The Star Treatment

Posted on | June 20, 2024 | Comments Off on The Star Treatment

Arrival of the international celebrities.

My wife and our youngest daughter, Reagan, returned from Argentina last night. Reagan said that after the plane landed, she removed her sweater and fixed her hair because she knew — from previous experience — that as soon as they emerged from the gate at baggage claim I would be snapping photos. “Paparazzi Dad” is nothing if not predictable.

This goes back to a Basic Journalism Trick that I learned during the earliest years of my newspaper career, working for small-town weeklies: Treat the people you cover as if they were famous celebrities. During four years as sports editor for the Calhoun (Ga.) Times, I elevated this technique to an art form. So far as our readers were aware, Timmy Starr was the greatest basketball player since Michael Jordan. You’ve never heard of Timmy Starr, of course, but when he was playing for the Bulldogs of Fairmount High School, he was a local sensation in Gordon County, and the coverage I provided his exploits was as effusive as Tiger Beat covering a Bay City Rollers concert tour. (Although you’d have to be old enough to qualify for Social Security to get that reference.)

My inspiration for that totally non-objective approach to journalism was, of course, Hunter S. Thompson’s pro wrestling hype of “Kazika the Mad Jap” during his early career as a local sports writer in Florida.

When you’re doing entry-level work in the newspaper business, you need to play some kind of mind games with yourself to maintain your morale, to convince yourself that the work you’re doing makes a difference, somehow, to somebody. You’re getting paid to do this job and, even if the subjects of your coverage are obscure and of interest only to a handful of locals, those people are your readers — the customers who are ultimately paying your bills — and you have to find a way of motivating yourself to provide excellence. If you can’t do that, you’re never going to get ahead in the news business and, having started my career on the very bottom rung of the industry, I was fiercely determined to get ahead.

Having developed this strategy at the outset of my career, and having proved its value through experience, I never forgot it. When you get to the point where you’re part of the journalistic scrum covering a major national story — e.g., a presidential campaign — you must find some way to set yourself apart from the mob. Instead of letting other people decide what’s important, learn to rely on your own judgment, follow your own lead. You decide what angle to cover, and then cover the hell out of it.

So the Big Story last night was the wife and daughter of Influential Journalist Robert Stacy McCain returning from their Triumphant Tour of Argentina, and I got the world-exclusive scoop on that story.

Today’s Big Story? The Influential Journalist is taking his beautiful wife and lovely daughter out to dinner and — EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS! — the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

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In The Mailbox: 06.19.24

Posted on | June 20, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.19.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Summer Based Books Sale Is Here!

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Cheap fakes, deep fakes, whatever

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Willie Mays, RIP
Twitchy: Stop Oil Trust Fund Dweeb Reveals Himself, Mt. St. Helens Is “Recharging” & Throws Some Shade At Mt. Rainier As Possible Eruption Looms, and CBS News Explains Why “Wrong Version Of A Video” Was Removed From Biden “Cheap Fake” Hackery
Louder With Crowder: Dingbat Joy Behar claims Trump will have “The View” taken off the air, effectively endorses him for president
Vox Popoli: RIP Willie Mays, The Next Library Serial, and How Clown World Lost the Plot

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Misery of Team Building
American Conservative: Azov Leader Admits to Ukrainian Use of ‘Blocking Detachments’
American Greatness: What Trump and His People Need to Know About January 6, also, Resolution Declaring J6 Committee Illegitimate Awaits Action
American Thinker: No Different than the Democrats: A Review of The Empire of Eunuchs
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 12 – Politics and Vehicles
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security arrests and beats two professors on their way to a peaceful protest in Havana, The hidden face of hunger in communist Cuba, and Uber shows up in Havana to transport Ukraine-bound mercenaries
BattleSwarm: Adobe Update: Uncle Fed Sues
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites, Scientists release first image from Hubble in one-gyro mode, Slovenia becomes 23rd member nation of the European Space Agency, Astronomers see a quiet galaxy become active for the first time, and Pro-Hamas lefty arrested for several arson attacks on UC-Berkeley campus
Cafe Hayek: Of Course U.S. Government-Imposed Tariffs Are Taxes on Americans, also, On Tariffs and Constant Returns to Scale
CDR Salamander: The National Guard Forgets Itself
Chicago Boyz: Abuse of Authority, continued
Da Tech Guy: Trump Takes a Page from the Tip O’Neil Playbook
Don Surber: That’s A Shame Month
First Street Journal: Philly advocates for prostitutes want the johns arrested, but not the hookers
Gates Of Vienna: A Multicultural Shangri-La, Presidential Senility – An Italian Perspective, Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 6, Antifa vs. the AfD, Barbarians Inside the Gates of Metz, and Gaslighting the Grevesmühleners
The Geller Report: Netanyahu Asserts US is “Withholding Essential Weapons and Ammunitions to Israel” that Israel Paid For
Hollywood In Toto: Gaslighting 101: Kimmel Spins Biden’s Frozen Fundraising Moment, How Democrats and Hollywood Abandoned Working Class, ‘The View’s’ Anti-Trump Hysteria, Explained, and How Nicolas Cage Nearly Capsized His Career
The Lid: Woke Airline Pilot Union Says Stop Saying ‘Cockpit’ and ‘Manpower’ Because They’re Not ‘Inclusive’ Enough
Legal Insurrection: DEA Uncovers Drug Money Laundering Scheme Between Chinese Organized Crime, Sinaloa Cartel, “the only real tolerated form of antisemitism is anti-Zionism”, Cal State LA President: Students Who Took Over Building No Longer Welcome on Campus, Zero Progress Made On Biden’s $42.5 Billion Rural High Speed Internet Project, Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to Teach Public Policy at U. Michigan This Fall, and Chemicals From East Palestine Train Derailment Reached 16 States
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Way We Were and Will Be Again
Outkick: Tennessee Will Play For National Championship At College World Series, Still Getting Pounded: Mystics Player Hacks Caitlin Clark, Fever Star Cries ‘Foul’, Rising WNBA Star Cameron Brink Out For Year With ACL Injury, On The Night Willie Mays Passed Away, It Was Fitting That Baseball Was Being Played At Rickwood Field, Bill Belichick Scored His 24-Year-Old Girlfriend With The Ultimate Pickup Line, and Orioles’ Gunnar Henderson Nailed By Pitch As Yankees Seek Revenge For Aaron Judge Injury
Power Line: From the quiver to the glee, Willie Mays, RIP, and A Cultural Stereotype Comes to Life
Protein Wisdom Reborn:
Shark Tank: Gaetz & Massie Introduce Bill Removing Tips From Taxable Income
Shot In The Dark: Seed Corn, If You Build It They Will Come, and Pre-Emptive
This Ain’t Hell: Yet another Biden non-biologist, Army Vet Willy Mays dead at 93, and Natl Guard Chief says NG troops defending border is a waste of time
Transterrestrial Musings: J. D. Vance, A Question From Bill Maher, Joe Biden, We’re All Soviets Now, Antony Blinken, and The Fauci Covid Conspiracy
Victory Girls: Just Stop Oil Desecrates Stonehenge
Volokh Conspiracy: “Indian National” Extradited “in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Citizen” for Citizen’s Sikh Separatist Advocacy
Watts Up With That: Con Edison Launches Campaign To Deflect Blame For The Coming Energy Disaster, Senate Passes Major Pro-Nuclear Bill, Sends To Biden’s Desk, and Climate Activists Are Wrong About Which Energy Source Reduces Air Pollution
The Federalist: Google’s Censorship Machine Targets PragerU — Again, Scientist Who Pushed To Discredit Lab Leak Theory Received Millions In NIH Grants, Democrat Fixer Marc Elias’ Firm Steps In To Stop ‘Disastrous Election System’ Fix, Biden’s Meddling DOJ Targets Alabama’s Ban On Ballot Trafficking, Dallas School District Wants Parents Sent To The Principal’s Office When Their Kids Are Naughty, Bizarre NYT Op-Ed Says It ‘May Not Be Enough’ For Supreme Court To Decide Cases, Dems Claim They Aren’t Importing An Electorate, But These 5 Examples Indicate Otherwise, and San Francisco’s London Breed Thinks The Mayor’s Top Job Is Naming Drag Queens
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Nine Lives, also, Pride Before the Fall

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The Warning From Sweden

Posted on | June 19, 2024 | 3 Comments

Sweden has a population of about 10.5 million, or about the same as the state of North Carolina. Twenty years ago, you had to seek out “far right” sources (which, of course, I did) to learn anything about the problems caused by immigration in Sweden. Many of the atrocity tales came from the city of Malmö which, for some reason, was a magnet for Third World immigration and Malmö became notorious as a “no-go zone” ruled by violent foreign gangs. After the surge of migrants circa 2015, however, a taboo topic that was once relegated to obscure right-wing blogs has recently become the subject of mainstream journalism:

“Everyone feels at risk,” declared Charlie Duxbury of the neo-liberal POLITICO website [in October 2023], as he reported that a fourth bombing had occurred in his area of Stockholm since the start of the year. In total, there have been at least 134 bombings across Sweden in 2023, compared to 90 for the entirety of last year. Meanwhile, there have been 289 shootings since the start of the year, following 391 in 2022. . . .
The scale of immigration to the country, which soared in the wake of the 2015 European Migrant Crisis, has meant that now at least one-fifth of Sweden’s population are foreigners.

After a string of bombings this February, Breitbart reported:

Since the police began keeping such statistics in 2018, there have been at least 650 recorded bombings in Sweden.

In terms of gun violence, Sweden has become the Chicago of Europe, so to speak: “Twenty years ago, crimes involving firearms were almost non-existent [in Sweden]. Yet in 2022 the gun murder rate in capital Stockholm was around 25 times higher than in London.” How much has migration transformed Sweden? Among its vastly expanded foreign population, Sweden in 2022 had about 150,000 immigrants from just three African countries — Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia:

“People from Somalia made up the largest group of foreign-born citizens from Africa living in Sweden in 2022, with nearly 70,000 people. Eritreans and Ethiopians made up the second and third largest group, respectively, meaning that a high number of the foreign-born born population from African countries come from the Horn of Africa. This is a region characterized by famines, terrorism, and authoritarian rule over the past decades, resulting in a high number of refugees.”

This is to say nothing at all of the many thousands from Sudan (8,372), Nigeria (8,272), Congo (6,684), Gambia (5,940), Uganda (5,781), Kenya (5,419), etc., and never mind the Turks, Iranians, Afghans, etc.

The political impact has been profound, as Stefan Hedlund, a professor at Sweden’s Uppsala University, wrote in February:

There was a time when Sweden was looked upon by American liberals as an inspirational example of the Scandinavian welfare state. . . .
Present-day Sweden carries the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of gangland killings in Europe. It boasts the lowest average age of serious offenders, with children in their low teens being arrested for murder. Increasing segments of suburbs are officially classified as “especially vulnerable areas,” where it is “hard, bordering on impossible” for the police to operate. In layman’s terms, these are no-go zones, where local clans rule and where first responders will not enter without flak jackets and police escort.
An early warning was provided in 2017 when United States President Donald Trump made a quip about rioting in Sweden: “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this!” Who indeed? At the time, such comments were met with disdain and ridicule. Today, it is not so funny anymore.
Sweden has transitioned from being a model of inspiration to becoming a warning example. As gangland violence is spreading across borders, its Scandinavian neighbors experience growing fears of ending up in what is known in Denmark as the “Swedish condition.”
Defying an old taboo, the Swedish government has called on the military to assist the police. . . .
While the deterioration in physical security is causing Swedish nationals with entrepreneurial skills to leave the country, it is also becoming increasingly difficult for industry to recruit high-level talent from abroad. These problems are amplified by a deterioration in the quality of education that has resulted from increasing ethnic disorder and outright violence in schools. . . .
The main cause of the crisis is a combination of an open-door migration policy with no accompanying policy to help the newcomers integrate. The consequence has been the emergence of neighborhoods where almost all residents are immigrants, where unemployment rates are very high and where the children of immigrants go to schools where no other children, often not even teachers, are proficient in Swedish. This has served as an incubator for crime, as gangs take over where society fails. . . .
Out of a population of 10.61 million in 2022, a total of 2.14 million were registered as foreign-born, more than double the number in 2000. That comes to just over 20 percent. If a broader definition is used, to include those who are born in Sweden with two foreign-born parents, the number rises to 26 percent. . . .
The reason why the problem has been allowed to get out of control is that so many representatives of the media and of the political establishment have for so long been cocooned in naive views of criminal dangers, leading to extremely lax legislation and enforcement, and of dangerous strains of Islamism, leading to a profound inability to scale up defenses against the current wave of radicalization. Those chickens are now coming home to roost. . . .

Sweden’s once left-wing government is now controlled by a center-right coalition with the support of the far-right Sweden Democrats party, which got 20.5% of the vote in the 2022 parliamentary elections. In order to appease (and possibly co-opt) the Sweden Democrats, the governing coalition has begun taking measures to crack down on crime and discourage further immigration, to the dismay of Sweden’s elite.

“The Sweden as we know it is dying,” Karlstad University Professor Tobias Hübinette said last year, lamenting the evaporation of his country’s left-wing policy traditions, and blaming Swedes for seeking to avoid the dangerous foreigners: “Sweden is perhaps more segregated than any other country in Europe. In cities like Göteborg, Malmo and Stockholm, everybody sees it: the white Swedish population does not live in the same area as the immigrants.” Segregation in Sweden?

Theodore Bilbo could not be reached for comment.

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In The Mailbox: 06.18.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 19, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.18.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Azur Lane’s Atago in her wedding dress. Pretty cute for a heavy cruiser, no?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Self-Defense Might Be Legal In California After All
EBL: Washington Post Newsroom Mutiny, Battle of Waterloo, and European Sports Hooliganism
Twitchy: Second Whistleblower Exposes Texas Childrens’ Hospital – Guess Who Came A-Knocking? Cringeworthy Kamala Harris “Pride” Post Gets The Treatment It Deserves, and Maddow & Behar Worry About The View Being Canceled If Trump Wins
Louder With Crowder: Squad member Cori Bush claims God totally gave her powers to cure cancer, treat tumors by performing miracles, also, Special K spreads a STUNNING amount of misinformation in defense of Joe Biden being a senile old coot
Vox Popoli: Believing Their Own Word-Magic, Biden #5, Green Flag Confirmed, Another Reason to Subscribe, and Why Putin Waits
Stoic Observations: Fight The Youth
Postcards From Barsoom: If You Want To Afford A Home, They Have To Go Home

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Don’t tell jokes to women
American Conservative: The Democrats Cannot Afford to Lose in November
American Greatness: Peace Through Strength: The Stark Contrast Between Trump and Biden, The Brutally Unjust Woodrow Wilson, and How Left-wing Conspiracies Work
American Thinker: Summer Surprise: The Looming Biden Replacement
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Walkable Communities News
Babalu Blog: Young Cubans fleeing the Communist Party in droves, Yum! Cuban cook finds frog in her ground meat, ‘The Revolution is over and the government knows it’, and As Cuba’s Oropouche and Dengue epidemic worsens, funeral home in Santiago is overwhelmed with corpses
BattleSwarm: Wimpy Woke WaPo Workers Walloped With Weality, Israel Gets Medieval On Hezbollah’s Ass, Another Democratic Candidate Arrested For Faking Hate Crimes Against Himself, and California Jewelry Store Looted In Broad Daylight
Behind The Black: German rocket startup looking for alternatives to Saxaford spaceport, The insane mountain slopes of Mars’ deep canyons, Massive Martian landslides, Starliner return delayed again to June 26th, Once again, the first known binary of two supermassive black holes flares as predicted, and Just remember: These obnoxious disturbers of the peace are all Democrats
Cafe Hayek: More Wisdom from Daniel Hannan on Trade, On Importing ‘Optimally’, Competition, Not Coddling, Makes One Competitive, On the Challenges Facing Free Traders, and Free Trade Is A Moral Imperative
CDR Salamander: What’s Wrong With History?
Chicago Boyz: Family Ties, also, On Rustication
Da Tech Guy: Ukraine: Not My Call, Not Yours Either, Chicago’s Summer of Misery, The Celtics Remind us Why Brady is as good as Russell or Berra, Five Celtics Championship Thoughts Under the Fedora, and Who’s bankrolling anti-Israel demos?
Dana Loesch: Veepstakes – Here’s Who Trump Shouldn’t Pick And Why,
Don Surber: Bump stock case more than the 2A
First Street Journal: Nooo, not anti-Semitism at all! Now it’s The New York Times’ turn to attack the publisher of The Washington Post, Once again, the hoitiest and the toitiest rally in favor of #Hamas, There’s only one way to win: Israel must stop worrying about the hostages #Hamas hold, and If the public schools were performing well, there’d be no push for helping people to use private schools
Gates Of Vienna: Debunking the Prebunkers, Knives Join the Garden Party in Wolmirstedt, Graduating From Knives to Axes, “Rape is Resistance”, Five Years On, and A Devout Muslim is an Extremist
The Geller Report: Jihad Joe Biden Regime Shells Out $400,000,000 More to Jihad Terrorists in Israel, also, Hamas Terror group launches pro-‘Palestinian resistance’ youth camp that glorifies Hamas terrorism and Jew-hatred at McGill University
Hollywood In Toto: We Need Sublime Now More Than Ever, How The Chosen and Truman Show Oddly Overlap, Why That DailyWire+, Angel Studios Partnership Matters, Doctor Who’s Alex Kingston Calls Cancel Culture ‘Fascistic’, and Michael Mann’s Collateral Still Hits Hard 20 Years Later
The Lid: They Criticized the Entebbe Rescue, Too, Republicans Slam Democrats for Defense Bill Requiring Women to Register for the Draft, Nearly Half of Voters Say Joe Biden Mentally Unfit for Office, and Stores Pulling Back on ‘Pride” Exhibitions This Year
Legal Insurrection: Federal Court Says USDA Disaster Relief Program Can’t Discriminate Against White Farmers, FREEZE! Mainstream Media Insists You Not Believe Your Eyes, Arrest Made In Multiple “Intifada” Anti-Israel Arson at UC-Berkeley, Biden Signs Another Useless Border Executive Order as Illegal Alien Arrested for Rape of NYC Teen Girl, and Netanyahu Reveals Biden Admin Has Been Holding Back Weapons Shipments, Says Blinken Promised To Free Up Flow
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Sunday Post, Thoughts on the Situation, and All that
Outkick: Loss Of A Legend: Baseball Great Willie Mays Dies At 93-Years-Old, Joe Mazzulla Shows Off ‘But First Let Me Thank God’ Shirt Moments After Coaching Celtics To Title, Nike Can’t Stop Ruining MLB Uniforms, Colorado Players Laugh Off Report Of Deion Sanders Forcing Them To Attend Lil Wayne Concert Featuring Shedeur, Buffalo Bills Announce Sponsorship For Gay Flag Football Chapter, and NBA Not Concerned With Terrible Ratings?
Power Line: Guest Column: No Horse Sense at the Pentagon, Joe Biden Options: Senile Dolt, Evil Genius, or Double-Agent, The Daily Chart: The ‘Far Right’ in France, and We Can’t Have an Election, We’re Democrats!
Shark Tank: Scott & Rubio Demand Hearings On Terrorists At The Border
Shot In The Dark: Supreme, Campaign Ad? Love The Art – Ignore The Artist, Minoritarian, and ERMAHGEEERD!
STUMP: Why Would The Republicans Be Tempted To Bail Out Public Pensions?
The Political Hat: Alfred the Gay
This Ain’t Hell: Kamala Harris proposes $25,000 down and $400 monthly towards mortgage, New Gaza Support Group, House Bill calls for automatic registration of men 18-26, for the draft, Robert E. Wilson Jr – Official Military Records, Vice Admiral Chebi, “I Bet Your Life.”, and David Seelye – LCpl vs. Sgt and No Combat Action Ribbon from Beirut
Transterrestrial Musings: The “Far Right”, The Death Of Star Wars, Congratulations To All The Dads, A Saturday Musical Interlude, and Learning To Slow Down Time
Victory Girls: Trooping the Color – Catherine, Princess of Wales Radiant, Biden And The Black Vote, and “Disturbing” Lack Of Arrests After Violent White House Protests
Volokh Conspiracy: A Frightening View of Free Speech and Academic Freedom at Harvard, also, Wealth Taxes are Direct Taxes that are Subject to the Rule of Apportionment
Watts Up With That: Fossil Fuels Remain The Future – VW To Invest 60 Billion Euros In Combustion Engines, Blue State Dems Throw Wrench in Plan to Extend Life of Zero Emission Power Plant , Nigel Farage on Net Zero: “The Whole Thing is about Charging Us More Money”, Climate Alarmism is the existential threat to humanity, and Floating Wind Madness in Maine
The Federalist: Indiana Republicans Snub The Establishment In Lieutenant Governor Race, Biden’s Egregious Title IX Rewrite Blocked By Six More States, VA Bonus Scandal Presents A Rare Case Of Government Fixing A Problem It Created, Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: CNN’s ‘Tools’ For A ‘Civilized’ Debate, American Bar Association Requiring All Law Schools To Push DEI, Displacing Constitutional Law, Biden’s Intelligence Agencies Lead Fingernail-Painting Sessions For ‘Pride Month’, and Comedian Larry Wilmore Tells Bill Maher That Biden’s Morehouse Speech Was ‘Condescending’
Mark Steyn: A Bad Place for Bad Men: Jimmy Stewart in The Naked Spur, Trial and Tribulation, Kings and Vagabonds (and Boutonnieres), The Party’s Over/Just In Time, and “Regulating” the Will of the People

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In The Mailbox: 06.18.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 18, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.18.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yesterday was eaten by baseball and snakes.
The Summer Based Book Sale starts tomorrow.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

I like our Atago better than the old one.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Lies, Damn Lies, & FBI Crime Statistics
EBL: Rachel Morin, RIP: Murdered by Illegal Alien From El Salvador, Sweden Ultra Violent Gang Land, and Ashley Biden Wishes Joe Biden A Happy Father’s Day
Twitchy: The Gaslight Is Strong With This One, Trans Activist Who Flashed Fake Boobs At White House Charged With Sexual Assault, and Axios Looks At How Biden’s Historic Presidency Has Doubled As A Family Tragedy
Louder With Crowder: Chuck Schumer’s “BBQ” tweet was such a pandering disaster, his staff had to delete it, also, WH attacks conservatives, claims new video of senile-looking Biden being led off stage by Obama isn’t what it looks like
Vox Popoli: She’s Not Dead After All, Time is on Xi’s Side, The Anonymity of the Innovator, We Got the Look, and Gearing Up for War
Postcards From Barsoom: Draft Our Sons, Draft Our Daughters, Draft Our Migrants
Upstream Reviews: Rock & Roll Ninja
Defending The Wood Perilous: China Posts
Gab: Why Are Republicans Destroying The 1st Amendment, And Why Is No-one Talking About It?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: While We Quibble & Fool, The PRC Builds
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Cargill Victory Edition, also, Special K Calls Videos Of Struggling Biden “Deep Fakes”
Don Surber: TDS becomes unprofitable
Glenn Reynolds: Some Father’s Day Thoughts
STUMP: Happy Father’s Day! Some Classic Posts Over The Years, Bad Metrics Lead To Bad Results,

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Two Innocent Bystanders Killed in Mass Shooting at Texas ‘Juneteenth’ Celebration

Posted on | June 17, 2024 | Comments Off on Two Innocent Bystanders Killed in Mass Shooting at Texas ‘Juneteenth’ Celebration

Lyndsey Vicknair (left) and Ara Duke (right)

An early celebration of the newest federal holiday:

The Round Rock Police Department has identified the two people killed in a shooting at the city’s Juneteenth celebration on Saturday night as 33-year-old Lyndsey Vicknair from Manor and 54-year-old Ara Duke from Pflugerville.
Neither victim was involved in the altercation that led to the shooting, police said.
The incident occurred around 10:50 p.m. at Old Settlers Park after a fight broke out between two groups during the annual festival. In addition to the two fatalities, 14 people were injured in the shooting. . . .
Round Rock detectives are currently interviewing witnesses, analyzing evidence, and pursuing leads in the ongoing investigation. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects involved.

Everybody knows Texas is controlled by Republicans. Probably some of those “far right” extremists committed this atrocity, right? The shooter was a racist Trump voter wearing a MAGA hat, right?

Police in an Austin, Texas suburb have released a suspect’s description following a mass shooting at a Juneteenth celebration over the weekend.
Two people were killed, and 14 others were wounded at about 10:50 p.m. Saturday in Round Rock, police said. A search is on for a man described as a Black male with a thin build, approximately 5 feet, 7 inches tall with short dreadlocks. He was wearing a white hoodie at the time of the incident.
The suspect is 19 to 20 years old and should be considered armed and dangerous . . .

Jussie Smollett could not be reached for comment.

“The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints.”
? Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) June 16, 2024

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Rule 5 Sunday: Just What It Says On Her Label

Posted on | June 17, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

H/T to Rule5Texan on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Unimaginable Inevitable Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Paige Spiranac Flag Day, MAGA – Biden v. 2nd Amendment, Lily Muni He, “You’re A Grand Old Flag”, Fake Woman “Lia” Thomas Banned From Olympics, Francoise Hardy RIP, Sonny & Cher On American Bandstand, Louise Bourgoin, The Fall of Troy, Moviepass Moviecrash, Roberta Flack, Russia v. Ukraine, and Gauguin In Tahiti

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Zienna Sonne, Happy Flag Day!, Fish Pic Friday – The Coffey Girls, Thursday Tanlines, The Long Dusty Road, Some Wednesday Wetness, Judgement (& Punishment), The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for June 14

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: No Surrender

Posted on | June 16, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another good week for my Senators – we split a two-game series with the Red Sox and then took two out of three from the O’s. This puts us at 37-42, 13.5 behind Pete’s Braves and three games behind the third-place Twins. I have no idea where this puts us in the race for the wild-card slot, and I’m not even worrying about it. Just want to get up to .500 for the year.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.