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I think this is a remarkable photograph, showing Tower Bridge being built in 1889. It is most beautifully colourised by Jordan Lloyd (known as Dynamic Chrome) and is one of my favourite pieces of colourised art.
It really is true that 9/11 is coming to be memorialized chiefly, if not solely, as an attack on Muslims
Transracial pioneer Rachel Dolezar is now a Certified Sex and Relationship Coach, surprising nobody.
Degenerate Kennedy layabout and clout-farmer Jack Schlossburg's "girlfriend" says he's cheating on her with 200+ women, which must mean he's running again for higher office. Gay Democrats always leak it that they're knee-deep in mish before a run.
Karol Markowicz
@karol
States are suing the Trump administration to allow people who can't sustain themselves to be able to get green cards and one of the (very bad) arguments is that reducing participation in food stamps is bad for local businesses. Make any of this make sense.
Communist-jihadist theater kid Zohran Mamdani gave a press conference with "Big Tish" James in which he announced that if you come after all of his millions of cousins illegally sucking up public assistance, you'll have to go through him first. That sounds easy. The gigantic sasquatch Tish James, less so.
Abdul El-Sayed Promoted Infamous Hijab Hate Crime Hoax, Despite Warnings from Police
The Democrat has a long history of making unverified and false claims alleging anti-Muslim discrimination
Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed falsely claimed in a 2012 essay that an Iraqi refugee in California was brutally murdered in an anti-Muslim attack because she had the "courage to wear a Hijab." In truth, Shaima Alawadi's husband killed her in an act of domestic violence that he staged to look like a hate crime.
El-Sayed, in an article on March 28, 2012, equated Alawadi's killing with the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, as examples of the "racism, xenophobia, and hate" in American society against minorities.
"Trayvon and Shaima were both murdered in cold blood," asserted El-Sayed, because they fit "archetypes indicted by American society as foreign, dangerous, and evil."
Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five, died on March 21, 2012, after she was bludgeoned with a tire iron at her home in El Cajon, Calif. Police found a note at the scene of the crime that stated: "Go back to your country, you terrorist."
Though police cautioned early on against jumping to conclusions about the motive--specifically saying they were not at the point of calling the death a hate crime--El-Sayed and other left-wing pundits latched onto the theory that Alawadi was the victim of a hate crime.
According to El-Sayed's article in Mic, a liberal digital publication targeted at younger readers, Alawadi's killer targeted her because she had "the courage to wear a Hijab in a society where Muslims are openly vilified for the crimes of others."
But it's El-Sayed who vilified the wrong party for the crimes of another.
Alawadi's husband, Kassim Alhimidi, was arrested for his wife's murder after police uncovered incriminating text messages and evidence that Alawadi planned to divorce her husband and flee to Texas. Alhimidi, an Iraqi refugee who trained U.S. soldiers to fight in the Middle East, was convicted of murdering his wife in April 2014 and sentenced to 26 years in prison.
There is no record that El-Sayed has ever corrected his false claims about the murder.
The former CNN analyst has a history of making unverified or false claims about anti-Muslim discrimination.
El-Sayed published a CNN essay on Sept. 11, 2012, that claimed the health of Muslims and Arabs was "another victim of 9/11." In the piece, El-Sayed cited a California study that purportedly found a 34 percent spike in premature births for Muslim women after 9/11, which El-Sayed attributed to the "discrimination and marginalization" Muslim women faced after the terrorist attacks. But El-Sayed curiously omitted his own study that found no such increase, the Washington Free Beacon reported. El-Sayed wrote in his study that his "findings contrast with the only other published study that has assessed the relationship between mass trauma and birth outcomes of a specific group." El-Sayed further found that Muslim and Arab women had lower rates of premature births than black or white women.
His shaky claims in the 2012 essay were notable in that the previous year he had completed a doctorate in public health and would go on to work as an epidemiologist.
El-Sayed has continued to use the Islamophobia trope on the campaign trail.
Carnegie Mellon "professor" -- I'm sure she's a real academic standout -- has been suspended.
Not fired, just suspended.
For this absolute racist filth:
She then posted a video saying that the "white racist pedophiles" who objected to being told to die so she could dance on their graves would not win.
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 13, 2026
Carnegie Mellon University
@CarnegieMellon
Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely.
John Cornyn has said nothing about this, of course. However, he did attempt to blow up a Republican candidate for Railroad Comissioner for noticing that a very high percentage of UT students seem to be Indian and not Texan or American.
This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad. https://t.co/TO1dTXKd6G
I condemn racism in all its forms, including James Talarico saying white men are America's top terror threat and that he prays to overcome his own 'whiteness,' whatever that means. Only one person in this race has a history of dividing Texans by race, and it’s James Talarico. I… https://t.co/24Tlp3Rd5U
BREAKING: @DavisSchools says they’re aware of this video and are "addressing the matter.” They have not confirmed if the students will face any consequences. https://t.co/pNAM8SA0oP
NBC Boston Doxxed the Juror by Providing Specific Details of His Arrest Allowing Anyone to Find His Name Through Court Records; Defense Lawyer's AWFUL Wife Goaded the Media Into "Getting" the Juror
UPDATE: Sadly, I was right. The holdout juror was doxxed yesterday by several users on X. All because @NBC10Bosto showed a graphic with the following info:
* The juror's DOB
* The original charge (265/13M/B-0 A&B ON FAMILY / HOUSEHOLD MEMBER c265 s.13M(a))
* The date of the arrest
* The date of the arraignment
* The location of the court
In fact, I was easily able to do a search on http://masscourts.org
, enter the details, and put two and two together to figure out what his name is (which I will not be providing here.)
But the fact remains: there is no way that I -- or anyone else -- would have been able to track down his info without the details that NBC Boston provided.
I hope he gets a lawyer and sues the hell out of them.
Massachusetts like most other states makes it a felony to harass and injure -- including emotionally -- a juror:
But I'm sure that's one of the many, many laws "journalists" say they're allowed to break when they deem it lucrative and I'm sure left-leaning judges have agreed with them.
NBC Boston's main "journalist" on this story is about as clownishly partisan an AWFUL as can be. She didn't write that story -- some "guy" named Ryan did -- but she's been cheerleading Lindsay Clancy.
And she's had some real #HotTakes previously:
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
25m
I thought this was an SNL skit at first but it turned out to just be more Sue O'Connell hackery.
Jan 2024. O'Connell makes the "objective" case that Biden is the superior choice when it comes to health and mental sharpness over Trump.
"Everybody needs to take an objective sort of look at this."
"When it comes to physical fitness, I think Joe Biden is a very healthy old man. There's no doubt about that."
"Some of the mistakes that Joe Biden makes, he's been making for 80 years. Right. We've been listening to Joe Biden misspeak and confuse things for 80 years."
"[Biden] has a very successful presidency."
"Now, Donald Trump is not the picture of health. He does not look great. The things that he's confusing, it's not like he's misspeaking."
She then compares Trump to Kamala and her word salads.
Maddow-tier hackery here from the "journalist" chosen to be the face of Clancy coverage by NBC Boston.
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
"Journalist" Sue O'Connell has been at the forefront of the local Clancy coverage. Glowing puff pieces on the female jurors and promoting 'investigations' into the lone holdout.
This was her take on celebrations of Luigi Mangione:
"I checked the feeds of a number of those people who were celebrating this murder, and they weren't trolls or haters."
"That anger could be harnessed, and it could actually fuel efforts again for maybe something like Medicare For All, like Senator Bernie Sanders has advocated for."
This is the "journalist" NBC Boston decided was the right person to shape their Clancy coverage.
Honestly surprised MSNOW doesn't have O'Connell in a primetime lineup slot.
"Journalist" Sue O'Connell has been at the forefront of the local Clancy coverage. Glowing puff pieces on the female jurors and promoting 'investigations' into the lone holdout.
This was her take on celebrations of Luigi Mangione:
Remember, the baby-murder-promoting lawyer has a motion in for the judge to disregard the mistrial and call Lindsay Clancy innocent by his own power. This very coordinated hit-piece on the Black Who Said "No" to White Woman seems to be part of a PR campaign to convince the judge to just pretend the Black Man Has No Voice At All.
Gee, I hope no angry people "visit the homes" of the Reddingtons or the Alpha Karens like they encouraged people to "visit the home" of the "rogue" juror. Because that would be bad!
Republican Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Tom Tiffany Survives After Plane Loses Engine Power and Crash-Lands in River; Media Minimizes Event
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He's a sitting congressman, too.
Tom Tiffany
@TomTiffanyWI
Sep 13
While returning home from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day Dinner tonight, the plane I was traveling in lost power as we approached the Wausau Downtown Airport. The pilot made an emergency water landing in Lake Wausau.
After landing, we called 911. As the plane began to submerge, we exited the aircraft and swam to a shallow area, where we waited until emergency responders reached us by boat.
I want to express my deepest gratitude to the pilot, the Wausau Fire Department, and all of the first responders who came to our aid so quickly. They got us safely off the water and transported us to Aspirus Wausau Hospital, where we received excellent care. Thankfully, both the pilot and I sustained only minor injuries.
God was watching over us tonight, and I am incredibly grateful to be here in the hospital with my wife, Chris, by my side. An experience like this reminds you just how precious life is.
I just want to say thank you for your prayers and support.
We were incredibly fortunate, and I’m thankful the pilot and I are both doing well. The experience was a reminder to never take a single day for granted.
After the Butler assassination attempt, the left, including the vicious chaos-farmer media, downplayed Trump being shot by an assassin by pretending it was NBD to be hit in the ear with a bullet. They also invented conspiracy theories, never rebuked by Master of Conspiracies Jake Tapper, that he hadn't been hit at all and that it was either all fake or just a "harmless" ricochet.
And, of course, their fellow leftwing cultists urged and prayed for more skilled assassins to "finish the job."
The jihad left is following the same script today.
Arkadalo
@Arkadalo
A Wisconsin congressman just swam out of a sinking plane in the dark and the usual crowd will treat it like weather.
Tom Tiffany was heading home Saturday night from a Lincoln Day dinner when the Beechcraft lost power on approach to Wausau. Pilot Len Boltz, retired Air Force, had seconds. The plane hit Lake Wausau. They rode the fuselage until it started going under, then they swam 100 to 150 feet to water they could stand in. An airboat pulled them out about 15 minutes after the 911 call.
Tiffany needed 12 stitches over his right eye. Boltz needed four. Both walked away. Tiffany is 68, he is the GOP nominee for governor, and he said God was watching over them. He also said the campaign does not stop.
That is not a stunt. That is a man who spent the day shaking hands, got told to buckle up because they were going down, and still showed up the next morning with a bandage and a pulse. Precious life is not a slogan when you are treading water next to a sinking Bonanza.
Pray for both of them. Then remember how fast a normal night can flip. 🇺🇸
A "reporter" with the egregious communist rag the Journal-Sentinel helpfully pointed out that the plane crashed into water that was "only" 30 feet deep and as you know, all men are 30 feet tall so 30 feet of water presents no threat to them at all.
A reporter with @journalsentinel is trying to claim that it is no big deal that Tom Tiffany’s plane was forced to make an emergency landing in a lake last night. pic.twitter.com/aaOOuchuLn
Shock: Danish Crime Statistics Show that Immigrants, Particularly Muslim Immigrants, Commit Crime at Double the Rates of the Native-Born and the Children of Immigrants Are Even Worse
For years now, Danish crime statistics tell us what we already can intuit from the data we do have: migrants from Muslim countries commit crimes at a vastly higher rate than native-born Europeans, and the statistics indicate that the rates aren't even close. They are especially represented in the sexual crime statistics, but in just about every category, the differences are remarkable.
But what most people who support mass migration might be surprised to learn is this: their male descendants are even more likely to commit crimes and are often more likely to be Islamist extremists than their parents. Again, the statistics show the differences aren't even close.
From the actual report:
Statistics Denmark extract for the Ministry of Immigration and Integration, age-adjusted Criminal Code index, native Danish men = 100.
MENAPT immigrant men (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey): 238 in 2016 → 214 in 2025. Still more than double the native baseline, but down.
Their Danish-born sons (descendants): 306 in 2024 → 326 in 2025. Record for that group; more than 3x native Danish men.
Ministry barometer summary of the same 2025 data: MENAPT immigrant men ~2x
2025 convictions: ~159,000 people (~120,000 men). ~28,000 immigrants and 12,000+ descendants among those convicted.
Social Democrat Immigration Minister Morten Bødskov told Berlingske this is one of the largest immigration-policy problems: values, social inheritance, and a "rejection of Denmark" -- not social conditions alone, including fathers who look the other way.
More at the link, including a graph showing the absolutely intolerable levels of "MENAPT" crime (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Turkey). Although the chart Strom shows has the legend at the bottom cut-off, the sky-high crime rates are in fact for the "Migrant, MENAPT" demographic. You can see that from the tops of the letters.
The "Rogue Juror" Has Been Doxxed and "Visited" At His Home by Angry Lindsay Clancy Baby-Killer Cultists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This was always the plan:
F Post
@AFpost
Sep 13
The lone Black male juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial, who refused to acquit Clancy despite pressure from the media and the 11 other jurors, has been doxxed, had his home visited by hostile Clancy supporters, had his family contacted, and had past allegations against him dug up.
Follow: @AFpost
Alpha Karen One admitted that the jury vote was a political act, not an evaluation of the actual evidence, stating that she intends for Lindsay Clancy's acquittal to improve the lives of other women, and of course women who murder their children:
"We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women..."
During her next media tour stop, juror Paula Devlin says the mostly female jury knew the Lindsay Clancy trial could create change to “make it better for other women.”
“We knew that this was a turning point, and this would be something that could change something to make it… pic.twitter.com/4aBlCDzeUx
This woman needs to stop
doing media. How embarrassing and offensive to women and men who don't believe murdering your kids should be acceptable. Not to mention a bastardization of what a jury is supposed to do, which is not to engage in activism.
Now, she is talking about Lindsay Clancy believing this but as we've seen, there are a lot of women who believe it's a good thing to kill your children, and Alpha Karen One has already copped to voting to acquit the literal triple child killer to make things better for women.
Viva Frei
@thevivafrei
I don't use this word flippantly, but this truly is SICKENING.
They have given it a name: "altruistic filicide".
Altruistic: selfless concern for others.
Filicide: the killing of one's children.
They have pathologized what would otherwise be brutal murder as "the selfless killing of one's children".
We are even beyond "suicidal empathy". We have literally entered the realm of "homicidal empathy". Pathologized as "altruistic filicide"
And listen to the mind virus of "virtue signaling" according to this juror (whose last name happens to be Devlin - my goodness the simulation has a sick sense of humor).
Lindsay Clancy was a good mom (despite "viciously killing" her three children - literally the terms used by another juror who also would have found not guilty), because she had a big sign in her house that said "it's a wonderful life".
This is their actual thought process.
In their own words.
Sickening.
The Karens are melting down that the "Rogue Juror" was not a (spit) white man but a black one.
First up is an ugly woman, who describes herself as a "non-practicing white" -- because whites, as you know, subscribe to a religion of white supremacy.
They are proud of their anti-white racism and proud of their extreme, hateful tribalism. Everyone in "the tribe" is always right and good, everyone outside the tribe is an enemy to be attacked.
🚨 LMFAO! Leftists are now going full psycho mode after learning the Lindsay Clancy holdout juror is a black, not white, male
"Black people are so embarrassing sometimes...the holdout is NOT someone to embrace."
Let me see if I have this right. The holdout Juror couldn’t possibly have been impartial because of a domestic abuse charge that got dismissed, but there was absolutely no bias from the lady who was literally part of an activist group focused on freeing a woman charged with… pic.twitter.com/oMm4I9mhcD
Trump's top immigration official claims an internal investigation found that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar 'married her brother' and could be facing deportation.
'We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States,' Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said of the Minnesota Democrat. 'We know he lives now in London.'
He was speaking about the second man Omar married, who the Daily Mail has previously reported is Ahmed Elmi. Both are originally from Somalia.
She allegedly was still married to her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi, at the time of the second marriage, the congresswoman has told friends who relayed the account to the Daily Mail.
Omar has long denied the allegations. She has since remarried a third time and is wed to political consultant Tim Mynett.
Mullin told conservative pundit Benny Johnson that Omar's actions amounted to 'possible illegal activity' and the investigation is 'ongoing,' breaking a standard where officials typically do not discuss active investigations.
'We're investigating,' he said before threatening to deport her should the investigation warrant such a dramatic action.
'There's no expiration to that,' he said of the potential charges. 'If we can prove it that, maybe you shouldn't have been here in the first place, we'll deport you.'
Mullin appeared to be alluding to potential immigration documents being falsified, which would be a deportable offense. That plan could face difficulty given Omar became a naturalized US citizen in 2000, when she was 17.
...
Abdihakim Osman, a past friend of Omar, told the Mail in 2020 that Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.
But hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him.
'No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,' Osman exclusively told Daily Mail at the time.
Omar married her first husband, Hirsi, in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony that, like many in the immigrant community, was not registered with the state.
The first report that Omar and her husband were siblings appeared on the website Somalispot in 2016.
It said of Elmi: 'As soon as Ilhan Omar married him he started university at her alma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012.'
...
'When we move forward,' Mullin said as if the case against Omar is imminent, 'it's not political.'
The Department of Homeland Security office did not deny Mullin's claims that Omar did indeed marry her brother.
Tom Homan confirms it, too:
Jacqui Heinrich
@JacquiHeinrich
Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.
I asked Homan on @SundayBriefFNC about DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin asserting this week "We know that [Rep. Omar] married her brother to try to bring him to the United States" :
HOMAN: I'm not going to comment on an ongoing criminal investigation. I know things are going on. But I can't get specifics of what's happening. But we'll see. I mean, if someone committed immigration violation and someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they're a congresswoman or not, no one's above the law, so I'll leave it at that. We'll let, HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, continue the investigation.
HEINRICH: Okay. So you're confirming that there is an investigation into Congresswoman Omar.
HOMAN: I'm confirming that ICE is - yeah. Look, I said months ago, that is something that's been reported and it needs to be looked at.
...
HEINRICH: Okay... She is, though, a naturalized U.S. citizen.... I guess what I'm asking is, is there a naturalization case that is being brought against her?
HOMAN: Look, you know, I've been around 40 years and we've done de-nats cases. We have denaturalized citizens based on fraud, based on lying on their applications or lying through the process, misrepresenting themselves, or maybe misrepresenting organizations they belong to or beliefs they have. But denaturalization is a process. It's a very serious process. So if someone lies through that process to becoming a citizen, and we can prove they in fact lied or misrepresented themselves, we can absolutely denaturalize them. We've done it before many times over the last 40 years I've been around. So it's a process.
HEINRICH: And then just knowing how this is going to be received, you know what what would you say to the Democrat critics who are just going to make the argument that this is a politically motivated, pursuit?
HOMAN: There's nothing political about it. ICE is enforcing law that Congress wrote. I mean, these are all laws that are in statute.
Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.
🚨 BREAKING OVERNIGHT: DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin has confirmed an ONGOING INVESTIGATION into Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar because she married her brother to migrate here
“We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States…possibly some illegal activity."…
THE MORNING RANT: In Defiance of the Climate Cult’s Apocalyptic Prophecies, there Have Been Zero Hurricanes in the Atlantic so far this Year
—Buck Throckmorton
We are now past the peak of hurricane season, and this has been a very quiet year in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of America. In fact, we are in unchartered territory due to the complete and total absence of any hurricanes this year in the Atlantic basin. There has never been a year in recorded history without a hurricane this far into September. To be clear, this is not a discussion of hurricane landfalls, this is about the complete and total absence of hurricane formation.
There are no hurricanes on the horizon, either. There have not even been any tropical storms with sustained winds exceeding 60 mph. (74 mph is the threshold for hurricane classification.)
According to the childishly simple logic of the Church of Climate, because more hurricanes are proof of global warning, then an absence of hurricanes is proof of “global cooling.” It would be preposterous, of course, to use this year’s hurricane season as proof of global cooling, but it is just as preposterous to make the counterclaim in years that are tropically active.
Hurricane season will reach its approximate peak on Friday — but this year, not a single hurricane has yet formed in the Atlantic Ocean, setting a new record for a lack of storms. This is the latest into the Atlantic season without a hurricane forming since weather satellites were first launched in the 1960s.
Climate cultists and their propaganda arm in the legacy media have been prophesying “stronger and more frequent” hurricanes for decades now. This is part of their “global warming” scare campaign, for which their solution is banning carbon fuels and imposing command and control over all economic activity. In other words, only communism will please their angry climate God.
An important facet of the climate hoax has been to report any “above normal” weather of any sort as proof of climate change. This is an example of statistical and numerical ignorance, of course, because “normal” is being used as a synonym for median or average, but by definition 50% of all inputs are necessarily above the median.
Unrelenting and unprecedented, back-to-back Atlantic hurricane seasons have punished the Gulf and East coasts of the United States. An unsurpassed 49 named storms have formed over the warming Atlantic waters since the start of the 2020 season, with a record-setting 18 striking the Lower 48 states, including seven hurricanes.
Scientists say this record-setting stretch of storminess is connected to a period of heightened hurricane activity that began in 2017 but may become increasingly common as the planet warms.
A warming planet had nothing to do with the record number of storms in 2020 and 2021. There were two main reasons:
1) Aggressive naming of storms: In decades past, to be classified as a “tropical storm” there had to be a circular rotation and sustained winds of at least 39 mph. Nowadays, to pump up the number of storms, pretty much any offshore thunderstorm that registers a 39 mph gust gets classified as a tropical storm. In addition, until satellites were employed in the mid-1960s, storms in the mid-Atlantic were not named at all.
2) La Nina: 2020 and 2021 were years with La Ninas in the eastern Pacific Ocean. La Ninas are periods when cool water rises to the surface of the equatorial Pacific (due to strong trade winds pushing the surface water westward.) This predictably results in more Atlantic hurricanes due to how it lessens wind shear over the Atlantic.
By contrast, there is a strong El Nino right now. The westerly trade winds have lessened, as is their cyclical norm, and warm water is pooling in the eastern Pacific. This has the effect of increasing wind shear in the Atlantic, suppressing hurricane development. There is also a lot of dry, dusty air moving west from the Sahara Desert into the Atlantic, also helping to suppress tropical activity.
The real-world reality is that there is neither man-made global warming nor global cooling. It is sinister how weather has been politicized by the left to try to deny people freedom and economic liberty. But since the beginning of time, it has been the practice of high priests and political leaders to blame bad weather on the “sinful” behavior of ordinary citizens as a means of increasing the leaders’ power and control.
The climate community has made the case that hurricanes are fueled by carbon usage, and that the only trajectory would be stronger and more frequent hurricanes unless fossil fuels are banned. This year’s lack of hurricanes disproves their crackpot theory. The climate community – and their pagan religion – deserve abundant mockery in this year without a hurricane.
Good morning kids. Hope you all had a pleasant, relaxing weekend as we paused to reflect and remember the horrific attack on America 25 years ago last Friday. In many ways we are still dealing with both the root cause and the political/cultural reverberations of 9/11, as we'll delve into in a moment.
“God was watching over us tonight.” That’s how Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany described surviving a plane crash Saturday night that ended with him swimming out of a sinking aircraft in Lake Wausau. . . An experience like this reminds you just how precious life is.”
Of course, Madison being one of the evil wellsprings from whence the toxic poison of progressivism emerged and continues to rot away at Wisconsin but the entire nation, as it was an epicenter of the 2020 election theft. Hoping and praying that this incident was perhaps a harbinger of good things and miracles come November for my home state and for the nation as a whole.
Yeah, elections sure do have consequences. Given the moribund state of the Republican Party in New York City, two socialists, Darializa Avila-Chevalier and Claire Valdez, are virtually certain to enter the House of Representatives next January, and they’re already excitedly making plans for the damage they’re going to do to the nation’s largest city, and the nation as a whole, once they get there... Now, why would a couple of socialists, one of whom (Avila-Chevalier) is a convert to Islam, want to deny the city that sustained the largest jihad terror attack in the history of this country funding to protect itself from further such attacks? Avila-Chevalier has so much contempt for the United States that on Dec. 23, 2019, she wrote: “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.” She followed this message with a happy-face emoji.
Shelly Headen is running for North Carolina House of Representatives District 62. She believes that Trump supporters belong in Dachau’s crematoria, like Jews during WWII. She posed in front of a backdrop of the actual ovens. Shelly was smiling. She has made similar comments that advocate for attacks on U.S. soil and violence against political opponents. She loves her violence. There is a 2024 Guilford County Sheriff’s Office incident report identifying Headen as a suspect in domestic physical assaults. One alleged assault was against her husband. Now she’s apologizing for her social media posts but also says she doesn’t recall making them. It’s a case of I didn’t do it, but I apologize for it. With some of her posts now deleted, we don’t know the full scope of her malice.
Posing in front of Dachau and wishing your political opponents, who are viewed as an existential threat to life, the planet and "democracy" are shoved into the gas chambers. Considering what happened to poor Charlie Kirk, what nearly happened on at least three separate occasions to President Trump and what happened to America's cities in the summer of 2020 and to churches, synagogues, schools and individuals at the hands of anti-semites, transexuals and abortionists for years now, I take these fiends at their word. The dehumanizing verbiage against us makes it that much easier to hurl the molotov cocktails and bricks, pull the triggers and ultimately send us to the ovens as this evil subhuman slag from North Carolina, and far too many like her in and out of office desire.
On these and all the other horrendous news we have, I bid you all to have a good day.
Left-wing politicians mark 25th anniversary by palling around with "truthers," terror apologists, and anti-American cranks WATCH: How Democrats Remember 9/11
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
What tells you everything about today’s Democrat party is that, while she’s cruder than many, her extreme views are entirely in sync with her political peers. Bring back the ovens, says a Democrat candidate
Yeah, elections sure do have consequences. Given the moribund state of the Republican Party in New York City, two socialists, Darializa Avila-Chevalier and Claire Valdez, are virtually certain to enter the House of Representatives next January, and they’re already excitedly making plans for the damage they’re going to do to the nation’s largest city, and the nation as a whole, once they get there. What Happens When We Elect People Who Hate America to Congress? This. . .
Consider the company this claim keeps. Barack Obama forced every American to buy insurance, and fined the ones who couldn't afford it. Joe Biden threatened people with arrest and job loss for going to work or to church during COVID. Somehow Donald Trump remains the fascist. Funny how that works.A little history is in order. There's a little something called Godwin's law that applies here. Everything the Left Doesn't Like Is Hitler
The Department of Homeland Security claims that 70% of illegal aliens have been convicted or charged with a crime (beyond the immigration violation); organizations such as the Cato Institute and Brennan Center, focusing instead on criminal convictions in this country, claim that only about 35% of illegals should count as criminals. Left’s push to delay deporting illegal-migrant criminals imposes huge costs on taxpayers
A fierce power struggle is gripping the top of Iran’s regime, with hardline security figures pushing to escalate the conflict with the United States as questions mount over who is actually wielding authority in the absence of the country’s unseen Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. Who Is Running Iran? — Report Exposes Power Struggle at Top of the Regime
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
And yet the UK government just sanctioned Israelis for daring to live on their own land of Judea and Samaria, while the American government is still planning to orchestrate a rebuild of Gaza, even though a Palestinian Authority spokesman just confirmed that his government continues pay-for-slay to reward jihadis. And yet Islam is just as much of an existential threat to Britain and America as it is to Israel. We just don’t always remember, because the endless terrorism isn’t as immediately present daily before our eyes. 'Palestinians' Carried Out Over 2,300 Terror Attacks This Year
The power to tax—and endlessly audit and investigate—is the power to destroy. The Internal Revenue Service is well aware of its power and has wielded it to devastating effect, especially against some of the poorest counties in the country To Protect Taxpayers, Lawmakers Must Improve The TAS Act
Roger Kimball: AI is not a departure from mankind’s toiling in the garden of natural knowledge but an extension of that knowledge. The Madness of the Anti-AI Crowd
“This lawsuit is about parents, because it’s parents who should oversee the privacy of their kids, not a big tech company that’s profiting despite public safety.” – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. State AG Sues Netflix for Tracking, Selling Children’s Data.
Congress responded to 9/11 with a domestic architecture of preventive surveillance that is why an AI-powered camera may be on your street. Flock Cameras Are The New Patriot Act
Should we dismantle a super-valuable law enforcement tool just because it’s theoretically possible to abuse it? A Defense Of License Plate Readers
The revelation that the Holdout Juror was a “person of color” has sent the internet and the left as a whole into gyrations usually limited to taser victims. The Lone Juror: Even braver than we thought
A mass movement has created a new class of victims while failing to keep kids safe. The Anti-Bullying Paradox
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Democrats are using every means possible to keep pushing the can down the road to buy time, but there is no time left to return integrity to America’s elections. Why Trump Should Declare An Election Emergency
The case will fuel further concerns about the integrity of California’s ballot-initiative process, particularly if prosecutors establish that real voters’ identities were systematically misused to manufacture petition signatures. It also gives election integrity advocates fresh evidence to argue that weak safeguards in signature-gathering and voter-registration systems can be exploited, increasing pressure for stronger verification requirements. Three Charged for Using Homeless to Forge Voter Signatures in LA.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Fox News reported Sunday that “White House border czar Tom Homan confirmed on ‘The Sunday Briefing’ that the Department of Homeland Security is looking into allegations involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., but would not disclose details about what he described as an ‘ongoing criminal investigation.’” Wow. The DOJ conducting an “ongoing criminal investigation” of a Democrat. The End Times must indeed be upon us. Could At Least This One Leftist Politician Actually Face Justice?
Author and Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow Max Brooks said that the Democratic Party’s coalition is built around opposition to President Donald Trump, but “we’ve been bringing in some really toxic people with some really bad ideas,” and there is the huge question of what the party does after Trump leaves. Max Brooks: ‘We’ve Been Bringing In Some Really Toxic People’ with ‘Really Bad Ideas’ Into Dem Coalition
Victor Davis Hanson has a new book out profiling the president, now undeniably a towering figure of history. The Real-Life Epic of Donald Trump
Trump's measures to pressure the Brazilian government must be understood as the unmaking of an injustice perpetrated by the U.S. Left with Biden era taxpayer instruments at its disposal. How the Biden White House Subverted Brazil’s Bolsonaro
A potential ban would be very controversial and widely regarded as highly undemocratic, especially by AfD supporters. The willingness to openly float a ban on a major political party underscores the fragility of Germany’s establishment. This is also likely to push the AfD to pursue the abolition of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s increasingly weaponized domestic intelligence agency. “In no other Western democracy are political parties monitored by intelligence agencies… That creates an obvious conflict of interest,” said Hans Georg Maaßen, former BfV president. Top German Politician Floats Banning Populist AfD After Its Election Win.
America’s disorder is visible for all to see, but Russia’s authoritarian system conceals a deeper cognitive fatigue that may leave Putin’s regime far weaker—and more dangerous—than it appears. America And Russia Suffering From Cognitive Fatigue
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The outlet notes Moscow’s caution to the rest of Europe follows French President Emmanuel Macron who one week ago said 26 countries including the UK had pledged to support sending troops to Ukraine in a peacekeeping mission to provide postwar guarantees. Putin Warns Europe: Send Troops to Ukraine, Get ‘War with Russia’
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
He was accompanied by three family members, and one told police they were vacationing in the United States and flew the drone to capture scenery, the affidavit said. The Federal Aviation Administration has designated a restricted national defense airspace above KSC. All unmanned aircraft are prohibited, except when approved by NASA and the FAA. Chinese man arrested for flying drone over launchpads of Kennedy Space Center
The results prevent the legalization of euthanasia. This represents a major blow to the campaigners who supported the bill. The decision to vote against assisted dying bucks a trend seen across multiple Western countries, with several opting to implement the controversial practice in recent years. Lawmakers Vote Down Euthanasia Bill. (who needs euthanasia when you've got Islam - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
A semi-satirical look at bringing some level of rationality back to the people who, through their votes, dictate America’s destiny. Is It Time To Repeal The 19th Amendment?
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
Added preliminary support for Modula-2 and Oberon to my Pascal compiler and got started on the first five applications using my new language: An application router, a database manager, a protocol analyser, a monitoring system, and a proxy server with automated TLS (a.k.a SSL a.k.a HTTPS).
The protocol analyser immediately proved its worth. It's intended as a reference implementation of both server and client of every internet protocol known to man, to test new implementations against, calibrated against existing implementations.
It promptly found 58 bugs in my standard library, including one which crashed the built-in web server.
The compiler suite will now support Ruby, Ada, Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon, Basic, Raku a.k.a Perl 6, and a dialect of Smalltalk. None of them conforming precisely to the spec because they all enforce strict type safety and a capability-based security model - Pascal's pointers for example are typed to the object they point to, and pointer arithmetic just doesn't exist.
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Lovely behavior from the people of "tolerance" and "coexist"
It is genuinely terrifying that a MASSIVE group of people in this country believe that the appropriate response to speech they disagree with, is m*rder...
Three more police officers have been arrested after using Automatic License Plate Readers supplied by the surveillance company Flock for non-law enforcement purposes.
In Savannah, Georgia, four police department workers were hauled into custody last Friday, when an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation uncovered they’d been abusing their city’s Flock system to track personal acquaintances and family members, WTOC reported.
Three of them were active police officers, while one of them was employed as a community service specialist. Two more employees had been fired weeks ago for similar offenses, WTOC notes, though they haven’t been arrested, and it’s not clear if an investigation is ongoing.
The incident has become a huge scandal for Savannah over the past few weeks, turning the historic Georgia city into a poster child for police abuse of AI-powered surveillance. Local officials aren’t happy, to put it lightly.
“To be totally honest, I’m disappointed,” Savannah mayor Van Johnson said, calling it a sad and sobering day for the city. “I’m p*ssed off about it.”
An Anderson County deputy has resigned after being brought under investigation for unauthorized use of Flock cameras.
According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Eric Center accessed the Flock camera system for “a purpose outside of the authorized reasons.”
Deputies said an internal affairs investigation was opened into the matter and, during that investigation, Center resigned from the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff’s office said they conferred with the 10th Circuit Solicitor’s Office regarding the case and it was determined that while the conducted violated agency policy, it did not warrant a criminal investigation.
This shit is really snowballing. Ridiculous.
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Hoover Dam is an engineering marvel. Built long before computers and calculators.
Here's a nerdy but interesting (to me, at least) article about the method used for pouring concrete and why it was done that way.
A bucket holding eight cubic yards of concrete swung out over Black Canyon on a cable, dropped into a form, and opened. Seven men went in after it with shovels, rubber boots and pneumatic vibrators, spreading a mix so dry that it would take its initial set inside the bucket if the crane operator was slow. Threaded through the form, waiting, were coils of one-inch steel pipe.
The pipe was there because Bureau of Reclamation engineers had worked out what would happen if the dam were built the obvious way. Their calculation is published in Reclamation’s own account of the construction. A single continuous pour would have got so hot, it says, that the concrete would have taken 125 years to cool to the temperature of the air around it. The resulting stresses would have cracked the dam and crumbled it away. So the dam went up as a stack of separate columns instead, each one chilled from the inside while it set.
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Concrete placement in any one block was limited to five feet in 72 hours. That is a rate rule rather than a volume rule: it caps how fast heat can be added to any one part of the dam. Reclamation puts placement in the dam at roughly 160,000 cubic yards a month. The peak day was 10,462 cubic yards, a figure that includes some concrete placed in the intake towers and the powerplant, and the peak month slightly over 275,000 cubic yards.
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The 125 years is the most quoted figure in this story, and what it measures is narrower than the retellings suggest. It describes cooling to the temperature of the surrounding air. It says nothing about when the chemical reaction inside the cement finishes, and the two are different processes running on different clocks.
It is also a calculation. Nobody poured Hoover Dam in a single lift and watched it cool. Reclamation’s engineers computed what would have happened if anyone had, and then designed the job so that nobody would. Reclamation’s construction answers record the cooling of the dam as completed in March 1935. That is about 21 months after the first concrete went into the dam on 6 June 1933, and two to three months before the last was placed on 29 May 1935. That timing is our arithmetic on Reclamation’s dates.
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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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A Clean Line and a Slightly Raised Eyebrow — and the difference a little discipline makes
At the White House Historical Association’s 2026 Presidential Sites Summit, First Lady Melania Trump stepped to the Rose Garden podium in a look that did what her best public dressing always does: it looked simple until you looked twice. The dress was Dior’s mid-length blazer dress in black virgin wool and cotton bouclé. Sleeveless, double-breasted, notch-lapelled, worn without its belt but with the house’s horn buttons.
And then the shoes. Oh my goodness, the shoes. They were Manolo Blahnik’s BB pumps in a black-and-white grid from the 2023 collection. Pointed toe. Stiletto. A grid pump does not need a complicated outfit. It needs a clean line and enough quiet around it.
The Rose Garden outfit was a proportion look. A graphic Manolo finished a black line by arriving last, saying one thing, and stopping.
Elsewhere in First Family Fashion, Donald Trump Jr. and new wife Bettina joined POTUS in western Ireland for the Irish Open. We may still look a little side-eyed at this marriage, but Bettina does seem to understand how to dress for her role a bit better than Kimberly Guilfoyle. That is not gossip. That is wardrobe discussion. A southern lady knows the difference.
Upon disembarking from the plane, Bettina wore a Burberry Classic Trench, I think this is the long Waterloo style. She carried a quilted Bottega Veneta Andiamo Small Intrecciato top-handle bag in black and Chanel calfskin ballet flats in black quilted leather. The sunglasses are Gucci flat-top frames in black. Travel dressing with its manners on.
Bettina was also introduced to Ireland’s President Catherine Connolly. She nailed this fall’s trends with a gorgeous Roland Mouret long-sleeve crepe midi dress in emerald green. The coat is a Scanlan Theodore tailored coat in sand. Bettina remembered that green and camel still do the Lord’s work. The shoes are Manolo Blahnik Maysli suede buckle slingback pumps in emerald green, and the sunglasses are Dior 30Montaigne S8U in black. The bag is the same from above. Matching the green pump to the green dress without turning into a Christmas ornament takes a steady hand. She had one.
And as something really fun, here is a link sent to me by Biden’s Dog for everyone to enjoy.
At 14, Zack MacLeod Pinsent burned his last pair of jeans after finding a box of his great-grandfather’s suits, and he hasn’t worn modern clothes since.
What could have remained a teenage phase became his trade. He taught himself historical tailoring and built a business in… pic.twitter.com/1oD7hY97PA
Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the TXMoMe Stuff Edition? Bigly exciting updates below!
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
What element of fundamentals have you been focusing on?
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TXMoMe
They Mome'n down in Texas!
The time has come to begin the discussion of the upcoming TXMoMe in Corsicana, TX on October 16-17. This is the eleventh annual TXMoMe, or Conservative Burning Man as it's popularly known, and it promises to be a doozy. A double-doozy even. A bigly double-doozy! If you're in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere of the Planet of the Earth, contact Ben Had for details on attending. The dates and email links for all MoMes are always helpfully included on the blog's main page, left sidebar.
What started years ago as a small get-together and informal plinking session lasting a couple of hours has matured into a full scale jamboree-hootenanny including a program of shooting activities for both handguns and rifles over two days. I have to thank Ben Had, Cow Horse Queen and RancherBob for making this whole thing happen and providing the opportunity for the shooting to comprise such a significant portion of the event.
But wait! There's more! Combine that with world class food and drink, and the even world classier company of your fellow Morons, and you have a weekend that legends are made of. For those not inclined to shoot (?), there are non-stop opportunities to relax in the shade of the carport or under a handy nearby tree with a beverage and visit with your online pals to your hearts content, which is really what the whole damn thing is about in the first place..
Allow me to be serious for a minute. I have said this probably two hundred and eighty-three times now. These gatherings are a really good time, and I know of no one who expresses regret after having attended one. Actually it goes beyond that. It's not just a weekend of laughs, it's an opportunity to connect with lots of like-minded people and create lasting friendships and priceless memories. No kidding. Think that's hyperbole? It snot. Would your ol' pal Weasel lie to you? Well, yes he would, but not about this. TXMoMe veterans will attest to the funness and completely laid-back nature of the event. Don't be a dork, do yourself a favor and get yo' ass to Texas!
TXMoMe veterans: please jump into the comments to encourage the scairdy-cats to join in the fun! What was your first MoMe like? What were you expecting? Were you surprised? Did you have a great time?
If you are attending the TXMoMe this year, and all the cool kids are, please keep an eye on this section for important information and updates in the coming weeks. I also want to reiterate the TXMoMe is not a gun thing with some socializing attached, but rather is a social thing with some shooting attached. If you aren't a shooter, I guarantee you will not feel out of place and will have a great time. No fooling!
Are all y'all getting excited? Weasel are!!
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TXMoMe Schedule & Other Updates - 9/13/26
Updates! We have Updates!
Update 1:
For our amazing volunteers, I sent out an email last week asking whether or not you will be attending this year and when you plan to arrive (day and approximate time). If you haven't received this email, please send me a note at gunthread at protonmail dot com. It is important to have this information for scheduling and to make certain we have the proper coverage making the shooting activities safe and enjoyable for all concerned. Thank you in advance.
Update 2:
Here is an outline of the schedule of events. Times are tentative and subject to modification/change. This schedule will be included in the Gun Thread with any changes incorporated going forward until the event, so please check back weekly.
Friday, 10/16
Rifle Program
8am - 10am: Rifle Clinic (carport)
10am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Arrivals! (carport)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
11am - 4pm: Live fire (rifle range - targets to 1,000 yds)
Handgun Program
10am - 11am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Friday Arrivals! (carport)
Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
1:00pm to 2:00 pm (carport) - Demonstration: Basics of Rifle & Handgun Cleaning and Maintenance - EdL
11am - 4:00pm: Static live fire (pistol range)
Saturday, 10/17
Rifle Program
9am - 10am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday arrivals! (carport)
10am - 1pm: Live fire (rifle range)
Handgun Program
9am - 10am: Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday arrivals! (carport)
10am - 1pm: Live fire (pistol range)
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Shooters: Bring your own hearing and eye protection! and if possible please plan on stopping somewhere along your way to Texas and picking up some ammunition if you plan to shoot and aren't bringing your own weapons/ammo. Everyone is very generous with sharing, but please don't rely on the generosity of others to provide everything for you. You can really help out by grabbing a box of 9mm or 5.56mm or whatever you want to shoot.
For a while I have been conducting a Rifle Clinic on Friday morning followed by range time Friday afternoon and then again well into Saturday. Most of you (I think) have endured this presentation before, so if there are other topics you would like to have covered, speak up in the comments and I will try to address your request.
We have also been steadily refining the handgun portion of the program and this year will be focusing on the static pistol range as well as continuing to offer a separate setup for gun-curious beginners desiring one-on-one supervision and instruction. If you are a novice shooter, or even have never been to the range before and think guns are icky, you are welcome to shoot! Just see an RSO and they will set you up with an experienced shooter to help you. We will again conduct a gun cleaning and maintenance clinic Friday which will run concurrently with the live-fire programs.
These times are approximate and programs may change as weather conditions and participation warrant. We anticipate a hard stop on both ranges at 1pm on Saturday to allow everyone to participate in the bigly fun TXMoMe festivities.
Update 3:
You will note there are combined rifle and handgun range safety briefings both days and attendance is mandatory if you want to shoot. We take your safety seriously and ask everyone who wants to shoot plan on attending this important briefing. Again, we are conducting one combined safety brief each day. No exceptions.
Immediately following each day's safety briefing you will be asked to sign a general liability waiver, and only then will you receive a color-coded wrist band. The color is different each day, and it is your ticket onto the range(s) for the day. No wrist band, no shooting that day. Don't want to sign the waiver? No problem, just do not expect to shoot. If you miss the mandatory range safety briefing which is mandatory and must be attended, you are welcome to watch the live fire activities from designated observation areas.
All shooters are asked to check in with an RSO (sporting an Orange Cap of Dorkiness for easy identification) upon your arrival at either of the ranges who will answer questions and direct you to an open firing position. The RSOs wield unspeakable power so it is in your best interest to be nice to them. Want to do things your way? I suggest that your own personal range on your own personal property is a good place for expressing your individuality, not as a guest on the ranch.
IMPORTANT: I would hope this goes without saying, but anyone failing to immediately and politely follow RSO instructions will be removed from the range(s). Period. No exceptions.
I will probably think of more things to yell about in the coming weeks so please stay tuned.
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Who Says We Don't Have Principles?
M1 Garand Principles of Operation
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Model 94 Winchester v 336 Marlin
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Ballistic High-Speed Photography
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Getting Enough Tar and Nicotine?
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Doctor recommended!
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Our Pal Operation Plowshare
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Highway Patrol!
This week's episode: Hot Cargo
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Phantom From Space!
The best Phantoms are from space.
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Cigar of the Week
This week our pal Diogenes scores again with this excellent review of the Oliveros Grand Returno.
I've probably covered this cigar before but this is a good time for a relook.
This is a very nice cigar.
From the Dominican Republic, it hosts an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper using a Nicaragua Habano binder and filler also from Nicaragua. It is a cigar built to sit back and just enjoy it for a bit. In fact, it even looks like the kind of cigar you want to try. The wrapper is golden in color and flawless in appearance. It is firm, well rolled and offers a slight aroma while unlit.
The first third has no introduction time and it sets up a pleasant smoke right from the start. The aroma is an honest tobacco and the taste is equally so plus hints of wheat and nuts. Some say there is a touch of cedar in it but I suspect that is from the humidor I use. I didn't catch it.
Moving into the second third, and for that matter, the rest of the cigar, the tobacco just goes deeper in richness and flavor. The draw is light, the ash is even, and the burn consistent.
The Returno is becoming one of my favorite go-to cigars, and it will be a standard for me on the golf course. Yesterday, right after lighting this one up, I shot a par, birdie, and then an eagle. All this after a particularly bad start so yeah, Returno's for golf!!!
P.S. Note my cool head cover!
Excellent, Diogenes! Thank you!
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Whatever you want to call it, it is easy, can feed a large number of people, and best of all can be made in advance! Because I was a bit tired of cooking after Rosh Hashanah dinner, and I knew that I would have to feed a gaggle the next morning.
But what was the impetus for making this particular dish? Well! I had it at a friends' home last month, and it was delicious! Actually, I think hers was better than mine, but in my defense it was my first attempt, so I have an excuse.
My next version will be a bit different...I think I used too much bread and not enough egg, and I laid the sour cream on top a bit too thick. I also might sneak some bacon into the recipe, because...well...BACON!
Social Media is in many ways a tremendously corrosive influence on our culture, in particular its ability to magnify trivial, tiny trends into seemingly massive movements. And don't get me started on its destruction of our attention spans!
One thing I am unsure about though, is the explosion in cooking reels and videos. On one hand, it sure is fun to see other people's culinary creations. On the other hand, a lot of those people are shitty cooks but better videographers, so their crap food looks halfway appetizing.
The younger brat saw a recipe for potatoes on her social media feed, and demanded that we (she) make it for Rosh Hashanah. And I will freely admit that it was good! Not great, and it definitely needs work, but it's a good start.
But they looked spectacular in the video!
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I like Bourbon! And it is a broad category of spirit, so there are styles for pretty much everyone in every price category. But $100 for a bottle is a lot of money, and it had better be something damned special.
This makes me suspicious that it is a marketing ploy rather than an honest attempt at making something special. Why tempt fate with three popular whiskeys in one bottle? That sounds like it could turn out to be a muddy mess without any character.
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And speaking of booze marketing!
Here's a serious question. Why would anyone pay a premium for vodka? Any flavor is distilled out of it by design. That's why you can make it with just about any vegetation that can be fermented. It's essentially an alcoholic additive for juices and liqueurs. It's a commodity.
Grey Goose? It's for suckers and poseurs.
CHANGE MY MIND
-- Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 06, 2026 04:36 PM (vRDYl)
I think this is a very good point, and one that we have discussed in the past. I do think that there are minor differences between the various starches that different companies use to make their vodka, and someone with a good palate can probably detect the difference. But I agree that it doesn't translate into quality differences!
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Here's a dish from my youth, and one that I am immensely pleased I no longer have to eat! Classic Stuffed Peppers just doesn't make any sense. The texture of the cooked pepper isn't particularly pleasant when left whole, and it doesn't add anything to the dish other than a sturdy vessel in which to put some boring filling.
Okay, you can show them to CBD but make sure any weapons are out of reach.
-- Posted by: Robert at September 06, 2026 06:02 PM (ERsao)
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The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
Sigh...the great collar stay debacle of 2026 is in full swing.
Years ago, these little bits of plastic were sturdy and made well. And one could even buy stays made from metal! Recently they have become a whisper of their former selves...thin and too flexible to make a collar stand up and say hello!
And those newest ones that came with the UNTUCKIt shirts I bought to see whether they would work well with an IWB holster? The thinnest in the world! It's a wonder they don't crumble and break and fall to pieces.
The Western world has lost sight of the importance of quality collar stays, and that way lies madness!
Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan emphasized that Saudi Arabia’s security, territorial integrity, and resources are inviolable. Addressing the 18th BRICS Summit meetings at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on Sunday, the foreign minister emphasized that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states will not accept targeting of their territories or vital facilities, under any pretext or justification.
Prince Faisal said that the ongoing escalation in the region is contributing to an expansion of the scope of confrontation and increasing the risks threatening regional and international security and stability. He emphasized that priority must be given to de-escalation and to paving the way for political and diplomatic efforts.
Except...None of that is true. The Saudis have been unwilling to do what is necessary to end the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and the petroleum and other commerce that moves through the Gulf of Aden. They have punted again and again, and even in the face of attacks on Saudi Arabia itself has been curiously reticent, no doubt because they want someone else (read: the USA) to deal with the problem.
They have a large active-duty armed forces, modern weaponry, and the backing of the world. Yet they can't manage to tamp down the Houthis?
Why is that?
First...The Saudi armed forces are long on weaponry and short on fighting spirit. Second...Saudi Arabia loves to talk and negotiate and play the typical Arab long game. But the Houthis don't do any of that. Third...The Houthis are supported by Iran, and Saudi Arabia is ambivalent about Iran. Yes, they are afraid of Iran's nuclear and regional ambitions, but direct confrontation is not in their DNA. Fourth...The Houthis are tough fighters who are good at guerilla warfare and are holed up in the mountains. Beating them requires well-trained troops and the political will to complete the job...neither of which is in evidence in KSA.
And now there have been attacks from Iraq (probably on Houthi authority) on the alternative pipelines that bypass the Strait of Hormuz and send oil to the Red Sea. KSA has shut down those pipelines temporarily, but the attack sends a message that Saudi Arabia is no longer fighting on one front.
Years of accommodation to the various Islamist factions, both inside and outside of Saudi Arabia has created a massive network of quasi-government actors that have no fear of KSA, and are willing to act in their own best interests, knowing that Saudi vacillation, negotiation, and ultimately settlement will protect them.
And it couldn't have happened to a worse country. Remember, Saudi Arabia was the source of 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists, and there is ample evidence of internal involvement.
So...man up Saudi Arabia! It's your problem, and it is my most fervent hope that President Trump tells them to deal with it, because we won't!
Sunday Morning Book Thread 9-13-2026 [Sabrina Chase]
—Open Blogger
Writer getting ideas, 1947, colorized
Welcome to the Book Thread, Guest Poster edition! I will be your host as we explore all sorts of book-related topics. All usual Book Thread rules are incorporated by reference (pets, beverage, clothing covering the lower limbs, etc.) with the special Sabrina Chase exemption for those stylish persons preferring kilts.
As I may have mentioned previously, I am a writer. I thought the esteemed Morons of the Book Thread might be interested in some of the inner workings of the authorial process, so now it is time for some Dark Writer Secrets, or ...
Writers have lots of ideas. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Ideas that we think we can write a good story about in the time available are...less so. The non-writing public, not seeing the whining and crying and hair-pulling we do at the computer, think it is just sitting back and thinking Big Thinks and fame and fortune arrive by cargo ship.
I have performed as a Tame Writer for high school English classes, and it is all very well to see a real breathing person who has written a book. That gets me polite interest. But what gets them enthused is when I demonstrate, right there in front of them, how to get a story idea.
What I usually do is ask them to give me three nouns. Any nouns. And then I show them the brainstorming process that gets me to a narrative that holds together as a story, including tossing out the first or even second idea, because if it was easy for me to think of then someone has probably already done it and better than I can. No, I want the unusual, oh yeah that's Sabrina for you story!
One I remember went like this:
Nouns: Seahawks, Spongebob Squarepants, and Paris (the kids were giggling with glee when they came up with these too)
What I came up with: The NFL has decreed that all team mascots must be real things, and if they are not the team merchandise will be immediately confiscated resulting in mass nudity in Seattle, because nobody has seen a Seahawk! But to the rescue comes the Cousteau society (based in Paris) seeking a mysterious being named Spongebob Squarepants and very knowledgeable about sea life, who can find an actual Seahawk to prove it is real!
They thought this was hilarious.
That said, I don't usually come up with my book ideas with the three-noun method. It's more of a writing exercise to get the writer out of the depressive fits we are prone to. My method is to create movie scenes in my head while listening to music, and create plots from that.
I will confess my Argonauts of Space series started off as revenge for Pluto getting demoted from planet to planetoid, though. I thought, "what would make them beg to call it a planet again... ooh, I know! It's really an ancient alien spaceship! Hmm. And why is it there? It got left as debris after a war." And it all sort of cascaded from there ... and because I am what is politely called a "discovery writer" (but what writers call "pantser", as in "seat of the pants") by the end of the first book I had space Neanderthals and machine telepaths and the vital importance of corn muffins. I dunno about my mind, I just visit...
Where for me Claude Opus dropped from version 5 down to 4.8 because it hallucinated the term "cyber" when working with a CBOR library - the Concise Binary Object Representation.
Microsoft's Xbox division briefly put its own string of colossal failures on hold to snap him up.
Added an embedded database to my programming language - it's called Nana - today, and a "kitchen sink" option that increases the bundled standard library from 15 packages to 120. Just now merging in nana book - an option that fires up a local website with up to date documentation of the language and libraries, reading directly from docstrings and definitions in the code.
Just waiting for a build to complete, but it looks like the binary with all the new features might be smaller than yesterday's binary because I previously missed a compression option. On Linux and Windows there's no install required - download it, run it, it works. It adds 0.1 to 0.2 seconds to the startup time depending on your CPU, but you can decompress it to get startup down to 1% of that if that's a factor.
Update: So... Stripped and compressed, it comes out to 3.3MB 3.7MB, which is smaller only 100k larger than two days ago. Startup time has increased though to 150ms. Mostly not an issue.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: You diddled when you should have daddled.
Saturday Night Club ONT - September 12, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.
Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Is that a moose out front or are you just happy to see us?
[Mystery Click - please let us know (and drop some SHORTENED links) for your favorites or honorable mentions that weren't included!]
Two older gentlemen, drinking Pina Coladas and enjoying the scene on the beaches of Southern Florida; introduced themselves to each other.
“Hi. I’m Frank and I used to have a million-dollar apparel and textile business in New York. There was a fire that wiped out all my merchandise, and I decided that I was too old to start over, so I took the insurance money and here I am enjoying the beach and Florida weather.”
The other fellow responded, “Hi, I’m Larry and I had a burgeoning lumber business specializing in fine woods for artists and craftsmen, while building materials were my main source of income. My warehouse was on the river, which was an advantage due to barge shipping until a big flood came along and destroyed all my inventory. I chose your solution to take the insurance money and move to Florida.”
Both men were silent for a few minutes while Frank was thinking. Finally, he asked, “Larry, tell me something. How do you start a flood?”
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Two Aussie tourists are doing a bit of hiking through the Scottish highlands when through the mist, they spot a pub. They can't believe their luck and continue on and walk in.
"Two pints of your finest ale barman" says one Aussie and they are both shocked when the pints are poured and the barman says "That'll be two pennies thanks"
The Aussies both look at each other and ask why so cheap?
The barman says "it's our 800th birthday today, here at the Hilltop Pub, so we are charging the same for a pint we did 800 years ago."
The Aussies forgo any thought of more hiking and settle in for the long haul and order two more pints, two pennies. Whilst they are drinking, they can't help but notice a bunch of guys, at the other end of the bar not drinking.
Next time the barman comes to take their order, they point out the other guys and how strange it is that they aren't drinking
And the barman says "oh them, don't worry about them, they're just locals, they're waiting for happy hour".
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Drink of the Night
Jungle Bird (from townandcountrymag.com)
Ingredients
1.5 oz rum (Jamaican or blackstrap)
.75 oz Campari
.5 oz fresh lime juice
.5 oz simple syrup (1:1 sugar:water)
1.5 oz pineapple juice
Garnish: pineapple wedge or leaf
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker; add ice and shake until chilled. Strain over ice into tiki or rocks glass. Garnish.
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Club ONT Department of Turtle Studies
This is so odd that it warrants sharing. Over one million views. You're welcome.
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Club ONT Department of (Smaller) Men versus Beast
The quality of the content makes up for the poor quality of the video.
No, we don't know how the YouTube algorithm works either.
Scientists estimate that more than half of global biodiversity exists below the surface. But soil biodiversity is declining around the world, threatening agriculture, food security and the ability of ecosystems to function properly.
To investigate this hidden world, researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) and Agroscope, the Swiss federal center of excellence for agricultural research, launched the citizen science project Proof by Underpants (Beweisstück Unterhose) in 2021. The project was designed both to raise awareness of soil ecosystems and to generate scientific data.
Following the same standardized method, 1,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear and 12,000 tea bags at roughly 1,000 sites across Switzerland. After two months, participants dug them up, photographed them, and sent the material to the laboratory along with soil samples for further study.
The experiment shows that burying cotton underwear can offer a simple but useful way to compare biological activity and fertility in different soils.
The researchers suggest creating an "underwear index" that could make soil processes easier for the public to understand while drawing attention to the importance of protecting healthy soils.
Participants got great rewards for participating, right?
In return for their participation, researchers gave volunteers personalized feedback, including soil analysis results, evaluation tools and advice for managing soil more sustainably.
From 2012 - An interview with Neil Peart on Canadian TV. He was such a fascinating guy. Well read and well traveled. Even if you don't like Rush's music, this is worth checking out.
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Club ONT Jukebox
Start with the morning:
Continue for the day:
Might as well make it a life:
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Top 10ish Comments of the Week
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Club ONT TVs has all new TVs for this college football season. They are NOT smart TVs. We prefer the good ol' dumb ones!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click, Guitar Hero Edition Oh here it comes
That funny feeling again winding me up inside
Every time we touch
Hey I don't know
Oh, tell me where to begin cause I never ever
Felt so much
Okay, that was pretty easy. Here's one that's 3% harder. But still easy. Ooh, can you feel the static?
So many contacts being made
We've got up-front fanatics
Tearing down the barricade
To reach the stage
Can you feel the rage?
Podcast: Is the Iran situation reaching a steady state? The UK sides with the enemies of the West, Vance the Squish? France and Germany and their coming elections, Canada trade war is one-sided, and Clancy is evil incarnate!
Dear RNC; Go f*ck yourselves. I have gotten 56 texts in the last two weeks...all offensive and sneaky and all begging for money. At this point I would rather donate to AOC. [CBD]
"The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false," Freedman said Friday. "Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise."
He added: "Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth."
from anon2020 So what, she quit?
Megyn Kelly (accursed be her name) used to say all the time that Fox has a top female PR person who is a nasty pitbull and leaks nasty claims about anyone Fox is at war with, including those who have left the network. So I guess maybe she technically resigned? I don't know.
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington's appeal filing to the MA Supreme Court, which includes Reddington accusing the lone holdout juror of being "biased" against those with "debilitating mental illness", which he says is a protected category.
Holiday Break: I've had a rough couple of weeks -- the shoulder is healing now and I'm finally getting decent sleep -- and I've decided to take a long weekend.
I'm taking Friday off, and then Monday off, too. I have Open Threads for both days and I will post if big news breaks, but if it doesn't -- and it probably won't, news is slow before a holiday weekend -- I'm going to take a four day weekend.
Sh0eOnHead discusses the Psychotic Cult of Lindsay
Real quotes:
"This case has me feeling like I'm on Law & Order with you guys!"
"We literally binge true crime as a hobby, we've been trained for this moment" Worth the watch. If you haven't seen the genuinely upsetting insanity motivating thousands of women, you should watch this just to see how society is crumbling. Ban TikTok, Trump. I don't care if Barron tells you it's popular with the yutes. It is an evil Communist China op and it is driving women insane.
Dolly Parton tells the story of the supposedly real-life Jolene As Andrew Branca says, can we see this Jolene, finally? Who was this hottie that was a genuine sexual threat to Dolly Parton? I think this is Fake News personally. When a magician claims he learned a trick from a Himalayan wise man, I don't believe him either.
Podcast: Dolly Parton...an American classic, Michigan's El Sayed is part of our future destruction, More Global Warming nonsense, mail-in balloting restrictions, Darline Graham? Get rid of family dynasties...and more!
