Category: News

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Web site ran this atop its home page this weekend:

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, former Milwaukee archbishop, calls slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk a ‘modern-day St. Paul’

As any fule kno, or as anyone who is either Catholic or reads First Things and New Oxford Review can tell you, the title goes before the last name in the Catholic church offices. Timothy Cardinal Dolan.

I mean, the chryon on the tweet embedded in the article itself has it correctly:

But the appearance on television with a Milwaukee connection gave the “journalist” the opportunity not only to slag on Charlie Kirk but also Bob Dolan’s brother as well. Some accounts on social media want the pope to reconsider his [Dolan’s] position! Maybe even excommunicate him or burn him at stake. Or maybe that’s Blue Sky accounts instead.

Jeez, Louise. This very weekend, my mother-in-law, who admits she only can tolerate an hour of television news these days, tut-tutted her daughter’s suggestion that she get her news from print sources. Certainly not from eight-page Daily Dammit, Gannetts like the Springfield News-Leader or the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. She could just as easily go to the primary sources for modern journalism, which are not the people or events themselves but from social media reactions to people and events.

Pennsylvania man stabbed with samurai sword during home invasion attempt

Stabbed? With a katana? That’s not how they work!

A Pennsylvania robbery suspect was hospitalized after being stabbed with a samurai sword during a home invasion Tuesday morning, authorities said in press release.

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“The roommate defended himself. He had the samurai sword and took a swipe at the suspect,” Det. Josh Samuels told WPVI, referring to the male victim. “It was a pretty chaotic scene this morning, I would say for sure.”

Slashing is not stabbing, guys. Someone with a katana is most likely to take a swing, using strikes one through six. Although seven is a poke, it is not emphasized in samurai sword fighting which is designed to slash through samurai armor.

Stabbing is more rapier-style fencing. Which, as I have mentioned, I’m better at since I’ve trained in fencing more than sword fighting. And I won’t go on about how it lends itself to spearing, although strikes one through seven also apply to fighting with sticks. And, jeez, I have not trained with the staff in a long time. Oh! But I haven’t been to a martial arts class in weeks. I better rectify that soon. Because one day it will be the last time I do, and I’m not ready for that yet.

(Link via Ace of Spades HQ Overnight Thread.)

Shannon County official filmed using slur in meeting, speaks out

If you don’t want to click over, she said, “That’s retarded.” So let’s get the bored news media out to claim a scalp to Weigh In on this Controversy with all the Wisdom the 20-something journalists can muster.

Quick, let’s do a pool: When and where will be the first official pilloried for saying retardant? Soon, gentle reader, soon. Unless we wrest the control of language from recent Liberal Arts graduates.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a fever, and the only cure is more Greitens. Greitens for Congress? Speculation grows about who will run if Missouri redraws map.

The article doesn’t focus on Greitens, though; he’s mentioned once in the fourth paragraph, after an Ashcroft-by-marriage:

Even former Gov. Eric Greitens’ name has surfaced, eliciting groans among Republicans who worked to oust him from office seven years ago amid a sex scandal.

I guess the headline writers know what gets the clicks, and Greitens is it.

So President Trump has moved Space Force to Huntsville, Alabama (again?).

But the news articles I’ve seen have failed to note the change in the Space Force logo.

Old and busted:

The new hotness?

The last, of course, is the logo of the Rocket City Trash Pandas, about whom I’ve written before and whose sweatshirt I’ve just about worn out already.

(Link initially via Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)

And not an old problem solved: Open-air drug market thrives near Downtown West tourist attractions

Twenty years ago, El Guapo had a condo right there, and he railed and activistated against a homeless shelter around the corner.

As the Philosopher said, “They’re still there; he’s all gone.” Not dead, as far as I know, but not in that condo any more. I think. Like so many friends from the past, he just fell away perhaps for political reasons.

Dome at America’s Center’s financial future uncertain as county refuses additional funding:

The Dome at America’s Center has an uncertain financial future, according to an audit report released Wednesday by Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick.

The facility doesn’t have sufficient funding for maintenance over the next decade, the audit found, estimating a $67 million funding gap while criticizing its owner’s management.

The Dome is owned and paid for by the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority (RSA), the state entity that, with funding from the city, county and state, constructed and maintains the Dome.

Didn’t they get millions of dollars out of Kroenke for moving the Rams? Someone did.

Meanwhile, in Springfield, it’s eastbound and down on a bigger money pit of its own:

The vision for a new Springfield Regional Convention & Event Center in the heart of downtown is moving forward.

The City of Springfield has officially opened the next phase of the project by inviting qualified firms to apply to serve as the Construction Manager at Risk (CMaR) — a critical role that will help bring this transformative civic project to life.

The proposed center is designed to be a landmark destination for Springfield and the entire region, creating new opportunities for conventions, concerts, tournaments, and community gatherings that have previously been out of reach.

Regardless of whether it meets those goals, it will meet its real goals: Spending money and lining the pockets of the right people who might get comped into a couple of free concerts and tournaments.

Legalized and widespread sports betting will kill major league sports.

GAME SHAME ‘Premier League footballers are FIXING matches’: Bombshell allegation from top cop who busted illegal betting ring

The biggest potential source of revenue for sports leagues is going to move from television/streaming revenues to sports betting. So why would ownership not work so that their bets pay off?

The autoplaying video, thankfully without sound, on the front pages of a lot of Daily Dammit, Gannetts today is a “viral” video:

One wonders if going “viral” required payment to the Daily Dammit, Gannetts.

Conspiracy.

Aaron Rodgers’ latest conspiracy theory is about ghost sightings at St. Norbert with the Packers:

“There were rumors it was haunted,” Rodgers said of the college in De Pere, Wisconsin.

Rodgers said the ghost sighting happened in 2007 or 2008. A ghost was first spotted in the corner of one of the rooms, Rodgers says. And the next night, Rodgers claims, the ghost returned. The 41-year-old told Heyward that the ghost was visible in the adjacent room from the previous night in the same corner on the opposite side of the wall.

“So I think ghosts are a very interesting conspiracy,” said Rodgers, who was joined on the podcast by new Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf.

What, the ghosts plotted something together?

Nah, it’s just words don’t mean things.

Doolittle Fire crews fight tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of ribeye steaks

40,000 pounds? That’s about a months’ supply at Nogglestead.

I kid, I kid. But I wonder how this will impact beef prices because they have not been coming down and will probably not for some time.

The headline of the weather video says Heatwave bringing the hottest temperatures in years.

How many years? A century? Living memory? A quarter century (which is longer than living memory for most journalists, by the way)?

Two years. Which means it did not get this hot last year.

It’s the reverse Wobegon effect (where all the kids are above average). Everything must be the mostest, the extremist, the most estest, in history, especially in the news.

My Congressman, whom I’ve met and whom I’ve impressed as a rightwing nutbar, has introduced some sensible legislation

Southwest Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison introduces bill to reign in federal spending:

Southwest Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison introduced a proposed amendment to the U.S Constitution aimed at reigning in federal spending.

KY3 Staff, interns, and/or AI, please enlighten us as to how amendments work:

In order for the amendment to initially pass, it requires a two-thirds majority vote from both the House and the Senate.

Not depicted: Ratification by the states.

Gentle reader, you may guess as to whether the writers thought that We don’t need to say it because everyone knows how it works or they didn’t know. You can probably guess how I would guess.

Somewhere, I saw that there was a new theatre group in town doing Shakespeare, and I kinda put it in the back of my mind in case our August was not already busy enough.

I guess I’m glad I did not rush right out and buy tickets.

Oh, but of course they did.

They’re putting it on for themselves and their small circle, and part of the joy is in self-martyrdom when the public does not attend.

The local Daily Dammit, Gannett and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, a distant Daily Dammit, Gannett featured a video about an actor and his parrot:

Not Jon Gries from Real Genius (Lazlo Hollyfeld). Not Jon Gries from Napoleon Dynamite (Uncle Rico).

Jon Gries from some streaming show with far fewer viewers than either of them will ever have and which will be forgotten soon after it’s off the air.

Kids these days don’t know or appreciate proper cult classics and probably have too much content available to ever watch something over and over again.

Bioethicists Want to Infect People With Disease That Makes You Allergic to Meat

And why the hell not?

Behavioral economics and Nudge indicate that Our Betters should be able to use rules and laws to manipulate the people into doing what Our Betters think we should do. And if that fails?

Well, I guess Our Betters have to take more direct action.

As for me, if I end up with Alpha-Gal Syndrome, I’ll get it the old fashioned way. It’s been a bad year of insects here at Nogglestead. I’ve had two or three tick bites (and a couple of visitations) and a wasp sting. I’m going to housebreak a possum and name him Rikki-Tikki-Ticki, brah.

(Link via Instapundit.)

Body of person who died on international flight to California reportedly unaccounted for:

The body of a passenger who died during an international flight to San Francisco, prompting the aircraft to divert to Chicago, is reportedly unaccounted for, according to reporting by SFGATE.

Neither airport officials nor a representative for the airline would comment on the circumstances surrounding the death and declined to confirm the passenger’s identity, nationality and gender, the outlet reported.

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The passenger’s body would presumably then be under the jurisdiction of the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, though Natalia Derevyanny, a spokesperson for the department, told SFGATE that there was no record of the deceased passenger or of any case matching that description.

The Turkish Airlines station manager in San Francisco would only tell the outlet that the remaining passengers were rerouted on different flights that eventually got them to their destination.

And the people on the plane were put onto different flights.

Feel free to comment in the middle of the night. I’ll be awake.

(Link via Wirecutter.)

MfBJN: Where we’ve predicted 48 out of the last 0 ends of the world.

Robert Stacy McCain covers the Traverse City stabbing:

Say hello to Brandon Gille and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because he will almost certainly spend the rest of his life behind bars. Gille went on a stabbing spree at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, on Saturday. All 11 of his victims survived the attack and, for once, the “Ann Coulter Rule” turned out to be wrong in this case. Police were for some reason unwilling to identify the suspect in the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s attack, even though they had the guy in custody. The Ann Coulter Rule specifies that, the longer the police delay identifying the perp, the greater the likelihood that it’s not a white guy. So everybody was speculating that the Traverse City stabber must be a Muslim or perhaps an illegal immigrant, but it turned out to be a crazy white guy.

I myself speculated as such. And, being wrong in this instance, some people will hold it’s wrong to speculate such in any instance.

I don’t know. This might be the exception that proves the rule (that is, tests the rule) and proves it’s not always the case. Which is not the same as proving it is never the case.

KY3 has a story: Suspect in custody after 11 people stabbed at Walmart in Michigan:

Eleven people were stabbed at a Walmart in Traverse City on Saturday — with six in critical condition — in what a Michigan sheriff said appeared to be a random act. A suspect was in custody, authorities said.

Around 4:45 p.m., a 42-year-old man entered the store and used a folding knife to stab 11 people, the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on social media. A sheriff’s deputy arrived within minutes and took the man into custody, and people in the store also helped apprehend the suspect and treat victims, the sheriff’s office said.

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Shea said the weapon involved appeared to be a folding-style knife. Shea said the suspect is believed to be a Michigan resident but declined to share further details. Michigan State Police had said earlier in the day that the suspect was in authorities’ custody.

If his name was Cletus McBobson, we’d have a mug shot. Since we do not, we can assume.

And this story, picked up on a slow news night on our local affiliate’s Web site, will have no follow up to dissuade our assumptions about unnamed “Michiganders” who might start randomly knifing people in a crowded place. And our assumption is notably not Sensible knife control now!

UPDATE: I stand corrected; this is apparently the work not of Cletus McBobson, but Bradford Gille, which is not unlike Cletus McBobson.

It looks like he’s getting charged with terrorism:

Grand Traverse County Prosecutor Noelle Moeggenberg told reporters that the terrorism charge will be brought due to the fact that the attack impacted the community, rather than one individual.

Not sure if that’s how I would define terrorism, but the prosecutor sure is being tough in this case. Would she be in all cases? Hopefully, time will not tell.