In The Mailbox: 12.23.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 23, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.23.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Sick as a dog yesterday; feeling slightly better today thanks to chicken soup, tea, & drugs. More Fate/Grand Order silliness for your amusement.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Wow, the fifth emperor of Rome sure looks different than I remember…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: iPhone Security Problems In The Wild
EBL: Feast Of The Seven Fishes, also, Why Homelessness?
Twitchy: Woman Who Accused Ric Grenell Of “Emboldening Actual Neo-Nazis” Blocks Everyone, Including Grenell
Louder With Crowder: Majority Of Americans Think Nancy Pelosi Is Horrible, Want New House Speaker
Vox Popoli: Christmas Gifts From The VP, also, Red State Revolt

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Cuba’s Decay At Christmastime
American Greatness: Giuliani Says Arizona GOP Will Attempt To Certify Trump Electors On Wednesday
American Power: Red China Rations Electricity For MIllions
American Thinker: The Biggest Political Blunder In American History
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Next Step News
Babalu Blog: Fascists Who Call Themselves “Anti-Fascists”
BattleSwarm: Gun News Roundup
Cafe Hayek: Heroes In A Year Of Horrors
CDR Salamander: Sweden Executes An About Face
Da Tech Guy: Social Media Exodus – MeWe, also, A Quick Note To My Fellow Christians & Catholics In Particular
Don Surber: Obama Reveals His Anti-Semitism, also, Concede Only That Trump Won
First Street Journal: Perhaps There Would Be More Catholics In The Pews If We Had More Catholics In The Priesthood
The Geller Report: Constitutional Lawyer Says Law Prohibits Pence From Accepting Electoral Votes From Fraudulently Certified States, also, Rudy Giuliani Says He Can’t Go On Failing Fox News Any More
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, We Live In Alternate Worlds
Hollywood In Toto: Wonder Woman 1984 – Woke, Wobbly, & The Year’s Most Shocking Dud, also, Hollywood Hate Goes Unpunished…Again
JustOneMinute: Happy Holidays!
The Lid: Activist Prof Says Each Black Vote Should Count Twice For “Reparations”
Legal Insurrection: Minority Leader McCarthy Demands Swalwell Be Cut From Intel Committee, also, Newsom Hints At Longer Lockdown As Bars & Restaurants Sue Over Restrictions
Nebraska Energy Observer: Merry Christmas From Doctor Who!
Power Line: This Week In Wokery, also, Democrats Feel Gloomy Over Election
Shark Tank: Florida Democrats Whine About Marco Rubio’s Bible Tweets
Shot In The Dark: Checked And Balanced
STUMP: COVID Mortality Idiocies
The Political Hat: The Twelve Posts Of Christmas (5-8)
This Ain’t Hell: “A Cadet Will Not Lie, Cheat, Or Steal…” also, CSM Sacked For “Unprofessional Language”
Victory Girls: Joe Biden Will Never Be My President
Volokh Conspiracy: Mother Has Son Tested For COVID-19, Threatened With Contempt Of Court
Weasel Zippers: President Trump Sends COVID Relief Bill Back To Congress, also, Biden Already discussing How Best To Resume Illegal Immigration From Mexico
The Federalist: Joe Biden Says “Our Darkest Days Are Ahead”, also, Dear Democrats – Stop Treating Black Men Like We’re Stupid Or Lose More Votes
Mark Steyn: Here Comes Santa Claus, also, Veinglory In The HIghest

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Category: Linkagery

The Destructive Meaning of ‘Equality’

Posted on | December 22, 2020 | Comments Off on The Destructive Meaning of ‘Equality’

Comrade DeBlasio last week declared: “I’d like to say very bluntly our mission is to redistribute wealth. . . A lot of people bristle at that phrase. That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use.”

The subject, believe it or not, was K-12 schools in New York City. How could anyone view public education as having a “mission to redistribute wealth”? And yet this is indeed what DeBlasio considers the “mission” of his city’s schools. In a remarkable press conference (and by “remarkable,” of course I mean, insane), the mayor spoke of his plan to “more equitably redistribute resources” in the city’s schools: “We can never accept a broken status quo. . . . We can never go back to a past that didn’t work.”

What is so “broken” in the status quo of New York schools? What was it about those schools that “didn’t work” in the past? Well, the outcomes were unequal and, because inequality is unfair (according to “progressives” like DeBlasio) therefore the entire system must be destroyed. This idea is summarized in a headline, “De Blasio to destroy New York’s top public schools to run an experiment in diversity.”

You see that vague goals like “equality” and “diversity” are really just a pretext for destruction, as part of a war against achievement.

Category: Education, New York

Ode to SCOTUS

Posted on | December 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Ode to SCOTUS

by Smitty

SCOTUS took a cruise,
What had it to lose?
Beside everything,
That they did bring,
When a ‘berg she kissed,
She should have missed.

As down the vessel went,
A final moment was spent,
With the Captain on patrol,
Seeking hands for damage control.
“It would help our failing crew
If you penguins would turn to!”

“Three problems beset you, sir.
First, you address us as a cur.
Next, you ended your proposition,
With a dreaded preposition.
Last, our labor shan’t be lent,
Lest we set precedent.”

And thus we see the worth,
Of those who after birth,
Fetish principle so much,
They fail you in the clutch.
Whose bloody-minded reason,
Sees not the proper season.

Category: Uncategorized

In The Mailbox: 12.21.20

Posted on | December 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Our favorite shielder dressed up for the holidays.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Not A Word About Self-Defense
EBL: Ralph Peters – The War In 2020, also, Bill Barr Is A Big Fat Failure
Twitchy: “Coronavirus” Stimulus Bill Includes No Less Than $10 Million For “Gender Programs” In Pakistan
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe Blasts Politicians Arbitrarily Deciding Which Employees Are “Essential”, also, Tulsi Gabbard Unloads On “Heartless Bureaucrats” Approving Vaccine For Congress Before The Elderly
Vox Popoli: Conspiracy Theorists Conspire, also, The Nurse Is Dead, Allegedly
Stoic Observations: Cyberpunk 2077

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Biden Administration Faces A Legitimacy Crisis
American Greatness: Congratulations, National Review! You Got Your Wish! also, GA State Senate Says Election Results Are “Untrustworthy”, Certification Should Be Rescinded
American Power: Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience Of Children
American Thinker: The AMA Lied – How Many Died? also, Fighting On
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: WaPo Cartoonists At It Again, also, Cuban Dictatorship Confiscates 25 Tons Of Humanitarian Aid Sent By Miami Churches
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 18, also, Election Fraud Update For December 21
Cafe Hayek: COVID Hypocrites – And Liars
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, It’s A Year-end Wrap-up On Midrats!
Da Tech Guy: Five One-Liners Under Other Peoples’ Fedoras, also, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s Status As A Fraud Solidified
Don Surber: Open Borders, Let In COVID, also, 2020, The Year The Experts Killed Us
First Street Journal: Conservative School Administrators Forced To Resign Over Social Media Posts
The Geller Report: 379,000 Illegal Ballots Cast In Michigan, And Now We Have Receipts, also, Redacted Information In Dominion Audit Report Shows Races Were Flipped
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Star Of Bethlehem
Hollywood In Toto: Promising Young Woman Shows The Limits Of Cinematic Rage, also, Turbulence is The Over The Top Christmas Thriller To Stuff Our Stockings
JustOneMinute: Waiting For The Defense Bill Veto
The Lid: BLM Protesters Disrupt Holiday Fundraiser For Kids With Cancer
Legal Insurrection: Sidney Powell May Get To Prove Her “Kraken” Case – As A Defendant In Civil Suits, also, Tables Turned – Restaurants Organize To Ban Gov. Cuomo From All NYC Establishments
Michelle Malkin: Some Church Lives Matter More Than Others
Nebraska Energy Observer: Now What, America? also, Random Observations
Power Line: Birx Busted, also, History Repeats
Shark Tank: Rep. Sabatini Accuses Speaker Sprowls Of Targeting His Conservatism
Shot In The Dark: Future Alternative, also, A Bad Look
STUMP: NY State Climate Investing Goals – Who’s On The Hook?
The Political Hat: Gaia Faith – Cult Of Gaia, Sacrifices For Gaia, Matricide Of Gaia, also, The “Bad Touch” Biden Commemorative Cake
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Ranger Training Battalion CO Relieved
Victory Girls: An Open Letter To The American Coward, also, The Collapse Of The American Education System
Volokh Conspiracy: Ted Cruz’ Terrible Case For Keeping Out Hong Kong Refugees
Weasel Zippers: CDC Urging States To Vaccinate Black/Brown People Ahead Of Whites, also, Conservative Occupation Of Oregon Capitol Grounds Continues
The Federalist: The American Left Has Now Fully Embraced Racism, also, NYT Continues Blackout On Swalwell’s Bang Bang Fang Fang
Mark Steyn: Catch-Up Conservatism, also, Surrender Nothing

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Category: Linkagery

Be Patient

Posted on | December 21, 2020 | 2 Comments

How long will it take for the Biden-Harris administration to become a catastrophe of historical proportions, such a flaming dungpile of disaster that even Democrats are horrified by the result?

Perhaps quite quickly, but it may take several months for the enormity of this massive political failure to become apparent. As conservatives, we ought not grow impatient. Don’t try to create trouble, but rather let this fraudulence proceed to its inevitable collapse, and then be prepared to say, “See? We told you it wouldn’t work.”

Joe Biden has obtained the presidency under terms that guarantee failure. Insofar as he attempts to appease his party’s radical base, Biden will alienate the middle class and wreck the economy. If, on the other hand, Biden tries to perform a high-wire balancing act to placate his corporate sponsors with more “moderate” policies (while still, of course, making “progressive” gestures for the sake of the party base), the radicals are not so stupid that they won’t see through his charade. Biden will be damned if does, and damned if he doesn’t, because the Democratic Party has become a self-contradicting hodgepodge of incompatible interests.

Recall that LBJ thumped Goldwater in a landslide in 1964, and yet his administration became such a complete disaster that he did not even seek his party’s nomination in 1968. It seems to me quite likely that Biden will be an even worse president than LBJ, and no amount of media spin will be able to save him from complete disgrace. Selah.

Category: Joe Biden

The Wedding Was Lovely

Posted on | December 21, 2020 | 2 Comments

I’d love to show you photos of the wedding, but the couple asked that no one post pictures — our crappy cellphone photos — and instead wait until the professional photographer’s work was available. So I’ll have to make do with words to describe the lovely ceremony in the ornate lobby of the Morris Performing Arts Center. The ceremony was bilingual, with the bride’s Ecuadoran grandfather, a pastor, performing the ceremony in Spanish, translated by a cousin. You could tell that the pastor deeply cherishes his oldest granddaughter, and the effect of his matrimonial sermon was to convey what an awesome duty my son has taken upon himself in marrying her, as he will be held to the highest standards.

The reception was at the equally ornate Palais Royale ballroom, where I’m told that Frank Sinatra once performed back in the day. Dinner was exquisite, with a “surf-and-turf” combination of filet mignon and broiled salmon as the entree. And I suppose it would not violate the rules to share one photo from the reception.

That’s the newlywed couple, with our youngest daughter Reagan on the left and son Jefferson, the best man, on the right. It was good to have the family together for the weekend, even amid a pandemic. We must now load up the van for the long ride home, while the newlyweds travel to a tropical destination for a long honeymoon and get started on that most valuable endeavor, i.e., supplying us with more grandchildren.

Category: Family

Rule 5 Sunday: Santa Ereshkigal

Posted on | December 21, 2020 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Been a while since I’ve posted anything from Fate/Grand Order, but every year they have a moderately silly Christmas event in which one of the Servants plays the role of Santa; last year it was Attila the ~~Hun~~Santa riding her magic sheep to distribute presents and save Chaldea from a deadly fever by rescuing the Sumerian goddess of the underworld, Ereshkigal. Eresh hasn’t played the role of Santa yet, but a man can dream…
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.