Rule 5 Sunday: Because I Can

Posted on | March 9, 2026 | No Comments

No idea where this week’s pic came from, but I like it.
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Sunday Girl, Animal House Fun Facts, Zigeunerliebe hor ich Zymbalklange, The Night Agent, Carmen Lamour, The Stars Between Us, Because of Cupid, MAGA Iranian Freedom, Marshals, Romulus & The Sabine Women, and “Making With The Magilla”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Shae Smolik, Fish Pic Friday – Amy Grigg, Balloon Recycling in Virginia?, Oregon, My Oregon, Thursday Tanlines, Israel Strikes Another Ayatollah Conclave, The Wednesday Wetness, Winter Weather Delays Chesapeake Crab Survey, Truth is the First Casualty of War, Unchained, Stripers and Menhaden and Oysters, Oh My!, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday.

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

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FMJRA 2.0: Better Than Expected

Posted on | March 8, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A good week for Senators fans, even though travel and work compelled me to play the Tuesday series against the Angels on Wednesday and the Friday series against the Hated Yankees tonight. I had been expecting a disastrous wipeout against the top two teams in the Alpha Division of the AL, but instead we took two out of three from the Angels at RFK and split the two games against the Hated Yankees at the Polo Grounds despite not hitting a single homer. We end the week 57-62, eight games behind the Twins and four games ahead of the Brewers. Next week we’ll be facing the Red Sox at Fenway and then have two games against the Angels at Anaheim; we’re 5-4 against the Bosox, so I’m hoping for another week like this one.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

3-2 is good too.

‘Major Combat Operations’ in Iran UPDATE: Is the Ayatollah Dead, or Not? UPDATE: He’s ‘Pining for the Fjords’
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Behind Enemy Lines In NOVA, The Fairfax County GOP Met Today
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ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN TEXAS? UPDATE: ‘Property of Allah’ Shirt
A View From The Beach
EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: Maintaining the Balance
EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: Redhead in the Snow
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.04.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Violence Against Women Update
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 03.05.26 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 03.06.26
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

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In The Mailbox: 03.06.26

Posted on | March 7, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I missed a few days at the beginning of the week thanks to Confinement and never really caught up. Sorry about that. SOTD.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Award for Stupid Police Officer of the Year Goes to …, also Microsoft Got Their Knickers in a Twist
Director Blue: What Iranian Negotiators Told Witkoff, A Day At The Gates Of Vienna (1683), and The FBI’s Ghost Files
EBL: Friday Fish Fry, Scallops, “Ballad of the Alamo”, Texas Primaries, and Jasmine Crockett Goes Full Stacey Abrams in Election Night Meltdown
Twitchy: Illegal Immigrant Nashville Reporter Nabbed by ICE, Polygamy Isn’t Liberation – It’s Lindy West’s Humiliation Ritual, and Democrat Candidate Graham Plattner’s Fresh Red Flag
Louder With Crowder: The left’s favorite podcaster goes on anti-Trump, anti-ICE tirade during the GLAAD awards, UK Government launches new creepy ad campaign to shame your kids from sharing the “wrong” content, Biden Official Admits That They Were Turning The Maps Gay, Jemele Hill lashes out at Middle America, implying everyone’s raaaaaacist for wanting safe borders, and The Most Insane “Young Adult” Book Ever Written + Exclusive BTS Footage (Sources)
Vox Popoli: Killing Isn’t Winning, Two Weeks, Service and Sales Disrupted, Even Judas Got Paid, and Who Gave You the Right?
According To Hoyt: The So Called Career, All We Are Saying Is Give Peas A Chance, Delivering us Bound to Our Foes, Late Posts, etc., and Apparently, We Can Just Do Things?
Weird Catholic: A Purgatorial Procession
Mazelt Airaksinen: A Reflection on the Past Year
Upstream Reviews: Hellgate
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Green Treason
The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Alamo
Ammo.com: U.S. Gun Facts

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Minnesota State Employee Who Vandalized Teslas Last Year ‘Punished’ With 1-Day Suspension, Nothing to See Here: House Blocks Release of Congressional Sexual Misconduct Reports, The Asymmetric Advantages of Environmentalist Zealotry, Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Federal Prohibition for Marijuana-Using Gun Owners, and The Digital State of the Union: America’s Networks Are National Infrastructure
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 77 – We Have Grouse of All Sizes
BattleSwarm: The Liberation of Iran Has Begun, Iran Strikes: Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6, Texas Primary Election Results: Toth Topples Crenshaw, Huffines Romps, Cornyn/Paxton, Middleton/Roy, Gonzales/Herrera Head To Runoff, and LinkSwarm For March 6
Behind The Black: Dart changed the orbit of the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroids around the Sun, Curiosity looks uphill at its upcoming travels, South Korean rocket startup Perigee signs deal to launch from the Philippines, ESA loses contact with the coronagraph satellite of its dual-satellite Proba-3 mission, and Rocket Lab completes another launch yesterday
Cafe Hayek: A Chronic Deficiency of Understanding, No, Trump’s Tariffs Are Not Justified Because The President Has Foreign-Policy-Making Powers, and Yet Another Open Letter to President Trump
CDR Salamander: The Sinking of the Dena Was Textbook, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The US Finally Goes to War With Iran, March Indulgence Calendar, and The Bright Side of Tucker et/al for Israel
Dana Loesch: The Cornyn-Paxton Dilemma, Islamist Green Party Candidate Misuses Marine Uniform,
Don Surber: Red China is the big loser in Iran, also, Democrats go to war
First Street Journal: World War III Watch – Maybe this wasn’t the best idea, #TrumpDerangementSyndrome, and The War Powers Resolution of 1973 and Iran
Gates Of Vienna: Our Muslim Troubles – Part Four and Part Five, It’s Steen, Not Stine! Silencing Ourselves, Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others, and Kafirs Must NOT Speak to Muslimas!
The Geller Report: CHECKMATE: Ken Paxton Calls Cornyn’s Bluff, Says He’d Consider Dropping Out of Senate Runoff If Republicans Pass Voter ID Bill, Tehran’s Trojan Horse: Iran’s Agents of Influence Embedded in Washington, Newsom’s Nazism, Trump Kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA Movement, and Trump rates Iran war as ’15 out of 10?
Hollywood In Toto: This One Thing Separates Arco from the Animated Pack, Dolly Gets Under Your Skin (And Stays There), Woke Bride! Feels Like Blast from Cancel Culture Past, The Mastermind Keeps Director’s Maddening Streak Intact, and Will Lorne Doc Ask the One Question We’re All Wondering?
Legal Insurrection: New ‘NASA Force’ Aims to Rebuild Core Competencies for Artemis Moon Push, Republicans Love Trump – His Primary Picks Keep Winning, Cal State Bakersfield Men’s Basketball Coach Allegedly Moonlighted as a Pimp, Democrats and Media Drop New Talking Point About the Cost of Trump’s Iran Operation, and Noem’s Response to Lewandowski Question Reportedly the ‘Final Straw’ for Trump
Nebraska Energy Observer: Patton and Montgomery: American v. British War making, The Revised New World Order, A Coalition War, Iran and Beyond, and What a Week!
Outkick: Aaron Judge Homer Powers Team USA To Dominant Win Over Brazil, Despite Shaky Pitching Performances, Las Vegas Raiders Were Absolutely Keeping Maxx Crosby — Until They Didn’t, Team Israel Forced To Hide Logos And Use Bomb Sniffing Dogs For Protection At World Baseball Classic, Donald Trump Says Executive Order Coming Within A Week To Address NIL And NCAA Lawsuits, and Modern Family’s Ariel Winter Goes Shirtless To Boost Morale, Look At These Patriots In Iran & AI Bill Clinton!
Power Line: A Stunning Revelation, Mixed jobs report for February, Overdrive, Department of lost and found, and Is the Queer Fad Over?
Racket News: The FBI’s Secret Stash Finally Uncovered, Fifty Years Of Secrets, and Kash’s Cache – Locating The FBI’s Secret Files,
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Charges Seven In Organized Retail Theft Scheme
Shot In The Dark: The Balloon, Lab Rat, and The Scooby-Doo Episode I’d Like To See
The Political Hat: California Will Now Mandate Permission To Use Any Operating System, Utah vs. “Social Emotional Learning”, Our Heritage of Purported Abstractions, and Firing Line Friday: The Future of Spain
This Ain’t Hell: A Florida nurse calls on foreign countries to attack the United States and to overthrow ‘the regime’, Valor Friday, Army vet Lou Holtz passes, Boots on the Ground, and Is the US going to drop a big one on Iran?
Transterrestrial Musings: The First Day Of The War, Great Space Policy News, The Fall Of The NGO-Administrative Complex, and Is College Making People Stupider?
Victory Girls: Obama Takes Pot Shots At Trump During Jesse Jackson Eulogy, Twisted Scripture In Texas Talarico Style, and Megyn Kelly Disgraces Herself Over Iran And Deaths Of American Soldiers
Watts Up With That: Televised! CDU Candidate Tells Schoolchildren CO2 Makes Sun Hotter, Another Confusing Story Highlights Why Climate Hysteria and Far-Left Media Are Reaching Their End, Ghostwriters for the Courts – The Climate Litigation Network Behind a Withdrawn Judicial Manual, UK LibDems Promise to Cut £600 Energy Bills by £800, and Britain is Trying to Censor Americans – But America is Fighting Back
The Federalist: How The Left Threatens Citizens Instead Of Pressuring Politicians To Achieve Its Goals, While Thune Slacks On SAVE America Act, His Home State Passes Its Own Version Of The Bill, The Paramount Purchase Could Revive American Excellence In Hollywood, What’s Next In The Fight To Stop Schools From Transing Kids After SCOTUS Victory, and Blue State Failure Is Destroying Federalism And The Constitution
Mark Steyn: Stanley Kramer brings down the curtain in On the Beach, Spelling It Out, Delilah, Live Around the Planet – Day Five, and Making History

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In The Mailbox: 03.05.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We’re dropping American Conservative from the roster effective tonight. I grow weary of their Reich-wing bullshit. Also, Amazon is acting wonky today, so if you could toss a buck or two at the tip jar, it would be very much appreciated.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Meanwhile in Spain…

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Iran’s Martyrs With Nukes, also, Predicting The Endgame In Iran
357 Magnum: 3D-Printed Gun “Factory” Discovered in Brazil
EBL: Dan Crenshaw Loses His Primary, Hail To The Chief, Tuna Fish Tuesday, John Thune Has No Intention Of Passing Save Act, and Wait, Pritzker and Clinton on Epstein’s Island?
Twitchy: GOP Holds Its Own Accountable, Democrats Blame His Republican Brother But Fetterman’s Just Listening To Pennsylvania Voters, and Katie Couric Asks Gov. Hairgel If He Has A “Zoolander Problem”
Louder With Crowder: Turns out your tax dollars are STILL paying for Kamala Harris’s security, Democrats vote for a mediocre white guy over Jasmine Crockett…so of course she’s blaming the GOP, That “military wife” blasting Trump on TMZ while her husband is serving overseas? You’ll never guess who she worked for, French Women’s Rights Advocate On Trial For “Transphobia” After Advocating For Female-Only Spaces, and Canada hits morbid record as assisted suicides surprasses EVERY other country
Vox Popoli: That Was Fast, The Exhaustion Timeline, Welcome to 5GW, SIGMA GAME is Available, and Spain to Join BRICS?
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The Great Miscalculation,
The Bugscuffle Gazette: We come to you with a plea
Incensepunk Magazine: Interview With Ray Irmgrund
Upstream Reviews: Heroes Fall
The Abbey of Misrule: Walk Away From The Sea
Cedar Sanderson: On A Subway Express
Defending The Wood Perilous: “No More Thinking Thoughts!”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: LUCAS’ Coming Out Party, also, Nations Have Agency & Sovereignty Over Their Territory
Dana Loesch: Trump’s Power Move Over The Strait of Hormuz,
Don Surber: The Gingerbread President, also, Who Really Shut Down The Strait of Hormuz
Racket News: Activism Uncensored – The War In Iran, Who’s That Source?,
STUMP: Here Comes The (Little) Killer – Daylight Savings Time,

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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | March 5, 2026 | No Comments

Clyde McLemore is ‘mostly peaceful’

Wow, has it been nearly two years since I used that headline? I created the Violence Against Women category specifically for the kind of “violence against women that feminists will ignore.” You can call it “intersectionality” or just call it hypocrisy, but if you pay attention a while, you’ll notice that there seems to be a double standard regarding this issue that feminists claim to care so much about. If the perpetrator of “violence against women” happens to be a Democrat, or a member of a key Democratic Party constituent group, then there will be no headline-making protests, no angry speeches in Congress, etc. Like everything else liberals in America claim to care about, this issue only matters when they see an opportunity to exploit it as a vote-getting trick for Democrats.

The problem with conservatives is that it is impossible for most of us to imagine how utterly cynical liberals really are. Everything they do is ultimately about trying to help Democrats win elections, without regard for whether Democrats actually do anything that helps the people liberals claim to care about. Because I was born and raised a Democrat, of the old-fashioned New Deal-era Yellow Dog type, this cynicism was never apparent to me until Bill Clinton (whom I voted for in 1992) became president, and proceeded to betray everything I’d ever believed in.

That experience was not only sufficient to drive me out of the Democratic Party, but it put me wise to the whole “caring” act that liberals had for so long been using to deceive chumps like me. Since becoming an ex-chump, I have tried to enlighten others about the nature of the Great Liberal Swindle. For the latest lesson, my friend Stephen Green at Instapundit called attention to recent events in Lake County, Illinois:

Newly obtained police records and body-worn camera footage shed additional light on a physical altercation involving Black Lives Matter organizer Clyde McLemore and a woman who worked with him at the Black Lives Matter Resource Center in Waukegan.
The incident prompted a police response on Jan. 12, 2026, at the center located at 668 Lenox Ave., after officers were dispatched for what was initially reported as an unwanted subject but later classified as a battery investigation.
According to a Waukegan Police Department report, officers arrived shortly after 12:30 p.m. and spoke with McLemore, who told police the confrontation began when the woman entered his office asking for money. McLemore said he told her he had no money and asked her to leave. When she refused, he said he attempted to leave the office but the woman grabbed him by the hood of his jacket and struck him, leading to what he described as a “tussle.”
Police observed a scratch on McLemore’s forehead and lip and noted that the office appeared disheveled, consistent with a physical struggle.
The woman involved in the altercation told officers a different version of events. She said she had been working on grant projects for the organization and had come to McLemore’s office asking about payment related to those grants. She alleged that McLemore became angry when she asked about money and shoved her in the chest, after which the two began pushing and shoving each other. . . .

Let us pause the narrative here, friends, to point out that this “tussle,” as Clyde McLemore called it, involved grants that his organization had received to do “projects,” and that the “woman who worked with him” believed she was owed payment for her work, but by his own admission, McLemore said “he had no money.” A quick check reveals that, in 2023 (the most recently available year) Black Lives Matter of Lake County collected more than $180,000 in contributions. For some reason, however, McLemore can’t pay this woman for her work.

And now let’s return to the narrative:

Officers observed that she had a small cut on her lip and several broken fingernails, which were captured on body-worn camera footage.
Body camera audio from the incident shows the two giving conflicting accounts to police. McLemore told officers the woman “stole on” him and that he wanted her removed from the property but did not want to press charges.
During her conversation with officers, the woman said arguments over money had occurred multiple times before and described the altercation as escalating from an argument into “tussling,” which she said involved pushing and body-slamming.
Police ultimately made no arrests, citing conflicting statements and injuries to both parties. Officers instead separated the two and advised them to have no contact.
Investigators later documented that a video circulating on social media showing McLemore involved in a physical fight was from a separate incident on Nov. 2, 2025, according to statements McLemore gave to detectives.
That footage has since spread widely online, including being shared by the popular social media account Libs of TikTok.
McLemore is no stranger to controversy in the region. The Waukegan activist previously gained attention in Kenosha following the 2020 unrest and has faced multiple legal battles in both Wisconsin and Illinois. Kenosha County Eye previously reported on McLemore’s arrest while on bail in a Kenosha riot-related case and his later conviction for taking photographs inside an Illinois courtroom, which resulted in a 40-day jail sentence.

So there was similar “altercation” in November before this “tussle” in 2025. The woman’s name is Nyesha Hill, and there is police bodycam video of her telling her side of the story:

“I told him, ‘It’s not fair that I come here and I work and you running around taking care of other things that don’t got nothing to do with Black Lives Matter with Black Lives Matter money,’” she later told cops. “I’m the one that make this joint work.”

What the woman is really saying is, McClemore is scamming. He’s collecting money in the name of Black Lives Matter and instead is “running around taking care of other things” unrelated to the stated mission of this tax-exempt “charitable” organization. The reason she’s upset is because she’s not getting her share of the grift.

It was a “mostly peaceful” argument.

Category: Illinois, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 03.04.26

Posted on | March 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Day World War I Began (1914), The Day Sam Houston Broke An Empire (1836), Iran’s Top 20 Attacks On The West, and A Day With Stonewall Jackson (1861)
357 Magnum: The Great BAFTAS Kerfuffle of 2026, also What’s the Opposite of Diversity?
EBL: MAGA Iranian Freedom, “King Kong”, Marshals, Five Fish Sauces, and Romulus and the Sabine Women
Twitchy: Commie Posterboy Forced To Eat Crow & Retract Wild Lies About Kevin O’Leary’s Boating Accident, Leftist Trans Couple Arms Up Against Fascists & Shoots Their Own House, and What Gives The US The Right? “The B-2 Bomber”
Louder With Crowder: Gangs now charge the homeless rent on the streets of Gavin Newsom’s Los Angeles, “Nonbinary Bat Biologist” sues Trump Admin after being fired attempting to trans one of our national parks with a flag, CBS reporter gets told not to focus on the rally supporting Trump’s actions in Iran, but he goes viral doing it anyway, Eric Swalwell makes mistake of starting beef with Dave Portnoy, and Is Donald Trump a foreign policy genius, or did he just start a new forever war?
Vox Popoli: A Triveritan Political Analysis, Israel Tries to Force Trump’s Hand, Round Two, Phase 1, Anomalies of the Air War, and Jerry Pournelle Would Be Pleased
Cedar Sanderson: In The Morning, also, Catching Up
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Well, Whack-A-Mullah, and Sepah-e Qods
Stoic Observations: Least Favored Nation, also, Identity Perfection
Defending The Wood Perilous: Fanfic vs. Real Fiction
Jim McCoy: The Last Marine
Ammo.com: Mass Shooters By Gender
Mazelit Airaksinen: Vermont Hospital Worker Calls Jews “Hooknoise Hymies”, “Pathetic”
Postcards From Barsoom: The Camp of the Living Dead

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Operation Epic Fury Free For All On Midrats, also, The Rise of the Punitive Expedition & The Repudiation of the Era of Errors,
Dana Loesch: Operation Epic Fury
Don Surber: A bombing nine years in the making, also, MAGA’s best weekend since Trump’s re-election
Elizabeth Nickson: It’s A 75% Trumpian World, and That Means Global Renaissance
Glenn Reynolds: Cutting Off The Head of the Snake
Racket News: The March To War With Iran, also, The Swamp Log
STUMP: Chicago Watch – Bond Downgrades & Secret Borrowing

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Rule 5 Sunday: Redhead in the Snow

Posted on | March 2, 2026 | No Comments

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Probably from kbdabear on X, but I honestly don’t remember.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

EBL: Dracula – A Love Tale, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, A Bar at the Folies Bergere, Nigella’s Pasta with Anchovies, Vanished, MAGA SOTU, Snowday, The Little Drummer Girl, Canada Sadz, and Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Mayra Veronica, Fish Pic Friday – Andy Hines, “These People are Crazy”, Tattoo Thursday, SOTU and Beyond, Wednesday Wetness, Oregon, My Oregon, Tuesday Tanlines, MD Oystermen Want Federal Bailout, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Butt Its Friday

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FMJRA 2.0: Maintaining the Balance

Posted on | March 2, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Confinement VII went well. Almost certainly coming back next year.
It was an okay week for the Senators fans too: we lost two of three to the Giants before Jim Kaat salvaged Game Three by holding the Jints to two runs while the boys scored three off Buzz Capra. Next, we went to LA and won two out of three before Tom Seaver held us to two runs while the weak Dodger offense managed to scratch out three runs against Pat Dobson. That makes us .500 on the week, still 6.5 behind the Twins and 1.5 ahead of the Brewers. Good enough to hang on to second place in the division.
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A View From The Beach
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