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
Da Tech Guy: Just Remember the Same People Who Will Be Deciding in Court if Election2024 is on the Up and Up, Paris and Majdal Shams: Reality Doesn’t Care About the Left’s Spin, Another bitter harvest of demonization? The My Lai massacre and the Sonya Massey killing, and Why Anyone Would Trust AI is Beyond Me, Trump Assassination Edition
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – All The Appeals Edition, also, Cat Ladies & The Nauseating White Savior Sisters For Kamala
Don Surber: The Twilight Zone predicted this
First Street Journal: Hamas delendum est, also, Welfare for the well-to-do
Gates Of Vienna: Another Migrant Success Story, Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 14, The Epistemology of Flat Tires and Chiggers, and Is the Islamization of Europe a Conspiracy Theory?
The Geller Report: Iran-Proxy Hezb’Allah Fires Rocket at Children Playground on Shabbat, 10 DEAD ALL CHILDREN, 25 Injured, Iran is Supplying Hezb’Allah with Technologically Advanced New Weapons, The Paris Olympics and the Rise of Jew-Hatred, and Texts Show Trump Assassin Was on Authorities’ Radar More than 90 Minutes Before Shooting
Glenn Reynolds: J.D. Vance, The NYT, and Decency
Hollywood In Toto: 13th Warrior Is as Bad as Advertised, Until…, Sarandon-Midler Romp Fabulous Four Nosedives at Box Office, and Will Kamala Harris Snag Taylor Swift’s Coveted Endorsement?
The Lid: Biden’s Corrupt Dept. of Homeland Security Lets 3 Palestinian Terrorists Into USA
Legal Insurrection: Academic Poll Finds More Than 70% of ‘Hard-Line Lefties’ Wish Trump Assassination Attempt Succeeded, Venezuela Breaks Out in Protests, Accusing Maduro of Stealing the Election, U. of California Regent Proposes Making Anti-Israel Protesters Pay for the Millions in Damage They Caused, Biden on Johnson Saying SCOTUS Reform is Dead on Arrival: ‘He is. Dead on Arrival’, Olympics Back-Tracks on Offensive Drag Queen Opening Ceremonies Mocking Christians, and UK High Court Upholds Puberty Blockers Ban
Michele Catalano: the week in joy
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, also, Another Monday
Outkick: Antisemites At Paris Olympics Chant ‘Heil Hitler’ As Israel Performed National Anthem, White Sox Bullpen Pours One Out For Traded Teammate Michael Kopech In Emotional Goodbye, Dwyane Wade Couldn’t Stop Making Weird Pronoun ‘Jokes’ During Olympic Broadcast, Record NFL Rookie QB Class Has Hit Ground Running With A Couple Of Possible Exceptions, Hooters Is Coming To The Villages & Resident Old Ladies Are Freaking Out, and Danica Patrick’s Butt Rocks America, Internet Cancels A Grandma For Bodyshaming & Cameraman Caught Zooming In
Power Line: Ellison vouches for Walz, How the Left Censors the News, and How Bad Is Kamala?
Shark Tank: Florida Democrats Condemn Maduro Regime
Shot In The Dark: How Every Conversation About “Fascism”, “Naziism”, and “Racism” Should Go, also, Hey, Look, Governor Klink Is Wearing His “Regular Joe” Costume
STUMP: The Week In Meep – The Return Of Stu!
The Political Hat: News of the Week
This Ain’t Hell: About time for Sailors who refused Covid shots, Joe Biden to roll out proposed Supreme Court reform, Hamas admits torture, threatens more, and Kamala Harris questioned JD Vance’s loyalty to the US
Transterrestrial Musings: Stop Turning The Other Cheek, With Little Fanfare, NewsGuard, and Back To Vegas
Victory Girls: JD Vance Being Weird And Childless Cat Ladies
Volokh Conspiracy: Venezuela Illustrates the Perils of “Democratic Socialism”
Watts Up With That: How Will New York’s Energy Madness End? The “Don’t Do It!” Report, Climate Scientists Dishonestly Cherry-Pick Wildfires to Push a Climate Crisis, and Can American Conservation Survive ‘Green’ Energy?
The Federalist: DEI Is Emasculating The FDNY Too – Just Like The Secret Service, How Ian Fleming Birthed James Bond, Anti-Christian Olympic Opening Ceremony Heralds The Rise Of A Neopagan West, Harris Shares Old Federalist Podcast Clip To Claim Vance Supports Project That Didn’t Exist Yet, Targeting Law Professor Turley Again Proves NewsGuard Is A Powerful Scam, Biden Debuts Radical Scheme Designed To Help Democrats Pack The Supreme Court, and The Left Is Trying To Memory-Hole Trump’s Assassination Attempt
Mark Steyn: Möbius Dick, Head Cases: Political Satire and The President’s Analyst, Steyn Gets Sporty, and Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)

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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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Aspiring Rapper Update

Posted on | July 29, 2024 | 1 Comment

Say hello to Charles Andrew Jones II, a/k/a “Julio Foolio” and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Mr. Jones died last month in a hail of gunfire in the parking lot of a Tampa hotel. Because it’s been more than a month since our last Aspiring Rapper Update, I’ll remind you of the definition:

Aspiring Rapper
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subject’s demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, occurring just as the subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”

“Julio Foolio” had done more than merely aspire to be a rapper. He had released several recordings and had more than a million followers on social media. But he was definitely part of the “urban criminal class”:

Charles Andrew Jones II was born on June 21, 1998, in Jacksonville, Florida, where he grew up in the Moncrief neighborhood and was a member of the “6-Block” set of the street gang KTA (“Kill Them All”). His father, Charles Andrew Jones, was murdered in a 2011 shooting in Jacksonville. . . .
In 2017, Foolio’s 18-year-old cousin, Zion Malik Brown, was shot and killed in his home. This is believed to have started the deadly gang war in Jacksonville, as rapper Yungeen Ace was wounded and three men killed in a 2018 retaliatory shooting, and Foolio posted derogatory content about the victims on social media.

It was his social media habits that led directly to his death last month, as “Julio Foolio” was posting his location in Tampa while celebrating his 26th birthday. Police today announced three arrests in the case:

Three people have been arrested and accused in the shooting death of Charles Jones, a Jacksonville rapper known as “Julio Foolio.”
Jones, 26, was shot and killed in June in an ambush attack while celebrating his birthday in Tampa.
Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw, Hillsborough County State Attorney Suzy Lopez and Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters announced the arrests Monday afternoon and said there are also warrants out for two other people believed to have been triggermen.
All five suspects, who are from Jacksonville, are accused of premeditated first-degree murder among other charges.
Isaiah Chance, 21, Alicia Andrews, 21, and Sean Gathright were arrested over the weekend in Jacksonville.
Police said Chance and Andrews tracked and followed Jones and his entourage to two locations. At each location, the two got out of their vehicle and Chance used a cell phone, police said. After the cell phone communication, a second suspect vehicle arrived at each location. Both vehicles then followed Jones and his entourage to the Home 2 Suites located on McKinley Drive, where the murder happened.
Police said that Gathright, 18, along with two other outstanding suspects, Rashad Murphy and Davion Murphy, fired shots at Jones that night.

All of the people involved in the shooting are affiliated with Jacksonville gangs ATK and 1200 which are rival gangs to 6 Block, the gang Jones had connections to, according to police. The feud between 6 Block and its rival gangs ATK and 1200 has spanned over a decade with dozens of murders by and against both sides, officials said.
“Detectives believe that the ATK and the 1200 worked together to target Jones as part of an ongoing feud in Jacksonville,” Bercaw said.
Chance is a documented ATK gang member, and Rashad Murphy and Davion Murphy are documented 1200 gang members, according to police.
During the news conference, Tampa police showed surveillance from the night of the shooting where the suspects can be seen stalking Jones. At one point, the shooters got out of a car parked across the street from the hotel where Jones was staying.
They can be seen on video wearing all black while sneaking around the parking lot before firing multiple shots at the car Jones was riding in.
Police said the three shooters were armed with a handgun and two rifles.
“Today, three dangerous criminals are off our Florida streets and in police custody where they belong,” Waters said. “These individuals have chosen lives of urban terrorism and with arrests we show Tampa, Jacksonville and the rest of Florida, we hold violent criminals accountable.”
Investigators said they used surveillance videos, license plate readers and phone logs to identify the two vehicles involved and tie them to the suspects.
Three other people were injured in the shooting outside the hotel but survived.
“These criminals decided to bring their fight to Hillsborough County. Let me be clear, the feud ends here,” said Hillsborough County State Attorney Suzy Lopez. “My office will vigorously prosecute each of these defendants to ensure they are held accountable for the calculated murder of Charles Jones.”

Readers will note that “Julio Foolio” resembled “Sideshow Bob” from The Simpsons, which is probably not relevant to the act of “urban terrorism” that ended the rapper’s career, What is relevant is that there are now three fewer criminals on the streets of Florida and, once the two fugitive suspects are apprehended — or die in a shootout with police — the public will be that much safer. And nothing of value has been lost.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Hangar Queen Double-Scoop Sunday!

Posted on | July 29, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I rather like topless girls in jeans. Here’s one in the aforementioned hangar, thanks to kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.