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May 9, 2025
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The new pope is an American citizen, so he has to file his taxes, right? What's the pope's salary? How would that audit go? Has an American citizen ever been a foreign head of state before?
I want to see an SNL skit of the medieval wagoners chanting bring out your dead, and having Joe Beiden hauled out saying he got better.
Madison is contrail country.
Looks like the White House reads the comments section of the Althouse blog.
“ Senior White House advisor Stephen Miller said that the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, the right to challenge a person’s detention by the government, for migrants.”
Pass the popcorn if Trump tries to suspend habeas corpus. It would be a good way to force the Supreme Court’s hand in adjudicating all these ridiculous holds the dem judges are putting on deportations.
Best thing about the new pope?
Best thing? The previous pope began his journey to the afterlife.
Meet the Derek Jeter of volleyball
George Grady said...
“Has an American citizen ever been a foreign head of state before?”
King Ralph
So, someone else brought it up first. Used to be easy to become an ex-citizen. Like swearing allegiance to a foreign emperor as a commissioned officer, or being elected to an office. Now, apparently nothing is automatic disqualification, even serving in a war against us- that must be adjudicated...
The new Pope is now a Head of State with which we have diplomatic relations. If he comes to visit- and executes a heretic- he cannot be arrested as he had full diplomatic immunity as head of state of Vatican City. An American citizen who cannot be arrested and tried... or be subject to any other American law.
If you ever needed a complete argument against dual citizenship- there it is.
I love today's sunrise photos, some of your best.
Am I the only one who has noticed the daily use of the word “bespoke” being used by the press? I looked it up and it means a custom-made outfit. Is there an app for words that the press needs to use to be a with it writer or is it just ChatGPT?
Link: "Vatican Avoids Tariffs with Made in USA Pope"
The second picture makes me think of Maxfield Parrish.
So the defense minister of Pakistan has expressed remorse that his country supported terrorists in Afghanistan at the behest of the US and the UK as part of fighting the Soviets.
"We have been doing this dirty work...'
https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/pakistan-defence-minister-confession-terror-haven-sky-news-interview-f98a26c6
So Brzezinsky claimed in 1999 that the US armed up and trained the Taliban in 1979 to provoke a Soviet invasion.
During the first weeks of the Afghanistan war, we had bin Laden trapped in Tora Bora, and somebody ordered the bombing to stop and he escaped.
When Osama is "found" in Pakistan, and we are mounting a mission to kill him, not capture him, kill him, dead men tell no tales, Biden counsels that we not kill him. We kill him anyway, and among his effects is an order to his men not to kill Joe Biden if they happen to get a chance.
Now the defense minister of Pakistan is saying that the country never should have run these terrorist operations, in Afghanistan and Kashmir, BTW, that if they hadn't listened to the US and UK, their national reputation would be 'unimpeachable."
So basically we started a fire on Russia's border. Chechnya? Islamic terrorists create another crisis for Russia. It's been a decades long strategy in a conflict between Western Europe and Russia that goes back centuries.
If you read Jaq's link, you will see that he added "as part of fighting the Soviets", which is not in the article. And Pakistan says they've been supporting the Taliban for 30 years, which (a) everyone already knew, and (b) makes sense, since they were founded 31 years ago, in 1994.
But the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and withdrew their last troops in 1989, so once again it is simply false to say that the U.S. created or funded or supported the Taliban to induce the Soviets to invade, or to do anything to harm them. They were long gone. And not just false, but impossible without a massive fleet of time machines. Poor Jaq can't tell the difference between the Mujahideen and the Taliban, entirely different organizations, which mostly fought against each other when they were both in existence. I have corrected this falsehood in these pages at least four times before, but he just waits a week or two and repeats it again, like (or perhaps as) some kind of paid propagandist.
When she was the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice attacked Eritrea for taxing its citizens living abroad, conveniently neglecting to mention that the other country imposing taxes on its expats is ... the United States of America.
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The Biden era began with Joe promising to mobilize "true international pressure" -- or in Bidenese, "trunalimunumaprzure." Now it ends with an even more comprehensible comment by Biden about what we need to lead the world. Look for the horrendously garbled passage to be transcribed in the next few days.
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"Bespoke" is something US journalists picked up from the British. That word never appeared in newspapers or magazines in the old days except in reference to British tailored suits, and even then, most readers wouldn't have known what it meant.
Jaq: Fox News reports that OBL died of lung disease in mid-December 2001 in or around Tora Bora. That obviously casts doubt about who was killed in Abbottabad by Navy Seals on May 2, 2011.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/report-bin-laden-already-dead
Our new American pope is a 69 year-old White Sox fan. He’s the only pope in my lifetime who would understand something my dad told me when I was young. “The Pope walked into a meeting of Cardinals and said ‘which one of you is Stan The Man?'"
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In the list of 80 arrestees from the Columbia library yesterday, 61 were female, 19 male. Young women are not doing well.
10:29 AM · May 8, 2025
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"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
- George Orwell, 1984
10:57 AM · May 8, 2025
Ro Khanna
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Administration has just arrested a mayor in Newark and shoved Members of Congress for protesting outside of an ICE facility.
In America, you cannot arrest your political opponents.
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That's interesting because the Democrats did it to Donald Trump four times.
7:31 PM · May 9, 2025
Sunny
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Oh are we not doing “you can arrest and prosecute opponent politicians because no one is above the law” anymore?
We no longer having fun because it’s no longer Republican politicians getting arrested?
If they weren't so crazy...this would be hilarious, but the left is dangerous. They are out for blood. It isn't going to end well.
It shows you who they represent...and it isn't law abiding American citizens. They have become what they claimed to hate and fear.
"Throughout 2020, we were instructed that protests are the voice of the voiceless. On January 6, 2021, conservatives learned that there was an asterisk to the rule; namely, that it doesn’t apply to conservatives. Today, congressional Democrats tried to add a new asterisk to the rule: Democrats in Congress—that is, people who sit in the world’s most powerful political body and have the ear of the media—are considered voiceless if they protest against ICE.
It’s all very confusing, of course, but the bottom line is that the rules don’t apply to them."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/democrat_politicians_act_all_insurrectiony_at_an_ice_facility_in_newark.html
wendybar, the Democrats have painted themselves into a corner with their crazy policies, refusing to change, so now there this no other way to get out except through an insurrection. A real one. Pritzker, AOC, Waters, Crockett have all been calling for it openly. They're now trying to create a Red October event to light the match.
Trump not fighting for Musk tells all there is to know about the reconciliation battles. Bottom line; Trump is not willing to make the tough calls, like slashing the big items.
@J L Oliver - I first heard/read "bespoke" used that way by some of the Brits I used to work with. I think they've used it for awhile. It's probably been imported since lots of people think British English sounds edjumacated. I do think it's fairly useful as it recaptures the idea something is uniquely made since American English had blurred 'custom' with 'customized'.
Those geese are rebellious.
Gospace said...If you ever needed a complete argument against dual citizenship- there it is.
Really? The complete argument against dual citizenship is a hypothetical situation where the pope can’t be arrested for executing a heretic on American soil?
Senior White House advisor Stephen Miller said that the Trump administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus
…and that’s the problem innit? Everything inside the scare quotes is inaction. If you’re gonna do it do it then tell us you did it. No credit for pretending…Speaking of pretending have any of the leftie law breakers the administration claimed they were gonna prosecute been prosecuted? That NY prosecutor what seems to actually committed crimes? Those ICE raid leakers- when’s the perp walk? Too busy funding all the crap your voters wanted to see cut I suppose…
Wendybar
It's all a publicity stunt. The Mayor is running for Governor he's just getting his name out there. Just what we need in NJ, another asshole governor.
Also.
"Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) had the best line in response to this presser: “I can’t blame Robert Menendez for storming a federal detainment facility. He was just looking for his dad.” "
""Bespoke" is something US journalists picked up from the British."
You mean the English language?
The contrails Friday morning were quite something!
foreign policy is complex, from the beginning of the cold war, us supported pakistan, in part because the soviets supported india, even though it pretended to be neutral, they also were against china for geographic reason, they skirmished for at least three wars, then the Soviets who backed Afghan government, got into the fray directly,
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-case-of-district-judges-vs-trump-law-legal-system-courts-judiciary-judge-james-c-ho-43367ee1?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s
If the president is the most powerful official in the U.S. government, who is second? The House speaker? Neither he nor any Senate leader can do anything without a majority and agreement from the other chamber, the president or both. The chief justice? He is the administrative and ceremonial chief but only one of nine justices.
“District judges are unique in our judicial system,” Judge Ho says in an interview in his chambers. “They are the only members of the federal judiciary that can exercise the judicial power of the United States unilaterally—all by themselves—without anyone else having to agree with them.”
where would we Be?
without these non-elected, lifetime appointed paragons of "democracy"?
now the Taliban is shorthand for deobandism, which pestered the brits all through the 19th and early 20th century, in the northwest frontier, the tales of kipling and henty testify to this,
Dr Weevil said, "Poor Jaq can't tell the difference between the Mujahideen and the Taliban..."
I first learned about the Mujahideen from the movie Spies Like Us.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/the-week-in-pictures-escape-from-alcatraz-edition.php
some were good like massoud, some were not like hekmatyar and younis khalis the godfather of the Tallban,
despite peter bergen's protestation, the us did support those two, and bin laden was adjacent to them,
MTG declines to run for the GA Senate seat. That's a good thing IMHO.
Wendybar said... "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy." - George Orwell, 1984
Indeed. Angry young woman spitting on Ed Martin is just the latest in a long, long, history of hatred and violence by these unhappy, soulless creatures.
narciso always has the true backstory on the Middle East.
Althouse on her way to Austin?
no other way to get out except through an insurrection. A real one.
The counter-revolution would be something to see. These bicoastal urban types don’t have any sense of how thin the ice is on which they stand.
gadfly said...
"Jaq: Fox News reports that OBL died of lung disease in mid-December 2001 in or around Tora Bora. That obviously casts doubt about who was killed in Abbottabad by Navy Seals on May 2, 2011."
https://www.foxnews.com/story/report-bin-laden-already-dead
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Snort. In an unsigned squib published December 26, 2001, Fox News reported that the ***Pakistan Observer newspaper reported that an unnamed Taliban leader reported***OBL's death.
That's "hearsay to the nth power" in my book.
Oddly, neither the Bush administration nor the rest of the Western world accepted this conclusion, and continued to prosecute the Afghanistan war with unabated fury.
IOW they treated the report as the bullshit it was.
effinayright said...
"gadfly said..."
If it involves Trump Gadfly will look for anything to digrate him.
Even if it doesn't make any sense.
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