March 03, 2026
Miss Congeniality
Timothy Birdnow
Miss Congeniality!
Sadly America has "been done with this" aka her for a long time but somehow we can't get shed of the old bag.
This is what guilty people do, evince faux rage over "mistreatment" when all that is happening is questions are being asked she does not want to answer.
I would add Hillary threw her chancer-ridden husband under the bus hard in her testimony.
She is such a charming woman, is she not? And just think; she could have been President.
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Tlaib Calls Us "They"
Timothy Birdnow
Why hasn't this woman been deported, or at least kicked out of Congress?
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You're a member of Congress. Don't call the U.S. "they."
Rashida Tlaib
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Both the U.S. and genocidal Israel doesn't care about the laws. This is who they are.
If she thinks we are "they" then it tells me she has no right to be where she is, in a position of authority in the United States government. Maybe she should be deported? Maybe we should send her to Iran at this point?
This is how these Progressives in Congress really think. AOC, Crockett, etc. all do not thin of themselves as Americans so much as warriors fighting a guerilla campaign to take out a foreign enemy - us.
We've got to start taking actions against these kinds of people. They are a tumor on the body politic, a cancerous lesion.
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Coalition of the Willing
Timothy Birdnow
A true "coalition of the willing" has coalesced around the U.S./Israeli war on Iran.
Saudi Arabia is the latest to join the group.
Meanwhile the crazy Iranians have sought to internationalize this conflict, attacking British bases in Cypress.
They've longed for this for many years and now they are getting it - and they realize it's not so much fun after all.
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Iran Releasing Prisoners
Timothy Birdnow
Iran is setting the prisoners free:
Hengaw Organization for Human Rights
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All detainees held at the Central Prison of Marivan were released shortly after Israeli and U.S. fighter jets bombed military and intelligence facilities in the city, according to information received by Hengaw.
The development occurred on Monday, March 2, 2026.
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No doubt this is an attempt to get the public on their side, and maybe convince Trump to negotiate. Neither will happen at this point.
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The Hour of Cowards
Timothy Birdnow
Why did the chicken cross the road? To do his podcast.
Uh Matt, I am on record as saying we needed to do this at least since Obama. In fact I had rather hoped Bush would do Iran instead of Iraq and I went on record saying so. I'm not much of an influencer these days but I at least said so all along and so did many others:
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlogI can't take the gaslighting, guys. I really can't. Conservatives are now running around saying "Iran has been waging war on us for 47 years." Okay then why didn't any of you call for an attack on Iran at any point until now? Why didn't you make a case for Trump "ending the war, not starting it" until precisely the moment when Trump did it? You and I both know that you are latching onto a talking point you never used until 45 seconds ago. You and I both know that almost every conservative influencer in the business was opposed to war with Iran until just now. And now you're trying to use justifications that stretch back decades. It doesn't make any sense. If you changed your mind, fine. Say so. Explain why. You're allowed to change your mind. I've changed my mind about things. But don't try to rewrite history. Be honest about it. There's too much at stake to play these games.4:08 PM · Mar 2, 2026·5.6MViews
Uh, also Matt apparently you are unaware that Iran has tried to assassinate President Trump at least one time already, and they have been filtering people into this country through the last four years. They were behind the horrific attack on Israel that led to warfare. They have attacked us repeatedly.
When the facts on the ground change you change your opinion, or should if you are wise.
Iran has been a low-enough priority in times past because we thought we could manage them. But not now.
Also, the Iranian People are in full revolt, which gives us a golden opportunity. Or do you think that no matter what it's not our business to bump off the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism?
Audentes Fortuna Duvat "Fortune favors the bold" as the old Latin proverb states. Sadly the Matt Walsh's of the world never met a situation that favored THEIR being bold.
We are at an historical crux, a real chance to change the horrible situation in the Middle East and perhaps bring peace for a time. Trump is playing this very strategically. He has no intention of sending in ground troops; he doesn't need to do so! We can bomb our way to a better world but only if we have the stones to take action.
Too many on our side are spineless, unwilling to do anything that might cause problems as they see it. Apparently Walsh is one such.
THAT is why we are always on the defensive, always losing.
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Republicans Even with Democrats
Timothy Birdnow
And bear in mind these polls are always several points off, and almost always in favor of the Democrats. Oh, and the public is just starting to pay attention now.
These aren't "Republican" polls either but Harris, Harris X, and the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard (CAPS).
Iff we are seeing this you know the Democrats are seeing much more of it, using their private polls.
They have to be in full panic mode right now. That is, of course, part of why they are going to try to crash the President's foreign policy at this point. Trump is doing exactly what Clinton, Obama, and Biden all had done yet they are acting as if he just invaded Poland.
They have to convince the public he's not just wrong but evil. They've succeeded with some too.
FTA:
The poll of 1,999 registered voters, which was conducted online between February 25 and 26, found that 50% of Americans would vote for the Republican candidate in their congressional district and 50% would vote for the Democratic one if the midterms were held today. That marked an enormous improvement for the GOP, which trailed the Democrats 54%-46% on the same question last month..
People are just starting to pay attention now. Also, Democrats usually do better in polls because a.the Republicans work and can't take time to answer these polls b.Democrats do not c.older folks, who tend to be more conservative, tend not to answer polls and especially polls online. So even when the polls are on the up-and-up they favor the Democrats (most polls are NOT on the up-and-up but are designed to sway public opinion).
As I say the party has better polling than this and no doubt the knocking of their knees can be heard as far away as Britain.
I sure hope this is true; we've got to keep control of both houses of Congress or all this will be for nothing.
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Gorsuch: the Founders were Drunks
Timothy Birdnow
I hate to agree with Gorsuch after he screwed us on the tariff business but I do have to say he's right; the Founding Fathers WERE a bunch of drunks!
He observes:
"John Adams took a drink of hard cider with his breakfast every day,” Gorsuch added. "James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson said he wasn’t much of a user of alcohol; he only had three or four glasses of wine a night.”
"Are they all habitual drunkards who would be properly disarmed for life under your theory?” Gorsuch asked Harris.
SCOTUS is hearing a case where an occasional marijuana user was banned from possessing firearms in Texas based on Federal law. The Trump DOJ is arguing that this guy should be stripped of his Second Amendment rights. The Trump DOJ is, in my opinion, wrong.
When I say the Founders were a bunch of drunks I do not single them out; everyone was a drunk in those days. Water was bad, milk spoiled, there was no Coca-Cola or other soft drinks. You could drink coffee or tea, or alcoholic beverages. Take your pick. Water was always dicey.
So most people drank booze and lots of it. The Sixteenth through Eighteenth centuries were a very boozy time indeed.
There was a British Lord who, when congratulated on drinking THREE bottles of Port wine (at 22% alcohol or more) was asked if he drank it all by himself "no, I had the help of a bottle of Madeira (another fortified wine). This was common. Dinner parties used to have boys whose job was to loosen the neckties of the guests who were passed out under the table.
So all of these men drank quite a bit as a matter of course. Jefferson was particularly fond of Madeira, as were most of the Founders. They loved Porter beer, too. And a good pint of hard cider was always welcome.
That said, I am mindful of the unverified statement by Abraham Lincoln, who when informed that U.S. Grant was a drunk replied "find out what kind of whiskey he drinks and send him a barrel.) The Founders were just drunk enough to be brave enough to do so foolish a thing as declare independence from Britain, but not so drunk they were able to write the greatest governing documents in history. They were true men of genius, drunk or not.
Maybe we need to revive Madeira wine and Porter beer in D.C.; it might wake those idiots up. Chardonnay and Martinis seem to be dulling the current leadership's sensibilities.
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March 02, 2026
Nick Shirley on Voting in California
Timothy Birdnow
He's gone and done it now.
Nick Shirley has found a loophole in California law that allows illegal aliens to vote.
From the Fox News article:
Shirley then asked the woman whether requiring identification "leaves any room for error" in the registration process and whether illegal migrants are voting in the state.
The employee denied the notion that illegals could be voting and asked Shirley how that would be possible.
"If they don't have their ID, and they could just sign on behalf of ‘Richard Sherman,’ then they could technically vote, right?" he proposed.
"Yeah, but they would be lying…" she responded, later adding that she doesn't believe illegal immigrants would abuse the state's registration process in order to vote.
Shirley was speaking on the Reilly Gaines show. He was recounting his discussion with a voter election official in the Golden State.
So this woman thinks nobody would lie to voe illegally. To paraphrase Gus McCrae from Lonesome Dove "if a man wouldn't cheat for a vote he don't want to vote bad enough". The Democrats want these votes bad enough.
The loophole is there is no I.D. required at any time to register or to vote.
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U.S. Probably Took Out Ahmadinejad
Timothy Birdnow
President Trump got a bonus play in his game of Islamic pinball recently when he took out the former Iranian President Mouhmud "Doc Och" Ahmadinejad.
Yes, the former President has likely assumed room temperature along with the Ayatollah of Losing Your Soul-a Khameini.
These are the good old days!
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Robust Trade Growth Despite Tariffs
Timothy Birdnow
Tariffs would lead to a decline in trade, they told us. Didn't happen.
I just had a lengthy argument on Facebook with a guy who just insisted the tariffs have ruined the economy. No amount of data could dissuade him from his quasi-religious belief in what he misnames "free trade".
This notion that tariffs are somehow evil and bring poverty are entirely predicated on one example - Smoot Hawley from 1930. SH was a bad idea at that time because the country was already sliding into the Depression and we didn't need a tax increase but the fact remains it was not the cause but actually more of an effect. European nations began imposing high duties on American goods because they were losing money thanks to declining sales in the U.S. So we retaliated with tariffs of our own. But that had nothing to do with the Deppression, which was caused by the Federal Reserve contracting the money supply by a whopping 30%, causing markets to seize up and the economy to shrink away to nothing. That was the true cause of the Great Depression. It was not helped by the Hoover interventionist economic policies, which made markets unsure. Roosevelt, who ran as a moderate because Hoover's policies were too interventionist he claimed, doubled down on Hooverism once in office. That was the very worst thing anyone could do, take money from the few who had it and redistribute it with such things as the WPA (Short for We Piddle Around as my dear old great grandmother used to say.)
At any rate that was one of the very few cases that suggest tariffs are damaging to the economy, and it turns out not to be the case by and large In the early '20's both Harding and Coolidge imposed tariffs and the economy roared.
Tariffs ae not the boogieman we have been led to believe.
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Dems, Massie Introduce War Powers Resolution
Timothy Birdnow
Mike "Tiny" Johnson says there will be a vote on the War Powers Act in an attempt to limit President Trump's ability to continue prosecuting the war with Iran.
Republican Thomas Massie co-sponsored the bill.
Massie is turning into the new John McCain, and that isn't a compliment. He's making political hay by opposing our party and our agenda. Massie is in the House and can be removed every two years; time for his removal. We need to run a strong candidate against him.
This will be a test of Mike Johnson and his ability to lead his caucus; he needs to keep everyone in line so this thing dies. Can he do it? That's what we are going to find out.
IF this were just about the Constitution as no doubt Massie will claim then why didn't he also introduce a formal declaration of war to be voted on?
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Texas Shooter a Muslim
Timothy Birdnow
The Austin shooter was wearing a "Property of Allah" hoodie and had a Koran in his car, according to the FBI.
The gunman was a naturalized U.S. citizen, naturalized despite a string of crimes. He immigrated from Senegal during the Clinton Administration and was given citizenship under Obama.
When are we going to get serious about terrorism? We know who does it, and it isn't Mormons.
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March 01, 2026
"This is an Illegal War"
This from Daniel Jupp:
This is an illegal war!
The difference between a war and air strikes enters the chat.
92,000 Obama bombs dropped on 7 different countries without a word of protest enters the chat.
Five decades of Iranian sponsorship of terrorism enters the chat
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The difference between fake WMD’s cooked up by a spin doctor and a real nuclear weapons programme enters the chat.
The illegal war thing always makes me laugh. All the disastrous neocon ones were legal if your only criteria for that is a rubber stamp from the UN.
International law is a joke. The only people who regularly invoke it now are people who ignore the law at home and always back terrorists, criminals and evil causes then hide behind ‘international law’ like spoilt kids hiding behind mummy’s skirt.
I trust Trump not to get tied to a long disaster like Iraq.
I trust any action that offends both Owen Jones and Tucker Carlson to be the right one to take.
But the Woke Reich are right on one aspect of this. Obviously not the Jew hatred or the isolationism. But there is one sense where foreign battles have to be matched by winning at home.
It profits a man nothing to fight Islamic lunatics abroad if Islamic lunatics are running his own cities.
You have to deal with both to save the western world. The Islamic conquest is very advanced and you aren’t going to stop it unless you recognise what Manchester or Birmingham have become in the UK and what New York and Minnesota have become in the US.
By all means topple the mullahs….if you also intend to topple the Mamdani’s.
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Climate Change Causes Hemorrhoids
Timothy Birdnow
This from Ken Elder:
I wonder if this is connected to climate change....
"Researchers report that people who use a smartphone while sitting on the toilet were more likely to have hemorrhoids than people who do not."
Mr. Birdnow replies:
But of course. We all know climate change causes droughts, and with droughts we have less water to drink. Less water means greater constipation. Couple that with smart phones, which give the constipate something to do there while he waits and voila!
See how easy it is to be one of the Gang Green!
BTW Climate Change doesn't cause hemorrhoids but the people promoting the theory do their best to act like them.
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Carbon - It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
Timothy Birdnow
Gee; I thought it was just human activity that discharged carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...
Turns out these peat bogs and swampy lakes in the Congo are belching more CO2 than Kamala Harris blows hot air.
From the article:
At the center of Africa, the Congo Basin contains one of the largest and most significant of these carbon reserves. Although its peatlands and swamps cover just 0.3 percent of the planet's land surface, they store about one third of all carbon held in tropical peatlands worldwide.
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Ancient Carbon Released Into the Atmosphere
Measurements show that substantial amounts of carbon dioxide are escaping from both lakes into the atmosphere. However, the origin of that carbon was not what scientists anticipated.
While some of the emissions come from recently grown plant material, up to 40 percent of the carbon dioxide originates from peat that accumulated thousands of years ago in nearby ecosystems. Researchers determined this by analyzing the age of the dissolved CO2 using radiocarbon dating (radiocarbon dating).
"We were surprised to find that ancient carbon is being released via the lake," explains lead author Travis Drake, a scientist in the Sustainable Agroecosystem (SAE) group led by ETH Professor Johan Six. "The carbon reservoir has a leak, so to speak, from which ancient carbon is escaping," adds co-author Matti Barthel, research technician in SAE.
How Is the Carbon Being Mobilized?
Previously, scientists believed that carbon stored in Congo Basin peat remained locked away for extremely long periods and would only be released under specific conditions such as extended drought.
Exactly how this old carbon is being freed from undecomposed plant matter remains uncertain. Researchers also do not yet know the precise pathways that allow it to move from peat soils into lake water.
Sooooo
Turns out there are natural reasons for atmospheric carbon dioxide to rise that have nothing to do with human activity.
Oh, this article tries to tie the two, saying "climate change" is triggering this outgassing, but as we didn't even know that was possible until just now why would we believe that? This peat is buried very deep and the modest 1* of planetary warming is hardly going to impact that.
I wish people, especially science writers, would use a modicum of common sense with this stuff.
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World in Crisis
This from Mike:
Aside from the democrats bankers whose cash flow is drying up, I wonder how many people realize that Trump is the most effective president to wage war on the drug suppliers. He has taken the heads from 3 of the snakes running drugs worldwide.
Russia is sending recruits straight from the recruiting office to the front lines. No supplies, no weapons, and above all no hope. Russia is drowning in the Ukraine quagmire.
China just last month purged 2 of its top senior experienced Generals arresting them and and their families. Seems they were getting a little to popular. How many more arrests were made only a few know that as the arrests probably are still continuing. China isnt as stable as we are being led to believe.
One of Trumps and Israels biggest obstacles were the oil producing Arab nations who fear what a free Iran will do to oil prices. They will lose considerable power if Iran is allowed to sell its oil on the free market.
The people of Iran are not the hardcore islamists that media wants you to believe they are. The majority are nonsecular, forced to bow down before an idol. One of the first places that the Iranian people attacked and burned were the mosques to the horror of the media who wouldnt report it. And thats hundreds of mosques across Iran. The people in Tehran were out on the streets in the hundreds tonight celebrating the death of their self made supreme leader. Not an IRGC, cop, or military trying to stop them.The IRGC is mainly composed of foreigners,aka mercenaries from islamist countries. We all need to Thank Jimmy Carter and the French for the IRGC after all they funded them because they didnt want to have to deal with the Shah. Actually they bought them from the Russians just to topple the Shah only for the IRGC to backstab them and buddy back up with the Russians.
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