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FMJRA 2.0: Time For New Water Coolers

Posted on | August 12, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Time For New Water Coolers

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This was a bad week for the Senators. It started well enough, as we took two out of three from the Angels in Anaheim, but then we went to Shea and got swept by the Day Traders, and came home to drop two out of three to the Hated Yankees. Our manager was Not Pleased, and barricaded himself in his office with a case each of Narragansett Beer and Moxie, after ritually smashing the water coolers to propitiate the baseball gods. We’ll host the Twins on Tuesday, and hopefully we’ll do better than we did last time. Still, we’re just a game behind the A’s and 2.5 up on the Twins, and the season is far from over.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

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Everybody Keeps Indicting Trump, Without Regard for Consequences
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First Person Plural Pronouns
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FMJRA 2.0: On The Road
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Rule 5 Monday: Public Benefactors
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Who Is ‘Negasi Zuberi’?
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In The Mailbox: 08.08.23 (Afternoon Edition)
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CNN: Distract Much?
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In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 08.10.23
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Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A.
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In The Mailbox: 08.11.23
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Top linkers for the week ending August 11:

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When the ‘Investigation’ Is a Cover-Up

Posted on | August 12, 2023 | 1 Comment

First, the news:

In a dramatic shift, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss was being upgraded to a special counsel to investigate the Biden family finances.
The decision means the probe into Hunter Biden’s taxes and his father’s potential dealings with his foreign clients will carry into the 2024 election at the same time the president’s chief rival Donald Trump faces two federal indictments brought by the same department. The tax case is likely to be moved to Washington and Los Angeles, officials said.
Republicans, however, gave the announcement a cold reaction, saying Weiss was the wrong person for the job after offering Hunter Biden a prison-sparing plea deal that fell apart.
“This move by AG Garland is part of the Justice Department’s efforts to attempt a Biden family coverup in light of [House Oversight Committee’s] mounting evidence of President Biden’s role in his family’s schemes selling ‘the brand’ for millions of dollars to foreign nationals,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote.
Added House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan: “David Weiss can’t be trusted, and this is just a new way to whitewash the Biden family’s corruption. Weiss has already signed off on a sweetheart plea deal that was so awful and unfair that a federal judge rejected it.”
Garland said the appointment of Weiss to an independent prosecutor was in the “public interest,” required by department rules and requested earlier in the week by Weiss.

Ace of Spades points out that part of what’s going on here is that conferring Special Counsel status on Weiss is a way to block House investigators looking into the “sweetheart deal” plea bargain for Hunter Biden that Weiss himself orchestrated (likely under orders from, but certainly with the approval of, Attorney General Merrick Garland). More importantly, however, it’s a way for Garland to put a lid on the whole Biden family corruption saga until after next year’s election.

What Democrats are doing here, of course, is a variation of the Mueller “investigation,” altered to suit their new purposes. Remember what happened in 2017: Trump discovered after becoming president that the FBI had been doing surveillance on his campaign on the false pretext of “Russian collusion” (which pretext, of course, was manufactured by the Clinton campaign using the phony Steele dossier). So, Trump fires FBI Director James Comey and, when this provokes an outcry from Democrats, Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the matter, and appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate. OK, but . . . investigate what?

The real scandal in this was the “Russian collusion” hoax perpetrated against Trump by the Clinton campaign, in which the FBI played a crucial role (“Operation Crossfire Hurricane”), which was why Trump fired Comey. Instead of investigating that, however, Mueller’s investigation instead focused on trying to confirm the existence of “Russian collusion” — which proved impossible because, of course, there was no “collusion” — and also trying to prove that Trump’s firing of Comey somehow constituted “obstruction of justice.” But Trump was not the perpetrator of wrongdoing, he was the victim of wrongdoing, and the purpose of Mueller’s investigation was to conceal this truth.

In other words, the “investigation” was really a cover-up, and months passed while talking heads on MSNBC and CNN kept up their wild-eyed speculation about how “the walls are closing in” on Trump — speculation fed by leaks from Mueller’s team — keeping alive the myth of “Russian collusion” until after the 2018 midterm elections.

Mission accomplished.

Then, in March 2019, with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer now in control of Congress, Mueller releases his report, which disappointed all the cable-news talking heads by failing to confirm “Russian collusion.” The walls had signally failed to “close in,” but the Mueller had achieved his political purpose, namely to promote suspicion of Trump as a Kremlin dupe while concealing the Democratic Party dirty campaign trick behind that suspicion (and the FBI’s own role in that campaign trick).

Fast-forward to the present, and now we have a Special Counsel appointed in the Hunter Biden case who has a similar mission, namely to obstruct the House Oversight Committee’s investigation and deflect attention from the very real scandal by which the Biden family collected $20 million from Hunter’s foreign “clients.” Biden and his administration now have an excuse not to comment on anything related to Hunter because it’s “under investigation” and, the reader may be assured, there will be no leaks from Weiss’s office to the media to give fuel to speculation about the “walls closing in” on Joe Biden.

Anyone with two eyes and a brain can see what’s happening, but the media won’t tell the truth. And they wonder why we don’t trust them.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, MuellerGate, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 08.11.23

Posted on | August 12, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for he usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Birthday Red Dawn, The (Democrat) Fix Is In: David Weiss Appointed Special Counsel for Hunter Biden, and Democrat Donor Sam Bankman Fried Back To Jail For Witness Tampering!
Twitchy: Kari Lake Hilariously Roasts Transgender Ideology On A Farm, “It’s Like She Speaks In Gypsy Curses”, and Megan Kelly Explains Why AG Garland’s Appointment Of David Weiss As Special Counsel Is A Total Joke
Louder With Crowder: Oliver Anthony shares story behind “Rich Men North of Richmond” which has already hit #1 on iTunes, Budweiser booths are EMPTY at annual Sturgis rally that attracts half a million bikers, and Unsigned artist dominates social media with this passionate ode to middle American struggles
Vox Popoli: Immigration Blight in London, YouTube Deplatforms Scott Ritter, Wells Fargo is Short on Cash, and FBI 1, Boomerwaffen 0
According To Hoyt: How To Write Short Stories, Destroying the Future, and The Messages Fly But the Network is Down
Monster Hunter Nation: Mormons Can’t Be Warriors?, also, Writing Update- Graveyard of Demons
Gab News: X CEO Says “Awful” Speech To Be Censored

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Revolutions Have Started on Less
American Greatness: House GOP to Subpoena Biden Family, Biden to Make $6 Billion Iranian Prison Swap, and Former Capitol Police Chief Says Federal Agencies Withheld Crucial Intelligence About J6 Threats
American Thinker: Only ‘White People’ Ever Enslaved Others, Says Black Professor, The Deadly Untrustworthiness of General Mark Milley, and Impeach Biden, Make Democrats Sweat
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Failing Bidenomics Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban nun weeps over the misery of the Cuban people and how the world has forgotten them, Economic ‘reforms’ in Cuba aim to exert stricter control and destroy the black market, and How Cuba lost its Cigar King of the World crown to the Dominican Republic
BattleSwarm: M1A1 Abrams Tanks Finally Heading To Ukraine, also, LinkSwarm For August 11
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites, India approves new spaceport for private launches of SSLV rocket, The flat and mostly featureless flood lava plains of Mars, Today’s Blacklisted American: Best Buy joins the bigotry crowd, and Retractions of peer-reviewed scientific papers has risen 13,750% in this century
Cafe Hayek: Snowflake America
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Five Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora, also, An Amazon Prime Streaming Invoice Story or a Matter of Trust
Dana Loesch: The Attacks On Justice Thomas Continue
Don Surber: DeSantis For President – Of Disney
First Street Journal: Teri Carter wants “common sense gun legislation”, but that will only inhibit the law-abiding
Gates Of Vienna: The Forbidden Video, Culture-Enrichers Come First, Donald Trump and Janez Janša: The Parallels, and Lula: We Must Brainwash the Children About the Climate!
The Geller Report: FBI Executes 74-year-old, Disabled ‘MAGA Trumper’ Veteran Who Facebooked About Shooting Biden
Glenn Reynolds: Vivek Ramaswamy Channels Robert Heinlein & Me
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Tycho’s Supernova, A Crisis Flood of Immigrants, and Dangerous? To Whom?
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan Shares Oliver Anthony’s ‘Rich Men’ Battle Cry, TMNT Mutant Mayhem – Gross, Gloomy Franchise Reboot, Why Jules Isn’t Really About Aliens, and Last Voyage of the Demeter – Gothic Horror Done Right
The Lid: Left Angry: Scientist Admits Climate change ‘Consensus’ is Fake
Legal Insurrection: American Library Association’s New Marxist President Galvanizes Opposition, Why Is UK Research Focused on a Vaccine to Prevent a New Pandemic from “Disease X”?, DC Judge Sides With Trump On DOJ Request For Broad ‘Protective Order’, U. of Delaware Settles for Millions With Thousands of Students Who Sued for COVID Tuition Reimbursement, and New College of Florida Board of Trustees Begins Process of Eliminating Gender Studies Program
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Star HS Basketball Prospect Caleb White Dies After Collapsing During Workout, WWE Is As Valuable As The NBA, Dianna Russini Reportedly Turns Down Raise From ESPN To Accept NFL Insider Job With The Athletic, 16-Year-Old Texas Cheerleader Suffers Fatal Cardiac Arrest, Golf Writer Quits After He Says Publication Refused To Publish Pregnant Golfer’s Pro-Life, Christian Views, and Alex Morgan Breaks Silence On Embarrassing World Cup Exit: ‘Turn Into A Scar’
Power Line: The $6 billion misunderstanding, Candor dies in “updates”, EPA vs. the Grid, Part 2, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Cammack Excoriates FBI’s Targeting Of Catholics
Shot In The Dark: Ill Advised, Bidenomics And That “Top Five” Ranking, and Purple-er
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order-New Voices-Part I
This Ain’t Hell: Bernie Sanders, a paragon of virtue, and more Soros, Valor Friday, Suspected cartel men, armed and wearing body armor, seen crossing the border into the U.S., Vietnam veteran hoping to get free hunting and fishing licenses for disabled veterans, and Red China not pleased with the US providing its input regarding the South China Sea
Transterrestrial Musings: Vivek Ramaswani
Victory Girls: Catholics Become Targets of an Overreaching State, also, RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel – Why?
Volokh Conspiracy: New Article on Insurrection, Rebellion, and Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment
Watts Up With That: The Climate Crisis Frenzy Is a Mass Hysteria Movement, Green Tasmania, the “Battery of Australia”, Runs Out of Electricity, and Hawaiian Fires: Fueled by Invasive Grasses, a Wet Spring and Human Ignition Sources
The Federalist: How Breaking Up The Organ Transplant Monopoly Will Save Lives And Dollars, Garland’s Special Counsel Gambit Confirms Hunter Investigation Was Always Shady, The FBI Targeted Traditional Catholics Because They Will Never Accept The Left’s Pagan Morality, Left-Wing Judge On Trump’s Claim Political Prosecution Is Election Interference: ‘So Be It’, and Is This Sparta? Revisionists Get The Legendary Warriors All Wrong
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A.

Posted on | August 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A.

Stephen Green at Instapundit calls attention to a veteran Seattle police officer’s resignation letter:

“Their absurd policies have turned Seattle into a playground for anarchists and criminals, and they seem utterly unconcerned with the devastating consequences of their actions,” wrote Jessica Taylor, who joined the force in 1998 and resigned last week. “If you haven’t noticed, the criminals are running this city.”
Taylor refused to fill out a standard exit form and instead submitted the 15-page letter to chief of police Adrian Diaz, who she says “has brought this department and this city to its knees,” adding that the department “has transformed into a cesspool of corruption.”
Diaz and other city leaders prioritize “playing politics and pandering to radical ideologies rather than genuinely serving the city’s and its residents best interests,” Taylor said.
Taylor called Diaz a “vindictive, power-hungry individual,” telling him, “I wouldn’t trust you as far as I could throw you.”
The letter comes amid rising crime in the city, Newsweek reported:

A 2021 year-end crime report from the SPD shows that violent crime in the city rose by 20 percent, one of the highest levels in over a decade. At the same time, robberies rose by 18 percent and aggravated assaults by 24 percent. In 2022, the overall crime rate in the city grew by 4 percent compared to the previous year, with a 24 percent rise in homicide, a 4 percent rise in rape, and a 5 percent rise in aggravated assault, according to the SPD.

Nothing is more fundamental to the purpose of government than protecting the lives and property of citizens, and yet Seattle and other Democrat-controlled cities seem incapable or unwilling to perform this essential duty. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles:

Former L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva sounded the alarm Wednesday on the threat posted by dwindling law enforcement numbers, adding that it’s “no mystery” why the city is struggling to attract people to the job.
“You have a horrendous political climate where every politician was jumping over themselves in the summer of 2020 to denounce law enforcement, create a very hostile work environment [and] no one wants a job anymore,” he told “America’s Newsroom.” “Then you have weak leadership in law enforcement that double down on that because they’re the first to throw their own employees under the bus. Then they wonder why they can attract people to the job.”
The LAPD has shed over 1,000 sworn officers since 2019, according to department data. Meanwhile, crime is on the rise and arrests are declining. . . .
“The political establishment in L.A. decided, from 2020 on, ‘Let’s destroy law enforcement. Let’s bash them and shrink them because of the defunding efforts,'” Villanueva said.

Even if the district attorney wanted to send criminals to prison (which he doesn’t, because RAAAAACISM), L.A. now has such a shortage of officers that it’s becoming more difficult to apprehend criminals. The result is what the late Sam Francis described as “anarcho-tyranny”:

Francis’s term “anarcho-tyranny” refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law, or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law. Commentators have invoked the term in reference to situations when governments focus on weapon confiscation instead of stopping looters.

Just keep voting for Democrats, and see what happens.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 08.10.23

Posted on | August 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.10.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Pearl, Psycho, Grass Fed vs. Grain Fed Beef, and Lahaina Maui Fire
Twitchy: Erick Erickson Has The Best Tweet About “Sanctuary Cities” Changing Attitudes, Ted Cruz Calls Out NBC Spin On Marxist Lesbian ALA Prez, and Jonah Goldberg Opines “Small Donors Are One Of The Biggest Problems For Democracy”
Louder With Crowder: Alex Jones has a shocking revelation… is it the end of humanity?, Finally! The full Tiffany Gomas “that motherf*cker’s not real” freak-out video has been revealed, and Lady Gaga’s elitist dad is upset about all the illegals in NYC. Hey, remember when she wanted to “turn Texas blue?”
Vox Popoli: He Even Lost His Name, The Neoclowns are Doubling Down, The Inevitable End of Arbitration, Never Seek the Nonexistent, and Homonazis in the UK

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Greasy Pole #30 – The Science is Settled episode
American Conservative: Strong Families are the Key to Building Back Better
American Greatness: Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?, also, The Left’s War on Free Speech
American Thinker: Evil Never Takes a Holiday, A Modest Proposal to Defeat the Political Class, Testing the Army’s New Electric Combat Vehicle (A Parable), and Political Prosecution: A Constitutional Crisis In The Making
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Great Tits News
Babalu Blog: U.S. becomes top provider of chicken to Cuba, Mexico increases oil deliveries to Cuban dictatorship, edges out Russia and Venezuela as top supplier, and Cuban exodus update: 31,000 healthcare workers have fled the island in the past year
Baldilocks: It’s That Time Again, Fear, and Scary Story
BattleSwarm: Movie Review: Oppenheimer, Texas Outlaws Men In Women’s College Sports, and Russian Optics Factory Goes Boom
Behind The Black: Red Chinese pseudo-company Galactic Energy launches seven satellites, Update on the development of a new first stage for Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, The icy mountains close to where SpaceX hopes to land Starship on Mars, Astronomers: Binary system creates tidal waves on star’s surface 3x larger than our own Sun, and Today’s blacklisted American was fired for refusing to participate in company’s programs that purposely excluded whites
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile (recurring) Reading, also, To the Knife
Da Tech Guy: Shades of the Yanks & Red Barber in Baltimore and Kevin Brown, Muncy’s murder mystery, I’ll Believe the Jan 6th Committee Was Not Corrupt When We Stop Getting Evidence That They Were, Rubicon Crossed: DaTechGuy Endorses Ron DeSantis For President in 2024, and Cutting down 16 million trees to fight climate change is truly asinine
Don Surber: Congratulations On Your Suicide, Baltimore
First Street Journal: Will Larry Krasner send this case to juvenile court?, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! *Updated!* , and Chickenhawks in the Church
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enrichers Ruin Another Town, Rasmus Paludan on Koran-Burning and the Suppression of Free Speech, A Bundle of Daffodils, What Would Happen If Stupidity Prevails in the West?, and We Lawyers Want to Silence You
The Geller Report: Los Angeles Schools Create Sex Clubs In Elementary School to Indoctrinate Children Into LGBTQ, also, Black Supremacist Texas Teacher Fired for Massively Racist Social Media Posts
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, How Euclid Will Map the Universe
Hollywood In Toto: Is This the Media’s Nastiest Attack on Sound of Freedom? Woke Is Alive, Well and (Still) Crushing Free Speech, Bill Maher Skewers ‘Preachy, Man Hating’ Barbie, Go West Finds the Funny in Western Tropes (Even Dysentery!), and Tom MacDonald’s ‘American Flags’ Hits Number One (Twice)
The Lid: Inflation Back Up To 3.2 Percent Amid Oil Price Jump, Weakening Dollar Despite Inflation Reduction Act And Biden’s ‘Assurances’
Legal Insurrection: California Supremes Rule No Right to In-Person Cross-Examination of Accuser During Campus Sexual Assault Proceedings, “The days when universities could get away with racial discrimination to advance diversity are over”, Lawsuit: Massachusetts Rejected Catholic Foster Parent Applicants Over Beliefs About Marriage and Sexuality, Report: Biden Planning to Ask Congress for $13 Billion for Ukraine, and State of Emergency: Massachusetts Governor Calls On Residents to Open Homes to Illegal Immigrants
Nebraska Energy Observer: Not Venezuela, Trump, Klan, Biden: The Hoosier Lesson, and IMPORTANT!
Outkick: Carli Lloyd Continues To Slam The USWNT For ‘Entitlement’ Attitude, Netherlands Forward Takes Victory Lap After ‘Big Mouth’ USWNT’s Early World Cup Exit, Gisele Bündchen Squeezes Into Some Black Lingerie To Show Tom Brady What He’s Missing, Ed Orgeron Visits Baylor To Watch His Son, Who Looks Exactly Like Ed Orgeron, Former NFL CB Buster Skrine Gets Busted For Cashing Fake Checks In Canada, and NFL Fans Rejoice After Game-Changing RedZone Subscription News
Power Line: EPA Tries to Destroy the Grid, Today is not the day, and The Daily Chart: The College Cost Scandal
Shark Tank: AG Moody Defends Monique Worrell Suspension
Shot In The Dark: Plastic & Fantastic, also, DFL Compassion
STUMP: Lightning Strikes Twice: Follow-up on Lightning Deaths
The Political Hat: Euthanizing The Mental Defectives: Killing The Autistic; Killing The Anorexic; Killing The Mentally Ill
This Ain’t Hell: Ft. Cavazos (Hood) mess hall woes, LGBTQ veterans file suit against the Pentagon, Not Until They Pry It From My Cold, Dead…, The U.S. Air Force conducts a long-range mobility exercise, and PACT deadline extended after bottleneck mess
Transterrestrial Musings: A New Ecosystem, China Is Serious About Space, Battery-Powered Cars, The Hawai’ian Wildfires, and Trans Tyranny
Victory Girls: “Enemy of Democracy” Ron DeSantis Pokes The Progressives Again
Volokh Conspiracy: Trump Is Disqualified from Being on Any Election Ballots, also, Texas is Wrong to Equate Immigration and Drug Smuggling with “Invasion”
Watts Up With That: Will Biden and the U.N. Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’? Looks like it, also, The Real-World Costs of Backing Up Weather-Dependent Electricity Generation with Battery Storage
The Federalist: Why Ron DeSantis Is The Man To Lead The Great American Comeback, Republicans Investigating J6 Committee Suggest Dems Destroyed Evidence In Apparent Cover Up, Why Gen Z Should Pursue Truth Instead Of ‘Self-Discovery’, California Court Greenlights Foreign Interference In San Francisco’s School Board Elections, Exclusive: Arizona, Virginia Voters Demand Election Officials Correct Their States’ Erroneous Voter Rolls, and Republican Groups Intervene To Stop Democrats’ Lawfare Against Wisconsin Elections
Mark Steyn: Trust Not in Men

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In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 10, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

78 years ago today, USAAF Maj. Charles Sweeney dropped the “Fat Man” atomic device on Nagasaki. A week later, the Showa Emperor broadcast the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War, and on September 2, the formal surrender was signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor. 

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“The question isn’t whether one has bad taste. The question is whether one has any taste at all.” -Fourmyle of Ceres

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Roving Gangs Of Armed Youths – A Dystopian Reality
EBL: SAVED BECAUSE OF NAGASAKI, Robbie Robertson, RIP, and Wife Shoots Husband’s Attacker Dead
Twitchy: Striking Hollywood Writers Starting To Take Financial Hit, Black Activists Concerned School Principal’s Suicide Is Being “Weaponized” Against DEI, and No Charges For Sikh Shopkeepers Who Delivered Savage Beatdown To Brazen Shoplifter
Louder With Crowder: Ron DeSantis removes another woke Soros-backed prosecutor after two police officers were shot, Jake Tapper can’t understand why so many Americans hate Joe Biden, his guest stumbles on the perfect reason, and Mike Pence’s new ad brings so much cringe, it’s like if Bud Light made a GOP commercial
Vox Popoli: John Wick is Real, The Third Front, College is for Morons, A Classic Clown World Caper, and Disney Goes Full Trans
Stoic Observations: Expectations Of The World 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: ???? is over, also, Congratulations, David Hiscox
American Conservative: She’s Not With You
American Greatness: Democrat-Connected Electric Bus Company Touted By Biden Regime Files for Bankruptcy, Turning California Purple, and America First Legal Sues Target Over Misleading of Shareholders
American Thinker: Modern Energy and Your Turbine Footprint, What Biographer Garrow Missed in His Obama Takedown, and Mike Pence, ‘Constitutional Hero’?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: July concludes in Cuba with over 1,000 Cubans held as political prisoners, Unable to treat patients due to lack of State resources, Cuban doctor publicly resigns, and Zero cash for you! Cuban dictatorship announces it will stop printing paper currency
Baldilocks: Tethers, Tribalists, & Carcass Worshippers, 
BattleSwarm: Federal Judge Rules Against ATF Brace Rule, LinkSwarm for August 4, Ukrainian Naval Drones Hit A Tanker, Give Russia Another Dilemma, and Why The SA80 Sucked
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 2C rocket launches “disaster reduction” satellite, NASA engineers still struggling to understand why Orion’s heat shield abraded so much, Ingenuity snaps picture of Perseverance during 54th flight, ESA official confirms first Ariane-6 launch will not occur until 2024, and Pushback: Judge rules that libel suit against two black professors for slandering white real estate assessor can proceed
Cafe Hayek: The Burden of Persuasion Should Be On Those Persons Who Propose Interventions, also, More Humility, Please, About Climate-Change Policies
CDR Salamander: Ukraine, Russia & Doing Business With The Enemy
Chicago Boyz: Chicagoboyz Love Classic Transportation, also, Worth Pondering
Da Tech Guy: The Least Popular but most Necessary Song for 2023, Best shape in decades, Carry On Tommy – Jazz is Wrong Here, Chicago Mayor Johnson upset about reporter calling last week’s riot a “mob action” even though it was a mob action, and Under the Fedora: So Let Me Get This Straight
Dana Loesch: Updates From The Front Lines – Trump’s Many Legal Battles, 
Don Surber: The Trouble With Battery-Operated Cars
First Street Journal: Why was ‘Peanut’ out on the streets in the first place?, Anti-Semitism is a serious problem, but restricting the Freedom of Speech and of the Press is not the way to fight it, and The Philadelphia Inquirer does some good reporting . . . and then they hide it
Gates Of Vienna: Islam’s “Sensitivity” Scam, Mischief in the Strait of Hormuz, Thanatopsis, Come to Spain: It’s Money For Nothing, and the Chicks Are Free!, Sweeping it Under the Rug, and Bud Light Elections in The Netherlands
The Geller Report: Monstrous! Biden Has Handed Taliban Over $2 BILLION In 2 Years, Bidens Got Another $20 MILLION in Bribes from Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Newly Released Bank Records Show, and Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling Removed From US Museum of Pop Culture
Hogewash: Another Reason Why I Left California, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Mergers and Acquisitions
Hollywood In Toto: Is Roseanne Having Last Laugh at Legacy Media’s Expense?, Meg 2: The Trench Goes the Full Sharknado, Bill Maher: Sorry, Woke Nation. Men, Women Are Different, and Will Elon Musk Fight Disney on Gina Carano’s Behalf?
The Lid: Report: Biden Knows Who Dropped The Bag Of Cocaine In The White House
Legal Insurrection: DC Indictment “is long on alleging Trump’s deceit but very short on showing criminality”, Nine Years Later, Race Hustlers are Still Lying About the Death of Michael Brown, Washington & Lee University Cancels Robert E. Lee’s Horse, When Seconds Count, The Cops Aren’t Coming, and Woke Professors Reportedly Fleeing Florida Universities in Protest
Nebraska Energy Observer: Deborah 2.0, Feast of the Transfiguration, and Spitballing
Outkick: LeSean McCoy Admits Eric Bieniemy’s Relationship With Players Was ‘Alarming’ As Ron Rivera Walks Back Comments, Ripped Troy Aikman Hits The Lake To Promote His Anti-Bud Light, Pro-American Beer, Urban Meyer Offers High Praise For Deion Sanders’ Colorado Team, Travis Hunter Jr. After Visiting Practice In Boulder, CNN Swings And Misses With Megan Rapinoe – Alexi Lalas Graphic, Gives Excuses For USWNT’s Worst-Ever Women’s World Cup, ‘Free Kevin Brown’ Chants Break Out At Camden Yards, and Tom Hanks Goes After Oakland A’s Ownership: “Damn Them All To Hell”
Power Line: What’s the Matter With Sweden?, also, $20 million and counting
Shark Tank: State Rep Carolina Amesty Slams Orlando Sentinel Over Hit Piece
Shot In The Dark: Filmy Streaks, 4 Out Of 5 Red Sox Fans Say “The Yankees Suck”, and Facts
STUMP: Drug Overdose Mortality Update: Rates, Ages, and Geography, 1999-2022 (provisional), also, Political Mortality: Revisiting Supposed Excess Republican Mortality
The Political Hat: Pedagogy Of Wokeness
This Ain’t Hell: Four More Accounted For, also, Naked woman shoots at drivers on the highway
Transterrestrial Musings: Voter Fraud, also, The Plot Thickens
Victory Girls: Dianne Feinstein Briefly Hospitalized, After Fall
Volokh Conspiracy: The Dangers of Giving Trump Impunity are Far Worse than those of Prosecuting Him, also, Fifth Circuit Holds That People Who Use Marijuana Don’t Lose Second Amendment Rights (At Least When Sober)
Watts Up With That: Labour’s Energy Plans Will Lead To (UK) Blackout, NYT’s @paulkrugman – Mendacious, an idiot, or both?, and Climate Activists are Silent on Polar Bears Because their Doom-Mongering Blew Up in their Faces
The Federalist: Psych! College Board Loses Big In Its AP Psychology Standoff With DeSantis, Of Course Democrats Support Abortion On Demand Until The Moment Of Birth, Obama’s Fraudulent Legacy Is Being Exposed, And It’s On The Wrong Side Of History, Unredacted FBI Memo Contradicts Christopher Wray’s Claim Only ‘A Single Field Office’ Targeted Traditional Catholics, Joe Biden Needs To Stop Lying To Gold Star Families That His Son Died In Iraq, and Biden’s Designation Of Million-Acre Monument Is Blatant Abuse Of Presidential Power
Mark Steyn: Time on My Hands, Include Me Out, and Ofcommed into Oblivion

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In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 9, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today is the day I get caught up on all this stuff.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Self-Defense Might Be Legal In Canada
EBL: Smith and Wesson, also, Grift Brothers Gabe and Sam Bankman-Fried Wanted to Create a Human Superspecies on Nauru
Twitchy: With Gas Prices Rising, Biden Reminds Us He’s Trying To Stop ALL Drilling, Joaquin Castro Whines About Horror At The Border – Forgets His Party Is In Charge Of The Border, and SecEnergy Granholm’s Well-Timed Stock Trade Gets Fresh Attention
Louder With Crowder: Anheuser-Busch now forced to sell off several brands in wake of Dylan Mulvaney disaster
Vox Popoli: You Are the Bad Guys, Straight Legend, Adios, Bitches, Caesar Didn’t Have That Problem, Oppenheimer and the Manhattan PsyOp, and Delete Zoom

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Fathers, keep your Daughters away from Sport, Judging Others is Good and Just, and Just how bad is the economy?
American Conservative: Make Peace, You Fools!, War by Design, Calvin Coolidge: The Great Refrainer Shows the Way, The Coming Battle: ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’, and Revolutionary State of Mind
American Greatness: Trump Indictment Is a Mockery of Common Sense
American Power: Trump’s Indictment and 2024
American Thinker: A New Day, a New Type of Election Fraud, The Trump Indictment and 2024, and Did Trump Know Election Fraud was a Lie?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Pizza News
Babalu Blog: Over 300 acts of repression documented in Cuba during the month of July, Reports from Cuba: Lack of fuel forces cars to be pushed to service stations in Havana, and Cuba, Calabria, and more rental doctors: A closer look
Baldilocks: Evolution Of The Black Leader Myth
BattleSwarm: Goines Murder Trial Still Pending, Taibbi: How The Left Lost Its Mind, Houston Medicare Fraud Ring Busted, and China’s Funky Military Gyrocopter
Behind The Black: Boeing delays first manned Starliner flight again, until March of 2024, SpaceX successfully launches another 15 Starlink satellites, Momentus is now selling a version of its orbital tug simply as a service module for satellites, Scientists repeat fusion power experiment that produced more energy than spent, and Real pushback: Judge slams Southwest Airlines for violating settlement terms of free-speech court case
Cafe Hayek: Apples Must Be Compared to Apples, also, (Some of) What ESGers Don’t Understand
CDR Salamander: Pirates Of The Black Sea
Chicago Boyz: I Hate Barbie, also, Book Review: Year of Consent–Rerun with Additional Commentary
Da Tech Guy: Never Forget that any Outrage of Ashley Biden and Hunter’s & Joe’s dealings by Dems…, What Will We Do With the Gift Donald Trump Has Given US?, And So The Selling of the Draft Begins, License Plate Scanners plus AI Tracking Software equals an all powerful police state plus travel restrictions, and My Answer to Ed Kilgore’s Question: Chain of Custody, Open Verifiable Counts
Dana Loesch: Tuesday Evening Thoughts, also, Mike Pence’s New Ad Makes Me Wonder If He Knows How To Pump Gas
Don Surber: Happy Anniversary, Raid On Mar-A-Lago
First Street Journal: Black Democrats in Alabama dump ‘LGBTQ+’ caucus, What the Social Engineering of the 1960s Got Wrong, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”, Our American Revolution began around Boston; now Bostonians are saddled with an authoritarian government that they chose for themselves!, and Are the Lexington Police trying to stifle someone’s #FreedomOfSpeech?
Gates Of Vienna: No Reprieve For Holders of a Forged Vax Pass, An Islamophobic Tranny, Question the COVID Narrative? It’s the Loony Bin For You!, A Well-Integrated Culture-Enriching Rapist, Bottling It Up, and Phoneliness
The Geller Report: Judge Rules That Donald Trump Has ‘Presidential Immunity’ on Rigged Election Assertions, Anti-American US Women’s Soccer Team Loses to Sweden in Earliest Women’s World Cup Exit Ever, CDC Director Laughing About How She Made Policy Decisions During COVID, Democrat Mayor Pleads Guilty to 140 Counts of Child Pornography, Said Pete Buttigieg Was His Mentor, and Pfizer: “Nobody Was Forced to Have a Vaccine”
Hogewash: A Calm Galaxy Cluster, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, In the Dark, Seen Through A Different Filter, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan Calls U.S. a ‘Banana Republic’ Under Biden, Essential Church Recalls Government’s Assault on Faith, Family, Is Lizzo’s Woke Facade Crumbling in Real Time?, Will Rude Movie Goers Crush the Barbenheimer Rebound?, and Marc Maron’s Barbie Defense Makes No Sense
The Lid: Bud Light Losing Shelf Space: Will Probably Never Recover Sales, Unflappable Donald Trump Crashes Wedding Party Just After Arraignment, Illegals Bringing Tuberculosis, Polio, And Child Sex Trafficking To U.S., and Here We Go Again. Gas Prices Jump In Past Month
Legal Insurrection: Photos Reveal Suspected Cartel Gunman Crossing the Border With Body Armor & Rifles, “Democrat prosecutors are manipulating the Republican primaries”, Poland Beefs Up Border Security, Says Russia and Belarus Pushing New Migrant Wave, Former Minneapolis Police Officer Who Held Back Crowd Sentenced to Nearly Five Years for Death of George Floyd, Self-Described ‘Marxist’ Head of the American Library Association is Surprised by Backlash, and The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Lost and No One Cares
Nebraska Energy Observer: Competence and the Economy, Dennis Prager, Testing 123, and American Integrity
Outkick: Bryce Harper Helps Crying Boy Reunite With Brothers Before Phillies Game, OutKick’s Dan Dakich Bids Farewell To Megan Rapinoe After USWNT Loss, Paige Spiranac, Kay Adams Discuss Twosome, Could Break Internet By Hitting Golf Course Together, SNY’s Gary Cohen Buries Orioles, John Angelos For Suspending Broadcaster Kevin Brown Over On-Air Honest Comments About Team, Bill Simmons Torches Alex Morgan, Gives Spot-On Comparison For Megan Rapinoe After USWNT’s World Cup Exit, and Angel Hernandez Had Another Terrible Day Behind The Plate, Managing To Anger Both The Yankees And Astros
Power Line: Wind Energy: A Doomed Industry, Guest Film Review: “2023: A Barbie Odyssey”, EVs On a Collision Course With Reality, Democrats Are Getting What They Want, and Unlike the Trump indictments, the case against Biden is straightforward
Protein Wisdom Reborn: A Corrective Theory Of Everything
Shark Tank: Luna Continues Fight With Corps Of Engineers Over Pinellas Beaches
Shot In The Dark: Remembering The CFL, As Regular As The Sands Of Time, Hubris, and Things I’d Do If I Had A Time Machine
STUMP: Deaths from Heat and Cold: Deception and Update for U.S. 1999-2022, Gatekeeping in Education and Professions: Actuarial, Legal, and Sumo!, and Building Bridges to STEM Careers
The Political Hat: Neuro-Machine Computer Chips Mean One Thing: Cyborg Catgirls, Woke Privilege: Queer Illegal Aliens Undetainable; Anti-Racist Firefighters; “Gynosexuals” & The Denormalization Of Straight Men, and Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That Women in the Military Should Be Excluded from Combat
This Ain’t Hell: Monday – National Purple Heart Day, New SMA- AI health monitors a Good Idea, Bowe Bergdahl to Face Charges, American warships sent to deal with Russian and Chinese navy ships, Zinnerman – The Hits Just Keep Right on Comin’, and Russian Army finds out, a second time, that regular open formations during hostilities is not a good idea
Transterrestrial Musings: The Remaking Of America, The Atomic Bombs, Industrial Revolution, Virgin Galactic, Today’s Blacklisted American, and Oppenheimer
Victory Girls: Gold Star Families Demand Answers Over Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Ritzy Restaurant Refuses Mom With Tattoos, and Middle-aged Lady, Not Gay, Just Boring And Bored
Volokh Conspiracy: How Can Jack Smith Prove That Trump Knew He Lost the Election?, Clearing up Common Misconceptions About the Charges Against Trump, and Hawaii Butterfly Knife Ban Violates Second Amendment
Watts Up With That: Red China Abandons Paris Agreement and Makes Others’ Efforts Even More Futile, John Stossel Interviews Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists, That’s Why They Call It Death Valley, Costs Beginning to Change the Net Zero Debate in the UK, and ROSS CLARK: This polluting green sham has been mocking taxpayers for years
The Federalist: Nikki Haley Supports Breaking The Law To Make Taxpayers Pay For Soldiers’ Abortions, NBC Spewed Abortion Lies In DeSantis Interview, Then Cut Off His Answer Exposing Them As Bunk, Corporate Press Omits Radical Religious Motivation Behind Fatal Stabbing Of O’Shae Sibley, How Can Mail-In Voting Be ‘Secure’ When Postal Theft Is Rampant?, ‘Bidenomics’ Has Been A Disaster, and Is NPR Trying To Start A Race War?
Mark Steyn: Checkpoint Charlie Hebdo, Unleashing Chaos, Live Around the Planet, and And Then There Were None: Randolph Scott and 7 Men From Now

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CNN: Distract Much?

Posted on | August 9, 2023 | Comments Off on CNN: Distract Much?

The big news Wednesday was that the House Oversight Committee “has tracked $20 million in payments to Biden Inc.” A few of the details via Ace of Spades:

Foreign oligarchs moved millions to Biden-tied firms before meeting Joe Biden, investigators say
House Oversight Committee now has traced more than $20 million in funds from Russians, Chinese, Ukrainians, Kazakhs and Romanians to Biden-tied entities.
Firms tied to the Biden family collected more than $20 million from foreign sources, including big payments from controversial oligarchs who afterwards had private dinners with Joe Biden as vice president, congressional investigators disclosed Wednesday.
In its third memo analyzing bank records, the GOP-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee reported it had found a clear pattern of the Biden family and its partners doing business with Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Chinese and Romanian figures who had legal and other troubles and then collecting money around the times of gaining access to Joe Biden.
The pattern, the congressional investigators noted, corroborates recent testimony from former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer that the presidential son solicited business from foreigners who were seeking influence, access or protection from a family “brand” that included Joe Biden.
“The Biden family’s and associates’ dealings with foreign nationals from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine show a pattern of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer courting wealthy oligarchs with political and financial influence but tainted backgrounds,” the new member to lawmakers on the committee stated.
“Thus far, the Committee has identified over $20 million from foreign sources that benefitted the Biden family and their business associates,” it added.

Much more at the link. This is what professional journalists would call Pretty Goddamned Big News — a smoking gun found next to a bloody corpse — and yet CNN is ignoring it in favor of a wall-to-wall coverage of the “apocalyptic” wildfire in Maui: “Climate change among reasons Hawaii fire could have spread so quickly, scientist says.”

Let us not minimize the destruction in Hawaii, which has already killed six people. However, in the grand scheme of things — 20 people have already been shot to death in Chicago this month — this wildfire is not as important as confirmation that Biden was on the take while serving as vice president in the Obama administration. People watching CNN, however, have no inkling about what the House Oversight Committee has found, because nobody at CNN is going to mention this.

There’s a reason why Paw Patrol has higher ratings than CNN.



 

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