The Other McCain reminds us of that. Thanksgiving in Georgia
It’s easier to complain about our misfortunes and disappointments — the Raiders beat the Cowboys and the Bills beat the Saints — than to be grateful that our lives are basically OK, in an age where it seems it’s becoming more difficult to be basically OK.
Go read the whole thing. It should make you feel a little better about life, even in the face of everything behind the #LetsGoBrandon phenomenon.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) held the opening ceremonies yesterday, and the first game is today.World Chess Championship 2021 starts in Dubai
The match for the world chess leadership is being held with the support of The International Chess Federation (FIDE) between the current world champion Magnus Carlsen and the winner of the Candidates Tournament in 2020/21 Ian Nepomniashchii.
Actually, I haven't checked, but given the location of Dubai, the first game is probably already over.
The prize fund of the championship is 2 million euros. According to the regulations, the participants will play a total of 14 games. The first game will be played today, on November 26th, and the final game on December 14th. If the score in the classics is equal, the final match will be held on December 15th in a tie-break.
Winner doesn't take all of €2 million, but winner does take most by a pretty significant margin. They also each got an upfront payment out of that fund to cover travel expenses for spending a month or so in Dubai.
As much as I enjoy chess, I can't watch the games live. They are streaming in several locations if you are interested. You can (usually) replay the games at Chess.com in less time than they take in real life, but I am not sure if you need a membership for that or not.
Magnus Carlsen has been world champion for 8 years. Ian Nepomniachtchi won the 2019 challengers tournament. (The World Champion match was delayed due to COVID from 2019.)
The Feral Irishman starts us off with My Oh My, How Things Have Changed, Remember This>?--UPDATED comparison from The VAERS site..
Maybe the FDA should take a look at their playbook from a handful of years ago.....
The Other McCain - David Brooks Fisking Day Returns?
Beans over at Chant du Départ - Auurrghgghhh!!!! Beans is dealing with extra stress. At least he has his sense of humor.
SiGraybeard - A Perfect Economic Storm
Have you ever heard the expression, “it takes a Ph.D. to be that stupid?” This is an example.
Battleswarm Blog - So Just Who Does GoFundMe Allow To Raise Bail? Seems like there may be some discrimination going on.
Daley Gator - NFL star JJ Watt to pay for funerals of Waukesha parade victims – New York Post
Woodsterman - A Tibetan Monk ~OR~ An Old Tibetan Monk Humor and wisdom in one.
Again from The Daley Gator - The Bleak Misery of a Leftist Thanksgiving – J.B. Shurk
Dr. Dan's Freedom Forum - Freedom is not a Government Program
Blazing Cat Fur - Darrell Brooks shared pro-Hitler memes, called for violence against white people
Adaptive Curmudgeon - There’s Something Happening Here, What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear Can you discern cultural patterns in the machinations of fast food franchises?
Splendid Isolation - Alternative Fuel Diesel-powered electric vehicles?
Daley Gator again - Mob Targets Bay Area Stores in Third Consecutive Day of Smash-and-Grab Looting – National Review
American Thinker - If the Vaccines Work, Why Aren't They Working?
Flopping Aces - The blood in Waukesha is on the hands of the media, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Gun Culture 2.0 - Kyle Rittenhouse is a Poster Child for Civilian Gun Training
Again from The Other McCain - Waukesha Massacre: Killer SUV Driver Is Rapper, Career Criminal Out on Bond
Again from Flopping Aces - The “selfless heroes” of Kenosha
The Post Millennial - Washington public schools lose over 55,000 students
Parents cited multiple factors including that schools did not offer in-person instruction during the Covid pandemic, lack of safety on campus, teaching practices and curriculum based in critical race theory and radical, hyper-sexualized curriculum.
HeyJackass! - Mostly Peaceful Weekend
Don Surber - The female Kyle Rittenhouse The other Kenosha, WI self-defense case.
And again from Don Surber - We broke woke
Amerika Furthest Right - Why Does the Left Hate Nature So Much?
Another day, and it seems that Leftists are getting caught setting forest fires.
War on Guns - We're the Only Ones Trigger-Happy Enough, Eh? Cops shoot gunsmith in his shop, apparently because there were guns. He was a gunsmith...
O.K. Corral - Another Beautiful Day In Philadelphia
A group of black girls decided to beat the living hell out of some Asian students while riding on the Broad Street subway line
Geller Report - Miss South Africa Stares Down Boycott The Jews Bullies The Miss Universe contest is being held in Israel this year.
I'm guessing that this is not a record they want to set. Murder of 18-year-old in Indy park puts the city on verge of tying the all-time homicide record
Police are still investigating exactly what led to the teenage victim being shot and killed in Gardner Park, but that death is the 244th homicide of the year.
That is just one shy of tying the all-time record set just last year.
Western civilization was nice while it lasted.
It certainly isn't fair to the victims. #52: Man who shot driver in South Loop on Saturday was AWOL from a pending felony case, prosecutors say - CWB Chicago
An eight-time convicted felon opened fire on a busy South Loop street corner Saturday evening, striking a man who was waiting for a traffic light to change near the Roosevelt CTA station, prosecutors said. The accused man, 36-year-old Christople Davis, was AWOL on a pending felony case at the time of the shooting.
Davis is the 52nd person accused of killing, trying to kill, or shooting someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony.
The powers that be, in what passes for Chicago's Criminal Justice System‡, still maintain that their lenient bail system does NOT contribute to crime by way of recidivism. That number (52) doesn't include the people where the charges were dropped, and they went back out to commit more crime. It doesn't include case where they didn't try to shoot or kill someone, but still committed a different crime.
‡ That list of people is headed by Crimesha, otherwise known as Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, and her band of non-prosecuting attorneys. There are a few judges on that list, and I'm sure I could see how Mayor Groot (Lori Lightfoot) and others contribute.
What is news that is not objective? CBS Whistleblower Reveals Local Stations Being Instructed to Not Be Objective by Diversity Officers
If you are not reporting the news objectively, then you are pushing some form of propaganda.
That the media wasn’t objective is something we already knew, but thanks to Project Veritas we now can see proof that objectivity is actually being pushed out by the companies who bring you the news.
A whistleblower named Brett Mauser came to Project Veritas from the CBS affiliate in San Antonio (KENS 5) and delivered shocking footage of training and instruction efforts from the station’s parent company Tegna, a company that owns CBS affiliates in San Antonio, Houston, and 62 other news stations across the country.
This is the Project Veritas video CBS Insider Brett Mauser EXPOSES Internal Training ‘Stop Thinking in Terms of Objective Journalism’
I hope everyone has a great day.
This is "Thanksgiving" by George Winston from the 1982 album December.
But then I thought it was. Bossier D.A.: Fatal convenience store shooting 'cut and dried' | News
The convenience store clerk who shot and killed a man during an armed robbery attempt just over a week ago in Bossier City had a right to do what he did, Bossier Parish District Attorney Schuyler Marvin said Monday.
And the wheels of justice are moving at warp speed in Bossier Parish, at least compared to the way some jurisdictions handle this kind of thing.
For more details on this incident, see my original post dealing with the shooting.
Self-defense is a human-right, and in Louisiana it seems to be your legal right as well.
Can a leopard change his spots? Woke Philadelphia DA finally gets tough: Says whoever killed pregnant woman will face TWO murder charges for killing her and her unborn baby as cops question a suspect
It is too little to late.
First the main detail of this case:
Jessica Covington, a 32-year-old pregnant Philadelphia woman, was shot dead on Saturday night as she was unloading gifts from her own baby shower.
Because of the public outcry the DA is suddenly interested in enforcing the law. Suddenly.
There have been 491 homicide victims in 2021 - a 14 per cent increase from last year's number of 436, and 283 in 2019.
Krasner boasts on his website that he has cut incarceration rates by 24,800 years, cut supervision by 102,400 years, never used the death penalty and helped exonerate 23 people.
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has said that Philadelphia’s criminal justice system has become a 'revolving door' for repeat gun offenders since Krasner was sworn into office in January 2018.
Because keeping violent criminals in jail is unfair, so he's been turning them loose. And low and behold they have a 14% increase in murders. Who could have foreseen that?
Actually, anyone with 2 brain-cells to run together would have predicted that outcome.
Hat tip to The Other McCain and Killadelphia Update.
Last year, the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia was worse than Chicago. It takes a lot of effort to be worse than Chicago, but Philadelphia — a/k/a “Killadelphia” — is up to the challenge, and is now on pace to break the city’s all-time annual murder total of 500, a record set in 1990 at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. Basically, you could put police crime-scene tape around the entire city; every sidewalk in Philadelphia is covered in chalk outlines of slain victims.
There is more info at both links. Click thru. In particular, The Other McCain has info on the nationwide crime wave that has been fostered by "progressive" reforms of the Criminal Justice System.
And then there is this, from Robert Stacy McCain:
Rhetoric that demonizes law-abiding gun owners is necessary to the Democratic Party agenda of absolving themselves and their constituents of responsibility. Nothing that goes wrong in Philadelphia — or Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, etc. — is the fault of the people directly involved, because those people vote Democrat. The voters who elect Democrats must be held blameless for their problems, and the blame must be transferred to scapegoats — which is why phrases like “white privilege” and “systemic racism” have entered the political lexicon.
Go on, read the whole thing
That is old school, but ultimately he got caught. Man killed his daughter's boyfriend for selling her into sex trafficking ring, police say.
His daughter's boyfriend sold her to a sex-trafficking ring. He went and rescued her - think Liam Neeson in Taken. Later, after she was safe, he found out where that boyfriend was going to be.
When the father learned that his daughter's boyfriend was going to be at a location in Airway Heights, Eisenman drove there and waited for the 19-year-old to arrive.
"During that encounter Eisenman abducted the victim, tying him up and placing him in the trunk of a vehicle. Eisenman subsequently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the head with a cinder block and then stabbed him repeatedly, causing his death," police said.
He left that car in the woods with the body in the trunk, but someone moved it into town, where the cops found it. The father was arrested.
The saying about vendetta: Dig 2 graves, one for your target and one for yourself. And while I do understand vendetta, I think that he could have, and should have, relied on the courts in this case.
This is the video from Donut Operator, who has a YouTube channel I quite like. Dad Smokes Daughter's BF Who Sold Her to Trafficking Ring. The ad lasts about a minute.
As Donut says, that isn't the first time something like that has happened. In 1984 Gary Plauché was charged with the vigilante killing of Jeff Doucet, a man who had abducted and abused his son. The killing - an execution really - was all caught on video. Plauché entered a plea of No Contest to manslaughter and was given a suspended sentence, community service, and probation. But that was a different time.
A comedy classic from In the MIDDLE of the RIGHT. Just ‘Cause it is Thanksgiving tomorrow
Click thru for a laugh
Pirate's Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
- neo-neocon has a post Rittenhouse roundup
- Powerline notes Get Woke Empty The Pews
Wombat-socho at The Other McCain - In The Mailbox: 11.22.21
Cafe Hayek: Why Can’t These Officious Scoundrels Simply Leave Us Alone? also, Phil Magness Responds To Nancy McLean
CDR Salamander: The Fat Leonard Podcast – On Midrats
Political Hat - News of the Week (November 21st, 2021)
Gun-Control Support Drops Amid Growing Crime and Firearm Purchases
A new survey by Gallup found that 52% of U.S. adults want stricter gun laws and 19% support a ban on handguns
EBL - Where is Peng Shuai? 🎾😬 🇨🇳
Instapundit: Lebron is a sad disgusting ChiCom whore and where is Peng Shuai?
Spectator: Sinister Proof of Life Video
Don Surber - Highlights of the News
ITEM 5: Sean Davis tweeted, "Twitter Suspended Me For Saying Kyle Rittenhouse Did Nothing Wrong—After His Acquittal."
Repeal Section 230, which shields the online oligarchs from accountability.
Battleswarm Blog - Pumping The Brakes On That “Natural Democratic Majority”
Maybe Texas Democrats shouldn’t make such a show of proclaiming how they’re the party that represents Hispanic citizens if they’re unwilling to run and elect any of them statewide.
A View from the Beach - Elections - Somethings Old, Somethings New
Ace is upset that "QAnon Shaman" Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Jail -- For... Trespassing
The stalwart Julie Kelly at Am Great, Select Committee Covering Up Police Brutality on January 6, and possibly cover up the death of Rosanne Boyland by beating.
Vlad Tepes - TWO kinds of naked protests in Spain and much more: Links 1, November 23, 2021
3. So, for the first time in a while, there are suddenly flu cases. I guess they have a lot of flu vaccines with too many expired date stamps on them.
...remember when Canada just arbitrarily extended the expiry date of the Covid vaxx?
Cafe Hayek - Some Non-Covid Links
Tim Worstall longs for the good ol’ days when Barack Obama lived in the White House.
Tyler Cowen correctly concludes that Milton Friedman’s legacy remains strong – as it should.
Gates of Vienna - News Feed 11/22/2021
“Poor White People”: Sick Leftist Suggests Waukesha Killer Acted in “Self-Defense”
A left-wing social justice activist responded to the horrific tragedy at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin by sardonically commenting “poor white people”
Wendy McElroy - News and commentary round up for Nov. 21
From Substack: Taibbi: The Rittenhouse Verdict Is Only Shocking If You Followed The Last Year Of Terrible Reporting. [Ed: by Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea.] From Reason: The ACLU Thinks Kyle Rittenhouse's Civil Liberties Got Too Much Protection.
Splendid Isolation - News Roundup
CNN Goes Full Racist: ‘Nothing More Frightening’ than Angry White Men
…just wait till they actually get to see some.
Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links
Climate Cult Says To Forget EVs, All Cars Must Go
It’s Ethnic Studies ‘Groundhog Day,’ This Time in Massachusetts
NIH Chief Wants Online ‘Misinformation’ Spreaders ‘Brought to Justice’
Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Onward Into Darkness
NIH Chief Goes to War Against the Freedom of Speech: PJM
We need to get real about Islamist terrorism: Spiked
Last Friday, my family’s address was posted on Twitter by three activists...: J.K. Rowling
Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 11/22/2021
Victims of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have questioned why other women who acted as ‘groomers and recruiters’ are not also on trial with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Fauci confides he wears mask only with people he doesn’t trust.
J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report - 11/23/21
"We are witnessing the consequences of race-baiting in politics and the media."
Racist Gang Attack on Philadelphia Train Targeting Asians Demonstrates Effect of Race Hustlers on the Minds of Black Youth
I leave you with Sunday Funnies, 11-21-21 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Sunday Memes .. from MaddMedic, and F*cking Mondays gifdump from Wirecutter.
If she is barred from using a firearm, what should she do? Two people shot by homeowner, police in Des Moines.
DMPD said that a woman reported that her residence was being robbed. On arrival, officers encountered an armed suspect. They opened fire and struck the suspect.
Officers then learned that a second suspect was shot while exchanging gunfire with the homeowner.
Both would-be bad guys were taken to a local hospital. The investigation is ongoing.
Self-defense is a human-right. Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0.
Or maybe not. Some Tesla owners unable to unlock cars due to server errors
Because nothing says First Class System Design like assuming everything will always work.
While some Tesla models can be unlocked using the phone over Bluetooth, via key card, or via key fobs, other models do not have the "Phone Key" feature and can only be opened via the app.
"Not for model s or x - they don’t have the phone key feature .. should have saved 60k and bought the model s," stated another owner on the Teslamotorsclub forum.
This is right up there with "You can't open the doors after a crash, without crawling into the back seat and looking for the manual override."
Freddie Mercury died on November 24th in 1991 at the age of 45. It was quite a loss for music. Imagine the music we missed out on over the past 30 years.
If anyone mentions him today, they will probably bring up "Bohemian Rhapsody." That is a wonderful song, but it will be done to death. I thought we could listen to another song, that also highlights his singing ability. Anyway, BR came from the 1975 album A Night at the Opera. About 1 year after that album came out, the follow-on album was released. Given what a monster A Night at the Opera was, you would expect Queen to try to match it.
This song is "You Take My Breath Away" by Queen from the 1976 album A Day at the Races. The version we have today is actually the 2014 remastered version.
If you love "Bohemian Rhapsody" you may want to check out a Rick Beato video. Episode 107 of What Makes This Song Great?
I suppose there is also a good chance that whoever doesn't mention "Bohemian Rhapsody" will bring up "We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions." I guess I think they will both be over done, as if those were the only 2 good songs by Queen.
Whenever I listen to Queen, I get bummed by the thought that Freddie Mercury died too soon. But that is true of so many artists, and not just Rock & Roll singers. Still, the music he did give us is amazing, and it is special sin to allow sorrow for the things you've lost to stop you from enjoying the things you have.
Lone Star Parson has 2 songs I didn't know by a band I didn't know. Hurry On Sundown
Click thru for "Hurry on Sundown" and "Motorway City" by Hawkwind. I'm not sure I like them, but I have only heard them once.
With the DAs that have been installed in the major cities, things aren't going to be getting better any time soon. Homicide Rates in 2020 Surged to a 24-Year High. It's Another Sign of a Failing Regime. | Mises Wire
In case you doubted that things were bad...
With full-year data for 2020 now available on the FBI’s Crime in the United States report, we can see that those predictions were right. According to the report, the homicide rate in the United States rose to 6.5 per 100,000 in 2020, which is the highest rate reported since 1997—a twenty-four-year high.
We can debate the issue of "Why," but it is clear that this is an historic increase in the murder rate.
There is significant disagreement over the measurement of homicide rates in the early twentieth century, and data is especially spotty before the FBI established the Uniform Crime Report system in 1930. There is much more consensus, however, that homicide rates were high by today’s standards during the early 1930s. These rates began to decline rapidly after 1934, and this began a long downward trend in homicide that lasted until the late 1950s. This trend bottomed out at 4 per 100,000 in 1957. By 1965, homicide rates had begun a rapid ascent, climbing from 4.6 per 100,000 in 1963 and peaking at 9.8 per 100,000 in 1980. Homicide rates remained at elevated levels throughout the 1980s, but went into steep decline after 1993, reaching 4.4 per 100,000—a fifty-one-year low—in 2014.
So of course, as we were experiencing a 50-year-low in homicides, it was time to abandon some of the policies, like Broken Windows, that drove those rates down. Because those policies were unfair. Who is all this crime unfair to? Who benefits?
On the other hand, the magnitude of 2020’s increase is sizable and alarming. Measured as a percentage increase, 2020’s increase is simply the largest ever recorded.
As I said, I expect things to get worse before they get better.
What's the opposite of Diversity? University. University fires administrator for discriminating against police chief who voted for Trump | The College Fix
It is amazing that she was fired. Maybe there is some home for The University of North Dakota.
She pretty much demanded to know who the head of Campus Security had voted for in 2016. He answered honestly and she was flabbergasted. How could anyone vote for Trump?
In July, Administrative Law Judge Hope Hogan ruled that [Vice President for Student Affairs & Diversity, Cara] Halgren had neither harassed [UND Police Chief Eric] Plummer nor created a “hostile environment,” but she had “discriminated” against him based on his political beliefs. Halgren appealed the ruling, and her appeal was dismissed.
Finally, in mid-September, Halgren was fired.
I think I would have lied, given the state of most university campuses, but then I would never work on a university campus in the 21st Century.
But the discrimination went on for a while of years, and administrators did nothing about it, because she was discriminating against the right viewpoint. Crimethink must be punished.
Plummer moved on to a post in Virginia, so I'm sure if this is a happy ending or not, at least it seems to have worked out.
But there are better choices. FOX 35 Exclusive: Interview with victim of alleged Zac Stacy attack
The Zac Stacy attack against Kristin Evans went viral, which means that the authorities can't ignore it. They usually ignore this kind of thing.
She told FOX 35 that she has filed reports against Stacy in the past. She said she felt she had to go public with this one so that her case wouldn’t get overlooked again.
"The state would’ve gotten to it whenever they got to it and maybe I wouldn’t sleep for a month or two or he could get away with a completely," said Evans.
Because why would they get involved in that kind of thing? Not a high priority, apparently.
The Other McCain gets the hat tip, with Violence Against Women Update.
Expect feminists to ignore this story, for some reason . . .
