In The Mailbox: 08.02.24

Posted on | August 3, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.02.24

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

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: If A Truck Full Of “Green Technology” Overturns, Catches Fire, & Emits Toxins, Is It Still Green? also, Grand Theft Chicken Sandwich
EBL: Olympian Giorgia Villa Loves Cheese, Kamala Harris Says No Merry Christmas For You , Simone Biles Olympic Comeback, and Kamala Harris to pick Josh Shapiro as her Veep?
Twitchy: Friday’s News Dumps Make Everyone Wonder AGAIN Who’s In Charge Of This Country, Get Keith Olbermann A Straightjacket! and Let Us Grab Our Tiny Violins
Louder With Crowder: Pat McAfee has the stones to speak truth about men competing against women though no one else on ESPN does, also, Crowder Closes: A ‘Male’ Stole Angela Carini’s Olympic Dream and Her Promise to Her Late Father
Vox Popoli: Sex Trafficking at ComicCon, Suddenly at the Olympics, and The Judgment of Paris
According To Hoyt: The Cost of Your Self-Image, Shooting Your Own Foot, and Weird!
Upstream Reviews: The Golden Key & Other Fairy Tales
Defending The Wood Perilous: Betraying The Past, Princess Effie’s Logs #3 – Launching Black Hawk Enterprises
Stoic Observations: Stoic Bites #7 – Adventures of the Mind

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Can Pennsylvania’s Shapiro Survive Woke Scrutiny?
American Greatness: The Looming Kamala Calamity, also, The Fallacies of Kamala Harris
American Thinker: Even If Moses Endorsed Donald Trump, Jews Would Not Vote For Him
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five DEI Hire Friday
Babalu Blog: Building collapses in Cuba, trapping a pregnant woman and children, Castro dictatorship threatens Cubans with criminal prosecution if caught buying or selling foreign currency, and Cuban mother accuses hospital of medical negligence for causing the death of her newborn infant
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 3
Behind The Black: China launches “high-orbit internet satellite”, NASA/Boeing push back final decision of Starliner return, Arianespace finally schedules last Vega launch, Chinese scientists discover thin-layered graphene in Chang’e-5 lunar samples, Rocket Lab successfully launches commercial Earth observation satellite, and Charges against pro-Hamas rioters have routinely been dropped nationwide
Cafe Hayek: Gordon Chang Is No Serious Analyst of Trade
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Ismail Haniyeh Death Provides An Uncomfortable Truth For All Those Crying “Genocide” Over Gaza
Don Surber: oLGBTQ Olympics
First Street Journal: Apparently your Freedom of Speech is dependent upon which side you support
Gates Of Vienna: The Gathering Storm, also, The Longest Covid
The Geller Report: Five of Terror Monster Yahya Sinwar’s Greatest Allies Eliminated in Attack on Gaza Terror Tunnel, also, The Ministry Of Disinformation Is Proud To Present: ‘Kamala Harris’ For President
Hollywood In Toto: ‘Blair Witch’ at 25: Found-Footage Shocker Still Gives Us the Creeps
The Lid: Federal Gov’t Has Known All Along that Transgendering Drugs are Unhealthy, Push them Anyway
Legal Insurrection: Manufacturing Flaw Now Blamed for Vineyard Wind Offshore Blade Failure, Don’t Fall For ‘Operation Demoralize’, Kamala Harris HQ Rewrites Her Word Salad When Addressing Prisoner Release to Sound Coherent, Defense Sec. Austin Revokes Plea Deal for 9/11 Masterminds, Anti-Israel Group at CUNY Appears to Call for Escalation of Violence, Biden Reportedly Told Netanyahu to ‘Stop Escalating Tensions in the Region’, and Media Completely Ignores ‘Blacks Against Harris’ Zoom Call Event
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Second Olympic Boxer Who Failed Gender Test Takes Down Another Female Fighter, Athletes Are Obsessed With The Chocolate Muffins In Olympic Village, No, Australia Shouldn’t Ban G-String Bikinis At Waterparks…Stop Being Stupid, Skip Bayless Officially Leaves FS1, What’s Next? Peacock, YouTube? NFL Injuries Begin To Mount, Affecting One Quarterback Competition And Former First-Round Receiver, Dan Orlovsky Deletes ‘Protect Our Daughters’ Tweet While ESPN Co-Workers Continue To Post Woke Nonsense, and Camille Kostek Turns Up The Heat With A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Shoot
Power Line: Developing: ActBlue Campaign Fraud in VA? Biden Sides With Hamas, The Daily Chart: Deregulate Housing, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Bipartisan Delegation Denounces Maduro’s Election Fraud
Shot In The Dark: I’m Pouncing, also, Ozymandias
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The High-Frontier Concept
This Ain’t Hell: Follow-up Friday- Quantico spies, AR ban, Osprey crash, Valor Friday, US veteran, associated with failed Venezuela coup, is arrested, Paul Whelan finally released from Russian custody, and KSM Plea Deal Revoked!
Transterrestrial Musings: A Difference Between The Right And The Left, also, The Latest On The USSS
Victory Girls: Code Switching Is Media’s New Term for Kamala’s Phoniness
Volokh Conspiracy: [I’ve Looked at Law from] Both Sides, Now
Watts Up With That: ‘Green’ Olympics Make Athletes See Red – The Climate Realism Show #121, Exposing the Financial Web: Clinton-Run Organizations Funding Climate Activists, and Are Heatwaves Getting Worse?
The Federalist: If Kamala Harris Is Normal, Make America Weird Again, Alabama Democrat Arrested For Allegedly Casting 7 Fraudulent Absentee Ballots, Democrats’ Weakness On Israel Is Prolonging War In The Middle East, Here We Go Again: ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Announces Plans To Dump More Cash Into Election Offices, Media Hate Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman Because She’s A Happily Married Mother, Majority Blame Secret Service For Trump Assassination Attempt, Few Trust Agency: Poll, and Wind Turbine Debacle Perfectly Encapsulates Biden-Harris Green New Deal Failures
Mark Steyn: “Constitutional Methods Have Failed…”

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In The Mailbox: 08.01.24

Posted on | August 2, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.01.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in July.
Uncomfortable Parallels, on the Substack
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

A better version of a meme I already had.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Angela Carini
Twitchy: Tariq Nasheed Weighs In On Trump At The NABJ Conference – You’ll Be Surprised, Turkey’s Dressed-Down Olympic Shooter Inspires Jokes, Memes – And Wins Silver, and The Left Keeps Claiming This Isn’t Happening
Louder With Crowder: Sanity prevails! This dad wins custody of his son after the mother tried to raise him non-binary, Olympian abandons fight after she was forced to fight a man (who claims he’s not), Enjoy: Porch pirate tries being slick, winds up eating fists when homeowner comes home at wrong time, and Olympian forced to fight a man(?) made this heartbreaking dedication to her late father
Vox Popoli: The Memes Must Flow, Indeed, and Ascendant is Back!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why Middle Class Americans Are Praying for a Trump Return
American Greatness: President Biden – A Single Point of Failure for America, also, Kamala Harris’ National Security Adviser Investigated for Ties to Iran
American Thinker: Media Gaslighting Trump-Harris Polls
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Cuban ‘president’ offers condolences over death of Hamas terrorist leader, As Cubans go hungry, the Castro dictatorship announces the opening of new apartheid hotels, and As Cuba sends enslaved doctors overseas, Dengue and Oropouche epidemic spreads uncontrolled throughout the island
Baldilocks: Banks, also, No Pandering
BattleSwarm: Border Invasion Validation
Behind The Black: First flight of government-built hopper to test vertical landings delayed two years, Research from DART impact mission determines approximate ages of the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos, ULA squelches independent photography of its launches, Inspector General: Roman Space Telescope is meeting the budget overruns and schedule delays NASA predicted, Vast announces first two customer payloads on its Haven-1 space station, and My heart bleeds: The new head of the Secret Service is hurt because his people are “hurting”
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading & Viewing
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Regime declared war on the Supreme Court, also, The August Indulgence Calendar and a Tip for Stacy’s Friend Wombat
Dana Loesch: Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention, Looks Like Harris Has Picked A VP,
Don Surber: A day in the lies
First Street Journal: The Iranians should be worried!
Gates Of Vienna: Democracy Means Voting for the Correct Candidates
The Geller Report: FBI Is Ramping Up Censorship Ahead Of 2024 Election
Hollywood In Toto: Stupid White Men Author Michael Moore Calls Trump Racist, also, War Game – The Left’s Ultimate Jan. 6 Cosplay?
The Lid: Donald Trump Proposes End to Taxes on Social Security for Retirees
Legal Insurrection: Israel Confirms Hamas No. 2 Mohammed Deif Eliminated in July Airstrike, “How Dare We Speak Merry Christmas. How Dare We?”, Polling Analyst Nate Silver Not Buying Kamala Hype, Says Trump Remains Favorite to Win in 2024, Texas AG Paxton Announces Final Victory On Court Order Forcing Biden to Finish Southern Border Wall, University of Missouri Closing DEI Offices, J.D. Vance Says Border Patrol Agents ‘Enraged that the Harris Administration Won’t Let Them Do Their Job’, and Hamas Leader Haniyeh Assassinated By Bomb Planted In Tehran Apartment Two Months Ago, Not By Missile – NYT Reports
michele catalano: conspicuous consumption
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fascinating
Outkick: Social Media Erupts After Olympian Boxer ‘Pretending To Be’ A Woman Batters An Actual Woman In The Ring, Josh Shapiro, Potential Democrat VP Nominee, Supports Males In Women’s Sports, Bobby Witt Jr. Just Had One Of The Best Months In Baseball History, Jake Paul Offers Olympian Boxer Angela Carini A ‘Fair’ Fight ‘Not Against A Man’, Pat McAfee Goes On ESPN And Says What Others Won’t, NFL Fans Give Mixed Reactions Over New Kickoff Rule At Bears, Texans ‘Hall of Fame Game’, and Italian Soccer Girl Giusy Meloni Heats Up A Beach, Kay Adams In Full Pads & Olympian Angela Carini Is A Winner
Power Line: Worse Than the Old Boss, Take my governor — please, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Wins in the End
Shark Tank: Mast Criticizes Media For Gaslighting Americans BY Claiming VP Harris Was Never Border Czar
Shot In The Dark: A State of Forced Cowardice, Tea Leaves, and Kackalot
STUMP: Taking The Long View – Over A Decade of STUMP Watching Public Pensions
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – For The Children
This Ain’t Hell: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 plotter, reaches plea deal with US government
Victory Girls: Olympics Watch: Leftwing “Masculinity” Applauds Men Who Beat Women
Volokh Conspiracy: Senator Schumer Goes Nuclear With “No King Act”
Watts Up With That: No, CNBC, Insurance Premiums Are Not Increasing Due to Climate Change, The New York Times Is Clueless When It Comes to Climate and the #ParkFire, and The Future of the EV Mandate
The Federalist: In A Summer Of Box Office Flops, Deadpool & Wolverine Shines, Nasdaq Exempts Chinese Business Partners From Woke Politics It Forces On Americans, What Does Kamala Harris Know About Biden Suddenly Dropping Out Of 2024? Why Is Michigan’s Secretary Of State Working With Election Meddler David Becker? WSJ Smears Heritage President Kevin Roberts For Not Being A Neocon Hack, Sources Say Missouri AG ‘Stopped Working On’ Investigation Into ‘Zuckbucks’, and New York Times Celebrates Democrats Adding ‘Weird’ To Neverending ‘Racist’ And ‘Sexist’ Smears
Mark Steyn: Game Over

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What Part of Genesis 12:3 Do I Need to Explain to These Crazy Jew-Haters?

Posted on | August 1, 2024 | Comments Off on What Part of Genesis 12:3 Do I Need to Explain to These Crazy Jew-Haters?

While I don’t have any advanced credentials in theology, I would say “don’t f**k with the Jews” is a fair colloquial translation.

Yesterday, my brother was skeptical of the Iranian claim that it was an Israeli missile attack that took out Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and it turns out that Kirby’s skepticism was justified, because those crafty Jews are even craftier than any Iranian could imagine:

Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.
The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials. The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in an upscale neighborhood of northern Tehran.
Mr. Haniyeh was in Iran’s capital for the presidential inauguration. The bomb was detonated remotely, the five officials said, once it was confirmed that he was inside his room at the guesthouse. The blast also killed a bodyguard.
The explosion shook the building, shattered some windows and caused the partial collapse of an exterior wall, according to the two Iranian officials, members of the Revolutionary Guards briefed on the incident. Such damage was also evident in a photograph of the building shared with The New York Times.
Mr. Haniyeh, who had led Hamas’s political office in Qatar, had stayed at the guesthouse several times when visiting Tehran, according to the Middle Eastern officials. All of the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details about the assassination.
Iranian officials and Hamas said Wednesday that Israel was responsible for the assassination, an assessment also reached by several U.S. officials who requested anonymity. The assassination threatened to unleash another wave of violence in the Middle East and upend the ongoing negotiations to end the war in Gaza. Mr. Haniyeh had been a top negotiator in the cease-fire talks.
Israel has not publicly acknowledged responsibility for the killing, but Israeli intelligence officials briefed the United States and other Western governments on the details of the operation in the immediate aftermath, according to the five Middle Eastern officials. . . .

You can read the whole thing, but wow! So apparently, Israel was able to (a) identify the guest house where the Hamas leader stayed during previous visits to Tehran, (b) somehow smuggle a bomb past Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, (c) confirm that Haniyeh was there Tuesday night and (d) KABOOM! That’s some really amazing clandestine work.

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In The Mailbox: 07.31.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 1, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.31.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Average Bubba is back blogging at Rooted in Reason.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Israel Kills Hamas’ Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Shukr, also, MAGA Not So Crazy Cat Ladies For Trump
Twitchy: Liberal Big Tech CEO David Marcus “Crosses The Rubicon” & Endorses Trump, AG Merrick Garland Is FURIOUS About Document Case Dismissal, and ABC Reporter Stunned Trump Had The Nerve To Address Black Journalists
Louder With Crowder: Weird Kamala Harris pays child actors to talk to her about space, attempt to make her seem likable
Vox Popoli: The First Rule of Fighting the Patriarchy, Yeah, We’re Back, Weekly Meme Review 19, “The Full Force of the Law”, and Evil in the High Courts
Postcards From Barsoom: So We’re Winning – Now What?
Toni Airaksinen: 25% Of False Accusers Do It For An Alibi

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Satanist Servants of the System do not attack any religion but Christianity
American Conservative: The Ukrainian War Effort Is Going Nowhere Fast
American Greatness: Kamala Harris and the Californication of America, California Democrat Says Kamala Harris Constantly Berated AG Office Staffers With F-Bombs; Didn’t Allow Interns to Look Her in the Eye, and Racism and Sexism: The Campaign Theme of the Harris-Whoever Ticket
American Thinker: Kamalagate: The Harris Deception That Doomed Dozens of J6ers, The Democrat Party is the Greatest Threat to America, and The Perfect Stooge: How Did Kamala Harris Get This Far?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Screwball News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Leftist dictatorships cannot be toppled at the ballot box, Organization of American States will hold special session today on Venezuela election results, and Barack ‘Luca Brasi’ Obama
BattleSwarm: Paxton Wrings $1.4 Billion Settlement From Facebook, also, Did Amazon Try To Ban A 2020 Book Critical Of Kamala Harris?
Behind The Black: ULA completes its 4th launch this year and last Atlas-5 launch for the Space Force, China scientists propose both a communications and GPS-type infrastructure on the Moon, A review of Japan’s effort to create a commercial space industry, Boeing names new CEO, set to take over on August 8, 2024, Secret Service agent reveals the edifice of incompetency and stupidity that permeates the entire federal government, and Unlike the white community, a real politcal conversation is finally happening among blacks
Cafe Hayek: Thoughts on Income Inequality
CDR Salamander: National Defense Strategy? What National Defense Strategy?
Chicago Boyz: Slow But Exceedingly Fine
Da Tech Guy: The Story isn’t the Left’s Blasphemy, the Story is the visible proof of God’s existence in response, also, A Mistake? YGBFKM
Dana Loesch: Kemp Was A Safe VP Pick
Don Surber: It’s like being called weird by a weirdo
First Street Journal: Karma comes for Ismail Haniyeh, also, Oh, noes! #COVID19 is surging in California!
Gates Of Vienna: The Cultural Enrichment of Southport, Jewish Soccer Players Get Extra Protection in Nantes, We All Scream For Ice Cream, Venezuelan Officers: “The Will of the Sovereign People Was Manifested”, Jews Will Have No Choice — They Will Be Pushed Out of France, and No More Euros For Palestine!
The Geller Report: Iran Increases Attacks on U.S. Forces, also, Trump: Biden/Harris White House run by ‘fascists, Marxists, communists’
Hollywood In Toto: Was St. Elmo’s Fire The Ultimate ’80s Movie? Did Someone Put a Hit Out on Francis Ford Coppola’s Career? Late-Night Propagandists Come for J.D. Vance, and Dear Hollywood: Be Like Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman
The Lid: Biden’s Mandate Forcing All Trucks to Go Electric Will Cost Economy BILLIONS in Losses
Legal Insurrection: Top Hamas Terrorist Leader Ismail Haniyeh Killed in Tehran Strike, Terror Group Says, FLASHBACK: Vice President Kamala Harris Struggles to Define Culture, U. Georgia Students Challenge Suspensions Over Pro-Palestine Encampment Protest, Trump Points Out the Difference in Treatment Between J6 Protesters and Mobs Destroying Property, Governor Walz Calls Trump a “Bastard” and Buttigieg Links Freedom to Abortion at Harris Event, Prime Minister Netanyahu Says Israel “Prepared For Any Scenario” as Iran, Hamas Vow to Avenge Top Terrorist Haniyeh’s Killing, and Trump Assassination Attempt: Local Law Enforcement, D.A. Blast Secret Service ‘Ridiculous’ Remarks
Nebraska Energy Observer: I don’t much care for Dave Rubin, also, It’s the Same the Whole World Over
Outkick: NFL Legend Rips Woman Offended By ‘White’ National Anthem Singers At Restaurant, American Tennis Star Curses Out Iga Swiatek Over ‘Insincere’ Behavior During Olympic Match, Tampa Bay Rays Officially Get Approval To Build New Stadium, ESPN Social Media Botches Post About Katie Ledecky & Michael Phelps, Canadian Olympic Triathlon Athlete Pukes After Swimming In Digusting Seine River, Alex Ovechkin Talks About The Important Role Of Beer In An NHL Locker Room, and Salma Hayek Says Farewell To July With A Healthy Reminder That Bikini Season Isn’t Over
Power Line: Biden’s court-whacking plan, A Weird Line of Attack, and Settling All Family Business?
Shark Tank: Salazar Introduces Bill To Fight Fentanyl Crisis
Shot In The Dark: Chanting Points Memo – Little Robots Full Of Ticky-Tack, Whores, Cretins, Charlatans, OK!, His True Color Is Red, and A Conundrum
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Betting On Tax Policy
The Political Hat: Hobbesian Apotheosis
This Ain’t Hell: Two former Marines sentenced for plot to destroy a power grid, Israel Eyes Hezbollah Targets, Donald Trump’s iconic photo ‘fact checked’, Vet death I find hard to mourn, Raw tallies showed opposition landside, Maduro claims victory, Venezuelans protest, Israelis take out Shukur, Beirut Marine bomb leader, and Kamala Harris hints at executive action to act on gun control
Transterrestrial Musings: “General” Harris
Victory Girls: Kamala Channels Hillary With Fake Accent And NSFW Rap Lyrics
Volokh Conspiracy: Kamala Harris’s Indian Background Was Once a More Prominent Part of Her Curated Image
Watts Up With That: Rolls-Royce One Step Closer To SMRs, Virginia’s risk of offshore wind turbine blade failure is serious, and Team Harris Swears Kamala Won’t Kill Fracking, But Will Anyone Believe Them?
The Federalist: If Elected, Kamala Harris Would Be The Most Anti-Gun President In U.S. History, Florida CFO Bans Left-Wing Propagandist NewsGuard From Receiving State Financial Contracts, ‘Bidenbucks’ Plan Uses Native American School Children In Voter Registration Scheme, Biden-Harris Administration Keeps Breaking The Law To Buy Votes From College Grads, Michigan Judge Shuts Down Secretary Of State’s Lax Ballot Signature Guidance For Good, and Why Should Media Go Easy On Kamala After Racist Attacks On Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, And Tim Scott?
Mark Steyn: Ofcom Wins, The Management of Murder, and As Steyn Goes, So Goes the Deep State?

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In The Mailbox: 07.31.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 31, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.31.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Is Intel Headquartered In Mos Eisley?
EBL: 17 year old* arrested in brutal stabbing murders of children at Taylor Swift themed party, Democrat Weirdos for Kamala Harris, Fire Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, and Democrats Threatened the 25th Amendment To Kick Biden Out?
Twitchy: Least Surprising Revelation of the Day – Half Of Young Liberal Women, Have a Diagnosed Mental Illness, Several Airlines Canceling Flights To Israel Amid “Fear Of Wider Conflict”, and Best Economy Ever, Jack!
Louder With Crowder: “White Dudes” embarrass themselves for Kamala, beats “White Women” in biggest Harris cringe-fest, also, So Weird! Kamala Harris campaign BUSTED paying influencers to say nice things about her on social media
Vox Popoli: Pentagon Runs Fake Social Accounts, 100% Pure Hopium, A Carthaginian Counterattack, The Media Won’t Talk About Gaiman, and Why the Media Hates Aaron Rodgers
Toni Airaksinen: Trump Assassination Denialism
Stoic Observations: Stoic Bites #6 – It’s Still Bacchus,
Gab: An Emergency Request From The FBI
Upstream Reviews: Blood Cartel

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Dana Loesch: Yes, Kamala Really Wants To Ban Fracking, also, Kamala Vows “Mandatory Gun Buyback” Via EO In First 100 Days,
Don Surber: Media pushes to elect a coconut
STUMP: Chicago Is My Kind of Town To Beat Up On – Previews For The DNC

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So Far, Israel Has Neither Confirmed Nor Denied It Assassinated Hamas Leader

Posted on | July 31, 2024 | Comments Off on So Far, Israel Has Neither Confirmed Nor Denied It Assassinated Hamas Leader

Khaled Mashaal (left) and Ismail Haniyeh (right) in 2012

There is no doubt that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is dead. He was killed in Tehran after attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president. However, the claim that Israel is behind Haniyeh’s death is being made by Iran, while the Israeli government has so far been silent.

My brother Kirby pointed this out to me. Why should we assume that Iran is telling the truth about this? How could Israel have accomplished this in the Iranian capital? Isn’t it possible — says Kirby, who pays more attention to this stuff than I do — that Haniyeh had enemies? Enemies inside Hamas? Enemies in Hezbollah? Enemies in Iran?

Kirby suspects, or at least he’s not rulling out, that this assassination could be a “false flag” operation, intended to create a pretext for Iran to attack Israel, and all I can say to such suspicion is, I don’t know.

Here’s what we do know, from the Jerusalem Post:

Khaled Mashaal was tapped to be the new Hamas leader on Wednesday, replacing Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran early Wednesday morning.
Hamas sources said Mashaal is expected to be chosen as the paramount leader of the terror group to replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was eliminated in Iran in the early hours of Wednesday.
Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya, who is based in Qatar and has headed Hamas negotiators in indirect hostage deal talks with Israel, has also been a possibility for the leadership as he is a favorite of Iran and its allies in the region.
Mashaal became known around the world in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a failed assassination attempt on a street outside his office in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Mashaal, 68, became Hamas’s political leader in exile the year before Israel tried to eliminate him, a post that enabled him to represent the Palestinian Islamist group at meetings with foreign governments around the world, unhindered by tight Israeli travel restrictions that affected other Hamas officials.
Mashaal’s relations with Iran have been strained due to his past support for the Sunni Muslim-led revolt in 2011 against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Mashaal has been a central figure at the top of Hamas since the late 1990s, though he has worked mainly from exile.
Born in Silwad near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mashaal moved as a boy with his family to the Gulf Arab state of Kuwait.
At the age of 15, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, which became instrumental in the formation of Hamas in the late 1980s during the First Intifada.
Mashaal became a schoolteacher before turning to lobbying for Hamas from abroad for many years. He was in charge of international fund-raising in Jordan when he escaped assassination after being injected with poison in the street.
Jordan eventually closed Hamas’s bureau in Amman and expelled Mashaal from the Gulf state of Qatar. He moved to Syria in 2001.
Meshaal ran Hamas from exile in Damascus in 2004 until January 2012, when he left the Syrian capital because of President Assad’s fierce crackdown on Sunnis involved in an uprising against him. Mashaal now lives in both Doha and Cairo.
His abrupt departure from Syria initially weakened his position within Hamas. Mashaal himself told Reuters that his move affected relations with Hamas’s main paymaster and weapons supplier – Iran.
In December 2012, Mashaal paid his first visit to the Gaza Strip and delivered the main speech at Hamas’s 25th anniversary rally.
Friction between Mashaal and the Gaza-based Hamas leadership surfaced over his attempts to promote reconciliation with President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Palestinian Authority.
Mashaal then announced that he wanted to step down as leader over such tensions and, in 2017, was replaced by his Gaza deputy Haniyeh, who was elected to head the terror group’s political office, also operating overseas.

So there’s all kind of intrigue involved in the sudden change of Hamas leadership in the wake of Haniyeh’s death and, as I pointed out, Israel so far has had no comment on this incident, which could be to the next World War what the assassination of the Austrian archduke was to the First World War. Gavrilo Princip could not be reached for comment.

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In The Mailbox: 07.29.24

Posted on | July 30, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

My Substack debut. “What is this ‘home’ you speak of, my Russian brother?”
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Komi Shouko knows.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How’s That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?
EBL: Épater la bourgeoisie! Paris Olympics has a big blue gay Prophet Mohammed, also, Knox Goes Away
Twitchy: Mary Katherine Ham Perfectly Parodies The “White Women For Kamala” Meeting, Speaker Johnson Blasted For Choices For Trump Assassination Task Force, and More Evidence Of Election Interference From Google
Louder With Crowder: Paris is running out of real food after forcing vegan meals on Olympic athletes, After Months Of Gaslighting Customers, Chipotle Admits To Skimping Out On Portion Sizes, and Kamala Harris and deez nuts: Elon Musk DESTROYS Gavin Newsom’s latest attempt to stifle free speech
Vox Popoli: Reject the Olympics, Devil Mouse Maoists, Neil Gaiman: “The Tip of a Very Large Iceberg”, God Will Not Be Mocked, and Birds of a Feather
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Wind Power Up Close
Stoic Observations: Stoic Bites #5 – Mind Boggling Goggins, Gymnastic Grace,
Upstream Reviews: Black Sabbath – Anno Domini 1989-1995
Draw & Talk Comics: Every Nerd’s Worst Fear!
Toni Airaksinen: Lawyer Says Autistic Students Disadvantage By Biden’s Title IX Kangaroo Courts

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Biden Coverup Comes Back to Bite the Dems
American Greatness: Democracy in Name Only: How Kamala Harris Became Democratic Nominee, President Biden – A Single Point of Failure for America, Official Olympics YouTube Channel Removes Videos of Opening Ceremony Due to Backlash, and The Bloodless Coup of Joe Biden Will Not Work Out Well for Democrats
American Thinker: Ivermectin Has Surprising Potential Against Cancer, also, Two Critical Battles Lie Ahead For Trump
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban nun laments the crisis in Cuba: ‘We are in the worst moments of our nation’s history’, With a 50% loss in foreign currency income, the ‘Cuban System’ has collapsed, Surprise! Maduro claims victory in rigged Venezuelan election, Cuba and Russia cheer, and Olympic athletes from Cuban team come face to face with options in Paris
BattleSwarm: Andrew Schulz Roasts Kamala Harris, Wagner Group Column Mangled In Mali, and Austin Electric Busses Busted
Behind The Black: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 resumes launches, successfully launching 23 Starlink satellites, Local billionaire landowner renews his oppposition to the Sutherland spaceport, To guarantee no capsule debris hits inhabited areas, SpaceX to move its manned splashdowns to Pacific, Boeing completes full series of static hot fire engine burns on Starliner while docked to ISS, Senate gives NASA cash to stop its tantrum, and Google monitors and censors Gmail and Googlegroup emails for political content it dislikes
Cafe Hayek: More on Michael Lind’s Inept Case for Tariffs, More on Michael Lind’s Bad History of Trade, and I Ask Again: How Do You Know?
CDR Salamander: July Maritime Free-For-All – On Midrats, also, Debt Slavery With Chinese Characteristics
Chicago Boyz: Sleeping With The Enemy – Updated
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Issues? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Issues!

Posted on | July 29, 2024 | Comments Off on Issues? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Issues!

Although I usually watch CNN (so you don’t have to), for the past week my office TV has been tuned to MSNBC, so that I can see what “news” is being pumped into the veins of the Democratic Party grassroots.

It’s an endless hype-fest for Kamala Harris, interrupted by occasional “news” about some kind of ginned-up controversy around Donald Trump (everything he says or does is automatically controversial). This theme is being echoed in many other media outlets.

Harris raised $200 million in first week of White House campaign and signed up 170,000 volunteers
— Associated Press

Harris campaign reports record-breaking volunteer surge in key swing states
— Axios

Kamala Harris’ Approval Rating Surges as Donald Trump’s Falls
— Newsweek

100 days out, Dems are feeling something unusual: Optimism
— Politico

How Kamala Harris took control of the Democratic Party
— Washington Post

Harris Looks to Maintain Momentum as ‘Honeymoon Phase’ Winds Down
— New York Times

There is a lot of horse-race hype — Democrats are winning, baby! They’re full of optimism! The Harris campaign is surging! What is missing, however — and you’d immediately notice this, if you tuned to MSNBC — is any discussion of the real issues facing the country. Inflation? Immigration? National security? You would get no idea, amid all the pro-Kamala cheerleading being treated as “news,” that the U.S. national debt is $35 trillion, or that Iran is targeting U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria, or that U.S. military readiness is at a startling low.

America has a lot of serious problems, and we live in a very dangerous world, but the people who will vote in this election are being ill-informed by the media, who care only about helping elect Democrats.

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