Iranian Navy seized 2 US Navy maritime drones on Thursday

The Iranian Navy seized two US Navy maritime drones in international waters in the Red Sea on Thursday.

The drones were eventually released, but a US defense official says the incident looks like an escalation of Iranian hostile actions against the United States.

The incident began Thursday, the official said, when the Iranian Navy ship was observed taking two US drones out of the water “in an attempt to steal them,” according to the official. The US then quickly moved in with two nearby destroyers, the USS Nitze and USS Delbert D. Black, as well as two helicopters and communicated by radio to demand the drones be returned.

The Iranians agreed but asked to wait until daylight on Friday for safety reasons which the US agreed to, the official said.

Why in the name of Chester W. Nimitz’s massive nautical balls does the modern US Navy let itself get humiliated by Iran.

Remember that when President Biden was VP, his boss and CIC Obama let the Iranian Navy take our sailors hostage.

I have described the Navy as the big swinging dick of foreign policy.  It several million tons of floating American sovereignty that we can deploy almost anywhere on earth in 24 hours.

If we has some self respect and a hard fucking cock we’d introduce the Iranians to our new QUICKSKINK anti-ship missile and snap their fucking destroyers in half.

But no.  The only dick in the region belongs to the Iranian Navy and they are rubbing it on our faces.

Why in the fuck does the Obama/Biden/Obama 2.0 let Iran get away with this?

The next President needs to remind the Iranians no to fuck with our navy by putting theirs on the bottom of the fucking ocean.

This morning I reads AWA’s excellent post The Victors Write History v. The Internet Is Forever.

He is absolutely correct.

I just wanted to add to it.

When the great empires of antiquity would conquere a land, it was normal for them to put the sages of the conquered land to the sword, then burn all the religious texts and writings of the conquered.

There was a reason when the Romans conquered Judea they sacked and burned the temple.

Islamic conquerors did the same.

The goal was to leave no evidence of the vanquished culture behind that could give them a memory of who they were before they were conquered.  Especially something that could take root and revitalize the vanquished culture and/or lead to rebellion.

The history of the story of Hanukkah is that the Jews hid their religion and kept it flourishing secretly under Greek rule, and then successfully fought a rebellion expelling the Greeks.

In modern times, the Soviets and Maoist Chinese had to continuously rewrite history and engage in active oppression to maintain their victor status.

The passage from Orwell’s 1984:

He tried to make her understand. ‘This was an exceptional case. It wasn’t just a question of somebody being killed. Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories. Just in that one instance, in my whole life, I did possess actual concrete evidence after the event — years after it.’

That was based on what the Soviets actually did.

So now, given what AWA said, where do we from here.

We remember what really happened and it’s documented all over the internet, which can’t be burned or obliterated.

The more they try to actively rewrite history, the more people will call “bullshit!”

So what methods are they going to try and use to do what previous victors have done to obliterate the memory of the before times so the party is always right?

We know they influence Facebook and Twitter.

Could they shut down blogs like ours?

Throttle our bandwidth to nothing.

Criminalize the truth as misinformation?

As Miguel often quoted, they can’t stop the signal, but I bet they damn well will try.

These were just too dank to wait until Monday.

New Yorkers Who Want a Concealed Carry Permit Could Get a Visit From the Police

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said residents who are wanting to obtain a concealed carry permit may face tough scrutiny through the process, such as police officers going to the homes of applicants.

“Because we want to make sure that again, we stay within the boundaries of the ruling, and it is really almost kind of a common sense basically analysis. If someone is spewing hate, if someone is making dangerous threats, if someone is part of some form of hate group, the police officer, or the detective, or the investigator is going to use their investigatory skills of determining if there is something that is a red flag there. And it is really about using the good old-fashioned methods of doing the investigation,” Adams explained to MSNBC on Thursday.

“And it is really about using the good old-fashioned methods of doing the investigation. When I became a police officer, people knocked on my neighbor’s doors and interviewed them and asked what type of person am I, and I think those are the same skills that is going to be used to look at not only social media, but also knocking on neighbor’s doors, speaking to people, finding out who this individual is, and that we’re about to allow to carry a firearm in our city,” he continued.

Florida doesn’t do this.

Illinois, as anti-gun as Chicago is, doesn’t do this.

There isn’t a shall issue state that goes to this extreme.

It’s unnecessary if your goal is to make sure applicants are law abiding citizens.

This is intimation.

This is how gun permits in Europe and Australia work.

“If you want a permit, you must open your life to us.  You don’t have privacy anymore.  We will send Police into your home and interrogate you.”

This coming from city that fought stop and frisk and lets people charged with illegal gun possession out without bail.

The point is that Progressives hate law abiding citizens and will use every coercive tactic to crush your rights but let criminals go to commit more crimes.

It’s not about reducing gun deaths.  It’s about how much they hate you and your rights.

When thousands of Xcel customers in Colorado tried adjusting their thermostats Tuesday, they learned they had no control over the temperatures in their own homes. via @jaclynreporting https://t.co/mgLEC6SEzR

— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) September 1, 2022

From the article in the Tweet:

Temperatures climbed into the 90s Tuesday, which is why Tony Talarico tried to crank up the air conditioning in his partner’s Arvada home.

“I mean, it was 90 out, and it was right during the peak period,” Talarico said. “It was hot.”

That’s when he saw a message on the thermostat stating the temperature was locked due to an “energy emergency.”

“Normally, when we see a message like that, we’re able to override it,” Talarico said. “In this case, we weren’t. So, our thermostat was locked in at 78 or 79.”

On social media, dozens of Xcel customers complained of similar experiences — some reporting home temperatures as high as 88 degrees.

Xcel confirmed to Contact Denver7 that 22,000 customers who had signed up for the Colorado AC Rewards program were locked out of their smart thermostats for hours on Tuesday.

You thought you could control the temperature in your own home.

You were wrong.

Big brother controls the temperature in your home.

This us why I won’t own smart devices or why I won’t buy a self driving car.

I want to control the things I own, not have the things I own control me because they got a signal from Big Brother.

From Tablet:

It’s Open Season on Jews in New York City
Of the hundreds of hate crimes committed against Jews in the city since 2018, many of them documented on camera, only a single perpetrator has served even one day in prison

The attack that sent 31-year-old Yossi Hershkop to the hospital was an unmysterious crime, the opposite of a stone-cold whodunnit. Security cameras recorded clear video of a group of four men approaching Hershkop’s car, with two of them repeatedly punching him through the driver’s side window while his 5-year-old child sat in the back seat. Another camera recorded the license plate and model of the attackers’ getaway vehicle. The assault took place around 3:40 p.m. on July 13, 2022, on a busy street in Crown Heights. Hershkop believes his assailants were identified later that evening.

The police did not move quickly. No arrests were made during the two weeks after the attack, a span in which the getaway car got ticketed in a totally unrelated incident, Hershkop says. On July 27, an exasperated Hershkop tweeted: “No arrests have been made, despite the assailants’ vehicle having been seen all over the neighborhood. My son still has a lot of trauma from the incident & we now Uber instead of walk whenever we need to go out.” Perhaps not coincidentally, the first arrest in the case was made the day after that tweet, some two weeks after the attack. The first suspect was released on bail after the judge ordered a bond of $10,000, significantly less than the district attorney had requested, according to Hershkop.

In a study released this past July, the New York-based group Americans Against Antisemitism found that of the 118 adults arrested for anti-Jewish hate crimes in New York City since 2018, only one has been convicted and sent to prison.

Earlier this month, an Orthodox Jew from Baltimore named Aryeh Wolf was gunned down in broad daylight as he attached solar panels to the roof of a building in a gentrifying neighborhood in southeast Washington, D.C. As with Hershkop’s attack, Wolf’s murder was a motiveless crime in which the motive was obvious. To the killer, Wolf and the trendy new technology he was installing might have represented the growing penetration of outsiders, further distilled by Wolf being the ultimate of outsiders: the proud religious Jew. So far, no one has been arrested. The Washington police still consider the motive in the crime to be unknown.

In New York, street harassment, minor assaults, and even full-on beatings of visible Jews are almost a banality now, too frequent over too long of a period to be considered an active crisis, even in the communities most affected. The city reported a 76% year-over-year rise in hate crimes during the first three months of 2022—attacks on Jews more than tripled, accounting for much of the spike.

I have been covering the antisemitic violence in New York for a while.

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio was an avowed antisemite.  A true, Jew hating Sandinista.

Current Mayor Eric Adams talks about hate crimes against the Jews, but just like in dealing with hate crimes against Asians, he’s done fuck all nothing to curb it.  Probably because most of the perpetrators of these crimes are from the demographic that cannot be criticized by Democrats.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo turned the Waffen NYPD against the Jews under COVID and is being sued over it.

The Orthodox Jews of New York are perhaps one of the most hated groups in the city.  Antisemites hate them because they are Jews and Leftists hate them (those Leftists who aren’t specifically antisemitic) hate them because they tend strongly conservative.

That’s why other Jewish groups don’t stand up for the Orthodox.  Most of them are Reform or some other Progressive branch of Judaism, and don’t support Jews who aren’t Democrat donors.

As a result the Orthodox Jews are on their own to defend themselves.

The Shomrim are associated with the NYPD but are unarmed and have little ability to do more than drive around in quasi-cop cars and carry radios.

The Jews of New York need guns for personal protection.

That is the only thing that will turn the tide of antisemitic violence.

Bruen should have turned New York into a shall issue state, NYC included, but New York is dragging it’s feet.

While I wholeheartedly support the right of all law abiding citizens to conceal carry, the targeting of Jews and the conspicuous lack of law enforcement against those who do target Jews, elevates the need for concealed carry in the Jewish community.

Bruen must be enforced so the Jews can protect themselves.

I hate 3D printed guns.

You have the right to do it.  I won’t argue that.

I’m just a materials engineer who worked in the defense industry and your PLA lower is a piece of shit compared to a proper 30% glass filled poly-amide.

If you want to do it as a hobby, fine.  Everything we used 3D printed parts for was a prototype.

But I digress.

I’m currently engaged in a Twitter spat with the asshole wing of the 3D printed crowed.

The guys who print auto sears and cans and shit.

They are the ideological fundamentalists of the 3D printer movement and these are the douche bags that will ruin it for the rest of us.

The 3D printer version of the dick-bags in Florida who just had to open carry a roided out AR, dipped in a bucket of TAPCO, when fishing, just fucking because.

Remember, they didn’t get open carry legal in Florida, they got rifles in public banned.

These numb-nuts are going to do the same fucking thing.

Douches: “Imma 3D print whatever the fuck I want. Be un-governable.” Prints felonies

ATF: “Fine, you all lose all your rights. Suck big fat government cock!  Also, since you printed auto conversion end plates for your Glock, Glocks are now controlled like open bolt semi-autos.  Fuck you!”

They are poking the bear and that bear will maul all of us.