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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.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Cost To Repair EVs? If You Have To Ask, You Can’t Afford It, 
Louder With Crowder: It’s on! Elon Musk calls for Bob Iger to be yeeted from Disney: “He should be fired immediately”, Vegan Restaurants Are Putting Meat On The Menu Because Lack Of Meat Leaves Them Too, And I Quote, “Exhausted”, Alex Jones returning to Twitter? It sure sounds like that’s what Elon Musk just confirmed, and Watch: Adult male goes berzerk in McDonald’s when they left Pokemon cards out of his Happy Meal, then punches get thrown
Vox Popoli: It’s Official, The USN is Now Obsolete, The Pulse of Fandom, The Geostrategic Initiative is Gone, Taxing Imaginary Money, and Black Doctor Who
According To Hoyt: Nature, Tooth, Claw And All, Keep Your Hair On, and Stars In Their Eyes
Monster Hunter Nation: Down These Mean Streets
Stoic Observations: St. George Revisited, The Policy Excuse, 
Jon Del Arroz: The Comic Industry’s Toxic Whisper Network Exposed
Gab News: The Parallel Economy Business Directory

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Church Militant?
American Conservative: Nimarata the Piñata, Tyranny Comes to Main Street, and Christmas Blessings from Garrison Keillor
American Greatness: How Were the Universities Lost? The ‘Why’ is Now Obvious, Hunter Biden Says He’s a Victim of ‘Conspiracy Theories,’ Russian Disinfo; GOP Trying to ‘Kill’ Him to Destroy His Father, and The Liberal Media’s Desperate New ‘Trump Will be a Dictator’ Narrative
American Thinker: Joe Biden Meets the Gestapo, America’s Destructive Education System, Prepared Transcript Of Joe Biden’s Speech To The Nation About Antisemitism (Satire), and When Public Distrust of the FBI Comes Home to Roost
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fake Meat News
Babalu Blog: The Cuban coffee transformation, Catholic bishops denounce suffering caused by Cuban dictatorship in their Christmas message, While the communist elite 1% live grand in Cuba, 99% suffer through a historic economic crisis, and Cuban military’s business arm looted $70 billion from healthcare system
BattleSwarm: Suspect In Six Murders Out On Bail Thanks To Soros-Backed Group, LinkSwarm for December 8, and Bret Weinstein Talks Elon Musk On Dave Rubin: Fighting Censorship And The Lone Wolf Problem
Behind The Black: SpaceX initiates new round to obtain from $500 to $750 million in additional private investment capital, NASA to allow bidders on de-orbiting ISS to work under cost-plus contracts, ULA likely to delay first Vulcan launch to January launch window, Red China launches three satellites using methane-fueled rocket, Americans might finally be noticing the depravity in academia that has existed for more than two decades, and Today’s blacklisted American: The University of Washington proudly says “no whites need apply!”
Cafe Hayek: Unrealized Gains Aren’t Income, More on Income, and Defending Globalization
CDR Salamander: The Salamander Seminar With The Canary Group, Fullbore Friday, and Where Is The “International” In “International Order”?
Chicago Boyz: Reprise Post: Sunday Morning at the End of the World, also, Weimar Germany, 1918-1933…and the USA in the Present Era
Da Tech Guy: Four Reasons Why Nobody Should Be Surprised at Gay, Kornbluth and Magill Answers under Oath, The Biden Regime is now using the FBI to target Traditionalist Catholics, CAIR: What Are You Going to Believe, Me or Your Own Eyes? The BBC Chibnall / Davies BBC Doctor Who Completely Explained In Under A Minute, The Navy finally embraced warfighting, and Doctor Who The Giggle Review (Spoilers near the end)
Don Surber: What I Would Ask The Donald, Nikki Foolishly Attacks Social Security,
First Street Journal: Aren’t our universities supposed to be institutions supporting Western civilization?, also, Journolist Linda Blackford needs to get out more often
Gates Of Vienna: No Cabinet Wilders, Girls Just Wanna Have Hijab, Ban the AfD! No Christmas Jihad This Year? Sympathy for the Devil — HAMAS, and Russia Floods Africa With Free Grain
The Geller Report: Hitler Youth: Employees at Farley’s Coffee House Refuse to Let Jewish Woman Use the Restroom, The End Is Nigh: Hamas Operatives Surrender in “Large Numbers’, WATCH: OVER HALF A MILLION MIGRANTS Caught Crossing Border since October, Over 10K Per Day this Week – All Single, Males, Fit, Military Age, and Red Cross Reprimanded Hostage Families: ‘Think about the Palestinians’
Glenn Reynolds: Reverse Speech Codes Aren’t The Answer
Hogewash: Christmas And Hanukkah, Diffraction Spikes, From Our National Newspaper of Record, Democracy Dies In Derpness™, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Feminist Frankenstein: Poor Things Packs Big Laughs, Bigger Messages, Is Hollywood Waking up to the Horrors of Cancel Culture? Will Ferrell: ‘Isn’t It Just Time for Women to Run the Planet? and Film Critic Brags She Won’t Watch Lady Ballers (then Deletes Tweet)
The Lid: IL Sen. Dick Durbin Wants to Put Illegals in the U.S. Military — Gee, Who’s He Want to Send That Army After? also, The True Story And Meaning Of The Hanukkah Holiday
Legal Insurrection: Kathy Hochul Warns New York Colleges and Universities to Address Anti-Semitism on Campus, Hamas Murders Israeli Hostage Sahar Baruch, Displays Mutilated Body in Propaganda Video, Appeals Court Strikes Down Major Portions of New York State Gun Carry Law, But Allows “Sensitive” Places Restrictions, California’s Budget Deficit Hits Record $68 Billion as Tax Revenue Falls, and Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy Endorses Trump for 2024, Would Consider Working in His Administration
Nebraska Energy Observer: Hear ye! Scattershot Friday, Saturday – just for you, and Vocation
Outkick: Saquon Barkley Helped Raise An Unbelievable $1.3 Million To Help The Homeless, Thanks To A Sleep Out At MetLife Stadium, Jayden Daniels Wins Heisman, And That’s No Surprise To Herm Edwards – His Coach From His Days At Arizona State, Lakers Won NBA’s In-Season Tournament And No One Knew How To Act, Suns DJ Hilariously Trolls Steve Kerr By Sampling His Complaints About Loud Music, and Navy Dad Surprises Family At Tennessee Basketball Game After Returning From Deployment
Power Line: CAIR Applauds Massacre of Jews, “Harvard Hates Jews”, Joe Biden Is Orders of Magnitude Dumber Than a Normal President, The Red Cross Takes a Side, and Cancel George Washington?
Shark Tank: Top House Democrat Embraces CAIR Florida After It Condemned Israel & Praised Hamas On 10/7
Shot In The Dark: Saint Small, December 8 1980, Who Doesn’t Love A Happy Ending? Anniversary, and Your Public Media Money at Work
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Killing Kids: Killing Mature Minors; Killing Infants; The One Who Got Away, also, Firing Line Friday: The Economic Lot of Minorities
This Ain’t Hell: P-8A recovered, Oil, and Gold Bars, Sarah Cavanaugh, who posed as Marine with cancer, now eligible for reduced sentence, V-22 Ospreys Grounded, Valor Friday, Pearl Harbor revisited, Hamm Sentenced to 11 Years for Stolen Valor and Fraud, The US Military is in talks regarding escorting commercial ships in the Red Sea, and Hamas v. Israel, tunnel chapter
Transterrestrial Musings: The U.S. Air Force, Hunter Biden, Advocating For Genocide, Heart Regeneration, and Learning The Lessons From The Thirties
Victory Girls: Pearl Harbor, 82 Years Later: What Do The Kids Know? Republicans Hate Matt Gaetz, Want Him Out, Scam Czar John Kerry And The War On Humanity, and Stefanik Wins The Argument And SNL Can’t Deal With It
Volokh Conspiracy: Is Support for “From the River to the Sea” Based Upon Ignorance?, also, New Survey Showing Public Ignorance About the Holocaust Among Young Americans
Watts Up With That: Despite hand-wringing about Churchill polar bears this year, 2023 wasn’t their worst summer, Net Zero’s dirty secret: Britain’s green transition is powered by Chinese coal, Saving Santa Catalina, Predictably, the Rush to Electric Cars Is Imploding, and The Case Against Offshore Wind
The Federalist: Jim Jordan To CIA: How Many Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Signatories Were On Your Payroll? Top Democrat Comms Director Deletes Tweet Mocking Concerns About Trans Ideology, Election Integrity, ‘Negotiated’ Defense Bill Lets Leftists Keep Using The Military To Push Abortion, DEI, And Trans Agendas, The Definitive Answer To ‘Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?’ and What The Outcome Of Taiwan’s Presidential Election Could Mean For Cross-Strait Relations
Mark Steyn: Goodness, Light, and Candles, Trapped by the Night: Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows, The Known Unknowns, and Merry Britmas!

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Rule 5 Sunday: For The Fallen

Posted on | December 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: For The Fallen

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I will advert to you that I am not really in the mood to do this post tonight, as I have been informed that one of my favorite SF authors, David Drake, has died. Still, if he taught me nothing else, he taught me that when you have a job to do, you do it – no bullshit or excuses accepted. I’ll post more about him tomorrow, I think, but in the meantime I think I’ll post something Christmas-themed instead.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

A beloved death goddess comes bringing gifts!

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Outcomes Of Barbarity Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Ryan O’Neal RIP, Fraser 2023, MAGA Post GOP Debate, Women of Pearl Harbor, Beacon 23, The Buccaneers, Virginia O’Brien, Terrific Taco Tuesday, Willa Fitzgerald, Strange Angel, Eva Vlaardingerbroek on Geert Wilders

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Kindly Myers, Fish Pic Friday – Ashleigh Stade, Two Views on Striped Bass, Thursday Tanlines, Good News, Bad News on Bay Hypoxia, Some Wednesday Wetness, Numb, Comer Readies Impeachment Inquiry, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Joe Biden’s Very Bad Report Card and Palm Sunday.

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for December 8th

AVERAGE BUBBA: Rule 5 Friday – Gun-Toting Girl Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Dune

Posted on | December 11, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Dune

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the lack of posting in the latter half of the week. For no good reason I can think of, I got very little sleep before having to drive to Las Vegas for a pulmonary appointment Thursday afternoon, and as a result I checked into the Stratosphere around 1700 and promptly went to bed, not waking until 0500 Friday – when I had to check out and dash up to the VA for a series of appointments early in the morning. Refueled at Maverik, grabbed a couple of BBQ pork rib buns (superior to the McRib in a number of ways) and drove back to Tonopah, where once again I went promptly to bed and didn’t get up until 0900 Saturday. Clearly, I’m getting too old for this three/four-hour drive into the flatlands and back. Or maybe I need to stop more often and not try to push straight through.
The Senators had a perfectly .500 week, losing two out of three to the Dodgers, but taking two out of three from the Red Sox under Robot Ted Williams, since I was too tired to manage. The sole win against the Dodgers went to Juan Marichal (his 23rd) while Jim Kaat and Pat Dobson (14th & 15th wins) got the W’s against the Sox.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

.500 is better than losing two out of three.

Lesbian Teacher Sentenced to Prison for Sexually Molesting Two Teenage Girls
First Street Journal
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Flappr
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Hunting Season
Animal Magnetism
Average Bubba
A View From The Beach
Flappr
EBL

Mr. Hockey Stick Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Population Control Agenda
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Flappr
EBL

Matt Taibbi vs. the Borg
Hogewash
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Take It Like A Man
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.04.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Delusional-Sounding Allegations’: Conspiracy Kook Killed in Explosion
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.06.23 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.06.23 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL

Crazy Professors Are Dangerous
The Daley Gator
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Republican’ ‘Presidential’ ‘Debate’
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

‘The Patriot Way’ Has Turned Toxic
EBL

‘Context Dependent’: Ivy League President Belatedly Realizes Maybe She Answered That Question About Genocide Wrong
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Top linkers for the week ending December 8:

  1.  EBL (13)
  2.  357 Magnum (10)
  3.  A View From The Beach (8)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Pharaoh Amenhotep II and the Exodus: Vindicating the Bible as Israel’s History

Posted on | December 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Pharaoh Amenhotep II and the Exodus: Vindicating the Bible as Israel’s History

Pharaoh Amenhotep II

Since the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas, there has been a chorus of anti-Israel rhetoric portraying the Jews as “colonizers.” This rhetoric seeks to undermine the legitimacy of Israel’s historic claim to the land which, as the Bible says, God promised to the descendants of Abraham as a covenant (Genesis 12:1-3). As every child used to know — back in the day when church attendance and Bible study were near-universal experiences — it took hundreds of years for this promise to be fulfilled. Abraham was the father of Isaac, who was the father of Jacob, whose sons conspired to sell their brother Joseph into slavery (Genesis 37:23-36). Joseph became a servant in Egypt, rising to high office, and eventually his entire family joined him there (Genesis 46). There are scholars who have devoted themselves to researching this era, and who believe Joseph’s slavery in Egypt began around 1,900 BC, during the 12th Dynasty.

Originally, the Hebrews were treated well in Egypt, because of the memory of Joseph’s valuable service to Pharaoh, but Exodus begins with the story of how a later Pharaoh subjected them to “hard bondage”:

“And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.”
— Exodus 1:6-14 (KJV)

This “fruitful” multiplication of the Israelites was such that, by the time of the Exodus, they had more than 600,000 men age 20 or older, which suggests a total population of around 2 million. This is in keeping with God’s promise to Abraham that he would make his descendants “a great nation.” Of course, God didn’t tell Abraham how this would happen, or that it would involve centuries of servitude in Egypt.

Now we turn to the account of how Pharaoh sought to kill all the baby sons of the Hebrews (Exodus 1:15-22) and how Pharaoh’s daughter took Moses from the river and raised him as a royal prince (Exodus 2:1-10).

As I say, scholars have devoted themselves to studying this as history, and have identified the daughter of Pharaoh who saved Moses as none other than Hatshepsut, whose father was Thutmose I. Hatshepsut’s husband was Thutmose II, and she reigned as Pharaoh herself — only the second known queen to rule Egypt, as regent for her son Thutmose III — during the 22 years from the death of her husband until she died.

This is where the research becomes an amazing verification of the Bible. Moses was 40 years old when he fled from Egypt, fearing the Pharaoh’s wrath (Exodus 2:15). This Pharaoh would have been Thutmose III, the son of Hatshepsut, and the flight of Moses would have been about 1486 BC, a few years before Hatshepsut’s death. Moses remained in Midian until after Pharaoh died (Exodus 2:23), and Thutmose III died in 1450 BC. Then comes the “burning bush” episode: “And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life” (Exodus 4:19). This would have been near the start of the reign of Amenhotep II. Skip forward to the tenth plague, where God sends the angel of death to kill all the first-born of the Egyptians, and note this fact: Pharaoh himself doesn’t die.

Guess what? Amenhotep II was not the first-born son of Thutmose III. He had an older half-brother, Amenemhet, who died sometime early in the reign of Thutmose III. And something else: Amenhotep II’s successor as Pharaoh was not his first-born son, either. Amenhotep II’s successor, Thutmose IV, was not the original heir to the throne, thus indicating the death of his older brother. And so all these facts line up to support the biblical narrative: The long reign of Thutmose III, during which Moses was exiled in Midian, the fact that Amenhotep II was not his father’s first-born son, and the succession by another Pharaoh who wasn’t Amenhotep II’s first-born son. These are not the only facts discovered by researchers that vindicate the Bible as a true history of the Exodus, an event which scholars believe can be dated precisely to April 1446 B.C.

You know what’s most interesting about this? The research I’ve cited wasn’t done by Israelis trying to defend their claim to the Holy Land, but rather by fundamentalist Christians whose goal is to establish, from historical evidence, the Bible as literal truth. Do you think this is merely coincidence? Do you suppose that the advancement of historical research and archaeology by Christian scholars was just something that happened to approach an apex of certainty — dating the Exodus so precisely, based upon records of ancient Egyptian dynasties — at approximately the same time that most of the world has turned against Israel’s right to exist? Or do you, like me, see this confluence of events as providential?

 

You should watch Joel Kramer’s video about the Pharaoh of Exodus — he even shows you the mummy of Amenhotep II! — and also read Joel’s book, Where God Came Down: The Archaeological Evidence.



 

Category: Egypt, History, Israel, Religion
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