Atlanta Rhythm Section - Imaginary Lover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytqQRrvc_Rs&list=RDytqQRrvc_Rs&start_radio=1
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
UPDATE: McGuire AFB In New Jersey Under Lockdown - Active Shooter
A lockdown was lifted at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) in Burlington County, New Jersey, after witnesses heard gunshots during a training exercise, a source confirmed with NBC News.
Emergency personnel responded to reports of an active shooter at JB MDL on Tuesday, Sept. 30, around 11 a.m. A high ranking law enforcement source told NBC News' Jonathan Dienst that a training exercise was occurring at the base and witnesses heard gunshots. They then called 911 which led to the lockdown and personnel at the base were told to immediately seek shelter.
Law enforcement officials arrived at the base and confirmed there was no active shooter threat. The lockdown was lifted and the base resumed normal operations at 11:57 a.m.
JB MDL is a United States military facility and includes units from all six armed forces branches.
YouTube Agrees To Pay President Trump $24.5 Million Settlement Over 2021 Suspension Of His Account
President Trump previously filed a lawsuit against YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook after the tech giants banned his accounts following the January 6 Capitol riot.
“We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well,” Mr. Trump said in July 2021. “I am confident that we will achieve a historic victory for American freedom and at the same time freedom of speech.”
Trump’s lawyers asked the Court to prevent the tech giants from “exercising censorship” or “editorial control” over the posts of a US president.
According to The Wall Street Journal, YouTube agreed to pay a $24.5 million settlement after Meta agreed to pay Trump $25 million and Twitter/X paid $10 million.
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit that President Trump brought against the company and its chief executive over its suspension of Trump’s account after that year’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to court papers.
The settlement makes YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet’s Google, the final Big Tech company to settle a trio of lawsuits Trump brought against social-media platforms in the months after he left the White House. Meta Platforms agreed in January to pay $25 million, most of it to a fund for Trump’s presidential library, and X agreed to pay $10 million, much of it going directly to Trump, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
Google executives were eager to keep their settlement smaller than the one paid by rival Meta, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump’s share of the settlement—$22 million—will go to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall, earmarked for the construction of a Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom Trump is building at the White House, according to the court documents. The White House has said the ballroom, expected to cost $200 million, would be funded by donations from Trump and “other patriot donors.”
A further $2.5 million will go to the other plaintiffs on the case, a group that includes the American Conservative Union and writer Naomi Wolf. The settlement doesn’t mention attorney fees.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/breaking-youtube-agrees-pay-president-trump-24-5/
Rip Curl Loses $83 Million After Replacing Woman Spokesman With Gender Confused Fugly Guy
Kathmandu, Rip Curl owner slumps to huge full-year loss.
The parent company of Kathmandu and Rip Curl has posted a shock $93.6 million statutory loss ($82.9 million US) – its worst in at least a decade.
KMD Brands said when excluding a $45.5 million non-cash writedown of its Oboz footwear business and other items, it still lost $28.3 million on an underlying basis for the year to July 31.
KMD said it was once again not paying shareholders a dividend, as it hasn’t since 2023, and was taking steps to carefully manage capital.
KMD announced earlier this month it was closing 21 stores, mostly outside Australia, out of its global portfolio of 328 company-owned Kathmandu and Rip Curl shops.
As for its individual businesses, its Rip Curl surf lifestyle brand made $30.6 million in underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amorisation (EBIDTA), down 27% from last year, while its Kathmandu outdoor store chain posted a $1.3 million EBITDA loss after a $16 million profit in 2023/24.
Surfers know who women and men are, and with the ever growing number of women surfing, they can go with O’Neil, Body Glove, Billabong, Quicksilver, and so many other brands for surf apparel, wetsuits, boards, and more. Too bad, because Rip Curl has an awesome line. Their surfing wetsuits fit best, have room in the shoulders. Did Rip Curl think women would be appreciative of replacing Bethany with what is clearly a man in a dress with fake boobs?
With the store closures there are also supposed to be a lot of layoffs.
Thanks to the actions of Rip Curl over the past five days, the once iconic Australian surf brand is living proof that women are finally fighting back against companies using transgender women to promote products for women and girls.(snip)
Late last year Rip Curl dropped their popular brand ambassador and living embodiment of resilience and strength, surfer Bethany Hamilton, because she does not believe transgender women should be allowed to compete against women at the sport’s highest level.
And men shouldn’t. There are certain moves that are much harder for women to make due to core and leg strength, not too mention men having stronger shoulders and back muscles, easier to catch waves. So, women just stopped buying Rip Curl. And men stopped buying Rip Curl, because surfers like real women.
It seems, however, that Rip Curl like so many other big corporates (it was purchased by Kathmandu for $350 million in 2019) decided inclusion was more important than biological female role models for women and girls.
And that is one hell of a good point: you have a good, upstanding, responsible female role model for girls wanting to get into surfing, and you replace her with a guy with mental illness (who has been photo’d wearing a hijab, too boot). Which one is a better role model?
https://www.thepiratescove.us/2025/09/25/rip-curl-loses-83-million-after-replacing-woman-spokesman-with-gender-confused/
Israel’s Iron Beam - One Step Closer To Star Wars Weaponry
Israel’s new Iron Beam air defense system is a laser system with the potential to change modern warfare. It is the stuff of Star Wars brought to reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvpQcB04h2Q&t=94s
Since Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has had to defend against a barrage of at least 27,000 ballistic missiles, rockets, and drones fired from Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Had a substantial part of this ordinance landed on their intended targets, Israel would have been effectively obliterated.
Amazingly, Israel, with its layered air defense system—Iron Dome, for short-range rockets, David’s Sling for medium-range threats, and Arrow for long-range ballistic missiles—stopped 99% of those aerial attacks. But operating these conventional air defense systems comes at great expense. According to a Grok estimate, Israel has expended billions of dollars on air defense systems and munitions through September 2025.
That’s all going to change now that Israel has deployed its new air defense system, Iron Beam. Its radar acquires a target as far as 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) distant. The 100-kilowatt laser fires at the speed of light. It maintains its lock on the target for the four seconds during which the laser heats the target, destroying it. It then moves on to the next target. And it does all of this at stunning cost-effectiveness.
To put aerial warfare in perspective, the cost of a single US B-2 Spirit Bomber is $2.1 billion. The cost of a single Iranian Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile is $3 million. And while drones are much cheaper than aircraft or missiles, they are not de minimis. A single Iranian Shahed-136 drone costs $375,000.
In comparison, the Iron Beam system costs $90 million per unit. However, once the system is in place, the operating costs are virtually non-existent. Each “shot” costs about $2.50 in electricity, which is roughly the cost of five 5.56mm bullets for an M16, and the only limitations to an infinite number of shots are the energy supply and keeping the weapon cooled. Concerns of ordinance and ammunition supply disappear.
As Mike Watson recently wrote at the Washington Free Beacon:
“Iron Beam can destroy incoming rockets, mortars, drones, and manned aircraft, and it has already proved its worth in the campaigns against Hezbollah and Iran. . . . In 5 to 10 years, Rafael chairman Yuval Steinitz predicts, “nothing hostile will fly in the air—no aircraft, no drones, no cruise missiles, no shells, no bombs—because the laser will completely clear the air of anything detected, anything seen.”
Aerial warfare—including planes, drones, missiles, and rockets—has been with us since World War I. It has continuously grown in tactical and strategic importance to the point that it now dominates the battlefield where there is insufficient or ineffective air defense. In the Ukraine-Russia war, drones account for 70–80% of all battlefield casualties on both sides, inflicting more casualties than all other weapons combined, including tanks, field artillery, and small arms.
That reality will soon change in locations where Iron Beam is deployed. So it is that in Israel, its air defenses have repelled not just rockets and missiles, but completely neutered Iran and Houthi attempts at drone warfare as well—and Iron Beam has been battle tested in that defense.
Outside of Israel, the Iron Beam system will be adapted to protect everything from fixed targets to ships and aircraft carriers. This would be of particular concern for an increasingly aggressive and bellicose China, which has designed an entire class of “assassin’s mace” rockets and missiles to target and destroy US seapower in the Pacific.
Iron Beam marks a major technological breakthrough. Simply put, as a defensive weapon, it is and will be a game-changer. Moreover, soon, and in ways most of us can’t imagine, smart people will adapt this technology for offensive weapons. The world of today is much closer to the weaponry of Star Wars than we have ever been.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/israel_s_iron_beam_moves_the_world_one_step_closer_to_star_wars_weaponry.html
President Trump And Prime Minister Netanyahu Release Details To End Gaza Conflict
(I don’t see this happening … no way. And in the VERY unlikely event that it does come to pass, the time before it gets violated by Hamas will be measured in hours, not days.)
Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict:
1. Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.
2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.
3. If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end. Israeli forces will withdraw to the agreed upon line to prepare for a hostage release. During this time, all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended, and battle lines will remain frozen until conditions are met for the complete staged withdrawal.
4. Within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages, alive and deceased, will be returned.
5. Once all hostages are released, Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1700 Gazans who were detained after October 7th, 2023, including all women and children detained in that context. For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.
6. Once all hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.
7. Upon acceptance of this agreement, full aid will be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip. At a minimum, aid quantities will be consistent with what was included in the January 19, 2025, agreement regarding humanitarian aid, including rehabilitation of infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage), rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries, and entry of necessary equipment to remove rubble and open roads.
8. Entry of distribution and aid in the Gaza Strip will proceed without interference from the two parties through the United Nations and its agencies, and the Red Crescent, in addition to other international institutions not associated in any manner with either party. Opening the Rafah crossing in both directions will be subject to the same mechanism implemented under the January 19, 2025, agreement.
9. Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza. This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the “Board of Peace,” which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J. Trump, with other members and heads of State to be announced, including Former Prime Minister Tony Blair. This body will set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza. This body will call on best international standards to create modern and efficient governance that serves the people of Gaza and is conducive to attracting investment.
10. A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East. Many thoughtful investment proposals and exciting development ideas have been crafted by well-meaning international groups and will be considered to synthesize the security and governance frameworks to attract and facilitate these investments that will create jobs, opportunity, and hope for future Gaza.
11. A special economic zone will be established with preferred tariff and access rates to be negotiated with participating countries.
12. No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return. We will encourage people to stay and offer them the opportunity to build a better Gaza.
13. Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt. There will be a process of demilitarization of Gaza under the supervision of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond use through an agreed process of decommissioning, and supported by an internationally funded buy back and reintegration program all verified by the independent monitors. New Gaza will be fully committed to building a prosperous economy and to peaceful coexistence with their neighbors.
14. A guarantee will be provided by regional partners to ensure that Hamas, and the factions, comply with their obligations and that New Gaza poses no threat to its neighbors or its people.
15. The United States will work with Arab and international partners to develop a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) to immediately deploy in Gaza. The ISF will train and provide support to vetted Palestinian police forces in Gaza and will consult with Jordan and Egypt who have extensive experience in this field. This force will be the long-term internal security solution. The ISF will work with Israel and Egypt to help secure border areas, along with newly trained Palestinian police forces. It is critical to prevent munitions from entering Gaza and to facilitate the rapid and secure flow of goods to rebuild and revitalize Gaza. A deconfliction mechanism will be agreed upon by the parties.
16. Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza. As the ISF establishes control and stability, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will withdraw based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization that will be agreed upon between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the Unites States, with the objective of a secure Gaza that no longer poses a threat to Israel, Egypt, or its citizens. Practically, the IDF will progressively hand over the Gaza territory it occupies to the ISF according to an agreement they will make with the transitional authority until they are withdrawn completely from Gaza, save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat.
17. In the event Hamas delays or rejects this proposal, the above, including the scaled-up aid operation, will proceed in the terror-free areas handed over from the IDF to the ISF.
18. An interfaith dialogue process will be established based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence to try and change mindsets and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace.
19. While Gaza re-development advances and when the PA reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.
20. The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous co-existence.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1972726021196562494
Monday, September 29, 2025
'Bad Bunny?'
This is the half-time entertainment for the Superbowl this year. It is called 'Bad Bunny.'
Never heard of it before yesterday. I may record the Superbowl so I can watch it and skip the commercials and half-time IF either of the teams is one I care about. I quit watching NFL quite a few years ago but I do watch the Superbowl from time to time. I thought that the only bad bunny was the Rabbit Of Caerbannog.
In the
Monty Python And The Holy Grail movie, the knights encounter a 'killer'
rabbit in The Cave of Caerbannog which is the home of the Legendary Black
Beast of Arrrghhh. After the ‘killer’ rabbit decapitates one of King
Arthur’s knights, kills several others and injures several, the Knights
employ the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch to dispatch the rabbit and move
forward with their quest.
The rabbit scene was shot outside the Tomnadashan copper mine, a cave four miles from the Perthshire village of Killin.
The
tale of the rabbit has a parallel in the early story of the Roman de
Renart in which a foe takes hubristic pride in his defeat of a ferocious
hare.
The idea for the rabbit in the movie was taken from the façade
of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. This illustrates the weakness
of cowardice by showing a knight fleeing from a rabbit.
Random Political Memes/Cartoons Dump - 9.29.2025
I emptied the folder with this bunch. Top shelf cartoons were in short supply this week.
Random Political Social Media Posts - 9.29.2025
Anita Bryant - 3.25.1940 - 12.16.2024
Lola 'Braveheart'
https://x.com/_emergent_/status/1971620422686032155
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Fed-Up White House Exposes Newsom, Walz, Other Anti-ICE Dems Hypocrisy In Receipt-Filled Fact Drop
(OR 'We're tired of your hateful violent rhetoric and we're gonna start calling you out and fighting back.)
Understandably, after the violent attack against a Dallas ICE field office that left one detainee dead and two injured when a deranged gunman reportedly targeted immigration enforcement agents, the Trump administration is at wits' end with the incendiary rhetoric used by Democrats.
Accordingly, the Trump White House is already taking action, beefing up security at ICE locations across the country, with President Trump also authorizing troop deployment to the leftist hotbed of Portland, Oregon, after months of clashes between anti-ICE agitators and law enforcement at the city's ICE detention facility.
"I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump announced in a Truth Social post Saturday, noting he was authorizing them to use "full force" if necessary.
And on Friday, the White House released an article published on its website with the headline "Democrats’ Unhinged Crusade Against ICE Fuels Bloodshed."
In it, they noted that years of Democrats "vilifying ICE" have produced violent, deadly consequences for both detainees and the immigration enforcement agents, which, of course, is not cool:
The carnage in Dallas, Texas — where a maniac with “ANTI-ICE” ammo gunned down an ICE field office in an attack clearly targeted at ICE personnel — lays bare the deadly consequences of Democrats’ unhinged crusade against our border enforcement.
Democrats have spent years vilifying ICE as “fascists,” “the Gestapo,” and “slave patrols,” inciting a 1,000% surge in assaults on agents and a wave of Radical Left terror. Their words aren’t just reckless — they’re a battle cry for violence.
The list highlighted statements made by 29 Democrats at nearly all levels of government, including governors, senators, House members, and mayors, referring to ICE in the most disparaging and dangerous of terms. While it's not a complete list, it definitely shows a disturbing pattern of irresponsibility from open borders Democrats.
Not surprisingly, the top three on the list are names that are being floated as possible 2028 presidential contenders:
Gov. Tim Walz smeared ICE as the “modern-day Gestapo.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom likened ICE to “secret police,” calling them “authoritarian” and proclaiming a “right to push back.”
Gov. JB Pritzker claimed the country is becoming “Nazi Germany” because ICE is “grabbing people off the street… and disappearing them.”
The mayors they spotlighted were Chicago's Brandon Johnson, Boston's Michelle Wu, and LA Mayor Karen Bass:
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to the neo-Nazi group NSC-131.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused ICE of being “secret police” who are “terrorizing our communities.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spread a disgusting, fabricated hoax that ICE “kidnapped” a woman on her way to work.
Not surprisingly, Gov. Newsom's press office is proclaiming that the Trump administration calling them out over their own words is "reckless, dangerous" and "putting lives at risk" - and that it's Trump who "must tone it down":
https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1972020919515095521
In other words, shut up, Mr. President and Republicans, while we keep making matters worse.
FYI, Gov: Not. Happening.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/09/27/white-house-opens-up-a-can-on-newsom-walz-other-anti-ice-dems-in-receipt-filled-fact-drop-n2194478
Trump Asks Supreme Court To End Birthright Citizenship
President Trump has just asked the Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship once and for all, telling the high court that the idea of ‘birthright citizenship’ is a mistake and that the 14th amendment wasn’t meant to confer that right on illegal aliens.
Here’s more from CNN:
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back before the justices for the second time this year.
Despite more than a century of understanding that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on people born in the United States, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court that notion was “mistaken” and that the view became “pervasive, with destructive consequences.”
“The lower court’s decisions invalidated a policy of prime importance to the president and his administration in a manner that undermines our border security,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer, the administration’s top appellate attorney, told the Supreme Court in the appeal. “Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people.”
CNN reviewed a copy of the appeal, which has not yet been docketed at the high court.
While the Supreme Court handed down an important decision in June that dealt with birthright citizenship, that case was technically focused on a more procedural question of how much power lower courts had to stop a policy implemented by a president. A 6-3 majority of the court essentially limited – but did not completely rule out – the power of courts to block those policies.
That decision sent states and individuals who were challenging Trump’s birthright order scrambling to file new cases to shut down the birthright policy through other means, including class-action lawsuits. The Supreme Court implicitly allowed those other types of nationwide blocks to continue.
A series of new rulings have continued to keep Trump’s policy on hold, and the administration is now asking the justices to take up those cases to settle the issue once and for all.
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-trump-asks-supreme-court-to-end-birthright-citizenship/
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