IF NOTHING ELSE, THIS TELLS YOU WHAT THE NYT THINKS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN WAUKESHA:
Archive for 2021
November 22, 2021
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Bill Maher Has Been Weirdly Making a Lot of Sense Lately. “Maher is describing something that we have discussed here before: Democratic elites in Washington seem to have never met any Democrats in flyover country. The disconnect has been there for a long time, but it’s been growing at a much quicker pace since Biden took office. There are times when it seems like they’ve split into two different parties.”
WHY THE RITTENHOUSE PROSECUTORS SHOULD FACE ETHICS CHARGES:
The only thing surprising about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict was how long it took the jury to reach it. As should be obvious to anyone who understands the law and had the merest familiarity with the facts of the case, Rittenhouse should never have been charged in the first place.
The American Bar Association establishes criminal justice standards for lawyers, among which are those pertaining to prosecutors. Standard 3-4.3(a) of the Prosecution Function reads as follows: “A prosecutor should seek or file criminal charges only if the prosecutor reasonably believes that the charges are supported by probable cause, that admissible evidence will be sufficient to support conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the decision to charge is in the interests of justice.”
Given this standard, and given the evidence they produced at trial, the Rittenhouse prosecutors either ignored the standard or proceeded to trial unfamiliar with the state of their evidence. In other words, they were either corrupt or incompetent, and a case can be made that they were both.
Indeed.
BE WORRIED, BE VERY WORRIED IF YOU WORK FOR CNN: Sounds like the new owner is in no mood for more of what has put CNN’s ratings in the toilet. “Actual journalists,” what a concept! Good for him and for free market competition.
I SUPPOSE THIS WAS INEVITABLE: Mad Studies fights ‘saneism’ on campus. “Colleges aren’t catering to crazy people, argues Aida Alanzi, a psychology and linguistics student at University of Toronto Mississauga. Or, at least, not enough.”
SALENA ZITO: Cambria County fights population loss in little, big ways.
Reggie Canal began the process of moving from New York City to this Cambria County city this past July. The Queens native is a financial adviser who has spent much of his life working in the five boroughs as well as various places abroad. He was lured here for a number of reasons, including quality of life, affordability and the ability to start his own business in the main business district of a city, without breaking the bank. . . .
“I have been to Taiwan, Hong Kong and France, and really none of them compares in terms of being a deeply connected community that is dedicated to making sure everyone is successful, not just the newcomers,” Mr. Canal said. “My friends ask me why I did it, then when they come visit, they get it.”
The “middle of somewhere,” as Salena calls it. Of course, blue state and city politicians help, by making their locales much worse places to live, work, and invest.
SPEAKING POWER TO TRUTH: Former NY Times Reporter Says Paper Held Damaging Kenosha Riots Article Until After 2020 Election. “Whatever the reason for holding the [Kenosha] piece, covering the suffering after the riots was not a priority. The reality that brought Kyle Rittenhouse into the streets was one we reporters were meant to ignore.”
GOOD LORD: Waukesha Authorities Say One in Custody After SUV Plows Into Holiday Parade.
Previously: SUV Drives Through Wisconsin Holiday Parade, Mass Casualties Reported.
More: Suspect in Waukesha ‘mass casualty incident’ identified as career criminal Darrell E. Brooks. “Brooks is a career criminal with multiple priors and was released from jail two days prior to the incident after posting a $1,000 bail for three misdemeanors and two felonies. He has a history of resisting arrest, obstruction, battery, statutory sexual seduction, strangulation and suffocation, property destruction, illegal firearm possession, bail jumping, domestic violence, drug related charges and is a registered sex offender.”
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INMATES IN CHARGE AT STATE: Nigeria, which is being torn apart by Islamic radicals who ruthlessly and brutally murder Christian pastors and congregants on a daily basis, is no longer on the State Department’s list of “Countries of Particular Concern,” reports Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADFI).
“Christians living in Nigeria face some of the worst acts of persecution. Millions of people have fled devastating violence and have become internally displaced. As a result of the violence, 13,000 churches have been closed or destroyed altogether,” according to ADFI.
“Many victims have been kidnapped, raped, forcibly converted or married, or sold into slavery. Reports show that at least 17 Christians were killed every day in the first half of 2021 alone.”
Among other things, removing Nigeria from that list cleared the way for Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to hand $2.1 billion in new aid to the Nigerian regime that allows, and in many respects, assists the insurgents in their bloody attacks. It’s not like Blinken doesn’t know these facts because he was told in a private meeting by a pastor, according to The Epoch Times.
EXPLAIN THIS: HillFaith has 10 embarrassing facts about Jesus that you probably don’t know. And since it’s Thanksgiving week, let’s all be thankful we can still read Instapundit without fear of official retribution.
LIVING HISTORY: A Guide To The Hanukkah Holiday For Gentiles And Secular Jews.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Andy Kessler: Politicians Have Earned Your Distrust.
Each day government bombards Americans with reasons not to trust it. It has been only 616 days since the Trump administration’s “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” From the Fauci dance—no mask, one mask, double masks—to the airport mess known as the Transportation Security Administration. If it’s OK for travelers under 12 and over 75 to keep their shoes on through airport security, then surely it’s OK for everyone. Americans aren’t stupid. Each time we’re spun or deceived or outright lied to, trust in government melts away.
Case in point: President Biden’s speech at the Port of Baltimore about the recently enacted bipartisan infrastructure plan, in which he said “this bill is going to reduce the cost of goods to consumers.” Spend more, prices go down? Not likely. A few breaths later: “I’m going to create good-paying union jobs—union . . . not $12 an hour, not $15 an hour—$45 an hour and up with good benefits.” And that will somehow reduce the cost of goods to consumers? C’mon, man. Is Sen. Joe Manchin the only one who understands the wage-price spiral? Inflation is “transitory,” we’re told. Uh-huh. Meanwhile, some Californians are pumping $5 gas.
Mr. Biden also claims the $1.75 trillion social-climate-porkfest reconciliation bill—really more than $4 trillion without accounting gimmicks—“costs zero dollars.” The administration must be using that new “equity” math I keep hearing about. A third-grader could see the deception. Any wonder why Mr. Biden has a 41% approval rating?
White House press secretary Jen Psaki declared the chaotic Afghan withdrawal the “largest airlift in U.S. history . . . so no, I would not say that is anything but a success.” That’s like saying the Titanic was a success as the largest lifeboat deployment in history. . . .
Others are more subtle. Did you ever wonder why former media darling and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent Covid patients back to nursing homes instead of to the Javits Center or the USNS Comfort hospital ship, which President Trump had sent? The Cuomo re-election campaign received more than $1 million from the Greater New York Hospital Association in 2018. Mr. Cuomo then increased Medicaid fees paid to nursing homes and hospitals. When the pandemic hit, the same hospital association requested that nursing homes be compelled to accept patients who had tested positive for Covid-19. Then, as deaths mounted, the Cuomo administration underreported the number.
Voting reform has caused needless boycotts, and Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred was booed in Atlanta during the World Series for moving the All-Star Game out of the city to protest Georgia’s voting reforms. Somehow Voter ID is bad, yet mail-in ballots are good for election integrity? That doesn’t even begin to make sense.
Nope.
KYLE RITTENHOUSE AND THE HYSTERIA OF THE ELITES: Under extraordinary pressure, the jurors showed us the quiet wisdom of the people.
FROM MARTIN SHOEMAKER: Service at 44K.
When two ice miners on Pluto try to repair a broken mining tractor, they find that it was sabotaged. Now they must understand the damage and the motivations of the saboteur in order to save the lives of their team.This eBook was written as part of The Instant Book Show at Fyrecon 5 in November 2021.
SO YOU’LL ASK: What does The Instant Book Show mean?
Well, Martin described it to me this way:
On Thursday, I dictated a story live from audience prompts.
On Friday, I showed the audience how to transcribe the audio and discussed dictation processes (based on my book with Kevin J. Anderson).
On Saturday morning, Mia edited (part of) the story live before the audience, and we worked together to understand the story we were telling.
On Saturday evening, Jane created this amazing cover in front of the audience, discussing options with me.
Saturday night I finished cleanup on the story. Sunday morning, Mia finished the editing.
Tonight, again in front of the audience, I uploaded to Kindle.
And now it’s published!
WHICH AMAZINGLY ARE EVERYWHERE: A meme sums up 90% of the left’s Kyle Rittenhouse lies.
THE FBI IS THE NEW PRAETORIAN GUARD, PROTECTING THE EMPEROR’S DIVINITY: FBI Raids Homes of GOP Election Official, Conservative Activists in Colorado.
Or perhaps I should call this Cry, the Beloved State.
These people’s crime? Doubting the integrity of the elections in 2020. You know, the ones the left wrote articles bragging of stealing? Oh, forgive me, “fortifying.” Because yeah, we don’t know what they meant.
If there indeed are still good agents and honest men in the FBI and if they’re reading this: Wake Up!
Take a look around; see what the agency has become. And remember what happened at Nuremberg. “I was following orders” is not a defense, as you enforce the fascistic idiocies of the left.
And by the way, in a nation that tolerated “fire can’t melt steel” and years of Russian conspiracy, I wonder why your Lord and Master, the Serene Zhoe Bai-Den, vice-roi of the Middle Kingdom’s Emperor Winnie Xi The Pooh is so threatened when anyone mentions the blatant and arrant fraud that gave him power in the 2020 election. So threatened that Americans must be searched, intimidated, arrested. Does he think this behavior will make us believe him and that he was legitimately elected? Do you think so? Are you actually that crazy and stupid? Do you think we are?
Look around you. Wake up. It’s later than you think. When the king comes home — and in America, We The People are the king — “I was following orders” is not a defense.
BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE: Misinformation Commission Only Concerned When False Info Hurts The Left.
I’VE BEEN WHERE HE IS: Not “Someday”, Today.
It’s terrifying. And I’ll guarantee he’ll pay a bigger price than he anticipates. We who stood up and said “this is my true opinion, this is who I am. I don’t agree with your lies and destruction of civilization” have paid a bigger price than we dreamed.
And yet, somehow, it’s been worth it. I won’t say I sleep better at night — who does these days? – but I can meet my own eyes in the mirror in the morning.
THE LEFT WOULD BAN AMERICANS FROM AMERICA IF THEY COULD: Eugene 4J School Board BLOCKED Parents from Public School Board Meeting. [Video]