Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
What is so rare as a Special Day in June
A Special Day in June is actually not that rare. The month of June is replete with Special Days of various kinds, commemorating or promoting Special Things and things that (IMHO) are Not So Special. There is one, however, which we do like to celebrate.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste is the patron of the province of Québec and French Canada. À tous nos lecteurs d'expression française: Bonne fête!
Here are some other Special Days you may have missed.
Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day (June 2nd): Supposedly created so North Americans can shout the word "fudge" to keep venomous cobras away (despite cobras not being native to the continent).
Impersonate Authority Day (June 3rd): A highly questionable day that encourages people to act like they are in charge, though you should probably skip trying this one on law enforcement.
Repeat Day (June 3rd): A day designed to do things twice, a day designed to do things twice.
National Gardening Exercise Day (June 6th): Celebrated by explicitly treating your backyard weeding and lawn mowing as an intense, high-performance athletic workout. (Walt likes this one.)
Upsy Daisy Day (June 8th): A day entirely dedicated to getting out of bed with a ridiculously positive attitude and a spring in your step.
National Kiss a Wookiee Day (June 15th): A bizarrely specific, sci-fi-themed pop culture day urging Star Wars fans to show affection to their favourite fictional, hairy bipedal species.
No Orange Clothes Day (June 16th): A mysterious day where the internet collectively decides that wearing the colour orange is completely forbidden. Canadian readers may have a different interpretation of this one.
International Panic Day (June 18th): An unhinged antidote to mental wellness days that encourages you to just let go and fully freak out over your daily stressors.
World Wide Hollerin' Festival (June 20th): An observance meant to preserve the historical, traditional art of loud vocal "hollerin'" used as communication before telephone lines existed.
Pink Flamingo Day (June 23rd): This day honors the iconic, tacky, plastic pink lawn ornaments invented in 1957.
Cat World Domination Day (June 24th): A day coming up tomorrow that officially acknowledges what feline owners already know—our cats completely rule the house.
That's enough Special Days. Ed.
A very Florida story: Vicious pickle-ball player charged with assault
According to an affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, the alleged incident started when a match between Ms Bannister and the man turned heated over the retrieval of a ball.
When the game was over, the man allegedly approached Ms Bannister's unnamed son to "critique" his playing style, which enraged the boy's mom.
Upon hearing the man allegedly confront her son, Ms Bannister "interjected herself" into the spat and got physically violent with her opponent. According to court documents, Ms Bannister, who is a local family nurse practitioner, left the man with multiple bloody cuts to his face. .
Ms Bannister works for James M. Grimes, MD Orthopedics in St. Augustine, according to the company's website. Her profile says that before she was a nurse practitioner, Ms Bannister worked as a critical care nurse for 13 years, her profile said. She was also a helicopter mechanic in the Marine Corps. She's been described as an 'active mom' who enjoys participating in sports with her children.
Ms Bannister was released from jail after posting an $8000 bond and is set to appear in court on July 28th. Her lawyer, Rosemarie Peoples of the Smith & Eulo law firm, told the outlet that Ms Bannister's "heroic" actions were necessary in order to protect her son. "Michele Bannister is a mom, nurse, and model citizen," said her attorney. "She is wrongly accused of a crime; her actions were needed to stop a violent attempt to attack her young son. I expect that a jury of her peers will fully exonerate her heroic efforts to defend her child."
Monday, June 22, 2026
UPDATED: "Allahu akbar!" à Montréal? Errr, not exactly
The headline is pure speculation. The gunman who shot dead a civilian and a policeman today in Montréal's mainly Jewish Côte-des-Neiges ghetto neighbourhood may have been a Muslim. Or he may have been some other kind of anti-Semite. Or someone who decided to kill a few people regardless of their ethnicity or faith.
First the facts, then our questions. Just before noon EDT, Montréal police were called to the scene pictured above near the intersection of Trans-Island Ave. and Ave. de Courtrai, near the Supermarché PA on Westbury Ave. A man dressed in camo gear and armed with a "long gun" killed a civilian and a cop. A second cop, a woman, was wounded. The shooter was also shot dead.
The "armed threat" alert issued for the Côte-des-Neiges area was lifted around 1515. as "the immediate threat to the public is no longer present." Although officers on the scene initially told The Gazette they were searching for a possible second suspect, Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) Chief Fady Dagher later said he believes there was only one suspect involved in the shootings.
The buildings in the area house condos, rental units, offices and commercial spaces, and are also home to many Jewish residents, many of whom reported numerous antisemitic incidents since the 7/10/23 attacks in Israel, including mezuzahs being knocked from doorways in the complex.
More recently, the social-media account Leviathan identified a Montréal man who allegedly praised Hitler and threatened Jewish Montréalers, raising further alarm on Jewish social-media platforms.
Police had not confirmed that the shooting was directed at the Jewish community, nor would Chief Dagher confirm who was responsible for killing the civilian victim.
He urged the public and media outlets not to circulate graphic images, rumours or unconfirmed information. "Be very careful of rumours," he said. "The event that concerns us today has been neutralized. What motivated him is still unclear."
Well (Walt sez), what else could he say? Dead men, of which the shooter is one, tell no tales. The cops know his identity of course, but are keeping shtum about his ethnicity, his status in Canada ("refugee"? asylum-seeker? illegal alien?) and his religion (if any). Was it a hate crime? Or terrorism? Or both? Forgive us if we jump to a conclusion. If anything that suggests a possible motive is ever divulged by the politically correct authorities, we'll let you know.
UPDATE ADDED 23/6/26 at 0625 FMT: The man accused of killing a Montreal police officer in the city's heavily Jewish Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood before being shot dead by police left behind a 104-page manifesto filled with explicit antisemitism, anti-Zionist rhetoric, Communist ideology, and grievances commonly associated with the online "incel" movement.
The manifesto repeatedly attacks Jews and Zionists, claiming there are "many Jews" within the Western ruling class and stating that the author sometimes refers to it as the "Judaeo-bourgeois class."
A copy of the document obtained by Rebel News further alleges that "the influence of Zionist Jews upon the western bourgeoisie is in fact so strong" that it has shaped Western society itself, and goes on to assert that "Jewish interests dominate the levers of finance, media, and politics," describing this alleged influence as "pervasive and corrosive."
Source: Sheila Gunn Reid, in Rebel News, 23/6/26.
British PM Starmer resigns! What could possibly have gone wrong?
You won't be surprised, I'm sure, to learn that the image above was scraped from the Babylon Bee. Where else? Click here to read the Bee's version of the story. Then read on for Walt's comment.
Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the Disunited Kingdom resigned this morning after coming under mounting pressure from his own Labour Party. Questions are surfacing about what led to his decision to step down.
The threat to Mr Stormer's leadership, which had been building for months, increased sharply last Friday when Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater (?) Manchester, won a parliamentary election to return to Westminster, beating a candidate from Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, which has led national opinion polls for more than a year.
The feckless Labour leader's fall from grace is directly attributable (IMHO) to the abject failure of Mr Starm and his pinko Labour government to deal with the fact that Once-great Britain has been overrum by Islamist hordes who are a law unto themselves, protected by the government and by police who now operate under a two-tier system -- white Anglo-Saxon Britons being on the lower rung of the ladder.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Manchester, where "Manchester rape gangs" have for decades been responsible for highly publicized child sexual exploitation and grooming gang scandals, most notably in towns like Rochdale, Oldham, and Bolton.
These networks of Islamic immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh systematically targeted, groomed, and sexually abused vulnerable teenage girls (usually) for years, while police and other "authorities", including those charged with protecting children, have looked the other way and tried to pretend that it wasn't just a Muslim thing. Voters know the truth of it. Changing captains on the Labour Titanic isn't going to help.
Cartoon scraped from The Patriot Post.
Further reading: "British Tourists Pleasantly Surprised By Quality Of American Food, Lack Of Rape Gangs", Babylon Bee, 19/6/26.
Your Sikhs today: Old Halifax druggie tries to murder his mother
Pictured above -- the one on the left -- is 58-year-old Satrajpal Singh Rai, a resident of Halifax NS, who seems to have problems with mind-altering substances and (perhaps) something of an Oedipus complex. He was convicted this week of attempting to murder his elderly mother by attacking her with a machete.
Mr Rai was held in custody since he was arrested just inside the door of a South Park Street apartment on 3 April 2024. When apprehanded shortly after midnight, he still had the machete in his hands, and his 80-year-old mother was on the hallway floor, covered in blood. Harbhajan Rai was so badly injured that responding officers at first thought she was dead.
Mr Rai was charged with attempted murder, which, like murder requires a specific intent to kill. At his trial last year, the accused testified at trial last year that he was too impaired by cocaine and cannabis to be able to form that intent. Rather unusual for someone who was 56 years old at the time.
He conceded that he attacked his mother but said that at the time, he thought he was fending off a demonic being or entity that wanted to hurt him. He hadn't slept in three days, he said, and was lying on his mother’s bed when he heard voices outside the bedroom. When he rolled over, he saw the entity standing beside him holding a machete.
But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), it gets better [or worse. Ed.] He said the entity had hair like Medusa, reptilian skin and yellow fangs for teeth. No wonder he didn’t recognize it was his mother! Mr Rai said the entity asked him a series of questions and he could not make out who it was. Fearing for his life, he said he grabbed the machete and began swinging.
He recalled moving into the hallway, falling down and scrambling to get up in fear that he would be killed. He told the court that he was yelling for help and trying to get to the door. He indicated that he was able to open the door, but that it started to swing closed. He then observed the police burst through the door.
On cross-examination, Mr Rai admitted that as he swung the machete at the entity, which he now knows was his mother, he said, "Just die!" over and over again, like the alien in Independence Day. The Crown introduced evidence that about half an-hour before the assault, Mr Rai sent a text to his ex-wife in Dartmouth that said, "Pray for me and my mother." At trial, he swore that the text did not have a violent meaning but was just a request to pray that he and his mother would get through the worst of her schizophrenic conditions.
Judge Chris Manning said, "Mr Rai is indeed fortunate that the police arrived no later than they did, and a brilliant trauma team was assembled to save Mrs Rai’s life," said Hizzoner. The accused was the primary caregiver for his mother, who suffers from dementia, schizophrenia and memory loss. "She was the victim of a horrendous, brutal attack committed by her son...in the apartment that they shared. He utilized a machete, and the savagery and force ...resulted in massive injuries, including deep lacerations to her head and body, fractured bones, loss of teeth, and fingers were cut from her hands."
The judge stopped just short of calling bullshit on Mr Rai's defence, and found the drug-addled Sikh guilty of attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. He was sentenced only on the attempted murder charge. Mr Rai expressed remorse for his actions in his presentence report and in his plea to the court. The judge thought a sentence of 18-years in prison sentence would adequately address denunciation and deterrence while not losing sight of the possibility of rehabilitation. [sic!]
He deducted 1203 days as credit for remand time, leaving Mr Rai with a net sentence of about 14 years and 8.5 months before he can become, once again, the kind of citizen (or at least resident) which the Liberal government thinks make Canada a better place. As Emperor Trudeau II famously said, "Diversity is our strength".
If she's lucky, Mrs Rai will be 96 when her son gets out. No worries until then.
In the meantime, our friend Johnny Canuck would like to know: How did a drug-user like Mr Singh Rai and his aged and infirm mother get into Canada? As a "temporary foreign student" perhaps? Or a "temporary foreign worker"? Or maybe a "refugee" or asylum-seeker? How long have these parasites been in Canuckistan? Who supports them? No prizes for guessing the answer to the last question.
Friday, June 19, 2026
VIDEO: Victor Davis Hanson: "Tribal fatigue" is destroying America
"When you say your racial identity is essential to who you are rather than incidental, then you've got the ingredients for tribal warfare." So says Victor Davis Hanson in the latest episode of the Daily Signal.
Increasingly, the word "white" is being used as a pejorative. All day, every day, we "palefaces" are being made to feel guilty about being white. In this video, Mr Hanson analyzes what's going on, and what it means for the future of our nation.
Racial preferences and identity-based politics have weakened social cohesion instead of strengthening it. A society built around shared values, assimilation, and equal treatment under the law is being replaced by a growing focus on group identity and grievance. That's the sad truth of "the Anglosphere" today.
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