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In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 29, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part III
357 Magnum: “Free Health Care” – You Get What You Pay For
EBL: MAGA Soros Prosecution
Twitchy: Charlamagne Tha God Torches Dems For Biden Coverup Sham, Blake Lively’s Ridiculous Legal Blunder, and Redditors Call For MORE Violence Against Christians To Achieve Gun Control Agenda
Louder With Crowder: DC Mayor forced to admit she “greatly appreciates” Trump after crime in her city plummets, also, MSNBC says quiet part out loud, wants ALL guns banned just like in the UK and Australia
Vox Popoli: Back in Purple, Churchianity, British Girls vs Migrants: The Real Story, The Sonnets Revealed, and Education
Upstream Reviews: Of All The Gin Joints in the Universe
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Crime Rates & Lying Politicians
Cedar Sanderson: It’s A Series

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CDR Salamander: The CNO’s Top Five – But About #2…
Dana Loesch: Transtifa Strikes Again
Don Surber: Try empathy, Democrats
Matt Taibbi: Timeline – Redistricting Wars, Note on the Minnesota Shooting, and For Some, Russiagate Never Ended

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In The Mailbox: 08.28.25

Posted on | August 29, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.28.25

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Been unwell the last couple of days. Hope to get caught up tomorrow.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Celtic Warrior Women, Deranged Trump Hating Troon Attacks Minneapolis Catholic Church and Students, Cutting Ora King Salmon into Sushi, Free Scotland From Tyranny, and The Real McKenzies : “Scotland The Brave”
Twitchy: ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Pedo Living Inside San Diego Daycare, M.K. Hammer Destroys NYT Over Misleading Mpls Shooter Headline , and CDC Staffers Stage Walkout At Atlanta HQ To Cheer Former Monkeypox Czar
Louder With Crowder: After Donald Trump causes Cracker Barrel to bend the knee, the truth is coming out about changing the logo, also, EXCLUSIVE: LWC first to break Minneapolis trans manifesto!
Vox Popoli: Nigel Farage is a Fraud, Fake Trump Exit Incoming, The Virginian Began to Hate, Diversity Enriches Switzerland, and Wind-Up Toy Attack
Cedar Sanderson: Tom O’ Bedlam’s Song
The Bugscuffle Gazette: A government that blames the children
Gab: The Parallel Internet

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CDR Salamander: The Defenestration of JCIDS
Don Surber: How Obama doomed the Democrats

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In The Mailbox: 8.27.25

Posted on | August 27, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 8.27.25

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Democrat retardation continues

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Cargo Line Stops Shipping EVs
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part II
EBL: Jackie Mason’s Lecture At Oxford University, Why You Should Eat This Shark, FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK AT ABBEY GATE, Le chant des partisans, and President Trump Fires Lisa Cook
Twitchy: ABC News “Reporter” Leaves Out Exactly What Was Written On Minneapolis Shooter’s Gun,  Daily Beast Upset That MAGA Notices Shooter Was A Troon, and Leftie Swifties On Reddit Not handling News Well
Louder With Crowder: Democrats panicking ahead of midterm elections when they see how pro-Trump four crucial red states have gone
Vox Popoli: Diversity in Holland, A “Patriot” Fake and Gay, Perhaps More Sanctions on Russia Would Help, The Defense Catches Up, and France is Going Down Too
The Abbey of Misrule: The Meme vs. The Machine
Upstream Reviews: The Last Marine
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Mass Deportation And/Or Civil War

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CDR Salamander: NATO Has A New Maritime Alliance Policy
Dana Loesch: Helldivers 2 Liberates Gaming 
Don Surber: Day 11 – still no murders
Matt Taibbi: Hard Fought – The Winner of the Mean Mr. Mustache Lyrics Contest

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‘It Rubs the Lotion On Its Skin’: Creepy Killer Trannies and Their Media Enablers

Posted on | August 27, 2025 | Comments Off on ‘It Rubs the Lotion On Its Skin’: Creepy Killer Trannies and Their Media Enablers

Robert Paul ‘Robin’ Westman and his ‘Kill Tump’ gun

Every website on the planet is full of commentary about the massacre at Annunciation Catholic Church School in Minneapolis, and I’ll just briefly quote from the New York Post article:

The deranged gunman who slaughtered two children and injured at least 17 others at a Catholic school in Minneapolis has been identified as a transgender woman — as disturbing videos posted by the shooter show a handwritten manifesto and “kill Donald Trump” and “for the children” scrawled on gun magazines.
Robin Westman, formerly Robert Westman, opened fire through the stained glass windows of a church at the Annunciation Catholic School — where he attended — during a celebratory back-to-school Mass filled with children around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Just hours before the cowardly massacre, Westman, 23, posted a series of twisted videos on YouTube, which included a manifesto, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed at a press conference.
In one 20-minute video, Westman flips through the disturbing handwritten manifesto. Much of it is written in a homespun code that uses Cyrillic characters and English phonetic words.
In the deranged writings, he gleefully fantasizes about “being that scary horrible monster standing over those powerless kids” and reverently confesses admiration for the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
Westman applied to change his birth name from Robert to Robin in Dakota County, Minn., when he was 17 years old, according to court documents. That name change was granted in January 2020.
The petition added that Westman “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

You can read the rest of that. People are feeling grief and anger, but what I mainly feel is complete disgust at ~90% of the news media in this country. You cannot hate the media more than they deserve to be hated.

Here we have a story about a demonic freak — a monster right out of a horror movie — who deliberately targeted school children, and the main concern of the media seems to be that honestly reporting the story might somehow incite “transphobia.” Let me just point out that the word “phobia” describes an irrational fear. When people look at this sick freak who murdered little children, is their fear irrational? Not at all. You’d be crazy if you didn’t fear dangerous weirdos like Robert/“Robin.”

Why do so many journalists treat such people as victims of social injustice and wrongful “hate”? Even when they commit mass murder, somehow they’re still victims, as far as the media are concerned.

Anyway the headline contains an allusion to an infamous scene in the 1988 thriller The Silence of the Lambs:

 

What that scene establishes about the killer “Buffalo Bill” is his utter lack of empathy for his victims. The girl is “it” — totally dehumanized, an object, whom he intends to murder and carve up to turn her skin into a “woman suit.” Did you know that “Buffalo Bill” is based on three real-life serial killers? One of them, Ed Gein, actually made such a “woman suit” from the skin of his victims. One of the characteristics of sociopaths and psychopaths is their inability to feel empathy toward others. They are so self-centered that, to them, others exist only to be used for whatever purpose the psychopath has in mind. Having skimmed over a few pages of Robert/“Robin” Westman’s journal (or “manifesto”), it’s so easy to see this lack of empathy, the inability to see others as human.

And really, isn’t this the case with most journalists? They don’t see the children shot by Robert/“Robin” as entirely human; no, those people are just statistics, fodder for a story, the core narrative of which is the real victimhood of the killer — the transgender maniac is the only person in the story to whom these journalists can relate.

They are as evil and depraved as he was. You can’t hate them enough.



 

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Crime Is Down, the Border Is Secure, and Taylor Swift Is Finally Getting Married

Posted on | August 26, 2025 | Comments Off on Crime Is Down, the Border Is Secure, and Taylor Swift Is Finally Getting Married

Make Middle-Aged Singers Great Again!

Travis Kelce wasn’t messing around when he knelt to the ground and pulled out a diamond ring for his new fiancée, Taylor Swift.
The pop superstar, 35, gave fans an up-close look at her stunning engagement ring Tuesday when she announced the Chiefs tight end, also 35, had popped the question after two years of dating.
The dazzling piece features an old mine brilliant-cut diamond set on a gold band, according to Page Six, which noted the ring was crafted by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry with input from Kelce himself.
Kelce proposed to Swift in a dreamy garden setting, complete with a floral arch and colorful blooms. . . .
First linked in 2023, Kelce famously made headlines in July of that year when he expressed interest in Swift on his “New Heights” podcast after failing to pass along a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it during an Eras Tour stop in Kansas City.
The 14-time Grammy winner, who attended her first Chiefs game two months after Kelce shot his shot, said on “New Heights” this month that she’s grateful the three-time Super Bowl champ “decided to use [the show] as his personal dating app two years ago,” as the pair ended up together.

Look, I’m not a “Swiftie,” and take a dim view of her songwriting oeuvre — date a guy, dump a guy, turn it into a revenge song — and considering how many guys she’s done this with, it’s difficult for me to imagine a “happily-ever-after” finale for the future Mrs. Kelce. Taylor’s been passed around more than a joint at a Grateful Dead concert. She’s been used as a pump-and-dump by Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhall and a long list of other guys that we know about, and who can estimate how many secret hookups she’s had with various drummers, guitarists, backup dancers, etc., over the years? There were even rumors of a lesbian affair with model Cara Delevingne a few years ago, but never mind that.

My point is, when a woman is 35 years old with a track record of busted relationships with more than a dozen previous boyfriends, what does one say to the fellow who decides she’s wife material? “Good luck”?

Man, if you had good luck you never would have ended up with her. Imagine being Taylor Swift’s husband. Forget to take out the garbage? Bang, there’s her new hit song denouncing you as a lazy bum.

No, this will not end well for Travis Kelce, although we can expect Taylor to get three or four new albums’ worth of songs out of it. I’ve warned my sons, “Never date a girl who dated a Jonas brother.”



 

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Carry Me Home to See My Kin

Posted on | August 26, 2025 | Comments Off on Carry Me Home to See My Kin

An unexpected road trip suddenly looms, as I just got word that my Aunt Joanne (actually a second cousin, but we kids called her “aunt” by courtesy) has died at her home in Montgomery, Alabama. Joanne’s mother was my maternal grandmother’s younger sister, and Joanne was especially close to my mother’s younger sister, Barbara Ellis.

Like Aunt Barbara, Joanne was a teacher, and her obituary notes her passion for politics as “a proud Democrat and a committed civil rights activist.” Some of my conservative friends don’t believe me when I say that many of my dearest relatives are Democrats, so there’s your proof.

The funeral will be Friday, which means I’ll have to rent a car, leave Thursday and drive more than 800 miles to get there. Which, of course, means it’s time for a return of the Big Yellow Button.

 

The PayPal donation button is always on the page, but some of our readers may be near-sighted, so on special occasions, I’ll blow it up big enough that you’d have to be blind to miss it. The usual asking amount is $17.76, but any amount — $5 or $10 or whatever — would be most welcome. You know we got to get those big wheels rolling: “Singing songs about the Southland, miss old ’Bammy once again.”

 

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In The Mailbox: 08.25.25

Posted on | August 26, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.25.25

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Call for Authors! The BasedCon Based Books Sale Is Nigh!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal, 
357 Magnum: Disney Is Broken, also A Bear Is In Your House. What Do You Do?
EBL: Thai Fried Seafood – Yellowtail Snapper, Ariel Ekblaw, Turn This Grouper Skeleton Into Fish Stock, Academism, and Shantaram
Twitchy: “Who Is The Secretary of Agriculture?”, CNN’s Condescending Tiffany Cross Calls Stephen Miller White Supremacist, and Mark Cuban Blames Consultants Fro Not Letting Kamala “Sell Herself” To Voters
Louder With Crowder: Zohran Mamdani embarrasses himself trying to lift weights at “men’s day,” gets obliterated with nickname that’s gonna stick
Vox Popoli: The Vaxx’s 5X Kill Effect, September 1 Paywall, Punjabis United Against America, Time to Move On, and The Fictional Western
Cedar Sanderson: Housekeeping In Space, also, Dragon Month – Four
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Publishing stuff, also, Big Brother riding shotgun
Stoic Observations: The Old School
Upstream Reviews: The Bluecoats – Navy Blues
Jim McCoy: Deathbringer

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American Conservative: Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism
American Greatness: Gaza Part One: The Situation, We Need to Rethink AI Before It Destroys What It Means to Be Human, and Dear Prudence, Won’t You Come Out to Play?
American Thinker: The Incompetence of the USA’s Most ‘Prestigious’ Papers, also, Progressivism’s Fatal Flaw: Rejecting America
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: “Do You Know Who I Am?” 2025 Edition, Texas Redistricting Passes Senate, Headed To Abbott’s Desk, and Democrat Forbidden Words For 2025 (Plus Additions)
Behind The Black: Tenth orbital test flight of Superheavy/Starship scrubbed due to weather, Wind-eroded terrain on the edge of Mars’ largest volcanic ash field, Contact re-established with Jupiter probe Juice after a month, India completes 1st complete Gaganyaan capsule parachute drop test, and Misconduct alleged in management of Square Kilometer Array in Australia
Cafe Hayek: Trump’s Trade Policy Puts Americans Last, A Note on Tariffs and Inflation, and Further Reflections on Protectionism and (Measured) Inflation
CDR Salamander: The Fourth Summer of War – On Midrats, Can Everyone In The Caribbean Just Chill For A While?
Chicago Boyz: Back to the Future, also, Democratic Governors Hate Democracy
Da Tech Guy: A Silly Monty Python Test. Does “Tits” equal “Traffic”?
Dana Loesch: We’re Arguing About Flag Burning Again
Don Surber: DEI harms black women
Elizabeth Nickson: Barring The Anomaly Of Trump, All Elections Are Stolen,
First Street Journal: The solution to SEPTA’s woes is simple
Gates Of Vienna: A Potpourri of Cultural Enrichment in Europe, Welcome to Mahomet, and Blood-Soaked Cultural Enrichment on a Dresden Tram
The Geller Report: ‘Sending People to Other Parts of the World and Ruling the World Was All Part of the Plan’, Texas Democrats Slink Back -Time to Lock Them Up and Throw Away the Key, and UK Has Fallen – The Flag of England is Now Considered Hate Speech
Hollywood In Toto: Carolla, Dr. Drew Decode Comey’s Cringe Swiftie Video, What Lies Beneath Would Make Alfred Hitchcock Proud, Luis Guzmán Says Latino Trump Voters Are ‘Ignorant’, and Can Weapons Break Genre Movie Curse?
Legal Insurrection: Grok AI Mistakes Ukraine for Gaza, The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – Eighty-Six Years Later, Professor Jonathan Turley on ‘The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’, ‘Unexpected’ Slowdown in Arctic Sea Ice Melt Stuns Researchers, and Poll Finds Support for DEI Policies in California is Slipping
Matt Taibbi: Sow The Wind, Reap The Whirlwind, also, World Grossed Out As Yuppie-Chatbot Mating Surges
Outkick: Kenny Pickett Headed To Las Vegas Raiders As Geno Smith’s New Backup, Son of NFL WR GOAT Jerry Rice Done With Chargers, For Now, Ron Washington Underwent Quadruple Bypass Surgery And Still Wants To Run An MLB Team, Clock Is Ticking On WNBA CBA Talks, And No One Is Budging, and Marlins Pitcher Tyler Phillips Gives Horrifying Postgame Interview After Earning Save
Power Line: The case of Mahamud Mahamed, The sound and the fury, and Can a Wimp Be Elected Mayor of NYC?
Shark Tank: Lt. Governor Collins Faces Heavy Lifting If He Runs Against Donalds In 2026
Shot In The Dark: Return To Sender
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Diving Boards, Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk, and Beethoven’s 9th, also, Summer Re-Runs – Water Can Be Dangerous – Be Careful Out There
This Ain’t Hell: New Award for Mexican Border Service, ICE paying recruiting bonuses, Stolen Valor Russian Style, Spy Sailor Convicted, and Howard Augustine Wheeler, 86, passes Wednesday
Transterrestrial Musings: 
Victory Girls: School Starts and Another Season of Boys on Girls’ Teams, Cracker Barrel Rebrand Is A Dog That Won’t Hunt, and Jasmine Crockett: From Congress To Content Creator?
Watts Up With That: Green Jobs Make Us Poorer, New Scientist claims “We could get most metals for clean energy without opening new mines”, and STEVE MILLOY: Rescinding Key Obama EPA Finding May Prove Tougher Than Trump Admin Thought
The Federalist: Big Beautiful Bill Will Save Taxpayers From Paying Millions To Fund Medicaid For Dead People, DNC Chair Says Democrats Need To Stop Playing By The Rules, Wednesday Season 2 Rejects The ‘Family’ Part Of The Addams Family, Sorry, Not Sorry: Cracker Barrel Doubles Down On Unpopular Rebrand, and East Asia’s Political Turmoil Could Hamper Trump’s Bid To Counter Red China
Mark Steyn: On the Town – And the Living Is Easy, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo – Desperate Times and Desperate Measures, There’s A Kind of Hush (All Over the World) with Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits, and The Great Big Convoy

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The ‘Green Energy’ Boondoggle Fails Every Time It Encounters Reality

Posted on | August 25, 2025 | Comments Off on The ‘Green Energy’ Boondoggle Fails Every Time It Encounters Reality

“Fossil fuels — BAD! Green energy — GOOD!” This is the sum total of left-wing ideas on the subject, no matter how much “science” they claim to justify their prejudice, and no facts will persuade them:

School districts throughout the United States are ditching electric school buses, manufactured by a Canadian company that has fallen into bankruptcy, for diesel school buses, citing the difficulty in getting electric buses repaired.
The return to diesel school buses comes as Quebec-based Lion Electric, which the Biden administration awarded $159 million “to manufacture 435 school buses between 2022 and 2024,” has fallen into bankruptcy, according to the Washington Free Beacon. As a result, the company has “warned school districts that its dire financial straits prevent it from servicing” the electric school buses.
Several superintendents explained to the outlet that while they would try to keep the “electric fleet” of school buses operating “for as long as possible,” they would eventually have to “return to diesel” due to diesel school buses being more affordable.
“We are going to keep our electric fleet on the roads for as long as possible,” Mike Leskowich, who serves as the superintendent of the Homer Community School District in Michigan, told the outlet. Leskowich’s school district “received $2.8 million in federal funding to procure seven Lion buses in 2022.”
“Eventually, however, we will return to diesel, as the cost of the vehicle is far less than electric,” Leskowich added. . . .

The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this year that Lion, then nearing bankruptcy, had yet to deliver $95 million worth of the electric buses it pledged to produce as part of the Biden administration’s $5 billion Clean School Bus program. Since then, Lion was sold for just $6 million during bankruptcy proceedings after being valued at $4.7 billion as recently as June 2021. The company also permanently shuttered multiple manufacturing plants, fired the majority of its employees, and told consumers that it could no longer honor warranties and purchase orders in the United States.

Travis Fisher, who works as the director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute, explained to the outlet that this was “yet another example that perhaps there will be large bumps in the road” in switching to electric vehicles (EVs).

Repair costs aren’t something that “green energy” enthusiasts are capable of calculating, just like they never ponder whether the process of manufacturing wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, etc., produces carbon emissions and other pollution in such quantities as to completely offset the alleged “planet-saving” benefits. Such basic issues — the whole cost/benefit aspect of their carbon-free pipe dreams — don’t make any impression on them, the same way it’s useless to try explaining to a Scientologist that L. Ron Hubbard was a mediocre science-fiction writer who cooked up a scam to defraud his dimwit followers.

The alleged “climate crisis” is a hoax, and even if it weren’t, the measures proposed by the “green energy” cultists — e.g., government-subsidized electric school buses — would do nothing to solve the problem. Meanwhile, here’s some simple arithmetic: Divide $159 million by 435 and you discover that the Biden administration spent $365,517.24 per electric bus. You can buy a Ferrari with 819 horsepower for less.



 

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