In The Mailbox: 04.01.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | April 1, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.01.25 (Morning Edition)

So I was going to do a joke about the site being sold to Huffington Post, but I’m still fighting this infection, plus :effort:
More seriously, I’m getting a flood of links and Substackery every weekend, to the point where Monday’s linkagery gets to be a real slog. How do people feel about a Sunday edition? Lump it together with Rule 5 Sunday? Do you want to know more?
Also, it’s election day in Florida and Wisconsin. Get out and vote!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Should a 70-Year-Old Man Defend Himself?
EBL: Winning Elections By Disqualifying Your Opponent, Richard Chamberlain, RIP, MobLand, Captain Horatio Hornblower, and Wisconsin: Vote for Brad Schimel for Supreme Court
Twitchy: WI Vote Turnout May Exceed November’s, And That’s Great News For Brad Schimel, Cory Booker Starts Yelling Like A Crazy Person on The Floor Of The Senate, and Now That The Media Doesn’t Have To Cover For Biden, The Bizarre Truth Is Coming Out
Louder With Crowder: Jasmine Crockett, new head of the Democratic Party, goes on racist rant about who a Congressional colleague is married to, “This is mind-blowing”: Elon Musk drops disturbing data on the massive social security fraud committed by non-citizens (and how), Stephen A. Smith goes scorched Earth on media’s SignalGate obsession, JD Vance GOES THERE, torches media over SignalGate after they shilled for Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, and RFK Jr. is fat-shaming governors to their faces, and it’s amazing
Vox Popoli: Diversity Was Not Their Strength, The Fifth Librarian, A WORKING MAN Wins, The Retardery is Relentless, and Europe Gambled and Lost
Postcards From Barsoom: The Exact Words of the Text
Stoic Observations: Giver, Taker, Hermit, Leaf
upstream Reviews: March New Releases, The Santara Commentaries, and A Working Man
Defending The Wood Perilous: Happy Birthday Rachel Griffin! How Now Land Whale?, and Starquest Sweeps The Galaxy!
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Heh, also, Meditations On Beatdowns Part 1
Draw & Talk Comics: We Need To Talk About Comics
Jim McCoy: 1919: The Romanov Rising

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: No, The European Strategic Autonomy Drive Is Not Trump-Related
Don Surber: Vance destroys anti-tariff argument
Glenn Reynolds: Three Small Items
STUMP: The Week In Meep

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Rule 5 Sunday: Sunday Night Loungewear

Posted on | March 31, 2025 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Pretty sure this cute blonde lass is courtesy of Rule5Texan.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five NPR Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Sydney Sweeney Is Back On The Market, Karen Kamelia Enzler Kaught Keying, Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, MAGA Arrest Of MS13 Boss, Yeti Cancels Conservative Women, Jasmine Crockett Queen Of The Wild Frontier*, September 5, Fire Country, Wicked, Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”, and Fiscal Conservatism? We Want Moooore!

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Angelina Dimova, Fish Pic Friday – Kats Big Adventure, Leather Jacket, The Wednesday Wetness, TattooTuesday, Fed Bill to Aims to Get Blue Cats, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Musk Threatens To Sue Bowman over Nazi Slur and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule 5 Butt It’s Friday

*Not to be confused with the better-looking, more articulate, and much more talented Adam & The Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier.

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FMJRA 2.0: A Short Week

Posted on | March 30, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Short Week

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Played a two-game set with Baltimore on Friday and got a split. We’ll take it.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
What Democrats Will Never Explain
EBL
357 Magnum

The Intersection of Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
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357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: A Week of Beatings
A View From The Beach

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Rule 5 Sunday: Babe in Boots
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
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Chuck Schumer Tells the Truth?
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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‘Signal-Gate’: CIA Sabotage? Or Another ‘Anonymous’ in the Trump White House?
A View From The Beach
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357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 03.26.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

Aspiring Rapper Update
The Daley Gator
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357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 3.26.25 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
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357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 03.27.25
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A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

Want My DNA? Get a Warrant
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In The Mailbox: 03.28.25
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A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 03.28.25

Posted on | March 29, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.28.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Anyone else having problems with their Windows Anti-Virus identifying this site as malware?
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Born Lucky: History, Identity, & Patriotism
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring a Baseball Bat to a Gunfight
EBL: Elon Musk, DOGE team talk government cuts, also, Karen Kamelia Enzler Kaught Keying Teslas
Twitchy: Oligarchy Malarkey – Victor Davis Hanson Exposes The Democrats As A Billionaire-Loving Cult, Liar Liar Tenure’s On Fire, and Jamie Raskin & The Democrats Were For Going After Judges Before They Were Against It
Louder With Crowder: Morbidly obese progressive goes on spree crashing mobility scooter into Teslas, but he can’t outrun justice, Check out Jon Stewart as he’s exposed to just how incompetent Democrats were under Joe Biden, Tim Walz hasn’t learned any 2024 lessons, demands MORE wokeness, DEI, and illegal immigration, Joy Behar Claims She Has “Never Remembered In [Her] Lifetime A Sitting President Trash The Previous President”, and JD Vance initiates Trump’s Greenland takeover
Vox Popoli: The Unreliability of the Corpocracy, VDai 1 Deepseek 0, The Fourth Librarian, and UK Clowns Attack Gab
According To Hoyt: Gone Ghibly, Fiat Lux, And Shame The Devil, Of Men, Women and Writers, and Ludic Reading and the Gatsby Wars of 25
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Signalgate Thoughts
Upstream Reviews: Author Jeff Pierce Smears J. Manfred Weichsel As Racist
The Bugscuffle Gazette: I also am a publisher
Toni Airaksinen: Ivy League Prof Dropped For Cartoons Of Jews Drinking The Blood of Gazans

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Movie That Missed Peak Woke
American Greatness: ‘Too Much Groping, Too Little Benefit’, JB Pritzker, Jasmine Crockett and a Bisexual Actress Walk into a Human Rights Campaign Dinner, and RFK Jr. Unveils Plan to Transform HHS into MAHA Powerhouse
American Thinker: Deep Dive: The Signal Chat Leak
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five NPR Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 28
Behind The Black: Democrats: “We have the right to vandalize Teslas, and if you try to stop us you are fascists!”, NASA/Boeing: More Starliner ground engine tests throughout 2025; Next flight likely in 2026, NASA experiment on Blue Ghost demonstrates the ability to repel the Moon’s abrasive dust, and Boeing now faces criminal trial for two 737-Max crashes that killed 346
Cafe Hayek: Trump Is Poisoning the Very Heart of the Market Order
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Don Surber: Trade whores
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: Women Are Cows Who Must Be Covered Head to Toe — Allahu Akbar, also, Does This Mean the Trains Will Arrive on Time?
The Geller Report: Noem Stands Before Gang Members in Prison Intensifying Trump’s Message to Criminals, The Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Step In and Allow Alien Enemies Act Deportations, Top MS-13 Gang Leader Arrested By FBI in Virginia Thanks to Team Trump, HHS to Fire Additional 10,000 Employees, Close Agencies, and Terminate $330 million+ for DEI and Gender Research in California Alone, and Rubio Removes 300 Student Visas From Pro-Terror Foreign Students
Hollywood In Toto: The ONE Thing Conservatives Need in Today’s Hollywood
The Lid: William Shatner Has a Pleasant Discussion with Elon Musk on X, Then the Left-Wing Haters Showed Up
Legal Insurrection: Brown U Upset After Student Emails Thousands of Administrators: “What did you do this week?”, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) Slams FBI’s Tesla Investigation as ‘Lawfare’ and ‘Political Weaponization’, Teacher Union Head Randi Weingarten Has Total Meltdown Over Cutting of Funds to Columbia, Marco Rubio On Student Visa Revocations: “Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt?”, and GOP Uneasy as Special Election in Florida CD 6 Tightens
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Tennessee In Elite Company, As Zakai Zeigler Performs His Best Peyton Manning Impression Against Kentucky, Whew, Pig – Arkansas Chokes Away Elite Opportunity As Texas Tech Wins NCAA Tournament Thriller, Caps Jakob Chychrun Ditched His Tesla, But It’s Not For The Reason You Think, Deion Sanders, Colorado Agree To Monster Contract, and AT&T Lily Has A Filthy Message For America, Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Triggers The Libs & Kay Adams Gets Drilled
Power Line: A Big Win For Presidential Power, Disability Pays, Vance Visits Greenland, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: FL Senate Passes Bill Backing Off Later School Start Times
Shot In The Dark: Second Acts
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Is Our Military Defense Adequate?
This Ain’t Hell: Federal circuit courts uphold transgender military ban and other Trump administration efforts, B-2’s on The Footprint of Freedom, Valor Friday, and Four US troops lost
Transterrestrial Musings: DOGE
Victory Girls: “Dumb” Hillary Clinton NY Times Op-Ed
Watts Up With That: Climate Central’s Urban Rainfall Claims Are All Wet, OOPS —UPFs are Not Addictive, EPA’s ‘Polluters’ Portal’? No—Just a Return to Pre-Zealotry Sanity, and Net Zero Will Make Air Travel the Preserve of the Privileged, Airline Boss Admits
The Federalist: Top GOP Senators Stonewalling Indiana Bill To Boost Immigration Enforcement, Deporting Anti-American Foreigners Isn’t About Speech Rights, Trump Urges Votes For Conservative WI Supreme Court Candidate Ahead Of Pivotal Election, National Review Is Indistinguishable From A Leftist Rag On ‘Signal Gate’, and Nevada’s Elections Chief Won’t Say If He’s Probing Hundreds Of Allegedly Illegal 2024 Votes
Mark Steyn: Big Bird and his Blondes

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Want My DNA? Get a Warrant

Posted on | March 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Want My DNA? Get a Warrant

The Fifth Amendment protects me against self-incrimination — that’s what the Miranda warning is all about, and I committed that to memory long before I ever found myself in handcuffs, but this is not the time or place to be regaling you with tales of my juvenile delinquency. No, I’m here to talk about the bankruptcy of 23andMe, a company that enjoyed a meteoric surge of popularity before it came crashing down for several reasons, including the “Golden State Killer” case.

There’s this thing called forensic genealogy, where investigators can compare a DNA sample taken at a crime scene to DNA in databases and, even if there is no direct match, they can narrow down the possible suspects by using the DNA of their relatives. A criminal might have gotten away scot-free with his evil deeds, but unfortunately for him, his Aunt Bessie got a 23andMe kit for Christmas a few years ago and . . .

Look, I can understand the curiosity factor. Wouldn’t it be fun to find out you’re more Cherokee than Elizabeth Warren? Or, in my case, that I really am descended from Rollo the Viking? Having scientific proof of your ancestry would be nice, but what happens after the testing company dumps your DNA into a database somewhere? It’s not difficult to imagine the downside risks and, even if none of your cousins turns out to be a serial killer, there might be other unintended consequences.

However much I might desire the genetic evidence sufficient to flaunt my pedigree — e.g., the Crusdader prince of Antioch alleged to be a distant ancestor — you’re not going to trick me into sending off a DNA sample that might get sold to the highest bidder for who knows what purpose.

Ed Driscoll linked to an interesting column about the 23andMe bankruptcy, and that inspired me to add my own two cents:

A robust sense of identity is a sort of inoculation against the “Woke Mind Virus,” which explains a lot about the bizarre fascination with DNA testing that took hold after Oprah Winfrey’s 2017 recommendation of 23andMe. Kat Rosenfield examines “the tale of a zeitgeist fueled by both the self-loathing of white liberals and a reflexive anti-Americanism throughout the mainstream.” A major reason many white liberals were so interested in 23andMe was because of the possibility that they might learn they weren’t 100% white. If they could only find a single percentage point of ancestry that was non-European, they could identify as Official Victims of Oppression. . . .

Read the whole thing at Substack and, while you’re there, please consider signing up for a free subscription. Thanks in advance.

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In The Mailbox: 03.27.25

Posted on | March 28, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.27.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Yeti cancels Conservatives: Conservatives should cancel Yeti, also, MAGA arrest of MS-13
Twitchy: KY State Sen. Berg Goes Full Slap-Happy Karen, Canadian Nurse Fired For Knowing Men Aren’t Women, and CNN Panelist Knows Rep. Crockett Would Never Mock Gov. Abbott
Louder With Crowder: “She’s a lowlife”, Son of Snow White producer goes SCORCHED EARTH on Rachel Zegler, Trump Admin launches an investigation into Portland schools after male runner wins track meet… against girls, and After banning guns and knives, the UK has announced a new ban on Ninja swords
Vox Popoli: Protecting the Automotive Industry, The Ghost in the Doll, AI Don’t Lie, The Third Librarian, and Not Too Shabby
Cedar Sanderson: Pivotal Moments
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Throwback Thursday
Gab: The UK Declares War On Gab

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Selling Australia
American Conservative: On Iran, What Would Pat Buchanan Do?
American Greatness: Woman Caught Keying Tesla in Washington Identified as Millionaire Fitness Coach, The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along, Police Arrest Suspect in Firebomb Attack on Tesla Service Center in Las Vegas, Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces Bill Requiring Federal Candidates to Disclose Dual Citizenship, and From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Porn
American Thinker: Jasmine Crockett, Queen of Ghettospeak
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Another Day, Another Lefty Scam Organization Exposed
Behind The Black: Two more launches today, Webb finds more elements not possible so soon after the Big Bang, UK government continues to dither about fixing its serious red tape issues relating to space, and NASA: Cygnus capsule damaged in transit to launchpad is too damaged to launch
Cafe Hayek: So-Called “U.S. Trade Deficits” Are Microeconomic Phenomena, Trade Deficits and Budget Deficits, and Ripping Us Off?
CDR Salamander: The Signal I Was Waiting For
Chicago Boyz: Opening Day, also, History Friday – The Secret Voyage of the Kofuku Maru
Da Tech Guy: Obvious Questions For Democrats Under the Fedora, also, A Proud Moment for Me & A Disgrace to the MSM
Don Surber: Trump unleashes the crossfire hurricane
First Street Journal: Once more, the Philly Inquirer goes all-in to support transgenderism, also, Why don’t we return to charitable giving?
Gates Of Vienna: Geert Wilders: “What Kind of Sick Country Has This Become?”
The Geller Report: Marine Vet VP Vance Addresses Marines at Quantico: “No More Quotas, No More Ridiculous Mumbo Jumbo”, President Trump Calls For “IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION” as Insane Anti-Trump Obama Judge Boasberg Gets a FOURTH Trump case, Los Angeles Has Issued ONLY FOUR Permits to Rebuild Houses Months After California Wildfires Burned 6,000+ Homes, Columbia University President Katrina Armstrong Lied To Trump Admin, and DEFUND: Far-Left NPR, PBS CEO’s Testify on Before DOGE Subcommittee
Hollywood In Toto: Avengers Assemble … But These Heroes Are Missing, also, Can These 2025 Movies Save Hollywood?
The Lid: Chicago Police Never Did Punish Muslim Officer Who Vandalized Rabbi’s Car, also, Eight Things The Liberal Mainstream Media Is Being Strangely Quiet About Right Now
Legal Insurrection: New C.S. Lewis Course at Notre Dame Draws Large Number of Students, Leftists Melt Down after Climate Change Removed from America’s List of Policy Priorities, Los Angeles Mayor Bass Begs Sacramento to Bailout City for $2 Billion, University of Michigan Closing DEI Offices, and ICE Detains Tufts Grad Student Who Allegedly Showed Support for Hamas
Nebraska Energy Observer: Gobsmacked
Outkick: Jeremy Pruitt Sues NCAA, Claiming $100 Million In Lost Wages And That Tennessee Conspired To Have Him Fired, Tyler O’Neill Extends MLB Record With Six Straight Opening Day Homers, WNBA Named Top 5 Most Innovative Company For Some Reason, MLB App Doesn’t Work – On Opening Day Of All Days – And Fans Are LIVID, and Apple TV’s MLB Girl Squeezes Into A Tiny Red Dress, Kristi Noem Flaunts Her Cartel Collection & Pathetic ESPN
Power Line: Inside Columbia, Back to the office blues, and What’s Trump Doing In Ukraine?
Shark Tank: Trump Returning Stefanik to House Because He Fears Fine Will Lose His Seat
Shot In The Dark: Questions That Would Be Asked, Fact Check For The Feckless & Factless,
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – The More Things Stay The Same In Academia: Anti-Racist Rocks; Musical Privilege Checking; Queer Science
This Ain’t Hell: Nothing Like a Class Act
Transterrestrial Musings: Gen Z, “The Signal I Was Waiting For”, and Boeing
Victory Girls: We Didn’t Know We Needed A Marine
Watts Up With That: GBE To Pay £200 Million For Solar Panels on Schools, Sorry, ABC News, Early Cherry Blossom Bloom Is Due to Urban Heat Island, Not Climate Change, and The Myth of a Hydrogen Economy
The Federalist: Democrat Upset In Pennsylvania Special Election Is Not About Backlash To Trump, Cowardly Senators Anonymously Whine About J.D. Vance’s America First Foreign Policy, 10 Times NPR Proved It Doesn’t Deserve Another Taxpayer Cent, Media Efforts To Turn Signalgate Into A Scandal Are The Surest Sign It’s Not One, and Amy Coney Barrett Could Be A Superb Supreme Court Justice. She’s Choosing Not To Be
Mark Steyn: Celebrate Life

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In The Mailbox: 3.26.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 27, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 3.26.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Per Animal Magnetism, Doug Hagin of the Daley Gator needs your help.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Instance of Fake Hate
EBL: Vindmans: Separated at Birth, Kamala Harris on Election Night 2024, Jasmine, Jasmine Crockett, Queen of the Wild Frontier, and September 5
Twitchy: Rep. Gill Posts Video Of “Most Vitriolic Hate Imaginable” Aired On PBS, Democrats’ Potty-Mouth Strategy Fails As Poll Numbers Remain In Toilet, and Leftist Palestinian Activists Lose Their Minds Over Pro-Israel Demonstrators Standing Quietly
Louder With Crowder: Even the Irish are blasting Rosie O’Donnell, MTG goes BANANAS on NPR CEO, shuts her down for her partisan hackery, Democrat party leader Jasmine Crockett mocking a handicapped GOP governor was bad enough, but then came her excuse, IL Governor (and rumored 2028 candidate) boasts he’s the living proof that the “gay agenda” can make you governor, and Watch: Jeffrey Goldberg… What a Piece of Sh!t
Vox Popoli: There Are Not “Two Wests”, The Second Librarian, The Lethal Cancer of Globalization, US Troops Already Dying, and I Don’t Mean to Scare You
Stoic Observations: Random acts of intelligence,
Cedar Sanderson: A Touch of Nature
The Bugscuffle Gazette: I should not read the local news
Postcards From Barsoom: The Involution of the Liberal Mind
Gab: Unmasking The Wolves
Toni Airaksinen: Who Really Represents Palestine?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Negotiating a Peace is Not a Betrayal of Ukraine, NSA Waltz: U.S. Seeks ‘Full Dismantlement’ of Iran’s Nuclear Program, and If Judges Can Stymie the Will of the People, We Don’t Have a Democracy Anymore
American Greatness: IT Exec Caught on Camera Keying Tesla Cybertruck in New Hampshire, The Golden Age of Nuclear Energy Is Here, NPR’s Katherine Maher Fails to Justify Her Pro-Censorship Views and Woke Social Media Posts During Fiery DOGE Hearing, Trump Admin to Close Long Covid Office, and Lefty Lawfare Group’s Suit Against Trump Administration Over ‘SignalGate’ Assigned to Anti-Trump Judge Boasberg
American Thinker: The Imperial Judiciary Of The United States, Public School Teachers: The Stupidest Creatures on the Planet, Go, Canada! Breaking Up Is Not Hard to Do, Face the Nonsense, Again: Margaret Brennan’s ‘You Should Watch the News’ Moment, and We Can Cure Democracy, But Can We Cure Stupid?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Judicial Activism News, and Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Gabbard Says Iran Still Not Building Nukes – I Remain Skeptical, Welcome To Team Fascist, Bernie Sanders, Critical Drinker On Snow White: “Even Worse Than I Expected”, LinkSwarm For March 21, and Paxton Gunning For Cornyn In 2026?
Behind The Black: Space Force finally certifies ULA’s new Vulcan rocket for commercial military launches, Parker completes 23rd close fly-by of Sun, matching record set by its previous fly-by, Webb images in the infrared the aurora of Neptune, Isar launch several times scrubbed due to high winds, rescheduled for tomorrow, and A major very public protest against Hamas by Gazans
Cafe Hayek: Lets’ NOT Bring Back Furniture Manufacturing
CDR Salamander: What If…SECDEF Salamander?
Chicago Boyz: Cherry Blossoms, also, Goldberg Chipping the Signal
Da Tech Guy: Sooner or Later These Leftist Terrorists Are Going to Get Someone Killed
Dana Loesch: Trump Announces 25% Tariff On All Auto Imports
Don Surber: Afghanistan cost Democrats dearly
First Street Journal: Soft-peddling the Gangs of Philadelphia, Illegals apprehended in Kentucky, He didn’t have to be an asshole, and Edward T Steel Elementary and Middle Schools
Gates Of Vienna: Lefties Unite, Do the Math, Waffen-SS Muslims Come to Buchenwald, Viktor Orbán: Blows Against the Rainbow Empire, and A Man With a Plan: Ramadan in Milan!
The Geller Report: Anti-Trump Obama Judge Boasberg Assigned Signal Chat Lawsuit, also, President Trump Signs Historic Executive Order on Election Integrity
Hollywood In Toto: A Working Man Brings ’80s Heroism Back to Big Screen, Legacy Media Buries Death Threats Against Gal Gadot, Snow White Box Office Collapse Suggests Ominous Trend, Hacks Star Cites Debunked ‘Very Fine People’ Hoax, and The One Survey That Should Scare Hollywood Silly
The Lid: ‘Catastrophic’: Seattle Nearly $50 Million Short on Taxes as Jobs and Residents Stream Out of the City, also, Why are Police in this New Jersey Town Wearing Palestinian Flags and not U.S. Flags?
Legal Insurrection: New Law Requires All Students at Utah State U. to Study Western Civilization, “Extremely Thankful” DOJ Taking Action Against Providence Schools “Educators of Color Loan Forgiveness Program”, Senate Confirms Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as NIH Director, Lawsuit Alleges Columbia Anti-Israel Groups had Advanced Knowledge of October 7th Attacks, and Virginia Tech Students Protest as School Prepares to Axe DEI Policies
Nebraska Energy Observer: We are going to think a bit today about immigration and rights, This is brilliant, Right makes Might, Random Observations, and Scattershot Friday
Outkick: LeBron James Rips Stephen A. Smith As “Taylor Swift-like” During UnFunny McAfee Interview, The NFL Continues To Become A Pansy Flag Football League With Latest Move, Yankees Star Jazz Chisholm Slams MLB Diversity, Takes Another Swipe At Ex-Teammate Miguel Rojas, Caps Jakob Chychrun Responds To Teammate’s Claim That He Has Given Up Lightbulbs, and Minor League Team Unloads 6-Foot, 10,000-Calorie Hot Dog That Comes With A Side Of Fries
Power Line: The right direction, DOGE Goes After NPR & PBS [Updated], Broker than broke, Queen of the wild Dems here, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Bill Letting FL Legislature Add Definitions To Some Citizen Referendums Heads to Floor
Shot In The Dark: The Inhumanity, The Maye Quade Doctrine, DOGE – Making Australia Australian Again, The Choice, and #OneMinnesota In Action
STUMP: RIP Mia Love – Some Stats On Brain Cancer
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Killing Kids: Without Parental Consent; As A Human Right; Pre-Teen Terminations, Firing Line Friday: The British Mess, with the First Lady of British Politics, California vs. Diversity Statements, and Punishing The Unpunishable?
This Ain’t Hell: Marine vet accused of faking deployment for free flights, Usha Vance makes Greenland nervous, Medal of Honor Fraud, SECDEF Targets Media Leakers, and SCOTUS: Military Injuries Revisited
Transterrestrial Musings: Freedom In Outer Space, Starship Variants, Junk Nutritional Science, The Second Amendment Is Obsolete, and About The “Rescue” Of The “Stranded” Astronauts
Victory Girls: Signal Thread Gets Published While Democrats Attempt Pouncing, also, Jasmine Crockett Tries To Backpedal From Her “Governor Hot Wheels” Slam
Watts Up With That: Peter Ridd On Dodgy Science, Virtue Signaling Is Complicated, No, AP – Climate Change is not Triggering More Extreme Weather, and Alaska’s Proposed Climate Change Commission: Did Harris/Waltz Win?
The Federalist: Senate Dems Claim Censorship Industrial Complex Never Happened — And If It Did It Was A Good Thing, Meet The Democrat Donor Judge Hamstringing Trump’s Military ‘Trans’ Policy, Trump Didn’t Break The Media. The Media Broke Themselves, Democrats Stage Nationwide ‘Insurrection’ Featuring Upside-Down Flags, and Hakeem Jeffries Counting On Leftist WI Supreme Court Candidate To Deliver House For Democrats
Mark Steyn: A Connoisseur’s Guide to Violence on Film, Live Around the Planet, Two-Tiered, Again, Purpose vs Passivity, and A STICKy Situation

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Aspiring Rapper Update

Posted on | March 26, 2025 | 1 Comment

Say hello to Torkilo Hambrick and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Torkilo probably won’t be back on the streets anytime soon. Torkilo is a career criminal from Memphis who made the mistake of committing serious felonies in Lonoke County, Arkansas — where Donald Trump got 76% of the vote in the last election.

By contrast, in Memphis – Shelby County — Kamala Harris got 62% of the vote, which may go a long way toward explaining why Torkilo Hambrick wasn’t already behind bars. Elect Democrats, and criminals go free, and you know how they say a career criminal has a record “as long as your arm”? Your arms aren’t long enough for Torkilo Hambrick’s criminal record. He’s been stacking up felonies since 2012. Domestic violence, drug possession, drug dealing, aggravated assault, statutory rape — and these are just the convictions. There’s more than a dozen other charges, including felon in possession of a handgun, that got dropped, probably in plea bargains. What’s astonishing is how few years there are without any new arrests, meaning that Torkilo never did any serious prison time, despite being a demonstrable menace to society.

Perhaps you noticed the tattoos on his face? Like a cry for help: “Please put me in prison! I’m a convicted sex offender with tattoos on my face!” And yet, despite his numerous convictions, Torkilo Hambrick wasn’t behind bars. He also wasn’t in Memphis. His whereabouts were unknown and he had an outstanding warrant for violating probation. Apparently, he’d been hiding out and dealing drugs somewhere around Little Rock, until he made the mistake of trying to outrun the Arkansas State Police.

NEVER RUN FROM THE ARKANSAS STATE POLICE!

Dear God, don’t these people have access to YouTube? There are entire channels devoted to videos of Arkansas troopers ramming criminals off the road in high-speed PIT maneuvers. But I suppose if you’re stupid enough to get tattoos on your face, you’re too stupid to realize that you’ve got no chance of eluding the Arkansas State Police:

HAZEN, Ark. — A 29-year-old Memphis woman died as a result of injuries she sustained in a wreck following a high-speed pursuit on eastbound Interstate 40.
On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, an Arkansas State Police (ASP) Trooper observed a white Dodge Ram pickup truck committing a traffic violation near the Interstate 40 173-mile marker in Lonoke County. After initiating a traffic stop, the vehicle fled, leading to an eastbound pursuit that covered 18 miles.
The suspect was endangering the lives of other motorists by exceeding 120 mph and passing vehicles on the right shoulder.
A Trooper executed a Tactical Vehicle Intervention (TVI) on the suspect vehicle near the 191-mile marker near Hazen in Prairie County, causing the truck to overturn and come to rest in a ditch beside the interstate.
Laterrika Woods, 29, of Memphis, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
“This tragedy is a direct result of the suspect’s reckless, selfish actions. This is another example of what can happen when a suspect flees from law enforcement,” said ASP Col. Mike Hagar. “Fleeing suspects are terrorizing and traumatizing our communities. Our Troopers will not and cannot look the other way.”
Another passenger, Latarica Walker, 26, of Memphis, was ejected and airlifted to Baptist Medical Center, where she remains in critical condition.
The driver, Torkilo Hambrick, 30, and passenger Zuri Jones, 45, both from Memphis, were transported to UAMS and are currently in stable condition.
Charges are pending against Hambrick in Woods’ death.
During the investigation, Troopers discovered two firearms, an unknown amount of U.S. currency, a bottle of promethazine, marijuana, and narcotics in the vehicle. Hambrick was found to have an outstanding extradition warrant from Shelby County, Tennessee, for probation violation. Hambrick is a registered sex offender.

Yeah, if you’ve got an outstanding warrant, two firearms and a felony stash of drugs in your vehicle, stay away from Lonoke County. As a matter of fact, you’d be advised to avoid Arkansas altogether.

You were wondering where the Aspring Rapper angle was, right?

The sister of a Memphis rapper died after Arkansas State Police (ASP) crashed the car she was in during a police chase.
ASP said 29-year-old Laterrika Woods, the sister of Memphis rapper Big Boogie, whose real name is John Lotts, died after the police chase and crash in Hazen, Arkansas, on Tuesday. . . .
Big Boogie shared the news of his sister’s death on Instagram, sharing pictures of the two of them with the caption “I Love You Sister. Tears. Tears. Tears. I’m Logging Off Today.”

Had you ever heard of John “Big Boogie” Lotts before? No, because unlike me, you’re not attuned to the hip-hop culture, so you don’t know that he is “a member of Yo Gotti’s Collective Music Group (CMG). . . . Big Boogie is a key figure in Southern rap, blending raw energy with unforgettable anthems.” A key figure, y’all! And before I highlight some other relevant information about Big Boogie’s career, let me remind you of the Urban Dictionary definition:

Aspiring Rapper
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subject’s demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, occurring just as the subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”

So now, more information about John “Big Boogie” Lotts:

Apr. 9, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – Investigators are continuing to sort through evidence in connection with the arrest of 24 people in North Mississippi including a well-known Memphis rapper for allegedly shooting at another driver on Interstate 55.
Memphis rapper Big Boogie whose real name is John Lotts is charged with one felony, according to an affidavit, after his entourage was arrested Thursday while driving to a concert in Biloxi. . . .
The Senatobia Police Department said they performed a coordinated takedown of a caravan for Memphis area rapper Big Boogie whose real name is John Lotts.
According to Senatobia Police, Lotts’ caravan was on the way to a concert in Biloxi when a victim also driving on Interstate 55 near Coldwater claims someone in Big Boogie’s entourage shot at them.
Multiple police agencies arrested 21 people on Highway 6.
Three people additionally were arrested near Coldwater. . . .
This is not Lotts’s first arrest.
In May of 2020, Memphis Police arrested and charged Lotts with attempted murder after he and an accomplice allegedly shot a man outside a club on North Watkins.
Investigators say the shooting allegedly started over a disagreement between two rap groups.

And now Big Boogie’s sister has died because she was riding in a truck full of felonies, driven by a sex offender with tattoos on his face who thought he could outrun the Arkansas State Police.

Torkilo Hambrick will probably get life in prison for this, and I’m sure Big Boogie will have a hit song paying tribute to his deceased sister, “blending raw energy with unforgettable anthems.” He’s a key figure, y’all.

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