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Uh, the U.S. paid Mexico for Texas. We also did not "steal" it as it was a popular uprising of citizens of the state of Tejas against the changing of the Constitution unilaterally by then President Bustamante' and enforced by Gen. Antonio Santa Ana in a ruthless fashion. The American settlers had immigrated under the theory they were immigrating to a place with a democratically elected government and a constitution guaranteeing civil rights and had a dictator come along and suspend the constitution. Also they were made promises of land they never received; the Mexican government pulled a bait and switch on them.

I would add that it was not just Texas that rebelled but several other northern states did likewise. Sadly they were easier to reach and attack for Santa Ana and he did so ruthlessly, crushing the rebellion in the rest of those states. Only Texas was positioned (and had the help of their American cousins) to succeed in this, and even then nobody believed it was possible they could win. Santa Ana really screwed the pooch on that one! A competent general would not have been lured so far north away from his supply lines, nor into a swamp where his men had only one line of retreat. Oh, and Santa Ana gave them all the afternoon off while he despoiled a local girl (a slave girl, hence known as the Yellow Rose of Texas). It was his incompetence that cost Mexico Texas.

The fact is the Texans had every right to revolt, and Mexico only had a claim on that land because it fell in the old Spanish claim. Mexico couldn't settle it or develop it, which is why they invited Americans and Europeans to come. And that is why the revolt was successful in the first place; Mexico had almost no infrastructure there, and little in the way of a military presence.

When the U.S. annexed Mexico ten years after its independence it did so because the Mexican government was threatening to invade the financially ruined independent state, and then the Mexican government amassed troops to invade Texas and take it from the U.S. At every juncture Mexico was the aggressor and their claim to the land was minimal. The Texans came from elsewhere and built a state where a frontier had been.

Even so the Polk government paid Mexico for the southwestern territories in took from them including Texas as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. (The U.S. paid $15 million, then a lordly sum.) They don't have squat for a claim to the land, except that they once claimed it. If anyone has a claim to Texas it's the Indians who lived there and were pushed out.

If Mexico intended to continue to dispute the claim the should not have accepted the money.

For that matter, later on the Mexicans sold a large chunk of land (29,640 square miles) in Arizona and New Mexico to the U.S. for ten million bucks in 1854 so America could run a rail line. This was called the Gadsden Purchase. So if Mexico felt so ill-used by our annexation of Texas and the Southwest why did they sell us a huge chunk of it of their own volition?

We don't owe Mexico anything and they have no claim on the land. I suppose the Russians will want Alaska back next? California and Oregon and New Mexico too?

Texas is ours by any and all rights.

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This from Tony Heller at

The New York Times has a website claiming to show an increase in 90 degree days in US cities. In this short video I fact check their claims using app.visitech.ai

How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? – The New York Times

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This is well past due; people across the country have had it with rising property taxes and are about to rebel against them.

Property Tax Revolt Exploding Across the U.S.

I own two houses and am paying about double what I paid twenty years ago despite depreceation (which is considerable). This is something really hurting the American taxpayer. Often they can't afford the taxes now being imposed.

If Trump wants to win Congress this next election a push to reform property taxes would certainly help. Of course property taxes are generally local taxes.

The beauty of any restructuring which forces the lowering of tax rates is it hurts Democrats by defunding them in the big cities where they dominate. They have long since already spent the projected revenue they will receive by reassessing property values.

This also will help reduce costs to farmers who can then lower their prices on what they produce.

It's a win/win for everyone but the cities and the teacher's unions.

Trump may not be able to use his pen to help in this crisis but he can use the bully pulpit and stress the local nature of this particular swindle, thus encouraging people to get out and vote Republican in state and local elections. And it may be possible Trump can threaten to, say, withhold highway funding to states that are pushing taxes way up.

He can at least try; all they can do is file in court against him. Sometimes trying to do the right thing is itself a victory, especially if the public sees what you tried to do - and who tried to stop you.

At any rate it's a morally righteous thing, to not gouge people to support whatever spendthrift ideas their states and local governments hatch up. And it's a popular cause; any property owner pays these taxes.

Biden let in millions upon millions of aliens into the U.S. and this drove up the price of housing, so the average American has to pay the cost of Mr. Biden's folly and his sins. THAT is a form of thievery even if legal. It's shameful and the time has come to end this grift which steal so much of America's lifeblood.

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The Demo-Left truly is a bunch of perverts and sexual deviants.

Former Virginia Democrat Finance Chair Busted in FBI Child Porn Case

I believe that to be a leftist one first must be a deviant of some sort. Sex is ultimately at the root of the rebellion against normalcy and decency we see from Leftists, a desire to be unconstrained in their carnal activity, no matter how evil or perverted. To not just become a liberal but to stay one requires some overriding desire that informs all actions and beliefs.

Leftist rid themselves of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and so now worship their penises (or vaginas in many cases).

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Uh, Chuckie, it was the bald-faced lies you told the public that America lost trust in. And the self-styled "experts" trotted out by the lying media, not the loss of trust in experts leading to the collapse in trust in the media. YOU GUYS chose only one side to promote in any given circumstance and called those who disagreed kooks or liars.

Chuck Todd Says People Lost Trust in Media Because they Lost Trust in the Experts

Climate Change is a great example of that. I can give you dozens of names of top guys who would provide balance for the climate crusaders, yet you never,ever interview them. Then you blame a "loss of trust in experts" for the public losing trust in YOU for not providing both sides.

Roy Spencer, William Happer, Judith Curry, Roger Pielke Sr. and Jr., Freeman Dyson, etc. were all absolutely top people in their fields and disagreed with the doomsday cult, but you never bothered to interview them honestly. You smeared them and then said no credible people disputed the alarmist views of guys like Michael Mann or Phil Jones or the like.

What hypocrites you are!

But the Pandmeic really illustrated to Americans how dishonest you in the media can be. We never, ever got a dissenting voice from the CDC and you called anyone, no matter how well informed, liars and fools and called for their deplatforming and even firing for daring to question what has now been proven to be a lie (like the idea the vax stopped the spread of Covid).

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This is what he should have done six months ago.

Trump Removes Nearly 30 Career Diplomats From Ambassadorial Positions as Part of State Dept Realignment

Personnell is policy and until you change the people you won't change the policy.

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John M. Grondelski pens an interesting piece about why the movie It's a Wonderful Life is so popular and why the death of the values of George Bailey represent such a tragic loss for our culture.

Grondelski argues it's not the sappy feel-goodism of the movie that captures America's imagination but the representation of the old America, the small town values, the local presence, the call of duty and service to our fellow man and our community, etc. that makes this movie so beloved. It is an America we did not so much lose as purposely threw away, and it was a better America. Even the worst of the characters had their good points, points forced on them by the social atmosphere at large.

For example, Potter, the villain, is still forced to argue his case from the standpoint of what is best fo rthe community. At one point Potter argues that easy credit turns a thrifty working class into a rabble and that the need for financial discipline among the public is the key to everyone having a good life. Interestingly enough George Bailey disagrees "why should they wait? Why can't they have good things now" WEll, if we look at our modern world, has that philosophy worked out so well? Americans are now exactly what Potter predicted, a rabble, spoiled and entitled and caring about nothing but their own pleasure and ease and comfort. Easy cred played no small part in that. People no longer have to wait until they save up the money to buy things; they just borrow endlessly and hope to die before they pay the loans off. That is at odds with Christian thinking, which always involved a moral component to borrowing; it was thought to be largely immoral to borrow or to lend in a usurious fashion. The Bible rightly observed that debt made one a slave. But it's equally true the lender is a kind of slave too, being forced to keep lending and find new ways to entrap poor souls lest he be ruined when others take advantage (like Potter did to the Building and Loan and even the bank). It's a treadmill for everyone; the real winner is money itself. And government, which profits from every single transaction, since money is a creation of government in the first place (not wealth but MONEY). Paper money is no longer backed by anything and thus is only worth what government can convince people it is worth. Then government pays all of it's own debt with money it simply creates out of thin air, money worth less than when government spent it. In the end the consumer or smal financial institution gets soaked.

So Potter was not wrong in what he said, even though it was clear in the movie that money was his god more than the public welfare. In our modern cities a guy like Potter would not have even bothered to craft such arguments; he would simply say "greed is good" like in the movie Wall Street. Moral behavior was forced on Potter by the society in place, and he was only free to create a Pottersville because of the Depression, which was itself a creation of government and the changing of America from small town communities to the massive power blocks of the large cities.

As the author points out George Bailey is constrained by his small-town virtues even though he wants to be famous and a success. Well, who is a success in the movie (other than Potter)? His friend Sam Wainwright, that's who. This friend who left Bedford Falls behind and moved to New York. This friend (who Mary's mother was eager to have her marry rather than "mossback George") made a fortune as a war pofiteer selling plastics. He even suggests buying a factory in another town because it would be cheaper, but George talks him into reopening a factory in town and restoring jobs to his neighbors. Sam epitomized the changing nature of America; he was a thoroughly modern man. George was defending an America that was dying but should not have been. Sam was midwifing an America that never should have been.

In the final analysis who is bappier? Yes, small towns can be boring, especially to the young. Yes, everyone is in everyone's business. Yes, there is limited opportunity. But the allure of the cities did nobody any favors. The America we now suffer with is the direct descendant of the one George Bailey resisted, and deep down most people understand that, which is why the movie is so popular.

It's an archetype, just as Leave it to Beaver or Andy Griffith is an archetype of an America now gone, murdered by the drives of modernity and the rise of Leftism and anger and class hatred. In the old days there wasn't much class hatred; most people wanted to BE in the upper class and hoped their children would be there. Now many hope their children will be the ones to destroy the wealthy and those who play by the rules, to destroy the rules, for that matter.

The author of this piece blames the automobile for much of this and while he has a point he misses it too; the automobile certainly made wanderlust easier to satiate but in the end a car is a tool, like so many other things, and the allure of the cities came not, as Shakespeare would have put it, as a fault in our cars but in ourselves. Americans were restive under the morality of Christianity and wanted the excitement and pleasures of the big cities, cities which absorbed so many immigrants with European ideas and loosey-goosey morality. The cities were FUN and this was very attractive, especially in the pre-television days when there was little to do with your time. Once in the cities there were structures forming and are now in place to make the new urbanites dissatisfied and angry and to roil their lives in ways great and small. The beauty of this is that the more unhappy these immigrants to the cities became the more they loathed their small town upbringing and the values htat went with that. It was a moral perpetual motion machine.

And such alienated and disaffected people were ripe for the rising Lefitism that has poisoned our cities. How many cities are predominantly conservative? How many big cities are NOT controlled by Democrats?

As for George and his sacrificing ways, yes he was a man for others. But much of it was driven by his hatred of Potter, who may well have mellowed had George actually taken that job with his organization. Potter would have seen that George's ways made him money and perhaps the old grump would have been less contentious if he had someone to rein him in? But George would never do that because he blamed Potter for his father's death. (His father probably died from eating too much cholesterol, but that's another topic entirely.) But all good stories need a protagonist and an antagonist, a hero and a villain, and Potter served as villain in that story. Bailey had to have someone to fight and Americans understand that; it's the crusader mentality that has always existed in the American psyche, from the first days of our settlement where Pilgrims and other religious folk sought to settle and tame the land for Christ and had to fight - Native Americans and outlaws and encroaching foreign powers - to do so. Without a Potter there could be no George Bailey. But Bailey's motives are another matter.

At any rae I think the number one reason the movie got so huge is that it was never played until Ted Turner got the rights and began running it day and night around Christmas. Oh, and it fell into the public domain, meaning it was free to run anytime.

But there are plenty of other old movies that are free and the public is not so enamoured of them as It's a Wonderful Life.

BTW George Bailey's life never does improve; just his attitude changes. Oh, and the ending is ridiculous; no matter if George paid the money back or not he was STILL going to trial for malfeasance and embezzlement. Restitution does not make one immune from prosecution and eventually some prosecutor would bring charges against him. The big party at George's house wouldn't be the end of the matter.

Also, I always was bothered by the notion that George's brother's death would have happened at all; the fact is he was only on the ice as a kid because his brother George was there. Otherwise the older boys wouldn't have wanted him there at all, so he would have lived - and saved the men on that transport.

At any rate do read the entire essay at American Thinker!

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While it was contrary to our Founders’ warning to avoid entangling alliances and European wars, we certainly can understand why NATO was created in 1949.

The USSR, which President Ronald Reagan would later rightly call an evil empire, appeared a burgeoning force. Ensuring his post-WWII domination of Eastern Europe, Soviet despot Joseph Stalin saw to it that communist governments rose to power, by hook or by crook, in seven nations west of his own between 1945 and 1948. And Stalin’s armies became this domination’s guarantor.

The USSR was also attempting to spread its dark creed worldwide. In fact, Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov estimated that 85 percent of the KGB’s resources were devoted not to espionage, but subversion. So stopping this aggressive leftism was a priority.

In contrast, Western Europe still shared much with the U.S. back then. Though its faith was waning, it was still Christendom, as opposed to the "atheistic communist” persecutors of the Church. It was, to use our provisional political terminology, a classic right-left dichotomy.

(Note: The right-left model is a poor way of defining reality; it reflects the relativism pervading our time. Yet if I speak of being orthodox vs. heterodox, few will know what I’m talking about. So our common political lexicon must suffice for the moment.)

But that time is long past. Approximately a generation and a half ago now, the Berlin Wall fell. The USSR is Russia again and, whatever its faults, the Bear is not spreading communism or any brand of leftism. In fact, the "union” now thus guilty is the EU. This brings us to certain questions:

With NATO’s raison d'être, the Soviets, gone, why does it still exist?

And given that our treaty obligations could draw into a (ultimately nuclear) war with the Kremlin, should we really be risking American blood defending left-wing Europe from right-wing Russia?

It’s not as if others haven’t noted Western Europe’s left-wing (read: tyrannical) shift.

In February at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President J.D. Vance castigated the woke Europeans for trampling free speech. He said the greatest threat to the continent wasn’t China or Russia, but "from within.”

Then, just this Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned the Europeans that mass migration was threatening their culture’s "erasure” — and the NATO alliance.

"You go to these NATO meetings, what they will tell you is — ‘our shared history, our shared legacy, our shared values, our shared priorities.’ That's what they talk about as the reason for this alliance,” Rubio told the Washington Examiner. Erase what’s shared, however, "then you just have a straight-up defense agreement,” Rubio explained. "That’s all you have.”

Really, though, how much is still shared? Is a defense agreement already all we have? Let’s examine our East-West ideological pole shift:

• European pseudo-elites have flooded their continent with millions of unassimilable foreigners, many Muslim, to the point that "no-go zones” now exist in their cities. When this is criticized, too, authorities may arrest people for anti-immigration/immigrant "hate speech.” Epitomizing this mentality, Swedish multiculturalist Mona Sahlin, commenting on her land’s Islamization in 2001, actually saidthat "the Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden; the old Sweden is never coming back.” Russia, however, explicitly denounced this agenda in a 2014 document titled "Foundations of the State Cultural Policy.” It rejects "such principles as multiculturalism and tolerance,” the Kremlin stated, and those "imposing alien values on society.”
• Along with many other Europeans, Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola have been charged with "hate speech” for espousing the biblical/authentically Christian view of homosexuality. Meanwhile, Russia has outlawed homosexual propaganda in media, films, books, advertising, online content, and public spaces.
• In this vein, the EU has decreed that faux ("same-sex”) "marriages” performed in any member state must be recognized by every member state. In contrast, a recent-years Russian constitutional amendment explicitly defines marriage as a man-woman union.
• While the West is now thoroughly permeated by moral relativism/nihilism — and derivatives such as cultural and religious relativism — the Kremlin has rejected it. For example, while criticizing the West in a 2013 keynote speech, Russian president Vladimir Putin said, "Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
• In Europe, Christian street preachers have been arrested, and deference is shown to Islam. In Russia, though, a law acknowledges Orthodoxy’s (Christianity’s) "special role” in the country’s history and culture. And Putin himself has warned about dispensing with "Christian values.” The 180-degree turn is so profound that The Washington Times asked on this matter in a 2014 headline, "Who’s ‘godless’ now?”
• France became in 2024 the world’s first country to make prenatal infanticide a constitutional right (New York State followed suit, too). Russia, though far from perfect on this issue, has moved to tighten abortion restrictions. Moreover, the Kremlin also encourages fecundity by paying women who have babies.
• It once made news when Russia imprisoned54 people in 2015 for "hate speech.” In the EU today, perhaps tens of thousands are persecuted for hate speech every year. Britain leads the pack, with 12,000 arrests annually under its "Communications Act.”

So just as the Soviets did during the Cold War, today’s Russian patriots might call the West "decadent” — only, now they have a point.

Of course, some (paging Bill O’Reilly) will scoff here, saying Putin is a thuggish demagogue who takes positions of convenience, not conviction. He’s a bad man, fair enough. But I also consider U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer a bad man. In fact, few leaders have morals rising above those of a disbarred lawyer-turned used car salesman.

It’s also true that Putin’s lofty words may be mere convenient posturing. Yet how many European leaders believe all the woke drivel they disgorge? And, frankly, I’d rather have a politician supporting the right things for the wrong reasons than the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

All this said, however, the bottom line is that today’s Russia is far more traditional than post-Christian Western Europe. So while Western officials will sometimes warn, most fancifully (ginning up support for Ukraine), that the Kremlin may soon invade the West, a question should be asked:

So what?

What would be lost if, by some miracle, Russia ended up realizing Napoleon’s dream and ruled Europe?

Europeans wouldn’t be able to have their "Pride” parades (illegal in Russia) with men marching mostly naked?

The Sexual Devolution would be deep-sixed?

The Russian flag would replace the rainbow one?

Third World migration would be ended?

Borders would matter again?

Fecundity would be favored?

Christianity would be elevated?

Abortion would increasingly be anathema?

Children wouldn’t be told they could switch sexes at will?

There’s a reason the U.K. paper The Telegraph boldly wroteWednesday that "

atriots should not fight for the British state.” And given this, should Americans even think about fighting for the British state— and the rest of Europe? Should we shed American blood for a fallen continent, let alone risk nuclear war?

The prophetic G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1926 that the "madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan” — and now, we can add, in Brussels. Chesterton also noted that the "true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” But this raises a final question:

Can we even hate what is in front of us now — forget loving what is behind us — without, possibly, turning around?

If the illegal migrants, sexual devolutionaries and Christophobic ne’er-do-wells want to fight to save decadent Europe, they can knock themselves out. As for yours truly, call me up when there’s a proper Crusade intent on doing what Crusades do.

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I buried my wife on Saturday.

It was a beautiful day, cool but not cold and clear, just the sort of day Cathy would have loved.

We had a visitation in the church lobby with photographs and a slideshow and a good-sized crowd came to pay their respects. In fact, people Cathy used to work with DECADES before showed up! Cathy touched so many lives and always for the better and was much beloved by many. She had no enemies at all, which is a testament to her gentle and sweet nature. Everyone loved her. Even people from the nursing home she was in showed up to pay their respects.

After the visitation we held the funeral, and it was a beautiful service indeed. How could it not be? Cathy and her sister basically planned the same service for their mother years ago and we largely recycled the readings. I was in no shape to make decisions and so let her sister plan it all. Naturally I accepted the credit when people told me how lovely it was!

The priest's sermon was spot on too; he captured the true nature of my little Catbird (I used to call her that and when I discovered there was a GRAY Catbird would often call her the old gray catbird, which often was followed by a flying shoe in my direction...) He was most impressed with the Thanksgiving where she invited homeless people to her place for a dinner (to the horror of her parents of course); Cathy had a huge heart! (You know she did; she married me, after all.)

She had suffered greatly for the last few years, with her pain rising asymptotically as the end neared, but she hardly ever complained and she prayed to God not for relief but for strength to endure it. She accepted the suffering as a badge of honor, as a way to please God and mitigate sins - her own and others. I was humbled by her presence; she truly was a saintly woman.

At any rate after her funeral we went to the cemetary and while everyone else left Cathy's sister and her husband (my old friend) and I watched as they lowered her urn into the Earth. It was heartbreaking but it gave a kind of closure to the matter which you don't get these days in traditional funerals. Too bad everyone had already left.

We went to a nice Italian restaurant that Cathy had always liked and had a find luncheon. I talked to old friends I hadn''t seen in a long time, and friends I still see, and relatives long overdue for my attention. It was comforting, even if I did just want to be quiet and shrink into the shadows. I'm glad everyone had a good time but I was in no mood for social intercourse. But it had to be done.

At any rate yesterday consisted mostly of me watching television and trying to pass the long hours, although I did sneak over to my house to post a few things. I'm going to start reversing the process I just undertook and move things back home. Granted I'll do it much more slowly so as not to put myself back in the hospital.

Oh, did I mention I was in the hospital for five days? I feared leaving, feared Cathy would pass away, but she held on until I got back and then went quietly, like a candle being blown out by a gentle breeze. She died comfortable and I believe was happy, at least to go with me by her side. It was with the gentlest sighs that she left this mortal world. Almost like blowing a candle out.

She waited for me; that is the greatest love I can imagine.

Anyway I am now at loose ends and wondering where to go from here. I didn't realize how much of my life was rooted in our marriage and how now that she's gone I have to build a new life. I don't expect it to be any great shakes; I'm getting old now and my health is poor and I won't be getting a new job or doing volunteer work or whatnot. I suppose I'll get back to writing and whatnot. I still have my father to worry about, after all. But I may just take off one of these days and drive until I am hungry for home.

What is tough is the little things. For instance, since she was cremated we saved her socks. She had a pair she bought for herself off Amazon, featuring Grumpy Cat from the internet. She passed away in Grinch socks (She hated the commercialization of Christmas and everyone called her the Grinch for not loving the crass commercial holiday). I was looking at those this morning and it punched me right in the heart. So did her Tweety Bird shirt, and the Jack-0-Lantern shirt she used to wear around Halloweeen. I suppose I'm going to have to get used to the little gut knifings like that.

And then there are the endless inquiries into my emotional state. I know everyone means well, and in fact it probably does actually help, but my 'druthers are to just be left alone and work through this myself. The problem is it's all stock phrases "I'm o.k." "don't worry about me", I know it'll get easier" etc. I would prefer a much more honest "this sucks and you got a raw deal" even if Cathy wouldn't necessarily agree. I could then say "damned right" which is much more how I feel about the matter, but the kind words are actually heartfelt and people don't know what to say - and they actually probably do help. It gets you out of the cycle of anger and sadness by making you say "I'm o.k." "don't worry about me", I know it'll get easier"; it gets you thinking this way in time. All of these cultural traditions have a good and noble purpose, I am certain, but they are a pain in the poste5rior. Nobody knows what to say to a bereaved person anyway so we all fall back on the cliche's. They are cliche's precisely because they are the best thing to say. But they often ring hollow on the ears of the person who lost someone.

At the funeral I had two attractive young widows come up to me to tell me how it's going to be and offer comfort. They had informed opinions and when they said it I could trust it was true. And of course my father had lost his wife five years ago (my mother) and when he told me it would get easier I believed him.

At any rate I need to think of this as a new beginning, not the end, but that's hard to do. It's going to take some time before I can really think about such things.

I am reminded of the movie Castaway starring Tom Hanks where, at the end, he realizes he will never resume his old life and is at a four way juncture in the flat plains of Texas. One way seems as good as another. And he narrates, saying he just has to wait to see what the wind will blow ashore, as he did on the island. My life is definitely like that now.

Cathy is now gone but she will always be a part of me, the better part. Time will tell what God has in store for me, but it surely will be unlike anything my old life gave me. Time will tell.

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Anyone remember "ain't got no poof"?

Clinton Camp Responds After Damaging Epsein Files Photos Go Viral

That is apparently their arguement yet again.

These photos are poof, er, proof; they show Clinton in rather disturbing situations, such as being in a hot tub with a young woman. But ain't got no poof!

Look, a man as infamously randy and philanderous as Bill Clinton would probably not be overly concerned about where his next blow job was coming from, nor is he likely to be worried about the welfare of a bimbo except insofar as she erupts to damage him. We know Clinton had a "bimbo eruption squad" to deal with ladies Mr. Clinton despoiled, and they had no problem destroying such women. I rather doubt Bill knew nor cared that these young ladies were working under duress and in what amounted to slavery; he was getting what HE wanted, which was a happy ending. He wasn't one to see young sex partners as human beings so much as bimbos to be used.

So it wouldn't surprise me at all that Bill Clinton was deep in the brothel with a white slaver like that. While we may need proof in court we are free to make assumptions in the court of public opinion and Mr. Clinton was one huge sleezeball and always has been.

BTW "ain't got no poof" was the mantra of Sydney Bloomenthal during the Monica Lewinsky Scandal (which led to the poor girl's name being used as a verb, a very bad thing.)

Just remember when Clinton wagged his bony finger at America "I never had sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky". Yeah; lots of credibility there.

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Turns out even STANFORD admits the mRNA Covid shot can cause myocarditis.

Stanford Medicine study shows why mRNA COVID-19 vaccine can cause myocarditis

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I believe colder air is dryer than warmer and a weak polar vortex means wetter arctic air.

Alaska's Arctic is Burning Like Never Before in 3000 Years

Fire prefers dry air to moist. Antarctica is the dryest desert on Earth because it's so cold, not warm. No doubt colder air in the Arctic has that impact as well.

This is just a silly argument even if it's true, and it probably isn't.

It also never occurred to these geniuses that there are a LOT more people up there now, and human beings are a prime source of fire. Oh, and with oil and gas drilling it stands to reason we'd have more fires now than in bygone days. Eskimos didn't use kerosene to start big bonfires...

And they tested this out by studying PEAT BOGS. Bogs is the operative word here; that is a wet region by it's very nature.

The article states:

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Yawn; it's always just far enough out that nobody can test their predictions, but close enough to make little children panic. Oh, and it always is based on computer modeling that does not comport with the reality on the ground.

Scientists Reveal When the World’s Glaciers Could Disappear

We've been told repeatedly that we would have no glaciers by the year 2000, then 2020, and yet that didn't happen, now did it! So it's now "the end of the century". But it's all based on flawed modeling and a desire to promote an ideological worldview that would foster international socialism and world government and empower and enrich the science establishment. Real science be damned.

Here are numerous examples of failed climate predictions in bygone days. And this with altered and fudged data to support the claims of catastrophic climate warming.

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Well duh!

Kids’ Anxiety and Depression Dropped Fast After COVID School Reopenings

We scared the poor kids half to death with that panic. OlF COURSe they were anxious and depressed and reopening schools calmed them.

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God punished Eve with bearing children and being stuck with an overbearing husband. I find this interesting as it suggests aging and sickness come through Eve, not Adam...

Mitochondria comes from the mother alone.

Scientists Found a New Way to Slow Aging Inside Cells

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You know I thought this was going to be about climate and the alleged 98% "concesus" which is itself a kind of climatological Alzheimers...

The 98% Mystery: Scientists Just Cracked the Code on "Junk DNA” Linked to Alzheimer’s

Turns out all the "junk DNA" is actually busily controlling the machinery that causes or prevents Alzheimers.

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Glenn Youngkin turns his back on his heritage and helps the Left desecrate the memory of perhaps the greatest Southerner in history.

Glenn Youngkin Just Made the Biggest Rino Misstep of his Career

Not sure what he thought he was going to accomplish with this; it won't win him any converts from either the white or black communities.

Lee was a titan. While I know little about Barbara Rose Johns, whose statue replaced Lee's, I can say this; the very fact I know little about Johns is proof her statue should not replace Robert E. Lee. She perhaps deserves more fame than she has, or not, but the point is we have to actually look her up to know anything about her. We don't have to do that with, say, Martin Luther King.

I wrote about this a long time ago at Canada Free Press. (If you ask me my essay was better than the essay of the Federalist writer, but what the hey...) At any rate the writer is not wrong; this is about ginning up violence in a revolutionary spirit by altering history to make America appear to be a criminal enterprise fromt he start and in dire need of being refounded as a socialist entity.

You can't refound a nation without first tearing it down, and that means the culture and history. Youngkin should understand that is what he is participating in doing.

I fear Mr. Youngkin will have no future in politics. He's is straddling the center stripe on the highway. As Mr. Miaggi said in The Karate Kid "straddle center line get squashed like grape". Mr. Youngkin is about to be pressed like a cheap Muscadine made by Manishevitz...

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RIP Norman Podhoretz.

Norman Podhoretz, Literary Lion of Neoconservatism, Dies at 95…

Podhoretz was the Godfather of the neocon movement. Neocons are people with generally conservative economic views but liberal social policies. The usually hold strong interventionist military views as well, and much of the latter days of the Reagan and all of the Bush eras were dominated by neocons.

Podhoretz and the rest came out of the liberal Jewish tradition and while I did not always agree with them (being a paleocon) they did know how to win elections and were no small part of the revolution that slowed the rising tide of Leftism in America. We owe Podhoretz and the rest a debt of thanks for standing with us and helping to slow the juggernaut.

As I say, I didn't always agree with them. I think they were too free with other people's money and their social ideas were just a slower road to socialism. But one must take allies where one can find them and they were good allies, even if some neocons did in fact sabotage the America First movement.

At any rate Podhoretz is a man deserving of being honored and we honor him here. BTW the Aviary was listed on Podhoretz's website for a number of years in favorites, and I always thought Contentions (where he linked the Aviary) was an excellent, well thought out forum.

Podhoretz may not have been a perfect conservative but he was a great man, and a near perfect neocon. His influence probably saved the nation. Who could ask for a better eulogy than that?

Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord and let the perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.

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Just what the HELL is going on at Brown University?

If this is true, this is a MONUMENTAL scandal.

This must be thoroughly investigated NOW! pic.twitter.com/kXyY51zDZF

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 18, 2025

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Yeah - Trump should listen to the free, unsolicited advise from an avowed Marxist Democrat in the media...



Van Jones Warns Trump Making Mistake By Calling Everything Fantastic

Actually I agree insofar as it makes Trump seem out of touch with Middle America. But if he doesn't toot his own horn who will? The media will give him zero credit for all the good coming out of his policies. And the economy is doing pretty well despite what the media is hyping to make it appear Trump is screwing up big time.

FTA:

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