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Rule 5 Sunday: Hello, Nurse!

Posted on | January 12, 2026 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Hello, Nurse!

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Maybe she’s a nurse. Maybe she’s a doctor. Maybe she’s just a model in scrubs. Who cares?
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Anais Foulquier, Song Sung Blue, MAGA Maduro vs. Machado, Let’s Make Pizza, Chalet Girl, The First U.S. Governor Of The Territory Of Greenland, Pretenders, “Let It Go”, The Odyssey, “Punk Rock Girl”, Passenger, Americana, and Venezuelans Celebrate Maduro’s Arrest

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Julia Lescova, Fish Pic Friday – Sydnie Wells, Hurricane, The Wednesday Wetness, Gone Fishin’, Tattoo Tuesday, A Bottle Bill for Maryland?, Trump and the ‘Donroe’ Doctrine, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday 

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

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FMJRA 2.0: Still Stuck In The Ruts

Posted on | January 11, 2026 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Still Stuck In The Ruts

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It was another .500 week for the home team – we lost two of three to the Cardinals, and it would have been a sweep except for a six-run rally in the sixth against Orlando Pena, which gave Jim Kaat his first win in relief. The shoe was on the other foot when the Tribe came to town, though – Pat Dobson lost Game 1 3-4, but in Game 2 the boys rallied for two in the bottom of the 10th to win it for Roger Nelson, who’d come in to relieve Kaat; in Game 3 Bucky Dent, Jim Hargrove and Dave Winfield combined for two runs in the bottom of the ninth to give Charlie Hough his fifth win. So we finish the week 3-3, 31-41 overall – three games behind the third-place Brewers and 6.5 behind the division-leading Twins. Next week we’re facing the Expos (41-28) on Tuesday and the Pirates (26-46) on Friday, so unless things go badly wrong we’ll have another .500 week, or maybe a 4-2 week if we can sweep the Bucs.
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BREAKING: U.S. Strikes Venezuela UPDATE: Maduro Captured, Trump Says
First Street Journal
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: On An Even Keel
357 Magnum
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Rule 5 Sunday: Old Trucks & Young Girls
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Vandalizes J.D. Vance’s Ohio Home
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 01.06.26 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

New York City Is Decadent and Depraved
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Minneapolis Is Decadent and Depraved
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 01.10.26

Posted on | January 10, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.10.26

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Adding the stuff that Feedly wouldn’t show me last night.
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The Vivian James of the UK counterrevolution?

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Let’s Make A Pizza, Bold Nelson’s Praise, Chalet Girl, Andrew Branca and the Minnesota ICE Shooting, and Steaking Golden Tilefish
Louder With Crowder: The dude accused of breaking into JD Vance’s home wants to be called “Julia”, Whoopi Goldberg demands NATO save us from Donald Trump, appears confused about what NATO is, Trump Treasury announces major change in policy, no longer allows foreigners to send money overseas, JD Vance brings glorious righteous indignation against the news media lying about what happened in Minneapolis, and “Do felonious assaults with two-ton weapons, expect to be shot”
Vox Popoli: The Tree of Woe Interview, Oreshnik Take 2, and From Theory to Farce

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
BattleSwarm: Is Islamic Iran Cracking? Is Iran Losing Control Of Kurds and Lurs? Ukrainian Robots 1, Russian Horses 0, Venezuela Fallout Roundup For January 5, and LinkSwarm For January 9
Behind The Black: An outline of NASA’s present schedule leading up to the Artemis-2 manned lunar fly-by mission, ISS crew to return on Wednesday January 14, SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites, Isaacman okays flying Artemis-2 manned, despite heat shield questions, and Another spiral galaxy that should not exist discovered in the early universe
First Street Journal: It’s too bad she is gone, but Renee was up to no Good, You will own nothing and you will like it, The progressive ‘urbanists’ just don’t quite understand things, #TrumpDerangementSyndrome: the left are wholly upset, but the Venezuelan people are overjoyed, and You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Legal Insurrection: Video Released of ICE Agent’s Perspective of Minneapolis Shooting, MTG Refutes Allegations She Tipped Off Code Pink About Trump Visit to DC Restaurant, Trump Cancels ‘Previously Expected Second Wave of Attacks’ on Venezuela, U. Maryland Still a Hotbed of Anti-Israel Activism, and Arizona State U. Administrator Admits School Conceals DEI Instruction Despite Federal Ban
Outkick: Insufferable NBA Scumbag Steve Kerr Lies Through His Teeth About ICE Shooting, Into The Hurricane: Indiana Has Changed College Football, Thanks To Curt Cignetti’s Belief In Team And Mendoza, SEC Humiliation Is Complete, As Ole Miss Loss Moves Conference To 0-3 In Playoff Against P4 Teams, Is Paul Finebaum Going To Follow Through And Leave The Country? and Sydney Thomas & Her Girlfriends Tear Up St. Barts To Kick Off 2026, Cig Memes & Sad Oregon Fans
Power Line: The ICE agent’s POV, The Minnesota incident, Trump’s Economy Is Booming, Today in Minnesota fraud, and Mr. Glahn goes to Washington
Watts Up With That: Grauniad Thinks Withdrawing from Climate Treaties will Make the USA Poorer, Dramatic Fall in Global Temperatures Ignored by Narrative-Captured Mainstream Media, Berlin Blackout Shows Germany’s $5 Trillion Green Scheme Is “Left-Green Ideological Pipe Dream”, Natural Gas Is More Important and Cleaner Than Most Americans Realize, and Professor Emeritus Criticises Letting People Choose Whether to Buy an EV

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In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 10, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Evening Edition)

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Feedly is being difficult and not serving up links for some of the usual blogs. Botheration. 
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Who Funds The Democrat Insurrectionists? also, A Day With America’s First Spy Ring (1778)
357 Magnum: If You Break Into Homes
Twitchy: Doctored Clip Turns Violent Car Attack On ICE Into Martyr Propaganda, Jack Smith Trampled Trump’s First Amendment Right Says…The Washington Post? and Deranged Activist Woman Abandons Small Child In Car To Interfere With Feds
According To Hoyt: Happy Sesquicentennial, Blogging the Future of The Past – Donovan’s Brain, Chattel, Beautiful Losers, and Reading In Woman
Cedar Sanerson: Library Thing

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The New Neoconservatives, also, Senate Advances War Powers Resolution to Rein in Trump on Venezuela
American Greatness: SecTreas on Minnesota Fraud – ‘Our Generosity Has Been Taken Advantage Of’, House Oversight Committee Will Call Minnesota Reps, Governor, AG to Testify on Social Services Fraud, Two Venezuelan Tren de Aragua Gang Members Shot by Border Patrol in Portland During Car-Ramming Attack, J.D. Vance Completely Dismantles Leftwing ‘Gaslighting’ on ICE Shooting in Minneapolis, and CMS Announces Full Audit and Deferment of Medicaid Payments in Minnesota, DOJ Surges Prosecutors to State
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 69 – Happy Birthday, Alaska
Cafe Hayek: Are Free Traders Narrowly Materialistic? And Yet Another Open Letter to Donald Trump, Trump Is Mistaken About the Value of the Dollar, More Than A “We”e Exaggeration, and Oh, Look Who’s Paying Trump’s Tariffs
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Thoughts on Housing Affordability, A U of Chicago Professor and What Prostitutes Can Teach About Economics, Come and Get Me! (Por Favor), Christmas 2025 – Bring A Chain Saw, and From China: A 2000-Year-Old Jacquard Loom?
Da Tech Guy: Minnesota Shooting: Five Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Media outlets tell ICE’s side of the story
Gates Of Vienna: Darkly Dystopian Visions, We’re as Dangerous as the Islamists, Death of Sense, Trump and Global Power, and Death to Khamenei!
The Geller Report: Minneapolis Shows the High Price of Defying Federal Law, Iranian Regime Guns Down Protesters as Uprising Explodes, TRADE SHOCK: Trump Slashes U.S. Deficit in Half — Lowest in 15 Years, The Insurrection Act Could Be Invoked Tomorrow, and HOMES FOR FAMILIES, NOT HEDGE FUNDS
Hollywood In Toto: FireAid Funneled Cash to Podcasters, Illegals and Fungus Planting, Father Mother Sister Brother Is Pure Jarmusch Gold, Jimmy Kimmel Just Crossed a Big Red Line, Primate Will Drive Horror Movie Fans Bananas, and Will Disney Ever Stand Up to ABC’s Chronic Liars?
Matt Taibbi: How Big Pharma Mixed Addiction With Social Justice, Fire Departments’ New Emergency – Affording Their Trucks, Who’s To Blame In Minnesota?
Nebraska Energy Observer: And now, Cuba, Plus a Roundup of the Week, Persecution, Iran Continued, and What it is all About; Maybe, Iran and more, and Venezuela
Shark Tank: Florida Council of 100 Outlines Positive Business Outlook For 2026
Shot In The Dark: Walzing Out Of The Room, The REAL Victim, and Is It Just Me
STUMP: Congressional Mortality Update 2026 – More Consequences
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Organ Harvesting Endorsement, Firing Line Friday: The New Frontier: The Great Society,  and Pregnant Organoids: Will Catgirls Follow?
This Ain’t Hell: Disgraced Vet Removed from Cemetery, Valor Friday, New Weight Standards, Today- An Oil Tanker Twofer, and Soviet Era Traitor Dies in Prison
Transterrestrial Musings: The Crew On Artemis II, Minnesota, Stop Using Mercator Projection, Lileks, and 2026 In Space
Victory Girls: Minneapolis City Council Hands Power to Socialists, Cea Weaver, Mamdani Housing Director, Cries When Confronted, and Minneapolis Mom Was Trained ICE Watch Observer
The Federalist: At SCOTUS, Female Athletes Gear Up To Protect Women’s Sports, How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Delivering 120 ‘Marshall Plans’ To The U.S., Democrats Want Anti-ICE Protesters To Die So They Can Protect Their Fraudulent Patronage With Riots, We Need A J6-Level Manhunt For Everyone Who Obstructs Immigration Law Enforcement, and When Can We Start Uprooting Domestic Terror Cells Attacking Law Enforcement?
Mark Steyn: A Friend of Sacha Distel, Never Again, Again and Again – Russell Crowe in Nuremberg, “It Was a Very Good Year”, Live Around the Planet – Gunning For Greenland Fortress America, and Thank you, Trump

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In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 9, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.09.26 (Morning Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“I think it’s okay for a cop (or anyone really) to shoot someone who’s trying to run them over.” – Sensurround

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Paralog 9mm spotted in the Wild
Director Blue: A Day Of Fear – America’s First Serial Killer Panic (1885)
EBL: To The Shores of Tripoli, Cilia Flores is ‘more extreme’ and ‘crueller’ than Maduro, Charles De Gaulle, and Kathleen Kennedy : Critical Drinker
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Has A Reminder About The NYT & WaPo After These Analyses Of The Mpls ICE Shooting, Jasmine Ratchet Tells Doozy Of Charlie Kirk Lie In Attempt To Shame The Right, and Asra Nomani Shares Deep Dive On Far-Left Network Behind Anti-ICE Protests
Louder With Crowder: Debunking Every Lie The Left Wants You to Believe About The Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Mamdani’s housing czar says making NYC housing “worth less” via rental control is the plan, Scott Jennings puts blame for MN tragedy where it belongs… Dems radicalizing their base to IMPEDE law enforcement, and Hey, remember when the Minneapolis Mayor threatened ICE agents literally two weeks ago?
Vox Popoli: CPB is Dead, They Should Have Fired Lamar, Greenland Needs Americans, and 88 Million x
Cedar Sanderson: Wisdom Of Ages
Ammo.com: Where Does Texas Rank In Homicides?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Yes, Our New Boomer Is That Big
Don Surber: Temu Radar Failed Venezuela

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In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 9, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Evening Edition)

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Yuval Kordov’s Orders of Magnitude is on sale this week for 99 cents. It’s a steal at that price.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Fall of the Minnesota DFL Fraud Machine
357 Magnum: Woman Beaten to Death in Her Own Home
EBL: Michael Reagan RIP, German Pickled Herring Recipe That Works Well For Other Fish, Minnesota Retarded, The First U.S. Governor of the Territory of Greenland, and Pretenders
Twitchy: Daily Wire Talks To Genius Minnesotan Who Quit Her Job To Protest ICE, Proud Socialist Served Up Brutal Dose Of Reality, and WaPo’s Front Page Video Analysis Claims ICE Agent Wasn’t In Vehicle’s Path
Louder With Crowder: GOP congressman shocks witness with facts after they claim Somalis make Minnesota “stronger”, We didn’t think it possible, but even MORE past extreme communist posts by Mamdani’s “tenants’ rights” advocate come to light, Karine Jean-Pierre quits the Democrat party, but not without dropping one last book that no one read, and Mamdani’s housing czar, who thinks owning a home is white supremacy? Her white mom owns a MANSION in Nashville
Vox Popoli: PROBABILITY ZERO, The Man Who Made John Scalzi, You Should Read This One, China Bans Exports to Japan, and Answering McCarthy
Cedar Sanderson: Find Reasons To Continue On
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Roast in Hell
Stoic Observations: Icy Minnesota
Postcards From Barsoom: The Caracasian Cut

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Pacific’s Hubs, Spokes, & ACEs
Dana Loesch: Call of Duty – Educated Predictions or Deliberate Planning? also, The Minneapolis ICE Shooting Is An Attempt To Distract From The Huge Somali Fraud Story
Don Surber: CEO saves Hilton
Matt Taibbi: The Unchecked Rise Of Crazy Race Theory In Academia
STUMP: A Tale of Two Mayors – Chicago & New York

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In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 8, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.08.26 (Afternoon Edition)

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Just got home from Las Vegas. Time to catch up on the linkagery.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day At The First Presidential Assassination Attempt (1835), also, The Time Travel Series
357 Magnum: Those Oh-So-Tolerant People In Hollywood
EBL: Cutting 300lb MASSIVE FISH to Sell at Fish Market, John Rhys-Davies on being cast as Gimli, Feast of the Epiphany, The Odyssey, and How Americans are growing truffles and succeeding
Twitchy: “She Looks Ridiculous”, In A Time Of High Tension, RFK Jr & JD Vance Trolling Each Other Is The Break We Need, and Senate Votes To Block Further Military Action In Venezuela – Trump Furious
Louder With Crowder: Chicago Democrats voted to raise property taxes, so residents are protesting…Trump, Video exposes Hilton Hotel STILL not accepting ICE agents as guests, leading parent company to take drastic action, Zohran’s housing advocate offers hilarious advice to Dems, Scott Jennings lets Jake Tapper know how little CNN’s anti-Trump Venezuela poll means, and Mamdani’s housing czar – Hey, our public schools should totally be “sites of resistance” against the Trump Admin
Vox Popoli: PZ: The Technical Audit, Saving the Petrodollar, The Legal Legion Assembles, Atheist Integrity, and Is Venezuala the Prelude?
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm Part 1
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Venezuela & (West) Taiwan
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Lack of Warmth of Collectivism
Stoic Observations: The Stoic Observer’s VZ Primer
Jim McCoy: Pixels
Based Book Sale: Top Twenty Based Science Fiction Books

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Unfortunate Greenland Kerfluffle
Dana Loesch: The Rubio Memes
Don Surber: America Feared Again

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Minneapolis Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | January 8, 2026 | Comments Off on Minneapolis Is Decadent and Depraved

The late Renee Nicole Good

There are about a million things I could say about what happened Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, and the subsequent reaction, but before we get to the commentary, first let’s grab the news:

The woman gunned down by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who described herself as a mother, a wife and a poet.
Good was identified by her mom hours after she was shot and killed when she clipped an ICE agent with her car during a protest against the federal agents, the Star Tribune reported.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother, Donna Ganger, told the newspaper. . . .
Video appeared to show her Honda Pilot making contact with an ICE agent as he opened fire. President Trump and other officials have said Good’s killing was justified as the officer was acting in self-defense.
Good was the mom of a 6-year-old boy and had recently moved to the neighborhood with her wife and son, according to her distraught spouse and a neighbor who spoke to the Tribune. She was killed just blocks away from her home, the outlet reported.
Her young son was left an orphan by the shooting, according to his shaken grandfather.
The child’s father, a comedian Good was previously married to, died in 2023, also at age 37. . . .

Gonna pause there a minute, because in none of the news accounts I’ve read is this explained: She was from Colorado Springs. The father of her child, Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., spent 14 years in the Air Force then tried to become a comedian before his death at age 36 (not 37). Less than three years later, the widow is living in Minneapolis with a lesbian “wife” and participating in radical protests? How does this happen? It’s hardly your typical Hallmark Channel movie plot. Back to the news:

In addition to being a mom, Good was a “writer and poet” who graduated from Old Dominion University, where she studied creative writing. She was originally from Colorado Springs.
“Wife and mom and sh–ty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis,” read her Instagram bio, which was accompanied by a pride flag and she/her pronouns.
She was killed in a middle-class neighborhood in south Minneapolis where ICE agents were carrying out an immigration operation Wednesday.
Good recently moved to the neighborhood with her partner and lived just a few blocks away from where she was fatally shot, the outlet reported. . . .
Good was among several people who allegedly blocked the street with their vehicles to prevent the agents from moving, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Agents got out of their blocked truck and ordered the woman to move her SUV, at which point she sped toward one of the officers, pushing him with her vehicle, feds alleged. As he spun toward the driver’s seat window, he fired three shots into the car, footage from numerous angles shows
She was shot at least once in the head, and later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The Department of Homeland Security called her a domestic terrorist who attempted to kill federal agents.
“One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X.
Good’s mother was baffled by the idea of her being involved in an ICE protest, however, saying she was “not part of anything like that at all.” . . .
Footage taken near the scene appeared to show a distraught woman who identified herself as Good’s wife – who sobbed as she said the shooting was “her fault” and that she had a young child at school.
“They shot her in the head. I have a 6 year old in school,” she appeared to say, telling a bystander that they were new to the area and she didn’t know who to call.
“I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” she said. “They just shot my wife.”

At some point in the next few days, some reporter is going to get more biographical detail that can help explain this situation. Renee Good was not from Minneapolis, and it does not appear that her lesbian wife was, either. What does the grieving lesbian mean by, “I made her come down here”? What does the grieving mother mean that her late daughter was “not part of anything like that at all”? Obviously she was part of something like that, but you can understand that joining a radical terrorist group is maybe something you don’t tell your mom about.

The deadly chaos in Minneapolis happened two days after the state’s governor, embroiled in a fraud scandal, announced he would not seek reelection. The rhetorical escalation Wednesday was immediate:

OK, so the governor declares war against the United States, and the mayor tells federal agents to “get the f–k out” of his city, and what is the President of the United States supposed to do? America’s immigration laws are almost entirely the work of Democrats, beginning with the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act. Ted Kennedy was the leading advocate for passage of that measure in the Senate, at a time when Democrats had a 66-seat filibuster-proof Senate majority. These are the laws that ICE is enforcing. Why are Democrats so determined to prevent their own laws from being enforced? Good luck getting any kind of honest and coherent explanation about this enigma; Democrats are so far gone in Trump Derangement Syndrome that they can do little more than yelling obscenities.



 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Minnesota
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