Rule 5 Sunday: Summer Musashi

Posted on | July 6, 2020 | No Comments

I suppose I could have done a rerun this week with Kate Upton and her popsicle, but Fate/Grand Order is doing a Fourth of July event in their usual berserk style, and while this character’s not in there, how could I resist the lure of Japan’s greatest swordsman…er, swordswoman…in an All-American bikini and a six-shooting katana? Oh, Type Moon, never change.

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Ninety Miles From Tyranny brings us the Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1035, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Climate Fraud Friday and Saturday Independence Day Freedom.

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FMJRA 2.0: O Thus Be It Ever When Free Men Shall Stand

Posted on | July 6, 2020 | No Comments

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Posted on | July 5, 2020 | No Comments

Death by “social justice” on the Fourth of July:

A woman hit by a car while she and others were blocking a highway in Seattle died, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Harborview Medical Center told news outlets that Summer Taylor, a 24-year-old local, died late Saturday. The Washington State Patrol confirmed the death.
Taylor was one of two women hit by a man driving a white Jaguar around 1:36 a.m. on July 4.
Police had closed down a portion of the highway, I-5, just before midnight on Friday. Seattle police said in a report that the driver, 27-year-old Dawit Kelete, entered on an exit ramp before turning onto the highway to go in the correct direction.
The driver was approaching vehicles that were parked across the highway by protesters to block it when he “made a sharp left turn entering the right lane and struck two pedestrians,” police wrote.
Video footage showed the impact flinging the two women into the air. Photographs of the Jaguar showed damage consistent with a crash, Washington State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead told reporters at a press conference near the scene of the incident.
The other protester hit was identified as Diaz Love, 32. She remains hospitalized in serious condition. Love was filming the protest in a video broadcast on Facebook Live that showed a group of a few dozen milling about on the highway. Just before the video ended, people began shouting “car.” The impact of the car striking the women can be heard as the broadcast ends.
Both she and and Taylor suffered broken bones and lacerations from the impact, according to the police report.
Kelete was taken into custody after passing sobriety tests. He was described as reserved and sullen. At one point, he asked if the two people that were hit were okay.
Kelete was booked on vehicular assault charges, according to jail records. Bail was denied. It wasn’t clear if the man had an attorney.
Protesters blocked I-5 for 18 straight days leading up to July 4, law enforcement officials said. Mead told the reporters that blocking the highway is illegal and a criminal act.
“We’ve said since May 30th, the freeway is not a safe place for pedestrians to be. Whether they’re protesters, whether they’re homeless, whether they’re broken down motorists, the freeway is simply not a safe place for pedestrians,” he said.
The state patrol said later Saturday that officers would arrest any protesters who tried to enter I-5.
According to Love’s social media accounts, she participated in other protests blocking the freeway in recent days. The Black Lives Matter supporter was recently at the so-called autonomous zone that protesters created in Seattle.

Two Seattle protesters just got run over. Don’t stand in the middle of the road at night, damn. pic.twitter.com/TqBcUtfszl
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 4, 2020

The dead woman was a militant #BlackLivesMatter supporter and also identified as “non-binary.” The driver of the car was a black man, apparently an immigrant from Ethiopia.

So . . . white women blocking a freeway to protest on behalf of #BlackLivesMatter were hit by a black man driving a white Jaguar.

Karma is not only a bitch, she also has a well-developed sense of irony.

Category: Crime, Washington State

In The Mailbox: 07.03.20

Posted on | July 4, 2020 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Since it’s Independence Day tomorrow, the FMJRA will be on Sunday along with the weekly Rule 5 post.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Random Thoughts – Independence Day Edition
357 Magnum: The Breakdown Of Order In The Cities
EBL: Portlandia’s Racist Elk Removed, also, Hypocrite Alyssa Milano Attacks Redskins Team Name While Selling Their Gear
Twitchy: Protesters Attempting To Block Trump Supporters From Mount Rushmore
Louder With Crowder: Laugh As This Liberal Dingbat Gets Kicked By A Police Horse
Vox Popoli: SJW Corpocracy Smells Blood, also, The Trumpslide Is Still On
According To Hoyt: Routing Around Damage

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Adam Piggott: My Speech On Christianity At The XYZ National Convention
American Conservative: The Little Pink House, Fifteen Years Later
American Greatness: The Present Moment Has Set Blacks Back Half A Century
American Power: White Privilege, also, The Coming Black Crime Bloodbath
American Thinker: Why Biden’s Lead Will Evaporate, also, The Pretense Of Anarchy
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Climate Fraud Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Prisoner Of Conscience’s Life In Immediate Danger In Castro’s Gulag
Baldilocks: Black Americana & Historical Perspective
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For July 3
Cafe Hayek: Another Open Letter To Peter Navarro
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Expect More of This, also, Do All Lives Matter To UMass Lowell Nurses?
Don Surber: Why Trump Tweets, also, No Aid For Minneapolis Unless Mayor Frey Resigns
Fred On Everything: DACA – A Pragmatic Cowardice
The Geller Report: SCOTUS Blocks Obama Judge From Ending Voter ID In Alabama, also, Rioters Set Off Explosives, Block Access To Mount Rushmore
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Good Luck With That
Hollywood In Toto: Dean Cain Is 100% Right About Superman’s “American Way” Phrase
JustOneMinute: Epstein Gal Pal Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested
The Lid: Washington Redskins Announce They’ll Review Team Name
Legal Insurrection: Fauci Ties New Chinese Flu Virus To 2009 Swine Flu, 1919’s Lethal Spanish Flu, also, WHO Backtracks, Quietly Admits Red China Didn’t Report Corona-Chan
The PanAm Post: Will FARC Win The War In Colombia?
Power Line: The Minneapolis Non-Effect, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: NRA Drops The “Hammer” On Heather Fitzhagen’s State Senate Campaign
Shot In The Dark: They Own These Towns…
STUMP: Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! Happy Independence Day!
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Has America Had It?
This Ain’t Hell: Senator Duckworth Roils The Political Waters, also, Stop It Before It Starts
Victory Girls: Reelection Woes For Trump Or Wishful Thinking?
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: College Kids Asked What They Know About July 4th, also, Former NFL Star Marcellus Wiley – #BLM Wants To Destroy Nuclear Family, I’m Not About That
Megan McArdle: American Businesses Have The Power To Change Red China’s Behavior – Time To Step Up
Mark Steyn: Juneteenth Is Bustin’ Out All Over, also, Chess Is Racist (And So Is Everything Else)

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Our Patriotic Duty

Posted on | July 3, 2020 | No Comments

Our fireworks stash (click on the image to see full size) for Saturday night’s celebration amounts to 35 cases, including two cases (192) of 5-inch canister shells and a case of two 500-gram, 200-shot Shogun Thriller cakes for the grand finale. My son Jim and I have spent the past week building finale boards like these two:

(Click on the image to see full size.)

It is difficult to describe how many hours of work and planning go into a project like this. It’s not a matter of going into a store and buying whatever we like. We started planning this year’s show almost the moment we finished last year’s show. The 364-day planning cycle involves going over lists of products, viewing videos and finding the best prices on the effects you want. We made our first wholesale buy (11 cases) last August, and also bought two more cases (blue roman candles and a special pink effect) from another vendor. My podcasting partner John Hoge supplied us with our 14th case (120 shells) last fall. Then in March, in a 40%-off “Early Bird” sale, we bought another 17 cases. You can see my brother Kirby with that purchase here.

(Click on the image to see full size.)

Here is a video preview of our fireworks stash:

Accumulating the necessary supplies, of course, is just the beginning of the process. We have to work out the timing of each effect, measure the fuses to connect them, position them on the boards — it’s a lot of work, and also a lot of zip ties. Just yesterday, I had to make a run to Lowe’s to pick up extra glue and another 800 zip ties. Did I mention that more than 200 feet of fuse will be involved in this project? Because what you want to do is set it up so that you light one fuse and this sets off a long series of effects. Our opening board will last about 7 minutes, all from one continuous fuse, then we go to the first finale (a/k/a “the fake finale”) shot from two different boards, giving the audience a “pause for applause” before lighting the real finale (a/k/a the Grand Finale) that will overwhelm spectators with a 45-second barrage of stunning intensity.

Did I say “stunning intensity”? Let me explain what that means. Sunday afternoon, I spent seven hours fusing together 144 Dominator Blue Thunder eight-shot roman candles on three angled racks:

Do the math. You see that this is 1,152 shots to be fired in the span of about 45 seconds, or about 25 shots per second — and the audience will barely even notice it, except as extra noise, because those candles will be fired along with a barrage of about 1,800 other shots, including multiple 500-gram cakes and more than 120 shells. Like I said, stunning intensity.

Did I mention that John Hoge bought us a case of 120 shells? That assortment included triple-break and double-break shells, which will be used in a concluding effect — the “coda,” as I call it, an exclamation mark of sorts — that will have 62 aerial explosions at once.

Because we love America.

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Category: Fireworks

‘The Merciless Indian Savages’

Posted on | July 3, 2020 | No Comments

Because tomorrow is the Fourth of July — $17.76, baby! — now seems like a good time to recall the words of our Declaration of Independence. Because our public schools are a cesspool of organized ignorance, a few poetic phrases from the preamble expressing lofty sentiments — “all men are created equal,” etc. — are the only thing most Americans know about the Declaration. It is not generally acknowledged that most of that document is a listing of colonial grievances against the government of King George III. In other words, the Declaration is mainly an indictment, accusing the king of seeking “the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.” Presenting their charges (“let Facts be submitted to a candid world”), the Americans listed this among the crimes of “the present King of Great Britain”:

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

As I say, our schools are cesspools of organized ignorance, and have thus taught students a lot of romantic nonsense about Native Americans as enlightened pacifists living in harmony with nature. Doesn’t it seem more sensible, however, to accept the testimony of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, who had actual first-hand knowledge? If our eminent forefathers had this to say about the “merciless Indian Savages,” shouldn’t we take their word for it?

A bunch of “woke” corporations have petitioned the Washington Redskins to change the name of their mascot, and considering how lousy the Redskins have played lately — they went 3-13 last season, finishing dead last in their conference — I can certainly understand why some consider their name an insult to those “merciless Indian savages.”

Category: Football

In The Mailbox: 07.02.20

Posted on | July 3, 2020 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Pagan Vigil: After
357 Magnum: Crime In NYC And LA
EBL: Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested By FBI
Twitchy: According To ABC, The Outdoors Is Systematically Racist
Louder With Crowder: Black Sheriff Warns Protesters – The Citizens Are Armed And I Have Their Backs
Vox Popoli: It’s Clear Whom They Serve, also, Historian In Hot Water Over History

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American Conservative: Justice Roberts Splits The Baby
American Greatness: Big Tech’s Escalating War On Free Speech, also, FBI Arrests Antifa Ringleader Of Andrew Jackson Statue Toppling Attempt
American Thinker: Is The COVID Surge More Fake News?
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Babalu Blog: Ana Maria Martinez, A Real-Life Character In The Wasp Network Movie, Was Never Consulted On Her Role
BattleSwarm: Worst Gun Ever?
Cafe Hayek: “While Everyone Was Distracted By Saul Alinsky, It Turns Out The Real Action Was Antonio Gramsci”
Camp of the Saints: Under Attack By The Dependence Mongers – Independence Day 2020
CDR Salamander: Smart Thinking Down Under, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Under The Fedora – Courage, Courage, Courage, also, Over The Last Thirty Days We’ve Learned…
Don Surber: Pedophile Arrest Shows Why Trump Canned Geoffrey Berman, also, Cool Hand Trump
First Street Journal: Hahvahd Matriculates Some Pretty Stupid People
The Geller Report: Feds Charge Four DEMOCRAT City Councilmen In Bribes For Votes Scheme, also, California’s Panic Porn Programming
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Suicide Watch
Hollywood In Toto: Will Super-Woke Hollywood Crush TV’s Golden Age Of Streaming?
JustOneMinute: Here We Go Again
The Lid: Beware Of Mark Cuban, also, Schiff’s Staff Briefed On Russia “Bounty” Intel In February – And Did Nothing
Legal Insurrection: Maddow Gleefully Predicted “Absolutely Terrible” Employment Numbers, Winds Up With Egg On Her Face, also, TikTok Users Try To Shut Down Trump Merchandise Sites
The PanAm Post: Colombian Oil Sector In Crisis Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, also, Recruitment Of Venezuelan Kids By Colombian Guerrillas Rising
Power Line: Democrat Congressional Candidate Calls For Trump Supporters To Be Reported, also, The Minneapolis Effect
Shark Tank: Penelas & Cava Set Table For Progressive Food Fight In Miami-Dade
Shot In The Dark: Accountability
The Political Hat: When The Revolution Comes?
This Ain’t Hell: Seattle Update – CHAZ Demolished, Squatters Gone, also, A Prolonged Period Of Something
Victory Girls: Stab Threats Cost Harvard Graduate Her Dream Job
Volokh Conspiracy: U. Mass Nursing Dean Fired After Saying “Everyone’s Life Matters”
Weasel Zippers: We Have Reached Peak Wokeness Now That They’ve Burned The Elk, also, #BLM Chants In DC “Israel, We Know You, Jews Murder Children Too!”
Mark Steyn: Morons In Space, also, A Mullah Who Gets It

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Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

Posted on | July 2, 2020 | No Comments

The U.S. economy added nearly 5 million jobs last month, and perhaps would have added more if not for deranged Ivy League graduates losing their jobs because they threatened to stab people:

A recent Harvard University graduate claims she is getting death threats over a TikTok video she made in which she threatened to stab anyone who tells her that “all lives matter.”
Claira Janover, who graduated in May with a degree in government and psychology, went viral after posting a short clip in which she attacked anyone with “the nerve, the sheer entitled Caucasity to say, ‘all lives matter.’”
“I’ma stab you,” the Connecticut native said, zooming in close on her face.
“I’ma stab you, and while you’re struggling and bleeding out, I’ma show you my paper cut and say, ‘My cut matters, too,’” she added.

Harvard senior Claira Janover threatens to stab anyone who says “all lives matter.”
Will liberal colleges and universities ever teach students that speech ? violence?
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— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) June 30, 2020

Having a high SAT score doesn’t mean you’re smarter than everybody else, at least not in terms of basic common sense. Like, maybe it’s not a genius idea to post videos to social media of yourself making threats of violence against people you disagree with? Collect your prize:

The Harvard graduate who said in a TikTok video that she would “stab” anyone who told her “All Lives Matter” revealed in a new pair of recordings that she has lost her job over the perceived threats and ensuing furor.
“Standing up for Black Lives Matter put me in a place online to be seen by millions of people,” a teary Claira Janover said in a new video posted Wednesday afternoon. “The job that I’d worked really hard to get and meant a lot to me has called me and fired me because of everything.”
Janover’s LinkedIn account lists her as an “incoming government and public business service analyst” at Deloitte, a UK-based accounting firm. . . .
Janover, who contended that the message was an analogy rather than a serious threat, has since received a deluge of threats against her own life and safety.
In her new videos, she blamed supporters of President Trump for going after her job.

(Of course, because ORANGE MAN BAD!)

“Trump supporters took my job away from me,” she said in another new video posted Wednesday. “I have gotten death threats, rape threats, violent threats. It was OK, but now my future’s entirely compromised because Trump supporters have decided to come for my life.”
Through tears, a defiant Janover vowed not to back down.
“I’m too strong for you. I’m too strong for any of you ‘All Lives Matter,’ racist Trump supporters,” she said. “It sucks. But it doesn’t suck as much as systemic racism. And I’m not going to stop using my platform to advocate for it.”

Actually, losing a high-paying job sucks worse than “systemic racism,” because that job paid real money, whereas “systemic racism” is merely a political concept, an attempt to explain the social order. This is a basic problem with graduates of Harvard and other “elite” universities: They tend to fall in love with intellectual abstractions — concepts like “equality” or “social justice” — that don’t really have anything to do with the lives of ordinary people. It’s like the difference between (a) the concept of romantic love, and (b) actually having a sexual relationship.

It is easy to indulge in fantasies of what “love” might be in an ideal world, and to permit your devotion to this ideal to function as a substitute reward for your lack of success in the more practical and mundane matter of finding someone willing to be your partner in “love” (however you define that term). This is what gave rise to the so-called “incel” phenomenon. Elliot Rodger claimed to be “the supreme gentleman,” deserving of an idealized blonde girlfriend, and this belief inspired a murderous rage induced by his perception that he was being unfairly cheated out of his romantic fantasy. Likewise, the Harvard graduate is encouraged to believe in an idealized world without “systemic racism,” and succumbs to rage when real life falls short of this fantasy ideal.

Claira Janover evidently considers #BlackLivesMatter expressive of some ideal, and views “Trump supporters” as the antithesis of this ideal. So she engages in performative outrage — putting on a show, intended for an online audience of like-minded “social justice warriors.” When this stunt backfires, Janover doesn’t blame her own foolishness, but instead claims heroic martyrdom, and blames her enemies for the result.

Category: The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

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