Virginia's New AWFUL Governor, a "Moderate" Democrat and CIA Stooge, Releases Illegal Alien Arrested Over 30 Times to the Streets; He Immediately Stabs a US Citizen to Death at Bus Stop

"Moderate" Democrat = Islamofascist communist and terrorist.

Fairfax County refused to turn this dangerous and now murderous illegal alien over to DHS.

Virginia Gov. Spanberger faces blowback after releasing illegal immigrant who stabbed woman to death

Spanberger ordered the end of localities cooperating with ICE upon taking office, and ICE targets prevented from being detained as potential killers.

Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares slammed Gov. Abigail Spanberger after a released illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet stabbed a woman to death at a bus stop. Abdul Jalloh allegedly stabbed victim Stephanie Minter at a Fairfax County bus stop after prosecutors had dropped charges in most of his previous cases. He was reportedly arrested more than 30 times.

Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano most recently dropped violent charges against the alleged perpetrator, according to local news reports.

"Not even a month since I called out Gov. Abigail Spanberger for signing her EO banning law enforcement from cooperating with ICE we see the bitter fruits: Abdul Jalloh entered the U.S. illegally, stabbed an innocent woman to death at a bus stop this week despite having a [...] criminal history of more than 30 arrests, according to DHS, including for rape, malicious wounding, assault, identity theft, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, assault and pick-pocketing.' This is exactly the criminal first, victim last policies that get innocent Americans killed," Miyares wrote on X.

Descano has previously been under fire before for dropping criminal charges against illegal immigrant offenders who go on to commit more crimes.

In 2024, 31-year-old Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, an illegal immigrant, was arrested for many crimes, but he was released into the community repeatedly. He went on to allegedly rape a woman on a trail in Fairfax County.

Upon taking office, Spanberger ordered localities not to cooperate with ICE despite probable cause for arrest.

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Iranian Liberation Dance Party Goes Worldwide

Just a quick happy one to start the day. I'll put up a real post soon.

Reportedly, Trump moved up the start of the operation when the CIA managed to actually do something useful. They determined that Khamenei and his top advisors would be, inadvisedly, getting together Saturday morning for a national security meeting. Trump forwarded that information to Israel which actually hit the site.

Khameni and up to ten of his top officials were killed in that single strike. Since then most of Khamenei's family and his male successors have been killed, as well as 40 Revolutionary Guard commanders.

Update: I just heard that there were three national security meetings that morning. All three were hit.

Here are Iranians celebrating and thanking the USA (and Trump_ for their deliverance.

And doing the Trump Dance:

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THE MORNING RANT: Any Refund of Tariffs Already Collected Should Go to Taxpayers, not Businesses

Last November,President Trump announced that he would share the financial bounty of his tariffs by sending $2,000 “tariff dividend” payments to most Americans. Truth be told, even though I am a strong supporter of the tariffs, I did not care for this idea since it comes across as exchanging a government check for political support.

The outsource-all-the-manufacturing-jobs “free traders” were apoplectic, of course. National Review had a hair-on-fire piece titled “Trump’s $2,000 Check is a Disastrous Idea.” Perhaps. But with the Supreme Court having just invalidated many of the tariffs, and with businesses suing to claw back tariffs that they paid, who should get the money if the tariffs are going to be refunded?

Don’t forget, the opponents of tariffs reflexively bleat “Tariffs are a tax on consumers” at any mention of there being economic benefits from tariffing imports. Doesn’t it follow then that if tariff revenues were taxes paid by consumers, and if those tariff revenues were illegal and must be returned, the tariff refunds should go to taxpayers rather than to corporations?

Maybe it’s time to re-think the “tariff dividend.”

Those of us who support President Trump’s tariffs want to restore America’s industrial might, repatriate manufacturing jobs, reduce trade imbalances, and protect our national sovereignty. We argue that tariffs keep economic prosperity at home, and reduce US dependence on supply chains involving hostile foreign regimes.

The opponents of Trump’s tariffs envision a utopian, one-world economic market in which the US is a weak country dependent on overseas manufacturing. Although they call themselves “free traders,” they do not actually argue for reciprocal free trade. They argue passionately that the US should unilaterally surrender to foreign mercantilism, keeping our markets open to those same countries that block American exports. When tariffs are proposed to break down those unfair trade barriers, the “free traders” immediately start reciting their overused buzz phrase, “Tariffs are a tax on consumers.”

My motivation for supporting tariffs has nothing to do with collecting tariff revenue. I’d be happy if tariff revenues were nominal, indicating that we have a broadly diverse domestic economy that is not significantly reliant on imports. That said, Trump’s tariffs have been successful in generating revenue during this time of transition. Whoever is ultimately paying the tariffs – be it consumers, importers, or foreign suppliers - $133 billion has already been collected so far.

But as I mentioned above, businesses that actually remitted the tariff payments on their imported goods are now demanding those tariffs be refunded to them:

“Businesses Push for Tariff Refunds as Trump Aides Hint at Fight to Come” [NY Times – 02/25/2026]

Now that the president has suffered such a stinging defeat, major businesses including Dyson, FedEx and L’Oreal have filed an early barrage of lawsuits in search of hefty tariff payouts.

At stake is more than $100 billion in revenue collected over the past year under a roster of tariffs that the Supreme Court invalidated last week. While a defiant Mr. Trump has since taken steps to try to revive the duties, he still faces the prospect that the money collected from his past tariffs might have to be paid back.

So far, roughly 900 claims seeking those refunds have been filed in federal court, according to the Liberty Justice Center, a legal group that represented some of the small businesses in the lawsuit that reached the nation’s justices.

Since the free traders have so persistently argued that “Tariffs are a tax on consumers,” why should the businesses involved in importing goods be entitled to any tariff refunds? I thought we the consumers were the ones who paid those tariffs, not the businesses or their overseas suppliers.

Here’s an idea on how we could resolve the refund of these contested tariffs to consumers - a tariff dividend from the government to taxpayers, just like President Trump proposed.

Irrespective of how this specific political battle plays out, the Trump administration has plenty of other avenues to fix the nation’s trade imbalance, including the imposition of tariffs under other statutes. The “free traders” so desperate to see other countries prosper at the expense of the United States, and who despair at the thought of an American industrial revival, will not prevail. New tariffs will be imposed, because tariffs are working.

As documented by F. Andrew Wolf Jr. at The American Spectator, the US trade deficit plunged a whopping 45% in Q4 of 2025 compared to Q4 of 2024! This was due to the Trump tariffs.

There has also been a torrent of announcements from corporations in the past year regarding major investments in the United States for new manufacturing plants. Just a small sample of these announcements include:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Queen Esther
Edwin Longsden Long

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The Morning Report — 3/2/26

Good morning kids. Well March certainly does come in like a Lion, in this case it's the Lion of Judah! I am referring of course to President Trump's massive decapitation strike against the Iranian Muallahocracy. Supreme leader Khomeini is confirmed dead and crucially there are reports that at least 48 key Iranian officials have also been vaporized in the joint American and Israeli operations.

Thirty-six hours after the United States military launched strikes against the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, President Donald Trump issued a video update Sunday on Operation Epic Fury from his Mar-a-Lago residence. . . The president characterized Operation Epic Fury as “one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.” The allied militaries struck “hundreds of targets in Iran, including Revolutionary Guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems,” and “nine ships plus their naval base, all in a matter of literally minutes.”

. . . The president also defended the joint strikes, declaring the U.S. was “undertaking a massive operation, not merely to ensure security for our own time and place, but for our children and their children.” “This is the duty and burden of a free people,” he reflected. “These actions are right, and they are necessary to ensure Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime, armed with nuclear weapons.”

“For almost 50 years, these wicked extremists have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan ‘Death to America’ or ‘Death to Israel’ or both. They are the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” Trump added. “These intolerable threats will not continue any longer.” (RELATED: ‘I Have Agreed’: Trump Says Iran’s New Leaders Want To Talk') . . “Combat operations continue in full force and will continue until all of our objectives are achieved,” he stated.

Turning to the remaining authorities in Iran, Trump urged “the Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian military police, to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death, it won’t be pretty.”

The president then made another appeal to the Iranian people, urging regime change.

Well, there's the rub my friends. Who will be the new leaders and what kind of government and society will emerge once the dust settles and the rubble of the old regime is cleared away? Over the last few weeks, I have had many links that show the Persian people are absolutely against any kind of return to an Islamic theocracy. Of course, it's the IRGC and security services that will call the shots, literally and figuratively unless they either surrender or are eradicated. I fear the President is correct in that "it won't be pretty."

So far we have at least three American servicemen dead and a number of others reported wounded along with a number of Israeli citizens killed in missile strikes. God bless all of them, and protect those on the front lines and the innocents who are behind the lines.

The political fallout here at home is predictable. The Fifth columnist Democrat Left and their media puppets are with the terrorists in Tehran. Lest we forget it was they who inflicted the Iranian regime on us 47 years ago when Jimmy Carter abandoned the Shah and the Iranian people to their fate and unleashed a half-century of global Islamic terrorism on the world with many Americans murdered and maimed as a result, as Iran sought to acquire nuclear weapons to bring about Armageddon as the precursor to the Shiite Islamic conquest of the world.

We also have the isolationist crowd bleating out that Trump betrayed MAGA by starting a new war. Well, that remains to be seen depending upon how long this goes on and if, God-forbid American boots arrive on the ground in Iran. Special forces/operations notwithstanding, I cannot imagine the 3rd ID, the Marines or the 82nd and/or 101st Airborne coming ashore as it did in the Gulf Wars. That would be madness. So can Air power alone achieve Trump's aims of regime change and Iranian liberation? Well, in his words, we'll just have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, with our attention overseas, this happened here at home:

The gunman behind Austin’s possible terror-related mass shooting entered the US  and cemented his legal immigration status under Democrat administrations — despite a growing criminal record.
Senegalese national Ndiaga Diagne, 53, arrived in America on March 13, 2000, on a B-2 tourist visa during the Clinton administration, a source familiar with his immigration history told The Post on Sunday.
Diagne — who killed two people and wounded 14 more during his rampage outside a Texas bar early Sunday — then became a lawful permanent resident on an IR-6 visa in June 2006 when he married a US citizen, the source said. He had already racked up at least one arrest before that, for illegal vending in June 2001 in New York City, law-enforcement sources said. He then went on to lodge a string of other arrests in the Big Apple between 2008 and 2016 — but that didn’t stop him becoming a naturalized US citizen on April 5, 2013 — around the start of former President Barack Obama’s second term, sources said. Those three arrests are sealed, sources said.
Diagne also was arrested in Texas at some point on undisclosed charges, sources said.
He was a known emotional disturbed person in both states, too, sources said. Diagne then applied for asylum in 2016, though the outcome or stated purpose of that application was not immediately clear.
The serial offender opened fire outside Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden near the University of Texas-Austin Campus early Sunday, killing two bar patrons and wounding 14 others before he was shot and killed by police.
He was wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie at the time of the rampage and had a Quran in his car, sources familiar with the investigation told The Post. The FBI is investigating whether he was motivated by the US-Israel-led campaign against Iran — sources said he was wearing an undershirt emblazoned with the Iranian flag or other Iran-related imagery.

With all of that I say, GIVE 'EM HELL John Fetterman!!!

And a Happy Purim to my Jewish friends and all of you who cherish freedom!!!!

Have a great day!

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
• As reported by Breitbart Texas, at least three people have been killed and 14 injured after shots rang out at a popular Sixth Street bar in the Texas capital city of Austin early Sunday morning. According to authorities, the shooter was killed by police officers who responded to the location of the shooting within a minute of the first emergency call.
  FBI on Austin Mass Shooting: Evidence Indicates ‘Potential Nexus to Terrorism’ — Koran Found in Shooters Car
  
• The was wearing a sweatshirt that reads “Property of Allah.” …federal law enforcement sources described him a a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Senegal.
  Austin Shooter Naturalized Under Obama in 2013, Wore “Property of Allah” Sweatshirt
  
• The gunman behind Austin’s possible terror-related mass shooting entered the US and cemented his legal immigration status under Democrat administrations — despite a growing criminal record.
  Austin mass shooter Ndiaga Diagne entered US during Clinton admin., became citizen under Obama — despite string of busts

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Daily Tech News 2 March 2026

Top Story

• The entry-level PC market - systems priced between $500 and $1000 - is predicted to be wiped out by 2028. (WCCFTech)
  
  The leading cause of this mass extinction is everyone's favourite villain, Sam Altman of OpenAI. CPU and motherboard prices haven't moved, but RAM prices have increased 300 to 500%, with video cards as collateral damage, and storage prices are heading into the stratosphere as well.
  
  I suspect the video game market will be forced to adjust to lower average specs for the next few years. Either that or they're going to lose all their remaining customers to indie titles that run fine on ten-year-old hardware.
  
  Hytale recommends a Radeon 400 series, a range that came out in 2016. Silksong recommends a Radeon 380 from 2015, but will run on a Radeon 7750 from 2012. And that means it will run on pretty much any laptop's integrated graphics.
  
  Custom PC builders are going to be hurting for years, though.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 1, 2026 [Doof]

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Howdy Hordelings! March has arrived, and Spring is around the corner. One more week until Daylight Savings Time. Time keeps on ticking!

For now, it's ONT time. Open thread as always. Lurkers encouraged to de-lurk. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Gun Thread: First March 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 First March Edition? I told 'you people' March was coming, didn't I? Hmmm? Well here it is, and we have not one, not two, not three, not four, but five Sundays this month!! I am exhausted just thinking about it!

Current Events: I generally like to take a break from current events in the comments but I think the situation in Iran, and to a greater degree the implications here at home, warrant an exception. If you would like to discuss what is going on I'm OK with it, particularly with respect to the potential for acts of domestic terrorism and the various threat scenarios, and general self-defense preparedness and best practices. Having said that, please think before you post. Thanks.

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

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Food Thread: Carbon Steel For The Loss!

Seasoning steel pans is an exercise in frustration and failure, unlike the same process with cast-iron. I am not a metallurgist, So I can only guess at the difference in the surface's ability to absorb oil and then hold onto it in its polymer state. But I do know one thing...that expensive carbon-steel pan is a huge pain in the ass to season, and the seasoning is as fickle and transitory as a puff of smoke in a windstorm.

Big Pan is as evil a cabal as any on earth; their teasing bromides about the superiority of their products should be outlawed, and their executives banished to a world of stuck-on eggs and burned steaks.

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First World Problems...

That's one of my favorite lowball glasses, and because I am a big fan of Old Fashioneds, it gets heavy use.

Alas, it suffered a chip, and while it wasn't particularly expensive, it is a nice solid, heavy glass that adds to the enjoyment of my cocktails! So I wasn't about to toss the thing. Remember, I am a cheap bastard!

So...what to do?

Some 600 grit sandpaper, a thin punch, and a very long time carefully sanding smooth the jagged edge, and all's right in the world!

A First World Problem AND a First World Solution!

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After 47 Years Of Asymmetric War, We Finally Have A President Who Understands

The Islamic Republic Of Iran was founded after a revolution overthrew its monarch. That revolution was aided and abetted by a cabal of western countries, including France and America (thank you Jimmy Carter!), and various leftist political groups that found Iran's embrace of the West and Israel to be unacceptable.

Soon after the Shah left Iran and his replacement failed to consolidate power, the Mullahs rushed in. They had been fomenting revolution for years, and the most fanatical of them, Ayatollah Khomeini, seized power and promptly imprisoned or murdered his political opponents, in particular the starry-eyed leftists who saw Iran becoming some sort of progressive Nirvana.

They were wrong, and instead Iran became the epicenter of Islamic terror, with its tentacles spread across the world. They also created proxies within other countries to facilitate their expansionist goals in the region. Much of the Islamic terror that spread through the West could be traced to active or tacit support from Iran and its theocratic dictators. They also created a comprehensive surveillance state within Iran, and ferociously enforced their version of Shia Islam. Other religions withered, women were cast back into the 7th century, murder, torture, and rape became a tool of the government, and it was all supported by the insatiable thirst for Iranian oil, coupled with the typical leftist support of anything that degrades traditional Western culture.

Iran's targets were Israel first and foremost, and America. Little Satan and Big Satan, and they didn't pretend anything different. For 46 years the goal of the dictators of Iran was the destruction of Israel, the destruction of America, and a global conflagration that would usher in the end times that would return their 12th Imam, a tenet of Shia Islam.

It was war against Israel, America, and the West, but the flaccid thinkers and accommodationists who passed for western political elites wouldn't, or couldn't understand that there was no accommodation to be made with a theocratic dictatorship whose goals were clear. So they mostly ignored the war, accepted the casualties, and hoped that kicking the can down the road would eventually moderate the savagery of the Iranian government.

They too were wrong, and Israel's behind-the-scenes work to degrade the Iranian nuclear program was the only thing that kept the West from a third World War, this time with nuclear weapons.

That is, until the election of Donald Trump!

Trump's courageous decision to face Tehran head-on

The strongest argument that President Donald Trump’s political opponents can muster to decry his decision to order American forces to join with Israel to act against Iran is that he is launching a “war of choice,” rather than seeking to avert an imminent threat to American interests or security. Even his sternest critics, such as the editorial page of The New York Times, acknowledged that the government of Iran is not merely a brutal oppressor and a constant threat to the rest of the Middle East as well as to the West, but also combines a “murderous ideology with nuclear ambitions.”

Every U.S. president for the last quarter-century has asserted that America will never let Iran get a nuclear weapon and was prepared to use force to prevent that from happening. But only Trump seems to have fully grasped the stark nature of the threat that Tehran poses to the United States—and the world.

The goal...perhaps the only goal...of the Iranian theocracy was the production of nuclear weapons to be used against Israel, America, and probably Europe. Any other interpretation of their actions is arrant nonsense or willful ignorance. The Iranian dictators were excellent practitioners of the Muslim penchant for lying and misdirection, or "taqiyya." And the world was content to be fooled!

But not President Donald Trump. In fact, his own brand of American taqiyya seemed to work rather well on Iran, whose leadership was surprised by the attacks of February 28th. The Iranians assumed that their own obfuscation would buy them time, and that their own attacks on American installations, Israel, and a few other Arab nations in the region would be on their timetable.

Whoops!

Israel's decapitation of the leadership, combined with a massive degradation of Iran's military infrastructure that only America could achieve, has created the opportunity for another revolution in Iran...one that will hopefully usher in a government that will consider the welfare of the Iranian people to be paramount.

If the American and Israeli attacks continue, and if the dictatorship's power base is damaged enough be attacked from within Iran by whatever coalition is being cobbled together, and if that coalition can create a functioning government, and if its neighbors do not begin to meddle, then the Iranian people have a chance to become what they once were, a vibrant, energetic, successful culture!

There are a lot of "ifs" in that paragraph, and there are no guarantees, even with the staunch support of America and its clear-eyed president! But it is difficult to imagine an outcome that is any worse than the current state of affairs.

But the established world order has come to an end. Iran will not be the dominant player in the Middle East, and will find it increasingly difficult to continue its evil ways around the world, even if by some malign turn of events the theocracy survives.

And...hopefully...President Trump is parsimonious with American treasure, and does not commit to a rebuilding of Iran at the expense of the American taxpayer. It is the Iranian people who should do the work!

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Book Thread: March 1st, 2026 [MP4]

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Good morning, ‘rons and ‘ronettes. It’s time once again for the monthly MP4-hosted Sunday Book Thread. Dress is country club casual, but ladies are encouraged to indulge in shoes, such as this:

So ask the barman for an Old Fashioned, covfefe or tea and let’s get started!

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Daily Tech News 1 March 2026

Top Story

• OpenAI has announced a deal with the Department of War with - apparently - the same limitations that Anthropic was demanding. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Guess Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, really pissed someone off.
  
  Sam Altman of OpenAI knows when to lie, and sometimes also who to lie to.
  
  
  

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Saturday Night Club ONT - February 28, 2026 [2 D's]

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino. We've spiffied the place up a bit tonight. Hope you notice. The carpets have been cleaned. Starlight mints are now available at the bar. Fresh cakes in the urinals. Lavender and vanilla scented plug-ins in the ladies room. Coat check area has been sprayed with that stuff they use for bowling shoe rentals. Come on in!

This is an open thread, so report, speculate, and pontificate as desired. Current events continue to develop. Just don't be a jerk or a troll. Club ONT security will remove offenders.

[Top photo: Cataract Falls, Tennessee (ten minutes from Gatlinburg)]

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Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Shockingly, I think I've only seen one other movie this 21-day-stretch, the 1945 classic "Brief Encounter," which is semi-relevant. But rather than talk about that masterpiece, I thought I'd give you a review of a new movie that doesn't suck--an increasingly rare breed.
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I was talking to a friend (who's been on a David Lean kick) about this movie, and she sighed and said "I hate...today."

This isn't so much a reflection on the quality of Gore Verbinski's latest joint Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die so much as its character, and more the character of our times. She had watched Brief Encounter, which is intensely human, personal and moral, and it's a big, jarring jump to a black comedy about the death of humanity, school shootings, and the rise of "fake reality".

I like Verbinski. Early in his career, it seemed to me that he made a lot out of some thin material: Mousehunt is basically a cartoon about two guys versus a mouse, and is far more entertaining than it should be; The Ring I liked better than the Japanese original; and of course Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl—based on the smash hit amusement park ride?—was a remarkable achievement blending old Hollywood swashbuckler tropes with CGI technology.

It's probably his best film and very possibly his ruination, as the first two sequels dominated his output in the '00s with predictably deteriorating returns artistically (if not financially). He had a hit with his quirky CGI Rango—which grossed a little bit less than his flop, The Lone Ranger, showing how weird the movie biz can be sometimes.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die looks to be a flop, too, looking like it may not break $5M in its opening weekend.

Would you go on a quest with this man?

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Hobby Thread - February 28, 2026 [TRex]

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. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) a spin and it landed on woodworking on a lathe.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, February 28

Courtesy Troy Rubright

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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 for just a little while.

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Nazis, RINOs, Islamofascists, and Other Infiltrators Who Should Have Been Purged Long Ago Are Having a Bad Day

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86

They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran's entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.

Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time.

That moment was 8:15 this morning. Daylight. Every previous Israeli strike on Iran came at night. June 2025 launched in darkness. October 2024 after midnight. Iran's entire air defense doctrine is built around the assumption that Israel attacks in the dark. Israel attacked in broad daylight because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting.

Reuters confirms strikes targeted Khamenei and Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning. Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran's top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei was moved before the strike or extracted after is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now. If before, someone inside Tehran's inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If after, the strikes hit the room and he survived. Both scenarios are catastrophic for the regime.

Because Iran's leadership now knows three things. Israel knew where they were meeting. Israel knew when they were meeting. Israel knew who would be in the room. And everything we watched over the past month, the F-22s at Ovda, the tankers at Ben Gurion, Al Udeid emptied to zero, 270 transport flights, all of it was the delivery architecture for one precision strike on one gathering.

Every future meeting of Iran's senior leadership now carries one question: does Israel know about this one too.

This is not a military operation. This is the destruction of institutional trust inside a regime. Every general who sits with Khamenei tomorrow will wonder who told Jerusalem about today. Every IRGC commander who receives a meeting summons will calculate whether attendance is duty or a death sentence. Every secure facility in Tehran has been proven insecure.

In June 2025 Israel killed 30 generals in the opening minutes. That was brute force across dispersed targets. This was a scalpel. One meeting. One moment. Months of patience.

Iran fired missiles at six countries in retaliation. Most intercepted. One civilian dead from debris in Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia responded by pledging all its capabilities against Iran. The Gulf coalition that did not exist yesterday exists today because Tehran built it by attacking everyone simultaneously.

Israel traded one morning of precision strikes for the permanent destruction of Iran's command cohesion.

That is not a battle. That is checkmate disguised as a first move. https://open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans

Marjorie Taylor Greene
@mtgreenee

I did not campaign for this.
I did not donate money for this.
I did not vote for this, in elections or Congress.
This is heartbreaking and tragic.
And how many more innocent will die?
What about our own military?
This is not what we thought MAGA was supposed to be.
Shame!

Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie

10h

Acts of war unauthorized by Congress.
The U.S. is attacking Iran according to AP.

The "ex-" degenerate who supposedly converted to Catholicism and gave up being a living pincushion is now singing prayers to Allah in Arabic:

He's also calling for terrorists to blow up federal buildings.

DEPORT.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Feb. 28

The photo above, of a Lady Banks' Rose not too far from where we live, is a repeat. But I thought the flag was appropriate for today. And the flag is up over the rose bush again, too. This is a prime season for lovely flowering shrubs and small trees. This rose only blooms once a year, but it stays in bloom for several weeks, and it is worth changing your traveling route a little to see it if you have one in the neighborhood. We have several in our neighborhood. Not all this big.

Wee Kreek Farm Girl first alerted us that this rose, Rosa banksiae, both the yellow one and the white one, grow in the desert, including a record-setting huge rose in Tombstone.

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Reactions: All the Right Nazis and Islamic Apologists Is Losing Dey Shit

Noah Pollak
@NoahPollak

1h

One of Trump's greatest legacies will be how he blew up a half-century of western diffidence, restraint, and failure on terrorism. As the era of Islamic terrorism began in the 1970s, western countries (very much including Israel) spun up all kinds of pseudo-sophisticated theories and excuses to avoid carrying out the only successful policy, which is killing terrorists -- as many as you can, whenever you can.

There are entire university departments, think tanks, media outlets, NGOs, foundations, and political parties devoted to promoting self-defeating, enervating fictions about terrorism designed to tie the hands of the West. We just have to live with it, deal with it, accommodate it, accept the barbarism. Terrorists have grievances. It's partly our fault, after all, because reasons. There are no military solutions. If we're nice to the terrorists they will actually help us stabilize the region. The tropes go on forever and they are invented by people who want the west to lose, and who would rather be wrong but appear sophisticated than be right and appear crude.

Trump wants our side to win. The winning approach to terrorism is very simple. Bomb them to smithereens. Kill them off. Decapitate the regimes. Sanction them until they have no more money for jihad. Trump gets it, because unlike so many people in politics, he doesn't care whether Harvard likes him.

Winning is going to generate a real peace dividend for America. Finally dealing with Iran -- the head of the snake -- will enable the US to step away from the Middle East. It will send a message to our adversaries that the big dog is still in charge. And very enjoyably, it will sweep aside decades of dumb elite groupthink about how we have no alternative but to cut deals with terrorists. Thank you President Trump.

Guy Benson
@guypbenson

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The emerging consensus among many elected Democrats is some version of:

'To be a clear, Iran's outlaw regime is deeply evil, exports terrorism around the world, pursues genocidal nuclear weapons, is drenched in American blood, and slaughters its own civilians en masse. But..."

@CAGovernor
Gavin Newsom:

"The corrupt and repressive Iranian regime must never have nuclear weapons. The leadership of Iran must go. But that does not justify the President of the United States engaging in an illegal, dangerous war that will risk the lives of our American service members and our friends without justification to the American people. President Trump is putting Americans at risk abroad because he is unpopular at home."

"As this unfolds, California stands with the Iranian-American community in our state, recognizing they have many friends and loved ones who have fought bravely to chart their own future to end decades of state violence and denial of basic rights."

Cavernous Nostrils weighs in:

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO

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We will never forget that they MURDERED Charlie Kirk for this war and he knew they were going to do it.
His spent his final days mentally anguished, texting the very people who would ultimately betray him.

In honor of Charlie, I STAND AGAINST ISRAEL.

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