Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 3/04

[SVPete]

Suspected Drone Attack on Sanctioned Russian LNG Tanker Sparks Serious Concern UPDATE

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/03/suspected-drone-attack-on-sanctioned-russian-lng-tanker-sparks-serious-concern-n3812492

Not because it is a big flaming ball of glowing gas afterward, which, sadly enough, is nothing really new when things are spicy in the Middle East, or in the Black Sea area when the Ukrainians have theirs flying straight and true.

No, it's more WHERE this happened - in the central Mediterranean between Malta and the coast of Libya.

And, yes - that was a collective gulp you heard as the initial fireball went skyward.

It's real, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oveaAP_ICPo . I "get" the potential enviro-consequences and the general hazard of this, but F Putin and his tanker-scow fleet.

[SVPete]

CBS boss 'OUTRAGED' by clip showing Texas TV reporter being told not to cover jubilant Iranian protests after Trump had Ayatollah killed

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15607837/cbs-austin-iran-protests-coverage-bari-weiss.html

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is 'fuming' over a viral video that appears to show a CBS Austin reporter being instructed to downplay coverage of a pro-Israel-US protest then occurring behind him, it is claimed.

Weiss, 41, saw the footage and wants a network-wide crackdown as a result, a well-placed source told the Daily Mail.

CBS affiliates will not be exempt from the effort, the insider said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

If Weiss seriously attempts to correct this bias, many CBS stations' "news" rooms will be empty/emptied.

[enslaved1]

DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed

The ragebait headline that is all so many will read....

A spokesperson for the Justice Department told the outlets that “47,635 files were offline for further review and should be ready for re-production by the end of the week.”

Those offline files include materials connected to unverified allegations against President Donald Trump, The Independent previously reported.

“Our team is working around the clock to address victim concerns, redact personally identifiable information and any images of a sexual nature,” according to Justice Department spokesperson Natalie Baldassarre. “All responsive documents will be repopulated online once proper redactions are made.”

The context, with a little emphasis from me.  The TDS crowd is really willing to try and turn years of horrible abuse of so many by so many into a weak "gotcha Orange Man!!!!11!!".  If Trump is guilty of any of the atrocities, he needs hung from battery connected jumper cables by the testicles and dunked into an iced horse tank, just like the rest of the pervs.  But logic says as much as the US and world political machine hates the man, if there was really anything available that could tank him/convict him/throw him in jail, it would have come out a long time ago.  Get over trying to get Trump, and take out the sickos. 

[SVPete]

Jasmine Crockett Goes Full Stacey Abrams in Election Night Meltdown

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/04/jasmine-crockett-goes-full-stacey-abrams-in-election-night-meltdown-n4950222

Jasmine Crockett didn’t simply lose her Senate primary. She staged a slow-motion meltdown on the way out the door, complete with preemptive claims of cheating and “disenfranchisement,” long before the votes were even done being counted.

Early Tuesday evening, while ballots were still being tallied across 254 Texas counties, Crockett started laying the groundwork for an excuse. She told supporters there had been “a lot of confusion” in Dallas County. She insisted that “people have been disenfranchised,” blaming Republicans for supposedly targeting Dallas and hinting darkly at votes that might not count. Then she left her own watch party early and told the crowd not to expect results that night, saying, “We’re not gonna have election results tonight, in my opinion,” and declaring she wouldn’t be back.

The story she spun was simplistic: It was the Republicans’ fault. Republicans messed with the rules, voters got confused, and now the integrity of the election is in doubt. Oh, and blame Republicans!

It was a true Stacey Abrams-level election conspiracy theory, as if Republicans were desperate to stop her from winning her primary. ...

Sadly, from an R POV, unlike Crickett, Talarico seems insufficiently insane to think, "I hate Trump," is the only campaign message he needs.

[SVPete]

U.S. Sub Sinks Iranian Warship, First Such Hit Since WWII

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/04/us-sub-sinks-iranian-warship-n4950226

A United States submarine successfully sank an Iranian regime warship, according to a Wednesday morning update from the secretary of war.

The American submarine using a torpedo to sink an Iranian ship is particularly historic because, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, this is the first such sinking of a ship since World War II. And just as the USA demanded unconditional surrender during World War II, Hegseth emphasized, now the U.S. is in it to win it again.

The U.S.-Israeli joint Operation Epic Fury continues to claim prizes, including a warship named for the terrorist Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leader (Qasem Soleimani) whom Donald Trump eliminated during his first term and on behalf of whom the likewise assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei repeatedly vowed to assassinate President Donald Trump.

“The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf,” Hegseth confidently announced. “[It’s] combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated, pick your adjective. In fact, last night, we sunk their prize ship, the ‘Soleimani’.”

Looks like the Mark 48 torpedo is more reliable than the WW2-vintage Mark 14 ... not that the Mark 14 was a high standard of excellence.

Because of the strategy around which the Iranian navy was designed - commerce raiding and piracy with small ships, patrol boats, and mini-submarines - it needs to be literally reduced to rowboats and dhows, and facilities capable of building speedboats flattened.