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Off the Shelf

Posted on | August 6, 2019 | Comments Off on Off the Shelf

— by Wombat-socho

Cash being a bit low of late, everything that follows is from the Clark County Library (and hopefully in your local library as well) or the Kindle Owners Lending Library, which is another reason to shell out for Amazon Prime if you haven’t already.

Probably the pick of the litter is Brad Torgersen’s second novel, A Star-Wheeled Sky, which is set far in the future after mankind has escaped Earth in STL colony transports, many of which have settled the various planets of the Waywork, an alien relic that permits FTL travel between the various systems it connects. From the colonies, Starstates grow, and two of them – an oligarchy with some freedom and a brutal totalitarian regime – are locked in a war that is slowly grinding the oligarchy down. Suddenly, a new Waypoint appears, and both sides scramble to claim what turns out to be a beautiful new Earthlike world, with an enigmatic alien pyramid, the wreck of a colony transport, and an apparently immortal woman with an ominous message. It’s a fascinating tale well told, with adventure, desperate improvisations, and interesting characters on both sides. Recommended.

It used to be common that most anthologies had a handful of good stories, a lot of filler, and at least a couple of clunkers. I don’t know whether the slow death of SF magazines is the cause, but for some reason, the anthologies I’ve been seeing lately don’t seem to have any clunkers, and for that matter, there’s not as much filler as there used to be. Case in point: The Change, edited by S. M. Stirling and set in the Emberverse series that begins with Dies The Fire. So if you didn’t like those, you won’t like this, and as the late Steven den Beste used to say, DWL.* On the other hand, if you did like the Emberverse stories…well, you probably read this already. Me, I didn’t happen across it until I’d already finished The Sky-Blue Wolves, so The Change gave me a serious feeling of deja vu since I’d already met a lot of the characters in these stories back while I was reading the novels. At any rate, there’s some good stories in here by John Birmingham, John Barnes, and some other folks, and no clunkers.

The other example is Michael Williamson’s Forged In Blood, the tale of a sword forged in ancient Japan and the people who bear it. It’s listed as a book in the Freehold series, which isn’t entirely accurate since the first two-thirds of the stories take place on Earth, not Grainne, but that’s a minor quibble. There are some excellent, excellent stories in here by Larry Correia, Mike Massa (do NOT miss this one, set in the Russo-Japanese War), Tom Kratman, Kacey Ezell, and other outstanding writers from the combat SF subgenre. Good stuff.

I’ve been following the Ring of Fire/Grantsville series by Eric Flint and a cast of thousands** since they came out, skipping a few that didn’t seem interesting and trying my best to stay current. This last month I read two books set in 1636, The Kremlin Games and The Viennese Waltz. The former is about Bernie Zeppi, one of the Grantsville kids who’s at loose ends after 1632’s Battle of the Crapper – he doesn’t really have any useful skills, and he has a mild case of what they used to call “battle fatigue”. Luckily for him, the Tsar of All The Russias wants Grantsville’s tech, and he wants it bad, and that’s how Bernie winds up in Moscow trying to drag Russia into the 19th century when a lot of it isn’t sure it wants to leave the 16th. Hijinkery, war with the Poles, and a revolt by the boyars makes life excessively interesting, but Bernie and the Tsar manage to survive and even light the lamp of freedom in a country mired in serfdom. The latter, on the other hand…well, it makes me wish I hadn’t skipped The Barbie Consortium, because a lot of the main characters in The Viennese Waltz are members of said consortium, and while I like economics porn along with the subplot of trying to force early Renaissance Austria into the Steam Age before the Turks come back, I would have liked to know those characters better. The main problem is that the current Emperor of Austria-Hungary’s dad sold off a lot of patents on uptime tech to nobles, nobody has any faith in Austrian marks despite their being backed by real silver, King Albrecht (Wallenstein) of Bohemia is right next door with his Protestant army, and did I mention the schism in the Catholic Church between the former Cardinal Borja (now an antipope) and Pope Urban VIII? Lots of skulduggery, economic/financial porn, and scandalous uptime fashions having unexpected effects. Fun read.

The war pitting the Four Horsemen mercenary companies (and their handful of alien allies) against the Mercenary Guild led by the Veetanho General Peepo comes to a head in A Pale Dawn and concludes in Alabaster Noon. It’s almost impossible to do a decent plot summery for both of them without spoilers, but I will say that A Pale Dawn, which covers the Four Horsemen invasion (and liberation) of Earth doesn’t quite go as planned, and sets up the final novel in the series in such a way that I skipped the three intervening novels in the series and went right for Alabaster Noon, which made a few things that happened in the final look a bit like dei ex machina. I guess I’ll spend the next three months going back and filling in the gaps.

Finally, I am taking a stab at Tolstoy’s classic War And Peace, which is… yuge. And dense. I expect to be working on this one for a while, but if nothing else the first few chapters have convinced me that Russian culture hasn’t changed a whole lot since the 18th century, except they didn’t speak so much French and German in the 20th century. For those of you who haven’t heard of the book before, it’s a sprawling novel about Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, told from the Russian side, and there’s a LOT of detail about how Russian high society was in those days. So far it’s been pretty interesting.

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month and/or hit the tip jar. If there’s a book you want me to review, you can loan it to me on Kindle, buy me a copy, or hit the tip jar with a request that I buy and review it. I endeavour to give satisfaction, as Jeeves used to say.

*Don’t Write Letters.
**I know, I know, it’s actually just a dozen or so folks.

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Category: Books

‘Aiyona Hunt’ Is Not a Woman

Posted on | August 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

The man calling himself “Aiyona Hunt” (@Aiyonahunt01 on Twitter) has repeatedly succeeded in getting Twitter support staff to suspend the accounts of feminists who have complained about his sick misogynistic behavior. Of course, “Aiyona” (a) enjoys using the women’s restroom, (b) likes wearing high heels and (c) calls himself a “lesbian.” These are symptomatic of perverse fetishism, and yet there are many progressives who want to make such dangerous perversion a basis of “civil rights.”

Notice how “Aiyona” claims that anyone who criticizes his claim to be a lesbian is using “fake facts” and is “utterly wrong”:

 

This kind of behavior is not even about “gender identity.” This is about a deranged pervert trying to exploit “social justice” as a weapon to force unwilling women to participate in his sick sexual fantasies. As you might expect, lesbians are not amused by “Aiyona”:

I genuinely f–king hate these men. I really do. I’m so tired of this s–t. This predatory, fetishistic, f–king freak is so g–damn vile and disgusting and just pure f–king evil and he makes me wanna vomit. People really do hate women. Like, they really really f–king hate women and lesbians so much that this bulls–t has gone this f–king far. I feel like we’re just screaming into the void at this point. And the worst part is, any amount of backlash these f–king freaks get will come back to hurt *us* a thousand times worse than it will ever hurt them. We’re getting blamed for this s–t. Meanwhile we’re the ones they’re hurting the most. I’m so f–king tired, yall. So, so f–king tired.

To which all sane people must say, “Amen.”



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 08.05.19

Posted on | August 5, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.05.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Never Underestimate the Power of Human Stupidity
EBL: The Boomtown Rats – “I Don’t Like Mondays”
Twitchy: They Flipped When Trump Called MS-13 Animals. Now They’re Upset he Called Mass Shooters Monsters.
Louder With Crowder: Why Mario Lopez Should Never Apologize, also, Neil DeGrasse Tyson Triggers Gun Grabber Zealots

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Democratic Corruption, Not Racism, Ruined Baltimore, also, The Dream Team Loses To The Nobodies
American Power: Neera Tanden Ripped For Dancing On Bodies, Campaigning For Dems After Mass Shootings, also, 8chan Founder Says “Shut It Down”
American Thinker: Why Democrats Own El Paso, also, When The Left Snatches Our Kids
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Remember When Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Visited Cuba To Learn About Economic Development?, also, Young Americans Embracing Socialism Don’t Know Its History Or Understand Its Disastrous Consequences
Baldilocks: My July 2019 Post Digest For Da Tech Guy Blog
BattleSwarm: Philomena Cunk On Climate Change, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: ProteinWisdom.com Is Back!!!
CDR Salamander: The War In Yemen, With Katherine Zimmerman On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Mayim Bialik Unintentionally Explains The Price Women Have Paid For Feminism, also, Some Mass Shooting Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Shedding Obama, also, Trump Is Arming Black People
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, But Will Boys Eat It?
First Street Journal: Saoirse Kennedy Hill (RIP), also, Tulsi Gabbard Is No Friend Of Conservatives Or Libertarians
The Geller Report: Muslim Who Murdered German On The Street With A Sword Posted Islamic Confession Before The Act, also, NYC Straphangers Take Down Muslim Shouting “Allahu Akbar” After He Pushes Commuter Onto The Tracks
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Dayton, El Paso…And Chicago
Hollywood In Toto: Thirteen Questions The Press Must Ask The Hollywood “Resistance”
Joe For America: Dayton Shooter Was A Satanist Leftist Socialist Supporter Of Sanders, Warren, & Antifa – Media Silent
JustOneMinute: Evolve Or Die! also, Let’s Assault Logic
Legal Insurrection: Dayton Shooter Supported Liz Warren, Hated Trump & ICE, also, Democratic Socialists Of America Won’t Endorse Democratic Nominee If It’s Not Sanders
The PanAm Post: Hackers Steal Military, Diplomatic Intel From Maduro Regime
Power Line: Democratic Socialists Double Down On Crazy, also, Wind Energy Collapsing In Germany
Protein Wisdom: It’s Time To Declare War On Identity Politics
Shot In The Dark: Misery Loves Company
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Chicago Homicides
The Political Hat: Ohio Vs. The Gaia Cult
This Ain’t Hell: World War I Movie Preview, also, In Our Last Episode…
Victory Girls: Mass Murder is A Societal Problem, also, Is This The Rise Of Joker Terrorism?
Volokh Conspiracy: Everyone Has A Right To Call Politicians Idiots
Weasel Zippers: Breaking – Trump Moving To Impose Total Embargo On Venezuela, also, Volunteers Clean Up Baltimore City Streets After Trump Criticism
Megan McArdle: What Republicans (And Washington) Are Losing With The Departure Of Will Hurd
Mark Steyn: Valley Of The Dolls, also, The Jazz-Handed Proletariat

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Category: Linkagery

‘Revenge of the Nerds,’ IRL?

Posted on | August 5, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Revenge of the Nerds,’ IRL?

 

After our podcast Saturday night, John Hoge and I went out to dinner and he was telling me about his latest engineering project. He does very important work for NASA, but the way he talks about it is so low-key you aren’t likely to realize exactly how important his work is. So we’re sitting there in the restaurant, and he’s talking in a rather nerdy technical way about a project to do maintenance work on satellites using remote-controlled equipment and I’m like: “SPACE ROBOTS!”

This is really exciting stuff, to those of us who aren’t NASA engineers, but to Hoge, “It’s just my job five days a week,” you might say.

So I call the waitress over to our table. Hoge and I have become regulars at this place, so much that the waitress knows our orders by memory, and I point to John and say, “Can you guess what he does for a living?”

“A teacher?” she guesses.

“No — he builds space robots for NASA. Like, C3PO.”

“Actually, more like R2D2,” Hoge corrects me.

 

Because of my own professional experience, I understand that words matter. How you describe something makes a difference in how it is perceived. The whole point of Hunter S. Thompson’s career, a point he made explicitly in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, is how the media create the gap between reality and perception.

Hoge’s tendency to describe his work in a mealy-mouthed way — engineering contractor at Goddard, blah blah blah — is a typical example of this. I spent the early years of my career as a small-town sports writer, where the challenge is to write about the local high-school girls softball team’s tournament victory as if somebody actually cared:

ADAIRSVILLE — Becky Ann Randall slammed a seventh-inning double Saturday to give Red Bud High School a 12-10 victory over Fairmount in the semifinal round of the Early Bird Invitational Softball Tournament, advancing the Lady Cardinals to Sunday’s championship against host Adairsville.
Randall’s two-RBI double was one of three hits for Red Bud’s senior shortstop in Saturday’s semifinal.
“Becky Ann has really stepped us for us as a team leader,” said Lady Cardinals coach Ruth Talley, whose team graduated six players after last year’s 14-7 season. “She’s always been a competitor, and we’re counting on her to make a big difference this year.” . . .

Et cetera, et cetera. You’d illustrate the story with a photo of the “star” player of the game, and give it a headline and subhead that conveyed the idea that this was The Most Important Softball Game Ever, knowing that Becky Ann’s mama was going to buy six copies of the paper, cut out the article, laminate it, and send copies to all her relatives. Beyond this kind of scrapbook memorabilia function, I have no idea if anyone else ever paid attention to the local sports stories I wrote, but the coaches and players (and especially the players’ parents) loved the way I hyped up everything like it was really important. Why did I do it that way? Because I couldn’t see the point of doing it any other way. Like, why am I getting paid to cover these games, if the outcome doesn’t matter? Considering my own work to be valuable, I couldn’t maintain my self-esteem without trying to convince readers that the people and events I was writing about were important. Writing about high-school kids as if they were Athletic Superstars was essential to maintaining my morale as a journalist.

Words matter, and how we talk about ourselves affects how we are perceived by others. John Hoge was entirely honest with his low-key description of himself as an engineering contractor, but it’s also honest — and infinitely more impressive — for him to say he builds space robots.

True story: My son Jim was doing a home-remodeling job in Lynchburg, Virginia, and went out to have a few cold beverages. He got talking to a guy in the bar and when he introduced himself as Jim McCain, the guy said, “Like . .. The Other McCain?” Jim answered, “Yeah, that’s my dad,” and he didn’t have to pay for his drinks the rest of the night.

Oh, I’m just a blogger, in the same way Hoge’s just an engineer, but when I introduce myself to people, I tell them I’m a political correspondent for The American Spectator, which sounds more impressive.

Nobody ever paid serious attention to Santino Legan, Patrick Crusius or Connor Betts before they went on shooting rampages that have made national headlines. Legan killed three people and injured 13 others July 28 at a California food festival before killing himself. Crusius killed 20 people and injured 26 more Saturday in El Paso, Texas, before surrendering to police. Betts killed 9 people and injured 20 others in the wee hours of Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio, before he was shot to death by police. None of these mass murderers had previous criminal records, and all three were young white men — Legan was 19, Crusius is 21, Betts was 24 — who might be described colloquially as nerds or losers. Politicians and pundits rushed to interpret these atrocities in a political context, but the rise of a genuine terrorist threat from such “lone wolf” killers — misfits or outcasts, filled with feelings of frustration and hopelessness — might better be understood from a sociological or psychological perspective. . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.



 

Category: American Spectator

Rule 5 Sunday: Claudia Cardinale

Posted on | August 5, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Claudia Cardinale, the glorious Tunisian/Italian actress who featured in a lot of spaghetti westerns, first came to my attention in perhaps the greatest of those not starring Clint Eastwood: Once Upon A Time In The West, where she played a beautiful widow beset by the eeeeevil Henry Fonda. More appropriately, she played the Algerian lover of Anthony Quinn’s Colonel Raspeguy in Lost Command, a mid-sixties film based on Pierre Larteguy’s famous novel The Centurions, which follows a group of French Army officers from Dien Bien Phu to the Battle of Algiers. Here’s Cardinale’s Aisha with her colonel.

The beginning of a tragic relationship.

On a far more cheerful note (and if you’ve read the book, you know exactly what I mean), Ninety Miles From Tyranny serves up something extra this week with Hot Pick of the Late Night, 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode 699, Morning Mistress, Girls With Guns, and the bonus 90 Miles Mystery Video – Nyctophilia #2. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule 5 UFO Kookery News and the Saturday Gingermageddon (the 250th!), while Bacon Time serves up Larsa Pippen.

This week, EBL brings us rats, National Chicken Wing Day, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Marianne Williamson, Harriet Tubman, Tulsi vs. Kamala, National Water Balloon Day, and Darleen Love.

A View From The Beach presents Little Miss Starlight – Erin Moriarty, “And Then He Kissed Me”, I Hope It Was At Least High End Luggage, Katy Loses Plagiarism Suit, “Backwater Blues”, A Shot of Salvation for Chesapeake Logperch, Blue Monday, Still Too Much Russiagate, Making Lemonade and Outlaw Artist Uses 225,000 Plastic Straws.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Mariska Hargitay and his Vintage Babe is Jayne Mansfield. At Dustbury, it’s Birgitta Haukdal and Nadia Ali.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Two Mass Shootings in 14 Hours: Thoughts on ‘The Gamification of Terror’

Posted on | August 4, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Saturday night on The Other Podcast with John Hoge, we opened the show discussing the shooting at an El Paso Wal Mart that left 20 people dead and 26 injured. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, evidently drove more than 600 miles from his family’s home near Dallas to commit this atrocity. He posted online a four-page manifesto citing the March massacre in New Zealand as his inspiration, and saying he expected to be killed. Instead, Crusius was “taken into custody without incident” and reportedly “told investigators he wanted to shoot as many Mexicans as possible.” Even as we were beginning to digest that news, however, there was another massacre in Ohio:

Nine people have been killed and at least 26 injured after a shooting at a bar in Ohio today in the second US massacre in 14 hours.
Police responded to calls about an active shooter in the area of East 5th Street in the Oregon District on Dayton, according to WHIO-TV.
The the gunman, who was using a ‘long gun’, was killed by police who were nearby in the early hours of this morning.
Customers said on social media many at Ned Peppers Bar were ‘piling on top of each other to get out’.
Witnesses described ‘casualties everywhere’ and an attacker who was a ‘white man dressed all in black’.

The Dayton shooter has been identified as 24-year-old Connor Betts, and this bloodbath would seem to fit the pattern of other recent incidents, including not only the El Paso shooting, but also last weekend’s massacre in Gilroy, California (see “The Poison Fruit of Radical Seeds”).

Young white men — the Gilroy shooter was 19, the El Paso shooter was 21, and the Dayton gunman fit the same profile — are succumbing to despair and rage, believing their lives are worthless, without meaning or purpose. Seeing no hope for their own future as individuals, they project their nihilistic sense of doom onto society at large, and resort to a sick “blaze of glory” fantasy, a suicidal impulse whereby they attempt to kill as many people as possible before they die.

While these massacres are characterized as “far right” or “white supremacist” in their ideology — the media wants to blame President Trump — Daniel Greenfield points out that the El Paso shooter’s manifesto also made an environmentalist argument:

“The American lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life. However, our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations,” the El Paso shooter wrote.
“This phenomenon is brilliantly portrayed in the decades old classic ‘The Lorax'”, Crusius wrote, citing a children’s story commonly used as a text by environmentalists.
“Fresh water is being polluted from farming and oil drilling operations. Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent,” he ranted.
“We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just wipe water off our hands. Everything I have seen and heard in my short life has led me to believe that the average American isn’t willing to change their lifestyle, even if the changes only cause a slight inconvenience. The government is unwilling to tackle these issues beyond empty promises since they are owned by corporations.”
At this point the El Paso shooter seems to be channeling Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders.
“Corporations that also like immigration because more people means a bigger market for their products. I just want to say that I love the people of this country, but god damn most of y’all are just too stubborn to change your lifestyle. So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources. If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable.”

Anyone who has read Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer knows that, whatever the “cause” may be — left, right or otherwise — radicalism always attracts certain types of personalities, including “misfits” who for one reason or another are unable to obtain satisfaction in the ordinary pleasures of an ordinary life. Furthermore, the misfit who resorts to terroristic violence has, by his action, expressed a loss of hope in ordinary political activity as a means of influencing society in whatever direction he believes it should go. It is this hopelessness, a sense of inescapable doom, that distinguishes the terrorist from anyone engaged in ordinary politics, whatever their ideology might be.

There’s something else going on here, as online forums have created what journalist Robert Evans calls “The Gamification of Terror”:

In this discussion thread [on the 8chan forum], after one anon posts screenshots of the El Paso shooter’s thread, another asks, “Is nobody going to check these incredible digits?” This statement is likely a reference to the shooter’s substantial body count. . . .
Ever since the Christchurch shooting spree, 8chan users have commented regularly on Brenton Tarrant’s high bodycount, and made references to their desire to “beat his high score” . . .
What we see here is evidence of the only real innovation 8chan has brought to global terrorism: the gamification of mass violence. We see this not just in the references to “high scores”, but in the very way the Christchurch shooting was carried out. Brenton Tarrant livestreamed his massacre from a helmet cam in a way that made the shooting look almost exactly like a First Person Shooter video game. . . .
Until law enforcement, and the media, treat these shooters as part of a terrorist movement no less organized, or deadly, than ISIS or Al Qaeda, the violence will continue. There will be more killers, more gleeful celebration of body counts on 8chan, and more bloody attempts to beat the last killer’s “high score”.

In other words, the livestreamed New Zealand massacre functioned as a template upon which other angry misfits might model their own massacres, each attempting to exceed the “high score” of fatalities, a concept directly derived from first-person-shooter videogames. The nihilism and hopelessness of these killers is exacerbated by their social isolation, as spending endless hours playing videogames tends to prevent them from forming real-life friendships or romantic relationships.

We therefore have a “terrorist movement” of nerds and losers.

UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds recommends Loren Coleman’s 2004 book The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines and, speaking of books, has Professor Reynolds mentioned he’s got a book about the toxicity of social media?



 

Category: Crime, Terrorism

FMJRA 2.0: This Is My Rifle

Posted on | August 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Victoria Baldessara
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Kryptonite
A View From The Beach
EBL

Red Pill: Celebrity Pastor Josh Harris Divorces Wife, Renounces Christianity
Sticks, Stories, & Scotch
EBL

‘Avenge the Patriotic Gore That Flecked the Streets of Baltimore’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.29.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

MSNBC Guest Threatens ‘Civil War’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.30.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Dark Psychic Forces’ 2020
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.31.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.01.19
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Florida Man’ Strikes Again
Dark Brightness
EBL

Her Superhero Name Was ‘Whorella’
Da Tech Guy
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.02.19
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending August 2nd:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)
  3. A View From the Beach (5)

Honorable mention: Dark Brightness

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery!

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How Dangerous Is Baltimore?

Posted on | August 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

It’s worse than the countries from which “refugees” are fleeing:

WJZ reviewed data from 2018, the last full year for which data is available. Data from the U.S. State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council lists El Salvador’s murder rate at 50 per 100,000 residents in 2018.
The council’s report listed Guatemala’s 2018 murder rate at 22 per 100,000.
Honduras’ 2018 murder rate was not included in OSAC’s annual crime and safety report published in April, but a report from the Observatory of Violence at the National Autonomous University of Honduras gave a figure of 41.4 murders per 100,000 residents.
HOW DOES BALTIMORE COMPARE?
Charm City ended 2018 with a total of 309 murders, according to the Baltimore Police Department. So far in 2019, police report 196 homicides have occurred. Using the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 2018 population estimate for the city of 602,495, Baltimore’s 2018 murder rate is 51.3 murders per 100,000 residents.

Not only is Baltimore more dangerous than El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras, but in 2015, the Washington Post reported: “Fourteen Baltimore neighborhoods have lower life expectancies than North Korea. Eight are doing worse than Syria.” (Hat-tips: Hot Air, Instapundit.)



 

Category: Crime, Maryland
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