I'm shocked that the woke actors didn't want to see the results of their woke policies. Los Angeles Hypocrites Remove Homeless Camp and Erect Fence to Protect the Stars at Oscars
The perimeter around Union Station is cordoned off by security fences and the entrances to the building are blocked to prevent the wrong element from gaining access.
The Mayor is not in control of Portland. He hasn't been for a while, actually. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler declares WAR on Antifa, tells public to dox people dressed in all black | The Post Millennial
(Ted Wheeler advocating for law and order is so ridiculous it made Data laugh.)
Antifa made the Portland Mayor flee his home and they sucker punched him in the face. But in response he did nothing.
Even in the final days of the Trump administration, Ted Wheeler was an indirect Antifa advocate. He was publicly offended at comparisons being drawn between the Far Left group and the January 6th Capitol Riots. Last year after the death of George Floyd, Antifa spent the summer sieging the Portland courthouse.
He thought he was "using" Antifa to make digs at Trump. He was mistaken. Now he is trying to reassert order. Good luck with that.
In the last week alone, Antifa burned an Apple Store to the ground.
Not Woke Apple! Say it ain't so. He would need to wage war to reassert order, and he is not really willing to reassert the rule of law.
Twitter, which is mostly on the Left these days, due to the purge of conservative voices, is losing its collective mind. "Ted Wheeler is a Fascist!" Which implies that they think the chaos is fine, and should continue. They probably also think it should spread to where you live.
It started when he "got drunk and punched his son." Alcohol can be hazardous to your health. Prosecutors call fatal New Albany shooting a case of self-defense; no charges to be filed
He also began arguing with the woman, whom WDRB is identifying only as Robertson's domestic partner.
When the argument moved outside the home, Lane said Robertson began biting the woman several times on the cheek.
Robertson was armed with a gun, according to Lane. He said the woman was able to get the gun and fired it four times. He was hit three times, according to prosecutors, and died from his injuries.
The prosecutor goes on to say that "this is the worst possible outcome." I beg to differ. The worst outcome would be if he shot and killed his son, and he shot and killed his "domestic partner," and then he was left to rot in prison for decades.
As it stands the bad-guy suffered the worst fate, and everyone else is on the mend.
Still, this incident happend on Sunday, April 18th (they do say April 19th in the caption to one photo, but I think that is when the photo was taken), and this determination was made on Friday April 23rd. Less that a week is moving at warp speed for the American Criminal Justice System.
My take on the situation is: Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0, and self-defense is a human-right.
High speed chases do not happen very often in Chicago. Good thing they weren't in Chicago. 4 men from Chicago lead Georgia deputies on high-speed chase
They were stopped in a parking lot. They decided that running was a good idea. Not too surprising because Chicago police have to get a supervisor's permision to start a vehicle chase. And so people flee, because they know it will take some time to get that permission. The result is that they just let the bad guys go. But in Forsyth County, Georgia, it is a different story.
They didn't want to get stopped because they had stuff that they weren't supposed to have. In particular felons in possesion of firearms.
A search of the car reveals two pistols, a high-capacity drum magazine, marijuana, and multiple ski masks.
Deputies said the driver, identified by police as Qushawn Hawkins, and one passenger have an extensive criminal record including multiple felony convictions for violent crimes in Illinois.
Four guys from Chicago wouldn't need ski masks in Georgia in January, and certainly not in April. Not to stay warm, anyway.
Three of the four were arrested. You can find the details at the article above. The fourth was let go.
This is the video of the pursuit: Police Chase Felons Up To No Good - Forsyth County Sheriff's Office GA April 12th 2021. It is relatively short for a police chase video, only about 6 minutes or so.
If one or more of these people had been shot by the police, while they were trying to get away, I suppose that would kick-off the next set of riots.
Who knew that this kind of thing fell under Postal Fraud? The Postal Service is running a running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts
Every part of the government will be pressed into controlling your every move.
“This seems a little bizarre,” agreed Rachel Levinson-Waldman, deputy director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s liberty and national security program. “Based on the very minimal information that’s available online, it appears that [iCOP] is meant to root out misuse of the postal system by online actors, which doesn’t seem to encompass what’s going on here. It’s not at all clear why their mandate would include monitoring of social media that’s unrelated to use of the postal system.”
The idea that there are any restrictions on government or .gov bureaucracies is such a 19th Century idea. (Hat tip to Don Surber.)
I will just point out one thing highlighted by Dachief. Between the time you can clearly see the gun in his hand, and he turns to face the cop, who shoots once , there are 838 milliseconds or 838/1000 seconds or 0.838 seconds. Not that this fact will impact anything.
The bodycam video does show Adam Toledo getting shot.
This video is "Chicago Police Body Cam Video Breakdown by Dachief".
Not that the French want to admit it. A New Report Puts France at the Center of the Rwanda Genocide | The National Interest
There is a peculiar tendency among many progressives and internationalists to blame the United States as responsible for human rights abuses globally. This trend is particularly acute among European intellectuals who criticize the United States for unilateralism, militarism, and disrespect for international institutions.
The irony, however, is they often bare more culpability than Washington.
There are a few examples of various European Counties and their support of dictators, before the article settles on France and Rwanda.
For a review, 1 million Tutsis were executed in the course of 100 days in 1994 by the Hutu government between April 7th and July 15th. Though certain sources will quote a much lower number.
A new report, published April 19th, shines a light on the role of the French in Rwanda.
That the French government continues to withhold key documents further suggests that the French presidency and the Quay d’Orsay remained engaged in a cover-up of the extent of the French role in the anti-Tutsi genocide. Such documents include the French role in establishing the television stations that incited genocide against the Tutsi, French training of the extremist Hutu militias that engaged in genocide against the Tutsis, and the French presence at checkpoints manned by groups implicated in genocide. [SNIP]
In addition, Muse funds that more than 100 Rwandans complicit in the anti-Tutsi genocide live openly in France, with French judges often considering testimony and evidence provided by their victims for more than 20 years.
The Muse report is 600 pages. I don't think I will try to wade through that anytime soon. But you can find more information at The National Interest article linked at the top.
But today is not that day. Geico data breach exposed customers' driver's license numbers
Driver's license numbers can be used in a lot of ways. In this case Geico thinks the bad guys will apply for unemployment benefits in the names of people who had their data stolen. That is something like 17 million people, or more. They insure 28 million vehicles.
So why do I say they were not taking security seriously?
Once they learned of the abuse, Geico says they secured the website and added additional safeguards to prevent further fraud or illegal activities.
Why were those "additional safeguards" not in place to begin with? Because you IT folks always want to spend money on something, and besides, what's the worst that could happen?
Because they screwed up in 2019, and they want you to just forget about it, and let them continue to sell your activity and interests to everyone.Facebook leaks strategy to numb reaction to data scraping incidents
Facebook’s long-term strategy is to desensitize users about leaked data dumps that were collected through scraping the public portion of the social network.
The plan was revealed after the company leaked to journalists internal communication intended for Facebook’s public relations staff in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
This data can be used in phishing attacks, SIM swapping, where the bad-guys steal your phone numebr away from you - getting access to a bunch of 2 factor authentication pathways - and more.
Shannon Morse has a video on the topic over at ThreatWire. The F*c*book issue is up first, followed by a similar problem at LinkedIn, and then problems in collaboration softare, Slack and DIscord.
At least for today, this is Peak Florida. Florida Man In Hospital Gown Jumps Fence At Airport
Florida man is a magnificent example of a wild animal that will never be tamed. Today’s example broke out the back window of an ambulance, climbed out and ran toward a fence that surrounds the Miami airport. After scaling the fence, the man ran across the tarmac, butt-flashing the crowd. He was soon apprehended by law enforcement and arrested.
The original story is from a few days back.
Must be something in the water.
When two cops have guns pointed at your head, and they are telling you to put your hands up, a reasonable person might comply, even if you think they are in the wrong.
This guy wasn't reasonable. Omaha police release videos from Kenneth Jones shooting.
The Omaha Police Department on Friday released the main portions of the two officer body camera videos and cruiser camera video from the Nov. 19 fatal shooting of Kenneth Jones.
Even in the face of all of the video, an "advocate" trying to have the video released, didn't think he should have been shot.
Let's review:
At what point do you think he should have been shot? After one of the officers was wounded?
Robert Stacy McCain - The Other McCain - also had a few thoughts on this incident. Video: A Death in Omaha
If cops were prohibited from using their guns, there would be no real law enforcement, and criminals would be able to perpetrate felonies with impunity.
This is the future anarchy toward which anti-cop rhetoric is leading us. America will become a society in which criminals have no fear of police, in which no one will be safe from violent predators.
This video is "Bodycam Footage of Kenneth Jones Shooting by Omaha Police in Nebraska"
Wombat-socho at The Other McCain - In The Mailbox: 04.22.21 (Afternoon Edition)
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, The Anti-Sat Missile The USSR Designed For The Salyut Station
Cafe Hayek: The Tyranny Of Tiny Risks
Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 4/23/2021
4/17 – Army’s New Solar Farm
Somebody did the math, and you can guess what it found
Daley Gator - Your CCW News Update For Thursday (04/22/21)
At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American virtual private networking devices to spy on the U.S. defense industry
The Right Way - Top of the News
The inevitable consequence of the Ivy Leagues’ racist admission standards - Bookworm Room
Border Patrol Intercepts Previously Deported Rapists, Gang Members Breaching US Border - 90 Miles From Tyranny
Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.22.21 (Evening Edition)
The Political Hat: Cannon Fodder For Social Justice
This Ain’t Hell: 82nd Airborne Soldier Dies In Training Accident, also, AF MGEN’s Sexual Assault Case Moving To Court-Martial
EBL - Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi
TOM: Nika Holbert, the ‘Drug War’ and the Importance of Penalizing Stupidity, There’s Always a Backstory: Why Was Ma’khia Bryant Living in a Foster Home?, In The Mailbox: 04.20.21
Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/22/2021
Black Lives Matter UK has warned that the Minneapolis Police Department “would not have survived” if former police officer Derek Chauvin had not been convicted for the murder of George Floyd in the United States.
A View from the Beach - Election 2020: The Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth!
Daniel Greenfield at Front Page, The D.C. BLM Insurrectionists Get a Pass "It’s okay to riot in D.C., and assault government buildings and police officers again." Da Caller, After Chauvin Verdict, Capitol Police Suddenly Reverse Plan To Fortify Capitol.
Vlad Tepes - Five more Covid related items. Bill Mahar is interesting: Links 2, April 22, 2021
2. Bill Mahar gets a lot right mixed in with his lots wrong. We can each decide for ourselves which is which. He did have the courage to point out that after Texas opened up, the case rate and hospitalizations went down. That’s why its being posted.
Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 04.23.21
The Geller Report: French Policewoman Stabbed To Death By Muslim Screaming “Allahu Akbar”, also, “Cancel Rent” Champion Ayanna Pressley Raked In Thousands As Landlord
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Profitable LARPing?
Don Surber - Highlights of the News
ITEM 1: Newt Gingrich said, "Republicans have to learn to win the argument about who's the real racist. The real racists are people like Biden and Harris."
Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Lunatic Democrats Invent the Nuclear Self-Decapitation Attack
Go Green, Go Nuclear: John Stossel
Sen. Manchin: Compare 667 coal plants being built around world to zero in U.S.: JTN
Oh yay! Get ready for your kindergartener to learn about the "Pyramid of Hate!": NTB
Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report - 4/22/21 [J.J. Sefton]
"Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) tried to accuse Republicans of only supporting the police when it is politically convenient."
Jim Jordan: Republicans Consistently Condemn Violence While Democrats Pay Bail for Rioters
Maggie's Farm - Thursday morning links
After the Floyd verdict: the US is not a racist dystopia. George Floyd’s killing united America in outrage. But some want to use it to keep us permanently divided.
Portland Rioters Smash Windows at Starbucks, Attack Police Officer
I leave you with Thursday gifdump Part I from Knuckledraggin My Life Away, Libturd Thursday in the Morning from Woodsterman, Thursday Memes … from Freedom Is Just Another Word… and Cartoon Round Up.... from Theo Spark.
Big tech, media and few others - it isn't clear - forced SCC off the web by threatening their annoymity. They were making the Democrats look bad. Well no, the Democrats were doing that on their own, but SCC was shining a light on it. Second City Cop Addresses Chicago | Chicago Contrarian
There are choices words for a number of the powerful in Chicago, but I will only hightlight the dig at Crimesha, that would be Illinois State's Attorney Kim Foxx, and her bumbling band of lawyers. (Don't call them prosecutors! They don't prosecute!)
Crimesha has relegated her entire office to being a criminal’s BFF. If you follow the CWB blog (still a daily read for us) a number of articles aren’t just about criminals out on “affordable bails” that are shooting and killing rivals along with a few innocent bystanders – it's about rapists who should be on electronic monitoring not even showing up to be lo-jacked, and then going out and raping again. Personally, there ought to be a bracelet of C-4 wrapped around their waist and detonated if they so much as approach a woman, but Crimesha seems happy to have them just out raping again.
There is more about that once-great-city, which is seeing a resurgance of crime not seen in years, mostly because of the policies of the Democrats in charge. (It has not quite been 100 years since there was a Republican mayor of Chicago. Not quite.)
Hat tip to HeyJackass!
I don't think they can. Emissions – the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading: Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome — more-realistic baselines make for better policy.
But climate science is more about scaring the public into handing over freedoms, than anything else.
The two scenarios are RCP2.6 and RCP8.5, the latter being the one that the media and The Left (but I repeat myself) have mostly fixated on.
Emission pathways to get to RCP8.5 generally require an unprecedented fivefold increase in coal use by the end of the century, an amount larger than some estimates of recoverable coal reserves6. It is thought that global coal use peaked in 2013, and although increases are still possible, many energy forecasts expect it to flatline over the next few decades7. Furthermore, the falling cost of clean energy sources is a trend that is unlikely to reverse, even in the absence of new climate policies
But "new climate policies" can curtail all kinds of freedom. Movement. What you eat. Where you live. Anything to avoid destruction. Hat tip to Watts Up With That?
I'm not sure why I have shifted gears to revisit some classic Progressive Rock. But that is the joy of having such varied musical tastes, and access to the music streaming services. So that is what we have today.
I always liked this song, though I don't remember when I first heard it. It didn't reach the Top 40, so I doubt I heard it on the radio, and it isn't the kind of music people around me were listening to in 1971. The first album that I know I heard by Jethro Tull was Warchild, from 1974, but then that album did spawn a Top 40 hit. It may not have been until college when I heard the album that spawned today's song.
This song is "Locomotive Breath" by Jethro Tull from the 1971 album Aqualung, though this is the 2001 remaster.
Are we supposed to believe that this outcome is better than what happened in Columbus? Friends, family gather to remember 13-year-old stabbed to death in Winton Hills. Nyaira Givens was her name.
Winton Hills is a neighborhood in Cincinnati.
Police believe a 13-year-old girl, whom Nyaira knew, stabbed her. She died in Jackson's arms as the family waited for help to arrive. During the vigil, Jackson held a picture of Nyaira in his arms.
In the insane moment of the day, Bree Newsome, prominent BLM activist, said that cops should just let the knife fights play out. She said that on Twitter and when the blow-back got intense she made her account private (or protected in Twtter-speak). BLM activist says police shouldn't use a weapon to stop someone from getting stabbed
Bree Newsome said that "Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations."
I wonder if Ms. Newsome would like to talk to the parents of the 13-year-old who was stabbed to death. I'm sure she can convince them it is for the best.
Her take was that anyone who calls police to the scene of a knife fight is the one that needs help, and she means that "sincerely." For Newsome, police being called to a knife fight is nothing but white supremacy.
Thank the gods there was none of that in Cincinnati. Or something.
It is at times like these that I am reminded of William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" and the phrase...
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The full text will be in the comments.
At least no one died, which has happened at these stupid events. 80 pounds of explosives used in gender reveal, police say
“I’m not upset because I have chalk or confetti blowing my way,” Taglieri said. “I mean, it was an explosion that rocked my house, my neighbor’s, my community and town - just absolutely over the top, ridiculous.”
People are claiming cracks have formed in their home's foundations, but I can't find anything definitive on that.
Still, this gender-reveal insanity has to stop. People have been killed by pyrotechnics at these things. At least one California forest fire was started by pink or blue fireworks. Stop being idiots.
Investigators say no one was driving. Elon Musk claims autopilot was not used in fiery Tesla crash that killed 2 people in The Woodlands - ABC13 Houston
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday it has sent a Special Crash Investigation team to The Woodlands to look into the Saturday night crash of the electric car.
Investigators are "100% sure" that no one was driving the 2019 Tesla Model S that ran off a suburban parkway, hit a tree and burst into flames, killing two men inside, Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman said.
But they're still trying to determine whether the electric car was operating on Tesla's Autopilot driver-assist system, or if the company's "Full Self-Driving Capability" system was in use.
It took 30,000 gallons of water to extinguish the fire.
Hat tip to Watts Up With That? In which it is noted...
The lithium in Tesla batteries creates a fire which is far more dangerous than a gasoline fire, and almost impossible to extinguish. Think twice before you park a Tesla in your home garage – if the battery ignites, and firefighters cannot extinguish the blaze, you could lose the house.
Even if your house structure survives the fire, acute exposure to the smoke and lithium contamination of the house and surrounds could be an issue – lithium poisoning can cause long term dementia like neurological problems (pyramidal cell dysfunction), along with problems with speech and muscle weakness.
Lets just say if I see a big Lithium fire, I’m not planning to hang around and breath in the smoke.