January 18, 2025
It's War, not a Battle
Timothy Birdnow
Tthis is an interesting essay about the collapsing leftist movement worldwide. I largely agree, although he misses the point in some ways I fear.
His fundamental argument is leftism is failing across the globe (and he's right) and that the cause, in his view, was leftist overreach. Can't disagree but he misses the big picture; that overreach is policy, standard operating procedure for the Leftist revolution.
It has been called the dialectic; thesis meets antithesis leading to synthesis. Marx included this Hegelian dialectic in his model of Communism (although Marx' acolytes lacked patience to do it in many cases). It is sometimes referred to as "two steps forward, one step back". It's a PLANNED PLAY, like the flea flicker in football. The Left has revolutionary periods where they go all hell-bent-for leather then they have consolidation periods where they secure their ill-gotten gains. They know they will lose a few things but these things will simmer on the back burner while the Right labors to reverse the gains made by them. But the Right will not dive deep into their territory, in all probability, being too busy reversing some of the crazier stuff (which is why they promote crazy stuff like trannies in women's locker rooms in the first place) to actually attack the left in their citadels. As a result we are eternally on the defensive - even when we are winning. We never mount attacks to really roll back the ride of socialism.
So they have gone as far as they could go without an explosion and now are consolidating power. They will still be quite active, especially in social and cultural aspects of society while in the political wilderness. We saw this in the Reagan era; remember "the gay nineties" when homosexuality started really being accepted and we had "don't ask, don't tell" replace dismissal for homosexual acts in the military and the like? That came on the heels of the Reagan Revolution and that was no coincidence; the left was laboring in universities, in publishing houses, in Hollywood and other entertainment centers, etc. to mainstream what had been considered aberrant, perverted behavior. Now we think of "gay" as being an "alternate lifestyle" when just forty years ago it was something either mocked or whispered about. Now we have dudes getting married and compulsory parades in honor of sexual deviancy.
THAT happened while we were fighting over temporary things like tax codes.
There are plenty of other examples of this, and strangely this stuff happens in all parts of the world simultaneously, and that should tell us it's coordinated and planned.
So every now and then the Right needs to be given a victory to act as a pressure relief valve. If the Left didn't pull in their horns every now and then there would be an explosion; if they get apparent victories then the pressure declines and the left can assume their rightful place in time. They know we aren't going to wipe them out as they would do to us.
And they profit even in the worst of circumstances. As Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a good crisis go to waste" and when they aren't in charge they have plenty of good crisis, as anything bad can be blamed on those holding the illusory power. It's how they wind up back in charge soon; demagogue every scandal, every mistake, every act of God, and the public soon forgets and puts them back in charge.
And thus the Revolution continues. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The author of this piece doesn't seem to get that fully. He does mention the Overton Window (which is essentially the dialectic - the window is a set of parameters for polite public discourse and thinking. The Left is always slamming one window shut and opening another to the left and our side always fears reopening the shut window lest we be called racist/sexist/bigot/homophobe etc) but I think he believes these are just movements "people power" things. I don't think he grasps the coordination and careful planning involved with most things we see.
What we see is a stage production, but occasionally the curtain slips and we see the crew hiding behind it. This production is managed; it's not organic. It doesn't just happen this way, but rather someone is pulling the strings. We know many of the names - George Soros, Warren Buffet, Tom Steyer, etc. Many we don't know. But suffice it to say there are vast sums of money and huge amounts of talent employed to drive what we see as the narrative. It doesn't just happen that, say, every media outlet is leftist and follows the same script.
But, I hear you say, "what of Fox News"? I refer you to my pressure valve theory above; Fox is there to blunt Conservative anger and to steer the conversation away from actually taking action. I'm not saying it was started with that in mind but that it is allowed to prosper to facilitate the fiction of "plurality" in our national discourse. Fox is a tool of the left, wittingly or unwittingly. But a tool most assuredly.
Do I think Trump a part of the stage play? I did when he first burst on the scene. In fact I thought he may well have been there solely to split the conservatives. I didn't trust him then. But something is different about the man, and the apoplexy from the left over him suggests he's a non-scripted actor in our little play, like a janitor who wandered on stage and said "hey, you guys are just pretending".
So I think now they are trying to coopt him, steeer him away from being TOO damaging to them, while riding this outbreak of independent thought on the part of the American People out. I think Trump is like a wildfire; their only option is to burn off some of their underbrush and hope he burns out. In times past this has worked, notably the Reagan era. They bided their time and waited Reagan out, putting the Bush family in position to blunt Reaganism and eventually strangle it. I suspect they will do likewise - or try to - with Trump.
I believe that they realize they have pushed as far as they can at this point. The public in every nation is angry, yet, but that anger is easily assuaged, and it will cool in an election cycle or two.
Bear in mind it is a shallow anger. Why do I say that? Why didn't the GOP win eight or more seats in the Senate? They were defending half as many seats as the Democrats yet the Senate remains nip-and-tuck. That is in no small part due to the fact the Senate leadership didn't even try to win big - they tried to maintain control of their own caucus first. I've long argued the Senate (and to a lesser extent the House) doesn't want any sort of landslide; the incumbents maintain their privileged position by the chamber being tight as a nun's backside. No one dare oppose them if there is any chance of losing a seat and flipping control of the Senate. So I believe McConnell - who has been at the helm longer than anyone in history and who once wrote an autobiography "The Long Game" where he discussed politics like a grift, a "long con" where you look several moves ahead - consciously labored to keep the Senate close. He certainly refused to fund MAGA people, and sat on a huge war chest the last couple of elections rather than risk losing his grip on power by supporting a MAGA guy. And we've seen this behavior in the House as well, by Boehner, McCarthy, Ryan, and now Johnson. These guys just can't seem to win, even when the public is furious and want a change. Trump's election should have produced huge coattails in the House and Senate; it didn't.
But pkubj-https://www.multistate.us/insider/2024/11/6/post-election-republicans-add-to-strong-hold-of-state-governments]it did at State and local levels.
We call this the Uniparty. Two apparent enemies who are actually working hand-in-glove. Like Wiley Coyotte and the Road Runner, a casual observer sees them as bitter enemies but a thinking person knows they are just cartoons for entertainment, a distraction. (Actually Wiley Coyote appeared in another WB cartoon with a sheepdog which is appropo; they went to work at 9 a.m. punched a time clock, then punched each-other out until 12 when they took their lunch break, eating together and making friendly small talk, punched back in until five then wished each-other a nice night.) The GOP is no more an opposition party than that coyote was to that sheep dog.
My point is that the Left still controls the tools for the dissemination of information. They own the schools and academia, they own the media still, they control the internet, they control publishing houses and entertainment citadels. This is worldwide, which is why their program always appear simultaneously across the globe. A campaign just pops up out of the blue and it catches fire immediately. Why? They own vast networks full of cash and use it to make these things "popular" when in fact normal people hate them.
I don't think we are in the throes of a revolution so much as a hiccup on the way to the global socialist paradise. Yes, we are seeing corporations dump the more aggregious things like DEI or transgenderism, but this is for a season. I suspect this was planned; a necessary loss, like sacrificing your queen in chess to checkmate your opponent in four more moves. I suspect the Right will fail to move on all fronts, but concentrate on government as these monsters continue their march through our institutions and our beliefs. Any really capable military general knows how to make a useful, tactical retreat. George Washington beat the greatest military in the world by running away in a smart way. Occasionally everyone must pull back for a time.
We need to stop being so cocky. I enjoyed this Trump win too but the real work is coming, and Trump can't do it alone. We have to go after them where they hide, strike them in their sanctuaries. As Sun Tzu said, one must seize that which the enemy holds dear. We need to do that, going after the left's most cherished things. We need to take back the culture. Elon Musk helped a lot by buying Twitter and hopefully other, like minded types will continue this (like buying MSNBC or Tiktok). We need revival in the Church, to ask God's forgiveness and renewal. We need to revive the institutions the left have destroyed - like the Boy Scouts or many of the social service clubs like the Lions or Elks or whatnot. We need to return to gender specificity and segregation of the sexes in some instances (like the Boy scouts which is now open to girls and transvestites and everyone else.) We need to repeal gay marriage.
At any rate, if anyone thinks this is over he is deluded. Sadly our side always believes "we won the war, time to go home" while the left sees no end, ever, to the game.
Tthis is an interesting essay about the collapsing leftist movement worldwide. I largely agree, although he misses the point in some ways I fear.
His fundamental argument is leftism is failing across the globe (and he's right) and that the cause, in his view, was leftist overreach. Can't disagree but he misses the big picture; that overreach is policy, standard operating procedure for the Leftist revolution.
It has been called the dialectic; thesis meets antithesis leading to synthesis. Marx included this Hegelian dialectic in his model of Communism (although Marx' acolytes lacked patience to do it in many cases). It is sometimes referred to as "two steps forward, one step back". It's a PLANNED PLAY, like the flea flicker in football. The Left has revolutionary periods where they go all hell-bent-for leather then they have consolidation periods where they secure their ill-gotten gains. They know they will lose a few things but these things will simmer on the back burner while the Right labors to reverse the gains made by them. But the Right will not dive deep into their territory, in all probability, being too busy reversing some of the crazier stuff (which is why they promote crazy stuff like trannies in women's locker rooms in the first place) to actually attack the left in their citadels. As a result we are eternally on the defensive - even when we are winning. We never mount attacks to really roll back the ride of socialism.
So they have gone as far as they could go without an explosion and now are consolidating power. They will still be quite active, especially in social and cultural aspects of society while in the political wilderness. We saw this in the Reagan era; remember "the gay nineties" when homosexuality started really being accepted and we had "don't ask, don't tell" replace dismissal for homosexual acts in the military and the like? That came on the heels of the Reagan Revolution and that was no coincidence; the left was laboring in universities, in publishing houses, in Hollywood and other entertainment centers, etc. to mainstream what had been considered aberrant, perverted behavior. Now we think of "gay" as being an "alternate lifestyle" when just forty years ago it was something either mocked or whispered about. Now we have dudes getting married and compulsory parades in honor of sexual deviancy.
THAT happened while we were fighting over temporary things like tax codes.
There are plenty of other examples of this, and strangely this stuff happens in all parts of the world simultaneously, and that should tell us it's coordinated and planned.
So every now and then the Right needs to be given a victory to act as a pressure relief valve. If the Left didn't pull in their horns every now and then there would be an explosion; if they get apparent victories then the pressure declines and the left can assume their rightful place in time. They know we aren't going to wipe them out as they would do to us.
And they profit even in the worst of circumstances. As Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a good crisis go to waste" and when they aren't in charge they have plenty of good crisis, as anything bad can be blamed on those holding the illusory power. It's how they wind up back in charge soon; demagogue every scandal, every mistake, every act of God, and the public soon forgets and puts them back in charge.
And thus the Revolution continues. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The author of this piece doesn't seem to get that fully. He does mention the Overton Window (which is essentially the dialectic - the window is a set of parameters for polite public discourse and thinking. The Left is always slamming one window shut and opening another to the left and our side always fears reopening the shut window lest we be called racist/sexist/bigot/homophobe etc) but I think he believes these are just movements "people power" things. I don't think he grasps the coordination and careful planning involved with most things we see.
What we see is a stage production, but occasionally the curtain slips and we see the crew hiding behind it. This production is managed; it's not organic. It doesn't just happen this way, but rather someone is pulling the strings. We know many of the names - George Soros, Warren Buffet, Tom Steyer, etc. Many we don't know. But suffice it to say there are vast sums of money and huge amounts of talent employed to drive what we see as the narrative. It doesn't just happen that, say, every media outlet is leftist and follows the same script.
But, I hear you say, "what of Fox News"? I refer you to my pressure valve theory above; Fox is there to blunt Conservative anger and to steer the conversation away from actually taking action. I'm not saying it was started with that in mind but that it is allowed to prosper to facilitate the fiction of "plurality" in our national discourse. Fox is a tool of the left, wittingly or unwittingly. But a tool most assuredly.
Do I think Trump a part of the stage play? I did when he first burst on the scene. In fact I thought he may well have been there solely to split the conservatives. I didn't trust him then. But something is different about the man, and the apoplexy from the left over him suggests he's a non-scripted actor in our little play, like a janitor who wandered on stage and said "hey, you guys are just pretending".
So I think now they are trying to coopt him, steeer him away from being TOO damaging to them, while riding this outbreak of independent thought on the part of the American People out. I think Trump is like a wildfire; their only option is to burn off some of their underbrush and hope he burns out. In times past this has worked, notably the Reagan era. They bided their time and waited Reagan out, putting the Bush family in position to blunt Reaganism and eventually strangle it. I suspect they will do likewise - or try to - with Trump.
I believe that they realize they have pushed as far as they can at this point. The public in every nation is angry, yet, but that anger is easily assuaged, and it will cool in an election cycle or two.
Bear in mind it is a shallow anger. Why do I say that? Why didn't the GOP win eight or more seats in the Senate? They were defending half as many seats as the Democrats yet the Senate remains nip-and-tuck. That is in no small part due to the fact the Senate leadership didn't even try to win big - they tried to maintain control of their own caucus first. I've long argued the Senate (and to a lesser extent the House) doesn't want any sort of landslide; the incumbents maintain their privileged position by the chamber being tight as a nun's backside. No one dare oppose them if there is any chance of losing a seat and flipping control of the Senate. So I believe McConnell - who has been at the helm longer than anyone in history and who once wrote an autobiography "The Long Game" where he discussed politics like a grift, a "long con" where you look several moves ahead - consciously labored to keep the Senate close. He certainly refused to fund MAGA people, and sat on a huge war chest the last couple of elections rather than risk losing his grip on power by supporting a MAGA guy. And we've seen this behavior in the House as well, by Boehner, McCarthy, Ryan, and now Johnson. These guys just can't seem to win, even when the public is furious and want a change. Trump's election should have produced huge coattails in the House and Senate; it didn't.
But pkubj-https://www.multistate.us/insider/2024/11/6/post-election-republicans-add-to-strong-hold-of-state-governments]it did at State and local levels.
We call this the Uniparty. Two apparent enemies who are actually working hand-in-glove. Like Wiley Coyotte and the Road Runner, a casual observer sees them as bitter enemies but a thinking person knows they are just cartoons for entertainment, a distraction. (Actually Wiley Coyote appeared in another WB cartoon with a sheepdog which is appropo; they went to work at 9 a.m. punched a time clock, then punched each-other out until 12 when they took their lunch break, eating together and making friendly small talk, punched back in until five then wished each-other a nice night.) The GOP is no more an opposition party than that coyote was to that sheep dog.
My point is that the Left still controls the tools for the dissemination of information. They own the schools and academia, they own the media still, they control the internet, they control publishing houses and entertainment citadels. This is worldwide, which is why their program always appear simultaneously across the globe. A campaign just pops up out of the blue and it catches fire immediately. Why? They own vast networks full of cash and use it to make these things "popular" when in fact normal people hate them.
I don't think we are in the throes of a revolution so much as a hiccup on the way to the global socialist paradise. Yes, we are seeing corporations dump the more aggregious things like DEI or transgenderism, but this is for a season. I suspect this was planned; a necessary loss, like sacrificing your queen in chess to checkmate your opponent in four more moves. I suspect the Right will fail to move on all fronts, but concentrate on government as these monsters continue their march through our institutions and our beliefs. Any really capable military general knows how to make a useful, tactical retreat. George Washington beat the greatest military in the world by running away in a smart way. Occasionally everyone must pull back for a time.
We need to stop being so cocky. I enjoyed this Trump win too but the real work is coming, and Trump can't do it alone. We have to go after them where they hide, strike them in their sanctuaries. As Sun Tzu said, one must seize that which the enemy holds dear. We need to do that, going after the left's most cherished things. We need to take back the culture. Elon Musk helped a lot by buying Twitter and hopefully other, like minded types will continue this (like buying MSNBC or Tiktok). We need revival in the Church, to ask God's forgiveness and renewal. We need to revive the institutions the left have destroyed - like the Boy Scouts or many of the social service clubs like the Lions or Elks or whatnot. We need to return to gender specificity and segregation of the sexes in some instances (like the Boy scouts which is now open to girls and transvestites and everyone else.) We need to repeal gay marriage.
At any rate, if anyone thinks this is over he is deluded. Sadly our side always believes "we won the war, time to go home" while the left sees no end, ever, to the game.
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GM Spying on Drivers
Timothy Birdnow
Apparently Government Motors (GM) has been collecting data on drivers and selling it to credit bureaus and insurance companies and whatnot in what can only be called a gross violation of the privacy of their customers.
And amazingly the FTC is suing them over it.
From the article:
Americans have become entirely too comfortable with the surveillance state. It amazes me the folks who invented the Fourth Amendment and jealously defended protecting their privacy rights have so easily surrendered them to any Tom, Dick, or Harry who comes along. But we let fear rule us, especially in the Cold War and then in the War on Drugs and then the War on Terror and at each step we gave government greater surveillance power. Couple that with the cult of celebrity, where everyone wishes they were famous public figures and are happy to just give away their life's secrets, has led to an American fishbowl. Natturally people will profit off the stupidity of the public...
A former CIA guy once said they had spent decades trying to find ways to get data on people and all the while all they had to do was ask them for it. We know the CIA was involved heavily in the creation of a number of internet platforms, notably Google and probably Facebook (via Peter Thiel). Certainly they figured out early on how to utilize social networking and the like. Just watching Google searches says a lot about your person of interest.
So if the government can do that, the thinking undoubtedly went in the GM boardroom, why can't a carmaker spy on their customers? Fair is fair, right?
My wife once had a dream where she had a commercial halfway through it; we laugh about that all the time. But in our future that's going to be coming. Certainly Elon Musk and others want to implant chips in our brains. How long before they use such chips for data mining and implanting commercials? You know it's coming. And while civil libertarians such as myself will resist it many will happily accept it as just what you have to do to get free stuff.
We used to call that selling your soul. If you made this deal with Beelzebub you would have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in bygone days; now you are just an average American.
Ben Franklin said:
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
It's true too of giving up your privacy for free stuff - in spades.
Apparently Government Motors (GM) has been collecting data on drivers and selling it to credit bureaus and insurance companies and whatnot in what can only be called a gross violation of the privacy of their customers.
And amazingly the FTC is suing them over it.
From the article:
"The FTC alleged that GM "collected, used, and sold drivers’ precise geolocation data and driving behavior information from millions of vehicles—data that can be used to set insurance rates—without adequately notifying consumers and obtaining their affirmative consent,” said a Jan. 16 statement from the agency.
The issue stems from GM encouraging customers to sign up for its OnStar connected vehicle service and the OnStar Smart Driver feature through a "misleading enrollment process,” the agency said. The company claimed that these tools help users "assess their driving habits.”
However, GM did not "clearly disclose” that the collected information—including data related to speeding, instances of hard braking, and late-night driving—would be sold to third parties such as consumer reporting agencies, the FTC claims.
Agencies "used the sensitive information GM provided to compile credit reports on consumers, which were used by insurance companies to deny insurance and set rates,” it said.
The FTC pointed out that tracking or collecting geolocation data was an invasion of privacy because it reveals details such as daily routines or an extremely specific event such as visiting a medical facility."
The issue stems from GM encouraging customers to sign up for its OnStar connected vehicle service and the OnStar Smart Driver feature through a "misleading enrollment process,” the agency said. The company claimed that these tools help users "assess their driving habits.”
However, GM did not "clearly disclose” that the collected information—including data related to speeding, instances of hard braking, and late-night driving—would be sold to third parties such as consumer reporting agencies, the FTC claims.
Agencies "used the sensitive information GM provided to compile credit reports on consumers, which were used by insurance companies to deny insurance and set rates,” it said.
The FTC pointed out that tracking or collecting geolocation data was an invasion of privacy because it reveals details such as daily routines or an extremely specific event such as visiting a medical facility."
Americans have become entirely too comfortable with the surveillance state. It amazes me the folks who invented the Fourth Amendment and jealously defended protecting their privacy rights have so easily surrendered them to any Tom, Dick, or Harry who comes along. But we let fear rule us, especially in the Cold War and then in the War on Drugs and then the War on Terror and at each step we gave government greater surveillance power. Couple that with the cult of celebrity, where everyone wishes they were famous public figures and are happy to just give away their life's secrets, has led to an American fishbowl. Natturally people will profit off the stupidity of the public...
A former CIA guy once said they had spent decades trying to find ways to get data on people and all the while all they had to do was ask them for it. We know the CIA was involved heavily in the creation of a number of internet platforms, notably Google and probably Facebook (via Peter Thiel). Certainly they figured out early on how to utilize social networking and the like. Just watching Google searches says a lot about your person of interest.
So if the government can do that, the thinking undoubtedly went in the GM boardroom, why can't a carmaker spy on their customers? Fair is fair, right?
My wife once had a dream where she had a commercial halfway through it; we laugh about that all the time. But in our future that's going to be coming. Certainly Elon Musk and others want to implant chips in our brains. How long before they use such chips for data mining and implanting commercials? You know it's coming. And while civil libertarians such as myself will resist it many will happily accept it as just what you have to do to get free stuff.
We used to call that selling your soul. If you made this deal with Beelzebub you would have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in bygone days; now you are just an average American.
Ben Franklin said:
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
It's true too of giving up your privacy for free stuff - in spades.
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Abrams the Cheater
Timothy Birdnow
And she dared accuse others of election fraud!
Stacey Abrams Slapped With Largest Fine in State History for Election Law Violations
And she dared accuse others of election fraud!
Stacey Abrams Slapped With Largest Fine in State History for Election Law Violations
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The Curious Case of Ben Affleck
Timothy Birdnow
What the devil is going on with Ben Affleck?
First FBI, Then Cops, Now a Military Humvee was Spotted Outside Ben Affleck’s Home?
I know he's a creepy leftie, but this suggests a national security issue.
This article insists Affleck isn't the focus of any investigations, but that conclusion is only drawn from the fact he's seemingly not concerned and authorities have said as much. But it's quite odd, to put it mildly.
I'm not a great believer in strange coincidences especially involving famous people.
BTW Affleck was married to Jennifer Lopez until recently. He turned over tapes of her with Sean "Diddy" Combs, the rapist pedophile sex slaving rapper, to the FBI recently. Given the scope of Diddy's criminal activities one wonders if the two are not connected?
Perhaps Affleck is turning state's evidence and facing a credible threat? Maybe more?
Another interesting tidbit about Affleck; he had Hillary Clinton's private e-mail address. While this story goes back to 2015, it does suggest he knew things that perhaps he should not have. This was the same e-mail account Hillary was using to circumvent the official government channels.
I reiterate; Affleck is a huge Democrat and donated money to Kamala Harris this last election.
I suspect all sorts of dirt may be under his fingernails - or at least he's fairly close to a lot of dirt, what with this Diddy business and his ties to the Clintons, and some wild rumors swirling about America's premier mob couple.
So there may be nothing to this, but there could be a LOT to this. Keep a sharp eye.
What the devil is going on with Ben Affleck?
First FBI, Then Cops, Now a Military Humvee was Spotted Outside Ben Affleck’s Home?
I know he's a creepy leftie, but this suggests a national security issue.
#BenAffleck‘s block is a hotbed for all kinds of authority figures lately … ’cause now the military is hanging outside his Westside #L.A. home — days after cops and #FBI agents were seen around the house amid wildfires in the area. Full story in bio! pic.twitter.com/hzssQXrqBU
— TMZ (@TMZ) January 17, 2025
— TMZ (@TMZ) January 17, 2025
This article insists Affleck isn't the focus of any investigations, but that conclusion is only drawn from the fact he's seemingly not concerned and authorities have said as much. But it's quite odd, to put it mildly.
I'm not a great believer in strange coincidences especially involving famous people.
BTW Affleck was married to Jennifer Lopez until recently. He turned over tapes of her with Sean "Diddy" Combs, the rapist pedophile sex slaving rapper, to the FBI recently. Given the scope of Diddy's criminal activities one wonders if the two are not connected?
Perhaps Affleck is turning state's evidence and facing a credible threat? Maybe more?
Another interesting tidbit about Affleck; he had Hillary Clinton's private e-mail address. While this story goes back to 2015, it does suggest he knew things that perhaps he should not have. This was the same e-mail account Hillary was using to circumvent the official government channels.
I reiterate; Affleck is a huge Democrat and donated money to Kamala Harris this last election.
I suspect all sorts of dirt may be under his fingernails - or at least he's fairly close to a lot of dirt, what with this Diddy business and his ties to the Clintons, and some wild rumors swirling about America's premier mob couple.
So there may be nothing to this, but there could be a LOT to this. Keep a sharp eye.
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FBI Diaper Babies
Timothy Birdnow
According to Mo. Senator Eric Schmidt, the FBI experienced a major security breach which involves agent e-mails and discloses confidential informant information.
If the FBI cannot even protect it's own security, why do we entrust them with protecting ours?
I wonder if this breach was in fact not intentional. A poison pill, perhaps, to hamper the incoming Administration?
I may be paranoid but paranoids have enemies too!
According to Mo. Senator Eric Schmidt, the FBI experienced a major security breach which involves agent e-mails and discloses confidential informant information.
If the FBI cannot even protect it's own security, why do we entrust them with protecting ours?
I wonder if this breach was in fact not intentional. A poison pill, perhaps, to hamper the incoming Administration?
I may be paranoid but paranoids have enemies too!
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China; Population Implosion (Coming)
Timothy Birdnow
China loses population for the third straight year in a row.
I suspect we are going to see a downward spiral as China's population continues to shrink. This is a classic Bell Curve; now they are on the downward leg of things. If the West has taught us anything it is that once you start losing population even though you wanted to do so you have a hard time arresting the decline. Look at Russia.
And with population decline you often get economic malaise. Nations need enough people to support the older generation. Even in countries where there isn't really a welfare state it is done through unofficial channels i.e. families. Reduce the number of people and you can no longer afford to care for the elders, and so you get deficit spending and at the same time not enough taxes to support a welfare system. The end result is frequently economic decline.
We've seen this in many places in Europe and in Russia. Now it's coming to China.
But China's economy is entirely based on economic growth, and managing a shrinking economy will lead to chaos. The Chicoms can't use the very poor method employed in the West, namely importing new people; they would lose control of the country. There is no People on Earth as xenophobic and race-conscious as the Chinese.
So they are in a pickle. This could well destroy them in the end.
I've long argued China is a paper tiger and population decline has always been one of the factors I've considered in making that assessment.
At any rate it would be good to have fewer Chinese, no question, for both ourselves and the long-term future of China. But it will lead to profound chnages there, and China may well seek foreign adventurism as a distraction. The Chicoms will be most unpleasant in their death throes.
BTW I would add the One child policy gave China a unique situation; too many boys, too few girls. Chinese would abort girl children because their culture was always patralinear. So you have a bunch of men seeking women with none to be found. That is ripe war. The Chinese men are going to have to seek abroad to find women. If they have to conquer to do so so be it.
China loses population for the third straight year in a row.
I suspect we are going to see a downward spiral as China's population continues to shrink. This is a classic Bell Curve; now they are on the downward leg of things. If the West has taught us anything it is that once you start losing population even though you wanted to do so you have a hard time arresting the decline. Look at Russia.
And with population decline you often get economic malaise. Nations need enough people to support the older generation. Even in countries where there isn't really a welfare state it is done through unofficial channels i.e. families. Reduce the number of people and you can no longer afford to care for the elders, and so you get deficit spending and at the same time not enough taxes to support a welfare system. The end result is frequently economic decline.
We've seen this in many places in Europe and in Russia. Now it's coming to China.
But China's economy is entirely based on economic growth, and managing a shrinking economy will lead to chaos. The Chicoms can't use the very poor method employed in the West, namely importing new people; they would lose control of the country. There is no People on Earth as xenophobic and race-conscious as the Chinese.
So they are in a pickle. This could well destroy them in the end.
I've long argued China is a paper tiger and population decline has always been one of the factors I've considered in making that assessment.
At any rate it would be good to have fewer Chinese, no question, for both ourselves and the long-term future of China. But it will lead to profound chnages there, and China may well seek foreign adventurism as a distraction. The Chicoms will be most unpleasant in their death throes.
BTW I would add the One child policy gave China a unique situation; too many boys, too few girls. Chinese would abort girl children because their culture was always patralinear. So you have a bunch of men seeking women with none to be found. That is ripe war. The Chinese men are going to have to seek abroad to find women. If they have to conquer to do so so be it.
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Biden's Empty Warnings
Timothy Birdnow
Joe Biden's warning of a tech-ocracy rings most hollow; he was just fine cozying up to tech companies when they were serving his own interests. Take this for example.
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Only now, with Elon Musk and the platform formerly known as Twitter cozying up to Trump, as well as Zuckerberg's craven crawling to the Donald, Mr. Biden suddenly awakens to the perils of autocracy. Hypocrite.
If I were God and wanted to fix the nation I would destroy Silicon Valley with fire and brimstone and turn anyone who looked back at it into a pillar of salt. Get rid of SV, along with Hollywood, San Francisco, New York, and Washington and America would return to a path of decency. These places (and Chicago) have warped this nation into something wholly unrecognizable. They are the levees controlling the direction of the river of America. Break 'em and the country flows back to it's original course.
At any rate we always knew Biden was a hypocrite. This is just more proof.
Joe Biden's warning of a tech-ocracy rings most hollow; he was just fine cozying up to tech companies when they were serving his own interests. Take this for example.
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During his administration, Microsoft executives visited the White House more than 200 times, involving 82 different executives, according to visitor logs analyzed by the Foundation for Freedom Online. This level of access equals or even surpasses the influence wielded by Google during the Obama years, when the administration was criticized for being too cozy with Big Tech. The revelations suggest a troubling level of influence wielded by tech companies over Democrat administrations – Google during the Obama years and now Microsoft, particularly over critical cybersecurity policies during the Biden years.
The hundreds of meetings with White House officials not only highlight Microsoft’s proximity to the Biden administration but also reveal how the company strategically targeted the most sensitive areas of government. Roughly one-third of these meetings involved officials from the National Security Council (NSC), with Microsoft executives engaging directly with top national security figures such as Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer.
As Wired reported this week, Sullivan and the Biden White House served as Microsoft’s lackeys in brokering a $1.5 billion deal in which the company acquired a minority stake in G42, an Abu Dhabi-based AI company founded by Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates’ intelligence chief. The deal has raised fears among the U.S. intelligence community given G42’s close ties with China.
On May 12, 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith met with senior NSC advisors on the same day Biden signed an executive order addressing the SolarWinds cyberattack — a breach that exposed vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s systems and compromised federal agencies. Microsoft’s lobbying efforts during the SolarWinds fallout were designed to shield the company from scrutiny while promoting its security products to federal agencies. These products generated billions in revenue from government contracts, with national security-related agencies contributing over $12 billion to Microsoft since 2018.
The timing of several key White House meetings suggests that Microsoft leveraged the crises stemming from SolarWinds and the Exchange Server breach to expand its federal footprint. For instance, on May 24, 2021 — just days after Biden’s executive order on SolarWinds — Microsoft executives Jason Zander and David Pritchard met with Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger. Zander, responsible for Microsoft’s federal engagements, met with White House officials on at least six occasions during Biden’s term in office.
The hundreds of meetings with White House officials not only highlight Microsoft’s proximity to the Biden administration but also reveal how the company strategically targeted the most sensitive areas of government. Roughly one-third of these meetings involved officials from the National Security Council (NSC), with Microsoft executives engaging directly with top national security figures such as Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer.
As Wired reported this week, Sullivan and the Biden White House served as Microsoft’s lackeys in brokering a $1.5 billion deal in which the company acquired a minority stake in G42, an Abu Dhabi-based AI company founded by Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates’ intelligence chief. The deal has raised fears among the U.S. intelligence community given G42’s close ties with China.
On May 12, 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith met with senior NSC advisors on the same day Biden signed an executive order addressing the SolarWinds cyberattack — a breach that exposed vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s systems and compromised federal agencies. Microsoft’s lobbying efforts during the SolarWinds fallout were designed to shield the company from scrutiny while promoting its security products to federal agencies. These products generated billions in revenue from government contracts, with national security-related agencies contributing over $12 billion to Microsoft since 2018.
The timing of several key White House meetings suggests that Microsoft leveraged the crises stemming from SolarWinds and the Exchange Server breach to expand its federal footprint. For instance, on May 24, 2021 — just days after Biden’s executive order on SolarWinds — Microsoft executives Jason Zander and David Pritchard met with Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger. Zander, responsible for Microsoft’s federal engagements, met with White House officials on at least six occasions during Biden’s term in office.
Only now, with Elon Musk and the platform formerly known as Twitter cozying up to Trump, as well as Zuckerberg's craven crawling to the Donald, Mr. Biden suddenly awakens to the perils of autocracy. Hypocrite.
If I were God and wanted to fix the nation I would destroy Silicon Valley with fire and brimstone and turn anyone who looked back at it into a pillar of salt. Get rid of SV, along with Hollywood, San Francisco, New York, and Washington and America would return to a path of decency. These places (and Chicago) have warped this nation into something wholly unrecognizable. They are the levees controlling the direction of the river of America. Break 'em and the country flows back to it's original course.
At any rate we always knew Biden was a hypocrite. This is just more proof.
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No Parking
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a story about how government twists and distorts everything, then has to clean up it's own mess, only it inevitably cleans it with more filth.
Apparently a lot of parking lots in downtown Detroit are gouging sports fans during Lions playoff games, charging as much as $1000 to park. Usurious? Sure. Rotten? You bet. But what business is it of the City of Detroit to set pricing for private parking lots?
Those lots exist for a reason. That reason is, in no small part, because the city, like most cities in America which are run by Democrats, is gouging people by having public meters and forcing them to pay to park on the streets, under the threat of being ticketed and perhaps having your car towed. And since most meters are time limited (often to two hours) a person cannot go to a pro football game and park at a meter; it will expire before he gets out to feed it (which is often illegal anyway, refeeding the meter).
Basically these Democrat cities found a lucrative stream of revenue by screwing over people going downtown. As a result private parking lots opened to serve the needs of these folks. Those lots would be more lucrative to the owners if developed. A Loft condo complex or office building make a lot more money than some stupid parking lot.
The cities don't even have a clue in that they won't offer free parking in public-owned lots either, or even low-cost parking in public-owned lots.
The end result is a scarcity of parking in most downtowns across the country.
In a sane world a lot charging $1000 would be empty and other, cheaper ones full. But these prices are set by the city too as the article points out.
So the answer the Democrats who run these cities is to crack down on "windfall profits" by lot owners rather thanfix the parking problem through true free market systems or even through direct public planning.
According to the article:
Oh, that's genius! Shut down the few lots actually serving what is obviously a public need because you FEEL it's unfair! Then when these guys go out of business you will cry foul.
There is nothing more stupid than a big city Democrat.
Here is a story about how government twists and distorts everything, then has to clean up it's own mess, only it inevitably cleans it with more filth.
Apparently a lot of parking lots in downtown Detroit are gouging sports fans during Lions playoff games, charging as much as $1000 to park. Usurious? Sure. Rotten? You bet. But what business is it of the City of Detroit to set pricing for private parking lots?
Those lots exist for a reason. That reason is, in no small part, because the city, like most cities in America which are run by Democrats, is gouging people by having public meters and forcing them to pay to park on the streets, under the threat of being ticketed and perhaps having your car towed. And since most meters are time limited (often to two hours) a person cannot go to a pro football game and park at a meter; it will expire before he gets out to feed it (which is often illegal anyway, refeeding the meter).
Basically these Democrat cities found a lucrative stream of revenue by screwing over people going downtown. As a result private parking lots opened to serve the needs of these folks. Those lots would be more lucrative to the owners if developed. A Loft condo complex or office building make a lot more money than some stupid parking lot.
The cities don't even have a clue in that they won't offer free parking in public-owned lots either, or even low-cost parking in public-owned lots.
The end result is a scarcity of parking in most downtowns across the country.
In a sane world a lot charging $1000 would be empty and other, cheaper ones full. But these prices are set by the city too as the article points out.
So the answer the Democrats who run these cities is to crack down on "windfall profits" by lot owners rather thanfix the parking problem through true free market systems or even through direct public planning.
According to the article:
David Bell, director of Buildings for Detroit, called the price gouging "shameful.”
"This is totally ridiculous,” Bell said. "I don’t know of anyone who thinks that paying $900 or $1,000 to park and go see a game is reasonable. If we find any parking lot illegally charging folks to park, we are going to use every tour in our arsenal to let them know this is a bad idea. We are going to shut them down, we are going to ticket them, we are going to haul them in front of a Wayne County Circuit Court Judge, and we’re going to take steps to suspend their license. This is totally unacceptable.”
The owners of the three lots shut down by police have to appear before a judge to see when they will be allowed to reopen.
"This is totally ridiculous,” Bell said. "I don’t know of anyone who thinks that paying $900 or $1,000 to park and go see a game is reasonable. If we find any parking lot illegally charging folks to park, we are going to use every tour in our arsenal to let them know this is a bad idea. We are going to shut them down, we are going to ticket them, we are going to haul them in front of a Wayne County Circuit Court Judge, and we’re going to take steps to suspend their license. This is totally unacceptable.”
The owners of the three lots shut down by police have to appear before a judge to see when they will be allowed to reopen.
Oh, that's genius! Shut down the few lots actually serving what is obviously a public need because you FEEL it's unfair! Then when these guys go out of business you will cry foul.
There is nothing more stupid than a big city Democrat.
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Inaugural Moved Indoors
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Politicians and VIP's only at the Trump inaugural.
It was moved inside because of the cold weather, but was there perhaps a second motive? Security will be WAY easier this way.
I'm sure a lot of security people were not unhappy about moving this inaugural indoors.
Politicians and VIP's only at the Trump inaugural.
It was moved inside because of the cold weather, but was there perhaps a second motive? Security will be WAY easier this way.
I'm sure a lot of security people were not unhappy about moving this inaugural indoors.
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Fire Mismanagement
Timothy Birdnow
A big part of why California is burning stems from their bewildering unwillingness to remove dry brush and deadwood from rural areas, thus providing far too much fuel to feed a fire. Removing the debris reduces the fire and saves homes - and lives.
Now California officials are twisting and squirming to deny this little detail, but it's easily proven. All one must do is look at other states prone to wildfires and compare and contrast.
Take Florida, for example. Now, when anyone says Florida people automatically think of the beach and Disney World but the reality is Florida is a big, flat plain subject to high winds. And while parts of the state are swamp, large swaths of it are grassland and scrubland. In fact, Florida was once a great cattle state, rivaling Texas (which also is a big fire state) and the term "cracker" for a southern hick comes from Florida cowboys who used whips to drive cattle. At any rate, Florida has a fraction of the wild fires seen in California and there is a reason for that; they do controlled burns in Florida on a regular basis before fire season.
There were 2,338 wildfires reported in 2024, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, burning 64,170 acres. Yet we did not see anywhere near the devastation as we have seen in L.A.
By the end of 2024, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres in California. One quarter of the wildfires in Florida. So why didn't we hear much about the Florida fires? Because they caused so much less damage. Florida does controlled burns and debris removal.
And Texas? As of August of 2024 (the latest I could find records on) Texas had seen
over a million acres burned by wildfires, yet the property damage was far less than in California. Texas does controlled burns and brush removal.
This isn't rocket science. There are places that burn - it's natural for them. You either have to let them burn and simply stay out of those areas or you have to take fire-prevention measures.
The Leftist moonbats who run California don't want to do that, then complain about the fires and blame "climate change" when it's just bad policy.
A big part of why California is burning stems from their bewildering unwillingness to remove dry brush and deadwood from rural areas, thus providing far too much fuel to feed a fire. Removing the debris reduces the fire and saves homes - and lives.
Now California officials are twisting and squirming to deny this little detail, but it's easily proven. All one must do is look at other states prone to wildfires and compare and contrast.
Take Florida, for example. Now, when anyone says Florida people automatically think of the beach and Disney World but the reality is Florida is a big, flat plain subject to high winds. And while parts of the state are swamp, large swaths of it are grassland and scrubland. In fact, Florida was once a great cattle state, rivaling Texas (which also is a big fire state) and the term "cracker" for a southern hick comes from Florida cowboys who used whips to drive cattle. At any rate, Florida has a fraction of the wild fires seen in California and there is a reason for that; they do controlled burns in Florida on a regular basis before fire season.
There were 2,338 wildfires reported in 2024, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, burning 64,170 acres. Yet we did not see anywhere near the devastation as we have seen in L.A.
By the end of 2024, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres in California. One quarter of the wildfires in Florida. So why didn't we hear much about the Florida fires? Because they caused so much less damage. Florida does controlled burns and debris removal.
And Texas? As of August of 2024 (the latest I could find records on) Texas had seen
over a million acres burned by wildfires, yet the property damage was far less than in California. Texas does controlled burns and brush removal.
This isn't rocket science. There are places that burn - it's natural for them. You either have to let them burn and simply stay out of those areas or you have to take fire-prevention measures.
The Leftist moonbats who run California don't want to do that, then complain about the fires and blame "climate change" when it's just bad policy.
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Arkancide in New York?
Timothy Birdnow
Arkancide in New York?
US ends former New York lieutenant governor's bribery case after witness dies
Coincidences do happen, but one must assume the worst when politics or money is involved.
Arkancide in New York?
US ends former New York lieutenant governor's bribery case after witness dies
Coincidences do happen, but one must assume the worst when politics or money is involved.
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January 17, 2025
The REAL Oligarchs
Timothy Birdnow
Proof there is a uniparty and we've had an oligarchy running America for decades now.
Obama, Clinton, Bush Not Attending Trump’s Inaugural Luncheon
Proof there is a uniparty and we've had an oligarchy running America for decades now.
Obama, Clinton, Bush Not Attending Trump’s Inaugural Luncheon
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Projection
Timothy Birdnow
A very black kettle insulting a shiny pot.
Washington Post Cartoonist Who Called Republicans "Groomers” Arrested on Child Porn Charges
A very black kettle insulting a shiny pot.
Washington Post Cartoonist Who Called Republicans "Groomers” Arrested on Child Porn Charges
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January 16, 2025
1 Out of 5 Never Heard of Holocaust
Timothy Birdnow
Doomed to repeat...
20 percent of adults have never heard of the Holocaust
Doomed to repeat...
20 percent of adults have never heard of the Holocaust
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RIP Mr. Baseball
Timothy Birdnow
R.I.P. Bob Uecker
Uecker was a great baseball player, a great actor (remember Mr. Belvedere?) a funny and geniunely warm man. Go with God my friend!
R.I.P. Bob Uecker
Uecker was a great baseball player, a great actor (remember Mr. Belvedere?) a funny and geniunely warm man. Go with God my friend!
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In the Cool, Cool, Cool of Inaugural
Timothy Birdnow
Gobal Warming my big white, uh, foot!
Monday set to be coldest Inauguration in 40 years.
If thermogeddon is upon us, if it really is hotter than Venus, if the Earth really "has a fever", why will this inaugural be so Mars like cold?
Gobal Warming my big white, uh, foot!
Monday set to be coldest Inauguration in 40 years.
If thermogeddon is upon us, if it really is hotter than Venus, if the Earth really "has a fever", why will this inaugural be so Mars like cold?
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Chinese Drone Company to Remove "Geofencing"
Timothy Birdnow
A Chinese drone manufacturer just announced they will no longer supply geofencing for it's drones, thus freeing them to fly over restricted airspace.
Read all about it here.
Intersting; just as Trump is coming into office they are removing the restrictions on where drones can fly.
Apparently (and I didn't know this) most drones had programming making them unable to fly over restricted areas, like airports or military bases or the White House.
What this suggests is that the Chicoms have probably been exempting themselves from the "fencing" all along and know Trump is going to out them when he takes office. So they are officially changing their policy now.
Time to shoot the bastards down. I know there is a risk, but any drone in restricted space needs to be taken out.
And this company should be banned from any business inside the U.S. Time to quit pussyfooting around.
A Chinese drone manufacturer just announced they will no longer supply geofencing for it's drones, thus freeing them to fly over restricted airspace.
Read all about it here.
Intersting; just as Trump is coming into office they are removing the restrictions on where drones can fly.
Apparently (and I didn't know this) most drones had programming making them unable to fly over restricted areas, like airports or military bases or the White House.
What this suggests is that the Chicoms have probably been exempting themselves from the "fencing" all along and know Trump is going to out them when he takes office. So they are officially changing their policy now.
Time to shoot the bastards down. I know there is a risk, but any drone in restricted space needs to be taken out.
And this company should be banned from any business inside the U.S. Time to quit pussyfooting around.
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The Return of the Dead Lie
Timothy Birdnow
This Revolver article discusses the "quad-demic" and looks for answers.
Tthe author mentions that this is political - which it unquestionably is, an attempt to revive the thing that wrecked Trump's first Presidency - but he misses the obvious.
Infections are up, and that is perhaps the fault of the Covid potion, but more likely it is a coefficient of the massive numbers of illegal aliens who have invaded America, bringing with them their Third World hygiene and dormant infections.
You can't bring 12-22 million people into the country, most of whom are living in the shadows, and be surprised at epidemics. We've seen a rise in Tuberculosis, with the U.S. TB rate increasing by 15%, from 2.5 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023, according to the CDC, a rather dubious source in my book. It is likely higher. And this is only the numbers our government knows; many illegals won't be reported because they won't go to the hospital or seek treatment.
We are seeing a lot of this with the influx of illegals; lots of diseases we thought we had under control are coming back. As is to be expected from the Deep State they are blaming it on those stupid parents who won't take their word on the glories of vaccinations. That may even be true to a minor degree, but the fact is most of these diseases do not require a vaccination if people aren't exposed to them. We want to bring in a bunch of sick people and then force our own citizens to endure a draconian regulatory medical scheme.
A pox upon them!
At any rate the article is good but he needed to tie this to the invasion. So many of our problems lie at the feet of that - and of other things, like the belief in "experts" over common sense and the lust for power that is the true pandemic in this tired old world.
This Revolver article discusses the "quad-demic" and looks for answers.
Tthe author mentions that this is political - which it unquestionably is, an attempt to revive the thing that wrecked Trump's first Presidency - but he misses the obvious.
Infections are up, and that is perhaps the fault of the Covid potion, but more likely it is a coefficient of the massive numbers of illegal aliens who have invaded America, bringing with them their Third World hygiene and dormant infections.
You can't bring 12-22 million people into the country, most of whom are living in the shadows, and be surprised at epidemics. We've seen a rise in Tuberculosis, with the U.S. TB rate increasing by 15%, from 2.5 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023, according to the CDC, a rather dubious source in my book. It is likely higher. And this is only the numbers our government knows; many illegals won't be reported because they won't go to the hospital or seek treatment.
We are seeing a lot of this with the influx of illegals; lots of diseases we thought we had under control are coming back. As is to be expected from the Deep State they are blaming it on those stupid parents who won't take their word on the glories of vaccinations. That may even be true to a minor degree, but the fact is most of these diseases do not require a vaccination if people aren't exposed to them. We want to bring in a bunch of sick people and then force our own citizens to endure a draconian regulatory medical scheme.
A pox upon them!
At any rate the article is good but he needed to tie this to the invasion. So many of our problems lie at the feet of that - and of other things, like the belief in "experts" over common sense and the lust for power that is the true pandemic in this tired old world.
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Biden's SEC Launches Sham Prosecution of Musk
Timothy Birdnow
Just as Biden goes out the door he leaves a parting gift.
SEC Lawsuit: Elon Musk’s Failure to Disclose Twitter Stake Let Him Buy at ‘Artificially Low Prices’
???? You may remember Musk got swindled by Twitter, which had artificially inflated it's value by using bots to pretend to be legitimate traffic. Mr. Musk tried to cancel the deal but was forced to execute. See Musk abandons deal to buy Twitter; company says it will sue, an AP article.
So Musk was forced to buy a failing platform where HE got swindled and Biden's last act as President is for his SEC to attack Musk. Clearly the price Musk paid was too high, not too low.
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How, pray tell, does owning some stock in the company constitute fraud when purchasing more of it? Someone please explain this to me.
The Left used to own Twitter and it was one of the power bases of the Deep State until Musk bought it and opened it to what it was intended to be - a public forum. They have attacked Musk at every turn as payback for taking "their" social network. And when a leftist feels slighted their knee-jerk reaction is to repress free speech and attack using whatever weapon is handy, especially the law. Lawfare is as natural to them as breathing.
This is a disgrace and hopefully Paul Atkins will ask for this to be dismissed as soon as he takes office in a few weeks.
These people came in like Pr#%&s and went out the same way. That phrase was used about Jimmy Carter but it REALLY sums up the Biden Administration.
Just as Biden goes out the door he leaves a parting gift.
SEC Lawsuit: Elon Musk’s Failure to Disclose Twitter Stake Let Him Buy at ‘Artificially Low Prices’
???? You may remember Musk got swindled by Twitter, which had artificially inflated it's value by using bots to pretend to be legitimate traffic. Mr. Musk tried to cancel the deal but was forced to execute. See Musk abandons deal to buy Twitter; company says it will sue, an AP article.
So Musk was forced to buy a failing platform where HE got swindled and Biden's last act as President is for his SEC to attack Musk. Clearly the price Musk paid was too high, not too low.
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"CNBC reports that in a civil complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the SEC alleges that Elon Musk committed securities fraud in 2022 by not disclosing his ownership of more than five percent of Twitter shares within the required 10 calendar days of reaching that threshold. This lack of transparency, according to the SEC, enabled Musk to underpay for Twitter shares by at least $150 million."
How, pray tell, does owning some stock in the company constitute fraud when purchasing more of it? Someone please explain this to me.
The Left used to own Twitter and it was one of the power bases of the Deep State until Musk bought it and opened it to what it was intended to be - a public forum. They have attacked Musk at every turn as payback for taking "their" social network. And when a leftist feels slighted their knee-jerk reaction is to repress free speech and attack using whatever weapon is handy, especially the law. Lawfare is as natural to them as breathing.
This is a disgrace and hopefully Paul Atkins will ask for this to be dismissed as soon as he takes office in a few weeks.
These people came in like Pr#%&s and went out the same way. That phrase was used about Jimmy Carter but it REALLY sums up the Biden Administration.
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Global Warming Causes Kidney Stones?
Timothy Birdnow
I about fell off my chair when I read this article this morning.
This Epoch Times article was discussing the rise in kidney stones amount children and youths. I was interested, having enjoyed the exciting and rewarding challenge of passing uric acid stones myself (and not passing them, but rather having to have them cut out of me quivering innards)
They gave good reasons for why kidney stones are increasing among kids; poor hydration since few actually drink WATER any longer, too much salt, and activity levels comparable to a sessile creature, like an oyster or clam. (I had a cat who never moved and he wound up with such stones and had to have surgery to clean a huge number of stones out of his bladder and urinary tract, and it was just because he simply refused to move.)
But I was taking a sip of coffee and spit it all over the dining room table over this:
This isn't the mindless drivel coming from Democratic Underground or The Huffington Post. It's from THE EPOCH TIMES for crying out loud!
I know; they are just summarizing another article but for the love of all things holy they owed everyone at least an emoji denoting shock and amazement at so ridiculous a claim.
Now, the Earth has warmed perhaps 2* F. over the last hundred years, according to the very biased NOAA, and that is assuming the 1930's was cooler than today - an unsupportable assertion made by NOAA and NASA only after jimmying their data because they couldn't find a way to explain that it was warmer when there was less co2. It also is certainly no warmer than the height of the Medieval Warming Period which was 2* F. warmer than today. While we may not have good records on kidney stones during the Middle Ages we certainly have no indication there was an increase in them from any literature available.
But even if that is so, so what?
First, the climate models themselves make the case that most of the planetary warming (and they are giving us a GLOBAL average) occurs in the polar regions and around the tropopause in the atmosphere. (No tropospheric hot spot has been found, btw., contradicting climate models.) Very little of the warming is FELT at ground level. What's more most of this warming is diurnal, meaning warmer nights in summer and winter (something we just aren't seeing). This is what the models all predict.
So the kids are sweating more when they are in bed?
I hate to point out to this dim-witted author (one Sheramy Tsai) that we now have a little thing called air conditioning. When I was a kid we didn't have air conditioning at all, not in my home, or in our cars. Yes, you could get it in bars or supermarkets or whatnot, and many homes did have it, but we didn't. I remember trying to sleep in a furnace, sweat soaking my bedsheets. Air conditioning became ubiquitous in the '70's. I remember my father getting a car with a/c (which he refused to use because it used up gas). I also remember when we moved into a home that had two window units; they didn't work that well but it was a dream come true for us WHEN MY PARENTS LET US PUT IT ON and then it had to be above 95*. When we got central air installed it was so very much better, but still my parents rarely put it on.
At any rate, kids now live most of their lives indoors and are always in air conditioned conditions. So how is "climate change" leading to more kidney stones? These kids sweat less, not more.
This alone made me disregard the whole article, and the author.
She also discusses "microplastics" as a possible cause of increasing kidney stones. But we didn't see the rise in kidney stones until just a few years ago and plastics have been used for over half a century in large amounts. (BTW I miss the old days of returnable soda or beer bottles; beverages tasted SO much better in glass than in plastic! But you had to worry about cutting your lip on a chipped bottle, and returning them was a pain. When I first started working at age 16 I worked for a grocer and hated having to mess with bottle returns; they were always broken and you had to watch out lest you cut your hand. But I still think it was wise to use returnable glass over plastic.)
According to the Kidney Foundation:
Do note there is little concern about the disparity based on sex (not "gender") because men are taking tthe brunt of it.
At any rate this does correlate to the rise in plastic containers, notably the use of plastic water bottles (many people now refuse to drink tap water, which is ridiculous as it is frequently as good or better than the stuff you get claiming to be "spring water" in a plastic jug.) But correlation does not equate to causality.
In point of fact plastic consumption has never been definitively proven to cause health problems. While I tend to think it's probably not a good idea, there is no solid science linking health concerns with plastic ingestion. We ingest worse things than plastics sometimes. But plastics are blamed for every and any health issue, from autism to cancers, metabolic disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and fertility issues to ingrown toenails. But there is no science that definitively proves this linkage.
No, climate change and "microplastics" are not the cause of kidney stones in children. Bad parenting and sloth and terrible eating habits are. Let's call a spade a spade here.
I despair of human stupidity. One day I'm going to move to trash island and live there atop the alleged huge island of plastic trash (supposedly three times the size of France, so why don't ships run aground on it?) in the Pacific. Maybe I'll create my own country "Trashsylvania".
Shoot; the Aztecs used to build rafts and grow crops on them - mobile farms - which they rowed to market. Why not a giant country floating on plastic waste? Much of America is essentially a trash heap these days after all.
You may say I'm a dreamer but at least I'll be rid of the incessant flood of imbecility coming from even people ostensibly on our side (as this writer for the Epch Times is assumed to be).
Here is a list of things allegedly caused by "climate change" as asserted by media, by the Ruling Class, and by government agencies. Kidney stones is in there somewhere if you have the time to page through this massive laundry list.
I about fell off my chair when I read this article this morning.
This Epoch Times article was discussing the rise in kidney stones amount children and youths. I was interested, having enjoyed the exciting and rewarding challenge of passing uric acid stones myself (and not passing them, but rather having to have them cut out of me quivering innards)
They gave good reasons for why kidney stones are increasing among kids; poor hydration since few actually drink WATER any longer, too much salt, and activity levels comparable to a sessile creature, like an oyster or clam. (I had a cat who never moved and he wound up with such stones and had to have surgery to clean a huge number of stones out of his bladder and urinary tract, and it was just because he simply refused to move.)
But I was taking a sip of coffee and spit it all over the dining room table over this:
"Rising global temperatures amplify this risk by increasing sweating and dehydration, which lead to more concentrated urine—a known factor in stone development."
You may pick your jaw up off the floor now. Do close the mouth too lest you catch flies.This isn't the mindless drivel coming from Democratic Underground or The Huffington Post. It's from THE EPOCH TIMES for crying out loud!
I know; they are just summarizing another article but for the love of all things holy they owed everyone at least an emoji denoting shock and amazement at so ridiculous a claim.
Now, the Earth has warmed perhaps 2* F. over the last hundred years, according to the very biased NOAA, and that is assuming the 1930's was cooler than today - an unsupportable assertion made by NOAA and NASA only after jimmying their data because they couldn't find a way to explain that it was warmer when there was less co2. It also is certainly no warmer than the height of the Medieval Warming Period which was 2* F. warmer than today. While we may not have good records on kidney stones during the Middle Ages we certainly have no indication there was an increase in them from any literature available.
But even if that is so, so what?
First, the climate models themselves make the case that most of the planetary warming (and they are giving us a GLOBAL average) occurs in the polar regions and around the tropopause in the atmosphere. (No tropospheric hot spot has been found, btw., contradicting climate models.) Very little of the warming is FELT at ground level. What's more most of this warming is diurnal, meaning warmer nights in summer and winter (something we just aren't seeing). This is what the models all predict.
So the kids are sweating more when they are in bed?
I hate to point out to this dim-witted author (one Sheramy Tsai) that we now have a little thing called air conditioning. When I was a kid we didn't have air conditioning at all, not in my home, or in our cars. Yes, you could get it in bars or supermarkets or whatnot, and many homes did have it, but we didn't. I remember trying to sleep in a furnace, sweat soaking my bedsheets. Air conditioning became ubiquitous in the '70's. I remember my father getting a car with a/c (which he refused to use because it used up gas). I also remember when we moved into a home that had two window units; they didn't work that well but it was a dream come true for us WHEN MY PARENTS LET US PUT IT ON and then it had to be above 95*. When we got central air installed it was so very much better, but still my parents rarely put it on.
At any rate, kids now live most of their lives indoors and are always in air conditioned conditions. So how is "climate change" leading to more kidney stones? These kids sweat less, not more.
This alone made me disregard the whole article, and the author.
She also discusses "microplastics" as a possible cause of increasing kidney stones. But we didn't see the rise in kidney stones until just a few years ago and plastics have been used for over half a century in large amounts. (BTW I miss the old days of returnable soda or beer bottles; beverages tasted SO much better in glass than in plastic! But you had to worry about cutting your lip on a chipped bottle, and returning them was a pain. When I first started working at age 16 I worked for a grocer and hated having to mess with bottle returns; they were always broken and you had to watch out lest you cut your hand. But I still think it was wise to use returnable glass over plastic.)
According to the Kidney Foundation:
"The prevalence of kidney stones in the United States increased from 3.8% in the late 1970s to 8.8% in the late 2000s. The prevalence of kidney stones was 10% during 2013–2014. The risk of kidney stones is about 11% in men and 9% in women."
Do note there is little concern about the disparity based on sex (not "gender") because men are taking tthe brunt of it.
At any rate this does correlate to the rise in plastic containers, notably the use of plastic water bottles (many people now refuse to drink tap water, which is ridiculous as it is frequently as good or better than the stuff you get claiming to be "spring water" in a plastic jug.) But correlation does not equate to causality.
In point of fact plastic consumption has never been definitively proven to cause health problems. While I tend to think it's probably not a good idea, there is no solid science linking health concerns with plastic ingestion. We ingest worse things than plastics sometimes. But plastics are blamed for every and any health issue, from autism to cancers, metabolic disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and fertility issues to ingrown toenails. But there is no science that definitively proves this linkage.
No, climate change and "microplastics" are not the cause of kidney stones in children. Bad parenting and sloth and terrible eating habits are. Let's call a spade a spade here.
I despair of human stupidity. One day I'm going to move to trash island and live there atop the alleged huge island of plastic trash (supposedly three times the size of France, so why don't ships run aground on it?) in the Pacific. Maybe I'll create my own country "Trashsylvania".
Shoot; the Aztecs used to build rafts and grow crops on them - mobile farms - which they rowed to market. Why not a giant country floating on plastic waste? Much of America is essentially a trash heap these days after all.
You may say I'm a dreamer but at least I'll be rid of the incessant flood of imbecility coming from even people ostensibly on our side (as this writer for the Epch Times is assumed to be).
Here is a list of things allegedly caused by "climate change" as asserted by media, by the Ruling Class, and by government agencies. Kidney stones is in there somewhere if you have the time to page through this massive laundry list.
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