Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.19.18

Posted on | November 20, 2018 | Comments Off on Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.19.18

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: It’s Good To Help The Environment, Until You Ask Them To Pay More
EBL: Welcome To Wisconsin, Porn Professor Nina Hartley
Twitchy: Rep. Swalwell Turns To Snopes To Dig Him Out Of His Nuking Gun Owners Hole
Louder With Crowder: Tim Allen – Being A Funny Conservative Pisses People Off, And I Like It

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #96 – The 28 Traits Of The Modern Man Episode, also, The Traits of The Modern Marriageable Woman
American Power: Why Trump Is Right About The California Wildfires, also, Womens’ March Founder Slams Leadership, Calls For Resignations
American Thinker: American’t – From Midterm Elections To End Times, also, Voters Electing Democrats Who Despise Them
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: California Democrat – Nuke Those Damn Gun Owners, also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – Making Friends & Influencing People
CDR Salamander: A Hospital Ship’s Soft Powers Sharp Elbow
Da Tech Guy: Troll Feeding And You, also, President Trump, Please Fix The Pentagon
Don Surber: Trump Has Won The Midterms, also, The Unsung Hero of The Midterms – James O’Keefe
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Back On The Food-Chain Gang
First Street Journal: The Racism of Gun Control Advocates
The Geller Report: Muslim Congresswoman Wants Hijabs In The Capitol, also, Not One Democratic Leader Condemns Antisemitic Democrat Reps
Hogewash: Everything Is Proceeding As I Have Foreseen, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Down & (Finally) Out In Florida
Legal Insurrection: Rasmussen Poll – Michelle Obama Would Beat Trump, also, Broward County Election Supervisor Snipes Submits Resignation
The PanAm Post: Venezuela Has The Worst Internet Connectivity In Latin America
Power Line: It’s Official – Liberals Hate The Constitution, also, The Ultimate Fake News
Shark Tank: Trey Gowdy Wants To Talk To Trump About Attorney General Job
Shot In The Dark: A Guy Can Dream
STUMP: Arguing Against The Public Pension “Truths” And “Myths”
The Jawa Report: But Where Was Ayman?
The Political Hat: (Pseudo) Nativist Anti-Trump Voice Actress Attacks Naturalized American Citizen
This Ain’t Hell: It Never Really Goes Away, also, 20% Of Army Generals Undeployable In 2016
Victory Girls: Nina Burleigh Dusts Off Her Kneepads
Volokh Conspiracy: American Civil Liberties Union, RIP
Weasel Zippers: Angry Tijuana Residents March Against Migrant Caravan, also, Governor Moonbeam Quietly Admits Trump Was Right, Eases California Logging Rules
Megan McArdle: This One Little Trick Will Make Thanksgiving Perfect
Mark Steyn: Whatever Happened To Non-Super Heroes? also, Break A Leg

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Category: Linkagery

Illegal Alien Who Shot at Cop Was DACA, Allowed to Stay by Obama Policy

Posted on | November 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Illegal Alien Who Shot at Cop Was DACA, Allowed to Stay by Obama Policy

You’ve probably seen the police dashcam video of illegal immigrant Luis Cobos-Cenobio shooting at an Arkansas deputy who pulled him over for a traffic violation. Now the rest of the story:

The illegal immigrant whose shootout with an Arkansas sheriff’s deputy last week was caught on a dashboard cam and went viral was in the U.S. under the Obama-era DACA program, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday.
Luis Cobos-Cenobio, 29, faces charges of terrorism and attempted capital murder after a shooting spree that saw him open fire at on police during two separate confrontations as he tried to escape a routine traffic stop last week, authorities said.
Mr. Cobos-Cenobio had at least two previous arrests, officials said, including one misdemeanor charge in 2015 that brought him to ICE’s attention. But the Obama administration, which was in office at the time, concluded he wasn’t a danger, and declined to pursue deportation.
“ICE did not lodge a detainer against Mr. Cobos-Cenobio in 2015 as he is a DACA recipient and did not meet the threshold for enforcement under the DHS enforcement priorities in place at that time,” the agency told The Washington Times.
ICE said Mr. Cobos-Cenobio also appears to have been arrested on another misdemeanor charge earlier this year, but the federal agency didn’t get notified, so it couldn’t place a detainer to effectuate his deportation. . . .
DACA is the deportation amnesty President Obama announced in 2012 to grant tentative legal status to illegal immigrant “Dreamers.”
The Obama administration concluded that even illegal immigrants with some criminal charges should be eligible for DACA, which explains how Mr. Cobos-Cenobio’s 2015 arrest on drug possession charges did not cause him to be expelled from the program, much less be deported.
“This is the kind of thing that happens when you don’t enforce standards,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies. “The idea that DACAs are all choir boys is obviously untrue, and yet the Obama administration was much too willing to let people with criminal records avoid deportation.”

If you think foreign criminals should be deported, you’re a racist!

Category: Crime, Immigration

Ohio Democrat Stabbed Ex-Wife to Death in Front of Their Children, Police Say

Posted on | November 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Ohio Democrat Stabbed Ex-Wife to Death in Front of Their Children, Police Say

The kind of “violence against women” that feminists will ignore:

Former Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Lance Mason, who spent nine months in prison for beating his then-wife in front of their children, is accused of fatally stabbing the woman Saturday morning at his Shaker Heights home, according to three sources.
Mason was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of his estranged wife, Aisha Fraser Mason, at his home on Chagrin Boulevard near Normandy Road, the sources said.
The house where the stabbing happened is near where police reported that a Shaker Heights police officer was hit by a car fleeing a domestic violence incident. The officer, who was in his cruiser at the time of the crash, was taken to the hospital and his condition was unknown. . . .
After Mason’s release from prison, he was hired by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s administration as a minority business development director. The city said in a statement later in the day Saturday that Jackson fired Mason from his $45,000-per-year job because of his arrest. . . .
Mason in August 2014 punched his then-wife 20 times and slammed her head against the dashboard of his car five times, breaking her orbital bone.
The couple’s children were in the back of the car when the attack occurred. Mason, who previously served in the state legislature, was a sitting Cuyahoga County judge when the attack happened.

(Hat-tip: Melissa Mackenzie on Twitter.) Notice that nowhere in the news article does it mention that Mason is a Democrat. For that, you have to go to Wikipedia, where you learn that Mason served four years as a state representative and two years as a state senator before being appointed as a judge by former Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland. Also, when he was arrested in 2014, Mason had an arsenal in his home:

About 2,300 live rounds of various calibers
Nearly 500 shotgun slugs
A Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun
A Winchester shotgun
A 50-shell shotgun belt
A FNH P90 semi-automatic rifle still in the box
A JLD Enterprises Inc. PTR-91 semi-automatic rifle with a scope
A Smith & Wesson handgun
A Springfield Armory .40 caliber-handgun
A sword
Four canisters of smoke grenades
A KDH bulletproof vest
A Jaguar knife

So, a heavily-armed Democrat beats his wife so badly he breaks the bones in her face and then, after serving only nine months in prison, he is hired by the Democrat mayor of Cleveland for a $45,000-a-year job. Then he stabs his ex-wife to death in front of their children. But he’s not a Republican, so CNN and feminists will pretend this didn’t happen.

Category: Democrats, Ohio, Violence Against Women

News CNN Will Ignore

Posted on | November 19, 2018 | Comments Off on News CNN Will Ignore

Remember when President Trump said the migrant caravan from Honduras included Middle Easterners? Remember how the liberal media claimed that was paranoid fear-mongering? Guess what?

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents continue to find illegal immigrants from Bangladesh who cross the border from Mexico. During a 12-hour period beginning on Saturday evening, six Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended in two separate incidents.
Agents assigned to the Laredo South Border Patrol Station came upon a group of four suspected illegal immigrants while patrolling near Masterson Road in Laredo, Texas, on Saturday. The agents conducted interviews as part of Laredo Sector line watch operations. The questioning revealed the four young men were Bangladeshi nationals, according to Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials.
The following morning, Laredo South Station agents carrying out line watch operations came upon another group of two suspected illegal immigrants walking near Oleander Street in Laredo. An interview with the subjects revealed the young men to also be Bangladeshi who were smuggled into the U.S., officials reported.
In an incident on October 29, Laredo South Station agents patrolling along the Rio Grande River rescued a group of Bangladeshi nationals as they attempted to cross the river, Breitbart News reported. Two of the migrants nearly drowned before agents were able to pull them into their boat.
During the month of October, the first month of the new fiscal year, Laredo Sector agents apprehended at least 75 Bangladeshi nationals. This represents an increase of more than 10 percent over October 2017.
During FY2018, which ended on September 30, Laredo Sector agents apprehended 668 Bangladeshi migrants — up nearly 270 percent over the previous year’s total.

If hundreds of immigrants from Bangladesh are being caught at the Mexican border, what does that suggest about the migrant caravan?

Category: Immigration

Democrat Election Official Resigns

Posted on | November 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Democrat Election Official Resigns

She failed to steal the election, so she’s quitting:

Just hours after finishing a tumultuous election recount, Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes submitted her resignation, ending a 15-year tenure full of botched elections, legal disputes and blistering criticism. . . .
In the final version of the resignation letter, sent to Gov. Rick Scott, Snipes said it was her “passion and honor” to have served in the office. “I am ready to pass the torch,” she wrote in the letter, which made no mention of controversies surrounding the 2018 election. . . .
During the just-completed recount of the midterm election, Scott was a fierce critic of Snipes, accusing her of years of incompetence and asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate what he said “may be rampant fraud.” . . .
Broward’s vote counting was an outlier among the state’s 67 counties, taking a long time to complete. For days, Snipes wouldn’t say how many ballots were outstanding and uncounted and her office wasn’t reporting updated results as frequently as the law required.
And there were repeated hiccups during the recount period, including Snipes’ acknowledgment on Saturday that her office couldn’t find 2,040 ballots that had been included in the first vote count but not in the machine recount of state elections.
She said she was sure they were somewhere in her office, probably mixed in with other ballots.

Thank God these corrupt Democrats are so incompetent. If Snipes actually knew what she was doing, she might have gotten away with it.

UPDATE: Will Snipes be the scapegoat for Nelson’s defeat?

A telltale sign of bad ballot design in Broward (where the Senate race was tucked below the instructions in the lower left-hand corner) was how Broward’s undervote rate in the Senate race was so much bigger than in any other Florida county. Unlike Miami-Dade to its north and Palm Beach to its south, Broward County had fewer votes for the top of the ticket Senate race than governor (as well as the three Florida Cabinet posts). Thousands of people just undervoted the race because they probably didn’t see it on the ballot. . . .
If we assume Broward would vote like demographically/geographically/politically similar Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, then Broward Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes’ bad ballot may have killed Sen. Nelson’s political career. In Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, an average of 0.34 percent more ballots were cast for Senate than governor. If we apply that percentage increase to Broward’s governor’s race (709,179 votes), then the Senate race would have had 711,610 votes (instead of 683,636). And if that happened, then Nelson would have netted 10,674 more votes than Scott. Nelson therefore would have won Florida by 641 votes.
If Democrats want to argue that Snipes helped cost them a Senate seat, the above numbers (which are just estimates, and not the only ones) are reasonable grounds for that. But the criticism has been muted. Snipes is a Democrat. And Democrats signed off on this ballot design without objection. Maybe that’s why team Nelson wanted to argue that faulty tabulating machines (and not bad ballot design) were to blame? The manual recount put that theory to rest.

Yeah, Democrats blaming the black woman because the old white guy lost the election. Go with that theory. It’s perfect.

Category: Democrats, Election, Florida

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Pepper Potts

Posted on | November 19, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Stan Lee is dead, but along with all the costumed superheroes, he left us a cast of gorgeous & competent women in lead and supporting roles. One of my favorites is Virginia “Pepper” Potts, Tony Stark’s gal Friday and sometime love interest. Pepper’s played in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Gwyneth Paltrow, who may be a raving loony in real life, but does a great job in the role. Here she is in a promotional shot.

Christine Everheart: After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.
Virginia ‘Pepper’ Potts: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off this week with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #440, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism adds Rule Five Three-Time Loser Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Clara Bow, Florence Pugh, Stan Lee Babes, National Pickle Day Rule 5, Radha Mitchell, Roy Clark, Vintage Thanksgiving, Annet Mahendru, Alexandria Occasional Cortex, Porn Prof At UW, and Turkey Time.

A View From The Beach has Some True Blood with Ana Paquin, SJWs Seek Destruction of Victoria’s Secret, Pink’s Spouse Goes Full On Vigilante, Signs of Sense in the #MeToo Movement?, Revenge Porn Victim Revictimized by Uganda, Commissioner Reagan Would Not Be Pleased, Femen Protests Trump the Only Way They Know How, First Frost! and How About An Uplifting Video for Sunday Morning?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Billie Faiers, his Vintage Babe is Jocelyn Lane, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Calvin Klein. At Dustbury, it’s Anna Daly and Carolina Neurath.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Two Thumbs Up for ‘Jack Ryan’

Posted on | November 18, 2018 | Comments Off on Two Thumbs Up for ‘Jack Ryan’

While I was visiting my son at Fort Bragg a couple of weeks ago, I started watching the eight-episode first season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime. Generally speaking, I never read or watch fiction, and the only TV I watch is news, sports, documentaries or true-crime shows like A & E’s The First 48 or Forensic Files on HLN.

This disclaimer is necessary to explaining why I was mystified when I told people I was watching Jack Ryan and everyone reacted by saying, “Oh, the guy from The Office.” Yes, lead actor (and co-producer) John Krasinski is best-known for this popular NBC sitcom which I have never watched. On the rare occasions I’ve caught a few scenes of reruns of The Office while changing channels, I found it painfully unwatchable. The Office is wretched, and if you think it’s funny, you need to contemplate how your life went so dreadfully wrong, but I digress . . .

With no Office-influenced preconceptions of who John Krasinski is, I did have preconceptions of what a Tom Clancy thriller is about. Some 30 years ago, my older brother Kirby, a big Tom Clancy fan, convinced me to read a couple of Clancy’s novels including one, The Sum of All Fears, that was ruined in the movie version by political correctness (and the casting of Ben Affleck as Ryan). The plot of Clancy’s novel was a late Cold War-era drama about “a crisis concerning the Middle East peace process where Palestinian and former East German terrorists conspire to bring the United States and Soviet Union into nuclear war.” This was realistic, because in fact there was cooperation between Palestinian terrorists and Communists, but in the movie version, the bad guys are South African neo-Nazis. This shifting of the locus of evil — from left to right, as it were — was a 180-degree reversal of meaning, a work of Cultural Marxism that Herbert Marcus might praise. But again I digress . . .

Is there political correctness in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan? Yes, in that Ryan’s CIA mentor James Greer is portrayed as a convert to Islam. This makes no sense on any level, especially when you recall the Cold War context of the original Clancy novels. Would it have been OK for Greer to have been a Marxist ideologue? Of course not, and while fighting Islamic terrorism is a different thing than fighting the threat of Communist aggression, one might suppose it would occur to the producers of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan how wildly inappropriate this Greer-as-Muslim subplot is. Nevertheless, it is only a subplot, and while it obtrudes like a politically correct sore thumb whenever it’s referenced, these instances are mercifully rare, and are only a minor distraction from the general excellence of this action thriller. And wow, what a thriller!

From the first episode, which concludes with an exciting firefight at a U.S. outpost in Yemen, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan delivers the kind of action scenes you’d expect from a big-budget movie blockbuster. In that sense, this Amazon series follows the path paved by HBO’s Game of Thrones, delivering movie-style thrills to the home viewer, as the premium tent-pole that makes it worthwhile to buy the delivery service. And despite the occasional nod to political correctness, there is an element of realism in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan that makes it enjoyable. The firefight at the Yemen base, for example, will seem very familiar to anyone who recalls the 2012 terrorist attack at Benghazi that killed four Americans.

Likewise, there is a ripped-from-the-headlines quality to the subplot in which the wife of the terrorist leader escapes Syria with her daughters and makes her way to a refugee camp on the Turkish border. She wants to go to Europe, but this is not possible because of the recent terrorist attack in Paris that her husband masterminded. This subplot perfectly encapsulates the 2015 “refugee” crisis, when Europeans were expected to welcome with open arms millions of Muslim immigrants while Islamic terrorists were slaughtering the innocent in Paris, attacking Charlie Hebdo, and running over people in Nice. No amount of sympathy for genuine refugees, nor any politically correct pro-Muslim propaganda, could have prevented the backlash against unrestricted immigration that has since empowered the Right in Europe. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan endeavors to humanize the Muslim victims of this crisis, but it also dramatizes the actual danger posed by terrorists exploiting loopholes in the West’s immigration policies. For example, the terrorist villain Mousa Bin Suleiman makes it through U.S. Customs by going through Canada with forged documents and showing up with his preteen son who needs medical treatment for diabetes.

Didactic lessons about terrorism and immigration, of course, are not the selling-point of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. No, it’s about suspense and thrills and action! action! action! The producers do a good job of pacing the show, so that each of the eight episodes builds to an exciting climactic scene and, by the time you’ve binge-watched your way to the end (my wife and I watched the final four episodes Saturday night), a lot of details in the early episodes that may have seemed irrelevant are revealed as important foreshadowing. It is no mere coincidence, for example, that Jack Ryan’s love interest, Dr. Cathy Mueller, is an epidemiologist concerned with an ebola outbreak. But hey, no spoilers.

Probably most of my readers have already seen Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, but if you haven’t seen it yet, go ahead and buy it through the Amazon links here, because as a participant in the Amazon Affiliate program, I get a tiny commission on everything you buy through these links — greedy capitalist blogger that I so am proud to be.