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Back in 2011 the United States and China both introduced electronic fire control systems for 40mm long-barrel grenade launchers. Nearly a decade later both of these longer range, highly accurate 40mm weapons are still in production. Both are niche weapons and popular enough to keep getting made and upgraded.

40mm is about an inch and a half.

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Hammer tech.

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Minneapolis got away with being a liberal city for quite a while, but the rot was deep and the decline was inevitable. Now the city vies with Seattle, Chicago and Baltimore as a haven for crime. When the crime was limited to minority neighborhoods, Minneapolis’s city fathers–to the extent any are left–were willing to put up with it. But that is no longer true. Murder now reaches into the heart of “progressive” Minnesota.

Steve Sailer reports.

As I’ve often mentioned, a psychiatrist who blogs under the name Scott Alexander at his site Slate Star Codex (an anagram of his pen name) emerged as the most brilliant new public intellectual of the 2010s. His combination of extremely high IQ, unbelievably long attention span, and an almost saintly disposition have endeared him to many.

But now his blog is gone, because the New York Times was about to dox his real surname.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

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One of the most pernicious phenomena of modern times is the collusive lawsuit. This is how it works: a left-wing organization sues a government agency that is also controlled by the left. The lawsuit alleges that the agency is obliged to do something that the agency would like to do, but the Democrats can’t get it passed. Then the parties–supposedly adverse, but actually in collusion–“settle” the case by having the agency agree to do what it wanted to do all along. If all goes well, a court enters an order enforcing the settlement. So the net effect is that a policy that the Democrats couldn’t get passed is now a court-ordered mandate. This happens often.

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So many wealthy people are rushing to move away from the big cities that it is creating a bit of a “real estate boom” in many suburban areas, small towns and rural communities. Fear of COVID-19, a collapsing economy and the tremendous urban violence that we have witnessed in recent weeks have combined to create a frenzy of activity. Last week, my wife and I heard from a friend in New York City that is all of a sudden desperate to move to another state, and I certainly can’t blame him for wanting to relocate. If I was in his shoes, I would be wanting to move too. But at this point so many people are all thinking the same thing that the demand for housing in certain areas threatens to greatly exceed the supply.

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Is nothing sacred?

Well, there’s always the ‘use a picture of Ben Stiller’ trick.

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While we’re on the subject of selective indignation, the Great Repudiators will stand exposed as shameless hypocrites if they don’t loudly demand that Yale University change its name, for it is well known that the university’s namesake Elihu Yale was not just a slave-owner but a slave-trader—an act the United States made a capital offense decades before it got round to abolishing slavery. We know they won’t change it—and we all know why, though of course the oh-so-race-sensitive leaders of Yale won’t admit it publicly. Alumni would be furious and donations would plummet, and I suspect even radical black students at Yale wouldn’t want the name changed. Symbolism is one thing, but having “B.A., University of New Haven” on your CV just won’t sound as prestigious.

Note; There actually is a University of New Haven, and it languishes in (perhaps deserved) anonymity.

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The highest honor in Britain, personally bestowed on recipients by the Queen of England, has come under fire over accusations of racism and resemblance to the killing of George Floyd.

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A Change.org petition says the image is “highly offensive” and “reminiscent of the recent murder of George Floyd by the white policeman in the same manner presented here in this medal.”

I can see no evidence that this is intended as a parody.

Truly, you can’t make this shit up.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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The DynaRig concept has proven itself as an effective alternative to conventional rigs for superyacht owners who are looking to reduce crew numbers and optimize sailing time. This is a new chapter for the innovative rig solution and aims at making the efficient, safe, and high-performance rig more accessible.

Totally automating the process of setting and furling sails.

We have the technology.

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Cheaper, more efficient, and much smaller, yet less risky and less powerful that traditional nuclear plants, the new technology offers a new path forward for a source of carbon-free energy whose progress has stalled since the 1970s.

And about time, too.

Bolton: House Dems’ Conduct ‘Equivalent’ to Trump’s

Stephanopoulos Bullies Bolton to Vote for Biden, Testify for Democrats Against Trump

STUDY: During Live Coverage, CNN, MSNBC Censor 97 Percent of Trump’s Rally

New York Times Fact-Checks Trump, Says Statement On Murder Rates Is ‘Misleading’

‘I’ve Seen A Bigger Crowd At A Carrot Top Performance In Soho’: Joy Behar Mocks Trump Rally Turnout  Big talk in comparison to the nothing that Biden would get.

Meacham: Put U.S. ‘In an Oxygen Tent’ to Get Over Trump

Soros-Funded Priorities USA Action Anti-Trump Ad BOMBARDED TV Last 2 Weeks

MSNBC Likens Trump in Tulsa to Reagan ‘Dog Whistle’ Speech  Funny how the only people who can hear these ‘dog-whistles’ are the DemLegHump Media. Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

MSNBC Freaks Over Alleged ‘Propaganda’ Takeover of Voices of America By Trump

CNN Taunts ‘Defeated’ Trump for Tulsa Attendance

NBC: Chinese App TikTok Used to Sabotage Trump Rally, AOC Pleased

‘The Politician’ Battles ‘Climate Catastrophe’ This Election Year

The Green Civil War

Wind Energy in Scotland

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #412

Greenhouse effect: “How a cold atmosphere can warm the Earth’s surface”

Greens promote child slave labor and ecological destruction

Judges Acknowledge how Climate Litigation Proponents Try to Undermine Rule of Law

Mass die-offs in marine mammals are accelerating, and climate change will only make it worse  Popular ‘Science’.

How green sand could capture billions of tons of carbon dioxide

India Confirms No Increase in Tropical Cyclones Due to Climate Change

Brett Favre: Kaepernick Will Reach Tillman-like ‘Hero Status’  Not with the people who hnor Tillman.

Charlotte Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 7 Wounded

PIERSON: Trump Is Delivering Unprecedented Results For Black Americans

More People Canceled in Post-George-Floyd Antiracism Purges

Twitter Introduces New ‘Send Mob’ Feature  Babylon Bee.

CBS Airs Obama-Picked Teen Poet to Read: ‘Brutality’ of Racism ‘Cannot Be Overstated’  It’s all about the Narrative.

ESPN Guest Edwards Says America Keeps ‘Slaves’ Comfortable, Suggests Nobel Prize For Kaepernick

‘Tear Them Down’: Shaun King Demands ‘White European’ Jesus Statues Be Removed  Yeah, Jesus was a White European alright.

Mississippi State Star Kylin Hill Will Sit Out Season If State Doesn’t Change Flag  He could always move.

Jemele Hill: Bubba Wallace Noose Incident ‘Disgusting Reminder Of Who’ NASCAR ‘Is For’

21-Year-Old Man Arrested For Shooting Army Reserve Sergeant

House Again Seeks to Require Pentagon to Survey ‘Racist, White-Supremacist’ Activity

Scottish Man Convicted Of Calling Ex-Girlfriend’s Boyfriend A “Leprechaun”

Trainee accountant sacked after accusing boss of ‘mansplaining’, tribunal hears

Second Shooting In Seattle’s CHOP-Zone Leaves One In Critical Condition

Additional Dispatch from The Genuine War Zone of Seattle

‘Waiting On A Call From The Derelict Governor’: Kayleigh McEnany Says Trump Won’t Intervene In CHAZ Until Asked

WSJ: Democratically Run States With The Most Severe Lockdowns Are Struggling To Recover

14 People Including Children Fatally Shot During Chicago’s Most Violent Weekend In 2020

Victim Of Rioting Says She Is Being Threatened For Helping Police Find People Who Destroyed Her Store

Cuomo Blames Federal Government For Deaths After He Ordered Nursing Homes To Accept Coronavirus Patients

San Francisco Allows Antifa and BLM Rioters to Topple Statue of President Ulysses S. Grant, Who Won the War Against the Confederacy

‘Flavortown’: Thousands Vote To Change Name Of Columbus, Ohio

On Crime and Punishment

New York City Shootings Surge 358% Compared To Last Year Amid Disbanding Of Anti-Crime Police Unit

‘I Was Just Yelling … Come And Help Me’: Reporter Details Alleged Assault While Filming Inside ‘CHAZ’

CENSORED: Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Firebrand Katie Hopkins

Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings  The essence of totalitarianism is the politicization of every area of life.

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In Minnesota, Democrats control the House side of the legislature, but Republicans control the Senate. Thus, if police “reform” is to be enacted, the two parties must agree.

They don’t. Republicans are in favor of reform legislation. They back eleven steps including banning choke holds and requiring officers to stop colleagues from using excessive force. Those two measures alone, if followed, would have saved the life of George Floyd.

But Governor Walz calls the Republican proposal “weak sauce.” He and his fellow Democrats demand a more radical bill.

Among the provisions Democrats insist upon are restoring voting rights to tens of thousands of felons (which has nothing to do with police reform) and placing the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, in charge of prosecuting police killings. They also demand a ban on “warrior training” which, as I understand it, teaches police officers how to fight off attacks.

Democrats want felons to be able to vote because felons are more likely to vote Democrat than Republican, as the most cursory thought will reveal to be true.  It’s just another case of ‘Let No Crisis Go To Waste’ political maneuvering.

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Good luck with that.   Your data is how all this Free Stuff Online gets paid for.

NPR.

That’s becuase protesters are targeting vehicles.  The ‘extremists’ in question are trying to escape being pulled from their vehicles and getting beaten.

Babylon Bee.

Hard to tell these days what is satire and what isn’t.

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Hammer tech.

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If you violate federal immigration laws and settle in New York, the state will give you a driver’s license (and lots of other benefits too).

If you work at the New York Department of Motor Vehicles and you comply with a request for information from either Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), you could be charged with a Class E felony, be locked up for as long as five years, and forfeit many basic rights, including the right to vote.

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This article is being published on the second day of what will likely be the longest summer in American history. After a hyper-claustrophobic national lockdown that took us from the end of winter to the cusp of summer, suddenly the blacks decided to get angry.

I jest, of course—not that the blacks are angry, but that they were the ones who made the decision. The decision was made for them through a meticulously managed plan of indoctrination and selective access to information.

They were told who to blame. And blame them they did. Ironically, they were told this BY the people who were actually to blame, but that’s the way it always works.

Steve Sailer.

And none of them by white cops. How did that happen?

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The cesspool that is the United Nations Human Rights Council has decided that its top official, a Chilean socialist called Michelle Bachelet, shall “prepare a report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, especially those incidents that resulted in the death of George Floyd and other Africans and of people of African descent.” The “systemic racism” and human rights violations are assumed. Apparently, Bachelet’s task is to write these conclusions up.

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But but but … I thought Trump was Putin’s puppet?

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This could get interesting.

The Other McCain is on the case.

When I first saw this angle tipped yesterday by Wayne Dupree, I couldn’t believe it. If you saw the video on social media, you probably guessed that the white girl setting fire to Wendy’s was some kind of Antifa radical. To discover she may be Rayshard Brooks girlfriend? Whoa!

Mask-Free Acosta Scolds McEnany for Announcing She Won’t Wear a Mask at Trump Rally

NYT Editor: 1619 Project Is NYT’s Plan B for Overthrowing Trump After RussiaGate Flopped

Pre-Rally Brian Stelter: Trump ‘Lied’ About Tiny Biden Event with ‘Zero Enthusiasm’

George Clooney Gives Donald Trump a Half Million Dollar Middle Finger  Vanity Fair. I’m sure Trump loses sleep over George Clooney.

MSNBC: Trump Fans ‘Super-Spreaders’ But BLM Protesters Show ‘Extraordinary Courage’

Jake Tapper Presses Jerry Nadler On Impeaching Trump Again Based On Bolton Revelations

TikTok Users Say They Helped Sabotage Trump Rally with False Registrations

AOC Boasts TikTok Teens Sabotaged Trump’s Tulsa Turnout By Fake Registrations

Here’s How Everyone Is Spinning Tulsa Trump Rally’s Lower-Than-Expected Turnout  Everybody must get spun.

Chuck Todd Prods Adam Schiff to Restart Impeachment with Bolton Book  Fine. Let’s impeach Bolton.

EXCLUSIVE: Pressed To List Second Term Initiatives, Trump Says He Could Support Modernizing Antitrust Laws  He’s still got some heavy lifting to do on the ones he announced for his first term — immigration, the economy, judges, getting our nose out of problem areas overseas, etc.

Stelter Credits China-Owned App Users for Trump Rally ‘Sabotage’

George Floyd: Ghana message to African Americans: “Come home”  Like celebrities who say they’re going to move to Canada if some Republican is elected President, black people won’t leave America no matter how much noise they make, because they know it would be worse for them anywhere else.

Muhammad Ali’s son says dad would have hated ‘racist’ Black Lives Matter

Eskimo Pie no more: Ice cream owners will drop ‘derogatory’ name

One person was killed and 11 others wounded in a Minneapolis shooting, police say

‘History erased’: Family of woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima against renaming of syrup brand

Black Lives Matter Wants to Oust First Black Los Angeles DA  I guess she’s Not Really Black.

Study: Solar Geoengineering Could Weaken Rainfall

BASTASCH: It’s Now Clearer Than Ever Before, Science Bends Itself To Fit Left Wing Politics

The Green Civil War

Pope Says Coronavirus Should Spark New Environmental Awareness  Yeah, it ought to make us aware that ‘scientists’ are just guessing more often than not.

To Solve Climate Change: “stringent eco-taxes …, wealth redistribution … a maximum income, a guaranteed basic income … reduced working hours”

The Glories Of A Post-Modern Society…Feel-Good Projects That Are Divorced From The Cold Reality Of Physics And Engineering And Actual Data

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago, or the place would be like Texas.

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For those not following along at home, Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a personal grudge against these rebellious Jews. Many Orthodox Jews continued to hold gatherings during the NYC lockdown. When Orthodox Jews held a public funeral, de Blasio threatened to arrest them.

Mind you, the event organizers actually met with NYPD to arrange their event in the safest possible manner. Can the same be said of the Black Lives Matter protests? While I wouldn’t advocate the arrest of anyone holding a peaceful gathering, why has de Blasio encouraged those protests while threatening funeral attendees?

Other Brooklyn Orthodox Jews have been outraged that playgrounds are closed. Why can people march in the streets if children can’t play on a playground? So the rebels did what good rebels do: They brought bolt cutters and reopened the parks themselves. When new locks arrived, they cut them again. Thus far, they’ve cut the locks 25 times.

Steve has a jaundiced view.

According to a well-known former Republican, the reason Trump’s rally didn’t do well is that leftist liars took a large number of tickets fraudulently. Left-leaner Steve Schmidt, who worked as a strategist for people like McCain and Schwarzenegger, brags that his daughter and her friends have hundreds of tickets. Legislator and former bartendress Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez also bragged about the fraud and said she was proud of the people who had done it.

It’s a sickening moment. People who hate Trump are too stupid and immature to understand that subverting democracy is a great evil.

Some time ago, I predicted that America would one day be ruled not by Democrats or Republicans but by people with smartphones. I said technology’s ability to coordinate people was getting so strong, we would reach a point where elections and laws would lose their power. Everyone can’t be in the police or the national guard. It’s impossible to control Americans when a sufficient number of them are united in real time by gadgets. It looks like we’ve just seen a big step toward true technocracy administered by complete idiots. The Beast is discovering his hands.

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They say he hires protesters and rents buses to transport them. Some say he has people stash piles of bricks to be hurled into glass storefronts or at police.

George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who has long been a target of conspiracy theories, is now being falsely accused of orchestrating and funding the protests over police killings of Black people that have roiled the United States. Amplified by a growing number of people on the far right, including some Republican leaders, online posts about Soros have skyrocketed in recent weeks.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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A handy compendium of tools to get you a better job.

In Venezuela, ‘Enforced Disappearance’ Is Used By The Regime To Keep People In Line

Katie Hopkins permanently suspended from Twitter

New York City sees surge in murders, burglaries, NYPD says

Didn’t We Try to Warn You?

London Mayor: Mandatory Masks Will Be The “New Normal” For At Least Another Year  What better way to make people feel like anonymous interchangeable Units?

CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin Praises Chief Justice John Roberts, ‘Very Good Politician’

Georgia Lawmakers Propose Bill to Disband Police Dept

Seattle Police Say They Were Met With Resistance After Responding To Shooting That Left One Dead In ‘CHAZ’  My, what a surprise.

Payment processor Visa blacklists free speech software company Gab

Repugnant: CNN Host Suggests Trump Rally ‘Could Lead to Higher Unemployment’

Asked repeatedly to say ‘Black lives matter,’ Mike Pence says ‘all lives matter’  CNN.

We figured out when the MAGA crowd thought America was great  Washington Post.

Leaked document makes Trump campaign’s use of Nazi-era symbol look worse  Washington Post.

‘Look At This!’: Trump Supporters In Line For Tulsa Rally Heckle CNN Reporter

‘White Fragility’ Author Lectures Fallon On Why All White People Are Racist ‘A-Holes’

Amazon workers outraged ‘racist’ chicken and waffles served at Chicago warehouse on Juneteenth

The Mob Desecrates Ex-Slave’s Statue, by Steve Sailer

Surprise! Free Beacon Finds CNN and MSNBC Mostly Ignored ‘Juneteenth’…Until 2020  News is only useful as a stick to beat the Normals.

Black Lives Matter: Protesters march on London as scuffles break out in Glasgow  Yeah, the former slaves in Britain are Just So Oppressed.

Muhammad Ali’s Son Calls Black Lives Matter ‘Racist’ ‘Devils’

Joe Rogan Mocks ‘I Take Responsibility’ Celebrity Video Against ‘Unchecked Racism’

BLM Co-Founder Admits: “Our Goal Is To Get Trump Out”

Video Shows Hanging Death of Homeless Black Man Was Suicide  Not that BLM will ever admit it.

Lefty Celebrity Howard Stern Wants You to Forget His Blackface Scandal

This Big Media Outlet HIDES the KKK’s Past Ties to Democratic Party

Mass spectrometry and climate science. Part I: Determining past climates

Sky News: Aussie Royal Commission to Investigate how Climate Activists “Hijacked” Forestry Management

Claim: People Believe in Global Warming, But Choose Not to Act

Thunberg Has Hope for Climate, Despite Leaders’ Inaction

When ‘Social Justice’ Comes to Investing  Not by choice, of course, but by government edict.

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he British author Douglas Adams had this to say about airports: “Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of special effort.” Sadly, this truth is not applicable merely to airports: it can also be said of most contemporary architecture.

Concur.

The fact is, contemporary architecture gives most regular humans the heebie-jeebies. Try telling that to architects and their acolytes, though, and you’ll get an earful about why your feeling is misguided, the product of some embarrassing misconception about architectural principles. One defense, typically, is that these eyesores are, in reality, incredible feats of engineering. After all, “blobitecture”—which, we regret to say, is a real school of contemporary architecture—is created using complicated computer-driven algorithms! You may think the ensuing blob-structure looks like a tentacled turd, or a crumpled kleenex, but that’s because you don’t have an architect’s trained eye.

Said training is a bug, not a feature.

The authors appears to believe that the current excrescent architecture is somehow the fault of ‘capitalism’, which version unspecified, and that causes me to scratch my head — capitalism? No, proglodyte public fascism, continuing the tradition of Soviet brutalism. Geez.

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Gee, you’d think they decided to cancel their police or something.

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Which doesn’t mean that they’re going to die, nor does it mean that they’re going to give it to anybody else who is going to die. The truth is that this disease has proven to be no more serious than the flu that we go through every year; the major difference is that we have vaccines for flu and we don’t (yet) for coronavirus.

Severian takes a look around.

We humans are pattern-finding creatures. Even the most primitive tribes — the kind that wear coconut codpieces and eat grubs — understand, and embrace, the notion of cause and effect. The phrase “cargo cult” is brutally overused in Our Thing, but it’s worth remembering what “cargo cults” actually are.

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You think the Cosplay Communards up in Seattle have ever actually read the “intersectional” gobbledygook they’re spouting? I taught college for a lot of  years, y’all, and I promise you: I could assign Harry fucking Potter and maybe one in four of them would read it. Two others would be too busy getting drunk and laid, and the fourth wouldn’t do it just on general principles. The idea that these goofballs can even spell “reification” is laughable. Like the New Left of which they are very pale reflections — pun most definitely intended — they’re only mouthing this stuff as their excuse to flip cars and break shit. I guarantee you, you could get them quoting Hitler himself at their rallies if you took his name off it. “Interest slavery,” anyone?

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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More evidence that hugely expensive public taxpayer subsidized pack-em-in-like-sardines transit systems are Just So Fifteen Minutes Ago. (Not to mention breeding grounds for disease and crime.)

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Father Daniel Moloney is the latest victim of cancel culture’s inquisition against all who question the Black Lives Matter movement. Moloney was forced out of his job as the Catholic chaplain of MIT last week after a university administrator deemed his writings on the death of George Floyd “deeply disturbing” and the Archdiocese of Boston asked him to resign.

In a blog post and an email to students published at the beginning of June, Moloney spoke out about the errors of the new approach to fighting racism — dividing people, accusing them of prejudice, and canceling those who disobey — and called instead for a Christian path of charity and solidarity.

Yeah, I can see how the New University and the New Catholic Church would have a problem with that.

Never more glad to be Orthodox.