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In The Mailbox: 07.31.19

Posted on | August 1, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.31.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Flash-bang first, ask questions later” is Not a Good Policy
EBL: Elijah Cummings Calls His Own Congressional District “Drug Infested”
Twitchy: Democrats Surprisingly Target Obama At CNN Debate
Louder With Crowder: Actually, Real Parents Don’t “Transition” Their Young Children

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Giving Power To The Deviants
American Greatness: Donald Trump At The Overton Window
American Thinker: Fox Veers Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Socialist Dictatorship Refuses Reforms To Stave Off Economic Collapse, Imposes Price Controls Instead
Baldilocks: Ben Carson, Baltimore, & Representation
BattleSwarm: Marianne Williamson Dominates Second Debate
Camp of the Saints: The Menace That Is Red China
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXIII
Da Tech Guy: Obama Created Racists?
Don Surber: An Economy So Good Democrats Won’t Mention It
Dustbury: War On Google?
First Street Journal: How Do Celebrities Show Up To A “Climate Change” Conference?
The Geller Report: FL Muslim Attacks Man, Screaming “We Are Coming For You, Trump!” also, Rachel Maddow Loses Over 800,000 Viewers In Six Months
Hogewash: Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Skipped The Debate, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day (featuring Johnny Atsign!)
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s Why Liberals Fear The Babylon Bee
Joe For America: The Truth Behind Obama’s $50 Million Deal With Netflix
Legal Insurrection: Andrew Yang Accuses DNC Of Changing Rules To Keep Him Out Of Third Debate, also, Federal Judge Dismisses DNC Hacking Lawsuit Against Trump Team
The PanAm Post: Venezuela On The Verge Of Losing Citgo After Recent Legal Ruling
Power Line: About Last Night, also, Democratic Debate Night II – Where Mediocrity Is Good Enough
Shark Tank: Progressives Clash With Moderates, Trump Wins
Shot In The Dark: Deutsch, Delusion, & Berg’s Seventh Law
STUMP: Trump Tweets & Public Pensions – Is CalSTRS Really A Long-Term Investor?
The Political Hat: A Satire Of Wokeness
This Ain’t Hell: Trump’s Cummings Tweets Setting Stage For Presidential Campaign, also, B52 Practice Bombing Run
Victory Girls: Judge Dismisses Case, DNC Weeps
Volokh Conspiracy: Amity Shlaes Responds On Schechter
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Claims President Trump Wants To “Exterminate” Black People, also, Tulsi Gabbard Wipes Out Kamala The Cop In Tonight’s Debate
Mark Steyn: That’s One Angry Flower Girl

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‘Dark Psychic Forces’ 2020

Posted on | July 31, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

As John Hoge reminds his readers this morning, when I went to South Carolina in March to cover Marianne Williamson’s presidential campaign, I was the only national reporter covering her. Nobody thought she had a chance, but last night in the CNN debate, she got the biggest applause of the night with her advocacy of slavery reparation and her line blaming Trump’s success on “dark psychic forces”:

We have an administration that has gutted the Clean Water Act. We have communities particularly communities of color and disadvantaged communities all over this country who are suffering from environmental injustice. I assure you I lived in Grosse Point [Michigan], what happened in Flint would not have happened in Gross Point, this is part of the dark underbelly of American society, the racism, the bigotry, and the entire conversation that we’re having here tonight, if you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with the dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this President is bringing up in this country, then I’m afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days. We need to say it like it is, it’s bigger than Flint. It’s all over this country. It’s particularly people of color. It’s particularly people who do not have the money to fight back, and if the Democrats don’t start saying it, why would those people feel they’re there for us? And if those people don’t feel it, they won’t vote for us and Donald Trump will win.

 

Here is the thing I keep reminding my conservative friends: You have to keep in mind that this is about Democratic primary voters, the kind of highly motivated hard-core leftists who will turn out on a snowy February night to participate in an Iowa precinct caucus. If you tell me that Marianne Williamson is “too crazy” to win, my answer is, “You’re telling me Elizabeth Warren is not crazy? Bernie Sanders is not crazy?”

If candidates like Warren and Sanders now define what is “mainstream” for Democrats, there is no feasible limit on what is “mainstream,” and the only reason Marianne Williamson is considered a long-shot candidate is because the extremist left-wing fringe has become overcrowded.

People who calculate the odds according to standard political analysis always miss the rising forces of a new era, which is why almost none of the pundits took Donald Trump seriously when he came riding down that escalator in June 2015. You may not attribute Trump’s startling victory to “collectivized hatred,” but it did signify a seismic shift in American politics, and if Democrats don’t adjust to this shift, they will indeed “see some very dark days,” as Williamson says.



 

Category: Debates, Democrats

In The Mailbox: 07.30.19

Posted on | July 31, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later, Then Lie About It
EBL: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – A Review
Twitchy: Democratic Candidates Agree Obamacare Is Horrible, Didn’t Fix Anything
Louder With Crowder: Rat Runs Through Broadcast On Trump’s Baltimore Rat Comments

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Boom Boom Brexit
American Greatness: Hyped-Up Fake Meat Product Finds Stock Price Tanking
American Thinker: The Growing Danger Of Misinformed Millenials
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Health Care News
Babalu Blog: Enemies Of The U.S. Who Set Up Shop In Venezuela Being Bled Dry By Trump Administration
BattleSwarm: The Twitter Primary Revisited, July 2019
Camp of the Saints: The Cause Is All – On “Sensible Leftists” And Perversity
CDR Salamander: How Things Can Get Real Stupid Real Fast
Da Tech Guy: The Miracle On The Plains, also, Selling Baltimore As Safe And Al Sharpton As Honest – The Trump Dilemma For Democrats
Don Surber: Trump Cost Red China 5 Million Jobs
Dustbury: Don’t You Know Who I Am?
First Street Journal: On Day Three, Media Still Screaming “Racist”, But Not Investigating Baltimore
The Geller Report: Somali Muslim Migrants Arrested For Terrorism In Tucson, also, Muslim Murders First Wife In “Honor Killing”, Plans To Return To UK With Second Wife
Hogewash: An Investment Opportunity, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Three Entertainment Stories The Media Won’t Touch
Joe For America: Crime-Ridden, Rat-Infested Baltimore Got $1.8 Billion Of Obama’s 2009 Stimulus – Where Did It Go?
JustOneMinute: Joseph Mifsud, Maltese Man Of Mystery
Legal Insurrection: MSNBC Guest Claims Trump Presidency Could Lead To Civil War, also, 2020 Democratic Candidates Fall Into Trump’s Trap, Defend Al Sharpton
The PanAm Post: Cristina Kircher Says Argentina Is Like Venezuela Because Of Macri
Power Line: Meet The Squad, also, A DNI Trump Trusts? The Horror!
Shark Tank: Democrats Blame Trump For Border Crisis
Shot In The Dark: The PCUSA & The Big Sort
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Is Illinois A Low-Tax State?
The Political Hat: The Political Age Of Leeroy Jenkins
This Ain’t Hell: TSA Finds Missile Launcher In Checked Baggage At BWI, also, More Or Les Putting Elko NV On The Map
Victory Girls: Trump Has Only The Best Enemies
Volokh Conspiracy: Threatening Teachers’ Ability To Control Their Classrooms
Weasel Zippers: Ilhan Omar Caught On Video With Mystery Man In LA, also, DNC Chair Tom Perez Lauds Al Sharpton For His “Leadership”
Megan McArdle: What Debate Moderators Should Ask Kamala Harris About Her Medicare For All Plan
Mark Steyn: Berrying Boris, also, Intergenerational Welfare

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MSNBC Guest Threatens ‘Civil War’

Posted on | July 30, 2019 | Comments Off on MSNBC Guest Threatens ‘Civil War’

Because — you guessed it — ORANGE MAN BAD!

America may be on the verge of a “horrible civil war” because President Donald Trump criticized a crime-ridden major city that has exclusively been run by Democratic mayors for decades, according to a guest on “Morning Joe,” reports Fox News. . . .
Speaking on “Morning Joe,” chief public affairs officer for MoveOn.org, Karine Jean-Pierre, said that Elijah Cummings “is everything Trump is not” and suggested the president attacked him out of fear. . . .
“He is not a president for black people. He’s not a president for women. He’s not a president for brown people. He’s not a president for the LGBTQ community. He chooses to just double down and triple down on bigotry and racism.”
According to Jean-Pierre, Trump’s rhetoric regarding Baltimore will continue until the 2020 election — which she believes could lead to a civil war.
“I don’t know where Donald Trump wants to take this, but wherever it is, it’s going to be dangerous,” she said. “It could lead to some sort of horrible civil war. He is testing us. He’s testing the democracy. He’s shredding the Constitution. And so, Republicans, the leadership in the Republican Party, need to stand up. You have to speak up. Because if you don’t, you are encouraging this. You are picking Donald Trump, loyalty to Donald Trump, instead of to the country.”

Speaking of “loyalty to the country,” Ms. Jean-Pierre’s parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti, which is even worse than Baltimore. And speaking of a “horrible civil war,” Haiti had one that led to the murder of every white person in the former French colony. More than 3,000 white people were murdered in the 1804 massacre, and Haiti has forever since been a nation based upon hatred of the white man. Not only is Haiti worse than Baltimore, it’s even worse than Detroit!

But I suppose it’s “racist” to mention any of this.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.)



 

Category: MSNBC

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 30, 2019 | 3 Comments

Karl ‘Evie’ Amati in 2015, after sex-change surgery in Thailand.

Karl Booth Amati grew up in privileged circumstances, the son of two senior labor-union representatives, and graduated from prestigious Shenton College in the suburbs of Perth, Australia, with top grades in 2009. Amati moved across the country to Sydney where, through family connections, he obtained a job at the headquarters of CPSU, the government employees union in Australia. Two years later, in June 2012, Karl posted on Facebook that he had “wanted to be a girl for a while now and wants to act more publicly feminine.” Shortly thereafter, Karl began taking hormones, calling himself “Evie,” and eventually traveled to Thailand for sex-change surgery. There were post-surgical complications, and Karl/“Evie” began suffering “excruciating pain,” his/“her” attorney later explained in court, saying Amati “began to experience visions, hallucinations and suicidal and homicidal ideation.” In January 2016, Amati had a date with a woman he/“she” had met via Tinder, but that went badly, with Karl/“Evie” feeling that his/“her” date found him/“her” “unattractive … on the basis she was transgender.” Amati had been drinking vodka and taking drugs, including marijuana and the hallucinogen MDA, and on Facebook in the wee hours of the morning declared: “Humans are only able to destroy to hate so that is what I shall do.” About 20 minutes later, Amati walked into a convenience store, carrying an ax and with a long knife in his/“her” back pocket. Amati used the ax to attack two customers in the store, inflicting severe injuries, then left the store, later attacking a homeless man on the street.

 

At trial, Amati’s attorney argued that he/“she” should be acquitted on the basis of his/“her” mental illness, but the jury rejected that defense and convicted the ax-wielding tranny of felony offenses that carried a minimum prison sentence of 20 years. However, the judge sentenced Amati to a term that could set the attempted murderer back on the streets in less than five years. Amati has not been a model prisoner:

Convicted axe attacker Evie Amati, who was jailed over an axe attack at a 7-Eleven, has been involved in a prison fight because other inmates want her moved to a male jail.
Amati’s involvement in a prison fight emerged during an appeal against her “manifestly inadequate” sentence for attempting to murder three people with an axe in January 2017.
The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal heard that Amati’s maximum nine-year and minimum four-and-a-half year sentence was “so manifestly inadequate that it is an affront to the administration of justice”.
Crown barrister Maria Cinque told the CCA that nine years was inappropriate for just one of the three attacks, on victim Ben Rimmer whose face Amati split, fracturing his nasal bone, eye socket and cheekbones.
News.com.au has learned that Amati, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in Thailand in 2014, had been involved in fights at the all-female Mary Wade Women’s Correctional Centre since her 2018 trial.
During the appeal against Amati’s short sentence, it emerged that she and a female inmate became involved in a fight after the inmate told Amati she should be in a male prison. . . .
Before the late-night attack, Amati had been on a failed Tinder date and ingested a cocktail of drugs with alcohol.
She’d bought the axe months before and tested it on a couch, and on the night of the attacks heard a voice telling her to “kill and maim … and start the rise of hell on Earth”.
Sentenced in January this year, Amati faced a maximum 75 years in prison with a minimum term of 20 years. . . .
Maria Cinque for the Crown told the CCA last week Amati’s sentence showed “a disconnection”.
“The non-parole period [four-and-a-half years] is only six months more than the indicative (minimum) sentence for the first offence,” she said.
Amati’s barrister, Peter Lange, told the court the sentencing judge had taken into account several unusual features, including the interplay of gender dysphoria, a depressive illness and drug-taking.

Translation: “Your honor, my client is a violent lunatic, and therefore you can’t impose the same sentence you would on a sane criminal.”



 

Category: Australia, Crime, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 07.29.19

Posted on | July 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: UK to Mandate That Phones/Dishwashers/etc. Be Too Expensive for the Average Person
EBL: You Know What Rat-Infested Baltimore Needs?
Twitchy: Woman Who Exposed Baltimore In Video Series Notes That Confederate Statues Were Removed Overnight
Louder With Crowder: Dear Race-Baiting Leftists – Only Racists See Racism Everywhere

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We’re Back, Baby, also, Podcast #116 – The Search For A Good Hooker
American Greatness: Democrats’ Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
American Power: “Complete Chaos” At Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
American Thinker: If Mueller Wasn’t In Charge, Who Was?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba Was A Modern, Thriving Country In 1958 Before Socialism Destroyed It
BattleSwarm: Trump Vs. Baltimore, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: Lifestyles Of The Modern Rich & Famous?
CDR Salamander: No Summer Break For NATO – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Literacy Is Power, also, Baltimore Needs More Republicans – So Do Detroit & Chicago
Don Surber: Miss Dowd Is Next At The Guillotine
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Something More For Her Wallet
First Street Journal: Baltimore Sun Says Trump’s Comments On Rats & Filth Are Mean. Baltimore Sun Also  Says – City Is Full of Rats & Filth
The Geller Report: Child Killed In Frankfurt After Being Pushed From Train Platform With Mom By Migrant, also, Muslims Threaten To Blow Up Indian Rail Station If Hindus Pass Through
Hogewash: A Starbursting Galaxy, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Seven Reasons The Woke Left Turned On Quentin Tarantino
Joe For America: Mad Maxine Waters Has A Vile Message For Trump Supporters
JustOneMinute: Hacking The Next Election
Legal Insurrection: Democrats Accuse Trump Of Racism To Deflect From Malfeasance & Neglect In Baltimore, also, Student Accused Of Trying To Chain College Republicans In Classroom Won’t Face Charges
Michelle Malkin: Open Borders Churches Hide Human Trafficking Behind The Cross
The PanAm Post: The “New” FARC, also, Brazil’s Deficit Falls 14% Under Bolsonaro Compared To 2018
Power Line: Four Pinocchios For The Washington Post, also, Trump As “Crazy Eddie”
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Breaks With Trump, Will Vote Against Budget
Shot In The Dark: Kicking & Screaming
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: The Waterdogs & Your Tax Dollars At Work, also, Pentagon Funds OK’d For Border Wall
Victory Girls: Kids Still In Cages, But Nancy’s Going To Africa!
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Ginsburg On Justices Gorsuch & Kavanaugh
Weasel Zippers: Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooter Was Italian/Iranian Who Hated White People, also, Bernie Sanders Likens Baltimore To Third World City, Flips Out When Trump Quotes Him
Mark Steyn: Nightmare Alley, also, A Bushel & A Peck Of Heart And Soul

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

Posted on | July 29, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Avenge the Patriotic Gore That Flecked the Streets of Baltimore’

During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration suppressed civil liberties in Maryland, where anti-war “Copperhead” Democrats were a majority. Both freedom of the press and the right of habeas corpus were denied to Lincoln’s opponents in Maryland and in April 1861, less than a week after the surrender of Fort Sumter, there was a riot in the streets of Baltimore. Hundreds of anti-war Democrats confronted the 6th Massachusetts regiment, which marched through the city to transfer between railroad lines on their way to Washington, D.C. Attacked by the mob — throwing bricks and firing pistols — the troops opened fire.

Four soldiers and 12 civilians were killed. Among the wounded was a recent Georgetown graduate, Francis X. Ward, whose friend and former classmate James Ryder Randall, a Baltimore native, was inspired to write a poem urging Marylanders to resist the “despot” Lincoln:

The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore,
Maryland! My Maryland!

Set to the same tune as “O, Christmas Tree,” Randall’s poem eventually became the Maryland state song. A lot has changed about Baltimore in the intervening decades, but the city is still run by Democrats who have an especial hatred for Republican presidents. John Hoge reminds us that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s father Tom D’Alessandro was mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. In 1948, Mayor D’Alessandro dedicated a memorial to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Baltimore: “Today . . . we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions.”

Well, a Republican president has some thoughts about Baltimore:

Noting that Rep. Elijah Cummings, a top House Democrat and leader of the impeachment caucus, represents the crime-ridden mess that is Baltimore, President Trump launched an attack that is being called “racist” by Democrats, but which is the first time in my memory a top Republican has called attention to how Democrat-run cities are a nightmare. The war of words over Baltimore is not one that Trump can lose, simply because the facts are indisputable.



 

Category: Democrats, History, Maryland

Red Pill: Celebrity Pastor Josh Harris Divorces Wife, Renounces Christianity

Posted on | July 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

Normally, I ignore church scandals, but the apostasy of Josh Harris hurts at a personal level. My wife and I began homeschooling our children in 1996, and so we were — indirectly, but in a real way — part of the same Christian community that produced Josh. When we lived in Gaithersburg, my wife and daughter attended a weekend women’s conference at Covenant Life Church, where he was youth minister before becoming senior pastor, replacing C.J. Mahaney. Some commentary about Josh’s apostasy suggests that it was somehow a predictable sequel of the child-abuse scandal that hit Mahaney’s Sovereign Grace Ministries in 2011. However, I was more reminded of the downfall of Doug Phillips, an eminent figure in Christian homeschooling who was destroyed by a 2014 sex scandal. Christian leaders who make themselves national spokesmen for an ethos of sexual purity are, necessarily, forfeiting their privacy and exposing themselves to destruction if they stray from the narrow path. Paula Bolyard summarizes feelings I share:

Many Christians (homeschoolers, in particular) are familiar with the Harris family — Josh’s mother and father, Gregg and Sono Harris, were pioneers in the Christian homeschooling movement of the ’80s and ’90s and Josh’s book advocating the view that dating should be avoided in favor of a courtship model sold more than a million copies . . . Many of us were understandably shocked and disappointed by Harris’ apostasy (the Greek word means simply a defection or revolt). An individual whom many of us admired and learned from has chosen to forsake Christ and embrace the world — he’s denounced the faith of his childhood, one that he has embraced very publicly over the last two decades. . . .
Besides being a warning about dangers of Evangelicalism Inc.’s celebrity culture, these incidents also serve as a warning about how Satan prowls about like a roaring lion “seeking whom he may devour.” Make no mistake: The prince of this world revels over each and every one of these stories.

Indeed. This son of eminent church leaders, a bestselling author whose message made his name familiar to millions of young Christians, must surely have been a target of Satan’s most fiendish demons, who now dance in delight at his downfall. We have been warned that the kingdom of God shall not come “except there come a falling away first,” and that we “be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled” by such apostasies.

What happened to Josh Harris? Honestly, I don’t know. He quit the pulpit in 2015, and by 2017 was promoting himself as a consultant offering businesses “branding and content strategy.” He announced his separation from his wife in sensitive blue-pill language (they “will continue our life together as friends . . . to create a generous and supportive future for each other and for our three amazing children”). We don’t know what we don’t know, but we may speculate that his wife — who had fallen in love with him when he was a evangelical superstar — lost interest in her husband once he ceased to be a celebrity. The Mahaney scandal must have inflicted collateral damage on Josh’s reputation and status as a leader, and what is the church to such a Christian celebrity except a source of status, an adoring audience for his performances? Necessarily, the celebrity pastor’s wife becomes part of the performance, playing the role of Perfect Christian Wife, and what happens when the show is over? What happens when the pastor leaves the pulpit and there is no longer an audience for this performance?

Maybe Josh Harris could learn something from Rollo Tomassi, but as I say, we don’t know what we don’t know. In his Instagram apostasy announcement, Josh Harris went out of his way to apologize to “the LGBTQ+ community.” My hunch is that this was not a coincidence, but I’ll avoid sharing my other hunches about the significance of this.

There are probably many lessons to be learned here, but I’ll skip the didactic approach and simply mourn Josh Harris’s apostasy.



 

Category: Religion
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