Jun 2, 2026 – I gave up weeks ago trying to figure any of this out. I leave that to the finer minds on this site to pore over the different strategies, statements, posturing, and wizen out the thinking behind chess moves.Me?I just want the Iranian regime gone. I realize why we couldn't state that...

Jun 3, 2026 – Oh, how far from the rapturous days of yore, when the Lightbringer was omnipotent, beloved, and worshipped, especially by the British.Much as the ponderous Pelley's pompous preenings preceded being sent packing, the luster can, if not carefully safeguarded, wear off the finest crown.This seems to have happened to the sheen...

Jun 4, 2026 – There seems to be something of a news blackout in Europe about this cranky student/educator dustup turned immigrant mob violence on the regular sites I'd check first.Can't imagine why. It's only Brussels, home to all the magnificence that is the European Union central - the parliaments, the European Commission.The feathered nest...

Jun 4, 2026 – My earlier post on upset students behaving badly that morphed into your now standard 'immigrants behaving badly' BikeBQ in downtown Brussels this evening gave the home of the European Union a little taste of the misery they've been so willing to inflict on their member states for over a decade.Then...

Jun 4, 2026 – Oh, for the days when something called The Gulf of AMERICA was the outrage du jour, but the basis for the change still could sort of be understood, even if you didn't necessarily agree with the who or why.The people squawking the loudest about that? The ones losing their cookies...

May 20, 2026 – There are lots of beautiful places to visit in Puerto Rico, but like so many spots on earth blessed with overwhelming, sensual gorgeousness, there's a nasty, dangerous, and dark undercurrent constantly in motion beneath all the lushness at the surface.One always hears about the criminal cartels and gangs of Mexico,...

May 20, 2026 – Hey. I don't wanna you-know-what in anybody's Cheerios, but someone needs to start taking a look at Texas Opie, as unappetizing as that sounds.James Talarico, the wee weird, fauxny preacherman, is creeping his way up the polls into what's known as 'contention.'Talarico winning in Texas is no fantasy.He's polling better...

May 21, 2026 – Two weeks ago, the last major oil shipment due into the Port of Long Beach, California via the Strait of Hormuz arrived, leaving elected officials scrambling for new sources of fuel as the fossil fuel-rich state faced the looming and very real possibility of shortages.Californians are facing growing uncertainty at...

May 22, 2026 – If that sounds to you like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith jinked when she should have jived, yeah.It sounds like that to a lot of people.As you know, if you've read any of my posts over the past year, the question of a referendum being on the Alberta ballot to begin...

May 22, 2026 – Golly. There are times you almost feel sorry for the scarecrow-looking creature that LAROs as the Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz.ALMOSTAll the way back in November, when it had suddenly dawned on Merz that the Syrian civil war had sort of sorted itself out, the fellow who had been an...

May 20, 2026 – The latest location for a totally chaotic, totally illegal, totally out-of-control social media organized 'pop-up party' turned out to be Long Branch, New Jersey last night.And the exuberant 'youths' behaved exactly how they've behaved from Chicago to New York to a campground outside of Edmond, Oklahoma.Like savages run amok.🚨🇺🇸 Total...

May 21, 2026 – Never, NEVER let anyone, particularly someone of a progressive bent, try to tell you that they do not practice the arts of subterfuge, projection, and convenient rewrites of history on an epic and shamelessly flagrant scale.Because that claim in itself is another flaming example of what bald-faced, manipulative liars, fabulists,...

May 8, 2026 – The Labour election carnage continues apace across the entire British Isles, and this casualty was historic. The First Minister of Wales has lost her bid for reelection to the Welsh Senedd (Parliament).WOWSAHS🚨 BREAKING: Welsh Labour First Minister Eluned Morgan has lost her seat in the SeneddIt’s the first time in British...

May 8, 2026 – So, this is weird.Vi Lyles, the five-term mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, has announced her resignation and will leave office at the end of June.Charlotte Observer: Longtime Charlotte, NC Mayor Vi Lyles plans to step down less than halfway through her latest term leading the nation’s 14th-largest city. Politics &...

May 11, 2026 – There's dense.And then there's Keir Starmer. Calling him 'dense' would probably be a misuse of the word, as it doesn't really begin to cover the nuances of Starmer's case.Obstinance might be better, but I always thought that implied at least someone was listening, even though with continued objections in the...

May 11, 2026 – What's between six and thirty inches deep, holds almost seven million gallons of water, and turns green with algae at the start of every miserable, humid Washington, D.C. summer, even though it had a big 'refurbishment' only fourteen years ago?The reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, that's what.It...

May 17, 2026 – This is some pretty scary news out of Austin, Texas, right now.News reports indicate that since last night, there have been what police are calling 'multiple random shootings' across the city. So far, they can account for nine incidents, with four people injured.They've issued a shelter-in-place for a huge section...

Jun 5, 2026 – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is having a very bad, miserable, not-so-good week.Yesterday I told you how the one thing that might go right, being about to cut off some of the benefits the country was paying out to tens of thousands of 'migrants' declared deportable, but who weren't going anywhere...

Jun 5, 2026 – Remember this 2007 innerwebs breaking cri de coeur?Or maybe you're lucky enough not to.If you don't here it is anyway [NSFW language warning] to tug at your heartstrings so you know what I'm talking about.   The extraordinary thing is that, while someone could understand going to bat for the horrifically abused...

Jun 5, 2026 – By Halloween last fall, there was huge hope for another turnaround, another Latin miracle in South America. The Bolivian people had chosen a centrist as their president after over two decades of Marxist rule.Rodrigo Paz, whose campaign slogan had been Capitalism for all, was the new Bolivian leader-elect and a...

Jun 5, 2026 – As I've been on a bit of a European bent for the past two days, I figured I'd wrap up the week with one more kick in the pantaloons.I've ignored the French, you see, who have behaved pretty miserably, or at least residents of their capital city did a few...

Jul 20, 2026 – This was a big one, and knowing the state of shipbuilding in the United States, I could not believe the number when I saw it.It looks like we're finally getting serious about our Next-Gen fleet. Saronic picks Brownsville, Texas, for $3 billion Port Alpha shipyardAutonomous vessel maker Saronic is set to...

Jul 20, 2026 – I keep forgetting these clowns aren't 'on our side' anymore.But this is simply too rich a target for me not to say something about it, and I am going to put up a parade of political luminaries the likes of which even God has never seen (classical reference there) just...

Jul 21, 2026 – I have some thoughts to share for anyone who was fool enough to believe newly installed British Prime Minister Andy Burnham was going to be a welcome breath of fresh air, and any directional change from the last guy.The first one is easy.  Labour is as Labour does, and ho, boy.This...

Jul 22, 2026 – Well, it was a short and much-appreciated respite. After almost two years of an El Niño-induced drought with no random helpful tropical systems blowing through to ease the pain...The climate hoaxers at World Weather Attribution @WWAttribution pretend to be even handed by arbitrarily deciding that emissions are not to blame for...