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In The Mailbox: 02.21.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | February 22, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.21.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Armed Citizen Stops Another Mall Shooting
EBL:  So what is James O’Keefe’s new project?, Joe Biden Visits Ukraine, and CNN’s Don Lemon to get Female Obedience Training
Twitchy: White Women Advised Denying Their Own Racism Is Violent, also, Selfie Doesn’t Help The Case Of Doctor Misgendered By TSA Agent
Louder With Crowder: James O’Keefe brings receipts over who ousted him from Project Veritas, East Palestine mayor unloads on POTUS visiting Ukraine, ‘not caring’ about Ohio residents, and Meghan Markle is so ‘upset’ and ‘overwhelmed’ at South Park being disrespectful, her lawyers may get involved
Vox Popoli: Red Lines, Project Falsitas, The Marvel Implosion Continues Apace, Address to the Assembly, and Did AI Write Dem Ringz of Power?
Gab News: Introducing Gab AI
Stoic Observations: Words Of Advice For Young [Black Male] People

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Lent 2023
American Conservative: Jeffrey Marsh Groomer 101 TikTok Tutorial, ‘On To Moscow!’ The NATO Leader Said, and A Time for Serious Populism
American Greatness: Anatomy of a Cover-up: The January 6 Tapes, East Palestine, Ohio Mayor ‘Furious’ With Biden’s Ukraine Visit, and California City Councilman Arrested and Charged With Multiple Counts of Voter Fraud Stemming From 2020 Election
American Thinker: The EPA Has No Credibility
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Silent Cal News
Babalu Blog: The rewards of 64 years of socialism, Pope Francis and Cuban bishops express solidarity with clergy expelled from Nicaragua, Cuban dictatorship makes 700% profit on chicken sold in dollars-only stores, and Orioles pitcher Cionel Perez refuses to play for Cuba’s National Team
BattleSwarm: DEI Continues To Infect Flagship Texas Universities, also, The Republican Andrew Yang?
Behind The Black: Red China’s continued silence about Zhurong suggests Mars rover is dead, Russians release image of coolant system hole in Progress, A lunar lava avalanche three miles wide and one mile long, Pushback: Home appraiser sues professors who called him racist without evidence, and Today’s blacklisted American: Georgetown Law School tried to destroy a student simply because he asked questions about its COVID jab and mask policies
Cafe Hayek: Still Trying To Open John Tamny’s Eyes To the Harms Unleashed by Deficit Financing
Chicago Boyz: My Experience with Covid and Paxlovid, also, ChicagoBoyz Miami Meetup, Weekend of 22 April
Da Tech Guy: DeSantis, Trump, and the Fauci Card, Tidbits and outrages, and We Interrupt Our Trump Series to note others are starting to feel a Draft coming our way
Dana Loesch: Everyone Freaking Out About Tiger Woods’ Tampon Joke Needs To Pop A Midol
Don Surber: Biden & Zelensky Celebrate Their First Anniversary, 
First Street Journal: WWIII Watch: Will China send weapons to Russia?, also, Are dog lives more important than humans in Philadelphia?
Gates Of Vienna: Claudia Roth Calls for More Sambos in Films, Tenants in Lörrach Must Give Way to Culture-Enrichers, and NATO on the Ropes in Ukraine
The Geller Report: 20,000 Protest War in Ukraine During Kamala Harris Visit at Munich Security Conference, also, Kavanaugh Accuser Confesses She Lied, Faces Criminal Charges
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Taking a Galaxy for a Spin, and Past Primeness?
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s Why Roald Dahl’s Books Are Getting an Extreme Woke Makeover, also, How Augmentia Captures Big Tech’s Worst Impulses
The Lid: Adam Schiff FREAKS OUT After McCarthy Makes MAJOR J6 Announcement, also, Gisele Fetterman Is A Cruel Woman And Spousal Abuser
Legal Insurrection: Man Arrested in the Shooting Death of L.A. Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, Exposed Military Email Server Caused ‘Internal Emails to Leak’, Republicans Criticize Biden for Visiting Ukraine Instead of Ohio Chemical Disaster Town, Adderall Shortage Continues, But Details Remain a Mystery, and Chicago: 55 Schools Have Zero Students Proficient in Reading or Math
Nebraska Energy Observer: Of Constitutions and Men, also, World Economic Forum
Outkick: LeSean McCoy Disagrees That Eric Bieniemy is Getting Blackballed by NFL, Suzann Pettersen, Laura Davies Defend Tiger Woods Over Tampon Incident, Character Issues? Georgia’s Jalen Carter Used Own Scholarship Money To Pay For A Walk-On To Eat, University Of Washington Baseball Player Ejected For ‘Excessive Celebration’ After Going Deep, and Shedeur Sanders Calls Out Lies In College Football While Defending Deion’s Louis Vuitton Luggage Speech At Colorado
Power Line: Dulling Dahl for dullards, Releasing the J6 footage, and Trump’s Appeal Becoming More Selective
Shark Tank: Grassroots Republicans Poised To Oppose Changes In “Resign To Run” Law
Shot In The Dark: Inimical, also, No Way Nohow No Signs Of Collapse Nosirreebob
The Political Hat: California To Banks: Stop Doing Business With Gun Manufacturers… Or Else!
This Ain’t Hell: CT Mayors have rare burst of clarity, Tuesday with the Libs of Tik Tok, and Kevin McCarthy makes 41,000 hours of J6 Capitol footage available to Tucker Carlson
Transterrestrial Musings: Russia’s Offensive, The Issue With “Elites”, and Interesting Acquisition
Victory Girls: South Park Might Get Sued By Publicity Hounds Harry And Meghan, also, Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants a Divorce
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS Denies Review of Eighth Circuit En Banc Case Upholding Arkansas “Anti-BDS” Statute
Watts Up With That: Monbiot : We Must End Our Dependence on Farming, Wind, Solar, and Household Electricity Prices, and Eating less meat won’t ‘save the planet’
Weasel Zippers: Biden Greeted By Fake Air Raid Sirens In Kyiv, California Dems Say Police K9s Are Racist, Move To Ban Them, Nikki Haley Pushes For Mental Competency Test For Politicians Over 75, and NYC Mayor Attempts To Mock Ron DeSantis… Fails Miserably
The Federalist: Elon Musk Agrees With The Federalist’s John Davidson On The Dangers Of Big Tech Censorship, But Won’t Unlock His Twitter Account, Biden Declares U.S. Will Sustain War In Eastern Europe Indefinitely, Against Americans’ Wishes, Why The Supreme Court Is Unlikely To Fix The Section 230 Immunity Mess — Yet, Just Like ‘Real’ Socialism, ‘Real Feudalism’ Has Never Been Tried, and How Georgia Became Democrats’ Test Site For Their 2024 Private Takeover Of Election Offices
Mark Steyn: Night and Day, A Vax Update, and The Post-Democratic World

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Cruel and Unusual: Gay Activist Couple Allegedly Pimped Out Adopted Boys

Posted on | February 21, 2023 | Comments Off on Cruel and Unusual: Gay Activist Couple Allegedly Pimped Out Adopted Boys

William and Zachary Zulock with their victims

When this arrest was first reported last August, I headlined my post “We Were Told This Would Never Happen,” because the media want us to believe that there is no such thing as a gay pedophile. The facts, however, disagree with the media. The U.S. Constitution forbids “cruel and unusual punishment,” but if Georgia officials just sentence these two to prison, their fellow inmates probably won’t be constrained by that:

A gay couple from Georgia charged with molesting their two adopted sons and using them to record child porn also allegedly pimped them out to members of a local pedophile ring, according to a disturbing new report.
A months-long investigation by Townhall revealed that William Dale Zulock, 33, and Zachary Jacoby Zulock, 35, allegedly used social media to prostitute their two elementary-aged sons.
William Zulock, a government worker, and Zachary Zulock, a banker, were indicted in August 2022 on charges of incest, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, felony sexual exploitation of children and felony prostitution of a minor.
But the shocking investigation reveals in more detail the sickening abuse the boys suffered.
For the first time, it was revealed that the men allegedly pimped out their older sons, now 11 and 9 years old, to two other men in a pedophile ring.
One of the men, Hunter Clay Lawless, 27, told investigators that Zachary — whose Instagram bio describes him as “Papa to our two wonderful boys” and an “activist” — invited him “multiple times” to take part in sexually abusing the boys, Townhall reported.
Lawless also claimed Zachary sent him multiple messages on Snapchat, including one that allegedly read, “I’m going to f— my son tonight. Stand by,” along with images of himself sexually abusing the 11-year-old, according to the outlet.
The two men were arrested on charges of soliciting an act of prostitution with the 11-year-old boy, according to the indictment. It’s unclear whether Lawless and Armando Vizcarro-Sanchez had any physical interactions with the boys.
The Zulocks — who lived in Oxford, an affluent suburb of Atlanta — adopted the children from a Christian special-needs adoption agency. The boys were in the third and fourth grades when their adoptive fathers were arrested last summer.
Deputies responding to reports that a man was downloading child porn raided the home in Loganville, where they found evidence the pair “were engaging in sexually abusive acts and video documenting this abuse,” police said at the time.
During the raid, William was pulled out of his home naked.
The government worker has admitted to forcing one of his sons to perform oral sex on him “with the intent to satisfy his own … sexual desire,” according to a sworn affidavit cited by the Daily Wire.

Phrases like “alleged” and “according to a sworn affidavit” are necessary in journalism, but let’s not waste much effort about that whole “presumed innocence” business, because when child molesters record video of their crimes, this tends to make conviction a near-certainty. Gosh, it sure would be a shame if anything bad happened to these two gay activists between now and the time they are convicted and sentenced to prison in Georgia, because it’s more or less guaranteed that much worse things will happen to them after they’re sent to prison.



 

 

Category: Crime, Gays, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 02.21.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | February 21, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.21.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 3 Bad Guys 0
EBL: The Norfolk Southern Railroad Has Ruined Ohio, Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group, and Richard Belzer, RIP
Twitchy: Honorary Black Puerto Rican Joe Biden’s Amazing Youth Just Got Even More Incredible, also, Adam Kinzinger Whining Over J6 Footage Release To Tucker Carlson Says So Much
Louder With Crowder: Chunky hero puts vapid influencer in her place when asked “do you think I’m hot?”, also, Couple attempts road trip in electric car, ends up with ‘range anxiety’ after needing to recharge TWELVE times
Vox Popoli: She Has to Go Back, Hence the Library, The Offensive Begins Next Week, and Vaxx? What Vaxx?
Stoic Observations: Vinay Gupta’s Secular Northstar

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Harvesting our DNA
American Conservative: Make America Grunge Again, A Year’s Turning Tide, and Therapeutic Totalitarianism Comes For Roald Dahl
American Greatness: The Toxic Racialist Obsessions of Joe Biden, Biden Slammed For Visiting Ukraine on Presidents Day Instead of East Palestine, Ohio, and House Republicans Release J6 Videos to Tucker Carlson
American Power: Kaylee McGhee White for Prager University
American Thinker: Nationalism Is the Antidote to One-World Government, also, When Stuff Happens – Blame it on Climate Change!
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictator Raul Castro forced out of retirement as his family dictatorship continues to stumble, Apartheid tourists in Cuba still raving about the totalitarian hellhole despite shortages, Rush Limbaugh stood for freedom in Cuba, and Mariela Castro cancels appearance in Milan, flees city as Cuban exiles launch peaceful protests
BattleSwarm: Tab Clearing Poll, also, Rifle Bullets vs. Steel At 250,000 FPS
Behind The Black: Inspection of leaking Progress after undocking detects no obvious damage, First orbital tug from the startup Launcher fails shortly after deployment, India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander/rover passes radiation testing, and For the 4th time Curiosity’s drill fails to penetrate marker layer
CDR Salamander: A View from Tallinn
Chicago Boyz: Searching For That Part That Was Unobtanium
Da Tech Guy: A “Biden Peak Miracle” and other thoughts under the fedora, The Navy’s Health of the Force survey says we are, America has its secretary of silly walks, Pete Buttigieg, and Donald Trump is either Getting Bad Advice or Ignoring Good Advice in DeSantis Attacks
Dana Loesch: Prosecutors Downgrade Charge In Alec Baldwin Case
Don Surber: The Tale Of Two Daily Mails, also, A Cabinet Of Tokens
First Street Journal: It’s just so easy for the white liberals in safe neighborhoods to support ‘progressive’ politicians, also, The Philadelphia Inquirer has now come out against Freedom of Speech and of the Press
Gates Of Vienna: The European Commission Funds Islamic Zealots in Turkey, “This Government is to Blame for Leaving us Without Sovereignty”, and Interview With a Former Muslim Brother
The Geller Report: FOX News Legal Filing: DOMINION Voting Systems Executives Including Eric Coomer Knew Its Voting Systems Had Major Security Issues, Was Hacked, and Was “Riddled with Bugs”, also, THE NEW NAZISM: Biden Gives Power to Susan Rice for Sweeping Racial Overhaul of the Federal Government: “Agency Equity Teams”
Glenn Reynolds: Thoughts On Our Ruling Class Monoculture
Hogewash: My President’s Day Lists, 61 Years Ago Today, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Titanium, Oxygen, and Raaaaacism
Hollywood In Toto: Is Hollywood Gunning for Tom Cruise?, Entourage Creator Torches ‘Ignorant Fraud’ Occasional Cortex, and Magic Mike Franchise Ends with a Whimper
The Lid: Lying Hate-Filled Joe Biden Falsely Claims White People Love to Watch Lynching of Blacks
Legal Insurrection: James O’Keefe Out at Project Veritas, Updated with Video, Major Publisher Rewrites Classic Children’s Books To Appease Leftist “Sensitivity”, South Carolina to Investigate DEI Spending at Public Universities, MSNBC, Kamala Harris Tag Team to Lie About Ron DeSantis’ Stance on Teaching Black History, and Illinois’s Cook County Brings Critical Race Theory Into Criminal Justice System
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, also, Quinquagesima
Outkick: Deshaun Watson’s Salary Cap Hit For Cleveland Browns Will Set New NFL Record, Anthony Edwards Calls Out NBA Players Who Sit Out Regular Season Games: ‘You Gotta Play’, Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Johnson Blasts Tiger Woods’ Apology, Says He’s ‘Learned Nothing’, Mac McClung Caps Off Wild Week With Slam Dunk Contest Win, Dale Earnhardt Died 22 Years Ago Today, And He Was Everything Great About NASCAR, and Paige Spiranac Calls Out Double Standard Surrounding Tiger Woods’ Tampon Stunt, Feminist Group Seethes
Power Line: Operation ‘Dump Biden’: This Week’s Installment, America’s Lost Generation, Notes on the Twitter Files (16), and California’s Path to Destruction
Shark Tank: DeSantis Launches Pro-Police Tour
Shot In The Dark: Priorities, also, Chilling Effect
STUMP: French Retirement Ages, Social Security Benefit Cuts to Come, and What is Sustainable
This Ain’t Hell: Thanks, Iran!, Wreck of USS Albacore (SS-218) found, Arrest After Arrest, and AF grounds -135 fleet over minor flaw
Transterrestrial Musings: The Border Problem, Renaming The Webb Telescope, The Heterodox Academy, and Transforming The Universities
Victory Girls: Train Wreck of a Transportation Secretary, also, Department Of Defense: Diversity Imperative To Critical Missions
Volokh Conspiracy: WaPo Columnist Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About Attacks On The Judiciary, also, Fox News 2020 Election Coverage Decisions Demonstrate that Demand for Misinformation is a Bigger Problem than the Supply
Watts Up With That: Germany Wary Of Europe’s Ban of Fossil Fuel Cars By 2035, Hey, Axios, Try Looking at Real Data, California Dreaming, and Tucker Carlson- The Climate Cult has Grown Stronger
Weasel Zippers: Hobby Club’s $12 Balloon Shot Down With $400K Missile, Socialist Bernie Sanders Gets Called Out For His Capitalist Hypocrisy, and Biden Homeland Security Chief Thinks He’s Done Nothing Wrong Amid Border Crisis
The Federalist: Biden’s New ‘Equity’ Executive Order Is Systemic Racism In Disguise, Larry Hogan’s Authoritarian Covid Response Proves He’s Not The ‘Small Government’ Republican He Pretends To Be
Simple Observances For Lent, A Season That Can Help Christians Prepare For Persecution, CBO Report Exposes How Democrats Made A Bad Budget Situation Worse, American Medical Association’s Racism Course Is Unscientific Propaganda, and Ted Cruz Diagnoses D.C.’s Problems, But Can He Solve them?
Mark Steyn: New Religions and First Order Issues, How to Make a Bad Man: Henry Fonda and Warlock, Tal Bachman: Why Can’t Grocery Store Checkout Be Normal Anymore?, and The Widening Scandal

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Rule 5 Monday: Rebecca Bagnol

Posted on | February 20, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Born in December 1994. Rebecca is a French Instagram model best known for nostalgic black & white photos with artistic style. Apparently got booted once from Instagram for being excessively artistic/nude, depending on who you ask.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1995, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns

EBL: MAGA – Veep Lake Audition?, 18 February 2014, Maria Callas, Tripoli, Raquel Welch RIP, Celine Buckens, Warrior, Liza Minnelli, and the Super Bowl

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Khainsaw, Fish Pic Friday – From Down Under, Charity Selleck, Offshore Whale Deaths Continue, The Somebody I F*cked Once Trilogy, RIP: Raquel Welch, Flotsam and Jetsam – Balloons Still Down, Haley In, Di-Fi Out, The Wednesday Wetness, Flotsam and Jetsam – A Day Without Balloons, Happy Valentines Day!, ,No, Just No, Flotsam and Jetsam – And that Makes Four, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Good for Her, and  Superbowl Sunday Sunrise

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Home At Last

Posted on | February 20, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Home At Last

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I had hoped to get this done yesterday evening, but the wild Saturday night in Elko turned into an early bedtime since I was exhausted from the drive from Provo, and I felt even worse last night after stopping in the office in Reno to retrieve some gear, so I had a very early bedtime in Carson City and finally arrived home this afternoon.
Part of the gear I retrieved was Klaus Schulze’ La Vie Electronique, Vol. 5, which I have ripped to my hard drive and am currently enjoying.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

h/t Lurch on MeWe

James Baker’s Amnesia Problem
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum





Vince Dao Wrecks Liberals by — Wait for It — Denying Genetic Determinism
Okrahead
The DaleyGator
The Political Hat
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

Don’t Bet on the Super Bowl
Okrahead
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

Rule 5 Sunday: Christina Ricci
Okrahead
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
A View From The Beach

Why Nick Sirianni Cried
Okrahead
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.13.23
Okrahead
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

MSU Gunman Got Charge Reduced to Misdemeanor on 2019 Gun Arrest
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
EBL
357 Magnum

What’s Up in Ukraine Lately?
Okrahead
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.14.23
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

Report: Jake Tapper’s Executive Producer Fired in Latest CNN Sex Scandal
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

More Bad Headlines About CNN
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.16.23 (Punditocalyse Redux)
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.17.23 (Morning Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

CNN: Making News (Not in a Good Way)
The DaleyGator
EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.17.23 (Evening Edition)
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending February 17: 

  1.  EBL (16)
  2.  357 Magnum (12)
  3. A View From The Beach (9)
  4.  Okrahead (8)
  5.  The DaleyGator (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Ukraine Joe Ignores Ohio

Posted on | February 20, 2023 | 1 Comment

Ohio is Trump country, so screw ’em. This has been the general Democrat attitude toward the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, dealing with the catastrophic train derailment, a story being deliberately ignored by the stenographers of the liberal media. Oh, but Ukraine Joe’s so presidential!

President Biden made a surprise, hourslong visit to Kyiv on Monday, pledging the United States’ “unwavering commitment” to supporting Ukraine in a dramatic show of resolve almost one year into Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Mr. Biden rode 10 hours by train from the Polish border to arrive in the Ukrainian capital on Monday morning. As air-raid sirens sounded, Mr. Biden strolled in the sunshine with President Volodymyr Zelensky and announced $500 million in additional military aid for Ukraine during a joint news conference at which he recalled the beginning of the invasion last Feb. 24. “One year later, Kyiv stands,” Mr. Biden said. “And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands.”

“Here’s $500,000,000, Volodymyr! Screw those people in Ohio!”



 

 

Category: Ohio, Ukraine

War in Ukraine = Jobs in America

Posted on | February 20, 2023 | Comments Off on War in Ukraine = Jobs in America

The beautiful thing about being “the arsenal of democracy” is that it’s very profitable. For the past year, Ukraine has been burning through the available supply of artillery ammunition at a much higher rate than Western nations can produce ordnance:

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned [Feb. 13] that Ukraine is using up ammunition far faster than its allies can provide it and putting pressure on Western defense industries, just as Russia ramps up its military offensive.
“The war in Ukraine is consuming an enormous amount of munitions and depleting allied stockpiles,” Stoltenberg said. “The current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. This puts our defense industries under strain.”
According to some estimates, Ukraine is firing up to 6,000-7,000 artillery shells each day, around a third of the daily amount that Russia is using almost one year into the war.
Speaking on the eve of a two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers, Stoltenberg said the waiting time for the supply of “large-caliber ammunition has increased from 12 to 28 months,” and that “orders placed today would only be delivered two-and-a-half years later.”

When the war began last year, the U.S. and its allies had stockpiles of ammunition, at least for Western weapons, although much of Ukraine’s weapons are Soviet-era Warsaw Pact equipment, for which we don’t have facilities to produce ammunition, and once Ukraine used up all the old Soviet stuff, that was it. So the U.S. and NATO countries have been resupplying Ukraine with Western-made artillery, thus increasing demand for shells. Ukraine’s current “burn rate” is around 200,000 shells a month, or 2.4 million shells a year, so you can see what this means — lucrative defense contracts:

The Army has selected General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems [GD] and American Ordnance to compete for orders to produce 155mm artillery rounds under a new $993.8 million contract.
Under the deal, officially awarded on Wednesday, the Army said it aims to expand manufacturing capacity of 155mm M795 projectiles to produce an additional 12,000 to 20,000 rounds per month.
GD OTS and American Ordnance were the only two firms to submit bids for the work, with the contract running through February 2028.
Doug Bush, the Army’s top acquisition official, has detailed the service’s focus on ramping up production of 155mm ammunition in the coming years and said he expects there will be “several big awards” in February and March related to replenishing stockpiles of critical munitions sent to Ukraine (Defense Daily, Jan. 26).
The final version of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act included a provision allowing the Pentagon to use multi-year contracts for select critical munitions procurements, to include M1113, M107 and M795 155mm artillery rounds.
In November, the Army awarded IMT Defense a $391 million contract to produce 155mm M795 projectile shell bodies and a separate task order to GD OTS to build a new 155mm artillery metal parts production line.
The Army said at the time both deals were accelerated contracting efforts to “significantly increase production capacity” for 155mm artillery shells, as the service looks to replenish stockpiles of munitions transferred in large numbers to help support Ukraine.
Late last month, the Army awarded $522.3 million with Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds to Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Global Military Products, a division of Global Ordnance, to produce 155mm artillery ammunition for Ukraine.

This means jobs! jobs! jobs! for American workers at defense plants:

Running full-tilt, as it was on a recent January morning, the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant churns out roughly 11,000 artillery shells a month. That may seem like a lot, but the Ukrainian military often fires that many shells over just a few days.
To meet that demand, the Scranton plant is undergoing a massive expansion, fueled by millions of dollars in new defense spending from the Pentagon. It’s investing in new high-tech machinery, hiring a few dozen additional workers and will eventually shift to a 24/7 schedule of constant production. . . .
The Army is planning a 500% increase in artillery shell production, from 15,000 a month to 70,000, according to Army acquisition chief Doug Bush. Much of that increase will be fulfilled by the Scranton plant, which makes a large share of the country’s supply of artillery shells.
Across the US, munitions factories are increasing production as fast as possible. A Lockheed Martin plant in Camden, Arkansas, is cranking out a series of rockets and missiles, including those used by the Army’s Patriot missile system – all of which are in high demand in Ukraine. Bush told reporters in January that the Army was standing up a new plant in Garland, Texas to make artillery shells, while an existing plant is being expanded in Middletown, Iowa that loads, packs and assembles 155 millimeter shells.

Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa — these are just a few of the places where the demand for war matériel is translating to good-paying jobs in the defense industry for American workers. So while many people may be saddened by the death and destruction in Ukraine — a bloody stalemate with no end in sight — Americans with a more pragmatic worldview look at it and see dollar signs. Good times, my friends, good times!



 

 

Category: Military, Ukraine

‘Blood Will Tell,’ as Folks Say Down Home

Posted on | February 19, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Blood Will Tell,’ as Folks Say Down Home

In addition to being handsome, my son Jefferson is also very smart. Last week I texted him, “What did you score on the LSAT?” He answered 170 which, really, is Ivy League caliber, but instead he accepted a generous scholarship offer from a law school in the Midwest and is now in his second semester. The reason I asked was because of a headline at Instapundit, “Two-Thirds Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3.5%, With Biggest Decline (-7%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band.” I was trying to figure out what this meant. The largest decline in law school applications, it seems, are from students with not-quite-Ivy-caliber scores. “Yeah, I’m better than those schmucks,” my son replied when I told him why I was asking.

Sure, good looks are hereditary. Intelligence is also coded into my son’s DNA, but that unmistakable McCain arrogance? Is it nature or nurture?

Last night on The Other Podcast, we were discussing my post about how Vince Dao wrecked liberals’ minds by denying genetic determinism. Whatever our hereditary traits may be, people are neither doomed to failure nor guaranteed success merely by their genetics. Dao went viral by making arguments best articulated by Charles Murray in his 1984 book Losing Ground, i.e., that long-term poverty is closely linked to certain behaviors and that, merely by avoiding these behaviors, anyone in America has a 97% chance of avoiding poverty. Read more

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