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In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 18, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
I’m in Twitmo again through next week for tweeting that Mark Milley deserved a firing squad, so if someone could do us a favor and post links to our posts on X, it would be greatly appreciated.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

RIP to the greatest catcher on the 1964 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. (Screw Tim McCarver, he was a shitty announcer.)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Mayor of LA and the Governor of California Wanted the City to Burn
EBL: Bob Uecker RIP – Harry Doyle Funniest Moments, David Lynch RIP, Kristi Noem Senate Confirmation Hearing, CNN Found Liable For Defamation, and Former FBI Special Agent Jamie Mannina (and special assistant to Hillary Clinton) solicited underage girls for sex? 
Twitchy: Tim Walz Tries To Dunk On Trump For Moving Inauguration Indoors & Gets Rekt, SecDef Austin Surprisingly Informs Staff He’s Leaving, and Defund List Starts Here – Police Departments That Bailed On Protecting Trump Inauguration
Louder With Crowder: Bernie Sanders tries playing the “oligarchy” card with Trump’s Treasury Secretary, gets hit with a reality check, MAHA for the win! Another popular fast food chain is ditching seed oils, will now make their fries in beef tallow, and A pro-Trump video that parodies the 90s hip-hop classic “Humpty Dance? We’re so here for it
Vox Popoli: The Shadow Can Only Mock, RIP Howard Andrew Jones, So Stop the Scripting, Digging Ever Deeper, and Gender Discrepancy in Cancer
According To Hoyt: The Counterculture, The Banana Index, and Incompetence or Malice?
Monster Hunter Nation: Fisking MSN’s goofy take on my book dedication to George RR Martin
Stoic Observations: Rearview 2024
Toni Airaksinen: Profs claim math classes cause “intellectual trauma” to minorities

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: DeWine to Appoint Husted to Vance Senate Seat
American Greatness: 145 House Dems Vote Against Bill to Deport Illegal Aliens Who Commit Sexual Assault, Nearly Half of Federal Employees Say They Plan to Resist Trump’s Incoming Administration, Democratic Congressional Staffers Demand 32-Hour Work Week, Man Seen Starting Fires With Blow Torch in LA County Not Charged With Arson, and Pete Hegseth is the Leader Our Military Needs
American Thinker: What Jack Smith Left Out
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Goodbye Biden Friday
Babalu Blog: Biden gives the Cuban dictatorship a gift on his way out, A bloody toast to celebrate U.S. concessions to Cuba, Cuban dictatorship confirms deaths of 13 soldiers at munitions explosion, still refusing to search for their remains, and Vatican and U.S. Catholic bishops cheer and praise removal of Cuba from list of terror-sponsoring states
BattleSwarm: “We’ve Been Through A North Korean Brainwashing Experiment”, Nine Months And GM Can’t Supply A Bumper, and LinkSwarm For January 17
Behind The Black: FAA demands SpaceX do “mishap investigation” into the loss of Starship yesterday, U.S and Norway sign deal to allow U.S. companies to launch from Andøya, China launches three satellites, one for Pakistan, One Martian ridge among many, and Has the tourist balloon company Space Perspective gone belly-up?
Cafe Hayek: Pandemonium, Not Policy, also, Capitalism Is Indeed Remorseless
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Fire Next Time, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, and The Lawless Actions of Lloyd Austin
Da Tech Guy: Looks like I Picked The Wrong Year to Close the Blogging Business, also, From “Genocide” to “Victory” in Just a Day or Why the Left and the Palestinians get along so well
Don Surber: Best farewell speech of my life
First Street Journal: It was never about “protecting democracy”, Killadelphia, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, and How the severity of the California wildfires is Donald Trump’s fault
Gates Of Vienna: Beatrix von Storch: “This Law is Not Only Absurd, it is Also Dangerous”, The Charlie Hebdo Massacre, Ten Years On, The Koran Came to New Orleans, Alice Weidel to Olaf Scholz: “Germans Will Have to Bear the Damage You Have Done for Decades”, and I’m So Proud of My Son And His Meat Cleaver!
The Geller Report: $174 Million in Anonymous Contributions, also, Muslim CIA Analyst Admits to Leaking Israeli Strike Plans on Iran
Glenn Reynolds: Happy DJT Day!
Hollywood In Toto: Grooming Gang Exposes Massive UK Sex Abuse Scandal, Stephen King Says Cancel the Oscars, Dueling Bills – Maher Slams Dems While Burr Blasts Conservatives, Andrew Schulz Thinks Fire Fallout Will Turn California Red, and This Wolf Man Doesn’t Howl. It Whimpers
The Lid: Another Poll Shows Americans Think Joe Biden is the Worst President in History, We Can Change The World-Together, and California’s Largest Lithium Battery Plant Goes Up in Flames
Legal Insurrection: Recall Effort Against Gov. Gavin Newsom Ignites in California, Sen. Mazie Hirono Establishes that No Trump Nominees Have Made Unwanted Sexual Advances, Yale Course Wonders if Science Can ‘be Made Queer’, Jury Finds CNN Liable for Defamation of Navy Vet, and New Indiana Governor Signs Executive Order Eliminating DEI Within State Government
Nebraska Energy Observer: So the fires continue in Cali along with the demands for politicians to resign, Thursday of Anticipation Week, and Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Ohio State Could’ve Folded After Michigan Loss, But Jack Sawyer Says Buckeyes Chose ‘Option B’ For CFP, Dodgers Ruin Baseball Again, Sign Star Free Agent Roki Sasaki, Dispute Centered Around Rev-Sharing Leads To Xavier Lucas Leaving Wisconsin For Miami, Alex Ovechkin Set Another NHL Record As He Chases All-Time Goal-Scoring Mark, and Bill Belichick’s Girlfriend Is A Recruiting Thirst Trap, Gov. Kristi On The Beach & Flexible Sydney Smith!
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Today’s Biden jailbreak, Supreme Court Slaps Down Walz [Updated], and Why Would We Want Canada?
Shark Tank: Cammack Reintroduces Resolution To Ban Foreign Flags On House Floor
Shot In The Dark: Yesterday At The MN Supreme Court, The Bullets We Dodged, The Election Denier, Restraint Called For, and In Summary
STUMP: Chicago Downgraded, Still Investment Grade…For Now
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Killing Just Because: Killing Non-Medically; Killing The Mentally Disabled; Killing To Organ Harvest, Firing Line Friday: William F. Buckley Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, and the World, and Will Genetically Engineered Interspecies Organ Transplants Get Us Closer To Genetically Engineered Catgirls?
This Ain’t Hell: “Harry Doyle”, Army vet, passes age 90, AWOL Austin: National Security Risk, Valor Friday, No beards for Marines outside of medical waivers, and Another Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: New IFT-7 Schedule, BMI, Alternate Lunar Architectures, Another Barrier Falls, and “How I Became A Gun Person”
Victory Girls: Tammy Duckworth Dragged By Fox News Joey Jones
Watts Up With That:Massive Fire Engulfs Moss Landing Battery Plant, Triggers Evacuations, Gases from Asthma Inhalers Cause Negligible Warming, The Tennessee-BlackRock Settlement: A Win for Transparency and Investor Interests, and Will Blackouts Come to Britain?
The Federalist: An Embarrassment For Every Month: The Worst Blunders, Failures, And Flops Of Biden’s Final Year, Federalist CEO Sean Davis Drops Stunning Details About The Butler Trump Assassination Attempt In Tucker Carlson Interview, Wisconsin Court Race Is A Buyer Beware Election, Conservatives Say, Noem Confirmation Hearing Highlights How Much DHS Rot She’ll Have To Clean Out, and Good Riddance, Deb Haaland
Mark Steyn: It’s Paedos All the Way Down, An Imam at the Inaugural, A Higher Price, Sneering Prat Alert, and Live Around the Planet – Five Days To Go

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