"Candy Gram for Mongo!" Mel Brooks joins with Mossad, and the results are knee-slapping hilarious

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“You’ll laugh! they’ll cry! box office magic!”

Exploding Pagers Injure Hundreds of Hezbollah Members

BEIRUT—Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded at about the same time Tuesday afternoon, leaving more than 2,700 injured and eight dead in an unprecedented event that struck across Lebanon.

The affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, people familiar with the matter said. A Hezbollah official said hundreds of fighters had such devices, speculating that malware may have caused the devices to explode. The official said some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them before they burst.

UPDATE: FWIW’s foreign affairs correspondent in New Mexico has an upbeat view of how all this will work out, eventually. That’s an optimism I don’t share, because I believe the there is no possible solution to the conflict short of mutual annihilation — Israel will not agree to commit suicide, the Palestinians, Iranians, et al won’t stop short of Israel’s complete destruction and erasure from the fce of the earth, so … boom.

But we’ll hope that the view from the mountain tops is better than here.

Well, duh — everyone knows that the Israels would kill them; EVERYONE knows THAT!

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"Where's Muhammad?" 

Jerusalem Post: The only safe space for LGBT Palestinians is Israel - opinion

In Gaza, where the leaders of Hamas-ISIS use innocent civilians as human shields, homosexuality is illegal and grounds for execution.

Blumenthal (D. Conn) said the American public would be as shocked as he and his fellow Senators were when the details of the DHS's incompetence were revealed. The report is now public.

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• Majority of DHS personnel unfamiliar with security protocols

• Only training received by many HSI agents was a single two-hour webinar

• Law enforcement was supposed to be on roof where Crooks shot Trump, post was abandoned

• Night before the rally, Secret Service denied offers to utilize Butler County's drones

• USS Counter Surveillance Division (CSD) did not perform routine pre-event surveillance

• Gunman would have been handcuffed after being spotted with range finder if USS CSD present

• Secret Service lead agent lacked competence and experience

• Secret Service preemptively informed Pittsburgh field office the Butler rally was not going to receive additional security resources

Hawley's whistleblower report concludes:

"Two months have now elapsed since former President Donald J. Trump was nearly assassinated. And the American people still know far too little about why this happened."

"The Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security have not been forthcoming with the American people. Far from it: they have closed ranks, refused to confirm or deny whistleblower allegations, and resisted meaningful oversight. In fact, sources with direct knowledge of Secret Service’s own internal investigation have alleged to Senator Hawley that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on Secret Service not to comply with document requests from Congress." [...]

"Left alone, these agencies will not reform themselves. They will continue to stonewall and obfuscate. Plainly, it is now up to Congress and the President to clean house at these failing agencies at the earliest possible opportunity."

Just sayin'

Remember when all the best people scoffed at the notion that the Replacement Theory was a right-wing myth? They lied. (UPDATED)

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Coming to our rescue: "As many communities struggle with labor shortages in key professions like teachers, nurses, and doctors, refugees have a critical role to play in filling staffing gaps."

Nearly 500 Elected Officials Call for MORE Migrants to Be Admitted

David Striom, HotAir:

As the open borders crowd takes this opportunity to make their case, they have fallen into a trap: exposing their agenda to flood the country with noncitizens who need welfare, get rent subsidies, drive up housing costs, and drive wages for Americans down. 

Yep. We are importing Haitian doctors and teachers. Uh-huh. 

UPDATE: If you follow the link to the original X post and scroll down the replies, you’ll find, alphabetically by state and name, a complete list of the signatories.

I won't say I'm ready to buy an AR-15, but it wouldn't surprise me if others are taking out insurance for the post-election years

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Justice elana Kagan: last bastion of liberty

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit: EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: The Supreme Court Trump Leaks Are Worse Than the Dobbs Leak.

First, this leak is far worse than the Dobbs leak. In Dobbs, one or more people exfiltrated a draft opinion from inside the Court, and somehow that opinion made its way to Politico. (Maybe Jodi Kantor can tell us how that happened!) It was devastating for the draft decision to become public, and it nearly led to the assassination of Justice Kavanaugh. But the aftermath of the leak was swift and overwhelming: the Court was placed on lockdown, and a sweeping investigation was launched to find the culprit(s). But the Trump leaks are systematic and thorough. We have insights of confidential memoranda, detailed conversations at conferences, KBJ’s changed vote, Justice Alito losing the Fischer majority, and information about many Roberts clerks were working on the case. This tapestry would require insights from so many different people. Moreover, all of this comes after the Dobbs leak when Chief Justice Roberts (apparently) put strict limitations on access to Court information. What did all of those measures accomplish? Apparently not much.

Second, and I alluded to this point in my earlier post, Justice Kagan is absent from this reporting. There is absolutely nothing about what she thought or did during these deliberations. There are insights into all of the other eight Justices, but nothing on Kagan. This isn’t new. Back in the day when Biskupic got the scoops, Kagan was also largely absent. I think it likely that Kagan, or at least Kagan surrogates, are behind these leaks. If Kagan is willing to publicly undermine her colleagues in a speech at the Ninth Circuit, why would she do any less off-the-record? Moreover, this entire story is consistent with Kagan’s MO, and describing the Court as bending over backwards for Trump. On that point, I would be willing to place a bet that the three Trump appointees rule against Trump in any election case that comes to the high court. Like in the tax return cases, Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett will gladly knock Trump off the scene and declare their independence. Would you take the opposite bet?

Reynolds:

That’s probably the goal. Though ruling in a particular way to demonstrate your independence is the antithesis of independence. And doing it out of fear is just another species of corruption.

But if every institution has been corrupted, then every institution is corrupt. And if every institution is corrupt, how much loyalty do they deserve from the citizenry? And if the answer is “not much,” then what right does the current government have to exist?

Glenn Reynolds is a sober, calm, law professor who’s written an enormous number of scholarly legal articles as well as keeping his very intelligent blog InstaPundit going since 2001; if he’s worried, so am I.

A buyer's rep will tell them what's in store two lots down — when those reps disappear, don't count on the listing agent to (voluntarily) disclose it; she’s not allowed to, by law.

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