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An Unusual Consensus

Posted on | September 30, 2023 | Comments Off on An Unusual Consensus

Tyson Bagent — remember that name, because some people who know a lot about football agree that he’ll be the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears before this season is over.

Remember what I told you last month about Trey Lance?

In the 2021 NFL draft, five quarterbacks were first-round picks:

1. Trevor Lawrence (Clemson) — Jacksonville Jaguars
2. Zack Wilson (Brigham Young) — New York Jets
3. Trey Lawrence (North Dakota State) — S.F. 49ers
11. Justin Fields (Ohio State) — Chicago Bears
15. Mac Jones (Alabama) — New England Patriots

Being a lifelong Alabama fan, of course I was outraged by the implied disrespect to my boy Mac, who had just led the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and a national championship. Mac had the most passing yards of any college quarterback that season, and set an NCAA record for highest percentage of passes completed (77.4).

Barely three weeks later, the 49ers traded Lance to Dallas in exchange for a fourth-round pick in next year’s draft, vindicating my judgment. As for Zack Wilson, New York Jets legend said he’s “seen enough” of him.

That brings us to the subject of Justin Fields. After three games, the Bears are 0-3, and the former Ohio State quarterback doesn’t look like he belongs in the NFL. Fields may actually be worse than Zack Wilson, which is as about as bad as it gets. Fields has completed 51 of 88 passes (58%) for 526 yards and three touchdowns, and has thrown four interceptions. Meanwhile, Mac Jones — despite playing behind a shoddy patchwork offensive line — has completed 81 of 125 passes (65%) for 748 and five TDs, with two interceptions. There is no question which one is the best quarterback, and it ain’t Justin Fields. Meanwhile . . .

Tyson Bagent, from Martinsburg, West Virginia, attended tiny Shepard University, a Division II school with barely 3,000 students. Six-foot-three and 210 pounds, Bagent broke all the records:

Bagent became the starting quarterback for the Shepherd Rams as a freshman and was named first team All-Mountain East Conference (MEC) after completing 253 of 387 pass attempts for 3,029 yards and 29 touchdowns. He was named second team All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) East, Shepherd’s new athletic conference, after passing for 4,349 yards and 36 touchdowns [as a sophomore]. . . .
In 2021, Bagent passed for 5,000 yards and 53 touchdowns and was named the PSAC East Offensive Player of the Year and won the Harlon Hill Trophy. Bagent also won the Hardman Award as the best amateur athlete in West Virginia. After the season, Bagent entered the NCAA transfer portal and visited West Virginia and Maryland, but ultimately opted to stay at Shepherd for his final season of eligibility.
On December 3, 2022, Bagent broke the record for touchdown passes across all NCAA divisions with 159, in Shepherd’s 48–13 win over IUP during their quarterfinal game. . . .
Bagent participated in the 2023 NFL Combine. He went undrafted but was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2023. He made the Bears’ 53-man roster at the end of the preseason. He was named third on the Bears depth chart to begin the season behind starter Justin Fields and veteran Nathan Peterman.

The veteran backup QB Peterman is only there as an insurance policy, but Chicago fans fell in love with Tyson Bagent who, in three preseason games, completed 20 of 29 passes (69%) for 156 yards. And given how badly Fields has played, I’m not the only expert on football who thinks Bagent is going to be taking over as Chicago’s QB pretty soon:

“If Fields continues to think and not react, they got a guy named Bagent, their rookie that I predict you will be seeing him before the season’s over. Even though I wish Justin Fields the very best, but this kid Bagent — just like [San Francisco’s] Brock Purdy — he’s played a lot of college football at quarterback and he’s ready to be a pro quarterback.”

The source of that prediction? A guy named O.J. Simpson.

The two things that O.J. Simpson knows best are football, and how to get away with murder. So when he says Tyson Bagent’s going to be starting for the Bears? Well, if the prediction fits, Justin Fields quits.

Serves ’em right for not drafting Mac Jones.



 

Category: Football

‘Building a Deeply Inclusive Culture’

Posted on | September 30, 2023 | 2 Comments

This year, Forbes named 26-year-old Pava Lapere to its prestigious “30 Under 30” business leaders. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, LaPere co-founded a successful startup company, EcoMap Technologies, based in Baltimore. Lapere was recently praised by her colleagues:

“Pava was not only the visionary force behind EcoMap but was also a deeply compassionate and dedicated leader. Her untiring commitment to our company, to Baltimore, to amplifying the critical work of ecosystems across the country, and to building a deeply inclusive culture as a leader, friend, and partner set a standard . . .”

Perhaps you noticed the past tense verb, “was.” Because, did I mention — I’m pretty sure I did — that Lapere based her company in Baltimore, where the crime rate is worse than Chicago?

26-Year-Old Tech CEO Dead
Of Blunt Force Trauma —
Police Investigating Homicide

The cause of death was blunt force trauma and also, as it turned out, the kind of “inclusive culture” that makes Baltimore so dangerous.

The 26-year-old tech executive whose body was found on the rooftop of her Baltimore apartment building Monday died of strangulation and blunt force trauma, court documents say.
Pava LaPere was killed Friday [Sept. 22], but authorities didn’t discover her body for at least three days, according to a statement of charges filed in the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City obtained by CNN affiliate WJZ. Her body was found near a brick and a pair of red shoes believed to be LaPere’s, the documents say. The medical examiner’s office determined LaPere suffered trauma to the head, face and body, the documents say.
But even before the CEO was killed, the man suspected of killing her was being tracked by investigators because police believed he was responsible for a rape, arson and attempted murder days earlier, officials said.
The stunning revelations came hours after the suspect, Jason Dean Billingsley, was arrested Wednesday night — ending a frantic manhunt for the convicted sex offender who had a 30-year sentence but was released from prison last year. . . .
Baltimore police believe Billingsley is responsible for an arson, rape and attempted murder that happened September 19 in the 800 block of Edmondson Avenue — about a mile from where LaPere’s body was found days later.
Billingsley is accused of raping and attacking a woman before setting her and her boyfriend on fire, according to a statement of charges document filed in the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City and obtained by CNN affiliate WJZ.
“All indications are that this was not a random act of violence,” Baltimore Acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley said. “We have information to believe that the victims … were targeted by the suspect — that the suspect knew the victims and he went into that location for a criminal reason.”
Investigators started looking for Billingsley, police said.
Police believe three days after the September 19 crimes, LaPere was killed.
“It seems like she was probably murdered on Friday night, and she wasn’t recovered until they reported her missing … on Monday,” Worley said.
Authorities found her body Monday at an apartment building in the 300 block of West Franklin Street. Police said they don’t know of any connection between Billingsley and LaPere, the beloved CEO of EcoMap Technologies.
Billingsley was seen on video following LaPere on the street as she approached the building where she lived and worked, law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told CNN.
The video shows the suspect following LaPere from a distance, but LaPere does not appear to be aware of his presence, according to the sources.
After LaPere entered the lobby where her company offices are located, she appeared to see Billingsley at the front door looking as though he had difficulty getting into the building — as if he had forgotten his keys, the sources said.
LaPere then opened the door for him, and security cameras in the lobby recorded them in conversation, according to the sources.
As LaPere walked toward the elevator, those security cameras show Billingsley following her.
The statement of charges said LaPere and Billingsley were seen on surveillance video getting into the elevator together.
LaPere was killed on the roof, the sources said, and Billingsley is recorded leaving the building about 40 minutes after following her into the elevator.
Billingsley is also seen on video leaving the stairwell of the building and entering the lobby, “scrambling for an exit,” according to the statement of charges. He was seen wiping his hand on his shorts before exiting the building, the court documents say.

So he was acting “as if he had forgotten his keys,” which convinced Johns Hopkins University graduate Pava Lapere to let the convicted sex offender — a fugitive suspect wanted on charges of rape, arson and attempted murder — into her building. Because it’s about a “building a deeply inclusive culture,” see? Virtue-signalling can get you killed.

Slain Baltimore tech CEO wanted
to disrupt industry’s ‘boys network’
Members of Baltimore’s tech scene say
Pava LaPere was committed to social justice.

“She wanted to disrupt the tech industry’s reigning power structure of white men and make way for more women and other people from disadvantaged groups. . . . She studied computer science for three years before switching her major to sociology because, she said, she wanted to use entrepreneurship to solve inequalities in society. . . . EcoMap has committed to a ’50/50%’ goal of employing a staff that is half women and half people of color.” And of course, she was a BLM supporter.

Standing against “systemic racism” is all fine and good, I suppose, up until the moment you die from blunt force trauma because a convicted sex offender, who was sentenced to 30 years, gets out of prison early under a “criminal justice reform” law that gave him “good time” credits:

Police said Billingsley was previously arrested in 2013, 2011, and 2009, and accused of multiple crimes, including sex offense, second-degree assault, and robbery charges.
Records reviewed by Insider show that Billingsley was sentenced in 2015 to 30 years in prison with 16 years suspended after he pleaded guilty to a first-degree sex offense. He is listed on the Maryland sex offender registry as a “tier 3” offender — the most serious classification — and those records show he was released from prison on October 5, 2022.
Bates said that Billingsley had a “violent crime” conviction in 2011 that included a charge of attempted rape and said Billingsley was paroled in October 2022. . . .
However, The Baltimore Banner reported that Maryland Parole Commission Chair David Blumberg said that Billingsley was actually denied parole and instead released on what was described as good-time credits.
A Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services spokesperson told The New York Times that Billingsley was not paroled but released “on mandatory supervision as required by statute.”

The Daily Mail interviewed the victim of Jason Billingsley’s 2013 crime, and you can read her account and decide for yourself if a mere nine years behind bars was sufficient in that case. Liberals have spent years proclaiming that America has a “mass incarceration” problem, demanding that we “defund the police” and stop putting criminals behind bars. Maryland being a Democrat-controlled state (Joe Biden got 65% of the vote in Maryland, including 87% in Baltimore), these kinds of “criminal justice” reforms have been avidly pursued. For example, employers in Maryland are not allowed “to inquire into an applicant’s criminal history” under the state’s so-called “ban-the-box” law.

Here’s the real kicker, though: After Billingsley committed rape, arson and attempted murder on Sept. 19 — three days before Pava Lapere was killed — police immediately identified him as the suspect, but didn’t warn the public that this violent felon was at large, because “this was not a random act of violence . . . the suspect knew the victims.” It was not until after Lapere’s murder that police determined Billingsley “had committed an act that seemed to be random,” which justified going public with the identity of the suspect. Does that make sense?

Think about “social justice,” and then think about Baltimore.

Do you have any idea how many convicted felons, suspects wanted for violent crimes, are at large in Baltimore? It’s not a small number. So if Baltimore police went public, issuing BOLO (“be on the lookout”) alerts every time they identified a suspect in a case, the local TV news would be running mug shots 24/7. And such publicity probably would not help encourage “building an inclusive culture,” IYKWIMAITYD.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!



 

Category: Crime, Maryland

In The Mailbox: 09.29.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 30, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.29.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Target Gives Up On Blue Cities In The Face Of Organized Retail Theft
EBL: Dianne Feinstein, RIP, An emotional support support alligator to a Phillies game?, and The Canadian prime minister has alienated the largest democracy on Earth and played host to a former Nazi. And that was just this week
Twitchy: Hilarious Art Projected Onto Charleston’s “Toilet Paper Roll” Cell Tower, Stephen Miller Drags WaPoo’s Philip Bump As Only He Can, and Heritage Sues To Find Out If FBI Used SPLC Against Moms For Liberty
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk livestreams from the border since Joe Biden, corporate media don’t have the stones to do so, Riley Gaines smacks the virtue-signaling stupidity out of Occasional Cortex over which party is pro-women, and ‘Please Arrest Him, Lock Him Up:’ Ohio Mom Says She Turns In Son For Car Theft But Police Keep Releasing Him
Vox Popoli: That Escalated Quickly, The Tragic Error, and Sen. Feinstein Dead at 90
According To Hoyt: On Being Americans, Odds and Ends, and Running Midair
Stoic Observations: In Sheep’s Clothing
Jon Del Arroz: Gamergate Grifter Brianna Wu Canceled For Being Not Woke Enough 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Mexican Consul Must Leave
American Greatness: Impeachment Memo: Biden Family Received $15 Million in Foreign Money
American Thinker: What Our Oceans Say about Global Warming, Globalism Must Be Destroyed, and Stick a Fork in Biden – He’s Done!
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Schiff For Brains News, also, Rule Five Flying Illegals Friday
Babalu Blog: The dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua can no longer hide their religious persecution, Putin’s Cuban mercenaries, and Reports from Cuba: Man dies in another partial building collapse in Havana
BattleSwarm: Kowloon City as Rhizome, also, LinkSwarm for September 29
Behind The Black: More than a year after the New Shepard accident, the FAA finally closes its investigation, SpaceX’s military version of Starlink wins $70 million Space Force contract, Orbital Reef partnership between Blue Origin and Sierra Space in trouble, Is this the source of the sand for the giant dune sea that surrounds the Martian North Pole?, California school district blacklists Christian club from elementary school, and Today’s blacklisted American: Coach fired by Vermont school for simply expressing some facts during a civil conversation
Cafe Hayek: Yet More On the Trade Deficit, also, On Economically ‘Absorbing’ Immigrants
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Quote of the Day
Da Tech Guy: Ilia Calderón at last night debate brought back memories, The United States is now a full fledged Police State, and The Biden Administration Economy Explained In Three Sentences
Don Surber: Bring back the chaos, then
First Street Journal: Even in liberal Philadelphia, decent people don’t want the junkies next door! Hold them accountable! The natural result of black anger at a white police officer having charges against him dropped is to destroy black community businesses, and ‘I condemn the rioting and looting, but…”
Gates Of Vienna: Tajik-Ukrainian “Refugees” on Trial in the Netherlands, The Rabbit Done Died, A Leporiphobic Neo-Nazi, Paying for the Invasion, and Open Warfare at the Hungarian Border
The Geller Report: Mini-Mengele Fauci ??Secretly Went to CIA Headquarters to ‘Influence’ COVID Origins Probe, Dianne Feinstein Dead at 90, and Trump says he won’t be participating in any GOP presidential primary debates
Glenn Reynolds: What We Can Learn From Dianne Feinstein
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, New York City’s Fair Share, How to Form a Planet’s Rings?, and The Tarantula Nebula in Radio Wavelengths
Hollywood In Toto: Eve Hewson Radiates Star Power in Flora and Son, How Deliver Us Puts Fresh Spin on Film’s Demonic Baby Boom, Creating New Stories That Don’t Suck, Comic Liar Hasan Minhaj Faces the Music, and Here’s What to Expect When Late Night TV Returns
The Lid: The Very Best Chanukkah Gift
Legal Insurrection: Georgia Federal Judge Rules Racially Discriminatory Contracting Is “Speech and Expression” Protected By 1st Amendment – Emergency Appeal Filed, Report: RFK Jr. Planning To Run For President as Independent – Who Does It Help/Hurt?, Space Force Personnel Chief Walks Back General’s LGBTQ+ Personnel Assignment Policy, Biden Admin Proposes Three Offshore Oil Drilling Leases Through 2029, Student Govt. at High Point U. Trying to Force Student Groups to Have a DEI ‘Chair’, and State Laws Banning ‘Experimental Sex-Change Treatments’ for Children To Remain in Force, Appeals Court Rules
Nebraska Energy Observer: Well … are we surprised? also, Scattershot Friday; Mostly Music
Outkick: Deion Sanders Gets New Whip Before Colorado’s Showdown Against USC, Thanks To Aflac, , OutKick In Boulder: Colorado Fans Flock For $34 Cowboy Hats, Spike Sales At Dispensaries As Deion Effect Spreads, Colin Kaepernick Draws Interest From Canadian Football League, Megan Rapinoe Throws Out First Pitch In Mariners And Fortunately For Her, It Wasn’t As Bad As Her World Cup Penalty Kick, and CBS Yanked Broncos-Bears For Dolphins-Bills After Half The Country Called To Complain
Power Line: After last night, The Daily Chart: More “Racist” Test Results, A Nation of Illegal Immigrants? and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Steube Calls Out Republicans That Want To Fund Hostile Foreign Countries
Shot In The Dark: Who Says, Just A Doggone Minute, Addiction? and Instant Experts
The Political Hat: Death Lust Of The British NHS: Mandatory Death For Adults; Mandatory Death Being Hidden; Mandatory Death For Infants Too, also, Firing Line Friday: Africa and Colonialism
This Ain’t Hell: The U.S. is rebuilding a global maritime spy system in response to increased Chinese capabilities, Defense Secretary Austin’s salary cut to $1 under GOP budget plan, Utilizing Air Force cargo planes to fire at targets, The decommissioning of a Navy ship commissioned in 2017, Veteran kicked out of nursing home to make room for illegal aliens, Well, Bye, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: Scientific American, Orbital Reef, The Ukrainian Gordian Knot, and Youngkin 2024
Victory Girls: No, Mr. Trump, The Debates Should Not Be Cancelled, also, Chicken Little Biden Claims Democracy Falling
Volokh Conspiracy: How Bans on Flavored Vapes Could Increase Teen Smoking
Watts Up With That: Offshore wind is systematically violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act, The six ways renewables increase electricity bills, and Climate Wars Heating Up in Rural Australia
The Federalist: Simone Biles’s Race-Baiting Social Posts Are Ruining Innocent Lives In Ireland, Unearthed Strategic Plan Unveils Army Corps Of Engineers’ Goal To Force DEI Onto Service Members, The Supreme Court Shouldn’t Let Governments Get Away With Impounding Innocent People’s Property, Yes, The Biden Impeachment Hearing Presented Evidence Of Corruption — Lots Of It, Of Course Judge Chutkan Won’t Recuse Herself From Trump’s J6 Case. She Has A Narrative To Prove, Activists Work To Stop New College’s Gains For Students With ‘Misgendering’ Complaint To Feds, and From Staten Island To Eagle Pass, Americans Revolt Over The Border Invasion Biden Invited Into Their Homes
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet, also, Ding Dong, the Dan (Andrews) is Gone

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In The Mailbox: 09.29.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 29, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.29.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

this afternoon’s status

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Belarus Recruiting Women To Fight Against Ukraine, also, If no one watched the GOP Debate ? show, did it even happen?
Twitchy: Victor Shi’s Claim That No Democrat Supports Abortion Until Moment Of Birth Goes Badly Wrong, “BuT ThErE’s No EvIdEnCe!”, and Gov. Hairgel Schooled With Facts & Math After Ugly Dig At Kristi Noem About Gun Violence
Louder With Crowder: Viral Looting Sensation ‘Meatball’ Is All Weepy Eyed After Being Charged With SIX Felonies, Britney Spears Gets Visit From Law Enforcement After This Disturbing Video With Knives, and Neil deGrasse Tyson Loses It During Trans Sports Debate: “I would still be drinking from a segregated water fountain”
Vox Popoli: AI and SSH, There Will Be No Draft, and Confirmation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Don Surber: Telling the truth about multiculturalism

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De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum

Posted on | September 29, 2023 | Comments Off on De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum

The Democratic Party tradition of dying in office can be traced to Franklin Delano Roosevelt who, in 1940, chose to seek reelection for a third term, breaking the two-term precedent set by George Washington. Then in 1944, FDR had the excuse of World War II to seek a fourth term in the White House, even though at that point it was clear that he probably didn’t have much longer to live. True, there have been Republicans who emulated FDR’s example, but in general it’s Democrats who cling to office until they join the choir invisible. We should not therefore use the occasion of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death to criticize her for staying in the Senate long past the point where she was capable of discharging the duties of her office. She was a Democrat, and that’s what Democrats always do, if they can. In the one-party state that is the People’s Republic of California, there was never a chance that Feinstein could have lost to a Republican. The only question now is, which Democrat will succeed her to become the state’s next Senator-for-life.

Heh heh heh heh. Whatever Governor Hairgel does, identity politics is certain to turn the fight for Feinstein’s seat into intra-party warfare.

As I explained a few months ago, it was already rumored that Feinstein, who would have been up for reelection in 2024, would instead retire. Young “progressive” firebrand Rep. Katie Porter was the first to throw her hat in the ring, but black Democrats in California believed they were entitled to Feinstein’s seat. Now the price has come due:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death Friday puts enormous political pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom to pick a successor acceptable to Black Democrats, who are already furious at him for his ideas about a replacement.
After replacing Sen. Kamala Harris, the Senate’s only Black woman, with Sen. Alex Padilla in 2021, Newsom told MSNBC’s Joy Reid that if he had to appoint someone else to the Senate, it would be a Black woman.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, who’s running for Feinstein’s seat next year, would appear to be a logical choice. But Newsom last month said he would name a Black woman on an interim basis to complete Feinstein’s term, which ends in January 2025.
He spoke about his decision on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where moderator Chuck Todd said, “it would be essentially a caretaker—an African American woman?”
Newsom replied, “We hope we never have to make this decision, but I abide by what I’ve said very publicly on a consistent basis. Yes.”
He explained that choosing one of the Democrats running for the full term — Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter are also candidiates — “would be completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is just a matter of months away. I don’t want to tip the balance of that.”
That ignited a political firestorm, as Lee and others protested. “The idea that a Black woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to simply check a box is insulting to countless Black women across this country who have carried the Democratic Party to victory election after election,” she tweeted shortly after Newsom made his comments.

So now we get Adam Schiff and Katie Porter in a racial mud-wrestling match with Barbara Lee, in a state where 40% of the population is Hispanic. Thank you for your excellent timing, Senator Feinstein!



 

Category: California, Democrats

In The Mailbox: 09.27.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.27.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

I did that!

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: How To Resist Pumpkin Spice Season, China Collapse and the Housing Market, and URBAN RETAIL DESERTS (coming soon to a Democrat city near you)
Twitchy: Pillow Talk Screenshot With Matt Gaetz Seems To Prove Cassidy Hutchinson Lied – AGAIN, WaPoo Makes Startling Discovery – Texas Has A Lot Of Guns, and Harry Sisson’s Birthday Wish Goes Hilariously Awry
Louder With Crowder: Colin Kaepernick tries another pathetic attempt at comeback, White Woman Wins Miss Universe Zimbabwe — But Not Everyone Is Happy, and Smug reporter asks Dana White about Christian fighter bringing Bible to cage, didn’t expect Dana’s perfect answer
Vox Popoli: Encoloring the Corpocracy, 5x Risk, and The Last Stage of the US Experiment
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – Sen. Menendez Did Nothing Wrong

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Happy Hundred, Hank, also, In Fight for Democracy, Biden Administration Sides with Autocracy
American Greatness: Report: Dr. Fauci ‘Played a Role’ in the CIA’s Cover-up of COVID-19 Lab-Leak Origins
American Thinker: The Devolution of Zelensky
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cubans fighting for Russia in Ukraine used as cannon fodder, regret signing ‘pact with the devil’, Smithsonian’s Latino Museum was designed to push a Marxist take on Latin America, and 1.6 million tourists visited Cuba in past 8 months, but numbers remain lower than expected
BattleSwarm: Defund The Police + Decriminalize Shoplifting = “Food Deserts”, also, Meta Rips Off The Author And Passes The Savings On To Skynet
Behind The Black: Red China launches classified satellite using its Long March 4C rocket, Three astronauts return to Earth safely, completing 371 day mission, Small group of astronomers call for renaming the Magellanic Clouds, accusing Magellan of racism, India successfully tests upgraded upper stage engine for manned mission, Ingenuity completes 60th flight, sets new speed record, and Today’s blacklisted Americans: Hollywood’s new racist discrimination employment policies which blacklist whites
Cafe Hayek: The Curious Task of Economics
CDR Salamander: No Justice For The Fat Leonard Four
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech…As of This Week, also, Fahrenheit 451
Da Tech Guy: The Time For Choosing Grows Closer For The Left
Dana Loesch: The Second GOP Debate – I Watched It So You Didn’t Have To
Don Surber: LGBT vs. Muslims
First Street Journal: Charges against police officer dismissed, so the Usual Suspects riot
Gates Of Vienna: The Dialectics of the Communist Revolution in North America, New Information on the Natalee Holloway Case, Woke vs. Muslims: Who Will Win? The Accelerating Cultural Enrichment of the Czech Republic, and Integration? Never Heard of the Word!
The Geller Report: Veterans Become HOMELESS After Democrats Give Nursing Home Rooms To Criminal Illegal Aliens
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Tonight’s Panel Discussion, Eta Carinae Grows, and Tonight’s Postmortem
Hollywood In Toto: 5 Reasons an Office Reboot Is a Terrible Idea, Morgan Wallen Leaves Cancel Culture in the Dust, Will Saturday Night Live (Finally) Roast President Biden? and BREAKING: ‘Sound of Freedom’ Team Announces Home Release Dates
The Lid: Maine Schools Calls Police on Dad Who Objected to School Giving His Daughter a Baggie of Antidepressants
Legal Insurrection: Professional Beekeepers Warn That Policies Based on ‘Colony Collapse’ Mania are Hurting Biodiversity, Study Finds Shocking Lack of Proficiency in Math at Baltimore Public Schools, NY State Judge Finds Trump Organizations Repeatedly Provided Fraudulent Valuations To Lenders and Insurers, Missouri AG Sues School Board Over Secret Transgender Bathroom Policy Meetings, Dems Likely To Pick Up Second Alabama Congressional Seat As SCOTUS Refuses To Stop New Map Selection, Report: Top Officials on Biden’s Iran Team Acted Under Directions From Tehran, and Pro-Abortion CUNY Students Protested the Presence of a Catholic Bishop on Campus
Nebraska Energy Observer: Parapet Peeping
Outkick: Dana White Reacts To Fighter Bringing Bible Into Octagon, Travis Kelce’s Ex Implies He’ll Cheat On Taylor Swift, College Football Playoff Management Committee ‘Leaning’ Towards New Format, Native American Group Sues Washington Commanders, Wants ‘Redskins’ Name Back, Colin Kaepernick Petitions New York Jets To Let Him Join Their Practice Squad, and Miami Heat Star Jimmy Butler Reacts To California’s Skyrocketing Gas Prices
Power Line: Europe: Tangled Up In Green, September in the Rage, and No Manifesto Destiny
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds – No Border Security, No Shutdown Deal
Shot In The Dark: The Beatings Will Continue Until The Beat-ee Decides Otherwise, also, Translating DFL To English
The Political Hat: Activist Scholars
This Ain’t Hell: Shutdown threatened, imminent!, U.S. Navy surface drones visit Japan, Three More Accounted For, NORKs to Expel Private King, and A KC-135’s autopilot turned on or off without prompting
Victory Girls: Hunter Biden Wire Transfers Lead To The Big Guy’s Home
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Rejects Claim That Wife Was Civilly Responsible for Her Husband’s Raping Other Women
Watts Up With That: Judge Blocks Biden’s Unlawful Lease Sale Restriction, Wailing Greens: “Tory strategy is now turning net zero into election fodder”, and New Zealand Farmers Fed Up with Extreme Climate Policies
The Federalist: Texas Church Pays To Send Minors Across State Lines For Genital Mutilation Surgery, If The Pentagon Gets Away With Funding Abortion Without A Vote In Congress, It Won’t Stop There, How Trustworthy Are Medical Organizations That Rabidly Support Until-Birth Abortion? Explosive Documents Show DOJ Official Prohibited Agents From Mentioning Joe Biden In Warrant, Regime Attacks On Russell Brand Are A Proxy To Fight Free Speech Rumble, N.Y. Judge Cherry-Picks Lowball Mar-a-Lago Appraisal To Find Trump Guilty Of Inflating Property Values, and West Virginia’s Top Election Official Demands Congress Give DHS An Ultimatum: Fire 2020 Election Meddlers Or No Funding

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In The Mailbox: 09.27.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 27, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.27.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Well, someone has to be the Democrat Party scapegoat, also, The Most Wunderbar Time Of The Year
Twitchy: Schiff’s Rant About Government Shutdown Backfires Bigly,  Pew Poll Examines Ending The Electoral College With Some Surprising Findings, and That’s Some Wicked Side-Eye
Louder With Crowder: Guess what? An alarming number of Democrats think YOU have too much freedom as an American, Law Capping Magazine Capacity Too Extreme For Even California, Gets Struck Down AGAIN By Federal Judge, and Matt Gaetz fact-checks CNN LIVE on air so hard, they rush to go to commercial
Vox Popoli: France Retreats From Africa, Of Games and Civilizations, Literally Taking the Ticket, Green is Innumeracy, The Satanic Morality, and The Legend Will Not Be Cancelled

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: No Surprises Behind the Fake Meat Lobby
American Greatness: Is the Draft Coming Back? American Taxpayer Dollars Subsidizing Ukrainian Small Businesses, and Trump Saddled With Rap That More Accurately Fits A Corrupt Biden
American Thinker: A Look at the Fundamental Hypothesis of Global Warming
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Xenotransplant News
Babalu Blog: A meditation on the sacrilegious travesty at Father Varela’s church in New York, Cuban volleyball player defects in Canada, and Shocking photos released of ‘firebombs’ allegedly tossed at Cuban embassy in Washington
BattleSwarm:
Behind The Black: Bob Smith out at Blue Origin, SpaceX donates used Merlin engine and Falcon 9 grid fin to Smithsonian, A mountain buried by lava on Mars, Lacking funds to build its spacecraft, the VERITAS project team goes to Iceland, and Pushback: Federal court rules against ban of Christian student group by San Jose Unified School District
Cafe Hayek: People Who Worry About the Trade Deficit, also, I Repeat Myself
CDR Salamander: Another Cold War Revival
Da Tech Guy: When the music’s over, also, A great MLB finish (except for the Red Sox and Yanks)
Dana Loesch: Why, Kari Lake? Why?
Don Surber: Foreign aid feeds Senators
Gates Of Vienna: Western Women, Wake Up! Islam Is Not Your Friend, An Enriching Experience on the French Metro, No Place to Lay My Head, and Jihad in Charleroi
The Geller Report: Mayo Clinic Recommends Hydroxychloroquine Be Used to Treat Coronavirus (COVID-19) (Three Years Too Late), also, “Uncharged Co-Conspirators”: Smartmatic Implicated in Massive Bribery Scheme
Hogewash: Sanctuary Cities, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Bipolar Nebula, and Democracy Dies in Derpness™
Hollywood In Toto: The Creator Has an Avatar Problem
The Lid: Documents Show Biden Admin Saw Border Surge Coming — But Did Nothing To Stop It
Legal Insurrection: Uber Offers Free Rides to Temple University Students to Help Them Feel Safe, ‘Total Annihilation’: Hunter Biden Sues Rudy Giuliani for Allegedly ‘Hacking’ His Data, Appeals Court: Texas Board of Regents Members Not Immune From Suit by Prof. Whose First Amendment Rights Allegedly Were Violated, Remembering the Yom Kippur War, 50 Years On, and National Institutes of Health Funds Used for Program Pairing “LGBT Adults With Teens for Online ‘Mentoring’ Without Parental Consent”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Here’s what you do
Outkick: Native American Group Hopes Taylor Swift Can End Chiefs’ Tomahawk Chop, Because Apparently There Are No Other Issues, Oregon’s Dan Lanning Calls Skip Bayless Comments ‘Classless,’ Praises What Deion Sanders Is Doing For College Football, Deion Sanders’ Son Caught On Camera Making Vulgar Remarks Prior To Oregon Loss, Xavien Howard Says Broncos Made ‘Totally Disrespectful’ Decision Not To Pull Russell Wilson In 50-Point Loss, Travis Kelce Merch Sales Skyrocket, And There’s Likely One Group To Thank, and Stephen A. Smith Can’t Stop Talking About His Exes, Skip Bayless And Max Kellerman
Power Line: Why Are Liberals Such Hypocrites? Because “The Rules Don’t Apply to Us”
Shark Tank: With the farm bill looming, Rick Scott addresses Florida’s agriculture problems
Shot In The Dark: Fringe, also, Vicious Cycle – Or Controlled Demolition
The Political Hat: Complete Synthetic Embryos Without Legal Restriction Mean One Thing: Legally Mass Produced Genetically Engineered Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: The Army chooses four companies to build prototypes for robotic combat vehicle, also, Vietnam veteran’s home sold without his knowledge
Transterrestrial Musings: Finally, Conscious Choice, Color Blindness, and SLS Flight Rate
Victory Girls: Looming Government Shutdown 2023
Volokh Conspiracy: Hoover’s “Good Fellows” on the Supreme Court’s Recent and Likely Upcoming Decisions
Watts Up With That: Public Anger at The Hidden Costs of Net Zero Energy Policies, also, “Climate Change killed my family” – or Was it the Badly Managed Local Dams?
The Federalist: If Larry Hogan And Chris Christie Care About The Country, They Should Run For Senate, Not President, Wisconsin Republicans Introduce Measures To Withdraw State From ERIC, Ban ‘Zuckbucks’ In Elections, This Health Care Fight Shows How Conservatives Can Thwart DC Spending Sprees, and No, Gen. Mark Milley Didn’t ‘Protect’ The Constitution From Donald Trump
Mark Steyn: The Dames of Descending Darkness

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In The Mailbox: 09.26.23

Posted on | September 26, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.26.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

How it’s going. 
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Last week in Canada…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Should You Believe Bob Iger?
EBL: Roger Whittaker, RIP, Silo, The Continental, Communists vs. Fascists, and The Covenant
Twitchy: Isn’t This Interesting?  Harry SmollettSisson’s Terrible Bomb Threat Story Gets Even Worse, and Bidenomics Blunder – Poll Shows GOP Has 21-point Edge On Economy
Louder With Crowder: Black mayor says American cities NEED Republican leadership, so he’s becoming one, This TikToker Is Making Big Boobs Great Again, and Travis Kelce sells out, not with Taylor Swift, but by cutting this Pfizer ad for Big Pharma
Vox Popoli: Officially a Thing, Eyes On Always, Should We Cancel Chuck Dixon, Tilting at Windmills, and The History Subscription
Draw & Talk: Comic Drama Births New Creative Outlet
Stoic Observations: The Post-Negro Citizen

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Communist Plot behind The Voice
American Conservative: Yes, Social Media Censorship Is a First Amendment Issue
American Greatness: Is the Left Happy That They Got Their Wish? Biden Regime Gives Christian Family That Fled Germany 15 Years Ago Four Weeks to ‘Self-Deport’, and We Know Exactly What ‘De-Development’ Means
American Thinker: They Want You Dead, Now They’re Just Poking Their Fingers in Our Eyes, and Pull Back the Curtain on False Federal Narratives
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: No more compulsory military service in Cuba! Reports from Cuba: Abandoned for decades, Cuban sugar mill will be converted into ‘tourist complex’, Cubans keep pouring into U.S. through Mexico, up to 184,643 so far this year, and While Cubans suffer food shortages, Castro dictatorship holds a gourmet food festival
BattleSwarm: Ken Paxton On The Forces Behind His Impeachment, Berkeley Retail Shutting Down Just Like San Francisco, and Who Had “Rick Perry, Psychedelic Warrior” on Their 2023 Bingo Card?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites, flying its second booster for a 17th time, OSIRIS-REx Sample from Bennu successfully recovered, Almost all of Mars’ geological mysteries in one spot, SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, and Pushback: Pennsylvania HS students stage walk-out protesting rule allowing boys inside girls’ bathrooms
Cafe Hayek: Responding to Robert Lighthizer
CDR Salamander: SLCM-N? Hard Pass
Chicago Boyz: Revealing
Da Tech Guy: The Less than 1% solution, I’m tired of polishing turds in the Navy, If Then Else Again on AB 957, Droogs’ paradise: Rough first week for the “Purge Law” in Illinois, and Shock Revelation, Men Don’t Buy the Cow When the Milk is Free and other things my parents & grandparents knew
Don Surber: Journalists adopt lefty language
First Street Journal: The failure of big city public schools, Today’s American left really, really hate our individual rights!, and Killadelphia: Turn on, tune in, get dead!
Gates Of Vienna: Here We Go Again, “Non-European Mass Immigration is a Scourge”, The ECJ Says: Let Them All In, and Bloodbath Averted at the Bahnhof
The Geller Report: Staten Islanders Arrested After Peacefully Protesting Buses Carrying Illegal Migrants Being Moved to Residential School, BIDEN: “I’ve directed my team to make a HISTORIC INCREASE in the number of refugees”, Soros Funds Purchase of 22 Papers in Maine, and Cancers Appearing in ‘Ways Never Seen Before’ After Covid Shots, Top Expert Warns
Hogewash: Autumn Begins, Getting Ready for Sunday, Later Today, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: No One Will Save You Crumbles at Worst Possible Time, Howard Stern Banned Adam Carolla for Craziest Reason, Conservatives Can’t Fight Culture Wars Without Doing THIS First, and Free the People Pummels Apple Over Woke Eco Video
The Lid: Illegals From Venezuela Plant Venezuelan Flag on American Soil – Biden Grants 470,000 Work Visas
Legal Insurrection: Administrators Nearly Outnumber Undergrads at Stanford University, FBI Accused of Stealing or Losing Seized Property, Including Cash and Gold Coins Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars, Boston University Launches ‘Inquiry’ Into Ibram Kendi’s Collapsing ‘Anti-Racist’ Think Tank for Possible Mismanagement of Funds, Democratic El Paso Mayor: City at ‘Breaking Point,’ Sends Migrants to Sanctuary Cities, New Mural at UC-Santa Cruz Says ‘Stop Calling Police, Keep Cops Off Campus’, California OK’s Plan to Allow Insurance Companies to Use “Climate Crisis” to Inflate Rates, and Catholic Student Group at U. Minnesota Medical School in Duluth Called ‘Controversial’ for Opposing ‘Gender Affirming Care’ for Minors
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, and The fall of the Republic?
Outkick: Colorado Players Stomp On Oregon Logo After Calling Out Nebraska For Same Thing, Midnight Comes For Deion, Colorado As Oregon Demolishes Buffaloes’ Cinderella Start In Epic Beatdown, Cleveland Guardians Minority Owner Thinks Fans Have Grown To Like Team’s Name, Insane: Ohio State Defeats Notre Dame On 1-yard Run In Final Seconds, Ryan Day Immediately Calls-Out Lou Holtz, Mike Greenberg Says ‘Dumpster Fire’ Bears Are ‘Ruining’ Justin Fields, Taylor Swift Filmed…..Picking Up Trash After Chiefs Game?, and Oktoberfest Waitress Goes Viral For Carrying 13 Beers Weighing A Total Of 65 Pounds
Power Line: Why Won’t Biden Close the Border? No Need to Swim the Rio Grande, POLITIQUEROS? and Kamala’s Latest Whopper
Shark Tank: Franklin Introduces Resolution To Keep USDA From Cutting Off School Lunch Money
Shot In The Dark: Darn Those Authoritarian Republicans, also, Some Questions Are Impossible To Answer
The Political Hat: Nevada GOP Establishment (GOPe) To Most Nevada GOP Voters: Your Voice Shouldn’t Count
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans denied honorable discharges, due to ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ to have their case reviewed, South Korean police officers raid U.S. Army bases, From the Jungles of Vietnam to the Rubble of 9/11 – Man’s Story is Inconsistent, Gotta love it, Suicide hotline botched veteran’s cry for help, Air Force veteran as Miss September 2024 for Pin-Ups for Vets calendar, and Veterans Affairs training video promotes abortion
Transterrestrial Musings: DIE, Spirits Of The Age, Why Our Generals Can’t Think, Costco, and The CLuster B Society
Victory Girls: Menendez: Everyone Is Racist, Now And Forever And The Deletion Of History, and Canada House Speaker Rota Says He Did Nazi That Coming
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Stemming from Parent’s Speech About COVID Policies
Watts Up With That: British PM Announces Net Zero Retreat as King Charles Visits France, Desperate governors beg for offshore wind cost relief, “A Cleverly Staged Hoax”, The Global War on Farming: ‘Net Zero and the American beef industry cannot coexist’, and Values Of Used EVs Plummet, As Dealers Stuck With Unsold Cars
The Federalist: Lawsuit Over Sex-Trafficked Teen Could Stop Schools From Hiding Kids’ Dysphoria, UK Study Finds Puberty Blockers Exacerbated Mental Anguish For Trans-Identified Teens, Polls Show Democrat Campaign Strategy Of Indicting Political Opponents Has Backfired Horrifically, Washington Funds Ukraine Forever War While Our Own Soldiers’ Barracks Rot, Judge In Fulton County Trump Case Reveals How Dangerous This Prosecution Is To Our Country, and Canadian Parliament Gives Standing Ovation To A Literal Nazi While Zelensky Pumps His Fist In Solidarity
Mark Steyn: Behind Enemy Lines: One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Taking the Chief, and Surrendering Christendom

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