De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum

Posted on | September 29, 2023 | Comments Off on De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum

The Democratic Party tradition of dying in office can be traced to Franklin Delano Roosevelt who, in 1940, chose to seek reelection for a third term, breaking the two-term precedent set by George Washington. Then in 1944, FDR had the excuse of World War II to seek a fourth term in the White House, even though at that point it was clear that he probably didn’t have much longer to live. True, there have been Republicans who emulated FDR’s example, but in general it’s Democrats who cling to office until they join the choir invisible. We should not therefore use the occasion of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death to criticize her for staying in the Senate long past the point where she was capable of discharging the duties of her office. She was a Democrat, and that’s what Democrats always do, if they can. In the one-party state that is the People’s Republic of California, there was never a chance that Feinstein could have lost to a Republican. The only question now is, which Democrat will succeed her to become the state’s next Senator-for-life.

Heh heh heh heh. Whatever Governor Hairgel does, identity politics is certain to turn the fight for Feinstein’s seat into intra-party warfare.

As I explained a few months ago, it was already rumored that Feinstein, who would have been up for reelection in 2024, would instead retire. Young “progressive” firebrand Rep. Katie Porter was the first to throw her hat in the ring, but black Democrats in California believed they were entitled to Feinstein’s seat. Now the price has come due:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death Friday puts enormous political pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom to pick a successor acceptable to Black Democrats, who are already furious at him for his ideas about a replacement.
After replacing Sen. Kamala Harris, the Senate’s only Black woman, with Sen. Alex Padilla in 2021, Newsom told MSNBC’s Joy Reid that if he had to appoint someone else to the Senate, it would be a Black woman.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, who’s running for Feinstein’s seat next year, would appear to be a logical choice. But Newsom last month said he would name a Black woman on an interim basis to complete Feinstein’s term, which ends in January 2025.
He spoke about his decision on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where moderator Chuck Todd said, “it would be essentially a caretaker—an African American woman?”
Newsom replied, “We hope we never have to make this decision, but I abide by what I’ve said very publicly on a consistent basis. Yes.”
He explained that choosing one of the Democrats running for the full term — Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter are also candidiates — “would be completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is just a matter of months away. I don’t want to tip the balance of that.”
That ignited a political firestorm, as Lee and others protested. “The idea that a Black woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to simply check a box is insulting to countless Black women across this country who have carried the Democratic Party to victory election after election,” she tweeted shortly after Newsom made his comments.

There are currently no Black women serving in the Senate. Since 1789, there have only been two Black woman Senators, who have served a total of 10 years.

— Barbara Lee (@BarbaraLeeForCA) September 11, 2023

So now we get Adam Schiff and Katie Porter in a racial mud-wrestling match with Barbara Lee, in a state where 40% of the population is Hispanic. Thank you for your excellent timing, Senator Feinstein!

Category: California, Democrats

In The Mailbox: 09.27.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.27.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

I did that!

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: How To Resist Pumpkin Spice Season, China Collapse and the Housing Market, and URBAN RETAIL DESERTS (coming soon to a Democrat city near you)
Twitchy: Pillow Talk Screenshot With Matt Gaetz Seems To Prove Cassidy Hutchinson Lied – AGAIN, WaPoo Makes Startling Discovery – Texas Has A Lot Of Guns, and Harry Sisson’s Birthday Wish Goes Hilariously Awry
Louder With Crowder: Colin Kaepernick tries another pathetic attempt at comeback, White Woman Wins Miss Universe Zimbabwe — But Not Everyone Is Happy, and Smug reporter asks Dana White about Christian fighter bringing Bible to cage, didn’t expect Dana’s perfect answer
Vox Popoli: Encoloring the Corpocracy, 5x Risk, and The Last Stage of the US Experiment
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – Sen. Menendez Did Nothing Wrong

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Happy Hundred, Hank, also, In Fight for Democracy, Biden Administration Sides with Autocracy
American Greatness: Report: Dr. Fauci ‘Played a Role’ in the CIA’s Cover-up of COVID-19 Lab-Leak Origins
American Thinker: The Devolution of Zelensky
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cubans fighting for Russia in Ukraine used as cannon fodder, regret signing ‘pact with the devil’, Smithsonian’s Latino Museum was designed to push a Marxist take on Latin America, and 1.6 million tourists visited Cuba in past 8 months, but numbers remain lower than expected
BattleSwarm: Defund The Police + Decriminalize Shoplifting = “Food Deserts”, also, Meta Rips Off The Author And Passes The Savings On To Skynet
Behind The Black: Red China launches classified satellite using its Long March 4C rocket, Three astronauts return to Earth safely, completing 371 day mission, Small group of astronomers call for renaming the Magellanic Clouds, accusing Magellan of racism, India successfully tests upgraded upper stage engine for manned mission, Ingenuity completes 60th flight, sets new speed record, and Today’s blacklisted Americans: Hollywood’s new racist discrimination employment policies which blacklist whites
Cafe Hayek: The Curious Task of Economics
CDR Salamander: No Justice For The Fat Leonard Four
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech…As of This Week, also, Fahrenheit 451
Da Tech Guy: The Time For Choosing Grows Closer For The Left
Dana Loesch: The Second GOP Debate – I Watched It So You Didn’t Have To
Don Surber: LGBT vs. Muslims
First Street Journal: Charges against police officer dismissed, so the Usual Suspects riot
Gates Of Vienna: The Dialectics of the Communist Revolution in North America, New Information on the Natalee Holloway Case, Woke vs. Muslims: Who Will Win? The Accelerating Cultural Enrichment of the Czech Republic, and Integration? Never Heard of the Word!
The Geller Report: Veterans Become HOMELESS After Democrats Give Nursing Home Rooms To Criminal Illegal Aliens
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Tonight’s Panel Discussion, Eta Carinae Grows, and Tonight’s Postmortem
Hollywood In Toto: 5 Reasons an Office Reboot Is a Terrible Idea, Morgan Wallen Leaves Cancel Culture in the Dust, Will Saturday Night Live (Finally) Roast President Biden? and BREAKING: ‘Sound of Freedom’ Team Announces Home Release Dates
The Lid: Maine Schools Calls Police on Dad Who Objected to School Giving His Daughter a Baggie of Antidepressants
Legal Insurrection: Professional Beekeepers Warn That Policies Based on ‘Colony Collapse’ Mania are Hurting Biodiversity, Study Finds Shocking Lack of Proficiency in Math at Baltimore Public Schools, NY State Judge Finds Trump Organizations Repeatedly Provided Fraudulent Valuations To Lenders and Insurers, Missouri AG Sues School Board Over Secret Transgender Bathroom Policy Meetings, Dems Likely To Pick Up Second Alabama Congressional Seat As SCOTUS Refuses To Stop New Map Selection, Report: Top Officials on Biden’s Iran Team Acted Under Directions From Tehran, and Pro-Abortion CUNY Students Protested the Presence of a Catholic Bishop on Campus
Nebraska Energy Observer: Parapet Peeping
Outkick: Dana White Reacts To Fighter Bringing Bible Into Octagon, Travis Kelce’s Ex Implies He’ll Cheat On Taylor Swift, College Football Playoff Management Committee ‘Leaning’ Towards New Format, Native American Group Sues Washington Commanders, Wants ‘Redskins’ Name Back, Colin Kaepernick Petitions New York Jets To Let Him Join Their Practice Squad, and Miami Heat Star Jimmy Butler Reacts To California’s Skyrocketing Gas Prices
Power Line: Europe: Tangled Up In Green, September in the Rage, and No Manifesto Destiny
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds – No Border Security, No Shutdown Deal
Shot In The Dark: The Beatings Will Continue Until The Beat-ee Decides Otherwise, also, Translating DFL To English
The Political Hat: Activist Scholars
This Ain’t Hell: Shutdown threatened, imminent!, U.S. Navy surface drones visit Japan, Three More Accounted For, NORKs to Expel Private King, and A KC-135’s autopilot turned on or off without prompting
Victory Girls: Hunter Biden Wire Transfers Lead To The Big Guy’s Home
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Rejects Claim That Wife Was Civilly Responsible for Her Husband’s Raping Other Women
Watts Up With That: Judge Blocks Biden’s Unlawful Lease Sale Restriction, Wailing Greens: “Tory strategy is now turning net zero into election fodder”, and New Zealand Farmers Fed Up with Extreme Climate Policies
The Federalist: Texas Church Pays To Send Minors Across State Lines For Genital Mutilation Surgery, If The Pentagon Gets Away With Funding Abortion Without A Vote In Congress, It Won’t Stop There, How Trustworthy Are Medical Organizations That Rabidly Support Until-Birth Abortion? Explosive Documents Show DOJ Official Prohibited Agents From Mentioning Joe Biden In Warrant, Regime Attacks On Russell Brand Are A Proxy To Fight Free Speech Rumble, N.Y. Judge Cherry-Picks Lowball Mar-a-Lago Appraisal To Find Trump Guilty Of Inflating Property Values, and West Virginia’s Top Election Official Demands Congress Give DHS An Ultimatum: Fire 2020 Election Meddlers Or No Funding

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In The Mailbox: 09.27.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 27, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.27.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Well, someone has to be the Democrat Party scapegoat, also, The Most Wunderbar Time Of The Year
Twitchy: Schiff’s Rant About Government Shutdown Backfires Bigly, Pew Poll Examines Ending The Electoral College With Some Surprising Findings, and That’s Some Wicked Side-Eye
Louder With Crowder: Guess what? An alarming number of Democrats think YOU have too much freedom as an American, Law Capping Magazine Capacity Too Extreme For Even California, Gets Struck Down AGAIN By Federal Judge, and Matt Gaetz fact-checks CNN LIVE on air so hard, they rush to go to commercial
Vox Popoli: France Retreats From Africa, Of Games and Civilizations, Literally Taking the Ticket, Green is Innumeracy, The Satanic Morality, and The Legend Will Not Be Cancelled

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: No Surprises Behind the Fake Meat Lobby
American Greatness: Is the Draft Coming Back? American Taxpayer Dollars Subsidizing Ukrainian Small Businesses, and Trump Saddled With Rap That More Accurately Fits A Corrupt Biden
American Thinker: A Look at the Fundamental Hypothesis of Global Warming
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Xenotransplant News
Babalu Blog: A meditation on the sacrilegious travesty at Father Varela’s church in New York, Cuban volleyball player defects in Canada, and Shocking photos released of ‘firebombs’ allegedly tossed at Cuban embassy in Washington
BattleSwarm:
Behind The Black: Bob Smith out at Blue Origin, SpaceX donates used Merlin engine and Falcon 9 grid fin to Smithsonian, A mountain buried by lava on Mars, Lacking funds to build its spacecraft, the VERITAS project team goes to Iceland, and Pushback: Federal court rules against ban of Christian student group by San Jose Unified School District
Cafe Hayek: People Who Worry About the Trade Deficit, also, I Repeat Myself
CDR Salamander: Another Cold War Revival
Da Tech Guy: When the music’s over, also, A great MLB finish (except for the Red Sox and Yanks)
Dana Loesch: Why, Kari Lake? Why?
Don Surber: Foreign aid feeds Senators
Gates Of Vienna: Western Women, Wake Up! Islam Is Not Your Friend, An Enriching Experience on the French Metro, No Place to Lay My Head, and Jihad in Charleroi
The Geller Report: Mayo Clinic Recommends Hydroxychloroquine Be Used to Treat Coronavirus (COVID-19) (Three Years Too Late), also, “Uncharged Co-Conspirators”: Smartmatic Implicated in Massive Bribery Scheme
Hogewash: Sanctuary Cities, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Bipolar Nebula, and Democracy Dies in Derpness™
Hollywood In Toto: The Creator Has an Avatar Problem
The Lid: Documents Show Biden Admin Saw Border Surge Coming — But Did Nothing To Stop It
Legal Insurrection: Uber Offers Free Rides to Temple University Students to Help Them Feel Safe, ‘Total Annihilation’: Hunter Biden Sues Rudy Giuliani for Allegedly ‘Hacking’ His Data, Appeals Court: Texas Board of Regents Members Not Immune From Suit by Prof. Whose First Amendment Rights Allegedly Were Violated, Remembering the Yom Kippur War, 50 Years On, and National Institutes of Health Funds Used for Program Pairing “LGBT Adults With Teens for Online ‘Mentoring’ Without Parental Consent”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Here’s what you do
Outkick: Native American Group Hopes Taylor Swift Can End Chiefs’ Tomahawk Chop, Because Apparently There Are No Other Issues, Oregon’s Dan Lanning Calls Skip Bayless Comments ‘Classless,’ Praises What Deion Sanders Is Doing For College Football, Deion Sanders’ Son Caught On Camera Making Vulgar Remarks Prior To Oregon Loss, Xavien Howard Says Broncos Made ‘Totally Disrespectful’ Decision Not To Pull Russell Wilson In 50-Point Loss, Travis Kelce Merch Sales Skyrocket, And There’s Likely One Group To Thank, and Stephen A. Smith Can’t Stop Talking About His Exes, Skip Bayless And Max Kellerman
Power Line: Why Are Liberals Such Hypocrites? Because “The Rules Don’t Apply to Us”
Shark Tank: With the farm bill looming, Rick Scott addresses Florida’s agriculture problems
Shot In The Dark: Fringe, also, Vicious Cycle – Or Controlled Demolition
The Political Hat: Complete Synthetic Embryos Without Legal Restriction Mean One Thing: Legally Mass Produced Genetically Engineered Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: The Army chooses four companies to build prototypes for robotic combat vehicle, also, Vietnam veteran’s home sold without his knowledge
Transterrestrial Musings: Finally, Conscious Choice, Color Blindness, and SLS Flight Rate
Victory Girls: Looming Government Shutdown 2023
Volokh Conspiracy: Hoover’s “Good Fellows” on the Supreme Court’s Recent and Likely Upcoming Decisions
Watts Up With That: Public Anger at The Hidden Costs of Net Zero Energy Policies, also, “Climate Change killed my family” – or Was it the Badly Managed Local Dams?
The Federalist: If Larry Hogan And Chris Christie Care About The Country, They Should Run For Senate, Not President, Wisconsin Republicans Introduce Measures To Withdraw State From ERIC, Ban ‘Zuckbucks’ In Elections, This Health Care Fight Shows How Conservatives Can Thwart DC Spending Sprees, and No, Gen. Mark Milley Didn’t ‘Protect’ The Constitution From Donald Trump
Mark Steyn: The Dames of Descending Darkness

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In The Mailbox: 09.26.23

Posted on | September 26, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.26.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

How it’s going.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Last week in Canada…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Should You Believe Bob Iger?
EBL: Roger Whittaker, RIP, Silo, The Continental, Communists vs. Fascists, and The Covenant
Twitchy: Isn’t This Interesting? Harry ~~Smollett~~Sisson’s Terrible Bomb Threat Story Gets Even Worse, and Bidenomics Blunder – Poll Shows GOP Has 21-point Edge On Economy
Louder With Crowder: Black mayor says American cities NEED Republican leadership, so he’s becoming one, This TikToker Is Making Big Boobs Great Again, and Travis Kelce sells out, not with Taylor Swift, but by cutting this Pfizer ad for Big Pharma
Vox Popoli: Officially a Thing, Eyes On Always, Should We Cancel Chuck Dixon, Tilting at Windmills, and The History Subscription
Draw & Talk: Comic Drama Births New Creative Outlet
Stoic Observations: The Post-Negro Citizen

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Communist Plot behind The Voice
American Conservative: Yes, Social Media Censorship Is a First Amendment Issue
American Greatness: Is the Left Happy That They Got Their Wish? Biden Regime Gives Christian Family That Fled Germany 15 Years Ago Four Weeks to ‘Self-Deport’, and We Know Exactly What ‘De-Development’ Means
American Thinker: They Want You Dead, Now They’re Just Poking Their Fingers in Our Eyes, and Pull Back the Curtain on False Federal Narratives
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: No more compulsory military service in Cuba! Reports from Cuba: Abandoned for decades, Cuban sugar mill will be converted into ‘tourist complex’, Cubans keep pouring into U.S. through Mexico, up to 184,643 so far this year, and While Cubans suffer food shortages, Castro dictatorship holds a gourmet food festival
BattleSwarm: Ken Paxton On The Forces Behind His Impeachment, Berkeley Retail Shutting Down Just Like San Francisco, and Who Had “Rick Perry, Psychedelic Warrior” on Their 2023 Bingo Card?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites, flying its second booster for a 17th time, OSIRIS-REx Sample from Bennu successfully recovered, Almost all of Mars’ geological mysteries in one spot, SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, and Pushback: Pennsylvania HS students stage walk-out protesting rule allowing boys inside girls’ bathrooms
Cafe Hayek: Responding to Robert Lighthizer
CDR Salamander: SLCM-N? Hard Pass
Chicago Boyz: Revealing
Da Tech Guy: The Less than 1% solution, I’m tired of polishing turds in the Navy, If Then Else Again on AB 957, Droogs’ paradise: Rough first week for the “Purge Law” in Illinois, and Shock Revelation, Men Don’t Buy the Cow When the Milk is Free and other things my parents & grandparents knew
Don Surber: Journalists adopt lefty language
First Street Journal: The failure of big city public schools, Today’s American left really, really hate our individual rights!, and Killadelphia: Turn on, tune in, get dead!
Gates Of Vienna: Here We Go Again, “Non-European Mass Immigration is a Scourge”, The ECJ Says: Let Them All In, and Bloodbath Averted at the Bahnhof
The Geller Report: Staten Islanders Arrested After Peacefully Protesting Buses Carrying Illegal Migrants Being Moved to Residential School, BIDEN: “I’ve directed my team to make a HISTORIC INCREASE in the number of refugees”, Soros Funds Purchase of 22 Papers in Maine, and Cancers Appearing in ‘Ways Never Seen Before’ After Covid Shots, Top Expert Warns
Hogewash: Autumn Begins, Getting Ready for Sunday, Later Today, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: No One Will Save You Crumbles at Worst Possible Time, Howard Stern Banned Adam Carolla for Craziest Reason, Conservatives Can’t Fight Culture Wars Without Doing THIS First, and Free the People Pummels Apple Over Woke Eco Video
The Lid: Illegals From Venezuela Plant Venezuelan Flag on American Soil – Biden Grants 470,000 Work Visas
Legal Insurrection: Administrators Nearly Outnumber Undergrads at Stanford University, FBI Accused of Stealing or Losing Seized Property, Including Cash and Gold Coins Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars, Boston University Launches ‘Inquiry’ Into Ibram Kendi’s Collapsing ‘Anti-Racist’ Think Tank for Possible Mismanagement of Funds, Democratic El Paso Mayor: City at ‘Breaking Point,’ Sends Migrants to Sanctuary Cities, New Mural at UC-Santa Cruz Says ‘Stop Calling Police, Keep Cops Off Campus’, California OK’s Plan to Allow Insurance Companies to Use “Climate Crisis” to Inflate Rates, and Catholic Student Group at U. Minnesota Medical School in Duluth Called ‘Controversial’ for Opposing ‘Gender Affirming Care’ for Minors
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, and The fall of the Republic?
Outkick: Colorado Players Stomp On Oregon Logo After Calling Out Nebraska For Same Thing, Midnight Comes For Deion, Colorado As Oregon Demolishes Buffaloes’ Cinderella Start In Epic Beatdown, Cleveland Guardians Minority Owner Thinks Fans Have Grown To Like Team’s Name, Insane: Ohio State Defeats Notre Dame On 1-yard Run In Final Seconds, Ryan Day Immediately Calls-Out Lou Holtz, Mike Greenberg Says ‘Dumpster Fire’ Bears Are ‘Ruining’ Justin Fields, Taylor Swift Filmed…..Picking Up Trash After Chiefs Game?, and Oktoberfest Waitress Goes Viral For Carrying 13 Beers Weighing A Total Of 65 Pounds
Power Line: Why Won’t Biden Close the Border? No Need to Swim the Rio Grande, POLITIQUEROS? and Kamala’s Latest Whopper
Shark Tank: Franklin Introduces Resolution To Keep USDA From Cutting Off School Lunch Money
Shot In The Dark: Darn Those Authoritarian Republicans, also, Some Questions Are Impossible To Answer
The Political Hat: Nevada GOP Establishment (GOPe) To Most Nevada GOP Voters: Your Voice Shouldn’t Count
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans denied honorable discharges, due to ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ to have their case reviewed, South Korean police officers raid U.S. Army bases, From the Jungles of Vietnam to the Rubble of 9/11 – Man’s Story is Inconsistent, Gotta love it, Suicide hotline botched veteran’s cry for help, Air Force veteran as Miss September 2024 for Pin-Ups for Vets calendar, and Veterans Affairs training video promotes abortion
Transterrestrial Musings: DIE, Spirits Of The Age, Why Our Generals Can’t Think, Costco, and The CLuster B Society
Victory Girls: Menendez: Everyone Is Racist, Now And Forever And The Deletion Of History, and Canada House Speaker Rota Says He Did Nazi That Coming
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Stemming from Parent’s Speech About COVID Policies
Watts Up With That: British PM Announces Net Zero Retreat as King Charles Visits France, Desperate governors beg for offshore wind cost relief, “A Cleverly Staged Hoax”, The Global War on Farming: ‘Net Zero and the American beef industry cannot coexist’, and Values Of Used EVs Plummet, As Dealers Stuck With Unsold Cars
The Federalist: Lawsuit Over Sex-Trafficked Teen Could Stop Schools From Hiding Kids’ Dysphoria, UK Study Finds Puberty Blockers Exacerbated Mental Anguish For Trans-Identified Teens, Polls Show Democrat Campaign Strategy Of Indicting Political Opponents Has Backfired Horrifically, Washington Funds Ukraine Forever War While Our Own Soldiers’ Barracks Rot, Judge In Fulton County Trump Case Reveals How Dangerous This Prosecution Is To Our Country, and Canadian Parliament Gives Standing Ovation To A Literal Nazi While Zelensky Pumps His Fist In Solidarity
Mark Steyn: Behind Enemy Lines: One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Taking the Chief, and Surrendering Christendom

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Still ‘No Evidence’ of Biden Corruption?

Posted on | September 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Still ‘No Evidence’ of Biden Corruption?

Gonna be kind of hard for Democrats to spin this one:

Hunter Biden received wires that originated in Beijing for more than $250,000 from Chinese business partners during the summer of 2019 — wires that listed the Delaware home of Joe Biden as the beneficiary address for the funds, Fox News Digital has learned from a congressional committee.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has been investigating the Biden family business dealings and President Biden’s alleged involvement in those ventures.
As part of the investigation, Comer subpoenaed financial records related to a specific bank account and received records of two wires originating from Beijing and linked to BHR Partners.
BHR Partners is a joint-venture between Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca and Chinese investment firm Bohai Capital. BHR Partners is a Beijing-backed private equity firm controlled by Bank of China Limited. Hunter Biden reportedly sat on the board of directors of BHR Partners.
The first wire transfer sent to Hunter Biden, dated July 26, 2019, was for $10,000 from an individual named Ms. Wang Xin. There is a Ms. Wang Xin listed on the website for BHR Partners. It is unclear if the wire came from that Wang Xin.
The second wire transfer sent to Hunter Biden, dated Aug. 2, 2019, was for $250,000 from Li Xiang Sheng — also known as Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR Partners — and Ms. Tan Ling. The committee is trying to identify Ling’s role.
The beneficiary for the wires is listed as Robert Hunter Biden with the address “1209 Barley Mill Rd.” in Wilmington, Delaware. That address is the main residence for President Biden.

This was after Biden had declared his 2020 campaign. Even as he was telling everybody he knew nothing about his son’s foreign business deals, hundreds of thousands of dollars from China were being wired to his home address. Still no grounds for impeachment, eh?

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden

‘Who Fought for Ukrainian Independence Against the Russians’ in WWII?

Posted on | September 25, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Who Fought for Ukrainian Independence Against the Russians’ in WWII?

Sometimes the Godwin’s Law jokes write themselves:

Following addresses to the parliament in Ottowa on Friday from both [Canadian Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, the Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota prompted a standing ovation as he honoured a “veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98.”
“His name is Yaroslav Hunka… he is a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service,” Rota continued before a second round of applause.
In the caption of a picture published by the Associated Press showing Zelensky and Trudeau standing and applauding Hunka, the news wire service identified Hunka as a former member of the “First Ukrainian Division in World War II”. The division is also known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a division comprised mostly of Ukrainian volunteers after being established by Nazi Germany in 1943. . . .
In a Ukrainian language post on the blog Combatant News attributed to Hunak, he claimed to have joined the Nazi military division in 1943. The post also featured pictures of himself during the war, including his apparent training by the SS in Munich.
Ivan Katchanovski of the University of Ottowa described the celebration of Hunka as “truly unbelievable” and an “epic scandal“, questioning: “Did anyone in parliament or Zelensky realize that he served in [the] Waffen SS division?”

This is how childishly simple-minded liberals are: Whatever they like is good, and whatever they dislike is evil. During the Cold War, conservatives were willing to tolerate various authoritarians as allies in opposition to Soviet-backed Communist revolutionaries, a doctrine explained by Jeane Kirkpatrick in an influential article, “Dictatorships and Double Standards.” Meanwhile, liberals were stamping their feet and throwing tantrums about “human rights” in Latin America, Africa and other places, where pro-Western governments were in a life-or-death struggle with Moscow-backed terrorists like the murderous Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Liberals were so fascinated with their own rhetoric about “human rights” — an intellectual abstraction — that they were unable to see that Marxist victories in such situations would mean the annihilation of thousands, and whatever “rights” they may have had.

Well, the Cold War ended, and liberals expect us all to forget how wrong they were about everything back then, and now they’ve climbed onto a new hobby horse, where Russia and Putin are the bogeymen, which becomes an excuse to ignore the much greater threat posed by Communist China. And, because they think of the proxy war against Putin as an expression of their moral superiority, liberals are utterly blind to any problems with their friends in Ukraine. So you have the liberals in the Canadian parliament applauding a literal Nazi, and if you object to this . . . Well, you’re a right-wing extremist and probably racist, too.

Category: Canada, Ukraine

Rule 5 Monday: Farm Girls

Posted on | September 25, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Monday: Farm Girls

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Fall, the harvest season, is here, and with it thoughts of ladies in overalls.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five WaPo Gets Real Friday, Rule Five Looming Recession Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon (9/16), and this week’s Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, U.S. Senate House Of Style, Shania Twain, MAGA Michigan, Cassidy Hutchinson, Acapulco Season 2, Foundation Season 2, National Cheeseburger Day, “Breakfast At Tiffany’s”, and Wilderness.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: María Pedraza, Merrick in the Mire, Fish Pic Friday – Rionholder, New Florida Pompano Record in MD, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Hunter Emails Contradict Joe’s Denials, Girlfriend, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for September 22

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Gewitter

Posted on | September 24, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Gewitter

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A very good week for the Senators as we hosted the Giants and Angels at RFK this week; we won two out of three in each series, getting Juan Marichal his 15th win and Jim Kaat his 9th. This week will be a little tougher since we face the Yankees on Tuesday and the Reds on Friday, but if we can pull a .500 week off, I’ll be happy. Pete’s Brewers have already embraced their fate and are in the process of rebuilding for next year with draft picks.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.