The New York Times Story Didn't Say What Editors and Their Flying Monkeys Thought It Said.

Via Don Surber

 

The headline said, “A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts.

” OK, you don’t need a J-school degree to figure out the message sent. Not everyone in NYC is boosting $4,500 Louis Vuitton purses. It is just a few people.Whew. What a relief to know this.

The subheadline said, “Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in the city last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Businesses say they have little defense.”

You see? The looting is by just a few people.

The story said, “Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. Some engage in shoplifting as a trade, while others are driven by addiction or mental illness; the police did not identify the 327 people in the analysis.”

You see? They are just crazy or on drugs. That was the message NYT meant to send.

The story, however, is you can rob stores dozens of times and get away with it.

My question is why don’t more people in NYC just rob stores blind every day? I mean, come on people. If 327 people can get caught 6,000 times and get away with it, what is stopping 8 million people from looting Tiffany’s every morning and Macy’s every afternoon.

Maybe they are. Who knows how many New Yorkers steal and how many times they get away with it because the 327 people were just the ones the police caught. And the 6,000 arrests are just the times the 327 got caught.

Once again, NYT staffers throw a bunch of numbers around at random. You really cannot say, “A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts,” because the numbers reflect arrests, not crimes. And of course, there is the whole innocent-until-proven guilty thing that NYT conveniently forgets from time to time. - READ MORE

Hey -- this is something the Manhattan district attorney could look into! He's dedicating to showing that no man is above the law, and here are 327 people who appear to be above the law. https://t.co/nRlcmPTxbi

— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 15, 2023

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Throwback Thursday: Vagina Museum Applies For Liquor License

Today, with all things tranny and drag queens sucking all the air out of the room, I thought it a good time to remind the faux ladies that they are just clowns, and us real women got museums. Suck On That! *Snap!*

From the Great Moments in History Archives Oct 24, 2019

Note to Reader: There are so many possible jokes packed in that post title, and caused me to contemplate deleting this post before publication. But your esteemed Editrix would have felt remiss at passing up a opportunity to relieve my most excellent readers of the drudgery of reading more of the politics of the day, and of politicians who act like another part of the human anatomy we all have. That said, I apologize in advance for this post....

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You know what that Vagina Museum needs? An alcohol license.  But which vagina museum, you ask?

That would be the Vagina Museum set to open November 16th at London’s Camden Market, specifically. The grand showcase of unshowables is on a mission to spread the word on "gynecological anatomy and health." And to get you liquored up, I guess, at that wondrous place, the "world’s first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas."

But some people are concerned about its petition for a alcohol license far more than being known for actually having a Vagina Museum in their neighborhood.

"We have no doubt that the museum will try to ensure that no inappropriate parties will be allowed, but stag parties are not known for their respectfulness and hen parties can also be raucous and difficult to control."

Yeah, Drunken Hen Parties!! 

"If parties become rowdy, they will be removed by security and then end up on our streets, creating public nuisance."

And what if those stags and hens collide? Treachery could ensue says the chair of the Tenants Residents Associations, Camden Town. She expressed worry that the museum is "actively seeking" hen and stag nights.

Nevertheless, on Thursday, the erected salute to unmentionables was granted its license. Originally, the museum had applied to sell booze Sunday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to midnight. That was so, I suppose, you could say to your buddy, "Hey, it’s 11:00 at night. Let’s go down to the Vagina Museum and grab a beer."

Also granted: the ability to show films between 10 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. Monday thru Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Films. What kind of .....oh never mind.  There was just one condition imposed by the licensing panel: No more than 100 people may be inside the Vagina Museum at any one time. (..that sentence sounded better in my head) So go the rules and regulations of an esteemed community ornament.

So if you are in Jolly Ole London on or about November 16th, the line-up for the gallery’s opening exhibit will be "Muff Busters: Vagina Myths And How To Fight Them." And be sure to stop off at the bar.

[Telegraph UK]
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WH and Biden Are Creating Their Own Version of a Retarded Hitler Youth

Joe Biden has not yet officially announced his bid for re-election, but is rounding up hundreds of self important Gen Z social media "influencers" to spew WH propaganda and deflect from Biden's disastrous economic and foreign policy record. And soon, may even have their own dedicated circle jerk briefing room at the White House for influencers to meet in person, a sign that the traditional Press Briefing Room no longer would be the administration's only messaging center. It also would give some of the more sniffable influencers more consistent access to the president.

Hundreds of (unpaid and like-minded) slightly mature and obnoxious social media creatures are already working with Biden's White House. They include: Little Harry Sisson, a 20-year-old NYU student who breaks down the day's news on TikTok and makes a fool of himself on the Tweeter everyday, and 20 something Vivian Tu, a former day trader who discusses financial topics in short clips on TikTok for people with no jobs or money.

Ironically, the WH is courting support on TikTok even as it has called for the platform to be sold or else risk being banned in the U.S. because of its owner's are tied to China's Communist party.

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North Korean Power Rangers Declare War on Bricks

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— Maine Antifa (@MaineAntifa) April 8, 2023

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Tripping the Light Fantastic and Dancing Madly Backward into a Nightmare

The left has successfully brain-damaged much of America with a disastrous education system and near-monolithic media. I was but a wee lass during the Reagan years, but I have read with much interest and fascination the histories of the turbulent America of the 1960-1980s. Much of the way I look at the world from a philosophical and political point of view come directly from that period. 

Today, the only upside to a disastrous freak filled Biden administration and the totalitarian cancer at our universities and other institutions is that the reality of leftist rule is no longer a gradual change still pretending to offer a vision of a better future world as history tells us, but a fully dystopian present.  Lower standard of living, permanent racial division, mandated sexual confusion, the end of the rule of law, science so politicized it is no longer science, truth is relative, lessoned freedom and growing fear of being targeted as a dissident for thoughts once regarded as obvious and normal.

Surely there is now an opportunity to offer a saving contrast.  A Reagan grade contrast.  Are we too used to decrying what we oppose to affirm what we know to be the real fruits of freedom and objective truths? Or do we continue to make the mistakes that cost victory when the odds are obvious in our favor?  

Merriam-Webster:

personality cult - noun: a situation in which a public figure (such as a political leader) is deliberately presented to the people of a country as a great person who should be admired and loved.

New York Young Republican Club: Statement on President Trump’s Indictment: 

"President Trump embodies the American people—our psyche from id to super-ego—as does no other figure; his soul is totally bonded with our core values and emotions, and he is our total and indisputable champion. This tremendous connection threatens the established order...."

I don’t know if anything else needs to be said. I don’t know if I should have even posted this. I’m really not trying to stir the pot or make anyone mad…. I mean, we all made fun of this kind of stuff when said about Barky, right? I just feel sometimes, like many other professionals and business owners I know, that I'm living in a bizarro world where I just don’t belong.