Archive for 2021
April 22, 2021
REDNECK NATION: Dershowitz: Maxine Waters Used KKK Tactics to Intimidate Chauvin Jury.
Lawyer and liberal pundit Alan Dershowitz accused Rep. Maxine Waters of using KKK tactics to intimidate jurors in the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
“The Klan would march outside of courthouses and threaten all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person,” Dershowitz said in an interview on Newsmax.
Waters traveled to Minnesota and announced that if the jury didn’t reach the verdict she and the crowd of protesters wanted, they would get “more confrontational.”
“We’ve got to stay in the streets, and we’ve got to demand justice. I am hopeful that we will get a verdict that says, ‘guilty, guilty, guilty,’ and if we don’t, we cannot go away. We’ve got to get more confrontational,” she said.
Dershowitz believes that her comments should have resulted in a mistrial.
Or at the very least, grounds for appeal, as Judge Cahill noted: “I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Myanmar Protests Show an AR-15 Will Protect a Lot More Freedom than a Slingshot.
DON SURBER HAS HAD IT WITH GEORGE W. BUSH’S BULLSHIT:
For a dozen years, you eschewed the public eye, although you occasionally raised funds for the party and some of its candidates. You were the old soldier who faded away.
You remained silent as Obama pushed his inexplicably complicated and unnecessary Obamacare. Your silence on Benghazi was heard by some of us. We respected your right to just give up on politics and never speak again.
But now, after twice refusing to support President Donald John Trump, here you come to piss on his policies and his supporters.
I can understand your refusal to support the man who beat your brother Jeb! Blood is thicker than water. But that does not excuse you, because your silly silence emboldened Democrats. You should have taken the high road and accepted defeat. Instead, you sold President Trump out to build your esteem among those who called you Hitler as well.
Remember? . . . Mister Bush, once you were the leader of a great nation. Now you oppose everything we thought you stood for.
In retrospect, it seems that Bush didn’t mind the contempt with which lefties treated him, because he knew the contempt was really aimed at his voters, for whom he apparently had contempt too.
FLASHBACK: Happy Groundhog Day! “Happy Groundhog Day Earth Day everybody! You can see how it is possible to confuse the two, since Earth Day is the same every year—we’re doomed unless you hand over complete power to the government to manage people and resources.”
QED: On Earth Day 1970, CBS’s Walter Cronkite Panicked: ‘Act or Die!’
More Earth Day predictions from 1970 here.
BAD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHERE I LIVE, THE ALLERGY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Chronic sinusitis may affect brain health, study says.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: How Did CBS Celebrate “Earth Day?” Declaring Humans Aren’t Needed.
CBS News’ ratings have been declining for years; evidently the network has decided that they don’t need viewers at all. Curiously though, after declaring that humans are no longer needed, they’re unwilling to demonstrate their ultimate commitment to that notion.
STILL GOOD-LOOKING: 2021 Karma GS-6 Fixes the Fisker Karma.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Seven Causes You Won’t Hear Championed During the Oscars. “They’re inconvenient to the industry. Some reflect poorly on President Joe Biden. Others make Hollywood denizens look like hypocrites of the highest order. The causes reveal the ideological limitations of an industry that purports to be modern-day truth tellers but acts like a Democratic Super PAC.”
AYANNA PRESSLEY SILENCE ON HER OWN RENTAL PROPERTY TELLING:
The bill would also establish a relief fund for landlords who aren’t getting rental income. To be eligible for the fund landlords must agree to a five-year rent freeze and not bar tenants with criminal convictions.
What Pressley doesn’t mention in the lengthy press release is that she and her husband are landlords — or used to be.
They have two units on Blake Street where they live. They bought the condo for $615,000 two years ago, and rented out one of the units for $2,500 a month, according to the Washington Free Beacon. According to her financial disclosure form, she received $15,000 in rental income in 2019. As a member of the House, Pressley earns a healthy $174,000 a year.
It’s unclear whether Pressley is still renting out the unit and collected income during the pandemic because she won’t respond to questions.
The Herald has repeatedly tried to get a response from her spokesman but has been unsuccessful.
So it’s hard to tell whether Pressley is being hypocritical or just arrogant.
Embrace the healing power of “and.”
LET’S ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GO BACK TO CALLING IT “INDEPENDENCE DAY,” SHALL WE? Joe Biden Needs a Dose of Reality—No One Needs His Permission to Celebrate the 4th of July.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? The FDA is Considering a Cigarette Regulation that Could Have 2 Deadly Consequences. Mandating lower nicotine content in cigarettes would likely have unintended consequences that far outweigh any benefit—and could even prove lethal.
GOOD: Armed Civilian Saves Walmart Security Guard.
The civilian, who is licensed to carry a gun, was shopping at a Walmart in Beech Grove, Ind., when he noticed a scuffle between the guard and the suspect. The guard tried to apprehend the suspect for shoplifting but could not restrain him. The guard then called police to assist, but before they could arrive, the suspect drew a gun and pointed it at him.
That’s when the good Samaritan drew his own gun and fired three shots at the suspect, which caused him to turn away from the security guard and flee the area. The suspect didn’t get far: Another bystander tackled him as he tried to escape.
Well, with people wanting to defund the police, we’ll need more of this.
LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ Live Chat with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.
PUSH BACK HARDER: Colorado counties pushing back against Biden’s extreme plan to lock up 30% of U.S. land. “To conserve 30% of the land alone (not including the same amount of U.S. territorial waters) would require the rewilding of an area twice the size of Texas, according to proponents.”
“Rewilding” is the opposite of “civilizing,” and is pretty much the Left’s goal for everything.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Maxine Waters Used KKK Tactics to Intimidate Chauvin Jury.
GETTING WHAT THEY VOTED FOR, GOOD AND HARD: Hey ‘Evangelicals for Biden,’ check this out. “The Biden Admin just filed an appeal seeking to force religious doctors and hospitals to perform potentially harmful gender-transition procedures against their conscience and professional medical judgment.”