Friday, October 2, 2026

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?”



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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