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One CBP firearms instructor shot another in the chest during a demonstration while training in Miami.
More food shortages and higher food prices coming as Alaska cancels crab season this year.
This story is why I remain opposed to the death penalty in practice. You can’t trust anyone in our “justice system.” Even with a confession.
The guy spent 35 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit before his conviction was overturned. The cop who got his conviction was using questionable tactics to secure confessions for years.
Larry Correia introduced us to the common Internet Shit Gibbon. I will allow his description to speak for itself.
You ever post something on social media, and then have some random stranger blunder in screaming at you for wrongthink? You might have attracted a Common Internet Shit Gibbon. You can tell when you are dealing with a Common Internet Shit Gibbon by the following clues:
– They start out by being total dicks to everyone, attack, attack, attack, but when responded to in kind, demand civility and whine about “tone”.
– They just make shit up and throw it at the wall to see what sticks.– They are really pathetic, but oblivious to it. In fact, they think they’re brilliant, even while being super dumb.
– When you waste you time refuting any of their bullshit, they immediately create new bullshit. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
Their bullshit is endless. Your time is not. So when you discover that you’ve got a CISG infestation, the best bet is to just mock them until you get bored, and then block them.
Last night, I had to drive to Miami. While there, the wife and I had date night. When I returned to the hotel, I found a list of comments, some taking me to task, demanding that I post his comments, and all of them calling me names.
Apparently, Cassandra missed the part where this blog is my property. It’s also apparent that I have a CISG infestation. I was looking forward to a discussion of the merits of my hypothesis on the issue that so offended him, but I just don’t think he is capable. He has become tiresome, I have wasted enough time with his nonsense, and frankly he has pissed me off. So I will drop the fifth ban in this blog’s history on his ass.
So Cassandra, just go away. My property, my rules. You apparently have no argument and are deliberately trying to appear picked on so you can claim the cachet of being the victim. So begone, asshole, and in case you were wondering, THAT is an insult NOT an ad hominem. An ad hominem is a personal insult used to discredit an idea. I don’t give a shit about your ideas, I just want to insult you.
That also isn’t hypocrisy, because the ‘no personal attacks’ rule is for comments, not for me. See, I own the place and can do as I please.
Now piss off.
Entire neighborhoods and towns were wiped out by hurricane Ian. The governor today expanded voting rules in the three counties hit hardest.
Democrats are pissed because he didn’t do the same for Orange county, which had flooding.
So I REALLY don’t want this to be a page that slams on the black race. I wasn’t going to post anything about black crime for awhile, but Cassandra came into comments and decided to show his ass.
In no particular order, I will address his claims. First, his claim that I am a hypocrite for prohibiting ad hominem attacks while engaging in them. Since he apparently doesn’t know what ad hominem means, we can start with a definition:
Ad hominem is a Latin word that means “against the man.” As the name suggests, it is a literary term that involves commenting on or against an opponent, to undermine him instead of his arguments.
Literarydevices.net, retrieved 10/14/2022
So now that we know what an ad hominem is, let’s look at what I said and see if it was an ad hominem. What I said was this:
But hey, Cassandra, these two just happen to be two more of what you call “a small subset of violent black males that disproportionately commit violent crimes.”
Cassandra in comments claims that this is a small subset of blacks, yet has not yet provided one shred of evidence to support that claim. I wouldn’t call one third being a “small subset.” He might as well claim that there is one black male committing every crime, for all of the evidence he has provided. That man’s name is Sum Dood.
Nope. Neither one of those quotes were attacking you, they were attacking your claims that most black men don’t commit crimes and pointing out that you were making unsupported claims. Had I been engaging in ad hominem attacks, I would have said that you are an ignorant little troll with delusions of adequacy, but I didn’t do that. I hope you can see the difference.
You also accused me of editing the title of my post, but not the content. You apparently missed the part where the post said:
Because of an attack in comments, I am adding the following:
I have never, not once, altered the content of a post on this site without making the changes transparent.
Now that we have passed the attacks on my character and integrity, let’s get to your weak argument. You spent the first part of your comment claiming that my sources weren’t sufficient to your exacting standards, so let’s look at what the US Department of Justice has to say. I will quote directly from their study on the topic: Lifetime Likelihood of Going to State or Federal Prison (Retrieved 10/14/2022) (pdf alert)
Blacks in the U.S. resident population (16.2%), regardless of their sex, are nearly twice as likely as Hispanics (9.4%) and 6 times more likely than whites (2.5%) to be admitted to prison during their lives.
Among men, more than 1 in 4 blacks and 1 in 6 Hispanics, compared to 1 in 23 whites, will enter prison at least once if current incarceration rates do not change. An estimated 28.5% of black men, 16.0% of Hispanic men, and 4.4% of white men are expected to serve a State or Federal prison sentence.
You do quote the Washington Post in claiming that the 1 in 3 chance of black men being incarcerated is a ‘stale statistic’ which is actually a pretty good argument, the only one you actually made. Sadly, it is incorrect, doesn’t attack the original premise (see below) and completely overshadowed by your juvenile attempts at character assassination.
Then you spend the rest of your comment setting up a strawman argument that you then tear down- attacking a statement that I never made.
Accounting for the 37% decrease in imprisonment rate for black men, and that about half are jailed for violent crimes, the lifetime likelihood for black men to be jailed for violent crimes is much closer to 10% than the 1/3 you incorrectly claimed. Yes, that’s still too high, and far higher than the rate for white men, but it refutes your 1 in 3 claim conclusively. I guess “Sum Dood” hasn’t been as busy as you thought he was.
Nowhere did I make the claim that one in three blacks were in prison for being violent. The claim that I made, one that you still have not addressed, still stands:
Isn’t it time that we admit that blacks are largely a race of criminals who have a pathological inability to live in civilized society? It’s well documented that more than half of all homicides and nearly half of all violent crimes, are committed by blacks.
The one in three statement that you latched onto was this:
The Sentencing Project estimated in 2001 that the likelihood of a Black man spending time behind bars in their lifetime was 1 in 3.
You still are not providing any evidence to support your own position. You are merely attempting to attack me by calling me a hypocrite, and are attacking selected strawman arguments where you have taken a statement that I have made, twisted into something else, and then attacked that. Your attempts at discussion are sadly poor, and lacking in any real substance. I have given failing grades to better papers than yours, and seen better arguments from 14 year old children.
I have spent enough of my limited time on your childish attempts to argue a position without a bit of evidence.
And before you engage in any more accusations of me being a hypocrite, let me spell out the rule of this blog:
This is my blog. It is a website paid for by me, on a server leased and paid for by me. I invite argument and disagreement, and actually welcome healthy debate. What I am not going to do is permit ad hominem attacks against the person who pays the bills here, namely me. It’s the same as being in my house- you can disagree with me while you are a guest within my walls, and we can have a healthy discussion. What I won’t allow or tolerate is for a guest on my property to insult or attack me personally. I also don’t allow people on here to attack each other. You have been repeatedly told this. This is your last warning. If you don’t like that, you are free to use your own funds and start your own blog. Heck, I will even rent you the server space with which to do it. The rate is $25 per month.
Until then, I decide. One more personal attack, and I will drop the ban hammer on your ass. In the nearly two years this blog has been here, I have banned only four people. Don’t become the fifth.
Remember the 2008 Financial crisis? The one where banks made loans to people who couldn’t afford them so those people could buy homes they couldn’t afford at inflated prices that far exceeded the actual value of the property, then bundled those loans into securities and had ratings agencies vastly overstate the value of those securities, all so they could make billions in profits? They then got bailed out at the expense of the taxpayers they just ripped off, all because they were too big to fail? Then they used the bailout money to pay huge bonuses to bank executives? Those actions crashed the economy of the entire world, destroying trillions in retirement savings that vanished virtually overnight? The banking regulators that were in charge of making sure stuff like that didn’t happen? They retired from government service, and all were offered high paying jobs with the same banks they were supposed to be watching and never even have to go to work. Isn’t that odd? They made a great movie about it, called The Big Short.
No one went to jail. Not one person. The largest fine paid by a banking executive was $67.5 million. For committing fraud on such a large scale that it was the largest transfer of wealth in human history to that point.
Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked in children for decades. She made money by providing children to be used as sex toys for no one, apparently. Not one person has been named as being one of her customers.
Why do I bring that up? Because today, Alex Jones was ordered to pay $1 billion in damages because he is an asshole and said mean things. Don’t get me wrong, he *is* an asshole. What he did and said hurt the victims of Sandy Hook and their families. I often wondered if he wasn’t a government disinformation campaign designed to make the right look like a bunch of nutjobs. That however, doesn’t come close to being in the same league with what the banks, their executives, and government regulators did.
I guess he wasn’t big enough for a bailout. I wonder, if one were to draw a Venn diagram of banking executives, government officials, and Ghislaine Maxwell’s clients, how much of those three circles would overlap? Now compare that to a Venn diagram of Alex Jones fans. Perhaps that is the real reason why he is paying out a billion bucks. He is being crushed as an example to all of the others: don’t you DARE question us.
The Marines have turned into sissified little whiny bitch-assed pussies. They will no longer put up with drill instructors calling them names.
Go have a good cry about this post in your safe spaces, you fucking pussies. What are you going to do when you are getting shot at? Complain to HR? Oooh- send a mean tweet or email to their boss before canceling them.
They said allowing women to serve wouldn’t affect combat effectiveness.
Here are my suggestions for some new Marine Corps recruiting slogans: