In The Mailbox: 04.19.21

Posted on | April 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.19.21

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: He Gave Them The Money, They Shot Him Anyway
Director Blue: Twitter Org Chart Revealed!
EBL: RIP Felix Silla, a/k/a “Cousin It”, also, Marilyn Monday
Twitchy: “He Was A Toy To Them” – Glenn Greenwald Goes On Righteous Rant Over The Media & The “Sicknick Truther” Smear, also, Buck Sexton – This Information Was Hidden From You On Purpose
Louder With Crowder: Thug Attempts Armed Robbery, Gets Body-Slammed & Squeals Like A Pig, also, Ted Cruz Calls Out Maxine Waters For “Encouraging Riots & Violence” After Minnesota Comments
Vox Popoli: The Corpocracy Stacks The Deck, also, The Market Meltdown Is Coming
Stoic Observations: Rough Intelligence

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Courts Using COVID To Take Kids From Parents, also, Election Integrity Remains In The Spotlight
American Greatness: Gretchen Whitmer Has Won The Masks & Lockdown Debate, also, The Joe Biden Who Never Was
American Thinker: The Diversity Industry Has Turned The Clock Back To 1960, also, J&J Vaccine Pause – Caution Or Collusion?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Moves To Silence Conservatives, also, Castro Leaves But Castroism Remains
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 16, The Carpetbagger In TX-06, and Triple Murder Suspect Captured
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Amazon Signs ULA’s Atlas V For First 9 Kuiper Satellite Launches
Cafe Hayek: Neill Ferguson & The Imperial College “Modelers” Are Incompetent Scientists & Shameful Liars
CDR Salamander: Mid-April Midrats Melee! also, An Army Builds Off Ukraine
Da Tech Guy: Information On The Adam Toledo Killing That The MSM Is Overlooking, also, The Saddest (And Least Surprising) Words I’ve Heard All Year
Don Surber: Media Won’t Call Him Lil Homicide, also, Biden Administration Stands Up For An Embezzler, But Not For A Million Slaves
First Street Journal: NYT OpEd Says If You Defend Your Property Against Rioters, You’re Racist, also, Rights Delayed Are Rights Denied
The Geller Report: Gunmen Open Fire On National Guard In Minneapolis After Maxine Waters Incites #BLM Rioters, also, Marjorie Taylor Greene Moves To Expel Maxine Waters For Incitement To Violence & Murder
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Solving The Problem Of Woke Math
Hollywood In Toto: Could About A Boy Be Made Today? also, Spotify Can’t Stop Censoring Joe Rogan
The Lid: On This Day In 1775…
Legal Insurrection: Woke Math & The Intentional Destruction Of Free & Independent Thought, Chauvin Trial Judge Says Maxine Waters’ Threats May Result In Guilty Verdict Being Overturned On Appeal, also, Biden’s Education Department Seeks To Prioritize Critical Race Theory & 1619 Project Grant Applications
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, The Wages Of Duty Done Well
Outkick: It’s Time To Worry About The NBA’s Ratings, also, MLB Sets A 20-Year Ratings Record Over Its First 18 Days
Power Line: Mob Rule In Minnesota, also, A Cry From The Heart Against Rot In Education
Shark Tank: Sabatini Calls Eskamani “A Total Fraud”, also, DeSantis Signs Anti-Rioting Bill Into Law
Shot In The Dark: This Is What Screwed Looks Like, also, If Weasels Were The Size Of Elk
The Political Hat: Louisiana Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Nathan Ball, Green Beret? Not So Fast, also, No Touchy, No Feely!
Transterrestrial Musings: NASA’s Lunar Surprise, also, End Of The Line For Falcon Development
Victory Girls: Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants To Give Maxine Waters The Boot
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Order Protecting People Displaying Press Passes & Covering Protests In Minnesota
Weasel Zippers: Argentinian Pro-Abortion Leader Dies During Abortion, also, #BLM Becoming More & More Like Homegrown ISIS Every Day
The Federalist: Corrupt Media Who Falsely Accused Trump Of Inciting Violence Are Silent When Maxine Waters Does Just That, also, Maxine Waters Demanded Armed Police Escort Before Calling For Violence At Minnesota Anti-Police Protest
Mark Steyn: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, also, Get Out The Gloat

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Category: Linkagery

Not All Heroes Wear Capes

Posted on | April 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Not All Heroes Wear Capes

During the course of the Best Ranger competition at Fort Benning, the teams ran or marched 62 miles in less than 60 hours while completing a series of tasks — obstacle courses, weapons ranges, etc. That’s basically back-to-back marathons, with a couple of 10Ks added on.

The brigade commander called it “the Super Bowl of the Army.”

Team 41 did not win the competition, but they went the distance.

Fifty-one teams began the competition with a nine-mile run at dawn Friday, and by the time they had finished the first obstacle course and the Victory Pond water event at 10 a.m., Team 34 — 1st Lt. Vince Paikowski and 1st Lt. Alastair Keys, from the 75th Ranger Battalion — had ensconced themselves in first place, with a lead they never relinquished. Meanwhile, our family was watching Team 41 — Sgt. Maj. Andrea Copes and Staff Sgt. Robert McCain Jr. — and worried about their place at 30th in the standings. We knew that the first day’s cut was at 28. Before the competition began, Bob had told his mother not to worry about their standings: They had a strategy, not to exhaust themselves on the first run, and rely on their superior marksmanship skills to carry them through.

Sure enough, after the completion of the Urban Assault Course at 11 a.m., Team 41 had moved up to 26th place, and after the Wagner Sniper Range event, they were 22nd. Next came the Three-Gun Event and M4 Qualification Event, after which Team 41 was in 13th place.

Having advanced 17 places since the morning run, we had hopes that Team 41 would keep moving up, but certainly we had good reason to be confident that they would make the first cut, when the field of competitors was reduced to 28 teams. What we didn’t know — the teams being incommunicado for the duration — was that Bob had injured his knee during the first morning’s obstacle course event, and was now limping in agony. Next event? Army Combat Fitness Test, followed by yet another obstacle course, and then a 19-mile night march.

Nineteen miles on a bad knee? No pain, no gain.

Team 41 made the cut. What followed the 19-mile march was a series of exercises called “Night Stakes,” that went until dawn. The scores for the remaining 28 teams were posted, and we learned that Team 41 had dropped to 19th place. Oh, boy — more angst.

You see, the next cut is to 16 teams, and so our guys started Saturday three places below where they needed to be to make it to Day Three. What followed was a day of “Day Stakes” exercises, shooting and more running and, by the time that was all done, Team 41 was in 17th place. The final exercise before the next cut was Night Orienteering (land navigation) and our guys killed it, with the second-highest score. So we found out Sunday morning they had made the cut and were in 14th place. We had hopes that they might make it to a Top 10 finish, but fatigue and injuries took their toll, and they finished 16th. Here is video of Team 41 in the Combat Water Survival Assessment:

You’ll hear the commentator (the coach of Team 49) explain that Bob’s partner is a sergeant major in Italian Special Forces, serving as a trainer for U.S. Rangers. A few photos of Bob in that event:

So . . . what did your kids do this weekend?

Category: Family, Military

Rule 5 Sunday: Hane Ame

Posted on | April 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Hane Ame

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hane Ame is an extremely popular cosplayer and Instagram model, with over 1.3 million followers on her Instagram cosplay account. Here she’s portraying Tifa Lockhart, a character from Final Fantasy VII referred to by the New York Times as “the pin-up girl of the cyber generation”. Well, even the Times can’t get everything wrong.
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She’s not a b-girl, she runs the place.

EBL leads off this week, since Ninety Miles From Tyranny is MIA this week: Cendrillon, Them – A Review, Kimberly Potter, Iolanta & Bluebeard’s Castle, Anne Bonny, The Magic Flute, High Noon, Happy Israel Independence Day!, Hansel & Gretel, Rebekah Jones Day, Rusalka, Monkey Man, La Cenerentola, and MAGA vs. NeverTrumper Sheep

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Corrupt Family Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon

A View From The Beach: Alyson Stoner – The Woman With No Childhood, Election 2020: Twitter Bans O’Keefe and CIA retracts “Russian Bounty” Reports, Fish Pic Friday – Krystal Hall, Thursday Tanlines, Some Wednesday Wetness, MDDNR Happy With Legislators Efforts on Blue Cats, Tuesday Tune – Do You Want to Dance With Me?, It’s Always the Last Place You Look, Election 2020: A Swing and a Miss, Your Monday Morning Stimulus, Election 2020: Sunday Morning Coming Down and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Heather Locklear!

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Yes, That Song

Posted on | April 18, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Yes, That Song

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
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Rebekah Jones and other human scum beat out Rule 5 this week. That’s the way it goes.

Nothing Can Placate the BLM Riot Mob, and ‘Journalists’ Are Part of the Mob
First Street Journal
Pushing Rubber Downhill
The Pirate’s Cove
How Deep Is The Rabbit Hole
357 Magnum
EBL

Lawfare: Do We Need to Have ‘Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day’?
Hogewash
Bacon Time
Sailor Curt
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Equality’ and the Criminal
Bacon Time
Animal Magnetism
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

FMJRA 2.0: Love Removal Machine
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Selina Kyle & Catwoman
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

BLM = Buy Large Mansion
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.12.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 04.13.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

The Ultimate ‘Florida Woman’? It’s Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.15.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 04.16.21 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 04.16.21 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending April 16:

EBL (12)
357 Magnum (10)
(tied) A View From The Beach & Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Cancel Mob Comes for QB Mac Jones

Posted on | April 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Cancel Mob Comes for QB Mac Jones

When he was 13 years old in 2012, Mac Jones wore a “Nobama” costume for Halloween. This was just days before the 2012 election, and Jones was a ninth-grader at the prestigious Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida. In other words, this was a swing state in an election year, where everybody in Florida was being saturated with political ads and — surprise, surprise — the Jones family were among the 49% of Floridians who voted Republican that year. So it wasn’t remotely “controversial” for a teenager in Florida to make fun of Obama. But now it’s 2021 . . .

The “cancel culture” mob went rooting around on Mac Jones’s sister’s social media accounts to find this 2012 photo in an apparent effort to depict Jones — who led Alabama to the national championship — as some sort of racist, with the NFL Draft on the immediate horizon.

Let me explain what’s really behind this: The San Francisco 49ers are looking for a franchise quarterback. They were 12th in the draft order, but traded away their first-round pick, plus their first-round picks for 2022 and 2023 to the Miami Dolphins for the No. 3 overall pick. Everybody knows this was aimed at getting the kind of quarterback who can take the Niners to the Super Bowl, and there was widespread speculation that Mac Jones is their man. The other possible choice is Justin Fields of Ohio State. These are two very different quarterbacks — Mac Jones is a traditional Tom Brady-type drop-back passer with a powerful arm, while Fields is more of the run-and-gun “wildcat” QB. During the last full season (2019) for Ohio State, Fields rushed for 484 yards, while Jones in 2020 rushed for only 14 yards. But Jones is by far the better passer, with 4,500 yards and a 77.4 completion percentage his senior year. Not to mention, of course, that in their head-to-head matchup in the National Championship game, Alabama absolutely humiliated Ohio State 52-24, with Jones throwing for five TDs and 464 yards. The choice between Fields and Jones is a choice between two very different players, and San Francisco has bet the future of their franchise on this choice.

Oh, wait — left-wing San Francisco, a franchise that has been under fire by radicals ever since they benched Colin Kaepernick. Isn’t it obvious that the 49ers are under tremendous pressure to choose Fields — the black guy — over the white guy, Jones? Frankly, it makes no difference to me, as an Alabama fan, because I’m sure Jones will be great wherever he goes in the draft, but this attempt to get Jones “cancelled” as a racist shows how identity politics ruins everything. NFL teams can’t even make personnel choices without being subjected to scrutiny over absurd “social justice” standards that have nothing to do with football.

Anyway, if the 49ers don’t draft Mac Jones, they’ll be making a mistake, but it’s probably “white supremacy” to say so.

Category: Football, Racism

FBI Knew About Indianapolis Gunman

Posted on | April 17, 2021 | Comments Off on FBI Knew About Indianapolis Gunman

Armed, dangerous and crazy:

The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis was interviewed by FBI agents last year, after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop,” the bureau said Friday.
Coroners released the names of the victims late Friday, a little less than 24 hours after the latest mass shooting to rock the U.S. Four of them were members of Indianapolis’ Sikh community. The attack was another blow to the Asian American community a month after six people of Asian descent were killed in a mass shooting in the Atlanta area and amid ongoing attacks against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Marion County Coroner’s office identified the dead as Matthew R. Alexander, 32; Samaria Blackwell, 19; Amarjeet Johal, 66; Jaswinder Kaur, 64; Jaswinder Singh, 68; Amarjit Sekhon, 48; Karli Smith, 19; and John Weisert, 74.
The shooter was identified as Brandon Scott Hole, 19, of Indianapolis, Deputy Police Chief Craig McCartt told a news conference. Investigators searched a home in Indianapolis associated with Hole and seized evidence, including desktop computers and other electronic media, McCartt said.
Hole began firing randomly at people in the parking lot of the FedEx facility late Thursday, killing four, before entering the building, fatally shooting four more people and then turning the gun on himself, McCartt said. He said he did not know if Hole owned the gun legally.
“There was no confrontation with anyone that was there,” he said. “There was no disturbance, there was no argument. He just appeared to randomly start shooting.” . . .
Paul Keenan, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis field office, said Friday that agents questioned Hole last year after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop.” He said the FBI was called after items were found in Hole’s bedroom but he did not elaborate on what they were. He said agents found no evidence of a crime and that they did not identify Hole as espousing a racially motivated ideology. A police report obtained by The Associated Press shows that officers seized a pump-action shotgun from Hole’s home after responding to the mother’s call. Keenan said the gun was never returned.
McCartt said Hole was a former employee of FedEx and last worked for the company in 2020. The deputy police chief said he did not know why Hole left the job or if he had ties to the workers in the facility. He said police have not yet uncovered a motive for the shooting.

Motive? How about, he’s crazy?

Crazy People Are Dangerous.

Category: Crime, Indiana

Jones v. Pushaw Update

Posted on | April 17, 2021 | Comments Off on Jones v. Pushaw Update

After “Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day,” it turns out that Friday’s hearing was a bit of a “meh.” John Hoge reports that the case was continued to April 30 because Christina Pushaw had not been properly served in the case. So we will have to wait another two weeks to learn whether Jones succeeds in her effort at shutuppery. But Jones was mystified by Hoge’s appearance at Friday’s hearing:

At the conclusion of the hearing, I left the courthouse immediately. I wanted to avoid any interaction with Jones, and I knew she would have to stay in the courtroom for a while in order to receive a copy of the case paperwork. I had turned off my phone in the courtroom, so I stopped on the sidewalk outside the courthouse to turn it on and make a couple of calls. As Jones left the building, turned to me and asked, “Do I know you?”
I replied, “No.”
She said, “You left at the end of my case. Were you there for me?”
I replied, “Yes.”
She said, “Thank you,” and walked away.

He’s like a comic-book hero: The Gray Ghost. We will discuss this on tonight’s episode (7 p.m. ET) of The Other Podcast.