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Rule Five Sunday: Laundry Day

Posted on | September 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule Five Sunday: Laundry Day

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I sometimes think I should move out of this apartment and buy a house in Tonopah, so I wouldn’t have to go out to do laundry and instead could enjoy watching the appropriately-clad dryer at work.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Good Advice Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Outlander – Blood of my Blood, Emily Kimball, MAGA – Soros Prosecution, Celtic Warrior Women, The Ring, “Le Chant des Partisans”, Shantaram, Ariel Ekblaw, and “Do You”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Abigail Ratchford, Fish Pic Friday – Dilla Andila, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Trump Dumps Fed Reserve Gov, Bans Flag Burning, Tuesday Tanlines, Getting to the Meat of the Matter, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Sunday Sunrise

BACON TIME: Rule Five Pew Pew

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FMJRA 2.0: Agonizing Reappraisal

Posted on | August 31, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Agonizing Reappraisal

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Well, after looking over the 1974 cards for my players (and those available to me as rookies) I posted my keepers:
SP Pat Dobson
SP Bill Lee
SP Carl Morton
SP Jim Kaat
RP Charlie Hough

1b Dave Kingman
2b Cookie Rojas
3b Bill Madlock
ss Ed Brinkman
cf Del Unser

I have Jim Sundberg behind the plate and Mike “The Human Rain Delay” Hargrove as rookies, which will allow me to have Kingman at DH for games in American League parks. On looking over the stats from the 1973 season, I noticed that I had winning records only against National League teams and on Astroturf, and for a moment I thought about telling Pete I was moving the team to Texas after all – but to Houston. Then the moment passed.
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It could be worse.

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FMJRA 2.0: Preparing For The Draft
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What ‘White Privilege’ Looks Like
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Rule 5 Sunday: The Last Champion of Cracker Barrel
Animal Magnetism
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The ‘Green Energy’ Boondoggle Fails Every Time It Encounters Reality
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In The Mailbox: 08.25.25
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Carry Me Home to See My Kin
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Crime Is Down, the Border Is Secure, and Taylor Swift Is Finally Getting Married
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‘It Rubs the Lotion On Its Skin’: Creepy Killer Trannies and Their Media Enablers
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 8.27.25
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In The Mailbox: 08.28.25
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In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Evening Edition)
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KiwiFarms Sues U.K. and It’s Awesome

Posted on | August 30, 2025 | Comments Off on KiwiFarms Sues U.K. and It’s Awesome

Regular readers here know that I’ve often praised the online forum Kiwi Farms as an invaluable source of information on “LOLcows,” which is their term for idiots who make fools of themselves online, as I explained in October 2023:

Some of us are old enough to remember when, 15 or 20 years ago, Silicon Valley had a libertarian tilt. Entities like Google were very much in favor of free speech and very much against censorship, but more recently, they’ve gone 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Probably the defining event of this shift — the moment when Big Tech’s pro-censorship regime made clear its intentions — was the episode known as “GamerGate,” beginning in August 2014 with the drama surrounding Zoe Quinn (a/k/a the Tattoo-Covered, Mentally Ill Ex-Stripper Whose Real Name Is Chelsea Van Valkenburg).
#GamerGate was my first encounter with Kiwi Farms, which proved to be useful for research on such personalities as Zoe Quinn, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg, and “Brianna Wu” (a/k/a John Walker Flynt) who were involved in the controversy as left-wing SJWs (“Social Justice Warriors”).
What united the SJWs was the rallying cry of “harassment” — #GamerGate was, according to them, about the misogynistic bullying of women in the videogame industry, and claims of victimhood were amplified to promote that narrative, even though the alleged victims of harassment were relatively obscure people who were, at best, marginal to the industry,

There seems to be an unwritten rule that left-wing activists should be entitled to say or do anything they like without criticism. To criticize such a left-winger is to “harass” them, and this alleged “harassment” then becomes a pretext for silencing criticism of the Left. Kiwi Farms says “to hell with that” and, even though most participants in the forum are not ostensibly political — and I doubt many consider themselves conservatives — they vehemently oppose this kind of censorship.

So the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) wants to enforce their Online Safety Act’s age-verification requirements. KiwiFarms and 4chan hired lawyers to sue the U.K. over this, and one of the lawyers they hired is my friend Ron Coleman. The filing begins thus:

The Internet is a global system of communication between computer servers, located in data centers around the world. Despite the Internet’s global reach, it is more or less universally acknowledged that the Internet is, predominantly, an American innovation, built by American citizens, residents, and companies, and that the United States has the largest and most thriving technology sector of any G7 member state.
Foreign governments, particularly those in Europe, which have not managed to build technology sectors of their own have, for the past half-decade or more, sought to control the American Internet, and hobble American competitiveness, through a range of legislative and nonlegislative initiatives.
These foreign governments have threatened American and other non-European entrepreneurs with a wide range of coercive threats, including, fines, arrest, and imprisonment, for engaging in conduct which is perfectly lawful in the territories where their websites are based, including in the United States. . . .
The United Kingdom recently joined France in seeking to apply its domestic laws to the rest of the world, with the enactment of its censorship law, the Online Safety Act 2023
(“OSA”). Immediately after the OSA’s substantive provisions entered into force, this censorship law was used to target the free speech rights of American citizens. . . .
This lawsuit seeks to restrain Ofcom’s conduct and its continuing egregious violations of Americans’ civil rights, including, without limitation, to the right of freedom of speech.

AMERICA, BABY! The Kiwi Farmers are very pleased, expressing themselves in, uh . . . colorful language.



 

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In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Evening Edition)

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Campus Lockdown Over Black Umbrella
EBL: The Best Way to Fillet Spanish Mackerel, Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, William Wallace takes revenge! Euthanizing of a dangerous bee hive, and The Reason it’s Hard To Fillet African Pompano
Twitchy: Jessica Tarlov Shows What An Ugly Sore Loser She Is, Abby Phillip Says Violent Threats To ICE Agents & Their Families is Part Of The Job, and AFL-CIO Rally For “Workers Rights” Will Make You Wish You Had Neither Eyes Nor Ears
Vox Popoli: Rating the Right Wing, The Fruits of Churchianity, OUT OF THE SHADOWS, and Boundless Goes Under
According To Hoyt: Steel Sharpens Steel, David Starr, Space Ranger – Reading the Future of the past, From The Prometheus People, An OLD Kind of Dumb, and This totally is a post
Weird Catholic: The Many Heads of John The Baptist
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Publisher stuff

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Put me in the anti-AI camp
American Conservative: Huey Long in the Age of Donald Trump—and Zohran Mamdani, also, Singapore’s Real Lesson for Britain and Europe
American Greatness: Leaked Emails Show EPA Sought to Discredit Scientist After Ohio Train Derailment Disaster, Dems Double Down On Anti-Prayer Rants Following Minnesota Church Shooting, Minnesota Bishop Robert?Barron Calls Democrats’ Mockery of Prayer After Catholic Church Shooting ‘Completely Asinine’, Trump Floats Idea of 2026 Midterm National Convention For Republicans, and Europe in the Balance?
American Thinker: Abandoned Shopping Carts, Litter, and the Decline of Black America, Blood, Tears, and Lessons in a Minneapolis Church, Trump’s Pragmatism Will Save Ukraine From Its Courageous Naïveté, and You Think Opioids Are Bad? Try Acetaminophen!
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Excuse-Making, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Good Advice Friday
BattleSwarm: Pro-Palestinian Putzes Block Pride Parade, Texas 2026 Race Updates For August 27, 2025, Pro-Tip: If Your Church’s Leader Keeps You As A Slave, You Might Be In A Cult, Lizard Queen Documents Lefty Influencer Pay-For-Play Scheme, and LinkSwarm for August 29
Behind The Black: A baby star and its protoplanetary disk, Perseverance looks west, Mars’ interior is more chaotic than Earth’s, SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites while setting a new reuse record for a Falcon 9 1st stage, and Trump ends unions for federal employees at NASA and other agencies
Cafe Hayek: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Has Struck Down Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: And Now for Something Completely Different, The Road Not Taken, Rue, Britannia, L’audace, toujours de l’audace, and The Festival of Combustion
Da Tech Guy: Jesus Freedom the Song of the Saints (Sung to the Tune of Philadelphia Freedom) and how it came about
Don Surber: Democrats become crimefighters
First Street Journal: Now this pisses me off, also, Now this I can support!
Gates Of Vienna: Diplomatic Battle Over Jew-Hatred in France, “The Ukrainians Have Lost the War. This War Has Been Won by Russia.”, Ructions in Lausanne, and Knives Get Busy in Berlin-Mitte
The Geller Report: Fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Hit With ANOTHER Criminal Referral, FBI Director Kash Patel Speaks Out on “Hate-Filled Ideology” of Minneapolis School Shooter, Rubio Bars Mahmoud Abbas From Entering U.S. Ahead Of Palestinian Statehood Push At UN, Houthi Defense Minister & Chief of Staff Killed in Strike on Yemen, and Democrat Minneapolis Police Chief Repeats Lie That They Have “No Motive”
Glenn Reynolds: Report From The Other Side
Hollywood In Toto: Cumberbatch, Colman Make The Roses Riveting, Toxic Avenger Doubles Down on Franchise’s Favorite Target, Did Morgan Wallen Just Shiv Hollywood’s Awards Racket? This Monty Python Alum Lets Woke Daughter Censor His Jokes, and FireAid – Latest Example of Woke Celebrity Privilege?
Legal Insurrection: A Fond Farewell to Legal Insurrection and the Equal Protection Project, Report: Joni Ernst to Announce Retirement from Senate Next Week, Prof. Amy Wax Loses Discrimination Lawsuit Against Penn, Greenland Influence Allegations Spark Diplomatic Tensions Between Denmark and U.S., and In Alaska, Dunleavy Prepares MAGA Challenge to Murkowski
Outkick: FOX To Simulcast ESPN’s Broadcast Of Lee Corso’s Final Headgear Pick, Texas Fans, Arch Manning Arrive At Ohio State, Deion Sanders Lands ‘Depend’ Sponsorship For His Sideline Toilet, Major League Baseball Postseason Race Gets Huge Shakeup, and Texas Cowgirl Lacey Jane Brown Celebrates Arch Manning In A Bath Tub, UCF Fan Drilled & Ellen Looks Great!
Power Line: Don’t say trans, Gun control special session, Scotland’s Littlest Heroine, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Albritton Pressured Collins To Drop Ag Commissioner Bid
Shot In The Dark: The Problem, Deterrence, He Who Is Force-Fed False History Is Doomed Never To Know He’s Repeating It, Technical Difficulties, and Sic Transit
The Political Hat: Elite Theory & The New Nomenklatura, Quick Takes – Wokeness On The Wane? and Firing Line Friday: Should We Drastically Reduce Immigration?
This Ain’t Hell: Aircraft Carriers Not Required, Valor Friday, Ashli Babbitt’s military funeral honors restored, $200 mill crash in Alaska explained, and M18 restored to service in Air Force
Transterrestrial Musings: Starship Test Flights, The Man Who Shot Up That Church Full Of Kids, “Journalism”, Recursive Improvement In AI, and Inseparable
Victory Girls: Seattle Leftists Plan To Take Trump’s Bait And Burn American Flags, Ethics? What Ethics? Lisa Cook Sues Trump Over Federal Reserve Firing, and Bishop Barron Defends Prayer After Minnesota Shooting
Watts Up With That: Wrong, New York Times – Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Surge in  Mosquito-Borne Diseases, ‘Green’ Europe’s Industrial Masochism, and NASA Is Testing AI Enabled ‘Dynamic Targeting’ from Space
The Federalist: In Landmark Case, Louisiana Asks SCOTUS To Put The Kibosh On Race-Based Redistricting, Americans Shouldn’t Have To Pay For Secret Service To Follow Kamala Around, Violence Is The Logical And Desired Outcome Of Leftists’ Trans Victim Narrative, Trump’s Foreign Policy Offends The Bureaucrat Paper Pushers Of Dwindling Influence, and Minneapolis Shooting Reveals Democrat Party’s Comfort With Satanic Talking Points
Mark Steyn: Forcing the Contradictions, Ice Cream You Scream, Live Around the Planet – Faster & Furiouser, Lionhearted Lass, and A Tide in the Affairs of Men

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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

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
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.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

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

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
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

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
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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