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In The Mailbox: 07.07.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 7, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Did Secoriea Turner Matter?
EBL: Ennio Morricone and Charlie Daniels, RIP
Twitchy: Sean Spicier Tweets About Biden’s Brain, Racist White Liberals, & #BLM Protesters – BOOM Go The Lefties
Louder With Crowder: #BLM Rioters Killed An Eight-Year-Old Child, And Her Father Speaks Out
Vox Popoli: Convergence At Boeing, also, Is The Chief Justice On The Epstein Tapes?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Just A Short One
American Conservative: Does Jared Kushner Matter?
American Greatness: An Industry Of Untruth, also, The Civil War Election
American Power: We Need To Teach More History, Not Less
American Thinker: COVID Cheerleaders Change The Rules Mid-Game
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Louis Farrakhan Praises Castro Regime, Wishes Deadly Plague On Jews & Cuban Exiles In Florida
BattleSwarm: Topping Off The Strategic Dog Reserve, also, BidenWatch For July 6
Cafe Hayek: See What Is Unseen
Camp of the Saints: Independence Day 2020 – Is Anybody There?
CDR Salamander: Monday Moody? Don’t Read this Post
Da Tech Guy: Cancel Culture Coming For The Church, also, Statue Wars Come To Alaska
Don Surber: Media Lied, And People Really Did Die, also, Trump Stands Up For America & AP Calls It Racist
First Street Journal: Joe Biden’s Policies For America Have Already Been Implemented In Minneapolis…And Failed
The Geller Report: “They Say Black Lives Matter. You Just Killed Your Own.” also, Racist Thug Snoop Dogg Declares Black Conservatives “The Coon Bunch”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I Wish I Were Wrong
Hollywood In Toto: Why Star Wars Is Still Head & Shoulders Above Modern Blockbusters, also, Trump Says What Hollywood Dare Not Even Whisper
The Lid: Michael Flynn’s Legal Teams Still Making Waves For The Deep State
Legal Insurrection: Media’s Swift & Dishonest “Reporting” On Trump’s Mt. Rushmore Speech, also, Kaepernick Scorched After Describing 4th Of July As “Celebration Of White Supremacy”
The PanAm Post: Hispanics To Republicans – If You Want Our Vote, Don’t Erase Our History
Power Line: The Radical Joe Biden, also, Dr. Scott Jensen Talks Back
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Demands DeSantis Make Masks Mandatory
Shot In The Dark: The Minnesota Stasi
The Political Hat: George Floyd As The Queen Of Diamonds
This Ain’t Hell: Atlanta’s Mayor Bottoms Has Had Enough, also, Joseph Fucheck – NOT a Navy SEAL
Victory Girls: Frederick Douglass Statue Latest To Be Felled By Idiots
Volokh Conspiracy: Slavery, The Declaration Of Independence, And Douglass’ “What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?”
Weasel Zippers: GA Dem State Rep Calls For Disbanding Of Democrat Party, also, MSNBC – “Thank Goodness For The Looters”
Mark Steyn: I Shot Andy Warhol, also, “The House I Live In”

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Black-on-Black Crime Explodes in the Wake of #BlackLivesMatter Protests

Posted on | July 7, 2020 | 4 Comments

So entirely predictable that it’s scarcely “news” to report it:

It was a violent night in Chicago on the heels of a violent of Fourth of July weekend including the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl on the West Side.
19 people were shot, four fatally Monday in violence across Chicago including six people who were shot in Gresham on the South Side.
According to Chicago police, a group of people were hanging around 10:40 p.m. in the 1300-block of West 76th Street when someone began shooting in their direction.
A 25-year-old man was struck in the chest and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. Two other men, 23 and 21, were stuck in the left thigh and buttocks and taken to the same hospital in good condition.
A 19-year-old man was struck multiple times in the back and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, police said. A 20-year-old man was struck in the ankle and taken to the same hospital in good condition.
A 22-year-old woman was struck in both legs and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in good condition.
A man was killed and two other people were wound in a shooting in Lawndale on the West Side.
About 11:10 p.m. officers found a 30-year-old man unresponsive in the 3600-block of West Douglas Boulevard, with multiple gunshot wounds, Chicago police said. He was rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition, but died a short time later. . . .
From Thursday at 6 p.m. through Sunday night, 87 people were shot, 17 fatally in Chicago including 7-year-old Natalie Wallace who was fatally shot . . . Saturday night.

It’s not just Chicago, it’s a nationwide epidemic:

Neighborhoods in some of the largest US cities erupted in gun violence over the Fourth of July weekend, killing an estimated 160 people and leaving more than 500 wounded from Friday night to Sunday.
Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, declared a state of emergency on Monday after 31 people were shot and five killed over the weekend in Atlanta. He authorized 1,000 national guard troops to “protect state property and patrol our streets”. . . .
In New York, a series of shootings on Saturday and Sunday claimed at least nine lives and wounded 41 others in a rise in incidents in some neighborhoods. A 15-year-old boy was wounded in the Bronx.
And in Philadelphia, a six-year-old boy died of a gunshot wound amid five fatal shootings in about five hours on Sunday afternoon, police said.

Democrats can’t blame white racist cops for this, so they don’t care.




 

Category: Crime, Racism

Fireworks: Trust the Experts!

Posted on | July 6, 2020 | 1 Comment

Every year around Fourth of July, we hear the same thing from police and other public officials: “Consumer fireworks are dangerous! Leave fireworks to the professionals!” These lectures are always most strident where consumer fireworks are illegal. In New York City this year Comrade De Blasio, who can’t do anything right, created “a multi-agency task force to crack down on illegal fireworks sales.”

But but but . . . I thought police were bad?

Isn’t that the whole point of #BlackLivesMatter? If Democrats want to “defund the police,” who are you supposed to call if people are setting off illegal fireworks in your neighborhood? But facts and logic have never counted for much with liberals. On the one hand, Democrats want a draconian regime of total government control, while simultaneously complaining that police — you know, the people who actually enforce all these government regulations — are brutal racists, because people of color get arrested for disobeying the law. But I digress . . .

The assertion that fireworks are so dangerous that they can only be trusted to license professionals is not a slam-dunk case, because sometimes the licensed professionals screw it all up:

Plano’s All American 4th fireworks show did not go off as expected Saturday night.
Around 9 p.m., about 19 minutes in the show that was being held on Lavon Farms, a 6-inch mortar exploded inside its launching tube resulting in a chain reaction of explosions from nearby mortars, according to Plano Fire-Rescue.
In videos posted to social media, fireworks appeared to also shoot off toward the crowd.
The show was stopped about six minutes prior to the grand finale.
No injuries or damage to structures were reported, but several acres of the field burned. It took firefighters about an hour to contain the blaze and extinguish the hot spots, the department said.

Watch the video:


Fortunately no one was reported injured by that mishap. During our show Saturday night in West Virginia, one 16-shot cake in the finale tipped over and sent a couple of shots sideways, but it went toward the back — away from the crowd — and caused no damage. Here’s a photo from the set up, showing my son and one of his friends at work:

 

Click the image to see full size. What they’re doing is using white “quick” fuse — which burns instantaneously — to connect two mortar racks to a finale board filled with repeater cakes. Video of the show is in two parts. Here is the first 10 minutes:

 

And here is the one-minute Grand Finale:

 

After the show was over, I was sitting down on the steps enjoying a cold beverage when a little girl walked by with her mother and the girl said, “That was epic!” That made all the planning worth it.




 

Category: Fireworks

Rule 5 Sunday: Summer Musashi

Posted on | July 6, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I suppose I could have done a rerun this week with Kate Upton and her popsicle, but Fate/Grand Order is doing a Fourth of July event in their usual berserk style, and while this character’s not in there, how could I resist the lure of Japan’s greatest swordsman…er, swordswoman…in an All-American bikini and a six-shooting katana? Oh, Type Moon, never change.

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Ninety Miles From Tyranny brings us the Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1035, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Climate Fraud Friday and Saturday Independence Day Freedom.

EBL’s productions this week include “Miss June 75”, Die Zauberfloete, La Fille du Regiment, Force Of Nature, Die Walkuere, Canada Cuties, The Nose, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Alyssa Milano, Rule 5 Kristi Noem, “4th Of July Asbury Park”, Beverly Sills, and La Donna Del Lago.

A View From The Beach hauls in Claire Danes Saves the Homeland, Fish Pic Friday, Just One Word, Plastics!, Apparently They Don’t Teach Wisdom at Harvard, Pistol Packin’ Mama Beats Incumbent in GOP Primary, Your Wednesday Wetness, No Surprise Here, It’s Great to Have Options, Another Muddy Monday and Palm Sunday.

Red Pilled Jew brings us Women With…

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: O Thus Be It Ever When Free Men Shall Stand

Posted on | July 6, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: O Thus Be It Ever When Free Men Shall Stand

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Parenting Against ‘The Village’
Dark Brightness
The Political Hat
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Run With Me, Wherever I Go
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Erin Gray
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
357 Magnum
Dark Brightness
EBL

The Yellow Peril
Brian J. Noggle
EBL

War in Antifastan: Has Violence in CHOP Zone Become Too Much for Seattle?
357 Magnum
EBL

Warning: You Can Never Unsee This
Bacon Time
EBL
Moonbattery

In The Mailbox: 06.30.20 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.30.20 (Evening Edition)
EBL

White Supremacists in Kentucky Defeat Black Candidate’s Senate Campaign
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.01.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
BattleSwarm Blog
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.02.20
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘The Merciless Indian Savages’
EBL

Our Patriotic Duty
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.03.20
357 Magnum
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending July 3:

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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

Posted on | July 5, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

Death by “social justice” on the Fourth of July:

A woman hit by a car while she and others were blocking a highway in Seattle died, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Harborview Medical Center told news outlets that Summer Taylor, a 24-year-old local, died late Saturday. The Washington State Patrol confirmed the death.
Taylor was one of two women hit by a man driving a white Jaguar around 1:36 a.m. on July 4.
Police had closed down a portion of the highway, I-5, just before midnight on Friday. Seattle police said in a report that the driver, 27-year-old Dawit Kelete, entered on an exit ramp before turning onto the highway to go in the correct direction.
The driver was approaching vehicles that were parked across the highway by protesters to block it when he “made a sharp left turn entering the right lane and struck two pedestrians,” police wrote.
Video footage showed the impact flinging the two women into the air. Photographs of the Jaguar showed damage consistent with a crash, Washington State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead told reporters at a press conference near the scene of the incident.
The other protester hit was identified as Diaz Love, 32. She remains hospitalized in serious condition. Love was filming the protest in a video broadcast on Facebook Live that showed a group of a few dozen milling about on the highway. Just before the video ended, people began shouting “car.” The impact of the car striking the women can be heard as the broadcast ends.
Both she and and Taylor suffered broken bones and lacerations from the impact, according to the police report.
Kelete was taken into custody after passing sobriety tests. He was described as reserved and sullen. At one point, he asked if the two people that were hit were okay.
Kelete was booked on vehicular assault charges, according to jail records. Bail was denied. It wasn’t clear if the man had an attorney.
Protesters blocked I-5 for 18 straight days leading up to July 4, law enforcement officials said. Mead told the reporters that blocking the highway is illegal and a criminal act.
“We’ve said since May 30th, the freeway is not a safe place for pedestrians to be. Whether they’re protesters, whether they’re homeless, whether they’re broken down motorists, the freeway is simply not a safe place for pedestrians,” he said.
The state patrol said later Saturday that officers would arrest any protesters who tried to enter I-5.
According to Love’s social media accounts, she participated in other protests blocking the freeway in recent days. The Black Lives Matter supporter was recently at the so-called autonomous zone that protesters created in Seattle.

The dead woman was a militant #BlackLivesMatter supporter and also identified as “non-binary.” The driver of the car was a black man, apparently an immigrant from Ethiopia.

So . . . white women blocking a freeway to protest on behalf of #BlackLivesMatter were hit by a black man driving a white Jaguar.

Karma is not only a bitch, she also has a well-developed sense of irony.

 

Category: Crime, Washington State

In The Mailbox: 07.03.20

Posted on | July 4, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Since it’s Independence Day tomorrow, the FMJRA will be on Sunday along with the weekly Rule 5 post.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Random Thoughts – Independence Day Edition
357 Magnum: The Breakdown Of Order In The Cities
EBL: Portlandia’s Racist Elk Removed, also, Hypocrite Alyssa Milano Attacks Redskins Team Name While Selling Their Gear
Twitchy: Protesters Attempting To Block Trump Supporters From Mount Rushmore
Louder With Crowder: Laugh As This Liberal Dingbat Gets Kicked By A Police Horse
Vox Popoli: SJW Corpocracy Smells Blood, also, The Trumpslide Is Still On
According To Hoyt: Routing Around Damage

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: My Speech On Christianity At The XYZ National Convention
American Conservative: The Little Pink House, Fifteen Years Later
American Greatness: The Present Moment Has Set Blacks Back Half A Century
American Power: White Privilege, also, The Coming Black Crime Bloodbath
American Thinker: Why Biden’s Lead Will Evaporate, also, The Pretense Of Anarchy
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Climate Fraud Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Prisoner Of Conscience’s Life In Immediate Danger In Castro’s Gulag
Baldilocks: Black Americana & Historical Perspective
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For July 3
Cafe Hayek: Another Open Letter To Peter Navarro
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Expect More of This, also, Do All Lives Matter To UMass Lowell Nurses?
Don Surber: Why Trump Tweets, also, No Aid For Minneapolis Unless Mayor Frey Resigns
Fred On Everything: DACA – A Pragmatic Cowardice
The Geller Report: SCOTUS Blocks Obama Judge From Ending Voter ID In Alabama, also, Rioters Set Off Explosives, Block Access To Mount Rushmore
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Good Luck With That
Hollywood In Toto: Dean Cain Is 100% Right About Superman’s “American Way” Phrase
JustOneMinute: Epstein Gal Pal Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested
The Lid: Washington Redskins Announce They’ll Review Team Name
Legal Insurrection: Fauci Ties New Chinese Flu Virus To 2009 Swine Flu, 1919’s Lethal Spanish Flu, also, WHO Backtracks, Quietly Admits Red China Didn’t Report Corona-Chan
The PanAm Post: Will FARC Win The War In Colombia?
Power Line: The Minneapolis Non-Effect, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: NRA Drops The “Hammer” On Heather Fitzhagen’s State Senate Campaign
Shot In The Dark: They Own These Towns…
STUMP: Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! Happy Independence Day!
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Has America Had It?
This Ain’t Hell: Senator Duckworth Roils The Political Waters, also, Stop It Before It Starts
Victory Girls: Reelection Woes For Trump Or Wishful Thinking?
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: College Kids Asked What They Know About July 4th, also, Former NFL Star Marcellus Wiley – #BLM Wants To Destroy Nuclear Family, I’m Not About That
Megan McArdle: American Businesses Have The Power To Change Red China’s Behavior – Time To Step Up
Mark Steyn: Juneteenth Is Bustin’ Out All Over, also, Chess Is Racist (And So Is Everything Else)

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Our Patriotic Duty

Posted on | July 3, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Our fireworks stash (click on the image to see full size) for Saturday night’s celebration amounts to 35 cases, including two cases (192) of 5-inch canister shells and a case of two 500-gram, 200-shot Shogun Thriller cakes for the grand finale. My son Jim and I have spent the past week building finale boards like these two:

 

(Click on the image to see full size.)

It is difficult to describe how many hours of work and planning go into a project like this. It’s not a matter of going into a store and buying whatever we like. We started planning this year’s show almost the moment we finished last year’s show. The 364-day planning cycle involves going over lists of products, viewing videos and finding the best prices on the effects you want. We made our first wholesale buy (11 cases) last August, and also bought two more cases (blue roman candles and a special pink effect) from another vendor. My podcasting partner John Hoge supplied us with our 14th case (120 shells) last fall. Then in March, in a 40%-off “Early Bird” sale, we bought another 17 cases. You can see my brother Kirby with that purchase here.

 

(Click on the image to see full size.)

Here is a video preview of our fireworks stash:

 

Accumulating the necessary supplies, of course, is just the beginning of the process. We have to work out the timing of each effect, measure the fuses to connect them, position them on the boards — it’s a lot of work, and also a lot of zip ties. Just yesterday, I had to make a run to Lowe’s to pick up extra glue and another 800 zip ties. Did I mention that more than 200 feet of fuse will be involved in this project? Because what you want to do is set it up so that you light one fuse and this sets off a long series of effects. Our opening board will last about 7 minutes, all from one continuous fuse, then we go to the first finale (a/k/a “the fake finale”) shot from two different boards, giving the audience a “pause for applause” before lighting the real finale (a/k/a the Grand Finale) that will overwhelm spectators with a 45-second barrage of stunning intensity.

Did I say “stunning intensity”? Let me explain what that means. Sunday afternoon, I spent seven hours fusing together 144 Dominator Blue Thunder eight-shot roman candles on three angled racks:

 

Do the math. You see that this is 1,152 shots to be fired in the span of about 45 seconds, or about 25 shots per second — and the audience will barely even notice it, except as extra noise, because those candles will be fired along with a barrage of about 1,800 other shots, including multiple 500-gram cakes and more than 120 shells. Like I said, stunning intensity.

Did I mention that John Hoge bought us a case of 120 shells? That assortment included triple-break and double-break shells, which will be used in a concluding effect — the “coda,” as I call it, an exclamation mark of sorts — that will have 62 aerial explosions at once.

Because we love America.

It is our patriotic duty to light up the sky on the Fourth of July. Please remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

 

Category: Fireworks
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