Happy Opening Day to all those who celebrate (as the modern formula goes), huzzah!
I believe it would please the Lord if this were made a national holiday. Trump has had plenty of time to make that happen.
The day where “pfp (pitchers’ fielding practice)” turns to PFP!, aka “President’s First Pitch” thanks to W. H. Taft setting the tone in 1910.
[Oh, and for daytime drama I wait to see whether Tyler O’Neill can hit his seventh!! consecutive opening day homerun.]
Trump is currently holding a Cabinet meeting. CNBC reports that the gifts to the US (as Trump mentioned a couple days ago — as I expected) were 10 oil tankers, all with Pakistani flags.
These ships have transited the Straits of Hormuz, but their current location is unknown.
* Honda and Sony are no longer working on the Afeela EVs.
* Development of the Afeela 1 sedan has stopped.
* Plans for an electric SUV have also been aborted.
Afeela 1
It sounds like the punchline to a joke from junior high school.
Devotion?
You shoulda seen how my grandmother related to the creature that was about to become her gefilte fish…
And on a more serious note, a grim, sober, in-depth analysis that explains how the definition of Free-Speech—and the global Free-Speech Movement, itself—morphed into the BRUTAL MORAL IMPERATIVE of MANIACAL DEMONIZATION of the State of Israel and anyone, Jewish or not, who claim to support it or, at least, attempt—against the ferocious tide—to treat it with a modicum of fairness.
In so doing, the author answers many of the puzzling questions regarding the process, the methodology, the goals and the PRACTITIONERS of this perverse reversal, and in effect issues a stark warning of what this tsunami of bizarro, laser-focused hatred portends.
I’m glad neo is posting these animal videos. It’s a corner of the internet I’ve been exploring for some time. Which I find quietly transformational.
There is something relaxing and expansive about watching animals closely and sensing that living spark within and its ability to interact with other animals and even humans.
The squirrels in my backyard are doing well. I’m pretty sure they are a mother and adolescent child. I enjoy leaving nuts out for them. Then trying to catch them stealing the nuts away as I watch with binoculars from the kitchen window.
THIS OUGHT TO BE Big News. Of course, it won’t, even though Congressional Hearings will draw the facts out. But who pays attention to facts anymore?
John Solomon speaking at CPAC shares news of China and Ukraine laundering 200 million into Joe Biden’s re-election campaign in late 2022. Tulsi Gabbard has declassified NSA phone call intercepts. The investigation into these events and who conducted them is ongoing.
“The United States government, the National Security Agency, intercepted conversations of President Zelensky’s government in Ukraine in 2022…conspiring with federal workers at the USAID to come up with a plan to take $200 million dollars of USAID money, that is your money folks, taxpayer money, route it through a series of transactions, move it into the United States, and launder it into Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign and the Democratic National Committee.”
2 minute clip of Solomon: https://x.com/realamvoice/status/2037292005105996157?
John adds that the print version of the story is now up at Just The News.com
huxley:
When Gerard lived in Paradise, his neighbor on the backyard side seemed to have tamed a squirrel. It would climb onto his shoulder and stay there. And yet it was a wild squirrel that lived in the yard. Not sure how he accomplished this feat. Not even sure it was a good idea either for the man or the squirrel. But it was quite a sight.
Re: USAID/Democrat money laundering
TJ:
Good catch.
This is one of the reasons, beyond Superman’s motto, “Truth, justice and the American Way,” that I’m optimistic about the 2026 midterms.
Trump/DOGE haven’t cut off all the government money grifted back to Democrat campaigns, but they have swung the axe and taken out some of it.
Re: Iran War / A-10 Warthog
Max Afterburner, a mil blogger, is bullish on the entry of Warthogs into the Iran War. I’m not conversant on the Warthog’s virtues, so I looked into it. Here’s an excellent YouTube for those interested in the details:
________________________________
The US Navy destroyed 120 Iranian warships — and Hormuz is still closed. Two carrier strike groups, eight Aegis destroyers, and $40 billion in naval firepower couldn’t reopen a six-mile shipping lane clogged with 1,500 fast boats. The answer wasn’t a newer ship or a bigger missile. It was a 50-year-old Air Force jet the Pentagon wanted to throw away.
The A-10 Warthog was never designed for naval warfare. It was built to kill Soviet tanks on the plains of Europe. But its GAU-8 cannon, low-speed maneuverability, and titanium-armored cockpit turned out to be the exact engineering solution for a problem the Navy’s blue-water arsenal was never built to handle — cheap, fast, swarming targets in a confined corridor. This is the equation behind the most counterintuitive combined-arms operation in modern military history.
So the Warthog is a Goldilocks solution to the Strait of Hormuz — not too fast, not too slow, not too expensive. A slow, maneuverable, well-armored aircraft built for taking out slow-moving targets, such as Iranian speedboats, cheaply.
The right tool for the right job.
You gotta love the name!
@neo: When Gerard lived in Paradise, his neighbor on the backyard side seemed to have tamed a squirrel. It would climb onto his shoulder and stay there. And yet it was a wild squirrel that lived in the yard. Not sure how he accomplished this feat.
From the videos I’ve watched, like “Squirrels at the Window,” (https://www.youtube.com/@Squirrels_at_the_window) it’s a long, slow process of feeding squirrels, letting them get a bit closer, being safe … lather, rinse, repeat. It takes months, even years.
Squirrels, like mice, are almost never disease carriers. If they get into a house, they can chew stuff up. They have to. Their teeth never stop growing!
huxley:
Hanta virus is a notable exception about mice and disease, especially so in New Mexico.
Regarding the A-10; before it could operate over the Straits (strafes) of Hormose the USAF and USN had to eliminate Iranian air defenses and fighters. The US Marines fly Sea Cobra attack kelicopters which can deal with Iranian speed boats as can US Army Apache AH-64s.
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The A-10 story is much like the A-1 Skyraider from Vietnam. The A-1 was a slow, prop-driven attack plane that the Navy didn’t need any more. So USAF took them into close air support and rescue mission support. Like the A-10, they were tough and had long linger time, and carried a lot of ordinance.
A bit of peanut butter on the collar or shoulder?
(Or is that cheating?)
What says our resident squirrel whisperer?
I take it you’ve never known a dedicated fly fisher-person?
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Happy Opening Day to all those who celebrate (as the modern formula goes), huzzah!
I believe it would please the Lord if this were made a national holiday. Trump has had plenty of time to make that happen.
The day where “pfp (pitchers’ fielding practice)” turns to PFP!, aka “President’s First Pitch” thanks to W. H. Taft setting the tone in 1910.
[Oh, and for daytime drama I wait to see whether Tyler O’Neill can hit his seventh!! consecutive opening day homerun.]
Trump is currently holding a Cabinet meeting. CNBC reports that the gifts to the US (as Trump mentioned a couple days ago — as I expected) were 10 oil tankers, all with Pakistani flags.
These ships have transited the Straits of Hormuz, but their current location is unknown.
LINK to CNBC story https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/trump-iran-war-oil-strait-of-hormuz.html
Some good news:
The international Olympics committee is banning men from women’s sport at the 2028 Los Angeles games.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/26/us-news/athletes-praise-olympics-transgender-competitors-ban/
NASA is scheduling the Artemis mission for April 1. This will be the first time that astronauts return to moon orbit since 1972.
https://www.space.com/news/live/artemis-2-nasa-moon-mission-launch-updates-march-26-2026
https://www.motor1.com/news/791045/honda-sony-discontinue-two-electric-vehicles/
* Honda and Sony are no longer working on the Afeela EVs.
* Development of the Afeela 1 sedan has stopped.
* Plans for an electric SUV have also been aborted.
Afeela 1
It sounds like the punchline to a joke from junior high school.
Devotion?
You shoulda seen how my grandmother related to the creature that was about to become her gefilte fish…
And on a more serious note, a grim, sober, in-depth analysis that explains how the definition of Free-Speech—and the global Free-Speech Movement, itself—morphed into the BRUTAL MORAL IMPERATIVE of MANIACAL DEMONIZATION of the State of Israel and anyone, Jewish or not, who claim to support it or, at least, attempt—against the ferocious tide—to treat it with a modicum of fairness.
In so doing, the author answers many of the puzzling questions regarding the process, the methodology, the goals and the PRACTITIONERS of this perverse reversal, and in effect issues a stark warning of what this tsunami of bizarro, laser-focused hatred portends.
“The Free Speech of Fools;
“A marginal participant in the short-lived ‘heterodox moment’ looks back on how it all went horribly wrong”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/free-speech-fools-jacob-siegel
Brandon Johnson’s security detail.
==
https://instapundit.com/785425/#disqus_thread
Re Barry — AHA! Author Jacob Siegel again. His earlier work at The Tablet started the whole….
Now I’m going to miss his important contribution to debate last year… someone else to fill my mental gap, perhaps?
Jason Siegel is also the author of a trenchant new book, “The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control” – March 24, 2026.
Endorsements by Christopher Caldwell, Joel Kotkin, John Gray, Michael Lind, and Rod Dreher. In other words, LIKELY OF INTEREST to most of us here. https://www.amazon.com/Information-State-Politics-Total-Control/dp/1250363128
AND to Clinton sorts of Leftists, too?
Barry’s LINK is an excerpt from the book?
Re: Fish video
I’m glad neo is posting these animal videos. It’s a corner of the internet I’ve been exploring for some time. Which I find quietly transformational.
There is something relaxing and expansive about watching animals closely and sensing that living spark within and its ability to interact with other animals and even humans.
The squirrels in my backyard are doing well. I’m pretty sure they are a mother and adolescent child. I enjoy leaving nuts out for them. Then trying to catch them stealing the nuts away as I watch with binoculars from the kitchen window.
THIS OUGHT TO BE Big News. Of course, it won’t, even though Congressional Hearings will draw the facts out. But who pays attention to facts anymore?
John Solomon speaking at CPAC shares news of China and Ukraine laundering 200 million into Joe Biden’s re-election campaign in late 2022. Tulsi Gabbard has declassified NSA phone call intercepts. The investigation into these events and who conducted them is ongoing.
“The United States government, the National Security Agency, intercepted conversations of President Zelensky’s government in Ukraine in 2022…conspiring with federal workers at the USAID to come up with a plan to take $200 million dollars of USAID money, that is your money folks, taxpayer money, route it through a series of transactions, move it into the United States, and launder it into Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign and the Democratic National Committee.”
2 minute clip of Solomon:
https://x.com/realamvoice/status/2037292005105996157?
John adds that the print version of the story is now up at Just The News.com
huxley:
When Gerard lived in Paradise, his neighbor on the backyard side seemed to have tamed a squirrel. It would climb onto his shoulder and stay there. And yet it was a wild squirrel that lived in the yard. Not sure how he accomplished this feat. Not even sure it was a good idea either for the man or the squirrel. But it was quite a sight.
Re: USAID/Democrat money laundering
TJ:
Good catch.
This is one of the reasons, beyond Superman’s motto, “Truth, justice and the American Way,” that I’m optimistic about the 2026 midterms.
Trump/DOGE haven’t cut off all the government money grifted back to Democrat campaigns, but they have swung the axe and taken out some of it.
Re: Iran War / A-10 Warthog
Max Afterburner, a mil blogger, is bullish on the entry of Warthogs into the Iran War. I’m not conversant on the Warthog’s virtues, so I looked into it. Here’s an excellent YouTube for those interested in the details:
________________________________
The US Navy destroyed 120 Iranian warships — and Hormuz is still closed. Two carrier strike groups, eight Aegis destroyers, and $40 billion in naval firepower couldn’t reopen a six-mile shipping lane clogged with 1,500 fast boats. The answer wasn’t a newer ship or a bigger missile. It was a 50-year-old Air Force jet the Pentagon wanted to throw away.
The A-10 Warthog was never designed for naval warfare. It was built to kill Soviet tanks on the plains of Europe. But its GAU-8 cannon, low-speed maneuverability, and titanium-armored cockpit turned out to be the exact engineering solution for a problem the Navy’s blue-water arsenal was never built to handle — cheap, fast, swarming targets in a confined corridor. This is the equation behind the most counterintuitive combined-arms operation in modern military history.
–Navy Decoded, “Why the A-10 Warthog Solved What the US Navy Couldn’t at Hormuz”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEAS7wYPFoM
________________________________
So the Warthog is a Goldilocks solution to the Strait of Hormuz — not too fast, not too slow, not too expensive. A slow, maneuverable, well-armored aircraft built for taking out slow-moving targets, such as Iranian speedboats, cheaply.
The right tool for the right job.
You gotta love the name!
@neo: When Gerard lived in Paradise, his neighbor on the backyard side seemed to have tamed a squirrel. It would climb onto his shoulder and stay there. And yet it was a wild squirrel that lived in the yard. Not sure how he accomplished this feat.
From the videos I’ve watched, like “Squirrels at the Window,” (https://www.youtube.com/@Squirrels_at_the_window) it’s a long, slow process of feeding squirrels, letting them get a bit closer, being safe … lather, rinse, repeat. It takes months, even years.
Squirrels, like mice, are almost never disease carriers. If they get into a house, they can chew stuff up. They have to. Their teeth never stop growing!
huxley:
Hanta virus is a notable exception about mice and disease, especially so in New Mexico.
Regarding the A-10; before it could operate over the Straits (strafes) of Hormose the USAF and USN had to eliminate Iranian air defenses and fighters. The US Marines fly Sea Cobra attack kelicopters which can deal with Iranian speed boats as can US Army Apache AH-64s.
HERO!! ICE agent saved baby’s life at JFK Airport, DHS says – CBS News Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/03/hero-ice-agent-saved-babys-life-at-jfk.html
The A-10 story is much like the A-1 Skyraider from Vietnam. The A-1 was a slow, prop-driven attack plane that the Navy didn’t need any more. So USAF took them into close air support and rescue mission support. Like the A-10, they were tough and had long linger time, and carried a lot of ordinance.
A bit of peanut butter on the collar or shoulder?
(Or is that cheating?)
What says our resident squirrel whisperer?
I take it you’ve never known a dedicated fly fisher-person?