Can't Anybody here Play this Game?

So asked Casey Stengel, the poor manager of the hapless 1962 Mets who lost 120 games. For foreign readers, losing baseball is actually kind of entertaining. It's fun to see a truly horrendous team like the 1962 Mets lose baseball games in ways previously thought impossible by scientists. 

Beat the Mets. Cheat the Mets. Step right up and defeat the Mets. Bring your kiddies. Bring your dog. Come on out and eat like a hog.

Anyway, this brings us to the NYC Board of Elections. Says the New York Post: 'The Democratic primary race for mayor was thrown into chaos Tuesday as the city Board of Elections appeared to have botched the count amid the city’s first ranked-choice election — adding 135,000 pre-election “test” ballots that hadn’t been cleared from a computer.' Sure, that explains the discrepancy. Officer, I didn't see the stop sign. 

Last night Eric Adams' people were hinting at election fraud. NYC being a big Democrat city, there's a racial undertone to all this. After all the ranked choice shenanigans, the election has come down to Adams vs Sanitation Comish Kathryn Garcia. Throw in Andrew Yang, who made a voting alliance with Garcia and well....Hit your laugh track button, folks. just hit it. By the way, Trump won. 

We got Instalanched again:

This led to another impressive surge in sales, which is surprising. We assumed Instapundit readership was maxed out since The Austrian Painter got instalanched a few weeks ago. Huh. Such is the power of the fully armed and operational Instapundit. 

We are working through two chapters of The Great Nuclear War of 1975. First, the Argentine chapter is looking good. It will need some naval editing, details, technical stuff, but it looks good.   Second we went through the harsh winter chapter. Also looking good. The one-off scenes are good on their own but nag us for reasons previously stated. It doesn't matter anymore. This is the novel. We said the read through would be done by the end of the month. The Many Faced God intervened. Still, it's the end of the month and we're almost done.

Friday's Juneteenth Flag and Russian Collusion.

We are posting this and then heading out to Newark/Liberty to pick up Mrs. Stroock. Yay!.

The block is having a raging kegger tonight, not kidding. 

A great day at the gym.  We were wondering why we're not quite getting to where we want on the treadmill. Yesterday we wore new sneakers and voila! We were gliding like a gazelle across the Serengeti. We started at 3.7, got to 4.0 no problem and gradually escalated till we finished off at 4.5. Four miles. It was a great run, the best in a month. Step by step we just gobbled up the mileage. Our feet are sore this morning.

There we go again, colluding with Russia: 'Ilhan Omar, one of the founding members of the Squad of young leftwing Democrats, has shot her mouth off again. This one is a doozy. On 7 June, the congresswoman from Minneapolis tweeted, ‘We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.’ This is not the first time Omar has opined on America and Israel. Previously she accused Israel of ‘hypnotizing the world’ and claimed that American support for Israel is, ‘all about the Benjamins’, Benjamin Franklin being on the $100 bill.. Republicans have been quick to condemn Omar’s remarks....' Click to continue colluding. Our KGB handler often asks, 'Why all the fuss about Israel?' He assures us that people in Russia couldn't care less about Israel. They are more concerned with near abroad. There's nothing quite like waking up and seeing the article you submitted before bed in print, or pixel anyway.

The New York Post (the cities' paper of record) reports former NYPD cop Eric Adams is leading the mayoral race, but: 'Pollster John McLaughlin cautioned that while Adams may be in the driver’s seat, Wiley and Garcia loom large in his rearview mirror down the stretch to what could be a photo finish, particularly with more than a fifth of respondents still undecided.' If you want to see NYC crawl out of De Blasio's crime ridden socialist cesspit, Adams is your man. But if you want to see NYC sink further into the abyss, there's Maya Wiley. She's a crazy lady endorsed by AOC. Think London Breed, or dare we say, Lori Lightfoot. Wiley's election would be just the excuse Governor Murphy (for whom we will almost certainly vote) needs to destroy the Hudson River crossings. 

We don't know who the GOP nominee is, we don't care. This is also a ranked choice election. Read The Post's explanation if you want. We have twice and we still don't get how it works. This blog doesn't foresee any post-election problems...noooooo. This blog renews its call for NYC to be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. 

Well what do you know, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spent a few years of his youth in Teaneck, New Jersey. It's hard to be more Northern New Jersey than Teaneck. It's just a few minutes from the George Washington Bridge. When readers from the nice parts of America think of New Jersey (like in the Coneheads movie), they're thinking of Teaneck. 

There is no reason why Republicans shouldn't embrace Juneteenth. The GOP is and always has been the party of Civil Rights. The Dems are the party of Davis and Forrest, Wallace, Byrd and Biden. Remember, if you didn't vote for Mass Incarceration Joe, then you ain't black. His words.  To this very day the Democrat Party wants to make sure black kids are kept in Black schools and away from the white kids in white schools. This blog hopes Mitch McConnell takes to the Senate floor to make just that point. 

Below, the Friday Flag, the banner that makes men free: