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FMJRA 2.0: The Beatings Will Continue

Posted on | November 9, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Beatings Will Continue

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, that closes out the appalling month of April. Once again the Polo Grounds were a pit of despair as the Yankees beat us like a rented mule in three straight games, and then we came home to RFK and lost two out of three to the Reds. Hopefully May will be better.
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The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
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Keep Giving Nick Fuentes More Rope
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FMJRA 2.0: Another Fine Mess
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Rule 5 Sunday: Barbara Eden
Animal Magnetism
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In The Mailbox: 11.04.25
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Crazy People Are Dangerous
The Pirate’s Cove
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In The Mailbox: 11.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 11.06.25
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In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 11.07.25
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Apocalyptic Timeline Update

Posted on | November 9, 2025 | Comments Off on Apocalyptic Timeline Update

The YouTube preacher known as ‘Squirrel’

Have you forgotten “The Craziest True Crime Story Ever”? In March 2024, my brother Kirby called my attention to a bizarre tale from Cimarron County in the Oklahoma Panhandle, where five people were arrested in connection with the murder of two women, the result of a child custody dispute over the grandchildren of the local Republican Party chairwoman. Then there was the “cult” angle:

Tifany-with-one-n Adams was friends with Cole Twombly, 50, and Cora Twombly, 44. Along with Adams and her boyfriend, Tad Cullom, 43, the Twomblys were allegedly “part of an anti-government religious group known as God’s Misfits.’ Regular meetings are said to have occurred at the Twombly’s home.” Their membership in this group is disputed, as is the claim of an “anti-government” motive, by none other than the leader of God’s Misfits, a biker from South Carolina known as Squirrel. . . .
The description of “God’s Misfits” as a group is perhaps misleading. Squirrel has a website, a Facebook page and a YouTube channel that comprise what he calls his “online ministry.” His most recent YouTube video, uploaded in February [2024], was based on II Thessalonians 2:3-7 and, like much of his other content, was focused on the interpretation of end-times prophecy. You may not care for eschatology lectures from an untutored biker, but in terms of reading “the signs of the times,” let he who has ears hear! “Let’s talk about what’s going on in the world now,” Squirrel said, talking about the “bloodthirsty terrorists” who attacked Israel. Could this be interpreted as an event of apocalyptic significance?

“Squirrel” saw the 10/7 attack in 2023 as a sign of the times, an omen of the Last Days, and who am I to say he was wrong? Early this morning, someone on X (formerly known as Twitter) put up a post about the Oklahoma Panhandle that caused me to revisit the tale of Squirrel and “God’s Misfits,” and it occurred to me to construct this timeline:

We might add other events to this timeline, but my point is that if you were prone to seek prophetic omens in daily news events, there have been a lot of things happening in the past couple of years that may strike you as potentially significant. We live in an age of radicalization, where the decline of institutional authority and the rise of alternative information sources result in the formation of cliques and factions, each existing inside online echo chambers of voices feeding their confirmation bias.

Why is Nick Fuentes suddenly so newsworthy? Look at that timeline again. Do you see that there have been a lot of events that might produce psychological stress? As I say, many other events could be added to that timeline, and it doesn’t matter what problem it is you’re worried about, the repeated shocks to your mental framework could be traumatic, leaving you with feelings of Fear and Loathing, distrust and suspicion.

Some people are better equipped than others in terms of coping with stress, but even those of us capable of maintaining our sanity in these crazy days may experience certain stress-related symptoms. For example, it’s been four days since I last published a post here, but in those four days I have started and abandoned several drafts of posts I wanted to write, being distracted before I could bring them to completion. Then I have to resist the urge to beat myself up for my lack of productivity, and so forth. Ultimately, I must recognize these symptoms for what they are, and just try to keep myself from being dragged down into a condition of helpless frustration. Depression is bad, but the other side of the bipolar equation — a full-blown manic episode — is much more to be feared.

This is really the threat that faces us in America right now. Some weak-minded people, unable to cope with the stress, and pushed into a condition of rage and despair by an online diet of negative messages, will surrender to the manic urge to do something about whatever it is they’re obsessed with. That’s basically the story of accused assassin Tyler James Robinson, just as it was the story of Robert Gregory Bowers, who committed the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in 2018.

Of course, it’s one thing to view such events as evidence of mental illness (“Crazy People Are Dangerous”), but others may see them as manifestations of satanic influence — and far be it from me to deny this possibility. Whichever way you see it, each time something like this happens, there is the risk of ripple effects, as other unstable people may be encouraged to commit copycat attacks. Take care of yourself, stay safe, and in the meantime, give me some encouragement.

 
Yes, it’s the Big Yellow Button again. Some readers may be near-sighted, and I occasionally feel the need to enlarge the PayPal contribution button, just to make my need a bit more visible. For the sake of my mental health, I’m feeling an urge to go to a local eatery this afternoon, where I can relax in front of a big screen TV and watch Mac Jones and the 49ers take on their NFC West division rivals, the L.A. Rams.

Some people are worried about their health insurance premiums, but my preferred therapeutic intervention doesn’t require a doctor’s prescription. The industrious descendants of D. G. Yuengling have been providing excellent products since 1829, and I’m certain that some portion of the output of Pottsville, Pennsylvania ($6.50 for a tall draft) could help my current condition. Along with a serving of fish and chips ($13.99), and a victory for the Niners, this would cure what ails me.

With hope for a brighter future amid troubling times, once again I remind you of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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In The Mailbox: 11.07.25

Posted on | November 8, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.07.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Italy Embraces Self-Defense
Director Blue: Top 20 Theories on the EU’s Cultural Suicide 
EBL: James Watson RIP, Why Swordfish Fans Are Obsessed With This Cut, “Commie Lies”, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald Medley, and Are Conservative Women Hotter?
Twitchy: SCOTUS Rules For Trump – Temporarily Blocks SNAP Payments, Dozens of Subpoenas Sent To Russian Collusion Hoax Players,  and DHS Reality Checks Dems’ “harrowing Footage Of A Father” Arrested By ICE
Louder With Crowder: The DC man who assaulted an ICE officer with a sandwich – acquitted, of course, Reporter finds herself in hot water for calling pregnant people “women,” network claims her face broke broadcast rules, Trans “Woman” Part Of Gold Gym’s Controversy Was Convicted Of Beating His Ex-Wife, and Woke reporter attempts to bait Sydney Sweeney with question about her whiteness, actress responds  perfectly
Vox Popoli: Not So Much, also, WWII Wasn’t Worth It
According To Hoyt: Learn To Tell Psyops, Climbing Up, Throw Another Virgin Into the Volcano, Deep Breaths, and Did You Miss Me?
Upstream Reviews: Best of 2025
Jim McCoy: Interview With J. Kenton Pierce
Gab: It’s Us Or Them

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Senate War Powers Resolution on Venezuela Action Fails
American Greatness: Top Trump Officials Moved Into Military Housing Due to Left-wing Political Threats, Energy Secretary Says Trump’s Reinvigoration & Expansion of Coal Industry ‘Critical to Our Country’, Did We Just Win the Vietnam War? and Are Americans Better or Worse Off Since January?
American Thinker: How to Fix Food Stamps
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Nobel Peace Prize Friday
BattleSwarm: HPD To NYPD: Come On Down, also, LinkSwarm For November 8
Behind The Black: Crazy layers inside a Martian crater, Profits for Luxembourg satellite company SES drop due to U.S. budget cuts and shutdown, U.S. budget cuts shifts Blacksky’s satellite imaging business to international customers, Echostar sells more of its licensed spectrum to SpaceX, and FAA issues a launch curfew due to the shutdown
Cafe Hayek: My Discussion, With the IEA’s Daniel Freeman, Of Phil Gramm’s and My New Book, Another Interview Centered on Phil Gramm’s and My “Triumph of Economic Freedom”, and Debt-financing Engorges the Beast
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Fuentes Furioso
Dana Loesch: Disaffected Young Men Are At The Core of the Right’s Civil War
Don Surber: After 40+ years, the Heritage Foundation is collapsing
First Street Journal: Ford might trash the entire F-150 Lightning electric vehicle model line
Gates Of Vienna: The Culture-Enriching Murder of a Refugee Helper in Poitiers
The Geller Report: Trump Supreme Court Win…For Reality
Hollywood In Toto: Faith-Based Rom-Com Counters Hollywood’s Marriage Misery, Powerful Sarah’s Oil Shines Spotlight on Plucky Heroine, Anti-Trump Anniversary Bombs, Media Blames You-Know-Who, Legacy Media Admits to Hollywood’s Conservative Blacklist AGAIN, and Predator: Badlands – Get to the Exits!
Legal Insurrection: Federal Judge Clears Trump Administration to Revoke MA Offshore Wind Project Approval, Sydney Sweeney Soars Like an Eagle During GQ’s Woke-Scolding Interview, Parents Win – Federal Court Blocks Ohio School District’s Transgender Pronoun Policy, Media Research Center Says Networks Running Cover for Democrats Throughout Shutdown, and U. Iowa Student Arrested After Flipping TPUSA Table on Campus
Outkick: OutKick Reporter Harassed Covering Girls Volleyball, Trans Player, As Principal Does Nothing, Blue Jays Pitcher Talked Trash, Then Gave Up Game Tying Home Run In World Series Game 7, Even the War Department Isn’t Stopping NFL’s Salute To Service, Antonio Brown Allegedly Made Insanely Stupid Mistake To Get Arrested, Proves He’s An Idiot, and Sydney Sweeney Turns On America With Something Bigger Than Her Boobs
Power Line: There is no Constitution [Updated] [With Comment by John], So Long, Nancy, Sydney Says No, Almost live from Jacksonville, and Four illuminations in the life of an online scribe: A digression
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Files Suit Against Planned Parenthood For Deceptive Advertising
Shot In The Dark: Place Your Bets
STUMP: Movember 2025 – Prostate Cancer U.S. Mortality Trends Update
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Did McNamara Tell the Whole Story?
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Federal judge orders the Trump administration to fund SNAP
Victory Girls: Democratic Socialists Of America Plans For U.S. Domination
Watts Up With That: Pay per Mile Tax for UK EVs On the Way, The Church of Climate Loses Its Pulpit at CBS, The Independent is Laughably Wrong – There’s NO Climate Threat to Coffee, Chocolate, or Wine, The False Temperature Claims That Underpin the COP30 Alarmist Agenda, and Who will Pay for President Lula da Silva’s COP30 Rainforest Fund?
The Federalist: James Comey’s Own Notes Prove He Knew The Russia Hoax Was A Clinton Plot, Sydney Sweeney Handles Hack Journos Better Than Most Republicans, Longest Shutdown Ever Reveals U.S. Could Stand To Fire A Lot Of Federal Workers, Trump Is Not To Blame For Democrats Electing Violent Extremists, and Des Moines Election Proves Once Again You Can’t Fix Stupid
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Writ of Mamdani, Demographics is Everything, If You Can Make It There, and Brave in Brum

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In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 7, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Just one of those days

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXXVIII
357 Magnum: 320,000 Jeep Hybrids Must Be Parked and Not Charged
EBL: My All Time Favorite Mackerel to Eat Raw, Nancy Pelosi Is Retiring, Charlie Kirk: Conservatives Must Go On Offense, Grilled Oysters , and U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument on Legality of President Trump’s Tariffs
Twitchy: From Wife-Beater To Locker Room Menace, Conde Nast Fires Journalists Who Revolted Against Teen Vogue Cuts, and JD Vance Says Shutdown “Has Now Progressed From Farce To Tragedy”
Louder With Crowder: Mamdani voters still know nothing about him the day after voting for him, Trans Nicaraguan Refugee In Dress Is “Moved To Tears” Over Food Stamp Cut, Sydney Sweeney breaks her silence on American Eagle drama, and A medley of women celebrating Mamdani turning NYC into a “Muslim country,” making their “MAGA Parents” sad
Vox Popoli: Vox’s Razor, Why Conservatives are Irrelevant, and DEATH AND THE DARWINIAN
Stoic Observations: Southwall Update

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: J.D. Vance Can Lead a Post-Israel America
American Greatness: All Eyes on Eight Wavering Dem Senators to See if They Vote This Week to End Government Shutdown, Trump Says SNAP Food Benefits Will Not Restart Until Democrats Vote to Reopen the Government, Let Commie Mamdani Take New York City, The Broader Reasons for Trump’s Urban Crackdown, and Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?
American Thinker: Zohran the Barbarian Takes New York, How Mamdani Won New York, and Election 2025: What Happened?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Local Election News, Animal’s Hump Day News, and Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Bill Maher: Democrats Are Spirit Halloween, Four Long Videos On The Russo-Ukrainian War, Drones, And Tanks, Dick Cheney, RIP, Austin Voters Reject Odious Proposition Q, and Has Britain Had Enough?
Behind The Black: One launch today by SpaceX, while ULA scrubs for the second time in two days, SpaceX and Arianespace make launch predictions for ’25 and ’26, China’s Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter snaps fuzzy picture of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, State Department blasts the European Union’s proposed Space Act, and Judge approves plea deal related to Boeing’s malfeasance that caused two 737-Max crashes killing 346
Cafe Hayek: Absurd Hypothetical and Absurd Reality, The Trump Administration Continues to Expose Its Low Opinion of American Producers, My April 2013 Review of Cass Sunstein’s “Simpler”, The American Economy’s Largest Sector – By Far – Is Services (For Which We Americans Should Be Thankful), and Proud to Be a Pipefitter’s Son
Chicago Boyz: Mamdani and NYC, Some Thoughts Regarding Yesterday’s Elections, The Trump Appeal, And More Thoughts on the Case, and Their Worlds Turned Upside Down
Da Tech Guy: November Indulgence Calendar and Big Nov 1st to 8th indulgences available , also, 2025: The Hal Chase Election
Don Surber: Don’t be blue about Blue Tuesday
First Street Journal: “Now, only the best will drive”, also, I check Bluesky so you don’t have to!
Gates Of Vienna: Jihad in Berlin, The Jihad That Wasn’t, Long Live the State, Ramming Jihad on the Île d’Oléron, and The Islamic State Has Been Thwarted in Kungsträdgården
The Geller Report: Minnesota Dodges Bullet: Frey Defeats Fateh, Hours After Mamdani Win: Swastikas on Jewish Day School in NYC, Qatar Ties Mamdani Success to “Success” of October 7 Massacre, One Day After Mamdani Win: New York’s Fire Commissioner Resigns, and Democrats Dominate Blue States Despite Radical Far-Left Lurch
Hollywood In Toto: A House of Dynamite Never Ignites, Here’s Great News About Two Super Woke Plays, Exhume Corpse Bride for Forgotten Tim Burton Treat, Colbert Just Nuked Left’s Late-Night Trump Theory, and Can You Imagine THESE Celebrities Starring in Airplane?
Legal Insurrection: Trinity Christian College in Illinois to Close its Doors at the End of This School Year, Trump’s Higher Ed Compact is “an attempt to save higher ed from itself”, Mamdani Begging for Supporters to Send Money to His Transition Team, Report: Layoffs at Teen Vogue As Online Magazine Gets Rolled Into Vogue’s Website, and Trans Student Trashes Conservative Group’s Table at Oklahoma State U.
Nebraska Energy Observer: Common Sense
Outkick: Former Lakers Player Uses 2nd Amendment To Scare Away Burglars, Broncos Hold Moment Of Silence For Marshawn Kneeland Before TNF Showdown Against Raiders, Lockdown to Locked Up: Ex-NBA Player Tony Allen Busted on Drug Charges, Did The Golden State Warriors Find Their Next Steph Curry? and Jessie James Decker Went Dancing In A Bikini On The Beach & Confirmed She Still Has Her Playboy Melons
Power Line: Arctic Frost Revisited, Flat spin, Trump Wins on Passports, Stephen Moore Signs Off, and Time to Close the Public Schools?
Shark Tank: Miami International Called “America’s Third World Airport”
Shot In The Dark: Growth In Office, also, So Mid
The Political Hat: The Enemy Of Your Enemy, The False Divide: Property, Personal & Private, and Quick Takes – Meanwhile, In Academia: Forcing DEI On Future Teachers; Student Government For DEI; Universal Locker Rooms
This Ain’t Hell: It “Just went off!”, What’s the cheapest fighter? And Ms. Mace, Tun Tavern- Birthplace of the Marines, Trump- Fix the UN, and Olive Branch to Viet Nam
Transterrestrial Musings: Orion, also, Here We Go Again
Victory Girls: Crockett Gets An Ethics Complaint For Hiding Stocks, Democrats Get Blue Wave Sweep On East Coast, Stop Feeding the Troll: Nick Fuentes Doesn’t Represent Conservatism, and Democrats Attempt To Bully Erika Kirk Again
Watts Up With That: Climate Activists Flying to Belém, Paying $1000+ / Night, to Demand More Money, Trump Admin Touts Record-Shattering Energy Report Despite Biden-Era Crackdown, The Church of Climate Semiotics: When Graphs Become Heresy, New York’s climate law hits the wall, and ‘Green’ Obsession Feeds Orthodoxy and Starves Growth
The Federalist: Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein Is A Monster Of Its Own Making, SCOTUS Overrules Judge Who Blocked State Dept. From Putting Natural Sex On Passports, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Refuses To Recuse After Openly Mocking Defendant, Appeals Court Upholds Florida Law Restricting Chinese Communist Land Purchases, and If Arctic Frost Perpetrators Don’t Go To Jail, Conservatives Will
Mark Steyn: Traumatized in Tinseltown: Kirk Douglas in The Bad and the Beautiful, “Light My Fire”, Conservative Inc Folds, Night Falls, and “You Can Go as Far as You Like with Me!”

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In The Mailbox: 11.06.25

Posted on | November 6, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.06.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0
Director Blue: 2025’s Top 20 Medical Miracles
EBL: Standard Omelet vs. Classic French Omelet, Corn Song ?, Remember Remember the 5th of November, and Anti-MAGA – Choose Your Destructor
Twitchy: X Gives Hilarious Recommendations To Democrats Fleeing Mamdani’s NYC, Occasional Cortex Stupidly Brags About Breaking Bread With Mayor-Elect Mamdani, and Daily Beast’s Crying About How Hard It Is To Cover Trump’s MEAN Administration Goes Hilariously Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Trans activist who encouraged armed violence against Trump supporters gets elected mayor, GenZers think they invented giving themselves a time out, but they call it “raw dogging life”, Dem who briefly flirted with common sense on trans issues forced to BEND THE KNEE now that he wants to be a blue state senator, and Scott Jennings highlights the one bright spot for the GOP after election night
Vox Popoli: 5GW: The Extension of the Battlefield, Mayor Mamdani, and On Satire and the Understanding Thereof
Cedar Sanderson: In Days of Old
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Democratic Party knows what it wants
Gab: Christian Nationalists Are Ascendant

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Nationalists Defeat The Communists Without Firing A Shot
Dana Loesch: Cancel Culture on the Right?
Don Surber: Replacing the gerontocracy with an infantocracy
Matt Taibbi: Buckle Up America – The Zohran Era Is Here,

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In The Mailbox: 11.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

More consequences of yesterday’s NYC elections.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXXVII
EBL: This Deep Sea Creature is one of the Best Tasting Fish in the Ocean, National Review Snatches Defeat From The Jaws of Victory, Dick Cheney Is Dead, King Tut, and Gatling Gun
Twitchy: Bill Melugin Explains What California’s Prop 50 Passage Means, Jewish FDNY Commissioner Reigns After Mamdani Wins, and Not Yet Deported Hamas Cheerleader Mahmoud Khalil Spotted At Mamdani’s Victory Party
Louder With Crowder: Sydney Sweeney breaks her silence on American Eagle brouhaha, Hope College – The Downfall of a Christian Institution, Podcaster explains why Dems labelling everyone “fascist” is dangerous, and AWFL school board member claims YOU’RE the one with “pedophilic tendencies” for opposing boys in girls’ sports
Vox Popoli: DEATH AND THE DEVIL, Demographics is Destiny, Australia will be Chinese, and They DID Steal the Land
Stoic Observations: Hurricanrana
Cedar Sanderson: MOTE Prompt
upstream Reviews: Best Books of 2025

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Australia has the chance to do the most incredible thing
Don Surber: The saloon keeper who changed the world
Matt Taibbi: The Best Presidential Pardon A Stablecoin Can Buy,

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | November 5, 2025 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to 35-year-old Emerson Jeffrey. In November 2021, when he came before a judge in Guernsey County, Ohio, he’d already had five prior felony convictions, but the prosecutor and the defense attorney had a plea agreement that would have kept Jeffrey out of prison. Why? Because, your honor, the perp had a history of mental illness:

A man who confessed to authorities he was trying to get law enforcement to shoot and kill him during a pursuit on Interstate 77 earlier this year, was sentenced to four years in prison Monday in the Guernsey County Common Pleas Court.
Emerson Jeffrey, 31, of Jefferson, previously plead guilty to single counts of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony, and an amended count of obstructing official business, a fifth-degree felony, as part of a negotiated plea.
The plea agreement requested Judge Daniel G. Padden impose a three-year sentence for the failure to comply conviction and a consecutive year for the obstructing conviction, and suspend the prison term in favor of five years of community control sanctions.
Citing a need to protect the public from future crimes by Jeffrey and other criminals, Padden ignored the request and ordered the defendant to serve the full prison term.
“These types of cases are difficult,” said Padden, while acknowledging Jeffrey’s long history of mental health issues. “They are hard and they have competing interests. But, the prison term is not suspended because of the need to protect the public.”
The judge told Jeffrey that Ohio law requires him to first protect the public from future crimes and then punish the offender and promote their effective rehabilitation.
Padden pointed to lengthy criminal history in Ohio and Florida as a factor in determining the sentence.
“This is his sixth felony case,” said Padden.

Somebody please ask Judge Padden to run for Congress. He’s a former prosecutor and obviously understands the public safety aspect of law enforcement better than most judges do, and we need somebody at the national level who can make America understand what I keep telling y’all: Crazy People Are Dangerous. (This is the 55th time I’ve used that phrase in a headline, because crazy people keep doing things to prove me right.)

We return to that November 2021 story:

Prior offenses reportedly included multiple theft charges, a burglary conviction and drug-related offenses in both states. Jeffrey served a prison sentence for the third-degree felony burglary conviction in Hardin County. . . .
In court Monday, Jeffrey admitted he told State Highway Patrol Trooper Adam Masinelli that officers would have to shoot and kill him after initially being stopped for a traffic violation.
“He said please don’t do this, but I drove away,” Jeffrey told the judge.
Masinelli and other law enforcement pursued Jeffrey south at approximately 65 mph until he allegedly accelerated to 109 mph upon approaching a spike strip deployed by a trooper.
Jeffrey said he was trying to harm himself.
“I was only trying to get them to kill me,” said Jeffrey in court. “If I was trying to hurt anybody else, I would have swerved at the cop instead of swerving to hit the spike strip. I wanted to flip my car to hurt myself and I jerked the steering wheel after hitting the spikes, but it just spun on the road.”
The vehicle slid off the right side of I-77 and came to rest in a wooded area along the highway where Jeffrey refused to exit the car while surrounded by troopers and sheriff’s deputies from Guernsey and Noble counties.
After crashing, Jeffrey consumed a significant amount of pills before finally exiting the vehicle some time later.
But instead of surrendering, Jeffrey emerged brandishing a knife and held authorities at bay until a Taser was eventually used to gain control of him approximately three hours after the crash.
“I really was on a mission to die,” said Jeffrey.

(Alas, he was unsuccessful.)

Guernsey County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kent Biegler and defense attorney Matthew Mollica asked Paden to suspend the maximum four-year sentence in favor of community control sanctions Monday.
Both attorneys cited Jeffrey’s lengthy mental health history and the need for treatment as reasons for the request. . . .
Mollica explained Jeffrey’s mental condition in the days following his arrest.
“He stabbed himself with a pen at the initial hearing and he wrapped a cord around himself in an attempt to harm himself,” said Mollica of his client’s desire to die in January. “He had toilet paper jammed tightly in his ears at the jail to stop the voices.”
Mollica told Padden his client is better because he is taking his medication and attending mental health counseling appointments.
“I fear if he goes to prison and then gets out, what happens then,” said Mollica. “He is not the same person as when this offense occurred. Give him a chance.”
Jeffrey also asked Padden to give him a chance when called upon by the judge.
“I have insurance to get meds and a place to live with food and someone who loves me,” said an emotional Jeffrey. “Please give me a chance to show you.”

(As we will learn — patience, dear reader — the judge was wise in rejecting these pleadings.)

Jeffrey said he started drinking alcohol at age 6 and smoking marijuana with his mother at age 7. He was removed from his home at age 11 after allegedly being sexually assaulted by his father, according to court testimony.
He was reportedly in and out of multiple foster homes and group homes over the next several years.
Following the arrest, Mollica filed a motion seeking a competency evaluation and filed a not guilty by reason of insanity plea on March 4.
Dr. Daniel Hrinko of the Forensic Diagnostic Center of Region 9 determined Jeffrey was competent to stand trial following an evaluation, according to report revealed during a competency hearing on May 25.
An initial indictment of felonious assault, a second-degree felony, returned by a grand jury on Feb. 18 was amended to the obstructing official business on Aug. 19 when Jeffrey entered the negotiated pleas.
A sentencing hearing slated for Oct. 27 was continued to Monday after Jeffrey was arrested and charged with persistent disorderly conduct following an altercation with a female relative four days earlier in Belmont County.
Jeffrey was incarcerated in the Belmont County Jail at the time of the sentencing hearing, but was released after pleading no contest to the fourth-degree misdemeanor offense.
He was sentenced in Belmont County Western Court to 30 days in jail with four days credit for time served and 26 days suspended. He was ordered to pay a $200 fine and court costs totaling $105.

Did you catch that? While he was out on bail awaiting trial for an armed standoff with police, Jeffrey got himself arrested for “an altercation with a female relative.” Even his own family members have to call the cops to protect themselves from this dangerous psycho. The testimony about his horrific childhood? Some may consider that an argument for leniency, but it could just as easily be interpreted as evidence indicating how unlikely it is that Jeffrey could ever be rehabilitated. If your mother’s a negligent dopehead and your father is a child molester, well, the acorn seldom falls far from the oak, does it? Some grad student in criminal justice might try researching the family histories of criminals like this, to discover how many of their relatives are also habitual felons.

Anyway, the point is, Judge Padden rejected the plea deal that would have turned Jeffrey loose on a suspended sentence and instead sentenced him to four years in prison. Jeffrey got out a few weeks early, it seems, because he was a passenger in the back seat of a car that got pulled over by cops last Friday night in Lima, Ohio:

The Lima Police Department has released additional information about the officer-involved shooting incident Oct. 31 that left an officer injured and the suspect transported to Columbus for medical treatment. This information includes the identities of the officers involved and both dashboard and body camera footage of the incident.
The shooting took place during a traffic stop at 10:40 p.m. Friday at St. John’s Avenue and Second Street. The footage of that traffic stop was released during a press conference Monday evening at the Lima Municipal Building, with the faces of two other occupants of the vehicle being blurred out and portions of audio muted. Body camera footage was taken from the camera of Patrolman Bryce Metz, the officer injured during the shooting.
As seen on the dashboard video, three officers approached the vehicle, with Metz approaching from the passenger side, a standard procedure for situations with multiple vehicle occupants, according to Lima Police Chief Curtis Hile.
“There were three occupants in the car, so more officers arrived for standard safety with more occupants in the car,” he said. “We typically have more officers try to respond.”
According to Metz’s body camera video, Emerson Jeffrey, 35, who was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle, called to get Metz’s attention.
“I’m about to do something just cause that’s who I am, bro,” he said before motioning to the two people in the front seats and telling Metz to have them “get out of here.”
After Metz asked Jeffrey why and did not receive an answer, he told another officer to get Jeffrey out of the vehicle, pointing at him and saying, “Get him out.” Immediately afterward, shots began coming out from the vehicle hitting Metz and causing him to fall to the ground.
“Shots fired, shots fired! I’m hit! I’m hit!” Metz said.
Shots could be heard in both videos as other cruisers quickly arrived at the scene. Commands were issued for Jeffrey to show his hands and for the occupants to get out of the car and get down on the ground.
“He’s got the gun in his hand,” an officer could be heard saying on the dashboard camera video. “He’s in the back seat.” . . .
Commands were issued for Jeffrey to put his hands up. The video footage then recorded additional shots being fired, prompting several gunshots from police at the vehicle.
Once officers determined the threat from Jeffrey was neutralized, officers began life-saving procedures on both Jeffrey and Metz, according to releases from the police department.
Speaking at Monday’s press conference, Hile said Metz was released earlier in the day from Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center. Jeffrey remains in hospital under law enforcement supervision at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. . . .
Hile expressed pride in how his officers conducted themselves during the incident, especially Metz, whom Hile praised for remaining calm even after taking gunfire.
“I’m incredibly proud of how (Metz) responded, and I think we’re incredibly lucky that we still have him with us,” he said.

How crazy is this? Jeffrey had just gotten out of prison, and is not legally able to possess firearms, yet he’s riding around with a pistol and gets in a shootout with cops after they pull him over. The investigation into this shooting will need to determine how Jeffrey got that gun. My guess is that he either stole it himself or bought it from someone else who had stolen it. Most arguments for gun control laws completely overlook this factor: Imposing new restrictions on the legal sale of firearms will have no impact on criminals, who will always be able to get guns by stealing them. Stealing is one of the things criminals do, you know.

It’s likely that shooting a cop will land Jeffrey in prison for a long time — 20 years at a minimum, I’d guess — but there are still a lot of lunatics running around out there. Virginia just elected a psychopath as their Attorney General, and a Communist got elected mayor of New York City. Crazy people are dangerous — and they vote Democrat.



 

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In The Mailbox: 11.04.25

Posted on | November 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.04.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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I’m so far behind on everything.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The only thing left to do after Mamdani’s victory.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The night I was roasted by the cast of Kill Tony, The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXXVI, Top 20 Chilling Insights From Yuri Bezmenov
357 Magnum: Hollywood Box Office Crashes to 1997 Levels
EBL: Moonfish or Opah, “Moan : A Song for Space Dog Laika”, Amelia Clarkson, The Feast of All Souls Day, and Balfour Declaration Song
Twitchy: Mike Davis Says Evidence To Dismiss Comey’s Indictment Contains Damning Bombshell, Shenanigans & Blatant Incompetence – Just Another Election Day In Josh Shapiro’s Pennsylvania, and Fauxcahontas Heap Big Angry Trump Won’t Intervene In Chiefs/Redskins YouTube TV Kerfluffle
Louder With Crowder: “He is the exact opposite of what real strength looks like”, Actress Jennifer Lawrence’s shocking revelation: Trump derangement is pointless, and America doesn’t care what Hollywood thinks, Woman gets thrown out of a Gold’s Gym in Mamdani’s NYC for protesting men being allowed to go d*cks out in the girls’ room, Amid ICE raids in Chicago, inner city tenants say it’s unfair that their rent is going up, so they’re unionizing, and Refugee From Iraq Claims He Can’t Afford To Stay In America Without Food Stamps
Vox Popoli: The Kataskocracy in Action, Too Good to be True, AI is More Accurate, A Boomer Looks Back, and Who Will Sanction the US?
Cedar Sanderson: Erdu, also, Looking back at October
The Bugscuffle Gazette: When charity becomes entitlement, also, Mew mew mew!
Upstream Reviews: Favorite Pulp SF of 2025, also, Bunker Bit – John Williams Rejects Film Music?
The Abbey of Misrule: Of Slugs & Saints
Draw & Talk Comics: You Won’t Believe What They Said About Me
Gab: Their Panic Proves Our Persuasive Power

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CDR Salamander: First Australia, Then South Korea – Who Else Wants To Be In The SSN Club?
Dana Loesch: Tucker Carlson & The Civil War on the Right,
Don Surber: Taking on foreign cash to Democrats
Elizabeth Nickson: The Old, Bad, Demon-Inflicted Culture Is Dead – MAGA Is The Reset
Matt Taibbi: Meet The Man Who Inspired Former CIA Director John Brennan’s Viral Meltdown,
STUMP: Movember 2025 – The Need Continues, The Week In Meep, and Chicago Head Tax – So Many More Reactions,

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