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In The Mailbox: 03.29.22

Posted on | March 30, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.29.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: It’s Not Just Property Crime
EBL: On This Day In 1867
Twitchy: “I Was Just Wherever I Could Adding Queerness”, also, Forbes – Don’t Talk About Will Smith’s Slap Without Discussing White Supremacy
Louder With Crowder: Ron DeSantis Exposes “Hollywood Degenerates” Attacking Parents Over Anti-Grooming Bill
Vox Popoli: The Four Eras Of Villainy, Polishing The Library, and The Russians Are Panicking
Stoic Observations: Against Fetishizing Hierarchies

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Bush-Biden Doctrine
American Greatness: GOP Must Promise Inquisitions, Not Meaningless Task Forces, also, The IRS Sent $64 Million In Stimulus Checks To Dead People
American Power: Occasional Cortex Realizes The Democrats Are In Trouble
American Thinker: CDC & FDA Guilty Of Clinical Malpractice & Scientific Fraud
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Too Little Too Late News
Babalu Blog: German Diplomats Blocked From Visiting Sick Citizen Sentenced To 25 Years For Filming 7/11 Protests, also, Cubans Waiting To Buy (Rationed) Diapers Turn On Police When One Of Them Is Violently Arrested
BattleSwarm: Dear Joe – Do You Think You Could Avoid Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud? also, Russo-Ukrainian War Roundup
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, NASA Wants More Money In 2023, and Red China Successfully Launches Long March 6A
Cafe Hayek: Serfdom Looms
CDR Salamander: We Chose Decline
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – A Real Food Crisis, Bye Bye Philly! and Donald Trump Is No Ham Sandwich
Don Surber: Jon Stewart Boldly Takes On Mueller – Four Years Too Late, Never Trumpers Roll Out Their New Egg McMuffin, and Russia Has NATO Over A Barrel
First Street Journal: Ford’s Plug-In Electric F150 Lightning Could Cost More Than Your House, also, Killadelphia
Gates Of Vienna: The German People Must Suffer For Ukraine’s Sake, Certain Truths Must Not Be Spoken (At Least Not In Sweden), and “Listen, Viktor!”
The Geller Report: DeSantis Hits Back At Hollywood – “I Wear That [Criticism] Like A Badge Of Honor”, also, Biden’s Approval Ratings Plunge To Lowest Of His Presidency [So far]
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Coming To A Lagrange Point Near You, and Quote Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Kim & Kanye Explained, also, Comedy, The (Not So) Hidden Victim Of Slapgate
The Lid: Too Much Lake Water Is Climate Change/Not Enough Lake Water Is Climate Change
Legal Insurrection: MIT Reinstates SAT/ACT Requirement For Future Admissions, Lamestream Media Ignores New Details In Hunter Biden Scandal, and Rep. Gaetz Enters Hunter Biden’s Laptop & Repair Receipt Into Congressional Record
Michelle Malkin: Never Forgotten – The Lies About Terry Schiavo
Nebraska Energy Observer: Can’t Define “Woman”
Outkick: Bomani Jones’ HBO Show Tanks Again, Loses To Infomercial, NFL Adds Women To Rooney Rule, and Robert Kraft Not Pleased With Pats’ Playoff Skid
Power Line: Biden’s Gaffes – A Postscript, Biden Still Falling, and Dean Gerken’s Gabble
Shark Tank: Author Of Anti-Grooming Bill Returns All Donations From Disney
Shot In The Dark: Don’t Grab The Handle, also, CNN – “The Oscars Were Mostly Peaceful”
This Ain’t Hell: Biden’s Proposed Budget Would Make Army Smallest Since WW2, Tuesday With The Libs Of TikTok, and Biden Says He’s Not Walking Anything Back 
Transterrestrial Musings: Mark Judge, also, Clogged Arteries
Victory Girls: Ukraine Drops Alleged List of Russian Spies, also, Mayor Groot Gets Special Secret Security Detail
Volokh Conspiracy: Choosing A Russia Of Pushkin Over A Russia Of Putin
Watts Up With That: The Madness Of Our Worship Of Wind, also, The People Promising us “Net Zero” Have No Clue About The Energy Storage Problem
Weasel Zippers: French President Macron One Of Several Leaders To Express Concern Over Slow Joe’s Gaffes, also, Russia Says It Will Withdraw From Kiev Region
The Federalist: Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments To Hunter Biden By Foreign Oligarchs, ABC Doesn’t Want You To Know The Kids DeSantis Is Protecting From Groomers Are Five, and Will The GOPe Enable Another Disastrous Iran Nuke Deal?
Mark Steyn: Hunter & The Hunted, also, Food for Thought

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Category: Linkagery

Ukraine: Irpin Mayor Says Town Is ‘Liberated,’ Others Say … Eh, Maybe

Posted on | March 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Ukraine: Irpin Mayor Says Town Is ‘Liberated,’ Others Say … Eh, Maybe

Before explaining the map above, showing the locations of Ivankiv, Borodyanka and Bucha, let’s first get this news out of the way:

Oleksandr Markushyn, the mayor of the city of Irpin, just 8km from the Ukrainian capital ofKiev, confirmed on Monday, March 28, that “Irpin has been freed from the evil of Moscow!”. His announcement came after Ukrainian military forces recaptured the city that had been besieged by the Russians.

This is not the first time Mayor Markushyn has claimed this, however. He said the same thing a week ago, but his pronouncement was followed by a week of fierce fighting in Irpin. According to the New York Times, other sources say there may still be Russian troops holed up in Irpin, and the Ukrainian forces will have to do a house-by-house search to clear the town. At any rate, Irpin is the closest the Russians have come to Kyiv, and if they’ve been driven out of there, the remainder of the Russian advance force would be hunkered down in Hostomel and Bucha. And this gets us to what that map is about: In order to supply their troops in the vicinity of Bucha, the Russians must be able to send convoys of trucks from Belarus via Ivanik and, while their are alternative routes available, the crossroads town of Borodyanka is crucial to this Russian supply line. Ever since last week, when some observers began to speak of the Russians around Bucha being trapped in a “pocket,” I’ve been searching for news of fighting near Borodyanka, with little success.

The other avenue of attacking the rear of the Russians around Bucha would be up the western bank of the Dnieper River, via Demydiv, but I haven’t found any reports about fighting there, either. So the tactical situation in Ukraine remains unclear, and this report by Barbara Morrill at Daily Kos expresses more certainty about what’s happening — including maps — than I can endorse. Meanwhile, in cleaning up after his gaffes last week, Joe Biden may have made a new disclosure:

President Joe Biden appeared to reveal that the U.S. is training Ukrainian forces in Poland — stating for the first time since the war began that American troops are actively teaching Ukrainians to fight and kill Russians.
The United States has been providing billions of dollars in weapons and other assistance to Ukraine, with much of that aid going through Poland. The president spent part of last week in the country, meeting with U.S. troops stationed in the southeast and delivering a speech about the West’s unity in the face of Russian aggression.
But to date, the Biden administration has painstakingly made the case that that is as far as they’ll go. On March 22, Jake Sullivan denied that Americans were “currently” training Ukrainians. “We do, of course, have U.S. troops defending NATO territory,” he continued.
That’s not what Biden said Monday. After delivering remarks about the White House’s new budget request, Biden answered a reporter’s question about comments he made when meeting the 82nd Airborne in Poland, in which he implied American forces would be going to Ukraine. Biden denied that’s what he meant, adding: “We’re talking about helping train the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland.”
Pressed again, Biden said, “I was referring to being with, and talking with, the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland.”

Are Ukrainian troops being trained in Poland, and are U.S. troops training them? Seems like an important question.




 

Category: Military, Russia, Ukraine

In The Mailbox: 03.28.22

Posted on | March 28, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.28.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Looks like I’m going back to Reno Friday for the death march to April 18.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

All in all…

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Ten Years Ago I Predicted The Current Crime Wave
EBL: Belfast, Free Guy, and St. Nick Slaps Heretic Upside The Head At The Council Of Nicaea*
Twitchy: Has-Been Ex-Shock Jock Attempts To Stay Relevant By Commenting On Chris Rock & Will Smith, also, Cleanup On Aisle Joe (Again)
Louder With Crowder: Parent Bill of Rights Heads For Wisc. Governor’s Desk, also, NBA Star Kyrie Irving Blasts Media Slandering Him Over The Jab – “I’m Standing For Freedom” 
Vox Popoli: The Renaissance Man, Lessons For The Next War, and The Financial Fifth Column
Stoic Observations: Mic Drop To Jaw Drop

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Voluntarily Celibate 
American Conservative: The Church Also Left Americans, also, I’m Not A Biologist
American Greatness: Americans Deserve Better, also, The Sheer Madness Of Today’s Left
American Power: Natural Gas Industry Gets Boost As Biden Shifts
American Thinker: The Hostile Takeover of The GOP Will Continue
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Another Senior Cuban Military Officer Dies, NYT Blows Clash Between Gov. DeSantis & Archbishop Wenski “Out Of Proportion”, and “Ice Cream No Longer Tastes Like Milk, But Like Soy”
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 25, also, Former CIA Officer Mike Baker On Bad Intelligence & Putin
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, SpaceX To Freeze Dragon Fleet At Four, and Ice Sheets On Mars Below 30 Degrees Latitude? 
Cafe Hayek: Misunderstanding Comparative Advantage, Cleansed By Capitalism, and There’s No Saving The Case For Industrial Policy
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Intersection Of Integrated Delusion And Institutional Dishonesty
Da Tech Guy: Denying Our Inner Self, Viking Adventures On Netflix, and Bubbles, Battles, & Reality
Don Surber: A Team Of Governors Can Save Us, Sure, Bring Back The 1950s, and Soak The Billionaires
First Street Journal: A Very Minor Omission By The Philadelphia Inquirer, also, NBC News Caught Doctoring Photos Of “Lia” Thomas
Gates Of Vienna: Four Cultural Enrichment Tales From Germany, Mass Surveillance & The Klepto-State, and Michael Mannheimer RIP
The Geller Report: Hunter Biden Had DOD Encryption Keys On His Laptop, Biden Admin Sued For Keeping Kerry Documents Secret Until After 2024 Election, and President Trump Blasts Climate Change, CRT, & Child Porn SCOTUS Nominee
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, As Memes Evolve, and Scorched Earth
Hollywood In Toto: The Saint Teased A Great Franchise, Oscar Flameout The Last Duel Beholden To #MeToo Movement, and Woke Oscars “Saved” By Award-Winning Meltdown
The Lid: Responding To The Charge That The Constitution Is Trash, also, Ice-T Tells Dad Joke About Gas Prices, Many Whine “That’s Not Funny!”
Legal Insurrection: Idaho Teachers Brag About Teaching Banned CRT, The Russian Military – Hype Vs. Reality, and “You Have About 10% Of The Student Body Controlling The Other 90%, Mostly Through Internet Shaming”
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, “Believe It and You Have It”
Outkick: Tennessee Puts College Baseball On Notice After Weekend Sweep Of #1 Ole Miss, Duke Rips Arkansas 78-69 As Coach K Reached NCAA Record 13th Final Four, and NFL Requiring All 32 Teams To Hire “Diverse Person” To Serve As Offensive Assistant
Power Line: Chaos In The White House, “Do You Find It Wisible?”, and How Low Can Biden Fall?
Shark Tank: Lauren Book Responds To Challenge From Failed Congressional Candidate
Shot In The Dark: Expertise, Just Trying To Keep Track of The Plagues, and We’re In Jeopardy!
The Political Hat: South Dakota Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: New Depths In Stolen Valor, Another Accounted For, and Soldier Saves Vet From River
Transterrestrial Musings: The Latest FAA Delay, Ukraine & The Global Space Industry, and Gray Dragon On Falcon Heavy
Victory Girls: University Of Washington – Aborted Fetuses In Paper Bags, also, Woke Disney – Should Families Trust The Mouse?
Volokh Conspiracy: South Texas College Of Law SCOTUS Clinic Beats Yale Law SCOTUS Clinic
Watts Up With That: “It’s A Disaster”, also, Biden Promised Euros More LNG – Forgot To Check With Industry First, and Newsom’s Energy Regulations Have Oil Tankers Emitting More Than Twice Entire California Vehicle Fleet
Weasel Zippers: Biden Won’t Give Up Green Energy Zealotry, Blinken Claims Slow Joe Didn’t Mean What He Said About Regime Change In Russia, and 250,000 Excess Votes Reportedly Cast For Biden In Swing States
The Federalist: Why Converting Hotels Into Homeless Housing Doesn’t Usually Work, It Shouldn’t Be Hard To Condemn Judge Jackson’s Leniency For Child Predators, and “Openly Queer” Is Not A Thing & Other Thoughts On the Depraved Oscars
Mark Steyn: Grimmer By The Pound, Move ‘Em Up Fuad, and Hooray For Hollywood

*”I’m here to hand out presents and slap down heresy, and I’m all out of presents!”

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Category: Linkagery

Why Is ‘Russian Disinformation’ More Trustworthy Than the Liberal Media?

Posted on | March 28, 2022 | Comments Off on Why Is ‘Russian Disinformation’ More Trustworthy Than the Liberal Media?

Last week, Russian officials claimed that Hunter Biden had bankrolled biological research laboratories in Ukraine:

The Russian government on Thursday accused Hunter Biden’s investment fund of helping bankroll the Pentagon’s alleged biolabs in Ukraine.
Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops, said the investment firm Biden is connected to, Rosemont Seneca, has been implicated in financing the biological program in Ukraine, Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik reported.
“Incoming materials have allowed us to trace the scheme of interaction between U.S. government bodies and Ukraine’s biolabs,” Kirillov said. He added that Rosemont Seneca attracted attention due to an alleged “close relationship” between the fund and key suppliers for “Pentagon biolaboratories around the world.” According to the Ministry of Defense’s information, the fund has at least $2.4 billion in investment capital, Sputnik reported.

This was immediately dismissed by the Daily Beast, among others, as conspiracy theory crazy talk aimed at the QAnon crowd, even before Tucker Carlson picked up the story.

“Tucker Carlton Echoes the Kremlin,” they headlined it, as if the story were self-evidently false. But guess what? Can you guess, huh?

Russia’s assertion that President Biden’s son Hunter was “financing … biological laboratories in Ukraine” was based in truth, according to e-mails reviewed by The Post.
A trove of e-mails on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop — the existence of which was exclusively reported by The Post in October 2020 — found that he played a role in helping a California defense contractor analyze killer diseases and bioweapons in Ukraine. . . .
Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners [the investment firm founded in 2009 by Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz, and Devon Archer] invested $500,000 in the San Francisco pathogen research company Metabiota and raised millions more through firms that included Goldman Sachs, according to the e-mails found on the computer, which was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 as Joe Biden ran for president.
Hunter introduced Metabiota to officials at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where he was a board member, for a “science project” involving biolabs in Ukraine, the e-mails show.
A memo from a Metabiota official to the then-vice president’s son in 2014 said the company could “assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia.”
Metabiota vice president Mary Guttieri also wrote to Hunter about geopolitical issues involving the company’s research in the former Soviet republic in April 2014, two months after Russia invaded and annexed the Crimea region.
“As promised, I’ve prepared the attached memo, which provides an overview of Metabiota, our engagement in Ukraine, and how we can potentially leverage our team, networks, and concepts to assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia and continued integration into Western society,” her memo read.
Days later, Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi wrote to Biden about a “as you called ‘Science Ukraine’ project.”
“As I understand the Metabiota was a subcontract to principal contactor of the DoD B&V [engineering firm Black & Veatch],” his e-mail read. “What kind of partnership Metabiota is looking for in Ukraine?”
The US awarded $23.9 million to Metabiota later in 2014, with $307,091 allocated for a “Ukrainian research projects,” government spending records showed.
The younger Biden bragged to investors that his company organized funding for Metabiota and helped it “get new customers” including “government agencies,” according to e-mails.

Well? Is the Daily Beast just going to pretend this isn’t newsworthy? Are the rest of the corporate media going to continue pretending that this is just crazy QAnon stuff and “Russian disinformation”?

Keep in mind that our government funded research in Communist Chinese labs that may have produced the COVID-19 virus. We are told, however, that the research our government was funding in Ukraine was entirely benign, and if we express skepticism about this project (which, oh, by the way, just happened to help make money for Joe Biden’s worthless crack-addicted son) well, our skepticism is proof that we’re a bunch of kooky right-wing conspiracy theorists. Wouldn’t it be nice if our government and our media would tell us the truth once in while, so they could have more credibility than the Kremlin?

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.)

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: Corruption, Media Bias, Russia, Ukraine

Rule 5 Sunday: Mariah Carey

Posted on | March 28, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Mariah Carey

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Whatever one might thing of Mariah Carey’s singing talents, or lack thereof, there’s no question that she’s a cutie.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1666*, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Evil V. Stupid Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Julie Andrews, Alina Kabaeva, Lust, Black Crab, My Brilliant Friend, Little Birds, and Connie Francis

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Kandace Harbin, Fish Pic Friday – Amanda CA, New Maryland Musky Record, Black Magic Woman, Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, Justice Thomas Give Liberals a Thrill, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious links!

*The Millennial Number of the Beast Episode!
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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Burn Witch Burn

Posted on | March 27, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Burn Witch Burn

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, I was mistaken about the Senators’ schedule. After taking two out of three from the Yankees, we have three games against the Orioles and three more against the division-leading Injuns before it’s all over. So we have a shot at .500 after all, it seems. As for tax season, there’s 22 days left, and I still don’t know if I’ll be hitting the road for Reno to do the last two weeks of the season up there or whether I’ll be left to sit and home and keep working on various drop-off returns in between stints of online assist work.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Sunny skies and cheerful music waft over RFK again this week.

Rule 5 Sunday: Alla Kostromichova

Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

UKRAINE: Most Shocking News So Far
Al Fin Next Level
The Laughing Wolf
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Is Ace of Spades ‘Cruel’?
EBL
357 Magnum


‘Well, Those Ukraine Girls Really Knock Me Out, They Leave the West Behind’
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: “Don’t Know What I’m Gonna Do”
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Jan. 6 Witch Hunt Committee
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

Can You Say ‘Hate Hoax,’ Boys and Girls?
EBL
357 Magnum

The Problem With ‘Equality’
EBL

From Bad to Worse for Russia in Ukraine
Hogewash
EBL
357 Magnum

Key Victory for Ukraine?
EBL
357 Magnum

What Counts as ‘Russian Disinformation’?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.22.22
A View From The Mailbox
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.23.22 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Mailbox
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

The Death of ‘Black Rabbit’
EBL
357 Magnum

Russians Surrounded in ‘Bucha Pocket’?
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 03.24.22 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.24.22 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Tax Dollars: ‘Six Porsches, Six BMWs, Two Mercedes-Benzes, a Ferrari, and a Tesla’
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Ukraine: Fighting in Nemishaeve?
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 03.25.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending March 25:

  1.  EBL (21)
  2.  357 Magnum (14)
  3.  Proof Positive (8)
  4.  A View From The Beach (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Aspiring Rapper Update: ‘Baby Cino’ Gets Out of Jail, Immediately Gets Shot Dead

Posted on | March 27, 2022 | Comments Off on Aspiring Rapper Update: ‘Baby Cino’ Gets Out of Jail, Immediately Gets Shot Dead

Timothy Starks, a/k/a “Baby Cino,” was only 20 years old when he died Wednesday, shortly after getting bailed out of a Miami jail:

Minutes later, as the red Nissan he was riding in turned onto the Palmetto Expressway, he was suddenly ambushed by a gunman in another car in a wild daylight shooting in the middle of traffic.
Starks died in the hail of gunfire, shot in the head. He was still wearing the wristband given to inmates at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Miami-Dade police on Thursday publicly identified Starks and a friend who picked him up from jail, Dante’ Collins Banks, 20, who also was wounded in the attack. Detectives have not identified a suspect, but did say “a dark-colored vehicle was seen fleeing the area at a high rate of speed.”
The shooter fired at least 40 times.
Multiple law-enforcement sources say the shooting is being probed for links to a series of public ambushes in recent months believed connected to Miami street gangs. That includes the January ambush murder of rapper Wavy Navy Pooh, who was shot to death in his car near Zoo Miami, and the murder of Brianna Sutherland, who was ambushed while driving on Interstate 95 on Valentine’s Day. Investigators do not believe she was the intended target.
As for Starks, he was associated with a Little Haiti area gang known as “Boss Life,” according to one source.
Online, where many local rappers can rise to fame quickly, Starks did not have a major presence. His main song, entitled “Big Haiti Shottas,” features him and a crew rapping about violence at an apartment building on Northwest Third Avenue and 56th Street.
The video, which has over 21,000 views, is also dedicated to Gary “Melo” Laguerre, an 18-year-old gunned down in a drive-by shooting in 2020 outside a Brownsville market.
Starks had been arrested in Opa-locka on Tuesday night by members of Miami-Dade Police’s Robbery Intervention Detail unit.
According to an arrest report, a RID detective pulled Starks over on Opa-locka Boulevard and Northwest 19th Avenue, for having an obstructed tag. When he was stopped, he was moving “as if he was concealing an object consistent with the shape of a firearm,” the report said.
Officers searched the car and found a fully loaded Glock 32, the report said.
According to jail records, Starks was booked into TGK just before 2 a.m. Wednesday. After posting bond, he was recorded as released at 2:10 p.m. The shooting happened within the hour, starting on the Palmetto near Hialeah, with the Nissan slamming into a concrete barrier wall.
Investigators are now trying to determine if Starks and Banks were followed from the jail — and how the attackers knew they were being released.

Maybe if you keep these hoodlums in jail, they won’t be getting shot dead on the streets. Just a suggestion. Not that I actually care.




 

Category: Aspiring Rapper Update, Florida

Ukraine: Combat Reported at Borodyanka

Posted on | March 27, 2022 | Comments Off on Ukraine: Combat Reported at Borodyanka

Just a single mention of fighting in a key crossroads town 45 miles northwest of Kyiv in this report from regional police, and we have no further details. However, as I mentioned Friday about reports of fighting at Nemishaeve, if the Ukrainian counter-offensive that recaptured Makariv were continued successfully, we would soon hear about fighting at Borodyanka, about 15 miles north of Makariv.

The same regional police report also mentions that fighting continues at Makariv, which may mean that Russian forces are dug in near there and trying to hold on, but if Ukrainians are also attacking at Borodyanka, the Russians remaining near Borodyanka would likely be cut off from supplies and reinforcements. Last night after we did our podcast, I was grumbling about the difficulty of getting timely accurate reports about the tactical situation near Kyiv, and John Hoge made the observation that the Ukrainian command could be limiting this information because of operational security concerns. Apparent confirmation of that can be found in this New York Times report, where several journalists made a tour of villages near Kyiv where the Russians had been driven out: “Russian forces were still just four miles away, but the commander asked that the village names not be published to safeguard his positions.” So we don’t know what areas the journalists toured, but if I had to guess, I’d point to Myla, 20 miles west of Kyiv on the E40 highway, and 8 miles south of Irpin. We know the Russians are holed up in a “pocket” around Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel, all of which are still contested, although the Ukrainians claim to have recaptured most of Irpin.

The battles in the east and south of Ukraine — Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kherson — may be larger than the ones near Kyiv, and in some ways equally important, but the fight to drive back the Russians near Kyiv is crucial to the war’s ultimate outcome. Putin and his commanders expected in the beginning (and many Western intelligence estimates agreed) that the Ukrainian capital would fall within a week, after a “shock-and-awe” attack that included an airborne capture of the Hostomel air field. Those expectations of a quick capture of Kyiv proved misguided, because the Ukrainians fought with more determination and skill than anyone had thought they would, and because the Russian army was so surprisingly inept. As recently as a week ago, however, it still seemed that the Russians might be able to bring forward their heavy artillery and begin raining down shells on Kyiv.

Now, however, it seems the tables have turned. The Ukrainians are now counterattacking, the Russians are on the defensive, and if Ukraine can maintain the momentum, they could either force a Russian retreat or perhaps even surround and destroy the invaders near the capital.




 

Category: Russia, Ukraine
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