Saturday, September 29, 2018


Level 42 with Guaranteed. Album Guaranteed (1991).

Instantly recognizable as a Level 42 song because of King's slap style on the bass and Mike Lindup's falsetto voice, but now both Gould Bros. are gone (Phil would return for a short while towards the end of the decade). The album was recorded on the Isle of Wight, where Level 42 formed in 1979.

Now for some psychedelic rock. A number by Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit. See it as a homage to Marty Balin, the primary founder of JA. From the album Surrealistic Pillow (1967).

Balin launched Jefferson Airplane from The Matrix, a pizzeria-turned-nightclub in San Francisco. His band became the vanguard of the San Francisco Sound. This song was written by Grace Slick, ex The Great Society. She's quite hot huh?

Anyway, Mr Balin shuffled off this mortal coil on 27 SEP. God bless, and RIP.

Goede nacht.



Via The Daily Mail Online:

"* The mosque opened today in Cologne during controversial President Erdogan's three-day visit to the city
* His visit was wrapped in controversy as thousands of police officers were deployed in force amid protests
* Supporters also came out to celebrate the inauguration of the new mosque after years of development


PUBLISHED: 02:47 BST, 29 September 2018 | UPDATED: 13:44 BST, 29 September 2018

One of Europe's largest mosques is to open in Cologne, Germany today.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reported the news during his controversial visit to the country with police deploying in force amid planned protests.

The inauguration will be the closing event of Erdogan's three-day state visit, aimed at repairing frayed ties with Berlin after two years of tensions.

In talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, both leaders signalled their interest in a cautious rapprochement, but Merkel stressed that 'deep differences' remained on civil rights and other issues."

DITIB, which is the shady Turkish Ministry of Religious Matters' branch in Germany, has found plenty of fools in Germany wanting to believe that the design of this atrocity is inspired by the buds of a flower about to blossom.

I see something else, and what I have in mind is Erdogan stating "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful our soldiers”.

The minarets do look like things to stab, and the main building does look like a helmet from ancient times.

So the scoundrel is back in Germany visiting his eager supporters. Probably he will exhort them again to make soldiers for allah, like he did last year.

I'm a frequent visitor to the excellent naval blog CDR Salamander, and I find myself in agreement with the CDR in 98 per cent of the cases. But in one of his recent posts on French operations in Mali he got it so horribly wrong that it left me gobsmacked, even downright depressed:

"I know, I know. I am the one who pushes back against getting involved in foreign adventures, but this is not quite like a full-on invasion of a nation with sketchy impact on USA or allied national security.

This is helping our oldest ally who is helping another nation fight our common enemy - radical Islam. Mali itself is a Muslim country, 90% Muslim - but Islam is not the enemy. Radical Islam is."

Sorry CDR, but imho it has to be hammered in each and every head THAT ISLAM IS DEFINITELY THE ENEMY. And I have some telling evidence for that statement, coming from no other than Erdogan himself:

As I replied in the comments section:

"Permit me to squarely disagree CDR. ISLAM IS THE ENEMY.

The metrics are there. The data are there. History's lessons are there. If not enough of us understand and fully acknowledge the intrinsic danger of islam, we are lost. Period."


"...We should stop thinking they look at the world thru a comparable prism. Their thinking is far more collectivist than ours. They may butcher each other, but under all the internecine hatred there's that feeling of belonging to the worldwide ummah, with one common goal, world domination.

I would actually turn the CDR's take on its head. Extremist islam is not so much a problem, islam is.

Extremist islam is highly visible which makes it easy to pinpoint and neutralize them. In that respect ISIS et al must be viewed as the ultimate idiots since they chose to engage in the kind of warfare we are still good at. By establishing their caliphate for all to see they offered our militaries a target rich environment. Didn't do them much good huh?

But the REAL danger is 'moderate' islam."

Look at this photo: "moderate" muslims aka "New Germans" welcoming their hero Erdogan. Cologne, today, 29 SEP 2018:

As we speak, these zealots are waging a demographic jihad against us, an evolution made only worse by a gay-smitten Europe hellbent on turning its males into pussies and its females in ecoconscious feminazis rejecting motherhood. And in a move akin to throwing petrol on a raging fire, the EU leadership, childless Merkel up front, sluiced two million followers of the prophet, soon to be followed by their wives and offspring, into our lands.

We should not worry too much about the "Radical" muslims. They are the low hanging fruit. It is relatively easy to finish them off. In recent times, the West killed them by the tens of thousands in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

But the REAL threat is islam in our heartlands. Sorry if I'm hurting anyone's feelings, but if you do not understand that simple, basic truth...

... you should step out of the way. There is no use for you.

Worse, you are part of the problem.



Over at The Rebel Media, retired Col. Kurt Schlichter on the charade that was on display at Capitol Hill:

Indeed, whatever happened to the presumption of innocence, the right to face your accuser (how I would have loved to see a face-off between Ford and Judge Kavanaugh), as well as the right to cross-examine them; and the burden of proof.

And don't miss Mark Steyn's take on a little overlooked aspect, which is the umpteenth example of the left's desire to manipulate:

"I mentioned with Tucker the other night the condescension of Gentleman Jim Acosta, who airily presumes that, if you're a woman, any woman, you believe the accuser and assume this Kavanaugh guy is a serial gang-rapist. That's how it goes: Identity politics makes moron cultures of formerly sophisticated societies. So it was inevitable that when a picture from yesterday's hearing popped up, of the judge with three females sitting behind him, the wankerati of Twitter immediately assumed that they were just three regular all-American women staring in disgust at the rape beast of Bethesda.

In fact, they were Kavanaugh's wife, mother, and one of their dearest friends. And the reason they look like that is because they're crushed and broken by what Dianne Feinstein, Blumenthal, Whitehouse and the other whatever-it-takes Democrats chose to do to them. It is a testament to the thoroughness with which these malign carbuncles on the body politic set about their task that, in a certain sense, one could forgive the Twitter mob its carelessness: Mrs Kavanaugh was all but unrecognizable from the woman who'd sat behind her husband just a fortnight ago. She was, indeed, a different person, and she will be for the rest of her life.

Dianne Feinstein did that to her, consciously. The Ranking Member is in a tricky position back home. She's on the California ballot this November, but, having been outflanked on her left, she is not the official Democrat nominee. So she cannot afford to be insufficiently "progressive", and thus concluded it was necessary to, in Kavanaugh's words, "destroy" his family..."

Acosta and his twitter boys and girls certainly have eager acolytes/followers on this side of the Pond. This is a headline in Het Laatste Nieuws, yesterday:


Yeah yeah yeah, a little bit further in the article they do recognize that these women are in fact his supporters. In a small font. But the idea has been planted, right? In a world of soundbites and uncritical newstakers, this barely disguised suggestion is yet another shot across the bow of a decent man who shouldn't be on trial, because that's what it was.

Leftists. The filth of the Earth.