RAVING AND DROOLING: Roger Waters Labels Ozzy Osbourne’s Career ‘Idiocy and Nonsense.’

Waters then brought Osbourne into the conversation: “… Or Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him, in his, whatever that state that he was in his whole life, we’ll never know. Although, he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense.”

He didn’t stop there, moving on to attack Osbourne’s music: “The music, I have no idea, I couldn’t give a fuck. I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did, I have no interest in…. ‘Wahhhh!!!’ (spoken while sticking his tongue out and doing an impression that looked more like Gene Simmons than Osbourne) and biting the heads off chickens or whatever they do. I couldn’t care less.”

When informed that Osbourne (accidentally, it should have been noted) bit the head off a bat, not a chicken, the Pink Floyd legend was even more revolted: “Oh my God, that’s even worse, isn’t it? I don’t know, is it worse to bite the head off a bat or a chicken?”

In sharp contrast, David Gilmour is thoughtful and articulate in his nearly two-hour interview with musician/producer/YouTuber Rick Beato about his musical processes over the decades:

THE BARI MARKET:

David [Ellison’s] offer for The Free Press is expected to be well above the site’s most recent $100 million valuation, but well below the $200 million figure that was recently floated in the Financial Times. (That was an absurd ask; The Free Press does $15 million in annual subscription revenue, and Bari’s politically charged content makes it hard to scale the advertising business. Plus, there’s no tech stack—it’s all on Substack.) Either way, it will land Weiss a king’s ransom just a little over five years after her dramatic departure from the Times. The deal is not done yet, of course, but, as a source with knowledge of the negotiations told me this afternoon, it is “on the 1-yard line.”

It’s Not Dan Rather’s Network Anymore…

As part of the deal, I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division. Bari’s avowedly pro-Israel and anti-woke worldview—not to mention her broadly shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition—would inevitably inspire blowback from various corners of the newsroom, and could dramatically change the editorial posture and reputation of one of the most storied, and certainly self-important, institutions in American journalism. For David, that’s likely part of the point.

If this actually happens, the meltdowns at CBS News will be astonishing to watch; recall the struggle sessions there last fall over Tony Dokoupil actually committing journalism in an interview with leftist Ta-Nehisi Coates.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Aircraft links with satellite using laser terminals in interoperability test.

EXCELLENT NEWS: New Research Shows Mars Is Far Icier Than We Thought.

NOT WHAT YOU WERE EXPECTING, DUDE?

With pleasure!
Churchill described the Jews as a "higher grade race" compared to the "great hordes of Islam."
He wrote that "Some people like the Jews and some do not, but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most… https://t.co/kx3aLt8Dx4

— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) September 2, 2025

HUGH HEWITT: What should the IDF do in Gaza? Commentary editor John Podhoretz joins Hugh (Video).

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ROGER SIMON: Living Forever: Putin, Xi and Djokovic.

I woke up this morning to this NY Post (the only paper I bother with nowadays) article: “Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping ponder unsettling ambitions in rare hot-mic moment: ‘Achieve immortality’”. It tells us:

“The unnerving moment was caught as Putin and Xi walked alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as the trio of tyrants viewed a military parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

“‘Biotechnology is continuously developing,’ Putin’s translator could be heard saying on a livestream broadcast on Chinese state media.

“‘Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and [you can] even achieve immortality.’

“‘Some predict that in this century humans may live to 150 years old,” Xi’s translator responded, adding at another point: “Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 years you are still a child.”

Oh, those dictators—what they chitchat about!

Well, actually. they chitchat about something most people of a “certain age” think about rather frequently, their morality, including yours truly who is about nine years the senior of these despots who are 72.

Nevertheless, the characterization “unnerving” above is arguably an understatement. The idea of Putin and Xi going on for another 80 years is anything but reassuring. Most of us wish they had never been around in the first place or, failing that, would disappear in the next ten minutes.

They’ve got the right idea — as Glenn noted in one of his Subtacks, Harvard aging researcher David Sinclair “doesn’t talk about immortality, but he did opine in a recent interview that the first person who will live to 150 is alive now. And in fact, with good luck, people reading this essay might live that long. More importantly, they might live that long in good health.” But given the events of 2020, who knows to what lengths Vlad and Xi’s scientists will go to achieve such goals?

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THAT’S WHAT XI SAID! ABC Gets Hot and Bothered By China’s Show of ‘Patriotism and Power.’

Since their parent company Disney was beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, even giving a “special thanks” to those carrying out a genocide against Uighurs in the credits of Mulan, ABC foreign correspondent Britt Clennett beclowned herself and the network during Wednesday’s Good Morning America. With prime seating in Tiananmen Square, Clennett had a huge smile on her face as she was overcome with awe at the military equipment and being able to lay her eyes on Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

“Yeah, just a remarkable sight to see here in Beijing. China very much flexing its military muscle, with the latest generation of ballistic missiles and drones in a carefully choreographed parade designed to show its patriotism and power,” Clennett boasted to co-host Michael Strahan a head of the video portion of her report.

To be fair, it’s not all that surprising to see a Disney employee offering up such high praise to her CEO:

(Besides, I’m pretty sure CNN has the lock on sucking up to Pyongyang.)

STOP IT: Why Has Fort Worth – One of America’s Most Conservative Cities – Hired an Anti-Gun Police Chief?

ALL THE EPSTEIN: The Nonexistent Epstein List and the Left’s Failed Trump Smear.

‘MURICA: August Gun Sales Climb Back Over the 1 Million Mark. “NSSF is encouraged to see the adjusted NICS background checks top 1 million in the month August once again. We know there is a strong and continued interest in lawful firearm ownership and these figures bear out the truth that Second Amendment rights are valued. These figures are more than data points. They represent Americans from all walks of life who are, quite literally, investing in their safety, security and freedom.”

Well, estimated sales, to be fair.

UGH: Restaurant Loses Case After Denying Male Entry to Women’s Bathroom. “A Delaware restaurant has been ordered to pay up and put staff through woke reeducation after it refused to allow a biological male to use the women’s bathroom.”

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WHEN HATE CALLS ITSELF ‘THE PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE FOR PALESTINE:’ If you were in the vicinity of Huntington Place Detroit this past weekend, you were at Ground Zero in America for radical Leftist and Islamists making common cause to destroy Israel and America, according to Richard Pollock.

During the three-day hatefest, Rep. Rashida Talib (D-Mich.) provided yet more evidence, as if any more was needed, for why the House of Representatives should refuse to seat her. As Pollock reports:

“She defiantly told cheering Palestinian activists, ‘We aren’t going anywhere. We’re just getting started. I want to say to all of them, look at this room, mother-f—–s – we aren’t going anywhere!’

“Talib routinely denounced many of America’s political institutions, including the U.S. Congress where she serves, saying they were objectively evil. ‘The political situation that I have to work in, that we are surrounded by, was built on slavery, genocide, rape and oppression.’

“Channelling the rhetoric of the 1970’s she urged the activists to seek the ‘power in the streets,’ telling the adoring crowd, ‘the power that we will have in the streets and pushing these institutions is going to work!’”

Stay tuned because it’s also becoming clear that the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s never really changed or went away; they just changed their costumes.

ANTITRUST: A Judge Lets Google Get Away with Monopoly.

The decade-long campaign to stop big tech from dominating our society took a significant step backwards, as the judge hearing the search case against Google, Amit Mehta, chose not to meaningfully constrain the firm’s illegal behavior. And to engage in such deferential behavior, he openly ignored Supreme Court precedent.

You don’t have to take it from me. It’s Mehta who last year found Google to have violated the law. “Google is a monopolist,” he wrote, “and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” It’s also Mehta who found the Supreme Court mandated what he called the “remedial objective” in monopolization cases, to “terminate the illegal monopoly.” But, Mehta wrote, “remedies designed to eliminate the defendant’s monopoly—i.e., structural remedies—are inappropriate in this case.”

So there we go. Mehta understood the law mandates he terminate Google’s monopoly, but he just decided against doing so.

Much more at the link.

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Rep. Jamie Raskin Says Trump Wants to Shrink the Size and Scope of Gov’t Just Like Stalin.

Jamie Raskin: President Trump's firing of bureaucrats makes him just like Joseph Stalin. pic.twitter.com/guctkAYKK9

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 3, 2025

Raskin knows that Stalin’s employee layoffs were rather more permanent in nature, but he doesn’t care.

Alas though, many years from now, Trump’s obit in the New York Times won’t be anywhere near as glowing as the encomium they wrote in 1953 for one of the 20^th century’s most bloodthirsty tyrants: Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State.

Related: Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral Realm. “The abuse of language is a fundamental characteristic of the Left. Leftists have done this not only to ‘Hitler,’ ‘Nazi’ and ‘fascist’ but to ‘genocide,’ ‘apartheid,’ ‘racist’ and virtually every other term connoting evil. It started with Stalin calling Trotsky a fascist and it continues to this day.”

WOULD YOU LIKE THAT ON THE ROCKS? Once king of the seas, a giant iceberg is finally breaking up.

GEHEN SIE WEITER, BÜRGER, HIER GIBT ES NICHTS ZU SEHEN! Six candidates for Germany’s AfD die before election.

WAIT, WHAT? School Girls Told They Can Escape Boys in Their Locker Rooms if They Admit to Being Mentally Ill.

WELL, GOOD: New charts for artery stiffness could flag heart risk long before symptoms.

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FASTER, PLEASE: Delete, Delete, Delete: How FCC Republicans are killing rules faster than ever.