Sent by several Readers, especially my Brit buddies, this.

Sent by several Readers, especially my Brit buddies, this.

Here’s one that should come as no surprise to anyone:
Afghanistan goes back to the Dark Ages
Just a point of order: when, precisely, did Afghanistan — or any of the -stans for that matter — ever leave the Dark Ages? To continue:
The Taliban have ordered dozens of people to be killed by stoning and four convicts to be executed by having walls collapsed onto them, exposing the scale of brutality under the regime.
Figures released by the Taliban’s own Supreme Court show the group also publicly flogged more than 1,000 people across Afghanistan in 2025, including at least 150 women.
The data points to a sharp rise in corporal punishment, with Kabul recording the highest number of cases.
Official Taliban statements reveal that 1,030 people were whipped in public this year for offences including theft, running away from home and acts deemed contrary to Islamic law.
Well, yes: when you govern according to Islamic law, the Dark Ages is pretty much a given.
Mind you, I’m not altogether opposed to a few public floggings. I can think of a number of people (like this one or this one) who could only benefit from same, and our society might well be the better for it.
But a flogging for drinking booze and/or wearing a miniskirt?

Forget that crap.
Right up front, I’m going to say that I hope I’m never in a situation like one of the several mass shootings we’ve just seen. I’m no hero, I’m too old for that kind of thing, and there are too many bad outcomes (for me) should I get involved with — i.e. by shooting back at — asshole gunmen on a spree.
That said, I also hope that if the situation is inescapable that I will have the gumption to perform my civic duty, i.e. by not running away and hoping that law enforcement will take care of everything, and doing my level best to end the threat.
I also hope I don’t get shot by the frigging cops, which is what seems to have happened in Sydney because to the untrained and panicked eye, the target becomes any guy holding a gun (or, in the case of the OzCops) and even standing next to the gun he just used, with his hands in the air.
What a shit show.
For those who think that I’m being silly to imagine such things happening, living as I do in north Texas: let me remind everyone that there was just such a mass shooting at an outdoor mall in Allen, just up the road from my house, only a couple years ago. (What makes it all the more chilling was that both New Wife and Mrs. Doc Russia had gone out shopping in Allen, and might well have ended up at the mall in so doing.)
So no: if we’ve learned one thing from all this, it’s that this shit can happen anywhere. And we would do well to be prepared to deal with it.
Once again, I’m absolutely not hoping that I get involved in some of this mayhem; but at the same time, I will admit to doing some mental role-playing in my head, dredging up all the old “Coinops” (counter-insurgency operations) drills I learned back in those far-off days when we all carried muskets and bayonets.
One thing is for sure, though: I will not be a helpless victim.
Well, well, well… so some Muslim yoofs were planning to launch their own little version of the Bataclan attacks in Paris, only in and around Dearbornistan in Michigan.
The suspects codenamed the attack day “pumpkin,” leading investigators to believe that the planned attack would be carried out on Halloween, when bars and nightclubs would be full of partiers. The suspects, who are all under 21, allegedly “sought guidance from the father of a local Islamic extremist ideologue” on when to conduct their attack.
The suspects allegedly scoped out sites of potential targets for their attack in September. According to the criminal complaint, the suspects drove past numerous bars and clubs in Ferndale, which is just north of Detroit, and is known as a go-to party spot for gay people.
If found guilty (and according to the charges, their guilt seems pretty conclusive), these little scrotes should be executed and buried in pigskin. Yeah, the Muzzies would hate us for doing that. Breaking news: they already hate us.
And I don’t want to hear about how these would-be killers are just kids. What they were planning was a very adult activity, and they should be treated as the violent criminals they planned to be.
Oh, and by the way? That “father of a local Islamic extremist ideologue” can be added to the list, him and his son both.
Fucking bastards come to our country and want to play their little reindeer games on our people?
Kill them and deport their entire families, whether they’re U.S. citizens or not. Enough is enough.

And:

Not much has changed, has it?
What happens when you encourage unbridled immigration:
The truth is France is a two-tier country. There is the charming, civilised nation that has been my home for more than 25 years, a land of magnificent countryside and chilled rosé. But another France has festered inside it and now threatens to consume it – a dystopia of grim tower blocks, from which unemployed, nihilistic youths emerge to loot and terrorise at any excuse.
The headlines are relentless: gang warfare in Marseilles, synagogues and holocaust memorials attacked in Paris, two prison officers murdered in an ambush at a motorway pay station.
A sinister development that makes this worse is the proselytising of the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to undermine the French Republic and impose sharia law.
According to a classified report from the Ministry Of The Interior, leaked to Le Figaro, the Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France through schools, charities and mosques – infiltrating civil society under the guise of religious and educational activities.
It is not new arrivals who burn the cars and stoke the riots.
That is done by the second and third generation immigrants, the ones whose parents arrived to work but failed to integrate. A couple of decades later, their children are completely disaffected and disconnected from education.
We are experiencing a new kind of hybrid chaos, in which the state loses control of portions of the ‘indivisible France’, a term enshrined in the constitution of the Fifth Republic.
In this new world, hordes of youths descend on the cities in eruptions of arson and looting. Meanwhile, thousands of migrants arrive from southern Europe and nobody even knows how many there are in France or who and where they are.