To my few but greatly appreciated readers: just a few minutes ago, I discovered, to my horror, that some of you left comments (some going back two years!) that were never read, hence never approved, and hence never posted. All of the comments should not only have been approved (I am hardly in the position of having to shift through thousands upon thousands of them) but also approved promptly. This has finally been done, but it hardly absolves your Tatler of his grievous fault. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. This will not happen again.
Your repentant Bickerstaff
Statue of Cain, by Henri Vidal, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
Satire has essentially been banned in the Golden State if it’s not to the liking, i.e., to the right, of Governor Nuisance’s views, and which he deems “election interference.” About time someone took him on. Bravo Bee!
. . . the supply of the world’s purest quartz, essential to the world economy, in tiny Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is completely cut off because of the recent hurricane. More than two feet of rain fell there.
First-responders carry a man who was wounded when his handheld pager exploded, at the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, September 17, 2024. AP
Jews have been around for forty centuries; Hezbollah and Hamas, the latest among their countless enemies over the centuries, for only four decades. While Jewish contributions to civilization are beyond counting, Hezbollah‘s and Hamas’s raisons d’être are solely to wipe Jews off the face of the earth, via committing hideous acts against them. They will not succeed.
That is not to say Jews in Israel do not commit violent acts themselves against their enemies, they do, but they are carefully planned to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, while taking out as many of the foe as possible. A story in today’s New York Sun illustrates the strategy nicely.
Pager Attack Against Hezbollah Fighters Seen as Possible Start of Major Mideast Escalation, Dousing White House Hopes
Israel is on high alert after thousands of Hezbollah fighters across Lebanon were injured by their pagers on Tuesday — in what might be the opening salvo of a major escalation, dousing White House hopes for Mideast calm before the November election. (italics added).
This is a good example of the resourcefulness of Jews, who have been fighting for the survival of the State of Israel since its founding in 1948 (and their civilization aeons before), after the Nazis had exterminated millions of them in Germany and elsewhere. While it may be unfortunate if this latest act by the Israelis leads to all-out warfare with Hamas/Hezbollah, they are forced to fend for themselves these days, as they have no allies in the Biden Administration, which insists the two sides be regarded as equals, though they are not, and whose sole concern is getting a cease fire signed by Election Day for bragging rights. It’s obvious Kamala and the Democrats don’t give a damn about our one true friend in the Middle East.
With or without US arms, Israel will eventually prevail over Hezbollah and its equally thuggish partner Hamas, through such brilliant and unconventional tactics like the sabotaging of pagers. We may be confident leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah wouldn’t have a clue how to pull off such a clever ploy, nor others similar. To put it bluntly, Jews are far smarter and more creative in Israel’s fight for survival than their enemies are for their annihilation.
Israel will win this war and Jews will survive, as they have for nearly 4000 years.
The stunning, simultaneous attack on thousands of Hezbollah terrorists by detonating their pagers had all the hallmarks of a highly complex covert operation — the kind that only Israel’s Mossad would have the means and motive to pull off, experts told The Post (italics added . . .
An unnamed insider told Sky News Arabia that Mossad intercepted Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terrorist group, slipping in the highly powerful Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive commonly used for military and demolition purposes.
“Mossad placed PETN explosives on the batteries, which were detonated by increasing the temperature,” the source told the outlet.
VILE: NBC, ABC Tie Second Trump Assassination Attempt to ‘Rhetoric’, and ‘Dogs and Cats’
As we exposed earlier, the Regime Media have wasted no time in blaming former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” for the second assassination attempt against him. The evening newscasts have now picked up MSNBC’s lead, tying the attempted shooting to the “dogs and cats rhetoric coming out of Springfield, Ohio.
Mainstream media is becoming more and more blatant in its hatred of Donald Trump. From making increasingly absurd and tenuous correlations between his putatively offensive remarks and the assassination attempts on him, it shouldn’t be long before they come right out and say it: Trump deserves to die.
Utterly shameless, MSM has lost all credibility and it’s no wonder fewer and fewer people get their news from it. Eventually, please, please, the networks will drop their news divisions owing to increased expenses caused by dwindling readership and viewers. With any luck loathsome news readers like Lester Holt and Linsey Davis will be retured. Certainly they will have deserved it.
[Former President Trump narrowly survived yet another assassination attempt after a sniper with a scoped AK-47 rifle got within a few hundred yards of him as he played golf at his West Palm Beach, Florida club on Friday.
It is the second time a madman armed with an assault rifle has tried to kill the 45th president in two months.
Here your Tatler, knowing precious little about this incident, will engage in audacious speculation about it.
A culprit has been arrested and we may be confident the crack propagandists at MSM are already digging deep to find right-wing causes to which he’s connected (wouldn’t it be fun if he is, like your Tatler, a regular attendee of the Traditional Latin Mass, whom the FBI have deemed a “national security threat?”). They will then gin up a convoluted yarn how the perp may be a hard right extremist, but still is in the same boat as Trump, the implication being no one on the left would engage in such a violent act.
Should however those make-believe reporters discover the perp is indeed a left-winger, that will make their job easier; they’ll shove him into the background and launch yet another demand for the banning of so-called “assault weapons” (the culprit was carrying an AK-47).
Two things we may be sure of, even if your Tatler’s predictions turn out to be cut from whole cloth: there will be zero mention of the left’s pathological hatred of Donald Trump, and the former president’s Secret Service detail will not be increased.
The lead singer of iconic rock band Jane’s Addiction got into a fight with guitar player Dave Navarro in the middle of a show in Boston on Friday night.
Front man Perry Farrell was barking into the mic before marching over to guitarist Dave Navarro and slugging him – sparking a brawl and stopping the show mid-song.
A drunken front man of a has-been rock ‘n’ roll band slugs one of his band members; this is news?
Pope Francis to children: “All religions are paths to reach God … some are Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christians; they are different ways to God.”
Saint Cyprian of Carthage (200-258), an early Church Father, instructs us: ex Ecclesiam nulla salus; outside the Church there is no salvation, which is Church dogma, an immutable divine truth. Apparently Francis feels differently. Interestingly, he omitted the Jews from his list, presumably because he knows many would be bemused at best, deeply offended at worst, by such a remark. Bickerstaff also wonders how an imam might react to it. Not positively, he suspects.
Look for some furious backpeddling soon from the Vatican–again.
CNN — The 14-year-old shooter who confessed to killing four people last week at Apalachee High School in Georgia was allowed to leave his classroom with his belongings before returning with [an AR-15] in his backpack, the state Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.
Thanks to Charles Glasser of Instapundit for breaking this fascinating account. He kindly provides an explanatory illustration used by know-nothing CNN reporters, and their similarly handicapped peers in government, when drafting stories on the subject of guns.
THE TAOS TATLER. 