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What the Princess Said

Posted on | March 10, 2021 | Comments Off on What the Princess Said

“We are trying to do all we can to help our gallant sailors, soldiers, and airmen, and we are trying, too, to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war. We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well. For God will care for us, and bring us victory and peace.”
— Princess Elizabeth, October 1940

What sort of suffering has Meghan Markle ever endured that could be compared to what the English people endured during World War II?

In October 1940, when 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth went on the BBC to assure her nation’s children that “God will care for us,” England had been under attack by Hitler’s Luftwaffe for three months. More than 14,000 British civilians died during the Nazi bombing campaign, to say nothing of the hundreds of brave RAF pilots who died in aerial combat against the Germans. England was entirely alone against Hitler for more than a year between the collapse of France in June 1940 and the U.S. entry into the war in December 1941. What enormous sacrifices the British people made, and what terrible hardships they endured, during that lonely fight against Hitler’s war machine, ought to inspire eternal admiration. Alas, most of us have forgotten what the British did in “their finest hour,” just as we have forgotten our own courageous history:

One of the great insights of Edmund Burke’s monumental treatise Reflections on the Revolution in France is his defense of the principle of inheritance in government. Burke argued against certain radical theorists who claimed that Britain’s limited monarchy meant that the King of England’s title was dependent upon the “right” of the people to “choose” their ruler. No such right existed under the British constitution, Burke made clear, citing the pedigree by which the king held his crown as an inheritance, just as the king’s subjects held their liberties as an inheritance.
This principle of heredity as the basis of government might strike most Americans as archaic. If they would take time to read our Constitution, however, they would find that it was the solemn intent of the Founding Fathers to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” Thus, our rights as Americans have been bequeathed to us as an inheritance — a gift from our remote ancestors — and we can see in Burke’s argument how the rights of Englishmen were likewise inherited, through the same historical processes by which the king inherited his crown. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.




 

Category: Celebrities, Great Britain

In The Mailbox: 03.09.21

Posted on | March 10, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.09.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Is That “Affordable Bail” Working Out?
EBL: See The World the Way David French Does
Twitchy: The “Cruel, Psychotic, & Ridiculous” Way BuzzFeed Let HuffPo Staffers Know If They Were Laid Off
Louder With Crowder: Biden Appears To Forget Name Of His Defense Secretary – Also, Name Of The Department Of Defense
Vox Popoli: The End Of The Legal Option, also, Extrication Time
Stoic Observations: A Devil’s Dictionary Of Disagreeables

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: So Apparently Milo Isn’t Gay Now
American Conservative: The Urban Poor Are Paying A Stiff Murder Tax
American Greatness: The Current Balance Sheet Of American Democracy
American Power: Liz Posner Was A “Well-Meaning WHITE Teacher”, Except She Wasn’t A “Teacher” At All
American Thinker: Biden’s Border Brouhaha Is Just The Start
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Return Of Jim Crow News
Babalu Blog: The Cuban Dictatorship Fears “Subversive Artists”
BattleSwarm: Mike Rowe On “The Science Is Settled” And Cancel Culture, also, Chicoms Carry Out Giant Microsoft Hack
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Mars, Planet of Many Glaciers
Cafe Hayek: A Report From Down Under By David Hart
CDR Salamander: The Western Way Of War – Two Problems & Six Solutions
Da Tech Guy: Judging Our Neighborhood Overseers, also, And Now A Sports Interlude
Don Surber: Joe Manchin, D-Manchin, also, Tim Scott – “Woke Supremacy Is As Bad As White Supremacy”
First Street Journal: NYT Blames Heat & Humidity On You And Your Burger, also, The HuffPo Is Biting The Dust
The Geller Report: GA Fails To Produce Chain Of Custody For 404,000 Absentee Ballots Months After Contested Election, also, AZ Hospital Worker Says Almost All New COVID Patients Are Illegal Aliens
Hogewash: Slow Blogging, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Classic Tales Deserve Our Respect, Not Politically Correct Updates, also, How Legend Of The Lone Ranger Crushed A Beloved Icon
The Lid: LA Teachers Union Reminds Members Not To Post Vacation Pics Online
Legal Insurrection: Biden Brain Freeze, also, SCOTUS Rules Former College Student Can Sue For Free Speech Violations; Roberts Dissents
Nebraska Energy Observer: There Are Two
Outkick: NBA All-Star Game Sets New Ratings Low, also, Major Sports Leagues Lost Massive Amounts Of Money In 2020
Power Line: Coke Demands Its Law Firms Engage In Unlawful Discrimination, also, The Deep Rig
Shark Tank: Sabatini Fights Big Tech In Florida With HB-33
Shot In The Dark: Money Pedals The World
STUMP: MoneyPalooza Monstrosity – It Passed!
The Political Hat: Iowa Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Troops Might Never Leave DC, also, Biden’s Dog Kicked Out Of The White House
Victory Girls: Joy Reid Attempts To Drag Sen. Tim Scott; He Quotes The Bible
Volokh Conspiracy: When The Chief Stands Alone
Weasel Zippers: Michigan’s Sociopath Governor Could Face Charges Over Nursing Home Deaths, also, Entire Nevada Democratic Party Staff Quits After Democratic Socialists Take Over Party Leadership
The Federalist: For National Security Reasons, Let’s Keep Biden In The Basement And Off TV, also, Biden’s Pick For Civil Rights Head Peddled The Jussie Smollett Hoax
Mark Steyn: Waiting For Durham

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Category: Linkagery

Tedious Royal Celebrities

Posted on | March 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Tedious Royal Celebrities

There is stupid, then there’s royal stupid, which is much more stupid than common stupidity. This afternoon, I spent several hours writing a couple of thousand words about that intensely stupid Oprah interview with Prince Harry and that dollar-discount Duchess of his.

It’s about racism. Why? Because it’s 2021 and everything is racism.

Excuse me if I’m fresh out of fucks to give about these people. Unless and until we get leaked nudes of Meghan, I’m done caring. Not that I actually ever cared, but now I can’t even pretend to care.

Meanwhile, however, BuzzFeed — which bought out HuffPo in some kind of deal a while back — has announced layoffs for 47 HuffPo staffers, and this gets an extra happy dance from Darren Beattie:

You’ll appreciate the rich learn-to-code irony here a bit better when I remind you that Darren Beattie was the White House speechwriter who lost his job because he was outed as having “alt-right” connections. So in describing the laid-off HuffPo staffers as “white supremacists,” he’s paying back a bill that’s long overdue. See, these progressive young journalists — they’re white. Like, so-white-they’re-translucent Miracle-Whip-on-Wonder-Bread white. Despite being honkies from Crackerville, however, they think being “woke” will make up for their lack of “diversity.” Guess what? You’re now just another unemployed college-educated white liberal, and nobody gives a damn about you.

Get a job at a solar-panel plant. Or learn to code.




 

Category: Liberals

In The Mailbox: 03.08.21

Posted on | March 8, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.08.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: MSM Infographic – What To Call Things Depending On Which Party Benefits
357 Magnum: Never Underestimate The Power Of Human Stupidity
EBL: Pepe Le Pew Has A Target On His Back, also, Can Speedy Gonzalez Outrun The Woke Mob?
Twitchy: Matthew Yglesias Claims The Media’s Uncritical Lauding Of Andrew Cuomo & The Lincoln Project Never Happened
Louder With Crowder: Starbucks Demands Woman Mask Up At Drive-Thru While Sitting In Her Car. It Gets Dumber.
Vox Popoli: An Army Of Retards, also, Retreat Means More Retreat
Stoic Observations: The Corpse Flotilla

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Correcting The Biden Administration’s Lies About The Border Crisis
American Greatness: Biden Signs EO Expanding Vote By Mail, Other Shady Voting Practices, also, Trump Will Work To Unseat Alaska’s Murkowski
American Power: So Former RI Gov Raimondo Botched State’s COVID Response – The NYT Is Shilling For Her Now That She’s Joined The Biden Administration
American Thinker: Children Need Protection Against Transgender Activists, also, The 21st Century Ugly Americans
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: A Verdict Makes History In Cuba By Rejecting “Contempt” As A Crime, also, The Risks Of Vacationing In The North Korea Of The Americas
BattleSwarm: PSA – Mirrors Aren’t Bulletproof, also, Followup On A Gas/Water Valve Shutoff Tool
Behind The Black: Starship Update, also, Today’s Blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: Ad Hominem Is Not A Valid Argument, also, Coleman Hughes Is (Justly) Very Critical Of Ibram X. Kendi
CDR Salamander: The Navalist View From Singapore – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Screams of Whiskey, also, They’re Not Even Trying Any More
Don Surber: Sidney Poitier, Enemy Of The People, also, Media Lies Are Losing Power
First Street Journal: Senate Democrats Join Republicans To Scuttle $15 Minimum Wage, also, Capitol Police Request Two-Month Extension Of National Guard Deployment
The Geller Report: MI Judge Reinstates Voting Fraud Case After Forensic Audit Of Dominion Voting Machines, also, Switzerland Bans The Burka
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, A Dark Place In The Sky
Hollywood In Toto: Yahoo! Shames Mumford & Sons Musician For Supporting Andy Ngo, also, Modern “Stars” Couldn’t Save Chaos Walking From Flopping
The Lid: The Honey Badger Slams Bad Orange Woman – I Didn’t Do “A Ton Of Circling Back”
Legal Insurrection: TX Gov Abbott Launches “Operation Lone Star” To Strengthen Border Security, also, Media Using Same “Anonymous Sources” Tactic For Capitol Hill Riot That Propelled Russia Hoax
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Naught For Our Comfort
Outkick: Small-Market MLB Teams To Receive Only 50% Of Revenue Sharing This Year, also, Kaepernick To Be Russell Wilson’s Backup In Seattle?
Power Line: Juxtaposition, also, Chauvin Pretrial Notes
Shark Tank: Sabatini Launches “Make America First Again” Congressional Campaign
Shot In The Dark: Voting With Our Dollars
The Political Hat: Buffalo Public Schools To Kindergartners – Go Woke Or black Children Die
This Ain’t Hell: Enough Already! also, Red China’s Army Navy Vs. U.S. Navy
Transterrestrial Musings: The Age Of Space Reconnaissance, also, BlueAnon
Victory Girls: Blue Anon Mocks Liberal Media, Google Censors It, also, Meghan, Harry, Oprah, & The Misogynoir
Volokh Conspiracy: “Health Experts Are Telling Healthy People Not To Wear Face Masks For Coronavirus, So Why Are So Many Doing It?”
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Clown Warns Of Violent “Paramilitary” Trump Insurgency, also, Shocker! NBA Stars Plan Political Message For All-Star Game
The Federalist: Evangelicals For Biden Feel “Used & Betrayed”, also, Fifteen Insane Things In Democrats’ HR 1 To Corrupt Elections Forever
Mark Steyn: Rickman’s Worth, also, Things To Obsess About Until They Nuke Us

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Category: Linkagery

XXPEN$IVE: Beverly Hills Lawyer Paid High Price for His ‘Trophy Wife’

Posted on | March 8, 2021 | Comments Off on XXPEN$IVE: Beverly Hills Lawyer Paid High Price for His ‘Trophy Wife’

Erika Jayne Tom Girardi
Credit: Bravo

Professor Reynolds linked to the latest story about the downfall of California tort lawyer Tom Girardi, who was the guy behind the lawsuit made famous in the 2000 movie Erin Brockovich:

When Joe Biden came to Los Angeles to raise money for his presidential campaign, Tom Girardi filled a dining room at the Jonathan Club with wealthy attorneys. . . . The 2019 breakfast fundraiser at the private downtown club was in many ways the end of an era. By the time Biden was elected last fall, Girardi’s life and legal empire were unraveling. His wealth, once estimated north of $250 million, has vanished and with it his reputation as one of the nation’s most connected and respected lawyers. With Girardi facing bankruptcy, divorce and a criminal investigation, his days as a political insider and power broker appear over. For decades, though, politicians were happy to take his money and put up with his requests for something in return. Along with his family and employees, Girardi contributed more than $7.3 million to candidates.

If you study the pathetic tale of Girardi’s downfall — the Los Angeles Times ran a 4,000-word story about this shabby tragedy in December — you realize that the primary source of his problems was his third wife, a blonde bimbo gold-digger more than 30 years his junior. A native of Atlanta, Erika Chahoy moved to New York as soon as she turned 18. Gosh, I wonder what kind of work she was doing in New York?

While living in New York, she met Thomas Zizzo, when he was working as a DJ at a club in Manhattan. The couple got married in December 1991 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Soon after she gave birth to a son, Thomas Zizzo, Jr. After the couple divorced a few years later, she relocated to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a singer.

If you suspect she was working as a teenage stripper, congratulations — great minds think alike. But in L.A., the gold-digger hit paydirt:

Girardi met Jayne in the late 1990s at Chasen’s, the famed Beverly Hills haunt where he was a co-owner and she waited tables in the bar. Jayne, then known as Erika Chahoy, was a striking, blond 28-year-old with a young son and dreams of stardom. Girardi was 60. . . .
She soon moved into what Girardi has described as a five-acre compound overlooking the Rose Bowl and quit Chasen’s. . . .
The couple married in the clubhouse of the Los Angeles Country Club in 2000. Girardi asked a judge he knew to officiate at the end of a round of golf. The wedding was so spontaneous that the groom enlisted an attorney in the bar as a witness. Although Girardi was in the midst of an acrimonious dispute over dividing assets with his second wife, he opted not to sign a prenuptial agreement.

When a 60-year-old man in the midst of his second divorce hooks up with that kind of girl, “happily ever after” is not a likely ending. Girardi is not a stupid man — his educational credentials are impressive and his successful career as a lawyer speaks for itself — but it would see that, with Erika Jayne, he was thinking with the wrong organ.

It appears that Erika Jayne got Girardi to sponsor her musical “career” to the tune of several million dollars. Top songwriters and producers were enlisted to put together the kind of electronic dance music where the singer’s ability (or lack thereof) was not really relevant. Her first single, “Roller Coaster,” was promoted with a video “shot in The Bahamas and at Stardust Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.” That the song had no discernible melody did not prevent it from reaching #1 in the Billboard Club Dance charts. And this went on for years. Nobody knows how much money Tom Girardi pumped into his wife’s career, but the amount was not small. In her 2017 song, “Xxpen$ive,” she boasted:

Bentleys and Benz’s
Through cash-colored lenses.
Them dollars and cents — cha-ching!
It’s expensive to be me.
Looking this good don’t come for free.

By then, she was 45 and had been starring in the Bravo network’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for two years. What viewers of the series didn’t know was that Tom Girardi was already scrambling to stave off the financial problems that would eventually destroy him.

What do you notice about that artwork? It’s absurdly crude, as if drawn by a high-school art student. Does it occur to you (as it occurred to me) that going cheap on the artwork could be seen as evidence of the shady nature of the finances behind this production?

To pay his wife’s bills, according to a lawyer representing the Indonesian crash victims, Girardi had been running his law firm like a Ponzi scheme, borrowing money at high interest against prospective future settlements and also, allegedly, swindling victims out of their rightful share of these settlements. Did I mention that Tom Girardi was a major Democratic Party donor? Do you think this might be more than a coincidence?

“At one point, I had about 80 million or 50 million in cash. That’s all gone,” Girardi acknowledged in testimony [in fall 2020] about another client’s funds. “I don’t have any money.”

Just about the time his money ran out — surprise! — Erika decided she needed to divorce Tom, because what else did their marriage ever mean?

Twenty years ago, Tom Girardi was worth more than $50 million, and now at age 81, he’s on his way to bankruptcy and disbarment.

He will probably die in prison. Way to go, top Democrat donor!




 

Category: Democrats, Hollywood

Rule 5 Sunday: Irina Meier

Posted on | March 8, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Irina Meier

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Professional cosplayer and Instagram model, Irina Meier does excellent work portraying sexy heroines and can be hired to do custom pics as well, such as this one from Reddit (NSFW). I’m not sure which of the Hogwarts Academy coeds she’s playing in this picture (it’s been literally a decade since I read the Harry Potter series) but I have the feeling it’s one of the Slytherin girls.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Ten points to Slytherin?

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1281, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five University Reform Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Don Pasquale, Julie London, Lela Loren & Nordic Runes, Falstaff, “The Yellow Rose Of Texas”, Jewel & Alison Krauss, Die Walkure, Orion Carloto, Die Zauberflote, Peter Grimes, Susannah McCorkle, Rusalka, Abigail Hawk, La Forza Del Destino, and MAGA Addresses Chronic GOP Corruption

A View From The Beach: Hailing from Shanghai – Leah Lewis, Fish Pic Friday – Cherlyn Arnold, Thursday Tanlines, Some More Wednesday Wetness, Starlight, WuFlu Alters Chesapeake Oyster Industry, Carla’s Hubby Headed to the Hoosegow?, Your Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

Posted on | March 7, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

FMJRA 2.0: High Energy Protons
Harsh Brutus
A View From The Beach
EBL

Police Kill Juan Hernandez
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Cathryn Li
Animal Magnetism
Harsh Brutus
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

Trump Approved 10,000 National Guard for Jan. 6, But Pelosi Rejected Troops
Bacon Time
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.02.21 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL

Governor Gropo
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.02.21 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

An Embarrassing Defeat for Biden
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.05.21 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.05.21 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending March 5:

  1.  EBL (9)
  2.  357 Magnum (7)
  3.  A View From The Beach (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Blood in the Water: Why Have Democrats Turned Against Andrew Cuomo?

Posted on | March 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Blood in the Water: Why Have Democrats Turned Against Andrew Cuomo?

Headline from the Washington Post:

Cuomo’s behavior created ‘hostile, toxic’ workplace culture for decades, former aides say

Mere weeks ago, Cuomo was embraced as a hero by Democrats and celebrated by their media allies, who bestowed an Emmy Award on him.

So why does it seem that the same forces that made Cuomo a hero are now determined to destroy him? Ace offered this analysis:

A friend speculates that this Late Hit on Cuomo — the hit should have come in freakin’ May, of course — is being coordinated by Kamala Harris, who knows Biden will die in office and that she herself has very little affection among Democrats. She is therefore, per this theory, taking out the man most likely to challenge her in 2024.
That’s why the media is now reporting on this. Not because they’re honest, not because they’re brave.
But because a Democrat gave them their marching orders.

It makes sense. Everybody — and I mean, everybody — can see that Biden is approaching the last stages of helpless, drooling senility. If it’s this bad now, just weeks after inauguration, how much worse will it be this time next year? Can anyone imagine Biden standing in Congress next February to deliver his State of the Union address? He can’t even do a press conference now, and babbles incoherently anytime he’s in front of a microphone without a script. This means that Harris will almost certainly become president sooner rather than later, and Team Kamala realized Cuomo was a potential primary rival for 2024, so suddenly a bunch of women decided it was time to “come forward” even though Cuomo’s habitual lechery and bullying was never really a secret.

Everyone is supposed to pretend that the timing of this scandal was just a coincidence. Women did not “come forward” earlier because reasons.




 

Category: Democrats, New York, Scandal
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