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In The Mailbox: 09.02.24

Posted on | September 3, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.02.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks for everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month. Is it the shitty economy, or has Amazon deprecating image links affected sales that much?
Doing a quick link dump today because I have an appointment in Las Vegas Thursday afternoon, and lately I’ve had trouble staying on schedule when I’m on the road.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NSA Releases 1982 Lecture by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
EBL: Kamala Harris Promises To Sign Slavery Reparation Bill, Tulsi Gabbard responds to Dana Bash about Arlington Memorial, Tim Walz Is A Habitual Liar, Queens | Malkot | ?????, and Dry-Aged Lion Fish
Twitchy: Jesse Kelly Posts Letter From Aurora CO Cop Proving Politicians Are Lying Again, We Should Listen To People Who Fled Socialist Countries, and Tufts U. Study Claims Cheerios Healthier Than Eggs, Beef
Louder With Crowder:  “So deep into the progressive abyss”, Kamala Harris’s pathetic attack on Donald Trump-Arlington flap gets savaged by EIGHT different Gold Star Families, and Salon owner shares how much she pays in taxes, watch her employees turn BASED in real-time
Vox Popoli: Clown World Knows No Law, Weimar Britain, The Easy Answer, What’s Wrong with Mary Sue, and Yeah, So, About That
Postcards From Barsoom: Malevolent Anal Distraction
Upstream Reviews: Dark Day, Bright Hour

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Don Surber: Labor Day? Try Jobless Day
Glenn Reynolds: Thoughts On Labor On Labor Day
STUMP: Labor Day 2024 – Beauty In Work

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Rule Five Sunday: My Next Ex-Wife

Posted on | September 2, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule Five Sunday: My Next Ex-Wife

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I have no idea where I found this, but it was probably either kbdabear or the Rule 5 Texan on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five American Dream Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Anti-MAGA Biden-Harris, The Rings of Power Season 2, Sophia Bush, Egyptian Honey, Kamala Chameleon, Chimp Crazy, The Crow – Worst Movie of the Year? Horizon: An American Saga, “Singin’ In The Rain”, and The Dry

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Instaisabella, Even Catfish Get the Blues, Fish Pic Friday – Molly Dixon, No Eres Tan Fuerte, Bay Managers Looking at Cobia, Biden, Kamala Skip Arlington Ceremony for Abbey Gate 13, Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Censored for Biden-Harris, The Wednesday Wetness, Gone Fishin’, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday and  RFK Jr. Drops Out, Endorses Trump

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for August 30

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Jews Are Dead, Hamas Is Happy, and Podhoretz Has Got His Rage On

Posted on | September 1, 2024 | Comments Off on Jews Are Dead, Hamas Is Happy, and Podhoretz Has Got His Rage On

For years, I’ve said it’s impossible to have peace negotiations with the Palestinians because, to the Palestinians, “peace” means dead Jews.

Insofar as “Palestinian” describes a national identity, the essence of that identity is killing Jews. That’s all they care about. As a people, collectively, the Palestinians are devoted to revenge — the complete destruction of Israel, and the death of every Jew — and this is why the past 30-plus years of “peace negotiatians” have been a waste of time.

Excuse my speaking so bluntly about this, but I don’t know how anyone paying attention for the last three decades can see it any other way. And the latest atrocity further confirms this reality:

The bodies of six hostages abducted alive by Hamas on October 7 were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah overnight, shortly after they were murdered by terrorists, the Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday.
The hostages were Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 27.
Goldberg-Polin, Yerushalmi, Lobanov, Sarusi and Danino (an off-duty noncommissioned officer) were abducted from the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, while Gat was taken from Kibbutz Be’eri.
Their bodies were found with multiple gunshot wounds, Israel’s Health Ministry said, citing an examination carried out by Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.
The ministry said that the hostages were murdered between 48 and 72 hours before their autopsy, meaning between Thursday and Friday morning.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the six were “brutally murdered” by Hamas shortly before troops arrived — possibly only a day or two before they were found.
“According to an initial assessment… they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists a short while before we reached them. They were abducted alive on the morning of October 7 by the Hamas terror group,” Hagari said in a press conference.
“Their bodies were found during the fighting in Rafah, in a tunnel, about a kilometer away from the tunnel from which we rescued Farhan al-Qadi a few days ago,” he said.

This was sadly predictable. Ever since last October, when dozens of hostages were kidnapped by the same Hamas terrorists who killed more than a thousand Israelis, I knew that the chances of any of the hostages surviving were practically non-existent, and any negotiations for their release were futile, because the raison d’être of Hamas is to kill Jews.

What kind of childish naïveté leads some people to think it’s possible to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with a gang of bloodthirsty killers, and they’ll just turn the hostages loose? And yet, even as I write these words, CNN is showing protesters in Israel who evidently believe this.

“Please, we want peace with the Jew-killers!” This is insane.

John Podhoretz certainly isn’t deceived by such delusions:

Had the Biden administration’s will not been bent and twisted in the months following the attack by the fiendish propaganda campaign causing them to worry about the war’s effect on Joe’s chances in Michigan—due to a population that effectively supported the terrorist monsters and cared not a whit for the eight Americans, let alone the 240 other innocents dragged into Hell—would Hersh and these others have survived? Imagine an Israel that had not found itself restrained and under assault, not told to pause, not scolded in pissy little phone calls with petulant American establishmentarians, without arms and aid held up, without being lectured about the geostrategic value of going slow or not going at all.
Imagine an Israel that was not told by its best friend in the world that offensive action in Gaza had become self-defeating, was not told that Israel should care more about feeding people in Gaza than about eliminating the threat to its 9 million citizens and pummelling Hamas until that evil group of thugs cried uncle and begged for way to negotiate to return the hostages.
Imagine an America that did not lose its nerve under a president whose team knew perfectly well he was infirm and was working desperately to stave off his eventual collapse and departure from the race to save their own rotten and misbegotten jobs.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

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FMJRA 2.0: A Token of My Extreme

Posted on | September 1, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Token of My Extreme

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A strange homestand this week at RFK: we got swept by the Yankees, in an 15-11 slugfest followed by two close 3-2 losses, but then the Twins came to town and our bats caught fire. The Twins were bludgeoned 10-2, 6-1, and 6-2, with even Don Stanhouse notching a win in his first start. Extraordinary! The Senators are 62-80, half a game ahead of the A’s, and there are other, worse teams in the league: the Dodgers are 42-100, the Cubs 54-88, KC 55-84, and the hapless O’s 56-86. There aren’t any teams with 100 wins yet, but the Yankees are close with 96.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Rule 5 Sunday: Sydney Sweeney IS Black Cat!
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FMJRA 2.0: No Relief In September
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What Is a ‘Conspiracy Theory’?
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In The Mailbox: 08.26.24
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Do Taxpayers in Madison, Wisconsin, Want Schools to Celebrate a Killer?
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In The Mailbox: 08.27.24
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 08.28.24
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Why Would Kamala Harris Lie About Working at McDonald’s Circa 1983?
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In The Mailbox: 08.30.24 (Afternoon Edition)
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 08.30.24 (Evening Edition)
EBL
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357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending August 30:

  1.  EBL (11)
  2.  (tied) 357 Magnum & A View From The Beach (10)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

 

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | September 1, 2024 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Corey Cobb-Bey and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because he died Thursday night in the proverbial hail of police gunfire after he murdered a Dallas cop and wounded two others.

Four months ago, I warned about this particular kind of craziness (see “The ‘Moorish Sovereign Citizen’ Menace,” April 30):

Preferring a bogus mythology over actual history is irrational, pointing toward deep-rooted psychiatric problems. Crazy ideas attract crazy people, making it difficult to unravel cause and effect. Does this “Moorish” nonsense make people crazy, or were they crazy to begin with? Probably it’s a little of both, but the bottom line is, by the time one of these imaginary “Moors” gets into a confrontation with law enforcement, there’s a risk of deadly violence, because Crazy People Are Dangerous.

Tracing the history of this “Moorish” stuff — the self-evidently false claim that black Americans are descended from Moroccans and therefore exempt from U.S. law because of some 18th-century treaty — is in some sense futile, because the people who fall for it are not going to be dissuaded by facts and logic (tools of the White Devil).

Headline from Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA-TV:

Father of suspected
Dallas police shooter said his son
had been acting strange recently

“Recently”? No, sir, your son had been acting strange for years, but maybe you weren’t paying attention. Trust me, I’ve skimmed through Corey’s Facebook page and this descent into madness is not recent.

The very first video he uploaded to YouTube — May 30, 2017 — is Corey’s declaration of his “Moorish” identity as “Coremour Luel Bey,”

Go watch that video and tell me, is he crazy or not? His new identity immediately led Corey Cobb to trouble with police:

In 2017, Cobb was charged with intentionally providing false information to the police.
Officers initially pulled him over for having an expired registration.
When police asked for his name, he told officers it was Coremour Bey.
According to documents, when the police asked for his birthdate, Cobb allegedly replied, “That is private information, you can find everything you need with just my name.”
Cobb was arrested for his traffic violations.

The surname “Bey” is apparently common in Morocco, and many “Moorish” black Americans incorporate it into their new identities, e.g., John Jones Bey of Indianapolis, who was arrested after a 2017 standoff with police, and Kyran Caples, a/k/a “Kmac El Bey,” who died in a shootout with deputies in Polk County, Florida, in April this year.

A fair amount of my journalistic career has been devoted to reporting about kooky extremists, on the theory that all really influential movements start out on the “fringe” of politics. That’s why, for example, I rode to Denver in a van full of Libertarian delegates to the 2008 convention that nominated Bob Barr for president. Longtime readers may recall when I was targeted in 2012 by “Anonymous” hackers because of my criticism of their pro-Hamas activism. Today’s fringe kooks may become tomorrow’s mainstream, so it’s important to pay attention to them, and I’ve got a track record of solid hunches on this stuff:

The maniac who killed three police in Baton Rouge and wounded three others was both racist and insane. Ranting against “crackers” on YouTube, talking about “revolution” and “my people” with the delusional grandiosity typical of a paranoid schizophrenic . . .

That was July 2016, and it was subsequently learned that “Gavin Eugene Long was deranged, daft, demented, cracked, zany, wacko, bonkers, off his rocker and a few fries short of a Happy Meal,” who had filed paperwork in 2015 “declaring himself Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, a ‘sovereign citizen’ of the United Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah Mu’ur nation.” This group was founded in the 1990s by a Louisiana woman named Verdiacee Hampton Goston, a/k/a “Empress Verdiacee Tiari Washitaw Turner Goston El-Bey,” and is sort of a rogue splinter of the Moorish Science Temple of America. All of this may seem like a laughable absurdity to you, but the fact is that this “Moorish” insanity keeps resulting in cops being shot, as happened Thursday night in Dallas:

Dallas Police Officer Darron Burks

The Dallas Police Department provided an emotional update after Officer Darron Burks was shot and killed, saying that the former high school teacher was “executed” while in the line of duty.
In a press conference Friday, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said that the department had lost a “brother” and a “hero” following the shooting.
“As a department and as a family, we are devastated,” Garcia said. “Last night we lost a brother, a hero. Officer Darron Burks was a son, a nephew, a friend to many, and he was senselessly and tragically murdered in the line of duty.”
The shooting, which happened around 10 p.m. Thursday night near the Oak Cliff Community Center, killed Burks and wounded two other officers. The suspected gunman, identified as 30-year-old Corey Cobb-Bey, was killed in a shootout with police.
“We came close to losing other officers,” Garcia said. “Officers who put their lives on the line to protect their brother, and it is by the grace of God that they are still with us today.”
The chief of police said that the officers were “targeted” by Cobb-Bey.
“Our officers were targeted by nothing more than the uniforms that they wear and for the brave and honorable job that they do,” he said. “I want to be clear here, the word ambush has been thrown around in the last 24 hours. That is not what happened here. Officer Burks was executed.” . . .
“Cobb-Bey approached Burks and talked with him briefly at the driver’s side of the window as he recorded the encounter with a cellphone,” he said. “The suspect then pulled out a handgun and executed Officer Burks as he sat in his vehicle.”
Police said they got a 911 call about an officer in distress. Responding officers found Burks in his marked patrol vehicle critically injured.
At 10:11 p.m., Senior Corporal Jamie Farmer pulled into the parking lot after responding to a call for backup. Farmer was met with gunfire from Cobb-Bey. When Farmer returned fire, Cobb-Bey grabbed the shotgun and fired at Farmer, hitting him in the leg.
A minute later, Senior Corporal Karissa David arrived on the scene.
The Cobb-Bey ran toward David, shooting at her multiple times while she exited her vehicle.
David was shot in the face, according to police.
The officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect, and two additional officers were shot.
The suspect was shot and killed at the end of a high-speed police chase on Interstate 35 from Dallas to Lewisville.

All because of some lunatic “Moorish” bullshit and exactly what is being done about this? You can get banned from social media as an “election denier” for suggesting that Joe Biden didn’t get 81 million votes, and yet people are permitted to post all kinds of this “sovereign citizen” propaganda without consequences? When it can be demonstrated as a fact that this leads to deadly violence? People need to wake up.



 

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In The Mailbox: 08.30.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 31, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.30.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
No, I don’t know what I’m doing over here.
This is one of a series of memes combining two of my favorite things.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Foghorn Leghorn advises the young men of Japan.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Cop Shoots Unarmed Man, Unleashes K-9 On Innocent Homeowner
EBL: The Rings Of Power Season 2 : Here We Go Again, also, anti MAGA Biden-Harris
Twitchy: At This Point We Should Just List The Things Tim Walz Hasn’t Lied About, “Suffering From TDS? Independence Might Be Right For You”, and Despite Video Evidence, Gov. Polis (D-CO) Denies Colorado Has A Venezuelan Gang Problem
Louder With Crowder: Activist thinks Christians are white supremacists, so of course Kamala Harris hires her for campaign
Vox Popoli: So That Went Well, Hear For Yourself, There is No “Imposter Syndrome”, and He Jumped on the Grenade
According To Hoyt: Why Don’t You Come Back to the War, The State of the Writer, and Lines of Departure 2-2: The Choice isn’t Trump or Harris [by Tom Kratman]
Monster Hunter Nation: The Super Generation – edited by Hinkley Correia
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Telegram Thoughts
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsie Princess Effie’s Log #7 – Saving The Razorback Helphalump & Averting A War 
WRSA Radio: Episode 1
Gab: The War For Free Speech Has Begun

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Brazil Suspends ?, also, The Non-Entity Who Would Be President
American Greatness: Kamala-Flip Flops on Fracking in Softball CNN Interview, Louisiana Governor Signs Executive Order Banning Critical Race Theory, and Biden-Harris DOJ Threatens to Sue Two Small Wisconsin Towns Over Refusal to Use Electronic Voting Machines
American Thinker: RFK, Jr. Learns About Democrat Tyranny
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Rule Five American Dream Friday
Babalu Blog: Corruption, theft, and private care is what’s keeping Cuba’s socialist healthcare system from total collapse, Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega offers ‘Sandinista fighters’ to Venezuela if a ‘counterrevolution’ is launched against Maduro, Massive blackout paralyzes Venezuela; Maduro blames his opponents, and Nicaraguan dictatorship axes 169 additional NGOs, seizes their property, brings extermination toll to 5,552
BattleSwarm: Lawsuit Filed To End Austin Toy Train Tax, also, LinkSwarm For August 30
Behind The Black: Chinese pseudo-company launches six satellites from off-shore barge, NASA leans toward launching Europa Clipper as scheduled, despite transistor issue, Changing Martian slope streaks, Starliner to return unmanned on September 6, The battle between a Brazilian judge and Starlink/X escalates, and Pushback: Teacher fired for daring to attend rally on January 6th wins lawsuit
Cafe Hayek: Yes, Harris Is Calling for Price Controls, also, Are NatCons “Market Fundamentalists”?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: A Profile of a Killer, Part 1: Matthew Crooks
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora, We must destroy the Left’s stranglehold on education, and Kamala: Moriarty or Zack Johnson?
Dana Loesch: Kamala’s Trainwreck Interview
Don Surber: Election Day patriotism
First Street Journal: Politico Seems Unclear That Kamala Harris Is Part Of The Biden-Harris Admin, IDF Discovers Bomb Making Lab In West Bank Mosque, Surgeon General Super Excited To Make Things Worse For Stressed Parents, and Kamala Drops Word Salad On ‘Climate Change’
Gates Of Vienna: “Germany is No Longer a Safe Country”, Boom and Bang Again, Uber Alles, We Sneer at Your Silly Knife Ban! Jihad Among the Tombstones, Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay? and We Don’t Want to Send You Back!
The Geller Report: Over 9 Deaths Linked to Deadly Boar’s Head Deli Meat: Prioritizing Hiring Refugees Over Sanitation and HAACP Training
Hollywood In Toto: Reagan – A Cinematic Tribute Long Overdue, Why Anti-Trump The Apprentice Won’t Impact Election, and Critics v. Audience: Rotten Tomatoes Reveals Huge ‘Reagan’ Divide
The Lid: 74% of Americans Say Inflation is Erasing All Their Gains on Eve of Labor Day, also, Time for Never-Trumpers to Drop their Conservative Charade
Legal Insurrection: New England Fishermen Stage Floating Protest at Vineyard Wind Site, Trump To Vote NO on Florida Amendment 4, Criticizes ‘Radical’ Abortion Access, Here’s Why Democrats Want RFK Jr to Remain on Battleground State Ballots, In Latest Folly, Biden-Harris Bans Drilling On 28 Million Acres of Public Lands in Alaska, Trump “Removes” Manhattan Criminal Case to Federal Court, Potentially Halting Sentencing, Israel: Hamas’s Rafah Terror Brigade Has Collapsed, 80% of Border Tunnels Destroyed, and Court Rules Elon Musk/X Defamation Lawsuit Against Media Matters Can Go Forward
Michele Catalano: odd jobs
Nebraska Energy Observer: In other news, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Refs Blow Insanely Critical Call Late In Colorado/NDSU Game, Enrage Fans, Kansas Football Player Accidentally Crushes Random Woman On Sideline, NFL Players Lose Their Minds On Social Media Over Travis Hunter’s Ridiculous Performance, Johnny Hockey: Johnny Gaudreau Was An Inspiration To An Entire Generation Before Tragic Death, Let’s Get The Lawyers Out Of College Sports, And Give Players A Fair Deal, The MLB Playoff Picture Is A Complete Mess, and Paige Spiranac Dumps Out NASCAR Content From Daytona, Sad Minnesota Fans & Arkansas Man Steals Bus
Power Line: State of the Race, Tim Walz Lies Again, She didn’t do fries, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Third Circuit Shrinks Social Media Companies’ Legal Protections
Shot In The Dark: The DFL Dictionary – A New Entry, Keith Ellison’s Priorities, When A Plan Comes Together, and The Massage Beat
STUMP: Social Security & Election 2024
The Political Hat: Quick Takes — Brought To You By Modern Academia, also, Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 1)
This Ain’t Hell: Trump’s Arlington woes, Valor Friday, Mice, roaches, mold, and brown water in military living and dining areas, Senior US Admiral suggests American ships could escort Filipino ships in South China Sea, and Gang violence creates recruiting opportunities for Haitian army
Transterrestrial Musings: At Last, A Treatment, The Rhetoric Of “Joy”, Polaris Dawn, New Rules For Radicals, and Who Are The Racists, Again?
Victory Girls: Brat Kamala Rewriting Personal History To Fit The Vibe – Coconuts, also, Biden-Harris Open Border Threatens School Children
Volokh Conspiracy: Biden Administration Restarts CHNV Immigration Parole Program for Migrants From Four Latin American Nations, also, Title IX’s Exemption for Religious Institutions as to Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Is Constitutionally Permissible
Watts Up With That: Empowering Voters: Navigating Energy Choices in the Upcoming Election, Most ‘Climate Policies’ Do Not Bring Down Emissions, New Study Finds, and China Downplays International Hopes Of Beating Carbon Emissions Targets Ahead Of Meeting With Biden Climate Czar
The Federalist: Dishonest Media Dismiss Illegal Immigrant Cartel Violence Near Denver, Dems Keep RFK Jr. On North Carolina Ballot As Swing State Spoiler To Hurt Trump Campaign, If Donald Trump’s Sex Life Is Fair Game For The Election, So Is Kamala Harris’, Lawsuit Alleges Fulton County Fails To Maintain Accurate Voter Rolls, Violating State And Federal Law, Walz Says He Lied About Going To War Because He Struggles With Grammar, Arizona Judge Upholds Block On Secretary Fontes’ Anti-Speech Election Rules, and Blue Cities Like Philadelphia Feed Citizens’ Private Data To Democrat Vote-Harvesting Outfit
Mark Steyn: The Truth Rings True, also, Never Give a Zucker an Even Break

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In The Mailbox: 08.30.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 30, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.30.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM

357 Magnum: Justice For Roger Fortson? I Doubt It
EBL: Kamala Chameleon Songs
Twitchy: Chinese Dissident Ends Tim Walz’ Stupid Grammar Excuse For Stolen Valor, Gold Star Mom Reality Checks Journo Trying To Get Her To Slam Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Visit, and AP Shamelessly Sets The Bar For Spinning CNN’s Harris-Walz Interview
Louder With Crowder: UNDERCOVER EXCLUSIVE: UN “Terrified” of Possible Trump Re-Election, “Not Sure Institution Will Survive”, “He was invited!” The media is lying to you about Trump and Arlington Cemetery, and They just arrested a pastor for saying “Drag Queen Story Hour” is a bad thing
Vox Popoli: Mailvox: The Lesson of SJW AI, also, Kursk was a UK Operation
Stoic Observations: Amor Fati
Gab: Free Speech Isn’t Free
Upstream Reviews: The Lost Fleet Series

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Don Surber: DC suburbs now allow MAGA

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Why Would Kamala Harris Lie About Working at McDonald’s Circa 1983?

Posted on | August 29, 2024 | Comments Off on Why Would Kamala Harris Lie About Working at McDonald’s Circa 1983?

Other than the fact that she lies about everything:

The first all-female audience ever on The Drew Barrymore Show was whooping and cheering for Kamala Harris, its guest of honor, this April when Barrymore’s sidekick, Ross Matthews, threw a softball at the vice president.
“I heard a rumor that you worked at McDonald’s?”
“I did. Yes, I did work at McDonald’s,” laughed Harris. “When I was at school … I did fries. And then I did the cashier.”
“I didn’t know that about you,” gasped Barrymore.
Neither did anyone who followed Harris’s long career in public life — that is, until she ran for president in 2019 and began to make the job a centerpiece of her biography.
Harris’s work at McDonald’s, which allegedly took place at a franchise in the California Bay Area the summer after her freshman year in college, is a recent addition to her carefully curated life story. For decades, Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college. Third-party biographers did not write about it. Not until Harris ran for president in 2019 and spoke to a labor rally in Las Vegas did she mention the job, telling the crowd that she “was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s.”
McDonald’s boasts that one in eight Americans has worked at the fast food chain, and Harris, whose campaign is light on policy and heavy on image, has been using her fast food job to portray what the Washington Post, in a credulous piece this month on the Harris-McDonald’s connection, described as “her humble background.” (Harris is the daughter of an eminent cancer researcher, whom her campaign calls “a working mother,” and a tenured Stanford economist, who split when Harris and her sister were children.)
Early this month, Harris’s campaign said she used her McDonald’s wages to pay for college. “Vice President Harris is the daughter of a working mother and worked at a McDonald’s to put herself through college,” campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said this month. A pro-Harris super PAC ad said she “work[ed] her way through school at McDonald’s.” And former president Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention, joked that “she’ll break my record as president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s.”
At the same time, however, Harris’s image makers tweaked the story ever so slightly. According to an August 14 item in Politico, an early cut of a Harris campaign ad said she worked at McDonald’s to “pay her way” through college. Aides changed the script to reflect that “she really took the summer job just to earn a bit more spending money,” as Politico put it.
The Politico story, which was published just hours after the Washington Free Beacon reached out to the Harris campaign with a series of detailed questions about Harris’s claims regarding her job at McDonald’s, didn’t say when exactly—or where—Harris worked at the restaurant. The campaign did not respond to the Free Beacon’s inquiries.
It is possible that Harris did indeed work at McDonald’s in the early 1980s. But the absence of that detail in public records and her campaign’s coyness and refusal to provide any further details raise questions about what is now a foundational narrative.
On Monday, the New York Times reported without attribution that Harris, who was born in Oakland, Calif., and moved to Montreal with her mother and younger sister when she was 12, “return[ed] to the Bay Area for a summer during college when she worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, a city next to Oakland.” Harris was attending college at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
If some details of the job have varied, while others are murky, that might be because there is no record of Harris mentioning the McDonald’s job before that labor rally in Las Vegas in June 2019.
The job goes unmentioned in both of her memoirs, published in July 2010 and January 2019.
The Truths We Hold, published ahead of her maiden presidential bid, does include a passage on the “many jobs” she held in college, with no reference to McDonald’s. It also devotes a chapter to the struggles of the working class and assails the service industry’s “starvation wages.” Harris’s McDonald’s job is similarly absent from her 2009 book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.
Two biographies written about Harris make no mention of the job, either. . . .

Far be it from me to commit a logical fallacy — the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Just because you can’t prove that Harris worked at McDonald’s, that’s not proof that she didn’t work at McDonald’s.

It is certainly curious — and probably not a coincidence — that the first time we know of Harris mentioning this alleged McDonald’s job is at a union rally during her first (and failed) presidential campaign. Whether she did or didn’t work at McDonald’s, this claim would help her seem as if she could relate to the plight of workers. But why not mention it in any of her previous campaigns, for California attorney general or U.S. Senate? Why wait until 2019? It’s sort of like Christine Blasey Ford waiting more than 30 years to mention the alleged sexual assault committed against her when she was a prep school girl. “Question the timing.”

How long before questions about Kamala Harris’s alleged employment at McDonald’s rate a “Republicans pounce” headline from the media?



 

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