Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | January 4, 2020 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

A brief and somewhat uneventful high-speed chase across a southern stretch of Putnam County two nights before Christmas had salacious origins when a woman told police her ex-boyfriend broke in and stole several items, including a sex swing.
A woman who lives a few miles south of Eatonton near Lake Sinclair told police she arrived home the evening of Dec. 23 to find a man she had once lived with — a man who she said fathered two of her children — making off with more than a dozen pairs of high-heels and “other miscellaneous objects.”
Those other objects, according to a Putnam sheriff’s report, included an infant activity play mat, a Spider-Man blanket and a “black $160 “Fetish Fantasy … adult sex aid … spinning swing.”
Authorities were promptly notified and sheriff’s deputies were soon on the lookout for a gray 2016 Dodge Challenger, which the alleged burglar, John David “Donk” Lewis, drove away in.
The 30-year-old victim of the alleged theft said when she got home that night the Dodge was parked outside with its trunk open.
The woman said she spotted Lewis, 29, “carrying a container of her high-heeled shoes and other property,” a deputy’s report noted.
While the deputy was talking to the victim, another woman at the house received a text message from Lewis. The message included a photograph of Lewis, who the report said was “holding a black fabric object identified as the victim’s sex swing. Lewis was also displaying his right middle finger to the camera,” according to the report.
It wasn’t long before another deputy spotted the gray Dodge and took off after it at speeds up to 112 mph along a highway toward Milledgeville.
It was raining and the deputy quickly called off the chase. The Dodge was later found abandoned and stuck in some mud in a roadside ditch near Lake Sinclair.
Inside the car was a beige tote bag with 15 or so pairs of women’s high-heel shoes. In the trunk, deputies found the sex swing.
“He just had to have it apparently,” Sheriff Howard Sills later said of the swing. “It was a device near and dear to his heart.”
Lewis turned up Dec. 27 at a house in neighboring Baldwin County. When Putnam sheriff’s investigators got there to arrest Lewis on felony burglary and eluding charges, Lewis’ ex-girlfriend was in the driveway.
She said she had come to get a vehicle that belonged to Lewis, but didn’t know where he was. An investigator spotted Lewis hiding nearby.
Lewis said he had run from the police a few days earlier “because he was scared and he did not have a driver’s license,” according to the sheriff’s report.
Lewis had previously denied breaking into the woman’s residence, an investigative report said, claiming he lived there with her.
According to the report: “John then begged (her) to drop the burglary charges and said, ‘Baby, please, that carries a lot of (prison) time.’” Lewis, the report went on, “then dropped to his knees and begged (her)” again.
The charges were not dropped.

The suspect, we are told, fathered two children with the victim. Let us pause to think about what shall become of their offspring, having been conceived and raised by such a pair of fine, upstanding citizens.

“Mama, why is Daddy is prison?”

Yeah, those kids are hopelessly doomed.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

Category: Crime, Georgia

Soleimani Eternally Dismayed By 72 Vegans And Typos, But Mostly The Vegans

Posted on | January 3, 2020 | Comments Off on Soleimani Eternally Dismayed By 72 Vegans And Typos, But Mostly The Vegans

by Smitty

Ace brought out the Red Skull, but didn’t really use the headline I would have. Not that I have much to add. Read Stacy’s post.

Via Instapundit, the Daily Wire reports the hits just keep on coming.

“Air strikes targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad have killed six people and critically wounded three, an Iraqi army source said late on Friday,” Reuters reported. “Two of the three vehicles making up a militia convoy were found burned, the source said, as well as six burned corpses. The strikes took place at 1:12 am local time, he said.”

The Ayatollahs have had it coming since 1979. Let the Tangerine Tamerlane bring it.

Category: Uncategorized

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | January 3, 2020 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

The pumpkin spice latte drifted across my nose, and I chuckled.

“What’s that about?” she demanded.
“Oh, that smell returns me to High School. Math class. I had one on the floor. Ten minutes into class, the teacher notices it and demands that I dispose of it.”
“What’s funny about getting busted?”
“Nothing. Speaking of busts, though, Alice sat nearby.”
“And?”
“*She* had a bust. And perfume. And these sweaters, and so forth.”
“So?”
“Well, I was too. . .distracted. . .to dispose of the offending cup.”
“A-hah!”
“Thank God for the coat I was wearing, which covered my midriff well enough.”

—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

In The Mailbox: 01.03.20

Posted on | January 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: This Is Why Planes Are Falling Out Of The Sky
Locomotive Breath: It’s Statistically Impossible For The FBI’s Spygate Errors To All Be Mistakes
EBL: Marianne Williamson – Please Do Not Let It Be So!
Twitchy: Rashida Tlaib Calls Trump “Lawless” For Soleimani’s Death And HELLO BACKFIRE
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Dropkicks Obama Speechwriter Ben Rhodes Over Iran Strike Opinion
According To Hoyt: Stopping The Fifth Column
Vox Popoli: Corporate America Took The Ticket, also, Traffic Report 2019

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Green Terrorists Caused The Australian Bushfires, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Just Say Yes Edition
American Conservative: Why Iraq Is Much Worse Than Trump’s Benghazi
American Greatness: James Comey Should Be Arrested
American Thinker: 2019 – The Left Goes Over The Edge
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Income Inequality Friday
Babalu Blog: In Socialist Cuba, Violence Against Women Largely Unacknowledged
Baldilocks: The Real Purpose Of The 1619 Project
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 3
Cafe Hayek: Some Hopes For 2020 & Beyond
Camp of the Saints: The Lost Generations
CDR Salamander: While You Get Ready To Celebrate…, also, In 2020, Look Up
Da Tech Guy: 18-20 Year Olds Can Fight & Die For America But Can’t Buy Beer Or Cigarettes, also, 2020 – The Year We Find Out What America Shall Be
Don Surber: Liberals Mourn Death Of Iranian General
The Geller Report: Sweden’s Society “Dissolving” Due To Mass Migration, also, Muslim Migrant Yells “Allahu Akbar”, Stabs 4 In Paris While Wearing Explosive Vest
Hogewash: Shooting Oneself In The Foot, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Media & Hollywood Bullies Only Embarrass Themselves, also, Nine Perfect Responses To Rose McGowan’s Crazy Iran Tweet
JustOneMinute: “We Are The Man Of This Arena”
Legal Insurrection: 2020 Census May Give NY Dems Ammo To Ax AOC’s Seat, also, Killing Of Iran’s Soleimani Brings Out The Democrats’ TDS
The PanAm Post: Dear Artists – You Don’t Understand Economics
Power Line: Climate Hysterics Wrong Again, also, Pompeo Explains
Shark Tank: DeSantis Announces More Infrastructure Spending For Florida
Shot In The Dark: All The Same
STUMP: Happy New Year! Prediction Reactions & Upcoming Features
The Political Hat: Victories Against Transgender Totalitarianism – Unwaxed Scrotum, No Boys In The Girls Room, & Medical Contentious Objection, also, Firing Line Friday – The Road Back
This Ain’t Hell: Friday FGS, also, Gun Control Heats Up In Virginia As Legislative Season Approaches
Victory Girls: Mattis Was Right – Iran Is Waging War Against Us
Volokh Conspiracy: Prof. Bainbridge Publishes His “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion” Statement At UCLA
Weasel Zippers: Ilhan Omar Accuses Trump Of Killing Soleimani As A “Distraction”, also, Obama Administration Reportedly Stopped Israel From Killing Soleimani In 2015
Mark Steyn: Guardians Rising

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Category: Linkagery

Trump Orders U.S. Air Strike That Kills Top Iranian Commander in Baghdad

Posted on | January 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

Official statement from the Pentagon:

At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more. He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months – including the attack on December 27th – culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.
This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.

Associated Press:

The United States killed Iran’s top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport early on Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the region.
The targeted killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, could draw forceful Iranian retaliation against American interests in the region and spiral into a far larger conflict between the U.S. and Iran, endangering U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria and beyond. . . .
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S.
Iranian state TV carried a statement by Khamenei also calling Soleimani “the international face of resistance.” Khamenei declared three days of public mourning for the general’s death.
Also, an adviser to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned President Donald Trump of retaliation from Tehran. “Trump through his gamble has dragged the U.S. into the most dangerous situation in the region,” Hessameddin Ashena wrote on the social media app Telegram. “Whoever put his foot beyond the red line should be ready to face its consequences.”
Iranian state television later in a commentary called Trump’s order to kill Soleimani “the biggest miscalculation by the U.S.” in the years since World War II. “The people of the region will no longer allow Americans to stay,” the TV said.

Notice how the AP feels obligated to dwell on Iraq’s threats of retaliation. Meanwhile, anti-Trump neocon Matthew Continetti is happy:

The successful operation against Qassem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, is a stunning blow to international terrorism and a reassertion of American might. It will also test President Trump’s Iran strategy. It is now Trump, not Ayatollah Khamenei, who has ascended a rung on the ladder of escalation by killing the military architect of Iran’s Shiite empire. For years, Iran has set the rules. It was Iran that picked the time and place of confrontation. No more.
Reciprocity has been the key to understanding Donald Trump. Whether you are a media figure or a mullah, a prime minister or a pope, he will be good to you if you are good to him. Say something mean, though, or work against his interests, and he will respond in force. It won’t be pretty. It won’t be polite. There will be fallout. But you may think twice before crossing him again. . . .
The risk to the U.S. embassy—and the possibility of another Benghazi—must have angered Trump. “The game has changed,” Secretary of Defense Esper said hours before the assassination of Soleimani at Baghdad airport. Indeed, it has.

Indeed, indeed. I’m hesitant to predict what comes next. Thursday night, while I was trying to watch the Gator Bowl, “World War 3” was trending on Twitter, and yes, the worst-case scenario is Armageddon. We can’t pretend that the risk of all-out war is non-existent. However, the question is not Iran’s intent — they hate America and want us all dead — but rather Iran’s capacity to turn their intentions into action. We shall see.

UPDATE: The reaction of the left-wing media was predictable:

As news broke that President Trump had ordered a targeted strike in Iraq against Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, the liberal media where aghast Trump would take action against a killer of American troops and innocence. During the primetime pearl-clutching on MSNBC’s The Last Word, a panel of journalists and former Obama administration officials were busy suggesting there was no plan and “if” Soleimani deserved what he got, Trump was the “wrong” president to dish it out.

Hat-tip to Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, who links my post from 2013 when Rachel Maddow was demanding all-out war against Syria.

Category: Donald Trump, Iran, Iraq, Military, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 01.02.20

Posted on | January 2, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.02.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks again to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in December.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Baltimore’s Murder Rate Goes Up, “Unexpectedly”
EBL: Messiah – A Review
Twitchy: Susan Rice’s Thread Bragging About Her “2019 Whirlwind” And Sharing Her Book Gets ALL The Backfire
Louder With Crowder: Ron Howard “Laughingly” Explains Why Hollywood Hates Trump, also, Okay Conservatives, Time To Make 2020 The Year Of Action

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Grim Example Of A Woman Killed By Feminism & The Sexual Revolution, also, Things For Which To Be Grateful
American Conservative: Pelosi’s Game Of Chicken Will Leave Her Party Fried, also, Rich Lowry’s Nationalist Review
American Greatness: Top Twelve “Get Trump!” Bloopers Of 2019, also, DHS Orders Nationwide Review Of State Laws Giving Drivers’ Licenses To Illegals
American Power: “Black Jews” On Twitter
American Thinker: Can The Union Endure? also, The “Transgender” Endgame
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mixed Bag News, also, Animal’s Daily Dire Predictions News
Babalu Blog: Cuba Celebrates Sixty Years Under Socialism
Baldilocks: I’m Staying On The Battlefield, also, About Blogging & Social Media
BattleSwarm: Jonathan Pie On The Labour Wipeout, also, The Pitch Meeting For Cats
Cafe Hayek: Why Take The “Climate Change” Crowd’s Case For More Government Power Seriously?
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, 355 – Have We Earned It?
Da Tech Guy: Feds Have Their Net Out For Illinois’ Kraken, Boss Michael Madigan, also, Best Of Baldilocks At DTGB In 2019
Don Surber: It Was A Very Good Year, also, Even Democrats Don’t Want Medicare For All
First Street Journal: This Is Not A Federal Problem, also, We’re Doomed, We’re All Doomed!
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrants Rape French Girl & Video It While Praising Allah, Invoking Koran, also, Murderer Of UK Soldier Lee Rigby Works As Prison “Deradicalization Mentor” At Jail London Bridge Jihadi Was Freed From
Hogewash: What’s Up For January 2020, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Until The End Of The World Predicted Our Digital Demons, also, Eleven Conservative Pop Culture Predictions For 2020
Legal Insurrection: Tulsi Gabbard Warns Impeachment Will Help Trump Win & GOP Retake The House, also, Even CNN Is Calling Out Schumer’s Impeachment Trial “Impartiality” Hypocrisy
Michelle Malkin: Twenty Years – A Syndication Anniversary Reflection
The PanAm Post: Recapping The First Ten Days Of Peronism’s Return To Argentina, also, Maduro Auctions Off Oil, Secretly Exports Millions Of Barrels
Power Line: A Baghdad Embassy Postscript, also, Voter Suppression Iowa Style
Shark Tank: Deutch Still Silent On Omar’s Antisemitism
Shot In The Dark: Resolution
STUMP: French Pension Protests – Macron Flubs By Trying To Force Change
The Political Hat: Happy New Year!
This Ain’t Hell: Top Five 2020 Doomsday Predictions, also, There’s A Disturbance In The Farce
Victory Girls: Iranian-Backed Militants Retreat From U.S. Embassy After Marines Show Up
Volokh Conspiracy: “Essentially [The City] Defendants Request That The Court Resolve This Case Entirely In Secret”
Weasel Zippers: NRA & GOP Mock Clueless Democrats’ Statements On Guns, also, Viral Video Shows Man Getting Shocked While Trying To Steal Electrified Trump Sign
Megan McArdle: Has J.K. Rowling Figured Out A Way To Break Cancel Culture?
Mark Steyn: The Bug’s A-Comin’

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Category: Linkagery

Liberal Jew: ‘Baseless Hatred’ by Blacks Is ‘Stark Contrast’ to White Supremacy

Posted on | January 2, 2020 | 3 Comments

More anti-Semitic violence in Brooklyn:

Two women yelled “F*** you Jew” and “I will kill you Jews” at a Hasidic man in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and shoved him to the ground when he tried to film their anti-Semitic tirade, law enforcement sources and witnesses told CBS12.
The 22 year-old victim was approached by a 24- and 34-year-old female at the intersection of Broadway and Lorimer Street, the New York City Police Department told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The 24 year-old grabbed the victim’s cell phone and punched him in his throat and the 34 year-old made anti-Semitic remarks, according to the NYPD.
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of violent attacks against Hasidic Jews in the New York area in recent months, including a machete attack in Monsey that left 5 injured.
On Monday evening, according to local reports, two men — one flashing a knife — threatened a Jewish teen in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The two men yelled “Hey Jew boy” at the teen as one pulled out the knife, the New York Post reported.
There are two synagogues located within a block of where the incident occurred, according to the report.

The fact that black people are responsible for this “dramatic increase” cannot be denied, but as Ace of Spades points out, the media keep trying to blame Trump for these crimes committed in Democrat-controlled cities by people who certainly don’t seem like MAGA-hat types.

Consider this “argument” by Jay Michaelson at The Daily Beast:

New York is reeling from a wave of anti-Semitic attacks, and speaking as a Jewish parent who lives in Brooklyn, I can tell you that it’s terrifying.
It is also confusing. The vast majority of anti-Semitic attacks in this country are carried out by right-wing white supremacists. But most of the recent New York-area attacks have been carried out by people of color expressing very different grievances, or none at all. So is this the same phenomenon, or a different one? Hate, yes, but what kind of hate?
The answer is not simple. The recent street violence and acts of terror are based, in part, on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories similar to those on the Right. And yet, it is dangerous and misleading to see this as the same phenomenon, because the social contexts, the dynamics of race, and the relationships to power are all quite different. . . .

See? Michaelson is a liberal, and therefore “the dynamics of race” must be considered, as if a machete-wielding black psycho in New York deserves sympathy in a way that, say, Dylan Roof does not. In fact, he claims, “it is dangerous and misleading” not to employ a double standard:

As Mark Potok recently discussed in these pages, the Black Hebrew Israelites are a tiny sect that blames Jews for degrading American culture and accuses them of being self-interested moneymakers. Like those of the Nation of Islam, these doctrines of hate are not dissimilar to right-wing anti-Semitic tropes of Jews being foreigners who destroy their host countries for their own enrichment.
But in these cases, the anti-Semitic themes are sometimes wedded to quasi-progressive concerns about racial justice, or, more broadly, to grievances against Jews as usurious landlords or agents of gentrification. . . .

(Translation: Hating Jews is OK if you’re “quasi-progressive.”)

And in some cases, there are glimmers of ideology. For example, the Crown Heights riot of 1991 was in part about city resources, housing, gentrification, policing and political power, but also shot through with conspiracy theories and the blaming of all Jews—or, more specifically, all Hasidic Jews—for the misdeeds of a few. . . .
This combination of baseless hatred and socio-economic grievance stands in stark contrast to the wordy theoretical manifestoes of white supremacist anti-Semitism. And while some attackers cite conspiracy theories similar to the ones on the nationalist right, such as the Black Hebrew Israelite doctrines noted above, the social contexts and relationships to power are utterly different.
While conspiracy-mongering exists on the left and the right, there is no left-wing or African-American equivalent of President Trump . . .

(At last, Michaelson arrives at his main point:”ORANGE MAN BAD!”)

When you play with fire like this, vulnerable populations get burned. Especially Jews.
Finally, right-wing anti-Semitism is connected to right-wing political ideology and power. Obviously, most conservatives are not anti-Semitic. But anti-Semitism often exists on a nationalist continuum from populists who traffic in anti-Semitic stereotypes, like Trump or Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, to outright anti-Semites like Orbán’s hero, Miklós Horthy. There is a reason the Pittsburgh attacker was frustrated that Trump wasn’t anti-Semitic enough.
And in terms of scale, there is simply no comparison between right-wing anti-Semitism, which arguably stretches into the White House itself (if not Trump, then some of his recent advisers), and the fringe sects, street violence, and bigotry found among small segments of the African-American community.
It cannot be a coincidence that the rise in anti-Semitism coincides with the rise in Trumpism. . . .

You can read the rest of that, but Michaelson’s flourish here — “It cannot be a coincidence!” — is the essence of every conspiracy theory. And it could be argued that liberal Jews have succumbed to a mentality of political paranoia in which every Republican is a would-be Hitler. Because of their monomaniacal obsession with right-wing white supremacists, they cannot make sense of “people of color” who hate Jews.

If the first premise of your argument is that Donald Trump is the cause of all evil in the universe, we are not surprised when you conclude that everything bad — including crimes committed by people who obviously aren’t Republican voters — is somehow Trump’s fault.

Michaelson’s “argument” is a crude tautology that proves nothing.

Category: Racism

In The Mailbox: 01.01.20

Posted on | January 1, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Administrivia: Tax season starts tomorrow, and I may be moving into a place of my own this month (of course, they said that last month) so things ought to be getting back to normal, barring another extended stay at the VA. Going to punt on Rule 5 Sunday and just serve up an extra-large helping this coming Sunday. In the meantime, a message for the lot of you from Shouko Komi. Couldn’t have survived 2019 without a lot of help from a lot of you.