Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Beach Report 9/1/26

 The heat is back. 92 in the shade.

There was a decent low tide, and lots of stuff to look though, and I found 23 shark's teeth. As they say in the Russian Army, quantity has a quality of its own.






However, I did find a few quality teeth, 4 nice Snaggletooths, 2 upper and 2 lower, a small Retroflexus Mako,  a tiny Sand Tiger, a mostly complete stingray chevron, and a larger than usual piece of stingray barb.







 From yesterday - a new butterfly on my list! A Tawny Emperor.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Supreme Court Allows Ballroom to Proceed 5-4

With Chief Justice Roberts joining the three liberal ladies in dissent. Fox, Trump's White House ballroom construction gets another lifeline from SCOTUS amid heated legal fight, "Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, calling the privately funded East Wing project 'likely unlawful'." Mary Chastain at LI, Supreme Court Grants Stay on Order Stopping White House Ballroom Construction, "Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the three leftist justices." Sundance at CTH, Supreme Court Rule 5-4 to Eliminate Lawsuit Against White House Ballroom and National Defense Complex – Chief Justice Roberts Joined the Minority. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, SCOTUS: It's It's a Ballroom Blitz, 5-4; Roberts Hangs With the Hacks, As a Matter of Fact. Supreme Court. "We grant the requested stay. The government has established that it is likely to succeed on the merits of a significant legal question, that it would likely suffer irreparable harm without a stay, and that the balance of equities tips in its favor." Mark Paoletta @MarkPaoletta, "Superb ruling by the Supreme Court! There is absolutely zero standing for the National Trust to sue. Simply not liking a building does not constitute injury. Basic Article III limitation. D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao set the table for this decision with her brilliant dissent finding no standing. This is an encouraging development for the many other cases where leftwing groups baselessly sue to thwart President Trump’s America First agenda, and leftwing district judges issue baseless injunctions despite lacking jurisdiction. Hopefully, this great Supreme Court decision is the beginning of reining in these lawless tactics. President Trump showed great leadership in pushing forward expeditiously to complete this important ballroom/military complex. Well done, Mr. President!" Josh Blackmun at the Volokh Conspiracy, is trying to Make Sense Of The Chief Justice's Tango In The Ballroom Case. "It was the Chief, and not KBJ, who was holding up the case. Was he trying to flip ACB's vote?" Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "One of the most galling aspects of all this lawfare is that so much of it is run through 501(c)(3) organizations, meaning organizations whose activities are effectively subsidized by taxpayers. They then use the aura of “IRS approved nonprofit” status to confer a kind of legitimacy on themselves, as though the government has somehow endorsed what they do. It has not. These are private activist organizations pursuing their own agendas. ..." Quote Shawn Fleetwood @ShawnFleetwood, "BREAKING: Supreme Court ends lower court blockade against Trump’s White House ballroom construction. Chief Justice Roberts joins the court’s Democrat appointees in dissent." It's time to end the 501c3 bullshit.

Newsweek opines Iran Is Facing Its Soviet Moment and Possibly Its End. Cathy Salgado at PJM hears Trump Say Iran’s Regime Killed 100,000 Freedom Protesters. Surely, some liberal fact checker will come along and insist it was on 99,999 so far, and Trump is lying. Capt. Ed sees Desperation: Iran Tries Provoking US, Hilarity Ensues "Trump finally appears comfortable with the siege as the prime strategy, as a means to force the IRGC's collapse or at least its desperation. Feed a cold, starve Vahidi. It also appears to be working, and this level of desperation indicates that it may be working even better than we think." At the Victory Girls Trump Reiterates Stance On Iran As War Reheats Again. Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@POTUS: "Iran is the number one leading state sponsor of terror... They cannot have a nuclear weapon."" Don Surber is looking forward to Fighting Iran with pirates. Cleetus Olney @CleetusOlney, "CNN: Hegseth fired all of the honest brokers and surrounded himself with “yes men.” Also CNN: Flag Officers “continuously” non-concur with Hegseth. Pick one, you hacks." Quote Haley Britzky @halbritz, "The Secretary sees non-concurs from senior military commanders “constantly”? x.com/seanparnellasw…"

From Ace, Trump Announces Truly Huge Deal to... Take Over 65 Billion Barrels' Worth of Venezuela's Oil Reserves?! Why would they do this? Because successive socialist governments have, get this, run the oil industry into the ground. They did not do basic maintenance and never bothered to upgrade and modernize their infrastructure. They have billions of barrels of oil they never invested any money in so the oil remains underground. The socialists, if you can believe this, simply extracted oil (and embezzled the money) while doing nothing to safeguard the future health of the industry. So Venezuela needs outside help to do the most basic things. Let's elect socialists in America to work the same Economic Miracles! I don't know if I like this. Venezuela has a nasty habit of repudiating past agreements and "nationalizing" -- stealing -- foreign investments in their oil industry."

Beege Welborn likes how Bessent Disses the Carney-Val: 'He's Doing What's Best for Mark Carney and the Liberal Party'. Sundance asserts Canadian Govt Gaslighting Is Off the Charts and reports Chinese Car Company BYD Inquires to Purchase Stellantis Auto Plant in Canada, Barbara Boyd Discusses G20 Outlooks – Abundance Mindset ‘Build More Pies’ (Bessent) -vs- Scarcity Mindset ‘Divide Up Pie’ (Europe). CNN whines Iceland rejects EU membership plan in referendum held under the shadow of Trump’s Greenland threats. Sarah Hoyt at Insty thinks SUPPORTING THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY ANNOYS THE HECK OUT OF MY ENEMY: Turkey: We Put Out A Warrant For Netanyahu’s Arrest. Israel: Enjoy Greece Having Our Cutting Edge Weapons.

Sundance hosts as President Trump Holds an Oval Office Event to Outline Newest U.S. Prescription Drug Price Reductions. Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@SecScottBessent: "She is on the Senate Finance Committee, she is the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee — and neither she nor her staff know the difference between a foreign exchange intervention or a currency swap. It is shameful."" Quote Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren, "Tough couple weeks for Sec. Bessent. His effort to prop up a foreign currency hasn’t worked. His failed intervention in Treasury markets was blasted by his mentor as burning "two centuries" of credibility." @instapundit @instapundit, "It’s the Anaconda Strategy." Quote Prowler @derzum_, "Replying to @derzum_ Trump's actions against NGOs, gutting of USAID, sanctions on ICC, leaving 66 world organizations, pulling back Civil Rights rulings & DEI regulations, firing federal workers, pursuing election integrity and clearing out fraud all damage the power of the foreign and domestic left."

RedState's Bog Hoge sees The Lake America Memes Are Coming in Fast and Furious, and They Are Laugh Out Loud Funny.

At Sauron's Eye, Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks Ace reports Muslim Brotherhood Spawn Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins Deleting Old Tweets Making Light of 9/11, Claims That Anyone Who Wants to Judge a Senatorial Candidate Based on His Statements and Sympathies Is Engaging in "Cancel Culture", "Some people deleted some tweets about some people doing some things." It's kind of late to be deleting tweets. Hat Hair's John Sexton noticed Abdul El-Sayed Had Thoughts on 9/11 (and the Left Is Outraged About It). Capt. Ed wonders Is This The World's Worst Campaign Video? It looks like a hostage video. PJM's Scott Pinsker calls out Politico’s Big Lie About Michigan’s Muslim Vote. Dave Strom, MI Attorney General to Jews: Sacrifice Your Very Existence to Elect Democrats. Guy Benson @guypbenson, "Wild what’s happening in Michigan" Quote Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "Michigan AG Dana Nessel called on Jewish Dems to "place the needs of the world" even "over our own survival" in speech Sunday. “We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival""

PM claims Mamdani’s free day care plan in chaos as cash-strapped centers warn they may not open. Maybe electing a failed rapper who never had a real job wasn't such a great idea after all. Stu Smith and Daniel Edward Rosen at CJ are worried about Mamdani’s Abolitionist Bench. "The mayor’s new judicial panel reveals the radical direction in which New York’s criminal and family courts may be headed." Gooder and harder. Beege Welborn looks at The LARPing Lowlife King of the DSA, Gustavo Gordillo. From Fox, Far-left streamer Hasan Piker equates Israel's 'right to exist' to Nazi Germany, "The far-left streamer called Israel an 'apartheid state' and compared Zionism to fascism during the conversation."

PJM's VodkaPundit says HE'S RUNNING: This Obama Advisor Just Denounced the DSA, "former Barack Obama advisor and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel." Karol Markowicz @karol, "We spend a lot of time talking about the left flank of the Democratic party wanting to get rid of prisons and stop celebrating Thanksgiving but the more "moderate" Democrats are openly arguing to end the electoral college and pack the supreme court." Sandy Petersen @SandyofCthulhu, ""Under Communism, everyone has a job". This is absolutely true. Here's what else was true. 1) you were ASSIGNED your job AND the region for that job by the state (i.e., a bureaucraft). You were required to stay in your job at least 3 years. 2) After 3 years, if you wanted to switch jobs, you needed the approval of both your labor board AND your employer. If you switched too often (for example: every 3 years), there were legal penalties, up to imprisonment. 3) promotions were based on party membership, loyalty, and sucking up. I'ved talked to a lot of former Soviet citizens, and zero of them thought merit was of use. Also many nice jobs were only for party members...." In a Hot Hair vid, What the Socialists Get Wrong About the Affordability Problem Is... EVERYTHING. From NYPo, Democratic socialism could cost the US a staggering $200 trillion, report reveals: ‘Closer to Soviet-style communism.’ At WaEx, Socialism in practice means more power for the Trump administration, experts say. Kevin Downey at PJM says Hey, I Know That Guy Who Just Clown-Slapped Rep. Max Frost! Townhall.com @townhallcom, "Maxwell Frost complains that he did NOT have access to the American Dream, gets immediately checked: "You went from driving an Uber to being a politician...! What am I missing?!""

PJM's Dave Manney sees California Lawmakers Keep Giving Businesses Reasons to Leave. Buck Throckmorton at Ace's cites Hampton Prescott on “The Curley Effect” – Municipal Mismanagement that Perpetuates Political Power by Driving Away Responsible Opposition. Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog is astonished by $65 Billion In ObamaCare Fraud? Just wait, there's more.

Page 6 Hollywood says Hunter Biden reveals dad Joe used to visit him in crack den with motorcade and Secret Service.

At NYPo you too can see the Moment disgraced Eric Swalwell is surrounded by FBI agents at San Francisco airport. Sundance wallows in schadenfreude as a Grand Jury Subpoenas James Comey Advisor Daniel Richman. Ace cites a Whistleblower: NY AG and Gigantic Hag "Tish" James Commanded Her Underlings to Find (or Contrive) Criminal Charges Against Trump -- and His Friends and Allies. "This is abuse of office. A prosecutor is supposed to investigate a crime and find the guilty party, not investigate a person to discover crimes (or, in this case, "crimes"). Before anyone can say it: Nothing will happen, of course." This should surprise no one; she campaigned on it. John Sexton sees Larry Krasner's Office Keeps Freeing Murderers, No Matter the Cost.

From the WJ, New Fauci Docs Prove He Repeatedly Told People to Delete Emails He Sent Them. Ace sees Released Emails Show Anthony Fauci Routinely Told "Scientists" To Delete His Emails (So That Congress and Other Investigators Couldn't See Them), "No one is above the law, especially not a three-foot-seven malignant dwarf Bond villain." I'm not sure you can ever really delete e-mail from a federal government server.

Scott McKay @TheHayride, "One thing I notice is that the people angriest about SpaceX and the other economic development wins Louisiana is posting are not the Left. They're the old-money, establishment white Democrats and in particular the trial lawyers...."

Stacy McCain likes his bodycam footage, Police Bodycam Video Shows Response to Antifa Terror Attack on Texas ICE Facility. Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle, "So out of 500,000+ immigrants, 300,000+ had a documented criminal history? And this is supposed to make me be *against* deportations?" Quote The Washington Post @washingtonpost, "ICE has arrested more than half a million people since President Trump returned to office, and nearly 40 percent do not have a criminal record. As of Aug. 6, ICE had detained more people without a criminal record this year than in all of 2025." Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "I think that I would have more sympathy here if virtually the entire political left had not spent years lambasting the President as a racist for calling Haiti a "shithole," organizing single women's tours to the place, and literally running around in shirts reading "Haiti Is Already Great." This may be shallow, but is definitely a reality" quote Steve McEllistrem SteveMcEllis, "Haitians are no longer entitled to temporary protected status even though the State Dept warns travelers not to visit Haiti due to crime, unrest and limited healthcare. So it's okay to deport these folks to terrible conditions that we won't tolerate?" Ace catches up to the fact Grifter Narcissist Milo Yiannopolis Deported by Homeland Security for Illegally Overstaying His Visa. "He's to be deported. Good." Already gone. 



I would also point out that in 2015, Justin Trudeau was elected.

Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Here's Hoping Trump Leaves the MSM Propaganda Machine in Ruins. John Tierney at CJ exposes The Political Violence Double Standard, "The left-wing kind is discounted; the right-wing kind is exaggerated." At NYPO, WaPo columnist calls source for his own paper’s Iran war report ‘a traitor’ who ‘ought to be prosecuted.’ Irons in the Fire opines Once again, it is not possible to hate most of our Professional Journalists enough, "How, pray tell, did the Washington Post acquire such highly classified information about wartime military operations? Well, as the Post describes, that highly classified information came from “people familiar with [the] assessment,” who “described the assessment to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because the document is classified.”" At TownHall, Kurt Schlichter believes The Washington Post Embarrasses Itself Trying to Embarrass Me. I'm not sure they're capable of embarrassment.

@instapundit @instapundit, "Universities suffer the consequences of policies and politics that they supported." Quote Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis, ""Despite the often-stunning brilliance and laid-back, tolerant vibe of Burlington, enrollment at the University of Vermont has fallen precipitously, [which] has at least something to do with Burlington’s sketchy downtown area." Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee, "Reminder: Temple is looking really shaky too." Quote Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee, "Big problems for Temple: “Projections for enrollment growth over the next few years have been downsized, which would mean a loss of $150 million in revenue over five years.” Inez Stepman @InezFeltscher, "This is absolutely something that could happen. Colleges are in a triple bind: the Trump admin is threatening their funding (and capping govt student loans), the population of college-age people is starting what will be a sharp decline, and parents have never been more skeptical of the value they provide for extraordinarily high tuition, for good reason. I think the chance of significant contraction of the number of colleges, as well as significant shuffle in elite rankings, are more likely than not in the next 5-10 years." Quote Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper, "People are under-pricing the possibility of a black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly. At some point parents will decide they will not pay $100-400k combined for their kids to cheat their way through college. I expect a bang, not a whimper. x.com/sfmcguire79/st…" How do you go bankrupt? Slowly, then suddenly.

A Tuesday Tune - I Wanna Be Bad


A truly one-of-a-kind artist, Kaitlin Butts has a deep affinity for country music’s more theatrical side: the extravagant storytelling, dazzling showmanship, songs embedded with both unbridled emotion and quick-fire humor. After discovering her passion for performing as a little girl, the Tulsa native later brought her boundless energy and radiant voice to her own unapologetic yet soulful songwriting. When it came time to create her third album, the Nashville-based musician leaned into her lifelong love of musical theater and dreamed up a modern-day reimagining of the soundtrack to her all-time favorite musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The result: a high-concept but candidly autobiographical LP called Roadrunner!, whose 17 powerhouse songs show the full force and extraordinary depth of Butts’ artistry for the very first time.

“Every summer when I was a kid my parents would take me to see a performance of Oklahoma! at a local amphitheater, and I’ve felt such a strong connection to it my entire life,” says Butts, who first conceptualized Roadrunner! during a pandemic rewatching of the film with her husband, Flatland Cavalry frontman Cleto Cordero. “It’s a love story but there’s also a murder and a little bit of an acid-trippy feel to it at times; it’s set in the same place where I come from. Once I got the idea for this album I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of it before, and it turned into something that completely encompasses who I am and what I love.”


Monday, August 31, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - I Don't Like Mondays

Actually, Monday's aren't so bad; the news hasn't had much chance to pile up.

Quotulatiousness quotes from On the scenic shores of “Lake America.” "Carney’s response to Trump’s redesignation of the lake was replete with a self-own only one as invested in a globalist “new world order”, and oblivious to actual domestic concerns could muster. He posted the following to X: The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always. A hilarious response to this which appeared on X was posted by Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal, which I am assuming is a parody account since Miranda was a recurring character in the 1980s sitcom Married With Children. MVdlJC wrote: “How dare Trump rename Lake Ontario!” “Anyways, here I am at Sankofa Square …”" Yeah, I had to Google Sankofa Square to make sure. At PJM Eric Florack claims Renaming a Lake is A Surefire Way to Expose the Corrupt. Am Great's Liz Shield notes in Morning Greatness: Google Adopts Trump’s ‘Lake America’ Name as Canada Dispute Grows. But the Weather Underground hasn't, yet. Sundance at CTH reports President Trump Advises Corporations to Depart Canada for Operational Stability in USA.

The Council on Foreign Relations does Crude Calculations: Why the Iran War Hasn’t Yet Caused an Oil Shock. Gas now under $4 here. News Wax cites Trump: US Will Refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve Using Venezuelan Oil. Althouse whines about the punctuation in this Trump TS post, "Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD! They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police." ""Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country. The only thing they have is FAKE NEWS from the USA, a willingness to kill their protesters (now over 100,000 people dead. They must be tried for war crimes against humanity!), and a good line of 'BULLSHIT.' Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.TRUMP""At RCD, The Ukraine and Iran Wars Are a Wake Up Call. Military leader always needed to be reminded the fight this war, not the last one. Sundance hears Merz Prepares to Blame Russia for Sketchy Leipzig Airport Drone “Attack”, he wants to blame Ukraine.

Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks This Washington Post Piece on Hegseth Is Arguably Treasonous. Sean Parnell @SeanParnellASW, "Publishing highly classified assessments from the Secretary’s orders book is a crime. It’s a betrayal of the force. And much of what they’re publishing is inaccurate. Of course, we demand candid military advice. Non-concurs are standard. The Secretary sees them constantly. That’s how you run a real military. We are in great shape around the world. This story isn’t about readiness. It’s TDS and PDS — they hate President Trump and Secretary Hegseth more than they love America." Quote Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe, "Four-stars all non-concurring with prolonging operations against Iran as they are into 2027, per this @washingtonpost exclusive:..." The WaPoo may be immune, but the leakers aren't.

At TownHall Joe Chalfant hears RFK Jr Dropped Some Massive Bombshells at His Latest Town Hall. HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse, ""It's over a hundred billion dollars a year that's being STOLEN…” @SecKennedy on how the Trump Administration is ENDING THE FRAUD that Biden's HHS allowed to fester. Accountability is BACK!" Scott McClellan at TownHall has an example: Anaheim Woman Pleads Guilty in $2.2 Million Medicare Hospice Fraud Scheme. Sundance hosts Mike Steger Outlining Secretary Bessent Targeting the Dark Money Empire.

I've been quiet about the horrendous Nepal flood event, but I have to put this up. Terrible if true, bumbadum @bumbadum14, "So it turns out China was building a hydro electric facility by a glacier and all the construction caused a portion of the glacier to collapse, tumble down, and turn into a mudslide that killed like 2,500 Nepalese people. But all you will hear about in the news is leftists claiming this was because of climate change." Quote Kashmiri Hindu @BattaKashmiri, "China is Evil. Only time will tell how much." China is asshole. 

From News Wax, Fetterman: 'Garbage' Like El-Sayed Drags Down Dems and El-Sayed Promises Medicare for All, His Wife Opted Out. At Da Caller, ‘Bothers Me A Lot’: Michigan’s Democrat Top Cop Calls Out Abdul El-Sayed Over Remark. "Michigan’s top law enforcement officer accused her own party’s Senate nominee of rationalizing a terrorist attack on a synagogue." PJM's Cathy Salgado is outraged El-Sayed’s White Communications Director Once Said ‘White Women Are Policy Failures’, while it's a gross generalization, she has a point. At Hat Hair Larry Elder hears Hasan Piker to Dems: Don't Quit Me. "Democrats, listen to me, I know we don't always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point -- I know you don't want to do this -- defend me. Not because you love what I have to say, not because I'm part of this coalition, even though I am, whether you like it or not ... I'm not this dangerous, toxic radical force." From Da Signal, Mamdani Turns Rikers Murderer Into Victim in Larger Plot to Abolish Prisons. At the Crimson Hub, James Talarico's Church Is A Sanctuary For 'Woke 1' Craziness. "Talarico is trying to run as a moderate, but his past shows he is anything but one."

Kyle Becker at RedState sees NY Gov. Hochul Ditches 'Feminist' Routine to Don Hijab for Muslim Men. End Wokeness @EndWokeness, ""Fight the patriarchy" until it's Muslims." Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "Feminists love to talk about the "patriarchy" and how White men want them to live in Handmaid's Tale, and then immediately pander to the most patriarchal and restrictive system on earth." From Fox, Muslim jail gangs said to force conversions on prisoners in UK: 'Jihadist training camps’. From the Guardian, Four men admit destroying Jewish community ambulances in Golders Green "Hamza ⁠Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, and Judex Atshatshi and Saif Ali, both 18, admitted to a charge of destroying or damaging property being reckless whether life would be endangered." Carl Trueman at First Things reports The England I Knew Is Gone. Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد @BrotherRasheed, "The Persecution That Doesn’t Make the Headlines I am a Muslim convert to Christianity. I lived for 15 years as a Christian believer in Morocco, much of that time in what we called the underground church. Listen carefully, because this is what “moderate Islam” looked like for us..." Seth Mandel @SethAMandel, "Correlation of HATE HAS NO HOME HERE lawn signs to anti-Semitism remains undefeated." Quote Alex Joffe @DrAlexJoffe, "“It’s like all these liberal hippies want to kill me."ound-zero-bds-israel

From the Free Bacon, Ro Khanna Dethrones Stock Queen Nancy Pelosi in First Real Accomplishment of Political Career. "It sure beats sponsoring a stupid bill to add a third 'unspecified' gender option on US passports." She doesn't have enough time left to spend the money she has."

Hat Hair's Josh Hammer says Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game. He Won. Joe Chalfant wonders Why Is Kentaji Brown Jackson Still Wearing a Mask In 2026? Afraid common sense is contagious? Sundance notes DNC Election Rigger Proposes Adding 4 Leftist Judges to Supreme Court at First Available Opportunity, which is why I think Trump and the Republicans should try first, just to make Democrats come out with the arguments against it.

The Divine Miranda Devine highlights Trump’s ultra-MAGA man who oversaw prez pardoning hundreds of victims persecuted by Biden admin reflects on ‘year of mercy’, Ed Martin.

Da Signal observes Hunter Biden’s Lawyer whines DOJ Would Not Have Prosecuted Without Pressure From IRS Whistleblowers. Why is that a bad thing?

Sundance hosts Sunday Talks – CNN’s Dana Bash Defends Illegal Immigration Against Deportation Czar Tom Homan. News Wax, Homan: ICE Will Go 'Where We Need to Go' for Deportations. At the OCR, that thing that never happens happened again, Honduran national arrested, charged with fraudulently registering to vote in LA County. ""Today’s arrest is the first of many to come,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said."

Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee, "Syracuse is in trouble. They borrowed a half billion dollars to build new dorms and now enrollment is sliding. “The problem with Syracuse is that the school thinks of itself as like an Ivy, but it’s not,” Tavares said."Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis, "Despite the often-stunning brilliance and laid-back, tolerant vibe of Burlington, enrollment at the University of Vermont has fallen precipitously, [which] has at least something to do with Burlington’s sketchy downtown area."


At Twitchy, Jelly Roll Lost 300 Pounds and Every 'America First' Fan He Ever Had in One Jimmy Kimmel Monologue. DrewbyDoo @DrewbyDoo01, "Not a smart move to alienate at least 50% of your base." Quote TMZ @TMZ, "Jelly Roll roasts Trump's weight and says he can't see his penis." The Hollywood Reporter reports Jelly Roll Clarifies Political Views, Regrets Not Taking “Opportunity to Speak Up” at Grammys "The singer-songwriter opened up about his beliefs during his final night guest hosting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after a Trump joke he made earlier in the week sparked backlash from conservatives... “It is funny that before this week everybody thought I was MAGA. And now they think I’m some sort of liberal snowflake,” he said. “Hosting Jimmy Kimmel’s show doesn’t mean I have all of Jimmy Kimmel’s politics. Sure, I lean left on some things, but like most folks I’m pretty down the middle.”"


The Monday Morning Stimulus

Coffee farms across southern Hawaii Island are assessing crop, tree and infrastructure losses following Hurricane Lala, which brought damaging winds and extreme rainfall to some of the state’s key coffee-growing areas earlier this month.

Meanwhile, federal, state and local relief efforts are underway to address agricultural losses that, for many coffee growers just entering harvest season, may have long-term financial impacts.

It's a shame, you hate to see farmers adversely affected by weather, but it's part of the business. It shouldn't have much impact on general coffee prices; Hawaiian coffee is too expensive to make much impact in the world market. As you may remember we toured a coffee farm on our excursion to Hawaii last year. It's pretty country. 


Sunday, August 30, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - You Can't Rename Lake Ontario Says the LatinX Birthing Person


Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX "I think that Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is pointless and stupid. Wanna know what else I think is dumb? The fact left-wingers are triggered about this after they spent the last decade plus renaming sports teams, public schools and universities, streets and highways, food and condiment brands, and redefining half the dictionary altogether. Here’s a list of some in case you forgot: • Washington Redskins -> Commanders • Cleveland Indians -> Guardians • Stanford Indians -> Cardinals • Loudoun County Raiders -> Captains • Edmonton Eskimos -> Elks • Columbus Day -> Indigenous Peoples’ Day • Lee–Jackson Day -> eliminated • Robert E. Lee High School -> John Lewis High • Jefferson Davis Highway -> Richmond Highway • Mount McKinley -> Denali • Fort Bragg -> Fort Liberty • Fort Hood -> Fort Cavazos • Boy Scouts of America -> Scouting America • Aunt Jemima -> Pearl Milling Company • Uncle Ben’s Rice -> Ben’s Original • Eskimo Pie ice cream bars -> Edy’s Pie • Land O’Lakes -> removed the Indian, but kept the land • Illegal alien -> undocumented worker • Hispanic -> Latinx (a term Hispanics did not want and do not use) • Mother -> birthing person • Anchor baby -> child of noncitizens • black -> Black • Breastfeeding -> chest feeding • Inmate / prisoner / convict / felon -> justice-involved person • Ex-con / ex-felon -> returning citizen • “Gender” as a biological fact interchangeable with “sex” to being a social construct • Fat -> plus-sized • Master bedroom -> primary bedroom • Manhole -> utility hole And so on and so on. . ." Nick Arama at RedState, Bill Maher Hilariously Levels Criticism of 'Lake America,' Hoists Liberals With Their Own Petard. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "LMAO! BILL MAHER JUST DROPPED: "Trump [renamed] Lake Ontario to Lake America — liberals are VERY pissed at this. They say, 'you can't just go around renaming things to suit your agenda!'" "Just ask my LatinX birthing person!""

Matt Vespa at TownHall sees This MSNBC Contributor Tried to Slip This Anti-Trump Talking Point Past Bill Maher. It Didn't Work. Twitchy, Molly Jong-Fast's Clash With Byron Donalds Over Measles Gets Personal on Bill Maher’s Show. Hat Hair's Dave Strom sees Shapiro's Shame: The COVID Playbook, Lancaster EditionEric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "I live in Pennsylvania; Josh Shapiro is the governor of my state. Until this incident I thought he was one of the least bad Democrats - I believed he was above the kind of sleazy demogogic move that he just tried to pull. I didn't think his chances of being the Democratic nominee in '28 were very good even before this, because the ascendant Islamist/Palestinian faction in the party won't tolerate a Jewish nominee. But if he had any shot at all, it's gone now. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." Quote Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "BREAKING: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is running MAJOR DAMAGE CONTROL after he just got fully exposed fabricating "measles deaths" for two newborns RESIGN, NOW!"

Twitchy debunks WaPo: Historic Cherry Trees Are Coming Down by the Dozen Thanks to Trump. Just arborists removing sick trees.

LT Jonathan Kendrick @PlisskenPatriot, "President Trump is firing on all cylinders. Incredible work from this administration." Quote Unfiltered Artist @EmpireEnjoyer3, "It’s the end of Congress’ annual August Recess and Trump finally kicks it into overdrive for the midterms. - Iran War is over and oil is flowing through the Straight again, with fuel shortage lines across Iran and hyper inflation under Treasury Secretary Bessent’s crushing sanctions..." At 1945, 5 Reasons Trump’s Iran War Victory Will Make America Stronger. "After a week in which the story flipped from Tehran trouncing Trump to the Iranians being in serious trouble, it is time to look past the war to what it means for American power. There are five reasons the United States will emerge from the Iran War as a more formidable force than it was going in." John Lucas at Bravo Blue, on HOW NOT TO GUARANTEE STRATEGIC DEFEAT, “Don’t give up the ship!” Victory Girls are not sympathetic to Crybabies: Stars and Stripes Reporters Want Their Jobs Back. Insty sees AMERICA’S ENEMIES SYNCHRONIZE THEIR MESSAGING: Ezra Levant @ezralevant, "U.S. Democrats and Mark Carney are synchronizing their messages. Carney hired Maia Johnson, a staffer for Hillary Clinton, to run the trade negotiations. Pretty clear the reason Carney ripped up a done deal was to embarrass Trump and help Democrats in the mid-terms." Quote Scott Robertson @sarobertson_, "Fmr U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice: "If you're sitting in Canada, whether you're a farmer or a citizen or in the PM's office, the only rational conclusion is that Canada has to reduce its reliance on the US. It's got to diversify its economic partnerships, its security relationships." Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand, "When America had a disagreement with Canada, Democrats sided with Canada. When America had a disagreement with Iran, Democrats sided with Iran. When America had a disagreement with Venezuela, Democrats sided with Venezuela. Do Democrats ever side with America?"

Sundance at CTH throws cold water at those buoyed up by recent Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia, Moscow and Kiev Exchange Warehouse and Distribution Attacks, But Only One Side Feels Impact.

Breitbart Bus Dig asserts Warsh and Bessent Are Not at Odds Over the Bond Market. Steve Moore at Hat Hair explores the question Is the USA Going Bankrupt? "Thank God, no, we aren't going bust as a nation, despite our gargantuan $40 trillion national debt. The rapid pileup of debt under Republicans and Democrats alike is certainly a disgrace and worrisome. When I came to Washington in the mid-1980s, our debt hit $1 trillion for the first time. It seemed like a tidal wave of red ink. Forty years later, we're at $40 trillion. That's a big and scary number. But our national wealth is roughly $180 trillion. So our debt-to-asset ratio, which has been rising, is still less than 25%, and much lower than at the end of World War II, when the debt hit 40% of wealth." From the Right Scoop, Democrats are attacking Republicans over sky high prices THEIR Big Pharma allies are CAUSING.

Stacy McCain thinks about How You Got Hasan Piker: It Started With Cowardice in the Public School System. At Twitchy, 'So, Like, a Normie D**che': Hasan Piker Gets Demolished ... by His HAIRDRESSER. Rolling Stone @RollingStone, "Rolling Stone names Hasan Piker as one of the most influential creators of 2026. The self-declared Marxist has found himself at the center of endless controversies, thanks to his criticism of Israel on his daily streams but also because he's become the face of a movement to push Dems to the left." Most influential doesn't mean good. PJM's Tim O'Brien says Yay, Sports! Abdul El-Sayed’s Unforgivable College Football Gaffe. Hat Hair's John Sexton thinks Mamdani's Universal Child Care Extension Turns Into 'an Absolute Disaster'. At Twitchy, Mamdani's 'Signature Childcare Program' Launch Provides a Preview of City-Owned Grocery Stores. Gooder and harder. Cory Franklin at John Kass says Et tu, David Axelrod? Krzysztof Szczawinski @Kristof_Poland, "You probably think the British Establishment is populated with conservative men – while in fact it is quite the opposite – it is full of guys like this ... Ignatieff asked the question every serious reader wanted asked. He asked it in the plainest possible form. Ignatieff's First Question. Ignatieff: "In 1934, millions of people are dying in the Soviet experiment. If you had known that, would it have made a difference to you at that time?" Hobsbawm: "Probably not." Ignatieff Pressed Him. Why? Hobsbawm: "Because in a period in which, as you might imagine, mass murder and mass suffering are absolutely universal, the chance of a new world being born in great suffering would still have been worth backing." Then Ignatieff Put a Number on It. Ignatieff: "That the loss of fifteen, twenty million people might have been justified?" Hobsbawm: "Yes." He Bet Twenty Million Dead on a World Revolution..." Josh Howerton @howertonjosh, "Muslims have a plan to make America a Muslim nation. Marxists have a plan to make America a Marxist nation. Secular Progressives have a plan to make America a Secular Progressive nation. Christians seem to always have a plan to keep Christianity from further influencing our nation by discipling people into political apathy (“we don’t get political”) or political ambiguity (“Jesus isn’t a Republican or Democrat, neither Right nor Left” = primary application of gospel to culture) ^^^this has had very predictable results for the last few decades."

Driscoll at Insty also says GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass orders cops to stop cracking down on illegal street vendors. Why bother with a business license? MAZE @mazemoore, "This clip perfectly embodies the uselessness of so many of our politicians. Senator Blumenthal (from my home state of Connecticut), holds a press conference on train safety. Blumenthal breaks the rules, walks too close to the edge, and almost gets hit by a train." Not close enough. Atop Da Hill, Jonathan Turley looks at Judge Talwani and why liberal complaints about the ‘shadow docket’ are so hollow. "Like her colleague in Boston, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy, Talwani is viewed by many as a one-stop-shop judge for forum-shopping. Both have issued hair-trigger injunctions, and both have been repeatedly reversed."

The Magnificent Margot Cleveland at Da Fed says Fauci’s Egomania Destroyed Lives Both On A Large Scale And On A Personal Level. PJM's Matt Margolis is shocked by Dr. Fauci's Newly Revealed and Disturbing CIA Connection. "Fauci's ties to American intelligence run far deeper than anyone outside a handful of investigators realized."

Kyle Becker at RedState is happy to report President Trump's New Order on H-1B Visas Sends Shockwaves Through Immigrant Communities. Sundance enjoys his schadenfreude as Hamptons Yacht Club Cancels Restaurant Service After Staff Deported – Caviar and Economics. Tongue firmly in cheek, Jim Geraghty says Finally, ICE Catches and Detains the Worst of the Worst, Milo Yiannopoulos. Magills @magills_, "All laughs aside, I am genuinely worried what will happen to Milo, a homosexual, after he’s deported back to a Muslim country." (England), Quote Homeland Security @DHSgov, "On August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana. Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York. He chose to x.com/tmz/status/209…" Joe Chalfant asks a stupid question, The Washington Post Can't Be That Dumb, Right? "The Washington Post, in a baffling attempt to disparage the mass deportation agenda put forth by President Donald Trump, published data revealing that more than 60 percent of illegal aliens detained by ICE had criminal records other than being illegally present in the United States." Insty, RACIST? TERRORISM? THESE ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE RESISTING SETTLER COLONIALISM: "Translated: “A mob of racists is blowing up and burning the migrants’ cabins in Ceuta. Far-right terrorism live.”" Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "Everybody loves decolonisation until Europeans start doing it."

Melissa Chen @MsMelChen, "There exists no person who could have exposed Jason Arday and not have their life turned upside down." Quote Jesse Singal @jessesingal, "The avowed antiracists defending Jason Arday (a con artist) are now weeks into a campaign against a black reporter at the Guardian who published one of the most important articles exposing him. The origin of that article was Arday reaching out to the journalist to lie to him." Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "The present carving up of the academy is a 19th-century invention, not a sacred settlement. If sociology disappeared, economics and political science would absorb most of its intellectual work. Sociology’s sister disciplines already produce much valuable scholarship on mass mobilization, the family, fertility, discrimination, and the social bases of religion, among its other traditional concerns. Setting aside the special case of hyper-politicized sociology, it is healthy for universities to wind down academic communities that have become corrupted." Quote Carlos Iván Moreno @carlosivanmoren, "Translated from Spanish
Universities Without Sociology? The idea is starting to sweep across U.S. campuses. if a discipline doesn't guarantee employability or good salaries, perhaps it should lose space."

Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte, "Three girls butchered at a dance class in Southport, England by a 2nd generation Rwandan immigrant and the streets exploded because people are done watching governments protect the system that keeps delivering this nightmare." Quote Mavica @mavica81, "Translated from Spanish. The mob in the United Kingdom after another little girl was stabbed by an asylum seeker..." Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "The feud between Africans and black Americans has produced some of the funniest intra-race racist material I have ever seen. And I say that as an Asian." Quote Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre, "LATEST: Africans with ancestors who sold Black Americans into slavery have started uploading videos mocking Black Americans for their culture."

Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec, "So, hormones are so dangerous they can make you crazy enough to kill your kids, but totally fine to give to anyone who wants to transition, including kids?" From NYPo, Sophie Cunningham sparked a revolt — and the WNBA bullies are floundering

Palm Sunday

With Augustina  Añon. She certainly smiles more when she's around palm trees.
 
What appears real in the parks may not always be real. This is accomplished through multiple avenues, including forced perspective.

Forced perspective is being used to bring the casita to life partially with the perceived visual of an appropriate distance from the guest to the casita.

Palm trees of varying sizes will be installed to accomplish this. Even smaller trees with less color will be put in the distance with the mountains (which were recently spotted at the park) to help establish forced perspective.
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Saturday, August 29, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Iran Used Trash Bags to Simulate Mines in the Gulf of Hormuz

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites Axios: Trump Has the Upper Hand in Hormuz. VodkaPundit at PJM, hears Iran Mined the Strait of Hormuz With… Trash Bags? "According to reporting cited by CNBC's Brian Sullivan, shipowners said many suspected mines were decoys, including inflated trash bags," the IW post continued. "Separate reporting citing U.S. officials said more than 200 mine-like objects were cleared from the main shipping lane, but only around 11 were actual mines." Such deceptions have a long history in warfare. I reluctantly award them points for creativity. At Twitchy, People Are LOVING the Faces a CNN Panel Makes As Scott Jennings Explains Trump's WIN in Iran. Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "By any meaningful metric, we have won this war. Now it's time for the president to formally announce it to the American people." It's sad to see the CNN panel sad to hear America is winning." Insty, TRUMP IS CRUSHING IRAN WITH ALMOST NO (U.S.) CASUALTIES, AND PEOPLE ARE BITCHING: Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "FACT CHECK: True." Quote Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen, "Trump’s attack on Iran was not a blunder; it was the bravest foreign policy decision any president has done in my lifetime. He is the first president to take the words of our enemy seriously — and act before they were able to kill millions."

Sundance at CTH is happy to say Goodbye Canadian Oil – President Trump Announces “Biggest Oil Deal in World” with Venezuela. Trump: "The United States of America has just entered into an Agreement with the Country of Venezuela on, THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY! At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely with Highly Respected Interim President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, and, through a partnership with private business, have secured majority U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela, at no cost to the American Taxpayer."" OilPrice, U.S. In Talks To Take Direct Ownership Of Venezuelan Oil Fields. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "It’s the Venezuelan dividend. Take out the brutal dictator who turned a prosperous nation that pumped money out of the ground into a wretched impoverished third world hellhole. Welcome Venezuela back. Cut China and Cuba off from a cheap oil source. The other part. No accident this happened months before Iran. The IRGC had a presence in Venezuela. Supplied Venezuela with weapons, patrol craft. You want that in striking range of the southern coast of America?"

Sundance reports Russia Begins Targeting Dual Use Infrastructure in Kyiv, Tens of Thousands Flee the Region. Begins?

Don Surber predicts the Saudis will build nuclear reactors, "The only question is if they are build by Westinghouse or Red China. Democrats don’t want Westinghouse to land the contract." From Resp State, Trump wants to stabilize Libya. Militants have other plans. Of course they do.

From Space.com, 'It's going to be beautiful': President Trump signs order to create US Space Academy. "It'll attract, train and graduate the very, very best of our nation." Sundance, President Trump Announces the United States Space Academy. At Insty, VodkaPundit quips "It’s a shame the name Starfleet Academy is sullied."

Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "Caring about Donald Trump's idiosyncrasies is a waste of time. I care that the border is shut. That DEI is dying. That we're rebuilding our military. If he wants to say he's renaming a lake to freak out the squares, that's a bargain." Quote Emily Zanotti @emzanotti, "Just...just one shred of dignity. One. Please. x.com/Republicans/st…" The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap, "#BREAKING President Trump just announced that his administration is moving to allow farmers the ability process their own meat. This is huge for farmers, the economy, and for rural Americans who should be able to get meat from their neighbors. Long overdue, but these are the decisions we were hoping to see." Heather Champion @winningatmylife, "It was easy for Trump to walk right in and take over the Republican Party bc they were all false fronts. Kristol, Tucker. I resent this tremendously." Quote Bill Kristol @BillKristol, Replying to @BillKristol, "MAGA is a Red Scare, a Race Scare, and a Gender Scare all at once." To be fair, he was the man who put "neo" in neocon. Dave Hoile at Am Great says The International Criminal Court Is a Woke NGO. Shut It Down. "Secretary Rubio’s pledge to dismantle the ICC brick by brick will be easier to execute than many may think."

At Twitchy, Trump Blasts NYT's Maggie Haberman for ‘Sources Say’ 9/11 Smear, CNN’s Jake Tapper Rushes to Rescue "Maggot Hagerman, the Fake Reporter from The Failing New York Times, an unattractive person both inside and out, and who knows less about me than most reporters on the beat (She’s a SCAMMER!), made up a story that on September 11th, I’m not going to the World Trade Center, in New York City, because they won’t let me make a speech, and I’m going to the Pentagon in D.C., because I’m a featured speaker." "This is more Corrupt News, I’ve been to New York many times over the years, and no one ever speaks, it’s a “solemn ceremony!” I never even thought of what Maggot made up, and besides, I would love not to speak, because I’m speaking all the time, and this is a day to remember the victims, and their beautiful family members."" Insty says YOUR TERMS ARE ACCEPTABLE: Jelly Roll Dares Trump Fans to Stop Listening After Playing Court Jester for Jimmy Kimmel.

Matt Vespa at TownHall, That PA Measles Story Just Took a Wild Turn, At Hair Dave Strom looks at The Lie Buried in the Truth of Measles 'Associated' Deaths. A newborn died of a broken spleen, tested positive for measles. Commissioner Josh Parsons @CommissionerJP, "Correct. This is a point I have been making. The PA Sec of Health says she "thoroughly" reviewed the two cases. At the press conference they emphasized the two individuals were "unvaccinated." The underlying assertion was that this status was by choice. We later learned that one case was the infant who died at birth. The infant obviously had no opportunity to be vaccinated. A thorough review of the case by the PA Secretary of Health would obviously reveal this. Thus, stating it the way they did is an attempt to deceive the public. If there is one attempt to deceive the public in this matter, it is fair to ask if there are other attempts." Quote Madhava Setty @Madhava_Setty, "Replying to @AboutPediatrics @CommissionerJP and @SecKennedy You do realize that if the death was in a newborn calling it an unvaccinated death is ridiculous." Cary Kelly @CaryKelly11, "Blaming measles for a death a coroner said was caused by a lacerated spleen is stupid. Community notes, where are ya?" Quote Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera, "Kids dying because they weren't vaccinated for measles is stupid." Also at Hat Hair, Beege Welborn on The Mystery Measles of Lancaster County", Unless someone coughs up a red, spotty corpse pretty quickly, power-mad Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro is going to have some serious 'splainin' to do." Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy, "Governor Shapiro's unseemly rush to Lancaster County to convene a national press conference and his giddy delight in announcing two measles deaths was a morose commentary on the contemporary political dialogue. The performance was a replay of the Democrats' COVID playbook: fearmongering, misinformation, finger-pointing, and the weaponization of infectious disease fears for political gain..."
At Am Mind, John C. Eastman stares down The $40 Trillion Hole "Time to revisit the Constitution’s Spending Clause limits." Politicians just can't control their urge to give away taxpayers money.

Dmitri Bolt is happy to hear Scott Bessent Is Coming for Soros, CAIR, the SPLC, and the Left’s Tax-Exempt Empire. It's time to get rid of tax-free NGOs entirely, left, right or center. Make them part of the regular economy.


Susie Crabtree at RCP reports the Secret Service Spokesman, Two Others Suspended Amid Leak Probe  "All three employees are based in the communications office. Placing Secret Service agents or officials on administrative leave and suspending security clearances is standard practice during an investigation and not a confirmation of wrongdoing."

Dave Strom, Abdul El-Sayed Will Save Jews From Global Warming! Jarvis @jarvis_best, "I was pleasantly caught off guard by the argument of former journalist Peter Beinart who responded to a group of Michigan Jewish Dems who were uncomfortable with El Sayed by telling them that El Sayed will stop global warming and global warming will be Bad For Jews." Capt. Ed, Piker Melts Down As Michigan's Jewish Dems Fight Back. Dave Strom again, Yes, It Matters Who You Embrace and Campaign With. Insty says NO. NEXT QUESTION? "Can Abdul el Sayed be trusted with intelligence community secrets?  To be fair, these days I’m not sure the intelligence community can be trusted with that stuff."A Hat Hair vid claims to know The Bloc of Michigan Voters the GOP Must Win Over. Am Con calls Alaska The Sleeper Race That Could Decide Senate Control, "Name confusion and the Last Frontier’s ranked-choice system may spell trouble for Republicans." CDM @CDM_PRESS, "NYT Killed A Story That Exposed How Democratic Spam PACs Drain Elderly Donors — And A Stanford Professor Had To Publish It Himself. A surprisingly concentrated group of elderly donors are responsible for the lion’s share of money raised by these groups. Full story in comments..."

At AMAC, Blue-City Blackouts Expose the Left’s Race Hustle. "In response to power outages in two blue cities, some liberal activists are blaming "racism" for delays in getting the lights back on. But there is one glaring problem with that theory." Black looters shooting at repairment and Blacks run the system from top to bottom. Being Democrats, you can be sure the system is being looted at the expense of maintenance. 

West Coast, Messed Coast™– Califraudia's Protection Act for Billion-Dollar Robber Barons. Bob Hoge at RedState sees Nick Shirley Leave a NYTimes Reporter Sputtering As He Educates Her on CA's 1st Amendment Assault. If I understand the law correctly, he should immediately file a complaint against her, and any other "unfriendly" new reporter that seeks to interview him, just as a lesson.

Matt Vespa reports  A Top FBI Official's Remarks About Running a Secret Government Are Now More Chilling. Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal says the FBI Followed Catholic Priests, Continued Richmond Memo Work After Removal Order: DOJ Report Finds.

Yashar Ali @yashar, "BREAKING via TMZ Milo Yiannopolous has been apprehended by ICE and is currently in a detention center." From Not The Bee, Former Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulos has been arrested and detained by ICE. Sundance provides some details, ICE Arrests Milo Yiannopoulos for Overstaying Visa Pending Deportation and Removal. "Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York. He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws.   Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal." Dave Strom says  This Is Pretty Funny, Actually...  MILO @Nero, "California needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can’t prove they are in the US legally."

From Ace, Rubio Suspends All H-1B Visa Processing, "Rubio tried to ban visas for citizens of countries who tend to abuse our welfare system. A Biden judge named Jeanette Vargas, get this, blocked this necessary measure." Mike Letts at PJM sees Minnesota Just Got Handed a Loss Following Its Absurd Request Over ICE Agent Christian Castro. "a federal judge who delivered the latest blow to the state of Minnesota, calling them out on the same insanity that Abbott saw. U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. rejected Minnesota’s requests for a temporary restraining order, allowing Castro to walk free. That’s not to say he won’t face the charges down the road, but this is a step in the right direction."


NiohBerg @NiohBerg, "Reminder that in both Libya, Syria and Iraq, the moment civil war broke out and the ruling regimes lost control over entire regions, the locals immediately reopened slave markets. As if it was the most natural thing to do. Not all cultures are equal." Bob Spencer at PJM, Trump Says He’d ‘Absolutely’ Ban Sharia. From NYPo, CAIR blamed 9/11 on US support for Israel, recommended bin Laden’s writings in back-to-school guide: ‘Evil propaganda.’  Kyle Becker @kylenabecker, "Any “feminists” care to comment? Or is “feminism” just a Marxist scam to poison sexual relations and attack Western culture? It’s interesting what radicals attack and don’t attack. Because it exposes them all as frauds." Quote Faraz Pervaiz @FarazPervaiz3, "Canadian Islamic scholar Dr. Shabir Ally says: “A Muslim man can have 4 wives and an unlimited number of female sex slaves (concubines). The four wives are also slaves, but with higher status.”" At Hat Hair, Mark Judge writes on Jews, Literacy, and American Freedom.

James McGee at Am Spec looks at Iryna Zarutska, Lindsay Clancy, and the Politics of Who Gets Mourned. "Our culture has its victims and villains backward." Our culture doesn't. The left does. 

Capt. Ed, Nihilists, Man: WPATH Goes the Full Lebowski. "Now that it faces action from the Federal Trade Commission for fraud, however, WPATH suddenly wants to wrap itself in the First Amendment. All of those claims about a scientific basis for chemical and surgical sex changes on children? That was just their opinion, man! Call it the Full Lebowski." ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg, "At least four women's golf tournaments in Canada have been won by men this summer." Well, Cana Duh. 

Even more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.28.26! Linked at the Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links.