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In The Mailbox: 08.26.24

Posted on | August 27, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.26.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
EBL: DEMOCRATS DON’T WANT TO LET KAMALA OUT OF THE BASEMENT, Pavel Durov Arrested in France (Roman Polanski still free), Kamala Harris Likes Trump’s Border Wall, and Donald Trump lays wreath at Arlington to honor 13 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan three years ago
Twitchy: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) Says He Can’t Make Up Stories, Promptly Lies, This Is Why Astronauts Are Stuck In Space, and You’ll Be (Totally Not) Shocked That Poll Showing Kamala Up By 7 Is Fake News
Louder With Crowder: RFK Jr goes SCORCHED EARTH on the entire Democrat-Media regime in must-watch epic fashion, CNBC reporter DESTROYS Elizabeth Warren’s pathetic attempt to defend Kamala’s price controls, Tim Walz gets caught in ANOTHER lie about a reward, this time he blames Trump, and They arrested a tech CEO for supporting free speech, this should TERRIFY Americans of Kamala-Walz
Vox Popoli: And the Diversity Celebrated, RFK Endorses Trump, Then They Came for Rohan, Telegram Founder Arrested, Incoherence and Identity, and Across the Centuries
Stoic Observations: Why Not Eat The Rich?
Upstream Reviews: Flame
Gab: An Urgent Wakeup Call For Free Speech

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: A Double Funeral
American Greatness: Harris, Walz, and a Peculiar Definition of ‘Freedom’, The Left’s Swift Shift After RFK Jr.’s Trump Endorsement, Trump Honors 13 Fallen Service Members at Wreath Laying Ceremony on 3rd Anniversary of Kabul Bombing; Biden and Harris Issue Statements, and Kamala Harris’s High-Water Mark?
American Thinker: The Culture of Death Returns, Fear and Trembling in the Deep State, Everyone Hates Fascism Except the Government, and Enough With ‘Very Fine People’ and Other Lies
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: State Dept. refuses to explain why it allowed a leader of the Cuban Communist Party to immigrate to the U.S., After more than 10 days without water, Cubans take to the streets in protest, Cuban YoYo visits homeland, is horrified by food shortages, inflation, and blackouts, and Tulsi Gabbard (like people all over the world) joins the ‘Trump Train—TRUMP TRAIN!’
BattleSwarm: Two Views Of Ukraine’s Invasion Of Russia, Followup: Timelapse Of Kursk Incursion, and Texas AG Paxton Sues Biden Administration Over Illegal Aliens Yet Again
Behind The Black: Blue Origin delays first New Glenn launch two weeks to October 13, 2024, Starliner will return unmanned; crew will return in February 2025 on Dragon, Rocket Factory Augsburg releases footage of 1st stage failure during static fire test, JAXA finally shuts down SLIM operations after four months of no contact, Launch of Jared Isaacman’s second spaceflight scheduled for tonight, and The fall of DEI accelerates
Cafe Hayek: ‘Price Gouging’ After a Disaster Is Good for the Public, More on the Perniciousness of Price Controls, Twenty Years Ago At Cafe Hayek, Open Letter to National Review’s Jimmy Quinn, and Why Should We Beware of Other Countries’ Beggar-Thyself Trade Policies?
CDR Salamander: The Music Stopped At MSC, With Sal Mercogliano – On Midrats, Kabul’s Child Sacrifice – Three Years On
Chicago Boyz: Some Observations from the DNC
Da Tech Guy: The #Unexpectedly Chronicles, The Answer is: No Pay, No Play, No Jews No News, Chicken Run and Some Good Advice, and Hey Democrats – The RFK Trump Endorsement, You Did it to Yourselves!
Dana Loesch: The Week In Legal – Hunter Preps For Trial
Don Surber: Did DEI die?
First Street Journal: Once again, the left want to restrict our choices, What did we achieve? Will Yahya Sinwar meet his end the same way Adolf Hitler did? and Vacationating!
Gates Of Vienna: An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Solingen, Freedom of Speech, Solingen Knife Mujahid Arrested, The War on us is Accelerating, and Synagogue Attack in Southern France
The Geller Report: Iran-Backed Houthis Blow Up Oil Tanker Dumping 150,000 Tons of Oil into the Red Sea, WAR BREAKS OUT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND IRAN-BACKED HEZB’ALLAH, and DISRESPECT: Biden No-Show At Arlington Cemetery, Only Trump Attends Service Honoring Afghanistan Fallen
Glenn Reynolds: Out – Soccer Moms & Security Moms, In – Health Moms
Hollywood In Toto: Trigger Warnings We Actually Need, Facebook Blocks Reagan Posts with Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, Dalton, Davi Made License to Kill a Brutal Bond Highlight, Faith-Based Forge Trumps Feminist Blink Twice, Is Am I Racist? Star Matt Walsh the New Borat? and Introducing…Short on Hollywood!
The Lid: Texas Ends Practice of Allowing Transgenders to Change Their Sex on Driver’s Licenses, California Extorting $240 Million from Big Tech to Fund ‘Local Journalism’, and Kamala VP Pick Tim Walz Says Americans Have No Right to Free Speech
Legal Insurrection: RFK Jr. Endorsement of Trump “has given people who were demoralized a reason for optimism”, Zuckerberg Testifies That Biden Admin, FBI ‘Repeatedly Pressured’ Facebook to ‘Censor’ COVID Content, Hunter Biden Story, Tim Walz Lied about Winning Teaching Awards, Jill Stein Will Appear on Wisconsin Ballot, But Ineligible in Georgia With Three Other Candidates, Judge Rules Cornel West Can Appear on Michigan Presidential Ballot, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Removes Over One Million Ineligible Voters From Voter Rolls, and California State U. System Increases Salaries Despite $1 Billion Deficit
Michele Catalano: the week in joy
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Saturday Morning Special, Ellington and Cheap Beer, and The Fundamental Sin
Outkick: Team With 5 Biological Men On Roster Win’s Australian Women’s Soccer League Title, Lane Kiffin Goes Viral With Photo Of Sorority Girls, Texas Tech Coach Stars In Awesome Video With Cheerleaders, China Probably Wants A Word With ESPN/Disney After Little League World Series, Malik Willis’ Nightmare QB Experiment Ends For Titans, How Many SEC Coaches Are Gone After 2024? Can The NCAA Back-Off Michigan? Fans Bring The Heat For CFB Mailbag, and Dabo Swinney Will No Longer Take Phone Calls For His Radio Show. So Was ‘Tyler From Spartanburg To Blame’?
Power Line: Abbey Gate and beyond, Trump Threatens to Cancel ABC Debate, and Tulsi Gabbard Endorses Trump
Shark Tank: FL GOP Chairman Dismisses DNC Ratings, While Nikki Fried Claims Trump “In Trouble” In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Organic, Thirty Years Ago On The East Side, 
STUMP: Chicago Is My Kind Of Town To Beat Up On – New Mayor, Same Problems In 2023
The Political Hat: Science vs. The Oppressive Colonialism Of Intellectual Property
This Ain’t Hell: Army Veteran smashes tattoo and body modification records, Appeals judge opens the door for Army officer to sue a police officer, KC-46 suffers ED, Baseball record to be set, and Air Force Veteran and his brother sentenced to 4 months in Dubai prison
Transterrestrial Musings: The Left’s Swift Shift After The RFK Endorsement, RFK’s Address, Rapid Reusability, Kabul’s Child Sacrifice, Ukraine’s Invasion Of Russia, and Lack Of Self Awareness
Victory Girls: Abbey Gate, Three Years Later – Kamala Should Own Afghanistan, also, Trump Just Wants To Stop The World From Killing Itself
Volokh Conspiracy: Senate Democrats “Virtually Certain” to Pass “Supreme Court Reform” Bill By Majority Vote in 2025
Watts Up With That: Saving Lives from Extreme Heat Requires Reducing Urban Heat Island Effects Not CO2, China Poised To Cut Off US Military From Key Mineral As America’s Own Reserves Lay Buried Under Red Tape, and Newsom Blames Oil Companies for Gas Prices, His Own Energy Czar Disagrees
The Federalist: The Money-Printing That Made Millennials Wealthy Can Bankrupt Them Too, Three Years Later, Democrats Can’t Obfuscate Kamala Harris’ Role In Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Lawsuit Alleges Gov. Hobbs Illegally Designated Arizona Agencies As Voter Registration, Ballot Drop-Off Sites, No One Has Resigned In Three Years Since Catastrophic Afghanistan Withdrawal, It’s Time For Republican AGs To Bring The Fight To Democrats’ Proxy Organizations, Exclusive: House Oversight Chair Threatens Subpoenas If White House Doesn’t Cough Up ‘Bidenbucks’ Plans, and RFK Jr.’s Speech Wasn’t Republican Or Democrat But American
Mark Steyn: Asleep in the Deep (State), There Goes Tokyo: Japan’s Constant Crisis and Godzilla Minus One, All of Me, and Sacroiliacpalooza!

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What Is a ‘Conspiracy Theory’?

Posted on | August 26, 2024 | Comments Off on What Is a ‘Conspiracy Theory’?

Why is Russell Brand mocking Kamala Harris? At what point did Brand, a lifelong leftist, become “right-wing,” and why? Those thoughts occurred to me after I accidentally watched a YouTube video of Brand (blame the algorithm) and then skimmed through his Wikipedia page. It appears that COVID-19 policy was the start of his shift away from leftism, as he didn’t like the vaccine mandates — a highly relevant point, given that RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine attitude was a major part of his appeal, first as a Democratic Party primary challenger to Joe Biden, then as an independent candidate, and now a Trump endorser.

It is easy to ignore or minimize or laugh off that segment of the American electorate who, in 2024, are still fuming with rage about COVID-19 policies. I mean, that was three or four years ago now and it didn’t really disrupt my life in any serious way, so why should I care? But there were many people whose lives were seriously disrupted, especially those who lived in states like New York or California where the Maximum Emergency Lockdown regime was extended far past any reasonable date, merely to soothe the fears of germophobic hypochondriacs. Some people lost jobs or had their small businesses destroyed by the dubious policies enacted in reaction to pandemic hysteria, and if 2024 is their Year of Retribution — their chance to enact some long overdue payback for all that — well, hey, awesome! Vote Trump, and let’s send Fauci to federal prison or whatever. That’s not the ax I’m grinding, however.

As I was contemplating Russell Brand’s rightward deviation, I noticed how he is now accused of “promoting conspiracy theories”:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Brand’s YouTube channel underwent an increase in activity and change in political direction, and was accused of promoting COVID denial and conspiracy theories. According to culture reporter Louis Chilton, his videos are usually “framed with some sort of contrarian take or calling out hypocrisy in the mainstream media”, and often hint “at a vague, world-altering conspiracy.” . . . In March 2023, Finn McRedmond of the New Statesman . . . described Brand as having now melded his “trad-socialist values” with “all the suspicions and anxieties of the new American right.” . . .
Columnist Charlotte Lytton accused Brand of following Joe Rogan “down the rabbit hole of online misinformation” by pandering to the anti-vaccine movement and spreading pro-Russian conspiracy theories about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, for example promoting unfounded claims of US bioweapon labs in Ukraine.

Permit me to point out that socialism is itself based on a conspiracy theory, a paranoid fear of “capitalism.” This is especially true of Marxism. The whole appeal of Bernie Sanders is that he panders to the anti-corporate paranoia of his supporters, and if you’ve spent any time at all with “Bernie Bros,” you know how kooky they are. So by going from a socialist/Labour perspective to embracing “all the suspicions and anxieties of the new American right,” Russell Brand did not become more paranoid. He simply shifted the focus of his paranoia, and so now he’s labeled a “conspiracy theorist.” In other words, it would seem, “conspiracy theory” is now defined as any belief that might cause someone to support Donald Trump. Funny how that works.



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Sydney Sweeney IS Black Cat!

Posted on | August 26, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Sydney Sweeney IS Black Cat!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Our friends at Flappr celebrated the continuation of the Sydney Sweeney World Domination Tour this past week by observing that indeed, Baby Got Back. Even more important, though, is the latest news from RUMINT: Sydney Sweeney is being considered for the role of Black Cat/Felicia Hardy, sometime girlfriend and sometime adversary of Spiderman. Here we have an artist’s rendition of Ms. Sweeney as Black Cat, and a meme explaining why she’s purrfect for the role.
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h/t meme_bastard on X

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 DEI Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, “Rock & Roll High School”, Luise Rainer, RFK Jr. Endorses Trump, Megalopolis Official Trailer Trolled By AI, A. J. Cook, Kurosawa’s Ran, MAGA Country: The DNC, The Great Outdoors, and Summer Rental.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Ana Cheri, Fish Pic Friday – Riley Kolich, Thursday Tanlines, Virginia Scientists Probe New Oyster Problem, The Wednesday Wetness, DNC Convention Open as Biden Bows Out, Everywhere I’ve Been, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday, and Even WaPoo Doubts Kamala’s Kost Kontrols

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for August 23

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!






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FMJRA 2.0: No Relief In September

Posted on | August 25, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: No Relief In September

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was another .500 week for the Senators as we lost 2 of 3 in Anaheim to the Angels, the sole win coming on Jim Kaat’s last start as we managed to scratch out two runs against Tom Bradley, and that proved to be enough. Coming home to RFK, we thought we’d lose another pair, but after losing the first game to Phil Niekro, we battered Roger Nelson for four runs and lit up the Daytraders bullpen for five more, giving us a 9-5 win in the second game. Then in Game Three, we managed to pound Tom Seaver for seven runs and scored three more off the bullpen to win a 10-5 slugfest for Reggie Cleveland, who barely hung on through the fifth inning for his tenth win before Pat Dobson came in and pitched three innings for his third save. We end the week at 59-77, half a game ahead of the A’s, and almost certain to finish with at least 65 wins. Unfortunately, we’re not going to get much help from our September callups, who are either wretchedly lopsided right-handers who get shelled by lefties, Vicente Romo, or the kind of guys you get when you shake the glove tree. Tom Grieve has potential, but there’s no general manager slot on the roster.
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Rule 5 Sunday: Welcome, Indiana!
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BREAKING NEWS: Washington Post Columnist Understands Economics!
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: It Could Have Been Worse
A View From The Beach
EBL

Mac Jones Nails Down QB2 Job in Jax
The Daley Gator
EBL
357 Magnum

Hurricane-Force Media Hype
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Is Chicago Burning Yet?
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

DNC Debacle on Opening Night: Biden Pushed Out of Prime Time as Disorganized Convention Schedule Runs Overtime
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.20.24
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 08.21.24 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 08.22.24 (Early Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 08.22.24 (Evening Edition)
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EBL
357 Magnum

Tim Walz Lies About Everything
The Daley Gator
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EBL
357 Magnum

RFK Jr. Endorses Trump
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In The Mailbox: 08.23.24
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

Top linkers for the week ending August 23:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  A View From The Beach (13)
  3.  357 Magnum (11)

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‘Public Service Homicide’ in Killadelphia

Posted on | August 24, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Public Service Homicide’ in Killadelphia

The death of Abdul Vicks, a/k/a “YBC Dul,” may be mourned by some people, but I won’t be among the mourners:

A popular 25-year-old rapper — who prosecutors say was considered the ringleader of a notoriously violent West Philadelphia-based gang — was shot and killed Friday afternoon in the city’s Olney section, a law enforcement source said.
Police said the shooting occurred just after 3:30 p.m. on the 5500 block of North Sixth Street. The victim, who was identified as Abdul Vicks, was shot multiple times in the chest and right hand and was taken by private vehicle to Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m.
The source requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
Prosecutors say Vicks, who performed as “YBC Dul,” was considered the ringleader of the West Philadelphia-based gang called YBC, or Young Bag Chasers.
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Earlier this month, 22-year-old Quamere Hall, a Vicks associate, was arrested at the Criminal Justice Center and charged with the shooting death of a 34-year-old man last year.
Hall, another rapper who performs as “Mere Pablo,” was at the Criminal Justice Center to show support for Arshad Curry, a fellow YBC member who was scheduled to be sentenced for shooting five people, three fatally, in 2021. Curry was sentenced to 42½ to 85 years in prison.
Last year, three other YBC members were convicted of killing two teens.

Borrowing “public service homicide” from Dana Pico, who points out how many murders were attributed to the YBC gang and their North Philly associates, the YFA gang. The Philadelphia Inquirer did a nice feature story on the teenage witness who helped send several of these murderous thugs to prison. We may deduce that one reason Vicks got killed is because so many of his gun-wielding comrades are no longer on the street, thus reducing his protection. While I would be perfectly happy to see the killers of “YBC Dul” also go to prison — a further reduction in the criminal street population is always beneficial — maybe solving this homicide is not a top priority for Philadelphia police, because the city became a safer place the moment “YBC Dul” died.



 

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In The Mailbox: 08.23.24

Posted on | August 24, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.23.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Microsoft Will Enable Hacking Again. Even More. In October. 
EBL: Oprah Winfrey Endorsed Donald Trump, Prosecutor Kamala Harris’s Record on Marijuana Offenses, MEGALOPOLIS official trailer trolled by A.I. , and MAGA: Robert Kennedy Jr. Endorses Donald Trump!
Twitchy: “Let Them Eat Joy” – Brutal Editorial Sums Up Who Kamala’s Campaign Is Really For, Zach Galifianakis – Democrats Must Step Back From Hollywood If They Want To Win Over Rural Americans, and More Hard-Hitting Questions For Kamala From The White House Press
Louder With Crowder: Jack Daniels Backtracks On Wokeness After Backlash Warnings, also, Kamala Harris HATES reporters, keeps a list of those who don’t, and I quote, ‘appreciate’ her
Vox Popoli: 30 and Counting, History Notes, The Battle of Kursk, Round 1, and LEAVE NEIL ALONE!
According To Hoyt: When The Psyops Breaks, The Illusion of Control, and If The Worst Happens
Upstream Reviews: Star Wars X-Wing – Rogue Squadron
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Logs #6 – Black Hawk’s Inspiring Vision

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Gabbard Episode Shows the Surveillance State Strong and Stupid as Ever, also, A Message From the Vice Principal
American Greatness: Supreme Court Approves Arizona Law Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote, Trump and Vance Explain How They Will Handle a ‘World on Fire’ at North Carolina Rally, Ohio Secretary of State Refers over 100 Illegal Aliens for Prosecution for Being Registered to Vote, Kamala Promises to Fix the Problems Democrats Created at DNC, Poll: Trump Leads Harris Among Independents by Double-Digits, and RFK Jr. Suspends Campaign, Throws His Support to Donald Trump
American Thinker: Britain, Which Birthed American Ideas About Liberty, Has Embraced Despotism, also, Obama’s Proxy Presidencies: No, You Can’t!
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five DEI Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dissident rapper and prisoner of conscience spends his 41st birthday in a Castro gulag, Nearly 200,000 Cubans have fled to U.S. in past 10 months, including 2,000 unaccompanied minors, and Cuban Prime Minister promises economic recovery ‘only’ 5 years away, but requires sacrifices and strict adherence to communism
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 23
Behind The Black: Starliner decision expected tomorrow, August 24, Rocket Factory identifies cause of failure during rocket static fire test, Amazon commits almost $20 million more to expanding its satellite production facility, NASA adds three orbital tug startups to its contract bid list, Finding beauty on Mars in all the strange places, and Robert Kennedy’s speech today, in which he suspends his campaign and endorses Trump
Cafe Hayek: Actually, It’s Best Not to Ignore the Economists
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Janice Fiamengo on Kamala Harris
Da Tech Guy: The Democrats and medical smoke and mirrors, Nothing Shocks a Room Full of UN Folks Like Unvarnished Truth, Tovarishch Gospozha Kamala Harris, and James O’Keefe Strikes Again DaTechGuy’s 4th Law of Media Outrage in Effect
Dana Loesch: The DNC Stories – Abortion Or Medical Malpractice?
Don Surber: Endorse Trump to save your newspaper
First Street Journal: Live by the gun, die by the gun
Gates Of Vienna: Memories and Cycles, The Plight of a Kafir in a Muslim Prison, Shot and Paralyzed Over Hijab Rules — Islam Strikes Again, Turkish Delight in Frankfurt, and Culture-Enriching Knife Rampage in Solingen
The Geller Report: HUGE: Big Time Democrat RFK Jr. Endorses Trump, Says Democrat Party is Now Party of Corruption, Big Donors, Big Tech
Hollywood In Toto: Buckaroo Banzai at 40: Accept No Substitutes, 13 Great Television Shows Written By Women, Between the Temples – Indie Cinema at Its Most Appealing, Filmmaker Alleges Amazon Blocked His Anti-Woke ‘Children’ Doc, Comic Propagandists Crush All Pretense of Objectivity, Hollywood Reporter Smears Reagan Star Nick Searcy, and Can Matt Rife Bring R-Rated Comedies Back?
The Lid: Ohio Sec. of State Refers 597 Foreign Residents for Prosecution for Voting Illegally
Legal Insurrection: Biden Approves New Strategy Related to Nuclear Confrontations with Russia, China, and North Korea, Newsom ‘Told to Say’ Pushing Out Biden for Harris was a ‘Very Open Process’, The Point of the 2024 DNC was to Rehabilitate the Anti-American Image of Their Party, ‘Supply and Demand Issue:’ CNBC Host Destroys Elizabeth Warren Over Price Gouging, Kamala Harris Claims She Stood Up for ‘Seniors Facing Elder Abuse’, Donald Trump, GA Gov. Brian Kemp Bury the Hatchet, and ICE Lost Track of 320,000 Illegal Alien Kids Between 2019-2023
Nebraska Energy Observer: I believe, also, Scattershot Friday; Weak Men and Angry Women
Outkick: Anthony Richardson In Regular Season Form, Which Won’t Be Great For Colts In 2024, NFL Scolds Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers About $10K Bet That Clearly Violated League Gambling Policy, Historic Ballpark Featured In A League Of Their Own Destroyed By Fire, Red Sox Catcher Danny Jansen To Be Part Of Wildest MLB Statistical Anomaly, MLB Star Salvador Perez Surprises Group Of Kids, Joins Their Backyard Wiffle Ball Game, Brittany Mahomes Torches The Haters After She Appeared To Like A Trump Instagram Post, and FSU Cowgirl Jenn Sterger Digs Up Her Iconic Uniform, Sydney Sweeney As Black Cat & Nick Saban Vs. A Microphone
Power Line: After last night, The Kennedy factor: Against the Dems and the media, Democrats’ Strategy Is Bizarre, But It May Work, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: FL Supremes Nix Murderer & Rapist’s Bid For Freedom Under New DeSantis Law
Shot In The Dark: Focus, Bugs, and The Minnesota Stealth Tribute
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That Welfare Has Done More Harm than Good
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Gold Star Family Scammer Gets 12 Years, Iran’s Islamic regime wants to “delete” Trump before November’s election, Applicants with well-treated HIV cannot be categorically barred from enlisting, and Military veteran Republican lawmakers post open letter slamming Tim Walz
Transterrestrial Musings: Alzheimer’s, also, Climate Models
Victory Girls: RFK Jr. Endorses Trump, Slaps Media And Democrats
Volokh Conspiracy: “Let’s Go Brandon” T-Shirts Can Be Barred from Middle School on Grounds of Vulgarity
Watts Up With That: Net zero is sinking to new lows, Florida’s Fossil Fuel Renaissance: Why the Sunshine State is Laughing Off Climate Hysteria, and The Energy Transition Ain’t Happening: “Clean Fuels”
The Federalist: Democrat Platform Talks Big About Education Reform While Trapping Kids In Failing Schools, RFK Jr. Drops Out Of 2024 Race, Endorses Trump For President, Everyone Is Better Off When People Make Marriage And Family A Priority, Whistleblower Says Trump Protection Team Denied Manpower Before Assassination Attempt, Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: From Beyonce To Tim Walz’s Children, ‘Zuckbucks’ Org Promotes $6 Million Election Grant From Left-Wing Dark Money Group, and Can This Grassroot Group’s Ballot-Chasing Efforts Help Turn Nevada Red This November?
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Francis Scott Off-Key, Fanboying Your Way to the Senate, The Long Reach of the Deep State, and RFK Jr Endorses Trump

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RFK Jr. Endorses Trump

Posted on | August 23, 2024 | Comments Off on RFK Jr. Endorses Trump

This happened while I was on the road — my wife and I are carrying our youngest daughter back to college this weekend — and the two main points to be emphasized are these:

  • First, this changes the conversation. The Sunday shows, which would have been all about Kamala’s “joyful” convention, will now be focused on how Kennedy’s endorsement affects the race.
  • Second, it’s easily worth a net two points to Trump. For the past few weeks, polls have shown RFK Jr. somewhere in the neighborhood of 5%, and if half of Kennedy’s supporters switch to Trump, that will boost Trump by two points. Considering that the Real Clear Politics average has Harris +1.5, the race is now reset at a dead heat, or perhaps with Trump leading by a point or so nationally. The effect in the various “battleground” states may be somewhat less noticeable, but still this is a clear boost for Trump’s overall chances of winning.

Ace of Spades transcribed much of the announcement. After Kamala’s nothing-burger convention, which alternated between defaming Trump and celebrating the “joy” of Democrats, the endorsement by RFK Jr. will help focus public attention on the anti-democratic tendencies of the 21st-century Democratic Party. It’s the exact kind of shift Trump needed, at the exact time he needed it most. Smells like . . . #winning.



 

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Tim Walz Lies About Everything

Posted on | August 23, 2024 | Comments Off on Tim Walz Lies About Everything

Before we talk about Tim Walz’s latest “gaffe” (which is what the media call it when a Democrat gets caught lying) can we first talk about the underlying issue? Human reproduction is not complicated, and requires no medical assistance. Generations of our ancestors, stretching back to the dawn of history, successfully reproduced without any more help than could be obtained with a bottle of wine to set the mood. To this day, getting pregnant remains so simple that it is easily accomplished by 10th-graders in the backseat of a Dodge. So when you hear Democrats talk about “reproductive health,” you know that some kind of deception is being practiced. “Reproductive health” is usually just liberal code-speak for abortion, except when it’s about handing out contraceptives to minors at taxpayer expense (and without parental consent), but in general, “reproductive health” is a misleading euphemism in that what is really being discussed is preventing the normal, healthy function of the reproductive system. (By the way, as a father of six myself, I’d be happy to explain “the normal, healthy function” to anyone who doesn’t understand it, but you’ll have to pay me for that educational seminar.)

All of this is preamble to the abnormal and unhealthy governor of Minnesota and his wife, who apparently are on the losing side of the Darwinian competition, and thus required medical assistance to accomplish what 10th-graders so easily do in the backseat of a Dodge.

Do I mean to scoff at the unfortunate experiences of so many people who experience similar difficulties? No, but I’m not the one trying to turn this whole subject into an agenda in a presidential campaign. It’s Democrats who are doing that, and then double-dog-daring us to criticize their policies, so they can then turn around and accuse us of trying to impose some kind of Handmaid’s Tale authoritarian dystopia on the nation. When you decide to turn your personal narrative into a political argument, you thereby invite scrutiny of the details of your life and if, in the resulting discussion, other people’s feelings get hurt — whose fault is that? Not mine. So spare me your crybaby antics, please.

In 1994, then 30-year-old Tim Walz married then-27-year-old Gwen Whipple. “The Walzes underwent fertility treatment at Mayo Clinic for seven years before their children were born in 2001 and 2006,” Wikipedia tells us, implying that as soon as they got married, they went directly from the wedding to the Mayo Clinic. What was the underlying medical problem? Was Tim suffering from a low sperm count? Was there something wrong with Gwen’s fallopian tubes? But excuse my Calvinistic perspective in saying that, if you can’t get pregnant without seven years of treatment at the Mayo Clinic, you might want to contemplate the possibility that parenthood is not part of God’s will for your life.

See what I mean about turning personal narratives into political agendas? I’m not the one who decided that America should have a “national conversation” about the pros and cons of medical interventions in the reproductive process, requiring me to ask questions about the specific details of the Walz’s personal problems. Democrats initiated this discussion with the intent of exploiting it for political advantage, and imagine they can decide the exact terrain on which the resulting battle should be fought, but here I’ll invoke Sherman’s famous reply to Hood: “Talk thus to the marines, but not to me.” Those who choose to inaugurate conflict are entirely responsible for the consequences, and have no right to impose limitations upon those they have attacked.

Tim Walz tried to turn his personal problems into a political attack on Republicans, claiming that somehow Donald Trump would shut down the Mayo Clinic or whatever, and I’m not going to be limited in how I respond. You see, there’s two ways to look at this “reproductive health” thing — science or religion — and either of those perspectives raises profound questions. Let’s start with the scientific view.

According to liberals, The Science™ is Darwinian evolution. Anyone who doubts the evolution narrative is denounced as a dimwitted bigot, but what does Darwinism suggest about “assisted reproductive technology”?

We are encouraged to believe that evolution is synonmous with progress — the species literally improving, becoming better through “survival of the fittest” — which is why those of us who are skeptical of Darwinism are regarded as such reactionaries, since we are portrayed as opponents of this evolution-as-progress scheme. But proponents of The Science™ are remarkably inconsistent in their interpretations of what “progress” should mean. It would seem self-evident, for example, that reproductive failure in any organism is a sort of evolutionary verdict, and yet advocates of The Science™ neverthless defend “assisted reproductive technology” as an evasion of this verdict. Unable to conceive offspring by natural means — disqualified from the “survival of the fittest” — the genetic misfits are provided with artificial meddling to enable them to pass along their bad genes, producing another generation of maladapted mutants.

Undoubtedly, some people’s feelings would be hurt by such a blunt description of what The Science™ of Darwinism implies in regard to infertility, and the medical efforts to treat infertility through IVF (in vitro fertilization) and other such interventions. If your feelings are hurt, however, don’t blame me, blame Tim Walz, who tried to score political points by claiming his wife got IVF (she didn’t, she got intrauterine insemination, which is something else), a lie intended to leverage his personal narrative in accusing Republicans of trying to ban IVF.

“Those bigots are against PROGRESS!”

Perhaps you see why I take General Sherman’s attitude toward these miscreants — if you start a war with me, don’t complain about how I choose to finish the war. We’re at the “March to the Sea” phase now.

Having made the Darwinian argument against “assisted reproductive technology” (i.e., allowing defective people to propogate their inferior genes), I’ll remind readers that I have never believed in Darwinism. Instead, I’m a biblical fundamentalist of Calvinist inclination, and as such, believe in the ultimate sovereignty of God. We pray for God’s blessings, and pray also to escape God’s curses.

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil . . . I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
— Deuteronomy 30:15, 19 (KJV)

That’s God’s promise, and also His warning. Should we depart from our faith, and fail to “choose life,” we are responsible for the consequences, which are clearly predicted — the alternative to life is death.

We may wish to think we are no longer judged by the law which Jehovah imparted to a nomadic tribe of former Egyptian slaves, but here’s the thing: If God actually does exist, our unbelief doesn’t alter that fact; His existence is not dependent upon our belief, and He remains sovereign despite our impudent infidelity. God’s judgment may be witheld, and our destruction thus delayed, for reasons which we cannot fathom, as the divine will is beyond our comprehension. But we are, at all times, “sinners in the hands of an angry God,” as Jonathan Edwards famously preached, and ought to be cognizant of and grateful for God’s mercy.

There are those — even some Christians — who think Christianity is all about the afterlife, trying to enter Heaven or avoid Hell, as if God never rewards or punishes behavior in the here and now, as if the court of divine justice has been adjourned until Judgment Day. Well, just who do you think God is, anyway?

“The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
— Exodus 34:6-7 (KJV)

Thus spake God to Moses, and these verses have attracted widespread attention for the idea of “generational curses,” in which we may suffer for the wrondoing of our ancestors, or that our own iniquity may visit a curse upon our descendants. Some deceivers (wolves in sheep’s clothing) have used this to exploit the superstitions of the ignorant, so that you have certain preachers who tell their flocks that they can achieve freedom from a “generational curse” for a fee, more or less — the suggestion that generosity in offerings will purchase the desired result.

My dear brothers and sisters, that’s not how it works.

If it is the case that “the iniquity of the fathers” should be the cause of our sufferings, then we ought to accept the divine chastisement gratefully. Should it appear to us that we are somehow cursed, that misfortune haunts our footsteps, it is vain, foolish and sinful to imagine that God is not righteous in His judgment. If God has ordained our fate, who are we to say that we somehow deserve better than the portion allotted to us? However great our suffering may be, shouldn’t we consider the possibility that it could be worse, and therefore be thankful for God’s mercy?

Well, I leave aside that sermon, and let the reader find his own conclusion, but my point is, you cannot cheat God. And that is what seems to me to be involved with “assisted reproductive technology.”

As a Christian, I view children as a blessing from God, and am grateful for my numerous progeny — a blessing I owe to grace, rather than to any merit I may claim, for I am surely nothing but a wretched sinner. When I behold those who have been less favored by God in such matters, it gives me pause, because how is it that somehow God judged me worthy of such a blessing, which He has denied to others who, by all appearances, are much better people than I am? Whatever the explanation, I thank God that I didn’t need seven years of treatment at the Mayo Clinic.

Perhaps there are those who, researching Tim Walz’s background, will point to the fact that he is a lapsed Catholic, now affiliated with the “woke” ECLA, and conclude that God is wise in all His judgments. And I further suppose that many readers, whether religious or secular, will look at how Tim Walz lied about the treatment he and his wife got at the Mayo Clinic, and conclude that Walz’s word simply cannot be trusted.

We are approaching what Ronald Reagan once famously called “A Time for Choosing,” Oherwise nobody would care about the formerly obscure governor of Minnesota who, by his attempted deception, has provoked a public discussion of “assisted reproductive technology” that is long overdue. Walz’s effort to score political points by falsely accusing Republicans of seeking to ban IVF should direct our attention to the criticism of such procedures as unethical — a criticism I’m sure most Americans have never considered. Contemplate what Michael Crichton was trying to tell us in his novel Jurassic Park, with the line from Dr. Ian Malcolm: “God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs . . .”

You cannot cheat God. Mankind’s efforts to evade the divine will are foolish and sinful, and the consequences are always bad.



 

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