‘Who Fought for Ukrainian Independence Against the Russians’ in WWII?
Posted on | September 25, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Who Fought for Ukrainian Independence Against the Russians’ in WWII?

Sometimes the Godwin’s Law jokes write themselves:
Following addresses to the parliament in Ottowa on Friday from both [Canadian Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, the Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota prompted a standing ovation as he honoured a “veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98.”
“His name is Yaroslav Hunka… he is a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service,” Rota continued before a second round of applause.
In the caption of a picture published by the Associated Press showing Zelensky and Trudeau standing and applauding Hunka, the news wire service identified Hunka as a former member of the “First Ukrainian Division in World War II”. The division is also known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a division comprised mostly of Ukrainian volunteers after being established by Nazi Germany in 1943. . . .
In a Ukrainian language post on the blog Combatant News attributed to Hunak, he claimed to have joined the Nazi military division in 1943. The post also featured pictures of himself during the war, including his apparent training by the SS in Munich.
Ivan Katchanovski of the University of Ottowa described the celebration of Hunka as “truly unbelievable” and an “epic scandal“, questioning: “Did anyone in parliament or Zelensky realize that he served in [the] Waffen SS division?”
This is how childishly simple-minded liberals are: Whatever they like is good, and whatever they dislike is evil. During the Cold War, conservatives were willing to tolerate various authoritarians as allies in opposition to Soviet-backed Communist revolutionaries, a doctrine explained by Jeane Kirkpatrick in an influential article, “Dictatorships and Double Standards.” Meanwhile, liberals were stamping their feet and throwing tantrums about “human rights” in Latin America, Africa and other places, where pro-Western governments were in a life-or-death struggle with Moscow-backed terrorists like the murderous Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Liberals were so fascinated with their own rhetoric about “human rights” — an intellectual abstraction — that they were unable to see that Marxist victories in such situations would mean the annihilation of thousands, and whatever “rights” they may have had.
Well, the Cold War ended, and liberals expect us all to forget how wrong they were about everything back then, and now they’ve climbed onto a new hobby horse, where Russia and Putin are the bogeymen, which becomes an excuse to ignore the much greater threat posed by Communist China. And, because they think of the proxy war against Putin as an expression of their moral superiority, liberals are utterly blind to any problems with their friends in Ukraine. So you have the liberals in the Canadian parliament applauding a literal Nazi, and if you object to this . . . Well, you’re a right-wing extremist and probably racist, too.
Rule 5 Monday: Farm Girls
Posted on | September 25, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Monday: Farm Girls
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Fall, the harvest season, is here, and with it thoughts of ladies in overalls.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five WaPo Gets Real Friday, Rule Five Looming Recession Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon (9/16), and this week’s Saturday Gingermageddon.
EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, U.S. Senate House Of Style, Shania Twain, MAGA Michigan, Cassidy Hutchinson, Acapulco Season 2, Foundation Season 2, National Cheeseburger Day, “Breakfast At Tiffany’s”, and Wilderness.
A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: María Pedraza, Merrick in the Mire, Fish Pic Friday – Rionholder, New Florida Pompano Record in MD, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Hunter Emails Contradict Joe’s Denials, Girlfriend, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, and Palm Sunday
FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for September 22
Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!
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FMJRA 2.0: Gewitter
Posted on | September 24, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Gewitter
— compiled by Wombat-socho
A very good week for the Senators as we hosted the Giants and Angels at RFK this week; we won two out of three in each series, getting Juan Marichal his 15th win and Jim Kaat his 9th. This week will be a little tougher since we face the Yankees on Tuesday and the Reds on Friday, but if we can pull a .500 week off, I’ll be happy. Pete’s Brewers have already embraced their fate and are in the process of rebuilding for next year with draft picks.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.
CNN’s Fake ‘Fact Check’
Slow Facts
Small Dead Animals
Flopping Aces
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
The Delusions of Michael Tomasky
The DaleyGator
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
A New ‘Broken Windows’ Discovery? Violence Linked to COVID Relief Fraud
The DaleyGator
Instapundit
357 Magnum
EBL
Is There Any Hope for the Patriots?
EBL
FMJRA 2.0: Nowhere – now here
A View From The Beach
EBL
Rule 5 Sunday: Cowgirl Style
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL
Quashawn, Rashan, and ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ in Polk County
Flappr
357 Magnum
EBL
In The Mailbox: 09.18.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
In The Mailbox: 09.20.23 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Police Officer Survives Shootout
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL
The Toxic Lives and Influence of AWFLs
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL
CNN Ratings Hit Historic Low
357 Magnum
EBL
LOL: ‘Readers Added Context’ to Tweet by David Brooks and It’s Brutally Awesome
357 Magnum
EBL
In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Abbreviated Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Top linkers for the week ending September 23:
- EBL (15)
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- A View From The Beach (6)
Thanks to everyone for all the links!
In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Evening Edition)
Posted on | September 23, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Evening Edition)
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Is Cassidy Hutchinson a dirty liar?, MAGA Michigan, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) Indicted, Is Red China Collapsing?, and U.S. Senate House of Style
Twitchy: Judge Strikes Down CA Magazine Ban, Newsom Pitches Fit, And X Laughs, “Shall not Be Infringed”, and WaPoo Runs Lame Hit Piece On Dave Portnoy & Portnoy Hits Back
Louder With Crowder: Barstool’s Dave Portnoy catches wind of another MSM hit piece, calls WaPo reporter and exposes her journactivism, Thousands Take To The Streets Across Canada To Protest Against LGBTQ+ Indoctrination, Smug NYT reporter complains about how expensive his meal was, restaurant calls him out for being a drunk, ‘Time Traveler’ From the Year 2027 Shares ‘Proof’ That He’s The Last Person Alive And… wait, what?, and Nearly 95% Of NFTsAre Now Worthless, Report Says
Vox Popoli: The Unexpected End of Feminism, The Artillery Dilemma, Delingpole Has His Doubts, The Ustasi is Real, “We Will Lose” – Zelensky, and Young Women Need to Hear This
According To Hoyt: Through The Perilous Night, Nekulturny, and Something Wicked This Way Comes
Stoic Observations: Ugly Stupid Feeble & Lazy, also, MLK – The Last Negro
Jon Del Arroz: SJW Mags Visaggio Resorts To Cringe E-Begging Because Of “Muh Writer’s Strike”
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Federal Government Should Not Be Held Hostage for Ukraine Funding, The ‘Peacemaker’ Hit List, and Why (Traditional) Marriage Matters
American Greatness: Texas AG Ken Paxton Says Impeachment Effort Was Orchestrated by Biden Regime With the Help of ‘Controlled’ Texas GOP House Speaker, Our Self-Induced Catastrophe at the Border, Ray Epps Charged With a Single Misdemeanor Count of Disruptive or Disorderly Conduct, and Congress to Release New Evidence Backing Up IRS Whistleblowers Against Biden
American Thinker: Communism, Fascism, Globalism — What’s the Difference?, Presumed Rigged Until Further Notice, and The Evolution of the American Police State
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Daily Slip-And-Slide-A-Potty News, First Day of Autumn, and Rule Five Looming Recession Friday
Babalu Blog: Surprise! Africans flock to Cuban beach resort for communist indoctrination, terrorist training, Cuba’s sock puppet president leaves a trail behind him at the UN, Forced labor and forced exile: The life of Cuban professionals sold as slave labor to foreign nations, Hispanics buy gasoline, too, and Developing News: Hypocritical Cuban dictatorship event in New York church shrouded in secrecy
BattleSwarm: Texas Helps Solve Ukraine’s Shell Problem, Bad Guy Beatdown Roundup, Race Hustler Ibram X. Kendi’s Woke Center Lays Off Most Staff, and LinkSwarm for September 22
Behind The Black: A close-up of the giant crack that almost splits Mars, SpaceX shows off a Raptor-2 engine during local Texas parade, Independent review: NASA’s Mars sample return mission is in big trouble, House speaker Kevin McCarthy proposes bill to extend “learning period” for rocketry, Strange wormlike tube features on slopes of Martian shield volcano, and Pushback: California county sued for using cellphones to track movements of church-goers
Cafe Hayek: Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies, An Application of Occam’s Razor, Exploring EconTalk: Charles Calomiris on the Financial Crisis (2009), and Beware Being Confused By Accounting Conventions
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Another Great Road Trip – Victoria, British Columbia, Another Brand Bites the Dust?, and Ginny Machann, RIP
Da Tech Guy: Trump’s stand on life and Mother Angelica on Peanuts, If you want to win in 2024 You’d Damn Well better Deal with Reality, The Answer is: “Joe Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election As Sure as the Cincinnati Reds Won the World Series in 1919”, Celebrating Constitution Day by busting some Progressive myths about the Constitution, and If My Dynasty 1971 Draft League’s Season Ended Today
Don Surber: Chaturbate Nation, also, FOX Wants RINOs To Stop Trump
First Street Journal: Was Deep Space Nine prescient?, also, So, which one concerns His Holiness the Pope more?
Gates Of Vienna: Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni on the Lampedusa Crisis, A Room of Your Own… But Just One, Whipping the Little Hussies Into Line, Nice Non-Work If You Can Get It, Another Culture-Enriching Sexual Emergency at a German Swimming Pool, and We’ve Only Just Begun
The Geller Report: DEMOCRATS’ INVASION: 35,000 Illegals Cross U.S. Border in Just 4 Days, POST-TRUMP AMERICA: No Major World Leaders, Allies Showed Up For Irrelevant-Biden’s UN General Assembly Speech, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tucker, Explains How Democrats Stole the Election in 2020, and These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Campbell’s Hydrogen Star, Fork Control? FIFY, and Civil Rights Victory
Hollywood In Toto: Kevin Sorbo: ‘Tolerant’ Hollywood Filled with ‘Anger and Hate’, Glenn Beck Betting Big on Conservative Movies (And More), Celebs Rally Against ‘Book Bans,’ Ignore Real Censorship, and Russell Brand: I Won’t Stop Targeting Corrupt Media, Big Pharma
The Lid: Project Veritas Is Dead-Cause Of Death: Pushing Out James O’Keefe, House Committee Reveals 22 Examples of Biden’s Corruption After Media Cries There’s “No Evidence”, and Colony Ridge: A Development for Illegal Immigrants? A “Hotbed” for Drug Cartels?
Legal Insurrection: California Federal Court Says Teachers Don’t Have to Comply With School’s Secret Gender Transitioning Policy, Supreme Court Extends Stay on Fifth Circuit Injunction Stopping Biden Admin From Coercing Big Tech to Censor Posts, Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and His Wife Indicted on Federal Bribery Charges, Cornell University Silent After Professor Receives Award for Advancing Free Expression and Intellectual Diversity, Indiana Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz Tears Into Merrick Garland, Compares DOJ to the KGB, and Education Sec. Cardona: ‘I Don’t Have Too Much Respect’ for Parents Wanting a Say in Kids Education
Nebraska Energy Observer: Truckers, Freedom, and Strikes, Oh joy! Oh bliss!, and Scattershot Friday: The Great (One) and the Good
Outkick: Dan Patrick Is Right: ESPN Should Have Shown Replay Of Nick Chubb’s Injury Against Steelers, Deion Sanders Origin Story: He Became Prime Time In 1980s, But Also Displayed Edgy Makings Of Future Coach, Urban Meyer Rips Michigan’s Soft Schedule, Stephen A. Smith Says Shohei Ohtani Isn’t Worth Huge Contract Because He Doesn’t Sell Tickets — Except He Does, Ohio State AD Says Recruits Are Demanding Money To Simply Visit Campus In NIL Era, Andrew Luck Wears Civil War Costume To 49ers/Giants Game, Proves He’s Self-Aware, and Mike Gundy’s Legendary ‘I’m A Man’ Rant Celebrates Its 16-Year Anniversary
Power Line: Clothes Make the Man, Mum’s the word, Biden’s Iran deal, The Daily Chart: Bidenomics Epic Fail, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Steube Joins GOP Colleagues In Rejecting Further $$$ To Ukraine
Shot In The Dark: All The Racket About Rackets, Not Sure What Disgusts Me More, Back Door To Federalism? and Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
The Political Hat: The First Time As Farce, The Second As Tragedy, In Ontario, Canada, The Year 2008 Is The New Year Zero, and Firing Line Friday: How Does It Look for the Dollar?
This Ain’t Hell: Four More Accounted For, Woke West Point Admissions Challenged, Marine aviator updates – F-35, Ospreys, Where are the NCOs? Where are the LEADERS?, Valor Friday, Service Academy cadet wonders if woke topics could be saved from bad batch of congressmen, Senate Democrats blink, and Black veteran pushing for equal care at VA medical facilities
Transterrestrial Musings: Long-Haul Trucking, Blue-Collar Workers, and Weird Climate Logic
Victory Girls: Ukraine Gravy Train Will Continue Even If Gov’t Shutdown Happens, “We’ve Got A Pilot In The House” – F-35, and FBI Loses Count Of Capitol Informants And We’re Shocked
Volokh Conspiracy: My Move to the Hoover Institution, Despite What Those Shadowy, Elite, Rich Jews Say, We’re Not Antisemites, and Louisiana Town Admits It Was Wrong to Block Flying “Fuck Biden” / “And Fuck You for Voting for Him” Flags
Watts Up With That: Update: DOE Appliance Minimum Efficiency Standards, The Great New England Hurricane of 1938, L A Times Article Falsely Asserts U.S. Had “Record” High Summer Temperatures in 2023, Germany’s Energy Crisis: The Perils of Delusional Virtue Signaling, and The Weather Channel’s Absurd ‘Hot’ Propaganda
The Federalist: While Western Leaders Look Away, China’s Spies Are Multiplying, Meet ‘Ad Fontes Media,’ The Left’s Latest Tool For Annihilating Conservative Voices Like The Federalist, It’s No Accident The Southern Border Is Collapsing, It’s Intentional, Federal Court Chides Dem Activists: There’s Nothing Racist About Election Integrity Laws Like Florida’s, In Leaked Video, Veterans’ Affairs Tells Providers To Promote Abortion, Avoid Saying ‘Mother’ And ‘Baby’, The Texas Teacher Who Assigned Anne Frank Graphic Novel Deserved To Be Fired, and Don’t Count On Biden’s IRS To Investigate Mark Zuckerberg’s Election-Rigging ‘Nonprofit’ Scheme
Mark Steyn: The Virtues of Disconnecting, also, Live Around the Planet
In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Abbreviated Afternoon Edition)
Posted on | September 22, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Abbreviated Afternoon Edition)
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Reality Is True Even If You Disagree With It – Oakland CA Edition
EBL: Foundation (Season 2), RAY EPPS : Is The Fix In?, and Did the Indian Government order the execution of Canadian Sikh Leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar?
Twitchy: Community Notes Nukes David Brooks And His Burger/Booze Tweet, Chris Rufo Shows How Things Are Getting Worse For Race Grifter Ibram Kendi, and Thomas Massie Catches AG Garland Lying
Louder With Crowder: Missouri High School Crowns Male Homecoming Queen… Again, Elon Musk Files Lawsuit Against Biden Admin Over DOJ’s Demand SpaceX Hire Illegals, and High school students stage walkout over district’s woke bathroom policy
Vox Popoli: The “Stop Biden” Drumbeat Begins, An Astute and Early Observation, and Russia Unlocks Allies
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Corporations Pretend To Commit Suicide
CDR Salamander: An Inadequate Navy? A Common Affliction
Don Surber: Corporate Suicide
LOL: ‘Readers Added Context’ to Tweet by David Brooks and It’s Brutally Awesome
Posted on | September 22, 2023 | Comments Off on LOL: ‘Readers Added Context’ to Tweet by David Brooks and It’s Brutally Awesome


Used to be, every Tuesday was “David Brooks Fisking Day” around here, as I’d dismantle that dishonest fraud’s New York Times column, but I eventually got bored with it. Now the fool has committed one of the great self-owns in the history of social media: Claiming on Twitter that his burger at the airport cost $78. Internet sleuths quickly figured out what restaurant Brooks was in: 1911 Smokehouse Barbecue, where the burger costs $17, meaning that Brooks drank somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 worth of cocktails. Is this — a New York Times columnist running up a bar tab of $50 drinking call-brand scotch at an airport restaurant — really “why Americans think the economy is terrible”? Probably not.
Brooks got more readers for that stupid tweet than he gets for his weekly columns. If the economy was really terrible, he’d be unemployed.
CNN Ratings Hit Historic Low
Posted on | September 22, 2023 | Comments Off on CNN Ratings Hit Historic Low

An audience so tiny you need a microscope to see it:
Ratings-challenged CNN hit rock bottom in a key viewership demographic last weekend — another sign of the difficulties facing incoming boss Mark Thompson.
The cable news network logged its worst weekend ratings on record in the all important 25- to 54-year-old demo, according to the latest Nielsen data released Tuesday.
CNN — which launched in 1980 and bills itself as “the most trusted name in news” — totaled just 55,000 viewers for its weekend slate of shows that include Sunday political programs “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash,” and “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”
The network’s Sunday primetime lineup, which featured “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper” and “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” drew 43,000 in the demo.
The ratings are the network’s worst since 1991 — the earliest TV data is readily available.
Data prior to 1991 is largely not digitized.
CNN’s overall viewership wasn’t much better.
The network logged 345,000 total viewers, trailing Fox News’ 683,000 and MSNBC’s 424,000.
Fox won the battle in the key demo as well, drawing 75,000 viewers to top MSNBC’s 47,000, which finished behind CNN.
“CNN is a ratings embarrassment,” an industry insider said. “At least with Thompson they will have a direction.”
Thompson, the former New York Times Company CEO, was tapped as CNN’s new chairman and CEO last month by parent Warner Bros. Discovery after the disastrous tenure of Chris Licht.
You might say they’re “on a roll.”
The Toxic Lives and Influence of AWFLs
Posted on | September 21, 2023 | Comments Off on The Toxic Lives and Influence of AWFLs

A couple of days ago, the Google algorithm on my phone brought up one of those clickbait headlines — illustrated with a photo of a large-breasted woman — “Famous Celebrities You Won’t Believe Are Still Single.”
Who was that large-breasted woman? I still don’t know, because the way these clickbait articles work, you’re going to have to scroll through two dozen items before you ever get to the “featured” personality, and I stopped scrolling once I saw the name Chelsea Handler.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS BULLS**T?
Is there anyone genuinely surprised by the revelation — “You Won’t Believe”! — that Chelsea Handler is still unmarried at age 48? The woman’s life has always been a toxic dumpster fire of dysfunction, substance abuse and broken relationships. Indeed, her personal problems were the subject of her stand-up comedy routine from the time she entered showbiz in her 20s. In case you have forgotten when Chelsea Handler was actually funny, her humor was basically about (a) here habitual promiscuity and (b) her alcoholism. Her first book was entitled, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, while her second was entitled Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. Which is to say that, by the time she was sufficiently well-known to be called a celebrity, what was Chelsea Handler was mainly famous for was being a drunken slut.
As the subject of a stand-up routine, this was actually funny, back around 2005 or so, but as a lifestyle . . . Well, I wouldn’t recommend it.
Nor would I recommend Chelsea Handler’s brand of politics, a reflexive liberalism so dumbed-down that it makes Rob Reiner and Michael Moore seem astute by comparison. What Chelsea Handler is (besides a drunken slut) is an AWFL (Affluent White Female Liberal). These women are now the core grassroots constituency of the Democratic Party, the kind of people so insulated from reality they think CNN is objective journalism.
Despite the fact that their own lives are defined by unhappiness and broken relationships, AWFLs nevertheless think themselves fit to decide weighty matters of public policy. Does anyone really need to be lectured on political topics by someone like Chelsea Handler? Is she someone so self-evidently wise and well-informed that there are millions of Americans who turn to her in search of political guidance?
Let me tell you a little story about Chelsea Handler. When she was in her early 30s, and beginning to have some serious show-business success, Chelsea started dating NBC executive Ted Harbert, then the head of the NBC-owned E! Entertainment cable channel. Harbert was recently divorced and 20 years older than Chelsea. This relationship lasted about five years, the longest Chelsea had ever been with anyone, and probably the closest she ever got to being married. After they broke up, Chelsea told a reporter it was because she and Harbert couldn’t separate their show-business work from their personal lives. More recently, however, Chelsea has told a new version of events:
Chelsea Handler realized she had to break up with her ex-boyfriend Ted Harbert after having a threesome with him and her masseuse.
“I was very turned on by this woman,” the comedian told Andy Cohen of the massage therapist during Wednesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s “Andy Radio,” clarifying that she has “slept with a woman” but “hasn’t dated a woman.”
She added, “I ended up hooking up with her several times without the guy.”
“That’s when I knew it was time to break up with the guy,” she said. , , ,
Handler admitted she never told Harbert that she was sleeping with the masseuse on the side, but she called their threesome “fun” and said she would have one again.
Everyone all together now: “Eeehh-YYUKKK!”
See, the thing about Chelsea Handler is, when she made a career of making jokes about her life as a drunken slut, she was young, and kind of good-looking. But she is well past the point where anyone wants to think about her having sex, with men or women or both simultaneously.
Anyway, I hadn’t thought about Chelsea Handler at all for a long time, and the only reason I did was because of that clickbait headline with the picture of a woman with very large breasts. Who was she? I don’t know, but if any of y’all figure it out, please let me know in the comments.
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