August 29, 2026
What's in a Name?
Timothy Birdnow
Lake America is the lamest name Trump could have chosen.
I get the Gulf of America, as America is not just the U.S. But Lake America breaks with the tradition of naming the Great Lakes after native American tribes.
He should have named it Lake Iroquois since they lived SOUTH of the lake in question.
Of course Lake Superior broke with that tradition, but it was too much trouble to say Gitche Gumee (as Longfellow called it.)
Other useful names would be Lake Niagara or Lake Rochester.
BTW I just e-mailed the White House about all this and within about two seconds got pinged with several text messages from the White House (you had to provide a lot of information to weed out the crazies, including your cell number). No direct response and I doubt I'll get one but it will be interesting to see if Trump seeks to rename the Canadian River any other name.
I included the Aviary address so maybe the White House will start reading this blog. I have said before Rush Limbaugh used to read it (if only occasionally) and I suspect a number of others did. We used to be linked up at Commentary Magazine, for instance, so people from there read the Aviary (no doubt thanks to Jack Kemp, who provided a great conservative Jewish perspective). So who knows? Maybe some underline at the White House will take a gander and perhaps we'll get a little attention for once. It gets lonely blogging into a roaring silence sometimes.
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Dolly Parton RIP
Timothy Birdnow
Goodbye Dolly. Rest in peace.
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KSM Judge Won't Allow His Confession in Trial
Timothy Birdnow
WTF!
Without his confession the murdering monster may walk.
The prison where he resides should begin infusing pork into his food right now. He should be denied anything but bacon and ham and pork sausage and pork roast...
Mo is still at the prison in Gitmo.
Maybe we should move some white supremacists serving lengthy sentences down to the prison with the offer of time off their sentences if they accept. And the guards should be a bit careless with metal implements, the kind guys like that find easy to sharpen. Mr. Muhammed should never leave this prison alive - ever.
He should never have been down at Club Gitmo to enjoy the lovely tropical weather and laze about all day in a hammock in the first place. It's ridiculous he's only facing trial now.
This prison should have been built in the far north, where these guys had to freeze their posteriors. Some island north of Alaska would have been nice. In the novel Logan's Run the society ran a maximum security "prison" in the deep Arctic, where the prisoners had to fend for themselves in caves they dug and ate what they could - including new arrivals. That should have been what we did with the 911 Terrorists.
And they should have had hard labor. We should have had them breaking rocks for the rest of their natural lives.
It is just this kind of softness on our part which makes us targets; the Muslims think we are a bunch of vaginas.
Maybe we are?
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Fauci, the CIA, and War Crimes
Timothy Birdnow
Told you so!
Fauci was trying to create bioweapons in violation of the laws on the books against that. And the CIA wanted Trump gone and were willing to break a few eggs to make an omelet...
FTA:
The CIA had "robust” capabilities to detect and identify viruses but wanted to go further, the documents indicate. The project sought to do "forensic comparative analyses,” but the documents do not define this term. The work would study complete viruses rather than examining one gene at a time.
The CIA would help NIAID obtain the germs, the contract shows. Work produced under the collaboration would be considered sensitive, not classified, but the CIA must give permission before data were shared.
Fauci collaborated with President George W. Bush to remake the NIAID into a biodefense research hub in the shadow of the 9/11 anthrax attacks, according to public reporting. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: ‘Delete From The Deleted File’: Fauci Tried To Destroy Gain-Of-Function Research Email)
"Vice President Cheney assigned Fauci to head US biodefense research programs in 2002, including bioweapons-agents-development and bioweapons-agents-characterization research programs that approached, and arguably crossed, red lines set by the Biological Weapons Convention,” said Rutgers Chemistry Professor Richard Ebright, a longtime critic of NIAID’s pivot to this work, after reviewing documents shared by DCNF. "The documents show early steps in the process of transferring funding for, and direction of, CIA and DoD biodefense projects to Fauci’s agency, NIAID.”
While this was ostensibly to IDENTIFY bioweapons to do that they first had to create them. Fauci was funding the creation of bioweapons and we are supposed to believe it was just to study them. Ri-ight.
And they did this overseas because U.S. law specifically forbade it.
I hold a rather conspiratorial view on this. I believe they knew Covid 19 was no worse than a fairly nasty seasonal flu and that they figured it was worth doing to get rid of that SOB Donald J. Trump, who seemed unstoppable at the time this thing was released. Yes, it would kill off mostly old people (who tend to vote Republican) and that wasn't a bad thing since the Earth is overpopulated anyway and who would miss a few geezers who were about to kick the old bucket anyway? I think the CIA figures it was worth it.
And Trump's policies were killing China, who had every reason to use a bioweapon on us, particularly a low-yield bioweapon. Covid was the equivalent of a dirty bomb; it kills no more people than a regular one but might give you cancer down the road and more than that frightens the public into a mass panic.
I believe they wanted all this and wanted to implement the draconian policies they implemented with rather a ridiculous speed. They figured they could nail this whole thing down quickly and it would be the end of the American rebellion.
It backfired, as most of the CIA Wile E. Coyote schemes do. In fact it showed their hand.
I would add that we now know there were hundreds of such labs in Ukraine. Any wonder why there was such a huge push to support the Ukrainians in the war with Russia? As for Russia, I've not seen anything where the Russians have been speaking about that fact as a primary reason for their invasion of Ukraine but we certainly have not been given the Russian perspective on this and Putin may well have said this was a reason - repeatedly - but we wouldn't be told that, now would we? My Russian is too rusty for me to read Pravda and the other Russian newspapers these days, alas. My bad vision makes it problematic even if I had my old slovar (dictionary) handy.
(Speaking of such things, my old slovar came from the Soviet Union and it fell apart almost immediately when I used it. I glued the binding back on using an old sock as binder, soaking it with glue. I always had to be exquisitely careful turning the pages lest they tear. THAT, boys and girls, is what socialism gets you; books that fall apart when you open them.)
At any rate, I strongly suspect Russia knew what was going on in those labs and that was no small consideration in their decision to invade. Not the only one, maybe not even a major one. But if we had hundreds of biological weapons labs down along the Mexican border what would we do?
Fauci is basically a war criminal. The CIA was waging war against the American People and Anthony Fauci was their agent.
BTW I'm not at all surprised that RINO SOB Darth Dick Cheney was the guy who gave the go-ahead for this program. He's lucky he's dead; he could well wind up on charges for violating 18U.S. 175, which prohibits the creation of biological weapons.
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Judge Rules in Favor of Trump's EO Denying Birthright Citizenship
Timothy Birdnow
Another win for the good guys!
FTA:
Trump later signed an order that narrowed the list of people who are eligible for birthright citizenship, including babies born to terrorists and children of foreign government employees.Immigrant advocacy groups, in a brief to Boardman, requested she block Trump’s new order and argued that it was "in defiance” of the Supreme Court’s ruling and is unconstitutional because the Trump administration lacks the power to take away citizenship that the Constitution confers.
Government lawyers said that the new order, unlike the previous one, "is not based on whether the mothers were unlawfully or temporarily present at the time of birth” but rather targets categories based on exceptions to the Constitution’s Citizenship Clause that justices outlined in their decision.
Sounds like a prudent and Constitutional decision to me. The Constitution expressly states that agents of foreign nations do not qualify for birthright citizenship.
It is axiomatically harder to get an appellate court to overturn a wrong legal decision than it is to get a district judge to rule in your favor right away, at least it is for someone who is arguing a conservative, Original Intent case. The courts are full of activists and even the good ones tend to lean left because the law schools and the lawyer's organizations are run by leftists. It's why a guy like Neil Gorsuch sometimes goes off the rails with his rulings; at heart he's a Constitutionalist but he forgets sometimes and writes to please his long-ago professors. At any rate that Trump won this makes it harder for the Left to overturn it, not easier. This is a big win.
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The Uniting of the Sunni Arabs
Timothy Birdnow
He is right.
The goal of Western policy towards the Middle East was and should remain dividing the countries in the region. The British did that for a long time and it led to an era of relative stability and peace; the Islamic World are natural competitors as each sees it's version of Islam as the best and the one that should triumph. The British sowed the seeds of discord among the varying sheiks and Mullahs and whatnot to keep them splintered. This is the beginning of an alliance that could well cause us nothing but grief.
I would add the British nibbled on the edges of the Saudi peninsula but knew better than to put their troops in the heart of Arabia, something the U.S. has done. There is considerable anger at our presence on Saudi soil, as the author points out.
And who is in this budding alliance? Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, that's who.
Pakistan has been moving to the Islamists for some time and they pose an ultimate existential threat to us. For years they sheltered Osama Bin Laden (they knew full well where he was) and while they have occasionally acquiesced to us it isn't because they love us. Pakistan in this agreement is a dangerous thing. What happens if they go to war with, say, India? They now have Saudi Arabia and Turkey on their side if that should happen. The Saudis could close the Red Sea if they so chose. And of course what was a two nation war could become global very quickly.
Turkey, you may remember, is in NATO. So if India and Pakistan go to war will NATO be dragged into it? And that may well mean the U.S. will have to choose between honoring our NATO commitments or breaking our treaty with the Turks.
We do NOT want to unify the Middle East.
I imagine it won't be long before Syria wants in, or Jordan, or Lebanon. And what of the Gulf States, like Kuwait or Oman or the UAE?
The author is right; Trump wants to get us out of the Middle East. If there was a responsible third party who would step in to take our place I would applaud, but it will likely be China who would do it. That would be very bad on any level one looks at it.
Who else? Logically the E.U. would step in since they are part of NATO and the Turks bring the NATO alliance into the game. But we've seen very little appetite among the NATO countries to do anything at all outside of their little borders.
Russia? Not who we want by any stretch.
That means we are stuck with this problem like it or not. There will be a blood-bath if we simply leave this region on autopilot. Muslims hate each-other as much as they hate Jews and Christians, just about, and the slaughter of the Muslims will begin as soon as all the Jews are wiped out in Israel and the Christians purged from every country in which they currently reside.
We could just pull out, Levant Interruptus, but the world economy will collapse when oil stops flowing from the region. And while the U.S. has plenty of oil the other nations of the world so blessed and outside of the Middle East simply refuse to get it, being in love with their global warming hysteria. So a blowup in the region will lead to a huge economic collapse and a depression which will make the Great Depression look like a blip on the world economic graph.
That's what sucks about being the only adult in the room; you have to keep all the unruly children under control all the time. No time to socialize and drink cocktails.
The author points out Pakistan was brought in for their nuclear arsenal, to act as a counter-balance to Israel's. Of course this could lead to a nuclear exchange between the two countries.
And he points out that Greece and Turkey have long been at odds over Cyprus and a skirmish there could bring in the rest of the alliance against the Greeks. What would NATO do in that case? EVERYONE would call in the U.S.
The Indo-Pakistani hostility goes back to the partitioning of the Subcontinent by the British just after WWII ended. They HATE each-other. Both have nuclear weapons too and it's always been a worry someone would push the button there. Then we get to test the nuclear winter hypothesis in real time.
Anyway, India won't be happy about this.
The author states:
"India’s Maj. General (Ret.) Gagan Deep Bakshi argued that the emergence of what he calls a "Sunni NATO" in the Middle East is a source of strategic concern for India. For example, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait — a chokepoint for India’s energy imports and trade — could fall under the influence of a bloc that excludes Indian strategic participation. And the stationing of advanced Turkish military hardware or personnel in the region would be a force multiplier for Pakistan."
The British were masters of the strategy of balance of power, playing off one nation against another to divide them and guaranteeing the security of others. In the Gulf States Britain made small kingdoms like Oman and Bahrain protectorates, and thus secured their control of India's eastern boundary.
Luckily India has long had bad relations with China (which is why they sought nukes in the first place) and are unlikely to try to make a treaty with the Chinese but you never know; if they think this changes the balance of power with Pakistan to a point dangerous for them they may well choke down their dislike of China and try to cut a deal with the Chicoms.
They may even try to cut a deal with the U.S. For a long time Indian has tried to maintain its "third way" by staying neutral in great power politics. But that may change if this succeeds. But the U.S. would be largely insane to get into a NATO like pact with India under such circumstances. We are already horribly entangled in foreign pacts. The U.S. is fairly in a Gordian Knot of foreign defense pacts. India would offer little to us, or at least not enough to us to make it worthwhile.
One final thought on this. The Bible speaks of the "King of the South" at Armageddon and it is generally assumed to be the Islamic World. A military alliance of this nature will have to exist for that to transpire. It also would create a reason for China to intervene if they would be brought in as a counterweight to the loss of American security. If Russia were to make a mutual defense pact with a member state of this alliance they would be obligated to come in. What happens if Israel is forced to go to war with, say, Syria (which is not yet a member but could be in the future) and Russia would have a treaty with Syria (which they already do to some degree) the Russians may come in, then if this agency had a treaty with the Chinese and THEY came in then we would see the End Time prophecy come true.
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Felix Unger to a District Judge Who Ordered the Post Office to Deliver Mail-in Ballots
Timothy Birdnow
Another activist judge blocks (yet again) the Post Office from implementing rules for mail-in voting that require they be done properly and without the opportunity for fraudulent ballots moving through the USPC.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Boston has once again simply ignored the Supreme Court's ruling that said district judges may not impose nation-wide injunctions by issuing this edict, which temporarily halted the USPS program requiring verifiable voting via the postal service. The Post Office has long had rules against mail fraud and those were never challenged by the courts in times past.
Judge Indira Talwani - a woman who got her law degree from UC Berkeley and was appointed to the bench by our favorite Bolshevik Barack Hussein Obama (pee, er, peace be upon him) said there was no "compelling evidence" of vote fraud by mail-in ballots and so the Post Office could not restrict their delivery.
But that isn't the point. The USPS restricts delivery of suspicious mail all the time. It's not for a judge to decide; postal service is not a legal right but a service. It's a private corporation (even if wholly owned by the U.S. government) and it can operate outside of the normal rules of the bureaucracy.
There are any number of federal statutes against mail fraud including one that is amazingly appropriately named United States v. Schmuck, 489 U.S. 705, 710 (1989). (Schuck said the mail need not be the essential part of the scheme - if it is incidental to the plot it still is a crime.) But this scheme doesn't fall under that - it falls under Kann, 323 U.S. 88 (1980) which states:
"For conviction under the mail fraud statute, the mails must be used 'for the purpose of executing' the fraudulent scheme, and not merely 'as a result of' such scheme."
Mail in vote fraud most certainly does qualify for conviction under this statute.
Fraud is actually handled not by the USPS but by the United States Postal Inspection Service, which IS a federal agency and not a private corporation as is the USPS. As such they work for the President of the United States and are a law-enforcement agency under the DOJ. This agency can do searches and seizures and make arrests.
But they are not the ones who are actually restricting mail-in ballot operations. It is the USPS acting on it, based on advisory guidelines handed to them by the USPIS. The Post Office has to impose the rules for mail-in ballots.
I rather doubt the lower courts have any legal authority over rules governing what mail is accepted when fraud is suspected. This Obama judge is simply second-guessing the USPS and USPIS. You might call her a USPOS.
If I wanted to waste half the day on this I could probably dig up smoking gun statutes but I'm not going to bother. That is for lawyers and their paid paralegals to do. As I work for free I don't see any reason to do it.
At any rate this judge is once again overstepping her authority and hopefully will be smacked down by the appellate court. Or Trump's administration should just ignore her. Maybe deliver mail in HER jurisdiction only. Frankly they should give her a big Felix Unger ("it too me two days to realize FU meant Felix Unger" - Oscar Madison).
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I'm BAAAACCCCKKKKK
Timothy Birdnow
Good morning Aviary readers!
I've been gone a few days and there is an explanation for that - a good one. I was on vacation - the first vacation I've had in a long, long time.
My older brother has become increasingly concerned about keeping us together as a family, as our parents are now dead and with the passing of my father in January the draw that brings everyone together was gone. And we are getting older and certainly my health is a bit dicey, so he's been wanting us to get together on a vacation. His plan was a bit more grandiose; he wanted to do southern Florida.
But I begged off; I think that long, long drive (we would be driving) was going to be too hard on me. I proposed an alternate idea; we meet in the middle (he lives in Kentucky) at a place I spent many happy days at in southern Illinois.
My dear wife and I discovered this region long, long ago, just as they were getting it up and going. At the time a third winery had just opened up and I read about it in a pamphlet I found at a rest stop in Illinois one time. We started going there regularly after that and watched it grow into a major tourist destination. There are now something like twelve wineries on the Shawnee Hills wine trail, although sadly a couple have closed and my very favorite one is going out of business.
Cathy passed away in December and I was sad I probably wouldn't get back there - no point going by myself and who else would I go with? Well...
My brother and his significant other agreed to join me for one last fling in the Shawnee Hills. It was good because it was a relatively short drive for both of us. Two and a half hours for me, four hours for him.
Sadly my other brother was unable to attend. The point of this was for all of us to be together.
Anyway I was proud of myself; I feared breaking down on this trip with nostalgia and memories of my wife but didn't do it. Partly it was the dynamic; my brother Eric was in high form, a stream of endless jokes and barbs and we had a wonderful time! Lisa gives as good as she gets too and I laughed pretty much nonstop the whole trip.
It was tough that and I was still hobbling with a cane because of a bad foot (I had had minor surgery on my foot and it was still healing) plus back problems and so I was teetering along. And my brother booked our cabin at Giant City Lodge, a great state park with cabins and a wonderful country restaurant in a lodge setting, but the cabin he booked required a pretty "healthy" hike down a steep grade.
The walking down wasn't too bad but the walking up was, uh, challenging for a guy with a bad back and bum foot. It was wearing on my brother and his gal but it was just brutal on me. There was a hand-rail though which was helpful. And Lisa would stay back with me and help me go.
It made me feel like an old man but as I AM an old man, or near enough, I suppose I better get used to it.
We got the lodge to send a woman down with a golf cart when we left, so we didn't have to carry all our stuff down. But it was brutal going any way you slice it. We left our coolers in the cars and brought just one six pack cooler.
Lisa had taken to walking for exercise so we made her go back to the cars when we needed anything. Poor girl; she was a real trooper. Up, down, up, down. I suspect she was the only one of the three of us who lost weight rather than gained it on this trip!
At any rate the trip was a great success, even if we didn't get to do everything I hoped. We never made it to Bald Knob Cross, for instance. That is also called the Cross of Peace. It's a hundred and fifty foot tall crucifix, ivory white, that sits atop the second tallest mountain in Illinois and, since the top is treeless (hence the name) it is visible for miles around. They light it at night too. Magnificent sight if you are out at night!
Also, since I was hobbled we never did any of the natural stuff like the Little Grand Canyon (a deep canyon where the Big Muddy River cut through) or any of the local lakes. Shoot; I would have liked to rent canoes for the river but there wasn't enough time.
But it was a fine trip. We ate our heads off at the restaurant there. Big, meaty portions of everything, from the unlimited fried chicken dinner (their specialty) to their catfish and bison and they even had prime rib (which I had one day). Breakfast was naturally quite hearty, like a Cracker Barrel repast.
And we drank a LOT of wine, hitting several of the wineries a day. In the early days the wines of the region were just mediocre, but now that the vines have matured the wines have improved a lot.
We mostly had dry or semi-dry whites, as it was hot and Eric and Lisa preferred them. We did have red at Hickory Ridge, my favorite winery in the area (and the most isolated; they just created a winery in the middle of the deep forest, cut it right out, and it was always the most rustic. Oh, and it specialized in dry reds. Those reds aged beautifully too. I bought a few bottles and one of their bottles of port as well and plan on drinking them on occasions that would have involved my wife Cathy - such as our anniversary, or Christmas, or her next birthday. Sadly this winery is going out of business since the owners are retiring and they live on the property. They are leasing out their vineyard for the grapes.)
A few more points; the first day we left the lodge and my brother put the GPS system on. It got stuck in an infinite loop and led us around in circles for about an hour. Crazy thing! It's very easy to get lost around there; it's very deep woods, not quite mountainous but close, and the roads all look alike. Plus the wineries aren't very close together and the trail isn't well marked with signage. Much of the trip was spent driving. I kept nagging them that first day to get going and they didn't understand why I was so eager to hit the wineries. By the time we got to the first one it was getting a bit late; it took that long to get there. I knew it would since we had to get our feet wet with this back-country driving.
It got easier the longer we stayed.
And I got lost on my way out, and wound up well north of where I wanted to be. I had no GPS and at one point was thinking "where the HELL am I" but I have an excellent sense of direction (normally) and I found a road and just turned on it and it was U.S. 51, the very road I wanted. I had no further trouble after that.
Another interesting tidbit; I was chatting with the wine pour guy at Alto Vineyards and he said all the wineries have been hurting because of the legalization of marijuana. Apparently the college kids don't drink anymore - they sit in their dorms and smoke weed until they brains rot rather than go down to the wineries and pay fifteen, twenty, twenty five bucks for a bottle of wine. This dovetails with what I've learned from craft brewers around the St. Lous area, who tell me that they too have lost the younger generation to the Devil's Lettuce. Young people aren't drinking much anymore - they've been told by their teachers and society alcohol is evil, so they went to the "good stuff", which is now cheaper and now legal in most places. So the alcohol industry is suffering and importers of pot are getting rich. This directly affects the Mom and Pop wineries, which started life as someone's fondest dream and ends in bankruptcy because the kids are too stoned to waste time and money on the labor of love that is wine.
The Shawnee Hills wine trail is just a few miles south of Carbondale, home to Southern Illinois University. It's also just about fifteen, twenty miles northeast of Southeast Missouri University in Cape Girardeau. That's why so large a wine industry could thrive in so rural and backwoods an area.
Anyway it was a wonderful trip and I felt like my old self (rather than just old). It was so merry too; I thought about Cathy (in fact I probably talked about her far too much but I needed to do it) but didn't cry at all. I am really grateful to Eric and Lisa for this - it was just what I needed.
It's too bad my other brother couldn't make it. He needed it too, but he's got a class to teach and those college kids aren't going to learn it by osmosis.
So I apologize for not being here this week. But even the best of us need a vacation from time to time, and it was long overdue.
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August 25, 2026
Short Hiatus on Blog
Dear readers,
I'm going to be a busy little bee the next few days and probably won't be on very much. Check back by the weekend for updates. Dana Mathewson may post a thing or two if he has time (he's as busy as I am).
Anyway give me a few days; I slave here in the salt mines of bloggerdom the whole year and need a few days.
Cheers!
Tim
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August 24, 2026
America Has Lost Dearborn
Timothy Birdnow
Finally someone has the cajones to say it!
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Crazy Media Chicks
Timothy Birdnow
I've long argued mainstream media types are batcrap crazy and this proves it!
Yes, this former news anchor in St. Louis really did murder her sleeping mother.
Angelynn E. Mock was arrested in Wichita on charges of murdering her mother, with whom she lived. She had worked as an anchor in St. Louis but was let go because of alcohol abuse. She apparently suffered from schizophrenia.
Mock was formerly an anchor at KTVI Fox2 News.
While she is mentally ill police found everything laid out to perpetrate the murder so she was charged and convicted. She is scheduled for sentencing.
I wonder how many other crazies inhabit our airways?
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Wait it Out
Timothy Birdnow
Newsom signed the Stop Nick Shirley Act despite its brazen lack of Constitutionality.
It's all about waiting until the next election. Get through that and hopefully there will be a different climate that will allow Democrats to brazenly violate the law. Newsom has no idea of what to do to keep the lid on the corruption in California, but he's got to put it on the back burner. Come '28 he hopes a Democrat will be in the White House and it will be back to business as usual.
I cannot stress enough the importance of the next few election cycles.
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Carney (Unofficially) Declares War on U.S.
Timothy Birdnow
The mouse that roared? More like the mouse that squeaked pathetically.
What a pompous jackass!
They've been attacking US for decades with unfair trade practices, knowing our milquetoast leadership would never retaliate. Well, Mr. Trump has many bad qualities but one he does NOT have is milquetoast leadership.
So what is Carney going to do? I am mindful of an episode of the Simpsons where Abu, the Quickee Mart owner, tells Homer to stop drinking slurpees straight from the tap "I have asked you nicely to stop. Now I have no choice but to ask you nicely again".
After whining like a little b, er, girl Carney made this terrifying threat:
The Canadian PM, who previously served as a central banker, declared that retaliatory tariffs on the US will go into effect on Sept. 8. He said Canada will match the US "dollar for dollar.”
The economy of the United States is ten times as large as Canada's. It will be fun to see Carney try this; his economy will collapse.
Canada's economy is inextricably linked to the American. In 2025 Canada exported US$408.99 Billion to the U.S. Imagine if they lost all of that trade! Canada imports $262 billion from the U.S. so a trade will is something Canada is going to be hard-pressed to survive.
If Carney wants to go to war somewhere maybe he should help us in Iran. But war fever against the U.S. is silly and will cost the Canadians dearly.
Carney is up for re-election and the Conservative Party candidate is down 12 percentage points as of this month, so he probably need not fear losing his seat, but it's an election year so he needs a boogieman just in case. Orange Man is the best scary bedtime story he can tell since most Canadians take pride in one thing - they aren't Americans. Otherwise their country has little to brag about. They chose July 1 as Canada Day to coincide with our July 4 Independence day, for instance. Their national anthem was chosen by committee, as was their flag. Nothing there to point to, unlike ours which were born in fire and war.
So hating on America is Canada's big pastime. And that is what Carney hopes to exploit. But he's going to find hard words are no substitute for financial pressure. He's got a lot to lose.
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Iran is Cracking
Timothy Birdnow
In my best Frank Sinatra voice "and now...the end is near...time to face...the final curtain."
From the New York Post:
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that mounting economic pressure on Tehran is taking its toll, while cautioning against "humiliatingly” backing down "before the enemy.”
"The war must come to an end at some point,” Pezeshkian said in a speech Friday, per state media. "It is better that we demonstrate our strength and dignity today and tell the world that we have won and that we are ending the war.”
That "telling the world they have won" will necessitate surrender in all by name only and they know it. But what choice do they have?
Trump is squeezing the life out of them. And it's about to get much worse.
We can't trust any deal they make, of course, and they will immediately begin trying to cheat on any promises made. But not only should we not let them completely off the hook (we should keep a lot of sanctions in place and only remove them after compliance) but we should start working to remove the government and replace it with a truly pluralistic one. The only way to stop Iran from causing trouble is regime change. We need to help the Iranian People get rid of the Mullahs.
But that can be for later; now we need to get them to agree to the terms we have set down - get rid of all nuclear material and allow inspections of facilities, open the strait of Hormuz, and stop funding terrorists abroad. Force them to agree to those and set up mechanisms for compliance and then make them stick to it while we undermine their authority and power.
Anyway the article states:
"I was in the presence of the Supreme Leader, and in his speeches as well, he openly stated that we must move beyond this state of ‘neither war nor peace,'” Pezeshkian claimed, per a translation referring to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who hasn’t been seen publicly since the war in Iran began.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the crux of the brilliance of Trump's policies. Iran sponsors Jihad, holy war. How do you fight a holy war when the enemy isn't fighting you, but rather is squeezing your economy? Increasingly the enemy appears not as the Great Satan but their own leaders who are impoverishing and starving their own country in a fruitless, willful struggle against an enemy who won't fight you directly. To people who think as do the Shiite Muslims in the IRGC it's maddening. They can't Djin up anger against America and they can't win this fight. That is why they kept lobbing missiles as other Middle Eastern countries, to try to get those countries to turn on America in the interest of being left alone. That would force the U.S. ultimately to put boots on the ground.
It didn't work because Trump isn't Joe Biden or Barack Obama. He's not even George w. Bush. He knows how to use leverage in ways that hurt.
"No matter how much military power we have, if people are hungry and we do not have financial circulation and economic growth, we will not endure,” Ghalibaf said, per Iranian sate media. "As someone who has experienced war, I understand the true value of peace.”
Most modern wars are won or lost based on economics, not military might. Yes, a strong nation can maybe invade and overrun a weak one (look at the U.S. in Iraq) but why lose all those troops and then get stuck governing a hostile territory? You can crush them far more effectively with economic pressure. It's how WWI ended.
Iran counted on oil. They believed if they closed the Strait of Hormuz, where a quarter of the world's oil moved, they could win any struggle based on economics. They called Trump's bluff, and this has led to new routes for oil transport being developed. Pipelines to bypass the Strait (and the entrance to the Red Sea). Of course the U.S. is lousy with oil and we took over oil from Venezuela, another top producer. The U.S. is now King Arab.
So their leverage is gone and they won't be able to project power any longer. They are waiting too long to cut a deal, but they fear they must drag their feet because otherwise the public will get uppity if they sense weakness. Also they hope the Democrats will win the midterm elections and end the war by imposing the War Powers Act. But it increasingly appears the GOP may win the midterms and that hope is fading.
If they want to cling to power they have to cut a deal. Every day they delay makes it worse.
That's why Trump is increasing the pressure now, just in case. It would be nice to bring the troops home, or at least some of them, before the election, but the fact remains that the public isn't angry at Trump for Iran, even if polling suggests they aren't thrilled with it. You know how I know? I did a web search and couldn't find any recent polling data on it - most data go back to May or June. That tells me they aren't reporting good news (from our perspective). The public didn't much like it back then. If that were true now the wen crawlers would be all over it. They aren't.
If Trump gets a solid deal now and starts demobilizing we'll win just that much more in the elections.
That in no way suggests anyone should stay home come November; we are facing a momentous election and if we screw this up it's curtains for America and I mean that literally. This was and remains our big chance to restore sanity to this country.
But it's looking good.
In another NY Post article we learn traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is up 400 percent as the Iranians no longer have the ability to stop shipping.
They are on the run.
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Don't Hold Your Breath: Fauci Isn't Going to Prison (at Least Not for Long)
Timothy Birdnow
Can Fauci be prosecuted for his actions after the autopen pardon? This retired doctor believes so.
His case rests on the theory that Fauci has been part of an ongoing conspiracy and acts after the date of the pardon are now new legal offenses.
He particularly points to Fauci giving an interview in which he continued to insist the Clot Shot was safe and effective.
I'm no lawyer nor doctor, and while I like to fantasize about this, I see no way Fauci is going to be charged with a crime over this, not in this way. You'll never get a jury to convict him; we still have Freedom of Speech in America and that means you have the freedom to lie, as long as it's not under oath.
It is that last that puts Fauci under jeopardy and that's why the Fauc took the Fifth Amendment this last visit to Congress. He dared not perjure himself and he dared not tell the truth.
But he did get referred to the DOJ for Contempt of Congress for that, and rightly so; as the recipient of a pardon Fauci does not have Fifth Amendment rights - he waived them when he accepted the pardon. Or so I've been led to believe.
But no, Fauci is probably going to walk. At worst he'll get a few months in prison then a book deal and maybe a show on MSNOW will be there for him when he gets out.
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Fraud and Coverup
Timothy Birdnow
The smoking gun on vote fraud/interference by California Democrats.
California Attorney General Rob (as in steal) Bonta stuck his nose into a proper investigation into vote fraud, one that was green-lighted by court orders, and has effectively killed it, not to be re-opened until after the next election.
There was a 45,896 ballot discrepancy in Riverside California over a proposition that would gerrymander the state's congressional districts. The local sheriff opened an investigation to get to the bottom of it, and now the state AG has killed said investigation.
He couldn't afford to let the vote fraud machine in CA be exposed.
Bonta's legal experience is in civil litigation, not criminal. His swift response and intervention is dubious in no small way.
The reality is that the Democrats have been pulling this for years and there has been no pushback from Republicans.
In 1984 a Republican activist and wealthy donor ran robocalls to black residents in Texas telling them the election date had changed. There was a lawsuit that ended with a consent decree; the GOP, among other things, agreed to never challenge any election fraud by Democrats nationwide. Immediately the Democrats began building a political machine, the kinds they had in major cities like Chicago or Boston or New Orleans. The GOP was powerless to stop it or even admit it was happening without violating that consent decree. The judge even retired but came out of retirement once a year to reauthorize it. Donald Trump finally ended it during his first term.
And now more and more fraud has been coming to light. That is why they were so desperate to keep Trump out of office in his first term, and why they destroyed so many lives with their lawfare prosecutions. They feared the jig was up.
The longer this goes the worse it will get. If the GOP holds Congress the floodgates are going to open over fraud. If they lose Congress the Administration will be mired in endless investigations and the Democrats may put the genie back in the bottle.
Everything hinges on November.
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Attack of the Trannies Repelled - for Now
Timothy Birdnow
So why did the trannie movement run out of steam? This article in the Daily Signalultimately concludes they bit off more than they could chew.
Yes, they did go too far too fast, no question, but I thin the author misses the obvious; they are promoting an idea that is clearly at odds with reality, with Natural Law, and the public, having been fed a steady stream of lies for decades, finally said "enough!"
It's not any more complicated than than. It's the same reason Trump was elected in the first place; the nation went through a horrible spasm of liberalism under Obama and Biden and the public rebelled.
They are trying to tell us that men are women and women men - something patently absurd. May as well tell us we can be black if we want to be, or white if we want to be. May as well tell us the color green is really purple. May as well tell us the Moon is made of green cheese and expect us to believe it.
What we witnessed with the trans movement was a vast psychological experiment to see if people could be made to believe so vast and ridiculous a lie. Turns out many people can.
Just recently I was in an argument with an idiot on a climate page on Facebook and this dope (who believed heartily in Global Warming) told me "gender is more complicated than that" when I said they couldn't define what a woman is. I replied "it's that simple - a y chromosome and a penis make a man" to which he responded with the laughing emoji. Brilliant retort aside this fellow showed just how arrogant some people are; he is so stuck on his idea about "trust the science" and because some science establishment types say a man can be a woman he thinks agreeing against the evidence of his senses, against history, against logic and actual science makes him one of the enlightened. But the fact is he is a dupe, a buffoon who thinks he's smart when in fact he's completely vacuous.
Male and female are quite clear. Yes, there are occasions of biological mishaps aka hermaphrodism and yes, in those cases "gender" is selected (generally female because it's easier for medical science to go that way - the kid would have no penis to speak of, just a nub otherwise) but those cases are extremely rare. In nearly all cases the sex of the child is evident when the baby is born.
It has nothing to do with feelings and everything to do with basic biology.
Which is why we have the "furry" movement. If you can choose your sex by an act of will you can choose your species.
People tire of this madness; the average guy knows a woman when he sees one, and he doesn't care to worry about a chimera, a chick who winds up hung better than he is. SURPRISE! Women don't care to compete with men for their partners either.
The gay movement was easier because .there are a lot more gay people than trannies, and b.they would largely keep to themselves, and everyone was fine with that. But even they made some mistakes, like the pride parades and whatnot which overexposed (sometimes quite literally) their movement. That's why they wound up having to get gay marriage through an act of SCOUTUS rather than a law; that movement was also running out of steam.
At any rat ethe article touches on Christians and Muslims not getting on board the trannie train but fails to say why (calling both "natural allies"). The Bible and the Koran both explicitly forbid homosexuality and cross-dressing. In Christianity it is said to lead to damnation "neither homosexuals nor the effeminate shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven" but in Islam you get chucked off the roofs of skyscrapers and the like.
Unfortunately in both instances the Church failed to speak out against this, as they should have done. Souls are at stake in both.
Speaking out is not the unchristian thing to do; you are not personally attacking anyone but simply warning those who practice such things of the consequences. In fact the unchristian thing to do is to remain silent, or even celebrating it as you are not caring enough to save the souls of those who are perishing. You are smiling and patting them on the back and wishing them Godspeed to their eternal punishment.
So I blame the churches for the problem in the first place; they failed.
At any rate the trans movement was a bridge too far and now there is a backlash. They are on the retreat. But remember how Leftism always works; two steps forward, one step back. They will consolidate their gains and then try again later. They are indefatigable and will come back with this later, unless we start a counter-offensive and drive them back.
So don't believe this is going away any time soon. It will just ease up on demands for now. It's up to us to stop this.
After all, wee are the ones with both faith and science on our sides.
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Iran Will Fall
Timothy Birdnow
The blockade of Iran is killing them, and even their top guys are admitting this will bring the regime down.
FTA:
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that military strength alone could not ensure the Islamic Republic’s survival if people faced hunger and the economy failed to grow.
"No matter how much military power we have, if people are hungry and we don't have financial circulation, economic growth and domestic production, we will not endure,” Ghalibaf said during a meeting with Iranian and Iraqi business figures at Iran’s embassy in Baghdad on Thursday.
Iran needs to get Trump's big orange foot off their necks and they know it. If Trump doubles down they are dead meat.
We have stopped the sale of almost all Iranian oil, and they are at the point of shutting down wells. We have reduced the sale of Iranian gas, which the Turks used to buy but now have other sources. And the Treasury Department has waged economic war, finding and closing all of Iran's clandestine economic backchannels.
More than likely Iran will launch an all-out attack come October to embarrass Mr. Trump but if he's smart he will launch an attack in late September to pre-empt any attack by them. Their only hope at this point appears to be handing Congress to the Democrats.
American Thinker discusses some of what we've been doing to bankrupt Iran:
Already on March 6, the tenth day of the war, he (Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent) got the UAE to shut down the Iranian offshore banking system in Dubai, freezing $350 billion in assets controlled by regime insiders and the IRGC.
Last week, someone drained the cryptocurrency wallets the regime had been using to collect billions of dollars in tolls from ships transiting the Iranian route through the Strait of Hormuz.
On Thursday, Bessent identified an Iranian money-laundering network in Turkey that was bringing hundreds of millions of dollars in cash on international flights to Hezb’allah in Lebanon. He named the couriers and their controllers. I don't think they will be flying internationally any time soon.
And the Administration has been squeezing the Chinese to keep them from tossing Iran a lifeline. At the same time he's extended an olive branch to North Korea to try to get them out of it. (Trump talked about the good relationship he has with little Kim and suggested a summit). A modern industrial economy cannot survive with nothing coming in from overseas - or going out.
I would add this keeps Iran from supplying drones and other equipment to Russia, thus pressuring Putin to reach a settlement.
People are going to start to starve in Iran soon, which is a great tragedy, but it is their own government that is causing it, not us. We have offered them a way out all along. Stop trying to make nukes and open the strait, that's all we asked. Quit trying to kill people in other countries. It's really not much to ask of them.
Their recalcitrance shows they are monsters and must be removed from power.
I am hoping Trump is quietly building a revolutionary network in Iran. That is what is needed now. The Contra solution.
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The Lying Polls
Timothy Birdnow
Why polling is fake and largely worthless.
They don't give us any real information but rather are designed to encourage us (or discourage us) to move in a certain direction.
This is especially true in the modern age. Don't believe them.
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Roberts Greenlights Ballroom
Timothy Birdnow
One has to wonder why they devoted so much time and energy and money to block Trump from building the ballroom in the first place. Once the old East Wing was torn down what did they expect him to do? Make a parking lot?
The Establishment and the Left want to erase Donald Trump completely and building a ballroom will always be a reminder to them that they couldn't stop him.
Anyway this was not a full order of the Court but an order from John Roberts, who said construction of the ballroom may proceed until there is a full review by the Court, which likely will rule in Trump's favor. If Roberts is issuing this it means at least he, the biggest swing vote on the Court, will probably allow the ballroom to be built.
So suck on that Nevertrumpers! He's going to build the ballroom and his name will be splashed all over it and everyone will remember him when they visit the White House. Tour guides will have to say his name and not accompanied by a spit.
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