Good Reading Around The Webs

Mosiac:  Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip 

The article gives quite a good explanation as to the Arab mindset and how we got to the present conflict.  It's not just that, as Abba Eban said,  "The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity", it's more and more clear that they don't want the opportunity in the first place. Unfortunately, they keep getting bailed out of their continuing string of bad choices, leading to the conflict continuing ad infinitum.

Daniel Greenfield: How Hamas Became an Environmentalist and Gun Control Cause.  If you're not regularly reading Daniel Greenfield, you should be. 

In this article he explores how the strange leftist bedfellows came to be through intersectionality.  The weird case of LGBTers standing up for Hamas - the same Hamas that  gives LGBTers flying lessons off rooftops as standard practice.  Also the case of environmentalists for Hamas, (one would think Hamas' rockets harm the environment and lead to global warming and all that). That gun controllers are demonstrating for Hamas is also rather impressive - Hamas' attack shows the horrible outcome of gun control where defenseless people get massacred by armed monsters, but gun controllers never really act from logic anyways.

Hot Air: Hamas Keeps Violating Ceasefire Agreement. 

Totally unexpectedly, of course.

CDR. Salamander:American Naval Forces (with a Japanese assist) Capture Pirates

If you're not regularly reading CDR. Salamander, you really should as you're missing out on some masterful analysis of world naval affairs. 

Here we have Yemeni pirates hijacking ships that have connections to Israel, and the US Navy once again taking on anti-piracy operations in the region.  We also have the Houthis launching ballistic missiles at a US Destroyer - no forcible response from the Biden administration to this attack so far, which seems to be par for the course.

CNN Covers For Kamala

CNN continues the effort to burnish Kamala's image,trying to paint her as a great success on the world stage, ignoring or straight-out lying about all evidence to the contrary.

 CNN: Harris avoids public discord in one of the most intense moments of her vice presidency

 Like most of her events, Harris' trip was tightly scripted. Only an arch aside to the Polish President when he kept asking her to answer first during a joint news conference -- "A friend in need is a friend indeed," she said, laughing slyly -- generated some criticism, since the question was about refugees.

Come on now CNN, that was no "arch aside" nor a "sly laugh".  

That was a full-on Kamala Kackle of nervous laughter where she had no idea how to answer the question:

Who ya gonna believe, CNN or your own lyin' eyes (and ears)?

At least they admit it's tightly scripted, they wouldn't want her having a deer-in-the-headlights look she has so often displayed, combined with her prior word salad non-answers she's used before, now would they?

Let's note they didn't even cover her mis-tweet about Ukraine being a NATO member.  That's rather important.   What a major public official has to say and even suggest that Ukraine is considered a NATO member can have major consequences.  Consider that one of Russia's top reasons for the invasion was that Ukraine would join NATO, saying it is a member by the VP of the United States on a public forum could escalate matters.

They also overlooked her speaking flub about Poland being on NATO's northern flank.

Her explanation of the invasion also clearly shows she's ready for prime-time:

I suspect it's going to take a whole lot more effort to buff her image and depict her as ready for the top spot.  But, you gotta admit the media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) are doing their damnedest to do it in the face of all Kamala-based evidence to the contrary.

Your News Headline Understatement Of The Day

The Detroit News: Woman charged in baby's death 'has a lot of ... issues'

Yes,  I'd suspect so.

Weird News Links Roundup

Links are all from the Detroit News.

Autopsy: Death of handcuffed man in Ark. a suicide

Searched, handcuffed, with hands behind his back in a patrol car, and he still manages to shoot himself in the head.

Drug charges dropped because of too much evidence

Remember kids, when you commit a crime, go big on the documentation! It also helps if you flee to a country that refuses extradition to the USA....

Elusive snakes in Kansas soon may live in $500,000 home

Rare snakes that no one has even seen in the area, and whose habitat might be disturbed by sewer lines are going to be placed on 11 acres of snake McMansions. So, will the snake housing bubble pop?

T28 of the Trojan Horsemen crashes at Martinsburg, WV Airshow

As just relayed to me by phone by Murphy's Law who is at the scene, a T-28 of the Trojan Horsemen augured in just now during the Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Open House and Air Show.

According to ML, the aircraft hit the end of the runway during a low, high-speed pass with another aircraft and crashed in a huge fireball with the pilot still on board. The airshow is now closed for the day.

Damn.

Losing a historic warbird is bad, losing the pilot is much worse.

Update: Martinsburg's The Journal has the story.

Further Update: It is confirmed that the pilot was John "Jack" Mangan. RIP.