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1. The maryr, aka Saint Renee, won’t gain much action because she isn’t a minority or an illegal alien or even a Somalian.

   No intersectional points given for a white female with a wife. Cannon fodder.

2. Hmm when a Capitol cop shot unarmed white woman Ashli Babbit, I don’t recall any protest about unjustified killings. If anything, it seemed she “deserved” it for protesting illegally (ie protesting while not Democrat).

   Previously in Minneapolis a a city cop shot a white woman Justine Damond who called 911 to report a possible assault, and then the temerity to approach the police car unarmed, on foot, and in her pajamas. Obvious threat. Of course the cop was a celebrated Somalian, Religion of Peace, but there was inconvenient public outcry, and the killing was considered unjustified, surprisingly, although I think there was a later appeal that overturned the cop’s conviction.

   There is much selectivity in which shooting deaths we are supposed to be outraged by, and which we are supposed to consider “deserved”. Hell, not even all white woman protestor lives matter.

3. There is much selectivity in which shooting deaths we are supposed to be outraged by, and which we are supposed to consider “deserved”. Hell, not even all white woman protestor lives matter.
   ==
   One of Joseph Sobran’s more intelligent apercus: behind every double-standard is an unconfessed single standard.

4. Ooh. That is good.

5. I believe I know what you mean, that is, you mean to say Tucker’s son works for VP Vance (as a staffer, I think).

6. Some historical context on Greenland.

   a) Denmark acquired Greenland by what the Left calls “settler colonialism”. The sagas that describe the first Norse settlements in Greenland are interesting reading.

   b) The US took over Greenland and Iceland in 1941. Iceland was a neutral sovereign nation whose head of state was the King of Denmark. They were invited to join the Allies, but refused, and so to forestall a possible German occupation, were invaded and their neutrality violated by the United Kingdom in 1940. The United States took over from the UK before Pearl Harbor, even though technically not at war with anyone. The number of soldiers there was equal to about 50% of the entire male population of Iceland. There’s a large cohort of Icelanders, the astandsborn, children of Icelandic women and occupation troops. US troops occupied Iceland until 1947 and maintained bases there until 2006; we’re still in Greenland.

   All to say that the issue of the disposition of Greenland and even Iceland isn’t anything new, and their low population and unfortunately strategic location between great powers means they’re going to be disposed of one way or another, by someone, and it’s not as though Denmark is or ever has been in any position to do anything about it. These territories have any self-government at all on sufferance, and even the “good guys” take them over when they feel the need.

7. cdrsalamander had a specific Substack post about Greenland earlier this week. Not history, or diplomacy, but strategic national defense reasons for the US interests.

   China of course is the stalking horse, money to gain a foothold on Greenland.

8. What is wrong with some Republican in Congress. Now, a number have sided with the Dems to limit Trump in Venezuela. Would any Dems side with Rep if a Dem President did things? No, Hell No, they would not. I do not understand the mindset that says destroy the party. Even Fetterman, whom criticizes some Dem things, always votes straight Dem.

9. The notion of “highly processed” is absurd. If you pick a fruit from an unprocessed tree, there is no processing. But when you start planting in a planned way, maybe make bread, that becomes high processing. In other words, what the opposition to “highly processed” means is the advocacy of a return to a hunter/gatherer culture.

10. sdferr:

    Thanks, fixed.

11. When I wrote my book on the 2nd Marine Division in WW2, I conducted oral history interviews with several veterans of the division’s 6th Marines (regiment), which was stationed in Iceland before its deployment to the Pacific. These vets had a rollicking good time time with the Icelandic girls, who were described as being very “healthy” and, er, “accommodating.” Then the 6th went to Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian. Needless to say, there were no rollicking good times in those hell-holes.

12. @IrishOtter49:These vets had a rollicking good time time with the Icelandic girls, who were described as being very “healthy” and, er, “accommodating.”

    Their husbands, fathers, and brothers had much less of a “rollicking good time”, and some of those girls were underage even for those times and forced into prostitution. There’s still some bad feeling in Iceland about it. And a lot of the resulting children were abandoned by their American and British fathers. Fun was not had all around.

    Occupation looks very different from the perspective of the occupied, even when humane and nearly bloodless, as this was.

13. Put a sock in it, Nikitas. I don’t need your stern wet-smack Cliff Clavin know-it-all lectures.

    I mean, seriously, you are such a horse’s ass. Also, once again, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

14. @IrishOtter49:Also, once again, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

    I wasn’t aware that you’d interviewed Icelanders who lived under the occupation for your book as well and got their view of it. If you didn’t, well, maybe there’s some things you haven’t learned yet either.

15. There’s also no love lost, historically, between Iceland and Denmark.
    Understandably….
    (Which makes one wonder how Greenlanders—all xyz(?) of them—feel about their current status vis-a-vis Denmark…)
    – – – – – – –
    Meanwhile (#2) on to Iran…

    NOTAMS [i.e., Notice To Airmen] have just been issued across Iran. Something big might be about to happen.
    https://instapundit.com/767970/

    God speed to the courageous people of Iran who want to live their lives free of coercion and pursue happiness and a decent life….

16. LTEC,

    I don’t know about the FDA’s definition, or if there is legaleze on what can be called “highly processed,” but my understanding is the term applies to industrial processes that greatly alter the original food. For example, bleaching flower and leaching vitamins and nutrients from it then adding them back in. I recently heard (I think Joe Rogan) that some seed oils (rape seed?, rake seed?) require toxic chemicals to get the seeds to yield oil.

    There is big money in getting folks to eat highly processed foods, just as there is big money about scaring people about certain foods, processes and additives. I know people with some allergies that don’t even seem possible. They seem more psychological than physical, but who am I to know what someone “feels” like when they eat certain foods?

    Americans are bombarded by diet and health messages all day long. It’s too much for me to research and sort out, so I tend towards the concept that the closer a food is to it’s natural state the less harmful it is likely to be*. Except for separating table salt into it’s two, component elements, of course! 🙂

    *I think the opposite of “whole foods” is “highly processed,” especially when a lot of extraneous chemicals and preservatives are added in the processing to improve shelf life.

17. On JD: If he had included the “Islamophobia” line, we’d know he needs correcting. He said he opposes anti-semitism and hatred of blacks and whites. Can’t disagree with that.

18. “Highly processed” in the new jargon means foods loaded with added sugars, salt, and preservatives. The message is, buy meat, vegetables, and fruit and prepare them yourself for the majority of your diet.

    This would also be the way for many people living in the American version of “poverty” to improve their health and their budgets.

19. @Kate:This would also be the way for many people living in the American version of “poverty” to improve their health and their budgets.

    It certainly is cheaper and can be healthier to eat that way. It is more costly in time, however, and those recommending it to the poor sometimes don’t see this.

    A lot of people who work hourly don’t have very consistent schedules, for example, and this makes it harder to make every meal from scratch. It’s not impossible, obviously. There are probably lots of people who can do it who think they can’t, or don’t know how.

    But in the end, no matter how much money you make you only have 24 hours in the day. People who are working hourly, in order to make all their meals at home from relatively unprocessed ingredients, will be spending more time on it than they otherwise would, not just on cooking and shopping and cleaning up but also on planning. Planning is probably the weak link here for people in that position.

20. #4.
    “Experts are stunned that their beloved barbecue kettle chips will no longer be considered one of the essential food groups by the EVIL Trump administration.
    “Seriously considering legal / ethical / nutritional grounds for RFK Jr. impeachment…along with his Boss…
    “Claim Trump’s Fascist regime has once again gone too far and is dangerously exceeding Constitutional authority.
    “A threat to DEMOCRACY!
    “NO KINGS!”—

    Um, hold on… just a sec…er, sorry…

    …OK. Right. Let’s try again:

    “Experts are stunned as U.S. economic productivity surges 4.9%, marking its highest level in nearly six years.“—
    https://instapundit.com/768013/

21. Kate:

    Of course what he said is true. But it de-emphasizes the fact that right now anti-Semitism is a major problem, and the question was specifically about anti-Semitism. It’s one of those “balancing” answers.

22. Anti-semitism is big right now, but the majority of it comes from the Left, specifically the Hamas-adjacent Left, which is most of it. The Religion of Peace is sacred, and they can freely speak their minds without any pushback or denunciation.

    The Left is forever trying to saddle the Right with neo-nazi nutbags and other weirdos who have nothing in common with conservatives or the Make America Great Again movement. And there have been a few people who previously seemed to be on the Right but took a hard left turn into crazy land, for who knows what reasons. The Left and the media are desperately trying to make them a Thing on the Right, but in my opinion the average American who just wants their country back from the brink and who is trying to make ends meet, is not paying much attention to those nutters, and has no interest in purity tests and the daily denunciation gotcha questions.

    I’m sorry. When the Left starts getting denunciation gotcha questions about the antisemitism of the Religion of Peace and is forced to answer for their ideology, then maybe I might be concerned about how strongly Vance denounces the nutters supposedly on the Right. Until then, please pardon me if I have more important things to worry about than a few obvious loons with “Right-wing” stickers slapped on their heads. Things like the approved “protests” outside my office window, made up of international students, the women in their prescribed body bags, shouting “From the river to the sea!”. Torques me off to no end to hear them freely shouting their hate all over campus.

    I’m not Jewish, so I really don’t understand why that kind of blatant, open, approved, antisemitism doesn’t seem to bother the people of Jewish faith as much as some nutter like Carlson does.

    Maybe the neo-nazis have come out from under the rocks they’ve been hiding under because they have seen, repeatedly, especially after October 7, just how much antisemitism you can get away with – even praised for – if you slap a kefiyeh around your neck. They want to get in on the action too, but they forgot their kefiyeh shields. Because that seems to be the only difference between denounceable antisemitism and approved antisemitism.

23. A “Food Pyramid” balanced on its tip makes no sense!

24. (6) She was:
    1. Not following the ICE officer’s orders.
    2. Resisting arrest.
    3 Thinking her vehicle would scare the ICE officer.
    4. Is now deceased because of the above.

    Lesson: DO NOT RESIST ARREST!!! You might be injured or killed if you do.

    That message should be broadcast to ICE protestors by their leaders (Walz, Frey, Newsom, Harris, etc.). But they don’t want peaceful protest. They want martyrs to justify political violence. It’s their MO and they have nothing else to offer.

25. so it seems the national lawyers guild is part of this seemless web, with their ‘legal observers’ with the denunciation of copraganda, this is something real,
    of course the stream of vicious rhetoric which goes back to ocasio cortez’s vilifying ICE in 2018, and stretches through walz and pritzker’s more recent outings, is involved, but there is still responsibility on her part, serving as a barricade, against law enforcement, a deadly choice,

    of course, the details, of how she came to me in that particular intersection, is still a mystery,

    we have some sraps she was a resident of kansas city, as recently as 2024,

    Andy ngo, traces this to the ‘stolen land’ narrative, which I recall blends together with BDS lunacy, also in Minnesota,

    shes not formally trantifa, but her behavior echoes such patterns,

26. @miguel cervantes:the details, of how she came to me in that particular intersection, is still a mystery

    Going to be that way for a long time. Journalists no longer allocate resources to investigating anything, they regurgitate information handed to them from interested parties. Bloggers never had resources for their own investigations. We’re probably not going to know anything substantial until the criminal or civil trial, if the lawyers ask the right questions, and if someone bothers to go to the courtroom and get the actual information in real time as opposed to a summary written by someone with an agenda and a pet journalist.

27. The essay on Greenland is perhaps intended to come across as a different take (or “spin”?) on the subject, but it isn’t really saying much.

    “In the event of a U.S. purchase of DENMARK’s public international law claim to GREENLAND, private property in GREENLAND would continue to be owned by its current owners and undisturbed.”

    Duh, who would have thought otherwise?

    But I don’t think the analogy to the Louisiana Purchase is valid in the first place. The US federal government did acquire the land in some literal sense, as evidenced by the fact that it later gave plots of land away under the Homestead program.

28. I added this to yesterday’s thread, but I think it really belongs here:

    So now it appears that the ICE agent had been dragged by a car before, getting injured in the process.

    I feel sorry for the woman’s parents and kid(s). But not the woman. This disrespect for the law HAS to stop. I can’t imagine ignoring an order from a law enforcement officer. But it’s getting so widespread.

29. meanwhile, the train goes on,

    https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2009413702018322862

    it’s not terribly surprising, because Portland continues to be weird, but disappointing,nonetheless,

    I do remember an icelandic tie in that stephenson novel, cryptonomicon,

    sobran alas had a bete noire about israel, may not as pronounced as tucker has turned out to be,

30. @Watt:Duh, who would have thought otherwise?

    That happens a lot, all through history, that the land is confiscated and redistributed by the new sovereign. Too many examples to list.

    The US federal government did acquire the land in some literal sense, as evidenced by the fact that it later gave plots of land away under the Homestead program.

    I think that very little of that land had any legal title. French and Spanish people living there had title, but there were very few of them. Some Spanish land titles in Louisiana territory were declared void. But Congress has plenary power to extinguish aboriginal title in any event and has done so many times.

31. FNC says ICE had three car-attack incidents in the morning before Renee Good was killed.

    BACK GROUND on her from NY Post:
    “Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE ‘warrior’ and was part of a group of activists who worked to ‘document and resist’ the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.

    “Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts ‘social justice first’ and prioritizes ‘involving kids in political and social activism,”p’multiple local sources said.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting/?

    In an editorial, the New York Post blames the Left for her death — it’s on their heads.

    The anti-Left side is united about the facts of the case. The gynocratic commies are merely prostituting her as the heir to Saint George Floyd.

32. Portlanders trying to kill ICE with vehicles and coming out on the wrong side of the FAFO game?

    Inconceivable.

    I’m all out of “f’s” for them Portlanders.

33. here’s something interesting, about the den of villainy on the lake,

    https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/2009025727661003218

    one might call it a syzgy, why you can’t crack the bubble,

34. “But Congress has plenary power to extinguish aboriginal title in any event and has done so many times.” Niketas Choniates

    aboriginal ‘title’? No such concept existed among native American tribes. No concept of private property, much less possession of legal, recorded ‘title’ to their lands.
    They lived solely by the principle of might makes right. The Comanche drove the Apache out of Texas and the Southern plains. 150 yrs before the appearance of Europeans, the Sioux were driven out of the lands they previously squatted upon and in turn, invaded the Dakotas and slaughtered, enslaved and drove out the prior ‘native’ inhabitants. So the Sioux stole their ‘sacred’ black hills. The Cherokee practiced slavery and took their slaves with them on their “Trail of tears”.

35. @Geoffrey Britain:aboriginal ‘title’? No such concept existed among native American tribes.

    Doesn’t matter, the concept exists under US law. All the common law countries have some method of dealing with it.

    It’s a bit misleadingly named, I think–of course Indians didn’t have the legal machinery of title. What it amounts to is that only the Crown, by right of conquest, could grant legal title to Indian lands and that the United States government succeeded to the Crown’s power to do that. The aborigines only have their rights to their land until the Crown or the United States government takes them away, and I think it means that the aboriginal rights cannot legally be sold.

    There were people in the territories west of the Appalachians who had a more conventional title, like the ranchos in California, and there was a lot of legal wrangling over who owned what even then, and some landowners could not keep all their land.

36. om, the Portland incident did not involve ICE, but rather the CBP.
    And it led to injuries instead of deaths.

    Related but different from the Minneapolis one.

37. Holy Moley…

    Roundup, ya say??

    “Monsanto Sues COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers, Alleging Copyright Infringement”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/monsanto-sues-covid-19-vaccine-manufacturers-alleging-copyright-infringement

38. It’s going to be a long hot summer of mostly fiery peaceful protests, I think. Democrats have nearly perfected the art of the riot to get out the vote machine.

39. Yep.
    And along with the violence, it’s Democratic Party corruption all the way down.

    They simply can’t help themselves.

    “Ilhan Omar Caught Sneaking Carveout For Somali-Led Group In Congress’ Spending Package”—
    https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/07/ilhan-omars-caught-sneaking-carveout-for-somali-led-group-in-congress-spending-package/
    H/T Powerline blog.

40. Industrial scale fraud by Somalis in Minnesota, now, this example of Somali fraud in Maine.*

    The question has to be asked, in allowing, nay, Democrat administrations inviting all of these many tens of thousands of Somalis to come to this country, have we just naively imported a whole culture, a whole bunch of thieves?

    You may try to say that they just have a different culture and mindset, but when that culture and mindset involve just routinely gaming the system, and illegal activities, tolerance of this behavior is not warranted.

    Given all of the examples coming to light, if you see a Somali is involved in something, do you now automatically have to check to see if some sort of illegal behavior is going on?

    * See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG2SdbKcijI

41. Talk about gaming the system, in a recent Congressional hearing it was revealed by Representative Brandon Gill that, ten years after arriving, 78% of Somali headed immigrant households are still on welfare.

    * See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/78-somali-immigrant-households-still-welfare-after-decade/

42. TJ:

    Thank you for the correction.

    Illegal immigrant above the law again, Federal LEOs involved.

43. TJ:

    Hot Takes: OR Democrats Don’t Care That Border Patrol Took Out Tren de Aragua, They Want to Blame ICE
    By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell | 8:00 AM on January 09, 2026

    https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/01/09/hot-takes-politicians-wilding-over-oregon-ice-shooting-without-knowing-its-tda-n2197936

44. The left’s M.O. is to manufacture chaos so they can then call on people to vote for Democrats to end all the chaos that’s happening under Republicans. Of course they’re ultimately at fault for the deaths of protestors. They’re actively encouraging these people to put themselves in harm’s way. Eeriely like terrorists using human shields. Any violence/destruction/loss of life is the other side’s fault for not just giving them what they want.

    Re: the food pyramid – it matters because dietary guidelines drive what is served in schools, the military, hospitals. Of course most people don’t care what the government tells them to eat in their day-to-day lives, but it still affects more than you think. The war on saturated fat and cholesterol also had the inevitable consequence of getting people to eat more ultra-processed “food.” So yes, it matters. And no, the new food pyramid doesn’t go far enough because it still caps saturated fat. But it’s good to at least see some changes.

    And we had to start using the term “ultra-processed food” to get around the bad faith corporate propaganda that any cutting, pounding, cooking, and baking counts as “processing” food so therefore “processed food” isn’t bad, “high fructose corn syrup is made from corn,” “dihydrogen monoxide is a chemical so chemicals in food aren’t bad,” etc.

    Follow the science:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmqVVmMB3k

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDVjUmUcFVY

    https://drcate.com/cholesterol-what-the-american-heart-association-is-hiding-from-you-part-1

    https://drcate.com/seed-oils-questions-answers-for-your-health/#d

45. Cross posting here but the body cam footage dropped and it is worse than I thought.

    https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bz61P2vBs/

46. When the word Minnesota came up, I always thought of it as a farming state.

    Looking back through family history, my paternal ancestors have always been farmers, and there were also farmers in my maternal ancestry as well.

    Approaching 82, and looking back over my life, I’ve often wondered what my life would have been like if I had been raised in a different way, had a very different set of experiences, and a very different mindset–if I had been, say, not an intellectual, an academic, but an outdoorsman, a jack of all trades, and much closer to nature, the land, and to my farming roots.

    Thus, my current vicarious interest in off-grid living, and being self-sufficient.

    There are certainly a lot of channels on Youtube following many young couples—older couples and even a few individuals, as well—as they set out to homestead, to get off the “grid,” and to be self-sufficient–chronicling the obstacles they are facing in doing so.

    While all of these videos are interesting, I believe this one video I just ran across probably outlines the truth of it, enumerating the real and many costs in trying to live this farming, off-grid life.*

    And, as I surmised, it ain’t just all your kids gamboling in a field with their pet cows, goats, or chickens, and a seat by your very own stream, it is a very hard, strenuous, 365 day, 24/7 life, with your realism, strength, stamina, grit, hard, incessant work, knowledge, ability to defer gratification, and ability to plan, as well as mother nature all playing large parts in your chances of success or failure, with just plain old “luck” somewhere in the mix.

    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQragxAwbBM

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