April 13, 2026
Swalwell Out
Timothy Birdnow
Eric Swallows, er, Swalwell, the home of the Fang Fang, is out of the California gubernatorial race.
The deranged Trump-hating, Chinese spy loving has been brought down by accusations of sexual abuse by staffers, who have accused the Congressman of very inappropriate behavior.
No surprise; this is a guy who took up with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
There is no word from Democrats if they will support Republican efforts to remove him from Congress but you can bet your bottom dollar (all that you have left if you are from California) that they will fight to keep him in, arguing it's the "people's decision" and not theirs. On the other hand maybe they will choose to go the special election route after all, since they still have a good chance of winning the seat with a replacement.
Even Adam Schiff called for Swalwell to step down. That's something to lose Schiff.
One must suspect that the Democrats looked at internal polling and decided Swalwell would lose and forced him out this way. It's their MO.
We'll know if they don't hold a special election to replace him in Congress; if they do then it means his numbers were too low. If they don't it means they just feared the political fallout. But the point is moot; either way they threw this guy under the bus.
I wish he'd stayed in, frankly; we'd have a great opportunity to retake the Governorship there if he had.
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Trump Closes Strait of Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
It's a pleasure to watch Trump in action, isn't it!
Hopefully we'll start confiscating any ships that do pay the Ayatollahs.
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April 12, 2026
Storm Intensity Declining
Timothy Birdnow
I thought Climate Change was causing more and worsening storms!
Bjørn Lomborg
April 6 at 6:15 AM
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Did you know that hurricanes hitting the US are not more but slightly less frequent? That climate disaster costs are declining?
That our current climate policies costs a lot and deliver little?
You can read more in my peer-reviewed article here https://sciencedirect.com/.../article/pii/S0040162520304157
A word from Tim:
One commenter suggested this is a coefficient of better warning systems. I pointed out that warning systems won't let you move your house out of the path of a hurricane. I also pointed out that drownings have been declining for twenty years now despite allegedly increasing weather disasters - how could that be? In the end it's clear that extreme weather events are declining if anything. oh, and this despite the fact that we are now building in flood plains and other places that in bygone days we avoided for just such a problem.
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China Directly Arming Iran?
Timothy Birdnow
It's not surprising they want to do this but it is a major escalation and President Trump will retaliate.
The report said that China was supplying hand-held anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down our planes. The Pentagon says that is what the Iranians used to take down a fighter jet recently.
Naturally the Chicoms denied it.
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Iran to Head U.N. Counterterrorism
Timothy Birdnow
You can't make this stuff up.
As if we needed any more evidence the United Nations is just a sad little joke.
This is obviously a slap at the United States and intended as a direct insult to President Trump and the American People, nothing more.
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The Irish are Revolting
Timothy Birdnow
Ireland is mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore!
Mad about high fuel prices and a host of other things caused by Ireland's leftist government (such as massive Muslim immigration) people are taking to the streets on the Emerald Isles and blocking traffic and otherwise forcing the Irish economy to a halt.
I fear it's too little too late and it was the Irish People who put these radicals in power in the first place. This will probably peter out like the trucker protests in Canada or the farmer protests in the Netherlands did.
But maybe not; you never know.
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April 11, 2026
Did the Maunder Minimum Cause the Salem Witch Trials?
Richard Cronin
Just got to thinking about the folly of even declaring a "global temperature” and the assumptions of a homogeneous terrestrial system for heat distribution tied to radiation.
Anyone who has sailed on the open ocean will observe that on a relatively balmy day the bottoms of the clouds are invariably as flat as a pancake. The clouds sit at a uniform height above the flat ocean surface. But as warm, moist ocean air moves over land the air mass flows up over coastal plains and uplands. It gains elevation to start condensing and forming the aerosol droplets of clouds. Clouds shade the land and provide reflective albedo, cooling things off. Then precipitation.
Now then, 2/3rds of the continental land mass is in the Northern Hemisphere. We witness how the Japan Current delivers moist air, clouds and precipitation from the Aleutian Islands down to the rainy Pacific Northwest. The North Atlantic Gulf Stream delivers clouds and precipitation across Iceland, Norway, Ireland, the UK, all the way down to the Iberian peninsula.
In the Southern Hemisphere we have the clouds and rains across the Argentinian pampas and Tierra del Fuego but the interiors of Australia and South Africa are quite arid and cloudless.
Overcast conditions dominate in the Northern Hemisphere.
This relates to solar activity and Forbush Reductions wherein solar proton events diminish cloud cover. The Solar Cycle runs every 11 years. Notable exceptions were the Maunder Minimum (1645 - 1715) and Dalton Minimum.
The Dalton Minimum spanned 1790 to 1830. It was overcast, with invariable gloom and damp.
In 1850, John Tyndall gazed out on a sunny day in the Alps and worried that his favorite glaciers seemed to be retreating. Of course, in sunlight and dry, elevated low pressure conditions of the mountains there is sublimation. Water vapor produced directly from ice.
Nope. The first thought that sprang to Tyndall’s mind: "Man did this by burning coal.”
Wait !! There’s more !!
The Maunder Minimum provided sustained overcast conditions. Damp and gloomy conditions produced several poor harvests in the late 1600s. In 1692 a fungus developed on rye crops in New England. It caused allergic and hallucinogenic reactions in the farm girls.
The Salem Witch trials ensued.
We haven’t progressed so very much further in understanding gloomy weather.
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Loss of Confidence Caused by Media Gaslighting
Timothy Birdnow
Proof people are really stupid and have the attention span of gnats:
Gaslighting by the media to the contrary all of the numbers show a strong, vibrant economy, yet the public is fooled by the doom and gloom of the media into believing it's the Great Depression all over again.
The media did this to George H. W. Bush; they created a recession by talking about how a recession was coming and eventually the public believed it. This led to the election of Bill Clinton and the nation began a slow, horrible decline that has only just now been reversed.
This is all based on University of Michigan data.
FTA:
"Many consumers blame the Iran conflict for unfavorable changes to the economy,” the survey’s director, Joanne Hsu, wrote in a report about the survey. Consumers responded by saying they now expect inflation to rise 4.8% in the next year, a full percentage point jump from March’s survey.
Consumer sentiment is a closely watched economic indicator given that consumer spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product each year. The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index previously registered a 6% decline in March, with declines seen across all ages and political parties,
The University of Michigan index reading was even lower than it was during 2008’s Great Recession when consumers were forced to confront harsh economic conditions that resulted from massive defaults in the housing and financial sectors and was also lower than it was during former President Joe Biden’s administration, when inflation peaked at 9.1% following the passage of massive spending bills on COVID and the climate.
The consumer price index increased 0.9% in March, pushing the annual inflation rate to 3.3%, largely due to a 10.9% spike in energy costs resulting from the war in Iran.
The annual rate reading was the largest recorded since April 2024 and increased from 2.4% in February, CNBC reported. Gasoline prices skyrocketed by 21.2% in March as the Strait of Hormuz, a major route for shipping oil, remains largely closed due to the war, accounting for three-quarters of the inflation increase.
Inflation is still quite low and came in below expectations. And wages are up. And the job market improved.
But the media won't tell anyone about any of that. This is gaslighting.
You know what this is like? Most of the gloomy numbers are FORECASTS. Just like the climate models which wind up not describing reality, these are predictions, prophecies by political actors and not actual discussions about the numbers themselves. The fact is inflation is far lower now than under Joe Biden (9%) and all the other numbers are doing much better.
Wars often lead to economic booms, I might add, and not economic downturns. The downturns usually come after a war is over, like the economic depression of 1919 or the brief return of the Great Depression after in the late forties.
Don't believe this; it's just a lie. But sadly a lie can succeed if nobody makes it their mission to call it out.
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Number of Republicans Supporting Amnesty Rises
Timothy Birdnow
The number of Republican House members supporting the amnesty bill is now up to 19 as the "Dignidad Act" makes it's way through a Republican Congress utterly determined to lose the next election..
The Litany of shame is:
Rep. Michael Lawler (R-NY)
Rep. David G. Valadao (R-CA)
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA)
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO)
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN)
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE)
Rep. Young Kim (R-CA)
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Rep. James Baird (R-IN)
Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)
Del. Kimberlyn King-Hinds (R-MP-At Large)
Del. James Moylan (R-GU-At Large)
Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-TX)
Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY)
Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL)
Rep. Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA)
Rep. Zachary Nunn (R-IA)
Mike Lawler, when pressed by Laura Ingraham, began mumbling about "people in the shadows" as it that is a cogent argument for legalizing millions of scofflaws who had such little respect for us they simply wandered in and stole our jobs and social services.
Uh, if they are here illegally they belong in the shadows - or in their ow countries.
As Ingraham pointed out, there is no way to vet the claimants to the amnesty and they will, of course, have Democrats telling them what to say to stay in the country, and Demoocrat judges hearing their cases. This is a Charlie Foxtrot, only without any lube, at least for the American People.
The vast majority of Americans oppose amnesty for illegal aliens.
So the Republicans are kowtowing to their big monied interests and breaking the promise they made to the citizens in this country. And six month before the midterm elections to boot. They didn't even have the good sense to wait until after November.
They are complete idiots; all they are doing is abetting their own eventual extinction by empowering a solid Democrat block, and they are too short-sighted to grasp that fact. All these fools care about is the campaign funding they will get from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
No doubt they figure Mike Johnson will kill this, and if not it won't pass the Senate (it may well) and if not Trump will veto it. Perhaps but they just told America they are snakes, not to be trusted.
Even a strong majority of Hispanic voters hate amnesty for illegals.
These RINO Quislings in the GOP need to go.
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China Sends Out Her Navy
Timothy Birdnow
When the cat's away the mice will play.
They won't use this as an opportunity to, say, seize Taiwan; that would risk getting into a real war. But they want to make it clear they are there and the U.S. may not be the star countries want to hitch themselves to for protection.
And who knows? They may want to send those ships to the Persian Gulf to try to threaten the U.S. After all, this war is strangling their economy.
I would point out the Bible says that Armageddon would see "The King of the East" invade with an Army of 200 million. Now why would anyone do that? Well, assuming China is that king it would be an obvious move if the Strait of Hormuz was blocked and they wanted to open it.
The stage is rapidly being set for the Apocalypse.
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DUI's While Sober
Timothy Birdnow
Increasingly you can get a DUI without drinking or doing drugs as Police tighten the screws and hand them out based on "field tests".
I remember how it all began. It came all at once, with expose's in every newspaper and on television and so I knew there was something rotten in the state of Denmark. Prior to the birth of a major media blitz there were laws against D.W.I. (which morphed into D.U.I. because they wanted to make it easier to arrest people and the standard for being actually drunk was 1.5% blood alcohol in the seventies) but you had to actually be drunk to get arrested. This campaign changed all that with a precautionary principle.
Now it's starting to come out that people are being arrested for DUI with NO blood alcohol at all, just based on "field sobriety tests" by cops who are under intense pressure to issue the lucrative charges.
It costs a LOT of money to get out of a DUI these days - and it makes a lot of money for the local authorities.
I would add the rise of ride sharing companies has greatly reduced the number of DUI's so the authorities have to find a way to make up for the shortfall some way. That was is to charge as many people as possible (and usually white people; they aren't going to risk stopping black folks in this day and age) and hoping they don't all contest the charges.
I ran afoul of such practices when I was in college. I was stopped by a local cop (who had a vanity plate on his car "DUI King") and ordered to say the alphabet starting in the middle. I knew three different alphabets and used the Russian one far more than the English. Naturally, with all the flashing lights and cars whizzing by, I mixed them up and wound up being taken to the police station for a breathalyzer. I eventually got let go but the point is these tests are not that helpful. I am mindful of a Steve Martin movie where he was ordered to do field sobriety tests "hop on one leg while singing the star spangled banner and touching your nose" "now do summersaults". Yeah; it's kind of like that.
"Damned, your drunk tests are hard!"
At any rate they suspended basic Constitutional rights with the whole DUI campaign, such as the fourth amendment. Sobriety checkpoints are an utter abomination for civil rights and yet the courts found a "compelling state interest" that they said overrode the Constitution.
Look, I get it; we DO have a compelling state interest in getting heavily intoxicated or drugged out people from behind the wheel lest they kill someone. I am in no wawy arguing for zero enforcement. But "buzzed driving is drunk driving" as the campaign slogan says is not always correct. I knew a guy who never drank at all and he had one (count them ONE) gin and tonic at a bar and he drove his car just next door to his motel (he was on a business trip with some of his employees) and he got stopped and arrested and has a DUI on his record.
This was always about money and control. The Ruling Class wanted to test to see if they could push this far and they could.
The DUI push began about the same time as the anti-smoking campaign and was done for identical reasons and that wasn't the public health. They have largely ended smoking in America and drinking and driving is way down. That was proof of concept. It's why they dared to pull the Covid lockdowns, these lesser measures had worked so now it was time to see if they could manipulate the public into giving up even more of their freedoms.
The Left never sleeps and everything that comes up in the media needs to be examined for it's ulterior motive.
At any rate the arrests of people not guilty of any crimes was inevitable with this and we should not be at all surprised by it. This was never really about the public safety. (If it was about safety they would support the local police and want to arrest really dangerous drivers, but most of them are exempt, usually because of their ethnicity.)
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Colorado Businesses Ask for the Boot to be Taken Off their Throats
Timothy Birdnow
Pointing and laughing "ha ha"!
Colorado has lost 13,000 jobs since 2022 as a result of their California dreamin' and the businesses that are still in the Rockies are demanding the government tone down the wokism and heavy regulatory schemes of the Democrats in Denver...
98 companies have relocated from the state and 34 public corporate headquarters have split.
This is what "democratic socialism" breeds. The Democrats in Colorado are running out of other people's money.
According to the article:
More than 200 business and civic leaders signed a letter to Gov. Jared Polis, Sen. John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, and Democratic gubernatorial candidates Michael Bennet and Phil Weiser. It warns of dire consequences if Colorado doesn't become a more welcoming place for job creators.
Fat chance getting anywhere with that motley crew of Bolsheviks.
(Full disclosure; I knew John Hickenlooper's brother from high school. His family were wackos, even if George was a good guy. George went to Hollywood and got blacklisted for refusing to felate a bigshot Hollywood producer. George - a talented filmmaker - never amounted to that much because of that and he made a film called The Low Life about it. If you ever get a chance to watch it do so. George became fairly conservative and voted Republican after reality smacked him in the head.)
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Attempt to Assassinate Sam Altman
Timothy Birdnow
Echoes of the assassination of Bruce Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare.
This is what happens when you no longer condemn political violence.
Not the Bee theorizes the assassin's AI girlfriend broke up with him. Maybe. More likely the nerd made a move on it and got shot down by the machine. "Never in a million years...."
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Stone Saved Gabbard
Timothy Birdnow
Roger Stone saved Tulsi Gabbard from the recent bloodletting in the Administration, according to reports.
Apparently Laura Loomer was claiming Gabbard was about to resign and that Trump should fire her before she does. Stone claims to have talked Trump out of it.
I would remind everyone that Joe Kent, the obnoxious leaker and former counterterrorism head who came out attacking the President over the Iran war, was a Gabbard protege'.
Personally I've never been a big Gabbard fan. She's not been a typical Democrat wing nut but she's been less then useful in some cases.
But I agree with Trump's decision to keep her; firing her now would stir up a hornet's nest at a time when the President can ill afford it. She would be a martyr in a way that Marjorie Taylor Green or other such never could be. And she really hasn't done a BAD job of it.
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April 10, 2026
The "Wiseguy Latina" Trashed Kavanaugh Over ICE Ruling
Timothy Birdnow
Sotomayor is mad at Brett Kavanaugh for his opinion in the case which overturend a lower court ruling that stopped ICE from making stops of people without "probable cause" aka unless they hae a reason they could bring to a court to prove they had justification to stop and question possible illegal immigrants.
Sotopop complained:
"This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour.”
"Those hours that they took you away, nobody’s paying that person, And that makes a difference between a meal for him and his kids that night and maybe just cold supper,"
Not only was that insulting and snotty, it was stupid; she never complained about traffic stops, has she? Did she protest the existence of sobriety checkpoints? No; I have no doubt she justifies those based on a societal need, yet she has no problem with 14 to 22 million or more illegal aliens invading this country.
Well, I happen to come from a working class family from a working class neighborhood and I understand full well the difficulties involved with such a stop. But why does such a stop take three hours? Because the people being stopped are illegal aliens in the first place and they can't produce the documents showing otherwise.
I would add that these stops are not of just illegals but of illegals suspected of major crimes. Anybody would be put through the ringer by police be they Hispanic or Black or lilly white men in suits.
The "wise Latina" as she calls herself is just a nasty person who is angry that her views were disregarded by the majority.
She's a person who should never have been put on the Supreme Court. She's only there as an affirmative action candidate (same as Brown-Jackson).
In the end she knows there is no way to enforce immigration laws without stopping people and checking on them. She wants to help the Democrats by making enforcement impossible.
I think the phrase puta is in order about her.
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Starmer "Fed Up with Trump"
Timothy Birdnow
Starmer has a bad case of elephantitis.
Maybe if this braying jackass would help us with the war instead of whine like a bunch of spoiled teenagers he wouldn't have a problem.
From the article:
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he is "fed up” with people in the U.K. encountering economic instability due to the actions of President Donald Trump.
"I'm fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses' bills go up and down on energy, because of the actions of [Russia’s President Vladimir] Putin or Trump across the world," he said in an interview with ITV.
Starmer emphasized the need for greater energy resilience and independence, arguing that the people of the U.K. shouldn’t have to be subjected to the "international market,” nor should they be "paying” for a war the country is not actively involved in.
Uh, that is exactly what we want - for you guys to clean up your own messes and not expect us to carry you.
But notice how this upper class twit of the year tries to tie Trump with Putin and how he acts as if we are doing the same thing as what Russia did to Ukraine - nary a word about all the terrorism Iran supported nor about Iranian nuclear enrichment, oh no! It's just that Trump is a loose canon and costing the British People.
How much does he understand about how much Britain and her defense has costed the AMERICAN People?
If you want to be energy independent than strap on a pair, quit playing games with NetZero and the Climate crowd and start getting your own. You have a lot of it in the North Sea and elsewhere around your silly little island.
(Do notice he's trying to deflect the problems he's caused to the British economy by his ridiculous English Socialism (Ingsoc) by blaming it on Trump and the Iran war.)
Stammer, er, Starmer said staying in NATO was in the interest of the United States. He didn't say how, naturally. It's mainly in the interest of Britain and the other freeloading Europeans. But NATO has been useless from our perspective for decades now.
I am mindful of the parable told by Jesus about the rich man who is hosting a wedding feast and his invited guests fail to show up. The rich man gets mad, and sends his servants out to the poor and destitute, inviting them to come. Then when his fair-weather friends realize they need to be there because they need him they show up and are turned away into the darkness to wail and gnash their teeth. It's time for NATO to do some wailing and gnashing of teeth; we can create new alliances with better allies, even if they are poorer than our erstwhile friends.
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Saudi Oil Production Down
Timothy Birdnow
I said before that there is no reason for this major price spike in oil and gas prices; the Arab nations can easily increase production to meet the demand if they so choose. It seems the Saudis, at least, are having trouble thanks to Iranian attacks.
Iran attacks on crucial Saudi pipeline and production facilities slash kingdom’s oil output
So why isn't Saudi Arabia joining us in our efforts in Iran?
The fact is the Saudis have never been our friends; they use us to help themselves maintain power. But if push comes to shove Muslims hang together, even Sunni and Shia.
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