Friday Links - 14 April

The Other McCain is up first with Who Hates Cops?

The kind of people most likely to participate in anti-police riots are bad people. This goes back to what I began saying after my first-hand encounter with an angry mob of “Occupy” protesters in 2011: Bad causes attract bad people.

The Feral Irishman - Southern Women Can Explain Things In Such A Pleasant Way.... Irishman has a short video for your review. It made me laugh out loud, but I have warped sense of humor.

Battleswarm Blog - An In-Depth Look At The RPG-7

Chris Copson of The Tank Museum has an in-depth look at the RPG-7 and its history as an effective hand-held tank-killing weapon and poor man’s artillery.

Impro Guns - Improvised MAC-11 SMG (Brazil). Click thru for the photo.

A homemade box tube type MAC copy seized in Brazil. It was apparently in the process of being sold for 5000 Brazilian Real (Around $1000 USD).

The Other McCain again - Pentagon Leak Confirms Ukraine Suffering Shortage of Trained Manpower

Forget the media coverage focused on how the leak of classified material happened and speculation on who might be responsible for that leak. I’m sure the FBI will figure that out, just as soon as they’re finished prosecuting people for “parading” in the Capitol and posting funny memes on Twitter. What’s really important is the contents of the leak, as it pertains to the war in Ukraine.

Resist The Mainstream - Hunter Biden’s Business Partners, Assistants Visited White House Over 80 Times When Biden Was VP. But they pursue Trump.

Four business partners, a vice president, and two assistants at Hunter Biden’s now-defunct firm visited the White House more than 80 times when his father was vice president in the Obama administration, Fox News Digital has found.

Lone Star Parson - What Did Cleopatra Look Like? Decolonized movies notwithstanding.

But no, hardly. Cleopatra, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, "Cleopatra the father-beloved" was Greek, a Macedonian Ptolomy, and she looked like this:

Beautiful? Not conventionally, but she had power, you'll note her diadem. In that vein, she was utterly ruthless and didn't shy scared of having family members assassinated, much less waging war itself.

Book and Film Globe - BFG Podcast #099: ‘Air,’ and Clifton Duncan on Endless Hollywood and Broadway COVID Restrictions

Before the pandemic era hit, Clifton [Duncan]’s career on Broadway and in television was beginning to take off. But after the culture he loved shut down, he moved to Atlanta to find work. There he saw a society that was functioning with relative normalcy, unlike the dystopian New York City that he’d left. He began to question lockdowns, masks, and other COVID policies. And when he refused to take the COVID vaccine because he’d already recovered from COVID, he found himself on the outs of the industry.

Once more from The Other McCain - What Will Amanda Marcotte Say?

Remember how feminist Amanda Marcotte wrote an entire book claiming that the basic reason Trump got elected was because of #GamerGate? That crossed my mind the other day when it was revealed that the FBI’s glossary of terrorist-related terminology included such Internet slang as “red-pilled” and “based.” The idea that you’re some kind of dangerous extremist merely because you disagree with liberals — the uniting theme of both the FBI’s slang glossary and Marcotte’s obsession with #GamerGate — has metastasized over the past six or seven years to such an extent that it seems to inform everything from news media coverage to university curricula

STUMP Death and Taxes - Financial Reporting v. Budgeting: SC Comptroller Resigns Over $3.5 Billion Error

The long-time comptroller general of South Carolina was recently forced to resign due to a $3.5 billion cash balance error that accrued over a decade in accounting. How did this happen, and why didn’t this affect state budgets

Wombat-socho is toiling away in the Tax Mines, but he stuck his head up long enough for An Administrative Note

In The Mailbox is going on hiatus until (at least) April 19. I’m putting in around ten hours a day in the tax mines, which leaves me just enough time to eat, sleep…yeah, that’s about it. See you when the Death March to April 18 is over.

Send some good thoughts his way!