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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

R-A-A-A-A-A-CISM!

Posted on | March 6, 2021 | Comments Off on R-A-A-A-A-A-CISM!

“We are not a nation of victims, and neither are we a nation of oppressors. Most of us are just trying to get through the week, pay our bills, and live the best life we can.”
— “Why Is Identity Politics Destroying America?”

John Sexton reports on the latest development in the Culture War:

USA Today published the results of a new poll on the public’s support for Black Lives Matter and for police. The poll found that support for BLM is still down from the highs it briefly saw last summer. Meanwhile trust in local police is up substantially. But there’s a hitch, and you can probably guess what it is. Black and white Americans view these issues very differently. In fact, the two are almost a mirror image at this point.

The point is that this is all about pure partisan politics.

Five years ago, nobody was talking about “systemic racism.” Why not? Because Obama was president and Hillary was locked in as the 2016 Democratic Party nominee. Instead, what everybody was talking about in 2016 was misogyny and patriarchal oppression of women. Why did the subject of the media narrative change? Because the political needs of the Democratic Party changed. In 2016, everybody in the media was trying to make feminism seem like a “mainstream” belief system, so that Hillary could be seen as legitimately deserving of the presidency.

By the spring of 2020, however, internal polling and focus groups told Democrats that electing Joe Biden required making “systemic racism” the focus of the media narrative. CNN then turned the death of George Floyd into a national crusade, initiating a summer of race riots intended to “energize” the black vote for Biden. We will discuss this problem and much more tonight at 7 p.m. ET on The Other Podcast.

If you miss the program live, the archive is here.




 

Category: Racism, The Other Podcast

Joy Reid Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

Posted on | March 6, 2021 | Comments Off on Joy Reid Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

Liberals have spent five years ranting about “white supremacy” (when they weren’t busy ranting about “Russian collusion” or accusing Brett Kavanaugh of being a serial rapist) and the rest of us have been left to our own resources to figure out exactly what liberals mean when they accuse Republicans of being “white supremacists.” So now an eminent spokeswoman for liberalism has finally offered some clarification:

MSNBC host Joy Reid said Wednesday that for “people on the right,” not being able to “be openly racist and discriminatory without consequence is suppression.”
Reid, responding to a tweet from MSNBC political contributor Dr. Jason Johnson, said “people on the right would trade all the tax cuts for the ability to openly say the n-word like in ‘the good old days.’”
“To them, not being able to be openly racist and discriminatory without consequence is oppression,” Reid wrote. “Trump is the avatar for this ‘freedom.’”
Both Reid and Johnson were addressing a Deseret News article by journalist Bari Weiss, who claims “self-censorship is threatening democracy.”
In the article, Weiss noted how people on the left and right feel pressure to “self-censor” when talking about certain political topics. She mentioned a study from the Cato Institute that found 62% of Americans self-censor, and another 32% worry their political views could harm their employment prospects.

Notice the vast leap involved in this non sequitur:

  1. Bari Weiss writes an article about the effects of “cancel culture”;
  2. Professor Johnson, based on nothing that I could locate in Weiss’s article, declares that by “self-censorship,” what Weiss means is “censoring yourself from saying the N word amongst friends”;
    and then
  3. Joy Reid, apparently without having bothered to read what Bari Weiss actually wrote, declares that “people on the right” (by which she apparently means all 74 million Americans who voted to reelect Donald Trump), are pining with nostalgia for “the good old days” (by which she apparently means, 1954 in Yazoo County, Mississippi).

Do you see the absolute disconnect between cause and effect here? Bari Weiss is a Jew who graduated from Columbia University and, I am reasonably confident, has no desire to use racial slurs “amongst friends” or anywhere else, for that matter. I mention Weiss’s Jewishness not because it matters to me but because (a) Jews historically were among the most prominent supporters of the 20th-century Civil Rights movement in America, and (b) I suspect Joy Reid hates Jews.

There is a disturbingly large amount of anti-Semitism in the black community these days, and the Democratic Party may yet go down the disastrous road to “Corbynism” because of this factor. While it has never been my policy to fling around careless accusations of anti-Semitism, nor to throw anyone under the bus because of such accusations, at the same time I do not think it entirely coincidental that this specific situation involves two black people ganging up to attack a Jewish woman.

Do not be surprised if, whenever Joy Reid’s gross stupidity finally gets her fired from MSNBC, we discover she’s a raving anti-Semite.

Remember: If you can hear the “dog whistle,” you’re the dog.




 

Category: MSNBC, Racism

In The Mailbox: 03.05.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 6, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.05.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend linkagery.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

The Anti-Tank Catgirl, coming soon from the genetic engineering labs at SpaceX

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Follow The Science – Until It Contradicts The Politics, also, Media Bias? What Media Bias?
EBL: Eric Swalwell Made Some More Noise
Twitchy: Bad Orange Woman Gets Snippy With CBS’ Weijia Jiang When Asked About Migrant Surge
Louder With Crowder: White House Quickly Cuts Feed After Biden Says “I’m Happy To Take Questions”
Vox Popoli: The Devil Mouse Killed Star Wars, also, The Next Best Thing
According To Hoyt: A Plague Of Madness, also, Teenage Mutant Ninja Idiots
Stoic Observations: May, Isbell, & Lezama

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Nothing Breaks Down Like A Deere
American Greatness: FBI Confirms No Weapons Found During January 6 “Armed Protests”, also, Trump Blasts Biden For “Spiraling Tsunami” At The Border In Blistering Statement
American Power: This State Is So F*cked
American Thinker: Joe’s Long Decline, also, The Left’s Campaign Against Self-Defense
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Free Speech News, also, Rule Five University Reform Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dictatorship’s “Homeland Or Death For Life” Produces Twelve Times More Death Than Life
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 5
Behind The Black: The Starship Has Landed! also, Today’s Blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: Walter Williams & Me On The Minimum Wage, also, Lockdown Tyranny
CDR Salamander: Interim National Security Strategic Guidance – Unto The Wilderness
Da Tech Guy: The Equality Act Will Establish Progressivism As America’s National Religion, also, Ron Johnson As General Stilwell, Or, Words Mean Things
Don Surber: #MeToo Scandal Masks Cuomo’s Killing Of 15,000 People, also, The Threat We Pose
First Street Journal: Impeach Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd! also, When You Tolerate Tyranny, You’ll Get More Tyranny
The Geller Report: YouTube Bans Trump’s CPAC Speech, Suspends Right Side Broadcasting Channel, also, House Passes Sweeping Bill To Cut, Defund Police
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Outliving Their Usefulness
Hollywood In Toto: Late Night Laughs At Cancel Culture Crushing Dr. Suess & The Muppets, also, Why 1986’s The Great Mouse Detective Saved Disney
The Lid: Twenty State AGs Send Letter To Congress Telling Them H.R. 1 Is Unconstitutional
Legal Insurrection: Border Crisis – Feds, California Spending Millions On Hotel Rooms For Illegals, also, Bad Orange Woman Says Trump Administration Doesn’t Deserve Credit For COVID Vaccine Rollout
Michelle Malkin: Missing Marizela – Ten Years
Nebraska Energy Observer: It’s Back…, also, Bes’ Stories
Outkick: NBA’s Relationship With Red China Drawing Questions From Senator Blackburn, also, Skip Bayless & Stephen A. Smith Continue To Defy Cancel Culture
Power Line: House Democrats Vote To Aid Criminals, also, Threat To Capitol Was “A Mirage”
Shark Tank: Brandes Says Legalized Weed In Florida Is Coming
Shot In The Dark: The Darkness Before More, Darker Darkness, also, And To Think They Say That Big Left Is Gaslighting The Normals
STUMP: MoneyPalooza Monstrosity – The Return Of The Multiemployer Bailout
The Political Hat: Sympathy For The Devil In The City Of Angels
This Ain’t Hell: AF Academy Now Has “Diversity & Inclusion Reading Room”, also, Medal Of Honor Recipient Father Emil Kapaun’s Remains Identified 
Victory Girls: Russell Honore Recommends Quick Reaction Force For Capitol Hill
Volokh Conspiracy: “The Neoracism In The Suspension Of A Law Professor For Nothing Whatsoever At The University Of Chicago”
Weasel Zippers: You Can’t Buy These Six Dr. Seuss Books On EBay, But These Are Still For Sale, also, Biden’s Justice Department Quietly Dismissing Hundreds Of Cases Against Antifa/BLM Rioters
The Federalist: The Cancellation of Dr. Seuss Should Disturb You – Because You’re Next, also, I Haven’t Used Amazon For Three Months And I Don’t Miss It One Bit
Mark Steyn: Horton Hears A Hate Crime, also, Chinese Penetration Update

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In The Mailbox: 03.05.21 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | March 5, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.05.21 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Deutschland, Graf Zeppelin, Tirpitz, Gneisenau, & Z46

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1280
357 Magnum: I’m Shocked To Learn – OK, I’m Not Shocked, It’s Chicago
Director Blue: Biden Bingo – Which Democrat Policy Will Get You Killed First?
EBL: What Got Dr. Suess Cancelled?
Twitchy: QAnon Theorists Get It Completely Wrong On March 4 “Insurrection”, Claim It’s Still Happening & LOL 
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk’s Creating A New City In Texas, Just Because
Vox Popoli: Dr. Suess Inc. Cancels Dr. Suess, also, Amazon To Destroy NFL Next

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: I Do Not Like This Woke Flimflam
American Greatness: Trumpism Without Trump?
American Power: At Least 13 Dead As SUV Crammed With Illegals Gets Wrecked By Peterbilt Near Mexican Border
American Thinker: When A Great Democracy Politicized The Military
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Great Land Bonus
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dictatorship Tries To Answer “Homeland & Life” With Its Own Music Video & Fails Miserably
BattleSwarm: Abbott Finally Lifts WuFlu Restrictions, also, Texas County Judge & Three Others Arrested On 150 Counts Of Voter Fraud
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, SpaceX To Build Starlink Factory In Austin
Cafe Hayek: Mike Rowe Economics, also, Tendentious Editorializing
CDR Salamander: Aussie Sub Program Stumbles, also, An Abandonment Of Stewardship
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Teacheritis, also, Changing How We Work
Don Surber: RINOs Fear Winning, also, Learn To Ballot Harvest
First Street Journal: Our Betters Believe COVID Restrictions Being Eased Too Quickly
Fred On Everything: Dispatches From The New Cold War
The Geller Report: Just What You’ve Been Waiting For! Obamas To Produce All-Muslim Podcast For Ramadan, also, Over 100 Illegals Released By Border Patrol Test Positive For COVID
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Transparency
Hollywood In Toto: How Waking Life Perfectly Captures Richard Linklater at His Best, also, Coming 2 America – Weak, Woke, & Totally Unnecessary
The Lid:  Biden Advisor – White House To Start Working Now On African-American Reparations
Legal Insurrection: Cuomo Won’t Resign, also, Baltimore HS Student Who Passed Only Three Courses In Four Years Ranks In Top Half Of His Class
Nebraska Energy Observer: Rowan’s Way – 13 Unlucky For Some
Outkick: Chicom Court Rules Homosexuality Can Be Considered Mental Disorder – Will NBA Respond? also, Team Formerly Known As Redskins To Replace Cheerleaders With Coed Dance Line
Power Line: Insurrection 2016, also, Squaring The Illegals Circle
Shark Tank: Fried Calls For FBI To “Step In” On DeSantis’ Vaccine Rollout
Shot In The Dark: Be Less Stupid, also, The Un-Justice
The Political Hat: So Long As The Gap Is Smaller, also, How Euthanasia Kills – Death By Non-Doctors, Death By Organ Harvesting, & Death By Starvation
This Ain’t Hell: Death Rattlers Return Home, Get New Stuff, also, Russian Identity Thieves Steal Medal Of Honor Recipients’ Names To Fleece AAFES
Transterrestrial Musings: SN10, also, Strange Computer Problem
Victory Girls: Pete Hegseth Torched By “Elites” Over Tenth Amendment, also, In The Game Of COVID Lockdowns, Blue States Lose Big
Volokh Conspiracy: Pseudonymity Controversy In Kevin Spacey Sex Abuse Case
Weasel Zippers: FBI’s Wray Bizarrely Claims Conservative Groups Behind Most BLM/Antifa Riots, also, Congress Flees The Swamp For Fear Of Rioting
The Federalist: DeSantis – Democrats Looting The Treasury To Pour Money Into Their Bankrupt States, also, Biden’s Plan To Root “Extremists” Out of The Military Looks Like A Political Operation 
Mark Steyn: Getting Mad…And Getting Even? also, Waving & Drowning

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An Embarrassing Defeat for Biden

Posted on | March 4, 2021 | Comments Off on An Embarrassing Defeat for Biden

This failure is an example of Biden’s basic incompetence:

Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Tuesday evening.
In a statement, Tanden wrote:

Dear President Biden,
I am writing to you to withdraw my nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget. It has been an honor of a lifetime to be considered for this role and for the faith placed in me. I appreciate how hard you and your team at the White House has worked to win my confirmation. Unfortunately, it now seems clear that there is no path forward to gain confirmation, and I do not want continued consideration of my nomination to be a distraction from your other priorities.I am incredibly grateful for your leadership on behalf of the American people and for your agenda that will make such a transformative difference in people’s lives.
Sincerely,
Neera Tanden

The White House confirmed the withdrawal.
Tanden was facing bipartisan opposition from senators due to past comments she made on her Twitter feed. . . .
Biden’s cabinet picks have mostly sailed through the Democrat-led Senate. Still, Biden’s choice to lead the OMB, which heads efforts to ensure an administration’s priorities are reflected in legislation and regulations, was derailed when Sanders questioned Tanden about her “vicious attacks” against both Republicans and progressives on Twitter, including “me, personally.”
Manchin’s announced “no” vote against Tanden made her confirmation unlikely given Republican resistance to her nomination.

This is a shades-of-Jimmy-Carter level of embarrassment. Tanden was (is) a credentialed member of Team Clinton, and was president of the Center for American Progress, a Podesta-founded, Soros-funded progressive think tank dating back to the anti-war, anti-Bush era. And she was another of those “historic first” sort of identity-politics tokens. But she ruined her chances by constantly blabbing all over Twitter:

With her withdrawal, Tanden becomes the first nominee to a White House Cabinet post to be sunk by her old tweets, which were sharply critical of a number of lawmakers. Biden’s administration had emphasized the historic nature of Tanden’s nomination; she served in President Bill Clinton’s White House and had experience running a major think tank, and if confirmed, she would have been the first woman of color and first Asian American woman to lead OMB.
But much of Tanden’s résumé was overshadowed by her proliferous online posting — at least 1,000 tweets raking both Republicans and leftist Democrats over the coals — that Tanden quietly started deleting in November 2020.

Biden can barely remember his own name, but the Internet never forgets.




 

Category: Democrats
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