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Rule 5 Sunday: Redheads – Threat or Menace?

Posted on | August 4, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Redheads – Threat or Menace?

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I kid, I kid. Some of the best times of my life have been spent in the company of redheads. This particular redhead comes to us courtesy of @Rule5Texan on X.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five DEI Hire Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Vespa Girls, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Simone Biles, Giorgia Villa, Angela Carini, MAGA Not So Crazy Cat Girls For Trump, Israel KIlls Two Hamas Leaders, Knox Goes Away, and Lady Deadpool & Elektra. 

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Donald Trump Had an Agreement to Debate Joe Biden, Not to Debate ‘Whoever Democrats Pick to Replace Joe Biden’

Posted on | August 4, 2024 | Comments Off on Donald Trump Had an Agreement to Debate Joe Biden, Not to Debate ‘Whoever Democrats Pick to Replace Joe Biden’

Hey, remember when it was a “right-wing conspiracy theory” if you thought Democrats were going to pull a Torricelli-Lautenberg switch and run some other presidential candidate instead of Joe Biden?

Republicans float a quiet conspiracy theory
that Biden won’t be on the ballot
— NBC News, Oct. 26, 2023

Get Used to It: Biden Isn’t Going Anywhere
— Politico, Feb. 13, 2024

It’s time to end the conspiracy theories
about Biden being replaced as a candidate
— Washington Examiner, May 16, 2024

It’s important not to forget this recent history, which is being memory-holed by the same media voices who told you that you were crazy for thinking Democrats would do what, in fact, they have now done.

And why did Democrats dump Biden? Because the befuddled incumbent got his ass kicked in an early debate that Team Biden demanded. Remember that ridiculous “make my day” video from Joe?

So what happened? Many people were surprised when Trump immediately accepted the debates (first on CNN, then on ABC) with rules dictated by Team Biden. Lots of us right-wingers thought this was a bad idea. CNN was blatantly in the tank for Biden, but Trump didn’t seem to care. With the benefit of hindsight, we now see that Trump was smarter than all of us — he knew Biden couldn’t handle a debate, no matter how in-the-tank the moderators might be. (To be more anti-Trump than Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, you’d have to be Thomas Crooks).

Biden’s cognitively impaired performance in the June 27 debate proved to be a fatal wound to his reelection campaign, and Joe announced he was quitting 24 days later, designating Kamala Harris as his chosen replacement. This was ratified by a “virtual roll call” of DNC delegates — because thus does Our Democracy™ proceed — and Team Biden was thereby magically transformed into Team Harris. Despite the utterly unprecedented nature of this process, Team Harris seemed to assume that Trump was obligated to debate Harris under the same agreement he’d made when Biden was the candidate. Why? How is it that Democrats think they can pull such shenanigans and never experience any negative consequences as a result? Now Trump is playing hardball.

Trump offers to debate Sept. 4 on Fox in front of a live audience in Pennsylvania, and Team Harris perversely claims Trump is breaching his prior agreement with ABC when, in fact, it is Democrats who have rendered that agreement void by switching candidates.

And you know something? Harris needs the debate more than Trump does. He is a known commodity, with a solid grassroots base, so why should he do her any favors? It was one thing, when Biden was an incumbent seeking reelection, and Trump needed to counter the weight of the “bully pulpit.” But Kamala Harris? What has she got?

Recall that Trump did not deign to debate the Republican rivals who challenged him for the nomination. He let them debate amongst themselves, then beat them all in the primaries, without much effort. It may seem crazy to think that Trump has made a similar calculation about Harris, but his previous hunch proved accurate, didn’t it?

So, Trump decides that having no debate at all would be better than debating on ABC, and makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer for the Fox debate. And what if Team Harris says “no”? Fine with me, says Trump, and then turns all her complaints into an opportunity to talk about the shenanigans by which Democrats switched candidates.

“It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.”



 

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FMJRA 2.0: An Inoffensive Offense

Posted on | August 4, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: An Inoffensive Offense

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, that was a miserable week. The Senators scored a total of nine runs in our six games against the Twins and Expos, with the result being that we went 1-5 on the week to finish at 48-70, four games behind the A’s in our division and not too far ahead of the cellar-dwelling O’s. Next week we have games against the Tribe, who we are 4-2 against, and Kansas Shitty, 3-4. So we might get a .500 week, or maybe not.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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‘Sundown Joe’ and World War III

Posted on | August 3, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Sundown Joe’ and World War III

Everybody got a laugh Friday when, after an airport photo-op with hostages recently returned from Russia, Joe Biden wandered away and climbed the steps of the empty plane. Media “fact-checkers” instantly went into spin mode, claiming that what we saw with our own two eyes — an old man exhibiting dementia symptoms — didn’t really happen.

The problem with the media’s political make-believe games is that the president’s duties as Commander-in-Chief cannot be wished away, at a time when events in the Middle East are at a perilous turn:

The U.S. military is repositioning assets and moving additional forces into the Middle East and Europe to defend against a potential attack on Israel by Iran, U.S. officials said.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the deployment of additional Navy destroyers and cruisers, both with offensive and defensive ballistic missile capabilities, as the Pentagon also takes steps to beef up land-based missile defense, Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said in a statement Friday evening. An additional squadron of fighter jets also will be deployed to the Middle East to reinforce defensive air support, she said.
The statement did not identify which vessels and units will be involved, but says they will be added to the “broad range of capabilities the U.S. military maintains in the region.”
Austin also has ordered the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier, and its associated escort ships to ensure that an aircraft carrier remains in the region, Singh said. Another carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, was in the Gulf of Oman on Friday and accompanied by several other warships after they recently moved out of the Persian Gulf, a U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. The shift leaves open the possibility that they will move to Israel if they sail west around Yemen toward the Red Sea.
The moves come after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate after the killing this week of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and a senior Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr. . . .
The events have brought the region closer to full-blown conflict than perhaps at any point since the Gaza war began 10 months ago with a bloody cross-border attack by Hamas.
Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and a group of militias in Iraq and Syria all receive weapons and training from Iran, part of a vast anti-Israel, anti-U.S. network Tehran has supported for years.
U.S. officials had revealed little until Friday evening about how they were preparing for the possibility of an attack, but the White House said Thursday night that President Biden had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and affirmed his commitment to Israeli security “against all threats from Iran, including its proxy terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.”
“The President discussed efforts to support Israel’s defense against threats, including against ballistic missiles and drones, to include new defensive U.S. military deployments,” said a brief statement summarizing the two leaders’ call.
The recent bloodshed follows a sprawling drone and missile attack by Iran on Israel in April in which the U.S. military intervened, taking down numerous drones and missiles as Israeli forces intercepted others. Iran launched that attack after an Israeli airstrike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria killed two Iranian generals and other Iranian military personnel.
“As we have demonstrated since October and again in April, the United States’ global defense is dynamic and the Department of Defense retains the capability to deploy on short notice to meet evolving national security threats,” Singh said in her statement on Friday. “The United States also remains intently focused on de-escalating tensions in the region and pushing for a ceasefire as part of a hostage deal to bring the hostages home and end the war in Gaza.”

Is it necessary for the U.S. to deploy aircraft carriers, etc., “to defend against a potential attack on Israel by Iran”? Isn’t Israel capable of handling its own defense? Haven’t they shown themselves self-sufficient in this regard, in many conflicts over the past seven decades?

Excuse me if I get annoyed by American political leaders — not just Joe Biden and the Democrats, but also many Republicans — who seem to think they are obliged to be constantly meddling in the Middle East, as if the Israelis are incapable of self-defense and thus require the U.S. to act as Big Brother to protect them from bullies. This attitude is actually harmful to Israel, since it feeds into a perception widespread among Israel’s enemies that Israel is essentially a U.S.-controlled puppet.

As for the Biden administration’s avowed focus on “de-escalating tensions in the region,” Noah Pollak has relevant thoughts:

All year, Biden, [Secretary of State Anthony] Blinken, and [National Security Advisor Jake] Sullivan lectured and threatened Israel that the only acceptable way to prosecute the war was precision targeting of terrorist leaders that avoided civilian casualties. This week, Israel eliminated two terror leaders in precision strikes. And now Biden is lecturing and threatening Israel for “escalating.” This is a game Israel cannot win, because every time Israel acts, the Democrats change the rules so they can accuse Netanyahu of breaking them. This is Calvinball as foreign policy, fueled by the left’s hatred of the Jewish state. Anything short of national suicide earns the condemnation of the Democrats.

Where is the evidence that Blinken or Sullivan (or anybody else in the Biden administration) are better qualified to judge Israel’s interests than the Israelis themselves? Where is the proof of their superior wisdom on Middle East policy as compared to, e.g., Benjamin Netanyahu?

So here we are, on the brink of a potentially apocalyptic war, with the President of the United States in a mentally-impaired condition while decision-making authority is being exercised by a bunch of arrogant “experts” who never won an election — not even to a county commission seat, much less to any position of executive authority — and we’re just supposed to accept this as normal? Hurry up, November 5!



 

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In The Mailbox: 08.02.24

Posted on | August 3, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.02.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. `
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: If A Truck Full Of “Green Technology” Overturns, Catches Fire, & Emits Toxins, Is It Still Green? also, Grand Theft Chicken Sandwich
EBL: Olympian Giorgia Villa Loves Cheese, Kamala Harris Says No Merry Christmas For You , Simone Biles Olympic Comeback, and Kamala Harris to pick Josh Shapiro as her Veep?
Twitchy: Friday’s News Dumps Make Everyone Wonder AGAIN Who’s In Charge Of This Country, Get Keith Olbermann A Straightjacket! and Let Us Grab Our Tiny Violins
Louder With Crowder: Pat McAfee has the stones to speak truth about men competing against women though no one else on ESPN does, also, Crowder Closes: A ‘Male’ Stole Angela Carini’s Olympic Dream and Her Promise to Her Late Father
Vox Popoli: Sex Trafficking at ComicCon, Suddenly at the Olympics, and The Judgment of Paris
According To Hoyt: The Cost of Your Self-Image, Shooting Your Own Foot, and Weird!
Upstream Reviews: The Golden Key & Other Fairy Tales
Defending The Wood Perilous: Betraying The Past, Princess Effie’s Logs #3 – Launching Black Hawk Enterprises
Stoic Observations: Stoic Bites #7 – Adventures of the Mind

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Can Pennsylvania’s Shapiro Survive Woke Scrutiny?
American Greatness: The Looming Kamala Calamity, also, The Fallacies of Kamala Harris
American Thinker: Even If Moses Endorsed Donald Trump, Jews Would Not Vote For Him
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five DEI Hire Friday
Babalu Blog: Building collapses in Cuba, trapping a pregnant woman and children, Castro dictatorship threatens Cubans with criminal prosecution if caught buying or selling foreign currency, and Cuban mother accuses hospital of medical negligence for causing the death of her newborn infant
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 3
Behind The Black: China launches “high-orbit internet satellite”, NASA/Boeing push back final decision of Starliner return, Arianespace finally schedules last Vega launch, Chinese scientists discover thin-layered graphene in Chang’e-5 lunar samples, Rocket Lab successfully launches commercial Earth observation satellite, and Charges against pro-Hamas rioters have routinely been dropped nationwide
Cafe Hayek: Gordon Chang Is No Serious Analyst of Trade
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Ismail Haniyeh Death Provides An Uncomfortable Truth For All Those Crying “Genocide” Over Gaza
Don Surber: oLGBTQ Olympics
First Street Journal: Apparently your Freedom of Speech is dependent upon which side you support
Gates Of Vienna: The Gathering Storm, also, The Longest Covid
The Geller Report: Five of Terror Monster Yahya Sinwar’s Greatest Allies Eliminated in Attack on Gaza Terror Tunnel, also, The Ministry Of Disinformation Is Proud To Present: ‘Kamala Harris’ For President
Hollywood In Toto: ‘Blair Witch’ at 25: Found-Footage Shocker Still Gives Us the Creeps
The Lid: Federal Gov’t Has Known All Along that Transgendering Drugs are Unhealthy, Push them Anyway
Legal Insurrection: Manufacturing Flaw Now Blamed for Vineyard Wind Offshore Blade Failure, Don’t Fall For ‘Operation Demoralize’, Kamala Harris HQ Rewrites Her Word Salad When Addressing Prisoner Release to Sound Coherent, Defense Sec. Austin Revokes Plea Deal for 9/11 Masterminds, Anti-Israel Group at CUNY Appears to Call for Escalation of Violence, Biden Reportedly Told Netanyahu to ‘Stop Escalating Tensions in the Region’, and Media Completely Ignores ‘Blacks Against Harris’ Zoom Call Event
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Second Olympic Boxer Who Failed Gender Test Takes Down Another Female Fighter, Athletes Are Obsessed With The Chocolate Muffins In Olympic Village, No, Australia Shouldn’t Ban G-String Bikinis At Waterparks…Stop Being Stupid, Skip Bayless Officially Leaves FS1, What’s Next? Peacock, YouTube? NFL Injuries Begin To Mount, Affecting One Quarterback Competition And Former First-Round Receiver, Dan Orlovsky Deletes ‘Protect Our Daughters’ Tweet While ESPN Co-Workers Continue To Post Woke Nonsense, and Camille Kostek Turns Up The Heat With A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Shoot
Power Line: Developing: ActBlue Campaign Fraud in VA? Biden Sides With Hamas, The Daily Chart: Deregulate Housing, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Bipartisan Delegation Denounces Maduro’s Election Fraud
Shot In The Dark: I’m Pouncing, also, Ozymandias
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The High-Frontier Concept
This Ain’t Hell: Follow-up Friday- Quantico spies, AR ban, Osprey crash, Valor Friday, US veteran, associated with failed Venezuela coup, is arrested, Paul Whelan finally released from Russian custody, and KSM Plea Deal Revoked!
Transterrestrial Musings: A Difference Between The Right And The Left, also, The Latest On The USSS
Victory Girls: Code Switching Is Media’s New Term for Kamala’s Phoniness
Volokh Conspiracy: [I’ve Looked at Law from] Both Sides, Now
Watts Up With That: ‘Green’ Olympics Make Athletes See Red – The Climate Realism Show #121, Exposing the Financial Web: Clinton-Run Organizations Funding Climate Activists, and Are Heatwaves Getting Worse?
The Federalist: If Kamala Harris Is Normal, Make America Weird Again, Alabama Democrat Arrested For Allegedly Casting 7 Fraudulent Absentee Ballots, Democrats’ Weakness On Israel Is Prolonging War In The Middle East, Here We Go Again: ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Announces Plans To Dump More Cash Into Election Offices, Media Hate Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman Because She’s A Happily Married Mother, Majority Blame Secret Service For Trump Assassination Attempt, Few Trust Agency: Poll, and Wind Turbine Debacle Perfectly Encapsulates Biden-Harris Green New Deal Failures
Mark Steyn: “Constitutional Methods Have Failed…”

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In The Mailbox: 08.01.24

Posted on | August 2, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.01.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in July.
Uncomfortable Parallels, on the Substack
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

A better version of a meme I already had.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Angela Carini
Twitchy: Tariq Nasheed Weighs In On Trump At The NABJ Conference – You’ll Be Surprised, Turkey’s Dressed-Down Olympic Shooter Inspires Jokes, Memes – And Wins Silver, and The Left Keeps Claiming This Isn’t Happening
Louder With Crowder: Sanity prevails! This dad wins custody of his son after the mother tried to raise him non-binary, Olympian abandons fight after she was forced to fight a man (who claims he’s not), Enjoy: Porch pirate tries being slick, winds up eating fists when homeowner comes home at wrong time, and Olympian forced to fight a man(?) made this heartbreaking dedication to her late father
Vox Popoli: The Memes Must Flow, Indeed, and Ascendant is Back!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why Middle Class Americans Are Praying for a Trump Return
American Greatness: President Biden – A Single Point of Failure for America, also, Kamala Harris’ National Security Adviser Investigated for Ties to Iran
American Thinker: Media Gaslighting Trump-Harris Polls
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Cuban ‘president’ offers condolences over death of Hamas terrorist leader, As Cubans go hungry, the Castro dictatorship announces the opening of new apartheid hotels, and As Cuba sends enslaved doctors overseas, Dengue and Oropouche epidemic spreads uncontrolled throughout the island
Baldilocks: Banks, also, No Pandering
BattleSwarm: Border Invasion Validation
Behind The Black: First flight of government-built hopper to test vertical landings delayed two years, Research from DART impact mission determines approximate ages of the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos, ULA squelches independent photography of its launches, Inspector General: Roman Space Telescope is meeting the budget overruns and schedule delays NASA predicted, Vast announces first two customer payloads on its Haven-1 space station, and My heart bleeds: The new head of the Secret Service is hurt because his people are “hurting”
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading & Viewing
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Regime declared war on the Supreme Court, also, The August Indulgence Calendar and a Tip for Stacy’s Friend Wombat
Dana Loesch: Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention, Looks Like Harris Has Picked A VP,
Don Surber: A day in the lies
First Street Journal: The Iranians should be worried!
Gates Of Vienna: Democracy Means Voting for the Correct Candidates
The Geller Report: FBI Is Ramping Up Censorship Ahead Of 2024 Election
Hollywood In Toto: Stupid White Men Author Michael Moore Calls Trump Racist, also, War Game – The Left’s Ultimate Jan. 6 Cosplay?
The Lid: Donald Trump Proposes End to Taxes on Social Security for Retirees
Legal Insurrection: Israel Confirms Hamas No. 2 Mohammed Deif Eliminated in July Airstrike, “How Dare We Speak Merry Christmas. How Dare We?”, Polling Analyst Nate Silver Not Buying Kamala Hype, Says Trump Remains Favorite to Win in 2024, Texas AG Paxton Announces Final Victory On Court Order Forcing Biden to Finish Southern Border Wall, University of Missouri Closing DEI Offices, J.D. Vance Says Border Patrol Agents ‘Enraged that the Harris Administration Won’t Let Them Do Their Job’, and Hamas Leader Haniyeh Assassinated By Bomb Planted In Tehran Apartment Two Months Ago, Not By Missile – NYT Reports
michele catalano: conspicuous consumption
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fascinating
Outkick: Social Media Erupts After Olympian Boxer ‘Pretending To Be’ A Woman Batters An Actual Woman In The Ring, Josh Shapiro, Potential Democrat VP Nominee, Supports Males In Women’s Sports, Bobby Witt Jr. Just Had One Of The Best Months In Baseball History, Jake Paul Offers Olympian Boxer Angela Carini A ‘Fair’ Fight ‘Not Against A Man’, Pat McAfee Goes On ESPN And Says What Others Won’t, NFL Fans Give Mixed Reactions Over New Kickoff Rule At Bears, Texans ‘Hall of Fame Game’, and Italian Soccer Girl Giusy Meloni Heats Up A Beach, Kay Adams In Full Pads & Olympian Angela Carini Is A Winner
Power Line: Worse Than the Old Boss, Take my governor — please, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Wins in the End
Shark Tank: Mast Criticizes Media For Gaslighting Americans BY Claiming VP Harris Was Never Border Czar
Shot In The Dark: A State of Forced Cowardice, Tea Leaves, and Kackalot
STUMP: Taking The Long View – Over A Decade of STUMP Watching Public Pensions
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – For The Children
This Ain’t Hell: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 plotter, reaches plea deal with US government
Victory Girls: Olympics Watch: Leftwing “Masculinity” Applauds Men Who Beat Women
Volokh Conspiracy: Senator Schumer Goes Nuclear With “No King Act”
Watts Up With That: No, CNBC, Insurance Premiums Are Not Increasing Due to Climate Change, The New York Times Is Clueless When It Comes to Climate and the #ParkFire, and The Future of the EV Mandate
The Federalist: In A Summer Of Box Office Flops, Deadpool & Wolverine Shines, Nasdaq Exempts Chinese Business Partners From Woke Politics It Forces On Americans, What Does Kamala Harris Know About Biden Suddenly Dropping Out Of 2024? Why Is Michigan’s Secretary Of State Working With Election Meddler David Becker? WSJ Smears Heritage President Kevin Roberts For Not Being A Neocon Hack, Sources Say Missouri AG ‘Stopped Working On’ Investigation Into ‘Zuckbucks’, and New York Times Celebrates Democrats Adding ‘Weird’ To Neverending ‘Racist’ And ‘Sexist’ Smears
Mark Steyn: Game Over

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What Part of Genesis 12:3 Do I Need to Explain to These Crazy Jew-Haters?

Posted on | August 1, 2024 | Comments Off on What Part of Genesis 12:3 Do I Need to Explain to These Crazy Jew-Haters?

While I don’t have any advanced credentials in theology, I would say “don’t f**k with the Jews” is a fair colloquial translation.

Yesterday, my brother was skeptical of the Iranian claim that it was an Israeli missile attack that took out Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and it turns out that Kirby’s skepticism was justified, because those crafty Jews are even craftier than any Iranian could imagine:

Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.
The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials. The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in an upscale neighborhood of northern Tehran.
Mr. Haniyeh was in Iran’s capital for the presidential inauguration. The bomb was detonated remotely, the five officials said, once it was confirmed that he was inside his room at the guesthouse. The blast also killed a bodyguard.
The explosion shook the building, shattered some windows and caused the partial collapse of an exterior wall, according to the two Iranian officials, members of the Revolutionary Guards briefed on the incident. Such damage was also evident in a photograph of the building shared with The New York Times.
Mr. Haniyeh, who had led Hamas’s political office in Qatar, had stayed at the guesthouse several times when visiting Tehran, according to the Middle Eastern officials. All of the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details about the assassination.
Iranian officials and Hamas said Wednesday that Israel was responsible for the assassination, an assessment also reached by several U.S. officials who requested anonymity. The assassination threatened to unleash another wave of violence in the Middle East and upend the ongoing negotiations to end the war in Gaza. Mr. Haniyeh had been a top negotiator in the cease-fire talks.
Israel has not publicly acknowledged responsibility for the killing, but Israeli intelligence officials briefed the United States and other Western governments on the details of the operation in the immediate aftermath, according to the five Middle Eastern officials. . . .

You can read the whole thing, but wow! So apparently, Israel was able to (a) identify the guest house where the Hamas leader stayed during previous visits to Tehran, (b) somehow smuggle a bomb past Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, (c) confirm that Haniyeh was there Tuesday night and (d) KABOOM!  That’s some really amazing clandestine work.



 

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In The Mailbox: 07.31.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 1, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.31.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Average Bubba is back blogging at Rooted in Reason.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Israel Kills Hamas’ Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Shukr, also, MAGA Not So Crazy Cat Ladies For Trump
Twitchy: Liberal Big Tech CEO David Marcus “Crosses The Rubicon” & Endorses Trump, AG Merrick Garland Is FURIOUS About Document Case Dismissal, and ABC Reporter Stunned Trump Had The Nerve To Address Black Journalists
Louder With Crowder: Weird Kamala Harris pays child actors to talk to her about space, attempt to make her seem likable
Vox Popoli: The First Rule of Fighting the Patriarchy, Yeah, We’re Back, Weekly Meme Review 19, “The Full Force of the Law”, and Evil in the High Courts
Postcards From Barsoom: So We’re Winning – Now What?
Toni Airaksinen: 25% Of False Accusers Do It For An Alibi

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Satanist Servants of the System do not attack any religion but Christianity
American Conservative: The Ukrainian War Effort Is Going Nowhere Fast
American Greatness: Kamala Harris and the Californication of America, California Democrat Says Kamala Harris Constantly Berated AG Office Staffers With F-Bombs; Didn’t Allow Interns to Look Her in the Eye, and Racism and Sexism: The Campaign Theme of the Harris-Whoever Ticket
American Thinker: Kamalagate: The Harris Deception That Doomed Dozens of J6ers, The Democrat Party is the Greatest Threat to America, and The Perfect Stooge: How Did Kamala Harris Get This Far?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Screwball News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Leftist dictatorships cannot be toppled at the ballot box, Organization of American States will hold special session today on Venezuela election results, and Barack ‘Luca Brasi’ Obama
BattleSwarm: Paxton Wrings $1.4 Billion Settlement From Facebook, also, Did Amazon Try To Ban A 2020 Book Critical Of Kamala Harris?
Behind The Black: ULA completes its 4th launch this year and last Atlas-5 launch for the Space Force, China scientists propose both a communications and GPS-type infrastructure on the Moon, A review of Japan’s effort to create a commercial space industry, Boeing names new CEO, set to take over on August 8, 2024, Secret Service agent reveals the edifice of incompetency and stupidity that permeates the entire federal government, and Unlike the white community, a real politcal conversation is finally happening among blacks
Cafe Hayek: Thoughts on Income Inequality
CDR Salamander: National Defense Strategy? What National Defense Strategy?
Chicago Boyz: Slow But Exceedingly Fine
Da Tech Guy: The Story isn’t the Left’s Blasphemy, the Story is the visible proof of God’s existence in response, also, A Mistake? YGBFKM
Dana Loesch: Kemp Was A Safe VP Pick
Don Surber: It’s like being called weird by a weirdo
First Street Journal: Karma comes for Ismail Haniyeh, also, Oh, noes! #COVID19 is surging in California!
Gates Of Vienna: The Cultural Enrichment of Southport, Jewish Soccer Players Get Extra Protection in Nantes, We All Scream For Ice Cream, Venezuelan Officers: “The Will of the Sovereign People Was Manifested”, Jews Will Have No Choice — They Will Be Pushed Out of France, and No More Euros For Palestine!
The Geller Report: Iran Increases Attacks on U.S. Forces, also, Trump: Biden/Harris White House run by ‘fascists, Marxists, communists’
Hollywood In Toto: Was St. Elmo’s Fire The Ultimate ’80s Movie? Did Someone Put a Hit Out on Francis Ford Coppola’s Career? Late-Night Propagandists Come for J.D. Vance, and Dear Hollywood: Be Like Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman
The Lid: Biden’s Mandate Forcing All Trucks to Go Electric Will Cost Economy BILLIONS in Losses
Legal Insurrection: Top Hamas Terrorist Leader Ismail Haniyeh Killed in Tehran Strike, Terror Group Says, FLASHBACK: Vice President Kamala Harris Struggles to Define Culture, U. Georgia Students Challenge Suspensions Over Pro-Palestine Encampment Protest, Trump Points Out the Difference in Treatment Between J6 Protesters and Mobs Destroying Property, Governor Walz Calls Trump a “Bastard” and Buttigieg Links Freedom to Abortion at Harris Event, Prime Minister Netanyahu Says Israel “Prepared For Any Scenario” as Iran, Hamas Vow to Avenge Top Terrorist Haniyeh’s Killing, and Trump Assassination Attempt: Local Law Enforcement, D.A. Blast Secret Service ‘Ridiculous’ Remarks
Nebraska Energy Observer: I don’t much care for Dave Rubin, also, It’s the Same the Whole World Over
Outkick: NFL Legend Rips Woman Offended By ‘White’ National Anthem Singers At Restaurant, American Tennis Star Curses Out Iga Swiatek Over ‘Insincere’ Behavior During Olympic Match, Tampa Bay Rays Officially Get Approval To Build New Stadium, ESPN Social Media Botches Post About Katie Ledecky & Michael Phelps, Canadian Olympic Triathlon Athlete Pukes After Swimming In Digusting Seine River, Alex Ovechkin Talks About The Important Role Of Beer In An NHL Locker Room, and Salma Hayek Says Farewell To July With A Healthy Reminder That Bikini Season Isn’t Over
Power Line: Biden’s court-whacking plan, A Weird Line of Attack, and Settling All Family Business?
Shark Tank: Salazar Introduces Bill To Fight Fentanyl Crisis
Shot In The Dark: Chanting Points Memo – Little Robots Full Of Ticky-Tack, Whores, Cretins, Charlatans, OK!, His True Color Is Red, and A Conundrum
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Betting On Tax Policy
The Political Hat: Hobbesian Apotheosis
This Ain’t Hell: Two former Marines sentenced for plot to destroy a power grid, Israel Eyes Hezbollah Targets, Donald Trump’s iconic photo ‘fact checked’, Vet death I find hard to mourn, Raw tallies showed opposition landside, Maduro claims victory, Venezuelans protest, Israelis take out Shukur, Beirut Marine bomb leader, and Kamala Harris hints at executive action to act on gun control
Transterrestrial Musings: “General” Harris
Victory Girls: Kamala Channels Hillary With Fake Accent And NSFW Rap Lyrics
Volokh Conspiracy: Kamala Harris’s Indian Background Was Once a More Prominent Part of Her Curated Image
Watts Up With That: Rolls-Royce One Step Closer To SMRs, Virginia’s risk of offshore wind turbine blade failure is serious, and Team Harris Swears Kamala Won’t Kill Fracking, But Will Anyone Believe Them?
The Federalist: If Elected, Kamala Harris Would Be The Most Anti-Gun President In U.S. History, Florida CFO Bans Left-Wing Propagandist NewsGuard From Receiving State Financial Contracts, ‘Bidenbucks’ Plan Uses Native American School Children In Voter Registration Scheme, Biden-Harris Administration Keeps Breaking The Law To Buy Votes From College Grads, Michigan Judge Shuts Down Secretary Of State’s Lax Ballot Signature Guidance For Good, and Why Should Media Go Easy On Kamala After Racist Attacks On Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, And Tim Scott?
Mark Steyn: Ofcom Wins, The Management of Murder, and As Steyn Goes, So Goes the Deep State?

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