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Rule 5 Sunday: Honor Blackman

Posted on | November 2, 2020 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

It was very tempting to do a reprise of Diana Rigg, since she’s clearly the best Bond Girl, but unfortunately her James Bond was the soft & floppy George Lazenby instead of Sean Connery (RIP) so there went that connection. Instead, I went with another actress who like Dame Rigg starred in both The Avengers and the Bond movies, Honor Blackman, who also looked pretty sweet in leather.

Ms. Blackman playing Pussy Galore in Goldfinger.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1154, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Understanding The Left Friday, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL, Don Carlo, Agrippina, Simon Boccanegra, Nixon In China, Vintage Halloween, Boris Godunov, Scary Halloween, Cimorelli, Halloween, Ghosts Of Versailles, and Vintage Pumpkins

A View From The Beach: Li Bingbing, Fish Pic Friday – Lacey Loo, New Maryland Oyster Regulations Controversial, Tanlines Thursday, Your Wednesday Wetness, Seeing the Forest Through the Trees, Tattoo Tuesday, Your Monday Morning Stimulant and Palm Sunday.

Bleach Cocktail: Monday Motivator, Tuesday Titillation, Wednesday Whoopee, Thursday Thunder, and Friday Fire.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Theda Bara.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Albedo 0.39

Posted on | November 1, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Albedo 0.39

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in October!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

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A View From The Beach
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Rule 5 Sunday: Jessica Alba
Animal Magnetism
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A View From The Beach
EBL
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Jake Tapper: Still Not Over Macho Grande
Bacon Time
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Joe Biden Is Not Barack Obama (and Other Truths the Media Elite Can’t See)
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In The Mailbox: 10.27.20 (Morning Edition)
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Store Security Guard Stabbed by Sisters After Asking Them to Wear Masks
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In The Mailbox: 10.27.20 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 10.28.20
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‘Anonymous’ Miles Taylor Represents Everything Americans Hate About the GOP
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Good News: Democrats Are Worried
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In The Mailbox: 10.30.20 (Morning Edition)
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After 16 Days of Censorship, Twitter Unlocks the New York Post’s Account
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Damn It, Iowa — No Hope Allowed!

Posted on | November 1, 2020 | Comments Off on Damn It, Iowa — No Hope Allowed!

As I have explained, maintaining my mental health during the final weeks of the campaign requires me to avoid anything that might give me hope that Donald Trump could be elected. This is actually easy, given how most polls show Joe Biden cruising to a landslide victory. The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has Biden winning by 10 points — TEN FREAKING POINTS! — which would have to be catastrophically wrong for Trump to have a chance. In terms of my Zen of hopelessness, this is just what I need, but some of y’all refuse to cooperate:

Republican President Donald Trump has taken over the lead in Iowa as Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden has faded, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows just days before Election Day.
The president now leads by 7 percentage points over Biden, 48% to 41%. Three percent say they will vote for someone else, 2% aren’t sure and 5% don’t want to say for whom they will vote.
In September’s Iowa Poll, the candidates were tied at 47% to 47%.

In the span of one month, according to this poll, Biden has lost 6 points, while Trump has gained one. Recall that in February, Biden placed third in the Iowa caucus, so we can’t expect Democrats there to be too enthusiastic about “Landslide Joe.” Furthermore, in 2016, Trump won Iowa by more than 9 points, so if he wins by 7 points this time, it would actually show an erosion of his support. And when you recall how slender Trump’s margins were in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, the loss of 2 points would spell defeat. So may hopelessness remains intact, but then there’s this little data point from the Iowa poll:

Both candidates largely hold onto voters within their own parties. Ninety-three percent of Democrats support Biden, along with 4% of self-described Republicans. And 89% of Republicans support Trump, along with 2% of Democrats.
But Trump has regained an edge with those who identify as independents — a bloc key to his 2016 win in Iowa. According to National Election Pool exit polling published by CNN, independent voters favored Trump 51% to 38% over Democrat Hillary Clinton that year.
In the Register’s September Iowa Poll, Biden led with independents 50% to 38%. But today, Trump wins them back and leads 49% to 35%.

Whoa! Biden has lost 15 points with independents? This cannot be true. Nate Silver tells me there is an 89% chance Biden is winning, and yet independents have turned against Biden? How can I protect my precious sense of hopelessness against this contradictory evidence?

Well, I’ve been watching CNN all day. That should do the trick.




 

Category: Iowa, Polls

‘Bond. James Bond.’

Posted on | November 1, 2020 | 2 Comments

The news Saturday of actor Sean Connery’s death marked the end of an era. For a generation of men, Connery’s portrayal of James Bond — Agent 007 in Her Majesty’s Secret Service — was the ultimate expression of cool. The espionage was just a plot device, really. What counted was the extraordinary character at the center of the adventure.

Nothing could be cooler than the man whom movie audiences first met in a 1962 scene from Dr. No. An MI6 man is sent to find 007 who, of course, is playing baccarat at an exclusive London club, Le Cercle. We see him win two hands before a beautiful brunette asks his name. Pausing before lighting his cigarette, he answers: “Bond. James Bond.”

 

Connery was a Scotsman of working-class background, and his famous role as a symbol of British sophistication is thus rather ironic, sort of like the way Marion Robert Morrison, a USC frat boy born in Iowa, became famous as a Wild West frontier symbol known as John Wayne.

Connery had a long and distinguished career, playing many roles. He was the paratroop commander Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart in A Bridge Too Far (1977), and a younger generation of moviegoers met Connery in the role of Indiana Jones’s father in The Last Crusade (1989).

When I was a young bachelor working as a sports editor in Calhoun, Georgia, I had a couple of James Bond movie posters on the wall of my apartment. One day I had a young lady over to dinner and the topic of conversation turned to soap operas. How could women watch those silly shows, I asked, with their unbelievable plot twists? The lady pointed to my James Bond posters and asked if that was more believable.

“James Bond?” I answered. “Oh that stuff is real! The cars? The gadgets? All those sexy ladies? Of course it’s real. He’s a super spy!”

Well, a few months later, for Valentine’s Day, our newspaper ran little personal ads — for some small fee you could send greetings to your sweetheart. My message was addressed to “Sexy Lady,” asking simply “Will You Marry Me?” And it was signed, “Super Spy.”

That was 31 years ago, and I’ve been cool ever since.

Thanks for showing how it’s done, 007. R.I.P.




 

Category: Celebrities, Movies

In The Mailbox: 10.30.20 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 31, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual deadlines for the usual weekend linkfests are in effect.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Voices Of Verity
Red Pilled Jew: Rabbi In Israel Prays For Trump
357 Magnum: The Breakdown Of Order In NYC
Ammo.com: Cultural Superiority Isn’t Racism
EBL: Biden Family Now Under FBI Investigation
Twitchy: USA Fact-Checked The Babylon Bee’s Article About Trump Wanting A Space Navy For The Moon, But Then The Real U.S. Navy Got Involved And ROFL
Louder With Crowder: Forensic Expert Concludes “Smoking Gun” Hunter Biden E-mail Is 100% Real
Vox Popoli: To Ask The Question is To Answer It, also, The Trumpslide Cometh
According To Hoyt: Go Be Americans

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Shakespeare Would Be Jailed Under Yousaf
American Conservative: Sowing, Reaping, & Locking
American Greatness: Occasional Cortex Wears $14,000 Outfit In Vanity Fair To Curse Trump, also, Black Americans For Trump
American Power: Mark Levin Absolutely Explodes
American Thinker: Win Or Lose, Democrats Have Big Plans For America
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Understanding The Left Friday
Babalu Blog: Jar Jar Biden Pushes For Loving Embrace Of Communist Cuba, Blames Cuban Repression On Darth Trump
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 30
Cafe Hayek: Dan Klein Makes A Prediction
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: A Political Horror Story, also, Bobby Orr Scores, Boston Sports Media Hardest Hit
Don Surber: Rural Americans Will Save The USA On Tuesday, also, The State Of The Election Tonight
First Street Journal: Newspapers Need More Than More Digital Subscribers, They Need An Audience Their Editorial Antics Have Alienated
The Geller Report: NYC Voters Receiving Ballots Pre-filled With Straight Democrat Votes, also, Trump Rallies In Rochester, MN – Thousands Defy AG Ellison And Show Up Anyway
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, The House That @jack Built
Hollywood In Toto: How Dead & Buried Got Overshadowed By Its Own Marketing Campaign, also, Come Play Recycles Too Many Horror Tropes To Scare Us
JustOneMinute: Last Gasp
The Lid: Disgusting Biden/Harris Campaign Uses Hitler Footage In Campaign Ad
Legal Insurrection: DOJ Confirms FBI Opened Criminal Investigation Into Hunter Biden In 2019 – And It’s Still Active, also, Furman U Prof Who Identified As Chicana Resigns After Being Outed As Anglo
Power Line: Democrats Prefer Cuba To Israel, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Mucarsel Powell Highlights “Environmental Racism” In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Hear That Garment-Rending-y Sound?
The Political Hat: Big Brother Comes To Real Estate
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Curiouser & Curiouser
Victory Girls: Hypocrites Among Us Here In The Evergreen State
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Biden Is A Lesser Evil Than Trump
Weasel Zippers: Biden On His New Obamacare – “You Can Keep Your Private Insurance If You Like It”, also, Florida Dem Organizer Issues Warning To Biden Camp, CNN Freaks Out
The Federalist: Yes, Media Are Rigging The Election Against Half The Country, also, Theologian John Piper’s Case Against Trump Is Intellectually & Morally Bankrupt
Mark Steyn: Election Day Minus Four – Live Around The Planet, also, Shock & Orr

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Category: Linkagery

After 16 Days of Censorship, Twitter Unlocks the New York Post’s Account

Posted on | October 30, 2020 | 4 Comments

Twitter’s excuse was always dishonest:

Twitter backed down Friday in its battle with The Post and unlocked its main account after a two-week stalemate over the Hunter Biden exposé.
The move came after The Post refused Twitter’s demand that it delete six tweets that linked to stories that the company claimed — without any evidence — were based on hacked information.
The Post never budged, and kept the tweets on the account during the standoff.
In a series of tweets, the social-media giant said it was revising its “Hacked Materials Policy” and “updating our practice of not retroactively overturning prior enforcement.”
“Our policies are living documents,” said one of the tweets from @TwitterSafety.
“We’re willing to update and adjust them when we encounter new scenarios or receive important feedback from the public.”
Twitter arbitrarily cracked down on The Post and locked its account on Oct. 14.
The company claimed The Post violated its policy on sharing “hacked materials” by tweeting links to bombshell exclusives on Biden’s emails — without ever saying how it came to that conclusion.

Not that this means Twitter is now an honest company — they’re not — but this is a tacit admission of their dishonesty, and I suppose that after the election we’ll learn that Twitter’s censorship was ordered by the executives at behest of the Biden campaign. Meanwhile . . .

Look, I don’t want to give anyone hope that Trump will actually win. My belief is that bleak pessimism is the only rational stance toward this election. However, Democrats are worried sick:

Senior officials on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign are increasingly worried about insufficient Black and Latino voter turnout in key states like Florida and Pennsylvania with only four days until the election, according to people familiar with the matter.
Despite record early-vote turnout around the country, there are warning signs for Biden. In Arizona, two-thirds of Latino registered voters have not yet cast a ballot. In Florida, half of Latino and Black registered voters have not yet voted but more than half of White voters have cast ballots, according to data from Catalist, a Democratic data firm. In Pennsylvania, nearly 75% of registered Black voters have not yet voted, the data shows.
The firm’s analysis of early vote numbers also show a surge of non-college educated White voters, who largely back President Donald Trump, compared to voters of color, who overwhelmingly support Biden.

My goal is not to make you think Trump can win — I have reached a Zen of despair — but rather to share the joy of watching Democrats suffer psychiatric trauma because of their fears Biden will lose.

Pure cruelty, you see. Nothing brings out my inner sadist quite as much as the thought of SJWs in the throes of a panic attack, haunted by visions of redneck Trump voters rampaging nationwide in big trucks.

Margaret Carlson says she’s suffering PTSD from Hillary’s loss in 2016.

We can enjoy the spectacle of liberal agony for four more days and then — dare we even hope? — four more years.




 

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: 10.30.20 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | October 30, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.30.20 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Happy Nevada Day!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Sixteen Year Old Hero
Bleach Cocktail: More Beheadings Of Peace In France
Red Pilled Jew: The Case For A Republican Landslide In November
EBL: Vintage Halloween
Twitchy: Rick Wilson’s Shaming Of “Trumpworld” For Mocking Hunter Biden’s Addiction Hits An Awkward Snag
Louder With Crowder: Democrat City Council Member Endorses Trump With Fiery Speech That Could Put Michigan In Play
Vox Popoli: They Rationalize Too Much, also, You Already Policed My Speech, Jack
Stoic Observations: Never Scared

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Greasy Pole Podcast #15
American Conservative: A Nuts & Bolts Guide To Density People Actually Want
American Greatness: UPS Conducting “Urgent Investigation” Into Missing Hunter Biden Docs Shipped By Fox News, also, The Unelected Tyrants Who Burned Down The Golden State
American Power: The Decline & Fall Of The British Aristocracy
American Thinker: The Polls Shift Toward Trump, also, The Modern World’s Never-Ending War On Faith
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Pushed Toward Trump News
Babalu Blog: New Polls Show Democrats Like Communist Cuba More Than They Like Democratic Israel
BattleSwarm: Hunter Biden, Tony Bobolinski, & The Spy King Of China
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Strategic Claustrophobia
Da Tech Guy: The Pennsylvania Chaos, also, Quick One-Liners Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Hispanics Screw Up Democrats’ Plans, also, It’s Officially The Greatest Economic Recovery Ever
First Street Journal: The Proper Way To Deal With The Not-So-Peaceful Parts Of “Mostly Peaceful Protests”, also, Could Chief Justice Roberts Be Shoved Aside?
The Geller Report: Van Packed With Explosives Found In Philadelphia Amidst Riots, also, Pelosi Says Biden Will Be Sworn In As president “Whatever The End Count Is On Election Day”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Minnesota?
Hollywood In Toto: Borat, The Crown Prince Of “Punching Down” Comedy, also, Why The Dark Half Captures Stephen King At His Confessional Best
The Lid: UPS Finds Missing Biden Scandal Docs That Went Missing
Legal Insurrection: Girl Scouts Cave To Rabid Leftist Mob, Delete Tweet Congratulating Amy Coney Barrett, also, Oregon Health Official Dresses As Clown While Reviewing Coronavirus Death Toll
Power Line: Princeton President Tries To Doubletalk His Way Out Of Pickle He Created, also, “Anonymous” No More
Shark Tank: Trump Endorses Maria Elvira Salazar In FL-27 Against “Pragmatic Socialist” Donna Shalala
Shot In The Dark: Pining For The Hipster Fjords
The Political Hat: Seattle’s Systemic Struggle Sessions
This Ain’t Hell: Cop Dies After Being Attacked By Rooster While Trying To Break Up Cockfight, also, The Grinch Who Regulated Christmas
Victory Girls: Evita Had Nothing On Occasional Cortex
Volokh Conspiracy: Motion For Justice Barrett To Recuse Is Withdrawn
Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep Debbie Dingell – Autoworkers I Thought Were Supporting Biden Voted For Trump, also, Giuliani Describes Contents Of Hunter Biden’s Hard Drive – “Horrible, Pornographic” Pictures Of Young Girls
The Federalist: Twitter Suspends U.S. Border Chief For Celebrating Wall’s Protection From Illegal Aliens, also, I’m A Children’s Rights Activist – That’s Why I’m Voting For Trump
Mark Steyn: Election Day Minus Five, also, A Rainy Night On Lake Geneva

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Good News: Democrats Are Worried

Posted on | October 30, 2020 | 2 Comments

People keep telling me their predictions about the election, and I don’t want to hear them. I have done the Electoral College arithmetic and know that it is easily possible for President Trump to win, even if it’s going to be close and we might have to wait for late returns.

More than that, however, I’ve reached my Zen of pessimistic calm, as I said Wednesday: “Bleak hopelessness is true objectivity.” Being convinced we are utterly doomed is a source of tranquility.

Democrats are now suffering an agony of fear. Four more years of Trump? No, they can’t handle that. It’s driving them to sheer panic:

Democrats are sounding the alarm about weak voter turnout rates in Florida’s biggest county, Miami-Dade, where a strong Republican showing is endangering Joe Biden’s chances in the nation’s biggest swing state.
No Democrat can win Florida without a huge turnout and big winning margins [in Miami] to offset losses elsewhere in the state. But Democrats are turning out at lower rates than Republicans and at lower rates than at this point in 2016, when Hillary Clinton won by 29 percentage points here and still lost the state to Donald Trump.

You can read the whole thing. There are other omens of a possible miracle victory for Trump, including a Rasmussen poll that indicates Trump may get 31% — THIRTY-ONE PERCENT! — of the black vote.

But don’t give me hope. I’m more comfortable with despair, especially as I watch Democrats writhe in agony during these final days before the election. Besides, how bad could it possibly be?

Twelve years ago, when the Republican Party nominated John McCain as its presidential candidate, he got less than 46 percent of the popular vote and only 173 Electoral College votes. Whatever happens on Election Day this year, almost no one expects President Trump to do worse than that.
According to Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight poll-based prediction, we enter the final weekend before Election Day with an 89 percent likelihood that Joe Biden will win. Basically, the odds are 8-to-1 against Trump’s reelection. Yet the president’s supporters are undaunted, recalling that Silver’s final 2016 forecast gave Hillary Clinton a 71 percent chance of being elected and yet Trump beat her in a result that broke the Democrats’ so-called “blue wall” in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Miracles can happen in politics, and Republican voters are praying for another divine intervention next week. Bombarded by a barrage of discouraging news coverage — even Fox News seems to be part of the “Landslide Joe” propaganda team now — the conservative faithful quite desperately seek omens that may portend more hopeful tidings.
Well, there’s this: Four days before the election, Joe Biden today is making a campaign trip to Minnesota, which, as Trump campaign communications chief Tim Murtaugh points out, is “a state that hasn’t gone to a Republican candidate for president since 1972.” . . .

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




 

Category: American Spectator, Democrats, Donald Trump, Election, Florida
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