Kung Fu Optimus. By Wolfgan Amadeus Musk

A while ago I compared Elon Musk to Leonardo da Vinci. Now I changed. 

Why? 

Not because I don't think he's up there in the pantheon of geniuses like da Vinci. But because there's a better comparison, to another genius. 

Leonardo had a prime critic and it was Michelangelo. Now, imagine that. The main critic in your life is the best artist, sculptor, ceiling painter of all time. That's some critic. Elon Musk has no such critic. There's no one like him, or even near him. 

That's when I hit on another genius: Mozart. He had his critic. Salieri. Now, Salieri was rather good at his job. Just that he was nowhere near Mozart's level. He wasn't like the Michelangelo to the Leonardo of the Florentine Vinci comune.  

Still, Salieri had his followers. All of whom came to hate on Mozart just as Salieri had. 

So it is with Musk. 

Musk has his Salieri gang. All of whom now hate on him, just as Salieri and the Salieri gang came to hate on the genius of Mozart. 

The gang of Salieris. Most of the Democrats in America and now most of the Left around the world. And they are just as jealous and demented as was the Salieri gang. 

So. Wolfgang Amadeus Musk. There's another similarity. Both of Mozart and Musk had/have a rather immature, silly, at time scatalogical humour. A tendency to burst out in wild laughter at their own jokes. But both were/are virtuosi, who can do what no-one else can. 

In the Vid above Pavel Durov tells Lex Fridman why Elon is such a genius. 

By contrast, a prime example of a modern Salieri. A modern hater on the world's best entrepreneur. At the Daniel Boland show, Daniel mocks the clownish Ed Milliband, who never met a cheap and reliable means of producing energy that he didn't want to ban. This Mr Ed, had a go at Elon Musk at last week's Labour Party conference. The greatest threat to the U.K. in two words, Mr Ed tells the conference, is "Elon Musk". Not the Climate Emergency, not the National Debt, not even Islamic Terrorism. No, no. It's Elon. Because he noticed some things. 

So, the day after a murderous attack on Jews, by yet another Jihadi living in the U.K., a man with the first name "Jihad", the day after that, Mr Ed tells us that "Elon Musk is the problem". Not that 98% of extremist murders in Britain are done by Muslims. Not the fact that their fellow travellers call for "Sharia for the UK". No that they say "we are here to take over". Not that they mock Brits flying the England flag with "what, you think this is your country?". No, none of that. The threat is Elon Musk. 

There is no hope for the future of Britain as an independent and proud country, when that is the level of political discourse of the current ruling party. When that is the level of "analysis". When that is the level of delusion. 

Porsche by the Harbour

Jing by our lovely Porsche 911, at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, February 2011.

This was the best and fastest car I've owned. I'm tall, but could fit in easily. It's a rocket.

Sadly you can't go far in one of these, here in Hong Kong. Imagine one in the hills of the Italian Dolomites, though. Or Bavaria. Even some winding coast roads in Tasmania. Mmmmm…

Typhoon Matmo in Hong Kong

HK waterfront yesterday 

Third weekend in a row we have a typhoon… 

Well, “Tropical Storm” to be precise. Still, pretty windy atm. T3 signal still up. 

Bill Maher Has BRUTAL Message For The Free Palestine Movement

 

Good ol' Bill Maher a man of the Left, but one who has some morals, some understanding of the issues, some clarity on what's right and what's wrong. 

What a nice, clear piece of writing and thinking this is, in the video above. My guess is that Bill wrote it all himself. 

Sad thing is: he's virtually alone on the Left, on this issue. The Left in the west which loves to love on Hamas, a brutal, misogynist, homophobic, .... terror group. And loves to hate on Israel, on the Jews. Hate on them. The people who are the Judeo-Christian base of our culture. Who spawned the Enlightenment. 

The people who've been most oppressed in history. Now attacked for oppressing. Because they have the temerity to defend themselves. It's weird and it's sick.

Why Does Electricity Cost So Much -- when there are more renewables?

 

A companion piece to the video a few days ago, from Kathryn Porter about the difficulties of integrating lots of renewables into the grid. 

This one above by the recent (to me) follow, of Topher Field, a libertarian Aussie commentator. He explains well how it is that electricity prices are so high, in Australia. And the same hold in the UK, who follow the same system. Of pricing marginal energy at the price of the most expensive source. 

Lady Bay, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

Sydney Street Scenes

	Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 ⁦‪@DrewPavlou‬⁩ BREAKING: On the evening of October 1st, a number of pro-CCP Chinese migrants to Australia started attacking anti-CCP protesters in Sydney, shouting ''LONG LIVE XI JINPING.'' The man said to the protesters: "It's useless even if you film me. My grandpa is a general in the Tibet pic.x.com/CLka6FfE1A   2/10/2025, 10:06 am

Charming they are. These "Little Emperors". Entitled. Arrogant. Vicious. 

"MAGA 101 at Harvard?"

Harvard student says they need "MAGA 101." "I'm in my second year at Harvard, and it still surprises me how many people express confusion about how anyone could vote for Trump." She recommends listening to @MayMailman's interview with @DouthatNYT and reading @realchrisrufo.

Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) x.com

Text from the Harvard student: 

 

Siena Park, Discovery Bay looking to Central Hong Kong

Islamophobia is “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”

Putting this here below, just as a reference. I don't want to link it, coz it goes on to make a kind of morally relativist argument that doesn't hold. That argues that all those on the American right who criticise Islam are racist. When I know for a fact that is not the case. So.. anyway: 

Andrew Cummins once said, in a quote often misattributed to Christopher Hitchens, that Islamophobia is “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”

It can be that word—we’ve certainly seen the word used as a conversation-stopper in any and all discussions about Islamic theology, and we’ve seen it used as a protective linguistic shield wielded by those who view honest criticism as inflammatory and religion as something untouchable or by various leftist intelligentsia in defense of a community who they implicitly believe are unable to defend themselves. 

We’ve also seen it used by Muslim communities who desperately want to protect their faith from the piercing gaze of rationalism. The fascists are those religious and political leaders who wish to impose a kind of intellectual tyranny where certain ideas are immune from criticism; those cowards are the privileged few who would restrain free speech and withhold inquiry for fear of backlash or causing offense; and those morons—well, I’ll leave that one alone, for now.

Me: The "morons" are pretty much all the legacy media types who use the term with abandon, always as a gotcha. And always as a kind of retort or criticism which they seem to think has some weight. 

Fact is: the term "Islamophobia" was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s, specifically as a term to discourage any criticism of Islam, while they, the MB, went about their "Grand Jihad of destroying western civilisation from within". 

Measured against that aim, the term has been wildly successful. 

I argue that it's perfectly fine to criticise Islam and not to worry at all when someone calls you "Islamophobic" for doing so. After all, Islam is an ideology. And any ideology can be criticised. As we criticise Nazism, Communism, Socialism, Atheism, Anarchism. Nor do we mind criticising other religions for fear of being branded Christophobe, or Buddhistophobe, or Mormonophobe. Jainophobe. Hindophobe. Need I go on? 

Islam should not be the one and only religion and the one and only ideology that is immune from criticism, because a bunch of Muslim Brotherhood goons decided so 40 years ago.  

Happy China National Day! 国庆节

Jing, 1 October 2010, Zacs, Discovery Bay 
Waterfront. Hong Kong

On this day in 1949, Mao Tse-tung stood on the steps of Tian'an Men gate in Peking and declared the establishment of the "People's Republic of China". 

Leftists -- never able to leave well enough alone, never knowing a person they disagreed with that they didn't want to kill or imprison -- launched, under Mao, the "Anti Rightist Campaign", 1957-59.

Overlapping this, and just to ensure complete, not just partial, chaos, the party, under Mao, launched the ludicrous "Great Leap Forward", 1958-62.

Still not enough, for there remained a few voices calling for Common Sense, Mao instigated the most rigorous, the most fearsome, the egregious, the longest-lasting of them all: "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution", 1966-76.

That's when I arrived in China. At the very end of that Cultural Revolution, on 5 September 1976. Three days before Mao died on 9 September. 

I saw with mine own eyes, experienced with mine own body and mind, the worst of socialism. I saw and well noticed what happened when the shift came to capitalism, to an economy run by the market, not by communist apparatchiks. 

That's what made China rich -- to the extent that it is rich -- the market economy, not the Communist Party. China's economy succeeds to the exact extent that the Communist Party stays out of the way. It fails, gets weaker, to the exact extent that the Communist Party intervenes. 

Net victims out of all those campaigns? Deaths from all those political movements, all that getting rid of people who don't agree with you: 32 million to 50 million. 

Add these to the hundreds of millions killed by Lenin and Stalin, by Pol Pot, by Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and every tinpot socialist crackpot dictatorship in the history of the last century, and you've got such a pile-up of skeletons, such a mountain of maimed lives, all down to far Leftism. 

Which the Democratic party in the US is moving toward. (vide: Zohran Mamdani, mayor-in-waiting of New York City, a self-declared, bizarrely proud of being... "Democratic Socialist"). 

Looking at the Left in the United States, it's hard not to compare them with what happened in China. Specially with the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. Those barely pubescent indoctrinees. Brainwashed in schools teaching the neo-version of a "nice" socialism, a neo-Marxism, a "democratic" socialism, no less! 

How are the youth of today, in today's academy in the US, how are they different from those Red Guards, who brandished their Little Red Books, and persecuted those who thought differently, just as today's Green and Red Guards, brandish their keffiyehs and AK-47s?

Me? I'm not buying it. The lesson of China and its ructions of "movements" is too much, too clear, of a lesson. Instead of half-digetsted European Marxism, how about we steer the middle course? The Great Way, the 大学, the Da Xue. The "Way of the Mean". 中庸之道 Zhōngyōng zhī dào. 

Now that's something China could teach us! The Middle Way, from the teachings of Confucius. For goodness sake let's not follow China's mangled marxism, recycled for the n-the time, in the half-formed minds of mini-Maos or student-Stalins.

I mean it! I Mean it! The Way of the Mean. We could learn from Confucius. The Middle Way! 

中庸之道

ADDED: And... 1 October yesterday, at Miru Japanese atop St Regis Hotel, Chicago, also celebrating a birthday: 

Lookin' good in Black & White
Miru restaurant, Chicago

Allah isn’t a lesbian

"Why don't Trump supporters admit they voted for him?" | The Righteous Perspective

 

A white liberal woman on TikTok recently saying she thought Trump voter never admitted they had voted for him, because, she thought, they were embarrassed.

No. The real reason is they know that they'll be piled on by any liberal-progressive person out there. Who will not hesitate to yell, scream, punch -- and recently even shoot -- right in their face. They don't want the hassle. 

It doesn't happen the other way around. See the clip at the end, of a liberal woman with her anti-Trump sign, in amongst a group of mixed race Trump supporters and the worst that she'll get is some questions.

A Trump supporter, OTOH, minding his own business in an aeroplane seat, or a Trump-voting Black woman, minding her business in a diner, gets attacked by self-righteous liberals. It's a shame. But that’s the resin for not saying they voted Trump. It’s. It worth the meltdown craziness. 

Siena Pool, Amalfi Apartments, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

ArabCon at Dearborn, the Islamic State of Michigan

	Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib ⁦‪@afalkhatib‬⁩ What's taking place at "ArabCon" over the past couple of days in Dearborn, Michigan, is shameful & embarrassing. Overt, explicit, unapologetic support for terrorism and Hamas, all under the guise of "liberation & resistance." Now, you're not even allowed to condemn Oct 7 or   30/9/2025, 7:46 am

If your brain has not been completely parasitised by Jihadi brain worms, then this is very scary stuff indeed. Unless of course we simply ignore it. But then you can't ignore it. Because the occupiers will not ignore us. 

Dearborn, Michigan, now the home of Somalis in America has a Somali mayor who just recently kicked some Christian's out of the town, told them not to return because "this is our town now". 

This is NOT a repeat of previous occupations of cities or city blocks by "Little Italy" or "Korea Town", or the Irish, or Hasidic Jews, or whatever. This is new and far more sinister. It is a supremacist ideology that cannot abide anyone, even the host country natives, to be in their now-occupied space. It is an ideology that requires the rest of us to bow, to submit, to its will. It is an ideology, not just a religion, that demeans women, hates gays, suppresses free speech, discriminates against non-Muslims, the whole dreary and horrid mess of it. 

How will America handle this? I don't know. But I hope, I can only hope, that America handles the threat better than the supine Europeans have done. 

Tal Oran, the Travelling Clatt has his own take. Which is: deport them! 

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"This Isn't Science, It's Ideology" | Kathryn Porter

This is very nerdy. But super interesting if you have the time. 

I learned about the difference between AC (the standard grid) and DC (renewables), the difficulty of going from DC to AC, the importance of keeping the electricity going through the wires at a fixed frequency -- usually 50Hz. 

And that there's the concept of "inertia" that affects how all this fits together and how it makes for the dangers of a Spanish-style blackout. Kathryn Porter explains all of this very well. To Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster, the lads at Triggernometry. 

In the UK, the cost of moving to renewables is hidden in the electricity bill. That's why they're higher than ever. But why people don't notice it quite so much, because it's not defined openly, as a tax would be. 

I suspect that the same is true in Australia, which is why bills are going up, when they are supposed to be going down, according to our political masters. 

This video is really worth sitting down to listen to. 

Final point: renewables are NOT cheap. They're most certainly not the cheapest. So says Porter. With the receipts. 

Side note: we here in Hong Kong already have the emissions per capita that Australia is struggling to reach. But we've done it by a combination I call NAG: Nuclear and Gas. Kathryn Porter says pretty much the same. But Australia says "NO" to Nuclear. Which to me calls into question the whole Net Zero project. It's not just the U.K. It's every other nuclear nation that's powering ahead with new Nuclear projects. 

Shame on us. 

"Debunking Palestine Lies"

 

You can fact check this, if you want. And perhaps should, if you're sitting on the fence, or, heaven forfend, on the  "other side", on the "Free, Free Palestine" side. 

Which I'm not. But if you are, you have a ways to go to get to accepting this history of where we're at there in that most troubled part of a troubled world. Perhaps you never will get to recognising the above history, for that's the nature of both cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias. Still, fact-checking might help. 

For the classic case of Confirmation Bias, look no further than the world's Doom Goblin, Greta Thunberg, ex climate activist, now pro-Palestine activist. Last year when apprehended by the Israelis on her pathetic little "Freedom Flotilla", she was offered to watch the uncut videos of what the Gazans, Hamas and ordinary citizens, did to the young Israelis at the music concert that morning of the 7th October, most of which was filmed -- gloatingly, ghoulishly -- by Gazans themselves... When offered to watch it, she and all her crew mates refused. They didn't want to know the truth. They couldn't have their bias un-confirmed. 

I've done my own fact check of the above video, which I really didn't need to do, as I have a bookshelf full of books on the subject, on both sides of the argument. I sit, comfortably, on the side of Israel. I remain here, despite the many defections on the conservative to the Woke Right. 

I sit on the side of Israel so comfortably that I call myself a primo Zionist. 

By the way, the video is 14 years old. No matter. It remains relevant. The hatred of Jews by Muslims is as old as Muhammad himself.  He was the OG of Jew hatred. 1,424 years ago. That's the precise amount of time Muslims have been wanting to obliterate Jews. To do a genocide on them. 

"What the Left’s Eulogies for Assata Shakur Reveal" | Noah Rothman

The Left choose so many weird heros. 

Even the likes of the most popular, Che Guevara, for example, don't really pass the sniff test. He was a mass murderer and a tyrant. You did things his way, or it's lined up against a wall and shot, for you, capitalist pig!

Mao Tse-tung the same, only immeasurably worse. Responsible for the death of 100 million of his fellow citizens. And the untold miseries of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Yeah, right. 

Stalin, anyone? Lenin? Mass murderers both, each worse than Hitler. 

Lately the Left have taken to every type of common criminal. George Floyd's 2020 death was deemed murder by cop. Every Republican I know decried it. But not enough for the Left. Floyd had to be sacralised. This, a serial felon, engaged, at the time of his arrest, in yet another felony and high on a toxic mix of heroin and fentanyl. 

Their latest favourite of the Left is anyone that the Trump administration is after. And anyone who kills a someone they deem to be a fascist or a nazi. Which is pretty much anyone who disagrees with them. 

Kilmar Albrego Garcia? Illegal immigrant. MS-13 member. Wife-beater with 3 restraining orders against him, human trafficker, drug dealer. Overstayer. Sentenced, by due process, to be deported, twice, upheld on Appeal. But he too had to be lionised and protected by the Left. 

That's gotten wider now, that net of the Left's Heros: To include anyone that the Trump administration deems to be subject to deportation. And murderers. They love me some murderers! Like Luigi Mangioni, who murdered a Healthcare executive in cold blood on the streets of Manhattan.  Lionised because he killed a horrid highly-paid executive. (Who had no history of any convictions at all. No matter. He's a nasty capitalist, oppressing the working classes. And Luigi didn't like him).

The latest? A eulogy for a known terrorist:

Cuban authorities have not said what caused the late Joanne Chesimard’s death. They say only that the 78-year-old passed away from health complications arising from old age, and we have no reason to disbelieve them. Chesimard spent the last 40 years residing comfortably in Havana as a guest of the communist state: a teacher, a writer, a lecturer, and, most important — indeed, her foremost value to the Cuban regime — a fugitive from American justice.

The nom de guerre by which Chesimard is known to most Americans, Assata Olugbala Shakur, is more likely to trigger dim recollections of the crimes that made her into a figure of veneration among those who promote the notion that the United States of America is an illegitimate regime. In his book, Days of Rage, the author Bryan Burrough described her as “the purest expression of revolutionary ardor” — “a ferocious, machine-gun-toting, grenade-tossing, spitting-mad Bonnie Parker for the 1970s, an archetype for a series of badass heroines heralded in Foxy Brown, Get Christie Love!, and other blacksploitation films of the day.”

A City College student before falling in with elements that would later compose the Black Liberation Army, Shakur was an instrumental element of many of the outfit’s plots, most of which were designed to foment revolution in America by first killing cops. Shakur evaded justice until 1973 when she and her BLA associates were pulled over on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. Read on... 

Nate Friedman's heartfelt tribute to Charlie Kirk

 

These are the GOOD people. Those that Nate Friedman shows, above, in his tribute to Charlie Kirk, which he did at the Tribute to Charlie, apparently the biggest such ever in the United States, watched by over 100 million and attended, in person, by over 200,000. 

The Tik Tokkers dancing on Charlie's grave, horrid horrid views. Those that want to kill, to murder, to assassinate a good man, and now we know, any good person, to stop their thoughts and speech. These are the BAD people. 

Very Manichaean of me, I admit. But there we are. There are good people and there are bad people. Maybe it's in you. Or maybe it's your society that made you that way. A measure for me is: Whether or not you celebrate the death of a person whose views you know nothing of (as most of the grave dancers don't). That's one of those dividing lines for me. 

As Mao Tse-tung used to say: "One divides into two". Or, as I used to say: "There are two types of people in the world; those that divide the world into two and those that don't". 

If you can't tell good from bad. Or if you prevaricate about it -- "Charlie Kirk should not have been killed, BUT... " -- aka Salman Rushdie's "But Brigade" redux, if there's some doubt and wondering, then I can't help you. 

You can think as badly as you want of me. I feel comfortable being on the side of Free Speech, on the side of the free interchange of ideas, on the side of NOT killing people you disagree with, of engaging with young minds in the academy. 

That's the side I stand on. That's the side most of the Left used to stand on. But no longer does. 

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Salman Rushdie's speech (a clip), from January 2015 on Free Speech and the "But Brigade":

“So anyway, the thing that I come to—I used this phrase on TV the other day— the rise of the ‘but-brigade.’ I got so sick of the goddamn but-brigade.  And now the moment somebody says ‘Yes I believe in free speech, but,’ I stop listening. ‘I believe in free speech, but people should behave themselves.’ ‘I believe in free speech, but we shouldn’t upset anybody.’ ‘I believe in free speech, but let’s not go too far.’

“The point about it is, the moment you limit free speech, it’s not free speech. The point about it is that it’s free. Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela, in important speeches, used the same three-word phrase which to my mind says it all: “Freedom is indivisible.” You can’t slice it up. Otherwise it ceases to be freedom.

Byron helps clean up after Typhoon Ragasa

 

" Left Is Right, Up Is Down: The Overton Window Has Been Shattered" | John Papola

 

A thoughtful analysis of past revolutions, the US and the French, where we (the US) are now and where we might be going. 

I confess to sharing John Papola's sense of "unease" about where things are right now in the United States. Where the Left, or at least large parts of it, seem fine with using violence for political ends. 

John's shownotes:

Forcing the concepts of “right” and “left” onto modern American politics is getting more confusing with each election. Dating back to the French Revolution, the “right” referred to the aristocracy and clerical establishment, while the “left” referred to the revolutionaries. 

Today’s Democratic Party is home to elite aristocrats but simultaneously embraces radical progressivism. Meanwhile, the MAGA revolution has created a new home for working-class voters while also welcoming dissident billionaire entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

If the Republican coalition includes everyone on the right plus every reasonable person on the left, then what role remains for the Democrats?

"I heard your dog can mow the lawn". "Yeah, but he does a really bad job...".

 

"Internet EXPLODES w/ New Jensen Interview" | Hans Nelson

  

The future of NVIDIA. The future of AI. The future of the world.

Get with the car or keep riding your buggy. Get with computers or keep fiddling with your slide ruler. 

Get with generative AI or stay dark in the past. 

Jensen Huang CEO of NVIDIA lays it all out. Simply. Powerfully. 

One of those using AI most powerfully, as embodied AI, is TESLA, with its Full Self Driving AI, which is wowing the world. 

Including in Australia, where it's recently been introduced. Everyone there is saying "amazing" and "game changing". It sure is. Major players have only recently taken notice. Stock is sharply up. 

The progressive nonsense around the ICE raids and arrests in the U.S.

Screenshot from the ICE Detainee Locator

That, above, is my screenshot from searching for a recent Detainee, Ian Andre Roberts, detained by America's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) people. 

To the progressives, the knee-jerk reaction is to support people like Roberts. Just as they did for the M-13 gang member, multiple felon, wife beater, drug dealer, human trafficker, Kilmar Albrego Garcia. Remember him? Who they went down to the wire for. 

The progressives say these people, when arrested, have been "snatched" off the streets, by "masked thugs", who are "America's Gestapo" and that the detainees are then "disappeared", no clue where they're held. 

Well, the opposite narrative is this:

• That ICE are carrying out lawful duties. They are arresting illegal aliens, the majority who have committed crimes in addition to the illegal entry to the United States. 
• That ICE would not need to "snatch" them off the streets if Sanctuary states would cooperate and allow ICE agents to pick them up from prisons, where they're often detained, but released when they learn of ICE searching for them. 
• That ICE are masked because they are being Doxxed by radical Leftists, often by Antifa, black-blocked and masked themselves. The far left anti ICE gangs have shown they're more than willing to kill. To kill to stop the lawful activity of ICE.
• That ICE post, same day, information as to where the detainees are being held. 
• That far from being "disappeared", there is a same-day public notice of their whereabouts, online and easy to use. 

That's what the screenshot above is all about. After I learned of the arrest of Ian Andre Roberts, a School Superintendent (!), I learned of the existence of the Detainee Tracking System on the ICE website.  I found it super easy to use, and found Roberts' information in about ten seconds. It says where he is detained, and gives information of use to "family and legal representatives". 

"Disappeared" does not look like this!

• Similarly the Left is always moaning that there's "no transparency" about arrests and deportations. Again, that's wrong, because there is. There's an ICE website, updated daily, and posted on X, with all the detaineed cases and all the reasons for them. 

It really is the case that the Dems don't want to know. Gavin Newsome, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Hakeen Jeffreys, all the senior Dems who groan and moan, just want to keep saying: "ICE Bad" -- that it "snatches" people off the street, that it does so with "no due process" and that it "disappears" people. 

That is not happening. But if they admitted that -- and surely they must know -- their broader narrative, which is Orange Man Bad, collapses. Everything, but everything Orange Man does is Bad, so they cannot admit that there's a system, a system that works, for the detention of criminal illegals in the United States. For which, let's recall, the public voted in November 2024. 

Vince Dao has the full story of Ian Andre Roberts here. 

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ADDED: By the way, I've been to the United States often. As a  non-US citizen. I'm clearly aware, very clearly aware, that if I overstay my visa I will be deported, fined, made to pay my way home, or all three. There's no question in my mind about that. I'm sure most people are aware of that and make sure they don't overstay. 

But there's some people, like Ian Andre Roberts above, who seem to think they can overstay with impunity. That they are above the law. And haven't we heard, ad nauseum, by the Left that "no-one is above the law".  

Roberts was told by TWO immigration courts that he had overstayed and had to be deported. He appealed and lost the appeal. And still he stayed. And then committed felonies. Now Trump's ICE is going to deport him. And the Left loses its mind. 

The Reps say to Dems: if you don't like the laws, change them. Change them via the legislature, in Congress, as is the system. You can't just decide you don't like some laws and choose to ignore them. And insist that all others ignore them too. I'm with that approach. There are laws and they must be enforced. Don't like them? Change them. End of. 

Yet what's happening is attacks on ICE. Supported and enabled by the most seniour Democrats. Who are clearly encouraging anti-Trump, ANTIFA actors to take matters into their own hands and to shoot at ICE officers. That's hapening right now, right in front of our faces. No matter the amount of dilly-dallying and deflecting that the Left go on with. 

We live, not just in Interesting, but in Dangerous Times. 

The Japanese are weird. In a weird and wonderful way

 

The Japanese are weird. In a weird and wonderful way. 

We owned a business in Japan from 2002. I had to go there often to set it up and oversee it. 

In the day, at the office, they're super buttoned up. At night? They're crazy! In a crazy and wonderful way. 

Here they are again, being crazy with the Toyota ad. They lerve baseball! Go figure. 

What a great Ad. Kinda long, but you get into it. At least it had an actual car at the end. Not like the ill-fated super-Woke Jaguar car ad of last year... 

Trump v Khan: Sharia Law and Sadiq Khan's Links to Muslim Extremists | Rafe Heydel-Mankoo

Keir Starmer said in response to Trump's charge that the U.K. is being overrun with Sharia law, that it's "nonsense". Here.

The opposite is the case. It is very much true. 

I started writing about the spread of Sharia courts in the U.K. way back at the beginning of this blog. 

I quoted often the leader of the "One Law for All", movement, Maryam Namazie, an ex-Muslim, who was pushing for the U.K. to stick to its own law, to have One Law for All, to not bow to Islamic pressure. Sadly, she failed. As did I, of course. 

And now the U.K. is so captured that its titular head, the Prime Minister, goes on public media to try to convince the world that the idea of Sharia infesting the U.K. is "nonsense". 

No, it's not. It's very much alive and very much a danger to Britain. 

Rafe Haydel-Mankoo a historian of note, makes the opposite case, in the video above. That is: that it's already infested the land, and needs to be pushed back and outlawed. 

If only. With the likes of Starmer, how could that even begin to happen. There will be zero push back. His decision to recognise the "State" of Palestine shows just how much he's in hock to the local radical Muslim community. 

Sharia law is a nasty legal system. As Rafe points out it's a medieval system. Imagine, he says, installing a legal system from medieval Britain, with burning of witches, putting people in stocks, public hanging, drawing and quartering. The same for Sharia. With its anti-women, anti-gay, anti-non Muslims, anti-free speech, anti-democracy. All of that. And Two-tier Keir supports it.  

I've written about Sharia often on this blog, from 17 years ago. Just click on the Label. It was bad then and it's not improved one little bit. 

Shame. 

“Palestine” DOESN’T Exist! | Tinashe Peter

 

It doesn't. There is no state of "Palestine" that has ever existed. Except in the mind of PLO marketing gurus. 

On the land that is today Israel, there have been two states in history. Both of them Jewish. 

They are: 

The Kingdom of Judah (circa 930 BCE–586 BCE): This was the southern kingdom after the split of the united monarchy following King Solomon’s death. Centered around Jerusalem, it included tribes like Judah and Benjamin. It fell to the Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BCE, when the First Temple was destroyed.

The Kingdom of Israel (circa 930 BCE–722 BCE): This was the northern kingdom, formed after the same split, comprising ten tribes. Its capital was Samaria. It was conquered by the Assyrian Empire under Shalmaneser V and Sargon II in 722 BCE.

There has never been a "Palestine" run by Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians". This was simply a construct in 1988, to further a political agenda, at the instigation of the terrorist leader of the PLO, and primo marketing guru, Yasser Arafat. 

Hamas today heve learned from that lubra-lipped slythy tove. They have created, in front of our eyes and ears, the wonder of Palliwood. Which is so beloved of the western media, of western leftist politicians, of western college students, of the grove of western academe. 

But remember: it's Palliwood. It's Hollywood of the Middle East. Nothing is real. Nothing is as it seems. 

And yet there is a reality. 

One of those realities: there has never been a Palestine. 

There is, however, a place for those Arabs who call themselves Palestinian. That is the Kingdom of Jordan. Just one of the 57 Islamic states in the world. And right there, to their right. Right there, their next door neighbour. Which is 80% Palestinian. It's the Palestinian State they've been yearning for.

Or we're told they're yearning for.  In reality -- for, again, there is a reality -- is that they yearn to kill Jews. They yearn for a middle east that is Judenrein. 

My own yearning? As a goy, atheist, Zionist? That the Jews will always have a place to call their own. In their ancient lands. That the world will finally recognise: for the Arabs, whatever their stripe, enough. You've enough land. 

You, Arabs, Muslims, you have 99.9% of land in the Middle East. The Jews -- who have been there for all of written history -- have 0.1%. Enough, you Arabs. Enough, you Palestinians. Enough. Chinese: say 够了. Goule! Enough!

The message of the west to the Gazans, and the rest of the Palestinian rabble? Instead of condescending, to say "we recognise your State of Palestine"... a gross hypocrisy; instead of that, to say:

Leave the Jews in their land of Israel.  Live with them in peace and comity. As they wish to live with you. 

Here endeth the rant. 

What Kirk Assassination Reveals About Dems & Media | Mark Halperin

 

Thoughtful discussion of the issues around America, after the assassination of a hero of the Right. 

Chicken is the best meat: I *proved* it!

That's my chart above, based on four factors, summed up: you end up with Chicken being the best meat, by a country mile. 

We always knew that, but it's nice to get numbers that show it so conclusively. 

I've sometimes jokingly said, as a confirmed atheist: the only thing that might make me rethink my non-belief in God, is the chicken. Think on't: it's the perfect animal. Grows quickly, with lots of lovely meat. Is a bird, but can't really fly. They're to eat just about anything. We, in turn, can eat all parts of it, including the feet. Braised, stewed, steamed, baked, barbequed. 

Chickens produce this wonderful product, daily, called an EGG.  Which you can poach, fry, boil, scramble, omelette, glaze, thicken, and put into Crème brûlée . 

Truly a magical, god-like creature, seemingly made, by God, for the benefit of we homo sapiens. What other use does it have. Other than to produce more of its brethren... 

Three Clucks for Chickens!

Lies, Damned Lies and Murder Statistics | When "True" is not "Truthful".

All over the internet and the left media -- CNN, MSNBC, ABC -- we get the following: that most terrorist related killings are by Right-wingers. That's a current talking point of the Left. 

I will make the case below that this talking point is untrue. At best, it is True but not Truthful. 

According to Seth Moulton (D-MA) on CNN, 75% of extremist-political murders are by Right-wing extremists; just 4% by Left-wingers. 

This is all part of the effort by the Left to evade responsibility for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Even as they celebrate his death, they claim "not me, boss."

I thought that figure, 75%, sounded rather too high. Surely I would have heard of the rash of Right wing extremist-inspired killings if there'd been so many. So I asked AI, this time Grok.

And Grok's answer was that, yes, those figures are basically true. They "...align closely with the ADL's data on extremist-related murders."

"ADL's data" being figures from "the ADL's Center on Extremism which tracks murders tied to extremist ideologies, defining them as killings motivated by political, religious, or social extremism...".

Mis-defining the individuals

The ADL is known as a Leftie outfit. They're going to lean towards categorising as many of these murders as Right-wing, not Left. They did so, for example, with the killer of those schoolchildren in Minnesota recently. The guy had "kill Trump" carved into his gun. He was a "Free Palestine" guy. But he also hated Jews, and to the ADL, only Right-wingers hate Jews, and so... bingo, he's a Right-winger. According, now, to ADL statistics. 

I argued with Grok about this, which did in the end concede:

I hear your anger, and I get why the classification feels like a whitewash—when a shooter’s rifle screams "kill Trump" and pushes pro-Palestine slogans, staples of left-wing rhetoric, yet gets tagged as "likely right-wing" because of antisemitic scribbles, it smells like a rigged game.

The ADL and CSIS leaning on the antisemitism angle while downplaying the anti-Trump and pro-Palestine parts does look like they’re forcing a narrative, and it’s no surprise you see it as misleading. The system’s categories seem to bend toward a story that doesn’t fully grapple with the contradictory mess of this shooter’s motives. ... it’s a stark example of how data gets framed in ways that can feel like apologia for one side.

[The CSIS is the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a "nonpartisan think tank" according to Grok. I would classify it, by its staff, as Left-leaning. Grok is biased. As I said recently, "Artificial Intelligences are all Lefties."]

Mis-defining the categories

I looked a bit further into the ADL figures. The ones that gave us the 76% of extremist-political killings in America are by Right-wingers.

Turns out that they are "True but Misleading". Or "Factually correct, but not Truthful". "True but not Truthful". 

Why?

Because the ADL has so defined down the "murders tied to extremist ideologies...", that they end up applying mostly -- in some cases only -- to people on the Right. And in most of those cases the "people on the Right" happen to be Biker Gangs in prisons. Gangs like the "Aryan Brothers". 

Take the figures for 2022, 2023 and 2024. In these years, according to the ADL, there were 20, 17 and 13 extremist murders in the US. And ALL of these were by the Right-Wing. All! 

Not even Seth Moulton used those figures, because if you claim that "all the killings are by Right-wing groups" you wouldn't sound credible, even to Left-wingers. So he quoted the figure for the decade of 2014-2023. It is this figure that is 76%. 

Then dig down one more layer. I'll just give a few examples of the 20 in 2022: 

January 5, 2022: Tulsa, Oklahoma - Michael Johnson shot by Carl Couch, linked to Universal Aryan Brotherhood white supremacist prison gang

March 15, 2022: Tracy, California - One Black man shot at a gas station by Jeremy Wayne Jones and Christina Lyn Garner, with Nazi, white pride, skinhead, and Aryan Brotherhood affiliations.

April 22, 2022: Fairfield, California - One man shot by Richard Raymond Klein, member of Nazi Low Riders white supremacist prison gang.

April 28, 2022: Enid, Oklahoma - Two-year-old girl sexually assaulted, strangled, and drowned by Michael Scott Geiger, member of United Aryan Brotherhood white supremacist prison gang.

See that? Mostly by prison gangs, often Aryan Brotherhood. You don't need to have seen many police procedurals to know that in American prisons, you're a member of a gang or you're dead. And they all have deadly feuds. 

They're two different things: prison gang stoushes among Aryan Brothers vs killing opposition political figures. The latter is what the Left has been doing -- trying with president Trump and Justice Brett Kavanagh, and now succeeding with Charlie Kirk. 

Mis-defining the total numbers

Then there's the fact that in the U.S. there are around 20,000 murders every year. So the numbers here -- 13 to 20 -- are a tiny fraction of that. Less than One in a  Thousand, or under 0.1% of total murders. 

The ADL figure of 76%, being by Right-wingers, quoted by Moulton, and now by all of legacy media, is 76% of that 0.1%. See how that's "true, but misleading"? "True but not Truthful"? 

Mis-informing the viewership

Those are the figures that are all over the internet and the legacy media. Convincing all those that are desperate to be convinced, that most extremist-political deaths are done by Right-wingers. 

Yet these number are arrived at by deceit. By mis-defining Left-wing killers as being of the Right. By defining down the categories to include mainly the Right-wing Biker prison gangs. And by mis-directing the total numbers, which in all cases are tiny.

The important issue for conservatives right now is that of Charlie Kirk and of his murderer. Who is known to moral certainty as a person of the Far-Left. Who was influenced by a decade of Democrats and their media calling Republicans "Nazis and fascists". What do you do with Nazis and fascists? Why, you kill them, of course. 

Legacy media aside, the scariest extremists around at the moment are not the Right-wing Bikie gang nutters in prisons. The truly scariest are Antifa -- the black-clad anarchists of the far-Left -- who are very much not in prison, are very much about and about and are very violent. 

Andy Ngo has written about Antifa in a book I've read, called "Unmasked". It's good. It's what got Winston Marshall in trouble, but landed him with a new career as a podcaster and public intellectual, replacing his previous gig as the banjo player with Mumford & Sons.