In The Mailbox: 10.06.22 (Evening Edition)

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
Louder With Crowder: The real reason why Trevor Noah is leaving ‘The Daily Show’, also, ‘Attention Walmart Associates:’ Chaos erupts when employees discover they’re both shagging the same manager
Vox Popoli: A Legitimate Expression, The Gammas in the Manger, A Tremendous Opportunity, and God Withdraws His Hand

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Planned Destruction of Germany by the USA, God Hates Weak Priests, and Livestream with Giuseppe Filotto
American Conservative: Goodbye, Louisiana. I Tried, also, Drag Queen Conservatism Is the Real Threat to Religious Freedom
American Greatness: Leftist Political Terror Against Republicans Greenlighted by Biden and the Left, also, Pushing the Envelopes in Ukraine
American Power: The Tories’ Weird Incoherent Collapse, also, Economic Issues Outweigh Concerns About Rights in Midterm Vote
American Thinker: There’s a major reason why the world in 2022 is like the world in 1939, Air Force Academy Woes Highlight Collapse of Military Values Under Diversity Mania, and The Seth Rich Case: The FBI’s Other Laptop Scandal
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist: While Cubans suffer, Fidel Castro’s grandson parties on Instagram, Castro dictatorship fears another popular uprising as Cubans protest for a third day, and Reports from Cuba: The protest demands in Cuba: Electricity, water, and freedom
BattleSwarm: The Ukrainian Way of War, also, More Fraudsters Arrested For Stealing Taxpayer Money
Behind The Black: Firefly successfully completes first orbital launch of its Alpha rocket, NASA now aiming for SLS launch in November, Head of Commerce’s space office questions new FCC regulations on space junk, and Today’s blacklisted Americans: All normal girls banned from locker room because one cross-dressing boy demanded it
Cafe Hayek: Prosperity Is Not Rooted in Slavery, also, King and Vaughn Should Voluntarily Restrain Themselves from Writing About Trade
CDR Salamander: We Need to Talk About France
Chicago Boyz: Chicagoboyz Appreciate a Jazzy Set of Wheels
Da Tech Guy: Why LGBT voters benefit from less government and a market economy, Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest: Day 6 All this and the Oct Indulgence Calendar too!, and If Pritzker is serious about flaws to the pro-criminal SAFE-T Act, he’ll call for a special General Assembly session to repeal it
Don Surber: Calling North Korea an ally is “deft diplomacy”, DeSantis passed the hurricane test, and WaPo admits Dems fear apocalypse
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: The politicians all want to “do something” but will never admit what the problem is, Now Our Betters want you to charge your Chevy Dolt at work, not at home, and It wasn’t a difficult prediction to make
Gates Of Vienna: Batik Witches Rule!, Strongman’s Laws, The Caravan of Light: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again, and The Day Women Burn Their Uniforms en Masse, Islam Collapses
The Geller Report: MADMAN: Newsom Signs Bill to Allow Minors From Other States To Get Castration, Breast Removal Mutilation WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT, also, Bald, Golden Eagle Deaths Permitted Under New U.S. Wind Energy, Power Line Rules
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, L’etat c’est nous, and Tonight’s Sky: October, 2022
Hollywood In Toto: Rice’s Woking Dead Hammers Hollywood, Cowardly Comics, Bros Bombs at Box Office, and Lenny Bruce Impersonator Misses Whole Point of Lenny Bruce
The Lid: Kamala Shows She Doesn’t Understand Founding Docs. Makes Racist Statement About Hurricane Ian, Judge WRECKS Stacey Abrams Over Voter Rights Suit, and Flip-Flopping Liar: Beta O’Rourke
Legal Insurrection: Trump Sues CNN for Defamation, Seeks $475 Million in Damages, Michigan Gov. Whitmer Wants to Fix Child Foster Care System With Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Counselor, Molotov Cocktail Lawyer Seeks Reduced Sentence Claiming She Was Inebriated, and Student Group Who Walked Out to Protest Youngkin Trans Policy Says Many ‘Simply Just Wanted to Skip School’
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: Change is good, also, So what with pipeline explosions, rumors of war, hugely destructive hurricanes, and whatnot, it’s time for a break
Outkick: Rams Players Fight On The Sideline; Kyle Shanahan’s 49ers Continue To Dominate Regular-Season Rivalry, Seahawks Threaten Wife Of Veteran They Once Honored After Husband Wears Jersey In GOP Campaign Ad, Braves End NL East Race With A Bang In Miami Monday, and Hooters Releases Its 2023 Bikini Calendar
Power Line: The Harassment of Ginni Thomas, Thought for the Day: Dostoyevsky on Liberals, and How’s he doing?
Shark Tank: Mason-Dixon Polling Shows Rubio Up By Six Over Demings
Shot In The Dark: “Does This Empty Building Make My City Look Fat?”, A Dumb Bad Guy With A Gun, and Trivial, Promoted,& Ubiquitous
The Political Hat: Gaia Goes Corporate And Gets An Ambassador Too, also, American Judge Strikes Blow Against The Duo-Normative Diarchy
This Ain’t Hell: NG LTC chases bus filled with seniors because he thought it had South American migrants, Thank You for Your Heroic Service. You’re Fired., JB San Antonio reports Legionella in barracks, moves patients, and US Army misses recruiting goal
Transterrestrial Musings: Trans Treatments, The Ukrainian Way Of War, Future Space Settlers, and The Coming SCOTUS Term
Victory Girls: Paramedic Murdered In NYC, Politicians Say Don’t Call Police, DeSantis Warns Looters, Joy Reid Cries Racist, Thanks Biden! OPEC+ To Make Major Cut In Oil Production, Brazil Presidential Election Heads To Runoff, and Gavin Newsom Legalizes Child Trafficking
Volokh Conspiracy: Giving Yale Law School The Heave-Ho, Rest In Peace Judge Silberman, and Big Tech’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Watts Up With That: Bloomberg and NewsBusters Show ESG Is Neither Virtuous Nor Profitable, Renewables and the Great Texas Blackout: Baker Institute Study Tiptoes to Key Causality, and The Coming Green Electricity Nightmare
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris: I Love Venn Diagrams, You Know…The Three Circles?, Coast Guard Hero Thanked By Biden To Be Fired Soon For Not Getting Vaccinated, Dem Rep. Cori Bush Laments People Do Not Want To Teach Critical Race Theory In Elementary Schools, and Poll: Dems’ Lead Over GOP Among Hispanics Hits New Low
The Federalist: If Facebook, Twitter, And Google Hide Information For The World’s Rulers, Elections Are A Scam, Bombshell Texts Show Milwaukee Mayor Colluding With Democrats To Rig 2022 Election, Biden-Backing Billionaire Michael Bloomberg Tried To Meddle In Pennsylvania’s Election, and Judge Smacks Down Stacey Abrams’ Bogus Claims Of Voter Suppression In 2018 Election Loss
Mark Steyn: Something Rotten: Preston Sturges and The Great McGinty, Fascism on the March!, and Songs in the Keys of Florida

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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.

Category: Military, Russia, Ukraine

Rule 5 Sunday: Oktoberfest

Posted on | October 3, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Oktoberfest

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I never made it to the original Oktoberfest in Munich while I was stationed in Germany, and I gather I didn’t miss much, according to troops I knew who went. These days, I’m even less inclined to go since airfare to ~~West~~Germany isn’t cheap, beer disagrees with my pancreas, and I can find decent German food here in CONUSstan without trying too hard. Still, one nice thing about the event is that it gives women an excuse to doll themselves up in dirndls, which do wonders for the feminine form.
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NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1855, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Inflation Reduction Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA Biden – Where’s Jackie?, Under The Banner Of Heaven, Amy Winehouse, Memory, Blonde, Pig, The Real Bling Ring, Dinah Washington, Tiffany Smiley, Giorgia Meloni, My Week With Marilyn, Louise Fletcher RIP, The Outfit, and Agnes Obel.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Lizzeth Acosta, Fish Pic Friday – Ciara Gaydos, Biden Speaks to Dead People, Tanks Economy and Drains Oil Reserves , Tattoo Thursday , Wednesday Wetness , Tuesday Tanlines , The Monday Morning Stimulus , Biden Sundowns, BLM Bomber Begs for Mercy, and Palm Sunday.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Shadows Of The Night

Posted on | October 2, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Shadows Of The Night

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Senators traded starting pitcher Larry Dierker and newly acquired center fielder Pat Kelly to the Phillies for center fielder Willie Mays and starter Pat Dobson, mainly with an eye toward next season (1973) when Dierker is going to be chopped liver (along with Mays) but we’ll have two decent center fielders anyway and Jarvis will pitch a lot better in RFK than he did historically in the Launching Pad and Yankees Stadium. With the new additions we played .400 ball this week against the A’s and Red Sox, but all the games were close this time. Not a single blowout. Plus, the two games we won were in extra innings, which says nice things about our bullpen.

As for our musical theme this week, is there a red-blooded American male who didn’t have at least a short-term crush on Pat Benatar in the 80s?
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The $250,000,000 Scandal That’s Wrecking Minnesota Democrats

Posted on | October 2, 2022 | Comments Off on The $250,000,000 Scandal That’s Wrecking Minnesota Democrats

There haven’t been many public polls in the Minnesota governor’s race, but Republican challenger Scott Jensen is within striking distance of Democrat incumbent Gov. Tim Walz, who is now dealing with fallout from what federal prosecutors call “the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme charged to date”:

The Department of Justice announced today federal criminal charges against 47 defendants for their alleged roles in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic. . . .
“This was a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger for the District of Minnesota. “These defendants exploited a program designed to provide nutritious food to needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they prioritized their own greed, stealing more than a quarter of a billion dollars in federal funds to purchase luxury cars, houses, jewelry, and coastal resort property abroad. I commend the work of the skilled investigators and prosecutors who unraveled the lies, deception, and mountains of false documentation to bring this complex case to light.”
The 47 defendants are charged across six separate indictments and three criminal informations with charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and bribery.
As outlined in the charging documents, the defendants devised and carried out a massive scheme to defraud the Federal Child Nutrition Program. The defendants obtained, misappropriated, and laundered millions of dollars in program funds that were intended as reimbursements for the cost of serving meals to children. The defendants exploited changes in the program intended to ensure underserved children received adequate nutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than feed children, the defendants enriched themselves by fraudulently misappropriating millions of dollars in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds.

The question is now being asked: What did Tim Walz know, and when did he know it? And his answers so far seem kind of shaky.

No one has claimed that Walz personally benefited from this fraudulent scheme, but rather that his administration failed to properly supervise the expenditure of federal funds through this “child nutrition” program run by the non-profit Feeding Our Future:

Aimee Bock’s organization was keeping a low profile as it handled millions in government money when the video appeared on Facebook in January.
It purportedly showed one of Bock’s employees receiving an astonishing wedding present: an ornamental cart, laden with so much gold that guests gathered around to see it up close.
Abdihakim Nur, a Somali activist and blogger who shot the video, said he heard the gold came from food vendors who were getting rich off the money they collected through Bock’s nonprofit, Feeding Our Future.
Nur was appalled, and his video created a stir in the Somali community.
“We cannot close our eyes to such corruption which will put our entire community’s name in the news as fraudsters and criminals when we only have a few bad apples,” Nur posted.
Five days later, the FBI raided Bock’s home and a sprawling government investigation went public.

Well done, Mr. Nur! Because, if you read the indictment, here are the names of the 47 people charged in this criminal scheme:

Aimee Marie Bock
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh
Salim Ahmed Said
Abdulkadir Nur Salah
Ahmed Sharif Omar-Hashim
Abdi Nur Salah
Abdihakim Ali Ahmed
Ahmed Mohamed Artan
Abdikadir Ainanshe Mohamud
Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir
Asad Mohamed Abshir
Hamdi Hussein Omar
Ahmed Abdullahi Ghedi
Abdirahman Mohamud Ahmed
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah
Mohamed Jama Ismail
Mahad Ibrahim
Abdimajid Mohamed Nur
Said Shafii Farah
Abdiwahab Maalim Aftin
Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff
Hayat Mohamed Nur
Qamar Ahmed Hassan
Sahra Mohamed Nur
Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud
Filsan Mumin Hassan
Guhaad Hashi Said
Abdullahe Nur Jesow
Abdul Abubakar Ali
Yusuf Bashir Ali
Haji Osman Salad
Fahad Nur
Anab Artan Awad
Sharmarke Issa
Farhiya Mohamud
Liban Yasin Alishire
Ahmed Yasin Ali
Khadar Jigre Adan
Sharmake Jama
Ayan Jama
Asha Jama
Fartun Jama
Mustafa Jama
Zamzam Jama
Bekam Addissu Merdassa
Hadith Yusuf Ahmed
Hanna Marekegn

Probably not a lot of Trump voters on that list, if you get my drift.

In defending themselves against accusations of administrative negligence, Walz and the state department of education say they tried to cut off payment to Feeding Our Future, but that the non-profit responded with a lawsuit falsely claiming racial discrimination.

Wait a minute — Democrats admitting that false cries of “racism” are used to exploit the system? Wow, it’s a new day in America.

But look at that list of names again. Regardless of the details of how Walz’s administration handled this, do you think the average voter in rural Minnesota can’t add 2+2 and find that the sum is 4?

“Let’s give millions of dollars in taxpayer money to Somalis” — that’s what this “child nutrition” program was really about, and which party do you think this political payola was meant to benefit? The problem was that the corruption was just too blatant, what with the “luxury cars, houses, jewelry, and coastal resort property,” to say nothing of the “ornamental cart laden with gold,” and at some point somebody at Minnesota’s department of education got worried about it. Eventually, they tipped the feds to their concerns and tried to halt the payments to Aimee Bock’s organization, but when this was answered by a racial discrimination lawsuit, they restarted the payments, and the “child nutrition” bonanza continued right up until the feds raided Bock.

The gubernatorial race in Minnesota is very close, and this scandal works entirely to the advantage of Republicans. Furthermore, there’s a toss-up House race in Minnesota’s 2nd District, where GOP challenger Tyler Kistner — who barely lost in 2020 — is trying again to oust Democrat Rep. Angie Craig. Now we learn that Somalis have been looting the taxpayers to the tune of $250 million, and you’ve got to think that scandal doesn’t help the Democrat incumbent in this House campaign.

Category: Corruption, Crime, Minnesota

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