April 05, 2026
No, I Said I Want a BIG MAC!
Timothy Birdnow
"I thought this was a protest criticizing Burger King..."
Half of these nitwits have no idea what they are doing at those rallies.
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The Great Psy-Op and Iran
Timothy Birdnow
We saw this in operation with Covid and with the trans issue and with gay marriage. Now they are doing it with Iran.
AG
@AGHamilton29
In the 1970’s, the KGB put together an operational plan for undermining America via informational warfare and ideological subversion:
"To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their family, their community, and their country”
That same strategy has been actively deployed by America’s enemies with the assistance of some people at home now.
They are trying to make the Islamic Republic seem like peaceful victims just a few months after the regime in Tehran murdered tens of thousands of their own people in the streets. A regime that has spent decades murdering Americans and pushing terrorism throughout the world.
There’s a reason people like Tucker Carlson and Ana Kasparian downplayed the January massacres while trying to convince their audiences that years of Islamic Republic terrorism was exaggerated and they don’t actually mean it when the chant "death to America”
It’s not easy to get people to completely abandon reality, but this is where a constant stream of misinformation, propaganda, and conspiracies become critical.
Our enemies have spent decades creating an environment to try to bring about the destruction of America. Now they have a bunch of allies in America actively trying to assist, whether because they don’t like the current administration or because they want to undermine our current system. But what they are doing is obvious and no one should forget who is playing a role in it.
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The Experts Who Cried Wolf
Timothy Birdnow
A writer for the Atlantic asked a question about why the public lost faith in Big Science after the Covid years. He was truly at a loss:
"A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers."
I would have left this reply but am not on X, alas:
My sister-in-law's husband's mother died alone because they wouldn't let anyone in to see her out of fear of Covid, even though they knew she was dying. That was a disgraceful act of pseudo-scientific abuse.
My wife was disabled and she needed help walking and I took her to the hospital eye clinic for a treatment and was holding her up - and a woman who worked there came up to me and began screaming at me about social distancing. I had a huge fight with her. She was only doing what the authorities had encouraged her to do.
Because the gaps in the fabric fibers of most masks were far larger than the virus itself and so the virus could easily move through the mask. It was obvious the masking was intended as a psychological tool, not a medical aid. It was aimed at making people FEEL like we were in a crisis.
Because not just the Democrats but some psychology journals argued that this would reinstate broke trust for government and in "experts" and it would help the Democratic Party since Trump was the "anti-science" President as they claimed. The obvious political nature of the lockdowns and masking and all the rest were apparent.
Because the places that imposed the harshest measures wound up being the places with the worst Covid. Look at New York where the governor forced nursing homes to take in Covid patients and it led to mass infections. Whereas the places that took the boot off the throat - like Florida - did far better.
In fact where I live in St. Louis the city and county both closed most things (keeping liquor stores open though) and when they did open up bars there were strict limitations, facemasking required (you could only pull it down to take a sip) and social distancing which broke up groups. St. Charles County, across the Missouri river, eschewed such draconian regulations. Guess which one had the higher infection rate? They were largely living normally in St. Charles and they were healthier.
Because they promised it would only be two weeks to "flatten the curve". They lied.
Because they were proven to have been fudging the data of infections. I knew a number of people who had been informed they had Covid when in fact they had not even been tested. And there was no flu season those years, not because there was no flu going around but because it was being misdiagnosed as Covid to pump up the numbers.
Because it became increasingly obvious there was a cabal inside the CDC and elsewhere (notably Fauci) who were making lots of money off the drug manufacturers and so pushed the vaccine, a vaccine which did not prevent you from getting Covid, nor spreading Covid.
Because they denied there were serious side effects, like heart issues and other things that led to death. We know a lot of young athletes died of strange heart conditions after being vaccinated, for instance.
Because they used it to impose mail-in voting, thus roiling traditional voting patterns and winning the election for Joe Biden by the largest number of votes in American history, while the man never left his home. Mail in voting was condemned by the bipartisan Carter Baker Commission which examined election integrity after the election of 2000 as ripe for vote fraud.
At best, all the lockcdowns and masking and social distancing was delay herd immunity as people were exposed to the disease at a slower rate and just caught it later.
It wasn't just a stupid policy, it was a monstrous, dishonest, corrupt, and entirely unnecessary set of policies pushed by a technocratic elite who often exempted themselves from their own policies (Remember Gavin Newsom being caught partying sans mask or social distancing?) When they told us Black Lives Matter was exempt from Covid regulations because, well, they couldn't catch it if they were protesting or whatever was proof the whole thig was an enormous lie.
There is absolutely no reason to believe the people involved in this scam have gone away. Most are still there and waiting for another chance to push these policies again.
BTW most of the Covid response was based on a school science project of a thirteen year old boy whose father was a scientist. It was directed to the Bush Administration which rejected these proposals as wholly unworkable. Then it was adopted by the Obama Administration. I would point out the movie Contagion came out in 2011 and the response in that movie was almost identical to the one from our government. One suspects they used the movie to ease the public's mind when they implemented it. Oh, and there was a drill done in October of 2019 about a potential outbreak of a new covid virus just before it hit. Coincidence? Maybe, but maybe not too. That was called Event 201. https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise
We were lied to from beginning to end by the authorities; why would we trust them now?
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D'Artagnan Body Found?
Timothy Birdnow
WOW! I never knew D'Artagnan was a real person!
One for all! All for one! Every man for himself!
This is from Not the Bee, so you know it's actual news and not to bee...
If you didn't know, d'Artagnan was not purely a figment of Alexandre Dumas's imagination.
The famed musketeer of the novels was based on real-life musketeer Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan who served as Captain-Lieutenant of the Musketeers at the leisure of Louis XIV.
The real d'Artagnan was recorded as being killed somewhere around Maastricht, so when an unknown skeleton was discovered beneath the tiles of St Peter and Paul Church in the area, archeologists got very excited.
The "Fourth Musketeer" was killed very close to the church where the skeleton was found with a coin proving it was the same time frame and a bullet wound to the throat - exactly as D'Artagnan was killed. Researchers hope to prove this was him by checking the DNA of his descendants (who are actually still around).
Of course Big D has become a legend thanks to Dumas, which must be nice. But he was actually a guy well worth celebrating before his demise.
BTW the Mars corporation completely dissed the poor swordsman, naming their candy bar the THREE Musketeers and ignoring poor D'Artagnan completely. If they were going to do that they should have come out with a "D'Artagnan bar" and maybe made it better than the Three Musketeer bar, which is pretty plain jane if you ask me.
I always like when legend and history wind up coinciding.
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Alito Knocks it Out of the Park
Timothy Birdnow
"They have the duty of military service. It seems that makes them subject to a FOREIGN POWER!”
"Not subject to any foreign power is pretty straightforward. So let me give you these examples. A boy is born here to an Iranian father who has entered the country illegally.”
"That boy is automatically an Iranian national at birth and he has a duty to provide military service to the Iranian government, is he not subject to any foreign power?”
"What I said about a boy born to an Iranian father is true of children born here to parents who were nationals of other countries. It’s true to a child who’s born here to Russian parents.”
Justice Sam Alito during oral arguments on Birthright Citizenship.
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The Shit Hits the Fan on Artemis II
Timothy Birdnow
For the love of all things holy, would you at NASA PLEASE stop sending up teachers or whatnot and just include a bloody plumber!
I've got a friend who is a master plumber, and he's in good shape and a tremendous athlete who would pass all of NASA's tests. If you want his number I would be happy to give it to you.
And this has happened before; remember the toilet was broken on the International Space Station for a while too.
This is particularly ironic as they are coming out with a new Super Mario Brothers movie. They need a couple of Italian plumbers on Artemis right about now.
BTW this titanium toilet cost taxpayers $23 million dollars. I'm guessing it should be under warranty from the manufacturer.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought of the Wallowitz Zero Gravity Space Disposal Unit from the Big Bang Theory...
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The Monumental Ignorance of the Media
Timothy Birdnow
More proof (if we needed it) that the Left is essentially ignorant and that the media is full of complete morons who couldn't find Canada on a map of North America.
The title of the article was "A North American Treaty Organization without America?" which is both a sneer at President Trump and a horrendous editorial error.
So the author of the piece missed it. The editors missed it. In fact, I suspect none of them even knew the difference.
As they article quotes:
"It’s not just the fact the New York Times got a headline wrong," user @TheAndersPaul wrote on X. "That is seriously embarrassing though. It’s more that this got through multiple layers of Editors. They ALL got it wrong. AND they based a story around their own stupidity. It’s not just getting an Acronym wrong."
The whole article is predicated on this very error; it's central to the whole point of it.
Perhaps we need a North American Treaty Organization (but I doubt it; who would be in it but Canada and Mexico, two disloyal and fair-weather friends. Maybe we could put El Salvador and Panama in?) but what we don't need is an organization to protect Europe from threats at our expense. When we need them they never show up.
So the people telling us the "news" can't even get so basic a fact correct. why should anyone listen to them about ANYTHING?
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Goes Texas Goes the World
Timothy Birdnow
This is very bad; goes Texas goes America (and the world):
Savanah Hernandez
@Savsays
Texans have been saying that their state is starting to look unrecognizable, so I went to North Texas to go check it out.
From streets named, "Ali Akbar”, to residents stating that Texas is now "mini-India”, North Texas is seeing a major shift:
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What's the Plan for Iran Stan?
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a good analysis of the game plan moving forward with Iran.
All diplomatic efforts have failed thus far as the IRGC has dug in it's heels and are willing to portray destruction as victory, so Trump will have to wage war on the economic infrastructure aka the oil and gas industries, as; well as bridges and rail lines and whatnot.
This is a good read from Israel, not the usual offal offered by our mainstream media in the West.
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Colorado Bill Would Ban Utensils, Condiments with Fast Food
Timothy Birdnow
If Colorado Democrats get their way you will be able to buy takeout food but you won't be able to get anything to eat it with.
The law will still allow customers to get utensils or napkins UPON REQUEST.
A case can be made for the utensils; they are plastic and will wind up in a landfill, and maybe wind up on that trash island in the Pacific (I still think we should take advantage of that, put dirt on top of it and make it a cheap vacation destination, or offer it for use by the British navy or something) but napkins? They are freaking BIODEGRADABLE and will disintegrate in time.
Maybe we can just burn them too. Use the heat to run an electric plant or something.
Actually it should be possible to invent a biodegradable utensil too, and if someone does it will mean a great fortune. Anybody want to take a stab at it
The bill also will ban straws (the Left's most hated item) and condiments, meaning the poor will have to eat their hamburgers without ketchup. (I have a nice hoard of ketchup and salsa in packets in my home, put in plastic tubs, in case the Big One comes and so I'll be able to enjoy my French fries the way I like 'em as I scavenge the radioactive wastes.)
Colorado already has a law banning the use of throwaway plastic grocery bags (another item with which I am well stocked and use for all sorts of things including garbage collection and even to block gaps in window frames and whatnot).
My cabin was built in no small measure with such grocery bags; they help draft and water-proof the place.
I would add I use plastic utensils as a matter of course; it cuts down on dishes quite a bit. Paper plates too, and napkins. It's much healthier to use clean plastic than possibly dirty metal, assuming you are a bad dishwasher (as are many of the poor).
Fines start at $500 and rise to a thousand on subsequent violations. And this while you are paying 20 bucks an hour or whatever the minimum is up to in Colorado for a teenage kid or a Mexican illegal who won't understand and won't care about getting the company in trouble.
LIberals be crazy.
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Trump Kicks Forest Service Out of D.C.
Timothy Birdnow
This is something we need to do; move most of the bureaucracy out of Washington. Now Washington is just one big party and is divorced from the people whom they are meant to serve.
Here is one of the things that annoys me about Donald Trump:
"Many regional offices will close in the reorganization, and their services will shift to hubs in New Mexico, Georgia, Colorado, Wisconsin, Montana, and California"
So basically Trump has just rewarded a hot of Democrat controlled states. New Mexico, Colorado, Wisconsin,and California are all Democrat states (although Wisconsin is more purple than blue) so why should they get these offices? Arizona would be better than New Mexico - or better yet Texas - and Kansas or Nebraska should have gotten it over Colorado. Iowwa over Wisconsin. Under absolutely no circumstances should California have received this; we need to be taking stuff OUT of California, not putting stuff in there. These offices will boost the economy in the areas they are put in. We need to let these leftist hotspots simply stew in their own juices.
Sadly Trump usually doesn't think that way. He should.
At any rate getting this agency out of D.C. was a wonderful idea. They are supposed to be IMPLEMENTING policy made by Congress and the President, not making it. That is what they were doing in D.C.; acting as a lobbyist for Big Green. Now the environmental lobby will have to go to flyover country to bribe people. They are going to hate that.
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April 04, 2026
Colorado Defies SCOTUS, Doubles Down on Attack on Conversion Therapy
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. Supreme Court just got finished spanking Colorodo over their ban on conversion talk therapy and so what did they do"
They doubled down on it.
Amazing how the Left suddenly discovers Federalism when it's convenient.
Infowars dishes:
On Thursday, Colorado’s Democrat-led House passed a measure allowing people claiming harm from conversion therapy to sue therapists. The change mirrors legislation adopted in 2021 that removed time limits for bringing claims related to child sexual abuse.
State Representative Karen McCormick, who sponsored the bill and is the parent of a transgender child, said the amendment would give individuals more time to process trauma and come forward. "We don’t want them shut out of the legal system,” she said.
The legislation comes two days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian counselor who challenged the ban on free speech grounds. Kaley Chiles argued that the restriction interfered with her ability to discuss issues of sexuality and relationships with clients within a religious framework.
That is typical; the Left just ignores the courts when rulings go against them but demand we adhere strictly to them when the rulings are in their favor.
And what the Left also does is keep retreading the same ground hoping to exhaust the opposition, which is likely to happen here. Eventually our side runs out of money and stops appealing. Their side wins by default. It works because they have massive funds available through billionaires and laundered taxpayer dollars. We do not.
SCOTUS should hear an immediate emergency appeal and spank the state legislature hard over this. In fact they ought to cite the legislators with contempt of court.
But it won't happen and the state will get away with this one way or another.
What they are doing here is making it a lot easier to sue counselors who advocate conversion therapy, and cutting out any time limits so they can go after people decades after a counselor talked with a kid.
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The Return of the Third Reich
Timothy Birdnow
Germany is going full Third Reich, forcing German military-aged men to not leave town, much less the country.
Why men only? I thought Germany was so hip and cool so why aren't women in this restriction?
Germany is not at war, nor even are there any prospects of war on their doorstep. So what they are doing is essentially tyrannical, enslaving men because the Kraut Kommies want to make things as unpleasant on their citizens as possible (and then they will blame Donald J. Trump).
Here the Left always claim to be about democracy, yet nobody voted for this. It was an edict.
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Military Bishop Condemns Iran War
Timothy Birdnow
The Catholic Archbishop for the American Armed Services (apparently they have that) has declared the war in Iran an "unjust war" and demanded all Catholic military personnel "do as little as possible".
He's calling for soldiers to essentially go on a slowdown strike.
The particular jackass in question is on Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who has served as the military chaplain's Bishop for 19 years and is the head of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, a radically leftist organization.
Buttholio told Face the Nation:
"I would think, under the just war theory, it is not, because while there was a threat with nuclear arms, it's compensating for a threat before the threat is actually realized."
But a defensive strike is well within just war theory and always has been. Couple that with the facts on the ground - the Iranian regime had murdered 40,000 of their own people, has imposed extreme repressive control of their own people, has attempted to assassinate President Trump, has attacked Americans and Israelis repeatedly, and was then to the point where they, by their own admission, could build 11 atomic bombs. Not sure how much more you need before going to war.
He forgets that the Papacy called the First crusade because of the slaughter of 1.100 pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem, a pittance compared to the numbers slaughtered directly or indirectly by Iran.
And you don't wait with nuclear weapons; one such weapon could kill ten million people if it is detonated in the right spot.
This guy's head is buried soundly in his hindquarters.
Of course Broglio is taking his cue from Pope Leo the Chicken Hearted, who has condemned this war because, like, peace and stuff. Leo says God doesn't hear the prayers of those engaged in warfare. Funny; He Himself commanded Israel to go to war to drive out the Canaanites, and He even had the ban, which is where the Israelites were to slaughter every man, woman, and child, and even the animals, if a city did not submit and convert to Judaism. (When Saul violated the ban after taking a Canaanite town God was extremely displeased and smote him with insanity and his eventual demise at his own hand.) God very much hears the prayers of those who go to war, especially when it is a war as just as this one.
Leo called this war "scandal to the whole human family." Sorry, but Iranian Mullahs are NOT my family nor anyone else's, except maybe Beelzebub or Lucifer's. The real scandal is a man who heads up the largest religious denomination in the entire world being that stupid.
"The Lord Jesus certainly always brought a message of peace, and also, I think war is always a last resort,"
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"But I do think that it's hard to cast this war as something that would be sponsored by the Lord,"
We have taken great pains to avoid hitting civilian targets, or infrastructure, and have mainly concentrated on military targets and the leadership. We are responding to decades of aggression from the Iranian revolution, and we are acting to prevent what could be a human catastrophe' of never seen proportions. Oh, and we are trying to help the Iranian People. Jesus would DEFINITELY approve of this.
The New Testament says quite plainly "the king is give the power of the sword to punish evildoers" and while that is about civil matters it was equally true in those days that the king had the power of the sword to punish foreign actors bent on doing evil. Iran is clearly doing evil.
Jesus was not a pacifist, never was. He didn't believe in never fighting. He thought that in INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS we should be forgiving but that in no way says we shouldn't fight to survive. In fact the Bible is clear Jesus will return not as a suffering servant but as the Lion of Judah, the "Great and Terrible King" who will smite our enemies "with great anger and furious wrath". He will return as a conqueror.
So what is Bishop Bro going to tell Jesus when Jesus asks him what he did? when Jesus asks how he helped the Iranian People? He'lll anser "Get out of my sight you hypocrite! For I was hungry and you gave me no food, thirsty and you gave me no drink, oppressed and you gave me no relief." This war in Iran is as much a mercy to the Iranian People as it is for the safety of the United States. As Christians we actually have a duty to wage this most just war.
But I guess the Israelis killed by the Iran-funded Hamas or the Marines killed in Beirut, or the Kobar towers dead, or the attempts on President Trump's life don't count as actual threats but are just "perceived" eh Father?
The Administration should remove this clown from his role, and if they have to leave the post empty.
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Youtubbing Makes You Stooped
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone who has observed young people knows that the short, jerky videos they are so fond of gives them the attention span of a gnat.
They can't concentrate long enough to anything to understand it. And their memory is pretty much non-existent.
It makes them perfect Demcrat voters!
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Chicago is AIDS Town
Timothy Birdnow
AIDS is on the rise in Chicago as the influx of illegal aliens has spiked the incidents of disease in the windy city, especially among Latino illegals.
"HIV infections are on the rise in Chicago after about two decades of decline, growing 29% between 2022 and 2024. AIDS cases are also up slightly. In 2024, there were 818 new HIV cases — and nearly half were among Latinos, the population Jiménez focuses on. That increase is particularly significant, marking the first time the racial and ethnic group accounted for most of the new diagnoses, said John Peller, CEO of the AIDS Foundation Chicago."
So basically Latin American countries emptied out their hospitals to make this OUR problem. And like the fools we are we accepted millions of people sick with Third World diseases then wonder why we are seeing a surge in these things. Well duh! Of course the CDC blames not vaccinating rather than the huge influx of people already sick.
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More Atmospheric CO2 Makes the Trees Grow
Timothy Birdnow
Well whatdya know?
Turns out the forests do better with more carbon dioxide - and they take more of it when there is more to be had.
In other words, we have a negative feedback that restrains CO2 growth in the atmosphere. Whoda thunk it?
We are seeing increased greening all over the globe, which has dropped planetary albedo (reflectivity) in the process. The Gang Green - the radical environmentalists - argue this is a terrible thing and blame the drop in albedo on melting glaciers and ice caps (which really isn't happening - some are melting but others growing and thus it pretty much balances out) but the reality is there are lots of places that are now seeing lush green vegetation where there was once bare dirt or sand. Of course irrigation makes a big difference for that. Israel, for instance, is now a verdant, lush place thanks to irrigation. When it was primarily a Muslim area it was a wasteland.
At any rate we are seeing accelerated tree growth.
My story below discusses how environmentalists want to build a massive solar farm in the New York Finer Lakes and will cut down huge amounts of acreage with virgin forests, forests which act as a carbon dioxide sink. But they are more eager to get their ridiculous "renewable" energy sources in place than in actually doing something for the environment.
More robust forest growth is a good thing in my humble opinion. But of course the Greens can never be happy about anything.
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