In The Mailbox: 09.13.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 14, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.13.23 (Evening Edition)

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Power Shift In Cable Vs. Content Providers
EBL: Escaped Murderer Danelo Cavalcante Captured in Pennsylvania, McCarthy Allows Biden Impeachment Inquiry To Go Forward, and Thank you King Jan Sobieski of Poland and your Winged Hussars
Twitchy: Glenn Greenwald Wants You To Listen For Yourself To What A Fascist Rachel Maddow Is, Gov. DeSantis Schools Nora O’Donnell On The Florida Heartbeat Law & Other Matters, and WaPoo Scribbler Alexandra Petri Tries Scolding GOP Over Biden Impeachment Inquiry, Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Preschool teacher goes viral bragging about teaching 4-year-olds they can find another family: “F*** your mom”, Matthew McConaughey puts his finger in Joy Behar’s Face After She Calls Him Anti-Gun: “A Game I’m Not Interested In Playing”, St. Louis Clinic Ditches ‘Transgender Care’ For Minors Over Law Exposing Doctors To Lawsuits, and Exclusive: Top Pornhub Employee Spills How Company Supports Rape & Child Porn!
Vox Popoli: A Decade of War, Playing the Divorce Hand, and Only Cowards Don’t See Color
Stoic Observations: Dakota

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: If you do not become a holy saint then you have failed at this life
American Conservative: War, Money, and America’s Future
American Greatness: White House Sends Letter To Media Allies Directing Them to Intensify ‘Scrutiny’ of House Republicans Investigating Biden Corruption, Court Allows Greg Abbott to Continue Buoy Wall in Rio Grande River , National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby Asked Why Biden Keeps Telling Obvious Lies, and Census Bureau: Income Dropped & Poverty Rose Under Biden
American Power: Las Vegas’s Yet-to-Open Spherical Performance Venue is Already Famous for Bizarre Imagery It Broadcasts, also, Liz Wheeler, Hide Your Children
American Thinker: The Paper Ballot is the Vote of Record, Will Democrats False Flag Us into a War with Russia?, and Apathy Is No Longer an Option
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Ladies in White are still being arrested and fined for attempting to attend church on Sunday, Cuban dictatorship has sent as many as 14,000 soldiers to fight for Russia in Ukraine, and Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist: Fidel Castro’s grandson dines at gourmet restaurant as Cubans starve
Baldilocks: Memories Of The First Life, Part 5
BattleSwarm: Ukraine Hits Two Ships in Sevastopol Dry Dock
Behind The Black: Starlink and SES team up to provide broadband service to cruise lines, New Shepard remains grounded, a year after launch failure, Update on the status of Vulcan, Ariane-6, and New Glenn, The drying out of Mars’ tropics, and Pushback: The momentum builds against the Marxist American Library Association
Cafe Hayek: Defending Globalization
CDR Salamander: Sweden Shows It Can Be Done
Chicago Boyz: Harvard and America
Da Tech Guy: Just How Hard Up are Nurse Practitioners in Virginia?, also, DaTechGuy’s Daily Dose of Pintastic NE 2023: The Glimmerhold Arcade Manchester NH
Don Surber: Abbott’s Buses Won The Battle
First Street Journal: NY Times Says Ukraine Aid Benefits GOP Districts, So It’s A Shame Many Republicans Are Against It, California Legislature Passes More Gun Restrictions On Law Abiding Citizens, and SCNY Mayor Plans Cuts To City Agencies To Pay For Illegal Aliens
Gates Of Vienna: Silvia Sardone: “The Islamic Veil is Not a Symbol of Freedom”, also, We’ll Take Them Back — If the Price is Right
The Geller Report: BIDENOMICS: Inflation Surges Above Expectations, also, BUH BYE: Romney the rat says he will not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate
Hogewash: Public Relations Pro Tip, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Io and Jupiter
Hollywood In Toto: D’Souza’s Police State Captures Country’s Two Tiers of Justice, A Million Miles Away is the Marriage Mash Note We Needed, and Country Superstar John Rich to Rolling Stone: Pound Sand
Legal Insurrection: New Mexico Democratic Attorney General Won’t Enforce Gov’s Gun Carry Ban, New Mexico Federal Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order on Gun Carry Ban, Member of Drag Group That Mocks Catholics Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation, Kim Jong Un Meets Vladimir Putin, Vows to Support Russia’s ‘Sacred Fight’, Chuck U. Schumer Calls Impeachment Inquiry of Biden a Time and Money Wasting ‘Witch Hunt’, and California Court Blocks School District’s Gender Notification Policy
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Road To Hell Goes Through Apathy
Outkick: New York Jets Reportedly Make Decision On Signing Colin Kaepernick, Police Pose For Epic Photo After Catching Escaped Killer Danelo Cavalcante, OnlyFans Star Allie Rae Announces Huge Update After Being Blocked By Minnesota, Credits OutKick For Her Success, Brittney Griner Named AP Co-WNBA Comeback Player Of The Year, Rob Gronkowski Makes It Clear He’s Against Men Competing In Women’s Sports, New Report Says NCAA Could Dissolve, Top Teams Could Partner With NFL, and NASCAR Announces Noah Gragson Has Been Reinstated
Power Line: When Spinning Becomes Lying, Democrats Hate Democracy, and The $6 billion misunderstanding, cont’d
Shark Tank: Despite Bipartisan Effort, NCAA Denies FSU Player’s Waiver Appeal
Shot In The Dark: A Modest Proposal & A Sincere Invitation, also, Insult To Hundreds Of Injuries
The Political Hat: Politics As Faith
This Ain’t Hell: Alvin Straight, More Accounted For, The U.S. Navy to reconsider 3,770 medical discharges for retirement upgrades, and Flag Wars Finger Pointing
Transterrestrial Musings: Minority Voters, Climate Dissent, and The Governor Of New Mexico
Victory Girls: Democrats Whine That The GOP Is Using Their Impeachment Rules, also, The Democrats’ Newest Porn Star Susanna Gibson Hits Back
Volokh Conspiracy: N.M. Attorney General Refuses to Defend N.M. Governor’s Temporary Ban on Gun Carry in Albuquerque Area
Watts Up With That: Europe’s solar industry warns of bankruptcy risk as prices drop, also, Did the BBC’s Specialist Disinformation Reporter Lie on her CV?
The Federalist: Behind Deion Sanders’ Flash And Fame Is A Whole Lot Of Faith And Fortitude, Biden’s Air Force Nominee Believes It’s ‘Naive’ For Service Members To Doubt The Military’s ‘Institutional Racism’, There’s No Way To Justify Continued Funding For The Federal Government, There’s More Than Enough Evidence For A Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry, FBI Agent Trying To Discredit Whistleblower Testimony Blew His Own Credibility In Covering For Weiss, and The Dearth Of Historical Fiction Is A Disservice To Curious Kids Everywhere

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Category: Linkagery

You Stay Classy, Virginia Democrats!

Posted on | September 13, 2023 | Comments Off on You Stay Classy, Virginia Democrats!

The best part of this scandal involving Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates (and there are many good parts) is that Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire apparently got paid to watch the candidate’s “HotWifeExperience” videos:

A Democrat candidate for state office in Virginia appears to have been raising money for a “good cause” by performing graphic sex acts online, where she told viewers she liked “being choked” and said they could watch her urinate for the right price, according to material reviewed by The Daily Wire.

(“Material reviewed” = watching porn, because “research.”)

Susanna Gibson, who is running for a seat in the narrowly divided Virginia statehouse, was as recently as last year posting as “HotWifeExperience” on the website Chaturbate, where men could pay tokens to get her to perform specific sex acts. In one video recorded shortly after she launched her campaign last year, she told her husband, “I’ll let you f— me in the a– doggy style in a private room if someone wants to pay. That’s the deal.”
In another video, she appears to say that for the right price, viewers could watch her urinate. “Y’all can watch me pee if you tip me and some tokens,” she said. “Again, I’m raising money for a good cause.”
“I like being choked. I like being hit. I do,” she said in one video posted exactly a year ago, on September 11, 2022. . . .

(A video which Luke Rosiak got paid to watch.)

In the videos, she appears to be filmed with her husband, lawyer John David Gibson, who ensured that the raunchiest acts were reserved for the biggest spendings, saying “no anal outside of private.”

(Democrats have such high standards, you see.)

The Washington Post first reported the story on Monday afternoon, and The Daily Wire independently obtained the videos.

(Videos that Luke Rosiak got paid to watch.)

Gibson did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire asking whether the “good cause” was her Senate campaign. But she appears to acknowledge to The Washington Post that the videos are authentic, claiming that they are “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”

(When you post videos of yourself to the Internet, how is it an “invasion of privacy” for people to watch them, as Luke Rosiak did?)

Though she posted the videos online for her nearly 6,000 followers on Chaturbate, she now claims it to be a “sex crime” to shed light on the existence of her account.
“My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up,” Gibson told the Washington Post.

We don’t yet know whether the videos will hurt or help the chances of Mrs. “HotWifeExperience” getting elected, because as Democrats have demonstrated, they can manufacture 81 million votes for a senile dimwit notorious for plagiarism, corruption and groping little girls. Shouldn’t be too difficult for them to steal a mere state legislative election.

My podcast partner John Hoge offers some free public relations advice: “Don’t put anything on the Internet that you don’t want other people to find.” As for me, I’m still wondering how I can get one of those Daily Wire jobs so I can be an investigative journalist who gets paid to watch “HotWifeExperience” like my new hero, Luke Rosiak.

She said Repubs were being creepy by wanting to monitor what teachers do in the classroom. She also said

“Oh God I want to f—ing get railroaded by all of you… I like being choked”

“Y’all can watch me pee if you tip me some tokens. Again I’m raising money for a good cause” pic.twitter.com/LH96VBqKNy

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) September 11, 2023

Category: Democrats, Scandal, Virginia

In The Mailbox: 09.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 13, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.13.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
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Silicon Valley delenda est.

On this day in 1683, King Jan Sobieski of Poland led his Winged Hussars in a charge that broke the Turkish army besieging Vienna.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0
EBL: Virginia Democrat performs on line sex acts on Chaturbate, Lascaux Cave, and Biden lies that he was at 9/11 the day after the attacks
Twitchy: David Hogg Whines About Being Kicked Out Of NC Legislature, CNN’s Jake Tapper Tries (Again) To Get Someone To Agree That Elon Musk Is A Traitor, and Ian Milhiser Worries That “Biden’s Too Old” Is The New “But Her Emails”
Louder With Crowder: San Francisco Won’t Fix Surging Crime And Drug Use Problem, But Hired This Guy To Combat ‘Ongoing Narrative’ About It, : Store owner DROPS shoplifter with one punch after she pulls a gun, and John Fetterman offers odd reaction to the Biden impeachment inquiry and… what the deuce is that on your face?
Vox Popoli: Exercise Your Skepticism, The Two Faces of Economics, Rage Against the Babymetal, Desperately Seeking Allies, and Genius Trumps Expertise

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Love Letter for Mary
American Conservative: A Day of Iron
American Greatness: Senator Kennedy Reads From ‘Gender Queer’ During Judiciary Committee Hearing As Democrats Squirm, CIA Whistleblower: Agency Bribed Scientific Analysts to Reject Lab Leak Theory, and Atlanta Officials Refuse to Process Signatures on ‘Stop Cop City’ Petition
American Thinker: JFK Is Easy, Now Do TWA Flight 800
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Stupid Idea News, also, Impeachment Additional
Babalu Blog: Young Cuban who painted anti-government graffiti faces 15 years in prison, Spymaster Chris Simmons unmasks Cuba’s lies about its role in Ukraine while EU leftists applaud the liars, and Reports from Cuba: No more gas odor in Havana after refinery runs out of supply
BattleSwarm: New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Gun Ban Overreach Unites Own Party Against Her
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites, Frank Rubio on ISS sets new record for an American in space, Lucy gets first images of its first target asteroid, Dinkinesh, Repeating moonquakes on Moon found to be caused by remaining sections of Apollo 17’s LM, and Today’s blacklisted American: Innocent man sentenced one-year in prison for appearing as George Washington in the Capitol on January 6
Cafe Hayek: Trump Has No Idea What Made America Great, also, Defending Globalization
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech Event
Da Tech Guy: Voices of Pintastic NE 2023 The EMP Team Day One, The Associated Press loses its way, Five Leominster Flooding Thoughts Under the Fedora, and Daily Pintastic NE 2023 Video The Extra Ball Lounge(s)
Dana Loesch: Don’t Buy It – Democrats Try To Contain NM Gun Ban Fallout
Don Surber: Tommy Tuberville’s War
First Street Journal: Good Grief: Biden Gives Iran $6 Billion Of Frozen Funds On 9/11 For Five Prisoners
Gates Of Vienna: First the Climate, Now Artificial Intelligence, also, What About Viktor Orbán?
The Geller Report: WOKE BROKE DOPES: Nike forced to close its flagship store in Portland because of rampant looting and theft, Florida Preschool Teacher Gloats She Teaches Her Students to be Gay, Google Exec Warns AI Being Used to Engineer ‘Super-Pandemic’, and Palestinian Organizations Incite On Social Media: The Time Has Come To Kill The Jews
Hogewash: An Inconvenient Truth, Terzan 12, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Stephen King’s ‘Holly’ Swamped by Trump Derangement Syndrome, How Ashton Kutcher Stepped into the Perfect Cancel Culture Trap, Taylor Swift Takes a Knee on Politics (For Now), and Variety Spread Fake News About Bomb Threat Against Lil Nas X
The Lid: Honoring Distorters Of FDR’s Response To The Holocaust
Legal Insurrection: Trump Requests Judge Recuse Herself From His D.C. Jan. 6 Case, Biden Wants to Take Land From Marine Sanctuary for Billionaire Dem Donor’s Wind Farm, New Mexico Sheriff Won’t Enforce Gov’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Gun ‘Health Order’, and Washington University ‘Transgender Center’ Will No Longer Prescribe Puberty Blockers or Hormones to Minors
Nebraska Energy Observer: Limbo
Outkick: ESPN Chose Pat McAfee Over Dan Le Batard Because McAfee Is More Popular, Colin Kaepernick’s Agent Is In Contact With The Jets, Robert Griffin III Claims Jets Won’t Sign Him, Or Colin Kaepernick, After Aaron Rodgers’ Injury Because They’d Be A ‘Distraction’, OnlyFans Star And Minnesota Superfan Allie Rae Blocked By Football Team, Unloads On The Gophers, Deion Sanders Is Spreading Love This Weekend, As Colorado Welcomes Back FOX ‘Big Noon Kickoff’, ESPN Heads To Town, and Jemele Hill Foolishly Suggests The Jets Sign Colin Kaepernick
Power Line: Bloomberg Lowers the Boom, They Don’t Embarrass Easy, and House Opens Impeachment Investigation
Shark Tank: FL Surgeon General Ladapo Warns Of “Cardiac Injury” Risk From New Jab
Shot In The Dark: The Id Of Every Prog, also, Lipstick On A Pig
The Political Hat: German Education: Sexual Exploration Rooms For Toddlers
This Ain’t Hell: Inside story of the Navy Littoral Combat Ship, Ukraine to receive an additional $600 million in military equipment, Outbreak – of common sense, disingenuous mussels, American military troops repositioned in Niger, and Kamala Harris – North Korea’s supplying ammunition to Russia would be a huge mistake
Transterrestrial Musings: A Dictatorship
Victory Girls: A Biden Lie So Big Even The Fact-Checkers Had To Admit It, also, Iran To U.S: Thanks For The $6 Billion, We Will Spend It However We Want
Volokh Conspiracy: New Article: Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3
Watts Up With That: US Turns to Country Notorious for Child Labor and Unsafe Mines to Source Its EV Ambitions, A 10 GW Time Bomb, and More Rending of Garments from “Academia” or Why…Why Won’t those Troglodytes Trust Us?
The Federalist: Here’s What The House GOP Should Do Right Now To Fight Democrats’ Republic-Crushing Lawfare, Don’t Ask Tommy Tuberville Why The Senate’s Not Voting On Military Nominations, Ask Chuck Schumer, Local Media Slam Library ‘Book Bans’ While Omitting The Explicit Content Being Pushed On Minors, School District Gears Up To Fight California AG Trying To Make Them Secretly Trans Kids, Leftist Witness In Senate Hearing On Book Bans Admits Sex Scenes Are ‘Disturbing,’ But Children Should Still Have Access, and House GOP Adopts Bernie Sanders’ Plan To Extend Obamacare’s Mandatory Spending
Mark Steyn: Pretending It’s Normal (cont)

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Escaped Murderer Now Armed

Posted on | September 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Escaped Murderer Now Armed

The Philadelphia suburb of Chester County is about 150 miles east of here, so I’m not too worried about it personally, but it is still alarming that murderer Danelo Cavalcante has been able to elude capture for nearly two weeks since he escaped from the county jail there:

The convicted killer who escaped from an eastern Pennsylvania prison nearly two weeks ago is considered “armed and extremely dangerous” after he stole a rifle from the garage of a local homeowner, who fired several shots at the fugitive as he fled, police said Tuesday.
Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was spotted on Monday night in Chester County’s South Coventry Township, about 20 miles north of the prison, according to an emergency alert.
At about 10:10 p.m., police received a call from a resident who said a shirtless male entered his garage and grabbed a rifle in the corner, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said in a news conference. The homeowner fired his pistol at Cavalcante as he fled, but there is “no reason to believe” the fugitive was injured, Bivens said.
A green sweatshirt and white tee shirt were found near the homeowner’s driveway, he said.
“I think he is just trying to survive and avoid being captured right now,” he said.
Bivens later told CNN the fugitive ran into the garage while the homeowner was sitting right there. He said the gun had not been left unsecured so he did not believe the homeowner was being irresponsible.
The shooting and gun theft represent a stark escalation in the dangerous manhunt after Cavalcante escaped the county jail on August 31.
About 500 law enforcement officers – including the Pennsylvania State Police, FBI, ATF, and the US Marshals – are searching the area around the shooting, and police have set up a perimeter stretching several miles in each direction. Video from WPVI shows a massive police response in the South Coventry Township overnight, with dozens of patrol cars and an armored vehicle converging on the scene.
Danelo Cavalcante is seen in this image from surveillance footage released by Pennsylvania State Police.
A timeline of the escape and manhunt for convicted Pennsylvania killer Danelo Cavalcante
“It’s a large area, wooded, hilly terrain. It’s not something that it’s a matter of sending a few people in and searching,” Bivens said.
The .22-caliber rifle Cavalcante has in his possession has a scope and flashlight, Bivens said.
“We consider him desperate, we consider him dangerous,” he said. “I would suspect that he’s desperate enough to use that weapon.”

It is not until paragraph 27 of this CNN story that they mention what is perhaps the most important fact about Cavalcante:

Cavalcante was being held at Chester County Prison, in a rural area some 30 miles west of Philadelphia, following his conviction last month of first-degree murder for the killing of his former girlfriend, 33-year-old Deborah Brandão.
According to prosecutors, he stabbed her 38 times in front of her two young children in Pennsylvania in April 2021. He was arrested several hours later in Virginia, and authorities said he was attempting to flee to Mexico and intended to later head to Brazil, his native country.
In addition, Cavalcante is wanted in a 2017 homicide case in Brazil, a US Marshals Service official has said.

He’s an illegal immigrant, who fled Brazil as a fugitive wanted for murder and somehow made it into the United States, where he apparently went unnoticed in the suburbs of Philadelphia for more than three years before he killed his ex-girlfriend. CNN kind of casually buried that part of the story, maybe because they think you’ll become prejudiced against illegal immigrants from Brazil or whatever. So they’re not going to put “illegal alien” in the headline, and you’ll have to read through more than two dozen paragraphs before learning that he was already a murderer before he entered the country illegally, and then stabbed a woman 38 times.

Remember: Diversity is our strength!

Category: Crime, Immigration

No Hope in New York

Posted on | September 12, 2023 | Comments Off on No Hope in New York

Excuse me for returning so soon to the NFL theme, but what happened on Monday Night Football is dominating ESPN coverage, and also will have a direct impact on the fortunes of the New England Patriots.

The Aaron Rodgers Era in New York lasted exactly four plays, as he limped off the field after getting sacked with 11:40 left in the first quarter. Subsequently, it was reported that Rodgers — the 39-year-old former Green Bay Packer quarterback who had been embraced by long-suffering Jets fans as the messiah who would deliver them from years of irrelevance — had suffered a torn Achilles tendon, an injury that almost certainly ends his 2023 season. All the preseason talk about the Jets potentially becoming the best team in the AFC East ended in sad fashion, even though New York somehow managed to win the game in overtime when rookie Xavier Gipson, an undrafted free agent from Stephen F. Austin University, returned a punt 65 yards for a touchdown.

And as a New England Patriots fan, I can only say, “Perfect.”

First of all, the arrival of Rodgers in New York, by making the Jets competitive, threatened to make the Patriots the fourth-best team in the division, which in the pass three years has been dominated by Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, with Tua Tagovailoa and the Miami Dolphins a rising challenge. But with Rodgers now likely out for the season, the Jets will have Zach Wilson at quarterback — and he’s been a disaster ever since New York wasted their No. 2 draft pick on him in 2021.

Secondly, however, it’s a great boon for the Patriots that the Bills lost Monday’s game — a division loss, which could prove to be important in any tiebreaker scenario for a playoff spot — and the way Allen played certainly made Buffalo look vulnerable as defending AFC East champions. Allen threw three interceptions and also fumbled, completing 29 of 41 passes for 236 yards, with a rating of 62.7. Compare that to the numbers Mac Jones put up Sunday against the Eagles — completing 35 of 54 passes for 316 yards, with a rating of 89.2 — and you have to think there is at least hope that New England could return to their erstwhile status as the dominant team in the NFC East.

For now, the Jets sit atop the division standings, the division win over the Bills giving them the first tiebreaker against the Dolphins, with the Bills and Patriots, now both 0-1, bringing up the rear. That’s likely to change next week: Buffalo hosts the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday — you’ve got to figure Allen and the Bills will play much better for the home crowd, going to 1-1 — while the Jets, now with the hapless Wilson as their starting QB, play at Dallas. Considering that the Cowboys opened their season by stomping the Giants 40-0, I’m going to bet the Jets will be 1-1 after their game Sunday. And in the prime time Sunday Night Football game, the Patriots will host the Dolphins, who beat the Chargers in a 36-34 shootout this past weekend. So either the Patriots win Sunday night, in which case every AFC East team is likely to have a 1-1 record, or Miami wins, in which case the Dolphins are likely to be alone atop the division at 2-0, while the Patriots sink into fourth place at 0-2.

Anyway, I just had to get this football stuff out of my system, and will shortly return to the (ultimately boring) topic of politics.

Category: Football

In The Mailbox: 09.11.23

Posted on | September 12, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.11.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Firefighters search the rubble at Ground Zero, 9/11/01

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Xi Jinping Answers To No One, Remember 9/11, and Biden marks 9/11 by giving Iranian Mullahs $6 Billion
Twitchy: Conservative Actor Michael Marsden Debunks “Michelle Obama Is A Man” Conspiracy Theory, Insane Florida Pre-K Teacher Brags She Teaches Students To Be Gay, and WaPoo Ranks The Seven State Flags That Have Ties To White Supremacy
Louder With Crowder: NM Gov suspends Second Amendment rights, causing… Steven Crowder to agree with David Hogg?, This can’t possibly be the WH excuse for Joe Biden being first POTUS to NOT go to NYC for the 9/11 memorial, and Wild Video Shows Cat Falling Off Rafters of Football Stadium, Gets SAVED by the American Flag
Vox Popoli: Adieu Divine Right, They Call it “Luck”, Excellence is in the Details, Manufactured, and Conservatardery
Draw & Talk: The Failed Attack On Twitter From Baby Creator
Gab News: Patterns Of Evidence – The Moses Controversy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Battle for T.J. Enters a New Phase, also, After the Towers Fell
American Greatness: The Frightened Left, The WEF and the Climate Cult, and Youngkin Pardons Loudoun County Father who was Arrested for Protesting at School Board Meeting
American Thinker: An Eyewitness on the Border, Ignoring History Means Choosing Windmills Over Whales, and Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Russian Ministry of Truth attacks Cuban counterpart, denies human trafficking and recruiting Cuban mercenaries, As Cubans go hungry due to food shortages, Castro dictatorship announces gourmet food festival, Tourism to communist Cuba at its lowest point in 10 years, and We remember and honor 7 Cubans who perished on 9/11 at the World Trade Center
Baldilocks: Fear Itself, Yamasaki’s Towers, and Still Standing
BattleSwarm: Woman Goes To LAPD About Stolen Credit Card – One Of Them Stole It., Mangosuthu Buthelezi, RIP, and CEO Gets $379 Million For Money-Losing EV Company
Behind The Black: Two launches today, one by ULA and one by Red China, The actual truth behind the so-called “hidden figures” of the early space race, A galactic cloud, Ridge in Martian lowland plains, and Real pushback: Defiance from all sides to New Mexico’s unlawful suspension of the 2nd amendment
Cafe Hayek: Unseen and Unsightly Costs of the War on Drugs, also, Trump’s Trade War Was a Loser
CDR Salamander: Fading FY23 Midrats Free For All, That Day As I Saw It,
Da Tech Guy: Else: AB 957 is Law in California, More disincentives for veterans to report mental health problems, No 20-mph default speed limit in Chicago: Stop the tyranny of the cyclists now, and Back Home Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Mind The GAP – Gaming & Politics,
Don Surber: America Doesn’t Need An Election – It Needs An Exorcism,
First Street Journal: New Mexico Governor Suspends Law Abiding Citizens From Carrying In Albuquerque, NY Times, Democrats Upset GOP Gets Optics Of Chicago Over-run By Illegals, and GOP Squishes Start Coming Out Of Woodwork Over Impeaching Biden
Gates Of Vienna: Sexual Crimes and Migrants, Koran: Read Chapter Nine, and New Ructions in Rosengård
The Geller Report: Japanese Doctors Denounce Covid Jabs, President Trump Gets Emotional Talking About the Deliberate Destruction of America, 9/11: ‘On this solemn anniversary of those monstrous attacks, we remember the 2,977 precious souls who were savagely taken from us’, and Biden Regime Hands $6,000,000,000 to Terror Sponsor Iran for Hostages in Deal Announced on 9/11
Glenn Reynolds: A Letter From Knoxville
Hogewash: Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, Sonification: Sagittarius A*/Galactic Center, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and 22 Years Ago Today
Hollywood In Toto: Is Joe Rogan the New Johnny Carson?, Is Hollywood’s MeToo Movement Officially Done?, How Since August Disrupts the Hollywood System, and Branagh’s Haunting in Venice Offers a Spooky Good Time
The Lid: Covering Up The Saudis’ Mass Murder
Legal Insurrection: Appeals Court: Doctors Can Sue FDA for Condemning Ivermectin as a COVID-19 Treatment, Resulting Reputational Harm, Nancy Pelosi Announces Reelection Campaign, Declares Crime in SF an ‘Isolated Situation’, Paris Strips PA Chief Abbas of City’s Top Honor, Harvard Prof Says Students in the Military Keep Silent About Service to Avoid Backlash From Classmates, Ana Navarro and ‘The View’ Go Full NIMBY Over the Illegal Immigrant Crisis in New York City, North Dakota Man Gets 5 Years for Killing Teenager He Claimed was a ‘Republican Extremist’, and Energy Sec. Granholm’s EV Road Trip Includes a Family Calling the Police on Her Entourage
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity, and Hills To Die On
Outkick: Novak Djokovic Wins US Open In Ultimate Rebuke Of Vaccine Mandates That Barred Him, David Wells Still Brings Heat, Fires One By Cranky Keith Olbermann, Mike Tirico Responds To Angry Detroit Lions Fans Upset Over ‘Asterisk’ Gate, Donald Trump Spent The Day Partying At An Iowa State Frat House, Hero Alabama Fans Remind ESPN Viewers That ‘Fauci Lied’ With College GameDay Sign, Colorado Celebrating This Pathetic Stat Is Exactly Why Deion Sanders Was Hired, and ESPN Forced To Award Unvaccinated Novak Djokovic ‘Shot Of The Day’ Presented By Moderna Following US Open Victory
Power Line: Gov Abbott Reacts to Biden’s ‘Remain in Texas’ Proposal, A Huge Win For Free Speech, Wind Energy Will Never Be Affordable, and 9/11: A Memorial to FBI Failure
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Point Me In The Direction Of Albuquerque
Shark Tank: Donalds Believes Joe Biden Is Co-Conspirator In Violation Of FARA
Shot In The Dark: 22 Years, also, Retract
The Political Hat: Twenty-Two Years Ago Today – NEVER FORGET
This Ain’t Hell: Army falls short recruiting – again, Another election cycle, another politician accused of stolen valor, China targets U.S. Military and veterans for exploitation, The U.S. military to conduct exercises with the Armenian military, Overestimating Russian military strength, and September Eleventh- Perspectives from a Gold Star Mother
Transterrestrial Musings: 9/11, The “Why Not” Grand Jury, Misogyny, and AI and Leviathan
Victory Girls: Lawsuit Filed Against New Mexico Governor’s Gun Ban, also, September 11 – Two More Remains Finally Identified
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Government Improperly “Coerced” and “Significantly Encouraged” Certain Speech Restrictions by Social Media Platforms, Challenge to N.M. Governor’s Ban on Public Gun Carry in Albuquerque and Surrounding County, and Free Speech, Social Media Firms, and the Fifth Circuit
Watts Up With That: The Climate ‘Emergency’ Is Coming for You, Biden Admin Hosted ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ Seminars That Warned Scientists About ‘Disrespecting’ Spirits, Offshore Wind Fail – The UK Government Must Make Cheap Renewables More Affordable, Wired and The Conversation are Wrong, the 2023 Burning Man Rainstorm Wasn’t Caused By Climate Change, and Yes, the “World’s Dumbest Energy Policy” Is in Fact Getting a Whole Lot Dumber
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Disappointed, But Not Discouraged

Posted on | September 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Disappointed, But Not Discouraged

The New England Patriots lost their season-opener to the Philadelphia Eagles, 25-20, and this result was in many ways discouraging. As in several close games over the psst couple of years, the Patriots made stupid mistakes and failed in crucial situations late in the game. A loss is a loss, and any effort to find a “moral victory” in Sunday’s result does not change the fact that New England is now 0-1 and lost on their home field.

However (and you knew this was coming), as a Patriots fan, I’m actually encouraged by the team’s first regular-season performance. Several questions that had arisen about the team were answered Sunday in a manner that inspires hope that New England could make a run at the playoffs this year. Other observers shared that opinion, including Patriot Nation Podcast co-host Pat Lane, whose takeaways from the Philly game included these points:

1. The New England defense is legit . . .
2. Mac Jones looks fine …

and

6. The offensive line holds up surprisingly well . . .

Exactly so. Taking these in reverse order, New England fans have spent the past six months fretting about the offensive line, especially the question of who would play right tackle, opposite of veteran Trent Brown at left tackle (who has been widely criticized himself). The Patriots didn’t draft a tackle, instead adding three guards in the later rounds of the draft, and then acquiring some “journeyman” type tackles through trades and free agency. The thing you have to understand about the NFL is that top-quality offensive tackles are highly valued, so that it’s hard to acquire one except by drafting them in the first or second round.

My brother angered me during Sunday’s game when he remarked that Bill Belichick has assembled a “Gucci defense and a Dollar General offense.” After the game, however, I laughed at the uncanny accuracy of this description. A former defensive back who made his bones as a coach when he was defensive coordinator for the New York Giants under Bill Parcells, Belichick has always prioritized defense, an attitude that didn’t really hurt the Patriots’ chances when they had the miracle worker Tom Brady at quarterback. But that preference for drafting defensive players in the early rounds (and refusing to pay top dollar for free-agent talent on offense) has created problems for New England in the post-Brady years.

Rather than go into a detailed discussion of this — which I’m sure most of my readers don’t care about — the No. 1 question I had going into Sunday’s game was whether the Patriots’ makeshift assemblage of offensive linemen would be able to protect Jones, or whether he’d spend the day running for his life or getting pounded into the turf by Philadelphia’s phenomenal pass rushers. New England started two rookies, Atonio Mafi and Sidy Sow, at left and right guard, because the regular starting guards (Cole Strange and Michael Onwenu) were both injured. Calvin Anderson (acquired through free agency from the Broncos) got the start at right tackle, with veteran center David Andrews anchoring the resulting patchwork line and . . .

They weren’t really bad at all. Mac Jones came under pressure many times, but he was only sacked twice. Much credit for that no doubt belongs to New England’s offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien, who schemed up a lot of plays where Jones could make quick-release passes before the Eagles defense could get to him. And that was the defense, mind you, that got Philadelphia all the way to the Super Bowl last season.

Mac Jones should've been running for his life. Instead, the Patriots o-line surpassed expectations

Patriots pass protection stats:
Brown: sack
Andrews: sack
Anderson: 2 hits
Sow: hit
Mafi: holdhttps://t.co/lnQm7wjGwY

— Mark Daniels (@ByMarkDaniels) September 11, 2023

After an early interception — tipped off the hands of receiver Kendrick Bourne into the hands of Eagles cornerback Darius Slay, who returned it for a touchdown — Jones was excellent at quarterback, completing 35 of 54 passing attempts (64.8%) for 316 yards and three TDs. He also ran for a first down during a touchdown drive late in the first half, and also scrambled for 7 yards (and got out of bounds to stop the clock) during the fourth-quarter drive that ended when rookie wide receiver Kayshon Boutte failed to get both feet inbounds on a catch that otherwise would have given the Patriots a first-and-goal at the Philadelphia 8-yard-line.

While the pessimist would point out that Jones wasn’t quite good enough to win the game for New England, he can’t really be blamed for the loss, either. And, as I say, they were playing against the defending NFC champions, with two rookies starting on the offensive line. For Mac to have done as well as he did under such circumstances, certainly Patriots fans can hope to see a highly competitive offense going forward, especially once the veteran guards get healthy and return to the lineup.

Finally, yes, the Patriots defense is legit. They were able to hold Philly’s dual-threat QB Jalen Hurts to just 170 yards passing and 37 yards running, limiting the Eagles to barely 250 yards total offense, and making several big plays, including a hard-hitting tackle by safety Jabrill Peppers that forced a fumble, and a sack by rookie cornerback Christian Gonzales.

Going into the season opener, even with home-field advantage, I think I was not alone in fearing that the Patriots would get blown out by the Eagles, and when New England quickly fell behind 16-0, it was heartbreaking, but not entirely unexpected. To see the Patriots claw their way back into contention, with two TD drives before halftime, gave me a lot of hope, and for New England to be playing with a chance to win in the final seconds was better than most sober observed had expected.

All in all, I think Patriots fans can be proud of how their team played Sunday, which you can’t say for fans of the Bengals (who lost 24-3 to the rival Browns), the Steelers (who got stomped 30-7 by the 49ers), the Bears (who were defeated 38-20 by the Packers) or the Giants, who were humiliated 40-0 in prime time Sunday night. Losing a close game to the Eagles was discouraging, but it wasn’t embarrassing — hang your head in shame, Giants fans — and I feel good about the rest of the season.

Category: Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Swimwear, very nice.

Posted on | September 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Swimwear, very nice.

— compiled by Wombat-socho

And since this isn’t the Soviet Union, the swimwear is indeed very nice, and so are the babes wearing it. H/T to kbdabear on Twitter for this particular gal.
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