Trannies instantly disavowed.
Question: Is this is a tiger? Looks a little tiger-ish. Surgically altered to make some elements resemble those of a tiger. Would like to be a tiger. Is this a tiger? pic.twitter.com/SpYFzG98BB
— CrownPrinceOfZanzibar (@CrownZanzibar) February 26, 2021
Memo to Doug Ford: make sure that Viro Fascists like Beth Mitchell pay for the policies they want.
I'm not thinking anything too extreme, Doug. Just, as a spitball, raise her personal tax rate to 100%. That's right, every single penny earned goes directly to the Ontario Government (feds are just out of luck with this one case...sorry). Won't her landlord kick her out after failing to pay rent? Yup. Starvation since the food budget is now entirely redirected to Queen's Park? Uh-huh. Tattered rags that get more and more threadbare every day until the bitter end. Absolutely.I remember reading new rules for patrons in restaurants, and it said they must wear a mask when they are not eating. I see people browsing the menu's etc. just not wearing their masks, not following rules @fordnation This does not keep people safe! Also not from same households
— Beth Mitchell (@bethmitch9) March 29, 2021
Famed celebrity Bruce Jenner is planning to run for the (nominally Republican) Governor of California. As the title to this post indicates, they tried that once before and...didn't matter, nothing changed.
As you may famously recall, millennials don't watch a lot of old movies.
And finally, the example of the change so many people have noted:
"I made a mistake," the 35-year-old told reporters."I want to take the chance to apologize and let all the players know. The rules are there ... We cannot ignore them a little bit," he added. "They are there and they are there for a reason. I want people to take this as an example. I absolutely did not mean to do that on purpose ... I didn't mean to expose my teammates to COVID, my family, or others. I really apologize for it."
Recently CNN whined about "racist" fonts. Yes, you read that right.
That type of writing — the piece poses — has been a “typographical shortcut for ‘Asianness.'”
As it turns out, the use of lettering that looks supposedly Chinese to reference things that are supposedly Chinese…is cringe-y:
It’s hard not to cringe at the Chinese stereotypes bundled up with each font package — especially when seen through the lens of today’s heightened vigilance toward discrimination and systemic racism. Critics believe that using chop suey typefaces is downright racist, particularly when deployed by non-Asian creators.“Chop suey” fonts, to be clear, have been “cooked up” by type designers in the West.
That would make sense, I suppose, since they’re English fonts.
Of course, there's a minor problem with CNN's whole piece: no such font is bundled with most software packages.
Above is a (partial) list of fonts for Windows 10. Chop Suey doesn't appear (it should be after Carlito), nor does Karate or Wonton. I can't find any reference online to these fonts being part of font package in Apple OS either nor is it one of the (limited) fonts available on Android phones. I do have something called a "Yu Gothic" font package but clearly the font is much more German than Oriental.
So even if CNN was right and these fonts were inappropriate, 99% of computer users would never even come across one! You have to find online font generators to even produce your own samples.
Bonus commentary: That bit about "if CNN was right"? Joe Kinsey demolishes that theory pretty quickly by noting that in his (and Les Nessman's!) home city of Dayton Ohio the only people using these "racist" fonts are Chinese restaurants who are trying to lure in English-speaking customers who need to know "this place is Chinese but you can read the signs".
The CDC has declared racism a "serious public health threat". I know you can't stop giggling, but the important thing is that they aren't.
A growing body of research shows that centuries of racism in this country has had a profound and negative impact on communities of color. The impact is pervasive and deeply embedded in our society—affecting where one lives, learns, works, worships and plays and creating inequities in access to a range of social and economic benefits—such as housing, education, wealth, and employment. These conditions—often referred to as social determinants of health—are key drivers of health inequities within communities of color, placing those within these populations at greater risk for poor health outcomes.
Hey remember the Theresa Tam "butthole swab" video?
Well he's not the only Chinese man to think of it!
Despite rising protests from foreign governments, anyone flying to Beijing is vulnerable to testing, so they have expanded their use of anal swabs to screen Covid-19. did.
Beijing’s epidemic administration staff told Chinese state media that all international arrivals in the capital could be ordered, if not obligatory, to be inspected by health authorities.
Also, in Shanghai, travelers from high-risk areas and travelers arriving on planes with at least five positive cases must undergo a series of tests, including an anal swab.
One of the reasons governments objected was that diplomats weren't...immune...from the butthole swab. The United States, Japan, and South Korea have all complained in the matter.
And as this post's title implies, the South Koreans have come up with an innovative new solution:
Meanwhile, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry has said that instead of “collecting directly by Chinese authorities,” citizens can now submit stool samples.
Does that count against carryon?
Canadian feminist Wendy McElroy explores a proposal that will presume black men accused of rape are found guilty even when there's no evidence against them:
Victim-centered justice is a “believe the victim/woman” approach by which an accused is presumed guilty based on an accusation, even without evidence. The purpose is to protect the accuser—who is presumed innocent—from being further victimized by traditional police procedures that focus on hard evidence, contradictions in testimony, and other objective indications of whether a case is valid. In his article “The Pandora’s Box of ‘Trauma Informed’ Investigations,” James Baresel described what victim-centered justice suggests instead. “Detectives base their investigation on the assumption that the women’s status as a victim is not to be questioned, even insisting that contradictions or apparent inaccuracies in her account must be evidence of a traumatic experience whose very existence confirmed her truthfulness.” The police almost act as social workers to elicit testimony from an accuser without upsetting her.
For reasons explored here, this burden falls disproportionately upon black men. This is a bitter irony. If systemic racism does exist in law enforcement, as social justice zealots insist, then black men desperately need to be treated as individuals whose due process is being egregiously violated. They need precisely what victim-centered justice denies to them: protection of legal rights.
Why would victim-centered justice disproportionately punish black men? Because the bias of any system tends to impact the most vulnerable within it. Do statistics confirm that black men will be disproportionately impacted? No general data exist on issues such as how many black men have been falsely imprisoned due to bias. Even if statistics existed on false imprisonment, they would not necessarily indicate whether imprisonment was due to racial bias or other factors, such as the prevalence of poverty that precludes good legal representation.
In other words, blacks account for 47 percent of all known exonerations, or 1,158 out of 2,400; 52 percent of murder exonerations, or 468 out of 908; and 63 percent of drug crime exonerations, or 200 out of 317. Blacks constitute an even higher proportion of group exonerations based on drug crime frame-ups. The report concludes, “There is no doubt that race plays a role in the conviction of innocent defendants in America.” Again, it is not known whether the discrepancies result from racism or other factors.
Victim-centered justice is en route to become the norm in police investigations into sexual abuse. From there, it will gradually become the norm in police investigations in general. One thing that might give social justice warriors pause is the possibility their approach will increase the false imprisonment of blacks. Pauses are welcomed; they offer space for discussion and reflection. But the unintended consequence for black men is not likely to deter victim-centered zealots. Their final analysis will be victim versus accused, women versus men. The race of those accused will take second place to a politically weightier consideration; they are male. And so the collateral damage of “always believe the women” will be institutionalized into the systemic racism and gender bias which victim-centered justice ostensibly opposes.
As a followup to my post from a couple weeks back, here's a (two year old) story about another bad (nonwhite) woman driver:
Multiple transit supervisors expressed concerns about Aissatou Diallo’s suitability as an OC Transpo bus driver after two collisions on the road prior to Friday’s fatal crash at Westboro station, this newspaper has learned.And several operators are questioning how the transportation service is dealing with new driver road safety
Almost thirty months after the crash in question, Diallo's trial finally got underway last month and of course anti-white racist Ottawa Police force were in the hot seat for arresting her after she caused three people to die.
Over at the Tor.com review of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's third season episode "The Die Is Cast", author (and notorious SJW†) Christopher L. Bennett expresses some uncertainty over how the show later depicted the aftermath:
I have a hard time believing this battle would wipe out the entire Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar. I mean, those are both intelligence agencies/secret police. They’d be mostly ground-based bureaucracies staffed mainly by people in desk jobs working out of offices. Are we supposed to believe that these battle fleets were crewed by the entire administrative and office staffs of those agencies as well as every one of their operatives? Would any devious, secretive, manipulative intelligence agency be so reckless as to send all its key personnel on a military mission, rather than maneuvering someone else into taking the risk for them?Unless the idea is that the defeat was such a debacle that it led to both agencies’ entire staffs being purged or executed. That I could buy. And in the case of the Obsidian Order, which we know was locked in an ongoing power struggle with Central Command and the Detapa Council (so it was actually technically 1/3 of the government, though in practice it and the CC had all the actual power), I can buy that its rivals would’ve taken the opportunity to dismantle it once and for all. But in the case of the Tal Shiar, it seems more likely that it would just be restaffed rather than dissolved.
As you may have heard, the hero cop who kept that violent nigger thug George Floyd from escaping arrest was convicted on all three counts today. Over at Legal Insurrection, attorney Andrew Branca looks at the trial from a "strictly legal" standard (remember those?) and determines that the only just verdict was Not Guilty por tres.
The bottom line: If the verdict were based solely on the legal merits, the facts and law in this case, were I personally a juror I would have more than enough reasonable doubt to be unable to vote guilty on any of these criminal charges, for all the reasons of fact and law that I detail below.That said, this case left the “facts and law” train station quite some time ago, making where it will end up largely unpredictable in any realistic sense, especially given the political and social dynamics looking to drive this train clear off the rails.
Another way to look at this question is this: If Floyd had fought lawful arrest and placement in the back of squad car 320, but finally been secured in the vehicle, and thus never subject to prone restraint on the street—would he have died anyway? Was the physical struggle with officers, given the fragility of his cardiovascular system and his substantial (even if not acutely fatal) concentration of fentanyl enough to kill him, all by themselves, without any restraint whatever?Can we know that the answer to that question is no, and beyond a reasonable doubt? Because if we can’t, then we can’t conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Chauvin’s restraint of Floyd “caused” Floyd’s death—Floyd was already effectively dead before he was ever put on the street—and then we’ve failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that required element of felony murder.
Specifically, third-degree murder requires a reckless disregard of the danger created to the victim by the defendant’s eminently dangerous conduct. If the state has not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant’s conduct was eminently dangerous (which bring us back to the issue of causation, above) and that the defendant recklessly (consciously) disregarded that risk, then the state has not proven the crime of third-degree murder.Further, second-degree manslaughter requires that the defendant creates an unreasonable risk, and “consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm.” If the state has not proven that the defendant intentionally engaged in conduct that had a reasonably foreseeable risk of causing death or great bodily harm, then the state has not proven the crime of second-degree manslaughter.Both of these offenses require that the defendant engaged in conduct that was unreasonable, that created a foreseeable risk of deadly force harm, and that the defendant consciously incurred that risk or, alternatively, consciously disregarded that risk. If any of these conditions are not proven beyond a reasonable doubt, then the underlying crime has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
So given all this—the recent fight with the large and powerful Floyd, the dangers of the street traffic, the apparent danger presented by the hostile and threatening crowd, the unexpected delay in medical professionals arriving on scene—all of this must be considered among the totality of the circumstances in determining whether the officers’ continued restraint of Floyd was reasonable and justified.And to convict on third-degree assault, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that given the totality of the circumstances the continued restraint by Chauvin and the others was not reasonable and justified, either to effect a lawful arrest, or to meet their duty of care to a suspect in their custody.Incidentally, to the extent that the reasonableness of the officers’ continued restraint of Floyd under the totality of the circumstances is not disproven beyond a reasonable doubt, that failure would also serve as a perfect defense to all the other criminal charges brought against the officers. If their use of force was not unlawful period, it cannot be the basis for an assault conviction, and therefore not as a predicate for felony murder, but also cannot be the basis for either second-degree manslaughter or third-degree murder.If reasonable, it’s not a crime, period.
Very surprised no questions from jury at all, even on causation, suggests didn’t really consider the legal merits.
EDMONTON: The Justice Centre today announced that the trial of Pastor James Coates, of Grace Life Church, will proceed on May 3, 2021 at Provincial Court in Stony Plain, however the Court granted the Government’s request that Pastor Coates not be permitted to challenge the constitutional validity of Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s orders at the trial. The government will not be required to produce scientific evidence in support of Dr. Hinshaw’s orders. Government lawyers told the Court that the Alberta Government could not produce any scientific evidence in support of Dr. Hinshaw’s orders in time for the May 3 trial.
The video is touted as another horrifying example of racism against an innocent young man who was “walking while black.” “We’re not going to let people be bullies in our community,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told reporters. Many journalists and activists called Sgt. Pentland a bigot.But there’s more to the case. The black man was menacing the neighborhood in the week before the altercation, according to two police reports filed on him. One says he grabbed a woman by the waist and pulled her pants part-way down. Another says he snatched a baby from another woman and tried to run away with it.The sergeant told police he pushed the black man “in fear for his safety and the safety of his wife.” Neighbors reported to police that the alleged victim came up to them “in a threatening manner” and they asked the drill sergeant for help.A member of the black mob that surrounded Sgt. Pentland’s house heard a similar account. Dayterouis Gallmon told local media that a young woman rushed to Sgt. Pentland’s house and begged for his help after the black man assaulted her. Mr. Gallmon said he didn’t believe her.
Everybody remember, tomorrow is the day we all bring our unregistered prohibited weapons to the grounds of the Alberta Legislature.
The long-awaited 100th episode of RedLetterMedia's Best of the Worst is coming later this month.
Appropriately enough, as Ontario goes crazy with restrictions even as a CityTV news poll shows a 50/50 split in favour of more restrictions, today marks the one year anniversary of coining the phrase that perfectly encapsulates these people.
There were zero preventable COVID deaths in America with the possible exception of New York State (killer Cuomo). Not even Pennsylvania (ugly man in a dress) counts.She's just one of 514K+ died as the result of GOP tried to keep Trump in WH.
— Senate Banana Republicans (@ForbiddenReali1) March 2, 2021
Instead what we've seen is that almost every political jurisdiction in the world taking the exact same actions at nearly the exact same times. With a couple exceptions (eg. Canada still letting planeloads of people in from Red China weeks after Trump and Putin "colluded" to both block direct travel) things are progressing everywhere at the same rate. Elections, pace President Monkey, didn't seem to matter after all. It doesn't matter if you elect a conservative (Kenney, Ford, Pallister, Trump, Johnson, Kemp) or a liberal (Rat Bastard 2.0, Newsom, Moon, Legault, Sánchez, Irish Poofter). It doesn't matter if your government is formed by a left-right coalition (Italy, Sweden, Germany, Japan) or if you don't get to choose your government at all (Iran, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia). In late February your government wanted you to self-isolate if you traveled abroad or had flu symptoms. In early March citizens were being repatriated from cruise ships. By March 12 your sports league was cancelled. By March 13th your schools were cancelled. By March 17th your bars and restaurants were closed down. By March 20th your borders were closed to nonessential travel. Sure some areas are more intense (Spain was on lockdown as of March 14th even though Queerbec bars were still serving people almost a week later), but the pattern is pretty consistent.
...do you mean like counselling to treat their delusions and cure their sick mental state?It’s a great thing to provide healthcare to trans kids!
— Ben Veldman (@benveldman) March 31, 2021
So a man who chose an illegitimate sexual orientation is going to lecture conservatives on morals and ethics? Yeah, no.Conservs are morally, ethically & intellectually bankrupt ...
— Michael Totzke 🐞🇨🇦🌈 (@TotzkeM) March 20, 2021
I hate you Wayback Burgers on Jasper Avenue (and a second location in north Edmonton slightly less).
Courtesy of Blazing Cat Fur, Portland will have unarmed patrols going around being social workey to try to stop their thugs with guns from killing people.
In a perfect world, all the #NiggerLivesMoreImportantThanSocietyMotherFucker protesters who got their bail covered would, upon conviction, be required by the judge to work off their "community service" by being unpaid volunteers for these same patrols.
Literally kill two birds with one stone.
The Shiny Pony, of course, doesn't have a clue what constitutes the economy.We’re connected to three oceans, home to the world’s longest coastline, and well-positioned to be a global leader in the blue economy. To make that happen - and to create good jobs and keep our oceans healthy - Minister Jordan is working on Canada’s Blue Economy Strategy. ⤵️ https://t.co/IKhtXvfUQN
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 8, 2021
Last month in talking about the bullying complaints lodged against ex-princess Meghan Markle, I casually referred to Star Trek: Discovery whose own showrunners were forced out due to questionable "bullying in the workplace" accusations that basically sounded like "the boss wanted me to do things his way". It's like that kung fu fight over tooling specifications in Kill Squad.
I can’t let this go because Star Trek Discovery is an insult. It’s an insult to its audience, it’s an insult to Star Trek fans, it’s an insult to science fiction fans, it’s an insult to television fans, it’s an insult to any living being with a semblance of critical thinking skills. I can’t let this go because Star Trek Discovery knows it’s insulting you — the audience. It knows that it’s hiding vapid storytelling behind flashy effects. It knows that its characters are morally bankrupt shells reciting storylines from other shows. Worst, STD knows it can get away with this behavior, because it is.Star Trek Discovery is a bully, grabbing your hands and asking “why are you hitting yourself?” And in true bully fashion, it has a lot of vocal supporters, a lot hangers-on who want to use its immediate success for their own selfish gain. But the cracks are showing. Six weeks in, reviewers that once hailed STD as a “brilliant new chapter” are now happy that “this week didn’t suck as bad.” Fickle friends, the bully has. But there will always be yes-men behind it, those intellectually stunted few who don’t know any better, and it is on those souls the bully preys. Its victims are the immediate goal, but its audience is its survival. The Klingon proverb warns us “Don’t feed the trolls.” You, the unquestioning audience who says things like “Burnham is so logical” or “Lorca is a great captain” or “serialized storytelling has never been done on Trek before,” you are feeding this troll.
Star Trek Discovery has no respect for you — its audience. Its producers only care about your money and its writers think you are dumb enough to be easily manipulated and distracted by superficial smokescreens. This show fails on every single level possible — the aesthetics are wrong, the effects are boring, the storytelling is hackneyed and plagiarized, the morality is nonexistent, and the distribution is vampiric. And yet, you remain.
The niggers who raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman aren't monsters according to...of course...their families.
A Florida spring breaker accused of drugging and raping a 24-year-old woman who later was found dead in a Miami Beach hotel room is “not some monster,” his friends and family claim.Evoire Collier, 21, remained in jail Wednesday along with pal Dorian Taylor, 24, for allegedly drugging Christine Englehardt with a “green pill” before raping her and stealing her credit cards, the Miami Herald reported.“It’s devastating. My thought was praying for her family because I wouldn’t wish that on anybody,” his aunt, Tanda Collier, told the newspaper.But still, she insisted that Evoire was “a good kid.”“He wouldn’t hurt a fly,” she told the paper.Adrienne Long, who had taken Evoire in after his mother died when he was in high school, said she and his family believed that Taylor was a bad influence on him.
This is a longstanding joke, of course: a decade ago in the controversy over the death of Niko Arlia I noted the giant disparity between what his family said and what the facts on the ground said.
You're right Taylor, having to talk with a nigger shouldn't be a mandatory part of any worker's job description.Have a conversation with a Black employee? What IS this?!
— Taylor Shanahan (@mmeshanahan) February 10, 2021
This is why whites make more money than you do. Employees who believe ridiculous nonsense don't provide their employers with a lot of value.Speak for yourself. I believe every word he said.
— RettaG (@Retta322) March 23, 2021
Reason.com's Robby Soave asked when "misinformation" became a-okay again:
Earlier this week, 60 Minutes dropped a bombshell: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, had granted Publix a vaccination contract as a kickback for a $100,000 campaign donation, according to a report by journalist Sharyn Alfonsi.
Then the story swiftly fell apart. Publix was neither the first nor the only vaccine distributor in Florida; the idea to use a grocery chain with more than 800 locations across the state was a good one, and did not originate with the governor; moreover, DeSantis explained all of this to Alfonsi, but his quotes were edited in a misleading way for the version that appeared in the 60 Minutes segment.
Bafflingly, CBS News is standing by this atrocious hit job. "For over 50 years, the facts reported by 60 Minutes have often stirred debate and prompted strong reactions," said the network in a statement released Tuesday. "Our story Sunday night speaks for itself."
This story should be a source of deep embarrassment for the network: Alfonsi made incendiary claims that she utterly failed to prove, and the report actively concealed from viewers the more plausible explanation offered by countless government leaders involved in the decision, including DeSantis himself. (Florida's director of emergency management, as well as the mayor of Palm Beach County—both of them Democrats—have subsequently released statements blasting CBS's distortions.)
It should have also drawn a thorough debunking, as well as outright condemnation, from other corners of the mainstream media. An accusation of corruption leveled by a major television network against a likely 2024 contender is a big story. It's perhaps an even bigger story when it turns out the network got it completely wrong. Media critics at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and elsewhere should be all over this.
The Times has published 10 articles that reference DeSantis in the last week, but not a single one of them concerns the 60 Minutes story. The Post linked to the story in its Monday email but has had nothing to say about its collapse.
Axios, on the other hand, published an article about the "clash" between DeSantis and 60 Minutes that was overly favorable to the latter. Axios made it sound like it was still an open question whether the Publix contract was a kickback and did not go into detail about the unfair editing of DeSantis' explanation.
Astonishingly, Axios then published a second, significantly worse article that accused DeSantis of milking his "spat" with 60 Minutes. "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Trump ally with his eyes on the White House, is dialing up a dispute with 60 Minutes—seizing on a juicy chance to ingratiate himself with the GOP base by bashing the media," wrote Axios, as if the media-bashing was not well-deserved in this case.
You'll recall that earlier this year I remarked with some thrill that the Babylon Bee was doing a The Lord of the Rings podcast series that would take them well into 2022.
Those of you following along with the Bee Reads The Lord of the Rings Podcast may have noticed a brief hiatus over the past couple of weeks. We were struggling with the branding of the podcast, as The Babylon Bee is satire, but the Lord of the Rings podcast is quite a bit outside that wheelhouse. It was kind of confusing for a lot of people out there in the general audience, so we paused for a while as we had a lot of conversations about what to do with it.In the end, here's what we landed on: the Lord of the Rings podcast will continue but only for paying subscribers. There will be no more free version. So, if you've been following along, subscribers, the good news is we'll be continuing along to the end of the book as planned!
Hey do you remember "Fall for Hall"? I was there for the exact game in January 2010 when it began. As expected, the Oilers fell to be the worst team in the league, Taylor Hall did get drafted by the team, and remained a loyal player (and patron of hot Edmonton blondes) until his infamous one-for-one trade with Jersey.
It's ironic that "webdevMason" contains the letters "w...e...e...v" if you remember the last time this blog discussed expired boxes of Kraft Dinner...and those were only 7 years since purchase (let alone 7 years expired).So, accidentally made @webdevMason Mac and Cheese that was 9 1/2 years past its expiration date.
— Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸 (@Conaw) February 11, 2021
Crazy thinking about the people we were when those noodles were sealed.
Another day, another "hateful incident" turns out to be committed by a nigger looking for a splash in the media.
A small college in Michigan last weekend reported a race crime but after further review, it was just another hoax:
When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed;When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed:When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see;Saw the Vision of the world and all the wonder that would be.—In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast;In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest;In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.Locksley Hall, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The death sparked protests in Brooklyn Center into the early hours of Monday morning, and stores were broken into, as Minneapolis was already on edge and midway through the trial of the first of four police officers in George Floyd’s death. Brooklyn Center is a city of about 30,000 people located on the northwest border of Minneapolis.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tweeted he was praying for Wright's family “as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.”Police didn't immediately identify Wright or disclose his race, but some protesters who gathered near the scene waved flags and signs reading “Black Lives Matter.” Others walked peacefully with their hands held up. On one street, written in multi-colored chalk: “Justice for Daunte Wright.”Demonstrators gathered shortly after the shooting and crash, with some jumping on top of police cars and confronting officers. Marchers also descended upon the Brooklyn Center police department building, where rocks and other objects were thrown at officers, Minnesota Department of Public Safety commissioner John Harrington said at a news conference. The protesters had largely dispersed by 1:15 a.m. Monday, he said.Harrington added that about 20 businesses had been broken into at the city’s Shingle Creek shopping center. He said law enforcement agencies were coordinating to tame the unrest, and the National Guard was activated.
Brooklyn Center police said in a statement that officers had stopped a motorist shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday. After determining the driver had an outstanding warrant, police tried to arrest the driver. The driver reentered the vehicle and an officer fired at the vehicle, striking the driver, police said. The vehicle traveled several blocks before striking another vehicle.Police said the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the person’s name following a preliminary autopsy and family notification. A female passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the crash.Katie Wright, Daunte’s mother, huddled with loved ones near the scene and pleaded for her son's body to be removed from the street, the Star Tribune reported. She said her son had called her when he was getting pulled over, and she heard scuffling before the call ended. When she called back, she said his girlfriend told her that her son had been shot.Carolyn Hanson lives near the crash scene and told the newspaper that she saw officers pull the man out of the car and perform CPR. Hanson said a passenger who got out was covered in blood.Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott announced a curfew in the city until 6 a.m. Monday. In a tweet he said, “We want to make sure everyone is safe. Please be safe and please go home.”Police said Brooklyn Center officers wear body-worn cameras and they also believe dash cameras were activated during the incident. The department said it has asked the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate.
As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.What is this? his eyes are heavy; think not they are glazed with wine.
Back in 2013, Comics Alliance did a two-part review of the 2007 film TMNT where they did a back-and-forth that had some pretty great moments in it. So let's look at some of them.
there were a bunch of different plots discussed during development, including sending the Turtles out into space. Fortunately (or not, depending on your views of ninja astronauts), Peter Laird opted not to follow the format of the Leprechaun movies.
Matt: Things open up with about four minutes of infodump narrated by a voice who I'll just call Not-Keith-David. There's a lot crammed in here about the turtles, their origin, their names, a 3,000-year-old warlord who became immortal, his generals turning to statues, some soldiers that look like cylons and 13 monsters who came through a portal opened by aligning stars. It's more plot than the past two movies combined had.
Chris: I think my favorite thing about this is that he just drops "named after the great Renaissance masters and trained as ninjas" as though this is no big deal.
I'll get into it a little more further down, but "Not Keith David" is of course Lawrence Fishburne, because they wanted a negro to do the voiceover but Morgan Freeman was unavailable.
Chris: It would've been better if the tag had said "Leonardo (leads)" to be followed by "Donatello (does machines)" and so on, but I'll admit that's wallowing in nostalgia. I have to say, though, this entire bit is really weird. Usually, referring to someone as a "ghost" is a setup for it to be revealed it's only a man, but Leo's a six-foot tall talking turtle that stabs people with swords, something I could consider to be way, way scarier than a ghost.
Chris: Mikey dressing up in a giant turtle head, gluing a zipper on his shell and swinging around foam nunchucks for kids' parties is a pretty inspired career choice, even if it does posit a world where talking turtles have become as popular as, say, magicians and clowns.
Matt: Their appearance onstage with Vanilla Ice has become the stuff of legend. I'm curious where Raph got all the resources for his many chains and his advanced biker-vigilante outfit. Donny's tech support gig must be lucrative.
Chris: Considering that they have two jobs now, compared to zero jobs where they could afford multiple nightly pizza deliveries, I suspect that they're rolling in cash. I will say, though, I do love the movie's implication that they had to get jobs because Leo's not around to lead them in crime-fighting, as though a) they're not all ninjas, and b) that's what was paying the bills before.
Matt: It's been some progression for the Foot, hasn't it? They went from thieves corrupting the youth to working for an immortal ancient warlord. What a long, strange trip.
Chris: When your leader is beaten to death by turtles at a Vanilla Ice concert, you really have to find a new direction. Whatever you're doing, it ain't working
It's also worth noting that April gets a new costume in the form of a Kill Bill jumpsuit with what I can only call a Battle Corset.
Don't worry, I'll discuss Sarah MichelleApril's outfits myself as well.
Chris: I think TMNT '07 has 'em all beat six ways to Sunday, even without the scourge of ninja crime. Either way, it's a pretty good way to end our run with the Turtles.
So that was snippets of the Comics Alliance rundown. I figured this was a good time to throw back my own copy and do a recap/review. Chris called it the best of the first four Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, Matt called it second best after the first one, so let's take a little break while we watch what's by far the best single scene in any of the Turtles films (though you can turn it off after about thirty seconds, that's the good bit at the start even though it sadly starts about 6 seconds too late):
Rebel Media detained for noncrimes in Frog Country. Fortunately there's a happy(ish) ending(ish).
Montreal police don’t have their search warrant yet. So they have deemed our Airbnb a crime scene. I’m not sure what they’re searching for — we have obviously uploaded our footage. They’re dragging it out to stop our work. So I shared my thoughts with them directly. pic.twitter.com/BsErpxSJN5
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) April 10, 2021
R.I.P. Earl "DMX" Simmons. In honour of his death, here's (by far) his best song.
Are we 100% positive that Ja Rule didn't spike his coke?
Earlier this year Mark Steyn was serializing an audiobook of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, noting how many of its themes are relevant today in an age where Big Tech can edit the dictionary if a conservative says something with too obviously plain a meaning. I've similarly referenced the novel in a post title about the new "deadlier" Wuhan Flu variants that mysteriously arrived at about the time we were all assured a vaccine meant things could get back to the way they were in November of 2019.
The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again.
Suddenly, early in the spring, an alarming thing was discovered. Snowball was secretly frequenting the farm by night! The animals were so disturbed that they could hardly sleep in their stalls. Every night, it was said, he came creeping in under cover of darkness and performed all kinds of mischief. He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees. Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well. Curiously enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key was found under a sack of meal. The cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept into their stalls and milked them in their sleep. The rats, which had been troublesome that winter, were also said to be in league with Snowball.Napoleon decreed that there should be a full investigation into Snowball's activities. With his dogs in attendance he set out and made a careful tour of inspection of the farm buildings, the other animals following at a respectful distance. At every few steps Napoleon stopped and snuffed the ground for traces of Snowball's footsteps, which, he said, he could detect by the smell. He snuffed in every corner, in the barn, in the cow-shed, in the henhouses, in the vegetable garden, and found traces of Snowball almost everywhere. He would put his snout to the ground, give several deep sniffs, ad exclaim in a terrible voice, "Snowball! He has been here! I can smell him distinctly!" and at the word "Snowball" all the dogs let out blood-curdling growls and showed their side teeth.The animals were thoroughly frightened. It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers. In the evening Squealer called them together, and with an alarmed expression on his face told them that he had some serious news to report.
No matter how many grand schemes and plans are setup by the authorities, their aims are never achieved. But heaven forbid we assume those aims themselves are false or unsuitable!
While maskless people in stores and other facilities aren't non-existant, they are exceedingly rare. I perhaps see one to three in any particular week: considering the number of people I see in stores, that would probably correspond to a 0.25% number of people not following mask rules. Those meeting outside of "no indoor gathering" rules are likely a higher number, maybe even 5% of the population (excepting Christmas). It seems strange that such a small proportion of the population can be "ruining it for the rest of us" ("we're all in this together" yadda yadda yadda), does it not?
Orwell would probably chuckle at those repeating this obvious and clumsy lie, and then probably sit quietly in the corner at The Wheatsheaf and fear for the future of the world.
I have personally drank in both The Wheatsheaf and The Compton Arms (the closest pub to Orwell's flat he lived in while writing both novels), and yes indeed both bars have a prolific presence of CCTV cameras
Like Snowball, no matter how few "anti-maskers" you see in day to day life, they are responsible for every public policy failure. What else could it be, bad public policy? Perish the thought! It must be the heretics, and again unlike O'Brien's depiction of them from Nineteen Eighty Four, these heretics are in fact gaining in power every single day. Big Brother isn't crushing them, they are humiliating him. That's a page right out of Napoleon's book about Snowball:
Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. The animals knew that this was not the case. Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before
While everybody keeps pointing out that masks don't seem to be working (Edmonton and Calgary have had mask bylaws since last August but still account for far more COVID cases then their populations should indicate), our leaders blame the dissenters who refuse to wear a mask...and then decide that the "walls" between our mouths and the outside world need to be thicker, and now two or three masks are the upcoming new requirements. [if the parallel wasn't strong enough already, the headline in that RT.com article is "If 2 masks are good, 3 masks are better" which immediately brings to mind the infamous "4 legs good, 2 legs better". -ed]. Out of spite, it seems, people pretend not to believe that we only need 3 masks because somewhere on this planet there's a person with no masks spewing deadly COVID clouds into the air.
As a general aside, can we set a fairly simple rule about a matter of public policy?
If your plan requires 100.000% compliance, it will fail and deserves to fail. Come up with a new plan.
With this simple rule in mind we can make the inevitable correlation with communism. Like they claim with the WuFlu restrictions, the Marxist concern is that communism doesn't work if pockets of non-communism are to be found in society. More importantly authorities can stop complaining about "non-compliance" like they do in Lethbridge or Waterloo. You want 100% compliance and we won't ever give it to you. The hens will withhold their eggs. "Anti-maskers" will ignore your mask laws and hold house parties with as many people as we want. We will continue attending our church services.
Stop scapegoating us for your policy failures. Your empty claims are getting tiresome.
