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In The Mailbox: 10.06.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 7, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.06.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Couldn’t hurt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Concealed Carry In LA
EBL: Joe Biden Beats His Dogs (what a bastard), Dick Butkus RIP, MAGA Speaker of the House, and BIDENOMICS
Twitchy: Twitter Tries To Figure Out What’s Wrong With The VP, Will The Real Fascists Please Stand Up? and Joy Reid & Ben Collins Join In REEEEEing About Elon Musk
Louder With Crowder: Congressman Jim Jordan will be the next Speaker of the House, Keith Olbermann lashes out at reporter for accurately reporting the accusations against Trevor Bauer were bulls***, and Teacher on leave after being caught watching porn in front of students, enjoying himself a little bit too much
Vox Popoli: Perhaps She Just…Evolved? Vaxxing the Proles, and Psyop City: Population One
According To Hoyt: Two Sides, Fall Is Coming, and Rad
Monster Hunter Nation: Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever Is Out!
Jon Del Arroz: WTF Did I Just Watch In The Ahsoka Finale?
Gab News: What Is Toxic Masculinity?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Stories, not Arguments
American Conservative: After Shutdown Missteps, McConnell’s Leadership on Unsure Footing
American Greatness: Pennsylvania School District Reverses Transgender Bathroom Policy After Student Protest
American Thinker: The Party’s Over, also, Marx Was a Bastard
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Federal Overreach Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban pitcher defects during tournament in Puerto Rico, When the Castro dictatorship deployed Cuban soldiers in the Yom Kippur War to destroy Israel, and Immigration demagoguery meets reality
Baldilocks: I apologize
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for October 6
Behind The Black: Another lawsuit filed against SpaceX, India’s government confirms its policy to transition to private enterprise in space, ULA’s Atlas-5 rocket launches first two Kuiper satellites, Gale Crater as seen by Curiosity from the heights of Mount Sharp, and Real pushback: Student walkout in September forces school board to rescind queer bathroom policy
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Hood Ornament
Da Tech Guy: 5 Speaker Overboard Thoughts Under the Fedora, Why is Nobody Asking the Obvious Question Here? To win future elections Republicans must fight the Culture War, and Why The Answer to Brit Hume’s Question For the Left is Easy (But not for the reason you might think)
Don Surber: The Child Sex Surgery Liberals Oppose
Gates Of Vienna: Homeless Woman Raped by a Culture-Enricher in Bologna, The Perils of Multicultural Pedagogy, The Pandemic that Never Was Can Never End, Mass Shooting in Bangkok, Women of Unusual Size, and The Murder of Lola Daviet, One Year Later
The Geller Report: Teachers’ Union Wants Homeless People To Sleep on Public School Grounds
Hogewash: Only Kidding? Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, National Poetry Day, and LFBOT
Hollywood In Toto: Why Child’s Play Remains the Creepiest Chucky Close-up, Disney Got Exactly What It Wanted, and Woke Totally Killer Misses Its Huge Potential
The Lid: Texas Gov. Abbott Proposes JAIL TIME For Illegal Migrants In Special Legislative Session
Legal Insurrection: Report: FBI Targeting Donald Trump Supporters as Threats to 2024 Election, Iowa Democratic Primary Moved to Super Tuesday, Appeals Court Blocks School District’s Policy Mandating ‘Respect’ for Gender Identity, California School Districts Defy Newsom by Adopting Policies Requiring Parental Notification About ‘Trans’ Kids, and Hillary Calls for ‘Deprogramming’ Trump Supporters
Nebraska Energy Observer: It’s not all TV
Outkick: Virginia Swimmers Unite, Speak Out After Biological Male Pulls A Lia Thomas, Al Michaels Claims He Hasn’t Knowingly Eaten A Vegetable In 78 Years, From Duke Lacrosse To Trevor Bauer: The Media’s Disgusting Failures , and Mike Freeman Strikes Again, This Time Attacking Aaron Rodgers For Calling Travis Kelce ‘Mr. Pfizer’
Power Line: Hillary Clinton Goes With the Pho, Mending wall, Baseball Is Better Than Politics, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Steube & De La Cruz Decry Biden Border Barrier As Political Calculation
Shot In The Dark: Where Credit Is Due – Don & Pat Hall, also, Soundtrack Part 4
This Ain’t Hell: The irony. Or the hypocrisy, your choice, Valor Friday, Marines killed in car crash; justice demanded for off duty cop, Dismal Return Rate for Troops Discharged Over Vax Mandate, Military helicopter noises contribute to Australian crocodile mating, and Illegal alien steals disabled veteran’s identity, later convicted of murder under that name
Transterrestrial Musings: Potemkin Village
Victory Girls: Army Strongly Considering 10-20% Cut To Special Ops Forces
Volokh Conspiracy: Kurt Lash on “The Meaning and Ambiguity of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment”
Watts Up With That: Superfund Cleanups Descend Into Uncertainty, The Jupiter Effect: The Hubris of Green Central Planners, and Update On Offshore Wind Projects Off The Mid-Atlantic and New England
The Federalist: Nicaragua’s Anti-Christian Ortega Regime Sentenced A Faithful Bishop To 26 Years Behind Bars, Hunter Biden Is So Used To Being Above The Law, He’s Citing A Rejected Plea Deal To Claim ‘Immunity’, Biden Evades The Constitution By Letting Failed Nominees Be De Facto Agency Heads, ‘Health And Safety Nightmare’: Homeless Encampments Permanently Shut Down Denver Gay Bar, Newsom Didn’t Veto The Anti-Parent Trans Bill To Protect Kids, and Hillary Clinton Wants Trump Voters To Undergo A ‘Formal Deprogramming’
Mark Steyn: And Then There Were None, The Flaccid Populace’s Channel, and Live Around the Planet

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Will You Still Feed Me?

Posted on | October 6, 2023 | Comments Off on Will You Still Feed Me?

Portrait of the Author as an Old Man

When I get older, losing my hair,
Many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine?
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I’d been out till quarter to three,
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me? Will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?

Turning 64 is an auspicious occasion, I suppose, and today was the anniversary of the date — October 6, 1959 — when I was born at what was then Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. (It later became Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center, but was permanently closed last year.) Atlanta’s metastatic growth is such that most people who tell you they’re “from Atlanta” are actually from Cleveland or Pittsburgh and live somewhere in Gwinnett County. But no, I was actually born in Atlanta, “early on a frosty morning,” if it’s still legal to say so.

YOU COULD HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR

Past a certain age — and it may be 30, but perhaps as early as 21 — birthdays aren’t much of a celebration, and this morning I was toiling away in the home office without a thought of the occasion when my wife asked if I wanted to go out for a birthday dinner later, which of course I did. At first, I’d suggested Olive Garden, but later changed my mind: How about Golden Corral?

 

 
 
 
 
 
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We got there a little before 2:30 p.m., and I remarked to the wife as we approached the cashier that we were eligible for the Senior Discount. My wife mentioned this to the lady at the register, who replied: “I already gave it to you.” Not necessarily flattering to be recognized as a geezer, but it is what it is.

Mrs. McCain went for the salad bar, while I headed to the main buffet. My first plate was roast beef, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans and turnip greens. If you’re going to eat a week’s worth of calories at one sitting — which is the basic goal of a buffet dining, right? — you should at least try to make it a nutritious meal, hence the vegetables. On my second go-round, I got meat loaf, roasted potatoes, collard greens, black-eyed peas and fried okra.

Meanwhile, my wife pointed out that the lobby was now crowded with geezers, who were lined up out the door. Apparently, the Early Bird Special begins at 3 p.m., and I don’t know what kind of discount they offer, but it was sufficient to attract dozens of geriatrics. We’re not that old are we? Well, no, but we are far enough along that it’s within the foreseeable future.

After pecan pie for dessert, I was fully stuffed. We had talked about buying me a new pair of shoes as a birthday gift, but I could feel myself rapidly headed toward a buffet-induced coma, so we skipped the shopping trip. As soon as I got home, I went right to bed and zonked out for two hours before being awakened by a phone call from my Army son, calling from Alaska to wish me a happy birthday. This was followed by a call from my oldest daughter in Florida with similar greetings. Our offspring are scattered far and wide — the youngest is now attending a year abroad at a university in Latin America — and so there’s no gathering for the cake-and-candles kind of celebration. And really, at my age? Just give me the Golden Corral buffet and a two-hour nap.

Among the inconveniences of advanced age, many suffer from increased near-sightedness, which makes it hard to spot the yellow PayPal “donate” button on the sidebar, so I’ve enlarged it for your convenience.

 

If you’ll click the Big Yellow Button, you’ll see that the default contribution is set to $6.40 for this occasion, although of course I wouldn’t protest if readers felt generous enough to kick in a full $64. Or, if you just wanted to pay for our dinner, it was about $20 with the Golden Corral senior discount.

 

Category: Family

In The Mailbox: 10.06.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 6, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.06.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So much for getting caught up this week.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

It’s his dream. It’s his nightmare. (@DaminToell on X)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Cops Don’t Believe The Law Applies To Them, 
EBL: Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Very Bad Tuesday, Everybody Shimmies Now, Your phone will make your head explode if you don’t turn it off in time, Is Saudi Arabia the most “doomed country”?  and Men, Best To Avoid Women Journalists Like Molly Knight or crappy rag she writes for the Athletic
Twitchy: Murdered Lefty Activist Ryan Carson Had A Nasty Habit Of Celebrating Dead Conservatives, Scott Smith Files Title IX Lawsuit Against Loudoun County, and About That “Spectacular” September Jobs Report – The Numbers & Data Don’t Add  Up
Louder With Crowder: Aaron Rodgers hits Travis Kelce where it hurts, calls Taylor Swift’s boyfriend “Mr. Pfizer”, “Plus-Size” Influencer Calls For Hotels To Widen Hallways, Lifts And Bathrooms, “Way to cheat, bro:” Dude ranked 172nd in high school track. Then he became a girl. Now she’s ranked 4th! After Patriotic Student Walkout, School District Votes That Male Students Can’t Use The Girls’ Bathroom Anymore, and Watch: Dude walks around Costco showing the REAL cost of inflation Biden and the media won’t
Vox Popoli: The Decisive Turn, The Baen Brigade Keeps Biting Ankles, India Knew Russia Would Win, Norman Rockwell Paints Clown World, He Used to Vote Republican Too, and Never Back Down
Stoic Observations: The Nationalization Of The American Psyche, 
Flappr: The Big TDs Football Blog – NFC Review. 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Francis is not the not-pope that you think he is, A Church Divided, and Smart is the New Stupid
American Conservative: Orcs Are Roaming Freely, Egalitarian Conservatism? Yes, We Can, and Base American Policy in Ukraine on American Interests 
American Greatness: Greenpeace Canada Co-Founder: ‘We are not in a climate crisis’, Josh Hawley Introduces Legislation to Allow Border States to Deport Illegal Immigrants, and After Allowing 8 Million Illegal Aliens to Enter Country, the Biden Regime Decides to Revive Border Wall Construction in Texas
American Thinker: Donald J. Trump, the Hero Who Stands Alone, Biden Selling out the U.S., 2024: The Trump Boom vs. the Biden Bust, The Real Motive for Jan. 6, and Never Forget the Jan. 6 Defendants
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Bleached Cows News, Animal’s Hump Day News, and Animal’s Daily Near Future News
Babalu Blog: Parents of very young Cuban soldiers in Ukraine fear sons have been killed in battle, Over 300 acts of oppression in Cuba during the month of September, Another building collapse in Havana traps residents and first responders under debris, Cuba has received $200 million in oil from Mexico this year, and Where the money goes in communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: Texas Speed Trap City Dissolves Police Force, Scenes From San Francisco’s Decline, Our Incompetent Media: A Snapshot, BREAKING: McCarthy Ousted From Speaker’s Chair, and Third Special Session: School Choice and Colony Ridge
Behind The Black: Distorted Martian craters, Satellite data shows this year’s ozone hole one of the biggest on record, Northrop Grumman abandons its own proposed space station; partners with Voyager’s Starlab, Japan’s space agency JAXA studying new reusuable rocket concepts, SLIM leaves Earth orbit and is on its way to the Moon, and Today’s blacklisted American: Man’s life ruined because a black man slandered him for profit
Cafe Hayek: The Ultimate Knowledge Problem, Reality Doesn’t Change Simply By Being Repeatedly Misrepresented, A Conversation With John J. Miller About Adam Smith, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Some facts about income inequality”, and Follow the Rules
CDR Salamander: LCS’ Long, Sad, & Early Goodbye, also, The Saga of the Ticos
Chicago Boyz: Stories and Society, also, Sputnik + 66
Da Tech Guy: The Navy…always ready with misinformation! Kennedy Running as an Independent Will Make Things Interesting, Six months that shook the marketing world, Matt Patrica is Laughing his Ass off Right Now, What the Democrat Left is by Kirk, and Philadelphia: A city on the brink of chaos
Don Surber: McCarthy Gets Liz Cheneyed, also, Popcorn or toasted marshmallows?
First Street Journal: World War III Watch: The British might send ‘advisors’ and ‘training’ troops to Ukraine, Killadelphia: The city’s white, liberal elite were appalled at Josh Kruger’s murder, but didn’t even notice the killings of four ‘nobodies’, and Bill Kristol and the Neocons sure love them some war
Gates Of Vienna: The Ugly Minority Freakshow, Rough Justice in the Forest, Geert Wilders: “Imported Violence in Almost All Our Cities”, Emmanuel “Unvaxed” Macron, Invasion of the Country Snatchers, and Thousands of New Gendarmes… Why?
The Geller Report: In Case You Forgot: The Accomplishments of President Trump, HORROR FOOTAGE: EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE OF FEDERAL CONTRACTORS DELIVERING CHILDREN ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry Orders Pelosi to Vacate Her Capitol Secret Hideaway Office by Wednesday, Newsweek: FBI Created New Category to Go After Trump Followers as 2024 Election Nears, and Fifth Circuit Court Rules President Biden Cannot Censor Speech on Social Media Platforms
Hogewash: Uranus, Then Why Order the Razor Wire Cut? Good News, But Does This Headline Confuse Progressives, What’s Up for October, 2023, Double Quasars, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Bill Burr Predicts a ‘Revolt’ Against Cancel Culture, Are Cops Allowed to Be the Good Guys Yet? Muzzle Gives K9 Cops Their Due, Free to Choose Mini-Doc Captures Chilling Attacks on Comedy, and The Morning Show Goes All-in on Abortion, Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’
The Lid: Trump & Lawyers Speak Out At New York Fraud Case… Taking Defiant Stand, Gang of Biden Illegals Kidnap 3 Minnesota Girls – Hold Them in Rape House for Days, and Horrible Crime: Man Sent To Jail For Calling A Journalist A Fat Lesbian
Legal Insurrection: ‘Literally Empty’: CVS Pharmacy in Washington, DC, is Routinely Ransacked by Large Group of Kids, Oberlin College Finally To Return Drawing Stolen By Nazis To Heirs Of Jewish Holocaust Victim, After 17-Year Refusal, Army Corps of Engineers to Solve “Nation’s Toughest Engineering Challenges” Through “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”, IRS Consultant Charged With Leaking Tax Information on Trump and Others to the Media, Groundbreaking Win For Parents: WI State Court Rules Against School’s Secret Gender Transitioning Policy, Investigation Finds Biden Administration Has Awarded Over $100 Million in Transgender Research Grants, and German Government ‘Rebukes’ Elon Musk for Criticizing State-Funded NGOs Helping Illegal Migrant Cross Mediterranean
Nebraska Energy Observer: Recessional, More information, October! and Zombies
Outkick: LeBron James Publicly Begs To Be Guest On Kelce Brothers’ Podcast And Rightfully Gets Called Out, Hotel Rooms Booked By Army-Navy Fans And Service Members Reportedly Being Taken By Massachusetts To House Migrants, Trevor Bauer Accuser Lindsey Hill Gives Lewd Interview With Alex Stein, Baker Mayfield Caught On Mic Making Vulgar Comment, Urban Meyer To Interview For Michigan State Job? According To One Report, Yes It’s Happening, and Media Smeared Trevor Bauer. And Now Has Little To Say
Power Line: What Keeps the Lights On? If Wind and Solar Get Any Cheaper, We’ll All Go Broke, Suicide of the House, The Pangloss-Pétain Presidency, and Who Loves the Intelligence Community?
Shark Tank: Conservative Senators Push For Ban On Gender Transition Surgery Funding
Shot In The Dark: Where Credit Is Due – Grandma Bea, Where Credit Is Due – Oskar Berg, Soundtrack Part 2, Soundtrack Part 1, and Where Credit Is Due Part 1
STUMP:
The Political Hat: The Punishment For Knocking Up Your Disabled Daughter In Canada? House Arrest… If you Are Black, also, Everyone Is Invited To This Playdate Social… Except For White Kids
This Ain’t Hell: An Air Force squadron banned alcohol consumption outside of living quarters, Majority of Retired 4-Stars Employed by Defense Industry, Army Recruiting – again, Air Force lowers standards, still misses recruiting goal, Pentagon official charged with running dog fighting ring, executing losers, and Alaska Training Fatalities
Transterrestrial Musings: “Building A Deeply Inclusive Culture”, Twenty Years Of Blogging, College Kids, and Starliner
Victory Girls: Commander Leaves White House, Biden Can’t Have Dogs Anymore, Grifter Meghan Markle Wanted Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Seat, and Sage Steele “Saddest Thing” Interview With Biden
Volokh Conspiracy: Is Sen.-to-be Butler Eligible to Represent California?, also, The Demand for Political Misinformation is a Bigger Problem than the Supply—Even in the Age of AI
Watts Up With That: The Irony of “Green” Charging Stations: The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger Station, Is Much of Washington State Experiencing Severe and Extreme Drought?, and The Energy Transition is Social Vandalism
The Federalist: Authoritarian Thugs Continue Their Persecution Of Jack Phillips, 10 Ways Democrats Are Already Rigging The 2024 Election, WaPo’s Philip Bump Shills For The Chinese Communist Party By Calling Its Name ‘Pejorative’, After Ignoring Violent BLM Riots, FBI Targets Trump Supporters For Breaking Anti-Riot Laws, This Activist Wife Schmoozes The Get-Trump White House While Her Prosecutor Husband Jails J6ers, Senate Republicans Urge Pentagon To Yank Security Clearance Of Official With Reported Ties To Iran, and Promoting Porn In School Libraries Is The Real Problem, Not ‘Banned Books’
Mark Steyn: Shagged Out, Buried Truth: Richard III and Toxic Males in The Lost King, Cowardice and Cancellation, The Cosplay Candidates, and Comply with Me, Comply, Comply Away

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‘Chiseling Sociopathic Whore’

Posted on | October 6, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Chiseling Sociopathic Whore’

The title phrase is Ace’s characterization of Lindsey Hill, so if she wants to sue somebody, I ain’t the defendant, but at least I spelled her name right. She reminds me of a Johnny Rivers lyric:

Beware of pretty faces that you find.
A pretty face can hide an evil mind.

Unfortunately, guys are always judging the book by its cover, and what healthy young man would look at a sweet-looking cutie like Lindsey Hill and have the foresight to think, “This woman is going to ruin my life”?

Obviously, not Trevor Bauer:

Watch that whole video. It’s less than four minutes long, but it’s utterly devastating, and Bauer never saw it coming. This guy won the Cy Young Award in 2020 and signed a three-year, $102 million contract with the L.A. Dodgers in 2021. Five months later, he was suspended because of Lindsey Hill’s accusation of sexual assault which, I think we can all now agree, was entirely fabricated — a scam, a hoax, a fraud perpetrated for the sole purpose of getting a big payout from Bauer.

Y’know, I wish Sam Kinison were still alive. Just imagine Sam starting his routine about this situation:

“Hey, baseball boy, why don’t you sit down here at the bar and let’s have ourselves a little chat. Let’s talk about genital herpes. Did you know herpes is incurable? And it’s also kind of common. There are more than a half-a-million new cases of herpes diagnosed every year in the United States. According to the CDC, about 12% of people in America under 50 have it. So what are the odds, huh? Twelve percent — that’s like one-in-eight, you see what I’m saying? So basically if you’ve screwed eight people, your chances of getting herpes are pretty close to 100% and, well, you’re a pretty popular guy, aren’t you? Six-foot-one, professional athlete, big money — the girls are just crazy about you, right? Like that sweet-looking little thing over there, what’s her name? Lindsey? Dimples, pretty smile, nice body. Tell me, Trevor, how much do you know about Lindsey? Like, what’s her background?
“She’s 27 years old, OK? Now, what do you think her body count is? How many guys has she slept with? If I offered you a hundred-dollar bet with over/under at eight, would you bet over or under?
“Over. Yeah, of course she’s way past eight by now. She might have done eight just in the past year. Did you know that Lindsey has already screwed at least two members of the San Diego Padres? Bet she didn’t mention that, did she, Trevor? And do you know why she didn’t mention it?
“BECAUSE SHE’S A GODDAMNED LYING WHORE! ARE YOU HEARING ME, TREVOR? STAY AWAY FROM THAT WHORE OR SHE’S GOING TO RUIN YOUR LIFE SO BAD YOU’LL BE PLAYING BASEBALL IN JAPAN, YOU IDIOT!”

That’s what these young fellows need — some brutal truth about women.

There seems to be a widespread belief among young men that if a woman seems nice, she must actually be nice — as if women were incapable of deception, as if a “nice” exterior can’t be faked. It never seems to occur to these men to ask the most obvious question in such cases. For example, if a woman is very attractive, why is she still single at age 27? Why is she still in the dating market? What’s wrong with her?

No, guys are just stupid and superficial and underestimate the risk of getting involved with A LYING WHORE LIKE LINDSEY HILL!

Sorry, channeling Sam Kinison again. Don’t sue me.



 

Category: Sports

In The Mailbox: 10.05.23 (Early Morning Edition)

Posted on | October 5, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.05.23 (Early Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“Populism calls for aid – and Rohan shall answer!”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Democrats In Chicago Waking Up To The Reality Of Democrat Policies, also, Democrats Versus The Open Border
Director Blue: Who Killed America?
EBL: Did Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar Just Get Mugged By Reality?
Twitchy: Philly DA Larry Krasner Checking To See If Rioters Are “Fundamentally Law-Abiding”, “Authoritarian Watch”, and Facts Are Transphobic
Louder With Crowder: Dolphins QB shocks reporters by professing his Christian Faith, Princeton, The Ivy League One, Launches “Drag University” So Your Son Can Major In Being A Drag Queen, and “Being an absolute WHORE to get in on his 51 million”
Vox Popoli: Vibrancy in the UK, The 4Chan Guide to Rhetoric, A Sad Puppy Testifies, and Germany Declares War on Russia
Flappr: Picking DiFi’s Replacement, also, The Big TDs Football Blog – Quarter Season Review (AFC)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Endgame In Ukraine?
Dana Loesch: Kevin McCarthy Out As Speaker – Now What?
Don Surber: Trump Is Taking One For The Team

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Update From the Dept. of Ironic Crime

Posted on | October 5, 2023 | 1 Comment

Saturday we shared the tale of a young woman who made the fatal choice of Baltimore as an ideal place for “building a deeply inclusive culture.”

Since then, there seems to have been a rash of such ironic crimes. Irony is not to be confused with comedy, of course, and we would not want people to laugh at death, which is not funny. Except sometimes . . .

A left-wing Philadelphia journalist who mocked concern over rising crime in Democrat-run cities was shot to death in his home.
Josh Kruger was shot seven times after someone entered his home, shot him at the base of his stairs, and then fled. Kruger ran outside seeking help from his neighbors and collapsed, where police found them after responding to call just before 1:30 a.m. on the 2300 block of Watkins Street.
Kruger, 39, was rushed to the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he died just before 2:15 a.m.
No arrests have been made, and there was no sign of forced entry into the home, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore.
“Either the door was open, or the offender knew how to get the door open,” he said. “We just don’t know yet.”

It would be wrong to yield to the temptation of schadenfreude in such a case, but having spent some time delving through Josh Kruger’s social media, I’ve got to say that he seemed utterly obsessed with challenging what he often called “myths” about the danger of urban violence.

Permit me here to share two basic rules for a happy life:

1. Never argue with fools;

and

2. Stay the hell out of Philadelphia.

So far, so good — at least for me, but Josh Kruger had other ideas, e.g., that he was living in a “white supremacist police state.” There is a word for people who believe such things, and that word is crazy.

And speaking of crazy people . . .

Social justice activist fatally stabbed
in front of girlfriend in Brooklyn

Ryan Carson “dedicated his life to fighting for social justice,” and worked at a left-wing non-profit founded by Ralph Nader. Irony alert:

The 32-year-old was waiting for a bus with his girlfriend when police said he was brutally attacked. Surveillance video obtained by PIX11 News showed an unidentified man, who police described as emotionally disturbed, stabbing Carson several times.
The attack happened early Monday morning at the intersection of Malcolm X Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, police said. Carson and his girlfriend were on their way home from a wedding.
Carson was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. His roommates said it could have happened to anyone at any time.
The New York Public Interest Research Group, where Carson had worked, released a statement on Tuesday: “Ryan was a beloved staffer, colleague and friend, and a creative, talented, relentless and upbeat advocate for students and the environment.”

More ironic details:

The apparently unprovoked attack occurred shortly before 4 a.m. Monday. The incident was captured on surveillance footage.
The suspect walked past the couple while they were seated on a bench at a bus stop, police said. As the two then walked toward the suspect, he started to damage scooters and said to Carson, “What are you looking at?” according to [NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph] Kenny.
As Carson tried to de-escalate the situation, the suspect swung a knife at him, Kenny said. Carson backed up and tripped, falling to the ground. The suspect then stabbed him three times, with the knife piercing his heart, Kenny said.

Despite the assertion by Carson’s roommates that this “could have happened to anyone at any time,” I’d say the fact that it happened at 4 a.m. in Bedford-Stuyvesant is probably kind of relevant.

“Excuse me, sir, can you give me directions?”

“Sure, where you headed?”

“Well, I’m looking for someplace to get stabbed to death.”

“Oh, Bedford-Stuyvesant is the place you’re looking for.”

“Any particular area in Bedford-Stuyvesant? Because I’m really in a hurry to get stabbed as soon as possible.”

“Yeah, anywhere along Malcolm X Boulevard, I’d say.”

“Thanks for the help.”

“Sure. And, oh, one more thing . . .”

“What’s that?”

“Probably try to get there about four in the morning.”

“Four in the morning?”

“Yeah, that’s prime time for getting stabbed to death in Beford-Stuyvesant.”

What the heck was this Carson guy thinking, hanging out in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 4 a.m.? Waiting for a bus? He couldn’t call a cab? He couldn’t get a ride from a friend? Oh, and check this out:

(Hat-tip: John Sexton at Hot Air.) Let me be clear: Murder is bad. I am anti-murder, and no one should think that I am happy to see left-wingers getting murdered like this. Also, I am anti-carjacking, and thus cannot be accused of celebrating when a Democratic congressmen gets carjacked at gunpoint in D.C. My point in calling attention to these cases is not to advocate in favor of violence against liberals, but rather to say that, when Democrats support soft-on-crime policies, they seldom expect that they personally will suffer as a consequence of the ill-considered policies they embrace. When the boomerang comes whirling around to smack them in the back of the skull? Some might say it serves them right.

I’m just saying it’s ironic.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 10.04.23 (Punditocracy Edition)

Posted on | October 4, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.04.23 (Punditocracy Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This has been a rough week so far, and the next couple of weeks aren’t looking too good either.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Get in the robot, Shinji. God wills it!

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Jamaal Bowman Pulls A Fire Alarm at the Capitol, Gavin Newsom apppoints Marylander Laphonza Butler to fill Dianne Feinstein’s California Senate Seat, and Kevin McCarthy’s Bad Weekend
Twitchy: Sadly, Scott Adams Gets The Last Laugh, “Do Not Trust The Press”, and DA Explains How Zero Bail Policy Will Make The Country Safer
Louder With Crowder: Addicts Are Not Too Happy Over San Francisco Mayor’s Proposal To Enforce Drug Tests, Treatment For Welfare Recipients, Liberal audience roars as Ron DeSantis reminds Bill Maher about his election-denying “Hollywood friends” in 2016, and What’s more cringe: Biden forgetting where he is, or supporters singing a pro-Biden Backstreet Boys parody song to him?
Vox Popoli: The Kids are All Right, The Material Side of the Spiritual War, China Signs On, Immigration of Color = Bankruptcy, and The Saga of the Baen Exemplar
Stoic Observations: The Public Speaker
Gab News: An Amazon Alternative For The Parallel Economy

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A Self-Inflicted Disaster as Republicans Vote to Boot Kevin McCarthy as Speaker

Posted on | October 4, 2023 | 1 Comment

Perhaps some of my readers are not sad to see Kevin McCarthy voted out as Speaker of the House. And I’m here to tell you, you’re wrong.

Perhaps you recall the scene from Gone With the Wind in which Rhett is helping Scarlett and Melanie escape Atlanta before the Yankee invaders arrive. At one point, the road is blocked by a passing column of Confederate troops. Scarlett frets: “Oh, dear, I wish they’d hurry,” to which Rhett replies, “I wouldn’t be in such a hurry to see them go if I were you. With them goes the last semblance of law and order.”

So it is with ex-Speaker McCarthy. Some conservatives may have loathed McCarthy as a compromised, unprincipled sellout, and I have no interest in debating anyone about McCarthy’s faults. The problem is that, having created this vacancy, the GOP insurgents offer no candidate capable of filling the void. Critics may say that anyone would be better than McCarthy, but which “anyone” do they have in mind?

Some people are simply incapable of teamwork. They are so monstrously selfish that they would rather rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven. It is unfortunate that such egomaniacs are often elected to public office, where their own vanity and ambition makes them dangerous and untrustworthy. Such is the character, I suspect, of Kevin McCarthy’s enemies, whose appetite for destruction is unlikely to coincide with similar talent for creating anything to replace what they’ve destroyed.



 

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