August 18, 2026
Black Privilege
This from across the pond. By Daniel Jupp:
In the spirit of Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, where feminist ‘scholar’ Peggy McIntosh gave the most influential definition of ‘white privilege’. McIntosh listed a series of imaginary advantages held by all white people.
The difference with the below is that most of these, perhaps all, are not imaginary. Unlike McIntosh, I could cite specific examples and even legislation and legal codes relevant to these.
Black Privilege
1. You will never be judged for gathering in groups of your own race and preferring the company of your own race.
2. You will never be held accountable for ancestral sins and crimes.
3. The slavery practised by your ancestors and still conducted today by other members of your race will never be cited as a racial crime that applies to you.
4. You will receive unearned employment opportunities and advantages based solely on your race.
5. You are allowed and encouraged to express racism, hatred and contempt towards other races.
6. You can make a profitable and rewarding career with full institutional support out of expressing your racism towards others.
7. You can access a vast existing network of race based advocacy designed to support and privilege you based solely on your race.
8. You will never be told that advocating for the survival of your race is racist.
9. Society will expressly teach that harming, insulting or offending members of your race is exceptionally evil and worse than harming, insulting or offending others.
10. You will be held to far lower standards of behaviour than others.
11. Your crimes and crimes by other members of your race will never be entirely considered your responsibility.
12. Legal codes will place a premium on your life and safety, marking you as a superior being of more concern to the law than others, based on your race.
13. When members of your race commit crimes, the media and others will be reluctant to mention your race or draw any general conclusions about the levels of crime your race is committing.
14. Factual criticisms of your behaviour individually or as a group will both be designated as racist, based on your skin colour.
15. State funded academics, teachers and propagandists will teach that you cannot be racist, because of your skin colour.
16. If you are a drug dealer society will be blamed for your crimes and your crimes will not be morally judged or considered relevant if you become rich and famous.
17. You can murder someone and be obviously guilty and will be designated by millions of people as the victim, based on your skin colour, if you are found guilty in a court of law.
18. No matter how you behave or what you do, fair and just punishment of your crimes will be designated as racist.
19. Even mentioning or exposing cheating, lying, or dishonesty from you will be designated as racist.
20. You will never, ever be held fully accountable for your own actions.
21. You will be the recipient of automatic government spending, additional to that spent on others, based solely on your race.
22. You will never be told that you cannot celebrate your racial identity or take pride in it.
23. You will never be told that pride in your own identity automatically means hatred of others.
24. You are allowed to have nations in which you remain the majority.
25. People will be told that others moving to your ancestral lands have no right to become the majority in those lands. Expressing this will never be described as racist.
26. You will never be asked to pay reparations for crimes or harms you haven’t committed and for which you cannot by any sane measure be held accountable for.
27. No legal, resoectable academic course, no teaching materials, and no tutors and lecturers will specifically set out in their teaching to insult, denigrate or belittle the achievements of your race or to encourage hatred and contempt for your race.
28. You will never be asked by a university or an employer to sit through training that tells you that you are inferior to others and marked by racial crime, guilt and evil.
29. You will never be asked to apologise on behalf of your race.
30. You will never be asked to celebrate your own repkacement.
31. You will be massively over-represented in advertising.
32. Advertising and film will overwhelmingly concentrate on positive depictions of your race.
33. Members of other races will gain social status and rewards for advocating for your race and treating your race as superior to their own.
34. Your racial supremacism will be both legal and encouraged.
35. The police are trained to automatically believe you and to treat your claims of offence as serious crimes.
36. You are allowed to make disparaging jokes about other races. When you do this, it will never be called racist.
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Peak Climate Hoax has been Reached
Timothy Birdnow
This is interesting and shows we have, well, maybe not won in full yet, but are winning the whole climate fight.
The incomparable statistician William Briggs (the same guy who argued the election of 2020 was statistically impossible) looks at the number of papers peer reviewed about climate change and notes they hit a peak in 2020 but have dropped off precipitously since.
This shows we are winning; scientists are less willing to write these bogus papers because they could wind up hung around their necks later.
Now what happened in 2020? Could it be the Covid scam was peaking and these scientists began realizing that they were in danger as the public became increasingly non-receptive to dishonest "science"?
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NSA Kept Report on Chinese Election Tampering Away from Trump
Timothy Birdnow
Lookie here; the NSA (No Such Agency) blocked a report stating the Chicoms were interfering with our elections from the President so he could declassify it and give it to the public.
Clearly there is a deep state and clearly that ds was not interested in Trump being President. And they acted to prevent his election.
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The Pinchers
Timothy Birdnow
Our blockade is crushing the Irnaians.
It's only going to get worse over time. Iran relies on it's Persian Gulf ports. And we aren't just blockading those but also the Arabian Sea ports as well. Without those Iran can only hope to get central Asian or Russian stuff by way of the Caspian sea, and that is slow and cumbersome. To the east lies Pakistan and past them are the Himalayas. That makes Iran easy to blockade.
Trump is squeezing them like an orange.
FTA:
Nima said his grocery bills have tripled from prices that were already painfully high before the conflict with the United States began and some items have quadrupled. He said this is forcing him to "choose between the essentials and everything else,” even though his crypto trading gave him better foreign currency reserves than most Iranians.
The annual rate of general inflation in Iran is now over 80 percent and unemployment reached a four-year high of 9.1 percent in June. Iran’s currency, the rial, is down to an astounding 1.88 million against the U.S. dollar, which is an especially severe problem for the many Iranians who prefer to do business using dollars instead of Iran’s nearly-worthless currency.
Unemployment rates soared after the uprising in January because the regime blacked out the Internet for about three months, dealing a crushing blow to many Iranian businesses.
"Every tomorrow has been worse than the day before. If you can’t save, can’t buy what you want and don’t have a predictable future, then what’s the point of working any more?” Nima said in despair.
The Mullahs CAN survive this - loo at Castro and his Communist regime. But this is setting the stage for a revolution. I suspect Trump has been quietly filtering weapons into the area and training locals to lead a rebellion - much as Reagan did with the Contra rebels against the Sandanistas back in the eighties. That rebellion eventually worked and the Sandanistas called an election which they lost (sadly, the won in a subsequent election and just recently Daniel Ortega announced elections were "no longer needed" and has canceled them permanently, but that is another story). Trump is probably quietly doing this same thing. He is just biding his time, putting the pressure on while everything is prepared.
At least I hope so. Trump is no fool and I can't see him believing he'll get a deal with the Iranians. So he is no doubt working on plan B now.
At any rate he's starving the Iranians and it will only get worse over time. There will be no relief coming.
We must hope s anyway.
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New News on Abe Garcia
Timothy Birdnow
Abgrego Garcia, the man brought back from exile by a Democra judge because he was "a good father" was indeed a human trafficker.
This was the media poster-boy for the Hate ICE folks.
New evidence shows Garcia was, in fact, trafficking illegals into this country.
But of course the media refuses to tell us anything about that, preferring to keep up the charade "wrongfully deported" and "exonerated in court" are what we hear from the liar media.
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August 17, 2026
CAUSES OF NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGE
James McGrath
CAUSES OF NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGE…… James McGrath, PE 14 Aug 2021 last revd 13 Apr 2023
IF YOU THINK HUMANS CAN CONTROL CLIMATE, HERE ARE SOME OF THE NATURAL CAUSES THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO OVERCOME:
NATURES EFFECTS:
1. VARIATIONS IN SOLAR INPUTS, especially SUNSPOTS – Every 11 years elevated sunspot activity occurs on the Sun and is transmitted to earth as heat.
2. PRECESSION – The Earth’s axis moves in a cycle that lasts 26,000 years during which time it varies by 23 degrees from the neutral axis which is perpendicular to the Sun’s rays. This changes the locations of deserts and forests.
3. ECCENTRICITY OF EARTHS ORBIT - Changes the distance from the Sun to Earth. This varies the amount of heat the Earth receives from the sun. It warms and cools the Earth, relatively. Called the Milankovitch Cycle.
4. METEORS OR COMETS – Are plentiful but every so often can cause devastating changes in the Earth when they impact. One has been blamed for the extinction of the dinosaurs at least in part.
5. VOLCANOS - Caused by tectonic plate movements, occur in unpredictable ways and have been known to create extreme global temperature variations. The eruption of Tambura caused the 1815 "Year without a Summer” with effects that lasted 3 years. There are approximately 1500 active volcanoes, 500 of which have erupted in modern times, and 60 of which are currently active in approx. 60 countries around the world. Yellowstone is a Super volcano that will really change the climate when it blows again…….. SUBMARINE VOLCANOS, or Seamounts, of which there are about 120 that have erupted in modern times, create about 75% of the magma of the Earth and also heat the oceans. Added by Stuart Munro. These Volcanos and Vents also release huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Added by Oakley Howell.
6. SHIFTS IN THE EARTH’S MOLTEN CORE…. In unpredictable ways, changes the magnetic poles and moves them approximately 35 miles per year, and can lead to pole reversals every 7000 years.
7. GULFSTREAM (ancillary)– And other currents are generally consistent but variations of hundreds of miles can cause huge environmental changes.
8. JET STREAM SHIFTS (ancillary). They move heat energy in unpredictable ways.
9. INTERMITTENT INTERACTING CYCLES (ancillary) La Nina, El Nino, Atlantic Multi-Decadal, Pacific Multi-Decadal, Arctic/Antarctic and Madden-Julian Oscillations, etal. Periodic variable Warming and Cooling effects of atmosphere and water throughout the world. Added by Jim Mundy.
10. UNPREDICTABLE ICE AGES (ancillary).
11. CONTINENTAL DRIFT – over the very long term.
12. MOON - Gravity sucks on all parts of the ocean and land and has worldwide effects but localized based upon its immediate position. (Added by Alecia Schmidt). Planetary alignments add to this. (Added by Tim Wilson)
13. WATER VAPOR (ancillary) - and clouds are up to 95% of the so-called "greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere, and are the most critical component. Another component is Methane which is naturally occurring Swamp gas. These cloud formations are highly variable and generally unpredictable and have a tremendous and incalculable effect on temperatures. They act to keep the planet habitable. (Added by Jim Church and Joshua Dyson)
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DID I MISS ANYTHING? IF SO PLEASE CONTRIBUTE…….
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AS TO GLOBAL WARMING……….. The only measurements I have found are from NASA. They say that the Earth has warmed 1.53 deg F (+/-?) deg tolerance) since 1880. That is 142 years. THE PRESUMPTIONS OF WARMERS ARE: 1. That this trend will continue forever; and 2. That man caused this heating problem; and, 3. That man can cool down the earth. They further discount the evidence of the history of recorded weather that show that changes are natural and cannot be shown to be caused by humans*. They are so certain of this that they are willing to spend trillions of dollars on these prognostications that are ruining our economy. … MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING IS A GUESS, UPON A GUESS, UPON A GUESS........ AND NEEDS TO BE STOPPED.
THIS BLIND BELIEF IN MANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THAT HUMANS CAN CHANGE WEATHER, IS AT THE CORE OF OUR FALL FROM PROSPERITY. BECAUSE OF THE ATTACKS ON THE OIL INDUSTRY, WE HAVE LOST OUR INDEPENDENCE TO SAUDI ARABIA AND RUSSIA. OUR GAS PRICES HAVE SKYROCKETED. SAUDI ARABIA MAKES MONEY AND RUSSIA/PUTIN MAKES THE ENERGY MONEY TO MAKE WAR. BECAUSE OF BLIND SPENDING ON FAILED ENERGY PRODUCERS, LIKE WIND AND SOLAR, TRILLIONS HAVE BEEN SPENT TO MAKE US MORE INEFFICIENT. THAT DOES NOTHING BUT FEED INFLATION AND INCREASE THE NATIONAL DEBT WHICH IS A TAX ON CHILDREN YET TO BE BORN (Adjusted by Steve Richter)............ THIS NEEDS TO STOP........... WE NEED TO BECOME ENERGY INDEPENDENT AND PROSPEROUS AGAIN.
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Big Spike in Tax Rebates
Timothy Birdnow
More winning.
I guess that's why the economy is "unaffordable" then?
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Illegals on Juries in Michigan
Timothy Birdnow
If they are sitting on juries they are probably voting as well.
Is it any wonder the Democrats are so desperate to keep these people coming into the country?
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Constitutional Vandals
Timothy Birdnow
Hackman Jeffries, House Minority Don, threatens to fundamentally remake the Supreme Court, including expanding it's membership, term limiting it, and other measures of control over a co-equal branch of government.
Of course the Supreme Court can declare all of these laws passed by a Democratic Congress unconstitutional. And they would be; Congress controls lower courts but has no authority over SCOTUS.
The pure gall of this is astounding; the Left has used the courts for decades to steal the rights of Americans and advance their leftist dreams and now that we have the balance of power they want to steal that and make no bones about it.
We fought our Revolution for less.
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No Definitional Terms and the Left's Best Friend
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats have lost their marbles.
We fought this for almost fifty years and finally defeated it overseas. Now it's taken over one of our major political parties. We may as well have surrendered back in 1960 and saved ourselves the trouble.
A big part of the problem is that we do not give solid definitions for socialism or capitalism these days, and many who now support "socialism" really just want a big welfare state. But that is not socialism; socialism is where the government owns or controls the means of production and the means to deliver goods and services. No country in Scandinavia, often used as "proof" socialism works, is socialist.
And what do we mean by capitalism? That was a pejorative term coined by Karl Marx. And what is it? Is it free markets? Not in it's current incarnation; what we mostly have these days is Corporatism, also known as Fascist economics. Mussolini and Nitler, er, Hitler both practiced corporatism, a form of socialism where there was private ownership but it was in "partnership" with the government i.e. the government controlled them (you can't partner with an entity that has absolute power over you - you obey.)
The great conservative philosopher G.K. Chesterton famously stated that "the difference between a capitalist and a socialist is a bigger paycheck." By that he meant a corporatist socialist and a pure socialist. Both seek the same outcome in the end. Of course a communist would never partner with a capitalist, which is a key difference. In Communism there can be no private ownership and government owns everything. (Actually, Communists do not call themselves that because Communism is the END RESULT after decades of socialism dismantles the concept of private ownership of anything. Communists believe there will be a paradise where we all own nothing and are happy - we just use stuff as we need to and contribute as we can "from each according to his ability to each according to his need'". But a devout Communist would say he is first and foremost a socialist, and that this will eventually change hearts and minds. I would further add before Hitler attacked the Soviets they Communists were quite fond of Fascism and in fact thought it a stepping stone to true socialism "first Brown then Red" they used to say. That all changed after Poland.
The current crop of socialists do not understand any of this nor do they know how horrendous socialist policies have been for the whole world throughout history. Socialism brings poverty and despair and tyranny. But these young skulls full of mush (as Rush Limbaugh used to say) have heard none of this. They only understand "fairness" and think it unfair some have more than others and that some people need help.
And as most have rejected the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - and of course the Son of God Himself, they seek a god who will fix the world. The god they have chosen is socialism.
So they float the word about as if it were a fungible term. And we let them get away with that. We have GOT to start making them define terms, and show how incorrect they have been.
Ignorance is the Left's best friend.
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Men Seeking Woman - Old or Foreign
Timothy Birdnow
The younger generation of men are in a bad way; the younger generation of women are now fully invested in what we used to call women's lib and now call feminism, and the men who just want a traditional kind of love are having to seek it elsewhere.
Here is one place they are going - overseas.
Overseas dating is an increasingly big business as American men, especially white American men, seek foreign wives who actually WANT a man and not just a doormat.
This has been happening for decades now, ever since the Women's Lib movement of the seventies, but it's growing now as the crazy white women syndrome infects more and more young women.
But it's not just young men seeking overseas brides - they are also granny trolling. Gen. Z and even Millenials are on the prowl seeking older women. The New York Times naturally spins this as a triumph of modern liberalism, that the mena re now willing to accept an older woman because she's stronger and has more money, but the fact is these men are disgusted by the feminism of the younger generation and want a more traditional marriage. They will only get that from an older woman or a foreign wife.
This happened in the black community first. Women's lib and rising inflation meant black women had to work harder and at the same time they were told they were getting a raw deal from the "patriarchy". They became increasingly hard to live with for the black men, who eventually sought solace elsewhere (in the arms of white women). I once talked to a black guy who had a white wife and he was honest about it "when you come home after work you just want an hour or so of relative peace but most black women start riding you as soon as you walk in the door. White women don't do that". And naturally the white me don't want to date the black women for the same reason. So many of them are doomed to raise families on their own, because they believed the lie of feminism.
Young white women have done likewise and the end result is young men no longer seek them out. They want an older woman or a foreign woman who will appreciate them rather than try to control and badger them.
All of this works out well from the perspective of the Ruling Class; the older white women are often past their expiration date in terms of their eggs and these couples will not reproduce. The Ruling Class is Malthusian to the core and fears overpopulation; this will limit population growth.
(This bodes ill for me, a man newly widowed, as I am now going to have to compete with young men for the good women out there in my age group. I can't go up in age either; they will be women in nursing homes and wheel chairs.)
The big losers here though are the young women, the Millenials and Gen. Z, who bought into all this and now find themselves with no hope of finding a partner in life. Marriage is hard, but it is the most rewarding thing in life. Even when the crazy attraction fades it is a great comfort to know you have a good person who loves you and is always in your corner. As we lose people - our parents, our siblings, aunts and uncles, etc. - we neeed our spouses more than ever. Believe me, I know.
These young women have themselves to blame certainly , but they were only following the advice of their evil liberal elders. They were seduced by a lie.
So there will be a generation who shall "neither marry nor be given in marriage" as the Bible says will happen in the end times. The best these chicks can hope for is a temporary boyfriend who is going to leave in time. Nobody wants to put up with the abuse these women will pile on the man.
And as our population drops our Fearless Leaders will push for more immigration, and America will die, to be replaced by some Latin American socialist hellhole. We will be colonized and the Shining City on the Hill will be darkened, not a light to be seen, a habitation of demons and every foul and unclean bird.
That will be our fate if we don't reverse this liberalizing trend. Trump is trying to reverse some of this but I fear it's impossible for him to do enough. The Left is much like the tide; it comes in and you can't really stop it. They never retreat because it is their religious faith and they think it is what gives meaning to their lives. Without Leftism they have nothing and when they die they are just gone.
I once asked a guy arguing about Darwinism once why he bothered, why he devoted so much time to trolling and arguing. His answer "why shouldn't I? What is there better to do with your life?" That says it all.
I do it because I am a Christian and am trying to advance the Kingdom of God. But this fellow didn't believe in God and was so very desperate to do it because he wanted his life not to be in vain. Leftism offers that slim hope, and of course government is the only thing powerful enough to make permanent changes in society. It is therefore the god of the Left.
It is a glum future we face. But always remember that God is not dead nor does He sleep (as the Christmas song says) and what is impossible for Man is possible for God. Everything we've done to stop this has failed - it's now in the hands of the living God.
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Who Owns Mother Earth?
Timothy Birdnow
At American Thinker Brian Joondeph argues for liberals to give back the land they claim was "stolen" by the white man.
His argument is simple; if the land was stolen you are morally obligated to give it back to the victims.
I have a more fundamental question; how did the Native Americans own the land in the first place"
First, most stole it from others who had in turn stolen it from earlier peoples. That was why Custer had Indian scouts with him; these were guys whose people had been kicked off their land by the Sioux and they wanted payback (they knew they weren't getting the land back, just that the Sioux would take it in the loinclths or whatever passed for shorts among them).
But we need a definition of "owned". Is passing through something adequate to bequeath ownership? My father lived in a neighborhood that changed and he wound up the last white person on his block. Now he passed through that neighborhood all the time before these new people moved into it. By this reasoning he owned the whole block and had a right to deny entry to these folks. It is the same argument used to say we "stole" the land from the Indians.
There is no definition of property ownership.
And the Indians did NOT have any concept of private property which could be "stolen" from them
From an article on the subject:
The very ground beneath our feet tells a different story depending on who is listening. For centuries, Western thought has largely viewed land as a commodity—a resource to be owned, bought, sold, and exploited for profit. This perspective, deeply ingrained in legal systems and economic structures, stands in stark contrast to the profound and multifaceted understanding of land that has permeated Native American cultures for millennia. To truly grasp the essence of Indigenous relationships with the earth is to embark on a journey that transcends mere property deeds, delving into realms of spirituality, community, and an enduring sense of reciprocal responsibility.
At the heart of Native American land ethics lies the concept of stewardship, not ownership. For most Indigenous nations, the idea of "owning" land was as absurd as claiming ownership of the air or the sky. Land was not an inert object; it was a living entity, a sacred relative, the source of all life. This perspective fostered a relationship of profound respect, humility, and gratitude. People belonged to the land, not the other way around. As Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation, eloquently states, "We are a part of the earth, not separate from it. Our history is recorded in the land, and our future depends on how we care for it."
So basically the land owned the People and not the other way around. What does that tell us?
It tells us they did not own any of the land which they claim was stolen. How can something be stolen from you if you never owned it in the first place?
John Locke, the 18th century philosopher, created the modern idea of property ownership. To Locke property existed in a state of nature and as such it was free for anyone to use. It was in the improving of that property - cutting down trees, building a cabin, farming it - that the place changed from just land into property. Once established the now owner had a right to keep it or sell it if he pleased. It was then HIS property.
The Indians largely didn't do that. Few in North America built truly permanent structures and in fact the Plains Indians were purely nomadic. Yes, I know; we had the adobe buildings in the Southwest, and the south-eastern tribes built wattle and daub houses. But by and large Indians built brush shelters or shelters covered with Bison skins - tents.
And most did not stay put. even the eastern woodland Indians often moved from winter to summer camps. Being nomadic did not give them much of a claim to anything except their camps.
So someone please tell me how we stole their land when they hadn't developed their land to begin with and when they themselves claim nobody can own land?
We built stuff and improved the land and that is what makes it ours. Also, many times we paid for it. Manhattan was bought and paid for even if the deal was a bad one for the Indians (who were just passing through and thought the white people were suckers). So if the Indians made bad deals whose fault is that?
Much is often made about how we used to give them nearly worthless stuff - nails, mirrors, axes, etc. in return for valuable property. But who says this is just cheap "beads and trinkets"? The essence of trade is that one party has something another party wants and can't get for themselves. The Native Americans wanted these things - including old top hats and mirrors and cheap trinkets - precisely because they didn't have any of these things and wanted them. To us they made bad deals - to them they got priceless artifacts. What good is a hammer without nails? If you want to use nails to better secure an object and have a hammer or something you can use as a hammer a nail becomes priceless, despite it costing a penny (back in the old days) to a white settler. For want of a nail the kingdom fell.
So to say we "cheated" the Indians out of their land is to misunderstand the nature of commerce. They got things they wanted, and often laughed at us for our foolishness in making such a bad deal. They thought the land could not be owned and so selling it to us what a great joke on some gullible white fools.
So how do we give the land back? You first liberals.
Joondeph goes on to discuss black reparations, which I've dealt with before here. Who gets them? Only the children of slaves are entitled to them. Who pays for them? Only the children of slave masters should. But how do we determine that with any degree of accuracy? And America has always said the sins of the father shall not be visited on the sons. We do not have generational guilt, or didn't used to anyway. That is what tore other places apart (like Yugoslavia).
Will the children of black slave masters get reparations? Will the children of Italian immigrants have to pay? It's a ridiculous idea.
Maybe we should charge the black people rent for being here. After all, they came here from Africa and have enjoyed a much higher standard of living then they would have in, say, Gabon. I propose we put a special tax on black folks for back rent owed!
Not on board with that,, are we liberals? Didn't think so, but your proposal uses essentially the same logic.
Maybe we should take all the real property away from black people and give it to the Indians? Fair is fair and it was stolen from them after all...
And what of mixed race people? Obama is half Irish; does he just get a half share then?
The Left is able to make proposals like this sound serious because they control the media and education. If anyone thinks about it with a serious mind they see how utterly ridiculous it is.
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Trump Orders Exercises with S. Korea be Downsized
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like Trump has had enough of fair-weather friends. The President has ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to scale back military exercises with South Korea in an epic shift in American policy.
AS the President points out, he's had no trouble with North Korea and One Ton Son, that guy who resembles Mr. Chao from
the movie The Hangover only much chubbier, Kim Jong Un. But he also points to another reason:
"These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful."
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"While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, ‘No thanks!’ Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
I suspect the latter was the clincher; it is the Trump Doctrine to not be taken advantage of by our erstwhile "allies". In recent years South Korea has been less than helpful towards us and now they are about to learn what it means to treat us with no respect.
So Mr. Trump ordered Sec War Pete Hegseth to scale back on these exercises, the point of which was always to intimidate the Norks.
I think Trump is also trying to de-escalate in the Pacific Rim in general so he can concentrate on Iran. And perhaps it is a subtle warning to China that we are refocusing and that now all those ships that would have been up there around South Korea and Japan will be able to redeploy to the South China sea.
Any way you slice it this is a major break with past U.S. policy and we are witnessing an historic realignment in international geopolitics. Trump no longer acts unilaterally on issues so much as asks for aid from our allies and if it is not given then he re-evaluates our alliances. What are their purposes, after all? We make them for our own interests and protection, not solely for THEIR benefit. Trump is treating our allies like adults and they don' t like it.
In ten years the world is going to look very different than it does now. Trump is a transformational President, no question. Let's hope he's successful and knows what he is doing.
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August 16, 2026
The Truth About Slavery
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a decent article at American Thinker about slavery and the slave trade (and the idiot actress who trashed the British for slavery with absolutely zero knowledge of the issue). He makes some good points but there are more and I would like to add them here.
He rightly points out that African warlords would enslave the losers in a war and then sell them on the coast. Very true. But he doesn't stress enough that the warlords were selling them not to white slavers but to Arabs, who in turn sold them to the whites. Not always; sometimes the Africans did the selling, but more often than not it was the Arabs making the deals.
It should also be pointed out that the British did not just enslave black people. In Barbados and Montserrat and other Carribean islands there are large numbers of mixed-race people who can trace their ancestry to not just African slaves but IRISH slaves.The British send the more incorrigible Irish resistance fighters to these sugar islands as slaves, working alongside the Africans in the cane fields. And unlike Australia they sent no women so these men interbred with the African slave women. This is why you will see many light-skinned islanders to this day.
Then there is American slavery. Did you know the first slaveholder in America was a black man? Slavery started in Jamestown when a black settler and former indentured servant himself named Anthony Johnson had an indentured servant named John Casor. Casor served out his term and wanted to be set free but Johnson wouldn't let him go. Johnson argued in court that Casor was not just his indentured servant but his property. The Virginia colonial court sided with Johnson and Casor because the first slave in the English colonies.
(For those who do not know when poor people wanted to come to America and couldn't afford passage - few could in those days - they agreed to a labor contract, to work usually for seven years but the contracts varied. Ship captains who did not fill their holds with this "cargo" would often go to Africa and buy people from Arab middlemen and take the unwilling "colonists" to the New World. Usually they were not the best workers around - why should they be? So planters and farmers did not like them and to keep their business they began offering longer and longer contracts. That is why Johnson was able to argue successfully that Casor was his property.)
At any rate the first slaveholder was black, and there were quite a few black slaveholders after that. In the Antebellum South the largest slaveholder in Louisiana was black. When you confront liberals with this they excuse it thusly "they were trying to protect the slaves". But if you suggest Washington or Jefferson were doing likewise they will shout you down.
Another point; the U.S. was decidedly in the middle of the pack for abolition. Yes, the Brits abolished slavery first, but it persisted in the Dutch and French and Spanish colonies, and in fact Brazil was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to end it - in 1888, 23 years after the United States.
Native Americans enslaved each-other all the time and then white people and their black slaves. That is why many Indians fought on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil war; slavery wasn't an issue for them.
Often Columbus is accused of "wrecking paradise" particularly in Cuba when he conquered the Taino Indians. But the Taino were not so clean; they held lots of slaves. The main reason they were so friendly to Columbus was they wanted guns and allies to fight their bitter enemies the Caribe'.
It was extremely rare for plantation owners to beat slaves. There was an ethos against it - slaves were the most vulnerable of people and while the society was willing to let them be used for labor they didn't approve of a guy beating them. But more importantly if you marked a slave he lost his resale value. Slaves could run up to a hundred thousand dollars, and that in antebellum money. If your slave is scarred everyone knows he's probably a problem and won't buy him. It would be like taking a bullwhip to your Ford F150.
Most abuse of slaves was psychological; they all had families and if a slave caused trouble his master could just sell him and he'd never see his family again.
BTW this actress who was so exercised about British slavery apparently was unfamiliar with slavery in the countries her parents immigrated from - India and Pakistan. See here for an article about slavery on the Indian subcontinent.
Everyone has either a slave or a slaver or both in their family tree somewhere; it was an ubiquitous human institution.
It was the Western World that ended slavery, and in particular it was the British, and in particular it was George Wilberforce.
One final note; one of the charges made against King George in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence was that he promulgated slavery in the colonies. Ben Franklin talked Jefferson into removing that out of fear it would start a big fight over slavery, something they just couldn't afford at that time.
Most people are woefully ignorant about slavery and how it started and how it developed until it finally died. Ignorance is our most expensive fault. There really is no excuse for this not being taught in schools, but it's easier and more usful to the Left to blame America and the White Man.
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August 15, 2026
Temperature Proxies
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Jennifer Marohasy
Individual temperature proxies — tree rings, lake sediments, ice cores and the rest that can take us back one thousand years and more — they never ever look like a hockey stick; that requires their complete remodelling. The distinctive shape suggesting catastrophic human-caused global warming emerges only after the data are combined through particular choices of standardisation, principal-component analysis and weighting, and on it goes etcetera, etcetera.
A clear illustration is the long bristlecone-pine ring-width series from the White Mountains of California. The same region supplied chronologies that formed part of the multi-proxy network used in the original Mann et al. reconstructions that underpin official understandings of climate change.
When the raw data are plotted as twenty-year averages (as Hubert Lamb himself published them in Climate, History and the Modern World, 1982), they show large multi-century swings, not a flat shaft ending in a sharp modern blade.
Those who want to deny this, worse those who I would like to discuss this with, in position of influence and authority, but deny me their time of day. Well, shame on you. I will not be silenced, or shamed, not going forward, not ever
Tim adds:
Michael Mann used just three trees at Yamal to help him plot out his hockey stick graph because only those three trees showed the temperature rise he was seeking. The others did not. This is what the Climategate e-mails mean about "hide the decline"; Mann was trying to hide the decline in a warming trend he was trying to create.
That is why Mann spliced temperature station measurements onto his proxy data sets. Mike's Nature trick.
Tim Kinnan also makes a great comment:
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The Eternal Hockey Stick
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Jennifer Marohasy
Individual temperature proxies — tree rings, lake sediments, ice cores and the rest that can take us back one thousand years and more — they never ever look like a hockey stick; that requires their complete remodelling. The distinctive shape suggesting catastrophic human-caused global warming emerges only after the data are combined through particular choices of standardisation, principal-component analysis and weighting, and on it goes etcetera, etcetera.
A clear illustration is the long bristlecone-pine ring-width series from the White Mountains of California. The same region supplied chronologies that formed part of the multi-proxy network used in the original Mann et al. reconstructions that underpin official understandings of climate change.
When the raw data are plotted as twenty-year averages (as Hubert Lamb himself published them in Climate, History and the Modern World, 1982), they show large multi-century swings, not a flat shaft ending in a sharp modern blade.
Those who want to deny this, worse those who I would like to discuss this with, in position of influence and authority, but deny me their time of day. Well, shame on you. I will not be silenced, or shamed, not going forward, not ever
Tim adds:
Michael Mann used just three trees at Yamal to help him plot out his hockey stick graph because only those three trees showed the temperature rise he was seeking. The others did not. This is what the Climategate e-mails mean about "hide the decline"; Mann was trying to hide the decline in a warming trend he was trying to create.
That is why Mann spliced temperature station measurements onto his proxy data sets. Mike's Nature trick.
Tim Kinnan also makes a great comment:
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Fauci Refuses to Testify Before Congress
Timothy Birdnow
Just picture a chicken clucking away...
Silence is Fauci's only strategy at this point; anything he says can and will be used against him and he knows it. He dug himself a deep hole here.
If the man wasn't so proud he would go before Congress and tell the whole truth and take his lumps. They probably wouldn't push forward with the contempt citation if he did that. But he fears wrecking his reputation more than his freedom apparently.
He knows he can't lie and he isn't going to tell the truth. So he has no choice but clam up.
The upshot of it all is Fauci lied and people died. His text messages and phone records show that clearly. He knew the dangers of the vaccine but publicly dismissed them and in fact attacked anyone who brought them up as science deniers.
He has much to answer for.
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Trump; We'll Annex the Strait of Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
In my best Mutley evil snigger "hehehehehe".
Of course that would mean physically taking the islands around the strait, which would require boots on the ground. And we've have to put in permanent settlements. The Iranians would always be firing rockets at our troops.
I doubt Trump is serious about this but you never know with him. If nothing else it horrifies and infuriates the theocrats in Iran.
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Abbott Kills Muslim Foot Washing Stations
Timothy Birdnow
Texas Governor Abbott has killed the Dhimmi-witted plan to put in foot washing stations in the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport.
The Governor threated to cut off state funding for this illegal plan.
Greg Abbott@GregAbbott_TX
Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others.
DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal. I've directed a review of all state grants to both airports for possible revocation, and referred DFW & IAH to USDOT for investigation.
Texas will not allow illegal religious discrimination at taxpayer-funded facilities.
Good for him!
Question; why do Muslims need a foot washing station in an airport anyway? It's not like they are walking around in the dirty; they're getting on or off an AIRPLANE for crying out loud! And they could put on regular shoes if they don't want their feet sullied.
This was just another Islamic attempt at imposing Sharia on America. Make us dance to THEIR tune.
I was kind of looking forward to those things; I am sure patriotic Americans, especially Texans, would use those to make number one. I know I would if I were at the D/FW airport (or the airport in Houston). Let them wash their feet in THAT!
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