In The Mailbox: 08.16.19

Posted on | August 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

FMJRA links are due tomorrow at noon, Rule 5 Sunday links by midnight. Probably going to squeeze in a short book post this weekend as well, but I’m not promising anything.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Jew-Haters Omar & Tlaib Denied Entry To Israel
Twitchy: Seb Gorka, Others Comment On The Kristol-Scaramucci Partnership To Bring Down Trump
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex Says Racist Trump Supporters Just Don’t Realize They’re Racist
According To Hoyt: What Are They Teaching The Kids? Dark Satanic Mills Edition
Monster Hunter Nation: Another Example Why Facebook Is Super Dumb, Why Facebook Is Super Dumb II – The Freedoming, The Super Dumbness Continues – Mike Glyer Edition, also, Banned Again. Facebook Gets Even Dumber Part III – The Saga Continues
Vox Popoli: Why Is It Taking So Long?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Great Australian Replacement, also, Friday Hawt Links & Chicks – The Don’t Be Evil Edition
American Greatness: Dems Oppose Brexit, Back Chicoms For Fear Of Anglosphere Resurgence
American Thinker: How We Re-elect Trump In 2020
Animal Magnetism: Rule 5 Organ Donor Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Stows Away In Airplane’s Cargo Hold, Escapes To Miami
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 16
Camp of the Saints: The Blood, Plunder, & Hammer Of The Leftist Gods
CDR Salamander: Race Is Not A Social Construct – It Is Targetable, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Democrats Own The Philly Cop Shootings
Don Surber: All But Four Of Hillary’s Emails Went To Red China, also, Omar’s District Worst For Blacks
Dustbury: MC 900 Foot Hammer
First Street Journal: Why Is This News?
The Geller Report: Philadelphia Cop Shooter Attended Notorious Mosque, also, “Her Hate For Israel Overcomes Her Love For Her Grandmother”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Protecting Our Elections From Voter Fraud
Hollywood In Toto: Can Joe Rogan Save Journalism Before It’s Too Late?
Joe For America: Truck Plows Through Crowd Of ICE Protesters In Rhode Island
JustOneMinute: Roll, Beta, Roll
Legal Insurrection: Leaked Audio – NY Times Shifts Attacks On Trump From Collusion To Racism, also, Rep. Tlaib Granted Humanitarian Visit To Grandma But Rejects It
The PanAm Post: Turkish Bank Closes Maduro Regime Accounts To Avert Sanctions
Power Line: Thoughts From The Ammo Line, also, Ilhan Unleashed
Shark Tank: Rubio Splits With Trump, Rick Scott, Says Israeli Ban On Omar & Tlaib A Mistake
Shot In The Dark: That Moment When…
This Ain’t Hell: A New Democrat In The Mix, also, Another Valor Thief
Victory Girls: Indoctrination Begins For The College-Bound
Volokh Conspiracy: Two Cheers For Buttigieg’s “Place-Based Visa” Proposal
Weasel Zippers: Nearly 200 House Democrats Sign On To Semi-Automatic Gun, “Large Capacity” Magazine Ban, also, Volunteers Cleaning Up Baltimore Save Two Overdosing Men
Mark Steyn: Trump Returns To New Hampshire, also, Stop Yer Lyin Or Yer Not Comin’ To Zion

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Category: Linkagery, Uncategorized

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | August 16, 2019 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

The crowd gathered by the mountain lake.
The moons were lining up. The tidal force steadily lowered the water to reveal The Ship.
The hint of the hull began to peek out.
It had been centuries since moons and season provided the correct angle.
Waters receded. The hull emerged, covered in plant growth.
Silence gripped the onlookers.
A mild rumbling, a sound of metal creaking along with soggy plantlife squishing about, as a large door opened on the landward side of the hull.
A dozen suited figures stepped out.
“Whoever touched the cryongenics controls is in Big Trouble,” said Braxton.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Florida Man Planned Stabbing Attack at Elementary School, Police Say

Posted on | August 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

Before we get into this latest “Florida man” story, let me ask you a trivia question: Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?

If you knew it was Francis Bellamy, congratulations! You’re a winner, and I’ll permit you to contribute $17.76 to the tip jar. You’re welcome.

What? Never mind.

Very few people would recognize the name Francis Bellamy and although I didn’t know much about his biography, I did know he was the author of the Pledge. But here’s a trivia fact that I learned today: Bellamy, a native of New York, spent the last years of his life in Tampa, Florida.

Now, here’s the latest news from Tampa:

Parents of children who attend a Hillsborough County elementary school are breathing a sigh of relief after authorities stopped a man they said was planning a campus stabbing.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Andrew Ivan Aman, 22, was planning to enter Francis Bellamy Elementary School and stab students and staffers. He allegedly told his roommate about his plans around 9 a.m. Tuesday. . . . .
Aman targeted Francis Bellamy because the school’s red, white, and blue colors reminded him of the American flag, and he was against patriotism, authorities said. . . .
Aman, who has been diagnosed with mental health issues in the past, is being held under the Baker Act at a hospital. Investigators found no weapons at his home.
Aman was arrested in May 2018 on an aggravated assault charge.

It should be obvious why a school named after the author of the Pledge of Allegiance would have a red-white-and-blue theme, but what are the chances that this kook knew who Francis Bellamy was?

Aman is a native of Russia who attended a performing arts school in Tampa. He reportedly has a history of severe mental illness and two years ago wrote on Facebook: “Patriotism is not defined by the love you have for your ‘country’. Tis the respect and natural humility you have for the earth and society around us whether that be in our neighborhood or statewide, so yes I can say I am a patriot of god.” Despite his self-declared devotion to “respect and natural humility,” Aman wanted to kill children, according to a police bulletin:

The bulletin says Aman concealed a kitchen knife in a handbag and was headed for the school with the intent to “stab as many children as possible.” . . .
The document said Aman targeted the school because he hates the United States and “the school’s ‘obnoxious pride in America’ as illustrated by the large American flag mural on the front of the building.”

Just another typical Democrat voter in Florida . . .

Anyway, I hate to be rattling the tip jar again so soon — I just got back from Georgia on Monday — but we leave early Saturday morning to take our youngest son off to college. It’s a 566-mile drive, and Mrs. McCain is expecting me to help foot that bill. Selah.

Category: Crime, Florida

Media Blames Trump After Democrat Jew-Haters Get Banned From Israel

Posted on | August 16, 2019 | Comments Off on Media Blames Trump After Democrat Jew-Haters Get Banned From Israel

Turned over to watch MSNBC for a while this morning and Joe Scarborough is outraged that Democrats who support genocidal anti-Semitic terrorists are not allowed to stage propaganda events in Israel. Breitbart’s Aaron Klein provides background on the Jew-haters’ junket:

An organization run by notorious Palestinian extremist and Israel boycott defender Hanan Ashrawi co-sponsored and organized the planned visit to Israel by controversial Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
On Thursday, Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri confirmed the two congresswomen would be barred from entry in keeping with a law that allows Israel from denying passage to supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement seeking to delegitimize the Jewish state.
Omar and Tlaib are both prominent BDS supporters who last month introduced a resolution in Congress aimed at supporting the antisemitic BDS Movement, which targets the Middle East’s only democracy and is engaged in economic warfare against Israel.
The cancelled visit was partially organized and co-sponsored by Miftah, an anti-Israel organization headed by Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee and supporter of BDS.
Ashrawi claimed the trip was supposed to be a way for Omar and Tlaib “to engage with the Palestinian people directly and to see things on the ground.”
NGO Monitor, a watchdog on extremist nonprofits, notes that Miftah has accused Israel of committing “massacres,” “apartheid,” “summary executions” of Palestinian youth and “Judaizing” Jerusalem. It has also accused Israel of “ethnic-cleansing of Palestinian-Israeli Arabs.”
Ashrawi was a political leader of the violent First Palestinian Intifada and served as deputy to late PLO leader and arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat. She is known for espousing anti-Israel conspiracy theories and attempting to justify Palestinian “resistance” against the Jewish state.

David Harsanyi at The Federalist:

Presidential hopefuls like Bernie Sanders contend that Israel is showing “enormous disrespect to these elected leaders, to the United States Congress, and to the principles of democracy.”
What principle of democracy states that you have to issue visas to foreigners who are actively engaged in efforts to harm your citizens? . . .
In 2012, the Obama administration denied a visa to Michael Ben-Ari, a member of the hard-right Israeli Kach party. Ben-Ari is no more radical than Tlaib or Omar. . . .
It needs to be stressed that Tlaib and Omar aren’t mere “critics” of Israel, as the media incessantly claims. Critics would find fault with policies of the nation’s government — which, in Israel’s case, has oscillated from left to right, from hawkish to dovish, for more than 70 years. Critics have been traveling to Israel forever. Critics of Israel serve in the nation’s parliament and openly and freely take positions against the ruling government.
Tlaib and Omar actively support a movement with the strategic aim of rallying the world to destroy the Jewish state economically. They aren’t critics, they’re enemies. The boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS) not only challenges Israel’s right to exist, it relies on age-old antisemitic tropes, conspiracy theories, and blood libels to propel the message. Its most famous champions in the United States are Tlaib and Omar.

The story being delivered by the liberal media ignores this, and asserts that Israel barred these two Jew-hating Democrats under pressure from Trump, but since when does Benjamin Netanyahu need to be “pressured” to defend Israel? At any rate, Israel has now granted Tlaib permission to visit her grandmother and relatives in the West Bank.

On “humanitarian” grounds.

Imagine that — a genocidal hate-monger like Rashida Talib gets humanitarian treatment from the nation she’s determined to destroy.

Category: Israel

In The Mailbox: 08.15.19

Posted on | August 15, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.15.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: A Little T&A
357 Magnum: How Much Do Leftists In Education Hate The Military?
EBL: Elizabeth Warren Pulling Ahead In Iowa?
Twitchy: Why Haven’t The Media Reported This Disturbing Info About The Org Behind Omar & Tlaib’s Israel Visit?
Louder With Crowder: New Jeffrey Epstein Coroner Report Suggests Foul Play

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Lessons From My Divorce
American Greatness: #ShutDownICE Protesters Shocked When Pickup Drives Right Through Their Blockade
American Thinker: Worse Than Ever – Government Schools After 35 Years
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Meat Tax News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Escapee & MLB Star Yasiel Puig Becomes An American
BattleSwarm: Max Boot Hits Bottom, Tunnels Down To The Hollow Earth, Falls, Somehow Keeps Digging
Camp of the Saints:
CDR Salamander: We Can’t Leave The Long War – It Won’t Quit Us
Da Tech Guy: Red Flag Laws Are A Stealth Attack On The 2nd Amendment
Don Surber: Drudge Goes All In For Warren
Dustbury: Sandbox Escape
First Street Journal: Max Boot, Bill Kristol, & The Failure Of The Neocons
The Geller Report: Israel Blocks Reps Omar & Tlaib From Entry Over Their Support For Boycotting Jews, also, Stabbing Attack In Jerusalem Near Chains Gate, Policeman Injured
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: How Variety Covers For Woke Hollywood’s China Problem
Joe For America: Deep State IRS Analyst Nailed For Leaking Michael Cohen’s Financials
JustOneMinute: Thursday Afternoon
Legal Insurrection: Israel Bars Entry Of Reps Omar & Tlaib After Trump Pressure, also, Boris Johnson Accuses MPs Of “Collaboration” With EU To Stop Brexit
The PanAm Post: Former Colombian President Santos To Be Investigated For Odebrecht Bribes In 2014 Campaign
Power Line: Cops Keep Getting Shot By Criminals Who Aren’t Supposed To Have Guns, also, Steve & John Make The Climate Blacklist!
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Outpaces Crist In Fundraising
Shot In The Dark: Conspiracy Theories
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – How Do You Get Lots Of Centenarians? Pension Fraud!
This Ain’t Hell: Guardsman Accused Of Stealing WW2 Dog Tags From National Archives, also, Documents Show Washington Nonprofit Leader Paid Rent With Veterans’ Money
Victory Girls: Beta Reboots His Campaign
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Governments Shouldn’t Bar Entry Based On Political Views
Weasel Zippers: Residents Harass, Throw Things At Philly Police Responding To Shooting, also, Federal Attorney Blasts Soros-Backed Philly DA For Pushing Anti-Police Sentiment After Six Officers Shot
Mark Steyn: Buying Into The Primary, also, ICE Follies, Barstool Brawls, & Corn Dog Karaoke

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Category: Linkagery

U.S. Attorney Blames Soros-Supported Philly DA for Anti-Police Violence

Posted on | August 15, 2019 | 2 Comments

Maurice Hill shot six cops in Philadelphia.

Two years ago, left-wing billionaire George Soros wrote a $1.45 million check to Larry Krasner’s campaign for district attorney of Philadelphia. This is a gigantic sum to spend on a local election, and enabled Krasner to defeat six rivals in the 2017 Democrat primary, then coast to a landslide victory in the general election. Krasner ran as the anti-police candidate, and has made it his official policy to turn dangerous criminals loose on the streets of Philadelphia. One of the beneficiaries of Krasner’s policies, Maurice Hill, had an extensive criminal record — drug charges, aggravated assault, perjury, fleeing and eluding, escape and weapons offenses — before he engaged in a shootout Wednesday in North Philadelphia that wounded six cops. This incident resulted in a statement from Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney William McSwain:

What I witnessed last night was true heroism by the Philadelphia police. But the crisis was precipitated by a stunning disrespect for law enforcement — a disrespect so flagrant and so reckless that the suspect immediately opened fire on every single officer within shooting distance. Only by the grace of God did they survive.
Where does such disrespect come from?
There is a new culture of disrespect for law enforcement in this City that is promoted and championed by District Attorney Larry Krasner — and I am fed up with it.
It started with chants at the DA’s victory party — chants of “F*** the police” and “No good cops in a racist system.”
We’ve now endured over a year and a half of the worst kinds of slander against law enforcement — the DA routinely calls police and prosecutors corrupt and racist, even “war criminals” that he compares to Nazis.
This vile rhetoric puts our police in danger. It disgraces the Office of the District Attorney. And it harms the good people in the City of Philadelphia and rewards the wicked.
The alleged shooter last night, Maurice Hill, is a previously convicted felon with a long rap sheet. We have plenty of criminal laws in this City — but what we don’t have is robust enforcement by the District Attorney. Instead, among other things, we have diversionary programs for gun offenses, the routine downgrading of charges for violent crime, and entire sections of the criminal code that are ignored.
The criminal laws in this City — and especially the existing gun laws and drug laws — should be aggressively enforced in order to protect the public and the police. My Office is doing all that we can. We have prosecuted 70% more violent crime cases this year than we did last year, in response to the District Attorney’s lawlessness. But it is now time for the District Attorney and his enablers to stop making excuses for criminals. It is time for accountability. It is time to support law enforcement and to put the good people of this City first.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with the Philadelphia police and our federal partners, is investigating the horrible events of last night and we are considering all options at our disposal. We will do everything that we can to support our brothers and sisters in the Philadelphia Police Department and ensure justice is done.
To the officers involved last night — those who were wounded and those who rushed to defend them — and to their families, I say thank you. The whole City thanks you. We owe you more than we can ever repay.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.)

What do you think will happen if Democrats win the next election? Don’t you think it’s likely that criminals will be turned loose all over America? Because that’s what George Soros wants, and he’s got billions of dollars to spend to help elect more Democrats like Larry Krasner.

Category: Crime, George Soros, Pennsylvania

UPDATE: Max Boot Is Still an Idiot

Posted on | August 15, 2019 | 1 Comment

Monday, I noticed an unexplained surge of traffic to my April 14 post with the simple title “Max Boot Is an Idiot,” in which I described the Trump-hating former Wall Street Journal writer as “one of the most overrated neocon gasbags in Washington.” What could have caused this increase of interest in Max Boot’s idiocy? I had no idea, and because I spent Monday driving back from Georgia, there was no opportunity to investigate this mysterious phenomenon. Who cares about Max Boot? Certainly, I never have, even when he was an influential advocate of our ill-fated invasion of Mesopotamia. Once the Bush era ended, so also did Max Boot’s influence, and no one paid any attention to him for the next eight years, but then Boot jumped on the #NeverTrump bandwagon as the vehicle by which he intended to return to relevance. Still, I have made a habit of ignoring him, as every conservative should, so what could explain this week’s sudden uptick of search traffic for Max Boot?

Well, last week, he published a Washington Post column headlined, “Get a grip white people. We’re not the victims,” arguing, e.g.:

Like many of his followers, Trump must imagine that white supremacy is the natural order of things and that any attempt to deliver justice for minorities who have been discriminated against for centuries is an indicator of anti-white prejudice. The most extreme form of this outlook can be found among white supremacists such as the gunman who allegedly slaughtered 22 people in El Paso on Saturday. The suspect claimed to be acting in response “to the Hispanic invasion of Texas” — a state that was part of Mexico before being invaded by Anglos. Even many whites who aren’t driven to violence display a version of this victimhood mind-set. They view accusations of racism as a far bigger problem than racism itself, and blame “social justice warriors” rather than white racists for inflaming racial tensions.

There’s a lot that could be said here: Texas was a sparsely populated wilderness when American settlers began arriving there in large numbers in the early 1800s, and the Republic fought a war to win its independence from Mexico. Is Max Boot’s intent to delegitimize that result? Does he seriously mean to join MALDEF and the National Council of La Raza in advocating the Reconquista? No, he’s just engaged in intellectual laziness of the same variety as his arguments for invading Mesopotamia. As for “justice for minorities” — who shall decide what “justice” is, and which “minorities” are entitled to it? This is just liberal sloganeering, not a serious argument, and notice that Max engages in a sloppy categorical claim about what “many whites” allegedly believe, without even bothering to offer evidence that their alleged beliefs are wrong.

A line-by-line fisking of Max Boot’s column might easily consume half a day’s work for me, but I need not bother, because what caused the sudden surge of traffic to my “Max Boot Is an Idiot” post this week was that Max got a memorable smackdown by a National Review columnist. John Hirschauer, a 2018 graduate of Fairfield University, had his laser guidance system zeroed in on the coordinates of Boot’s idiocy:

In effect, however, Boot sets up a Faustian choice for “white” readers: Side with the white supremacists and their detestable program, or sell your political soul to Max Boot and become one of the self-loathing whites so paralyzed by intersectional deference that they can hardly advance an argument without first reciting that neutered prelude: “As a straight, white, cisgender man with privilege, I . . .”
If Boot believes what he is saying — and I’m not sure he does — and assumes that “many” Trump supporters believe “that white supremacy is the natural order of things,” then he’d do well to provide them with a better set of options than white nationalism on the one hand and political impotence on the other. Surely there is a third way between a full-throated embrace of white identity and a supine adoption of the politics of self-hatred.

This is excellent stuff, and I especially admire the Buckleyesque style of Hirschauer’s prose (“Faustian choice,” “intersectional deference,” “supine”) which reminds me of reading WFB’s newspaper column 40+ years ago and having to look up his fancy words in the dictionary. What happened next was that Max Boot took to Twitter to label Hirschauer a white supremacist and assert rather directly that this column was evidence that National Review had been taken over by a racialist cabal.

A real online donnybrook ensued, with Hirschauer responding forcefully:

Boot makes my point for me: In the world of Max Boot’s creation, there is only Max Boot’s policy preferences on the one hand, and white nationalism on the other. It’s toxic, and predictable from someone who writes so casually about “fears” that plague “white people” as an indiscriminate bloc in the Washington Post.

Others sprang to Hirschauer’s defense and the irony, as Ace of Spades explained at some length, is this is about “Soyboy Beta Cucks” defending themselves against the kind of dishonest smears the rest of us have been dealing with for many years. Rich Lowry and his crew have more than once thrown potential allies under the bus of Conservatism Inc., tut-tutting about the de-platforming of uncouth right-wingers while imagining that the crocodile of wokeness would eat them last.

As someone who counts Peter Brimelow among his friends, it would be easy enough for me to laugh at the discomfiture of Lowry’s gang, but this laughter would be hollow, because every sensible conservative must hope that this episode would inspire the National Review crowd to reconsider their disastrous course of appeasing the Left by sacrificing victims to the bonfires of political correctness. This week’s Max Boot episode, in addition to bringing me a bonus of blog traffic, resulted in Max Boot being given a platform on an obscure cable channel with lower ratings than Spongebob Squarepants:

A few excerpts of Max’s deranged remarks in that interview:

So it’s heart breaking for me to see what is happening to this magazine, which once chased John Bircher’s and anti-Semites out of the conservative movement and now it is indulging in this kind of white supremacist rhetoric. . . .
It was a very strange article, because basically it was saying that, you know, Boot attacks, you know — attacks on white people, you know, are basically driving them into the arms of the white nationalists and they’re forcing them to choose between the white nationalists and Boot and his self-loathing whites. . . .
It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s just incredibly shocking and offensive for me to see this kind of language appear in what is a mainstream publication and it’s sadly, I think, as a reflection of how even mainstream conservative publications are being Trumpified and are going down the same road that you see at Fox News. . . .
No, they don’t want to go the way of The Weekly Standard, which collapsed, but, you know, to my mind, it’s tragic because, again, I revered National Review. I thought as if for something better and sadly I think it’s a sign of how far over the edge Donald Trump is leading, not just the Republican Party, but even the conservative movement, even the intellectual gatekeepers who I think have a lot to answer for in opening the gates wide open to the kind of racism and xenophobia that Donald Trump represents.

Really? Go back and read John Hirschauer’s column in its entirety and tell me where you find “racism and xenophobia.” (Hint: It’s not there.)

You see how Max Boot is following the Left’s lead in an effort to shift the Overton Window so as to expand the definition of “racism” (or “white supremacy” or “white nationalism”) to include just about any opinion a conservative might express. This is part of the problem that Hirschauer was trying to address: If allegedly serious intellectuals are going to start behaving like SJW outrage mobs, incinerating the reputations of anyone who says anything that doesn’t pass their wokeness test, then our First Amendment right to free speech is under threat and — here we come full circle — if the loss of free speech means we aren’t able to have a factual and rational discussion of immigration policy, then political correctness will destroy our entire civilization. Not to endorse any madman’s “manifesto,” you understand, but there is a reason why borders matter. Max Boot would not wish to live in Ciudad Juárez, and yet his open-borders policy preference would have the inevitable effect of turning many parts of the U.S. into Ciudad Juárez.

Anyway, I’ve spent more time on this than it was worth, but I thought readers might need this breaking news: Max Boot is still an idiot.