Happy Feet Friday

Charlie Barnet and the boys turn up the heat with "Mother Fuzzy".

I'm sure Albanese will get right on this

"Australia Cancels Christmas Rather Than Cancel Muslim Riots".

And there's also this: "Jewish bakery in Sydney shuts down after anti-Semitic threats following Bondi attack".

The bakery had faced nearly two years of persistent antisemitic harassment, including threats, vandalism, and intimidation. Management said the abuse continued even after the Bondi attack, ultimately forcing the decision to close. As a highly visible business operating long hours, the bakery said it could no longer protect its employees, patrons, or their families, calling the move a “heartbreaking” but necessary step.

I don't intend to single out Australia as being any worse than other places when it comes to creating these types of situations, largely via inadequate immigration controls; certainly, UK, France and the U.S. are guilty, probably far more so, when it comes to the same criminal indulgence of Muslim "sensibilities" and of not always backing up promises of security for the Jewish community. But outbreaks of anti-Semitism need to be highlighted when and where they occur; while the recent flaring up of this historical hatred appears to be driven largely by Muslims, the poison is spreading to elements of the non-Muslim population, as well, and suggests another ominous wave of the irrational in contemporary politics.

Also, based on comments from my Australian friends, it appears that the police did rather a more professional job in responding to the Biondi massacre than initially thought when I first posted on this tragedy, so I apologize for assuming that the initial reports were necessarily the last word on the subject. A couple of the police officers even took hits from the assassins and are in critical condition, so I wish them a full recovery.

Tardy, as usual

 

It can now be said! https://t.co/IMBRuwSKD6

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) December 16, 2025

Next week's fast-breaking story: "Maybe Walter Duranty wasn't as reliable as we thought". 

Just kidding, of course; the NYT will never admit that.

A worthy successor to Gavin Newsom

Frankly, I missed the news that noted Chinese Communist honey-trap "victim" Eric Swalwell was running for governor of California; or maybe I knew and was so completely uninterested, I forgot. Anyway. The guy is, not surprisingly, extremely lazy, as well as dumb: "Absentee Eric: No-Show Swalwell Adds Another Dubious Accomplishment to His Gubernatorial Campaign".

I just can't fathom how people can become so slavishly partisan as to keep heaving these scoundrels into elective office. The perversity of human nature, I suppose.

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

Too much bad news lately

Time to start getting into the spirit of the season with the Cats and the Fiddle and "Hep Cat's Holiday".

And here's a chaser, with Lionel Hampton and the boys playing the "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus".

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too?" "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"? "Let's roll"?

No, I don't believe there's a lot of mystery here. In spite of the Rhode Island authorities' reticence about mentioning what the shooter at Brown University shouted before he began his deadly work, witnesses have not been so shy: "Providence Police Chief Evades Questions, Refuses to Say What Brown Shooter Shouted Before Opening Fire as Reports Indicate He Yelled 'Allahu Akbar'".

Update  Per Ace, the intended target may have been one of the few campus conservatives, Ella Cook, Vice President of the College Republican Club.