My jet tried to make aliyah

It’s always loved Israel, da da
We approached Tel Aviv

But they forced us to leave

So now we fly on to Fatah

UD thanks Al.

Megayachts are being snatched all over Europe.

All our current attention rightly focuses on Mr Puti’nhead; but it’s still fun to read George Will on the long fart trail left by the last president.

Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve… [His] interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive …

A European war is unhelpful for Trump because it reminds voters that Longfellow was right: Life is real, life is earnest … Trump’s strut through presidential politics was made possible by an American reverie; war in Europe has reminded people that politics is serious.

We are the sum of our choices, and Vladimir Putin has provoked some Trump poodles to make illuminating ones. J.D. Vance, groveling for Trump’s benediction (Vance covets Ohio’s Republican Senate nomination), two weeks ago said: “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine.”

Heck, nobody should be surprised that when a youngster in a Kansas school gets annoyed by the assistant principal and the security guard, he’s gonna pull out his gun and pop both of them. Everybody ’round there’s got a gun; he’s probably been shooting that gun off since he was five years old. No doubt as the years went by his parents noticed he was a little… strange… But ain’t no reason to take his guns away! Most natural thing in the world for him to whip it out and draw blood when school-folk started ragging on him. I mean – SHUT UP – and if you keep talking to me DIE.

Looks as though these two ninnies – it’s their fault for annoying one of their armed students – are gonna pull through, and the lad himself – the security officer shot back, so there was a shoot-out – should be up and running, fully armed and psychotic, in not too long a time. Nobody died, and as I say, those two should have known better.

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Update:

An 18-year-old student shot [School Resource Officer] Erik Clark and [the vice principal] after sources tell FOX4 the student was called to the office area over suspicions he had a gun.

Clark returned fire, injuring the student and disarming him. He then called dispatch to report the shooting all while applying a tourniquet to himself.

Ha ha guess the suspicions were right! But the mistake these guys made was trying to separate an American and his gun. What were they thinking? If you suspect an 18 year old American male living in the heartland has a gun, have everyone hide under their desk and call SWAT.

This is exactly what Richard Rorty would have written if he were still alive. Read Achieving Our Country, Rorty’s urgent, late in life, defense of liberalism. As people have noted, he saw Trump coming way before the rest of us did. He warned us about Trump/Putin.

Zemmour is every bit as much of a violent nihilist as his loverboy Putin; these tiny Napoleons both dream of blowing everything up. (Which reminds me: Congrats, Vlad, for reducing Kharkiv to rubble!)

Putin’s getting his wish in this regard, but the world just might be able to stop him.

As for Zemmour, his poll numbers are tanking. There aren’t enough violent nihilists in France to put him over the top.

“Have you captured a Russian tank or armoured personnel carrier and are worried about how to declare it? Keep calm and continue to defend the motherland!” Ukraine’s National Agency for the Protection against Corruption (NAPC) said, according to the Ukraine arm of the Interfax news service.

The agency went on to explain there was “no need to declare the captured Russian tanks and other equipment, because the cost of this … does not exceed 100 living wages (UAH248,100) ($8,298).”

… Bayrakdar.

But most of the information about this no-name politician, who just voted against a resolution expressing support for Ukraine, points to psycho more than asshole. The impression is that of a sadist who derives pleasure from withholding desperately needed things from people. I see the dude relaxing after work by locking all the bathroom doors in his house and watching in trance-like bliss as his children writhe in agony and beg to be allowed to relieve themselves. Daddy please PLEASE we’re begging you…

… up the legal system. A French lawyer who wants to wear a hijab in court keeps suing to do so – and losing – in one court after another. Having been refused by France’s highest court, she apparently plans to head over to the European Court of Human Rights, which okay I wish her luck. All she’s so far done is force the issue in France so that now there’s an explicit ban on hijabs in court.

Boucar Diouf explains why this matters.

Yachts, wha hae from Hamburg fled,
Yachts, wham Vlad has aften led;
Welcome to your glory bed,
         On to victory!

Now’s the day, and now’s the hour;
See the front o’ battle lour;
See approach proud Biden’s power—
         Chains and slavery!

Wha for yachtman’s king and law
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or freeman fa’,
         Let him follow me!

Yachts, wha hae from Hamburg fled,
Yachts, wham Vlad has aften led;
Welcome to your glory bed,
         On to victory!

In a string of tweets sent from his prison cell, [Alexei Navalny,] the Russian opposition leader, called Putin “our obviously insane czar” and sent out a call to action. “We cannot wait any longer,” Navalny wrote. “Wherever you are, in Russia, Belarus or on the other side of the planet, go to the main square of your city every weekday and at 2 pm on weekends and holidays. If you are abroad, come to the Russian embassy. If you can organise a demonstration, do so on the weekend.”

… Badenov.