In The Mailbox: 03.01.23

Posted on | March 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in February!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

The New Urbanism in action.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Loser Lori Lightfoot, also, Hey Japan – Free Lt. Ridge Alkonis
Twitchy: Airline Spotlights Flight With All-LGBTWTFBBQ Crew – Passengers Have Other Priorities, Ted Cruz Chews Out Merrick Garland For BS Non-Answers On Threats To SCOTUS Justices, and Allow The View’s Harpies To Explain Why Trump Was Bad For Being Right About COVID Origins
Louder With Crowder: Chicago’s Mayor Groot loses reelection so we wish her well in her future endeavors with these career lowlights, also, Family Guy actor apologizes for ever apologizing for playing a cripple in the cartoon
Vox Popoli: The Premier Fake Science Journal, Already #1!, and Google is a Clown World Creation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Wake Up and Smell the Incense
American Conservative: Naomi Wolf & The Ancient Gods
American Greatness: Chicago Ousts Lori Lightfoot, FDA Sued for Withholding Information About Children’s Use of Hormone Treatments, and Josh Hawley Torches Merrick Garland Over FBI’s ‘Unbelievable Show of Force’ Against Pro-Life Family
American Thinker: Beating the Balrog, also, Just Call it What it Is
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: The Cuban dictatorship’s unwavering support for Russia during the past year of war in Ukraine, Havana province meets only 42% of its food production targets, and Another balcony in Havana collapses, falls on Cuban woman walking by
BattleSwarm: Taking His Deposition, Open Carry Advocate Dismantles Police Officer Who Unlawfully Arrested Him
Behind The Black: No resolution in sight for Blue Origin’s investigation into New Shepard flight abort, ULA about to be sold?, Intelsat develops airplane WiFi antenna that can access both Intelsat and OneWeb satellites, and Today’s blacklisted Americans: Pro-lifers banned from the Washington Monument because it is a “First Amendment-free zone”
Cafe Hayek: As a Facebook Commenter Said, also, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – “Impressive material progress”
CDR Salamander: Building the WESTPAC Team we Need
Chicago Boyz: It’s A Little Late to Develop A Conscience.
Da Tech Guy: For Those Idiot Sports Writers, Etc. Unclear on the Difference between being the Subject of a “Slave Auction” and the “NFL Combine”, also, March Indulgence Calendars Ready for Download
Dana Loesch: Remembering Andrew Breitbart, 11 Years Later, also, The Second Amendment And 2024
Don Surber: Obama Begat The Tranny Circus
Gates Of Vienna: The New Normal Among Athletes: Sudden Death, also, The Vax and the Immune System
The Geller Report: Lori Lightfoot LOSES Big in Chicago Mayor Election, Director Wray Admits FBI Knew ‘For Quite Some Time That COVID Came From A Lab, and 39 Republicans Sponsor Bill To Cut Off Funding of UNRWA
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Tycho Supernova Remnant, and Meanwhile, in Chicago
Hollywood In Toto: Walter White Fights His Privilege, Kyle Dunnigan Mocks Hunter Biden in Hilarious Clip, and King’s Children of the Corn Still Searching for Credible Big-Screen Version
The Lid: Biden Launches The Worst Regulatory Deluge in History
Legal Insurrection: ‘Apologize for WHAT?’ We Lost Andrew Breitbart 11 Years Ago, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies Are on the Decline, Female Faculty More Likely to Support Speech Restrictions, Campus Investigations, Deplatforming, and Pentagon Burdens Warfighting Commanders with New Transgender Policies for Military Personnel
Nebraska Energy Observer: Higher, Further, Faster
Outkick: Police Accuse Ja Morant Of Threatening Teenager With Gun After Allegedly Hitting Him During Pickup Game, Eagles Star Calls Out Former DC And Current Cardinals Head Coach Over Super Bowl Loss, Minnesota Vikings General Manager Says Wide Receiver Justin Jefferson Has Say In Roster Decisions, The Wrong Call: Against The Wishes Of Most Of Its Fans, The PGA Tour Will Remove The Cut In Elevated Events, and Duke Player Flops In Humiliating Fashion, Draws Technical Foul On Opponent
Power Line: America’s Public Schools Are a Disaster, Disunion? It’s Not So Unpopular, and Get those lies straight!
Shark Tank: Gimenez – US Must Decouple From Red China
Shot In The Dark: How Do You Think He Does It?, He Who Controls The Past Controls The Future, and The Bull Leaves The China Shop
The Political Hat: They Fear The Traditional Nuclear Family
This Ain’t Hell: Air Force selling out Army, Patriotism is Not a Pejorative, VA hospitals facing police staffing shortages, and Vaccine Vets- No Thanks
Transterrestrial Musings: A Sea Change In The Industry?, Don’t Let The Door Hit You, and The Greatest Cover Up In Human History
Victory Girls: Garland Insists DOJ Does Apply The Law Equally
Volokh Conspiracy: A Textualist Defense of the Major Questions Doctrine
Watts Up With That: “The Last of Us” – Global Warming Zombies
Weasel Zippers: “I Wanna Make It Clear – I’m Gonna Raise Some Taxes”, Mayor Groot Voted Out, Plays Race Card On Its Way Out, Top Dem Warns “Literally Hundreds” Of Democrats In Congress Don’t Want Biden As Nominee, and Joe Biden Malfunctions While Reading From His Gigantic Teleprompter
The Federalist: Why It Matters That I’m A Mother, Not A Generic ‘Parent’ Or ‘Grown-Up’, Here Are Three Dead People Jocelyn Benson Wants To Keep On Michigan’s Voter Rolls, Questioning Biden’s Ukraine Policy Doesn’t Make You An ‘Isolationist’, Biden’s DHS Just Revealed How It Plans To Use Your Tax Dollars To Interfere In U.S. Elections, and Federal Court Says Pro-Life Maternal Care Centers Don’t Have To Hire Abortion Activists
Mark Steyn: Second-Class Citizen, also, We Laughed No More

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Back to CPAC With the Big Yellow Button

Posted on | March 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

For something like 15 years, I never missed the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), covering it first for The Washington Times, then for The American Spectator. And by “covering it,” of course I mean hanging out with all my friends and filing late-night screeds of semi-incoherent gibberish. The liberal media always feasts on CPAC as an occasion to pursue their endless search for right-wing scandals and controversies, while most of the conservatives in attendance have a great time at the event that I long ago dubbed “Mardi Gras for the Right.”

With the D.C. area in the grip of a draconian COVID-19 lockdown, CPAC decided in 2021 to move the conference to Orlando, and did it again in 2022, so that I’ve missed the event the past two years. But as soon as I finish this post, I’ll be packing up my laptop and heading off to National Harbor for CPAC 2023, and covering it in my usual gonzo manner. You wouldn’t believe what I’m paying for a hotel room, which is the main reason I’ve brought back the Big Yellow Button. Even though the PayPal contribution button is always on the page, sometimes I enlarge it for the benefit of near-sighted readers who may not have noticed it before.

Our usual request for tip-jar hits is $17.76. A 150-mile road trip to D.C. is quite expensive under Bidenflation, so if you want to chip in $4 for a gallon of gas, that would be appreciated. If you’re in the patriotic spirit, you might want to pay tribute to such great Americans as Andrew Jackson or even Benjamin Franklin, IYKWIMAITYD.

Helping defray travel expenses for my return to CPAC may be sufficient cause for most readers to kick in a few bucks for the trip, but as usual the most urgent thing is, keeping my wife happy.

Mrs. McCain likes it when the blog actually produces revenue, and keeping her happy is Job One, so once again I ask readers to recall the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Category: CPAC, Shoe Leather Fund

Good-Bye, Mayor Frogface! Lightfoot Places Third in Chicago Reelection Bid

Posted on | March 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

The pioneering Amphibian-American got less than 20% of the vote in her effort to win another four years in office to wreck Chicago:

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-election Tuesday, ending her historic run as the city’s first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve in the position.
Lightfoot, a Democrat, failed to get enough votes in the nine-person race to move on to an April 4 runoff election, according to projections by The Associated Press.
Paul Vallas, a former CEO of Chicago schools, will face Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union.
Ideologically, the choice between Vallas and Johnson is stark. Vallas ran as a moderate law-and-order candidate, while Johnson ran on an unabashedly progressive agenda.
But Chicagoans sent a message that they wanted change, rejecting both an incumbent mayor and a sitting congressman. Lightfoot is the first incumbent elected Chicago mayor to lose re-election since 1983, when Jane Byrne, the city’s first female mayor, lost her primary.
Lightfoot conceded defeat Tuesday night at her party in downtown Chicago, saying, “Obviously we didn’t win the election today, but I stand here with my head held high.”

Frogs everywhere — to say nothing of toads, newts and salamanders — are still proud of Mayor Frogface, who inflicted the kind of vengeance on humans that amphibians have long craved, turning Chicago into a racially-divided hive of Fear and Loathing where 737 people were murdered last year and more than 3,600 were wounded by gunfire.

You may be surprised — but probably not very surprised — to discover what factors Lori Lightfoot blames for her historic defeat:

Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed racism and her gender for her landslide defeat in her re-election bid, as Chicagoans weary of the rising crime on her watch celebrated her fall from “political rock star to rock bottom.”
“I’m a black woman in America. Of course,” she replied when asked by a reporter if she had been treated unfairly.
But she called being Chicago’s mayor “the honor of a lifetime.”
“Regardless of tonight’s outcome, we fought the right fights and we put this city on a better path,” Lightfoot said, as she urged her fellow mayors around the US not to fear being bold.
Amid heavy criticism for the crime wave, homelessness and other troubles plaguing the city, the mayor had also injected race into the run-up to the election.
“I am a black woman — let’s not forget,” Lightfoot, 60, told the New Yorker in a piece that ran Saturday. “Certain folks, frankly, don’t support us in leadership roles.”

Prior to being elected mayor in 2019, Lightfoot had never previously held elective office, but instead had been appointed to various government jobs — assistant U.S. attorney, president of the Chicago Police Board, etc. — by Democrats eager to fulfill their “diversity” quotas. And her upward ascent continued until finally, she found herself in a position where real-world consequences mattered. At which point, she became a victim of oppression, because all those RAAAAACISTS in Chicago voted against giving her another four years of letting their city go to ruin.

Read short summary here ?

¹ Diana Dejacimo was robbed at gunpoint back in December. She said after the horrifying ordeal she experienced, she did not know one single person who voted for Lightfoot. "I think this was a loud and clear message that this woke agenda is not working

— kitser (@ArticleCruncher) March 1, 2023

Eighty-three percent of Chicago voters are racists, apparently.

Category: Chicago, Election

In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 1, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Trump is on the Iranian Regime’s Hit List, Tom Sizemore…RIP?, and Tradwife Rule 5
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Whups Laura Loomer In Heated Exchange Over DeSantis, also, Juddlegum Upset He And David Hogg Tagged With Community Notes
Louder With Crowder: Awesome 9-year-old girl wrecks her woke school board for lying about ‘no politics in schools’, Joe Biden claims that even though he’s a white boy “he’s not stupid” – we beg to differ, Watch as this chick rage-quits a podcast because a dude refuses to sleep with a trans (sigh) ‘woman’, and Thug picks wrong cancer-stricken grandma to carjack, winds up in ambulance as grandma goes to chemo
Vox Popoli: They Haven’t Learned, Darker than the Dark Lord, Restoring the Mandate of Heaven, and No Truth, No Taste

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Florida’s ‘Orban’ Renewal Project
American Greatness: Arizona Sheriff: Migrants Tell Us They Crossed the Border Illegally ‘Because Joe Biden Said We Could’, ‘Greater Idaho’ Movement to Absorb Oregon Counties Gaining Traction, and Five Ways the Trainwreck Revealed the Trainwreck
American Power: What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Aims to Chart New Course for Chip Industry, and The War Is Right And Just. But Is It Prudent?
American Thinker: The U.S. Government Created the Vaccine, Did It Also Create the Virus?, Russian Sanctions Have Proved as Useless as COVID Vaccines, and Are You Freer than You Were Two Years Ago?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mask Failure News
Babalu Blog: U.S. embassy’s cultural collaborations with Castro dictatorship draws ire of Cuban activists, Cuban dictatorship repairs Hotel Saratoga, but not the surrounding homes destroyed by its explosion, Cuban dictatorship earns $545 million from cigar sales in Europe and China, and Reports from Cuba: Black market sugar in Cuba now approaching $8.30 a pound
BattleSwarm: Dear Chinese Workers in 2023: Sucks To Be You, also, Remembering the Battle of Medina Ridge
Behind The Black: The shift away from government schools, at all levels, accelerates, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches 21 second generation Starlink satellites, Ispace provides update on its Hakuto-R1 lunar lander on the way to the Moon, NASA names solar scientist as its new science head, and Today’s blacklisted American: University tells student it will block her speech, even off campus and on her private time
CDR Salamander: One Year in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the Big Pixels
Chicago Boyz: The Hard “Nope”
Da Tech Guy: “Roald the Rotten” Dahl an unlikely hero in battle against wokism, Misconceptions Under the Fedora, Jim Abourezk: A rare bird, and Five Three Liners Under the Fedora
Don Surber: How Elon Musk Survives
First Street Journal: Someone needs to check the water supply in Loudoun County, also, Secular liberalism has infected religion, and liberal religion has infected secular politics
Gates Of Vienna: Migrants Lost in the Briny Deep Off Calabria, Culture-Enriching Looters in North Rhine-Westphalia, Semantic Marxism, and We Are All Antifa!
The Geller Report: MUST WATCH TUCKER ON THE COVID CHINESE LAB LEAK, also, Brazil Allows Iranian Warships to Dock in Rio Despite US Pressure
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Tonight’s Sky: March, 2023, and Quote of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Can’t-Miss Gimmick in Unseen (Mostly) Hits the Mark, Tom Cruise Gives Master Class in Humility at PGA Awards, and Liam Neeson Drops the Action, Misses the Mark in Marlowe
The Lid: Teaching Hate: Muslim Virginia School Board Member Calls U.S. Victory in WWII ‘Evil’, also, Natural Immunity Vs. Covid Vax, Government Lied Again
Legal Insurrection: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Loses Reelection, the First One Term Mayor in 40 Years, “The big lie of the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry is that we are a systemically racist country”, White Student Suing Historically Black Howard University for Alleged Racial Discrimination, Transportation IG Investigating Buttigieg Using Govt Planes for Personal Use, and Sorry, Mayor Pete – Even WaPo Admits Trump’s Regulation Rollback Didn’t Cause Ohio Train Derailment
Nebraska Energy Observer: As if
Outkick: Cheerleader Goes Solo After Team Quits Ahead Of States, Ex-Titans OT Taylor Lewan Posts Photo of Team Dumping His Stuff Off At His Home Door, Shannon Sharpe Rips Into Brandon Miller For ‘Senseless’ Pregame Pat-Down Intro, TLIF: Leslie Manookian Pressures NFL, NFLPA On Young Athletes Suffering Medical Emergencies, and Marcus Spears Attacks Deion Sanders’ Two-Parent QB Recruiting Comments: ‘Sh*t Ain’t Funny’
Power Line: I Offer Our Governor a Wager, Clapper’s claptrap: The video, and EV Drivers Admit It: Charging Can Be a ‘Logistical Nightmare’
Protein Wisdom Reborn:
Shark Tank: Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) Flaunts His Ignorance
Shot In The Dark: So Many Questions, also, Paranoid!!!
The Political Hat: University Of Chicago: Everyone Encouraged To Apply (Except For White And Asian Men)
This Ain’t Hell: Are you a parent that opposes keeping secrets about your kids from you? Christo-fascist!, Ivan looking at Javelins, US Air Force to reverse adverse actions related to COVID-19 vaccine exemption request, Reparations panel: 5 million per qualified Black Individual, and Navy Touts All Female Flyover
Transterrestrial Musings: Retconning Heller, The Bulwark, BIden’s Loan Forgiveness, and Scott Adams
Victory Girls: Mayorkas Impeachment: Will The House GOP Get The Votes?, also, JK Rowling: The Witch Trials, The Pyre And The Caprice Of Fates
Volokh Conspiracy: Thoughts on Today’s Supreme Court Student Loan Forgiveness Oral Arguments, also, A group autopsy of the Supreme Court’s oral argument on section 230
Watts Up With That: Polar Wildlife Report reveals Arctic and Antarctic animals were thriving in 2022, Grid Capacity Issues Threaten Net Zero, and Tsunami Of Green Bans: German Economics Minister Plans End Of Gas, Oil Heating Beginning 2024!
Weasel Zippers: DeSantis Roasts Chicago Dems Before Mayoral Primary: “They’re All Trying To Outwoke Each Other”, Report: Putin Paying Palestinians To Fight In Ukraine, and Buttigieg: It’d Be Too “Disruptive” If Biden Visited Toxic Train Disaster In East Palestine
The Federalist: Helping Ukraine Defend Itself Must Not Detract From Deterring Red China, Georgia Committee Passes Bill To Stop Counties From Accepting ‘Zuckbucks 2.0’ Ahead Of 2024 Elections, Supreme Court’s Student Loan Forgiveness Ruling Could Be Bigger Than Biden’s $400 Billion Bailout, Fauci And EcoHealth’s Peter Daszak Silenced Lab Leak ‘Conspiracy Theory.’ Congress Shouldn’t Let Them Forget It, and American College Of OB-GYNs Bans Pro-Life Doctors From Conference After They Show Up
Mark Steyn: Who’s the Extremist?, also, The Full Jabba Jabba

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In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | February 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Playing catchup today since I didn’t get home to Tonopah until around 9 PM last night.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

“SF Chronicle declares not using ‘Latinx’ is transphobic.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Real Roots Of The Financial Crisis
EBL: Putin’s Ukraine War 1st Anniversary, Scott Adams and Dilbert Get Cancelled, and Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech of 1860
Twitchy: Siraj Hashmi Busts Jennifer Rubin For Sad DeSantis Swipe, also, Not A Good Look – Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Fundraising In Hollywood
Louder With Crowder: 11-year-old shocks school board reading from the “smut” available in his school library, also, Nancy Pelosi gets heckled at a cafe with tough questions you’d think a journalist would ask her
Vox Popoli: Rare and Expensive, Brer Zelensky, Revisit Your Assumptions, and Convergence Literally Kills
Gab News: What Martyrdom In The West Looks Like

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Snowy Lent Sunday
American Conservative: Ukraine Is Afghanistan All Over Again, The Long March Through the Museums, and Anglican Vicar Fired For Christian Sermon Loses Court Case
American Greatness: Actor Woody Harrelson Faces Backlash After Joking on SNL About Big Pharma Cartel Pushing Drugs, also, Government Report Concludes Lab Leak to be Most Likely Coronavirus Origin Theory
American Thinker: And Just Like That, Natural Immunity is No Longer a Conspiracy Theory, also, The Solution to Ballot Fraud
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba tangled in darkness, Cuban mothers forced to donate breast milk for starving infants as food shortages worsen in Cuba, and Cuban dictatorship throws hissy fit over cancellation of hundreds of its fake Facebook accounts
BattleSwarm: The Tank Museum on The Tanks Going To Ukraine, also, The Tank Isn’t Obsolete, Russia Is Just Using Them Stupidly
Behind The Black: IBEX in safe mode, Astroscale raises $76 million in private investment capital from Mitsubishi, space tourist Maezawa, and others, Manned Endeavour launch tonight on Falcon 9 scrubbed at T-2:12, and Drilling success for Curiosity in the marker layer?
Cafe Hayek: More Than Any Other, This Understanding Is the Distinguishing Feature of True Liberalism, also, The Glories of Globalization
Chicago Boyz: Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, as Viewed From the Early 1950s
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Administration in One Paragraph, The Navy just doesn’t understand SWOs, and Dating Apps and Bigotry
Don Surber: The Left Proves Dilbert’s Point, also, The National Divorce Has Begun
First Street Journal: Lies catch up to you, also, You can never solve a problem unless you admit what the problem is, and Philly’s Democrats won’t do that
Gates Of Vienna: When Dismemberment is a Family Affair, Not-So-Innocent Oseghale Gets Life in Prison, The Descent into Anarcho-Tyranny, and Let Them Come to Berlin
The Geller Report: Katie Hobbs, the Governor of Arizona, Allegedly Accepted Bribes From the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, also, Biden Shoveled $36 Billion In Taxpayer Funds To Bail Out Teamsters For Mismanaged Pensions
Hogewash: First, Willy Wonka, Now, James Bond, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, NGC 3370, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s Why ‘SNL,’ Late Night Won’t Touch Biden, Harris and Mayor Pete, Woody Harrelson Shreds Big Pharma, the Media, ‘SNL’ (And Its Audience), and A (Mostly) Great Week for Free Speech
The Lid: Judge Orders District To Pay $100K In Legal Fees After Barring Moms Reading District Approved Porn Books At Board Meeting, also, Pistol Pete Misfires Again
Legal Insurrection: Media Pounces After Florida Death Row Inmate Uses Final Words to Blast Ron DeSantis, Democratic Party of Nevada in Chaos Two Years After Bernie Sanders Supporters Took Over, Former Reuters Science Writer Slams Climate Hysteria Promoted by Today’s Media, University of Idaho Murder Suspect ‘Could Face Firing Squad Under Proposed Law if Convicted’, and Oversight Committee Chairman Comer Requests to Interview Seven Southern Border Chief Patrol Agents
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Invocabit: First Sunday in Lent, and Diversity Education is Destroying Education
Outkick: Fake Boxer Jake Paul Handed First Career Loss By Tommy Fury Via Split-Decision, Lindsay Brewer Hits The Beach In Hawaii Before Her First Race Of The Season, Olivia Dunne Was Back In Action And Her Sister Lost Her Mind, Shaquille O’Neal Hits Griddy, Shuts Down LSU Basketball Star After Pulling Up To Alma Mater For Daughter’s Recruiting Visit, and Charles Barkley Rips NBA Load Management Problem: ‘People Working In The Steel Mill Are Tired Too’
Power Line: Our Criminal Justice System Is a Farce, The Fetterman Question, A confederacy of louts, and From Malaise to Malice
Protein Wisdom Reborn: When Will We Learn?, also, Hey, longtime pw readers
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Reintroduces Financial Freedom Legislation
Shot In The Dark: Unexpectedly, also, Inconvenient Energy-Dense Fact
The Political Hat: Fighting Wokeness With Nondiscrimination In West Virginia
This Ain’t Hell: Foreign adversaries soon to be unable to purchase Virginian agricultural land, Monkeypox Fail? Release the Super Pigs!, VA Employees with criminal history related to drugs, Northern California diner halts veteran group’s use of room, and Mikey ticks off Ted Cruz. This should be fun
Transterrestrial Musings: The Covid Lab Leak
Victory Girls: “Christo-Fascist” Parents Deserve To Be In The Dark, also, 1619 Project Creator- Chinese Not Oppressed By Mao
Volokh Conspiracy: How powerful are AR rifles?, also, Higher Education “Reform” in Florida
Watts Up With That: British Net Zero Insanity is the Cause of Winter Food Shortages, Childish Beliefs Drive Lethal Energy and Agricultural Agendas, and How FERC can protect the grid from wind and solar
Weasel Zippers: Jill Biden Says Joe “Intends To Run” For Re-election, Biden National Security Advisor “Can’t Confirm Or Deny” Intel Saying COVID Began As Chinese Lab Leak, Joy Behar: East Palestine Got What They Deserved Because They Voted For Trump, Elon Musk: Media, Education System Are “Racist Against Whites And Asians”, and Chicago Dem Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blames Racism For Her Failing Re-election Campaign
The Federalist: In A Just World, Cocaine Bear Would Sweep The Oscars, How A Pregnancy Center Saved Me From Homelessness, Addiction, And Despair, Lawsuit Forces Los Angeles County To Remove 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls, and That Warren Burger Quote Gun Grabbers Love Is Ahistorical — Not To Mention Sort Of Fake
Mark Steyn: Hope in Hell: Don Ameche, Ernst Lubitsch and Heaven Can Wait, Where Do You Go to, My Lovely?, The Mark Steyn Show – live Monday to Thur …okay, Wednesday, at least, and Tal Bachman: Should Zoos Exist?

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If Fetterman Is Brain Dead, Maybe They Should Hook Him Up to Jumper Cables?

Posted on | February 28, 2023 | 1 Comment

Before I get to the context of the headline, first the news:

The office Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., released an update on Monday regarding his health after the Democratic Senator checked himself into a hospital for clinical depression earlier this month.
Fetterman’s communications director Joe Calvello said the Democratic senator was “doing well” and working with doctors as he “remains on the path to recovery.”
“He is visiting with staff and family daily, and his staff are keeping him updated on Senate business and news,” Calvello said in a statement.

So they say, but when was the last time they allowed anyone to actually see Fetterman? He has been unable to perform his Senate duties for weeks, so that Pennsylvanians effectively have half the Senate representation to which they are entitled. Pennsylvanians are starting to notice this, and one county GOP chairman took to Facebook on Monday to demand that Fetterman make a public appearance:

Because of the now confirmed lies that were told during the 2022 general election regarding the health of Senator John Fetterman, as well as the threats made against a journalist who interviewed him, the Washington County Republican Party refuses to take assurances from the Office of the Senator or Democrat operatives that Fetterman is able to carry out his duties as Senator. As such, we call upon Senator Fetterman to appear on camera to show us he is alive and well, and if he is unable to do so, we call upon our elected Representatives in Washington, Senator Casey and Congressman Reschenthaler, to intervene immediately.
Ultimately, if Fetterman is unable or unwilling to carry out his duties as a United States Senator, then we ask for his resignation and call for a special election to be held this year; no more lies or games.

What may have provoked this controversy was a weekend tweet from conservative talk-radio host John Cardillo:

Being told that Fetterman is essentially brain dead and it’s being hidden because keeping him in office until August 18th avoids a special election which Republicans would most certainly win.
This must be investigated.

A U.S. Senator is “essentially brain dead“?

Certainly this would be newsworthy, if true, and given that the public hasn’t actually seen Fetterman in weeks, how do we know if it’s true or not? Therefore, the burden is on Democrats to disprove this claim, and a mere statement claiming that Fetterman “remains on the path to recovery” won’t suffice. If, as his spokesman claims, Fetterman “is visiting with staff and family daily,” staying “updated on Senate business,” etc., then shouldn’t he able to make a brief public appearance, say a few words in front of the cameras, just to reassure Pennsylvanians that he is healthy? What are Democrats trying to hide?

The brilliance of Cardillo’s tweet about Fetterman being “brain dead” is that its very outrageousness requires a response. The wilder the rumor, the easier it should be to disprove, right? And so if Democrats fail to disprove it, people will naturally start to suspect maybe it is true.

This reminded me of one of the late Republican operative Lee Atwater’s most legendary moves. In 1980, Democratic state Sen. Tom Turnipseed ran for a South Carolina congressional seat, challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Floyd Spence. In media interviews, Turnipseed had previously disclosed getting electroshock treatments for depression when he was teenager. Working for the Spence campaign, Atwater was accused of “planting” questions with reporters about this, and when confronted with the accusation, Atwater’s reply was that he would not respond to allegations made by someone who had been “hooked up to jumper cables.” Some people were outraged by this comment, but it was a memorable sound bite — the phrase stuck in people’s minds — and Atwater kept repeating it until, on Election Day, Spence beat Turnipseed by a double-digit margin, 56%-44%. This is how you win elections.

Calling Fetterman “brain dead” may be an exaggeration, but the phrase is memorable, and if, as Fetterman’s spokesman claims, the Senator is “on the path to recovery,” why shouldn’t they be willing to demonstrate this by having Fetterman appear at a press conference? Also, while we’re asking questions, perhaps Fetterman’s spokesman can explain why the Senator’s wife took their kids and left the country.

Category: Democrats, Pennsylvania, Scandal, Senate

WOW: Left-Wing Narrative on Train Wreck Debunked by … Washington Post?

Posted on | February 28, 2023 | 1 Comment

A broken clock is right twice a day, and even one of the most reliable liberal propaganda organs can’t deny Pete Buttigieg is a liar:

The Washington Post reviewed “every possible regulatory change” that was made under the Trump administration and found that none of them contributed to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
“We decided to examine every possible regulatory change made under Trump that could be related to the accident and assess whether it could have made an impact,” read a review published Monday by Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post.
“From our analysis, none of the regulatory changes made during the Trump administration at this point can be cited as contributing to the accident,” Kessler added.
The review of “every possible regulatory change” made under Trump was conducted after U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was called out for falsely claiming that a proposed rule withdrawn in 2018 (under the Trump administration) had contributed to the train disaster in Ohio.
Even a member of Biden’s own administration (National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy) called Buttigieg’s claims about the East Palestine train derailment “misinformation.”
On Thursday, the New York Times also acknowledged in a report that the claims that former President Donald Trump’s administration was responsible for the train derailment in East Palestine due to it rolling back a rail safety rule is inaccurate.
But by that point, it was already too late as the false claim initially made by Buttigieg on February 14 had already circulated on social media where people regurgitated the transportation secretary’s remarks, spreading confusion and falsehoods across the internet.

If even the Washington Post is compelled to side with Trump against Buttigieg, that’s really bad news for the Buttigieg 2024 campaign.

Category: Media Bias, Ohio

Rule 5 Monday: Lana Turner

Posted on | February 28, 2023 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You can thank RazØrfist for this week’s babe, since he pointed out on Twitter something I hadn’t known about this sultry star: besides being a fine actress who did amazing things with sweaters, she was a fierce anticommunist and wound up on the blacklist of the commie union front group, which tried to stage a boycott of her films. Here she is in Imitation of Life.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Newsom Nuisance News, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.