TRUMP IS CRUSHING IRAN WITH ALMOST NO (U.S.) CASUALTIES, AND PEOPLE ARE BITCHING:

FACT CHECK: True https://t.co/w4VFRoE6uS

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 28, 2026

HOPEFULLY:  The Power of Cosy…Musing on the world and making it better.

IS THAT GASLIGHT FLICKERING?  CAIR blamed 9/11 on US support for Israel, recommended bin Laden’s writings in back-to-school guide: ‘Evil propaganda’.

WHEN HAVE THEY EVER LIED ABOUT THE EFICACY OF A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT?  The ULEZ Effect: Take a Deep Breath Before You Believe It. The headlines say ULEZ made children’s lungs grow faster. The study itself says something far less certain.

PARTS OF THE FBI FUNCTION VERY WELL. UNFORTUNATELY, LEADERSHIP ISN’T ONE OF THOSE PARTS:  A Top FBI Official’s Remarks About Running a Secret Government Are Now More Chilling.

WOKE IS A TRAGEDY:  Incompetence and bigotry at NASA and Lockheed Martin.

RESEARCH THAT’S DIVORCED FROM POLITICAL GOALS IS NEEDED:  “Single mother households produce the worst results for children”.

GOOD:  Achilles’ Shield: Israel to Build Greece’s Missile, Drone Defense System.

I’VE HEARD THIS:  President Trump just announced that his administration is moving to allow farmers the ability process their own meat. This is huge for farmers, the economy, and for rural Americans who should be able to get meat from their neighbors. Long overdue, but these are the decisions we were hoping to see.

I LOVE LIVING IN THE FUTURE:  AI Tool Mapped Nerves During Brain Surgery That Saved A Man’s Eyesight. A patient about to go blind had his brain tumor removed with the help of artificial intelligence in the first operation of its kind.

MAYBE:  AI Dinosaur Extinction Coming? This is probably good longer term, but short term impacts may be tough.

CLEARS THROAT. AS I’VE SAID:  Keep this in mind when you see posts with tens of thousands of likes that happen to fit with the information war positions of certain adversaries. You think this is the only CCP bot farm? Any idea how many Iranian/Pakistani/Russian active bot farms currently exist on here and other platforms?

I AGREE. TENNESSEE SHOULD DO IT:  More than 80,000 people have signed a petition to rename Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton International Airport sounds better than Nashville International Airport ever did. Tennessee should do it.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

MOVE THE OBSERVATORIES TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON, LIKE GOD AND ROBERT HEINLEIN INTENDED. Massive space mirrors could be 40 times brighter than the full moon, astronomers warn. ‘It will be worse than big cities like London’.

JUST ANOTHER INSTALLMENT IN TRUMP’S ANACONDA STRATEGY:

It’s the Venezuelan dividend.

Take out the brutal dictator who turned a prosperous nation that pumped money out of the ground into a wretched impoverished third world hellhole. Welcome Venezuela back. Cut China and Cuba off from a cheap oil source.

The other part. No accident… https://t.co/2K7RZscSQC

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 29, 2026

Trump wages financial war on his opponents, and Scott Bessent is his financial Patton, Marco Rubio his diplomatic Eisenhower.

It’s funny that this came out right after Canada walked away from the trade deal.

SCIENCE: Scientists Analyzed Earth’s Hidden Seed Vaults And Made a Disturbing Realization.

WELL, GOOD: Tiny Hidden Vibrations Could Make Aircraft More Fuel Efficient.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher who acted like she was in ‘Sabrina Carpenter video’ is convicted of decades-old sex assaults on students.

WELL, GOOD: Cell Therapy Substantially Reduces Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis in First Clinical Trial.

READER FAVORITE: Snailax Full Body Massage Mat with Heat. #CommisisonEarned

ICYMI: Iran Mined the Strait of Hormuz With… Trash Bags?

IT SEEMS LIKE IT WAS JUST GONE FOR 3 DAYS: 2027 Lincoln Corsair Hybrid First Look: Back From the Dead Already.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: ‘It’s going to be beautiful’: President Trump signs order to create US Space Academy.

President Donald Trump today (Aug. 28) signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space Academy, an institution of higher learning that will train students for a career studying, exploring, exploiting or helping to protect the final frontier.

“It’ll serve both the United States Space Force as well as NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry, and it’ll attract, train and graduate the very very best of our nation,” Trump said today during a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, at which he awarded the Artemis II moon astronauts the nation’s highest space honor.
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Within the next 120 days, the commission will submit a report “with recommendations on governance framework, service obligations for graduates, physical location of the academy, legislative requirements and more,” NASA officials wrote in today’s statement.

It’s a shame the name Starfleet Academy is sullied.

$50 TRILLION IN THREE YEARS? America just hit the $40 Trillion National Debt milestone. But another $10 Trillion added by July 2029?