GOOD NEWS from Chicago!

Posted on | January 5, 2023 | Comments Off on GOOD NEWS from Chicago!

Given the unrelenting grimness of the city’s crime wave — 735 people were murdered in Chicago last year, and another 2,937 were wounded by gunfire — it’s not often we hear anything positive, hopeful and uplifting from Cook County, but here’s a reason to smile:

A carjacker was killed in the Loop on Thursday evening when the victim fought back, accelerated her car, and slammed into a beam that supports the L tracks, Chicago police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the deceased man as 18-year-old Elijah Treadwell of Uptown.
Treadwell and a 16-year-old female accomplice entered an Infiniti FX35 in the 100 block of East Lake and tried to carjack a woman around 5:42 p.m., officials said. A struggle ensued, and the victim’s car accelerated into the L support column near Wabash Avenue, trapping the victim and both offenders inside, police said.
Chicago Fire Department workers extracted everyone and took them to hospitals. Treadwell was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The female and the victim have both been stabilized, according to the fire department.

"Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights."
— Inspector Harry Callahan https://t.co/M0cdQLAIf6 pic.twitter.com/a2wEjDvd4I

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 5, 2023

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Twitter Files Reveal Hillary Clinton — Of Course! — Was Behind Censorship Push

Posted on | January 5, 2023 | Comments Off on Twitter Files Reveal Hillary Clinton — Of Course! — Was Behind Censorship Push

The major media have deliberately ignored the revelations about Twitter censorship that have been drip, drip, dripping out the past few weeks in a series called the #TwitterFiles because, of course, the media fully endorsed the censorship regime that existed before Elon Musk bought the company. If you’re in the business of selling a particular narrative — a generally pro-Democrat “progressive” view of the world — then it is in your interest to shut down competing voices that provide information contradicting that narrative. This is why so many “journalists” endorse advertising boycotts against talk radio, Fox News, etc. The mainstream media are losing their audience — does anyone watch CNN anymore? — because nobody trusts them, and so the only way they can stay in business is to try to silence alternative media. Anyway . . .

In Tuesday’s #TwitterFiles dump, Matt Taibbi went through the story behind how it was that Twitter ended up acting as a de facto arm of the U.S. intelligence community, bombarded by requests from the FBI, CIA, DHS to delete thousands of accounts. The pretext for this censorship was “foreign interference” — RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! — and it was driven by Democratic politicians, including Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, who was then the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and California Rep. Adam Schiff. Remember that this was the excuse Hillary Clinton offered for her 2016 defeat, that Russia somehow “hacked” the election, and this excuse (supported by the phony Steele dossier) became the justification for a special counsel investigation of “Russian collusion” claims that ultimately found no evidence. Have you forgotten all those TV talking heads claiming that “the walls are closing in” on Trump because of Mueller? And then . . . nothing? So this was the environment in October 2017 when Politico published a story with the headline, “Twitter deleted data potentially crucial to Russia probes”:

Federal investigators now believe Twitter was one of Russia’s most potent weapons in its efforts to promote Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, the officials say, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
By creating and deploying armies of automated bots, fake users, catchy hashtags and bogus ad campaigns, unidentified operatives launched recurring waves of pro-Trump and anti-Clinton story lines via Twitter that were either false or greatly exaggerated, the officials said. Many U.S. investigators believe that their best hope for identifying who was behind these operations, how they collaborated with one another and their suspected links to the Kremlin lies buried within the mountains of data accumulated in recent years by Twitter.

Who were these “federal investigators” talking anonymously to Politico? And could someone please find a clear example — never mind “recurring waves,” I’ll settle for one example — of these “story lines” that were supposedly boosted on Twitter by Kremlin bots? But we are supposed to believe that Russian “armies of automated bots” somehow caused Hillary to lose the 2016 election, and never mind the question of how Twitter could have such enormous political impact, where is the evidence that these bots had any real impact even as measured by Twitter clicks?

Day-drinking Hillary, on her third glass of chablis by lunch, may think “armies of automated bots” cheated her out of the White House, but no sober person who knows anything about how social media works could possibly belief such a preposterous claim. How many followers did these Kremlin bots have? How many persuadable “swing” voters did they reach with their “catchy hashtags” and “story lines”? This is all childish make-believe, and as for the idea that “federal investigators” would be wasting time chasing such fictitious bogeymen — did the editors at Politico really take this seriously? Are they day-drinking, too?

Matt Taibbi explains how and when this snipe-hunt got started:

Twitter through the end of August, 2017 was on nobody’s radar as a key actor in the Trump-Russia “foreign influence” scandal.
By the second week in October — six weeks later — the company was being raked over the coals in the press as “one of Russia’s most potent weapons in its efforts to promote Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton,” with Clinton herself adding:
“It’s time for Twitter to stop dragging its heels and live up to the fact that its platform is being used as a tool for cyber-warfare.”
What happened in those six weeks? Answering that question is a key to understanding the content moderation phenomenon. In this period, crucial in the company’s history, a pattern was established. Threats from Congress came first, then a rush of bad headlines (inspired by leaks from congressional committees), and finally a series of moderation demands coming from the outside. Once the company acceded, the cycle repeated.
The documents lay out the scheme. You can see how the Russian cyber-threat was essentially conjured into being, with political and media pressure serving as the engine inflating something Twitter believed was negligible and uncoordinated to massive dimensions.

Among other things, Hillary had just published her campaign memoir, What Happened, in which she (or her ghostwriter) regurgitated these nonsense claims about Russians using Twitter and Facebook to steal the election from her. To promote the book, Hillary went on a nationwide tour and gave numerous media interviews, repeating her claims of “Russian interference,” and Democrats on Capitol Hill were only too happy to jump onto this publicity bandwagon.

Anyway, in 2011, Twitter hired as its vice president of global policy a well-connected Democrat named Colin Crowell, who had been a congressional staffer for Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and is married to the daughter of late Sen. Harris Wofford (D-Pa.). When Democrats on Capitol Hill started making noise about Twitter, Crowell met with them, and produced a memo about the meeting for Twitter executives:

10.“TAKING THEIR CUES FROM HILLARY CLINTON” Crowell added Dems were taking cues from Hillary Clinton, who that week said: “It’s time for Twitter to stop dragging its heels and live up to the fact that its platform is being used as a tool for cyber-warfare.” pic.twitter.com/hLvh9rTNeP

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023

“Democrats also taking cues from Hillary Clinton, who in her ‘What Happened’ book tour is pointedly talking about role of Russian propaganda and dirty tricks that were pushed through social media had in her demise. She has specificially called out [Facebook] ‘and other social media’ for not doing enough to address state-sponsored mischief in the election.”
— Colin Crowell to Jack Dorsey, Sept. 29, 2017

It could not possibly be any clearer. Crowell, whose credentials as a Democratic Party operative are impeccable, had no reason to lie to his boss about this. The whole story of how Twitter became a censorship agent of the federal government, paid more than $3 million for its services in such matters, begins with Hillary’s tactic of blaming Russia — RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! — for her 2016 defeat.

And yet Democrats accuse us of believing “conspiracy theories”!

Category: Conspiracy Theories

In The Mailbox: 01.04.23

Posted on | January 5, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.04.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Gun Controllers Were Wrong Again
EBL: The Menu, also, Who’s The Bigger Dummy?
Twitchy: Surprise! Adam Kinzinger Already Commentator For CNN, also, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) Calls Republicans Opposed to McCarthy “Clowns” & “Terrorists”
Louder With Crowder: ESPN shocks audiences by leading a prayer for Damar Hamlin. Actual prayer. Not just a hashtag, Jordan Peterson shows off that Big Tech drip in his new Twitter suit, complete with an Elon Musk tie, and Speeches by Chip Roy, Matt Gaetz are MUST WATCH to understand why Kevin McCarthy is getting blocked from becoming Speaker
Vox Popoli: NATO Tries to Push the Timetable, Release the Memes, Arkhaven is Inevitable, and They Know and They’re Scared
Gab News: Forget National Politics, Let’s Get To Work – Oue 2023 Vision For Gab & The Parallel Economy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: WaPo Activism Posing As Religion Journalism
American Greatness: Cardiologist Peter McCullough: Damar Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest Likely Due to ‘COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Subclinical Myocarditis’, also, Latest Twitter Files Reveal Adam Schiff’s Collusion with Platform to Censor Opponents
American Thinker: It’s Time to Ask Whether Repeated mRNA Vaccine Shots Weaken the Immune Response to COVID-19, How Is The Uniparty Destroying America? Let Me Count The Ways, and The War in Ukraine has Underscored the Necessity of America Exiting NATO
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: University of Havana website hacked by Anonymous Cuba, Sister of cancer-stricken Cuban boy begs for medical assistance from abroad on social media, and Reports from Cuba: Honey, a profitable profession for Cuban beekeepers – when the state deigns to pay them
BattleSwarm: Zeihan: The Dollar’s Demise As The Global Currency Is Greatly Exaggerated
Behind The Black: Drainage out of a Martian crater, January 4, 2023 Quick space links, and Backlash against MIT’s blacklisting of teacher forces it to adopt Free Speech Resolution
Cafe Hayek: Trade, Tariffs, and Complexity
Da Tech Guy: Barbara Walters: The art of the interview for everyone, Speakers Race Bottom Line: Who can make the best deal?, We’ll Miss Charlie Baker When He’s Gone and a Belated Thanks, and My Speaker Suggestion: Raid a Blue State Minority Leader
Don Surber: Let’s Not Have World War III,
First Street Journal: Lies, damned lies, and statistics, also, Killadelphia: What’s going on with the statistics?
Gates Of Vienna: A Victory in Ontario for the Vaccine-Hesitant, Only the Good Die Young, and Celebrating Hogmanay in Berlin and Saxony
The Geller Report: COVER-UP: Jan 6 Committee Seals All Important VIDEOS and Docs for 50 Years
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Star Fleet’s Paw?, and Slow Blogging Today
Hollywood In Toto: Chazz Palminteri: ‘Art Can’t Be Safe’, also, It’s Official: Joe Rogan Beat Cancel Culture in 2022
The Lid: Temple Mount Controversy-Don’t Blame Itamar Ben Gvir-Blame Moshe Dayan
Legal Insurrection: Idaho Murder Suspect Identified through DNA and Genealogy Databases, Planned Parenthood Supports Hundreds of Pro-Abortion Groups on Campuses, House NeverKevins Defy Trump, Hamline University Under Fire for Not Renewing Art Prof’s Contract for Showing Images of Muhammad, and ProPublica/The Atlantic Investigation of CRT Pushback Focuses on “Something Called the Legal Insurrection Foundation”
Outkick: Shannon Sharpe Returned To Undisputed, Skip Bayless Interrupted Him 30 Seconds In And All Hell Broke Loose, Tailgating Not Allowed In SoFi Stadium Parking Lots Ahead Of CFP National Championship Game, Cowboys Linebacker Micah Parsons Shreds ESPN’s Bart Scott For Tee Higgins Comments, Carson Palmer Talks Damar Hamlin Incident on ‘Fox & Friends’, and Model Emily Ratajkowski Has Bad News For Football Fans
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Another Hump Day Shrapnel Post
Shark Tank: Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro Now Living In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Our Two National Liabilities, also, But Of Course
STUMP: Kentucky Asset Manager Warning: the ESG Brou-Ha-Ha Continues
This Ain’t Hell: Army Reservist pilloried by ATF, Russians blamed attack on their barracks on banned cell phone use, and There are Sharks in the Ocean
Transterrestrial Musings: Dear Restaurants, also, MMT
Victory Girls: Special K Claims Biden Worked On Border Security Since “Day One”, also, Polis Says NIMBY! Ships Illegals To NYC And Chicago
Volokh Conspiracy: Criticism by Public University Professor Isn’t “Under Color of Law,” Can’t Be Unconstitutional Retaliation
Watts Up With That: Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon Mobil, et al. Part 2: RICO-teering, also, WaPo Claims ‘Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence’
Weasel Zippers: WH Spox Can’t Say If Anyone In Biden Admin Actually Believes Border Is “Secure”, MSM Fawns Over “Tough,” “History-Making” Nancy Pelosi, Woke High School Hid Merit Awards From Students To Avoid “Hurt” Feelings, and Ouch: Biden Won’t Represent U.S. At Benedict’s Funeral, Per “Wishes Of The Late Pope”
The Federalist: Why Did Congress Remove Language From The Defense Bill Protecting Military Kids From Trans Insanity?, Kentucky GOP Treasurer Threatens 11 Banks With Divestment For Boycotting Fossil Fuels, Mediocre Copycat Musicians Who Flood Big Tech’s Algorithms Make Music Worse, and Our Ukraine Obsession Is Hanging Taiwan Out To Dry, And The Biden Administration Just Admitted It
Mark Steyn: Here We Go Again

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In The Mailbox: 01.03.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 4, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.03.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Newt Gingrich: Tan, Rested, Ready?, also, So many experts and evironmentalists want to depopulate the planet
Twitchy: Jordan Peterson Told To Submit To Reeducation, also, Rep. Adam Schiff’s Office Had Some Demands For Twitter After “Harassment By QAnon Conspiracists”
Louder With Crowder: NFL star collapses after life-threatening on-field collision – so fans flood his children’s charity with over $3 million, also, The bad boy of making movie popcorn takes the internet by storm because we live in silly times
Vox Popoli: The Ticket, You Say, False Promises, Fake AI, US Already Waging War on Russia, and The Most Likely Scenario

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: My Plan for American Renewal, also, Benedict XVI’s Apocalypse
American Greatness: Dr. Robert Malone Calls For International Tribunal to Investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak, Texas National Guard Places Razor Wire, Other Fortifications Along Southern Border, and Kari Lake Appeals Maricopa County Court’s Ruling In Midterm Election Lawsuit
American Power: Ken Block, Rally Car Racer and Hoonigan Founder, Killed Snowboarding in Utah
American Thinker: The Architecture of Corruption: Why Elon Musk is Justified to Call for the Prosecution of Dr. Anthony Fauci, also, The House Speaker Vote — Embarrassment, Indeed
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Demographics News
Babalu Blog: Happy New Year, you’re under arrest: Cuban dissident Berta Soler detained on the way to Sunday Mass, As Cuba’s Castro dictatorship continues its violent oppression, Canada offers nothing more than words, and Cuban stores sell rationed rum in bottles intended for cooking oil
BattleSwarm: Texas Border Control Update, also, Dear Restaurants: Shove Your Damn QR Codes
Behind The Black: SpaceX starts 2023 with first launch of year, Largest volcanic eruption in years detected on Io, Red China releases first update on status of Yutu-2 since September, and Pushback: Court denies school principal immunity from lawsuit for squelching free speech
Cafe Hayek: Some Racist, That Hutt!
CDR Salamander: Kaplan’s Elegant Decline at 15
Da Tech Guy: Don’t miss the The Catechism in a Year Podcast starting today, Summing up the Transgender Nonsense Succinctly, Report from Louisiana: Dodging Gunfire in Shreveport, and Five Quick Under the Fedora Thoughts
Don Surber: TV’s awful year, First trans execution is today, and Polluting the air to save the planet
First Street Journal: Killington: Lexington sets a new homicide record, also, It’s no wonder newspapers are failing; too many of them are being run as failures!
Gates Of Vienna: The Clever and the Stupid, Giovanni Donzelli: “Someone Will Have to Answer for This”, Sudden and Unexpected, and Wyrd Bið Ful Aræd Germania
The Geller Report: Japan Launches Official Investigation Into Millions of COVID Vaccine Deaths, Died Suddenly: Two NFL Football Players Struck Down On The Same Day, and Opposing McCarthy
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Another Cat Picture on the Web, and They Did It Again
Hollywood In Toto: Man Called Otto Is All Wrong for Hanks…and Us, Will Golden Globes Swap Fun for Oscar-Like Lectures?, and 5 Reasons to Watch Animated Wingfeather Saga
The Lid: Are You A “Thought Criminal?”, also, Israel Should Put An End To Palestinian Diplomatic Terror
Legal Insurrection: McConnell to Host Biden in Kentucky to Promote $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, “Gender ideology is an attack on language, truth, and logic”, NY Times and WaPo Continue Smear Campaign Against Orthodox Jews As Antisemitic Hate Crimes Surge, Migrant Gangs Armed with Fireworks Ambush German Police and Firefighters on New Year’s Eve, and House Adjourns After Kevin McCarthy Fails Three Times to Secure Speaker Position
Nebraska Energy Observer: What a guy!
Outkick: ESPN’s Bart Scott Falsely Accuses Tee Higgins Of Dirty Play That Threatened Damar Hamlin’s Life, Lincoln Riley Wasn’t In A Talkative Mood After Tulane Upset USC, Buffalo Sabres Support Damar Hamlin Before Game Against Washington, ‘LOL USC’ Trending As Trojans Blow Cotton Bowl Against Tulane, and ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky Halts Commentary On Damar Hamlin To Lead Fellow Reporters in Prayer
Shark Tank: Governor DeSantis – Florida Is #1!
Shot In The Dark: Stuck on Marginally Less Stupid, also, Cancel!
The Political Hat: Post-Conservative Right
This Ain’t Hell: McCarthy House election one in a century, also, ‘You are not New Yorkers’
Transterrestrial Musings: Paul Ehrlich, also, Walt Cunningham RIP
Victory Girls: Mark Levin: GOP Boneheads Are The Problem, also, McCarthy Short, House Adjourns Until Tomorrow
Volokh Conspiracy: Can GPT Pass the Multistate Bar Exam?
Watts Up With That: Convicted Climate Activist: “we need … a different form of democracy”, Paul Ehrlich Claims Vindication for his Climate Catastrophe Prediction, and The Pied Piper Has No Clothes
Weasel Zippers: After 41+ Years, 83-Year-Old Outgoing Dem Caucus Leader Steny Hoyer Says He “May” Run Again In 2024, MSNBC Fantasizes About DeSantis Assassinating Trump, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Endorses “Hefty Lawsuits” To Force Social Media Companies To “Do Something”, and Obamacare Architect Tells Americans To Return To Wearing “Really High-Quality Masks”
The Federalist: How These Parents Helped Their Son Reject Transgender Lies And Affirm His Real Identity, Trump Is Wrong About The Efficacy And Resilience Of The Pro-Life Movement, There’s Nothing Wrong With Asking Questions About Damar Hamlin’s Sudden Collapse, and The New House Majority Must Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Mark Steyn: The Mark Steyn Show – live Monday to Thursday!, Diversity, Debt, and Decline, and Masks and Migrants

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In The Mailbox: 01.03.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 3, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.03.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in December. Very much appreciated!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Komi wishes you a happy new year!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Buffalo Blizzard Was Racist, also, Hollywood’s Woke 2022
EBL: Southwest Airlines Back In The Day, Cow, and Pope Benedict, RIP
Twitchy: NYT Brags About Bringing David French On Board, Pointing & Laughing Ensues, also, Taylor Lorenz’ Whining About Spending NYE Alone Goes Hilariously Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk embraces his inner edgelord as he points out how ‘creepy’ Anthony Fauci is, also, Our favorite Waffle House employee shares her version of events and it’s glorious
Vox Popoli: The Coming Big Tech Implosion, Never Wrong, Traffic Report 2022, and The Five Reasons for Failed Fantasy
Stoic Observations: 23, also, On Twitter Seduction
Gab News: The Gab Files – UK Government Demands We Ban A User For “Hatred”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: 2022 – The Year of Clown World
American Conservative: Nord Stream Who?, also, Benedict XVI Has Died
American Greatness: The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship, also, House GOP to Investigate Federal Agencies for Abuse of Power
American Power: Andrew Tate Is Charged With Human Trafficking and Rape in Romania, Note From San Francisco, and The Privatization of Policing
American Thinker: Government by Gimmick Won’t Last, We Must Convince People That The Fascist Far Left Wants To Destroy The US, and Virtue Signaling Denver Mayor Unhappy that He’s Getting What He Asked for
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Nauseating picadillo (ground beef) sold to Cubans is the ultimate ‘mystery meat’, Slide show of the Day: Apartheid food fest for tourists in Cuba, Cuban ‘president’ delivers inspiring New Year’s message: Get ready, 2023 may be even worse, and Judge orders cruise lines to pay $400 million in damages for trafficking in stolen property in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Firefox Bungles Windows List In Update, also, Dave Barry’s 2022 Year In Review
Behind The Black: Sunspot update: The most sunspots since 2014, Hakuto-R successfully completes second mid-course correction, On the radio plus under the weather, and Rocketry went BOOM! in 2022, but in a good way
CDR Salamander: Theranos, FTX, Offsets, and Transformations
Chicago Boyz: New Frontiers in Censorship and Propaganda
Da Tech Guy: Pope Count is Back to one as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at 95 – Five Quick Thoughts, Navy HYT+….keeping mediocrity in 2023, A New Indulgence Calendar for a New Year (Next Month for Benedict), and Teach your kids to lie, blame others, and procrastinate so they will be ready for a career in politics
Don Surber: The Year Of The Fascists, Grooming was never right, New Year resolutions they should make, and Hastert, Boehner and Ryan are why McCarthy is sinking
First Street Journal: Killadelphia -The last update of 2022, How wealthy New Englanders fight #ClimateChange, and Killadelphia: Well, isn’t this interesting?
Gates Of Vienna: Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming, Welcoming the Soldiers of Allah to Austria, Br-r-r-!, and A Fundamental Right to Jihad
The Geller Report: EPIC WOKE FAILURE: NYC’s Electric Garbage Trucks Die In The Cold, Plunge City Into Chaos, New Text and Email Evidence: Pelosi Staff Secretly DECREASED Security at US Capitol for Jan 6 (While Pelosi Organized Film Crew For That Day), and Ray Epps Admits He ‘Orchestrated’ Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’
Hogewash: The Fog of War, An Unmolested Tweet, Tonight’s Sky: January, 2023, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Bardo: False Chronicles Is as Pretentious As It Sounds, Karma Comes for James Cameron & The Avatar Franchise, and Hollywood Reporter Runs Cover for Woke Disney
The Lid: Have Cancer Drugs Warped Putin’s Decision Making?, also, A Harvard President’s Pogrom Warning
Legal Insurrection: Illinois Supreme Court Temporarily Suspends Provision Eliminating Cash Bail, Massachusetts Prof Writes Book Detailing the Problem of ‘Deflective Whiteness’, Restaurant Group’s Lawsuit Temporarily Stops California’s New Fast Food Rules, Eastern Oregon County Sets Vote to Secede, Becoming 12th to Join of “Greater Idaho” Movement, and Democrats May Regret Releasing Trump’s Taxes
Nebraska Energy Observer: Wild West Saturday, First Sunday after Christmas, and The Cycle of History
Outkick: ‘Done Deal’ Jim Harbaugh Leaves Michigan If He Gets NFL Coaching Offer: Report, Mississippi State Honors Mike Leach With New Helmets, A Great View From Tampa’s Pirate Ship, Other Tributes, Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Diagnosed With Throat And Breast Cancer, Jim Harbaugh Teaches Steve Sarkisian How To Behave Like An Adult, and Fans Call For Ryan Day, Who Is 45-6, To Be Fired
Power Line: Environmentalists Are Killing People, The Trump tax returns, Sunday morning coming down, and One of the all time worst political liars
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Happy New Year!
Shark Tank: Florida-Based Farm Share Is #1 Food Bank In America
Shot In The Dark: Pouring Water Next To The Fire,
STUMP: RIP, Pope Emeritus Benedict – Ring Out 2022 with Dies Irae
The Political Hat: Happy New Year!
This Ain’t Hell: Marines to leverage X-ray scanners to measure body fat composition, Another Dark Money post, and Tyranny of the Marketplace
Transterrestrial Musings: EVs, The Covid Cult, and Hallelujah
Victory Girls: Pelosi Reaches Into Taxpayer Pockets On Her Way Out as Speaker, Ray Epps “Orchestrated” January 6, and McCarthy Negotiates With GOP Holdouts
Volokh Conspiracy: US News Makes Beneficial Changes to its Law School Rankings System
Watts Up With That: Daily Mail Turns to Nostradamus for Climate Change Advice, “We Quit”: Extinction Rebellion Announces an End to Disruption, and The Net Zero Road to Nowhere
Weasel Zippers: NC State Broadcaster Suspended Indefinitely For Saying “Illegal Aliens” During Broadcast, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Calls For Regulations On Social Media For “Misinformation, Disinformation”, Maryland Dem: We Don’t Want GOP Investigating Biden’s Botched Afghan Withdrawal, and Kamala Harris Says She Has “Profound Concern” Over “Misinformation And Disinformation” On Twitter
The Federalist: 60 Minutes Exhumes Enviro Cult Leader For A New Round Of Scaremongering, We Can Celebrate Pope Benedict By Keeping ‘Encounter’ And ‘Truth’ At The Center Of Christianity, Despite King Charles’ Globalist Tendencies, His First Christmas Address Embraced England’s Unique Cultural Identity, and How The Finance Regulatory Authority Allegedly Protecting Retail Investors Is Screwing Them Over
Mark Steyn: Fee Fi Fo Fum: Happily Breaking No New Ground with Troll, also, It Was a Very Good Year

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‘Monday Night Football’ Postponed; Buffalo Player Critically Injured

Posted on | January 2, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Monday Night Football’ Postponed; Buffalo Player Critically Injured

Damar Hamlin, a second-year safety for the Buffalo Bills, was rushed to a hospital where he is reported in critical condition after paramedics spent 10 minutes on the field administering CPR.

UPDATE: I was texting with Instapundit right after this happened and he asked, “What kind of hit was it?” And I said, just a bang-bang play, and he got up right after it, but then . . . Boom. He fell over. It reminds me, in a way, of Dale Earnhardt’s fatal crash. When you saw it happen, it didn’t look any worse than a lot of other NASCAR crashes, but it just happened to kill him. And if, as now seems likely, Damar Hamlin doesn’t make it, people will be watching video of this play over and over wondering how or why this particular hit proved to be fatal.

Prayers Up for Damar Hamlin ? pic.twitter.com/JwxiBIWmZA

— Geeks + Gamers (@GeeksGamersCom) January 3, 2023

UPDATE II: The report is that Hamlin had a heartbeat, but wasn’t breathing on his on, and has been “intubated,” as they say. Trying to figure out why this happened is going to be a long process, and some people on Twitter are asking, “Vaccine?” But no, there’s no reason to suspect it’s one of those cases. Something about the hit itself — cerebral hemorrhage? I don’t know. It’s a mystery at this point.

Selfishly, all I can think about is how it’s ruined my usual Monday night routine of falling asleep during the game, not to mention how it might impact the Patriots, who are scheduled to play Buffalo next Sunday with their playoff hopes on the line. On the one hand, Buffalo’s loss of their starting safety would improve the chances of a New England win, but on the other hand, you don’t want it to happen this way, and it’s in poor taste even to mention it. Injuries are just part of the NFL and, of the eight games the Patriots have won this season, seven of them were against teams forced to play backup quarterbacks because of injuries to the starter. Sunday, for example, Miami started the game with Teddy Bridgewater at quarterback because the Dolphins starter, Tua Tagovailoa, was in concussion protocols. Then, in the third quarter, Bridgewater suffered a broken finger, and the Dolphins had to use third-stringer Skylar Thompson, a rookie picked in the seventh round. New England managed to win that game 23-21 and, so what? Injuries happen.

But to have a player killed in a game? As far as I know, it’s never happened in the NFL, and why did it have to happen on Monday night in a key AFC matchup with playoff consequences? My purely selfish attitude toward this situation may be a defense mechanism, a way to cope by avoiding emotional pain. Or maybe I’m just an asshole.

Anyway, let’s pray Damar Hamlin survives and makes a full recovery.

We are all #billsmafia tonight. Prayers for Damar Hamlin? pic.twitter.com/6QwwGnbZZF

— FPLCareless (@fplcareless) January 3, 2023

UPDATE III: Good news?

UPDATE: Damar Hamlin’s vitals are back to normal and they have put him to sleep with a breathing tube in his throat. Doctors will continue to run tests and we will keep you updated ? pic.twitter.com/HuZNF9ucBa

— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) January 3, 2023

So he’s still alive, and by the way, Damar Hamlin had a GoFundMe to raise money to buy toys for children. It’s raised over $700,000 since he got injured. I donated. You should, too.

Category: Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!

Posted on | January 2, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You probably don’t know who Robert McGinnis is, but you almost certainly recognize his art: in addition to drawing the covers for hundreds of action & romance paperbacks for over fifty years, he also created the extremely memorable movie posters for Breakfast At Tiffany’s and Barbarella as well as several James Bond and Matt Helm movies. This is cover art from Ladies Home Journal or possibly the Saturday Evening Post; the Pinterest page didn’t say.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1946, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Alaska Independence Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA – Trump’s Tax Returns, Maureen McGovern, Barbara Walters RIP, The Invitation, Pele RIP, The Recruit, Boxing Day, Sarah McLachlan, The Waitresses, and Kari Lake.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Cate Blanchette, Fish Pic Friday – Ava Bart, Thursday Tanlines, Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Is It Time to Open Presents? and Silent Night

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FMJRA 2.0: New Year’s Eve Edition

Posted on | January 1, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: New Year’s Eve Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, as the Bard once wrote (copying others before him) and while I sympathize with folks who took it in the shorts this year thanks to Bidenflation*, I dasn’t complain too loudly, myself. Despite the year’s miserable beginnings in Provo’s Utah Valley Hospital, I had a really good tax season (my best since 2015 when I left the Washington area for Las Vegas) and the rest of the year was pretty good too. Here’s hoping 2023 is better for everyone.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.