crowder: Actor Vince Vaughn Was Polite With Trump At Clemson-LSU Game. Now The Left Wants Him Destroyed.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Sir Roger Scruton, also, Podcast #131 – The Z-Man Vs. Vox Day Grudge Match
American Conservative: Senator McConnell Should Recuse Himself From Impeachment Now
American Greatness: Sanders Field Organizer Says MAGA People Need Reeducation In Gulags
American Thinker: An Introduction To Q
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Brain Development News
Babalu Blog: Bernie Sanders Despised JFK For Criticizing The Castro Regime
Baldilocks: Halfrican Keeps It Real About Why 3rd World Immigrants Come To America
BattleSwarm: Did Commie Losers Assault Austin Democrat?
Cafe Hayek: Navarro’s Unintentionally Hilarious Apologies For Protectionism
Camp Of The Saints: And Iran/I Ran So Far Away
CDR Salamander: Summer 2017’s JAG Backwash
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – A Sampler, also, Trump & The NIle
Don Surber: It Is Even Better, Glenn
First Street Journal: There Are A Few Good Democrats Out There!
The Geller Report: Christian Bride, Ten Others En Route To Her Wedding Beheaded By Muslims, also, 42.8% Of Trump Ohio Rally Attendees Identified As Democrats Or Independents
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Buyer’s Remorse
Hollywood In Toto: Media – Oscars Too White, Too Male, & Too Apolitical
Legal Insurrection: MSNBC’s Joy Reid Raves “You Have Nazis Walking Around Because Of Trump”, also, #RefundWarren – Sanders Supporters Go Ballistic On Warren Over Last-Minute Sexism Claim
The PanAm Post: Ricky Gervais Calls Out Hollywood’s Social Justice Hypocrisy
Power Line: Iran’s State News Anchor Resigns, also, We Now Know – FISA Court Must Go
Shark Tank: Loomer Says Frankel Voted “To Protect The Terrorist Regime In Iran”
Shot In The Dark: Order
The Political Hat: Los Angeles To Go Full-In With Racial Equity
This Ain’t Hell: Larry Mitchell “Tubby” Hopkins – Update, also, Virginia Democrat Says Too Many 2A Supporters Have Mental Issues
Victory Girls: Bernie Organizer Tells Project Veritas Gulags Are Awesome
Volokh Conspiracy: President Rejects Premise Of DOJ Briefs In ACA Case
Weasel Zippers: Donald & Melania Greeted With Roaring Applause At College Football National Championship, also, Project Veritas Drops Video On Sanders Staffer Talking Re-Education, Nazis, & Promising “Milwaukee Will Burn”
Mark Steyn: Lion Kings & Desperate Dukes, also, Orange Man Bad

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‘Threatened Species’

Posted on | January 14, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

In May last year — late fall in the inverted seasons Down Under — an official of Australia’s National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in New South Wales (NSW) wanted the public to know that it was a crime for them to collect firewood for the winter:

NPWS Central West Area Manager Fiona Buchanan said the warning to residents around Condobolin, Bathurst, Dubbo, Forbes and Grenfell is timely as it follows a man being fined $30,000 for illegally collecting firewood in the Murrumbidgee Valley National Park.
“We are getting the message out there that removing firewood, including deadwood and fallen trees, is not permitted in national parks,” Ms Buchanan said.
“We want people to know the rules around firewood collection, particularly during the school holidays when more people are visiting national parks. . . .
“Many ground dwelling animals and threatened species use tree hollows for nesting so when fallen trees and deadwood is taken illegally, it destroys their habitat.
“This fallen timber is part of these animals’ natural ecosystem,” Ms Buchanan said.

Such concern for “ground dwelling animals” — $30,000 fines! — may be implicated in Australia’s current wildfires, says Tim Blair:

Those natural ecosystems are now, across thousands of hectares of national parks in New South Wales, nothing but cinders and ash. Enjoy your protected habitat, little ground-dwellers.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

Remember, despite the arrest of some 200 arsonists implicated in the Australian fires, the media insist that it is a “conspiracy theory” to doubt that “climate change” has caused this disaster. Those who call attention to facts that don’t fit the climate-change narrative are “exaggerating the role of arson in the ongoing bushfires . . . feeding a right-wing conspiracy theory,” we are told by activist Ketan Joshi. Arson is “a moot point, anyway,” he tells us, because “climate change makes fire spread quicker and through a larger area, rather than igniting blazes.” But his argument begins by embedding an assumption (“climate change” is to blame) as its first premise, so that if drafted as a syllogism, this is what Joshi is saying:

A. Climate change makes wildfires worse;
B. There are wildfires in Australia;

ergo

C: The wildfires in Australia were made worse by climate change.

This is a tautology, rather than an actual argument. And if you are familiar with the myth-making machinery of “climate change,” you will not be surprised to learn that when MSNBC needed an “expert” to explain the Australian wildfires, their guest was Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann, who will sue you if you suggest he’s engaged in massive fraud.

 



 

Category: Australia, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Media Bias, Science

Soros-Funded Crime Spree Continues

Posted on | January 13, 2020 | 2 Comments

Police say Sienna Carter (left) was kidnapped by King John Baylon (right).

After 13-year-old Sienna Carter vanished in downtown San Francisco a week ago, a frantic search ensued. The girl was found, a suspect was arrested but now has been set free to prey on other children. Why? In recent years, progressives funded by billionaire George Soros have pursued an agenda of targeting elections for state attorneys general and local district attorneys, while simultaneously promoting so-called “bail reform” initiatives. The combined effect of these left-wing programs is that dangerous criminals are turned loose on the street:

A 22-year-old Los Angeles man arrested earlier this week in connection with the weekend disappearance of a 13-year-old Mendocino County girl visiting San Francisco with her family has been released from jail pending charges.
As the Chronicle is reporting, the District Attorney’s Office — the leadership of which changes today with the swearing in of Chesa Boudin — decided to delay a charging decision in the case. Only yesterday, the paper reported that the suspect, King John Baylon, was facing 18 felonies including possession or control of child pornography, using a minor for sex acts, and kidnapping for child molestation. It’s unclear what prompted the decision to delay charges, but all suspects are legally allowed to get out of jail if prosecutors do not file charges within 48 hours of their arrest.
A spokesperson for the DA’s Office, Alex Bastian, simply said that the case remains under investigation.
Following two days of frantic efforts by the girl’s family, on social and television media, to locate her, both the girl and Baylon were spotted by bystanders who recognized her at the Ferry Building. Authorities believe that Baylon met the girl . . . on the internet. The girl came to the city with her family so that her sister could receive treatment for diabetes at UCSF’s Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes. She reportedly claimed she was feeling carsick and she was then seen on surveillance video exiting the hospital. She was later spotted at a local restaurant, where she met up with the suspect.
Baylon was arrested by UCSF police, and the extent of the pending charges against him suggest that the girl may have been recruited for sex trafficking. The pending charges also included meeting a minor for lewd purposes, arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd purposes, contact with a minor for sexual offense, lewd acts upon a child, human trafficking involving a minor, and oral copulation of a person under 18.

So a sex trafficker kidnaps a 13-year-old girl and, because of “bail reform,” this creep is now back on the street, whereabouts unknown.

Thanks a lot, “progressives”!



 

Category: California, Crime

In The Mailbox: 01.13.20

Posted on | January 13, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: 1917 – A Review, also, Iranian Protesters Call For Supreme Leader To Resign
Twitchy: Cory Booker Suspends His Campaign, President Trump Trolls Him Unmercifully
Louder With Crowder: “Human Ken Doll” Comes Out As Transwoman, Insults Women With Female Stereotypes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Book Reviews – Those Kittens Aren’t Going To Sacrifice Themselves, also, Stunning & Brave
American Conservative: The Passing Of A Giant
American Greatness: Christopher Wray Isn’t The Right Man To Fix The FBI, also, Texas Newspapers Criticize Governor For Refusing To Take More Refugees
American Thinker: Trump Is Masterfully Using Democrats’ Opposition Against Them, also, Don Cherry & The Alpha White Male
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Regime Offers Condolence Book For Dead Iranian Terrorist Soleimani, also, Ousted President Morales Vows To Create Armed Militias If He Returns To Bolivia
BattleSwarm: Huge Protests In Iran, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Alcohol Prohibition 100 Years Later, also, Subsidy Silliness
CDR Salamander: Stress Tested A Sealift Surge? How’d It Go?
Da Tech Guy: Boy George, Voice Of Reality, also, Preserving Freedom Of Reviews
Don Surber: One Missile, One Iranian Regime Change
First Street Journal: To The Left, Liberty & Freedom Mean Fascism & Authoritiarianism
The Geller Report: Muslim Slashes Tires At 19 Illinois Churches, also, Only 45 Show Up For Bloomberg Rally With Judge Judy
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, When The Narrative Fails
Hollywood In Toto: Colorado Critics Name 1917 Year’s Best Film, also, Deadline – Audiences Reject “Boss”-Like Female Empowerment
JustOneMinute: Cory Booker Out, Bernie Surging
Legal Insurrection: CA Gov Newsom Wants To Fund Healthcare For Illegal Immigrant Seniors, also Cory Booker Drops Out
Megan McArdle: Want To Avoid The January Gym Rush?
The PanAm Post: The Battle For Bolivia & A Bolivarian Spain
Power Line: Sir Roger Scruton, RIP, also, Pelosi Unhinged
Shark Tank: Florida GOP Outraises Democrats In 4th Quarter
Shot In The Dark: A Farewell To King
STUMP: Meep In 2020 – A Few Notes On Where To Find Me
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: Updates On Virginia Gun Issues, also, Another Two Return
Victory Girls: Just Stop – The Queen Is Not A Racist
Volokh Conspiracy: Public Education As Public Indoctrination
Weasel Zippers: Iranian People Refuse To Walk On American, Israeli Flags, also, Pelosi Says “One Way Or Another” Trump Will Not Be President In Ten Months
Mark Steyn: All About Eve, also, A Ribband Of Red, A Rose Of Shame

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Category: Linkagery

Warren Fades; Democrats Worried UPDATE: Cory Booker Drops Out

Posted on | January 13, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

With the final pre-Iowa debate looming Tuesday night, the 2020 presidential campaign is looking shaky for Democrats. Unless you believe Joe Biden can beat Trump — and I’m not sure Biden can even make it to the end of February — any Democrat has got to be worried about Bernie Sanders, the avowed socialist, becoming their 2020 nominee.

For most of last year, the way for Democrats to avoid this Biden/Bernie dilemma was obvious: Elizabeth Warren was, on the one hand, wired into the party establishment and, on the other hand, willing to go whole-hog on the kind of anti-“Corporate America” theme that Sanders represents. Also, as an identity-politics bonus, Warren was female and thus could appeal to the women still butthurt over Hillary’s defeat.

Alas, things started going bad last fall for the Warren campaign, which was forced to fire national organizing director Rich McDaniel amid accusations of “inappropriate behavior.” Warren, who had actually been leading in Iowa (in early October, she had a 5-point lead on Biden in the Real Clear Politics average of Iowa polls), began fading quickly, and by early December was in third place behind Sanders and Pete Buttigieg in the RCP Iowa average. Meanwhile, two billionaires — Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg — began pouring millions of dollars into their vanity campaigns, with the result that Steyer now leads Warren in the most recent polls of two early states, Nevada and South Carolina. (Hat-tip: Lawrence Person’s BattleSwarm blog.) Considering the reports that Warren is having fundraising trouble, she may be doomed, and meanwhile Bernie is still chugging along, which brings us to another problem now confronting Democrats:

Only white candidates have qualified for [Tuesday’s] Democratic presidential debate, the first time in this election cycle that no minority contender will make the stage. It’s a dynamic that critics say threatens to undercut the party’s rhetoric of inclusivity.
The race for the 2020 Democratic nomination kicked off last year with a historically diverse pool of candidates, including two black senators, a black mayor, a Hispanic former Cabinet secretary and an Asian businessman. Since then, all have either dropped out or failed to qualify for a spot on the stage, determined by poll numbers and donations.
Now the specter of an all-white debate in the mostly white state of Iowa is prompting concern among party activists.
“Both the way the primary is set up and the way debates are done are a problem,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, a racial justice organization. “The system they have designed has suppressed the most loyal base of the Democratic Party.”
He added: “Anyone with an understanding of civil rights law understands how the rules can be set up to benefit some communities. The Democratic Party should look at the impact of these rules and question the results.”

Yeah, baby — “the most loyal base” is being “suppressed” — that paranoid sense of betrayal might not turn many black voters into Republicans, but it sure as heck sounds like an ill omen for Democrats when November rolls around. “Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen . . .”

UPDATE: Breaking just now:

Obviously, this proves that the Democrat Party hates black men.



 

Category: Debates, Democrats, Iowa, Polls

Rule Five Sunday: Texans Cheerleaders

Posted on | January 12, 2020 | 1 Comment

a– compiled by Wombat-socho

This being playoff weekend in the NFL, it seemed appropriate to serve up an appetizer from one of the contending teams’ cheerleading squads. This is from the Texans/Patriots game on December 1.

Navel superiority

Ninety Miles From Tyranny brings Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #860, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; at Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Cultural Regions Friday and the Saturday Brunettenarok.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes Greer Garson, Tanya Tucker, Dolly Wells, Vijaya Selvaraju, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Claire Duburcq, and Meghan Markle.

A View From The Beach serves up Paris Jackson, Fish Pic Friday – Mutton Snapper, The Internet Never Forgets, Are You Busy Tomorrow?, Russiagate Ramble On, Bringing the Heat to Fight the Australian Bush Fires, On Tattoo Tuesday . . ., Muddy Monday, Palm Sunday,  and Nobel Laureate Retracts Paper, Cites Shoddy Supervision.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Claudia Cardinale, and Red Pilled Jew returns with Pretty Faces.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: It’s No Game

Posted on | January 12, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: New Year Double Scoop Delight!
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Animal Magnetism

Crazy People Are Dangerous
EBL

Why Do ‘Incels’ Want War With Iran?
Bacon Time
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
A View From The Beach
EBL

Did You Donate for … Uh, ‘Fire Relief’?
357 Magnum
EBL

#FakeWWIIIFacts Valerie Jarrett Reportedly In Deep Depression Since The World’s Most Interesting Man Was Droned In Baghdad
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Ricky Gervais Burns Hollywood: ‘You Know Nothing About the Real World’
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.06.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

The SomethingAwful Meltdown: It’s Kind of Like LGF, Except With SJW Trannies
EBL

Did Arsonists Cause Australia’s ‘Crisis’?
Dark Brightness
EBL

ABC News ‘Reporter’ Dons Hijab to Promote Iranian Propaganda
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.07.20
A View From the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Breaking: Iran Attacks U.S. Forces in Iraq
EBL

‘We’re Going to War, Bro’
EBL

Democrats: Pro-Iran or Anti-American?
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Cult of Climate ‘Science’
357 Magnum
Locomotive Breath
EBL

Mexicans in Kansas
EBL

The Biden Legacy
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Babylon Bee Is The Future Of Comedy, Not Dave Chappelle
EBL

Ayatollahs and Democrats
EBL

Iran Shot Down Plane Full of Canadians
357 Magnum
EBL

A ‘Hate Crime’ CNN Won’t Mention
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.10.20 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.10.20 (Afternoon Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.10.20 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending January 10:

  1.  EBL (26)
  2.  A View From The Beach (7)
  3.  (tied) 357 Magnum & Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

A Dark Day for Democracy

Posted on | January 11, 2020 | Comments Off on A Dark Day for Democracy

 

Jan. 10, 2020, will forever be known as Black Friday — a day that will live in infamy — when the Democratic Party lost its last hope:

Author Marianne Williamson ended her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign on Friday after failing to gain traction in a crowded Democratic field.
“I stayed in the race to take advantage of every possible opportunity to share our message. With caucuses and primaries now about to begin, however, we will not be able to garner enough votes in the election to elevate our conversation any more than it is now,” Williamson wrote in a message to supporters.
“The primaries might be tightly contested among the top contenders, and I don’t want to get in the way of a progressive candidate winning any of them,” Williamson continued.
Williamson pledged to fully support the Democratic nominee.
Williamson had not qualified for the Democratic debate next week. The spiritual author had laid off her campaign staff nationally, a former staffer confirmed to CNN last week.
After launching her campaign in January 2019, Williamson told CNN she was running to bring a “moral and spiritual awakening” for America.
“Nothing short of that is adequate to fundamentally change the patterns of our political dysfunction,” Williamson told CNN’s John Berman at the time.
Williamson’s campaign has been little-noticed in recent months, as focus shifted to the Democratic contenders who were meeting the party’s fundraising and polling thresholds to qualify for debates and Williamson repeatedly missed the cut.

Of course, you know what this means — my plans to become U.S. Ambassador to Vanuatu have suffered yet another setback.



 

Category: Democrats, Vanuatu
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