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In The Mailbox: 08.13.24

Posted on | August 14, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.13.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

drowning not waving

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How’s That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?
EBL: Kamala Harris and Tony West, Cornelia Sharpe, and Borderlands Is A Boring, Unfunny, Unwatchable Disaster (go watch something else)
Twitchy: EU Distances Itself From Thierry Breton’s Threatening Letter To X, David French Explains To MSNBC Why He’s Voting For Kamala, and Snob Democrat Says Tennessee’s Problem Is Too Many Churches & Not Enough Libraries
Louder With Crowder: How the UK’s anti-free speech authoritarianism comes to America in 3 easy tweets (and one election), also, Stephen Colbert makes laughable claim CNN is unbiased, but it’s the crowd reaction that’s hilarious
Vox Popoli: Educating the Englishman, Kiev Regime Running Out of Time, She Knows Some Bad People, The Proxy War is Over, Nanobots in the Bloodstream, Racists Running SFWA, and Build Your Own
Postcards From Barsoom: Boeing Has Become The Poster Child For Ruling Class Incompetence

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: ? Struggles to Handle Trump Return
American Greatness: Massachusetts Set for Record Number of Deportations Despite Sanctuary State Status, Kamala Doesn’t Participate in Time Magazine Puff Piece, and Columbia University Prepares for More Anti-Semitic Riots as Classes Resume
American Thinker: The Obama Effect
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily World War 3 News
Babalu Blog: While Cubans are starving, the Castro dictatorship prepares a gourmet food festival for foreign tourists, Previously secret documents reveal Cuban dictatorship’s full-blown homophobia and persecution of ‘effeminates’, and Residents of Santiago de Cuba are burning uncollected trash on their streets
BattleSwarm: MSNBC Deceptively Edits Joe Rogan – Lawsuit Coming?
Behind The Black: SpaceX announces another commerical passenger flight on a Dragon capsule, Portugal’s air traffic agency signs deal with company wishing to build spaceport in Azores, Orbital tug startup Astroscale expands partnership with European aerospace giant Airbus, More bad journalism, this time about a hypothesized “underground ocean” on Mars, Axiom’s next commercial manned mission to ISS delayed until 2025, and Let’s take a look at the college teachers and students who support Hamas and the torture and murder of little children
CDR Salamander: Doing Just Less Than The Minimum In The Red Sea
Da Tech Guy: What is the Difference Between a Musk Trump Interview and the MSM?
Don Surber: The Great Walz of China
Gates Of Vienna: Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 16, I Wanna Kill Them Jews, A Race No Longer of Heroes, and The Last KamaLaugh
The Geller Report: Tim Walz’s $250M state program to feed hungry kids fraudulently spent on luxury goods, fancy cars, overseas real estate
Hollywood In Toto: Colbert Calls CNN ‘Objective.’ Guess What Happened Next?
The Lid: Biden Hid Free Vacations from Disclosure Even as He Attacks Supreme Court for the Same Thing
Legal Insurrection: Authorities Investigating Break-In at Trump’s Virginia Campaign Office, Harris Campaign Editing Headlines in Google Search Ads to Appear Favorable to Her, Illinois School Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.5 Million Worth of Chicken Wings, Walz Slams Vance for Phantom Attacks on Military Service, Doesn’t Address Stolen Valor Issue, Vulnerabilities Found in Voting Machines, But Cannot be Fixed by November, U. Colorado Journalism Prof Says Trump Uses ‘Coded Speech About Race’, and Portland State University Students Suing School Over Campus Police Breaking up Anti-Israel Protest
Nebraska Energy Observer: So much is going on right now
Outkick: Colin Kaepernick Makes Delusional Comment About Potential NFL Return, Riley Gaines Destroys Trans Golfer For Lecturing Women On Their ‘Failures’, We’re All Just Living Within The Reality Show That Deion Sanders Created At Colorado, And It’s Working, Tennessee Finds Unique Way To Sell Neyland Stadium Branding Rights Without Changing The Iconic Name, Nikola Jokic’s Homecoming In Serbia After Winning Olympic Bronze Looks Like A Scene Straight Out Of A Movie, Not Having Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese Impacted Team USA In Olympic TV Ratings, and Sydney Sweeney Puts On A Wake Surfing Clinic, The Nerf Football That Meant Everything & Buy MJ’s Letter
Power Line: Thing called journalism, Media Bias? Call It by Its True Name: Regime Propaganda, and Whom Are They Fooling?
Shark Tank: Vote No On 3 Campaign Refutes Notion That Large Numbers Of Tokers Are Imprisoned
Shot In The Dark: Honor, Misspoke,  New Opportunity For Republicans!
STUMP: Tim Walz & Public Pensions – What’s The Risk?
The Political Hat: The Abolition Of Dissent In The U.K.
This Ain’t Hell: When Lori Lightfoot sez you’re crooked
Transterrestrial Musings: How To Beat Kamala, Kursk, The Harris-Walz Lies, Paw Paws, and More Of This, Please
Victory Girls: Are The Crazy Cat Ladies Of The Democrats Better On Family Policy?
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Against UCLA, Stemming from Risk of Repetition of Exclusion of Jewish or Pro-Israel Students from Parts of Campus
Watts Up With That: The Incestuous Green Blob, Another New Study Finds Rising CO2 Enhances Planetary Greening and Reduces Drought Risk, and “Green” Hydrogen Subsidies Are 1,900x Larger Than What’s Given To Nuclear
The Federalist: The Press Won’t Discuss Real Campaign Issues, Because They Don’t Want Trump To Win, The New York Times Praises Democrats’ Immigration Policies For ‘Reshaping The Electorate’, Tim Walz Didn’t ‘Misspeak’ About His Military Service — He’s Lied For Years, Tracking Kamala Harris’ Biggest And Baddest Lies: 20 And Counting, RFK Jr. Blocked From New York Ballot After Challenge From Democrat-Aligned PAC, Trump Promises To Unleash American Energy With Alaskan Oil And Gas During Musk Interview, and If Pennsylvania’s Elections Are So Secure, Why Did The DOJ Just Launch An Election Fraud Case There?
Mark Steyn: Bullet Points

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In The Mailbox: 08.12.24

Posted on | August 13, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.12.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Lot of people seem to think if Trump does these X Spaces from now until November, the election will be a lock. Lot of people don’t seem to realize not everybody’s on X.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Sure seems that way

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: London Police Commissioner Intends To Overturn The First Amendment, also, Good Guy With A Gun Stops Bad Guy
EBL: USA Women Win Gold in Soccer, Cowardly Tim Walz, JD Vance does interviews while Kamala Harris and Tim Walz flee from them, and Kamala Harris Campaign Requires IDs to Attend Her Rally
Twitchy: Drew Holden Compiles List Of Media Spinning The “Swift Boating” Of Tim Walz, Politifact Tries To Set J.D. Vance Straight On Tim Walz’ Retirement, and Woke D&D Game Sounds Absolutely AWFUL
Louder With Crowder: UK police warn AMERICANS, Elon Musk: Commit thought crimes and you could be guilty of terrorism, Not weird Kamala fan describes reason for voting: “I’m a trans man and gay and have been pregnant”, Special K claims Biden “absolutely” backs no tax on tips, forgets him sending the IRS after tipped workers, and JD Vance COOKED fake news journalismers all Sunday morning and it’s glorious to watch
Vox Popoli: Deplatformed from Life, Don’t Saw the Branch on Which You Sit, The Migration Conspiracy, A Backhanded Compliment, and Clown World Never Rests
Postcards From Barsoom: Through The Chilled Years Ahead
Born Lucky: “Censorship Voldemort”, RIP
Upstream Reviews: Dragonheart
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The Kursk Invasion
Gab: The Harris House of Cards
Bill Whittle: How To Beat Harris Part I – Equity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It is not Possible to Believe that the Sedes might have been Right
American Conservative: The Democrats’ Favorite Game: Manipulation, Ukraine’s Two Wars, and Miami’s Long Cold War
American Greatness: Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Strategic Politicians, Kamala’s Abuse of Staff Exemplifies Leftist Culture, Theater of the Absurd, Harris-Walz Edition, California Adopts Six Million Children, Our Three Silent Mice, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott Issues Executive Order Mandating Hospitals Gather Data on Immigrant Patients
American Thinker: Trump’s Proven Law and Order Strategy: The Key to America’s Safety and Economic Revival, The New Bread and Circuses, Calling Your Tongue Your Own, and We Need a Badass in the White House
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Livestock mayhem in eastern Cuba: missing calves, Illegal cow sales, slaughters, and ‘disappeances’, North Korean diplomat who defected from Cuba tells his incredible story, and Cuban dictatorship charges Catholic priest with ‘pre-criminal activity and incitement to commit a crime’
Baldilocks: Who’s In Command?, also, Lying & Unknown Unknowns
BattleSwarm: WhistlinDiesel Torture Tests A Cybertruck To Destruction, The Z-List – Harvard’s Can’t Fail Track For Moneyed Morons, and EU Tries To Suppress Trump Interview
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches an additional 21 Starlink satellites, Rocket Lab launches commercial radar satellite, SpaceX launches two broadband satellites for the Space Force and Norway, FAA red tape apparently stalling the next Starship/Superheavy orbital test launch, FAA cancels scheduled public meetings to review new Boca Chica environmental assessment, and Trump to sue Justice Department over Mar-a-Lago raid and subsequent indictments
Cafe Hayek: The Bourgeois Deal Shouldn’t Be Overlooked, also, Gramm and Boudreaux Continue to Champion Free Trade
CDR Salamander: A Constellation of Challenges with Emma Salisbury On Midrats, also, What Is 53 Years In The Life Of A Navy?
Da Tech Guy: Britain throws The Two Greatest Gifts to Mankind Away, Journalists should be forced to wear clown suits, and Five Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: The Last Two Weeks In Legal – Judge Chutkan Is Back In Business
Don Surber: The media supports censorship
First Street Journal: Rubbing my hands in glee, Anti-Semitism in America isn’t about religion, and When the government tells you that inflation is down, look more closely at what has come down
Gates Of Vienna: A Culture-Enriching Day at the Movies, More on the Taylor Swift Jihad, Crook County Commissioners Request Legislative Action on Greater Idaho, Kamala Stomps Her Little Foot — ‘Don’t Call It Radical Islamic Terrorism’, and Spain is Christian, Not Muslim!
The Geller Report: ELECTION STEAL PREP: Pennsylvania Department of State Announces That State’s Election Results Won’t be Known Election Night, Canada: Watch Hamas Terror Mobs March on Parliament Hill against Israel, and President Trump to Sue DOJ for $100 Million
Glenn Reynolds: Return To The Jedi
Hollywood In Toto: Ultimate ‘80s Movie List: Best of the Best, This Made Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound So Unique, Hollywood & British Celebs Silent on Extreme UK Censorship, and Why Media Can’t Stop Attacking Joe Rogan
The Lid: Woke, Left-Wing Louisiana Judge Suspended after Judicial Misconduct, also, Kamala VP Pick Tim Walz Still Taking Blasts for His Military Service Lies
Legal Insurrection: New York City: Orthodox Jewish Man Stabbed on Street by Assailant Yelling “Free Palestine”, “Why Aren’t White Students Invited?”, Biden on Dropping Out: Many House, Senate Democrats ‘Thought I was Gonna Hurt Them in Their Races’, EU Reminds Elon Musk of Its Authoritarian Speech Rules Ahead of Trump Interview, Teacher Unions That Supported Covid Lockdowns Are Big Fans of Harris Running Mate Tim Walz, Hindus in India and Abroad Rally Against Muslim Mob Violence in Bangladesh, and New President of the American Assn. of University Professors Calls J.D. Vance a ‘Fascist’
Michele Catalano: the week in joy
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Why I Travel Alone, and The Monday Post
Outkick: Red Sox Outfielder Jarren Duran Calls Heckling Fan Anti-Gay Slur, Immediately Apologizes After Loss, NASCAR Should Be Terrified By All These Empty Seats & This Damning Audio Could Get Austin Dillon Suspended, White NFL Cornerbacks Are Back & The Internet Is Buzzing, USA Women’s Soccer Drew Biggest Olympic Audience In 20 Years Without Rapinoe, Morgan, Locker Room Picture Of Bryce Harper Perfectly Embodies The Philadelphia Phillies’ Current State Of Mind, WNBA All-Star Sues League for Discrimination After Trade From Las Vegas Aces Following Pregnancy, and Travis Kelce’s Ex Suffocates A Starfish With Her Bikini, Kay Adams In A Tub & Heidi Klum Has Broken Instagram
Power Line: Karl kramps up, Why People Don’t Like Illegal Immigration, and The Typical Leftist Fantasy Life of Tim Walz (Updated)
Shark Tank: Salazar Mocks Walz’ Socialism Comment, Says Latinos Cringe At The Word
Shot In The Dark:  Republicans Pounce On Mostly Peaceful Austere Lawn Stylist, also, “We Have A Pwan!”
STUMP: The Week In Meep (and Stu!)
The Political Hat: No More Mother, No More Father
This Ain’t Hell: Nicolás Maduro challenges Elon Musk to a fight, Musk accepts, Trump Campaign hacked; information provided to Politico, Walzing Into Audit Hell, Army vet Chi Chi Rodriguez, 88 passes, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz rallies, AI generated audiences filling gaps, USSS Professionals In Action, and Mexico Gun suit largely tossed – bueno!
Transterrestrial Musings: Boeing And SLS, The Onslaught By The Media, Putin’s Embarrassment, Islam, and Lileks
Victory Girls: The Baby Parts Selling Scandal Kamala Wants You to Forget, Pelosi Sinks Her Fangs Into Biden’s Dead Presidency, and Can Kamala Skate Through Avoiding The Media Until November?
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Appellate Court Rules in Favor of Takings Lawsuit Against the CDC’s Covid-Era Eviction Moratorium, also, Supreme Court Briefs Filed By Attorney General Kamala Harris
Watts Up With That: Washington State Voters Confront Their Climate Commitment Act, The True Cost of Biden’s Bet on BEVs, and Energy should play key role in 2024 Pennsylvania (and US) elections
The Federalist: ‘Unlawful Electioneering’: Wisconsin City Clerk Accused Of Posting News Clip In Voting Booths, The European Commission Tries To Force Elon Musk To Censor Trump, Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Greenlight Arizona’s Proof Of Citizenship Requirement For Voter Registration, Police Audio Reveals Urgent Response To Biden’s Medical Event In Las Vegas, Washington Created The Doctor Shortage And Can’t Fix It, The Conservative Case For Sauron, and Don’t Let The Camo Hat Distract You From Tim Walz’s Radical Record
Mark Steyn: The Revealed Reality, The Old World and the New Colonialism, More, Peepshow: Alfred Hitchcock Shows Us Where to Look in Rear Window, and Gladja Tuned In!

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Why Do Republicans Hate ‘Joy’?

Posted on | August 12, 2024 | Comments Off on Why Do Republicans Hate ‘Joy’?

One of the most familiar (and most annoying) games played by what Andrew Breitbart dubbed the Democrat-Media Complex is to engage in some kind of deliberate provocation, then to react with feigned shock and outrage when Republicans react to the aforesaid provocation. Republicans “pounce” or “seize” or “attack,” the headlines tell us, intending to shift our gaze away from whatever it is that Democrats have said or done, and toward the (allegedly unjustified) Republican reaction.

Consider, for example, the way the media purposefully repeat verbatim the talking points handed to them by Democrats. They know that we see what they’re doing, and they don’t care, because if we dare complain about the (allegedly objective) news media engaging in blatant partisan propaganda, then our complaints become the story.

At Harris Rally in Philadelphia,
the Return of “Joy”
— Mother Jones, August 6

‘Bringing back the joy’:
Walz’s first day keeps
Democrats’ buzz going
— Washington Post, August 6

Harris, Walz and Democrats’ Joyful Campaign
— New York Times, August 7

Harris and Walz seize on joyful message
in contrast to darker Trump themes
— Washington Post, August 8

Harris Used to Worry About Laughing.
Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign.
— New York Times, August 9

Harris and Walz reintroduce joy
to Democrats their first week
on the campaign trail
— NPR, August 11

Et cetera, et cetera. You see what they’re doing, right? And you know why they’re doing it — it’s all about hyping up this bizarre and unprecedented candidate-switch by Democrats as something to celebrate. Never before in modern American history has a major party forced its own incumbent president to quit his re-election campaign after he’s been nominated as the candidate in his own party primary and then, by a “virtual roll call,” appoint the vice president as the candidate instead. Barely six weeks ago — up until Joe Biden’s June 27 debate performance — the media were unanimously assuring us that Biden was sharp as a tack, full of vigorous youthful energy, and anyone who suggested otherwise was denounced as some kind of far-right conspiracy theorist. Quite suddenly, however, the same media were declaring that Biden must quit the race, and when he finally did, they praised his “selfless” courage in doing so.

As I say, all this is without historical precedent, which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s illegal or even wrong, but shouldn’t Democratic primary voters feel they’ve been cheated in this transaction? If Biden would have had the decency to announce a year ago that he would not seek reelection, there could have been an open primary, giving Democats a chance to choose their own chandidate. Instead, they got Kamala Harris dumped in their lap, and told they had no choice in the matter, and their reaction to this crude swindle? JOY! JOY! JOY! Or so the media wish us to believe.

Evidently, Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) believe that Kamala can surf her way to the White House on a tidal wave of bullshit. As previously noted (“Issues? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Issues!” July 29), the media coverage is all about the “energy” and “momentum” of the Harris campaign, and as to her position on issues — well, who needs “positions” or “issues,” when they’ve got so much joy?

Journalists are actively defending Harris from any consideration of issues. Ed Morrissey smacks around a writer for The Atlantic:

What does Harris have? She’s been vice president for almost four years. Her party anointed her as the nominee three weeks ago. Kamala Harris ran on a progressive platform in California for the Senate and in 2019 for the presidential nomination, so she’s had years to develop her positions on all of the issues in play. Is she such an empty suit that she couldn’t put together a platform within the first couple of days of the campaign? If so, why did Democrats rush to anoint her?
Why aren’t reporters asking these questions, rather than just observing the “seizing”? Because the answer to why Harris is hard to pin down isn’t Republicans who pounce — it’s reporters and media outlets who refuse to do their jobs. 
That’s why mainstream media never tires of reporting the “seizing” and the “pouncing” when it comes to Republican criticism of Democrats. Republicans are doing the job the media refuses to do, and the media is embarrassed by it. There isn’t a single word in [David] Graham’s essay that pins the issue of “ambiguity” on the media that has cooperated in her strategy of silence. We know, for instance, that the pool reporters on her campaign have agreed to off-the-record bull sessions with Harris in order for them to report on the campaign messaging without fingerprints, thanks to a Politico newsletter item last week.
Want to know why no one knows Kamala’s politics of the moment? Maybe it’s because the people whose job it is to report it aren’t asking. The American establishment media have allowed Harris to run as the anointed presidential nominee of a major party for three weeks now without a platform, without a press conference, and without even an interview in which she could be pressed to answer this question.
And the biggest criticism Graham can muster for this sorry state of affairs is … to smirk at Republicans for pointing it out and slough it off as “seizing,” the hoariest cliché in political reporting.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) No policies. No issues. Just nothing but “joy.” And, the media will surely ask, why do you hate joy?



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Biker Babe In Bikini

Posted on | August 11, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Biker Babe In Bikini

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Enjoy them while you can. Thanks to kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM:Rule 5 What If It Missed Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon, and Animal Magnetism Live – The Kamala Harris Weight Loss Program

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Ekaterina Novikova, Fish Pic Friday – Audrey Delligatti, Highway to Hell, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Umm, No Thanks!, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday and  Shark Spotted at Bay Beach

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for August 9

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: A Sight Not Seen For Quite Some Time

Posted on | August 11, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Sight Not Seen For Quite Some Time

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Kinda nice to post the Curly W flag again after so many weeks of getting beaten like a rented mule. We had a good week, taking two of three from the Tribe at the Mistake by the Lake before coming home to RFK and taking two more from the Royals. Jim Kaat and Joe Coleman picked up two wins each, which means they’re 10-8 and 14-14 now. We would have swept KC but Tom Burgmeier robbed Rick Reichardt and Frank Howard of what would have been game-winning homers in game 2, and then Ed Farmer couldn’t hold on. I guess Burgmeier’s card has some BS no-homer mojo on it. Anyway, we’re still a game behind the A’s at 52-72, and next week doesn’t look good: we’re facing Pete’s Brewers on Tuesday and then we get the 64-60 Angels on Friday. We’re still looking for someone to take over Atlanta in this league, and I think Pete has a vacancy in one of this other leagues as well.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Been a while since we’ve had this pleasure.

Rule 5 Sunday: Redheads – Threat or Menace?
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

They’re Calling It the ‘Kamala Crash’
The Pirate’s Cove
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Sundown Joe’ and World War III
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: An Inoffensive Offense
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Donald Trump Had an Agreement to Debate Joe Biden, Not to Debate ‘Whoever Democrats Pick to Replace Joe Biden’
A View From The Beach
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.05.24
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Deranged Florida Family Murders Deputy
357 Magnum
EBL

Mystified Why Trump Keeps Criticizing Georgia Republicans? Here’s the Answer
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Republicans Dodged a Bullet Today — and Van Jones Tells the Truth About Why!
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.06.24
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.07.24
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Worst VP Pick Since Tom Eagleton?
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
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EBL

My Patriotic Duty: Posting ‘Material Which Incites Violence or Hatred’
A View From The Beach
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Fictitious Candidate Kamala Harris and Her Imaginary ‘Presidential Campaign’
The DaleyGator
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A View From The Beach
EBL

Second Manassas in Kursk Oblast?
The DaleyGator
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In The Mailbox: 08.09.24 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.09.24 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 08.09.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 10, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.09.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

You sure do, you blue falcon.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tim Walz hosted a pro-Hitler Muslim cleric in Minnesota, also, British Police Threaten To Prosecute and Extradite Americans (Elon Musk too)
Twitchy: UK Police Commissioner Says They’ll Extradite & Prosecute Americans For Social Media Posts, Barbara Streisand Proves She Has No Self-Awareness With Post About Trump & Media Questions, and Here’s Nancy Pelosi Praising Tim Walz’ “Service On The Battlefield” (He Didn’t Correct Her) 
Louder With Crowder: Here’s how media “fact checkers” are lying to you about Kamala Harris and gun confiscation, also, Bonkers: These Astronauts are  Stuck in Space…until 2025 [Thanks, Boeing!]
Vox Popoli: Technology Changes War, Mailvox: A Bad Case Against Free Trade, and An Elegaic Opus
According To Hoyt: Reading Tea Leaves, Bye Bye Blue, and The Coils of Oikophobia
Monster Hunter Nation: Graveyard of Demons eARC is out now
Upstream Reviews: Titan Mage
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsie Princess Effie’s Logs #4 – The Definition of “Deal With”
Gab: UK Government Threatens Subjects With Seven Years In Prison For “Hateful” Tweets

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Men, protect your women, also, Your Terms are Acceptable
American Conservative: Bangladesh’s Affirmative Action Revolution
American Greatness: The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip, Rep. Jamie Raskin Says Congress Will Have to Disqualify Trump if He Wins the Election; Civil War Could Ensue, Kamala Harris and the Masque of Magical Thinking, and How Trump Can Win—or Lose—the Election
American Thinker: A Reality Check for American Voters, also, The State Is Not Your Friend!
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Rule Five ‘What If It Missed?’ Friday
Babalu Blog: Chile and Argentina refuse to recognize Maduro as winner of Venezuelan election, Brazil’s ambassador expelled from Nicaragua for not attending 45th anniversary celebration of Sandinista ‘Revolution’, Another eloquent picture of Cuba’s generalized degeneracy, and Beloved Cuban doctor dies due to incompetence and lack of equipment and medications at his local hospital
BattleSwarm: Another Texas Sales Tax Holiday Starts Tomorrow, also, LinkSwarm For August 9
Behind The Black: SpaceX sets August 26, 2024 as new launch date for Polaris Dawn private manned mission, Red Chinese Long March 6A upper stage breaks up into debris shortly after deploying satellites, Brooklyn startup wins NASA contract to develop wireless communication technology for use on the Moon, Rocket Lab completes first static fire test of new more powerful rocket engine, NASA inspector general blasts Boeing’s management relating to its work on SLS’s new more powerful upper stage, and Florida proves that too many professors at public colleges might be better employed as dish washers
Cafe Hayek: Exports Are Costs (Worth Incurring) for the Ultimate Benefit of Imports
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Let the Games Begin, also, No, They Don’t Really Believe in ‘Equality’
Da Tech Guy: Ukraine’s Interesting Offensive Into Russia, Who would’ve thunk it, Kamala chose a running mate just as radical as she is, and Russia, Britain and the Left: “Institutional lying”
Dana Loesch: Trump Assassination Attempt – New Body Cam Video Shows Shooter On The Roof
Don Surber: Watergate(s) on steroids
First Street Journal: Democrisy: the leftists who loved outside money in their campaigns hate it when Other People use it to defeat Democrats, Hit the road, Jack! and Man, that Larry Krasner and his office are really stupid!
Gates Of Vienna: Before the Deluge, Lefties Go Wild in Berlin, A Fly in the Ointment, ISIS vs. Taylor Swift, Anti-Swifties Were Radicalized Online, and Is Cardiff the Capital of Wales or Just Another Londonistan on Steroids?
The Geller Report: Illegal Muslim Immigrants who Tried to Breach Military Base Released Despite Being on Terror Watchlist, Josh Shapiro Un-Jewed Himself Publicly and Still Didn’t Get Picked, and “SPECIAL PERMISSION”: FBI Let Pakistani Trump Assassin on Terror Watchlist into U.S. on Parole Despite Terror Ties, Iran Trip
Hollywood In Toto: Matt Damon’s The Instigators Can’t Steal Our Hearts, Why Saturday Night Is Bad News for ‘SNL’s’ 50th Season, The Harsh Truth Behind Jenna Ortega’s Hollywood Rant, and Gen Z Hearts Violence Over Free Speech?
The Lid: Kamala Harris Covered Up The Sex Abuse Of Children, also, Virginia Just Found More than 6,000 Illegal Aliens Registered to Vote by Democrats
Legal Insurrection: Biden Administration Appears To Be Having “Going Out of Business” Climate Project Giveaway, Ten years ago Michael Brown died, and Black Lives Matter based on the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie was born, Kamala Harris Campaign Deletes ‘Retired Command Sergeant Major’ From Walz’s Bio, California Democratic State Senator Switches to GOP, Simmons University in Boston Offers Themed Housing for Muslims, but Not for Jewish Students, Plant That Causes Serious Burns and Alters Human DNA Spreads Across New York, and Summit of Pro-Israel College Students Aims to ‘Take Back’ Campuses From Radical Protesters
Nebraska Energy Observer: You can’t make this up, also, Scattershot Friday; Full Choke Edition
Outkick: IOC President Seeks Scientific Way To Identify Man, Woman, Let’s Make Sense Of Vegas SEC Win Totals, With Texas Nipping At Georgia And Tennessee Looking Like A Good Buy, Sorry NCAA, Michigan Will Honor Jim Harbaugh During The 2024 Season-Opener, Deion Sanders Refuses To Take Question From CBS Reporter, Gold Medal-Winning Runner Takes Shot At Team USA Star Noah Lyles, The Olympics Delivered Some Old Time Field Hockey As Fists Were Flying After Match, and I Have To Destroy Travel Ball Scumbag Fraud Alyssa Milano Again
Power Line: On Walz’s case with Dave Thul, Voter Fraud In Tim Walz’s Minnesota, Gaslighting In Overdrive, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank:  Rick Scott Blasts Mucarsel-Powell For Endorsing Gov. Walz & His Record
Shot In The Dark: Melting With Rage, The Numbers Don’t Lie, Gwen Antoinette, In His Own Words, Unsquadded, and The Greatest
STUMP: U.S. Mortality Down 6% In 2023, But Up 5-7% From 2019-2023
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Republican Party and Moderates, also, Quick Takes – End Of Life?
This Ain’t Hell: Friday NON-Walz news – OK, I lied, but there is good news, also, Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor
Victory Girls: Mayor Tiffany Henyard Gets Clocked By Lori Lightfoot Investigation, also, Tim Walz – The Covid Snitch Line And Isolating Mom
Volokh Conspiracy: VP Candidate Tim Walz on “There’s No Guarantee to Free Speech on Misinformation or Hate Speech, and Especially Around Our Democracy”, also, Interesting D.C. Circuit Dissent Regarding Computer Monitoring for Jan. 6 Trespasser
Watts Up With That: No Farms, No Food, Coming Clean on Clean Energy: It’s a Dirty Business, and Wrong, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Moms Have Little Reason to Worry About Climate Change
The Federalist: Tim Walz Misrepresented His Military Service. He Needs To Answer Some Questions, Executives Of Voting Machine Firm Suing To Silence Election Reporting Indicted For Bribery, Court-Packing Is Just One More Way Democrats Would Turn America Into Venezuela, Regime-Approved ‘Fact-Checkers’ Rush To Downplay Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor Controversy, How GOP Lawmakers Should Handle 2025’s ‘Fiscal Cliff’ No Matter Who’s In The White House, Court Says Mail Ballots Are Public But Lets Pennsylvania Officials Keep Hiding Vote Records, and Highest-Ranking Enlisted Veteran Ever To Serve In Congress Blasts Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor
Mark Steyn: Lyin’ and De-Jewifyin’, also, Do I Fear a Walz?

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In The Mailbox: 08.09.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 9, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.09.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Internet was down in Tonopah yesterday, and by the time it came up again it was too late for linkagery.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guy With Gun Stops Rampaging SUV
EBL: Kamala Harris panders for the Black vote, also, PRESIDENT TRUMP: THIS IS THE WAY
Twitchy: Anita Dunn Claps Back At Pelosi, Gives Her Version Of Why Biden Was Ousted, Team Trump Posts 25 Minutes Of Kamala Explaining “Why They’re Hiding Her”, and Politifact Gets Nuked By Community Notes For Trying To Rewrite Kamala’s Extreme Gun Control History
Louder With Crowder: Woman Arrested As A “Stark Warning” Of What Happens When You Post “Inaccurate Information”, also, Bad Orange Woman Hallucinates “Tim Walz Is Who J.D. Vance Wants To Be”
Vox Popoli: Too Stupid to Survive, Into the Gammas’ Den, and Ukraine’s Battle of the Bulge
Upstream Reviews: Inkheart
Stoic Observations: Let The World Answer, Stoic Bites #8 – Olympics

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Don Surber: Ferguson speaks
STUMP: Public Pension Problems – Proposed Solutions, But Will They Fix Anything? 

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Second Manassas in Kursk Oblast?

Posted on | August 9, 2024 | Comments Off on Second Manassas in Kursk Oblast?

Oktyabr’skoe is a Russian village about five miles east of Rylsk, and about 25 miles north of the border with Ukraine. Thursday night, Ukraine hit a Russian truck convoy on the E38 highway in Oktyabr’skoe, possibly wiping out an entire battalion of reinforcements being sent to counter a Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk Oblast. Ukraine’s forces crossed the border Tuesday near the Russian town of Sudzha, and by Thursday were reportedly approaching Korenevo, about 20 miles to the northwest of Sudzha and 12 miles south of Oktyabr’skoe. While there is incomplete information about what happened at Oktyabr’skoe, it has been suggested that the Russian convoy was on its way to reinforce Korenevo, and was hit by rockets from a U.S.-supplied HIMARS battery. HIMARS has an extensive range, so it’s likely that the rocket salvo was fired from Ukrainian positions near Korenevo. Nevertheless, (a) this means the E38 east of Rylsk is effectively off-limits for Russia to send troops or supplies to the front, and (b) the Russians in Korevnevo are going to have to make do without that battalion the Ukrainians just wiped out.

Destroyed trucks in the Russian convoy

It has been elsewhere been reported that Ukrainian forces are also threatening Lgov, a crossroads town about 25 miles east of Rylsk, so that Russia is dealing with a multi-pronged attack in the region.

All in all, I’m reminded of how Stonewall Jackson opened the Second Manassas campaign by making a flank march and falling on Pope’s supply depot at Manassas Junction. This forced Pope to retreat from the Rappahannock, and to send forces to find Jackson and bring him to battle. Jackson proved elusive, however, and hid his corps near Sudley Springs on the road between Warrenton and Centreville. The next afternoon, when a Union brigade came marching past, Jackson stuck them hard and soon had Pope’s entire army converge on his front. What Pope didn’t know was that Lee had Longstreet’s corp en route to join Jackson, and when Longstreet was finally ready to attack, Pope army was wrecked and beat a hasty retreat back toward Washington.

Similary, the surprise Ukrainian attack into Russia’s weakly defended Kursk Oblast has thrown the Russians completely off-balance. The Ukrainians have so far encountered only light resistance from local defense forces, and when Russia tried to move regular army reinforcements into the region, they got hammered. The Russians have no idea of what the Ukrainians are planning to do next — will they make a lunge toward Kursk city or, perhaps, make a thrust eastward from Sudzha? Like Jackson after raiding Manassas Junction, the Ukrainian forces can sit and wait to see what the Russians send after them, and strike those reinforcements the way they did at Oktyabr’skoe.

Everything that Russia sends to deal with the incursion in Kursk will be subtracted from the forces available in the Donbas region and elsewhere, so that as a diversion, the Kursk campaign doesn’t need to make any major territorial conquests in order to succeed from a strategic perspective. Wisely, the Ukrainians have said nothing about what their intentions or objectives are, but some commentators have suggested that they may have 25,000 or so troops committed to this adventure, which would be plenty enough to wreak havoc in the Russian interior unless and until the Russians can bring sufficient forces into the theatre to force a Ukrainian retreat. And every time Russia tries to move troops along those roads, they risk another Oktyabr’skoe-style catastrophe.

Ukraine’s counter-offensive has taken the strategic initiative away from Russia. There’s no telling how long this Kursk incursion will continue, but Russia’s likely to suffer serious losses while it lasts.



 

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