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‘An Earth-Shattering Kaboom’: Israel Wipes Out Top Iranian Military Leaders UPDATE: ‘Decapitation Strike’ — List

Posted on | June 13, 2025 | 5 Comments

Wednesday I spoke to a colleague who said to me in a very matter-of-fact way that Iran was going to get hit soon. He isn’t some kind of security-clearance type, but he does have a few “sources close to the Trump administration,” as an Objective Journalist would say, and I don’t know how he knew it, but he was certainly correct. It has been pointed out that, on April 12, Trump said Iran had 60 days to reach an agreement on ending its nuclear weapons program, and today? Yeah — Day 61.

Anyway, this is YUGE:

Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) confirmed in the early hours of Friday morning local time that Israeli airstrikes on targets in the country eliminated Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Other arms of Iran’s state news apparatus confirmed several other high-profile regime members, including two nuclear scientists, were killed in the strikes. While unverified reports suggested that Salami may be far from the only high-ranking Iranian regime official to have been targeted successfully in the operation, he is the only one whose death the Iranian government has confirmed at press time.
Salami has sustained a place as one of the most prominent and belligerent senior leaders in the Iranian Islamist regime, regularly threatening attacks on America and Israel. In what was perhaps his final public appearance on Thursday, Salami declared that his forces were “war-tested and experienced,” prepared for war against its enemies.
The IRGC is both a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and a formal wing of the Iranian Armed Forces. Among its chief operations is to sustain relations between the Iranian terror state and its jihadist proxies, such as the Houthis in Yemen and Lebanese Hezbollah, and with fellow rogue states such as Venezuela and Cuba.
IRNA confirmed Salami’s death in a brief message that offered no details on the occurrence. It confirmed that Salami died in Tehran and claimed him a victim of “assassination.” In a separate report, the state news outlet confirmed a barrage of airstrikes over the capital city by the Israeli Air Force.
Another Iranian state media outlet, PressTV, reported early Friday that the strikes had “martyred … several other senior IRGC commanders and nuclear scientists.
“Veteran nuclear scientists Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoon Abbasi have also been martyred in the attack,” PressTV reported . . .

The list of targets eliminated already is very long — nuclear sites and missile sites among them — and Israel’s attacks are continuing.

UPDATE: Known kills so far:

  • IRGC Chief-of-Staff Hossein Salami
  • IRGC General Gholamali Rashid
  • Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri
  • Ali Shamkhani, Senior Advisor to Khamenei

And these nuclear scientists:

  • Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi
  • Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi
  • Dr. Abdolhamid Minouchehr
  • Dr. Ahmad Reza Zolfajari

Various sites associated with Iran’s nuclear and missile programs were also hit and, as I say, the Israeli strikes are continuing — it’s almost 10 a.m. in Iran now — so we can expect this list to grow.

UPDATE II: Associated Press (1:44 a.m. ET):

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and killed at least two top military officers, raising the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq.
The strikes came amid simmering tensions over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program and appeared certain to trigger a reprisal, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning that “severe punishment” would be directed at Israel. Israel said Iran had launched drones in an initial response.
Multiple sites around the country were hit, including Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility, where black smoke could be seen rising into the air.
The leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami, was confirmed dead, Iranian state television reported, a development that is a significant blow to Tehran’s governing theocracy and an immediate escalation of its long-simmering conflict with Israel.
The chief of staff of Iranian armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, was also confirmed dead by Iranian state television. Other top military officials and scientists were believed to have been killed. . . .
Some 200 Israeli aircraft took part in the opertion, hitting about 100 targets, Israeli army chief spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said, adding that the attacks were ongoing.
In the aftermath, Defrin said Iran had launched more than 100 drones toward Israel and that “all the defense systems are acting to intercept the threats.”



 

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In The Mailbox: 06.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 12, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)

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I guess Sabrina Carpenter has a new album out and it’s reminding a lot of people of a Spinal Tap album. I thought it owed more to the Scorpions, myself.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Long Live the V8”, also Good Guy With a Gun Stops a Bad Guy with a Knife
EBL: Stick
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Wrecks Jake Tapper For Refusing To Testify About Biden Senility Claims, TikToker Exposes “No Kings Day” For Paying Influencers $200/Day To Support Riots, and Rep. Elise Stefanik Makes NY Gov. Hochul Face Tragic Effects Of Sanctuary Policies
Louder With Crowder: Mexican official calls for Mexico to take to TAKE BACK all the land America has conquered, Gavin Newsom fake cries through a “national address” blaming Trump for the riots, Criminal Alien Charged with Attempted Murder After Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Police During LA Riots, Typical white liberal protesters mock a black woman as they block her from going to work, and “La manifestante muy grande” calls on LA rioters to bring leaf blowers, tells Trump to suck her left… wait, what?
Vox Popoli: The Next Domino Falls, The Expansion of Human History, Vampires Hardest Hit, AI is Killing College, and Marching Orders
Cedar Sanderson: For The Fathers
Jim McCoy: Message For The Devil
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Popular Misconceptions

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Israeli Navy Strikes Yemen From The Sea
Don Surber: X Is Winning On The LA Story
Matt Taibbi: Activism, Uncensored – The LA Riots
Shark Tank: Poll Shows Byron Daniels With Comfortable Lead Over David Jolly In FL Governor Race
Shot In The Dark: Like Dunkirk Only With Robots
STUMP: Public Pensions April Update – Assets Edition

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In The Mailbox: 06.10.25

Posted on | June 11, 2025 | 1 Comment

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There’s a new Starquest Kickstarter!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Civil Unrest Inc. 
EBL: Last Breath, Sly Stone RIP, and ABC News’ Terry Moran: You’re Fired
Twitchy:  Legacy Media Rolling Out Cheap Fakes 2.0, Gov. Hairgel On Verge Of Tears Pushing Back Against Trump Not Rioters, and Watch A Rioter Throwing Fireworks At Cops Allegedly Catch A Rubber Bullet In The Face
Louder With Crowder: Speaker Mike Johnson’s eye roll when asked about crazy Maxine Waters says it all, Anti-ICE protester melts down over simple question asked by cop, LA anti-ICE rioters realize the lack of American flags is bad optics, Based TikToker goes on brilliant rant why he SUPPORTS the anti-ICE protests, and Los Angeles Riots Push Donald Trump to the Edge of the Insurrection Act
Vox Popoli: A Coming Catastrophe, The Collapse of Scientific Materialism, America is Gone, The Dissolution Proceeds, and Peaceful Protests in LA
Toni Airaksinen: Arabic Prof On Leave Claims “I am Hamas. We are all Hamas.”
Postcards From Barsoom: The Class of 2026
Gopher Wood Lounge: What is Incensepunk? With D.J. Butler
Jim McCoy: Tentacles of the Dominion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Hero With a Thousand Pages
American Greatness: Al-Qaeda Leader Urges Followers to Assassinate Trump And Others Over Gaza War, Rep. Darrell Issa Seeks Answers to LAPD’s Delayed Response to Besieged ICE Officers, Harvard Cries Foul Over $3 Billion Grant Cut—But Guess Who Funded It in the First Place? California Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment in Los Angeles, and Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?
American Thinker: The LA Riots Prove that Democrats Need Illegals, also, Of Course It’s Legal: The National Guard Is Doing Its Job—Because Gavin Newsom Wouldn’t
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Insurrection News
BattleSwarm: Soros Tries To Buy Texas Again
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites, Scientists increase the odds asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact the Moon in 2032, Blue Origin again delays 2nd launch of New Glenn, Mexican officials demand investigation into Starship/Superheavy debris on its beaches, and Trump eliminates restrictions against supersonic flights over the U.S.
Cafe Hayek: Predatory Pricing Is A Foolish Strategy
CDR Salamander: What Happened To Command Accountability & Responsibility?
Chicago Boyz: An Interesting Parallel
Da Tech Guy: Same Old Democrat Song and Dance on Obeying Federal Law: 1861, 1957, 2025
Dana Loesch: Tuesday Night Thoughts
Don Surber: Why are Democrats choosing war?
First Street Journal: The only good immigrant is a legal immigrant
Gates Of Vienna: The Rectification of Names, also, There’s No Political Solution
The Geller Report: ‘Palestinian’ Authority Top Dog Abbas Praises October 7 massacre Ahead of Pro-‘Palestinian’ Summit, Jihadi Jew-Hating NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Defends Boycotting Israel, Vows to Arrest Netanyahu At Synagogue Event, and Trump Holds Phone Call With Netanyahu to Discuss Iran’s Jihad Nukes
Hollywood In Toto: Raunchy Tires Finds the Funny in Season 2, Colbert Minimizes L.A. Riots in Cringe-Worthy Fashion, and Jason Bateman: Trump Supporters ‘Need a Talking To’
The Lid: Don’t Look Now, But Trump Is Winning Most of the Court Cases Brought Against Him
Legal Insurrection: Researchers Create Mosquito STD to Combat Malaria, Effective Against Insecticide-Resistant Bugs, 2020 DIA Assessment Pointed to Lab Leak from Wuhan Institute of Virology, CNN Analyst Says No Group Has Flipped Harder Right on Immigration Than Legal Immigrants, Democrats Planning Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Anti-Trump Protests This Weekend, and Notice Anything Different About the LA Riots on Monday?
Matt Taibbi: The “Mostly Peaceful” Revolution
Outkick: Riley Gaines Accepts Simone Biles’ Apology, Hey USA Soccer, This Is An Absolute Joke, Shohei Ohtani Might Be Back On The Mound Sooner Than Expected, Oilers Defenseman Jake Walman Slapped With Fines For His Part In Penalty-Filled Game 3, and Gigi Paris Has A Bone To Pick With Sydney Sweeney & Tyrese Haliburton’s Girlfriend Gets Feisty
Power Line: The Nullification Crisis of 2025, Riots boost Trump, and The Europeans Get Serious
Shark Tank: Debbie Mayfield Seeks Return To FL Senate In SD-19
Shot In The Dark: Red Zone
The Political Hat: Wokeness vs. Classical Liberalism
This Ain’t Hell: Epstein and Trump, Send in the Marines, and California governor dares Trump official to arrest him – Cries foul when Trump called for it
Victory Girls: Senator John Fetterman Tells Democrats LA Riots Are “Anarchy And True Chaos”
Watts Up With That: We Need a ‘Kill Switch’ on Foreign Powers Tampering With Our Electric Grid, Empty Seats and Hurricane Histrionics, DOT asked to terminate illegal floating wind grant, and Sunnova Declares Bankruptcy
The Federalist: Mexico Is Complicit In The L.A. Riots, And There Should Be Consequences, NYT ‘Disinformation’ Experts Blame Online Conservatives, Not Rioters, For LA Riots, New Election 2024 Report Raises ‘Serious Questions About The Health Of Michigan’s Elections’, Today In Republicans Being Useless – Josh Hawley Pushes Failed Left-Wing Economics, and Left’s War On Law And Order Shows Where Its True Sympathies Lie
Mark Steyn: Who We Are, Here and There

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In The Mailbox: 06.09.25

Posted on | June 10, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Dear Kash Patel…,Top 20 Scenes From The Democrat Insurrection In LA, 
357 Magnum: Citigroup Drops Anti 2nd Amendment Policy
EBL: LA Leftists Riot, Bridget Fonda, Pentecost Sunday, ‘Bold Nelson’s Praise’ , and Secretariat
Twitchy: White House Dropped A Video That Puts a Mushroom Cloud Over “Peaceful Protest” BS, Pickup Truck Seen Delivering Pricy Riot Masks To LA Rioters, and Cynical Publius’ Ten Keys To Understanding The LA Riots
Louder With Crowder: ABC News dismisses the LA riots because it’s just a “bunch of people having fun watching cars burn”, As LA burns (again) over illegals, Donald Trump drops a banger quote on bringing law and order, whether CA likes it ot not, Boston’s woke mayor just compared immigration inforcement to neo-Nazis, NAACP announces special award to any school board member who defies Donald Trump’s executive orders, and Media claims it’s a catastrophe that illegals are being deported from Martha’s Vineyard, thinks we forgot two years ago
Vox Popoli: World Health = Converged Population, The Irrelevance of the US Navy, AI Estimate for US Breakup, The Vessel of Dreams, and Hell No, They Won’t Go
Upstream Reviews: Rock & Roll Mercenaries, also, Need Something To Watch This Summer?
Cedar Sanderson: The Luddites Are Winning, also, Rules For Hot Humid & Thirsty
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Hmph, You Get The Behavior You Tolerate, and Needs Must Drive
Toni Airaksinen: ER Doctor Says “Don’t Let Zionists Into Hospitals & Professional Groups”
Stoic Observations: Still Squinty

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Are Musk, Paul, and Massie More MAGA Than MAGA?
American Greatness: RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel, DHS Tells California Dems to ‘Call Off Their Rioting Mob’ After Weekend of Violent Anti-ICE Chaos in LA, L.A. Protests Stretch Into Third Night After Chaotic Sunday, Gavin Newsom and His Cruel Notion of ‘Cruel’, and We Need a ‘Kill Switch’ on Foreign Powers Tampering With Our Electric Grid
American Thinker: The Hard Truth about ‘L’Affaire Chauvin’, Politicians and Bankers Are Crooks, Anatomy of A(nother) Blood Libel, Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is a Boon to Working Americans — Not a Handout to the Wealthy, and Is Long COVID Actually Vaccine Injury?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Left Cranks Up Riot Season For Alien Felons, Russo-Ukrainian War Roundup For June 8, 2025, and Why No One Stopped Stalin
Behind The Black: The dusky mountains of Mars, Starlink approved for India, SpaceX launches 26 more Starlink satellites, Axiom charges $70 million per ticket to fly to ISS, and White House issues new orders to streamline federal broadband regulations
Cafe Hayek: Question for Fans of Tariffs and of Tariff Man, also, Exposing More of the Lame Excuses For Trump’s Protectionism
CDR Salamander: The Fictional Officer Corps From Hornblower To Stark, also, The Naval Academy History Department Is In A Spot Of Bother
Chicago Boyz: Another Road Trip, US Steel, LA Story, and Random Thoughts: LA Burning Edition
Dana Loesch: The Return Of “Maryland Man”, also, If Robots Turn On Us It’ll Be Because Of The Waymos
Don Surber: Fire & Ice
Elizabeth Nickson: Every City Should Be Dubai, also, Never Forget – Climate Change Was An Invention
First Street Journal: Bad causes attract bad people
Gates Of Vienna: The Perils of Being Visibly Jewish in France, Culture-Enriching Vehicular Assault in Passau, and Schwerin: A Violent Multicultural Playground
The Geller Report: California Governor, Los Angeles Mayor Encourage Anti-Law Enforcement Violence, Thousands of Terrorist Rioters Take Over LA Freeway, Stone Police, Cars Set on Fire, LA is a Hellscape, LEFTIST POLITICAL SLAUGHTER: “Right-Wing” Colombian Presidential Candidate Shot in the Head at Rally, Violent Jihad Terror Mobs Join Riots in LA, Attacking Police, Setting Wildfires, Feds Mobilize the National Guard, and LOS ANGELES WAR ZONE: Far Left Rioters Attack ICE With Hammers, Concrete Blocks in Brutal Takedown
Glenn Reynolds: More In My Life As A Caregiver
Hollywood In Toto: Kathy Griffin Claims Trump Stole the 2024 Election, Marc Maron Regrets Fueling Rise of Comedy Podcasts, More Signs of Sanity in Hollywood, and Is Amusement Park George A. Romero’s Creepiest Film?
The Lid: Polar Ice Caps Gain Unprecedented Amount of Ice: Greenies Hardest Hit
Legal Insurrection: Only 68 Building Permits Issued for Pacific Palisades After Wildfires Destroyed 6800 Structures, Minnesota Removes Adult Illegal Aliens From Taxpayer Funded Health Care After Democrat Admits She’s Illegal, Harris’s Statement on L.A. Riots Shows Why She Lost to Trump, George Soros Will Try Again to Turn Texas Blue, and Man Who Doxxed ICE Agents Exposed as Possible Convicted Felon
Outkick: LAFC Backs Violent Anti-ICE Rioters as Los Angeles Burns, Danica Patrick Tells Quitter Simone Biles To Go Where She Belongs, BIG Angels’ Nolan Schanuel Robbed Of Home Run After Ridiculous Denzel Clarke Catch, MAGA Bikini Congresswoman Gets Wet ‘N Wild, Kay Adams Sips Mojitos In A Two-Piece & Newscum Lets LA Burn!, and Dua Lipa’s Sister Rina Sets The Internet On Fire In Bikini Selfie With Singer
Power Line: How We Know the LA Riots Are Killing the Democrats, Minnesota Rep here illegally? and How Much Fun Can You Have?
Shark Tank: Rep. Luna Files Bill To Declare ANTIFA A Terrorist Organization
Shot In The Dark: Grand Strategy – A Primer
STUMP: Men’s Health Week 2025 – RIP Sly Stone
The Political Hat: Overreach Against The 1st Amendment
This Ain’t Hell: Grand Slam – USMC, Officer, Purple Heart, Service Dog, Anti-ICE protest erupted in Los Angeles as ICE conducted raids, The Epic Tale of Philip “Rear Admiral Fantasy” Larimer II, United Supremes. Three times, and President Trump looking at cutting federal funds for California
Transterrestrial Musings: What’s Happening In California
Victory Girls: Simone Biles Flips Out on Riley Gaines, also, Maxine Waters Is A “Cruel, Dishonorable Human”
Watts Up With That: Biden’s EPA hid comments from Dept. of Energy that undermined key part of EPA power plant rule, Seattle Times Climate Lab Misinforms about Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise, and Seattle Flooding, Who would have guessed it? Alaska’s Resource Potential – A Tale of Two Administrations, and Defund The National Academy of Sciences!
The Federalist: Andrew Cuomo Can Run For NYC Mayor Because Democrats Always Reward Failure, Illegal Aliens Violently Rioting in L.A. Is The Natural Consequence Of Democrat Rule, Financial Giant USAA Gets Downgraded After Debanking Trump Lawyer, Going Woke, Foreign-Born Reps Defending Anti-ICE Rioters Prove Founders Were Right To Be Wary Of Foreign Influence In Government, and Mexican President Threatened To ‘Mobilize’ Against U.S. Two Weeks Before L.A. Riots
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Drums of War, Pride and Fall, Driving and Nothingness: Yves Montand in The Wages of Fear, Farandoles and Seguidillas, and Ain’t Misbehavin’

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Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association 2.0: Illegal Immigrants Are the New Khmer Rouge or Something

Posted on | June 9, 2025 | 1 Comment

Dana Pico was thrashing Philadelphia Inquirer liberal columnist Will Bunch, who loves Kilmar Abrego Garcia more than he loves his own mother, and it got me thinking about the utterly reflexive nature of left-wing politics. Liberals see the world as a great dramatic conflict between the Forces of Evil (Republicans generally, and Donald Trump specifically) and the Innocent Victims of Oppression. This is the only explanation for why, after Democrats lost an election in which all polling showed the electorate tilting sharply right on the immigration issue, liberals have now embraced criminal foreigners as their beloved mascots.

Over there in their Bluesky echo chambers, liberals like Will Bunch are convinced they’re on “the right side of history,” and the fact that polls show a majority of voters support mass deportation of illegal immigrants — it was a crucial issue last November — doesn’t make a dent. They claim to be defending democracy, and yet when the president actually does what voters elected him to do, liberals scream “fascism.”

“War is peace,” “ignorance is strength,” democracy is fascism.

This kind of knee-jerk reaction could have devastating political consequences for Democrats, as NBC News observed in reporting on the recent human trafficking indictment of Abrego Garcia:

The apparent strength of the government’s case could reignite debate among Democrats about the risks of focusing on Abrego Garcia’s case. For weeks, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and other Democrats emphasized that their criticism targeted Trump’s decision to unilaterally deport Abrego Garcia without judicial oversight, not a defense of Abrego Garcia himself. . . .
Van Hollen defended his stance in a CNN interview. “You know, I will never apologize for defending the Constitution,” he said. “In fact, it’s the Trump administration and all his cronies who should apologize to the country for putting us through this unnecessary situation.”

Did you catch that? The Constitution is at stake, according to this eminent Democrat, because DHS made a paperwork error, loading the MS-13 gangster onto a deportation flight without taking notice of a judge’s 2019 grant of “protected” status for Abrego Garcia.

Anyone making a common-sense assessment would say, “So what?” It would probably be easy — although requiring a court hearing or two — to rescind the “protected” status, which appears to have been granted (a) entirely on the basis of Abrego Garcia’s assertion that he would be at risk of violence from rival gangs if he were returned to El Salvador and (b) without knowledge of his criminal activities in the United States. What is known now about Abrego Garcia was not known to the judge in 2019, and therefore Abrego Garcia’s “protected” status may be regarded as invalid, yet Chris Van Hollen seems to believe the entire Constitution depends upon this, and the lunatic Will Bunch is shouting “Free Kilmar” as if the wife-beating gang-banger were a heroic martyr.

Voters elected Donald Trump for a reason, and if Chris Van Hollen, Will Bunch or anyone else thinks they’re going to fool the electorate into sharing their sympathy for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they’re simply delusional. But we have often seen the Left enthralled by such delusions.

The Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association in 1978

Jan Myrdal, Marita Wikander, Gunnar Bergström and Hedvig Ekerwald were Swedish socialists who enthusiastically supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, a widespread sentiment in Sweden at the time:

The Indochinese revolutionary movements enjoyed widespread support in Swedish society, particularly among supporters of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh [in April 1975] and expelled its inhabitants, 15,000 Swedes greeted their victory by spontaneously celebrating in the center of Stockholm.

The arrival of Year Zero in Democratic Kampuchea was, as we now know, the beginning of one of the most murderous tyrannies in all human history. The best estimates are that Pol Pot’s communist regime killed about 1.5 million people, nearly 25% of the country’s population.

The first widely noticed account of the ongoing massacre in Cambodia was published by the Reader’s Digest in February 1977, and immediately sparked widespread controversy. The Left, having embraced the Communist regime in Cambodia, denounced the Reader’s Digest account as “propaganda.” To quote Wikipedia:

According to Joel Brinkley, “Khmer Rouge apologists [among Western academics] easily outnumbered those who believed a tragedy was under way.” . . .
[H]uman-rights activist David Hawk . . . claimed that the West was indifferent to the atrocities taking place in Cambodia due to “the influence of anti-war academics on the American left who obfuscated Khmer Rouge behavior, denigrated the post-1975 refugee reports, and denounced the journalists who got those stories.”

In the prevailing worldview of the intelligentsia, the Communists must be good, because America was bad. Therefore, reports about atrocities in Cambodia (based on accounts from those who had escaped) must be false or exaggerated. Such was the background of the August 1978 trip to Cambodia by Myrdal, Wikander, Bergström and Ekerwald as a delegation from the Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association (SKFA). They spent two weeks as guests of the Khmer Rouge, even having dinner with Pol Pot, and “returned to Sweden where they undertook a speaking tour and wrote articles in support of the Democratic Kampuchea regime.” Bergström expressed the belief that, under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia could become “a very special model for the third world … an ideal society with no oppressors.” And this, keep in mind, was a brutal regime that killed a higher percentage of their national population than any known dictatorship in all human history. Among the victims were Marita Wikander’s husband. She had married a Khmer Rouge diplomat, who returned to Cambodia in 1977. During the SKFA trip to Phnom Penh in 1978, she asked to see her husband. The request was denied. It wasn’t until years later that she learned he had been executed by the regime shortly after his return to Cambodia. Such an “ideal society“!

The analogy to current liberal politics is obvious enough. Viewing Trump as the Sum of All Evils, liberals reflexively attack any policy advocated by Trump. Therefore, if Trump wishes to deport criminal illegal aliens, liberals must defend criminal illegal aliens: “Free Kilmar!”

Yeah, now, about those so-called “peaceful protests” . . .



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Some Jeep Drivers Are Okay

Posted on | June 9, 2025 | 2 Comments

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This one at least looks good enough to be forgiven for the kind of crappy driving Jeep owners are prone to. Thanks to @kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Trump-Haters Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Egypt Only Sends Its Best, “We’ll Meet Again”, “The Longest Day”, MAGA Musk Thermonuclear Meme War, Alex Puccio, Kaya Scodelario, Love Theme From St. Elmo’s Fire, Gabrielle Cuccia Gets Fired, and Loretta Swit RIP

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Barvina, Maryland Has Crabs, Fish Pic Friday – The Beachcomber Queen, Gone Fishin’, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, RIP – Hot Lips Houlihan and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – It’s Hot, Let’s Swim

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The Thing That Never Happens Has Somehow Happened Once Again

Posted on | June 8, 2025 | Comments Off on The Thing That Never Happens Has Somehow Happened Once Again

All the experts have assured us that election fraud is impossible. No election is ever “rigged” or “stolen” in America, and anyone who says otherwise is emphatically denounced as a crypto-fascist threat to Democracy. Meanwhile, in south Georgia . . .

The mayor of a small southwest Georgia city and two former election officials are now free on bond after being indicted on multiple counts of election interference and conspiring to shut down a special election in November.
Camilla Mayor Kelvin Owens has been released on a bond of $6,000; City Clerk Cheryl Ford is free on a $10,000 bond; and former Election Superintendent Rhunette Williford posted a $7,000 bond, an official from the Mitchell County (Ga.) Sheriff’s Office told The Federalist Monday afternoon. The public officers face a combined 13 counts, including felony election interference charges, after being indicted by a Mitchell County grand jury last Wednesday.
The scandal, stemming from the attempted cancelation of a special city council election in which Owens’ political ally was disqualified from running has stunned the community of 5,000 people, located about 60 miles north of Tallahassee. Only the special election, held on Election Day, was interrupted; the Nov. 5 general election, including the presidential election, went on unmolested.
Owens, who is black, has blamed racial politics for the legal scuffles that led to the misconduct allegations. So have black community members and activists who see “systemic voter suppression” in the indictments. . . .

You can read the rest of that at The Federalist, and I wish to commend their senior elections correspondent Matt Kittle for attempting to make sense of this story, which still makes no sense at all. When I saw the first Associated Press version of the story last weekend, I immediately texted my friend Dianna Deeley, who lives in Valdosta, about 70 miles east of Camilla: “What the heck is going on in Camilla?”

Just a few choice bits from that AP story:

Chaos roiled special elections for a pair of city council seats in Camilla last November amid a long-running legal battle over local politics in the town, a farming community of about 5,000 people in rural southwest Georgia.
The case revolved around Venterra Pollard, a city council member removed from office last summer after a judge ruled he wasn’t a Camilla resident. Pollard ran to regain the position in the fall special election. Another judge ordered Pollard disqualified and ruled that votes for him should be discarded. In addition, the city was ordered to post signs saying votes for Pollard wouldn’t be counted.
On Nov. 4, the day before Election Day, both Williford and Ford quit as the city’s two top elections officials. Their joint resignation letter blamed “mental duress, stress and coercion experienced by recent court decisions regarding our role in elections.” . . .
The Georgia NAACP said in a statement on Facebook that it was “deeply alarmed” by the allegations of election interference as well as the arrests of Owens and the two former election officials, all of whom are Black.
“We were shocked that there were indictments,” said Gerald Griggs, president of the Georgia NAACP. “We are still in a fact-finding mode to see what actually happened.”

All this uproar, including a lawsuit that was appealed all the way to the state Supreme Court, over a city council seat in a podunk town? I was as confused as Joe Biden in a national security briefing, and so I’ve spent hours digging into this story over the past few days. Pour another cup of coffee and grab a seat, folks, because it’s a long story.

Mitchell County, Georgia, may not be exactly in the middle of nowhere, but it’s not far away from it. The whole county’s population is 27,755. Pecans are a major crop in southwest Georgia, and driving through the region you’ll see many beautiful groves of pecan trees. Other agricultural products include soybeans, peanuts, cotton and cattle, and my brother Kirby — a truck driver who did a lot of hauling in our native Georgia — informs me that there’s also lots of tomato farming down that way.

There are two high schools in the county, Pelham High and Mitchell County High, each of which has fewer than 400 students. Folks live and die for football in Georgia, and the Mitchell County Eagles had an outstanding season last year, going 8-2 and qualifying for the state playoffs, where they beat Hancock Central 47-12 in the first round before falling to Lincoln County, 49-7, in the second round, to finish with 9-3 record. Meanwhile, the Pelham Hornets endured a miserable 3-8 season, including a 52-34 loss to Mitchell County. Football would have been on everybody’s mind in Mitchell County last November, had it not been for the election. Donald Trump carried Mitchell County by a 16-point margin, with 58% to 42% for Kamala Harris. And that would have been it, except for what the latest episode in what the Albany (Ga.) Herald called the “Kerfuffle in Camilla.” The story really began in October 2017:

A recent college graduate in Camilla was running for a position on the city council, but the election superintendent said his residency disqualifies him.
Corey Morgan, 22, went before the election superintendent last week to answer questions about the status of his residency.
A councilwoman accused him of not living in the city during the year leading up to the election.
During the hearing, it was revealed Morgan had switched his voter [registration] to Troup County, where he was a student at LaGrange College.
Monday, officials determined that since Morgan had not been living in Mitchell County for the required one-year period leading up to the election, he was unqualified to run during this year’s election cycle.

That’s understandable, right? But two years later, Morgan qualified to run and, at age 24, won election to the city council in Camilla.

Did I mention that folks in Georgia are crazy about football? Because it so happens that Corey Morgan played football for LaGrange College, as a defensive lineman. And his roster page informs us that in high school, Morgan played at Pelham High. Wait a minute — if Corey Morgan is from Camilla, which is where Mitchell County High School is located, why did he attend high school in Pelham, 10 miles down the road? Never mind. We’ll get to that later, meanwhile, in 2017, Venterra Pollard was elected to the Camilla City Council, and it was the attempt to elect Pollard again in 2024 that resulted in the current charges against Mayor Owens and his two co-defendants who suffered such “mental duress” during the election.

Venterra Pollard (left) and Corey Morgan (right)

What was Venterra Pollard’s occupation before he got elected to the city council? Good luck finding an answer to that question, because I wasted an hour trying to turn up an answer with Google searches, to no avail.

By the way, what do they pay city council members in Camilla? A town of barely 5,000 residents probably wouldn’t have a lot of money to pay elected officials, and this is part of the mystery underlying this whole saga — why such a big fight over municipal offices in this tiny town, given the fact that the salaries for these positions aren’t really lucrative?

In January 2024, after a judge ordered them removed from office, Morgan and Pollard described themselves as members of “a progressive majority that believes in equity, inclusion, and diversity both socially and economically.” Also, maybe there was some money to be made? But now we’re getting ahead of the story. It was Joe Bostick, chairman of the Mitchell County Development Authority (MCDA) board, and MCDA board member David Cooper, who in 2022 filed a lawsuit accusing Morgan and Pollard of violating the residency requirement.

MCDA Chairman Joe Bostick

As the lawsuit demonstrated, Bostick and Cooper had done their homework, hiring a private investigator to conduct surveillance:

During the investigation, a private investigator performed 75 days of video surveillance of the 70 Dogwood St. residence in Camilla where Pollard has claimed to reside and the 74 Sunset Circle residence where Morgan has claimed he lives, Cohilas said. During that time neither council member spent a night in Camilla.
According to court documents, Pollard was served with the lawsuit at that Albany residence and threw the paperwork on the ground. Morgan was not served at the Camilla address but picked up his copy of the lawsuit at City Hall in Camilla.
Both also have been surveilled driving to and from Camilla for council meetings, in Pollard’s case to and from Westover Place apartments in Albany, and for Morgan a Pelham residence, according to court filings. Neither has a lease for a Camila residence or pays property tax on residential property in the city.

In fact, the apartment in Albany where Pollard was living offers Secton 8 subsidized rent. Pollard claimed to be living at his sister’s house in Camilla, while Morgan claimed to be living with his grandmother there, but were unable to provide evidence substantiating these arrangements.

The judge ordered both Morgan and Pollard removed from the city council, but they continued to attend meetings and vote while appealing the verdict. When the state court of appeals upheld the verdict in December 2023, the attorney for Cooper and Bostick, Chris Cohilas, called the ruling a “tremendous victory” for the residents of Camilla, “who have lived under the tyranny of a pattern of corrupt decisions.” Indeed, these men were voting on how taxpayer money was spent while they themselves didn’t pay a nickel of taxes in Camilla, where neither of them resided. Despite this, Owens and two city election officials tried to claim Pollard had “requalified” for the council and tried to put him back on the ballot in a 2024 special election. Cohilas said in October 2024: “This is exactly what happens whenever you have corruption in government, is that the first thing you try, the first thing that a corrupt government will always try to manipulate is the election.” But . . . why?

That’s the big mystery here. My friend Dianna Deeley took a look at the Camilla City budget and, incredible as it may seem, this town of 5,000 people had $13 million in revenue during the fiscal year 2024. According to Dianna, much of that revenue came from the city’s airport and I’m sure many readers are saying the same thing I said: “What? The city owns an airport? That generates millions of dollars of revenue annually?”

Yes, it’s true: Camilla-Mitchell County Airport has a 5,000-foot runway, which means it’s big enough to handle small private jets, and here’s an interesting detail:

Prominent area businesses generate a significant amount of corporate air traffic throughout the year. Considered a hunting destination, Camilla-Mitchell County is home to some of the finest, world renowned quail hunting plantations in southwest Georgia. Hunters from across the nation fly in to the Camilla-Mitchell County Airport to enjoy quality hunting experiences, relaxed and refined accommodations, and Southern hospitality at its best.

“World renowned quail hunting plantations”? Never would have guessed that corporate jets were flying in hunters “from across the nation” to hunt quail in Mitchell County. Five such plantations are listed on the county’s web site, including CoveyRise:

CoveyRise Plantation is located on the banks of the Flint River in game rich Southwest Georgia. We are a family run, full service lodge dedicated to bringing you “The ultimate quail hunting experience”. We hunt where the quail are plentiful and where every possible preparation is made to ensure an enjoyable stay and a successful hunt.

How much do hunters pay for that experience? Lots. And guess what? It’s good for the environment, because the owners maintaining quality habitat for quail are the only reason these thousands of acres aren’t being farmed by some gigantic agribusiness conglomerate.

Well, quail hunting probably has nothing to do with this mess in Camilla, except for the fact that the city owns the airport, and might we suspect that the council’s “progressive majority that believes in equity, inclusion, and diversity,” also believes in getting a slice of the action?

Mind you, I have seen no evidence of any kind of graft or kickbacks involving the Camilla City Council, but doesn’t it seem suspicious that Mayor Owens and his allies are so determined to control the council that they would bring in a couple of non-residents to put them on the council, if there was no financial benefit to them? After examining the city budget, Dianna Deeley says roughly a third of municipal revenue comes from the airport, so if there’s any financial corruption in Camilla — which again, I have no evidence of such — it probably involves the airport.

As might be expected, accusations of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — have ensued since Mayor Owens and his two alleged accomplices were indicted, but I think this story is actually much more complex. It seems to me that citizens of Camilla ought to ask the state Attorney General’s office to investigate the city finances, just to be on the safe side. Experts might dismiss my suspicion as a “conspiracy theory,” but then again, the experts said there was no such thing as election fraud, and how’d that turn out?

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FMJRA 2.0: Marginal Victory

Posted on | June 8, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Marginal Victory

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Well, that week turned out very differently than I expected. First, we swept the two-game series against the Angels against whom we were 3-5, with Blue Moon Odom notching his second win in relief (vice Jim Kaat) and Spaceman Lee taking Game Two for his fourteenth win. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to repeat our earlier sweep of the Day Traders; Odom got his third relief win in Game One as our boys staged a late rally against Ed Sprague for a 2-1 squeaker. Unfortunately, we then had to face Phil Niekro and Steve Carlton, and we just got pounded. So we ended the week 3-2, which is better than .500; this brings us to 64-71, half a game behind the Twins (who we’ll face again on Friday) and thirteen games behind Pete’s Brewers. Our Tuesday opponents are the Hated Yankees, against whom we are 5-4, and then the Twins (3-6). I think we’re still in the hunt for a wild-card playoff slot.
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