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FMJRA 2.0: I Was Dreaming I Was Awake

Posted on | October 9, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: I Was Dreaming I Was Awake

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Things started badly this week for my Senators as they wiped out against the Pirates in three games at Three Rivers, but ended well when we came home to RFK and beat the A’s in two games straight. Jim Kaat outdueled Sonny Siebert in game one for a 1-0 win, the lone run coming on a homer by Jim Northrup, just returned from the DL. The second game was a lot more tense – Juan Marichal pitched great on his return from the DL, but the bullpen shit the bed, coughing up five runs to put the A’s on top 6-9. Fortunately the hitters came through: Byron Browne tied it up with a 3-run dinger in the bottom of the 12th, and Willie Mays put up the Curly W with a sayonara homer right after that. All we have to do is win 27 of our remaining 54 games to avoid 100 losses…
Title for this week’s post is the opening track from Klaus Schulze’s La Vie Electronique Vol. I, the first of sixteen albums with music that had originally appeared on the limited edition boxed set The Ultimate Edition in 2000.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Fly the Curly W flag!

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In The Mailbox: 10.04.22
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In The Mailbox: 10.06.22 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 10.07.22
Okrahead
EBL
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Russians Cut Off at Lyman UPDATE: Russia Announces ‘Withdrawal’
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FMJRA 2.0: Shadows Of The Night
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Rule 5 Sunday: Oktoberfest
Animal Magnetism
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BREAKTHROUGH: Ukrainian Forces Smash Russian Lines East of Kherson
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In The Mailbox: 10.05.22 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 10.06.22 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

‘RUN THE DANG BALL!’
A Bad American
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In The Mailbox: 10.07.22

Posted on | October 7, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.07.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

Our Lady of Victory intercedes at the Battle of Lepanto, 10/7/1571. (Thanks to EBL for the reminder.)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Relatives of Dead People Don’t Like Self-defense
EBL: Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary to give thanks for the Victory at Lepanto, also, Joe Biden Engages In A Completely Meaningless Weed Pardon
Twitchy: Bill Melugin Puts NYC Mayor Adams’ Whining About Illegals In Perspective, also, Rob (Meathead) Reiner Now #1 Threat To Our Republic, World Peace, And Fluffy Puppies
Louder With Crowder: Mila Kunis blasts Hollywood elite giving Will Smith a standing ovation, also, Inspired by Ye, Sharon Osbourne wants her $900k donation to BLM refunded
Vox Popoli: Accepting Aggression, Elizabeth the Catastrophic, and A Tale of Two Comics
According To Hoyt: Prayer Request, also, No Man’s Land
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S3 E13: Picking the Brain of Dr Rob Hampson, also, Holsters

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Zelensky Taking US To The Nuclear Brink
American Greatness: America First Legal Sues 14 Federal Agencies for Refusing to Disclose the Biden Regime’s Takeover of Election Administration, and NYC Mayor Eric Adams Declares ‘State of Emergency’ in Sanctuary City As Illegal Aliens Continue to Be Bused In
American Power: The GOP Is Herschel Walker, Israel’s Devastating Capitulation to Hezbollah, and Cato Institute Economist: We Only Fetishize Manufacturing Jobs to ‘Keep White Males With Low Education In Powerful Positions’
American Thinker:  The Democrats Wrecked My Retirement, also, The Army of the Woke
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Protection, Life and Property Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban and Russian soldiers were sent to Venezuela disguised as tourists, Another child dies in Cuba due to medical negligence, lack of medications and unavailability of ambulances, and Happy #79 to Jose Cardenal
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for October 7, 2022
Behind The Black: Endurance docks at ISS, Rocket Lab successfully launches NOAA satellite, Red China’s Long March 11 launched from floating sea platform, and Today’s blacklisted American: Black playwright blackballed because he honestly told the story of racism in the Jim Crow south
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Newspeak
Da Tech Guy: A Distinct Christian Disadvantage, at least in Temporal Matters vs the “I was only following Orders” FBI
Don Surber: Shipping down 75% ahead of Christmas shopping, also, NYC whines about illegals coming to its sanctuary
First Street Journal: More Biden Administration muddled and contradictory policies
Gates Of Vienna: The Belated Implementation of the Morgenthau Plan, “Enough With the Fascism Story”, We’re Good Little Sheep, and The Dream of Greater Turkey
The Geller Report: Democrat Congressman Sentenced to Prison for Stuffing Pennsylvania Ballot Boxes
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Radio Astronomy and M82
Hollywood In Toto: Kanye West: Friends ‘Threatened My Life’ Over Trump Support, Eternal Spring Highlights China’s Human Rights Suppression, and Three Days of the Condor Captured Our Deep State Past (and Present)
The Lid: Americans Had Worst Pay Cut in 25 Years Thanks to Bidenflation, also, What Every Gentile And Secular Jew NEEDS To Know About Sukkot 2022
Legal Insurrection: Federal Judge Finds Key Parts of New York’s Gun Law Unconstitutional, William & Mary Pro-Choice Student Charged With ‘Assault for Allegedly Throwing Urine at Pro-Life Activists’, Pennsylvania Teacher Reinstated After District Suspended Him for Not Using Trans Students Preferred Pronouns, and ‘Fact Checkers,’ Media Surge to Kamala’s Defense Over Hurricane Relief ‘Equity’ Comments
Nebraska Energy Observer: As we head
Outkick: 49-Year Old Bald Man Playing College Football This Season, Jake Paul Offers Draymond Green $10 Million For Boxing Match, High School Football Team Gets Baptized Together, and NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt Calls Russell Wilson A ‘Poser’ After Horrid Game Against Colts
Power Line: The Biden coverup, Hunter To Be Prosecuted? Ho Hum, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: AP Claims Pine Island Bridge Not Rebuilt – One Day After Its Rebuilding
Shot In The Dark: It’s Quiet, Potemkin Reform, and Why I’m Voting GOP
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: A Conservative Look at Marijuana
This Ain’t Hell: Plan approved to remove Confederate references from DOD property, Valor Friday, Democrats POed at Saudi Arabia want troops out, and Chinese ‘law enforcement’ sets up shop on US soil
Victory Girls: Biden: Putin’s “Off-Ramp” May Be Nuclear Armageddon, also, Nonbinary Chicago Marathoners Miffed At Slight
Volokh Conspiracy: Berkeley Law’s “Jew-Free Zone” Controversy
Watts Up With That: A Comprehensive Roundup of Official Energy Madness, also, Army Releases New Plan to ‘Mitigate’ Climate Change
Weasel Zippers: “Let Me Start Off With TWO Words: Made In America!”, Carjackings In Dem-Run Philadelphia Up Over 100%, 1,044 So Far This Year, More Fetterman Gibberish: “We Need To … Make Sure … What Is On … The Line In This Race.”, and Stacey Abrams Doubles Down On Abortion Extremism, Says Her Fetal Heartbeat Comments Were “Accurate”
The Federalist: Delaware Supremes: No-Excuse Mail-In Voting, Same-Day Registration Are Unconstitutional, This Senate Bill Would Finally Make The Porn Industry Fight Human Trafficking, Tom Brady Needs To Pull Off His Greatest Comeback Yet, and Mark Kelly Can’t Hide From His Embrace Of Joe Biden’s Awful Agenda
Mark Steyn: Migrants, Muggers and Mutilation, also, Live Around the Planet: Friday October 7th

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‘RUN THE DANG BALL!’

Posted on | October 7, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘RUN THE DANG BALL!’

Richard Sherman became a hero Thursday night to legions of football fans who’ve been shouting at their TV for years. It was clearly an emotional moment, as Sherman — a former All-Pro cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks — said he was having “flashbacks” of Seattle’s notorious loss in Super Bowl XLIV. We’ll get to that in a minute, but first let me explain for the sake of non-fans that Sherman is now a commentator on Amazon Prime’s broadcasts of Thursday Night Football. The game Thursday night between the Denver Broncos and the Indianapolis Colts could be described as a “defensive struggle,” except that it was more a showcase of offensive ineptitude. Neither team scored a touchdown in the game, which went to overtime, as ESPN comments:

The game featured seven field goals, a dozen punts, 25 third-down stops, four interceptions and six fumbles — none of which were recovered by the otherwise disruptive defenses.

In overtime, the Colts kicked a field goal to take a 12-9 lead, then Denver drove 70 yards down the field before coming up on 3rd-and-2 at the Indianapolis 6. A handoff to running back Melvin Gordon III gained one yard, leaving the Broncos with fourth-and-1. With about three minutes left in overtime, should they kick a field goal and (most likely) settle for a 12-12 tie? Or should they go for it? Denver went for it, and Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson threw a pass to the end zone intended for Courtland Sutton that was broken up by Indianapolis cornerback Stephon Gilmore. There were a lot of things wrong with that play — in particular, Wilson failed to see Denver wide receiver K.J. Hamler, who was wide open — but the main thing was, “Why pass the ball?”

Richard Sherman brought the hammer down after the game:

“On the final play, you got to run the ball. Again — like, I mean I wish I had Marshawn up here — like, one yard. You need one yard running the ball. . . . All he has to do is run the football. . . . I’ve said enough criticism for him, but God dang it run the dang ball. It’s like, learn from the mistakes. RUN THE BALL!”

In case you don’t understand the context, Sherman was a cornerback on the Seahawks team that lost that Super Bowl on a play where Russell Wilson threw a pass that was intercepted in the end zone by none other than Stephon Gilmore, who was then with the Patriots. He referenced running back Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch, who had rushed for over 1,000 yards for Seattle in each of the previous four seasons:

In Super Bowl XLIX, where the Seahawks lost 28–24 to the New England Patriots, Lynch had 24 carries for 102 yards and a touchdown, plus a catch for 31 yards. Late in the fourth quarter on a potential game-winning drive, Lynch ran the ball from the five yard line but was tackled by Dont’a Hightower at the one-yard line. On the next offensive play of the game, the Seahawks chose to pass the ball at the one-yard line instead of running it with Lynch, and Russell Wilson’s pass was intercepted. Lynch was visibly upset by the decision and left the Seahawks locker room without addressing the media. He stated in a later interview with Conan O’Brien that he was “expecting the ball” prior to the play.

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In The Mailbox: 10.06.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 6, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.06.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

from r/art

OVER THE TRANSOM
A Bad American: Nobody F***s With A Biden
357 Magnum:  The Criminal Justice System in Chicago Is Broken
EBL: Morbius, also, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) to Resign
Twitchy: @mkhammer Compares Her CNN Suspension To Jeffrey Toobin’s, No Apology From Dana Loesch For Calling Sluts “Skanks”, and “The South Is Everywhere Now, And So Are Its Worst Political Pathologies”
Louder With Crowder: Mom dresses like drag queen at school board meeting to make point about what’s appropriate for kids, also, Doocy delivers savage fatality to POTUS over cringe ‘no one f***s with a Biden’ line
Vox Popoli: Trust the Grandmaster, Literally Thoughtless, A Vast and Silent Emptiness, and The Need for Gun Control

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Being Happy And Making Plans In Budapest, also, Our Strangelovian National Security Class
American Greatness: An Epidemic of Cognitive Impairment?, also, Federal Appeals Court Rules DACA to be Illegal
American Power: Young and Homeless in Rural America
American Thinker: The Collectivist War on the Middle Class, also, Why Build There?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Hand-Count News
Babalu Blog: Government official says Cuba faces a famine, Inflation rate in Cuba soars to 208%, dollar exchange rate climbs to 200 pesos, and The hurricane that continues to batter Cuba
BattleSwarm: Multiple Russian Fronts Collapsing, also, Los Fabricantes De Armas Que Es Más Macho Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Behind The Black: Important Roscosmos official endorses continuing cooperation with US in space, Satellite about to burn up because Sherpa orbital tug has done nothing, Another “What the heck?” formation on Mars, and Pushback: Because of Yale Law School’s enthusiasm for blacklisting, more than a dozen judges now refuse to hire its graduates
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Why do Democrats hate women and children so much?, Some Sound Advice for Billy Eichner, and Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest: Day 9 Don Surber on Substack for the Finale
Don Surber: Variety says DeSantis beat Disney, also, Biden turns gold into lead
First Street Journal: This year’s “October surprise”
Gates Of Vienna: When the Vax Goes to Your Head, Trump’s Turkish Problem, Five Chilling Ways The Nuclear Bogeyman Can Frighten You, and Do You Disagree? Then You’re a Threat to Democracy!
The Geller Report: 60% of Third Grade Schoolkids Can’t Read, But the Democrats are Cramming Pedo/Trans/Porn Down Their Throats, also, Federal Appeals Court Rules DACA is Illegal, Dealing Major Blow to Democrat Destroyers
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Europa Was Ready For Its Closeup, and Lane Discipline
Hollywood In Toto: The Visitor Brings New Meaning to Downer Horror, also, Amsterdam Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way
The Lid: It’s Not Over: Tony Bobulinski Accuses Biden Inc. Of Fraud — Brings The Receipts
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Facing Butter Shortage Ahead of Holiday Season, Vice Chair of Treasury Department’s New ‘Racial Equity Committee’ Wants to Defund Police and ‘Reimagine’ Capitalism, DOJ Charging Pro-Life Activists for Blocking Abortion Clinic But Ignores Pro-Abortion Vandals, and Anti-Fossil Fuel Biden Admin in Midterm Elections Panic as OPEC Cuts Production
Nebraska Energy Observer: Taking a page
Outkick: Texas A&M Fan Suggests On Live TV That Hiring A Hit Man To Kill Jimbo Fisher Is Cheaper Than Buying Out His Contract, Here’s How Many Followers Athletes Could Lose With Musk-Twitter Sale, Brittney Griner’s Wife Says Griner Is A ‘Hostage’ In Russia, Awkwardly Compares Situation To A Movie, and ESPN Re-Signs Failed TV And Radio Host Bomani Jones
Power Line: Coming Soon: Polygamy, The Daily Chart: BLM on Crime, and Bobulinski against the machine
Shark Tank: Demings Claims U.S. Doesn’t Have Open Borders
Shot In The Dark: The Show Suit, Roll Model, and “It’s Easier To Get A Gun Than A Fresh Apple”
STUMP: On COVID (and all-cause) mortality and Political Affiliation Studies (plus a geeking-out, know-your-data coda)
The Political Hat: The Gender Clinic-Educational Complex, also, Killer Kanada: Killing A Myriad A Year; Killing The Undignified; Killing The Mentally Ill
This Ain’t Hell: GOP Candidate Under Fire for a Claim He Was Under Fire, also, Americans experience most severe pay cut in a quarter of a century
Victory Girls: Salon Gets Trump Supporters Wrong Yet Again, also, Hunter Biden: Will Tax And Gun Charges Happen?
Volokh Conspiracy: Sometimes the Conspiracy Theorists Might Have Something of a Point: The Konnech Controversy
Watts Up With That: Carbon Offsets: Want to Get Sued? (Greenwashing as Illegality), also, The Penetration Problem. Part I: Wind and Solar – The More You Do, The Harder It Gets
Weasel Zippers: Portland Coffee Shop Attacked By Masked Vandals For Hosting Pro-Police Event, Dem Rep. Cori Bush: “Absolutely” Stand By “Defund The Police”, Dem Rep. Ilhan Omar Refuses Question Whether There’s A Rise In Crime, and Report: 66 Abortion Clinics Have Stopped Performing Abortions Since Overturn Of Roe
The Federalist: Wisconsin Judge Rules That Electors Cannot Change Ballots After Voting, Kanye’s Artsy ‘White Lives Matter’ Display Invites People To Reject Groupthink, And The Left Hates It, Twitter Ramps Up Election Meddling Ahead Of Midterms With Fake Fact-Checking Program Expansion, and What Are Democrats Worried About Poll Watchers Trying To Hide?
Mark Steyn: Reign Stops Play, also, The Progressive Jewsplaining of Antisemitism

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In The Mailbox: 10.06.22 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 6, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.06.22 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Too tired when I got home last night to even think about blogging. Today, I’ll catch up for sure!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Rooting for mass firings.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1861
EBL: Busy week for Elon Musk, and it is only Tuesday, also, Democrat Panic: Gasoline Prices Peaking Just In Time For Midterms
Twitchy: JK Rowling Says She’ll Be First To Sign The Petition If Childrens’ Charity Wants To Sue, also, Top School Shrink Teams With Group Offering To “Resettle” Kids With “Queer-Friendly” Guardians
Louder With Crowder: Megyn Kelly TRASHES the Kardashians as a ‘force for evil’
Vox Popoli: Stage One Complete, Meme of the Week, Predictions, and A Belated Peace
Gab News: Fighting To Win

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: In Australia they’re now coming for the Christians
American Conservative: Forgetting How To Be A Civilization
American Greatness: Tony Bobulinski: Biden Clan ‘Stole’ Millions ‘From Me and My Other Partners,’ FBI Ignored Multiple Felonies, also, The Globalist Climate Agenda is a Crime Against Humanity
American Thinker: Why Trump Must Run
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog:  New Florida poll shows DeSantis and Rubio with huge lead among Hispanic voters, Reports from Cuba: Repression in the face of increasing protests on 5th day of post-hurricane blackout, and No food, no water, no electricity: The misery increases in Havana
BattleSwarm: The Sounds of Silencers
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches astronauts to ISS, ULA successfully launches two communications satellites, Today’s blacklisted Americans: UC-Berkeley law school clubs ban Jewish speakers, and Pushback: Cornell’s library lifts its blackballing of Abraham Lincoln
Cafe Hayek: The Reality of Rent Control Cannot Be Pointed Out Too Often
CDR Salamander: Where Does Ryan Mays go to Get His Name and Life Back?
Da Tech Guy: Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest: Day 8 A Just Letter But a Sadder Reality, The GOP and Pennsylvania, and Five Baseball Thoughts Under the Fedora.
Don Surber: The chart of doom for Democrats, NYT: “Republicans Gain in the Senate”, and Stock analyst’s advice? Pray
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: Somebody talked? * Updated! *, also, Larry Krasner and The Philadelphia Inquirer sure love them some propaganda!
Gates Of Vienna: What’s a Little Pain When You’re Saving the Planet?, Persecuting Those Who Point Out the Dirt, We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Children, and The Melting Euro
The Geller Report: Bombshell Dominion ‘Error Code’ Uncovered in 97% of Georgia Counties, Courts Side With Red States on Election Law Changes Post-2020, and Most Of The Looters Arrested In Hurricane-Ravaged Florida Are Illegal Aliens
Hogewash: Adding X-Ray Vision to JWST
Hollywood In Toto: Spiritual Drama Exemplum Delivers Nuance, Uncertainty, Howard Stern Didn’t Learn John Hughes’ Lesson, and Hellraiser Reminds Us of Franchise’s Limits
The Lid: A Heartwarming Yom Kippur Story
Legal Insurrection: Northeastern University Worker Arrested in Connection With Suspicious Explosive Package, Fairfax County Schools Fighting ‘Institutional Bias’ by Implement ‘Equity Grading’, Cook Political Report Flips Pennsylvania Senate Race Back to Toss Up, and Association of American Physicians and Surgeons: FDA Misled the Public About Ivermectin
Nebraska Energy Observer: Point/Counterpoint
Outkick: Ole Miss NIL Group Signs Juice Kiffin, Who Is A Dog, To New Deal, Cole Beasley – Tom Brady’s Teammate – Retires After Two Games To Spend Time With Family, Joel Embiid Loves The USA, Reminds People ‘It’s A Blessing To Be An American’, and Wannabe History Teacher Doc Rivers Says ‘When I Hear America First, That Scares Me’
Power Line: Exploding Electric Bicycles, OMG—TV Art Has Imitated Life, and Judge Ho’s modest proposal
Shark Tank: Rep. Salazar Writes Biden, Asks Him To Stop Helping Castro Regime
Shot In The Dark: None Dare Call It Bribery, All In All You’re Jut Another Thick-As-A-Brick Prog Demagogue, and Distractions
The Political Hat: Censorship For Your Own Good
This Ain’t Hell: Short Takes: We’re #1, Navy 214s, Poland billing Germany for WWII, Nimitz water, Medley: Military wokeness investigation, petition to fire professor, missile crashes in South Korea, Come and listen to a story ’bout a man named Joe, and The North Carolina wannabe Eunuch maker and the Georgia murder mystery
Transterrestrial Musings: Climate And Hurricanes, On Biden’s Impeachment, “The Road To The Stars Is Now Open”, and The Russian Collapse
Victory Girls: White Lives Matter to Ye, also, Medical Associations Demand DOJ Investigate Critics Of Castration & Mutilation
Volokh Conspiracy: The Sackett Oral Argument and the Problem of Defining “Waters of the United States”
Watts Up With That: The Permian Basin: The gift that keeps on giving!, also, A Few Graphs Say It All for Weather-Dependent “Renewables”
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris AGAIN Describes Her “Love” For Venn Diagrams: “You Know, The Three Circles?”, Biden: “I Was Sort of Raised In The Puerto Rican Community”, Former Biden Family Business Partner: The Bidens Expected “Billions” From Chinese Business Dealings, and Google Sent 22 Million GOP Emails To Spam Box In Just 6 Days
The Federalist: John Roberts Is Too Busy Imagining Right-Wing Attacks On SCOTUS To Condemn Leftists’ War On It, How To Survive Elon Musk’s Pro-Free Speech Twitter: A Guide For The Corrupted National Press, NYT Pretends To Debunk Poll Worker ‘Conspiracy.’ One Day Later, The ‘Election Deniers’ Were Vindicated, and ‘Equity’ Baseball: MLB Tries To Fix Performance By Handcuffing Exceptionalism With New Rules
Mark Steyn: A Crime Against Humanity, also, The Shirt Heard Round the World

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In The Mailbox: 10.05.22 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | October 5, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.05.22 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

This time it’s for real?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Black Women Own Guns and The Media Notices
Director Blue: Fork In The Road
EBL: Loretta Lynn, RIP
Twitchy: Politifact Uses Truthful Statements From DeSantis & J.D. Vance As Evidence They’re Liars, also, Janet Yellen Says Administration Has Made Equity Job #1 For Their Economic Agenda
Louder With Crowder: Genius makes $21,000 selling 3D printed guns at gun buyback and New York’s Attorney General is PISSED, also, Anti-energy activist tries ever so hard to get her message out while being carried away by police
Vox Popoli: The Mandate of Hell, A Hitherto Unthinkable Restraint, The Nobel Committee Knows, and Red Chinese Warning

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Last Pipeline into Europe, also,  The Italian election outcome
American Conservative: Trans Tyranny: The Dangerous New Phase
American Greatness: Donald Trump Files $475 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN, also, Voters Give Biden 45.5% Approval, Prefer GOP to Control Congress 46.5% to 44.4% in New Insider Advantage Poll
American Power: Demand for Cars Faces Test With Rising Rates 
American Thinker: Where Artificial Intelligence Can Expose Leftist Vote Fraud
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Thin Veneer News
Babalu Blog: ‘A Tale of Tyranny in Three Acts’, With Cubans fleeing by the thousands, communist Cuba faces increased difficulties, and Communist Cuba’s ‘Rapid Response Brigades’ look awfully familiar
BattleSwarm: Important Lesson: Don’t Trust Alex Jones
Behind The Black: Spinlaunch completes 10th test launch, this time for outside customers, also, Chandra takes an X-ray look at early Webb infrared observations
Cafe Hayek: Does Industrial Policy Suffer the Knowledge Problem?
CDR Salamander: Want a Nuke Wargame? I’ve Got One for You
Chicago Boyz: Book Review: Rockets and People – Sputnik 65th Anniversary Rerun
Da Tech Guy: Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest: Day 7 More Whistleblowing More Disgrace, Do I detect a tiny hint of Brady?, and Five Russia/Ukraine Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Gotta spend $5 trillion to lose $10 trillion, also, Nike’s demand chain problems
First Street Journal: More ‘journolism’ from the Lexington Herald-Leader, also, Mayor Jim Kenney just can’t think things through
Gates Of Vienna: Giorgia on my Mind, The Caravan of Light Arrives in Austria, Giorgia Meloni Makes Herself Clear, and Wayward Imam Nabbed in Belgium
The Geller Report: NOT FLORIDA: Biden Goes to Puerto Rico to Assess Hurricane Damage, Announces $60 Million Relief Plan, also, Vermont Girls’ HS Volleyball Team BARRED From Their OWN Locker Room After Opposing Tranny
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Hubble’s View of DART
Hollywood In Toto: Rockers Take Dramatically Different Approaches to Cancel Culture, What We Stand For … and What We Stand Against, Why Bros Failed: Bogus History, Cultural Resentment, and Why Private American Is a Modern Day Death Wish
The Lid: Berkeley’s Version Of “Ghetto Benches”
Legal Insurrection: North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Over Japan, Nurse of 39 Years Loses Job After Refusing to Participate in ‘Implicit Bias’ Training, and Conservative Candidates Working to Flip School Boards Across the Country
Michelle Malkin: The Great Parental Replacement
Nebraska Energy Observer: Cui Bono?, also, I got out
Outkick: Aaron Judge Hits Home Run No. 62, Breaks Roger Maris’ AL Record, Jennifer Lopez Proves She Still Has Her Fastball, Did Najee Harris Accidentally Say He Took Money At Alabama?, and SMU’s Football Team Hit With Bad News, Mustangs On The Brink Of Major Problems
Power Line: Mr. Melugin goes to Washington
Shark Tank: Demings Accused Of Supporting Drug Dealers’ Release In Venezuela
Shot In The Dark: Feeding Our Benefactors, also, In Cold, Alcohol-Thinned, Probably Mentally Ill Blood
The Political Hat: The San Francisco School-To-Clinic Transgender Pipeline
This Ain’t Hell: Last WWII Marine Ace Passes, J.R. Majewski still riding the phony pony, and Almost 15,000 pharmacies out of Tri-Care, pols want to know why
Transterrestrial Musings: Norm Augustine, Tannenberg Revisited, The Onion, and The Coal-Miner’s Daughter
Victory Girls: Fauci Awards EcoHealth Alliance $3 Million Grant To Study Bat Viruses
Volokh Conspiracy: Today in Supreme Court History: October 4, 1965
Watts Up With That: Berlin Antifa Group “Goes on Hunt” For High Energy Users… Heated Pools “Immediately Collectivized”, Claim: Bitcoin Worse For the Climate than Beef, and Hindawi and Wiley to Retract over 500 Papers Linked to Peer Review Rings
Weasel Zippers: Death On Wheels: Planned Parenthood Deploying 37-Foot Abortion RV Near Red State Borders, Stacey Abrams Absurdly Claims She “Never Denied The Outcome” Of 2018 Loss, Dem Rep. Cori Bush Doubles Down On “Defund The Police”: “We Can’t Get Caught Up In The Words”, and Biden Makes No Sense: “Sent Not Only A Congresswoman, The Most Congresswoman In The Congress”
The Federalist: Lawsuit: Biden’s Taxpayer-Funded Student Loan Bailout Is ‘Not How Lawmaking Works In America’, Heritage Action Super PAC Drops Seven-Figure Ad Buy In Arizona Senate Race As McConnell Abandons Blake Masters, With New Documents, The Biden Administration’s Targeting Of A Pro-Life Dad Just Got Crazier, and As NYT Identifies The Mysterious ‘Perla,’ All The Media’s Martha’s Vineyard Lies Unravel
Mark Steyn: Sorry State

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In The Mailbox: 10.04.22

Posted on | October 5, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.04.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Guess who left his power cord in Tonopah and had to wait until tonight for Amazon to get me a replacement.
Speaking of Amazon, thanks to all the people who bought stuff through my links last month.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Never Attribute to Malice What Can Be Explained By Stupidity
Director Blue: My Seven-Step Plan To Destroy America
EBL: It’s the most wunderbar time of the year!, Ron DeSantis Responds To CNN about Hurricane Ian After The Fact, and Ukrainian Warrior Women
Twitchy: Special K Explains Why It’s Unfair To Blame Biden For Fuel Prices Because Nuance, also, Glenn Greenwald Buries NBC Reporter Freaking Out About Elon Musk’s’ Twitter Takeover Under A Mountain Of Receipts
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BREAKTHROUGH: Ukrainian Forces Smash Russian Lines East of Kherson

Posted on | October 3, 2022 | Comments Off on BREAKTHROUGH: Ukrainian Forces Smash Russian Lines East of Kherson

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Wow — the Ukrainians are teaching the Russians a lesson in tactics, and every military leader in the world must be studying this lesson:

Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began, bursting through the front and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River on Monday, threatening supply lines for thousands of Russian troops.
Kyiv gave no official confirmation of the gains, but Russian sources acknowledged that a Ukrainian tank offensive had advanced dozens of kilometers along the river’s west bank, recapturing a number of villages along the way.
The breakthrough mirrors recent Ukrainian successes in the east that have turned the tide in the war against Russia, even as Moscow has tried to raise the stakes by annexing territory, ordering mobilisation and threatening nuclear retaliation.
“The information is tense, let’s put it that way, because, yes there were indeed breakthroughs,” Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed leader in occupied parts of Ukraine’s Kherson province told Russian state television.
“There’s a settlement called Dudchany, right along the Dnipro River, and right there, in that region, there was a breakthrough. There are settlements that are occupied by Ukrainian forces,” he said.
Dudchany is around 30 km (20 miles) south of where the front stood before the breakthrough, indicating the fastest advance of the war so far in the south, where Russian forces had been dug into heavily reinforced positions along a mainly static front line since the early weeks of the invasion.
While Kyiv maintained almost complete silence, as it has in the past during major offensives, some officials did describe what they referred to as unconfirmed reports of big gains.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior ministry, posted a photo of Ukrainian soldiers posing with their flag draping a golden statue of an angel. He said it was the village of Mikhailivka, around 20 km beyond the previous front.
By Monday afternoon, Ukraine’s defence ministry had confirmed only the recapture of Myrolyubivka, a village close to the previous front line. Serhiy Khlan, a Kherson regional council member, also listed Osokorivka, Mykhailivka, Khreschenikvka and Zoloto Balka as villages recaptured or where Ukrainian troops had been photographed.
“It means that our armed forces are moving powerfully along the banks of the Dnipro nearer to Beryslav,” he said. “Officially, there is no such information yet, but the (Russian) social media pages which are panicking… absolutely confirm these photos.”

The Russians have committed a basic strategic error, fighting what is in essence a two-front war, with Ukraine holding interior lines of communication between the northern and southern fronts. So the Ukrainians can strike in either direction and, if Russia tries to move troops from the Kherson front to bolster its position in the north, this creates opportunities for Ukraine to strike the weakened lines in the south. And vice-versa, obviously. If the Ukrainians have reached the Dnipro at Dudchany, this threatens all the Russian forces on the eastern side of the Kherson front. Well, what can the Russians do? Move troops there from the western side of the front, which would weaken that end of the line and make it vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks?

While the Russians are moving forces around the Kherson front to try to contain the Ukrainian breakthrough there, of course, this prevents Russia from taking more forces from the south to try to patch up their lines up north around Kupiansk and Lyman. Were I asked to wager on what comes next, I’d bet that within a week or so, Russia will pull back to the south bank of the Dnipro, and focus on defending Crimea.




 

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