Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

It's a great selling method, by the way.  IBM used that triumvirate for years--contrasting their machines to those of Burroughs, NCR, Data General, DEC.......and you haven't heard of those brands lately, have you?

F.U.D. works in other venues.

Trump mentioned the F.U.D. of climate.  First it was cooling:  50 years to mass death.  Then--when cooling stopped--it was warming:  50 years to mass death.  Warming stopped, so now it's "climate change":  50 years to mass death.

There was Covid19:  only 10 years to mass death unless everyone took Teh Vaxx.

There is AI:  only a couple years to mass deaths!!!

Note well:  the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt worked in every one of those cases--until it didn't work any more.

But you'll NOT hear this one mentioned, whether by Trump, or anyone else:

TWO YEARS UNTIL IRAN HAS NUKES!!  MASS DEATH!!!

That record's been played for about 20 years.  Some Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt must continue!!

Wonder why no one mentions that one........ 

Russia and Diesel Fuel

Some would pin the price of diesel on the Iran/Netanyahu War.

It ain't necessarily so, even if it is partially so....

 ...Back in July, when NATO began increased targeting of Russian refinery infrastructure, Russian President Vladimir Putin proactively signed a government order banning the export of Russian diesel fuel.  There have been no exports of Russian diesel since, with exceptions to the shipping industry and some humanitarian farm shipments.

Russia is the world’s second largest producer of diesel fuel and as soon as Putin made this announcement global prices of diesel began to rise. Russia then extended the bans, and the current export ban will run from Aug. 1 until Jan. 31, 2027....

Trump has to walk a fine line here, keeping Putin close.

Don't look to the Usual Idiot Democrats to have a grasp on this. 

Accomplishments of Congress

This is just the RECENT accomplishments list.  Speaker Johnson--he of the very pretty hair--has sent Congress home because there's nothing left to do.  And yes, we know that the DoJ is also disinclined to pursue cases which will endanger the DeepState/Protected Class.

 

Josh Kaul: Another Blithering Idiot Lefty

The (D) Party is running TWO incompetent extreme-Left candidates here; one for Governor, and one for Attorney General.

In the Governor's race, "Dirt McGurk" Crowley has blown his County budget by wild overspending, compounded by having an alleged narcotics trafficker on his payroll--and then forgetting to renew the County's health-insurance contract (!)

In the case of Josh Kaul?  His Department of Justice funded an extreme anti-police outfit in Madison with Federal grant money, and overpaid them by almost $50K.  The "errors" were so outrageous that the BIDEN Administration called Kaul's DOJ a "high-risk grantee."  BIDEN!!!

Kaul recently awoke from his 4-year nap to make a couple of campaign appearances.  Wisconsin should vote for Toney and allow Josh to go back to sleep in his Mommy's basement again. 

Exxon Offline Refinery......???

 Last Refuge is suspicious when a Midwest refinery producing 11 MILLION gallons of gasoline and diesel goes off line for a week.

C'mon.  Primary AND secondary electrical feeds go down simultaneously all the time.

Pumps fed by those lines cannot hold back floodwaters.

It's all natural. 

George Carlin Was Right

Carlin made a lot of brilliant observations.  Here's one:

 

 

Who IS This Cow Dana Bash?

It's "gross" that Americans will not vote for Shari'a?

It's time for you to change the channel in your airport.  See if CNN can pay this bint Bash without a stream of tax dollars. 

Hegseth: "Put On Your Big Boy Pants, NATO"

 No wonder Hegseth is under continuous attack.  No more European vacations for generals and aides-de-camp in Brussels; wives will be PO'd......Congressmen won't be "inspecting" US facilities in Europe.....

 ...This summer, Hegseth told NATO allies that the U.S. will take a hard look at its force structure in Europe, with an eye toward having Europe increasingly protect itself....

....European allies “have to be willing to stand up and do something in a strong way about” defending their own continent.

Hegseth said the review would last no longer than six months, according to a news release on the War Department website.

“We’re going to keep a close eye on allies who are not doing that and who say ‘no,’ or ‘maybe’ or ‘wait and see’ when it matters most,” he said. “It’s a review that some countries will fail ...

...“This is the right thing to do by the American people; it’s the right thing to do by this alliance. Europe can and must take primary responsibility for its conventional defense as it pledged at The Hague Summit and in the process safeguarding Europe’s defense for generations to come,” he said....

Reports are that US could withdraw up to 40% of its forces in Europe, which would save the US taxpayer a whole lotta cash that could be used to reduce the deficit, or the national debt, or to fix roads.  

 

Accurate, But Incomplete

Actually, this depiction covers the entire RINO & Deep State bunch.

 

Rep. Salazar: WHO Do You Represent??

 This woman thinks she represents legal Hispanic immigrants?

 ...“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far,” the three-term congresswoman said. 

“In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record,” she claimed. “Be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policies. 

“The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.” ...

That's confusing, dear.  Are you saying that the ILLEGALS 'helped get Trump to the White House,' or that actual US citizens of Hispanic descent are PO'd about tossing the illegals out of the country?

If it's the latter, then we have a real problem here. 

Paul Mitchell Schools: Tax Drains

A few Wisconsin schools specialize in taking tax money and flushing it down the drain.

Students of the "Paul Mitchell The School" operations in Milwaukee and Madison have sucked up $2.2 million or so in the last couple of years, but forty percent of those loans will go unpaid.

"Paul Mitchell, The School" ops depend on tax dollars for between 66%-84% of their revenue.

Maybe some responsible Wisconsin government entity should take a look at those dumps. 

 

The Boasberg Problem Gets Worse

Natalie Winters is a jewel.  Let's hope she has a good security detachment.

 Judge James Boasberg, who confronted the Trump administration over its 2025 deportation flights, was a nine-time host for a Chinese law exchange funded by a Chinese Communist Party-linked spy front.

Six of those annual host credits came while Boasberg served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. One came in 2020, when he was its presiding judge. The court reviews some of the government’s most sensitive applications for foreign-intelligence surveillance and searches....

Of course, no other DC-based jurists knew anything about this, right.  We think of CJ Roberts, for example, who does the "see no/hear no/speak no act very well, indeed.

There are lots of other blackrobes around D.C., too.

NONE of them had the sense to warn Boasberg about his associations?

Nor did ex-Cong. Swalwell..... 

Trump Buried Epstein Report

 Recently, Tucker Carlson has been somewhat erratic.  But this one is not just tossing poop at a wall:

... [Carlson] said that he warned the president about the political ramifications of withholding the files in the summer of 2025 when Trump was facing overwhelming scrutiny for his administration's handling of the late pedophile's files. 

'My position from the beginning with Trump, I said it to Trump, was, 'I don't understand why you would ever keep any of this stuff secret.' And I got like a bunch of different answers,' Carlson told the outlet. ...

... 'The order to cover it up came from Trump,' the former Fox News host said. 'I asked him why. And he gave me this long, very emotional explanation that this was all a plot against him, like Russiagate.'...

So far, Tucker's claim looks utterly ridiculous, right?

Read on:

 ...Responding to Carlson's claims, the White House did not directly deny the account, but noted how Trump has 'been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein' and that he has done more for the pedophile's victims 'than anyone before.'...

So Trump DID give the order.

We don't think Trump was a visitor to Pedo Island.  But at least one of his buddies was, and probably more than just one.  But that's not the real scandal, which is that Epstein was an Israeli operative.  That's something Trump really wants to keep secret. 

More Welfare for Israel--and Horrific Results for Palestinians

 Trump's actions here are intolerable.

 According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs....

That's only the beginning of the story.  The Mark 84 is an extremely destructive instrument; the US has never used it in any civilian areas for exactly that reason.

 

At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951

How very nice of us.

Doesn't look like a hard sell:

... The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it....

If all this is true, Congress should take a very long and hard look at who--exactly--is funding this Zionism Ultra move.  It won't be hard:  all it requires is a mirror. 

Patel Has the Losing Side on Bestiality and Flock

This guy Patel has a strange view of the world.  First, he constructs a statistically near-impossible case.

... Patel has doubled down on defending the policy after the FBI revised its hiring standards in June, allowing some applicants with past involvement in prostitution, employer theft, bestiality, or animal cruelty to remain eligible under certain circumstances, according to a CBS News report....

Oh.

Patel has an explanation, too!!

The new guideline allows the FBI to hire people who have INVOLUNTARILY participated in bestiality.

Oh.

... [Sen.] Kennedy later pressed Patel on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary conduct.

“How do you involuntarily do it?” Kennedy asked.

Patel explained that human traffickers, whom he called “some of the worst individuals on planet earth,” can force victims into degrading acts beyond prostitution.

“They don’t just traffic you for prostitution; they traffic you for degrading acts of all kinds, and they force you into that type of conduct,” Patel said. “And some of these individuals go on to be law enforcement officers who qualified to be law enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI.”...

So.  First you need a cartel.  Then you need a goat (dog, sheep, chicken....whatever.)  Then you need some person who f***s the critter--and is otherwise qualified to be a FEEB.

Really, Kash? How many people are there who funnel into that set of parameters?  8?  2?

Really??

Patel then goes on to love him some Flock. (We shall not play the "Flock/Bestiality" game here.)

... Trump-appointed FBI Director Kash Patel echoed Trump's recent sentiments on Flock cameras and defended the FBI's access to and use of the cameras, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee he believes Flock license-plate cameras are not mass surveillance because they are in public places, so people should not expect privacy there....

BTW, Trump is wrong, too.  Both of them should read Carpenter. 

Channel 58 Goes Dirtball-Stupid

 Ms. Merck should be ashamed to show her face again in polite society.

 Online records show the political and aviation history of the man who landed the plane on Lake Wausau with Congressman Tom Tiffany on board....

Gee, Ms Merck!  You didn't investigate the pilot's marriage, wife, and children?

Did he ever return a library book late?  How about parking tickets?

Get back to work.  Find SOMETHING. 

The Archdiocese's Ms. Gallagher vs. 8 USC §1324

 

(A) Any person who—

(i)

knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;

(ii)

knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;

(iii)

knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;

(iv)

encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or

(v)

(I)

engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or

(II)

aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,

shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—

(i)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;

(ii)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

(iii)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and

(iv)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.

 

 

Cowherd: The Packers Are "Soft"

 Cowherd's analysis of the Packers' SIX-GAME LOSING STREAK:

They are "soft."

That fits Matt LaFleur's style.

To the Packer Board of Directors:

YOU COULD HAVE HAD HARBAUGH.  

Comer: Blowing the Call Here? Why??

House Oversight has long been the domain of show-horses.  NOT the domain of "go"-horses.  Remember Mr Wrestler, Jim Jordan?

Yah.

His successor, Rep. Comer, now "demands" the FBI's findings on the Somalian-in-Congress, Omar.  But as we all know, if the Feds release their findings, their case for immigration fraud (along with the case for immediate expulsion from the USA), goes straight down the porcelain tube.

So why is Comer "demanding" it?

Think twice before answering...... 

Lawyer? Or Just a Race-Monger?

 This guy has a track record and it is not a good one.  So his choice--to continue digging--will not produce what he wants, unless he really wants to touch off a war.

...The civil rights attorney now representing Smith's family, B'Ivory LaMarr, said family members who were shown the body camera video saw something completely different than what police described. ...

Maybe they did.  Or maybe the "lawyer" said it.

...Milwaukee Police Association President Alex Ayala released the following statement:

"I have personally reviewed the officer’s body-worn camera video of the incident. While I will not interfere with the independent investigation or disclose every detail of footage that has not yet been publicly released, I cannot remain silent while a Milwaukee police officer is falsely accused of carrying out a "cold killing" or an "execution," as described by the attorney and the family of the deceased."...

"The video shows Printis Smith fleeing with a gun in his hand, repeatedly disregarding the officer’s commands to get on the ground and becoming involved in a close-range physical struggle with the officer. In the final visible image before the gunfire, Smith still has the gun in his hand and his finger is engaging (or pulling) the trigger."...

It is unusual for Ayala to come out swinging this hard over a police shooting, which tells you something.  

Li'l B'Ivory is overplaying his hand.  That's not smart business. 

 

"Guilty," Says Waymo Car

 If you can't discern the problem here..........

 

A Waymo vehicle pulled over around 4 a.m. on September 3 and police were contacted after the company detected a “violation of … terms of service involving a firearm,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

The incident involving two passengers occurred in San Francisco, where Waymo “cooperated fully” with police....

Oh.

What we really need in this country is more cameras. 

 

What Codevilla Suggested After 9/11

 Kennedy of the Committee on the Present Danger maintains--along with many others including Angelo Codevilla--that Saudi Arabian intel assisted the 9/11 Muslim terrorists.

Thus, Codevilla suggested that the US should have rounded up 5,000 members of the Saudi "royal family" and tried them in US courts as combatants, and execute the bastards.* 

We still could, ya'know.  Why not?

 Bush failed.  Obama failed.  Trump failed.  But then, an election is coming up in only 2 years.

*Found on this video beginning 18:00 or so. 

Here's Where Flock Is Going

 Jessica McBride and Ann Coulter both love Flock surveillance.

W.I.L.L. and a large number of others do NOT love Flock surveillance.

Forget for a moment the 4th Amendment discussions surrounding Flock (and Axon, etc.) surveillance.  They are a bit arcane and--as Jessica is often told--not easy for non-lawyers to understand.  You could even forget about Flock to some extent, as the Next Step (which needs Flock) is already here.

As Americans turn against artificial intelligence, AI companies are building programs to surveil and identify troublemakers in advance....

 An investigative report published this week by The American Prospect revealed that, “in addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a ‘pre-crime’ approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.”...

Oh.  

Before a crime occurs.  

You should read that again:  BEFORE a crime occurs.

 ...For example, last month, local media reported that Anthropic called the police on a man who told Claude that he bought an AR-15 and “had CEO Dario Amodei ‘in his sights.'”

Interestingly, while Anthropic was quick to call the cops, the company also refused to show police the messages. “In short, Anthropic reported a user for in-platform speech, and then refused to provide police with evidence of actual wrongdoing,” the Prospect pointed out....

What need have we of "proof"?  AI has accused and convicted the fellow.  Please incarcerate him.

By the way:  Flock and Axon, etc. are absolutely necessary to this.

Data Centers are the vehicle in which AI speeds to its conclusions.  Just sayin'.... 

The DOOM DOOM DOOM of AI??

About a week ago, the local nooz peeps (Ted Perry was one) were losing their [minds] over an appearance by an "ex-AI employee" who said that AI 'will kill us all.'

We saw the video of the kid making his statement and were slightly suspicious, but well, if we're all going to die, we're all going to die.  Man proposes, God disposes.

Now--in an essay that Ted Perry will probably NOT mention--some are saying that the kid was part of an op which included Obama as a central player.

 The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax. How convenient that it’s come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week....[It also reeks of Covid-19, by the way.]

...Of course Barack Obama is involved. The former president and back-room Machiavelli “has taken a special interest in AI in recent years, and has offered himself as a sounding board to industry leaders, including [Open AI’s Sam] Altman and Mr. Amodei,” says The New York Times.

During a closed-door midterm fundraiser in Manhattan on Thursday with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Obama urged party donors and Democrat House members to make AI regulation the center of their agenda. He told them AI was even more “dangerous,” than nukes....

Oh.  Government should 'regulate AI,' says Obama.

The first question you should have is "Who will regulate the regulators?"

The next question:  Who's going to get rich when that happens?

Answer to Q1:  the Deep State.

Answer to Q2:  the Deep State's pals--the moneymen.

"Teh Nooz" was played. 

By the way:  Marc Andreessen disagrees with the Obama/Deep State request. 

 

Communism: Contra the Way, Truth, and Life

 Christ said that He was 'the Way, the Truth, and the Life.'  In other words, those three are actually one (in Christ), but should be apprehended as one.  Thus, an attack on one is an attack on all of them.

 ...Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed....

See if you recognize the pattern--and the similarities between this pattern and today's Democrat Party, particularly its large and growing DSA component:

 ...What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same. That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed....

Communism's principal enemies are, in order, the Church and the family.  Both express truth and life; both of those are inimical to the success of Communism, as is 'the Way,' which is of self-sacrifice, not self-aggrandizement/enrichment.  Thus, the attacks on the Church which often are not overt; rather, the Communist simply takes control, as in China, or Russia--or in the Talarico "church" and its many imitators.  

As to the attack on the family?  You can spell that F-E-M-I-N-I-S-M, which has morphed into transsexuality and--in its own odd way--approval of homosexual "marriage."  

Read Solzhenitsyn.  Read Szczawinski (at the link above.)

Think and pray. 

 

Flock Brings '1984' To Life!

 If you read some "X" contributors whose names begin with "Jessica", you'd swear that Flock is the ONLY way that cops can find rapists, child-kidnappers, mass shooters, and other criminal offenders; thus Flock is an IMPERATIVE for "safety".

It's not, of course; but there are a lot of ......ahh........girly-girls on "X".

Funny that they don't mention the patents filed by Flock, eh?

 

FLOCK patent indicates it’s a national citizen identification and tracking system using neural networks. The ALPR cameras are just an entry point. The real product is the DSOQ database and the AI models that identify, classify, and track people....

The "opt-in" language and the dynamic footprint language prove this was never just about police cameras. This was designed from day one to incorporate private cameras, smartphones, and any video source. Its a surveillance architecture designed to crowdsource video from the public...

Oh.

 ...The patent explicitly includes a neural network for identifying PEOPLE It explicitly includes a neural network for HEIGHT AND WEIGHT. Those are body characteristics. Those are biometric surrogates. You do not need someone's height, weight, and clothing type to read a license plate. You need those things to identify a PERSON when you cannot or choose not to use facial recognition. ...

Further--and most chilling:

... the system was designed to expand its coverage by incorporating ANY camera, ANYWHERE. The patent envisions neighborhood watches, commercial security systems, home security systems, traffic cameras, AND portable recording devices which means smartphones, body cameras, drones, and any personal video device. The "dynamic" footprint is not a feature. It is a design specification for national-scale coverage using every available camera as a node...

If you call that "Safety," you are as deluded as those who call boys "girls." 

Naughty, Naughty, Mark Attanasio

He plays the humble $Zillionaire very well.  But he's not all that humble.

 

Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio is being forced to dedicate a $2 million beachfront property for public use after his company allegedly used heavy machinery to rip sand and rocks from a protected California beach to shore up his Malibu mansion.

The California Coastal Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve a settlement requiring Attanasio’s company, 2XMD Partners LLC, to restore the damaged shoreline and dedicate the multimillion-dollar property for public use in eastern Malibu.

The company must also remove a private staircase and rock wall that the commission said blocked public access along the coast....

Who the Hell told you that you could rip up a shoreline because you own a house too close to the water? 

Looks like ticket prices are going up--again. 

Commie Conference, Chicago

Fitting location for a national conference of Communists, Chicago is.  Alinsky, Fr. Burke, Cdl. Bernardin., Hillary Clinton....

What went on?

 ...Aidan Grogan found himself on the inside absorbing family abolition workshops, discussions of “communist sex forests,” a literal crayon-coloring exercise during one panel, “transfeminist abolitionism,” and lectures about the “cis-sexist motherhood regime.”...

"Family abolition," eh?

You'd best be wearing Class III, pal. 

The Security State: 9/11>Fauci>Flock

He makes a good point.

 

...Twenty-five years on, remembrance or nonremembrance is still one of the most useful tools for understanding generational divergence in opinion on the world 9/11 created.

The most obvious difference is in attitudes toward the security state. For those who remember 9/11, the term security state is itself pejorative. It calls to mind the Patriot Act, the Transportation Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and other governmental novelties that smack of tyranny to those who lived through the supposedly carefree ’90s. These days, no one seriously discusses dismantling the agencies or rolling back the Bush-era surveillance legislation. And the security cameras, bollards, and metal barriers now ubiquitous on city streets are accepted elements of an urban environment. Still, those who recall life without these encumbrances grouse about them, and, sometimes in fits of pique, vow to smash them. That dissatisfaction often expresses itself as opposition to other innovations whose introduction works under the same compulsory, invasive logic: masking mandates, data centers, Flock cameras....

How to determine someone's age?  Easy!!

...The desire to be rid of the security state and its accoutrements is baffling to those who remember nothing else. For most Americans under the age of thirty, constant surveillance and security mandates are not unprecedented; they are normal. And in some cases for some people, they are even comforting. ...

Yah, no:  we are not accusing Jessica McBride of being 'under thirty.'  Her obsession with security cameras comes from a different motive.

Here's the real shocker:

 ...Younger people are not nearly as bothered; a few years ago, one study found that a surprisingly high number—nearly a third of Americans under 30—support the installation of government surveillance cameras in houses....

Wow. 

Davidson's Right: It's Religion

 Twenty-four years ago, we stated LOUDLY that the 9/11 event was a religion problem, contrary to the wish-casting of Bush the Dumber.

Maybe Davidson had written about that before we said it; maybe not.  Don't care.

Bush and the Cloud People (the Establishment) think in terms of money, prestige, and power.  Trump has the same problem, although sometimes less obvious.

Muslims and observant Jews think otherwise.  Christians worthy of the name think otherwise.

A  quarter-century removed from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, several things are now obvious that were not at all obvious to American elites in 2001 (although they should have been). Perhaps the most obvious, as I wrote earlier this week, is that the attacks inaugurated a religious war that we have lost, or at least are in the process of losing. The West failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict because it was committed to a secular liberal account of the world that dismissed the role of religion and religious claims in shaping cultures and societies....

Davidson is right.  The Crusaders were right.  The Reconquista warriors were right.  Jan III Sobieski was right.

Mohammed was a Great Heretic, and no matter Shi'a or Sunni, his followers are, too.  A few are "peaceful."  But the not-so-peaceful ones in your neighborhood are not wearing signs, are they? 

Kapenga: NOT Just Another Politician

 Jessica did Waukesha County voters a big favor by interviewing both candidates for County Exec.

Looks like Kapenga is the better of the two. 

Why?

He is not just another politician.  He didn't work for another politician to 'get into the flow.'  He didn't do another politician's bidding--on virtually every issue--to gain a nice chair in Wisconsin's legislature. 

In contrast, Kapenga is a green-eyeshade hawk who knows what Government should--and should NOT--do.  He has a reputation for being prickly.  He earned it because he is not another "Go Along, Get Along" kind of guy.

Finally, unlike the Professional Political People, Kapenga has a sense of humor about it all.  That's a very good thing.