For this story, Breitbart used this headline:
Well now, but that doesn’t really tell the story, does it? Here’s what the headline should have looked like:
…because if you’re going to publish the race of the victim, you should also publish the race of the bad guys, right?
That’s just me; always willing to lend a hand.
And this LeBron guy is a total asshole. A Black billionaire who howls about racism at every turn — but when actual racism happens right in his backyard, he says nada.
The latest news is that property prices are falling… well, in these ten cities anyway.
Toledo, Ohio: $115,000 (-18.7%)
Rochester, N.Y.: $149,000 (-17%)
Detroit: $75,000 (-15.4%)
Pittsburgh: $230,000 (-13.7%)
Springfield, Mass: $239,900 (-5.8%)
Tulsa, Okla.: $220,000 (-5%)
Los Angeles: $985,000 (-5%)
Memphis, Tenn.: $173,500 (-4.6%)
Chicago: $399,000 (-3.7%)
Richmond, Va.: $310,000 (-3.4%)
Running a skeptical eye down the list, it surprises me that any properties in these shit-hole cities ever experienced a housing price increase in the first place. I wouldn’t live in any of them for free.
I would suggest that a few minutes reading Insty contributor John Tierney’s take on the Great Plastic Hate campaign is well worth the time.
His theory is that it is just a modern spin on the old (and discredited) sumptuary laws of yore, and I can’t say I disagree with him. (And if you’re unfamiliar with the term — I was — he explains it all in the City Journal article.)
…what “month” it is.
Ho, here’s something different:
Hill was working as an employee of a local nuclear power plant when he won a $10 million prize from an Ultimate Millions scratch-off ticket at a convenience store near Wilmington in 2017. According to a WECT report from the time, Hill bought a scratch-off that did not win, then, on a whim, bought a second ticket, which was the winner. After state and federal tax withholdings, he took home a lump sum of just over $4.1 million.
And then in 2021?
A North Carolina man who won $10 million on a lottery ticket was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
And now we play “Guess The Perp’s Race”, for the umpteenth time.
That easy, was it?
Two different takes on the people who purport to be our nation’s leaders, first a global view from VDH:
As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after crisis, debate rages whether Joe Biden is incompetent, mean-spirited, or an ideologue who feels the country’s mess is his success.
A second national discussion revolves around who actually is overseeing the current national catastrophe, given Joe Biden’s frequent bewilderment and cognitive challenges.
But one area of agreement is the sheer craziness of Biden’s cabinet appointments, who have translated his incoherent ideology into catastrophic governance.
…The common denominator to these Biden appointees is ideological rigidity, nonchalance, and sheer incompetence.
They seem indifferent to the current border, inflation, energy, and crime disasters. When confronted, they are unable to answer simple questions from Congress, or they mock anyone asking for answers on behalf of the strapped American people.
We don’t know why or how such an unimpressive cadre ended up running the government, only that they are here and the American people are suffering from their presence.
And then a local perspective from Kurt:
The clusterfark in Uvalde is just a symptom of a much bigger pathology. It is a symbol of the failure of every institution in our society. And the solution is never to revamp the institutions and eject the parasites heading them. It’s always – always – to take power from us and give it to the people who screwed up in the first place.
November 2022 can’t come quickly enough (and we need November 2024 to come even more quickly) so we can get rid of these lying, incompetent and corrupt assholes at federal, state and local level.
There are quicker ways, mind you, but I’m not going to go there.
