MESSAGE BOARD AT A LOCAL CHURCH: "Half truths are still a whole lie."

SUCK IT UP: The Deparment of Homeland Security Has a message to the anti-ICE crew protesting nationwide operations.

DEMOCRATS, tell your perverted allies to stop murdering people.

JACK DUNPHY: What I saw at the Charlie Kirk memorial.

KURT SCHLICHTER: We totally voted for Trump to tick off tiresome foreigners.

FAREWELL TO IVANPAH, where incinerated birds catch fire so often that locals call them 'streamers'.

LIBERALS DON'T UNDERSTAND FREE SPEECH. They believe you should be free to speak what they want to hear.

ELON MUSK'S DOGE uncovered the biggest health care heist in American history.

REPUBLICANS ARE totally not being cool about people murdering them.

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD to a beheading.

ALMOST OBE: House passes bill to avoid partial Government shutdown, but prospects in the Senate look dim. Make the Democrats shut it down. It'll starve the deep state for a few days snd save us money. Republicans must be very aggressive in blaming the Democrats.

About 5-1/2 hours left until the lights (mostly) go out. Thank you, Republicans.

I AGREE.

HOUSE DEMOCRATS FEAR VIOLENCE for 'No' votes on Kirk resolution.

It's always the Right that's violent ... correct?

TRUMP IS RIGHT: Schools must pay dearly for discrimination.

The best solution is to make the money follow the student; not conversely.

WHY THE LEFT NEEDS THE RIGHT: Destroyers depend on builders.

Without conservatives building things, there's nothing for the Left to destroy....

THE SPEAR FINALLY THRUST FORWARD: Conservatives fighting back.

SPINELESS. If they have a primary opponent vote for him/her.

THE DOWNFALL OF AMERICA'S CITIES: Who can save our blighted urban areas?

No one. Withdraw all federal aid and let them rot until they beg for help. [Note: this is a PJMedia VIP post; sign up and join normal America.]

FALLING LEAVES 2025, WEEK 1: Day late and dollar short, I guess, but my cell phone camera has been uncooperative this week. This is, formally, Week One though I did a preview on the 17th. Herewith today's photos.

The first, obviously is the pond view.

The difference isn't really significant ... yet. The grass isn't as green and most of the early leaf fall has been blown away.

The next picture is my usual barn/fire pit view. As before most of the early leaf fall has blown away (winds, I guess, during our vacation).

The (remaining) leaves on the trees are still there, but the flowers along the walkway are beginning to fail. The grass is beginning to brown.

Here is the tree line looking north along the road.

The taller ones have already lost all their leaves; those shorter are still mostly green but there are patches of yellow and red.

To the south, pretty much the same -- the taller trees are mostly leafless, the smaller ones, not so much.

Interestingly, the flowerbeds are mostly active and still blooming. A few, the ferns in particular but also the elephant ears, have begun to hibernate, but the roses and day lilies are still happy.

This has been an interesting fall season. We had a cold spell up front, but the last few days have been mild and warm -- mid-60s at night and mid-70s in the daytime.

We shall see what tomorrow brings. Until next week then. --

WINNERS WIN AND LOSERS WHINE: The Democrats' freakout is all about desperation.

TRUMP AGREES to meet Schumer and Jeffries to stave off government shutdown.

Battlefield preparation....

THE FAFO CONSEQUENCES of Trump Derangement Syndrome: "The Democratic Party is shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you!"

MORE FAFO: Would-be terrorist arrested for threatening Charlie Kirk memorial.

NORMAL AMERICANS TO DEMOCRATS: Go ahead and shut the government down.

Please.

BERNIE SANDERS IS AN IDIOT. Demands Nexstar to air Jimmy Kimmel while simultaneously denouncing 'political pressure' on TV stations.

DEMOCRATS: “Why do things that only happen to stupid people keep happening to [us]?”

No explanation necessary.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Tell the progressive MINORITY to pound sand. And mean it -- with jail time and unemployment as needed.

HEH: School administrator who called Kirk's assassination 'fair' no longer employed.

Just desserts....

RADICAL IOWA DEMOCRAT CALLS FOR VIOLENCE, doubles down after Charlie Kirk assassination.

GO FOR LEADERS, NOT FOLLOWERS: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth needs to settle all the Department’s business.

IMPRIMIS: The significance of the recently-released Russia hoax documents.

WHEN CHARLIE KIRK DIED, so did the Democrat party. What's coming next is even worse.

MUST READ (especially for progressives): What is a fascist?

THIS WOMAN DOESN’T OWN A MIRROR or know what fascists are. She's as ignorant as she wants her 'unionized' students to be.

IT’S NOT CANCEL CULTURE, it’s now consequence culture.

WE CAN SAY "NO." I have a solution to crime.

MICHAEL GOODWIN: Charlie Kirk's assassination is the result of a decade of anti-Trump rhetoric from the Left.

It’s also worth noting that the Kirk murder took place during the Florida trial of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man charged with plotting to assassinate Trump on a Florida golf course a year ago.

Routh, representing himself, used part of his opening defense last week to cite political violence in other countries, and mentioned Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, of course, Hitler.

A federal prosecutor, John Shipley, put the case in more basic terms by telling the judge and jury that Routh “wanted to make sure that the people of this country could not could not elect Donald Trump as president of the United States.”

Shipley added: “So the defendant decided to take the choice away from American voters.”

That line neatly sums up the war against Trump and the evil mindset behind the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Voters can’t be trusted, so a leftist with a gun will make the decision.

The last sentence says it all.

ACCORDING TO HOYT: Meming the acocalypse. My obvious favorite:

Now go see the rest; they're all good.

NEW STATUS QUESTION: What’s your protocol?

Leftists are lemmings; let them go over the cliff together.

A BLM ACTIVIST (OF COURSE): Video captures fight erupting at Charlie Kirk vigil after activist reportedly shouts profanity at crowd.

IDENTIFY THEM, fire them. No state or federal unemployment benefits.

AS THE LEFT-WING NARRATIVE around the Kirk shooter fully collapses, the press goes full bird cage liners.

INSTAPUNDIT: When the preference cascade becomes a flood.

POWERLINE comments on Instapundit's substack.

"[T]hey hate you, and they’re not going anywhere. So what to do about it?" I'm going to follow Gen. LeMay's advice.

“MY LIBERAL FRIENDS are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.”

It's a long post, but click the link and read it all. It's important.

THE ‘PROGRESSIVE’ LEFT – The ‘Democratic’ Party – has shown you exactly who they are.

Believe them. Derek Hunter's post is raw -- and angry. And he's 100% right. My only regret is that the website CharliesMurderers.com has been taken down.

RANDOM THOUGHT after Charlie Kirk's assassination: Make Democrats schedule only outdoor rallies. They'll be safe enough; normal Americans don't shoot their opponents.

FROM DIGNITY TO BLASPHEMY: How words became 'violence'.

The Politicians’ Evasion

Now, many politicians insist they bear no responsibility for Kirk’s death. But what business are they in, if not the business of words? Every speech, every sound bite, every tweet is meant to persuade, to shape belief, to frame an opponent as hero or villain. They know words influence minds — that’s why they use them.

And here’s the hypocrisy: these same politicians are the ones insisting that words are violence. If that’s true, then what did they think was going to happen when they called conservatives “fascists,” “bigots,” “sexists,” “homophobes,” and “a danger to democracy and human rights”? They poured gasoline and then pretended surprise when someone struck a match.

They cannot wash their hands of this. They spent years telling Americans that people such as Kirk were not just wrong, but evil — not just mistaken, but existential threats. Someone finally believed them. Someone acted. And now they want to hide behind platitudes and deny the obvious.

Words have power. They know it. They built their careers on it. And when those words helped put a bullet in Charlie Kirk, they lost the right to pretend otherwise.

This is only a short excerpt. Read it all.

IT'S TIME TO RETURN to treating insanity, not normalizing it. Including involuntary committment, if appropriate.

“FAR-RIGHT” IS HATE SPEECH. As we’ve seen with Charlie Kirk, it’s a dog-whistle for leftist violence.

DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER HOPING FOR A DIFFERENT OUTCOME: Socialism is the problem, not the solution.

IT'S WORKING: Trump declares DC a 'CRIME FREE ZONE' amid his federal crackdown.

Despite the best efforts of the Democrat knuckleheads....

FAR TOO MANY: How many violent fanatics are there?

Normal Americans should take USAF Gen. Curtis LeMay's advice: "If you kill indict, convict, and incarcerate enough of them, they stop fighting."

ANOTHER FASCIST doesn't understand fascism.

NOT SURPRISED: Higher teacher pay doesn’t increase student learning; it stops it.

Thank the American Federation of Teachers (Randi Weingarten) and the National Education Association (Becky Pringle).

'YOU ARE THE HATE': Anna Paulina Luna rips Democrats after Kirk’s assassination.

THE VIGILANTE ARCHETYPE: Why Trump resonates and progressivism plays the villain.

I think (hope) vigilantes have returned to America.

GOOD RIDDANCE: Pro-terror Mahmoud Khalil ordered deported to Syria or Algeria.

RANDOM THOUGHT: There once was a time when a million dollars was real money; today it's pocket change.

THE IMAGE that killed the Democrats. And then Charlie Kirk was assassinated. The progressive Left must pay.

THE DEMOCRATS' culture of deceit.

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME: Five years ago today.

RANDOM THOUGHT: It's no longer the nanny state; it's now the nagging state trying to transition to a control state.

AGREED: Abolish the ATF.

If nothing else, (legal) concealed carry gives criminals reason to think again.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] TO GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM [D-CA] Get off your lazy butt and do something.

INSTAPUNDIT: Wikipedia erases the killing of Iryna Zarutska.

I use Wikipedia occasionally, but only for factual data -- and I always double check the references.

GREEN SHIPPING? A history of rotor sails.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, societal suicide edition. My favorite:

There are many others; go see them.

AMMO GRRRLL catalogs the rules from the 'stick it to the boomers' generation.

WE HAVE JOBS; they don't.

And they don't want one either.

REEF MADNESS: "Global warming alarmists ... tout themselves as voices of 'science,' but the reality is that they consistently misrepresent the facts."

Never trust them; verify instead.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Mainstream media television hosts are a bunch of pompous preening popinjays.

NOT SURPRISED: The Democratic Party is a threat to our safety.

Not surprised at all....

ONCE, CONVICTION MEANT DEATH AND MARTYRS FACED LIONS; today’s Left faces cameras.

And adulation.

TIM KAINE IS AN ASSHOLE: Bishop fires back after Democrat Senator claims God-given rights are 'extremely troubling'.

Stupid, to boot.

FAKE INDIAN gets her ass kicked.

THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS. Who did better, Biden or Trump?

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? Federal judges slam Supreme Court for overturning their Trump rulings.

They don't like being told they're no longer in charge.

NOW HE KNOWS WHO TO FIRE: Over 1,000 HHS employees sign letter demanding RFK Jr. resign.

It's not nearly enough, but it's a start....

INSTAPUNDIT: How we got the internet all wrong.

Banning AI tools isn’t realistic; the genie has escaped that bottle. But instead of allowing AI to drain higher education of its humanity, we must design a future where AI amplifies authentic human thinking. AI will be in the classroom — there’s no question about that. The urgent question is how to keep humanity there as well.

I hope we can, but I'm not sanguine about it.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] levels Gov's. Pritzker [IL] and Newsom [CA] on crime issues.

Kennedy is a master at hilariously defining Democrat shortcomings.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Europe in the balance?

It's a tipping point, certainly....

HERE'S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE on the ups and downs of EV design.

Electric cars were supposed to usher in a new era of automotive styling. The thought was that once finally freed from the age-old constraints dictated by the pipes and plumbing of internal combustion, EVs would offer a blank slate for designers to revolutionize the form and function of the automobile. Instead, the EV market today is dominated by an increasingly broad selection of battery-powered cars that all look more or less just like their gas-powered counterparts.

Aerodynamics rule....

FALLING LEAVES 2025 PREVIEW: My fall series will begin (for certain) by Oct 5th since we'll be gone until then.

In the meantime, here are a couple from late August, just before the leaves began to fall in earnest. This first is of our yard, where it seems the weakest trees are failing:

The next is of our pond, of which we now have a decent view by way of judicious tree trimming. The trees are still green but only because the winds have thinned the dead leaves out.

This last one is of the subdivision pond. It's still green and fairly thickly covered, mostly because it's well-protected from sun and wind.

Until October, when the series will resume.

TAKE THE NUCLEAR OPTION: Let Mamdani win the mayoral race so NYC can start over from scratch.

It worked in Detroit ... took a while, though.

STAY OUT OF OUR CLASSROOMS! New Jersey trying to mandate homeschoolers with DEI codswallop.

RANDOM THOUGHT for President Trump: Let's keep the noncriminal aliens and deport the Deep State's paid anti-American rioters instead.

A MUST READ: The track record of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Stunning. I knew it was bad when I checked the CDC website at the outset the COVID nightmare, but this .... this is appalling.

Here are some of the prior posts I've written about the CDC. Mostly they were during the COVID nightmare. Unfortunately the Blogger search function doesn't organize them by date but you can sense my dismay/disgust easily enough.

[Just Updated] Want more proof? Here it is. Linked from Instapundit.

BULLDOZERS SOUND GOOD TO ME. Portland mayor urges action on homelessness before Trump deploys bulldozers.

ANOTHER TRANSGENDER KILLER arrested at house with BLM, Palestine graffiti.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: The progressive pantheon of pathetic heroes.

YOU BRUNG 'EM: Democrats, please cry more about the new rules.

Now you have to live with them....

THANK YOU, PETE HEGSETH: Army ends bias reduction assessment program for officer selection.

REMEMBER THE TRUMP-HATING JUDGE who tried to block illegal aliens from being deported?

Well, he's back....

CANADIAN VOTERS get what they deserve.

On the bright side, the U.S. should soon be able to buy Canada for pennies on the dollar.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: California, the great destroyer.

DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS AS YOU LEAVE: Actress joins Hollywood exodus from U.S. after calling country a 'shit show'.

As a bonus for normal Americans, give up your U.S. citizenship....

THANK YOUR GOVERMENT-SPONSORED WELFARE STATE: Poll reflects low belief in the American dream getting ahead via hard work.

WE ALREADY HAVE the best carbon sequestration units - they're called trees.

MEMO FROM BOSSES TO ACTIVIST EMPLOYEES: STFU or ... (don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.)

CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD. Wisconsin youth sue state over climate change.

DHS SECRETARY KRISTY NOEM fires two dozen FEMA IT leaders and staff for failing to give a rip about security.

Don't just fix FEMA, drive a stake through its heart. Make that two stakes, just to be sure.

DEMOGRAPHICS ARE DESTINY: Prepare for the worst.

And buy guns.

Linked from Instapundit.