Yom Kippur And Extra Security

As Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar approaches, arriving tomorrow, The Detroit Free Press had this sub-headline on their front page today: 

Clicking on it however changes the headline:  The Detroit Free Press: After tense year, Michigan Jews mark holidays with resilience and faith.

Why the change? Perhaps because then they would need to explain right up front exactly why the extra security is required these days.

The article does eventually get around to explaining this in part:

On the same evening, a few miles away at the largest synagogue in Michigan, Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, about 1,000 people packed the sanctuary for their first services since a terrorist struck the house of worship six months ago, in March.

It only takes another 7 paragraphs down past that statement in the article to find out the terrorist attack was not in fact by the Amish, but was "Hezbollah-influenced" and the I-word doesn't appear even once. 

Meanwhile, we still have to have extra police presence at synagogues here due to the Muslim's habit of attacking people on their religious holidays or indeed on Islamic holidays.

How often does your house of worship require a police presence to have presence and hopefully deter a terrorist attack? 

In any case, and completely aside from the Detroit Free Press' obfuscation,  I wish my readers G’mar chatima tova, and that you be sealed in the Book of Life. 

NAACP, Dems Want To Stop Immigration Enforcement Where?

Yahoo News/USA Today: NAACP sues ICE, DHS, FBI to prevent sending agents to midterm polls

The plaintiffs suing a group of agencies and officials – including the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice and the FBI – allege that sending federal agents to the polls violates the Voting Rights Act because it is an intimidation tactic.

I was under the impression that it was illegal for illegal aliens to vote in our elections, and only citizens should be there to vote, and it thus shouldn't be an issue if immigration enforcement checks out things near the polls, right?

Indeed, I have been repeatedly assured of this by Democrats.

Funny their concern over federal immigration enforcement ensuring it is just American citizens voting then, isn't it?

Archfoolishness: The Archbishop And The Imam

The Archbishop of Canterbury, a known arch-progressive, and the first female head of the Church of England, in a fit of wokeness publicly honored a Muslim Imam -- on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11. 

She awarded him the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation 2026.

The Muslim imam in question, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi himself had presented an earlier award.

He presented it to Osama Bin Laden.

Ashrafi awarded him the title of the award of "Sword of Allah"  and that's not all. Ashrafi has supported suicide bombing,  Islamic terrorist attacks against Britons and others.

Most people would consider this to be highly irreconcilable and uncooperative regarding other regions.

When these issues were pointed out, and a public outcry over the insanity of giving it to the Imam in the first place ensured, the award was revoked. 

MSN/Christian Daily International: Archbishop of Canterbury revokes award to Pakistani cleric after bin Laden remarks resurface

Ashrafi received the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation 2026 from Archbishop of Canterbury Dame Sarah Mullally at Lambeth Palace in London on Sept. 11, the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States.

. . . 

The immediate controversy over the Lambeth award concerns comments Ashrafi made in 2007 following the British knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie.

Media reports quoted Ashrafi as saying that the Pakistan Ulema Council would honor bin Laden with the title “Saifullah”, meaning “Sword of God.” He described bin Laden as a “mujahid” (holy warrior) who had fought for Islam against Russians, Americans and Britons. 

National Post: Head of Church of England rescinds interfaith award given to Muslim cleric who praised bin Laden

We may also note that the archbishop, who has made feminism a keystone of her liberal progressive archbishop focus, and has publicly vowed to call out misogyny, also had no issues presenting the award to the Imam as female members of his family looked on - in full burkas. She then failed to call out such misogyny.  Funny, that.

The lack of self-awareness among the progressive left and their complete blindness to the clear anti-progressive intolerance of Islam is rather fascinating and disheartening.

Of Course They Did

After Macklemore was kicked off Ed Sheeran’s tour following his Gaza stunt—bringing partisan politics and what critics called antisemitic imagery onto the stage—he was out.

His past antics probably didn’t help either, including a performance in which he appeared to give a Nazi-style salute while dressed as a stereotypical caricature of an Orthodox Jewish man.

Off the tour he went.

And now the predictable outrage has arrived: the Left claims his removal somehow violated his free-speech rights.

So, of course, Dearborn’s Progressive Muslim mayor has invited Macklemore to perform a free concert in Dearborn—sponsored by the city and, therefore, supported by taxpayers.

Of course.

The Detroit Free Press: Dearborn mayor invites rapper Macklemore to perform free concert

Then there’s Hamtramck, another Detroit-area city with a large Muslim population.

Its former police chief, according to reports, advised officers that wife-beating should not be treated as a formal crime because it isn’t prohibited under Sharia law.

That claim takes on an especially ugly dimension given allegations that the former chief himself repeatedly beat his wife. Those allegations are just that—allegations—but they make his reported position on domestic violence all the more disturbing.

 Law Enforcement Today: Michigan: Muslim Police Department Chief Advised Officers to Follow Sharia Law 

The chief is now out of the job amid allegations involving this conduct and other corruption issues. He was also the founder of the NYPD Muslim Officers Society and the Yemeni American Law Enforcement Officers Association, and I'm sure there's no possible issues with either of those organizations.

The larger point is difficult to miss.

A movement that presents itself as progressive and tolerant can still make plenty of room for people and ideas that are deeply hostile to liberal democratic values.

And the history is hardly new. Islamist movements have, at various times, found common cause with fascist and Nazi movements, including the infamous alliance between Nazi Germany and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem beginning in the 1930s.

How very progressive.

A Collision At The Intersection Of Intersectionality

Among the many things we've learned from the Lindsay Clancy trial and its ignominious end, he most entertaining -- and illuminating -- is what happens when intersectionality collides with itself. 

 

Lindsay Clancy fan discovering that the lone juror is black might be the greatest video in history pic.twitter.com/jIAjIvMcU5

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 11, 2026

 

Before it was revealed that the holdout juror was a Black man, progressives were all up in arms against him. 

They assumed he was white and therefore an oppressor -- and thus a bad person.  He was a bad person for not being sufficiently empathetic to Lindsay's plight.  After all, in this framework, a woman who claims to have been suffering from mental illness when she killed her kids means she's the real victim and deserves empathy. He was even more bad for going against the "wisdom" of the female jurors, who were being noble and empathetic and trying to make this about something more than just the acts Lindsay Clancy committed and her mental state at the time.

Once the progressive pundits found out the juror was a Black man, they needed to recalculate their oppressor-victim equation and promptly divided by zero. a

After all, by their standards, who is the greater victim and who wins the Victim-Oppressor Olympics now that it is known the holdout was Black? 

Is it the lone Black male being nagged, hectored, and lectured incessantly by white women who claim to know better and are thus whitesplaining the issues to him?

Or is it a white woman alleged to be suffering from postpartum psychosis who killed her three children?

How do they decide who wins when empathy and intersectionality is all you have to go on?

It is entertaining to watch them struggle. But beneath the humor is a rather sad commentary: this kind of intersectional “analysis”—in which people are assigned points on a hierarchy of group victimhood and empathy is elevated above objectivity and facts—has become a mainstream way of determining who is right.

When intersectionality becomes the primary lens through which a situation is judged, the facts become secondary to the identities of the people involved.

And when two supposedly competing categories of victim and oppressor collide, the resulting calculation gets very complicated.

Especially when someone forgets to account for the possibility of a Black man being the holdout on the jury.

Twenty Five Years Ago Now

Twenty Five years ago:

8:46 am - the Islamic hijackers crash American Airlines Flight 175 into the North Tower.

9:30 am - The South Tower is then struck.

9:37 am - The Pentagon is struck.

9:57 am - the heroes on board United Airlines Flight 93 fight back and try to take the plane back from the hijackers, or at the very least stop them from using the plane in yet another attack.

9:58 am  - The South Tower collapses.

10:03 am - United 93 crashes into a field in Pennsylvania,  all aboard perish, but the Islamic hijackers intent to crash the plane into a monumental building in Washington DC is foiled.

10:15 am - Five stories of the Pentagon collapse due to the fire from American Flight 77.

10:28 am -  The North Tower collapses.

At least 2,977 were murdered that day, twenty-five years ago, the youngest being two and a half years old, a passenger on Flight 175.

We may not be at war with Islam, but Islam sure as heck has been and still is at war with us.

The majority of the denizens of New York City have forgotten.  25 years later they have voted in a Muslim, who in commemoration of the event, he as a progressive Islamic Mayor of New York directed his Jewish police chief to hand the pen that he signed mayoral orders marking 9/11 to Mamdani's chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem who previously represented al-Qaeda operative Ahmed al-Darbi.

You cannot make that up.  

Hopefully, unlike the progressive Democrats of NYC, and the Democrats of Michigan looking to be voting for El-Sayed, you haven't forgotten.

Nashville - The Iconic Recession Lunch

After the riverboat, I headed to an iconic Honky Tonk.  As one does.

Robert's Western World.

 

The place was jam-packed, standing room only, and barely enough room to stand. 

After a while, manged to get a seat at the bar. The bar tenders never stopped working for an instant, but they were attentive and friendly the entire time which was cool.

Great music,  a fun atmosphere, and it was time to order lunch. 

Probably the cheapest lunch on Broadway:

Yep, I ordered the famous Recession Special.

It arrived reasonably quickly as the cook was also jammed up with people ordering the special, among other dishes.

 

It's the iconic order there. 

But, the fried baloney served with lettuce and tomato was tasty, filling, and the included PBR worked with it,  as did the chips and Moon Pie for dessert. It was the cheapest lunch I've had out just about anywhere.

Stayed for some tunes and then decided to do a bit of a bar crawl.

Next stop was Tootsies Orchid Lounge, back in the day, prior to 1979, the hang out for the Opry performers as the Ryman Auditorium where the Opry had been located, was next door. 

A solid live band was performing:

 

Had a local brew, Hap and Harry's Lager, which was ok, and listened to some tunes. 

Then headed off to do some more wandering around.