By now you will have seen a goodly chunk of this story. For those who haven’t, a little backfill…
As we reported earlier, there was a horrible attack Sunday night in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in which a man driving a red SUV mowed down more than 20 people who were participating in the town’s Christmas parade. There were multiple fatalities but officials announced at a press conference that they won’t be releasing more specifics about even the number of deaths until the families have been notified.
well, that was last night. since then we’ve identified five dead so far, and we’ve also identified the driver of the SUV.
This report hasn’t been confirmed by the police yet. If you search the name provided by Markowicz, though, the person is a convicted felon with a long criminal record who was released on $1,000 cash bail for his latest charges on November 19, just two days ago.
The name given in all these sources is Daryl Brooks, Jr. This information has since been confirmed.
He considers himself among other things, a rapper and goes under the name of “Math Boi Fly”. Before his Facebook account got closed, this was lifted!
My, my. That’s not racist, or anything. Do you suppose this will be labeled a hate crime?
Personally, I’d like very much to know the name of the judge who put this animal out on the streets for $1,000 bail. I don’t doubt that at the time he made that call he thought he was being fair.
And the DA involved with the case…
Who was he, and is he yet another one of the apparachics attached to George Soros? Remember here that the prosecution against this critter is being organized by the same band of clowns that thought Rittenhouse should be prosecuted. must be that “white privilege” thing they keep talking about.
And by the way, why is the mainstream media so deathly quiet about this incident?
Yes, the traditions of the last several years on this website will continue to be observed, but I have one more thing, one more thought to pass along to you.
Given that this is going to take some preparation on your part, prior to Christmas, I’ll tell you my thought now, instead of waiting until Christmas has come, because at that point it’ll be too late.
I’ll tell you the truth, I don’t remember the gifts that I found under the Christmas tree that Christmas morning back in 1961. I’m willing to bet that you don’t remember the gifts you were given at age 4, either.
What I do remember is the family get togethers, the smells coming from the kitchen which I can smell to this day and yes the sound of the church bells ringing across the valley on the cold night air and the feeling that it all was so very special.
In a way that we all are, or were, I was an impressionable youngster, and those memories helped to make me what I am now.
WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan noted years ago about some of the qualities of children:
“They are susceptible to wonder. A child can look at a red toy car in the red-green glow of Christmas tree lights and imagine an entire lifetime. A child can play with a new doll and smell good things being cooked and hear sweet music and it can make that child imagine that life is good, which gives her a template for good, a category for good; it helps her know good exists. This knowledge comes in handy in life; those who do not receive it, one way or another, are sadder than those who do.”
So said Peggy Noonan.
My friends, those are the memories that were supposed to be making.
It helps us to understand the difference between good and evil for one thing. It lets us know what’s important and what’s not. It Spurs the imagination as Peg says, imagining an entire lifetime. And believe it or not it gives a life direction. It’s part of the very foundation of what young people will be when the future comes.
Creating that moment, creating that environment, creating that memory, is the task of you and I now.
So many of the people that I have celebrated Christmas with over the years are now gone. Family, friends, loved ones one and all.
Yet I can still see them in my mind’s eye, hear their voices, their laughter, and remember their Joy, and yes, how it fed my own joy for the season.
As Bob seger once wrote..
Sometimes at night, I see their faces
I feel the traces they’ve left on my soul
But those are the memories that make me a wealthy soul
If you want to give somebody a lasting gift this Christmas you’re not going to do it by spending gobs of money for something to put under the tree.
Instead, I will urge you to focus on making the memories.
The riots that we were all witness to, happened l because Democratic politicans told law enforcement to stand down. They defunded their police departments, and generally disparaged the idea of law and law enforcement. Had those officials actually done their job, or more correctly, allowed the law enforcement people to do their jobs, none of this would have gone down.
And why did all this happen? Why did they consider it desirable to disable law enforcement? Because they didn’t like Donald Trump, for one thing. They saw power slipping away from the Democrat party. They wanted to create a situation that they thought they could blame on their opponents. But the American people saw through that as evidenced by the overwhelming reaction to the vindication of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Those politicians should be held liable for the resulting damages. These elected officials with delusions of being community organizers should be financially drawn and quartered, permanently. And frankly in most cases jail time is appropriate as well.
As I said on the blog the other day…
Think about it now: when is the last time you heard of anyone in government paying for screwing up somebody’s life unjustly? No I’m not talking about government coughing up taxpayer money to make the problem go away. Talking about actual jail time for the perpetrators who supposedly represent the government. I don’t recall anybody, any prosecutor anywhere being sent to prison for such an act.
All they need to do is waive the magic wand of government over it, and all the guilt goes away. We’ve all seen it happen.
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There’s a lot of people going around this morning saying that justice has been done in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse but I submit to you that it’s not completely so.
I celebrate the jury finding. But the task is not complete.
I submit to you that it’s time that we brought those responsible for these situations occurring, to Justice. Let’s start with the governor of wisconsin. We can bring in the city officials including the district attorney and the ADA.
Let’s not forget the CNN’s and MSNBCs of the world. They too, bear responsibility here.
And let’s bring Joe Biden into the mix. He who famously called Kyle Rittenhouse a white supremacist… which of course was not true.
The only way that Justice will be done with any of these creatures is to either bring them to heel, or put them under the heel. And we’d better do it soon, we have a country to save.
Several thoughts here.
First, without the street photographers continuously taking pictures of what was going on, the videos on the subject would never have come up. For example the FBI video. We would have been forced to conclude that what the news media was telling us was the truth. It wasn’t, of course.
Alec Baldwin was unavailable for comment.
Kyle Rittenhouse is probably in larger danger now than he was during the riots last Summer. We all know that the left’s temper tantrum is going to continue.
I’m reasonably sure the Kyle Rittenhouse is going to come away from this a very rich man once the civil suits have been run through process. Even Nick Sandman told Rittenhouse that he should sue the pants off everybody involved. I think he’s got a point. It’s my guess that the mainstream media won’t be paying much attention to that particular story. But it’s my view that he was defamed by several people and every blessed one of them should be sued including Joe Biden who called him a white supremacist.
Of course it wasn’t true. If it was, the prosecution would have had immense amounts of proof to that point. In fact they had months to develop that case. They never did. And yet the idiot in Chief decided for reasons unknown to most of humanity that shooting three white guys is a racist act.
Christmas shopping in Kenosha begins this evening precisely at sundown, and will most likely continue every night until there is no more downtown left. They’ve already got a pretty good head start.
Somebody needs to tell Stephen King to shut up.
I can’t help but wonder when we’re going to see attempted murder charges leveled against the prosecution’s start witness. We all know that’s not going to happen despite the fact that he had a gun pointed directly at Kyle Rittenhouse’s head. All on video with np question about the evidence. It doesn’t mesh at all with the left and it’s agenda…. Therefore it charges will never be filed.
It’ll never happen but it would be absolutely precious to see the look on the Jury’s face when they find out the criminal record involved with the people that Rittenhouse shot… This was information that was kept from them during the trial.
Along those lines..
This trial was not about Kyle Rittenhouse per se. This was about the ability of Joe and Jane average to defend themselves against groups of Communists threatening to burn loot pillage and kill.
Since I declared Kyle Rittenhouse innocent some weeks ago, Facebook has put a limit on my account.
As it turns out I’m not alone. Obviously, they’re not tremendously interested in the idea getting out the Kyle Rittenhouse actually had more support than they ever did… If Facebook has never tried to silence you, you had best step up your game.
This fight is not over yet.
Hallelujah!!
Jurors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday declared Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts, capping off an intense trial surrounding the deadly unrest in that city last summer.
So reports Fox News, who, notably, didn’t get kicked out of the courtroom.
The judges comments to the jury are worth noting:
“I couldn’t have asked for a better jury to work with and it has truly been my pleasure,” Judge Bruce Schroeder said after delivering the verdict. “I think, without commenting on your verdict, the verdicts themselves, just in terms of your attentiveness and the cooperation that you gave to us, justifies the confidence that the founders of our country placed in you so I dismiss you at this time.”
It will be interesting to see how the government in the city of Kenosha and for that matter the state government in Wisconsin reacts to What will undoubtedly be a childish temper tantrum from the left.
The message being sent by this verdict is clear.
The left doesn’t want you to hear this.
But every real American should, and they should react accordingly.
Well this was probably the only thing that was left to cover. Billy back passes along a bit of intrigue:
EDIT: the authenticity of this data in the disputed files is now in dispute. This is not clear yet.
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The Rittenhouse drone video file presented to the defense and the court is marked internally by the Handbrake trans-coder. This, after ADA Kraus stated to the court that it had not been altered, and that “none of [the prosecution team] would even know how to do that.” This is not ordinary image metadata and must be discovered with a hex editor.
If this is true, then people conducting that prosecution must be criminally charged, beginning with ADA Kraus, on whose evidence laptop computer the Handbrake software is installed.
Oh, it gets better…
It looks now like the files that were distributed in the court including the somewhat lower resolution video given the defense wasn’t created on handbrake, but was in fact created on Apples QuickTime, though it had been run through handbrake at one time, possibly in the original conversion from the format supported by the drone.
Fox News at this point is reporting:
Rittenhouse’s defense attorneys, Mark Richards and Corey Chirafisi, said prosecutors gave them a 3.6-megabyte version of a drone video, while the version they kept for themselves had amounted to 11.2 MB. They said the resolution of the file they received came in at 480 by 212 pixels, compared to 1920 by 844 in the prosecution’s file.
Which probably means that neither file is the original.
Somewhere along the way also, a conversion was done from an iPhone to an Android.
I have to tell you, I smell a fish here. Given what else we have seen from this prosecution, it would make total sense to me to find the evidence being tampered with.
Given the crowds of animals outside the courtroom threatening violence, given the bleatings we’ve been seeing from the leftist press and given the amount of importance the left as a whole puts on a conviction in this case, are we truly to believe now that shenanigans weren’t involved on the part of the prosecution?
After all, tampering with data works so well in the case of elections….
The case needs to be dismissed with prejudice, Rittenhouse needs to be freed immediately, and a criminal investigation needs to be mounted here against the prosecutors. Based on the noises the judges making at the moment, I don’t see that happening without an additional development.
It makes me wonder how many times the judge has to be beaten about the head and shoulders with evidence before he acts accordingly.
And I will make the rather obvious prediction that Rittenhouse once the civil suits are out of the way is going to be a very rich man.
So they’re sending National guard troops into Kenosha. You know if they had done that last summer there wouldn’t even be a trial now. In short, if the government had actually been doing its job and stopping crime others wouldn’t have felt the need to step in.
Has Merrick Garland directed the FBI to investigate the multiple death threats against the judge and the jury, in that case? Or is he, as I suspect, too busy harassing parents who object to CRT being taught in schools?
Based on the evidence presented, there is no deliberation necessary. Free the kid and jail the star witnesses of the prosecutor, and throw the prosecutor himself in there with them
If the Rittenhouse lawyers are of any value at all, we are about to see a flurry of civil lawsuits from them.
Okay, yeah, it’s a little dated. This graphic was actually from last january. But still, it raises the point that I’ve been making all along. BLM are criminals. Criminals of the worst kind. They should be treated as such. But because Democrats think they get votes from these animals, they get supported by Democrats.
So we’re all busy watching a trial which is in essence trying to determine if Kyle Rittenhouse had the right to defend himself against BLM supporters who were trying to kill him. These are individuals who all had extensive criminal records as shown below.
Meantime we have the leaders of BLM in New York City saying that if the new mayor starts cracking down on crime that the reaction from BLM will be violence.
One of the obvious conclusions to draw from all of this is that if government was actually doing its job in controlling crime instead of aiding and abetting it, individuals like Kyle Rittenhouse David Dorn, who by the way lost his life wouldn’t have felt the need to step in.
Ask Tucker Carlson says when government refuses to do its job citizens will rise up.
This trial is not about Kyle Rittenhouse per se. Rather it is about your ability to defend yourself from criminals that the government has been aiding and abetting. There’s no longer any conclusion to draw.
A fairly decent piece from Anna Rose, in which she gets some things right… but hardly everything.
I’ll leave you to read the article yourself but I’m going to warn you to be careful where you step with this thing.
The first thing you need to understand is with Democrats it’s all about advancing the leftist agenda. You can get away with damn near anything so long as the agenda isn’t damaged. The only time Democrats will turn on their own is when they become too big and embarrassment, and an impediment to the forwarding of the leftist agenda. That way lies Jim Trafficant, for example. On the other hand consider the Democrat defense of Bill Clinton. Menendez, Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, and infinitum. Calling these people out on their misdeeds would have caused greater damage to the advancements of the leftist agenda, so they basically got away with it.
If the number of nursing home deaths behind Cuomo were to get the attention that they deserve, it would certainly be an impediment to the leftist agenda. Still, they needed to get Cuomo out of the way. How to do that? Oh yes, a sex scandal. It’s always works for the Democrats before.
With Anthony fauci it’s a slightly different scenario. With him it’s all about hiding the fact that under his leadership the US was cooperating with the Chinese government to do gain of function research. Biological weapons. Keeping in mind anything that gets developed at that lab is already in the hands of the Communist Chinese who aren’t exactly our best friends.. which on its face strikes me as a major security matter, the question becomes why Faucci and company were going so far outside the law.
The fact of the matter is covid-19 was developed in cooperation with the Chinese communists on our time. Your taxpayer money developed covid-19 and is directly responsible for all of those deaths including the ones caused by Andrew Cuomo.
I suggest that of the two Anthony Faucci is the bigger fish, because without him doing his illegal research and handing the results of that research to the Communist Chinese while we paid for it, Andrew Cuomo would still be playing grab ass with his subordinates and all those covid-19 deaths in the economic destruction that the virus caused would never have happened.
So…..Why isn’t Anthony Faucci in jail at this very moment? Again, doing that would damage the leftist agenda. Why isn’t Andrew Cuomo in jail? Same answer.
That’s the lesson here. It’s always about the leftist agenda.
Enough with the arguments about Rittenhouse being a vigilante and how vigilantism is bad etc.
Sorry, I’m not buying it.
I don’t have the figures to hand but I’m willing to bet that in the end, the vigilantes are doing a better job of it because they have a greater risk.
Think about it now: when is the last time you heard of anyone in government paying for screwing up somebody’s life unjustly? No I’m not talking about government coughing up taxpayer money to make the problem go away. Talking about actual jail time for the perpetrators who supposedly represent the government. I don’t recall anybody, any prosecutor anywhere being sent to prison for such an act.
All they need to do is waive the magic wand of government over it, and all the guilt goes away. We’ve all seen it happen.
We can get into the specifics of government malfeasance on a number of levels at some point in the future, and I don’t doubt for a second that that subject will come up over the next year or two given who we have in Congress and in the White House at the moment
But let’s put all the other arguments aside for the moment and concentrate on this glaring fact:
If the government were actually doing its job in the city that day, Kyle Rittenhouse and others like him wouldn’t have felt the need to respond as they did.
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I’ve been saying all along that Rittenhouse, justifiably, will walk away from these charges. That was confirmed in testimony yesterday, when the prosecution’s own witness was forced to admit that the kid fired in self-defense.
Defense attorney Chirafisi: “It wasn’t until you advanced on [Rittenhouse], with your hand down and gun pointed toward his head that he fired, correct?”
Grosskreutz: “Correct.”
Show’s over, fade to black. If you’d like you can watch the video here.
The reaction of the prosecutor to the truth actually coming out was priceless;
It’s both amusing and instructive to note that the collective is left has used the same tactics here, that they were using against Donald trump. Keep screaming wise Volume 11, allow the press to repeat those lies endlessly as if they were Stone Cold fact.
Oh, and let’s make sure that any exculpatory evidence doesn’t make it in front of the jury. Like for example, the fact that the prosecution is witness that apparently remarked into a friend about how we regretted not killing Rittenhouse. Meanwhile, it came out yesterday that the prosecution was planning on casting Grosskreutz as the hero. Apparently when you’re a prosecutor, particularly a Democrat, the truth need not apply because the narrative is more important.
Dear reader, here we have yet another example of the actual truth exposing the left as narrative for the lie that it is.
The remaining problem is the same one that we’re dealing with as regards the charges the left has been continuously making against Donald trump. Into their hands for so long that they can’t accept it’s not the truth even when the evidence is directly in front of them as in this case. As a result, as with the case of Donald trump, the leftist chance of guilty will far out last being disproven.
Oh, one more thing…
I’ve already written my piece on the FBI some days ago. But if you want confirmation of what I wrote back then, you need look no further than Powerline. Somebody has apparently directed the FBI to go after Project Veritas.
There is a context to this story that goes well beyond the sadness of Joe Biden’s deeply troubled family. The FBI’s once-stellar reputation has been badly tarnished in recent years, and many millions of Americans now see the Bureau as a politicized agency that has become, in important ways, an arm of the Democratic Party. The Case of the Missing Diary may be trivial in itself, but the fact that the FBI is now executing search warrants on the homes of political opponents of the Biden administration, with no national interest at stake other than the reputation of the Biden family, lends support to that suspicion.
And once again the only people that benefit from that, are Democrats.
Boy, there’s a shocker, huh?
Friend to Billy Beck comes up with an interesting quote this morning
“All of this convinced [him] that the technology industrialization had made possible — automobiles, movies, radio, mass-circulation magazines, the advertising that paid for them — was creating an exaggerated desire for privacy. It was making an English upper-class evil a vice of American society. It was, ‘the sad climax of individualism, the blind-alley of a generation which had forgotten how to think or live collectively, of a people whose private lives were so brittle, so insecure that they dared not subject them to the slightest social contact with the casual stranger, of people who felt neither curiosity nor responsibility for the mass of those who shared their community life and their community problems.'”
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Can you see the general ethic?
Guess who.
Answer in comments.
And in the comments as promised he reveals the origin of the quote, and adds a thought or two:
George Kennan in 1938.
This makes perfect sense, to me, when I consider Soviet “containment”.
Kennan was a moral coward. He didn’t have the spine to come out for the Soviets, he certainly was not going to fully condemn them, and containment was the original “Third Way”.
I tell him:
Billy Beck you suggest that he was arguing for the Soviets, albeit limp wristedly. Not knowing much about the man I’ll take your word for it but it strikes me that the ethic he’s arguing for could just as easily have been the Nazis. Given the time frame of the quote it works just as well because so much of their ethic was precisely the same. And then, over on the edge of the map is Spain at the time. So many social political evolutionary cul-de-sacs to choose from, from that time that his comments mesh with rather nicely.
The sad part is, it also meshes rather well with the Democrat party here in the states, today.
There’s a prediction in there, somewhere…
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And that is the reality of the situation. Every one of those offshoots of socialism including what the Democrats of the United States espouse today attempt to limit if not eliminate the rugged individualism of this nation was founded upon.
As I told billy, there is a prediction in there. I am increasingly persuaded that the Democrat party will fail in its attempt to make socialists of us. The question then becomes, will we allow them to drag us down with them?
