December 31, 2025
Thune Accused of Money Laundering
Timothy Birdnow
I've long suspected John Thune is corrupt, just like his mentor Mitch McConnel. Here is evidence I may be right.
12/26/25 – US Senator John Thune
From Peter Bernegger — A complaint was filed this morning against US Senator John Thune — the Republican Senate Majority Leader — to the FEC for Smurfing $1,148,902 into his campaign. Smurfing is criminal money laundering into political campaigns. Much of the money is coming from the US Treasury = you. @AGPamBondi unfortunately is not stopping this money laundering. So we are going to stop it.
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Peter Bernegger
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I named your Treasurer, Nicole Weyers, in my complaint to the FEC on the money laundering into your campaign.
I'm also referring her for alleged felony crimes from her position as Treasurer in your campaign committee.
It's going to be interesting about your bank your campaign committee used to launder the money.
Interesting John you went from college right into politics and never worked in the private sector. Then called for President Trump to drop out and let judas Mike Pence run for President instead.
"Republican" John Thune: never worked a day in the private sector for 40 some years yet wants to play with all our lives.
He's is also a big supporter of the fake, corrupt, Ukraine war - which the USA's 3 letter agencies started. He is the one who has been blocking the vote to stop the weekly $40 million to the Taliban.
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Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 01, 2026 12:44 AM (fJC/c)
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Oopsie indeed Dana!
Sadly nothing probably will come of it.
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Walz "It's Trump's Fault!"
Timothy Birdnow
Minnesota Governor "Tampon Tim" Walz is actually blaming DONAD TRUMP for the Somali scandal in his own state!
Tim Walz
@Tim_Walz
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraud - referring cases to law enforcement, shutting down and auditing high-risk programs.
Trump keeps letting fraudsters out of prison.
???!!!
This was a scandal involving Somali immigrants who bilked state funds (granted by the Feds) out of what appears to now be billions of dollars. These were residents of HIS state taking actions in HIS state and being overseen by and regulated by his appointees. This is entirely his baby from beginning to end.
What "fraudsters" did Mr Trump pardon so they could be involved in this? I'd like TT to tell us.
Walz went on to brag about his quick action and how he is busily cleaning up this mess, yet he cannot point to a single person charged by his Administration nor any officials replaced by him. Basically his actions have mostly been to CYA.
Whistleblowers say they were shut down when they tried to warn about what was happening by being accused of racism. Nine billion dollars worth of racism.
t's very sad; Minnesota was known as a place with very clean politics and clean elections but it has become just another corrupt Democrat stronghold and the same corrupt taxpayer goughing schemes now prevail there. There is no such thing as a clean Democratic state. Never.
Just think; this guy was nominated to be the heir to the most powerful office on Earth had Kamala won the Presidency. It's frightening.
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Now wait right there... back the truck up into the garage again! Tampon Timmy can't have it both ways. He was saying he put people in the slammer for these frauds (he didn't) and now he says Trump lets 'wm out of jail.
If anybody is being let out of jail, it's being done by rogue judges that were (mostly, anyhow) appointed by Democrats. It's NOT being done by Trump or his people.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 01, 2026 12:48 AM (fJC/c)
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It's so typical Dana; the Democrats blame others for that which they themselves have caused Sadly it works with some folks too.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 02, 2026 08:19 AM (OaSl3)
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Yeah; it's called "squirrel politics;" as in, "oh, look over there! A squirrel." The old distraction trick. But from all the local articles I'm reading -- and believe me, I'm reading them -- the squirrels aren't showing up.
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Ah yes...good name for it. Sadly for Tampon Tim he isn't in Arkansas where squirrels are a regular on the table.
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Booze Causes Mouth Cancer?
Timothy Birdnow
What a load this is!
Alcoholic beverages have been with us since the dawn of civilization and probably before that and nobody noticed half of all drinkers got mouth cancer until now? Really?
Here's the summary:
December 30, 2025
Source:
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Summary:
New research suggests that even light alcohol use may carry serious risks. A large study in India found that drinking just one standard drink a day is linked to a roughly 50% higher risk of mouth cancer, with the greatest danger tied to locally brewed alcohol. When alcohol use overlaps with chewing tobacco, the effect becomes especially severe, potentially explaining nearly two-thirds of all cases nationwide.
Half - really?
It isn't all the curry the Indians consume perhaps? Or some sexual transmitted disease of the mouth, herpes perhaps? This is Ibdia after all, the home of the Kama Sutra and a billion plus people.
The Left has never liked alcohol, preferring people to use marijuana or harder drugs instead. And there is an antipathy to using alcohol because it takes twice as much sugar to produce half as much alcohol, a losing game from a NUTRITIONAL perspective. The Left prefers we eat the sugar and so save on grain or whatever else makes that sugar.
This is clearly a temperance campaign masquerading as cancer research. It does not bear the weight of scrutiny.
I wish we had honest science. We live in an era of politics couched as science to fool the public - a horrible misuse of what is supposed to be illuminating things. Science is now being used to trick people and twist their views to what the Ruling Class wants.
We've seen this same sort of campaign against many other things. Fats, for instance, or cholesterol, both of which are needed by the body but were demonized to promote changes in the world's diet.
At any rate if there is a 50% increase in mouth cancer from drinking that would have been absolutely obvious all along. It wasn't, which tells me this study is worse than worthless, yet here it appears in a peer-reviewed journal and on a website dedicated to scientific inquiry. What a farce!
So they message is clear; don't drink this New Year's Eve because you might wind up with a big honking tuor in your pie hole. I don't know about you but I'm having a few drinks anyway.
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If this were true, I'd know a whole train-load of people with mouth cancer, my wife and myself included. Interesting that I don't know a single person with the ailment.
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December 30, 2025
Polar Bears Evolving from Global Warming?
Timothy Birdnow
Now Polar bears diverged from Brown bears 500,000 years ago. In that time we went from the cold Pleistocene to the Holocene, including the Holocene Climmate Optimum which was about as warm as today. We had a number of other warming periods in these latter days including the Roman Optimum and the Medieval Warming Period, which was at least as warm and probably warmer than today, and the Polar bears did fine through them all.
Evolution takes time according to Darwin, quite a bit of time as random mutations have to survive and propogate into a species. Of course, epigenetics says these mutations are already there in the genome waiting to be expressed, triggered by environmental cues. IF polar bears are evolving it's into something they already had been - a reset to cope with a slightly warmer climate (and by warmer we mean under two degrees.)
The Holocene Optimum occurred over 6,000 years ago.
Anyway this is more stupidity from the ever vacuous Climate alarmists.
As is noted in the article:
There were only 5,000-10,000 polar bears left in the wild in the 1960s. Now, after 60 years of David Attenborough warning us about the melting polar ice caps, there are only ... 25,000-30,000 left.
Arctic sea ice has been doing just fine over the last decade.
So how are polar bears being pressured environmentally to mutate? Hmm?
Lookie here:
Looks to me like it was hotter during the Holocene Optimum than now, doesn't it?
No, the polar bears are doing fine.
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Never mind the polar bears; what I want to know is how much Al Gore has been forced to mutate!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 31, 2025 01:39 AM (fJC/c)
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Gore was pretty much already a mutant I think Dana!
Wonder what he's doing these days
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Yeah, good point. Well, since Tipper sloughed him off, I imagine he doesn't have much of a social crowd to hang with, just a bunch of sourpuss guys who hang out at the sports bar watching soccer reruns.
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BOA CEO Cheers Trump Economy
Timothy Birdnow
No matter how the media and their Democrat allies try to spin the economic news there is no denying Trumpeconomics is healing our national economy,
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The New Garcia
Timothy Birdnow
Notice how this sob story paints this guy as a simple family man being cruelly abused by the Trump Administration by being deported to Mexico. You will note that the man is in a fairly secure prison in Missouri, meaning he's a criminal here in the U.S. Also note an immigration judge ruled against his claim he was in peril if he returned to Mexico fromthe drug cartels; why,if he's just an honest working stiff?
The article mentions a protest in the sleepy little Illinois town of five thousand and shows photos of the protesters who are wearing shirts saying "no human is illegal" or "I didn't serve my country for fascism" and the like; in other words this is a paid rent-a-mob no doubt brought in from northern Illinois.
Oh, and he's a restauranteur; how many Mafiosa ran restaurants in the old days of La Cosa Nostra?
Here's an interesting bit:
Ayuzo’s detention also sparked an inquiry into a staffer for Sen. Tammy Duckworth. ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons sent a letter to Duckworth’s office, claiming one of her staff members misrepresented himself as an attorney to get access to Ayuzo and falsified a federal document.
So that means the Democrats are gearing up to make this their new cause celebre', the new Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the good family man and asset to the ommunity who just so happens to be in a secure prison right now FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
Last spring the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Administration had the authority to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act but that they had the right to challenge the deportation in Federal court. So why isn't this fellow appealing to Federal court? Likely because he doesn't fall under the Alien Enemies Act but rather is a criminal and subject to immediate deportation.
We only find that out three quarters of the way down in the article:
Lyons’ letter stated Ayuzo is a "40-year-old criminal illegal alien from Mexico” who has been removed from the country four times and has been convicted of driving under the influence. "He was issued a final order of removal more than 20 years ago, in 2003,” the letter stated. Ayuzo was charged with driving under the influence in St. Clair County in 2008. In exchange for pleading guilty, paying a fine, completing classes and community service, the conviction was not entered on his record. "While his visa application was pending, he was torn away from his family community and business. It is hard to understand how his deportation benefits the U.S,” Suarez said. "This is the type of immigrant that we should be welcoming with open arms.”
So the Democrat Tammy Duckworth has her hand in this. That speaks volumes.
We should be welcoming a guy who was deported four times and arrested for drunk driving? Really?
What other things are in this guy's record that the Belleville News Democrat isn't reporting?
The fact is ICE isn't going after good illegal aliens and frankly no illegal alien is a "good illegal alien" as they all told us to go ef ourselves with our immigration procedures in the first place.
I strongly suspect this guy WAS the cartels, or one of their agents anyway. The story doesn't say which prison he was sent to in Missouri vut I suspect it was Potosi, a reasonably high security facility. They would not send him to such a place if he didn't pose a danger to the public.
Of course none of this is mentioned in this article; it's how the press lies to us and always have.
No mention o why this guy was given final deportation orders years ago, I might add.
I for one am glad the Trump Administration is deporting such folks If this guy is truly an asset to the community he can apply for entry to the U.S. the legal way, the way he should have in the first place.
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Fascist Economics in New York City
Timothy Birdnow
Private ownership means the individual can sell his property when he pleases and negotiate the best deal for himself. We abrogated that to a degree with the Fair Housing Act, but that only applies to minorities or protected classes. There is nothing that says a "non-profit" has a right to first dibs.
This is Fascist economics.
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I have the suspicion that's a law that will go off the books once Commie Mamdani does likewise.
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H1B Scam
Timothy Birdnow
From Nesszweak:
A former U.S. diplomat has claimed that a substantial portion of H-1B visas issued to Indian applicants were obtained through fraud.
Mahvash Siddiqui, who worked as a consular officer at the U.S. consulate in Chennai (formerly Madras) from 2005 to 2007, said on the Center for Immigration Studies’ podcast that she adjudicated roughly 51,000 non-immigrant visa applications, most of them H-1Bs.
She alleged that between 80 and 90 percent of H-1B visa applications from India involved fraudulent documentation or unqualified applicants.
"I would say 80 to 90 percent of the people that I encountered in each of the visa categories, you know, especially the young people between the ages of 20 to 45 that, you know, had very few ties to India, were basically using the non-immigrant visa pipeline to essentially come and work in the United States and never go back home and essentially displace American workers," Siddiqui said.
Trump doesn't want to pause the program but it's time we end it entirely. Americans need to hire Americans again. If they don't know how to do the job then train them, as we used to do in the past.
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Golden Apple Graft
Timothy Birdnow
Look at this:
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The ~$1B DeBlasio CARE NYC scam that everyone was scandalized by a few years ago is hilariously small potatoes compared to the routine nonprofit corruption of our city currently.
Like 20% of the city budget goes to nonprofits — around $20 billion dollars annually. How much of that do you think is pure graft at this point?
They don’t even try to hide it. Our comptroller Brad Lander — who is supposed to be managing this money — is married to one of the most prominent nonprofit barons in the city, who has been made tremendously wealthy by the public money her husband oversees.
And now Zohran is promising to open the door to tens of billions more for these nonprofits through ‘universal child care’ (sound familiar) and the new COPA law that will make these politically-connected nonprofits NYC’s new real estate barons by granting them right of first refusal on every land deal in the city from now on.
They will rapidly accumulate hundreds of billions in real estate, vastly enriching the allies of the administration, while locking out ordinary people from property ownership.
This is pure corruption from top to bottom and they just don’t care who knows it.
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Over $850 million went missing in NYC after Bill de Blasio shuffled the funds over to his wife to alleviate the homeless crisis.
She was never able to show proof as to where the millions went.
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Top Woman Tennis Player Gets Soundly Beaten by Mediocre Man
Timothy Birdnow
The media tells us that women are just as good as men at everything and that they therefore should be put into all sorts of competitive fields.
Oh, really?
In an exhibition match the dude beat the chick 6-3, 6-3. Take that Billie Jean King!
671st-ranked male, Nick Kyrgios, beat the top-ranked female in the world, Aryna Sabalenka decisively in the match.
This brings to mind the exhibition game between the U.S. national champion women's soccer team
losing big to a junior varsity high school team a while back.
Men are bigger,faster, and stronger than women and so are better at sports most of the time. It comes from our paleolithic past, where men's job was to chase saber-toothed tigers and wooly mammoths and the like. There is no shame in women admitting this fact, just as there is no shame in men admitting women do some things better than do we.
Over and over reality disproves leftist shibboleths about the nature of our species, yet the left keeps pushing forward with these ridiculous notions of theirs. Eventually reality will correct such illusions, and often it does so in a most painful way..
BTW Chris Everett Lloyd said her husband, a mediocre tennis player, routinely creamed her when they played, even when she was at the top of her game.
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This also happened to Serena Williams quite a few years back, when she was at the height of her powers. Some guy who, I believe, wasn't even a pro player and not even in training beat her with similar scores. Broke my heart, it did, as I love Ms. Williams dearly. But it just goes to prove that you can't beat biology.
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Truth is an Ugly Thing in Modern America
Timothy Birdnow
So we are supposed to speak well of Rob Reiner now that he's dead and Donald Trump is supposed to forget all this and praise the Meathead?
"Do we want fascism, or do we want to continue the 248 years of self-rule? Do we want to continue democracy, or do we want to slip into fascism?”
"He wants to destroy the Constitution, go after his political enemies and turn America into an autocracy? We see autocracy making its move around the world. And, so, if we crumble, there’s a danger that democracy crumbles around the world.”
"Not only does he not understand how government works. He has no interest in trying to find out how it works.”
"You have one candidate, Trump, who actually tells you he’s going to govern like an authoritarian.”
"It’s really gotten to a very, very scary place in this country…”
"I’m going to tell you the truth. You have a complete and utter lying buffoon. He’s a fraud. He lies. He cheats people. Everything that comes out of his mouth virtually is a lie. And he’s a con man. And if you look at what he’s done with his career and how he’s tricked people into things, it’s abhorrent. I never liked George W. Bush, his polices, but I didn’t hate the guy. I hate this man.”
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And where was Reiner when an assassin came within less than an inch of ending Mr. Trump's life? He was amazingly silent on THAT.
Just because he's now room temperature (actually ground temperature I assume) we are supposed to speak well of him? Just because he condemned the assassination of Charlie Kirk we are supposed to now give the man a pass?
Trump may have been wise to have maintained silence on the matter, but he is an honest man and honesty compelled him to speak his mind. And his mind is that "I'm not a fan". He didn't call Reiner what he probably deserved.
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Somali's Indicted
Tlimothy Birdnow
To the tune of "100 bottles of beer on the wall":
98 fraudsters on the wall, 89 of 'em Somaliiiis, take government money and pass it around...
It was idiotic letting all these people into the U.S. They had no experience with Western culture and came from a place where everyone grabbed what he could in whatever way he could. There is a reason why piracy was resurrected on the seas of Somalia and not in New York harbor.
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Same thing's going on in Seattle, I hear.
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December 29, 2025
Out of Other People's Money
Timothy Birdnow
I can sum this article up in one phrase from Margaret Thatcher; we've run out of other people's money. It really is that simple.
Honestly I doubt anyone ever really did believe in Keynes and his theory of spending your way out of debt and into prosperity, but it was a convenient tool big government types could use to promote their programs and sucker people into allowing them to move forward with terrible ideas. Those ideas were not about what they claimed to be; they were more about buying votes and changing the social landscape than in producing a better economic outlook.
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Keynes theory
has never been tried, so we don't know if it would work or not. The theory was that we would incur government debt during bad times, and then when times were good
we would pay that debt off in it's entirety. We have never paid off debt, but have just continued incurring more and more debt, in good times as well as bad times.
Posted by: Bill H at December 30, 2025 12:42 AM (FRG6e)
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So what you're saying is that we are actually trying Keynsian Theory, whether we're calling it that or not.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 30, 2025 01:08 AM (fJC/c)
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Actually Bill there are times we paid off at least some of the debt and yet debt growth outpaced economic growth. In the end it is human nature to not pay back what one owes if you can get away with it.
Many Keynsians have complained over the years that we just havn't spent enough to make his theory work. Imagine that.
His theory was the true voodoo economics; this notion that government spending will "prime the pump" and get people spending more money is purest sophistry as it takes money away from the productive and gives it to the politically connected. Even when printing the money to spend it you take money from the productive through inflation. His was always just magical thinking, that you can get something for nohing. He vonfused money with wealth.
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Republicans Crushing Dems in Quinnipiac Poll
Timothy Birdnow
Despite what the media is telling us there are polls showing the Democrats are in deep, deep trouble going into the upcoming election year.
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f elections were held today, Democrats in Congress would be in deep political trouble.
That is not a partisan claim or conservative wishful thinking. It is the verdict of the opinion polls -- brutal, consistent, and increasingly bipartisan.
A recent Quinnipiac University survey shows that only 18 percent of voters approve of Democrats in Congress, while 73 percent disapprove.
This is the worst figure Quinnipiac has recorded since it started tracking the question in 2009. That number alone would be concerning. But the deeper story, and the one Republicans should pay attention to, lies beneath the toplines.
For the first time in Quinnipiac’s history, Democrats themselves disapprove of their party’s performance in Congress. Only 42 percent of Democratic voters approve, while 48 percent disapprove. This marks a stunning collapse from just two months earlier, when approval stood at 58 percent.
In other words, this isn’t just partisan polarization. It’s an intra-party revolt with Democrats turning against each other.
Among independents, the situation is even worse. Congressional Democrats have a net approval gap of minus 61 points. Independents, who determine modern elections, are not just drifting away - they are actively recoiling.
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So don't believe polls showing Trump dragging down the GOP in the upcoming elections - they can't be believed given these numbers. Trump may not be popular (other Presidents at this point weren't, even Ronald Reagan) at the moment but when voters think about it he and the GOP platform are a slam dunk, far better than what the Democrats are still pushing. The Democrats are completely out of touch.
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You're right. If you listen to Fox News, just about every night you'll hear San Fran Nan talk about what the Donkeys are going to do once they get back in power. She's absolutely sure they're gonna do it. It's as if she has no idea that they are underwater in the polls. Just mebbe she has the same mental issues that Joe Bite-Me has.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 30, 2025 01:12 AM (fJC/c)
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She probably does Dana; too much box chardonnay over the years and all the botox have deadeened her frontal cortex. Or she's just lying to herself and her party because she can'tbelieve the pub,ic has rejected her brand of leftist politics.
She thought they were going to destroy Trump in the last election too; how'd that' turn out?
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Is Omar at Center of Somali Welfare Scandal?
Timothy Birdnow
So Ilhan Omar's husband made millions and nobody can seem to figure out how.
Given the massive fraud run by large numbers of Somalis, it is quite suspicious that Omar is now so rich.
We know Omar "married" her own brother to commit immigration fraud and get him in the country. Now this.
When will Congress remove her from office - or at least from all committees on which she sits?
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When will Omar be held to account for her crimes. Never. It's not a crime if a Democrat does it.
Posted by: Bill H at December 30, 2025 12:43 AM (FRG6e)
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'Fraid you're right there, Bill. We really DO have two governments in this country.
But it's beginning to look like Tampon Tim, at least, is heading for a new home outside the St. Paul governor's mansion before long, whether he wants to or not. The words "I resign" may just be words he's gonna have to learn how to say, rather than "Sure, I'm gonna run for another term." And this Minnesota dude typing these words will be overjoyed when that happens!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 30, 2025 01:19 AM (fJC/c)
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You are soooo right Bill! We never see Democrats held to account for their crimes, no matter how obvious they are.
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December 28, 2025
Soy Boy Climate Projection
Timothy Birdnow
This is the most ridiculous study I've ever read. Purest pseudo-science.
Maybe it's the other way around; women are OVERLY concerned because they falsely believe it's the compassionate, kind thing to believe. Maybe men are just looking at the facts and concluding it's a con game.
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Despite scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, many individuals deny that the climate is changing. Although past work has examined gender differences in climate change attitudes, less is known about how within-gender individual differences may affect climate change concern. In this paper, I study how masculinity concerns relate to climate change attitudes in men. I assert that expressing concern about climate change is associated with traditionally feminine characteristics of warmth, caring and compassion and predict that, because of this relationship, men who are more concerned about maintaining their sense of masculinity will express less concern about climate change. Across four studies, I find support for my predictions.
Read more (paywalled): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494425002555
Oh, and there is nothing constructive we can do about it even if it is as bad as the Gang Green claims. So why worry about something you cannot fix? Women are often obsessive that way but men usually look to actions that have some sort of positive benefit.
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My, MY! Apparently subjects for doctoral theses are running way short in academia these days.
Quelle dommage! Are there any more reasons to major in electric welding?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 29, 2025 12:25 AM (fJC/c)
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Agreed! But then academic types would prefer to write a paper about electric welding than actually do it.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 29, 2025 07:19 AM (OaSl3)
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I seriously doubt that the vast majority of academics know their a$$es from their elbows when it comes to practical things such as electric welding. I will say that from some of the academic papers I have read -- or should I say skimmed -- many academics are equally unlearned about a lot of other subjects also, but have become adept at a technique of writing that just might be styled "throw a lot of words against a wall and hope enough of them stick." And the results of those papers produces, at least in me, the well-known response called "you've gotta be kidding!"
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Free Market Sophistry
Timothy Birdnow
If history has taught us anything it is that when you stop making stuff for yourself and start buying it from people far away, especially those who bear you no good will, you are in trouble.
The Bronze Age was a period much like today with very free and easy trade among the empires in and around the Mediterranean and it ended when the supply chains were broken by the Sea People and other invading barbarians forces; nobody could make what they needed for themselves and the whole ponzi scheme fell apart as everyone just had part of what they needed. Had they sought a modicum of self-sufficiency things could have turned out differently.
Much abuse is heaped on the merchantilist era, but what was that but an over-reliance on international trade in the first place? Most European countries built giant colonial empires at enormous expense so they had access to resources they needed, but it hollowed out many local markets which would have found ways to cope otherwise. In the end the empire builders became slaves to the very empires they created and to the goods and services coming from Third World colonies. It is that same colonialism that has led to multiculturalism and the immigration crisis in the West that is swallowing up our civilization.
Why did America flourish during the merchantilist times? Because the average person couldn't compete with colonial workers in terms of wages and so it was either immigrate or perish. This didn't change with the end of colonialism and the coming of capitalism (not to be confused with free market economics) and if anything it got worse. Look at the flood of peoples into the U.S. in the beginning of the 20th century, for instance. I would add G.K. Chesterton, as conservative a commentator as can be found, once said the difference between a capitalist and a socialist was a bigger paycheck. He was right, although today we call that not capitalism (which has been confused with free markets) but corporatism. Corporatism was the economic model followed by the Third Reich and Mussolini, the partnership between giant corporations and government. We also call it National Socialism.
All of this bad stuff - even Marxism, which was an overreaction to the rising tide of international exploitive trade - grew out of the dissatisfaction with the very order which Mr Lowry seems to be defending. Internationalism is always justified by the economic Anschluss of international trade run amok.
That' not to say such trade is always bad, and certainly we need things we don't possess and must trade for it and make things we want to sell to our partners, but there have to be common sense limits. We haven't had that for a long time now. The illegal alien invasions of the entire Western world comes from our lust for cheaper labor than we ourselves can get and out of the desire to internationalize the whole world. It is the inevitable conclusion to the merchantilist vision, albeit instead of military empires we have created economic empires ultimately controlled by our enemies. It's a fast path to our destruction as surely as was the overspecialization and free trade in the Bronze Age.
And so to Rich Lowry, here are some we think countervailing points:
We admit to coming from a nationalistic mindset, call it tribal if you want. We are for more fare or reciprocal tariffs in order to help keep extensive productive capacity in operation in our country and not in theory (as Lowry perhaps suggests is good enough) on the presumption that the variety of components necessary, skilled soft resources, raw materials and infrastructure are or would be readily at hand, just flip a switch or something.
When we had more doctrinaire free trade sympathies we did not realize the dark downsides and implications it creates — one world government — "world trade federations’ world health organizations, G summit this and G summit that, none of them to be trusted as they are hallmarks of heavily managed society inuring to one-world government and bureaucratized to the extent one must get permission to do something from Belgium rather than say Bismarck where people are governed by a freedom protecting Constitution.
Raw statistics particularly measured in dollars as we are finding out can hide a lot –how valuable are those dollars when the country that supposedly stands behind them in some way is so much in debt — many many many trillions at a minimum. That we just keep printing more and more money may not be a good reflection of economic activity even adjusted for inflation. If the medium of exchange we promote is not accepted how much is our wealth? And differing with Lowry, when as they say the SHTF, country X might be in need of something more edible than our software. And indeed our society and our families, our culture must be well protected, and in house as to primary needs because without them in the short term many could be dead.
For me the nationalistic sentiments (which have many fathers) referred to as MAGA and its trade policies are about vulnerability in a world that is still volatile. They are about not being a patsy – financing other countries socialism even if it is a downfall for them — because entertaining their lifestyle is long-term pathogenic for both of us. It is about not enhancing or being dependent on other nations for production while our capabilities not merely deteriorate but become lost.
One country doing and selling what they do best and buying from another country what they do best is the mantra of globalism which human nature being what it is is a stalking horse for one-world government to monitor and police the agreements. Of course cheater countries abound because they take the logical progression seriously and are not about to abide by it for their own countries’ broader based industrial survival.
Rich you refer to "more tech and aerospace, less shoes and textiles” as key to our supposed economic health. But the tech (including aerospace) can be and is copied. Our aerospace is to a great extent military oriented and that is also used to protect freeloaders’ lifestyles.
By your lights why should we produce any shoes or textiles? We can "simply” go to India for them right? All manner of countries with their own specialty thinking it can hold the others hostage, no problem. Mutual assured destruction?
More than tech being copied tech can contain vulnerabilities which can be catastrophic. Also, tech depends on our staying a step ahead of our competitors, something we find unprofitable to do as it requires a proper education and work ethic among our own citizenry and it's cheaper to import foreigners to do this research for us. It's a self-destroying machine.
I would argue we have been creating a world that is interdependent to create a world government using the European Union model. It started after the war as an oil and coal entente' between Germany and France, a conscious plot by the French to tie Germany's economy into their to the point they dared never attack the French state again. Soon other nations joined and it became the Common Market, then metastasized into an overlord governing body called the European Union. I believe that has been the goal of "free trade" for some time, to make the world so interdependent that we will accept an international government.
And Climate alarmism is a tool to that end, too; it promotes the idea of "one world" and seeks to restrict the First World so the Third World will be able to compete and eventually catch up. It is a giant scheme to transfer wealth to make us all equal. That can never work; there are good reasons why these countries never developed beyond Third World status to begin with. So they will always require subsidies, and that means we in the wealthy nations must be willing to sacrifice our freedoms and lifestyles to that end.
So capitalism is being used to destroy private ownership and free markets and people like Mr. Lowry fail to see that.
Even if this was not a conscious decision (and it was because it always supports the same outcome) it is where this "free trade" scheme is leading us.
And it was technology that led to the rising standard of living, tech and mechanization. Oil and electronics are what made the last half century so prosperous, not the free trade which probably held everyone back.
Held us back indeed; during the Pandemic we saw a dropoff of industrial output in the West and a turn for the worse in the Third World. We saw breaks in our supply chains, inflation, and stagnant economic growth. This illustrates the vulnerability of the supply chains we rely on these days. And what was the response? To increase government regulations, to print and spend a lot more money, in other words to double down on the thing that was hurting us in the first place.
I am mindful of the mid 2000nds television show Jerico. After a nuclear sneak attack on America the survivors of a small Kansas town struggle to survive. In one of the later episodes a young girl takes up with an idiot guy just to bug her older brother/guardian. The new boyfriend argues that the first order of business needed to be to get the internet back up "then we can buy stuff", when asked how we will actually make and deliver stuff he argues "we'll just order it online". To me so much of the free trade argument is basically that sophistic. There seems to be a magical thinking involved and an inability to understand that if a disaster should befall the world (like an asteroid strike or another Carrington event) these supply lines will be permanently broken and we won't have the tools we need to make anything for ourselves. Society will crumble when it could perhaps survive if more decentralized. But that isn't what they want; they want everyone specialized and thus performing one specific (or a few) task that will be the sole provider for the entire planet. That way lies total destruction in an emergency.
I wish people like Rich Lawry would understand that we are not practicing free trade. Free trade must go both ways.
Even Adam Smith advocated tariffs to level unfair playing fields. Sadly the good people at National Review believe themselves smarter than the father of free markets.
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Cooler Heads and the Extinction of Mass Extinctions
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Sorry kiddies but the next great extinction has been canceled!
From Jo Nova:
New research looked at 500 years worth of extinctions and concludes that species loss peaked about a century ago. Far from the rate accelerating as we pour carbon dioxide into the sky, fewer species are disappearing now than forty or fifty years ago.
Kristen Saban and John Wiens considered data on as many as two million species. They specifically analyzed some 912 plants and animals that became extinct in the last 500 years.
Yes, species extinctions dropped off in this century. Why? Probably because animals and plants LIKE warmer climates and more rain. Remember, we were coming out of the Little Ice Age after all.
Jo continues:
"To our surprise, past extinctions are weak and unreliable predictors of the current risk that any given group of animals or plants is facing,” said lead author Saban, who recently graduated from the U of A and is currently a doctoral student at Harvard University.
Humans have wiped out species, but mostly by bringing in rats, pigs and goats to isolated islands:
Extinction rates varied strongly among groups, and extinctions were most frequent among mollusks, such as snails and mussels, and vertebrates, but relatively rare among plants and arthropods. Most extinctions were of species that were confined to isolated islands, like the Hawaiian Islands. On continents, most extinctions were in freshwater habitats. Island extinctions were most frequently related to invasive species, but habitat loss was the most important cause (and current threat) in continental regions. Many species appeared to go extinct on islands because of predators and competitors brought by humans, such as rats, pigs and goats.
The researchers could not find any evidence suggesting climate change was increasing the rate of extinction:
Somewhat unexpectedly, the researchers found that in the last 200 years, there was no evidence for increasing extinction from climate change.
"That does not mean that climate change is not a threat,” Wiens said. "It just means that past extinctions do not reflect current and future threats.”
It seems like a very comprehensive study. Given it’s importance, I’m sure the UN will be delighted. It’s a wonder they didn’t commission a study just like this 30 years ago…
Well slap my rump and call me Nancy (actually if you try that I'll slug you); seems most extinction events were caused by introducing invasive species and changes in land use.
So, there is no co2 induced warming and no species extinction caused by climate change. What is left?
What is left is an admission that we have been in a generations-long War of the Worlds scare, a con that used pseudo-science and grant money and government pressure to create a faux crisis and stampede the public into supporting draconian regulations and the empowerment of the U.N. and leftist world leaders, that's what is left. They almost pulled it off too; if the warming trend had continued we would all be facing the dawn of the New World Order and international socialism. Thank God there were people out there fighting the good fight.
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The Children of the Swastika
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It's only diversity and inclusion when it serves the Demo-Left.
So Hispanics are supposed to care more about other Hispanics than about their adopted country?
Newsflash Karen; there is NO SUCH THING as a "Hispanic"; it's a generic title to encapsulate all people from many different backgrounds and countries that are often quite different but who were raised speaking Spanish as a first language. A person from Argentina has almost noting in common with a Honduran except language. I guess she doesn't know that.
From Red State:
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass gave further proof of that Friday when she expressed sadness that Hispanics were lining up to get high-quality, well-paying jobs that will help keep America safer. How dare they join the U.S. Border Patrol, she fumed to — of course — the leftist propaganda outfit known as CNN:
Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass expressed disappointment and concern Friday with Hispanics joining Border Patrol – arguing they’re only doing it for the paycheck.
"Well, in a way, I think it’s sad,” Bass said of a CNN report on Border Patrol’s new recruits, many of which are Hispanic.
"I think that those Border Patrol agents are going to have a difficult time when they’re out in the field and they see what actually happens in real life separate from their training,” the mayor told "The Situation Room” host Wolf Blitzer.
That last may be true in some instances and we would be wise to learn from the Romans, who attempted to guard their borders with Germans who let other Germans just stroll into the empire (it was a good thing to live inside the empire).
But that was then and one suspects many Hispanics are more loyal to the nation they adopted than the old Germanic barbarians, who were only going to Rome to, well, do what many illegal aliens seek to do, which is to harvest all the goodies thereof but not join the Anglo nation as true Americans. I would point out many Germanic Romans feared and loathed the barbarians coming in as much as second or third generation Americans of Hispanic descent feel about the invading aliens. They did things the right way and these people simply want to take that which they have not earned at our (and the Hispanic Americans) expense.
Fully HALF of all border patrol agents are of Hispanic origin.
What is so amazing is that Bass understands none of this and lumps them all together as she would African Americans, who themselves were not one people but so lost their ethnic identity during the slavery era that most do not even know they are descended from vastly different peoples - many of whom hated each-other in the old country. African Americans share a common heritage, by and large (though not all; many came here after slavery ended) and so form a single people with common subculture. But "Hispanics" do nothing of the sort. They are ethnically, culturally, and economically diverse to the point of having no binding allegiance to the uber group except language and perhaps a hatred for Anglos, whom some see as imperialists and oppressors (forgetting their own Spanish heritage of course). The idea of the Reconquista is real among many of them.
So is a more collectivist view of economics. Many want it because in the Old Country they didn't have free markets but rather a semi-feudal order and so many Hispanics believe in Socialism as the just foundation of an economic order. And yet they still come here to harvest the fruits of the free market. Go figure.
At any rate Bass has no idea of that which she speaks and can't understand why "Hispanics" should "turn against their class"; they have no class (nor does she, but that is a different meaning of the word). They are as diverse a people as any European; An Englishman has little in common with a Russian, for instance. The division in Latin America is even more stark than that.
So these folks volunteering for ICE are not "Hispanics" but AMERICANS who happen to have ancestors from Latin America or who came here legally and wanted to be American. Bass it utterly clueless.
If a Conservative made this kind of broad-brush stroke on a collection of ethnic groups the Left would have his hide for supper. But when a Leftist does it (and they do such things all the time) it's "compassion" or "justice". How is it compassionate or just to treat different peoples as one, ignoring their unique social heritages? The Left themselves would call that racism.
But we've always known the Left is horribly racist and that they are the children of the Swastika, not the right wing in America.
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Exiled to Paradise
Timothy Birdnow
Trump gets it; he's going to exile illegal aliens to a tropical island in the Pacific.
Palau is a very small nation, and impoverished to boot. Survivor was filmed on one of those islands, I might add.
Getting illegals out of the U.S. is important, and especially out of American jurisdiction so Democrat courts will find it difficult to interfere. And putting them on a tropical paradise makes it impossible for anyone to accuse the Administration of dumping them on some hell-hole. I would; I'd cut a deal with Svalbaard, or perhaps ask Argentina to let us use Terra Del Fuego. But I'm vindictive that way, or rather I think such exile needs to be rather unpleasant so nobody wants to risk it. Punishment must be meted out to people who break the law or everyone will do it. That's how laws are enforced.
Maybe with Chile making a hard right turn we can get them to rent us some of their lovely desert areas?
Rush Limbaugh used to call Gitmo "Club Gitmo" and talk about it being a tropical paradise. Who can complain about a free vacation?
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Either Palau is making a huge mistake, or they know something Trump doesn't. I sure hope it's the latter!
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