Author Archive: Stephen Green

NASTY: Iranian cluster munitions pose additional challenge for Israel’s air defenses.

Iran has launched dozens of missiles with cluster munition warheads ​at Israel since the start of the war, posing a challenge for Israel’s missile defense shield as they need to be ‌hit before they split and disperse into smaller explosives.

Israel failed to intercept one of the cluster missiles overnight, and its small bomblets scattered into civilian areas in Tel Aviv. A couple in their 70s was killed, and one of Tel Aviv’s main train stations suffered damage.

Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters that the couple ​was killed in their apartment by a single, cluster munition bomblet.

“This cluster bomb was fired by the Iranian regime towards a ​center of mass population, firing dozens of rockets towards the civilians, deliberately targeting civilians,” he said. “This is a ⁠war crime by the Iranian regime.”

Cluster munitions have their uses, but not like that.

REDUNDANCY AND INVENTORY LOOK LIKE INEFFICIENCIES… UNTIL YOU NEED THEM:

THAT DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP, NAZI:

FASTER, PLEASE: F-47 Won’t Be Available Until Mid-2030s, Top Lawmaker Says. “Top Air Force leaders have set an ambitious goal to have the F-47 flying sometime in 2028, which would be about three years after the March 2025 contract award to Boeing. The F-35, by comparison, had its first flight in 2006, five years after Lockheed Martin beat Boeing to win the Joint Strike Fighter contract.”

YES, HE WENT THERE [UPDATED BELOW]:

No matter where you might be right now or what you’re doing, it’s OK to stand up and cheer.

Update: “I think he might have just wrapped up the midterms.”

I dunno about that, but it was certainly worth another chuckle.

AT THIS POINT, IS ANYONE SURPRISED?

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

COVERING THE IMPORTANT STORIES. WITH A PILLOW:

THANKS BUT NO THANKS: China approaches Taiwan with an offer: reunification in exchange for energy independence.

China made an offer to Taiwan Wednesday, to provide the island nation with energy stability in exchange for “reunification,” which has long been the communist regime’s goal, and which Taiwan has always rejected, according to Reuters.

While energy supplies around the world are in a degree of turmoil, with the situation in Iran and through the Strait of Hormuz, since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, China apparently sees this as a good time to approach Taiwan with such a deal.

But Taiwan, which had been receiving ​a third of its LNG from Qatar and gets no energy from China, ​has said it is fine for now, with ⁠the United States as the island’s main international backer.

Become the next Hong Kong for free gas? Really?

GOOD LORD:

MEGAN FOX: AFROMAN WINS! Let’s All Make Fun of the Government Together! “The defamation trial against Joseph ‘Afroman’ Foreman came into our lives and out of it so fast it almost seems like magic engineered by the ghosts of Thomas Jefferson and Tupac to light up the country for some good old-fashioned American fun. And by old-fashioned American fun, I mean using vicious mockery against government officials. In this case, seven Adams County sheriff’s officers in Ohio who cannot take a joke, but can kick down a door, mishandle cash, eat your lemon poundcake, and cry about being made into a meme.”

From there, things get weird.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT:

ROBERT SPENCER: Joy Reid Doesn’t Much Like the U.S., but She Has IMMENSE Respect for One Far-Off Country. “Why doesn’t failed MSNBC host Joy Reid leave the U.S., as so many haters of President Donald Trump and his America-First policies have vowed to do? On Monday, she expressed her paranoid, fantasy-driven, and hysterical hatred and contempt for the United States during the second Trump administration, and compared the U.S. unfavorably to the Islamic Republic of Iran. So why not move to Tehran, Joy? It’s likely that real estate there is quite inexpensive these days.”

UNEXPECTED ENDORSEMENT: