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Rule 5 Sunday: Blast From The Past – Bettie Page

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

She really needs no introduction, does she?

The Queen of Pinups

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1007, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Line Up for Guns Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Mirielle Mathieu, Louis Vuitton, Salome, I Puritani, Orfeo Et Euridice, Lulu, Tosca, The Exterminating Angel, Mia Sara, Juliana Hatfield, and Otello.

A View From The Beach reels in Like Pepper to Salt – Devin Brugman, You Can’t Fix Stupid, Fish Pic Friday, “Diamonds and Rust”, More Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, Motorcycles for Monday and Still Too Rich For My Blood.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe is Yvonne Craig, Bacon Time has a Random Chick In Red, and Red Pilled Jew has Women and Cars.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Mamelukes, Marines, & A Wizard

Posted on | June 7, 2020 | Comments Off on Mamelukes, Marines, & A Wizard

— by Wombat-socho

I became a fan of Jerry Pournelle’s SF back in 1972, when I read “The Mercenary” in Analog, and for the next 40+ years I snapped up pretty much everything he wrote in the way of SF, and quite a few of the anthologies he edited as well. One of those books, in the summer of 1979, was Janissaries, in which Rick Galloway and a handful of mercenaries are saved from certain death in Africa…by aliens. The aliens take them to the planet Tran, where they find several groups of humans from different ages of human history, and things begin to go sideways for Galloway at that point as most of his men desert him in favor of the more experienced Andre Parsons. Things eventually work out for Galloway, who consistently chooses the hard right over the easy wrong, and over the next two novels (co-written with Roland Green) he makes considerable headway toward raising the tech level on Tran, maneuvering in the lethal local politics, and getting started on growing the madweed the aliens want. Unfortunately, the third novel in the series came out in 1987, and while Pournelle announced periodic progress, Mamelukes never made it into print until after his death. I have to say that I wouldn’t have minded seeing it finished sooner, but David Weber and Philip Pournelle did a good job of wrapping the story up seamlessly. I for one can’t tell where Jerry’s writing left off and David & Philip picked up, and if they choose to let the series lay at this point, I’d be okay with it. On the other hand, there are a few plot threads that could be followed into a fifth (and, perhaps, concluding) novel, and we shall see what the Pournelle kids want to do with it. We know Jennifer has the chops for it, and perhaps Philip could do the fifth novel justice as well. Very much worth your time.

Rick Partlow’s Contact Front is an interesting mil-SF novel. Instead of the usual wholesome hero, we get a Marine who chooses to join the Confederation Marines to avoid facing trial for murder, and while Cam Alvarez proves to be really good at mastering the powered armor suits, he’s pretty awful at being a leader, and his struggles with the concept of taking responsibility for his Marines take up a good part of the novel in between a couple of furious combat actions. This was a good read, and I’m looking forward to checking the rest of the series out. Available on Kindle Unlimited.

I’m probably one of the last people in the world to get around to reading Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novels, about Chicago’s only wizard for hire and his uneasy relationship with both the Chicago PD, local crimelord Johnny Marcone, and his nominal superiors in the White Council – to say nothing of all manner of supernatural critters, demons, vampires, and just plain Bad People. Right now I have some extra cash and plenty of free time, so I’m starting from the beginning and digging into what may be the most entertaining urban fantasy since I discovered Larry Correia’s Monster Hunters International series. So far I’m only up to book 3, Grave Peril, and Butcher does not disappoint. Looking forward to getting caught up on the other…fourteen books? Well, after moving out to the middle of nowhere (a/k/a Tonopah, NV) I’ll have nothing to do but eat, sleep, and work on my continuing education for next tax season, so I should have plenty of time to work on finishing the series.

So far nobody has taken me up on my offer regarding Uncle Bob’s Pursuit of the Pankera, and that’s all right with me, to be honest. Life is too short to be reading crappy books, unless you’re getting paid well for the effort.

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Category: Books

FMJRA 2.0: Heat In The Street

Posted on | June 7, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Arson, Looting, Aggravated Assault and Attempted Murder Are Not ‘Protests’
Pushing Rubber Downhill
The Rabbit Hole
357 Magnum
Catallaxy Files
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Carol Alt
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
357 Magnum
Bacon Time
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: In The Heat Of The Night
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

Ivy League Terrorist
357 Magnum
EBL

Rioter vs. FedEx Truck: Guess Who Won?
EBL

‘Young Philadelphians’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.02.20 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.02.20 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.03.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

Muslim Immigrant Attacks Police
Dark Brightness
EBL

A Reason to Riot, or a Pretext?
Dark Brightness
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.05.20 (Early Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.05.20 (Late Night Edition)
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending June 5th:

  1. EBL (16)
  2. (tied) 357 Magnum & Proof Positive (6)
  3.  A View From The Beach (5)

Honorable Mentions – Dark Brightness, who got hosed out of a link last week because I screwed up (Calendars, how do they work?) and Pushing Rubber Downhill. All hail our ANZAC brothers!

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A 21st-Century Mrs. Jellyby

Posted on | June 7, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

What can be said about David French? Honestly, my preference would be to say nothing, to forget that such a person even exists, and indeed, I make it a habit to ignore all #NeverTrump people. So you can imagine what extraordinary effort is necessary to attract my notice to any #NeverTrump argument, and David French has outdone himself:

Today let’s dive into one of the toughest questions of our religious, cultural, and political lives. While we write and print millions of words about race in America, why is it still so hard to have a truly respectful, decent, and humble dialogue about perhaps the most complicated and contentious issue in American life? . . .

(Notice all the caveats stacked up here in the first two sentences. Having invited readers to “dive into” this topic, David French then feels compelled to add multiple warnings about how difficult it is to be “respectful,” etc., in discussing this “complicated and contentious issue.” Don’t try this at home kids. This man is a Harvard Law graduate!)

Take “systemic racism,” for example. I daresay that only a vanishingly small number of Americans know that this is a term with an academic meaning that’s not entirely obvious from the words themselves. . . .

(Are you part of the “vanishingly small number” familiar with the “academic meaning” of this phrase? No, you’re a stupid Republican voter, so you need a Harvard Law alumnus to explain it to you.)

Yet millions of Americans read the accusation that America is beset with “systemic racism” and hear a simpler and more direct meaning of the term — you’re saying our systems (and by implication the people in them) are racist. But that’s completely contrary to their experience. They think, “How can it be that ‘the system is racist’ when I just left a corporate diversity training seminar, I work at an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, my son’s college professors are constantly telling him to ‘check his privilege,’ and no one I know is a bigot? It seems to me that the most powerful actors in ‘the system’ are saying the same things—don’t be racist.” . . .

(Notice the mind-reading trick David French performs here. He presumes to know what other people think when hearing the phrase “systemic racism,” and even offers a verbatim quote from inside the mind of “millions of Americans.” Do they teach this skill at Harvard Law, or does the admissions process screen out any applicants who fail to demonstrate clairvoyant abilities?)

If you’re conservative, chances are your social media feed is full of images of rioting and looting. There are viral videos (including one the president retweeted Saturday) that declare “George Floyd was not a good person” and “the fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me.” There is the constant repetition of statistics about black-on-black crime, and posts and pieces arguing that police racism and brutality are overblown are shared across the length and breadth of social media. . . .

(Note the requisite appearance of the “Orange Man Bad” theme here. The fact that President Trump retweets a video means that whatever was in the video was wrong. Why bother making an actual rebuttal to an argument about, e.g., the statistical frequency of police brutality, if instead you can simply say that Trump is on the same side as people who cite such statistics, and therefore this argument must be wrong?)

I freely confess that to some extent where I stood on American racial issues was dictated by where I sat my entire life. I always deplored racism –those values were instilled in me from birth — but I was also someone who recoiled at words like “systemic racism.” I looked at the strides we’d made since slavery and Jim Crow and said, “Look how far we’ve come.” I was less apt to say, “and look how much farther we have to go.”
Then, where I sit changed, dramatically. I just didn’t know it at the time. I went from being the father of two white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed kids to the father of three kids — one of them a beautiful little girl from Ethiopia. When Naomi arrived, our experiences changed. Strange incidents started to happen. . . .

(He now wheels out the proof — PROOF! — of his moral superiority, just in his case his Harvard Law degree wasn’t sufficient proof.)

There was the white woman who demanded that Naomi — the only black girl in our neighborhood pool — point out her parents, in spite of the fact that she was clearly wearing the colored bracelet showing she was permitted to swim.
There was the time a police officer approached her at a department store and questioned her about who she was with and what she was shopping for. That never happened to my oldest daughter.
There was the classmate who told Naomi that she couldn’t come to our house for a play date because, “My dad says it’s dangerous to go black people’s neighborhoods.”
I could go on, and — sure — some of the incidents could have a benign explanation, but as they multiplied, and it was clear that Naomi’s experience was clearly different from her siblings, it became increasingly implausible that all the explanations were benign.
Then the Trump campaign happened, the alt-right rallied to his banner, and our lives truly changed. . . .

You can read the whole thing, if you’re afflicited with masochistic urges, but you get the general idea of where French is headed with this. The fact that he was bombarded with “alt-right” racist messages is not surprising. The Internet is a large place, and if one-tenth of 1% of Americans fit this description, in a nation of 280 million people age 15 and older, that means nearly 300,000 “alt-right” racists are available to harass anyone who attracts their hostile attention. The amplifying effect of social media can empower a strident minority to have enormous impact. This is how, for example, the transgender cult has become such a nuisance.

We must keep in mind The Law of Large Numbers when considering such phenomena, or otherwise we might be deceived into thinking that the most militantly obnoxious voices on the Internet represent widespread public sentiment. Thinks about the “incel” phenomenon, which some people have inflated into a terrorist threat, as if nerds who can’t get laid are a menace equivalent to al-Qaeda. Yes, a few “incels” have carried out mass-murder sprees, but is Elliot Rodger typical? Is every introverted geek a would-be killer? Is this a genuine trend? Or are such incidents being wrongly magnified by the media which, by devoting so much coverage to mass-murder incidents, actually help inspire copycats?

Is having “a truly respectful, decent, and humble dialogue” about race really that much more difficult than discussing other issues? If so, why? Isn’t the real reason that people are afraid of being “canceled” if they say the wrong thing? And why is that? Who has made it so risky to speak plainly about this issue? So what we need is not pious sermons from Harvard Law alumni, but instead someone courageous enough to say, “It’s OK if your opinion is unpopular. People shouldn’t be getting fired for disagreeing with liberals.” In fact, David French used to be engaged in such work, as an attorney for FIRE, but that was before he succumbed to Trump Derangement Syndrome. Now he’s just another liberal, an ally of the Thought Police who want to silence anyone who dissents from Officially Acceptable Opinion. The salt has lost its savour.

Being a conservative requires taking the unpopular side of arguments in which you know a majority of public opinion is on the other side. In a culture devoted to liberal notions of Progress, we know going into the fight that it will be unpopular to defend Tradition. Conservatives assert the value of “ordered liberty” in a society suffused with egalitarian sentiment. Surrounded by the decadent perversity of modernism, the conservative calls attention to ancient distinctions of Good and Evil. Of course this means that liberals hate us. We must learn not only to endure their hatred, but to embrace it as a badge of honor.

If you ever let yourself lose sight of this — if you ever start craving liberal approval — your value as a conservative is at an end. On what issue does David French, the Principled Conservative™, now disagree with Joe Biden? If there is any such issue, how does David French propose to influence the direction of public policy, given that his stance as a Principled Conservative™ can now be summarized as “Vote Democrat”?

Perhaps it is not necessary to further elaborate how #NeverTrump, with all their fine talk of “principles,” have in fact embraced an unconditional surrender to liberalism. It was not by my urging that Republican primary voters chose Donald Trump as their presidential nominee, but once the voters had made their choice, I felt bound to respect it, and thus counted myself among those in the “basket of deplorables.” Of course this put me on the side of certain “alt-right” types whose attitudes or opinions I don’t share, but what about 2012, when I was forced to stifle my complaints in order to support Mitt Romney? If I could bite my tongue and work with a bunch of open-borders country-club RINOs, why shouldn’t I be able to do the same with the “alt-right”? But more importantly, isn’t the existence of the “alt-right” a testimony to the failure of “mainstream” conservatives? What if National Review hadn’t purged Peter Brimelow and John O’Sullivan? What if the Bush administration hadn’t embraced a globalist agenda? What if conservatives had actually tried to conserve something?

We must live in reality, and not our fantasy of an ideal world. Of course, your ideal world may be a lot different than mine, but the point is that we are all forced to accommodate ourselves to realities that are beyond our control, including the historic consequences of events that transpired long before we were born. How different might the world be, for example, had it not been for the Bosnian assassin Gavrilo Princip?

Why do we live in a world where David French imagines that the rest of us stand ready to applaud his incessant virtue-signalling?

It’s hard even to begin to describe all the ramifications of 345 years of legalized oppression and 56 years of contentious change, but we can say two things at once — yes, we have made great strides (and we should acknowledge that fact and remember the men and women who made it possible), but the central and salient consideration of American racial politics shouldn’t center around pride in how far we’ve come, but in humble realization of how much farther we have to go.

You see how the liberal conception of Progress comes sneaking in, with this history of “great strides” toward the Heaven-on-Earth destination which, nevertheless, is still a long way off in the distance, perhaps as far away as Borrioboola-Gha, the missionary venture of “telescopic philanthropy” that consumed Mrs. Jellyby’s attention.

My belief is that we are not following a path of Progress at all, but are instead far gone down the road to decadence and anarchy. Frankly, I’m reminded of something Martin Luther King Jr. once said, that he feared black people were being “integrated” into a burning house.

If America is such a terribly racist country as David French would have us believe, then is the “beautiful little girl from Ethiopia” his family adopted actually better off here? Wouldn’t she be safer in Ethiopia, far away from all these racist Americans, including the 60% majority of voters in Tennessee who voted for Trump? Obviously, if racism is the worst thing in the world, and if Trump voters are all despicable racists — because this is what David French actually means by his pious sermon — then shouldn’t the French family get out of Tennessee and go someplace more liberal, where their Ethiopian daughter would be safer?

Well, there is such a place in America — a congressional district where Hillary Clinton got 74% of the vote, where liberals elected an African immigrant to represent them in Congress. Minnesota’s 5th District is a bastion of liberalism. It’s also where George Floyd got killed.

David French’s sermon about “how much farther we have to go” in dealing with “the most complicated and contentious issue in American life” is misguided in its fundamental premise that white racism, however it manifests itself, is the sole determining factor in the quality of life for black people — or anyone else, for that matter. This belief in the omnipotence of racism is part of a liberal mythology so self-evidently false that I struggle to imagine how any intelligent person could believe it. There were black millionaires in America long before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted. Harvard graduated its first black student in 1870, at a time when my own illiterate ancestors were farming the red clay hills of Alabama with mule-drawn plows. One can acknowledge the existence of racism without imagining that the mere existence of such prejudice has a debilitating effect that renders black people helpless.

But don’t let me interrupt your sermons about “legalized oppression,” Mrs. Jellyby, and good luck with your project in Borrioboola-Gha.


 

 

Category: Racism

The Church of ‘Social Justice’

Posted on | June 6, 2020 | 5 Comments

Lawrence Person explains the Left’s religion:

Amidst a week of rioting and looting, New York Times writers finally found a topic they were united on: outrage over an editorial by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton saying president Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act to use federal troops to stop the violence. Their asinine rationale was this exposed black staffers to “violence.” Well, only if they’re rioters. They were outraged that the house organ of the Democratic Media Complex has to pretend there are other opinions than their own, and that anyone would dare stand up to the sanctified violence of Social Justice.
“Social Justice” is more than an ideology, it’s an all-consuming civil religion for the unchurched. To oppose it is to be evil, full stop. Against evil, any weapon or action is automatically sanctified. . . .
The first goal of social justice is to force groupthink and obedience to the dictates of the victimhood identity politics left. To control the country, the hard left must first control the Democratic Party. The goal of controlling the Party is far more immediate and important to them than winning elections for “moderate” Democrats.

Because “social justice” is essentially religious in nature, any Democrat who does not genuflect before the altars of this cult must be cast out as a heretic, the “politics of personal destruction” serving the purpose of terrorizing others into mindless compliance. Facts and logic cannot be used to refute such a belief system, and anyone who raises questions of practical politics — will this kind of radical protest movement actually help elect Democrats? — will be condemned as a cowardly sellout, a potential traitor to the cause. Of course, it is heresy to doubt the righteousness of the cause in terms of public policy. That is to say, no one can be allowed to ask whether liberal policies actually make life better for black people or members of other groups identified by the Left as victims of collective oppression. And because “social justice” is a religion, it must always have its sacrificial martyrs like the heroic barista:

A 22-year-old Ohio State University graduate died May 30 following protests in Columbus, according to television station WCMH.
The woman was identified on Instagram as Sarah Grossman, who was among protesters showing support for George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis when white former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25. . . .
Grossman worked at Stauf’s Coffee Roasters, which posted a statement on Facebook signed by the Stauf’s and Cup o’ Joe family:
“It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the death of one of our own today, Sarah Grossman. Her ability to make anyone feel comfortable, coworkers and patrons alike, kept our stores warm. At Stauf’s, Sarah was known for her devotion to keeping the workplace green by implementing environmentally-friendly practices on and off the clock. Outside of the store, she fought even harder for issues she cared about, including the Rainforest Alliance, and the Black Lives Matter movement. As a peaceful protestor this weekend, she stood up to end police brutality and was tear gassed as a result. Her death came in the aftermath, but her legacy stands even stronger. Stauf’s is working diligently on plans to honor her and the other peaceful organizers risking their lives in pursuit of justice. May Sarah’s memory ring through the streets of Columbus and give her fellow fighters reason to push on.

Apparently, the heroic barista had asthma, and it is believed that her exposure to tear gas triggered a fatal respiratory failure. Notice that, in the view of her admirers, Saint Sarah’s devotion to “keeping the workplace green” was morally equivalent to her support for Black Lives Matter. All part of the fabric of the same “social justice” religion, you see.

 

 

Saint Sarah had big plans, according to her sister:

She had just graduated from OSU with a major in environmental sciences and Spanish. Her plans were to first finish classes in Argentina and then go to the border of Mexico to help the children there, followed by moving to Guatemala to have a sustainable farm.

Une citoyenne du monde! Faites du monde le paradis sur terre!

Translation: “Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.”

UPDATE: What kind of “protest” was Saint Sarah the Blessed Barista participating in when Columbus police used tear gas? I think that’s highly relevant, because police don’t normally use this against peaceful demonstrators. So I checked for news about the protests in Columbus:

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther has announced a citywide curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., part of government officials’ response to ongoing protests over the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
The curfew “remains in place until it is rescinded,” Ginther said during a [May 30] press conference. He said the curfew is not intended to restrict citizens’ ability to exercise their free speech rights, but to allow the city to better protect its residents and infrastructure. . . .
Protests have been ongoing in downtown Columbus for the past three days, and both Ginther and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said the majority of protestors have been peaceful. But, Ginther said, more than 100 public and private properties were damaged Friday night, 10 properties were looted and five police officers were injured.
Meanwhile, DeWine has activated the Ohio National Guard and is asking the Ohio State Highway Patrol to assist city police officers in their management of protests.
“Sadly, there is a relatively small, but violent group of people who pose a specific and real threat to our law enforcement officers and to the safety of the citizens of Columbus and Franklin County,” DeWine said Saturday.
Activating the guard is “about protecting from unnecessary destruction the small businesses that our fellow Ohioans have worked so hard to create,” DeWine said.

When you start looting businesses and attacking police, you are no longer engaged in a “protest.” You are participating in a riot.


 

 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 06.05.20 (Late Night Edition)

Posted on | June 6, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Trust The Science, Except When It Isn’t Trustworthy
EBL: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
Twitchy: Attention DNC – Talcum X Has Noticed Which Party Is “Running The Cities With The Worst Police Brutality In America”
Louder With Crowder: Project Veritas’ Second Antifa Video Shows A Group Thirsty For Violence
According To Hoyt: Cosplaying The Revolution
Monster Hunter Nation: With Friends Like These
Vox Popoli: This Is Why You Never Apologize, also, I Humbly Accept

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Liberal Mush From Mattis
American Greatness: Jobs Skyrocket In May, Economists & Corporate Media Hardest Hit
American Power: Curfew Costly For Night-Shift Workers
American Thinker: A Deliberately Bankrupt America
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Line Up For Guns Friday
Babalu Blog: The Communist Origins Of The “Anti-Fascist” Movement And Antifa
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 5
Cafe Hayek: Some Links
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Four Questions For The Democrats, The Media, & Black Lives Matter
Don Surber: The Art Of The American Comeback
First Street Journal: The Liberal Media Cave To The Demands Of The Woke
The Geller Report: Pelosi Suffers 10-Second Brain Fart On-Camera During Press Conference, also, “Palestinians” Piggyback On BLM/Antifa Riots To Wreck Synagogues
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, “New” Jobs
Hollywood In Toto: The Aerialist Takes Flight & Stays Aloft, also, Does Walmart’s Decision Against No Safe Spaces Pass The Smell Test?
Legal Insurrection: Appeals Court Orders Molotov Cocktail Lawyers Back To Jail, also, Entire Buffalo PD Emergency Response Team (57 Officers) Resigns
The PanAm Post: Cuban & Venezuelan Detainees Allegedly Paid To Protest In U.S.
Power Line: A Distance Memory, also, Infiltrating Antifa
Shark Tank: Florida Supremes Shoot Down Gun Ban Measure
Shot In The Dark: Sheer Brilliance
STUMP: STUMP Classics – How Reliable Are Lottery Revenues?
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – William F. Buckley Jr. vs. Gore Vidal
This Ain’t Hell: Candace Owens – George Floyd Was Neither Martyr Nor Hero, also, CNN Dominates Ratings
Victory Girls: Basketcase Biden Declares Some Americans “Just Not Very Good People”
Volokh Conspiracy: Is “Defunding The Police” Libertarian?
Weasel Zippers: Corporations Blasted For Funding BLM Instead Of Small Businesses That Were Looted, also, MSNBC Hires Lisa Page As Legal Analyst
Megan McArdle: Social Distancing Is Over
Mark Steyn: The Neither-Of-The-Above Box

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In The Mailbox: 06.05.20 (Early Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 5, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.05.20 (Early Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ammo.com: The Tienanmen Square Massacre
EBL: 2020 Trends – Hot & Not
Twitchy: “This Is Literally Twitter” – Essence Of Social Media Platform Captured In 24-Second TikTok Video
Louder With Crowder: Project Veritas Goes Undercover, Exposes Antifa As Violent, Ruthless Fascists
Monster Hunter Nation: “Where Are All You Gun Owners Now?”
Vox Popoli: Mailvox – The USAF, Converged, also, Black Science Fiction Matters

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Whites Going Their Own Way
American Conservative: Chicago Pastor – This Week’s Violence Has Set Our Black Community Back Decades
American Greatness: LA Mayor To Cut $150 Million From Police, Reallocate It To Black Communities, also, Tucker Carlson – Our Nation Is Being Ripped Apart By A Provable Lie
American Power: The Systemic Collapse Of American Society
American Thinker: Democrats At War
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Local Hero News
Babalu Blog: Remembering & Honoring The Victims Of Red China’s Tienanmen Square Massacre
Baldilocks: May 2020 Post Digest For Da Tech Guy Blog
BattleSwarm: What Soros’ DA Spending Spree Bought
Cafe Hayek: Yet Another Open Letter To Oren Cass
CDR Salamander: NavyCon 2 – Electric Boogaloo, also, FFG(X) – Clear Sailing
Da Tech Guy: These Riots Are The End Result Of Progressive Indoctrination, also, Black Lives Matter Has Become O’Brien & Madred – I Refuse To Submit
Don Surber: Hong Kong vs. Somalia, also, The Target Of The Lockdown & The Riots
The Geller Report: ANTIFA EXPOSED, also, Mayor DiBlasio Shouted Down, Booed Off Stage At George Floyd Rally
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Your Free Trial Of Socialism Is Now Over
Hollywood In Toto: Has Hollywood Completely Lost Its Mind? also, Dreya Weber Peels Back The Curtain On A Dancer’s Life
JustOneMinute: Mad Dog Barking
Legal Insurrection: You Will Be Made To Bow, also, CNN’s Chris Cuomo Unaware That The First Amendment Only Protects Peaceful Protests
Michelle Malkin: Why I’m Suspended From Twitter
The PanAm Post: What Is Antifa?
Power Line: Please Don’t Go! also, Mattis Mush
Shark Tank: Internal Investigation Of Atlantic Beach Police Chief Michelle Cook Missing From Her File
Shot In The Dark: Probably An Academic Question
STUMP: States Under Fiscal Pressure – New Jersey
The Political Hat: Anti-First Amendment States – Massachusetts, Connecticut, & New York
This Ain’t Hell: Louisville Police Officers Walk Out On Mayor, also, Governor Blackface Again
Victory Girls: General Allen Claims To Know President Trump’s UnChristian Heart
Volokh Conspiracy: “Only The Cops Need Guns” Simply Can’t Coexist With “The Cops Are Racist And Will Kill You”
Weasel Zippers: Minneapolis City Councilman Jeremiah Ellison – “We Are Going To Dismantle The Minneapolis Police Department”, also, Massachusetts AG – Yes, America Is Burning, But That’s How Forests Grow
Mark Steyn: Plywood Thursday

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Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | June 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

There he is again.
“You tell that Zergotazz to lay by his volcanic rift. Sending the Silent Posse won’t break this crypto faster.”

No motion.
“That’s enough data, they said. Plenty of resources, they said. Sorry. It’s not. You’re wasting bandwidth.”
The hologram glitched a moment, blurring the henchman’s knees.
Suddenly, a while circle appeared around the alien’s torso. A bracelet lit up on its arm, expanded to basketball diameter, slipped below its hand.
It exited the hologram, floated across the room to paused above his head.
“I ain’t no angel.”
The circle dropped suddenly and resumed its original size.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction
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