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In The Mailbox: 01.09.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 9, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.09.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Started this in the morning, got distracted by other stuff.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Disney Star Wars Prepares To Set Fire To Another $200 Million, also, Let The AI Sludge Flow
EBL: Even The White House did not know where Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Was, Ghosted, Cenk Uygur freaks that Fetterman is turning into a Republican…is Cenk next? Cindy Morgan RIP, and It Comes At Night
Twitchy: Jimmy Kimmel’s Cringe Monologue About Aaron Rodgers Only Makes Things Worse, Techno Fog Drops Bombshell Thread About Fulton County DA Fani Willis, and Calls For SecDef Austin To Resign Are Growing
Louder With Crowder: Pat McAfee calls out BY NAME the ESPN executive “actively trying to sabotage” his show, Why High Value Men Refuse to Date “Boss B*tches”! Viral video shows fully automated McDonalds, a glimpse of the future the Left wants with their minimum wage hikes and Instead of arresting pro-Hamas activists blocking traffic in Jewish neighborhood, police deliver them coffee
Vox Popoli: AI and Truth, Why the Risk is Worth It, The Case for the Gamma Male, Too Satanic for the EU, and The Failure of the Artificial Nation
Upstream Reviews: War Demons
Gab News: The Impact of AI on Christian Leadership

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Firing Mayorkas Must Be Part of Any Budget Deal, also, Evening in America
American Greatness: A Culture in Collapse, From Insurrection to Satire, and Biden’s Valley Forge Stunt Shows the Real Threat to Democracy
American Thinker: How Obama Pulls Biden’s Strings, No Border – Say Goodbye to America, No More J6s, Lloyd Austin at the ICU: A Symptom of a More Serious Malady, and Higher Education: DEI and Cargo Cultism
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s new economic restructuring, Half of Cuba’s sugar mills shut down during the current sugarcane harvest, ‘Hell in paradise’: Argentine tourist blasts Cuban luxury hotel, so do some Cubans, and Nicaraguan clergy express concern over health of imprisoned Bishop Rolando Alvarez
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 5, How A Coffee Shortage Almost Ended East Germany, and Bird, Bird, Bird, Bird Isn’t The Word
Behind The Black: Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander suffers major failure, ULA’s Vulcan rocket successfully places payload in orbit on first launch, SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites, Scientists: Suspended iron minerals floating in Venus’s atmosphere explain dark UV streaks, and Americans push back against government overreach with some real defiance
Cafe Hayek: Is America a Third World Country?
CDR Salamander: The Allied State of Play at Sea – With Kori Schake, also, Restore Factory Settings At The Pentagon
Chicago Boyz: Global, The Truthiness Is Out There, and Worthwhile Reading
Da Tech Guy: Raise Your Hand if Trump Turned You Into a Newt During His First Term, A Navy desperate to keep…everybody! Epiphany Sunday, Some facts and Prayers for The Blessings of the Houses, Ouch-ouch: Failures of Latvia’s new electric trains serve as a warning for the rest of us, and Jonathan & Jesus Let’s Talk REAL Pressure
Don Surber: Taming the media
First Street Journal: Journolism: The credentialed media don’t exactly lie, but they conceal politically incorrect facts
Gates Of Vienna: It’s the Religion, Stupid, The Iceman Cometh, Kajal Hindustani: “Jihadis Are Putting a Target Mark on Every Hindu”, “Democracy Completely Contradicts Islam”, and AfD Supporters Must Be Silenced
The Geller Report: Police in Canada Deliver Food and Coffee To Jew-Hating Jihad Protesters Who Are Blocking Highway Overpass, Iran’s Islamic Regime WHIPS Young Woman 74 Times For Not Covering Her Beautiful Hair in Public, and Palestinian Civilians Laughed While They Raped and Butchered Israelis
Hollywood In Toto: Yellowstone Creator Taylor Sheridan, Joe Rogan Shred Woke Critics, Memory’s Gentle Approach Makes It Unforgettable, Joe Rogan Perfectly Defines Comedy 101, and Apolitical Globes Lean Into Gratitude (Not Politics)
The Lid: A Perfect Example of How Left-Wing ‘Journalists’ Lie About the News, also, The Dreyfus Affair, Zola’s J’accuse!, and Antisemitism: Some Things Never Change
Legal Insurrection: George Washington U. Prof Accused of Anti-Semitism Leaves School, Takes New Job in Qatar, Academics Begin to Wonder if Ditching Standardized Tests was a Mistake, Bill Ackman Declares Plagiarism War On MIT After Retaliatory Attacks On His Wife’s Ph.D. Thesis, Mexico Releases List of Unattainable Goals to Help With Immigration, Anti-Israel Protesters Shut Down California State Assembly Session in Sacramento, National Park Service Not Removing William Penn Statue…For Now, and Navajo Nation Demands Delay to Private Mission Placing Human Remains on the Moon
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, The Baptism of our Lord, and The West is Best
Outkick: Draymond Green Says Adam Silver Talked Him Out Of Retiring, Pat McAfee Double Downs On Calling ESPN Boss A ‘Rat’ On ESPN, Magic Johnson Will Help Hire New Commanders Coach, Jameis Winston Explaining Garbage TD Against The Falcons Is Absolutely Hilarious, Arthur Smith Cusses Out Dennis Allen In Postgame Handshake Over Garbage-Time Touchdown, ‘Let’s Do The Right Thing Here’, and Sage Steele Applauds Team USA For Belting Out ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ At World Junior Championship, Torches ESPN For Completely Ignoring It
Power Line: Gavin Escuela, The Race That No One Can Win, Systemically Neutral Law Enforcement, and Harvard Is Still Anti-Semitic
Shark Tank: FL Conservatives Push Online Protection For Minors
Shot In The Dark: Enforcing Public Ordure, In Search Of A Solution, and As The Hungover Indolent Giant Rises & Thinks About Heading To The Gym
The Political Hat: Woke Indoctrination Has Already Been Immanentized
This Ain’t Hell: Unrelated shorts – Sullivan dies, St. Louis arrest, Grand jury decides not to charge man who fatally shot a robber, Leaderless DoD… and we never noticed, Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On, and NPS wanted to remove William Penn statue to make park more welcoming and inclusive
Transterrestrial Musings: The Justified Backlash Against DEI, also, Prospects For Nuclear Power
Victory Girls: Liz Cheney: Vote For Trump And You’ll Never Vote Again, Iran Starts 2024 By Flogging Woman Who Refused To Wear Hijab, and Pro-Hamas Supporters Vandalize Military Cemetery And Block Roads
Volokh Conspiracy: [Ilya Somin] The January 6 Attack was an Insurrection, also, [Steven Calabresi] January 6, 2021 Was Not an Insurrection
Watts Up With That: UN Puts “Climate Integrity” at the Heart of their 2024 Election Plan, CO2 Tax Farmers Protests Rock Germany, Government Backing Down, A Cautionary Tale from Prince Edward Island, Biden’s EPA Massively Stepped Up Its ‘Environmental Justice’ Agenda In 2023, and German Farmers Kick Off Massive Protests Against Policy That Could Threaten Their Livelihoods
The Federalist: Cheney’s Memoir Offers Warning About Ruling Class, Not Trump, For Three Days Top U.S. Officials Had No Idea The Defense Secretary Was Hospitalized, Democrats Can’t Admit The Border Crisis Is Spiraling Out Of Control, Elise Stefanik Gives Master Class On Refuting Democrats’ ‘Insurrection’ Lies, The Survival Of The Republic Depends On Our Citizenry, Not Our Courts, and Exclusive: How A Left-Wing ‘Alliance’ Skirted Arizona’s ‘Zuckbucks’ Ban To Meddle In Key County’s Elections
Mark Steyn: The Feast of the Insurrection, Office Space: Executive Suite and the Business Movie, Buttons and Bows, and Exit Music part two

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Rule 5 Sunday: Coffee, please

Posted on | January 8, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Coffee, please

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Coffee. Tread juice. Java. Is there anything it can’t do?

h/t Rule 5 Texan on X

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Eight Predictions Friday, also, the Saturday Blondepocalypse.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Carmen Curlers, MAGA SCOTUS Blues, Corsicana, “Wuthering Heights”Scenes From The Decameron, Black Sheep Squadron, Isabella Maria DeLuca, The Night Manager, Washington Beats Texas In The Sugar Bowl, Michigan Beats Alabama In The Rose Bowl, The Boys In The Boat, ABBA, Happy New Year Lt. Dan, “There’s Got To Be A Morning After”, Slow Horses, and The Holdovers

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Mercedes BlancheFish Pic Friday – Alissa Shaye HaleJohnny B GoodeThe Wednesday WetnessTattoo TuesdayHappy New YearPicking up Where I left Off and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for January 5

AVERAGE BUBBA: Rule 5 Friday – MAGA Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: I GOT NO FRIENDS ‘CAUSE THEY READ THE PAPERS

Posted on | January 7, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: I GOT NO FRIENDS ‘CAUSE THEY READ THE PAPERS

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For those of you who show a modicum of common sense by not hanging out on X, you may have missed the latest development in the Harvard DEI/plagiarism/stupidity eruption. It seems that Business Insider, a “newspaper” that tends to publish a lot of crap against Republicans, Libertarians, and anyone not clearly a Democrat, has failed to learn the lesson Peter Thiel taught Gawker a few years back*. BI decided it would go after Bill Ackman’s Israeli wife for plagiarism. Ackman has decided that not only is he going to assemble a posse of autists, AIs, and people who don’t like BI or the Ivies, and ransack EVERY SINGLE PAPER published by the faculty at MIT and the Ivy League, he’s going to stick it to BI as well. Order your popcorn now!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.



Pouncing? Yes, But Also Seizing: GOP Gets Credit for Resignation of Harvard University’s Plagiarist President
The Daley Gator
First Street Journal
American Free News Network
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!
Animal Magnetism
Average Bubba
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

An Inauspicious New Year
Average Bubba
The Daley Gator
Flappr
EBL
357 Magnum

History You Probably Never Knew
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Teens Arrested’
The Daley Gator
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: (Like) There’s No Tomorrow
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.02.24
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.03.24 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Why Doesn’t KiwiFarms Have a Lolcow Thread About TikTok’s ‘Tunnel Girl’?
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.04.24
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Tunnel Girl’ Update: Why KiwiFarms Is Better Than Mainstream Journalism
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.05.24
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending January 5:

  1.  EBL (12)
  2.  (tied) 357 Magnum and A View From The Beach (8)
  3.  The Daley Gator (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

*With a little help from a pro wrestler you may have heard of, one Hulk Hogan.

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In The Mailbox: 01.05.24

Posted on | January 6, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.05.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts…

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

How I feel when I see the news these days

 

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: If Someone Asks You To Leave Their Home, Leave
EBL: Scenes from the Decameron, Corsicana, Did ISIS Daesh Blow Up The Soleimani Memorial in Iran? and Lord Cornholio Biden to speak on January 6 at Valley Forge about “insurrectionists”
Twitchy: Biden’s Economic Delusions Of Grandeur Persist While Americans Continue To Suffer, We’re Guessing Your Stock Portfolio Isn’t Matching Nancy Pelosi’s 65% Gains, and Epic Thread Debunks Leftist Mouth-Breathers Claiming Political Parties Magically Switched Places
Louder With Crowder: Brave Cat Sees Dog Being Attacked By Coyotes, Goes Into Beast Mode To Save The Pooch, Disney Took Advice From South Park For New Star Wars Movie, Is Literally “Putting A Chick In It And Making It Lame”, ‘Good guy with a gun’ beats the rap, will not be charged for shooting a thug attempting to rob a taco restaurant, and Naked Ski Event Meant For Women Only Will, Of Course, Now Allow “Female Identifying” Men To Participate
Vox Popoli: Epstein List Released, The Shadow War Continues, Cancelling the Cancel Pigs, Tragedy and Farce, Post-Boomer Post-Feminism, The 5 Best Free Comics, and College Grads Are Not Smarter
According To Hoyt: DEI DIE, die, die, die! This, That And The Other, Replacement and Lackanookie, and Bolt Hole
Monster Hunter Nation: Down These Mean Streets, also, Larry in La La Land
Upstream Reviews: He Won’t Be The Last
Postcards From Barsoom: Outside The Walls Of The Crumbling Tower

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The difference between Mastery and Proficiency
American Conservative: So Now Washington Tells Us, also, Tuberville Says Nikki Haley is a ‘Neocon’
American Greatness: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo Calls For a Halt in the Use of COVID-19 mRNA Shots, Harvard—Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire, House GOP Sets Date for Mayorkas Impeachment Hearing, and House Oversight and Judiciary Committees Move to Hold Hunter Biden in Contempt of Congress
American Thinker: Obama’s New Movie, Same Message: Blame White People, DEI Can Only Exist in a Noncompetitive Environment, and Invasion Inversion: Turning America Upside-Down
Animal Magnetism: CPAC 2024, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Eight Predictions Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s infant mortality rate rises by 82%, Cuba’s Minister of the Economy has never told the truth, Massachusetts Democrats demand Biden remove Cuba from list of terrorist states, Cuba remains on U.S. blacklist for religious freedoms, and Mayorkas and climate change
BattleSwarm: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Swatted, Taqueria Robbery Shooter No-Billed, and BREAKING: Wayne LaPierre Resigns As NRA Head
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches commercial communications satellite, National Labor Relations Board files complaint against SpaceX, The mining potential on Mars, NASA and one private company respond to Navaho nation’s demand to cancel lunar mission, Japan delays launch of Mars sample return mission due to problems with its H3 rocket, and Can the Democrats offend enough people to make even their aggressive election tampering impossible?
Cafe Hayek: Impersonal, Yes; Soulless, No, also, Discoursing on Trade Deficits
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Distant Storm, Paging Dr Kennedy, and 2023 Reading
Da Tech Guy: Three Pieces from 2023 You Hated but We Think are worth a 2nd Look, Could you imagine the media outrage if Trump supporters behaved this badly? and Question: How Do You Know People From MIT are Smarter than People From Harvard and Penn?
Dana Loesch: Star Wars – Third Wave Strikes Back, DeSantis Blasts Haley For Being “Disrespectful” For Saying Iowans’ Votes Need Correcting
Don Surber: DC to celebrate Insurrection Day, also, President Nothing
First Street Journal: He will not do well in prison
Gates Of Vienna: Marion Maréchal: Civil Peace is Threatened by Uncontrolled Immigration, “We Will Punish You”, Cut ’Em Loose! These Infidel Doctors Try My Patience! School Days in Sweden, Washington Promoting Jihad in Schools, and Don’t Call Them Parasites, or You’ll Do Time
The Geller Report: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Blames the Southern Border Crisis on Climate Change Hoax, Hamas Terror Tunnel Training Children, How Hamas Arms Children for Terrorism, TRUMP WON: Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States, and 55% Spike in Young Disabled Women Since Vaccine Rollout
Hollywood In Toto: Pete Holmes Goes Viral with God Is No-Thing Clip, Why American Fiction Misses Instant Classic Status by Inches, Night Swim Offers an Unexpected Surprise, The Shroud: Face to Face Doc Lands Distribution Deal, Will Hunter Biden Doc Offer More Damage Control Than Truth? and Tim Dillon Destroys Media for Protecting Clinton From Epstein Files
The Lid: U-Haul Report Finds Top Ten Most Moved-To Cities are All in Red States
Legal Insurrection: Opposition to DEI Policies is Growing Rapidly, Chicago Public Schools Principals Not Happy With Prospect of Removing Police Officers, British Warship Arrives in Guyana, Amid Ongoing Border Dispute with Venezuela, Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Trump Challenge to Ballot Ban On Fast Track, The Idea That College Professors are Fleeing Red States is Mostly Media Hype, Appeals Court Upholds Jan. 6 Defendant Conviction for ‘Disorderly Conduct’ Despite His ‘Passive, Quiet and Nonviolent Conduct’, and German Officials Ignore Farmers’ Protests to Save Agricultural Fuel Tax Exemptions
L’Ombre deOlivier: A Gay Fisking
Nebraska Energy Observer: Me, too, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Pat McAfee Uses His Show To Say ESPN Boss Is ‘Actively Trying To Sabotage” Him, UFC Fighter Colby Covington Sounds Off To OutKick’s Tomi Lahren On USA Boxing’s Policy Allowing Men In Ring Against Women: ‘It’s Unethical’, Ole Miss Running Back Quinshon Judkins Entering The Transfer Portal Perfectly Portrays Just How Dumb College Football Has Become, J.J. McCarthy Says Michigan Had To Get On Ohio State’s Level When It Came To Sign Stealing In College Football, LSU May Be Playing In National Title Game With Decent Defense: Tigers Should Consider Michigan DC Jesse Minter, Lamar Jackson Didn’t Need LeBron, ‘Black Twitter’ To Defend Him From No Name ‘Quarterbacky’ Radio Host, and Australian OF Model Says She Accidentally Got Pregnant Making Content
Power Line: Taking out Arouri, Europe’s “Hard Right” Uprising, Pillage People Revisited, Don’t F*** With Bill Ackman’s Wife, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Demands Transparency As SHEIN Seeks US Stock Issue
Shot In The Dark: “Show Me The Gun Owner, I’ll Show You The Disorder”, Something In The Water Does Not Compute, A Small Win, Haleyed, and Blast From The Past
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Government and Public Confidence
This Ain’t Hell: Nothing to see here, move along – Epstein redux, Well-known universities adding meaning to ‘useless degree’, USS Carney Sailors awarded the Combat Action Ribbon, Crenshaw locks horns with Fox, Valor Friday, Military and veteran issues anticipated to be among topics for the upcoming presidential campaign, and A Russian takes to Telegram to advocate attacking a British warship
Transterrestrial Musings: Sympathy For Claudine Gay, Elon Musk, What Next For Harvard? How Hamas Hid Their October 7th Planning, and ULA
Victory Girls: Joe Biden To Begin 2024 Campaign “For Soul Of Nation” On January 6, also, Harry Dunn, Capitol Police “Hero”, Running For Congress
Volokh Conspiracy: En Banc Fifth Circuit Rejects FDA’s Vaping Regulation “Surprise Switcheroo”, also, Canadian Immigration Officials Block Citizenship Grant for Russian Immigrant Because She Was Convicted of the “Crime” of Speaking Out Against Russia’s War of Aggression Against Ukraine
Watts Up With That: Oil Giant’s Massive Impairment Could Be The Latest Sign Of Trouble For California’s Economy, Experts Say, Israeli Greens Demand a Carbon Tax, Green Billionaires Fund Large Backbench Tory Net Zero Parliamentary Caucus, Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer? and Federal Court Deals Knockout Punch To Blue City’s Biden-Backed Effort To Ban Gas Stoves
The Federalist: Media Blame Claudine Gay’s Lack Of Ethical Standards On The Conservatives Who Pointed It Out, Please, Neocons, Stop Claiming That Migrants Jump The Border To Become Patriotic Americans. That’s Not Why They’re Here, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Stuns With Its Visuals — And Complete Vapidity, Porn-Producing UW Chancellor Is Just Observing Academia’s New Religion Of Performative Vulgarity, Leftist Judge Strikes Blow To Election Integrity In Wisconsin With Ballot ‘Curing’ Decision, Randi Weingarten’s Meltdown Over School Choice And ‘Democracy’ Is Pure Projection, and Texas Universities Skirt New Law Aimed At Dissolving Racist ‘Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion’ On Campuses
Mark Steyn: Judges and Juntas, also, The Narrative Unravels

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‘Tunnel Girl’ Update: Why KiwiFarms Is Better Than Mainstream Journalism

Posted on | January 4, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Tunnel Girl’ Update: Why KiwiFarms Is Better Than Mainstream Journalism

Jacob Lorei (left) a/k/a “Kala”

In my previous post, I expressed dismay that KiwiFarms didn’t have a “lolcow” thread about “Kala,” the TikTok personality who is digging an (apparently illegal) tunnel under “her” Northern Virginia home. Now I must apologize to the KF crew, after a commenter pointed out that there was such a thread, which I hadn’t found because it was in a development section of the Farms only available to registered users.

Oh, boy, what a total dox — complete with a college yearbook photo circa 2006 (above left) when Jacob Thomas Lorei was attending Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, and not studying engineering. It appears that “Kala” has a day job doing some kind of computer software work, and has legally changed his name to Pranavi Kalavathamma Lorei, so that he is not only pretending to be a woman, but also pretending to be Indian (not the Elizabeth Warren kind). The Kiwi Farmers have the exact address where Kala is constructing the “tunnel”/creepy underground lair, as well as information about “businesses” Kala runs from this address, and some drama about the eviction of a former roommate/tenant.

Compare the excellent investigative reporting of KiwiFarms with the deliberately dumbed-down output of so-called “professional” journalists:

It’s only a few days into 2024 and we’ve already got “Northern Virginia woman builds likely illegal underground tunnel system under her home” on our bingo card.
The amateur engineer going by “Kala” on her “engineer.everything” TikTok account has become known as “TikTok tunnel girl” for her videos showcasing the construction of a series of tunnels underneath her home (she’s posted more than 200 dating back to October 2022). Many videos feature her welding, stacking cinder blocks, dumping rock, and talking through engineering challenges she’s encountered while constructing the “underground tunnel system” 22 feet below the Northern Virginia surface.
Kala, who has asked news outlets not to share her legal name, admits in her TikToks that she’s not a professionally trained structural engineer (though she is a software engineer). She’s made a point to note in her videos that she’s learning new hands-on skills, and she’s highlighted several setbacks and challenges to the project.

See what I mean? The reader who is curious about “Kala” — wondering what kind of crazy person would do such a thing — gets no clue from the professional journalist, who voluntarily plays along with the deception (“Kala . . . has asked news outlets not to share her legal name”) that conceals the most relevant facts about this kook who (a) bears a more than passing resemblance to infamous mass murderer Adam Lanza and (b) could be doing that “Buffalo Bill” thing from Silence of the Lambs.

It would be wrong to imply that “Kala” is a homicidal maniac who was digging this “tunnel” for criminal purposes, but on the other hand, I wouldn’t accuse you of paranoia if you expressed such suspicions.

NBC News was the first national media to cover the “TikTok tunnel girl” saga, back in November, but read that story and see if you get any hint that “Kala” is actually transgender, and in fact is a white guy pretending to be a woman of Indian ancestry. They used an image of “Kala” lifted from “her” social media, and hello, face filters? That picture is a disguise in more ways than one, and why do you think Jacob/“Kala” is so intent on concealing his/“her” true identity? Would you guess that, perhaps, Jacob/“Kala” is deriving income from his/“her” TikTok/YouTube based on the audience’s belief that “Kala” is actually a woman?

There are a lot of questions about this person that NBC News and other “professional” media outlets evidently didn’t bother to ask, and they are therefore guilty of misleading the public — undermining their own credibility, kind of like how “Kala” is undermining the foundation of his/“her” home with that tunnel. If KiwiFarms is providing more reliable journalism than NBC News, whose fault is that?



 

In The Mailbox: 01.04.24

Posted on | January 4, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.04.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Big mood.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Claudine Gay Resigns As Harvard President, also, Michael Medved Off Seattle Conservative Talk Radio
Twitchy: State Department’s Reminder About Needing A Valid Passport Gets The Photo Disclaimers It Was Begging For, Jemele Hill Reminds Us It Was “Never Proven” That Claudine Gay Plagiarized, and Special K Has A Hot Take On Razor Wire & Illegal Immigration
Louder With Crowder: Aaron Rodgers GOES THERE on Jimmy Kimmel and Jeffrey Epstein, and the late-night “comedian” is threatening a lawsuit, Methodist Church In UK Declares Terms Like ‘Husband’ And ‘Wife’ Are Now  Offensive, and Woman Who Called For “Size-Inclusive” Hotels Now Promoting Fat Con. Yes, A Convention For Fats To Promote Fatness
Vox Popoli: Don’t Say Gay at Harvard, Connected Somehow, and Fire at Will
Draw & Talk: My Dreams Pooped On My Face (2023 Recap)
Stoic Observations: The Deep American
Gab News: Gab’s Bold Vision For 2024 – An Uncensored AI Platform

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Prepare to meet the consequences of your faggotry
American Conservative: Maduro Fools Biden Again
American Greatness: Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns Amid Antisemitism and Plagiarism Firestorm
American Thinker: The United States is in A Dark Place, also, Scientists Shocked to Discover That Male and Female Athletes are Different!
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Residents of Cuban town Manzanillo forced to clear or eat uncollected trash from their streets, Reports from Cuba: Suspension of rationed milk sales to chronically ill people in Sancti Spiritus, and Cuban dictatorship and its slave-trade client nations questioned by UN rapporteur
Behind The Black: Dunes on the floor of Valles Marineris, SpaceX launches six next generation Starlink satellites, and Sunspot update: Are we now in the next solar maximum?
CDR Salamander: F-35s & The Gods Of The Copybook Headings
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Holiday Edition, also, The AP’s Idiotic Defense Of Claudine Gay
Don Surber: Lady DEI Quits
First Street Journal: The left are aghast when conservatives use the same weapons liberals use
Gates Of Vienna: “Those Are the Worst of Creatures”, also, Hungarian President: “In many families, there is almost constant sickness” 
The Geller Report: Biological Boy Steals First-Ever Girls’ Division I College Scholarship
Hollywood In Toto: Green Day Previews Hollywood’s 2024 War on Trump, New Jedi Order Director Gives Super Woke Film Update, Finding Hidden Meaning in Explicit Films, and Conservatives Shouldn’t Cheer Aaron Rodgers’ Hit on Jimmy Kimmel
The Lid: The Claudine Gay Debacle Is Another Moral Stain For “Elite” Education
Legal Insurrection: MIT President Sally Kornbluth Doubling Down on DEI After Gay’s Resignation, Hamas Deputy Terror Chief Saleh Al-Arouri Killed in Alleged Israeli Drone Strike in Beirut, Paper: How Pro-Hamas ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ Hijacked U.S. Universities, Anti-Israel Girl Who Attacked Teenager in IDF Sweatshirt Graduated From Barack Obama School for Social Justice, and Rearranging Chairs On The Sinking Academic Ship – Claudine Gay Is Gone, But The DEI Problems Remain
Nebraska Energy Observer: Not quite ready but getting there
Outkick: National Title Ticket Prices Plummet, Packers Find Their Franchise QB In Jordan Love While Other Teams’ Experiments Failed, Jackson Mahomes Felony Sexual Battery Charges To Be Dropped, Witness Won’t Cooperate, Ohio State Player Makes Stunning Practice Claim In Now-Deleted Podcast, Michigan/Alabama Game Puts Up Absurd TV Ratings, and Woman Asks Vegas Reddit For Bachelor Party Surprise Suggestions, Receives Grade-A Responses
Power Line: “Anti-Racism” Is Racist, also, Better Late Than Never
Shark Tank: Steube Predicts Contempt Of Congress Charges For Hunter Biden
Shot In The Dark: Who Says Minnesota Can’t Win Championships?, Let’s Not Forget,
This Ain’t Hell: Two More Accounted For, Sorry media, the US military is not full of violent extremists, The US Army is taking applications for the new recruiting warrant officer field, and Wesley Clark Questions Iran Policy
Transterrestrial Musings: Claudine Gay
Victory Girls: Sex Trafficking Accusations Have Become Tribal
Volokh Conspiracy: “Purported Robberies Were Staged” to Support “Fraudulent Visa Applications”
Watts Up With That: Climate Impacts? Aussie Emergency Minister Slams Storm Warning Failures, America’s judiciary is quietly receiving ‘training’ from leftwing climate group, and Data Falsifies ABC News’ Claim that 2023 Displayed Dangerous Heat Trends
The Federalist: Biden Welcomes 2024 With More Lies About His Flailing Economy, This Arizona City Just Appointed A Democrat Ballot Harvester As Its Vice Mayor, Louisiana Supreme Court Allows Election Do-Over After 11 Illegal Votes Found In Race Decided By 1 Vote, Don’t Stop With Plagiarist Claudine Gay. Remove Every Useless, Overpaid University Administrator, NPR Hypes Doctors Who Downplay Obesity Risks To Spare Patients’ Feelings, ‘Diversity’ And ‘Academic Freedom’ Are Just Left-Wing Buzzwords, and Joe Biden Apparently Helped Hunter Defy A Subpoena, So Why Is Trump The One Charged With Obstructing Justice?
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet, also, Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols

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Why Doesn’t KiwiFarms Have a Lolcow Thread About TikTok’s ‘Tunnel Girl’?

Posted on | January 4, 2024 | Comments Off on Why Doesn’t KiwiFarms Have a Lolcow Thread About TikTok’s ‘Tunnel Girl’?

The two most important things to know about “Tunnel Girl” a/k/a “Kala Engineer” are (a) she’s not an engineer and (b) she’s not a girl, either. For some reason — perhaps TikTok has a policy against “transphobia” — nobody has pointed out the (b) part of that, even though “Kala” used the #transition hashtag on this video. But now “she” is headline news:

Influencer excavating massive tunnel 22 feet beneath her Virginia home ordered to stop
A TikToker known as “Tunnel Girl” for her unpermitted tunnel digging project at her suburban Washington, DC home has been slapped with an order to abandon the elaborate project due to “potential violations.”
“Kala the science girl” has amassed a half million followers while documenting the excavation of an underground tunnel system leading to a storm shelter off the side of her basement in Herndon, Va. since October of 2022.
Kala, who uses the handles @kalaengineer and @engineer.everything, has gradually shown her viewers the progression of a tunnel system that leads to a “sub-basement” chamber 22 feet below ground.
The Herculean effort entailed cutting through concrete, mining sediment, installing an elevator shaft to evacuate a thousand pounds of rocks up at a time, pumping out water, installing electricity and ventilation and dealing with setbacks like partial collapses and fires.
Part of her channel’s appeal seems rooted in her idiosyncratic presentation.
The woman claims to be an office worker by day and speaks in a robotic monotone voice while donning fashionable outfits, heavy makeup and manicured nails as she demonstrates her highly complex and dangerous home improvement project.
She works on the massive undertaking by herself in her videos, many of which appear to have been shot by someone else.
On Dec. 28, Kala posted a heavily-produced clip that showed her getting a visit from city officials who shut down the big dig.
“They did give me a stop work order and are requiring an immediate evaluation by a professional engineer,” she told viewers.
“Fortunately contrary to rumors here, it is constructed entirely below the slab of my house and it shouldn’t be too hard to get the permits and approval.”

The bit about the “robotic monotone voice” is what tipped me off that “Kala” is actually male. Also, clearly on the autism spectrum.

It would be one thing, I suppose, to dig a giant tunnel under your own home if you lived in a rural area. But this home is on a quarter-acre lot in a subdivision in the Northern Virginia suburbs of D.C. When the excavation struck ground water — holy crap! — it had clearly become unsafe, and a potential threat to the community. “Kala” may believe that it “shouldn’t be too hard” to get a permit to continue this insane project, but then again “Kala” shows a general tendency toward irrational beliefs.

The real scandal, though: What’s gone wrong at KiwiFarms that here you have an obvious psychotranny engaged in dangerous activity for TikTok clicks and there’s no “lolcow” thread for her? Do better, guys.

UPDATE: ‘Tunnel Girl’ Update: Why KiwiFarms Is Better That Mainstream Journalism



 

In The Mailbox: 01.03.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 3, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.03.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Michigan beats Alabama in Rose Bowl OT, Washington beats Texas in Sugar Bowl, The Night Manager, and Isabella Maria DeLuca Makes Brown Butter Carmel Cake
Twitchy: Jamaal Bowman Sounds The Alarm To Protect Plagiarists, Kurt Schlichter Obliterates Rachel Bitecofer For Attacking His Military Service, and AP Highlights “New Conservative Weapon” Against Colleges, Gets Wrecked 
Louder With Crowder: Hot Mic Catches ABC Anchor Saying Higher Ups Made Her Ditch the Epstein Story, Dave Chappelle drops brilliant trans joke on new Netflix special “The Dreamer,” but the handicapped get it worse, Elon Musk ROASTS Green Day’s embarrassing anti-MAGA pandering with “American Idiot” performance, and Watch: Biden Admin Space Force Lt. Colonel Claims Inclusion Is Totally A “National Security Imperative”
Vox Popoli: By Any Means, Libertarians and Clown World, A Tale of Two “Nationalisms”, The RCC Funds Mass Migration, and The USA’s Army of Illegals

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: ‘Be All You Can Be’ and the TikTok Mutiny
American Greatness: The Utter Insanity of Joe Biden’s Open Border, also,  Over 230 Active Service Members and Veterans Sign Open Letter Calling For Accountability From Military Leaders Over COVID Misconduct
American Thinker: Let’s Stop Using the Words: ‘Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Vibrating Pills News
Babalu Blog: A sumptuous New Year’s Eve buffet for foreign tourists in Cuba while Cubans went hungry, Nearly 6,000 protests in Cuba in 2023, and Cuban dictator Raul Castro makes rare public appearance, vows he’s not going anywhere
BattleSwarm: Stephen Fry: Antisemitism Is Wrong And All People Are Brothers. Woke Mob: Die Zionist Scumbag, Cartel Gunbattle Just South Of U.S. Border, and Dave Chappelle Takes On Transexual Madness Again
Behind The Black: The global launch industry in 2023: A record third year in a row of growth, with dark clouds lurking
Da Tech Guy: The great migration continues, also, Pushback Under the Fedora
First Street Journal: Property rights are simply not respected in Philly, also, Another two bite the dust!
The Geller Report: Convicted Election Ballot Harvester Gloria Torres Appointed Vice-Mayor in San Luis, Arizona, EVIL CLOWN SHOW: WH Press Secretary claims “It is shameful” to send illegal aliens to sanctuary cities, and Serial Plagiarist and Liar Harvard President Claudine Gay FINALLY Resigns
Hollywood In Toto: The Less You Know About All of Us Strangers, the Better, The Best of the Rest: 2023 TV Highlights Worth Revisiting, Chappelle’s Dreamer Review – No Retreat, No Surrender, Chappelle Co-Creator: Doing Show Today Would Be ‘Pain in the A**’, and Bill Engvall Shares Shocking Truth Behind Retirement
Legal Insurrection:  The Anti-Semitism We See Today Can be Traced to the ‘Anti-Racist’ Left, Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Plays Victim and Blames Racism, Japan Begins Recovery Efforts After New Year’s Day Swarm of Earthquakes, U. Delaware’s New Economics Workshop Covers Taylor Swift, and Rabbi In Harvard Crimson: It’s Time to ‘Confront and Overcome’ Anti-Semitism on Campus
Nebraska Energy Observer: Ultimately
Outkick: NFL Fines Panthers Owner David Tepper $300,000 For Throwing Drink On Fan, Jimmy Kimmel Threatens Legal Action Against Aaron Rodgers After QB Suggests TV Host Is On Epstein Client List, Emotional Rashard Mendenhall Tries To Justify Anti-White Rant, Iowa Coach Shares Blunt Warning For Future Of College Football, Oklahoma Player Viciously Booed By Texas Fans While Being Recognized For Charity Work During Halftime Of Sugar Bowl, and ESPN Boobs Apologize For Showing Boobs During Sugar Bowl
Power Line: Sowell Strikes Back, Exit Claudine Gay, and What Claudine Longet did to Spider Sabich
Shark Tank: Rep. Mills Tells Biden “Shut Down The Border Or Shut Down The Government”
Shot In The Dark:  Amicus Curiae, A Parable For Our Time, and  “Unintended” Consequences
This Ain’t Hell: Iranian destroyer to Red Sea. Y’all play nice, now
Transterrestrial Musings: In Which Trump Is A Fool, Steamboat Willy, and Two Weeks To Trial
Victory Girls: Harvard’s Claudine Gay Out As President – Win For Sanity
Volokh Conspiracy: In This House We Believe in Keeping People Safe
Watts Up With That: Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up, also, The Climate Movement Suffered A Slew Of Defeats And Setbacks In 2023
The Federalist: Why SCOTUS Will Likely Smack Down Two Of Jack Smith’s Get-Trump Charges As Non-Crimes, Report: U.S. Sets Record For Most Single-Month Illegal Encounters At The Southern Border, After Veto Siding With Trans Lobby, Ohio Voters Should Transition Mike DeWine Out Of Office, New York Times Laments House Republicans Didn’t Ram Through Enough Big-Government Legislation, and We Should Think About Rome — But Not For Her Glories
Mark Steyn: Two Weeks to Trial

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