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Dianna Survived the Hurricane

Posted on | August 31, 2023 | Comments Off on Dianna Survived the Hurricane

Storm damage in Valdosta

Seeing coverage of Hurricane Idalia on Wednesday, I saw that once it came inland north of Tampa, its path was aimed directly at Valdosta, Georgia, where my friend and podcasting partner Dianna Deeley lives.

“Are you there? Are you underwater?” I said when she answered, but there was no gurgling sound and, despite the breathless hurricane hype on CNN, the damage around Valdosta was not a historical cataclysm. It was windy and rainy and the electricity went out for a while, but the local death toll seems to have been exactly one — somebody got killed when a tree fell on their car. This is a bad thing, but the way TV news was reporting Hurricane Idalia, you might have thought it was going to wipe half the state of Florida and parts of Georgia completely off the map.

Hurricane hype in the media is, of course, politically motivated: Climate change is to blame for this devastation, the audience is told, and because hurricanes generally hit in the Southeastern states — the most Republican part of the country — the TV anchors are almost gleeful at the thought of nature taking its revenge on those ignorant racist Bible-thumping “climate deniers” with their big gas-guzzling trucks.

It’s about the narrative, you see, and the fact that Hurricane Idalia hit Florida, ruled by Evil Right-Wing Gov. Ron DeSantis — well, of course, everybody at CNN wanted the storm to be world-historic in terms of its deadly impact. And alas, their hopes were disappointed:

Two men died on Wednesday morning as Hurricane Idalia struck Florida.
Florida Highway Patrol said both victims were killed in separate car crashes as the powerful storm brought torrential rain and strong wind gusts to Florida.
A 59-year-old Gainesville man was driving in “extremely rainy conditions” on State Road 20 around 6 a.m. when he struck a tree after veering into a ditch near Southeast 60th Terrace, FHP told ABC affiliate WCJR-TV, The Orlando Sentinel and Fox affiliate WOFL-TV.
A 40-year-old man was killed about 15 minutes later on St. Joe Road in Pasco County when he drove his Ford Ranger “too fast for conditions,” lost control and also struck a tree, the agency told WOFL-TV, NBC News and The Sentinel.

Two people — exactly two — killed in Florida. Not quite the kind of UNPRECEDENTED DEADLY DEVASTATION the media had been eagerly awaiting. Better luck next time, guys.



 

Category: Global Warming, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 08.31.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | August 31, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.31.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Give New Content A Chance
EBL: Hurricane Idalia Hits Florida
Twitchy: James O’Keefe Bust School Board Officials For Admitting They Target Parents For Looking “Trumpish”, Keith Olbermann Tries Picking A Fight With Riley Gaines & Gets Rekt, and Oliver Anthony Tells Joe Rogan How He Found God
Louder With Crowder: Reporter finally asks Jean-Pierre the perfect question about trans athletes in girls’ sports, she short circuits, Roseanne Barr: “Nothing I write can be as funny”, and Five failed late-night hosts commit stochastic terrorism on your ears, join forces for new podcast
Vox Popoli: Manufacturing Abnormality, also, More Dangerous than China

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: America Overrun, America Transformed
American Greatness: Saving the Environment from Environmentalists, Denver to Pay $5 Million to BLM Rioters, and Mother Reaches $100,000 Settlement with School over Attempts to Transition her Daughter
American Thinker: The Republican Debate Was Unsatisfying Because No One Addressed The Most Important Issue, Climate Change Did Not Cause The Devastation In Maui, and A Silly Scheme by Green Zealots to Appease the Global Warming Gods?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Power outages and collapsing buildings: Hurricane Idalia leaves behind destruction in Cuba, Preserving our Cuban roots, and Cuban hurricane prep
Baldilocks: Memories Of The First Life (Part 4), 
Behind The Black: Pragyan snaps first pictures of Vikram sitting on the Moon, Starlink makes deal with Japanese cell phone company, Scientists believe they have recovered the first known interstellar meteorite, Reviewing a book blacklisted by Amazon because it dared say things Amazon doesn’t like, and The utter ignorance of modern educators on proud display the last two days in Colorado
CDR Salamander: The PRC’s Buildup Is Not A Jobs Program
Da Tech Guy: Pintastic NE -9 and Counting. Random Pintastic Video: Jersey Jack in 2017 talking Dialed In, also, The Single Best Argument For Trump That I’ve Heard
Dana Loesch: Media Can’t Memory-Hole Wuhan-Educated UNC Killer
Don Surber: WVU Cuts Classes, Not Overhead
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: It’s official: (Alleged) Kingsessing mass murderer is Just Plain Nuts
The Geller Report: Over 1,600 Scientists Declare There is No Climate Emergency, HORRIFYING: New Mandatory Hospital Staff Training Promotes Sexually Transitioning 4-Year-Olds, and Oversight Committee Seeks Flight Logs For Every Time Hunter Biden Used Air Force Two To Further The Family Business
Hogewash: Tonight’s Sky: September, 2023, Oh, No! Not Again!, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Cancelator Parody Shreds Woke Nation, 5 Middle-Aged Romances to Watch Before What Happens Later, Adam Carolla: Gov’t, Media to Run COVID Playbook for Climate Change, and Blade Runner – Tears in the Rain for a Lost Generation
Legal Insurrection: Self-Involved NASA Climate Scientist Complains about “Climate Grief”, In Woke Democrat-Run Cities, Black Lives Matter Rioters Learn That Lawlessness Pays, Over 100 Former Clerks Sign Letter Defending the Integrity of Justice Clarence Thomas, Women’s Resource Center at Cornell Renamed as ‘Gender Equity Resource Center’, and Oberlin College Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Subjected to Disciplinary Hearings for Defending Women’s Sports
Nebraska Energy Observer: Uh, Guys
Outkick: Houston’s Dana Holgorsen Says ‘Screw Them’ As Texas Prepares For Final Season In Big 12, 49ers And Raiders Fans Beating The Hell Out Of Each Other Set To The Song ‘San Francisco’ Is Internet Gold, Travis Hunter Shares Delusional Heisman Rankings…..Led By Travis Hunter, Olivia Dunne Stars In New Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Content, Claims It’s All About Having ‘The Best Of Both Worlds’, and Mark Cuban Will Trade Players Who Smoke Too Much Weed
Power Line: DOJ to Jim Jordan on FBI agent subpoenas: Nein, Deter this, and Et Tu, BLS? (With Comment from Steve)
Shark Tank: Gaetz Demands Tracking Of US-Trained Coup Leaders In Africa
Shot In The Dark: One Day At DFL HQ – State Fair Edition, also, Going Just Fine
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday Military Shorts – Claims, coyotes, and Mini-Mavericks, Four More Accounted For, West Point opens 1828 time capsule, and Marine veteran and her legal team awarded $69 million from contractor that defrauded government
Transterrestrial Musings: The American Stasi, also, The Russian Space Program
Victory Girls: Taxpayer $$$ For Trans Liberation And Child Capture
Volokh Conspiracy: Professor’s Claim That She Was Fired for Objecting to Superiors About Mask Mandate Can Go Forward
Watts Up With That: Congratulations To Germany On Achieving More Than 50% Of Its Electricity Production From “Renewables”!
The Federalist: How Embracing DEI Is Causing Classical Music To DIE, Tucker Carlson: Corrupt Intel Agencies And The D.C. Uniparty Are Ushering In The Real ‘End Of Democracy’, Tuberville’s Block On Military Promotions Is Freezing Biden’s Slate Of Woke Nominees, The Jocks Are Going To Save The Republic, One Defiant Grin At A Time, The Feds Just Messed With Texas Over Buoys — And Sided With Cartel-Driven Mexico, and California AG Wages Legal War To Hide Kids’ Transgender Pursuits From Parents

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In The Mailbox: 08.30.23

Posted on | August 31, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.30.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Modern warfare

OVER THE TRANSOM
Kausfiles: The Nostalgia Theory – Why Trump Persists
357 Magnum: Leftist Lexicon Update, also, Texas Homeowners Are Still Armed
EBL: Who is Erin Carter? also, 29 August 2005: Democrats blame George W. Bush for their Katrina failures
Twitchy: The Murder Turtle Has Another Scary Episode While Talking To Reporters, Late Night Hosts Pitching Collective Podcast During Writers Strike  Earns All The Cringe, and Eric Swalwell Lashes Out After Being Dragged For Lame Weapons Post & Gets Dragged Again
Louder With Crowder: Disney got woke and went broke as stocks hit another LOW, Of Course! Eminem sends cease and desist to Vivek Ramaswamy over his rap bars, and Kyle Rittenhouse Sued By Estate Of Convicted Child Molester He Killed In Self Defense
Vox Popoli: The Official Story is Always Wrong, Russia: Two Predictions, Conservativism Failed American Christianity, and Holding the Strong Hand
Stoic Observations: Assessing The Negative
Flappr: On The Comically Stupid C**t Teacher Who Thought The Gadsden Flag Was Linked To Slavery

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Fighting Demons
American Conservative: Learning from WVU
American Greatness: National Archives Acknowledges over 5,400 Pseudonymous Biden Emails, Christian, Muslim and Jewish Parents Appeal Federal Court’s Decision Allowing Maryland Schools to Force Trans Ideology on Their Kids, and Colorado Student Kicked Out of Class Monday For Having Gadsden Flag Patch on Backpack, Allowed Back With Patch on Tuesday
American Thinker: Donald Trump and the 2024 General Election, Using the Dictator’s — and the Mafia’s — Playbook, and Democrats Should Quake: Trump is Glowering
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Lawfare News
Babalu Blog: Children in Cuba given syrup instead of milk due to shortages, A Cuban monument to Spanish soldiers who fought against Cuba’s freedom, and Reports from Cuba: In addition to being expensive, Turkish floating power plants are a pollution bomb in Cuba
Baldilocks: A Day Like Any Day,
BattleSwarm: Dave Smith on Rogan: The Deep State vs. Trump
Behind The Black: NASA reveals three year delay in its New Frontiers planetary mission program, The prevailing winds in Mars’ volcano country, Boom begins taxi tests of a one-third scale prototype of its proposed supersonic passenger plane, Update on the ongoing research of the closest supernovae in a decade, and Pushback: Court rules against East Lansing’s attempt to blacklist Christian for following his beliefs
Cafe Hayek: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “More questions for redistributionists”
CDR Salamander: Sorry, The Swarm Will Not Save Us
Chicago Boyz: The Return of the Commie Crud
Da Tech Guy: The cynicism of today’s elites, The Feast of The Passion of John the Baptist Playing Out Daily in America Against an Army of Woke Herodians, and Pintastic NE -10 and counting Random Interview Gabe D’Annunzio 2017
Dana Loesch: New Lawsuit Attempts To Remove Trump From Ballot,
Don Surber: Returning To Nor/mal
First Street Journal: Once again, the Lexington Herald-Leader endangers citizens by refusing to publish a mugshot, The Lexington Herald-Leader gets a new executive editor, and Do only those blacks killed by whites really matter?
Gates Of Vienna: Getting Rid of the Danes, A Real Smear Job, and Clandestine Mosques in Nîme
The Geller Report: COVER-UP: What is Going On In Hawaii? FEMA Orders Full Media ‘Blackout’, “White Supremacy is the Greatest Terrorist Threat We Face in the Homeland.”, and LEAKED DOCUMENT: Biden’s Terror-Supporting Iran Envoy Robert Malley Lost Clearance over “Personal Misconduct”
Hogewash: A Dark Spot on Neptune, also, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Introducing Criticless … Giving Voice to the Everyday Movie Goer, Comedians Share Shocking Censorship Stories, Why Robots Does Not Compute, and Nefarious: DVD Unmasks Battle Between Good and Evil
The Lid: Court Denies School’s Attempt to Give Teachers Qualified Immunity To Escape Accountability With Parents
Legal Insurrection: Biden’s Energy Department Is Now Coming for Our Ceiling Fans, Hawaiian Electric Claims It ‘De-Energized’ the Power Lines Hours Before Second Maui Wildfire, New Hampshire Republican Activist Found Stabbed to Death in His Home, Colorado Diversity Teacher Wants to ‘Burn Things Down’ for Equity, Discrimination Lawsuit By Orthodox Jewish Professors Against CUNY Can Go Forward, NY Court Rules, and Uzbekistan Nationals Crossed the Border Thanks to Smuggler With ISIS Ties
Nebraska Energy Observer: Charity my…
Outkick: College GameDay Announces New Theme Song Singers After Splitting From Big & Rich Without Explanation, Mets Fan Ruthlessly Boo Max Scherzer In First Trip To New York Since Being Traded, Indiana Hilariously Roasted For Keeping Team’s Kicker Secret From Ohio State, Native Americans Behind Push To Change Commanders Back To Redskins Upset That Team Rep Called Them ‘Fake Group’, UCF QB John Rhys Plumlee Uses NIL For Great Cause, Donates Jersey Sale Proceeds To Orlando Children’s Hospital, and Warren Sapp Makes Trip To Colorado — Without Flight Problems — To Visit Old Buddy Deion Sanders During TCU Week
Power Line: National Archives: Biden used secret addresses for over 5,000 emails, Anniversary of a Disaster, and The Penguins Are OK
Shark Tank: DeSantis Announces Activation Of Florida Disaster Fund In Preparation For Idalia
Shot In The Dark: Ambiguous
The Political Hat: Education As Woke Politics
This Ain’t Hell: SEAL that claimed Bin Laden kill back in trouble with the law, Ukrainian politician worried about Republican comments regarding Ukraine aid, Impeach Lloyd Austin, Sex Offender of Children Under Investigation for False Military Records, US Gov finding new ways to f-ck veterans, and The Continuing Saga of Fat Leonard
Transterrestrial Musings: The Suburbs Of Kiev, Execution By Hypoxia, Drones In Ukraine, This Political Prosecution Scheme, and The Woke Bazaar
Victory Girls: Oliver Anthony Doesn’t Need to Belong to a Political Tribe
Volokh Conspiracy: Another Appeals Court Accuses the FDA of Committing “Surprise Switcheroo”
Watts Up With That: Net Zero is condemning more Brits to energy poverty, “10k dead penguin chicks” more animal tragedy porn used to advance global warming agenda, and Tribal Rangers Smash Burning Man Climate Protest Roadblock
The Federalist: Jury Duty TV Series Transforms Civic Drudgery Into Insightful Comedy, Five Pro-Lifers Found Guilty Of FACE Act Violations For Protesting At Late-Term Abortion Facility, With No Good Options, China’s Xi Jinping Turns Up The Temperature In The Taiwan Strait, Media Use Racist Shooting To Smear Ron DeSantis — And Chill Debate, New Education Standards Force Gay History, Climate Alarmism, And ‘Math Identity Rainbows’ On Students, and Ex-Pentagon Chiefs Knocking Tuberville’s Abortion Protest Are In Bed With The Military-Industrial Complex
Mark Steyn: Who’s Making the Variants?

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Crazy Coaches Are Dangerous

Posted on | August 29, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy Coaches Are Dangerous

Because I was busy at the day job this afternoon, I wasn’t paying attention to football and, quite frankly, it had slipped my mind today was the deadline for final pre-season roster cuts in the NFL, when all teams have to get down to the 53-player limit. When I finally remembered to check, I was stunned: The New England Patriots waived both their backup quarterbacks, leaving Mac Jones as the only QB on the roster.

Every Patriots fan — and no doubt a majority of sports writers covering the NFL — had the same thought: “What the hell is Bill Belichick doing?”

As a rookie last year, Zappe stepped in after both Jones and veteran backup Bryan Hoyer were injured, and did so well that many fans in New England wanted him to keep the starting job. “Zappe! Zappe!” was the chant heard in Gillette Stadium any time Mac Jones appeared to be struggling later in the season. So how could it be possible that Belichick was ready to ditch the 2022 fourth-round pick? As for Cunningham, he was an undrafted free agent whom the Patriots hoped to convert to a wide receiver, but generated lots of excitement during a brief preseason appearance at QB, when he ran for a TD against the Houston Texans.

Surely, there must be some kind of plan? Another one of those genius four-dimensional chess moves by the Greatest Football Coach Ever, right? I mean, right? We’ll see. The problem is that the Patriots are keeping six wide receivers on the roster, and have also beefed up their reserves on the offensive line. In order to get down to 53 players, they had to do something, and the thinking seems to be that (a) other teams have had to make similarly difficult choices, (b) maybe no other team in the league really needs a backup QB at this points, so therefore perhaps (c) neither Zappe nor Cunningham will be claimed off waivers by any other team, however (d) it’s unlikely both Zappe and Cunningham will get claimed off waivers, in which case (e) at least one of them will be able to return to the Patriots on the practice squad, besides which (f) there’s almost certainly some other veteran backup QB available that New England could grab, if worse comes to worse.

That’s my analysis, anyway. The Patriots recently traded for two offensive tackles. Between now and the Sept. 10 season-opener, it’s likely New England will cut at least one more offensive lineman, thus opening a slot on the 53-man roster for whoever it is Belichick uses as the backup quarterback. But that’s as much four-dimensional chess as I can glean out of it, and I think most of the sports writers and TV commentators don’t have any better insight than I do. Bill Belichick is to football coaching what Oppenheimer was to nuclear weapons.



 

Category: Football

In The Mailbox: 08.28.23

Posted on | August 29, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.28.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Democrats – The Pretend Party
EBL: Bob Barker RIP, Beach Time, So Biden’s Handlers Are Nervous About the Newsom DeSantis Debate?, and MAUI FIRES: BLAME DEMOCRAT OFFICIALS
Twitchy: Here’s The “Wheel Of Privilege” Schools Are Using, Hot Take – Reconstruction Was A Failure Because We Didn’t Massacre The Confederates, and Diversity Teacher Talks About Wanting To Burn Things Down That Aren’t Equitable
Louder With Crowder: “You f***ing killed someone”, Crowder DISMANTLES Insane Affirmative Action Talking Points, and Jacksonville sheriff refuses to play Left’s gun-control games after tragic weekend shooting
Vox Popoli: Covid Round 2, It’s Not Their Fault, Evil Has its Own Logic, They are the World, and The Kagan Death Cult

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: As the Catholic World Burns, I drink a G&T
American Conservative: A Viable Realism and Revival Doctrine
American Greatness: Save the Rule of Law By Destroying It?, Federal Court Says Parents Have No Right to Withdraw Children from LGBT Curriculum, and Nevada Tribal Rangers Smash Through Climate Activists’ Blockade in Nevada Desert Outside of ‘Burning Man’ Festival
American Thinker: Is Obama Behind Biden’s Hostility To America?, The Establishment’s ‘Gallipoli Campaign’ against the American People, Quit Aiming for the Ankles, and Barack Obama the Vindictive Enforcer
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Diarrhea outbreak in communist Cuba blamed on contaminated water, Cuban troops may step in to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after Putin eliminated Wagner, Engaging Cuba’s communist dictatorship will fail, as it has failed countless times in the past, and Marxist teacher gains seat in Colorado legislature and mentally unhinged teacher in Canada is rehired
Baldilocks: Mini-Campaign, 
BattleSwarm: The Burning Times, Is It Finally Time To Retire The A-10?, and Ukraine Now Using Dirt Cheap Kit Drones Made Out Of Cardboard
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellite, Update on ESA’s much delayed Space Rider X-37B copy, JAXA scrubs launch of X-Ray telescope & SLIM lunar lander due to high winds, Vikram finds temperatures of lunar soil varies significantly, depending on depth, and Bank of America blacklists Christian nonprofit for what appears to be political reasons
CDR Salamander: The New Age of Naval Power In The Indo-Pacific, also, The Spanish Civil War In…Ukraine?
Chicago Boyz: RetroMusical Goodness
Da Tech Guy: A Reminder to the A-Bomb breast beaters and China, But nobody was fired, Oh Come ON NH, Different Voters Same Counters, Banking it Up, 11 in a row and Rumbling to PintasticNE 2023 Under the Fedora, If the White Sox move to Nashville, I might already be there to welcome them, and The Scariest Things I’ve read in weeks
Dana Loesch: The Rage Mob Came For Alice Cooper & Left Empty-Handed, 
Don Surber: Liberals Gloated – Then Reality Struck
First Street Journal: They tried that in a small town, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!, and Killadelphia: The area “was littered with shell casings.”
Gates Of Vienna: Caucasophobia-on-Thames, Will Germany Fill Up With Turks?, The Nord Stream Gambit, The Reformation, and Éric Ciotti: “No More Rights for Illegals”
The Geller Report:  New ‘Covid’ Variant More Contagious for the Vaccinated, So Biden Regime Calls For Round of “New Shots”, Federal Court In Maryland Says Parents Don’t Have ‘A Fundamental Right’ To Opt Kids Out Of Radical Sex Change Curriculum, Biden’s Temperance Regime Wants to Limit Americans to 2 Drinks A Week, and Fauci Calls for Lockdowns To Force Vaccinations
Glenn Reynolds: Birthday Thoughts, Bears, Boston, & The Gods Of The Copybook Headings
Hogewash: XRISM, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and You Can’t See This From Here
Hollywood In Toto: American Misfits Show What’s Missing From Stand-Up Today, Gods and Monsters Shows Pain Behind Monster Movie Maker, Blade Runner – The Self Under Siege in a Neoliberal Dystopia, and The Populist Revolution Is Here (And Not a Moment Too Soon)
The Lid: Viktor Shokin Filed Complaint In 2020, Demanded Probe Of Joe Biden: DETAILS, also, BURNING MAN: Nevada Rangers Show Climate Crazies What They Can Do With Their Climate Blockade
Legal Insurrection: Pacific U. Grad Student Expelled Over Sexual Assault Allegation Wins Massive Settlement From School, Air Force Academy Football Team Celebrates Historic WWII Doolittle Raid on Japan; Leftists Predictably Go Crazy, Air Force Colonel, Selected for Promotion to Brigadier General, Pushes DEI, CRT, and Racist Dogma, Three Studies Show “Environmentally Safer” Solutions Don’t Live Up to Hype, CA Supreme Court Declares Students Accused of Sexual Misconduct Not Guaranteed Right to Cross Examine Accusers, and We Have the Jacksonville Shooter’s Manifesto But Not the One Belonging to the Nashville School Shooter
Nebraska Energy Observer: Just this, Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, and America Invades
Outkick: Crack Open A Cold Beer Because College Football Is Officially Back, Rutgers Soccer Star Appears Ready To Be The ‘Olivia Dunne Of The Big Ten’, Deion Sanders, 98-Year-Old Colorado Superfan Dance Their Hearts Out In Viral Moment, Charles Barkley Not Happy With Changes In College Sports: ‘We Have Totally F***ed It Up’, John Stockton Criticizes LeBron James’ Supposed Involvement In Front Office Decisions, and USA! USA! United States Team From California Wins Little League World Series On Walk-Off HR To Beat Curacao
Power Line: The Global Warming Industry Is Corrupt, Feel Good Video of the Day, and Black men flock to Trump after Fulton County spectacle
Shark Tank: Gaetz Demands DOJ Explain SpaceX Lawsuit
Shot In The Dark: Our Giggly Drip Overlords, also, Jobbed
The Political Hat: The Fix Is In: The Real GOPe In Nevada Strikes Again
This Ain’t Hell: Generation Z Marine provides suggestions for recruiting from his generation, WWII vet, TV game show legend Bob Barker dies, aged 99, It’s All In Your Head, Spate of Deadly Marine Aircraft Accidents, and A few more Biden actions
Transterrestrial Musings: The Next Starship Test Flight, The Rock And The Egg, Obsessing Over Elite College Admission, and An Interesting Convo On LinkedIn
Victory Girls: Leftwing Rag, The Nation, Claims “The Right” Murders Homeless People, LA Crime Epidemic: You Get What You Voted For, and Trial Date Set – Let’s Talk Election Interference
Volokh Conspiracy: Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to School Officials
Watts Up With That: Decoding the Climate Psychology Certificate, John Kerry: Climate Deniers “lash out at the truth tellers, and label indisputable evidence as hysteria”, Some Concerns about the Recent Republican Debate, and The Wind Industry’s Ignored Consequences: Whales in Peril
The Federalist: Library Association’s President Wants To Stock Kids’ Shelves With LGBT Propaganda And Porn, Jen Psaki Admits Democrats Everywhere Want To Legalize Abortions Until Birth, I’d Like To Call Human Resources On Hostile HR Thought Police, Conservatives Must Understand Where They Went Wrong Before They Can Go Right, and EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attorney Weiss Colluded With DOJ To Thwart Congressional Questioning, Emails Show
Mark Steyn: Another Cup of Coffee: City Life and the End of the Automat, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and The Danes, Gelded

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Best Mug Shot Ever

Posted on | August 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Best Mug Shot Ever

The phrase “Acme School of Law” was coined during the Brett Kimberlin saga to describe the tendency of a certain pro se plaintiff (and such of his associates/fanboys as the neckless wonder Bill Schmalfeldt) to pursue legal action that was ultimately harmful to their own interests, a la super genius Wile E. Coyote strapping on his Acme rocket roller skates in another futile effort to catch the elusive Roadrunner.

Something similar seems to have happened with the Democrats and their latest “get Trump” scheme, where they arranged for Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney Fani Willis to bring RICO charges against Trump and his aides and — oh, such orgasmic joy at CNN! — force Trump to have his mug shot taken at the local jail in Atlanta. Don Surber has the hilarious tale of how this scheme exploded in their faces:

Liberals gloated, then reality struck.
The Hill reported, “Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) shared a video of him laughing at the mugshot photo and saying, ‘We got you, and more to come . . . Clown, thug, crook, criminal.’” . . .
Shortly afterward, the congressman realized the error Democrats made.
He panicked and tweeted, ‘This mugshot is not what you think it is.
“It’s a jackpot for Trump who will use this image to raise MILLIONS of dollars from his cult — and the worst part is they are going to use it to win even more elections so they can change our laws to make it easier to steal our democracy.
“It’s a symbol of everything that is wrong with our country. It is a reminder of the deep divisions that exist, the hatred that is spewed, and hate is tolerated. It is a sign that our democracy is in danger.
“After today, the Republican Party will solidify their support around Trump and our fate will be sealed.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Wile E. Coyote could not be reached for comment.



 

Category: Donald Trump

Rule 5 Sunday: Vengeance Bikinis

Posted on | August 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Vengeance Bikinis

— compiled by Wombat-socho

If I were a more diligent fellow, I would use one of the several online tools available to figure out who this model is, but I am not. [EDIT: It’s Terann Hilow. Thanks to the lads at Flappr for the ID!] Anyhow, this “Blackout” bikini is one of the many offerings from Houston company Vengeance Bikinis, which specializes in hot looks for hot babes. They get the Wombat’s enthusiastic Stomp of Approval. (h/T Code of Men on Instagram) Speaking of diligence, it’s time to get caught up on all the fine & luscious links sent in over the last couple of weeks.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Windmills Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon (last week), Rule Five Political Violence Friday, and this week’s Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, The Misfits, The Red Violin, You’re Off To See The Wizard, MAGA Death By 1000 Cuts, Ukraine Summer 2023, V-J Day, Avarice, The Lost King, “Cortez The Killer”, This week’s Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Kristina Raspapova RIP, The Media & Democrats Literally In Bed With Each Other, Happy Birthday Barbara Eden, MAGA X Tucker & Trump, Astrophysicist Brian May Loves Large Gravitational Bodies, and “Wicked Game”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Gabrielle Epstein, Fish Pic Friday – Little Skull, Lightening, Virginia Angler Catches One-of-a-Kind Blue Fish, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, The Wednesday Wetness, When You’re Up to Your Ass in Alligators, Tuesday Tanlines, That Would Buy a Lot Of Fishing Trips, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Some More Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday, Visit the Outer Banks with Madelyn Cline, Fish Pic Friday – Catching Astrid, Can Chocolate be Part of the Bay Diet?, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Scientists Admit Defeat – Phragmites is Here For Good, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for August 18 and August 25

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links and for their patience while I was in the body & fender shop. 

 

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The Neckbeard Menace: Pathetic Loser Ryan Palmeter’s Jacksonville Massacre

Posted on | August 27, 2023 | Comments Off on The Neckbeard Menace: Pathetic Loser Ryan Palmeter’s Jacksonville Massacre

After the news broke Saturday about a mass shooting at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, it did not take long for officials to announce that the shooting was racially motivated, with the white gunman targeting black people — killing three — before shooting himself to death. In a press conference, Sheriff T.K. Waters held a press conference Saturday afternoon where he laid out the information:

Clay County Sheriff’s Office called JSO [Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office] at 11:39 a.m. Saturday letting them know the shooter was en route to Jacksonville, Waters said. At 1:18 p.m., the shooter called his father and told him to check his computer. The suspect’s family then called the Clay County Sheriff’s Office at 1:53 p.m., Water said.
It was too late. The suspect had already walked into the store at 2161 Kings Road armed with a Glock and an AR-15 style rifle and wearing a tactical vest, Waters said at a 6:30 p.m. news conference Saturday. Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan, who also attended the news conference said the shooter’s rifle had swastikas on it.
“He wanted to kill [n-word]” Waters said adding that he wants the community to know exactly what happened. “That’s the one and only time I’m going to use that word,” he said.
The sheriff said the shooter authored several manifestos. “One to his parents, one to the media, and one to federal agents,” Waters said. “Portions of these manifestos detail the shooter’s disgusting ideology of hate. Plainly put … he hated Black people.”
The names of the victims have not been released. Waters said they are two males and one female.
The shooter had past run-ins with Clay County authorities including a domestic call in 2016 in which he wasn’t arrested and a Baker Act in 2017. Waters said there is no information that the shooter acted as part of any larger group and he acted alone.
“I’m heartbroken,” Deegan said. “This is a community that has suffered again and again. We must do everything to dissuade this type of hate.”
Sherri Onks, FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Jacksonville Field Office, also attended the Saturday news conference. She said her office is investigating the shooting as a hate crime. . . .
“Hate crimes are always and will always remain a top priority for the FBI because they are not only an attack on a victim but they are meant to threaten and intimidate an entire community,” Onks said.

Now, there are several key points to work out here, but before we get to that, it’s important to mention that the sheriff did not name the shooter. Credit for identifying the gunman goes to WJAX-TV reporter Jake Stofan, who named the shooter as 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter.

Once the suspect’s name was reported, the always helpful Jessica McBride of Heavy.com took the ball and ran with it, giving the killer’s full name as Ryan Christopher Palmeter and identifying him as living at his parents home on Timbermill Lane, which is part of the Oakleaf Plantation development in Clay County, which sits between Jacksonville (to the northeast) and Starke (to the southwest). According to Wikipedia, Clay County has the third-highest median household income of any Florida county. McBride reported that Palmeter’s mother, age 62, is employed by the University of Florida, working in “billing compliance” for the university health system. Both parents are Democrats — the father is an outspoken “anti-MAGA” type on Twitter — but Ryan Palmeter registered as a Republican. However, most crucially:

  • In 2016, there was some kind of “domestic” situation involving Ryan Palmeter, who was only 14 at the time, but this did not result in an arrest.
  • A year later, in 2017 when Ryan was 15, he was involuntarily committed for psychiatric evaluation under the Baker Act.
  • Ryan’s parents were sufficiently aware of their son’s potential for violence that they called 911 to warn police that he was heading to Jacksonville.

In other words, Ryan Palmeter was a known threat to public safety, with a documented history of mental health troubles. An important question is how he acquired his weapons, since someone with a Baker Act commitment on their record should not have been legally permitted to purchase firearms. It may be that, because that incident happened when Ryan was only 15, it was not entered into the relevant database.

Most importantly, however, Ryan Palmeter was a neckbeard, which has several definitions on Urban Dictionary, e.g.:

A man who feels entitled to love despite being extremely unattractive and undesirable to women. They tend to have terrible hygiene, extreme political opinions, and hatred towards women. Interchangable with incel.

Elsewhere in Urban Dictionary, there are references to “the average neckbeard . . . playing World of Warcraft in their mother’s basement.” In other words, they’re socially inept and spend more time playing video games than doing anything that might actually improve their lives.

One hates to resort to simplistic stereotypes — especially considering that stereotypes are usually a key component of any “ideology of hate” — but how many times do we have to see the same pattern repeated?

Elliot Rodger, Alek Minassian, Scott Beierle — the list could be extended much further, but the point is that socially inept and/or sexually frustrated young men of this type keep turning up as the perpetrators of violent atrocities like this senseless murder spree in Jacksonville. It is ridiculous to turn this incident into an excuse to denounce “hate” in a generic way, to use a broad-brush approach that converts one kook’s crime into an excuse to censor anyone who expresses disagreement with the Liberal Consensus Opinion on race (or “gender” or anything else).

While we have not yet seen Ryan Palmeter’s “manifesto,” let’s just ask: Were his actions rational? Supposing that he wanted to do something to advance the cause of “white supremacy,” exactly what did he accomplish by killing three random black people at a Dollar General store?

To put this death toll into perspective: So far this year, 394 people have been shot to death in Chicago, with about 80% of the victims being black. In other words, during the first eight months of this year, ordinary street crime in Chicago has killed about 100 times as many black people as did this pathetic neckbeard loser in Florida. Ryan Palmeter’s crime has to be seen as an act of despair, the suicidal misfit’s misguided attempt to make some sort of Grand Gesture in his final act of violence.

Hey, kids, let the old man tell you something: Don’t ever do this.

If you decide that your life is so ruined and hopeless that you want to commit suicide, well, that’s bad. But don’t kill a bunch of random people before killing yourself in an attempt to make your death “significant.” And for God’s sake, if you’re ever tempted to write a “manifesto,” stop to ask yourself why your life took such a wrong turn, and whether your problems are really all your own fault. Because guess what?

We’re all going to blame you, anyway. Fucking loser.



 

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