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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | April 23, 2018 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

 

Travis Reinking is crazy. Among other things, he believed that Taylor Swift was stalking him. Last year, he was arrested at the White House after crossing a barricade, saying he wanted to talk to the President. The FBI and police in his Illinois hometown were aware of Reinking’s craziness, but they failed to lock him up in the nuthouse:

The suspect in the killings of four people at a Waffle House restaurant in Tennessee had an encounter with law enforcement days before the rampage, when he stole a BMW, led cops on a chase, but ultimately got away, authorities revealed Monday.
The Nashville Metro Police Department said Travis Reinking, 29, stole a BMW from a dealership in Brentwood on Tuesday and let authorities on chase before they lost him in heavy rush hour traffic.
Metro Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron told reporters cops chased the vehicle, but then opted to track the car via a GPS device.
The vehicle was recovered the same day at Reinking’s apartment complex in neighboring Antioch. Aaron said that authorities did not know Reinking’s identity at the time since he did not provide identification at the dealership before taking the vehicle.
“They had no idea who the man was,” he said. . . .
Reinking, 29, who was naked during the shooting except for a green jacket and assault rifle, may have “mental issues,” authorities said.

Reinking was captured this afternoon and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Too bad he wasn’t put in a lunatic asylum before he killed four people, but our society is so afraid to discriminate against the mentally ill that kooks are allowed to run loose.

 

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Tammie Jo Shults

Posted on | April 23, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Always had a soft spot for women in uniform. Sorry I couldn’t find a pic more suited to Rule 5, but Captain Shults has managed not to plaster herself all over social media, which is a rare achievement these days, and one I respect.

A 1992 picture of then-Lieutenant Shults in front of an F/A-18. She was one of the Navy’s first Hornet pilots.

This week, Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #230, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism antes up with Rule Five Second Amendment Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Kimba Wood, “Crazy Train”, That Smile, Puppy Kisses, Earth Day, Maiya Sykes, Allison Mack, and End Of The Week Rule 5.

A View From The Beach has Christina Aguilera – Sexbot, Never-Trumper Protests Fish Porn, A Ridiculous Amount of Russiagate,  Arabian Fossil Gives “Out of Africa Theory” the Finger, Wet Shirt Wednesday, Gone Fishin’,  Motoring into Monday, and  “Those Were the Days” for your viewing and listening pleasure.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Alison Haislip, his Vintage Babe is Claudine Longet, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Guess. At Dustbury, it’s Markie Post and Nicole Sullivan.


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FMJRA 2.0: Search & Destroy

Posted on | April 21, 2018 | 2 Comments

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Rule 5 Sunday: Not Your Normal Graduation Picture
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

The Not-So-Secrets of Success
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

FMJRA 2.0: A Fortnight Late And A Few Hundred Farthings Short
A View From The Beach
EBL

Californication, Continued
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Dear @MeghanEMurphy…
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Frankenstein’s Children
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3,000 Anti-American Employees: Google ‘Should Not Be in the Business of War’
EBL

Tax-Exempt Terrorism: Cash From Soros Sponsors Communist ‘Antifa’ Group
Living In Anglo-America
A View From The Beach
EBL

Words Mean Things
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.18.18
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Words Mean Things, Part 2
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Tumblrina SJW Trauma Drama
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In The Mailbox: 04.19.18
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

SPLC Deletes ‘Anti-Muslim’ List
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.20.18
EBL
Proof Positive

STOP LAUGHING AND CALL THE COPS
EBL

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Hillary, Democrats and the Blame Game

Posted on | April 21, 2018 | 1 Comment

November 8, 2016: The best night in American history.

Haunted by the ghost of her Nixonian paranoia:

[Campaign manager Robbie] Mook eventually delivers the news of impending defeat to Clinton. “I knew it. I knew this would happen to me,” she answers. “They were never going to let me be president.”

Winners win and losers make excuses. Hillary Clinton ran for president twice and lost both times. In 2008, she lost the Democrat nomination to Barack Obama. Eight years later, she won the nomination (because the fix was in at the DNC) but lost the general election to Donald Trump.

Never in my memory have Democrats accepted defeat sensibly. Keep in mind that (a) I’m nearly 60, and (b) I used to be a Democrat myself. After Jimmy Carter was defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980, Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) created a narrative that Reagan’s success represented the Triumph of Fear, Hate and Corporate Greed. Because they were unwilling to admit the truth — i.e., liberalism doesn’t work — Democrats convinced themselves that all they needed to do was to put the same old crap into a more appealing package. They believed they had a marketing problem, rather than a policy. This misguided belief led Democrats into the wilderness. In 1984, Reagan was re-elected in a landslide over Walter Mondale. In 1988, Democrats nominated Mike Dukakis, who lost in another landslide to George W. Bush. The errors of Bushism (and the third-party populist challenge of Ross Perot) helped Democrat Bill Clinton win in 1992 with 43% of the vote. Imagining that Clinton’s election heralded the arrival of a New Camelot, Democrats then proceeded to enact a bunch of left-wing policies that were hugely unpopular, resulting in the 1994 “Republican Revolution” when the GOP took control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

A “temper tantrum” — that’s how ABC News anchor Peter Jennings dismissed the Republican landslide in 1994, comparing the American electorate to an angry 2-year-old. The widespread belief among the media elite that Democrats are morally superior to Republicans, so that it is always wrong when Republicans win elections, has the effect of insulating Democrats from confronting the true causes of their own failures. If you are unable to admit error, to confess that the voters are right and you are wrong — that you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting — you probably need to stay away from politics.

Ed Driscoll called attention Friday to a 2006 Bill Clinton quote:

There is an expectation among Democrats that establishment old media organizations are de facto allies — and will rebut political accusations and serve as referees on new-media excesses.
“We’re all that way, and I think a part of it is we grew up in the ’60s and the press led us against the war and the press led us on civil rights and the press led us on Watergate,” [Bill] Clinton said. “Those of us of a certain age grew up with this almost unrealistic set of expectations.”

“Almost”? Do you even understand what you’re saying? The invincible hubris of liberals — their belief that they are “on the right side of history,” and that opposition to their policy agenda is morally wrong — is sufficient reason for any American to become a diehard Republican, if only for the pleasure of destroying the fond hopes of such fools.

 

Why did Donald Trump get elected? Democrats are still making excuses, adding “Russian collusion” to the Fear, Hate and Corporate Greed narrative by which they previously explained GOP victories. The “collusion” narrative is imploding (along with the credibility of Comey and Mueller), and the reality of Trump’s success — the booming economy, the defeat of ISIS, etc. — is undermining the confidence of Democrats that they can win a congressional majority in November.

What happened in 2016 was a revolution of sorts. Donald Trump’s candidacy attracted voters to the GOP primary who had previously been ignored or taken for granted by the Republican leadership. Some of them had been Tea Party voters in 2010, some of them had been Ron Paul voters, and others were attracted by what Steve Bannon called Trump’s “economic nationalism.” All of them, however, were sick and tired of the Play Nice and Lose approach to politics embodied by Mitt Romney. To a certain kind of grassroots American voter, the typical attitude of Republican politicians — that they must always be polite and avoid saying mean things about Democrats, so as to maintain a spirit of bipartisan civility — looks a lot like unmanly cowardice. What many grassroots Americans admire most in a leader is toughness, manifested as a willingness to speak blunt words: “Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” It must be recalled that many of Ronald Reagan’s advisers didn’t want him to say those undiplomatic words, and to this day the Republican Party struggles to overcome the influence of those within the party who consider “respectability” to be the correct standard of political discourse. It is better to lose an election in a respectable manner than to win rudely, according to the Play Nice and Lose school of GOP strategy, and Donald Trump’s success is an embarrassment to them.

Despite my own populist impulses, I am still uncomfortable with many of President Trump’s personal tendencies, but this is like me saying as an Alabama fan that I don’t like Nick Saban’s coaching style except for the fact that he keeps winning national championships.

Winners don’t need excuses, and if Republicans can somehow overcome their disadvantages in the November midterms — if the GOP maintains its congressional majority despite all the anti-Trump rage on the Left — the Democrats will be hopelessly shattered by their defeat.

Less than seven months remain until the midterms, and the Democrats, who held a 13-point advantage in the so-called “generic” congressional poll as recently as December, now lead by less than six points.

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!”

Can we make that happen, Mr. President?



 

Category: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias

STOP LAUGHING AND CALL THE COPS

Posted on | April 20, 2018 | Comments Off on STOP LAUGHING AND CALL THE COPS

Thursday, I blogged about what I called “Tumblrina SJW Trauma Drama” — a feminist Tumblr blogger in Florida trying to raise money to leave her abusive lesbian girlfriend. As a point-and-laugh example of feminist failure, this seemed to me instructive, but then she posted this:

So tonight things got a lot worse when I tried to break up with her. She came after me and hit me, punched me, and bit me and pretty much everything you can think of happened. I was trying to be civil and again it didn’t work. I had to leave and go to an old coworkers place who said I can stay for a couple of days. Other than that I have nothing. I couldn’t grab my clothes or any of my possessions and idk what she’s gonna do to them. Im begging you guys as pathetic as this is rn I need help I’m trying Togo to a women’s shelter or something after this but I pretty much just lost everything. If you guys can just reblog and help spread the word on this I’d really appreciate it.

https://www.youcaring.com/thaliagomez-1165048

Her post includes photos showing her injuries. You can decide whether you want to contribute. While I’m sure my conservative readers don’t want to enable a feminist Tumblrina, on the other hand we don’t want anyone to suffer criminal violence. If you live in Palm Beach County, Florida, or know someone who does, please ask them to call the police and bring this situation to their attention. There must be local protective services available to help Ms. Gomez escape her abuser.

UPDATE: Damn it, I’m a sucker for a damsel in distress.

Next time some feminist starts bleating about “violence against women,” though, remind me to ask her what she gave to help Thalia.

 

Category: Gays, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 04.20.18

Posted on | April 20, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.20.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Free Speech v. Alinsky – Fighting Back In The War Of Ideas
Twitchy: Iowahawk Torches Chuck Schumer’s #420Day States’ Rights Pandering
Louder With Crowder: In The UK, Woman Found Guilty Of Racism For Posting Rap Lyrics
Sultan Knish: Who Can Count The Dust Of Jacob (via American Digest)
According To Hoyt: The Good, The Bad, And The Eternal
Monster Hunter Nation: Fisking The New Yorker In Defense Of Delicious Chicken
Vox Popoli: SJWs In SF – The Sad Puppy Version

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links  – The Give Peace A Chance Edition
American Power: The Authoritiarian Right, also, Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism
American Thinker: Eric Holder For Prison, Not President
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Second Amendment Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 20
BLACKFIVE: K.J. Howe, Skyjack
CDR Salamander: REFORGER Now And Forever, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: You Help Him, He Blesses You, also, Mike Isenberg, The Thread Of Reason
Don Surber: Bringing The Troops Home
Dustbury: This Could Take A While
The Geller Report: The Comey Memos – Evidence Of A Plot To Destroy President Trump From Day One, also, Hundreds Of Bangladeshi Muslims Breaching The Border Near Laredo
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: What Has Happened To American Men?
Legal Insurrection: Democrat LOLsuit Alleges Conspiracy Between Trump Campaign, Wikileaks, Russia To Disrupt 2016 Election, also, Legal Threat Causes SPLC To Delete “Anti-Muslim Extremist” List
Power Line: Goodlatte, Gowdy, & Nunes On The Comey Memos, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: POTUS Talks Human Trafficking In Key West Visit
Shot In The Dark: Am I The Only One…
STUMP: Mornings With Meep – Two Pension Stories & Skin In The Game, also, A Proposal For Public Pension Reform
The Jawa Report: Cold War III – Syria Bombing Theater, also, Meanwhile In Berlin
The Political Hat: Queering Censorship In California
This Ain’t Hell: Andrew Cuomo – I’m An Undocumented Immigrant, also, Friday Morning Feelgood Stories
Victory Girls: Yes Jake Tapper, Comey’s Book Tour Is Tanking His Credibility And CNN’s
Weasel Zippers: Justice Department Investigating Comey Over Leaks Of Classified Information, also, Fresno State Might Lose Serious Money Over Prof’s Dragging Of Barbara Bush
Megan McArdle: Conservatives Shouldn’t Want Randa Jarrar Fired
Mark Steyn: Investigation Without End, also, I Am Undocumented Spartacus!


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SPLC Deletes ‘Anti-Muslim’ List

Posted on | April 20, 2018 | 1 Comment

Peter Hasson reports at the Daily Caller:

The Southern Poverty Law Center has removed an online list of “anti-Muslim extremists” after British Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz threatened to sue the SPLC over his inclusion on the list.
The list is the fourth article in two months the SPLC has deleted over accuracy concerns.
The left-wing nonprofit first published the list in November 2016, offering it as a “field guide” to journalists.
In addition to Nawaz, the list included Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who advocates against female genital mutilation, among other issues. Ali blasted the SPLC’s “deeply offensive smears” in an August 2017 op-ed for The New York Times.
The inclusion of Nawaz and Ali on the list sparked a backlash, including from establishment publications like The Atlantic, but the SPLC didn’t remove the page until Awaz took legal action. The SPLC did not return The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment by press time.
Awaz recently finished crowdfunding the initial legal fees for his lawsuit against the SPLC, which he first announced in June 2017. Nawaz retained the same law firm, Clare Locke LLP, that led the successful defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone over the infamous UVA rape hoax.

Charles Glasser writes at Instapundit:

People on the list included Pamela Geller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, David Horowitz, Daniel Pipes and others. Apparently Maajid Nawaz, a practicing Muslim and prominent Islamic reformer, threatened legal action over his inclusion on the list, and retained Tom Clare of Clare Locke (the firm who proved Rolling Stone committed libel in their fake UVA “rape” story.)
I’m not a big fan of libel threats, but every now and then one comes along that needs to be made.

Nor am I “a big fan of libel threats,” but the SPLC is a dangerous organization that has incited domestic terrorists to attack Christians. SPLC has applied the “hate group” label to people for opposing abortion or disapproving of homosexuality, so that every Catholic and conservative evangelical Christian — and many Muslims and Jews, for that matter — are guilty of “hate,” by the SPLC’s standards. The liberal news media amplify these dishonest smears by giving free publicity to the SPLC. Last year, when CNN published the SPLC’s “hate map,” Holmes Lybrand of the Daily Caller noted: “The SPLC has also listed Sen. Rand Paul and HUD Secretary Ben Carson as ‘extremists.’”

 

Category: Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 04.19.18

Posted on | April 20, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.19.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Celebrate Earth Day? Remember Its Founder, Ira Einhorn
Twitchy: Holocaust Museum Tour With DC Politician Who Claimed Jews Control Weather Doesn’t Go Well
Louder With Crowder: Parkland Activist Upset About Increased School Security


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Their Tyranny Is Garbage
American Thinker: Despite A Deluge Of Negativity, Trump Is Still Popular
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Daily Hidden Tax News
BattleSwarm: Hurst, Texas House Explodes On Dashcam
BLACKFIVE: Jeffery Deaver, The Cutting Edge
CDR Salamander: Why Vanuatu?
Da Tech Guy: The Single Most Important Lesson From Barbara Bush, R. Lee Ermey, Harry Anderson, and Bruno Sammartino
Don Surber: Evan McMullin Feels The Trump Effect
Dustbury: Charge Right Down The Street
The Geller Report: Father Of Mastermind Behind DNC Spy Ring Transferred Secrets To Pakistani Government, also,  Fresno State Holds Press Conference To Address Hateful Muslima Professor Who Cheered Death of Barbara Bush
Hogewash: A Setback For Neal Rauhauser, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: I Thought College Was For Higher Learning, Not Handouts
Legal Insurrection: Justice Department IG Sends Criminal Referral Of McCabe To Federal Attorney For DC, also, Should Ted Cruz Be Worried About The Q Poll Showing His Race In A Dead Heat?
Power Line: Civil War On The Left, Part 55 – Democrat Dilemmas, also, Is Wind Energy A Good Idea?
Shark Tank: Rubio Changes Views On NASA Nominee
Shot In The Dark: Good Gal With Gun Meets Scumbag Lawyer
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere, also, Taxing Tuesday
The Jawa Report: Taliban Attack Kills Khwaja Omari Governor, also, Astro-Grass Roots
The Political Hat: Fighting Whiteness – Eliminating Science, Eliminating Meat-Eating, Eliminating White People
This Ain’t Hell: Army, Navy, & Marines To Get Hogs, also, Puppet Fallout
Victory Girls: Comedian Terrence Williams Latest Black Conservative Zucked By Facebook
Weasel Zippers: Illegal Aliens Caught Near Border With “Assault-Style” Weapons, Says Border Patrol, also, Feds Expose Network That Smuggled Illegals From Syria Through Mexico To U.S.
Megan McArdle: You Think You Hate Your Cable Bundle, But You’re Wrong, also, Democrats’ Housing Problem
Mark Steyn: Only In America, also, CRTV v. Steyn (Judge’s Order), The Verdict


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