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FMJRA 2.0: We Saw It, It Was Coming

Posted on | July 16, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: We Saw It, It Was Coming

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Senators took two of three from the division-leading A’s at RFK and ten went on the road to Minnesota and got thumped in two games straight before Juan Marichal came in to shut down the Twins’ bats while the lads teed off on Sudden Sam McDowell for an 8-0 blowout in game three. Tuesday we’re on the road again in Montreal, where we will no doubt freeze our asses off, but hopefully take at least two games.
Today’s SOTD in the title is from the freshly delivered & promptly ripped volume 10 of Klaus Schulze’s La Vie Electronique. Good solid classical/electronic stuff. 
Silicon Valley delenda est.

.500 is better than .333

Are YOU a ‘White Nationalist’?
The DaleyGator 
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Flappr

FMJRA 2.0: Ludwig Revisited – Cozy Ludwig
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Beauty of Alaska
EBL
357 Magnum

I Guess SCOTUS Decisions Are Constitutional Amendments?
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: Karen Allen
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Bad Movies for Bad People
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.10.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

CNN’s Idée Fixe
First Street Journal
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.11.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

With ‘Friends’ Like This…
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum
Flappr

In The Mailbox: 7.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.13.23 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

It Probably Wouldn’t Be a Good Idea for Me to Express Myself Bluntly About This
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Crazy People Are Dangerous
Sassywire
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.14.23
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

Top linkers for the week ending July 15:

  1.  EBL (15)
  2.  357 Magnum (14)
  3.  A View From The Beach (10)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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A Tale of Two Conventions

Posted on | July 16, 2023 | 1 Comment

— by Wombat-socho


Or, Taking Back SF One Convention At A Time.

Our mascot, Fission-chan.


Every year in June, there’s a science fiction convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that is so popular, memberships sell out in a matter of hours when they become available. Part of this is because (thanks to some arcane rules I don’t pretend to understand that don’t have anything to do with fire marshal regulations) Libertycon limits its membership to around 750 people. The other part is that unlike most SF conventions, the people who run Libertycon are adamant about maintaining a convention free of the ridiculous woke crap that has made a lot of SF conventions, big and small, places where conservative and libertarian authors and fans aren’t welcome. So Libertycon memberships are very much in demand, despite the facts that 1) Chattanooga is damned hard to get to unless you live in driving distance, and B, every year the hotel that hosts it seems to change hands and forget how to do room reservations.

Well, I think there ought to be more conventions like Libertycon, and having some experience at starting & running these sorts of conventions, I decided to do something about it. Thus: Son of Silvercon. I’m starting small this first year, aiming for a membership of 100+ people, and hoping in subsequent years to grow to 1000 or more, which would allow us to move from a Best Western to one of the larger hotels in downtown Las Vegas – the Plaza, say, or one of the Station hotel/casinos, which have the kind of function space I’m used to from running Anime Detour in Minnesota. My intention is not to compete with Libertycon, which has been around quite a while and has a rich tradition -not to mention a couple of anthologies- but to supplement it, provide a place for people who can’t make it to Libertycon because Chattanooga is too far/too big a pain to fly to or because they just couldn’t score a membership. We have a guest of honor (M.C.A. Hogarth) and a couple of special guests (Sarah* & Daniel Hoyt, and Jon Del Arroz) who are most definitely not part of the Pink Wave that wants to make SF as dull and intersectional and hateful as mainstream literature, and who I expect will have interesting things to say about ignoring what traditional SF/comics publishers want and going your own way. We’re going to have a con suite where you can hang out, drink sodas of various types, nibble on snacks, and talk to your fellow fans as well as our guests and other pros who wandered in from the desert. We even have a blog to keep you posted on how things are coming along.

So if you happen to live in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, or Utah (or someplace else with cheap airfares to/from Vegas), think about coming down to Son of Silvercon the weekend of October 13. Hop in the car, book a flight or a bus ride, and come on down! If you can’t make it for some reason, consider a supporting membership to help make it happen (It’s only $20) and mention us to someone who might be interested. If you’re a veteran or an N3F member, we offer a $5 discount off the attending membership price. We also have a limited number of vendor tables available, if you’re interested in flogging some books or games to the masses. Do your part for the culture war! Buy stuff from authors and artists who don’t hate you! Come to Son of Silvercon!

*Some of you may recognize Sarah as the occasional overnight blogger at Instapundit, as well as mistress of her own blog, According To Hoyt.


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New York Architect Art Vandelay Denies Role in Long Island Serial Killer Case

Posted on | July 15, 2023 | 1 Comment

As soon as I heard that the suspect arrested in the long-unsolved murders of three women in the Long Island community of Gilgo Beach was an architect, I immediately thought of George Costanza in Seinfeld pretending to be an architect named “Art Vandelay.” This just shows what my sick sense of humor, I suppose, but the story of how an investigative task force finally identified Rex Heuermann, 59, as the suspect is fascinating. According to cops, Heuermann kept the cell phones of two victims and used the phones to get numbers of their relatives, then used “burner” phones to taunt at least one victim’s family member. However, Heuermann apparently didn’t realize that having his own cell phone with him at the time he used the “burner” phones meant that he was “pinging” off the same phone tower. So cops pored over the phone information and, by a process of elimination, narrowed down the possibilities to a comparative handful of potential suspects, and then — because a witness had seen a green pickup truck near one crime scene — this brought Heuermann to the top of the stack, as he sometimes drove a green truck he borrowed from his brother. Once he became the focus of the investigation, Heuermann’s financial records and Internet activity added more evidence against him, and finally detectives got a DNA match from discarded garbage. Breaking a case more than a decade old was very hard work, and the killer is an architect? Wow.

Art Vandelay could not be reached for comment.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 07.14.23

Posted on | July 15, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: When You Outlaw Guns, Only Outlaws Have Guns
EBL: I refuse to join a club that would have me as a member, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, and Bastille Day
Twitchy: Federal Judge In Oregon Upholds Measure 114, Which Stomps on 2A Rights, Congresscritter Annoyed By People Of Color Being Called Colored People, Watch As Tucker Carlson Ends Mike Pence’s Campaign, and Interest In Threads Seems To Be Unraveling
Louder With Crowder: CNN pinned all their hopes and dreams on Kaitlan Collins and her new show is losing to SpongeBob, also, A costumed vigilante is taking the San Francisco streets back because crime has gotten that bad
Vox Popoli: The Media Knows, Everything is Fake, and Snow White and the Seven Diversities
According To Hoyt: View From Normal Street, Boobs, and It’s Time To Take The White Pill
Monster Hunter Nation: Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever – eARC is out now!, also, Don’t Be THAT Guy
Stoic Observations: How Stoics Win

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Mourn Bastille Day
American Greatness: Don’t Believe The Leftist Media Narrative About The State of the 2024 Race, also, ‘Anti-Woke’ Alternative to Amazon to go Public This Month
American Thinker: Will Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five United Nations Friday
Babalu Blog: Desperation in Cuba worsens two years after the massive July 11 protests, Number of confirmed ‘femicides’ in Cuba climbs to 52, plus 4 more unconfirmed, and Reports from Cuba: Are we living in a new Special Period?
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for July 14
Behind The Black: Solid-fueled second-stage motor for Japan’s new Epsilon-S rocket explodes during static fire test, ULA officially admits first Vulcan launch is delayed to end of year, India successfully launches Chandrayaan-3, NASA survives first budget review in Congress, and Farewell Skipper
Chicago Boyz: History Friday – The Care of an Army
Da Tech Guy: As US Troops Are Called Up for Ukraine A Reminder to All Who Enabled The 2020 Steal
Dana Loesch: Feminist Eyebrow Beat Reporter Attacks Casey DeSantis’ Looks
Don Surber: Fire Sale at Disney
First Street Journal: How wealthy New Englanders fight #ClimateChange
Gates Of Vienna: Taking Care of Their Own
The Geller Report: Despite Supreme Court Ruling, Biden’s Rogue Regime Cancels $39 Billion In Student Loan Debt
Glenn Reynolds: Free Will, Children, & The Great Filter
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Where Does Space Begin?
Hollywood In Toto: Adam Devine Blasts Hollywood for Forcing Messages into Comedies
The Lid: Dems Attempt To Cram The ERA Amendment Through Congress
Legal Insurrection: Jewish Advocacy Group Demands Removal of CUNY Law School Dean Over Student’s Anti-Israel Speech, House Passes Defense Bill That Restricts ‘Woke’ Policies, Sen. J.D. Vance Criticizes Colleges Over ‘Intention to Circumvent’ SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling, Little Girl Squirms as Biden Nibbles Her Shoulder and Tries to Kiss Her During Finland Trip, and “What’s Happening At LinkedIn Is So Important” Because Discrimination By Algorithm Is The Future Of Affirmative Action
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Florida Hunters Catch World Record Burmese Python The Size Of A Giraffe, Charles Barkley Says ‘F–k You’ To People Upset About Bud Light But Is He Missing The Point?, NCAA Hands Down Final Ruling On Tennessee Football, Vols Get Probation, Hefty $8 Million Fine, Gunslinger Philip Rivers Welcoming TENTH Child With Wife, Tiffany, and Sean Payton Calls Jon Gruden A ‘Dumbf-ck’ For Paying $100k Fine For Not Wearing His Mask Properly During 2020 NFL Season
Power Line: How Creepy Is Joe Biden?, John Kerry explains, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Waltz Questions John F. Kerry’s* “Shadow Diplomacy”
Shot In The Dark: Duck Duck Gray Duckspeak, also, Misattributed
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Confidence and Betrayal
This Ain’t Hell: Sex and the Military Friday, Valor Friday, American artillery ammunition running low, North Korea may shoot down U.S. military aircraft, SECDEF- Promotion Hold “National Security Crisis”, and Veteran owned brewery lured to Norfolk, VA, some residents not happy
Transterrestrial Musings: Public Schools
Victory Girls: Transgender Soldiers Impede Battle Readiness
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Watts Up With That: CHECC Has Petitioned the DC Circuit for Rehearing as To Its Standing to Challenge the Endangerment Finding, Claim: Climate Change Threatens “Synchronised Harvest Failures” Worldwide, and Concerns Over Interstellar SUVs: Greenhouse Gas Fears Reach a Cosmic Scale
The Federalist: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Can’t Get His Story Straight On His Aimless Drug Policy Withdrawal, Biden Regime, Corporate Media Blame The Military Abortion Fight They Started On Republicans, Librarian-In-Chief Joe Biden Dreams Up Illegal Federal Library Code For Public Schools, No Subsidies For Big Food Is The Only ‘Based’ Position, EXCLUSIVE: Ethics Complaint Filed Against Congressman Who Slurred Whistleblowers, and Leftists Are Lying To You About Tommy Tuberville And ‘White Nationalists’
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

*Who, as Rush Limbaugh reminded us, served in Vietnam. 

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 14, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

The de-institutionalization of the mentally ill has been a disaster for American society. Many cities are plagued by homeless encampments largely populated by people who would probably be better off locked up in a psych ward, but the state mental asylums got shut down decades ago, and the healthcare system doesn’t have enough facilities to deal with all the kooks and addicts out on the streets. Even when someone is clearly a danger to themselves and others, keeping them institutionalized is difficult. So the cops find themselves confronted by lunatics who do obviously suicidal things like charge at them with hatchets:

Chesterfield’s police chief calls for changes within our mental health system after he says it failed Charles Byers, who was shot and killed by police Saturday, July 8.
Byers’ death occurred just days after he was taken to into a mental health hospital. Chesterfield police say a temporary detention order (TDO) was issued for the 34-year-old.
His father tells NBC12 the family admitted Charles on July 5 after they realized he was experiencing a mental health crisis. He went to an area hospital, but the next day he was charged with battery on a healthcare worker.
He was given a court date for General District Court in Manchester but never showed up.
“This is every family’s nightmare when a family member is in a mental health crisis and clearly needs help, and the family does everything that they can to obtain that help,” NBC12 legal analyst Steve Benjamin said.
NBC12 received the arrest warrant, and Benjamin says it looks like the magistrate released Byers. He says with a TDO, Byers should have been ordered to be returned to the facility after his arrest, not released.
“It appears that this individual was released, probably because of just a failure of communication, which is exactly what the law tries to prevent. Nobody wants this to happen,” Benjamin said.
It’s a miscommunication that cost a life. Benjamin says we do not know enough if anyone is at fault.
“It may very well have been that the Richmond Sheriff’s Department did not know that he was under a temporary detention order,” Benjamin said. “If he was took before a magistrate who also may not have known that there was a TDO, so he’s released by the magistrate. If the deputy did not know that he was under an order to be returned to the facility, then it would not have been the deputy’s fault.”
Following his release, Byers went to a Chesterfield neighborhood Saturday.
Officers say he had a hatchet and tried to get into homes, and police were then called to the scene. Police say after trying to de-escalate the situation, Byers charged at them, which is when police shot him.
Benjamin says the purpose of a TDO is to keep someone safe who may not realize they need help or may not realize they could be a harm to themselves and others.
“This is what has Chesterfield police calling for change in the system,” Chief of Police Col. Jeffrey Katz said in a statement. “Our mental health system failed Mr. Byers, his family, our community, and my officers. I feel compelled to speak on behalf of their interests and to support the needs of those in crisis, their loved ones, and the professionals who dedicate their lives to aiding people in need.”
Katz calls our country’s mental health infrastructure shameful, saying in his part, “Virginia has made overt strides to address this problem in recent years, but substantive changes must come faster. Lives are at stake.”

Whatever happened to straitjackets and padded cells and Thorazine? Back in the day, someone “experiencing a mental health crisis” would have gotten such treatment, especially if their behavior included “battery on a healthcare worker.” A hatchet-wielding lunatic is prowling around your neighborhood? Call the cops. What happens if the lunatic charges at the cops? BANG! BANG! BANG! Problem solved. Maybe this wasn’t what the ACLU had in mind when they pushed for de-institutionalization back in the 1970s, but as a treatment for someone “experiencing a mental health crisis,” police gunfire has the advantage of being permanent.

Have I mentioned lately that Crazy People Are Dangerous?



 

Category: Crime

It Probably Wouldn’t Be a Good Idea for Me to Express Myself Bluntly About This

Posted on | July 14, 2023 | Comments Off on It Probably Wouldn’t Be a Good Idea for Me to Express Myself Bluntly About This

Y’all know about my son, whose job is to salute and complete the mission, no matter what kind of bulls–t mission the civilians and politicians may have gotten us into. Anyway, Glenn Reynolds has this:

Biden: Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty. “For the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility.”
“Operation Atlantic Resolve” is the catchall name for the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Could I express an opinion about this? Yes, I could, but it “wouldn’t be prudent at this juncture.” And then there is this:

Daniel Greenfield summarizes:

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, who got her start as a Clinton intern, has a lot of thoughts on the military.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said she expects within weeks to begin drafting a proposal for a recruiting overhaul so sweeping that Congress might need to pass legislation to enact all of it.
Depending too much on military families could create a “warrior caste,” Wormuth said. Her plans seek to draw in people who have no real connection to the military and to broaden the appeal of service.

There are sixth and seventh-generation military families. There is a ‘warrior caste’ insofar as you have families who have fought for this country since the War of Independence. They showed up, they bled, and now they’re to be replaced by drag queens and identity politics quotas.
“The Army is strategically deploying recruiters to communities across the country based on demographics, ethnicity, race, and gender,” Wormuth had claimed in a written statement.

Could I tell you what I think about Christine Wormuth? Yes, I could, but in the famous words of Dana Carvey, not gonna do it.

The fact is that the Army missed its recruiting goal last year by 25%, the worst recruiting year for the Army since the draft ended in 1973: “The Department of Defense said 77% of American youth are disqualified from military service due to a lack of physical fitness, low test scores, criminal records including drug use or other problems.” Despite the more-or-less desperate emergency in recruiting, however, the Secretary of Army has got everybody worrying about demographic quotas while she frets about the danger of a “military caste” if too many recruits come from families with military backgrounds. But because this person is my son’s boss, I should probably refrain from expressing my thoughts about Secretary Wormuth. However, I suspect the commenters will have plenty to say.



 

Category: Military

In The Mailbox: 07.13.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 14, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.13.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The ultimate movie mashup.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Electric Vehicles & Insurance Nightmares
Flappr: Top Ten 2023 Home Run Derby Participants
EBL: Saint Jason of Tarus
Twitchy: People Wonder Why Biden Is Ordering Reservists To Europe,  Trump Advisor Challenges Chris Christie To Wrestling Match, and Taylor Lorenz Claims Muck Is Bribing Big Accounts To Stay On Twitter
Louder With Crowder: Activists cemented their hands to the tarmac, now they may lose them, Roseanne Barr ENDS the “what is a woman” debate in hilarious fashion, and Joe Biden confuses Ukraine with Russia, Zelenskiy with Putin in another derptastic appearance
Vox Popoli: Protecting Their Pedos, also, The Problem with Word Spells
Gab News: The Neo-Amish Movement

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Turning Immigration Law on Its Head
American Greatness: Ten Reasons Why Affirmative Action Died, also, Don’t Republicans Know That Government Spending Saps Economic Growth?
American Thinker: Pre-Emptive Presidential Pardons for Joe and Hunter Biden, America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded, and The Big Gaslight
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Scumbag News
Babalu Blog: After condemnation by EU Parliament, Cuba’s fake president begins state visit to Portugal, Baseball player Yasiel Gonzales gives up $17 salary in Cuba for opportunity in Dominican Republic, and Life in Cuba: No access to medicine or healthcare, no water, and no electricity during record-breaking heatwave
BattleSwarm: Problem: Austin PD Is Down 500 Officers. Austin City Council Solution: Fire DPS, also, Texas Mini-News Roundup for July 13, 2023
Behind The Black: New Viasat geosynchronous communications satellite in trouble, Final close-out of all science research at Arecibo, Extremely Large Telescope in Chile marks halfway point in construction, Senate committee approves Biden’s FCC nominees, and Enthusiastic censorship and blacklisting at St. Philip’s College in Texas
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Ending Celibacy in the Catholic Church – A “Solution” that Causes Problems and Solves None, also, The hysteria over the hottest day on record BS proves just how far to the left Boston News Channels are
Don Surber: Sarah Sanders For The Win
First Street Journal: CNN correspondent in trouble for telling the truth
Gates Of Vienna:  Biden Pretzel Logic: ‘We Must Embrace Antisemites to Fight Antisemites’, Santiago Abascal: “I am Here to Accuse the Government”, Oak Leaves, Eritreans in Giessen Get Frisky, and Not My Country Anymore
The Geller Report: DeSantis’ and the GOP’s Problem Isn’t Trump, It’s That Dems Rigged The Last Election, FBI Director Wray Confirms Joe Biden is Under Criminal Investigation for Ukrainian Bribes, and Democrat Media Axis Attacks Film Exposing Child Trafficking
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, One Less Beer to Cry Into, and Rho Ophiuchi
Hollywood In Toto: Stern’s Private Parts – When Freedom and Funny Reigned Supreme, also, Silver Lining: Hollywood Strikes Let Conservative Art Thrive
The Lid: China Could Attack Taiwan Within Next 17 Months, Says House Armed Services Committee Member, also, ‘Wired’ Magazine Says Owning a Home Security Camera is Racist
Legal Insurrection: Lawsuit: Rhode Island Law Illegally Seizes Private Beachfront For Public Access, NY Dems Get Another Run At Redistricting Republicans Out of Existence After Mid-Level Appeals Court Orders New Mapping, Ohio School District Spent $24K on Trainings About How to Hide Gender Transition of Kids, Research Finds Very Few Historically Black Colleges Offer a Major in Women’s Studies, and Secret Service Ending White House Cocaine Investigation
Nebraska Energy Observer: I like this
Outkick: Rory McIlroy Says He’d Retire Before Ever Playing For LIV Golf, And There’s No Reason Not To Believe Him, Greg Gutfeld Crushes Megan Rapinoe With Epic Monologue, Pat McAfee Delivers Solid Jokes During ESPY Awards Monologue, Proving ESPN Got Themselves A Star, The Oakland A’s Are So Cheap They Wouldn’t Even Send Their Mascot To Seattle For All-Star week, Veronika Rajek Offers To Be A Ring Girl For The Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg Fight, and Tim Tebow Is Going To Own A Minor League Hockey Team In Lake Tahoe
Power Line: The Secret Service Gives Up, also, The Great Relearning Plods Along
Shark Tank: AG Moody Busts Cryptocurrency Theft Ring In Orlando
Shot In The Dark: Never Forget
The Political Hat: Euthanasia In Canada: Everybody Is Going To Die; 5000 In Ontario Alone; Denying Disability Benefits But Offering Death
This Ain’t Hell: An Army Reserve Major was charged for defrauding Gold Star families, Are you boy, girl, genderfluid or non-binary? Father’s video goes viral, and Ex-CIA Spy Accused of Sexually Assaulting Trainee Under Guise of “Training”
Transterrestrial Musings: The BE-4 Explosion, Chalk One Up, Penn State, Islam And The Left, and Christopher Wray
Victory Girls: Foreign Group May Get Power Over Military Supplies Contracts
Volokh Conspiracy: New Lawsuit Against Bing Based on Allegedly AI-Hallucinated Libelous Statements
Watts Up With That: Heartland Institute President James Taylor Knocks It Out of the Park on ‘Hottest Days’ Last Night on The Ingraham Angle, also, Alarming Deterioration of US National Weather Service Tornado Warnings
The Federalist: Government Takes Cues from Leftist SPLC To Bully Opponents Like Moms For Liberty, Republican Secretaries Of State Say Blinken Should Resign For 2020 Election Interference, A Woke Children’s Literature Cabal Is Conditioning Your Kid To Be An Obedient Leftist, Is America Losing The Battle For Naval Superiority To Red China?, New ‘Twitter Files’ Reveal DNC Flagged Coverage Of Hunter Biden’s Laptop To Twitter For Censorship, and 10 Abnormal Things Biden’s ‘Return To Normalcy’ Brought Americans
Mark Steyn: Reclaiming Kindness

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In The Mailbox: 7.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 7.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“And if the cloudburst thunders in your ear/You shout and no one seems to hear…”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  When Minutes Count, Cops Can’t Be Bothered To Respond
Ammo.com: The Most Gun-Friendly States, 2023
Flappr: The Top 5 Presidential Nicknames
EBL:  Is the USA overextending itself militarily?, also, California Crime Wave Spreads To Santa Cruz Sea Otters
Twitchy: Jim Jordan Defends Elon Musk Against FTC Overreach, also, Dear Trolls – If You Mess With Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik, She Will END You – And Tell Your Mom
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC Freakout: Blaming Joe Biden’s STAFF for letting him look like a feeble, discombobulated old coot, Oh my: CNN commits unforgivable sin and MISGENDERS Dylan Mulvaney multiple times on air, and Bud Light set to get blasted by Costco’s “Death Star,” pointing to galactic trouble for the embattled beer
Vox Popoli: The Non-Diplomacy Dance, NATO Failed Sun Tzu 101, The Military Wing of Clown World, The Ink Wall Crumbles, and Devil Mouse Doubles Down
Stoic Observations: Meritocracy & Feudalism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Secret to saving your Marriage
American Conservative: Citizenship Is a Privilege
American Greatness: Biden Administration Opposes Merit-Based Military Promotions in Favor of Race Quotas, also, IRS Whistleblowers to Testify on Biden Family Influence-Peddling Schemes Before House Oversight Committee Next Week
American Thinker: Two-Tiered ‘Justice’ Intended to Incite Rebellion, Is the 2024 Election the Last Gasp for America?, and It’s Time to Bring Back “Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Canadian newspaper Op-Ed denounces hypocrisy of Canada’s cozy relationship with Cuban dictatorship, European Parliament condemns Cuba’s human rights violations, calls for sanctions against Díaz-Canel, and A Russian family frolicking on a Cuban beach
Baldilocks: Flying The Flag Of Stupid
Behind The Black: ISRO completes launch rehearsal for Chandrayaan-3’s launch on July 14th, Amidst the mountains on Mount Sharp on Mars, July 12, 2023 Quick space links, Black Georgia Democrat switches to Republican Party, and Real pushback: Montana’s library withdraws from ALA because it elected a Marxist/Queer leader
CDR Salamander: No, Our SSNs Aren’t Ready For A Great Pacific War
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech, Back at Work
Da Tech Guy: Jim Caviezel as August Landmesser Delivers The Quote of the Year
Don Surber: Montana Drops Woke Library Association
First Street Journal: World War III Watch
The Geller Report: Pedo Biden’s DOJ Removes ‘International Sex Trafficking of Minors’ as an ‘Area of Concern’, Disney Theme Parks Sizes ‘Shockingly Low’ Amid Woke Backlash, and Biden Regime Opposes Merit-Based Military Promotions in Favor of Race
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Horsehead Nebula, and Hunter Should Pay Attention to John Belushi
Hollywood In Toto: Carolla Torches Newsweek Over COVID Misinformation
The Lid: ‘Wired’ Magazine Says Owning a Home Security Camera is Racist, also, China Could Attack Taiwan Within Next 17 Months: Says House Armed Services Committee Member
Legal Insurrection: FBI’s Wray and Rep. Massie Battle Over 1/6 Pipe Bomb Investigation, Bank of America Providing Gun Purchase Records, The Supreme Court Should Apply Its Affirmative Action Ruling to Military Academies, Joe Manchin Headed to NH With Third Party Group ‘No Labels’ as Democrats Scramble to Shut Them Down, EPA Issues Final Rule Limiting Hydrofluorocarbons Used in Air Conditioners and Refrigerators, and Florida AG Demands Zuckerberg Answer for Lack of Action to Stop Human Trafficking
Nebraska Energy Observer: Minitru. Propaganda, Misinformation, and Truth
Outkick: Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler Voicing Their Frustrations About Being ‘In The Dark’ On Golf Merger Puts Things In An Even Fuzzier Perspective, Megan Rapinoe Thinks It’s All About Her, Says Retirement Announcement Will Help USWNT Focus At World Cup, ‘Bud Light Sellout?’ NFL Star George Kittle Fires Back After Endorsing Sinking Brew, Stephen A. Smith Says ‘Death Is Too Good’ For Larry Nassar During Scathing Reaction To Him Being Stabbed In Prison, and CNN ‘Misgenders’ Dylan Mulvaney
Power Line: Jake Sullivan on the Luft indictment
Shark Tank: Steube Urges Administration To Cut Ties With Corrupt UNESCO
Shot In The Dark: Participation Trophy, also, Peak Progressive
STUMP: 2022 Top Causes of Death in the U.S. by Age Group
The Political Hat: The Incredible Superficiality Of The Right
This Ain’t Hell: State-sponsored theft in Supreme Court, Two More Accounted For, and California Democrat introduces a bill that would require judges to factor race when it comes to sentencing
Transterrestrial Musings: Yes, It’s Obvious, Gavin Newsom, and “Republicans Erupt”
Victory Girls: Dems to Moms: “Sit Down and Shut up, Karen”
Volokh Conspiracy: Legacy Preferences, Citizenship, Migration, and the Implications of a Constitutional Ban on Hereditary Privilege, also, NextGen Bar Exam MC Questions Only Require Takers To Spot Issues, And Not Apply the Rules
Watts Up With That: The Whale Killing Study the Feds are Afraid to Do, “I hate tree huggers”: Britain’s Opposition Leader on Net Zero Proposals, and Bill McKibben: Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?
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