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Greetings Horde! Man, I dunno what's going on here, but it must be something seriously spooky.

Dale Got Him!

‘King of the Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss killed in Texas shooting after argument with neighbor

He voiced John Redcorn, the Indian who was sleeping with Dale's wife. It really does sound lke something that could happen if Dale ever figured it out.

Actor Jonathan Joss — best known for his voice work on the iconic animated TV comedy “King of Hill” — was shot dead by a neighbor in Texas, according to police.

Joss, who voiced “John Redcorn” on the long-running cartoon, got into an argument with the neighbor at his home in San Antonio Sunday night when the neighbor pulled out a gun and shot him several times, police said.

The unnamed gunman then fled in a vehicle but was arrested just a block away.

This Can't Be Good

Unknown Species of Bacteria Discovered in China's Space Station

Swabs from China's Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on Earth, with characteristics that may help it function under stressful environmental conditions hundreds of kilometers above the planet's surface.

Naming their discovery after the station, researchers from the Shenzhou Space Biotechnology Group and the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering say the study of Niallia tiangongensis and similar species could be "essential" in protecting astronaut health and spacecraft functionality over long missions.

The swabs were taken from a cabin on board the space station in May 2023 by the Shenzhou-15 crew as part of one of two surveys by the China Space Station Habitation Area Microbiome Programme.

Follow-up studies have traced the growth of microbes that inhabit the space station environment, revealing a microbiome that differs in both composition and function from the one found on the International Space Station.

A previously unknown strain of bacteria that is hearty enough to survive in space...isn't that the plot of a gajillion sci-fi stories where mankind dies off?

Islam

Suicidal Empathy and the Impending Death of Western Reason

This is not a clash of races, but of creeds. Islam is not merely a private faith, it is a totalizing worldview. It prescribes law, diet, dress, governance, and even thought. Its resistance to pluralism is doctrinal, not incidental. While Western liberalism separates church from state, Islam fuses mosque and state. And the mosque, contrary to Western assumptions, has never been merely a house of worship. From the time of Muhammad, the mosque functioned as a military base and political headquarters. Muhammad stored weapons there, coordinated raids, and mobilized troops. For today’s Islamists, especially in the West, the mosque is often seen as a beachhead, a staging ground for ideological conquest. Europe is now home to over 20,000 mosques, and the US to approximately 3,000. Each new structure is not merely an architectural addition, but for some, a symbolic assertion of Islamic dominance. Importing this system under the banner of tolerance risks importing the very intolerance we sought to escape.

Let us be candid. A civilization that teaches children to memorize scripture but not to reason, that views women as vessels of temptation rather than equal citizens, that punishes blasphemy with death but excuses violence in the name of faith, is not a civilization poised to flourish in the 21st century. But while it will not flourish, it can still destroy. And if we in the West are not vigilant, we may allow these backward ideas and the people who cling to them to tear apart our societies from within.

Why Islam Is Incompatible with the West

Western ethics were shaped by centuries of struggle, refinement, and philosophical evolution, centered on the value of the individual and the pursuit of the common good. Different schools of thought (deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics) each established conditions for defining right and wrong. At their core, they sought to benefit society as a whole, not just a specific group.

Even religious morality in the West, rooted in Judeo-Christian values, was examined, questioned, and, when necessary, reinterpreted. If a commandment contradicted the overarching principle of the common good, it was viewed in its historical context, allowing moral progress to continue. This process never stopped. Over time, Western civilization granted more rights, more freedoms, and more personal agency.

Islam, by contrast, operates under a completely different ethical framework. A Muslim’s moral compass is not shaped by philosophical discourse, societal evolution, or the refinement of ideas through time. Instead, it is dictated entirely by the Quran, the Hadith, and the lives of Islam’s pioneers. The problem? These sources were built upon the values of 6th-century Arabian tribalism. And those values (violence, conquest, subjugation of women, suppression of dissent, and the elimination of non-believers) are not just historical artifacts. They are considered eternal truths.

Lots to think about in those two articles. And frankly, unless we as a society wake up and face the fact that however inclusive and equitable we want to be, being welcoming and inclusive to a group whose goal is the destruction of our way of life is suicide. We're like the people on the top of the skyscraper when the aliens arrive in Independence Day. And we will share their fate.

An Exhibition Of Circle Jerkery

What Went Wrong In ‘Jordan Peterson Vs 20 Atheists’

The debate arena in question is captured in a video titled “1 Christian vs 20 Atheists”— or at least that’s what it was called for about four hours. When Peterson, true to form if not to intellectual honesty, refused, mid-debate, to embrace the designation of Christian — or, for that matter, of non-Christian — Jubilee (the sponsors of this clickbait mess) were compelled to rethink the title, eventually landing on the more accurate “Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists.”

I feel their pain. Having carefully watched the video in full multiple times, I had a similar problem. Titling this article has proved more difficult than writing it. I considered everything from “21 Smug People Talk About A Subject None Of Them Understands, Least of All Jordan Peterson” to “Jordan Peterson Debates The Existence Of A God, But Not One Any Of Us Have Ever Heard of.”

In fact, at no time is it clear exactly what position Peterson is defending, and that’s more than a little problematic in a debate. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

I've seen clips. The whole thing looks like a cluster.

China

All The Shoals

They are destroying us. Part of the reason all our companies are such sh*tshows when it comes to how they treat employees is because it’s easier and cheaper to buy Chinesium. Yes, they steal our stuff, and the stuff they make isn’t very good, and we have to take it on faith they’re putting in what they say they’re putting in. And sure, we know they use slaves and political prisoners and everyone in the most unethical way possible. But they sure are cheap, aren’t they? And if a company is using them, it makes a lot more money than everyone else around. And so, the next company starts using it, and then the next. And the next.

Even if they wouldn’t use every bit of what they have against us — and they will — they are destroying our culture, our industry, our ability to innovate and survive, because slaves are cheaper to buy. Yes, sure, their product is never as good, but they’re cheaper.

We need to decouple from China. We need to decouple from China hard. It’s going to hurt. But it is absolutely worth it.

Our survival depends on it.

Not really much more to say.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by police chases:

I dunno what that guy did, but they wanted him bad.

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