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NY State Police Mystified by Motive of Muslim Who Stabbed Salman Rushdie

Posted on | August 14, 2022 | Comments Off on NY State Police Mystified by Motive of Muslim Who Stabbed Salman Rushdie

The victim has been under an Iranian fatwa since 1989, but state police in New York don’t want to rush to conclusions:

Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.
A bloodied Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in his arm and an eye he was likely to lose.
Police identified the attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey. He was arrested at the scene and was awaiting arraignment. Matar was born a decade after “The Satanic Verses” was published. The motive for the attack was unclear, State Police Maj. Eugene Staniszewski said.

Are you f***ing kidding me with this? The New York Post:

Law enforcement sources told The Post that an initial investigation suggests Matar has made social media posts in support of Iran and its Revolutionary Guard, and in support of Shi’a extremism more broadly.

Where was Hadi Matar born? Where is his family from? Can we please stop pretending that he’s just a random “New Jersey man”?




 

Category: Crime, Islam, Terrorism

The Tragedy of Anne Heche

Posted on | August 13, 2022 | Comments Off on The Tragedy of Anne Heche

“Homophobia was rampant in the mid-’90s, with a 1996 Gallup poll finding just 27% of Americans approved of same-sex marriage.”
— New York Post

Of course, we are expected not to consider the possibility that the 27% were wrong, nor to question the possibility that Anne Heche was anything other than a victim of “homophobia.” One could recite a long list of heterosexual actors who wrecked their careers through bad personal choices — many of whom died of drug overdoses or other not-entirely-accidental causes at much younger ages than Anne Heche did.

Heche was something of a rising star when she hooked up with Ellen DeGeneres at a Vanity Fair Oscar party in 1997. Heche, then 28 and more than a decade younger than DeGeneres, claimed she had never before been involved with a woman before. Her relationship with DeGeneres lasted less than three years and, while it didn’t exactly end Heche’s career — she continued acting in movies and television up until her death — certainly it dimmed her star power in Hollywood:

“It changed my life forever,” Heche admitted to Page Six in 2020. “The stigma attached to that relationship was so bad … I didn’t do a studio picture for 10 years. I was fired from a $10 million picture deal.”

Oh, it was the “stigma” that did the damage, was it? Never mind what the people who buy movie tickets think — “Damn those homophobes!” — and never mind, of course, that Heche’s status as “bisexual” seemed rather transient. She left DeGeneres for a man, and then left him for another man, and if she ever had any further involvement in what the media call “the LGBTQ community,” she never mentioned it publicly.

Toxicology reportedly found cocaine and fentanyl in her blood after she rammed her car into a home in L.A. in the middle of the afternoon last week, and she died after being removed from life support Friday.

Just for the record, I don’t approve of cocaine or fentanyl, either, and if any dopeheads feel stigmatized because of my disapproval, tough luck.




 

Category: Celebrities

It Started With Darwinism

Posted on | August 13, 2022 | Comments Off on It Started With Darwinism

About 25 years ago, I read Phillip E. Johnson’s Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education. A law professor at Berkeley, Johnson was also the author of Darwin on Trial, and once remarked, “Something about the Darwinists’ rhetorical style made me think they had something to hide.” This is something any intelligent person must eventually notice. The advocates of coincidence as the explanation of everything become rather skittish when confronted by the most obvious arguments against their theory, and tend to resort to name-calling and censorship to discredit or silence their critics.

The debates prompted by the work of Johnson, William A. Dembski, Michael Behe and other proponents of “Intelligent Design” theory have largely ended for the simple reason that the Darwinists stopped debating, and effectively prohibited dissenters from being employed in academia. The arguments against Darwinism made by Johnson and others were not refuted, but rather were suppressed. And I bring this up because the tactics used to defend Darwinism have now become commonplace.

Those who disagree with the preferred liberal narrative about anything are now accused of promoting “misinformation,” and debate about public policy is increasingly one-sided because the media (including social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook) seek to silence anyone who opposes or criticizes the preferred liberal narrative.

Over the years, we have seen this method used to suppress dissent over “climate change,” transgenderism, COVID-19 and now, elections:

Like most other popular social media sites, the Powers That Be at Twitter possess grossly inflated opinions of themselves, especially as it relates to what they feel is their supposed “duty” to keep their platform as free from so-called “disinformation” as they possibly can, most notably in election years.
“Twitter plays a critical role in empowering democratic conversations, facilitating meaningful political debate, and providing information on civic participation – not only in the US, but around the world. People deserve to trust the election conversations and content they encounter on Twitter,” the company proclaimed Thursday.
In reality, what they’re doing behind the scenes when they think no one is paying attention is acting as information gatekeepers for Democrats by way of penalizing conservative accounts for WrongThink and for daring to publish or promote unflattering stories and/or asking uncomfortable questions about candidates for higher office along with other high-profile public figures who have the potential to influence public policy.
One of the more notorious examples of this tactic in action was in their deliberate suppression of the New York Post’s blockbuster Hunter Biden laptop emails story in October 2020, just a few weeks out from the presidential election. Not only did they lock down the Post’s main Twitter account for about two weeks, but they also suppressed the story when other Twitter users attempted to share it, something Facebook admitted to doing as well.
Here we are nearly two years later, and Twitter has officially announced yet again in so many words that they are answering Joe Biden’s “special appeal” from January and are, in a nutshell, getting ready to start trying to stack the deck against Republicans ahead of the 2022 midterm elections:

Don’t dare say “Orwell” — that’s WrongThink! Anyone who suspects the “Civic Integrity Policy” to be a pretext for acting as Democratic Party enforcers is obviously in violation of the policy, and Twitter’s secret police have given themselves carte blanche to “take action.”

Let us not pretend that Twitter’s action is non-partisan, nor that the suppression of Intelligent Design was a politically neutral action. We ought to acknowledge that our opponents know what they’re doing, and credit them with using every weapon in their arsenal to achieve political hegemony. These things do not happen by coincidence, you see — their actions have meaning and purpose, and are part of an overall plan. Yet we will be told that election results are just part of a natural progression, an impersonal trend beyond the control of any individual.

Perhaps the analogy here is obvious enough that it is redundant for me to point it out, but I will anyway. Darwinists expect us to believe in trends in the universe, where everything is just a series of random coincidences, leading to the conclusion that human life is without meaning or purpose. Your beliefs and behaviors have no moral value, and your life is without significance — you are a statistic, part of the nameless “masses,” just another sheep in the herd. If anyone points out that such a belief system has logical consequences (which is the point Johnson makes in Reason in the Balance), your atheistic antagonist will quickly deny that these consequences are intentional, and you’re a “conspiracy theorist” for suspecting otherwise. Do you see what Johnson meant in saying that the rhetorical style of Darwinists led him to the suspect that they were less than honest? If you suspect their godless theory is merely an instrument for destroying the moral order of society, you are certainly not alone.




 

Category: Science

In The Mailbox: 08.12.22

Posted on | August 13, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.12.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Continuing “Let’s Poop On The FBI” week

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Public Schools & Failure
EBL: So now the speculation is the FBI was searching for secret nuclear military codes in Trump’s mementos, also, Jeffrey Toobin, You’re Fired
Twitchy: Leftists Who Taunted Trump “rElEaSe tHe wArRaNt” Freak Out When He Does, also, Kimberly Strassel Tells AG Garland “We Have Every Right To Be Skeptical” Of The DOJ & FBI
Louder With Crowder: “If I didn’t have my firearm, I wouldn’t be here”, also, CEO lays off a bunch of people, emotes on LinkedIn with a crying selfie so you feel bad for him
Vox Popoli: The Depopulationist Rationale, The TWA 800 Coverup, and Everyone’s Got Trolls
According To Hoyt: When The Masquerade Breaks, Taming The Black Dog, and The Limits Of History
Monster Hunter Nation: It’s been a crazy week, – In Defense of the 2nd Amendment, WriterDojo S3 Ep5: Nonfiction, and Correia’s Law of Internet Arguing
Stoic Observations: Implicit Assumptions About Subconscious Bias

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: ‘I Have Never Seen Such Idiots!’
American Greatness: ND School Board Drops Pledge of Allegiance over Inclusion of ‘Under God’, also, FBI Search Warrant Shows Trump Under Investigation for Espionage Act Violations; Raid Was Not ‘Narrowly Scoped’
American Power: Author Salman Rushdie Attacked During Speech in Chautauqua, New York: ‘Multiple Stab Wounds’, also, The Payback for Mar-a-Lago Will Be Brutal
American Thinker: When are Biden Voters Going to Get Angry?, also, A Democrat President Again Wastes Taxpayer Money On Useless Renewables
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Rising Sun Friday
Babalu Blog: Shocking video shows Cuban firefighters being sent to their deaths, Cuba’s fake president laughs while Cuba burns, Reports from Cuba: In the midst of blackouts, luxury hotel without customers illuminates Havana, and Dengue epidemic intensifies in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Taking A Sick Day; Also, Salman Rushdie Stabbed
Behind The Black: Another and this time longer static fire tests for Superheavy prototype #7, Pushback: Blacklisted doctors join lawsuit against Biden administration COVID censorship, and SpaceX launches 46 more Starlink satellites
Cafe Hayek: “Comparative advantage vs. China”, Talk About Labor-Market Power Continues to Be Cheap, and On Smith’s Use in The Wealth of Nations of “Invisible Hand”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Humor and Seriousness
Da Tech Guy: Five Quick Sports Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: What you have to swallow to be a Never Trumper, also, They have driven themselves crazy
First Street Journal: Does Mark Bailey think that getting raped is really not all that bad?, Killadelphia, and “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Gates Of Vienna: Blockading North Africa to Protect Italy, Under the Shadow of the Nuremberg Noose?, An End to Masking and the Mandatory Vax in Costa Rica, and Vaxed and Damaged
The Geller Report: Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of death threats after writing critically about Islam, has been STABBED in the neck during an appearance in New York
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Web of Orbits Around an Asteroid, See, I Told You, and A Cloudscape in the Orion Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: Canceled Star Clifton Duncan: No Regrets for Refusing Vaccination
The Lid: Ilhan Omar’s Career Almost Ended In Shocking Fashion This Week
Legal Insurrection: Greenland Now Targeted by Billionaires for Rare Earth Mineral Mining Development, The Ideology of ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ is Ruining Education, NYT’s Middle East Contributor Praised Hitler, Urged Terror Attacks Against Jews on Social Media, and The Democrats Vote to Raise Taxes, Possibility of More IRS Audits on the Middle Class
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fallout and More
Outkick: Padres Slugger Fernando Tatis Jr. Suspended By Major League Baseball For PEDs, Jimmy Garoppolo Went Dark After Scoring $137.5 Million Deal, Kevin Costner And The MLB Honor Ray Liotta With Emotional Tribute During The Field Of Dreams Game, and Deion Sanders Lays Into Jackson State Staffers, Says They Lack Commitment
Power Line: Code Red for the Deep State?, Another FBI Scandal?, and The madness of slow Joe, Iran edition (16)
Shark Tank: Christina Pushaw Resigns – Will Join DeSantis Re-Election Campaign
Shot In The Dark: Pouncing – Minneapolis Geography Edition, Silly Peasants, and Just Like They Say, Nothing Good Ever Lasts 
STUMP: One Bad Year? Comparing the Long-Term Public Pension Fund Returns Against Assumptions
The Political Hat: The State Of So-Called Social Science, also, How Radical Transgender Ideology Works
This Ain’t Hell: Deleted IRS job posting seeks candidates willing to “use deadly force”, Acquittal in NH Marines motorcycle crash deaths, Valor Friday, and The Gadsden flag is a dangerous and extremist “right wing” symbol according to NPR
Transterrestrial Musings: The Moral Norms Of Tomorrow, Vaccines For Children, and Ignition
Victory Girls: Our Government Leaders Are Killing Us, also, Boston Children’s Hospital And Trans Surgery For Kids
Volokh Conspiracy: Court: “A Retweet Is Not Necessarily an Endorsement”
Watts Up With That: Peter Ridd on Great Barrier Reef Recovery: Technical Details of Coral Cover Statistics, and Background
Weasel Zippers: Biden Claims “Zero Inflation” Despite 8.5% Rate, Mole In Mar-A-Lago Is Likely Longtime Staffer Who Relocated To Mar-A-Lago With Trump Family, and Dem Sen. Ed Markey: No Reason To Pay For Gas — Just Buy An Electric Vehicle
The Federalist: Here’s What Mindy Kaling Gets Wrong In Her Plea For College Girls To Freeze Their Eggs, Merrick Garland Doesn’t Care About The Rule Of Law. Just Ask Hunter Biden, GOP Needs To Get Rid Of McConnell, Not Trump, and The 2024 Election Is Being Rigged Right Now In Plain Sight
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Friday August 12th, also, Waiting Patiently

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | August 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

You may have forgotten Nicholas John Roske, or perhaps you never knew the name of the 26-year-old California man arrested for his failed plan to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. I hadn’t paid much attention myself until I saw a “Dispatches From Weimar America” item by Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, linking to this bizarre headline:

Brett Kavanaugh assassination suspect said
he was a ‘sissy slave’ and ‘trans gamer girl’
named ‘Sophie’ in online posts, asked how
to ‘take out’ high-value targets: Report

What the hell did I just read? Sure, Democrats are all about “inclusion” and “diversity,” but where does this fit in the LGBTQ coalition? Is there something in the Democratic Party platform supporting the rights of “trans sissy slaves”? What is the Justice Department policy on this? How many “trans sissy slaves” are working in the White House?

Mia Cathell reports at Townhall:

New federal court filings reveal troubling information hidden in plain sight about 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske, the defendant identified as a “California man” by the Justice Department and charged in the Kavanaugh assassination plot, leading to a cache of perverse Reddit and Discord activity that pieces together the suspect’s apparent motive, gender identity, and unstable mental state. . . .
In this particular high-profile attempted murder case, an FBI special agent identified several Reddit accounts Roske operated in recent years — one of which the suspect used to embrace his transexual “femme” and submissive “sissy slave” persona, according to the search warrant applications filed in federal court.
Behind the Reddit username “AmericanNick,” Roske posted a series of “Craigslist personals” section-style wanted ads. A year ago, Roske penned a “[F4F]” (meaning female-for-female) Reddit post on the “r/GamerPals” subreddit, titled “Trans Gamer Girl Seeking Friend,” with the tag “GIRLS ONLY.” There, in the same forum, the suspect had introduced himself as his female alter-ego via another Reddit post: “Hi my name is Sophie.”
In a separate Reddit community created for Redditors in search of connecting with others in the Seattle area, Roske sought a female “Cuddle/Movie Buddy” as an “MtF [male-to-female]” college graduate “looking for a woman to cuddle and watch movies with.” Roske wrote in the post’s contents: “If this turns into making out, etc that’s cool, if not that’s cool too.” The suspect, listing himself as a “Trans Girl” in the city’s University District, struck a more erotic tone with his approach in another Reddit post soliciting “Another Girl for Play/Friendship” on a recurring basis. Roske, then 25, divulged that he has “many kinks and only a few limits” but would “enjoy some vanilla time” as well. “I have done a lot of research and have some experience being both a sub and a domme,” Roske typed. He was scouting for “play partners” in The Rainy City as someone who’s “pretty kinky” with “an ever expanding collection of toys and tools.” Roske proclaimed that he is sexually attracted to anyone “androgynous or feminine” who’s not “a cis[gender] man” and uses “she/her” pronouns.
Those are just the PG posts. Roske has frequented the fetish subreddit “r/SissyPersonals,” an X-rated “place for sissys and daddys to meet.” In an explicit Reddit post, Roske desired one such “Daddy to Have Complete Sexual Control Over Me.” Specifically, the suspect wanted to be told “how long I have to be in chastity for and what I am allowed to do when you let me out” along with tasks to do while “locked up,” whether this be the “number of times I have to edge myself, time riding a dildo, watching porn, all three or more!” Roske asked Redditors to private message “if you want me as your sexual toy to frustrate, humiliate, and control.”

Just your typical young Joe Biden voter — one who was so upset about “abortion rights” that he (or “she”) wanted to assassinate a Supreme Court justice. And what’s the moral of this story?

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS!




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 08.11.22

Posted on | August 12, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.11.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Coming soon? Or already here?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NPR Vs. Single Mom & Gun Owner
EBL: Las Vegas Smoke Shop Owner Defends Himself From Robbery, also, Leave The Monkey Alone! [But Peter Gabriel says differently.]
Twitchy: The Memo Went Out, also, Matt Yglesias Takes On Noam Blum Over Biden’s “0% Inflation” Claim, Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Watch: Kari Lake calls for the complete disbanding of the FBI
Vox Popoli: Hypergamouse is Real, The Rules of Trolling, and Depopulation Vectors

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Family Breakdown and the Ohio Abortion Story
American Greatness: For the Rule of Law to Reign, the Bureau Must Be Destroyed, also, Trump-Endorsed Joe Kent Defeats Pro-Impeachment Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in Primary
American Power: Attorney General Merrick Garland Approved Decision to Seek Search Warrant for Mar-a-Lago
American Thinker:  The Lockdowns and Mandates Emboldened the Ruling Class and Led to the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, also, The Federal Government Refuses to Listen
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Banana Republic News
Babalu Blog: As worst fire in Cuban history rages, buildings collapse in Havana (part two), ‘Patria y Vida’: Fighting communist oppression in Cuba with song, and An apparition appears in the smoke rising from a burning Cuba
BattleSwarm: Russians Fleeing Crimea
Behind The Black: SpaceX gets FCC communications license for Starship orbital launch, ISRO successfully tests engines for Gaganyaan manned launch abort system, and A union official’s opinion of blacklisting: “I am all about targeted assassinations.”
Cafe Hayek: On Smith and Marx
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Things Missing – Supply Chain and Groceries, also, The Raid on Mar-a-Lago
Da Tech Guy: DaTechGuy’s Spontaneous Podcast, also, The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago can be an effective rallying cry if we’re intelligent about it
Don Surber: Trump 180, Liz 20, also, How to end the FBI
First Street Journal: When it comes to #VaccineMandates the maintenance of dictatorial power is far more important than the effectiveness of the vaccines!, also, Several previously convicted sex offenders arrested in Lexington for parole violations
Gates Of Vienna: “Youths” Get Rambunctious in Saint-Denis, When Lobbyists Rule, The Year is 2030, and Dare to be Stupid
The Geller Report: Trump-Backed Candidates Sweep Board Day After FBI Raids Mar-A-Lago, PV Undercover: Sen. Lisa Murkowski Secret Support of Ranked Voting EXPOSED, and Mar-a-Lago Security Cameras Captured FBI Agents Behaving Improperly
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Found a PeVatron
Hollywood In Toto: National Lampoon Squeezes IP for NFTs After Woke Podcast Bust, Emily the Criminal Plays Victimhood Violin, and Biden’s Biggest Failure Getting HBO Closeup with Escape from Kabul
The Lid: Poll: Most Americans Worried About Biden’s Mental Health
Legal Insurrection: Remember How They Suppressed Hunter’s Laptop Story? Twitter Announces Midterms Crackdown On “Misleading” Election Claims, Study Finds Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Haven’t Improved Graduation Rates for Students of Color, and Biden Admin Keeps Contradicting Itself on Targets of the New IRS Audits
Nebraska Energy Observer: I know. I know.
Outkick: Antonio Brown Speaks In Third Person, Compares Himself To Jesus In Wild Statement, John Calipari: Kentucky Is A Basketball School; Football Coach Mark Stoops Responds, Field Of Dreams Game Sparks Harry Caray Hologram Rumor, and 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan Irked By Pointless NFL Hat Rule
Power Line: Trump From Here: “A Nation in Decline”, What were once raids are now searches, and Britain Goes Into Shutdown Mode
Shark Tank: DeSantis Announces Five-Year Temporary Teaching Certificate For Veterans 
Shot In The Dark: Our Betters Know It, also, Prominent By Its Absence
STUMP: Meep’s Data Visualization Evolution: Tile Grid Maps
The Political Hat: The Perpetual Woke Revision Of The Newspeak Dictionary
This Ain’t Hell: Units to lose Confederate battle streamers, Space Force wants wearable fitness trackers. What could go wrong?, and SCOTUS to hear Affirmative Action Cases against Harvard, UNC
Transterrestrial Musings: The Ukrainian Counteroffensive, The “Climate Emergency”, and My Space Podcast
Victory Girls: Judge Reinhart Recused Self from Trump-Clinton Suit, also, Garland Personally Ok’d Warrant, Whines About Attacks On DOJ “Integrity”
Volokh Conspiracy: FIRE Challenges College Removal of Posters Criticizing “Leftist Ideas,” Restriction of Anti-Abortion Flyers
Watts Up With That:  Why Red Meat Negative Health Claims are False, also, WSJ and Lomborg show just how useless the “Inflation Reduction Act” is at tackling climate
Weasel Zippers: MAGA-World Most Determined To Vote In 2022/2024 Since FBI Raid, Good News? Everything But Gas Is Still Massively More Expensive, and Poll: 60% Of Latino Voters Say The Country Is On The Wrong Track
The Federalist: Christian Nationalism Is Biblical And America-First, But It’s Not White, What The Ukraine War Revealed About The World’s Fragile Food Supply Chains, Democratic Operatives Control Voter Rolls In 31 States, Report Shows, and Missouri AG Sends Letter To IRS Demanding Army Of New Agents Back Off
Mark Steyn: Cracks in the Groupthink, Obama’s Third Term, and Chinese Water Torture

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The Hazards of Army Life

Posted on | August 11, 2022 | Comments Off on The Hazards of Army Life

My Army son, now a sergeant first class, recently transferred to Alaska, where he’s part of the new 11th Airborne Division. Besides leading a platoon in the “Arctic Angels,” my son’s also enjoying the Alaska wildlife, catching gigantic salmon at Willow Creek. While his new assignment has been pleasant so far, he called last night to talk to my wife about what happened this week at his previous assignment, Camp Merrill near Dahlonega, Georgia. That’s where he served as a training sergeant for Mountain Phase of Army Ranger School. Two trainees, 2nd Lt. Evan Fitzgibbon and Staff Sgt. George Taber, were killed when a tree fell on a group of five soldiers in a “weather-related incident” Tuesday.

2nd Lt. Evan Fitzgibbon; Staff Sgt. George Taber

This was such a freak accident — a tree blown down during a sudden storm up on Yonah Mountain — that it’s probably unprecedented, and yet there are two soldiers dead, and another seriously injured, as a result. Training-related deaths are not an insignificant risk in a hazardous occupation. Last year, the Army lost 20 troops in training accidents, down from 24 in 2020. The two soldiers killed in Tuesday’s incident were obviously excellent troops, or they wouldn’t have been in Ranger School. Both of them were from Florida. Taber was a five-year veteran from Glen St. Mary who served as a Special Forces medic, while Fitzgibbon was a West Point alumnus from Winter Garden. And while of course their deaths are mourned most deeply by their family and friends, the entire nation has suffered a loss. In case you weren’t aware, the military has been suffering a recruiting crisis the past year, and the Army could ill afford to lose two top-quality men like this. For our family, of course, such a loss hit rather too close to home, and makes us conscious of what risks attend our son’s service. Pray for our troops.




 

Category: Military

In The Mailbox: 08.10.22

Posted on | August 11, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.10.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Another fine Hopalong Ginsberg production.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Video – Nyctophilia Edition #1105
EBL: Judith Durham & Lamont Dozier RIP, Where the Truth Lies, and It wasn’t Merrick Garland, it was Christopher Wray?
Twitchy: Think The IRS Is Fair & Reasonable? also, The Mar-A-Lago Raid Was Supposed To Be Low-Profile
Louder With Crowder: IRS is hiring some of those 87000 jobs, you just need to be comfortable with firearms and using deadly force, also, Watch as these three teachers demonstrate exactly why you shouldn’t trust your children to the public schools
Vox Popoli: The First Rule of Ticket-Taking, The De-Comicization of DC, and Was Mar-A-Lago a Trap?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Meaning of the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, The Ugliness of Everything, and A Lament for the Monasteries
American Greatness: Survey: 8 in 10 Americans Believe U.S. has Two-Tiered Justice System, also, What to Expect If the 2024 Election Is Trump vs. Newsom
American Power: The FBI’s Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’ is About the Capitol Riot, Not the Mishandling of Classified Information, also, End of the Republic
American Thinker: Donald Trump Must Be The 2024 Republican Nominee
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Protests against power blackouts keep spreading throughout Cuba, Monster fire in Cuba still out of control: Fourth oil storage tank explodes, and Cuban apartheid update: No power blackouts or food shortages for tourists
BattleSwarm: Russian Airbase In Crimea Goes Boom, also, Is China Buying Texas Land?
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches 52 more Starlink satellites, UK regulators to investigate Viasat-Inmarsat merger, and Today’s blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek:  “Smart people, smart process”, On the Great Barrington Declaration, and Two Benjamins on Export Restrictions
CDR Salamander: Overspec’d, Overpriced, all Navy: Bob Work on Institutional Addictions, also, Saki’s Lessons for WESTPAC
Chicago Boyz: The End of Debate?, also, Tech
Da Tech Guy:  I Have One Question To All Of you Who Still Insist the Last Election Was on the Up and Up, AARP: A bad deal from a bad group, and Five More Under the Fedora Thoughts on the Raid on Donald Trump’s House
Don Surber: Kane takes on ABC, CBS and NBC — and wins, also, Price of eggs and the FBI
First Street Journal: How can anyone expect government action on the economy to work when so many politicians are economically ignorant?, also, Congratulations to Jim Kenney!
Gates Of Vienna: Buddy, Can You Spare a Euro?, Mask Up, Eat the Bugs, Wear Two Sweaters, and Get Boosted Every Three Months, A Naval Blockade to Keep the Invaders Out of Italy?, and Does Klaboosterbach Have a Screw Loose?
The Geller Report: Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyer Is The Judge Who Signed Sealed Warrant for Trump Raid, VICTORY! Trump-Endorsed Joe Kent DEFEATS Pro-Impeachment RINO To Advance To November, and Tim Michels Prevails in Battleground Wisconsin’s GOP Gubernatorial Primary Against Pence RINO
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Supernova SN2021afdx, and Well, If 2 + 2 = 5…
Hollywood In Toto:  Rafelson’s Black Widow – An ’80s Thriller for Grown-Ups, Woke USA Today Gives Unfunny Lecture on Modern Comedy, and We Need Beavis and Butt-Head Now More Than Ever
The Lid: Tax Credit for Electric Vehicles Don’t Apply to Most New EVs- Their Fossil Fuel Efficiency Is Overrated
Legal Insurrection: Ex-NY Gov. Cuomo: ‘DOJ Must Immediately Explain the Reason for Its Raid’ of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Something’s Happening Here: Feds Seize Cell Phone Of Trump Ally House Rep Scott Perry Day After Mar-a-Lago Raid, The Left is Now Desperately Trying to Change the Meaning of the Word ‘Raid’, and Pro-Antifa High School Teacher in California Gets Paid to Resign
Michelle Malkin: FBI: Feds Behaving Incorrigibly
Nebraska Energy Observer: Banana Republic
Outkick: Irish Rugby League Bans Transgender Athletes From Competing in Women’s League, Washington State Coach Fired Over Vaccine Mandate Files Wrongful Termination Claim, David Feherty Gets Honest, Says Money And Cancel Culture Pushed Him To Join LIV Golf, and Cam Smith Reportedly Signs With LIV Golf For Over $100 Million, Offers ‘No Comment’ When Asked About It
Power Line: Most Transparent Lie of the Day, Today’s Energy Tutorial, Mayor Frey on Ilhan Omar, and Ben & Jerry’s Forced to Swallow Some of Their Own Fat
Shark Tank: Scott Demands Inquiry Into Red Chinese Influence On The Fed
Shot In The Dark: Victory Celebration, also, Ray Of Hopelessness
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday: A Retrospective of Stupid Tax Policy – Soda taxes, Amazon tax, SALT cap
The Political Hat: Won’t Someone Ride Us Of These Meddlesome Climate Deniers?, also, The White Racial Stain Of Cis-Genderism
This Ain’t Hell: National Guard facing 40,000 member shortage, Ft. Bragg Soldier and “Wife” Convicted of Sham Wedding, and Move Over Ultra-MAGA, Time for Dark Brandon
Transterrestrial Musings: The TWA Whistleblower, Subsidizing Electric Vehicles, and Progress In Boca Chica
Victory Girls: CNN: Burnett Tries To Play “Gotcha” On Mar-a-Lago Raid, also, Biden Redefines Numbers, Claims Zero Inflation
Volokh Conspiracy: Restoring the right to bear arms, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen
Watts Up With That: About the Newly Approved Nuclear Microreactor
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi: “China Is One Of The Freest Societies In The World”, Former Top NY Cop Says The Left May Try To Physically Hurt President Trump Now That Legal Matters Are All But Doomed, and Texas Sends 3 More Buses Full Of Illegals To NYC Days After Mayor Adams Threatens To “Visit Texas”
The Federalist: The 20 Republican Senators Who Voted To Confirm Merrick Garland Owe America An Apology, The White House Is Lying About Democrats’ Middle-Class Auditing Scheme, and 87,000 New IRS Agents Will Join Union That Gives 100% of PAC Funds to Democrats
Mark Steyn: Criminalizing Opposition in a Pseudo-Republic, also, It Takes a Village

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