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In The Mailbox: 10.26.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | October 26, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.26.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Just in time for Halloween!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Shinto priest blesses first Japanese-produced F-35.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Richard Roundtree, RIP, also, Maybe Israel should deal with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran like this
Twitchy: Gov. Kim Reynolds Drops Truth Nuke On Reporters Whining About “Banned Books” In Iowa, MSNBC Reporter Losing Her Shit Over Speaker Johnson Will Make You Like Him Even More, and Matt Yglesias Gets Walloped For Defending Antisemitic Lefties
Louder With Crowder: Man who laughed at Jewish woman after ripping down her hostage posters gets suspended from job. By his dad. Who’s Jewish., Bud Light is so desperate to win back customers, they are giving the UFC $100 Million, and Cop swoops in to prevent woman from showing sexually explicit images the school board allows in children’s libraries
Vox Popoli: Convos with PSG, They Won’t Fight for Israel, The Ultimate RPG System, Mailvox: SSH in Finland, US SpecOps KIA in Gaza, and Conservatives Hardest Hit

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Green New Dealers
American Greatness: Texas Attorney General Sues Biden Administration for Cutting Razor Wire at Southern Border
American Thinker: ‘Free Palestine’ Is the New ‘Sieg Heil’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Argentina heading to electoral game 7, AMLO vows continued support for Cuban dictatorship, and Cuba & Red China renew whorish vows of love
Baldilocks: Observing Crowd Formation
BattleSwarm: Underwater Attack Hits Russian Fleet At Sevastopol
Behind The Black: Perseverance looks ahead, beyond Jezero Crater, ULA sets Christmas Eve as launch date for first Vulcan rocket launch, A dance of three galaxies, SpaceX gets ESA contract to launch up to four of its Galileo GPS-type satellites, No Starship/Superheavy launch likely until January? and Axiom signs deal with the United Kingdom to fly all British mission
Cafe Hayek: No, The Antitrust Action Against Google Isn’t Justified
CDR Salamander: Do We Give Them The War They Want?
Da Tech Guy: I suggest a backward House Vote
Dana Loesch: Rep. Mike Johnson Elected Speaker of the House
Don Surber: 404 Journalism
First Street Journal: Crime is crime; why should we care about the motive?
Gates Of Vienna: Fiddling While Berlin Burns, also, Diversity Hire or Sharia Sleeper Cell?
The Geller Report:  Majority Aged 18-24 Say Hamas Atrocities of Israeli Civilians ‘Justified’, also, ‘Just as Cruel as the Terrorists’: Many Ordinary Palestinians Joined in Hamas’s Atrocities Against Israel
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Thor’s Helmet
Hollywood In Toto: Little Bite Left in Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, also, Office Alums Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey: No News on a Reboot (Yet)
The Lid: Is Reason For Biden’s Net Neutrality Push-Hiding Failures In Green Policy?
Legal Insurrection: Netanyahu: ‘We are Preparing for a Ground Incursion’ Into Gaza to Destroy Hamas, Liberal Activist Groups Condemn Killing of Black Man Who Attacked Cop During Traffic Stop, Florida “Deactivates“ Students for Justice in Palestine Chapters Based on SJP “Support of Terrorism”, George Washington U. Students Project Anti-Semitic Messages on School Library Building, Teens Accused of Killing Retired CA Police Chief Taunt His Family in Court, and Playwright David Mamet Says Democrats ‘Betrayed the Jews’
Nebraska Energy Observer: St. Crispan/Crispians Day
Outkick: Brady Quinn Eviscerates Deshaun Watson’s No. 1 Fanboy With Gripping Comeback, Torey Lovullo Is Looking Forward To Making ‘Wise Guy’ Chris Russo Retire, Detroit Lions WR Marvin Jones Announces He’s Stepping Away From Football Due To ‘Personal Family Matters’, Snakes On A Plane…To Texas: Arizona Diamondbacks Shut Up Philadelphia To Reach World Series, Hugh Freeze Says He’d Never Throw Auburn Players Under The Bus Before Immediately Throwing Them Under The Bus, and Paige VanZant Channels Inner Barbie Teasing New Collab
Power Line: “Dad, Be Proud Of Me!”, Mugged By Reality, and Why Are Our Universities Anti-Semitic Cesspools?
Shark Tank: Cammack Pokes Fun At Jeffries’ “Dog Whistle” Speech To Congress
Shot In The Dark: Big Left’s Psyop
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday Weirdness, Four More Accounted For, and Recent college graduate enters workforce, gets a rude awakening
Victory Girls: Meet Mike Johnson (R-LA) The Speaker Of The House
Volokh Conspiracy: The Moral and Strategic Case for Opening Doors to Gaza Refugees
Watts Up With That: The Wind is Always Blowing Somewhere Fallacy, Experts Addle Kids’ Minds Over “Climate Change”, and Review of Proposed Minimum Efficiency Standards for “Consumer Boilers”
The Federalist: Free-Market Conservatives Should Ignore Biden’s Antitrust Siren Song, 41 Attorneys General Sue Facebook, Instagram Creators For Targeting Children With Addictive Algorithms, Why ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Like Me Can’t Forget Public School Covid Tyranny, At The New York Times, Praising Hitler Is Fine But Running Republican Op-Eds Gets You The Boot, Democrats’ Campaign To Disbar John Eastman Is Designed To Criminalize Republican Election Challenges, and University Donors Pull Funds Over Anti-Israel Protests. Where Was The Outrage Over BLM?
Mark Steyn: “A completely rigged peer-review system”

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Biggest Story of the Week: DOJ Subpoenaed Senate GOP Staff Phones

Posted on | October 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Biggest Story of the Week: DOJ Subpoenaed Senate GOP Staff Phones

Former top Senate investigator Jason Foster

If you know anything at all about Capitol Hill, you know that Chuck Grassley’s staffer are the best investigators of governmental waste, fraud and abuse. Every year there are dozens of big stories that never would have come to light if not for the tireless work of Grassley’s staff. For many years, the ace in Grassley’s office was Jason Foster, who has recently left the Hill to launch his own non-profit organization, Empower Oversight, to continue that kind of investigation independently. The latest news should shock the conscience of the country:

While House and Senate oversight committees were investigating the Department of Justice and the FBI for their role in the Russia-collusion hoax, the DOJ subpoenaed the private phone and email logs of multiple congressional staffers, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed Tuesday reveals. The executive branch’s targeting of staffers assisting with congressional oversight of the DOJ and FBI represents a dangerous intrusion into the legislative branch’s functioning — and one that demands answers and an accounting.
On Tuesday, the Virginia-based whistleblower firm Empower Oversight dispatched a letter to the attorney general and a slew of other DOJ officials, including the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. That letter detailed how the organization’s founder, Jason Foster, learned last week from a notice provided by Google that the DOJ had subpoenaed records of his Google Voice telephone number. The subpoena issued to Google required the tech giant to provide all telephone connection records and text message logs for Foster’s private Google account from Dec. 1, 2016, to May 1, 2017.
At that time, as the Empower Oversight letter explained, Foster served as the chief investigative counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley. In that role, he directed congressional oversight into misconduct at the Justice Department. The DOJ likewise subpoenaed other House and Senate staffers working with oversight committees — both Republicans and Democrats — according to Empower Oversight.
The Federalist has independently confirmed that at least one staffer on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) received the same notice from Google of the subpoena, which was issued by a D.C. grand jury on Sept. 12, 2017.
That date proves significant because former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had reportedly threatened to subpoena the personal records of HPSCI staffers during a heated January 2018 closed-door meeting concerning oversight requests served on the DOJ. But based on the Google notice sent out last week to the subpoenas’ targets, the DOJ had already executed that threat.
The Empower Oversight letter takes to task the DOJ for undertaking what appears to be “an extensive and far-reaching effort to use grand jury subpoenas and perhaps other means to gather the personal communications records of innocent congressional staffers and their families with little or no legitimate predicate.” . . .

Read the whole thing. What Foster was doing at the time, of course, was trying to get to the bottom of “Operation Crossfire Hurricane,” the corrupt scam (set in motion by the phony Steele dossier paid for by Hillary’s campaign) to investigate Trump’s advisers for “Russian collusion.” As the linked article explains, the FOIA request by Empower Oversight anticipates the DOJ’s probable excuse — “the need to uncover the individual who leaked classified information to the press” — by asking whether DOJ similarly subpoenaed Executive Branch officials. Certainly it seems to me more likely that the leak came from the FBI itself, and that this DOJ subpoena was a fishing expedition aimed at figuring out the identities of whistleblowers that Grassley’s staff and other congressional investigators were talking to. In other words, the DOJ was trying to cover up its own corrupt activities. People should be mad as hell.



 

Category: Corruption, Scandal

Mass Murder in Maine: At Least 22 Killed, Dozens Wounded, Suspect at Large

Posted on | October 25, 2023 | Comments Off on Mass Murder in Maine: At Least 22 Killed, Dozens Wounded, Suspect at Large

What is known so far via The Daily Mail (UK):

A massive manhunt is underway in Maine for an Army reserve firearms instructor who was sectioned this summer for mental health reasons, and is suspected of shooting dead 22 people on Wednesday night at multiple sites in Lewiston.
Robert Card, 40, from Bowdoin, Maine, was named by Maine state police as the a ‘person of interest’ in the shootings at a bowling alley, restaurant and Walmart distribution center.
He was sectioned after saying he was hearing voices, and threatening to shoot up his National Guard base in Saco, Maine.
Card was armed with an AR 15-style rifle with laser optics when he burst into the bowling alley at 7:15pm to begin his rampage.
He was driving a 2013 white Subaru: Eric Samson, sheriff of Androscoggin County, announced at 11:20pm that law enforcement officers have found the vehicle in Lisbon, about seven miles southeast of Lewiston – but Card was not inside.
Mike Sauschuck, a law enforcement spokesperson in Lewiston, said Card ‘is considered armed and dangerous.’ . . .
Lewiston city administrator has confirmed that 22 were dead, local councillor Robert McCarthy said, with 50-60 were injured. Maine’s hospitals said they were declaring a mass casualty event. The death toll, which could rise, is the largest from a mass shooting this year.
The three locations were Sparetime bowling alley; Schemengee’s bar and grill; and a Walmart distribution center – although a spokesman said that the shooting was not on the site itself.
McCarthy said he had been told that a children’s bowling party was taking place at Sparetime at the time. . . .

UPDATE: New York Post:

Robert Card, 40, was stationed out of Saco, Maine and reported “hearing voices” and threatened to shoot up the National Guard Base where he was stationed, the sources said.
Card, originally of Bowdoin, Maine, should be considered “armed and dangerous,” and was reportedly committed to a mental health facility over the summer and was released after a two-week stay, the sources added.

Why is it, when people start “hearing voices,” the advice they’re getting from these voices is never helpful? Like, the voices are never saying, “Have a beer, dude. Chill out a while. No biggie.”

UPDATE II: Various sources are saying that Robert Card is twice divorced, that one of his ex-wives had a restraining order against him, and that he is a registered sex offender. I haven’t been able to find this information in actual news reports from reputable outlets, and with the “fog of war” factor in the immediate aftermath of an incident like this, one should be cautious about such things. But there are enough people saying this stuff on blogs and social media that I thought I’d share it, with the caveat that it’s not officially confirmed. What is confirmed, at least to my satisfaction, is that this guy was daft, deranged, demented, berserk, bonkers, off his rocker, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. And, of course,  Crazy People Are Dangerous.

UPDATE III: Y’know, it’s generally bad taste to try to score political points in the wake of an atrocity that has no obvious political point, but the gun-grabbers can’t resist, so it’s important to make this point:

It is clearly evident that Robert Card was what law-enforcement calls a “prohibited possessor.” In other words, he was violating existing law, and it is therefore foolish to suggest that some new gun-control law could have prevented this crime. But no one should expect logic or honest arguments from the enemies of the Second Amendment.



 

Category: Crime, Maine

In The Mailbox: 10.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 25, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Biden Beach House Bought with ChiCom Bribes?
Twitchy: Young Woman Goes Viral For Bemoaning 9-5 Workday, Adam Schiff Stomps On Self-Awareness Rake While Rolling Out Accusation Against New Speaker, and Sen. John Kennedy’s Questions For Clueless Homeland Security Officials Met With Deafening Silence
Louder With Crowder: “Way to cheat, bro”, Video shows CVS employee pushed by one shoplifter too many, so he starts dropping bombs, and Gal Gadot claps back against Alyssa Milano-led anti-Israel open letter, teams with celebs to denounce Hamas
Vox Popoli: Sir, This is a Wendy’s, Another Mysterious Death, No Tears for Tehran or Tel Aviv, Vaxxed with Simian Virus, The NFL is Massaged, and The Official Story is Always Fake
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – Shaun Is A King

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Manipulation
American Conservative: The Big Guy’s Cut
American Greatness: Oregon Suspends Basic Skills Graduation Requirement in the Name of Equity, also, The Hamas Slaughter Confirmed Everything I Have Believed
American Thinker: In the Mouth of Marxist Madness, also, Gun Control: The End Results
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Klueless Krugman News
Babalu Blog: As Cuba’s fuel shortage worsens, public transportation ceases to exist in many towns and cities, Cuban mothers defy dictatorship, openly protest lack of food and water, Mexican government forcing citizens to be injected with expired and ineffective Cuban Covid vaccines, and Recruitment of Cuban mercenaries for Russia’s war against Ukraine has not stopped
BattleSwarm: Recommendations on Williamson and Travis County Bond Elections
Behind The Black: More Io images by Juno, enhanced by citizen scientists, Belarus joins China’s lunar base project, NASA issues update on repairs/fixes to Starliner, Lucy’s first asteroid fly-by coming on November 1st, Scientists: The solar cycle was only 8 years long during the Maunder Minimum in the 1600s, and At the moment our modern Nazi movement appears to be winning
Cafe Hayek: Ian Fillmore Is an Awestruck
CDR Salamander: Two Proxy Wars In The Old World & The Big Show In WESTPAC
Chicago Boyz: Quote of the Day
Da Tech Guy: The Right To Be An Ass With an Evil Opinion & Hate in Your Heart as Long as You Leave People Alone, also, Fixing the college mess
Don Surber: While we’re at it, let 10-year-olds drive
First Street Journal: Is justice in Philadelphia a matter of the color of your skin?, also ,Just because they like to behead babies is no reason to label Hamas terrorists!
Gates Of Vienna: Reality Bleeds to Death as the Ummah Celebrates, Hail Victory! Hamas Sexual Abuse of Israeli Women Follows Islamic Doctrine as Night Follows Day, Report From Sderot: Day 15, and Hamas is Winning, and Ragnarök?
The Geller Report: “Palestinian terrorists cut an eye out of the father’s face, cut the breasts off the mother, chopped off the son’s fingers, and chopped off the foot of the daughter”, also, UN Secretary General Defends Hamas Atrocities, Endorses Genocide, Blames Israel
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also,  A Disrupted Schedule
Hollywood In Toto: Celebs Tell Resting Biden Not to Rest During Hostage Crisis, also, The Blind Becomes Fathom Events’ Biggest Film to Date
The Lid: Why Are Federal Broadband Services Part Of Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda?
Legal Insurrection: Red China Tightens Exports on Graphite, a Key Component of EV Batteries, Columbia U. Prof Calls Out Elite Schools for Harboring ‘Pro-Terror’ Student Groups on Campus, 1,700 Sociology Professors Sign Letter Accusing Israel of ‘Genocide’, Nothing To See Here: Democrats Shocked To Learn Their Own “Hate” Cancel Culture Rules Now Apply To Them, Skokie, IL: ‘Pro-Palestine’ Protesters Attack Solidarity With Israel Rally, and Study Finds Large Percentage of Campus Radicals Go on to Work in Education
Nebraska Energy Observer: Explains
Outkick: Bud Light Overpays For UFC Partnership In Attempt To Win Back Conservatives, NBA Being Investigated For Trying To Sabotage Ice Cube’s Big3 League, Megan Rapinoe, Whose Fiancée Is Israeli, Raises Money For Gaza After Hamas Terrorist Attack, Say Hello To Texas State Soccer Player Bailey Peschel, Kirk Cousins Credits Creed For Monday Night Performance As Band Continues To Have Weird Effect On Sports, Deion Sanders Couldn’t Care Less About Sign-Stealing, and Expect The NBA Media’s Anti-White Crusade Against Jokic To Continue
Power Line: Jenna Ellis Pleads Guilty, Works and days of Hamas, and What manner of moron is this?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Never Again, again
Shark Tank: The Unintended Consequences Of The U.S. Sanctions Against Venezuela
Shot In The Dark: America’s Hitler Youth, also, #HimToo
The Political Hat: The Latest Pride Parade Must Have: Condoms For Kids
This Ain’t Hell: Army veteran tried to sell US secrets to Russia, also, Killing babies and castrating children are cornerstones of national defense
Victory Girls: Obama Issues Arrogant “Both Sides” Lecture On Israel And Hamas
Volokh Conspiracy: Administration fails forward on China chip exports
Watts Up With That: Former EU Parliament Member Nigel Farage got de-banked due to his skeptical ‘stance on climate change…not aligning with’ NatWest bank’s ‘objectives’, Aussie Energy & Climate Minister: Don’t Expect 3.4GW of New Renewables to Provide Grid Stability, and China Restricts Exports of Graphite, Key Mineral Used for Making EV Batteries
The Federalist: The Massive Bipartisan Google Antitrust Suit Is A Fight For The Future Of The Internet, Trump Attorneys Argue ‘Vindictive’ Special Counsel Indictment Criminalizes Speech, Pope Francis’ Call For ‘Peace’ Between Israel And Hamas Is Really A Call For Injustice, Joe Scarborough Hates Authoritarian Behavior Except When It’s From Biden Or Zelensky, House Republicans Dig Deeper Into Deb Haaland’s Relationship With Pueblo Action Alliance, After Years Of High Crime And Homicides, D.C. Democrats Finally Discover The Police Aren’t The Problem, and Biden’s Global Chaos Vindicates The Strong Foreign Policy Of His Top Rival
Mark Steyn: The Melancholy Long Withdrawing…Silence


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‘The Powers That Be’: Mike Johnson Elected 56th Speaker of the House

Posted on | October 25, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘The Powers That Be’: Mike Johnson Elected 56th Speaker of the House

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.”
— Romans 13:1-2 (KJV)

Ending three weeks of leaderless chaos — Matt Gaetz owes the nation an apology — and repeated failure, the Republican caucus finally united behind a little-known member whose name wasn’t even mentioned previously, Rep. Mike Johnson from Shreveport, Louisiana:

A member of the Christian right faction of the Republican Party, Johnson is known for his strong support for a nationwide abortion ban and an end to legal same-sex marriages.He has called for the Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges to be overturned and for medical marijuana to be restricted, referring to the latter as a “gateway drug”. In December 2020, Johnson signed an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. In January 2021, Johnson voted to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania. Johnson has cultivated close ties to Protestant fundamentalist groups Answers in Genesis, Louisiana Family Forum, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Focus on the Family. Prior to his career as a politician, he worked with them to “represent churches, pastors and congregants whose vision of religious freedom conflicted with government regulations.”

While the Wikipedia article doesn’t mention Johnson’s denomination, his acceptance speech was profoundly Calvinist:

I want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last night; I don’t believe there are any coincidences in a matter like this. I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you, all of us, and I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment in this time.
This is my belief. I believe that each one of us has a huge responsibility today to use the gifts that God has given us to serve the extraordinary people of this great country — and they deserve it — and to ensure that our republic remains standing as the great beacon of light and hope and freedom in a world that desperately needs it.

This idea, that God ordains authority, is really the bedrock of Christian teaching on the rule of law. What if we are ruled by fools or tyrants? This is our fault, a curse we have earned by our own sinful disobedience to God. After all, wasn’t it God’s will that Judea should be conquered by the Romans? And it was while the Israelites suffered under the yoke of Rome that Christ was born, setting in motion a chain of events that took centuries to unfold before the Jews were finally restored to the land that God promised to Abraham in their covenant. We do not know, at any given moment, how our current woes and troubles may figure into what God has planned for our future, but if we believe that our lives have meaning and purpose — if we are willing to do whatever duty may command, to serve God even through confusion and humiliation — we are assured by scripture that everything will work out in the end.

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”
— Romans 8:28-31 (KJV)

Even Satan himself is powerless to defy God’s will, and while I don’t want to say Matt Gaetz is the Devil incarnate, I’m pleased that the result of Gaetz’s infernal scheme was that this mild-mannered Christian from Louisiana has taken the Speaker’s gavel. Certainly, this must be an auspicious occasion, a sign of God’s favor. Selah.



 

Category: Congress

Remembering St. Crispin’s Day: ‘We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers …’

Posted on | October 25, 2023 | Comments Off on Remembering St. Crispin’s Day: ‘We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers …’

Today I was waiting for my pizza to come out of the oven and scrolling through Facebook on my phone when I saw my post from last year (“St. Crispin’s Day: ‘If We Are Mark’d to Die, We Are Enough to Do Our Country Loss’”), and said to myself, “Is today October 25?” Never shall we cease to celebrate one of the greatest victories in the history of the English-speaking peoples! It’s important to understand the background of Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt. His father, Henry IV (“Bolingbroke”) stood accused of usurping the crown from Richard II, disinheriting the Earl of March. Henry V gained his military education fighting his father’s wars to suppress a series of rebellions. Just 26 years old when he succeeded to the throne at his father’s death in 1413, Henry V did not face as much domestic opposition, but the old English claim to the French throne soon led him into foreign conflict to claim what he believed was rightfully his. Thus began the third phase of what came to be known as “The Hundred Years’ War.” By 1420, Henry had triumphed and wed Catherine, youngest daughter of the French king, with a guarantee that their son would inherit the French crown. That would not have been possible, however, had the French defeated Henry at Agincourt, where his army fought heroically against overwhelming numerical odds.

WESTMORLAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!

KING. What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin, Westmorland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

So it was that the English yeomanry earned their military fame in a battle where the number of French casualties was larger than Henry’s entire army. Indeed we shall remember “to the ending of the world.”



 

Category: France, Great Britain, History

In The Mailbox: 10.23.23

Posted on | October 24, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.23.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I thought this posted last night but evidently I missed something.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

h/t Tom Kratman on X

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Neighbors Were Shocked
EBL: I lost interest in Speaker after Jim Jordan–who just pulled up in the GOP clown car? Slotherhouse, and Eiffel
Twitchy: Community Notes – “Hamas Has Never Been Popular With Palestinians”, CNN Guest Argues That What Israel Is Trying To Do Is Ethnic Cleansing, and We’re Assured That “Jihad” Means A Lot Of Different Things
Louder With Crowder: Byron Donalds announces he’s running for Speaker of the House and Occasional Cortex is PISSED, Hamas Caucus member Ilhan Omar lashes out at reporter, refuses to say Israel has a right to defend itself, and Alyssa Milano (of course) leads Hollywood in an open letter to Joe Biden demanding an Israel ceasefire
Vox Popoli: ComicsGate is Comics Now, The Global South is Lost, Setup for a Showdown, Even Clownocrats Resist, and The ADL Fights the Real Enemy
Draw & Talk: Mainstream Creator Blocks Indie Creator For Doing Math

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: If you accept Vatican II then you must accept Vatican III
American Conservative: It Is Time for Sullivan to Go
American Greatness: The George Floyd, Jr. Narrative Unraveled, The Sickness of Our Universities—and the Cure, and Conservatives in Congress Take Aim at Cyber Agency CISA over Abuse Allegations
American Thinker: Hamas Massacres – The New Face of Gun Control, Biden’s Decades Of National Security Failures And Military Endangerment, and Open Sources Demolish the Legacy Media
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: As buildings in Cuba continue to collapse, Castro regime announces new luxury hotel, More oil arrives in Cuba, but refinery is closed and gas stations lack fuel, Where were you in 1962? and Rabid supporter of Cuban dictatorship might be next Speaker of the House
BattleSwarm: Israel-Hamas: Why This Time is Different, Russia: “We Are Withdrawing From The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.” U.S.: “OK.” BOOM!, and Texas Constitutional Amendment Voting Started Today (With Recommendations)
Behind The Black: Gaganyaan aborted test flight flies successfully after short delay, The reshuffling of Blue Origin’s management continues, First Bennu asteroid samples recovered from OSIRIS-REx return capsule, Space Perspective unveils restroom for its high altitude tourist balloon, and “Formerly clandestine Nazis will continue protesting, sometimes violently”
Cafe Hayek: The Awestruck and the Awws
CDR Salamander: The Next Godzilla Movie Will Be LIT!
Da Tech Guy: Don’t want to hear your whining, Pro-Terror Folks Pull Down Posters of Kidnapped Kids, London Police Say: “Hold My Beer” Apparently Reality is to Blame, and I Can’t Do Better Than Noa Tishby on This
Don Surber: The Nazis are winning
First Street Journal: When they show you who they are, believe them! Trudy Rubin wants Israel to lose in Gaza, and Is Pope Francis trying to destroy the Church?
Gates Of Vienna: The European Parliament — What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing! Taking it Out on the Kids, In Cold Blood, The Gaza War — No Worries, and Éric Zemmour: “Islam is a Totalitarian Religion”
The Geller Report: Ex-Obama NLRB Counsel, 80 Professors Sign Petition Saying Hamas Atrocities are Legit ‘Military Operation’, Detroit Synagogue President Samantha Woll Brutally Stabbed To Death Outside of Her Home, BROOKLYN: Thousands of Muslim protesters demanding annihilation of Israel attack NYPD, and DISASTROUS Biden Regime Tells Israel to Delay its Ground Operation in Gaza
Glenn Reynolds: Higher education – a toxic industry?
Hogewash: Simulation: A Disk Galaxy Forms, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Hera Preparing To Follow Up On DART, and Orwell Redux
Hollywood In Toto: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Should Have Ended Franchise for Good, Shroud Doc & Book Bring Science and Faith Together, Jon Stewart: Put Up or Shut Up, and Writers Guild Can’t Reach Consensus on Condemning Terror
The Lid: Kennedy Throws Race To Trump Over Biden In Harvard-Harris Poll
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Detroit Police Say Anti-Semitism Not Motive in Synagogue Leader’s Murder

Posted on | October 24, 2023 | Comments Off on Detroit Police Say Anti-Semitism Not Motive in Synagogue Leader’s Murder

Very important update on the case:

Detroit police said investigators have looked into several people of interest in the killing of Samantha Woll, the president of a Detroit synagogue. Woll was found stabbed to death outside her home on Saturday morning.
In a press conference on Monday, Detroit Police Chief James White declined to unveil the connection between Woll and the people of interest, declaring a prime suspect cannot be named at the time.
“We have to be very, very cautious as to what information we share,” White said. “There are very intricate details about this case that, if revealed, could really damage what we’re trying to accomplish. There are facts that are known only to our suspect.”
White also clarified evidence in Woll’s death indicates her killing was not a result of antisemitism. Detroit police said Woll went to a wedding Friday night and left at about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. Her body was found at about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, and police say there was no forced entry at Woll’s home in Lafayette Park, located east of downtown Detroit.
“We believe there are no other groups or anyone else at risk,” White said. “We believe that this incident was not motivated by antisemitism and that this suspect acted alone.”

Hmmmm. Notice what the Chief doesn’t say — nothing about robbery or sexual assault, which we might typically consider possible motives in such a crime. Revenge? A disgruntled ex-boyfriend? We understand the need to be “very, very cautious” in speaking about such an investigation, but ruling out anti-Semitism as a motive is important (a) because by the process of elimination, this means it’s not some random Jew-hater out there, and (b) this obviously helps reassure the community.

To repeat what I said Sunday:

We must not speculate or jump to conclusions. However, knowing what we know about Detroit, I’m willing to hazard a tentative guess that the killer was probably not a Trump supporter.

C’mon, man — It’s the east side of Detroit.



 

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