Rule 5 Sunday: Smoke Break

Posted on | January 6, 2025 | 2 Comments

Ladies and gentlemen: Lynda Carter.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Gorilla Fireworks Friday, and the Saturday Blondeocalypse.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, anti MAGA Merchan, Got Milk? Jenna Davis, Laid, “The Best Things In Life Are Free”, “Auld Lang Syne”, Trading Places, What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? Dayle Haddon RIP, Speak No Evil, and The Midwich Cuckoos

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Yuliia Levchenko/Pam Bardot, Farming for Forever Chemicals?, Fish Pic Friday – The Life of Linda Lee, Baby It’s Cold Outside, Sweet Child of Mine, The Wednesday Wetness, Happy New Year, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday and Professor Proves Offshore Wind Kills Whales

BACON TIME: Rule 5 – The Weather Outside Is Frightful

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FMJRA 2.0: Giant Killers

Posted on | January 6, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, we lost the series opener at the Polo Grounds (Carl Morton getting stuck with his second loss) but came back strong in the second and third games. Even without the designated hitter, the Senators beat the devil and the living God out of Mike Corkins and Matt Wilcox for eleven runs and added one more off Steve Mingori while Spaceman Lee held the Jints to just three runs and went the distance for the wind. Game Three wasn’t as hit-happy; we only scored six runs off Dick Bosman and Charlie Hudson, but it was good enough for Jim Kaat to get his first win and Bob Johnson his first save. We’re 3-6, one game behind the Red Sox in the cellar of the AL Beta Division, but a lot more optimistic than we were last week.
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Finally, a winning series

FMJRA 2.0: An Unpromising Start In Kansas City
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Rule 5 Sunday: At The Pump & Munch
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America Loves an Underdog
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In The Mailbox: 12.31.24
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In The Mailbox: 01.01.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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Terrorism on Bourbon Street
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In The Mailbox: 01.02.25
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‘There Was Never Any Evidence’: FBI Lied About White Supremacist Terrorism
Freedom Is Just Another Word
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In The Mailbox: 01.03.25 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 01.03.25 (Evening Edition)
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(tied) 357 Magnum & EBL (10)
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In The Mailbox: 01.03.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 4, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Sorry not to have the usual full roster of links, but it’s been a long Friday and I have to drive home tomorrow.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Cops Get Another Address Wrong, Kill Another Homeowner
EBL: Rotherham: Never Forget, I do not CAIR about NOLA Terrorist’s Mosque’s Concerns, anti MAGA Merchan, and Got Milk?
Twitchy: Carol Roth Explains Three Of The Most Daunting Challenges Facing Trump, Kamala Gaslights Child By Saying She Wasn’t Defeated In The Presidential Election, and Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) Has A Voice But No Clue
Louder With Crowder: Leftists hold “Globalize the Intifada” rally hours after two terror attacks in America, Someone told Nancy Pelosi that posting this video would be a good idea, and D-List “comedian” is HORRIFIED Donald Trump will put her on an enemies list, send her to an internment camp
Vox Popoli: Introducing Castalia Cathedra, Racism Disproved, One Percent of Zero, and Ride and Die
According To Hoyt: Family Arguments, We Win; They Lose, and Blood And Bullshit
Upstream Reviews: Podcast – Time To Duck & Cover With The G.I. Joe Franchise,
Stoic Observations: The Original Four Pillars,
Bugscuffle Gazetter: Aleppo Pepper
Cedar Sanderson: Demanding Comfort

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CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Dana Loesch: Mike Johnson Elected Speaker of the House,
Don Surber: The language tells the bias
Glenn Reynolds: Happy 2025
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Yes, The “Woke Right” Is Real

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In The Mailbox: 01.03.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 3, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Too tired after the drive in to Vegas last night to blog.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Twitchy: Accuweather Forecasts A Big Chill, Suspect In Vegas Cybertruck Bombing Was Happily Texting Ex-GF Days Before Explosion, and Ted Cruz Thinks Liz Cheney Deserves Something Other Than A Medal From Biden
Louder With Crowder: Comedian goes scorched earth on Biden, Pfizer, and why people hate CNN… while CNN’s cameras were rolling
Vox Popoli: A False and Retarded God, also, Always Mid, Now Gay
Cedar Sanderson: Dale Groom’s Texas Gardening Guide

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‘There Was Never Any Evidence’: FBI Lied About White Supremacist Terrorism

Posted on | January 3, 2025 | 1 Comment

One of the hallmarks of any totalitarian regime is that the leaders proclaim obvious falsehoods — kulaks and saboteurs are to blame for the famine! — and compel everyone to repeat these lies, with punishment aimed at dissenting truth-tellers. The purpose is “not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate,” and once you understand this function of totalitarian propaganda, you are less surprised by the ability of someone like Christopher Wray to speak blatant lies with apparent sincerity. Only skilled liars could flourish in the Biden regime:

The “top threat we face from DVEs [Domestic Violent Extremist] continues to be those we identify as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (‘RMVEs’), specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told Senate Judiciary Committee on March 2, 2021.
“According to the intelligence community,” said Biden in 2021, “terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al Qaeda — white supremacists.” . . .
Between 2012 and 2021, Islamic extremists committed five acts of domestic US terrorism that killed 77 people, whereas white supremacists committed four acts of domestic terrorism that killed 49 people. And even if the numbers were reversed, at just 12 cases of domestic terrorism, the sample size is too small to be able to claim, scientifically, any kind of discernible trend about DVE.
The total number of killings by white supremacists annually is very low. In 2022, there were only 21 homicides linked to white supremacists in the entire country. By comparison, Chicago alone saw an average of 58 homicides every month. In 2022, there were a total of 24,849 homicides. Thus, the share of them that were by white supremacists was .08%. . . .
The FBI’s claim that white supremacy was the main driver of the acts of terrorism was also misleading. Most of the white supremacist killers appeared to suffer from mental illness, whereas most of the radical Islamicists appeared sane and driven overwhelmingly by ideology. . . .
Thus, there was never any good evidence that there was a rising threat of terrorism from the political ideology of white supremacy, nor that it was greater than the threat of Islamist terrorism. And yet FBI Director Wray, President Biden, and the whole of the US IC have claimed, repeatedly, for four years, that it was. Why?

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The first and most obvious answer to Michael Shellenberger’s question, “Why?” is that this lie served the political agenda of the Biden regime. By portraying their opponents as allies of “white supremacists” — inherently dangerous, linked to a “lethal threat” of violent extremism — Democrats could justify repressive measures, including censorship to stifle dissent as “misinformation.” Yet because “there was nevery any evidence” for their claim about the “white supremacist” threat (no such trend could be shown from actual data), the people promoting this claim knew it was false, and also knew that other well-informed people would recognize its falsehood.

Here we come to the second answer to Shellenberger’s question: The function of propaganda as a weapon of humiliation, expressing the power of the regime by forcing others to repeat obvious falsehoods or, at least, to remain silent and pretend to believe the regime’s lies.

January 20 cannot come soon enough.

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In The Mailbox: 01.02.25

Posted on | January 2, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.02.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A personal look back at 2024.
Plus, Son of Silvercon news!
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Trading Places, At least 10 killed after vehicle hits crowd of people in New Orleans, and ISIS Terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar
Twitchy: In One Fell Swoop Biden Proves J6 Committee Was Totally Political & Makes Liz Cheney Look Even Worse, NOLA Terrorist’s Mosque’s Response To Terror Attack Filled With Red Flags, and FBI Totally Did The Meme AGAIN
Vox Popoli: They Didn’t Have to Take the Bait, also, Magic Dirt Fail in New Orleans
Cedar Sanderson: Flowering In The New Year
Bugscuttle Gazette: Meditations On Paper Armor
Toni Airaksinen: Jewish Professor Accuses College Of Becoming “Pro-Hamas Sewer” In Explosive Lawsuit
Stoic Observations: Python, At Last

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Dana Loesch: Terror Attacks In New Orleans & Las Vegas To Start The New Year,
Don Surber: New Year, same FBI-NYT lies

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Terrorism on Bourbon Street

Posted on | January 2, 2025 | Comments Off on Terrorism on Bourbon Street

It was nearly 4 in the morning on New Year’s Day, but crowds of people were still celebrating on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, because celebrating until dawn is what you do when you’re in New Orleans, unless the reason you’re in New Orleans is to kill people:

The suspect accused of plowing a pickup truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring at least 30 on New Year’s Day, is named Shamsud-Din Jabbar, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI also confirmed that Jabbar, whose identity was first reported by Nola.com, is 42 years old and that he was carrying an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flag in the vehicle.
The FBI said in a statement:

The subject has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas. He was driving a Ford pickup truck, which appears to have been rented, and we are working to confirm how the subject came into possession of the vehicle.
An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.
Weapons and a potential IED were located in the subject’s vehicle. Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. The FBI’s special agent bomb technicians are working with our law enforcement partners to determine if any of these devices are viable, and they will work to render those devices safe.

The agency said it was investigating the attack as an act of terrorism, and are “aggressively running down all leads to identify any possible associates of the subject.”

When I woke up Wednesday morning and first heard about this incident, I did not immediately think “terrorism.” My office TV was tuned to ESPN, however, and as noon approached, the announcers mentioned that players in town for the Sugar Bowl (between Notre Dame and Georgia) had been locked down in their hotel rooms. My thought: “Whoa!” You don’t do that because of some random case of road rage. Eventually, the game that had been scheduled for 8 p.m. ET New Year’s Day got rescheduled for 4 p.m. ET today. The reason for extra precaution soon became obvious: First, the guy’s Muslim-sounding name and flying the ISIS flag. Second, the use of explosive devices, and third, the reports that Jabbar apparently had accomplices in his crime: “We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible, . . . We are aggressively running down every lead including those of his known associates.”

Perhaps another reason they postponed the Sugar Bowl is that the FBI needed time to see if there was any connection between Jabbar’s deadly attack and the car-bomb attack at the Trump resort in Las Vegas, which happened just a few hours later and was committed by a former Green Beret who was stationed at Fort Bragg in approximately the same time-frame as Jabbar. Both of these guys being military veterans, and both striking on the same day? Both using electric vehicles rented through the same online app? Maybe just a coincidence, but maybe not.

Parallels Between New Orleans and Las Vegas Attacks

• U.S. Army Veterans who served in Afghanistan
• Both stationed at some point at Fort Bragg
• Attackers killed in separate incidents
• Both used P2P car sharing app Turo
• IT specialists with computer systems knowledge pic.twitter.com/AKAVoLDejR

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 2, 2025