Clinton Denies Epstein Island Visits

Timothy Birdnow

Yeah - ri-ight!

Bill Clinton Denies Visiting Epstein Island in New Memoir

"I want you to listen to me....I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky."

I guess Epstein just wanted some famous names for the flight log then, eh? He just penciled Clinton's name on the log twenty six  times.

While a majority of those flights were to respectable destinations, a number of them were unsupervised by the Secret Service. Given Clinton's penchant for young ladies it seems highly unlikely he didn't go on a nice Caribbean getaway. 

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Me Too Democrats

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Haakim Jeffries is claiming Democrats were targeted with bomb threats just days after it was announced that was happening to Republicans. I smell a rat.

Why would the victorious MAGA folks call bomb threats to the Democrats? They are the wlking dead.

No, this is just a way for the donkeys to create parity and continue the claim Trump sows violence and hatred, nothing more. It's a way to try to regroup the troops around the "threat".

IF it did happen (and I doubt it did) then it was probably the far left that did it, angry at the Democrats for the way they handled the election.

I would add our side doesn't do bomb threats or other such acts of violence. It's not the way we roll (and that is why they had to do the frame-up of Jan. 6, to make MAGA look like "insurrectionists" and terrorists, but there was minimal violence and most of it caused by the authorities themselves who were gasing people for no reason and doing other things to incite violence. It's been documented by folks on the scene. Look it up.

Communists always did this sort of thing, framing their political enemies for their own actions. The Democrats learned well from them.

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Trump's Bad DEA Pick

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Trump's pick for DEA Chief is under fire for his actions during the Covid 19 lockdowns.

Trump recently announced he was choosing a Florida sheriff - Buford T. Justce Chad Chronister to head up the DEA. DEA has become a very critical post as we are being flooded with serious drugs through our non-existent southern border.

Frankly, I never trust a guy named Chad but that's just me.

Hanging Chad arrested a Christian pastor for the sinister crime of holding religioius services in violation of the lockdown orders during the massive overreaction to the Covid cold and flu season. (Yes, Covid was worse than those and people did die and I know many will be angry at me for being flippant but the fact remains Covid 19 was indeed a cold, albeith a sometimes lethal one, and there was NO flu season, meaning many flu deaths were being listed as Covid.) At any rate the sheriff was doing his job, although if he were the man we needed he would have used his discretion to spend resources on more pressing crimes like failure to wear seat belts or talking and driving or perhaps even jay walking.

At any rate Hanging Chad may wind up hanging in Committee when he faces a Senate confirmation hearing. A lot of Conservatives are not happy.

Thomas Massie, normally a staunch Trump ally, had this to say:

And Mike Cernovich complained:


And this lament from John Cordillo:


During the service itself? Yikes! That bespeaks a bit of a character flaw if you ask me.

Tim Pool, who I have corresponded with in years gone by, had this to say:


The fact is the supreme law of the land is the Constitution and it explicitly states:


There is nothing about abrogation during pandemics. What Hanging Chad did was abrogate the free exercise thereof, as well as abridging the freedom of speech, and the right to peaceably assemble. When there is conflict between the Constitution and other rules put in place - especially by local authorities - the Constitution is supposed to prevail. The behavior of Hanging Chad suggests a woeful lack of discernment on his part.

The whole point of the MAGA revolution is to end business as usual. This sheriff seems to be a business-as-usual type of guy and to get back to a more Constitution-based order.  Do we really need this guy? Can't we do better?

Why doesn't Trump go for someone like Joe Arpaio?

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The Road to Angola

Timothy Birdnow

So what is Biden's Angola?

Biden Visits Africa to Higlight hisSignature Investment Project

The lamest of lame ducks wants to do a Chinese-style Road and Beltway project in somevery unstable countries in imitation of the Chinese, who have been doing such things for years now. But the Chinese have huge advantages; they are in far less debt and can afford to spend such money. They are ruthless too, and are happy to pull bait-and-switch on these countries, and take their property when the nattions cannot pay them back, and finally they just see this as purely geopolitical and are practical about it; Biden no doubt will impose American labor standards on the workers, and push DEI on these countries. The Chicoms are just looking for results.

Biden has bats in his beltway if you ask me.

Competing with the Chinese is a good idea - Biden competing with them is a dreadful one.

This is just another mess Trump will have to clean up when he's in office, methinks.

Here is the money quote:

"Biden is expected to deliver a speech in Luanda highlighting his efforts to close Africa’s infrastructure gap, expand economic opportunities, and promote technological and scientific cooperation with the continent."

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"Close the infrastructure gap"? That was and remains one of the goals of the Global Warming movement. "Climate Change" has always been in part about tying the hands of the developed world so places like Africa can catch up.

But there is a reason why this gap exists and it is political instablility. Africa does not have nations ut groups of tribes under one arbitrarily drawn boundary. They are always at each-other's throats and this will only continue. Building infrastructure does little good as it ends up merely a tool for some potentate who kills all his enemies then nationalizes this infrastructure, squeezing it dry. Here in the U.S. we have ghetto areas that suffer similar problems; you can't build anything new because it will be torn up and torn down. It is far, far worse in parts of Africa; imagine a whole country that is essentially Watts, East St. Louis, or Haarlem. Money and "infrastructure" never solves the problems because the problems transcend the material. There are ancient beliefs, ancient hatreds, ancient thinking at work.

The best way to fix Africa is to Christianize it, and we in what had once been called Christendom have little interest in doing that anymore. We have come to believe that problems are all material in nature, economic forces alone. And we still believe the lie Man is inherently good and all that need happen is the proper alignment put in place, a "just economic order" and everything will fall in line. It doesn't and it never has. Africa needs change - one of heart,not the kind you put in your pocket. Sadly we are no longer ministers of that kind of change. We need change here too, alas.

The Chinese can do this because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get paid back. They are like Mafia shylocks, lending at usurious rates and breaking legs if they aren't paid back in a timely fashion. We, on the other hand, are born suckers and the American taxpayer will wind up underwriting this.

Anyway Biden is trying to set this all in motion so Trump has yet another mess to clean up.

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Biden Pardons Hunter

Timothy Birdnow

Not like we didn't know this was coming.

Biden Pardons Son Hunter Biden Ahead of Exit FromOval Office

Trump had suggested he might pardon Hunter himself as a show of good will, but Biden preferred doing it himself so as to deny Trump even that act of magnanimity.

Acttually Biden pardoned Hunter from any and all future prosecutions for anything related to this crime - something that Trump wouldn't have done, no doubt.

There could and should still be state charges brought against Hunter. And no doubt there are other skeletal remains lurking about in his wardrobe.
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Of course this is to stop his mouth; much would come out during the prosecution and Hunter just might spill on some other matters.

We need a thorough investigation of all of the Biden family.

As  usual the media was clueless, with most saying it would never happen.

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And watch Jean Pierre twist into a Haitian pretzel in her claims that Biden would NOT pardon his son.

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Chinese Plan a Moon Colony

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Chinese Igloos on the Moon?

Most articles on this are calling them igloos, but they really are just domes made from lunar soil (dust and rock). The articles all speak of this:

I've seen it described in other articles as "dystopian" or even just ugly because the authors do not understand the realities of life outside of Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field. The Moon is bombarded by radiation, radiation blocked here on Earth by the aforementioned attributes. Cosmic rays pass through astronauts; in fact, the Apollo astronauts all spoke of seeing them as flashes of light. They are relatively harmless over short periods of exposure, but their effects are uncertain over a longer period. Suffice it to say they can't be good. But there is more to worry about; solar flares shoot dangerously radioactive particles at the Moon during flares. The solar wind alone is composed of electrons and protons and eight percent of alpha paticles (two protons coupled with two neutrons) and it is ionizing. But the flares themselves are lethal, spewing high energy particles out towards the source of magnetism anywhere in the system. Most strike Jupiter, which is why the great gas giant has a radiation belt that is lethal within seconds. Europa sits at the center of Jupiter's radiation belt. Earth's magnetic field attracts flare energy but less so, hence we have a weak radiation belt (the Van Allan belt). But if a flare strikes the Moon, which it frequently does, anybody on the surface will die a horrible death from radiation sickness.

The only way to avoid that is by putting a lot of mass between yourself and the flare.

The chinese proposal makes perfect sense; they plan to use lunar soil to build domes (the best, easiest way to build when holding pressure in or out) thick enough to make colonists safe during solar storms.

Any settlement on the Moon will have to either be built this way or built in an underground bunker of some sorts, either in a Lava Flow Tube or in a lunar rille and covered with dirty (and rilles are just lava flow tubes that have collapsed.)

The article also mentions temperature swings:


250 degree days and minus 200 at night! You need very good insulation to protect against such temperature swings.

I have always advocated using "Earth Bags" to do the job. On Earth, people build dome-like structures and other structures using what are essentially sandbags filled with dirt or sand. You pile them up just as if you were trying to protect a place from rising floodwater. In the case of a lunar settlement you could just make really long bags and scoop up dirt with a radio-controlled tractor then fill the bags up and stack them. These would be wider than flood water sand bags, of course, and be connected together with a kind of barbed wire layed between courses. The domes can be done as pure domes or corbelled (which would be easier - think nuclear reactor domes).

In fact, you could put such domes over smaller craters and colonize the interior. Turn lunar rock and dust into soil (it's been done experimentally on Earth using Earth rock of similar composition and sterilized.) Water and air fills out the habitat, and you then bring in people.

I hope they do it. I want to see Americans do it, but if we won't then I'll be happy to see China or any other nation do it. plenty of room for everyone in space! The Moon is about the size of Africa, so a Chinese section can exist and an American section as well.

I want to see large structures on the Moon, habitats that feel much like being outside on Earth. It can be done. Lava flow tubes are quite large, some of them - as big as tem miles wide and as long as six hundred miles. They generally are at minus 50 F. all the time - much better than the see-sawing temperatures on the surface. Minus fifty is cold on Earth but with no air it wouldn't be a problem; apply some heat and you can warm those caverns up to a comfortable temperature. You could use light tubes to bring sunlight in during the day, and stored energy or beamed from solar orbit to provide light at night (the nights are two weeks long). You can avoid all of that by settling at the South Pole, and get water to boot, as water is available at that pole, frozen in permanent shadow.

Earthlike conditions can be recreated quite closely. The only thing we cannot recreate is gravity; you will always be in 1/6 Earth-normal G. It may not be possible to live under such low gravity for long periods of time. It is also possible children cannot be conceived under such low gravity, or they may not develop properly in the womb. A moon colony could be a dead end.

But it wouldn't be the end of space colonization; we can build colonies in space itself that rotate for gravity, giving us as much as we need. Either hollowed out asteroids or specially constructed structures (much like building a suspension bridge without any endpoints) you can build such a colony and live there provided you have adequate mass to shield you from flares and cosmic rays. Oh, and from meteor impacts; mustn't forget those. But you have to fear meteor impacts on the Moon too.

Any way you look at it, Humanity needs to take this next step into the universe. We cannot continue to exist trapped on this one ball of rock and water. It's getting a bit uncomfortably full and we need new horizons. People need a frontier, need a place to go to test themselves and to expand and to feel free. Continued life on Earth is a zero-sum game and it will become increasingly oppressive as it becomes more developed, more crowded, more regulated and controlled. We need to move into space. Our ancient ancestors moved out of the oceans onto land. Our later ancestors came out of the trees and invented fire and spread across the globe. Now it's time to take the next step.

Science Fiction writer Arthur C. Clark famously stated "The Earth is our cradle, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever". Right he was.

Time to move on.

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Smith and Wesson Kicked Off Facebook

Timothy Birdnow

Meta/Facebook has been under scrutiny for censorship since the election of 2020, at least, and actually before. Mark Zuckerberg claims that is not so, and many, even good conservatives, try to defend the Zuck by claiming it is his underlings and not he himself who promotes censorship.

Well, if that is so why is it STILL happening? Facebook just kicked gunmaker Smith and Wesson off indefinitely with nary an explanation of WHY the company was kicked off fifteen years after it started a Facebook page.

Elon Musk and X have welcomed them with open arms.

The company had this to say:

I would add a personal note here; Facebook kicked ME off just before the election. No warning but I tried to log on and received a notice saying my account was no longer in service! I've been locked out since. The timing is quite telling, as it was just a week or so before the election.

Time to break up Meta/Facebook.

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Denver Mayor Chickens Out

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The Mayor of Denver, after promising to use force against the American military and ICE if they come for illegal aliens, has now folded like an accordian as he realizes Tom Homan isn't kidding.

A new Sheriff is in town.

Mayor Mike Johnston was full of big talk, saying there would be a "Tianneman Square" moment if America tried to remove the invaders and promising to use the state police to stop them. Then Homan assured him he would put the crazed politician in prison for violating the law if he tries this. Now Johston is backpeddling faster than a French tank facing Panzers.

The amazing thing is this man doesn't realize that America is not on his side, nor even many of the aliens legally in the U.S.

And as these are illegal aliens they supposedly cannot vote, so what does Johnston have to gain by standing with illegals? They are lawbreakers who are currently stealing wealth and social services from the American People.

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Democrats Revolting

Timothy Birdnow

I'll say; they stink on ice!

The House Democrats are Revolting

Apparently they have had enough of their leadership, which continues to fail them. But I suspect they will take a turn for the worse as there are no longer moderate Democrats anywhere and they are apt to double down on the Bolshevism, not go the other direction.

Oh, the article points out that Nancy Pelosi is behind much of this, I might add. She has always believed in radicalizing the party, not moderating it.

Some revolt.

Personally I like it; the more dissent in the Democrat ranks the less mischief they will make. And the more they double down on what drove the public awaythe worse they will do in '26 and '28.

They are indeed revolting - in more ways than one.

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