Tuesday Links - 22 November

The Other McCain is up first with Lauren Boebert Reelected

For some reason — I don’t know, I barely pay attention to this kind of stuff — Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert is the one Republican that Democrats most hoped to beat this year. And . . . nope:

Flopping Aces - The FBI could have stopped the Jan 6 events because they knew what was coming. Why didn’t they?

And the NY Times reports “the FBI “had as many as eight informants inside” inside the Proud Boys, in the months before AND after the January 6 riot.”

The FBI knew what was coming. The big question is why did they let it happen? They could have shut the whole down and charged many with conspiracy, but no.

All I can think is they wanted to let it happen.

Again from The Other McCain - Payback Time: McCarthy Will Boot Infamous Jew-Hater From Committee

Force them to play by their own rules.

Meep - FTX, Dickens, and Business Fraud. (The audio is about 24 minutes.)

In this episode, I look at FTX through the lens of two Dickens novels: Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit. Wait, don’t go! I swear, it’s more interesting than it sounds. Heh. Charles Dickens knew business fraud and the boom-and-bust of the Victorian London business scene, capturing it very well in his novels. The base motives at the heart of these schemes keep rolling on.

Sultan Knish - Using Military Wokeness to Justify Affirmative Action

The Air Force has dropped its commitment to an 75% to 80% aircraft readiness rate to take ”a more holistic view of readiness.” Instead of having 8 out of 10 planes that can fly, the holistic approach means that we ought to be satisfied with 5 out of 10 FF-22 stealth fighters, 6 out of 10 F-15Es, 7 out of 10 F-35As, and 5 out of 10 CV-22 Ospreys.

The Other McCain again - Will the Media Ever Admit That Christine Blasey Ford Slandered Brett Kavanaugh? (In a word, no!)

What’s astonishing is how, even after most intelligent people concluded that Blasey Ford was a liar — probably motivated by pure partisanship — the media refused to confront the reality that they had promoted a perjurious false accuser to defame an innocent man. Instead, as Judge remarks, they doubled down.

Adaptive Curmudgeon finishes off our list of links with Hunting And Election After Action Report: Part 6: Canning

In the middle of the process, my hunting partner wound up carrying a tub of 20# of raw meat while our dog just completely went bonkers. The dog is a good 90 pounds and it tried to climb into his back pocket to get at the meat!

The poor dog was completely out of sorts! Not aggressive, but more like an addict who’s realized you’ve got a pound of cocaine in your hand. We gave it a few treats, carefully placed in its bowl (to avoid teaching it to beg) and that just barely kept the dog from exploding. (Mrs. Curmudgeon has given the dog all manner of treats so don’t blame me if it’s a begging dog. Also, no dog is so utterly civilized that 20 pounds of cubed raw game meat won’t blow a few circuit breakers.)