It's Bushcraft Wednesday!

Tensions are high, after all, who knows when and where some crew of Muslims will go Muhammad, but that doesn't mean we should neglect our bushcraft skills. Or scorn black powder.

So here's a helpful infovid.

LSP

Aloha Snack Bar!

While some people are busy hanging out at upscale beach clubs in Hawaii and riding around on motorcycles, we're manning the front lines, here in Texas.

Good Work, Einstein

Maybe that's why Blue Mimeticist decided to join in with the predawn chorus of roosters and crazed peacocks this morning.

Brave Defender

Stand to, everyone, maybe that's Daesh creeping up on the perimeter, or a squirrel, or the simple canine exuberance of doing your utmost to sound like a shrieking, demented bird. At 5.30 am.

Dropping Some Bombs on Raqqa

In related news, Putin's going hard against Raqqa, launching Russia's strategic bombing fleet at the Takfiri death cult. As I understand it, each plane carries something like 20 tons of ordnance.

Don't mess with the Bear, white running shoe terrorists.

LSP

Allahu Akbar!

Turkish soccer fans booed and broke out into chants of Allahu Akbar! during a minute's silence for Paris, before the start of a Turkey v. Greece match this morning.

Nice. They'll probably find a warm welcome in Germany, where two Hannover soccer stadiums were evacuated after a bomb threat. No explosives were found, but a possible bomb was "blown up" by police at a city train station. Hannover residents have been urged by law enforcement to not "stay in groups."

How's That Peace Sign Working Out For 'Ya?

You know, I applaud Germany for doing its best to welcome people trying to escape from our, ahem, enemies, ISIS. But Muslim immigration, on a massive scale?

What, in the wildest dreams of an overactive imagination, could possibly go wrong. Suicide bombers? Throwing grenades at death metal concerts? Gunning people down at cafes? Too bad that's not some deranged NSDAP fantasy.

Hannover was lucky this time.

LSP

Incarnation

In a bold attempt to find something positive in this dark and barbarous time, my mind goes to the Incarnation. Here's some Austin Farrer:

"We cannot understand Jesus as simply the God-who-was-man. We have left out an essential factor, the sonship. Jesus is not simply God manifest as man; he is the divine Son coming in manhood. What was expressed in human terms here below was not bare deity; it was divine sonship. God cannot live an identically godlike life in eternity and in a human story. But the divine Son can make an identical response to his Father, whether in the love of the blessed Trinity or in the fulfillment of an earthly ministry. All the conditions of action are different on the two levels; the filial response is one. Above, the appropriate response is a co-operation in sovereignty and an interchange of eternal joys. Then the Son gives back to the Father all that the Father is. Below, in the incarnate life, the appropriate response is an obedience to inspiration, a waiting for direction, an acceptance of suffering, a rectitude of choice, a resistance to temptation, a willingness to die. For such things are the stuff of our existence; and it was in this very stuff that Christ worked out the theme of heavenly sonship, proving himself on earth the very thing he was in heaven; that is, a continuous perfect act of filial love."

I like that, a lot.

LSP

Germany Awake?

Germany's anti-immigration movement, PEGIDA, staged a rally in Dresden this evening, drawing some 20,000 people. 

They believe that a massive influx of Muslims into Germany might result in Paris style terrorism. How could they think that?

I mean to say, how misguided could you possibly be. Muslims = Muslim terrorism? Why would anyone think that? It's ridiculous. And racist. And absurd.

Who knows, maybe Europe will grow a spine, because if it doesn't Deutschland Erwache! might just rise up to bite, and we don't want that. 

Good luck, Germany.

LSP

Out On Patrol

I patrolled down to Montes Mexican Diner, keeping a keen eye out for Daesh terrorists. They could be anywhere.

Takfiri safe house?

Is that Daesh, hiding under a pile of trash?

And what about here?

Perhaps you see a dumpster. I see a hardened defensive position. Clear.

A snake. Good thing I'm armed. With a Glock.

Think twice before you walk down this road. Situational awareness is key.

The patrol ended without incident, apart from a tasty helping of Huevos Rancheros, and this time ISIS stayed under cover. Smart move, guys. But seriously, people are saying that CHL holders have a duty to carry. That might not be such a bad idea.

In the meanwhile, the real war, the War on Weather, continues, with a fine drizzle of rainy attrition. Like being back in the Old Country.

Gun rights.

LSP

Safe Space

As you were. 

Carry on.

LSP

France Launches Peace At Raqqa

In a stunning show of force, James Taylor and a holographic John Lennon are being beamed in to Paris by Senator John Kerry to finally, once and for all, defeat the Jihad. Yoko Ono is also slated to appear, in what pundits are predicting to be the "most significant rally for peace since Band Aid." 

The Talent That is Yoko

Who knows, maybe the incredibly talented vocalist, Yoko, will shriek the Jihad into submission. Failing that, France has launched a massive Peace Raid on the Caliphate's capital, Raqqa, consisting of 20 bombs. 

Vive

Yes, 20. It's a lot like the allied bombing raids on Nazi Germany, only way smaller. Still, despite their reputation, the French can be made of pretty stern stuff. Maybe the attack on our frenemies, ISIS, will continue.

Good Luck, Paris

In the meanwhile, Paris, already reeling from one attack, steels itself for Yoko. It survived ISIS, at no little cost to itself. It remains to be seen whether this iconic city will survive the sonic assault of the genius that is Yoko.

All you need is love,

LSP

Clean Your Gun, it's Sunday

It's a pretty typical Sunday afternoon, here at the Compound; Gun cleaning, a late lunch consisting of a bollo and something advertising itself as "Beef Bologna." I find Duke's mayonnaise helps with this, but hey, go for second best Hellman's, there's no "rule."

Iraqi Forces Wave Captured Weather Flag

As I reflect on this, my mind goes to this morning's Gospel, in which Jesus warns of "false Christs" and "false prophets." No shortage of those, right about now. Speaking of which, Bernie Sanders blames our ancient adversary, The Weather, for the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

El Nino

Does The Weather know no bounds? Will it stop at nothing in its ongoing attempt to destroy our civilization and overthrow everything we hold right and true? Apparently not, which is why our first installment of Climate Change Refugees landed in New Orleans this Saturday. I guess they're running from El Nino.

What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong.

LSP

You Pathetic Fools

Breitbart -- "Your country has just been attacked by a wave of at least half-dozen terror attacks. More than 120 innocent people are dead. Upwards of 300 are hospitalized. Your iconic city is trembling in fear and unease. Muslim-extremist barbarians, many of whom you invited to live among you, are cheering, plotting, and anticipating the next round."

So you draw a peace sign. Why not a rainbow, and a unicorn too? Then you could doubly beat back the Jihad.

You pathetic fools.

ISIS laughs.

LSP

Oh, The Right Did It

Look how quickly the shariasymp left blames the Jihad Paris massacre on the nascent, or burgeoning right-wing movement in Europe. 

If only right-wing nationalists hadn't engaged in "incendiary rhetoric," none of this would have happened.

Excuse me, I thought it was Muslims.

LSP

Wake Up And Smell The Jihad

As of this evening, over 150 people are reported dead in the latest terrorist attack in Paris by Muslims.

President Obama has denounced the atrocity as "an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share."

But that's precisely it, we don't all share the same set of values. Authentic Islam, following the example of its founder Mohammed, the Koran and the Hadith, is an ideology of violent conquest and enslavement that does not shrink from wholesale terror to achieve its end, namely, the subjugation of humanity.

Paris, tragically, saw that ideology in play tonight and we're reminded of it daily, in every country that's home to any sizable concentration of Muslims. There you will find all the barbarity of a 7th century tribal war cult, inflamed to white-hot fanaticism according to the ebb and flow of adherence to divinely sanctioned Jihad.

Stoning, crucifixion, torture, slavery, murder and terror are the currency of this ideology, anti-values sanctioned and encouraged by its founder. The West needs to wake up and recognize the threat.

France has closed its borders. Some might call that a day late and a dollar short.

Deus Vult,

LSP