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A look ahead

Posted on September 22, 2026September 23, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Miguel GFZ takes a look at the ugly, trying days to come.

59% of Democrats polled directly support a military coup d’etat with an extra13% not giving a shit if it happens. That is a total of 72% of D-Assholes willing to burn the ship they are riding (and us) as long as the captain dies. They are willing to kill America both the idea and the people.

And that is enough for you to understand why so many of them are voting Socialist/Communist.

I have been thinking and mulling about this for a while now and I just did not want to openly talk about it, but I believe a very uncivil war will happen sooner than I wish, and we will end up stacking bodies in town squares everywhere because they will do the same to us if we let them.

You will be asked to stop being polite or let politeness be engraved in your tombstone as reason you are no longer breathing.

My thoughts as well. Sure, the prospect of strife, bloodshed, and (un)civil war is indeed horrific beyond comprehension. BUT…the veritable certainty that we’ll end up subjugated, imprisoned, and murdered in job lots by a Communist dictatorship run by the current crop of mentally deranged “liberal” psychos is no less scarifying. They are now openly saying this is what they want to do; as with the jihadis, we really need to take them at their word, not just shrug off their openly-avowed intentions.

What with so many putative Reich-wingers preemptively, obsequiously foreswearing any and every act of violent resistance in defense of American liberty (whatever miserable shreds and tatters are left of it that we haven’t long since given up, that is), it seems that the original valiant, indomitable spirit of our Founding Fathers has been forever lost—rather, willfully abandoned.

As for the poll results Miguel discusses above, I can’t help but be put in mind of Grant’s sharpish riposte to his ranking subordinates who were in dread of the next breakout ass-whupping they were about to get from Lee which, to them, seemed as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise:

Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

Probably the wisest, best pre-battle advice ever offered to any group of increasingly timorous, drubbing-conditioned field-rank officers, I’d say. In the end, Grant prevailed over one of the most able Generals of all time, as we all know, not so much because of his brilliant generalship and/or tactical acumen, but more because of his own iron will, dogged determination, and plain old guts.

Grant, Lee, Longstreet, Sherman, Jackson, and before them Washington, Nathanael Green, the wily “Swamp Fox” Francis Marion—these men are every natural-born Amercan patriot’s heritage, his proud, legitimate ancestral birthright—not the pusillanimous, cross-dressing, scrotum-licking pussies of the Repugnant Left. Hopefully, we’ll all remember, reclaim, and renew that sacred inheritance ere the end.

A long-overdue move

Posted on September 22, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Wait, whut, you telling me they haven’t been already?

‘Needs to happen’: U.S. lawmakers move to designate American Muslim activists as foreign terror organization
The state of Texas already considers CAIR, the Quran-promoting Council on American-Islamic Relations, a terror group.

So do several foreign nations.

Now there’s a move developing in Congress to have CAIR officially labeled as a foreign terrorist group.

A report at the Center Square said the push is coming from key congressional members.

The group has asked the Trump administration to consider designating CAIR, which promotes Islam, as a terror group.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, already had called for that designation.

Now U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, of Florida, is sponsoring a plan to instruct the State Department to determine whether CAIR meets the criteria for an FTO label.

“It is a foreign terrorist organization,” he said in an interview with the Center Square. “I mean, CAIR was founded as an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s the front for Hamas.”

Hamas is the terror organization that several years ago invaded Israel in an act of war and slaughtered some 1,200 civilians, kidnapping hundreds more.

U.S. Rep. Earl S. “Buddy” Carter, of Georgia, said, “It’s something that needs to happen.”

Sheeeeiit, pal, it’s something that should’ve happened YEARS ago. After 9/11/01, it’s somewhat difficult to fathom how it hasn’t…or why.

He isn’t right every time

Posted on September 22, 2026September 22, 2026 by Mike 1 Comment

Of course he isn’t; being as human as anybody else, he can’t be. But when he’s right, the man is fucking-A RIGHT.

This would be one of those times.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump’s FULL blockbuster UN speech is getting rave reviews — where he RAILED against the globalist ICC, called out the persecution of Christians, REFUSED to apologize for America First and more

The whole thing was 10/10! 🔥

TRUMP DID THE FOLLOWING:
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh)

September 22, 2026

The whole durn thang.

TRUMP DID THE FOLLOWING:
– Called out the UN for ignoring Christian persecution worldwide while obsessing over America
– Demanded every ICC member resign immediately from that rogue anti-American tribunal
– Called Communist Cuba a failed state that will fall, then watched officials storm out
– Declared there is no human right to illegal immigration, only the right to stay a sovereign nation
– Scorched UNESCO globalists for pushing mass migration that destroys Western cultures
– Said there is NO global government and there will be NO global taxes while he is president
– Bragged that America cut the UN budget 15% and killed over 4,000 bureaucracy jobs
– Boasted of the most secure border in American history with ZERO illegal aliens admitted
– Declared America is BACK, stronger than ever, and in a GOLDEN AGE after Biden’s dark age
– Mic-dropped failed globalist leaders: while others talked peace, he MADE peace
– Vowed Iran will NEVER get a nuclear weapon and said the Middle East bully is finished
– Teased a huge post-election decision: strike a deal, or annihilate the Islamic Republic
– Exposed Iran as weak and desperate, not strong, and predicted Iranian terror’s end
– Slammed cowards and traitors leaking fake “low munitions” claims mid-conflict
– Took a victory lap over capturing Maduro and signing the largest oil deal in history
– Laid down the Donroe Doctrine: no threats get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere
– Refused to apologize for crushing drug cartels, calling them the ISIS of the hemisphere
– Locked in permanent Greenland security rights that shut out China, Russia, and adversary investment
– Renamed Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence and vowed America stays #1 over China
– Closed with a nationalist call to strengthen nations, grow economies, and God bless America

And that’s just a non-exhaustive list.

Amazingly enough, it is. About damned time a US Prexy had balls enough to beard the UN lion in its very den, sayeth I. Via Ace.

Queer community SPLINTERED!!!

Posted on September 22, 2026September 22, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Shocking, unexpected, and extravagantly out of character, I know.

The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled “UPDATES!” was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond. “It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” wrote Last Ditch.

Previously, patrons were required to wear a well-fitted KN-95 mask “or better” at all times.

The new policy was not received with love.

“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.

“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.

“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.

Oh, forgot to mention “pathetic” up there, didn’t I? Feel free to throw that in in your heads, gang. Mea maxima culpas for that most lamentable lapse.

Link all squinched up in the original Insty post, so I just went with Ed’s excerpt.

Life, imitating art

Posted on September 21, 2026September 22, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Okay, I gotta admit, when I saw this my mind was well and truly blown.

Here’s the Answer to Those White House Tweets Teasing That ‘Something’s Coming’
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were banned from White House briefings by President Donald Trump last week for being “fake news.” They responded by making a joint statement on Monday announcing they would be suing to get their access restored.

Then other media outlets that were involved in the pool coverage of the White House said they would be suspending their coverage of Trump and the White House in response to the ban of the outlets.

The whining was something.

Then the White House teased that “something was coming” and advised people to watch the White House X account.

The White House appears to be getting ready to do an end run around the legacy media. They just posted this tweet.

Streaming 24/7.

Live at 7PM. 👀📺 pic.twitter.com/ax9obEH4sf

— The White House (@WhiteHouse)

September 21, 2026

Now, all that’s hilarious enough already, yeah. BUT, just to make the whole scenario even more delicious, jam-packed with rich, buttery goodness, and SOOO good for you, here’s the rest of the story.

See, I just happen to be about a third of the way through Book 5 of Kurt Schlichter’s awesome Kelly Turnbull series of novels, this one titled Crisis, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but the introduction of a new character, a highly atypical female TeeWee news-wench name of Avery Barnes. Check it:

“Hey,” said a woman’s voice from behind Turnbull, one with a lightly suppressed Southern lilt. “You in the leather jacket.”

Turnbull pivoted, assuming he’d draw the SIG and go for a Mozambique drill on his interlocutor – two in the chest, one in the hat rack – if it came to that. But his kill plan wasn’t necessary, at least not at that moment.

The woman calling to him was a pretty blonde in her early 30s, clearly a reporter since a cameraman was standing next to her, munching on a green apple and looking bored. He was dressed like a hobo, as field cameramen generally are, but she was extremely put together. She looked like she was about to walk into her suburban Georgia Baptist church for the first time after getting divorced, with a slightly too-tight red dress that hovered above her knees, loads of make-up, and every hair locked into its assigned place. The mic she held said “Trump News Network” in gold letters.

SO. If the White House staff haven’t come up with a name for this new venture yet, I may could offer a suggestion.

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Gratitude

Posted on September 21, 2026 by Mike 2 Comments

Q: Do dolphins understand and/or experience human emotional reactions such as gratitude?

A:

Those signs the Magic 8-ball just mentioned:

Massimo
@Rainmaker1973

She didn’t just swim away: she came back with gifts.

After rescuers freed her calf from a fishing net, a mother dolphin began regularly leaving fresh fish on a dock as a touching “thank you” gesture.

In July 2025, a dolphin calf became entangled in fishing gear near a marina. A man named Tom and other local boat owners successfully freed the calf and reunited it with its distressed mother. Days later, people at a nearby dock started discovering neatly placed fresh fish each morning.

Initially suspecting a prank, they checked surveillance footage and were stunned to see a dolphin surfacing at night, gently placing fish on the wooden dock before swimming off. The behavior was soon linked to the recent rescue, leading many to believe the mother dolphin was deliberately thanking the man who helped save her baby.

She repeated the act multiple times. While marine biologists are cautious about attributing human emotions like gratitude to animals, they note that dolphins possess high intelligence and complex social awareness. Real or symbolic, the story has captured hearts worldwide as a beautiful example of the special bond between humans and dolphins.

Awwww.

(Via Ace)

Bullshit artist

Posted on September 21, 2026September 21, 2026 by Mike 3 Comments

Y’know, for a fella who starts his article off by saying “I don’t normally comment on political races,” he sure packs a helluva wallop.

Calling Bullsh-t on James Talarico
Jesus is not your campaign surrogate.

I don’t normally comment on political races, but when I see someone who is as fundamentally full of sh-t as James Talarico, I believe it is my duty to say something about it. James Talarico is now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas, having defeated Jasmine Crockett in the 2026 primary. He has discovered a political instrument more powerful than a Super PAC, more versatile than a focus group, and considerably harder to interview: Jesus Christ. After generations of right-wing Protestant pastors hijacking the message of Jesus and turning him into some kind of political football, you have to hand it to James. After all, he is shameless enough to say, why not me?

Down in the backwater leftist stronghold of Austin, Texas, Talarico is selling progressive politics with a halo. He has shamelessly transformed Jesus into a mouthpiece for leftist progressivism. But that same feeling that we used to get when we watched the PTL Club pervades his aura. I have to hand it to American Protestantism; despite its amazing versatility, it can still make you feel dirty, cheap, and used.

Talarico’s maneuver is a simple one for the simple-minded. He selects biblical passages that he can bastardize and put into the service of leftist progressivism, as if it were a direct command from the Lord Jesus Christ to the White House and the U.S. Senate. Jesus becomes a mouthpiece for the massive expansion of government, open borders and illegal immigration, and NGOs. However, the clarity of his stance rolls into the fog the moment that the fate of an unborn child enters the discussion.

It would be too simple to call him a political whore. But I have to say that hearing him speak makes me nostalgic for Jasmine Crockett. Talarico has shamelessly peddled the God-loves-abortion argument that was vomited out by his professors at the far-left seminary he attended in Austin. Just a quick review of the course catalogue puts the “seminary” in the same political hotbox as any American progressive propaganda center these days. As a survivor of Harvard Divinity School, I can recognize all the usual fluff: Activism and the Old Testament Scriptures, Womanist and Feminist readings of the New Testament, Immigration and the Old Testament, Communication for Ministries of Social Justice. At Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, there is not even a pretense to read the Bible through anything other than a Marxist, feminist lens. The historical texts never stood a chance.

What is especially loathsome about these seminaries is that they seem to barely read the printed word and have no real interest in what the Gospels actually say. Their efforts have been directed toward “demythologizing” the gospel (Rudolf Bultmann), finding the secular meaning (Paul van Buren), secularizing the message (Harvey Cox, The Secular City), or drawing a picture of God to their liking, literally conjured up from thin air (God the Problem, Gordon Kaufman). Then there are the feminist wackos like Mary Daly, the “theologian” who despised all men, would not accept men into her classroom, and would only refer to God as “Goddess.” For any serious scholar who actually wants to study Augustine, Aquinas, Athanasius, Luther, or the actual Bible, stay the hell away from a mainstream Protestant seminary. They wouldn’t know a Bible if it fell off the shelf and hit them over the head. They haven’t even lifted their heads out of Das Kapital for the last 75 years.

“It would be too simple,” you say? I dunno, myself; seems to me that calling the smarmy cockholster a “political whore” meets the case quite nicely.

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You may not be interested in war…

Posted on September 21, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

But war is interested in YOU.

Eric S. Raymond
@esrtweet

The city of Narva, Estonia, sits at the Russian border, on the Narva river, opposite the zone where the Russians have declared a curfew for its inhabitants and a no-go zone for people who don’t already live there.

Narva is 87% ethnic Russian.

There are intelligence reports that Russia has been building hospital facilities near this border.

Russian border guards have been spotted shoring up the banks of the Narva River in exactly the way you would expect if you thought they were going to throw expedient military bridges across it.

Russian border guards have also removed a set of buoys in the river marking the Russian-Estonian border, sparking a formal protest from the Estonian government.

Putin has claimed the right to intravene militarily to protect “oppressed” ethnic Russians in the near abroad. The invasion and annexation of Crimea was justified on these grounds.

These are all facts. Draw your own conclusions.

A few more cold, hard facts from Stephen, including what may end up being the one that really tells the story (bold mine).

But here’s where it gets truly disturbing: “The city of Narva, Estonia, sits at the Russian border, on the Narva river, opposite the zone where the Russians have declared a curfew for its inhabitants and a no-go zone for people who don’t already live there.“

Narva is 87% ethnic Russian, a result of Russian colonization efforts in the Baltics, both during the Czarist and Soviet era. “Putin has claimed the right to intervene militarily to protect ‘oppressed’ ethnic Russians in the near abroad,” Eric posted. “The invasion and annexation of Crimea [in 2014] was justified on these grounds.”

I make zero predictions, none whatsoever, about what comes next.

It seems absolutely insane by most measures for Putin to make warlike moves like these while virtually all of Russia’s conventional combat power remains committed to his own Forever War in Ukraine.

But then I’m reminded of a quote attributed to Dwight Eisenhower: “If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”

Maybe a real test of NATO resolve — and perhaps fracturing the alliance, if Putin can make a joke out of Article 5 — is the Russian leader’s way of enlarging the unsolvable problem of Ukraine.

And if NATO resolve is not found wanting?

I’m not sure I want to know, but I’m not the one throwing the dice on the banks of the Narva River.

Disturbing, no?

Lessee…

Posted on September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 by Mike 1 Comment

Aiight, just for the sheer hell of it, were gonna try something here.

InmanVid.mp4

Swiped from the esteemed (and usually estoned and esdrunked*) Boilerdoc, for purposes of gratuitous experimentation. Now to hit “Publish” and see if it actually works.

Update! Well, that’s nice and all, but not quite what I was aiming for. You can click on the “InmanVid” link to watch the vid, but I was hoping to embed the stupid thing. Oh well, I am NOT gonna spend the rest of my natural life fumble-fucking around with this shite.

* That’s one of my all-time favorite riffs from my dear departed friend Chris Pfouts

UNEXPECTED!©

Posted on September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Gee, who among us saw THIS one coming?

New Crime Stats: Children of Migrants More Likely to Be Criminals Than First Generation
I have been following Danish crime stats because Denmark is one of the few countries that track crime using key demographic variables such as race, religion, country of origin, and immigration status (and their descendants).

For years now, Danish crime statistics tell us what we already can intuit from the data we do have: migrants from Muslim countries commit crimes at a vastly higher rate than native-born Europeans, and the statistics indicate that the rates aren’t even close. They are especially represented in the sexual crime statistics, but in just about every category, the differences are remarkable.

But what most people who support mass migration might be surprised to learn is this: their male descendants are even more likely to commit crimes and are often more likely to be Islamist extremists than their parents. Again, the statistics show the differences aren’t even close.

Here are the basic facts: as first-generation Muslim immigrants have aged, their propensity to commit crimes has decreased somewhat, leading to a slight decline in first-generation crime statistics. They are now only about two times more likely to commit crimes as native-born Danes, which is still pretty bad.

More worrying is that their sons are even more likely to commit crimes than they were; the rate is three times as high, or even higher in some cases, and they are also more likely to see themselves as the natural replacements for a declining population in their adopted countries.

Indisputable confirmation of the essential truth underpinning the hoary old maxim: Invite the Third World, become the Third World.

1st Amendment abolished, freedom of speech canceled

Posted on September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Dick-tater gonna dick-tate, tyrant gonna tyrant.

Pearl Clutching
Trump excluded certain left leaning members of the MSM from the White House grounds. The left is losing their collective minds, claiming this to be an unprecedented assault on the First Amendment, and of course making comparisons to Hitler, their standard accusation. They have almost completely memory holed the fact that both Obama and Biden did the same thing.

In October 2009, amid a feud in which White House officials (including Communications Director Anita Dunn) publicly described Fox News as not a legitimate news organization but more like “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party” and said they would treat it “the way we would treat an opponent,” even while saying the network’s point of view was “ultimately destructive” to the nation, then ordered the Treasury Department to exclude a Fox journalist from a multi-network interview pool.

Obama’s administration was widely criticized by journalists (including from outlets not aligned with Fox) for tight control of information, fewer formal press conferences than many predecessors, restricted photographer access (favoring official White House images), delays or stonewalling on FOIA, and “blackballing” or limiting access for some critical reporters at agencies.

Obama’s efforts to plug leaks and persecute leakers even exceeded those of George W. Bush’s administration. The administration prosecuted Stephen Kim, a former State Department official, merely for discussing a classified report about North Korea with Fox News reporter James Rosen, even going so far as to seize Associated Press phone records for two months and used the FBI to conduct surveillance on James Rosen (naming him as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in one case) and New York Times reporter James Risen while trying to identify sources.

DM has much, much more yet.

Myself, I’m perfectly fine with treating The Enemy as if he was, y’know, The Enemy. Likewise, I’m also A-okay with ass-munching libtard ”journalists” bawling their eyes out nonstop, provided they’re being given beaucoup reason for it.

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The WINNAHS!

Posted on September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 by Mike 1 Comment

What could be finer than my two absolute favorite females together in the same X/Tweet?

Sophie Cunningham is confused at why people are mad at Sydney Sweeney for her revealing sports ad:

“Why are girls mad? That is literally what she does… Men, sports, naked women. Of course that’s gonna draw attention… Go do your thing sis.” pic.twitter.com/r8V4LYWsq4

— Hater Report (@HaterReport)

September 18, 2026

Excellent quote re Sophie: “Again, the WNBA enforcer opens her mouth and out pours the common sense and reason.” Annnnnd BINGO! Nailed it in one. Sophie girl is definitely prone to that sort of thing, bless her smokin’ hot self.

Update! One of the all-time great Sophie C moments. Not the clothesline, natch, but just take note of how many people it took to pull My Girl off of that cultural-appropriating fake-blonde cheater bitch.

It’s plain to see, from the first part of the vid, that Sophie C has NO problem at all with playing what you might call a physical game. No whiner, she, so don’t EVEN try to go there.

Updated update! ZOMG—I knew Sweet Sydney dug restoring and wrenching on classic cars, but after learning this…well, that’s it, I’m all in with this babe-a-licious doll.

In order to set Ford’s business up for long-term success, we set our sights on improving brand perceptions by women.

To de-stereotype Ford in the eyes of many, we needed to go beyond advertising. To do this, we partnered with a surprising Ford driver and mechanic, Sydney Sweeney. Together, we created an Auto 101 series to help people feel more confident doing auto basics on their cars, created an inclusive workwear line, and got people the world talking about women in auto.

Every asset that was made, was made to show a new side of Ford.

We tapped into Sydney’s knowledge and passionate fan base with an Auto 101 series where Sydney taught auto maintenance basics like how to check your oil and more.

To take Sydney’s love for cars even further, she helped us design a custom baby blue 2024 Mustang GT to give away to fans.

In addition to all her other fine qualities, she’s a fellow Ford fanatic as well? Okay, that’s it for me, I am now hopelessly smitten over here.

Great American Stories Vol 1

Posted on September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 by Mike 1 Comment

Been thinking lately of starting up a series spotlighting tales of legendary Americans from all and every era, and decided the first installment could only be about a YUGE favorite of mine back when I was but a young sprat: the amazing Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel.

Knievel started his career as a professional rider a bit late in life when he was 27 years old. He was the first daredevil biker to transform his stunts into a lucrative business and became a worldwide sensation in the 1960s/70s.

Robert Craig Knievel was born in the copper-mining town of Butte, Montana, on October 17, 1938. His parents broke up not long after he was born and the kid was raised by his grandparents. Knievel was a very energetic teenager, a standout athlete in track and field, sky-jumping, and ice hockey. Unfortunately, he used part of this energy to become a petty criminal.

His very first bike was a Harley-Davidson he stole when he was 13 years old. Three years later his grandmother bought him a Triumph.

One night Robert was caught by the cops for riding his bike recklessly (no shi…!) and was taken to the local precinct. There, the police were holding a guy named Knofel, whom they called “Awful Knofel“. To call Robert “Evil Knievel” was a no-brainer. The name stuck, and some years later, Mr. Knievel legally took the name Evel, changing the “i” to “e” because, he said, he thought it looked better.

His career as a petty criminal continued, He was once again caught by the police, at this time, stealing hubcaps. Hoping the military life could straighten him up, the judge decided to give Evel a chance, it would either be going to jail or joining the army. Knievel jumped into the green uniform in the 1950s, but a regular infantry job wouldn’t do it for him; he volunteered to be a paratrooper and performed more than 30 jumps during his tenure. Afterward, he played semiprofessional and professional hockey, for a time with the Charlotte Clippers of the Eastern Hockey League. Then he took up motorcycle racing full-time until falling and breaking bones in a race in 1962.

When he was 27, Knievel became co-owner of a motorcycle shop in Moses Lake, Wash. To attract customers, he announced he would jump his Honda 350cc, 40 feet over parked cars and a box of rattlesnakes, and continue past a mountain lion tethered at the other end. More than 1,000 people came to see him, His jump was almost perfect, but he failed to fly far enough; his bike came down on the rattlesnakes. The audience was in awe.

“Right then,” he said, “I knew I could draw a big crowd by jumping over weird stuff.”

Some guys in history were born to become legends and that might be the case with Evel Knievel, even if he turned out to be a controversial one. Some stories about his personal life are as extreme as his stunts. He said he had twice kidnapped his hometown sweetheart, Linda Bork, and married her after the second time. He said he had robbed a service station of $900 when the owner failed to pay off a $25 bet. He said he had worked as a card shark, a swindler, and a safecracker. How much of it is true or not remained unclear.

Evel started his career riding Honda, Norton, and Triumph but his favorite bike was Harley-Davidson. For an American hero through and through, there was no other brand that could fit the bill.

He chose the XR 750, a bike designed primarily for dirt track competition, but it could also perform well on paved tracks.

And the tale continues on from there, featuring some really great, seldom-seen photos of the legendary daredevil in action. The famous Caesars Palace smash-up—”by far my worst crash,” according to the man his own self—is covered in minute detail, including the backstory of what-all went into booking the event to begin with. Fascinating stuff, believe you me; the pics alone are well worth the price of admission.

Follows, the fabled Caesars Palace misadventure—the jump that made him a superstar, but which also damned near killed the guy.

Watching the crash as a 7 year old kid horrified me, the way his body rag-dolled limply, seemingly boneless, as he went bouncing along at the bottom of the ramp. A fractured skull, pelvis, hips, and ribs; a month-long spell in a coma, effectively dead to the world. God only knows what my mom must’ve thought about the whole thing.

There have been other motorcycle stunt-riders and jumpers over the years—including Evel’s own son Robbie, who died in ’23 of pancreatic cancer—but none of them quite like the one, the only, the original Evel Knievel.

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Is this real? Might it actually happen?

Posted on September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 by Mike 2 Comments

Not a chance. Once-Great Britain is an abject, unqualified, Mark 1-Mod 0 tyranny, and tyrannies have never been inclined to just let people go seceding like this.

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales leaders to meet tomorrow to plan breakup of UK: Report
The leaders of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales will meet on Monday to discuss plans for the breakup of the United Kingdom, according to The Telegraph.

First Ministers John Swinney of Scotland, Rhun ap Iowerth of Wales, and Michelle O’Neill of Northern Ireland are expected to sign a joint declaration demanding the right to hold referendums on breaking away from the UK. For the first time, the three constituent nations of the UK are held by pro-separation parties.

The Telegraph reported sources as saying that the summit’s purpose is to pile more pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham after he said in the parliament on Wednesday that he would back another Scottish independence referendum if public opinion backed one.

A source close to Swinney told the newspaper that Burnham “fucked up” by making the comment and unionists should be very worried.

In the UK, unionists are those who support the union of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales with England in UK, whereas parties like Sinn Féin (Northern Ireland), Scottish National Party (SNP), and Plaid Cymru (Wales) support the breakup of the UK.

The source further said: “Burnham has not read his brief and doesn’t seem to know the basics of the UK Government’s position on the Union. If I was a Unionist, I would be very worried.”

Actually, they aren’t, and there’s no real reason they should be. Vote all you like, whichever way you like; we already know too well how useful voting is as any kind of change agent all on its own, most especially in the UK—you can make a statement via voting, and that’s about it. Even in more or less honest “elections,” voting is merely a gesture, and that’s pretty much all it is.

If/when King Charles tells his restive subjects “not just no, but HELL no!” in response, then calls out whatever troops he has left to back him up, the “breakaway nations” will fold like a cheap accordion, and all the big talk about separating legally and politically from the UK will tiptoe quietly away, on little cat feet (as Sandberg said of the fog). Y’know, just like Brexit did.

Final nail for the F35 Turducken?

Posted on September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 by Mike Leave a comment

Who knows, why the hell not. In my estimation, given what I know of the history of such things: it’s more likely than not. The fact that somebody is already talking to the Enemedia about it is a tell.

Lockheed hopes to sell a new F-16 to U.S. Air Force
Lockheed Martin is pitching the U.S. Air Force on a new version of the F-16 fighter, designated the F-16G, as a way to replace aging Fighting Falcons faster than the F-35 production line can keep up.

Multiple people familiar with the aircraft told Aviation Week that the F-16G builds on the current Block 70 F-16, Lockheed’s newest production version, and would add conformal fuel tanks, 600-gallon wing tanks, an infrared search and track pod, a Sniper targeting pod and a drag chute. Those additions would extend the jet’s range and give it added sensor capability compared with earlier F-16 models still flying in Air Force squadrons.

The idea of buying new F-16s to fill out the fighter fleet is not new. Then-Air Force Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Will Roper raised the option back in 2021, pointing to the active F-16 production line in Greenville, South Carolina, as a way to add capacity while the F-35 program worked through its own delivery pace. Lockheed builds F-16s and F-35s at separate facilities, but the F-35’s more complex production process has left the Air Force short of new airframes to replace F-16s reaching the end of their service lives.

As I’ve been saying for many years, we shoulda built more of the F22 Raptor rather than shitcanning it prematurely for the Turducken boondoggle. And no, I’m NOT just saying that because a good old blog-bud of mine, the redoubtable Paul a/k/a Capitalist Lion, worked on the F22 project for a good few years.

Also in my estimation, so take that for whatever it may be worth, the ’16 is just about the prettiest friggin jet fighter ever built, by anybody. Certainly, the Fighting Falcon has always been one of the most capable, eminently qualified to hold its head up proudly in the company of such legendary icons of US military aviation as the venerable Grumman Tomcat, the Strike Eagle, and the Super Hornet, really. Here’s a pretty typical pic of one of those beautiful, beautiful Fighting Falcons all dirtied up for landing.

*Le sigh* What an airplane, no? With that big ol’ air scoop under the fuselage and the bubble canopy, I can’t help but be reminded a little bit of my all-time favorite: the likewise gorgeous, likewise eminently capable, likewise lethal P51D Mustang. Hey, don’t hate me ‘cause I’m beautiful, aiight?

(Via Stephen Green)

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