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America Cries Out in Agony: ‘If Only Norm Macdonald Were Still Alive Today!’

Posted on | April 11, 2024 | No Comments

There are many varieties of humor, but overkill — complete and total overkill — is too seldom noted among them. There’s something hilarious about watching a guy grab hold of a joke and then just pounding away on it until you’re like, “Oh, my God, he’s going there again!”

Such was the genius of the late great Norm Macdonald:

He was removed as host of SNL’s Weekend Update in 1998, allegedly for relentlessly mocking O.J. Simpson during his murder trial, offending producer Don Ohlmeyer who was a close friend of Simpson.

Speaking of overkill, how many times did O.J. stab Nicole? It’s been so long since the trial, I’ve forgotten, but she was nearly decapitated:

She had been stabbed multiple times in the head and neck, but there were few defensive wounds on her hands, implying a short struggle to investigators. The final wound inflicted ran deep into her neck, severing her carotid artery. A large bruise in the center of her upper back with a corresponding foot print on her clothing indicated to investigators that, after killing Goldman, the assailant returned to Brown’s body, stood on her back, pulled her head back by the hair and slit her throat. Her larynx could be seen through the gaping wound in her neck, and vertebra C3 was incised; Brown’s head barely remained attached to her body.

You don’t need a Ph.D. in criminal forensics to understand that such an attack — cutting her neck so deep that the blade goes all the way to the spinal column — indicates a deeply personal motive, such as one might expect from an enraged ex-husband, for example. And the fact that the assailant killed two people (including Ron Goldman, who’d made the mistake of offering to escort Nicole home) would suggest the attacker was very muscular. Say, for example, a Heisman Trophy running back who spent more than a decade in the NFL. But this is mere speculation, of course, since I’m not a certified expert in such things.

Everybody knows that accused criminals are “presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law,” but everybody also knows that O.J. was guilty as hell. Unfortunately, this crime occurred before there was widespread surveillance video, which left the prosecutors the task of making their case with physical evidence and testimony that failed to persuade the jurors, thus giving rise to the legal shorthand term “O.J. jury.” For example, if you’re a business owner in a city like Baltimore or Philadelphia who gets sued for discrimination, even if you know you’re innocent, your lawyer is likely to advise you to settle the case out of court, because if you take it to trial, you might get the “O.J. jury,” i.e., a bunch of black jurors whose ignorance is exceeded only by their malice.

O.J.’s acquittal was a wake-up call for anyone who was paying attention to what the jury was actually saying: No way they were going to convict a black man of anything, no matter how guilty he was.

This happened just a few years after the Rodney King riots in L.A., and the racial hostility surrounding the Simpson case was intense, but you weren’t supposed to mention it — the media were in complete denial about the obvious motivation of the jurors who refused to convict Simpson. There was a lot of blah-blah-blah from TV talking heads about the errors made by the prosecution, while ignoring the overwhelming evidence of Simpson’s guilt. If O.J. didn’t kill his ex-wife, who did? Who else had a motive? These were obvious questions, for which the defense never offered any cogent answers, and no intelligent observer ever had anything like a “reasonable doubt” about Simpson’s guilt.

Amid all this uproar — three months after the murders, but before the trial started — Norm Macdonald began his stint as host of “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live, and he hammered away on the O.J. case week after week, continuing to do so years after the trial ended. The real beauty of his overkill approach was how Norm would be doing a story about something else and then — surprise! surprise! — it was just a setup for another O.J. joke. Yes, sir, you could say Norm Macdonald had a comedic killer instinct, and you know who else had a killer instinct?

Anyway, it was nearly 30 years ago O.J. Simpson murdered two people and got away with it because of that wretched jury. Today, when the news broke that O.J. was dead, I was watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and wishing I was instead watching the old SNL bits with Norm Macdonald doing what comedians used to do, namely making you laugh by saying Things You’re Not Allowed to Say. See, that was what made it so funny — everybody knew O.J. was guilty, but nobody in the mainstream media would say so. And yet every Saturday night, Norm Macdonald was on TV saying the truth, and it was laugh-out-loud funny. Too bad Norm didn’t live long enough to be here when O.J. finally kicked the bucket.

UPDATE: Thanks to the commenter who reminds us of the conclusive clue, the size 12 Bruno Magli shoe print. Indeed, how could anyone have dismissed this evidence? This was an unusual and expensive brand of shoes and, even if you wish to theorize about some random stranger having a motive to kill Nicole Brown Simpson, what were the chances that this hypothetical murderer would be wearing size 12 Bruno Magli shoes? But the members of the O.J. jury obviously were not keen on the process of logical deduction, and so the killer was acquitted.



 

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In The Mailbox: 04.10.24

Posted on | April 11, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ripley, also, House Conservatives Sink FISA
Twitchy: La. House Passes Bill Allowing You To Run Over Protesters, Dexter Reed’s Mom Lies – Claims Her Son was Targeted By Police, and Disney Files To Dismiss Gina Carano’s Lawsuit Based On First Amendment
Louder With Crowder: Woman gets WAY too excited sharing a dystopian nightmare as she buys groceries just by scanning her hand
Vox Popoli: “It’s Theirs Now”, Arktoons 15 Million, Red China is Not the Problem, and Old Games are Best Games
Stoic Observations: Sheepdoggery Revisited
Postcards From Barsoom: The Automated Internet, The Conspiratorial Internet, & The Reconquista Of The Real, also, Of Science & Shitposting
Ammo.com: Texas’ 2A Grades & Endorsements For 2024 Candidates

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Is Censorship the Biden Era’s Torture Issue?
American Greatness: Group of Conservative Republicans Join Democrats to Block FISA Renewal Bill
American Thinker: The Overlap Between Nazis and Hamas Is Downright Uncanny
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: One carton of eggs in Cuba sells for over 150% of the monthly minimum wage, Cuban dissidents launch a grassroots initiative to fight against totalitarianism, and Cuban dictatorship admits alarming increase in homelessness, inability to tackle the problem
BattleSwarm: DeSantis Isn’t Putting Up With Any of Your Blue City “Soft On Shoplifting” Crap
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, Japan to sign deal with NASA to fly two Japanese astronauts to Moon, Angara launch scrubbed for the second day in a row, Red China successfully tests new propulsion system for satellites, Rocket Lab to refly a recovered first stage, Activists file lawsuit to prevent land swap at Boca Chica, and Idiocracy has arrived
Cafe Hayek: Rent-Seeking Is A Dirty Business, also, Manufacturing Jobs Were Destroyed Mostly by Better Opportunities in the Service Sector
CDR Salamander: From Omaha To Indianapolis – Accepting LCS For What She Is
Da Tech Guy: Pintastic NE 2024 Starts Tomorrow!
Don Surber: DEI opens a liberal’s eyes
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right
Gates Of Vienna: Cologne – The City of Muezzins, also, Biden Administration Sides with Terrorists
The Geller Report: Gaza’s ‘Innocent Civilians’ SOLD Israeli Hostages to Hamas, also, Muslim Teen Arrested for Plot to Attack Idaho Churches, Kill Christians
Glenn Reynolds: Confessions Of A Former Rocket Boy
Hollywood In Toto: Baste Records, Skistimas Bring Freedom Back to Rock, also, Censorship Run Wild? Two Docs Attacked by Big Tech
The Lid: Now the Wokesters are Ruining Scrabble Because It’s Too Hard for People Who Can’t Spell
Legal Insurrection: Mayo Clinic Study Raises Serious Questions about ‘Reversibility’ of Puberty Blockers, Despite No Serious Human Infections with “Super Bird Flu” in US, CDC Issues a Health Alert, Biden Demands Unilateral Israeli Ceasefire, Aides Do Damage Control, Former Cornell Student Patrick Dai Pleads Guilty To Online Threats Against Jewish Students, ‘We Are on a Slow Roll Toward Our Own Little Gazas’, and On Mayorkas, Chuck Schumer Suddenly Doesn’t Like Impeachment Being Used for ‘Policy Disagreements’
Michele Catalano: 1994 Part 3
Nebraska Energy Observer: Moonshadow
Outkick: Here’s How NCAA Women’s Tourney Title Game Slam Dunked Men’s Championship In TV Ratings, No More Excuses In March, John Calipari Has To Win Immediately At Arkansas With NIL And The Transfer Portal, Northwestern To Play Home Games At Practice Facility For Next Two Seasons, Which Will Cause Problem For Fans, UConn National Title Celebration Features Multiple Arrests, Tigers’ Riley Greene Shreds Pants Sliding Into Home Because MLB Uniforms Just Can’t Work Properly, and ‘World’s Sexiest Athlete’ Harnesses The Healing Power Of Running On The Beach & Taking A Dip In The Ocean
Power Line: There’s something about Tucker, Sympathy For the Devil, and NPR – Gross Distortions
Shark Tank: 16 Cuban Refugees Discovered In Key West Waters, Promptly Returned To Cuba
Shot In The Dark: The “Class Privilege” Combo Plate, Preview – Twenty Reporters Walk Into A Bar, Over And Over And Over Again, and, You Ask Me Why Healthcare In Minnesota Is So Expensive
This Ain’t Hell: Maryland again…sigh, Seized Iran Weapons to Ukraine, and Charles Barkley called eclipse viewers ‘losers’
Victory Girls: Black Supremacists with Federal Power
Volokh Conspiracy: Indiana Court Rejects Claim That Driver’s Licenses Must Include Third Gender Option, also, Berkeley Students Post Anti-Semitic Cartoons, Disrupt Dinner at Dean Chemerinsky’s Home
Watts Up With That: The Greening Earth vs Enemies of Climate Truth, There is no human right to a safe or stable climate, and “I Am Going To Lecture You On Climate Change” – BBC Reporter Gets Schooled for Hypocrisy
The Federalist: Biden Is Only ‘Adding’ Jobs Because Americans Need Extra Side Hustles To Make Ends Meet, 19 Republicans Resist Deep-State Efforts To Keep Spying On Americans Without A Warrant, Arabella Sheds Light On The Dark-Money Groups Remaking America Millions Of Dollars At A Time, After Promising Not To, The IRS Army Democrats Expanded Is Targeting The Middle Class, Attention Hogg Blows Nearly Half His PAC’s Donor Dollars On Nonsense Like DoorDash And Marc Elias, GOP County Prepares To Sue New York Over Law Hitching Local Elections To State Dems’ Coattails, and Could Democrat Hubris And Incompetence Cost Biden Ballot Access In These States?
Mark Steyn: The Habits of Liberty, also, Live Around the Planet: Wednesday April 10th

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What CNN Didn’t Tell Its Audience About the Police Shooting of Dexter Reed Jr.

Posted on | April 10, 2024 | No Comments

Tuesday afternoon, CNN launched their election-year “let’s start a race riot” campaign, showing newly released police bodycam video of the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Dexter Reed. As I watched the coverage — featured hourly — I knew that the last-place news network wasn’t giving its viewers the whole story. And this could not be an accidental omission, because the most important facts were easily discovered in other media accounts, which anyone could find with Google, e.g.:

The man Chicago police leaders say was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police officers during a traffic stop [March 21] was on pretrial release for a pending felony gun charge, according to court records.
Dexter Reed, 26, was arrested on July 13 after Chicago cops said they found him in possession of a firearm in the 1800 block of West Warren. Police responded to a call of a person with a gun at the Windy City Smokeout, an annual barbecue event, and found Reed armed with a handgun, according to his arrest report.
Prosecutors charged him with aggravated unlawful use of a firearm the next day. Later, a grand jury returned a true bill charging him with three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, including possessing a firearm in a vehicle, and possession of a firearm with a revoked Firearm Owner’s ID card, court records show.

Reed was arrested more than eight months before his fatal encounter with police. Why does it take so long to prosecute criminals in Chicago? But this question wasn’t asked on CNN, nor did any of the network’s talking heads make mention of the neighborhood in which Reed died in a shootout with police. The five officers who reportedly fired 96 shots at Reed were members of “the 11th District tactical unit,” a designation that would lead any curious reporter to ask a couple of obvious questions: What is the 11th District, and what does this “tactical unit” do?

Do you see that dark brown area on the west side of the city, north of I-290? That’s the 11th District, also known as the Harrison district, and it is home to some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago, which is to say, the 11th District is arguably the most dangerous place in America. It was in the 11th District — specifically the Humboldt Park neighborhood, near the intersection of West Ferdinand Street and Hamlin Avenue — that Reed died in a shootout with the cops.

CBS affiliate WBBM-TV in Chicago asked the important questions:

CBS 2 asked [former Chicago Police First Deputy Supt. Anthony] Riccio whether tactical units — which typically respond rapidly to crime hotspots and serious crimes in progress, such as an officer down — usually perform traffic stops like the one involved in this case.
“Obviously, something attracted them to him, and the tactical teams are really the guys who work in the districts, and go out, and really look for the hardcore bad guys; the guys with the guns,” Riccio said. “We know Mr. Reed was carrying a gun unlawfully in his vehicle — and, you know, what was his intention?”

This is where the story being told just doesn’t quite add up. We are being told that Reed was pulled over for a seat belt violation, but you’re going to use a five-officer tactical team for this? No, despite what officials are saying, there must have been something else that brought Reed to the attention of these cops. Had he been under surveillance? Did his car match the description of a vehicle involved in a neighborhood crime? Or did the police run his tag number through their computer, see the pending weapons charge on his record and figure it was likely that he was still illegally armed? That strikes me as the most likely scenario, but the larger point is this — if you want to stop violent crime, you have to send cops into neighborhoods like Humboldt Park, where most of the criminals live and most of the crime happens.

Don’t give me none of your noise about “racial profiling.” Approximately 78% of homicide victims in Chicago are black, and nearly all of them are killed by other black people. So if you want to stop black people from being murdered in Chicago, you’re going to have to focus on getting black criminals off the street. Dexter Reed was awaiting trial on gun charges, and the terms of his pretrial release would prohibit him from possessing a weapon. Ergo, the cops had good reason to be investigating Reed, who happened to be carrying a pistol. He opened fire on the cops, emptying the 11-round magazine, then left the gun in the car and tried to make a run for it. He did not run far, and he won’t be running anymore.

Nobody on CNN is going to make these facts clear. We do not yet have any confirmed explanation of how this “tactical unit” zeroed in on Reed, but I’m not buying that alibi about a seat belt violation. What we do know is that Reed already had pending weapons charges, and was not legally permitted to have a gun, which was the proximate cause of his death. Nearly 600 people have been shot so far this year in Chicago, including 109 fatal shootings, and there ought to be some sympathy for the cops whose job it is to try to keep Chicago from spiraling out of control.

CNN is just trying to stoke outrage — clearly with the idea of “energizing” the black community to vote for Joe Biden — and if we get another summer of riots like 2020, we’ll know who to blame.

UPDATE: You can watch video of the shooting here.



 

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In The Mailbox: 04.09.24

Posted on | April 10, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Guess the diary was real after all.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Parasyte: The Grey, 100 Huskies Escape in Red China, Tuna Fishing and Processing, and MAGA Stormy Prosecution
Twitchy: Mayor Of Dearborn Assures Us His Community Stands For Peace After Video Goes Viral, Here’s The Brazilian Supreme Court “Justice” Trying To Shut Down Elon Musk & X, and Who Knew Poverty Tasted So Good?
Louder With Crowder: San Francisco tells grocery stores: you can’t close, no matter how sh*tty the city is
Vox Popoli: Not So Good for the Economy, No Common Ground, No Compromise, Fruits and Vegetables are Literally Poison, and Time is Running Out on NATO
Upstream Reviews: Superversive Spotlight – L. Jagi Lamplighter, 
Stoic Observations: Talking Culture At The Restless Muse

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Meaning of Life – Choose Wisely
American Conservative: EXCLUSIVE: The Biden Administration Just Admitted It Has Massively Undercounted Ukraine Aid
American Greatness: Seven States, Led By Missouri AG Andrew Baily, Sue Biden Regime Over Its Latest Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme
American Thinker: A Nation Without Honor
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Nuclear-Powered News, also, Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 2 – Shanghai Stories
Babalu Blog: Sweden trying to end EU funding of the Cuban dictatorship, Cuba’s $27 million in imports from U.S. in February include $5 million for new cars, and Why is there hunger in Cuba?
BattleSwarm: Texas Sues Harris County Over Guaranteed Income
Behind The Black: ESA awards Thales Alenia contract to build Mars lander for Franklin rover, New startup to launch a new design for inflatable modules, Turkey to join China’s lunar base program, ULA completes last Delta-4 Heavy launch, and The foot of a Martian glacier
Cafe Hayek: Is the Textbook Case for Subsidizing Carbon Emissions Sufficient to Justify Government Action?
CDR Salamander: What LCS Says About Our Culture Of Untruth
Da Tech Guy: “I don’t know if I’m going to vote this year, but if I do vote it will be for Donald Trump.” (Plus 36 years ago today), also, Lethal autonomous weapons
Dana Loesch: The EPA Is Giving (East) Palestine The Shaft, also, Bidens Jail The Mom Who Found Ashley Biden’s Diary
Don Surber: Weekend At Bill Gates’
First Street Journal: #Woke TikToker chooses not to Dress for Success, and whines when she doesn’t get the job
Gates Of Vienna: The Brothers of Mohammed in Tor Pignattara, also, Requiem for a Culture, Part 6: The End of Reconciliation
The Geller Report: Biden Now Offering to Take Houthis Terrorists OFF the Terror List, also, UNDERCOVER FOOTAGE: CIA Officer/Former FBI Brags, We “Can Put Anyone in Jail…Set ’Em Up!” “We Call It a Nudge”
Hollywood In Toto: Blackout Offers Low-Rent Werewolf Shocks
The Lid: Analysis: The FBI is Lying about Its Crime Statistics
Legal Insurrection: Climate Cultists Conduct Secret Geoengineering Experiment in San Francisco Bay, Army Invites Retirees as Old as 70 to Return to Active Duty in Attempt to Fix Recruiting Woes, Report: Hamas Says Has ‘No Ability’ To Release Even 40 Israeli Hostages, Suggesting Most Murdered, Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Battles Brazil’s Supreme Justice over Censorship, U.S. Navy Facing Major Shipbuilding Delays While China’s Navy Expansion Accelerates, and Did Hamas Bait the IDF Into Striking the World Central Kitchen Convoy?
Michele Catalano: 1994 Part Two
Nebraska Energy Observer: This is funny
Outkick: Purdue Fans Pull Embarrassing Move Prior To UConn Loss, Get Massive Dose Of Karma, John Calipari Officially Announces Resignation, But His Exit From Kentucky Was One Big Troll Job On Way Out, Scott Drew Talking With Kentucky Just Hours After John Calipari’s Resignation, Others Being Discussed, Tommy Tuberville Goes Off On Dawn Staley’s Trans Comments, Trial For 5 Ex-Team Canada Players Charged With Sexual Assault Won’t Start Until After Next NHL Season Starts, Scottsdale Mayor Not Big On Plans For Coyotes New Arena, and OutKick Exclusive: Why Are Younger Pitchers Getting Hurt More?
Power Line: The word from Dearborn, NPR – National Propaganda Radio, and So Wise in the Ways of Science?
Shark Tank: DeSantis’ Shoplifting Crackdown – “Do The Crime, Do The Time”
Shot In The Dark: “Red” Scare, also, Let’s See If I Have This Straight
STUMP: Public Pension Problems & Proposed Solutions – But Will They Fix Anything?, also, Taxing Tuesday – Meep Files Her Taxes, And Art!
The Political Hat: School Assignment Spot The Patriarchy™
This Ain’t Hell: Squatters live rent free while homeowners deal with growing debt, also, Tesla Cybertruck Woes
Transterrestrial Musings: End Of An Era
Victory Girls: No! None Of This Normal!
Volokh Conspiracy: What Should a Textualist Think about Trump’s Claims of Presidential Immunity?
Watts Up With That: Worst Floods In 80 Years Sweep Kazakhstan, To Follow or Not to Follow–a report from a climate bedlam, and Transparency-In-Government Group Files Amicus Brief Exposing EPA Flouting Doctrine Against Pretextual Rulemaking
The Federalist: PBS’s William F. Buckley Documentary Highlights The Conservative Crusader’s Faith, Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Law Punishing Abortionists As Unlimited Abortion Ballot Battle Rages, The Washington Post Is More Dangerous Than So-Called Russian Propaganda, Voters — And One Alleged Signature Gatherer — Say Their Names Were Forged For Arizona Candidate, The West Doesn’t Understand How Russia Fights Wars, and Biden’s Latest Student Loan Bailout Has Election-Year Bribe Written All Over It
Mark Steyn: Eclipsapalooza!

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In The Mailbox: 04.08.24

Posted on | April 8, 2024 | No Comments

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Deadline for filing taxes is in one week.
Help get the Hankins Family to Alaska.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Same as it ever was.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: So How Is That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?, also, Cooperating With Criminals Does NOT Guarantee Safety
EBL: Why don’t Muslims and Leftists care about the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China? Did Israel just surrender to Hamas? The Zone of Interest, and Cloudy Eclipse
Twitchy: San Francisco Tells Grocery Store Owners That They Can’t Check Out Or Ever Leave, Adam Schiff Taking Trump’s Threat To Imprison Him Seriously, and Dan Goldman Assures Us Trump Will End Democracy By Weaponizing DOJ
Louder With Crowder: “I had to lie a lot about things that I didn’t agree with”, “America is not f*cked up” – Tucker Carlson discovers the power of touching grass while introducing Kid Rock, and John Fetterman breaks with Democrats AGAIN, now declares that “squatting” is wrong and criminals should be, get this, “punished”
Vox Popoli: The Black Epstein, The Inevitability of Catastrophic Defeat, The Comprehensive Failure of Milton Friedman, A Man of Sound Opinion, and Signs of Impending Demise
Stoic Observations: Wallfacers v. Sophons, also, What I Now Know About Jet Engines
Postcards From Barsoom: Political Conflict In The Age Of Psychic Warfare, 
Unlicensed Pundity: Down From The Mount
Upstream Reviews: Light Unto Another World, 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Eclipse The Sun!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Lent 2024 Trip Report
American Conservative: The Dystopian Surveillance Programs Right In America’s Heartland
American Greatness: Mayorkas Pressed to Answer How Terrorists Were Reportedly Freed into U.S., RFK Jr. Says Biden Bigger Threat Than Trump, and Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?
American Thinker: Trump Should Talk More About January 6, Not Less, Marxist Globalists Will Resort to Terror and Violence, Moral Midgets Cook Up a War Crime, The Compelling Case for Trump, and Obama’s Continuing War on Suburbia, Courtesy of Joe Biden
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship tells young people to stay in Cuba and be happy socialists, Head of Communist Party in Havana gets axed, 20th official purged in past 3 months, Cuban dictatorship continues to hide its corruption and repression behind the lie of the ’embargo’, and On top of malnutrition, tuberculosis outbreak hits five Cuban prisons
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for April 5, Tab Clearing For April 6, Ukraine’s New 3,000km Drone Opens Up Deep Logistic Targets, and The Curse of Ghost Jobs Listing
Behind The Black: Soyuz capsule safely brings three astronauts back from ISS, Varda quickly raises $90 million after completing its first orbital manufacturing mission, SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites, with 6 capable of direct-to-cell service, Argentina demands right to inspect Chinese antenna facility, SpaceX launches 11 commercial payloads, and What are Israel’s strategic military goals with its latest pull back from Gaza?
CDR Salamander: April Maritime Melee, also, Making The Right Statement In WESTPAC
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading
Da Tech Guy: Divine Mercy Novena Ninth and Final Day, Divine Mercy Sunday Epilogue, This Antifa Story Could be A Much Bigger Story in the Long Run, and Chicago’s mayor Brandon Johnson asks, “Who expected me to defeat white supremacy in one year?”
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Bombay Sapphire Gin Edition
Don Surber: Washington Post economics
First Street Journal: For the #woke professors, the truth might set you free, free from supporting Hamas, that is, also, Everyone wants the addicts to be treated and cured; they just want that to happen in someone else’s neighborhood
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Knife Attack on a Little Girl in Wangen, Florence: “There Are Too Many Italians”, Thirty Years for the Strasbourg Terror Attack, The Moldavian Gambit, and The Brutal Treatment of Samara
The Geller Report: BIDEN’S BLOODBATH: Illegal Deported 8 times with 11 Arrests Now Charged with Murder in Ohio, Seattle Teacher Says “Rape [of Jews] is Justified”, Hamas DELIBERATELY Drew Fire to the WCK Aid Truck, IDF Blew up Hamas Tunnel That Stretched Far into Israel, and Muslims Chant ‘Death to America’ in Michigan
Hollywood In Toto: Barbie’s Toxic Feminism – Yes, Women Are Flawed, Too, Andrew Schulz Needs Free Speech Primer, We Need More Horror Movies Like Sting, Late-Night Panic: Biden Could Lose to Trump! and Is Hollywood (Finally) Coming to Its Senses?
The Lid: Joe Biden’s Michigan Democrats Chant ‘Death to America’, also, Will NW Fish Experts Turn The Columbia Basin Into The Next Klamath River Eco-Disaster Zone?
Legal Insurrection: America’s Honeybee Population Buzzes to an All-Time High, Law Prof Challenges Validity of Special Counsel’s Appointment in Trump Classified Documents Case, Analysis Finds Black Athletes Are Ignoring NAACP’s Call to Boycott Florida Colleges, UT Austin President Announces Major Cuts to School’s DEI Programs, Suspensions and Expulsions Follow Anti-Israel Student ‘Occupation’ at Vanderbilt College, Baylor University Prof’s Tweet About ‘Harry Potter Class’ Causes Uproar, and Trump Bid To Delay NY Criminal Trial Denied By Appellate Judge
Michele Catalano: 1994 – A Compendium Of Albums Turning Thirty
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for…us, Quasimodo Geniti, and On Wings of Eagles
Outkick: John Calipari Leaving Kentucky For Arkansas Was Smart, While The Coaching Ripple-Effect Has Already Begun, Lynette Woodard Says Caitlin Clark Didn’t Beat Her Scoring Record, Dawn Staley Says Trangender Women Should Be Allowed To Play Women’s Sports, Sports Fans Don’t Trust Referees And It’s A Growing Problem That Gambling Isn’t Helping, Angels Broadcasters Blast MLB After Retroactive Scoring Change Snaps Nolan Schanuel’s On-Base Streak, Zach Edey Has ‘Lost Out On A Lot Of Money’ Thanks To NIL Laws, and Britney Spears Would Make $100 Million A Year On OnlyFans, Expert Says
Power Line: Rampant Anti-Semitism, and the Democrats, The Coming Disinformation War, and Total Eclipse of the Sun
Shark Tank: Waltz Blasts Hur & Garland For Protecting Biden In Classified Documents Scandal
Shot In The Dark: It’s Been Way Too Long,  The Thing That Wouldn’t Die, Opportunity, and  “Feckless & Craven”
This Ain’t Hell: Sycophantic Media, Rich elites think that we have too much personal freedom, they also trust government, Donald Trump willing to be jailed vice complying with gag order, Ain’t buyin’ that evil oil, and Last Korean War MoH recipient dies
Transterrestrial Musings: Boeing, also, Drainpipe Drones
Victory Girls: The FBI And The Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Pro-Lifers, A Rising Star For New Jersey Senate In Christina Amira Khalil, and A Ceasefire Only Rewards Hamas For Their Murder And Mayhem
Volokh Conspiracy: Senator Blumenthal Suggests Justice Sotomayor Should Think About Retiring (Without Calling Upon Her to Do So)
Watts Up With That: The Age of Underpopulation is Here, UK Independent: ‘Climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers’, Islands That Climate Alarmists Said Would Soon “Disappear” Due to Rising Sea Found to Have Grown in Size, and U.S. Congress Tells International Energy Agency To Stop ‘Net Zero’ Cheerleading!
The Federalist: Judge Who Gagged Trump To Hide Rabid Pro-Democrat Bias Must Recuse Immediately, Joe Biden Is Now Chasing The ‘Death To America’ Voter, 30-Year Naval Academy Teacher Details Depth Of DEI Rot In America’s Military Institutions, Media Tacitly Admit Mail-In Balloting Is Not As Secure And Reliable As They Claim, Leftist Groups Cancel Cash-Prize GOTV Event After Wisconsin DA Warns Bribery Is Still Illegal, and Why Are Elected Republicans Helping Democrats Reward A Failed Education System?
Mark Steyn: Of Hoverers and Haters, Frenemy Mine – Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in Stage Door, The Whole Earth Is Our Hospital, Waterloo, and A Royal Republic?

 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Stellar Blade

Posted on | April 8, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Some years ago, there was a video game that had a really hot female protagonist shooting and slicing her way through a ton of enemies, and this pissed off the feminists and their soyboy orbiters because they couldn’t look as hot as Bayonetta on their best day. So they whined about this, and nobody cared outside the video gamepress, and Bayonetta went on to sell a buttload of copies. More recently, noted game designer and admirer of the female form Yoko Taro brought out Nier:Automata, which featured a lovely android shooting and slicing her way through a ton of enemies while looking hot. Again the feminists REEEEEd about 2B not looking like a potato, and again, nobody but the video game press cared. People bought a zillion copies, and Yoko Taro laughed all the way to the bank. Several times. The feminists grumbled that well, maybe Bayonetta and 2B weren’t so bad.

This month, Korean game company Shift UP announced that their new game Stellar Blade would be out soon for the PS5, and released a demo, which people really liked because it featured a really hot babe named Eve shooting and slicing her way through hordes of demonic enemies. Feminists screamed that Eve was obviously a product of horny boys who had never seen an actual woman, whereupon Shift Up released pics of Korean model Shin Jae Un, on whom Eve was based. For good measure, they released a pic of the chief artist for the game, who was none other than director Hyung-Tae Kim’s rather attractive wife. Preorders for the game are already through the roof. Thus, today’s cartoon, courtesy of CanadianAniGuy on Reddit.
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2B consoles Eve

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Great Replacement Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

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FMJRA 2.0: Adrift Somewhere In The Anacostia River

Posted on | April 7, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

What an awful week this was. The Reds took two out of three at RFK, and then we went to Fenway and lost two out of three to the Red Sox. Most of the games have been close, but a close loss is still a loss. While I’m not quite to the point where I’m ready to hand the team over to Robot Whitey Herzog and turn Ted loose to commune with the deer and fishes of Minnesota, I’m getting there. At least I got what I asked for last week – 2-4 is better than 1-5.
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Not a good thing.

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‘I Was Hearing the Voices Again’

Posted on | April 6, 2024 | No Comments

Notice anything about Calvin Haskins? Like the fact that he’s got an Egyptian ankh symbol tattooed in the middle of his forehead? Why would somebody do that? I could refer you to the title of a 1974 Richard Pryor album, or I could cite research that black people “are 2.4 times more likely [than white people] to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.” But it’s not necessary for me to offer evidence that Calvin Haskins is mentally disturbed — demented, deranged, daffy, wacky, bonkers, berserk, off his rocker, nutty as a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs — other than to mention that until recently, he was being treated at a state mental hospital in Buffalo, New York. Now, however, he’s being held without bond in the county jail:

Buffalo police said three staff members were taken from the Buffalo Psychiatric Center by ambulance after they were stabbed by a patient Wednesday morning.
The incident inside the Forest Avenue facility happened just after 9 a.m. The suspect in the matter, 34-year-old resident Calvin Haskins, has been taken into custody.
“Earlier today, three staff members were injured during an incident at the Strozzi Building of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center campus and we are actively assisting the Buffalo Police Department’s investigation into this matter,” a statement from New York State’s Office of Mental Health read. “The Office of Mental Health’s top priority is the safety of our staff and the individuals we serve, and our thoughts are with the employees who were injured and their families.”
In a conference Wednesday afternoon, Buffalo police said that the alleged attacker used a knife. The incident took place in an area of the complex that can be accessed without being screened for weapons.
The three victims, who were all taken to ECMC, were identified as a 45-year-old man, a 55-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman. A source at ECMC said that all three of the victims are in stable condition.
Haskins has been charged with three counts of assault and a single count of criminal possession of a weapon. He was arraigned on Wednesday afternoon.
Haskins has a history of stabbings. It was confirmed to News 4 on Wednesday that Haskins was charged in connection to a stabbing at the Fountain Plaza Train Station in downtown Buffalo in 2013, where he allegedly stabbed another man. He was charged with attempted murder.

So, a guy with “a history of stabbing” (and a tattoo in the middle of his forehead) was in the state mental hospital when he stabbed some more people. Let’s hear from the suspect’s mom:

The mother of the man accused of stabbing three staffers at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center on Wednesday says her son has suffered from mental illness for most of his life.
Sylvia Haskins said she visited her son, Calvin Haskins, on Thursday at the Erie County Holding Center, where he’s being held without bail after being charged with three counts of first-degree assault.
She told 7 News her son, who is 34, told her “he lost it” on Wednesday when he allegedly stabbed three people just after 9 a.m.
“He said ‘I was hearing the voices again. They wasn’t give me my medication and he said I just lost it’,” she said.
Now, she’s worried about his well-being at the holding center.
She says it’s well-documented that he is mentally ill and should be in the psychiatric ward at Erie County Medical Center. . . .
Sylvia Haskins said her son has been institutionalized since 2013 when he took an insanity plea in connection to an attempted murder charge for stabbing a man 17 times at a Metro Rail station.
She said her son was initially sent to a psychiatric hospital in Rochester and then later transferred to Buffalo Psychiatric Center at 400 Forest Avenue.
About two years ago, she said his condition had improved enough that he was allowed to come and go from the center while remaining a patient. . . .
She said she feels terrible for what happened to the staffers.
“My heart goes out to the three who he stabbed and their families and they are all in my prayers,” she said. “But at the end of the day, the system has failed the mentally ill.”

Let’s recount: Stabs a guy 17 times in 2013, but avoids prison for attempted murder by pleading insanity and ends up in a state mental hospital where, by 2022, “his condition had improved enough that he was allowed to come and go.” And then one day he shows up with a knife and stabs three more people, and his mother is “worried” that he’s in jail, because of his “well-documented” craziness which, she says, should instead qualify him for another trip to the psych ward. Because she’s an expert in such matters, see? And as an expert, she tells us “the system has failed” her son, because never mind whether she, herself, has failed as a mother, having raised a dangerous nutjob who keeps stabbing people.

Just as an aside: Like a lot of violent crazy people, Calvin Haskins says he was “hearing voices.” You see this all the time in news coverage about people getting murdered by a kook who was “hearing voices.” Why is it that the voices in these people’s heads never say things like, “Hey, man, you need to chill out, have a beer and watch a basketball game on TV”? Instead of offering helpful advice like that, the voices are always saying, “KILL! KILL! KILL!” But I digress . . .

Perhaps it is not necessary for me to point out that both Calvin Haskins and his mother are eligible to vote in New York, which may have something to do with how Joe Biden got 56% of the vote in Erie County. Speaking of disturbing thoughts, the fact that Sylvia Haskins is a mother means that, at some point, some guy had sex with her, and I’m sure that mental image will leave many readers permanently traumatized. But try not to let this irreparable trauma completely unravel your mind because, of course: Crazy People Are Dangerous 



 

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