On September 27, 2020,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Friday, September 25th, 2020…but before we begin…and we have to insert a plug here to PLEASE read this edition to the end…Andy McCarthy lends his expert opinion to what he terms…
“…In similar cases around the country over the last several years, prosecutors have prioritized the mob over the evidence. To his great credit, Attorney General Cameron did not. As an African-American law enforcement official who has dealt extensively with the Taylor family, the strain of the case on him and his office was obvious at his press conference, and he spoke eloquently about that. No one can quarrel with the grand jury’s conclusion that Hankison deserved to be charged because of his life-threatening recklessness. In another case, since he did not actually injure anyone, the state might have been content with firing Hankison. But the enormity of Ms. Taylor’s death made such leniency impossible to rationalize.
So the attorney general filed charges…but there is rioting anyway.
Much of what we’ve been told about the case turns out not to be true — another “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” urban legend of police brutality. Most prominently, Attorney General Cameron explained that the police did not execute a “no knock” warrant before entering Ms. Taylor’s apartment. They knocked and announced themselves as police before forcing entry shortly after midnight.
How they came to be at Ms. Taylor’s home, with a search warrant based on probable cause that evidence of narcotics crimes would be found, is the part of the story the social-justice warriors would have us omit. It needs telling…”
Which Andy proceeds to do, along with Candace Owens in the video clip above courtesy of James Nichols.
In the meantime, though Nancy the Red rivals Groper Joe for their respective levels of senility…
…in all seriousness, WTF is this dude talking about:
C’mon, man: Seriously, look at these doddering clowns:
And now, as business unfortunately interrupted our usual period for pleasure (hey, somebody has to keep TLJ in the lifestyle to which she’s become accustomed!), here’s a somewhat foreshortened edition of The Gouge!
First up for Friday, writing at Best of the Web, Jim Freeman offers what sounds like the beginning to a bad joke:
“The “primary sub-source” for the Steele dossier was suspected of being a possible Russian agent and a “threat to national security,” according newly declassified FBI documents.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) announced the revelations on Thursday after the Justice Department declassified a footnote of the DOJ Inspector General Report on FISA abuse by the FBI. The agents on the Crossfire Hurricane probe, who investigated alleged contacts between the Trump-campaign and Russian intelligence, were aware that the Primary Sub-Source was a suspected Russian spy by December 2016 and did not notify the FISA court…”
Are we the only one left wondering what else the DOJ and FBI haven’t revealed?!? Sorry, but when The Donald wins reelection, his first priority should be cleansing both these bureaucracies from top to bottom…with obvious exceptions. And whoever he names to head the FBI should have no DOJ experience whatsoever!
Speaking of the completely corrupt, courtesy of a state whose electrical grid cannot meet current customer demand, the WSJ reports…
“…The announcement comes as Mr. Newsom has emphasized climate change as a key cause of the historically disastrous fires that have ravaged the state in the past month. Experts have said California has become more susceptible to fast-moving, destructive wildfires due in part to climate change, which causes trees and plans (“plans”…”plants”…whatever!) to dry out and become more flammable, as well as overgrown forests and an increase in housing in fire-prone areas…”
Rather amazing Canada in general, and British Columbia in particular, lying as it does immediately north of Washington state, don’t seem to be experiencing anywhere near the effects of climate change…
…Gavin Newsom claims. At this rate, the last sane person to leave California won’t need to turn off the lights.
Next, in a forward from Balls Cotton, Confounded Interest details the reality of the threat the Wuhan virus presents on campus:
George Mason University is not in the list, but all reports point to few cases, and no deaths.Despite a second, less harmful strain of Covid on the way, Covid appears to be…
…for schools. Senior citizens are another matter.
Seniors are indeed another matter, along with those with underlying health conditions which, when combined with any number of viruses, make a potentially lethal mix. All of which is why, up to this particular pandemic, the elderly and vulnerable were quarantined while the rest of us got on with our lives.
Sorry, but absent conclusive proof to the contrary…which has yet to be made public…we’re putting this entire pandemic down to fear, misinformation, a lust for power and the overriding effects of TDS.
In another bit of campus-related hysteria forwarded by George Lawlor, the Washington Examiner relates why…
“Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber has gotten himself into a bit of a bind, as the Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe first reported. Earlier this month, he released an open letter filled with unsubstantiated claims that he runs an institution imbued with systemic racism.
Eisgruber wrote that “racism and the damage it does to people of color persist at Princeton.” He further asserted that “racist assumptions” are “embedded in structures of the University itself.”
The reader will likely recognize such claptrap for what it is — the completely insincere words of a cowardly, mediocre university administrator, fearful of the damage that social justice agitators could do to his school’s reputation were he ever to fail to act in a sufficiently obsequious manner.
Fortunately, the U.S. Education Department is taking a more rigorous view of his comments. Eisgruber’s admission that he runs a racist university puts his school’s federal funding in jeopardy. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides that “no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” This means that Eisgruber’s admission, along with an earlier public statement by hundreds of Princeton faculty that “anti-Black racism has a visible bearing upon Princeton’s campus makeup,” constitute open confessions that the university is in violation of civil rights law and should be stripped of its federal funding.
The Department of Education replied to Eisgruber’s silly groveling with a letter announcing a new investigation of the school and requesting relevant documents. “Based on its admitted racism,” the letter reads, “the U.S. Department of Education…is concerned Princeton’s nondiscrimination and equal opportunity assurances in its Program Participation Agreements from at least 2013 to the present may have been false” and that “Princeton’s many nondiscrimination and equal opportunity claims to students, parents, and consumers in the market for education certificates may have been false, misleading, and actionable substantial misrepresentations” under federal law.
Eisgruber now faces a dilemma. One option is to level with everyone and admit that no, Princeton is not a racist institution; that no, he was never sincere about what he was saying. This option would allow him to argue that Princeton’s representations of being an inclusive university were indeed accurate all along.
But if Eisgruber admits that he was merely fudging it — offering a calculated, guileful admission of guilt, he would enrage the social justice crowd, whose dogma holds that America and her institutions are not just racist, but incurably so. In reversing himself and claiming that Princeton is a nonracist institution, Eisgruber would make himself a heretic and set up himself and his school as a target for future hostile activism.
Eisgruber’s other option is to risk going down with the woke ship. Yes, he can maintain that Princeton is a hotbed of systemic institutional racism, but that position could potentially cost the school billions in federal funding. (Though why a school with billions of dollars in endowments need our tax dollars is beyond us!)
Until now, virtue-signaling was so cheap and easy.Anyone could do it and come off looking better for it. How refreshing to see that there are limits to such rank dishonesty where taxpayer funding is involved.“
Only under Betsy DeVos and The Donald.
Since we’re on the subject of craven cowards, in another forward from Mr. Lawlor, FOX News informs us the…
“Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf apologized Wednesday after saying the financial services industry has “limited” Black talent to choose from when hiring senior management, and he reiterated his commitment to improving diversity amid a national reckoning on racial injustice sparked by the death of George Floyd. (A career criminal who offed himself with an overdose of fentanyl mixed with methamphetamine and a pinch of weed!)
“I apologize for making an insensitive comment reflecting my own unconscious bias,” Scharf said in a statement released Wednesday. “There are many talented diverse individuals working at Wells Fargo and throughout the financial services industry and I never meant to imply otherwise.” (It’s just very few of them are evidently Black!)
His financial services experience has taught him that people in the industry have not done enough to improve diversity, especially in senior positions.
“And there is no question Wells Fargo has to make meaningful progress to increase diverse representation,” he said. “As I said in June, I have committed that this time must be different.”…”
His asinine apology aside, how many chances does Scharf think he deserves?!? After all, as his Wikipedia entry recounts, Charlie is the Joe Biden of the banking world, having occupied positions of power and leadership since 1999, all the while curiously incapable of addressing problems he now claims he can fix.
But we’ll leave the last word on the subject to the Borough Idiot of Queens:
FYI to AOC: banks don’t hire “workers”, Black or White, for senior positions; they hire executives. And if the salaries banks offer in such positions don’t interest Black candidates, they’re more than welcome to take their talents to another industry.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Balls Cotton…
…Speed Mach…
…and the lovely Shannon:
Finally, we’ll call it a week with two commercials courtesy of Speed Mach: First…
God bless Texas!
Second, the inherent inconsistencies which Trump should be prepared to hammer home relentlessly next Tuesday:
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