In The Mailbox: 01.07.19

Posted on | January 8, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.07.19

I have not been well, and today was extremely busy. so Rule 5 Tuesday will post tomorrow,
most likely in the morning.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Ed Buck May Have A Problem
Twitchy: Meltdown In Progress! Occasional Cortex Is Pissed At MSM Fact-Checkers Calling Her On Her BS
Louder With Crowder: Rep. Dan Crenshaw Calmly Annihilates “Cowardly” Hank Johnson

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Australian Nationalism On The Beach, also, He Prefers Much Younger Women
American Power: Brazil’s Primal Scream For Freedom, also, How To Write About The Right
American Thinker: The Great Wall of America Will Break The Democrats
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Borepatch On The Failure Of The War On Drugs, also, Tucker Carlson On Rick Wilson’s Slam Of Trump Voters
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXIX
Da Tech Guy: Silenced & Broke, also, Non-Twitter Under The Fedora Thoughts For January 7
Don Surber: Public Sides With Trump On The Shutdown
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Sunrise Awaits
Fred On Everything: China Overrated By Right-Wing Kooks
The Geller Report: American Muslims Captured Fighting For Islamic State In Syria, also, Amazon Cravenly Submits To CAIR’s Jihad Demands, Removes Items With Arabic Script
Hogewash: Math & Facts Are Harder, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Did Twitter Just Lock Rob Schneider’s Account?
Joe For America: Embarrassed Constituents Pen Open Letter To Foul-Mouthed Rep Tlaib
JustOneMinute: Slow-Walking Out Of Syria
Legal Insurrection: Lindsey Graham On Border Wall – “We’re Not Giving In To This Radical Left, Never”, also, Mia Love Joins CNN As Commentator
The PanAm Post: Foreign Investment In Colombian Companies Soaring
Power Line: Anti-Semitism Breaking Out Among Congressional Democrats, also, She’s The Tippy Tops
Shark Tank: Senate GOP Moves To Strengthen “Strategic Alliance” With Israel”
Shot In The Dark: May You Get Your Wish, Dumb*ss
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – The Jedi Are Relentless
The Political Hat: New Mexico Poised To Tell You To Shut Up And Die
This Ain’t Hell: Ten Worst Air Forces In The World, 2018, also, SecNav Names Future Destroyer For Vietnam War Vet & POW Admiral Jeremiah Denton
Victory Girls: Trump Befuddles Pelosi During Shutdown Meeting
Volokh Conspiracy: Trump’s Terrible Record On Property Rights
Weasel Zippers: Gov. Moonbeam Denies Cpl. Singh’s Death Had Anything To Do With Sanctuary Laws, also, Whoopi Goldberg Tells Occasional Cortex “Stop Pooping On People”
Mark Steyn: A Forest Of Bare Branches, also, Freaks

Category: Linkagery

Media’s Anti-White Bias Makes Houston Drive-By Shooting National News

Posted on | January 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

When 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes was killed in a drive-by shooting in Houston Dec. 30, the story “captured nationwide attention,” because Jazmine’s family claimed that the shooter was a white man:

The teen and her mother described the suspect as a white man with blue eyes, a thin build and no beard. They say he “looked sick” with sunken cheekbones and a pale face with a “five o’clock shadow.” He was wearing a black hoodie.

CNN jumped on the story — RAAAAACISM! — and the usual crew of #BlackLivesMatter hate-hustlers leaped into action, raising money and sending out incendiary tweets. Unfortunately for the purveyors of this narrative, it was false. The white man in the red truck that Jazmine’s family had seen wasn’t the shooter, but an innocent guy who was himself caught in the line of fire. The actual perpetrators were driving a KIA.

Murder suspects Larry Woodruffe (left) and Eric Black Jr. (right).

Larry Woodruffe, 24, was the shooter, and was riding with Eric Black Jr., 20, according to the police, when Woodruffe spotted the vehicle that Jazmine’s mother was driving and, apparently, mistook it for the vehicle of one of their drug-gang rivals. Woodruffe opened fire with a 9mm pistol and he and Black didn’t realize they had targeted an innocent family until they saw news reports the next day. So the “white killer” angle that made this story a subject of “nationwide attention” was false, and now the media that exploited the death of Jazmine Barnes to gin up a firestorm of racial fear will now drop the story entirely.

Houston ranks 22nd on the list of most dangerous cities in America, with 269 homicides in 2017. The top five most dangerous cities:

1. St. Louis
2. Detroit
3. Baltimore
4. Memphis
5. Kansas City

In 2017, those cities reported a combined total of 1,145 homicides. How many of those crimes “captured national attention”? You see the national media do not randomly pick murders as newsworthy. They believed the shooting of Jazmine Barnes might be evidence of a surge of right-wing white supremacist hate crime that they could blame on President Trump and, now that this angle has proven false . . . never mind.

(Hat-tips: Kirby McCain on Twitter and Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Category: Crime, Media Bias, Racism

FMJRA 2.0: (Like) There’s No Tomorrow

Posted on | January 7, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: (Like) There’s No Tomorrow

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: Michelle Dockery
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Alabama vs. Oklahoma Tonight
EBL

‘An Apparently Consensual Relationship’
EBL

The Happiness Industrial Complex
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short
A View From The Beach
EBL

Decline and Fall
EBL

Re-Learning Crap
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.01.19
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Ah, The “Character” Issue
A View From the Beach
EBL

It’s the Degeneracy, Stupid
GeorgiaPol.com
A View From The Beach
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

‘They Took a Wild Chance’
A View From the Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.02.19
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

YouTube Suspends Jordan Peterson’s Daughter @MikhailaAleksis
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Wheel Turns on SPLC’s Heidi Beirich
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.03.19
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.04.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The “Character” Issue II: More Personality
EBL

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Category: FMJRA Award

Latina Lesbian Murdered by Two Men (But Don’t Blame Racist Homophobes)

Posted on | January 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

Today, I watched a true-crime documentary about the 2001 murder of 27-year-old Tzatzi Sanchez, who was sexually assaulted and strangled to death in Las Vegas. Now get ready for the plot twist: The two men who raped and killed Sanchez, Luis Barroso and Omed Marroquin, did so in a murder-for-hire scheme plotted by Sanchez’s former lesbian lover.

Luz Marcela Villanueva-Soto, a/k/a Marcela Whaley, was a lesbian from Durango, Mexico, who in 2000 moved to the United States with her girlfriend, Kimberlyn Estrada. They were looking for someplace to live in Las Vegas when, as luck would have it, they met Sanchez, who was working at a waitress while attending the University of Las Vegas. Sanchez was also Mexican, the daughter of a successful businessman who had sent her to school in the U.S. and had rented a large house in Las Vegas for her to live in. Sanchez offered to rent a room to Marcela and Kimberlyn. After the couple moved in with her, however, Marcela made advances on Sanchez, who had previously been strictly heterosexual. When Kimberlyn discovered this, she moved out, but the relationship between Marcela and Sanchez didn’t last. Marcela was abusive and controlling, and Sanchez became concerned for her safety. She turned to Kimberlyn for help and soon, Kimberlyn and Sanchez became lovers. This enraged Marcela, who recruited Barroso to kill Sanchez. He in turn got his buddy Marroquin to help with the murder. Police caught them, and they were both sentenced to life in prison in Nevada. Marcela fled to Mexico, where in 2007, she was sentenced to 39 years in a Mexican prison. Here’s the 2012 “Deadly Women” episode about the case:

When feminists are lecturing us about “violence against women,” they never mention the death of Tzatzi Sanchez, for some reason.

Category: Violence Against Women

Living Well Is the Best Revenge

Posted on | January 5, 2019 | 2 Comments

Friday morning I went to the airport to pick up my 18-year-old son, who was returning from a trip to our oldest daughter’s house. She lives in a crucial swing state, near the beach, and the high temperature there today is forecast at 74°F. Our youngest daughter, who recently turned 16, accompanied me to the airport, and was subjected to a few of my paternal lectures along the way. We’d left the house early, seeking to beat morning rush-hour traffic, and were so successful in that regard that we arrived at the airport more than an hour before my son’s flight arrived, and so I bought us breakfast at an airport restaurant — $27.68.

Was that too much to pay for breakfast? Yes, but I don’t spend enough time with our kids. They’re busy with school and their friends, and I’ve always got my head stuck inside the computer, trying to solve the world’s problems and/or staring into the abyss. So I wanted to do something nice and, while most people wouldn’t consider breakfast at a restaurant in the airport as something special, most people don’t have six children, and our kids have grown up with fewer of the luxuries that some other kids take for granted, including restaurant meals and vacation travel.

The cliché of “quality time” was invented by Baby Boomer yuppies in the 1980s to rationalize the way their lifestyles deprived their children of so many traditional childhood experiences. Whereas most Baby Boomers grew up in traditional families — perhaps our parents were not as perfect as Ward and June Cleaver, but we still had the basic security of a stable home life — many of the Boomers sadly failed their children in this regard. If you’ve read Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s book The Divorce Culture, you understand how the cliché of “quality time” insinuated itself into the vocabulary of parenting. The working mother might not be able to give her children the kind of daily supervision and care she’d like to give them, but she could take them on a three-day vacation to Disney World and say they’d had quality time together. The divorced father might only see his kids one weekend a month, but he could take them out jet-skiing at the lake and tell himself that this quality time made up for the absence enforced by the custody settlement.

Rationalizations are a psychological defense mechanism — the ego defending itself against negative feedback — and everybody has to do whatever it takes to stay sane in difficult circumstances. Even if we have been able to avoid the worst impacts of cultural decadence in our own lives, most of us have friends and relatives who’ve been directly affected by the unraveling of our social social fabric. Divorce, suicide, drug addiction, criminal violence — the kind of stuff Tucker Carlson was talking about Wednesday night — are both cause and effect of the downward spiral that has been destroying American culture for the past 50 years. My work involves constantly staring into the abyss, looking for the latest bizarre deviance to emerge in the years since our decadent elite opened the Pandora’s Box of atheistic perversion. And I don’t know how to explain why this swirling catastrophic collapse has left my own family unscathed, except to say that God answers prayer.

Being blessed with a good wife, and watching our children grow into caring, responsible adults, is not something I could ever deserve, and too often I take this evidence of God’s grace for granted.

We have had a happy holiday season, and being a ’Bama family means it’s not over until the Crimson Tide wins the national championship.

It’s important not to take our blessings for granted, of course, and just as I try to remind myself to be grateful for Alabama football, I am also thankful for simple blessings like a trip to the airport and breakfast with my daughter. Watching my kids grow up — and now, watching my grandchildren grow up — is a blessing for which I’m especially grateful, when I consider all the ways in which wicked people have endeavored to destroy my family’s happiness. When I mentioned how the “social justice” trolls attacked Jordan Peterson’s daughter, this was something I felt very personally, because of how my own family has been attacked by these monstrous hate-filled perverts. And speaking of Heidi Beirich . . .

My Thursday post about Dr. Beirich got linked Friday morning by Stephen Green at Instapundit, and I didn’t even realize it until today. Sometimes I get so focused on productivity, and the endless hunt for Strange and Savage Tales of Fear and Loathing, that I feel worthless on those days when I don’t publish anything, which was the case Friday. Overall, my productivity the past couple of weeks has been substandard, and I was feeling bad about it until I woke up this morning, checked the site stats and saw that we’d just had our best traffic day since November. So my worst day ironically turned out to be one of my best days.

God bless you, Vodkapundit! This takes us back to September 2009, when I spent the morning on the phone reporting to Steve the massive Tea Party rally in D.C., which prompted the attack by LGF’s Charles Johnson that inaugurated a memorable blog war. Nearly a decade later, it’s possible for me to go months at a time without thinking back to that ordeal, mainly because most people have forgotten that Little Green Footballs ever existed. How bad is LGF’s decline? Well, in spring 2015, Charles announced a GoFundMe to subsidize his project of “exposing” the “conspiracy theories and . . . hate speech” of “the right wing.” The stated goal was $20,000, but so far it’s raised less than $9,000 in 44 months, i.e., a little over $200 per month. Sucks to be you, Charles.

Sometimes, survival is victory. When people quite literally want you dead, every day you stay alive is a win. And I’m still hanging in there.

While my daughter I waited for her brother’s flight to arrive, I suggested she should plan a trip to visit her sister for spring break. She started saying something about her other plans and I was like, “What’s the matter with you kids nowadays? Your sister lives at the beach and you’ve got other plans for spring break? Are you crazy?”

Anyway, if she booked her flight now, it would be about $350 roundtrip and, while that’s nearly twice what LGF’s GoFundMe page raises in an average month, I figure if 10 readers could kick in $35 each, or if 35 readers could donate $10 each, that would suffice and I don’t think it will take more than a couple of days to raise it. God bless all of you who remember The Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Category: Shoe Leather Fund

The “Character” Issue II: More Personality

Posted on | January 5, 2019 | Comments Off on The “Character” Issue II: More Personality

by Smitty

I’d linked both Jonah Goldberg and Roger Kimball the other day, coming as they did when the

. . .carefully constructed, pre-planned, pre-scheduled, and pre-organized public op-ed by incoming Senator Mitt Romney was deployed in the Washington Post… for those who have watched McConnell work; we knew exactly who orchestrated it and why.

Senator Romney will be one (not the only) visible face of the opposition. However, just like former Senator Corker and current Senator Sasse, the instructions (direct and indirect), and/or the approvals, will come from Leader McConnell’s office.

Through his power structure McConnell directly controls about 8 to 15 republican senators; we have called them “The Decepticons” for years. [Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Graham and now Romney]

McConnell needed to test Romney’s commitment to the Decepticon club. Romney passed the test. Romney was rewarded with placement on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Those Senators who sit on this committee get the most financial benefit from foreign lobbying. To understand the financial process think: Qatar & McCain Institute etc.

I’d fall well short of saying the NRO is directly related to any orchestrated campaign to undermine the POTUS. The NRO certainly was opposed to the piece of work that preceded Trump.

But Jonah continues to insist that

the transactional defense of Donald Trump is intellectually defensible.

No amount of pragmatic, real-world regulatory, economic, or foreign policy evidence can mitigate the need to remove Trump due to his penchant for “clutching the kitty”:

“Clutching the kitty” pic.twitter.com/eArsjvccxT

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 4, 2019

And then Jonah tries to walk the idealism that fuels his posts back just a little:

But I can’t object to the logic of someone who says, “Yeah, I know Trump is crude and a boor, but I like what he’s getting done.”

Roger Kimball has the far better argument, in my opinion.

The status quo is the nutrient jelly in which [conservatives] live. They may criticize it. But they would not dream of changing it.

It is in this context—the context of Hillary Clinton as the only alternative to Donald Trump and the existential peril that Anton outlined—that we must place any meaningful discussion of Trump’s character.

Restated, Goldberg’s punditry borders on an academic detachment from any real-world context for his arguments. Somewhere out where “all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God” we cannot refute Jonah. Trump himself allows that he’s never had a beer, and that it’s one of his only good traits. In stark contrast with Pseudajawea, who quaffs a brew in an attempt to bridge the gap her impossibly curated political image to a distant planet Earth.

Dear @GOP Elite Weenies,

We’ve got a globalist Goliath threatening to devour our liberty. The homo bureaucratus infestation, culminating in Obama, is a future of ruin. We elected you wankers to repeal #ObamaCare. #YouHadOneJob. We’ve seen your value, and elected a specimen of homo Americanus to deal with you and your swampy breeding pit.

You keep tubing it at your peril, Republicans.

Cheers,
America
—
via Paco

Category: Uncategorized