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Radicalized: Ivy League Boy Reads ‘Unabomber’ Manifesto, Becomes Killer

Posted on | December 10, 2024 | No Comments

Luigi Mangione (left); Ted Kaczynski (right)

The headline is your “tl:dr” summary of what might otherwise seem mysterious: Why would the handsome young scion of a prominent Maryland family decide to murder the CEO of a health insurance company? Meanwhile, here’s the New York Times story:

Luigi Mangione, the online version of him, was an Ivy League tech enthusiast who flaunted his tanned, chiseled looks in beach photos and party pictures with blue-blazered frat buddies.
He was the valedictorian of a prestigious Baltimore prep school who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and served as a head counselor at a pre-college program at Stanford University.
With his credentials and connections, he could have ended up one day as an entrepreneur or the chief executive of one of his family’s thriving businesses. Instead, investigators suspect, he took a different path.
The police now believe that Mr. Mangione, 26, is the masked gunman who calmly took out a pistol equipped with a suppressor on a Midtown Manhattan street last week and assassinated Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare. He was arrested in Altoona, Pa., on Monday after an employee at a McDonald’s recognized him and called the police. Officers said they found him with fake identification, a weapon similar to the one seen in video of the killing and a manifesto decrying the health care industry.

Mangione’s grandfather was a successful real estate developer in the suburbs of Baltimore and, apparently, a devout Catholic who sired 10 children and had 37 grandchildren at the time of his death in 2008.

Luigi Mangione was the valedictorian of “the prestigious Gilman School in Baltimore,” an all-boys prep school where the annual tuition is nearly $40,000 and Luigi played several sports including (as the Free Beacon comically notes) soccer. Mangione then studied computer engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (Donald Trump’s alma mater, coincidentally) and after graduating in 2020, “worked as a software engineer at TrueCar,” but was apparently laid off last year when the company cut about 100 employees as part of “restructuring.”

After being laid off, Mangione seemed to start drifting into isolation. He was dealing with a persistent back injury that led to him undergo surgery. While recuperating from that ordeal, Mangione posted a review of Ted Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and Its Future — the manifesto of the Unabomber. “It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless[ly] write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies,” wrote Mangione. “But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.” Mangione said Kaczynski’s “actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”

Well, to-may-to, to-mah-to, eh? Is it so difficult to conclude that the “extreme political revolutionary” was also a lunatic? And isn’t it true that most such would-be revolutionaries are lunatics? Not to wander too far afield here, but I am personally acquainted with Richard Spencer, the poster boy for every Antifa “punch-a-Nazi” meme, and it has long been my contention that what went wrong with Spencer basically is that he read Nietzsche at too young an age and took it too seriously. Young men should never read Nietzsche; they should know him only by reputation as a madman who died of brain syphilis. If it’s philosophy they crave, let young men read Aristotle or Marcus Aurelius or Edmund Burke, but never Nietzsche. Once the young man has gotten older, achieved some sort of stable adult life — wife, kids, mortgage, etc. — then it’s safe for him to skim through Nietzsche, so long as he keeps in mind that Nietzsche was crazy. Being quite the autodidact myself, I recognize the basic danger of do-it-yourself education, namely that the untutored student may go off on some bizarre tangent — young man reads Nietzsche, next thing you know, he’s leading a latter-day Nuremberg march — and it seems that some similar process is what happened with Luigi Mangione.

The headlines tell us that Mangione also wrote a “manifesto,” but that description is a bit grandiose:

Law enforcement officials that arrested Mangione also discovered a handwritten, three-page document that shed details on his mindset and motivations behind the fatal shooting.
“These parasites had it coming,” reportedly read the note, per CNN . “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

Maybe I should write my own “manifesto.” I’ve already got the title: Crazy People Are Dangerous. Might be a bestseller.



 

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In The Mailbox: 12.09.24

Posted on | December 10, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Based Book Sale Wrapup
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Somehow, he beat the rap, and the Coalition of the Damned is assmad.

 

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Social Justice = Death, also How Old Do You Need to Be to Defend Yourself?
EBL: Wolfs, Notre Dame Cathedral Reopens, and Damascus Has Fallen
Twitchy: Rep. Summer Lee Calls For “Accountability” For Daniel Perry, Liz Cheney Warns Off Lawyers Wanting To Investigate The J6 Committee, and Luigi Mangione – Too Cute For Jail?
Louder With Crowder:  Pete Hegseth UNLOADS on the media in light of WaPo’s two most recent pathetic hit pieces, Watch: Tim Walz Is SHOCKED Voters Did Not believe Trump Was Literally Hitler, and YMCA singer explains why Trump can use his song
Vox Popoli: The American Began to Hate, The Downward Spiral Continues, The EU’s Fake Democracy, The Beginning of a Failure Cascade, and 
Upstream Reviews: Urban Fantasy New Releases
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary – Last Entry
Stoic Observations: Symbolic Immunity
Toni Airaksinen: Lush workers yell at & twerk on Jewish MACA protesters
Flappr: Big TD’s Football Blog – Week 14

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, Who’s Who In The Syrian Zoo, and It’s Time To Leave 2001 Behind
Dana Loesch: Daniel Penny Verdict – NOT GUILTY!
Don Surber: How we know it was a landslide, also, Who should be Cheney’d?
Michele Catalano: the week in consumption
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
STUMP: Chicago & Illinois Finance Update – Forecast Pain

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Rule 5 Sunday: A Girl & Her Jeep

Posted on | December 9, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I really ought to start taking notes as to where I find these…
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

SOON

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Embarrassingly Unprepared Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns Pearl Harbor Edition, Saturday Night Girls With Guns Subway Edition, Snow Woke & The Extremely Ugly Evil Queen, Anti-MAGA RINOs Sinking The Trump Cabinet? Earth Abides, Hit Man, Hunter Biden’s Women, Jacqueline Obrador, Kim Delaney, and Gail O’Grady

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nicole Ross, Fish Pic Friday – Kiss and Release, Thanksgiving Day – Trump Nominees Swatted, Bomb Threats, Happy Thanksgiving, The Wednesday Wetness, Maryland, My Maryland, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday, Lauren Drain, Pardon Mania on the Wane?, Fish Pic Friday – Morgan Bentley, Premature Rejection, The Wednesday Wetness, ASMFC Looking at Stricter Striper Regs, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday 

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends For December 6

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

 

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FMJRA 2.0: Finally, It’s Draft Day

Posted on | December 8, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

First of all, apologies for punting the Friday link dump; I fixed a large bowl of pasta for dinner and fell into a carbohydrate coma after finishing maybe a third of it.
The draft for the 1973 season in Pete’s league started today, and since I was the best of the worst teams in the league, I got to pick fifth. And I got some goodies.

Round/pick

  1.  SP Bill “Spaceman” Lee
  2.  1b Nate Colbert
  3.  3b Dave Kingman
  4.  RP Bob Johnson
  5.  C Andy Etchebarren
  6.  OF Jim Northrup

And there are plenty of decent candidates to fill the backup fielder roles, to say nothing of the bullpen. The informal draft continues through the week, and the timed draft resumes Saturday. I have a good feeling about the season already.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Rule 5 Sunday: Cheerful Bikini
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

 

 

Are Democrats Starting to Get a Clue?
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Roster Like A Hole
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

 

The Dumbest Take on the 2024 Election
The Daley Gator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.02.24
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

For the Benefit of Nate Silver (and Anyone Else Who Has Just Now Discovered How Selfish and Dishonest Joe Biden Really Is)
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Death of a Freak
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

Antifa Assassin? Health Insurance CEO Gunned Down on Manhattan Street
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.04.24 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
347 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.04.24 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
347 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 12.05.24
A View From The Beach
347 Magnum
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending November 29:

  1.  EBL (11)
  2.  (tied) 357 Magnum & A View From The Beach (10)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Some Advice for NFL Losers

Posted on | December 8, 2024 | No Comments

Detroit Lions center Frank Ragnow

DRAFT OFFENSIVE LINEMEN.

Three simple words, and you might think NFL coaches and general managers — career professionals, who are paid to know football — would understand the importance of drafting offensive linemen, in terms of building long-term success in the league. Yet what is so apparent to me doesn’t seem to penetrate the minds of many of those highly paid experts, or else things might be far different for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New England Patriots, two teams whose fates I’ve followed since 2021, when the Patriots drafted Alabama QB Mac Jones, who was traded this year to the Jags. A big part of what went wrong for Mac in New England was that the quality of the Patriots’ offensive line noticeably deteriorated in 2022 and 2023. Part of that can be blamed on Bill Belichick’s inexplicable decision to make Matt Patricia the team’s offensive coordinator for the 2022 season. But the problems on the offensive line weren’t just a matter of coaching; rather, the Patriots weren’t adequately replenishing their line through the draft. By his third season in New England, the pass protection was so horrible that the constant pressure basically wrecked Mac’s confidence. Having ruined their former first-round draft pick, the Patriots then decided to trade Mac Jones to Jacksonvile, and drafted Drake Maye from the University of North Carolina as their future “franchise” quarterback.

Well, guess what? The Patriots are now 3-10, and their offense is one of the worst in the league because their offensive line is still garbage. The Boston sports media has belatedly figured this out. Having spent the past two seasons blaming Mac Jones for everything wrong in New England, now that their darling Drake Maye is at QB — oh, the man-crushes this rookie inspires among Boston media types! — the fact that he’s got no protection up front is suddenly recognized as an issue.

Meanwhile, down in Jacksonville, the Jaguars have a very similar problem. The Jags are 2-10, and their “franchise” QB Trevor Lawrence is on injured reserve, with Mac Jones scheduled to start in his stead. Much of what’s gone wrong in Jacksonville since 2022, when Lawrence took them to the playoffs, is due to the weakness of their offensive line.

A few basic considerations: If the offensive line can’t make the running game work, you’re going to find yourself in a lot of third-and-long situations where you’ve got to pass, meaning that the defense can tee off on their pass-rush and, generally speaking, linemen who aren’t effective as run blockers aren’t going to be adequate when blocking pass protection. What this means strategically is that, if the offensive line isn’t getting the job done — both in the running game and the passing game — you’re going to be three-and-out on offense pretty regularly, your quarterback’s going to get sacked a lot and, because pressure from the defensive pass rush is distracting to a quarterback’s focus, you’re also going to lose the ball more often because of interceptions. This, in turn, means your defense is going to get worn out because of a lopsided time-of-possession. When commentators speak of football games being won “in the trenches,” this is what they’re talking about. Offensive linemen work almost anonymously, but what they do is essential to team success.

You’ve got to have five starters on the offensive line and, given the frequency of injuries, you also need three or four quality backup linemen, so that you really have to think of eight or nine players — roughly 1/6th of the 53-man NFL roster. While the different line positions are somewhat specialized, there is a bit of overlap between them: Your backup center can play guard, if needed, and some guards are big enough that they can play tackle, if needed. With this in mind, a typical NFL roster might include four offensive tackles, three guards, and two centers.

Something else: No team is ever going to let go of a really good left tackle. (Because he protects the quarterback’s “blind side,” the left tackle is the highest paid offensive lineman). If you think you’re going to find a good starting LT through free agency or trade, you’re delusional. Realistically, the only way to address that crucial position is through the draft, and how long is a left tackle going to last in the league, what with injuries and everything? Every five or six years, then, an NFL general manager has to be willing to expend the team’s first-round draft pick on a stud tackle, or else the team will never be credible as a Super Bowl contender.

The same is true, to a lesser extent, for any other high-quality offensive lineman. A healthy Pro Bowl center? No way a team’s going to let that guy’s contract expire so he becomes a free agent, and what could you possibly offer in a trade that would make the Detroit Lions say, “Sure, we’ll give you Frank Ragnow”? Generally speaking, the teams with great offensive lines get their players from the draft, not via trade or free agency. How many linemen are drafted in a typical year?

To study this, I took four recent years (2018-2021) when NFL teams drafted a combined total of 172 offensive linemen (31 centers, 52 guards, 89 tackles), meaning that in an average year, 43 offensive linemen were drafted. There are 32 teams in the league, which means that a typical NFL team drafted 5.4 linemen during that four-year span. There are seven rounds in the NFL draft, and nearly all the best players — the Pro Bowlers — and most of those who will be starters for five or more seasons, are drafted in the first four rounds. It is rare for late-round draft picks to develop into truly great NFL players, the most noteworthy exception being Tom Brady, who was a sixth-round pick out of Michigan.

Of the 172 offensive linemen drafted from 2018 to 2021, fourteen have made the Pro Bowl at least once: Frank Ragnow (C, Arkansas, 1st round, 2018), Quenton Nelson (OG, Notre Dame, 1st round 2018), Brian O’Neill (OT, Pittsburgh, 2nd round 2018), Orlando Brown Jr. (OT, Oklahoma, 3rd round 2018), Wyatt Teller (OG, Virginia Tech, 5th round, 2018), Chris Lindstrom (OG, Boston College, 1st round, 2019), Erik McCoy (C, Texas A&M, 2nd round, 2019), Elgton Jenkins (OG, Mississippi State, 2nd round, 2019), Tyler Biadasz (C, Wisconsin, 4th round, 2020), Tristan Wirfs (OT, Iowa, 1st round, 2020), Jonah Jackson (OG, Ohio State, 3rd round, 2020), Rashawn Slater (OT, Northwestern, 1st round, 2021), Penei Sewell (OT, Oregon, 1st round, 2021), Landon Dickerson (OG, Alabama, 2nd round, 2021), Creed Humphrey (C, Oklahoma, 2nd round, 2021). That’s five first-round picks, five second-round picks, two third-round picks and one fifth-round pick. The good news in this analysis is that your chances of scoring a Pro Bowl lineman are about equal in the first and second rounds, so if a team has some other pressing need — cornerback, wide receiver, etc. — they don’t miss too much of a chance in passing over a first-round offensive tackle. But there is a notable drop-off in the third round and later, which means that a quality offensive line is usually going to include more players drafted in the early rounds.

Of the 172 offensive linemen drafted 2018-21, slightly more than half (81) were taken in the first three rounds, which means that, over this four-year span, the average team drafted 2.5 linemen in the first three rounds. Do the best teams prioritize offensive linemen in the draft? During the past five years, six different teams have played in the Super Bowl — the Kansas Chiefs (four times), the San Francisco 49ers (twice), the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Los Angeles Rams, the Cincinnati Bengals and the Philadelphia Eagles. These teams, as conference champions, are by definition “elite.” Here are their offensive line draft picks for 2018-2021:

  • Kansas City Chiefs (4, including 2 third-round or higher) — OG Nick Allegretti (7th round, 2019), OT Lucas Niang (3rd round, 2020), C Creed Humphrey (2nd round, 2021), OG Trey Smith (6th round, 2021).
  • Cincinnati Bengals (8, including 3 third-round or higher) — C Billy Price (1st round, 2018), OG Rod Taylor (7th round, 2018), OT Jonah Williams (1st round, 2019), OG Michael Jordan (4th round, 2019), OT Hakeem Adeniji (6th round, 2020), OT Jackson Carman (2nd round, 2021), OT D’Ante Smith (4th round, 2021), C Trey Hill (6th round, 2021).
  • Los Angeles Rams (6, including 2 third-round or higher) — OT Joseph Noteboom (3rd round, 2018), C Brian Allen (4th round, 2018), OT Jamil Demby (6th round, 2018), OT Bobby Evans (3rd round, 2019), OT David Edwards (5th round, 2019), OG Tremayne Anchrum (7th round, 2020).
  • Philadelphia Eagles (6 including 2 third round or higher) — OT Matt Pryor (6th round, 2018), OT Jordan Mailata (7th round, 2018), OT Andre Dillard (2nd round, 2019), OG Jack Driscoll (4th round, 2020), OT Prince Tega Wanogho (6th round, 2020), C Landon Dickerson (2nd round, 2021).
  • San Francisco 49ers (5, including 2 third-round or higher) — OT Mike McGlinchey (1st round, 2018), OT Justin Skule (6th round, 2019), OT Colton McKivitz (5th round, 2020), OG Aaron Banks (2nd round, 2021), OG Jaylon Moore (5th round, 2021).
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3, including 3 third-round or higher) — OT Alex Cappa (3rd round, 2018), OT Tristan Wirfs (1st round, 2020), OT Robert Hainsey (3rd round, 2021).

Between them, these six elite teams drafted a combined 32 offensive linemen (5.3 average), of which 14 were taken in the third round or higher (2.3 average). Both numbers are slightly below the league average, mainly due to the low numbers for the Chiefs and Buccaneers. This may be because those teams entered 2018 with relatively strong offensive lines, as compared to a team like the Cincinnati Bengals, who went on an OL shopping binge during this time frame. However, the latter case may help explain why, in 2021, second-year Cincinnati QB Joe Burrow was able to take the Bengals all the way to the Super Bowl, beating the Chiefs along the way. By beefing up their offensive line, Cincinnait gave Burrow the kind of protection that would help a young quarterback flourish.

Also worth noting is Tampa Bay’s quality-over-quantity approach — the Buccaneers didn’t draft a lot of offensive linemen during this four-year span, but when they did, they favored higher-round picks. They have continued this trend in subsequent drafts, taking OT Luke Goedeke in the 2nd round in 2022, OG Cody Mauch in the second round in 2023 and C Graham Barton in the first round in 2024. As for the Kansas City Chiefs, now trying to win their third consecutive Super Bowl, in the three most recent drafts, they’ve taken a total of five offensive linemen, including third-round OT Wanya Morris in 2023 and second-round OT Kingsley Suamataia in 2024. Gotta protect Mahomes, right?

Building a good offensive line, and then replenishing it regularly to maintain that quality, makes it imperative for teams to use their draft selections judiciously. Some NFL front offices seem to get distracted by the glamour of quarterbacks and wide receivers as first-round picks. Everybody in the local sports media gets excited about picks like that, but an NFL general manager isn’t going to get much media praise for taking an offensive tackle in the first round. In the long run, however, that tackle might make a lot more difference in the W-L column than any wide receiver on the roster. A lot of teams would love to be where the Detroit Lions are right now — 12-1, heavily favored to make it to the Super Bowl after barely missing it last year. Look over that list of Pro Bowl offensive linemen I cited earlier and you’ll find that two of them, Frank Ragnow and Penei Sewell, both play for the Lions. There’s a reason Detroit has gotten where they are. Other teams should pay attention.



 

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | December 8, 2024 | No Comments

Say hello to Daniel Escalera and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Escalera was shot dead by police last Sunday when he went crazy and attacked an Illinois nursing home:

A chainsaw-wielding man was shot and killed by police Sunday morning in the west suburbs, officials said.
The officer-involved shooting happened in the 900 block of North 5th Avenue at the River Glen of St. Charles senior living facility, St. Charles police said.
A shirtless man was reportedly attempting to cut down a tree outside around 8:45 a.m. of the building before he then entered the senior living facility, police said. The suspect then began to confront senior home residents with his chainsaw, according to responding officers.
Police deployed a taser after attempts to de-escalate the situation failed, officials said. The man then allegedly continued his attack on tenants and officers.
At that point, an officer shot the suspect with his service weapon, St. Charles police said.
The chainsaw-wielding man was taken to a hospital in Geneva, where he was later pronounced dead.

Readers will probably not be surprised to learn that this wasn’t the chainsaw-wielding Escalera’s first encounter with law enforcement:

The record spans almost 25 years and includes numerous arrests for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol; becoming an habitual DUI traffic violator and resisting law enforcement; cocaine and methamphetamine possession; public intoxication and endangerment; and domestic battery, as reported by a local Indiana paper, when he was accused of stabbing his then-wife and SWAT had to be called in.
As for why he showed up at the senior living facility on Sunday with a chainsaw and started attacking trees and elderly residents? It was his MO: Back in September 2022 in rural Indiana, Escalera tangled in a spontaneous road rage incident, beating a motorcyclist with his own helmet.
Escalera was convicted and jailed. And it appears he was supposed to be in jail Sunday for violating probation in one of the many other cases against him.

Let’s talk about that 2019 case:

Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Horacio Escalera got drunk and stabbed his wife with a small pocket knife during a domestic fight, according to Lafayette police.
Officers were called at 7:20 p.m. Monday to Escalera’s home in the 100 block of South 31st Street with a report of a domestic battery incident, according to police bulletins.
Escalera fought with his wife in the presence of a minor and stabbed his wife in the leg with a small pocket knife, police said. The wound was minor.
When police arrived, Escalera refused to cooperate, so the Lafayette police SWAT team was activated while other officers got a warrant.
The SWAT team made the arrest; however, one of the officers suffered minor injuries while trying to handcuff Escalera, according to police.
Police booked Escalera into the jail on suspicion of battery with a deadly weapon, domestic battery in the presence of a minor and resisting law enforcement with bodily injury.

Permit me to suggest that when (a) someone with an extensive criminal history (b) stabs his wife and (c) you have to call the SWAT team to arrest him, then (d) maybe he should go to prison for a long time. Despite this, however, Escalera was back on the streets by 2022, when he attacked a motorcyclist in a road rage incident and yet — and yet — this still wasn’t enough to keep him locked up a while. By June 2024, Escalera was once more terrorizing the general public, and was arrested on a slew of charges including meth possession, obstruction of justice, resisting arrest, etc.

The criminal justice system is clearly broken, or Daniel Escalera would still be serving time on that 2019 rap. Instead, the courts kept turning him loose until finally the dude gets torqued up on meth, grabs a chainsaw and shows up at a nursing home threatening senior citizens. The cop who shot him deserves a medal for saving taxpayers money.



 

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In The Mailbox: 12.05.24

Posted on | December 6, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.05.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Who Wore It Better: Thompson or Castellano? Justice Thomas Is Awesome, BIDEN IS GOING TO ISSUE LOTS AND LOTS OF PARDONS, and Are Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff Getting Divorced?
Twitchy: Nancy Mace Celebrates 47 By Showing America Her Pink Taco, Will Cain – Trump Wins & Senate Republicans Start Handing Him Losses, and Trannies Arrested At Capitol While Protesting Reality-Based Bathroom Rules
Louder With Crowder: This salon owner’s clients are “dropping like flies” after her video bashing Trump voters, also, Pete Hegseth stands defiant in Megyn Kelly interview, refuses to let himself be “Kavanaugh’d”
Vox Popoli: The Media-Corporate Censorship Complex, This Very Night, and The Spacebunny Experience
Upstream Reviews: Prep & Landing, 
Stoic Observations: Censorship For The Whole Of Society, 
Toni Airaksinen: Study Claims Teslas Promote “White Masculinity”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Hidden Logic of Trump’s National Security Picks
American Greatness: What the Trump nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do, Biden Regime Quietly Revokes Veterans Hiring Preference For Civil Service Jobs, Illegal Aliens Already Self-Deporting in Anticipation of Second Trump Presidency, President-elect Trump Suggests Shakeup of White House Press Briefing Room, and More Preemptive Pardons May Be Coming, Will Biden Seek to Protect the Swamp from Kash Patel?
American Thinker: The Hunter Biden Who Could Have Been
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Activist in Cuba arrested for possessing copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Communist Cuba’s nightmarish electrical grid, Cuban dictatorship authorizes export of oil extracted by Australian firm despite crippling fuel shortage, Dismembered corpse found floating near Havana’s Malecon seawall, and Cuban dictatorship denies Russian reports of ‘killer flies’ and deadly Marburg Virus on the island
BattleSwarm: Paxton Takes Aim At Austin Homeless Industrial Complex
Behind The Black: Another record-setting launch day worldwide, Airbus cuts almost 500 jobs in Great Britain, Union official accuses Boeing of more unsafe practices, Next two Artemis missions delayed again, with the future of SLS/Orion hanging by a thread, and Republican California state legislator introduces bill to overturn California Coastal Commission’s effort to block SpaceX
CDR Salamander: Tell History We Need A Half-Decade, mmkay?
Chicago Boyz: Michael Kennedy
Da Tech Guy: Dodging the Bullet, also, There is one primary difference between the Political Left and the Political Right on Social Media
Don Surber: Most of the world is still ruled by Bidens, not Trumps
First Street Journal: The Democrats say we need more affordable housing, but look what has happened when they were in charge of it
Gates Of Vienna: Asylum Seekers Trafficking Illegal Immigrants, The Pause That Refreshes, and Madrassa in Malmö Teaches Jew-Hatred
The Geller Report: Jewish Groups Stand Against Terrorism at Cooper Union
Hollywood In Toto: Trump Effect: Stewart, Rowling, Spacey Defy Woke Mob, Why Hollywood’s Women’s March Won’t Get a Sequel, and Late-Night ‘Losers’ – Hollywood Reporter Mocks Colbert, Kimmel
The Lid:  Sneaky Biden Enacts New Protections for Leech Government Workers to Sabotage Trump
Legal Insurrection: Trump Effect: Mexico Seizes 20 Million Doses of Fentanyl in Record-Breaking Haul, Fetterman Warns Against Weaponizing Institutions Against Opponents, Backs Pardon, Administrators at Universities of Wisconsin to Evaluate ‘Low-Enrollment’ Campus Programs, KBJ’s Vacuous Remarks During Transgender Case Arguments Would Be Funny If Justices Didn’t Have Lifetime Appointments, and US Supreme Court Poised to Uphold Tennessee’s Ban on Transgender Treatments for Minors
Michele Catalano: coming soon – I have that on vinyl
Nebraska Energy Observer: Sometimes
Outkick: Bill Belichick Reportedly Interviewed For North Carolina Job, Though It Would Be The Wrong Move For Tar Heels, New Report Says Japanese Star Roki Sasaki Has Already Picked A Team, A’s Stadium In Las Vegas Clears Final Major Hurdle, Rachel Bush Brings Bikini Sunshine Vibes To The Make America Healthy Again Movement, and Lindsey Vonn Hits The Gym In A Custom Bodysuit Ahead Of First Competition Since Announcing Her Comeback
Power Line: The Daily Chart: Another Look at the Red Shift, Today in the College Collapse, and Skrmetti and beyond
Shark Tank: Rep. Mast Calls Justice Sotomayor A Moron For Comparing Castration/Mutilation Surgeries To Taking Aspirin 
Shot In The Dark: Options, also, Only Human 
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – DEI Not Dead Yet: UC Santa Cruz; South Carolina; Medical Schools Everywhere
This Ain’t Hell: Two trials notes, Tim Kennedy stolen valor accusations, and Justice Ketanji Jackson: Banning transgender procedures akin to banning interracial marriage
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Space Era, also, Rebel Yell
Victory Girls: Annette Bening Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About Having a “Trans Child”
Watts Up With That: Vietnam’s Bustling Economy Requires Fossil Fuels, Quit Fearmongering – Climate Change is Not a National Security Threat, The Banned Books Hoax, and Why Are UK Electricity Prices So High?
The Federalist: Corporate Music Is Killing Classic Country And Its American Values, Republican Senator Introduces Federal Ban On Mutilating Trans Procedures For Children, Cowboys, Billionaires, And Pastors Break Tough Ground To Build Great Books Colleges, Biden’s Potential Pardons For Corrupt Bureaucrats Expose ‘Nobody’s Above The Law’ As A Lie, and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst Endorsed Transgender Military Service
Mark Steyn: A Pardon From the Big Guy, also, A Murder in Midtown

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In The Mailbox: 12.04.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 5, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.04.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Looks like SCOTUS is going to put a stop to that.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Rise & Fall of the Surveillance State
EBL: Attack submarine USS Minnesota sent to Guam, also, DARK BRANDON PINO NOIR
Twitchy: White House Press Corps Recoils Over Proposed Seating Plan Shakeup, Unhinged Taylor Lorenz Says She Wants Health Insurance Execs To Die, and Has Scott Presler Finally Found His Perfect Match?
Louder With Crowder: SNL’s Leslie Jones Goes On Unhinged, Trump-Hating Rant About White People, ACLU lawyer swears your two-year-old is old enough to change their gender if they feel like it, and Joy Reid has major freakout over hilarious Trump joke about Canada
Vox Popoli: The Dragon Stirs, Martial Law in South Korea, The Inevitable Pardon, France’s Unholy Alliance, and An Adverse Effect?
Flappr: Farewell. My Big, Dumb Farm Boy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: So about those vaccines
American Conservative: Trump’s Coming Immigration Showdown, also, Will Trump Channel Nixon in Ukraine?
American Greatness: The Time for Duty, Honor, Country is now: Our Country Needs a Pete Hegseth to Lead the Department of Defense, House Democrats Want to Release Gaetz Ethics Report, Trump and Congress Gear Up To Fight Campus Antisemitism, Kash Patel Targeted by Iranian Hacking Effort, and Trump Taps Peter Navarro For Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing
American Thinker: Addressing the Hunter Pardon
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s…Placeholder, and Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s electrical grid suffers another complete collapse, plunges entire nation into darkness, Wife of José Daniel Ferrer finally allowed to visit him in prison, reveals details of savage beating, Front company set up by Cuban military to receive remittances from the U.S. is exposed, and Cuban prisoner dies of starvation in infamous jail rife with hunger, tuberculosis, scabies, and constant violence
BattleSwarm: Jaguar Continues Brand Suicide, Paxton Sues BlackRock Over Black Rocks, Syria’s Civil War Unfreezes, Ryan Long On “Activists”, and USA vs. Russia: Who Wins?
Behind The Black: Two launches completed of the seven launches expected in the next 24 hours, Orbex gives up on the Sutherland spaceport, switches to SaxaVord, The strange beginning of a 300-mile-long meandering canyon on Mars, Japan awards $32.5 million contract for lunar GPS-type satellite constellation to startup, and Trump picks billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA
Cafe Hayek: More on Jay Bhattacharya, The Case for Protectionism Continues to Be At Odds with Facts and Logic, Milton Friedman in 1980, Contribute to Sound Economic Education, and There Is Nothing Left to Oren Cass’s Protectionist Argument
CDR Salamander: Anchor? What Anchor?
Chicago Boyz: Springs, Cables, and the Rebirth of America, Seth Barrett Tillman: “In Remembrance of P.J. O’Rourke: Let’s Make a List”, The Hunter Biden Pardon, Worth Pondering, and Random Thoughts (5): Trump Bestriding the World
Da Tech Guy: I Don’t Recommend or Support People Choosing Sin, Bad News Present, Good News Future, It’s time for the Chicago Police Department to use spike strips to fight back against dangerous muscle car street takeovers, How DARE Biden Make Us Look Bad – The Sin of Pride Squared, and Corrupt Pol Acts Corruptly and I’m Supposed to be Shocked?
Don Surber: Democrat Totem Pole is collapsing
First Street Journal: San José State University’s mostly women’s volleyball team is beaten in conference finals, also, I check Bluesky so you don’t have to
Gates Of Vienna: The Public Prosecutor Does Not Believe in Self-Defense, The Religion Behind the Religions, Islam’s Control Over Women Never Ceases to Amaze, Choirboys Overrun Aleppo, and Will Donald Trump Support the Greater Idaho Movement?
The Geller Report: Biden Pledges $1 BILLION in Handouts to Victims of AFRICAN Natural Disasters, Bankrupting Biden To Send Another $275 Million to Ukraine, and Voters Thrash Soros-Backed George Gascon, New DA Sworn In
Hollywood In Toto: Snow White Trailer Draws Hysterical Reactions, Nightbitch Wallows in Woke’s Fading Embers, Trump Effect: Sean Penn Demands Diversity of Opinion, The Order Doesn’t Take the Trump Bait, and Why Are So Many Christmas Movies Set in Chicago?
The Lid: America’s Trust in Joe Biden’s Corrupt FBI Plummets
Legal Insurrection: Trump Georgia Case: Fani Willis Must Hand Over All Communications With Jack Smith, J6 Committee, Gov. Gavin Newsom Wants $25 Million from CA Taxpayers to Engage in Lawfare against Trump, U. Minnesota Suspends and Fines Pro-Hamas Rioters Who Took Over Building, Pete Hegseth: ‘I Have Never Backed Down From a Fight and Won’t Back Down From This One’, and Asian Parents Lawsuit Challenging Discriminatory NY STEP Program Can Go Forward, Court Rules
Nebraska Energy Observer: Come Party with Us, Enough Said, and Bulls in China Shops
Outkick: Martina Navratilova Calls Out Democrats For Stance On Trangenders In Sports, Rhett Lashlee Has Stark Warning For College Football If SMU Is Left Out Of CFP With Clemson Loss, Three And Out: Alabama In The Drivers Seat As We Hit Championship Weekend, Roger Clemens Makes Good Point About Proposed MLB Rule Change, and Woman Goes Viral With Wild Move On The Sacramento Kings Kiss Cam
Power Line: Judge Scarsi to Joe Biden, Brendan Carr on NewsGuard, and Why Are Liberal Haters Teaching Our Children?
Shark Tank: FL Dems Panic Over Possibility DeSantis May Get Nod At Defense
Shot In The Dark: Exactly As Predicted, El Dijo/Ella Dijo, Your Tax Dollars At Work, This Didn’t Age Well, Hunter, and Downtown Minneapolis Is (Checks Notes) MAGA Country
The Political Hat: Why do unions hate right-to-work? Fighting Politically: Performance vs. Substance, and Artificial Intelligence vs. Cats: Why Not Both?
This Ain’t Hell: Trump: DO Something! Part 1, Trump: DO Something Part 2,New Zealand’s Newest Artificial Reef- Crew Error, Elizabeth Warren calls for taking steps to limit the use of active-duty troops against Americans, and New York law maker proposed blue states becoming a Canadian province
Transterrestrial Musings: The Problem With Our “Expert” Class, The Border, Well That’s…Different, The Return Of Realpolitik, and The Biden Guide
Victory Girls: Supreme Court Hears Transgender Minor Children Case
Watts Up With That: California “purifies” its little air bubble at the expense of its residents., The California offshore wind environmental impact statement is full of holes, U.S. “Energy Dominance:” A Key to Trump’s Peace Bid, and Trump 45’s Environmental Reset: 112 Rule Changes
The Federalist: 9th Circuit Says Local Authorities In Washington State Can’t Block Feds From Deporting Illegals, Trump World Sources Say Joni Ernst Is Waging ‘Aggressive’ Personal Jihad Against Hegseth, Yes, Ronald Reagan Won The Cold War, ‘100 Percent Bullsh-t’: Fox News Talent Shoot Down NBC’s Smear Campaign Against Pete Hegseth, and Trump Vows To Make U.S. Steel Great Again As Debate Smolders Over Nippon Merger
Mark Steyn: Smooth Criminal – Jean Gabin in Pépé le Moko, Trumping Trudeau, The Not So Long Goodbye, Goodnight, Vienna, and Live Around the Planet: The Return of Steyn

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