In The Mailbox: 05.02.22

Posted on | May 2, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.02.22

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in March. Very much appreciated!
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This week’s downloadable content

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Control Of Film, Radio, Theater, & The Press”
EBL: Biden’s Disinformation Czarina Is A Scary Freak, also, The Offer
Twitchy: Politico Reports SCOTUS Has Voted To Strike Down Roe v. Wade, also, “Controversial? Yes. Racist? NO.”
Louder With Crowder: Teacher Hosts Raunchy Drag Show For Kids Without Notifying Parents
Vox Popoli: A Refusal To Cooperate, The Second Front, and The Russians Are Doomed Again

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s Just A Trick, also, Podcast #152 – The Order Episode
American Conservative: The Press Fumbles Again On Ukraine
American Greatness: The New Disinformationists, also, Portland Police Struggle To Respond To Antifa Attack On GOP Rally
American Power: Kathy Boudin Becomes Good Terrorist, also, Democrats Hemorrhaging Black Support In Cities
American Thinker: MiniTru Is Where The Rubber Meets The Road, also, The Impending Economic Crash
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s May 1 Parade – “The Buses We Haven’t Seen For Months Are Here”, also, Mexico’s Secret Deal To Buy Slave Doctors From The Castro Dictatorship
BattleSwarm: Tucker Carlson – #BLM Resulted In More Black Deaths, also, Observing 2022 Victims Of Communism Day
Behind The Black: Pushback – Sports Anchor Sues ESPN After Being Punished For Expressing Opinions On Her Own Time, Update On Dream Chaser, and Navigating A Rover On Mars
Cafe Hayek: Deficit Spending Is No Free Lunch, also, The Way We Talk Matters
CDR Salamander: NATO’s Naughty & Nice List
Da Tech Guy: One-Liners Under The Fedora, The Air Force’s Double Standard On Sexual Assault, and Let Me Ask Just One Question
Don Surber: Call It Don’t Groom Kids, Biden Ignored The Polls & Faceplanted, and Democrats Want 10-Year-Olds To Read Gay Porn
First Street Journal: Hold Them Accountable! also, “It’s A Stinking Business, Mr. Rutledge, A Stinking Business!”
Gates Of Vienna: To Defeat Putin You Must Go Without, Trouble With A Capital P, and Blowing In The Wind
The Geller Report: The Evidence Of 2020 Election Fraud You’ve Been Waiting For, also, Ron DeSantis Announces Plans To Go After Biden’s DGB
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, What’s Up For May 2022, and Cancer Ward
Hollywood In Toto: Why The Original Cat People Trumps The R-Rated Remake, also, Amazon’s Outlaws Shows We Really Can Get Along
The Lid: Pelosi Visits Kiev – Haven’t The Ukrainians Suffered Enough? also, Ford Posts $3.1 Billion Loss Over Electric Car Gamble
Legal Insurrection: Administrators At UW-Superior Help Students Plan Matt Walsh Protest, U. Iowa Course Allegedly Teaches CRT Despite State Ban, and Why Aren’t Colleges Helping To Pay Off Student Loan Debt?
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Musings
Outkick: Stephon Marbury Calls Out Stephen A. Smith, Whether You Like Them Or Not, Tony Vitello & Tennessee Are Good For College Baseball, and NFL Investigation Finds Browns Didn’t Tank In 2016-17
Power Line: The Student Loan Scam, Solving The Deepest Questions, and Baghdad Bob Does DHS
Shark Tank: Wasserman-Schultz Goes Scorched Earth On DeSantis, GOP
Shot In The Dark: As Goes Sri Lanka, also, Coming Not To Bury But (Strange As It May Seem) Praise,
STUMP: Troubled Multiemployer Pensions – Central States Teamsters Files For Bailout
The Political Hat: Victims Of Communism Day 2022
This Ain’t Hell: Army Officer Receives Promotion To Brigadier General 100 Years After His Death, Rumors Of His Demise Were False – He Never Existed, and Study Finds Troops Sent To Exile Attempt Suicide More Often
Transterrestrial Musings: The Mary Poppins Of Disinformation, also, Commemorating May 1
Victory Girls: White House Correspondents’ Dinner – Send In The Clowns, also, “Admiral” Levine Claims All Pediatricians Promote “Gender Affirming Care”
Volokh Conspiracy: Making Sense Of The Apparent Leaked Decision In Dobbs
Watts Up With That: Electric Bus Catches Fire After Battery Explosion, also, The World Has Gone Bonkers
Weasel Zippers: Leak From SCOTUS Suggests Court Will Overturn Roe v. Wade, Barricades Going Up Around Supreme Court As Liberals Threaten To “Burn The Motherf*****r Down”, and Biden Laughs As “Comedian” Describes How He’s Devastated Our Lives
The Federalist: Five Reasons Joe Biden Can’t Force Taxpayers To Pay Other Peoples’ Student Loans, Why Does YouTube Host A Channel That Teaches Kids About Porn & Abortion? and Interior Department Demands Thousands Of Dollars To Release Records On Critical Mine Cancellation
Mark Steyn: Second Time As Farce – Bogie, John Huston, & Beat The Devil, I’m A Woman, and Live On May Day Bank Holiday

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Category: Linkagery

Russian Generals Keep Getting Killed

Posted on | May 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Russian Generals Keep Getting Killed

This is either the ninth or 10th killed so far:

Russia has lost another general in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to top Ukrainian officials, The Kyiv Post has reported
Maj. Gen. Andrei Simonov was killed near the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, which is currently occupied by Russian forces, Ukrainian authorities said.
The Ukrainian military attacked a field command post of the Russian 2nd Army on Saturday, striking more than 30 Russian armored vehicles, including tanks, according to the paper.
Footage posted on social media appears to show the command post being bombarded by rockets, said the Kyiv Post.
The general was among 100 Russian soldiers killed in the attack, President Zellenskyy’s military adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said, according to The Kyiv Post. Arestovych said well-placed army sources had confirmed the death of Maj. Gen. Simonov in a YouTube interview, per the Mail Online.
The claims by the Ukrainian authorities have not been independently verified.
Russia has not as of yet confirmed the death of Maj. Gen. Simonov.
Simonov was a senior commander of electronic warfare, Ukrainian government advisor Anton Gerashchenko said on his Telegram account.
His death would make him the tenth Russian general to die in Ukraine, according to a count by The Kyiv Post.

Different sources give different counts of how many Russian generals have been killed in Ukraine, but as I said the last time it happened, “Look, I know this might seem far-fetched, but hear me out. Maybe if you’re going to have a meeting of your army commanders, you should try to choose a location that is not within range of the enemy’s artillery.” You don’t need to be a military genius to figure this out. Meanwhile:

Vladimir Putin’s top military commander has been flown out of the war zone with shrapnel wounds after being to sent to Ukraine by the Russian president to secure victory, a former Russian internal affairs minister has claimed.
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of staff of the Russian army, was today wounded in Izyum in Ukraine’s Kharviv region, which has been at the centre of intense fighting since Russia’s invasion.
Putin had sent Gerasimov to the region to take personal control of his push to grab territory in eastern Ukraine, after the Russian army abandoned its plans to take Kyiv at the end of March in favour of a concentrated assault on the Donbas region of Donetsk and Luhansk.
An unofficial Russian source reported that Gerasimov sustained ‘a shrapnel wound in the upper third of the right leg without a bone fracture.
‘The shard was removed – there is no danger to life,’ he said.
But Gerasimov’s injury was severe enough to have him flown away from the frontlines and back to Russia to undergo further treatment, marking another embarrassing defeat for Putin’s forces. . . .
Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said the attack on Izyum was ‘the very place where…Gerasimov, who personally came to lead the attack on Slavyansk, was located’.
A ‘large number’ of senior officers were killed in the attack which wounded Gerasimov, Gerashchenko said.
Pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel Vertikal also alleged Gerasimov had been ‘wounded near Izyum’, citing unspecified sources.
‘Our source reports that his legs and hips are damaged,’ Vertikal said.
It suggested that three of Gerasimov’s entourage had been killed before he was evacuated.

Such a high number of casualties among senior leaders is certain to degrade the effectiveness of Russian forces, which haven’t been very effective so far, and it’s difficult to see how they can maintain offensive operations much longer. What’s happening in this war?

You can click that map to enlarge it. The Russian command post that was struck over the weekend was in Izyum (circled in the center of the map), and what the Russians want to do is to push south from there toward Sloviansk, about 30 miles to the south. Taking Sloviansk would put the Russians athwart the supply lines of Ukrainian forces operating farther east toward Luhansk. The tactical objective of the Ukrainians must be to isolate the Russians in the Izyum salient, and the fact that the Ukrainians were able to strike the Russian command post there suggests that the invaders have lost the initiative. If Ukraine can develop momentum in its counterattack, it’s possible that the Russian invasion could collapse rather quickly. Remember that the Russians went from besieging Kyiv to being forced to withdraw in just a matter of weeks.

Category: Russia, Ukraine

Rule Five Sunday: Lisa Gerrard

Posted on | May 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule Five Sunday: Lisa Gerrard

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Australian singer Lisa Gerrard is probably best known as half of Dead Can Dance, but she’s also done a lot of movie music with Michael Mann and Hans Zimmer, and more pertinently for our purposes, a couple of collaborations with the late Klaus Schulze, Farscape and Rheingold.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1701, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Golden Years Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL: MAGA Musk, The Fall Of Saigon, April, Stock Market Babes, Botany Bay Babes, Fire Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council, Billy The Kid, Helen Of Troy, and Luv’

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Witcher Women, Fish Pic Friday – From Down Under – Sarah Van Den Broek, Tattoo Thursday, Real Housewives of MAGA Country?, Your Wednesday Wetness, Truckin’ Into Tuesday, Democrats in the Dumps and More, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Retired Wrinklenose Will Return to DS9, If Allowed To Lecture You and Palm Sunday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: RIP Klaus Schulze

Posted on | May 1, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: RIP Klaus Schulze

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week we lost one of the pioneers of electronic music, Klaus Schulze, who died Tuesday from what appear to be complications from kidney failure. Briefly a member of seminal Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, Schulze went on to release over sixty albums in his five decades of work, much of it being in a classical music style often inspired by Richard Wagner.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Klaus Schulze, 1947-2022

Rule 5 Sunday: A WILD PARAGUAYAN MODEL APPEARS!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Disney Got Woke, Now Going Broke
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

“The Enormity of the Crime”
The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Here’s a Completely Crazy Idea
357 Magnum
EBL

‘The Nicest Kid in Our Grade’
357 Magnum
EBL

Humans Dying in Mayor Frogface’s Town
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Youth Gone Wild
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL

Go and Do Thou Likewise
357 Magnum
EBL

A Genuinely Weird Rock ’n’ Roll Story
357 Magnum
EBL

So…Is #FreeStacy Trending Yet?
The First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.25.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Killadelphia Update
The First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.26.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 04.27.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Spring Means It’s Time for the Joyous Return of the Big Yellow Button
EBL

Belichick’s Strange Choice Confounds Critics Who Don’t Understand 4D Chess
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.29.22 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 04.29.22 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending April 29:

EBL (18)
357 Magnum (13)
A View From The Beach (9)
Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Back Where She Belongs

Posted on | May 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Back Where She Belongs

Kathleen Kane is behind bars, after being arrested for a probation violation and returned to Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania. A judge ordered her arrest after Kane was charged with drunk driving after a March 12 car crash in Scranton.

In case you didn’t know it, Kane was once a “rising star” of the Democratic Party after being elected as Pennsylvania’s first female attorney general in 2012. In her victory speech, Kane boasted that her election had “expanded the boundaries for women in Pennsylvania.”

As it turned out, these expanded boundaries would include getting locked up and disbarred. Kane was sentenced to jail after a jury in 2016 convicted her of felony perjury and multiple misdemeanor charges related to a scandal over leaked grand jury evidence.

What happened was that a story appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Kane’s decision to drop prosecution of a case that one of the prosecutors in the attorney general’s office had developed against six black Democratic legislators in Philadelphia. Stung by the bad publicity and believing that the prosecutor in that case had leaked information to the media, Kane set about retaliating in 2014 by leaking confidential grand jury information to the Philadelphia Daily News in an effort to discredit the prosecutor. This in turn provoked an investigation that resulted in the charges against Kane, who claimed she was the victim of political enemies seeking to “overturn an election of somebody they just don’t like.” At her 2016 trial, part of the evidence was an FBI recording of two Democratic political operatives discussing Kane’s decision to leak the grand jury information:

Kathleen is unhinged,” [consultant Josh] Morrow said, in the recording. “She doesn’t even have a strategy to do this — just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.”
[John] Lisko, former chief of staff to state Treasurer Rob McCord, used an expletive in response to Kane’s request that Morrow help her leak the documents, adding: “I just don’t see. It doesn’t even make sense.”

It was just a tawdry scandal all the way around and — after resigning from office, exhausting her appeals, and being disbarred — Kane went to jail in November 2018, sentenced to 10-to-23 months. She was released from jail in July 2019 after serving eight months, but was still on probation when she got busted for DUI in March, so now she’s back where she belongs. Of course, I believe pretty much all Democrats should be behind bars, but we’ve got to start somewhere, and a former “rising star” who “expanded the boundaries for women” is a good start.

Category: Crime, Democrats, Pennsylvania

SJW Tumblrinas: The Root of All Evil

Posted on | April 30, 2022 | Comments Off on SJW Tumblrinas: The Root of All Evil

Back in 2014, when I started researching radical feminism, one of the first things I discovered was the phenomenon of Tumblr, a toxic cesspool that began as a blogging platform with an interface that allowed it to also function as a social-networking site. Tumblr users could “follow” each other, exchange DMs and, most importantly, “reblog” each other’s content. Feminist Tumblr was a notorious bedlam of craziness, where The Discourse™ spiraled into long threads of young women practicing “call-out culture,” i.e., accusing each other of transgressions against intersectional social justice. Whoever your favorite celebrity, whatever your favorite movie or TV show, it was sure to be denounced as “problematic” at some level by the social justice totalitarians of feminist Tumblr — all of whom proclaimed their mental illnesses in their profiles, and none of whom were heterosexual. Tumblrinas were always somewhere in the LGBTQ spectrum, and all of them were suffering from depression, anxiety, ADD, OCD, autism, bipolar disorder and/or PTSD.

What made Tumblr such a natural habitat for this insanity? Wombat explained to me that Tumblr was blogging for stupid people — no skill was required to participate in the discussion, because the “reblog” function made it possible to create a blog composed entirely of other people’s content, so Tumblr naturally attracted a core audience of low-functioning people. A fat bisexual teenage girl with purple hair and a cluster of mental illnesses, too unstable to hold down a part-time job at Burger King, could nevertheless be a fairly popular blogger on Tumblr, and these were the types of people who came to define the platform.

The World’s Worst Web Site™ “was considered a ‘hot’ online property in 2013, when Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for it”:

Three years later, however, Yahoo was forced to declare that Tumblr was “effectively worthless” — a net drain on revenue, with no prospect of future profitability — and in 2017, Yahoo was sold to Verizon for less than 1/10th of what Microsoft had offered for Yahoo in 2008.

In 2019, Verizon offloaded Tumblr for a nominal price, and everybody forgot about the site that once had seemed a potential rival to Twitter and Facebook. Except that what happened on Tumblr during the years when it was a “hot” site turns out to have played perhaps a pivotal role in contemporary culture. Bill Hurrell at American Greatness has a brilliant analysis of how Tumblr fans of the TV show “Glee” were the online laboratory from which “cancel culture” emerged.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)