In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 13, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Evening Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Blame the Person not the Inanimate Object
Director Blue: Top 20 Reasons Christopher Wray Is The Worst FBI Director In History
EBL: FBI Director Christopher Wray off to find new grifting opportunities, NAMBLA Lincoln Project, Clintons Seeking Pardons From Biden? and What is with all the unidentified drones over New Jersey?
Twitchy: DOGE Asks Twitter For Some Examples Of Government Waste And BOY HOWDY, Crystal Mangum Admits She Lied About Rape Allegations Against Duke Lacrosse Players In 2006, and FEMA Director Rails Against NC Citizen Journalists, Blames Them For “Weaponized Misinformation”
Louder With Crowder: Trump Pledges To Pardon Most J6ers Within “The First Nine Minutes” Of Being In Office, also, Why Jay-Z Is A Piece Of Sh*t
Vox Popoli: The Liberal World Order is Over, Clown World Declares a Winner, Don’t Bet Against Him, Paul Krugman is Done, and Unprecedented Evil
Jim McCoy: Declan Finn’s Death Cult
Stoic Observations: Kermadec Journal 002,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: America’s Axis of Misery, also, A MAGA Left-Right Coalition?
American Greatness: The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique, The Historic Failure of the Biden Administration, Pete Hegseth: Who Dares, Wins, Joe Biden Commutes Sentences For Roughly 1,500 People, Grants 39 Pardons, and Biden Attempts to Protect 1 Million Illegal Aliens from Deportation
American Thinker: Castrating Boys Symbolizes the Castration of America, The Worst Presidents in American History, and Obama Floats Pardon “Trial Balloon” Amid Deep State Frenzy to Get on the List
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Daniel Penny News, Animal’s Hump Days News, and Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Number of political prisoners in Cuba surges during latest wave of repression, Human Rights Day in communist Cuba: A day of repression, Fuel shortage forces Cubans to wait five days in line for gasoline at $29 per liter, Actor Danny Glover visits Cuba again, praises dictatorship, and Low demand causes German airline Condor and Swiss airline Edelweiss to cancel all flights to Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 6, Is Damascus Falling? Update: Yep, Biden Unbanking And Censoring Political Enemies? Can DOGE Take A Bite Out Of The Administrative State? and Will Democrats Allow Illegal Alien Criminals To Be Deported?
Behind The Black: China launches five satellites to test the design of a planned laser communications constellation, A satellite startup in Oman signs on to China’s lunar base partnership, Chinese citizen arrested for flying drone illegally over Vandenberg, Io’s volcanoes get their lava from separate magma chambers, not a global underground ocean of magma, and Head of FAA resigns
Cafe Hayek: And Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass, Full Text of Gramm and Boudreaux on Trump’s Proposed Across-the-Board Tariffs, On the Great F.A. Hayek, Hayek’s Nobel: 50 Years On, and Kuttner’s Cluelessness Continues
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Thoughts on J6 Pardons and Investigations, The Jackal and a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Unintended Consequences, and Santa – Tall In the Saddle!
Da Tech Guy: The Simple Answer to Every Hit Piece on Trump’s Nominees, How Free Speech Works, Syria: Four Perfect Sentences and A Countdown, December 8 is International Pundit Day, and The Dynasty 1973 League Draft Constantly Updated
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Feces Art & Biology Edition
Don Surber: Happy days are here again
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right, Let’s tell the truth: we have been bamboozled before, I’ll bet that Will Bunch and Taylor Lorenz are glad now that Joe Biden’s attempt to create a Ministry of Truth failed, The Democrats say we need more affordable housing, but look what has happened when they were in charge of it, and Is it possible that our friends on the left prefer journolism to journalism?
Gates Of Vienna: Hamas Slogan Ruled Off The Turf in Bavaria, Raisa Blommestijn: “We Are Collectively Heading Toward an Abyss”, Martin Sellner: “A Country That Does Not Protect Its Borders is No Longer a Country”, Biden Showers Love on Our Jihadi Enemies on His Way Out the Door, and Chasing Down the Cancer Jews in Amsterdam
The Geller Report: UK PERMANENTLY BANS Puberty Blockers For Children
Hollywood In Toto: Is Nosferatu the Vampyre the Creepiest Count Ever? Kraven the Hunter Brings the Laughter (But It’s Not a Comedy), Weird! Rachel Zegler’s Y2K Tanks at Box Office, How The Polar Express Changed Hollywood Forever, and Sorry, Die Hard Is NOT a Christmas Movie
The Lid: There is NO ‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Trans Violence — Another Liberal Lie Busted
Legal Insurrection: West Point Lied Twice About Pete Hegseth Applying to the Academy, SecTreas Yellen Worried About Fiscal Sustainability, ‘Sorry’ She Didn’t Do More on Deficit, The Death of DEI at the University of Michigan is a Symbolic Victory, Biden Education Department Has Spent More Than $1 Billion on DEI Grants Since 2021, and National Campaign Launched to Combat ‘Faculty for Justice in Palestine’
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Sad Story, Holiday Interregnum, What’s goin’ On, Listened to this wonderful video this morning. Yes. I have a crush on John Anderson, and Listen Up!
Outkick: Patrick Mahomes Laments Chiefs’ Grueling December Schedule, NFL Rookie Xavier Legette Enjoys Finer Things In Life, Like Eating Raccoons, Deebo Samuel Stinks It Up On Thursday Night Football as Rams, Niners Serve Up Offensive Struggles, Riley Gaines & Race-Baiter Jemele Hill Trade Barbs Over Heated Caitlin Clark Race Discussion, and Playboys With A Dutch Speed Skater Wearing Only A Pair Of Gloves On The Cover Are Flying Off The Shelves
Power Line: ProPublica’s missing West Point story, This is your life, Antony Blinken, and Sowell strikes again
Shark Tank: Rep. Steube Blasts Efforts To Blame Trump For Afghanistan Pullout
Shot In The Dark: The DFL Playbook, Pre-Cognitive Dissonance, Fun Facts For Modern People, Complicated, and The “Professional”
STUMP: On The Low Life Expectancy In The U.S. Compared To Healthcare Expenditures
The Political Hat: The Marxist Right, Braincell Transplants Mean One Thing Human-Catgirl Hybrid Minds, Quick Takes – Ending DEI In Academia: Nebraska; Northern Kentucky; North Texas, and Point Counterpoint: Super Humans Or Artificial Intelligence?
This Ain’t Hell: WWI official miracle, Four star general relieved for attempting to get a subordinate assigned a command, AF Boot Not Grueling Enough, Fake Delta Force Vet Gets 40 Years in Prison, and More legal good news
Transterrestrial Musings: The Gundo, The Trump Nominees, From Islamabad To Islamaworse, Rip Van Griffin, and The Clock Strikes Thirteen
Victory Girls: Mark Zuckerberg’s One Million Dollar Reparation
Watts Up With That: Capping marine mammal harassment constrains offshore wind, The Wailing Scientists of Washington: Fear-Mongering in Lab Coats, and UK Government ‘Commits’ to Forcing Cattle to Consume Anti-Flatulence Feed Additive
The Federalist: Cisco Aguilar And ‘Personal Knowledge’ Clause Hinder Cleanup Of Nevada’s Dirty Voter Rolls, Biden Quietly Commutes Sentences Of Chinese Spies, ‘This Is ILLEGAL’: Speaker Johnson Calls For Further Investigation Into Democrats’ Fundraising Machine, FBI Had 26 Confidential Human Sources At Jan. 6 Events In Washington, D.C., and As Americans’ Tolerance For Wokeness Dies, The Left’s Appetite For Violence Only Grows
Mark Steyn: Tora! Tora! Tora! and Pearl Harbor, Eighty-Three Years Later, Try a Little Tenderness, Fire and Faith, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Assad? Sad!

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In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 12, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Afternoon Edition)

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Okay, let’s try this again. Once more, with feeling…
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process
EBL: Nancy Mace attacked by a Trans-Male, DeSantis Invites Daniel Penny To Come To Florida, and Grey Swans
Twitchy: Adam Schiff Thought It Was Smart To Go There Sucking Up To FBI Director Wray And Was He Ever Wrong, IG Report Lists How Many FBI “Confidential Human Sources” Were At The Capitol On J^ – BS Called, and Sam Stein Absolutely REKT For Pushing Fake News About Trump & Grocery Prices
Louder With Crowder: Hero Chick-fil-A employee saves mother and baby as he chokes out their carjacker
Vox Popoli: If You Want Sigma, Why Russia Quit on Syria, Fake Alzheimer’s Science, He’s Not Wrong, and Five Lessons for Russia
Raconteur Press: Have a Giant Robotic Christmas!
Toni Airaksinen: Iowa Teacher May Face Legal Battle After Banning Holocaust & Nazi References
Stoic Observations: Murder By Numbers
Upstream Reviews: Forgotten Ruin

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: A Return To The Rust Chronicles?
Don Surber: Hey, JK, Trump Is The Man For You
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Humpday Shrapnel

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In The Mailbox: 12.11.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 11, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.11.24 (Afternoon Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The British Are Mystified by Self-Defense
EBL: MAGA: Trump’s Naughty and Nice Lists, Lara Trump stepping down at RNC Chair, DANIEL PENNY NOT GULITY, and Saint Juan Diego
Twitchy: “Spring Chicken” Bernie Sanders Unsure About Leaving DC Coop With So Much Left To Cluck Up, CNN Ratings Indicate Hosts Should Stop Squawking & Start Cooking, and Fathers FTW
Louder With Crowder: Neil DeGrasse Tyson keeps embarrassing himself trying to defend trans boys competing against girls in sports, Defund the police activist has everything she owns stolen, can’t believe “cops didn’t do sh*t”, BLM activist threatens VIGILANTE “justice” over Daniel Penny acquittal, This Mazda customer was so unhappy with service, he drove his new car THROUGH the dealership, and Lesbian Trump Supporter Asks Gays What Right They Are Scared To Lose (SPOILER: They Can’t)
Vox Popoli: The Shadow Cannot Maintain, Clown World Takes Syria, Defuse Mode Activated, Worse Than Infidels, and Burning the Village to Save the Village
Upstream Reviews: Step Through The Stargate With Us!
Raconteur Press: A Word From Our Publisher
Stoic Observations: Kermadec, also, The Islamic Pilgrim
Postcards From Barsoom: You Can Just Do Things
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Vigilante Assassination May Be OK

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game Part CII
Dana Loesch: Race Hustlers Cry Foul Over Daniel Penny Verdict.
Don Surber: Who cares about BLM?
Glenn Reynolds: The Clock Strikes Thirteen
Michele Catalano: hold the line

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Voodoo Blamed for Massacre in Haiti

Posted on | December 11, 2024 | 1 Comment

The last time we checked in on Haiti (“Haiti’s Zombie Apocalypse: Media Skeptical of Cannibalism Reports,” March 13), the situation was very bad, but since then it has apparently gotten even worse, leading me to ask, who had “Haiti voodoo massacre” on their 2024 bingo card?

The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, as Port-au-Prince was rocked by a spike in gang violence that pushed the death toll from Haiti’s spiraling security crisis to at least 5,000.
“Just this past weekend, at least 184 people were killed in violence orchestrated by the leader of a powerful gang in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, in the Cite Soleil area,” Volker Turk told reporters in Geneva. “These latest killings bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 people.”
Volker appeared to be referring to a reported massacre carried out by a gang leader in the impoverished Cite Soleil neighborhood who targeted elderly people he suspected of sickening his own child by witchcraft.
The Reuters news agency quoted the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) as saying on Sunday that Monel “Mikano” Felix, leader of the Wharf Jeremie gang, had ordered the murders in Cite Soleil, and that all the victims of the attack were over 60 years old.
RNDDH said Felix had sought advice from a voodoo priest who told him elderly people in the area had harmed his child, who died on Saturday, leading to members of his gang killing at least 100 people Friday and Saturday with machetes and knives. . . .
Haiti has been gripped by political chaos for years, leaving room for heavily-armed criminal gangs to seize huge swaths of territory in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere. Much of the capital remains lawless despite hundreds of police from Kenya being sent in to help reassert law and order.
International airlines have largely stopped flying in and out of Haiti amid the chaos and bloodshed, with several U.S. carriers halting flights entirely after planes were hit by gunfire in November.

Wow, it’s even worse than Baltimore.

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Radicalized: Ivy League Boy Reads ‘Unabomber’ Manifesto, Becomes Killer

Posted on | December 10, 2024 | 3 Comments

Luigi Mangione (left); Ted Kaczynski (right)

The headline is your “tl:dr” summary of what might otherwise seem mysterious: Why would the handsome young scion of a prominent Maryland family decide to murder the CEO of a health insurance company? Meanwhile, here’s the New York Times story:

Luigi Mangione, the online version of him, was an Ivy League tech enthusiast who flaunted his tanned, chiseled looks in beach photos and party pictures with blue-blazered frat buddies.
He was the valedictorian of a prestigious Baltimore prep school who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and served as a head counselor at a pre-college program at Stanford University.
With his credentials and connections, he could have ended up one day as an entrepreneur or the chief executive of one of his family’s thriving businesses. Instead, investigators suspect, he took a different path.
The police now believe that Mr. Mangione, 26, is the masked gunman who calmly took out a pistol equipped with a suppressor on a Midtown Manhattan street last week and assassinated Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare. He was arrested in Altoona, Pa., on Monday after an employee at a McDonald’s recognized him and called the police. Officers said they found him with fake identification, a weapon similar to the one seen in video of the killing and a manifesto decrying the health care industry.

Mangione’s grandfather was a successful real estate developer in the suburbs of Baltimore and, apparently, a devout Catholic who sired 10 children and had 37 grandchildren at the time of his death in 2008.

Luigi Mangione was the valedictorian of “the prestigious Gilman School in Baltimore,” an all-boys prep school where the annual tuition is nearly $40,000 and Luigi played several sports including (as the Free Beacon comically notes) soccer. Mangione then studied computer engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (Donald Trump’s alma mater, coincidentally) and after graduating in 2020, “worked as a software engineer at TrueCar,” but was apparently laid off last year when the company cut about 100 employees as part of “restructuring.”

After being laid off, Mangione seemed to start drifting into isolation. He was dealing with a persistent back injury that led to him undergo surgery. While recuperating from that ordeal, Mangione posted a review of Ted Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and Its Future — the manifesto of the Unabomber. “It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless[ly] write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies,” wrote Mangione. “But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.” Mangione said Kaczynski’s “actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”

Well, to-may-to, to-mah-to, eh? Is it so difficult to conclude that the “extreme political revolutionary” was also a lunatic? And isn’t it true that most such would-be revolutionaries are lunatics? Not to wander too far afield here, but I am personally acquainted with Richard Spencer, the poster boy for every Antifa “punch-a-Nazi” meme, and it has long been my contention that what went wrong with Spencer basically is that he read Nietzsche at too young an age and took it too seriously. Young men should never read Nietzsche; they should know him only by reputation as a madman who died of brain syphilis. If it’s philosophy they crave, let young men read Aristotle or Marcus Aurelius or Edmund Burke, but never Nietzsche. Once the young man has gotten older, achieved some sort of stable adult life — wife, kids, mortgage, etc. — then it’s safe for him to skim through Nietzsche, so long as he keeps in mind that Nietzsche was crazy. Being quite the autodidact myself, I recognize the basic danger of do-it-yourself education, namely that the untutored student may go off on some bizarre tangent — young man reads Nietzsche, next thing you know, he’s leading a latter-day Nuremberg march — and it seems that some similar process is what happened with Luigi Mangione.

The headlines tell us that Mangione also wrote a “manifesto,” but that description is a bit grandiose:

Law enforcement officials that arrested Mangione also discovered a handwritten, three-page document that shed details on his mindset and motivations behind the fatal shooting.
“These parasites had it coming,” reportedly read the note, per CNN . “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

Maybe I should write my own “manifesto.” I’ve already got the title: Crazy People Are Dangerous. Might be a bestseller.

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In The Mailbox: 12.09.24

Posted on | December 10, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.09.24

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The Based Book Sale Wrapup
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Somehow, he beat the rap, and the Coalition of the Damned is assmad.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Social Justice = Death, also How Old Do You Need to Be to Defend Yourself?
EBL: Wolfs, Notre Dame Cathedral Reopens, and Damascus Has Fallen
Twitchy: Rep. Summer Lee Calls For “Accountability” For Daniel Perry, Liz Cheney Warns Off Lawyers Wanting To Investigate The J6 Committee, and Luigi Mangione – Too Cute For Jail?
Louder With Crowder: Pete Hegseth UNLOADS on the media in light of WaPo’s two most recent pathetic hit pieces, Watch: Tim Walz Is SHOCKED Voters Did Not believe Trump Was Literally Hitler, and YMCA singer explains why Trump can use his song
Vox Popoli: The American Began to Hate, The Downward Spiral Continues, The EU’s Fake Democracy, The Beginning of a Failure Cascade, and
Upstream Reviews: Urban Fantasy New Releases
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary – Last Entry
Stoic Observations: Symbolic Immunity
Toni Airaksinen: Lush workers yell at & twerk on Jewish MACA protesters
Flappr: Big TD’s Football Blog – Week 14

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, Who’s Who In The Syrian Zoo, and It’s Time To Leave 2001 Behind
Dana Loesch: Daniel Penny Verdict – NOT GUILTY!
Don Surber: How we know it was a landslide, also, Who should be Cheney’d?
Michele Catalano: the week in consumption
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
STUMP: Chicago & Illinois Finance Update – Forecast Pain

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Rule 5 Sunday: A Girl & Her Jeep

Posted on | December 9, 2024 | 2 Comments

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I really ought to start taking notes as to where I find these…
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

SOON

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Embarrassingly Unprepared Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns Pearl Harbor Edition, Saturday Night Girls With Guns Subway Edition, Snow Woke & The Extremely Ugly Evil Queen, Anti-MAGA RINOs Sinking The Trump Cabinet? Earth Abides, Hit Man, Hunter Biden’s Women, Jacqueline Obrador, Kim Delaney, and Gail O’Grady

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nicole Ross, Fish Pic Friday – Kiss and Release, Thanksgiving Day – Trump Nominees Swatted, Bomb Threats, Happy Thanksgiving, The Wednesday Wetness, Maryland, My Maryland, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday, Lauren Drain, Pardon Mania on the Wane?, Fish Pic Friday – Morgan Bentley, Premature Rejection, The Wednesday Wetness, ASMFC Looking at Stricter Striper Regs, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends For December 6

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FMJRA 2.0: Finally, It’s Draft Day

Posted on | December 8, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Finally, It’s Draft Day

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First of all, apologies for punting the Friday link dump; I fixed a large bowl of pasta for dinner and fell into a carbohydrate coma after finishing maybe a third of it.
The draft for the 1973 season in Pete’s league started today, and since I was the best of the worst teams in the league, I got to pick fifth. And I got some goodies.

Round/pick

SP Bill “Spaceman” Lee
1b Nate Colbert
3b Dave Kingman
RP Bob Johnson
C Andy Etchebarren
OF Jim Northrup

And there are plenty of decent candidates to fill the backup fielder roles, to say nothing of the bullpen. The informal draft continues through the week, and the timed draft resumes Saturday. I have a good feeling about the season already.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.