In The Mailbox: 05.08.24 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)

Posted on | May 8, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.08.24 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)

Hit Baldilocks’ tip jar. It’s kinda important.

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

How I feel on an average day looking at the news.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Texans Are Still Armed
EBL: Hamas pretends to accept “ceasefire” when IDF ready to enter Rafah, also, MAGA Indefinite Postponment of the Trump Classified Document Case
Twitchy: “I Live In One of The United State” Tweets Discount Comm Shop Bot, Rep. Adam Schiff Has A Meltdown As Another Trump Trial Faces Delay, and House GOP Bill Proposes Sending Criminal Anit-Israel Protesters To Gaza
Louder With Crowder: David Hogg Made The Most Bizarre Claim About What “Men Want” In Strange Rant Romanticizing Trains, Watch: Berkeley Holds Lecture From Furry Who Claims “Living Openly Gay” Gave Him “Superpowers”, Boy Scouts To Now Be Called “Scouting America” To Be More Inclusive, “Take your mask off, p*ssy”, and Female dart champion takes a stand, refuses to compete against trans opponent claiming to be a woman
Vox Popoli: Women Love Bears, The End Approaches, A Physicist Endorses MITTENS, The Gazacaust is Bad PR, and “Enough,” said the Bear
Gab: The Wartime Church,
Upstream Reviews: Pirates Of The Electromagnetic Waves

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Tactical Assault,
CDR Salamander: What Do We Do About Shipbuilding?
Dana Loesch: So Kristi Noem’s Book Launch Is Going Well, Last Week In Legal (Tila Tequila Edition),
Don Surber: Our credit card economy
Glenn Reynolds: Pushback works
STUMP: Alternative Assets In Public Pensions 2001-2022 Update,

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 05.07.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 7, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For reasons known best to themselves, SWA changed my flights so I left Las Vegas at noon instead of 1400, and won’t be leaving Denver until 1800, which puts me at Dulles around 0010 tomorrow. Also, the flight in and the flight out are at opposite ends of Denver International. Truly, Murphy’s cursed attentions are upon me.
Calling Authors! The Summer Based Book Sale Is Nigh!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Commissar Trejo has opinions.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Woke Hollywood Is Broke
Twitchy: DNC War Room Learns The Hard Way About FAFO After Lying About Scott Presler, Labour Councilor WRECKED Over Idiotic Post About “Gender Neutral Toilet” At Home, and Gen-Z Lefties Dropping Selfies With Their Ages Bragging About Voting For Biden Backfires Spectacularly
Louder With Crowder: Did Joe Biden poop his pants in front of the press this weekend? An investigation
Vox Popoli: Hey, New Friend! May the Fourth, The Vacuous Rhetoric of Evolution, An Unconscionable Hope, and How Genghis Khan’s MITTENS Strangled Darwin
Stoic Observations: Presiding Over Chaos, also, The Private Corpus
Upstream Reviews: The Powers of the Earth,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Losing The Sexual Revolution

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES

Dana Loesch: Can Kari Lake Pull Off A Win In Arizona? also, Trump Isn’t Desperate By Appealing To Libertarians,
Don Surber: Where are the anti-Hamas protests?
STUMP: Public Pension Governance In Ohio,

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Cherie Currie

Posted on | May 6, 2024 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Lead singer for the all-girl punk band the Runaways (you may have heard of her bandmates Lita Ford and Joan Jett), Cherie Currie went on to become an actress, a mom, and is currently raising hell on X by vigorously opposing the castration and mutilation of kids, which you would think wouldn’t be a controversial stance – but then, we are living in Robert Heinlein’s Crazy Years. Here’s a pic of Cherie in her Runaways days at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in LA back in 1978.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Trump Veep Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, May The 4th Be With You, The Foreign Correspondent, MAGA Pizza Delivery For FDNY, The Lady Vanishes, The Lusty Month Of May, The 39 Steps, Hail Hail The First Of May, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Evidence Of Planet Nine, Hunter Biden Sues Fox News, The Long Voyage Home, and 49th Parallel

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Kaylee Ricciardi, CBF’s Take On The Striper Problem, Fish Pic Friday – Nautiale, Whale Lawsuit Slows Virginia Offshore Wind Power Project, Thursday Tanlines, Gone Fishin’, Wednesday Wetness, Orange Tree, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Sunday Sunrise

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for May 3, also, Alternative Words For Bobs, Breasts & Bosoms (a/k/a The Gland Glossary)

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 5, 2024 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Delroy Thomas of Riviera Beach, Florida, who has a lot of problems, including gunshot wounds:

Just two days before an encounter with a police officer that resulted in a Riviera Beach man being shot and wounded on the campus of Suncoast High School, his family sought to get him help.
Delroy Thomas was taken to HCA JFK North Medical Center on Saturday, April 20, to be evaluated for involuntary commitment under Florida’s Baker Act, his brother Calvin Nance said this week. It allows a person to be kept in the hospital for up to 72 hours if there is reason to believe the person is a danger to themselves or others.\
Nance said his brother has long struggled with mental illness and that family members requested that he be taken to the hospital after a recent episode. Yet somehow, Nance said, the hospital released Thomas over the weekend without the family’s knowledge. . . .
“I’m trying to understand why they would have released him,” he said of his brother, who remains hospitalized after the shooting and whose arrest report indicates that he was wearing what appeared to be blue scrubs as he walked toward Suncoast High’s south gate. “We were under the impression he was supposed to be Baker Acted.”
Nance said he believes long-term treatment for his brother would have prevented the school encounter with police.
“The system failed him in so many ways,” he said. “All of this could have been prevented. It should have been prevented. … Everybody could see that he was (struggling).”

Try to imagine the experience of the police officer at the school, when she sees this lunatic walking onto campus still wearing his hospital scrubs, arriving directly from the psychiatric ward. Readers will perhaps not be too surprised to learn that he has an extensive criminal history:

Palm Beach County court records reveal that an encounter that ended with gunfire in a high school parking lot Monday morning [April 22] is the culmination of a series of troubling encounters between Delroy Thomas, law enforcement and area hospitals.
Thomas, 29, faces charges of battery on law enforcement and trespassing on school grounds, among other counts, stemming from Monday’s incident in the parking lot of Suncoast High School in Riviera Beach, while students were being dropped off.
According to the probable cause affidavit in the case, Riviera Beach police Officer Nodane Cherisma approached Thomas when he walked onto school grounds and she did not recognize him as a student. The document described Thomas as becoming physically “aggressive” with Cherisma in an “unprovoked attack.”
Cherisma shot Thomas twice. The affidavit said the officer was “forced to use deadly force to stop the immediate threat to herself and any possible threat to the students and staff on campus.” . . .
This was not Thomas’ first violent encounter with law enforcement, according to Palm Beach County court records.
A 2014 affidavit detailing charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting with violence alleges Thomas “forcefully squeezed” a corrections officer’s fingers, and threatened to kill him. Thomas was in jail at the time facing theft charges. The battery charges were dropped by prosecutors.
Another affidavit from 2018, while Thomas was being held on burglary charges, states that he elbowed and kicked corrections officers who were trying to take him to a medical evaluation. He was found guilty and sentenced to time served amid a five-year sentence stemming from other charges related to the burglary.
More recently, Thomas’ criminal record shows a string of less violent charges.
Court records of five separate trespassing arrests this year:

Jan. 13 at HCA Florida JFK Hospital
Jan. 31 at Saint Mary’s Medical Center. The arrest affidavit showed Thomas was told not to return for a year.
Feb. 15 at JFK Hospital. The affidavit said Thomas had just received treatment there and refused to leave.
March 15 at JFK Hospital. Once again, the affidavit states Thomas had refused to leave following treatment. This encounter resulted in a ban from the hospital.
April 10 at an Intown Suites hotel in Riviera Beach. According to the affidavit, the hotel’s night manager told officers Thomas was an unregistered guest, lying in the hallway.

“My brother got a mental problem. They actually let him out and can see he’s not in his right mind,” Calvin Nance, referring to multiple hospital admissions for his brother Thomas under the Baker Act, said.

The man’s own family wants him locked up in the looney bin, but for some reason they kept turning him loose until he got shot by a cop.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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Category: Crime, Florida

FMJRA 2.0: No Satisfaction

Posted on | May 5, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: No Satisfaction

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another bad week for Senators fans, though marginally better than last week. It started well with two wins and a loss against the Tribe at the Mistake by the Lake, but then we came home expecting to sweep Dom’s Reales con Queso only to get shut down by Roger Nelson in the first game and the Reales bullpen in the second. Despite his whining, his team isn’t actually that bad – with a couple of exceptions, every hitter in his lineup but two has C power or better, and they hit a couple of homers off Pat Dobson and Eddie Fisher that proved decisive. Well, we’ll see how we do against Atlanta on Monday or Wednesday; normally it would have been Tuesday but I’ll be en route to Dulles most of the day.
Just picked up the most recent in Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series of CDs on Thursday and ripped it today. First disc seems to have a lot of pseudo-operatic stuff that isn’t too great; we’ll see how the other two work out.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Not a good thing.

Rule Five Sunday: Indoor Lounging
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Secret Service DEI Quota Hire Goes Completely Berserk at Andrews AFB
The Daley Gator
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: No Joy In The North
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 04.29.24
EBL
357 Magnum

The ‘Moorish Sovereign Citizen’ Menace
Flappr
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.01.24 (afternoon edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Covering the Big Issues
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mail: 05.02.24 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.02.24 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.03.24
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 05.03.24

Posted on | May 4, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
I have to drive down to Las Vegas Sunday for a Monday morning appointment at the VA, and on Tuesday I’m flying out to the DC area to hang out with friends for a week. So blogging may be a tad episodic.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.