Commenter Orr left a link to this,

had seen something on this the other day, this from Rebel News:

The communist government warned international airlines they can no longer refuel at its main airport in Havana for the next month after Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any nation that supplies Cuba with oil. A-1 jet fuel won’t be available at Jose Marti International Airport beginning Tuesday through March 11, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice Sunday.

The fuel supply situation on Cuba is critical, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, according to news agency Interfax. However, he didn’t specify whether Moscow is planning to provide oil products to the island.

Russia’s largest airline, Aeroflot, cancelled its Monday commercial flight to Cuba and instead sent the empty plane to pick up stranded tourists, Russia’s tour operators association said in a statement. Aeroflot flights to Cuba have been suspended until late March, it added. The group estimates there are about 4,500 Russians vacationing on the island at present.

Nicaragua, meanwhile, altered its immigration rules to block Cuban citizens from entering the Central American country without a visa. Nearly one in five Cuban residents has fled the island over the past decade amid a worsening economic crisis.

Cuba, I once described to my kids as 'An island in a sea full of fish, with year-round growing seasons, and full of people not afraid to work, and they've made everyone except the Party faithful poor and hungry.'

That line about 'What can't last forever, won't' covers their mess nicely.

I ran across this a couple of years ago, lost track of it, and just found it again, what DID happen to the buffalo? (added)

Interesting argument that the buffalo hunters did real damage, but not the main cause of those numbers dying.

“When that management was removed, the bison critically overpopulated and damaged the vegetation. Then you had crowded, starving bison in a severely degraded range that couldn’t begin to support them. That meant that their immunity was gone, and epidemic could rage unchecked. The most fascinating thing is that tick fever and anthrax both seem to be native here. Bison had suffered from them for maybe thousands of years without ever being driven extinct by them. But once they were no longer managed, once their range was destroyed from neglect, then the weakened bison were wiped out by familiar diseases.”Dr. Sierra Stoneberg Holt

Added: Commenter left this link which has some more information

When someone working at being an actual reporter shows what sorry bastards

the people running CBS- along with most of their Professional Journalists- are.

I had a chance to try something the other day,

a AR15 with a Partisan forced-reset trigger.  True drop-in trigger mechanism, no gunsmithing required, and yeah it worked.  Nicely.

Definitely fits into the category of 'Fun at turning money into noise'.

Added: it's the kind of thing I'd like to own just because the gun bigots and hoplophobes are so pissed that commoners might have such things.

Two Swedes, right

But I thought all the racists were Republicans or conservatives in general?

Apparently not.

Which, if you've paid attention to a lot of the stuff Democrats and 'progressives' throw out, not exactly a surprise.

My, isn't it interesting who all and where the Epstein releases

are burning?

They're also idiots, but the WHO is a bunch of bastards

who said we couldn't have our flag without their permission, which means "Give us a bunch of money."

Guess what?

They still say we don't have their permission.  I say "The Marines didn't blow up the place or hang any of you on their way out, so you'd better go with that."

Also in the list of idiots is leftists in Minnesota

 who, as the View put it,

Amazing, isn't it?  I'll bet if these asshats would tell the truth they'd say that if someone raped their daughter or wife they'd want them dead; but the idea of ICE catching illegal alien rapists(and murderers, and thieves and so forth) just pisses them off.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

The Olympics seems to have become

'Go to another country and crap on the US day' for lots of US athletes.

Screw 'em.  Freeze in the snow, asshats.

Just a short clearing tonight,

because I need to take care of some things

From a discussion at Fecesbook based on this picture

One of my questions about the asshats running that country is
I wonder of the idiots in charge have any real idea how much they damage the future of the country with these actions? Or if they just don't care?

Guy's response
why would they care? They're Arab occupiers presiding over a Persian colony
True, which brings up my question:
One of the questions I have for the 'decolonize' people: "Why aren't you calling to decolonize all the people conquered by Moslems?"
And every time someone starts that "Decolonize!" crap, they need to be asked that question.

And personally, I think said people in charge, and all their minions performing these murders, need to be hanged.  Or borrow an old idea from Vlad:

By political party, who owns guns?

The right mostly.  

Yes, every 'Stolen land!' and 'Save the Palistinians!' asshat of them are hypocrites, but remember

that if you call them AWFULs, they will be righteously offended.

Those liberal women cosplaying as Handmaid’s Tale Ketchup Bottles?¹ Getting all hot and bothered over the prospect of losing their rights?

Mahsa Amini was an Iranian girl who wore her hijab in a fashion that the Iranian morality police didn’t approve of … so they beat her to death.

Zahra Bani Yaghoub was a doctor of medicine. The mullahs told her father — and I quote: "Iran does not need such medical doctors." She was seen sitting on a park bench in public with her fiance2 by the basij, who snitched her out to the morality police. She and her fiance were arrested, and she was raped and beaten to death in custody.

Atefeh Sahaaleh was repeatedly raped over a three year period by an IRGC officer. She was put on trial for “immorality”, and sentenced to death. When it was pointed out that she was only 16 years old3 (in Iranian “law” too young for the death penalty), the judge said she looked like she was 22, and that was good enough. She was hung from a crane and died by slow strangulation for the crime of being raped.

Iranian women have lived — suffered — under an oppressive regime that suburban white liberal women can only fantasize about, and the Iranian women would like it to end.

Silence from Affluent White Urban Liberals.

Of course.  Because people like Billie Eilish are too busy getting their ass kiss for being 'brave' about screaming 'Stolen land!' and 'Fuck ICE!' to give a damn about the Iranians.

And while they scream about stolen land, you notice they never say a damn word about all the land taken at swords point from the locals by invading muslims.

More from over the pond, and just how well did Starmer know Epstein?

It was creepy as the dickens, like Starmer was being stalked.

I laid out the remarkable timeline of the four-day flame campaign in a post here at the end of May

What was even creepier was who the police started snatching up one by one and arresting as suspects in the arson attacks - all young Ukrainian men with modeling aspirations.

And for the first time in my life, I heard the term 'rent boys.'
Mark Steyn has used the term about some other young males connected to this.  Which, when I read this, is what made me wonder of Starmer and Epstein were connected?

The other day a girl who'd been talked/pushed into 'transitioning'

to a boy sued over what'd been done to her, and she won.  Two million dollars worth.
Fox Varian sued her New York-based psychologist and plastic surgeon for facilitating her gender-transition double mastectomy in 2019, independent reporter Benjamin Ryan who attended Varian’s recent trial, said. Although a host of detransitioners have sued doctors who rush to “affirm” gender confusion with life-altering surgeries, Varian’s is the first known successful lawsuit.

Claire Deacon, Varian’s mother, was led by her daughter’s psychologist to believe that breast removal was the only way to heal Varian’s gender dysphoria, she told the jury. At first Deacon told Varian’s psychologist Kenneth Einhorn that top surgery was “never gonna happen” if she could help it.

“This man was just so emphatic, and pushing and pushing, that I felt like there was no good decision,” she said, according to an Epoch Times report. “I think it was a scare tactic: I don’t believe it was malice, I think he believed what he was saying … but he was very, very wrong.”
...
Defendants Einhorn and plastic surgeon Simon Chin implied that Varian wanted the medical procedure, and was even at risk of suicide should she not receive a mastectomy. Chin’s attorney called Deacon’s consent a “critical fact” of the case, and asked jurors what might have happened to a potentially suicidal Varian had Chin refused the surgery.
Seems I've read of a bunch of parents being threatened with this "Do you want a live boy or a dead daughter?" pressure.

Now more suits are being filed for the same reasons.  And I hope a bunch of 'teachers' and 'counselors' as well as doctors are sweating their asses off waiting for their turn in court.  

A bit more from that island group across the Atlantic

One of many lessons from our hearings today.

In many cases, the police were complicit in these rapes. I do not say that lightly.

The lack of any desire to investigate these men is criminal. It happened again and again and again.

And yes. It’s mainly because the rapists were Muslims.

Parents pleaded and begged. The police all too often did nothing. Staggeringly, they even suggested the parents work with the rapists, as we heard today. This went on for years, years and years and years. We will be releasing further evidence on this over the coming days.
Yes, there's more.  The question is: you get more, Mr. Lowe, what will you actually do about it?

This I have to talk about

Seems that, among so many others, Epstein had connections with a bunch of Labour Party asshats in Britain.  More here, and here.

Take note that although this bastard Mandelson was married to a guy serving a sexual crime sentence, none of the Labour Party seems to have had any problem with him.

Paedos All The Way Down is the column Mark Steyn has on this, from which I will borrow a bit:
Still, Sir Keir's appetite for Slav lovelies is far from an outlier. Apparently, being the bloke who gave the world Windows 98 doesn't pull the birds like it used to, so even Bill Gates required assistance from Mr Epstein. We learn from the emails that Bill picked up an "STD" from one of his "Russian girls" and so was anxious to acquire discreetly some antibiotics he could surreptitiously adminster to his wife Melinda just in case she came down with a dose of something. Epstein's man on the Gates Foundation board did not enjoy Bill sending him "descriptions" of the state of his penis. One begins to understand why the self-appointed Chief Medical Officer to every government on the planet is so anxious to vaccinate the entire globe - a necessary precaution if one is partial to widely travelled "Russian girls".

For anyone who has had even momentary contact with Mr Gates, this is all very plausible. Not so with other eminences in Epstein's circle. The late Bernard Levin once asserted that every man was obviously homosexual except him. For my own part, I feel it may be prudent to assume henceforth that everyone but me is a paedo - or, at the very least, paedo-adjacent. Among the documents are reports of "an orgy with Tony Blair" - not a phrase I would have thought the English language would ever have need for. But, if you're wondering why the British political class are so indifferent to the gang-raped working-class girls of every town up and down England, well, it's clear from a cursory glance at the Epstein files that our rulers are relaxed about the way of the world: under the new class system, there are those who are pleasured and those who do the pleasuring. It is not hard to deduce from the photo above who falls into which category: Why is a middle-aged Minister of the Crown and a member of the House of Lords in his tighty-whities with a much younger woman apparently naked beneath her bathrobe? The previous appearance in the public prints of Peter Mandelson's crotch was just three months ago when he was photographed pissing up the wall of somebody's multi-million-pound house in Notting Hill.

Jeez.  It does make me wonder if these bastards chose Amelia as their AI "She is the Evil Influence you boys must not heed!" girl because they're so used to using and abusing young girls.

Connected to the 'tied up the last few days' mentioned previously

and the general glut of information out there, I have things to do, and far too much I'd like to talk about for the time available.
Here's a good one:
Long Beach, California, mayoral candidate Rogelio Martinez has rolled out a controversial new plan to drive ICE agents out of the city. In an amateurish and borderline farcical campaign video, Martinez called on the city’s 55 gang leaders to unite against federal law enforcement.

Standing in front of Long Beach City Hall, he said he was “calling all 55 gangs in my beautiful city. I expect a gang leader from every gang. … I’m calling the Latino gangs. I’m calling the Cambodian gangs. I’m calling the Filipino gangs. I’m calling the black gangs. I’m calling the Pacific Islander gangs.
I'm calling the mental health types to take him away.  Because the Democrats won't do crap about their clown.

Oh, gee, vote fraud in Michigan.  Surprise.

And New York City and Virginia are getting what they voted for, good and hard.

And that's all I've got time for, see you later

Been rather tied up the last couple of days, so I'm skipping news stuff tonight

and going directly to a clearing.  Which won't be as long as some others.

Sounds like what's happening

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

In case you wondered about other countries, here's Maria

in Germany.

Just how the dipshits in Britain are reacting(they really don't like it)

Which the new Amelia will really set off.

Apparently Musk making a coin of her has also seriously pissed them off.  Well done, Mr. Musk.

Gentleman pointed out this piece on "CAN you hate the media enough?",

and it's worth reading.

And just ran across this, on that subject.

Amelia point out what must count to the left as 'bad history'

must be annoying hell out of said left.

The reason for the 72-hour rule: to start finding out what our Professional Journalists either lie

to us about, or don't bother to find out before they start telling us what to think.
The BBC confirmed the authenticity of the video in their 10 p.m. GMT news broadcast. Reporter Ros Atkins said the man in the video “has the same coat, facial hair and gait as Alex Pretti and a facial recognition tool suggests a 97% match. We see him shouting abuse at the agents.” Separately, a spokesperson for the BBC confirmed to Mediaite that they reviewed the footage and verified its team did use facial recognition technology on the video.

Gee, it's like he's been another leftist agitator who's been working hard to make serous trouble for a while, and not just a pure angel in the wrong place...

It appears the Labour creation has come around

and is being used to kick them in the ass.  Hard.
People saw a perfect accidental parody of how the establishment treats ordinary dissent:
If you question orthodoxy, you’re not wrong — you’re dangerous.
If you wave a Union Jack, you’re not patriotic — you’re extreme.
If you ask questions, you need monitoring.

So people did what the internet always does when power looks stupid:
They laughed.
They memed.
They stripped the moral panic naked.

Now we’re told there’s a “highly coordinated hate network” behind it all.
Sure. Or maybe — stay with me —
people are done being lectured by institutions that despise them.


And, taking the lesson, there are people in other countries doing the same thing.
And Amelia isn’t limited to the British. Creators from other nations are already generating their own variants. Germany has “Maria, Brazil has Ana, France has Jeanne, and just today The Netherlands gained Emma. Different aesthetics, same function — a feminine symbol of national continuity in a culture that insists such continuity is either imaginary or dangerous.

To my English-speaking followers: You asked, and I listened! 🇩🇪🇬🇧

Due to massive demand, I’ve added English subtitles to the German Amelia/Maria video. Now the message can be understood worldwide

Please share this and help it go viral. Let’s reach everyone!
Well done, people.  Keep it going.

General thoughts on that mess in MN

and a lot of the screaming over- well, anything ICE does.

If you get a bunch of people to mess up legal operations, there will be troubles.

If you take this to the point of assaulting cops(and their 'de-arresting' advice involves exactly that), you're actually demanding people get hurt.

You blow whistles in people's faces and blow horns to complicate and cause more problems, multiply the previous.

You go to one of these armed, and it blows up in your face, you took part in causing the damned mess, and it's stupid to blame everyone else but yourself and your friends for any part in it.

Various people screaming that anyone with different politics shouldn't be allowed to carry because, no, not a good idea.  Just like the leftists who suddenly find approval of carrying, don't; it's nothing but a tactic they figure they can use, and you cannot count on their words.  Especially when politicians like this suggest shooting cops is protected by law.  Their intentions are not good.

The True Believers, which includes the idiots who bring kids to riots, especially in winter, won't care about anything, including the death of this guy, he's just a Martyr to the Cause and that's the only thing they care about.  So is the fact that they're often working to protect rapists and child molesters and murderers from being deported; they don't actually give a damn about them as humans, but as fodder to Advance the Revolution, for that purpose they care.  No matter how that looks to so many others in this country.

Throw in that they're actually counting on the cops, and the politicians in question, not being the bastards they keep calling them; the vast majority of the 'revolutionaries', if they actually believed Trump and the cops were the consciousless sorts they call them, would be hiding in their homes because they'd be scared to death of them cutting loose.  And lots of other people realize that.  Doesn't work well with normies, any more than blocking roads and such to keep people from work/friends/hospitals/schools makes them sympathetic.  But the leftists don't care.

You make a point of  giving support to Hamas and the Iranian regime and not giving a damn about all those they murder, that doesn't exactly make you look caring and all.  Especially when some of you say things that make you seem approving of their murders and tortures.

This is a bloody mess, and it was created as such by idiots who want to use it for politics.  And it won't ease off or - preferably- end until a bunch of the people in charge pay a real price. 

Oh, this'll put the weasel in the henhouse:

You Can Run, But You Can't HIDE: DataRepublican NUKES Every Single Donor to MN Anti-ICE Signal Group
I'll bet a bunch of politicians and college idiots are crapping themselves over this.

About some of these idiots using their kids as shields in MN,

Two things:
"Oh, this is so important I need my kid to see it!"

combined with the standard leftist thing:
"This isn't important, the IMPORTANT thing is the revolution!"
And they're willing to put their kids at risk for it.

I keep seeing people screaming about kids being harmed by tear gas and such in the riots,

and my first thought is "Why the HELL would a parent who cares about their kid have them out in this weather at a freaking RIOT?

Because they want pictures and to use the kids as shields more than they care about the kids.

Bastards.

Among other 'just in case' decisions,

if this were a regular thing here(happily, it's not) or if I had to move someplace where it was, I'd have a snowblower.  I can't do this shovel & sweep it the way I used to.

Hands especially.  The shoulder was giving me some crap, but the hands, this is the first time of this since my arthritis got this bad, and they really hated it.  In part because the weather before this was nice enough there was enough residual heat in the pavement that the snow in contact was melting a bit.  Which meant whether I was using the broom to push some or the shovel to lift and move, it kept freezing on them and I'd have to shake/beat them off.  That got old real fast.

So this morning everything that had some slight melting when the sun came out yesterday refroze, and it's like a skating rink out there on the streets.  I'd go out for an emergency, but that's it.  It's supposed to get to the low 20's today, and that and traffic will help.

So indoors it is today.

I'm wondering when the Democrats will start insisting the church invaders just 'happened'

to be there, and somehow we invited in to visit.

Bastards, and they intended to terrify people, and they succeeded.

I think the name for that would correctly be terrorism.

At this point I'd include a bunch of politicians in that heading, because they really are pushing insurrection.

Instapundit has a bunch of links on this deliberately created mess.

Back when the left was rioting nightly in Portland, and some federal agents caught some

rioters*, a bunch of the left were demanding gun owners go to Portland and shoot feds for them.  Oh yeah, that went over well.

A response to another "We want guns banned" leftist asking people who own guns to kill people for her:

Now the anti-gun idiots are saying that the 2A is irrelevant because gun owners won’t rise up and fight the very policies they voted for.

Americans who own the 400,000,000 guns in order to protect the rest of us from governmental tyranny, it’s your time to shine!!! https://t.co/0yCUA5D5y8

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 22, 2026

Let me clue you in:

• You said cops and the military should be the only ones armed
• You are STILL opposed to citizens owning guns
• Therefore, you are a disingenuous ass who doesn’t really think guns are needed UNLESS they are used for your purposes
• I wouldn’t fight for you. Hell, I wouldn’t piss down your throat if your tonsils were on fire

Oh yes, there's more.


If you have a Fecesbook account, you can see Larry Correia's post on the subject here.  I'll borrow some of it:

Hypothetical Liberal "Ally" Who Lives in the Suburbs Which Aren't On Fire - "Hey, gun owners! Here is some civil unrest! Why won't you come and help us?"

Snort. Fuck off.

"Pussies! Why not?"

Well, every single gun nut in America has spent their entire adult life being continually mocked, insulted, and belittled by the left. You've done nothing but paint us as the bad guys.

In Hollywood, we're always evil, stupid, violent, malicious, redneck, racist, murderers. That's so ingrained in the liberal religion that when "ally" Harvey Weinstein was trying to get out of being a sleazy rapist, his repentance consisted of promising to make more movies about how the NRA is bad.

In the news, everything is always our fault. If there is a mass murder, we can always count on the vultures to swoop in and blame America's gun culture. They flog it for weeks on end, 24/7 coverage, hoping for gun control. And if the identity of the shooter doesn't fit the narrative, it drops off the news in mere hours.

And then at the local, state, and federal level, legally speaking, the left fucks us at every opportunity. You ban everything you can get away with. You ban things that literally make no sense. You ban shit just out of spite.

When we fight back against gun control laws, you declare we are stupid because only the police should have guns (hey, aren't those the guys you are protesting right now?)

"Stupid racist rednecks! We live in a civilized society! Don't you realize the police will protect us?" until when your democrat cities are on fire, and you call 911 and the operator tells you sorry, the police can't come to your house right now, please try not to get murdered... How is that strict gun control working out for you?

Then you did everything in your power to chase gun owners out of your sainted liberal strongholds. You passed laws. You banned everything we like. Forced all the shooting ranges to close. Forced most of the gun stores to close. And just generally let us know that our kind is not welcome there.

But now you've started some shit, YOU want US to go into democrat cities, with democrat mayors, and democrat police chiefs enforcing democrat policies which cause strife among democrats, in order to get into gun fights on your behalf?

How fucking gullible do you think we are? Like holy shit. Damn dude!

Because we all know that literally 30 seconds after a gun nut blows away a government employee on your behalf, then all the national media coverage of the riots will instantly cease (sorta like the Corona Virus coverage did) and it'll be back to the news breathlessly reporting about right wing extremist gun nuts, and all you useless fucks would go back to whining for more dumb ass gun control.

You've already thrown the black community under the bus, cheering as their neighborhoods get burned and yours are safe. Seriously, white liberals are the shittiest "allies" in history, and your moral foundation has the consistency of Play-Doh. Your moral compass is a wind sock.

*When you're trying to burn buidings with people inside, sometimes blocking the doors first, you're trying to commit mass murder by arson, and you damn well are a rioter asking to be shot, not just arrested and turned loose by idiot prosecutors and other politicians.

It's been a long day, and cold, and so

This clearing is the last thing for tonight

                                                            "You're in my water, asshole!"