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Rule 5 Sunday: Face Time

Posted on | November 27, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Jurassic Park Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Thanksgiving, Thais Meditation, The Girl Next Door, Pilgrim Ladies, Upload Season 3, Vintage Thanksgiving, Wild Turkey Day, Treadstone, and Les Feuilles Mortes. 

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Kiki Passo, Gone Fishin’, Fish Pic Friday – Marie Ve?ronneau, Oregon, My Oregon, Thanksgiving Day Flotsam and Jetsam, A Thursday Tune – Desperado, Flotsam and Jetsam – Another DIY Day, The Wednesday Wetness, Maryland, My Maryland, Oregon, My Oregon, Musk Mauls Media Matters, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday and Maryland, My Maryland

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for November 24

AVERAGE BUBBA: Rule Five Thursday – Thanksgiving Edition

STICKS, STORIES, & SCOTCH: IJN Murasaki, from Azur Lane’s Senran Kagura Crossover

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | November 26, 2023 | 3 Comments

When weighing career opportunities, most of us never give any consideration to cult leader as a job worth pursuing. However, I’ve spent some time contemplating the pros and cons of such a gig, and reached the conclusion that I’m simply not cut out for that kind of work. For starters, to be an effective cult leader requires a rare combination of traits — the charisma necessary to attract a loyal following of gullible idiots, the cleverness to come up with a uniquely weird belief system, and the cunning cruelty to exploit the aforesaid gullible followers.

Just not my idea of fun, really. So as much as I might enjoy imposing my personalized brand of Divine Wisdom on a brainwashed mob, enjoying the pleasure of polygamous relations with their nubile daughters, etc., I simply lack the basic aptitude, even if I were willing to accept the risk of the way cults typically end. Dying in a shootout with the FBI or serving a life sentence in federal prison are outcomes I’d prefer to avoid, so scratch “cult leader” from the career list. But there are other considerations.

How do cult leaders come up with the implausible bullshit they foist on their followers, and where do they find people stupid enough to believe it? Well, that’s what the Internet’s for, as exemplified by the Colorado-based “Love Has Won” cult and its deceased leader, Amy Carlson:

According to her family, Amy Carlson grew up in Dallas, Texas, and was a “straight A student”. In Carlson’s early adult life, however, she began to talk increasingly about “outlandish concepts” such as starships. During the mid 2000s, Carlson developed an interest in New Age philosophy, and became a regular poster on the forums of the website Lightworkers.org. On the forum, she met Amerith WhiteEagle, who convinced Carlson that she was divine, and Carlson began to claim to experience paranormal phenomena. In late 2007, Carlson left her third husband, her children, and her job as a manager at McDonald’s, and ceased contact with most members of her family, and joined up with WhiteEagle in Colorado. The group was originally known under the name “Galactic Federation of Light”. The group posted their first videos to YouTube in 2009.

There is a new HBO documentary series about Carlson and her cult, and Saturday night I watched part of the first episode, enough to reach the conclusion that almost anyone could have their own cult nowadays, because the Internet provides access to an effectively unlimited supply of gullible followers. Nearly all of Carlson’s followers were the kind of dopeheads we used to call “burnouts,” people who’d done too much LSD and permanently fried their cerebral cortex. These wild-eyed kooks are interviewed for the documentary and let’s just say that none of them seem to have a very firm grasp on reality. Which isn’t surprising, when you consider the cult’s belief system:

The theology of Love Has Won has been described as fluid, combining New Age spirituality, conspiracy theories, and elements from mainstream Abrahamic religions. The group proclaimed that Carlson was a divine, 19 billion year-old being who had birthed all creation. Carlson claimed she had been reincarnated 534 times, including as Jesus, Joan of Arc, Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra, and would lead 144,000 people into a mystical “5th dimension”. Carlson had several romantic partners throughout the group’s history, beginning with Amerith WhiteEagle, who were referred to as “Father God”, and who played a counterpart role to Carlson in the theology of the group. The group also adopted elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
The group claimed that Carlson was the queen of the lost continent of Lemuria, and the group incorporated the belief that Lemurians live within Mount Shasta in California.[9] Carlson had stated that Donald Trump was her father in a past life, and that she had spoken to the spirit of deceased actor Robin Williams, who she claimed was archangel Zadkiel. The group’s theology also included references to the concepts of Atlantis, the Anunnaki and “reptilians”. They believed that the world was run by a “cabal” determined to keep the planet in a “low vibration” state.

Unfortunately for the “Queen of the Lost Continent of Lemuria” and her followers, Carlson died at age 45 from a combination of anorexia, alcohol abuse and colloidal silver poisoning.

“COLLOIDAL SILVER POISONING”?

This is an unusual twist. We’re used to cult leaders dying in mass suicide rituals or being gunned down in a hail of automatic weapons fire. But what the heck is this colloidal silver thing?

Colloidal silver consists of tiny silver particles in a liquid. It is sometimes promoted on the internet as a dietary supplement; however, evidence supporting health-related claims is lacking.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that colloidal silver isn’t safe or effective for treating any disease or condition. Additionally, the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission have taken action against a number of companies for making misleading claims about colloidal silver products.
Colloidal silver can cause serious side effects. The most common is argyria, a build-up of silver in the body’s tissues causing a bluish-gray discoloration of the skin, which is usually permanent.
Colloidal silver can cause poor absorption of some drugs, such as certain antibiotics and thyroxine (used to treat thyroid deficiency). There is also some evidence that it can cause kidney, liver, or nervous system problems.

This explains why, when law enforcement in Saguache County, Colorado, found the mummified corpse of Amy Carlson, she was blue.

What sort of lessons can we learn from this? To me, it’s about how the Internet creates niche echo chambers of like-minded people. Even the tiniest fraction of a single percentage point of the population represents an audience of thousands, when you realize that there are 1.2 billion English-speaking Internet users worldwide (one-tenth of one percent = 1,200,000). Given the basic mathematics of the equation, it’s not really strange that “Mother God” Carlson could get 20,000 online followers, of whom about two dozen moved to Colorado to join her cult IRL.

Speaking of weird cult beliefs, the director of the HBO documentary is a liberal with an Ivy League diploma, who sees this as a political morality tale about health care and income inequality:

The self-styled deity sold remote healings and slowly gained an impressive online audience: almost 20,000 followers on Facebook and nearly 10,000 on YouTube. The group’s videos were watched more than 1.5 million times. All the while, she convinced more and more people to escape their lives and join her party. “You were high from the moment you woke up to the moment you went to bed,” a former follower recalls in the series.
Many who devoted themselves to Mother God were escaping one specific reality, according to [producer/director Hannah] Olson. “This is a group of people who were traumatized by the health care system,” the director says. One member arrived after struggling with an opioid addiction. Another found the group after losing his father to that same disease. One young woman joined after waking up from a coma to discover she owed half a million dollars in medical bills. “Love Has Won exists,” says Olson, “because people were searching online for how to heal their bodies and minds, because they could not afford to go to a doctor.” Many, if not all, were without insurance; the uninsured rate for American adults stood at 11% earlier this year.
“Reality doesn’t make sense for a lot of people because of the enormous income inequality,” Olson says. “My generation has not inherited the world we were promised.” (The director is a millennial.)

Like I said, weird cult beliefs. Despite the director’s politics, I haven’t found any liberal sermonizing in this HBO documentary, which is like watching a slow-motion train wreck, with a trainload of kooks.



 

Category: Colorado, Crime, Religion

FMJRA 2.0: Night Train

Posted on | November 26, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A good week for Senators fans. Took two out of three from the Twins and then went to Busch Stadium, where we swept the Cardinals. Pat Dobson notched his 13th and 14th wins, Joe Coleman got his 13th, and Moe Drabowsky & Darold Knowles picked up wins in relief. At this point, we’re two wins short of the 86-win season of the 1969 Senators IRL, and doing FAR better than the 1971 Senators who were burdened with Denny McLain and Mike Thompson in their rotation. We’ve closed to within six games of Oakland. and if we’re lucky, might even catch them.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas esse delendam.

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‘Young People … Taking an Interest in Peace and Social Justice’
Flopping Aces
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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‘Real Wrath of God Type Stuff’
357 Magnum
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FMJRA 2.0: New York. Feh.
A View From The Beach
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But Is It ‘Actual Truth’?
Average Bubba
357 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 11.20.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 11.21.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Progressives’ Become Hitler Youth Targeting the ‘Zionist War Machine’
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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Thanksgiving and the Meaning of America
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.23.22 (Thanksgiving Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Police Have Not Named Suspect in Stabbing That Sparked Dublin Riot
First Street Journal
American Free News Network
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.24.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending November 24:

  1.  EBL (13)
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  3.  A View From The Beach (10)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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The Swampeoisie are the Colonial Occupiers

Posted on | November 25, 2023 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

So, if Michael Hayden is equating armed, religiously faithful Americans with Hamas, does that mean that Hayden and the Swampeoisie are the Colonial Occupiers?

While I reject General Hayden in general (heh) and his cheap smear in particular, if he’s stipulating a false equivalence between patriots and terrorists, at some point, it could become needful to move the accusation a bit closer to reality.

Just because we lack even the tiniest interest in fomenting violence does not mean that violence mirrors that disinterest in us. Peace sells, but who’s buying? The well-prepared purchase that peace.

I wonder if Hayden has the self-awareness to grasp that he and the Swampeoisie are the baddies?
Probably the response is some variation on the theme of Jessup:
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by Experts armed with studies.
Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Mr. Patriot?
I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom.
You weep for the First Amendment and you curse the Swampeoisie.
You have that luxury.
You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that liberty’s demise, while tragic, probably saved lives.
And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that cable news channel.
You need me on that cable news channel.
We toss out words like honor, code, loyalty.
We use variations on these words as the backbone of a life spent managing something.
You use them as traditionally intended, for some reason.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the managed freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it!
I would rather you just said “thank you” and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a social media account and spread a meme.
Either way, I don’t give a *damn* what you think you are entitled to!”

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Geert Wilders Wins; Left Freaks Out

Posted on | November 25, 2023 | 3 Comments

Stunning news this week from the Netherlands:

Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) have swept to a stunning victory in Dutch elections, with exit polls predicting that his populist anti-mass migration party will become the largest force in the House of Representatives in the Netherlands. . . .
Performing in a way that many would have considered unthinkable just a week ago, the populist party is now projected to have more than doubled its representation over the previous election in 2021 when the PVV only managed to secure 17 seats in the House.
The PVV was followed by the leftist-green coalition GL-PvdA of Great Reset proponent Frans Timmermans at 26 seats, the centre-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) at 23 seats, and the centrist New Social Contract (NSC) at 20.

Liberal media are trying to portray Wilders as a Trump imitator, when in fact Wilders long preceded the Trump phenomenon. When I heard the news of Wilders’ victory, the first person I thought of was Pamela Geller, who brought Wilders to CPAC in 2009. Wilders was also the keynote speaker at a Geller-organized 2015 event in Garland, Texas, that was attacked by two ISIS-inspired terrorists. These headlines give a taste of how Wilders’ victory inspired panic among liberals:

Dutch election winner Geert Wilders is
an anti-Islam firebrand known
as the Dutch Donald Trump
— Associated Press

Far-Right Populist Geert Wilders Scores
Major Victory in Dutch Election
— Wall Street Journal

Dutch Election Results Deliver
a Turn to the Far Right
— New York Times

Opposition to mass immigration is “far right,” the media declare flatly, even though polling shows that a majority of U.S. voters believe (and have believed for many years) that the border is out of control, that illegal immigration is a serious problem, and that the overall level of immigration is too high. Most Americans want less immigration, and especially want stricter enforcement to prevent illegal immigration — but such opinions are “far right,” according to the media. This is an interesting example of media manipulation, whereby a mainstream (majority) opinion is transmogrified into an “extremist” position, while the fringe beliefs of the Left are treated as if they were mainstream.

Geert Wilders was ahead of his time, calling attention to immigration-related problems that most politicians (and their media allies) don’t want people to notice. When the 2015 “refugee crisis” hit Europe, suddenly what had been seen as a “far right” fringe became the voice of a majority. The left-leaning “elite” in politics and media tried to prevent this majority from gaining power, but as the victory of Wilders shows, a determined people can overwhelm elite resistance. Congratulations!



 

Category: Immigration, Islam, Netherlands

In The Mailbox: 11.24.23

Posted on | November 25, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

A musical interlude.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: He Suffered A Failure Of The Victim Selection Process
Director Blue: Mark Levin – Congress Must Investigate The Traitor Anthony Blinken
EBL: New York Times’s Nick Kristof and his “Sweet” Palestinian Lady, Ireland is not smitten with open immigration, and The Girl Next Door
Twitchy: Democrat Boosting Account Gets Blasted Using His Own Tweets, PETA’s Annual Thanksgiving Vegan Push Goes As Well As Can Be Expected, and Grinch Alert – Canada’s Human Rights Commission Says Christmas Is “Colonialism”
Louder With Crowder: Woman gets told she can’t use airplane bathroom, responds like a normal person…well actually, no,
Vox Popoli: Earning His Keep, Micro-weaponization, Happy Thanksgiving, Up Your Game or Else, and Migration is Rape
According To Hoyt: Buckets of Icy Water, Delayed due to Internet Hamsters, and Brain Died And Stuff
Monster Hunter Nation:
Jon Del Arroz: Kickstarter Banned This Comic For Dumb Reasons, And Then…
Gab News: It’s Never Over

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Wilder’s Victory and what it means for Democracy
American Conservative: The (Real) Reason Trad Influencers are Having a Moment, also, Our National Disgrace in Iraq and Syria
American Greatness: Pentagon Demands $114M in Funding for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in 2024, also, Charleston Elects First Republican Mayor Since 1877
American Thinker: The Binary Choice: If Trump Were Our President Today, Taking Action on J6 Video Footage, My Journey from Frustration to Outrage to Seething Anger, and My Journey from Frustration to Outrage to Seething Anger
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Happy Thanksgiving, and Rule Five Jurassic Park Friday
Babalu Blog: JFK’s tainted legacy with Miami’s Cuban exile community, Hunger forces Cubans to create collective garden in pothole-riddled street, Cuban dictatorship arrests 12 Ladies in White on their way to church, Russian store stocked with unaffordable goods to open soon in Havana, and The Spanish version of Trump Derangement Syndrome
BattleSwarm: Pre-Black Friday Prepping/Shopping Guide, Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t Set Yourself On Fire!, and LinkSwarm for November 24
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites, NASA laser communication experiment succeeds in sending data from beyond Moon, Red China launches classified satellite, Ariane-6’s core stage completes full 7 minute engine test, Did the Capitol police instigate violence by firing on peaceful January 6th demonstrators? and Real pushback: Soldiers punished by Biden for refusing jab now sue for billions
Cafe Hayek: Who’s “Anti-American”?
Chicago Boyz: A Reprise Post: Thanks Giving, also, Thanksgiving
Da Tech Guy:  A Primer on Real Life Pt Two: “I was poor when Poor was POOR”, Thanksgiving Thoughts Under the Fedora, The Pilgrims nearly starved to death because of an ill fated experiment with Communism, Two Interesting Tweets That Speak Volumes, and Analyzing the Pope’s Dubia on Transgender Individuals
Don Surber: How Republicans Win
First Street Journal: Even now, Jayana Webb is catching a bit of a break, That for which I am thankful, and You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: Alice Weidel – They Bring This Affinity for Violence With Them, Robert Fico: “Such Nonsense Could Only Have Been Invented by Greedy Pharmaceutical Companies”, Knife Play at the Winter Ball, Giving Thanks, Almost Time to Cash In, and Landslide Victory for the PVV!
The Geller Report: CEASEFIRE/HOSTAGE HORROR: Qatar Says Hostages Being Released “Aren’t Necessary Alive”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Two Views of the Moon, Kimberlin v. Reality News, From Earth to the Galactic Center, Shapley 1, and Tangled Up Holidays
Hollywood In Toto: Fall of Minneapolis Crushes 1 Million Views on Rumble, ‘SNL’ Alum Victoria Jackson: ‘Why Are We Whispering That We Love Our Country?’, Spielberg Rallies for Biden, Silent on Hamas Atrocities, and Matt Rife KOs Woke Left, Media with One-Two Punch
The Lid: LMAO! PETA’s Pro-Turkey Thanksgiving Post An Gets EPIC Community Note
Legal Insurrection: Women’s Rights Organizations Still Stunningly Silent About Attacks on Women on October 7th, Palestinians in ‘West Bank’ Celebrate Terrorists Release By Hanging Alleged Collaborators While Waving Hamas Flags, Presbyterian Chaplain at Rhodes College Planned BDSM Workshop on Campus Featuring a Dominatrix, Manchin Thinks Winning as a Third-Party Presidential Candidate ‘is Really a Long Shot’, Judge Rules Oregon Gun Control Law Violates the State Constitution, Derek Chauvin Stabbed In Federal Prison, and Netherlands: Geert Wilders’ Victory Shocks EU Establishment and Mainstream Media 
Nebraska Energy Observer: Novembr 22, 1963, Luke 12:2-3, and March to the Sea, Again
Outkick: ‘We’re Not An ATM’: Deion Sanders Says Colorado Will Not Buy Players, New Movie Helps Tell The Tale Of Why No Game Is Better Than Football , To The Surprise Of No One, Roger Goodell Is Pumped About Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce, Top Free Agent Starter Has ‘10-15 Teams Interested’, NFL Office Changes Thanksgiving ‘Faith, Family, Football’ Expression By Excluding Faith, Bartolo Colon Makes A Triumphant Return To The Mound At Age-50, and Dolly Parton Wears Cowboys Cheerleader Outfit, Gets Massive Reaction On Social Media
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, First Argentina, Now the Netherlands, Forget It, Jake. It’s ABC News, and Where Are the Americans?
Shark Tank: Gimenez Says “Complete Destruction Of Hamas” Is Israel’s Avenue To Peace
Shot In The Dark: False Flags II, Submitted With Comment, Omission, Grateful, and Rush
The Political Hat: Happy Thanksgiving for 2023!
This Ain’t Hell: And you thought your hitch sucked, Three More Accounted For, A Navy surveillance plane overshoots the runway, ends up in the water, 5 time draft exempt ‘asthmatic’ says he woulda played for Navy, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: Morning Joe Crosses The Line, The Counterrevolution Continues, The Catholic Origins Of Thanksgiving, and Last Week’s Starship Test
Victory Girls: Susan Sarandon Gets Sacked From Talent Agency, Biden In Nantucket For Billionaire’s Mansion Thanksgiving Vacation, and Nazis Look Like Amateurs Compared to Hamas
Volokh Conspiracy: 90-Day Suspension of Colorado Lawyer Who Filed ChatGPT-Written Motion with Hallucinated Cases
Watts Up With That: Major Setback for German Green Transformation as Top Court Rules Funding Unconstitutional! Now Will You Support Green New Deal!? ‘Climate Change is Threatening Your Thanksgiving’, and Historical Dutch Election Results are a Victory for Climate Realism 
The Federalist: Republicans Must Get Serious About Using Political Power If They Want To Win On Abortion, The Biden Administration’s Electric Vehicle Subsidies Are Becoming Another Solyndra, The U.S. Military Is Having A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week, Even Though Unparalleled Deeds Offend Today, Great Men Did Shift History, St. Louis Archdiocese Closes Thriving Traditional Latin Mass Parish, and Spaniards Aren’t Afraid To Protest, So Why Are American Conservatives?
Mark Steyn: De-Colonizing, De-Civilizing, De-Westernizing, SteynOnline Turns Twenty-One! , Live Around the Planet, and Diversity Stabbing of the Day

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Police Have Not Named Suspect in Stabbing That Sparked Dublin Riot

Posted on | November 24, 2023 | 2 Comments

Various online sources say it was an Algerian immigrant, but I’m not finding that from any official source:

Gardaí [i.e., Irish police] investigating the stabbing attack on children in Dublin city centre have searched the accommodation of the chief suspect in the case.
The man’s laptop and telephone have also been seized for searching as gardaí try to establish a motive for the attack.
The suspect, who is in his late 40s and is a naturalised Irish citizen, has lived at different addresses around Dublin.
Gardaí believe he is a single man with no children in Ireland, where he has lived for about two decades. As the motive for the attack, at about 1.30pm on Thursday on Parnell Square East, has not been established, gardaí have not ruled out a mental health episode or a terror-related link.
Garda sources said the suspect for the stabbing at lunchtime in Parnell Square East was seen loitering in the area and when children were being brought into an aftercare centre, he lashed out at them with a knife. He stabbed a five-year-old girl in the chest and an aftercare worker was also stabbed as she attempted to use her body to shield the children from the attack.
Two other children, a boy aged five and a six-year-old girl, were also injured and taken to Crumlin children’s hospital. The boy was treated and quickly discharged while the girl remains in hospital.
The five-year-old girl who was stabbed in the chest has undergone emergency surgery at Temple Street hospital and remains in a serious condition while the injured woman is also in a serious condition in the Mater Hospital.

The stabbing provoked a riot, which Irish politicians and media denounced as “far right,” as if being angry about immigrants stabbing children is some kind of extremist political position, rather than an entirely natural attitude. The fact that police have not named the suspect or said what country he is from could be interpreted as confirmation that he’s a Muslim/Arab, but it’s best to avoid such speculation.



 

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Category: Ireland

In The Mailbox: 11.23.22 (Thanksgiving Edition)

Posted on | November 23, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Of the many things I am thankful for in these wretched and depressing times, I am most thankful for two things: first, the commentariat here at The Other McCain, who extended a host of helping hands a few years ago when I was living in the barracks for homeless veterans after being evicted from my apartment here in Las Vegas and have continued to reward me for mongling the links here. Right up there with you readers, I am thankful that 14 years ago Stacy took a chance and hired me as a (we thought) temporary fill-in for Smitty, who was being sent off to Asia to serve as the Admiral of the Afghan Seas. I’ve been filling in for almost a decade and a half, and been blessed to do a lot of stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise: CPAC, The Other Podcast, my first exposure to Vegas during the 2012 primary debates…it’s been quite a ride, and I thank all of you for it. Hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving; I’ll be hitting the buffet at Main Street Station next door to the Plaza before the long holiday drive home to Tonopah.

Also, if you run short of good reading this weekend, the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale is on! Many books for 99 cents, and a lot of free stuff! Check it out! (h/t L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright at Wright’s Writing Corner)

 

Turkey with all the trimmings!

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Vintage Thanksgiving, Rainbow Bridge Explosion at Niagara Falls, Geert Wilders heading for a massive win in the Netherlands? and Happy Thanksgiving and Give Thanks!
Twitchy: Journalist Gets Community Noted & Dogpiled For Claiming American-Israeli Soldier Is U.S. Marine, OK Department Of Wildlife Tweets About Watching For Deer & Hilarity Ensues, and Memesgiving – Feasting On Thanksgiving Belly Laughs
Louder With Crowder: Woman Has Epic Melt Down Over Gas Prices, Yet Believes The Christian Right Is To Blame For Some Odd Reason, ‘As God as my witness…’: Start your Thanksgiving with the infamous ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ turkey drop, and Matt Rife reacts to haters trying to cancel his Netflix special with something that will REALLY trigger them
Vox Popoli: The Payments Never End, You Never Were, Kemosabe, and BASED BOOK SALE 2023
Stoic Observations: The Stoic Samurai
Gab News: How Christmas Music Went From Sacred To Secular
Flappr: The First Thanksgiving

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Happy Thanksgiving, 
Dana Loesch: Happy Thanksgiving
Don Surber: Chicago may quit being a sanctuary city, also, Highlights of the holiday
Glenn Reynolds: Happy Thanksgiving

And let’s not forget the boys on the Group W bench.
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