The Morning Report — 12/15/25

Good morning kids. I'm absolutely sick to my stomach over the Bondi Beach massacre. That was horrible enough but the callous indifference of much of the world and in some circles the glee at yet more Jewish blood being spilled is the twisting of the knife. Coming as it does at the beginning of Chanukah, the festival of lights commemorating a miracle of God bestowed upon the Jewish people and representative of their victory over the literal and figurative forces of darkness millennia ago, is typical of how Muslims who plan, execute and the majority who don't but nevertheless celebrate them.

Islam is a cancer that will consume the entire world. That is the goal. The Jews are merely the first target.

Civilizational erasure, as it relates to Europe, has been in the news lately, with the renewed and scaled up predations of Islam once again commanding center stage.

Islam’s resurgence has been a full century in the making, enabled in large part by Western ignorance and enforced taboos against discussing Islam’s highly relevant 1,400-year history of mass bloodshed and conquest.

Indeed, that history is whitewashed by Western academics, whether pseudo-historians like the late Edward Said or execrable and ahistorical oikophobes like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky.  Wikipedia, Google, and artificial intelligence also play outsized roles in the academic and historical whitewash. . .

. . . Many Christmas markets in Europe are now closed due to “uncontrolled vehicles” and related Islamist threats while church bells and caroling fall silent in order to avoid offending Muslims.  Meanwhile, the Muslim muezzin sounds triumphantly throughout Western Europe and even in American cities of the Upper Midwest.  Islamic supremacism is on the march, its triumphalism augmented by its alliance with Western progressives who denounce any reminders of Christianity, including celebrations of Christmas. Burn a Koran or post a meme mocking Islam, and go to prison for a hate crime.  Burn a Bible, and hey, you’re bravely speaking truth to power.  Citizens of the West all know the drill by now. Will the governments of the Anglosphere learn their lesson from the Western European canary that dropped dead in the coal mine?  Events in locales as varied as Minnesota and the United Kingdom (it appears as if all of Albion is bent over and grabbing its ankles, undergoing a government cavity search) suggest that the answer is probably no.  To paraphrase the otherwise cartoonish James Carville, it’s the demography, stupid.

If Aussie PM Albanese and this dimwit asshole in Pennsylvania think they're going to ride the tiger and not be eaten or perhaps nibbled on last, oh to be there when the head-choppers have the rusty hacksaw at their throats.

Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community —Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews.. Pennsylvania's Bob Brooks, a former firefighter who started a lawn care business, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, among others

Members of the ‘devil’s party’ don’t create: they take what someone else made, and invert it.

Understand that simple reality and you will understand the macro and the micro struggles all around us. When Muslim terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into buildings, they weren’t creating anything, but they also weren’t just destroying things, they were inverting them.

What evil does isn’t mindless destruction, that’s savagery, instead evil takes the building blocks of civilization, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral, and turns them inside out whether these building blocks are governments, universities or ideas so that they become tools of destruction.

Representative governments become unrepresentative. Educational systems inculcate ignorance. The infrastructure of civilian life, buses, planes, trucks, become weapons. And the infrastructure of ideas and morality are inverted the same way to become their opposites.

Ideological inversion is everywhere and it’s the dominant form of political discourse.

Brooks et al are Democrat/Leftists. This is who and what they are. And so, to obtain and maintain power, they'll stay silent or otherwise nod and a wink if not give a standing ovation when Jews are slaughtered, so as not to alienate if not to ingratiate themselves to Muslims and fellow anti-Semites who vote them into office.

On that cold shot of reality, I do want to wish my fellow Jews and all of you a Happy Hanukkah in spite of the horror over the weekend and take comfort in that the lights of the season should and must inspire our faith that we will ultimately be delivered from darkness and that the evil we face will be defeated.

May the Lord bless the memories of the victims, comfort their loved ones and keep all of you safe as the Christmas season begins.

Have a good day.

On a personal note, a shout out to commenter AVIATOR, for your advice and insights, they're most helpful. I'll reach out to you a little later and many thanks again.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Post sources confirmed the bodies discovered were the longtime couple, who married in 1989. The couple’s 32-year-old son and screenwriter Nick Reiner is a person of interest in the deadly stabbing, the sources added.
  Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest
  
• Daniel Greenfield: Evil tries to convince us that the world we live in is evil. And destroying it is good.
  Evil Can’t Create, It Can Only Invert
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  BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH

• The attack, the deadliest in nearly three decades in Australia, has sparked worldwide condemnation and calls for increased security and action against rising antisemitism.
  11 Dead in Anti-Semitic Sydney Terror Shooting.
  
• A Chanukah by the Sea event with upwards of 1,000 attendees was scheduled to take place near a children’s playground from 5pm and had begun when the attack began at the iconic beach.
  12 People, Including One Gunman, Shot Dead at Sydney’s Bondi Beach: Jewish Community Targeted in ‘Terror Attack’
  
• Ahmed al-Ahmad, a 43-year-old father and fruit shop owner, tackled a gunman during the Bondi Beach attack.
  WATCH: Civilian Ambushes Terrorist At Bondi Beach, Wrestles Rifle Away
  
• At the time of the shooting, hundreds had gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah in an area known as Chanukah by the Sea, PBS reported. Emergency services began responding to Campbell Parade in Bondi around 6:45 p.m. local time after reports of shots being fired, according to The Associated Press.
  Twelve Killed In Shooting Targeting Jewish Community At Australia’s Bondi Beach, Police Say
  
• This is a special time for Christians, Jews and for the Muslims trying to kill them.
  A Chanukah Terrorist Attack in Australia
  
• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese failed to heed multiple warnings about the rising tide of hate — including from human-rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky (himself wounded Sunday), who spoke out Dec. 1 after graffiti reading “F–k Zionist Israel,” and “Israel has blood on their hands,” appeared on Bondi Beach overnight. And Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu wrote Albanese months ago, thundering that his call to recognize a Palestinian state “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire” and “emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
  Australia’s government failed its Jews in the long runup to Bondi Beach attack
  
• Antisemitic attacks in Australia have reportedly been rising, with the worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years occurring Saturday. A video previously posted by the Australian Jewish Association on Oct. 9, 2023 shows a large group of people waving various Palestinian flags and chanting obscenities against Jews from the steps of Sydney’s Opera House.
  FLASHBACK: Islamists Gathered To Chant ‘F*ck The Jews’ After Oct. 7 Just Minutes From Beach Shooting Site
  
• Both U.S. and Israeli officials warned that recognizing a 'Palestinian' state—which Albanese did in September—would embolden anti-Semites
  Australian PM Anthony Albanese Omits Jews in Statement on Hanukkah Massacre
  
• Pennsylvania's Bob Brooks, a former firefighter who started a lawn care business, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, among others (Brooks et al should only be 6 feet under a lawn as worm food - jjs)
  Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community—Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews

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Daily Tech News 15 December 2025

Top Story

• After Amazon was blocked from buying Roomba maker iRobot last year by US and European regulators, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be sold off to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co. (Bloomberg / MSN)
  
  Guess they'll have to... Suck it up.
  
  Oh, and good fucking work on the regulations there. You really protected competition, huh?

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - December 14, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday night ONT. Cold and snowy in my neck of the woods today. How about yours? How's the holiday season coming along for you? What's on your mind tonight? Check out the content, then jump on in to the gray boxes.

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Gun Thread: Second December 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 December Edition? Only 11 Days until Christmas! Have you done all of your shopping for shooting stuff or are there still some things on your list? Do tell.

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

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Food Thread: The Unbearable Heaviness Of A Bad Yorkshire Pudding

Nothing special about that pint, except for its deliciousness and its novelty. I had never seen their cask ale before!

Well, the little Christmas tree in the background is nice, which is why I chose the photo. And I used to drink "Samuel Smith's Pale Ale" in bottles when I was a callow youth. It was expensive, so I could only have one, but as I recall it was quite good!

This one is called "Old Brewery Bitter," which amuses me, because it isn't bitter at all. I guess it's true, we are two people, separated by a common language!

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First World Problems...

Is there any purpose to over-long laces? Is it some hipster code for "I bought the coolest hiking shoes?" Or is it a testament to the inability of shoe companies to use measuring equipment?

Am I supposed to double-knot, or maybe triple-knot? These things are long enough to tow a boat off the rocks!

Obviously I have to discard these shoes, and probably rebuild the closet in which they are stored. It might be easier to start over...raze the house and build new!

[1:58? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds]

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Take Back The Language!

Our language is amazingly dense and infinitely useful. We have a larger vocabulary than any other language, and enough tenses and special constructions to explain the most complex ideas, without being burdened with much in the way of gendered or confusing multi-word nouns.

English is a glory of the Western world, which of course is why it is a target for the Woke left. As Orwell famously said:

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

So let's fight back.

Don't say "partner" when you can say "husband" or "wife." Don't say "parent" when you can say "father" or "mother." Don't say "child" when you can say "boy" or "girl," "son" or "daughter." Re-sex neutered language. Be salt and light.

-- Tim Bayly

Excellent points, and a fine place to start. And I would extend it to singular and plural! There is nothing wrong with using "he" to describe an unknown. Using "they" is astoundingly confusing. "They drove the car into the bridge abutment?" How many people were driving the car? What's wrong with the general "he," which can be corrected when the sex of the subject is known. But using "he" risks misgendering, and our woke masters can't have that!

They corrupt us with this diminution of our wonderful language, and it is a simple thing to push back.

And don't get me started on "Happy Holidays!" I am happily Jewish, and I see no need for a Christian country to bowdlerize a traditional and fine greeting to be more sensitive to me. It's Christmas for the vast majority of the country...there is nothing wrong and everything wonderful about saying "Merry Christmas!"

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 12-14-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

[Please keep current events in the thread below. This thread is a lighthearted respite from the world [CBD]]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever View image
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...(HT: Nacly Dog)

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, hum some Christmas tunes, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

NOTE: CBD has posted a thread below covering the horrific shooting in Australia. Why do these things keep happening right before the Sunday Morning Book Thread? (10/7 was similar, but also much, much worse.)

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Rampant Antisemitism In Australia Leads To Predictable Result

At least 11 dead in shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach targeting Jewish community, officials say

This is a direct result of unfettered immigration of 7th century savages who want to burn the world down, starting with the Jews.

France and Britain are just as savage in their Jew-hate, and their leaders have spouted the predicable pablum that virtue signals their "feelings."

'Horrified, not shocked': Australian Jews blame Bondi attack on ongoing 'incitement'

“This is what the current government has allowed to come into our country and go unchecked,” Tali Shine, an Australian newscaster, told The Times of Israel following the attack. “When nothing was done about the radicalized protests outside the Opera House [shortly after October 7], it set the tone [for continued attacks on the Jewish community].”

[Book Thread will be posted at 9:30AM]

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Daily Tech News 14 December 2025

Top Story

• Why AI makes bad systems more convincing. (Chaincoder)
  
  Because AI is not just a stochastic bullshit generator. It's a stochastic plausibility generator.
  
  AI images? They're not art, they don't have meaning; they're just close enough to make you think they have meaning.
  
  AI stories and essays? The same except that it's a lot worse at holding to a thread.
  
  AI software testing? Actually useful. It might miss some test cases you would have tried, but it will also create test cases you wouldn't have thought of, and it will do it quickly.
  
  AI software? It will be produced quickly and for any non-trivial task it won't work. But it may look like it does.

  The deeper issue is psychological. The more polished the output looks, the less likely someone is to question it. Verification feels redundant when something sounds authoritative.
  
  That is not a tooling problem. It is a human one.

  Entirely correct.
  
  
  
• AI superintelligence - or even intelligence - is not a looming reality but a fantasy. (The Register)
  
  Partly because we have run out of easy wins. The industry wouldn't be spending a trillion dollars on this if it could be done for a billion.
  
  And partly because almost nobody is working towards intelligence, just bigger and shinier automated confidence tricksters.

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" December 13, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to the first Club ONT Christmas Party. Brought to you by a collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. Special shout out to Club friend, commenter, and bartender extraordinaire, JQ for the decorating.

We have music, ugly sweaters, questionably strong drinks, a wobbly table, snacks, and some fun content. Tonight is about good friends, good company, and making memories.

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 12/13/2025

Promised but Never Delivered

Movie studios have been trying to build franchises out of almost every major special effects spectacle since the 80s. It's the Star Wars and Indiana Jones influence. One film's box office gold is supposed to lead to another and another until everything just runs out of gas. And so, Hollywood is littered with purported starts to franchises that failed to go past the first entry. The Rocketeer, Lost in Space, The Dark Tower, they all ended with promises of further adventures that never came to be.

However, there are two over the past roughly fifteen years that hold special places in my heart, a pair of films so different from each other that are both considered huge box office bombs (one, the largest ever for a time) that I still yearn for sequels to. Now, just to make this clear...I do not think these sequels will ever materialize. One may...have a 1% chance of happening if lightning strikes the same spot fifteen times in a row, but otherwise, no. I don’t think these sequels will ever get made. The franchises are dead, and they will probably never be resurrected.

Those are: John Carter and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Both were big, wildly expensive spectacles based on tales old before any of the creatives were born. The first, based on the first of the Barsoom novels, A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the second a mishmash (let's be honest, every telling of King Arthur is a mishmash) of Arthurian legends. And I just...jive with them. I kind of love the former, and I really like the latter, and I've seen far worse films get sequels.

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Hobby Thread - December 13, 2025 [Tannenbaum Rex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. As previewed, the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on Christmas Ornaments.

Last week, the call went out for Horde Christmas ornament submissions. Are you thinking "I'm a grinch that did not submit an ornament, but I am eager to see what others submitted. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 13

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Dec. 13

Happy Winter Season! Don in Kansas has something cheerful for us:

It's more winter than fall now, and there's little happening outside, or inside. However, a friend up the street has a little greenhouse in which the plants are quite active . . .

Click on the link for a few more plants, including a Bird of Paradise.

Don also posted some Romanian Folk Dances by Bartok.

"Some easy Bartok. His music is not all grating dissonances."

Moldova (see earlier thread) was once part of the Romanian principality, and they speak Romanian there.

The Soviet era meant that most tomatoes grown there were developed as open-pollinated strains, not as hybrids. One of these is Glory of Moldova. It's a little orange saladette tomato that gets some great reviews. I love the name. "Glory of Moldova" is a little orange tomato!

Thinking about next year's garden choices?

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Two U.S. Soldiers Killed By ISIS Islamist In Syria

2 US Army Soldiers, Civilian Interpreter Killed by ISIS Gunman in Syria

Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed, and three others were injured in an ambush by an ISIS gunman in Syria on Dec. 13, according to the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on social media that the attack occurred in the central Syrian town of Palmyra as U.S. forces were conducting a key leader engagement in support of ongoing counter-ISIS and counterterrorism operations.

The new president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is supposedly against ISIS, but that is a tactical disagreement. Their overall goals are the same, so this attack, which will be condemned by Syria, is in furtherance of their shared goals of the creation of a worldwide caliphate and the destruction of the West.

And we are in bed with this maniac.

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What is an "influencer" these days?

Tiny Moldova may be the second-poorest country in Europe (Britannica) but they have fast internet speeds, a wine industry, and a strong drink museum.

And "influencers", apparently. More on that below, along with some other examples of "influencers". Culture and politics have always involved influencing people. Why, today, do we think in terms of "influencers"?

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Influencer Studios International

Walter Kirn, commenting on Nick Fuentes:

Told you.

Just another products of Influencer Studios Int'l.

Colin Wright:

A new report from @ncri_io shows that Nick Fuentes's sudden mainstream visibility reflects a coordinated illusion instead of a grassroots surge.

According to NCRI, Fuentes's rise was driven by synchronized amplification networks, anonymous booster accounts, foreign engagement farms, and a media ecosystem that mistook manufactured noise for genuine political momentum.

Details below:

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[H/T Thomas Paine, as in give me caffeine or give me death fame.]

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Medford)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. See if you are on somebody's list.
3) No. You may not run with sharp objects until the Food Thread comes around tomorrow.
4) Have a wonderful weekend.

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Daily Tech News 13 December 2025

Top Story

• In April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple had wilfully violated her 2021 order to open up the App Store.
  
  Apple appealed.
  
  The Ninth Circuit just upheld the decision, ruling that Apple has been acting in bad faith, as everyone paying attention already knew. (Ars Technica)
  
  "But we're only worth $4 trillion! We need that 30% cut of transactions that don't even take place on the App Store!"

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Thanks For The Memories

Welcome to Friday, Morons. Let's start with some good advice:

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