I will admit it: I have spent too much time on Twitter since the election. Yes, I revel in the fact that former President Donald Trump is also our future President, and I am amused by stories that some on the left have suggested that President Joe Biden resign, so that Kamala Harris Emhoff can become our 47^th President for the last 69 days of the term. In true capitalist fashion, my immediate thought was that it would mean that the existing MAGA 45 47 hats would become collectors’ items, and there’d be a whole new market for MAGA 45 48 hats!

Other liberal notions have been that Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the “wise Latina” on the Supreme Court, who is 70 years old and a serious diabetic, should resign, and let President Biden appoint Mrs Emhoff to the Court in his last days. Well, as an old professor of mine used to say, tempus is fugiting, and there’s really not enough time left — the new, Republican-controlled Senate takes office on January 3^rd — to get any confirmation through, and outgoing Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Joe Manchin (I-WV) have said that they wouldn’t go along with such foolishness. Continue reading →

I will admit to some serious election fatigue. It is virtually incomprehensible to me that more than 10% of the electorate could vote for the Communist from California, but then I think back to an early Political Science class at the University of Kentucky, back in the days of quill pens and inkwells, in which the now late Professor Malcolm Jewell pointed out something very basic: in any at all competitive race, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are each guaranteed 40% of the vote; the fight is only over the 20% in the middle.

Here in the Bluegrass State, there is no real contest: Donald Trump carried Kentucky in both 2016 and 2020, by landslide margins, and will do so again. In my small, rural county, I’ve seen several campaign signs for our 45^th, and hopefully 47^th, President, and not a single one for Kamala Harris Emhoff. I expect the Vice President to carry Jefferson and Fayette counties — Louisville and Lexington — and Mr Trump to carry the other 118.

I voted last Friday, and for a state which was primarily Democratic, albeit moderate, Southern Democratic, 15 years ago, there has been a remarkable change. Republicans control the General Assembly by huge margins, 80-20 in the House and 31-7 in the Senate, and while there could be a couple of changes at the margin, the GOP will retain its very heavy majorities. My own state Representative, Bill Wesley, 91^st District, drew a just-as-conservative Republican primary challenger, but is unopposed in the general election; no Democrat bothered to run. Other than the presidential and 6^th district congressional race, all of the offices on the ballot were unopposed. Wayne Gretzky once said that you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, and as far most election campaigns in Kentucky, the Democrats aren’t even trying to take a shot. Sort of like the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, they just plain quit.

I’ve already voted, but if you haven’t, hie the hence to the polling station, and cast your ballot for Donald Trump and the down ballot Republicans!

My morning routine is very much a routine: I check two of my favorite sites, The Pirate’s Cove and The Other McCain, and tweet out links to any new stories they have; I think that any extra publicity for sites which have supported mine is appropriate. I check my own site, and then I go to my news sources, with The Philadelphia Inquirer always being the first one I check. Today’s front page of the dead trees edition is screen capped to the right, but I checked the print edition for one reason: always being the first one I check. Today’s front page of the dead trees edition is screen capped to the right, but I checked the print edition for one reason: the story on the killing of Yahya Simwar, the biggest story of yesterday, was nowhere to be found on the Inky’s main page, at least as of 8:30 AM EDT.

There was nothing in the headline section, nor in the, in descending order, sections on The Region, Food & Drink, Sports, Politics, Inquirer Newsletters, Health & Science, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Nation & World, Opinion, and finally, Crime. The only story in which Mr Sinwar’s death was noted was in Nation & World, and it was an opinion piece by columnist Trudy Rubin. In the first sentence of Mrs Rubin’s column were hyperlinks to news stories on it, one from The New York Times, and two from The Washington Post. What, an Inquirer columnist couldn’t find even one news story about the most important news story of yesterday in her own newspaper?

I went through her column, and checked every hyperlink she had included, and none linked back to the Inquirer. There were two “Read More” blurbs, but both were links to other opinion columns by Mrs Rubin.

I have frequently used the spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’, as I have in this article’s headline, which comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. And I have to ask, how does our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, older than the Times and the Post, winner of many Pultizer Prizes, relegate the killing of the terrorist who started the unholy war in Gaza, which has led to the deaths of dozens of thousands of people, to just yesterday’s news?

The Twitter site “Martyrs of Gaza” states that it exists because “The martyrs of Gaza are not just numbers; each martyr has a story and will be documented here.” At 2:20 PM EDT, they posted:

“Everyone in this photo was killed by Israel.”

On this day, this was the last picture of Lulu’s family, taken on October 6, 2023, before Israel committed a massacre against them in December 2023, killing them all. None survived, and they all remain buried beneath the rubble.

We will never forget, we will never forgive.

I’d guess that the Israelis will never forget what the ‘Palestinians’ did the following day, and that they will never forgive what Hamas did to them.

It’s pretty ironic that the photo was allegedly taken on October 6, 2023, the day before Hamas led a terrorist attack on Israel, an attack which killed 1195 Israelis, 815 of whom were civilians, kidnapped 251 other people, and spread rape, murder and mayhem. ‘Palestinian’ civilians cheered the attack, and gave Hamas’ actions overwhelming support.

What, I have to ask “Martyrs in Gaza”, did they think would happen? Did they think that the Israelis would simply curl up in a ball and whimper?

Is this what they meant by defunding the police? Replacing Americans with foreigners? Oh, and it gets truly better

Minneapolis Swears In First Non-U.S. Citizen as Police Officer

Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sworn in its first police officer who is not a U.S. citizen, according to reports.

The Minnesota Police Dept. has reported that Lesly Vera, a native of Somalia, was sworn in on Thursday as the department’s first non-citizen officer.

Vera was seen at the swearing-in ceremony wearing a hijab over her head as she took the oath of office and received her badge.

Vera moved to Minneapolis with her parents from their arrival point in Mexico when she was four. She is a legal resident alien and authorized to work, but is not a U.S. citizen.

Oh, this should go well. Start off with a diminutive woman, and, all due respect, we’ve seen the video of how that has worked out with other police departments in the 1st World. Second, you have a Somali, and a goodly chunk of them are Islamic extremists, as we’ve seen in Minneapolis as they demonstrate against Jews, against Israel, and for Islamic terrorist groups, and are the main reason why Islamic extremist and Jew hater Ilhan Omar was elected and keeps getting elected.

You’d think the 1st World, and, especially America, would have learned our lesson about Islamists on 9/11/2001, and wouldn’t want people pushing Sharia law

City leaders say the years-long effort to rebuild the Minneapolis Police Department, while not over, is starting to be seen and felt—nearly two dozen more officers, including new firsts, are on the force following a graduation ceremony.  https://t.co/S2ohHr4bZM

— KSTP (@KSTP) September 27, 2024

Should be interesting when she tries to engage a perp (Minneapolis is a 1, meaning only a 0 is worse for crime. Violent and property crime are off the chain) and they rip her hijab off.

(Dana’s power is out, said no real damage from Helene. And any opinions above are mine, don’t blame Dana if you disagree)

No one said the virgins were women. Democrats like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and AOC hit hardest

IDF confirms Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Beirut attack

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the IDF’s strike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday, the IDF announced Saturday morning.

Almost 32 years after co-founding the Lebanese terrorist organization, Nasrallah was killed, alongside Ali Karaki, Hezbollah’s commander of the southern front, and other Hezbollah commanders.

Israel’s air force struck Hezbollah’s central headquarters using precise intelligence from the intelligence wing and defense system. The headquarters were based underground, under a residential building in the Lebanese capital.

The strike, which was carried out by IAF aircraft, targeted Hezbollah’s central headquarters in Dahieh, Beirut, as The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday.

“This is not the end of our toolbox,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi said in a statement following the announcement of Nasrallah’s death.

“Those who threaten the citizens of the State of Israel – we will know how to reach them – in the North, in the South, and even in more distant places,” Halevi said.

The gloves came off after October 7th, and Israel really does know how to reach out to the terrorists and introduce them to the afterlife.

דיווחים בלבנון על תקיפה ישראלית בביירות; בעוד זמן קצר – הצהרת דובר צה"ל @Doron_Kadosh @barakbet pic.twitter.com/1Pl05By1S9

— גלצ (@GLZRadio) September 27, 2024

There are other videos of the explosion going around that are much, much bigger, the above seems to be the official one

“Hezbollah’s central headquarters was intentionally built under residential buildings in the heart of the Dahiyeh in Beirut as part of Hezbollah’s strategy of using Lebanese people as human shields,” IDF Spokesman R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari stated in an evening address.

But, the Lebanese weren’t really willing human shields

Lebanese citizens are also celebrating the kotletification of the tyrant Nasrallah.

Well deserved! Party all night 🎉pic.twitter.com/jmyNAnyLWP

— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) September 27, 2024

They were also celebrating in Syria. Squad members and many Democrats are certainly mourning today.

And they know this 2 months out how?

New York Times Says to Expect Election Results to Take a While

Expect election results in November to take a while, the New York Times told its readers Friday, a warning that appears to preempt an expectation that Americans should know who wins the presidential election on Election Night.

Before modern technology, close presidential elections often were decided in the early morning of the next day, such as the 1960 presidential election between Robert F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, which some political experts believe was stolen from Nixon.

Now, in the 21st century, close election results still take a similar amount of time or even longer, depending on the state in question. In 2020, election results were not determined until four days after Election Day.

Americans should not expect to know who won the 2024 presidential election on the night of the election because of “intense security measures required for counting mail-in ballots,” the Times reported:

Counting mail ballots takes more time because there are more steps involved. A variety of security measures, including signature verification and ensuring that voters did not also try to vote in person, are required. Election officials must open the ballots and flatten them out before they can be put in a tabulator to be counted.

Weird. Prior to 2016, and especially 2020, it was easy to count mail in ballots. But, are you really believing the Times’ rationale? It sounds more like they are looking for ways to stretch it out to make sure all the cheat by mail ballots get counted.

But, yeah, more are using it, and Republicans are trying to get those who wouldn’t usually go vote to do vote by mail. Perhaps it’s time to go back to the way voting was meant to be?

The problem is not that it could take a little time: it’s that the time stretches on beyond reasonable, and that Democrats attempt to hide what they’re doing as they’re counting.

In a sane world, the people blocking roads would be arrested, charged, prosecuted, and given some sort of punishment, even if it is a bunch of community service, with penalties escalating if they are caught doing it again. What we’ve mostly seen is the Jew haters mostly just let go. So

Anti-Israel Groups Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Coordinated Traffic Blockade

Several anti-Israel organizations that formed an illegal blockade across the highway leading to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport are facing a class action lawsuit from travelers who were trapped in the traffic jam.

Left-wing groups, including the Tides Center—a George Soros-funded dark money network—Community Justice Exchange, and National Students for Justice in Palestine, among others, coordinated a “multi-city economic blockade” on April 15 targeting major airports, highways, and bridges. In one instance, activists shut down access to O’Hare, backing up traffic and forcing some travelers to walk with their luggage to the airport.

Keffiyeh-clad activists handcuffed themselves, linked arms with drain pipes, and later sat side-by-side on Interstate 190 leading to the Chicago airport. The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed a lawsuit on Monday against the organizers for “imprisoning” thousands of travelers in vehicles on their way to O’Hare, according to the complaint.

But, were these protests protected by the 1st as peaceable? Also Article 1 Section 5 of the Illinois Constitution.

Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute cofounder and litigation director Ted Frank told the Washington Free Beacon the First Amendment does not protect criminal activity.

“These sorts of abusive roadblocking tactics have been used with impunity over the last few years, and the organizations seem to think that they can do that too,” Frank said.

“But when you injure people, when you commit torts against individual people, there’s not just criminal enforcement, but also civil enforcement,” he added. “We hope that this lawsuit vindicates that principle, vindicates the rights of the people who were adversely affected, encourages other such lawsuits, and discourages such tactics in the future.”

Too bad the suits can’t force the government to deport all those who are not natural born back to their Islamist nations. Or, just, out of the U.S.