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March 13, 2026

Iran 's Huge Arsenal

Timothy Birdnow

This shows just how well-armed the Iranians were before the opening of hostilities.

Hezbollah Terrotists Launch 100 Rockets at Israel, Overrwhelming the Iron Dome

These weapons were all courtesy of Iran.

Iran was like a spider in a web of hatred aimed at Israel, and eventually they would have pulled the trigger at a time of their own choosing.

Meanwhile Iran continues to attack shipping not just in the area of Hormuz but elsewhere, and it just released photos of Kamikaze drones in it's arsenal, drones it says will paralyze shipping in the whole Middle East.

The whole nation was essentially an armed camp.

So for those who think we could have continued to ignore them and kick this can down the road, the very fact that they were so militarized (thanks in no small part to Obama and Biden giving rhem huge sums of cash) should disabuse you of that notion. This is a nation planning on a foreign war from the beginning.

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Swalwell Does Not Live in California

Timothy Birdnow

Eric "Gang Bang Fang Fang" Spits, er, Swallows doesn't even live in California despite running for Governor of the state.

Seems the point man in the Trump Jihad rents a single room from a family in California to give himself a mailing address; his principle residence is in D.C. and he lives in luxury hotels when in California.

By law he is required to have five years of full-time residency in the Yellow State. He clearly isn't qualified to hold office there.

But of course removing him from the ballot is nigh unto impossible with the Democrats solidly in charge there.

Still, one must hope the voters see this and decide not to reward such behavior. Don't hold your breath on that one.

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And the Beat Goes On

Timothy Birdnow

It seems no matter how much we do, how much we win. who we put in office this stuff just keeps coming.

Leftist Group Gets Millions in Taxpayer Dollars

FTA:

The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is promoting his investigation of a leftist group that received massive amounts of taxpayer dollars from the Biden administration to help illegal immigrants while omitting that the Trump administration kept the cash flowing. In fact, a $200 million program that gives illegal alien minors free lawyers was briefly cancelled and quietly reinstated by the Trump administration within days, though there is no mention of the abrupt about face in the probe announced last week by Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, a former collegiate wrestling champion serving his tenth term in the House.

Shortly after President Trump issued an executive order, back in mid-February 2025, ensuring taxpayer resources are used to protect the interest of American citizens and not to incentivize or support illegal immigration, the $200 million allocation for migrant kids got axed. The money was going to the same leftwing nonprofit that Jordan’s committee is investigating, though the veteran lawmaker’s new audit only mentions that it is focusing on how the open borders group has spent hundreds of millions of dollars awarded under Biden-Harris. The target is the Acacia Center for Justice, a Washington D.C. nonprofit that partners with a national network of human rights defenders to provide legal defense to immigrants at risk of detention or deportation. "Acacia envisions a nation with a transformed immigration system that embodies freedom from detention, due process, and equal protection, where every person facing the prospect of exile and community separation has access to meaningful legal defense,” the group writes on its website, which assures its network of attorneys fight for all immigrants regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race or previous interaction with the criminal system.

So why did the Trump Administration quietly reinstate this program? This money was restored within days of Trump's E.O. and no explanation was given for it.

Why aren't the Republicans raising hell about THAT? We understand our enemies will screw us, but our champions? Our so-called "friends"?

This is the problem we have long faced; we are stuck with a bunch of Quislings, Republicans who don't want to rock the boat and who want to enjoy the fruits of being in power but not bear the responsibilities that go with that. And we dare not get rid of the squishes because we could lose the seat to the Democrats, so people like Mitch McConnell stay in office year after year and work with the Democrats, make a big show of being "bipartisan" when that is not what the voting base wants. We are alienated from our own party but we dare not turn these clowns out because we fear the alternative worse.

That is why the GOP does not really want to become a solid majority party. They stay in power because of the knife-edge political balance. I suspect the Democrats play this game too in their own way, especially the older ones; the new base, the radicals like AOC or Ilhan Omar or Jasmine Crockett don't, and their grievance is much like our own. But they definitely hold more sway in their party than MAGA does in the GOP, even though MAGA IS the base of the GOP whereas the radicals are still a minority in the Democrats but constitute the "base" because the older Democrats are a sclerotic lot and have nothing to offer the younger generation.

At any rate we are beset upon on all sides by cowards and traitors and noses covered in media backside waste.

Until we stop funding our own demise we will never see the restoration of America. And this President is the last best hope for our cause. I realize he can't be everywhere at all times, but he needs to be brutal when his own policies are undercut by underlings. Whoever made this decision needs to not only be fired but be tarred and feathered.

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Iran Froze Citizen's Bank Accounts

Timothy Birdnow

Hmm. The Administration's attacks on Iran focused on their banking infrastructure and the Iranian regime has frozen all the bank accounts of its citizens.

As the author of this American Thinker piece points out, this is a sign the Iranian government is on the verge of collapse. They are stealing the money of the citizens in a desperate bid to hold onto power.

Hre are a few snippets from the article:

Joe Truzman

@JoeTruzman

This morning, hundreds of thousands of Iranians woke up to frozen bank accounts. Customers of Bank Sepah and Bank Melli got an SMS saying their accounts were locked,

@NarimanGharib

posted on X. The banks' websites and service channels are blocked, and it's not possible to log into accounts at all.

The regime is calling this a "Central Bank technical upgrade to communication switches for network stability," he wrote.

This is almost certainly the regime freezing enormous sums of money taken directly from its own citizens to ensure its survival. Iranians are being robbed blind by their own government as it clings to power.

[...]

This is when people become truly desperate. This is when they rise up and fight.

It’s true that, because there is no Second Amendment in Iran, the citizens have no guns with which to fight the tyranny that has oppressed them for so long. However, it’s worth remembering that one of the worst battles the Nazis experienced during WWII was the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, fought against a band of starving, unarmed Jews, who nevertheless made do with what they had. When people have nothing left to lose, they fight like there’s no tomorrow, because, for most, there isn’t.

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, although it hurt the Nazis badly, ended up worse for the Jews. The few survivors died in the camps. If Trump doesn’t go wobbly, though, it won’t end up that way for the Iranian people. The mullahs are already on the ropes, and the Israelis are using drones that have pinpoint accuracy to destroy individual IRGC checkpoints on Iran’s streets, so that the IRGC cannot prevent people from protesting:

This after airstrikes on the data centers for Bank Sepah, which handles payroll for the IRGC/military forces.

If Trump doesn't go wobbly, as the author keeps pointing out, this thing will end with Iran's regime falling. When the Iranians get hungry enough they will lose the fear that the murder of 30-40 thousand of their fellow citizens has instilled in them and that will be the end for the Mullahs.

We need to be getting weapons to them now.

At any rate if you want to understand any issue you follow the money, and the money in Iran is moving in such a way as to illustrate the regime is in big trouble there - or what is left of the regime.

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March 11, 2026

Dems Give Away Their True Intent

Timothy Birdnow

Why is he afraid of ICE near polling sites? This comment gives away the whole game:

"I won't go through all of the demands, much of which we've talked about repeatedly in the public, but one of those demands is, keep ICE out of sensitive locations. And we've defined that as schools, houses of worship, hospitals, and polling sites.”

Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries

by the by, he wasn't unhappy when Don Lemon and a bunch of anti-ICE terrorists invaded a house of worship and held the congregation hostage while telling their children their parents were going to Hell. He wouldn't denounce THAT but he refuses to let ICE near "houses of worship" now. Oh, and what constitutes a house of worship? That can be anything, any place where people gather to pray. So basically ICE will be allowed to go nowhere.

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From the Bottomless Pit

Timothy Birdnow

Maybe America should require kids to live overseas for a year or so in a socialist country, like Mormons require a year of missionary work for all of their kids.

New Fox News Poll Shows Socialism Is Surging

From the article:

In January 2009, when the U.S. economy was mired in the Great Recession, 23 percent of respondents said they believed that would be a "good thing” versus 65 percent who said that would be a "bad thing.”

By July 2010, the portion of registered voters who considered a transition from capitalism to socialism a "good thing” reached an all-time low of 18 percent, while those who considered more socialism a "bad thing” reached an all-time high of 69 percent.

Today, 38 percent of Americans, more than double the number in 2010, think it would be a "good thing” for the United States to move away from capitalism and more toward socialism.

Unsurprisingly, America’s disaffected youth is leading the socialist charge. Incredibly, 53 percent of all voters under 30, and 66 percent of Democrats under 45, want less capitalism and more socialism.

Among all Democrats, a solid majority of 55 percent champion more socialism in America.

The article rightly pins the blame for this on public schools which are now completely in the tank for socialism and fight fiercely any notion of private property or ownership of the means of production by individuals. And of course they do not teach the history of socialism and how it wrings out and impoverishes any society foolish enough to adopt it. Oh, and they never, ever teach that National Socialism was a socialist state.

As Witney Houston so cloyingly but accurately stated "the children are our future" or, as has been attributed to St. Ignacious of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits "Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man." the reality is we have lost the children, and that by design of the Left, who have taken our children away and controlled their environment so as to set in false teachings. This acceptance of socialism is proof that we have lost the younger generation and that is very, very bad because they ARE the future and the precious thing we gifted them - freedom and free enterprise - will be lost in the fiction of a socialist worker's paradise.

And the truly sad thing is that these kids are living better than the most opulent kings of the past. They have everything their little spoiled hearts desire materially. The food is better, they have insane creature comforts (like air conditioning and heat, cold beverages, ice cubes, televisions and computers and smart phones) and they have to work less than anyone in history. They have more square footage to live in than most people in history, and their homes are far more comfortable. Food is cheap compared to the past. They have the best healthcare in human history, and it is cheap compared to what people of the past had to pay when they got sick. Medicines are better. And they are free to leave any job they do not like, and if they lose a job they have unemployment benefits to tide them over. Their parents will be cared for without them if need be.

All of this bounty cometh from capitalism.

Socialism takes what capitalism made and squanders it by giving it to those who did not produce it and who do not value it. People stop making stuff, doing stuff, because your labor is for others and not yourself.

They wrongly conflate democratic socialism and the welfare state and point to places like Sweden as proof democratic socialism works. Not so; Sweden is a very corporate friendly place, in many ways more friendly than the capitalist United States. Corporate taxes are quite low, for instance. And the reality is these places with a huge welfare state are now running down just as Margaret Thatcher said socialism would do "the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money". Few Scandinavians actually start or run their own businesses; they are too lazy, to seduced by the ease of the social safety hammock. That is why places like Sweden are now suffering from all sorts of problems caused by mass immigration; they brought in people to do everything for them and now those people do not see any reason why they shouldn't just take over. That's what happens when you care more for comfort and ease than actually doing anything.

But the youths don't understand this and in fact couldn't define either capitalism or socialism. Socialism is government ownership or control of the means of production. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy both called themselves socialist and rightly so; they didn't outright own all the corporations as in Communist countries but they had complete control over them and the "owners" were mere caretakers. In fact the Communists understood this and were quite approving of Fascism in the early days "first Brown then Red" was their saying; they saw Fascism as the interim state between capitalism and socialism.

I hate the term Capitalism, which was used by Marx as a pejorative and it was in fact coined by socialists. Free markets is better. I would argue that "Capitalism" is not an ism at all; it is the natural state of Man, what he would do if left unmolested. The earliest cave men undoubtedly traded - you give me that spear and I'll give you this fish. That was essentially Capitalism. Freedom to trade as you please. But it's always been under attack by someone who didn't want to have to make or find something to trade. Governments in particular like to steal wealth for their own use and so have long regulated and restricted freedom of trade for their own benefit. Socialism is but the final stage of that.

The actual concept of Socialism as a defined ism goes back to Jean Jacques Rousseau, who advocated it in The Social Contract. Rousseau believed in the Collective Will, a radical democratic notion that what the People want they have a right to take. Interestingly enough Rousseau also invented Fascism at the same time, arguing that Christianity sucked and what was needed was a new religion where the People are god and the State is the Holy Mother Church. The primary difference between Fascism and Socialism is in the religious/spiritual aspects (Socialism makes a god of economic determinism without actually pretending to spirituality) while Fascism deifies the Collective Will. But both ships are sailing in the same direction - placing government at the pinnacle of power over the individual and a totalitarianism, which Mussolini defined as "everything within the state, nothing outside the state". Mussolni wanted a society that was intimately involved in every aspect of life.

That is socialism in a nutshell; a world where society is up in everyone's business no matter the topic. So people who want to do unusual things can't, be it pray the Rosary or dress up as animals for sex; if it isn't approved by the current crop of leaders it is unlawful. Socialism homogenizes everything, turns life into a gray paste. Despite it's appeal to those on the margins in the end it will crush them because nobody dare oppose the Will of the god of the socialist society.

These young dumb kids know nothing of any of this. They just think it is more "fair" as if anything in life is fair.

Their problem is a moral and spiritual vacuum that has left them hungry for something more. The very fact they have a concept of "fair" shows they know there must be more than what they find in this world, and yet they have been told repeatedly there is no God and the material is all. They know this is wrong but having not been allowed to learn anything else they are doing exactly what those who have taught them intended - making a god of Socialism and worshipping that. As has been attributed to Chesterton "when you stop believing in God you will believe in anything" and these kids never actually believed in God in the first place because they were told all their lives God was a superstition, a very dangerous superstition that hurt people and was a huge buzz kill. So in the yawning chasm of their souls a new, strange god has now entered. They have believed it.

Turning this around will be nearly impossible. The only way it could happen is if the young generation suffer horribly to make them question their most fundamental assumptions.

I fear this is not just a bad omen but a horrendous omen. Our society has prospered because we honored God.

Granted, many young people have been swept up in a religious revival and are finding what they need to fill that void in their souls. But many more of them have not and it will be hard to turn them from what they have been taught as children.

All of the political victories, all of the tent revivals, all of that stuff is destined to fail ultimately as our society collapses under the weight of this religious belief in Socialism and nihilism.

At any rate that doesn't mean we don't try. If we can keep America alive for a generation or two past it's expiration date that would be a tremendous victory - so much suffering averted for a time. And we can keep the seeds alive for the future, after the wave of Socialism destroys the nation and then shows it's true face. And who knows? Maybe we'll succeed after all.

It's worth a try.

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Starbucks Leaving Washington

Timothy Birdnow

Starbucks is fleeing Washington State after an insane tax was imposed.

See Howard Schulz comment on it here.

The Founder and CEO of the overpriced coffee house is moving to, drumroll please...Florida where he won't pay any income tax and will get out of the miserable weather. And his company is moving to Nashville where it will try it's best to turn the red state of Tennessee blue.

This is the inevitable outcome of liberalism. Yet I doubt Schultz realizes that and he will probably remain a lifelong Democrat, polluting the good state of Florida and ruining Tennessee along with it.

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Seattle Wasted So Much Money on Anti-Ice Signs it Can't Fix the Roads

Timothy Birdnow

Not only is Seattle wasting taxpayer money paying for anit-ICE signs but it will likely delay important road work an neglect transportation needs to fund the illegal opposition to law enforcement by the Trump Administration.

Seattle DOT has made thousands of signs informing ICE it is unwelcome and may not step on any state or local property and the cost was so high it is defunding road projects.

The Seattle Department of Safety stated in a fiscal memo:

"To the extent that appropriations made in the 2026 Adopted Budget support other activities, and for which SDOT cannot find efficiencies / savings to otherwise support, SDOT may have to delay or defer projects or programs to free up funding for the signage costs that will be incurred pursuant to this legislation. Cost for signage is indeterminate at this point as FAS has not yet completed a review of all the properties that would be covered by this legislation.”

So it is apparently more important that the good city of Seattle screw over America and the Trump Administration than it is to make it possible for it's residents to move about freely. This is their value; protect people who have broken the law over doing what it was actually elected to do.

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The Last Days of Great Britain

Timothy Birdnow

Gee, I wonder why?

BBC says "deep wound” stab kits are now recommended on London buses for some strange, unstated reason

Britain is now solidly under Sharia and the Kaffirs who are still there are now being subjected to murder and assault as they are in every country where Islam gains a solid toehold.

Official statistics say that in England and Wales the Muslim population is 6.5% , but that is probably quite low. The fact is whenever Muslim populations reach 10% they impose Sharia and yet we are seeing it there now. And of course London is now 15% Muslim as are a few other cities in the U.K. So we are now seeing Sharia imposed and the "infidels" are being terrorized.

The British response? To put stab wound kits on public conveyance.

Britain is doomed. If I were a Brit I'd seriously think of immigrating somewhere.

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D.C. Bar Goes After Ed Martin

Timothy Birdnow

The D.C. Bar has filed ethics charges against Ed Martin for sending a letter to Georgetown University Law Center demanding an end to DEI practices.

The bar could revoke Martin's law license.

This is but another example of what we are up against; the Left has weaponized the law to the point where if you resist anything they do they will come after you legally and with a vengeance.

Martin, the former interim D.C. District Attorney, whose appointment was spiked by Thom "Up Yours" Tillis, is accused:

The office that polices attorney misconduct in Washington, D.C., has filed ethics charges against Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin, after Martin last year sent a threatening letter to the Georgetown University Law Center that raised questions about its diversity and inclusion policies while he was serving as interim U.S. attorney, according to court filings made public Tuesday.

In a Feb. 17 letter to the law school, Martin told university officials that a whistleblower claimed Georgetown was teaching DEI and asked about the practice. Without waiting for a response, he told the school he was imposing sanctions by instructing his office staff not to employ any students from the school as fellows, interns or employees at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C.

In response, the school’s now-former dean, William Treanor, told Martin, who is a devout Catholic, that his letter represented "an attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution.”

In filings made in the D.C. Court of Appeals’ Board on Professional Responsibility dated Friday and made public on Tuesday, Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton "Phil” Fox III of the D.C. Bar alleged that Martin’s conduct as a government official violated the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution by making demands that the law school change what it teaches students and how it teaches them.

It is long-standing policy that the U.S. government impose it's will on what and how universities teach their students because these institutions take Federal tax dollars and it is established law that this money comes with strings. And of course there is no right to a job after you get out of school, and if the government chooses not to hire graduates from a particular school there is no Constitutional prohibition making this policy illegal. Lord knows the Left has used these tactics repeatedly on the right over the years. It's part of WHY the universities are universally filled with Leftists now; it was "diversity" or die.

So what Martin did was not at all unethical or criminal but the Left will go after him anyway. And even if he wins in court he will have to waste huge amounts of time and money. As they say, the process IS the punishment.

So we are a LONG way from victory as of yet. The radicals are waiting in the wings, ready to reassert themselves as soon as Trump exits the stage. And even now they are going to go after some of the MAGA folks, a foreshadowing of what is to come once they take back power.

The DOJ should open investigations into the D.C. Bar in retaliation. It's sad it has come to this but there has to be tit-for-tat, even if it's not always a clear cut violation. EVERYONE needs to be afraid to use lawfare to their political advantage. Mutual Assured Destruction. It worked with the Soviets and it will work now, provided we have the balls to use it.

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Another Day Another Ayatollah

Timothy Birdnow

Iran's newly elevated leader, the Supreme Ayatollah and doorman at the Tehranian Hilton Mojito, er, Mojtaba Khamenei, has already been wounded by the U.S. according to Iranian television and is in critical condition.

It sure doesn't pay to be the supreme leader in Iran these days.

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Smith Targeted Kansas AG

Timothy Birdnow

Jack Smith opened an investigation into the Kansas Attorney General for challenging the election of 2020.

Jack Smith Quietly Targeted Former Kansas Attorney General For Challenging 2020 Election Results

This was going WAY beyond his mandate and in fact this borders (at a minimum) on abuse of power and a First Amendment violation. Smith belongs in prison.

According to the Tennessee Star as quoted in The Gateway Pundit:

A new document obtained by The Tennessee Star reveals that former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline was among the 430 individuals or organizations who were subpoenaed by former special prosecutor Jack Smith as part of the Arctic Frost probe into the 2020 election contest by President Donald Trump and other Republicans, revealing for the first time that legal experts and organizations who sought to contest the results from outside the White House were included in Smith’s investigation.

The Star obtained correspondence from Verizon last week, notifying the Kline family on February 25 that its records had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate. The records requested related to an earlier subpoena obtained by Smith, and Verizon attached records revealing the special prosecutor’s office contacted the telecommunications company on August 1, 2023, to inform them of their obligation to produce Kline’s records to comply with a grand jury subpoena.

This was all part of Arctic Frost, the Biden-authorized program to spy on and abuse the free speech rights of political enemies of the autopen. (All hail the autopen.)

The Star continues:

According to the letter from the special prosecutor’s office, the subpoena sought subscriber information, names, addresses, records for inbound and outbound calls, text messages, and voicemails, as well as the "[m]eans and source of payment,” to Verizon, which the document specified included the credit card or bank account Kline used to pay his phone bill.

It also sought any other phone numbers associated with Kline’s account, as well as the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses he used to access the internet using his Verizon-connected devices.

Like the Arctic Frost subpoenas that sought phone records for various Republicans in Congress, including at least eight U.S. senators, the order was signed by U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, an appointee of former President Barack Obama who has sparred with the Trump administration.

In a sane world Smith and Boasberg and everyone else involved in this would be in prison, and the public would be furious, demanding reforms. But we do not live in a sane world and the media simply won't report it, meaning the average person is blissfully unaware of any of this, and if you tell them they will call you brainwashed and a dupe for the Republicans. It's astonishing how dim so many people can be.

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Whoopi: Trump Attacked Iran to Distract from Guthrie, Epstein

Timothy Birdnow

Whooping Coughberg, er, Whoopi Goldberg, is unquestionably a moron and a crazy one at that. But she really screwed the pooch with this; she is claiming Donald Trump launched the Iran war to divert attention from the Epstein files (in which Whoopi features prominently) and from the Nancy Guthrie case.

"This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else,” said the unhinged comedian/actress.

Naturally the panel of the View were all nodding in agreement.

"It’s a very wag the dog feeling,” added host Sonny Hostin.

Of course it's all projection as the Democrats have done such things in times past. Remember on the eve of his impeachment Bill Clinton bombed an aspirin factory in the Sudan ostensibly to take out Osama bin Laden. It's the way the Left thinks, to twist reality, to bend things to fit their own narrative.

But why would Trump do this in so incompetent a fashion? A majority of the country is opposed to this, and that includes many in his MAGA base. There certainly are more popular ways to divert attention. And if you are going to launch a fake war why wouldn't you first start it with a Reichstag fire? A false flag attack on the U.S. to get the public on your side right away?

You may remember they accused George W. Bush of the same thing, claiming HE blew up the Twin Towers so he could launch his Afghanistan and Iraq wars. (That was the end of Rosie O'Donnell, I might add; she became obsessed with this conspiracy theory and it ruined her career because it was so obviously nuts.) Crazed conspiracy theories are de rigueur for the Left.

Crazy is as crazy says, and Whoopi has said some batcrap crazy things in her day but she keeps trying to top it.

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More Strange Things Involving Epstein

Timothy Birdnow

This is interesting; a guard at the prison where Jeffrey Epstein was being held made a series of large bank deposits just before he died - and computer records showed she Googled Epstein twice just hours before his "suicide".

Tova Noel has since been fired by the prison. She denies any wrongdoing.

Noel deposited almost $12,000 in the leadup to the Epstein death. Authorities believe she is the figure seen in security camera footage. She was seen carrying orange linen - he kind Epstein allegedly hanged himself wih.

She denies all this, and says she never did routine checks on prisoners as was required by her employer and claimed nobody else did either - she says everyone just falsified the logs.

If that is true why was Epstein at such a poorly secured facility?

I have to worry about the health of Ms. Noel; she seems to have some very unhealthy habits and I worry she may have some health incident that could lead to a tragic end. This is definitely a story to watch.

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March 10, 2026

I See Dead People - on the Voter Rolls

Timothy Birdnow

Michigan was reinstating dead voters who had been purged from the rolls.

Yes, they actually just went behind the purgers and put these corpses right back on.

Anybody who believes this is a mistake has their head in a place never intended for your head. There is only one reason this happened and we all know what that reason is.

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Thune Stopping the SAVE America Act

Timothy Birdnow

I knew John Thune was a worthless POS and this proves it.

Thune Defies Trump, Insists Senate Will Not Nuke the Filibuster to Pass the Save Act

What does Thune think he will accomplish by this? The Democrats will undoubtedly nuke the filibuster as soon as they are in power and the GOP blocks them.

The reason is because the Republicans fear being exposed for their own corruption. I have little doubt the Democrats threated to release embarrassing information on them.

Until this generation of Republicans passes from power we will continue to lose ground. And once Trump is gone the old order will return, and America will die.

BTW for those who do not understand, the so-called filibuster we have now is not a filibuster at all but a simple threat that tables a bill. In the old days the Senate rule was that there was unlimited to debate a bill, so you could keep one from getting a vote by flapping your gums for hours and hours. That then required a supermajority to invoke cloture, the ending of debate. To do a filibuster you had to have a bunch of people with stamina and an organization to keep the chatter going. It meant keeping enough people there to maintain a quorum.

Mitch McConnell changed it by using a parliamentary trick; just threatening a filibuster instead of actually doing one. The two parties agreed to use this so as to avoid the exhausting and time-sucking efforts required during an actual filibuster. That is called a "zombie" filibuster because it's not a filibuster at all; it's a dead body doing the filibustering.

Now we could well force the SAVE Act through if we forced a real filibuster, but our Senate Majority Leader won't hear of it. And his torn Mentor - Mitch McConnell - is the one who is pushing him to do this just to screw Trump and the MAGA wing of the party.

Democrats have repeatedly stolen elections from the GOP and the GOP has let them because they don't really want to win - they liked it when they were a minority party and didn't have to do anything. That SOB Trump suddenly forced them to do their jobs and they don't like it at all. Washington isn't about doing what is right - it's about feathering your own nest.

John Thune is a true nest featherer and needs to be gone. I hope Trump finds a way to punish him for this.

The SAVE ACT is something that should always have been a part of our electoral system. Almost every country on Earth requires I.D. to vote. And with millions of illegal aliens here that is more important to the United States than to many of the nations that actually require I.D.

There is only one solitary reason to oppose I.D. when voting ad that is so you can steal elections.

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Feminists and the Bufero Infernal

So why do so many liberal women in the West turn to Islam?

Islam is monumentally wrong but it is the only major religion that has not sold it's soul to post-modernism and still keeps a kind of moral framework and that is very appealing to many people who feel lost in this Western world of no values and extremist personal freedom which allows you to even choose what sex you will be. The sense of structure and normalcy is quite enticing to many, especially to women.

That is why many women become feminists in the first place; they are basically afraid of the world, afraid of freedom and think that Islam will provide the necessary framework to keep them safe and give them what they want. Feminism was never about empowerment but about reducing the power of men out of fear of them. Islam seems to offer that to many women, who think the moral code of Islam will constrain men. It's completely idiotic but people often are irrational.

The West is now like the Winds in Dante's Inferno, the Bufero Infernal as it was called, where souls were blown about randomly by ferocious winds, unable to find rest.

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From My Point of View YOU are Evil!

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a good essay with my own comments at the end:

MICHAEL SMITH

MAR 6

A bar chart showing that In many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good

Shortly after I posted the essay on "progressive” Christianity, I saw something that tied into my premise that "progressive” Christians are simply redefining traditional Christian tenets in ways that agree with their political agenda. That "something” was a new Pew survey (released yesterday) that showed the results of respondents in several countries being asked a simple question:

"Are the people in your country morally good or morally bad?”

In nearly every nation surveyed, large majorities said their fellow citizens were good people. They might complain about politicians or corruption, but they still believed the average person around them was fundamentally decent.

Except in the United States.

In America, the survey found that a majority of respondents believed their fellow citizens were morally bad rather than morally good. The most common explanation offered is political polarization and there is certainly some truth to that explanation. Our politics have become increasingly hostile, and the language used to describe opponents often sounds less like disagreement and more like moral condemnation. Political arguments are increasingly framed as battles between good people and bad people, but the deeper problem may not be that Americans have suddenly become less moral than people in other countries. It may be something more basic: Americans increasingly disagree about what morality even means.

Words like "good” and "bad” sound simple, but they are not. Their meaning depends on the moral framework someone is using. For most of American history, that framework was broadly shared. Even people who were not personally religious lived within a culture shaped by religious assumptions about right and wrong. Ideas such as honesty, responsibility, loyalty, charity, and restraint formed a common vocabulary of morality.

Americans argued constantly about policy, but they were generally speaking the same moral language when they did so.

Over the past several decades, that shared framework has weakened. Religious affiliation has declined, church attendance has fallen, and the number of Americans who identify with no religious tradition has grown steadily. As those institutions faded, the common moral vocabulary that accompanied them faded as well.

In its place, several competing moral systems have taken root.

One useful way to think about this divide comes from social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. His Moral Foundations Theory suggests that human beings tend to build their moral judgments on several basic instincts—things like care and harm, fairness, loyalty, respect for authority, and ideas of sanctity or purity. Different groups emphasize those foundations differently, which means they can look at the same event and reach very different moral conclusions.

You can see that dynamic in many of the political disputes that dominate modern headlines. One person may view abortion primarily as an issue of personal liberty, while another sees it as the destruction of innocent human life. One group may interpret immigration enforcement as cruelty, while another sees it as the defense of national sovereignty and the rule of law. One side sees traditional gender norms as oppressive, while another sees their rejection as social instability.

In each case, both sides believe they are defending moral principles. Yet because they are using different definitions of moral good, they inevitably conclude that their opponents are not merely mistaken but immoral and that distinction matters. When people disagree about policy, compromise is possible. When they believe their opponents are morally corrupt, compromise begins to feel like surrender. If the other side is not just wrong but evil, negotiation itself starts to look like betrayal.

Modern media and political culture intensify this dynamic. Disagreements are framed less as debates over policy and more as struggles between virtue and vice. Every controversy becomes evidence of moral failure, and every election is presented as a battle to save the country from the dangerous intentions of the other side. Given those circumstances, it becomes easy to see why Americans might tell pollsters that many of their fellow citizens are bad people. They are not simply describing their neighbors; they are judging the moral framework they believe those neighbors represent.

Ironically, that result does not necessarily mean Americans are less moral than people in other countries. In some ways it may mean the opposite. Americans remain intensely concerned with moral questions and argue about them constantly.

The problem is that we are increasingly arguing from entirely different moral dictionaries.

For most of the nation’s history, a shared framework of moral assumptions allowed people to argue without questioning the basic character of their neighbors. Today, that common framework appears to be fragmenting. People can look at the same events, policies, and cultural changes and reach completely opposite moral conclusions and when a society no longer agrees on what "good” means, it should not be surprising if many citizens begin to believe their neighbors are bad.

I thought it was interesting that Canada, a country that has abortion on demand and euthanasia, ranked highest on the morally good side.

The survey result may not truly measure a collapse in American morality at all, but it may instead reveal something more troubling: a country that no longer shares a common definition of it.

The last time America had a divide of this magnitude, we fount a bloody civil war to resolve it.

Mr. Birdnow responds:

Let us put this in a nutshell shall we? For a hundred years the Progressive Left has been in control of the educational system and has substituted their own atheistic moral code to replace the Judeo-Christian ethics of the past. Now they own the schools and universities, lock, stock, and barrel and there is indeed a competing moral code but it is the work of demonic forces aka the radical Left, and many believe it because it's what has been taught to them.

G.K. Chesterton put it best:

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

And that includes Judaism, which has also been rejected because it wasn't as much fun as neopaganism or outright atheism.

So the Left has tempted Americans with fleshly, worldly pleasures and has made anyone who tells them this will hurt them in the end into bogeymen, bad people who want to steal their enjoyment of life. Abortion is a great example; the best way to not have an abortion is to not get pregnant, and to do THAT the best way is to keep the office closed for business. But if you tell many Americans that they will think ill of you because they WANT to enjoy themselves in this way.

There very much is a moral problem in America, and the rest of the world too. Americans just clung to Christianity longer than Europe or the colonial nations. But how do you reach someone who thinks the only evil is the person who says there is evil? That is where our problem now lies.

Leftism is nothing but a substitute religion for Judeo-Christianity. And like all cheap substitutes it cannot tolerate the original around to show it up. That's all this is.

This reminds me of the Star Wars movie Revenge of the Sith where the newly seduced Anakin Skywalker aka Darth Vader tells Obi-Wan Kenobi "from my point of view it is the Jedi who are evil" even though he knows that not to be true. That's what the leftists who say their conservative fellow Americans are evil are actually doing.

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Media Geese and Ganders

This from Daniel Jupp

So looking at Ukraine and Iran together the mainstream position is apparently this:

If a nation has the world’s largest collection of nuclear weapons you should definitely want to go straight to full on war with no negotiations.

If a nation is developing a nuclear weapon it shows every indication it would use against you, you should never ever go to war with it and keep negotiating while it develops the nuclear weapon.

Am I clear on how the logic of this works?

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Altering Climate History

Timothy Birdnow

This is interesting. It was posted on my Facebook page:

I found a serious error in the IPCC framework. The error appears in two places in the AR6. This error completely changed the causation theory because it moved the peak of the current interglacial period from where it's actually happening TODAY to 6500 years ago, which is incorrect. That shift makes it look like the current interglacial period should have been declining for thousands of years, yet temperature is increasing, leading the ENTIRE consensus to believe CO2 was the culprit.

It's not! When you recalibrate based on the ACTUAL RAW DATA, it shows the interglacial period is STILL increasing and is reaching its maximum now!

Meaning, the climate is following the natural orbital patterns of the MILANKOVICH CYCLE and has be the entire time! The IPCC is wrong!

Here are both errors:

1. SPM Figure SPM.1 — the highest-visibility location:

https://www.ipcc.ch/.../chapter/summary-for-policymakers/

This is the Summary for Policymakers page. The specific claim — that the warmest multi-century Holocene period occurred around 6,500 years ago — appears in the caption to Figure SPM.1 on that page. This is the figure shown to policymakers and the public.

2. Chapter 2 FAQ — the plain-language restatement:

https://www.ipcc.ch/.../faqs/IPCC_AR6_WGI_FAQ_Chapter_02.pdf

The FAQ states directly: "Averaged over the globe, surface temperatures of the past decade were probably warmer than when the long cooling trend began around 6500 years ago. If so, we need to look back to at least the previous interglacial period, around 125,000 years ago, to find evidence for multi-centennial global surface temperatures that were warmer than now." IPCC

That is the error in plain text. The phrase "the long cooling trend began around 6500 years ago" is the load-bearing claim. It places the natural peak in the past, making all current warming appear to break outside the natural Holocene range. The Buizert 2021 TS_EDC column — raw NOAA data — shows the present at −54.73°C versus −56.25°C at 7,200 BP. Present is warmer. The cooling trend has not begun. The claim is wrong at the column level.

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