Israel has changed the paradigm; the quaint but naive idea that there can be some sort of cold peace with terrorist organizations has fallen to "Events, My Dear Boy, Events," as Harold Macmillan put it. The robust response to Hezbollah has sent a clear signal to its benefactors in Tehran, and that signal is: "We can find you too!" Iran's supreme leader taken to secure location, sources say Israel has finally taken one glove off, and the Arab-terrorist world is reeling. Hamas is on the run, and Hezbollah has lost a good portion of its command structure, including its head terrorist, in just a few weeks. No longer will Israel tolerate a terrorist army on its borders, and while the rumored ground operation has not yet occurred, There is a good chance that it will happen so that Israel's 60,000 displaced citizens can finally return home. It is unconscionable that any Western government supports anything other than this return to a peaceful Northern Israel, but the usual clamoring for "de-escalation" and "restraint" are spouting out from the usual suspects. Israel has ignored them, and hopefully will continue to act in its own interest until Hezbollah is driven out of Southern Lebanon. The sad thing is that it is the world and the United Nations that has allowed the destruction of what once was a vibrant country. Lebanon deserves better. * Gee, what's the downside to an unprotected border? 647K Noncitizens Convicted Or Suspected Of Homicide, Other Crimes Are Not In ICE Custody That is an incredible number, and an explosion of crime is here, although under-reported for odd reasons. Like overwhelming support of the Democrat junta among our media! But crime will just get worse as these dregs from prisons across the world become entrenched in our cities and towns. Look for South American style gangs, complete with road blocks and highway murders and wholesale open criminality in their backyards. And maybe America will finally fight. The 2nd Amendment is designed to allow us to fight tyranny, and how else does one describe what is coming? * Is there anything more embarrassing than a leftist spouting her hatred of America and Americans? This one is a doozy! Mother Jones Editor Makes a Fool of Herself Sadly, her attitude toward American's religion is shared by far too many blue-state denizens. They look down upon the heartland exactly because of its traditional religion, and their smug and condescending attitudes emerge with every word. *** Some old white guy named Thomas Sowell once pointed out that slavery is far more common in world history than freedom. He's part of the cis-het-white patriarchy, so the bien pensants ignore his wisdom, but it is the reality of human history. That's one of the reasons why Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were such great men...they freed five hundred million people from the slavery of communism. Is the default of the human condition the desire for security over freedom? I think we will be finding out the answer to that question in the next fifty years.

Boise State Women's Volleyball Forfeits Match Against Team with Male Player This is the template for a successful fight against the transsexual lunacy in athletics. [CBD]

Yacht or Nyacht?
With a combined score of 49.5 on Yacht or Nyacht, I'd say this one is a "Nyacht." No Hoe Snow snap. Not bouncy. Pretty dreary. No smooth groove. You won't be able to snort cocaine out of the cleavage of a "Naval Mabel" or "Poopdeck Patty." Or even if you do, it will be half-hearted at best.

From Instapundit, a Free Beacon Fact Check:

Joe Biden, nominal president of the United States, sat down with the ladies of The View for an interview on Wednesday. "It's like having one of the Beatles at the table," co-host Sarah Haines said as the audience roared and her colleagues cackled.
Haines wasn't entirely wrong, according to a Washington Free Beacon fact check. Biden doesn't have much in common with the Beatles, but they're both half-dead, half-octogenarian relics who haven't accomplished anything of substance since the 1970s. We rate Haines's claim "mostly true."

I guess that's true if you're talking about the Beatles. But individual members of the Beatles did some decent stuff in the 80s.

The Kiffness (I assume) performs "They're Eating the Cats" in Germany

This video of Justin Castreau on Steven Colbert is 100% real and not AI at all
Fake but accurate!

Kyrsten Sinema
@kyrstensinema

To state the supremely obvious, eliminating the filibuster to codify Roe v Wade also enables a future Congress to ban all abortion nationwide.

What an absolutely terrible, shortsighted idea.

Classics of Yacht Rock Mystery Click
Oh but it's all right
Once you get past the pain
You'll learn to find your love again
So keep your heart open
This is a fantastic (casual) driving song, when you're actually driving a little below the speed limit because you don't really have anywhere to be.
Going forward, if we have any arguments about what is or what is not Yacht Rock, we can just consult the Yacht or Nyacht? website, which has ranked hundreds of songs according to their Yacht Quotient (YQ). I can see this website stopping arguments, fistfights, and formal duels.

More "regular houses" in Lebanon being hit by "terrorism"

In solidarity with the MSM, Rich Lowry and National Review vilified the Covington Kids as racist agitators back in 2019. Now, it’s Rich Lowry being canceled for an accidental slip of the tongue that sounded like a forbidden word. There’s a lesson here for the Polite Right, but they won’t learn it. [Buck]

Forgotten 70s Mystery Click: Pop Princess Edition
'Cause it gets me nowhere to tell you no/ And it gets me nowhere to make you go
From the same album

Romancing the Stone playing free on YouTube

Are Lebanese citizens making up songs praising the #pager bombs?

Olympics judo star Nemanja Majdov banned for 5 months after making sign of cross at Paris Games [CBD]

The Lost Classics of Yacht Rock
You know you can't fool me
I've been loving you too long
It started so easy
You want to carry on
I'm not sure this is even Yacht Rock. This might just be very soft rock. I can't see myself sniffing cocaine from a Boat Hoe's cleavage to this song, which is the primary criterion of Yacht Rock.
But I think this song more crosses from the shallows of soft rock to the cresting majesty of Yacht Rock. This is definitely bouncy enough for Hoe Snow. Very smooth, a little folky, a little jazzy. It's got that Hoe Snow snap.

From Andycanuck: Hezballah members reporting for work today, a little bit skittish about entering the code on an electronic keypad lock
I don't know if this is real. It's certainly accurate -- no one in Hezballah is happy to be handling any kind of electronic device today.

Flashback: Remember when the entire Regime Media conducted a two-week psyop to convince the American people that Joe Biden was a "super-ager"?

CBD and Sefton are joined by Jim Lakely of The Heartland Institute! The evil of the Democrats, Donald Trump's psyche after the assassination attempts, exploding pagers...and more!

FAA fines SpaceX $633K for acting without its permission "These fines therefore are simply because FAA management has hurt feelings because SpaceX wouldn't wait for it to twiddle its thumbs for a few more weeks. The fines also suggest that FAA management is either being pressured to hinder SpaceX's commercial operations by higher ups in the White House, or that management itself is trying to exert more power over the company, for apparently very petty reasons." [CBD]

1) Individuals, on camera and audio, stating what they saw is "unconfirmed" with "no specific reports"

2) anonymous bomb threats with no arrests or suspects is "Republicans threatening Haitians."

Well fuck them, I called the hospital and they said there's no confirmed reports of specific individual Republicans making any bomb threats.

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