Mr. President, please make sure you allocate enough money to hand out pink slips to as many federal bureaucrats as possible - particularly to those living in Northern Virginia.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Give me twenty, maggot!
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth passed along a few, er, mild observations to an assemblage of brass hats today: "Pete Hegseth Torches 'Fat Generals, Low Standards, Gender Delusions' During Remarks to Military Leaders".
“This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department, to rip out the politics,” Hegseth said. “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions, no more debris, said before, and we'll say again, we are done with that sh*t.”
Extremely refreshing, I must say. I don't know if we'll ever enjoy this level of muscular conservatism again, but I'm sure going to enjoy it while it lasts.
Update Haw! A real soldier responds to one of Bill Kristol's typically snarky comments.
Retired Army colonel here. Three combat tours. 60% disabled per the VA. Spent most of my tactical career in the 82nd Airborne.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 30, 2025
Please read what I am about to say with the sneering condescension with which I intend it:
Mr. Kristol, you are a grifter. Worse, you are a lying… https://t.co/FNE9cJsX9D
Good luck with that
Israel Agrees to Trump's Plan to End Gaza War, But You Can Guess Who's Going to Torpedo It
We’re back to this game again. Israel wants to end the war, but Hamas needs to sign off—and they won’t. It’s the same nonsense that’s scuttled innumerable ceasefire agreements. It’s almost as if you can’t trust terrorists, which is something the liberal media, Democrats, and college students don’t understand, albeit the latter party is so antisemitic that they don’t care. If Hamas is that entrenched in Gazan society, then it should be excised.
American presidents always get seduced by the siren song of peace in the Middle East, and usually the results are either ineffective or disastrous.
The first mistake is allowing the concerns of Palestinians and their supporters to take a position, front and center, among all the other international concerns in the world. Why, for example, is a resolution of the Palestinian issue more important than stopping the Muslim genocide against Christians in Nigeria, and Christians and Druze in Syria? Devoting as much time and effort (and blood and treasure) to solving the Palestinian problem simply tends to give credibility to their (mostly imagined) grievances.
In the second place, an agreement such as the one proposed depends largely on the acquiescence of Hamas and other intransigent groups. Palestine has always been used to get leverage over us by a variety of enemies (ours and Israel's); does anybody really think that our foes are eager to remove this thorn from our heel? Plus, as long as Hamas is permitted to continue its existence as a political unit, peace will ultimately prove to be impossible.
With all due respect, Mr. President, this is not equivalent to doing a big New York real estate deal. Fanatics exist in a world that has its own, unique logic, however twisted, and Hamas and its supporters are not speaking the same language that you are, and undoubtedly will keep acting in bad faith. I wish you well in your endeavors, and maybe this is another version of multidimensional chess that is beyond my comprehension (e.g., maybe you're setting Hamas up for the blame when this fails) but my estimation of the prospects for success? Low.
Monday, September 29, 2025
The left-wing rebellion must be put down
There have been so many instances of left-wing violence over the last decade that I can't keep up with them. Here's one I didn't recall: "35-Year-Old Domestic Terrorist Who Firebombed UC Berkeley and Oakland Federal Building Gets Nearly 20 Years in Prison".
Update: From Veeshir, in the comments:
He fire-bombed Berkeley. Berkeley hoist by their own retard.
In the UK...
...the police are really becoming a big part of the problem.
Union flag ripped from a young girl's hands today in Newcastle.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 27, 2025
As not to "offend" the foreigners and communists shouting "nazi" at them?!pic.twitter.com/7IYDmNNej1
Classical corner
In 1797, Joseph Haydn wrote a patriotic anthem celebrating the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. The music, with different lyrics, was subsequently adopted by several countries as an imperial anthem, including the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was also adopted as an anthem by Imperial Germany, and continues as the music for Germany's national anthem today. Sadly, the strains are probably best known in connection with the Nazis' "Deutschland über Alles", a few bars of which were frequently used in WWII movies to underscore the presence of SS or Wehrmacht officers.
The music is typical of the majestic melodies and dignified cadences of the 18th century, and this is my favorite instrumental version. The video incorporates scenes from the 1955 romantic period drama, Sissi, about the woman who married Franz Joseph I and became Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Breaking local news
"Three killed, eight injured in shooting at Southport Yacht Basin".
Three people are dead and eight others are injured after a shooting at the Southport Yacht Basin.
The City of Southport posted an emergency notice on social media shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27.
The City of Southport spokesperson stated that three people were killed when someone opened fire at the basin Saturday night. The current conditions of the eight other people who were injured are unknown.
People on Facebook are saying that the shooting occurred at or near a seafood restaurant (The American Fish Company), which is just a few miles from where I live. Another reason I'm glad I don't eat seafood.
God bless the souls of the dead and help the injured to recover. Story is developing.
Update According to new information coming in, the shots came from a boat that motored up to the dockside restaurant, the shooter spraying the crowd outside with bullets.
Update II Found on Facebook (source of info not indicated):
Sunday funnies
The consequences of being a nag.
Friday, September 26, 2025
Look what President Trump accidentally stumbled over
Cool shell formation found on beach walk pic.twitter.com/VuouLGFG0m
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2025
Hey, I just bought something from Australia that most Australians can't buy...
...not without jumping through a lot of hoops, anyway. It's a Glock Gen 3, model 27, one of the so-called "baby Glocks", chambered in .40 S&W.
Yet another left-wing billionaire bent on ruining America
This one's a Brit - or, as our Australian friends might say, a pommie bastard: "Meet The British Billionaire Bankrolling Leftist Causes Across America"
Left-wing politics have utterly destroyed the once-respected nation of Great Britain. And now, its elites are seeking to subsidize these same destructive ideologies throughout the United States.
On Wednesday, the good government group Americans for Public Trust (APT) released a bombshell report unearthing the extensive financial activity of British billionaire Christopher Hohn in U.S. political causes. Through the use of his nonprofit, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Hohn has “funneled over $553 million into U.S. organizations from 2014 through 2023 to bankroll advocacy campaigns and push a radical green energy agenda,” according to the analysis.
Maybe it's time to start secretly arming the show-the-flag people in the UK.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Happy Feet Friday
Here's tenor sax man James Moody and his crew with "The Fuller Bop Man", from 1948.
Bonus video! Greetings, comrades! Is now an example of Soviet swing I am presenting, from 1939. Music to purge by!
Don't encourage them, Babylon Bee
Ammo Company Unveils New Giant Shell Casing With More Room For Left-Wing Terrorists To Write Out All Their Motives In Detail https://t.co/UODVtUKKac pic.twitter.com/JglLygtDOj
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 25, 2025
And to start the weekend off with a bang...
"Former FBI Director James Comey Has Been Indicted".
As they say, "the process is the punishment", so even if Comey isn't convicted, this is likely to be one long, bumpy expensive ride.
Run with the ball, Mr. President!
Schumer wants to shut down the government, demanding absurd, completely non-starter things like extending Medicare to illegal aliens. In the event of a government shutdown, President Trump has considerable leeway to freeze spending - including not just furloughing federal workers, but eliminating their positions permanently: "Nice Swamp Ya Got There, Chuck. Shame If Something Happened to It."
The White House’s budget office directed federal agencies to draw up plans to permanently reduce their workforces if there is a government shutdown next week, raising the specter of mass firings on top of the customary furloughs during a lapse in funding.
The new memo sent by Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought sharply raises the stakes for funding talks and increases the pressure on Senate Democrats, who are demanding that Republicans restore hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare spending as a condition of their support for keeping the government funded.
This is the best opportunity for delivering Northern Virginia from the leftist chokehold on state and national elections in decades. Once the bureaucrats and government lawyers are canned en masse, there won't be any reason for them to hang around Fairfax and Arlington.
I can't imagine any other Republican hopeful doing this, with the possible exception of Vance. We've waited for - how many years, now? Twenty? Thirty? - for Republicans to turn and charge the Democrats, and it's finally happening. I don't know how long it will last, but it's a glorious thing to see.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Looks just like him
The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) September 24, 2025
Wait for it… 🖊️👀 pic.twitter.com/ApWfdxfFQa
This is why I voted for Trump
It's one of the reasons, anyway: "James Comey to be Indicted in Coming Days".
Haw! I wonder if they make an orange jumpsuit in his size.
Bonus indictment: Letitia James is Expected to be Indicted “In the Coming Days”.
Man, this karma is so sweet, you could pour it over pancakes.
The latest in left-wing fashion accessories
Engraved bullets seem to be all the rage these days. A shooter killed two innocent people at an ICE detention center in Dallas, Texas this morning, before turning the gun on himself.
His cartridges were engraved, or etched, with anti-ICE messages. You will recall that the cartridges found in the rifle of the murderer of Charlie Kirk also had leftwing messages on them.
Perhaps the killers are getting tired of the lamestream media routinely announcing that "we may never know the motives of the shooter". They want credit where credit is due.
To serve and protect...
...and disseminate leftwing propaganda: "Antifa Cop Fired Over Insane Social Media Posts".
A North Carolina police officer who declared he was “Antifa” in a post on the social media app BlueSky was fired Monday by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, according to the News & Observer.
Ah, yes, Orange County, the home of UNC, and an electorate that gave Harris/Walz 74% of its vote. Another lovely area ruined by a predominantly leftist population.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
You get to a point where you have to wonder...
...do these psychos really have any interest in Palestinians at all, or is the cry, "Free Palestine!" now little more than shouting "Banzai!" or screaming like a Comanche warrior raiding a homestead? "Gunman Shouting “Free Palestine” Opens fire at New Hampshire Country Club".
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An old insurance company safety video. I am now afraid to get out of my chair.
Monday, September 22, 2025
Venezuela's really pulling out all the stops to meet the Trump threat
I think this app is already widely used
I built an app so you can ALWAYS blame Israel.
— David Keyes (@DavidMKeyes) September 17, 2025
Now available on the App Store. pic.twitter.com/nQ1cHHhpri
Some good reasoning...
...embedded in some very amusing prose: "stochastic carry".
i am coming to the inescapable conclusion that there is some sort of dunning krueger effect for midwits where they are irresistably drawn to building mountaintop fortresses atop mount stupid. they presume themselves to be engaging in complete thought because they have arrived at some rudimentary understanding of cause and effect and are using it to bray “nuh uh!” at people and play at contrarian.
i fear this is an increasingly trained reflex, the specific sort of barking that one gets from a specific kind of seal sent to university and sold a bill of goods about “you are an intellectual and a thought leader now” despite being mired in the callow gotchaball of first order thinking.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Turning point
I checked in, from time to time, on the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, and it was extremely impressive.
I was bowled over by Charlie Kirk's wife, Erica. Erica Kirk's speech was, in my opinion, magnificent, a riveting tribute, a solemn display of grief, and a message of hope. When she paused and looked up and softly said - almost whispered - "God help me", then proceeded to say "I forgive him" (speaking of the assassin) it was one of the most sublime Christian acts I have ever witnessed, and I honor her for that, without qualification and with all due humility.
Yeah, rewarding terror, that ought to work
"UK, Australia, and Canada Recognize Palestine as a State".
One day before the beginning of the Rosh Hashanah Jewish New Year celebrations, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that the UK would recognize Palestine statehood. The move pre-empted plans from France to back the measure this week at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.
Starmer’s telegraphed announcement was preempted by fellow G7 nation Australia and Canada, both of which announced Sunday they would also recognize the territory as a state shortly before Starmer’s statement.
One day before the beginning of Rosh Hashanah. Nice touch, Starmer.
In other pro-Palestine news, "Gunman Shouting ‘Free Palestine’ Attacks New Hampshire Wedding; One Dead".
Sunday funnies
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Let's get a reading on that
Whoa! Chicago mayor Johnson is redlining again!
"Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Law Enforcement is a ‘Sickness’ That Hasn’t Led to Safer Cities"
Canada's death cult
So, too, for some in the Canadian medical community, the depths of MAiD’s abhorrent moral abyss must be plumbed ever further. As CatholicVote reports, “The Quebec College of Physicians recently told the Daily Mail that it still regards euthanasia as an ‘appropriate treatment’ for infants with disabilities and severe medical syndromes.” So much for the patient’s “informed consent,” which will instead be delegated to parents and, quite probably, doctors. Like the vile Nazi doctors who exterminated the disabled, the Canadian proponents assert their altruistic aims for engaging in this heinous practice. But the habits of the heart know better. There are no good intentions in paving MAiD’s road to Hell.
From a guy who's really got his head screwed on straight
Victor Davis Hanson on "the turning point".
Friday, September 19, 2025
Looks like this fiend may have shuffled off this mortal coil
The guy killed his own little daughters, and then disappeared into the wilderness. For weeks, there was no news.
Until now: "Human remains believed to be Travis Decker found in Washington state, authorities say".
I don't see how Decker ever got partial custody, unless he masked the extent of his insanity with extreme skill. May God have mercy on the souls of the little girls. Decker will now face God's judgement, having cheated our judicial system out of the chance to render its own.
H/T: Mrs. Paco
If we could just make this one guy do time, it would make me happy
You think James Comey was corrupt?
— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) September 16, 2025
Just wait — Christopher Wray covered up Obama’s attempted overthrow in 2016, oversaw the overthrow in 2020, and covered up the overthrow on January 6,
• Christopher Wray had the 2020 election server.
• Christopher Wray had Huma… pic.twitter.com/u3aMCYRmgD
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Happy Feet Friday
Here's "Jitterbug's Lullaby", with saxophonist Johnny Hodges and his "orchestra": in reality, a small group consisting of musicians in Duke Ellington's band, including the Duke himself on piano, Johnny Hodges on soprano saxophone, Cootie Williams, with his signature muted trumpet, and Larry Brown performing an extraordinarily smooth trombone solo.
The U.S. educational system, with an assist from the Democratic Party and the media, has really worked its magic
"Two Thirds of Democrats Approve of Socialism--a 30 Point Jump in Net Approval in 15 Years".
I'm thinking I could make a fortune selling Che t-shirts to these idiots. Profit for me, plus the benefit to law enforcement of self-identification of commies.
And for those lukewarm socialists who are waiting to see which way the wind blows and may want to preserve plausible deniability, we could market this version:
How to salvage a magazine in decline
Interesting: "Rothschild Family Exploring Sale Of Their Stake in The Economist Magazine".
Any sale would represent the most dramatic change in ownership for the 182-year-old weekly since 2015, when British education publisher Pearson sold the majority of its 50% stake alongside its sale of The Financial Times. The magazine was founded in 1843 and has enjoyed Rothschild investment ever since.
However, overall readership has been in decline for at least a decade, which is the likely reason for the sale of shares by longtime benefactors. In 2015 The Economist maintained an audience of 1.6 million; that has fallen to 1.2 million in 2025, similar to reader numbers the outlet held in the early 2000s.
The magazine's predictable drift toward the Left probably isn't helping, either.
So, I'm thinking that this might be a good investment for Paco Enterprises. With a change in title, format and orientation, I believe we can get that circulation up...
Note: long-time readers may recall that this image appeared in one of this blog's earliest gags.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Lying sack of cholesterol gets the boot
"ABC, Disney, Nexstar Pull Jimmy Kimmel Over TV Host’s Comments on Charlie Kirk Assassination".
Lots of people getting fired. All they had to do was not lie, not embarrass their employers. Do saints hate the devil more than leftists hate Donald Trump and his supporters?
Jubilation!
The second half of my cotton crop is in!
Working-with-your-hands Wednesday
Made during WWII by the Union Switch and Signal Company, which converted to manufacturing firearms as part of the war effort, this silent 16mm film documents the production of .45 automatics. These weapons are "carved out of steel" through a variety of techniques including machine forging. The film traces all aspects of manufacture, testing, and finally railroad shipping of the completed and tested weapons.
Bonus video! Carrying your credit card on your finger.
Happy Constitution Day (and also Citizen Day)!
Our constitution is much besieged by commies and idiots (quite a bit of overlap, there), but it still stands and we are now engaged in a great attempt at revitalization. God be with us!
And my little naturalized citizen, Mrs. Paco, celebrates 41 years as a proud American, having been sworn in by Vice President George H.W. Bush at a monster ceremony at the Orange Bowl in Miami in 1984.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
You need a bigger broom, Mr. Patel
But we're the ones whose heads are filled with paranoid conspiracy theories?
Mmmm. Who's cooking pork chops?
Oh, wait, that's not pork chops; it's just this terrorist pig roasting over the coals down below. "Mahmoud Afana: ‘I Killed Ten Jews’".
Of all the 6,000 Hamas terrorists who smashed into Israel on October 7, 2023, one who remains in the memory for the special fiendishness of his behavior was Mahmoud Afana, who after having murdered to his heart’s content, called his parents to announce excitedly to them that “I’ve killed ten Jews.” Not Israelis. Jews. And what’s more, he also sent them — a thoughtful son — videos on WhatsApp of the corpses. For their delectation. For them to be proud of their son. And they were clearly very proud.
His parents must really be proud of him, now:
700 days later, Mahmoud Afana has been dispatched by an Israeli airstrike to the Mohammedan heaven for “martyrs,” where he will be serviced in perpetuity by 72 dark-eyed houris.
I hope they all look like Helen Thomas.
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Monday, September 15, 2025
Be on the lookout for rainbow-colored berets
"Armed Queers group trains radical Marxists to shoot just miles from where Charlie Kirk was murdered".
Amid the snow-capped mountains and Mormon churches of Utah, not far from where FBI agents continue to scour for more evidence in Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a self-described armed revolutionary group openly aligned with Cuba has risen up on the streets of one of America’s most conservative states.
How delightfully ironic that this group has drawn its inspiration from Marxist Cuba - a country that at one time segregated gay political prisoners from the rest in a separate labor camp, which, in a chilling echo of the sign over Dachau - "Work Will Make You Free" ("Arbeit Macht Frei") - had a sign over the entrance saying "Work Will Make Men of You".
How many of these termites continue to infest our military?
I don't feel safe with people like this put in positions of authority in the armed forces - not only because they're leftists, but also because they're morons. I mean, how stupid do you have to be not to know that, in the current environment, you're just setting yourself up for career suicide?
Classical corner
The "Commendatore" scene from Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni. Samuel Ramey stars as Giovanni, and Kurt Moll performs the part of the Commendatore.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
So, maybe the UK might not be lost, yet?
Police have just announced there is around 3 million people at Unite The Kingdom March. 👏✊🙏✌️
— Benonwine (@benonwine) September 13, 2025
The Left could only dream of those numbers, they are out battled and out numbered.
The British People are AWAKE! 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/VzEnBI5LXi
Could be a frightened police dept. overestimated the number, but, still, looks like an awful lot of people. It would be cool if they all broke out in song; maybe "Men of Harlech" or "The Son of God Goes Off to War" or "The Minstrel Boy".
Sunday funnies
Watching TV with your Scottish dad.
The late, great Jonathan Winters.Saturday, September 13, 2025
Well, that's embarrassing
"Joe Biden Can’t Find Donors For His Presidential Library".
Former President Joe Biden is running into a problem in his nascent effort to raise money for a presidential library: Donors are checked out.
Most of the more than half a dozen people who were once major Biden donors or bundlers who spoke with NBC News said they harbored no ill will toward Biden himself but either wouldn’t give to the library or would give only a token amount.
Here's an idea, guys: think small...
Just do it!
"Senior Trump Official Declares War On Far-Left NGOs Sowing Chaos Nationwide".
These leftist groups have waged nonstop color revolution operations against the administration, brainwashed an entire generation in schools, and pushed destructive, nation-killing progressive policies (criminal justice reform) that have transformed some of America's cities into, as Trump puts it, "hellholes." They supported an open border that resulted in the greatest land invasion ever, flooding tens of millions of third-worlders into this nation. It's as if these groups, some funded by rogue billionaires outside the U.S., such as in Communist China (read more at the end of this note), want to see the destruction of the U.S. by sowing social instability in what appears to be irregular warfare.
Dust off the RICO Act and go get them, now! We'll never have a better opportunity.
Friday, September 12, 2025
Republicans need to stop just "taking it"
"Assassinations Will Continue Until The GOP Creates Real Consequences For Leftist Violence".
Mike Cernovich put it this way on X: “The weakness of the GOP led us to this moment. A mass shooter attempted to murder dozens of Republican congress members. Few people even know this happened. Republicans ‘just took it,’ as they always do. And now Charlie Kirk is dead. Recognize what time it is or resign.”
If Democrats won't take violence off the table, then violence they shall have.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
He says that like it's a good thing
Sure, pal, what could possibly go wrong? Except that I'll have the DEA, the sheriff's department and the State Bureau of Investigation dropping by to talk to me about my Texas Star hibiscus plants several times a month.
Today is Patriot Day
A day to remember the attacks on American soil carried out on September 11, 2001 by Islamic fanatics, and to honor the victims who perished that day.
Patriotism is something we could sure use more of, as increasingly ignorant generations continue to take for granted their birthright of liberty. Our most dangerous enemies today are striking from within, and their motivations are becoming more insane by the day. Be vigilant, be on guard, and stay safe.
Dicktator
Desperate Venezuelan Dictator Maduro Advances Christmas to October 1st for the Second Year in a Row.
Looks like Maduro has seen one too many Woody Allen movies.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
More violence
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot today at an event in Utah. Ace of Spades is all over it, including the aggregation of comments being spewed by our canting leftwing media, which is now operating like a more or less free-standing version of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
We offer our prayers for Charlie Kirk's survival and recovery, and speedy justice for his would-be * assassin (btw, the post behind the first link above shows the suspect detained by the cops; he looks to be in his sixties or seventies, and resembles Bernie Sanders without the combover).
*Kirk reportedly has died. God rest his soul.
Also, the man previously detained apparently is not the shooter. The assassin is still at large.
Related
Yes, I can personally verify this
I miss the WWN. My wife and I used to buy it at the grocery store every week. We have no source of factual, hard-hitting news anymore.
I can relate. Many's the time, while standing in line at the grocery store, that I would browse through the Weekly World News, sometimes laughing out loud at the headlines. Some of my favorites:
Cat eats parrot, talks.
Russian oil workers accidentally drill into hell, hear screams of the damned.
Woman's bra snaps, nine injured.
And here's a gem I just found on the internet:






































