In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 10, 2025 | 8 Comments

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: You’re Fired: Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield Canned, Road to Appomattox, Supreme Court Reverses Judge Boasberg, and Markets Rebound
Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Threatens CNN With Defamation Lawsuit, One Third Of California Community College Applicants are FAKE, Taking Millions In Aid, and Dear Leftists – No Still Means No
Louder With Crowder: Senator Kennedy savages Occasional Cortex with zinger after zinger, declares launch of “Operation Let Her Speak”, 104% tariffs? Massive brawl erupts at a Chinese restaurant, and there is a lot to unpack, WH press secretary has bad news for reporters who still have their pronouns in their bio in 2025, AOC Called Out For Flying First Class On Oligarchy Tour, and Sunny Hostin doesn’t only think Black people can’t figure out how to vote with ID, but women can’t either
Vox Popoli: Trump and the Vaccine, Mailvox: Vox D.AI Responds, Why China Can’t Win the Trade War, and Model or Reality
Upstream Reviews: King Kobold Revived
Cedar Sanderson: You’ve Made Good
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Mid-Week Thoughts

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Average Life Expectancy + Abortion
American Conservative: Death of a Company Man
American Greatness: GiveSendGo Fundraiser For Texas Track Meet Stabber Surpasses $230K, Chuck Schumer Refuses to Condemn Attacks Against Tesla Amid Increasing Acceptance of Political Violence Among Dems, Sen. Rand Paul on Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Taxes Should Not Be Enacted By One Person’, Trump Administration Pulls Funding From Maine Department of Corrections Over Trans Inmate, and Mike Johnson Says No Rogue Rulings Act Will Keep District Court Judges ‘Within their Constitutional Lane’
American Thinker: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election Screams for Department of Justice Criminal Investigation
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Pool Shark News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Democrats Deploy Disability Dodge, also, Paxton Runs Against Cornyn
Behind The Black: Russia launches three astronauts to ISS, Space Force gives SpaceX launch originally contracted to ULA, Firefly wins Space Force contract to test orbital maneuvers with its Elytra space tug, Astronomers say potentially dangerous asteroid 2024 YR4 originally came from main asteroid belt, and Isaacman’s nomination hearing reveals nothing of note
Cafe Hayek: The Winning Continues, also, Rob Atkinson Serves Up a False Narrative
CDR Salamander: Eight Commandants, One Message
Da Tech Guy: The “Were there no graves in Egypt?” Republicans
Dana Loesch: “1923” Features A Valiant Pro-Life Message
Don Surber: TDS is so tedious
First Street Journal: Why doesn’t The Philadelphia Inquirer report the whole truth about the city’s public schools?
Gates Of Vienna: The Flag Is Still There, also, 160 Years Ago Today
The Geller Report: Trump Raises Tariffs on China to 125% But Announces 90-Day Pause For Other Countries Who Reached Out to Negotiate, 70 Countries Line Up to Trade/Tariff Talks With Trump, US Stocks Soar, Trump Assassin Tied to Ukraine: Sought to Buy Military Weapons from Ukraine to Kill Trump, Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act, and Supreme Court Sides With Trump, Upholds Mass Firing of Federal Employees
Hollywood In Toto: How Broad City Star ‘Microdosed’ on Harris Campaign’s Dime, Here’s How The Amateur Upends the Spy Thriller, John Lithgow Trashes Trump But Mum on Cancel Culture, Blacklist 2.0, Drop Is Either Best – or Worst – First-Date Movie, and Newsweek & Daily Mail Create Controversy Out of Thin Air
The Lid: Trump Admin. Ribs Leftists by Giving Andrew Jackson’s 200-Yr-Old Magnolia Tree the BEST Name EVER!
Legal Insurrection: Genetic Scientists Mix Dire Wolf and Grey Wolf Genes, Producing Ethics Debates, Radical Anti-American, Anti-Israel Profs Are Ruining Funding For Non-Political Scientists, USDA Issues Order to Expand Logging in National Forests Under Emergency Declaration, Chief Justice Pauses Ruling Forcing Trump to Reinstate NLRB, MSPB Employees, and Boston City Councilor Arrested on Corruption Charges Last Year Pleads Guilty, Will Resign
Matt Taibbi: Why Do Democrats Destroy Their Own?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Let The Race Bullies Win , Roger Penske Extends Indianapolis 500 Invite To President Trump During Team Penske White House Visit, Avs Captain Gabriel Landeskog Could Play First Game In Three Years After AHL Conditioning Assignment, LeBron James Ken Doll Is Getting Destroyed On Social Media, and Danica Patrick Fills Out A Pair Of Golf Pants, ‘Masters Girl’ Gives A Sad Update & Cavinder Twins Go Baywatch!
Power Line: Columbia embarrassed, From my own mixed-up files, and Keith Ellison caught on tape!
Shark Tank: Patronis Praises Donalds’ Run For Governor
Shot In The Dark: Secret Location! Ssshhh!, Just Like Shakespeare Said, Ripping Off The Bandaid, and Girl Brawl
This Ain’t Hell: Another bomber found, Army COVID Retreads, President Trump wants a military parade for the Army’s 250th birthday- Media claims that the parade is for his birthday, High tech news, and Trump administration fires vice admiral from her position in NATO
Transterrestrial Musings: On the “Genocide” in Gaza, Thank You, Dr. Jill, and Today’s Hearing
Victory Girls: Crockett Asks Who Will Pick Cotton Without Illegal Labor, also, Activist Parent Calls Kids ‘Dead to Her’ – Exposing the Abuse Behind Performative Activism
Watts Up With That: Trump Signs Executive Order to Shield American Energy from State Overreach, The Green Agenda is Collapsing, Climate Geoengineers Dismayed They Have to Hide Experiments from the Public, and No, N.Y. Times, 80,000 Homes Will Not Be Lost to Flooding
The Federalist: How DEI Left Service Academies In A ‘State Of Decay,’ And How Trump Can Fix It, 5 Common Lies About The SAVE Act — And How To Refute Them, What A Waste – Federal Agencies Spent $4.6 Billion On Furniture For Empty Buildings, Democrat Senator Using ‘Abusive’ Holds To Block Trump Nominees Proves His Attacks On Tuberville Were Fake, and Trainwreck Tim Walz Took Minnesota From A $19 Billion Surplus To A $6 Billion Deficit
Mark Steyn: A Contemptible Man Punches Down

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Dow Jones Gains Nearly 3,000 Points After Trump Deports Gay Makeup Artist

Posted on | April 9, 2025 | 15 Comments

Look, I’m not one of these All-Purpose Expert types who hangs around on social media all day pretending to know everything about whatever’s the big Democratic Party talking point at the current moment. Today’s economic “expert” was, just a few weeks ago, an “expert” on national security, and last October was an “expert” on election polling. Go back to 2014, and their area of expertise was the “campus rape epidemic,” but then in 2016, they suddenly acquired authoritative knowledge of Russian “election interference.” In 2020, they became experts on viral epidemiology before turning their attention to “systemic racism.”

So I don’t claim to know why the stock market suddenly boomed upward this afternoon, and I’m not sure the media does, either:

The stock market mounted one of its biggest rallies in history after President Donald Trump announced a pause in some of his “reciprocal” tariffs on the globe, causing a market that has been under extreme pressure for the past week to explode higher.
The S&P 500 skyrocketed 9.52% to settle at 5,456.90 for its biggest one-day gain since 2008. For the broad market index, it was the third-biggest gain in post-WWII history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 2,962.86 points, or 7.87%, to close at 40,608.45 for its biggest percentage advance since March 2020. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 12.16% to end at 17,124.97, notching its largest one-day jump since January 2001 and second-best day ever.
About 30 billion shares traded hands, making it the heaviest volume day on Wall Street in history, according to records that go back 18 years.
“I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately,” Trump posted on his Truth Social. Trump, in the same post, said he was raising the tariff on China higher again to 125%.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later clarified that all countries except China would return to the 10% baseline tariff rate, down from the higher rates that previously shocked the markets, as negotiations take place.

OK, so the “experts” are telling us that this has something to do with tariff policy, and maybe they’re right. On the other hand . . .

A gay makeup artist who arrived in the US last year in search of asylum has been flown to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero was one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration on 15 March, reports CBS News.
The news follows a deal brokered between President Trump and El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele allowing the US to send deportees to the central American’s country maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, located in Tecoluca.
“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared. One day he was there, and the next day we’re supposed to have court, and he wasn’t brought to court,” Lindsay Toczylowski, Hernandez Romero’s lawyer, told CBS’s 60 Minutes.
“It’s horrifying to see someone who we’ve met and know as a sweet, funny artist, in the most horrible conditions I could imagine.”
Lawyers and family members for the deportees say they have had no contact with the prisoners since they were deported. However, TIME photojournalist Philip Holsinger, who has been reporting from the ground at CECOT, has reportedly described hearing one young man say, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a stylist,” as he cried out for his mother, was slapped and had his head shaved.
Hernandez Romero’s crown tattoos are the only evidence US immigration officials have given in court to accuse him of being part of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang Trump is campaigning to eradicate. . . .
Meanwhile Hernández’s mother, Alexis Dolores Romero de Hernández, has been quoted by The Guardian as saying: “Everyone has these crowns, many people. But that doesn’t mean they’re involved in the Tren de Aragua … He’s never had problems with the law.”
She furthermore added: “Let my son go. Review his case file. He is not a gang member.”

Oh, don’t worry, the “sweet, funny artist” should be very popular among his fellow inmates in the Salvadoran maximum-security prison.

Every Democrat in Congress will run for reelection next year promising to protect the rights of gay Venezuelan makeup artists. Why, I can hear Jasmine Crockett now, saying she’s “done picking cotton” — and done doing her own makeup, too! But what about the rights of gay American makeup artists, huh? When you start importing gay makeup artists from Third World countries, it drives down the wages of native-born gay makeup artists. Or at least, that’s what some “experts” tell me.

Correlation is not causation, except when it is, but I’m not claiming to be an expert on cosmetic artistry or economics, either. All I know is that (a) Andry José Hernández Romero is now in a Salvadoran maximum security prison and (b) things look a lot better for the 401(k) balance.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, as experts in Latin would say.

In completely unrelated news, Britney Spears is still crazy.

What substances cause this kind of behavior?

I don’t understand how the world just continues to watch one of the most famous people in the world, Britney Spears deteriorate like this and no one can help her. pic.twitter.com/WvMD0oFyqu

— Defender of the Republic ?? (@realdefender45) April 9, 2025

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In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | April 9, 2025 | 1 Comment

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens After You Defund the Police?
EBL: Lawrence…Lawrence of Arabia, also, How are the markets today?
Twitchy: Navy Admiral Refuses To Hang Trump & Hegseth Portraits, Gets Fired, She Must Have A Colt Following, and Straight Fire Thread Shows How Trump Exposed Politicians & Pundits
Louder With Crowder: CNN forced to admit Donald Trump is a “soaring eagle” delivering on his promises to Americans in “historic fashion”, Democrat leader Jasmine Crockett DEMANDS more illegal immigration because, quote, “we done picking cotton”, Teen athlete gives emotional testimony over trans student replacing her, being told her protest was like wearing a swastika, Scott Jennings calls out CNN’s hypocrisy on the economy, reminds them of Biden’s recession, and Meta engineer ADMITS company abuses H-1B Visa to favor foreign applicants over Americans
Vox Popoli: Recognizing Churchianity, Disinformation on US Tariffs, The Last Librarian, The Ultra-Rich Condemn Robin Hood, and 104 and Counting
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Speed Warping
Jim McCoy: Toil & Trouble
Gab: The Case For Bringing Back American Grit

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: G7’s Looks To Sea
Dana Loesch: RUMOR MILL – Is A Hot-Tempered Florida RINO Targeting A Charitable Organization?
Don Surber: Media uses an Army bash to bash Trump
Matt Taibbi: Timeline – A Recent History of Tariffs, also, Take The NPR “That’s Not Funny!” Challenge
STUMP: RIP Val Kilmer – Revisiting “How Young Is So Young To Die?”

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In The Mailbox: 04.07.25

Posted on | April 8, 2025 | 3 Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“Truth is, kid…the game was rigged from the start.” – Benny, Fallout: New Vegas

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Stand and Deliver – A Movie You Probably Haven’t Seen, also Another Wrong-House SWAT Raid
Director Blue: When Lisa Met Pete
EBL: MAGA : Markets Continue To React To Trump Tariffs, Winsome Sears for Governor of Virginia, Bohemian Roberts with Norm Eisen, Interesting things you might not have known about Olivia Newton John, and The First Dire Wolf Howl in Over 10,000 Years?
Twitchy: An Assassination Culture Is Developing On The Far Left, Dollar Store Obama Claims MAGA Extremists Are Starving Tots For Tax Cuts , and Bill Maher & Andrew Cuomo Say The Quiet Part Out Loud About Jasmine Crockett – Cue The Screeching
Louder With Crowder: Two men shatter glass ceiling, make it to finals of WOMEN’S billiards tournament, Lunatics protested in American cities against Donald Trump and Elon Musk and here’s who funded them, JD Vance goes beast mode on Democrats who care more about illegal aliens than they do their American victims, California legislature axes two bills aimed at protecting women’s sports in spite of Trump’s executive order, and Pro-life journalists gets viciously assaulted by pro-abortion activist enraged over a basic question
Vox Popoli: Globalization is Over, Unthinkable Evacuations, It Was Roger All Along, I Did Warn Them, and The Seventh Librarian
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Ackshualllly Tariffs May Work
Upstream Reviews: The Big Sheep,
Draw & Talk Comics: Something I Need To Open Up About
Defending The Wood Perilous: Part One – We Live In a Fairytale
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Ugh. Monday.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ukraine and Gaza Bring Shame to America
American Greatness: The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda, Supreme Court Rules Trump May Use 1798 Law to Deport Illegal Alien Gang Members, DOGE Reports 2.1 Million Social Security Numbers Were Issued to Illegals in 2024–and Many of Those People Voted, Actions v. Words, and Trump Trolls California’s Democrat Senators During Dodgers White House Visit
American Thinker: We Didn’t Start the Trade War—We’ve Just Finally Joined It, The Fruits of Trump’s Audacious Policies, Trump’s Tariff Play – The Art of the Economic Reset, The Least Dangerous Branch No More, and The Hill of Lies
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Tank Cannon Vs. Head, Two Big Booms, and Are Trump’s Tariffs Working?
Behind The Black: Space Force awards SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin $13.7 billion in launch contracts, SpaceX launches another 28 Starlink satellites, Soil bacterium from Earth can both make and repair bricks made from Moon-materials, The mighty scale of Mars’ geology, and British MP proposes his government’s vast bureaucratic skills be given the power to regulate all space
Cafe Hayek: Freer Trade Would Satisfy Neither Trump Nor the NatCons, also, And Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass
Chicago Boyz: Tariffs and the Industrial Distribution World, also, James “20%” Carville
Da Tech Guy: Fan AI Fiction: Hogan’s Heroes in “The Desert Rats Great Escape” , also, It’s Amazing What You Can do if You Don’t Give a Damn What Your Enemies Think
Don Surber: Stay the course on tariffs
First Street Journal: The death of the Lexington Herald-Leader, also, That thing that never happens has happened again
Gates Of Vienna: Everybody Must Get Stoned, Welcome to Sharia City, Texas, Appomattox: Lest We Forget, Overthrowing Ludwig the Last, and The Wonderful Smell of a Burning Koran
The Geller Report: Introducing Hamid Patel, Britain’s New Education Boss, Enemy Within: Bombshell Study Reveals ‘Assassination Culture’, China’s Stock Market Sees Worst Crash, Largest One-Day Decline Since 1997, Massive Ramadan Terror Attack in Jerusalem Foiled, and CNBC FAKE NEWS HEADLINE Sends Markets Soaring Then Spiraling 1000s In Just Minutes
Hollywood In Toto: SNL Mocks Elon Musk But Not Democrats Torching Teslas, Neil Young – Poster Child for Free Speech Hypocrisy, Pro-Jewish Documentaries Wake Sleeping Culture, The Spirituality of White Lotus, or Why [Censored] Had to Die, and Indie in Name Only?
The Lid: Despite Media’s Attack on Tariffs Trump’s Approval Rating Rises, also, The Meaning of Aliyah: A Journey Toward Freedom and Responsibility
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Military Opposition to the Trump Administration A Matter of Concern, Missouri AG Threatens to Seize China-Owned Assets to Enforce $24B Judgment for Covid Pandemic, Five International Students at UMass Have Their Visas Revoked, SCOTUS Vacates Judge Boasberg’s TROs As To Tren de Aragua Under Alien Enemies Act, and D.C. Appeals Court Blocks Trump From Firing NLRB, MSPB Employees
Nebraska Energy Observer: Did you know about this?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Effect Still Being Felt, As UConn’s Final Four Title Game Ratings Show, Florida Gators Overcome More Than Just Expectations To Win National Championship, Stephen A. Smith Running For President Is More Real Than It Sounds , HS Girl Gives Powerful Testimony About Being Replaced By Transgender Athlete, and Paige Spiranac Dusts Off Her Tiny Green Jacket, Nancy Mace Debuts A Crop Top & Tiffani Amber Has A Stalker
Power Line: Margin Call, Goodbye to Venezuelan Gang Members For Now, and Hands Off What?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Labels FL House “Obstructionists” In Latest Infighting
Shot In The Dark: Outbreak of Reason, also, Missing The Forest For The Dust
The Political Hat: Blog Downtime
This Ain’t Hell: Congressional Democrats demand answers regarding book bans at service academies, Spirits on the Footprint of Freedom, Navy vet passes on, Bloated University staff contributed to tuition changing to $93,064, and Don’t want Chinese on US Posts?
Transterrestrial Musings: Jurassic Park, Here We Come, Thoughts On The Current Market Chaos, and Britain Is Lurching Toward A Civil War
Victory Girls: Savannah Craven Assaulted—Because Facts Hurt Feelings, also, The Left Is Finally Telling the Truth: They Justify Violence
Watts Up With That: Court Delivers Massive Blow to Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics, Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline, The Hill Misleads – Trump’s Energy Policy Won’t Damage the Climate and Will Advance American Interests, Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl, and Fresh Evidence Emerges That Global Vegetation Growth Reaches New Highs Due to Increased CO2 Fertilisation
The Federalist: SURVEY: 55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable , 5 Dems Who Voted For Election Security Reform Won’t Say If They’ll Support The SAVE Act Again, 3 Pennsylvania Officials Plead Guilty To Election Fraud – And 2 Are Still In Office, Why Transhumanists Like Elon Musk Can Never Be Conservative, and If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military
Mark Steyn: April in Paris (Naked), also, Mack the Knife

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Hitler, the Nobel Prize and ‘Grease’

Posted on | April 7, 2025 | 16 Comments

Truth is stranger than fiction, it is proverbially said, and such is the course of history that events and people can be connected in ways that you never imagined. Certainly I never dreamed that the hit musical Grease could be connected to a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a World War II military intelligence officer, until yesterday I fell down one of those research rabbit-holes into which I’m so prone to stumble.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power in Germany, and Jews were purged from German universities. Among the victims of this purge was a physics professor at the University of Göttingen whose students had included a young fellow named Robert Oppenheimer — maybe you’ve heard of him. Among the professor’s assistants at Göttingen were such important physicists as Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller. The professor had been recommended for the 1928 Nobel Prize by Albert Einstein, but instead the honor went to one of his colleagues. When Hitler came to power and the professor was purged from the university, he emigrated to England, teaching first at Cambridge University before eventually taking a faculty position at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Max Born

After relocating to the United Kingdom, Professor Max Born published Atomic Physics, which quickly became the standard textbook in the field. He retired at age 70 in 1952, and two years later — through the efforts of his peers and former students including Fermi — Max Born was finally awarded the Nobel Prize for his “fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics.” In retirement, he returned to his native Germany, where he died at age 87 in 1970. But that’s just half the story . . .

In 1935, the son of a school teacher from Cardiff, Wales, got his bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University, with honors in German and French. The young scholar’s name was Brinley, and his fluency in German soon made him very valuable to his country. When World War II broke out in 1939, Brinley joined the Royal Air Force, and was assigned to military intelligence (MI5). Among his duties was gathering information from captured German prisoners. He reportedly worked on the top-secret “Enigma” decryption project and was the officer who took Nazi henchman Rudolf Hess into custody. After the war, Brinley taught high school in Cambridge until 1954, when he moved to Australia, becoming a university dean and later a host of radio and TV programs.

Brinley Newton-John

Well, I said his name was Brinley, but I didn’t tell you that his surname was Newton-John, because that would have spoiled the surprise. You see, in 1937, Brinley “Brin” Newton-John married a girl named Irene Born, whom he had met when her father Max Born was teaching at Cambridge. In 1948, Brinley and Irene’s youngest daughter Olivia was born.

Irene Born and Brinley Newton-John, circa 1935

In her autobiography, Olivia Newton-John wrote:

“My parents might have never met at Cambridge University if my mum didn’t have such a keen ear for beautiful music. . . . One day, she heard a man singing in a deep baritone voice and she couldn’t take another step. She actually followed the voice. Mum always said she fell in love with the voice before she ever saw him. . . . Mum was brunette, classically beautiful , and carried herself in a most elegant way. Dad was six-foot-three, fair-haired, with movie-star good looks and that beautiful aristocratic voice. Need I say more? What a beautiful couple.”

Until I stumbled down this rabbit hole, I never would have guessed that Olivia Newton-John was half-Jewish, much less that her maternal grandfather was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. That her father was MI5 during World War II and played a role in capturing Rudolf Hess — well, this is the whipped cream and cherry on the top.

Olivia Newton-John as Sandy in ‘Grease.’

So how did I end up down this rabbit hole? Blame the dadgum YouTube algorithm. Lying down for a Sunday afternoon nap, I was watching police videos — my usual bedtime habit — and was scrolling through when I saw a short video about Olivia Newton-John and clicked on it. The soundtrack of the clip was “Let Me Be There,” her 1973 top 10 hit that earned her a country music Grammy award. What I loved most about that song was the bass vocal harmony, and after watching that short video, I wanted to find out who had sang that part, so I did a Google search for the answer (Mike Sammes), but in checking Olivia Newton-John’s Wikipedia biography, I was startled to learn about her grandfather.

Wait, did I say “startled”? What I meant to say was, I got chills, they’re multiplying, and I’m losing control . . .

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Rule 5 Sunday: Eva Sinclair

Posted on | April 7, 2025 | 2 Comments

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I do believe we have @kbdabear on X to thank for this luscious latex-clad babe.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Queen of Word Salads Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Top Secret!, “Tutti Frutti”, How Silly Can You Get, The Saint, Planet of the Apes, MAGA – Liberation Day, Val Kilmer RIP, Rossa Matilda Richter, Plane, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Mobland, and Captain Horatio Hornblower

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Ka Ty, Maryland, My Maryland, Fish Pic Friday – Stephanie Hutcheson, Tattoo Thursday, Crab Season Open, The Wednesday Wetness, Southern Maryland Mammoth Found, Tuesday Tanlines, Chicks at the Wheel, So Looking Forward to Trump’s Third Term, The Monday Morning Stimulus, The Woman Behind Trump Steps Forward and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

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In The Mailbox: 04.06.25

Posted on | April 6, 2025 | 1 Comment

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Going to try and get a jump on things to avoid the Monday pileup.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stock Markets React To Trump Tariffs, The Doors, Judge Paula Xinis Finds Out She Has No Authority, and A Complete Unknown
Twitchy: J.K. Rowling Roasts International Asexual Awareness Day, We Aren’t Doing This Again, and Oklahoma Softball Coach Scoffs At Reporter’s Question About Riley Gaines
Louder With Crowder: Police catch liberal woman vandalizing a Tesla, and the Police Chief claims SHE’S the real victim in all this, Kamala Harris tosses the word salad about “FEAR,” but she’s no FDR, and 2028 Dem frontrunner AOC lacks courage to answer reporter when asked if her rhetoric is to blame for anti-Elon violence
Vox Popoli: The Problem of Popularity, It’s Not a Theory, Saving Democracy, The Zelaznyan Ceiling, and The NFL Attacks Divisions
Cedar Sanderson: The Five Finger Rule
Upstream Reviews: Crossing Over, April New Releases,
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Rules of Stupid, In Defense Of Free-Range Childhoods
Stoic Observations: The Curzon Problem
Bacon Time: Winter Is Over
Postcards From Barsoom: Your Questions Answered

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
STUMP: The Week In Meep
This Ain’t Hell: WWII Bletchley vet dies, also, Air Force bucks Trump admin order regarding preferred pronouns in email signatures
Watts Up With That: Oil & Gas Turning Poor Countries Into Economic Miracles, Wake up call for UK energy planners, and The Left’s Localvore Betrayal: Tariffs Expose Climate Hypocrisy
Mark Steyn: Requiem for a Louse: Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success

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FMJRA 2.0: The Royals, With Cheese

Posted on | April 6, 2025 | 2 Comments

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The Epic Indie Sale is on!
We took two out of three from the Pirates on Monday (our only loss was to Gaylord Perry, who served up greaseballs to everybody), and got home from Las Vegas Friday just in time to get wiped out in a two-game set by Kansas City, which meant we were 2-3 for the week. I guess it could have been worse; we could have played three games against the Royals and gotten swept. Next up are Pete’s Brewers on Tuesday.
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