Atlanta Police need the public’s help with identifying two women they say are suspects in a shooting that involved a Burger King employee.
Officers responded to a shooting call shortly after 8 p.m. on Oct. 10 at a Burger King at 1130 Moreland Ave SE. When they arrived, they found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Police say the victim was alert, breathing, and conscious.
Early investigations show that this altercation started from a verbal dispute over a food order in the drive-thru. It turned physical when the two suspects entered the restaurant, spat at the victim, and threw items. One of the suspects then pulled out a gun and shot the victim.
Gosh, when I was a kid growing up in Atlanta, nobody ever got shot in Burger King. Of course, when I was a kid, Lester Maddox was governor of Georgia, but correlation is not causation.
Behold, it is once again time for the Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Appreciation Post! Unfortunately, nobody has made a new, epic movie about Christopher Columbus, so I’ll content myself with posting a link to last year’s post.
I spent the day (all eight hours of it) driving along I-80 from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne, and didn’t see even one fluffy murder cow except for the ones on the Wyoming State Flag. So disappointing. Anyway, I’m pretty beat, so you get the short version today. Tomorrow I’ll try to get caught up, since I’m just going to drive to Wall, SD and that’s only six hours away…but a lot of it is over US highways, not interstates, so we’ll see how long it actually takes. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.
The Gaza War began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, then sent 6,000 terrorists across the border, where they murdered nearly 1,200 innocent Israelis and kidnapped another 250. Joe Biden was president at the time, and respect for the United States was at an all-time low. For the next 17 months, while Democrats pandered to the pro-Hamas protesters, nothing was done to end the war. In January 2025, Donald Trump took office for his second term as president and now, less than nine months later, there is a peace deal with the remaining hostages returned to Israel.
“Trump won this war in June, when he made an unapologetic decision to intervene with military strikes in Iran. Those strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities completely shook up the order in the region, which had settled into an Iranian track toward dominance. Israel had already done most of the damage by wiping out Hezbollah’s upper echelons and their banking system, which led directly to the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the rise of a new Syrian regime that detests the mullahs in Iran. However, the strikes by Trump on Iran forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions and recalculate for a president who had no problem ordering military force to defend and protect American interests.”
Gen. John Bell Hood (left), Gen. William T. Sherman (right)
Knowing me to be a native of Atlanta, perhaps some readers will be surprised to discover that I’m willing to admit that General Sherman was right about certain things. In September 1864, after the Yankees had captured Atlanta and Gen. John Bell Hood’s Confederates had retreated south of Lovejoy Station, Sherman wrote to Hood, explaining his plan to evacuate the civilian population of Atlanta (a plan detailed in Special Field Orders No. 67). Hood replied harshly, declaring to Sherman that “the unprecedented measure you propose transcends, in studied and ingenious cruelty, all acts ever before brought to my attention in the dark history of war.” Sherman replied vehemently and at some length, defending the necessity of the evacuation, and laying the blame for war on Southerners who, “in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into war, dark and cruel war; who dared and badgered us to battle, insulted our flag, seized our arsenals and forts,” et cetera.
The point that Sherman sought to make was that those who choose war must accept the consequences of that choice. At the time the Confederates opened their bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, and for quite some time thereafter, neither North nor South expected the war to become what it did — a four-year ordeal that took the lives of more than half a million soldiers, to say nothing of the other destruction and hardship involved. My ancestors fought for the Confederacy, and I’ll brook no insults of their honor, yet an important lesson is to be learned from the Sherman-Hood correspondence, which the inhabitants of Gaza and their sympathizers ought to study. How many times have you seen the pro-Hamas crowd on X posting before-and-after pictures of Gaza and trying to blame Israel for the destruction? Well, boo hoo hoo.
Oh, they want to complain about the occupation, do they? They send us an invitation to their pity party, and pout when we don’t R.S.V.P.
They slaughter the innocent, then try to say they’re victims.
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I resent the insult implied by people who tell me such things as if I am fool enough to believe them. Of course, Southerners are very sensitive to insults, but I’ve learned to resist such provocations. History teaches some hard lessons. Anyway . . .
If Democrats had their way, Trump would now be in prison. Instead, he’s a hero, and I’m not yet tired of all this winning. Are you?
Was going to post BYU cheerleaders but didn’t find anything suitable after a cursory search (look, it was a seven-hour drive from Tonopah, okay?) of the intertubes. Instead, enjoy this young lady, who invites us to enjoy her scenic mountains. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
The draft in Pete’s league finished up Wednesday; I dropped out a little early because I have a solid lineup and at least one bench player who can fill in if somebody gets crunched; likewise, I have a solid starting rotation and an absolutely deadly bullpen. Can I beat the 1974 Rangers record of 84-76? That’s what we play the games to find out…and regardless of how Pete sets up the schedule, I’ll be playing my first three (and maybe four) series on the road to & from Minnesota. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
People are literally killing because they believe what “Atheist Girl” believes — if you do not support Antifa, you are a fascist. This belief is obviously flawed as a matter of logic. It is a tautology, a circular argument where the first premise is identical to the conclusion. It asserts as fact a proposition which it fails to prove. The supporters of Antifa expect us to accept without question that any person or organization that they label “fascist” actually is what they say it is, and then use this “fascist” labeling to justify lawless violence. What this logic represents, in other words, is a claim to moral authority to kill anyone who disagrees with them.
Question: Where is the evidence of Antifa’s moral superiority? If these people are qualified to make such judgments — to act as a de facto revolutionary tribunal, deciding who is a “fascist” and therefore deserving of violent death — then shouldn’t they present their credentials, so that we may be assured of their bona fides? What we find instead is that Antifa thugs conceal their identities while committing their terrorist deeds, and on those occasions when their identities become known, there is nothing in their biographies to suggest any sort of superiority at all. Antifa militants are not more intelligent or more virtuous than their opponents and, in fact, are quite generally the scum of the earth.
Portland Antifa mugshots. How many of these folks look Batshit Crazy to you? Or, really, how many DON'T?! Special bonus: How many seem to be trans? pic.twitter.com/XEEE3JENlK
If any of those freaks moved into your neighborhood, you’d immediately put your house up for sale and start loading your furniture into a truck, whereas by comparison, having someone like Charlie Kirk as a neighbor would actually enhance your quality of life. Far from being self-evidently superior to others, the typical Antifa militant is more like proof of the “spiteful mutant” hypothesis. If, as “Atheist Girl” claims, anyone who opposes Antifa is a fascist, then we should all be fascists.
The movement that now calls itself “Antifa” can be traced, properly, to the anarchists who staged the 1999 “Battle in Seattle” riot. If you covered the protest scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s, you recognize the “Black Bloc” garb and provocative tactics of those so-called “direct action” anarchists as continuous with those now employed by “Antifa,” which started in Portland in 2007. It’s the same movement by a different name, and the only reason that “Antifa” has in recent years become so prevalent is because Democrats have insisted on labeling Donald Trump and his supporters fascists (or Nazis or authoritarians), thereby promoting the delusion that the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump are all fascists and thus deserving of death. And therefore . . .
What did they expect? Did the geniuses who applauded the murder of Charlie Kirk believe that there would no consequences? Did they think they could go on rioting and advocating assassination without ever provoking a response? Did they imagine that a majority of the American people would agree with their faulty logic and hateful rhetoric?
The FBI arrested a 69-year-old California man who sent a threatening letter to my friend Benny Johnson. Here is that letter:
(Click here to see it full-size.) On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi flew down to Tampa for a press conference where the arrest was announced and, I think we must admit, the person who sent this letter is probably not a legitimate threat to Benny Johnson. However, there was no way for Benny to know who had sent this to him and, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it was prudent to take the threat seriously.
However, in support of my thesis — i.e., that the people calling us “fascists” don’t have any claim to moral superiority — I noticed some interesting information about the man who sent that letter. George Russel Isbell Jr. is the owner of a San Diego porn shop:
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get ready to take my wife to the airport, as she’s going to visit some of our grandchildren for a week. Meanwhile, I’ll be cheering on Alabama — Roll Tide! — and getting ready for Sunday’s big game in Tampa Bay. And I’ll once more remind you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:
