I could have been a contender, but I chose not to.

DOJ Secures Deportation of ISIS Terrorist in First Ever Use of Alien Terrorist Removal Court
September 11, 2026

□ [“CIA Declassifies Historic Document Warning Bush and Clinton About Bin Laden Airplane Plot"]

An anniversary we never thought we'd see.  Yes it happens in other countries but the point is that we're supposed to have enough defense and security to prevent it here.  If other countries were better, they could protect themselves too.  But it failed and the next 25 years have been the result.

I haven't thought much about any of these conspiracy theories or what was missed by the government before 9/11.  They can't prevent everything and the best defenses can still be avoided.  You can look into more, why bin Laden, how did he get people through, all that, but that's still just conspiracy theory.  It's usually dictated by someone who already has their outcome prepared, which isn't that different from al Qaida or their ilk.

For all the change we've seen of the last 25 years, I'm not sure how much can really be blamed on 9/11 or its aftermath.  It was the first major event of the 21st century, nothing before that had been particularly relevant or interesting.  Civilization had been planning for the new millennium for decades and I suspect that was more impactful, the destruction of the World Trade Center was just the sign that we had finally reached a new era.

My interest at the time and for many years after was in our response.  To this day, I still support our military attacks.  The Taliban supported bin Laden so Afghanistan was an obvious target.  But it wasn't a major deal to the Muslim world so we needed something more direct and we'd had problems with Saddam Hussein for years so Iraq was the next choice.  You can quibble with how we handled this but I still think the intent was solid and our actions on the ground built on that.  I used to work for men who were on the ground in Afghanistan a week after 9/11 and I still cite Father's Day 2014 as a big deal in Iraq.  From there we had to look into the rest of the Muslim world and that conflict will probably still be going on after we're all dead.

But the people on the planes, those in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, they didn't get that time to react.  The destruction could be repaired but not the enormous damage of this attack.  For all the protection and security we're supposed to have, at some point it runs out.  Then the survivors have to figure out what to do next.

I don't have any great statement to make.  I've been thinking a lot about 9/11 today, a significant anniversary, but not sure what else there is to say.  I can only hope that we've learned more of what we're fighting for and what our enemy fights for, because we can be sure that they've learned from this.  Stay productive, work as long as hard as we can until it's over, that's the only chance we have of winning this war.

British MPs Vote Against Assisted Suicide Bill, 286-270
September 11, 2026

□ [“CBS Host Gayle King Stunned to Learn Lone Clancy Holdout Was a Black Guy"]

The next crack in the leftist armor, one juror held out for a week because Clancy murdered her children.  The others are all attacking him and now we learn that he's a black man.  The rest were white, almost all were female.  They expected obedience and are pissed that they didn't get it.

NBC Boston has already identified the guy and is trying to get him doxxed, i.e. his personal info is released to the public so they can attack him.  Because that's how you keep black men in line?  Doesn't sound like any of these people think that's a bad idea.  Good way to push black men away but what will white liberal women do without them?  It's also not a good way to get normal people willing to take part in juries, so these white liberal women can be surrounded by people who agree with them.

So in general we're seeing men react to this differently from women.  Now we're going to see black men specifically react.  The women are going to start reversing themselves real quickly, they won't want to be associated with this.  Even on Oprah's podcast - can't tell if it's a new one or if it's from yesterday - a black woman stood up to insist Clancy murdered her kids and defied all the other women to hold that position.  That's the sort of thing that gets noticed.

Just a guess, but I'd say men in general are stepping back and saying this is messed up.  This will give them a chance to think seriously about what's going on, especially as the media has to figure out what to do.  Black women will have to pick between staying with black men or white women.  Not sure which way they'll go but they'll probably be insane.  Other non-white women, exceptions noted, will probably be generally sensible about this since leftism is mostly for whites.

And then the white women will realize that they have no way to actually maintain anything without obedient men.  I don't know how long any of this will take but it might be yet-another boost for the mid-term elections which are already not going well for leftists.

Virginia School District 9/11 Teacher Guide Devoted to Shielding Students from ‘Anti-Muslim Racism’
September 11, 2026

□ [“Democrat Counter-Protest in Dallas Draws Maybe 120 – Mindless Freaks and Hateful Slogans"]

The RNC had a convention which is not supposed to happen in mid-terms.  I'd like to think MAGA has actual plans, maybe there's even some point to Trump's recent comments, but if nothing else, there's the opposition showing what they're worth.  Mostly old white people, funny how they're always available even without USAID or other NGO funding.  They're just doing the same things we've seen for years, adding nothing new.

I'm hoping we see some real results from the last two years of waiting for victories.  The illegal immigrant vote has been cut, the 'dead people' vote has been reduced and the last two years of insane leftism just seems to be driving a lot of real voters away.  It's not so much that it'll help Republicans so much as a lot of people who would otherwise vote Democrat might just want to sit this out, 'let the others decide.'  That could be the first step out of leftism for a lot of people.

I'm not going to say Republicans are guaranteed to win, I'm still worried the fix is in, but they do have a good chance of winning, better than most mid-terms.  That's probably why they had this convention now, getting set for the next two months.  And it's getting wider.  England and Spain are still having protests, they've started in Greece, Germany has had to accept a major right-wing election victory.  It's even rumored that small protests have started in Iran although of course there's no proof.

And these counter-protests are the best the left has to offer right now?  Even worse, they think they're guaranteed to win from this?  I really try to avoid optimism but putting it that way, there's a very good chance of winning something for real in the near-future.

Mamdani and AOC Laugh as Names of Honored Dead Read Aloud at 9/11 Memorial
September 11, 2026

□ [“'Transfeminist Abolition' and 'Communist Sex Forests':  Inside the Socialism 2026 Summit"]

I'm still trying to figure this out.  There was some leftist get-together in Chicago last weekend and these were the sort of things they talked about.  Just these titles demonstrate that they don't even bother with what words actually mean.  This is a good way to trap normal people because we react to the actual words.  This is just how their minds work, like they aren't fully developed.  They finally learned enough words to make something sound like a complex term but it really doesn't mean anything.  Might as well consider it a disguise for their emotions.

I still go back and forth on whether or not they really are individual people or if they actually qualify as a collective.  The evidence is pretty strong either way.  Collectively they all seem to react the same way at the same time for the same reason, even with no interaction.  As individuals, it might be easiest to see with the way they turn on each other, which itself shows their uniform reaction to anything.

As an example, we see them turning against J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books.  She's totally leftist, even supports transgenderism, she just doesn't want boys in girl's locker rooms.  For that, they uniformly turn against her.  What's really weird is that they still seem to worship the books, even though she still owns the rights.  Looking it up, she still owns all the rights, meaning movies or whatever are licensed out to other companies.  She created the franchise they love and they hate her for it.  It's like they would be thrilled if a giant corporation owned everything.  Makes me wonder if she put other messages in this book about child magic and that's what they're really responding to.

This shows why leftism is so undefinable.  They can't base it on reality or even describe it with correct words - as seen by how they pretend there's a distinction between "socialism," "marxism" and "communism" - so they're at least competent enough to be able to move from one point to the next without hesitation.  Since they like being surrounded by others, they can take over a franchise, a business or university and fill it with the non-words as we see in this summit.

NIH Still Spending $225 Million on Dog and Cat Experiments Despite Trump Admin Efforts
September 11, 2026