The Morning Report — 3/10/26

Good morning kids. Regardless of one's feelings about attacking Iran the one salient point that most people miss and the Democrat Left and other fifth columnists of the fourth estate and elsewhere, here at home are desperate to ignore or otherwise explain away is that Iran has been at war with us for 47 years, thank you Jimmy Carter and by extension Clinton, Obama, Biden and the insane traitorous Foggy Bottom-dwellers.

Over decades, they killed and wounded thousands of Americans by bombing U.S. embassies, barracks, and bases in the Middle East—without directly confronting the American military. For years, they sent lethal shaped charge IEDs to the Shiite insurgents to slaughter and maim thousands of Americans in Iraq and to the Taliban to do the same in Afghanistan. . . their massive acquisitions of air, land, and sea weapons and the empowering of terrorists, coupled with their passive-aggressive claims to victimhood, both scared and enticed President Obama into dropping sanctions. Soon, he was apologizing for supposed past sins and nocturnally sending them millions of dollars in Danegeld.

But worse by far, Obama thought he had squared the circle of neutralizing the supposed Middle Eastern Iranian juggernaut by envisioning it as an empathetic victim—and eventual friend if not ally. . . When Trump and Netanyahu are out of office, they dream of using their oil to rearm and resume their role as Chinese and Russian proxies, eventually getting the bomb, and the second time around, perhaps using it. Theocratic Iran, in its fantasies, still believes that if it ever destroyed Israel with a bomb or two, the world, especially given the recrudescence of Western antisemitism, would be appalled—for a day or two. Then it would resume business with it. And with a dozen or so deterrent nuclear-tipped missiles, the Iranian ritual boilerplate of crazed pronouncements would follow of supposedly welcoming a nuclear pathway to an eternal virginal Paradise.

Excellent observations as usual by lurker extraordinaire and Ace cruelty fanboi numero uno Prof. Victor Davis Hanson.

And of course, while the Iranian mullah-ocracy has been waging war against us for 47 years lest we forget that its driving force Islam has been waging a war of conquest against the entire world for nearly 1,500 years and regardless of the outcome this time around in Iran, please God the Muallahs are removed and a benign if not sane government and society are restored sans Islam, the latter will never stop in its eternal crusade to conquer the world.

So with the world's attention on Iran, we have had several Islamic attacks around the globe including right here in America in NYC.

Two Muslims threw IEDs at protesters against the Islamization of New York. The media is pushing the usual narrative that they were ‘radicalized’ and support ISIS.

There was also a bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo. . . And there was another explosion outside a synagogue in Belgium. . .

. . . Now let’s go back to that pattern thing. If there had been an explosion outside a mosque, if two Christian men had thrown IEDs at a Muslim rally and if a bomb had gone off outside a Muslim country’s embassy in the wake of a mass shooting at a Muslim restaurant… the media would spot the pattern and broadcast it as loudly as it could. Instead anyone who does is promptly lectured about ‘Islamophobia’. Because the narrative must be protected at all costs from spotting the pattern.

The attack in NYC was right in front of Gracie Mansion, occupied now by a full-on Islam-unist Mayor and his Jew-hating concubine.

The press release states that during a “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer” protest outside Gracie Mansion, Balat allegedly “ignited and threw an explosive device” toward protesters. (RELATED: Mamdani Leaves Huge Policing Question Unanswered After ISIS-Linked Bomb Attack)

After throwing the device, Balat allegedly retrieved a second explosive from Kayumi down the block. Balat appeared to ignite and drop it near several New York Police Department (NYPD) officers before running away. He was quickly tackled, and both he and Kayumi were arrested by officers moments later. After his arrest, Balat told NYPD officers, “This isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet.” He claimed, “If I didn’t do it someone else will come and do it.” The press release states that Balat requested a piece of paper after arriving at the NYPD precinct, allegedly writing, “All praise is due to Allah lord of all worlds! I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. Die in your rage yu [sic] kuffar! Emir B.” Kuffar is the plural form of “kafir,” an Arabic word which means “nonbeliever” or “infidel” according to the Counter Extremism Project.

That Mamdani is as rabid as they are makes no difference had he and his wife been maimed or killed. It's the same mindset that considers the deaths of their own children and others as good propaganda to further the cause.

God bless our troops and our Commander-in-Chief and here's hoping for a real accomplished mission in Iran, with the liberation of its citizenry and a crushing defeat for the current main front of the war of Islam against civilization.

PS, Stevie Wonder's real blindness has nothing to do with his optic nerve.

Have a great Day!

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Daily News Stuff 10 March 2026

Top Story

• Anthropic has sued the Pentagon for listing it as a supply chain risk, asserting, as far as I can tell, that treason is a constitutionally-protected right. (Fortune)
  
  And that being labeled as a traitor is a violation of that right.
  
  
  
• Switzerland meanwhile has enshrined the right to use cash to their constitution. (Politico)
  
  Some small shred of sanity in an increasingly insane world.

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Overnight Open Thread [03/09/2026]

That's Execution Rock in Long Island Sound. It was built 175 years ago as a lighthouse, but the rocks have obviously been there forever, and supposedly were used as a method of execution. Criminals were chained to the rocks at low tide, and....

It's a convenient marker for boaters, and when I used to sail on the Sound we would usually go past it. If anyone knows the area it is between New Rochelle and Glen Cove. The sailing is good...sometimes, but that end of Long Island Sound is known for light airs. For the really fun stuff you have to go out to the other end of the Sound, near where it meets Block Island Sound and then the Atlantic.

Oddly, in spite of the catastrophic rise in sea levels that will inundate the Eastern Seaboard, it looks pretty much the same as it did when the lighthouse was built. Probably some local gravitational vortex and of course the Jooo's Weather Machine keeps it from being flooded.

[Sorry about the music; it's a good song, but I couldn't find anything with "execution in it!]

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Falling Cafe

Moon over LA
Brandon Yoshizawa

Mondays always sneak up on me.

Working dog, textile division.

Big furcloud.

Evolution of vector graphic arcade games.

Otter slide (evil).

Baby elephant demands hugs.

Junior farmer just keeps on truckin'.

Original Star Wars trailer from 1976.

Making friends.

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Pam Bondi Announces Federal Charges Against Latest Muslim Terrorist Bombers

They've been charged with Aggravated Cultural Enrichment.

"We have charged the two alleged ISIS-inspired terrorists who attempted to bomb a protest in New York City," Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X on Monday afternoon. "We will not allow ISIS's poisonous, anti-American ideology to threaten this nation. Our law enforcement officers will remain vigilant."

The charges include providing material support to a terrorist organization and using a weapon of mass destruction.

The Terror Teens hoped to murder more people than their heroes, the Muslims who bombed the Boston Marathon.

In the NYPD vehicle en route to the NYPD precinct, BALAT, without being questioned by the NYPD officers transporting him, made the following spontaneous utterances, in part and as captured on the transporting NYPD officers' body-worn camera footage: 'this isn't a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet... We take action! We take action!'; and "'I didn't do it someone else will come and do it.'

After arriving at the precinct and being advised of, and waiving, his Miranda rights, BALAT requested a piece of paper and, after being given a paper and pen, wrote the following: 'All praise is due to Allah lord of all worlds! I pledge my allegience [sic] to the Islamic State. Die in your rage yu [sic] kuffar! Emir B.' Based on my training and experience, I know that "kuffar" is an Arabic term that refers to 'non-believers' or 'infidels,' and that 'Die in your rage' is a slogan used by ISIS and based on a verse in the Quran.

Law enforcement officers later asked BALAT if he was familiar with the Boston Marathon bombing, and if that was what BALAT had hoped to accomplish. BALAT responded: 'No, even bigger. It was only three deaths.'

Pro-terrorist leftwingers justify Muslim terrorism:

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Iran Names New "Supreme Leader," Who Is Immediately "Injured" In An Airstrike

A commenter pointed out on Friday that there are numerous "Ayatollahs," but only one "Supreme Leader." I had mistaken the word "Ayatollah" as meaning "Supreme Leader," which it doesn't.

Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman

9h

🚨Iranian state TV just announced: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been "elected" as the new Supreme Leader! - @TreyYingst

Sometimes Trump is funny. He announced that Mojtaba did not have the endorsement of the real leader of Iran, himself, and so would not "last long" in the position.

Defiant L's
@DefiantLs

3h

Trump issues a warning to the new Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei,

"He's going to have to get approval from us... If he doesn't got approval from us, he's not going to last long."

Raylan Givens
@JewishWarrior13

🚨 WSJ: Trump to his aides: I will support the elimination of Mojtaba Khamenei if he does not agree to give up the nuclear program

The Israelis are said to be hunting for him.

This has not been confirmed, but there are claims he's already been hit in an airstrike:

Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby

2h

BREAKING: Mojtaba Khamenei was reportedly severely injured, one of his legs has been amputated, and he may not even be aware that he is the Supreme Leader.

I don't know if I buy these reports. I first heard speculation that he had already been injured when Iran TV described him as "an injured war veteran." People took that to mean he was injured in this war. But I think they were likely just giving him some Stolen Valor to make him sound like a tough-guy hero and not an impotent dicksucking pussy.

But I imagine he will be hit shortly.

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Demons: Indiana Judge Grants an Injunction Blocking Enforcement of State Law Against Abortion, Claiming That There Is a Religious Right to Kill Babies

Abortion is a sacrament to the left. That's not just an insult anymore, that's now judge-made law.

In Indiana, a Marion County Superior Court judge issued a permanent injunction March 5 blocking enforcement of Indiana's abortion ban on the outrageous claim that there is a so-called religious right to kill babies in abortions.

The judge blocked the ban for a certified class of people who claim killing a baby in an abortion is an exercise of their religious beliefs.

The ruling is prompting sharp criticism from pro-life advocates, who called the decision a perversion of religious freedom protections.

Judge Christina R. Klineman ruled that the state's 2022 abortion law violates Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act by substantially burdening the religious exercise of the plaintiffs. The class includes members of Hoosier Jews for Choice and others whose beliefs hold that a woman's mental or physical health takes precedence over the right to life of an unborn child. Never mind that abortions have been linked for decades to depression, suicide and adverse mental health problems.

"The state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act bars a law that substantially interferes with class members' religious beliefs that a pregnant person's mental or physical health takes precedence over that of a zygote, embryo, or fetus," Klineman wrote.

The state did not show it had a compelling interest justifying protecting babies from certain death, she claimed.

The judge further stated: "The abortion law would allow a plaintiff to seek an abortion if her pregnancy were the result of rape, but not if it were mandated by her religious beliefs. The state has not justified this differential treatment by establishing that its interest in the same prenatal life changes based upon the reason for terminating a pregnancy."

Planned Parenthood, which is for some reason ailing financially after an end to federal funding for abortion -- which is very surprising to me, because Planned Parenthood told me for years that their main business was giving pap smears and screening for ovarian cancer -- has a new grift to generate money: Botox injections.

WSJ:

Planned Parenthood Wants You to Get Your Botox at Its Clinic

Facing a $100 million revenue gap after federal budget cuts, one California affiliate looks beyond reproductive health to attract a new clientele

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Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the largest affiliate of the national abortion provider, is overhauling its business model with a slate of new services...

Now, along with access to birth control, abortions and testing for sexually transmitted infections, patients can order an IV hydration after a night of drinking--or smooth crow's feet. They might soon be able to get laser hair removal and cosmetic fillers.

This is from 2024, but it's getting re-posted: Feminist idiot "professor" says that marriage promotes white supremacy.

And also, heteropatriarchal supremacy.

But you already knew that one.

The institution of marriage "fundamentalism" reinforces White supremacy, according to an academic paper released by George Mason University professor Bethany Letiecq.

Letiecq's paper claims Americans have become accustomed to marriage fundamentalism in order to achieve "benefits, rights and protections."

Marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy," the paper reads.

Letiecq begins the piece by noting "as a White, cisgender woman, I am currently living with my partner and co-raising our children in a committed heterosexual union outside the institution of marriage." She continues, noting the origins of both White supremacy and marriage before explaining how each became favored by religious conservatives.

"Proponents of marriage fundamentalism include conservative, Christian, and right-wing organizations, such as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and the Family Research Council which recently gained tax exempt status as a church," Letiecq wrote.

Marriage fundamentalism, the scholar claims, has roots in Manifest Destiny and colonialism, leading to the "delegitimization of diverse family and kinship structures." Due to the amount of non-traditional living arrangements of LGBT families and "grandparents rearing their grandchildren," the nuclear family is actually the least common living situation in the country, the scholar said.

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BBC Altered Pete Hegseth's Speech About Iran, Claiming That the US Seeks to "Bring Death" to the Iranian "People"

This was through their BBC Persia channel.

The Telegraph, itself a simp dhimmi outlet, claims this was just a "mistake" rather than what it actually was, deliberate pro-terrorism propaganda.

The BBC mistakenly altered a speech by Pete Hegseth on the war in Iran, making him appear to say the United States was targeting the Iranian "people".

BBC Persian, which broadcasts to audiences inside Iran, mistranslated remarks by the US secretary of defence, telling viewers Washington was bringing death to the Iranian "people".

In fact, Mr Hegseth had said the Iranian "regime" was being targeted.

The mistake was seized upon by pro-Israel media campaigners, who claimed that it cast doubt on the BBC's impartiality. It also triggered a backlash on social media.

Ah. There was some "seizing" on the "mistake" by "pro-Israel media campaigners."

The row risks putting the BBC on another collision course with Donald Trump, who launched a $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit against the corporation last year after The Telegraph revealed it had altered a speech in a way that made him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot.

Mr Trump has justified the ongoing war in the Middle East by arguing that Tehran's leadership, not its population, poses a direct threat to American national security after repeatedly calling for "death to America".

The BBC, which carried Mr Hegseth's Pentagon address live on Monday, translated the word "regime" as "mardom", the Persian word for "people". It later issued a correction.

Speaking of pro-terrorist propaganda: Tucker Carlson said that Trump's call for "unconditional surrender" is really just a call for foreign troops to "rape Iranian women and girls," so Trump should not call for unconditional surrender and his brave friends in Iran should never agree to such a campaign of foreign despoilation of their daughters.

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Iran's Women's Soccer Team Protested the Regime By Refusing to Sing Its Islamofascist Anthem; Iran Declares Them "Wartime Traitors;" Australia Is Determined to Send Them Back to Iran to be Arrested (and Maybe Hanged)

They were playing in Australia. They know if they go back to Iran, they'll be tried as war criminals.

What kind of country sends women back to be murdered?

5 Iranian women soccer players flee hotel, seek asylum in Australia, exiled crown prince says

Five members of the Iranian national women's soccer team have left the hotel where they were staying in Australia and sought asylum in the country, according to Iranian opposition figure and exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi. The Sydney Morning Herald also said the women -- who were dubbed traitors by Iranian state television over the weekend for declining to sing their national anthem before a game -- had fled the hotel and were planning to seek asylum in Australia.

Australian authorities have been urged to help the Iranian team's players after their exit from the Asian Cup, over fears of what might happen to them if they fly back home as scheduled amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

The office of Pahlavi, whose father, the Western-backed Shah, was ousted during the Islamic Revolution in 1979, said on social media that his opposition group had learned of the five players seeking asylum, naming them in the post.

"These five courageous athletes, currently in a safe location, have announced that they have joined Iran's national Lion and Sun Revolution," the post from Pahlavi's office added, a reference to the pre-Islamic Revolution flag of Iran.

Sources in the Iranian-Australian community told the Morning Herald the women were "receiving support" after making a break from the rest of their team and its handlers in the Gold Coast area on Monday night.

"Police have taken them somewhere safe," Brisbane-based human rights activist Hadi Karimi told the paper. "It's great, it's amazing."

Australia's Department of Home Affairs did not immediately respond to a CBS News request to confirm that the five had applied for asylum.

If Australia grants refuge to the women it is likely to draw sharp criticism from Iran.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Monday that she didn't want to "get into commentary" about the women's fate.

Before their first game of the tournament in Australia, against South Korea, the players declined to sing or salute their country's national anthem, prompting calls for harsh punishment from conservatives back inside Iran. The Islamic Republic's state television network branded them "traitors" and accused them of "the pinnacle of dishonor."

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In their two subsequent matches, the team sang and saluted their anthem. Alireza Mohebbi, a correspondent in Australia for the opposition Iran International news network, told Australian network ABC the players would not have done so by choice."It's completely obvious that the Islamic Republic's regime, and the security team which is with the players in Australia, forced them to sing the anthem," he said. "In the first match with South Korea they didn't do it, but now with all the pressure and media spreading the news around the world, it's completely obvious the regime pushed them not just to sing the anthem but to do the military salute. There is no doubt."

Trump is telling the cowardly dhimmis in Australia that if they're too scared to grant them refuge, the US will take them.

Millions upon millions of fake "refugee" Muslims are allowed to pour into these formerly western nations without any scrutiny, but when girls threatened with murder make a legitimate request for asylum, these formerly western countries are too afraid of upsetting the ummah to grant it.

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Cultural Enrichment Watch: Teenage Terrorists Throw Shrapnel Bombs at NYC Mayoral Mansion, Flash ISIS Signs for the Cameras

Apparently the Junior Jihadis were attempting to murder protesters who believe that Muslims are dangerous. Thereby proving the protesters' point.

The terrorists are the sons of naturalized citizen Muslim parents.

Denaturalize and deport. We don't have to put up with this.

One of the accused terrorists busted for lobbing explosive devices near Gracie Mansion flashed a sick salute honoring ISIS as he was led in shackles from a police precinct Monday.

Emir Balat, 18, was seen holding up his right index finger -- a universal salute for the terror group -- and grinning at the press while being led by a cop and an FBI agent.

Balat, wearing a black T-shirt and beige pants, made the gesture before one of the officers flanking him slapped down his hand.

ISIS fighters have often used the index finger gesture in their propaganda. The gesture is also used by many Muslims to demonstrate their commitment to monotheism.

Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, both from Pennsylvania, were set to face federal charges on Monday.

The pair was arrested Saturday after allegedly trying to detonate a homemade "Mother of Satan" bomb during a protest outside New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Upper East Side residence.

Law enforcement sources told The Post that one of the two suspects used the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) after their police interview.

Balat, whose parents are reportedly from Turkey but who became naturalized citizens in 2017, grew up in a four-bed two-bath home in the leafy Pennsylvania suburb of Langhorne, worth an estimated $653,000, while his alleged sidekick lived in a $2.25 million six-bedroom home near the New Jersey border.

Agents were seen raiding Balat's home following his arrest, as a "terror investigation" was underway.

The two teenagers reportedly made pro-ISIS statements while in police custody, and admitted to watching Islamist terror propaganda videos, federal law enforcement sources told Fox News correspondent CB Cotton.

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The device, which consisted of a sports drink bottle filled with volatile explosive material TATP, set inside a glass jar surrounded by nuts and bolts, according to CBS News, could have been fatal if it had detonated.

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THE MORNING RANT: About That “Bad” Jobs Report - Government Employees & Foreign-Born Workers Hardest Hit

Economic prognosticators were caught by surprise with the Department of Labor’s February report showing a loss of 92,000 non-farm jobs. Nominal job growth was expected. (“U.S. Loses 92,000 Jobs in Widespread and Unexpected Downturn” – Wall Street Journal)

• Those 92,000 non-farm jobs that were lost include about 10,000 government employees.

• An undetermined number of NGO (non-governmental organization) workers whose funding has been cut off by Trump/DOGE were among those lost jobs too. These are jobs that conservatives have long advocated for elimination.

• The cold weather in February caused over 200,000 people to be unable to work.

• According to the Office of Personnel Management, Trump / DOGE has eliminated 264,000 federal jobs since he took office in January 2025. That is about 11% of the federal workforce taken off the government payroll in barely a year.

• Over the past year, employment of native-born Americans is up significantly. I get differing results based on whether we are talking about within the past 12 months or since Trump’s inauguration, but there are hundreds of thousands more native-born US citizens with jobs.

• Employment of foreign-born workers in the US is down over 500,000 since Trump’s inauguration.

• If all the fretting about the fragility of the economy were real, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would have reason to finally cut interest rates, but he won’t. (Of course this is also driven by Powell’s partisan animus to Donald Trump. Powell is an Obama/Biden loyalist who, in my opinion, seeks to harm the Trump presidency. The end of his disgraceful tenure in two months will be a breath of fresh air.)

With the changes that President Trump is making by prioritizing US citizens over non-citizens, and by prioritizing taxpayers over tax recipients, there are obviously going to be some economic disruptions. But these are also necessary, and they are disruptions that we conservatives have been seeking for decades.

Isn’t it funny how all the “economic conservatives” of NeverTrump who have preached in favor of smaller government for decades keep sneering that Donald Trump is not a “true conservative,” even though President Trump is the first Republican in my lifetime to actually slash the federal government upon taking office?

��FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT HITS LOWEST RATE IN 60 YEARS.

In January alone, President Trump CUT 42k government jobs while ADDING 172k private sector jobs.

Smaller government - bigger economy.

PROMISES MADE - PROMISES KEPT! ���� pic.twitter.com/AUXVhJQYyJ

— Debra Lea (@thedebralea) March 4, 2026

*****

Climate Realism Rising

The Heartland Institute is holding its 16th International Conference on Climate Change next month, featuring a who’s who of the leading scientists and climate realists who have been educating the public on the reality of the climate hoax.

As a proud “climate denier” I will once again be attending and reporting on the conference. It is at the Hotel Washington in Washington DC on April 8th and 9th. I met several Ace of Spades readers at the previous climate conference in 2023 and I know that some of y’all will be in attendance this year. If so, I’d be delighted to shake your hand.

Climate communism seemed like an unstoppable force just a few years ago. The scientists who pushed back against media censors and government agencies pushing “net zero” are brave people who risked their reputations and livelihoods. They are heroes to me, like all the brave souls who have fought authoritarians and communists throughout the ages.

Here is a link with more information if you are considering attending. I’d be delighted to see you there.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Stilleven met Piëta
Dick Ket

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The Morning Report — 3/9/26

Good morning kids. As the conflict continues, and the Iranian regime continues to get its ass kicked, there are some mixed signals from Tehran and DC.

First, President Trump has stated our position clearly to the enemy as to what it will take for the bombing to stop:

For those at home and abroad who don’t know what to make of President Donald Trump’s talk of “unconditional surrender” from Tehran and how the next supreme leader is “not going to last long,” allow us to translate: He expects Iran to find leadership that isn’t committed to an insane Islamist agenda. That is, one that won’t seek nuclear weapons and ICBMs, sponsor global terror (including efforts to assassinate him) or work to impose Islamist puppet governments across the Middle East — all at the expense of the long-suffering Iranian people. Call it: Make Iran Normal Again.

And the response from Iran seems to be a giant flipping of the bird at President Trump;

The news of Mojtaba becoming the next Supreme Leader of Iran comes after President Donald Trump told ABC News that the next Supreme Leader of Iran would “have to get approval” from the United States, adding that without approval “he’s not going to last long.

And then there's this item which does not exactly fill me with confidence:

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump suggested the possibility of a ground operation had not been ruled out, saying U.S. forces could move in at a later stage of the conflict if necessary. “Right now we’re just decimating them, but we haven’t gone after it,” Trump said, referring to Iran’s nuclear material. “But something we could do later on. We wouldn’t do it now.”

The context here was not a full-blown ground offensive but some sort of limited special ops mission to secure the nuclear material. Even still, and I'm no expert, I have to believe this would require a large number of personnel as well as aircraft and perhaps ground vehicles. Oy. Even if successful, the fact that Khameini's son would become the next fuhrer with much of the previous Nazi high command still in power, Israeli Air Force bunker busters notwithstanding, how much longer can this go on. Unless a non-Islamic armageddon-seeking Muallahocracy takes control of Iran, my fear is that all of this will have been for naught.

And yet, we are on the cusp of a great realignment thanks to this President.

In calling for unconditional surrender, Trump is seeking not just regime change. He seeks the destruction of the Islamic regime that has held Iran in its fearsome grip since 1979, when the Ayatollah Khomeini flew in from Paris to commence his theocratic reign of terror. Richard Falk, writing in The New York Times, cheered the event, predicting that Khomeini would show the world what “a genuine Islamic government can do.” I agree that Khomeini did just that. But I reckon that all the bodies he had hung from cranes did not exactly fulfill Falk’s expectations. . .

Meanwhile, halfway around the world in the Western Hemisphere, the Communist dictatorship in Cuba is entering its final days. The daring extraction of Nicolás Maduro from Caracas at the beginning of January cut off Cuba’s supply of oil. Most of the island has been without power for days. Riots have erupted in Havana. “Down with Communism” is the refrain. On Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that he is open to talks with the United States on “any issue” in order to build “a civilized relationship between neighbors” that is “mutually beneficial.” In Costa Rica, President-elect Laura Fernández says that she wants to work with the Trump administration to confront organized crime in order to avoid becoming ridden with drug cartels in the way Mexico has been. “Mexico, for me, is a reference point for where we don’t want to end up.” As I write, Trump is meeting in Miami with El Salvador president Nayib Bukele, Argentina president Javier Milei, and other Latin American leaders at the Shield of the Americas ceremony. The goal? First, to crush the drug cartels that have been poisoning Americans for years. Second, to stop the flow of illegal immigration to the United States. Third, to work together to forge mutually beneficial commercial and security relationships.
. . . It is difficult to keep up with Donald Trump’s dizzying pace. Since January 20, 2025, and with ever-increasing velocity, he has been stuffing decades into weeks. I don’t think there has ever been anything like it in American history.

Indeed. President Trump in both his terms, both domestically and in foreign policy has succeeded in overturning the tables of he money-changers in the temple, so to speak. At the barest of bare minimums he has exposed the hypocrisy and charade of the professional political class and done what he could, almost singlehandedly to attempt to reverse course.

Ah yes, Meanwhile in CUBA indeed! . . .

Federal prosecutors in South Florida are preparing a comprehensive investigation into numerous government officials who oversee the communist regime that controls Cuba. The United States Attorney for the District of Southern Florida is spearheading the inquiry, which is focused on uncovering evidence tying Cuban Communist Party officials to allegations of drug, immigration, economic, and violent crimes, with the aim of allowing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to bring swift indictments should the regime fall.Notably, the investigatory actions in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Southern Florida come as President Donald J. Trump ramps up pressure on the Cuban government to abdicate its rule and transition away from the communist ideology imposed by the island’s late dictator, Fidel Castro, and subsequently enforced by his brother Raúl Castro. Since the removal of Venezuelan narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro from power earlier this year, Trump has contemplated action against Cuba, which maintained close ties to the Marxist regime in Venezuela. The U.S. President has even floated the possibility of military action against the communist island once current hostilities with the Islamic Republic of Iran conclude.The case being built by U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones in South Florida could provide pivotal legal and political justification for potential Trump administration actions against Cuba. As part of the effort, Quiñones has formed a working group that includes prosecutors from his office, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as well as the Treasury Department, the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

¡Hay Caramba! (Listen closely to hear the sound of Fredo Corleone and Hyman Roth packing their bags in a hurry!)

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• "It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death."
  Mamdani Breaks Silence After NYPD Confirms Bomb Was Used In Terror Attempt
  
• The investigation could serve as a legal and political pretext for action against Cuba, similar to the case with Venezuela’s Maduro.
  Why is the DOJ Building a Criminal Case Against Cuba’s Communist Leaders?

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Daily Tech News 9 March 2026

Top Story

• Two court cases have ruled that AIs aren't people. (Yahoo)
  
  And they're not lawyers either, though lawyers also aren't people. Mostly.
  
  
  
• Will Anthropic's Pentagon controversy scare startups away from a trillion-dollar firehose of money? (Tech Crunch)
  
  No. Are you stupid?

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 8, 2026 [Doof]

Photo credit - Beauty of Nature on X

Sunday night ONT is here! Did you enjoy your extra hour of daylight? Or are you in one of those non-conformist areas that stays on standard time all year? Didn't President Trump say he was going to do away with the bi-annual clock changes? Or is is semi-annual? Doesn't bi-annual mean twice a year OR every other year? I'm so confused! Anyway - what are your thoughts on Daylight Savings Time? Keep doing it? Stay on Daylight Time perpetually? Stay on Standard Time perpetually? Why do I ask so many questions? Do you hear me? Do you care?

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Gun Thread: March 2/5 Edition!

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 Second March Edition? Seems like only last week it was the First March Edition!

I am out of town which means two things; a) this will be a lower than usual effort on my part, and 2) I probably won't be around much in the comments tonight. Please be nice to each other!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Quiet, Young Dog!

Plain old Hush Puppies! I used to eat them... a lot...at a good southern-influenced restaurant in NYC, and of course I order them whenever I see them on the menu in the real South!

But making them? Yup, it's easy, but I can't remember the last time I tried.

Well...tonight that changes!

But I think I will make an interesting dipping sauce, just to be difficult. Maybe Tahini-based, or even Chipotle-honey!

Or butter. Plain old butter!

Am I overthinking this?

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First World Problems...

Interesting issue...did the grease gun shrink with disuse, or has the industry standard canister gotten bigger?

Either way, my best course of action is to raze the garage, and rebuild it with an integrated grease delivery system.

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Tucker Carlson: Lord Haw Haw With A Bow Tie

Listening to Tucker Carlson's increasingly unhinged blather about America's absolutely justified war against the Islamic Republic occupying Iran is reminiscent of Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw Haw during the Second World War.

Tucker is spouting unbelievable nonsense that directly contradicts empirical evidence, yet he continues to be platformed by social media and the compliant dinosaur media because his message is in part rabid criticism of Donald Trump and American Hegemony.

And what's the other part? Well, foaming-at-the-mouth Jew-hate, in the guise of blaming the Israeli government for manipulating Donald Trump into going to war against Iran, suggesting disloyalty on the part of American Jewry, and further claiming that there is no Iranian intransigence...that it is entirely caused by American and Israeli aggression.

The supposed plot to kill President Trump and other officials? DISINFORMATION!

Tucker Carlson sarcastically floats nuking Iran if they actually try killing Trump in fiery clash with Ted Cruz over Israel conflict

Except...

Pakistani man found guilty in Iran-backed plot to kill US politicians

A Pakistani man with ties to Iran has been found guilty of plotting to assassinate US politicians and officials.

Asif Merchant, 47, hired a hitman in New York to kill prominent American officials and targeted US President Donald Trump in 2024.

And here's the NYT link.

Oops!

Tucker Carlson is nothing more than a paid propagandist, trying to undermine his own country at the behest of his masters in Tehran and Qatar. Although he seems to be working for the Mullahs for free, because they are otherwise engaged and probably don't have the cash to pay him anyway. I guess it's just a labor of love for him.

At least Lord Haw Haw had the decency to leave Great Britain and go to Germany during World War II. Tucker insists upon enjoying the advantages of being an American citizen in America while simultaneously working to injure the country and strengthen its existential enemies in Iran and elsewhere. He is also viciously critical of "Christian Zionists," whom he claims are deluded, and have misinterpreted the Gospels. And we all know what an amazing scholar of the Bible Tucker is, so I guess we should take him seriously.

Curiously unmentioned in his rants are the facts of 47 years of Iranian warfare against America and the West. Also unmentioned are the many thousands of innocents murdered by Iranian proxies in the Middle East and in other parts of the world, and that is right out of the Goebbels Handbook!

Optimistically, Tucker Carlson's influence is going to wane, as his obvious partisanship and even more obvious stupidity begins to eclipse his measured and calm demeanor.

My personal theory: Tucker Carlson is dumber than a rock, but for many years at media outlets with writers and editors and producers and executives controlling his stupidity and hatred, his idiocy was hidden.

Now, without that advantage, the true Tucker Carlson emerges, and wow...he is a f*cking idiot!

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 3-8-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (test results not guaranteed). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, especially if you are wearing these pants...(HT: Piper, who wore these to the TXMOME last year.)

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, set your clocks forward an hour or three, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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