August 17, 2026
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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Political Schism and the Refugee Crisis
Timothy Birdnow
At American Thinker J.R. Dunn warns of the dangers to the Republican Party by the collapse of the traditional Democrats and the rise of the Democratic Socialists in the party.
AS Mr. Dunn points out we've rode in this rodeo before when a bunch of east coast liberals quit the Democratic Party over their soft-on-communism stance in the seventies and eighties. They joined the Republicans under the name Neocons and moved the GOP decidedly leftward, especially in terms of social and economic policies. The old Republicans, dispirited from decades of being in a political wilderness, largely left the political fight and the Neocons stepped in.
And controlled the GOP for decades. The disaster that was the George W. Bush Administration was the end result. Outside of a reasonable foreign policy the Bush tenure of office was atrocious, with liberal social and economic policies roaring back.
That is the danger of the rise of democratic socialism in the Democrat Party; the refugees will bring the terrible ideas that have ruined their own party with them. It is like moving Covid patients into nursing homes - we know what happened there.
We are going to have to welcome these folks; I see no way around that. But we have to make absolutely certain they stay far away from the levers of power.
As Dunn points out, the influx of these people may well reinvigorate the RINO wing of the party, and MAGA may become the minority. This could well lead to a schism of our own. While we have the enthusiasm and the numbers the RINO's have the money. If their numbers rise then we will lose.
This must be prevented at all cost.
Remember what we are trying to do here; we are not radicals by any means, we merely want to return to the pre-Obama era, preferably the Clinton era. Most MAGA folk just want to restore sanity. We aren't asking to go back to the Cooolidge era - just a few years back. America went mad under Obama.
But I doubt we'll get that with Democrat refugees. They are going to want to move this nation further left, just not quite so fast as the Democratic Socialists. In point of fact the Dem Socs are just more honest about what they seek. The regular Democrats always tried to hide what they truly wanted and usually got it by being patient. These young turk demsocs are just too impatient.
Anyone remember Troy? It is fitting the Odyssey just came out (even though the film was p.c. and sucked). It should be the cautionary tale for the Republicans.
Another aspect of this; Trump and MAGA will be denied credit for saving the Republican Party. When the history books are written the liberal historians will claim it was the rise of Democratic Socialism that saved the GOP because of this move by old line Democrats. They will call it the Great Switch, much like they claim the racist Southern Democrats all became Republicans and moved the GOP from supporting the repressed black community to becoming the Party of Jim Crow. That was a lie and so too will this notion that the Republicans were saved by the Great Switch. It was Trump and MAGA, but historians will claim otherwise.
At any rate, we live in interesting times. Historic times. The Democratic Party is dying before our very eyes. Hopefully it will split in two and both will forever remain two minority parties. But the GOP could split as well. And the American system is designed for two parties only - it will be interesting to see which parties collapse when the split comes.
Interesting times.
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Down the ICEhole
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats continue to commit political suicide.
THEY might hate ICE but the general public does not, and most of the populace supports kicking illegal aliens out of the country. They are going against the will of the People to appease a small minority.
The sponsor of the resolution - Michele Johnson - was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in Louisiana.
Some Democrats tried to alter the resolution to suggest reforming ICE and not eliminating it entirely but their efforts failed.
This resolution will still have to be approved by the DNC.
Let's hope they adopt it! It will just kill their electoral chances.
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Cautionary Tale
Timothy Birdnow
This is very sad.
Academic had resigned from the University of Cambridge last week
Arday was the poster boy for DEI, having been given his position at Cambridge while being wholly unqualified and in fact a plagiarist and liar who spun enormous tall tales and the university and the media just ate them up.
He was finally exposed for the fraud he was and fired from the university and now he's dead by his own hand.
In many ways I don't blame him; he was just following a path that was easy and advanced his interests. The real fault lies in the inherent racism of the university and of the whole system that seeks to overpromote "people of color" because they want to show that black or Hispanic people are as good if not better than whites or Asians and in their eagerness they take the less qualified.
Arday's story was always fantastical: he claimed he had a disability that left him mute until he was in his teens, that he didn't learn to read or write until he was well into high school, that he ran a charity and in fact ran hundreds of miles in just a few days to raise fantastic sums of money (no record of that), that he worked at a number of universities, like Ohio State, when in fact there was no record of his doing so. He simply lied about everything.
And he plagiarized most of his dissertation.
But why shouldn't he? Nobody ever called him out on it, and he saw early on it didn't matter if he actually did the work or not - just being there opened all the doors. He followed the path of least resistance.
Yes, there should be a moral code and he should not have done all that out of basic honesty, but apparently nobody ever taught him to be honorable or honest. No doubt he was taught that he had the deck stacked against him by "the Man" and that cutting a few corners to get what he wanted was acceptable. So he did.
Now he's dead.
Broad and easy is the path that leads to destruction. Arday is a cautionary tale.
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Shall Not Prevail Against It
Timothy Birdnow
Thy Kingdom Come.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew15:18
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The Great Ukrainians Money Laundering Machine
Timothy Birdnow
Billions of tax dollars went to international organizations promoting things antithetical to American values, the former Hunter Biden prosecutor in Ukraine says:
A lot of this money ended up in the Democratic coffers, no doubt.
From the Gateway Pundit article:
Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the official Joe Biden publicly threatened and forced out of office in 2016, claims in his book Biden’s Corruption and War: The True Story of the 1 Billion Dollar Prosecutor that hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars connected to Ukraine were recycled through political interests and "globalist networks.”
According to a Blaze Media column citing Shokin’s first-person account, massive sums of U.S. aid intended for Ukraine were recycled through political and globalist networks.
He alleges $350 billion in American taxpayer money was diverted into these opaque channels amid the chaos of war. Arms deals were tainted by corruption.
Wartime disorder allegedly facilitated trafficking of Ukrainian women and children. The book paints the conflict itself as a vehicle for enrichment and influence far beyond the battlefield.
Shokin was the prosecutor general investigating Mykola Zlochevsky and Burisma Holdings, the same corrupt energy company that put Hunter Biden on its board and paid him an eye-watering salary for "expertise” he didn’t have.
It always comes back to sex trafficking, doesn't it! That seems to go hand-in-hand with these money laundering schemes.
At any rate this explains why there was so much war lust, why the Democrats and the RINO Republicans have been so eager to continue fighting this war and funding what is essentially a lost cause. It's not the war they care about - it's the huge sums of money they can launder.
Yes, the war came after the Barisma scandal but it's clear there is a network laundering money in Ukraine. That network is still operational, which is why the invasion was a mixed blessing to the American Left; it meant more U.S. dollars being sent but it also put pressure on the network.
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Mangione Pleads Guilty
Timothy Birdnow
It's finally over.
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BREAKING: Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling the court, "I knew what I was doing."
Judge Margaret Garnett accepted his plea after asking whether he understands that he could face a maximum sentence of life in prison. Mangione answered, "Yes."
Attention now turns to his state murder trial, scheduled to begin Sept. 8, where his defense could attempt to raise a new double jeopardy claim following the federal plea.
That was his only option - plead guilty to the federal stalking charge so as to get a life sentence in prison or a very lengthy sentence anyway and maybe get out of the murder charges so as to avoid the death penalty. It really depends on judge Garnett, what kind of sentence she is going to impose. I always figured Mangione would get off easy on the state level anyway since this is New York and it would not be inconceivable that he would get a weak jury. But counting on that was risky because he certainly COULD have gotten the death penalty.
If the judge goes easy on him in sentencing here I imagine the state will go after him more aggressively. If she is harsh the state may dismiss charges to avoid a complicated and lengthy legal battle.
Any way you look at it Mr. Mangione is going to spend most of his life in prison. What a waste.
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August 14, 2026
Taking it to da House
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone remember the t.v. show House? House was a doctor who was famous for his diagnostic skills (and his obnoxious, acerbic personality). Well, House Star Hugh Laurie has a diagnosis that is spot on - and gotten him into a world of trouble with the wokeratti.
Seems Laurie is not just a great actor (which he is) but also a guy who knows his posterior from a hole in the ground.
And that just barely; Laurie is in fact a Labourite, not a Tory and certainly not a Reform party guy (he's from Britain and was educated at Cambridge). But he's not an idiot, apparently.
Good to know!
I have a copy of the House series and think I'll pop that in; should kill many hours which would otherwise be wasted on commercial t.v.
Speaking of t.v. and British folk, I found a channel on Zumo that is nothing but classic Dr. Who. It's nice; I can turn on Dr. Who any time I like! Dr. Who was on from 1963 until 1989 when the BBC canceled it. With a change in administration at the British network the show came back in 2005, after a first, unsuccessful attempt to resurrect it in 1996 with a made-for-television movie that apparently flopped.
The new show was excellent if a bit liberal, but it has become both increasingly gay and increasingly trans. They turned the Doctor into a woman, then into a gay black man. Viewership has seriously declined in recent years as a result. I suspect it will eventually get cancelled when everybody quits watching, although the Leftist BBC will no doubt hang on as long as they can.
BTW The show made a hard gay turn when Disney got involved with it. It's now a partnership between the BBC and Disney.
The show is currently in a hiatus.
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Stupid Curtis Sliwa Tricks
Timothy Birdnow
Oh no! Not Curtis Sliwa!
I always assumed Sliwa was Jewish. If he is then he's gone completely nuts.
He apparently was spouting off on "Islamophobia" and calling the 911 families "sore losers".
I fear he's been wearing that silly baret too long and it's too tight.
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Rollin' on Round River
Timothy Birdnow
Russiagate - worse than you know.
FTA:
The White House Government Transparency Task Force released a trove of intelligence community records on Wednesday, including a recovered FBI spreadsheet. It cataloged more than six dozen prominent Americans, foreigners, and organizations tied to the Biden-Ukraine scandal and Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment. Democrats, including the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and George Soros, were labeled "targets" of Russian disinformation. Conservatives investigating the Bidens, including Fox News, One America News, Michael Caputo, and Rudy Giuliani, were branded "conduits" spreading it.
It gets worse.
The FBI also tagged Trump's own Cabinet officials, Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo, along with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), as disinformation "conduits." For what? Investigating whether the Biden corruption allegations were true. The FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force signed off on every single assessment.
This didn't happen by accident.
The designations came from a secret counterintelligence operation codenamed "Round River," which FBI analysts launched during the 2020 election. They claimed they were fighting "malign foreign influence," but that’s not what it was about. In reality, it functioned as the mirror image of Crossfire Hurricane, the bureau's years-long pursuit of the fantasy that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. Where Crossfire Hurricane chased evidence that didn't exist, Round River buried evidence that did, including Hunter Biden's laptop.
The FBI basically staged an attempted coup and this cannot go unpunished. The FBI should be disbanded.
When the FBI was first created there was considerable resistance to a national police force. They got around it by limiting the scope of the FBI. But now this agency has gotten completely out of control. It's time for it to be dissolved.
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Judge Let's "Respectful" Would Be Cop Killer Off Easily for Being "NIce"
Timothy Birdnow
Liberals be crazy.
This guy used an AR 15 to try to take out a police helicopter and had multiple arrests on his record. He was not legally allowed to possess a firearm.
Here is the reasoning for dropping this guy's sentence from 41 years to just 13:
PostBill Melugin on X: "An ex con convicted of using an AR-15 to shoot and hit a LAPD helicopter w/ two officers in it last year has been sentenced to just under 13 years in prison instead of 41 years asked for by the prosecution after the judge said the defendant had acted friendly during the trial,"user avatarBill Melugin@BillMelugin_
An ex con convicted of using an AR-15 to shoot and hit a LAPD helicopter w/ two officers in it last year has been sentenced to just under 13 years in prison instead of 41 years asked for by the prosecution after the judge said the defendant had acted friendly during the trial, had a substance abuse problem, and said she had the discretion to not impose the gun enhancements the jury had found true against him.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mildred Escobedo was apparently swayed by the scumbag's charm. Douglas Byers, a sixty two year old man, thought it would be fun to shoot at flying cops, a sort of Blue skeet shooting contest. That wasn't enough to get him put away for the rest of his days though.
This chick needs to be in another line of work.
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Good Cop Bad Cop
Timothy Birdnow
You know, it was just a few months ago that the media and the Democrats were bitterly complaining the DOW was giving lobster dinners to servicemen and that they were being treated too well. Now they've turned 180*.
So which is it? Is Hegseth coddling the military, are they living off the fat of the land, or are they suffering deprivation and misery?
Newsflash - conditions on air craft carriers are NEVER a Club Med vacation cruise. They aren't air-conditioned, for instance. Their water is often somewhat brackish and it is hot. My brother was a PACE instructor, teaching college courses to sailors on several of them and his ship was deployed to the Middle East (he has a plaque thanking him for his service during Gulf war I) and he hated it. It was boiling hot all the time and even if you got a shower the water was warm and did not cool you. That is just the life of a sailor.
It's not supposed to be a luxury cruise; we are trying to make these guys tough. Fighting men need to be tough.
Now, when the DOW gave lobsters to military guys it was usually a treat for those going into some very hard conditions and it's always been done. But that was supposedly a bad thing.
Make up your minds media.
I would imagine our friend Bill will have a few thoughts on this as he was a submariner.
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