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Rule 5 Sunday: Karen Allen

Posted on | July 10, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Marion in the hands of the bad guys – but not for long…

After her memorable debut as Katy in Animal House, Karen Allen appeared in a sizable number of movies, but people probably remember her best as Marion Ravenwood, the feisty feminine foil to Harrison Ford’s adventurous archaeologist in Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels, including the (apparently) regrettable Dial of Destiny. While it was tempting to go with Karen displaying her fine assets in Animal House, I decided to go with a more demure pic from Raiders of the Lost Ark instead, in the interests of keeping this blog PG-13. She still looks good, considering she’s in her seventies.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Fusion Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA – Diet Coke vs. Hunter’s Coke, Maria Callas, Prehistoric Humans, “Who’s On First?”, Bikini Day, The Patriot, Sound of Freedom, Happy 4th of July!, “Yankee Doodle Dandy”, and Happy Belated Canada Day.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Christen Harper, White House Cocaine Mystery Deepens, Fish Pic Friday – Tysa Dawn, Maryland Gets Catfish Money, My Heart is on the Floor, Judge Orders Government to Stop Coordinating Censorship of Conservatives on Socials, The Wednesday Wetness, Conflict of Interest on Hunter Prosecution Team, Coke Found at White House, Happy July 4th!, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For July 7th

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I Guess SCOTUS Decisions Are Constitutional Amendments?

Posted on | July 9, 2023 | Comments Off on I Guess SCOTUS Decisions Are Constitutional Amendments?

by Smitty

Via Legal Insurrection, it appears that, per the Biden Administration’s illustrious peat muppetPress Secretary, SCOTUS decisions are tantamount to Constitutional Amendments:

“This is really, really important and I know the American people are really tracking this, as they should be. Dobbs decision, that was something that was decided on a year ago. Really took away the freedoms from women. I think about abortion, I think about reproductive rights. And that was unprecedented. Now you fast-forward to what we saw last week, affirmative action. Again, taking away important constitutional rights that have been in place for a long time,” Jean-Pierre said.

One is tempted to indulge in a little bit of fremdschämen, when one feels embarrassment on behalf of someone too thick to realize that they should be ashamed.
But, in defense of Karine Jean-Pierre, we don’t declare war or budget along Constitutionally coherent lines either. So possibly she makes a good point in passing: we need to either get this ship back on course, or just scuttle the whole mess.

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Category: Uncategorized

The Beauty of Alaska

Posted on | July 9, 2023 | 1 Comment

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON
Kings Mountain reaches an altitude of 5,800 feet above sea level, towering nearly 3,000 feet above the Matanuska River valley below, and there’s really no way that a photo can convey the impression of standing there in person looking up at that massive peak in three-dimensional space. Breathtaking is all I can say, and while the Alaska Chamber of Commerce isn’t paying me to say this — c’mon, hit the freaking tip jar — I’d certainly recommend that every American should pay a visit.

About three hours from now, our plane leaves for the return flight home, and we’ve had a wonderful time during our visit. Just driving along the highways here is a splendid adventure, surrounded by vast forests of fir, birch and cottonwood, with gigantic mountains on every horizon, their peaks often shrouded in clouds, making them look like scenery from a Lord of the Rings movie: “Here be orcs!”

‘Who you calling an ‘orc,’ mister?’

Our granddaughter Juniper is about two months old and, as you can see, is about twice the size of a 12-ounce cup of coffee. That photo was taken Saturday at the Alaska Zoo, where we spent about five hours, including a break at the zoo coffee shop where we enjoyed some entertainment.

Walk don’t run to see the SpeNerds

The SpeNerds (their name a play on words for the Spenard neighborhood of Anchorage) bill themselves as “Alaska’s Premier Instrumental Surf Trio,” and let no man dispute their claim to that honor. Among the various tunes they performed was Dick Dale’s classic “Misirlou” (which gained renewed popularity in the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction). At one point during their performance, they played the theme song from Goldfinger, and talking to them after the gig, while they were packing up their gear, I suggested that should have been segued into “Secret Agent Man” by Johnny Rivers, to which guitarist Fred Brosius replied that they’d played that one before I arrived. My son plays guitar, and I was telling him how the surf rock sound came about at a period when the electric guitar was still something of a novelty, and guitarists were experimenting with effects like reverb and tremolo, and this sonic experimentation must be appreciated in its historic context. Cultural education is an ongoing obligation of parenthood. Meanwhile . . .

The sergeant gives Juniper airborne training

We spent the Fourth of July at the Glacier View Car Launch, and I apologize that I don’t have any videos of my own to share, but they’re easy to find online. And, of course, I bought the T-shirt, because what’s the point of visiting Alaska if you don’t bring home some souvenirs?

The sergeant and his family

With Mrs. McCain at the Car Launch

Well, we weren’t just tourists, here for sightseeing. We wouldn’t have visited Alaska if not for the fact that our son and his family are here, and this was our first chance to see our newest grandchild. They’ll be coming to visit us at Christmas, but for now I must pack up the laptop and head to the airport, leaving just enough time for me to once more remind readers of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

 

Category: Alaska, Uncategorized

FMJRA 2.0: Ludwig Revisited – Cozy Ludwig

Posted on | July 9, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Ludwig Revisited – Cozy Ludwig

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So after getting whupped in Philadelphia, the Senators boarded the train to Baltimore hoping to regain their road warrior mojo, but it was not to be: while Joe Coleman won the opener to balance his record at 2-2, Pat Dobson got outdueled by Andy Messersmith and Jim Kaat got pounded in an 8-1 rout. So the lads limped home to RFK, and whipped the Cubs in three hard-fought games to notch the first series win at home of the season and hang onto a second-place tie with Pete’s Brewers in the AL West. Juan Marichal outdueled Juan Pizarro in Game 1, which was won by Willie Mays’ home run in his first at-bat of the game. In Game 2, Joe Coleman held the Cubs to three runs, but the game was won by Darold Knowles in relief as Jeff Burroughs hit a sac fly in the bottom of the 9th to score Hal Lanier. The Nats benefitted from three errors by the Cubs and three double plays, as well as a great throw by Rick Reichardt to nail Vada Pinson at home. Game Three featured Pat Dobson holding the Cubs to four runs while the Nats pounded Clyde Wright for seven runs (six earned) including homers by Rick Reichardt and Jeff Burroughs. Thus we ended the week 4-2, and will face the division-leading A’s at home on Tuesday.
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National Media Instantly Sends Philly Mass Shooter Down the Memory Hole
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Democrats Kill Each Other in Baltimore; Mayor Blames…Texas, Florida, Alabama?
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In The Mailbox: 07.03.23
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An Alaska Fourth of July Tradition
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Anonymous Official: We May Never Know Who Had Cocaine at the White House
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In The Mailbox: 07.07.23

Posted on | July 8, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Anybody know what’s going on with Weasel Zippers?
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Self-Defense In The Windy City, also, Stay
EBL: Sound of Freedom beat Indiana Jones at the box office?
Twitchy: Special K’s Biden Coke Bag Alibi Collides With Media Pool Report, MMFA Harpy Drops Scoop On “Hate Group” Moms For Liberty & Their Catering, and Toxic Troll Esqueer Furious Over His Third “B***S***” Threads Violation 
Louder With Crowder: Toby Keith returns from battling cancer, sends fiery message to never apologize for being patriotic: “F*** em”, also, Tucker Carlson breaks silence on being fired from Fox News
Vox Popoli: Whoever Could it Be?, They’re Not Wrong, BRICS Opts for Gold, Celebrate Reduced Life Expectancy, Science Fiction is to Blame, and Owen Drops the Mic
According To Hoyt: Why Celebrate The Fourth, Why the Metric System sucks by Phantom, and Blog Funding Day One
Monster Hunter Nation: The Death of Good Will

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Power of Knowing Your Milkman
American Greatness: Poll: Trump Grows Lead Over DeSantis in Iowa GOP Primary, also, Gallup: Faith in American Institutions Hits New Low
American Thinker: America’s Current Conception Of ‘Pride’ Is Toxic, also, The Biden White House Wants to Block the Sun to Save the Planet
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fusion Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship launches new beer brand, sold only in foreign currency, Grandson of Chilean dictator Salvador Allende calls for cancellation of Cuban dissident Tania Bruguera’s art exhibition, and Putin’s ideologues call for the redeployment of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba
Baldilocks: Willing & Able
BattleSwarm: Low-Calorie LinkSwarm Substitute
Behind The Black: Update on preparations at Boca Chica for next Starship/Superheavy test launch, Taiwan wants and needs Starlink, but local law is blocking a deal, Students complete first suborbital launch from new Nova Scotia spaceport, Puzzling crater on alien Mars, and The coming rise of an American royal class, as incompetent and as privileged as all past royalists
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Coal Mining Songs
Da Tech Guy: Reality under the Fedora, Decoding the Declaration of Independence, and A Smile For The Pro-Life Crowd
Don Surber: What’s The Case For Chris Christie?
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: A Philadelphia councilcritter tells us the truth, also, Remember you haters! Calling them ‘groomers’ and saying that ‘they’re coming after our kids’ is sexist, homophobic, transphobic and just plain false!
Gates Of Vienna: What Will Become of the Eagle of the Graf Spee?, Santiago Abascal Discusses the French Riots, There Is No Middle Way in Jihad, Dhimmitude Comes to Europe, ISIS-K Terror Arrests in Germany and the Netherlands, and The AfD is #1 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
The Geller Report: Twitter To Sue Facebook (Meta) Over Its Twitter Clone ‘Threads’, Zuckerberg Stole It All From Musk’s Twitter
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, A First Photo
Hollywood In Toto: How Jimmy Dore Shatters the Liberal Comic Mold, Tony-Winner Jane Adams on Feminists: ‘Go F*** Yourself’, and Tucker Carlson Hearts Trump, RFK Jr., Slams Jan. 6 Coverage
The Lid: Populists Go To War With Themselves — Over AntiSemitism
Legal Insurrection: ‘Might be Kamala Harris’ Best [Word Salad] Yet’, Biden Admin Sending Ukraine Cluster Munitions, a Weapon Banned by 100 Countries, After Affirmative Action Ruling, Schools Finally Admit That Race had Impact on Admissions, Is The Military Still Interested in Defending America?, and Former Interpreter for U.S. in Afghanistan Shot and Killed in D.C. While Working as a Lyft Driver
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Mark Ingram Is Leaving Football, Heading To FOX Big Noon Kickoff To Replace Reggie Bush, LSU Dynamic Duo Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews May Go 1, 2 In Major League Baseball Draft Sunday,  Multiple NBA Teams Are Scouting LeBron’s Son Bryce…Who Has Two Years Of High School Left, and Gymnast Sydney Smith Continues Flexibility War With Olivia Dunne
Power Line: Is administrative law unlawful?, Thoughts from the ammo line, and Chief of Capitol Police to Tucker Carlson: J6 Crowd Was ‘Filled with Federal Agents’
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Responds To White House “Cocaine Cowboy” Scandal
Shot In The Dark: Life Is Full Of Ironies If You’re Not Smart, also, Red Flag
STUMP: Chicago Pensions: Drowning, Not Waving, also, Podcast – Lying about Science
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: What Is Radio Free Europe Up To?
This Ain’t Hell: US Destroying Chemical Weapons, Valor Friday, Federal control of the National Guard faces overturning by a court ruling, Semper Fib: Stolen Valor and Forged Documents, and American military strikes against Cartel targets in Mexico?
Transterrestrial Musings: “Just Stop Oil”, Lockdowns, and Racial Classifications
Victory Girls: Ukraine: Reaganites vs. MAGA
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Watts Up With That: WEF: “We Need Moonshots” to Solve the Climate Crisis, Fossil and Non-Fossil Fuels, and A Welcome Gaffe: White House Lets Some Climate Truth Slip Out
The Federalist: Sex Trafficking Drama Sound Of Freedom Is A Heartbreaking And Hopeful Call To Action, President Joe Biden’s Border ‘Compassion’ Got Us Funerals And Fentanyl, Here’s How Congress Can End The FBI’s Reign Of Terror, 12 Times The Biden White House Colluded With Big Tech To Throttle Free Speech, According To Missouri v. Biden, and House Republicans Probe Wall Street’s ESG Pioneers Over Potential Antitrust Violations
Mark Steyn: White Lines at the White House

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National Media Instantly Sends Philly Mass Shooter Down the Memory Hole

Posted on | July 7, 2023 | Comments Off on National Media Instantly Sends Philly Mass Shooter Down the Memory Hole

Mass murder suspect Kimbrady Carriker

Most “mass shootings” in urban America are actually shootouts between rival gangs, or personal disputes that turn into gunfights in crowded areas where bystanders are among the killed and wounded. And, since we’re clarifying phrases, let’s admit that “urban America” is a polite euphemism for where black people live. We have been taught by the news media to think of “mass shootings” as a category of crime whose perpetrators are crazy white men, e.g., Charles Whitman, who killed 15 people on the University of Texas campus in 1966, or Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 people at Columbine High School in 1999.

The point is that any discussion of “mass shootings” involves stereotypes, simply because of the way the media covers crime. The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) defines a mass shooting as one that involves “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed,” distinguishing this from the category of mass murder, which the FBI defines as “four or more victims, killed, not including the shooter. Mass Murder by gun is a subset of the Mass Shooting count.” By Thursday, July 6, according to the GVA, there had been a total of 361 mass shooting incidents in the United States in 2023, of which 27 were mass murder incidents (at least four killed, not counting the shooter). Thursday was the 186th day of the year, so simple math tells us that we’re averaging about two mass shootings per day this year, and about one mass murder per week. Given the frequency of such crimes, the national media can’t give full attention to all of them, so they tend to be selective in their coverage, and therefore most mass shootings are considered to be strictly “local news.”

What happened Monday night in Philadelphia’s Kingessing neighborhood was definitely not the typical urban mass shooting. A lone gunman, wearing a ski mask and a bulletproof vest, walked down the street “aimlessly” shooting random people with an AR-15-style rifle. The gunman also carried a 9mm pistol and multiple magazines of extra ammunition. This rampage killed five people and wounded two others. Kimbrady Carriker has been charged with five counts of murder and several other felonies. Many hours elapsed after the shooting before Carriker’s name was made public, but almost as soon as it was, we learned that Kimbrady Carriker was a cross-dresser.

The information caused a liberal media meltdown:

The Far Right Is Already
Using the Philadelphia Shooting
to Smear Trans People
— Vice News, July 5

Right-Wingers Push Lie
That Philly Shooting Suspect
Was Trans BLM Supporter
— Advocate, July 5

Republicans Are Already
Blaming Trans People
for the Philadelphia Shooting
— The New Republic, July 5

The main problem with mass shootings, according to liberals, is not that people get killed, but that the “far right” might blame someone — i.e., that conservatives will point out that this crime doesn’t seem to fit the preferred media narrative about who commits mass shootings. The other problem: What about his/her/their pronouns?

There was some confusion initially about Mr. Carriker’s gender identity and in a news conference on Tuesday, authorities used the pronouns “they/them.” But on Wednesday the district attorney’s office said it had no information indicating the suspect considered himself anything but male.

Hat-tip to Dana Pico for that one, and Dana also has the story about a Philadelphia City Council member who “described her district as ‘under siege’ by gun violence”:

“It creates a situation where mostly Black and Brown people can’t be in their neighborhood enjoying summer weather. Kids — anyone — enjoying their block should not live in fear of being shot and killed,” she said Tuesday.
Now that Democrats control the state house for the first time in 12 years following last November’s election, [Council Member Jamie] Gauthier said some movement on gun control legislation has started. However, any house bills would still face opposition in the GOP-controlled state senate.
“In Pennsylvania, you have Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the cities and outside of that, you have a lot of rural areas that don’t look like us and don’t have the same issues with everyday gun violence — and don’t have the same motivation to really cut off access to these types of weapons,” she said. “We have a long way to go to get these kinds of weapons off the street.”

You can read the whole thing at First Street Journal, but the most important thing that Dana points out is the basic arithmetic involved:

There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania — Philadelphia (1.6 million people, about 12% of the state population), Allegheny (i.e., Pittsburgh, 1.2 million people, about 9% of the state population) and 65 others with about 10 million people total (about 78% of the state population). The two big cities account for slightly more than one-fifth of Pennsylvania’s population, but in 2021, when there were 1,027 homicides in the state, these two cities accounted for about two-thirds of the total; Philadelphia alone had nearly 55% of Pennsylvania’s homicide total that year.

The per capita homicide rate in Philadelphia was more than triple the rate in Pittsburgh, and more than 10 times higher than the rest of the state. This is not a gun control problem. This is a people problem; specifically, it’s about the people of Philadelphia who are either (a) part of the problem, or (b) too stupid to understand how to fix the problem.

If you’re voting for Democrats like Jamie Gauthier, you are the problem. Gauthier can only think of violent crime in terms of passing new laws to “get these kinds of weapons off the street,” so that it never occurs to her that, by enforcing existing laws, Philadelphia could get these kinds of people off the streets — put them in prison where they belong.

Or in the lunatic asylum, as would seem to be the case with Kimbrady Carriker, who not only occasionally dressed up in women’s clothing, but also at different times used his (or “their”) social media to express support for Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump. As I said of another notorious cross-dresser, Carriker is self-evidently “daft, deranged, bonkers, berserk, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.” The evidence of his craziness is impossible to overlook:

Philadelphia Shooting Perp Says
He Opened Fire to Help the City
Do Something About ‘Gun Violence’
. . . The shooter accused of killing five people during a harrowing rampage in Southwest Philadelphia Monday night told police the shooting spree was an attempt to help authorities address the city’s gun violence crisis, and that a deity would be sending more people to help, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
The assertions by Kimbrady Carriker were made to police in the hours after Carriker was arrested on the 1600 block of South Frazier Street, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Carriker first told responding officers who made the arrest that they had done a good job, the sources said. Carriker also told them the gunfire — which spanned several blocks and struck people, including two children, who had no apparent connection to one another — was an attempt to help police because “all these guys are out there killing people,” the sources said.

I keep telling you: Crazy People Are Dangerous. And the national media will now decide this is strictly “local news.”



 

 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

In The Mailbox: 07.06.23

Posted on | July 6, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.06.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I have three subscriptions to Jeff Goldstein’s Protein Wisdom Reborn Substack thingy to give away. First three members of the commentariat who ask for one get them.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Barbenheimer. It’s real.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Copium – A Rare Drug Used By Hollywood To Deal With Failure
EBL: Who brought the cocaine to the White House?, Bikini Day, and Musk and Zuck: Trial By Combat
Twitchy: On July 4 Ben & Jerry’s Calls For The Return Of Stolen Land – Doesn’t Return Any Themselves, PuffHo “Reporter” Says Justice Brown Was Factually Wrong But Morally Right, and Nation Proclaims Asian Conservatives Have Become “Key Allies Of White Supremacy”
Louder With Crowder: Police need your help in finding a Bud Light thief because I guess paying for it was too embarrassing, also, Bride bans conservative uncle from her wedding, demands $1000 gift anyway
Vox Popoli: St Breivik, Pray for France, The Idiotic End of Indiana Jones, Surrender Monkeys Urge Surrender, America Has Lost its Appeal, Troon Magick, and Netflix’s Next Target: Narnia
Gab News: Facebook’s Twitter Alternative Is Already Censoring

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: What if Russia Is Winning America’s Proxy War in Ukraine?
American Greatness: CocaineGate Update: Coke Stash Was Found in Secure Place ‘Near the Situation Room’ Not Accessible to ‘Average People’, also, ‘Another 9/11:’ Law Enforcement Warns of Terrorists Coming into America Among Illegal Aliens
American Thinker: Transgenders: The Real Numbers, also, Do Americans Still Trust Our Elections?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Biden(‘s Handlers) News
Babalu Blog: Lack of fuel and parts sidelines two-thirds of public buses in Havana, Cuba, Another plague hits Cuba: 300 exploding electric motorcycles within past 6 months, and Luxury 5-star apartheid hotel opens in Cuba’s Old Havana, surrounded by collapsing buildings
Baldilocks: Just Deserts, also, A Conservatarian’s Take On Freedom
BattleSwarm: Bodycam Footage of Cop Taking Down Active Shooter, also, The Battle of Juba: When China Got Its Ass Kicked
Behind The Black: Curiosity’s most damaged wheel appears to be surviving the rough terrain on Mount Sharp, Europe’s Ariane-5 rocket completes its last launch, Scientists claim discovery of most distant supermassive black hole yet, July 6, 2023 Quick space links, Pushback: Federal judge confirms and shuts down censorship campaign of Biden administration, and Pushback: Non-profit legal firm warns 200 law schools they will be sued if they defy the Supreme Court’s decision ending all racial quotas
Cafe Hayek: Oh That No One Would Ever Have Embarked Upon ‘Balance of Trade’ Accounting, What “Social Dislocation”?, On Adam Smith, and Who’d a-Thunk It?
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: The White Queen’s Boast
Da Tech Guy: Well That Establishes Motive for the Dems in 2024, Lower the boom on fireworks, Declaring Independence from Responsibility of Fatherhood, In Philly DaTechGuy’s 3rd Law of Media Outrage is About to Kick In, and Psalms 1-10 as I understand them
Dana Loesch: The White House Changes Its Story AGAIN On Hunter’s Booger Sugar
Don Surber: Politico’s War With Reality & The Donald
First Street Journal: Today’s left really, really, really hate Freedom of Speech, and normality, Out-of-control ‘wilding’ teens run Wawa out of Center City, so Josh Kruger blames not the brats, but Wawa, and The journolism of The Washington Post
Gates Of Vienna: A Follow-Up on Marinus van der Lubbe, Unplugging the Electric VW, Vehicular Jihad Against the Mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, What’s That? A Teapot, Germany Needs to be More Like France!, and French Mayor Lodges a Complaint — That’ll Fix It
The Geller Report: ISLAMIC RULE: Biden’s Taliban Outlaws Female Beauty Salons in Afghanistan, also, Biden Regime Files Suit To Crush Free Speech
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, Things Might Go More Smoothly, Massive Resistance, and NGC 2356
Hollywood In Toto: Dear Hollywood: Listen to Your Critics … or Else, Sound of Freedom Eyes Stunning $20 Million Debut, Bud Light and Country Music: It’s Complicated, and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Hold on Tight!
The Lid: Is Ben & Jerry’s The Next Bud Light?
Legal Insurrection: Florida Restricts Influence of Chinese Communist Party on Campuses of Public Colleges, Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro Caves to His Party on School Choice Program He Backed, Students for Life Claims Christian University is Stalling the Approval of the Group’s Chapter Application, Teacher Union Recommends Including Pornographic ‘Gender Queer’ on Summer Reading Lists, Report: Philadelphia Shooting Suspect a BLM Supporter, Wears Women’s Clothing, and CDC Says Transgenders Can ‘Chestfeed,’ But Doesn’t Mention Possible Health Risks to Babies
Nebraska Energy Observer: Uffda, also, St. John 11:35, part two
Outkick: Carmen Electra & Jenny McCarthy Team Up For Bikini Car Wash Ad, NBA Is The Original Bud Light, And No One In Mainstream Sports Media Will Tell You That, Isiah Thomas Claps Back At Dennis Rodman Over His Controversial Larry Bird Take, Anthony Edwards Won’t Share One Penny Of New Contract With Random Women, Paige Spiranac Says She Wasn’t Invited Back To Celebrity Golf Event Because She’s Not Famous Enough, and Deadspin Hilariously Claims That Bomani Jones’ HBO Show ‘Game Theory’ Failed Because Jones Is Too Smart
Power Line: Crack this case, also, The Folly of Wind
Shark Tank: Rep. Mast Alleges Fauci Funded Lab That Produced Corona-chan
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To The Mostly Peaceful Fireworks Kids Of Minneapolis, also, Autopilot
STUMP: Sunday Sumo: July 2023 Height/Weight Scatterplot and Welcome Makuuchi Newbies!, also, Drowning Deaths: Sex and Race/Ethnicity, U.S., 1999-2022 (provisional)
The Political Hat: Trans-Species Ideology In The Classroom, also, Race In Academia: Mandatory Course On Anti-Black Racism; Segregated Medical School; BIPOC Bonus
This Ain’t Hell: Student Loans: A Modest Proposal, Iran tried to take a couple of commercial ships, the U.S. Navy stopped them, and Team Biden to appeal injunction preventing government officials from colluding with social media companies
Transterrestrial Musings: Slapping Down The Censors, The Supposed Benefits Of “Diversity”, “Politicized Science”, and AI Follies 
Victory Girls: Rainbow Flags vs Sucking Chest Wound
Volokh Conspiracy: 9th Circuit Invalidates Oregon’s Ban on Surreptitious Recordings of Conversations
Watts Up With That: “Islands of expertise surrounded by oceans of incoherence” – today’s energy policies in a nutshell, China Seeks Military Dominance Through Fossil Fuels, and Wind Turbine Power and Land Cover Effects on Bat Deaths
The Federalist: The Decline Of American Manufacturing Inevitably Means An Empty Wartime Arsenal, The White House That Tracked Down Grannies After Capitol Riot Wants You To Believe Cocaine Caper Has Them Stumped, Here’s What You Need To Know About France’s ‘Summer Of Love’ Riots, Oregon Democrats Are One Step Closer To Rigging Elections With Ranked-Choice Voting, and Missouri v. Biden Proves Corporate Media Lied About Big Tech’s Censorship Crusade Against Conservatives
Mark Steyn: Those Rube Rednecks Are So Fiendishly Clever!, also, Death By Socialism

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In The Mailbox: 07.05.23

Posted on | July 6, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.05.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in June. Very much appreciated!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Because the Barbie movie is coming soon…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Even Financial Analysts Can Recognize Reality When It Hits Them In The Face
EBL: Alan Arkin, RIP, Happy Belated Canada Day , and Cocaine
Twitchy: Sussex Police Report Teenage Boy Molested By Two “Women”, A Preview Of Media’s “Actually Doing Coke In The White house Isn’t A Big Deal” Defense, and NYT Asks If “Adversity Scores” Could Replace Affirmative Action
Louder With Crowder: Sound of Freedom – Possibly the Most Important Movie This Year, Federal judge blocks Biden Admin from coordinating with Big Tech to suppress content in huge win for free speech, and ‘Jesus ain’t f***ing God’: Atheist bullies neighbor over cross decoration, gets dropped after eating fists
Vox Popoli: Authority vs Democracy, On to Plan D, The War on Vermin, Boosting Morale, and We Have a Deal
Gab News: A Major Win For Free Speech

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Invalidity piled up upon invalidity
American Conservative: The Divine Right of Joe Biden
American Greatness: Democrats Baseless Lies Are Responsible For Today’s Divisiveness, The Bidens’ Existential Threats to the American Rule of Law, and What the Fourth of July Was Not

 

American Power: Cocaine Found in White House Library: The Big Mystery!
American Thinker: Trump’s Greatest Triumph: A Court That Follows the Constitution, A Line of Defense Against Mail-in Ballot Fraud, and Michelle Obama’s Affirmative Action Adventure at Princeton
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Happy Independence Day!, and Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Wagner Group’s mutiny speeds up deployment of Cuban troops in Ukraine, Cuba to send 3,225 slave doctors to Brazil, 300 to Portugal, and Is Russia about to install nuclear power plants in Cuba?
Baldilocks: Musings On Bad Things Happening, also, Anger & Disagreement 
BattleSwarm: Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Unilaterally Forgiving Loans, Ukrainian Soldiers Love Bradleys, Why Does Will Hurd Think He’s Running For President?, and Happy Independence Day!
Behind The Black: SpaceX and FAA seek dismissal of lawsuit against Starship at Boca Chica, Another flying car gets FAA approval for flight testing, SpaceX launches Europe’s Euclid space telescope, South Korea: North Korean spy satellite of “no military utility”, and The first week in July’s fund-raising campaign, celebrating Behind the Black’s thirteenth anniversary
Cafe Hayek: Wise Reflections on China, Sigh, and Repeal the Jones Act
CDR Salamander: Mom, We Really Didn’t Want To Leave, also, The PRC’s Legacy Bond Bomb
Chicago Boyz: Society, Social Media, and Human Nature, Trent Telenko’s Twitter Threads, and Interesting Discussions
Da Tech Guy: Stop adding queer to The Witcher, Quick Bits of Advice Under the Fedora, A Reminder of Who is in Charge From Jan 18th 2021 and 25 years after my last visit, Latvia is a nation transformed
Don Surber: The Day John Adams Predicted, Judge Orders Biden To Stop Censoring Real Americans, 
First Street Journal: Special Snowflake™ melts down, The ‘Wise Latina’ says the quiet part out loud, and A great Mexican family
Gates Of Vienna: Kill the Kuffar!, Jihad Attack Against Pride Parade Foiled in Vienna, The “French Model” for Germany, Éric Zemmour: “It’s an Ethnic War, a Racial War”, and Marine Le Pen: “These Terrifying Events Are Dragging Our Leaders Back Into Reality”
The Geller Report: BLM Trans-Terrorist Arrested in Philadelphia Mass Shooting That Killed FIVE People, Injuring 2 Children, FRANCE IS BURNING: The Leftist-Islamic Alliance Makes Its Move In France, WATCH LIVE: TENS OF THOUSANDS DESCEND ON SOUTH CAROLINA FOR TRUMP RALLY, and HUGE: Judge Delivers Major Blow to Biden Admin in MASSIVE Ruling for Freedom of Speech on the Fourth of July
Hogewash: Math Is Hard, A Big Brother for the Milky Way, Highly Irregular, Potential Earth-Shattering Kabooms, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Brazen Media Deny Real Reasons for Dial of Destiny Failure, 15 Astonishing Shows You Might Have Missed (U.S. and European), 15 Astonishing Shows You Might Have Missed (U.S. and European), Eddie Murphy Has Big Shoes to Fill in ‘Pink Panther’ Franchise, and Ice Cube: Woke Word Police ‘Keep Us Bickering’
The Lid: Today July 2nd Is Independence Day NOT July 4th, State Secrets and a Commander-in-Chief With Mental Issues, and When The Entire World Learned Freedom Is Worth Fighting For
Legal Insurrection: France Burns With BLM-Style Riots In Major Cities, Considers State of Emergency, CNN ‘Invents Sailboats’ In Climate Alarmism Article, Hilarity Ensues, U. Cincinnati Prof Reprimanded for Failing Student for Using Term ‘Biological Women’, Federal Court Enjoins Biden-Big Tech Collusive “far-reaching and widespread censorship campaign” against Conservatives, and ALITO and THOMAS: Government resorting “to racial or ethnic classifications to ration medical treatment … would be a very strong case for prompt review by this Court”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Well Finally!!, and St. John 11:35
Outkick: For The Love Of God Can We Stop Talking About Bobby Bonilla Day, David Pollack Shares Emotional Video After Surprising ESPN Layoff, Golf Influencer Karin Hart Gets The Fourth Of July Festivities Started Early With A Patriotic Bikini, Rocket Mortgage Classic: Fowler Beats Morikawa, Hadwin In Playoff, But PGA Tour Broadcast Rules Meant Virtually No One Saw It, WNBA Player Natasha Cloud Unrepentant For Calling America ‘Trash’, and Enes Kanter Freedom Destroys WNBA Player Who Called America ‘Trash,’ Encourages Her To Leave The Country
Power Line: There Is No Transition, She Can’t Do Arithmetic, Either, It’s Cocaine, and Will the Supreme Court Dismantle the Administrative State?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Announces List Of Invalid Pro-Illegals Out Of State Drivers’ Licenses
Shot In The Dark: Mediocrity, Frozen, Streak, and For The Record
STUMP: Drowning Deaths: U.S. Geographic Differences 1999-2022 (provisional), Podcast: What is the Value of a Promise?, and Happy Bobby Bonilla(‘s Agent) Day 2023!
The Political Hat: North Dakota vs. Diversity Training, also, When in the Course of Human Events
This Ain’t Hell: Mostly Peaceful Protests Rock France for Fifth Day, The anniversary we missed (that no one was missing at all), Sad day. Freedom ain’t free, Wednesday Shorts: Soros, Supremes, Cards, and California Reparations Task Force: The police should not have to enforce urination bans
Transterrestrial Musings: Joe Biden’s Brain, AI, Our New Space Race, and Due Process On Campus
Victory Girls: NEA Admits – Yes, We ARE Coming For Your Children, also, Conservative Uncle Barred From Wedding But Bridezilla Will Accept His Cash
Volokh Conspiracy: What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant, also, July 4 Injunction Bars Various Federal Departments from Encouraging Social Media Platforms to Delete Content
Watts Up With That: World Now Wasting $1 Trillion Or More Per Year Investing in Useless “Renewables”, Volkswagen Notes “Strong Customer Reluctance” in the Electric Vehicle Sector, No, WaPo, Climate Change is NOT Fueling More Devastating Rains and Flooding, and The Myth Of Replacing Fossil Fuels
The Federalist: Celebrating July Fourth Rings Hollow Without Fidelity To America’s Founding Ideals, Here’s How America’s ‘Rainbow’ Military Commemorated This 4th Of July Weekend, Petty Woman: Meghan Markle Waves Goodbye To Her Rom-Com Dreams, Judge Bars Biden Press Secretary From Flagging Posts For Big Tech To Censor, Two Years After Admin Bragged About It, Honoring Frederick Douglass On The Fourth Of July Just Makes Sense, and Leftist Push To Disenfranchise Parents In Ohio Riddled With Deception
Mark Steyn: Peace at a Price: Ealing Studios, Postwar Britain and Passport to Pimlico, Ofcom Comes Back for More, Tal Bachman: Cancelled by Popular Demand: My Final Rugby Installment, and O Canada

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