Ruke 5 Sunday: Little Mischief Baker

Posted on | December 16, 2024 | No Comments

Looks like she’s got something in mind to do while the cake is baking. Or someone.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Hydrogen Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

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A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Riana Bailey, Fish Pic Friday – AI Fish, Farmers to Get More Say in the Next Bay Diet?, Tattoo Thursday, Hump Day Potpourri, The Wednesday Wetness, Is Hegseth Gaining Ground? Wray Planning Resignation, Tuesday Tanlines, Trump Promises J6 Pardons, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday, and ‘Pubs Pounce on Papa Joe’s Pardon

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FMJRA 2.0: The Draft Plays On

Posted on | December 15, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The draft for the 1973 season continues at Pete’s league, and as the informal draft puttered on through the week, I got some more good players.
7. OF Cito Gaston
8. OF Tommie Agee
9. P Blue Moon Odom
10. 1B Frank Howard
11. 2B Glenn Beckert
12. RP Dave Sells
Got some pretty good hitters and a solid pitching staff. I think we might could make the playoffs this year.
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In The Mailbox: 12.13.24
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The Heroism of Amy Wax

Posted on | December 14, 2024 | No Comments

“A man who is not willing to be slandered by the Left is of no use to the Right. It goes without saying, and can be demonstrated from history, that every successful proponent of the conservative cause becomes a target of the Left’s character assassins.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “First They Came for Mel Bradford”

Meetings of the Mencken Club are so secretive that attendees usually never mention their attendance, lest it make them targets of “cancelation.” You can’t post about this gathering of Thought Criminals on Facebook, because if the the Left finds out where the meeting is being hosted, there will certainly be protests and quite probably vandalism, and good luck booking a hotel ballroom in such a situation.

So I can’t tell you where I had the pleasure of meeting University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Amy Wax over a cup of coffee. She is a petite dynamo of a woman, full of energy, and photos don’t do her justice. Beyond that, I invoke my Miranda “right to remain silent.”

Professor Wax has no intention of remaining silent:

Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who was disciplined by the University of Pennsylvania for making controversial remarks about race and gender, told Penn on Thursday that she will sue the university for race discrimination if it does not drop the sanctions against her, according to a letter from Wax’s lawyers obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It’s the latest salvo in a nearly three-year-long battle between Wax and the Ivy League school, which announced in September that it was suspending her at half-pay for one year.
Penn has until December 19 to “conclusively disavow” those penalties. “Should you fail to do so,” the letter states, “Professor Wax will file suit against the University.”
Because Penn promises its professors academic freedom, the letter argues that the school breached its contract with Wax by punishing her for protected speech. It notes that Penn took no action against professors who spewed anti-Semitic bile after the October 7 attacks. And it uses Penn’s double standard to make a creative legal argument: By punishing speech that offended racial minorities — but not speech that offended Jews — the university engaged in unlawful race discrimination when it singled Wax out for punishment, the letter says.
“The University’s speech policies … transparently discriminate on the basis of race, including most notably the race of the subject of the speech at issue,” the letter reads. “As such, they violate federal law’s various prohibitions against race-based discrimination.” . . .

You can read the whole thing and see if you can find anywhere that Professor Wax said anything untrue. See, that’s the way it is in 21st-century academia — you can tell any lie, as long as it’s a politically correct lie, but there are some truths that no one is permitted to mention, and that’s why Professor Wax got punished. She has refused to budge an inch and now, thanks to Penn’s tolerance for Jew-hating pro-Hamas protesters, she’s got a solid legal case against the administration.

As for where I met her, well, I can’t tell you, because the first rule of Mencken Club is, nobody talks about Mencken Club.

(Hat tip: Instapundit.)

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In The Mailbox: 12.13.24

Posted on | December 14, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Commissar Wombat actually prefers Friday 13. It’s his lucky day,

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Nosferatu (1979), also, Biden Crime Family is Pounding out the Pardons!
Twitchy: Leftists Shocked To Find They’re Not The Only Ones Who Can Topple Statues, Decoding The DOD, and Jill Biden Gets Corrected In Real Time By Kids At The White House
Louder With Crowder: Tom Homan Promises To Prosecute Mayors Who Impede ICE, also, Teacher Has Meltdown After School Sends Officer To Check On Her Well-Being Over Pride Flag Incident
Vox Popoli: First Star Wars, Now Middle Earth, FBI Front Disbands, Christmas and the New Covenant, and Cuba Joins BRICS
According To Hoyt: Baby It’s Dumb Outside, A Squirrel for Christmas, and In Defense of Telework
Monster Hunter Nation: Academy of Outcasts cover reveal
Toni Airaksinen: Professor Blames Math’s “Rational Thought” For Women’s STEM Struggles
Upstream Reviews: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade,

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American Conservative: Trump Denounces Automation of US Ports
American Greatness: The Real Criminal Here is Not Hunter Biden, Biden Regime Hauling Unused Border Wall Materials Away from Border and Auctioning Them Off to ‘Sabotage’ Trump, Biden’s Pardon Is A Smokescreen for Corruption, New MO State Legislator Introduces Bill to Award $1,000 Bounty to Americans who Report Illegal Aliens, and Biden’s Paranoid Pardons and Leftist Morality
American Thinker: Welcome to Orwell’s World
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Hydrogen Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship congratulates Russia Today for its unbiased coverage, U.S. State Dept. keeps Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list for another year, WHO declares Cuba a ‘high health risk’ destination for travelers, and Germany issues security alert for travel to Cuba
BattleSwarm: Biden: I’m Going To Force Taxpayers To Pay For Illegal Alien Healthcare. Federal Judge: Like Hell You Will, Diversity != Strength, and How Do You Miss Six Shots From Five Feet Away?
Behind The Black: Rocket startup Stoke Space completes static fire test of first stage engine, Perseverance reaches top of Jezero Crater rim, Curiosity begins to round the corner out of Gediz Vallis, SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, and SpaceX requests special election to make Starbase at Boca Chica a city
Cafe Hayek: Mercantilism Is Inevitable Only If Well-Informed People Remain Silent
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Inconvenient Man
Da Tech Guy: That Didn’t Take Long, Liberals say the darndest things on social media, The “Self Interest” Argument to Those Insisting that Murdering CEOs Is Justified, and The Single Best Argument Against Introducing Luigi Mangione to a Lamppost Comes from Abe Lincoln
Don Surber: Why I want the Dems to rely on the MSM
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an a**hole to do things right, also, Oh the poor little lambs who don’t want to return to the office!
Gates Of Vienna: A Bad Acid Trip, Channeling Bin Laden, and Marine Le Pen Says It’s Time for Syrian Refugees to go Home
The Geller Report: Six Druze Villages in Syria are Asking to Join Israel, Seeking Safety and a Better Future Under Israeli Governance
Glenn Reynolds: Shoot Local
Hollywood In Toto: NY Times Says The Woke Movies Era Is Dead, Day of the Fight Punches Above Its Weight Class, Hollywood Resurgence Demands Creative Thinking…and Fast, Reagan Producer Shares What Gipper, Trump Have in Common, and Dylan Goes Electrifying in A Complete Unknown
The Lid: Americans Want to Deport ALL Illegals, not Just Criminals
Legal Insurrection: Character.AI Sued After Chatbot Allegedly Encouraged Kid to Kill Parents for Limiting Screen Time, How Now, Woke Longhorn? U. Penn Prof Apologizes After Seemingly Praising Murder of Healthcare CEO, Déjà Vu – DC Restaurant Workers Plan To Sabotage Trump Admin Personnel, and Victims of Crimes of Those Granted Clemency Furious With Biden
Michele Catalano: Christmas magic
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Vols Fans Release Plan To Throw Ohio State Goalposts Into River After Win, Bill Belichick Marriage With North Carolina Might Work Out, But It Definitely Created A Splash Few Expected, CNN Commentator Says Caitlin Clark Should Acknowledge WNBA History Because Of Racism, FS1 Host Colin Cowherd Is Right: The NBA Lost ‘Regular People’ Just Like The Democrats Did, and MAGA Bikini Congresswoman Loves American Muscle, Caitlin Clark Is Officially A Gaslighter & Woke Rudolph!
Power Line: So long is too good a word, A fair chance, ProPublica style, Violence and the Left, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Progressive Democrats Whine Lake Appointment To VOA Is “Abuse of Power”
Shot In The Dark: Wishful, also, So Tired Of Winning
The Political Hat: 12 Posts of Christmas, 2024 (Day 1)
This Ain’t Hell: Self-delusion on two legs: Anthony Blinken, Valor Friday, ‘Obama’s Military’ End Days, Pete Hegseth: Allowing Gays in military a part of Marxist agenda, and 125th Army vs Navy Game!
Transterrestrial Musings: The Fate We Avoided, Space Infrastructure Thoughts, and The American University
Victory Girls: Google Perverts Christmas
Watts Up With That: Ed Miliband’s Department Claims 30-Year Average Temperature is Higher Than the Warmest Year on Record, Global South’s Energy Rebellion at COP29 Signals a New Future, Climate Science You Can Believe, China Begins Ban of Rare Earth Minerals to the US, and Stern’s Climate Lesson for the Trump Administration
The Federalist: Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) Invites A Primary Challenge By Refusing To Back Hegseth, How Team Trump Turned The RNC Into A Get-Out-The-Vote Machine, DEI Rot At SEC Schools Shows Republicans Have Failed To Eradicate The Ideology, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) Decries Social Media For Giving Americans Insight Into Congress’s Backdoor Dealmaking, and Leftist ProPublica’s Failed Hit Piece Just Made Pete Hegseth Defense Secretary
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In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 13, 2024 | No Comments

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The MHI Swag Shop is open!
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The future House Minority Leader?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Blame the Person not the Inanimate Object
Director Blue: Top 20 Reasons Christopher Wray Is The Worst FBI Director In History
EBL: FBI Director Christopher Wray off to find new grifting opportunities, NAMBLA Lincoln Project, Clintons Seeking Pardons From Biden? and What is with all the unidentified drones over New Jersey?
Twitchy: DOGE Asks Twitter For Some Examples Of Government Waste And BOY HOWDY, Crystal Mangum Admits She Lied About Rape Allegations Against Duke Lacrosse Players In 2006, and FEMA Director Rails Against NC Citizen Journalists, Blames Them For “Weaponized Misinformation”
Louder With Crowder: Trump Pledges To Pardon Most J6ers Within “The First Nine Minutes” Of Being In Office, also, Why Jay-Z Is A Piece Of Sh*t
Vox Popoli: The Liberal World Order is Over, Clown World Declares a Winner, Don’t Bet Against Him, Paul Krugman is Done, and Unprecedented Evil
Jim McCoy: Declan Finn’s Death Cult
Stoic Observations: Kermadec Journal 002,

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American Conservative: America’s Axis of Misery, also, A MAGA Left-Right Coalition?
American Greatness: The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique, The Historic Failure of the Biden Administration, Pete Hegseth: Who Dares, Wins, Joe Biden Commutes Sentences For Roughly 1,500 People, Grants 39 Pardons, and Biden Attempts to Protect 1 Million Illegal Aliens from Deportation
American Thinker: Castrating Boys Symbolizes the Castration of America, The Worst Presidents in American History, and Obama Floats Pardon “Trial Balloon” Amid Deep State Frenzy to Get on the List
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Daniel Penny News, Animal’s Hump Days News, and Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Number of political prisoners in Cuba surges during latest wave of repression, Human Rights Day in communist Cuba: A day of repression, Fuel shortage forces Cubans to wait five days in line for gasoline at $29 per liter, Actor Danny Glover visits Cuba again, praises dictatorship, and Low demand causes German airline Condor and Swiss airline Edelweiss to cancel all flights to Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 6, Is Damascus Falling? Update: Yep, Biden Unbanking And Censoring Political Enemies? Can DOGE Take A Bite Out Of The Administrative State? and Will Democrats Allow Illegal Alien Criminals To Be Deported?
Behind The Black: China launches five satellites to test the design of a planned laser communications constellation, A satellite startup in Oman signs on to China’s lunar base partnership, Chinese citizen arrested for flying drone illegally over Vandenberg, Io’s volcanoes get their lava from separate magma chambers, not a global underground ocean of magma, and Head of FAA resigns
Cafe Hayek: And Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass, Full Text of Gramm and Boudreaux on Trump’s Proposed Across-the-Board Tariffs, On the Great F.A. Hayek, Hayek’s Nobel: 50 Years On, and Kuttner’s Cluelessness Continues
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Thoughts on J6 Pardons and Investigations, The Jackal and a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Unintended Consequences, and Santa – Tall In the Saddle!
Da Tech Guy: The Simple Answer to Every Hit Piece on Trump’s Nominees, How Free Speech Works, Syria: Four Perfect Sentences and A Countdown, December 8 is International Pundit Day, and The Dynasty 1973 League Draft Constantly Updated
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Feces Art & Biology Edition
Don Surber: Happy days are here again
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right, Let’s tell the truth: we have been bamboozled before, I’ll bet that Will Bunch and Taylor Lorenz are glad now that Joe Biden’s attempt to create a Ministry of Truth failed, The Democrats say we need more affordable housing, but look what has happened when they were in charge of it, and Is it possible that our friends on the left prefer journolism to journalism?
Gates Of Vienna: Hamas Slogan Ruled Off The Turf in Bavaria, Raisa Blommestijn: “We Are Collectively Heading Toward an Abyss”, Martin Sellner: “A Country That Does Not Protect Its Borders is No Longer a Country”, Biden Showers Love on Our Jihadi Enemies on His Way Out the Door, and Chasing Down the Cancer Jews in Amsterdam
The Geller Report: UK PERMANENTLY BANS Puberty Blockers For Children
Hollywood In Toto: Is Nosferatu the Vampyre the Creepiest Count Ever? Kraven the Hunter Brings the Laughter (But It’s Not a Comedy), Weird! Rachel Zegler’s Y2K Tanks at Box Office, How The Polar Express Changed Hollywood Forever, and Sorry, Die Hard Is NOT a Christmas Movie
The Lid: There is NO ‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Trans Violence — Another Liberal Lie Busted
Legal Insurrection: West Point Lied Twice About Pete Hegseth Applying to the Academy, SecTreas Yellen Worried About Fiscal Sustainability, ‘Sorry’ She Didn’t Do More on Deficit, The Death of DEI at the University of Michigan is a Symbolic Victory, Biden Education Department Has Spent More Than $1 Billion on DEI Grants Since 2021, and National Campaign Launched to Combat ‘Faculty for Justice in Palestine’
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Sad Story, Holiday Interregnum, What’s goin’ On, Listened to this wonderful video this morning. Yes. I have a crush on John Anderson, and Listen Up!
Outkick: Patrick Mahomes Laments Chiefs’ Grueling December Schedule, NFL Rookie Xavier Legette Enjoys Finer Things In Life, Like Eating Raccoons, Deebo Samuel Stinks It Up On Thursday Night Football as Rams, Niners Serve Up Offensive Struggles, Riley Gaines & Race-Baiter Jemele Hill Trade Barbs Over Heated Caitlin Clark Race Discussion, and Playboys With A Dutch Speed Skater Wearing Only A Pair Of Gloves On The Cover Are Flying Off The Shelves
Power Line: ProPublica’s missing West Point story, This is your life, Antony Blinken, and Sowell strikes again
Shark Tank: Rep. Steube Blasts Efforts To Blame Trump For Afghanistan Pullout
Shot In The Dark: The DFL Playbook, Pre-Cognitive Dissonance, Fun Facts For Modern People, Complicated, and The “Professional”
STUMP: On The Low Life Expectancy In The U.S. Compared To Healthcare Expenditures
The Political Hat: The Marxist Right, Braincell Transplants Mean One Thing Human-Catgirl Hybrid Minds, Quick Takes – Ending DEI In Academia: Nebraska; Northern Kentucky; North Texas, and Point Counterpoint: Super Humans Or Artificial Intelligence?
This Ain’t Hell: WWI official miracle, Four star general relieved for attempting to get a subordinate assigned a command, AF Boot Not Grueling Enough, Fake Delta Force Vet Gets 40 Years in Prison, and More legal good news
Transterrestrial Musings: The Gundo, The Trump Nominees, From Islamabad To Islamaworse, Rip Van Griffin, and The Clock Strikes Thirteen
Victory Girls: Mark Zuckerberg’s One Million Dollar Reparation
Watts Up With That: Capping marine mammal harassment constrains offshore wind, The Wailing Scientists of Washington: Fear-Mongering in Lab Coats, and UK Government ‘Commits’ to Forcing Cattle to Consume Anti-Flatulence Feed Additive
The Federalist: Cisco Aguilar And ‘Personal Knowledge’ Clause Hinder Cleanup Of Nevada’s Dirty Voter Rolls, Biden Quietly Commutes Sentences Of Chinese Spies, ‘This Is ILLEGAL’: Speaker Johnson Calls For Further Investigation Into Democrats’ Fundraising Machine, FBI Had 26 Confidential Human Sources At Jan. 6 Events In Washington, D.C., and As Americans’ Tolerance For Wokeness Dies, The Left’s Appetite For Violence Only Grows
Mark Steyn: Tora! Tora! Tora! and Pearl Harbor, Eighty-Three Years Later, Try a Little Tenderness, Fire and Faith, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Assad? Sad!

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In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 12, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Okay, let’s try this again. Once more, with feeling…
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process
EBL: Nancy Mace attacked by a Trans-Male, DeSantis Invites Daniel Penny To Come To Florida, and Grey Swans
Twitchy: Adam Schiff Thought It Was Smart To Go There Sucking Up To FBI Director Wray And Was He Ever Wrong, IG Report Lists How Many FBI “Confidential Human Sources” Were At The Capitol On J^ – BS Called, and Sam Stein Absolutely REKT For Pushing Fake News About Trump & Grocery Prices
Louder With Crowder: Hero Chick-fil-A employee saves mother and baby as he chokes out their carjacker
Vox Popoli: If You Want Sigma, Why Russia Quit on Syria, Fake Alzheimer’s Science, He’s Not Wrong, and Five Lessons for Russia
Raconteur Press: Have a Giant Robotic Christmas!
Toni Airaksinen: Iowa Teacher May Face Legal Battle After Banning Holocaust & Nazi References
Stoic Observations: Murder By Numbers
Upstream Reviews: Forgotten Ruin

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CDR Salamander: A Return To The Rust Chronicles?
Don Surber: Hey, JK, Trump Is The Man For You
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Humpday Shrapnel

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In The Mailbox: 12.11.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 11, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The British Are Mystified by Self-Defense
EBL: MAGA: Trump’s Naughty and Nice Lists, Lara Trump stepping down at RNC Chair, DANIEL PENNY NOT GULITY, and Saint Juan Diego
Twitchy: “Spring Chicken” Bernie Sanders Unsure About Leaving DC Coop With So Much Left To Cluck Up, CNN Ratings Indicate Hosts Should Stop Squawking & Start Cooking, and Fathers FTW
Louder With Crowder: Neil DeGrasse Tyson keeps embarrassing himself trying to defend trans boys competing against girls in sports, Defund the police activist has everything she owns stolen, can’t believe “cops didn’t do sh*t”, BLM activist threatens VIGILANTE “justice” over Daniel Penny acquittal, This Mazda customer was so unhappy with service, he drove his new car THROUGH the dealership, and Lesbian Trump Supporter Asks Gays What Right They Are Scared To Lose (SPOILER: They Can’t)
Vox Popoli: The Shadow Cannot Maintain, Clown World Takes Syria, Defuse Mode Activated, Worse Than Infidels, and Burning the Village to Save the Village
Upstream Reviews: Step Through The Stargate With Us!
Raconteur Press: A Word From Our Publisher
Stoic Observations: Kermadec, also, The Islamic Pilgrim
Postcards From Barsoom: You Can Just Do Things
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Vigilante Assassination May Be OK

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game Part CII
Dana Loesch: Race Hustlers Cry Foul Over Daniel Penny Verdict.
Don Surber: Who cares about BLM?
Glenn Reynolds: The Clock Strikes Thirteen
Michele Catalano: hold the line

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Voodoo Blamed for Massacre in Haiti

Posted on | December 11, 2024 | No Comments

The last time we checked in on Haiti (“Haiti’s Zombie Apocalypse: Media Skeptical of Cannibalism Reports,” March 13), the situation was very bad, but since then it has apparently gotten even worse, leading me to ask, who had “Haiti voodoo massacre” on their 2024 bingo card?

The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, as Port-au-Prince was rocked by a spike in gang violence that pushed the death toll from Haiti’s spiraling security crisis to at least 5,000.
“Just this past weekend, at least 184 people were killed in violence orchestrated by the leader of a powerful gang in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, in the Cite Soleil area,” Volker Turk told reporters in Geneva. “These latest killings bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 people.”
Volker appeared to be referring to a reported massacre carried out by a gang leader in the impoverished Cite Soleil neighborhood who targeted elderly people he suspected of sickening his own child by witchcraft.
The Reuters news agency quoted the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) as saying on Sunday that Monel “Mikano” Felix, leader of the Wharf Jeremie gang, had ordered the murders in Cite Soleil, and that all the victims of the attack were over 60 years old.
RNDDH said Felix had sought advice from a voodoo priest who told him elderly people in the area had harmed his child, who died on Saturday, leading to members of his gang killing at least 100 people Friday and Saturday with machetes and knives. . . .
Haiti has been gripped by political chaos for years, leaving room for heavily-armed criminal gangs to seize huge swaths of territory in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere. Much of the capital remains lawless despite hundreds of police from Kenya being sent in to help reassert law and order.
International airlines have largely stopped flying in and out of Haiti amid the chaos and bloodshed, with several U.S. carriers halting flights entirely after planes were hit by gunfire in November.

Wow, it’s even worse than Baltimore.

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