Can We At Least Agree That Nobody — and Certainly No Republican — Cares About Hunter Biden’s ‘Struggle’?

Posted on | December 13, 2023 | Comments Off on Can We At Least Agree That Nobody — and Certainly No Republican — Cares About Hunter Biden’s ‘Struggle’?

Today I was watching CNN (so you don’t have to) while the World’s Most Famous Crackhead gave his little speech on Capitol Hill:

Hunter stated: “They have ridiculed my struggle with addiction. They’ve belittled my recovery. And they’ve tried to dehumanize me!”
“They have tried to dehumanize me to embarrass and damage my father, who has devoted his entire life to public service,” Hunter Biden said. “For six years I have been the target of the unrelenting Trump attack machine shouting ‘Where’ Hunter?’ Well here’s my answer. I am here.”
“Let me state as clearly as I can; my father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma, not my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at home or abroad and certainly not as an artist,” he said. “I am here to testify at a public hearing today to answer any of the Committee’s legitimate questions.”
“In the depths of my addiction, I was extremely irresponsible with my finances, but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond absurd. It’s shameless. There’s no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen,” he said.

The overpaid idiot anchors for CNN — overpaid, because almost nobody watches their network — did nothing to push back against this dramatic nonsense about Hunter’s “struggle with addiction,” which is irrelevant to the congressional investigation, except that it is reasonable to ask why so many foreign clients were eager to give millions of dollars to a ne’er-do-well crackhead whose only qualification as a “consultant” was that his father happened to be Vice President of the United States at the time.

Of course, Hunter has inherited his father’s habitual dishonesty — “My Word as a Biden!” — and was obviously lying about his father being “not financially involved,” as everybody ought to know by now:

Hunter Biden made clear during a press conference Wednesday that he will only testify under his own rules and will not comply with House investigators’ lawful subpoena that compelled his testimony behind closed doors at 9:30 a.m. the same day.
Hunter Biden’s failure to appear before House investigators will likely be a factor in formalizing the House impeachment inquiry vote Wednesday evening regarding President Joe Biden’s involvement in the Biden family business.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pointed to six cases of mounting evidence on Tuesday against Joe Biden that “cannot be ignored”:

1. Biden family members and Biden business-linked entities received more than $15 million from individuals in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, and China.
2. Joe Biden spoke with Hunter Biden’s business associates at least 22 times.
3. Joe Biden lied about his involvement in the business.
4. Joe Biden received “direct monthly payments” from Hunter Biden’s “Owasco PC” business account, which received “payments from Chinese state-linked companies and other foreign nationals and companies.”
5. Investigators flagged the Justice Department’s “deviations” in the five-year investigation into Hunter Biden.
6./ An FBI FD-1023 form alleges Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe while vice president. . . .

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) previously threatened to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he did not comply with both a public and private interview.

Hunter Biden and his spin doctors on CNN apparently expect us to forget about this rather important piece of evidence:

So far as I’m aware, CNN has never even mentioned that, so that their audience has no clue of just how clear the evidence is about Joe Biden personally profiting from his son’s foreign bribery scheme.

Rather than to emulate the kind of disingenuous games that Hunter is playing — “Those mean Republicans are dehumanizing me!” — I will explain exactly why the GOP-controlled House committees want to have a “closed door” interview with Hunter, and it’s not because they’re trying to hide anything. What they want is to have him provide a sworn deposition, which they will then use as a basis for questioning him when he is called to testify publicly to the committee. The perjury trap, you see.

Everybody on Capitol Hill knows how this game is played: You get the witnesses on record, under oath, in a private deposition and, if you then think you can prove that they’ve lied in their deposition, you call them up in a public hearing and confront them with the evidence, citing their deposition and pointing out the discrepancy between what they previously said under oath, demanding that they tell the truth now.

This kind of thing provides headline-making drama, and quite naturally, Hunter Biden doesn’t want to be part of it, so he is . . . Well, he’s defying a subpoena in contempt of Congress, is what he’s doing. But whereas CNN would be in 24/7 BREAKING NEWS mode if anyone connected to Trump had done this, they treated it as if complying with a congressional subpoena is optional when the Republicans are in charge.

The Republicans in charge are very serious:

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) made the following statement after Hunter Biden failed to appear for his deposition:
“Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings. We will not provide special treatment because his last name is Biden. As our committees were today prepared to depose Hunter Biden, he chose to make a public statement on Capitol Hill instead where he said his father, Joe Biden was not financially involved in his family’s business dealings. Exactly how was Joe Biden involved? Evidence shows Joe Biden met with Hunter’s business associates and his name was at the center of the family business strategy.
“Today, the House will vote on an impeachment inquiry resolution to strengthen our legal case in the courts as we face obstruction from the White House and witnesses. Today’s obstruction by Hunter Biden reinforces the need for a formal vote. President Biden and his family must be held accountable for their corruption and obstruction. And we will provide that to the American people.”
A deposition is a standard investigative procedure used by attorneys and congressional investigators. Democrats have used depositions in their investigations, including the Adam Schiff impeachment inquiry. Even Jamie Raskin emphasized the importance of depositions.

Have we forgotten what happened when Steve Bannon didn’t want to comply with the J6 Committee’s subpoena? Anyway, I owe Ace of Spades some serious hat-tipping for this, so go read his reaction.

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In The Mailbox: 12.13.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | December 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.13.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Blackpilled or realistic?

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: U.S. Students’ Math Scores Fall To An All-Time Low
EBL: Shane MacGowan’s Funeral
Twitchy: Hunter Biden Plays The Victim Card, The Left Ruins Everything – Updated Lyrics For “Baby It’s Cold Outside” Are Absolute Cringe, and What’s Going On In Wuville? Boston’s Mayor Holds “Electeds Of Color” Party, No Whites Invited
Louder With Crowder: ‘Go Get Him Santa!’: Enjoy Santa Claus suplexing a car thief with the help of a gun-toting elf, also, Watch: This “proud lesbian” candidate accuses HER opponent of transphobia, dog-whistling, and gaslighting
Vox Popoli: Anger is the Tell, also, The War on Christmas 2023
Gab News: Building Based AI & Redefining The AI Landscape For The Glory Of God

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: National Archives [Finally] to Grant Comer Access to 1,700 Biden Emails
American Thinker: Two Weeks That Changed America, also, Bidenflation Right Before Your Eyes
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mammalian Reality News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship may have turned in their own U.S. ambassador spy to the FBI, Reports from Cuba: ‘Sleeper’ Cuban Communist Party members using humanitarian parole to come to the U.S., and Human Rights Day in Cuba: Surveillance, internet cut-offs, and arrests
Behind The Black: Voyager-1 has computer issues, The Polaris Dawn private space mission now targeting an April ’24 launch, and Red Chinese pseudo-company successfully completes second rocket vertical take-off and landing
CDR Salamander: Reading The NDAA Tealeaves Part II: Electric Boogaloo
Da Tech Guy: Saving higher education
Dana Loesch: Three Problems On The Right
Don Surber: Whiny NBC Upset With Trump Video
Gates Of Vienna: Which Will It Be, Boiling or Freezing? Hamas and the Annihilation of the Jews, Digital Dystopia, and “Brussels is Simply Blind and Deaf”
The Geller Report: Congress Stops NewsGuard, also, Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, The Solar Wind and Mars
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan: ‘There’s No Way You Could Make South Park Today’
Legal Insurrection: Columbia University Students Organizing ‘Tuition Strike’ to Force School to Divest From Israel, Kent State University Rebrands DEI Efforts as Ohio Lawmakers Debate Banning it Outright, Harvard Board Reaffirms ‘Support for President Gay’s Continued Leadership’, More Than 40 Anti-Israel Students Arrested at Brown University Following ‘Sit-in’ at University Hall, and Former Mullah Regime Official Now Oberlin “Professor of Peace” Put On Indefinite Leave
Nebraska Energy Observer: THE interview!
Outkick: University Of Colorado Offers New Course Inspired By Deion Sanders, Florida Attorney General Launches Antitrust Investigation Into College Football Playoff Committee’s Exclusion Of Florida State, Sports Illustrated Publisher Fires CEO After Posting AI Content By Fake Authors, and Dodgers Required To Sign More Players Thanks To Ohtani Contract
Power Line: Gay plagiarist, also, Kissinger versus Blinken
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Renews Call For Fed Chair Powell’s Resignation, Citing “Failed Leadership”
Shot In The Dark: Never Again -> Probably Soon, also, A Pattern
The Political Hat: First Amendment Activities
This Ain’t Hell: They did/said WHAT?
Victory Girls: Plagiarism? No Biggie As Harvard’s Gay Gets To Keep Job
Volokh Conspiracy: The House of Representatives Needs to Open An Impeachment Inquiry Into President Joe Biden
Watts Up With That: “COP28’s Fossil Fuel Phaseout: A Comedy of Errors”
The Federalist: Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges As Central Figure In Foreign Cash Deals, Missouri Investigates Media Matters For Fraudulently Fundraising Off Of Efforts To Demonetize Free Speech, Why Do American Universities Tolerate Antisemitism But Not Dissent? Report: U.S. Government Gave $1.89 Billion To Abortion Businesses Like Planned Parenthood, and Ranked-Choice Voting Proponents Are Lying To Wisconsin Voters To Hide The System’s Flaws

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In The Mailbox: 12.12.23

Posted on | December 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.12.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Tomorrow imma put on some chillwave and get caught up…

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Holiday seasoning recommendation for the lamestream media.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How’s That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?
EBL: Bookie, Love on Harbor Island, Godzilla Minus One, and David Drake, RIP
Twitchy: Turkish MP Claims Israel Suffering “The Wrath of Allah” – YHWH Has Immediate Response, Harvard Crimson Blasts Board For Cowardly Defense Of Plagiarist Prez Gay, and Rumble Suing Media Matters Operatives For Trying To Silence The Right
Louder With Crowder: “We need people to be mavericks”: Alex Jones GOES OFF on his return to Twitter/X, Tennis star Novak Djokovic speaks out on vaccine controversy: “I was declared a villain of the world”, and ‘You done lost your mind’: Video captures moment porch pirate discovers the homeowner is home… and strapped
Vox Popoli: RIP David Drake, Total Domination, Taleb Admits the Obvious, Off the Record, and The Three Stages of Social Maturity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The End of the Pig
American Conservative: Harvard Cancels Congressman Who Mocked Harvard Cancellations, also, What Will Happen in the Second Trump Term?
American Greatness: Not ‘Trump the Dictator’ Again, also, What are Universities For?
American Thinker: Climate and COVID – Making It Up As They Go Along, Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest, and If Global Warmists Are Going to Panic about Something
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Milei speaks and Argentina waits, The ‘Latin’ (aka Latrine) Left: Nothing but class (watch the hand), and Cuban Christmas cuisine for the holidays
BattleSwarm: Gun-Banning NM Governor Smacked Down Again, also, Occidental Makes $12 Billion Bet On Shale (Plus Texas Conservative Political Implications)
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 2D rocket launches classified remote sensing satellite, Webb takes infrared false-color image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, Craters in a row, and Galaxies in a row
Cafe Hayek: On Home Schooling
CDR Salamander: Reading The NDAA Tealeaves
Chicago Boyz: Antisemitism
Da Tech Guy: Varoom! Varoom! Review: Radical Wolfe, also, Déjà vu Israel vs Hamas 2012 vs 2023
Don Surber: FAFO War Update
First Street Journal: Well, of course he doesn’t!
Gates Of Vienna: The AfD is Officially Deplorable in Saxony, The Puir Wee Afghan Bairns Arrive in Leipzig, Peace on Earth, But Not Just Yet, Color Blind Crime Reporting, The Cultural Enrichment of Krampus in South Tyrol, and Violent Attacks by Migrants on the Southern Border of Hungary
The Geller Report: Harvard President Plagiarized Her Dissertation, Soros Org Cut $250,000 Check to Antisemitic ‘Charity” Accused of Hamas-Terror Ties, Hamas Wows ‘Worse and Greater’Islamic Terror Attacks in Chilling New Threat After Warning Hostages Will Be Executed Unless Their Demands Are Met, and Israeli Defence Minister blasts ‘Hamas propaganda’ at universities and reveals Israel has helped thwart HUNDREDS of terror attacks in Britain and Europe in recent years
Glenn Reynolds: A Small Signifier
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Solar Minimum v. Solar Maximum, Weather Report, and Facts v. Myths
Hollywood In Toto: SNL Goes ‘Republicans Pounce’ Route on Ivy League Presidents, Ryan Long: Comic Truths Without a Filter, and 22 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2024 (or 2025?)
The Lid: Democrats Shouldn’t Be Surprised Young Leftists Are Anti-Israel, also, Comic Store Owner Taking Heat for Saying Woke Comics Writers Hate Comics Characters
Legal Insurrection: Connecticut: Pro-Hamas Yale Student Raises Palestinian Flag On Menorah, Harvard University President Claudine Gay Facing Plagiarism Allegations, U. Michigan Prof Thinks Asking Black Students to Write in Standard English is ‘Anti-Black Linguistic Racism’, University of Wisconsin Regents Would Rather Lose $800 Million of Funding Than Submit to DEI Reforms, and California’s Latest Woke Mandate: Stores Must Have Sections for “Gender-Neutral Toys”
Nebraska Energy Observer: A View from the Trenches
Outkick: Giants Hero Tommy ‘Cutlets’ DeVito Stuns With Clutch Final Drive To Beat The Packers, Joe Burrow Treated Backup QB Jake Browning’s Family To Suite For Bengals Game, Mahomes, Reid Likely To Be Fined After Chiefs Blame NFL Officials For ‘Embarrassing’ Call That Was Ultimately Correct, Mike Tomlin Wants A D*mn Break From Steelers WR George Pickens’ On-Field Tirades, Los Angeles Dodgers Will Get Shohei Ohtani For A Paltry $2 Million A Year Thanks To Some Incredible Financial Finessing, and Bill Belichick Was Peppered With Taylor Swift Questions And Could Not Have Been Less Interested
Power Line: Global Warming: What Can’t It Do? Marching For Genocide, and Morality: Now a Partisan Issue
Shark Tank: Florida Republican Supports Outlawing Citizens Arrests
Shot In The Dark: The Company You Keep, also, As Predicted Here
The Political Hat: German Government Supporting The Teaching Of Incest Kinks To Young Queers
This Ain’t Hell: The US announces joint military flight drills in Guyana in response to Venezuelan referendum, MLK home arson suspect is “decorated US Navy veteran”, Wrong line of work, H-town, Army-Navy game, and Iran Refinery Fire
Transterrestrial Musings: The Rotten Core Of College Campuses, also, Not Dead Yet
Victory Girls: Young Americans Believe The Holocaust Is A Myth
Volokh Conspiracy: Law Enforcement Officers Are Part of “the People,” Not Above Them, also, The Rotten Core Of College Campuses
Watts Up With That: Russia Reels From -60°C Cold Blast… And Munich Breaks December Snow Record, Al Gore’s Tiresome Crusade: So Long, So Wrong, and CNN: ‘It’s time to limit how often we can travel abroad – ‘Carbon Passports’ may be the answer’
The Federalist: Democrats Propose Solving Their Military Recruitment Crisis With Illegal Aliens, University Of Wisconsin Rejects Pay Raises From State In Favor Of Recruiting DEI Hires Like This Twerking ‘Professor’, Instead Of Fixing Welfare, Biden Admin Targets Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Poll: At 48 Percent, Growing Plurality Of Americans Say U.S. Spends ‘Too Much’ On Ukraine Proxy War, No, Norman Lear’s Career Doesn’t Need ‘Problematic’ Qualifiers, and Speaker Mike Johnson Colludes With Democrats To Raid Medicare
Mark Steyn: Santa’s Got a Brand New Cough, also, As Ye Give, So Shall Ye Receive

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Save The Republic

Posted on | December 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Save The Republic

by Smitty

via PowerLine:

21% of Likely U.S. voters who voted by absentee or mail-in ballot in the 2020 election say they filled out a ballot, in part or in full, on behalf of a friend or family member, such as a spouse or child

Voting assistance is perfectly legal at the polling place, with a consent form, in Virginia.

The reason is security: everyone should be marking their own ballot secretly, unless the explicitly request support.

The bulk of those screaming about getting more ballots into more hands seem to have scant regard for security. Nefarious purpose? You be the judge.

I don’t hear too many nominally “conservative” voices arguing for election reform, with a paper ballot on a designated Election Day, and substantive audits to keep everything genteel.

Possibly there is a reason for that.

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David Drake, RIP

Posted on | December 12, 2023 | Comments Off on David Drake, RIP

— by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

David Drake, 9/24/1945-12/10/2023

Has it really been two years since I posted this? I guess it has. Twitter has had a fair chunk of tweets over the last day or two devoted to mourning David Drake, whose impact on science fiction, fantasy, and horror cannot be overstated. There is a wealth of autobiographical information and occasional comments on his writing at his website, which I cannot recommend highly enough. The various pages devoted to Dave and his works on TVTropes.org are also worth reading, though I warn you that they’re loaded with spoilers.

My connection with Dave started when I was in high school in the late 1970s, reading the collection of Galaxy I’d been gifted by the school librarians, and discovering “Under The Hammer” and “But Loyal To His Own”. I wrote him some letters, to which he politely replied, and I kept an eye out as he began to become a Big Name in Baen’s stable of authors. A few years later, I joined the Army, and as most of you know, managed to wangle an assignment to the 340th ASA Company of the 11th ACR. This was not, strictly speaking, the same company Drake had been in during Vietnam, but it carried the lineage of that MI detachment, and when we finally met years later at Arcana, he was pleased that we had that connection. With the exception of his Cthulhu mythos stories (which were arguably more horror than fantasy) I was never that interested in his fantasy novels, but I read and/or bought just about every SF story he ever wrote. As others can testify, he was a fine writer, a great guest at conventions, and a wonderful human being. Not an officer, but definitely a gentleman, and a good friend, as Sarah Hoyt attests on her blog. We had hoped to have him as our Guest of Honor at the upcoming Son of Silvercon II, but as Stacie Collins reminds us, “You wanna hear God laugh? Tell him about your plans!”

See you at Fiddler’s Green, sir.

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In The Mailbox: 12.11.23 (Weakened Warrior Edition)

Posted on | December 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.11.23 (Weakened Warrior Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

There was a lot of good stuff posted late last week, and the idea of trying to pack it all into tonight’s link dump makes me want to go lay down for the rest of the day with some Benadryl and Ranks of Bronze (which if you haven’t read it, you really ought to) until the pain goes away. So here’s an assortment of interesting leftovers.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Cost To Repair EVs? If You Have To Ask, You Can’t Afford It,
Louder With Crowder: It’s on! Elon Musk calls for Bob Iger to be yeeted from Disney: “He should be fired immediately”, Vegan Restaurants Are Putting Meat On The Menu Because Lack Of Meat Leaves Them Too, And I Quote, “Exhausted”, Alex Jones returning to Twitter? It sure sounds like that’s what Elon Musk just confirmed, and Watch: Adult male goes berzerk in McDonald’s when they left Pokemon cards out of his Happy Meal, then punches get thrown
Vox Popoli: It’s Official, The USN is Now Obsolete, The Pulse of Fandom, The Geostrategic Initiative is Gone, Taxing Imaginary Money, and Black Doctor Who
According To Hoyt: Nature, Tooth, Claw And All, Keep Your Hair On, and Stars In Their Eyes
Monster Hunter Nation: Down These Mean Streets
Stoic Observations: St. George Revisited, The Policy Excuse,
Jon Del Arroz: The Comic Industry’s Toxic Whisper Network Exposed
Gab News: The Parallel Economy Business Directory

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Church Militant?
American Conservative: Nimarata the Piñata, Tyranny Comes to Main Street, and Christmas Blessings from Garrison Keillor
American Greatness: How Were the Universities Lost? The ‘Why’ is Now Obvious, Hunter Biden Says He’s a Victim of ‘Conspiracy Theories,’ Russian Disinfo; GOP Trying to ‘Kill’ Him to Destroy His Father, and The Liberal Media’s Desperate New ‘Trump Will be a Dictator’ Narrative
American Thinker: Joe Biden Meets the Gestapo, America’s Destructive Education System, Prepared Transcript Of Joe Biden’s Speech To The Nation About Antisemitism (Satire), and When Public Distrust of the FBI Comes Home to Roost
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fake Meat News
Babalu Blog: The Cuban coffee transformation, Catholic bishops denounce suffering caused by Cuban dictatorship in their Christmas message, While the communist elite 1% live grand in Cuba, 99% suffer through a historic economic crisis, and Cuban military’s business arm looted $70 billion from healthcare system
BattleSwarm: Suspect In Six Murders Out On Bail Thanks To Soros-Backed Group, LinkSwarm for December 8, and Bret Weinstein Talks Elon Musk On Dave Rubin: Fighting Censorship And The Lone Wolf Problem
Behind The Black: SpaceX initiates new round to obtain from $500 to $750 million in additional private investment capital, NASA to allow bidders on de-orbiting ISS to work under cost-plus contracts, ULA likely to delay first Vulcan launch to January launch window, Red China launches three satellites using methane-fueled rocket, Americans might finally be noticing the depravity in academia that has existed for more than two decades, and Today’s blacklisted American: The University of Washington proudly says “no whites need apply!”
Cafe Hayek: Unrealized Gains Aren’t Income, More on Income, and Defending Globalization
CDR Salamander: The Salamander Seminar With The Canary Group, Fullbore Friday, and Where Is The “International” In “International Order”?
Chicago Boyz: Reprise Post: Sunday Morning at the End of the World, also, Weimar Germany, 1918-1933…and the USA in the Present Era
Da Tech Guy: Four Reasons Why Nobody Should Be Surprised at Gay, Kornbluth and Magill Answers under Oath, The Biden Regime is now using the FBI to target Traditionalist Catholics, CAIR: What Are You Going to Believe, Me or Your Own Eyes? The BBC Chibnall / Davies BBC Doctor Who Completely Explained In Under A Minute, The Navy finally embraced warfighting, and Doctor Who The Giggle Review (Spoilers near the end)
Don Surber: What I Would Ask The Donald, Nikki Foolishly Attacks Social Security,
First Street Journal: Aren’t our universities supposed to be institutions supporting Western civilization?, also, Journolist Linda Blackford needs to get out more often
Gates Of Vienna: No Cabinet Wilders, Girls Just Wanna Have Hijab, Ban the AfD! No Christmas Jihad This Year? Sympathy for the Devil — HAMAS, and Russia Floods Africa With Free Grain
The Geller Report: Hitler Youth: Employees at Farley’s Coffee House Refuse to Let Jewish Woman Use the Restroom, The End Is Nigh: Hamas Operatives Surrender in “Large Numbers’, WATCH: OVER HALF A MILLION MIGRANTS Caught Crossing Border since October, Over 10K Per Day this Week – All Single, Males, Fit, Military Age, and Red Cross Reprimanded Hostage Families: ‘Think about the Palestinians’
Glenn Reynolds: Reverse Speech Codes Aren’t The Answer
Hogewash: Christmas And Hanukkah, Diffraction Spikes, From Our National Newspaper of Record, Democracy Dies In Derpness™, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Feminist Frankenstein: Poor Things Packs Big Laughs, Bigger Messages, Is Hollywood Waking up to the Horrors of Cancel Culture? Will Ferrell: ‘Isn’t It Just Time for Women to Run the Planet? and Film Critic Brags She Won’t Watch Lady Ballers (then Deletes Tweet)
The Lid: IL Sen. Dick Durbin Wants to Put Illegals in the U.S. Military — Gee, Who’s He Want to Send That Army After? also, The True Story And Meaning Of The Hanukkah Holiday
Legal Insurrection: Kathy Hochul Warns New York Colleges and Universities to Address Anti-Semitism on Campus, Hamas Murders Israeli Hostage Sahar Baruch, Displays Mutilated Body in Propaganda Video, Appeals Court Strikes Down Major Portions of New York State Gun Carry Law, But Allows “Sensitive” Places Restrictions, California’s Budget Deficit Hits Record $68 Billion as Tax Revenue Falls, and Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy Endorses Trump for 2024, Would Consider Working in His Administration
Nebraska Energy Observer: Hear ye! Scattershot Friday, Saturday – just for you, and Vocation
Outkick: Saquon Barkley Helped Raise An Unbelievable $1.3 Million To Help The Homeless, Thanks To A Sleep Out At MetLife Stadium, Jayden Daniels Wins Heisman, And That’s No Surprise To Herm Edwards – His Coach From His Days At Arizona State, Lakers Won NBA’s In-Season Tournament And No One Knew How To Act, Suns DJ Hilariously Trolls Steve Kerr By Sampling His Complaints About Loud Music, and Navy Dad Surprises Family At Tennessee Basketball Game After Returning From Deployment
Power Line: CAIR Applauds Massacre of Jews, “Harvard Hates Jews”, Joe Biden Is Orders of Magnitude Dumber Than a Normal President, The Red Cross Takes a Side, and Cancel George Washington?
Shark Tank: Top House Democrat Embraces CAIR Florida After It Condemned Israel & Praised Hamas On 10/7
Shot In The Dark: Saint Small, December 8 1980, Who Doesn’t Love A Happy Ending? Anniversary, and Your Public Media Money at Work
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Killing Kids: Killing Mature Minors; Killing Infants; The One Who Got Away, also, Firing Line Friday: The Economic Lot of Minorities
This Ain’t Hell: P-8A recovered, Oil, and Gold Bars, Sarah Cavanaugh, who posed as Marine with cancer, now eligible for reduced sentence, V-22 Ospreys Grounded, Valor Friday, Pearl Harbor revisited, Hamm Sentenced to 11 Years for Stolen Valor and Fraud, The US Military is in talks regarding escorting commercial ships in the Red Sea, and Hamas v. Israel, tunnel chapter
Transterrestrial Musings: The U.S. Air Force, Hunter Biden, Advocating For Genocide, Heart Regeneration, and Learning The Lessons From The Thirties
Victory Girls: Pearl Harbor, 82 Years Later: What Do The Kids Know? Republicans Hate Matt Gaetz, Want Him Out, Scam Czar John Kerry And The War On Humanity, and Stefanik Wins The Argument And SNL Can’t Deal With It
Volokh Conspiracy: Is Support for “From the River to the Sea” Based Upon Ignorance?, also, New Survey Showing Public Ignorance About the Holocaust Among Young Americans
Watts Up With That: Despite hand-wringing about Churchill polar bears this year, 2023 wasn’t their worst summer, Net Zero’s dirty secret: Britain’s green transition is powered by Chinese coal, Saving Santa Catalina, Predictably, the Rush to Electric Cars Is Imploding, and The Case Against Offshore Wind
The Federalist: Jim Jordan To CIA: How Many Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Signatories Were On Your Payroll? Top Democrat Comms Director Deletes Tweet Mocking Concerns About Trans Ideology, Election Integrity, ‘Negotiated’ Defense Bill Lets Leftists Keep Using The Military To Push Abortion, DEI, And Trans Agendas, The Definitive Answer To ‘Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?’ and What The Outcome Of Taiwan’s Presidential Election Could Mean For Cross-Strait Relations
Mark Steyn: Goodness, Light, and Candles, Trapped by the Night: Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows, The Known Unknowns, and Merry Britmas!

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Rule 5 Sunday: For The Fallen

Posted on | December 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: For The Fallen

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I will advert to you that I am not really in the mood to do this post tonight, as I have been informed that one of my favorite SF authors, David Drake, has died. Still, if he taught me nothing else, he taught me that when you have a job to do, you do it – no bullshit or excuses accepted. I’ll post more about him tomorrow, I think, but in the meantime I think I’ll post something Christmas-themed instead.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

A beloved death goddess comes bringing gifts!

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Outcomes Of Barbarity Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Ryan O’Neal RIP, Fraser 2023, MAGA Post GOP Debate, Women of Pearl Harbor, Beacon 23, The Buccaneers, Virginia O’Brien, Terrific Taco Tuesday, Willa Fitzgerald, Strange Angel, Eva Vlaardingerbroek on Geert Wilders

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Kindly Myers, Fish Pic Friday – Ashleigh Stade, Two Views on Striped Bass, Thursday Tanlines, Good News, Bad News on Bay Hypoxia, Some Wednesday Wetness, Numb, Comer Readies Impeachment Inquiry, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Joe Biden’s Very Bad Report Card and Palm Sunday.

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for December 8th

AVERAGE BUBBA: Rule 5 Friday – Gun-Toting Girl Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Dune

Posted on | December 11, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Dune

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the lack of posting in the latter half of the week. For no good reason I can think of, I got very little sleep before having to drive to Las Vegas for a pulmonary appointment Thursday afternoon, and as a result I checked into the Stratosphere around 1700 and promptly went to bed, not waking until 0500 Friday – when I had to check out and dash up to the VA for a series of appointments early in the morning. Refueled at Maverik, grabbed a couple of BBQ pork rib buns (superior to the McRib in a number of ways) and drove back to Tonopah, where once again I went promptly to bed and didn’t get up until 0900 Saturday. Clearly, I’m getting too old for this three/four-hour drive into the flatlands and back. Or maybe I need to stop more often and not try to push straight through.
The Senators had a perfectly .500 week, losing two out of three to the Dodgers, but taking two out of three from the Red Sox under Robot Ted Williams, since I was too tired to manage. The sole win against the Dodgers went to Juan Marichal (his 23rd) while Jim Kaat and Pat Dobson (14th & 15th wins) got the W’s against the Sox.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.