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FMJRA 2.0: The Pleasure Is To Play

Posted on | October 6, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
Regardless of how poorly my Senators did this year, I miss playing, and I am already poring over the cards of players who will definitely be available next year as well as looking at players from the playoff teams who will probably be available in the draft after those teams trim their rosters in the off-season. If nothing else, we’ll have the Designated Hitter rule in effect, which means we’ll have space for a slugger with an iron glove on the roster without having to worry about his impact on the defense.
In other news, the era of T.I.T.S. is over at Flappr. Sad!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Spring training will be here before you know it

Media Mourns Loss of Terrorist Leader
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FMJRA 2.0: Wait Until Next Year
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Rule 5 Sunday: Loungewear.
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In The Mailbox: 09.30.24
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Debate: J.D. Vance Defeats Tim Walz, Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan
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In The Mailbox: 10.02.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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How Badly Did Tim Walz Lose?
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In The Mailbox: 10.02.24 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 10.04.24 (Evening Edition)
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Top linkers for the week ending October 4:

  1.  EBL (10)
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  3.  A View From The Beach (8)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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In The Mailbox: 10.04.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 4, 2024 | 1 Comment

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Happy Friday, Comrades of the Commentariat. Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

GPrime85 nails it.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: You Can’t Have Government Run Health Care Without Health Care Workers
EBL: Biden-Harris Supporter Garth Brooks accused of rape, Joe Biden does not know what is going on anymore, Biden-Harris Administration doesn’t care about rural Helene victims, and Tim Walz polling strong with this demographic
Twitchy: A Puppet With Her Strings Cut, MSNBC Attacks Elon Musk For “Misinformation”, Gets Fact-Checked By Twitter Users, and Massively Tone Deaf Samantha Power Brags About Lighting Up Ukraine While Americans Sit In The Dark
Louder With Crowder: Transgender Pastor Claims The Bible is outdated because it says God only created “man and woman”, also, California mayor tells Gavin Newsom where he can stick his ban on voter ID
Vox Popoli: They Hate You, also, Can We Talk?
According To Hoyt: Down With Technocracy, Our Yuge Country, and Huns Helene Soundoff
Monster Hunter Nation: Space Pirate of Andromeda by John C. Wright
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsie Princess Effie’s Diary #11
Postcards From Barsoom: Hurricane Helene & The Lost Mandate Of Heaven

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: An Autumn Interlude
American Conservative: How to Break the Sanctuary States
American Greatness: Special K Denies That FEMA Funds Were Used to Support Noncitizens, 3 Women’s Volleyball Teams Forfeit Rather Than Play Against Biological Male Opponent, DOJ Warned by Rep. Massie Against Interfering With IG’s Upcoming J6 Report, Biden-Harris Border Legacy: 1.7 Million Potential National Security Threats, and Pete Buttigieg Forbids Americans from Using Private Drones to Locate Hurricane Victims
American Thinker: The UN’s Pathetic Attempt to Rule the World
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 22 – Winter, and Bears, and Rule Five Barn Burner Friday
Babalu Blog: Cubans outraged after Castro dictatorship confiscates farmers’ trucks filled with food, Cuban dictatorship unleashes severe repressive campaign to silence independent journalists, and Cuban mercenary captured by Ukraine reveals Havana’s role in supplying Russia with cannon fodder
BattleSwarm: Blue Party Blues Over Blue Collar Going Red, also, LinkSwarm for October 4
Behind The Black: ULA successfully completes second test launch of its new Vulcan rocket, Engineers set new laser communications record to asteroid probe Psyche, FAA says No Starship/Superheavy launch before late November, NASA pushes discrimination to favor minorities in its education workshops, and Pushback: Fired teacher wins $575K free speech settlement from school board
Cafe Hayek: Open Letter to Harold Daggett, also, On Free Trade and Externalities
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: On the Waterfront, Book Review: Rockets and People, and When The Bough Breaks
Da Tech Guy: Hurricane Helene is most definitely Kamala Harris’ Katrina, also, 1972 Dynasty League Playoffs Divisional Round Minnesota at Milwaukee [and two more similar posts if you’re into that]
Don Surber: Battered Democrat woman syndrome
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, That this has led to fraud is no surprise at all
Gates Of Vienna: Young “Swedish” Rascals Arrested for the Explosions at the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen, Architect of the Charlie Hebdo Attack Sentenced to Life, The Eve of Deconstruction, “One of the Most Dangerous Times for Free Speech in Our History”, and Paul Weston: “Only and Ever England”
The Geller Report: Hundreds Of National Security Officials Endorse Trump, also, RIGGING 2024: Illegal Immigrants Sent to Swing States In Mass Numbers Under the Biden/Harris Regime
Hollywood In Toto: Joker Director Could Change Hollywood with This Movie, Saturday Night – When Liberals Loved Free Speech, and Yes, Joker: Folie a Deux Trumps 2019 Blockbuster
The Lid: Trump Endorsed by Hundreds of Security Experts, High Ranking Members of the Military, and Gold Star Families
Legal Insurrection: James Carville Has Meltdown Over Lack of Response From Harris Campaign to J.D. Vance Debate Claims, Helene Death Toll Passes 200, FEMA Accused of ‘Seizing’ Aid, Anti-Israel Students Object to Yale’s ‘Institutional Neutrality’ Proposal, Chicago Board of Education to Resign Amid Conflict With Mayor Johnson, and FEMA Whistleblowers Allege Waste, Including Deployed Employees Sitting Idle in Hotels
Nebraska Energy Observer: Here we go, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Davante Adams Is Either A Big Edgar Allen Poe Fans Or Dropping Hints About Joining The Ravens, Kirk Cousins Gets His Groove Back As Falcons Win In Walk-Off Fashion Against Bucs, WNBA Looks For Pivotal Playoff Games, New York Mets Thank Their Broadcaster Howie Rose In The Coolest Way Possible, and FSU Icon Jenn Sterger Resurfaces As ‘Sexy Velma,’ Jon Gruden Wants To Bash Skulls & Trent Dilfer HATES His Job
Power Line: The Scandal-Plagued Walz Administration, Fact-check this, Public Sector Booms, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental sorbet
Shark Tank: Obama Goes To Bat For Mucarsel-Powell
Shot In The Dark: Annals of Fieldcraft, Truer Words, Willful Ignorance, and Morning In Canada
STUMP: Funeral & Viewing For M. Stuart Grace, 1961-2024
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – The Coming Economic Doom, also, Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 6)
This Ain’t Hell: A Utah National Guard sergeant major interfered with snooping Chinese nationals, VA rolling out program to help Veterans denied benefits due to discharge status, Valor Friday, Navy Recruiting Win, and Funding for illegal aliens could have assisted with hurricane relief
Transterrestrial Musings: Epistemic Authority, SLS, Why The Feds Are Preventing Private Aid In Asheville, Tim Walz, and Twenty Years On
Victory Girls: J.D. Vance And The Sad, Confused Chicks, also, FEMA Says It’s Broke, But Where Did All The Money Go?
Volokh Conspiracy: Campus Pro-Hamas Events on October 7: What Should be Done?
Watts Up With That: India Monsoon Drying Up, Says BBC, India’s monsoon rains hit four-year high in boost to crop output, Steve McIntyre on the Real Lesson to be Learned from Hurricane Helene, and Proposed Model Bill Would Improve Electric Reliability
The Federalist: Book Tells Kids Republicans ‘Don’t Believe In’ Immigrants While Dems Are The Party Of Lunch And Free Stuff, Arizona Supreme Court Green-Lights Ranked-Choice Voting Ballot Initiative Riddled With Duplicate Signatures, From Courtesan To Patriot: The Remarkable Life Of Pamela Harriman, President Joe Biden Threatens 2024 Election Won’t Be ‘Peaceful’, and Stevie Nicks’ Abortion Anthem Is A Cope To Get Over The Lives She Took
Mark Steyn: Winning as a Strategy, Through Tiananmen by Bicycle, and The Rise of China [Tales For Our Time]

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In The Mailbox: 10.04.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 4, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.04.24 (Afternoon Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

#FAFO

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Is That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?
EBL: Sasquatch Sunset, Officials in North Carolina threatening to arrest private people helicoptering aid to Hurricane Helene victims, and Charlie Hustle & The Question of Pete Rose
Twitchy: Kamala Once Again Dodges Press Questions On Why She’s Done Nothing As Veep, NC Hurricane Helene Victim Brutally Takes Biden/Harris Apart, and City-Dwelling Leftist Goes On Blocking Spree After Snotty Dig At Hillbillies Backfires
Louder With Crowder: UK family releases pro-Kamala Harris song that is so cringe it will destroy your will to live, Longshoreman union boss Harold Daggett was ready to destroy America and YOUR future, Kamala Harris brags about giving hurricane victims $750 after Ukraine got $2900 per person, and While FEMA is nowhere to be found, MULES are bringing aid to hurricane victims
Vox Popoli: The Same Failed Strategy, Satanists Confirmed, Will Not Could, BRICS or Sanctions, and IDF Attacks Russia?
Upstream Reviews: Presents Spooky Stories!, also, Main Street DOA

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Podcast #3, There Goes Diego…Garcia
Don Surber: The irony of the dockworkers strike

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In The Mailbox: 10.02.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 3, 2024 | 2 Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

So appropriate in this time when the Administration bungles and blocks aid to the victims of Helene.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: John Kerry versus The First Amendment, also Don’t Bring a Rock to a Gunfight
EBL: Kamala Harris’s Husband Doug Emhoff Allegedly Slapped His Old Girlfriend For Getting Out Of Line, TIMMY GOT ISSUES, Biden & Harris: Too Little, Too Late for Hurricane Helene Victims, and Why Did Kamala Harris Not Pick Josh Shapiro as VP?
Twitchy: Jon Cryer Shows His True Colors With Pretty In Pink Reference, Biden Finally Realizes He Made A Big Mistake Rescinding Trump’s Iran Sanctions, and 
Louder With Crowder: Three key moments of JD Vance’s dominance over Tim Walz, moderators (and what Trump needs to NOT do next), also, MSNBC dingbat claims JD Vance’s “worst” moment of the debate was his…mansplaining?
Vox Popoli: Hunting Neal Gaiman, An Incoherent Narrative, A Question of Identity, History Number Seven, and They’re SO Not There To Help
Stoic Observations: The Tool Aesthetic
Gab: A Nation In Crisis
Ammo.com: Gun-Free School Zone Laws & School Shootings

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How to Fix the Australian Housing Market
American Conservative: ‘Trump-Washing’ U.S. History Endangers Our Freedom, also, Are Mercenaries a Way to Split the Difference on Regime Change? 
American Greatness: CBS, CNN Polls Say J.D. Vance Won Debate, CBS Moderators Criticized for Debate Interference, Ignoring Stated Rules, and Bias, 3 Women’s Volleyball Teams Forfeit Rather Than Play Against Biological Male Opponent, Kamala’s Husband Doug Emhoff Reportedly Once Slapped a Girlfriend in the Face So Hard, ‘She Spun Around’, and Mayorkas Says FEMA Will Run Out of Funds Before Hurricane Season is Over; Agency Spent $640.9 Million on Noncitizens in 2024
American Thinker: The Advent of Idiocracy, also, Who Wins When the Longshoremen Go on Strike?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Flood News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba wants to be removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list while continuing to support terrorism, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol creates a new express line for Cuban communists, Cuban dictatorship slaps ‘private’ businesses with fines totaling $14.5 million, and Yet another rabid communist party official from Cuba discovered to be living comfortably in U.S.
BattleSwarm: Israel Grounds And Pounds, Iran Sprays And Prays, also, Democrat Voting Fraud Update For October 2
Behind The Black: Russia delays first launch of new Soyuz-5 rocket to 2026, Carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide found on the surface of Pluto’s moon Charon, Orbital tug startup Impulse Space raises $150 million, ISRO reveals design of its Chandrayaan-4 lunar sample return mission, Scientists detect jets of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide from asteroid, and Sunspot update: Sunspot activity crashes in September
Cafe Hayek: These People Act In Ways to Earn Our DIStrust
CDR Salamander: Israel Is Settling All The Family Business That It Can
Chicago Boyz: This Is What It’s Like When Mullahs Cry
Da Tech Guy: October Indulgence Calendar. Pete Rose will Have to Wait Till November, Quick Debate Judgement, Reality goes 1-2 Vance wins but Walz Achieves his Primary Goal, and Dynasty Baseball 1972 League AL Red Sox at Yankees
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Fraud Appeal Edition
Don Surber: Israel’s ceasefire plan
First Street Journal: Harris Gives Complete Babble When Ask On How Something Becomes Law, Midnight oil blogging, and Karma comes to Taylor Lorenz!
Gates Of Vienna: Bringing the War Back Home — To Sweden, Cultural Enrichment Quotas in the German Justice System, Angry Knife Resists Eviction, Antifas Save Aachen From Evil Right-Wingers, and The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden, Part 20
The Geller Report: Harris-Biden Announce $300 Million to Palestinian (Hamas) Terror But “Can Do Nothing More” For Hurricane Victims in North Carolina, also, Head of Iran’s Anti-Mossad Intel Unit Was an Israeli Agent, Reveals Former Iranian President
Hollywood In Toto: How Black Christmas Changed the Face of Horror, Kevin Sorbo Schools Whoopi: I’m Proof of New Hollywood Blacklist, Why Wild Robot Earns Those Iron Giant Comparisons, and Will Taylor Swift Regret Endorsing Kamala Harris?
The Lid:  An IMPORTANT Rosh Hashana Message To Gentiles And Secular Jews
Legal Insurrection: IG: DHS Doesn’t ‘Fully Access Risks’ When Releasing Illegal Aliens Without IDs Into U.S., Walz’s Minnesota: Almost 70 Percent of Eighth Graders Not Proficient in Math, Democrats Losing Working Class Voters in Deep-Blue Philadelphia to Republicans, Columbia Student Suspended For Saying Be Grateful He’s Not ‘Murdering Zionists’ Now Suing for Anti-Palestinian Bias, and Who Should We Punish for the Fake Science Poisoning our Children’s Futures?
Nebraska Energy Observer: I didn’t realize, also, Masterclass
Outkick: Danica Patrick Sums Up JD Vance’s Debate Performance With One Word, Eli Drinkwitz Not Risking It, Won’t Allow Marcel Reed’s Sister At Full Practice, ESPN Writer Slammed For Disgusting Pete Rose Headline Hours After Death, MLB’s New Advertisement On Playoff Helmets Has Fans Predictably Furious, and Sydney Sweeney Ad Features Her In A Bathtub, Is Marketing 101: WATCH
Power Line: A Good Night For the GOP, The Morning After, and Immigration, By the Numbers
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Humpday Shrapnel [One-Handed Posting Edition]
Shark Tank: Top Democrats Blame Guns For Killing People But Not The Shooters
Shot In The Dark: In Case You Were Wondering, Pounce, and To The Dacha Born
The Political Hat: Transgenderism Comes For The Daughters Of The American Revolution, also, The Hot New Science: Indigenous Wisdom
This Ain’t Hell: Chinese sub successfully sinks, Pete Rose, another vet dies, Pew says most military veterans support Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, Don’t like it? Doesn’t matter…you’re funding it, and Two VA staff transferred pending investigation on delayed time-sensitive care
Transterrestrial Musings: Ships, also, Iran’s Nuclear Program
Victory Girls: Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter Knifes Him In The Back, also, Longshoremen Union Bosses Are Raking In The Cash
Volokh Conspiracy: Judge Blocks California Law Restricting “Materially Deceptive” Election-Related Deepfakes
Watts Up With That: Germany Risks being Left behind…Big Tech Confirms CO2 Neutrality Only Possible With Nuclear Power, No, Media. Hurricane Helene was not Worsened by Climate Change, and Rule of Law vs. Eco-obstruction
The Federalist: 15 Best Memes About J.D. Vance Wiping The Floor With Tim Walz In Vice Presidential Debate, Jack Smith Parrots Phony ‘Fake Electors’ Smear In Latest Get-Trump Court Brief, How Does Tim Walz Explain His Stolen Valor Controversy? CBS Moderators Didn’t Bother Asking, Unpopular Abortion Through Birth Could Become Legal In These 10 States Unless Voters Act Now, and If Kamala Has Such Great Plans, Why Hasn’t She Implemented Them?
Mark Steyn: Danke schön, Caterina, The “Far Right” Inches Nearer, Unforgettable, “Underwater” in North Carolina…and Michigan, and Live Around the Planet: Friend Of The School Shooters 

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How Badly Did Tim Walz Lose?

Posted on | October 2, 2024 | 1 Comment

Does this look like the face of a winner?

My first reaction to Tuesday night’s “debate” (scare-quotes necessary because this televised event in no way resembled an actual debate) was focused mainly on how bad Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan were as “moderators” (scare-quotes necessary, etc.), However much you hate the media, you don’t hate them as much as they deserve to be hated.

Beyond that, however, the real story was how badly outmatched Walz was, as my friend Matt Margolis explains at PJM:

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) dominated Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) from start to finish in Tuesday nights vice presidential debate. It wasn’t even close. Despite the moderators’ best efforts to give Walz a hand, he was no match for Trump’s running mate.
Vance, composed and prepared, delivered clear, well-informed responses, especially when highlighting Kamala Harris’s ineffectiveness as vice president. Vance not only outperformed Walz on core issues but also tackled traditionally Democratic topics in ways likely to appeal to voters. His effortless command over the debate left both Walz and the moderators struggling to match his poise and precision.
And not even the liberal media could deny it.
“[JD Vance] landed a lot of punches in between all the niceties and all of that,” observed CNN’s Abby Phillip. “And the thing that really stood out to me was that Tim Walz did not seem prepared for it. He didn’t respond to a lot of the criticisms and attacks that Vance put on the table.”
She added, “I mean, I think there was a clear lack of preparation and execution here on Walz’s part.”
Dana Bash disagreed with her. “I think, actually, it’s the opposite,” she said. “I think he had too much preparation.”
Bash continued, “He had so many lines that he was clearly trying to say that he didn’t listen.. when… JD Vance said one of the many, many things he really hit Kamala Harris on — not Tim Walz, but Kamala Harris — he didn’t respond because he clearly had things in his mind. I think the lack of interviews that he has done with national media, with local media, it showed he needed more rest.”
Jake Tapper agreed.
“I agree. I mean, JD Vance is much more experienced at this, at public speaking, at defending himself, at pivoting,” Tapper conceded.

The undeniable fact of Walz’s debate flop was, of course, a subject that CNN (I watch, so you don’t have to) didn’t want to spend much time discussing Wednesday. Insofar as they couldn’t avoid it, CNN spent most of their time highlight a couple of what they imagined to be “gotcha” moments involving abortion and the J6 “insurrection.”

J.D. Vance avoided answering the question of whether Biden actually won the 2020 election. This is scandalous, inside the bubble where CNN talking heads live, but of course there is a very good reason why Vance refused to address this — namely, that about 70% of Republican voters don’t for a minute buy the “81 million voters” narrative.

Inside the bubble where CNN anchors and other news media types live, there is not the slightest doubt that Biden won and Trump lost, which is why they keep yammering on about J6 as a “threat to democracy.” Out here in the real world, of course, those of us who watched the Election Night coverage, and who have followed up on some of the claims made by skeptics, fall into one of two categories:

  1. “Election deniers” who absolutely don’t believe Biden won;

    2. and

  2. People who aren’t sure that Democrats stole the election, but aren’t willing to rule out the possibility.

Personally, I’m in the second category. It seems to me that there was some illegal “ballot harvesting” and maybe other shenanigans in the key swing states, but I haven’t yet seen irrefutable evidence that I would stake my credibility on as an explanation of how Democrats stole the election. Furthermore, and this is important, I don’t think there’s a lot to be gained, politically, by endlessly re-litigating the 2020 election. It’s enough for me to say I suspect shenanigans, and move on.

One of the things that leads me to suspect that Democrats really did steal the 2020 election is how determined the media are to silence anyone who doubts the result, and how enthusiastically they applaud the prosecution of J6 protesters. If it were really so self-evident that Biden won, why the censorship? Why the punitive rage toward “election deniers”?

Anyway, the judge in the J6 case against Trump unsealed special counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page filing in the case, and CNN was covering this at the top of every hour, without acknowledging the root problem with Smith’s case. See, it is impossible to say what Trump did was a crime — not morally wrong, nor unconstitutional — if Democrats actually did steal the election. That’s a giant asterisk the media never permit to be discussed. Smith’s argument is that Trump was trying to overturn “the will of the people.” That’s both his starting premise and his conclusion, so that his argument might be rendered as a syllogism thus:

  • A. Trump lost the election and tried to prevent the legitimate winner, Biden, from taking office;
  • B. [ blah blah blah ]
    therefore
  • Conclusion: TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL! A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY! SEND HIM TO PRISON!

My point — now circling back around to J.D. Vance’s avoidance of the question during the debate — is that the prosecution of Trump hinges on an ironclad certainty that Joe Biden did get 81 million votes, but even if I can’t prove otherwise, that doesn’t mean it’s a crime for me (or Trump) to think the election was stolen. Given the circumstances, where most of the people who voted for Trump felt that he (and, by extension, they) had been wrongfully cheated, the riot at the Capitol wasn’t a threat against democracy, but rather an attempt to protect democracy from crooks who rigged the election.

All that will become moot — a subject for historians to discuss — if Trump wins in November. Let him have his second term, after this four-year interregnum of Mr. Eighty-One Million Votes, and Trump will have a chance to redeem his reputation. The floundering performance of Walz in Tuesday’s debate makes it seem more likely than not that Trump will win this election, and win it convincingly enough that those who doubt Biden won in 2020 will be able to say, “See? We told you so.”



 

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In The Mailbox: 10.02.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 2, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.02.24 (Afternoon Edition)

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Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month. Every little bit helped.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Pete Rose RIP, also, Biden & Harris were too busy to help after Helene
Twitchy: Liberal Media Screeches At J.D. Vance’s Annihilation Of Tampon Timmy, X Posts Hilarious Reactions To Tampon Timmy’s School Shooters Gaffe, and Is This The Democrats’ “New Masculinity”?
Louder With Crowder: Even CNN is torching Biden Administration’s pathetic hurricane response this weekend, also, North Carolina woman puts Harris & Biden on BLAST after family has been trapped for four days
Vox Popoli:
Flappr: Big TD’s Football Blog Week 4
Upstream Reviews: Storm Surge

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CDR Salamander: Auxiliary Cruisers – Now More Than Ever
Dana Loesch: Butler Investigations Begin In The House & Senate, About The VP Debate, and Mr. Congeniality – Union Boss Threatens To Cripple Americans [Already] Suffering From Bidenflation
Don Surber: Kamala – Walz was a mistake

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Debate: J.D. Vance Defeats Tim Walz, Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan

Posted on | October 1, 2024 | 1 Comment

Tim Walz not answering a question about China

America wanted the answers to two crucial questions:

  1. Is there any politician in America less qualified for high public office than Kamala Harris?

    2. and

  2. Is it possible for debate moderators to be worse than ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis?

The answer to both questions is a surprising “yes.” Tim Walz is less qualified than Kamala, and Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan were the worst debate moderators in the history of debate moderators.

It was another three-way gang-up, with the three Democrats (Walz, O’Donnell and Brennan) taking turns hurling accusations at Vance. Every question was either a Democratic Party talking point or, in some cases, a set-up to give Walz a chance to explain away his own various scandals. Like, they asked Walz about changing his gun-control stance, and he does his yada, yada, yada (obviously a rehearsed response) and then — without giving Vance a chance to reply — they moved on to housing.

Then, after Walz gets to do his spin on housing, they go to Vance and then back to Walz, so he can “respond to an allegation” that Vance made about Harris’s immigration policy. This is one example of a pattern that repeated itself throughout the “debate.” Any criticism Vance made of the Biden-Harris administration was labeled by the moderators as an “allegation” to which Walz was then invited to respond.

Give credit to J.D. Vance. He was focused and unflappable, maintaining his poise and stating his points clearly and confidently. Also, Vance is just much better-looking than Walz, which matters a lot on TV, especially when the target audience is confused suburban white women who can’t make up their mind who they want to vote for: “Hey, that guy with the beard has cute blue eyes . . .” That’s a few votes in swing states.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.30.24

Posted on | October 1, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.30.24

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Condolences to my favorite actuary & sumo fan, Mary Pat Campbell, on the loss of her husband Stu. Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Did you back the Starquest Indiegogo campaign but haven’t heard from the Wrights? They want to hear from you!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The shape of things to come? (@skscartoons on X)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hurricane Helene – Aftermath In The Big Bend
EBL: Hezbollah Terror Leader Hassan Nasrallah Gets Sent To Hell , Maggie Smith, RIP, and Kris Kristofferson, RIP
Twitchy: She Was Sleep-Deprived?! MSNBC Says Kamala Has To Address Communist Memes, and Villain Of The Year
Louder With Crowder: Popular actor shocks Hollywood with his endorsement of Donald Trump to “make America great again”, Eight illegals arrested looting from flood-ravaged victims in Tennessee, and Drag queens demand swing state NBA team stay out of their, quote, “gayborhood”
Vox Popoli: The Corpocracy Devours Itself, Head of the Snake Strategy, Late-Stage Retardery, Disordered and Unaccountable, and Don’t Get Too Excited
Postcards From Barsoom: White Ethnic Cleansing As Social Control, 
Stoc Observations: Infinite Imagination, also, The Sun God Theory
Upstream Reviews: In The Palace Of Shadow & Joy, 
Tom Kratman: The Care & Feeding Of YOUR Right-Wing Death Squad – Splitters!
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Grooming Of America (and the World)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Spiritual Battle is for Eternity
American Conservative: Zelensky’s Victory Plan Contains No Victory and No Plan, also, Ukraine-Skeptical Conservatives Win in Austrian Election
American Greatness: Department of Justice Sues Alabama to Keep Illegal Aliens on Voter Rolls, Trump Says He’s Working With Musk to Get Starlink to Areas Hit by Hurricane Helene, and Comer Subpoenas DHS for Records Related to Walz’s Ties to Chinese Communist Party Following New Whistleblower Revelations
American Power: Dana Bash and David Fisher, America’s Deadliest Election
American Thinker: American Blacks — Please Read This Before You Ever Vote Democrat Again, The Startling Metadata Hidden within the Polling: Voters Love Trump, and Who Fact Checks the Fact Checkers?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban opposition leader says Castro dictatorship fears another massive uprising, Communist Cuba’s dwindling ration book spreads more hunger across the island, and Foreign Minister of Cuba runs amok in New York City, leads various communist pep rallies
BattleSwarm: Paxton Sues Biden Admin Over Gender Madness Yet Again, Nasrallah Lotsa Fallouta, and Fort Worth ISD Bets On “Equity,” Loses
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches two astronauts to ISS, setting new annual launch record for the U.S., Proposed commercial spaceport in Azores launches two suborbital demonstration rockets, Curiosity spots a corroded weathered rock, Perseverance looks uphill, and Course carnage at Harvard as more than 30 queer and Marxist classes get axed
Cafe Hayek: On Oren Cass’s “Lopsided Exchange of Cheap Goods for Financial Assets”, also, Oren Cass Carelessly Misinterprets Me
CDR Salamander: The Pentagon’s Gordian Knot – On Midrats, 
Chicago Boyz: Bombing the Houthis, also, He Who Must Not Be Named
Da Tech Guy: Must See Movies: All Through the Night (1942), Stating the Obvious – Kamala is the Iran/Russia Candidate, A memorable, for all the wrong reasons, 2024 Chicago White Sox season, and Five Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Faux-sassin Charged With Attempted Assassination Of Trump
Don Surber: Tell me about that Kamala landslide
First Street Journal: Insane: Minneapolis Caliphate Hires First Non-Citizen To Be A Police Officer, also, John Kerry lets us know that the Democrats have not given up on the idea of regulating speech
Gates Of Vienna: A Failed State and an Irresponsible Justice System, Farewell to the Italian Scooter Girl, and Jew-Hatred, Italian Style
The Geller Report: Netanyahu to the Iranian People: “The People of Iran, Know That Israel Stands By Your Side.”
Hollywood In Toto: Vindicating Trump Gives Chilling Election Preview, Zachary Levi’s Trump Support Shows True Hollywood Bravery, and Everybody Hates Ellen: Media Torch For Your Approval
The Lid: Elon Musk Warns Americans that the Democrat Party is Importing Millions of Illegals to Destroy Democracy
Legal Insurrection: Newsom Signs Bill Reversing Harris-Promoted Truancy Prosecution Law, Netflix Cancellations Skyrocketed After Founder Donated, Endorsed Harris, Biden Confuses Israeli Airstrikes in Yemen With Union Strikes, Walz Lied About Being in Hong Kong During Tiananmen Square Massacre, and Harris’s Photo of Her Talking Helene Relief With FEMA Fails on Many Levels
Michele Catalano: the week(s) in joy
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lost Weekend In The City of Thieves Part 5, also, Building, and Rebuilding, America
Outkick: Reds Legend Pete Rose Passes at 83, SJSU’s Brooke Slusser Speaks Out On Fight Against NCAA: ‘Title IX Exists For A Reason’, NASCAR Star Rescues Hurricane Survivors While White House Sleeps, The New York Mets Will Play October Baseball Thanks To A Wild Victory Over Atlanta, and Heidi Klum Has No Plans To Stop Running Around On The Beach With Her Boobs Hanging Out
Power Line: A criminal invasion, Memories of Hurricane Katrina, GOP Rising, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
Shark Tank: Donalds Responds To Zelensky’s Pennsylvania Trip
Shot In The Dark: Klink Salutes You, Tim Crow, and His Master’s Voice
STUMP: Ohio STRS Drama Continues, The Week In Meep – Happy Michaelmas! and RIP M. Stuart Grace
The Political Hat: What Was Seen Is Now Hidden Again
This Ain’t Hell: Deployment related pay delayed for deployed Soldiers, also, Vet/pilot Kris Kristofferson, 88, dead
Transterrestrial Musings: West Point
Victory Girls: Helene Leaves Mountain Towns Decimated In Appalachia
Volokh Conspiracy: Criminal Conviction Based on “Only Women Can Be Mothers” and “‘Transing’ Kids Is Abuse and Homophobia” Signs
Watts Up With That: Climate Obsessed Britain Closes the Last British Coal Plant, The Green New Folly: How Virtue-Signaling Killed a Ferry and Wasted Millions, and Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
The Federalist: Hurricane Helene Fallout Shows Why America Can’t Afford Another Potemkin Presidency, Kamala Harris Doesn’t Care About White People, America’s Current Schooling Catastrophes Were Set In Motion 100 Years Ago, How Does Nevada Keep Bad Actors From Abusing Its Insecure Online Voting System? Officials Can’t Say, and FEMA Website Admits Keeping You Alive In A Natural Disaster Isn’t Its Top Priority
Mark Steyn: Talking Trivia on the Cliff-Edge, Identity and Evasion, Democracy Dies In…Secret Service Headquarters, The Politicization of American Justice, and Americans Abroad: The Cold War in Whit Stillman’s Barcelona

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