July 30, 2026
Trouble Brewing
Timothy Birdnow
Pointing index finger "Ha Ha!"
In Heaven there is no beer, but no-one will drink it there!
While I generally don't like using someone's livelihood against them offering free beer if and when the President of the United States is assassinated is accessory to a crime and this guy actually should be brought up on charges. He is offering something of value for a crime.
At any rate this shutdown is not because of his offer of free beer to anyone should Mr. Trump being "86ed".
The Sentinel reported that state regulators pursued revoking Bangstad's alcohol license after authorities seized canned beer from his company in June, alleging it had been transported from Illinois without the required permits and taxes. The newspaper also reported that Bangstad criticized the proposed action as an excessive response, arguing the alleged tax violations did not warrant shutting down his business.
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And while this a-hole never specifically mentioned Trump by name he was clearly speaking of Mr. Trump:
Following the April shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where Trump was present, the company wrote on Facebook, "Well, we almost got #freebeerday."
"Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle," the post added. "We’ll never know. Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens."
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Imagine if Conservatives had offered free beer if Joe Biden had been assassinated; the howl would have been heard in Tristan da Cunha. The brewer would have had to go into hiding - if he didn't wind up in prison.
The Left wants to threaten and abuse those with whom they disagree but demand the protection of the law when they face consequences. They are the most noxious form of bullies - the kind who hide behind the teacher for protection when their victims strike back They are cowards. But they get away with it.
Hopefully this guy will lose his shirt. Maybe then he'll see that he is his own worst enemy.
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Did Mamdani Steal the Election?
Jack Kemp
A legitimate organization is suggestion that Commie Mamdani's victory is illegitimate.
From the article:
After examining 1 million of the total 2.2 million voters who participated in the election, her organization discovered that 7 percent were nonexistent in records, 6 percent had fake Social Security numbers, and 10 percent didn’t even live in NYC.
In total, they identified 230,000 illegal votes, which exceeded Mamdani’s 207,000 vote margin of victory over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent.
May it prove to be so!
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Evil Times
Vincent Thomas Ignatius
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It is an understatement to say we are living in evil times. Some people correctly point out that the age we live in is the least violent of any age. But violence and evil are two different things, and the emerging evil will lead to an unmatched time of violence, death, destruction, and tyranny.
We see this evil in world politics, in the culture, and in the heart of Man. A growing atheism threatens not only the US, but all of Western Civilization.
Our time of relative peace was made possible by the foundational beliefs and ideas of the Judeo Christian faith, as well as a dominant America, whose military and economic might held back tyrants and their desire to conquer.
But the evil emerging today is greater and more dangerous than at anytime in our history. It is an evil whose path has been paved by the apathy, atheism, and love of material things by many in the West.
With the death of God comes the death of Objective Morality. A pseudo morality emerges that sees tolerance of what is objectively evil as one of the highest virtues we can have. In place of the need for redemption through a surrender and repentance to God, many achieve this need for atonement through a suicidal empathy. So powerful is this need that they will tolerate evil people to the point that they will caress and kiss the hands of those who hold the sword that will slay them.
Father Chad Ripperger, a Catholic priest and well known exorcist, has said that demons know their time is short, which explains the rise in this evil and in cases of demonic oppression and possession. This evil permeates our society.
While technically speaking, this may be, relatively speaking, the least violent time in human history, it is, without a doubt, the most evil time. It threatens not only the Civilization that gave us liberty, and all things beautiful... Art, music, and technology which has drastically improved our lives... It threatens our eternal souls and those of our sons and daughters.
This is a spiritual battle, and many are losing it.
There must be a rejection of this false morality which champions tolerance. Our empathy should be directed towards our own souls and our children, not to those who detest and hate that which we hold dear.
May God help us.
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July 29, 2026
Primer on Vote Fraud
Timothy Birdnow..
Here is a little primer on vote fraud in America. He explains how the Left systematically implemented a program that built a fraud machine that has stolen elections for years.
Worth a read.
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July 28, 2026
Putting the Cracker Back in Crackerbarrell
Timothy Birdnow
Cracker Barrell finally fires that woke woman CEO who attempted to castrate the brand.
Took 'em long enough.
As readers may remember this woman had the absolutely terrible idea o trying to "modernize" the company that made it's fame on nostalgia and great country cooking. The fact that an old white man was their mascot seemed to trigger Ms. Masino, as did the old fashioned decor in the restaurant, which she sought to replace with trash modern.
Any idiot should have seen this was a terrible idea; the very appeal of Cracker Barrell is it is a throwback to a bygone era, a piece of nostalgia. And that included the food, which was good and in large portions.
Under Masino the quality and portion sizes had been dropping like a stone. I remember the old days at CB; I could barely carry my stomach out with me afterward. Last time I ae there I was, well, full but not that much and this while I eat a lot less than I used to. And the food just didn't taste as good; it was clear they had cut the quality of it.
As is typical of liberals she thought the fix was to change the cosmetics. Liberals never can admit it is their core assumptions that are wrong.
I'm not sure about her reasoning but clearly it dovetailed with modern DEI. She seemed to believe a country image with an old white dude mascot (Uncle Hershel) was "racist" and "sexist" and probably "homophobic" and so these symbols of white patriarchal supremacy had to be eliminated to bring CB into the future.
The public rebelled and they showed their displeasure by going to Bob Evans (or Dennys). Yet, in our thoroughly modern fashion, the corporation kept her as CEO despite the obvious failure of her scheme. That is how deeply the tentacles of DEI have penetrated our corporate culture.
So they finally fired this woman and she's only going to be around for a few months to aid the transition. That is unusual and shows the board realized how desperate the situation had become.
Go woke go broke!
While I don't like to see someone lose their livelihood I do think it necessary that people who put their ideology ahead of the company interest (or societal interest) need to be publicly punished to discourage other activists from pulling this.
This woman should never have been at so lofty a position in the first place. But then, I never could figure out how many of the people who end up in such top positions do it. Mostly they are brown-nosing manipulators who climb over the corpses of more capable people. In Dante's Inferno they wil wind up in the pit of flatterers and seducers.
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July 27, 2026
Light Blogging
Dear readers,
The next few days (actually probably the whole week) will be slow; I've got about five doctors appointments and have to meet with my accountant (as the IRS is harassing me again as they like to do every six months or so, and frankly I have been a bit under the weather. So the blog will have to suffer. Sorry. I'll update as much as possible.
Tomorrow is going to be crazy; I've got two doctors in the morning alone.
Doctors seem to multiply like mice; see one or two and the next thing you know they are overruning the place. I now feel like judge in the movie What's Up Doc? who tells his bailiff "you know what this yellow pill is for? It's to remind me to take the blue pill". And I never know what iany of them are doing and so have no idea what "normal" feels like anymore. Side effects are the new normal.
Suffice it to say that I've got a long way to go wherever I'm going.
I've also got bills falling off the kitchen table and I need hours tto work through them all.
I also want to beef a bit about my health insurance. Ive got a Maretplace plan and they denied more physical therapy for my back, which is STILL killing me after several months now. Oh, and they denied an increase in Trulicity, saying I needed to try other drugs first - even though they already approved Trulicity for me and I've been taking it. My doctor just wanted to increase the dosage! The word moron comes to mind.
At any rate I will be slow to no blogging. Please bear with me.
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July 26, 2026
Trump's Plan for Iran
Timothy Birdnow
Powerline has an article asking why Trump is piddling around and not launching a series of major strikes on Iran. It's a question I have been pondering myself.
Here are what I think he's doing:
1. He's waiting until we have all the pieces in place as per Centcom, rather than launching before the military feels prepared.
We've had plenty of time to prepare but apparently we haven't and that may tie in with the fluidity of this situation. It may also tie in with our allies; we'll need the bases in Europe and we'll need the backing of a lot of the arab states. Talk is cheap and buys us time to make preparations. You don't go off half-cocked in war.
2. Saul Alinski, the commie "community organizer" the left is so fond of and who inspired Hillary Clinton and who Barack Obama actually worked for, once said "fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself" and so it may be Trump is trying to keep Iran in dread. Once you hit them hard they can say "that wasn't as bad as we feared". NOT hitting them makes them sweat. It's the way Trump negotiates and he may be right on this (assuming this is part of his calculations).
3. When I was in school studying the Russian revolution we discussed revolutions in general and they never happen when times are at their worst. WWII was a prime time for a rebellion against the Bolsheviks but it didn't happen. People rebel when times are getting better or are o.k but expectations are rising and are then disappointed.
When times are hard the People accept deprivation and suffering in the interest of their country. But when times are fair enough they get "spoiled" and want more. It is then that any government is facing peril. (It's why the U.S. has seen rising radicalism at a time of immense prosperity.) When expectations rise - particularly for greater political freedom - and are dashed then we have a problem. Or they do, I should say.
4. Revolutions come not when one side has power taken from them but when there is a power gap. Everyone scrambles to fill the vacuum and if you are lucky good people step up and take the country back. Most times bad people win because they are ruthless enough to wipe out the good people. But not always. If Mr. Trump is counting on an Iranian revolution he will need time - to arm and train rebels, to move supplies and set up proper intelligence. He's already decimated the leadership of Itan and there is now a power vacuum. It's been filled largely by the IRGC but their grasp on power is probably rather tenuous and there no doubt is fighting within the ranks as different factions try to seize power. (This is much like what happened before the Bolshevik coup in October of 1917. In May the Tsar was overthrown and a coalition government of leftists took power. The parties involved included the Social Revolutionaries (S.R.'s), the Kadets, the Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks were largely left out because, well, everyone knew they were crazy. But when it appeared Moscow was going to be overrun the government of Alexander Kerensky ordered guns be given to the populace, and when the crisis was averted they asked for them back but the Bolsheviks kept them and used them in the October revolution to seize power. See, there was largely a power vacuum in the provisional government, with all groups fighting for control. The Bolsheviks - the most disciplined and ruthless group - won.
That's how these things usually go; the French revolution went much the same (the American revolution was not really a political revolution at all but a secession from Britain; the same governments run by the same people were all still in place). Still, that's not ALWAYS the case an if the all the radicals fall out and begin fighting each-other then perhaps the Iranian People can topple the regime. What follows certainly can't be any worse than what is currently in power.
If Trump is trying to foment a revolution it may well be he's been arming the Iranian People all along, and organizing networks for command and control, and doing other such things. Trump is not as artless and stupid as was George W. Bush, the kind of guy who would use a hammer to fix his iPhone.
Ronald Reagan did this and he drove the Sandanistas out of Nicaragua (until 2006, under the hapless Bush's watch). He also helped finish the Communists in El Salvador which is now run by some pretty good people. The only direct military intervention Reagan had to make was in Grenada, where he had to send Marines in to rescue trapped American students. Of course Grenada was easy pickings.
Reagan created and funded the Contras to drive Daniel Ortega and the Sandanistas out of power in Nicaragua. I wonder if Mr. Trump isn't working towards that very thing as we speak.
5. The obvious; as the clock keeps ticking and we keep Iran from selling oil and gas their funding dries up. Trump keeps backing off of this in order to keep the Iranians from having to permanently close a lot of their oil wells, but he's keeping his foot on their necks. This keeps raising and then dashing expectations in Iran, but it also keeps their economy just barely creaking along. Trump doesn't want to lose the support of the populace there. Hit Iran too hard, squeeze it into lifelessness, and the public grows angry with America and throws their support behind the Mullahs.
6. He needs to maneuver China into backing the war, or at least staying neutral. Thus far he's been successful. I suspect the reason we are getting a lot of leaks and old stories about Chinese interference in American affairs, be it their breaching 220 million voters data or other election tampering, or what I just posted about Chinese scientists working in America smuggling in dangerous pathogens (reader Bill first noted this) it's designed to send a warning shot over the bow of the good ship Cathay. This makes the propaganda war more difficult for China, puts them back on their heels. So we are squeezing China economically but need to keep them neutral - it's a big trick. I suspect Mr. Trump understands all this.
China cannot feel free to invade Taiwan, say, or pull some other dirty trick while we are fighting Iran.
These, I think, are the main reasons for Trump's seemingly inexplicable behavior towards Iran in this war. I suspect he has a plan.
I would add Sun Tzu cautioned against tepid invasions of an enemy "shallow penetration leads to dispersion". Trump has read his Sun Tzu. He knows better than to send American troops on the ground in tentatively. He will want to use air power and maybe take some of the Persian Gulf islands, but I doubt much more than that - unless he's got a strong resistance movement ready to act for him/us.
So what are the negatives? Obviously the political climate in America. If we are at war on election day we may lose one or both bodies of Congress and that would be a disaster. Lose them both and Trump will be tied up with impeachment articles and enactments of the War Powers Act.
This is exactly what the Iranians are counting on and it is a real danger. Even losing one branch of Congress will mean endless investigations which will hamper Trump's ability to act. And of course there will be no money to prosecute this war. While spending ORIGINATES in the House the Senate still signs on with House spending bills via reconciliation. And that only requires a simple majority to win or lose.
Americans hate long, protracted wars, and especially hate this as many voted for Trump to put an end to "endless wars". But the only way you can do that responsibly is to win a few. WE may want to stay out of it but our enemies have no intention of letting us. Sometimes you just have to fight.
War with Iran was inevitable, ever since 1979 when they seized our embassy and Carter did nothing about it. We've kicked the can as far down the road as we could. Another kick would only result in a smoking crater where Tel Aviv now stands - with New York City right behind. (Now, if they'd do us the favor of eliminating Washington D.C. that would be another matter...)
And it's not just nuclear weapons they are working on. Iran has a robust biological weapons program and chemical weapons too. The chemical weapons are evil but limited - biological weapons are true weapons of mass destruction.
We are going to have to fight Iran at some point. Mr. Trump decided to do what a real leader does and confront the problem head on.
But it's a big gamble, especially fighting the media and Democrats and RINO Republicans and Euroweenies all at the same time.
The fate of America is truly tied up with this. Let us pray Mr. Trump has made and will continue to make the right choices.
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Crazy Carlson
Timothy Birdnow
Tucker Carlson continues his descent into madness. I don't know if he is taking any psychotic medication but he needs to up his dosage if he is, and if not needs to start on some right away.
Mother Tucker wants Nuremberg trials for Donald Trump and the GOP in Congress for accepting information sharing from Israel.
Somehow in his deluded mind this is treason.
Someone needs to check Carlson's home for toxic substances. Either that or he's taking some rather colorful stuff popular in the sixties.
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Midnight Basketball with a Midnight Special
Timothy Birdnow
He's right; the purpose of these big "youth" gatherings in Chicago is to intimidate decent Americans, particularly white middle class Americans, to push us into the shadows and make us despair.
And Chicago's Bolshevik Mayor "Let's Go" Brandon Johnson blames a plethora of things for this:
"Naturally, Mayor Brandon Johnson — Mayor 6.6, as we call him — has an explanation. Like many progressive politicians, academics, and activists, he argues these incidents are rooted in a lack of opportunity, insufficient youth programming, inadequate "safe spaces,” lingering effects of COVID, poverty, mental-health challenges, and other social factors.
But who has controlled this city all along? Why hasn't the Mayor fixed this problem when he is so confident he knows the causes? If the kids are lonely and bored why doesn't the mayor set aside spaces where the kids can go and socialize? (Of course we all remember "midnight basketball" was supposed to be the solution to all our inner city problems back in the Clinton era. So why didn't it work? Why so many youths running amok in the streets>) Where are the youth programs? Hasn't he been the mayor; why didn't he allocate resources for such? Why is there lack of opportunity? Could it be he ran all the businesses out of town? Could it be these kids never learned any responsibility at all making them unemployable, and that because his ilk ruined the educational system and broke their families with welfare programs?
He's more like mayor 6.6.6 if you ask me.
This guy really gets it:
The tragedy is that many of the young people participating probably don’t fully understand the consequences of what they are doing. Teenagers have always tested limits. That’s one reason civilized societies created institutions that impose discipline and teach responsibility. Families did it. Schools did it. Churches did it. Community organizations did it. Police and juvenile courts did it, when necessary.
He forgot the military. There is a reason why the military recruits in colleges and even high schools, and likes 18 year olds; these kids need guidance and the military will remake them into soldiers, with a code of honor.
In fact a civilized society understands that children are savages by nature and must be taught decency and civility. Those are not natural characteristics. But the Left long ago flipped things on their head with the idea of the "noble savage" and that civilization was unnatural and if we rid ourselves of it "nature" would assert itself and people would become like angels. It is the system that makes bad people in this view. This is exactly what Marx meant when he said the state would "wither away" when Communism was established and nature would make a paradise on Earth. The basic assumption of the whole Liberal movement since the eighteenth century has been that Man is inherently good.
That is at odds with the Christian faith which preaches Original Sin. Man is NOT inherently good but evil and he must be taught to be good, something that does not come naturally and which is inculcated through a long, laborious, and often painful process.
Children are animals until they are taught not to be. Kids raised by wolves, for instance, behave just like wolves.
And that is what so many teenagers, especially the poor and usually black or Hispanic, are so prone to crime. It's fun and profitable and makes them feel good because they can show their bravery and strength, important qualities in a feral culture that admires ruthlessness and power.
Of course the one thing that all feral cultures despise is civility; they see it as an oppressor. But who is the oppressor? The gangster and trouble maker, that's who. That is the true tyrant.
The author mentions churches have lost influence. True. But I would argue it goes farther than that. Churches are often now the very source of the infection, excusing bad behavior under the guise of Christian forgiveness and the liberal brand of Christianity, which assumes the kids are good by nature and so the real fight is social justice. How many black churches in ghetto areas get involved in such things, in political rallies and marches and demonstrations? Many. And all that does is reinforce the idea that the kids are being abused by the system which simply asks them to act like civilized people and obey the laws in place for everyone's safety and security. But so many preachers instead fight against "the Man". I saw a lot of that from Christian pastors in Ferguson; instead of calling out the rioters they marched in solidarity with them.
Ferguson happened BEFORE Covid. So did most BLM riots.
He says:
Teen takeovers are not occurring in a vacuum. They occur against the backdrop of years of de-policing, de-prosecution, and declining accountability. When young people repeatedly see others avoid meaningful consequences, many conclude that the rules are optional.
He's right, although I would argue it is a vacuum that leads to this in the first place - a vacuum of leadership from those who are charged with keeping order in society. It is their leadership failure which left a void and the kids simply act out because they can. Anybody ever read Lord of the Flies?
That is what our inner cities have become.
At any rate that is just a quibble and not a particularly important one; the author (George Shay) understands this point. It's just a quibble about wording.
This is an excellent essay and one that everyone should read.
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Omar Wants TRUMP Exiled!
Timothy Birdnow
"Our country?" Does she mean Somalia?
The chutzpah of this woman is astounding.
I so hope the Administration eventually strips her of her citizenship and removes her from these United States.
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Walshing Mathilda - His Lying Eyes
Timothy Birdnow
Yes FORMER Congressman Joe Walsh, this woman can indeed be arrested for impeding the ICE agents!
(a)In General.—Whoever—(1)forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or(2)forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service,shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple assault, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and where such acts involve physical contact with the victim of that assault or the intent to commit another felony, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.
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Walsh, a RiNO former Republican Congressman, is actually running a website teaching radical anti-ICE activists how to get around the law.
And it was he who ran this video of an interaction with a crazy white woman (CWW as we'll call 'em in future) and ICE agents she was blocking with her car.
Here is what Walsh is using as an example of "how to do it". You will note the woman is clearly interfering with the operation, not just observing and recording. She is physically blocking the officers and refusing to obey their lawful orders to move her vehicle.
Try doing that to the local police and see how far it gets you?
I remember some years bac police in a town (can't remember where) directed motorists to pull over and park in a no-parking zone. A meter maid came by and started writing tickets. The officer told her to stop because he had issued orders to the motorists. She went ahead and wrote them anyway. The cop arrested the meter maid to the roaring applause of everyone on the scene.
My point? Law enforcement has the authority to clear an area and you can't interfere. It's illegal and will get you arrested.
The video cuts off before we see how this turned out. I wonder; did the ICE agents have to arrest this Puta or did she eventually comply?
I hope they arrested her but I suspect Walsh would have shown that if it had happened that way.
Oh, did I mention Walsh was an Illinois Republican who lost his seat to Tammy Duckworth, then changed parties in 2025. He once ran for President against Trump and got, like -2% of the vote. He's now a loyal Democrat. In other words he's a social climber who goes where he thinks he will do best.
He now aids criminal behavior just to stick it to MAGA folks and the American People in general.
BTW Joe Walsh is no relations to the former Eagles member and rock star Joe Walsh, who has more sense than this. As for the other Mr. Walsh, he can't hide his lying eyes.
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A Jury of our Peers?
Timothy Birdnow
More than was claimed. And these folks are passing judgment on American Citizens, who have a legal right to a "trial by their peers". How are aliens "peers'?
From the Gateway Pundit:
Officials say there is no evidence that noncitizens have served on juries since the additional safeguards were implemented.
But that does not explain why approximately 75,000 noncitizens are being swept into the jury-summons process every year.
It also raises serious questions about the reliability of government databases used to administer elections and jury selection.
If they were summoned why should anyone think they wouldn't serve. The starting process is a failure.
The state says they ask the summonees to fill out an eligibility card which asks about immigration status and then again when they are being questioned in court. Does anyone think an illegal alien will tell the government he's an illegal? Ri-ight.
The Democrats built a massive fraud machine all over the country, one modeled after the Daly machine in Chicago or Tammany Hall, or what Dewey Long created in Louisiana. Democrats have long had experience building such, but they never had the cajones to try it nationally before. After the election of 2000 they pulled the trigger and now we are fighting a behemoth, a machine that can only be defeated with time and people like Trump in office. If just a kernel of this is left when he leaves and we get a Democrat it will grow back, like a wart that is cut off but not burned away.
If I were a defense attorney I would look at filing appeals for my clients who were convicted based on this. Find one illegal alien who served on the jury and you have a mistrial.
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Unbearable Pole Dancer
Timothy Birdnow
Stupidity always carries the death penalty, be it for humans or animals.
I feel sorry for the bear but it had no earthly reason to climb up the pole in the first place. (BTW the fact a bear can get up a pole like that should scare the bejeebers out of us - there is no place to hide from such a critter if you get on it's bad side.)
The interesting part of the story is that 911 was rude to the first caller and never dispatched Fish and Wildlife to rescue the unbearable creature.
I suspect this bear was a stripper in a previous life. It certainly was attracted to a tall pole for SOME reason!
In a different world this would have made all the late night comedy shows, but in our glum, industrial modern age with political correctness stalking our every thought we won't have anyone making jokes about this, even though it is ripe for comedy. Humor often covers sadness and this is a bit sad. But it's also ripe for jokes.
So in that spirit I reintroduce a bit of old ethnic humor and say this was a "pole-ish bear". (Please no angry remarks - note I use the small p. And of course some of history's smartest people were Polish. Copernicus. Hilary Koprowski who invented the polio vaccine at the same time as Salk, Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the Kerosene lamp, , Jan Szczepanik, the "Austian Edison" as Mark Twain called him - inventor of the first bulletproof vest as well as a precursor to television, Rudolf Weigl - inventor of the typhus vaccine, Madam Curie, who needs no commentary, and a host of others.)
If a bear wants to pole sit any rational society would remove him. But of course Fish and Wildlige no doubt didn't have a clue as to how to get a bear down from a pole and didn't really want to try (can't blame them). But that's what they are paid the big bucks to do. As the old Jay Ward cartoon character Superchicken used to tell his sidekick "you knew the job was dangerous when you took it Fred". It's hard to believe but it's bearly possible.
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The Symbolic Lynching of Caitlyn Clark
Timothy Birdnow
Everybody's beating up on poor Caitlyn Clark these days. If it's not her opponents on the court it's USA Today.
Previously the tabloid had accused Clark of skipping a fan event "to get her hair done" when in fact she was attending a charity event in her home town of Des Moines, Now columnist Nancy Armour accuses Clark of endangering black folks with lynchings because SHE keeps getting fouled!
"It seems there is a white nationalist element to Clark’s fandom that is deeply, deeply problematic, made even more so because the WNBA is made up predominantly of Black women, many of them queer. When Clark claims fouls that don’t exist, when she goes on profanity-laced tirades at referees, those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and take matters into their own hands. … "
So they are beating her senseless out of the milk of human kindness!
What does Armour suggest? The only option would be for Caitlyn to quit.
Things have come full circle since black people began getting into professional sports. A lot of white basketball fans despised Bill Russell when he came into the NBA. A lot of them hated Joe Louis, and hated Jack Johnson even more long before him. Or Jackie Robinson, who also was not the first black man to play pro ball - it was Moses Fleetwood Walker, who played catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings in the American Association in 1884. Needless to say Mr. Fleetwood was not, uh, popular at that time.
So now black athletes dominate a lot of the popular sports and suddenly being white is a radical act.
My father told me Bill Russell used to get pounded by players from other teams who did so just because he was a black man in a then-white game. He saw Russell a number of times when the Celtics played the St. Louis Hawks (my dad was friends with those guys and played on their softball team.) Russell lead the Celtics against the Hawks in the 1956 NBA championship. The Hawks won, sparking a party that my father said was truly legendary.
(As an aside, my father hung out in a hotel bar where the Hawks hung out and he used to take my mother there in their early courtship, so in a way the NBA may be responsible for my being born.)
BTW Russell was not the first black player in the NBA; that honor goes to Earl Lloyd. Russell was the first black superstar, however.
At any rate what was once racism to beat up black players has now morphed into black players beating up white players and the racist tag STILL falls on the whites. I guess that's what liberals call "fair"? Generational guilt excuses it.
The WNBA was only formed in 1996 so there is not history of racism in the game. The women playing there have not experienced racism in their workplace. They just resent a white girl being better at basketball - the unofficial sport of African Americans - than are they.
What is happening in the WNBA is vile and shows exactly what is wrong with the modern DEI thinking. It is not diverse, equitable, or inclusive for all. It's only applicable where minorities are concerned. What does that make it? Black (or Hispanic) supremacism.
If the Leftists pushing such things were even remotely honest about what they believe they would admit that is the goal. They want to punish whites for having been successful. Yes, it's generational guilt in their minds, but ultimately it's about power and the joy of torturing others, people who voluntarily gave up power to give those who had been mistreated a fair shake.
Many black folks don't realize that; they think they took this power by the sheer force of their superiority.
That is why Caitlyn Clark presents such an existential threat to them. She is the equivalent of an "uppity colored man" in the old South. If it was wrong to lynch such a man then why is it o.k. to symbolically lynch a white girl now?
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July 25, 2026
The Current Tactical Position in Iran
Wretchard T. Cat Observes:
Current operations in Iran are no longer starting from the original position.
Iran’s missile attack volume was substantially higher in March 2026 than in July 2026 going from as many as hundreds per day then to mere dozens now. It's retaliatory power, while still existent, has clearly diminished.
Since the war restarted in early July 2026, the United States has not used "exquisite” high-end weapons (heavy standoff cruise missiles, stealth bombers, or hypersonics) at anything approaching the scale or intensity of the initial campaign in late February–March 2026. Nor has it required the augmentation of a parallel campaign by Israel. It appears to have greater dominance than in March. This probably means a far greater weight of delivery.
All of this can change but it would be reasonable to surmise that US goals are no longer in their starting positions either, probably aiming to go further. The most obvious possible new goals are subverting/shaping the Islamic Republic leadership in preparation for either another round of negotiations or outright regime change.
But in the end the plans are secret. We can make educated deductions but no more.
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Are Chicoms Building Biological Weapons in U.S.?
Timothy Birdnow
The Chinese are smuggling a deadly form of coronavirus into the United States, one that only affects pigs. They were sending the material to a Chinese national working in a lab at the university of Minnesota. Now why do you suppose that is?
Porcine epidemic diarrhea was smuggled in inside of the suitcase of a Chinese national at the behest of Yusen Zhou of China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, to be delivered to Fang Li at U Minn.
Why are Chinese nationals working at U. Minn. in so sensitive an area?
And why is a guy associated with military medical science aka bioweapons sending a dangerous pathogen into America?
I suspect the Chicoms are preparing a biological weapon to use against us should we go to war, something the Chinese have always said was inevitable.
We have to get WAY more serious about protecting this country and end this stupidity of multiculturalism.
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Dems Pushed Biden to Give TPP Status to over 3 Million Illegals While a Lame Duck
Timothy Birdnow
Senator Eric Schmidt just released a memo showing Joe Biden was being pushed to give Temporary Protected Person status to 3.1 million illegal aliens after Trump won the last election. Now why would the Democrats want to do that if they didn't plan to use these people to steal the next election?
From X. Be sure to go there to see the actual documents;
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Senator Eric Schmitt
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BREAKING: I am releasing a newly obtained internal Presidential memorandum from the Biden White House.
It details how Biden was advised to block President Trump's deportation of 3.1 MILLION noncitizens—including Tren de Aragua members—through "Temporary” Protected Status.
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Senator Eric Schmitt
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The memo, which appears to be misdated, is from Biden's "Senior Advisors" in the waning days of his lame duck presidency.
It was the pitch to expand TPS "before YOU leave office.” His team was searching for ways to lock in his mass-migration regime before Trump took power.
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TPS gives foreign nationals work permits and protection from deportation.
A "redesignation” expands that shield to newly arrived migrants.
Biden’s team was considering making millions more eligible—then leaving President Trump to process the claims.
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Eric Schmitt
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Jul 23
Here is the TPS racket:
Declare an emergency.
Grant "temporary” status.
Wait for the emergency to pass.
Extend the status anyway.
Repeat until temporary becomes permanent.
Democrats built a one-way ratchet for mass immigration.
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Jul 23
The memo openly discusses rushing TPS extensions/redesignations and new designations before January 20 specifically to shield people from "President-elect Trump’s planned mass deportations.”
It frames the lame duck's team’s actions as a deliberate barrier.
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Jul 23
The memo states the motive openly, appease Leftist stakeholders.
Supporters wanted Biden to "protect” migrants from President-elect Trump’s "planned mass deportations.”
They were asking a defeated President to obstruct the immigration mandate Americans had just delivered.
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