Monthly Archives: April 2015

Starting off with a few positive notes before descending into despair…

Hero of the Week: Mom finds son rioting, slaps the shit out of him. Nice to see some good parenting. Watch the videos in both of the links. ‎Toya Graham 2016‬: Because America could use some tough love.

Hero of the Week II: I heart Robert Valentine. Must watch video at the link.

I like this guy. Not throwing anything at the cops, just dancing in spectacular fashion.

As I’ve noted before, the Baltimore PD is terrible and needs to be completely scrapped and started over. However, that doesn’t justify Monday night.

See, we do actually have a policing problem in this country that needs to be addressed. But that point gets lost when you start rioting and destroying shit.

What I don’t get about the riot apologists – and there are plenty of them on the Left (I’m looking at you Ta-Nehisi Coates and Marc Lamont Hill) – is their apparent failure to understand that the people most hurt by the rioting/looting/burning of these communities are the poor minorities who live there. <—Example A, Example B –> “Do you know how long I’m gonna have to walk now to get some milk?” Jonathan Capehart gets it.

These idiot thugs burned down a church’s Senior Center, for Christ’s sake. Good job, kids! Those old people really had it coming! This African-American mother of three working at a shoe store to feed her kids (video at link is same as below) had been oppressing blacks for far too long. She finally got what was coming to her, amirite? You fucking assholes. Nothing justifies destroying innocent people’s property like this. NOTHING.

The media is having trouble with the narrative on this one because Baltimore is a majority black city run by black progressives. And – like most of our disastrous big cities – it’s been run by Democrats for decades. As Kevin Williamson writes, Baltimore is the Left fighting the Left over the failed policies of the Left. Here’s an excerpt, but go read the whole thing:

American cities are by and large Democratic-party monopolies, monopolies generally dominated by the so-called progressive wing of the party. The results have been catastrophic…There is someone to blame for what’s wrong in Baltimore. Would any sentient adult American be shocked to learn that Baltimore has a corrupt and feckless police department enabled by a corrupt and feckless city government? I myself would not, and the local authorities’ dishonesty and stonewalling in the death of Freddie Gray is reminiscent of what we have seen in other cities. There’s a heap of evidence that the Baltimore police department is pretty bad. This did not come out of nowhere. While the progressives have been running the show in Baltimore, police commissioner Ed Norris was sent to prison on corruption charges (2004), two detectives were sentenced to 454 years in prison for dealing drugs (2005), an officer was dismissed after being videotaped verbally abusing a 14-year-old and then failing to file a report on his use of force against the same teenager (2011), an officer was been fired for sexually abusing a minor (2014), and the city paid a quarter-million-dollar settlement to a man police illegally arrested for the non-crime of recording them at work with his mobile phone. There’s a good deal more. Does that sound like a disciplined police organization to you?

Yes, Baltimore seems to have some police problems. But let us be clear about whose fecklessness and dishonesty we are talking about here: No Republican, and certainly no conservative, has left so much as a thumbprint on the public institutions of Baltimore in a generation. Baltimore’s police department is, like Detroit’s economy and Atlanta’s schools, the product of the progressive wing of the Democratic party enabled in no small part by black identity politics. This is entirely a left-wing project, and a Democratic-party project.

The other Democratic monopolies aren’t looking too hot, either. We’re sending Atlanta educators to prison for running a criminal conspiracy to hide the fact that they failed, and failed woefully, to educate the children of that city. Isolated incident? Nope: Atlanta has another cheating scandal across town at the police academy. Who is being poorly served by the fact that Atlanta’s school system has been converted into crime syndicate? Mostly poor, mostly black families. Who is likely to suffer from any incompetents advanced through the Atlanta police department by its corrupt academy? Mostly poor, mostly black people. Who suffers most from the incompetence of Baltimore’s Democratic mayor? Mostly poor, mostly black families — should they feel better that she’s black? Who suffers most from the incompetence and corruption of Baltimore’s police department? Mostly poor, mostly black families. And it’s the same people who will suffer the most from the vandalism and pillaging going on in Baltimore, too.

The evidence suggests very strongly that the left-wing, Democratic claques that run a great many American cities — particularly the poor and black cities — are not capable of running a school system or a police department. They are incompetent, they are corrupt, and they are breathtakingly arrogant. Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore — this is what Democrats do…Keep voting for the same thing, keep getting the same thing.

Jason Riley has a good piece on this as well.

The Left wants a completely secular society where the state fills in the gaps, where there is no civil society, where the institutions (fathers, schools, churches, marriage) that have traditionally civilized young men are nullified/removed/under attack. You are looking at the end result of that in Baltimore this week. High unemployment, failing schools, chronic poverty, the destruction of the family…same story in every major Democrat-run city. YOU BUILT THAT, Dems. And don’t expect it to change anytime soon. The Left needs a permanent restless underclass in order to stay in power. The angry, violent mob is the pulsing heart of Leftism. It’s been that way since 1798. It’s extraordinarily sad to see, because it doesn’t have to be this way.

“Megumi Igarashi was arrested after building a kayak with a top shaped like her vagina and sending 3D printer data of her scanned genitalia, the digital basis for the boat”

Dear lord, the Left is terrifying and awful. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, this should deeply trouble you. Your must read for the week. Here’s the gist of it:

For dozens of conservatives, the years since Scott Walker’s first election as governor of Wisconsin transformed the state — known for pro-football championships, good cheese, and a population with a reputation for being unfailingly polite — into a place where conservatives have faced early-morning raids, multi-year secretive criminal investigations, slanderous and selective leaks to sympathetic media, and intrusive electronic snooping. Yes, Wisconsin, the cradle of the progressive movement and home of the “Wisconsin idea” — the marriage of state governments and state universities to govern through technocratic reform — was giving birth to a new progressive idea, the use of law enforcement as a political instrument, as a weapon to attempt to undo election results, shame opponents, and ruin lives.

Most Americans have never heard of these raids, or of the lengthy criminal investigations of Wisconsin conservatives. For good reason. Bound by comprehensive secrecy orders, conservatives were left to suffer in silence as leaks ruined their reputations, as neighbors, looking through windows and dismayed at the massive police presence, the lights shining down on targets’ homes, wondered, no doubt, What on earth did that family do? This was the on-the-ground reality of the so-called John Doe investigations, expansive and secret criminal proceedings that directly targeted Wisconsin residents because of their relationship to Scott Walker, their support for Act 10, and their advocacy of conservative reform.

Go read the whole thing. The details are chilling.

The FDA is insane. Our government is insane.

This is good, minus the stupidity of lumping Poland in with Hungary and Germany, which seems to be a pattern in this administration.

Like most government agencies, this one needs to die a fiery death, but it never will.

All people should be free to arrange for the disposition of their property/wealth (which was already taxed multiple times when the person was alive) as they see fit, without being taxed for dying. The “estate” tax is, in essence, the government pawing at the corpses of our mothers and fathers for loose change. I’m glad to see a majority of the American people are still against it. It’s disgusting.

California created their water crisis themselves and I don’t feel bad for them. Maybe the dummies will learn a valuable lesson.

Hey “journalists,” one of you ask Hillary: should it be a crime to attack a woman, cut her baby out of her womb, and kill the baby?

Thanks for serving our country. The police will now take your $60,000 savings, and keep it for themselves.

Not surprising at all and why the Left almost always misunderstands/misrepresents conservatives’/libertarians’ positions.

OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE PEOPLE

Stevenson College, part of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is apologizing to its students for serving Mexican food during “Intergalactic” night. In a letter sent out to students, the college apologized for having “a Mexican food buffet,” while also featuring spaceships and aliens. The college received complaints saying the combination was racist because of the association between Mexicans and illegal immigrants.

Don’t be mad at Rauner, be mad at the Democrats who created this disaster that must be cleaned up.

Sanity prevails at Johns Hopkins

No one cares about your feelings. Grow the hell up.

Oh what a shock, Obama is going to cave to Iran again.

Jesus Christ

The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence. The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions.

Will there be a “national conversation” about this environmentalist shooting this energy worker?

Lol. This is great.

These busybody assholes who call cops on parents who leave their kids alone for 5 minutes need to be pushed from a helicopter.

This won’t matter, either. None of it will matter.

This is awesome. Your feel good story of the day.