Beach Report 10/2/26

Wow! 80 F with light south winds, and moderate humidity and a few wispy, high clouds.

There's an Osprey in that picture somewhere. In fact, I saw two in the air at one time. Is there a dad still taking care of a juvenile? 

The tide was pretty low, but the beach is still "different" after the nor'easter. Lot's of good material to look through. The top tooth is a well worn lower Mako Shark. I'm pretty sure the lower tooth is a sadly broken retroflexus, the much rarer Long-fin Mako. If it had been intact it would have been one of our best ever.

Flotsam and Jetsam - FlyDubai Hijack Updates and a New Attack Thwarted

Cathy Salgado at PJM reports Netanyahu Confirms Hijacker Had ‘Islamist Radical Indoctrination.’ From NRO, Thwarted Hijacker Underwent ‘Islamist Radical Indoctrination,’ Netanyahu Says. Ace, Source at FlyDubai: The Omani Co-Pilot Was a "Religious Extremist" (Non-Amish Division), "We Hired the Services of a Terrorist". "Via Ed Morrissey, "We may never know the motive" once again becomes "We knew the motive all along because of course." But the media will never get tired of playing this game." Mary Chastain at LI, ‘Altercation’: Media Downplays Cockpit Stabbing on Flight Carrying 174 to Israel, "How the media described the stabbing: altercation, “violent” altercation, fought, struggle." From Twitchy, Israel War Room Torches NBC News' Post About Plane That Apparently Decided to Try and Crash Itself. NBC News @NBCNews, "He is being hailed around the world as a hero for helping stop a passenger plane bound for Israel from plunging into the ground, despite his own severe injuries." And, 'Did the Terrorist Write This Headline?' CBS Dusts Off a Media Cliché for Hijacking Attempt Update CBS News @CBSNews, "Questions about the motive of the co-pilot who tried to crash a packed flight from Dubai to Israel continue to swirl." Laughing Wolf's take on the FlyDubai Incident. Zionist Squirrel @Contra_Flash, "The flydubai incident is a good litmus test to see if people who claim they aren’t Nazis or Nazi-esque can condemn an attempt to kill a plane full of Israelis without excusing it, minimizing it, “contextualizing” it, or deciding the victims had it coming." Quote crunchyrugger @crunchyrugger, "they cannot."

Sunny @sunnyright, "Second foiled antisemitic terrorist attack in one day." Quote Tom Winter @Tom_Winter, "NBC News: Plot to attack Texas capitol foiled, DPS says. Suspect allegedly told his friend that he was angry at AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and that "these people have to be exterminated."" AG @AGHamilton29, "I don’t know how anyone can keep seeing these stories and not realize how the current environment, including a lot of the conspiratorial rhetoric from the far-left and alt-right, is encouraging political violence." Ace, Of Course: Texas Police and FBI Disrupt Planned Terror Attack to "Shoot Up" the State Capitol, Out of Antisemitic Animus. "No word on his immigration status. No statement that he's a citizen. So maybe he's one of those Doctors and Engineers our country would collapse without." Mary Chastain again, UK PM Burnham: ‘Strong Indications’ Iran is Linked to RAF Fairford Plot. "Then WHY did you guys release them on bail!!?" The Bebe, UK-Iranian dual national arrested over RAF Fairford incident, police say. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Well there’s an Iranian link. Is this going to be another catch and release?" Quote Politics UK @PolitlcsUK, "BREAKING: Counter Terror Police have arrested a 27-year-old dual UK/Iranian national in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts over the RAF Fairford plot." From the Babylon Bee, Britain Apologizes For Disrupting Whatever It Was Nice Muslim Men Were Doing.

Bob Spencer at PJM looks at what happens to A Connecticut Jihadi in an Obama Judge’s Court. Dave Bernstein at Insty, NOTHING IS MORE PATHETIC THAN WATCHING A POLITICIAN DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE BECAUSE IT’S IN HER POLITICAL INTEREST TO DO SO: Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy, "“We’ll make sure no non-Muslims live in our city.” How? By charging a “service fee”, and funneling 75% of it to the mosque. “We’ll name our streets after the greatest Islamic conquerors, like Khalid bin al-Waleed.” “If they keep saying Muslims want to take over America, it will become a reality.” “We’ll use the infidels to serve Islam. John Smith will get us the permits. We have the money.”" Dave Strom, Muslims Keep Saying the Not-So-Quiet Part Out Loud, Elites Keep Saying It's Not True and What Do You Get When You Combine the French Love of Riots With Muslim Love of Riots. More and bigger riots. PJM's Aaron Hanscom, Why Jews Who Turn on Israel to Be Loved Still Get Hated. Ace is disgusted; Of COURSE: The UK Gives the Exact Same Sentence to a Muslim Immigrant for Actually Setting a Migrant Hotel on Fire As They Gave a White Citizen for Briefly Saying "Burn the Hotels Down for All I care."

Ace is irate that Iran Urges Americans to Vote for Democrats. "FOREIGN COLLUSION?! The case for Democrat collusion with Iran is far, far more extensive than the completely-fake Hillary campaign contrivance of "RUSSIAN COLLUSION." And the mad theocrats of Iran are making their support of the Democrat Party explicit." And vice versa. Dick Pollock at The World In Crisis views an Explosive New Film Reveals Iran’s Mass Killing of Protesters. "Independent Documentary Is Released A Week Ago...the Western Media Doesn’t Care." And neither do the Democrats. PJM's Eric Florack thinks The Real Battle Isn't Iran vs. the World; It's Iran's People vs. the IRGC. At YaHoo! Persian Gulf crude oil flows have largely recovered. For diesel and gasoline, it's more complicated.

Ace wakes up to realize Secretary of War Hegseth Plans to Fire 20% of All Generals and Admirals; Appoints a Panel to Game Out the Future of Warfare, Including Elon Musk. Hat Hair's Dave Strom has good news Chances of Chinese Attack on Taiwan in the Near Term Seem to Be Diminishing. From The Scuttlebutt, Enemy Actions. At YaHoo, Cold War Spy Satellite FARRAH III Breaks Apart in Orbit, Cause Unknown, maybe just an accident. Maybe.

From Campus Reform opines Universities must adapt quickly to AI to preserve the value of a college degree. "'If students continue to use AI to elide cognitive friction, they will fail to master the material and enhance their skill sets.'" Bloomberg reports Google Grapples With Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model. CNBC, SpaceX launches Google AI chips into orbit in push toward space-based data centers. Race @multiplanet1, "After the first Falcon 1 rocket exploded 33 seconds after launch in March 2006, Elon Musk did something that his employees did not expect. He personally called the family members of the engineers who had worked on the rocket. Not the engineers. Their families. The engineers were at the launch site. They had watched their work explode in the sky. They were processing the failure in real time with their colleagues. They had each other. Their families were at home. Their spouses and parents had watched on a livestream or heard the news secondhand. They had no colleagues. They had no context. They just knew that the thing their husband or wife or child had spent 3 years building had just been destroyed in 33 seconds and they didn't know if anyone was hurt. Elon called to tell them everyone was safe. That the failure was a known risk. That the team would try again. That their family member had done extraordinary work and the explosion was not a reflection of their ability..."

Rod Martin calls it The Greatest Story Never Told: Trump’s Economic Miracle. "Trump’s economy has produced all-time record household income and an all-time record-low poverty rate. Now the Atlanta Fed predicts 5 percent GDP growth. You’d think somebody would notice." KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat, "NEW: RFK Jr. says Medicare spending on wound care patches exploded from $200 million in 2019 to $14 billion last year: "It's all stolen." Bad actors billed Medicare billions by slapping the most expensive skin grafts on elderly and dying patients who didn't need them. "The doctors who prescribed them would get 6% of the sales cost. And so, they were incentivized to prescribe more expensive products. In Europe, they spend 35 cents a cubic inch. We were spending $135, and that went up to $2,000 a cubic inch." "So 2019, we were paying $200 million. Last year we spent 14 billion. All stolen. It's all stolen. And we were on track to spend 23 billion this year." "We put an end to it, and we now have driven that cost down to somewhere around a billion dollars...."

PJM's Matt Margolis sees CNN’s Data Guru Just Dropped Brutal Numbers for the Democrats’ Midterm Dreams. The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1, "Just in: Chuck Schumer says Republicans would Steal the Midterms Elections He said: “Two things could have us to lose. One, they steal the election. The second thing is money. They have obscene amounts of money.”" From Da Signal, 47 Democrats Refuse to Vote to Ban Insider Trading. Ace hears The Muskily Heterosexual James Talarico: Despite My Transparently Disingenuous Claims to Have Moderated on the Trans Issue, I Have Not Changed My Position At All. "There's always the question with shifty, dishonest left-wing politicians. You know they're lying, but who are they lying to? When they claim to be moderate, are they lying to the moderates? Or are they lying to the leftist base?" They're lying to the moderates. Matt Margolis thinks Platner’s Replacement Nukes His Campaign With Disgusting Holocaust Remark. Matt Vespa thinks Troy Jackson's Apology to Jewish Voters Shows Dems Don't Know What Genocide Is. The Free Bacon reports Sen Kirsten Gillibrand Dons a Hijab at Bronx Mosque, Alongside Cleric Who Praises Hamas and Osama Bin Laden’s Mentor, in Under-the–Radar Visit. "The mosque in ‘Little Yemen’ has multiple ties to Muslim extremists and Hamas supporters." From PM, Pramila Jayapal questioned socialist Seattle mayor's competence during mass shooting response: 'I’m not confident she knows what she is doing'. Shooting News Week sees Virginia AG is Making the Process the Punishment in the Old Dominion’s War on Guns. Cathy Salgado hears Hilton Mock Becerra for Saying Tax Breaks for Those Earning Under $150K Benefit ‘the Wealthiest’.

Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt, "Sometimes it takes your breath away. President Middle Finger, “You can keep your doctor,” “the ‘80s called” and “Tell Vladimir that after the elections….”" Quote Townhall.com @townhallcom, "Barack Obama: "I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter."" Matt Vespa sees Bill Maher Had George Santos on His Podcast. It Didn't Disappoint. “It’s all F*CKING Kabuki theater!” “At the end of the day it ends in pizza. You know what that means?”

Brianna Lyman at Da Fed, Jack Smith Spied On And Targeted The Federalist During Biden’s Anti-Trump Witch Hunt.

NYPo, Trump’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B worker visas blocked by second judge. 

Dan Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish, sees Bari Weiss is Destroying CBS News. "No raping? No lies? You can’t do journalism that way." You go, girl!

Quotulatiousness likes Trump’s student loan policy change, "On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Larry Correia applauds President Trump’s decision to stop providing goverment-backed student loans for courses that don’t provide students who graduate with a viable career path..." RCE takes A Closer Look at the Pentagon’s New Curriculum, not for soldiers, but for their kids. "Last month, the Associated Press reported that the Defense Department school system, which serves roughly 70,000 students at 160 schools around the world, will offer a new course on Western civilization drawing on The Golden Thread, the two-volume history by Allen Guelzo and James Hankins, and lesson materials developed with Hillsdale College." At Am Think, Monica Showalter on Why Johnny can't read in New York City's public schools: Failing upward: School officials who ran the bad NYC public school Nikole Hannah-Jones described get promoted. ROOZ @ROOZVA, "This is a sentence that should literally never be written. Fairfax County taxpayers are paying someone more than 3x the national median household income to run and office whose sole purpose is to racially discriminate against students. If that doesn’t radicalize you, I’m not sure what will." From the College Fix, Cal State lecturer removed after kicking student out for question on Native American alcoholism rates and Minority enrollment has increased since Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action, stats show. From the Martin Center, UCLA Would Rather You Didn’t Read the Syllabus. Seth Dillon @SethDillon, "What a heartwarming story. More of this, please." Quote WG1WGA @WWG1WGA_QQ, "School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day” Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA."

From NYPo, Sydney Sweeney’s racy ads help sports betting platform quadruple valuation to $2B. Sex sells, duh. Driscoll at Insty catches a GREAT MOMENT IN DOUBLE STANDARDS: Kings reporters caught thirsting over Ben Simmons, Zach LaVine in wild hot-mic moment: ‘I like lightskins.’ "New Sacramento Kings guard Ben Simmons and his teammate Zach LaVine received an awkward welcome from several reporters during the team’s media day. A live stream of the Kings’ press conference caught a few women in the room speaking about the players in between interviews. One reporter was seemingly asking which player had been speaking the podium. “Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons was, that’s what comes with being Ben Simmons. Cringe. Cringe!” another woman responded. “He’s lucky he’s so fine,” one reporter said. “He’s a good looking dude! I didn’t notice, his skin is so smooth. I was like, damn, no tattoos?” said another. One male reporter said that that former Golden State Warriors guard Jordan Poole was the woman’s type, to which the woman said, “Allegedly, I like lightskins, I guess.” I’m sure the media would be equally laid back if the genders were reversed." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Women media members got caught on a hot mic discussing the hotness of Sacramento Kings players. If men in media were caught on a hot mic talking about hot female athletes they would be fired in five minutes and we’d have weeks of toxic masculinity stories." David Burge @iowahawkblog, "She bulldozed over Sophie Cunningham like a Mack truck, the refs gifted her with a foul on Sophie, the fan pointed at her and say "that was on you," and then she ran into the stands screaming at him like a toddler having a tantrum. Hope that helps." Quote Jemele Hill @jemelehill, "What just happened with A’ja Wilson and that Indiana fan? Whatever was said, it set A’ja off and she usually doesn’t react like that." Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI, "Let’s take a moment, in light of the Cornell “rape case” hysteria, to savor the dilemmas facing the activists and academics who promote the idea of “rape culture.” If there is indeed a “culture of rape” at elite institutions, as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez recently reaffirmed, why do female students flock into them? Cornell’s student body went from a little under 50 percent female in 2005 to nearly 54 percent female in 2025. The hoary (no pun intended) statistic bandied about relentlessly during the height of 2010’s campus rape frenzy—that one in four female undergraduates would be sexually assaulted during her college years—signifies a level of criminal sexual violence unheard of even during African tribal wars...." Suffragent @Suffragent_, "The eternally-validated Camille Paglia on the Cornell case. "The sexual revolution must be undone because middle-class women can't handle it. They cannot take responsibility for their own actions."" 

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World Atlas, 9 Best Places To Call Home on the Chesapeake Bay In 2026

Cambridge, Maryland, Havre de Grace, Maryland, Chestertown, Maryland, North East, Maryland, Rock Hall, Maryland, Crisfield, Maryland, Perryville, Maryland, Onancock, Virginia, Kilmarnock, Virginia

No mention of St. Leonard, Maryland, thank goodness. Getting on a list like that is never a good thing, it brings all sort of unwanted characters visiting.

However, for those interested, St. Leonard offers nice long beaches, with the sand full of sharks teeth, and the sky full of Bald Eagles and Osprey (in season), a full service marina and many tree lined streets to walk. We're a little deficient in night life, and other tourist attractions, although the local bar has trivia and live music, sometimes, and decent bar food. For a place to stay, there are a number of Air B&Bs and other rentals, and even a motel (although, you won't get beach privileges with that. We are within reasonable driving distance of a number of tourist traps, though, if you insist. Solomons or Chesapeake/North Beach are big yachting communities, with the kitchy usual shops and restaurants. You can drive to DC in less than an hour, to lobby, or protest, your choice. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Passengers Avert Hijack 9/11 Style Attack in Mideast

If first day reports are to be believed, always an iffy thing, the co-pilot of an FlyDubai flight loaded with Israeli tourists returning from Dubai stabbed the pilot, and put the plane into a dive. An Israeli passenger managed to force his way into the cockpit, subdue the attacker, evict him from the cockpit, seize the controls and get the airplane back to level flight. Other passengers subdued the attacker, and pilots who were deadheading on the flight then brought the Boeing 737 Max 8 fully under control, and landed the plane in Saudi Arabia. By one report, pulling the plane out of the dive put the plane under stresses far greater than it was designed for, and in fact, part of the plane's tail broke off.

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair calls it Shades of 9/11: FlyDubai Pilot Attempts Hijacking, Mass Destruction. At Twitchy, Flydubai Co-Pilot Stabs Captain Midair — Israeli Passengers Subdue Him Before the Plane Can Crash. Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin, "A flight from Dubai to Israel was hijacked mid-air by a copilot. Israeli passengers on board rushed the cockpit as the plane plunged and subdued or neutralized the attacker. The plane course was then corrected and safely managed an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia." Quote Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian, "The flydubai flight that landed at Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia appears to have sustained damage to the rudder, likely due to the rapid plunge it took amid the incident." Eli Afriat @EliAfriatISR, "According to reports, the details of the mid-air drama have emerged: the co-pilot—acting as an attacker—began stabbing the captain in an attempt to seize control of the plane and crash it, with its passengers on board, into Israeli territory. The captain resisted and activated distress signals. Flight attendants attempted to enter the cockpit, while Israeli passengers who realized what was happening forcibly broke in, subdued the co-pilot, and removed him from the cockpit. The captain, having sustained multiple stab wounds, was incapacitated. Miraculously, two Israeli pilots were on board flying back to Israel; they were the ones who landed the aircraft, which otherwise would have crashed. "A great miracle happened to us today," said one of the passengers. Pictured: An Israeli citizen who helped subdue the attacker, his clothes stained with the wounded captain's blood." PJM's Cathy Salgado asks What Are the Odds? Russian and Ukrainian Pilots Save Hijacked Flight to Israel. From the Telegraph, The hero who stopped Israel’s 9/11. Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA, "This man is a hero. Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian captain of flydubai Flight 1073, fought back after being stabbed in the cockpit. Despite being severely injured, he managed to unlock the cockpit door - allowing Israeli passengers and the Emirati crew to intervene and save all the passengers. Together, their extraordinary courage saved 174 lives. Indian. Israeli. Emirati. Different nationalities. One extraordinary act of courage."

Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom, "Israeli hero aboard nearly-hijacked FlyDubai flight FZ 1073: Yaniv Hayoun Hayoun has no background in security. But when he realized there was an attempted hijacking, he knew he had to do something. He ran to the cockpit and physically fought with the co-pilot, who had stabbed the pilot and was attempting to crash the plane. Hayoun put the co-pilot in a chokehold and dragged. him out of the cockpit. Others came over to help restrain him. Hayoun then went back into the cockpit and pulled back on the yoke to pull the plane out of its nosedive. The plane had dropped 17,000+ feet in under two minutes. An off-duty pilot then entered the cockpit and took over the controls, and Haroun went back out to help guard the co-pilot We wish Captain Machchhar a full and speedy recovery." Hat Hair's John Sexton has A First-Hand Account of the Hijacking by One of the Men Who Stopped It. Sister Toldja at RedState calls them Absolute Heroes: Passengers Share Riveting Stories of What Unfolded on FlyDubai Flight. Althouse looks to the NYT, "Asked how the passengers had stopped the attacker, Ms. Ohayon said, 'I believe with their bare hands inside the cockpit.'" "From "Passenger Describes Chaos Aboard FlyDubai Flight/The passenger, Miriam Ohayon, said people on board felt the jet lose control and heard screams. 'When they opened the cockpit, there was a lot of blood,' she told Israeli television" (NYT)." From the Free Bacon, ‘A Nation Like a Lion’—Israeli Airline Passenger Heroics Avert Jihadist Terrorist Attack. ‘Ten guys just jumped to help’ Sundance at CTH, Astonishing Series of Events – Incredible Recovery During FlyDubai Attempted Suicide Pilot Terrorism Event. Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld, "From a military pilot on today’s attempted hijacking. I’ll sum it up for you: Hashem performed an unprecedented miracle today.

And no terrorist incident would be complete without some mealy-mouth wording from the media. Matt Vespa at Town Hall, The Media Had Some Funny Words to Describe the Attempted FlyDubai Hijacking Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Is that what happened, BBC?" Quote BBC News (World) @BBCWorld, "Israel-bound flight diverted after fight between pilots." Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "Just a little disagreement!" Quote The New York Times @nytimes, "Breaking news: A plane flying from Dubai to Israel was diverted after an altercation between the pilot and co-pilot, Israeli officials said." CNN @CNN, "A "violent" altercation between two pilots caused a FlyDubai aircraft traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv to divert to Saudi Arabia, sources have told CNN." varifrank @varifrank, "Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?" Quote Gilead Ini @GileadIni, "Only far-right people could seriously believe this was likely terrorism. The New York Times finest sources understand that it was probably just an innocent stab-the-pilot kill-the-Israelis suicide attempt." At the Babylon Bee, Here's How 'The New York Times' Reported 9 Historic Attacks. Dave Rubin @RubinReport, "Kyle, please, he was a mostly peaceful pilot who mistakenly brought a knife on board, curiously stabbed the captain, and accidentally globalized the intifada." Quote kuz @kylekuzma, "So is mainstream media going to explain to us full context of the pilot that stabbed the other co-pilot or was it just an honest altercation? Never heard of a pilot stabbing another over a “altercation” #smh" Anastasia Volkova @thedutchessil, "100 Israeli passengers vs One Muslim Pilot. What a completely disproportionate response from israel." Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla, "This hijacking story is INSANE but I’m looking forward to hearing the terrorists side of the story on Miss Rachel today."

VodkaPundit at PJM asks Can We Just Execute This Terrorist Already? "It seems impossible that it's been almost exactly 17 years since U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and opened fire on soldiers at the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Center in Killeen, Texas."

Capt. Ed reports Iran Regime’s PSA: Nepo Babytollah Wants You to Vote Democrat! and Larry features it in a video, Iran's Hail Mary Plea Just Gave Trump Everything He Needed. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "They had them at “Death to America.” I expect this new variant will resonate with the target audience." Quote Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley, "It is not a good sign when the IRGC shifts from "Death to America" to "Vote Democratic." The IRGC is reportedly encouraging Americans to vote against the GOP in the midterms." The Alan Sanders Show @AlanJSanders, "How long have I been saying that the only people supporting the IRGC is the Democrat Party and their propaganda wing in the Legacy/mainstream media??" NRO disappointed as The Parade of Hormuz Horribles Fizzles Out. Hat Hair's Dave Strom, Even With the Reopening of the Strait, the Political Fallout Will Remain. Sundance reports President Trump Announces Departure of Remaining U.S. Troops from Iraq. John Sexton has Some Strange Updates on the RAF Fairford Story. Still weird. 

1945 fears Putin’s Next Target May Be NATO Itself. Sure, why not, Ukraine was so easy.

From Fox, Hegseth to double cuts to generals, admirals in major Pentagon shakeup "War secretary's State of the Force address doubles last year's 10% reduction target, with changes due by Jan 1, 2027." It's my belief that any organization can be improved by firing 20% of the bosses. The real question is which 20%. Fox News @FoxNews, "BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth announces that Elon Musk will co-lead a new War Department effort studying the future of warfare during his State of the Force address. Hegseth unveils Project Meridian, naming Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to co-lead the effort under the department's Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael. "An effort led by America's best minds to study the future of warfare."" Outer Space Today @outerspacetoday, "JUST IN: The U.S. Space Force is building new software designed to detect satellite maneuvers almost immediately, rather than waiting hours for perfectly refined orbital tracking data. Mission Delta 2 says the system will continuously fuse data from military and commercial radars, optical telescopes and radio-frequency sensors to flag unexpected orbital changes, close approaches and rendezvous activity across LEO, MEO and GEO. The shift is deliberate: commanders would get faster, probabilistic warnings even if the first measurements are less precise, then see the track automatically tighten as more sensor data arrives. ..."

unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "Elbows up....winter is coming to Canada." Quote Tablesalt @Tablesalt13, "NEW - This Hamilton Steel mill layoff in Canada is a HUGE story -- The owner, Cleveland-Cliffs REFUSED emergency cash (undisclosed amount) from Mark Carney and violated an agreement they signed to not lay any workers off." Bradshaw @myabradshaw78, "What is seriously wrong with Carney? Why didn’t he stand and applaud a Canadian Army Veteran with the rest of the people around him? This is truly disrespectful." Quote Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta, "WOW: Mark Carney attended the Oilers home opener tonight and appeared to remain seated as the crowd stood to applaud a Canadian Army veteran. Tall about disrespectful." Don Surber says Carney’s trade war should drive Canadians to drink "In slapping a retaliatory tariff on us, Mark Carney overlooked the fact that Canada sells 10 times the whiskey to the USA as we do to Canada." Sundance hears a Canadian Media Report Mark Carney Likely to Accept Nobel Prize Award, Time Magazine Person of Year and Pope Leo XIV Veneration to End 2026, for opposing Trump. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn alliterates Burnham Burns Brexit Bridges, Fairford Follies Find the Harkles, and Labour Loathes Labradors. (Well done!)

From CJ, Adam Thierer explains What Hayek Can Teach Us About AI Safety. "The great economist’s lessons on knowledge and spontaneous order offer the best path forward." At Althouse "'They’re relating to it like a conscious being,' realized Rabbi Navon, a former computer engineer who wrote his dissertation on the ethics of machine consciousness." "From "Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious" (NYT)." Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "Now let's talk about "the pause" Trust me bro we don't want to squelch AI forever bro it would just be a couple years bro while we get alignment right bro. Wait, where have I heard this song before? Oh yeah. "Two weeks to flatten the curve." The "pause" rhetoric is meant to create the institutional machinery for permanent suppression and shift the Overton window towards public acceptance of same. It's a dishonest move from people pretending they're willing to accept a future return to pre-"pause" liberty when that is exactly the opposite of what they intend. When s camel tries to get its nose into your tent, the right thing to do is kick it In the snoot. Hard." Elon Musk @elonmusk, "Best way to sandbox an AI is to put it on a Delta flight – it will have no chance of accessing the Internet!"

Ace, Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before: Second Quarter Real GDP Growth Revised Upwards by 0.7% "Why is it that estimated growth rates always have to be revised downwards for Democrats and upwards for Republicans? Because the left-wing bureaucrats consistently overestimate growth under Democrats and underestimate it under Republicans. Note that it's the first estimate that gets all the press. The revision only gets noticed by economists and traders." At Am Great, the Great Victor Davis Hanson is Remembering the False Gloom and Doom of the 1992 Elections—and the Upcoming Midterms. "Republicans risk repeating 1992 by failing to counter economic pessimism with the facts about strong growth, falling inflation, rising incomes, and a recovering economy." At PJM, VodkaPundit, warns Don't You Dare Fall for This 30-Year-Old Campaign Trick, "The disconnect between what's going on in the economy and its actual performance couldn't be wider. I'm reminded most of the 1992 presidential election, when Bill Clinton claimed we were in "the worst economy since the Great Depression," and the press was happy to repeat the lie ad nauseam." John Loftus at Da Caller, says Republicans Scramble To Save Their Own Skin. At Am Spec, Scott McKay thinks Sarah Sanders Steps In It Just Before the Midterms, "It’s not 1996 anymore." Sarah Huckabee Sanders @SarahHuckabee, "You pay taxes to cover welfare for people who just choose not to work. That’s why I launched a welfare-to-work requirement. If you’re young, healthy, and get government assistance, you should work, go to school, or volunteer."

Bad Hombre @Badhombre "It took Obama over 3 years to build and launch HealthcareDOTgov. It cost taxpayers $2 billion and was riddled with bugs, making it unusable for months after launch. It took Trump 13 months to build and launch AmericaDOTgov. It cost taxpayers a couple million dollars and works seamlessly on day one. I love having a competent president that knows how to build things."

John Sexton hears Trump Declares War on Mosquitoes and Ticks. "Trump’s order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and other federal officials to “develop and implement a campaign” within 60 days that would cut certain invasive mosquito species by 90 percent and the tick population by 50 percent in two years. The federal government will aim to use “commonsense, non-chemical, technology-enabled measures” instead of conventional pesticides, the order says."

Trish Reagan has a vid at Hat Hair, Socialism Is Real. It's Dangerous. And They're Organizing. Charlie Zulu @charlie1zulu, "It's s really interesting to review Karl Marx's life, who was undoubtedly a talented and intelligent man, but he was consumed by bitterness and jealous after being ousted from academia. It comes through it just in his theory but even in his style of writing. More people should actually read Marx." Rob Henderson @robkhenderson, "Gen Z voters hate capitalism—but they’ve barely even seen it...look at where their pain is concentrated: education, housing and health care...the most regulated, subsidized sectors of the American economy, and therefore the least like capitalism." Matt Vespa thinks Republicans Need to Put This in a National Ad Right Now. PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks Dems' Haplessness Makes Them an Even Bigger Existential Threat to the Republic and Rick Moran reports In Direct Violation of Federal Tax Laws, Mosques Openly Campaign for Abdul El-Sayed.

Kyle Becker at RedState is gleeful about Schumer Being Checkmated on Plan to Block Trump Spending Cuts. Beege Welborn calls it Cringetastic: Beccera Interview Video Making People 'Flinch Like an Abused Dog'. 

Stephen Kruiser is Still Impatiently Waiting to See Jack Smith in an Orange Jumpsuit. From Ace, Jack Smith Obtained the Emails of Hundreds of Republicans and Conservative-Leaning Journalists; Claims He Had to Subpoena the Entire Conservative Movement to Decide If Everyone Should Be Indicted for January 6th."As Julie Kelly and others point out: There is no crime of "blocking the peaceful transfer of power," but this expansive and legally undefined mission justifies, Jack Smith says, subpoenaeing the checks made out to Republican office-holders and mass-spying on conservative media." Sundance thinks IG Michael Horowitz and ENTIRE FED Should Be Fired, Arrested and Immediately Prosecuted, and shockingly, it's not about Russiagate, but instead Trump's fight with the Federal Reserve over the renovations there.

Kevan Killough at JTN reports, US can deport leader of large mosque over national security concerns, immigration judge rules. "Sasour was born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and was imprisoned in Israel in 1988 after confessing to throwing a Molotov cocktail and stones at Israeli military personnel. He was also convicted in 1995 of attempting to possess weapons." Ace, Illegal Immigration Advocacy Group CATO Shrieks: Trump Has Reduced Muslim Refugee Immigration by 96%! This is Terrible! "Is it? Is it really?" Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Truly incredible that CATO is unintentionally better at messaging the administrations’ wins than most right-wing influencers." From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Problem: Labour Is Deeply Unpopular For Importing Unassimilated Muslims. Solution: Import More Unassimilated Muslims.

From the Chronic, The Traffic Stop That Exposed the ‘Noncriminal’ Myth "By Jayapal’s logic, Zeron was a noncriminal: no U.S. conviction, no pending U.S. charge, just a traffic stop. By any serious definition of public safety, he was a man wanted for mass murder in his home country who had been living in America for years." At Twitchy, Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Bills Restricting ICE’s Use of Flash Bangs, Shock Gloves, Gets Trolled.

And of course, more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.29.26 and In The Mailbox: 09.30.26. I have a few more in the Freedom of Speech, and Culture bins, but I gotta pack my bags and go.

Tattoo Thursday

Science Alert, Tattoos Affect Your Immune System in Ways Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand