On September 17, 2020,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Wednesday, September 16th, 2020…but before we begin, writing at Townhall.com, Julio Rosas relays the latest example of Black Lies Matter rioting in support of the lowest of life forms, as, in an incident which must have professional athletes and sports commentators across the nation brimming with tears…
“The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office released the body camera footage that showed the police-involved shooting of an armed suspect. The incident was quickly seized on by Black Lives Matter activists and the protests in the city quickly turned into a riot.
The demonstrations were started before the footage was released, but even after it showed the suspect, Ricardo Munoz, charging at the Lancaster officer with a knife, prompting the officer to shoot as he ran away, the riots continued.
Munoz had a criminal history of stabbing people. In 2019, he was arrestedafter stabbing four people multiple times, including a 16-year-old boy…”
No word yet on when Biden and Harris will pay their respects to the grieving family. Oh, that’s right: his mother was the one Munoz was threatening!!!
Now, a little perspective…some food for thought as it were: First, back in the day, before being granted clearance to fire on a bogey or bandit, the Navy’s ROE required (and yes, this was one of the very few aspects of the business Top Gun got right!) the engaged aircraft must first be firedupon. However, there was no requirement, prior to returning fire, the weapon employed by the enemy constituted a threat greater than what was available to the Navy aircrew.
Hence, on August 19, 1981, when two Libyan Su-22s fired rear-quarter ATOLL missiles at two F-14As head-on prior to the merge over the Gulf of Sidra, the Tomcat pilots could assume their intentions were hostile, their actual thoughts or threat level notwithstanding. Needless to say, it did not end well for the Libyans.
Consider now the striking similarities between the Gulf of Sidra incident and what went down in Lancaster and Kenosha. Mr. Munoz, a career criminal, after his threats against his mother prompted his sister to call 911, attacked the responding officer with a knife. Jacob Blake, another career criminal, after threatening the mother of his four children in violation of a restraining order, physically assaulted the officers responding to a 911 call from said mother, then attempted to gain possession of a knife he’d already admitted was in his possession. Needless to say it did not end well for either Mr. Blake or Mr. Munoz.
So, you tell us: should the F-14A aircrews in the Gulf of Sidra allowed the Su-22s to maneuver to their six before splashing them? Likewise, should the law enforcement professionals in Lancaster and Kenosha allowed Ricardo Munoz and Jacob Blake to stab them, perhaps fatally, prior to shooting them, the unquestioned superiority of their sidearms notwithstanding?
Here’s the juice: Jacob Blake should consider himself lucky he’s still above ground and breathing.
Oh,…and…
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the mid-week edition with a forward from Balls Cotton, as, writing at the WaPo, AEI‘s Danielle Pletka confesses, though…
“In 2016, I never considered voting for Donald Trump. The Johnny-come-lately Republican and his nasty schoolyard jibes seemed to me the worst degradation of American politics. But in 2020, I may be forced to vote for the man.
Hear me out.
I don’t need a bumper sticker or a lawn sign to convey my distaste for Trump — his odious tweets, his chronic mendacity and general crudeness. Over the past four years, like an oil slick that besmirches all it touches, Trump himself has managed to obscure his administration’s more-substantive accomplishments, such as focusing the world’s attention on China’s threat to global security and brokering a new era of Middle East peace. (Though peace in the Middle East requires more than signatures affixed to pieces of paper…and the MSM hasn’t exactly been “trump”-eting his accomplishments!)
I fear Trump’s erratic, personality-driven decision-making. His contempt forNATOis alarming, as is his delusion that he can manage rogue leaders. I don’t doubt that his eagerness to withdraw U.S. troops from their stability missions in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq will encourage conflict and terrorism. And I fret that his bizarrely isolationist attitude toward international trade will hurt the U.S. economy and splinter the global trading juggernaut that over the past half-century has brought the world amazing prosperity, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty.
But I fear the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party even more.
…With Donald Trump, I know what I am getting. He wears his sins on the outside. For good and ill, he runs his administration. I worry more about his incompetence and vacillation than I do about any dictatorial tendencies. On the other side, however, I am increasingly persuaded that what I see in Joe Biden — whom I first met in 1992, and whom I believe to be a decent person — would merely be the facade for an administration, fully backed by both houses of Congress, with an agenda that would seriously damage the nation. The corrosive left-wing extremism of 2020 would be ascendant, while a smiling President Biden assures the country that everything is fine. Trump, for all his flaws, could be all that stands between our imperfect democracy and the tyranny of the woke left…”
Two thoughts come immediately to mind: First, as when Cal Thomas sang the praises of Teddy Kennedy at his passing, we’d suggest Danielle Pletka either widen her circle of friends, or reconsider describing a serial liar, plagiarizer, character assassin and kleptocrat as a “decent person”.
Second, as Kamala Harris…she of the manifestly Marxist manifesto and utterly idiotic giggle…
“…This unique feature of systemic-racism theory is indicated by its very name. As Bryan Garner observes in Garner’s Modern English Usage, there is a substantial difference between the words “systematic” and “systemic.” Something systematichas been “carried out according to an organized plan,” or represents a “habitual, deliberate” pattern of behavior. American chattel slavery was systematic racism.So was Jim Crow. So, in a softer and less obvious way, say its critics, is affirmative action.
But a thing is systemic if it affects or is a feature (Garner again) “of an entire system; systemwide.” Notice that no personal agency is required, or indeed is any part, of a systemic phenomenon.And there’s the beauty of systemic-racism theory: “who’s to blame” is never answered with any particularity that will fix responsibility on known persons, for the answer is “why, everyone!” What could be more impervious to contrary evidence than a wholly impersonal conspiracy theory about human behavior?…”
And what could be more impervious to existing evidence than the fact Dimocrats were almost exclusively responsible for not onlyAmerican chattel slavery, but Jim Crow…not to mention Affirmative Action, and all its accompanying evils.
Since we’re on the subject of Progressive-created evils, we offer three commentaries on the West Coast wildfires.
First, courtesy of a man in the midst of the maelstrom, Bill Meisen forwarded The Daily Caller‘s prediction the…
Lastly, writing at Best of the Web, all the anthropogenic global warming mumbo-jumbo and false Gaia worship practiced by Progressives aside, Jim Geraghty reveals another significant reason…
Oh, and as Andy Ngo observed, there’s one other factor in some of the smaller fires we’ve seen:
A suspect arrested last evening for starting a brush fire was arrested again after he started 6 more small fires.
On Monday, September 14, 2020 at 3:37a.m., East Precinct officers were dispatched with Portland Fire and Rescue to a report of multiple fires burning along the west side of the I-205 freeway. Portland Fire and Rescue extinguished three of them while passing community members put out the other three. All were caught early. No one was injured and no structures were burnt. Officers located Domingo Lopez, Junior walking along the shoulder and arrested him. They seized a lighter as evidence.
Lopez was transported to a hospital on a Police Officer Hold for a mental health evaluation. He was issued citations for 6 additional counts of Reckless Burning.
How had this gentleman spent his Sunday?
On Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 4:35p.m., East Precinct officers were dispatched to assist Portland Fire and Rescue with a brush fire in the 9600 block of East Burnside Street. Officers saw that a section of grass along the I-205 freeway was burning. Firefighters extinguished the fire. No one was injured and no structures were damaged.
About an hour later, East officers were flagged down by a witness who pointed out the suspect in a nearby tent. Officers arrested the suspect, who confirmed he lit the fire with the device.
Officers seized a plastic bottle with a wick as evidence.
Officers booked Domingo Lopez Jr., 45, into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of Reckless Burning and Disorderly Conduct in the Second Degree. Arson investigators are also doing follow-up to see if other charges are warranted.
How many times do you have to set a fire before they don’t just release you to walk the streets until your court date?
Whoa!!!
Which brings us, if you’ll pardon the pun, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this billboard outside the Austin city limits…
…along with these from Brendan Clark…
…Speed Mach…
…and Brenda Barry:
Finally, we’ll it a day with the Entertainment Section, as FOX News reports this rather curious claim:
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