Good morning kids. Welcome to October. Wow!

Tonight marks the Kol Nidre service that ushers in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in Judaism. To my fellow Jews (have an easy fast) and all of you good people out there may you all be inscribed in the Book of Life for a year of health, happiness and prosperity. As for our enemies may the Lord open their eyes and minds, and soften their hearts to recognize the error of their ways so their souls may find redemption. Amen.

And as you may know, the Schumer shutdown has commenced! Are millions of people dead and dying in the streets? It's still dark outside so I can't see.

The federal government partially shut down at midnight Wednesday, hours after all but three Senate Democrats voted down a short-term funding bill. The measure fell five votes short of passing.

The shutdown is the first since December 2018, which saw non-essential government operations cease and tens of thousands of federal employees furloughed or forced to work without pay for 35 days until lawmakers agreed on a stopgap funding measure. 

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought notified federal department and agency heads shortly after Tuesday’s failed Senate vote to keep the government funded to begin preparations for a shutdown. 

Democrats Senator John Fetterman (Pennsylvania) and Senator Catherine Cortez Mastro (Nevada) voted fo the measure. Independent Senator Angus King (Maine) also voted for the bill. The bill needed five more Democrats to support the measure in order for it to pass.

The one phrase that jumped out at me is non-essential government operations. Well, if they're non-essential why do they even exist in the first place?! Yeah, I get it, priorities. But my observation still stands. What are the priorities of both the Federal government and of course the citizenry that in theory give it the power to engage in those activities. Or at least in theory. And that has been the issue since the founding of the Republic and then beginning with FDR who shot that to hell as the ever-expanding bureaucratic state drained our wallets and denuded our individual liberties.

While no doubt the traitorous propaganda media complex will spin more furiously than Iranian centrifuges to paint all this as the fault of President Trump and the GOP we'll see if the public at large will buy into it, especially since all essential activities and payments and so on and so forth will continue as if nothing happened at all.

While the sight, sound and stench of this vile beast is enough to disintegrate solid iridium, it's this kind of vomitus that makes for effective campaign ads.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) admitted on Tuesday that Democrats are “demanding healthcare for everybody” in their fight against the continuing resolution (CR) bill. “Are Democrats demanding healthcare for illegal aliens?” a reporter asked Waters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody,” Waters responded.

Absolute gold. Yeah, keep buggering that chicken strychnine-tits all the way to the midterms and beyond.

And speaking of illegal aliens, this item is particularly disturbing:

Iowa Man, the illegal alien known as Ian Roberts, who was arrested by ICE wielding a gun on the run, but otherwise had been "serving" as superintendent of Des Moines public schools, has more history than originally reported. . .

I have confirmed from Maryland Freedom Caucus Chairman, @MattMorgan29A (R) that Des Moines Superintendent Ian Roberts has been a registered voter in Maryland since 2012. Roberts is an illegal alien.@elonmusk also agrees, it’s time to clean the voter rolls. pic.twitter.com/4encSIQwfk

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 29, 2025

Registered to vote? Registered to vote?

That suggests some political involvement, possibly with an illegal alien-promoting NGO or a union involved in get-out-the-vote efforts.

Roberts' meteoric rise to Superintendent of Des Moines public schools didn't come about without a lot of politics, particularly teachers' union politics. He not only was in the country illegally, he reportedly faked his highest degree. His scaling to the top had to have involved a lot of DEI and a lot of glad-handing with the ruling leftists and he knew how to do it. He held positions all over the country -- Pennsylvania, etc. -- but it all started in the Washington-Baltimore area.

Elsewhere, there are some troubling things coming out of Ukraine. Could they have anything to do with Pete Hegseth and President Trump's recent confab at the War Department (I love that) with top brass. I hope not.

Once again, it feels as if we’re tiptoeing toward an official war between the United States and Russia — as opposed to the proxy war that has endured for three and half years between Russia and NATO-backed Ukraine. 

Although President Trump has downplayed the “rare and urgent” meeting of top military commanders from around the world at Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday, the event has generated intense speculation.  The Pentagon says that secretary of War Hegseth merely wants to deliver a speech on the “warrior ethos” and make sure that military leaders are all walking in the same direction.  The president describes the focus of the gathering in general terms: “We’re talking about what we’re doing, what they’re doing, and how we’re doing.”  Still, to gather the highest-ranking members of the U.S. military in one location for a chat with the president and secretary of War leaves the impression that something of significant importance will be discussed.

On Monday morning, ZeroHedge gathered data from several sites that analyze open-source intelligence to predict military engagements.  Those sites were all tracking a large deployment of U.S. aerial refueling tankers crossing the Atlantic on their way to Europe.  A social media account that tracks pizzerias near the Pentagon showed a spike in orders late Sunday night.  The last time these sources noted a wave of air tankers leaving the United States and increased carryout orders from restaurants near the Pentagon, the U.S. military was preparing to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.  When these open-source data points are viewed alongside the unusual meeting of top military commanders in northern Virginia, it is difficult not to conclude that a potentially significant military operation is imminent.

Yeah, I know some people tend to poo-poo ZeroHedge, but still. Let's hope it's not this, but also as I mused the other day, with all the talk and incidents of Leftist/Democrat political violence and actual terrorism, my fear of internal civil war outweighs getting our hair mussed in Ukraine, which I think President Trump despite wanting to bring about the end of that bloody mess, would not be dumb enough to actually trigger war with Putin, even by accident.

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