Author Archive: Stephen Green

ANARCHO-TYRANNY, UK-STYLE:

Labour has to call an election no later than July, 2029 — and Labour looks to be doing everything it can to tip the scales before then.

THAT’S RACIST AND SOMETIMES VIOLENT MORONS:

WE NEED MORE REFINING CAPACITY:

Particularly in California.

FASCINATING:

And here’s X’s auto-generated translation, which for whatever reason doesn’t embed:

Russia successively attacks Ukraine’s data centers
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President Zelensky declares retaliation. Successively attacks Yandex’s data centers
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Services partially shut down. Due to economic sanctions, acquiring new GPUs is difficult, and recovery seems hopeless
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For some reason, this attack causes half of Russia’s bots to stop functioning, making X a bit more peaceful←NOW HERE

Did anyone have “Russian drone strike sets off a small chain of events resulting in cleaner X timelines” on their 2026 bingo card?

WHAT DID Y’ALL THINK GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA MEANT? VIBES? PAPERS? ESSAYS? LOSERS.

Classical reference in the headline.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: Britain is Heading Towards Blackouts. “No large grid anywhere has yet run mostly on wind, solar and batteries with so little spinning plant behind it. NESO’s Chief Executive calls its stability programme ‘world-first’, and means it as praise. Britain is running a colossal experiment on a system that cannot be allowed to fail.”

Fascinating look at what makes grids work, and why Net Zero doesn’t.

SPOILER: WE ARE NOT PREPARED.

SHE’S BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO LIKE:

BE PREPARED:

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Would You Give This Man Your Passwords? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the absolute last person to call for tech support, the proper etiquette for being hauled drunk out of a canal, and more about Shrek than you ever wanted to know.”

FASTER? PLEASE! B-21 Testing, Manufacturing Ramp Up: ‘We’re Moving Fast.’

“It’s more than construction,” Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink wrote in a social media post. “We’re moving fast to build B-21s!”

The Air Force Test Center has likewise been moving quickly to test the bomber ahead of its introduction into service next year. Brig. Gen. Mark Massaro, head of the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up when asked about the program at an Oct. 6 event. The aircraft first flew in 2023, and two bombers are currently known to be undergoing testing at the base.

“I can’t give you many details about specifics on how it’s going, but I am very closely tied into that program and have been getting regular updates,” Massaro said during a discussion hosted by AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “We are actively testing right now.”

Less than 30 miles away, Northrop is already building B-21s at its Air Force Plant 42 facility in Palmdale, Calif., but the new construction will add 1 million square feet of production space. Meink said it will be the “final assembly line” for new bombers.

We get so few procurement wins on big-ticket items, that it’s nice to be able to point one out now and then.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: California Sheriff Backs Down, Ends County’s Ban on 1911s, Red Dots, and Pistol Lights.

The Second Amendment Foundation has reached a settlement agreement with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office over policies that previously prohibited permit holders from carrying handguns equipped with red dot sights or flashlights and an outright ban on the carry of single action only 1911- and 2011-style pistols.

Under the agreement, the Sheriff’s Office will withdraw its prohibitions on red-dot sights, weapon-mounted lights and semiautomatic single-action 1911 and 2011 platform pistols carried under a county CCW license. The office will update its concealed-carry website within 10 days to reflect the change. SAF was joined in SAF v. Contra Costa County by private citizens Andrew Moore and James Treuel who were represented by John W. Dillon of the Dillon Law Group.

“A sheriff does not get to invent a shorter list of approved handguns and accessories than the Constitution allows,” said SAF Director of Legal Research and Education and attorney of record in the case Kostas Moros.

So flagrant that Sheriff David O. Livingston chose to settle rather than take it to court.

HUH:

WHY, IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH LEFTIES ONLY APPROVE OF KILLING THE INNOCENT: