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Goldilocks and the Four Interceptions

Posted on | January 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Goldilocks and the Four Interceptions

Once upon a time, in the Kingdom of Duval, there was a quarterback known as Goldilocks, because of his beautiful blonde hair. Everything was fine for Goldilocks until the mean old Chargers came to town for a playoff game, and Goldilocks threw an interception. And then he threw another interception. And then another and another, and after four interceptions, Goldilocks and his Jaguars were losing 27-0. At this point, most of the little boys and girls got bored with the story and, because it was after bedtime, they went to sleep, figuring it was a blowout like the 49ers beating the Seahawks. But while the little boys and girls were sleeping, the story changed and Goldilocks had a fairy-tale ending:

Trevor Lawrence’s confidence somehow never wavered. Not after the first interception. Or the second. Or the third. Or even the fourth.
The generational quarterback simply delivered a generational comeback.
The No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 draft followed four interceptions with four touchdown passes — one of the most improbable turnarounds in NFL postseason history — and rallied the Jacksonville Jaguars to a 31-30 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday night.
Lawrence engineered the winning drive, highlighted by Travis Etienne’s 25-yard run on a fourth-and-1 play, and put the Jaguars in position for Riley Patterson’s 36-yard field goal on the final play. It capped a 27-point comeback, the largest in franchise history and the third largest in playoff history.
“You couldn’t write a crazier script,” Lawrence said. “We said in the locker room that’s kind of how our season’s going. We’re never out of the fight. … I’m kind of speechless, honestly, just to see what belief can do and to see when a team believes in each other what you can accomplish.”

And the moral of the story is, even when they give up four interceptions, the Jaguars can beat the Chargers, but they’ll probably have to beat Kansas City next week before they can live happily ever after.



 

Category: Football

FMJRA 2.0: Rip & Tear

Posted on | January 15, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Rip & Tear

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Once upon a time there was a rock band from L.A. which included Axl Rose and Tracii Guns. The band reorganized and Axl led his part of the band to stardom. This is a song from the other band.
The professional.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

“…because we are, after all, professionals.”

Rule 5 Sunday: Annalisa Greco
Animal Magnetism
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

In The Mailbox: 01.12.23
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Crazy People Are Dangerous
EBL
357 Magnum

FINALLY: McCarthy Becomes Speaker
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

Football: Good News and Bad News
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: She’s Got A Face That Could Stop A Clock
A View From The Beach
EBL

White House Pressured Facebook to Censor Tucker Carlson on COVID-19
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Can You Guess Who Won the Court Case of Brett Kimberlin v. United States?
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.09.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 01.10.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Prince Harry: The Worst Member of the British Royal Family Since Richard III
Flappr
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.11.23
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Democrats: ‘It’s Different When We Do It!’
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.13.23
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive 

Top linkers for the week ending January 13:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  357 Magnum (12)
  3.  A View From The Beach (8)
  4.  (tied) The DaleyGator & Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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The Next California Disaster

Posted on | January 14, 2023 | Comments Off on The Next California Disaster

Rep. Barbara Lee (left); Rep. Katie Porter

If it’s not earthquakes, it’s pandemics. If it’s not droughts, it’s floods. But if there aren’t any natural disasters in California, there’s always the political variety in the Democrat-controlled state, and rumblings of a new Democrat-inflicted catastrophe can be heard now that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is rumored to be retiring, leaving the seat up for grabs in 2024. Some background from Wikipedia:

In August 2020, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. After they won the general election, [California Secretary of State Alex] Padilla was mentioned as a possible choice as Harris’s successor in the Senate. Governor [Gavin] Newsom had the power to appoint her successor. In December 2020, Newsom announced that he would appoint Padilla to the seat, making him California’s first Hispanic senator and the first male U.S. senator from California since Alan Cranston retired in 1993. . . .
Most Latinos, who are 40% of California’s population, supported Padilla’s appointment, but some black leaders, who wanted another black woman to replace Harris, criticized it. San Francisco Mayor London Breed called Padilla’s appointment “a real blow to the African American community.”

Got that? Hispanics are 40% of California’s population, whereas blacks are less than 7%, but appointing Padilla to the Senate was “a real blow to the African American community” and, of course, Black Lives Matter.

This is the problem with identity politics — everybody competing in the Oppression Olympics thinks they’re entitled to the gold medal. It defies logic to assert that 7% of California’s population has a “right” to 50% of the state’s U.S. Senate seats, but remember logic is white supremacy.

Perhaps not everybody in California is insane enough to buy into the “progressive” worldview, but the lunatics are clearly in the majority, because most of the sane people have already left the state.

So, with Padilla holding one of California’s Senate seats, and Feinstein expected to announce her retirement, third-term Democrat Rep. Katie Porter was the first to throw her hat in the ring:

Now you’re probably wondering, what percentage of the California population is pudgy left-wing white women with bad haircuts? But never mind that, Katie Porter is a “Progressive Rock Star,” a protégé of Elizabeth Warren, and raised $24 million to defend her House seat in 2022. This means that Porter will be able to raise money for her Senate race on a nationwide basis, collecting campaign cash from pudgy left-wing women white women with bad haircuts from coast to coast.

However, don’t expect California’s 7% to cooperate:

Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, a seasoned progressive with more than three decades immersed in California politics, on Wednesday told congressional colleagues she plans to run for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat in 2024.
Lee announced her intentions during a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, receiving a standing ovation, but has not officially confirmed she is running or formed an official Senate committee to start raising money in a race expected to be both costly and intensely competitive.
Lee’s private disclosure comes just a day after Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) launched her campaign to replace Feinstein, 89, who has yet to disclose whether she intends to retire at the end of her term. As one of the most coveted posts in California politics, Feinstein’s Senate seat is widely expected to spur interest from some of the state’s most ambitious and prominent elected leaders.
Lee’s announcement was confirmed by a source close to the congresswoman who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on her political plans. The source cautioned that the congresswoman didn’t announce a Senate campaign — only her intention to run. The news was first reported by Politico.
First elected to Congress in 1998 after nearly a decade in the California Legislature, Lee is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and former co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Did I mention that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is widely expected to launch a 2024 campaign for the White House? So while he’s busy organizing a presidential campaign to save America from another four years of senile Joe Biden, his state’s Democratic Party is heading for an identity politics trainwreck, with the “rock star” fat white woman battling the angry black woman from Oakland in a progressive Armageddon.

You can click here to stock up on popcorn.



 

Category: California, Democrats, Senate

In The Mailbox: 01.13.23

Posted on | January 14, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.13.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

More memory please, Goshujin-sama!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Shovel To A Gunfight
EBL: Lisa Marie Presley, RIP, also, It’s Biden Friday the 13th
Twitchy: Matt Taibbi Fires Back After Ted Lieu Accuses Him Of “Spewing Kremlin Talking Points”, also, Some Journos Concerned Classified Doc Scandal Making Life Harder For Great Biden Administration
Louder With Crowder: Hero chokes out guitar thief before dragging him out of Guitar Center in cartoon-like fashion, also, Big-Brained Occasional Cortex attempts to defend having a gas stove after she supported banning them
Vox Popoli: Signs of the Times, We Don’t Know, World Evil Forum, and I Didn’t Even Have to Ask
According To Hoyt: Parsing Words, also, World changing: top down or bottom up? – by Margaret Ball
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S4 E1: The State of the Dojo Address (2023), also, Lost Planet Homicide 2: Ghosts of Zenith, out now
Gab News: Your Work & Your Faith Are Not Separate

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Denying Babies Health Care, Fighting Queer Tyranny: A Choice, and They Did Not Vow
American Greatness: What the January 6 Videos Will Show, also, Twitter Files Reveal How Dems Defied Twitter to Spread ‘Russian Bot’ Hoax
American Thinker: A Reminder to Doctors about the Meaning of Life, also, The Scariest Developments to Watch Out For in 2023
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Japan Defense Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s new restrictions on cash withdrawals provokes bank run in Havana, ‘Food’ distributed to Cuba’s prisoners places them at risk of malnutrition and diseases, Cuba’s sock puppet president’s challenges in 2023, and An Open Letter to Archbishop Thomas Wenksi
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 13
Behind The Black: Red China completes two launches today, Construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii remains in limbo, FCC votes to create its own space bureaucracy, despite lacking statutory authority, and Pushback: Blacklisted Virginia Tech soccer player wins $100K settlement
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Parody: Russian Spies Seeking Classified Documents Surrender After Finding Biden’s Garage Locked
Don Surber: Only Lapland can save Europe now, also, Oh look. Ukraine is hurting U.S. defenses
First Street Journal: Central Bucks School District is doing the right thing
Gates Of Vienna: Terrorism in the Name of the Climate
The Geller Report: TWITTER FILES: The Russia Collusion Hoax Was One BIG LIE
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Black Hole Sez: “Mmmmm, Donut!”, and Safe Cooking
Hollywood In Toto: Woke History of the World Part II Trailer Confirms Our Fears
The Lid: Is The Justice Department Blackmailing President Joe Biden?
Legal Insurrection: ‘Liberated Ethnic Studies’ Activists Want to Instill ‘Anti-Israel Content Into Schools’, NYC DA Offers Cushy Plea Deals To “Pro-Palestinian” Thugs Who Assaulted Jews on City Streets, ‘Tyrants’: Idaho School Board Silences Parents, State Senator Who Object to Allowing Biological Males in Female-Only Rooms, Progressives Pressuring Justices Sotomayor and Kagan to Retire While Dems Control Senate, WH, and Numerous Illinois Sheriff Departments Won’t Enforce Gov. Pritzker’s ‘Assault Weapon Ban’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Historic Truths Your History Teachers Didn’t Teach
Outkick: Fair To Question If Lamar Jackson Missing Playoff Game Is Related To Contract, Cardinals Player Shreds Kyler Murray, Says Team ‘Created A Monster’, Al Michaels Compares Calling Amazon’s Stinky NFL Thursday Night Package To Selling Used Cars, Robbie Knievel, Son Of Stuntman Evel Knievel, Reportedly Dead At 60, Dan Le Batard Asks Vince Wilfork About Wife He Divorced In World’s Most Awkward Radio Segment, and 
Power Line: Anybody vette this guy?, Thoughts from the ammo line, and Notes on the Twitter Files (14)
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Responds To December CPI Report
Shot In The Dark: “Safe, Legal, & Rare”, While I Get The Ambivalence, and Why Are Democrats Always Yapping About “White Supremacist Terror”?
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: What Are the Challenges for Conservatives in 1973?
This Ain’t Hell: Supremes hit homer in Escobar case, She’s right! Occasional Cortex is right!, Russia releases U.S. Navy veteran, Sixty-eight percent of active-duty service members see growing politicization of U.S. military, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: DEI For North America, also, “Screaming” Dolphins
Victory Girls: Turkey Puts $500K Bounty On Enes Kanter Freedom, also, Gender Queer Memoir Subject Of Library Dispute
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS Grants Cert To Reconsider TWA v. Hardison
Watts Up With That: Bill Gates Says Nuclear Power and Fake Meat can Save Us from Climate Change, “Rare Earths,” Electrification Mandates, and Energy Security (Part II), and US Climate Is Getting Less Extreme, Not More
Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep: It’s Racist To Take On Red China, Penn State Professor Tells Students To “Watch Gay Porn”, “I Think Of This Moment As A Moment That Is About Great Momentum”, and Cringe Alert: Kamala Harris Rambles On About How Much She “Loves” Electric School Buses
The Federalist: ‘The American Conservative’ Tried To Warn Us, GOP-Led House Must Ban Private Funding Of Elections Or Force Democrats To Defend It On The Record, Records Show Pete Buttigieg Ducked Calls, Public Appearances On Leave During Supply Chain Crisis, Maybe If CNN Hired A Real Conservative, Its Viewership Wouldn’t Tank So Badly, and By Enabling Leftist Misinformation, Twitter Helped Democrats And Their Media Allies Peddle Another Russia Hoax
Mark Steyn:Life in the Fast and Loose Lane

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Democrats: ‘It’s Different When We Do It!’

Posted on | January 13, 2023 | Comments Off on Democrats: ‘It’s Different When We Do It!’

Let us recall that the first we learned about issues with Donald Trump having presidential documents at his Florida estate was when the Justice Department sent dozens of FBI agents to raid Mar-a-Lago — three months before Election Day, just coincidentally. It was not until after the election — another coincidence! — that Merrick Garland announced that the persecution investigation of Trump would be handed over to a special counsel (and appointed notorious anti-Republican fanatic Jack Smith).

Guess what also happened before the election? Biden’s personal attorneys “discovered” 10 classified documents from the Obama era in the D.C. offices that Biden used at his think tank after his term as vice president. This “discovery” was made on Nov. 2, but didn’t make the news until two months later, after Republicans had taken over the majority in the House of Representatives, thus obtaining subpoena power for their own investigations. Gosh, how these coincidences pile up!

Readers may share my suspicion that none of this was actually coincidental. Because we are paranoid right-wing conspiracy theorists — at least, that’s what we are, according to CNN, the New York Times and other enforcers of the Official Democrat-Approved Media Narrative — we might guess that what actually happened was:

1. DOJ seized upon complaints from a staffer at the National Archives about access to documents as a pretext to raid Trump and gin up a phony story that freaking NUCLEAR SECRETS were just sitting around in boxes at Mar-a-Lago;
2. This raid was calculated to help Democrats in the midterms by reminding Democrat voters about the existential menace of ORANGE MAN BAD;
3. Someone on Biden’s staff, realizing that their boss might be vulnerable to similar charges of mishandling classified material, suggested to his attorneys that they check to see if the doddering idiot had accidentally left any documents lying around somewhere;
4. Thus, his personal attorneys were checking Biden’s think-tank office — where vast troves of such documents were stacked up — and were willing to admit that at least 10 of them were classified;
5. The timeline is unclear of exactly when Biden’s attorneys informed officials of their “discovery” (not really a discovery, because of course Biden knew he had kept these classified documents, even if his senility meant he couldn’t say exactly where), but it’s pretty obvious that nobody at DOJ was in a hurry to investigate this;
6. Republicans in Congress must have suspected something like this — it’s just common sense to figure Joe would have kept some classified material from his eight years as VP — and were quietly preparing their own investigation;

… and so …

7. The White House orchestrates a leak to their media buddies about this “discovery” so they can manage the message prior to having Garland make the special counsel announcement;

… which means …

8. If called to testify before a congressional committee, any officials with knowledge of this will refuse to answer questions saying that they can’t comment on a case that’s currently under investigation.

See how it works? Standard operating procedure. And everybody in the media repeats the same talking points about how what Biden did was completely different than what Trump did, because ORANGE MAN BAD!

I’m not paranoid. Just extremely cynical.



 

Category: Joe Biden, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 01.12.23

Posted on | January 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.12.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today, the Windows 98 sisters and their pocky box mechas.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

The Win98 girls: the original on the right, SE on the left.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Day In The Life
EBL:  Top Secret Brandon
Twitchy: Adam Schiff Attempt To Drag GOP With Laundry List Of Lies Goes Badly Wrong, also, Occasional Cortex Responds To The Gas Stove Kerfluffle & The Fact That She Owns One
Louder With Crowder: Couple attempts to rob a gas station with a gun, gets foiled by customers who had three guns, TikTok influencer takes swing at Las Vegas bouncers, discovers they don’t care he’s a TikTok influencer, and Expert witness testifies Canadian shop teacher with gargantuan fake boobs is, in ‘fact,’ a woman
Vox Popoli: Diversity Enhances Paris, The Review Police, Human Sacrifice on the Horizon, and No, Harry, No!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Cardinal Pell: Vatican Is ‘Lawless’
American Greatness: 2023 Golden Globes Reports Abysmal Ratings, What Caused the Political Hysteria?, and Biden Whispers Into Mic That He Will Veto GOP Bill Rescinding IRS Funds For 87,000 New Agents
American Thinker: I’m Not Qualified, also, Do We Need a Department of Transportation?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Living on the Moon News
Babalu Blog: Miami Cuban radio icon Ninoska Perez Castellon leaves Radio Mambí after its purchase by leftist activists, Nicaraguan dictatorship to put Catholic bishop on trial for ‘conspiracy’, Inflation rate above 40% in 2022 sinks more Cuban families into poverty, and We remember Rush Limbaugh (1951 — 2021)
Baldilocks: From Faith To Faith – Watching The Wicked Prosper
BattleSwarm: Texas To Run Another Big-Ass Budget Surplus
Behind The Black: Saudi Arabia withdraws from Moon Treaty, American camera snaps picture of shadowed floor of Shackleton crater, Russia and Europe negotiating return of rockets and satellites, First exoplanet confirmed by Webb, and The modern American blacklist culture is wide and deep, and will require a lot of dredging to clear
Cafe Hayek: Jerry Z. Muller on Jacob Soll on Adam Smith
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: And So It Begins
Da Tech Guy: Quick Reality Reminders Under the Fedora, also, An un-elective despotism is exactly the government we have now
Dana Loesch: Biden On The Economy & Classified Docs – “They Were By My Corvette”, also, The Classified Document Story Breaking Now Comes Off As Blie On Blue Oppo
Don Surber: No one wants to be Cheneyed, also, Media begins squirming over Biden
Gates Of Vienna: Thailand in Trouble
The Geller Report: Lisa Marie Presley Dies Suddenly at 54, also, Biden Aides Find SECOND SECRET BATCH of Classified Documents at Separate Location – HIS GARAGE
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Digging Out Hidden Black Holes, and In Re False Sensitive Content Warnings on Twitter
Hollywood In Toto: Adam Carolla: Rob Reiner Is a Useful Idiot, also, Late Night Runs Cover for Biden’s Classified Docs…What Now?
The Lid: The FBI Used the CIA and the NSA to Spy on Americans
Legal Insurrection: Student Mob at Canada’s McGill U. Shuts Down Gay Professor’s Talk About Taking the ‘T’ Out of LGBT, More Than Half of House Democrats Vote With Republicans to Ban Biden From Selling Oil Reserves to China, Frustrated Joy Behar – “Just As We’re This Close To Getting” Trump, “Somehow” the Biden Classified Docs Appear, Eric Swalwell Throws Tantrum After Deservedly Being Kicked off Intelligence Committee, and #Twitterfiles Part 14 – “Russiagate scandal was built on the craven dishonesty of politicians and reporters”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Right off the bat
Outkick: Troy Aikman Bashes NFL Quality Of Play: ‘Is This Professional Football?’, Dan Le Batard Is Outraged Over Dana White Slapping His Wife But Employs Wife-Choker Howard Bryant, Stetson Bennett Returns To Day Job At Raising Cane’s After Dismantling TCU, Nick Saban Ranked Alabama Comically High In Final Coaches Poll Ballot, and Joe Burrow Isn’t Afraid To Be Arrogant: ‘You Can’t Go Out There Scared’
Power Line: The Biden docs, round 2, Thought for the Day: Paul Johnson (RIP), on Modern Times, and Talk about Gaslighting!
Shark Tank: Rep. Brian Mast Introduces Vaccine Reenlistment Act
Shot In The Dark: Body Count, Jeff Beck, and Certiorari 
The Political Hat: Woke Schools: Denying Merit; Anti-Racist Math; Queer Question Time
This Ain’t Hell: Art history prof Mohammed firing update, Scratching his wife’s fleas, Army’s got an idea to fix recruiting problems. More ribbons!, ‘Uncle Frank’ Biden – FOIA Results, and Guided Missile Destroyer to be Named for Hero
Transterrestrial Musings: Saudi Arabia And The Moon, also, Stanford
Victory Girls: Lori Lightfoot Wanted Chicago Teachers to Get Students to Campaign for Her
Volokh Conspiracy: Sixth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
Watts Up With That: Eco Numpties Unhappy with Charging Costs, “Rare Earths,” Electrification Mandates, and Energy Security (Part I), and New Harvard Study Proves Exxon Scientists Far Superior at Predicting Climate than the IPCC or James Hansen
Weasel Zippers: Over 200 Democrats Vote Against Condemning Attacks On Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers, Football Injuries Now Racist, Biden Bizarrely Brags About “Food Inflation”, and Hakeem Jeffries: Rescinding 87K IRS Agents, Holding ChiCom’s Accountable Is “Extreme”
The Federalist: How A Public Library Used Third-Party Allies And ‘Listening Sessions’ To Dismiss Flak Over Pornographic Kids’ Books, Latest Biden Document Cache Makes Yesterday’s Media Excuses Look Even Dumber, Thanks To Radical Environmentalists, Not Even A ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Can Fix California’s Drought, and Colorado Democrats Plot To Snatch Refund Checks From Taxpayers After Taking Credit For Them
Mark Steyn: Off to the Re-Education Gulag

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In The Mailbox: 01.11.23

Posted on | January 12, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.11.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Poor Windows ME. Such a klutz. It was the only version of Windows I never had to deal with; I jumped straight from Windows 95 to Windows 98 SE. 
Silicon Valley delenda est.

“idk, I think I’ll just freeze up and then hide behind the Blue Screen…”

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1959
357 Magnum: Two Good Guys With Guns Stop Bad Guy
EBL: FAA GROUNDS ALL FLIGHTS IN USA THIS MORNING, Biden’s Trove of Top Secret Documents, and Jeff Beck, RIP
Twitchy: Enjoy Rep. Byron Donalds wiping the floor with Joy Reid, also, Jonathan Turley Explores The “Surprise Factor” In Ongoing Discovery Of Biden’s Classified Documents
Louder With Crowder: Chris Pratt throws back to being ‘given 3 minutes to impart wisdom’ to MTV. He spent it talking about God, Eddie Murphy’s ‘blueprint for success’ had the audience howling (but Will Smith will hate it), and World’s first cow poop-powered tractor is here to save the planet
Vox Popoli: Dude, It Was YOUR Vaccine!, Setting the Theatre, Yes, Actually, and Clown World “Democracy”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Make the Australian Military Sexy Again
American Conservative: Cardinal Pell, White Martyr, also, Respect The Institutions? But Why?
American Greatness: Articles of Impeachment Filed Against DHS Sec Mayorkas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Forbids Arkansas Government Documents from Using Term ‘Latinx’, and House GOP Will Release 14,000 Hours of January 6 Tapes That Have Been Hidden From the Public
American Thinker: America’s Animal Farm, also, Are You Happy to Bail Out the Big Unions?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog:  Cuban students ordered to attend government rally critically injured when wall collapses on them, The most popular website in Cuba right now, and No dreams, no entertainment, no work, this is how the young live in Villa Clara, Cuba
Baldilocks: Back Sooner Than Soon
BattleSwarm: What Is And Isn’t Useful Kit In Ukraine
Behind The Black: ABL’s first launch attempt fails, Leaking Soyuz to return empty; Unmanned Soyuz to be launched to replace it, Astronomers discover more than 800 new supermassive black holes, and World View gets new lease from Pima County
Cafe Hayek: An Open Letter to Henry I. Miller, also, Non-covid Excess Deaths
CDR Salamander: What About India?
Chicago Boyz: A Trivial Diversion – The Right Royal Ruckus, also, Worthwhile Reading & Viewing
Da Tech Guy: Biden Classified Data Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: The Blizzard That Blew Away The Old West,  also, Biden’s Make Mexico Great policies
First Street Journal: Killadelphia’s Democratic mayoral candidates do not want the killing to stop
Gates Of Vienna: Rendezvous in Davos, Mocro Mob Hit in Antwerp, Baby, It’s Cold Outside, and “The Verdict is Unlawful”
The Geller Report: US Air Force Academy Cadet Died Suddenly While Walking to Class
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Habitable Zone Exoplanets, and Nothing to See Here. Move Along
Hollywood In Toto: Mask-less Fallon: ‘Put on a Mask’ Indoors, also, The Left Tried, and Failed, to Stop ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’
The Lid: GOP Takes Dead Aim At Those 87,000 New IRS Agents
Legal Insurrection: Real Science Behind Reversal of Gas Stove Ban, USC School of Social Work Decides the Word ‘Field’ Could be Considered Anti-Black, NY Rep. George Santos Refuses to Step Down After Nassau County GOP Demands He Resign, and Second Stash Of Classified Docs Found At Separate Biden Location, NBC News reports
Nebraska Energy Observer: Chaos and Serenity
Outkick: Paige Spiranac Bashes Notre Dame Fans, Calls Them ‘Insufferable’, Sage Steele’s Lawsuit Against Disney Revived by Trial Court, Tom Brady And Gisele Lost A Fortune With FTX Collapse, Held 2 Million Shares, JJ Watt Melts Down In Surprise Farewell Video That’ll Empty Your Kleenex Box, andEarly TV Ratings For National Title Game Blowout Are Unbelievably Bad
Power Line: Thought for the Day: Hamilton on Biden’s Corruption, Biden explains, and Applying Pelosi’s precedent
Shark Tank: Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) Calls For Full Government Transparency & Accountability
Shot In The Dark: Bowdlerized, Make Orwell Fictional Again, and  Those Of You Who Predicted Adam Kinzinger Would Land A Plum Republican-Bashing Gig At MSNBC
STUMP: Top Causes of Death by Age Group, 2021: Finalized U.S. Stats
The Political Hat: Praying Silently? Go To Jail!
This Ain’t Hell: Russky floating airport in blame game
Transterrestrial Musings: Biden’s Closet, The New Jew, and Clarence Thomas
Victory Girls: Katie Porter Takes Run At Diane Feinstein’s Seat, Stacey Abrams Ordered To Pay Georgia Back, and Buttigieg Really Does Stink At His Job
Volokh Conspiracy: Private Employee’s Claim That He Was Fired for Political Tweet Can Proceed Under California Statutes
Watts Up With That: The Final Nail in The Coffin Of “Renewable” Energy, also, $30 Billion Sun Cable Solar Mega Project Enters Administration
Weasel Zippers: Biden On His Open Borders Policies: “Trying To Make It Easier For People To Get Here”, Politico Fires Jackass Reporter, Antisemite Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Calls For Ending “Support For Israel’s Apartheid Government”, and Rep. James Comer On Republican Investigation Into Biden Crime Family: Americans Deserve Answers
The Federalist: In A Hyper-Digital World, Leaks Like Kristi Noem’s Social Security Number Are An Everyday Thing, New Study Says Maybe You’re Not Depressed, You’re Just Narcissistic, Ranked-Choice Voting Keeps Rigging Elections, and George Santos Is A Liar And Republicans Calling For His Resignation Are So Much Worse
Mark Steyn: Pell Numbers

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Prince Harry: The Worst Member of the British Royal Family Since Richard III

Posted on | January 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Prince Harry: The Worst Member of the British Royal Family Since Richard III

Consider this: If it weren’t for the prominence of his family, nobody would give a damn about Harry Windsor. Which is to say, all the respect accorded to any member of the royal family is based on their inherited dignity. Why, then, would Harry go out of his way to trash his own family’s reputation? Of course, we can blame that bitch Meghan Markle, but what does it say about Harry that he would choose such a woman as his companion, and join her tacky talk-show “celebrity” trip?

My brother and I were riding to the store when I saw the latest headline about Harry and Meghan, which caused me to erupt in an angry rant: “Tell-all memoir! What a damned idiot! Never trust anyone who speaks ill of their own family. Oh, your dad is a bum and your brother’s a bum? Well, the nut don’t fall too far from the tree, so I reckon you must be a bum, too! ‘Tell-all memoir,’ my ass! Yeah, buddy, the stories I could tell, if somebody paid me to write a ‘tell-all memoir’!”

At which point, my brother interrupted to remind me that he was driving, and if we were to get T-boned at the next intersection — a semi-truck ramming into the passenger side of the Nissan — the cops would never doubt it was an accident, if you catch my drift. But of course, this was merely a joke, because I would never in a million years think to write a “tell-all memoir,” given my own (alleged) role in various disreputable shenanigans. Sometimes I’m tempted to tell tales, but then I remember the Miranda warning: “You have the right to remain silent . . .”

Harry is to the Windsor family what Fredo was to the Corleones. He’s banging cocktail waitresses two at a time and defending Moe Green, so to speak, and where’s the royal Michael to issue the warning?

“Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever.”

Michael understood the value of loyalty, just like he understood the code of omerta. And the Corleones knew how to enforce their distinctive Sicilian concept of honor, which the Windsors don’t understand, or else Harry would be taking a ride to the airport with Clemenza.

Putting aside fantasies of Harry getting “whacked” by a royal enforcer — an MI6 man, discreet and reliable, arriving in a stylish Aston Martin — isn’t there a lesson here for us all? Only a fool would imagine he could benefit by bringing dishonor to his own family, yet such fools are everywhere nowadays, marching around in parades to proclaim how proud they are of their preferred perversions, while denouncing their parents as “bigots” for not celebrating their decadence.

Harry’s reached the Iowahawk “skin suit” phase of degradation:

The British monarchy will survive Harry’s disgraceful behavior, and future generations will spit on the ground at mention of his name.

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