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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Go n-eirí an t-ádh leat!

Some St. Patrick's Day Flotsam and Jetsam

At the GA Star, Jeffrey Clark’s Attorney Tells Georgia Judge Six Reasons Why Fani Willis Should be Disqualified, Calls Her Office a ‘Global Laughingstock’. Obviously, he didn't agree. Oh well, more grounds for appeal. Also, just wait until someone gets ahold of the contents of all those texts between Wade and Willis . . . TNP reports Judge Who Ruled Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Case Donated to Her in 2020. Just part of the "stench of corruption" in Fulton County, GA. At the Ops Desk, Fani Willis: Governor Kemp, Over to You ""Odor of Mendacity," indeed." "As discussed in this space yesterday, the key now is to get those text messages. The reporting is that Willis and Wade had 12,000 contacts during 2021, before she hired him on November 1. The reporting is that 10,000 of them were text messages. That’s about 33 texts per day. Now, this judge may be other things, but he’s not stupid. And he lobbed a fastball down the middle to these “other entities” that can investigate Willis and Wade. That fastball being: “odor of mendacity.” That’s judge for: bullshit." At WaEx, Trump argues one-month New York trial delay is ‘not sufficient’.

At Da Caller, Former Trump White House Aide Asks Supreme Court To Pause His Prison Sentence. It's only bad when Republicans refuse subpoena's not Democrats like Fanny Willis and Hunter Biden. It's a long shot, though. The Supes are pretty reluctant to get in the way of politics.

From the Victory Girls End The Impeachment Inquiry Farce-White House Lawyer. No thanks! Gray Wolf @graywolf442 ""BREAKING: Oversight Cmte. Reveals WH 'Coordination' on Biden Classified Docs Reached Back a Year Longer" My my. Imagine that. The WH counsel, Edward Siskel, omitted months worth of information related to the classified documents case against Biden. Now why would he try to cover that up, hmmm? I think we all know the answer to that. Details from @BeccaJLower. https://tinyurl.com/2f3mbdnx. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Yes, Joe Biden Did This After the Special Counsel Report on His Classified Doc Fiasco Was Released. Promoted some of the people involved. New York Post@nypost "President Biden promoted top staffers involved in mishandling classified documents https://trib.al/pQ3GfNe" Tim Graham, Who Is Robert Hur? How Would We Know?

News Week proclaims It Will Take More than a Bench for Democrats to Win. They Need a Major Course Correction. Hat Hair's Beege Wellborn adds "Democrats are also famous for ignoring what sages in their own party tell them, and are completely blind to the signs all around. They are as myopic about "living THEIR truth" as they have ever been - perhaps even worse." USA Today, Kamala Harris approval rating high among Dems but not elsewhere: exclusive poll Hat Hair's John Sexton, is amused when a Post Columnist Calls on Kamala Harris to Step Aside, Quickly Learns Why You Can't Do That.

Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw reports a Poll: Strong Majority Opposes Biden's Secret Migrant Flights. And that's why they're secret. Spencer Brown at TownHall, sees the Biden DHS Withholding Info on Illegal Alien Charged With Laken Riley's Murder. Mike Miller at RedState has a REPORT: Haitian Arrested for Raping 15-Year-Old Disabled Girl Flew to NYC Via Biden 'Humanitarian Parole'. Fox News@FoxNews, "'THIRD WORLD COUNTRY': Video shows AOC's district unrecognizable as migrants overrun the neighborhood, blocking up sidewalks selling clothing and food. https://trib.al/qQA4Q3I" Good. They voted for it. Hat Hair's KT observes a Judge Halts Biden from Diverting $1.4B in Border Barrier Funds.

From PM, Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs. "The Biden administration is set to crack down on why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken." The guy loves his ice cream. Nick Pope at Da Caller, Biden Admin Hands Out $500 Million For Oil Drilling In Middle East while doing what he can to block oil production in the US. Red State's 'Bonchie' says The Mystery of Biden's New Boat Anchor Shoes Has Been Solved, and It's Worse Than Speculated. "They are oversized Hoka-branded tennis shoes that look like they were made with big enough soles to balance a whale on top of. There's a large overhand coming off the back presumably meant to keep Biden from tipping over backwards." RNC Research@RNCResearch "Biden's handlers are forcing him to wear a new pair of "lifestyle sneakers" because he trips so much."

Sundance at CTH highlights a YouGov Poll Question: When Were Things Better, Under Trump or Biden? "Better off with Joe Biden 33%. Better with Donald Trump 45%. Trump +12. With independent voters the margin jumps to Trump +22 (25/47)." At TownHall Josh Hammer explores The Path to Victory for Trump "The key to Trump's reelection this fall, then, is to make the straightforward case that his term was demonstrably better for the median American citizen than Biden's term has been." OTP, Elon Gets Partisan. Elon Musk@elonmusk "There is either a red wave this November or America is doomed. Imagine four more years of this getting worse." Sundance also hears Professional Republicans Unhappy Donald Trump Has Not Reached Out to Nikki Haley Democrats. Professional Republicans are just generally unhappy. At Captain K's Corner, Seth Keshel notes Democrats Control 18 States With Just a Single County in Each - Inside the Impact of Urban Election Rigging - 2024 Addendum. WaEx attempts to explain why Why Democrats are losing minority voters. "What Bidenonmics has delivered to minority voters are the highest food prices in 30 years, unaffordable rents, let alone mortgages, and record-high credit card debt. Biden’s wealthy white college-educated voters may be sitting pretty in expensive homes with fat 401ks, but the reality of Bidenomics is much bleaker for the working class."

At the Free Bacon, Chuck Schumer Suggests Joe Manchin May Yet Run for Reelection To Save Seat. I thought the reason he bailed was that he was pretty sure he was going down hard.

OTP reports RFK Jr. Expected To Pick Prominent Dem Donor As His Running Mate. "The ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Shanahan was partially responsible for the Kennedy 2024 Super Bowl ad last month. She told the New York Times she donated $4 million to American Values 2024, the super PAC supporting Kennedy’s candidacy, to help cover the $7 million cost and helped coordinate the production of the ad."

The Free Bacon reports Anti-Semitic Cartoonist Will Teach Fall Course at Penn, Ivy League School Announces "Communications lecturer Dwayne Booth has faced no discipline after publishing blood libel cartoon". It wouldn't bother me except that liberals and conservatives have different rules. NYPo, Harvard professor of honesty tampered with data and should be fired: university probe. Or keep her and show your true colors. From the College Fix, Davidson College forces athletes to watch ‘only whites are racist’ video and Marriage promotes ‘white supremacy’: George Mason professor. At Fox, GREG GUTFELD: Democrats got so obsessed with race they forgot about people and in the process alienated men. "Democrats keep insisting that if you look a certain way, you have to vote a certain way, but it's like I always say, character is what matters most. And looks are only important when hiring assistants, but are the Dems really losing the Black and Hispanic vote, or are they losing Black and Hispanic men? What if this isn't about race at all? And more about the sexes? And why aren't the Dems talking about that? Because it tells you who's pushing men away from the Dems, AWFLs, affluent White female libs, the kind who embrace any current cause, but silent if something happens to women who don't agree with their views." At Da Wire, Christian Group Blocked From Distributing Bibles In Georgia Hospital In Name Of DEI, Sources Say.

Ben Whedon at JTN, reports a Judge orders the FBI to provide Covenant shooter's manifesto to news outlet. "Star News sued the FBI in May 2023, claiming the bureau had violated the First Amendment by rejecting multiple Freedom of Information Act requests for the manifesto." And you know why the FBI doesn't want to let it out, don't you?

John Stossel at Hat Hair says The Left's New Goal: Degrowth. It's not so new, it's been true since at least the 1980s. What's new is how open they are about it.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Blast From The Past and FMJRA 2.0: Opening Day & Other Disasters up and ready for your digital pleasure.

Friday, March 17, 2023

Happy St. Paddy's Day

The Wombat has Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Olga Kurylenko on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

A Chesapeake Bay St. Patrick's Day Miracle in Ireland

Chesapeake Bay Magazine: 1st Chesapeake Blue Crab Found on Ireland Coast

The Chesapeake Bay blue crab, icon of our region, has turned up in Irish waters for the first time ever. And wildlife experts there say its presence could pose a serious threat to native marine life.

Blue crabs are an invasive species in Europe, like snakeheads or blue catfish here on the Bay. Marine scientists consider them a large and aggressive crab species, highly effective at reproducing.

Ruth McManus spotted a dead blue crab washed up among seaweed on Dollymount Strand in Dublin on Feb. 15. She’d never seen anything like it before, and so she sent a photo to Dave Wall at the National Biodiversity Data Centre in Waterford, Ireland.

Wall confirmed the species and tells Bay Bulletin a blue crab claw was also found on Dollymount Strand around the same time. He says it may be from the same crab. Certainly, Irish biologists hope there aren’t more than one.

They should be so lucky.

A breeding population of blue crabs began to establish in the Mediterranean Sea around 2012. How did they get there? Wall says it’s likely they arrived via ballast waters from ships traveling from America. There are now blue crab fisheries established on the Mediterranean, some of which import the crab into Europe.

As for the crab that wound up on the Dublin shore, Wall theorizes it may have been an import from a local fishmonger that someone bought and released into the water—not realizing the consequences of introducing an invasive species to local waters. The National Biodiversity Data Centre notes an investigation by the Irish Sea Fisheries Protection Authoriy found an Irish wholesale fishmonger was regularly importing blue crab to sell to Asian customers.

Wall says the invasive blue crab has had a major impact on marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean, “wiping out native shellfish species and fouling and damaging fishing nets.” He notes they have no natural predators in Europe, so the population is difficult to control.

“It’s definitely not a species we want to see becoming established in Ireland,” Wall says.

Will it become necessary for St. Patrick to return to drive the Blue Crabs out of Irish waters? Stay tuned.

I'm not all that worried about Blue Crabs establishing themselves in Ireland. The waters off Ireland are pretty cool year round compared to the Blue Crab habitat on the East Coast of North America. With planktonic larvae, and a large oceanic gyre moving from North America, across the North Atlantic, and down Europe, if Blue crabs could survive there in, they probably would already be there.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Lilly Bakamoto waiting at The Other McCain.