Well, This Is Awkward: Two Muslim Nations Will Be Facing Off at World Cup 'Pride Match'

Teri Christoph

"I had a saying that I used to tell my kids when they were younger and had been given a random treat or prize: "You get what you get, and you don't complain." Well, it's unlikely that the nations of Iran and Egypt will think of this as a treat or prize, but, thanks to a random draw, they have been chosen to face off in a "Pride Match" at next year's World Cup, the every-four-years global sports spectacle that the United States is hosting. Whether or not the two nations complain is yet to be seen. 

I had a saying that I used to tell my kids when they were younger and had been given a random treat or prize: "You get what you get, and you don't complain." Well, it's unlikely that the nations of Iran and Egypt will think of this as a treat or prize, but, thanks to a random draw, they have been chosen to face off in a "Pride Match" at next year's World Cup, the every-four-years global sports spectacle that the United States is hosting. Whether or not the two nations complain is yet to be seen. 

. . . "With World Cup matches set to take place in venues across the country, Seattle decided to take advantage of the situation and teamed up with area activists to give the matches in their city a decidedly rainbow-colored theme. From the FIFA Seattle website: 

"A spokesperson the Seattle Pride Match Advisory Committee (PMAC) told one media outlet, "The Pride Match has been scheduled to celebrate and elevate Pride events in Seattle and across the country, and it was planned well in advance. It is a Host City–led expression of Seattle and Washington State’s commitment to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone belongs: players, fans, residents, and visitors alike. Soccer has a unique power to unite people across borders, cultures and beliefs."

"The spokesperson added, “We are honored to host a Pride Match and to celebrate Pride as part of a global football community. This match reflects our ongoing commitment to respect, dignity, and unity for all.” . . . More...

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Democrats finally shout FJB; Having lost the immigration war, they scapegoat their president

 Don Surber: Substack   

"Biden should take some blame. Sure, he’s just a Walter dummy sitting on Barack “Jeff Dunham” Obama’s lap, but even a dummy would know better than to do what Biden did."

........ 

   "On Thursday, September 2, 2021, students cheering on the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers in their football game against the Citadel Bulldogs began chanting, “F--k Joe Biden.”

"Coastal Carolina won 52–14.

"The Chanticleers chant posed a problem for Disney’s ESPN, which broadcast the game. I am pretty sure the sports channel’s managers hoped it would not spread. It did. The next night, Virginia Tech students picked up the chant in the Hokies game against UNC. Tech lost 17-10 but the chant spread nonetheless.

"Newsweek pointed out at the time:

Biden received criticism over the evacuation operation in Kabul, especially following the suicide attack at the airport which killed more than 180 people, including 13 U.S. service members.

A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that Biden’s approval rating now stands at 44%—a decline of eight points from May—while his disapproval rate is now at 51%, up nine points from the same period.

The survey also found that while 77% of Americans supported the U.S. withdrawing from Afghanistan, 60% of people disapproved of the way Biden handled it.

"Surrendering Afghanistan and enough military gear to make the Taliban great again unmasked his incompetence.

"The FJB chant spread across like illegal alien truck drivers—the difference being the chant’s presence is lawful and the chant never killed anyone. The chant knocked down Biden’s popularity." . . .   Much more here...

Navy Logbook Found 84 Years After Pearl Harbor Attack

 FOUNDERSCODE.COM...Denise Simon

"We need more feel-good stories than we think we do and here is one for you. History buffs and World War ll historians will love this one…  In full from the Military Times:

"One man’s trash is the National Archives’ treasure.

"After more than 80 years, an old logbook containing the initial descriptions of U.S. vessels after the Japanese attack on Navy Yard Pearl Harbor in 1941 was recovered, the National Archives recently announced. The logbook covers the 16 months before and after the attack that was the catalyst for the U.S. entry into World War II.

"Its whereabouts can be traced back to the moment it was plucked from a trash bin in the 1970s at the old Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California, by Oretta Kanady, The Washington Post first reported.

"In an interview with the Post, Kanady’s son, Michael William Bonds, said she found it in the bin while working as a civilian employee and thought it looked interesting. She asked if she could have it, and it remained in her possession until her death in 2000. Bonds then inherited it.

“In the last few years, I’ve moved here, moved there, it’s just been in a box,” Bond’s told The Post. “I hadn’t really looked at it.” . . .

"A fully digitized copy of the logbook is available online.". . . 

Members of the USS Arizona band, known as Navy Band Unit 22, perform on Nov. 22, 1941, in the semifinal round of the Battle of Music at Bloch Arena at Pearl Harbor. They finished second and advanced to a final competition that would never be held. Everyone in the band died onboard the Arizona during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941.

. . . "The logbook covers the status of vessels in the yard during the period from March 1941 to June 1942, a period of extremely rapid and momentous events. During the time period when the first entries, the U.S. was on a peacetime footing and was in diplomatic talks with Japan; nine months later, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered the war; and by the end of the logbook, just seven months further on, the U.S. Navy won strategic victories at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, and was gearing up to retake the Solomon Islands.

"It also shows the Pearl Harbor yard’s essential work in repairing Navy warships after the Japanese attack, putting cruisers and destroyers back in the fight after severe damage. Within six months, the yard had taken in and redelivered the damaged battleships Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Tennessee; cruisers Honolulu, Helena, and Raleigh; destroyers Helm and Shaw; and three auxiliaries, all fully repaired or patched up for transit for permanent repairs."   More here. 

Denise hosts her own weekly radio show, "The Denise Simon Experience".  Listen to Denise at  WDDQ - Talk 92.1FM, and other terrestrial and Internet based radio networks. Topics and guests cover issues media either ignores. Also heard daily on WGUL 860 AM, The Answer, The Salem Media Group.

In Minnesota, Echoes of Failed Somali Experiment in Europe

"Immigration is judged by outcomes, not slogans. And the outcomes of the Somali experiment in Minnesota, in Scandinavia, in the United Kingdom echo with one conclusion the political class refuses to say aloud: the experiment has failed." The American Spectator

How welfare design and immigration policy collide in Minnesota’s fraud crisis.

"There are scandals that explode with theatrical outrage, and there are scandals that settle over a nation like a quiet, damning verdict. Minnesota’s autism-therapy fraud belongs firmly in the latter category. On November 22, 2025, The Washington Post noted — with the weary delicacy that now accompanies every public-sector failure — that welfare fraud in Minnesota had become “far too common,” highlighting federal charges against eight men, six of them Somali, accused of exploiting the state’s Housing Stabilization Services program under Medicaid and helping force the program’s shutdown.

"But the autism-therapy empire  was something darker, and far more revealing. According to federal filings and local reporting, dozens of clinics — many Somali-owned — are under scrutiny for allegedly mass-producing autism diagnoses and billing Medicaid for therapy that never occurred. In one charging document, prosecutors describe a $14 million scheme centred on falsified treatment notes and kickbacks to parents, tied to defendant Asha Farhan Hassan, who is also charged in the Feeding Our Future food-aid fraud.

"That separate case has already produced more than 40 convictions and guilty pleas in what prosecutors call a $250 million conspiracy to fabricate child-meal claims and loot a federal nutrition program. Medicaid spending on autism services in Minnesota soared in just a few years, from relatively modest sums to hundreds of millions, as the number of providers exploded — a pattern that even sympathetic observers concede is impossible to explain as merely better detection of disability." . . . More...

Trump Levels Omar, Suggests She ‘Go Back’ and Fix Her Own Country: ‘I Don’t Want to See Somalia’ Here

Why STUPID People Are a Greater Threat to Society Than Criminals

The Most Likely to Mug for the C-Span Cameras Award- POLITICO  

Members of Congress routinely make inflammatory statements in congressional hearings to gain attention and cable news hits. But Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has managed to become a perpetual content machine. Her profanity-laced tirades against Elon Musk provide plenty of fodder for both MSNBC and Fox News. In 2023, Crockett went viral when she attacked Republicans’ introduction of articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden at one hearing, holding up photos from Trump’s indictment of classified documents stored in his bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. “These are our national secrets, looks like in the shitter to me!” she said.

Last May, she and Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got into a colorful spat during a hearing, during which Crockett suggested Taylor Greene had a “bleach blond bad built butch body.” Not long after, Crockett filed a trademark on the phrase and used it to start her own merchandise collection, branding her dig as “A Crockett Clapback.”

Rep. Crockett says: 'Law enforcement isn’t to prevent crime'  

Jasmine Crockett: "Just doin crime does not make you a criminal"

Many more at the above link, but I have chosen Crockett because she is the most inclined of the others, Republicans and Democrats listed, to split this nation into race war; a perfect mate for Joy Reid. TD

Why STUPID People Are a Greater Threat to Society Than Criminals

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell

"Are too many people missing—or refusing to confront—what’s staring them right in the face"  Albin Sadar

Bosnia didn’t fall apart because it was Balkan. It fell apart because it was polarized.

 AFNN   

"Bosnia didn’t collapse because people were evil. It collapsed because people were convinced the other side was."

. . . "But Bosnia’s collapse wasn’t ancient history.

"It wasn’t a medieval tribal feud.

"It wasn’t inevitable.

"It was a functional, modern, educated society that disintegrated in less than two years — not because of poverty, not because of famine, not because of foreign invasion — but because its political factions became so polarized that neighbors stopped seeing each other as citizens and started seeing each other as enemies.

"The warning for America is brutally simple:

"Bosnia didn’t fall apart because it was Balkan.

"It fell apart because it was polarized.

"That’s the part nobody wants to talk about.

"What actually happened in Bosnia — factually, historically

"Before the war:

• Bosnia had intermarriage.

• Mixed towns.

• Shared businesses.

• Shared schools.

• Shared military service.

"Sarajevo was called “the Jerusalem of Europe” because Muslims, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians lived together peacefully for generations.

"Then politics hardened.

"Parties radicalized.

"Each group began to believe the others were existential threats." . . . Read more...

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