March 31, 2026
Robots to Take McDonalds
Timothy Birdnow
In 1968 Science Fiction writer Larry Niven wrote "Intent to Deceive", a short story about an all-robot restaurant that malfunctions in a big way, leading to the inevitable demise of one of the characters as he attempts to flee through the kitchen.
That's what I thought about when I read this:
We all have wondered about the amount of actual beef in a Big Mac in times past; now we may REALLY have to worry about that!
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Guess I'll just keep going to Wendy's, as long as they stay open. And Sonic has a store a couple miles from me; their garlic butter burger is VERY much to my taste and my wife's; plus their fries are very nice.
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I've never eaten at Sonic, although we have quite a few around here. I do have a local burger joint named Jovick Brothers near me that is just delicious, and they have tater tots, which I like much better than french fries.
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The Liberal Hate Machine
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Tim Graham looks at the reasons why PBS should be not just defunded but lose their broadcast licenses.
I caught part of this fauxcumentary; it dragged out every imaginable shibboleth against Conservatives that it could stuff into such a film.
Of course this little teleplay failed to address the many black and Latino folks who voted for Trump. How could they when the "MAGA Media Machine" was preaching hatred for blacks and Latinos?
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Senate to go for the Whole Enchilada?
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Who here believes for a minute the GOP in the Senate will go to the mat like this? The feckless Senate Republicans haven't got the 'nards for this.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) tells reporters GOP didn’t introduce the House passed DHS funding bill via unanimous consent today because Sen. Coons (D-DE) was here to object/kill it.
I asked why not at least try and let Dems kill it?
Hoeven indicated they may try to get consensus before the Senate reconvenes on Thursday & may try it then.
BUT….
Hoeven also indicated Senate Republicans are done negotiating with Democrats & he wants to pivot instead to passing 3 years of DHS funding via reconciliation, which wouldn’t require Dem votes.
"We're taking this off the table, that that's enough of this with the Democrats,” Hoeven said.
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And This Gospel Shall be Preached Unto the Whole World
Timothy Birdnow
They're also converting to Protestantism too but less so since the mainline Protestants have become so insanely liberal.
Here is something that gets me:
Catholic ministries on college campuses, including Texas A&M University, University of Notre Dame and Arizona State University, are also reporting increasing converts, The Catholic Standard reported. Notre Dame saw its largest group of new Catholics in at least 25 years, with 125 receiving the sacraments last Easter, according to The Catholic Standard. The outlet noted that, this year, Notre Dame expects there to be 163 candidates and catechumens, which are unbaptized individuals undergoing conversion.
Notre Dame is a CATHOLIC school, for crying out loud; why should there be ANY converts there? That means Notre Dame has been taking in all sorts of non-Catholics over Catholics. What's the point of a Catholic university if it doesn't first cater to , uh, Catholics?
But the others are secular universities and this is a wonderful development.
Why is it happening now? These younger people have lived in a society steeped in Leftist Secularism and now the Left has bared it's fangs and they see it for what it is - a bankrupt, empty, angry philosophy of hatred. And they know from their own lives, having been raised under the banner of secularism, that there is no peace and no joy and no hope in the leftist doctrine of demons.
Ultimately Christianity is the only thing in this world that offers real hope. Islam? If you are a woman you are still second class in Allah's afterlife. In fact you don't have much to look forward to there even if you are a man unless you die in Jihad. Oh, you get to shag as many women as you like on Earth - you get four wives and as many "concubines" aka hookups as you please - but anyone who has lived that sort of life will tell you it is empty and hopeless after a while. Promiscuity is fun until you have your fill then it becomes torture. An endless string of people with whom you share nothing but a couple of minutes of physical pleasure. Empty.
Islam was always an appeal to Man's carnal nature; sex, women, power, fighting. And that is Christianity's chief rival. Judaism offers at least a better moral standard but it has problems too insofar as most Jews do not believe in a Heaven but expect to get their reward here. Life is not very rewarding and so it drives so many Jews into the arms of the Left because that offers the quick and easy path, or so many believe. Not all Jews certainly but a good many.
And these are the two main competitors of Christianity. Of course there is Hinduism, a doctrine of despair in my view as you must spent eons being reborn again and again in a pointless cycle of misery that ends with you actually being subsumed into a kind of Borg Collective where you become a kind of cell in the great brain that is god. Buddhism is more of the same, and actually less because it's not even a religion but more in line with Liberal thinking, a philosophy for life. Many Buddhists believe when you die you are just gone - poof! - and that is that as your atoms rejoin the Earth and recycle into new life. Who wants that?
All of these faiths are, in the end, traps, cycles you cannot break from of and which ultimately do not offer much in the way of peace of mind.
Christianity does and I would argue Catholicism does best of all because it lays out structure for you, roots to secure you properly. So many Protestant faiths offer simple grace with no strings, meaning it is meaningless in the end. No matter what you do you are "saved" to many Protestant sects. So you are free to be an ass if you like because your actions don't matter for your salvation - only the cross of Christ. Catholicism, on the other hand, says the Cross saves but you have to not only accept it but live it yourself. There is a partnership in salvation that should be very comforting because it means we have a hand in our own destiny. God not only gives us salvation as a gift but gives us a better gift - the pride of participating actively in what He is doing.
I know that many of you are Protestant here and that's fine; it works for you and that's what matters. But this is my own view of it and the view of the Catholic Church, or it used to be anyway before the Catholic Church turned Leftward and began preaching only a social Gospel devoid of the salvation of souls.
What the younger people are finding so appealing about Catholicism is this aspect, as well as the long and venerable traditions of the Catholic Faith (which is also true of the Orthodox, but that's a whole other can of worms) and the sense of being part of something far larger than yourself. You can get that in some Protestant faiths too but the very oldest Protestant faiths only go back a tad over five hundred years while Catholicism goes all the way back to St. Peter (and the Orthodox go back the same amount of time). Also, Catholicism is not as subjective as Protestantism; Protestants largely are the keepers of their own consciences and while they have to adhere to the doctrines of their particular sects they are pretty free to think as they please. Catholicism has a very clear set of doctrines, and there isn't a whole lot of subjectivity involved. Also, priests have real authority, whereas ministers are just guys who know more of the Bible than do their parishioners.
So I see why Catholicism is growing, despite the Church having now had two different Progressive imbeciles in the Papacy.
Naturally the Progressives in the Church will try to claim it was the reforms of Pope Francis and now Pope Leo that is driving the rise in conversions when in fact those conversions are happening IN SPITE OF the Progressivism infecting the Catholic Faith. People are coming not because it is easier these days but because it is still harder than many other religious traditions. Anything of value is worth sacrificing and laboring toward. If something is attained too easily it is just as easily valued. Young people realize this and want to believe in something real, and want to earn their place in the world.
At any rate, I welcome any conversion to Christianity, be it Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox. The only way we can defeat the forces of darkness which have all allied to destroy Christ's Church is by growing that Church and bringing in new people, just as Christ commanded us. Right now there is a dark alliance between Muslims and the radical Left and that alliance is nothing short of the work of Satan himself, the old serpent, who is still trying to drag as many souls with him into Hell. All you had to do is look at the No Kings rallies to see the truth of that last statement. Look at the alliances; gay activists joining with Muslims, who toss homosexuals off buildings for Allah, because both hate Christ's Church more than each-other. You have radical feminists making common cause with the Iranian Ayatollahs, who would love nothing better than to put those loud-mouthed old hags under heavy tarps to hide their visage from the world, and who would stop them from being educated, from driving cars, from going out in public without a male chaperone. Everything the feminists claim to hate is advocated by the people they are standing with. But stand with them they do because they aren't white male Christians. This is the same hatred as that of Lucifer.
In Paradise Lost there is a scene where Satan is climbing out of Hell to despoil the Garden of Eden solely to spit at God and God is talking among Himself and marveling at the hatred of his once favorite angel. Does that seem any different than the hatred of the Progressive-Left towards America, towards Christians, towards white people an men? If so I don't see the difference.
So many young people are seeing the true ugliness of Liberalism and shuddering and turning away. And we are welcoming new brothers and sisters into the Kingdom of Heaven.
God be with them all.
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March 30, 2026
Helium Cut Off by Strait Closure
Timothy Birdnow
This is why it's more important than ever to go back to the Moon. There is helium on the lunar surface we can mine and ship back to Earth.
Just a little refresher; one of the things that hurt Nazi Germany in the leadup to the Second World War was they lacked helium while the U.S. had plenty. The allies remembered how the German Empire used airships to attack Britain (one of the less known aspects of WWI, the Zeppelins did a great deal of damage to Britain back then) and so boycotted German purchases of helium, forcing Germany to use the very flammable hydrogen in their airships. The result was that the Hindenberg - crown jewel of the Nazi's proud commercial airship industry - burst into flames upon touching down in New Jersey (teach them to visit there!) and that pretty much finished the use of airships for commercial flight. And using hydrogen for military craft presented an even great challenge, so Germany was forced out of the airship business.
The U.S. didn't do rigid airships but the military used blimps to seek out U-boats and do other things that airplanes just couldn't do. But there was a series of crashes that led to the lighter-than-air vehicles demise.
The point is that our having helium and Germany not having any may well have been the thing that turned the tide of the war.
Currently 90% of our imported helium comes from Qatar, with the rest coming from Russia
Granted, the U.S. is the world's largest helium producer and we produce most of what we need for ourselves, but that number has been dropping in recent years as helium is extracted from natural gas wells and those are being tapped out (I don't believe you get helium from fracking.) So we eventually want to control helium production, and to do that we need to have an infrastructure in place to tape Lunar helium before the Chinese get to it. ..
Did I mention that as of this year helium III trades for $2,500 per liter? And did I mention that a big slingshot could simply chuck the valuable stuff off the Moon and out of orbit, to be soft-landed on Earth? It's' expensive to get to the Moon, but it's dirt cheap to come back from there is you have the infrastructure. A mass driver powered by solar energy could fling the stuff back at the Earth like a monkey flinging his own poop.
At any rate this article worries about the loss of helium on the world market, but we can always ramp up our own production to cover it until then. Another Trump win; we get to charge more for something that we produce domestically.
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Those countries depending on Russian gasoline and diesel will also be looking for a new supplier. The hits from the Ukrainian drones have forced Russia to suspend shipment of these 2 products due to the shortage it will create in Russia from April1 to October1. Ukraine was able to make 2 more drone strikes on the Usta-Luga facility the smoke from these strikes has reached St. Petersburg and Leningrad. The official Russian line is the smoke isnt smoke but a condition caused by atmospheric conditions. This is the type propaganda the people at the no kings rallies want.
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Actually, Tim, the U.S. tried rigid airships, with terrible luck. The Akron and the Macon both were lost in crashes at sea with all hands. As Casey Stengel used to say, you could look it up.
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You're right Mike; this is killing Russian oil and gas. And that is pretty much the whole Russian economy. This war is strangling the Russians and Chinese both.
I'm not surprise t he Putin regime would say something ridiculous like that.
I know Dana; I didn't mean to say we didn't ever do rigid airships, just that we stopped doing them early on and went with blimps instead, which handled the wind better.
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BTW, the Brits also tried rigid airships and had equally disastrous results.
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The Kings of No Kings
Timothy Birdnow
"No Kings" was a Chicom operation,
being heavily funded by American tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, an American expatriot living in China.
Did I mention he's also an avowed Communist?
It's funny; No Kings is financed by tech and hedge fund kings but it is firmly grounded in Communism.
Of course George Soros funded this too. His palsied hand is always in any evil enterprise.
I want to know why these people can continue to foment revolution here and get away with it? There is violence at many if not most such demonstrations and the financiers must be held accountable for that.
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I was happy to see people pointing out that there is more diversity among ICE agents then the predominately white aged hippies who attended these rallies. Old hippies never die they just stink worse and are far more angry about their pathetic wasted lives.
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Agreed. Always reliving their misspent youths when they believed they were the future. Now they are just old relics, living in the past.
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Keep Your Hole Shut Mr. President
Timothy Birdnow
Trump's got to learn to watch his mouth.
You don't tell people that is what you are doing.
On the other hand it may just be a ballroom and Trump is using subterfuge. I certainly hope so.
At any rate if there is going to be a secret installation under the ballroom then the whole world knows now. While that may not be an issue secrecy is always your best option with things like this.
Richard Nixon once said you never play your hole card because then you no longer have it in reserve. Telling people about a secret HQ in your own home is giving away your hole card.
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If there really is going to be something like this, I'm surprised Trump gave it away. He's usually very canny about stuff like this. I'll wait and see what eventually happens.
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That's why I suspect it has to be a case of misinformation. But you never know.
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U.S Naval Exercises in Panama
Timothy Birdnow
Very prudent.
Since we took back control of the Panama Canal from the Chinese there is a real chance of an attack on that canal to cripple international trade. Iran had to consider doing this (and so no doubt has China).
Also this helps put the squeeze on Cuba, which is already virtually shut down from the embargo.
Sending ships down there at this time is quite prudent indeed.
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If you were America's 51st state you'd already be home by now
Timothy Birdnow
If you were America's 51st state you'd already be home by now!
I mean, you'd be citizens and undeportable.
Frankly I'd welcome deportation of Canadians from the U.S.; they are a huge source of radical liberalism in this country.
And no, I don't want them becoming citizens. If we do that maybe we should merge with China too while we're at it. No good could come from that.
But of course this isn't what they are talking about. They are, rather, fighting a straw man, demanding ICE not make raids inside of their own Canadian cities, as if we ever had done that or ever would. It's pure political grand-standing.
Make you guys a deal; we won't raid Canadian territory if you promise to stay in your own country and quit exporting your loonie ideas to ours. Live and let live.
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And keep your so-called "bacon" at home, too!
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Amen. Back bacon aka Canadian Bacon is an affront to the very name of bacon. They can keep their beer too while they're at it.
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The Rapist, er Therapist in Public Schools
Timothy Birdnow
I read in Psychology Today about this years ago; public schools had a problem with rampant sexual abuse of children by teachers and other "educators" that was almost entirely ignored by the media and the do-gooders who were so offended when it was found in Catholic schools. There were considerably more incidents of child sexual abuse in public schools than in Catholic, or any other private schools.
Naturally Google disappeared that particular article comparing public v. Catholic schools, but I did find
this,
this from '24, and there was also
this from a year ago.
I would add that public schools are completely dominated by teacher's unions and most of the school teachers are leftist/Democrats. One survey put that number at
87% for financial support of Democrats in 2022, for instance. And
this survey had 41% of school teachers claiming to be Democrat, but another 30% claiming to be "independent". Only 27% claimed to be Republican. I think it fair to say that the thirty percent of independents almost always vote with the Democrats. (There are countless reasons why a teacher would claim to be an independent no matter how radically left wing they may be.)
At any rate this radicalized educational system (and don't forget the school administrators, who are if anything worse than the teachers) is also abusing their charges.
As a man thinketh so shall he be, the Bible tells us. Public school teachers thinketh along some amoral lines, and the end result is child rapes and other forms of sexual abuse.
The media beat the Catholic Church to death with accusations (many of which were well-founded) of sexual abuse of children. But the public schools are worse and we hear nary a peep about it.
The best thing anyone could do for their children is to get them out of public schools.
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Stolen Voter Code Key
Timothy Birdnow
No vote fraud in America? Ri-ight...
No mentionof which party this guy is from but I'll give you just one guess (you won't need more than one).
FTA:
During the search of Panicci’s home, detectives recovered the stolen items along with a substantial amount of electronic and digital storage devices. Panicci was transported to the Palm Beach County Jail and booked on charges.
John Panicci was taken into custody at his home on March 28.
The incident occurred during a volunteer training session on March 19 for the March 24 election.
According to detectives, Panicci stole the encrypted access key during the training at the elections office located at 4301 Cherry Road.
While the stolen key was configured only for training databases, officials fear it could be reverse-engineered.
I have to ask a big picture question; why do Democrats feel it necessary to cheat like they do? If the public is buying what they are selling they wouldn't need to cheat. The fact that they always look to cheat tells us that they are insecure about how attractive their views are to the general public. You don't need to cheat - and risk getting caught and punished - if you can win without it.
That they are willing to take that risk speaks volumes.
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John Thune's TSA Mess
Timothy Birdnow
Well Tiny finally grew a pair!
What Thune did was cut a backroom deal with Chuck Schumer that did not fund ICE for any enforcement activity but which he figured would pass the House because enough squishes could go along with it. He never consulted Mike "Tiny' Johnson nor the President - he just cut the deal then tiptoed out of town after a late night voice vote.
Johnson isn't having any of it and is refusing to bring this version up to the House for a vote.
This is proof John Thune needs to go if any was needed.
Now the Senate is in recess for two weeks and so nothing will be done for at least that long.
"The leadership in the Senate..on both sides of the aisle, has a real disgust for this president and House leadership, because they didn't even have the guts to call Speaker Mike Johnson and let them know what happened...the stereotype of Congress is - and it's well deserved - is that we pass stuff in the in the dark of night because we don't have any guts. And that's clearly what's shown in the Senate leadership."
Rep. Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-02)
This is why we may lose Congress, precisely because of such cowardice and good-old-boy tactics.
Steve Scalise tells us what is so bad about the bill:
"One of the things that we had real concerns with is it actually defunds over 25 percent of the baseline operations of the Department of Homeland Security. Twenty-five percent.
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"The Senate bill they sent over, by the way, defunds about 7,000 positions at the Department of Homeland Security. And, Jon, keep in mind, we’ve had three Americans killed just last week by people here illegally. We’ve had four terrorist attacks on our home soil here in America just in the last month.
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he bill they sent us, keep in mind, will zero out - defund things like cybersecurity operations, human trafficking investigations."
And Senator Tom Cotton admitted the House bill is DOA but it could allow the Senate to pass funding via reconciliation.
Trump's move to pay the TSA out of discretionary funds has taken the leverage from the Democrats. What is going to happen is there will be a call this morning for a vote and if no Democrat objects it will pass. Most of the Senate is out on vacation and this is just a ceremonial session, but the GOP could "steal" the vote here. But if just one objection is heard then the matter rests until the full Senate returns from their Easter break.
Mike Johnson done good.
UPDATE:
The Effing Senate Republicans
did not introduce the House Bill in the pro forma session, and so won't until Thursday at the earliest. Why not? Because John Thune wants time to figure out a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory here and keep his "compromise" in place, a backroom deal designed to end ICE efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens.
BTW the pro forma session is to keep the Senate in session for one reason - to stop the President from making recess appointments. With Republican control of the Senate this should not be happening; it's John Thune screwing over his own Party's leader.
How can we save this country with total jackasses like John Thune in positions of authority?
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I guess Thune is majority leader on the strength of his knowing best how to create a mess for the GOP.
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He learned it from his mentor, Mitch McConnell. The long con, er, g;ame.
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James Carville "Trump is Soft, Will Quit"
Timothy Birdnow
Didn't Carville predict Trump would quit during his first term too?
This is completely nuts; Trump may be many things but lacking toughness isn't one of them. He faced down prison and every kind of attack they could throw at him and is still standing. What makes Serpenthead think Trump is going to cave now?
From Western Journalism:
Democratic strategist James Carville theorized that President Donald Trump would resign after the midterms due to a lack of physical and mental capabilities during a Thursday episode of "Politics War Room.”Carville, who has admitted that he has "Trump Derangement Syndrome,” has repeatedly become erratic when criticizing the president during his second term.
The Democratic strategist predicted on his podcast that Republicans would lose both chambers of Congress and that Trump would not be "tough” enough to finish his term.
"What I’m going to talk about is the possibility of his resignation, because he doesn’t know how much his life is getting ready to change post-November … His power is going to just ebb out,” Carville said.
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"Foreign leaders are going to say, ‘This guy’s got two years to go. He’s lost the whole public opinion. He’s lost the whole Senate. He’s lost the House.’ The lobbyists are going to start cutting deals on the other side. You’ve seen this a thousand times before. The guest list for every cocktail party, for everything, is going to change.”
"The Christmas party is coming up. And he’s going to see that seeping out,” he added. "And it takes the chancellor of Germany, you know, 72 hours to call him back. And I think the guy is just soft. And it’s horrible when you get hit like he’s going to get hit.”
Moreover, he forecast that Trump would resign and have Vice President JD Vance pardon him.
"I think there’s a good chance he just says ‘Shit, I’ll just walk away. It ain’t worth it. That’s all. Best I can do.’ I don’t think he’s tough enough to tough this out,” Carville said.
"After being where he is, I don’t think he’s physically or mentally capable of doing it, of sticking it out,” he added.
"I just think he’s fat, lazy and deteriorating. And to the extent that he can see where he is, he might just walk away.”
Who has this guy been watching all these years now? I think Carville is pretty much describing himself and not Mr. Trump. Lazy and deteriorating sound like Carville and the rest of the Democrats.
Carville needs to cut back on all the Wacky Weed he's been smoking.
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Snakehead used to be a sharp dude and was worth listening to. These days, though, I fear he's deteriorated to mere entertainment value for "our side" and embarrassment for his side. I wonder if he's on a steady diet of Mary-Jane?
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March 29, 2026
Israel Stops Catholic Mass on Palm Sunday
Timothy Birdnow
No doubt the reason was security; the Israelis have banned people from most holy sites in Jerusalem, undoubtedly out of fear of a terrorist attack from Iran. They can't afford to have a lot of people bunched together.
The Italian Foreign Minister protested the move bitterly, calling it "an insult to religious freedom". You know what is an insult to religious freedom also? A suicide bomb that KILLS you so you can't worship as you see fit.
Benjamin Netanyahu said his government is working on a security plan to allow the Church to worship at the Holy Sepulcher during the Triduum, the three holiest days of the Christian year (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday).
Naturally this story tries to act like thos evil Joooosssss are just punishing non Jewish folks, even though they have severely curtailed their own religious practices (like only allowing fifty visitors to the Wailing Wall per day).
This is a common sense policy and anyone who says otherwise is full of bologna - or beef brisket if you prefer your Jewish deli meats.
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I agree. Israel would not have done this unless they felt it was a very necessary security measure.
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Yep. But the article tries to spin it as Jews suppressing other religions rather than taking care to not have a massacre on a high holy day.
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Bibi's opened things back up by now, which tells me he's got the security problems under control.
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Trump Solves Housing Crisis
Timothy Birdnow
Here's some good news the media won't reporrt, or if they do will bury on page 10.
According to the National Association of Realtors the Housing crisis
appears to be ending thanks to Trump's aggressive policies.
According to the pricing index:
In December 2025, nearly 93% of the major markets tracked in NAR's index had narrowed the housing supply-demand gap by issuing more single-family building permits. Moreover, by the end of the year, about 63% of the areas had a housing shortage index of two or lower. This is a noteworthy improvement compared to the same time in 2024, when less than 50% of the areas were near a balanced index.
Now what changed since 2024? Anybody?
Couple that with reduced numbers of illegals and the housing market is set to really boom.
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Lockdown 2.0
Timothy Birdnow
The International Energy Agency is
calling for a lockdown of the whole world in what many are calling "lockdown 2.0" and it looks amazingly like what we got during Covid - and what the Gang Green and the other crazy liberals (but I repeat myself) have long sought. In this case it's to conserve energy because of oil disruptions caused by the Iran war.
They want work from home. They want the imposition of mass public transit with private vehicles being severely restricted. They want everyone to replace gas stoves with electric. They want an extra day off work. They want reduced speed limits on highways.
Sound familiar? No mention of masking but they'll get around to that eventually. They can't push masks now, not while ICE is wearing them.
All we need is Greta Dumberg, er, Thurnberg to show up and hector us about how we are destroying the planet.
This program seems to be the Left's reaction to any stimulus.
Oh, did I mention they want to limit air travel too. Did Chuck Schumer get this memo from them maybe? He's doing a fine job of THAT!
I would add we've tried this program on any number of occasions and it was just a disaster. Richard Nixon tried it and I remember waiting in long lines to get ten gallons of gas with my father. This as much as anything led ultimately to the disastrous economic "malaise" of the later seventies, this program which was premised on the theory that conservation will see us through. Peak oil was a big shibboleth back then and we were told we had to be trained, to get used to a future with little oil and gas. (You may remember in the late seventies the movie Mad Max came out and that was a big part of the film - the struggle to obtain gasoline.)
So these hippies keep trying to bring back the "swinging seventies". I just saw a clip of Jane Fonda encouraging people to go to the "No Kings" rally "it's fun". These dimbulbs keep trying to relive their misspent youths.
Maybe we should hold a protest of our own, and call it "No Queens". Somehow I suspect the gay lobby wouldn't like that at all.
At any rate it's the same old song and dance. And if they fail to get a lockdown 2.0 they will try, try again with different issues. But this is what they want. They think this will "reduce our carbon footprint" but more importantly it will keep us all in our homes where they can control us. It was and always has been about power.
Doubt that? Well, the IEA is not suggesting this as a voluntary policy but asks member nations to do it via "regulations and mandates.” aka FORCE their citizens to comply.
That is the program, it's always been the program. This is how you get the Great Reset and implement the New World Order.
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No way are we gonna lockdown! Got too many things to do.
Tim, I remember Nixon's price controls, but I think your memory is wrong; it was Carter's policies that had us queued up for gas -- and had the gas pump meters kicked up as high as they are now.
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Dana, I seem to remember going through gas lines in '73, which would be under Nixon. He DID impose price controls and rationing during the Arab oil embargo. But certainly Carter spiked the prices up through the roof.
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Well, in '73 you may have been having some issues in Missouri. I don't remember any issues with gas in Buffalo then. I remember a problem with the price controls because I'd received a promotion to a whole different job at that time and my people waffled at giving me the raise I was supposed to get. I retaliated by spending only a year at the new job and flew the coop to a different company.
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Old Maid Ilhan
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I am pleased by this although I have to question the sanity of the Somalilanders.
She is rather like the old maid in the card game; the guy who gets stuck with her is the loser.
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I'd rather see her deported to Spitzbergen, since it appears she has a tolerance for cold weather.
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The Compassionate Liberals
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What do you do with such vile dirtbags as these two? They get fired and the Left takes care of them, getting them another job almost immediately.
So they think it's fun to ponder the murder of a man with whom you disagree. I wonder how they would feel if it were their own lives at stake.
This kind of abject hatred is going to tear this nation completely apart.
I'll bet these two goons were high-fiving when Charlie Kirk was murdered too.
I wouldn't want to be them on Judgement Day.
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I agree with what you say, especially your last line. And there are a lot of people -- so many of them Democrats -- of whom that can be said!
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Democrat Calls for Reparations, Nuremberg Trials for Illegal Aliens
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Yes, you read that right.
Gateway Pundit dishes:
Woke Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) has called for "some form of reparation” for illegal aliens she says were "traumatized” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown.
Speaking at a shadow hearing she hosted titled "Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Attack on Children,” Jayapal argued that federal reparations should be considered for illegal aliens targeted nationwide by ICE operations.
Jayapal also demanded "offensive actions around prosecutions,” saying that "the people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted” and "brought before us” so they can be held accountable for the trauma caused by deportations and raids.
So this scumbaggettue wants to not only pay illegals for being afraid of apprehension when they broke into the country illegally but she wants to hold Nuremberg style trials for "war crimes" committed by border agents enforcing our laws - and for the Conservatives who asked them to do it.
I don't know how any American could possibly ever vote for a Democrat ever again.
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What she is actually calling for is another govt program that the democrats can pilfer for their own personal gains.
Posted by: Mike at March 29, 2026 12:56 PM (sIH/h)
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Of course. It's what they do.
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March 28, 2026
Climate Models Failed Predictions
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I posted this on a climate debate forum on Facebook. I thought it worth reposting here, even if I have already gone over this stuff time and time again:
According to a 2024 report from the World Health Organization drowning deaths globally dropped by a whopping 38% since the year 2000.
https://www.who.int/news/item/13-12-2024-drowning-deaths-decline-globally-but-the-most-vulnerable-remain-at-risk
So riddle me this; how is this possible if sea levels are rising precipitously and extreme weather events are becoming more common (they aren't) how can this be?
More people than ever are hanging out at beaches and lakes and other watery areas.
Even if we attribute fewer drownings to better rescue techniques and more care for life-preserving systems we have to admit that this suggests the environmental apocalypse predicted over climate change just isn't happening. And remember the population has increased since 2000, not gone down.
I would add 2025 was a "quiet" hurricane season in violation of the predictions made by climate models. https://arxiv.org/html/2511.23458v3 In fact the 21st century has largely been quiet in terms of hurricanes, as well as tornadoes. The frequency of tornadoes in the U.S. has declined significantly since 1950. https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/twisters-and-trends-analysis-us-tornado-activity-and-climate-change Tornadoes do more damage now because there is a lot more stuff built down on the flats to be destroyed than in bygone days. (The same holds true for Hurricanes - much more stuff on the sea shore than in the past). Floods have become less deadly too. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378523732_Floods_have_become_less_deadly_an_analysis_of_global_flood_fatalities_1975-2022 This despite more property damage being caused by flooding, primarily because we are building more in flood plains now than we used to and so there is more stuff to get wrecked.
Oh, I hear you now...but, but,but what about wildfires? What about them? IF there is an increase in wildfires (and many of them were intentionally set over the last few years by environmentalists to "prove" climate change, such as in California https://www.foxla.com/news/multiple-people-accused-starting-fires-firestorm-rages-california and in Australia ) then we must ask how that is possible in a world that has heated up one degree and thus evaporated more water vapor which, logically, should make wildfires harder to start. And of course we conveniently forget about the changes in wildfire management and prevention (like not removing deadwood from forests and then being surprised when a bunch of dry tinder catches).
None of this comports with the climate change models.
At what point do we admit the models are just wrong?
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Actually, I think that "we" are pretty well agreed that the climate models are wrong and probably always were. It's just the diehards that don't agree -- the "gang green," as you like to call them. The ones who say it's getting hotter because temperatures are going down, and stuff like that. You know: Democrats and their ilk.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 28, 2026 09:15 PM (+oLFx)
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I know Dana which is why I generally beat this dead horse overmuch but I feel compelled to do so on Facebook with these ridiculous, arrogant Gang Greenous types. Oh, and I want to supply everyone with some facts with which they may not be acquainted.
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Good for you. Of course, I think that Facebookies in general are unteachable because they are liberals, so what can you do? That's why you don't see people like Jack Kemp, or me, over there.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 30, 2026 12:15 AM (gVePp)
Posted by: Eco Nivesh at March 30, 2026 06:46 AM (dRK/L)
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Well Dana I'm on Facebook for two reasons 1I have a lot of very Conservative friends who give me stuff I can use here and 2.I can stay in touch with people I wouldn't be able to under normal circumstances A lot of the people who came to my Dad's funeral could only be reached because I was on Facebook. We couldn't locate them otherwise.
I totally see why you wouldn't want to be on though.
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