Post-Thanksgiving, some things I ran across the other day

and didn't want to mess with.
(fG)Britain and it's continuing idiocy of blaming objects rather than the people who do things.

Also over there, the tyrant wannabes who want to get rid of the jury system for most accused.  Because, I guess, it's just so annoying to have some checks on your judges carrying out your orders.
Claiming that it is a measure to get through a backlog of 80,000 cases, Lammy’s Cunning Plan, which we might generously ascribe to Baldrick-level stupidity rather than malicious design (I’m not sure I feel that generous, to be honest) retains jury trial for murder, rape and manslaughter, but even with those exceptions, it means that 75 per cent of cases can be decided (both guilt/innocence and punishment) by a single judge. If that single judge is corrupt, wicked, ideologically crazed, partisan, determined to twist the law, there is nobody in the courtroom that the defendant or his lawyers can appeal to. Where a defendant might hope to find a sympathetic ear from 12 ‘good men and true’, randomly selected from the populace, he must instead fervently pray that his judge isn’t the kind of activist judge we have seen in the US.

Because that too is the context of these changes. In the age of lawfare, in a period where it has become clear that some judges are shockingly partisan and prepared to collude with prosecutors towards party political ends, Lammy proposes a massive extension of judicial authority.
Activist judges, yeah, we've got some experience of those bastards.


In Germany, they're putting in anti-tank barriers to try to deal with the terrorists they don't really want to talk about, to keep them from attacking a Christmas market.

Speaking of terrorists, one of the National Guard that was shot the other day by another 'Aloha Snackbar' types has died.  The other's still in critical condition.  And, of course, the asshats are blaming Trump.

“If Trump never sent those soldiers to DC, the Afghani terrorist wouldn’t have had to execute them.”

This is the message they’re pushing right now. https://t.co/I54zuCJ5A7

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) November 27, 2025

If you go out on this Black Friday, even just to the grocery store, I'd say be sure to carry if you can/do, because there are other bad people out there.