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May 18, 2026

Robot Uprising

Timothy Birdnow

The robot uprising has come!

Robotaxi Rebellion: 50 Waymo Self-Driving Cars Circle Atlanta Neighbor

What is it they are plotting? What nefarious purpose is behind their meeting?

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Cassidy Goes the Way of the Dodo

Timothy Birdnow

RINO Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana got creamed by Trump-endorsed primary challengers Julia Letlow (who won 44.8% of the vote) and John Fleming (283%). Cassidy came in decidedly third at 24.8%). The INCUMBENT came in last place despite having a very large war chest!

Bill Cassidy was one of a handful of Republicans who voted to convict Donald Trump during his second impeachment. Mr. Trump naturally endorsed Letlow.

Of the seven RINO's who voted to convict Mr. Trump in his second impeachment only Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are still in the Senate; the rest were booted by angry constituents.

So suck on that NeverTrumpers!

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Rising Africa - American Opportunity

Timothy Birdnow

Africa is the next land of opportunity. It has rising population, rising prosperity, and a vast wealth of minerals that modern technology requires. China has been sniffing around Africa for decades now. But it is America that is in the driver's seat in the Dark Continent if we have the wisdom and foresight to take advantage of a golden opportunity.

Or so argues this essay at The Daily Caller.

I've long agreed; we are going to see Africa rise in the next fifty years. While dirt poor and politically unstable the continent has been quietly positioning (not purposely, mind you) for a major growth spurt. The material is there. the manpower is there. Prosperity will help stabilize the governments in Africa, which will go a long, long way to helping these places develop.

China has been lending money to Africa - lots of money - and the terms of repayment are usurious. That is just one place we should be stepping in; we can offer a "bill consolidation loan" to some of these struggling countries (the author mentions Kenya in particular) that are better deals to them - and cut the Chicoms out. We can give most favored nation status to African countries that export products to the U.S. There are lots of things we can do to increase our influence there.

There are a few things that we must keep in mind. After the Meiji Restoration (when the Emperor returned as the governing power in Japan over the Tokugawa shogunate) Japan found itself backward and, frankly, starving. The first thing they did to modernize their country was to modernize it's agricultural practices. Not build industries, not build up it's army, but find a way to feed it's people first. Africa is in that shape now; they are struggling to feed their own people. We have to work wih friendly African nations to build up their agricultural base, and not just their cash crop base (which is what the West largely did - building coffee plantations and the like) to assure the people are well fed. It worked beautifully in Japan; within years they were building up their industries and ended up fighting a war with Russia and winning - the first time in modernity that a modern European nation lost to an Asian regional power. It all started with agricultural reform.

We have to remember that transportation is the key to accessing those markets, and that means we have to invest in infrastructure.

We have to find ways to stabilize the governments there. That is easier said than done but we know who the trouble-makers are.

Frankly, what is needed most in Africa are Christian missionaries. Africa is pagan and increasingly Islamic. That has to stop, the conversions (ofren forced) of people to Islam. We've got to win that fight. Christianity is one of the most civilizing things ever seen on this Earth. Islamization is always more attractive to warring pagans because it excuses or downright supports some things - multiple wives and free sex, a warrior culture that believes in taking rather than making, slavery, etc. But it is Christianity that produces a society that creates and builds and is stable not based on force. Even if our official position is "separation of church and state" it is in our interests for Africans to become Christians and not Muslims - or stay animists, killing their neighbors because they think they "bewitched" them.

We reject religion and spirituality these days because we have a national religion - a Western World religion, which is secularism. Mussolini won; the State is now the Church and "democracy" is our god. But a poor god it is. So we ignore the spiritual impulses of people and work within a materialist framework. It fails because human beings know deep down there is more than just the material. This is why our policies in places like Africa fail; we are fishing with the wrong bait.

So even if we ourselves don't believe it, there is great strategic value in promoting Christianity overseas, particularly in Africa.

At some distant point in the future Africa will be a great center of power and wealth. We can either recognize that fact now and work to shape it in a good fashion or keep pretending it won't be so and let the Chinese do the shaping. Do we really want a world shaped by the tyrants in Beijing?

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The Last Roundup

Timothy Birdnow

As regular readers know years ago I penned an article showing that the Left was plotting against glyphosates - the principle ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup - and I quote a mainstream journalist who found environmental activists altered the WHO report - which had originally said there was no evidence these chemicals caused cancer.

Well, Steven Milloy, Founder of Junk Science, agres with me.

Milloy states:

Radical green groups began opposing Roundup in the 1990s as part of their campaign against genetical engineered (GMO) crops. So-called "Roundup Ready” crops were engineered to withstand the application of Roundup to crops, thereby increasing crop yields.

Though the campaign against GMOs largely failed, the radical green groups kept attacking Roundup, even though it had passed scrutiny by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under seven presidential administrations, Republican and Democrat.

That’s an impressive feat as EPA staff is known for being anti-pesticide and, in my experience, has no compunction about changing the rules to ban pesticides that become politically incorrect, which Roundup certainly has.

The greens had success in getting Roundup in the crosshairs of the United Nations’ International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, pronounced "eye-ark”). In 2015, IARC concluded that Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, was "probably carcinogenic.” No other regulatory body in the world before or since has made that determination.

And once this designation was made the mainstream media ran with it, and now it is the conventional wisdom. There is scant reliable science to back up the claim.

Milloy goes on:

While activist groups and trial lawyers are easy to blame for the threat posed to this safe and invaluable chemical, I lay the blame for this situation at the feet of the chemical industry. Decades ago, the chemical industry stopped vigorous factual defense in the media of its products in favor of feel-good messaging.

It’s easy to scare people about things they don’t understand, like pesticides. But the industry’s ongoing failure to defend its own products, especially in the face of aggressive attackers, is inexcusable.

Yep. And why did they do that? They did it because they saw how the tobacco companies got annihilated by defending THEIR own product and hoped to avoid those same kinds of mistakes. (Oil and gas companies now face a similar threat.) It's craven but the chemical companies figure they can earn good will and this will protect them, that the environmentalist wackos will go elsewhere for fun and the trial lawyers will seek a softer target. But that is merely hoping you get eaten last; the only way to take on this hydra is to face them and fight them. THEN they may move on to a softer target. The humble porcupine has few creatures that predate on it. Same holds true for skunks.

The attack on glyphosates is a crime against humanity. It will lead to reductions in crop yields, killing the poor in the Third World as prices for food skyrocket. The Gang Green pursues this as they would pursue any "forbidden work of Man" as somehow unnatural and anything they can do to reduce the human footprint on the Earth is to them the ultimate good. Human beings are just an unfortunate casualty, but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

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The Sophistry of Climate Alarmism

Timothy Birdnow

I had an astonishing interaction with a Gang Green on a climate change group on Facebook. I pointed out the decline in cloud cover was in direct opposition to the models and at odds with what they all said would happen and this guy actually argued that warming leads to fewer clouds. I was doumbfounded; how do you answer someone so dense?

Where does the extra water vapor go? There are two options; it condenses into clouds then falls as rain or it just falls as rain right away. But there is zero evidence for increased rainfall worldwide, and fewer clouds than in the past decades.

What goes up must come down; this water vapor can't just sit there in the atmosphere. At best it will fall in greater amounts at the poles and on the winter side of the planet; we would see greater precipitation during winter everywhere. We don't.

This is, in this man's view, a kind of magic trick; warming evaporates water but it magically disappears.

I accused him of moving the goalposts as the early IPCC reports said there would be more precipitation and more cloud cover and now they are ducking that assessment. I think this guy knows it too.

I would add that, if this is the case, we have absolutely nothing to fear from the extra carbon dioxide. The whole argument over climate sensitivity is over the feedbacks and the core point made by the alarmists is that the evaporation of water vapor (the Earth's primary greenhouse gas) will lead to more carbon dioxide then more water vapor and then the permafrost will melt and discharge large amounts of methane. But the key is the water vapor. If as you say there are fewer clouds and we can't find the water vapor hanging about then the whole positive feedback loop breaks down.

Claiming there would be a decrease in cloud cover from warming and no increased precipitation is just silly.

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May 17, 2026

IPCC Admit Their Assumptions on Emissions are Wrong

Timothy Birdnow

The IPCC's RPC 8.5 was way over the top and now the U.N. boss hog is admitting that

Roger Pielke Jr. explains why and calls the correction long overdue:

Roger Pielke Jr.: "The correction came far too slowly”

Now that the extreme climate scenario RCP 8.5 has finally been abandoned, the debate has shifted significantly, says Roger Pielke Jr. The American researcher recently gave an interview to the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Roger Pielke Jr.: "The correction came far too slowly”,

Roger Pielke Jr. in conversation with the GWPF

Clintel Foundation

Date: 16 May 2026

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Roger Pielke Jr.’s recent conversation with the Global Warming Policy Foundation begins off course with what he describes as one of the most important developments in climate science and policy in recent years: the effective "death” of the emission scenario known as RCP 8.5.

You can see the full interview here:

For more than a decade, this scenario formed the backbone of many of the world’s most alarming climate projections. It shaped scientific research, government policy, financial regulation, infrastructure planning, media coverage, and public understanding of climate change. According to Pielke, the gradual abandonment of RCP 8.5 represents not merely a technical adjustment within climate modeling, but a profound correction to the assumptions that have dominated climate discourse for years.

Assumptions

Pielke begins by explaining the central role that socioeconomic scenarios play in climate science. Climate models do not simply project future temperatures on their own; they require assumptions about how human societies will evolve over decades. "Climate models run first and foremost on inputs from socioeconomic scenarios.” These scenarios attempt to estimate future population growth, economic development, technological innovation, energy systems, and patterns of fuel use. Because none of these variables can be predicted with certainty, climate scientists rely on multiple scenarios representing different possible futures.

The Representative Concentration Pathways, or RCPs, were developed more than twenty years ago as standardized emissions trajectories for climate modeling. Four main pathways were created: RCP 2.6, 4.5, 6.0, and 8.5, with the numbers corresponding to different levels of radiative forcing by the year 2100. RCP 2.6 roughly aligned with ambitious climate mitigation goals and lower warming outcomes, while RCP 8.5 represented the highest-emissions future, associated with approximately 5°C of warming by the end of the century.

Over time, however, RCP 8.5 evolved far beyond its original role as a stress-test scenario. It increasingly became treated as the default "business-as-usual” future — the world that would emerge if governments failed to take aggressive climate action. Pielke argues that this transformation had enormous consequences. "If you see a headline about how climate change is going to affect society… odds are it’s going to be based on RCP 8.5,” he observes. Even people unfamiliar with the technical terminology were constantly exposed to conclusions generated from this extreme scenario.

Never plausible

According to Pielke, the influence of RCP 8.5 spread well beyond academic climate science. Governments incorporated it into adaptation planning, financial regulators embedded it into banking stress tests, and engineers used it to inform decisions about infrastructure, flood defences, airports, and urban planning. The scenario became deeply institutionalized across the developed world. Its assumptions shaped not only scientific papers but also political rhetoric and public fear about climate change.

The central problem, Pielke argues, is that RCP 8.5 was never a plausible representation of likely future emissions. The scenario relied on assumptions that increasingly diverged from real-world energy trends. In particular, it assumed a massive expansion of coal use throughout the twenty-first century, including the replacement of cleaner energy sources with coal-derived fuels. The scenario effectively envisioned a world that abandoned trends already underway toward natural gas, nuclear energy, and renewables.

Pielke explains that research led by his colleague Justin Ritchie demonstrated years ago that these assumptions were unrealistic. "That theory is wrong,” Pielke says bluntly. The world was not moving toward a coal-dominated future and likely never had been. Yet despite growing evidence against the scenario, RCP 8.5 remained deeply embedded in climate research and public communication for nearly a decade after the first major critiques appeared.

A few years ago the IPCC quietly upated it's AR5 report and admitted climate sensitivity was not as high as they claimed, particularly on the low end of the scale (in other word s there was less warming in the nighttime lows. Now we have this.

These are the last days of global warming which is why the Gang Green is out in force. I love it!

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May 16, 2026

I.D. Required - for a Campaign Event

Timothy Birdnow

The hypocrisy is simply breathtaking.

Democrat Roy Cooper Required ID for Campaign Event but Opposes SAVE America Act

So Stooper Cooper doesn't open his events to the general public, just those he authorizes, but he wants voting to be unrestricted, with anyone from anywhere being able to walk right in and vote.

People at his level in society are not that thick. He knows exactly what he is doing.

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Say Goodnight Cassidy!

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a fine essay on the trouble Louisiana's Republican RINO Bill Cassidy - one of the cretins who voted to convict President Trump during his impeachment - is facing in the land of Carville.

As the essay points out, Cassidy is operating from the old model which avoided any accountability. Before the rise of the internet, before podcasts and blogs and Fox News and Newsmax and talk radio, this model worked well; govern as a brown-noser to the Democrats and get the media to love you, then turn hard-right as election time nears and drape yourself in the flag and Ronald Reagan. Then as soon as you win you revert to the anal kissing and flip your constituents the bird.

It used to work and money covered up your sins.

It was a sweet gig! You enjoyed money, power, fame, prestige. You got invited to the swankest parties. You had people hanging on your every word. And you knew that once in you would always have a great source of revenue one way or another. It was a golden ticket.

I've long argued that the Establishment GOP has always sought to keep Congress on a knife-edge, to keep the two parties near parity, because they then can argue that the public dare not turn out the RINO's lest they lose control of Congress - or fall farther behind. So for decades we've had to hold our noses and vote for clowns like Cassidy and Cornyn lest the Democrats take those seats. Meanwhile the GOP Establishment can play footsie with the Democrats and enjoy the perks of being the Big Man in D.C. And in fact many Republicans prefer to actually be in the minority - less work and better press. They want the goodies but not the responsibility that goes with it.

Christ took our stripes so we didn't have to. That is the model for leadership; doing the hard things, taking the arrows of the enemy, so the People do not have to. RINO Republicans aren't leaders; they are self-seeking scoundrels who use their positions for their own benefit and come home to blow smoke rings to the public at election time. Many would never return to their home states at all if they had their druthers.

The truth will out and especially now that we have the means to remind everyone. You can't keep playing the same con game on the same people forever.

So the "honorable" Mr. Cassidy is now facing early retirement and he is no doubt frantic to hold on, as almost every scumbag in D.C. seems to be. Nobody wants to lose that gig. The fact is if these were leaders, if they were truly serving the public, they would want to quit, want to go home. It would be too much work and too much trouble. The fact that so many are so desperate to stay in the swamp is proof they have no business representing the public in government. They do not serve the public - the serve themselves.

Say goodnight Cassidy!

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Out with the Old

Timothy Birdnow

Anyone remember the British spy show "The Prisoner"? "I am the new Number 2":

Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield. Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing. He will no longer terrorize the people of Africa, or help plan operations to target Americans. With his removal, ISIS’s global operation is greatly diminished. Thank you to the Government of Nigeria for your partnership on this operation. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

President DONALD J. TRUMP

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DEI Doing Just Fine

Timothy Birdnow

DEI is alive and well at Penn State despite orders from the Trump Administration to put an end to this sort of indoctrination.

All law students have to attend a racial sensitivity course, meaning they have to study DEI thinking. These are the future lawyers, judges, and politicians.

But then, what did we expect from the school that gave us Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann?

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I Don't Know Much about Art...

Timothy Birdnow

Maybe deep down most people feel impressionism is actually crap.

A Funny Thing Happened when a Guy Posted a Monet Online and Told People it was AI

It is funny and I read the criticisms which were heaped upon the allegedly AI generated piece with not just a little agreement. Does that say something about the public? Does it say that a lot of people are just stuffed shirt poseurs? Or did they actually critique this thing honestly and is that then an indictment of Monet and the art critics who immortalized him?

I suspect many people in their hearts feel impressionism is crap and was a con by mediocre talents.

Impressionism was the beginning oof the collapse of art which has now come to complete fruiting in our degenerate and decaying society. We've gone from beauty and meaning to kindergarten crayon scribbles and an almost worship of ugly or overblown artwork which does little but make a lot of money from the pretentious.

Artwork mirrors the soul of a society. Ours has degenerated into a cesspool, and that started with the impressionism of the nineteenth century as the Western mind became unmoored from God and from any sense of our place in the cosmos.

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Baghdad Barack

Timothy Birdnow

Obama sounds like Baghdad Bob!

Obama Says ‘No Dispute’ His Iran Deal Worked

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf was dubbed "Baghdad Bob" by Westerners. al-Sahhaf was the information minister for Saddam Hussein during the Second Gulf War and he was famously nutty. He would brag about how the Iraqi forces were destroying the American military. By the end he was telling journalists that the Iraqi Republican Guard had pushed American forces out of the entire country as the sound of gunfire and bombs could be heard in the background; U.S. forces were just blocks away.

We now know Iran has twice the range on their missiles as they told us they had. We know by THEIR OWN ADMISSION they have enough enriched uranium for 11 nukes and who knows how much plutonium. We know they were working on an implosion trigger. All this happened under Joe Biden's watch, the Obama mini-me. And all of this happened because of Barack Hussein Obama's ridiculous bribe to get them to not do this research.

The man is either a monumental fool or even a bigger liar than Jimmy Carter.

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The Kitten Torturer

Timothy Birdnow

Anthony Fauci is literally a guy who tortures kittens. I kid you not.

Gateway Pundit dishes:

A shocking new investigation by White Coat Waste (WCW) has uncovered how Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) quietly shifted controversial kitten experimentation from a shuttered U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) lab into the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) own internal laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland, after President Donald Trump’s administration shut down the USDA’s infamous "kitten slaughterhouse” exposed by the watchdog organization in 2019.

The newly obtained records, obtained by WCW through Freedom of Information Act requests, show that in 2021, under Dr. Fauci, NIAID scientist Dr. Michael Grigg, a collaborator with the now-closed USDA lab, resurrected the kitten experimentation protocols inside NIH intramural laboratories, where they remain active through at least December 13, 2026.

For decades, the USDA’s Beltsville, Maryland, facility bred and killed cats for toxoplasmosis parasite experiments led by scientist Jitender Dubey.

WCW uncovered how Dubey’s lab bred thousands of kittens for painful and deadly taxpayer-funded testing.

Dubey and his staff traveled to China and other foreign countries to visit wet markets and purchase cat and dog meat, which would then be fed to kittens back at the USDA lab in gruesome cannibalism experiments.

WCW detailed the disturbing project in an exchange with Republican Rep. Eric Burlison during a House Oversight hearing last year and highlighted how Dubey was even inducted into the USDA Hall of Fame.

This guy is one sick twisted individual. If he had been in Germany during the forties he would have given Joseph Mengele a run for his money.

Fauci doesn't belong in prison, he belongs in a psych ward.

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The Ultra Man

Timothy Birdnow

(No, I'm not speaking about the Japanese monster fighting alien from the late '60's.)

Here is an essay on the disappearance of the MK Ultra documents that makes some excellent points. It's odd that President Trump is pushing for the decriminalization of psychedelics for medical purposes at a time when the documents about government experiments with psychedelics were taken from the political watchdog by the people who ran criminal experiments with these drugs on the American People. The timing is - interesting.

MK Ultra was real. Whitey Bulger - the crime Kingpin of Boston - was a petty hood when he was put into the MK Ultra program in prison. He came out a criminal mastermind who wiped out the Mafia (with the help of the FBI) and dominated all criminal activity in the city. (Bulger spoke in horror of what they did to him in his "training"; he was truly terrified of the "treatments".)

Then there was Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber", who went on a murderous rampage with explosives and who lived in a shack in the deep woods of Montana; he was at Harvard on a scholarship and one of the conditions was he participate in he MK Ultra program. Kaczunski killed three people and injured 23 with his bombs, which he mailed to people he believed had it coming - academics, business executives, etc. There were many others as Congressional investigations proved. One wonders how many monsters this program created?

There is even a suspicion that Charles Manson had been a subject in the program. If nothing else his parole officer was in the same building where they were doing MK Ultra research, a rather tantalizing clue.

For those who do not know, MK Ultra was a research program by the CIA to experiment with mind control. They used LSD and other psychedelics, as well as hypnosis and behavior modification to attempt to make the subjects believe what they wished and to do as they were conditioned. It is most likely they were trying to create sleeper agents who would commit murders or assassinations or other crimes at the behest of the CIA on command.

So it's odd that these documents would disappear, especially at this time.

Read the whole essay.

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May 15, 2026

Green Car'd

Timothy Birdnow

Go woke go broke we like to say. But it's true, and not just over DEI; "renewable" technology turns a large fortune into a small one very quickly.

Honda’s Costly EV Fiasco Drives First-Ever Annual Loss

those toy cars are expensive and impractical and were only made because governments subsidized them and used CAFE standards to make them appealing to car companies. (The way that works is car companies have to meet CAFE fuel standards and can't if they want to make vehicles they can sell, so they make things like EV's which count towards their CAFE standards and bring down the MPG of their cars overall.)

So Hoda, the venerable old Japanese giant, ran with EV's and now finds itself losing money.

"Green tech" is the fast track to poverty.

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Dam Bombers

Timothy Birdnow

So was this the Iranians, the Chinese, or local Leftists who want to sow chaos in America?

'Unprecedented Threat:' Routine Maintenance Found an IED at an Alabama Dam

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Yesterday, Divers doing a routine maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir Dam in Mobile, AL discovered an underwater grenade type IED.

The FBI bomb squad had to be called in to safely detonate it.

The Reservoir and Dam are critical infrastructure, and this is being called "an unprecedented threat"

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been made aware of the situation.

The Left is in the process of a sea change in tactics. Where once we had a cold war with them now it is becoming a hot war, with attempts on Trump's life as well as the murder of Charlie Kirk and other lesser-knowns attempts on opponents of the radicals. The next logical step for them would be to start blowing up dams and water treatment plants and power stations, Hospitals, police and fire stations, etc.

I truly believe the hot civil war is just about at hand.

So why was this thing not exploded? The perpetrators probably were mining multiple targets and hoped to detonate all of them at once to shock the American People.

AS I say, it could well be the Iranians or the Chicoms even, or the Russians (less likely to me but you never know). Of course we are in tis pickle because Mr. Biden let lots of Iranians into the country through his open borders policy. But if it's not them it's the Antifa people, the radical Left.

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Cuba Rejects U.S. Aid

Timothy Birdnow

So the Communistas of Cuba are rejection a hundred million bucks from the U.S. in humanitarian aid just because they don't want to be seen knuckling under to President Trump.

What was the catch? The assistance would go directly to the Cuban People, being distributed by the Catholic Church - the government would have no control over it.

So typically Communist.

Mexico’s TV Azteca reported in March that humanitarian aid they sent to Cuba was taken by the Cuban government and sold in government stores for American dollars; it never reached the people it was intended to help. But that's what Communists do; people are expendable, the state is the beneficiary.

I know what is happening to Cuba is harsh, but it is better to suffer the pains of a surgery than die a slow, horrible death from cancer. Communism is the cancer killing Cuba.

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What's in a Word? Are Race Car Drivers "Athletes"?

Timothy Birdnow

Well, they AREN'T!

Jeff Gordon and Kyle Larson Ridicule Stephen A. Smith for Dismissing NASCAR Drivers as Non-Athletes

An athlete is doing something that can get them out of breath; it is aerobic by it's very nature, in my humble opinion. Race car drivers, jockeys, bowlers, pool players, golfers, curlers are not athletes. They are very skillful but I wouldn't call them athletes.

If they are athletes so too are video gamers, ping-pong players, tiddly winkers, cornholers, horseshoers, suffle-boarders, and any other game player. We don't call them athletes by and large so why do we call race car drivers athletes?

May as well call high school mathletes "athletes" because they could get tired from using a compass or a slide rule.

In fact those chicks who run around with ribbons or competitive cheerleaders are more athletes than race car drivers.

This may not be an earth-shattering issue but it is a sign of our times; an unwillingness to call a thing by it's true name. Confucious said that to restore a nation you must "first true the language". We have degraded our language for a long time in this fashion, and while this may be a harmless issue in this case other things are not so harmless - like "marriage equality" for homosexual unions or "abortion rights" for murdering unborn babies or "gender affirming care" for cutting of a little boy's penis or a chopping the breasts off a girl.

George Carlin once did a bit about the misuse of euphemisms. As he pointed out, we will soon be calling rape victims "involuntary sperm recepticles".

Using language to obfuscate becomes a habit and until we improve the precision of our language it will be ripe for weaponization and abuse.

So while this might be a minor thing it speaks to a culture that essentially lies to itself.

Jeff Gordon's reply to Stephen A Smith was:

"But at the same time, clearly he doesn’t know a whole lot about the sport, and he doesn’t know what it takes to be an athlete in motorsports. There’s no doubt about the mental fatigue it takes to be in the car for hours, the competitiveness and things that make drivers true athletes,” the NASCAR legend added. "It’s just in a different sense of how a stick-and-ball sport is perceived as an athlete.”

But mental fatigue is NOT athletics; you get mental fatigue playing chess. And you can be competitive while playing any game; if a lot of money was involved in Chutes and Ladders you would find "athletes" in the "sport" who stressed about it. Professional poker players certainly do; do we call them athletes?

Kyle Larson had this to say:

"I just accept that they won’t understand, because they will never be able to strap into a race car that goes 200 miles an hour. If they did, I don’t think they would be able to make it a lap without feeling like they’re going to die."

Again, nobody is questioning the skill of the drivers, nor the degree of difficulty involved in driving over 200 mph on a track full of other cars, nor the tension that leads to elevated heart rates. But it is not a sport nor are they athletes. It's a contest and they are players. World of difference.

We live in a world that prefers delusion to the truth.

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Trumpanomics is Working

Timothy Birdnow

Some economic news that should at least give us some warm fuzzies.

First home prices are up.

While in my opinion this is not exactly GOOD news it does indicate a recovery in the economy; housing prices have been dropping the last few years.

The median price of homes rose by 2.4% last year, a decent increase. What that means is the biggest investment most people make just gained a lot in value. And it means that those seeking to upgrade can now afford to do so as their houses are worth enough to let them close the sale of their home at a profit rather than a loss and thus to flip to a newer place without draining their funds.

It also reflects growing consumer confidence in the U.S. economy as buyers are willing to spend more.

The downside is housing in now more expensive and will consume a larger share of the average American's budget. And we all remember the housing bubble and subsequent crash; is this a bubble or is it genuine growth?

The article states:

"The April jobs report showed stronger-than-expected hiring, reducing recession risk. This likely helped fuel a pop in housing demand. Pending home sales hit the highest level since February 2023 last month, rising 2 percent from the month before—the largest increase since March 2025,” Redfin said.

But I wonder if Fannie and Freddie are not doing what they did back in the days before the Housing Bubble popped. I know they were back at work with the same policies that drove the crash, at least when Biden was in office. Not sure how much that has changed since Trump came in; hopefully a lot.

Still it is a sign of an economy that is faring well.

In other good economic news retail sales have risen for the third straight month despite the rising prices as a result of the Iran war.

Sales rose by 0.5%. Naturally economists (almost all economists are liberal Keynsians these days) predicted they would be down.

Trumpanomics works and it will explode once this war is settled and the realignment is in position. We just have to make sure the public understands it's working now and will only get better in the future. That is a tough task since the media and the Democrats keep claiming the economy is in tatters when in fact it's raining soup and we don't have enough bowls to catch it.

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MALLA, MALLA, We Be Free!

Timothy Birdnow

Godspeed Rep, Ogles and Tubberville!

Rep Ogles Puts Forward Assimilation Act to ‘Make America Look Like America Again.’

MALLA is an idea long overdue.

DETAIL: The 83-page bill is co-sponsored by Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and has received backing from several other House Republicans, such as Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Keith Self (R-TX), Mary Miller (R-IL), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Barry Moore (R-AL), and Morgan Luttrell (R-TX). The "Assimilation Act” seeks to "GUT the Hart-Celler Act of 1965” and "scrap provisions of the Immigration Act of the 1990s,” according to Rep. Ogles. Specifically, the bill seeks to slash net migration 85 percent, end birthright citizenship, end the H-1B visa program, impose stricter asylum standards and character tests, introduce mandatory e-Verify along with a "National Interest Standard,” as well as English language and American civics requirements. It also aims to end chain migration, the diversity visa lottery, and tighten public charge rules. The bill was announced on Thursday after months of preparation.

It was Ted Kennedy who spearheaded the 1965 changes to the immigration policies of the country that opened the door to and in fact favored Third World immigrants and eased border restrictions. Ted and the Democrats knew back then a bunch of aliens would help them attain power and they sought to undo the work of Eisenhower and Truman to kick illegal aliens out of the country (to the tune of almost six million). So a drunken libertine and possible murderer has been befouling this country, even now long after his gin-pickled carcass was sunk into the cold, cold ground (I wonder if Kennedy's body is still well preserved; all the alcohol in it should have guaranteed it remain in prime shape, like Lenin's body was preserved in Moscow by the Soviets.)

We need to return to the pre-sixties laws so America will remain American. As our Northern Tier Editor Dana Mathewson knows - many blue states look increasingly like Third World hellholes with folks who are not and never will be American running around the place.

I especially hope Tommy Tuberville winds up running for President some day; he's a true patriot and a man who knows how to win. God bless him!

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