[Free Beacon] During a weekly briefing last Monday, Philadelphia district attorney and prominent "progressive prosecutor" Larry Krasner sought to downplay the surge in violence his city has endured over the last two years.
"We don't have a crisis of lawlessness, we don't have a crisis of crime, we don't have a crisis of violence," Krasner said. "It's important that we don't let this become mushy and bleed into the notion that there is some kind of big spike in crime."
Those claims are at odds with the facts on the ground. Philadelphia has seen over 500 homicides this year, the most in 60 years; shootings, which began surging last year, remain well above pre-2020 norms. As former mayor Michael Nutter (D.) put it in a blistering op-ed, "I'd like to ask Krasner: How many more Black and brown people, and others, would have to be gunned down in our streets daily to meet your definition of a ’crisis'?"
Krasner's comments, though, typify a rhetorical approach adopted by prominent politicians, think tanks, and the media amid a record surge in homicides across the country. Since murders began rising in the wake of last summer's anti-police protests, progressives have sought to discount or otherwise wave away the spike and conspicuously avoided discussing the role of the diminished criminal justice system. This wariness reflects a progressive fear of "tough on crime" rhetoric but is likely to cost them electorally—if it has not already.
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Cause Jemarius don' wanna hear 'bout how bad his shootin' is.
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There are two things in play here. The first is that diving down into the murder problem inevitably leads to black guys shooting black guys. Not an easy thing to admit or fix.
The other is you can make more money *trying* to fix a problem than actually fixing it. Vote for me and I will fight to fix Problem X. We will need money. And community outreach. And community outreach assistants. And a new city department of gang intervention. Come on, man! Get onboard and we can all get our beaks wet.
Note that strategy #2 only works if the problem never actually goes away.
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Strategy #2 also fails when people stop believing the bullshit.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Actually, money for the prosecution offices for far more hours to address the under incarceration problem. Lock them away if you are not going to permanently remove them as a threat to society.
[Personal] Several weeks ago, the Loudon Country CRT issue boiled over (in my mind) enough to mention it to my wife of 50 years, whose political views have diverged from my own over the last ten years or more. I asked her if she had heard of Critical Race theory.
Yes, she informed me, that was taught in some college-level course, that was all. "Not in high schools", I asked? No, no ... so - OK, end of discussion.
Karma intervened, and the next day, I sent her a copy of an article about the CRT blowup in the Ft. Worth schools, just 30-40 miles from where we live. Response — Crickets.
Tonight (12/14), the local CBS news (relatively even handed, and her local favorite) had a story about the heated CRT issue in Ft. Worth schools. I didn’t say a word, but she offered, "I used to think this was just taught in university; it’s very complicated."
I said, "No, it’s very simple. It’s all about race, which is not what Martin Luther King taught." The crickets circled around me and I went to bed. I hope she remembers King's statement about being 'judged by the content of your character, not the color of your skin.'
But I made a dent in a media meme! A tiny step forward!
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Rule #1
A wife will always remember something differently.
Proper response: If you say so honey.
Rule #2
A wife will deny what is recorded on video when it proves otherwise.
Proper response: It could have mis-recorded it, I guess.
Rule #3
Suck it up and accept the little flaws and issues for the greater good and happiness she brings.
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On small step for Bobby, one giant leap for Bobby-kind.
From a branding standpoint, Critical Race Theory is genius. The word 'critical' means it is important. Race is certainly a hot topic and 'theory', that means Science. You're not a Science Denier, are you?
Unfortunately for CRT, we value theories for their predictive power. Critical Race Theory divides people into two categories, Losers and Assholes, and predicts which one you belong to by the color of your skin. Not very sciencey or useful. Unless you are a grifter.
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The race peddlers' goal is white subjection. They will get the Chasen Buttigieg's and the 1.x million who watch CNN. Beyond that, they are trying to sell cancer and everyone they are trying to sell it to is not interested. They need to make it part of the school indoctrination program because it isn't going to get picked up on its own.
The rayciss version of Olestra it is and it will actually be a bigger failure. Because rayciss.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Rule #1 A wife will People always remember something differently.
Rule #2 A wife will deny what is recorded on video when it proves otherwise. What’s recorded on video is always open to interpretation. See Rule 1.
Rule #3 Suck it up and accept the little flaws and issues for the greater good and happiness she brings. Congratulations: you love a human being and not a robot. Enjoy the things that make her so specially herself, and be grateful she does the same about your imperfections
I missed a whole series of articles. This is the first of four by Oleg Airapetov
[REGNUM] Power in Kiev shortly after the February Revolution was seized by the Central Rada. It was headed by prof. M. S. Hrushevsky, the General Secretariat headed by the writer V. K. Vinnichenko became the executive body. Hrushevsky was the author of the concept of "Ukraine-Rus," since 1894 he taught at the University of Lemberg (present-day Lvov).
Continued on Page 49
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I am damn glad I bought my new roof early last year. Ditto the PC I built a few months ago.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/15/2021 7:51 Comments ||
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From the amazing Mrs. Ret the other night,” What’s this crap about retirees and Social Security recipients living on a fixed income? Aren’t we all?
Not like you can walk into the boss’s office at Spacely Sprockets and tell him that you need a bump this month because bills are getting too high with any reasonable chance of succeeding.
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Counterf@iters, bank robbers and safe crackers can adjust their incomes on demand.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/15/2021 8:50 Comments ||
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Oh, I forgot. Politicians can too.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/15/2021 8:51 Comments ||
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Prices are a little higher, but seriously, only about $8-12/$100 spent. If your living that thinly, you have nobody to blame but yourself, there are plenty of places costs can be cut if times are that dire.
There are constant gripes and complaints here about prices and how bad the government is for not fixing it, but complain and moan about government being too big in the next breath.This is raw capitalism at work doing what it does. Pick a stance and stick to it - get the government involved or keep it small, you can't have it both ways.
Oh yeah, anyone care to provide evidence of a fraudulent election, outside of Trump crying about losing but providing no evidence or a poorly constructed facebook meme? Why haven't McCarthy, McConnell, Thune, Barrasso, Blunt or any other republican leaders planted their flag on this hill and held the line if it were true? Oh, wait, I'm sure they are sellouts right?
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12/15/2021 13:30 Comments ||
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^ If you can't afford to spend more, it's your fault. Yosemite Pelosi.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/15/2021 13:34 Comments ||
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That’s absolutely correct, Your expenses are your responsibility, not the government’s or mine. Let capitalism adjust the market, not artificially adjusted by the government. You make the same point those who want student debt erased. It’s their debt, their responsibility. Nobody made them take out those loans, just like nobody made you make poor personal fiscal decisions so you cannot absorb 8-10% increases in cost caused by smaller government and free markets running prices.
Posted by: Yosemite Sam ||
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Yosemite: inflation of this sort isn't caused by market forces but by the idiotic federal government policy of shooting $5 trillion through a bazooka into an economy which these shitheads largely shut down. IOW they manufactured a supply squeeze at the same time they pumped up the Mother of All Luquidity Bubbles.
Unlike the 1970s spikes -- whose causes includes incompetence but more importantly, two separate oil embargoes -- today's entirely predictable inflation spike is 100% on Magoo, Yellen, Powell and the sh!t-for-brains Capitol Hill Democrats.
Those sh!theads created this mess. They own it -- full stop.
[MAIL] A secretive unit within US Customs and Border Patrol peered into the personal and financial records of government staff, nonprofit workers and up to 20 journalists from outlets like the New York Times and the Associated Press.
Some of the searches were part of a probe into media leaks during the Trump administration. One investigation, dubbed 'Operation Whistle Pig' in reference to a brand of whiskey, ensnared a Senate staffer who was having an affair with a reporter.
'When a name comes across your desk, you run it through every system you have access to, that's just status quo, that's what everyone does,' CBP agent Jeffrey Rambo told the department's inspector general in a 500-page report obtained by Yahoo News and published Saturday.
Earlier this year, a prosecutor declined to press charges against Rambo, who continues to work for CBP.
News of the searches spurred immediate backlash from media outlets and privacy advocates. CBP says its actions were governed by 'well-established protocols.'
[WIRE] White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki faced intense questions on Tuesday over a variety of issues facing the administration as it battles low approval ratings from the American public.
One reporter pressed Psaki on the "thin" public schedule released for President Joe Biden and asked what Biden was doing today. The inquiry came as questions have continued to swirl about Biden’s mental fitness for office.
"Well, let’s see. The President has two local interviews he will be doing later this afternoon," Psaki responded. "He has a number of internal meetings with senior members of his staff that have happened throughout the course of the day today, his Presidential Daily Brief and I believe there’s some mayors who are visiting today as well."
"What’s the purpose of the meeting with the mayors?" the reporter asked.
"It’s not a meeting with the President with the mayors," Psaki said. "They’re here, I’m not going to get ahead of it beyond that."
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My high school US history teacher loved to recite an apocryphal story of how barrels of whiskey had to be opened in bathtubs on the White House lawn to lure unruly guests out of Andrew Jackson's inaugural ball.
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He's fading fast. They've got to come up with a Plan-B. The Harris rehab is in high gear. The Clintons are scrambling.
As long as he can function as a human teleprompter, Joe is the perfect spokes-droid for the Brandon Administration. But as he nears his expiration date, he becomes increasingly unreliable. Can't have the Prez glitching out public, giving the game away!
Harris is a non-starter. Too many negatives (that laugh alone!) and unreliable. She will need to be moved out of the way. That will require deft maneuvering or an untimely accident. Helicopters crash all the time.
Cthulu lies dreaming in a chardonnay fog, but will never be President. Hillary lies dreaming... I *know* I typed Hillary. Damn autocorrect! She could play the role of queen-maker though. Say, what is Chelsea doing these days? Chelsea is the least insane of all the name-brand Democrats I can think of. It's not like the Dems have a deep bench. Gretchen Whitmer, anyone?
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I will go out on a limb and state there will never be another Clinton or Boosh prexident in my lifetime (admittedly, that's not all that long)
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Still think the Nixon-Agnew-Ford maneuver's a real possibility.
1. VP is moved out -- Ambassador to France prob'y
2. New VP and heir-apparent is moved in
3. Magoo (aka Plugs the Hair-Apparent) steps down and New VP takes over
Only Q is which identity-politics box the New VP will tick: Alphabet Person or Noble Mulatta?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Free Beacon] During a weekly briefing last Monday, Philadelphia district attorney and prominent "progressive prosecutor" Larry Krasner sought to downplay the surge in violence his city has endured over the last two years.
[Personal] Several weeks ago, the Loudon Country CRT issue boiled over (in my mind) enough to mention it to my wife of 50 years, whose political views have diverged from my own over the last ten years or more. I asked her if she had heard of Critical Race theory.
