I really admire athletic achievement

"Joey Chestnut Wins 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest For 18th Time – Scarfs Down 66 Hot Dogs! "

Joey Chestnut is a legend.

In 2022, Joey Chestnut made headlines for choking out an animal rights protestor before winning the hot dog eating contest. During the middle of the competition, an animal rights protester ran up on stage next to Joey Chestnut carrying a sign reading, “Expose Smithfield Deathstar.” When the protester jumped on stage next to him Chestnut wrapped his arm around the protester’s neck and took him down to the ground.

This took place while Joey was chewing on a hot dog.

Resistance is futile!

"Business Leader Calls on New York City to Resist Mamdani".

Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Citadel, urged business leaders to resist the socialism of New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani, warning that the Big Apple’s business environment will otherwise be destroyed.

Griffin said at a June 18 event in Manhattan that business leaders “need to find their voice and fight for their city,” per a report from Fox Business.

I agree with Mr. Griffin that Mamdani needs to be smote hip and thigh (figuratively speaking...naturally). But here's the thing: anti-socialist billionaires in NYC are bound to be outnumbered by the combination of people who (a) want free stuff, and (b) can't be bothered to vote (more on the latter here). 

An uphill battle, to be sure, but my guess is that these parlor Marxists are going to flop big, eventually. Probably to be replaced by the phony moderates of the Democratic Party (more pink than red, but, if anything, much more dangerous over the long haul because of the inscrutably deficient powers of discernment existing among large swaths of the electorate, who may shrink from an avowed communist, but are easily taken in by the melodious piffle of progressive crooners).

Classical corner

An interesting selection of dissonant passages from music composed before 1800.

Feds or NGO-funded fakes?

"Patriot Front Agitprop Group Tries to Ruin America 250 Celebration in Washington".

Groups like this, according to those who study them, get their juice from shady funders and a handful of leaders who are aware of the whole game and the op at play. The rest of the participants tend to be gullible, naïve, willing dupes. It's possible that is the case here.

The theory I’ve seen floated that makes the most sense to me is that some leftist NGO organized and funded this group. It recruited the kinds of people who would support it, or people who just needed some extra money. Either way, most on the right believe they are likely paid actors.

Strange that some enterprising journalist hasn't gotten to the bottom of who these people are. If they were a genuine grass-roots white supremacist group, we'd know practically every detail about the organization and its leadership. Not to mention its actual beliefs and goals.

So, we're presently left with the same old question...

Sunday funnies

 

Supergirl Unveils New Superpower Of Losing $100 Million In A Single Week

Danger: small cat.

Act your age.

Trust the science.

Jonathan Winters and his crazy family.

Next time, call the experts.

You should probably try a different approach, Fido.

Calling Dr. Trump!

From Power Line's The Week in Pictures.

Happy 250th birthday, America!

 

To commies, domestic traitors, global elites, and other such vermin, I'll just pass along a slightly altered line from Steve McQueen's character in Papillon, "We're still here, you bastards!"

Let us honor those giants, our founding fathers, for one of the noblest achievements in human history. May they live in our memories forever.

From the excellent AMC series, Turn: Washington's Spies, here is the scene featuring the British surrender at Yorktown.

The American Civil War tested the Republic as never before, and the great words of Abraham Lincoln have come echoing down the years, filled with commitment to duty and the hope of a better future for a nation healed from the wounds of war. I have always cherished this scene in the movie, Ruggles of Red Gap, in which an expatriate English butler (played by Charles Laughton), alone in a room full of American locals, remembers the words of the Gettysburg Address, and utters them with heartfelt humility.

All rise for our National Anthem.

This looks promising

Nothing wrong with a little extra cash: "NC Ag Department seeks seasonal peanut inspectors ahead of fall harvest".

I wonder if they'd give me a badge. And an official cap.