Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

Bonus video! Some very interesting flooring.

Breaking news

 

BREAKING: The Trump administration’s ban on transgender service members has just been UPHELD by a US Appeals Court

Wokeness has no place in our military or institutions. pic.twitter.com/d8aicCsw99

— Jenny Beth Martin (@jennybethm) December 9, 2025

Is Eddie Murphy going to be in this movie?

Donk Rep. Jasmine Crockett is set to star in a brand new comedy - otherwise known as the Texas Democratic primary - with her news that she's got her eye on a Senate run: "Crockett's Trainwreck Announcement Underscores Why She's Not Ready for Prime Time".

Well, at least he can't have you shot, like one of his predecessors could have

"German Chancellor Merz Filed Hundreds of Criminal Complaints over Insults From Citizens".

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reportedly filed hundreds of criminal complaints against members of the public for insulting him during his tenure as a politician.

According to research conducted by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Merz is “one of the most sensitive politicians in the history” of the German republic.

Scheisskopf. Yes, that's what I said. I'll be waiting to hear from your Rechtsanwalt.

H/T: The mind is an unexplored country.

Update

"I'm sick of running Germany! Nag, nag, nag! I'm going back to Hollywood."

Variations on a theme

More from Robert Spencer on the Pope's naive view of Islam: "Pope Denounces ‘Fear’ of Islam".

The pope was no doubt unaware of the fact, but two weeks before he issued this call, an Islamic scholar in the pontiff’s home city of Chicago offered a radically different view. On Nov. 14, Mohammad Nusairat said: “Unfortunately, these days we don’t repeat this enough, or we don’t have this doctrinal concept firm in our minds – that Islam did not come to coexist.” He quoted Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, saying: “Islam is always superior and should never be surpassed.” Nusairat added: “Islam is raised high, and nothing is raised above Islam.”

I await His Holiness's formula for making friends with people whose religion defines peace as conquest. That strikes me as pretty much the definition of a zero sum game.

I prefer a slightly more muscular Christianity.

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America is getting to, or perhaps has passed, the "what's-the-point" stage

"Is Europe kaput? Washington says this is Europe’s last chance to choose".

The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy dropped last week, and if you are in Brussels or Berlin, you might want to pour yourself a stiff drink before reading it. This is not the usual diplomatic pablum about “shared values” and “transatlantic partnership.” This is an ultimatum dressed up as strategy, but will Europe listen?

The diagnosis is brutal but accurate: Continental Europe’s share of global GDP has collapsed from 25 per cent in 1990 to 14 per cent today. Cratering birthrates, migration-driven social fragmentation, and what the document calls “the real and more stark prospect of civilisational erasure” threaten to make the continent “unrecognisable in 20 years or less.” Washington’s message is simple: America will help defend a Europe that believes in itself, but not a civilisational hospice.

Europe is engaging in cultural suicide, and the EU is greasing the skids. It is, indeed, getting more difficult to see where America has a genuine interest in preserving some secular version of the late Holy Roman Empire. 

H/T: Friend and commenter JeffS