It’s Friday, September 4th, 2020…but before we begin, for those who don’t avail themselves of our regularly featured videos accessible through links #2, #3 and #4 immediately above, our latest Video of the Day deserves top billing, conveying as it does…

It bears repeating Joe “Hiden” Biden spent much of yesterday commiserating with one Jacob Blake…the same Jacob Blake who was the subject of a 911 call after showing up at his girlfriend’s home in violation of a restraining order and taking and refusing to return her car keys…the same Jacob Blake with an outstanding arrest warrant from July on charges of third-degree sexual assault, trespassing, and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse (against said girlfriend)…the same Jacob Blake who, when police tried to arrest him, physically resisted, said he had a knife and then, after being twice tased and repeatedly refusing to comply with calls from officers to “drop the knife” and halt, opened the driver’s door to a vehicle…in the back seat of which were three of his children…and reached for something out of the officers’ view.

Shockingly, Blake was shot, primarily because the officer involved wanted to go home that night in a conveyance other than a box.

A knife was later found on the floor mat beneath the steering wheel.

Meanwhile, all the Dimocratic ticket…

…could muster were, as this forward from James Nichols details, fanciful fables unsupported by any facts:

Here’s the juice, Joe:

In a related item, the WSJ is reporting…

Seven Officers Involved in Daniel Prude Death Have Been Suspended

Black man in Rochester, N.Y., died after police restrained him and placed a hood over his head

 

“Seven police officers involved in the asphyxiation death of Daniel Prude last spring have been suspended, the mayor of Rochester, N.Y, said Thursday, as Black Lives Matter protesters held demonstrations in the city’s streets for a second straight day.

Mr. Prude, a Black man, died in a hospital seven days after a March 23 incident, in which Rochester Police Department officers took him into custody after responding to reports of a person acting erratically, officials and his family said. Mr. Prude had a history of mental illness.

The circumstances surrounding his death only became public after his family held a news conference Wednesday and released officers’ body-camera footage showing them restraining him as they took him into custody.

The Monroe County Office of the Medical Examiner has ruled Mr. Prude’s death a homicide and said in an autopsy report that he died of asphyxiation “in the setting of physical restraint” and acute PCP intoxication. A police report said that “officers applied a spit sock” to Mr. Prude; he later vomited and became unresponsive.

A spit sock, also called a spit hood, is a restraint device sometimes used by police to prevent someone from biting or spitting. It is commonly made of mesh and is meant to prevent the spread of disease.

At a news conference Thursday, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said she was initially told by Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary that Mr. Prude died of a drug overdose in police custody. Ms. Warren said she came to a different conclusion about the manner of Mr. Prude’s death when she later viewed video of the incident taken by police. “What I saw in that video was a man who needed help,” Ms. Warren said…“

And though, as always, we report and let you decide…

…in this case, we’re solidly with the Amity Islanders, ’cause…

And while the names…and races…of the seven suspended officers have yet to be released, what we do know is:

(1). Lovely Warren, her post-event medical assessment of Mr. Prude’s condition notwithstanding, has no recorded training or expertise whatsoever in the Hippocratic Arts.

(2). Like the helpful homeboy in Vacation, it could be said of Mr. Prude…

…thus there was no way the Rochester police officers responding to the 911 call from Prude’s own brother could know he had mental issues.  IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, IF the POLICE TRULY POSE SUCH A THREAT TO BLACKS, it sorta begs the question why Prude’s own family didn’t deal with the situation instead of calling in what, if their own narrative is to be believed, constituted his death sentence?!?

(3). Like Georg Floyd’s lethal level of fentanyl and methamphetamine, we’ve got to conclude Mr. Prude’s “acute PCP intoxication” played a significant role in his otherwise premature passing.

(4). How does the application of a wire mesh hood result in asphyxiation seven days after the event, when the rest of us have been running around with cloth masks over our noses and mouths for months…okay…

…most of us! (More on this to follow.)

(5). Lovely Warren’s been mayor of Rochester since January 1, 2014.  So if…and WE IN NO WAY SUGGEST THIS IS THE TRUTH…the city’s police department is racist, whose fault is that?!?

Honoring a polar opposite response to Lovely Warren’s, Jim Freeman says…

Here’s to the mayors who aren’t confused.

 

“…Kenosha was back in the news on Thursday. But a visit from a high-profile politician may not have advanced the cause of plain English or done much to clarify the issues related to recent violence. Caitlin Oprysko reports for Politico:

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to joke on Thursday that if he spoke any longer about his plan to increase taxes on the wealthy “he’ll shoot me,” as he addressed a group of Kenosha, Wis., residents after the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

While explaining to locals in attendance at Grace Lutheran Church how he planned to pay for several of the initiatives aimed at combating racial inequality that he’d outlined moments earlier, Biden alluded to several people in the audience who appeared to stand up during his remarks or otherwise seemed antsy for the Democratic nominee to wrap up.

Fortunately there are some politicians who have been speaking with clarity. Noah Rothman writes in Commentary about the unsung work of mayors across the country this summer who decided not to excuse violent lawlessness. Among the examples noted by Mr. Rothman:

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock defined in clear terms the distinction between peaceful, productive protest and intolerable violence amid the very first signs of impending civil disorder. Those terms were repeatedly violated, and clashes between rioters and law enforcement in this notoriously progressive city have become a common occurrence. The local press has focused primarily on the police use of tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse violent crowds, citing activists who accused law enforcement of deploying non-lethal ordnance indiscreetly. But the city was and continues to be threatened by an organized menace.

“They had guns,” said Denver’s Public Safety Director Murphy Robinson following one late August spasm of violence. “They brought explosives, axes, machetes, and had one intent purpose, and that was to harm our officers.” Mayor Hancock has been similarly unequivocal. “We will not be using the words protest or march,” he averred. “This was a riot.” To this threat, the city responded by repealing COVID-related intake caps for local prisons, deploying hundreds of police, and dispersing potentially violent demonstrations. Police were assaulted and injured. Businesses were looted and vandalized. Residents were terrorized. But at no point did the city’s elected officials project anything other than intolerance for violence…”

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, since opposites attract, Townhall.com‘s Matt Vespa offers further proof, as if any were needed, capitulating to The Mob buys you nothing, as Ted Wheeler’s just beginning to grasp, since…

After the Leftist Mob Found Out Where He Lived, Portland’s Mayor Is Forced to Move

 

You’ll recall…

“More than 200 people on Monday night marched to the Pearl District condominium tower where Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler lives to demand his resignation.

The demonstration quickly turned destructive as some in the crowd lit a fire in the street, then placed a picnic table from a nearby business on top of the fire to feed the blaze. People shattered windows and broke into a ground-floor dental office took items including a chair, also added to the fire, and office supplies…”

Dentists must be racist, right?  After all, aren’t all teeth white?!?

Those who believe the violence which continues to sweep the country at the drop of a rumor will end if Biden’s elected need to think again.  Wheeler has abased himself and his citizens to The Mob at every possible turn…and this is the thanks he gets.

Dimocratic Socialists have sown the wind, and the whirlwind their cities are reaping…

…has developed a definite taste for its work.

Next up, as previously promised, Best of the Web wonders about Progressives’ prominent…

Conscientious Objectors in the ‘War’ on Covid?

It’s time to give the military metaphors a dishonorable discharge.

 

“…Another way in which the Covid campaign is very different from actual combat is that typically war mongers are not simultaneously serving as conscientious objectors. But there is a disturbing recent pattern of government officials displaying an unwillingness to engage in the fighting they demand of others. Now this week Fox News reports:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic…

In security footage obtained by Fox News, and timestamped Monday at 3:08 p.m. Pacific Time, the California powerhouse is seen walking through eSalon in San Francisco with wet hair, and without a mask over her mouth or nose.

Perhaps like many Americans, the speaker doesn’t really think Covid is as deadly as she says. Perhaps she read a New York Times report saying that many Covid tests come back positive even when the patient carries an insignificant amount of virus and began to wonder how many people have died with Covid rather than of Covid. Given that the overwhelming majority of Covid-related deaths occur in older people with co-morbidities, perhaps the speaker is also privately questioning how many patients died of Covid shortly before they were likely to die of another underlying condition. In New York State alone, thousands of recorded Covid deaths have involved people at least 80 years old and suffering from dementia. Does the speaker wonder if perhaps such deaths are not exactly the same in terms of lost years of life as an 18-year-old dying in battle? Maybe the speaker has considered all of this and has also noticed that states like New York with the highest death totals also imposed the most extreme lockdowns.

If Speaker Pelosi isn’t harboring such doubts, why would she run the risk of an unmasked hair appointment? Perhaps she is simply following the dictates of her conscience and must adhere to a deep-seated belief in professional styling. But probably not.

It’s time to declare an armistice.“

Though Kayleigh McEnany rightly refuses to take prisoners:

For more on the subject of turncoats, we turn to Jim Geraghty and his Morning Jolt, where he offers additional details on some of the more egregious examples of the unscrupulous objectors on The Left:

“Her [Pelosi] experience in the salon can be put alongside Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot similarly getting a visit from a stylist during quarantine, while telling Chicagoans, “getting your roots done is not essential”; Virginia governor Ralph Northam mingling with crowds without a mask on Virginia Beach shortly before announcing a mask rule with criminal penalties; New Jersey governor Phil Murphy breaking his own executive order barring large gatherings; Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker’s family taking trips to Florida and Wisconsin while the state had stay-at-home orders and bans on “nonessential travel” in place; Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer’s husband asking a marina owner for special treatment; New Mexico governor Lujan Grisham asking a jewelry store employee to reopen a closed store to have some jewelry delivered; New York City mayor Bill de Blasio visiting his gym as the rest of the city shut down; Beaumont mayor Becky Ames visiting a nail salon that was supposed to be closed during lockdown; the mayor of Alton, Ill., ordering a crackdown on open bars and learning that his wife was at one of them…and I’m sure there are other examples of lawmakers and their families breaking their own rules and restrictions during this pandemic. You can throw in other cases of not-quite-rule-breaking, such as bad judgment on the part of Senator Rand Paul, who decided to keep working at the U.S. Capitol while he was waiting for results from his coronavirus test.

(And this isn’t even getting into the CNN prime-time anchors and ABC News anchors who broke quarantines as well.)“

Here’s a cartoon which encapsulates the reality of the Wuhan virus scam…

…along with the willingness of mindless lemmings to follow whatever orders…

…emanate from on high. 

Speaking of the blind leading the dumb, following close on the heels of almost every Fortune 500 company and major professional sports organization, the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel records what has become a…

Chamber of Errors

The business lobby abandons free-market principles to back 23 freshman Democrats.

 

“To err is Washington, and even the most seasoned Beltway players can be forgiven the occasional strategic mistake. But deliberately ignoring history, evidence and principle by engaging in an act that undermines one’s reason for existence is another matter. Meet the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The nation’s premier business lobby this week finalized its decision to help re-elect 23 House Democratic freshmen. Most of those endorsed spent their first term reliably voting to end U.S. business as we know it. Of the chamber’s new favorite politicians, 20 have voted to abolish right-to-work states; 18 said yes to a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage; and 14 supported the House’s $3 trillion blowout, styled the Heroes Act—among other votes designed to crush the life out of free markets. This from an organization whose tag line reads “Standing Up for American Enterprise.” These days it’s more like “prostrating ourselves for crumbs.”

The old tag line was more befitting of chamber CEO Tom Donohue, the feisty Irishman who as recently as 2008 led the chamber in a full frontal effort to deny Barack Obama a filibuster-proof Senate majority. Today’s chamber reflects the growing influence of Suzanne Clark, who replaced Mr. Donohue as president in 2019, and chief policy officer Neil Bradley. In their choice between defending free enterprise and making nice on the cocktail circuit, the drinks are winning…”

Though, judging from Ms. Clark’s photo above, the pastas are a close second!

Perhaps, prior to surrendering to The Mob, the chamber’s president should have consulted the Boy Scouts to learn how appeasement played out for them.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these rather humorous memes courtesy of Balls Cotton…

…and Ed Hickey…

…along with these three politically-incorrect memes from Speed Mach:

Finally, we’ll call it a week with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Sports Section, courtesy today of a bonehead who not only cheated at the collegiate level, but also called perhaps the most ill-advised play in Super Bowl history, as…

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll implores coaches, white people to listen to Black people

 

We can only assume Pete’s position is a vain attempt to redeem his indefensible coaching decisions which cost 2005’s top collegiate running back his Heisman, and the NFL’s top running back his second consecutive Super Bowl victory…both of whom were Black.

Pete reminds us of Burke in Aliens, of whom Ripley so accurately observed…

More importantly, as if ANY of Pete’s athletes of ANY color have ever had any contact with the public more unpleasant than getting their privileged a*ses kissed!

Magoo