GROW UP, ABDUL:

CONSTITUENT SERVICE:

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Russia to task bankers with shooting down Ukrainian drones. “The draft legislation, which would see banks across Russia install electronic jamming systems while selected employees would shoot down incoming unmanned aircraft, passed in its third and final reading in the lower house Duma on Tuesday, according to the state-run TASS news agency.”

DON’T HOLD BACK NEXT TIME, JD:

WE NEED AGE LIMITS: Absent 83-Year-Old Democrat Frederica Wilson Announces Retirement From House. “Wilson previously committed to running for reelection despite missing several consecutive votes while she recovered from eye surgery. After consistently missing House votes and committee hearings, Wilson told the Miami Herald it was time for her to retire.”

Previously: One of Our Congresscritters Is Missing. “My attempts to reach her office via phone and email received no response. Whatever happened, it looks like Wilson’s staff is in lockdown mode.”

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY:

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Keep it in Your G-String, Gramps. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn that your rights of free expression end at your g-string, what not to drink before driving across a golf course, and how to pack serious heat in Connecticut.”

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

GOOD QUESTION:

THAT SUCKS. HAS RUSSIA CONSIDERED NOT OCCUPYING TERRITORY?

And as Trent Telenko noted, “Mining roads by air & rocket was late Cold War NATO doctrine after all.”

OOPS: Mosquitoes can learn that DEET means dinner is served.

When I was in Alaska, I used the 100% DEET and just a few drops on pulse points kept me from getting a single bite, though to be fair, mosquitoes don’t particularly like me. But it was still scary. I woke up one night and there were two mosquitoes at the foot of the bed. “Do we eat him here, or should we take him home?” “We’d better eat him here — if we take him home the big guys will probably take him away from us.” Close scrape.

PRATT SUMMER:

Evergreen: Mollie Hemingway notes that “You’re not just having a debate with an opponent, but your most hostile and most rabid opponent:” 

Tweet continues, “If you understand that you’re not just having a debate with an opponent, but your most hostile and most rabid opponent; if you understand that they are propaganda and then you go into it, I think that’s one thing. If you’re just treating them like you still have this 1960s view of what the media are, that’s when you’re going to get in trouble.”

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Oregon Is a Step Closer to Outlawing Hunting and Gathering “his is the place where residents of other states come to verify that they don’t have it so bad, and where lawmakers could, if they bothered to look, find out that their great idea of the week has already been tried and failed. Indeed, in reading the West Coast, Messed Coast™ weekly update, you’ve arrived at the land where proof of concept has no expiration date and where money for every cockamamie idea is in endless supply.”