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A Celebration in ‘Killadelphia’

Posted on | February 13, 2025 | Comments Off on A Celebration in ‘Killadelphia’

In case you didn’t know who won the Super Bowl

Longtime blog buddy Dana Pico is usually our go-to source for all Philadelphia-related news, but for some reason he had no comment on the Eagles winning the Super Bowl and the subsequent riot. Therefore, belatedly, I’ll supply the necessary update. ABC News:

Dozens of people were arrested in Philadelphia after fans took to the streets to celebrate the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory, police said.
Philadelphia police reported nearly 50 arrests following the Eagles’ win against the Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans on Sunday.
Among those, five people were arrested for assault on police, authorities said. There were also two arrests for aggravated assault, one for recklessly endangering another person and one for misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the third degree, police said.
Additionally, police said 29 people were arrested for disorderly conduct and issued code violation notices.
There were eight arrests for vandalism incidents, including against four city sanitation trucks, two banks and two retail stores, police said. The businesses were all in Center City on Walnut Street.
Amid the raucous celebrations, fans were captured passing a downed traffic light pole on a packed street, and a large fire was seen near an intersection.
Police similarly reported disorderly conduct and other incidents after the Eagles won the NFC championship game in Philadelphia on Jan. 26, which sent them to the Super Bowl.
Thirty-one people were issued citations for disorderly conduct or failure to disperse, police said at the time.
Two shootings, a stabbing and a car crash that injured multiple pedestrians were also among several “significant” incidents reported amid the NFC championship celebrations, police said.
Tragically, an 18-year-old Temple University student died after he fell from a light pole while celebrating the [NFC championship game] win, officials said.

The adverb “tragically” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, but rather than digress on that topic — the intersection where FAFO meets the Darwin Awards — permit me to note the location of Sunday night’s “celebration” (by which I mean, riot) in Philadelphia:

Philadelphia police are seeking the people responsible for tearing down Center City traffic light poles during the celebrations that took place following the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory.
On Sunday night, when thousands took to the streets, three poles located at Juniper and Market streets were taken down by a “large group of people” and “damaged beyond repair,” police said Tuesday.

OK, so the intersection of Juniper and Market streets (i.e., the east side of Penn Square) can serve to pinpoint this destructive chaos. This is in the Second Congressional District, represented in Congress by Democratic Rep. Brendan Doyle. However, the district line running north-south bisects Penn Square, so that the violent rioters could easily be residents of the neighboring Third District, represented in Congress by Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans. Using the New York Times interactive map of the 2024 presidential election, which allows you to search results down to the precinct level, I can report that the precincts around Penn Square in Philadelphia went for Kamala Harris with between 81% and 88% of the vote. Nowhere in the vicinity did Trump get as much as 20% of the vote.

This is deep blue territory, in other words, which means that the criminals arrested there are almost certainly Democrat voters:

As thousands took the streets of Philly to celebrate the Eagles victory Sunday night, police say several fans took the festivities too far, ending with their arrest.
Philadelphia police released the mugshots and new details about the arrest of 8 suspects, including two women and six men:

— Terry Kinard, 26, is charged with resisting arrest and harassment for spitting on and hitting a medic
— John Kasianczuk, 44, is charged with simple assault, resisting arrest and defiant trespass for assaulting a police officer.
— Paul Aguilera, 28, is charged with PIC [possessing instruments of crime], REAP [recklessly endangering another person], evading arrest and disorderly conduct for swinging a flag pole, and trying to knock down electrical wires
— Tyler Roach, 30, is charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness
— Destiney Paramore, 18, is charged with REAP, fleeing a police officer, yielding to a pedestrian sidewalk and reckless driving for nearly striking several pedestrians with her vehicle and performing donuts
— Anonio Kizzia, 21, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and disorderly conduct for trying to punch a police officer
— Teairah Tate, 33, is charged with simple assault, resisting arrest and harassment for hitting a police officer
— Brandon Thompson is charged with aggravated assault, PIC, simple assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for throwing liquid into an officer’s face

‘Eagles fans,’ IYKWIMAITYD

“Diversity is our strength!” Crime in Philadelphia is just part of the local culture. Black, white, Hispanic, male, female — everyone in Philly is a dangerous criminal. A propensity for violent mayhem unites the city.

Our friend Dana Pico refers to the city as “Killadelphia,” but actually homicide trends in Philadelphia are down. Last year, there were only 266 murders in Philadelphia, the lowest number in a decade, and down more than 50% from the 559 murders in Philadelphia in 2021. In terms of per capita homicide rates, Philadelphia now ranks 12th among major U.S. cities, with the top five spots held by St. Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit and Cleveland. So an Eagles fan was actually more likely to be murdered in New Orleans, where the Super Bowl was played, than in his hometown — a marginal improvement, perhaps, but a potential source of local civic pride: “Philadelphia: Not as Bad as New Orleans.”

Keep in mind that the spontaneous chaos Sunday night in Philly was an unofficial celebration of the Eagles’ win. The team’s Super Bowl victory parade is scheduled for Friday, and here I will remind readers of what I said about Jasmine Crockett’s Texas district:

“With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+27, it is the most Democratic district in Texas.” If your employer relocated you to Dallas, and you were looking to purchase a residence in the area, I’d advise you to stay as far away from the 30th District as possible. Nothing good ever happens inside a D+27 congressional district.

Pennsylvania’s 3rd District is rated D+39. Consider yourself warned.



 

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In The Mailbox: 02.12.25

Posted on | February 13, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.12.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

After three years of stalwart service in the snows of Reno and the deserts of Las Vegas, my Samsung died right after I checked into my room at the Stratosphere tonight. Contributions to my tip jar would be greatly appreciated.
The Spring Based Book Sale starts today!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The Great Tariff War That Wasn’t

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Winemaker, Big Balls ?? and Media Triggering Rule 5, and Democrats MELT DOWN Over DOGE, USAID, and Big Balls
Twitchy: Rep. Crockett Wants You To Name One Thing J.D. Vance Is Up To, Teacher Goes Off On Unhinged Rant About Trump & Republicans, and This Swearing-In Photo Will Trigger Adam Schiff So Let’s Spread It Around 
Louder With Crowder: JD Vance’s son mean-mugging the camera while forced to spend his birthday with India’s PM takes over the Internet, “We have to f*ck Trump”, Dem congresswoman promises her party will work with any American who is serious…about censoring other Americans, and Speaker Mike Johnson drops the mic on leftists crying constitutional crisis (again): “Democrats CHEER lawlessness”
Vox Popoli: Removing the Obstructions, Freedom Isn’t Real, My Favorite Japanese Novels, and Where Was God?
Upstream Reviews: Tides of Redemption
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Trump 2.0 – The Judicial Front
Stoic Observations: Warning – Semiotic Swamp
The Bugscuffle Gazette: One more time
Toni Airaksinen: Wesleyan SJP group hosts “Anti-Zionist” Tu Bishvat (Israeli Arbor Day)
Ammo.com: How Old Do You Have To Be To Buy a Gun?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: What we can do to save Australia
American Conservative: Gabbard Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence
American Greatness: AG Pam Bondi Announces Charges Against NY Governor Kathy Hochul, State AG Leticia James For Failing to Enforce Immigration Laws, Attorney General Pam Bondi Halts Funding for Sanctuary Cities, USAID: U.S. Government ‘Now Largest Public Donor to Independent Media Development Globally’, ‘The Deep State’ Dies in Daylight: A Public Role in Ending Systemic Government Abuses, and Musk Says Canceled DOGE Employee Will Be Rehired
American Thinker: Rush Was Right About Illegal Immigration
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Disney Drops DEI
Behind The Black: NASA announces March 12, 2025 as new launch date for next crew to ISS, Firefly wins $8.2 million grant from Texas Space Commission, Orbex scouts Saxaford in advance of first launch, and Modern academia: “We aren’t going to hire another white guy, are we?”
CDR Salamander: Is “Someone” Fiddling With The German Navy?
Chicago Boyz: Elections and Atom Blasters
Don Surber: What Democrats should do
Gates Of Vienna: The Iceman Cometh, Stress Test for German “Democracy”, and Who Votes for the AfD?
The Geller Report: Wife of Radical Far-Left Judge Blocking Trump’s Agenda is a USAID Recipient
Hollywood In Toto: Captain America: Brave New World – A New, Slightly Improved MCU, also, Old-School ‘SNL’ Alums Show New Crew How It’s Done
The Lid: The Libs are Freaking Out Over What Musk’s DOGE is Targeting Next
Legal Insurrection: El Salvador’s President Notices Anti-Mining Protest Efforts Shrink after USAID Funding Cut, Trump Says ‘The Department of Education is a Big Con Job’, Conservative Student Group at Southern Methodist U. Petitions for Concealed Carry on Campus, World Becomes Brighter as Trump Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban, and Rep. Robert Garcia Tries to ‘Own’ Elon Musk, Becomes a Laughing Stock
Nebraska Energy Observer: Foolishness and Getting There
Outkick: Meet Tom Bish, The Christian Pastor And Above-The-Knee Amputee Who Set CT Power-Lifting Records, Patrick Mahomes Lost Like A Champion Which Can Be Harder To Do Than Win Like One, Aaron Boone The Latest Yankee To Criticize Dodgers, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman Officially Announces Return Of World Cup Of Hockey In 2028, and Successful Bottle Service Girl Put Together Boot Camp To Teach The Tricks Of The Trade To Earning Six-Figures
Power Line: Remembering Mr. Lincoln, Feeding Our Fraud: Meet Ben Stayberg, and Breaking: Movement on the Ukraine War?
Shark Tank: Buchanan Introduces Bipartisan Bills Against Child Sex Dolls & Sex Trafficking
Shot In The Dark: Great News, Minnesota! The Majority, and Penitence Needed
The Political Hat: Working Man’s Elitism
This Ain’t Hell: Rodney King’s Attorney Gets Prison Time, Teacher records four-year-old getting pummeled in classroom, and Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as national intelligence director
Victory Girls: Holy Hypocrisy! Tom Homan Calls Out the Pope on U.S. Deportations
Watts Up With That: Net Zero Cure Worse Than Climate Change Disease, Fossil Fuels Save New England From Freezing in the Dark…Again, and Erasing the IRA’s “greenhouse gas pollution” words
The Federalist: Democrats Say It’s Only A ‘Constitutional Crisis’ When Trump Does It, Watchdog Says 22 Blue States Joined Secret Anti-Trump Resistance Pact, Pope Francis’ Letter To U.S. Bishops Sows Confusion Over Immigration, DOGE Is Uncovering The Government Corruption America’s Media Spent Years Ignoring, and N.C. Democrats Sourced Nearly 80% Of 2024 Individual Contributions From Outside The State

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In The Mailbox: 02.11.25

Posted on | February 12, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.11.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: People Don’t Like Free Speech, But It Is Necessary
EBL: Bernie Sanders Sold Out By The Democrat Party, also, Injunction Opportunity
Twitchy: Ayanna Pressley Says Dems Will Work With Anyone Serious About Censoring Americans, “This Party Is Just Getting Started”, and JD Vance Delivers Straight-Fire Speech On American Global Leadership
Louder With Crowder: Those FBI officials who tipped off illegals before an ICE raid? Tom Homan knows who they are and has plans to deal with them, Bolstered by media outrage, “Big Balls” lands a new government job and it involves Marco Rubio, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett goes on profanity-laced rant against DOGE
Vox Popoli: Never Go Hard with NPCs, The Damage is Profound, Gargantuan if True, The New R-Word, and Trump to Rebuild Steel Industry
Stoic Observations: DOGE & The Ghost Of Doodad Pro, 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: We are not the same 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Jews claim Victory in Australia
American Conservative: Panama Folds as Australia Ducks for Cover
American Greatness: Republican Congressman Drafts Articles of Impeachment For US District Judge Who Blocked DOGE From Accessing Treasury Data, FEMA’s CFO and Three Other Employees Canned Over $59 Million Payment to NYC Luxury Hotels To House Illegals, SecDef Hegseth Bans Trans Soldiers, and 22 Attorneys General Sue to Halt Trump Cuts to NIH Funding
American Thinker: After USAID, America Will Never Be the Same
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Catching My Breath News
BattleSwarm: Blitzkrieg And Head Fakes: How Trump And Musk Operate
Behind The Black: China and SpaceX complete launches, Astronomers catalog large ring systems surrounding 74 stars, A Pakistani rover will fly on China’s Chang’e-8 mission to the Moon, Blue Ghost leaves Earth orbit, and Maybe the only way to reform academia is to shut it down and start over
CDR Salamander: What If Canada Were Conservative?
Chicago Boyz: Live Not By Lies
Don Surber:  Trumping The Media
Gates Of Vienna: The Hard Land of the Winter, Political Disease, Of Ponies, Gang Rape, and the CDU, No Blondes Allowed, and Worse Than in Erdogan’s Turkey
The Geller Report: Trump Says Ukraine Has Agreed to Hand Over $500 Million in Rare Earth Metals to U.S. For Military Aid
Hollywood In Toto: Glamour Mag Melts Down Over Taylor Swift Super Bowl Boos, also, Disney Do-Over: Mouse House Hits Pause on DEI
The Lid: Victor Davis Hanson Shows Us Why DOGE and Elon Musk’s Work is Legal and Legitimate
Legal Insurrection: Trump Rescinds Biden’s Banal Ban on Plastic Straws, Choosing “America First” and Saving the West: Principled Patriotism Versus Totalitarian Socialism, Schumer Ripped to Shreds Over Portal to Report Government ‘Corruption’, Trump Orders DOGE to Slash Federal Workforce, and Danes Launch Online Petition to Crowdfund for Purchase of…California
Nebraska Energy Observer: Neo and I 
Outkick: Ex-MLB Pitcher John Rocker Nearly Throws Dukes With Patrick Mahomes, Sr. in Angry Video, Texas Attorney General Expands Probe On Texas DEI Officials Circumventing Laws To Protect Women’s Sports, Super Bowl Exemplified The NFL’s Problems, Here’s What You Need To Know About The NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off, and Louisiana Hunter Proposes To Girlfriend Then Immediately Drops A Deer
Power Line: Ilhan Omar revisited, Trump Administration Fights Judicial Tyranny, and It’s Corruption, All the Way Down
Shark Tank: DeSantis, Perez, & Albritton Hug It Out Over Illegal Immigration
Shot In The Dark: Oh, Bren L4, Soon You Shall Be Mine, also, Constant
STUMP: On Social Security Old Age Benefits Fraud, 
The Political Hat: Bird Slaughtering Death Ray To Be Shut Down
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday legalities, Tuesday riches, and Fort Bragg is back
Transterrestrial Musings: Alzheimer’s Disease, J.D. on A.I., and The Wile E. Coyote Democrats
Victory Girls: FEMA Sees Firings After Sending NYC Illegals More Money
Watts Up With That: Green Britain has 400GW of Stalled Data Center Requests, 60 – 70% will “Never Happen”, Teardrops at the National Science Foundation, and A Thought for Your Pennies
The Federalist: Neither State Nor Territory – Trump Has A Third Option On Greenland, How The Media Learned To Start Worrying And Fear The ‘Constitutional Crisis’, Ousted From Power By Voters, Dems Turn To Activist Judges To Defy Trump, After Years Of Crying About Alleged Foreign Election Interference, Dems Are Begging A Court To Let Noncitizens Vote, and Not Tired Of Losing, The Left Doubles Down On Standing Up For Insanity
Mark Steyn: Sacrificing Your Children on the Altar of Diversity

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In The Mailbox: 02.10.25

Posted on | February 11, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.10.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The 2025 Spring Based Books Sale Starts Wednesday!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

skscartoons nails it – again

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Professor Yamane and the Facts About Gun Culture 2.0
EBL: Humane, Tom Robbins RIP, Eve Keneinan, Cheerleaders, and Elizabeth Warren’s Big Pharma Money
Twitchy: Elon Musk Responds To NYT OpEd On DOGE By Five Former SecTreas, Ben Rhodes Whines “This Isn’t The Trump America Elected”, and Everyone’s Fed Up With The Woke Girlboss Ad Nike Ran During The Super Bowl
Louder With Crowder: Woke “reverend” whines that calling Jesus our  “Savior” is offensive to other religions or something, Body positivity influencer is big mad airport said she was too fat for them to push around in a wheelchair, Kamala Harris refuses to rule out a comeback running for Governor (after she was ignored at a basketball game), Democrat congressman attempts using JD Vance’s kids for a political attack, gets DESTROYED by the VP for his troubles, and 500-lb viral rapper who is suing Lyft visits “The Breakfast Club,” and let’s just say she needs “special” seating accommodations
Vox Popoli: Blitzing the Deep State, It Was NEVER Just Video Games, Kingdom Come – Degenerate II, They’re Not Independent, and Our World Has Changed
Postcards From Barsoom: The Blitzkrieg Through The Institutions, also, Crocodile Tears & The Conservative Movement
Bacon Time: Chicago Flu Cases On The Rise
Bugscuffle Gazette: I’d Like To Return This
Upstream Reviews: Just Stab Me Now
Stoic Observations: A Punch In The Nose, also, The Logos Project Restated
Gab: The Call To Build

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Embrace White Nepotism
American Conservative: The Redemption of Mark Zuckerberg
American Greatness: House Democrat Moves to Impeach Trump Over His ‘Dastardly Deeds’, Musk Fumes After DOGE Team Discovers ‘FEMA Sent $59 Million LAST WEEK to Luxury Hotels in NYC’ to House Illegals, President Trump Revokes Security Clearances for State Prosecutors, Other Officials, SecState Marco Rubio Takes Control of USAID, Accuses Agency of ‘Rank Insubordination’ and Undermining U.S. Interests, and Musk Sets His Sights On Defunding NPR
American Thinker: The Musk-eteers Reveal You’ve Been Living in a Simulated Reality
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Rogan, Weinstein On USAID Scandal, Five Accused Murderers All Out On Bail, and Biden’s FEMA Couldn’t Shelter Americans In NC, But Could Hotel Illegal Aliens In NYC
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites, A pimple on Mars, Germany commits almost a million dollars to build off-shore launch platform, Falklands public wants the freedom to choose between OneWeb and Starlink, and It won’t be Democratic Party stupidity that will give Republicans victories in ’26 and ’28
Cafe Hayek: Trade “Policy” as Thuggery, Oren Cass Preaches the Gospel of Intervention, and Lighthizer Continues to Deeply Misunderstand Trade
CDR Salamander: 21 Days Of Trump Chapter 2
Chicago Boyz: Not So Random Super Bowl Thoughts, also, Worthwhile Reading
Da Tech Guy: Trump & Musk vs Deep State Have been Nathan vs David on Steroids, also, What USAID is Doing as Explained by Tip O’Neill and James Michael Curley
Don Surber: What Trump Did This Weekend
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an a**hole to do things right, also, The left are aghast that President Trump is keeping his campaign promises
Gates Of Vienna: A Shooting Gallery in Anderlecht, Trump Reverses Some Biden Actions Favoring Terrorists, Loony With a Box Cutter on the Banks of the Main, When the State Creates Your Preferential Reality, and Open Season on 11-Year-Old Girls in Western Europe
The Geller Report: USAID Provided “Full Funding” for 9/11-Linked Terrorist Leader Anwar Awlaki, also, The FBI Leaked Confidential Details of Los Angeles ICE Deportation Operation to Media
Hollywood In Toto: Million Dollar Hotel – Weird, Misunderstood and Unforgettable, Princess Bride Star Avers Israel Worse Than Nazis, Tim Dillon Calls Emilia Perez a Daily Wire/Matt Walsh Parody, Homestead Goes Deeper than Apocalyptic Prep, and Could Emilia Pérez Be Final Nail In Oscars’ Cultural Coffin?
The Lid: Greatest MLB Pitcher You Didn’t Know Elected To Hall Of Fame 54 Years Ago This Week, also, Interesting – Youth Vote is Moving Toward Trump
Legal Insurrection: Chris Wright Had a Very Busy First Week as Trump’s Energy Secretary, FBI Stumbles Upon Secret JFK Files After Trump Executive Order, Trump Admin Moves To Dissolve “Impermissible and Anti-Constitutional” Weekend TRO Against Treasury, DOGE Alleges FEMA Sent $59 Million Last Week to House Illegal Aliens in NYC Luxury Hotels, and ‘Wasteful’: Trump Orders Treasury to Stop Producing Pennies
Nebraska Energy Observer: Let’s Chat, also, Audacity, Audacity, Always Audacity
Outkick: Taylor Swift Savagely Roasted During Super Bowl, Trump Drops Brutal Insult, ESPN Gets Properly Shredded After Posting About Jalen Hurts’ ‘Black Excellence’ After Eagles’ Super Bowl Win, Frustrated Mavericks Fan Booted Over ‘Fire Nico Harrison’ Chants As Luka Doncic Trade Rage Continues, UConn Basketball Falls Out Of AP Top 25 Poll For First Time Since 2022, and Jillian Michaels Drops Truth Bomb After Tim Walz’s Daughter Calls Trans Ban In Women’s Sports ‘Dangerous’
Power Line: Coming Soon: Energy Dominance, Net Zero? Please, and Feeding Our Fraud: Bock to the future
Shark Tank: Donalds Reintroduces Bipartisan Cost Over Value Act
Shot In The Dark: The Real Problem In Minnesota, also, The Art of the Deal
STUMP: ESG & Anti-ESG vs. Fiduciary Duty, also, The Week In Meep, 
The Political Hat: Impartiality Is Not Coming Back
This Ain’t Hell: Monday ‘splodeys, also, Pentagon Press Permutations
Transterrestrial Musings: Elon
Victory Girls: Chelsea Handler Attacks Melania Trump with Disgusting ‘Prostitute’ Insult, also, Calling All TattleTales, Chuck Schumer Wants YOU!
Watts Up With That: GOP Rep Wants to Gut Biden’s Green Energy Law in Next Budget, Wind, Solar & Batteries – The High Cost of Duplicative Energy, and Honey, I Shrunk the Power Plant!
The Federalist: Media Should Investigate Federal Waste Instead Of The People Uncovering It, Daughters Of The American Revolution Doubles Down On Letting Men Infiltrate Its Ranks Against Members’ Wishes, Federal Employees ‘Angered’ And ‘Fearful’ At Having To Do What Their Boss Says, How A Minnesota School District Is Trying To Drive Out A Trump-Supporting Teacher For Sharing A Meme, and ‘New Urbanists’ Want To Bulldoze The Suburban American Dream
Mark Steyn: Nighties and Counterpanes, Love and Death: Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Folks who Live on the Hill, and The Racket in Plain Sight

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Rule 5 Sunday: F**k Art, Let’s Dance

Posted on | February 10, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: F**k Art, Let’s Dance

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For certain values of “art” and “dance”.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

H/T Rule 5 Texan

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Alaska Voters Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, “February Brings Rain”, “You’re Sixteen”, Valentina D’Agostino, Jordon Hudson, MAGA & DOGE – Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant, The Mafia Kills Only In Summer, Karoline Leavitt, Senate Confirms Pam Bondi, Paradise, “Dance The Night Away’, Team Trump Gives Panama/PRC Relations A Wedgie, La Dolce Vita, Anna Claire Howard, and Em Beihold

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Polina Malinovskaya, Fish Pic Friday – Lainie Hollerman, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, WVA Bringing Back the Brookies, Headspin, Study Finds Northern Snakeheads Have an Effect, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule 5 Butt It’s Friday

FLAPPR: Ivanka – The Forgotten Smokeshow?

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Return to Mediocrity

Posted on | February 9, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Return to Mediocrity

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I posted a video about stuff.
The Senators started the week getting mauled by the Twins as Spaceman Lee self-destructed on the mound en route to a 14-2 blowout, but we managed to salvage the final game with Jim Kaat and the bullpen holding on for a 9-5 win. Things likewise started badly in Montreal; Joe Coleman picked up his fourth loss against Paul Splittorff, but then Spaceman Lee came back for a close 3-2 win and Carl Morton won another squeaker in Game 3. We’re still in the cellar, two games behind Oakland, but only five games behind the Red Sox. No surrender!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Real Murders, Fake Suicides: ‘Zizian’ Death Cult Fugitives Still at Large
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Back In The Cellar
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Scott Siskind Didn’t Start the Fire: Rationalism, NY Times and the Zizians
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: You Can Be My Cowgirl
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Shrill and Hysterical’: Michael Bennett, Tulsi Gabbard and Edward Snowden
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.04.25 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Pam Bondi Confirmed as A.G., and Why Did Democrats Vote Against Her?
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

The Worst Democrat in Congress?
The Daley Gator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.07.25 (Morning Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.07.25 (Evening Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending February 7:

  1. (tied) 357 Magnum & EBL (11)
  2.  A View From The Beach (8)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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A Shootout in Carnarsie

Posted on | February 8, 2025 | Comments Off on A Shootout in Carnarsie

The intersection of Flatlands Avenue and East 80th Street is probably not the worst part of Brooklyn, but it’s also not the best part of Brooklyn.

Far be it from me to pretend to have any expert knowledge of Brooklyn neighborhoods. All I know on the subject, I learned via Google searches, which tells me that this vicinity is part of what’s known as Carnasie:

Canarsie was initially a fishing community, but became a popular summer resort in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the late 1930s and early 1940, the resorts had been destroyed, and Canarsie was developed as a largely Italian American and Jewish suburb. In the 1970s, racial tensions developed around an argument over the zoning of the area’s schools, and in the aftermath, Canarsie became a mainly black neighborhood with a high West Indian population in the late 1990s.

The intersection of Flatlands Avenue and East 80th Street is in ZIP Code 11236, where the population is 82% black and 4% white. You may wonder why I’m sharing this information, or how it might be relevant to any current political discussion, but I became interested in this because of a video I watched on the Police Activity channel on YouTube:

Suspect Points Gun at NYPD Sergeant Before Being Shot and Arrested
On Friday, January 10, 2025, at approximately 9:43 p.m., Sergeant Salzman, Police Officer Okafor, Police Officer Wilson, Police Officer Zaheer, and additional officers assigned to the 69th Precinct, were transporting a prisoner to the 69th Precinct following an unrelated arrest. While at the intersection of East 80th Street and Flatlands Avenue, the officers heard a gunshot in the vicinity and observed, 50-year-old Moonra Durham fleeing northbound on East 80th Street. Sergeant Salzman and Police Officer Zaheer pursued Durham on foot while Police Officer Wilson and Police Officer Okafor pursued him in their vehicle. While the officers pursued him, they shouted commands for Durham to stop. Once in front of 754 East 80th Street, Durham positioned himself behind a tree and pointed a firearm at Police Officer Zaheer.
Durham then turned to his left and pointed the firearm at Sergeant Salzman. As a result, Sergeant Salzman discharged three shots, Police Officer Okafor discharged four shots, Police Officer Wilson discharged two shots, and Police Officer Zaheer discharged four shots, from their service firearms at Durham. Durham was struck by the gunfire and taken into custody without further incident. Durham was transported from the scene via ambulance to Brookdale University Medical Center where he was treated for his injuries. For his actions, Durham was arrested and charged with Attempted Murder in the First Degree (police officer), Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, Criminal Use of a Firearm in the First and Second Degree, Attempted Aggravated Assault Upon a Police Officer, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, and related charges.

 

We do not know why the initial gunshot was fired — robbery? assault? just another Friday night in Canarsie? — but it so happened that at least four cops were within earshot of this incident, and considering how it played out, the suspect is lucky he didn’t get shot dead. Where I come from, you point a gun at a cop, let alone four cops, and you’re likely to die in the proverbial “hail of police gunfire.” What kind of place is this, where gunfire goes off randomly on a Friday night and the perp thinks it’s a smart idea to point his gun at cops? That’s how my curiosity about Canarsie got started; the description included a street address — 754 East 80th Street — and I was able to do a Google “street view,” which showed a pleasant-looking tree-lined street, with brick apartments or rowhouses.

Just looking at it, you wouldn’t think of East 80th Street as “ghetto,” and in terms of its physical appearance, this Canarsie neighborhood probably hasn’t changed much since the days when, as Wikipedia says, it was “a largely Italian American and Jewish suburb.” Alas, the Jews and Italians cleared out decades ago because of a school-zone dispute, and the more recent “gentrification” that turned neighborhoods like Park Slope into hot spots for yuppies never got as far east as 80th Street. OK, so who is this suspect walking around with a pistol? “Moonra Durham” is a sufficiently unique name that I figured it was worth a Google search.

Moonra Durham

Moonra Durham is a registered sex offender who was convicted of first degree sexual abuse in 2013. Details of his full criminal history were not available, but the fact that a registered sex offender armed with a pistol was just strolling through Canarsie on a Friday night — well, that would be scary, if you happened to be in Canarsie, but my advice is to stay the hell away from there. The New York Times published an interactive map of the 2024 presidential election, which allows you to search results down to the precinct level, and in this particular part of Canarsie, the results were Kamala Harris 93%, Donald Trump 6%. This neighborhood is part of New York’s 8th Congressional District, represented in Congress by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who won reelection last year with 75% of the vote.

Readers will recall that on Thursday, I took note of Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who had proclaimed on CNN that “the people that commit 80% of the most violent crimes in this country are white supremacists.” And I pointed out that Crockett represents the 30th District of Texas:

“With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+27, it is the most Democratic district in Texas.” If your employer relocated you to Dallas, and you were looking to purchase a residence in the area, I’d advise you to stay as far away from the 30th District as possible. Nothing good ever happens inside a D+27 congressional district.

The Eighth District of New York is rated D+26. Just sayin’ . . .



 

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Obama Judge Orders DOGE to Stop Telling Us Where Our Money Went

Posted on | February 8, 2025 | Comments Off on Obama Judge Orders DOGE to Stop Telling Us Where Our Money Went

Chuck Schumer and friends protest DOGE

Wow, what a week it’s been, huh? Elon Musk’s young wizards at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have applied their superpowers — weaponized autism — to the simple question: Exactly who has the federal government been giving our tax dollars to? The resulting revelations, especially at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), have been shocking — the biggest scandal of my lifetime, and perhaps the biggest since Teapot Dome.

USAID Plotted to Promote
Censorship Practices Worldwide
— Breitbart, February 7

USAID Funds Ended up at BLM (and
You Might Not Believe Where Else)
— PJMedia, February 7

USAID Funneled Nearly $800 Million
To ‘Gender Transformative’
Global Censorship Group
— The Federalist, February 7

USAID: $270 Million
for ‘Independent’ Journalists
— Hot Air, February 6

These headlines are just a tip of the iceberg of shady spending that the DOGE geeks have turned up in the past week, and the way they were doing it, apparently, was by doing automated searches through federal payments by the Empoloyer Identification Number (EIN) of recipient organizations. The discoveries are mind-boggling. Hello, the government was paying millions for subscriptions to Politico?

The reaction of Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) to these revelations was a simple three-step process:

  1. Deflect
  2. Distract
  3. Demonize

The deflection involved claiming that all the bizarre spending by USAID was normal and/or trivial. The distraction involved claiming that the real scandal was not the corruption uncovered by DOGE, but rather the “unfettered access” to federal data with which DOGE was making these discoveries. The demonization involved making Elon Musk a scapegoat, with the slogan “Nobody Elected Elon” being repeated by Democrats.

If you’re getting your news from any establishment media organization — CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, etc. — you’ll find that their coverage is entirely structured around this deflect/distract/demonize narrative. They are devoting zero coverage to what it is that DOGE actually found about federal spending, except to mention “right-wing outrage” as a reaction to these revelations.

All of this distracting noise generated by Democrats and their media handmaidens was necessary to buy time for them to obtain an emergency injunction from an Obama-appointed judge in New York:

Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk’s Team
A federal judge early Saturday temporarily restricted access by Elon Musk’s government efficiency program to the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems, saying there was a risk of “irreparable harm.”
The Trump administration’s new policy of allowing political appointees and “special government employees” access to these systems, which contain highly sensitive information such as bank details, heightens the risk of leaks and of the systems becoming more vulnerable than before to hacking, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in an emergency order.
Judge Engelmayer ordered any such official who was granted access to the systems since Jan. 20 to “destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems.” He also restricted the government from granting access to these categories of officials.
The defendants — President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — should show cause on Feb. 14 before Judge Jeannette A. Vargas, who is handling the case on a permanent basis, Judge Engelmayer said.
The order came in response to a lawsuit filed on Friday by Letitia James of New York along with 18 other Democratic state attorneys general, charging that when President Trump gave Mr. Musk the run of government computer systems, he had breached protections enshrined in the Constitution and “failed to faithfully execute the laws enacted by Congress.”
The attorneys general said the president had given “virtually unfettered access” to the federal government’s most sensitive information to young aides who work for Mr. Musk, who runs a program the administration calls the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, though it is not an actual department.
While the group was supposedly assigned to cut costs, members are “attempting to access government data to support initiatives to block federal funds from reaching certain disfavored beneficiaries,” according to the suit. Mr. Musk has publicly stated his intention to “recklessly freeze streams of federal funding without warning,” the suit said, pointing to his social media posts in recent days.

Several things to note here: Judge Engelmayer was appointed by Obama, while Judge Vargas — she who is “handling the case on a permanent basis” — was appointed by Joe Biden. And, of course, New York AG Letitia James is under investigation for colluding with the Biden administration in her witch-hunt prosecution of Trump. Of course, the basis of their lawsuit — the claim that DOGE’s investigation of federal spending, ordered by the duly-elected President, are somehow violating “protections enshrined in the Constitution” — is absurd.

You know it’s absurd, I know it’s absurd, the federal judges know it’s absurd and the “journalists” reporting this story also know it’s absurd. They don’t care. They’re at the stage of desperation — viewing Trump as an existential threat — where they don’t care about the plausibility of the claims they’re making. Evil Orange Man is trying to stop their access to taxpayer money, and this must be prevented By Any Means Necessary.

Eventually, of course, this case will make it to the Supreme Court, where the majority decision will be brief: “LOL. GFY.” What Democrats are banking on is that the appeals process will take a couple of years, and that in the meantime, Democrats will take back Congress in the 2026 midterm elections, which will have the effect of neutralizing the Trump administration. Obtaining a delay in DOGE’s operation through the judicial process is therefore quite valuable to Democrats, even if they know darned well that they will ultimately lose at the Supreme Court.

The best thing that Ordinary Americans can do is simply to start focusing on the 2026 midterms. If Democrats lose in the next midterms — when historic trends suggest they should gain seats — that would serve as the proper rebuke of their obstructionist actions. Democrats obviously learned nothing from their 2024 defeat, and so it is our to duty to teach them a lesson in 2026 that they will never forget.



 

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