ADL or ADLOL?

They caught the alligator. 

We got to the gym yesterday. That's two sessions this week. We had a hard workout actually and our left foot is bothering us a bit. Do we need new footwear, or is something wrong? A dear friend from HS, who is also a gym rat said, 'We are old, my friend.' Indeed we are. The girls we went to HS with are looking like women of a certain age. 

One supposes one should opine on Elon Musk's fight with Johnathan Greenblat and the Anti-Defamation League. We joke in the headline, but there's really nothing funny about the ADL. We agree with every word Laura Rosen Cohen says at Steyn Online. The ADL is proof that one can monetize 'hate'. They're fascists and Greenblat is bad for Jews. Here's Greenblat on Al Sharpton's show. Sue the ADL, Elon. Sue the ADL back to the stone age.

Police blotter: A question we ask a lot lately, was what you needed worth all this? In this video, two cops turf and restrain a man over a five-dollar pizza. We admit the man was being a difficult smartass. So? Try being a teacher and see how much difficult smartasses with which one must deal.  Again, imagine Detective Sergeant Joe Friday doing this to a person over anything, much less a five dollar pizza. Yes, Dragnet was a television show. But it is still indicative of what society expected of its policemen in 1968. 'Just the facts, ma'am,' is preferable to, 'Show me your ID or I will tase you!'

On the other hand, The New York Post reports: 'A Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party official who once vowed to “dismantle” the Minneapolis Police Department is now calling for tougher crime laws after she was beaten and bloodied in a carjacking outside of her home this week.' Don't gloat. I said don't gloat. That woman was badly beaten. There's got to be a middle ground between 'Respect my authority!' and 'You said you wanted to defund the police, you defunded the police.' 

Stop us if we've told this story before. A friend of our daughter's told us about being catcalled and whistled at and generally menaced by weirdos several times while staying in NYC. Maybe it's just because we're the middle-aged father of three girls, but here's  what we think should have happened. 'Officer, a man was bothering me and being a weirdo.' Officer draws nightstick, 'Point him out, ma'am.' 

Poland is arming and rearming. Via Zerohedge: 'Poland will spend the added funds on a sequence of massive weapons acquisitions, including multi-billion-dollar purchases of Apache Helicopters, Abrams Tanks, and HIMARS. Additionally, Warsaw plans to expand its military to 300,000 soldiers. Polish officials claim the massive military buildup is an effort to prevent war.' Quite right. Weakness is a provocation. 

One of the outcomes of the Ukraine War is a large, battle-hardened Russian army that has corrected numerous mistakes and is prepared to fight the next war. 'We have large, well trained, and eager army, Comrade Putin. The Baltic Republics have been mouthing off lately so....' As Madeline Albright once remarked to Colin Powell, 'What's the point of having the world's greatest military if you don't use it?'

If a nation is next to Russia, that nation should act like it's next to Russia. Every Polish town should have a bunker and arms cache. Every military age man should have at least a few weeks military call up every year. Children should be taught semaphore and how to run messages. One gets the idea.

India is changing its name? Hot Air tells us, 'The current government of the nation has been considering formally changing its name to Bharat. And they seemed to be moving in that direction when they recently sent out state dinner invitations to attendees of the upcoming G20 summit which made reference to the “President of Bharat.” The move has been described as an effort to break away from India’s colonial past and its relationship to the former British Empire. (CNBC).' We asked a few of our neighbors about this and were met with a bevy of answers ranging from, 'Ah yes, of course' to laughter and cynicism. One said, 'The actual name was Industan - the Land of the Hindus.'

What Will's Watching: Mrs. Stroock had the Chiefs/Lions game on last night so....[Oh FFS-Ed]. We realized yet another thing we hate about the NFL. Seeing the same mildly cute or clever commercial half a dozen times over the course of a game. [Then don't watch, knobhead. Or does Mrs. Stroock control the remote?-Ed] What do you think?