In The Mailbox: 11.02.21

Posted on | November 2, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.02.21

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“Tragic Prelude” by John Steuart Curry

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Restraining Order Is Just A Piece Of Paper
Red Pilled Jew: CDC Recommends Prophylactic Ivermectin For Immigrants & Migrants
EBL: Army of Thieves, also, Racist White Democrats Convict John Brown & Sentence Him To Hang
Twitchy: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Says “Right Wing Majority” On SCOTUS “Completely Illegitimate”, also, Decision Desk HQ Calls Virginia For Youngkin
Louder With Crowder: Before Elon Musk Gives UN $6 Billion, He Wants To Know About That Time UN Officials Demanded Sex From Kids For Food
Vox Popoli: Adjust Your Expectations, also, Monty Python Is Cancelled

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Adam Piggott: Not My Church
American Conservative: Scandalous Silence About Red China’s Christians
American Greatness: The WSJ’s Shabby Rebuttal Of Trump Settles Nothing, also, Mediocre Milley Has A “Near Sputnik Moment”
American Power: “Biden’s Crappy Polling Softens, Becomes Loose”
American Thinker: Blame Public Schools For Transgender Bathroom Rapes, also, They Can’t Stand It when We Ridicule Them
Animal Magnetism: Hunt Week Totty Tuesday
Babalu Blog: America Should Remember – The Cubans Playing In The World Series All Defected From Communism, also, Pope Francis Slammed By Miami-Dade Lawmakers For Ignoring The Repression Of Cubans
BattleSwarm: Election Day! Go Vote!
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Falcon Heavy Gets Another Contract, and Evidence From Nearby White Dwarfs Suggests Rocky Exoplanets Very Alien To Earth
Cafe Hayek: “We Are Facing A Pandemic Of…Compliance & Complacency In A Culture Of Silence, Censorship, & Institutionalized Bullying”
CDR Salamander: Nine Years Is A Long Time
Da Tech Guy: Fr. Leonard Mary Mass & Healing Service At Madonna Of The Holy Rosary Church, November Indulgence Calendars PLUS Big Papal Bonus This Month, and Coddling College Students
Don Surber: Why Twix Did That “Ad”, Why They Fear “Let’s Go Brandon”, and Fauci’s Medical Malpractice
First Street Journal: If You Won’t Pay For The Newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer Thinks You Should Be Taxed To Support It Anyway, also, What, Does Indianapolis Think It’s Chicago?
Gates Of Vienna: Fighting Crime Is WAYCIST!, Clan Wars In Gothenburg’s No-Go Zones, and Was Corona Psychosis Part of The Plan?
The Geller Report: Fauci Funded Research To Graft Aborted Baby Scalps Onto Rats, also, Large Percentage Of GOP Thinks Violence Is Necessary To Fix America
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Trigger Warning, and A Field Guide To Nebulae
Hollywood In Toto: Madonna Slams Cancel Culture, Connects All The Vital Dots In The Process, also, Users Target Home Sweet Home Alone Reboot, Trash Trailer
The Lid: Saturday Night Deprived – How I Got Banned From Twitter
Legal Insurrection: Christian Student Group Sues University Claiming They Were Punished For Requiring Leaders To Believe In God, also, Univ. Washington Mental Wellness Program Includes Racism & Microaggressions
Nebraska Energy Observer: Reformation Day, also, Their Lips Are Moving
Outkick: Scottie Pippen Calls Out Jordan & Barkley In New Book, Raiders WR Ruggs Charged With DUI Resulting In Death After Early-Morning Car Crash
Power Line: Manchin Digs In, Minneapolis Keeps Its Police Department, and In The Virginia Race – Election Day Edition
Shark Tank: Jason Mariner Wins GOP Primary In FL-20
Shot In The Dark: The Why We War, also, Mostly Peaceful
The Political Hat: Critical Race Theory Vs. The Unwoke Tattletales, also, Gay Bar Trip For Elementary Schoolchildren
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesday With The Libs Of TikTok, WH Veteran Suicide Prevention Plan Pushes “Gun Safety”, and USS Connecticut Collision
Transterrestrial Musings: The Education Crisis
Victory Girls: Cori Bush Calls Joe Manchin A Racist Dictator
Volokh Conspiracy: Abortion Provides Seem Likely To Prevail In Texas SB 8 Case, also, More Shenanigans At Yale Law
Weasel Zippers: Minneapolis Resident On Today’s Vote To Defund The Police – Activists Have “No Clue”, also, Liberals Already Blaming Racism For McAuliffe’s Loss
The Federalist: Yes, It’s Fair To Frame The Loudoun County School Rapes As A Cautionary Tale, also, It Doesn’t Matter Who Wins In Virginia – Democrats Have Already Lost
Mark Steyn: Power & Office, also, The Wokestapo Comes For Margaret Atwood

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Virginia: ‘Too Close to Call’? BREAKING UPDATE: Youngkin Wins!

Posted on | November 2, 2021 | Comments Off on Virginia: ‘Too Close to Call’? BREAKING UPDATE: Youngkin Wins!

UPDATE 12:55 a.m. ET Wednesday: Glenn Youngkin wins Virginia!

BREAKING: Republican Glenn Youngkin wins election for governor in Virginia. #APracecall at 12:37 a.m. EDT. #Election2021 #VAelection

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 3, 2021

*** PREVIOUSLY (7:14 p.m. ET) ***

Tonight I’m watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and they’re trying to sell the Virginia gubernatorial election as a “toss-up,” but they just reported their own exit-poll results which look very bad for Democrat Terry McAuliffe. We shall see what happens.

UPDATE 7:40 p.m.: Official totals as of 7:30 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 168,239 (55.93%)
McAuliffe ……. 130,337 (43.33%)

With about 12% of precincts reporting, this is good news.

UPDATE 8 p.m. ET: Official totals as of 7:50 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 457,620 (58.34%)
McAuliffe ……. 321,315 (40.96%)

About 31% of precincts reporting, and this is even better news, because Youngkin’s lead appears to be widening as the evening goes on.

UPDATE 8:10 p.m. ET: Official totals as of 8 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 608,574 (57.02%)
McAuliffe ……. 451,192 (42.27%)

About 40% of precincts now reporting, and it continues to look encouraging for Youngkin. CNN’s John King was just pointing out higher-than-usual turnout in some rural “red” counties. Fingers crossed.

UPDATE 8:15 p.m. ET: Official totals as of 8:10 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 709,999 (57.04%)
McAuliffe ……. 525,854 (42.24%)

About 46% of precincts now reporting. It is expected there will be about 3 million votes cast in Virginia, and we still have less than half the vote, so we can be cautiously optimistic, with the emphasis on “cautiously.” The final vote is probably going to be very close.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: Official totals as of 8:20 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 794,650 (56.88%)
McAuliffe ……. 592,389 (42.40%)

About 52% of precincts now reporting. Still looking good, but remember that if there will be about 3 million total votes, the winner will have to get at least 1.5 million, so there’s a long way to go.

UPDATE 9 p.m. ET: Official totals as of 8:50 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 1,071,663 (54.93%)
McAuliffe ……. 865,345 (44.36%)

About 68% of precincts now reporting. Again, to point out the simple math, if we estimate a final vote total around 3 million, McAuliffe would have to get nearly 70% of the remaining votes to win. Which is theoretically possible, of course, if Democrats resort to the usual tricks of dumping in truckloads of “extra” ballots at 3 a.m.

UPDATE 9:25 p.m. ET: I’ve switched the TV to MSNBC, where Nicolle Wallace is on the verge of tears. Official totals as of 9:20 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 1,246,500 (54.21%)
McAuliffe ……. 1,036,170 (45.06%)

About 78% of precincts now reporting. Strong turnout in rural Virginia, plus “flipping” a few key suburban areas, appears to have yielded a victory for (alleged right-wing Donald Trump puppet) Glenn Youngkin.

UPDATE 9:30 p.m. ET: If my arithmetic is correct, and the estimate of about 3 million total votes in Virginia is also correct, then Youngkin only needs to get about 35% of the remaining vote to win.

UPDATE 9:35 p.m. ET: The meltdown on MSNBC is hysterical. Watch Nicolle Wallace go on about “The Big Lie” and the “deadly insurrection” of January 6, as if ordinary voters in Roanoke and Newport News are as obsessed with that as the people in the liberal media echo chamber:

MSNBC in full meltdown mode. pic.twitter.com/MtBKJjYxC0

— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) November 3, 2021

Nicolle’s in the Guyana jungle, drinking the Kool-Aid.

UPDATE 11:10 p.m. ET: Official totals as of 11 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 1,545,345 (51.27%)
McAuliffe ……. 1,444,933 (47.94%)

About 92% of precincts now reporting. Everybody knows Youngkin has won, but the networks continue the “too close to call” charade.

LOL pic.twitter.com/qKY5l1LMRK

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 3, 2021

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Every liberal on Twitter is now whining about Critical Race Theory and “racist” white voters.

UPDATE 11:35 p.m. ET: Official totals as of 11:30 p.m. ET:

Youngkin …….. 1,567,817 (51.16%)
McAuliffe ……. 1,472,945 (48.06%)

About 94% of precincts now reporting. Probably going to be tomorrow before the networks finally admit Youngkin won Virginia.

Oh, by the way, some Republican you never heard of before is currently leading Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy in New Jersey.

Category: Election, New Jersey, Virginia

Mayor Frogface Update

Posted on | November 2, 2021 | Comments Off on Mayor Frogface Update

I don’t want to be accused of discrimination or prejudice against the Amphibian-American community. Exactly how frog DNA got into Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s chromosomal sequence, I don’t know — maybe an early Chinese Communist biological warfare experiment gone awry, kind of like what happened with bat DNA in the Wuhan lab. And since we’re on the topic of the Chinese disease:

A Cook County judge on Monday suspended the city of Chicago’s policy requiring that all of its police officers be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year.
The ruling is a major victory for police unions, who have held that the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate violates their collective bargaining agreements. Judge Raymond Mitchell ruled Monday that the mandate should be halted for police officers until those complaints can be settled in arbitration.
Mitchell’s ruling does not impact other city workers, or other parts of the policy. That means city employees who are not represented by any of the four police unions will still have to be vaccinated by Dec. 31, 2021. And all police officers are still required to report their vaccination status and get tested twice a week if they’re not vaccinated. . . .
John Catanzara, the head of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, has vocally opposed the requirement that all workers share whether or not they are vaccinated against COVID-19, calling it an invasion of privacy and a violation of the police contract.
Catanzara repeatedly called for officers to “hold the line” and refuse to share their vaccination status with the city.

(Hat-tip: Don Surber.) More from Breitbart:

Lightfoot said the judge’s ruling actually validates her mandate; the ruling comes after U.S. District Judge John Lee “denied a temporary restraining order requested by more than 100 Chicago city workers, including firefighters,” reported ABC.
“If you look at what’s happening in court cases all across the country, whether it’s fire and police or others that are challenging these mandates, I’m not aware of a single instance in which a mandate put in place has been invalidated,” Lightfoot said on Monday. . . .
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accused the unvaccinated of “playing Russian roulette” with their lives and the lives in their community . . .
Law enforcement officials across the country have warned that city vaccine mandates could lead to a shortage of officers, prolonging emergency response times, and increasing city crime.

Mayor Frogface doesn’t care about human lives. Because she’s an amphibian, and you know they’re cold-blooded, right?

Category: Chicago

It’s On You, Virginia

Posted on | November 2, 2021 | Comments Off on It’s On You, Virginia

Virginians today have the power to end Terry McAuliffe’s political career. A Washington Post reporter writes the pre-obituary:

NORFOLK, Va. — Eutopia Hall didn’t realize she had neglected to sign the bottom of her mail-in ballot for governor until the county board of elections returned the document to her, asking her to complete it. But as she sat looking at the paper, she wondered if it was even worth a second trip to the mailbox.
So little had changed since she cast a ballot for Joe Biden in 2020, she said, that “I started to not even press the issue.” Her job and community were still mired in pandemic restrictions. An increase in the child tax credit had brought a few more dollars into her home, but it was eaten up by costlier prices for gas and food and seemingly everything else, and a year after high hopes of significant change in her family’s situation, things seemed stagnant.
“I don’t think a lot of people have a lot of faith in Biden, like they were expecting at first,” said Hall, a 42-year-old nursing assistant. “I think it’s more of a bigger division than it was before. I thought it was gonna get better once the vaccines came out because there was so many people complaining about covid and wanting a cure, but then they came out with a vaccine nobody wants to take. Nothing has changed and we’re just stuck in the same place.”
A year ago, Biden won Virginia by 10 percentage points, riding a wave of antipathy toward President Donald Trump to place the commonwealth solidly into the Democratic column. But with the eyes of the political world back on Virginia for statewide elections on Tuesday, Biden’s sinking popularity has emerged as a key factor dragging down hopes of another party victory and making the state look, once again, more like a battleground than a Democratic stronghold.
A new Washington Post-Schar School poll of likely Virginia voters, which found Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin in a toss-up race for governor, found that 53 percent disapprove of Biden’s job performance, while 46 percent approve.
Regardless of the final outcome Tuesday, the tight race in what many had believed to be a safe blue state underscores the extent to which Americans hold souring views of Biden looms over his party ahead of next year’s congressional midterms and the 2024 presidential election.
Interviews with nearly two dozen voters in this southeast Virginia region about three hours’ drive from D.C. found a profound sense of frustration that people haven’t seen benefits of Democratic control trickle into their lives or their wallets.
Tia Scott, of Norfolk, said her family has been pinched by rising prices everywhere, even as it gets harder to find a job that makes ends meet.
“The cost of living has been high, the cost of food is going up, and gas prices too, and jobs are still laying off people, saying it’s about covid,” said Scott, a 35-year-old customer service representative and mother of three girls. “I voted for Biden. Really, I was going to vote for anybody but Trump. But it seems like it was all talk. Now I see all the ads were just ads. Just because you say you can do all that stuff on an ad doesn’t mean you can do it.”
Particularly troubling, some said, is that nearly a year after a coronavirus vaccine was approved, mitigation efforts and covid restrictions remain a part of everyday life, the economy doesn’t seem to be working for the most vulnerable, and intraparty infighting has stalled progress promised by Biden and the Democrats.

The naïveté is remarkable. These people were apparently so full of Trump hatred that it never occurred to them to question Biden’s competence, or examine his campaign promises soberly. And notice that Eutopia Hall, who I presume to be African-American, says “they came out with a vaccine nobody wants to take,” which is an interesting assertion, coming as it does from someone employed in the healthcare field. The media keep pretending that Republicans are to blame for “vaccine resistance.”

McAuliffe concludes his campaign with lies:

“Guess how Glenn Youngkin is finishing his campaign?” McAuliffe told a modest crowd outside a Fairfax brewery Monday night at his final rally. “He is doing an event with Donald Trump here in Virginia.”
That was a lie. Trump wasn’t in Virginia and he never campaigned with Youngkin, though he did make the case for the GOP candidate — “fantastic guy!” — during a brief “tele-rally.”
Thirty miles away, at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds, a crowd several times the size of McAuliffe’s was waiting for Youngkin to take the stage. You got a hint of why McAuliffe was desperate to manufacture the fake Trump event. While McAuliffe has boundless energy — “Sleep when you’re dead!” he likes to say — his Monday audiences in Richmond and Fairfax, where we caught up with him, were modest and listless.
Youngkin’s were large and rollicking, with many of the trappings of a MAGA rally — a similar dad rock playlist, hats and flags and T-shirts paying homage to the former president — but, to the great disappointment of Democrats, not Trump himself. . . .
McAuliffe’s final message was almost entirely negative, focused on tying his opponent to Trump.

WATCH: President Joe Biden mentions Donald Trump's name 25 times while campaigning for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. pic.twitter.com/A8K8SunOSs

— Newsmax (@newsmax) October 27, 2021

That is quite literally all they’ve got now — “Trump! Trump! Trump!”

Maybe getting walloped in Virginia will fix that problem for them.

Category: Election, Virginia

In The Mailbox: 11.01.21

Posted on | November 1, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.01.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in October. It’s very much appreciated!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The New South Wales Answer To The Stasi
EBL: American GULAG, also, Let’s Go Brandon Slide
Twitchy: “Give It A Rest, Karen”, also, McAuliffe Wraps Campaign By Inviting AFT’s Randi Weingarten To Speak
Louder With Crowder: AP Reporter Flips Out, Tries To Storm Cockpit After Pilot Says “Let’s Go Brandon”, also, WaPo Reporter Already Blaming “Whiteness” For McAuliffe Losing Virginia Before He Loses Virginia
Vox Popoli: A Bit of An Accident, An Empire In Decline, and Guilt To Carry To The Grave
Surak Blog: The Injection Toll
Gab News: An Eschatology Of Victory

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Adam Piggott: The Church In A Secular World
American Conservative: Va. May Turn The Tide In America’s Education War
American Greatness: Americans Not Buying The Insurrection Narrative, also, How The 2020 Election Was Rigged
American Thinker: This Can’t Be True, also, The Myth Of White Privilege
Animal Magnetism: Hunt Week Totty Monday
Babalu Blog: Castro Dictatorship Continues To Bar Human Rights Monitors From Inspecting Cuban Prisons, also, While Cubans Struggle To Find Food, The Regime Flaunts Abundance Of Meat For Foreign Tourists
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 30, also, Va. Governor’s Race/Loudoun County School Board Roundup
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, Enrollment Decline In Urban Public Schools Continues, and Dragon Manned Launch Delayed Again
Cafe Hayek: Freedoms Are Not Acquired Cafeteria-Style
CDR Salamander: What Can The Army Do Best In The Indo-Pacific?
Da Tech Guy: Five Very Quick #tikigate Thoughts Under The Fedora, No Room For Warriors, and Sneak Into America And You Too Can Get $450,000
Don Surber: No Missile Gap – It’s A Leadership Gap, Trump Would Have Unloaded The Cargo Ships By Now, and McAuliffe Says Three Words That Admit Defeat
First Street Journal: Black Lives Don’t Matter In St. Louis, also, About Those Plug-In Electric Cars
Gates Of Vienna: Corona Psychosis, The Reaper & The Vax, and Wir Sind Das Volk
The Geller Report: DeSantis Claus – Florida Ports Report Epic Volumes As Governor Vows To Save Christmas, also, Poll – 2/3 Of French Believe Christians “Threatened With Extinction” By Muslim Mass Migration
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Chipping Away At The Supply Chain, and Jupiter Rotates
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s The Undeniable Heart Of The Halloween Franchise, also, Eternals Is More Woke Than Wonderful
The Lid: Blinken Makes A Mess Of Both Red China & Iran, also, 71% Say U.S. Headed In Wrong Direction As They Wake Up About Biden
Legal Insurrection: Elon Musk Thinking Of Launching New “Texas Institute Of Technology & Science”, Christian Student Group Files Lawsuit Against U. Nebraska – Lincoln, and Critical Race Scammer Ibram Kendi Deletes Tweet That Disproved His Life’s Work On “White Privilege”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, 10/31/21
Outkick: ESPN Staffer Writes That Atlanta Braves Should Rename Themselves “Cobb County Crackers”, Auburn Upsets #10 Ole Miss Behind QB Bo Nix, and Astros Head Back Home For Game 6 After Staving Off Defeat In Game 5 With 9-5 Win
Power Line: Sapp’s Law In Mankato, Ted Cruz Grills Merrick Garland Over Conflict Of Interest, and CRT – It Doesn’t Exist…And It’s Awesome!
Shark Tank: Is Democrat Guillermo Smith Rooting For COVID Deaths?
Shot In The Dark: People, Good Guy With Gun, and Central Casting
The Political Hat: Happy Halloween! also, Modern Education – Cross-Dressing Lingerie Lap Dance Pageant
This Ain’t Hell: Northern Va. Police & Businesses Increase Security After ISIS Threat, U.S. Ranks Last In International Survey On Trust In Media, and Selective Service System To Include Women
Transterrestrial Musings: The New “Four-Star Admiral”, also, The Age Of Discovery 2.0
Victory Girls: Lincoln Project Stunt In Virginia Creates Blowback, also, Kaepernick Compares NFL Combine To Slave Auction
Volokh Conspiracy: University Of Florida Blocks Professor’s Expert Witness Work In Case Against State Government
Weasel Zippers: NYC Jab Mandate Could Force Out 30% Of Firefighters, Never Trumper Kinzinger Says He Won’t Seek Re-Election, and Biden Insists Surging Gas Prices Caused By Green Nude Eel Policies Is Why We Have To Double Down On GND
The Federalist: Wisconsin Investigation Uncovers Tip Of A Potential Voting Fraud Iceberg, also, Hysterical NBC Journalist Calls Secret Service Over “Let’s Go Brandon” Merchandise
Mark Steyn: Better Left Unseen – Night Of The Demon, Go West Young Blue Boy, and Monster Mash

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Controlled Opposition: Has AllahPundit Always Been a Democrat Trojan Horse?

Posted on | November 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Controlled Opposition: Has AllahPundit Always Been a Democrat Trojan Horse?

“In the context of journalism, here, we are dealing with a new kind of ‘lead’ — the Symbiotic Trapezoid Quote. The Columbia Journalism Review will never sanction it; at least not until the current editor dies of brain syphilis, and probably not even then.
“What?
“Do we have a libel suit on our hands?
“Probably not, I think, because nobody in his right mind would take a thing like that seriously — and especially not that gang of senile hags who run the Columbia Journalism Review, who have gone to great lengths in every issue during the past year or so to stress, very heavily, that nothing I say should be taken seriously.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in Washington: The Boys in the Bag,” Rolling Stone, July 4, 1974 (collected in The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time)

The Patriots won Sunday, and it was sloppy as hell, but it was still a win.

Mac Jones was inconsistent, and New England was plagued by mistakes — a key fumble and penalties, including one that nullified a touchdown run by Damien Harris — and yet somehow they managed to defeat the Chargers 27-24. This was a must-win game, and they won it, bringing their record to 4-4 on the season, thus putting themselves in the middle of the AFC playoff chase with nine games to go in the season.

The real keys to Sunday’s win were two interceptions by Adrian Phillips, one of which he turned into a go-ahead touchdown, and outstanding special teams play by Gunner Olszewski, who had four punt returns for 80 yards, helping the Patriots in terms of field position. Finally, there was a 14-play, 54-yard drive in the fourth quarter that chewed up seven minutes before ending in a field goal that put New England ahead 27-17. That kind of clock-consuming, ball-control offense is underappreciated in the era of high-scoring razzle-dazzle football, but it enabled the Patriots to go home with a “W,” and that’s what really counts.

The thing about being a football fan is that, in identifying with a team, you share their fortunes. When I decided to become a Patriots fan — because they drafted Mac Jones from Alabama — Roll Tide! — I didn’t stop to think of the emotional toll that might be involved in this new fandom. When New England started the season 1-3, I was mortified. Being born and raised a ’Bama fan, I’m not accustomed to losing, and since Nick Saban took over in Tuscaloosa, thank God, there hasn’t been much losing. It’s an “off year” for Crimson Tide fans when we don’t win the National Championship, and it’s a disaster if we lose as many as two games in a season. Alabama fans would be burning Saban in effigy if the Tide ever started the season 1-3, so you can imagine how embarrassing it was for Mac Jones (and for me) to begin their season so badly. Yet there were glimmers of hope amid the gloom, and after New England blew out the Jets 54-13, it was possible to see them with a path to the playoffs if — and it seemed like a big “if” — they could beat the Chargers.

Baby, just look at this beautiful Jones-to-Agholor pass:

Going DEEP!

?: @NFLonCBS / Patriots app pic.twitter.com/fBzN4d7WUx

— New England Patriots (@Patriots) October 31, 2021

Critics keep saying Mac Jones has a “weak arm,” and I’m like, what? If you pay attention to that play, you see that Mac is on his own 33-yard line when he throws it, and Nelson Agholor catches it at the Chargers’ 19-yard line — that pass went 48 yards in the air, and notice that Mac was throwing under pressure from the Chargers’ rush. “Weak arm,” my ass.

Sometimes the best way to start a story is with a weird digression. Don’t even bother trying a “lead,” but instead plunge off into something that seemingly has nothing to do with your main topic — “the Symbiotic Trapezoid Quote,” as Thompson called it. My theme here is about teamwork and loyalty, and the inspiration was Ace of Spades ripping into AllahPundit for trying to spin the McAuliffe “tiki boys” stunt:

And it was stupid for the leftwing partisan AllahPundit to attempt to cover for his Palz on the Left and claim that this was just an innocent attempt at street theater which inadvertently turned into a hoax.
Recently AllahPundit claimed the story that Florida now had the lowest covid rates in the country — remember, bloggers at Hot Air “claim” stories on a first-come, first served basis — just so he could attack DeSantis by claiming it was hypocritical that DeSantis did not take the blame for Florida’s higher August covid rates but is taking credit for their lowest-in-the-nation October rates.
AllahPundit somehow doesn’t notice that it’s equally hypocritical for AllahPundit to have spent all August attacking DeSantis for higher Florida covid rates but now refuse to grant him credit for the low October rates.
Or that it is hypocritical of AllahPundit to blow off surging covid rates in the blue states of New England, where they have forced vaccinations and masking and all the wonderful coercions his frightened Karen heart craves.
But this is now typical of the alleged conservative blog Hot Air — it runs the same sort of opinion pieces that you’d find on Salon.
Which isn’t much of a surprise, given that in 2017, Salon named AllahPundit as one of the 25 conservative bloggers worth reading.
Their other picks? Lincoln Project pedophile-enablers Rick Wilson and Stuart Stevens, and actual Lincoln Project pedophile John Weaver.
Former “conservative” blogger Jen Rubin, and former “conservative” fundraiser Ana Navarro.
As well as Noted All-Around Conservative Expert Tom Nichols, and Jon Podhoretz and S.E. Cupp.
As well as Noted Cvckshed Resident Bill Kristol, and Noted Bulwark Writer and Alanis Morrissette Lookalike Tim Miller.
Steven Hayes of The Dispatch. And David Frum.

You can read the whole thing. Lately, Ace has been ripping Allah at least once a day, five days a week, and I fondly recall the days — circa 2007 or so — when it seemed like Ace was just kind of nudging around with Allah, like buddies playing the dozens, but more recently it has become apparent to me that Ace really hates Allah’s guts. And why?

Because AllahPundit is not, and really never has been, a team player.

Like football, politics is a team sport. Just turn on CNN sometime, and see them all shaking their media pompoms for Team Democrat. We know what team they’re on, and we want to beat that team. The whole point of conservative journalism is to do a Mark Gastineau-style sack dance on the faces of those dishonest liberal media hacks.

Even if being on Team GOP is inevitably a disappointment — always being forced to swallow some worthless “bipartisan compromise” arranged by Mitch McConnell and/or an army of corporate lobbyists — it’s usually the best we can do, and a damned sight better than the catastrophes that happen whenever Democrats are running the show. Whatever any conservative’s complaints may be about Trump, you can’t fault him for his full-throttle assault on the “fake news” media, and for this is for nothing else he deserved our loyal support.

As Ace ran down that “Salon 25” list, placing AllahPundit in the company of weasels like Tom Nicols and Rick Wilson, it raised the question in my mind: “In what sense was AllahPundit ever a conservative?” In the Charles “Little Green Footballs” Johnson sense, perhaps?

There’s a freaky acid flashback, eh? Months at a time now go by without LGF ever crossing my mind, but now that it has . . .

Oh, the terrible DANGER posed by “racists” cheering for the Braves!

Exactly what has Charles ever done that would qualify him for recognition as a Friend of Indigenous Peoples? That’s the really annoying thing about these people — they think they deserve praise as Humanitarian Philanthropists merely for the act of going on Twitter and calling Republicans “racist,” as if this demonstrated their courage.

CNN’s ratings are in the tank and nobody reads LGF anymore, because this kind of phony Courageous Stand Against Racism stuff is boring.

And as Ace points out, what’s the rationale for Salem Media Group (SMG) to keep publishing the Democrat Trojan Horse that is AllahPundit? How is that justified, from a business perspective? SMG originated as a Christian radio network, but AllahPundit’s an atheist.

Then, on the other hand, when you think about how soi-disant “conservative” Christians like David French have baptized liberalism, so to speak, as a function of their #NeverTrump obsession, I guess AllahPundit’s atheism isn’t really disqualifying. But his #NeverTrump tendency has definitely put him in the same basket as the rest of the “Conservatives for Biden” crowd. Byron York assesses the damage:

He promised to deal with the COVID pandemic, and the pandemic came back with a vengeance. He promised to improve the economy, and growth has slowed, with inflation becoming a critical concern. He promised to restore America’s place in the world and then led a disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He promised to fix President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and instead brought chaos to the border. Of course his job approval rating is going down. How could it not?

You can read the whole thing. My point is that the market doesn’t seem to be demanding whatever it is AllahPundit is supplying.

Closet liberalism, masquerading as “conservative” punditry, may have had an audience once upon a time, but that time is clearly over:

Republican Glenn Youngkin leads over former governor Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia gubernatorial polls one day before the heavily-watched election.
Youngkin shows a two-point lead over McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial race poll with likely voters, conducted by Insider Advantage and first reported by FOX5. The poll found that 47 percent will be voting for Youngkin. The poll is bad news for McAuliffe, whom only 45 percent of respondents said they would vote for in tomorrow’s race.
Two percent of the respondents said they would be voting for another candidate, Princess Blanding. Additionally, six percent were “undecided.” . . .
Matt Towry, from Insider Advantage, told FOX5 that his company noticed a “shift” towards Youngkin. He added that this election would have everything to do with getting voters to turn out.
“McAuliffe is a very gifted politician. He knows how to turn out his vote. Youngkin is obviously coming on strong. So, it’s going to be down to the wire,” Towry added.
Regarding the six percent who said they were undecided when asked, Towry noted that “they don’t plan on voting” and “most of the vote is already baked into these numbers.”

Can we trust these polls? Will the Democrats in Virginia come up with one of those ballot-harvesting “miracle” wins with a 3 a.m. truckload of absentee votes to give McAuliffe the margin of victory? We can’t rule it out, and there are probably corpses of Democratic voters in Oakwood Cemetry awaiting their electoral resurrection Tuesday. But we cannot allow this possibility to discourage Republican voters — living, breathing, legal residents of Virginia — from actually voting. Maybe the fix is in, but Virginia Republicans have to vote as if the machinery of Democratic vote fraud weren’t going to nullify their ballots. Keep in mind that Biden beat Trump by 10 points in Virginia, so for this election even to be close is something of a miracle. If Youngkin manages to pull off an upset here, it will send shock waves across the nation. And maybe, just maybe, it will drive a stake through the heart of #NeverTrump.

Shove it down their throats and do a sack dance on their faces.

Oh, and the Patriots are a three-point favorite over the Jaguars.

Category: Election, Football, Virginia

Rule 5 Sunday: Danielle Rose Russell

Posted on | October 31, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Danielle Rose Russell

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The daughter of a Rockette, this New Jersey girl started her acting career early with A Walk Among The Tombstones alongside Liam Neeson, but she’s probably better known for her role as Hope Mikaelson on the Vampire Diaries spinoffs The Originals and Legacies. Here’s a pic of her from the latter series.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1519, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Power Grids Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Evanescence, Elizabeth Tablish, Cimorelli, 15 Minutes Of Shame, Yasmine Al Bustami, Rosemary Clooney, Jessica Alba, They Might Be Giants, Ann Margret, Barbara Eden, and MAGA Halloween.

A View From The Beach: Selita Ebanks Suffered Deprivation for Her Craft, Forgive My Skepticism, Fish Pic Friday – Oceanic Barbie, Ancient Actress Seeks Social Climate Credits, Perfect Wave, Managers Put Striped Bass on a Deadline, The Morning Election Madness, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, Can Striped Bass Cure Cancer?, Hail to Thee, My Alma Mater, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Sunday Sunrise, Promise? and Repression Down Under.

Brian Noggle: Big Data Knows I’m A Big Bollywood Fan

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Totem

Posted on | October 31, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Totem

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Swept the two-game series at Pittsburgh this week, which was a surprise since Forbes Field is where deep fly balls go to die, and my lineup is full of sluggers, but my Senators are above .500 again. On an unrelated topic, everyone I’ve heard from regarding the catch-up In The Mailbox posts has been for them and nobody thinks I should drop them. Feel free to express your opinions in the comments.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.