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In The Mailbox: 10.29.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 29, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.29.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Before I get into this, I have a question: is it worth it to the Loyal Commentariat for me to do these catch-up link dumps with day-old news and opinions, or should I just do the daily posts and if I miss one, I miss one? E-mail or comment with your opinion.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Prosecutors Hate Self-Defense
EBL: How Are Things Between Jill & Kamala?
Twitchy: Adam Kinzinger’s Retirement From Congress Isn’t As Stunning & Brave As He Wants People To Think
Louder With Crowder: School Board Member Takes Kids On Field Trip To Gay Bar
Vox Popoli: “The Infernal Ideology”, They Are Monsters, and They Are Here To Destroy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Resurrect The Powell Doctrine
American Greatness: Is This The End Of The Republic?, The Ignoble Lie, and Va. Mom Says Federal Agents Infiltrated School Board Meeting
American Thinker: Navigating The Culture Wars – The Anti-Woke Rebellion, also, Why I Fear Red Chinese Dominance
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Other-State Politics News
Babalu Blog: Fidel’s Grandson Reopens Luxury Apartheid Capitalist Nightclub, The Cuban Hindu Goddess of Violent Repression, and Pope Francis – A True Believer In Cuba’s Communist Dictatorship
Baldilocks: Air Power
BattleSwarm: Supply Chain Update For October 28
Behind The Black:  Today’s Blacklisted American, Starliner Delays Have Cost Boeing Another $185 Million, and Major Solar Flare
Cafe Hayek: Avoid This Reductio
CDR Salamander: The Fine Line Between A Lie, Spin, And Your Soul, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Where I Disagree With Trump’s Letter To The WSJ, also, The WuFlu Pandemic Is Creating A Zombie Apocalypse
Don Surber: Dear Bill Kristol – We’re Not A Democracy, also, School Takes Elementary Kids To Gay Bar
First Street Journal: Lexington On Pace For Record-Breaking 38 Murders In 2021
Gates Of Vienna: A Maverick Among Socialists, Mayhem In Ramallah-On-The-Spree, and Weaponizing Behavioral Psychology
The Geller Report: Fla. Has Lowest COVID Rate In America, also, NIH Covers Fauci’s Ass
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Two Views Of M83, and Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains
Hollywood In Toto: SNL Legend Schools Woke Reporter, also, Russell Brand On CNN – “You Can’t Use This As A News Source”
The Lid: This Halloween, Please Don’t Give To Terrorist-Supporting UNICEF
Legal Insurrection: Gen. Milley Finally Concerned With Chicom Hypersonic Missiles, CNN Frantically Carries McAuliffe’s Water In Final Days Of Dead-Heat Va. Governors’ Race, and RI Mom Nicole Solas Tells NSBA “We Don’t Want You In Our Schools Any More”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Halloween Reflections
Outkick: Every World Series Since 1982 Has Featured A Teammate Of John Smoltz, NBA Running Scared Of NFL On Thursdays, and Astros Even World Series With 7-2 Win In Game 2
Power Line: Hawley Rips Merrick Garland, also, Washington Post Lays An Egg
Shark Tank: “Democrats Don’t Support Veterans’ Choice In Healthcare”
Shot In The Dark: Let’s Go Brandon, You Logistics Whiz, also, Customer Service
The Political Hat: Banned Words In Academia – Freedom, Rigor, & Chinese Virus, also, Artificial Wombs – The Golden Mean For Abortion, Or A Way To Mass Produce Catgirls?
This Ain’t Hell: Politician’s Military Service Questioned, also, Thomas Cole – Phony Urgent Fury Commando
Transterrestrial Musings: Starship
Victory Girls: Amazing Race To Save Democrats’ Spendapalooza Bill
Volokh Conspiracy: Speaker Removed From Orange Co. Fla. School Boar Meeting For Reading From Book Found At School Library
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Threatens To Sink Biden’s Entire Agenda, U.S. GDP Evaporates To Just 2%, and I’m Hatin’ It – McDonald’s Increases Menu Prices 6% Due To Shortages
The Federalist: Our Degenerate Elites Are Losing Control & Lashing Out, Loudoun County Sheriff Rejected Superintendent’s Insane Plan To Weaponize Police Against Parents, and The School Board “Domestic Terrorism” Dumpster Fire Proves Parents Are Winning
Mark Steyn: Steyn In For Farage Today!

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Scold Me Closer, Terry Dancer

Posted on | October 28, 2021 | Comments Off on Scold Me Closer, Terry Dancer

by Smitty (with apologies to Elton John)

McAuliffe baby
VA shady
Greaser for the band
Beady-eyed
Pirate smile
Send police for the dads
Ballotista
You must’ve seen ‘im
Envelopes in hand
And now he’s in me
Always with me
Bogus answers for the land

Jesus freaks
Out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back
He just laughs
Bending ballots ain’t that bad
Biden man
He makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on
He sings the songs
The words he knows
The tune he hums

But oh, how it feels so real
Lying here, media near
All of you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly

Scold me closer, Terry dancer
Call me racist on the highway
Lay down bull sheets of lyin’
You had a busy day today

Scold me closer, Terry dancer
Call me racist on the highway
Lay down bull sheets of lyin’
You had a busy day today

. . .

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In The Mailbox: 10.27.21

Posted on | October 28, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.27.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

It would be fitting.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1518
Red Pilled Jew: Our Children Are The Hill To Die On
Ammo.com: A Distributed Capacity For Violence
357 Magnum: How’s That Bail Reform Working Out?
EBL: Mort Sahl, RIP
Twitchy: Florida Now Has America’s Lowest COVID Rate, Yahoo News Wants To Know If DeSantis Deserves Credit, also, Pinche Gordita Ana Navarro Says Black & Latina Women Know Sen. Sinema’s Denim Vest is Racist 
Louder With Crowder: Based Iranian Dad Returns, “Congratulates” Board For Graduating From “Disgraced” To “Pedophiles”, also, Watch Ted Cruz Eviscerate Merrick Garland Over Targeting Parents 
Vox Popoli: The Flight From Taiwan, U.S. Military Capacity – Weak, and Dead Boys In Britain
Gab News: Gab’s Statement On President Trump’s Social Network

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Arguing The Existence of God
American Conservative: We Lost The School Fight Fifty Years Ago
American Greatness: Five Months After Indictment, Feds Finally Arrest Cameraman Who Threatened Rep. Gaetz With Murder, America Gone Mad, and The Left Is Everything They Hate
American Thinker: Democrats Are Actively Seeking To Destroy America’s Unique Culture, also, Why Democrats’ Scheme To Tax Unrealized Capitol Gains Should Terrify You
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Dictatorship Pressuring Imprisoned Dissidents To Accept Exile, Calls For Violence & Kidnapping To Intimidate Cubans Ahead of 11/15 March For Freedom, and Cuban Dictatorship Spreads Fear, Foments Violence, Mayhem, & Civil War
BattleSwarm: Fighting Critical Race Theory In Texas Schools, also, “NYC’s Homeless Problem Is A Giant Scam!”
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Ingenuity Completes 14th Flight On Mars, and Curiosity Marches On Into The Mountains
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Yes, For 20 Years The CCP Has Been In Our Communications Ecosystem
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Ruberry Nailed It!, Voices Of EWTN – Father Leonard Mary In Fitchburg, and My Question For The Twitter Censors Regarding Rachel Levine
Don Surber: “A Penis Can Be A Female Sex Organ”, also, 59% say “F*** Joe Biden” Chant Is OK
First Street Journal: The Left Really, Really Don’t Understand Conservatives, also, Hold Them Accountable!
Gates Of Vienna: The EU Funds Jew-Hatred In Palestinian Schoolbooks, Jihad Jennifer Gets Ten Years For Her Crimes In Iraq, and Cracking Down On The Unvaxxed
The Geller Report: Harvard Prof Says Kids Should NOT Get The Jab, also, Email Shows Biden Ordered Evac Flights Be Filled With Unvetted Refugees
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Two Clusters & White Dwarfs
Hollywood In Toto: How Wahlberg’s Fear Captured A Parent’s Worst Nightmare, also, United States Of Insanity Nails FBI Overreach
The Lid: Leftist Archaeologists Find Revised Constitution Ratified In 1790 (Satire)
Legal Insurrection: Victor Davis Hanson Calls Higher Education “Ground Zero Of Woke”, also, Student’s Resignation Letter To Harvard Pre-Med Cites “Molecules Of White Supremacy Seeping From My Computer”
Michelle Malkin: Grant Napear’s Life Matters
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosus Chapter 12
Outkick: Roger Goodell Announces Why He’s Not Releasing WFT Investigation Findings; Cheerleaders Furious, Cleveland Guardians Roller Derby Team Sues Baseball Team To Stop Name Change, and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Defends Braves’ Tomahawk Chop
Power Line: Memo To Diversicrats – Here’s Some “Equity” For You, Tom Cotton Tears Into Merrick Garland, and The Case For Terry McAuliffe
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Calls DeSantis’ Plan To Hire Unvaxxed Cops “Threatening”
Shot In The Dark: A Long Train of Abuses & Usurpations, You May Or May Not Be Able To Fight City Hall, and Either Way
STUMP: Remembering Soviet Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, 1942-2019
The Political Hat: Why American Public Schools Are A Joke
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Thinks We’re 6-12 Months Away From ISIS-K Being Able To Hit The U.S., The Difference Between AF & Navy Pilots, and NY State Releasing Cop-Killing Domestic Terrorist David Gilbert
Transterrestrial Musings: Immortal Data, also, “Transphobic” Lesbians
Victory Girls: Ray Epps, Jayden X, And The Insurrection, also, Roundup Time – Desperate Democrats & Their Panic
Volokh Conspiracy: “Is He A Criminal Lawyer? Yes, Very.”
Weasel Zippers: DOD Admits Over 400 Americans Still Stuck In Afghanistan, Idiot Joy Reid Claims DeSantis Wants To Import Unvaxxed Cops To Kill Seniors, and WaPo Says Parents Don’t Have The Right To Shape What Teachers Teach Their Kids
The Federalist: Why These Parents, Students, & Protesters Are Standing Up To The Loudoun County School Board, also, Biden’s FBI Joins Nancy Pelosi In Blocking Republicans From Investigating January 6
Mark Steyn: Coming Apart, also, Greatly Agitated

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— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Virginia, Brace Yourselves

Posted on | October 27, 2021 | Comments Off on Virginia, Brace Yourselves

We’re now less than a week away from Election Day, with the Virginia gubernatorial race too close to call, and I want all my Virginia readers to prepare themselves psychologically for the nightmare ordeal of these final few days. The agonizing wait, constantly checking to see what new poll has been published, or what TV ad is rolling out — the last week of the campaign is always a nerve-wracking ordeal for political junkies.

Meanwhile, you’re being bombarded with Bidenism:

President Joe Biden leaned into Terry McAuliffe’s core campaign strategy to tie Republican Glenn Youngkin to former President Trump and nationalize Virginia’s toss-up gubernatorial race.
“I ran against Donald Trump. Terry is running against an acolyte of Donald Trump,” Biden said to a crowd of about 2,500 braving a chilly, windy night in Arlington.
Not long ago, McAuliffe warned that Biden being “unpopular” meant that Democrats would have to work harder through “headwinds from Washington,” and Biden’s approval ratings have dipped further since then.
But with recent gubernatorial race polls showing a dead heat between the former Democratic governor, who is seeking a second non-consecutive term, and Republican Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity firm co-CEO, McAuliffe turned to Biden to give him a boost with one week before Election Day.
“Talk about an oxymoron: Donald Trump and election integrity,” Biden said, appearing to refer to Youngkin’s election integrity platform that he pushed during the Republican primary. “I can’t believe he puts the words Trump and integrity in the same sentence.”
Much of his speech was not about Youngkin but was a response to Trump and a defense of his performance as president.
“Trump likes to boast the single best measure of the economy is the stock market. I never thought that. Well, if that’s true, take a look at the stock market now. It’s higher than it’s ever been,” Biden said.
Biden’s second appearance in Virginia for McAuliffe, despite coming only barely across the river and just a stone’s throw from the Pentagon, demonstrates a full-court press approach among national Democrats in fear of losing the race in an embarrassing upset. A loss in Virginia, where off-year state elections have historically been a barometer for midterm elections, would damage Biden’s image and Democratic enthusiasm.
The president is just the latest in a parade of Democrats coming to stump for McAuliffe in the critical final weeks of the toss-up campaign.
Former President Barack Obama campaigned with McAuliffe in Richmond over the weekend, and Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned for McAuliffe last week in addition to filming a “Souls to the Polls” ad to be played at black churches.

The best way to react to this is to ignore it. Just go vote, and encourage your neighbors to do the same, and do your best to tune out the frantic chatter from the desperate Democrats. Read a book. Watch a movie. Do whatever it takes to calm your mind amid the campaign madness.




 

Category: Election, Virginia

In The Mailbox: 10.26.21

Posted on | October 27, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.26.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Your ISP Is Spying On You
EBL: 15 Minutes Of Shame
Twitchy: “You Can Feel The Energy”, also, Jezebel Fact-Checks Chappelle’s Claim That Hannah Gadsby Isn’t Funny
Louder With Crowder: Unfunny Hannah Gadsby Lashes Out At Dave Chappelle, also, Every Reason To Fire Fauci Other Than Torturing Dogs
Vox Popoli: Seeing Through Shapiro, also, Red China Bets On Surrender

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Physical & Spiritual Fight
American Conservative: Five Simple Reforms For The Next Republican Administration
American Greatness: Wisc. Judge Says Men Shot By Kyle Rittenhouse May Be Called Rioters, Looters, Or Arsonists – But Not Victims, also, Loudoun County Parents Forced To Sign NDA To Read New Racist Curriculum
American Power: Astros Vs. Braves Is Rob Manfred’s Nightmare World Series
American Thinker: Children As Human Shields In Loudoun County, also, Why Pete Buttigieg Prefers Diapers
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Climate Change News
Babalu Blog: Pastor Arrested For Peacefully Protesting On 7/11 Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison, also, Cuban Priest Condemns Government’s Violent “Rapid Response Brigades”
BattleSwarm: Did Google Break The Law? also, Homelessness Is A Profit Center For The Democrats
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Japan Launches GPS-Type Satellite, and How Deadly Is COVID-19, Really?
Cafe Hayek: Hey There, Comrade!
Da Tech Guy: Voices Of Life – Rebekah Hagen Of The Abortion Pill Reversal Network, Quick Under The Fedora Thoughts, and Pennsylvania – The Worst Of The Worst
Don Surber: 45% Of Americans Don’t Buy Global Warming Propaganda, Bollywood Can Replace Alec Baldwin & His Ilk, and No Prizes Awarded Because The Nominees Were White Men
First Street Journal: Let’s Go, Brandon! also, Heather Long Gets A Promotion
Gates Of Vienna: Yet Another Mentally Ill Mujahid, Pollyanna Please Come Home, and Empty Beds When RI Hospitals Were “Overwhelmed”
The Geller Report: Calif. Unemployment Claims Account For One-Third Of America’s Total, Israeli Muslim Murders His Mom Because She Converted To Christianity, and IAF Begins Training For Strike On Iranian Nuke Program
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, In A Galaxy Far Away, and Slow Blogging For A While
Hollywood In Toto: Did SNL Admit Biden’s Mental State Is In Question? also, Comic Book Creators Turn To NFTs
The Lid: Pelosi Tries Rallying Democrats Around Neutered Agenda – “Embrace The Suck”
Legal Insurrection: Black Student Senator At Berkeley Faces Recall For Refusing To Represent Whites, Mom Says School Safety Agents Should Stay With NYPD, and “Defund The Police” Advocate Ilhan Omar Blames Minneapolis Police For Crime Spike
Nebraska Energy Observer: For All The Saints, also, Two Old Friends
Outkick: Texas Restricts Transgender School Athletes To Participating As Gender Assigned At Birth, ESPN Employee Lies About Diversity, and Lane Kiffin Had No Idea Who’s Playing In The World Series
Power Line: Baseball Is No Morality Play, Certainly Not A Woke-Left One, Bordering On Insanity, and Our Scientific Overlords
Shark Tank: Simpson Whines About Ladapo’s “Unprofessional” Behavior
Shot In The Dark: Meet The Petard
The Political Hat: Critical Hand Theory, also, Bring Back The Monroe Doctrine
This Ain’t Hell: After 23 Kids Arrested For Brawling At School, Dads Step In, Watch Those Pronouns & Gender Assignments, and Pablo Would Be So Proud
Transterrestrial Musings: Another Commercial Space Station
Victory Girls: Puppy Killer, Explain Yourself, also, Enes Kanter Takes On Red China With Shoes & Tweets
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Allows Discovery Of Funding Sources For Nunes’ Family Farms Libel Lawsuit
Weasel Zippers: Now Democrats Hate Congress Too, Mass Shooting At Boise Mall, and Months Later, Pentagon Confirms Over 450 Americans Stranded In Afghanistan
The Federalist: How The “Rachel” Levine “Four-Star Admiral” Photo Op Damages U.S. Security, Before Having The IRS Snoop On All Americans’ Bank Accounts, It Needs To Audit Joe Biden, and Ohio’s School Board Association Latest To Leave NSBA
Mark Steyn: When Your Lover Has Gone, also, Melting General Lee

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Hypocrite Terry McAuliffe Does Not Send His Kids to Virginia Public Schools

Posted on | October 26, 2021 | Comments Off on Hypocrite Terry McAuliffe Does Not Send His Kids to Virginia Public Schools

Millionaire liberal Terry McAuliffe is not from Virginia. He’s from Syracuse, New York. He got his start in politics as campaign finance director for Jimmy Carter in 1980. He made $8 million from the Global Crossing scam. Trying to cash in on Obama’s “green energy” scam, McAuliffe “gave 32 wealthy Chinese nationals EB-5 visas in exchange for $560,000 investments into GreenTech Automotive,” which went bankrupt in 2018. There are all kinds of reasons not to vote for this sleazy swindling leftover from the Clinton era, but here’s the real deal-breaker: Terry McAuliffe is against school choice and he’s trying to send parents to prison for speaking out at public school board meetings, and yet NONE of his children have ever attended a Virginia public school.

Why would anyone ever vote for this corrupt hypocrite?




 

Category: Democrats, Virginia

In The Mailbox: 10.25.21

Posted on | October 25, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.25.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Lot of folks sent in stuff over the weekend. Enjoy.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Even the kids are getting into the act.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Do You Trust Google?
McG’s Tally Book: Autumn Greetings
Red Pilled Jew: Concealed Data – My BS Meter Pegs Out
357 Magnum: Can You Gaslight An Entire State About A Politician?
EBL: The Chosen
Twitchy: “You Will Not Summon Me”, also, LCPS Rapist The Latest Victim Of Obama’s “Phony, Trumped-Up Culture Wars”
Louder With Crowder: Mission Statement – THIS Is Why We #FightLikeHell
Vox Popoli: Be Vigilant, Never Laugh At God, and Now It’s Their Turn
Stoic Observations: The Will To Be Persuaded & The Rationality Of Violent Conflict

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Sunday Musings
American Conservative: The Admirals Who Killed The West, also, Taiwan Is Not About China
American Greatness: The Face Of American Despotism, also, Ground Zero Of Woke
American Thinker: The Often-Overlooked Facts About COVID-19, also, The Teachers’ Union’s Fumbled Play
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: The Broken Supply Chain That Has Always Affected Socialists, Independent Journalist’s Daughter Arrested & Raped By Castro’s Police, and Pope Francis Washes His Hands Of The Cuban People & Their Suffering
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan & Michael Shellenberger Discuss When & Why San Francisco Turned Into A Shithole
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, Layered Glaciers In Mars’ Glacier Country, and Arianespace, Chicom Launches This Weekend
Cafe Hayek: Some “Historians” Do “History”, On Civilized Disagreement & Argument, and The Abuse & Misuse Of Science “Is Gross To Watch”
CDR Salamander: Red China’s Dangerous Decade – On Midrats, also, I’ll Take Sub Killing For 500
Da Tech Guy: Gen. Don Bolduc, GOP Candidate For Senate From NH, Go See Dune – In The Theater, and Nine Months That Shook The World – A List of Biden’s Failures
Don Surber: Firing Heroes Over The Jab Mandate, Speaking To Biden In A Language He Understands, and Democrats Retreat In The War On Parents
First Street Journal: The Cannibalism Of The Left, also, Two Capitol Kerflufflers Sentenced
Gates Of Vienna: The Not-So-Magic Bus, Austria Makes Life Difficult For The Unvaxxed, and Vexed Docs Nix The Vax
The Geller Report: WaPo Forced To Admit They Lied About “Let’s Go Brandon” Chant, Kerry Promises To Create Auto Jobs As Part Of Green New Deal – IN MEXICO, and ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION – Big Pharma Companies With Jabs Licensed For Emergency Use All Employ Former FDA Commissioners
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Smog On Saturn, and Following The Science
Hollywood In Toto: Mass Is Simple, Spare, & Spellbinding, also, Why Something Wicked This Way Comes Deserves A Reboot
The Lid: SCOTUS Makes The Right Call On Qualified Immunity, also, Brooklyn Bridge Shut Down By First Responders’ Anti-Jab Protest
Legal Insurrection: Administration Admits There’s A Lot More Stranded Americans In Afghanistan, GOP Calls For Investigation & Firing Of Fauci After His Lies About Gain-Of-Function Research Exposed, and Parents Group Launches Database To Track “Equity” Consultants In The “Woke-Industrial Complex” 
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations Sunday Special, also, Random Observations
Outkick: Tennessee Won’t Be Intimidated By The Past As They Play Alabama, Ole Miss Returns LSU To Its Lost Season 34-17 On Eli Manning Day, and You Can Make $75 By Enduring The Pain Of “The Wendy Williams Show”
Power Line: Soros-Backed Virginia Prosecutor Loses Again, Facebook’s Political Maelstrom Exposed, and Sowell Vs. Obama
Shark Tank: Stephanie Murphy Introduces Bipartisan “No Clearance For Domestic Terrorists” Act
Shot In The Dark: They’re Always Loaded, Poetic Justice, and When He’s Right…
STUMP: Videos – Talking Actuaries & Data, The Poisoner’s Handbook, & An Update To Public Pension Projections
The Political Hat: Mandatory Pronouns In North Dakota
This Ain’t Hell: Stupid People Of The Week, Three More Return, and Nobody Saw This Coming? Really?
Transterrestrial Musings: Alec Baldwin’s Accident, Treating Type II Diabetes, and The Public School System
Victory Girls: It’s The Economy, Stupid, also, Obama Calls School Issues “Phony Trumped-Up Culture Wars”
Volokh Conspiracy: Anthony Downs, RIP, also, Americans Should Be Free To Express Their Opinions About Admirals
Weasel Zippers: WZ QUARTERLY DONATION DRIVE, Biden Has $500K Security Fence Built Around His Beach House After Shutting Down Border Wall Construction, and “Tell Biden We’re Coming!”
The Federalist: Columbia Law Prof Explains Why Public Schools Are Tearing America Apart, How Virginia Democrats Are Working To Make Elections Sloppy Again, and Biden Gave NSBA President Plum Political Appointment Two Days After She Penned Bogus “Domestic Terrorism” Letter
Mark Steyn: Goldfinger, Farewell My Lovely, Common Law & Common Sense

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Can the Patriots Make the Playoffs?

Posted on | October 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Can the Patriots Make the Playoffs?

In case you missed Sunday’s game, Mac Jones and the New England Patriots destroyed the New York Jets 54-13. The rookie quarterback from Alabama — Roll Tide! — was 24 for 36 for 307 yards passing, with two touchdowns, while running back Damien Harris — also Roll Tide! — racked up 106 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 14 carries.

Sunday’s victory brought New England’s record to 3-4 on the season and, given the evidence that the rebuilt Patriots are finally getting their act together, everybody has started asking if it’s possible that Coach Bill Belichick’s team can make it to the playoffs. And the obvious answer is, absolutely yes. The five AFC teams with the best records so far — Tennessee Titan, the Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens, the Las Vegas Raiders, the Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles Chargers — have each lost two games. The Patriots are currently second in the AFC East behind Buffalo (4-2). Seven teams in each conference (4 division winners plus 3 wild cards) make the playoffs. So there are two ways that the Patriots could make it to the playoffs, first by winning the AFC East division title, finishing ahead of the Bills, and second by qualifying for one of the three wild card spots. There are currently two AFC teams with six losses (Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans) and two with five loses (the Jets and the Jacksonville Jaguars), so the Patriots are ahead of those four teams in terms of the competition for a potential wild card playoff berth. There are three other teams (the Indianapolis Colts, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos) that equal the Patriots with four losses. And then there are two other teams (the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers) that have only three losses.

At this point, the Patriots are in the third tier, with the Colts, Chiefs and Broncos, in terms of the playoff competition, behind the five first-tier teams, and just one game behind the second tier. If the Patriots could win their game Sunday against the Chargers, improving to 4-4, they would definitely be in the hunt, particularly when you consider that also on Sunday, the Browns play the Steelers (both second-tier) and the first-tier Titans play the third-tier Colts. So one of the second-tier teams will have a fourth loss on its record, and unless the Colts pull a shocking upset against the Titans, they’ll be knocked out of the third tier. Grant that the Patriots will be the underdog playing on the road against the 4-2 Chargers, an upset is not impossible. Dan Orlovsky sees a chance:

 

If the Patriots were to go on a four-game winning streak — which is certainly possible, if not likely — they would be 7-4 going into a Thanksgiving weekend home game against the Titans. OK, I don’t think New England can stop Derrick Henry (Roll Tide again), but even if they lose that one, taking a 7-5 record into December, I still think their playoff chances would be good. But first, they simply must beat the Chargers — next Sunday is going to be make-or-break for the Patriots’ season. Meanwhile, enjoy Damien Harris — Roll Tide!

 




 

Category: Football
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