‘The Usual Suspects’: Detroit Police Make Arrest in Murder of Synagogue Leader

Posted on | December 14, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘The Usual Suspects’: Detroit Police Make Arrest in Murder of Synagogue Leader

Probably not a Trump voter:

A 28-year-old man was charged with the murder of Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll Wednesday after he allegedly broke into her house two months ago, prosecutors said.
Michael Jackson-Bolanos was charged in the stabbing death of Woll after a person of interest was taken into custody Sunday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy said during a press conference Wednesday.
Jackson-Bolanos, of Detroit, was an apparent stranger to Woll, 40, Worthy said, adding there were “certainly no facts to suggest” it was a hate crime against the Jewish leader.
Instead, the fatal stabbing happened during a break-in, Worthy said. Woll’s front door “was ajar and unlocked, and a significant amount of blood was inside,” the prosecutor said according to the Detroit Free Press.
The suspect allegedly lied to detectives about the theft and attempted theft of cars the same day Woll was found dead outside her home on Oct. 21.
On top of the murder charge, Jackson-Bolanos was also charged with home invasion and lying to a police officer.
“This was an extraordinarily sad and tragic case,” Worthy said.

Because she was murdered just two weeks after the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, many at the time were concerned that Woll’s murder was a “hate crime,” even though police immediately emphasized that nothing was known about the motive, and then later ruled out anti-Semitism as a motive. My initial reaction: “However, knowing what we know about Detroit, I’m willing to hazard a tentative guess that the killer was probably not a Trump supporter.” This was a simple deduction. Detroit is a crime-ridden pesthole and, as in most such cities, Biden voters comprise the vast majority of the population. So if police did not immediately suspect Woll’s murder to be motivated by anti-Semitism — if there were no anti-Jewish slurs spray-painted at the scene, etc. — a simple process of elimination would lead one to guess that her killer was an ordinary local criminal. It is therefore not surprising to read this:

Jackson-Bolanos previously spent two years on probation after being convicted of receiving and concealing a stolen motor vehicle in 2019, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections. He also spent four years in prison for a similar offense in 2013.

If the killer had been a MAGA-hat-wearing Republican, this story would be 24/7 on CNN. Under the circumstances, however, we can expect the murder of Samantha Woll to disappear quickly from the news.

Category: Crime, Michigan

In The Mailbox: 12.13.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 14, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.13.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Peyton Place, Harvard Hates Hebrews, and Archie
Twitchy: Did You Know Jesus Wasn’t White? This Pastor Assumes If You’re Southern You Don’t, Scientists Say Your Breathing Is Bad For The Environment, and Trailer For “Civil War” Movie Thinks California & Texas Will Be On The Same Side
Louder With Crowder: USA Today – This Winter Is Cold Because Of Global Warming And NOT Because It’s Winter, Dana White tries convincing Tucker Carlson that you’re not a “patriot” unless you’re drinking “gallons” of Bud Light, Boston Mayor Plans “No Whites Allowed” Christmas Party, Accidently Sends The Invite To White People, Pay Attention, America – This is the guy just given “immense powers” to censor social media content on behalf of the Irish government, and Democrat Identifies What’s Causing San Francisco Homeless Apocalypse – It’s Absolutely Because Of… Wait, Capitalism?
Vox Popoli: Disney is the New Enron, Beware the Christmas Cakes, and Remove the Statues
Stoic Observations: TLDR – The Enemy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Left Finally Discovers the Need for Marriage and Children
American Greatness: Speaker Johnson Says He Thinks Vote to Authorize Biden Impeachment Inquiry Will Pass Tonight
American Thinker: The Totalitarian Three-Step
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: Cuba’s Catholic bishops pray for solutions to the people’s plight, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua’s links to America’s enemies present a threat to U.S. national security, Some blockade! Cuba has purchased $268 million from U.S. in past 10 months, and Heavy rains flood Havana, cause building to collapse
BattleSwarm: Three Arrested In Young Thug Trial…And The Trial Hasn’t Even Started Yet, also, All Texas GOP Reps Voting Against School Choice Retire Or Draw Primary Opponents
Behind The Black: Martian crater or mud caldera? NASA updates status of three private space stations, JAXA identifies cause of Epsilon-S solid-fueled engine failure during test, FCC denies Starlink $886 million grant, and The rot in academia is very deep-rooted
Cafe Hayek: Getting a Handle on Benefit-Cost Analysis
CDR Salamander: The Cold Truth Of The Russo-Ukrainian War
Chicago Boyz: Depth of Disgust, also, Paging Dr Kennedy
Da Tech Guy: Question: What Do the Board of Harvard and the BBC Have In Common? also, Reverse the Religions in this Story and it’s National if not International News OR DaTechGuy’s 3rd Law of Media Outrage Strikes Again
Don Surber: Satan Welcomed, Jews Must Hide
First Street Journal: The media don’t like that deep pockets donors won’t tolerate anti-Semitism!
Gates Of Vienna: Italian Vax Promoter Investigated For Fraudulent Misrepresentation and Murder, A Litmus Test of Free Speech, and No Tannenbaum For Hamburg!
The Geller Report: Supreme Court Will Hear January 6th Case That Could Undo Charges Against Hundreds, Including Trump
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, NIRCam Looks at Cas A, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Comedy Cowards – Late Night & SNL (Mostly) Ignore Antisemitism Spike, The Very Best ’70s Comedy Movies, SHOCK – Dee Snider Backpedals on Free Speech, and Rob Schneider on Woke Oscars – ‘People Have Checked Out’
The Lid: U.S. Generals Wrong To Blame Israel For “Creating Terrorists”
Legal Insurrection: Al Gore Melts Down Over an “Inconvenient Truth” in X-Rant about UN Climate Summit Failure, Video Shows Tens of Thousands of Migrants in Mexico Trying to Catch a Train to Border, Syracuse ‘Pro-Palestine’ Students Protest Jerry Seinfeld, Who is Jewish, Comedy Show, 2020 Election: One-in-Five Mail-In Voters Participated in ‘at Least One Form of Election Fraud’, Harvard Attorneys Protected Claudine Gay After New York Post Confronted School in October About Possible Plagiarism in Her Works, and Proposed Bill Would Strip NYU and Columbia University of Their Tax Exempt Status
Nebraska Energy Observer: Learning from History
Outkick: Draymond Green Due For Another Suspension After Assaulting Suns Big Man Jusuf Nurkic With Wild Punch, LeBron James Walks Around, Sits Down As National Anthem Plays At Son’s College Debut, Crime And Drug Problems In San Francisco May Have Cost The Giants Shohei Ohtani, Other Free Agents, Kevin Blackistone Calls Washington Wizards, Capitals Plan To Move Out Of D.C. ‘Uncomfortable’ Due To ‘Demographics’, Giannis Antetokounmpo Goes On Complete Rampage After Pacers Deny Him Game Ball, and Trans Athlete Reportedly Picked For University Of Washington Volleyball Scholarship, Steals More Opportunities From Women
Power Line: How Much Fraud In Mail-In Voting? Are Democrats Really This Dumb? and The deep meaning of “proactive”
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Rips Hunter Biden’s No-Show For Deposition, Calls Statement “A Joke”
Shot In The Dark: Junk Food For Thought, also, The More Things Change The Less Things Change
The Political Hat: What Is Allowed And What Isn’t, By This They Shall Be Known, also, 12 Posts of Christmas, 2023 (Day 1)
This Ain’t Hell: US Military Killing the Planet, Errant CoC gets hit, Two More Accounted For, Legislators Crack Down on Stolen Valor Businesses, Terror Leaders Flee to NATO? and Sad anniversary
Transterrestrial Musings: The Terrorists, Pam Melroy’s Comment At Today’s Hearing, and Searching Email
Victory Girls: Pro-Life and GOP Need To Promote What They are FOR
Volokh Conspiracy: The GOP’s Bogus Linkage Between Aiding Ukraine and “Border Security”
Watts Up With That: Wrong, CNN, Climate Change Isn’t the Cause of Rising Bear Attacks in Japan, ‘Huge Milestone’: Biden Admin Green Lights Nuke Reactor Using Tech Not Utilized In Decades, and The California Sun is Setting on Exorbitant Rooftop Solar Subsidies
The Federalist: Every Biden 2024 Scenario Is Deadly Dangerous, Study Finds Taxpayer-Funded NewsGuard Outrageously Biased Against Conservatives, WaPo Editor’s Purse Column Inspires Zero Hope For The Next Generation Of Narcissistic Journos, DEI Is Welfare For People Like Claudine Gay Who Couldn’t Get A Job Without Identity Politics, Wisconsin Election Bill Trades Security For Speed, Lawmaker Says , and Report: Milwaukee County DA Refused To Probe 354 Potential Cases Of Illegal Voting
Mark Steyn: A Lesson from Luke, also, Live Around the Planet: Wednesday December 13th

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Can We At Least Agree That Nobody — and Certainly No Republican — Cares About Hunter Biden’s ‘Struggle’?

Posted on | December 13, 2023 | Comments Off on Can We At Least Agree That Nobody — and Certainly No Republican — Cares About Hunter Biden’s ‘Struggle’?

Today I was watching CNN (so you don’t have to) while the World’s Most Famous Crackhead gave his little speech on Capitol Hill:

Hunter stated: “They have ridiculed my struggle with addiction. They’ve belittled my recovery. And they’ve tried to dehumanize me!”
“They have tried to dehumanize me to embarrass and damage my father, who has devoted his entire life to public service,” Hunter Biden said. “For six years I have been the target of the unrelenting Trump attack machine shouting ‘Where’ Hunter?’ Well here’s my answer. I am here.”
“Let me state as clearly as I can; my father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma, not my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at home or abroad and certainly not as an artist,” he said. “I am here to testify at a public hearing today to answer any of the Committee’s legitimate questions.”
“In the depths of my addiction, I was extremely irresponsible with my finances, but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond absurd. It’s shameless. There’s no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen,” he said.

The overpaid idiot anchors for CNN — overpaid, because almost nobody watches their network — did nothing to push back against this dramatic nonsense about Hunter’s “struggle with addiction,” which is irrelevant to the congressional investigation, except that it is reasonable to ask why so many foreign clients were eager to give millions of dollars to a ne’er-do-well crackhead whose only qualification as a “consultant” was that his father happened to be Vice President of the United States at the time.

Of course, Hunter has inherited his father’s habitual dishonesty — “My Word as a Biden!” — and was obviously lying about his father being “not financially involved,” as everybody ought to know by now:

Hunter Biden made clear during a press conference Wednesday that he will only testify under his own rules and will not comply with House investigators’ lawful subpoena that compelled his testimony behind closed doors at 9:30 a.m. the same day.
Hunter Biden’s failure to appear before House investigators will likely be a factor in formalizing the House impeachment inquiry vote Wednesday evening regarding President Joe Biden’s involvement in the Biden family business.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pointed to six cases of mounting evidence on Tuesday against Joe Biden that “cannot be ignored”:

1. Biden family members and Biden business-linked entities received more than $15 million from individuals in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, and China.
2. Joe Biden spoke with Hunter Biden’s business associates at least 22 times.
3. Joe Biden lied about his involvement in the business.
4. Joe Biden received “direct monthly payments” from Hunter Biden’s “Owasco PC” business account, which received “payments from Chinese state-linked companies and other foreign nationals and companies.”
5. Investigators flagged the Justice Department’s “deviations” in the five-year investigation into Hunter Biden.
6./ An FBI FD-1023 form alleges Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe while vice president. . . .

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) previously threatened to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he did not comply with both a public and private interview.

Hunter Biden and his spin doctors on CNN apparently expect us to forget about this rather important piece of evidence:

So far as I’m aware, CNN has never even mentioned that, so that their audience has no clue of just how clear the evidence is about Joe Biden personally profiting from his son’s foreign bribery scheme.

Rather than to emulate the kind of disingenuous games that Hunter is playing — “Those mean Republicans are dehumanizing me!” — I will explain exactly why the GOP-controlled House committees want to have a “closed door” interview with Hunter, and it’s not because they’re trying to hide anything. What they want is to have him provide a sworn deposition, which they will then use as a basis for questioning him when he is called to testify publicly to the committee. The perjury trap, you see.

Everybody on Capitol Hill knows how this game is played: You get the witnesses on record, under oath, in a private deposition and, if you then think you can prove that they’ve lied in their deposition, you call them up in a public hearing and confront them with the evidence, citing their deposition and pointing out the discrepancy between what they previously said under oath, demanding that they tell the truth now.

This kind of thing provides headline-making drama, and quite naturally, Hunter Biden doesn’t want to be part of it, so he is . . . Well, he’s defying a subpoena in contempt of Congress, is what he’s doing. But whereas CNN would be in 24/7 BREAKING NEWS mode if anyone connected to Trump had done this, they treated it as if complying with a congressional subpoena is optional when the Republicans are in charge.

The Republicans in charge are very serious:

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) made the following statement after Hunter Biden failed to appear for his deposition:
“Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings. We will not provide special treatment because his last name is Biden. As our committees were today prepared to depose Hunter Biden, he chose to make a public statement on Capitol Hill instead where he said his father, Joe Biden was not financially involved in his family’s business dealings. Exactly how was Joe Biden involved? Evidence shows Joe Biden met with Hunter’s business associates and his name was at the center of the family business strategy.
“Today, the House will vote on an impeachment inquiry resolution to strengthen our legal case in the courts as we face obstruction from the White House and witnesses. Today’s obstruction by Hunter Biden reinforces the need for a formal vote. President Biden and his family must be held accountable for their corruption and obstruction. And we will provide that to the American people.”
A deposition is a standard investigative procedure used by attorneys and congressional investigators. Democrats have used depositions in their investigations, including the Adam Schiff impeachment inquiry. Even Jamie Raskin emphasized the importance of depositions.

Have we forgotten what happened when Steve Bannon didn’t want to comply with the J6 Committee’s subpoena? Anyway, I owe Ace of Spades some serious hat-tipping for this, so go read his reaction.

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 12.13.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | December 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.13.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Blackpilled or realistic?

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: U.S. Students’ Math Scores Fall To An All-Time Low
EBL: Shane MacGowan’s Funeral
Twitchy: Hunter Biden Plays The Victim Card, The Left Ruins Everything – Updated Lyrics For “Baby It’s Cold Outside” Are Absolute Cringe, and What’s Going On In Wuville? Boston’s Mayor Holds “Electeds Of Color” Party, No Whites Invited
Louder With Crowder: ‘Go Get Him Santa!’: Enjoy Santa Claus suplexing a car thief with the help of a gun-toting elf, also, Watch: This “proud lesbian” candidate accuses HER opponent of transphobia, dog-whistling, and gaslighting
Vox Popoli: Anger is the Tell, also, The War on Christmas 2023
Gab News: Building Based AI & Redefining The AI Landscape For The Glory Of God

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: National Archives [Finally] to Grant Comer Access to 1,700 Biden Emails
American Thinker: Two Weeks That Changed America, also, Bidenflation Right Before Your Eyes
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mammalian Reality News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship may have turned in their own U.S. ambassador spy to the FBI, Reports from Cuba: ‘Sleeper’ Cuban Communist Party members using humanitarian parole to come to the U.S., and Human Rights Day in Cuba: Surveillance, internet cut-offs, and arrests
Behind The Black: Voyager-1 has computer issues, The Polaris Dawn private space mission now targeting an April ’24 launch, and Red Chinese pseudo-company successfully completes second rocket vertical take-off and landing
CDR Salamander: Reading The NDAA Tealeaves Part II: Electric Boogaloo
Da Tech Guy: Saving higher education
Dana Loesch: Three Problems On The Right
Don Surber: Whiny NBC Upset With Trump Video
Gates Of Vienna: Which Will It Be, Boiling or Freezing? Hamas and the Annihilation of the Jews, Digital Dystopia, and “Brussels is Simply Blind and Deaf”
The Geller Report: Congress Stops NewsGuard, also, Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, The Solar Wind and Mars
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan: ‘There’s No Way You Could Make South Park Today’
Legal Insurrection: Columbia University Students Organizing ‘Tuition Strike’ to Force School to Divest From Israel, Kent State University Rebrands DEI Efforts as Ohio Lawmakers Debate Banning it Outright, Harvard Board Reaffirms ‘Support for President Gay’s Continued Leadership’, More Than 40 Anti-Israel Students Arrested at Brown University Following ‘Sit-in’ at University Hall, and Former Mullah Regime Official Now Oberlin “Professor of Peace” Put On Indefinite Leave
Nebraska Energy Observer: THE interview!
Outkick: University Of Colorado Offers New Course Inspired By Deion Sanders, Florida Attorney General Launches Antitrust Investigation Into College Football Playoff Committee’s Exclusion Of Florida State, Sports Illustrated Publisher Fires CEO After Posting AI Content By Fake Authors, and Dodgers Required To Sign More Players Thanks To Ohtani Contract
Power Line: Gay plagiarist, also, Kissinger versus Blinken
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Renews Call For Fed Chair Powell’s Resignation, Citing “Failed Leadership”
Shot In The Dark: Never Again -> Probably Soon, also, A Pattern
The Political Hat: First Amendment Activities
This Ain’t Hell: They did/said WHAT?
Victory Girls: Plagiarism? No Biggie As Harvard’s Gay Gets To Keep Job
Volokh Conspiracy: The House of Representatives Needs to Open An Impeachment Inquiry Into President Joe Biden
Watts Up With That: “COP28’s Fossil Fuel Phaseout: A Comedy of Errors”
The Federalist: Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges As Central Figure In Foreign Cash Deals, Missouri Investigates Media Matters For Fraudulently Fundraising Off Of Efforts To Demonetize Free Speech, Why Do American Universities Tolerate Antisemitism But Not Dissent? Report: U.S. Government Gave $1.89 Billion To Abortion Businesses Like Planned Parenthood, and Ranked-Choice Voting Proponents Are Lying To Wisconsin Voters To Hide The System’s Flaws

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In The Mailbox: 12.12.23

Posted on | December 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.12.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Tomorrow imma put on some chillwave and get caught up…

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Holiday seasoning recommendation for the lamestream media.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How’s That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?
EBL: Bookie, Love on Harbor Island, Godzilla Minus One, and David Drake, RIP
Twitchy: Turkish MP Claims Israel Suffering “The Wrath of Allah” – YHWH Has Immediate Response, Harvard Crimson Blasts Board For Cowardly Defense Of Plagiarist Prez Gay, and Rumble Suing Media Matters Operatives For Trying To Silence The Right
Louder With Crowder: “We need people to be mavericks”: Alex Jones GOES OFF on his return to Twitter/X, Tennis star Novak Djokovic speaks out on vaccine controversy: “I was declared a villain of the world”, and ‘You done lost your mind’: Video captures moment porch pirate discovers the homeowner is home… and strapped
Vox Popoli: RIP David Drake, Total Domination, Taleb Admits the Obvious, Off the Record, and The Three Stages of Social Maturity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The End of the Pig
American Conservative: Harvard Cancels Congressman Who Mocked Harvard Cancellations, also, What Will Happen in the Second Trump Term?
American Greatness: Not ‘Trump the Dictator’ Again, also, What are Universities For?
American Thinker: Climate and COVID – Making It Up As They Go Along, Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest, and If Global Warmists Are Going to Panic about Something
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Milei speaks and Argentina waits, The ‘Latin’ (aka Latrine) Left: Nothing but class (watch the hand), and Cuban Christmas cuisine for the holidays
BattleSwarm: Gun-Banning NM Governor Smacked Down Again, also, Occidental Makes $12 Billion Bet On Shale (Plus Texas Conservative Political Implications)
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 2D rocket launches classified remote sensing satellite, Webb takes infrared false-color image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, Craters in a row, and Galaxies in a row
Cafe Hayek: On Home Schooling
CDR Salamander: Reading The NDAA Tealeaves
Chicago Boyz: Antisemitism
Da Tech Guy: Varoom! Varoom! Review: Radical Wolfe, also, Déjà vu Israel vs Hamas 2012 vs 2023
Don Surber: FAFO War Update
First Street Journal: Well, of course he doesn’t!
Gates Of Vienna: The AfD is Officially Deplorable in Saxony, The Puir Wee Afghan Bairns Arrive in Leipzig, Peace on Earth, But Not Just Yet, Color Blind Crime Reporting, The Cultural Enrichment of Krampus in South Tyrol, and Violent Attacks by Migrants on the Southern Border of Hungary
The Geller Report: Harvard President Plagiarized Her Dissertation, Soros Org Cut $250,000 Check to Antisemitic ‘Charity” Accused of Hamas-Terror Ties, Hamas Wows ‘Worse and Greater’Islamic Terror Attacks in Chilling New Threat After Warning Hostages Will Be Executed Unless Their Demands Are Met, and Israeli Defence Minister blasts ‘Hamas propaganda’ at universities and reveals Israel has helped thwart HUNDREDS of terror attacks in Britain and Europe in recent years
Glenn Reynolds: A Small Signifier
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Solar Minimum v. Solar Maximum, Weather Report, and Facts v. Myths
Hollywood In Toto: SNL Goes ‘Republicans Pounce’ Route on Ivy League Presidents, Ryan Long: Comic Truths Without a Filter, and 22 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2024 (or 2025?)
The Lid: Democrats Shouldn’t Be Surprised Young Leftists Are Anti-Israel, also, Comic Store Owner Taking Heat for Saying Woke Comics Writers Hate Comics Characters
Legal Insurrection: Connecticut: Pro-Hamas Yale Student Raises Palestinian Flag On Menorah, Harvard University President Claudine Gay Facing Plagiarism Allegations, U. Michigan Prof Thinks Asking Black Students to Write in Standard English is ‘Anti-Black Linguistic Racism’, University of Wisconsin Regents Would Rather Lose $800 Million of Funding Than Submit to DEI Reforms, and California’s Latest Woke Mandate: Stores Must Have Sections for “Gender-Neutral Toys”
Nebraska Energy Observer: A View from the Trenches
Outkick: Giants Hero Tommy ‘Cutlets’ DeVito Stuns With Clutch Final Drive To Beat The Packers, Joe Burrow Treated Backup QB Jake Browning’s Family To Suite For Bengals Game, Mahomes, Reid Likely To Be Fined After Chiefs Blame NFL Officials For ‘Embarrassing’ Call That Was Ultimately Correct, Mike Tomlin Wants A D*mn Break From Steelers WR George Pickens’ On-Field Tirades, Los Angeles Dodgers Will Get Shohei Ohtani For A Paltry $2 Million A Year Thanks To Some Incredible Financial Finessing, and Bill Belichick Was Peppered With Taylor Swift Questions And Could Not Have Been Less Interested
Power Line: Global Warming: What Can’t It Do? Marching For Genocide, and Morality: Now a Partisan Issue
Shark Tank: Florida Republican Supports Outlawing Citizens Arrests
Shot In The Dark: The Company You Keep, also, As Predicted Here
The Political Hat: German Government Supporting The Teaching Of Incest Kinks To Young Queers
This Ain’t Hell: The US announces joint military flight drills in Guyana in response to Venezuelan referendum, MLK home arson suspect is “decorated US Navy veteran”, Wrong line of work, H-town, Army-Navy game, and Iran Refinery Fire
Transterrestrial Musings: The Rotten Core Of College Campuses, also, Not Dead Yet
Victory Girls: Young Americans Believe The Holocaust Is A Myth
Volokh Conspiracy: Law Enforcement Officers Are Part of “the People,” Not Above Them, also, The Rotten Core Of College Campuses
Watts Up With That: Russia Reels From -60°C Cold Blast… And Munich Breaks December Snow Record, Al Gore’s Tiresome Crusade: So Long, So Wrong, and CNN: ‘It’s time to limit how often we can travel abroad – ‘Carbon Passports’ may be the answer’
The Federalist: Democrats Propose Solving Their Military Recruitment Crisis With Illegal Aliens, University Of Wisconsin Rejects Pay Raises From State In Favor Of Recruiting DEI Hires Like This Twerking ‘Professor’, Instead Of Fixing Welfare, Biden Admin Targets Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Poll: At 48 Percent, Growing Plurality Of Americans Say U.S. Spends ‘Too Much’ On Ukraine Proxy War, No, Norman Lear’s Career Doesn’t Need ‘Problematic’ Qualifiers, and Speaker Mike Johnson Colludes With Democrats To Raid Medicare
Mark Steyn: Santa’s Got a Brand New Cough, also, As Ye Give, So Shall Ye Receive

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Save The Republic

Posted on | December 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Save The Republic

by Smitty

via PowerLine:

21% of Likely U.S. voters who voted by absentee or mail-in ballot in the 2020 election say they filled out a ballot, in part or in full, on behalf of a friend or family member, such as a spouse or child

Voting assistance is perfectly legal at the polling place, with a consent form, in Virginia.

The reason is security: everyone should be marking their own ballot secretly, unless the explicitly request support.

The bulk of those screaming about getting more ballots into more hands seem to have scant regard for security. Nefarious purpose? You be the judge.

I don’t hear too many nominally “conservative” voices arguing for election reform, with a paper ballot on a designated Election Day, and substantive audits to keep everything genteel.

Possibly there is a reason for that.

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David Drake, RIP

Posted on | December 12, 2023 | Comments Off on David Drake, RIP

— by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

David Drake, 9/24/1945-12/10/2023

Has it really been two years since I posted this? I guess it has. Twitter has had a fair chunk of tweets over the last day or two devoted to mourning David Drake, whose impact on science fiction, fantasy, and horror cannot be overstated. There is a wealth of autobiographical information and occasional comments on his writing at his website, which I cannot recommend highly enough. The various pages devoted to Dave and his works on TVTropes.org are also worth reading, though I warn you that they’re loaded with spoilers.

My connection with Dave started when I was in high school in the late 1970s, reading the collection of Galaxy I’d been gifted by the school librarians, and discovering “Under The Hammer” and “But Loyal To His Own”. I wrote him some letters, to which he politely replied, and I kept an eye out as he began to become a Big Name in Baen’s stable of authors. A few years later, I joined the Army, and as most of you know, managed to wangle an assignment to the 340th ASA Company of the 11th ACR. This was not, strictly speaking, the same company Drake had been in during Vietnam, but it carried the lineage of that MI detachment, and when we finally met years later at Arcana, he was pleased that we had that connection. With the exception of his Cthulhu mythos stories (which were arguably more horror than fantasy) I was never that interested in his fantasy novels, but I read and/or bought just about every SF story he ever wrote. As others can testify, he was a fine writer, a great guest at conventions, and a wonderful human being. Not an officer, but definitely a gentleman, and a good friend, as Sarah Hoyt attests on her blog. We had hoped to have him as our Guest of Honor at the upcoming Son of Silvercon II, but as Stacie Collins reminds us, “You wanna hear God laugh? Tell him about your plans!”

See you at Fiddler’s Green, sir.

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In The Mailbox: 12.11.23 (Weakened Warrior Edition)

Posted on | December 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.11.23 (Weakened Warrior Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

There was a lot of good stuff posted late last week, and the idea of trying to pack it all into tonight’s link dump makes me want to go lay down for the rest of the day with some Benadryl and Ranks of Bronze (which if you haven’t read it, you really ought to) until the pain goes away. So here’s an assortment of interesting leftovers.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.