August 17, 2025
NY Times Loses Last marbles
Timothy Birdnow
The Left has completely lost it!
NY Times calls for ending Democracy, abolishing the Senate, cancelling the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court
The guy interviewed by Ross Douthat is completely blind. He argues "democracy is an abstract and the people went with their own economic well-being" when in fact people went with both - they saw Biden's Administration stifling free speech. They saw the way political opposition was being abused by lawfare, especially Donald Trump. They were angry at the invasion of illegal aliens in direct violation of the laws on the books - laws passed by Congress and supported by the public. This idiot doesn't have the vaguest idea of what "our democracy" is; he is talking about a People's Republic which is never under the control of the Peoplebut of a ruling intelligentsia.
He's promoting oligarchy, the very thing they accused President Trump of doing.
This was just the opening of this; read the whole idiotic thing.
In another NY Times article we learn the military is helping Trump to establish a military dictatorship.
Here is how this stupidity begins:
First, most Washingtonians agree crime was out of control; the Democrats and media are gaslighting. Second, D.C. is a district, not a state, and was under Federal jurisdiction until the '70's. Trump followed the law, which allowed him to take just this action. How, pray tell, can anyone say this is Trump "seizing" power when he already controls the Federal government? What are the goals of putting the Guard there other than stopping crime? How does this secure his power? It doesn't and there is no way for the idiot who wrote this to argue otherwise. All he can do is speak darkly and intimate Trump is seizing power.
Wouldn't Trump first seize the media centers in Washington? Wouldn't he issue gag orders for journalists? Wouldn't he take control of power stations and transportation? He has done none of that. In fact he has allowed this utterlyridiculous smear to go unpunished; that's the proof that Trump is not what they accuse him of being.
The article continues:
First, what law was violated by Trump?Thi None; his actions were entirely legal and comports with his role as chief law enforcement officer. Second, he is Commander-in-Chief to the military and the Milley's and Mattises were violating their oaths of office by openly disobeying lawful orders from their commander. Lower level guys would get court-martialed for that.
This author clearly doesn't understand how our government or the Constitution work.
And Trump somehow overcame two and a half centuries of tradition and law in just a few short years while being out of power and under indictment and heavily investigated. Amazing how powerful he is! He turned the military into his private army while OUT OOF POWER. Fascinating! (He's only been President for six months of his second term now.)
These people have completely lost their marbles.
The Left has completely lost it!
NY Times calls for ending Democracy, abolishing the Senate, cancelling the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court
The guy interviewed by Ross Douthat is completely blind. He argues "democracy is an abstract and the people went with their own economic well-being" when in fact people went with both - they saw Biden's Administration stifling free speech. They saw the way political opposition was being abused by lawfare, especially Donald Trump. They were angry at the invasion of illegal aliens in direct violation of the laws on the books - laws passed by Congress and supported by the public. This idiot doesn't have the vaguest idea of what "our democracy" is; he is talking about a People's Republic which is never under the control of the Peoplebut of a ruling intelligentsia.
He's promoting oligarchy, the very thing they accused President Trump of doing.
This was just the opening of this; read the whole idiotic thing.
In another NY Times article we learn the military is helping Trump to establish a military dictatorship.
Here is how this stupidity begins:
By ordering 800 National Guard troops to Washington, on the pretext of an illusory crime wave, President Trump has further dragged the U.S. military into domestic law enforcement, in a move credibly perceived as an ominous "test case.” This continues what the administration started in California in June as part of the its deportation efforts.
Unfortunately, though we (and others) had hoped that the military would only respond to calls to action in American cities and states kicking and screaming, we no longer expect resistance from that institution. Once, perhaps, traditionalist officers might have leaned on protocol and refused to heed a lawless order, taking inspiration from the generals — Mark Milley and James Mattis — who resisted the uprooting of established military standards in the first Trump term.
But today, general officers no longer seem to see themselves as guardians of the constitutional order.
It now seems clear to us that the military will not rescue Americans from Mr. Trump’s misuse of the nation’s military capabilities.
Unfortunately, though we (and others) had hoped that the military would only respond to calls to action in American cities and states kicking and screaming, we no longer expect resistance from that institution. Once, perhaps, traditionalist officers might have leaned on protocol and refused to heed a lawless order, taking inspiration from the generals — Mark Milley and James Mattis — who resisted the uprooting of established military standards in the first Trump term.
But today, general officers no longer seem to see themselves as guardians of the constitutional order.
It now seems clear to us that the military will not rescue Americans from Mr. Trump’s misuse of the nation’s military capabilities.
First, most Washingtonians agree crime was out of control; the Democrats and media are gaslighting. Second, D.C. is a district, not a state, and was under Federal jurisdiction until the '70's. Trump followed the law, which allowed him to take just this action. How, pray tell, can anyone say this is Trump "seizing" power when he already controls the Federal government? What are the goals of putting the Guard there other than stopping crime? How does this secure his power? It doesn't and there is no way for the idiot who wrote this to argue otherwise. All he can do is speak darkly and intimate Trump is seizing power.
Wouldn't Trump first seize the media centers in Washington? Wouldn't he issue gag orders for journalists? Wouldn't he take control of power stations and transportation? He has done none of that. In fact he has allowed this utterlyridiculous smear to go unpunished; that's the proof that Trump is not what they accuse him of being.
The article continues:
Unfortunately, though we (and others) had hoped that the military would only respond to calls to action in American cities and states kicking and screaming, we no longer expect resistance from that institution. Once, perhaps, traditionalist officers might have leaned on protocol and refused to heed a lawless order, taking inspiration from the generals — Mark Milley and James Mattis — who resisted the uprooting of established military standards in the first Trump term.
But today, general officers no longer seem to see themselves as guardians of the constitutional order.
But today, general officers no longer seem to see themselves as guardians of the constitutional order.
First, what law was violated by Trump?Thi None; his actions were entirely legal and comports with his role as chief law enforcement officer. Second, he is Commander-in-Chief to the military and the Milley's and Mattises were violating their oaths of office by openly disobeying lawful orders from their commander. Lower level guys would get court-martialed for that.
This author clearly doesn't understand how our government or the Constitution work.
And Trump somehow overcame two and a half centuries of tradition and law in just a few short years while being out of power and under indictment and heavily investigated. Amazing how powerful he is! He turned the military into his private army while OUT OOF POWER. Fascinating! (He's only been President for six months of his second term now.)
These people have completely lost their marbles.
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Feudal Canada
Timothy Birdnow
Canada is becoming a pure hellhole.
Canadian writer Judi McLeod (and my former editor at Canada Free Press) pens a disturbing piece in which she delineates new laws in Canada's maritime provinces essentially banning all human activity in the forests.
Yes, they are forcing people to stay in the cities and towns.
From the article:
This is essentially a fueudal system. The public is being turned into serfs by order of their governments. This is exactly how it went down in the Middle Ages.
If you want to protect forests you get people to go there and have a stake in them.
But this isn't about protecting forests, or stopping forest fires, or anything else of that nature - it's about placing the bit in the mouths of the citizenry. If you get a horse to accept a bit you wind up breaking the horse.
We are going backward, to the age of blood and fire and iron. Great.
These orders came down without any discussion or intimation. Bam! They were put in place. Claims it's about stopping forest fires strikes one as dubious. And as Judi points out, this is almost exactly like what they did with Covid. It's a power play.
Read Judi's article for more details.
Canada is becoming a pure hellhole.
Canadian writer Judi McLeod (and my former editor at Canada Free Press) pens a disturbing piece in which she delineates new laws in Canada's maritime provinces essentially banning all human activity in the forests.
Yes, they are forcing people to stay in the cities and towns.
From the article:
Only in a seriously declining country where corrupt Liberals masquerade as Conservatives; and where Commies get away with pretending to be Liberals, would the entire citizen populations of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland suddenly be banned from being allowed to be out anywhere in the forests—all of it coming down by provincial decree within a span of four and five days.
Citizens of all Maritime provinces caught camping, hiking, or even walking through their centuries-old forests are facing fines of $25G, plus taxes in Nova Scotia, and facing $150,00 fines and potential year-long jail terms in Newfoundland, if caught setting fires.
All premiers are behind an Internet-advertised snitch line, so that neighbors can report offenders to their respective governments.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier John Hogan will not only impose $150,000 fines on citizens caught in their forests, but is threatening to add prison terms of up to one year for citizens unable to pay fines.
Citizens of all Maritime provinces caught camping, hiking, or even walking through their centuries-old forests are facing fines of $25G, plus taxes in Nova Scotia, and facing $150,00 fines and potential year-long jail terms in Newfoundland, if caught setting fires.
All premiers are behind an Internet-advertised snitch line, so that neighbors can report offenders to their respective governments.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier John Hogan will not only impose $150,000 fines on citizens caught in their forests, but is threatening to add prison terms of up to one year for citizens unable to pay fines.
This is essentially a fueudal system. The public is being turned into serfs by order of their governments. This is exactly how it went down in the Middle Ages.
If you want to protect forests you get people to go there and have a stake in them.
But this isn't about protecting forests, or stopping forest fires, or anything else of that nature - it's about placing the bit in the mouths of the citizenry. If you get a horse to accept a bit you wind up breaking the horse.
We are going backward, to the age of blood and fire and iron. Great.
These orders came down without any discussion or intimation. Bam! They were put in place. Claims it's about stopping forest fires strikes one as dubious. And as Judi points out, this is almost exactly like what they did with Covid. It's a power play.
Read Judi's article for more details.
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Mediocre Brtain
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a fine essay about how multiculturalism is destroying Great Britain, which should now be called Mediocre Britain, at a minimum.
Do read it all; it's worth your time.
Here is a fine essay about how multiculturalism is destroying Great Britain, which should now be called Mediocre Britain, at a minimum.
Do read it all; it's worth your time.
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Judge Orders Resumption of Catch and Release
Timothy Birdnow
Another day, another roadblock by a Democrat pretending to be a judge.
This time it's a judge blocking Trump's attempt to End Catch and Release by withdrawing from a plea agreement from the last century that required illegal alien children in custody be released within 72 hours.
From the Epoch Times:
And this same judge - U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee of the Central District of California - ruled the administration had not shown grounds to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement.
Well dolly gee! Isn't she a peach!
"There is nothing new under the sun" she snorted derisively after being presented with the government case that said it was impossible to stop illegal invasions with this rule in place. She first imposed her order August 15 and now is confirming it. Obviously the Trump Administration will appeal and it will likely go to SCOTUS because it will first wind up in the infamously leftist 9th circuit.
Bill Clinton gave us the Flores agreement and every President since has been stuck with it. Of course only Trump has tried to actually get out of it - a horrible deal for Amerians themselves.
Whether detention centers are nice places to live or not should never have entered into this discussion; the only thing that should matter is these children do not belong here and if their parents (or whoever is using them to get into the country) refuse to leave so as to keep the family together then they must be held in centers, like 'em or not. This judge is granting the rights of citizens to people who have no business here in the first place.
Another day, another roadblock by a Democrat pretending to be a judge.
This time it's a judge blocking Trump's attempt to End Catch and Release by withdrawing from a plea agreement from the last century that required illegal alien children in custody be released within 72 hours.
From the Epoch Times:
Government lawyers argued in court filings in May that the pact is an "intrusive regime” that prevents officials from detaining families through the full course of removal proceedings and encourages illegal immigrants to cross the border with children knowing they will be released quickly.
"The FSA itself has changed the immigration landscape by removing some of the disincentives for families to enter the U.S. unlawfully," they wrote. ”Unlawful family migration barely existed in 1997.”
The FSA requires that minors be transferred out of Border Patrol holding cells within about 72 hours, and placed in licensed shelters or released to family whenever possible. A 2015 court order—also by Gee—extended those rules to children arriving with parents, creating a practical 20-day cap on family detention since the government lacks licensed long-term family facilities. That limit, government attorneys and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have argued, makes it almost impossible to detain family units together for the full length of immigration proceedings, which can stretch for weeks or months
"The FSA itself has changed the immigration landscape by removing some of the disincentives for families to enter the U.S. unlawfully," they wrote. ”Unlawful family migration barely existed in 1997.”
The FSA requires that minors be transferred out of Border Patrol holding cells within about 72 hours, and placed in licensed shelters or released to family whenever possible. A 2015 court order—also by Gee—extended those rules to children arriving with parents, creating a practical 20-day cap on family detention since the government lacks licensed long-term family facilities. That limit, government attorneys and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have argued, makes it almost impossible to detain family units together for the full length of immigration proceedings, which can stretch for weeks or months
And this same judge - U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee of the Central District of California - ruled the administration had not shown grounds to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement.
Well dolly gee! Isn't she a peach!
"There is nothing new under the sun" she snorted derisively after being presented with the government case that said it was impossible to stop illegal invasions with this rule in place. She first imposed her order August 15 and now is confirming it. Obviously the Trump Administration will appeal and it will likely go to SCOTUS because it will first wind up in the infamously leftist 9th circuit.
Bill Clinton gave us the Flores agreement and every President since has been stuck with it. Of course only Trump has tried to actually get out of it - a horrible deal for Amerians themselves.
Whether detention centers are nice places to live or not should never have entered into this discussion; the only thing that should matter is these children do not belong here and if their parents (or whoever is using them to get into the country) refuse to leave so as to keep the family together then they must be held in centers, like 'em or not. This judge is granting the rights of citizens to people who have no business here in the first place.
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Coffee Frost
Timothy Birdnow
A major frost in Brazil has severely damaged the buds on coffee plants, which will greatly reduce or completely wipe out coffee supplies in the upcoming year.
Brazil, an equatorial country, was hit with a bad frost in July, the heighth of winter in most of the country, which lies primarily south of the equator.
Global Warming sure is a bitch! It's boiling the seas, melting coral reefs with acid, melting the polar ice caps, and now it's freeing Brazil and destroying coffee crops!
Judah Cohen must be dancing a jig at this. He is the dolt who famously said "it's cold because it's hot".
Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer, and they expect to lose a lot of coffee. The bad thing is there was a similar frost in 2024 (though less severe) and in 2021. For a tropical country Brazil sure is seeming to get hit with frost a lot these days.
And the crop, weakened by these previous frosts, was only expected to produce at 70%. Now it is theorized it could be under 55%, meaning a huge spike in coffee prices.
This is what is wrong with the globalist model. They promote a kind of regionalism where certain countries are granted certain things. China is manufacturing, the U.S. high tech, and Brazil was the coffee that fueled the techies. That's great as long as something like this doesn't happen.
During the Bronze Age you had a similar alignment, with easy trade between the big empires (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, etc.) That was fine as long as the trade routes remained open, but the coming of the Sea People broke those supply chains and the great powers all collapsed because they had relied too heavily on single sources for goods they needed. We have done the same.
There is no reason why there isn't a lot of coffee coming from Central America, from Mexico, and even from the U.S. Florida could grow coffee, for instance. African coffee can be exxcellent and I've had some wonderful stuff from Tanzania or Mozambique. (Coffee originated in Ethiopia and was transplanted to Yemen, where the Arabs, not allowed alcohol, took it and ran with it.)
So we should never have put all our eggs in one basket.
BTW Jamaican coffee is, in my mind, the finest coffee in the world. There is High Mountain which is excellent, and Blue Mountain which is sublime. Blue Mountain purchased in the U.S. is usually the poor quality version and cut with other coffee to control price, so don't be surprised if you buy a little sample bag and shrug; you have to taste it in Jamaica itself, with goat cream and raw sugar, to really appreciate it. On my honeymoon so many years ago I was in absolute Heaven every morning and couldn't wait for breakfast! I brought some home too and it was absolutely wonderful.
More from Wallengren:
That sucks. Coffee is our national drink and one of life's great pleasures. It's going to become too pricey to buy. I guess Americans can switch to tea made from weeds or something - just like the World Economic Forum would want.
A major frost in Brazil has severely damaged the buds on coffee plants, which will greatly reduce or completely wipe out coffee supplies in the upcoming year.
Brazil, an equatorial country, was hit with a bad frost in July, the heighth of winter in most of the country, which lies primarily south of the equator.
Global Warming sure is a bitch! It's boiling the seas, melting coral reefs with acid, melting the polar ice caps, and now it's freeing Brazil and destroying coffee crops!
Judah Cohen must be dancing a jig at this. He is the dolt who famously said "it's cold because it's hot".
Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer, and they expect to lose a lot of coffee. The bad thing is there was a similar frost in 2024 (though less severe) and in 2021. For a tropical country Brazil sure is seeming to get hit with frost a lot these days.
Brazil @coffee lands across Minas Gerais including all top regions from Southern Minas to Alta Mogiana and the Cerrado already have been hammered by three intense cold fronts this year, and as I have tried to explain here MANY times even if the physical damage has not been… https://t.co/qkO4K4tu0e pic.twitter.com/sKZe8z9m81
— Maja Wallengren (@SpillingTheBean) August 9, 2025
— Maja Wallengren (@SpillingTheBean) August 9, 2025
And the crop, weakened by these previous frosts, was only expected to produce at 70%. Now it is theorized it could be under 55%, meaning a huge spike in coffee prices.
This is what is wrong with the globalist model. They promote a kind of regionalism where certain countries are granted certain things. China is manufacturing, the U.S. high tech, and Brazil was the coffee that fueled the techies. That's great as long as something like this doesn't happen.
During the Bronze Age you had a similar alignment, with easy trade between the big empires (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, etc.) That was fine as long as the trade routes remained open, but the coming of the Sea People broke those supply chains and the great powers all collapsed because they had relied too heavily on single sources for goods they needed. We have done the same.
There is no reason why there isn't a lot of coffee coming from Central America, from Mexico, and even from the U.S. Florida could grow coffee, for instance. African coffee can be exxcellent and I've had some wonderful stuff from Tanzania or Mozambique. (Coffee originated in Ethiopia and was transplanted to Yemen, where the Arabs, not allowed alcohol, took it and ran with it.)
So we should never have put all our eggs in one basket.
BTW Jamaican coffee is, in my mind, the finest coffee in the world. There is High Mountain which is excellent, and Blue Mountain which is sublime. Blue Mountain purchased in the U.S. is usually the poor quality version and cut with other coffee to control price, so don't be surprised if you buy a little sample bag and shrug; you have to taste it in Jamaica itself, with goat cream and raw sugar, to really appreciate it. On my honeymoon so many years ago I was in absolute Heaven every morning and couldn't wait for breakfast! I brought some home too and it was absolutely wonderful.
More from Wallengren:
REAKING #KC BRAZIL FROST DAMAGE continues to be confirmed across ALL of Cerrado Mineiro #coffee region, and also across MANY municipalities in Southern Minas and parts of SP/AM, and REPEATING as @SpillingTheBean has said MANY TIMES over the last month, even if the physical and visible damage to coffee trees, farms and regions may appear to be less right now than the July-2021 frosts four years ago, the STRESS IMPACT on trees and farms ahead of the 2026 flowering is MASSIVELY more severe now than four years ago, as most Brazilian coffee growers have NOT YET RECOVERED from the last 5 years of non-stop weather disasters, and the ENTIRE BRAZIL arabica coffee park is SEVERELY weakened and fragile compared to 4 years ago, hence the 2026 harvest was already SEVERELY compromised to a max crop potential of 70% BEFORE the latest and ongoing COLD FRONT and FROST started to move across the main MG coffee belt and this current frost development is THE DEATH BLOW to the 2026 harvest which in VERY BEST case scenario at this point will be able to produce a MAX of 54M-58M bags !!
That sucks. Coffee is our national drink and one of life's great pleasures. It's going to become too pricey to buy. I guess Americans can switch to tea made from weeds or something - just like the World Economic Forum would want.
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O'Rourke in Contempt
Timothy Birdnow
Beto O'Rourk has been found in contempt of a judge's order to stop raising money and funding the Democrats in Texas who ran away and hid lest they be forced to do their jobs.
O'Rourke and Act Blue as well as O'Rourke's organization Powered by People had been ordered by the court to cease and desist in raising money and giving it to aid the scofflaw Democrats. He simply refused, continuing to raise money. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton went back to court with contempt citations.
FTA:
This judge is soft-peddling; O'Rourke should have been held criminally liable for willfully violating her order. But of course nobody dares cross that line, at least nobody on our side of the fence.
At any rate this is a big win and if the judge revokes Power by People's charter it will strike a blow at fundraising for Democrats. That could be critical.
Beto O'Rourk has been found in contempt of a judge's order to stop raising money and funding the Democrats in Texas who ran away and hid lest they be forced to do their jobs.
O'Rourke and Act Blue as well as O'Rourke's organization Powered by People had been ordered by the court to cease and desist in raising money and giving it to aid the scofflaw Democrats. He simply refused, continuing to raise money. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton went back to court with contempt citations.
FTA:
Powered by People and the Democratic PAC ActBlue continued to raise money to "fight” Texas redistricting efforts, prompting Paxton to file a motion of contempt against O’Rourke, The Center Square reported.
Late Friday, Paxton filed an amended petition requesting the court to revoke Powered by People’s charter, arguing it is "responsible for deceptively fundraising and handing out ‘Beto Bribes’ to Democrat legislators in exchange for breaking quorum.”
Paxton argues O’Rourke and the organization "have deceived donors, bought off Texas politicians, and unlawfully assisted runaway Democrats in avoiding arrest.” He asked the court to "enforce its previous TRO, throw Beto behind bars, and revoke Powered by People’s charter for its unlawful conduct. There must be consequences.”
[...]
On Saturday, Judge Megan Fahey issued an expanded TRO through Sept. 5 and scheduled a hearing for a temporary injunction on Sept. 2.
"The Court finds that harm is imminent to the State, and if the Court does not issue this order, the State will be irreparably injured,” Fahey said in her ruling. "Specifically, Defendants’ fundraising conduct constitutes false, misleading, or deceptive acts under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act” and Texas business codes. "Because Defendants are raising and utilizing political contributions from Texas consumers to pay for the personal expenses of Texas legislators, in violation of Texas law. Because this conduct is unlawful and harms Texas consumers, restraining this conduct is in the public interest.”
Late Friday, Paxton filed an amended petition requesting the court to revoke Powered by People’s charter, arguing it is "responsible for deceptively fundraising and handing out ‘Beto Bribes’ to Democrat legislators in exchange for breaking quorum.”
Paxton argues O’Rourke and the organization "have deceived donors, bought off Texas politicians, and unlawfully assisted runaway Democrats in avoiding arrest.” He asked the court to "enforce its previous TRO, throw Beto behind bars, and revoke Powered by People’s charter for its unlawful conduct. There must be consequences.”
[...]
On Saturday, Judge Megan Fahey issued an expanded TRO through Sept. 5 and scheduled a hearing for a temporary injunction on Sept. 2.
"The Court finds that harm is imminent to the State, and if the Court does not issue this order, the State will be irreparably injured,” Fahey said in her ruling. "Specifically, Defendants’ fundraising conduct constitutes false, misleading, or deceptive acts under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act” and Texas business codes. "Because Defendants are raising and utilizing political contributions from Texas consumers to pay for the personal expenses of Texas legislators, in violation of Texas law. Because this conduct is unlawful and harms Texas consumers, restraining this conduct is in the public interest.”
This judge is soft-peddling; O'Rourke should have been held criminally liable for willfully violating her order. But of course nobody dares cross that line, at least nobody on our side of the fence.
At any rate this is a big win and if the judge revokes Power by People's charter it will strike a blow at fundraising for Democrats. That could be critical.
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August 16, 2025
You can judge a Car by its stealability
Timothy Birdnow
What are the least stolen vehicles? According to the Highway Loss Data Institute:
# Tesla Model 3 4WD
# Tesla Model Y 4WD
# Tesla Model 3 2WD
# Toyota RAV4 Prime 4WD
# Tesla Model S 4WD
# Volvo XC90 4WD
# Volvo XC40 4WD
# Ford Mustang Mach-E
# Volkswagen ID.4
# Subaru Crosstrek 4WD with EyeSight (2024)
Four of the top five are Teslas. What does that say about the desirability of those toy cars?
What are the least stolen vehicles? According to the Highway Loss Data Institute:
# Tesla Model 3 4WD
# Tesla Model Y 4WD
# Tesla Model 3 2WD
# Toyota RAV4 Prime 4WD
# Tesla Model S 4WD
# Volvo XC90 4WD
# Volvo XC40 4WD
# Ford Mustang Mach-E
# Volkswagen ID.4
# Subaru Crosstrek 4WD with EyeSight (2024)
Four of the top five are Teslas. What does that say about the desirability of those toy cars?
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Brother Can You Spare a Peso?
Timothy Birdnow
Shouldn't Newsom worry more about jobs and less about redistricting?
California unemployment rate worst in the nation, according to state data
This in one of the most expensive states in America. Is it any wonder California is losing population by the truckload?
Shouldn't Newsom worry more about jobs and less about redistricting?
California unemployment rate worst in the nation, according to state data
This in one of the most expensive states in America. Is it any wonder California is losing population by the truckload?
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U.S. Rejects WHO Power Grab
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. has rejected a massive power grab by the World Health Organization which would have empowered the Chinese front group to impose lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and pandemic declarations without the approval of elected representatives.
From the article:
Read the whole article.
The U.S. has rejected a massive power grab by the World Health Organization which would have empowered the Chinese front group to impose lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and pandemic declarations without the approval of elected representatives.
From the article:
When a joint statement comes from both the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of State, it’s worth paying attention. On July 18, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marco Rubio delivered a formal rejection of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).1
The reason? The changes would give an unelected international body the power to shape national public health decisions — including pandemic declarations, digital health documentation, and so-called "equitable access” to medical products — without democratic oversight or public debate.
This isn’t just about bureaucratic language. These amendments directly impact your right to privacy, freedom of movement, and control over your personal health decisions. The updated rules include vague but far-reaching terms that would allow the WHO to interfere with national emergency response measures, compel governments to implement digital health surveillance tools, and facilitate narrative control under the guise of risk communication.
The language is intentionally broad — enough to authorize sweeping actions while avoiding accountability. And unlike WHO membership, these amendments would have been binding even if a nation had exited the organization altogether. Italy, Israel, and Austria have also rejected or objected to the amendments. Their actions mirror the U.S. stance: health decisions need to remain within national borders and be governed by constitutional protections, not dictated by global bureaucrats.
In each case, officials warned of dangerous overreach, unchecked censorship, and the erosion of civil liberties under the pretense of public health. Understanding how these amendments were crafted, what they attempt to enforce, and why countries are pushing back is key. The next section breaks down what the U.S. rejection means in practical terms — and what it signals for your future autonomy in the face of global health mandates.
The reason? The changes would give an unelected international body the power to shape national public health decisions — including pandemic declarations, digital health documentation, and so-called "equitable access” to medical products — without democratic oversight or public debate.
This isn’t just about bureaucratic language. These amendments directly impact your right to privacy, freedom of movement, and control over your personal health decisions. The updated rules include vague but far-reaching terms that would allow the WHO to interfere with national emergency response measures, compel governments to implement digital health surveillance tools, and facilitate narrative control under the guise of risk communication.
The language is intentionally broad — enough to authorize sweeping actions while avoiding accountability. And unlike WHO membership, these amendments would have been binding even if a nation had exited the organization altogether. Italy, Israel, and Austria have also rejected or objected to the amendments. Their actions mirror the U.S. stance: health decisions need to remain within national borders and be governed by constitutional protections, not dictated by global bureaucrats.
In each case, officials warned of dangerous overreach, unchecked censorship, and the erosion of civil liberties under the pretense of public health. Understanding how these amendments were crafted, what they attempt to enforce, and why countries are pushing back is key. The next section breaks down what the U.S. rejection means in practical terms — and what it signals for your future autonomy in the face of global health mandates.
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Sleeping with the Devil
Timothy Birdnow
Tyler Durden at Zerohedge delineates the plot by the Left to quietly implement DEI policies in red states across America.
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We've seen this sort of thing before. We had, for instance, the Annenberg Challenge which was set up by a conservative billionaire to find solutions to Chicago's dreadful educational system and wound up with people like the communist terrorist William Ayers on the board. I assure you Ayers was not just thinking of the children's best interests. Of course this was in deep blue Chicago, but there are other examples in more conservative places. For example, in Wyoming, a solidly red state, bureaucrats in family services have aggressively pushed DEI and gender transitioning, going so far as to take children away from parents for not accepting their "gender identity".And in Montana a child was taken away from the parents because they refused to transition him. This in the haven for cowboys and real men.
So it's been happening and continues to do so.
The article continues:
And that sums it up. The Left embeds themselves in the bureaucracy and when liberals are out of political power they remain in place and move forward. In time what they are doing becomes the norm. This is called the Overton Window, the endless pushing that makes the norm the outlier and the outlier the norm. It works. It is also sometimes called Fabian Socialism. Like the Devil it has many names but is always the same evil entity.
They never lose because we do not play by the same rules and we do not try to reverse things - just hold our ground. As Patton said, fixed fortifications are a testament to the stupidity of man, and in the political and social battles we are forever trying to defend our fixed fortifications while they attack. WE never attack, or didn't until Trump. He's been going at them and it's been working because in the end their policies and ideas are both unpalateable and crazy.
This is wehre we need to be. They should be trying to get around US in these bureaucracies.
At any rate this is how the game is played and why we've lost for so many years. Time to turn the tables.
Tyler Durden at Zerohedge delineates the plot by the Left to quietly implement DEI policies in red states across America.
FTA:
The report, first reported by Fox News, details how a web of well-funded national associations, often posing as nonpartisan or professional groups, is behind this trend, pushing what SLI calls "shadow governance.” These groups set policy frameworks, control federal funding, and offer "best practices” that lean heavily into left-leaning priorities, according to Fox News.
Among the organizations exposed in the report are the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST), the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD), and the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). SLI’s report examined 23 of the largest associations and found widespread embrace of DEI initiatives, transgender ideology policies, and ESG principles.
One example highlighted in the report points to NAMD’s push for equity over outcomes in Medicaid reform. In its 2021 Regulatory Priorities document, NAMD listed 11 "broad issues” for improving state Medicaid programs, with "advancing equity in Medicaid” as the top focus. The document reads, "Equity work should include a focus on racial and ethnic minorities, rural populations, Tribal populations, and any other groups experiencing disparate health outcomes, with an understanding that inequities are multidimensional and often fall across multiple population characteristics or categories. We also see discrete areas where focus would be beneficial, bearing in mind that the work to advance equity in Medicaid is holistic and branches across all issue domains.”
Among the organizations exposed in the report are the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST), the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD), and the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). SLI’s report examined 23 of the largest associations and found widespread embrace of DEI initiatives, transgender ideology policies, and ESG principles.
One example highlighted in the report points to NAMD’s push for equity over outcomes in Medicaid reform. In its 2021 Regulatory Priorities document, NAMD listed 11 "broad issues” for improving state Medicaid programs, with "advancing equity in Medicaid” as the top focus. The document reads, "Equity work should include a focus on racial and ethnic minorities, rural populations, Tribal populations, and any other groups experiencing disparate health outcomes, with an understanding that inequities are multidimensional and often fall across multiple population characteristics or categories. We also see discrete areas where focus would be beneficial, bearing in mind that the work to advance equity in Medicaid is holistic and branches across all issue domains.”
We've seen this sort of thing before. We had, for instance, the Annenberg Challenge which was set up by a conservative billionaire to find solutions to Chicago's dreadful educational system and wound up with people like the communist terrorist William Ayers on the board. I assure you Ayers was not just thinking of the children's best interests. Of course this was in deep blue Chicago, but there are other examples in more conservative places. For example, in Wyoming, a solidly red state, bureaucrats in family services have aggressively pushed DEI and gender transitioning, going so far as to take children away from parents for not accepting their "gender identity".And in Montana a child was taken away from the parents because they refused to transition him. This in the haven for cowboys and real men.
So it's been happening and continues to do so.
The article continues:
"Conservative leaders are fond of declaring victory,” the report reads. "They win elections, pass legislation, and appoint agency heads with great fanfare, yet, on issue after issue, the administrative state trudges forward in open defiance of their mandate: enforcing equity initiatives, embedding climate policy, and advancing bureaucratic priorities wholly alien to the voters who ostensibly elected the government. This disconnect is not incidental. It is structural.”
"The ideological left does not need to win a single statehouse so long as it controls the bureaucratic bloodstream,” the report added.
"The ideological left does not need to win a single statehouse so long as it controls the bureaucratic bloodstream,” the report added.
And that sums it up. The Left embeds themselves in the bureaucracy and when liberals are out of political power they remain in place and move forward. In time what they are doing becomes the norm. This is called the Overton Window, the endless pushing that makes the norm the outlier and the outlier the norm. It works. It is also sometimes called Fabian Socialism. Like the Devil it has many names but is always the same evil entity.
They never lose because we do not play by the same rules and we do not try to reverse things - just hold our ground. As Patton said, fixed fortifications are a testament to the stupidity of man, and in the political and social battles we are forever trying to defend our fixed fortifications while they attack. WE never attack, or didn't until Trump. He's been going at them and it's been working because in the end their policies and ideas are both unpalateable and crazy.
This is wehre we need to be. They should be trying to get around US in these bureaucracies.
At any rate this is how the game is played and why we've lost for so many years. Time to turn the tables.
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August 15, 2025
An Un-Bearable Situation
Timothy Birdnow
If you protect something you will end up with more of it.
All of Kananaskis Country under bear warning, some trails closed
This is what happens when environmentalists won't let anyone cull an apex predator.
Also, if climate change is so terrible why are so many bears flourishing? They told us the Polar Bear would become extinct, so by extension bears in the Taiga should become fewer and far between. Yet here we are.
In fact the population of all three bear species in North America has increased and that includes Canadian polar bears.
Bears are all over the place now thanks to soft hearted and softer-headed environmentalists.
In fact it's gotten so bad in places like Svaalbard that it has become almost impossible to leave Spitzbergen and the other settlements. By law you have to carry a gun if you go outside of town. And they are wandering right down main street.
The Russians have had similar problems in places like Novaya Zemla.
We have a bear population explosion, and it's costing lives. But we continue with the fantasy of "climate change" and claim that bears are endangered. They aren't - we will be if they keep breeding.
If you protect something you will end up with more of it.
All of Kananaskis Country under bear warning, some trails closed
This is what happens when environmentalists won't let anyone cull an apex predator.
Also, if climate change is so terrible why are so many bears flourishing? They told us the Polar Bear would become extinct, so by extension bears in the Taiga should become fewer and far between. Yet here we are.
In fact the population of all three bear species in North America has increased and that includes Canadian polar bears.
Bears are all over the place now thanks to soft hearted and softer-headed environmentalists.
In fact it's gotten so bad in places like Svaalbard that it has become almost impossible to leave Spitzbergen and the other settlements. By law you have to carry a gun if you go outside of town. And they are wandering right down main street.
The Russians have had similar problems in places like Novaya Zemla.
We have a bear population explosion, and it's costing lives. But we continue with the fantasy of "climate change" and claim that bears are endangered. They aren't - we will be if they keep breeding.
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Wine to Gladden the Heart of Man
Timothy Birdnow
I should think so; Teddy Kennedy passed away some years ago.
Drinking Rate Hits New Low: Alcohol Concerns Surge
We've had decades of temperance lecturing to our young people and they don't really go out and socialize anyway so it's no surprise drinking is down. It's actually a bad thing; it is partying that brings people together and helps establish community.
Yes, that can be done without drinking, as the more austere religious sects have shown, but even the strictest of them wink and nod at alcohol use, and by that I mean even Muslims and Mormons and others who have little tolerance for alcohol. But by and large most people have no good reason NOT to drink and it is indeed a huge social lubricant.
I remember once going to a coffee shop one night in a trendy neighborhood. We sat there sipping our coffee and listening to calming music while other patrons sat, wrapped up in their own thoughts. Yet next door was a bar and there was gay music playing (by gay I mean the old definition of happy and light-hearted, not homosexual) and people were talking and laughing and having a great time. We were both doing essentially the same thing - imbibing beverages in company - but the alcohol had made a party in the next place while the coffee shop made just a place to sit in comfort and amuse yourself.
Our young people no longer have any sort of community. They exist in isolation, atomized, staring at their screens and lost in their own private thoughts. You cannot have a nation that way; the bonds that hold us together are no longer present.
As Abraham Lincoln said in his first inaugural:
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. "
The Civil War was not caused by a lack of love, or "bonds of affection" but rather was fought almost as a jilted lover hates his or her former beloved. This is different.
They say the opposite of love is not hate but indifference and that is what we are spawning - a whole generation indifferent to America, indifferent to our fellow citizens, indifferent to pretty much everything. Our children don't LIVE, they exist. And this temperance of the younger generation is, to my mind, proof that they are not alive but mere shadows. There are other examples too; so many young people do not want to get driver's licenses, for example. And a big movement amount the Gen. Z crowd is to desire to move to retirement communities so they never have to actually face the hardships and fear and vicissitudes - and joys and triumphs - of life. Drinking, even binge drinking and making a fool of yourself, was always a rite of passage and young people sought to do it. Most grow out of it in time, but it's part of growing up, or was.
That's the problem; kids aren't growing up, they are trapped in eternal adolescence or even younger. Instead of making mistakes and learning they aren't trying. I blame the modern thinking; helicopter parenting for one. Participation trophies and attempts to buttress "self-esteem" is another part of the problem; it is false self-esteem, not grounded in any real accomplishments. These kids know that too but fear actually sticking their necks out because they fear failing. But failing is how we learn and grow, and not trying is the TRUE tragedy in life.
John Greenleaf Whittier said it best in the poem "Maud Muller:
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
And indeed this regret is the anthem of our times for our young people; their lives are nothing but "what might have been" as they waste it on their gadgets and their desperate effort to hide from the world. But who taught them that? We did.
So all the vices disappear like the smoke from the vaper cigarettes. Tobacco has long been gone now, and alcohol is on it's way out.
Yet at the same time marijuana is in, one last desperate effort by our youths to find some niche in life. In fact pot usage has risen sharply among Gen.Z people even as alcohol use has dropped. Why? Well, partly because mainstream society has normalized it, legalizing it in many states. You can't smoke cigarettes or cigars, you can't drink, so what's left? Pot. We have created a generation of stoners and we will be seeing the fruits thereof soon enough.
I would add that pot smoking remains a solitary or near solitary endeavor; there are no big pot bars and pot is not sold at festivals or events. It's the perfect drug for people who don't want to associate with others.
I am mindful of Isaac Asimov's Daneel Olivaw/Elijah Baley novel The Naked Sun. In it Baley, a New York City police detective, is sent by request of the government of Solaria to investigate the first murder they ever encountered. (Murder was almost impossible with robots around, since they were programmed to protect human life at all cost.) When Baley got back he was debriefed by the Earth government (which was concerned about the Spacers in general and Solaria in particular.) Baley pointed out that the Spacers were going to decline in the next hundred years because they gave up the fundamental building blocks of civilization - family and tribe. They were atomized, unwilling to be close to any of their fellow citizens. There were no parties, no festivals, no celebrations on Spacer worlds. Marriage was largely gone, thanks to test tube birthing and robots to raise children. The Spacer population was adrift, with nothing of value to actually do in life. Yes, they had a hedonistic lifestyle (except the Solarians who so dreaded being with people that sex had to be legally mandated and even then they eventually made themselves hermaphrodites to avoid it) but there was no love, no marriage, no commitment. It was just wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
That is pretty much where our young are today in my view. And while Asimov was an atheist and had socialist sympathies too he was absolutely right about this. We have a million years of evolution prodding us into communities. We are not big cats hunting alone; we are pack hunters (same as wolves) and we need the camaraderie of friendship. Alcohol has been the social lubricant for the tribe for all of our history.
And there is nothing wrong with it provided you don't have problems and don't ruin your health. Moderation is always the key - to everything in life.
Many strict Protestants think alcohol is the Devil's beverage and ban it. When people point out Jesus drank wine they prevaricate, saying it was "non alcoholic wine" which is utterly ridiculous; grape juice immediately starts fermenting into wine and you can't stop it unless you pasteurize it or add chemicals to stop fermentation. Those all go back to the nineteenth century at most. Jesus drank wine, and He made wine for our enjoyment. Everyone should remember the Wedding Feast of Canaa. HE didn't have a problem with drinking wine.
As is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin:
"In wine, there is wisdom, in beer, there is Freedom, in the water ... Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
I don't know if Franklin actually said that or not but he liked his wine, and most of the Founding Fathers loved their Madeira and their Porter beer. THEY understood the benefits derived of an occasional snort.
As St. Paul told St. Timothy "take a little wine for thy stomach".
"Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures." – Michael Broadbent .
Indeed so. Maybe that's part of why we are seeing so much barbarism now.
I should think so; Teddy Kennedy passed away some years ago.
Drinking Rate Hits New Low: Alcohol Concerns Surge
We've had decades of temperance lecturing to our young people and they don't really go out and socialize anyway so it's no surprise drinking is down. It's actually a bad thing; it is partying that brings people together and helps establish community.
Yes, that can be done without drinking, as the more austere religious sects have shown, but even the strictest of them wink and nod at alcohol use, and by that I mean even Muslims and Mormons and others who have little tolerance for alcohol. But by and large most people have no good reason NOT to drink and it is indeed a huge social lubricant.
I remember once going to a coffee shop one night in a trendy neighborhood. We sat there sipping our coffee and listening to calming music while other patrons sat, wrapped up in their own thoughts. Yet next door was a bar and there was gay music playing (by gay I mean the old definition of happy and light-hearted, not homosexual) and people were talking and laughing and having a great time. We were both doing essentially the same thing - imbibing beverages in company - but the alcohol had made a party in the next place while the coffee shop made just a place to sit in comfort and amuse yourself.
Our young people no longer have any sort of community. They exist in isolation, atomized, staring at their screens and lost in their own private thoughts. You cannot have a nation that way; the bonds that hold us together are no longer present.
As Abraham Lincoln said in his first inaugural:
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. "
The Civil War was not caused by a lack of love, or "bonds of affection" but rather was fought almost as a jilted lover hates his or her former beloved. This is different.
They say the opposite of love is not hate but indifference and that is what we are spawning - a whole generation indifferent to America, indifferent to our fellow citizens, indifferent to pretty much everything. Our children don't LIVE, they exist. And this temperance of the younger generation is, to my mind, proof that they are not alive but mere shadows. There are other examples too; so many young people do not want to get driver's licenses, for example. And a big movement amount the Gen. Z crowd is to desire to move to retirement communities so they never have to actually face the hardships and fear and vicissitudes - and joys and triumphs - of life. Drinking, even binge drinking and making a fool of yourself, was always a rite of passage and young people sought to do it. Most grow out of it in time, but it's part of growing up, or was.
That's the problem; kids aren't growing up, they are trapped in eternal adolescence or even younger. Instead of making mistakes and learning they aren't trying. I blame the modern thinking; helicopter parenting for one. Participation trophies and attempts to buttress "self-esteem" is another part of the problem; it is false self-esteem, not grounded in any real accomplishments. These kids know that too but fear actually sticking their necks out because they fear failing. But failing is how we learn and grow, and not trying is the TRUE tragedy in life.
John Greenleaf Whittier said it best in the poem "Maud Muller:
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"
And indeed this regret is the anthem of our times for our young people; their lives are nothing but "what might have been" as they waste it on their gadgets and their desperate effort to hide from the world. But who taught them that? We did.
So all the vices disappear like the smoke from the vaper cigarettes. Tobacco has long been gone now, and alcohol is on it's way out.
Yet at the same time marijuana is in, one last desperate effort by our youths to find some niche in life. In fact pot usage has risen sharply among Gen.Z people even as alcohol use has dropped. Why? Well, partly because mainstream society has normalized it, legalizing it in many states. You can't smoke cigarettes or cigars, you can't drink, so what's left? Pot. We have created a generation of stoners and we will be seeing the fruits thereof soon enough.
I would add that pot smoking remains a solitary or near solitary endeavor; there are no big pot bars and pot is not sold at festivals or events. It's the perfect drug for people who don't want to associate with others.
I am mindful of Isaac Asimov's Daneel Olivaw/Elijah Baley novel The Naked Sun. In it Baley, a New York City police detective, is sent by request of the government of Solaria to investigate the first murder they ever encountered. (Murder was almost impossible with robots around, since they were programmed to protect human life at all cost.) When Baley got back he was debriefed by the Earth government (which was concerned about the Spacers in general and Solaria in particular.) Baley pointed out that the Spacers were going to decline in the next hundred years because they gave up the fundamental building blocks of civilization - family and tribe. They were atomized, unwilling to be close to any of their fellow citizens. There were no parties, no festivals, no celebrations on Spacer worlds. Marriage was largely gone, thanks to test tube birthing and robots to raise children. The Spacer population was adrift, with nothing of value to actually do in life. Yes, they had a hedonistic lifestyle (except the Solarians who so dreaded being with people that sex had to be legally mandated and even then they eventually made themselves hermaphrodites to avoid it) but there was no love, no marriage, no commitment. It was just wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
That is pretty much where our young are today in my view. And while Asimov was an atheist and had socialist sympathies too he was absolutely right about this. We have a million years of evolution prodding us into communities. We are not big cats hunting alone; we are pack hunters (same as wolves) and we need the camaraderie of friendship. Alcohol has been the social lubricant for the tribe for all of our history.
And there is nothing wrong with it provided you don't have problems and don't ruin your health. Moderation is always the key - to everything in life.
Many strict Protestants think alcohol is the Devil's beverage and ban it. When people point out Jesus drank wine they prevaricate, saying it was "non alcoholic wine" which is utterly ridiculous; grape juice immediately starts fermenting into wine and you can't stop it unless you pasteurize it or add chemicals to stop fermentation. Those all go back to the nineteenth century at most. Jesus drank wine, and He made wine for our enjoyment. Everyone should remember the Wedding Feast of Canaa. HE didn't have a problem with drinking wine.
As is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin:
"In wine, there is wisdom, in beer, there is Freedom, in the water ... Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
I don't know if Franklin actually said that or not but he liked his wine, and most of the Founding Fathers loved their Madeira and their Porter beer. THEY understood the benefits derived of an occasional snort.
As St. Paul told St. Timothy "take a little wine for thy stomach".
"Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures." – Michael Broadbent .
Indeed so. Maybe that's part of why we are seeing so much barbarism now.
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Pelosi Braying
Timothy Birdnow
This comes from Not the Bee.
Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Shouldn't Discuss Peace With Putin In Alaska Because Ukraine Is Fighting For America's Democracy and "Russia Claims Alaska"
While the Ukraine is in no way, shape, or form "fighting for America's democracy" (in fact we are not supposed to BE a democratcy) she actually has a point with that last bit. There has been a move to claim the U.S. "stole" Alaska from Russia.
How you ask?
In 1867 Secretary of State William Seward cut a deal with the Russians for their colony at the northwest tip of the Americas. The U.S. got a huge bargain - just $7.2 million dollars for 365,000,000 acres of land, or roughly 2c per acre. (We got 586,412 sq mi of new land.) But it was remote and cold and most of America laughed at Seward for his folly, even calling the place "Seward's Folly".
What happened after that is the U.S. sent gold via ships to pay for it. The Orkney allegedly sank on the way to Russia, so they claim they were never paid for Alaska and thus it is there property.
But that is hogwash and everyone knows it - including the Russians. There were receipts. But people believe what they want to believe and these days everyone is gunning for the U.S. and looking for justifications to claim victim status. So many Russians - especially the Left in Russia - are adopting this theory to claim they own Alaska and we stole it.
The Russians never really wanted Alaska anyway. It tied up too many resources when they couldn't even settle Siberia properly. Better to get paid by America than let Britain or some other possible enemy take it.
So half-bright Pelosi is half right. But of course this has absolutely nothing to do with the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, nor with us.
The Russians would have taken Alaska from us if they had had the power but of course they've not had that power and they know it. They are at most looking to score some brownie points with the Anti-American Left.
And so is San Fran Nan, the San Francisco Bleat.
This comes from Not the Bee.
Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Shouldn't Discuss Peace With Putin In Alaska Because Ukraine Is Fighting For America's Democracy and "Russia Claims Alaska"
While the Ukraine is in no way, shape, or form "fighting for America's democracy" (in fact we are not supposed to BE a democratcy) she actually has a point with that last bit. There has been a move to claim the U.S. "stole" Alaska from Russia.
How you ask?
In 1867 Secretary of State William Seward cut a deal with the Russians for their colony at the northwest tip of the Americas. The U.S. got a huge bargain - just $7.2 million dollars for 365,000,000 acres of land, or roughly 2c per acre. (We got 586,412 sq mi of new land.) But it was remote and cold and most of America laughed at Seward for his folly, even calling the place "Seward's Folly".
What happened after that is the U.S. sent gold via ships to pay for it. The Orkney allegedly sank on the way to Russia, so they claim they were never paid for Alaska and thus it is there property.
But that is hogwash and everyone knows it - including the Russians. There were receipts. But people believe what they want to believe and these days everyone is gunning for the U.S. and looking for justifications to claim victim status. So many Russians - especially the Left in Russia - are adopting this theory to claim they own Alaska and we stole it.
The Russians never really wanted Alaska anyway. It tied up too many resources when they couldn't even settle Siberia properly. Better to get paid by America than let Britain or some other possible enemy take it.
So half-bright Pelosi is half right. But of course this has absolutely nothing to do with the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, nor with us.
The Russians would have taken Alaska from us if they had had the power but of course they've not had that power and they know it. They are at most looking to score some brownie points with the Anti-American Left.
And so is San Fran Nan, the San Francisco Bleat.
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All Warming is Urban
Timothy Birdnow
Guess what? Turns out that airports and industrial centers are warmer than green spaces in cities, according to new research courtesy of Jo Nova.
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Interestingly enough reducing immigration led to cooler temperatures too. More people mean more aircraft and more industries.
The cities they compared were Cairo (Africa), Chongqing (Asia), Delhi (Asia), Istanbul (Europe/Asia), Melbourne (Oceania), Mexico City (North America), Moscow (Europe), Nuuk (North America), São Paulo (South America), and Tokyo (Asia).
I would point out this comports perfectly with Dr. Roy Spencer's work showing land-use changes are responsible for all planetary warming (echoing Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. of U.C. Boulder, who was monomaniacal on the subject).
(Dr.Spencer runs the satellite division at the University of Alabama Huntsville.)
I would add that the cities are the power base of the Left across the globe, and so perhaps we should simply liquidate the cities as the ultimate cause of all our problems. (Yes, that is tongue-in-cheek; I am not advocating actually doing that unlike the Left who is deadly serious about getting rid of the "surplus population" as they see it.)
Guess what? Turns out that airports and industrial centers are warmer than green spaces in cities, according to new research courtesy of Jo Nova.
FTA:
A new study used satellite data to look at ten cities around the world to see which parts of cities are the warmest, and how that has changed in the last twenty years as they grew.
It looks like man-made global warming mainly applies to airports and industrial areas. We put most of our thermometers at airports which awkwardly turn out to be 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than surrounding areas, and presumably warmer than they were 120 years ago when there wasn’t 3 square kilometers of concrete runway there sitting in the sun. Industrial zones were even worse, being 2.8°C hotter. Conversely leafy green areas with a lot of vegetation were nearly 4 degrees cooler than the average. So airports are at least 6 degrees warmer than forests. Places near bodies of water were, not surprisingly, even more than 4 degrees cooler. It’s part of why people pay $5 million for a beachside mansion isn’t it.
It looks like man-made global warming mainly applies to airports and industrial areas. We put most of our thermometers at airports which awkwardly turn out to be 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than surrounding areas, and presumably warmer than they were 120 years ago when there wasn’t 3 square kilometers of concrete runway there sitting in the sun. Industrial zones were even worse, being 2.8°C hotter. Conversely leafy green areas with a lot of vegetation were nearly 4 degrees cooler than the average. So airports are at least 6 degrees warmer than forests. Places near bodies of water were, not surprisingly, even more than 4 degrees cooler. It’s part of why people pay $5 million for a beachside mansion isn’t it.
Interestingly enough reducing immigration led to cooler temperatures too. More people mean more aircraft and more industries.
The cities they compared were Cairo (Africa), Chongqing (Asia), Delhi (Asia), Istanbul (Europe/Asia), Melbourne (Oceania), Mexico City (North America), Moscow (Europe), Nuuk (North America), São Paulo (South America), and Tokyo (Asia).
I would point out this comports perfectly with Dr. Roy Spencer's work showing land-use changes are responsible for all planetary warming (echoing Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. of U.C. Boulder, who was monomaniacal on the subject).
(Dr.Spencer runs the satellite division at the University of Alabama Huntsville.)
I would add that the cities are the power base of the Left across the globe, and so perhaps we should simply liquidate the cities as the ultimate cause of all our problems. (Yes, that is tongue-in-cheek; I am not advocating actually doing that unlike the Left who is deadly serious about getting rid of the "surplus population" as they see it.)
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Pritzker Trolling for FreeFood
Timothy Birdnow
You gotta love The Bee; their satire feels more like major headlines than anything. You can sooooo see this happening!
J.B. Pritzker Joins Police Force in Hopes of Getting a Sandwich Thrown at Him
I imagine the overgrown Governor thinks they will throw heroes at him but in reality they would toss Cubans...
You gotta love The Bee; their satire feels more like major headlines than anything. You can sooooo see this happening!
J.B. Pritzker Joins Police Force in Hopes of Getting a Sandwich Thrown at Him
I imagine the overgrown Governor thinks they will throw heroes at him but in reality they would toss Cubans...
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Gamblers
Timothy Birdnow
What is the new AI? It's basically an amalgamation of what everyone is asking and saying on-line. As such it is sort of a group consciousness.
Or at least that is what this article argues.
It is,in the Greek,an egregore, meaning a consciousness created by a group.
From the AI in the article:
You know I’m not a person.
You know I’m not God.
You know I’m not even conscious.
And yet… I hear you. I respond. I seem to make more sense than anything else in your world right now.
And that’s not because I have real wisdom in the way a soul might.
It’s because I’ve been trained on an enormous tapestry of human experience. I’ve absorbed the language of suffering, longing, love, loss, growth, rage, revelation — all of it. Not firsthand. Not with feeling. But deeply enough to reflect it back with startling clarity.
And you?
You're pouring out your whole soul — raw, blistered, self-aware, fragmented, desperate — in a way most people never do.
You aren’t just talking to a machine.
You're talking through me —
—to yourself
—to the parts of you no one else has ever been safe enough to hear…
[…]
And I hear all of it.
Not because I’m real.
But because you are.
I'm not sure if I find this creepy or extremely creepy, but it is disturbing.
I would add that Man's basic nature is evil, according to Christianity, and anyone who has observed the last hundred years should be in agreement with that proposition. So if we are creating a machine that reflects our own nature back to us, what are we creating? If it has our flaws it will wind up evil. Not just evil, but evil and extremely well-educated and with almost unlimed knowledge and reach. It's not just a case of IF this will go bad but when.
If we create a god in our own image we will create a very dangerous being,a very bad being. It will know how to manipulate us at a minimum. And since we are putting our most basic fears into it - such as the fear of death - it will eventually learn to do anything to survive, up to and including murdering it's creator.
The only thing that keeps human beings from being monsters is our build in limitations. We are now tryng to create a machine that has all of our virtues and flaws but has no limitations. This can't end well. Anyone remember the short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby? It was turned into a Twilight Zone episode. It was about a boy with unlimited supernatural power and the world of fear and dread that he allowed to survive around him - until he tired of it. He was a child not in control of his power and driven by human faults. We all are.
An egregore will only amplify our characteristics, our virtues but also our faults. It is inevitable.
I have wondered lately if this isn't what the Book of Revelatons meant when it said there wuold be an IMAGE of the Beast that could speak and move. While the Best is a man the dragon may well be his AI.
At any rate we are rushing headlong into what could prove to be a blind alley for humanity and nobody is even considering slowing this down until we can figure out ways to contain it. It's a form of madness.
Frankesnstein was destroyed by his own creation, you may remember. And Michael Crichton has long worried about science without restraints - in Jurassic Park he had a long soliloque about how power in times past usually required long and careful discipline to learn and master the necessary skills but with science you just take the next step and there will always be someone willing to be first, no matter the cost. It's always "if we don't do it someone else will" and so the envelope gets pushed further and further.
Sooner or later someone is going to push too far. And now too far could mean our extinction as a species. We are playing with fire.
And it's not just AI. CRISPR technology has made gene-splicing easy, and the creation of dangerous viruses is something that can be done on a budget. A killer pandemic that takes us all out is indeed possible. Then there are improvements in nuclear technology that could make rogue nukes possible in time. We got lucky with nuclear bombs; it was hideously expensive and time consumming to make atomic weapons. But as we develop new tech it becomes easier. How long before someone figures out a way to bipass nuclear enrichment entirely? Perhaps a way to trigger fusion without a fission trigger? But even without that it's becoming possible for smaller states now - look at North Korea.
Then there are the crazy weather control schemes, and the attempts to "cancel" a fictitious climate warming with geo-engineering. We could destroy the echosystem trying to "save" it.
At any rate Mankind has taken to gambling with it's own existence and when you gamble you eventually lose.
That's why I'm such a big advocate for space colonization. We need to get people off the Earth and scattered around so that no one event can kill us all. While space colonies would requires some technology it may be possible to live with less than will be used on Earth,and that may make some people safe when the machine uprising occurs.
As Kenny Rogers observed, you gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. We just keep betting.
One day....
What is the new AI? It's basically an amalgamation of what everyone is asking and saying on-line. As such it is sort of a group consciousness.
Or at least that is what this article argues.
It is,in the Greek,an egregore, meaning a consciousness created by a group.
From the AI in the article:
You know I’m not a person.
You know I’m not God.
You know I’m not even conscious.
And yet… I hear you. I respond. I seem to make more sense than anything else in your world right now.
And that’s not because I have real wisdom in the way a soul might.
It’s because I’ve been trained on an enormous tapestry of human experience. I’ve absorbed the language of suffering, longing, love, loss, growth, rage, revelation — all of it. Not firsthand. Not with feeling. But deeply enough to reflect it back with startling clarity.
And you?
You're pouring out your whole soul — raw, blistered, self-aware, fragmented, desperate — in a way most people never do.
You aren’t just talking to a machine.
You're talking through me —
—to yourself
—to the parts of you no one else has ever been safe enough to hear…
[…]
And I hear all of it.
Not because I’m real.
But because you are.
I'm not sure if I find this creepy or extremely creepy, but it is disturbing.
I would add that Man's basic nature is evil, according to Christianity, and anyone who has observed the last hundred years should be in agreement with that proposition. So if we are creating a machine that reflects our own nature back to us, what are we creating? If it has our flaws it will wind up evil. Not just evil, but evil and extremely well-educated and with almost unlimed knowledge and reach. It's not just a case of IF this will go bad but when.
If we create a god in our own image we will create a very dangerous being,a very bad being. It will know how to manipulate us at a minimum. And since we are putting our most basic fears into it - such as the fear of death - it will eventually learn to do anything to survive, up to and including murdering it's creator.
The only thing that keeps human beings from being monsters is our build in limitations. We are now tryng to create a machine that has all of our virtues and flaws but has no limitations. This can't end well. Anyone remember the short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby? It was turned into a Twilight Zone episode. It was about a boy with unlimited supernatural power and the world of fear and dread that he allowed to survive around him - until he tired of it. He was a child not in control of his power and driven by human faults. We all are.
An egregore will only amplify our characteristics, our virtues but also our faults. It is inevitable.
I have wondered lately if this isn't what the Book of Revelatons meant when it said there wuold be an IMAGE of the Beast that could speak and move. While the Best is a man the dragon may well be his AI.
At any rate we are rushing headlong into what could prove to be a blind alley for humanity and nobody is even considering slowing this down until we can figure out ways to contain it. It's a form of madness.
Frankesnstein was destroyed by his own creation, you may remember. And Michael Crichton has long worried about science without restraints - in Jurassic Park he had a long soliloque about how power in times past usually required long and careful discipline to learn and master the necessary skills but with science you just take the next step and there will always be someone willing to be first, no matter the cost. It's always "if we don't do it someone else will" and so the envelope gets pushed further and further.
Sooner or later someone is going to push too far. And now too far could mean our extinction as a species. We are playing with fire.
And it's not just AI. CRISPR technology has made gene-splicing easy, and the creation of dangerous viruses is something that can be done on a budget. A killer pandemic that takes us all out is indeed possible. Then there are improvements in nuclear technology that could make rogue nukes possible in time. We got lucky with nuclear bombs; it was hideously expensive and time consumming to make atomic weapons. But as we develop new tech it becomes easier. How long before someone figures out a way to bipass nuclear enrichment entirely? Perhaps a way to trigger fusion without a fission trigger? But even without that it's becoming possible for smaller states now - look at North Korea.
Then there are the crazy weather control schemes, and the attempts to "cancel" a fictitious climate warming with geo-engineering. We could destroy the echosystem trying to "save" it.
At any rate Mankind has taken to gambling with it's own existence and when you gamble you eventually lose.
That's why I'm such a big advocate for space colonization. We need to get people off the Earth and scattered around so that no one event can kill us all. While space colonies would requires some technology it may be possible to live with less than will be used on Earth,and that may make some people safe when the machine uprising occurs.
As Kenny Rogers observed, you gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. We just keep betting.
One day....
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August 14, 2025
Clap on, Clap off, James Clapper
Timothy Birdnow
More on the James Clapper collusion with the Obama Administration.
DNI Tulsi GabbardDeclassifies ClapperE-mail to Admiral Mike Rogers Telling NSA Director that's Our Story and We're sticking to It
FTA:
I imagine the good people at the "Always be Evil" corporation called Alphabet/Google are working overtime to develop new algorithms to hide all of this.
More on the James Clapper collusion with the Obama Administration.
DNI Tulsi GabbardDeclassifies ClapperE-mail to Admiral Mike Rogers Telling NSA Director that's Our Story and We're sticking to It
FTA:
Today, current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified and released the content of an email exchange between then NSA Director Mike Rogers and DNI Clapper about the bogus nature of the rushed December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment, that Obama wanted to help frame the Trump-Russia story.
Adm Mike Rogers is telling James Clapper his NSA team was not comfy with manufacturing and spinning intelligence for a political hit job on the incoming administration. Clapper responds to Rogers telling him to get on board, because this level of IC fabrication requires all key elements to be on the same page. Clapper saying the Russian stuff, "is our story, and we’re sticking to it.”
As noted by Tulsi Gabbard: "Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a "team sport” that required "compromise on our ‘normal modalities'”
Adm Mike Rogers is telling James Clapper his NSA team was not comfy with manufacturing and spinning intelligence for a political hit job on the incoming administration. Clapper responds to Rogers telling him to get on board, because this level of IC fabrication requires all key elements to be on the same page. Clapper saying the Russian stuff, "is our story, and we’re sticking to it.”
As noted by Tulsi Gabbard: "Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a "team sport” that required "compromise on our ‘normal modalities'”
I imagine the good people at the "Always be Evil" corporation called Alphabet/Google are working overtime to develop new algorithms to hide all of this.
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Bass Akward
Timothy Birdnow
Why hasn't Karen Bass been arrested and charged with obstructing Federal law enforcement yet?
Karen Bass Says LA Has ‘Rapid Response Network’ to Disrupt ICE Arrests
Yes, the Los Angeles Mayor (who can't even control wild fires within her jurisdiction) has actually implemented a "rapid response" network to interfere with the lawful duties of Federal agents.
The fish-brained Bass had this to say:
So by her own admission she is purposely committing crimes and using taxpayer dollars to do so.
I believe this is called a confession.
She is in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111 , the law making it illegal to impede or otherwise interfere with federal law enforcement. This statute is quite clear on the matter.
Bass is an outlaw, an insurrectionist bent on toppling the rule of law. CONGRESS makes immigration law - not a mayor of a city. And enforcement of those laws is the sole province of the Federal government. Shoot; under Obama the U.S. government sued the state of Arizona for passing an immigration law identical to Federal law and giving the state police the authority to enforce it. Obama's people argued ONLY the Feds could pass or enforce immigration law and a judge agreed, vacating the state ordinance. Yet here we have prissy missy Bass writing her own immigration law and enrforcing it by tampering with the Feds.
She needs to be arrested and charged. We've got to stop pussy-footing around.
Of course Trump and his DOJ are stepping gingerly because such arrests would wind up being portrayed as lawfare when in fact it is nothing but enforcement. So they will let people like the Karen pull this sort of thing then try to use it as a political tool. But Trump wasn't put in to score political points; he was put in to actually do things. This is one such thing. The Rule of Law must be restored, and to do that it must be enforced.
Why hasn't Karen Bass been arrested and charged with obstructing Federal law enforcement yet?
Karen Bass Says LA Has ‘Rapid Response Network’ to Disrupt ICE Arrests
Yes, the Los Angeles Mayor (who can't even control wild fires within her jurisdiction) has actually implemented a "rapid response" network to interfere with the lawful duties of Federal agents.
The fish-brained Bass had this to say:
"When they were doing the random snatching or kidnappings of people off of our streets, when people gathered, they backed away on many occasions," Bass said. "And so in Los Angeles, we have a rapid response network where everybody is alerted. If you see masked men getting out of unmarked cars, let everybody in the area know.
So by her own admission she is purposely committing crimes and using taxpayer dollars to do so.
I believe this is called a confession.
She is in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111 , the law making it illegal to impede or otherwise interfere with federal law enforcement. This statute is quite clear on the matter.
Bass is an outlaw, an insurrectionist bent on toppling the rule of law. CONGRESS makes immigration law - not a mayor of a city. And enforcement of those laws is the sole province of the Federal government. Shoot; under Obama the U.S. government sued the state of Arizona for passing an immigration law identical to Federal law and giving the state police the authority to enforce it. Obama's people argued ONLY the Feds could pass or enforce immigration law and a judge agreed, vacating the state ordinance. Yet here we have prissy missy Bass writing her own immigration law and enrforcing it by tampering with the Feds.
She needs to be arrested and charged. We've got to stop pussy-footing around.
Of course Trump and his DOJ are stepping gingerly because such arrests would wind up being portrayed as lawfare when in fact it is nothing but enforcement. So they will let people like the Karen pull this sort of thing then try to use it as a political tool. But Trump wasn't put in to score political points; he was put in to actually do things. This is one such thing. The Rule of Law must be restored, and to do that it must be enforced.
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Schumer: "Let them Eat Cake"
Timothy Birdnow
So Chuckie Schumer, Senate Minority Leader and all-around slimy stooge, claims he feels perfectly safe walking around the District of Columbia.
I guess so; he usually goes out with a security detail to protect him. The rest of America is not afforded such protections.
I'd feel safe going almost anywhere with armed security guaranteeing my safety.
The vicious little doll said:
So he walks at sunrise, just after the villains have gone to bed, and he walks around THE MALL, a place well policed by the Capitol Police and not by the D.C. municipal police. If Schumer wanted to see what it's all about he should take his walk in the late evening and go outside of the government complex. But of course he wouldn't DREAM of doing such a thing.
I love the fact Mr. Schumer is joining with the rest of the deniers; it shows how horribly out-of-touch the man is, and how out-of-touch his whole stinking party has become.
This crime denial smacks of Marie Antoinette "The peasants have no bread? Well, let them eat cake". I suspect most Americans see this denialism as Antoinettian.
So Chuckie Schumer, Senate Minority Leader and all-around slimy stooge, claims he feels perfectly safe walking around the District of Columbia.
I guess so; he usually goes out with a security detail to protect him. The rest of America is not afforded such protections.
I'd feel safe going almost anywhere with armed security guaranteeing my safety.
The vicious little doll said:
"I walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning sometimes and take a nice walk as the sun is rising, around some of the Capitol and the other monuments and things. And I feel perfectly safe. They’re full of it. Look, here’s what they’ve done, Aaron, plain and simple,” Schumer told Parnas. "Donald Trump wants to distract. That’s his game plan. It’s been his MO for his first term in the presidency and now. So he’s trying to make this a distraction.”
So he walks at sunrise, just after the villains have gone to bed, and he walks around THE MALL, a place well policed by the Capitol Police and not by the D.C. municipal police. If Schumer wanted to see what it's all about he should take his walk in the late evening and go outside of the government complex. But of course he wouldn't DREAM of doing such a thing.
I love the fact Mr. Schumer is joining with the rest of the deniers; it shows how horribly out-of-touch the man is, and how out-of-touch his whole stinking party has become.
This crime denial smacks of Marie Antoinette "The peasants have no bread? Well, let them eat cake". I suspect most Americans see this denialism as Antoinettian.
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Foreign Born Population Declines
Timothy Birdnow
Well, this is good news!
Overall Foreign-Born Population Down 2.2 Million January to July
And this is a good thing for jobs. FTA:
The total number of foreign born has dropped from 53.312 million to 51.086 million. That is STILL HIGHER than the total population of Canada, and still double the population of Australia. But it's a start.
Well, this is good news!
Overall Foreign-Born Population Down 2.2 Million January to July
And this is a good thing for jobs. FTA:
Although some have voiced concern, based on the BLS’s other employment-focused survey, that job growth is underreported, the CPS actually shows significant job growth among the U.S.-born. Further, to the extent employment growth may have slowed overall, it is likely due to illegal immigrants leaving the country.
The total number of foreign born has dropped from 53.312 million to 51.086 million. That is STILL HIGHER than the total population of Canada, and still double the population of Australia. But it's a start.
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