Archive for 2025

SO NOW THEY’LL ASK:

EVERYBODY WHO DIDN’T GET NUKED, FOR STARTERS: Who Won The India-Pakistan War?

I’m inclined to think that India won, because they successfully hit their targets and dirtnapped a lot of jihadis, and Pakistan doesn’t seem to have successfully struck anything of import. But I don’t know for sure, since the never-entirely-trustworthy American media has a done a poor job reporting the conflict (evidently it’s really hard to blame Donald Trump for a sectarian conflict over a century old), and the local media on both sides seem entirely too biased to trust. And as for this Reuters report that Trump says disputes are “settled,” that’s either the usual MSM incompetence or “figuratively, not literally” at work. The Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir will probably continue as long as those two nations still exist.

So I’m at a loss to say definitively who won this most recent flareup.

Trump came away looking pretty good.

SUPERB BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP PRO/CON: There’s a huge amount of foggy  misunderstanding of the issues involved in the issue of Birthright Citizenship under the 14th Amendment following its adoption after the Civil War.

But along comes tech entrepreneur Rod Martin and Yale Law Professor Christina Rodriguez to cut through the fog and provide a much-needed demonstration of the priceless value of civil, informed discourse on great issues. They do so on “The Disagreement,” a Substack based program devoted to advancing the restoration of such discourse and ably hosted by Catherine Cushenberry.

Even if you think you know this controversy backwards and forward, give yourself an hour to listen to Rodriguez and Martin as they sort through the arguments and history of an issue that has come to intense prominence

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  Theophany.

#commissionearned

Ten years ago the Savients took over Niban, forcing the independent inhabitants into poverty and despair. Bass White saw the careless cruelty of the Savients kill his mother and his father. When a resistance cell is discovered in his city bloc, the Savients seek to make everyone pay.

With his wife Amie, Bass races into the caverns to escape the Savients’ brutal enforcers: the Atrasai. The couple barely make it to the limits of known territory outside their underground city, however, before the Atrasai catch up with them. It would take a miracle to save them…

…or a combat medic robot.

Join Bass and Amie in this sci-fi story of healing, hope, and wonder. After a decade of fear and pain, even a little light can bring out the best in man and machine. But will the best be enough to heal?

OPEN THREAD: Believe me, you can get all the tubes of Winsor and Newton paint you want in Cincinnati, but the artists keep migrating to New York all the same.

FLASHBACK: ‘Shorthand for killing someone:’ Trump campaign disturbed by Gretchen Whitmer displaying ‘8645’ in background for interview.

—The Washington Examiner, October 20th, 2020.

Related: Did Former FBI Director James Comey Just Call for Trump To Be Murdered?

UPDATE: The former director of the FBI regarding “8647:” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Likely the same response from the DNC-MSM as well:

Robert Underdunk Terwilliger Jr., PhD could not be reached for comment:

TWO-TIER KEIR:

Shot: Just Stop Oil poster girl avoids jail for M25 protest.

A Just Stop Oil poster girl has avoided prison for her part in M25 protests that caused misery for motorists.

Phoebe Plummer, 23, and fellow activist David Mann, 51, were among 45 demonstrators who scaled gantries to protest about oil and gas licences in November 2022.

Mourners missed funerals and students were late for exams as traffic ground to a halt during the protests.

Plummer, of Lambeth, south London, was convicted of conspiring to disrupt the M25 by a jury at Southwark Crown Court, while Mann earlier admitted the offence.

Judge Justin Cole branded the protesters “arrogant” for thinking they were “cleverer” than those whose everyday lives they disrupted.

He said: ‘It was part of a plan to cause major disruption to the M25 by climbing on motorway gantries.

“Neither of you played an organisational role but you were motivated by a desire to cause large-scale disruption and to attract publicity for JSO and their aims.”

The judge said the protests continued over four days and cost the Met Police more than £1million and the economy more than £750,000.

Chaser:

Related: The punishment of Lucy Connolly.

‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care …. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it.’ After this rash and ugly tweet, she took the dog out for a walk, mulled it over and later deleted her message. But the post had been screenshotted, and soon she had been arrested for stirring up racial hatred.

‘Whatever I’d done, [the] police made it quite clear I was going down for this’, she says, ‘their intention was always to hammer me’. So it proves. She received only a perfunctory psychiatric evaluation, where she was not even asked about the loss of her child. After she expressed reasonable concerns about illegal immigration in a police interview, the CPS issued a misleading statement that Lucy ‘told officers she did not like immigrants’.

Several legal professionals consider her 31-month sentence inordinately harsh, and we have learned about the effect her imprisonment is having on her family. In the absence of her mother, her daughter has started having behavioural issues at school. Her husband, Ray, who is ill, does his best, but is no substitute for Lucy.

Flashback: The moment a Met Police officer tells Jewish woman that swastikas ‘need to be taken into context’ — after she complained about the Nazi symbol being used in pro-Palestine march banners in London.

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