In The Mailbox: 1.19.24 (Early Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 19, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 1.19.24 (Early Evening Edition)

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Should A Woman Do When Confronted By A Home Invader?
EBL: Cocaine Found on Hunter Biden’s Recovered Firearm, Monsieur Spade, Mark Steyn finally faces off with Michael Mann in Court, and Sisu
Twitchy: We Thought Geraldo Retired But He Has Thoughts On Iowa, Mr. Wonderful Holds Nothing Back In Blast At PM ~~Castro~~Trudeau, and Chip Roy’s Epic Rant – When Will Congress Improve Americans’ Lives?
Louder With Crowder: Not sure who this indigenous specimen is from WEF, but it didn’t stop Elon Musk from having a field day with her on X, Reporter thinks he can play “gotcha” with UFC’s Sean Strickland over a three-year-old tweet, “This is why people hate the media”, and Bill Would Require Schools To Call Animal Control On Students Who Identify As Furries
Vox Popoli: Disintegration, Improving Democracy with Technology, The Science of Female Competition, and Bookshelf Billionaire
Draw & Talk: Sexy Plumber Sisters 1 & 2 On Kickstarter!
Stoic Observations: A Conversation About Policing
L’Ombre de l’Olivier: Drug Overdoses & Liberalization
Upstream Reviews: House of Assassins by Larry Correia
Going It Alone: Three Years Later

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Costs Of War At Sea
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Homewrecker Edition, Big Government Republicans Are Having Their Moment
Don Surber: Trump 1 Xi 0

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In The Mailbox: 01.19.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 19, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.19.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: I’m Shocked To Discover Vote Fraud Going On In Illinois
EBL: Agatha Raisin, also, Funny Woman
Twitchy:
Louder With Crowder: Twilight Star Claims It’s Such A “Gay” Movie: It’s All About Oppression!, Harvard professor lashes out at Twitter’s “scary” new name, gets slapped with epic response from Elon Musk, and Of Course, RuPaul Uses His Emmy Speech To Defend Indoctrinating Kids With Drag Queens
Vox Popoli: Brutal, Sigma Game on Substack, and The Irrelevant Media
Upstream Reviews: The Tale Of Patrick Peyton
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Elections Are Dangerous For “Our” Democracy
Going It Alone: New Year, New Platform

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: 2% Keeps On Slipping, Slipping, Slipping Into The Future,
Don Surber: State-sanctioned protest,
STUMP: Academia – Dealing With Writing In The Age Of ChatGPT

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Craziest Cult Story of the Year (So Far)

Posted on | January 18, 2024 | Comments Off on Craziest Cult Story of the Year (So Far)

Say hello to Rashad Jamal White, who insists he is not a “cult leader.” He insists on this while apparently running his social-media presence from a prison in Georgia, which makes me wonder if state officials are aware that prison inmates are using the Internet to engage in such conduct. White’s online enterprise — which some might call a cult and others might call a scam — is the grandiosely named University of Cosmic Intelligence (UCI). What sort of “intelligence” do you suppose that Rashad Jamal White is dispensing via his website, his Twitter and Instagram accounts, and his videos on TikTok and YouTube? Is this “Cosmic Intelligence” useful in some way to his followers? And how did Rashad Jamal White obtain access to this “Cosmic Intelligence”?

Did I mention, by the way, that he’s in prison? Pretty sure I did, but what I didn’t mention is that Rashad Jamal White is serving an 18-year sentence for child molestation which, I dare say, would make most sensible people leery of accepting any advice or guidance from him.

Ah, but you see, if you were a sensible person, you wouldn’t be likely to become a patron/follower of this Definitely-Not-a-Cult Leader:

A self-described spiritual guru and prophet said from prison on Wednesday that he doesn’t know the six people who police say disappeared from a north St. Louis County home in August and that he isn’t the leader of a cult.

(Well, he denied it, see? That settles it. So whatever you do, don’t defame this “self-described spiritual guru” by calling him a cult leader.)

Berkeley [Missouri] police on Tuesday accused rapper and nationwide spiritual leader Rashad Jamal of being the leader of a cult that played a role in their disappearance.
But Jamal, whose full name is Rashad Jamal White, told the Post-Dispatch in a wide-ranging phone interview from a Georgia prison, where he is serving an 18-year sentence for child molestation, that his “University of Cosmic Intelligence” is simply a spiritual YouTube channel.

(Right, and Jonestown, Guyana, was simply a rural campground.)

“I’m just giving you my opinion on a plethora of different subjects: from metaphysics to quantum physics to molecular biology to marine biology to geography to Black history to world history. I’m giving you my opinions on these things,” he said. “That doesn’t make me a cult leader.”

(Whenever you need an opinion on quantum physics or molecular biology, just go to some random guy’s YouTube channel, especially if the random guy is a child molester serving 18 years in prison.)

Three St. Louis residents – 25-year-old Mikayla Thompson, her cousin 36-year-old Ma’Kayla Wickerson, and Wickerson’s 3-year-old daughter Malaiyah Wickerson — and three other people — Naaman Williams, 30, of Washington, D.C.; and Gerrielle German, 27, of Horn Lake, Mississippi, and her 3-year-old Ashton Mitchell — left a rental home in Berkeley after they were served eviction papers in August.
They were last seen Aug. 13 at a Quality Inn in Florissant, and police on Tuesday said they were part of a cult that might have played a role.

(What kind of people seek out opinions about quantum physics from Rashad Jamal White? The kind of people who get evicted and end up at a cheap motel near the St. Louis Airport.)

Jamal said Wednesday, in what he described as his first media interview in years, that he found out about the accusations from a TV report and wasn’t surprised that police had put a “target on my back.”
“I am pretty sure I have never met these people,” he said. “I get on my phone and I give a lecture. I go live, and then I get off the phone. I do not know the people that are in my live(stream). It’s too many people.”

(Again — are Georgia officials aware that they’ve got inmates “going live” on social media from their prison cells? Is this activity allowed under Georgia prison policy? If so, why is it allowed?)

Jamal grew up in Chicago, where he said he was surrounded by violence and poverty. He watched those around him deal drugs and struggle with addiction, so he turned to poetry and rapping to share his message.
He moved to Atlanta in 2017 in pursuit of a record deal.

(OK, time for the “Aspiring Rapper Update” tag.)

He said he wanted to give back to his community, but he became disenchanted with the record industry.
Still, he has released two studio albums — “Only the Real Gon Relate,” released in March 2022, and “Promethazine and Pain (Based on a True Story),” which dropped three months ago.
The album cover for “Only the Real Gon Relate” is a re-creation of the famous Malcolm X photo where the civil rights leader is dressed in a suit and peeking through a curtain with a long gun in hand.
Jamal’s most popular song on YouTube on his personal page is titled “God Talk.” The song, released in August 2020, has more than 300,000 views. The video bounces between scenes of Jamal rapping, news clips and Jamal meditating near a river surrounded by bamboo.
The opening scene in the video defines the song’s title as: “To teach someone the truth about the origins of humans, the Gods, the planet, the secrets of Black people DNA and to enlighten one about the esoteric wisdom of the cosmos.”

(Yes, of course — when you’re seeking enlightenment “about the esoteric wisdom of the cosmos,” not to mention quantum physics and so forth, the place to find it is a random dude rapping on YouTube.)

Jamal said he decided to be more vocal about his beliefs in 2020 after the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis. He said he felt compelled to be “a voice of all people who have been oppressed.”
That’s when he created a YouTube page called The University of Cosmic Intelligence, which shares a name with the company he founded to sell lectures, classes and paraphernalia, including crystals.
That page has almost 200,000 subscribers, and includes hourslong, sometimes rambling livestreams by Jamal about the nature of the universe, the power inherent in Black and Latino people, and the enemies he says are out to get him. . . .

OK, enough with the italic fisking mode because, while that St. Louis Post-Dispatch article tells you a lot about Rashad Jamal White, they don’t even mention that this isn’t the first time law enforcement officials have been interested in followers of his Definitely-Not-a-Cult.

In August 2022, Krystal Pinkins and Yasmine Hider were living “off the grid” — illegally camping in Alabama’s Talladega National Forest near Cheaha State Park — when they attempted to rob two visitors to the park, one of whom ended up dying of gunshot wounds. Pinkins and Hider were recently sentenced to prison in that case, which seemed mysterious to many people familiar with the area. What the hell were these two women doing out in the middle of the woods on a mountainside (Cheaha is the highest point in Alabama) with no means of support?

Little did any of us suspect what the answer might be.

Followers of Charismatic
New Age Influencer Accused
of Two Different Murders in Alabama

In case you haven’t already guessed, the phrase “Charismatic New Age Influencer” in that headline refers to none other than Definitely-Not-a-Cult-Leader Rashad Jamal White. In addition to the Talladega Forest murder committed by Pinkins and Hider, there was another 2022 murder in Mobile County:

The Alabama man accused of killing his mother and injuring two other family members with a sword was fascinated by Egyptian gods and watched TikTok videos made by a conspiracy theorist, his father said.
In the weeks leading up to the Mobile County slaying of 61-year-old Helen Nettles Washam in a sword attack that also injured his brother and uncle, suspect Damien Winslow Washam, was obsessed with TikTok videos made by Rashad Jamal, whose conspiracies include that NBA players are “synthetic robots” and that babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic are “ancient souls.”
“He had started listening to some crazy group of people, like a cult or something,” Hubert Washam, Damien Washam’s father, told Oxygen. “Evidently, he had sent links to his sisters and were telling them about it, talking about the sun, and getting energy from the sun. It was just something he got into four weeks, six weeks ago. I don’t understand it.”
Hubert Washam also said his son made “disturbing” purchases before the slaying, including a knife, spiked brass knuckles, a statue of an Egyptian god and a poster of the underworld Egyptian god, Osiris.
“When I opened it up I just was hurt because maybe it seemed like there was something disturbing going on with him that we didn’t pick up on,” Hubert Washam told Oxygen. “He ordered something he definitely has absolutely no use for. I can’t understand why he would order it unless he was planning to kill us all.”
Hubert Washam said his son recently became fascinated by Egyptian gods.
“I don’t understand it. Crazy stuff — Egyptian gods of the underworld. He ordered that sword, another knife, other stuff that looked like he was planning to kill us all and burn the house down,” he said. “I just wish I could ask him now what the heck was all this stuff for.”
Helen Nettles Washam was found dead in the 6700 block of Mausap Road in the Semmes area Sunday night after the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a deceased woman and two men suffering from lacerations.
There, they say Damien Winslow Washam, 23, used a sword to kill his mother who was pronounced dead at the scene.

So here you had two widely separated murder cases in Alabama — Semmes is more than 250 mile south of Mount Cheaha — in the span of a few months, and both of them involved suspects described as “followers” of Definitely-Not-a-Cult-Leader Rashad Jamal White. In the Talladega Forest case, “It’s unclear how Hider and Pinkins came to know one another, but both were linked to Jamal”:

Videos and social media posts from earlier this year show Pinkins with one of Jamal’s most vocal and devoted disciples, a Memphis woman who describes herself as a real estate agent and a “sovereign empress” and has a small following online as another self-styled New Age spiritual leader. . . . Hider not only began re-sharing Jamal’s videos in the months leading up to the murder and parroting some of his obsessions, but was also tagged into a group photo by the same Memphis woman.” . . .

Describing one of his jailhouse video lectures:

“The oppressors seek to label me a pedophile because I had the courage to speak out against them and expose their lies, plots, and plans within their Satanic kingdom,” he said, “as opposed to labeling me what I really am, which is a Black activist, scientist, philosopher, historian, philanthropist, author, revolutionary poet, and a public speaker working hard to raise the vibration of the collective consciousness.” He likened himself to, among others, Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Left Eye, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, Kanye West, Bill Cosby, and Kobe Bryant—all of whom, he asserted, were assassinated, brought down by false charges, or “put under MK-Ultra” for trying to expose the unspecified Satanic plots and schemes he seeks to uncover.
“Rashad Jamal spoke out and now he gets falsely accused of child molestation,” Jamal added. “Let him who has eyes see clearly.”

Well, well, well . . . And now Missouri officials have linked this Definitely-Not-a-Cult-Leader to six missing people last seen at a cheap motel near the St. Louis airport. Remember what I said about the “Love Has Won”/“Mother God” cult?

[A]lmost anyone could have their own cult nowadays, because the Internet provides access to an effectively unlimited supply of gullible followers. Nearly all of [cult leader Amy] Carlson’s followers were the kind of dopeheads we used to call “burnouts,” people who’d done too much LSD and permanently fried their cerebral cortex. These wild-eyed kooks are interviewed for the documentary and let’s just say that none of them seem to have a very firm grasp on reality. . . .
What sort of lessons can we learn from this? To me, it’s about how the Internet creates niche echo chambers of like-minded people. Even the tiniest fraction of a single percentage point of the population represents an audience of thousands, when you realize that there are 1.2 billion English-speaking Internet users worldwide (one-tenth of one percent = 1,200,000). Given the basic mathematics of the equation, it’s not really strange that “Mother God” Carlson could get 20,000 online followers, of whom about two dozen moved to Colorado to join her cult IRL.

Some of Rashad Jamal White’s videos had hundreds of thousands of views, and while it’s impossible to know how many hard-core disciples this Definitely-Not-a-Cult-Leader may have, the available facts suggest that it’s not a small number. He’s got dozens, certainly, and possibly even hundreds of committed followers. Because everybody wants to know about quantum physics and “the esoteric wisdom of the cosmos,” and this random dude posting TikTok videos from a Georgia prison cell seems to know what he’s talking about, right? “Cosmic Intelligence”!

Here’s some wisdom for you: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

Category: Aspiring Rapper Update, Racism

(Insert Hillbilly Joke Here)

Posted on | January 17, 2024 | Comments Off on (Insert Hillbilly Joke Here)

Time to tune up your banjos, IYKWIMAITYD:

A Kentucky lawmaker introduced a bill Tuesday to decriminalize sex between first cousins.
Republican Kentucky state Rep. Nick Wilson sponsored House Bill 269 to redefine sex with a first cousin so it would no longer qualify as an act of incest, according to the Kentucky State Assembly’s website.
The bill removes “first cousin from the list of familial relationships” defined as unlawful incest in Kentucky, the website explained. Incest would also be downgraded from a Class C felony to a Class D “unless it is committed with a person who is less than twelve years of age.”
Kentucky law currently states that a person is guilty of incest if they have sex with any person known to be “his or her parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, great-grandparent, great-grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother, sister, first cousin, ancestor, or descendent,” according to Newsweek.
Wilson’s bill has been widely criticized on social media.

Kentucky blogger Dana Pico could not be reached for comment.

Category: Kentucky

In The Mailbox: 01.17.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 17, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.17.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Apple’s Hardware Backdoor Into The iPhone, also, How Old Do You Have To Be To Defend Yourself?
EBL: MAGA Iowa, also, Prohibition Blues
Twitchy: President Biden Called A Lid At 10 AM – Here’s What He’s Been Up To, Maybe Stop Robbing The Stores – Walgreens Closes Fourth Store In Boston, and Palestinian Explains Why Cancer Hospital Was Fair Target For Hamasshole Demonstrators
Louder With Crowder: “We’re gonna come together”: Trump praises DeSantis, Haley in call for unity after dominant Iowa Caucus win
Vox Popoli: Demolition in Dallas, Awards are Gay and Literally Fake, The Dying Colossus, Neoclowns Seek Round 3, and The Decline is Observable
Upstream Reviews: Hollywood Conservatism – A Blast From The Past With Modern Day Ripples,
Gab News: AI As The Information War Superweapon

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Dominates in Iowa: What We Learned
American Greatness: Gates Foundation Announces Intentions for Record-Breaking Donations in 2024, also, MSNBC Refuses to Air Trump’s Victory Speech; CNN Cuts Away When Trump Mentions the Border Crisis
American Thinker: DEI, Airplane Crashes, and Bad Medicine, also, The Ukraine War Needed to End Yesterday
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Replacing Biden News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship inaugurates new luxury hotel as food and fuel shortages worsen, The Havana Cartel: The Cuban dictatorship’s 60-year history of drug trafficking, and U.S. State Dept. issues travel warning about crime in Cuba
Behind The Black: SpaceX’s Starlink: More satellites in orbit but fewer close encounters, also, Indian satellite startup opens new satellite factory
Cafe Hayek: International Mobility of Capital Doesn’t Weaken the Case for Free Trade
CDR Salamander: First U.S. Deaths In The 2024 Anti-Piracy Campaign
Da Tech Guy: Medjugorje and Main Street What Do You Believe? Crusading for cursive writing, and Five After Iowa Caucus Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Iowa Had No Choice But Trump
First Street Journal: I told you so!
Gates Of Vienna: Jew-Hater Thwarted in Belgium
The Geller Report: PURE EVIL: Pro-Hamas Protesters March Against NYC Cancer Hospital, Scream “Shame on You!” at Patients and Staff at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Pediatric Hospital
Hollywood In Toto: Bari Weiss Shames MeToo Celebrities for Silence on Hamas, also, Tyler Fischer Feasts on Smart Comedy Crowds
The Lid: It’s Time For Ron Desantis To Bow Out
Legal Insurrection: Cornell Under Increased Scrutiny Because of Anti-Israel Summer Program, German Finance Minister Tells Protesting Farmers He Can’t Make Promises About Budget, and Western Illinois U. National Day of Racial Healing Includes ‘Racism for White People’ Lecture
Nebraska Energy Observer: That Reckoning
Outkick: Cowboys And Eagles Fans Are Miserable Today And It’s Great, Jason Kelce Cries On Sidelines As Retirement Looms Following Eagles’ Early Playoff Exit, Ray Lewis Left Appalled By Eagles’ Porous Defense, and Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer Goes Off On Team And Wants Them All Gone
Shark Tank: FL Democrats Oppose Bill Regulating AI Use In Political Ads
Shot In The Dark: In A Perfect World, Maybe He Should Stick With Food Pr0n Selfies, and Too Easy?
This Ain’t Hell: Written Monday, Trump leads Iowa. Warning: Rant, A 71-year-old commits robbery, despite previously serving 40+ years in jail for robbery, American Air Force team allegedly assisted Israel with targets, and SEALs Missing
Victory Girls: Iran’s IRGC Attacks Iraq and Syria, Houthis Attack Cargo Ship
Volokh Conspiracy: Amicus Brief Related to the Mackey “Vote-by-Text” Meme Prosecution
Watts Up With That: Updates On the March to The Great Green Energy Future
The Federalist: Nikki Haley Flounders In Iowa Despite Democrats’ Best Efforts To Meddle On Her Behalf, Iowa Caucuses Leave No Doubt About Who The Winners And Losers Are, Lawsuit Uncovers How Raffensperger Tried To Memory-Hole The Election Law Trump’s Georgia Call Was About, Democrats Are Catching On That Political Violence Can Go Both Ways, and Ron DeSantis Failed Spectacularly In Iowa, But It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
Mark Steyn: And So It Begins

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Trump (Predictably) Wins Big in Iowa; MSNBC (Predictably) Melts Down on Air

Posted on | January 16, 2024 | Comments Off on Trump (Predictably) Wins Big in Iowa; MSNBC (Predictably) Melts Down on Air

It has never been my style to say or do anything merely to “own the libs,” as the kids say, but if owning the libs is what you want to do, then voting for Trump is certainly the best way to do it. Congratulations, then, to Iowa GOP caucus-goers, who provoked unprecedented conniptions in the liberal media. MSNBC actually refused to broadcast Trump’s victory speech in Iowa, and CNN cut away from the speech as soon as Trump started talking about the “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border.

.@CNN cuts away from Trump’s Iowa victory speech after he mentions the border crisis, @MSNBC censors the entire thing https://t.co/WgxM83Gmsw

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 16, 2024

This kind of reaction says more about the media than it says about Trump. The journalistic establishment is so deep into Trump Derangement Syndrome that they are now actively involved in censorship. And on MSBNC, Rachel Maddow made it clear that what they hate and fear — the enemy they wish to destroy — is not merely Trump, but the millions of people who have voted for Trump:

The big picture take away from that — and I don’t mean to be, again, too dark, as you said, on this. But, it is not — if we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, we are worried about the potential rise of fascism in this country, worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government, the leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation. But people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation.
And the American electorate is made up of two major parties. One of those parties has been flirting with extremism on the ultra-right for a very long time. They’ve brought them in in a way that they haven’t been central to Republican electoral politics ever before.
Once you have radicalized one major party so that those are the preferences of the people who adhere to your party, the leader’s interchangeable. And yes, Trumpism is sometimes what we call it, the MAGA movement is probably a better way to do it. But there isn’t an authoritarian movement inside Republican politics that isn’t being bamboozled by Trump. They are pushing Trump to get more and more extreme because the more extreme things he says, the more they adhere. And that is coming from a very large proportion of the American right that appears to the Republican Party. That’s why this is a Republican Party problem more than it is the problem of one man.

Rachel Maddow: "Trumpism is sometimes what we call it. MAGA movement is probably a better way to do it. But there is an authoritarian movement inside Republican politics that isn't being bamboozled by Trump. They are pushing Trump to get more and more extreme." pic.twitter.com/0NlyQYxKVn

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 16, 2024

Does she even hear what she’s saying? Or is she unaware of the meaning of her own words? Perhaps she is confused, but we should not be. What Rachel Maddow was saying Monday night is that if you don’t vote the way she wants you to vote — if you vote Republican, if you oppose the policies she supports — then you are a fascist, an “ultra-right” extremist. There can be no legitimate opposition to Democrats, she is saying.

We must once against congratulate the Iowa voters — all 58,000 of you “ultra-right” people who voted for Trump in the caucuses — and also thank them for inspiring Maddow to say so plainly what we have known for many years: Democrats don’t really believe in democracy, if democracy means Democrats might lose an election.

Category: Election, Iowa, MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 01.15.24

Posted on | January 16, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.15.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

A reminder to Redditors

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Bring back the death penalty for child rape, Baldwin Buckley Debate at Cambridge 1965, and Joyce Randolph, RIP
Twitchy: Pathetic Keith Olberman Gets Owned On The Internet Again, Taylor Lorenz Claims Gaza Is Being Slammed By COVID Strains “Cooked Up In The USA”, and Here’s Egypt’s Border Fence Against Gaza
Louder With Crowder: Joe Biden makes it weird creepin’ on a young lady at a coffee shop as he’s asked about embattled cabinet member
Vox Popoli: You Get What You Gave, Run Gavin Run, I’m the Real Victim Here, There is No Catching Up, and Remigration in Germany
Upstream Reviews: My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers, Rob Kroese Wants You To Read Based Books,
Postcards From Barsoom: A Partial Explanation Of Zoomer Girl Derangement
Stoic Observations: The Harvard Edition

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Beyond Chastity
American Conservative: Claudine Gay: Critical Plagiarism Theory, also, Chris Brunet: Who Is the Man Behind Gay’s Ouster at Harvard?
American Greatness: Lawfare Against Trump Is Running Out of Gas, Race-Baiting Biden Renews His Favorite Playbook In 2024, and FAA Pushes to Hire People with ‘Severe Intellectual, Psychiatric’ Disabilities in the Name of Diversity
American Thinker: Past Time to Undo Obama’s ‘Fundamental Transformation’, Can America Survive This Perversion of Our Justice System? and We Are in an Abusive Relationship with Our Government
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: While Cubans go hungry, the Castro dictatorship’s ‘first lady’ continues her annual culinary festival, In Cuba, electricity theft and blackouts go hand in hand, and Nicaraguan dictatorship forcibly expels jailed Catholic bishops and priests from the country
BattleSwarm: Busting F-35 Myths, What Changed Jordan Petersen’s Mind, and Snowpocalypse Not: 2024 Edition
Behind The Black: Momentus delays next orbital tug mission due to lack of funds, Elon Musk’s employee update released January 12th, SpaceX launches again, this time from Cape Canaveral, The divide in a giant Martian lava river, and Can the shift in black vote to Trump overcome the Democratic Party’s vote tampering?
Cafe Hayek: Once Again, the Case For Free Trade Isn’t One That Sacrifices the National Interest
CDR Salamander: The Philippines & The PRC At Center Stage – On Midrats, also, The Royal Navy’s Familiar Problem
Chicago Boyz: The Social and Economic Influence of AI and Robotics, Nautical Book Review: To the Last Salute, by Georg von Trapp (rerun), and Incoming
Da Tech Guy: What Are You Going to Believe What we Say or What We Do? First aid vs fighting back, The Biden/Trudeau Administrations Accidently Producing The Best Argument Against the Death Penalty I’ve Seen, and Damning OIG report leads to an obvious conclusion: Chicago Public Schools system has too much money
Dana Loesch: Nikki Haley Dodges Question Trump Fumbled
Don Surber: Republicans Sell Out America
Gates Of Vienna: China, the Clown State, Violent Culture-Enrichers Stop Koran-Burning in Arnhem, Teaching the Little Whore a Lesson in the Name of the Koran, Brave New Pedagogy in Schleswig-Holstein, and Islamic Pedagogy in North Rhine-Westphalia
The Geller Report: Taiwan Defies China, Elects Pro-Self-Governing President William Lai in Historic Election, Massive Pro-Terrorist Rally in DC Was a Real Insurrection, Communist China Party Member Now Second-Largest Foreign Owner of US Land, Land Buys Missing from Government Records, and Prominent Muslim Writer: “We Must Normalize Massacres”
Hollywood In Toto: Why Give My Regards to Broad Street Got a Bad Rap, Greg Lukianoff: How Diversity Can Save Free Speech (Really), Disney’s Soul Stumbles in Ill-Fated Re-Release, and Anti-Racism Short Casts Ben Shapiro Clone as White Supremacist
The Lid: Australia is DeNazifying. Why Can’t Gaza?
Legal Insurrection: Philosopher Claims ‘Fatphobia’ is a Form of Oppression, Iran Attacks Locations in Syria and Iraq, Killing Four Civilians, China Complains that the U.S. has ‘Weaponized’ Chip Export Controls, Wisconsin Shows Republicans How to Fight DEI Policies in Higher Education, Executives Say They’re Still Committed to DEI Policies Despite Rising Backlash, and After Incentives End, California Rooftop Solar Power Installations Drop 85%
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for…us, Second Sunday After the Epiphany, and Iowa, mostly
Outkick: Arizona Head Coach Jedd Fisch Heading To Washington, A 5-Year Dolphins Rebuild That Was Supposed To Deliver Championships Hasn’t Brought A Playoff Win, Alabama’s DeVonta Smith Calls Players Who Transfer Out ‘Idiots’, Chad Ochocinco Says Jerry Jones Is ‘The Mother F***ing Problem’, Deion Sanders Welcomes Gage Goldberg, Son Of WWE Icon Bill Goldberg, To Colorado, Riley Gaines Temporarily Denied Entry To NCAA Convention While President Charlie Baker Continues To Hide, and Some G-list Comedian Has An Issue With Taylor Swift
Power Line: Crazyfornia Gets Crazier, Baby, It’s Cold Outside, and Diversity Is Going to Get Us Killed
Shark Tank: Burgum Endorses Trump
Shot In The Dark: It’s MLK Day, also, Guilt By Tangential Association
The Political Hat: Happy National Hat Day!
This Ain’t Hell: Only today, The US and UK strike Houthi targets in Yemen, Are you willing to host an illegal alien family to ease your state’s resources? TX DoD Civilian theft, Jellyfish looking aerial object floating over military base in Iraq, A student is told that ‘straight’ is ‘offensive’, and FAA Hires the Best and Brightest
Transterrestrial Musings: Austin Must Go
Victory Girls: Nikki Haley And The Swamp
Volokh Conspiracy: New York’s Civil Lawsuit Against Trump Is Unconstitutional
Watts Up With That: A Federal Power Grid Would be Everyone’s Worst Nightmare, Why the U.S. Senate Must Reject Joe Goffman for the EPA, John Kerry Resigning as Climate Envoy to Help the Biden Election Campaign, Charging an Electric Vehicle in Canada’s Deep Freeze, and How did Alberta wind up facing blackouts in the extreme cold?
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Rule 5 Monday: Happy Lee-Jackson Day!

Posted on | January 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Monday: Happy Lee-Jackson Day!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Get yourself a girl who’s proud of her ancestors.

Yesterday was eaten by snakes.
Today is a Federal holiday in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but in Virginia it also used to be Jackson-Lee Day, commemorating Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee, sons of Virginia who did great deeds in the Mexican War and the Civil War. Unfortunately, we aren’t allowed to remember great men if they fought for the Confederacy any more, and so the holiday was first merged with MLK Day in 1983 and then abolished in 2000 under Republican(!) governor Jim Gilmore.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Biden 2024 Friday, and the Saturday Brunettenarok.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Shetland, Straws Are Sexy, Batman, Muzzel, MAGA Fat Fani, Lady Godiva, Golda, Cantonese Scrambled Eggs, The Creator, Ghosted, It Comes At Night, and Cindy Morgan RIP