May 22, 2025
The Craven ACB
Timothy Birdnow
Amy Conehead-Barely shows again she's the reincarnation of David Souter.
Breaking | Supreme Court issues ruling in Oklahoma religious school case — Barrett recuses in 4-4 decision
Amy Conehead-Barely shows again she's the reincarnation of David Souter.
Breaking | Supreme Court issues ruling in Oklahoma religious school case — Barrett recuses in 4-4 decision
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The Bitter End - Not a Bang but a Whimper
Timothy Birdnow
Great Briain is not so great now. In fact I would call it Mediocre Britain these days. Utterly determined to divest themselves of what they perceive in their liberal minds as the "sin" of colonialism, the British government has done a deal with the Chinese-allied Mauritus to hand over the Indian Ocean island chain The Chago Archipelago which includes the critical base at Diego Garcia.
The sun has finally set on the British empire. Britain owned this island group, for instance. They also own a few niggling Pacific islands, including primarily the Pitcairn group, of which only one is inhabited (by the mutineers of the Bounty). The British gave independence to all her other Pacific colonies and protectorates. Britain still owns (probably not for long) the Faulkland Islands, which Argentina ahs long coveted and will probably get in time. Other than that they own a few uninhabited islands (like South Georgia) in the south Atlantic, and they own a few other islands in the Atlantic, primarily the small colony of Tristan Da Cunha (the most isolated inhabited place on Earth) Also Ascension Island, an uninhabited rock, is British. Britain also owns St. Helena, and a number of Carribean islands, notably Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla, and of course Bermuda. Lastly they own Gibralter.
Now they have one less piece of empire. As empires go Britain has become a pathetic doddering old coot.
So now they are completely out of business in the Indian Ocean. The sun has truly set over the empire.
So if war breaks out the British aren't coming. They would prefer to sit on their drizzly little island chain and pretend men are women and Arab and Moorish Muslims are British.
Farewell old friend. We'll miss you.
Great Briain is not so great now. In fact I would call it Mediocre Britain these days. Utterly determined to divest themselves of what they perceive in their liberal minds as the "sin" of colonialism, the British government has done a deal with the Chinese-allied Mauritus to hand over the Indian Ocean island chain The Chago Archipelago which includes the critical base at Diego Garcia.
The sun has finally set on the British empire. Britain owned this island group, for instance. They also own a few niggling Pacific islands, including primarily the Pitcairn group, of which only one is inhabited (by the mutineers of the Bounty). The British gave independence to all her other Pacific colonies and protectorates. Britain still owns (probably not for long) the Faulkland Islands, which Argentina ahs long coveted and will probably get in time. Other than that they own a few uninhabited islands (like South Georgia) in the south Atlantic, and they own a few other islands in the Atlantic, primarily the small colony of Tristan Da Cunha (the most isolated inhabited place on Earth) Also Ascension Island, an uninhabited rock, is British. Britain also owns St. Helena, and a number of Carribean islands, notably Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla, and of course Bermuda. Lastly they own Gibralter.
Now they have one less piece of empire. As empires go Britain has become a pathetic doddering old coot.
So now they are completely out of business in the Indian Ocean. The sun has truly set over the empire.
So if war breaks out the British aren't coming. They would prefer to sit on their drizzly little island chain and pretend men are women and Arab and Moorish Muslims are British.
Farewell old friend. We'll miss you.
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Admiral Convicted
Timothy Birdnow
This is your new Navy at work! Thanks Biden and Obama!
Retired Navy Admiral Found Guilty in Bribery Scheme Involving Executive Training Firm
This is what happens when political ideology and identity politics matter more than merit and a will to fight for and serve one's country.
Retired Admiral Robert Burke was found guilty of steering contracts to companies that gave him lucrative kickbacks. Three guesses why those companies were getting training contracts in the first place. Can you say DEI? I knew you could.
We just experienced the most corrupt period in our history, methinks. It's what you get when you put the Left in charge.
This is your new Navy at work! Thanks Biden and Obama!
Retired Navy Admiral Found Guilty in Bribery Scheme Involving Executive Training Firm
This is what happens when political ideology and identity politics matter more than merit and a will to fight for and serve one's country.
Retired Admiral Robert Burke was found guilty of steering contracts to companies that gave him lucrative kickbacks. Three guesses why those companies were getting training contracts in the first place. Can you say DEI? I knew you could.
We just experienced the most corrupt period in our history, methinks. It's what you get when you put the Left in charge.
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Smartmatic Destroyed Evidence
Timothy Birdnow
Did anyone think otherwise?
Fox News Accuses Smartmatic Executives Of Deleting Evidence Amid 2020 Defamation Lawsuit
OF COURSE Smart(ass)matics destroyed evidence; this was a grift from the very beginning. And Fox fell for i8t and settled - and in the process fired their top show host.
They have to cover their tracks now lest they be caught in their lies.
Did anyone think otherwise?
Fox News Accuses Smartmatic Executives Of Deleting Evidence Amid 2020 Defamation Lawsuit
OF COURSE Smart(ass)matics destroyed evidence; this was a grift from the very beginning. And Fox fell for i8t and settled - and in the process fired their top show host.
They have to cover their tracks now lest they be caught in their lies.
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Old Pennywise
Timothy Birdnow
How stupid do they think we are?
CBS News is actually saying Biden didn't get a prostate screening because he didn't want to spend the money![/linbk]
Like spending money stopped him at any time!
Let us remember some of the extreme waste he had in his budgets,prompting The Hill to call him the the most wasteful President in history from transgenderism to Green Energy.to freebies for colleges and research to see if mice could be turned trans, Biden never met a cost he didn't love.
So claims he worried about spending the money is beyond ridiculous.
How stupid do they think we are?
CBS News is actually saying Biden didn't get a prostate screening because he didn't want to spend the money![/linbk]
Like spending money stopped him at any time!
Let us remember some of the extreme waste he had in his budgets,prompting The Hill to call him the the most wasteful President in history from transgenderism to Green Energy.to freebies for colleges and research to see if mice could be turned trans, Biden never met a cost he didn't love.
So claims he worried about spending the money is beyond ridiculous.
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Biden (and Fauci) Lied, People Died
Timothy Birdnow
This has got to be a violation of some Federal law.
Biden admin covered up potentially deadly COVID vaccine side effects for months: Senate report
Hmm...maybe this is why Biden just announced he has prostate cancer and will likely die soon? Maybe he is trying to hide behind the "sick old man" shibboleth he used to slither out of trouble with Robert Hur.
From the article:
So Biden and the CDC and Anthony Fu Chi Fauci lied and people died. A lie of omission is still a lie.
If nothing else this should open everyone involved to massive lawsuits that will ruin them. Trump should allow these suits to go against the Federal government as well.
The Covid shot was a massive crime, on a scale the Nazis would have been quite proud to have achieved.
This has got to be a violation of some Federal law.
Biden admin covered up potentially deadly COVID vaccine side effects for months: Senate report
Hmm...maybe this is why Biden just announced he has prostate cancer and will likely die soon? Maybe he is trying to hide behind the "sick old man" shibboleth he used to slither out of trouble with Robert Hur.
From the article:
A report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said government officials knew as early as February 2021 about the harmful side effects but waited until June to inform the public of the inherent dangers.
'The federal government was very well aware of the myocarditis signal, particularly in young men.'
The report revealed that U.S. health officials "knew about the risks" the vaccines carried related to myocarditis, inflammation of heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the fibrous sac surrounding the heart, but "downplayed the health concern" and "delayed informing the public about the risk."
RELATED: HHS scrapping COVID jab recommendations for pregnant moms and kids: Report
The report, first obtained by the Daily Wire, showed that the U.S. government ignored warnings from several sources.
In February 2021, U.S. entities were notified of adverse effects by the Israeli Ministry of Health, as the country rolled out vaccines faster than America did. Still, CDC officials declined to make public the "large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine."
It is unclear whether the Israeli government made an effort to notify the public, either.
That same month, a CDC official who co-led the Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group emailed her colleagues about 19,536 vaccine adverse event reports (through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) that included 980 deaths after vaccination.
"Where known, the cause of death was often cardiovascular," the report read.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told the Daily Wire that the Biden administration did not want to increase "vaccine hesitancy" by reporting the side effects openly.
'The federal government was very well aware of the myocarditis signal, particularly in young men.'
The report revealed that U.S. health officials "knew about the risks" the vaccines carried related to myocarditis, inflammation of heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the fibrous sac surrounding the heart, but "downplayed the health concern" and "delayed informing the public about the risk."
RELATED: HHS scrapping COVID jab recommendations for pregnant moms and kids: Report
The report, first obtained by the Daily Wire, showed that the U.S. government ignored warnings from several sources.
In February 2021, U.S. entities were notified of adverse effects by the Israeli Ministry of Health, as the country rolled out vaccines faster than America did. Still, CDC officials declined to make public the "large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine."
It is unclear whether the Israeli government made an effort to notify the public, either.
That same month, a CDC official who co-led the Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group emailed her colleagues about 19,536 vaccine adverse event reports (through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) that included 980 deaths after vaccination.
"Where known, the cause of death was often cardiovascular," the report read.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told the Daily Wire that the Biden administration did not want to increase "vaccine hesitancy" by reporting the side effects openly.
So Biden and the CDC and Anthony Fu Chi Fauci lied and people died. A lie of omission is still a lie.
If nothing else this should open everyone involved to massive lawsuits that will ruin them. Trump should allow these suits to go against the Federal government as well.
The Covid shot was a massive crime, on a scale the Nazis would have been quite proud to have achieved.
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The Prostate Ploy
Timothy Birdnow
Apparently Screwless Joe threatened to quit the Obama Administrtion with claims of prostate cnacer way back when.
Biden Joked About Getting Prostate Cancer As a Reason to Resign from the Obama Administration – Back in 2015
Either Karma is one helluva bitch or Biden is lying even now.
Apparently Screwless Joe threatened to quit the Obama Administrtion with claims of prostate cnacer way back when.
Biden Joked About Getting Prostate Cancer As a Reason to Resign from the Obama Administration – Back in 2015
Either Karma is one helluva bitch or Biden is lying even now.
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OB Cubed Breaks the Plain of the Endzone
Timothy Birndow
One big beautiful law (assuming it passes in the Senate, of course)!
House Passes One Big Beutiful Bill
The Bill passed 215 to 214 and 1, with Thomas Massie and Warren Davisson of Ohio being the two turncoats.And Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris voted "present".
Not sure what Massie thinks he was going to accomplish by killing this bill. All that would do is raise taxes on everyone.
Now it's up to John Thune and his merry crash of Rinosceri to put this thing on Mr. Trump's desk and in short order.
One Big Beautiful Billi (OBcubed) isn't that much of a victory as it enshrines much of the Biden spending, but it's a start anyway.
Here are some of the goodies in the bill, as chronicled by the Daily Caller News Foundation:
One big beautiful law (assuming it passes in the Senate, of course)!
House Passes One Big Beutiful Bill
The Bill passed 215 to 214 and 1, with Thomas Massie and Warren Davisson of Ohio being the two turncoats.And Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris voted "present".
Not sure what Massie thinks he was going to accomplish by killing this bill. All that would do is raise taxes on everyone.
Now it's up to John Thune and his merry crash of Rinosceri to put this thing on Mr. Trump's desk and in short order.
One Big Beautiful Billi (OBcubed) isn't that much of a victory as it enshrines much of the Biden spending, but it's a start anyway.
Here are some of the goodies in the bill, as chronicled by the Daily Caller News Foundation:
Congressional Republicans are aiming to get the bill to the president’s desk by July 4. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has saidGOP lawmakers must act quickly to avoid a scenario where the U.S. government could default on its debt, which could come as soon as mid-July. The massive piece of legislation includes a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit.
The bill’s passage followed eleventh-hour changes to the sprawling package to get the conference’s holdouts on board.
Last-minute reforms to the bill include the accelerated implementation of Medicaid work requirements to Dec. 31, 2026, moving up the phase out of tax breaks for wind, solar and battery storage to 2028 and raising the state and local tax deduction cap to $40,000 from $10,000 for households earning up to $500,000 annually, which primarily benefits individuals living in high-tax blue states.
The budget reconciliation bill also extends the expiring provisions of the president’s 2017 tax cuts and delivers on several Trump campaign promisesby including provisions eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay while enacting a larger tax break available to Americans age 65 or older. The spending package will also devote more than $100 billion in new funding for border security and immigration enforcement and boost defense spending by nearly $150 billion.
House Republicans notably exceeded their target to slash spending by $1.5 trillion over a ten-year period in the budget bill.
A majority of the savings come from reducing federal spending on Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program while phasing out green energy tax credits.
Johnson gave a special shoutout to House Rules Committee chairman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, dubbing her the "iron lady of the House,” after she presided over a 22-hour long session to advance the bill from the rules panel with just two short breaks.
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Rolls to be SAVED
Timothy Birdnow
Not so sure this can't be hijacked by the Democrats. The system is online and thus they may well make legal citizens show up as aliens to suppress their vote.
Trump Admin Rolls Out new Tool to Stop non-citizens from Jijacking U.S. Elections
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility actt(SAVE) is an online system run by USCIS. As such it is vulnerable to hacks, or abuse. It uses social security numbers rather than Homeland Security numbers to track aliens.
Of course this is powerless if the aliens simply steal someone's social security number, as illegal aliens are want to do.
Still, it's an attempt and in combination with other things may make our elections more secure. The bill was sponsored by Chip Roy of Texas.
Not so sure this can't be hijacked by the Democrats. The system is online and thus they may well make legal citizens show up as aliens to suppress their vote.
Trump Admin Rolls Out new Tool to Stop non-citizens from Jijacking U.S. Elections
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility actt(SAVE) is an online system run by USCIS. As such it is vulnerable to hacks, or abuse. It uses social security numbers rather than Homeland Security numbers to track aliens.
Of course this is powerless if the aliens simply steal someone's social security number, as illegal aliens are want to do.
Still, it's an attempt and in combination with other things may make our elections more secure. The bill was sponsored by Chip Roy of Texas.
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May 21, 2025
GOP Losing Confidence
Timothy Birdnow
Is it any wonder when the GOP cannot even pass a tax cut and are squabbling like naughty children?
Democrats lead 45-42 in generic congressional ballot.
The road to success for the GOP is to move Trump's agenda forward legislatively. Thus far they don't seem much inclined to do so. Just like last time.
I've long argued Congress is nothing but a show; they WANT to keep things close, not win. The GOP in particular is eager to remain a minority so they can fundraise off that fact. Winning and doing things are not really helpful to them.
Certainly what has been happening with the tax bill illustrates the stupidity of the Republicans. They aren't elephants; elephants are smart. More like Brontosauruses; brains the size of walnuts.
Is it any wonder when the GOP cannot even pass a tax cut and are squabbling like naughty children?
Democrats lead 45-42 in generic congressional ballot.
The road to success for the GOP is to move Trump's agenda forward legislatively. Thus far they don't seem much inclined to do so. Just like last time.
I've long argued Congress is nothing but a show; they WANT to keep things close, not win. The GOP in particular is eager to remain a minority so they can fundraise off that fact. Winning and doing things are not really helpful to them.
Certainly what has been happening with the tax bill illustrates the stupidity of the Republicans. They aren't elephants; elephants are smart. More like Brontosauruses; brains the size of walnuts.
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George Wendt RIP
Timothy Birdnow
Last call for Norm at Cheers.
Actor George Wendt Passes Away
Last call for Norm at Cheers.
Actor George Wendt Passes Away
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Wrayofication
Timothy Birdnow
Dan Bongino appears to have sold out (much like Christopher Wray did previously); the former Fox host and conservative has announced "case closed" over the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler PA, saying "there is nothing there", no conspiracy involved. He apparently just took the word of those who were undoubtedly involved in the coverup.
There is zero chance this was a lone wolf attack. There are multiple warning signs it was a plot. This kid was walking around with a rifle at a secure event. He got onto the roof of the building which was within shooting distance and yet unsecured. There were police on lower floors and NOBODY on the roof. There were no drones in the air. A cop went to the roof, saw the kid with a gun, and promptly left. Then the kid was happily shot by secret service, and his body was cremated before the medical examiner had a chance to give it a proper examination.
Anyone thinks this is all a comedy of errors has their heads inserted in a most dark, bad smelling place.
Former Trump infobabe Liz Harrington was dumbfounded. She tweeted:
Apparently Bongino thinks investigations into J6 are a waste of time as well.
Bongino was a former Secret Service agent, and I suspect he's gone native. His subordinates may well have convinced him to spike these investigations "for the good of the bureau".
I'm losing confidence in many Trump appointees. We've had Pam Bondi who keeps sitting on her hands. We had the claim the Jersey drones were just hobbiest drones, exactly what Biden said and what people who actually saw them and know drones say cannot possibly be the case. And now this.
They're lying to us folks. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
Dan Bongino appears to have sold out (much like Christopher Wray did previously); the former Fox host and conservative has announced "case closed" over the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler PA, saying "there is nothing there", no conspiracy involved. He apparently just took the word of those who were undoubtedly involved in the coverup.
There is zero chance this was a lone wolf attack. There are multiple warning signs it was a plot. This kid was walking around with a rifle at a secure event. He got onto the roof of the building which was within shooting distance and yet unsecured. There were police on lower floors and NOBODY on the roof. There were no drones in the air. A cop went to the roof, saw the kid with a gun, and promptly left. Then the kid was happily shot by secret service, and his body was cremated before the medical examiner had a chance to give it a proper examination.
Anyone thinks this is all a comedy of errors has their heads inserted in a most dark, bad smelling place.
Former Trump infobabe Liz Harrington was dumbfounded. She tweeted:
"I’m sorry, the investigation into J13 is closed? Who were you briefed by? The people who came in, hosed down the crime scene, cremated the body, stonewalled congressional investigators, and lawyered up the family?
There is a "there” there because we know NOTHING about Crooks, or who he was talking to.
If this is true, they need to come out with everything they know about why and HOW a 20 year old pulled that off.
The former FBI director just called for ANOTHER hit on President Trump. We must get serious about what is going on.
Liz Harrington
There is a "there” there because we know NOTHING about Crooks, or who he was talking to.
If this is true, they need to come out with everything they know about why and HOW a 20 year old pulled that off.
The former FBI director just called for ANOTHER hit on President Trump. We must get serious about what is going on.
Liz Harrington
Apparently Bongino thinks investigations into J6 are a waste of time as well.
Bongino was a former Secret Service agent, and I suspect he's gone native. His subordinates may well have convinced him to spike these investigations "for the good of the bureau".
I'm losing confidence in many Trump appointees. We've had Pam Bondi who keeps sitting on her hands. We had the claim the Jersey drones were just hobbiest drones, exactly what Biden said and what people who actually saw them and know drones say cannot possibly be the case. And now this.
They're lying to us folks. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
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There's a Yawn in my Ear!
Timothy Birdnow
Isn't it odd how the media couldn't care less when it's terrorism against conservatives?
Fertility Clinic Bombing Suspectt Declared Waron Pro-Lifers in Alleged Manifesto
We never heard the end of it when a few folks walked into the Captiol building to take pictures and selfies but when there is real, honest to goodness domestic terrorism against pro-lifers it's yawn time.
I wonder how the lying Southern Poverty Law Center will try to pin this on "right wing terrorism" as they are always trying to do?
FTA:
Isn't it odd how the media couldn't care less when it's terrorism against conservatives?
Fertility Clinic Bombing Suspectt Declared Waron Pro-Lifers in Alleged Manifesto
We never heard the end of it when a few folks walked into the Captiol building to take pictures and selfies but when there is real, honest to goodness domestic terrorism against pro-lifers it's yawn time.
I wonder how the lying Southern Poverty Law Center will try to pin this on "right wing terrorism" as they are always trying to do?
FTA:
In an alleged online manifesto, the suspect shared his anti-natalist beliefs.
"The end goal is for the truth (Efilism) to win, and once it does, we can finally begin the process of sterilizing this planet of the disease of life," it reportedly read. "Life can only continue as long as people hold the delusional belief that it is not a zero sum game causing senseless torture, and messes it can never, or only partially, clean up."
"I think we need a war against pro-lifers," it added.
The alleged manifesto also encouraged viewers to "download the recorded stream of my suicide & bombing of an IVF clinic."
These are the kooks being produced by our modern educational system. Naturally the media won't report this.
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It's Man's Fault
Timothy Birdnow
Our old friend Dr. Roy Spencer has some solid research proving the Urban Heat Island Effect is at the root of the modest planetary warming being blamed on carbon dioxide.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2025/05/our-urban-heat-island-paper-has-been-published/
Spencer showed that:
The Urban Heat Island Effect is a fancy name for the obvious principle that cities or urbanized areas are warmer due to heat sources and even body heat. Also land use changes mean it's warmer; cut down a forest and pave it with blacktop and the land will be warmer.
For decades Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. of UC Boulderf argued this case and was largely dismissed by the media and even most climatologists. Dr. Spencer told me "he's monomaniacal on the subject" about Pielke, or something to that effect anyway. But Spencer decided to look into it and voila! Pielke was correct.
And this comports with what we know about the surface temperature stations. Meteorologist Anthony Watts did a survey of all U.S. temperature stations around the country and the results were eye-opening; stations that had at one time been isolated in the country were now surrounded by suburbia. Many were cited near air-conditioning compressors, or by sewage treatment plants, or other heat sources. Visit www.surfacestations.org for the whole enchilada.
Planetary warming is most likely entirely an artifact of urban warming.
Which brings up another point which I just had to argue recently with a liberal; much of this business about "increasing natural disasters" stems not from any increase in natural calamities but because there are more people building in places they ought not, and with 24 hour news cycles what would have been a very minor story on the back page of a local newspaper is now trumpeted as a disaster. Yes, there is more property damage, but that's what happens when you, say, build in a flood plain where people in bygone days had the good sense not to build.
Take for example the town of Grafton Illinois. Grafton was a quaint, sleepy little village along the Great River Road at the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. There were a lot of old building that were sitting vacant and degrading because the town floods every couple of years, and if there is a BIG flood the whole thing is under water. But like everything else these days people thought it was cool, and started renovating the properties there. Now they are building all sorts of new things, condos, a huge marina, a skylift to a wine garden on top of the bluffs, etc. It's now a major resort town. But it still floods every two years (leading the owner of the Piasa winery to move his operation to the top of the bluffs) and if another huge flood hits the whole thing will be under water. Then the insurance companies will be hit with a staggering bill and the government will likely bail the town out.
The point is Grafton should never have been so developed; it's the flood plain. It's really nice, I'll grant you that, but it was just foolish. And it will be added to the numbers that will be presented when the Gang Green claims "climate change" is leading to more and worse disasters. It's not true.
All of our problems are man made, but not the way the environmentalists claim. They are principally artifacts of how we tabulate data.
Our old friend Dr. Roy Spencer has some solid research proving the Urban Heat Island Effect is at the root of the modest planetary warming being blamed on carbon dioxide.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2025/05/our-urban-heat-island-paper-has-been-published/
Spencer showed that:
"65% of the U.S. linear warming trend between 1895 and 2023 was due to increasing population density at the suburban and urban stations; 8% of the warming was due to urbanization at rural stations. Most of that (urban heat island) effect warming occurred before 1970.”
The Urban Heat Island Effect is a fancy name for the obvious principle that cities or urbanized areas are warmer due to heat sources and even body heat. Also land use changes mean it's warmer; cut down a forest and pave it with blacktop and the land will be warmer.
For decades Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. of UC Boulderf argued this case and was largely dismissed by the media and even most climatologists. Dr. Spencer told me "he's monomaniacal on the subject" about Pielke, or something to that effect anyway. But Spencer decided to look into it and voila! Pielke was correct.
And this comports with what we know about the surface temperature stations. Meteorologist Anthony Watts did a survey of all U.S. temperature stations around the country and the results were eye-opening; stations that had at one time been isolated in the country were now surrounded by suburbia. Many were cited near air-conditioning compressors, or by sewage treatment plants, or other heat sources. Visit www.surfacestations.org for the whole enchilada.
Planetary warming is most likely entirely an artifact of urban warming.
Which brings up another point which I just had to argue recently with a liberal; much of this business about "increasing natural disasters" stems not from any increase in natural calamities but because there are more people building in places they ought not, and with 24 hour news cycles what would have been a very minor story on the back page of a local newspaper is now trumpeted as a disaster. Yes, there is more property damage, but that's what happens when you, say, build in a flood plain where people in bygone days had the good sense not to build.
Take for example the town of Grafton Illinois. Grafton was a quaint, sleepy little village along the Great River Road at the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. There were a lot of old building that were sitting vacant and degrading because the town floods every couple of years, and if there is a BIG flood the whole thing is under water. But like everything else these days people thought it was cool, and started renovating the properties there. Now they are building all sorts of new things, condos, a huge marina, a skylift to a wine garden on top of the bluffs, etc. It's now a major resort town. But it still floods every two years (leading the owner of the Piasa winery to move his operation to the top of the bluffs) and if another huge flood hits the whole thing will be under water. Then the insurance companies will be hit with a staggering bill and the government will likely bail the town out.
The point is Grafton should never have been so developed; it's the flood plain. It's really nice, I'll grant you that, but it was just foolish. And it will be added to the numbers that will be presented when the Gang Green claims "climate change" is leading to more and worse disasters. It's not true.
All of our problems are man made, but not the way the environmentalists claim. They are principally artifacts of how we tabulate data.
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Miss Mistreated
Timothy Birdnow
I had a friendly disagreement with a liberal college professor from Boston yesterday who claimed much more money was spent on men's health issues than women's, and she pointed to prostate cancer as proof women get the short end of the stick. I pointed out that women have whole branches of medicine dedicated solely to them; where is the equivalent of an OBGYN for men? There isn't one. The closest you will come will be a urologist, and most urologists treat both sexes.
But the cancer business was just plain wrong and I said so; I asked how much money was spent on breast cancer over prostate cancer. She dismissed the point, being certain that the conventional wisdom (in liberal circles) had to be correct. But is it"
I found these links and copied the pertinent passages:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5836059/
"The NIH spending for prostate cancer in 2015 was US$288 million, which is less than half that for breast cancer , despite the fact that 40,000 patients died from prostate cancer, just 20% less than breast cancer patients."
https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/prostate-and-breast-cancer-funding
"The US government invests about 2.5 times more money into breast cancer research than it does prostate cancer research, averaging around 700 million dollars"
https://news.med.miami.edu/study-points-to-significant-disparities-in-federal-cancer-research-funding/
"Dr. Kumar noted that breast cancer research received approximately 50 times more funding than stomach cancer in 2018"
https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/news/research-funding-lacking-for-cancers-with-high-mortality-rates/
"Jan 22, 2024 · Cancers with the most funding were breast cancer ($3.75 billion), leukemia ($2.00 billion), and lung cancer ($1.60 billion)."
Editor's note; the last doesn't even put prostate cancer in the top three, as you no doubt realized.
Granted men can get breast cancer too but it's much more rare in men than women. Women cannot get prostate cancer since they don't have a prostate.
But the point is the claims women get ignored by medicine because we livein a patriarchal society is a pure shibboleth, something repeated over and over by feminists to make women feel aggreived. But it's clearly not true.
I did see where some women tried to argue that breast cancer is underfunded compared to prostate cancer because more people die of the former rather than the latter, but even that point falls short as the first quote proves.
No, if anybody gets the short end of the stick it's men.
I can prove this assertion quite easily, just by pointing out the disparity between male and female lifespans; on average men in America die at the age of 74.8 years as of 2022. Women die on average at 80,2 years, according to the CDC. And while young boys tend to be reckless and get killed, pumping up the numbers, young girls these days are pretty much equally reckless. Oh, and I might add that life expectancy for white males is declining despite advances in medical care. Now why do you suppose that is?
One helluva poor patriarchy, don't you think?
The fact is women always did have a pretty good gig. In bygone days the men had to provide and the women kept the house and raised the children. That was a BIG deal; providing meant chasing down dangerous animals, and later working in the fields until you just about dropped from exhaustion, or working deep in the bowels of the Earth as a miner, or 14 hour days in a steel foundry. The women had to work hard, no question, but it was cleaner, safer, and less soul-crushing labor. Only when technology made most jobs relatively pleasant did the situation reverse, and immediately women began demanding access to what men did. But then they complained about "patriarchy" and how mistreated they were - especially when the men refused to start doing women's work along with their own.
So often women complain about men not helping with the housework, but they forget it's usually the men who are taking care of the cars, doing repairs around the house, cutting the lawn and gardening, etc. There is a division of labor by necessity. But that is forgotten, especially by the feminists who seek to make women dissatisfied. The reality is the changes to society promoted by feminists is what made women dissatisfied; they have been forced to largely act like men. They know in their hearts this is wrong, and long to be treated like a lady, not another dude in the locker room. But they can't let go of the desire to usurp men's roles because they have been taught their whole lives that they have tobe "tough as men" and act just like men. But they don't like being treated like men when they seek to compete.
Basically the women's movement monumentally screwed over women. And the lies still come. This business about funding only research that benefits men is one example.
At any rate if women want a better deal they need to stop pretending their are mistreated. It's no picnic being a woman, but it sure isn't any better being a man. Just ask any trans individual; it sucks to the point where a lot of guys now are trying to change their sex just to be accepted and not treated so terribly.
THAT is the reason why trans male-to-females are on the rise.
I had a friendly disagreement with a liberal college professor from Boston yesterday who claimed much more money was spent on men's health issues than women's, and she pointed to prostate cancer as proof women get the short end of the stick. I pointed out that women have whole branches of medicine dedicated solely to them; where is the equivalent of an OBGYN for men? There isn't one. The closest you will come will be a urologist, and most urologists treat both sexes.
But the cancer business was just plain wrong and I said so; I asked how much money was spent on breast cancer over prostate cancer. She dismissed the point, being certain that the conventional wisdom (in liberal circles) had to be correct. But is it"
I found these links and copied the pertinent passages:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5836059/
"The NIH spending for prostate cancer in 2015 was US$288 million, which is less than half that for breast cancer , despite the fact that 40,000 patients died from prostate cancer, just 20% less than breast cancer patients."
https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/prostate-and-breast-cancer-funding
"The US government invests about 2.5 times more money into breast cancer research than it does prostate cancer research, averaging around 700 million dollars"
https://news.med.miami.edu/study-points-to-significant-disparities-in-federal-cancer-research-funding/
"Dr. Kumar noted that breast cancer research received approximately 50 times more funding than stomach cancer in 2018"
https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/news/research-funding-lacking-for-cancers-with-high-mortality-rates/
"Jan 22, 2024 · Cancers with the most funding were breast cancer ($3.75 billion), leukemia ($2.00 billion), and lung cancer ($1.60 billion)."
Editor's note; the last doesn't even put prostate cancer in the top three, as you no doubt realized.
Granted men can get breast cancer too but it's much more rare in men than women. Women cannot get prostate cancer since they don't have a prostate.
But the point is the claims women get ignored by medicine because we livein a patriarchal society is a pure shibboleth, something repeated over and over by feminists to make women feel aggreived. But it's clearly not true.
I did see where some women tried to argue that breast cancer is underfunded compared to prostate cancer because more people die of the former rather than the latter, but even that point falls short as the first quote proves.
No, if anybody gets the short end of the stick it's men.
I can prove this assertion quite easily, just by pointing out the disparity between male and female lifespans; on average men in America die at the age of 74.8 years as of 2022. Women die on average at 80,2 years, according to the CDC. And while young boys tend to be reckless and get killed, pumping up the numbers, young girls these days are pretty much equally reckless. Oh, and I might add that life expectancy for white males is declining despite advances in medical care. Now why do you suppose that is?
One helluva poor patriarchy, don't you think?
The fact is women always did have a pretty good gig. In bygone days the men had to provide and the women kept the house and raised the children. That was a BIG deal; providing meant chasing down dangerous animals, and later working in the fields until you just about dropped from exhaustion, or working deep in the bowels of the Earth as a miner, or 14 hour days in a steel foundry. The women had to work hard, no question, but it was cleaner, safer, and less soul-crushing labor. Only when technology made most jobs relatively pleasant did the situation reverse, and immediately women began demanding access to what men did. But then they complained about "patriarchy" and how mistreated they were - especially when the men refused to start doing women's work along with their own.
So often women complain about men not helping with the housework, but they forget it's usually the men who are taking care of the cars, doing repairs around the house, cutting the lawn and gardening, etc. There is a division of labor by necessity. But that is forgotten, especially by the feminists who seek to make women dissatisfied. The reality is the changes to society promoted by feminists is what made women dissatisfied; they have been forced to largely act like men. They know in their hearts this is wrong, and long to be treated like a lady, not another dude in the locker room. But they can't let go of the desire to usurp men's roles because they have been taught their whole lives that they have tobe "tough as men" and act just like men. But they don't like being treated like men when they seek to compete.
Basically the women's movement monumentally screwed over women. And the lies still come. This business about funding only research that benefits men is one example.
At any rate if women want a better deal they need to stop pretending their are mistreated. It's no picnic being a woman, but it sure isn't any better being a man. Just ask any trans individual; it sucks to the point where a lot of guys now are trying to change their sex just to be accepted and not treated so terribly.
THAT is the reason why trans male-to-females are on the rise.
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McCaskill: Americans Aren't Smart Enough to Kep Trump from White House
Timothy Birdnow
We used to call her "Air Claire" when she was a Senator because she had an airplane she never paid any taxes on. McCaskill was an atrocious senator who won election pretty much through a massive vote fraud then was re-elected by running largely unopposed when the GOP pulled all support for Todd Akin. Had Jim Talent contested the first race he would have won. Had the GOP just run ads AGAINST McCaskill Akin would have won.
At any rate, she should have slunk away in shame, but here she is shooting her mouth off yet again.
McCaskill: Americans ‘Not Smart Enough’ to Keep Trump from White House
She's not smart enough to keep her mouth shut.
We used to call her "Air Claire" when she was a Senator because she had an airplane she never paid any taxes on. McCaskill was an atrocious senator who won election pretty much through a massive vote fraud then was re-elected by running largely unopposed when the GOP pulled all support for Todd Akin. Had Jim Talent contested the first race he would have won. Had the GOP just run ads AGAINST McCaskill Akin would have won.
At any rate, she should have slunk away in shame, but here she is shooting her mouth off yet again.
McCaskill: Americans ‘Not Smart Enough’ to Keep Trump from White House
She's not smart enough to keep her mouth shut.
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May 20, 2025
Who are the Misogynists?
Timothy Birdnow
Donald Trump just signed a bill making revenge porn ia federal offense.
Strange; the Democrats claim to be all about women yet THEY never bothered to combat this vile practice. Who is misogynistic here? Trump shows he's got the women's backs; Biden only grabbed their backs (the lower portion).
I would add Trump has taken steps to protect women, from men in their locker rooms or playing on their sports teams to now this. What did Joe do but sniff their hair? And insist dudes be allowed in women's prisons?
Donald Trump just signed a bill making revenge porn ia federal offense.
Strange; the Democrats claim to be all about women yet THEY never bothered to combat this vile practice. Who is misogynistic here? Trump shows he's got the women's backs; Biden only grabbed their backs (the lower portion).
I would add Trump has taken steps to protect women, from men in their locker rooms or playing on their sports teams to now this. What did Joe do but sniff their hair? And insist dudes be allowed in women's prisons?
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It's Not Unusal Tornado Weather
Timothy Birdnow
I largely disagree. What we are seeing IS entirely normal - it's just we didn't have so many people and so many building in the past as we do now. We are always building in flood zones, in earthquake zones, in tornado alley. We do this and are suprised that we are sustaining increasing damage and cost. What did everyone think?
One "Apocalyptic Disaster” After Another Right Now?
BTW I live in St. Louis and the tornado that hit us was not "massive" but simply hit in a very bad spot - the Central West End, which is heavily populated. It's not all that unusual though; the worst tornado disaster in St. Louis hit in the same neighborhood in 1927 - either an F3 or F4 (historians are uncertain). Also, in 1959 a big tornado swept through a neighborhood not too far from the Central West End, obliterating it to the point the whole neighborhood had to be torn down. In it's place an entertainment district was built - the world famous Gaslight square (which has since been torn down as the neighborhood around it makes Haarlem or Watts look gentrified.) So big tornadoes in this spot are not uncommon.
I would also remind everyone of the F4 monster tornado that flattened Joplin, Mo. back in 2011.
People also need to remember that in 1974 the U.S. was hit by over a hundred tornadoes. So this isn't unusual. 334 people died in this super-tornadic event.
Kentucky often gets hit by tornadoes; it's largely flat once you get past the mountains. Nice land for tornaodoes to form and move. Again, not all that unusual.
At any rate we've always had these kinds of disasters but in times past they were local and at most got a one-line mention in newspapers. Now, with 24 hour coverage, we have them trumpeted to all the world all the time. A dust storm is not at all unusual for Chicago, for example, but in bygone times we just didn't hear about it. On May 10, 1934 Chicago got hit with a huge dust cloud, as did so many other places during the Dust Bowl. Chicago sits on the prairie after all. Dust storms and locusts cometh from prairies. Chicago also got hit with a big dust storm in 1985.
While there may be some climatic event that is triggering these weather phenomena, they certainly aren't new.
Do read the comments, some are very good, many quite conspiratorial.
I largely disagree. What we are seeing IS entirely normal - it's just we didn't have so many people and so many building in the past as we do now. We are always building in flood zones, in earthquake zones, in tornado alley. We do this and are suprised that we are sustaining increasing damage and cost. What did everyone think?
One "Apocalyptic Disaster” After Another Right Now?
BTW I live in St. Louis and the tornado that hit us was not "massive" but simply hit in a very bad spot - the Central West End, which is heavily populated. It's not all that unusual though; the worst tornado disaster in St. Louis hit in the same neighborhood in 1927 - either an F3 or F4 (historians are uncertain). Also, in 1959 a big tornado swept through a neighborhood not too far from the Central West End, obliterating it to the point the whole neighborhood had to be torn down. In it's place an entertainment district was built - the world famous Gaslight square (which has since been torn down as the neighborhood around it makes Haarlem or Watts look gentrified.) So big tornadoes in this spot are not uncommon.
I would also remind everyone of the F4 monster tornado that flattened Joplin, Mo. back in 2011.
People also need to remember that in 1974 the U.S. was hit by over a hundred tornadoes. So this isn't unusual. 334 people died in this super-tornadic event.
Kentucky often gets hit by tornadoes; it's largely flat once you get past the mountains. Nice land for tornaodoes to form and move. Again, not all that unusual.
At any rate we've always had these kinds of disasters but in times past they were local and at most got a one-line mention in newspapers. Now, with 24 hour coverage, we have them trumpeted to all the world all the time. A dust storm is not at all unusual for Chicago, for example, but in bygone times we just didn't hear about it. On May 10, 1934 Chicago got hit with a huge dust cloud, as did so many other places during the Dust Bowl. Chicago sits on the prairie after all. Dust storms and locusts cometh from prairies. Chicago also got hit with a big dust storm in 1985.
While there may be some climatic event that is triggering these weather phenomena, they certainly aren't new.
Do read the comments, some are very good, many quite conspiratorial.
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Going to the Autopen
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like the government has identified the unapenner who ran America while Joe Biden slept.
BOMBSHELL: Staffers Who Wielded Biden’s Autopen Identified, Subpoenas Incoming
I'm really not sure what crimes can be charged. Forgery, for one. Fraud. Perhaps racketeering. But crimes they were. This also means every action signed by the autopen is null and void; clearly Joe Biden wasn't making those decisions.
Certainly the culprits should go to the pen, the autopen in this case.
At any rate James Comer announced he now knows the parties involved in this scam and that there will be an accounting.
We should start with an obvious one; file charges against Hunter Biden. There is a rock-solid case against him and this would force the Democrat's pet judges to rule he can't be charged because of the pardon. This would force the case upstairs. Eventually SCOTUS will have to take it and make a ruling. Granted, it's not certain what SCOTUS will do (it never is)but I find it hard to believe they would let stand executive orders and pardons written by some flunky with Biden's name attached.
Also, this would force Hunter's defense team to put Biden himself on the witness stand. We would then be in a position to force him to testify under oath, in peril of purjory.
At any rate we've got the chance to overturn much of what Joe Biden did over the last four years. It's time to move, and move hard.
Looks like the government has identified the unapenner who ran America while Joe Biden slept.
BOMBSHELL: Staffers Who Wielded Biden’s Autopen Identified, Subpoenas Incoming
I'm really not sure what crimes can be charged. Forgery, for one. Fraud. Perhaps racketeering. But crimes they were. This also means every action signed by the autopen is null and void; clearly Joe Biden wasn't making those decisions.
Certainly the culprits should go to the pen, the autopen in this case.
At any rate James Comer announced he now knows the parties involved in this scam and that there will be an accounting.
We should start with an obvious one; file charges against Hunter Biden. There is a rock-solid case against him and this would force the Democrat's pet judges to rule he can't be charged because of the pardon. This would force the case upstairs. Eventually SCOTUS will have to take it and make a ruling. Granted, it's not certain what SCOTUS will do (it never is)but I find it hard to believe they would let stand executive orders and pardons written by some flunky with Biden's name attached.
Also, this would force Hunter's defense team to put Biden himself on the witness stand. We would then be in a position to force him to testify under oath, in peril of purjory.
At any rate we've got the chance to overturn much of what Joe Biden did over the last four years. It's time to move, and move hard.
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A Convenient Diagnosis
Timothy Birdnow
Why we should question the diagnosis (and timing) of Joe Biden's prostate cancer.
It's being pushed to end criticisms of the former first vegetable,er, President. Such a diagnosis should have been made while he was in office, which suggests strongly it WAS but was kept from the American People (a blood test would tell). Even now the sympathy for Biden could well prevent prosecution of Mr. Biden as new facts about corruption and coverups come to light.
Biden's illness provides cover for the Democrats. They are now all calling for a moratorium on criticisms of Biden and of those around him who perpetrated the fraud. Very convenient.
While we can wish the man well and hope he recovers that is not an excuse for letting matters drop; this man and more importantly those around him and the media perpetrated a fraud on the American People, knowingly so. There must accountability. And Joe Biden defrauded America in so many ways over the years. Justice demands his prosecution.
This ain't politics; it's doing one's duty.
Why we should question the diagnosis (and timing) of Joe Biden's prostate cancer.
It's being pushed to end criticisms of the former first vegetable,er, President. Such a diagnosis should have been made while he was in office, which suggests strongly it WAS but was kept from the American People (a blood test would tell). Even now the sympathy for Biden could well prevent prosecution of Mr. Biden as new facts about corruption and coverups come to light.
Biden's illness provides cover for the Democrats. They are now all calling for a moratorium on criticisms of Biden and of those around him who perpetrated the fraud. Very convenient.
While we can wish the man well and hope he recovers that is not an excuse for letting matters drop; this man and more importantly those around him and the media perpetrated a fraud on the American People, knowingly so. There must accountability. And Joe Biden defrauded America in so many ways over the years. Justice demands his prosecution.
This ain't politics; it's doing one's duty.
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