Althouse: Sunrise.

October 22, 2026

Sunrise.

99 comments:

Achilles said...: doesn't get much better than that.; 10/22/26, 6:47 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: I'd like to think that Meade and Althouse, together, looking out at the sunrise.; 10/22/26, 6:48 PM
Achilles said...: Sorry I have to do it. It is funny.

Maybe pass your social media posts to someone over 30 years old or who has learned at least some history.; 10/22/26, 6:50 PM
Christopher B said...: The Falcons are gonna run a full blitzkrieg when it's 3rd and long.; 10/22/26, 6:59 PM
Brylinski said...: Slotkin threatens conservative students. Althouse is silent. But Acton’s mother says Acton is a liar and Althouse is concerned and upset.; 10/22/26, 7:00 PM
rehajm said...: Voyeuse…; 10/22/26, 7:15 PM
Jaq said...: https://www.youtube.com/live/JXec71s_9Rw?si=sM_ukqaBmXReJpny

Remember that Barnes, a constitutional lawyer, defended Trump in 2020 and makes a very convincing case that 2020 was a stolen election.; 10/22/26, 7:19 PM
Aggie said...: Yeah, that new Falcons logo is really really something all right. But I wonder why a Nazi allusion is being made? I can't find any old Nazi bird symbol that even remotely resembles it. The only ones I see are eagles, and they show an eagle on full frontal view with both wings spread. Nothing in side profile like this. I guess they saw a bird, saw red and black, and decided: Nazis ! It's like somebody decided that's what the joke is going to be. Anyway, some of the jokes are pretty funny.; 10/22/26, 7:20 PM
Christopher B said...: Aggie, I think you are partially correct but also being influenced by the use of the Prussian Eagle motif during WWII which was always the depiction of a natural bird. The Reichsadler which you can see here (link to Florida ADL page on it) is a more stylized and geometric depiction of an eagle rather than a natural depiction. I think that, along with the colors and the very banner-like vertical format, is what prompted the association.; 10/22/26, 7:31 PM
Iman said...: Languid Loons Lounging @Lake; 10/22/26, 7:33 PM
Gospace said...: The Brandon Herrera brouhaha because the Democrats posted some things a gamer (Brandon) says while gaming is getting the full Streisand effect on X.

Texas GOP candidate Brandon Herrera didn't hold a door open for an old lady once.
Texas GOP candidate Brandon Herrera once didn't put his shopping cart back in the stall. More to follow.
Texas GOP candidate Brandon Herrera once used cold medicine in a manner not recommended by the manufacturer.
He also once double dipped a chicken wing..... In ranch dressing. Disqualified.

With original quotes that Democrats thought were killer lines that would lose him votes:

Texas GOP candidate Brandon Herrera once told a fellow Halo player on Xbox Live that he would, “…sleep with his mother and drink all of his juice boxes the next morning.”

And the (sarcastic) reply on a podcast:
Texas GOP House Candidate Brandon Herrera Says Kittens Should Be Sent to Chinese Restaurants

I've half-listened a few times on the commentary when my son is online gaming with real friends and online friends/acquaintances he's never met. If these two quotes are the most vile Democrats can come up with, then, apparently, Brandon Herrera is a really mild mannered gamer.; 10/22/26, 7:36 PM
Narr said...: Some people see Jews everywhere. Other people see Nazis everywhere.; 10/22/26, 7:37 PM
Christopher B said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/22/26, 7:40 PM
Christopher B said...: Democrat operative Cenk Uygur outs a Republican Senator (link to Powerline, and some of the responses to his posting that John H collected are pretty good).

If this is what the Democrats think is gonna bring in a Blue Wave, I think they're gonna be disappointed.; 10/22/26, 7:41 PM
Eva Marie said...: Here’s a side by side comparison that makes the best argument for Nazi influence on the present day design. Should we ban all black/red/white motifs now? The comments are hilarious. You decide if the design is close to the Nazi symbol.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/atlanta-falcons-unveil-logo-social-185318488.html; 10/22/26, 8:05 PM
Mason G said...: "Democrat operative Cenk Uygur outs a Republican Senator..."

I don't get it. The left has been winding themselves up for years over Trump playing the "Gay National Anthem" ("YMCA", for normal people) at his rallies and he thinks outing a dead man is going to... what?

Why do leftists think revealing that a dead Republican was supposedly gay is noteworthy? Have they not noticed who the secretary of the treasury is?; 10/22/26, 8:08 PM
Dave Begley said...: Countdown to the first pitch.; 10/22/26, 8:11 PM
bagoh20 said...: We just had a beautiful double rainbow here in Las Vegas. It was not my best work, but top 5.; 10/22/26, 8:12 PM
Gospace said...: Humor to get a point across is great.

"The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Ilhan Omar Says She Didn't Know She'd Married Her Brother As They Were Separated At Birth And Hidden From Their Father, Darth Vader"

Possible a better answer than "Not to my knowledge".; 10/22/26, 8:20 PM
bagoh20 said...: Cenk Uygur is a volcano of emotional expression that will not be suppressed. Unfortunately, also dense as a brick. But we love him, right. He's like a that enormous grandfather clock in the corner that reliably raises hell at regular intervals and keeps us all grounded, but it really doesn't go with the rest of our modern décor. It just seems we could put something more interesting in that corner.
That makes me wonder: will we ever have old Apple II or IBMs carefully placed around our homes to show how cool our nostalgic sense of style is?; 10/22/26, 8:22 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Donald Trump ordered to face BBC questioning in $10bn defamation lawsuit ~ FT
𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 11 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

Trump will never sit for a deposition. The risks for him are just too great. He expected the BBC to fold and offer him a settlement -- like feckless ABC and CBS. He will probably let it be thrown out than be deposed.; 10/22/26, 8:22 PM
bagoh20 said...: "Not to my knowledge"
Maybe the worse answer to a question in history with strong competition from "And I've never been to Europe."

Do you see a pattern here?; 10/22/26, 8:27 PM
Gospace said...: And more from the best news source available today:

The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Not Sure If You Married Your Brother? 9 Signs To Look For; 10/22/26, 8:28 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/GrahamGGrant/status/2112991513156190600?s=20; 10/22/26, 8:47 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: bagoh20 said...

Cenk Uygur is a volcano of emotional expression that will not be suppressed. Unfortunately, also dense as a brick./

He's also the living embodiment of Fred Flintstone.; 10/22/26, 8:49 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: End italic

Test; 10/22/26, 8:50 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Damn it!; 10/22/26, 8:51 PM
Gospace said...: Why most posters are now using https://lingojam.com/ItalicTextGenerator for italics.; 10/22/26, 8:59 PM
Inga said...: Google AI…
On October 22, 2026, Donald Trump strongly defended a controversial campaign ad released by Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor. Writing on Truth Social, Trump pushed back against critics, asserting that he would use the ad himself and calling it "hitting pay dirt".

The Context and Controversy

The ad, funded by the Ramaswamy campaign, features the estranged birth mother of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton calling her daughter a liar. Acton, a former health official under Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, was removed from her mother's care at age 12 after her stepfather was charged with raping her.
The ad triggered intense bipartisan blowback, split opinions across the GOP, and drew statements from multiple figures:
• Donald Trump: In his Truth Social post on October 22, 2026, Trump wrote, "The Press is trying to convince everyone that this Ad is bad, because it's so good! Who wouldn't use such an Ad? I would, it's called, 'hitting pay dirt.'" He explicitly urged Ramaswamy to keep broadcasting it, attacking Acton as a "disaster" and mocking critics.”

Is Trump actually trying to lose the House and Senate? Or has his dementia progressed to a point he really doesn’t know what he is saying? An American president who is coming down on the side of the mother of a 10-12 year old girl who was sexually abused by the mother’s husband, my God. OF COURSE, TRUMP DEFENDING THE AD AND THE DESPICABLE MOTHER AND HIS TOADY Ramaswamy, really shouldn’t be shocking after the last 10 years.

Those who continue to defend and support Trump are the ones who need their heads examined along with the cult leader.; 10/22/26, 9:06 PM
Mason G said...: Google AI...

AI responses may include mistakes.; 10/22/26, 9:26 PM
Iman said...: Put some ice on that, igna.; 10/22/26, 9:44 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Not to my knowledge!; 10/22/26, 9:58 PM
Peachy+2 said...: The democrat party is a crime syndicate and the mob.

But an ad!; 10/22/26, 9:58 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Hey Inag(D) proud corruptocrat.
Do you support re-education camps for people who don't properly support your corrupt mob party - the demof*cks?; 10/22/26, 10:00 PM
Peachy+2 said...: So where did that 30 million dollars go?; 10/22/26, 10:01 PM
Scott Patton said...: I wonder if anyone else keeps a log file to note season, episode, and time someone said "Fuckin' Bosch".; 10/22/26, 10:03 PM
Jim at said...: *We just had a beautiful double rainbow here in Las Vegas. It was not my best work, but top 5.*

A good friend posted a picture of the same thing ... out the window of plane - sitting in a line of 20 - waiting for take off at McCarran.; 10/22/26, 10:07 PM
Peachy+2 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/22/26, 10:14 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Love that you called it McCarran. The new name is a shameful deal.; 10/22/26, 10:21 PM
Scott Patton said...: Gmail put the Trump Accounts email (from the SSA) in the "Promotions" tab. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it is interesting. Was it an automatic thing or was there a decision? Did someone in the SSA give a heads up to Google? My bet, Google would/could plausibly claim it was automatic, based on the use of Granicus Communications Cloud software.; 10/22/26, 10:32 PM
Jim at said...: *Or has his dementia progressed to a point he really doesn’t know what he is saying?*

Maybe you should try shooting him again.; 10/22/26, 10:38 PM
Aggie said...: Too bad Lindsay Graham died before the Progressives could out him as an October Surprise. Looks like they had pretty much everything lined up, ready to go, paid gigolos and everything. I guess they figured they could wring a little value out of it by smearing his sister's campaign. Sunken costs can be a real b*tch.; 10/22/26, 11:06 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Is it true that Congresswoman Omar all time favorite tv show was "All In The Family"?; 10/22/26, 11:12 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: "The Moon and Saturn are having a conjunction"

ai: Astronomy/Astrology: The apparent meeting or closest passing of two celestial bodies in the sky as seen from Earth (e.g., a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn).; 10/22/26, 11:27 PM
wendybar said...: Magills
@magills_
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Hearing some rumors that to counter the shocking Lindsay Graham news, Republicans are working on a story that a Democrat senator once drove off a bridge while drunk, killing a girl, and then covered it up for 50 years. No word on which senator, though.
4:00 PM · Oct 22, 2026

https://x.com/magills_/status/2113359830538690947?s=20
Pushemback
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Here's a clue. This particular Democrat Senator had a cousin who violently killed a young girl with a golf club and that crime was covered up for decades too.
https://x.com/russellpicard4/status/2113389268060025176?s=20

Gemini60🇺🇸♊
@Bundy4492
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Wait until they hear about the former President who’s chef turned up dead and naked outside his ocean front home.
https://x.com/Bundy4492/status/2113399230358524349?s=20; 10/23/26, 12:51 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Why do leftists think revealing that a dead Republican was supposedly gay is noteworthy? Have they not noticed who the secretary of the treasury “

You see this nonsense about Trump and the Republicans being anti-LGB all the time. The absurdity is that Trump hires based on ability alone. He trusts the Treasury (Scott Bessent) and National Security (Rick Grinell) to gay men - not because of their sexual orientation, but because they are very good at their jobs. Contrast to Biden, who filled his cabinet and Administration by the numbers. Example#1 was Pete Buttplug, whose sole qualification was his sexual orientation. Also Karine Jean-Pierre, Rachel Levine, Shawn Skelly, etc.

The one thing that Trump hasn’t endorsed yet is the transgendered. The group of trans military NCOs so prominently shown under Biden are presumably all out of the military now for failing to satisfy the services’ physical fitness requirements, and ability to deploy, due to hormone replacements. We shall see if this changes. So far though, while sexual orientation appears innate, transgendered appears to be a psychiatric issue.; 10/23/26, 12:55 AM
Saint Croix said...: Once you see the Nazi in the Atlanta flag, you can't un-see it. The gags are funny because it's obviously unintended. It's not a swastika, is the best I can say.; 10/23/26, 2:59 AM
Saint Croix said...: Football is so innocent we say "blitz" with a straight face.; 10/23/26, 3:00 AM
Saint Croix said...: The World: "Hey, you appropriated "blitz" from Nazi Germany."

Football: "What?"; 10/23/26, 3:01 AM
Saint Croix said...: You know how many decades football said "Redskins" was not racist?

Several. Several decades.; 10/23/26, 3:02 AM
Saint Croix said...: French police identify Antifa as one of the causes of the riots in France.; 10/23/26, 3:13 AM
Saint Croix said...: Antifa: "We're anti-fascist and we hate free speech."

Liberals: "What?"

Antifa: "We're fucking Commies."

Liberals: "Oh! Why didn't you say that?"

Antifa: "Shut up, free speaker."; 10/23/26, 3:26 AM
rehajm said...: It really does sound like the Graham ‘surprise’ was already loaded in the evil Get Republicans hopper long before his death…and as the woke empathetic party wouldn’t they want to keep it a secret as it runs counter to the whole Republicans are Homophobic blitz?; 10/23/26, 3:34 AM
Eva Marie said...: Capitalism has a win condition.

https://x.com/brivael/status/2113266253188022682/video/1?s=46; 10/23/26, 3:53 AM
rehajm said...: …every econ student gets a copy…for the commies, now the daggers will be out for Hayek the same way they’re out for Friedman- don’t know anything about him except we’re supposed to hate him. Bet a few of them will enquire where Hayek lives. Won’t they be surprised…; 10/23/26, 4:51 AM
Breezy said...: Oh my. Trump saying Omar has essentially conceded her seat because she took the oath using a false name. It’s the epitome of lying under oath.; 10/23/26, 5:10 AM
Saint Croix said...: Whenever I see a nose ring

my brain goes, "boogers!"

I know, I need to fix my brain

but right now, for me, this is not sexy jewelry; 10/23/26, 5:10 AM
Saint Croix said...: I saw a girl with a nose ring connected to her ear

and my brain goes

booger zipline; 10/23/26, 5:11 AM
Saint Croix said...: This charge that Omar's name is an alias seems pretty serious.

The accusation says her name is actually Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. If true, this might open her up to accusations of perjury or mail fraud. Why would she have an alias?

Anyway, that's a very specific name. So they must have a witness or some other evidence. This is not a vague allegation.; 10/23/26, 5:19 AM
Saint Croix said...: I've never heard of Arab News but their reporting on Omar's case is very good.

The focus of the probe is reportedly on whether she or her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, misstated her age on immigration documents. Investigators are examining whether her age was listed as 17, rather than 18, when her father became a US citizen in 2000. This is a key distinction because at the time, minors age 17 or under could be granted citizenship automatically through a parent. Adults, age 18 and over, had to submit an application of their own.; 10/23/26, 5:26 AM
Saint Croix said...: that was weird

italics check; 10/23/26, 5:27 AM
Saint Croix said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/23/26, 5:28 AM
Saint Croix said...: Omar's staff got her birthdate changed officially after she was elected to Congress; 10/23/26, 5:53 AM
Jaq said...: AIPAC has stopped *publicly* endorsing candidates, but they are still giving out hundreds of millions of dollars to affect US elections, they just don’t want us to know who.; 10/23/26, 5:53 AM
Saint Croix said...: Turley on Omar's interview.

Omar made a financial disclosure that she and her husband were worth $30 million. And then she changed it to $100,000.

Turley's questions about that.

"There are reports that the decline in your income was due to a drop in the value of your husband's winery because of fraudulent practices, including selling empty barrels to investors under the guise of wine to be aged. Was that the reason for the adjustment, and when were you first informed of these fraud allegations?

Your sister Sahra Noor reportedly listed a Minnesota home address when creating her Grit Partners Consulting business, which received millions in government contracts. That same address was used as a residence by figures convicted in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Were you or your sister involved in or aware of the fraudulent activities of Feeding Our Future? Have you ever intervened or taken any action in connection with your sister's contracts or those of Feeding Our Future?"; 10/23/26, 6:05 AM
Breezy said...: A post on X a couple of days ago had copies of letters from govt indicating that there is no evidence that Ilhan’s father ever became a naturalized citizen.; 10/23/26, 6:10 AM
Breezy said...: It appears she’s been a conwoman for almost 30 years.; 10/23/26, 6:12 AM
Christopher B said...: Saint Croix, assuming the question is not rhetorical, the alias is really her father's, not hers. There is a high likelihood her father was concealing his actual background as an officer in the Somali Army under the Marxist Barre dictatorship which would have prevented him from entering the United States. Since he wasn't with the portion of the family that settled in the UK, they continued to use the Elmi name and created the background for the sham marriage to get the brother entry into the US. I suspect the efforts to portray Ilhan as 17 were to avoid the extra scrutiny her independent adult naturalization application would have drawn, as well as speeding up the process. Since as a minor her naturalization flows directly from his, it would at least raise questions about her status if there is proof he concealed information that would have caused his application for entry and naturalization to be rejected. The focus on the statements about her age are probably not so much about the paperwork, which she wouldn't have been filing out, but to prove her knowledge of and ongoing participation in the scheme to conceal his identity.; 10/23/26, 6:16 AM
Jaq said...: * * October 11: An airstrike hit a tent in Al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis, killing three people, according to medics cited by Reuters. Israel said it targeted militants.
* October 14: Footage distributed through Reuters Connect documented a strike on a tent in Khan Younis that injured three Palestinians, showing the destroyed tent and injured people receiving treatment.
* October 15: Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that an Israeli drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, injuring several. ** - ChatGPT; 10/23/26, 6:23 AM
Saint Croix said...: Thanks Christopher.

A DNA test is going to resolve this, at least the marriage question.; 10/23/26, 6:25 AM
Jaq said...: Somalis should go back to their own country, which we are currently bombing a couple of times a week.

You guys get so upset at the consequences of policies that you support, yet never take a moment to think about it. I think it’s because people’s opinions and identities and membership in groups are all so intertwined that dispassionate consideration becomes difficult. Nobody wants to be “wrong” in the eyes of their friends.; 10/23/26, 6:29 AM
Saint Croix said...: If my net worth dropped from $30 million to $100,000, I would be really unhappy. That’s super strange.; 10/23/26, 6:30 AM
Jaq said...: Believe me, I would be happy if Somalis were able to live in peace and prosperity in their own country with their own people in their own culture, but sadly, the land they live on is too strategically important.; 10/23/26, 6:31 AM
Humperdink said...: Tim in Vermont: “October 15: Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that an Israeli drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, injuring several.”

Quoting the Palestinian news agency does not exactly lend credence to your point of view. Although they do have slightly more credibility than the NY Times.; 10/23/26, 7:29 AM
narciso said...: Theyve been screwed since barre fell since general morgan and others took charge; 10/23/26, 7:34 AM
boatbuilder said...: "now the daggers will be out for Hayek the same way they’re out for Friedman"

Maybe some youngsters will read him.

Won't they be surprised when they find that the people he opposed were the Nazis and their socialist supporters in Britain.; 10/23/26, 7:39 AM
Kai Akker said...: SPY edged down through important support for the whole year-long top yesterday. And futures are red this morning. Not a good sign.

Protect your assets.; 10/23/26, 7:57 AM
Peachy+2 said...: JAQ doesn't ever mention the billion dollar Islamic Lobby.; 10/23/26, 8:21 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘮𝘢𝘳'𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸

I had forgotten about Jonathan Turley. A reminder that he is Mike Lindell with tenure.; 10/23/26, 8:49 AM
Peachy+2 said...: F off IEE(D) - really - Soviet troll (D).; 10/23/26, 8:58 AM
rehajm said...: I say we bring in an arborist with an increment borer to pull a core so we can count her rings…; 10/23/26, 9:09 AM
Peachy+2 said...: IEE D supports the corrupt leftwing neo-Soviet take over of our courts.; 10/23/26, 9:11 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Jaq said...
Somalis should go back to their own country, which we are currently bombing a couple of times a week.

You guys get so upset at the consequences of policies that you support, yet never take a moment to think about it. I think it’s because people’s opinions and identities and membership in groups are all so intertwined that dispassionate consideration becomes difficult. Nobody wants to be “wrong” in the eyes of their friends.

You get upset at the consequences of the policies of the people you support are questioned or acted upon because of your cultish following of the cultures that despise this country. You are blinded from reasonable thought.
I'm not surprised because you can't comprehend basic economics.
Do I need to explain 'supply and demand' to you again?; 10/23/26, 9:24 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Jaq demonstrates his ignorant bigotry once again. Somalia has no oil, or much else in resources, and only gained strategic importance when the locals started hijacking passing ships for ransom. The world would have been perfectly happy to pass on by and leave them alone to enjoy their khat-chewing stupor, but they insisted on making the world take notice in the worst (greedy, lazy, and violent) way.; 10/23/26, 9:32 AM
Gospace said...: 𝘑𝘢𝘲 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥...
𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦’𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵. 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 “𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨” 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴.

Very true- of weak minded people and those taught that individualism is bad- that the group is always right. Successful Western societies reject the Nordic Law of Jante. The Chinese have a similar outlook, but expressed in many sayings and aphorisms.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump in modern times, Andrew Carnegie, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, the signers of the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution in older days are all people who stood out- and are admired for that. Well, Not Donald and Elon because Democrats seem to be devote followers of Law of Jante.

Being right is it's own reward when most of the people around you are wrong. For example, like many others, I'll never be forgiven for being right about refusing the mRNA shots. That's the real fear in proper Western society- going along with the group when the group itself is wrong.; 10/23/26, 10:05 AM
Original Mike said...: "the land they live on [Somali] is too strategically important."

Somali? Strategically important?
What a bizarre statement.
You'll force any square peg into your round hole .; 10/23/26, 10:08 AM
Dr Weevil said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/23/26, 10:39 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Waiting for Barnacle Jaq or some other clown to point out that Somalia is on one side of a strategic strait, and that Yemen on the other is also being bombed. Well, not the Yemeni government, but the Houthi rebels who control half of Yemen, and who've been murdering civilians in Saudi Arabia, as well as trying to close the strait.

Of course, any sensible person knows that there are countries with strategic locations on straits that have never been bombed because they've never tried to block them. Djibouti and Eritrea have never tried to block the Bab el Mandeb, and Oman has never tried to block the Strait of Hormuz, and they've never been bombed. How peculiar is that? Not at all: it's common sense.; 10/23/26, 10:41 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Contrary to upthread myth, *most* posters are not using the lingojam italics generator: a few are. But why not obey the bloghost's injunction to not use italics (or boldface)? There's nothing wrong with employing asterisks (or even, *gasp!*, underscores) for emphasis.

But, speaking as one who has used html italics (prior to their banning) dozens if not hundreds of times over the years here, and *never* left them running on afterwards (because it's super easy to just check if the tags right *before* posting), if someone does improperly use them and leaves that faucet running, a later poster trying to cancel them should always put in *two* close italics tags, i.e., </I> </I>

Why? Because it's not unlikely that the reason italics wasn't properly closed before is because the slash '/' was left off the earlier poster's close tag. Since those things nest, it then takes 2 close italics tags to shut italics off.; 10/23/26, 11:15 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “ Why? Because it's not unlikely that the reason italics wasn't properly closed before is because the slash '/' was left off the earlier poster's close tag. Since those things nest, it then takes 2 close italics tags to shut italics off.”

Makes sense.

My problem here is that Blogger doesn’t match upper and lower case I’s in scanning HTML. BUT Apple IOS Safari automatically capitalizes lower case I’s after “<“, but not after “</“. This means that I have to go back and fix the HTML or cut and paste from my HTML template. Just easier to use double quotes.; 10/23/26, 11:26 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Yep. Quotes work too.; 10/23/26, 11:35 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “
Waiting for Barnacle Jaq or some other clown to point out that Somalia is on one side of a strategic strait, and that Yemen on the other is also being bombed. Well, not the Yemeni government, but the Houthi rebels who control half of Yemen, and who've been murdering civilians in Saudi Arabia, as well as trying to close the strait.”

The end game is fairly clear with Iran. Cutting the IRGC from money is working. It’s just a matter of time. What little money that Iran has appears to be going into the US election. But that is coming up fast, and after that, they will have little ability left to put pressure on the US.

The Houthis though are a different story. They are putting significant pressure on their neighbors, esp Saudi Arabia, a putative ally of the US. I think that this problem will ultimately have to be addressed. Probably kineticly. The good news is that they aren’t getting the Iranian support that they have in the past.; 10/23/26, 11:36 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Bruce Hayden:
Not only are the Houthis and other terrorists not "getting the Iranian support that they have in the past". I've read that Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Shiite militias in Iraq are now being asked to send money back to Iran to help them block the Gulf and avoid total economic collapse. Probably not the Houthis, though, who are using the Iranian money a lot more effectively.; 10/23/26, 11:46 AM
Saint Croix said...: The New York Post has all the clues.

Includes a marriage certificate from Omar's (alleged) sister, Leila, which says that her father is Nur Said Elmi and he was a military officer. Omar's (alleged) brother and ex-husband, Amed Elmi, lived with Leila in London.; 10/23/26, 11:53 AM
Original Mike said...: "BUT Apple IOS Safari automatically capitalizes lower case I’s after “<“, but not after “</“. "

My iPad's Safari does not do that.
Must be a settings variable.; 10/23/26, 12:27 PM
Eva Marie said...: From several days ago:
“Dr. Edna Adan Ismail, one of Somaliland’s most respected and distinguished women, thanks President Donald Trump for recognising the historical distinction between Somaliland and Somalia”

https://x.com/diasporacorner/status/2110457313353961774/video/1?s=46; 10/23/26, 12:55 PM
Eva Marie said...: It’s interesting even their closest neighbors want nothing to do with them.; 10/23/26, 12:58 PM
Iman said...: Somalia is chock full of khat chewing, thieving skinnies.

That is all.; 10/23/26, 2:56 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Dr. Edna Adan Ismail, one of Somaliland’s most respected and distinguished women, thanks President Donald Trump for recognising the historical distinction between Somaliland and Somalia”

My question is, after Mogadishu and Blackhawk Down, how the heck did we allow so many Somalis into this country? Easily the most corrupt ethnic minority in our country. Easily eclipsing the Italians of a century ago. $Billions$ of tax money into their pockets.; 10/23/26, 3:27 PM