The server will be sending a element with multiple sub-select options. The id will be categories. The entire select structure is for multiple selections. display=”none”

The framework is Bootstrap. We have jquery available but I would like to avoid using it.

We need to provide a multilevel drop-down that will allow the user to make selections within that large select element. We need to display their current selections. The user needs to be able to remove a selection.

Tell me the goals, and what needs to be done before providing code.

What Grok gave me was an excellent starting point. The HTML was clean. The JavaScript was well structured. The code matched my prompt.

And it was broken.

I explicitly stated that I was providing the input data as a hidden, multi-level, unordered list. Grok took that list and cloned it, including all the ids. This breaks things. There was no reason to do the clone. It just happened to be a pattern Grok had seen on the net.

For the next five hours I fought with the code. At first, Grok was able to do revisions exactly as I expected and wanted.

Then it went off the reservation.

I had refactored a large anonymous event listener to an explicitly defined function. Grok had no problems doing that. Then it proceeded to revert to the anonymous event listener again and again.

This is because anonymous event listeners are the norm in JavaScript. Nobody has an issue with attaching duplicate event listeners to a few hundred or thousand elements. Nobody cares that the code gets crowded, with it being difficult to see what is outside the scope of the listener and what isn’t.

Grok also had a horrible time sticking with the current version. I would tell it to correct one line, and it would decide I was talking about something else entirely and revert a revision or more.

Overall, it took me about 8 hours to get the JavaScript, CSS, and HTML to the point where I was happy with the code.

The biggest strength was in how it knew the different patterns. My first pass used dropdown menus. That wasn’t working. I switched to accordion style. Grok originally used Bootstrap-5, when I told it to use Bootstrap-4, it just made the changes.

One of the things that was extremely helpful was getting rapid confirmation that a feature didn’t exist.

When a feature does exist in a library or framework, it is often trivial to locate it. When it doesn’t exist, that is harder. Do you have the correct search terms? Does the function exist under a different name? Does that feature not exist, but there is a quick, well known, method that does the same thing?

Grok is a tool in the tool chest. I will continue to use it. It is getting better every month.

        

Rant

But What Is It For?

Mar 4, 2026 Chris Johnson

According to Ally, I spent over 6 hours in calls today. None of them particularly pleasant.

The goal is to get different issues worked on in priority order without losing anything.

We will be using two different aspects of Gitea. The issue (ticket) system and the project management system.

We have set up the project management system as a Kanban board. “Backlog”, “ToDo”, “In Progress,” “Done.” I now have to train the account manager on how to manage projects.

My biggest problem is how they want to use the tickets. Tickets are there to track a an issue, task or project. Every comment on the ticket should move the ticket forward in some way.

This is not an email chain. You don’t quote the previous comment in your comment unless it makes sense.

If your comment is wrong, edit it to make it correct. When somebody else comes to the ticket and they are scrolling down, they are going to stop at the first comment that answers their question/need. They are not going to read to the bottom of the ticket to find a different comment that says “Oh, disregard the comment above; THIS is the real information”

Currently, I have a ticket with 3 comments referencing the same image with three different image names. The first comment was from the account manager, who wrote, “Client confirms X, see attached.”

No comment should ever read “See attached”. You attached it. You know what the image is. You know why you attached it. Having everybody else on the project look at the image and GUESS at why you put it there is wasteful of their time and resources.

In this case, the attached image had nothing to do with the confirmation. They were two separate issues.

Somehow he couldn’t cut and paste images into the ticket. So all the images were being saved as attachments, not inline. When asked if I could edit his comment to inline his images, he refused.

It is verboten to edit his comments. So I now have to get him to fix his comments when he makes a mistake…

Oh my, this is a rant, and it isn’t getting any better.

I hope you are having a great day. I’m 6 hours behind in the project and will be coding most of the day.

(Oh, when I took the stovepipe off to clean it, running the chimney pipe brush through the 8 inch stovepipe caused the pipe to come apart at the seam and for holes to show up. That required a trip to the hardware store to get more stovepipe.)

        

From Behind Enemy Lines

From Behind Enemy Lines – The Slow Demise of “the dems”

Mar 3, 2026 Allyson

Look, I know people don’t like the Left. I get it, especially now. But hear me out.

For the last 3 years or maybe a bit more, I’ve been watching and learning about how horrid the Left is. And for the most part, Chris and the rest of you have been correct. There are a lot of people over there doing Stupid Things, without winning the stupid prizes that should go along with it. We’ve had riots and protests and shootings, and it’s like … meh.

But the last week? I’m finally seeing some positive, guys. You probably won’t see it for another year or two, because this is going to move very slowly. But I am actually seeing the thinking people remaining on the Left…. well, thinking.

I’ve always been very supportive of everything the Iranian and other Muslim women have done in order to bring about freedom for themselves. That really is the only way they’re going to get it, even though Trump and Israel are helping a bit. They have to grasp it and do it for themselves… and unlike some liberal women, they do understand that. There are women out there today burning their hijabs who were born under this regime and have been fighting it literally their entire lives. All my friends know I’m supportive of all women, but the Iranians in particular.

And when a handful of them started reposting stuff about how awful Trump was, I questioned them. I pointed out that the facts hadn’t changed since last year. That the regime had murdered 20,000 of their own people *for protesting*. And several other inconvenient facts that have LOTS to back them up.

And they stopped. They actually listened.

They began to realize that they can simultaneously dislike Trump (go for it… I still don’t like *everything* he does) and be happy that our military stepped in and helped the Iranian people. They can be concerned about how much it’s going to cost us, as a country, to help the Iranians, and still be glad the Iranians are being given the chance to rule their own G-D selves.

Someone made an offhand comment that I must be rooting for Fetterman to become a Republican, and I said no! I don’t want Fetterman to come over to the Right, because he’s not a Conservative. He’s a Liberal, a Democrat, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The fact that he’s a reasonable, responsible, thinking person is a GOOD thing. I want him to continue being a Liberal and a Democrat, and perhaps be a voice for change and reason. And they … thought about it.

So there are cracks, my friends. People are starting to think. They’re starting to look at the fact that they’ve been supporting the dictators while wanting Trump out, and how wrong that is.

        

News

The Intermittent Missive – Da Bomb Edition

Mar 3, 2026 JL R

Feb 26:

rcd via e-mail
ABC Poll Stunner: Americans STILL Trust Trump More Than the Dems — and in Every Category, Too!
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/02/22/abc-poll-stunner-americans-still-trust-trump-more-than-the-dems-and-in-every-category-too-n4949814
…In 2024, Donald Trump — the thrice-married, twice-impeached, self-aggrandizing billionaire — won a landslide electoral victory over his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump didn’t win because he’s perfect; yet again, perfect wasn’t on the menu. He won because he was the better option…the qualities that make him so appealing often come with a cost. He’s a man with rough edges…More than any politician in recent memory, polling almost always exaggerates Trump’s weakness and underplays his strength, leading to “surprised Pikachu” faces on Election Day. Part of the reason is the MAGAverse’s distrust of pollsters, but it runs deeper than that.
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Most Americans disapprove of Trump on issues; Americans don’t trust Dems in Congress more to handle problems: Poll
https://abcnews.com/Politics/americans-disapprove-trump-issues-americans-dont-trust-dems/story
…despite Trump’s low ratings, Americans don’t trust Democrats in Congress more to handle the country’s biggest problems.

Rejecting the normalization of decay
https://www.collapselife.com/p/rejecting-the-normalization-of-decay
Everyday transactions now require cameras, locks, and scrutiny. Each change makes sense on its own. But in aggregate, they reveal a society reorienting itself around distrust. Zahra Sethna from Collapse Life just returned from a trip to London and shared a jarring sign on the side of the road in super-wealthy Mayfair prohibiting open defecation in a doorway…There was a time not long ago when people went into Pret a Manger, the popular British café chain, for a sandwich and a coffee and were expected not to shoplift or assault a staff member. Now Pret has taken to having staff wear body cameras, as a quiet technological solution to a growing problem of worker safety and theft…

Will Kash Patel and Susie Wiles File Legal Actions Over These Revelations From the Biden FBI?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/26/will-kash-patel-and-susie-wiles-file-legal-actions-over-these-revelations-from-the-biden-fbi-n2671925
The actions of the Biden White House have sparked ongoing controversy. They targeted Donald Trump and have become increasingly hostile toward Attorney General Merrick Garland for not acting swiftly on political matters. Their Justice Department has investigated pro-life activists, searched their homes, and those who posted anti-Biden memes. If Trump had done the same, it would have been a multi-week story. Additionally, Reuters reports that FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ phone records were seized during investigations led by ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith

Suspect Who Rammed Vehicle DHS Building in Idaho Has Been Identified..and You Cannot Make This Up
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/26/suspect-who-rammed-vehicle-dhs-building-in-idaho-identified-n2671799
a deranged person tried to ram into a DHS building in Idaho last week. This individual stole an ambulance and filled it with gasoline cans…the suspect is a white ‘Karen’ named Sarah George, 43

Head of San Francisco Agency Serving Homeless CONVICTED of Nine Felonies, Stole Over $1.2 Million
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/head-of-san-francisco-agency-serving-homeless-convicted-of-nine-felonies-stole-over-1-2-million.html/

“KILLING OF THE INFIDELS BY YOUR SWORD”: Jihad Mayor Mamdani Opens Ramadan at Queens Terror-Linked Mosque
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/killing-of-the-infidels-by-your-sword-jihad-mayor-mamdani-opens-ramadan-at-queens-terror-linked-mosque.html/

Disgusted
https://vineofliberty.com/2026/02/26/disgusted/
Tuesday’s State of the Union address had so many disgusting moments that my stomach is still churning…The Democrats were just wrong…Every Democrat at the State of the Union was disrespectful; some stepped over the line into “unsportsman like behavior”, I’m looking at the Muslim twins and Al Green, but there were more…The Democrats are consumed with so much hate that they can’t show any love for our country…The next time there is a Democrat as president, I know I will be hearing about how I need to respect the office of the president. That I shouldn’t say disrespectful things about the person who occupies the Oval Office. And when I point out how they treated President Trump and then President Vance, they will tell me “That’s different.”

Left-Wing Lawfare Hijacking Courts to Overrule Voters
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/report-left-wing-lawfare-hijacking-courts-to-overrule-voters/
A new report from the Alliance for Consumers (AFC) reveals how left-wing legal activists have hijacked America’s courts, converting them into a “parallel lawmaking apparatus” that imposes policy mandates through litigation rather than legislation… restoring the proper role of courts requires recognizing that lawfare has become a systematic effort to accomplish through litigation what activists could not secure at the ballot box. It is time for the other branches of government to fulfill their constitutional role of acting as a check on that abuse of power.

Ilhan Omar freaks out over arrest of her radical State of the Union guest
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ilhan-omar-freaks-out-over-arrest-of-her-radical-sotu-guest
The Somali-born ethno-nationalist announced on Monday that among the radicals she was bringing as guests to the SOTU was Aliya Rahman, an autistic non-straight activist who, though born in America, grew up in Bangladesh and has championed leftist causes since returning to the United States…”At approximately 10:07 p.m., a person in the House Gallery started demonstrating during tonight’s State of the Union Address,” continued the statement. “The guest was told to sit down, but refused to obey our lawful orders.” The Capitol Police added that “it is illegal to disrupt the Congress and demonstrate in the Congressional Buildings, so 43-year-old Aliya M. Rahman of Minneapolis, MN, was arrested for D.C. Code §10-503.16 – Unlawful Conduct, Disruption of Congress.”

Unfeminism. – or How I discovered that I’m not One Of Them.
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/unfeminism
o here is where I plant my flag: I am for women and girls, and boys and men. We are equal, even with our glorious and complimentary differences. I deem myself to be feminine, and not just because I wear dresses most days. I am feminine in the ways God made me to be. I’m also rocking my feet of clay, so I remember to seek His wisdom, even if I am flawed in my follow-through, and despite my mistakes of the past. I am for people, and for the best and highest purpose of our kind.

Feb 27:

Biden’s FBI Subpoenaed Future FBI Director’s Patel and Susie Wiles Records — Even Recorded Conversations Susie Wiles and Her Lawyer
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/biden-spied-patel-wiles.html/
Now you know why Biden’s autopen pre-pardoned Jack Smith and his fellow co-conspirators.
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Jewish Parents Are Now Suing ENTIRE California Education System, ‘F–ck the Jews”
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/cali-school-system-jew-hating-indoctrination.html/
A group of Jewish parents has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Education, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, alleging systemic antisemitism in public schools across the state. The lawsuit claims that Jewish students have been subjected to harassment, anti-Jewish and anti-Jewish rhetoric in classrooms, and discriminatory treatment by school staff.
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SHOCKING: San Francisco Democrats Chant “Tax the Jews”
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/shocking-san-francisco-democrats-chant-tax-the-jews.html/
Antisemites chant ‘tax the Jews’ at San Francisco mayor’s conference. Democratic Socialists of America protest against San Francisco mayor’s tax policy devolves into antisemitic chants against Israel and Jews.
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Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Against UCLA for Antisemitic Workplace Conditions
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/department-of-justice-files-lawsuit-against-ucla-for-antisemitic-workplace-conditions.html/
The Trump Justice Department filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against UCLA, alleging the university created an “antisemitic hostile work environment” by allowing anti-Israel activists to block Jewish students from campus facilities during protests.

CAIR’s BLOOD LIBEL: Ohio Senate Gives Platform to Hamas-CAIR Terror Group On Antisemitism Vote
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/cairs-blood-libel-ohio-senate-gives-platform-to-hamas-cair-terror-group-on-antisemitism-vote.html/
why is a jihadist organization being given a platform before a state Senate Judiciary Committee — particularly on the issue of whether Ohio should adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism?
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Democrat mayor orders detention of ICE agents who use ‘excessive force’ against residents
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/02/27/democrat-mayor-orders-detention-of-ice-agents-who-use-excessive-force-against-residents-1624564/
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has formally banned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from city property as well as mandated the detention of any agent who uses “excessive force” on city residents…“No ICE officer gets to stand in our way of saving someone’s life. To protect Denver, if we see any ICE officer using excessive force against a Denver resident, we will step in to detain that officer and remove them from the situation,”

Democrats Move to Make Colorado the First State to Legalize Prostitution. What Could Go Wrong?
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/democrats-move-to-make-colorado-the-first-state-to-legalize-prostitution-what-could-go-wrong/
Colorado Democrats have filed a bill that could make it the first state to decriminalize prostitution, and critics warn that the bill would make the Centennial State the “Wild West” for purchasing sex and lead to an increase in human trafficking. “We have a billion-dollar budget shortfall here in Colorado……..
(As far as I can see WA, OR, CA MI, NM, and Washington DC, among others, have legalized prostitution……at least by elected officials – jlr)

Park rangers kick foreigners out of famed La Jolla Cove for throwing rocks at protected sea lions
https://www.theblaze.com/news/foreigners-la-jolla-sea-lions
Harassing sea lions is a violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and carries a punishment of up to $30,000 per violation and up to one year in prison.
video – 00:03:10 – https://youtu.be/GP3p04N-lRQ
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Blue on blue???
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/blue-on-blue
Afghanistan and Pakistan exchanged significant cross-border fire Thursday in an escalation of hostilities along their shared border, according to multiple reports….One of the ‘interesting’ things in the pictures in the article is the amount of American equipment the Taliban have now- Hummers, M-4s, M-16s, etc.
(Taliban, please remember to thank “Uncle Sam” Biden for those billions and billions of dollars of equipment, weapons, and ammunition he just left laying around for you – jlr)

Gun Control Necromancy.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/gun-control-necromancy
Some old and worn out Gun Control idiots trying to capitalize on the Mexico shindig.
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But wait, there is more Gun Control Necromancy – With a big dash of Lying sauce.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/but-wait-there-is-more-gun-control
This one made me laugh a lot. Trayvon was a thug who met his demise by a mixture of stupid machismo and poor victim selection.

Active Response Training – Weekend Knowledge Dump- February 27, 2026
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-february-27-2026

rcd via e-mail
(OH MY! Check out the hysterical fear-mongering wording of this article – jlr)
Wild LI (Long Island) geezer built basement shooting range and staggering gun lab — just steps from Chaminade High School: DA
https://nypost.com/2026/02/27/us-news/wild-li-geezer-built-basement-shooting-range-gun-lab-stocked-with-arsenal-of-illegal-weapons-da/

Wild LI geezer built basement shooting range and staggering gun lab — just steps from Chaminade High School: DA

A crazy Long Island geezer allegedly transformed his basement into a makeshift shooting range equipped with an incredible arsenal of self-built machine guns, including a “weapon of mass killing” — set just steps away from several schools. 

Wen-Lone Chou, 67, operated a sprawling suburban gun lab inside his Mineola home down the road from Chaminade High School, a Mineola school soccer field and a nearby elementary school — that was fit with a 25-foot-long DIY shooting range in his basement, prosecutors alleged.

After a year-long, multi-agency probe, cops arrested Chou Wednesday after rifling through his home, where they discovered a staggering cache of firepower.

Wen-Lone Chou, 67, allegedly operated a sprawling suburban gun lab inside his Mineola home.Brandon Cruz / NYPost

“What’s even more terrifying — this illegal, dangerous activity was happening steps away from several schools,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly told reporters Thursday.

Police uncovered 10 mostly illegal guns, including seven assault-style rifles, a home-assembled fully automatic MP5-style weapon, a 9mm ghost gun with illegal parts, 78 high-capacity magazines — some stashed in Chou’s ceiling — along with six suppressors, roughly 6,000 rounds of ammo, and a rapid-fire switch capable of turning rifles into machine guns.

The only legal weapon in the home was an old bolt-action hunting rifle, Donnelly said.

Investigators also uncovered five completed lower frames — which are handgun and AR-style platforms awaiting additional components to be completed — along with parts capable of assembling yet another MP5-style firearm and even turning his AR-style weapons into a fully automatic killing machine. 

Chou built a fully functioning 25-foot underground firing range in his basement.Nassau County District Attorney

After a year-long, multiagency investigation, authorities searched inside Chou’s home on Feb. 25, where cops came across a staggering cache of firepower.Brandon Cruz / NYPost

“[Chou] had all the components to assemble an actual machine gun,” Donnelly said.

“This tiny item right here can effectively turn these firearms into machine guns,” she added, holding up the small metal “switch” device prosecutors said can transform a semi-automatic rifle into a full auto weapon.

“It makes an already deadly weapon, a weapon of mass killing.”

But what truly stunned authorities was what they said was hidden below Chou’s house — a fully functioning 25-foot underground firing tunnel, with the walls lined with blue tarps to contain debris and sound, and a four-inch-thick plywood target riddled with rounds. 

Chou used suppressors while firing in his tunnel so neighbors and children across the street wouldn’t hear the shots ring out, authorities alleged.

The four-inch-thick plywood board, still riddled with bullets, that Chou used as a target in his basement shooting range.Brandon Cruz for NYPost

The probe launched in January 2025, after Chou was flagged as an alleged frequent online buyer of gun parts from multiple retailers — purchasing roughly 112 firearm-related components over the course of the prior year, according to prosecutors.

“This kind of purchasing pattern is an immediate red flag for our law enforcement,” Donnelly said.

Authorities also learned that Chou’s Nassau County pistol permit had been revoked in 1999 following a domestic incident, though he has no prior arrests — raising even more concern as investigators tracked what they described as an escalating pattern of purchases.

“What’s even more terrifying — this illegal, dangerous activity was happening steps away from several schools,” Nassau County DA Anne Donnelly told reporters Thursday. Brandon Cruz for NYPost

Prosecutors are (trying to) determining whether Chou was simply a gun enthusiast who went wildly overboard or if there was a more sinister motive.

There is no evidence, so far, that he sold the weapons or was actively plotting an attack, authorities said.

What do you think? Be the first to comment.

Chou pleaded not guilty in Hempstead court on Thursday. His bail was set at $250,000 cash, $625,000 bond or $1.25 million partially secured, and he was ordered to surrender his passport.

If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

Feb 28:

Trump Announces ‘Major Combat Operations’ Against Iran: ‘A Vicious Group of Very Hard, Terrible People’
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-trump-announces-major-combat-operations-iran-vicious-group-hard-terrible-people/
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime — a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,”

Iran Update: Ayatollah’s Compound Demolished and Some Big Iranian Leaders Bite the Dust
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2026/02/28/update-as-attacks-continue-some-big-iranian-leaders-bite-the-dust-n2199668

Trump Urges Iranians to Take Back Their Country — ‘The Hour of Your Freedom Is at Hand’
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/02/28/the-anti-obama-trump-urges-iranians-to-take-back-their-country-the-hour-of-your-freedom-is-at-hand-n2199667

Trump Isn’t Starting a War, He’s Ending One
https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/02/28/trump-isnt-starting-a-war-hes-ending-one-n4950061
Trump’s decision to strike Iran hasn’t started a “forever war.” He’s attempting to end one. Nothing good would have come had we retreated. The Iranian-led war of terror against the West would have resume, more confident and more brazen. The world would be a worse place, and a lot more innocent people would die. That’s not an opinion. That’s an indisputable fact.

Well – Sucks to be a mullah right now
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/well-713
The Iranian mullahs have used the natural resources of Iran to become the #1 sponsor of International terror since 1979…
∙Strategically: Long overdue, and necessary for world stabilization and American interests.
∙Politically: I’m sure the oppo party on Congress is tuning up their shrieking, but given that they shriek about literally every-bloody-thing — no matter how small or insignificant — that the current Oval Office occupant does … ok.
∙Legally: I don’t know — and neither does anyone with a fresh degree in Legal Studies or International Strategic Studies from Google U. I would surmise that a man with access to the finest legal minds in the country probably has pretty firmly crossed his ‘t’s and dotted his ‘i’s, but we won’t know for a bit.
∙Personally: Kill as many of the mullahs as you want. Matter of fact kill all of them. Send the souls of every mullah, basiji, and IRGC thug — from highest to the least — shrieking into the bottomless dark, and bury their bodies in the cesspits where they belong.

Iran sparks regional war after retaliating against US military assets over ‘massive’ US-Israel strike
https://www.theblaze.com/news/iran-strike-us-israel-retaliation
…missiles launched from Iran toward the State of Israel…missiles at the Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar… explosions were also heard in the Saudi capital of Riyadh…

Iran’s Ayatollah Khameini Confirmed Dead
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/02/28/breaking-netanyahu-confirms-that-ayatollah-khameini-is-dead-n2199688
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We Got Him: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Has Been Taken Out
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/28/confirmed-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-is-dead-n2672068
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Khamenei’s Palace Obliterated in U.S.-Israel Strike
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/02/28/khameneis-palace-obliterated-in-us-israel-strike-n4950075
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U.K. Royal Navy Trade Org Says Iran Is Threatening to Close Strait of Hormuz
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/28/uk-maritime-trade-org-says-iran-now-threatening-to-close-strait-of-hormuz-n2199684
…in 1988, the American Operation Praying Mantis put pretty much all of Iran’s navy on the bottom, and we certainly have enough hardware and munitions to do it again,

Are Iranians Really ‘Dancing in the Streets’ Over the West’s Attack on the Ayatollahs?
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/02/28/are-iranians-really-dancing-in-the-streets-over-wests-attack-on-ayatollahs-n4950080
People in Tehran took to the streets — even amid the bombings — to celebrate the overthrow of the jackals in power.
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CNN’s ‘Panic’ Over the Paramount Merger Is an Admission That It’s Not a News Network
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2026/02/27/cnns-panic-over-the-paramount-merger-is-an-admission-that-its-not-a-news-network-n2199645
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The Left’s Tantrum Over the Paramount Acquisition Is Really Exposing Their ‘Privilege’
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2026/02/27/the-lefts-tantrum-over-the-paramount-acquisition-is-really-showing-their-privilege-n2199651
For people who are ideologically inclined to lean so far to the left that they fall over, having to play fair is going to be an incredibly tough thing for them to do. The threats have already started. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, for instance, is already fantasizing about how they’re going to punish the heretics when Democrats get back into power: Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT – Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democrat information conglomerates. All of them.

Three weeks in England and Ireland: signs of unmistakable strain
https://www.collapselife.com/p/reflections-on-a-trip-to-england-and-ireland
Surveillance at the airport, labor shortages in villages, decay in Mayfair. The incremental signs of collapse were seen on a recent international trip. On the surface, everything functioned. Flights ran on time, shops were open, and restaurants and pubs were full of people. But on closer inspection, a few things began to come into view: ∙Travel gatekeeping through electronic travel authorization requiring a phone app and face scan. ∙New homes that restrict wood stoves in damp winter climates. ∙Labor shortages that make basic jobs nearly impossible to hire out. ∙A “no open defecation” sign in one of London’s wealthiest districts. None of these things alone screams collapse, but in the aggregate, they suggest incremental change and the tightening of systems that once felt frictionless.

Soros DA Alvin Bragg Released Career Criminal Who Assaulted NYPD Police Officers
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/soros-da-alvin-bragg-released-career-criminal-who-assaulted-nypd-police-officers.html/
This criminal was also indicted for robbery 3 weeks ago, but was freed once again. Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was originally charged with assault on a police officer, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct for his alleged involvement in a snowball free-for-all in Washington Square Park…the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to pursue the cop assault charge during his arraignment Thursday evening….other charges were also downgraded to harassment and obstruction of governmental administration as a second-degree violation and misdemeanor, respectively…A government that restrains the peaceful while tolerating the predatory is not failing. It is choosing.

Trio of Democrat Senators Double Down on Making Illegal Aliens ‘Numero Uno’ Over American Citizens
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2026/02/28/democrat-senators-wyden-hirono-kelly-are-asked-if-they-prioritize-americans-over-illegals-wont-answer-n2425523
Democrat Senators Wyden, Hirono and Kelly are asked directly if they prioritize American citizens over illegals.None will answer the question…Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger chose the silent treatment as well…This refusal to put Americans first appears to be a party-wide position…a Democrat’s non-answer is an answer…They can deflect or zip their lips, but we can still hear how they truly feel…It’s pretty clear that Democrats no longer represent Americans. We’re not even on their radar. Illegal aliens come first, which means we come last.

Democrat “TRAILBLAZER”: First Openly Trans Lawmaker Pleads Guilty to CHILD SEX Charges (As Young As 3)
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/democrat-trailblazer-first-openly-trans-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-charges-as-young-as-3.html/?
What Democrats once hailed as a milestone moment in state politics has collapsed into one of the most disturbing criminal cases imaginable — a stark reminder that media narratives and political symbolism can never substitute for character, scrutiny, or the rule of law.

New York City: Muslim Crowd Calls for New, ‘Stronger’ October 7 Jihad Massacre
https://gellerreport.com/2026/02/new-york-city-muslim-crowd-calls-for-new-stronger-october-7-jihad-massacre.html/
New York City has officially become a staging ground for terror sympathizers. Under the shadow of Hamas flags, radicals are now openly calling for mass murder on American streets, promising that their next move will be even louder than the October 7th massacre. This is no longer about free speech; it is a direct threat to national security. If the US government continues to ignore open incitement to violence within its own borders, it is effectively endorsing the chaos. Rubio, are you going to take care of this?

The Weekend Press: The Girls Who Hate Men
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-weekend-press-the-girls-who-hate
What happens when an entire generation of girls is taught to hate men?
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The Generation Raised to Doubt Love – Long before our first crushes, women my age were taught that love doesn’t last and commitment is a trap
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-generation-raised-to-doubt-love
No one talks about how your childhood affects your relationships. Fear of abandonment and overthinking about people leaving you all the time sucks,”

On bad dogs and bad dog owners.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/on-bad-dogs-and-bad-dog-owners
if the owner of the offending pooch has issues about the way I dealt with his problem, there is always a couple of thousand dollars in vet bills I could gladly take him to court for. (and if Miguel was bitten, MANY thousands of dollars in human medical bills + pain and suffering + + + – jlr)
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Another Immigration sob story
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/another-immigration-sob-story
Have people been detained and taken away before Trump for not having a Permanent Resident Card? Abso-effing-lutely. And they got to have a crappy time being processed while they run prints and check for warrants and assorted other nastiness. The only reason this is now worthy of a sob story is because of TDS and not because it is somehow illegal or immoral.
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a plethora of firearm news today:
Gun Owner Sues Police After Spending Almost 24 Hours in Jail for Legally Possessed Pistol
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/02/26/gun-owner-sues-police-after-spending-almost-24-hours-in-jail-for-legally-possessed-pistol-n1231703
8-year-old Maddox Livingston was pulled over by New Roads, Louisiana police on earlier this month for a headlight and license plate lights that were burned out. The traffic stop took a turn, however, when Livingston informed officers that he was exercising his right to carry and had a pistol with him. An office ran the gun’s serial number and told Livingston that it had been reported stolen in Florida. Soon the young man was in handcuffs and on his way to the local jail. There was just one problem: the gun wasn’t stolen, and the officer didn’t check the gun’s serial number. Instead, he ran the pistol’s patent number, which allegedly triggered the false flag.

Kentucky Following West Virginia’s Lead on Potential Machine Gun Sales
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/02/27/kentucky-following-west-virginias-lead-on-potential-machine-gun-sales-n1231715

Honolulu PD Finds New and Creative Way to Harass Would-Be Gun Owners
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/02/27/honolulu-pd-finds-new-and-creative-way-to-harass-would-be-gun-owners-n1231714
With all of these ridiculous regulations, it’s no wonder that Hawaii has one of the lowest rates of gun ownership in the United States.

Radical Self-Defense Proposal from Restore Britain Party Absolutely Headshaking
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/02/26/radical-self-defense-proposal-from-restore-britain-party-absolutely-headshaking-n1231699
Radical Self-Defense Proposal from the Restore Britain Party Absolutely Headshaking. They want to legalize pepper spray. This is the single tamest suggestion imaginable, and some are absolutely losing their minds over it…folks need to stop getting their knickers in a twist because someone bad might misuse something when all the laws already there haven’t stopped those bad people from doing things.

Mar 2:

Be Armed and Ready – the Asymmetrical Battlefield Could Be Here at Home – – – (worth reading in its entirety – jlr)
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/03/02/be-armed-and-ready-the-asymmetrical-battlefield-could-be-here-at-home-n2672104
Asymmetrical warfare means applying the strengths you have against an overwhelming enemy’s weaknesses. The goat sex pest mullahs have been utterly humiliated by America’s and Israel’s overwhelming military superiority in conventional forces…that doesn’t mean that they don’t have the capacity to strike back, and that doesn’t mean that we don’t have potential weaknesses. Everybody has weaknesses. Ours is located in the United States itself, our homeland, where we’re at. It’s already happening on a small scale, with open immigration poster child Ngdiaga Diagne shooting up a bar in Texas for Allah. We’re vulnerable here, and you are potentially on the front line of this war…What’s our vulnerability? Civilians, normal Americans, who Iranian proxy terrorists could murder in heaps…Iranian jihadis are not superstars, and they’re not super-geniuses. They are cunning and relatively competent at times in doing what they do, and what they do best is attack innocent civilians… it is not unreasonable to assume that the Iranian Republican Guard Corps has infiltrated sleeper cells into the United States. Once activated, they have the potential to go on a murder spree unparalleled in American history…Just remember that the killers don’t have to be Iranian. They can be from Chechnya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkistan, or some other random -stan. The Iranians aren’t picky about who they work with….Time to be ready. Time to be armed.
(READ – “The Attack” by Kurt Schlichter – https://www.amazon.com/Attack-Kurt-Schlichter/dp/B0CRR7WFZT – jlr)
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Sepah-e Qods – The wild card
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/sepah-e-qods
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps the department responsible for unconventional warfare, foreign intelligence, and “covert extraterritorial operations” is the Quds Force…the Quds Force is best thought of as the result if you took a dash of wish-dot-com CIA, a smidgen of Temu JSOC, a hefty dose of inshallah, a giant glug of Twelver fanaticism, and ran it all through an absentee Russian blender…The Quds Force runs paramilitary training camps for Budding Young Terrorists, sets up weapons factories for militias and terrorist groups, manages mullah bank accounts in China, dabbles in the drug trade, recruits terror cells, and the occasional Direct Action…the Quds Force’s worldview, the world is divided into four Command Centres, and another six “Corps”. Guess who’s in the Ninth Corps of the Sepah-e Qods?…“North America”…There are most certainly IRGC-QF cells in the United States….the Quds Force is better at winding up Useful Idiots and turning them loose…Yes, they’re here. Look for a minor uptick in Islamicist violence until they get turfed off to the Choir Eternal, rounded up by the authorities, or bugger-off on their own.
What should you do about it? Carry your firearm —which you should have been doing anyway — and get about your life as usual.
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Texas: Austin Bar Mass Murderer is Muslim Migrant, “Property of Allah,” Had Qur’an in Car
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/texas-austin-bar-mass-murderer-is-muslim-migrant-property-of-allah-had-quran-in-car.html/
(Lone wolf or activated terrorist? – jlr)
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Who Is Ndiaga Diagne? Alleged Austin Mass Shooter’s Motive Probed as FBI Eyes Possible Retaliation Linked to US Strikes on Iran
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/austin-mass-shooting-fbi-investigates-terrorism-link-1782306
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‘Property of Allah’: Austin mass shooting possibly act of terrorism, officials say
https://www.theblaze.com/news/property-of-allah-austin-mass-shooting-possibly-act-of-terrorism-officials-say
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Deadly Austin shooting that killed 3 may be ‘act of terrorism,’ FBI says
https://www.foxnews.com/us/deadly-shooting-in-austin-that-killed-3-may-be-act-of-terrorism-fbi-says
The gunman was a naturalized US citizen from Senegal seen wearing a hoodie referencing ‘Allah,’
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Columbia University Group Posts ‘Death to America’ after US and Israel Kill Khamenei
https://gellerreport.com/2026/03/columbia-university-group-posts-death-to-america-after-us-and-israel-kill-khamenei.html/
(These are ALL military age men – Students or a terrorist sleeper cell? – jlr)

“We Will Not Negotiate”: Iran Security Chief Denies WSJ Report
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-confirms-first-us-troop-deaths-casualties-operation-epic-fury
Summary:
∙Iran seeks to resume discussions with the United States, spearheaded by Iranian security chief Ali Larijani
OR NOT: Larjiani has denied a Wall Street Journal report that he reached out to Washington.
∙Trump said he had three or four potential candidates to lead Iran, but they were all killed in the initial attack.
∙Trump on Iran ops: “We have hit hundreds of targets including Revolutionary Guard facilities, air defense systems, nine ships, and naval buildings.”
∙Britain threatens to join war on Iran — Telegraph
∙Trump says conflict with Iran could last four weeks, Daily Mail reports: “It’s always been a four week process. We figured it will be four weeks or so. It’s always been about a four week process so – as strong as it is, it’s a big country, it’ll take four weeks – or less,” the President explained.
∙Reports of hypersonic missile strikes on Jerusalem by Iran.
∙Rioters breached several layers of the security perimeter at the US Consulate in Karachi, death toll mounts. Marines may have opened direct fire.
∙WaPo: Netanyahu says in bombing Iran, Israel now has the “assistance of the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military. This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years.”
∙Large Iranian strike on US base in Erbil, northern Iraq reported, major fires

Iran Names Interim Successor To Khamenei Under 2nd Day Of Massive Bombs, Trump Demands Regime Change
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-appoints-interim-successor-khamenei-under-2nd-day-massive-bombs-trump-urges-full
… who will ultimately succeed Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an interim leader has been appointed to fulfill his duties. Top Shia cleric Alireza Arafi has been named to the interim Leadership Council
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cum grano salis – until further varification
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1911362816151094
Just hours after being named interim Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Arafi has reportedly been killed in an airstrike. Happy Ramadan
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Iran Raises the Red Flag of Revenge Over the Jamkaran Mosque as Shiite Muslims All Over the Globe Start to Commit Acts of Terror
https://discern.tv/iran-raises-the-red-flag-of-revenge-over-the-jamkaran-mosque-as-shiite-muslims-all-over-the-globe-start-to-commit-acts-of-terror/
(Michael Snyder is a professional doom and gloom prevayor trying to sell his apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic books – that said, it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have good information to share, it just means he is a bit frenetic in how he presents the information – jlr)

How To Break A Society, Part II: Destroy The Family
https://wilderwealthywise.com/how-to-break-a-society-part-ii-destroy-the-family/
… since the late 1800s, there’s been a full-court press to dismantle the family. Why? Because stable families are hard to control. Families don’t need government handouts or therapy apps because they self-regulate…Enter the wrecking crew. First? Women voting… A society without families is a house of cards in a hurricane…The bill? As I said before, it’s coming due, with interest.

The Statute of Limitations On That Expired A Long Time Ago.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/the-statute-of-limitations-on-that
The usual amount of bemoaning and sleeve-tearing id happening among the Liberals and other whiners about the attack on Iran’s regime. And of course, the first thing you will hear from the alleged “Intelligentsia” is how the CIA in 1953 backed a coup that led to the imposition of Sha Reza Pahlavi and the horrendous misdeeds of the Savak Security Police which led to the coup of 1979 and the raise of Islamism and Khomeini…Iranians everywhere in the planet seem to be celebrating the possibility of a Mullah-Less Persia much to the dismay of the “experts”…in the incoming weeks, you will be told by “Your Betters” in the Media that the people above are wrong to celebrate and that the old status quo was better for everybody. Why? Don’t ask, your little brain could not comprehend it which is why they call themselves better than you.

A little humor…To start the week…Humor plus common sense.
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/a-little-humor-42e

SWAT Team Used to Arrest Man Charged With Possessing 38 Rounds of Ammo Without a Permit
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/03/01/swat-team-arrest-man-charged-ammo-without-a-permit-n1231722
In Illinois, possessing so much as a single round of ammunition without a Firearms Owner ID (or FOID) card is a serious crime…residents of Lake in the Hills, Illinois got a first hand view of that law being enforced last Thursday, when a SWAT unit rolled up on a house where a 20-year-old man was believed to be possessing ammunition without a permit…Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey are the only states where a permit or license is required to purchase or possess ammunition, and California and New York require background checks on the sale of ammunition…Illinois’ FOID card requirement has been ruled unconstitutional more than once, but each time the state Supreme Court has reversed those decisions on technical grounds while avoiding the underlying constitutional question

        

Cases Filler Legal

Hemani

Mar 3, 2026 Chris Johnson

I need to read the oral arguments; I’ve just glanced at them.

I don’t think this is going to go well for the state. Sotomayor is asking good questions that make it sound like she is leaning towards The People.

One of the things that just popped into my head is how much the agenda-driven justices seem to like decriminalizing things. They might even side with the Second Amendment if it means that pot users are allowed to exercise their rights.

More tomorrow after I finish with some client work.

        

From Behind Enemy Lines

From Behind Enemy Lines – Ayatollah Khomeini

Mar 2, 2026 Allyson

I was at my boyfriend’s place on Saturday when I heard about the Ayatollah. For a long time, I just kind of stood there, in shock.

One of my earliest political memories (though I wouldn’t have called it that at the time) was when I was 8 years old. We had a friend in the neighborhood who came from Iran. She was in the country with her mother and father, and was staying for a year. We were all getting ready to say goodbye in ’79, and she was going back to Iran with her parents. Then the Ayatollah took over. They didn’t go back. They mourned their home, but they refused to take their wife/mother/sister/female child back to a place that was bound to try and erase her/them.

That moment, when my friend came to tell me she wasn’t leaving, came streaming back to me when I heard he’d been killed. And then I saw the videos of women and families, Iranians who’d moved here and to other countries (Canada, Australia, Britain, etc) when the Shah was exiled and the radical muslims took over. They were cheering, dancing, sobbing with joy. Many of them were saying the words out loud: “Now I can go home! Soon I can go HOME!”

This is the definition of how asylum should work. These people came here because they were escaping an oppression that not one of us in this country can understand. They had to walk away from their beloved homeland because evil people took it over. And they’ve done their best to live a good life here. But upon learning that the oppression was gone? Their first statement was that they were ready to leave. Not because America is horrible or treated them badly, but because we’d helped them grow and become better people, and now their home is free again!

I cried. I cried because, if that long ago friend is still alive, I’ll bet she’s ready to go home. And I hope she’s able to, because what an incredible thing, to be able to go home.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Right about how the Left is now stumping for the Ayatollah. Are there some people saying that? Yeah, but that’s always going to happen. What’s filling my feed, my very  much Left tinted feed, are news reports about the celebrations, the joy, the tearing off of the hijabs, the bonfires burning effigies of the Ayatollah and his torture gang. There’s video of Iranians, in Iran and in other parts of the world, dancing and singing, blessing President Trump, thanking the United States and Israel for bringing about their freedom. From within the Middle East, the former Shah’s son (I believe that’s correct, but please don’t quote me on this) is wanting to come home as well. He’s telling his people, the people of Iran, that the US and Israel did the easy part, but now their version of “We the People” must stand up and root out the aggressors, the torturers. That the police must begin to do their jobs again, correctly and not as they were under the Ayatollah. That Iran has gotten their hand up, but they  must not accept hand outs, but need to stand on their own two feet and fight this from within. Because that is the ONLY way for them to win as a nation.

The public news media is presenting this as a win. Their only negative talking point was about the girls’ school in Tehran that exploded… and that’s since been shown to be a mistake of Iran, not the US or Israel. It’s difficult to paint this kind of thing as a loss for the United States. As with Maduro, Trump was in and out before most people had a clue as to what was going on. The win was done before we’d all had our morning coffee. You can complain all you like, but he’s good at this.

A pundit this morning said it right. Trump just proved that you can go in, “get ‘er done”, and get out of dodge without starting a ground war. And you can do it repeatedly. The ground wars, the forever wars? They were a choice, not a necessity, a choice made by shitty politicians who didn’t do their job. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for having the balls to take it to Iran and make Khomeini pay. Thank you for freeing the women and children from degradation and oppression.

I won’t wish ill on anyone, especially the dead. That’s not my way, and I think it’s tasteless. But I will say that I hope, genuinely, that the Ayatollah Khomeini met his maker, and his maker is currently taking him to task for everything he did. In detail.

        

General

Perspective

Mar 2, 2026 Chris Johnson

I was going to write a long article; instead, I’ll use the research I did via Grok.

It covers just about everything I was going to say.

Here’s the standard framework used by intelligence professionals (CIA, DIA, Five Eyes, etc.) to evaluate source reliability:

Core Factors (in rough order of importance)

1. Source Access
   How close is the source to the actual information? (Direct access > second-hand > rumor)

2. Past Track Record
   Has this source been accurate before? (Proven reliable vs. untested vs. previously wrong)

3. Corroboration
   Is the information supported by independent sources? (Single-source = weak)

4. Motivation & Bias
   Why is the source providing this? Money, ideology, revenge, disinformation?

5. Consistency
   Does it match known facts and previous reliable reporting?

6. Specificity & Detail
   Vague claims are low value; highly detailed claims that can be tested are higher value.

7. Timeliness
   Fresh information is more valuable than old.

8. Technical Factors (if applicable)
   For imagery, signals, etc.: resolution, chain of custody, technical limitations.

Standard Reliability Rating Scale (used by most agencies)

• A = Completely reliable
• B = Usually reliable
• C = Fairly reliable
• D = Not usually reliable
• E = Unreliable
• F = Reliability cannot be judged

Credibility Evaluation (Information Credibility / Confidence Scale)

This is the second half of the standard intelligence evaluation system (paired with Source Reliability A–F).

Credibility of the Information (1–6 scale)

Rating	Meaning	Explanation
1	Confirmed	Corroborated by multiple independent, reliable sources
2	Probably True	Supported by several sources or strong indirect evidence
3	Possibly True	Plausible, but limited or conflicting supporting evidence
4	Doubtful	Weak support, significant doubts or contradictions
5	Improbable	Strong reasons to believe it is false
6	Cannot be judged	Insufficient information to assess truthfulness

How the Two Scales Combine

The final rating is usually written as Source Reliability – Information Credibility

Examples:

• B-2 = Usually reliable source reporting information that is probably true
• A-1 = Completely reliable source with confirmed information (highest confidence)
• D-4 = Not usually reliable source reporting doubtful information (very low confidence)

This combined rating is how intelligence agencies communicate how much weight to give a piece of intel.

Here is a professional intelligence-style evaluation of the Iranian claim:

Claim Being Evaluated

“US or Israeli airstrikes deliberately or directly hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran on February 28, 2026.”

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1. Source Reliability (A–F Scale)

Rating: E – Unreliable

Reasoning:

• Source: Iranian government + state-controlled media (IRIB, IRNA, Iranian military spokesmen).
• Past track record: Extremely poor when attributing blame to the US or Israel. Iran has a long history of false or exaggerated attributions in military incidents.
• Motivation/Bias: Extremely high incentive to shift blame away from any possible Iranian misfire or collateral damage, especially since the school is located immediately adjacent to an IRGC military facility.
• Access: High physical access to the site, but this does not overcome the severe bias and history of disinformation.
• Corroboration: Zero independent corroboration from any non-Iranian source.

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2. Information Credibility (1–6 Scale)

Rating: 4 – Doubtful

Reasoning:

• The physical damage to the school is confirmed (multiple independent outlets have geolocated photos/video of the rubble).
• However, the attribution (that a US or Israeli weapon caused it) has no independent verification.
• Strong alternative explanation exists: the school is right next to a known IRGC base that was a legitimate military target during the strikes.
• No weapon fragments, crater analysis, or munition signatures have been publicly presented by Iran that would support a US/Israeli strike.
• Timing and location make an Iranian missile misfire or collateral damage from striking the nearby military target at least as plausible (and in many analysts’ view, more plausible).

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Final Combined Assessment

E-4

Translation:
Unreliable source reporting doubtful information.

Bottom-line confidence: Very low

The Iranian claim that a US or Israeli airstrike directly hit the school should be treated with extreme skepticism until independent evidence (such as weapon forensics, satellite imagery showing the strike, or admission by US/Israel) emerges.

Commentary

I’ve been doing this type of analysis for years on just about everything I hear or read. I just didn’t formalize it. My wife has difficulty with this sort of analysis. Her go-to is “everybody says”.

For her, this means checking with multiple media sources to see what the media sources are saying.

And all the media sources are reporting what the Iranian regime is saying. Thus “everybody is saying.”. What she misses is that all are reporting the same thing, Iran said.

The response from the US and Israel just isn’t nearly as interesting. “We are aware of the situation and are looking into it.”

You will sometimes find this in textbooks. All the textbooks report the same thing. That’s because they all reference the same sources. Those sources in turn might only have a single reference.

        

Politics

Iran, FAFO

Mar 1, 2026 Chris Johnson

As some astute readers might have noted, Jimmy Carter is, in my not so humble opinion, the worst president to ever serve.

His utter spinelessness on the world stage led to the Middle East exploding with violence. His inability to trust the military lead to the deaths of soldiers in a sandstorm in Iran.

His sanctimonious platitudes let the Muslim world know that the United States was morally weak and unwilling to stand up for what was right.

His actions after the “students” took the US Embassy the first time led to the marines being disarmed when the “students” attacked and took the Embassy and held US citizens hostage for over a year.

I hope he is frying in Hell for what he did to my country and the world.

Side note, the day after the students took the Embassy the second time the skies over my home were free of navy aircraft for the first time ever. A couple of weeks later, one of my friends, a Tomcat driver, explained to me that he had been flying around us and for those two weeks was in flying on the other side of the ocean. The military was ready to take action within 24 hours of the Embassy being taken. Their commander in chief decided to sit with his thumb where the sun doesn’t shine.

Since that day, every Muslim terrorist attack can be traced back to that time of weakness. Reagan made them back down but everybody on the world stage knows that when there is a Democrat sitting in the Oval Office, the United States is weak.

Yesterday Iran got to Find Out. The president of the United States, using the authority given to him by Congress, acting with the Israelis, took out the Iranian regime.

Thank you Trump.

        

Nerd Babel

Project Management

Feb 28, 2026 Chris Johnson

In software development, project management comes in several phases. The first phase is presale, the second is scope and function, the third is product development, and the fifth is quality control.

Once we are past the design stage, it is important to track progress and issues. If you don’t, your project is likely to fail, horribly.

I’m dealing with a maintenance project with ongoing enhancements.

The tool I have settled on is Gitea, Git with a cup of tea. It is similar to GitHub.com, GitLab, and others. I don’t want a public hosting site where there is a potential for code leakage; this omitted GitHub and its competitors.

GitLab has a self-hosting option, but it is such a pig that even though I started with it, I dropped it when I couldn’t upgrade it as needed.

Gitea was the next, and it is working much better for me.

While there is a cloud version of Gitea, I don’t feel pushed into it. With GitLab, half the things I wanted to do required a license. Even when self-hosting, there were limits on the number of users, number of projects, and everything.

I’ve not noticed that with Gitea. In fact, it wasn’t until I wrote this last paragraph that I remembered that Gitea had a paid version.

Feature Requirements

• Git repository. This is my version control system of choice. Having used everything from CDC’s “update,” SCCS, RCS, CVS, SVN and likely a few others, Git is the one that works for me.
• A document repository. Gitea comes with a git based wiki. It is not as powerful as a full wiki and adding images to pages is painful, but for text, it just works.
• Branch management, i.e. pull requests. Standard feature.
• Project management. This is provided with a KanBan style interface. I use it for development.
• Issue tracking.

Ticket System

I believe it was Admiral Grace that was having issues with a program on an early computer. It just wasn’t working. During the process of figuring out what was wrong, they did a hardware check. They located an insect that was causing electrical issues. They located a bug. That insect was framed, and the term “debugging” was coined.

Unfortunately, proper communication means we can’t call a bug a bug anymore. Nor can we call them errors or mistakes. Instead, everything is clumped together as an “issue”. Bah, Humbug.

Thus we have an “issue” system. This is really a ticket tracking system. I use the term ticket because it allows me to use the term “issue” for issues, bugs, enhancements, requests.

First Requirement

An issue should be well defined. The other day a client emailed us. It was a screenshot of a page of the product list page from the backend of their site. The client has drawn an angry spiral in red like a child coloring. His comment was, “This page is busted.” The account manager got this email, forwarded it to me with the following text “Thank you”.

This is a horrible issue statement. Ok, it’s broken. How is it broken? The screenshot doesn’t show any error messages; it looks like everything is right. So what is “busted” or “broken”.

It is the job of the person taking the error report, in this case the account manager, to create the ticket. To document the issue.

Actual ticket, after I started working on it: “The filter panel that is not functioning. All filters are ignored.” The actual problem was that a piece of JavaScript was failing if a filter selection was not made. This caused the filter button to not do anything.

The fix was about 4 minutes of coding and 40 minutes of explaining it to the account manager.

There should be a single issue per ticket, and the ticket title should be meaningful and properly identify the issue.

A Good Problem Description

Years ago I got a bug report from my boss; it was something to the effect of “such and such page is broken.” I went to the page and looked for the error. After about an hour I spotted the error. It was subtle but real, and it required significant effort to fix.

I pushed the fix reported that I had fixed the page to my boss.

About 30 minutes later, my very upset boss was at my desk telling me on no uncertain terms that the page was still broken and I hadn’t fixed a damn thing.

When I finally got him to calm down and to tell me exactly what was broken on the page, he pointed to the background of a button. “That’s the wrong color!”

It happened to be the color he approved, but it wasn’t the color he wanted in that spot, so the entire page was broken.

Make sure you have a good problem description.

Make Your Comments Meaningful and Useful

The way I explain it to people is that you are writing comments for yourself, six months from now. Yes, RIPLVB is very meaningful to you, right now, but RIPLVB on line 32627 isn’t really useful to you in six months nor to anybody else following behind.

(This was a real comment in a large piece of code, something like 60 thousand lines of code. It was the only comment. When the code broke, programmers spent way to much time trying to figure out the meaning of this incredibly important comment.

It stood for Rest in Peace, Ludwig van Beethoven, who died March 26, 1827, 3-26-27.)

If there are any supporting documents, screenshots, data files, log files, they should be attached to the comment.

If there are supporting documents, the comment should state what the document(s) are.

A comment of “See attached.” is a shit comment. It is your command to every person that follows you to open the attached document to figure out what it is.

“See the attached CSV for an example of the import format the client is looking for” tells you exactly what the document is for.It is meaning full.

Don’t Use Propritary Documents

If there is a common format, use it. Just because your system can magically open that particular file doesn’t mean that anybody else can. Yes, you have the latest version of Vizeo installed; putting a Vizeo document on the ticket shouldn’t be an issue. And it isn’t for you. But if your client doesn’t have Vizeo installed, or your coworker doesn’t, then that Vizeo Document is worthless.

Sure, you can attach the document, but also attach an SVG or other non-proprietary way of viewing the content of your file.

This one just pisses me off no end. The number of times I’ve had to deal with some PC user sending me a megabyte Word Document with a short paragraph in it when they could have sent a text message is uncountable. Or worse, every PC user assuming that every other person in the world has the latest version of Microsoft Excel.

Yet, I I send them a LibreOffice document, I will never hear the end of it.

Email is not a ticket system

Just because the client sends you an issue report in email doesn’t mean that email is a good ticketing system. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to spend 10 or more minutes in a phone call tracking down the particular email my account manager wants to talk about. Often because he says things like, “Did you read the email client sent?”

Which one? When? What was the subject?

Worse is when the subject of the email chain changes, but they continue to use the same chain. Now there is a new issue in the middle of an email about a different subject.

In the same way, taking an email and attaching it to a ticket isn’t useful. This goes back to “Does everybody who has access to this ticket have the right program to read that attachment?” as well as violating the requirement of not needing to open an attachment to know what is in the attachment.

I Don’t need a meeting to read you the content of comments on the ticket

All good ticketing systems, including Gitea’s, send email when tickets are updated. Before you demand a meeting to discuss a ticket, check your email for updates on that ticket. Read the ticket. If the answers to your questions are in the ticket, there is no need for a call.

If you have questions that haven’t been answered, add them to the ticket.

No, you don’t need to call me to decide if you are going to add another issue. Add the issue. We’ll put it where it belongs or close it if it is a duplicate.

Use The Tool, Don’t Sabatauge It

Gitea ticket tracking system is a tool. You can subvert it and make it do bad things. You can make it useless. You can avoid using it forcing everyone else to use email.

Don’t! It is a powerful tool that should be used correctly.