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In The Mailbox: 08.24.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 24, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.24.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Where I’m at now…”The most dangerous soldier in the Nationalist Army is a Requete who has just been to Confession.” – Loyalist officer

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago Rideshare Driver Defends Himself
EBL: Attorney John Eastman vows to fight Georgia Indictment, Is Democrat King Maker Tom Steyer trying to take out Biden and run Newsom?, Yevgeny Prigozhin ‘on board’ crashed Russian plane?, and MAGA X
Twitchy: Sad, Weepy Adam Kinzinger Flips Out When People Clap Back At His Attack On DeSantis’ Service, Haley Goes For Ramaswamy’s Throat On Foreign Policy, and Glenn Kessler’s “Fact-checking” Of GOP Debate Abortion Claims Goes Really, Really, Really Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Oliver Anthony blasts blindly believing the media in latest banger, “I Wanna Go Home”, It’s NOW official! Bud Light dethroned as the #1 beer in America after the Dylan Mulvaney debacle, and Jennifer Aniston claims to be against “cancel culture” now, but remember when she wasn’t during the pandemic?
Vox Popoli: Spain 1 Lesbianesses 0, How Doctors Create Customers, We’re Number 20, When Gunboat Diplomacy Fails, Carrie Bradshaw, Antichrist, and Fake Man South of Richmond
Gab News: The Boniface Option* Lifts The Veil On Society

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Money can Never Stop on Asylum Seeker profits
American Conservative: Not Enough Punishment in the World, also, Why Russia’s Moon Mission Failed
American Greatness: Government-Funded Science Journal Admits Over 2,600 of its Papers May Have ‘Exaggerated Claims’, also, Livid Maui Residents Flip Off Biden’s Motorcade
American Thinker: The Blunt Truth about Global Warming Models
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: We remember Beny More (1919 — 1963), Reports from Cuba: School year to begin in Las Tunas with a 700-teacher deficit and uniforms shortage, Apartheid tourism update: Seven out of every ten hotel rooms in Cuba are vacant, and Cuban dictatorship’s doctor slave trade brought $2 billion in revenue in 2022
Baldilocks: A Woman Plans
BattleSwarm: Nuclear Weapons Expert Rates Movie Nukes, Homeless Repeatedly Break Into Austin Apartment Complex, and Chacon Retires And The APD Stalemate
Behind The Black: India successfully lands Vikram on the Moon, Space junk that ESA demo mission intends to de-orbit as been struck by another piece of space junk, First mission in Isaacman’s private space program delayed again, Where the Martian landscape begins to dry out, and Blacklisted 12-year-old appeals lower court decision saying he has no free speech rights
Cafe Hayek: Further Thoughts on Industrial Policy
CDR Salamander: So You Like The UUV Concept, Eh?
Da Tech Guy: Has Anyone Explained the Words “Streisand Effect” to Ohio Right to Life or Rep Max Miller?, Public Schools align with Satan, A Reminder Concerning Twitter And Other Social Media, I’m Old Enough to Remember When CNN Editing A Conservative’s Speech To Change It’s Meaning Was Frowned Upon by Trump Primary Supporters, and Hope and baseball
Don Surber: Killing The Middle Class
First Street Journal: Whenever there is a truth you cannot tell, that is a truth you must tell!
The Geller Report: FYI: I Won’t Be Watching the Irrelevant Debate on Fox Tonight, But I Will Be Watching Tucker Interview President Trump, also, Democrat Presidential Frontrunner Newsom Proposes at Legislative Crackdown on Parental Rights
Hogewash: A Star Is Destroyed By A Black Hole, Watched the Show Tonight, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Can’t We See The Onania Club?, Dark Windows Craves More Than Mindless Thrills, Blue Beetle Blends Heroics with Victimhood 101, 11 Top-Notch Netflix Action Films, and Why Twilight Zone: The Movie Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts
Legal Insurrection: Lawsuit: White House Press Office Unconstitutionally Targeted Reporter With New Credentialing Requirement, Activist Behind Harvard Affirmative Action Case Now Suing Law Firms, NY Times: Ron DeSantis Was an ‘Arrogant’ Yale Baseball Captain, Frat ‘Bully,’ ‘Bored’ With Woke Students, Pearl-Clutching Over New COVID Variant Begins, and University of San Diego Rejects College Republicans’ Plan to Host Matt Walsh as Speaker
Nebraska Energy Observer: Over the Parapet
Outkick: Baltimore Orioles Owner Tells Fans He Can’t Keep Young Stars Without Raising Prices, Stephen A. Smith Is Wrong That ESPN Treated Sage Steele The Same As Her Colleagues, Tua Tagovailoa Tells Ryan Clark To Watch His Mouth After ESPN Analyst Called Dolphins QB A Fat Stripper, New Fansville Commercial Takes Brutal Shot At Realignment, Lindsey Horan Admits USWNT Wasn’t Fully Prepared For World Cup Days After Complaining About Carli Lloyd’s Criticism, and Italian Model Shuts Down Her OnlyFans To Become A Nun After Boyfriend’s Family Sees Her Leaked Content
Power Line: CNN Legal Analyst ‘Perplexed’ by DOJ’s Corruption, NY Times Lets the Mask Slip, and Here We Go Again?
Shark Tank: Mast Blasts Senate, Urges Passage Of Secure The Border Act
Shot In The Dark: DFLiars – Flimmed & Flammed, also, On The One Hand
This Ain’t Hell: Four More Accounted For, USS Howard Grounded, Skipper Fired, Laser weapon development making ‘real progress’, and Wagner Group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on passenger list of crashed airplane
Transterrestrial Musings: Mainstream Media Propaganda, So Much For Prigozhin, and Biden’s Lies
Victory Girls: Maui Demonstrates Again Why You Can’t Trust Government, also, Los Angeles: Parents Protest LGBTQ Indoctrination
Volokh Conspiracy: Maine High Court Finds “Bad Faith” in Denial of Public Records Request, Orders Payment of Requesters’ Fees
Watts Up With That: New Book—Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure, NASA’s Running a Mental Ward, and From Poverty to Moon Landing: How Coal Propelled Indian Economy
The Federalist: Why China’s Decline And Biden’s Incompetence Could Push Xi Jinping To War, AMA Article Calls For Ripping Your Womb From Your Dead Body And Stuffing It Between A Delusional Man’s Legs, Schools That Teach The Classics Instead Of Marxism See Exponential Growth, Woke Hiring Isn’t Just Killing American Competence – It Might Kill You, After Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal Went South, Here’s What’s Next From Biden’s Compromised DOJ, and New York Times Op-Ed Declares Elections ‘Bad For Democracy,’ Changes Headline After Online Mockery
Mark Steyn: Prigozhin Pass?

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Did Anybody Watch the Debate?

Posted on | August 24, 2023 | Comments Off on Did Anybody Watch the Debate?

The Network That Fired Tucker Carlson™ hosted a debate Wednesday night between Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy and six people who will definitely not get the Republican presidential nomination. Like, why is Asa Hutchinson even doing this? Or, who exactly thinks Chris Christie is going to win anything? And . . . Doug Freaking Burgum?

DeSantis is governor of the best state in the country right now. Ramaswamy at least has the “outsider” businessman thing going for him. The rest of them . . . Well, they’re wasting their time, and because Trump declined to participate, the whole thing was pretty pointless, since he’s 40 points ahead of everybody else. Politico has some “highlights” of the debate, if anybody actually cares, which I don’t think so.



 

Category: Debates

In The Mailbox: 08.22.23

Posted on | August 23, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.22.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Back home on the mountain. Normal blogging will resume, with a double-scoop Rule 5 Sunday coming up this weekend. 

Silicon Valley delenda est.

How I started

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Elon Musk should apologize to James Woods, Pope St. Pius X, Hurricane Hillary Dumps Heavy Rain On California and Nevada, How Would Walt Disney have responded to the new Snow White?, and Astrophysicist Brian May Loves Large Gravitational Bodies
Twitchy: Climate Scientist Explains How She’s Dealing With Extreme Climate Grief, “We Are DONE!”, and Gene Wu Stands Up For Fired Elementary School TeacherGroomer
Louder With Crowder: TikTok doesn’t want your kids to see this little man fixing cars and being productive
Vox Popoli: Smoking Their Own Supply, Cyberpunk: The Revival, The Opening of the African Front, Don’t Make it Harder, A Giant of the Internet is Gone, and Republicans for Human Sacrifice
Gab News: Charting A Course For A Christian Counteroffensive, 
Stoic Observations: Deadly Curiosity,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Biden’s ‘Equity’ at the Border, Nixon Now, and Fearful Worship of a Climate Idol
American Greatness: Report: Hunter Biden Secretly Traveled on Air Force Two to Foreign Countries at Least Eight Times While Joe was V.P., New Memos Debunk Democrats’ Biden-Ukraine Narrative, House Freedom Caucus Threatens Another Government Shutdown Over Border Crisis, and A Letter to Our Betters
American Thinker: The Decline and Fall of a Once Great Company, Barack Obama’s Gay Fantasies and the Gay Men in his Life, and Can Democrats Constitutionally End Trump’s Campaign?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Urban Meltdown News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship’s sock puppet president to address the UN, Cuban government store distributing worm-infested rotten ham, Cuba reports 1.49 million tourists in 2023: 42% from Canada, 6% from USA, 5.8% from Russia, and The truth about communism
Baldilocks: Social Media Games Still Being Played, Memories Of The First Life (Part 3), 
BattleSwarm: Another Day, Another Criminal Out On Bond Shooting Cops, LinkSwarm For August 18, and Just How Does An IRS Agent Get Killed At A Federal Shooting Range?
Behind The Black: Russian engineers pinpoint approximate crash site of Luna-25, Space Force awards multi-satellite contracts to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, Proposed Las Vegas spaceport signs deal with launch startup, The very tip of a thousand-mile-long crack on Mars, Russia launches Progress freighter to ISS, and I will NOT wear a mask, part two
Cafe Hayek: A Powerful Weapon to Suppress China’s Military Might, also, Steven Koonin on Uncommon Knowledge
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part XCVIII, Progress In WESTPAC, Just In Time, 
Chicago Boyz: The Unfortunate Balance, also, The Trans-National Pollution of Anti-Free-Speech Policies
Da Tech Guy: Five Under the Fedora Truths, The Easiest Way for Any Christian To Gain Admission to Hell Without Realizing It, Vivek Ramaswamy was absolutely correct when he spoke out against the tyranny of the minority, and Five Things to Consider if you want to run a Dynasty League
Dana Loesch: Sam Bankman-Fried Is Back In Jail, Part One – Will The Real Vivek Please Stand Up? and  Part Two – Will The Real Vivek Please Stand Up?
Don Surber: Listless? We Have A List, Ron, also, Ukraine Is Destroying Us
First Street Journal: Kendra Brooks fouls up, Killadelphia: We knew all along whom the Usual Suspects would blame!, and Kendra Brooks just can’t handle the truth!
Gates Of Vienna: The Claimed Muslim ‘Right to Rape’, Flemish Lives Matter, and “Twenty Years of Bad Policy”
The Geller Report:  WATCH: Joe Biden Falls Dead Asleep at Meeting With Devastated Victims of Maui Fires, also, “I Almost Lost My Cat”
Glenn Reynolds: Neurosis & The Curley Effect,
Hogewash: A Clue to the Origin of Magnetars, Living With What They Voted For, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Near the Lunar South Pole
Hollywood In Toto: The X-Files: Fight the Future Captured Epic Series to Perfection, FundMyComic.com Offers Haven for Indie Comic Creators, Woke Mob Cancels Edinburgh Festival Fringe Comedy Event, and Carlos Mencia: ‘Your Feelings Are Not Protected in the Constitution’
The Lid: Raising Children To Kill—Then And Now, Whistleblower Puts DOJ On Blast After Biden Investigation Reporting, and It’s Up To Congress To Enforce The 14th Amendment
Legal Insurrection: Interactive Voyeurism, Feds Claim Key Mar-a-Lago Obstruction Witness Has Flipped On Trump, Biden Claims He Knows How Maui Fire Victims Feel by Talking About a Minor Fire at His House, Racially Discriminatory Youth Programs At Six Private NY Medical Schools Challenged by Equal Protection Project, U. Minnesota Offers Health Certificate Program for ‘Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents’, and Israel: Netanyahu Says Current Terror Wave Funded and Directed by Iran
Nebraska Energy Observer: Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, Vivek Ramaswamy; First Impression, and Because
Outkick: ‘College Football Is Ruined!’ Says CFB Legend Lou Holtz On OutKick Hot Mic, Now Yet Another MLB Team Is Threatening To Move Cities As White Sox Are Latest To Make Noise, Cris Collinsworth Says NBC Would Love To Have Every Dallas Cowboys Game On ‘Sunday Night Football’, Former Houston Basketball Player Dead At 23, Hailey Van Lith Officially Arrives At LSU After Giving Life To God During Baptism, Making Defenders Disappear In Quebec, and Nobody Has Looked Cooler Hitting An Inside The Park Homer Than Bryce Harper Against The Giants
Power Line: On Energy, Finally Some Good News, Biden afflicts the afflicted, and The Daily Chart: Supplying Racism
Shark Tank: Salazar Accuses Biden Of Allowing Cuba To Evade Sanctions
Shot In The Dark: Let Them Eat Paint, Settled Science, and Woke Defined
The Political Hat: Light Posting This Week
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans should keep military retirement pay and VA disability compensation, VA doctors prescribing marijuana?, The Bullying of America, Military Abortions? How many/who uses them, $ spent – no one knows, and Chicago community group requests that gangs refrain from shooting during the daytime
Transterrestrial Musings: The Empathy Of Joe BIden, Garland’s Theater Of The Absurd, and Merging Lanes
Victory Girls: Portland Schools: “Equitable Grading” Means No Failure Or Success, Republican Debate Drinking Game: The “Too Early For This” Edition, and Tucker and the Ukraine War Interview
Volokh Conspiracy: Excluding Farmer’s Market Vendor for Refusing to Host Same-Sex Weddings on Its Land Violates Free Exercise Clause
Watts Up With That: Bloomberg Finances and Coopts State Attorneys General, A Return to the Age of Sailing Ships: Nostalgia or Nonsense?, Bernie Sanders: Confronting Chinese Tyranny is Undermining Climate Cooperation, and California Tried but Failed to Have an Extreme Weather Disaster
The Federalist: How Racial And Sexual Ideology Rapidly Infiltrated Southern Methodist University, Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment Is A Blatant Act Of Corruption, Teach Your Daughter To Love Her Womanhood With These Body Literacy Resources, Thought Indicting Trump Was The Only Way The DOJ Interferes In Elections? Think Again, and Child Actors’ Shocking Confessions Should Be A Warning To Vlog-Obsessed Parents Profiting Off Their Kids
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet, Time for Love: Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli and The Clock, Try to Remember, and The Voters vs the Party

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A Smoking Gun, Next to a Bloody Corpse: Joe Biden Is Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

Posted on | August 22, 2023 | Comments Off on A Smoking Gun, Next to a Bloody Corpse: Joe Biden Is Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

You know it’s bad for Joe Biden when (a) even Washington Post “fact-checkers” admit he’s lying and (b) CNN can’t ignore it anymore:

CNN host Jake Tapper admitted that former President Donald Trump “was right” during the 2020 presidential debates when he accused then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden of accepting large amounts of foreign money.

Now my buddy Matt Margolis at PJMedia is talking about the latest “smoking gun” confirming the quid pro quo of bribes from Burisma being the reason Joe Biden got a Ukraine prosecutor fired. Whenever I see that phrase now, I’m like “smoking gun”? How many more smoking guns do we need? We’ve already a giant pile of smoking guns, all of them covered with Joe Biden’s fingerprints. This is an open-and-shut case.

What Biden did — Joe Biden, not Hunter — was corrupt as hell, and every journalist in Washington knows he’s guilty. They’ve known it all along, but even now, with the evidence piled sky-high in broad daylight, they’re pretending that the story is about Republicans “pouncing” or “seizing,” i.e., their concern that Biden’s corruption could hurt Democrats.

The partisan double-standard in the media is the only thing keeping Biden in the White House at this point. Remember, Nancy Pelosi impeached Trump for making a telephone call asking Ukraine to investigate the Biden-Burisma connection — Trump’s impeachment was a cover-up of Biden’s corruption! Jake Tapper is not too stupid to understand this, which is obvious to anyone with two eyes and a functional brain. And yet, because he’s a partisan hack working for a dishonest network, Tapper has to pretend he doesn’t know it.

State Department Memos Disprove
the Cover Story Biden and the Democrats
Have Been Telling
About Ukraine’s Corruption

That’s Ace of Spades on the “smoking gun” story, but notice the word “disprove.” Everybody already knew Democrats were lying. Joe Biden openly bragged about getting the Ukraine prosecutor fired, and once we knew that Hunter had worked a deal with Burism, it was obvious why Joe intervened to protect Burisma. However, because Joe denied this — and made up a story bout the prosecutor being corrupt — the media played along, because Democrats always get the benefit of the doubt.

THE MEDIA ARE PART OF THE CORRUPTION!

America’s most prestigious journalistic organizations — the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, etc. — are so in the tank for Democrats that they didn’t even try to find the truth about Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine, China and elsewhere. It wasn’t any of those big establishment outfits that found the “smoking gun,” it was John Solomon of Just the News, a mere website with a fraction of the news-gathering resources available to the New York Times or NBC News, etc.

Remember how those same media establishment outfits parroted the Biden campaign line that “The Laptop From Hell” was “Russian disinformation”? The media played an active role in the cover-up, and they’re still doing it! So for Jake Tapper to sit there and say, “Hey, you know something? Trump was right about Hunter Biden” just annoys the hell out of me, because JAKE ALWAYS KNEW TRUMP WAS RIGHT.

From the moment the New York Post broke the laptop story, there was never any reason to doubt its authenticity, and the only reason Tapper or anyone else in the media ever pretended otherwise is because they are “Democratic operatives with bylines.” They are fundamentally dishonest, producing partisan propaganda and pretending that it’s objective “news.”

And as for Joe Biden, he is GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!



 

Category: CNN, Joe Biden

THEY’RE CANCELLING BIG BUTTS?

Posted on | August 22, 2023 | Comments Off on THEY’RE CANCELLING BIG BUTTS?

‘Ain’t no beauty queens in this locality …’

Great minds think alike, and so when word got out that “Fat Bottomed Girls” is omitted from an updated version of Queen’s Greatest Hits, Ed Driscoll asked if “Sir-Mix-a-Lot [will] be able to escape the PC police?”

I like big butts and I cannot lie.
You other brothers can’t deny,
When a girl walks in
With an itty-bitty waist
And a round thing in your face . . .

Yeah, you know what I mean. “My homeboys tried to warn me,” etc. When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, most conservatives made fun of Bill Clinton for hitting on a fat girl, but I was like, “Hmmm.” As a fellow Southerner, I could relate. Down home, some of us ol’ boys don’t mind a little cushion for the pushin’, IYKWIMAITYD.

You can keep your gaunt European supermodels, give me a gal who looks like she knows how to cook some biscuits and gravy. So what’s wrong with these “woke” corporate types taking over the music business and cancelling one of the most fun songs from the classic rock era?

Are you gonna take me home tonight?
Oh, down beside that red firelight?
Are you gonna let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls,
You make the rocking world go ’round!

It makes no sense, when the same “woke” brigades are trying to push feminist “body positivity” messages, that they’d cancel “Fat Bottomed Girls.” I reckon the idea is that, anything that men enjoy is inherently wrong, so that a song featuring men celebrating the “greatest treasure” of corpulent women must be bad. Well, honey, don’t you worry about it. Just have another plate of biscuits and gravy . . .



 

Category: Rule 5

In The Mailbox: 08.21.23 (Lost Weekend Edition)

Posted on | August 21, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.21.23 (Lost Weekend Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Finally out of the VA hospital, where I spent a long weekend having my legs bandaged/unbandaged/rebandaged while having intravenous antibiotics pumped into me. Staying the night in Vegas before heading home tomorrow morning.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: PG&E Says All Your Batteries Are Belong To Us, also, Woman Kills Sex Offender Invading Her Home
EBL: You’re Off To See The Wizard, Sorry Maui ?, Biden and the Democrats Are Just Not That Into You, The Misfits, and Russian Lunar Lander Crashed: Ceased Operation
Twitchy: Biden Tells Hawaiians How His First Wife & Daughter Died, Adam Kinzinger Calls Tucker Carlson “Traitor To The U.S.”, “Praise Allah!”, and Biden’s Reception On Maui Explains Why WH Was Hesitant To Go
Louder With Crowder: “Egg producer” Megyn Kelly under fire for Rachel Levine attack but not backing down, Kid Rock busted crushing a Bud Light after he started the boycott, Bradley Cooper target of social media outrage over prosthetic nose he wears in Leonard Bernstein biopic, and Canceled! Queen classic “Fat Bottomed Girls” gets removed from new music app (Updated)
Vox Popoli: Stop Playing Stupid, No, They Haven’t Always Died, Professionally Anti-Trump, Then They Came for Wranglerstar, The US Housing Crash Cometh, and Reality Defeats the NATO Narrative
Gab News: Gab Responds To NZ’s Censorship Demand, 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Memories Of The First Life Part II, The Two Death Penalties, and That Time I Was Confronted By An Asian

CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Road To The Fall Of Kabul
Don Surber: Oops, They Truthed Themselves

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How Am I Related to Pocahontas?

Posted on | August 21, 2023 | Comments Off on How Am I Related to Pocahontas?

My ancestor Colonel Robert Bolling

Having traced the ancestry of my paternal grandmother Perlonia McCain (née Bolt) all the way back to Rollo the Viking — seriously, that’s what the Internet says — my son Jefferson also took a look at the ancestry of my maternal grandfather, Hermit Eiland Kirby, whose father was William Thomas Kirby. His father, William Terry Kirby, was born in 1810 in Union County, South Carolina. His father, James Ransom Kirby, was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, in 1785; he lived past age 100 and died in Troup County, Georgia. James Ransom Kirby’s grandfather was John Kirby, born in Virginia in 1735. John Kirby married Jemima Bolling, whose great-grandfather was Colonel Robert Bolling, an early Virginia colonist prominent enough to have his own Wikipedia page.

Colonel Bolling’s first wife was Jane Rolfe, whose father, Thomas Rolfe, was the only child of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. If I were dishonest — like certain Democratic politicians — I might tell you I was a descendant of Pocahontas, but this is not the case. Jane Rolfe Bolling died in 1676 after giving birth to the couple’s only child, John Bolling. Colonel Bolling later remarried, this time to Anne Stith, who gave birth to seven children, including Stith Bolling, whose son Alexander Bolling was the father of Jemima Bolling Kirby. So while my ancestor was once married to the granddaughter of Pocahontas, I am not descended from her.

Nevertheless, the descendants of Pocahontas, through Colonel Bolling’s son John, are my cousins, a branch of the family known to genealogists as “the Red Bollings,” a lineage that includes Woodrow Wilson’s second wife Edith. My own branch, known as the “White Bollings,” includes Robert E. Lee’s wife, who was the great-granddaughter of Stith Bolling’s older brother, Robert Bolling Jr. All of this is pretty cool, but then I learned that another descendant of Colonel Robert Bolling is this guy . . .

Ain’t it a small world, cousin? Not kidding at all.

When I related these findings to my youngest daughter Reagan, she was indignant: “We’re cousins of both John McCain and George Bush? We’re getting nothing out of it! This nepotism thing isn’t working for us.”

No, but we’re still more Native American than Elizabeth Warren.



 

Category: Family, History

Music Cue: ‘Immigrant Song’

Posted on | August 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Music Cue: ‘Immigrant Song’

My ancestor, Rollo the Viking

Genealogy is fun, although I’m not entirely sure that online sources are reliable. At any rate, my son Jefferson texted me today about some of the research I’d done. It seems his girlfriend’s family can trace their ancestry to William the Conqueror, and here I’d gotten no further back than the Revolutionary War. But I conveyed to Jefferson some of what I had, and he got to work, tracing the ancestry of my grandmother Perlonia McCain (née Bolt) through the Eastwood line through the Thorpe family to the Robbins family of New Jersey and thus to the Potter family of Connecticut. Go back several generations in the Potter line in England and (according to the online records, at least) when you reach the 12th century, the family name is actually Poitiers. Could it be true that my distant ancestors were Norman crusaders who became rulers of Antioch?

That’s what the online genealogy says, anyway, and from these Norman crusaders the Poitiers, the line traces all the way back to Rollo (Hrólfr in Old Norse), the Viking warrior who conquered Normandy. And . . .

Wait a minute, William the Conqueror was also a descendant of Rollo, which means that my son’s girlfriend is a distant cousin! Forget “Immigrant Song.” This is more like “Dueling Banjos,” IYKWIMAITYD.



 

Category: Family, History
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