March 23, 2026
Monday Cafe
If only this were real. Forensics search border collie activates the super-sniffer. TSA dog's retirement day. Flashdance (turtle version). Minding junior. Seal grabs a nap. Horror movie jump scare. Einstein puppy. Cats in odd positions. Kitten twiddles its masters thumb. Standing room only. Reportedly, seven dogs were stolen from their owners but escaped and made the ten mile journey back home.
If only this were real. Forensics search border collie activates the super-sniffer. TSA dog's retirement day. Flashdance (turtle version). Minding junior. Seal grabs a nap. Horror movie jump scare. Einstein puppy. Cats in odd positions. Kitten twiddles its masters thumb. Standing room only. Reportedly, seven dogs were stolen from their owners but escaped and made the ten mile journey back home.
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Quick Hits
The Failure of the Sussex: Meghan Markle will soon be unemployed. So, the same as she is now. Only now she won't be getting megamillion dollar paychecks from Netflix to be unemployed.
Some of you have been annoying me so this is what you get.
Single Whoopi Goldberg reveals she goes bar-hopping to fulfill her sexual needsI envision her working off her crusty undies with e Dremel tool and a chain-cutter. From last month: Gen Z is officially the first generation in American history to be dumber than the last. Why post something from last month? Gen Z has been annoying me too.
Whoopi Goldberg cheerfully confessed she bar hops as a way to fulfill her sexual needs. On Wednesday's episode of "The View," Goldberg noted, "A woman wrote an article in Cosmopolitan, admitting that she fantasizes about being single even though she's in a very happy longterm relationship." "She writes that sometimes, she finds herself missing the days of casual flings and bar-hopping," Goldberg continued as the audience giggled. The "Ghost" actress then turned to her co-hosts for a reaction, to which Joy Behar responded, "Do you miss those days?" Goldberg quipped, "I am single," adding, "Yeah, I bar hop, I go hang! And I do hit and runs when I need it."
No way!
The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist. And shockingly, they are proud of it. "They're the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized academic tests than the one before it," Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, 43, told The Post. "And to make matters worse, most of these young people are overconfident about how smart they are. The smarter people think they are, the dumber they actually are.
What caused them to become a generation of retards? Well, the left's covid school shutdowns was part of it. The other part of it is what's making us all stupid: Constant low-cognitive-demand/high-domamine-spiking scrolling on phones.
"They underperformed on basically every cognitive measure, from basic attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function and general IQ." Horvath recently testified to the sad facts before Congress, telling a panel of lawmakers that Generation Zers, who followed the Millenial generation, blew up humanity's proud academic record -- the wrong way. So what happened that caused an entire age group to bomb test scores?
Horvath, who studied reams of data from standardized academic tests, told Congress that Z's struggles stem from the fact that they're the first generation to grow up with constant screen time. And it's no substitute for real learning. "More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen," said Horvath, who's taught at universities around the world, including Harvard and the University of Melbourne in Australia. "Humans are biologically programmed to learn from other humans and from deep study, not flipping through screens for bullet point summaries." ... And it's not just happening in the US. "Across 80 countries, if you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly," said Horvath, who is also founder of LME Global, a Arizona-based group that bridges research and classroom practices to improve academic outcomes.
The Failure of the Sussex: Meghan Markle will soon be unemployed. So, the same as she is now. Only now she won't be getting megamillion dollar paychecks from Netflix to be unemployed.
State records show 89 hospice companies at one Los Angeles office plaza. We went to look for ourselves. The Merabi Professional Medical Plaza, a three-story, 32,000 square foot stucco and glass office building in Los Angeles, is home to a salon, a law office, a modeling agency, a realty corporation and, also, 89 licensed hospice companies. Patient advocate Sheila Clark, who has worked to expose allegations of widespread Medicare fraud in the hospice industry, calls this building "ground zero" for the issue. "This particular building I noticed, I'm like, 'dang, how can there be that many licensed and certified hospices in this tiny little building?,'" Clark said. The building is among the most extreme cases of what's known as "clustering" to turn up in a sweeping CBS News investigation -- a grouping of large numbers of hospice offices that state auditors consider a major red flag for potential fraud. The Van Nuys address for Merabi Plaza appears dozens of times in state records for licensed hospice companies. Inside the building's entry hall, a directory lists numerous hospice agencies that line the long tiled hallways, although the building's owner claims many are no longer there. Clark said it makes "no sense" to find so many licensed and certified hospice company offices operating inside a single building. Auditors said the clustering of so many firms raised concerns because it suggests that "the number of agencies in these areas likely exceeds the number of patients who need services." Concerns about clustering appear in a 2022 California State Auditor's report, which found that Los Angeles County had experienced a 1,500% increase in hospice companies countywide since 2010. That's six times more hospice providers than the national average, relative to the county's elderly population. Auditors said other warning signs for potential fraud included multiple hospices in one building, geographic clustering, low patient counts, high rates of terminally ill patients later discharged alive, excessive billing and staff shared across multiple companies. CBS News found that 72 of the 89 registered hospices in Merabi Plaza have at least three of those six potential warning signs.LA Daily News:
15 hospices incorporated in a single day, in a single suite in Van Nuys
'It's not normal. None of this is normal,' said the CEO of a hospice trade association who has warned of fraud risks in LA for years A group operating out of a Friar Street office building in Van Nuys that advertises "virtual offices" incorporated 22 hospices and home care agencies in one year, including 15 hospices registered in one day to a single suite, according to an investigation by the Southern California News Group. The 15 hospices, all formed in "Suite 205" at 14545 Friar St., later collected $12.3 million from Medicare and Medi-Cal billings in 2023 and 2024, records showed. Each had the equivalent of one full-time employee at the time. While operating out of the same building is permitted, hospices cannot use the same office, according to Sheila Clark, the president and CEO of California Hospice and Palliative Care Association. "You cannot co-locate with another provider," she said.
However, these hospices seemingly bypassed that limitation by appending letters from "A" to "P" onto the suite number in official documentation. Suites in the building, however, have only one to three rooms and leases specifically prohibit subdivision of those spaces, according to the property owner, Kambiz Merabi. Yet Merabi's website advertises "virtual offices" that give you a "physical business address and office number for your business cards, website, email and registering a new company." Mentions of that service were scrubbed from his Instagram page as of Friday, but remained on other accounts.
One post specifically advertised to industries needing an address to "obtain licenses." "For just $99 per month, you receive 2 hours of private office or conference room usage each month; a professional office address with an actual suite number -- not a P.O. Box; mail and package reception; your business listed on our digital directory and within the building's directory," the post read. "For industries needing a California or Los Angeles presence to obtain licenses, a suite at the prestigious Merabi Professional Medical Plaza Building provides more than just an address -- it offers a full-service business center hub with many perks and services for businesses like yours."
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Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Laws Permitting Blue States to Count Ballots That Arrive Days After the Actual Election
It's obviously just farming fake votes to steal elections in the unconstitutional overtime period.
And the Justices appear to believe that when the Constitution specifies an Election Day, it means AN Election DAY, not an election week or an election month or an unspecified election period allowing the printing of millions of fake ballots.Unbelievable bias. This is the AP, of course.
The Supreme Court 's conservative majority on Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. A ruling, likely to come by late June, that bars counting ballots arriving after Election Day would send officials scrambling in 14 states and the District of Columbia, just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections to change their ballot rules. An additional 15 states that have more forgiving deadlines for ballots from military and overseas voters also could be affected. The legal challenge is part of Trump's broader attack on most mail balloting, which he has said breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and years of experience in numerous states.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 resulted from fraud even though more than 60 court decisions and his own attorney general said that argument had no merit.1, that's all false, and 2, this has nothing to do with the actual legal question at hand, which is: When the Constitution speaks of an (singular) Election Day, do they mean it or were they just joshing? It's amazing how leftwing communists routinely invent words and penumbras that don't appear in the Constitution, but, when faced with the Constitution's actual words, claim "Oh that doesn't matter, that's like 100 years old, man."
Of course the AP doesn't think that's at all politically motivated.
The court heard arguments in a case from Mississippi pitting the state against Trump's Republican administration and the Republican and Libertarian parties. At issue is whether federal law sets a single Election Day that requires ballots to be both cast by voters and received by state officials. While there was no explicit reference to the 2020 election, several conservative justices gave voice to some of Trump's complaints. Justice Samuel Alito wondered about the appearance of fraud in situations where "a big stash of ballots" that arrive late "radically flipped" an election. ... The court's liberal justices indicated they would uphold state laws with post-Election Day deadlines.
... Paul Clement, representing the political parties, played on fears of fraud by invoking Democrat-dominated Chicago, infamous for election shenanigans. Voting ends at 8 p.m. in Chicago, Clement said, but state law allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received later. A voter paying close attention to the election returns could in theory try to swing the election by submitting a mailed ballot to the post office after the polls were closed, he said. "I am not here to say there could ever be voting fraud in Chicago," Clement said to laughter in the courtroom.
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Surprise! "Objective Journalist" Who Assails Bari Weiss's Normie Liberalism as Being Far Right Wing Quits CBS to Join a... Left-Wing Pro-Biden Propaganda PAC
It's weird how these people who all swore for years that they were nonpartisan straight shooters keep joining hard-left organizations.
Ex-CBS sissy Scott McFarlane is the latest. He's joining a left-wing propaganda twitter account called "MeidasTouch." (You can tell it's a first-rate journalistic operation by the "punny" name.) I wish I could tell you more about them. They just post clickbait/ragebait headlines all day. I had no idea had any pretensions of being an actual news site. They just re-state whatever the cult meme of the day is. McFarlane was "disillusioned" by the editorial direction Bari Weiss was taking CBS but he's very happy now to be working for Temu Jezebel.CBS Alum Scott McFarlane Joining Left-Wing MediasTouch as Chief Washington Correspondent Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane joins left-leaning outlet MeidasTouch as Chief Washington Correspondent and will anchor a daily program, Scott McFarlane Reports. Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane revealed Monday that he will join the left-leaning outlet MeidasTouch, just weeks after abrupt exit from the network amid reports he had grown "disillusioned" under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss's leadership. In a video posted Monday to X, MacFarlane confirmed the "good news" that MeidasTouch had brought him onto the platform as chief Washington correspondent and added that he will soon anchor a daily program, Scott McFarlane Reports, positioning himself at the center of the network's political coverage. MacFarlane framed the move as a shift toward stripped-back reporting, saying MeidasTouch shares his approach of delivering news "straight to the point" and avoiding "production theater and the useless bells and whistles."Yes, "straight to the point." It's explicitly a propaganda organ of the Democrat Party, formed by allies of Joe Biden to pump out regime propaganda.
Brent ScherBack to the article:
@BrentScher No, you don't get it. I'm not saying Meidas Touch is openly partisan -- it is literally a PAC. It was founded as a political operation during COVID to help Joe Biden.
He stressed: "I'm not an opinionist, I'm an editorialist, I'm far from a politician. I'm an enterprise reporter and have been for a quarter of a century." "This moment of unique political toxicity and unique political danger," MacFarlane continued, adding that he and the network share a commitment that "you don't platform lies, you don't platform conspiracy theories, and you don't allow for the whitewashing of history."
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America's Oldest Skankbeast Taylor Lorenz: Lefties Traveling to Cuba to Boost the Failing Communist Tyranny Are Not Serious People
Yes she said that but... well, you'll see. Hang on, we'll get there.
Lefties are taking "revolutionary vacations," living like kings in the dying communist tyranny while the people go without fuel and electricity. Marjorie Taylor-Greene's bestie Medea Benjamin of Code Pink organized the support-the-tyrants tour.Far-left activists stay in 5-star Cuban hotel as island suffers total blackout Cuba suffered mass power outages throughout the weekend as activists filmed for social mediaLOL, sure.
Far-left activist groups and personalities flocked to Havana, Cuba, this week in an effort to protest the economic sanctions imposed on the country by President Donald Trump's administration. The far-left group CodePink sponsored flights to the communist-led island, and the group was joined by Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, an ally of democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The group has faced heavy backlash for staying in expensive hotels to meet with government officials even as Cuban residents go without electricity.
Some delegates in the "Nuestra America Convoy," including Piker, were staying at the 5-star Gran Hotel Bristol Meliá Collection and similar resorts. Piker defended the move on social media, saying U.S. law required that they stay at the ritzy hotels.
"The American government makes it illegal for Americans to stay wherever they want when they're in Cuba," Piker told his followers. "They have to stay in what they've declared as 5-star hotels." The claim received swift pushback on social media, with an X Community Note saying that U.S. law only prevents Americans from staying at venues owned by the Cuban government or its officials. CodePink says it delivered thousands of pounds of aid to Cuba as part of the trip, which was organized by Cuban politician Mariela Castro and a nonprofit called Progressive International, according to the New York Post."Thousands of pounds of aid" = thousands of pounds of water and rice with a total value of a couple thousand dollars.
The group's arrival to Cuba, and subsequent flood of social media videos, came the same weekend that The Cuban Electric Union announced a total blackout across the island on Saturday.
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The Party of Illegal Alien Gangsters and Third World Pirates Claims Another Innocent Life
Chicago's mayor and Illinois' governor have not agreed to turn him over to ICE this time.
An illegal alien who was repeatedly let out of jail for crimes by Democrats, and who was never deported due to Obama-Biden open borders policies, murdered an innocent 18-year-old college student.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_ 23h BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect in custody for murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago is a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught & released at the border by the Biden administration in May 2023. DHS says he was also released from local custody after a shoplifting arrest in the sanctuary city of Chicago on June 19, 2023. DHS identifies the suspect as Venezuelan national Jose Medina-Medina. Medina-Medina is accused of approaching Gorman while she was walking in a park with friends early Thursday morning. DHS says Medina-Medina came up to her while wearing a mask and armed with a gun. As she attempted to flee, he fired his gun and shot her. Gorman was shot and pronounced dead at the scene. DHS statement: "Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder," said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. "We are calling on Governor Pritzker and Chicago's sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods."
Chicago's mayor and Illinois' governor have not agreed to turn him over to ICE this time.
Homeland Security
@DHSgov 20h We have lodged an arrest detainer requesting sanctuary politicians NOT release Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan criminal illegal alien arrested for killing 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman in Chicago, Illinois. Medina-Medina shot and killed Gorman Thursday morning while she was walking in a park with friends. Medina-Medina approached her while wearing a mask and armed with a gun. As she attempted to flee, he fired his gun and shot her. Gorman was pronounced dead at the scene. Medina-Medina should have never been in our country, but was RELEASED into our communities by the Biden administration. He was then released AGAIN following an arrest for shoplifting in Chicago, Illinois. Illinois sanctuary politicians and Governor Pritzker must work with us to ensure this public safety threat is NEVER released back into our neighborhoods again.
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness Sheridan Gorman was kiIIed 4 days ago by a Venezuelan illegal in Chicago 0 [comment or mention] from Chicago Mayor Johnson
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Revolutionary Guard Sponsored Terrorist Groups Firebombs Synagogue and Ambulances in London
The Cultural Enrichment is, mwah, delicioso.
Even though this is a terrorist attack plotted and executed by a cell of the terrorist organization the Revolutionary Guards, pants-pissing cowardly British government officials are refusing, as usual, to call terror what it is, euphemizing the terror attack as an "incident," a "fire-bombing" or a "hate" attack. A conquered people must learn the language of its conquerors. The British learned French, now they'll learn Arabic and Islamese.Similar "incidents."
Counter-terror police are leading the investigation into an anti-Semitic firebomb attack feared to have been orchestrated by Iran. Scotland Yard confirmed that officers with "specialist expertise" were investigating the arson, in which four ambulances were set on fire outside a synagogue in Golders Green, London, on Monday morning. Israeli embassy sources told The Telegraph that the firebombing had the hallmarks of an Iran-backed attack. A video claiming responsibility for the firebombing has emerged on social media and is believed to be by a group linked to Tehran. The arson, which is being treated as a hate crime, will raise concerns that Iran is mounting a concerted campaign of attacks across Europe following similar incidents in recent weeks.
Two Iranian immigrants were charged last week with spying on Jews in London for Tehran. A separate Iranian man will appear in court on Monday after he and an accomplice allegedly tried to enter Britain's most important nuclear base. Det Ch Supt Luke Williams, of the Metropolitan Police, said the force was looking into three suspects seen approaching the ambulances on Highfield Road at around 1.45am on Monday. He said: "CCTV footage appears to show three people in hoods pouring an accelerant on to the vehicles before igniting them and fleeing. "While this has not been declared a terrorist incident at this stage, the investigation is now being led by counter-terrorism policing with all the specialist expertise they bring, and all lines of enquiry remain open. "We are aware of an online claim from a group taking responsibility for this attack. Establishing the authenticity and accuracy of this claim will be a priority for the investigation team, but it is not something we can confirm at this point." A Shi'ite group linked to Iranian terror networks has allegedly claimed responsibility for the attack online. The video, apparently shared by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiaf on Telegram, showed footage of the arson along with a statement in English, Hebrew and Arabic. It described the Machzike Hadath synagogue, near where the attack took place, as "one of the most important centres of Orthodox Judaism" and "one of the main bastions of support for Israel in Britain".
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Slavery is Part of China, Inc’s Business Model; Slaves Were Even Brought to Brazil for a Chinese EV Plant
it is very sensitive to those trying to find a workaround to bring it back. When word of slavery being used at the factory filtered up, the government investigated. It found hungry Chinese nationals living in squalor, and working all-day, seven days a week.
As weeks passed, Oliveira’s curiosity deepened. [The 56 Chinese laborers’] food was prepared in an improvised kitchen in the garage, amid industrial detritus and vermin, and they never seemed to do anything for fun. All they did was work. “Seven days a week,” Oliveira, 35, recalled. “Sunday to Sunday. I never saw any one taking a day off.” They departed every morning at dawn and didn’t return until dusk. The hours in between were spent helping to build Latin America’s largest electric car factory for the world’s biggest electric automaker, China’s BYD.Brazil welcomed the BYD electric vehicle operation because the intent was to provide manufacturing jobs for Brazilians. The intent was not to bring in foreign labor, and certainly not to import slaves. Perhaps because Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery (in 188
it is very sensitive to those trying to find a workaround to bring it back. When word of slavery being used at the factory filtered up, the government investigated. It found hungry Chinese nationals living in squalor, and working all-day, seven days a week.
Chinese men were inhabiting practically every square inch. Most slept without mattresses. Trash lay everywhere. Food was stored on the ground. In one of the buildings, 31 laborers shared a single bathroom; it was coated with an “excess of sludge,” government inspectors reported. This went far beyond labor violations, the inspectors concluded. The workers enlisted by BYD to build its keystone factory in the Americas had been forced, they wrote, into conditions that recalled slavery.Much like sex traffickers luring girls into prostitution with promises of a modeling career, BYD and its subcontractors lured poor Chinese men into slavery by promising them a high-paying, overseas job. Once in Brazil, their passports were confiscated, and the promised pay was withheld. Armed security patrolled their sleeping spaces to ensure they couldn’t escape.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Gerard Fromanger I normally dislike this sort of pretend art, but the scribbles across Foucault are a perfect representation of his chaotic ideas. He was the darling of the post-modernists, but he was a flaccid thinker who covered up his shallowness with linguistic nonsense.
Gerard Fromanger I normally dislike this sort of pretend art, but the scribbles across Foucault are a perfect representation of his chaotic ideas. He was the darling of the post-modernists, but he was a flaccid thinker who covered up his shallowness with linguistic nonsense.
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The Morning Report — 3/23/26
And speaking of tyrannical regimes and malign, evil oppressors . . .
With that from friend and friend of the blog Robert Spencer as the set-up, Raw Egg Nationalist takes it further, a lot further than maybe we'd like to go . . .
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Trump Draws Red Line: 48 Hours To Open Strait Or U.S. Strikes Begin The president has promised to "obliterate" Iranian power plants if Tehran does not comply.Well, time's up. . .
On Saturday, March 21, President Donald Trump delivered a 48-hour ultimatum to the Iranian regime to stop terrorizing the strategic Strait of Hormuz or face devastating consequences. The Iranian Islamic regime has defied the ultimatum and promised to shut down the strait altogether.. . .It is hardly surprising that the Iranian regime is doubling down, considering that it is run by fundamentalist Muslim fanatics who truly believe Allah has given them a mission to fight the “great Satan” America to the death. This defiance does, however, illustrate clearly to the world why the joint U.S.-Israel Operation Epic Fury is necessary and how fully justified Trump is in carrying through on his ultimatum. Trump had warned, “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”It is a shame that the long-suffering Persian people are going to suffer even more because of the intransigence and belligerence of the Mullahs who are hell bent on bringing about Armageddon as the precursor to global Shiite Islamic conquest. For those who question if this trip was necessary, give Iran's 47-year bloody wave of terror not only in the Middle East but across the globe, (that has spilled rivers of American blood to the tune of "Death to America!") which is on top of Islam's 1500 year wave of terror. So, if scimitars, firearms and tanks and planes won't do the trick, there are always ICBMs.
The position taken by Obama, Democrats, the media and, more recently, Tucker Carlson, is that we should accept Iran’s claims about its military capabilities, whether it comes to its nuclear weapons or its ballistic missiles. After all, a bunch of Islamic terrorists would never lie to us. Would they? . . . . . Iran launched ballistic missiles at the joint US-UK military base in Diego Garcia on Friday, demonstrating a weapons capability that goes beyond what Tehran was known to have possessed. The base, a strategic airfield that can host B-2 stealth bombers located nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) away from Iran, suffered no damage, according to a person familiar with the matter speaking on condition of anonymity. The media is now busy pretending that we had no idea that Iran had that kind of capabilities despite repeated warnings, including the Obama Iran Deal, that Iran had missiles capable of hitting European capitals. . . Netanyahu said in an interview with right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro on Monday that Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range of about 8,000 kilometers, warning that Tehran’s expanding weapons program could threaten major American cities. The Iranian missiles could “put New York City, Boston, Washington or Miami under their atomic guns,” the Israeli prime minister said.
. . . imagine that the ICBMs Iran lied about having don’t simply travel 2,000 miles, but 4,000 miles or more, which would allow them to strike a major city in the United States.
“That’s what they’re planning to do. Now, imagine that those ICBMs are tipped with nuclear warheads, which they were planning to do as well. So, we have to face a very difficult situation,” he said before noting that while gas prices are temporarily higher as a result of the war, they will return to normal.
And speaking of tyrannical regimes and malign, evil oppressors . . .
So many people inside the United States believe the left’s narrative about the United States today, the question becomes very real: can the nation survive the presence within it of a large and growing population of people who hate it and wish to see it destroyed? For the left, the truth doesn’t matter as much as the narrative. And if the narrative is incendiary enough, and they can convince enough people to believe it, it could indeed be destructive, and even bring the whole nation down, with incalculable effects for the world at large. The narrative that the left is pushing hard right now is a variation on a theme it has harped upon repeatedly since the war in Vietnam and even before that, from the time of the beginning of the Cold War. . . And so we come to one Joe Iosbaker, a 67-year-old leader of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), which describes itself as “a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.” FRSO’s rhetoric is pure 1930s-era Marxist agitprop, as if the Stalinist purges, the gulags, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge killing fields had never existed: “We are organizing the united front against monopoly capitalism — with the strategic alliance of the multinational working class and oppressed nationality movements at its core. This is our general strategy for revolution in the U.S.”
With that from friend and friend of the blog Robert Spencer as the set-up, Raw Egg Nationalist takes it further, a lot further than maybe we'd like to go . . .
The transformation of El Salvador dramatically illustrates a point made by Friedrich Nietzsche, one that’s often missed. In The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche set himself the task of revealing the non-moral origins of various institutions, including morality itself. One of his main targets was the state and the notion of a primitive “social contract.” Far from originating in a friendly handshake and an agreement among equals, the state was birthed in blood. Before the state was the state, it was ravaging barbarians—the blonde beasts—who descended on less warlike peoples and subjugated them. Over time, through great violence, these pitiless lords shaped and molded their captives into citizens, self-regulating creatures that could live together, act responsibly, and obey commands. . . The broader point—that great violence is an inescapable part of the civilizing process—is obviously true. Historians of medieval Europe have shown that, generation after generation, something like 1 percent of the male population was put to death in the name of law and order. The peaceful, high-trust societies that European governments are now destroying through mass immigration—societies where murder was no longer a valid social strategy, only the rare product of intoxication or sexual jealousy—existed because the most violent people were systematically put to death until their genes were expunged for good. . . Predictions make fools of us all, they say. Bukele may prove a lone exception in the Americas: a leader of unusual will and a ruthless pragmatism who is prepared to assert the rights of the peaceful majority against those of the small minority of murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and pimps who once acted with impunity.Have a great day!
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- Two pilots dead, LaGuardia closed as flight, emergency vehicle collide: sources
AIRPORT COLLISION - El Salvador’s turnaround under Nayib Bukele suggests an uncomfortable truth: order often returns not through consensus, but through force most societies are unwilling to wield.
Raw Egg Nationalist: Will There Be Blood? Can America and the West Be Recivilized without Violence?
- Robert Spencer: As pro-Islamic Republic of Iran Marxists rally in Chicago, the U.S. is finding out.
How Long Can a Country Survive the Presence of Those Who Wish to Destroy It?
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Daily News Stuff 23 March 2026
Top Story
- Elon Musk has announced TeraFab, a Tesla-SpaceX joint venture to bring the various companies' (including xAI and I guess Twitter) chip manufacturing together under one very large roof. (Tom's Hardware)
$20 billion buys a lot of roof.
Primarily it will be producing local AI chips for robots - vision processing and similar systems, and large scale general purpose AI chips for orbital datacenters.
This is the 21st century I asked for. Certainly more so than anything OpenAI has delivered.
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March 22, 2026
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 22, 2026 [Doof]
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Gun Thread: Fourth Edition O' March!
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Food Thread: Eat, Drink, And Be Merry (And Ignore What Anyone Else Says!)
[Courtesy of Commenter "Dr_No" Take a look at his stuff!] Food and drink pomposity is a real thing, especially among the nomenklatura and their hangers-on in Park Slope and Hyde Park and Tribeca and Austin. Sure, we all have our little foibles about food (shaken Manhattans are a creation of the Devil), but most people just try to make and eat what they like, and don't trouble themselves too much about appearances when it comes to what is on the plate in front of them. And that is as it should be! If you want to eat microwave frozen burritos while standing over the sink, or fast food while hunched over the steering wheel? Have at it! I have done both, and have enjoyed those meals. If you want to eat at a fancy restaurant with 19 forks, knives, spoons, and three unidentified utensils, while being served nine courses over four hours? Go for it! I have done that and it's a hoot! One of my most memorable meals was a chunk of Safeway Cheddar, half a Galileo salami, several chunks of sourdough bread, and three bottles of Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve beer. Granted, it was a glorious Northern California day, on the beach at Fort Ross after a particularly successful abalone dive, and that might beat the kitchen sink scenario, but still... What were some of your memorable meals? Extra credit for interesting locations.
[Courtesy of Commenter "Dr_No" Take a look at his stuff!] Food and drink pomposity is a real thing, especially among the nomenklatura and their hangers-on in Park Slope and Hyde Park and Tribeca and Austin. Sure, we all have our little foibles about food (shaken Manhattans are a creation of the Devil), but most people just try to make and eat what they like, and don't trouble themselves too much about appearances when it comes to what is on the plate in front of them. And that is as it should be! If you want to eat microwave frozen burritos while standing over the sink, or fast food while hunched over the steering wheel? Have at it! I have done both, and have enjoyed those meals. If you want to eat at a fancy restaurant with 19 forks, knives, spoons, and three unidentified utensils, while being served nine courses over four hours? Go for it! I have done that and it's a hoot! One of my most memorable meals was a chunk of Safeway Cheddar, half a Galileo salami, several chunks of sourdough bread, and three bottles of Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve beer. Granted, it was a glorious Northern California day, on the beach at Fort Ross after a particularly successful abalone dive, and that might beat the kitchen sink scenario, but still... What were some of your memorable meals? Extra credit for interesting locations.
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First World Problems...
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"Regime Change" In Iran Is Nothing New...Trump Is The First Western Leader To Act Rather Than Obfuscate
President Donald Trump is not an appeaser, and future generations will laud him as the American president who finally stopped the apocalyptic Iranian dictatorship, and prevented a nuclear war in the Middle East. His interlocutors are curiously silent about the 47 year history of Iranian-exported death and destruction. They are more interested in exercising their hatred of Donald Trump, and far less interested in defending America from Iran's unshakable focus on the death of America and the West. They are the appeasers about whom Churchill spoke, and it should be a permanent stain on anyone who does not have the moral clarity to see that the destruction of the Mullahcracy is a fundamental good.
The world would be a very different place had Western leaders taken seriously the existential threat of Iran's fanatical Mullahs and their particular brand of Shia Islam.
Western governments have been aware of Iran and its support for terror groups at least since the early 1980s. The 1983 embassy bombing in Beirut, and then the Marine barracks bombing the same year should have been a clarion call for the destruction of the Mullahcracy, but as is the post-modern West's wont, there was lots of tough talk about sanctions and isolation and containment, but no understanding of the bedrock of the Mullahs...the destruction of Israel, America, and the West. The 1990s, with the fall of the Soviet Union could have been a tremendous opportunity for a united effort to destroy what was becoming the nexus of Islamic terror, as Iran busily expanded its footprint across the world, and gathered the various Islamic groups. Pivoting to Iran would have been easy. But the West, led by the feckless Bush senior and then the execrable Bill Clinton was more interested in the cash they could extract out of their defense budgets, rather than using them in the defense of America and Europe from the depredations of Iran. And the terror continued! The Khobar Towers bombing, bombings in Argentina (the Israeli embassy and a Jewish center), and uncountable suicide bombings...all at the hands of iran's proxies. And continued... Iran enthusiastically supported attacks on Coalition troops in Iraq...even exporting its IED technology to maximize death and destruction. The assassination of Lebanon's Prime Minister in 2005, which led to the downfall of Lebanon as a (barely) functioning state, Hamas and Islamic Jihad bombings, and even limited support for the Afghan insurgency... all of it followed the same tired script that the West carefully ignored. And why? Oil. Europe and the rest of the world was addicted to Iranian oil, and they would rather have a steady supply of petroleum than defend themselves from an apocalyptic philosophy whose only goal was their destruction! Add in rabid Jew-hate among the left, who relished the thought of an ascendant Iran as a counter to Israel and its rapidly growing technological and military base, and the stage was set for Iran to become the power in the Middle East. Oceans of oil money, a complacent West that was comfortable with some level of death and destruction that Iran paid for, and only Israel saying publicly what most people didn't want to hear...Iran wants the destruction of...everything! So Iran got busy expanding the manufacturing capacity...theater ballistic missiles, drones, antiaircraft systems, and most terrifying; a massive nuclear research program with the goal of nuclear weapons. And it was all paid for with Western and Chinese money! Even billions of dollars of American taxpayer funds, courtesy of the Obama administration, supposedly in exchange for...who knows! But President Donald Trump shattered the paradigm of Western Weakness vs. Iranian intransigence. It should have been done 40 years ago after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 American Marines and 58 French soldiers. It should have been done after the Paris bombings in 1985-1986. It should have been done after the Argentina bombings in the early 1990s. It should have been done after the Hariri assassination. And it most certainly should have been done after Iran was proven to be the source for the IEDs and other weapons that were used to kill so many American servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan. The price we are paying for what should have been done a long time ago is a painful reminder that, as Winston Churchill famously said:Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely.
President Donald Trump is not an appeaser, and future generations will laud him as the American president who finally stopped the apocalyptic Iranian dictatorship, and prevented a nuclear war in the Middle East. His interlocutors are curiously silent about the 47 year history of Iranian-exported death and destruction. They are more interested in exercising their hatred of Donald Trump, and far less interested in defending America from Iran's unshakable focus on the death of America and the West. They are the appeasers about whom Churchill spoke, and it should be a permanent stain on anyone who does not have the moral clarity to see that the destruction of the Mullahcracy is a fundamental good.
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 3-22-2026 ["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. 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, unless you are wearing these pants...
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
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Daily Tech News 22 March 2026
Top Story
- An Ohio datacenter planned by Japanese company SoftBank will cost $40 billion to build - and require a new 9.2GW gas turbine generator complex that will cost another $33 billion. (Tom's Hardware)
Or, as the article notes, 9 nuclear reactors, though that option is off the table due to the excruciatingly long lead times thanks to a thousand layers of bureaucratic nonsense.
Which is ironic considering that the site chosen for the datacenter near Piketon was used to produce nuclear fuel from 1956 until 2001.
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March 21, 2026
Saturday Night Club ONT - March 21, 2026 [D squared]
[Top photo: Vintage Tavern - Suffolk, VA]
[Top photo: Vintage Tavern - Suffolk, VA]
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Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles' follow-up to Citizen Kane is the touching, tragic tale of an American family that rose to riches and prominence in the 19th century—only to lose it all in the wake of the burgeoning automobile industry.
Well, sort of. A funny thing happened on the way to the bijou (and there is an actual theater called "The Bijou" in this movie): War broke out. And not just any war, but World War II. More about that in a moment. (Stay tuned! for breaking World War II news!) The second book of Booth Tarkington's trilogy, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, had been filmed previously, as a 70 minute 1925 silent picture which was chopped down to 33 minutes. Orson Welles recorded a version of this story as an hourlong radio special featuring his Mercury Players. But he wanted to give it proper cinematic treatment. The Tarkingtons were family friends, and the character of Eugene (Joseph Cotton) Welles claimed was based on his own father, also an inventor, who died when Welles was 15.This little turd is going to get his come-uppance, and it's not going to be fun at all.
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