IT DON’T ADD UP! Some Things About Boelter’s ‘Hit List’ Don’t Make Sense.
June 16, 2025
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: The Funniest Fake Stuff From Operation Rising Lion (So Far).
STAY COOL: NORTHYARD Men’s Athletic Running Shorts Quick Dry. #CommissionEarned
FOR ONE THING, TRUMP HAS CUT OFF MOST OF THE MONEY THEY USED TO USE TO HIRE RIOTERS: Why 2025 Won’t be Summer of Love 2.0…Despite the Violent Left’s Best Efforts.
DEMS MAKE SENSE, KEEP IT QUIET: Here’s What Dems Really Think About Padilla’s Stunt.
WATERMELONS: Green group with ties to Chinese Communist Party part of network influencing U.S. policy. “A national-security watchdog group is asking members of Congress to take a closer look at an energy transition advocacy nonprofit that has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to State Armor, the watchdog group, nonprofits are coordinating with U.S. climate groups to influence climate policy, advance the interests of the CCP and undermine U.S. national security.”
READER FAVORITE: Everlasting Comfort Doctor Recommended Memory Foam Seat Cushion for Office Chairs & Car Seat. #CommissionEarned
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Salt Lake City ‘No Kings’ protest murder suspect pushed Antifa views.
Arturo Gamboa, the man charged with murder after a deadly shooting at Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest, appears to be a self-described anti-government radical who publicly supported Antifa, rejected the US electoral system, and once said justice should be taken “by any means necessary,” a Facebook page with the same name from Utah reveals.
While Gamboa did not fire the shot that took the life of 39-year-old Arthur Ah Loo, police say his armed and threatening behavior sparked the confrontation, says the Salt Lake Tribune.
Witnesses say Gamboa appeared at the protest wearing a gas mask and carrying an AR-15-style rifle in a backpack. He allegedly emerged from behind a wall and began running toward the crowd with the rifle raised.
A designated “peacekeeper” at the event, wearing a high-visibility vest, opened fire with a handgun—striking Gamboa and inadvertently hitting Ah Loo.
What a mess.
IRAN’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
“THE GREATEST TIME WASTER IN HUMAN HISTORY,” DAVID SARNOFF CALLED IT. 100 years ago, the battle for television raged.
TWO IRANIAN F-14s PERMANENTLY GROUNDED: In 2022, National Interest reported, “According to a survey by Flight Global, the Iranian air force in 2019 operates around 24 F-14 Tomcats from a batch of 79 of the Grumman-made, swing-wing fighters that Iran acquired in the mid-1970s before the Islamic revolution.” The Iranian air force appears to have lost another two F-14s:
Two Iranian F14 struck in Tehran pic.twitter.com/zsHnOmh0Kn
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) June 16, 2025
Maverick and Rooster hardest hit.
SOMETIMES, IT’S THE LITLE THINGS: This Might Be Britain’s Stupidest Fail Yet.
NEW FRONTIERS IN IMAGING: Scientists detect light passing through entire human head, opening new doors for brain imaging. “To achieve this, the team used powerful lasers and highly sensitive detectors in a carefully controlled experiment. They directed a pulsed laser beam at one side of a volunteer’s head and placed a detector on the opposite side. The setup was designed to block out all other light and maximize the chances of catching the few photons that made the full journey through the skull and brain.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA sets new potential launch date for Ax-4 mission to ISS.
In a June 14 statement, NASA said it is working with Axiom Space and SpaceX on “reviewing launch opportunities” for the Ax-4 mission, with the earliest such opportunity on June 19.
The mission was set to launch June 11 but was postponed the evening before to correct a liquid oxygen leak in one of the engines in the Falcon 9’s first stage. That repair appeared to be ready to support a launch as soon as June 13, but NASA announced June 12 it put the launch on hold to allow the agency and Roscosmos to assess a “new pressure signature” in a Russian ISS module after recent work there.
The assessment involved a vestibule or “transfer tunnel” known as PrK at one end of the Zvevzda module, connecting a docking port to the rest of the module. That vestibule has had a small leak for several years, despite efforts by Roscosmos to seal it, and the vestibule is usually sealed off from the rest of the station.
NASA said that after the recent work, pressure in PrK remained stable rather than dropping slightly as previously detected.
Previously: ‘Possibility of a catastrophic failure’: Inside the space station leak problem that has NASA worried.
NEW GOLDEN GIRLS REBOOT FLOPS BADLY: Check out these hilarious clips of the geriatric “No Kings” protests that flopped hard despite big crowds.
Here’s a sampling of No Kings protesters. The big divide is that these elderly people still get their news from legacy media and they believe it. They do limited to no questioning of what they’re told to believe. That won’t change but their influence is dying while ours grows. https://t.co/6X8u97s4OX pic.twitter.com/aWPJf3Litq
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 16, 2025
Related: No Kings at the Old Folks’ Home.
WARNING: MAY LEAVE A SMILE ON YOUR FACE ALL DAY: Confirmed video shows the moment Israel hits Iran’s state propaganda channel.
IRGC propaganda arm just hit
Alleged video shows the moment an IDF airstrike hit the headquarters of Iran’s state broadcaster in Tehran. https://t.co/fLLnzag538 pic.twitter.com/5i8WWH3EfR
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 16, 2025
WHY HURRICANES AND TYPHOONS DON’T CROSS THE EQUATOR. I figured they were just afraid of being hazed by King Neptune.
BAGHDAD BOB SMILES: Israeli jets bomb building of Iran state broadcaster in Tehran; anchor flees studio in mid-broadcast.
Life comes at you fast.
"Life" is what I call joint direct attack munitions. https://t.co/UtUZUecNwF
— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 16, 2025
WKRP in Tehran’s offices looking worse for wear:
Before and after: Islamic republic state propaganda outlet IRIB pic.twitter.com/GiLlsTOEfR
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) June 16, 2025
IT’S REMARKABLY LOW, CONSIDERING THE TARGETS: Israel’s Death Toll From Iranian Strikes.
HMM: Study: Lesbian, gay, bisexual medical students less likely to graduate. The story suggests discrimination as a cause, but I’d suspect it’s at least as likely that inferior students are admitted as part of DEI efforts, and then can’t cut it. Obviously we need to lower the standards until they can!
ICYMI: NO KINGS, JUST COMMISSARS? I report from “No Kings” Boston.
COOL. NOW DO COLORADO: Trump’s DOJ Argues Illinois’ Ban on ‘Assault Weapons’ is Unconstitutional Under the Second Amendment. “In an earlier appeal reviewing a preliminary injunction against the Protect Illinois Communities Act (‘the Act’), this Court held that the Act was likely constitutional and reversed. But this Court made it crystal clear that its opinion was ‘just a preliminary look at the subject.’ Id. at 1197. Now after final judgment, there are three very good reasons why this Court should reverse course and affirm the district court’s injunction.”
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES:
It keeps the kings away, I assume. https://t.co/QQnyYAfzbq
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 16, 2025
UPDATE (From Ed): Scott Walker: California’s failures on homelessness, drugs and crime show it’s time for real change.
I DON’T THINK THE AYATOLLAH IS TRYING TO BRING THE US INTO THE WAR: But some of his subordinates seem to have other ideas. Iran-backed militias in Iraq have tried to attack US bases with drones. And yesterday the US embassy annex in Tel Aviv, which is really our primary building in Israel, was damaged by an Iranian rocket. I am very familiar with the geography there, my wife once did a “detail” for the US government in that building. On one side, you have beach and ocean. On the other, you have mostly low-rise buildings and parking lots. To the north and south, you have a bunch of scattered hotels, with space between them. In short, if you are firing rockets accurate within X meters, but not fully accurate, this is not an area you’d be targeting because you’d be unlikely to hit anything significant, and your rocket might well just fall into the ocean. Which suggests that someone was, in fact, targeting the embassy.
