Welcome to The Cruelest Day, Tuesday, October 13, 2026 as well as National Yorkshire Pudding Day. I don’t have a picture of this delectable treat, always served in England with the Sunday roast, but here are two plump puddings from Wikipedia as part of the whole dinner:
It’s also Ada Lovelace Day, English Language Day, International Day for Failure, National M&M Day, and National No Bra Day.
And in Illinois we’re busy voting by mail:
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the October 13 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
*The WSJ describes how the Houthis, proxies of Iran, are making big trouble for Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman started the year on a high note. He had just visited the White House where he was embraced by President Trump. Even after the war with Iran kicked off, Saudi Arabia looked relatively well positioned. It could export oil through a pipeline that bypassed the blocked Strait of Hormuz.
But the Saudis’ escalating fight with Iran-backed Houthi militants in neighboring Yemen now poses new challenges to the kingdom’s security and the crown prince’s ambitious but already struggling plans to transform the country’s oil-dependent economy.
On Saturday, at least one Houthi missile slammed into the Saudi capital’s international airport, killing at least 13 people and injuring hundreds more, many seriously. It was the single deadliest attack on the U.S. or its Gulf allies in the conflicts related to the Iran war. A 28-year-old Egyptian flight attendant bled to death after her arm was blown off, one of several victims to lose limbs, officials briefed on the attack said.
. . .As recently as this summer, Saudi officials briefed journalists that the Houthi situation was under control. But the militants’ escalating attacks, which they say are retaliation for Saudi actions against them, have hit airports and energy facilities—including the kingdom’s main east-west pipeline and refineries—showing the growing threat along the southern border.
The conflict is jeopardizing Saudi efforts to build travel and tourism into a pillar of the economy, including a marquee international investment conference scheduled for the end of the month that is now increasingly in doubt. The costs of the war have already widened the budget deficit and threaten to push the economy into contraction.
How Prince Mohammed handles this test will have consequences that stretch well beyond the kingdom. Saudi Arabia is a major source of funding for the global tech industry and artificial intelligence projects. It is also a crucial provider of basing and overflight rights to the U.S. military.
. . . The Saudi leader has few good options, said Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a Persian Gulf expert and fellow with Rice University’s Baker Institute. “Any military response risks getting drawn in deeper to an asymmetric conflict in which the Houthis have shown they have the ability to inflict significant and symbolic damage.”
It’s surprising that the Saudis, with a big army and a crack air force, is the weaker side in an “asymmetric conflict”. It would become less asymmetrical if the U.S. joined with the Saudis, as Trump has intimated in the last few days. But we get very little of our oil from Saudi Arabia (most imported oil comes from Canada), so, given his concern for gas and diesel prices (driving him into the arms of Putin), Trump may not decide to help out the Saudis. On the other hand, the oil market would react strongly to a closure of the Red Sea and the Suez Canal—something that the Houthis have the potential to do.
*Abdul el-Sayed, an Islamist Democrat running for Senate in Michigan, is well known for evading hard questions about his affection for Iran, is taken apart at the Free Press in a piece by Audrey Fahlberg called, “Abdul El-Sayed’s Unanswered Questions.”
Few things seem to infuriate Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed more than questions about the Iranian regime.
During a press gaggle last Thursday afternoon in Grand Rapids, I asked him whether he regrets comments he made on a private campaign strategy call in March. That’s when he said, according to The Washington Free Beacon, that “I just don’t want to comment” on the assassination of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today” about his death.
Before I finished my question, he cut in to insist that the topic is completely “irrelevant” to the Senate race. The leaked audio, he explained, is “not relevant to people’s lives,” and he’s “just not interested in this dog and pony show” solely intended to create media “clicks.”
. . .El-Sayed’s sensitivity to questions about the Iranian regime is revealing, as is his short fuse. This progressive Democrat’s campaign platform revolves around Medicare for All, getting corporate money out of politics, and ending U.S. military aid to Israel. He insists that questions about Iran are a distraction from issues voters care more about, like healthcare and the cost of living, even though, as I reminded him during our roughly one-minute exchange, he spent the entire primary campaign talking about foreign policy—railing against Israel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and the Iran war.
Our exchange is part of a broader pattern for El-Sayed, who has repeatedly declined to disavow the Iranian regime. He dodged questions during a town hall last month about whether he would renounce people who held vigils for Ayatollah Khamenei and whether he stands “unequivocally against” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism. El-Sayed will not directly say whether he believes Israel or Iran is a bigger threat to America, calling it a “dumb question” to a News Nation reporter last week and a “ridiculous hypothetical”on the debate stage Thursday evening.
“Both of them have proven dangerous in their own way,” he said during the debate when pressed by a moderator on Israel and Iran. “One at risk of attacking us, one getting us into wars we have no business fighting.”
And here’s a scary statement:
Progressives believe El-Sayed will be a bellwether for the future of the Democratic Party. “What we do is that we break open the entire political calculus in America—period,” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said at a recent New York fundraiser, according to The New York Times. “If Abdul can win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere. Anywhere.”
Like a good politician, El-Sayed is skilled at evading questions that require him to make a moral judgment, like his refusal to say that Iran is a bigger threat to America than Israel, which is palpably true. Like Mamdani, Omar (see below) and Tlaib, I think he’s a somewhat covert Jew-hater and Israel-hater—people who, when they’re not “progressive,” are siding with terrorists or dissing Israel. Here’s the tweet that links to “short fuse” above:
Here’s El-Sayed arguing with a t.v. interviewer at the “short fuse” link above. Surely campaigning with the odious Hasan Piker says something:
Abdul has a TEMPER TANTRUM when pressed about his close association with Hasan Piker. I’ve never seen a candidate blow up like this at a host. Abdul has a bad temper… just ask that shopkeeper…
We can’t have this radical extremist as our Senator!! https://t.co/UKrvjPlsxi
— Democrats For Mike Rogers (@DemsForMike) October 10, 2026
He’ll win, though, for the Democrats have lost it.
*Over at It’s Noon in Israel, Amit Segal describes how Hamas (and the world’s media) are using dead Hamas terrorists as examples of Israel’s genocide.
It’s Monday, October 12, and it took a Holocaust scholar six days after October 7 to accuse Israel of genocide in print, and South Africa less than three months to take the charge to the International Court of Justice. The Gaza Ministry of Health beat both to the punch: its count began with the first Hamas gunman to fall in southern Israel.
So far, researcher Salo Aizenberg has identified by name 364 Hamas attackers killed on October 7. Eighty percent of them appear on the Health Ministry’s list, counted among the victims of the “genocide.”
This not-so-subtle sleight of hand has been there for anyone to see for years. Of the 692 Gazans the ministry lists as dying on October 7, 2023, 646, or 93 percent, were men of fighting age. Most of the children recorded that day were boys aged 14 to 17.
More recently, under the October 2025 ceasefire, Israel returned roughly 400 Palestinian bodies to Gaza. To help families identify them, the Health Ministry published photos of the bodies along with the names of those already identified. Of 396 bodies listed, 91 have been named.
All 91 are on the ministry’s casualty list. All are men between 18 and 60. Sixty-three of them, 69 percent, are listed as having died on October 7, 2023, the day they crossed into Israel.
. . . All of them, regardless, made it into the database as victims of a supposed genocide.
. , , ,Add this to the mounting blows against the genocide accusation, and the charge is faltering. On Friday, the Nobel Committee tried to shore it up by awarding its Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, the South African jurist whose U.N. commission accused Israel of genocide last year. The infinitesimal courage it took to condemn Israel from a U.N. commission does not earn her a place beside laureates like Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel and Yitzhak Rabin, though she would have a comfortable seat beside Yasser Arafat.
The committee honored her for her efforts to promote “peace and international law.” Yet few things have done less to advance peace and international law than the genocide libel. The accusation did nothing to hasten the end of the war or the suffering in Gaza. If anything, it prolonged both by generating American pressure that could not stop Israel, only delay it. As for international law, the genocide campaign degrades law’s most basic principle: impartiality. In the trial of international law, its blatant anti-Israel bias is Exhibit A.
The latest tally of the dead in Gaza is about 70,000 to 74,000, and on this Hamas and the IDF agree. Hamas can’t or won’t separate combatants from civilians, but the IDF estimates that 24,000 of the dead were combatants. That give about a 2:1 ratio of civilian dead to combatant dead, which remains an extraordinarily low ratio, especially for urban warfare (the ratio of 2:1 is close to that of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam).
*A man entered the enclosure of an Siberian (aka Amur) Tiger in England by going around whatever barriers existed, and, as expected, he was mauled to death. It’s very sad, but I have to say that the guy should have stayed out of the tiger cage! The good news is that the wildlife park announced that they would not euthanize the tiger, which apparently some people expected as a form of retributive punishment.
A man has died after he entered a tiger enclosure at an animal attraction and was attacked by a Siberian tiger in Yorkshire, England, on Saturday, according to the police and park officials.
South Yorkshire Police said in a statement that they received reports of a man entering the tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park at 1:35 p.m. local time.
“The tiger subsequently attacked the man, resulting in serious injury,” the statement said, adding that “despite the best efforts of medical personnel,” the man died at the scene.
The man’s identity was not released, but the police said his family was aware and receiving support from the department.
Video surfaced on social media showing a man in a dark long-sleeve shirt and light-colored pants close to a tiger, which at one point grabs and bites him near the middle of his back. The tiger lunges at the man repeatedly and faces him before tapping him a few times with its front paws.
The police said they are aware of multiple videos of the event circulating online and encouraged people not to share the footage.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park’s website describes it as “the U.K.’s No. 1 walk-through wildlife adventure.”
I won’t share the footage, but here’s the park’s announcement. I’m glad they’re not going to kill the tiger, for what did it do besides acting like a tiger should act. There should be no punishing animals that act normally when somebody stupidly comes into their enclosure. The guy was nuts to go into a tiger cage, of course, but it’s still sad that he was killed. But what did he expect? Regardless, there should be no euthanizing animals in cases like this.
— Yorkshire Wildlife Park 🦁 (@YorkshireWP) October 11, 2026
*The WaPo recounts that the feds have searched Ilhan Omar’s home.
“Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation,” the Justice Department statement said.
In a statement on X, Omar (D-Minnesota) said she “will not be silenced.”
“Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” she wrote. “For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.”
Last month, U.S. officials said federal authorities were investigating whether Omar unlawfully entered the country by falsifying her immigration paperwork. Omar and her team have repeatedly denied accusations that she committed immigration fraud. Omar’s team did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday morning.
The search of Omar’s home appears to be the type of action that law enforcement officials have typically avoided so close to an election in the past. Omar is up for reelection in November after winning the Democratic primary in her district.
The Wall Street Journal adds this:
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told a conservative podcaster in September that there was a continuing federal investigation into Omar, who he said “married her brother to try to bring him into the United States.” That is a claim she has denied for more than a decade.
Mullin said federal officials are investigating her past marriage as well as how her family immigrated to the U.S. In a Wall Street Journal interview earlier this year, Omar said she was never married to her brother and never committed immigration fraud.
Much as I dislike Omar as a Representative, an investigation only 20-odd days before the election violates the unwritten rule 60-days that federal investigative agencies like the DOJ have refrained from publicly announcing investigations that could influence an election. And lots of investigations have turned up no credible evidence that Omar married her brother to circumvent immigration laws. On the other hand, there remains that huge and still unexplained increase of the net worth of Omar and her husband, which jumped in one year from near zero to millions of dollars. Omar has said that is due to an accounting error, but there are also claims that there was money transferred from Omar’s campaign fund to her husband’s business. That may be worth investigating, but still, the DOJ should keep a low profile until after the election.
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili notes with annoyance the coming of winter:
Hili: And the leaves are falling from the trees again.
Andrzej: The trees are getting ready for their winter sleep.
In Polish:
Hili: I znów spadają liście z drzew.
Ja: Drzewa układają się do zimowego snu.
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From Things With Faces, a squash looking at you:
From Jesus of the Day:
From My Cat Is An Asshole:
An Iranian “honor killing” described by Masih. I can’t find details of what the woman’s so-called “crime” was, but the other stuff appears accurate.
⚠️ Warning: Reading this woman’s story could break your heart.
Her husband took the children outside. Her brother came with a knife. And her family reportedly defended her killers.
This is not a horror movie. This happened in Iran.
Her name was Maryam Yarmohammadi. She was only 28 years old. A mother of two children .
On October 5, in Qeshm, southern Iran, her husband took their two children out of the house, reportedly to make way for her murder. Then her own brother entered. I cannot believe that I Am even writing this .😔
Her brother came with a knife and stabbed his sister in the neck, breasts, and genitals. He literally, stood over her body, butchered his sister and waited as long as he was certain she was dead, then he took her to the hospital.
But the most horrifying part of this story came afterward.
Some of Maryam’s own relatives gathered outside the hospital. Not to demand justice for her. Not to mourn her murder. They protested the arrest of her brother and husband.
They said death was the least punishment she deserved.
They called it HONOR.
What kind of honor requires a brother to butcher his sister? What kind of honor turns a husband into an alleged accomplice in the murder of his children’s mother? And what kind of society allows a woman’s life to be treated as family property?
Let me tell you why honor killings happen in Iran; Under the laws of the Islamic Republic, misogyny is not just a mindset. It is taught, institutionalized, and protected by law.
From childhood, boys are taught that a woman’s body, her hair, her sexuality, and her choices are matters of male honor.
In schools, universities, state media, and religious institutions, the message is repeated: A woman belongs to a man. First her father. Then her brother. Then her husband. At the end the strangers in the street called “morality police “.
And when a woman dares to disobey, these men think they have the right to punish her.
In Iran, a woman get arrested, beaten, and flogged for showing her hair in public. But a man who beheaded his 17-year-old wife and paraded her head through the streets received just over eight years in prison.
Eight years. For cutting off a woman’s head.
And you wonder why women are being murdered in the name of honor again and again!
A woman’s hair is treated as a greater threat than a man holding his sister’s or his wife’s dead body.
Now, do you understand why we try to educate some men in 21st century and shout laud that, we are not your honor. We are not your property. We are not your family reputation.
Our bodies do not belong to our fathers, brothers, or husbands.Stop killing women in the name of honor. Stop controlling women in the name of religion. Leave women alone.
I cannot stop thinking about Maryam’s two children.💔
— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) October 12, 2026
From Simon. Larry, still recovering from surgery, makes a funny:
f you could find a way to generate electricity from Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave you’d be able to power the Eastern Seaboard right now.
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 10, 2026
From Luana (the link to the NY Post article is wrong; the right one is here).
Whizzing college professor pees on student’s backpack, found to be campus’s mystery serial sprinkler: records https://t.co/UAvjrPVMfy
— New York Post (@nypost) October 12, 2026
Two from my feed. First, the translation from the Spanish says this:
Not a single United Kingdom flag. Not one. That monument in the background there is the only clue to the location. London is now Palestine. That’s all I got out of this. Creepy.
And the poster Medvin notes that “The image is from the pro-Palestine “National March for Palestine: End the Genocide” held on Saturday, 10 October 2026.”
Ni una sola bandera del Reino Unido. Ni una. Ese monumento al fondo ahí es la única pista de la ubicación.
Londres es ahora Palestina. Eso es todo lo que saqué de esto.
Espeluznante.
— PaoShara🇦🇷 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@PaoShara) October 11, 2026
Whose idea was this?
Unlikely friends https://t.co/73T48fgoji
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 12, 2026
One I reposted from The Auschwitz Memorial.
This Dutch Jewish girl was gassed to death as soon as she got to Auschwitz. She was three years old and would have been 87 today had she lived.
— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) October 13, 2026
Two from Doctor Cobb. A wet frog hopped here:
The most fun thing ever to randomly see
— Oregon 🕎🎲 (@oregonthedm.bsky.social) 2026-10-11T17:03:10.775Z
This poor bird could not catch a break!:
Today is World Migratory Bird Day. Please say hello to the Pfeilstorch (‘arrow stork’). In 1822 this bird was shot in the German village of Klütz. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this bird played a pivotal role in our understanding of migration.
— Lev Parikian (@levparikian.bsky.social) 2026-10-10T20:42:35.661Z
“…there remains that huge and still unexplained increase of the net worth of Omar and her husband… That may be worth investigating…”
As far as I understand it, the case has been investigated, and the Office of Congressional Conduct has found no wrong-doing, and has voted to dismiss any such charges against Ilhan Omar.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/rep-ilhan-omars-office-says-shes-been-cleared-following-financial-disclosure-error/
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6080052-congressional-ethics-watchdog-omar/
I would also urge caution about placing any faith in a New York Post article.
Thanks for the update, but I don’t count out any journal completely. Even the Post sometimes has useful information. Do you place faith in New York Times articles?
I’m puzzled since a judge signed that search warrant, suggesting that there must be some potentially unlawful activity.
The only things I knew about Omar were questions about her marriage, naturalization, and finances. Perhaps there’s other stuff.
You may be forgetting that this admin has, on dozens of occasions, enraged federal judges by fabricating and misrepresenting evidence in order to dupe them into signing off on warrants that they would have otherwise refused. This is from an article in Bloomberg:
Until I see credible reports that the gov really did have sufficient evidence of a crime to justify a search warrant, I will assume that the real reason for the search was a fishing expedition to find evidence that could not only retroactively justify a warrant but provide even slender grounds to charge her with some crime or another.
To use criminological jargon, the government has a motive – staying in power – and the means. In addition, the best basis for predicting future offenses is a history of past offenses. Put it all together, and to my mind the gov has a double burden of proof – not only to prove Omar is guilty but that it is innocent of engaging in malicious and politically motivated prosecution. Somehow, I strongly doubt it. And I detest Omar.
“Until I see credible reports that the gov really did have sufficient evidence of a crime to justify a search warrant, I will assume that the real reason for the search was a fishing expedition to find evidence that could not only retroactively justify a warrant but provide even slender grounds to charge her with some crime or another.
“…And I detest Omar.”
You must detest Trump far more than you detest Omar to have such a biased prior.
“Do you place faith in New York Times articles?”
Independent assessment of media accuracy and reliability are highly critical of the New York Post, so it should be used with caution. Independent assessments of media accuracy and reliability rate the New York Times high.
So it’s always wise to read all media accounts with a level of skepticism today, but if you’re calculating odds or percentages, you’re more likely to get accuracy and reliability from the New York Times than from the New York Post.
That said, one of the common features of the New York Post’s articles that I do enjoy is the shameless pandering to MAGAstan and Trump, using language that sounds like it came directly from Steven Cheung. Regarding Omar: “Team Trump” is on the case! Seriously?! It is to laugh….
“’…there remains that huge and still unexplained increase of the net worth of Omar and her husband… That may be worth investigating’
“As far as I understand it, the case has been investigated, and the Office of Congressional Conduct has found no wrong-doing, and has voted to dismiss any such charges against Ilhan Omar.”
That pertains to the House Ethics Committee’s investigation. She is still under investigation by the DOJ for financial wrongdoing.
My understanding of the Omar investigation is that it now centers around her age when she became naturalized. She claims to have been 17, which means that she was naturalized under the rules for children, but that she might have been 18, which would mean that she did not go through the proper process, or something like that. As for the niceties and unwritten rules, well, the Dems pretty much threw them out the window under Biden, as well as, apparently, a lot of the written ones.
No Dr. B., those aren’t the issues at all.
(See my nearly roolz busting essay about this below).
best,
D.A.
NYC
The idjit who entered a tiger enclosure deserves a Darwin Award assuming that he was still of an age to father children.
We would all like to hang out with tigers—that’s why the world has cats.
With all the Palestinian flags on display in all the cities in Europe, Canada, and the US in lieu of the appropriate national flags, I am amazed at the claim that the Palestinians have a refugee problem. Can it be that the residents of those places do not really want the Palestinians? Say it ain’t so.
I’m sure that the man who entered the tiger cage had mental issues. This went way beyond normal stupidity.
If the man firmly believed he had a “special bond” with animals and the tiger would be able to sense the aura of love in his heart and peacefully lay down beside him, he need not have been clinically mentally ill – just spiritual. The crazy is in the idea widely shared by the enlightened (gullible.)
I had a relative who worked in a zoo in Australia. (and yes they had kangaroos!)
In the staff room they had a notice board with Polaroids on it and pictures of people “known to zoo officials”. These are known repeat offenders who jump into the cages of wild animals.
Always struck me as an interesting title:
“Known To Zoo Officials.”
D.A.
NYC
“Not known to zoo officials. Yet.”
HAHAHA. Oh it be, Starwolf, it be. 🙂
In fact (reposted herein) I wrote about -why- that is indeed the case previously in my column. It was a very popular article in syndication:
https://democracychronicles.org/worst-houseguests-ever-the-palestinians/
best,
D.A.
NYC
I know that you’re a proud NYer.
I usually don’t care much about gubernatorial races, but boy howdy! I would love to see Blakeman win the NY race. Just to stop the state from bailing out Mamdani and his ridiculous socialist policies that will bankrupt the city and the state as far as that goes. It certainly isn’t fair for the residents of Binghampton or Huntington to have to supoport Mamdani’s policies, even if the residents of NYC (present company excepted, of course) favor his policies.
It is a rule of life. If you do really stupid things then the chances of being killed skyrocket.
Here in Australia an idiot decided the perfect place to pray was in the middle of the road in the middle of the night. Apparently it was less than ideal.
https://x.com/picturesfoider/status/2109517497984770090?s=46
In 1989, a man was killed by a pride of lions at the Royal Zoological Gardens in Melbourne Australia after he climbed into the lion enclosure at night. Investigations led to the conclusion that he believed his martial-arts / kung fu skills would allow him pacify or defeat lions.
I saw tiger incident on the news. He should not have entered the tiger’s territory. But he could not have done otherwise in the libertarian sense. His conscious self was a mere spectator 🙂
I’m glad the tiger will not be put down. But I wonder if at least some people were suggesting that the tiger be euthanized for reasons other than retributive justice.
Yes, but he could have been dissuaded by the yelling of nearby people, who of course had no choice but to warn the guy. Nothing about determinism says that you can’t change your behavior via environmental intervention.
Quick AI,
“Attempted Intervention: A woman near the viewing bridge tried to pull him back to safety, but he pulled away, jumped roughly 12 feet down into the “Land of the Tigers” pen, knelt, and began yelling and waving at the animal.”
“An eyewitness reported seeing the man wearing headphones and “pacing around” near the enclosure before scaling the viewing barrier.” BBC
I have also read he was dancing around in the carpark before entering the park.
What does that tell you 🤔 he wanted in!
For me, he sounds like he should have been under supervision.
My kids and I saw a Tiger once. It was at a zoo and from a safe distance. I was quite surprised by Tiger loving water.
The dim-bulb guy who entered the tiger’s cage was most likely not expecting the outcome he experienced. Same with El-Sayed in that interview with Fox News.
The bird with the apparent African arrow in it? Good grief!
Your comment on the Yorkshire pudding reminds me of a question that I think about whenever I visit Britain. Traditional British food was, or maybe still is, a subject for ridicule. Which is what I don’t understand. Food like Yorkshire pudding, bangers and mash, plowman’s lunch, etc. is just great!
Why we can’t deport Somali terrorist loving Ilhan Omar.
My legal opinion:
There’s a really high bar to prove immigration fraud (as there should be, generally) as U.S. citizenship is so precious there should be a high bar to deny somebody of it. Much as I’d love to see it in her case.
That said… it’s only by proving immigration fraud that you can actually have somebody denaturalized and deported. It’s exceedingly rare and politically dangerous.
To play the late, great Counsellor Ken Kulek of WEIT for a moment:
She’d only be deportable for her OWN “status” (immigration) here, (did she use fraud for her own entry to the US, not subsequent crimes with other parties)… so not any funny biz with her brother tho that should be covered under general fraud it won’t get HER deported.
The only time they can get away with denaturalising people in this manner has been blatant commercial marriage frauds and some old Nazis in the 80s who lied on their immigration documents decades before.
Jail however is on the table and there’s no parole in the Fed system, and mandatory sentencing.
If a financial crime the duration of sentence goes up with the value of the stolen money. And she’s (allegedly) complicit in an ass-load (legal term there) of financial malfeasance.
So there’s hope!
I pre-purchased the popcorn to see how this plays out. 🙂
D.A.
NYC🗽
I miss Ken Kukec!
Me too. I’ll have to raise a toast to him this evening.
Foolish people climbing into tiger enclosures is an apt metaphor these days.
Alas, in what “days” has it not been an apt metaphor? Always been sort of the human condition, you ask me.
The Houthis have a very deadly enemy and its not Trump or the Saudi’s. The Red Sea leads to the Suez canal. The Egyptians need (for economic reasons) to keep the canal open and ships going through it. They will defend the canal by force, if need be (attack the Houthis). Of course, I don’t speak for them (the Egyptians).
My departed mother would be appalled by an august and erudite blog such as WEIT publishing such a travesty of Yorkshire pudding!
As my gf at the time was perturbed to find, at Sunday dinner, YP is traditionally served as the first course, as a dinner plate sized portion with onion gravy, and she wondered, sotto voce, where the meat and veggies were….
Or, as Wikipedia puts it: “Originally, the Yorkshire pudding was served as a first course with thick gravy to dull the appetite with the low-cost ingredients so that the diners would not eat so much of the more expensive meat in the next course.”
Yes, my family hail from the West Riding.
Yes, we used to eat rats, grass, possum, eels, offal, and now people proclaim how wonderful insects taste.
But Yorkshire Pudding is ambrosia of The Gods – ephemeral, unforgettable and majestic. We have it about once a year, rising high. golden with magnificence, from a large roast beef pan – and as far as I am concerned – it will have its place in my final meal.
I used to make Beef Wellington for family Christmas (with mixed results, its tricky), and have been known to buy suet to make YP to accompany it. Now, THAT is a meal to remember!
and as far as I am concerned – it will have its place in my final meal.
I laughed the lol on that. well played. It is a most beautiful and tasty pudding. I was disappointed as a child when I learned it was savory. American puddings are 90% sugar, of course. I’ve had dozens of them by now, and I’ve loved all their forms and misses. It’s basically an eggy pancake, so even if it “falls” and never rises high, it’s still a tasty concoction. I’m saying this because I’ve had some major fails myself- it ain’t easy folks! It takes overnight to get the batter cold and bloomed and it takes the perfect amount of fat ratio to pan size. I could go on, as it is a dish to die for…thanks Mr. Lambert for your lovely critique of a most beautiful pudding. Pudding? Why not? Anything that exquisite, inviting and deserving of invitation should be called a Pudding. It even goes well with horseradish for Ceiling Cat’s sake.
Edit: I didn’t read the original britinkiwi post to this, only responded to Roger. But I do see how it would be a cheaper way to fill the belly before more expensive victuals. Egg/flour/milk….thems filling ingredients, as long as we’re talking the real deal.
Better the Blackbird of Annoyance than the Chicken of Depression.
(H/T Gary Larson.)
Every so often, I post a comment about the (re)posts by Masih about the women in Iran. I have not commented about that for some time but I read the posts every so, as I do about the Holocaust victims that Jerry posts.
Putting faces on victims of evil is important. Without such faces, that evil is an abstraction, or a statistic. Putting up posts and reposts about murdered Jewish children and tortured Iranian women is, for me, a public service for humanity by our host, and it is not mentioned often enough.
Thank you, Jerry. You are one of the good guys.
The answers to those three questions are, respectively, islamic, islamic, and islamic.
“He was a man of honor; that is to say, a violent cretin capable of any sort of havoc.” (I don’t remember the source)
There is convincing evidence from past social media postings made by the Nur Elmi-Omar family members that Ilhan Omar did in fact marry her own brother for his immigration purposes. Powerline has reposted some of that evidence recently. Omar’s sisters, Omar herself, and her alleged brother removed the incriminating social media evidence after the first accuser to connect all the social-media dots went public with the accusation several years ago. Snopes ignored the evidence because Snopes, like Wikipedia, has a liberal bias.