Due to hours and running out of them, this did not happen on schedule,

so here it is late

                                                            I can't go drinkin- oh wait,

                                                                    I have you, yes I can!

Holy shit, this is thanks to a farmer making a phone call,

and- with past actions- we're supposed to think that 'British nationals' covers all bases?

The level of stacked failures that allowed this situation to get to this point is amazing.  Actually, kind of terrifying.

I hope that the security we had on the base is separate and far better than what the Brits had around the area...

Yes, it's real

original here.

Also, if you get your nails done and they're just clean and polished, no paint, that's probably classist and maybe racist.

When actual racism is so little that people desperately need to make something racist so they can bitch about it.

Orr reminded me of someone I may not have mentioned for a long time

Rebel News got started in Canada dealing with information the leftists didn't want anyone to know/speak of, and they cover stuff in Australia also, which is where this is from.
Abu Ahmad was speaking of Allah's enemies when he told listeners, in a talk shared on the centre's social media accounts: "It is to declare opposition: indeed, to take up arms against his enemies, to shun them and to stay far from them both in word and deed." He also said believers should not "take the Jews and the Christians for friends".

Hanson linked the remarks to Bondi. "Fifteen people were murdered in a terrorist act at Bondi. Now Australians are reading reports of an Islamic preacher urging followers to take up arms against Australian Christians and Jews. How much more do Albanese and Burke need to hear?" she said.
Fact is, they'd probably need a dose of tar & feathers to make them actually pay attention to anything that doesn't fit what the Labour Party  wants people to hear and believe.

And the next time a bunch does a horrible act, they'll use that as an excuse to try to shut up anyone talking about it in Unapproved Ways.  That's so much easier than actually having the balls to say "These people are the enemy, have you not seen their words?"

Two connected things over there

in Britain: One, like in places here, the associations are causing real problems.  Like the police chief who, when officers showed up at his house because of his abusing his wife, told them not to arrest people for that because it's not a real crime, and should be handled in the mosque by sharia law.

And, I think connected, is the new Brit version of "You can say anything you want as long as we approve of it."
On September 22, Britain’s new (and unelected) Prime Minister Andy Burnham took to the stage at the U.N. and announced a new “National Centre for Information Defence” to “detect, attribute, and disrupt” hostile state information attacks.

The Right has correctly criticized this for being akin to Orwell’s terrifying “Ministry of Truth.” Our American cousins should be as concerned as we are because the Democrats will be sure to use this as a blueprint.

But this announcement is so pernicious because there is actually some merit in highlighting the kind of information warfare that is being waged against Western populations. But none of us can trust our own governments, given their recent track records, to have such power over information.
From bits and pieces that do get out, an awful lot of Brits are telling the .gov in general, and the police in particular, to go to hell.
The Jerusalem Cross is going up on A-road lampposts. Richard the Lionheart kit at Reform rallies. Templars at Tommy Robinson marches. “Christ is King!” cried by Danny Tommo and his lot down in Dover. Crusader crosses are quietly usurping the Cross of St George — itself a crusader cross — at Portsmouth, London and points between. The algorithm is pumping out AI knight reels faster than a medieval pope pumping out papal bulls. England is Crusadesmaxxing. 

Which must be driving the government nuts.  Which brings something to mind:
One of my gripes with Heinlein was his insistance in one or two stories that the Crusades were primarily to send younger sons off to cause trouble somewhere other than back home.  Among problems with that:
The number of kings, and older sons, nobility in general who swore to go and went.
There really was war between invading muslims and Christians and Jews.
And it's still going on in many places.
Heinlein had an argument, but I think he got this wrong.

On the subject of "Why all the peanut allergy cases?"

Interesting piece on the subject.

Next, powerguns

And when we have the powerplants, hovertanks.  With David Drake being made a saint of the House of Armor.
This week, the Pentagon confirmed that U.S. forces have been using laser weapons in the Strait of Hormuz to shoot down incoming drones and missiles fired by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other terrorist groups in the region. Nor is this futuristic weapon, 50 years in the making, limited to the Middle East. It has also been deployed along the southern border, where it is being used to combat Mexican drug cartels.

Until then, I think it was Commander Salamander who pointed out one ship that'd been doing marvelous duty shooting down both drones and ballistic missiles in the Gulf was getting yeoman service out of that 5" gun on the deck.  Enough so that he was pushing more guns on navy ships: relatively cheap ammo, wide service, and very reliable.  So, until enough lasers, and then powerguns...

This is one reason why I don't want household appliances connected

to the internet.  Period.

I swear, some of these priests make me feel like

I'm a scriptural genius.  Holy crap, these people...

Speaking of people who belong in cells, like lying BATFEIEIO agents

and federal prosecutors who violate law,
The report notes that Smith privately told Garland that members of Congress “likely have a valid Speech or Debate privilege immunizing them from compelled testimony.” However, Garland gave his “blessing” for Smith to pursue the records.

“At best, these prosecutors ignored key legislative protections enshrined in the Constitution to guarantee that Members of Congress may freely deliberate on the questions of public policy,” the report states. “At worst—which seems likely in context with the other abuses of Special Counsel Smith’s office—these prosecutors weaponized their law-enforcement authority to violate a key constitutional provision to gather reams of information about their Administration’s political adversaries.”

The report continues: “The evidence available to the Committee shows that Special Counsel Smith’s team barely considered the constitutional protections surrounding this material—and to the extent that it did, it concluded that its subpoenas might be unconstitutional. Yet, Special Counsel Smith’s team forged ahead and issued the subpoenas.”
If Garland knew all this and approved it, he needs to face charges also.  I'm really sick of bureaucrats and 'special agents' breaking the law, being caught- hell, ADMITTING it- and getting away with it.

Wirecutter had this as his 'Good Morning' post,

 and it's worth watching

The Brit government: "Don't worry, we won't use THIS bureau to censor

 people the way we've used every other bureau and excuse!"

Bullshit.

And in Nebraska, another "I'll say anything to get elected

and then screw them all, I can do what I want" politician, this one named Dan Osborn:
"I can go and I can be the voice for LGBTQ and immigration... Then I lose the election... At the end of the day, I’m gonna win this election. And then I’ll be the Senator for six years and everybody else can F-off.”

X has started letting you not have to sign in just to read a post again, so I'm using those links again.  Hopefully it'll stay that way

Jews in Berlin 'are not safe'

Being admitted by the idiots who helped cause it.

And, surprise!, Mayor Mamdani & Co. are right in the middle of this crap.

In case you need some entertainment,

This cannot be real life, but it is: a lesbian bar, Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, relaxed its masking rules on August 31, and all hell broke loose. You think you’re reading a parody, but no. The owner was accused of being ableist and, at worst, a pure eugenicist. Some hoped the establishment would be firebombed for putting the immunocompromised at risk. The online mob beat down the bar into issuing an apology, but that poured more fuel on the fire. Why? Because it didn’t provide a way for the visually impaired to read it — I’m not kidding. 
Go thou and read.

Remember, when dealing with leftists, never apologize for ANYTHING, because no matter how sincere and caring you may be, they'll use it to destroy you.

Cleese is one of those that will actually stand up on this

Cleese took his show to the Islamic Republic of Birmingham on Sunday night. News of the blasphemer’s arrival caused a wave of horror among that city’s legion Islamo-nutjobs. One group, by the name of Deenified, put out a hilarious / sinister video in which young men upbraid Cleese for ‘attacking Islam’. You’re a ‘hate preacher’, they cry. Islamic agitators calling others hate preachers? RIP irony.

They called on Birmingham Town Hall, where Cleese was appearing, to ‘align with its duty of community respect’ and ‘cancel the show’. ‘Align with its duty of community respect’ – what a chilling, slippery euphemism. Perhaps they were worried they’d give the game away if they said ‘Silence the blasphemer!’. Unfortunately for them, we infidels aren’t as dumb as we look: we know that lurking in that velvet glove of community-speak is the iron fist of a medieval intolerance for the greatest liberty of all: the liberty to speak.

What sacrilegious utterances has Cleese made to earn such ire? He said, ‘The Koran’s teaching is ALL about acquiring power’. He said Britain’s ‘cultural heritage’ is ‘vastly superior’ to the Islamic way of life. He said ‘Islamophobia’ is a sinister term designed to ward people off from ‘criticising a religion’. He said too many comics hold back from mocking Islam because they don’t want to be murdered. He said some Muslims behave like ‘a bunch of five-year-olds’, wailing whenever someone mocks their beliefs.
The wailing would be annoying, but ignorable.  It's their habit of killing people in the name of Allah that's the problem.  And you're a racist* if you say that.

The way he put it a while back:
I see I am being ritually insulted for my support of this man The uneducated call me a racist I am not a racist I am a culturalist I believe that some cultures are better than others I prefer cultures to do not advocate stoning, pederasty, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and beheading opponents Call me old-fashioned...
Hear, hear.

Reminds me of something someone said about Rudyard Kipling, that he wasn't racist, he simply thought English culture was superior.

*People of just about every color/ethnic background are muslim, but somehow it's racist to say you have a problem with islam.

About Kipling, the man who wrote a lot of stuff he did did not hate/crap on the people of India, it's that difference in cultures.

Once again: "Hey, man-caused Globular Warmering is a problem,

so let's screw with the weather in ways we cannot understand all the consequences of, because WE brilliant people think it's a great idea!  And WE are SMART!"

They're so smart they're idiots.

Those wonderful leftists strike again

Such wonderful lovers of 'democracy'...

Piece from the Firearm Blog on the current suppressor questions

And SBR questions, for that matter.

"So they’re taking foreign money to promote stripping rights from law-abiding citizens.

You would think that Mexico would have enough problems with crime and cartel violence in its own country than to spend money meddling in the affairs of another.

The anti-Heller and anti-Bruen initiatives confirm what gun owners have long known: Social Justice-infected Democrats will never stop trying to strip the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, and if they get back in the White House, will try to made good on their promise of packing the courts to undo all the progress of the last decade plus."
Hey, they're buying Democrats, I'm sure they've got some bullshit excuse how that helps fight crime in Mexico.

My Kindle disappeared two weeks ago,

and I even called a couple of restaurants to ask if I'd left the thing there.  No joy.

Yesterday, not looking for it, I found it in the truck.  In a place I'd already looked twice.

Told daughter about it, she says I didn't find it, it was delivered, probably by the same brownie with a bad sense of humor she's said before is a guest in the house.

All I know is the damn thing's back.

And lots of farging idiots will applaud and vote for her,

 

because "She's a socialist, of COURSE she stole from others, now maybe she'll stea- ah, tax the rich for the rest of us!"

Or something as an equally stupid mistake.

Widener's has a piece on the difference between

open-tip match bullets and hollow points.  If you've never dug into this, basically OTM bullets tend to be very accurate but will not (reliably at least) expand in a soft target, whereas HP bullets will, though some may not be as accurate in your rifle.  So the one for target, the other for hunting, generally.

Short version: "My virtue signaling bit my kid in the ass,

and it took me years- and her education being screwed- to admit it."

We are more than 150 years past the end of slavery in America, and yet Nikole Hannah-Jones is more obsessed with race than any Confederate leaders whose likenesses are carved upon the side of Stone Mountain.

At some point, the craziness of racial obsession becomes so obvious that everyone can see it, and Nikole Hannah-Jones has passed that point.
Yes, she's the one who pushed 'The US started when slavery began', and even after various historians told her this was crap, she kept pushing it, and numerous schools more worried about being 'morally correct' than factually correct taught it.  And, of course, it's the kids suffering for it.

More on this mess here.
Hannah-Jones wants readers to see this as evidence of a broken, racially rigged system that owes her daughter something it never delivered. Some of what she documents is real: underfunded schools, high teacher turnover in high-poverty buildings, and the well-established fact that screened, selective public schools skew whiter and wealthier in a city like New York. That part of the argument isn’t fiction. It’s also not the part that determined what happened to Najya.

What determined what happened to Najya is that her parents, fully informed and financially able to choose otherwise, chose a demonstrably struggling school for seven consecutive years, and admit, in the mother's own essay, to reading every warning sign along the way.

Then something remarkable happens in the piece, and it’s the part that should have led the article: as an eighth grader, Najya finally got the freedom to choose her own high school, guided by her own criteria rather than her mother’s cause. She picked a rigorous, selective school her mother had spent a career arguing against.
And, let us not forget, the schools she approved of didn't handle discipline well, didn't actually teach worth a damn, but took every penny they could get.  And, I'll bet, they never missed teaching the kids to be racists who blame everyone not of the same skin color for all their problems.

Same reason they say to the Japanese

'You let people drink in public, but you don't let muslims pray in public, why not?'
The response was "Because it's our country."  Fine response.  Here, 

is a question considered 'improper' or 'racist' to even ask.  Even as muslims in some cities do something they never did in the places they came from, block city streets and take over squares to pray, and you're a racist and islamofauxbic* if you complain.

*Can't remember where I saw that spelling, but it fits.

You want to talk about tyrants trembling?

This is where Dangerous Laughter comes in. Humor is not merely entertainment. Humor is one of the oldest ways human beings test authority. You can tell a joke about the king because the joke asks the question the court does not want asked: What happens if we stop being afraid of him?

That is why free speech matters even when the speech is ugly, obnoxious, or wrong. Once people become afraid to speak, they stop arguing in public and start whispering in private. And once people start whispering in private, politics gets dangerous.

The Irish have historically been very good at refusing to whisper. That may be why I enjoyed this conversation so much. Dowson has a particular Northern Irish combination of religious conviction, historical memory, belligerence and humor. He is perfectly comfortable discussing theology one minute and telling me that the Irish are going to wake up and terrify Europe the next.

I laughed. But I also listened. Because beneath all the bluster is a serious question that Americans would be foolish to ignore.

What happens when people who spent centuries fighting each other finally look around and realize that the argument has changed?
The tyrant-wannabes and control freaks start trembling

Yes, that time of week, and

I have some stuff to clear out