In The Mailbox: 04.09.24

Some years ago, there was a video game that had a really hot female protagonist shooting and slicing her way through a ton of enemies, and this pissed off the feminists and their soyboy orbiters because they couldn’t look as hot as Bayonetta on their best day. So they whined about this, and nobody cared outside the video gamepress, and Bayonetta went on to sell a buttload of copies. More recently, noted game designer and admirer of the female form Yoko Taro brought out Nier:Automata, which featured a lovely android shooting and slicing her way through a ton of enemies while looking hot. Again the feminists REEEEEd about 2B not looking like a potato, and again, nobody but the video game press cared. People bought a zillion copies, and Yoko Taro laughed all the way to the bank. Several times. The feminists grumbled that well, maybe Bayonetta and 2B weren’t so bad.

This month, Korean game company Shift UP announced that their new game Stellar Blade would be out soon for the PS5, and released a demo, which people really liked because it featured a really hot babe named Eve shooting and slicing her way through hordes of demonic enemies. Feminists screamed that Eve was obviously a product of horny boys who had never seen an actual woman, whereupon Shift Up released pics of Korean model Shin Jae Un, on whom Eve was based. For good measure, they released a pic of the chief artist for the game, who was none other than director Hyung-Tae Kim’s rather attractive wife. Preorders for the game are already through the roof. Thus, today’s cartoon, courtesy of CanadianAniGuy on Reddit.
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2B consoles Eve

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Great Replacement Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Bloodshot, Monday Is Eclipse Day In North America, Jack Smith – Me So MAGA Mad, Biden Bud Light, Loudermilk, Planet Terror, Hundreds Of Beavers, and The Miracle Club.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Abby Dowse, Maryland, My Maryland, Fish Pic Friday – The Reel Rocky, It’s Official, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Some Tuesday Tanlines, Sitting Here In Limbo, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Happy Easter!

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S for April 5

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Adrift Somewhere In The Anacostia River

Posted on | April 7, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Adrift Somewhere In The Anacostia River

— compiled by Wombat-socho

What an awful week this was. The Reds took two out of three at RFK, and then we went to Fenway and lost two out of three to the Red Sox. Most of the games have been close, but a close loss is still a loss. While I’m not quite to the point where I’m ready to hand the team over to Robot Whitey Herzog and turn Ted loose to commune with the deer and fishes of Minnesota, I’m getting there. At least I got what I asked for last week – 2-4 is better than 1-5.
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Not a good thing.

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FMJRA 2.0: Gloom, Despair, Etc.
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Is It Panic Time for Democrats Yet?
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Thanks to everyone for all the links, especially 357 Magnum, A View From The Beach, and EBL who went 10 for 10 this week!

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‘I Was Hearing the Voices Again’

Posted on | April 6, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘I Was Hearing the Voices Again’

Notice anything about Calvin Haskins? Like the fact that he’s got an Egyptian ankh symbol tattooed in the middle of his forehead? Why would somebody do that? I could refer you to the title of a 1974 Richard Pryor album, or I could cite research that black people “are 2.4 times more likely [than white people] to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.” But it’s not necessary for me to offer evidence that Calvin Haskins is mentally disturbed — demented, deranged, daffy, wacky, bonkers, berserk, off his rocker, nutty as a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs — other than to mention that until recently, he was being treated at a state mental hospital in Buffalo, New York. Now, however, he’s being held without bond in the county jail:

Buffalo police said three staff members were taken from the Buffalo Psychiatric Center by ambulance after they were stabbed by a patient Wednesday morning.
The incident inside the Forest Avenue facility happened just after 9 a.m. The suspect in the matter, 34-year-old resident Calvin Haskins, has been taken into custody.
“Earlier today, three staff members were injured during an incident at the Strozzi Building of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center campus and we are actively assisting the Buffalo Police Department’s investigation into this matter,” a statement from New York State’s Office of Mental Health read. “The Office of Mental Health’s top priority is the safety of our staff and the individuals we serve, and our thoughts are with the employees who were injured and their families.”
In a conference Wednesday afternoon, Buffalo police said that the alleged attacker used a knife. The incident took place in an area of the complex that can be accessed without being screened for weapons.
The three victims, who were all taken to ECMC, were identified as a 45-year-old man, a 55-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman. A source at ECMC said that all three of the victims are in stable condition.
Haskins has been charged with three counts of assault and a single count of criminal possession of a weapon. He was arraigned on Wednesday afternoon.
Haskins has a history of stabbings. It was confirmed to News 4 on Wednesday that Haskins was charged in connection to a stabbing at the Fountain Plaza Train Station in downtown Buffalo in 2013, where he allegedly stabbed another man. He was charged with attempted murder.

So, a guy with “a history of stabbing” (and a tattoo in the middle of his forehead) was in the state mental hospital when he stabbed some more people. Let’s hear from the suspect’s mom:

The mother of the man accused of stabbing three staffers at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center on Wednesday says her son has suffered from mental illness for most of his life.
Sylvia Haskins said she visited her son, Calvin Haskins, on Thursday at the Erie County Holding Center, where he’s being held without bail after being charged with three counts of first-degree assault.
She told 7 News her son, who is 34, told her “he lost it” on Wednesday when he allegedly stabbed three people just after 9 a.m.
“He said ‘I was hearing the voices again. They wasn’t give me my medication and he said I just lost it’,” she said.
Now, she’s worried about his well-being at the holding center.
She says it’s well-documented that he is mentally ill and should be in the psychiatric ward at Erie County Medical Center. . . .
Sylvia Haskins said her son has been institutionalized since 2013 when he took an insanity plea in connection to an attempted murder charge for stabbing a man 17 times at a Metro Rail station.
She said her son was initially sent to a psychiatric hospital in Rochester and then later transferred to Buffalo Psychiatric Center at 400 Forest Avenue.
About two years ago, she said his condition had improved enough that he was allowed to come and go from the center while remaining a patient. . . .
She said she feels terrible for what happened to the staffers.
“My heart goes out to the three who he stabbed and their families and they are all in my prayers,” she said. “But at the end of the day, the system has failed the mentally ill.”

Let’s recount: Stabs a guy 17 times in 2013, but avoids prison for attempted murder by pleading insanity and ends up in a state mental hospital where, by 2022, “his condition had improved enough that he was allowed to come and go.” And then one day he shows up with a knife and stabs three more people, and his mother is “worried” that he’s in jail, because of his “well-documented” craziness which, she says, should instead qualify him for another trip to the psych ward. Because she’s an expert in such matters, see? And as an expert, she tells us “the system has failed” her son, because never mind whether she, herself, has failed as a mother, having raised a dangerous nutjob who keeps stabbing people.

Just as an aside: Like a lot of violent crazy people, Calvin Haskins says he was “hearing voices.” You see this all the time in news coverage about people getting murdered by a kook who was “hearing voices.” Why is it that the voices in these people’s heads never say things like, “Hey, man, you need to chill out, have a beer and watch a basketball game on TV”? Instead of offering helpful advice like that, the voices are always saying, “KILL! KILL! KILL!” But I digress . . .

Perhaps it is not necessary for me to point out that both Calvin Haskins and his mother are eligible to vote in New York, which may have something to do with how Joe Biden got 56% of the vote in Erie County. Speaking of disturbing thoughts, the fact that Sylvia Haskins is a mother means that, at some point, some guy had sex with her, and I’m sure that mental image will leave many readers permanently traumatized. But try not to let this irreparable trauma completely unravel your mind because, of course: Crazy People Are Dangerous

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In The Mailbox: 04.05.24

Posted on | April 5, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.05.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Help Doug Hagin out, people. Life is sticking it to him real hard at the moment.
It occurs to me that I missed the chance to make a 404 joke yesterday. Welp.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
PSA: You have ten days to get your taxes done.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Bloodshot, also, Wuhan Coronapocalypse – How The Deep State Played Trump
Twitchy: Literally Shaking! Responses From The Epicenter of the NYC earthquake Are Hilarious, What Is Hilarious For $600? and Ireland’s Social Democrat Sinn Fein Party Backpedals On Hate Crime Bill
Louder With Crowder: Shrill harpy Joy Behar lashes out at Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” because, unlike Beyonce, Dolly is “anti-feminist”, ‘Shark Tank’ star reignites feud with AOC: “I wouldn’t let her manage a candy store”, and “I had to lie a lot about things that I didn’t agree with”
Vox Popoli: Next Up for Retro-Demolition, They Found the Deep Ones, and It’s Grilling Time
According To Hoyt: Only Nazis, Singing By Rote, and It’s The Past That Keeps Changing
Upstream Reviews: The Paths of Cormanor

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Antony Blinken Plays Politics with Ukraine’s NATO Membership
American Greatness: Layoffs Reach 14-Month High Amid Ongoing Inflation
American Thinker: Students Deserve to Know the Truth About Socialism
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Great Replacement Friday
Babalu Blog: The Cuban dictatorship’s oppressive crackdown on peaceful protests, The love the Castro dictatorship has for the Cuban people, and Milei goes after Petro and AMLO
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites, Voyager-1 still out of commission, Thailand joins China’s partnership to build a lunar base on the Moon, Mitsubishi joins private consortium building the Starlab commercial space station, and The taffy terrain in Mars’ death valley
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Mike McDonnell, Leaving the Democrats, Failure, Irony and God’s Mysterious Ways, also, Divine Mercy Novena Day Eight
Dana Loesch: Friday Radio Prep, also, Biden Bends The Knee To Hamas & Red China On The Same Day – Declares Ukraine Will Join NATO
Don Surber: This week’s wins
First Street Journal: The journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Gates Of Vienna: Jihad Attack at Antwerp Central Station
The Geller Report: Great-Grandma Convicted of Walking Around The Capitol For 10 Minutes On Jan. 6, Facing Jail
Hollywood In Toto: Why The First Omen Can’t Measure Up to the Original, also, Bulletproof Curb Your Enthusiasm Survives ‘Deadnaming’ Gag
The Lid: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Reverses Course, Won’t Endorse Biden for 2024, Regrets 2020 Endorsement
Legal Insurrection: ‘Mansion Tax’ Slaughters LA’s High-End Real Estate Market, “Something is very strange about what’s going on at Cornell”, Columbia Suspends and Evicts Students Involved in Unauthorized Anti-Israel “Resistance 101” Event, Study Challenges Claim That Business Benefits From “Diversity”, and California Democrats Once More Trying to Bring Back Racial Discrimination
Nebraska Energy Observer: Rights and Tyrants
Outkick: Big-Time Sports Fan Kamala Harris Says NCAA Women’s Tournament Wasn’t ‘Allowed’ To Have Brackets Until 2022, Women’s Final Four Coaches, Billie Jean King – Why Aren’t You Standing Up For Actual Female Athletes? Fan Says Dodgers Pressured Her For Shohei Ohtani HR Ball, But It Sounds Like She Just Made A Bad Deal, DJ Burns Slams Door Shut On NFL Speculation, MLB Should Let Marlins-Yankees Game Happen During Solar Eclipse, Bronny James Makes Laughable NBA Draft Decision After Disappointing Freshman Year At USC, and Paulina Gretzky Brings It Ahead Of The Masters With A Red Hot Follow-Up To Her See-Through Dress
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, About That Jobs Report [Updated], Biden adopts the Hamas line, and Reversible? Don’t Count On It
Shark Tank: DeSantis Could Prove Pro-Weed & Pro-Abortion Amendment Supporters Wrong On Election Night
Shot In The Dark: Feeling So 1938, also, Never Give Up
This Ain’t Hell: Still weaponizing, Valor Friday, Marxism disguised as equality, and Texas National Guard Soldier arrested for attempting to smuggle illegal alien
Transterrestrial Musings: Palestinians Are Adults, also, Sabine Hossenfelder
Victory Girls: Fani Willis Funny Business Continues, Accused Of Illegally Recording Call
Volokh Conspiracy: Cathy Young on Putin’s American Fans
Watts Up With That: European Conservatives, How Has Fossil Fuel Suppression Worked Out for You? Time to save the Right Whale from the Green-Left, and Rejecting Calls for Carbon Taxes Is Common Sense
The Federalist: Why Are Virginia Democrats Working So Hard To Prevent Election Audits? In Opposite Day Logic, USA Today Breathlessly Defends ‘Zuckerbucks’, Government-Funded Database Labels Pro-Life Organization As ‘Terrorist Group’, Former Agent Says FBI Taught Agents Pro-Lifers Are More Dangerous Than Islamic Terrorists, Madison Diverted $700,000 In Taxpayer Covid Relief To Illegal Aliens, and Murthy v. Missouri Is About Not Only Coercing Big Tech But Controlling Individuals

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In The Mailbox: 04.04.24

Posted on | April 5, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.04.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Guess I’ll be working from home through the end of tax season. Welp.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Woke Hollywood In Decline
Director Blue: A Child’s First Book Of Regulations
EBL: You might be a Nazi if…, Wishing a Speedy Recovery for J.J. Sefton, and Monday is Eclipse Day in North America
Twitchy: New Rule Protects Federal Workers From Being Fired At Will By President Trump, Trans Activists Debate Staging Mass Suicide For Trans Rights/Cis Genocide, and Gavin Newsom Conveniently Forgets Who Was Responsible For Most of The Violence In 2020, Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Former ESPN host exposes lengths they went to in order to script Joe Biden interview: “You will not deviate”, also, Bug-Eyed Woman Has Bizarre Meltdown Before Getting Arrested On Spirit Airlines Flight
Vox Popoli: Looking for a Way Out, The History of the Byzantine Empire, A Brief History of Clown World, and Doubling Down Again

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ukraine ‘Loans’ Are Still a Rip-Off Job
American Greatness: Morning Greatness: Mayorkas Pressed to Answer How Terrorists Were Reportedly Freed into U.S.
American Thinker: The Carbon Emperor has no Clothes, also, The Bezmenov Plan: Is America now in the Last Stage?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Hungry Cubans scavenging through garbage cans in search of food, New U.S. law sanctions nations employing enslaved Cuban doctors and denies federal funding to ‘private’ Cuban businesses, and Mexico fires hundreds of its own doctors, brings in more enslaved Cuban doctors
BattleSwarm: Conflict Of Interest – You’re Soaking In It
Behind The Black: Engineers confirm IXPE is fixed and resuming science observations, NASA picks three commercial companies to build manned lunar rovers, Gilmour’s Eris rocket now assembled and ready for launch from Bowen spaceport in Australia, and Pushback: The legislative effort in Texas to end DEI in state colleges is beginning to work
Cafe Hayek: A Challenge for Oren Cass
CDR Salamander: Don’t Skip Range Day
Chicago Boyz: Cursive and Other Archaic Skills
Da Tech Guy: A Pair of Pet Peeves of Mine Concerning War, Easter is rapidly becoming another Holiday That Must Not Be Named, and Divine Mercy Novena Day Seven Still a Hard Season
Dana Loesch: Thursday Radio Prep, War Inc. Unveils Plans To Circumvent Voters & POTUS To Fund Forever War In Ukraine, and Biden Moves To De-List Houthis As A Terror Group -Again
Don Surber: The fourth anniversary of Fauciism
First Street Journal: Not old enough to grow a man’s beard, but old enough to do a man’s crime!
Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad in Antwerp, also, Whose Face Will Be on the Trillion-Dollar Bill?
The Geller Report: Biden Regime: “Ukraine will become a member of NATO.”, also, Biden Regime Announces Plan To Stop Democrat Bureaucrats From Being Fired By New Trump Admin
Hollywood In Toto: Dev Patel’s Monkey Man – A Feast for the Senses, also, Charlamagne tha God Says DEI Is ‘Mostly Garbage’
The Lid: Mexicans, Central, and South Americans Want Biden to Win to Keep U.S. Border Unprotected and Open
Legal Insurrection: Anti-Israel Voters on the Left Could Inflict Real Damage to Biden in November, Sen. Rosen (D-NV) Pours Money Into Ads as Her Race Tightens to ‘Toss Up’, Chicago Measles Cases Rise as Illegal Aliens Show Up With Tuberculosis, Then The Liberals Came For Sonia Sotomayor, The Academic Left is Making Their Hatred of Israel Personal, and Taiwan Earthquake Update: 9 People Dead, 50 Missing, and 900 Injured
Nebraska Energy Observer: Trees
Outkick: Gilbert Arenas Seems To Have Real Problem With White Players, Keith Olbermann’s Criticisms Of Sage Steele Continue To Ring Hollow, Arkansas Reporter Claims Chris Beard Hasn’t Signed Extension With Ole Miss Causing Fans To Lose Their Minds, Cowards: Oakland A’s Announce Sacramento Move And Turn Off Comments, Kim Mulkey Slammed As Coach Players Least Want To Play For In New Survey, College Basketball Star Reportedly Demanding $1 Million Transfer Price, and The Best Minor League Team In Baseball History Scored 26 Runs Last Night
Power Line: Give Birx the works, Sage Reveals the Script, and Is administrative law unlawful?
Shark Tank: Mast Calls For Leadership Change After Homicide At West Palm Beach VA
Shot In The Dark: Poorer Minnesota, also, Reality Always Wins
This Ain’t Hell: Minnesota Man Accused of Stolen Valor, Collecting $100K in Veteran Benefits, also, Gas cars today like land lines of the 20th Century
Transterrestrial Musings: Administrative Law, IFT-3, Public Health’s Expert Failure, Boeing, and The Reckoning Over Puberty Blockers
Victory Girls: When Camping Becomes Grooming
Volokh Conspiracy: Incoming Stanford President Jonathan Levin on University Statements
Watts Up With That: CANT TOUCH THIS – Anti-Net Zero Vigilantes Converting Vandalised Low Emission Zone Cameras Into Protected Species Habitats, Extinction Rebellion Attacks an Electric Vehicle at the New York Auto Show, and Where Did That Drought Go?
The Federalist: The Ruling Class Screwed Over Manufacturing Towns Like East Palestine Long Before A Train Derailed, Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now, Confusing Needs And Wants Is A Great Way To Blow Up Your Finances, NYT Columnist Writes Off Critiques Of Big Food And Big Pharma As Right-Wing New Ageism, Meta Falsely Links Pro-Parent School Board President To Child Abuse Images, Sunny Hostin Did Not Apologize To Coleman Hughes For Lying About Him, and ‘Disinfo’ Guru Tells Voters To Trust Corporate Media Instead Of ‘Doing Your Own Research’
Mark Steyn: Praying at the Altar of Trans

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Is It Panic Time for Democrats Yet?

Posted on | April 4, 2024 | Comments Off on Is It Panic Time for Democrats Yet?

Seven months is a long time in politics. Anything could happen between now and Election Day. Even if you’re not worried about another “plandemic” (and I’ll let everyone be their own judge of what constitutes sufficient paranoia), it is not safe to presume that the political situation as it looks in April will be anything like the situation in November. Having offered that caveat, OH BOY DO THINGS LOOK BAD FOR BIDEN!

Democrats with deep knowledge of the Biden campaign acknowledged former President Donald Trump’s significant chances of completing the greatest political comeback in American history. . . .
Democrat fundraiser John Morgan said his party is “prepared to lose” the presidential election to Trump. Morgan, a very successful lawyer from Central Florida, added he is nervous about President Joe Biden’s current political position.
“As my great-grandfather used to say, ‘I’m as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs.’ Yes, hell yes,” Morgan told the Washington Post. “We all know this is a jump ball,” he said.

It’s a “jump ball,” but their guy can barely walk. Biden’s poll numbers are catastrophic. Look at the job approval numbers: Biden is hovering around 41%, and compare that to where Trump was four years ago — 46.9% on April 4, 2020. Biden is also below where Obama was in Aoril 2012 (47.8%) and where Bush was in April 2004 (48.8%). Which is to say, Biden is historically unpopular. He makes Jimmy Carter look like a winner, by comparison. Now look at the horse-race number: Trump leads by about 1 point — a statistical dead heat. Except compare that to where the race stood four years ago, in April 2020, when Biden was up 5.9 points. Which is to say, there’s been a 7-point swing toward Trump. In the end, of course, Biden’s margin in the popular vote was 4.5 points, but if the same pattern holds true this year (i.e., if there is the same ratio between April RCP average and the final election result), then Trump would win by a margin of more than two points nationally. And what about the battleground states?

Former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign manager, James Carville, is also worried about Trump’s strong position. In six of the seven top swing states, Trump leads Biden, reversing Biden’s 2020 success in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona, a Wall Street Journal poll found Tuesday. Trump also holds sizable leads over Biden in six out of eight issues polled by the Journal.

As Professor Reynolds always says, “Don’t get cocky,” but as things look now, Trump could win this thing in a November landslide.

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