The Schadenfreude Smorgasbord

Posted on | October 26, 2024 | 5 Comments

The resignation of Robert Kagan, in response to billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos ordering the paper not to endorse Kamala Harris, is a preview of the open intermural warfare we’ll see among Democrats if Kamala Harris loses next month. Failure in politics requires scapegoats, and Harris herself is exempt from blame because (according to the rules that Democrats impose) anyone who criticizes her is a racist and a sexist and, perhaps, literally Hitler. Forbidden to blame the candidate who led them to defeat, therefore, Democrats will point the finger of blame at each other, and we will witness a Carnival of Recriminations — if, as I say, Kamala loses. The fact that the Washington Post is imploding now, less than 10 days before Election Day, is a sort of signal of which way the winds are blowing. Robert Kagan wouldn’t be resigning his job if he didn’t think a Trump victory was highly probable.

What’s going on here? Professor Glenn Reynolds floats the theory — relevant to Bill Clinton throwing shade on Harris — that there’s an internecine combat between the Clinton clique and the Obama clique, with the Clintons aiming to get a measure of revenge. Team Clinton wants to make sure that they get none of the blame for an expected Harris defeat. But what about this thing at the Washington Post? Certainly it strikes me as an omen of a Harris defeat — Bezos wouldn’t have held back the Post‘s endorsement if he thought Harris was on her way to the White House. And, in examining this — again, hat-tip to Professor Reynolds — Ann Althouse mentions the similar non-endorsement by the Los Angeles Times:

According to the daughter of the paper’s owner — Patrick Soon-Shiong — “This is a refusal to ENDORSE a candidate that is overseeing a war on children…. For me, genocide is the line in the sand.”
So, this may be all about Israel. The papers don’t want to elaborate the reasons for supporting Harris because they would need to avoid or somehow deal with the topic of Israel’s war against Hamas. Harris can’t explain her position very well either. She needs help, and she’s not getting it. She’s evasive, and the newspapers are — in this endorsement avoidance — evasive too.

Kamala is complicit in “genocide”? Who is saying this?

Nika Soon-Shiong, the outspoken pro-Palestinian activist daughter of Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, defended the paper’s non-endorsement of a presidential candidate on Friday . . .
The 31-year-old progressive activist for causes like Palestine and guaranteed income is a divisive figure in the Times’ universe, where her influence on editorial decisions has stirred internal controversy.

You can read her anti-Israel rant on X here. But if the LA Times didn’t endorse Harris because Harris is too pro-Israel, my hunch is that the opposite is more likely the case with Bezos and the WaPo. That is to say, I believe Bezos is, if not adamantly pro-Israel, certainly not pro-Hamas, and — this is pure speculation on my part — I’d furthermore guess that Bezos has been offended by the blatantly anti-Jewish nature of campus protests since last year’s October 7 massacre. Bezos has also seen Amazon targeted by various pressure campaigns, demanding he cut off any business with Israel, and perhaps that has alienated him even more from the pro-Hamas “progressive” movement. Whatever the case may be, the explanation for the non-endorsement of Harris at the Washington Post is likely to be much different, if not directly opposite, of the reasons the LA Times didn’t endorse her. And that’s fine with me.

Whenever there’s infighting among Democrats, the important thing — from a conservative perspective — is not to choose sides amongst the factions. Certainly I would never defend the sold-out and morally bankrupt establishment leadership of the Democratic Party, but at the same time I have nothing but contempt for the wild-eyed fanatics and fringe ideologues of the party’s left-wing grassroots. The really important thing is that (a) we defeat the Democrats at election time, so that (b) the simmering tensions between the Democratic Party’s establishment and the left-wing grassroots burst into open conflict, thereby (c) inflicting permanent damage on the Democratic Party’s coalition.

You should probably stock up on popcorn. Just sayin’ . ..

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In The Mailbox: 10.25.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 26, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.25.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Happy Friday!
Pete’s Dynasty League will be drafting soon for the 1973 season, and there’s four teams available if you want an expansion team.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Well, it didn’t go that way, but…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: He Was Going to Speak Harshly To Them
EBL: “Second Gentleman” Doug Emhoff’s Ex-Girlfriend Confirms Emhoff Violently Slapped Her , Arizona Judge calls city council criminal charges outrageous and tosses them on First Amendment grounds, Kamala Harris Supports Tax Payer Funded Transgender Surgery for Illegals and Felons, Suspiria, and This vintage Bud Light ad was way ahead of its time!
Twitchy: Trump Goes The Distance On Joe Rogan Podcast, 80s Pop Singer Quickly Learns That “Girls Just Want To Vote Trump”, and Democracy Dies In Dumbness
Louder With Crowder: Jimmy Kimmel is stuck in his feelings over Donald Trump winning again, so let’s laugh at him
Vox Popoli: Stupid Question Day, Israel-Iran Round 3, and How Bad is Kamala?
According To Hoyt: Election prophylatic Measures, Goodbye Valeria Victrix 2009-2024, and Super Genius
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary Part XVI
Postcards From Barsoom: Crumbling DIEvory Towers

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Is Winning the Likability Race
American Greatness: CNN Pundits Blast Kamala’s Evasive ‘Word Salad’ Non-Answers After Train-Wreck Town Hall, President Obama Signed Diversity and Inclusion EO, Now Wonders How America Got So ‘Divided & Toxic’, Biden-Appointed Federal Judge Orders Virginia to Restore More Than 1,600 Noncitizen Voter Registrations, Trump Takes Lead Nationally in WSJ Poll, and Vatican Whistleblower Carlo Viganò Endorses Trump; Denounces Harris as ‘Infernal Monster Who Obeys Satan’
American Thinker: The Best Laid Schemes of the Ruling Class Have Turned to Ashes, Trump’s Secret Ingredient Is Authenticity, Harris Hits the Wall, and Literally Hitler? A Historian Examines Democrat Accusations Against Trump and the GOP
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Money in Politics Friday
Babalu Blog: Shocking! Miami Cuban on YouTube claims t80% of Cuban YoYos travel to island for debauchery, sex, and beaches, Miami-Dade College includes Che Guevara in a ‘superhero’ exhibit, and Private business partly owned by wife of Cuba’s fake president never lost power during nationwide blackout
BattleSwarm: The Illegal Alien Crime Spree Is Real, Andrew Schulz Interviews Donald Trump, and LinkSwarm For October 25
Behind The Black: Four astronauts complete 7-month mission and return to Earth, Sutherland spaceport submits another revised plan to local council, Boeing considering selling its space division, Using spectroscopic data, astronomers create 3D map of ancient supernova remnant, and But will loyal Democrats actually abandon their beloved party? History says no
Cafe Hayek: Lighthizer’s In the Dark, Not Very Mindful of The American Mind, and If You’re Going to Argue Against Free Markets, Please At Least Understand the Free-Market Argument
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: With Dread and Foreboding
Da Tech Guy: Chicago Public Schools took COVID money and splurged, now that source of funds has dried up, The Next Hitler Will be Named In Just Under Four Years, If You Want to Understand What this Election is About, The choice on November 5th is between Collectivism or Individualism, and If Trump wins the Popular Vote Watch the Left Suddenly Sour on the National Popular Vote Compact
Don Surber: The sham-didate
First Street Journal: Once again, I was right: the Lexington Herald-Leader has endorsed all Democrats, No wonder Israel doesn’t trust the United Nations, and The butthurt children on the left
Gates Of Vienna: Yet Another Mentally Ill Knife-Wielding Culture-Enricher, Big Islamic Brother is Watching You, Set My People Free, and The Latest Murderous Culture-Enriching Loony
The Geller Report: DOD EXPANDS THE USE OF DEADLY FORCE AGAINST CIVILIANS, also, MAJOR Voter Fraud Scheme Uncovered in Pennsylvania
Hollywood In Toto: Outside Offers Dark Look at the Patriarchy, Carlos Mencia Shreds ‘Punching Down’ Rules, Woman of the Hour Lets Woke Dent Chilling True Tale, Boondock Saints Director Blasts Woke Star Wars, and The Sad Reason Kamala Harris Turned Down Joe Rogan
The Lid: Revealed: Hamas Terrorist Who Killed Dozens of Civilians on Oct. 7, 2023 Was a U.N. Employee
Legal Insurrection: Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Has Received Reparations Payments From Her White Friends, Mother of Slain Houston Teenager Says ‘Biden-Harris Policies We Have Here are Why She’s Not Here’, Survey Finds Increased Antisemitism on Campus at UCLA, Auschwitz Survivor: Harris Owes Everyone ‘Murdered by Hitler an Apology’ for Comparing Trump to Him, and Super Woke Hampshire College Continues to Face Serious Budget Deficits
Nebraska Energy Observer: St. Crispan/Crispians Day, Scattershot Friday, and But wait!
Outkick: It’s Time To Start Firing NFL Refs For Being Awful Employees, UNR Volleyball Officially Forfeits Against San Jose State & Transgender Player Blaire Fleming, Back To The Well In Hoping Yankees Can Even It Up, Caitlin Clark Continues To Blow Minds Over The Offseason, Drills 25-Straight Threes, and Lightning Owner Giving Employees $20 Million In Bonuses After Selling Majority Stake In Team
Power Line: The Hierarchy of Democratic Deceit, Thoughts from the ammo line, Newspapers Try to Reclaim Their Honor, and Daze of the Jackals
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental sorbet
Shark Tank: DeSantis Official Compiles List Of People Not Supporting Amendment 3 Days Before The Election
Shot In The Dark: The Big Gotcha, Regular Guys, We’re #1, One Day At DFL HQ, To Everyone Voting For Harris To “Save Democracy”, Attention America, and Staged!
The Political Hat: A Stopped Clock, Once Again, In California, Quick Takes – Madness Of The California Legislature, and Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 9)
This Ain’t Hell: British individuals associated with Team Harris desires suppression of American free speech, US Army considering privatizing dining facility operations, Hawaii Supreme Court flips off US Supremes, SV accusations in close Senate race in MT, and Judge orders the release of Donald Trump’s Arlington Cemetery visit documents
Transterrestrial Musings: Inflatables In Space, An Interview With Eric Berger, Our Self-Proclaimed “National Security Leaders”, Interesting Thread, and The Popular Vote
Victory Girls: Welcome Tulsi Gabbard To The Republican Party, But Remember, Kamala On Open Borders: “We Did The Right Thing” By Doing Nothing, and Fascist Fail: Kamala’s Last Ditch Argument Is Falling Flat
Watts Up With That: Urban Heat Island Effects Have Not Yet Been Removed from Official GHCN Warming Trends, If Green Energy is the Future, Bring a Fire Extinguisher, and Suddenly Energy Realism Is a Winning Political Issue
The Federalist: The Pravda Press Still Won’t Ask Harris If She’ll Accept The Results Of The Election If She Loses, Democrats In North Carolina’s Helene Disaster Area Block Emergency Early Voting Locations, Pro-Trans Doctors Hide Results Of Taxpayer-Funded Study Because It Shows ‘Transitioning’ Kids Is Harmful, More Than 300 Registrants Confirm They Shouldn’t Be On Nevada’s Voter Rolls, and Leftist Dark Money Group Bankrolled By Foreign Billionaire Dumped Cash Into Initiative That Could Rig Ohio For Dems
Mark Steyn: Stop By My Sukkah, They Want You Dead, and Live Around the Planet – Messin’ With Texas?

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Armageddon Update: IDF Strikes Iran

Posted on | October 25, 2024 | Comments Off on Armageddon Update: IDF Strikes Iran

Peace through superior firepower:

Israel on Friday launched a wave of retaliatory airstrikes against Iran after the Islamic Republic fired a barrage of missiles toward Israelis earlier this month.
Explosions were heard near Iran’s capital of Tehran and nearby Karaj, Reuters reported, citing local media.
“In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel – right now the Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. “The regime in Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7th – on seven fronts – including direct attacks from Iranian soil. Like every other sovereign country in the world, the State of Israel has the right and the duty to respond. Our defensive and offensive capabilities are fully mobilized. We will do whatever necessary to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel.” . . .
The Israeli military action comes after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed a “precise and deadly” response to the more than 180 missiles Iran targeted Israel with on Oct. 1, some of which were intercepted with the help of the U.S.
Last week, during the leadup to the Israeli attack, reports emerged that the Israeli Defense Forces presented a list of potential targets to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gallant as officials conducted “sensitive coordination” with other countries in the Middle East.
“The regime is vulnerable, and it’s up to us to decide which message we want to send to them,” Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon also told Fox News Digital. “It will be very painful for the Iranian regime, and they will think twice in the future whether to attack Israel or not.” Last week, during the leadup to the Israeli attack, reports emerged that the Israeli Defense Forces presented a list of potential targets to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gallant as officials conducted “sensitive coordination” with other countries in the Middle East.
“The regime is vulnerable, and it’s up to us to decide which message we want to send to them,” Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon also told Fox News Digital. “It will be very painful for the Iranian regime, and they will think twice in the future whether to attack Israel or not.”

Many years ago, when I worked at the Washington Times, my colleague Victor Morton was wont to speak of “secular events” affecting politics. In other words, while candidates, parties and campaign staff work to promote their various messages, wooing voters with rallies or TV commercials, sometimes the most important event in any election cycle is something beyond the control of politicians and their handlers. These secular events — e.g., the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina hitting Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — frustrate the ambitions of political strategists, because there’s no way to plan for them, no tactical playbook.

So, here we are, barely 10 days away from Election Day, and Israel is at war with Iran. Gosh, now we’re teetering on the brink of World War III, who is most capable of handling a situation like this?

Voters will have a choice on who gets that job.

In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel—right now the Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran.

The regime in Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking… pic.twitter.com/OcHUy7nQvN

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 25, 2024

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In The Mailbox: 10.25.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 25, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.25.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Happy Nevada Day!
October 2024 Based Book Projects
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Subtle Art of Shutting The F*ck Up
EBL: Kamala Harris Is Biden 2.0, Kamala’s Blue Collar Blues, and The Atlantic and Jeffrey Goldberg: Serial Liars and Fabulists?
Twitchy: Brian Stelter Having A Normal One, Claims Trump Will Use Espionage Act On The Press, SCOTUS “Watchdog” Group Turns Blind Eye To Benefits Bestowed On Leftist Justices, and Holocaust Survivor Shames Kamala For Evoking Hitler To Attack Trump
Louder With Crowder: Karine Jean-Pierre goes on unhinged rant about Trump being “fascist”, also, “Trump’s making us afraid to have babies”
Vox Popoli: France Shuts the Borders, When Science is Silent, Smells Like BRICSX, An Irrelevant Ex-Empire, and BRICS to Expand by 13
Stoic Observations: A Simple Observation
Kukuruyo: Why Gamers Relate Sexy/Ugly Characters To The Quality Of Games
Upstream Reviews: Year of the Unicorn

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Don Surber: Gillette, Bud Light, Kamala
STUMP: U.S. Mortality 2023-2024 – Continuing Increased Mortality Post-Pandemic

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In The Mailbox: 10.24.24

Posted on | October 24, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.24.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This business of working on the county election board is kicking my ass. Every day this week when I’ve gotten out at 5 PM, I’m tired enough to go home and go to bed, but I’ve had stuff to do that kept me up. Well, tomorrow’s Nevada Day, and the county offices are closed, so I’ll get caught up then.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes.” – James Lileks
“The future is now.” – Vince Lombardi

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Armed Homeowner Versus Four Miscreants
EBL: Scanners, Trump will be on Joe Rogan tomorrow, THE WICKER MAN, Fantastic Planet, and Kamala Harris: Everyone I Don’t Like is Hitler!
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Explains To The Left Why We Don’t Care About Their Latest Oppo Drop, The View Has An Absolutely Epic Meltdown Over Kamala, and Trump Calls Out John “Jello” Kelly In Raucous Return To Mean Tweets
Louder With Crowder: Looney Liberal MeMaw Has A Major Meltdown After Her Neighbor Puts Up A Trump Sign
Vox Popoli: Why Africa Supports BRICS, The Intellectual Limits of Thomas Sowell, The End of Bioware, The Strangest Tools, and Please Don’t Go!
Upstream Reviews: Light Unto Another World, also, BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
Ammo.com: Defensive Gun Use Statistics
Postcards From Barsoom: What Big Eyes You Have

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Lies, Damn Lies, & Shipbuilding Plans
Dana Loesch: Reporter Shot At Adam Kinzinger & Lucas Kunce’s Range Day Campaign Event,
Don Surber: How it is going
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Humpday Shrapnel
STUMP: Revisualizing The Financial State of the States – 2024

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DOA on the Road to Social Justice

Posted on | October 24, 2024 | Comments Off on DOA on the Road to Social Justice

Samantha Hamer

In 2019, faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville held a workshop entitled, “Let’s Talk About Privilege.” Among the attendees was Samantha Hamer, a school social worker who graduated from UW-Platteville in 2016. After the workshop, Hamer said:

“Racism and white supremacy need to be dismantled everywhere, including Platteville. White people built these systems and still benefit from them today. We must acknowledge our wrongs and biases and realize that no white person is exempt from being a part of, and upholding, racism. Reparations on a large scale are owed and need to happen now. All white people need to call out racism and all of its forms every single time. We need to create action, large-scale and in our daily lives, to dismantle racism and white supremacy.”

Well, all-righty, then. Whenever I encounter someone so vehement in their beliefs, my instinct is to get as far away from them as fast as I can, without attracting their attention. Crazy People Are Dangerous, as I have often said, and when somebody gets so excited about “white supremacy” — whether they’re for or against it, I’ll add — you probably don’t want to be in their vicinity. That rant from Hamer was a red flag. The phrase emotionally unbalanced perhaps best describes such people.

Fast forward to June 2020 when, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, a #BlackLivesMatter protest gathered near the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison. Democratic State Sen. Tim Carpenter was recording video of the protest when he was attacked by two masked women:

Democrat state senator who recorded this video in Madison captures moment violent BLM protesters assault him for recording in public.

They feel emboldened to do this because they get cover in mainstream press & usually face no legal consequences. pic.twitter.com/S0UhAJSCj1

— Andy Ngo ???? (@MrAndyNgo) June 24, 2020

The attack left Carpenter with a broken nose and a concussion. The irony is that Carpenter is a progressive gay man who supported the protests, but the BLM radicals and their “mostly peaceful” crowds were out to cause mayhem that night, and Carpenter was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. After photos of the two attackers were made public, they were arrested in July 2020: Hamer, then 26, and Kerida O’Reilly, 33.

Hamer was allowed to plead no contest to “a disorderly conduct civil law violation, which is not a criminal charge,” the New York Times said in reporting the October 2021 verdict in O’Reilly’s trial, at which a Dane County jury acquitted her. No consequences — that’s what progressives mean by “social justice.” Do whatever the hell you want, and who cares about silly things like laws and rules? But of course, there are consequences to this “no consequences” lifestyle, as two men and a teenage girl from Wisconsin discovered a few years later.

It was 9 p.m. on New Year’s Day — January 1, 2024 — when a police sergeant patrolling in the Madison suburb of Monona noticed an SUV driving erratically. Sgt. Adam Nachreiner “was at the intersection of St. Teresa Terrace and Monona Dr., and as he turned onto Monona Dr. he observed a SUV traveling on Monona Dr. turn abruptly from the far left lane to the right lane at Monona Drive and Nichols Rd. before turning right on Nichols Rd.”:

The officer believed the vehicle may be trying to avoid him. As the officer turned onto Nichols Rd. to attempt to run a data check the SUV turned into a parking lot. The officer followed the SUV into the parking lot. The SUV didn’t park but instead turned around and accelerated past the officer and back onto Nichols Rd. The officer turned his squad around and activated his lights and siren in an attempt to stop the SUV.

This seems obvious enough, yes? As soon as the SUV driver sees the cop car, he switches lanes suddenly and makes a right turn. A police sergeant is generally someone with years of experience, and this move caught his attention, so he decides to go get a look at the license plate. Is the vehicle stolen? Does the driver have outstanding warrants? There’s no way of knowing until you check it out, and that’s what Sgt. Nachreiner was doing. (Not to spoil a surprise ending, but the cop’s hunch was right.)

The SUV took off at high speed, racing through downtown Monona at about 80 mph, and then southward on Agriculture Drive toward Femrite Drive, where the SUV driver turned right — heading west, toward Madison — but there was “a fully marked Madison Police Department squad” parked there, waiting on him, so the SUV made a U-turn and headed west. Femrite Drive is mostly a straightaway here, and now the SUV was pushing 100 mph. A Dane County Sheriff’s deputy was up ahead, setting up “stop sticks,” hoping to puncture the SUV’s tires and thus bring the pursuit to a halt, but this attempt proved unsuccessful. The SUV blasted through a stop sign, ran off the road on the left side, and smashed into a tree, exploding in a fireball:

All three occupants died in the crash:

Rashad Lamar Nelson, 30, from Madison
Aaron Javon Willis, 30, from Madison
Aajayah Monai Ray, 19, from Sun Prairie

Now, as I said, Sgt. Nachreiner was correct in his suspicions about the SUV. People don’t flee the cops at 100 mph for no reason, but in the immediate aftermath of this fatal crash, before the investigation was complete and before the police video or any other relevant information could be released, there was a lot of blame-the-cops rhetoric: “‘I want justice’: Mother of Monona Police chase victim says her daughter’s death was senseless,” was the headline at the WISC-TV website.

Aajayah Ray

That’s a mug shot from the Dane County jail, after Aajayah Ray was arrested in January 2023, about a year before the fatal crash. The website from which I got that mug shot doesn’t say what the charges were, but did you happen to notice that Aajayah Ray had a tattoo on her neck? Maybe lots of teenage girls in Wisconsin have neck tattoos nowadays, and maybe that Dane County arrest was for some kind of trivial misdemeanor, but I just wanted readers to consider the possibility that maybe Aajayah Ray was involved in something illegal that was happening in that SUV in downtown Monona. However, I didn’t know anything about these people when I clicked on that YouTube video. Because I watch a lot of police videos, the YouTube algorithm just randomly puts them into my feed, which is how I stumbled onto this story Wednesday night.

My curiosity inspired me to do a bit of Google searching. This led me to a GoFundMe page soliciting contributions for Rashad Lamar Nelson’s memorial fund which included a shocking statement: “Rashad and Aajayah and Aaron were murdered in a sundown town.”

What the actual hell is this? For anyone unfamiliar with the term, “sundown town” refers to “all-white municipalities or neighborhoods” that practiced “a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence. They were most prevalent before the 1950s. The term came into use because of signs that directed ‘colored people’ to leave town by sundown” (via Wikipedia). There is zero evidence that Monona, Wisconsin, was ever a “sundown town,” but in 2024? Are you kidding me? But the assertion that the three people who died in that crash were “murdered” is even more preposterous. The state Division of Criminal Investigation did their job, and in May, the Dane County District Attorney found there were no grounds for any criminal charge against the law enforcement personnel involved. The district attorney’s statement includes this:

None of the occupants appeared to be wearing seat belts at the time of the SUV impacting the tree. A later search of the vehicle produced two firearms; one of which was listed as stolen. There was also marijuana found in the vehicle. Toxicology of the driver of the SUV indicated the presence of Delta-9/THC and its metabolites, Methamphetamine, and Promethazine.

Two guns, one of which was stolen. The driver had THC (i.e., marijuana) and meth in his system, but what about Promethazine? That’s an antihistamine found in certain cough syrups, often used to make the intoxicating beverage known as “lean” or “purple drank.”

So, yeah, Sgt. Nachreiner’s hunch was right on target: Two guys from Madison and a teenage girl from Sun Prairie just rolling around town with guns and drugs in the car, maybe messed up on “purple drank” — why were they even in Monona to begin with? Did any journalist ask Aajayah Ray’s mother that question? But never mind that. Would you care to guess who was responsible for that GoFundMe page that said “Rashad and Aajayah and Aaron were murdered in a sundown town”?

Samantha Hamer.

At the time that Rashad was rolling around Monona in a vehicle full of felonies, Samantha Hamer was nine months pregnant with Rashad’s baby, who was born three days after Rashad was DOA because he crashed into a tree at 100 mph running from the cops. “Racism and white supremacy need to be dismantled everywhere,” she said, but instead what got dismantled was that SUV. Perhaps there is some kind of useful life lesson to be learned here. Like, avoid teenage girls with criminal records and neck tattoos? Or maybe, high-speed driving and “purple drank” are a bad combination? But I think there are more serious lessons to be learned, about the importance of taking personal responsibility for one’s actions, rather than embracing a victim mentality that turns your life into an eternal hunt for scapegoats you can blame for your problems.

And, yeah, stay away from crazy people. They’re dangerous.

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In The Mailbox: 10.22.24

Posted on | October 22, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Go vote. Call up a dozen of your friends and have them go vote with you.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Turns Out There Is No Risk From Second Hand Smoke
EBL: Eraserhead, Donald Trump Visits Bronx Barbershop, Vote Harder: DaTechGuy Warning, No Joy In Kamalaville – Gwen Walz is alienating voters, and Did the Pentagon’s Ariane Tabatabai leak secret document to Iran for Biden-Harris?
Twitchy: Woman Posts E-Mail From NBC News Hack Brandy Zadrozny About Conspiracy Theories, “New Anonymous Horseshit Just Dropped”, and Chris Mowrey Says If You’re A Real Man You’re Voting For Kamala
Louder With Crowder: Mark Cuban and his silly glasses declare REAL problem with Kamala Harris is “her heart is too big”
Vox Popoli: 16 Million and Counting, Moldova Rejects EU, An Intriguing Escalation, On the Phenomenon of Male Flight, and The Endpapers of Empire
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: US Foreign Policy – Words vs. Deeds
Flappr: Big TD’s Football Blog – Week 7
Upstream Reviews: Tenure

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Trump Will Win
American Conservative: Shock Poll Shows Trump Is Close in New Mexico
American Greatness: Without Massive Reform, a Trump Victory Will Be In Vain
American Thinker: How Were Crucial Intelligence Documents Leaked to Iran?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Funeral Mishap News
Babalu Blog: Power restored to much of Havana, but rest of Cuba still remains without electricity, It’s official: China divorces Cuba, shreds all trade agreements with parasitic Caribbean partner, and Shocking! Canadians warned to avoid travel to Cuba
BattleSwarm: UK’s Labour All In Against Trump
Behind The Black: China launches three radar satellites, SpaceX asks FCC for license revision for launching nearly 30,000 Starlink satellites, The obvious visual evidence for assuming Mars once had catastrophic floods, Chile to sign Artemis Accords, and Have Americans finally awakened? Early voting suggests yes
CDR Salamander: A Larger Navy Is Not In The Cards
Da Tech Guy: I Have Absolutely No Idea How This Ends Anymore
Don Surber: The unsinkable Kamala Harris
Gates Of Vienna: Kids R Us
The Geller Report: Wisconsin’s Leftist-Led DOJ RAIDS Wausau Mayor’s Home In Illegal Ballot Drop Box Probe
Hollywood In Toto: Tim Dillon – Biden Is Not the President, Zachary Levi Schools Whoopi, Says Hollywood is Dying, and One Huge Problem Sinks My Name is Alfred Hitchcock
The Lid: Why are Parts from Weapons Owned by FBI, DEA Being Found on ‘Ghost Guns’?
Nebraska Energy Observer: Get your woolen jumper out
Power Line: Nice Restaurant Chain You’ve Got Here, The Government’s War on Elon, and Elon and the Sharks
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says Voters Default On Amendments Should Be No
Shot In The Dark: The Proverbial Trunk Full Of Ballots, Road Nowhere Near Taken, and It Shouldn’t Surprise Me
The Political Hat: Values Matter
This Ain’t Hell: Delta deplanes Marine for anti-suicide shirt, also, IDF Outs Hezbollah’s Bank
Victory Girls: Kamala Plagiarized Congressional Testimony And Lied On Law School Application
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Charlie Martin Needs Your Help

Posted on | October 22, 2024 | 1 Comment

Old-school blogging story: At the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, I was blogging from Jim Hoft’s hotel room while Jim, Michelle Malkin and Charlie Martin went down to investigate a protest at the Denver Mint organized by Alex Jones who was, then as always, a deranged conspiracy theorist. Upon spotting Malkin, Jones pointed her out and yelled something about her being a “neocon warmonger,” at which point Jones’s mob of followers rushed over to surround Malkin and began shouting and pushing. It was an instant riot, basically, but Malkin was protected from the psycho mob by Charlie Martin.

Instapundit informs us that Charlie needs our help: He had retired to Florida, but when that became too expensive (Bidenflation), Charlie was persuaded to locate to Costa Rica where, he had been assured, the cost of living was more affordable. Six months later, however, this has gone badly awry, and now Charlie is soliciting contributions to fund his return to the United States. I just kicked in $20. Please do likewise.

Bonus: I found video of that 2008 confrontation: