Covering the Big Issues

Posted on | May 2, 2024 | Comments Off on Covering the Big Issues

War in the Middle East, surging inflation, the Republican Speaker of the House clinging to a one-vote majority, a presidential election campaign stumbling toward what is certain to be a photo-finish conclusion, with one candidate doddering in senility and the other being hounded in courtrooms by witch-hunt persecutors — these are but a few of the many crises facing the United States in the Year of Our Lord 2024. The list could be almost infinitely extended, but we ought to at least mention rampant crime, an unprecedented influx of illegal aliens, and fentanyl overdoses soaring to catastrophic levels. Amid all these woes and worries, however, it would be negligent to overlook the two most important issues in America, Sydney Sweeney.
In case you don’t recognize the name, Miss Sweeney is a 26-year-old actress who gained prominence for her part in the HBO series Euphoria, and speaking of prominent parts … OK, I apologize. These double-entendres just write themselves sometimes. . . .

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In The Mailbox: 05.01.24 (afternoon edition)

Posted on | May 1, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: DEI Will Soon Be Killing You, Literally
EBL: Rating Bottled Marinara Sauces, Hitler Kills Himself, and Evidence of Planet Nine?
Twitchy: WH Staff Strategy To Shield Biden From Cameras & Questions Ramps Up, Illegal Immigrants Take Over Seattle City Park & Put Out Supply Requests, and Kamala Harris Posting About “Trusting Women” Goes Hilariously Wrong
Louder With Crowder: “Gender Seasons” Is Now A Thing: People Are Changing Their Gender For The Different Times Of The Year, also, Masked man unites America eating an entire jar of cheeseballs in front of hundreds of adoring fans
Vox Popoli: The Indictments are Blowing in the Wind, Non-Competes are No More, Hub Hub Hurray, The Decline of the Literary West, and The Arkhaven Substack
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Strange March of Time
Gab: A Foreign Government Is Demanding Gab User Data
Upstream Reviews: White Ops

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Is the Navalny Intelligence Leak an Olive Branch to Putin?
American Greatness: Save College Football
American Thinker: Living with Climate Change
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Texas News
Babalu Blog: Nicaragua dictatorship condemns 11 Christian leaders to long prison sentences, demands $880 million from them, Whistleblower exposes the privileged life and violent acts of Cuban general who just turned 92, and Cuban dictatorship dubiously claims 1 million tourists have visited this year
BattleSwarm: Abbott Joins DeSantis In Defying Biden’s Title IX Redefinition
Behind The Black: ESA is taking the Vega rockets away from Arianespace and giving it to the company that builds it, SES to buy Intelsat for $3.1 billion, NASA announces launch coverage for the first Starliner manned capsule launch on May 6, 2024, NASA wants to know the important technology the commercial space industry needs, and Voting by conservatives HAS made a difference, just not enough so far
Cafe Hayek: The Reality of Industrial Policy
CDR Salamander: The Future Imperfect
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora, REAL “Islamophobia” in Action, Soros-funded Chicago prosecutor will finally get tough on lawbreaking protesters–but only for the Democratic National Convention, Sports Under the Fedora, and A Blessing in Disguise (and a pretty good disguise it was)
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Pecker Testimony Edition
Don Surber: The lesson from Columbia
First Street Journal: Is a Muslim high school teacher using his position to push #AntiSemitism?
Gates Of Vienna: A Hamburg Caliphate is Stirring, also, Attendance at the Struggle Session is Mandatory
The Geller Report: Violent Anti-Jewish Riot at Columbia As Terrorists Smash, Take Over Academic Building, Barricade Doors
Glenn Reynolds: Notes On The Asylum Where I Was Raised
Hollywood In Toto: David Schwimmer Shreds Campus Antisemitism: ‘Silence Is Complicity’, The Onion and Ben Collins: A Perfect Fake News Marriage, Reflections on Bruce Willis’ Final Decade of Acting, Is Challengers This Generation’s Bull Durham? and Screams Before Silence Must Be Seen and Remembered
Legal Insurrection: Jewish Student Files Lawsuit Against Columbia for Failing ‘to Maintain a Safe Learning Environment’, James Carville Melting Down Over Sagging Support for Biden Among Young Voters, Scotland’s Free Speech Hating First Minister Resigns Before Being Ousted, Anti-Israel Encampments: UCLA PD Admits School Told Them Not to Intervene, Northwestern Caves and Negotiates, Police Clash With Anti-Israel Campus Mob at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Report: Israel Eliminates IRGC Terror Operative Wanted for Attacks on Synagogues in Germany
Michele Catalano: closing time
Nebraska Energy Observer: Just this once
Outkick: TJ Oshie Solidifies Legendary Hockey Guy Status, Played Game 4 With Broken Hand, Seismic Shift From College Sports Leaders Could Bring Revenue Sharing For Athletes Quicker Than First Imagined, Greg Norman Told By The R&A To Check Resale Market For Open Championship Tickets, Man Of The People Bill Murray Rides NYC Train After Watching His Cubs Beat Mets, Paige VanZant Open To OnlyFans Side Bet With Elle Brooke For Boxing Match, and Amazon Thinks People Will Pay Extra To Watch NBA Games They Don’t Watch For Free
Power Line: Feeding our fraud goes to trial, The Daily Chart: Breaking Wind, and Britain Gets Sane
Shark Tank: “Take Your Fake Lab-Grown Meat Elsewhere”
Shot In The Dark: Just Asking Questions, also, Hear Me Out
STUMP: Who survives until 2098?
The Political Hat: Liberty vs. Virtue: The False Dilemma Fallacy
This Ain’t Hell: Soros and Hamas, also, Joe Biden’s proposed tax hike proposal is based on racial criteria
Transterrestrial Musings: Voting For Joe Biden
Victory Girls: Drew Barrymore Slobbers Over Kamala “Momala” Dearest
Volokh Conspiracy: “If He Did Not Want to Be Called a ‘Rioter,’ Plaintiff Should Not Have Admitted…to ‘Participation in…[a] Riot'”
Watts Up With That: Forbes Calls BS on the latest Climate Economics Doomsday Prediction, also, No Gas and Air For Women Giving Birth in the Eco-Utopian Future
The Federalist: Republican Weakness Taught Democrats Power Works Better Than Persuasion, Voter Registration Groups Slim Down Operations After Florida Upped Penalties For Breaking The Law, Washington’s Sweeping Crime Wave Exposes The City’s Distorted Priorities, Court Stands By Decision Rejecting Undated Pennsylvania Mail Ballots, In Blow To Left-Wing Activists, Federal Agency Had ‘Pallets’ Of Documents Sent To Mar-A-Lago One Year Before DOJ Raid, and Poll: Election-Shifting Percentage Of Voters Admit To Illegal Voting In 2020
Mark Steyn: The Three Rs

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The ‘Moorish Sovereign Citizen’ Menace

Posted on | April 30, 2024 | Comments Off on The ‘Moorish Sovereign Citizen’ Menace

Say hello to William Hardison of Pittsburgh and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say goodbye, because he died last August in a six-hour shootout with police “in which it is estimated thousands of rounds of ammunition were fired.” Hardison had a lengthy criminal record and some unusual legal theories:

Defense attorney T. Brent McCune, who represented Hardison in [a 2019 criminal] case, said he hadn’t spoken to Hardison since he was sentenced [to probation in 2022] but remembered his client well.
“I remember him pacing around my conference table, sweat pouring off his brow,” the attorney said, describing Hardison as “a very intense person, hard to handle, stubborn.
“It’s kind of his way or no way,” McCune said.
McCune recounted Hardison’s belief that he was a Moorish citizen.
Hardison believed that if he pulled out his Moroccan flag, it was a free pass or, as McCune described it, an “innate sovereign right to travel that the state, PennDOT, the federal government could not infringe on.”
A video posted on YouTube in May 2019 shows Hardison in a confrontation with Pittsburgh police, repeatedly telling people he is a Moor and waving a Moroccan flag out the window of a white pickup. Moorish sovereign citizens believe a fictitious 1787 treaty between the United States and Morocco grants them immunity from U.S. law, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“You got no jurisdiction over me. We are Moors,” Hardison could be heard saying in the 2019 video.

Now say hello to John Jones Bey of Indianapolis, who was arrested in August 2017 after an armed standoff with a SWAT team:

An Indianapolis man who believes the laws don’t apply to him and once sued the state for $11.5 billion was arrested Monday [August 7, 2017] after a three-hour SWAT standoff.
John Jones Bey, 52, is facing three counts of attempted murder and three counts of criminal recklessness for his alleged role in the incident that played out Monday morning in the 3400 block of Kinnear Avenue.
According to a police report of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Bey fired gunshots at three Center Township constables as they attempted to serve him an eviction order.
IMPD officers responded around 9:30 a.m. Monday, and the SWAT team was called in to assist when the armed Bey refused to leave his home.
After more than three hours, Bey peacefully surrendered, police said. No one was injured during the incident, and officers at the scene recovered the handgun that Bey is accused of firing at the constables.
According to a February decision from the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, Bey considers himself a “sovereign citizen,” meaning that he does not believe the laws apply to him. He also does not believe that he can be lawfully taxed in the absence of a contract between him and the state.
Bey, who describes himself as an “Aboriginal Indigenous Moorish-American,” previously filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana what he labeled a “Writ of Mandamus.” Within it Bey was seeking to enjoin state and county officials from taxing property that he owns in Marion County.
Court documents said Bey also asked that state officials be ordered to refund the taxes that he’d paid and to compensate him for their alleged wrongs. He determined that the district court should award him $11.5 billion to cover the 40 years of taxes and the mental anguish caused by the taxation.

We shall return to the case of Mr. Bey in a moment, but first let me bring you some news from this weekend in Polk County, Florida:

Two Polk County deputies are in the ICU after being shot early Saturday by a man who Sheriff Grady Judd said was a sovereign citizen that was killed when backup deputies returned fire.
Around 12:22 a.m., a deputy assigned to Hunt Fountain Park due to its designation as a burglary hotspot noticed a vehicle there despite the park’s 10 p.m. closing time, Judd said at a news conference Saturday morning. The deputy approached the vehicle and spoke with the man inside, asking him why he was in the park, yet the sheriff said he wouldn’t cooperate.
“At this point, he’s resisting a law enforcement officer in the performance of their duty. He’s also violating a county ordinance,” Judd said. “She retreats to her vehicle and she asks for additional backup because he is resisting her. At that time, among other deputies, Lt. Chad Anderson arrives, and Deputy Sheriff Craig Smith.”
Judd said there were a total of four deputies and two trainees working the scene when the shooting occurred.
“Little did they realize at that moment in time that this was a sovereign citizen. He was Moorish, and Moorish sovereign citizens are known to believe that federal law, state law, local law does not apply to them. They are known to resist law enforcement and there is a history where they shoot police officers,” Judd said. “So they started trying to take our suspect out of the vehicle when he produced the gun and started shooting.”
Lt. Anderson was shot in the arm and the bullet went into his chest while Deputy Smith suffered four gunshot wounds, Judd said.
“Lt. Anderson got some rounds off. The backup deputies shot a lot, and we don’t know how much yet, we’re in the initial stages of crime scene investigations and we can report that to you later, but we killed the suspect,” Judd said. “We killed him graveyard dead and we killed him dead in a gunfight, a firefight with our deputies who had no idea they were dealing with anyone other than someone being in the park after the park closed, being suspicious and resisting our efforts to identify why they were in the area.”

Monday, Sheriff Judd identified the deceased suspect as 26-year-old California native Kyran Caples, a/k/a “Kmac El Bey”:

Judd went on to say that the suspect was homeless and had recently been evicted from Hillsborough County and was recently asked to leave a business area in Pinellas County last month.
When investigators contacted the suspect’s mother she said she didn’t know Kmac El Bey. Instead, she said she knows Kyran Caples, her son. She told investigators that he went to Fresno State to study business and left after three years.
“He was apparently radicalized at Fresno State,” Judd explained.

I’ve written several times about the more general “sovereign citizen” threat (e.g., Chase Allen and Geronimo Kee), and in 2016 I blogged about a “Moorish” cop-killer in Louisiana:

The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach, nutritionist, author and spiritual advisor.” . . .
[Gavin] Long officially filed paperwork in Jackson County, Missouri, last year declaring himself Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, a “sovereign citizen” of the United Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah Mu’ur nation, a loosely affiliated network of mostly African Americans who claim to be Native American and don’t believe the U.S. government has jurisdiction over them.

From Wikipedia:

The Washitaw Nation (Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah) is an African-American group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America who claim to be a sovereign state of Native Americans within the boundaries of the United States of America. Their name is appropriated from that of the Ouachita tribe, who are also eponymous of the Washita River and of Washita, Oklahoma. The group is part of the sovereign citizen movement, whose members generally believe that they are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state, or municipal levels.
The Washitaw Nation was headed by Verdiacee Hampton Goston (also known as Verdiacee Turner, and as Empress Verdiacee Tiari Washitaw Turner Goston El-Bey, c. 1927–2014). She was mayor of Richwood, Louisiana in 1975 and 1976, and again from 1980 to 1984, and is the author of the self-published book Return of the Ancient Ones (1993). Goston asserted that the United Nations “registers the Washitaw as indigenous people No. 215”.

These claims are entirely fictitious, a bogus mythology invented by semi-literate criminal crackpot scammers:

On the morning of March 21, 2000, the self-proclaimed “empress” of the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah — a group that claims sovereignty over a 30 million-acre empire in Louisiana and neighboring states — was about to eat breakfast when the doorbell rang.
On her doorstep were armed agents from the FBI, the IRS, the U.S. Customs Service and the State Police. Acting on search warrants, agents seized a variety of documents in connection with an investigation regarding income tax evasion, mail fraud and wire fraud. . . .
[Verdiacee] Gotson confirmed agents seized a variety of documents available to people who seek citizenship in the Washitaw Nation. Washitaw passports, marriage licenses, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates were available for purchase by Washitaw citizens. A full membership in the Washitaw Nation cost up to $520 per person at the time of the raid, according to reports.
Goston claimed the legitimacy of her claims had been recognized by agencies such as World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and the State of Louisiana.

There is no basis in fact for the assertion that black people in Louisiana (or anywhere else) are descended from the Ouachita tribe (or any other Native American group), nor that they are “Moors” from Morocco (or Mauritania for that matter). All these claims were invented for fraudulent purposes, e.g., the scam of selling fictitious “citizenship” for $520.

As previously promised, we now return to John Jones Bey of Indianapolis, who filed a federal lawsuit claiming to be owed $11 billion — yes, billion, with a “B” — a suit that was laughed out of court, and rejected on appeal by the Seventh Circuit. In dismissing the case, Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner wrote about “persons describing themselves as sovereign citizens by virtue of their alleged Moorish origin”:

Most of them are African Americans who belong to the Moorish Science Temple of America (MSTA) and claim to be descendants of the Moors of northern Africa, though they are not; Moors are of mixed Berber and Arab descent rather than being African American in the usual sense of being descended from black Africans. The original purpose of MSTA, founded in the 1920s by Noble Drew Ali, whose followers call themselves “Moors” in place of more conventional designations such as “Black,” “African American,” and “colored,” was to claim government “recognition and respect as full citizens rather than the second-class descendants of slaves.” . . . MSTA focuses on “uplifting” its followers, and encourages them to vote in U.S. elections so that they can escape “political slavery.” . . .
The MSTA home office, located in Washington D.C., has issued a statement clarifying that the organization is neither “a Sovereign Citizen movement [n]or a Tax Protestor Movement” and that it was not founded “for its members to become anarchist or conspiracy theorist[s].” . . . A MSTA temple in Georgia denounces sovereign-citizen propaganda as “completely asinine” and asks that Moors not “adopt[?] the ideals of these European groups who at their core, hate [Moors’] very existence.” . . .
But clearly, sovereign-citizen ideas appeal to many [self-described] Moors, who combine those ideas with Ali’s teachings in an effort to reclaim and rewrite black history. For example, the “Moors Order of the Roundtable” uses eighteenth-century treaties with Morocco to distinguish “Free Moors” from Africans who could be enslaved and teaches that courts have no jurisdiction over Moors. Nelson, ‘Sovereigns’ in Black, supra. Other groups claim that their Moorish nationality gives them the status in the United States of an indigenous people, although the logic behind this claim is deeply obscure.. . . Renita Bey teaches that Europeans are latecomers and Moors never granted them citizenship. . . . She teaches her followers that they are “Muurs” from “Muu” who traveled to North America before Africans did, when the world had only one continent. Many sovereign citizen organizations teach that whenever a Moor’s name is spelled in capital letters in a government document, the name identifies not the individual but instead his “corporate shell identity,” or in other words a “straw man” controlled by the government. . . .
Although the Moorish Science Temple does not buy the “sovereign citizen” line, many of its members do. Many of them argue, without any basis in fact, that as a result of eighteenth-century treaties the United States has no jurisdiction over its Moorish inhabitants, who are therefore under no obligation to pay taxes.

This is a fairly concise summary of the “Moorish” mythology, which appeals primarily to ignorant and/or mentally unbalanced people. These credulous fools are flattered by the grandiose conception of themselves as being something superior to ordinary black people, rather like certain white supremacists who fancy themselves the rightful heirs of the Knights Templar or some other aristocratic medieval order.

Preferring a bogus mythology over actual history is irrational, pointing toward deep-rooted psychiatric problems. Crazy ideas attract crazy people, making it difficult to unravel cause and effect. Does this “Moorish” nonsense make people crazy, or were they crazy to begin with? Probably it’s a little of both, but the bottom line is, by the time one of these imaginary “Moors” gets into a confrontation with law enforcement, there’s a risk of deadly violence, because Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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In The Mailbox: 04.29.24

Posted on | April 29, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.29.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I actually had enough energy after the drive down to do blogging. What did I do right?
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Kukuruyo brings the fire again (click to embiggen)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: I Love It When Politicians Decide They’re Engineers
EBL: Secret Service Ladies, 49th Parallel, Zebras running loose in Washington State, and Hunter Biden to sue Fox News for defamation?
Twitchy: Expelled Vanderbilt Student Was Admitted For HS Activism, NY Lib Vandalizing Anti-Biden Truck Learns Meaning Of FAFO, and Scotland’s First Minister Of Hate Speech Resigns
Louder With Crowder: The WH wanted to secretly FIRE Special K but was afraid to because she is a black, lesbian immigrant, Frat bros, state troopers take turns destroying pro-Hamas encampments (and protestors) in hilarious fashion, Riding the LA Metro is so dangerous, an LA Metro BOARD MEMBER confesses she won’t ever ride it, and “Stop taking things away from our little girls”
Vox Popoli: Trump Threatens De-dollarization Sanctions, Their Journey is Just Beginning, A Ticket, Offered, How the Media Sausage is Made, and Nothing Will Stop the Fall
Kausfiles: Biden & The Sweet Hereafter
Stoic Observations: Goo Goo Degrees & DEI Review
Upstream Reviews: Dungeon Samurai I – Kamikaze
Draw & Talk Comics: I’m On The Hunt & I Need Your Help

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The New and Improved Definition of Antisemitism
American Conservative: Why Are the Charities Enabling Illegal Immigration Still Tax-Exempt?
American Greatness: Tulsi Gabbard steps up to defend religious freedom – from her former political party, Mainstream Media Misrepresenting Crime Statistics in Order to Protect Biden, The Gloves Will Come Off In A Second Biden Term, Shock and Awe on the Campaign Trail, and The Travesties of the Trump Trials
American Power: Stagflation? also, Student Leader at Columbia Facing Possible Discipline for Expressing Extermination Anti-Israel Views
American Thinker: Democrats Have Deliberately Shattered The Ties Binding America, It Took Ten Years For Powerful People To See That Leftism Has Crossed A Red Line, and Was it all that Baby Proofing?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Canadian couple on vacation in Cuba experience the horrors of Cuban healthcare firsthand, The nieces of communist Cuba’s ‘prime minister’ enjoy a life of privilege in the U.S., Surprise! Cuba has run out of cash, and Images of the Day: After 65 years of socialism, this is what’s left of Havana, Cuba
Baldilocks: Fractured
BattleSwarm: Supreme Court Shuts Down Another Democrat Election Fraud Vector, UT Demonstrates It’s Not Columbia, Arrests Pro-Hamas Protestors, LinkSwarm For April 25, What Is Maintaining The Ruble-USD Band? and 90% Of Chinese Factories To Close?
Behind The Black: The plan for SpaceX’s first demo in-orbit refueling mission of Starship, ESA shuffles the management and structure of its ClearSpace-1 space junk removal mission, Webb takes an infrared look at the mane of the Horsehead Nebula, Why the release of the EU’s own space law has been delayed, and The new Nazis and the coming genocide they are planning
Cafe Hayek: Manufacturing Data, Cafe Hayek is 20 Years Old, Beware of the Word “Afford”, and The Case for Free Trade Remains Strong
CDR Salamander: Anglo-American Naval SITREP With Emma Salisbury, also, 2050 Is Not An Out Year
Chicago Boyz: Taxes and the Total State, also, Where Went the Wind?
Da Tech Guy: The Real Culture War Elite Violent Campus Anti-Semites and their Faculty Enablers vs my “White Privileged” Dad, Let’s Not Forget those Who Enabled Those Campus Anti-Semites for Many MANY Years, Thanks to Joe Biden’s Title IX Proclamation Transgenderism is now the official religion of the United States, The “Unexpectedly” Chronicles – Yet Another Reason to Cheer Gov Ron DeSantis, and Biden’s Title IX rules serve military injustice to college students
Don Surber: Antifa can’t cope a banana
First Street Journal: But, but, but, it’s just so unfair, Green virtue signaling, The Philadelphia Inquirer and their writers really hate it when the rule of law goes against their police-hating views, Why are there so few pro-#Hamas demonstrations in conservative areas? and You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!
Gates Of Vienna: “There Will Be No Peace, Nor Negotiations With the Zionist Entity”, The Lying Demagogues of the AfD, And Now For Something Completely Different, Filip Dewinter: “Islam is Our Enemy and Ultimately Wants to Take Over Europe”, and Afghans Gone Wild
The Geller Report: Muslims March in Hamburg Calling For Islamic Revolutions, Demanding a Caliphate in Germany, Jihad-Rep Ilhan Omar Accuses Jewish Students of Being ‘Pro-Genocide’, New Bombshell Evidence: Trump Was Set Up in Classified Docs, and Harvard Terrorists Remove American Flags on Campus, Raise Terror Flag
Hollywood In Toto: Unsung Hero Recalls Faith-Based Films of Yore, Here’s Why We Can’t Forget Hollywood’s Pandemic Bailouts, Bridgerton Star Plays Victim, Says Pro-Palestine Views Could Cost Her Work, Sound of Freedom Act Inspired by Hit Film, and Afroman Returns, Skewers First Son with ‘Hunter Got High’
The Lid: WARNING: The U.S. Economy is on the Verge of Nightmare Scenario, also, Violent Female Secret Service Agent ‘Should NEVER have been Hired’
Legal Insurrection: Ford Reports Massive Loss on Every Electric Vehicle It Sold, Education Dept. Opens Investigation Into Western Kentucky U Race-Based Scholarship, Cornell’s ‘Charlottesville Moment’ – Chants for ‘Intifada’ Reflect Anti-Israel ‘Death Cult Ideology’, Louisiana Sues Biden Over Title IX Interpretation Allowing Males in Female Sports and Spaces, and Emerson College Students Arrested at Anti-Israel Encampment Outraged That Their Faces Were Shown in Media
Michele Catalano: living on video
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Cantate, and Ego, Blunders, and Progress
Outkick: Gretchen Whitmer Ruthlessly Booed During NFL Draft, Rory McIlroy Shares Title Wealth In Big Easy After Saying ‘Never Enough’ Money In Golf, UAB Football Team Makes History, Joins Players Association To Fight For Future Collegiate Revenue Sharing, Alabama OL Elijah Pritchett Reportedly Arrested For The Second Time In Just Five Months, Beyonce’s Mom Fires Back At Charles Barkley For His Dig At Galveston, and Former WWE Diva Eva Marie Says PETA Inspired Her To Become A Hunter
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Weekend at Biden’s, The Cure for ED, and Who Are These People?
Shark Tank: “Debbie [Mucarsel-Powell] Is Screwed”
Shot In The Dark: Real American Heroes, Public Order, and Crikey
STUMP: The Weekend In Meep
The Political Hat: The Rise Of Trans-Speciesism
This Ain’t Hell: The US Army deployed lasers to assist with drone threats, And you thought he was just a commie asshole, and Drone Aces in the Air Force
Transterrestrial Musings: Taking The Stairs, A Voice Of Reason From Gaza, The Orion Heat Shield, and Teaching Young People about Communism
Victory Girls: Schiff Learns Not To Leave Anything In Your Car In San Francisco, College Occupations, Frightened Police, and Not a Consequence in Sight, “Killer” Kristi Noem Shot A Dog, A Goat, And Her Career, and Biden Says He’ll Debate Trump, But Will His Campaign Let Him?
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Again Rejects Texas’ Claim that Illegal Migration Qualifies as “Invasion”
Watts Up With That: The Green Agenda Will Lead to Civil War, The Electric Bus Debacle in Antelope Valley, Developing Nations Reject Western Carbon Colonialism, and Are Polar Bears Going Extinct?
The Federalist: DOD Prompts Gender Dysphoria In Military Kids And Hides Health Records From Parents, Lara Trump Parties With The People Trying To Bankrupt And Imprison Her Father-In-Law, Middle-Class Americans Don’t Care What Paul Krugman’s Charts Say About Inflation, Biden Admin Making It Harder For U.S. Gun Businesses To Sell Abroad, and Can We Fix A Culture Hostile To Raising Children?
Mark Steyn: What Do You Got? The Wild One, The Loveless and the Biker Movie, Steyn at Hillsdale, We That Are Left Grow Old, Pervert in the Course of Justice, and Graduating from HamasU

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Rule Five Sunday: Indoor Lounging

Posted on | April 29, 2024 | 3 Comments

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Today’s appetizer from Rule 5 Texan on X.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Casual Sex Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night’s All Right For Girls With Guns, Secret Service Ladies, MAGA Supreme Court Immunity Arguments, Machete Kills, Rebecca De Mornay & Risky Business, Machete, A Gentleman In Moscow, Happy Eartha Day, The Beekeeper, Counting Crows, and Julie & Dick In Covent Garden.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Angelina Michelle, MDDNR Proposes To Throw Charters a Rockfish Bone, Kill a Tree, Save a Stream?, Fish Pic Friday – Haley Bashlor, Trump Team Pleads Immunity Case, Tattoo Thursday, MDDNR Seeks Women Boaters, The Wednesday Wetness, Some Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For April 26

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FMJRA 2.0: No Joy In The North

Posted on | April 28, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: No Joy In The North

— compiled by Wombat-socho

What a wretched week this was for the Senators. First we got swept by the Twins, and then lost two out of three at Montreal, where at least we weren’t freezing since this year’s Expos have moved into Olympic Stadium. Next week, we have a three-game series against the Tribe and two games against Kansas City, which is having a slightly worse season than mine.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

The hitters ain’t hitting. Again.

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TikTok Inluencer Hangs Herself
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Max Azzarello: ‘Just Another American Driven Insane by the Past Few Years’
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FMJRA 2.0: Home For Tax Day
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Rule 5 Sunday: Super Extra Double-Scoop Post-Tax Day Leather Edition
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In The Mailbox: 04.22.24
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It’s ‘Protester,’ NOT ‘Protestor,’ Dammit!
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In The Mailbox: 04.23.24
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In The Mailbox: 04.26.24 (Morning Edition)
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‘Selma Envy’ and the Left’s Increasing Embrace of ‘Eliminationist Rhetoric’
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In The Mailbox: 04.26.24 (Evening Edition)
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Secret Service DEI Quota Hire Goes Completely Berserk at Andrews AFB

Posted on | April 27, 2024 | 1 Comment

In 2016, Michelle Herczeg was a Dallas police officer when she “filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the city, claiming she was assaulted by a male superior and asking for more than $1 million in damages.” The lawsuit was dismissed. Filing bogus discrimination claims would normally be seen as a red flag, and it turns out Michelle Herczeg had more red flags than a May Day parade in Beijing, but that didn’t stop the Biden administration from hiring her as a Secret Service agent:

An incident involving a physical attack by a female Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris is raising questions about whether the agency had thoroughly vetted her during her hiring and whether an ongoing push to increase the numbers of women in the service and boost overall workforce staff played a role in her selection.
The Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris was removed from her duties Wednesday after physically attacking the commanding agent in charge and other agents trying to subdue her, according to an agency spokesman and knowledgeable Secret Service sources.
Several sources in the Secret Service community identified the agent who physically attacked her superior as Michelle Herczeg. The altercation occurred at approximately 9 a.m. at Joint Base Andrews, the home base for Air Force One and Air Force Two, the call signs of the Boeing aircraft used by the president and vice president.
Herczeg showed up at the terminal and began acting erratically, grabbing another senior agent’s personal phone and deleting applications on it, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The other agent, a shift leader, was able to recover his phone and then acted as if nothing had happened.
But Herczeg’s bizarre behavior didn’t stop. She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,” a source told RealClearPolitics.
Herczeg also screamed at the special agent in charge (SAIC), rattling off the names of female officers on the vice president’s detail and claiming they would show up and help her and allow her to continue working. At that point, other agents on the scene believed Herczeg was suffering from a mental lapse, and the superior officer, SAIC, approached her to tell her she was relieved from the assignment.
“That’s when she snapped entirely,” one source recounted.
Herczeg then chest-bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled him and punched him. The agents involved in restraining Herczeg were especially concerned because she still had her gun in the holster. They wrestled her to the ground, took the gun from her, cuffed her, and then removed her from the terminal.

Gosh, I wonder how this nutjob got hired?

Following the incident, Secret Service agents and officers are privately questioning the hiring process and whether the agency had adequately screened Herczeg’s background. Some also wonder whether her hire was part of a diversity, equity, and inclusion push in response to years of staff shortages that may have required the agency to lower its once-strict employment standards and physical performance to reach quotas for female agents and officers. . . .
Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post who has written several books on the Secret Service, said the agency would have traditionally viewed the dismissed discrimination lawsuit as disqualifying.
“Yes, that should have been enough to exclude her, because you really have to have a pristine record,” he told RCP Wednesday. “Certainly, this has been true in the past. There’s tremendous competition, and she never should have been hired.”
Kessler also pointed to a new initiative to increase the number of women in the Secret Service workforce. Guglielmi confirmed that the agency is one of numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies that have signed onto the 30×30 initiative, an effort to increase the representation of women in all ranks of policing across the country to 30% of the workforce by 2030.

“Let’s hire this kooky woman who filed a bogus discrimination lawsuit against her former employers to guard the Vice President of the United States, because what could possibly go wrong?”

Have I mentioned lately that Crazy People Are Dangerous?

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In The Mailbox: 04.26.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 27, 2024 | 1 Comment

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
An abbreviated post since I need to reload my magazines with practice ammo and be at the range by 0800.
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