June 17, 2026
They Don't Know What They Don't Know
This from Richard Cronin
Immodestly, no other discipline touches on Thermodynamics as does Chemical Engineering. The treatise on Thermodynamics by Richard Feynman is a tour de force. He poked a pin in a lot of "Settled Science”.
"Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.”
-- Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951)
Would that the typical Climatologist understood the fugacity of dissolved CO2 in ocean waters. At the great pressures and cold temperature in deep abyssal ocean waters, a vast amount of CO2 is dissolved.
The South Atlantic magnetic anomaly assures ample Ultraviolet radiation to heat the South Atlantic gyre. The counterclockwise current of the South Atlantic forms the only gyre that delivers heat towards the Equator.
Over the last several years, the mouth of the Amazon has swung from floods to drought and dolphins are dying due to the elevated water temperatures.
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The Fed Biddles While America Burns
This has posted at American Thinker under the title The Fed Plays Politics. My original title was much better.
Below is the original and I did not insert the hyperlinks as it went to AT. Enjoy!
The Fed Biddles While America Burns
Timothy Birdnow
In his July 4, 1832 veto of the renewal of the Second Bank of the United States President Andrew Jackson made these statements:
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/july-10-1832-bank-veto
To acknowledge its force is to admit that the bank ought to be perpetual, and as a consequence the present stockholders and those inheriting their rights as successors be established a privileged order, clothed both with great political power and enjoying immense pecuniary advantages from their connection with the Government.
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Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country? The president of the bank has told us that most of the State banks exist by its forbearance. Should its influence become concentered, as it may under the operation of such an act as this, in the hands of a self-elected directory whose interests are identified with those of the foreign stockholders, will there not be cause to tremble for the purity of our elections in peace and for the independence of our country in war? Their power would be great whenever they might choose to exert it; but if this monopoly were regularly renewed every fifteen or twenty years on terms proposed by themselves, they might seldom in peace put forth their strength to influence elections or control the affairs of the nation. But if any private citizen or public functionary should interpose to curtail its powers or prevent a renewal of its privileges, it can not be doubted that he would be made to feel its influence.
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Now the Second Bank of the United States worked differently than the Federal Reserve and Jackson spent a good amount of time railing against the fact the BUS sold stock to foreign investors - something that cannot happen with the Federal Reserve which only sells to American banks - but his secondary point was absolutely correct; the bank was unaccountable to political pressures and had the power to influence and tamper with elections.
But Nicholas Biddle, the head of the Second Bank of the United States, refused to take the termination of his cash cow lying down. When Jackson removed U.S. funds from the bank he raised interest rates, and since other banks borrowed from the BUS that meant interest rates across the country rose. Farmers and manufacturers were squeezed. The economic damage done by this was called "Biddle's Panic".
Biddle was trying to hurt President Jackson politically by crashing the economy.
Which brings us to the matter at hand; the Federal Reserve has quietly been doing very similar things, undoubtedly to influence the upcoming midterm elections. For example it has been pumping up the money supply in an orgy of Qualitative Easing https://mises.org/mises-wire/money-supply-growth-2026-rises-multi-year-high-fed-pumps-new-qe See graph. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL and has up until now refused to cut interest rates, which would stimulate growth. Increased money means increased inflation and there is nothing at all Donald Trump can do about it. Unless the Feds change course - something they have signaled they would do at their meeting which is happening right now - inflation will continue. The war in Iran is being blamed but in reality it's the Feds who are causing this.
The Fed has signaled in the last quarter they might end QE but not cut interest rates - something Trump has hounded them to do for months but which they refuse to do out of concerns for inflation. But inflation is not caused by an "overheated economy" as the Keynsians at the Fed would have us believe, but rather by an increase in the money supply caused by the Fed itself, by and large. Yes, the war has triggered some price growth but that will be temporary. Sadly the real inflation we've seen is systemic and out of Trump's control - exactly as the Fed wanted it.
Inflation was one of the central issues that brought the Democrats down in the last election and I rather suspect Jerome Powell - who has been at war with President Trump since Trump's re-election - was pulling a Nicholas Biddle, trying to keep inflation rising so the Republicans take the blame for it and the Democrats win the mid-terms. With a hostile Congress Trump will be finished and so will all of his policies.
The public is still angry about inflation, and is now blaming Trump. Polls show that the Democrats enjoy a sizable lead over the Republicans on economic issues. 38% of respondents to an Emerson poll said the problems with the economy are the top issue of concern. That economy is being hurt by Federal Reserve inflationary policy and refusal to lower interest rates at a critical time.
This is NOT about unemployment, which is fairly low https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12500000 (and it only rose under Trump because he kicked the freeloaders off the dole and they suddenly had to find work, thus putting them in the job market) nor is it about low wages, which have risen along with inflation, if a tad less. It's inflation that makes everyone think the economy sucks. And it 's Jerome "Biddle" Powell and the board of the Fed who had been advocating the increase in money throughout a period of growth.
People vote their pocketbooks. the Fed - like Nicholas Biddle - knows that.
So don't expect inflation to drop any time soon, even with the end of the war and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.. Only a portion of the inflation (like fuel costs) will drop - the rest will remain high until the Fed reins in the money supply - something they are not going to do for Mr. Trump.
Jerome Powell may be gone as head of the Fed but he's refused to quit the board and I have little doubt he's going to continue to act as a shadow chairman and do everything he can to thwart the incoming Kevin Warsh. And we do not as yet know where Warsh stands on these issues. After all, Powell was appointed Chair of the Fed by Donald J. Trump after all. Warsh is an avowed inflation hawk, but his idea of HOW to fight inflation may well be the same tired Keynsianism that has worked so poorly over the years.
The Fed continues to Biddle and the nation may well burn for it.
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June 16, 2026
The Latest Planetary Emergency - The Continents are About to Crash Together
Timothy Birdnow
Of all the stupidest things I've ever seen on mainstream media!
There was only ONE continent in the distant past (Pangea) and it broke into the seven with which we are familiar now. Continents have never been as far apart as they are now and so naturally they are drifting back together and will probably reform into one supercontinent in the distant future.
And they may be closing in faster than before but millions to billions of years is hardly grounds for losing sleep.
I'm sure it's caused by human atmospheric emissions.
Anybody ever wonder if an increase in the shifting of the continents might, just might, be causing an increase in outgassing from the interior of the planet as a result of this increased movement? Just asking.
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Post Office to Wreck Dems Vote Fraud Scheme
Timothy Birdnow
Here is how the Post Office may save American Democracy.
Yes, the USPS is wanting to implement new rules whereby the states have to hand over voter information along with mail-in ballots to guarantee these are legitimate - and a bar code will have to be put on the ballot to track it from the voter to the poll.
Needless to say the Democrats will go bananas over this.
Back in the seventies the Post Office was reorganized from a government agency (with the Postmaster General in line to be President) into a quasi-private corporation wholly owned by the United States government. It is, in theory, self-sustaining. It's going to be much harder for the Left to win this in court.
This should be fun!
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Talapinko
Timothy Birdnow
Texas Senatorial candidate James Talarico is some piece of work.
Read all about him here.
That this guy is even remotely competitive in the Lone Star State is only a coefficient of the power the leftist media can exert. If the media reported on him fairly the guy would lose by double digits.
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MLB Angry at Giants Players Who Refused to Wear Rainbow Caps for Pride Day, Put up Bible Passages
Timothy Birdnow
Several Christian members of the San Francisco Giants wrote Bible versus on their Pride Month hats in protest against the honoring of sodomy by Major League Baseball, and they have been punished by the League for their faith. One player simply refused to wear the gay gear hat, using the standard hats used in regular season play.
From the article:
"The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” the MLB said in a statement, according to The New York Times.
Giants right-hander Landen Roupp had "Gen 9:12-16” on his cap as he started the game, during which the Giants lost 6-1 to the Chicago Cubs.
Relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wore Bible verses on their hats as well. Relief pitcher Sam Hentges wore a standard Giants cap when he was called upon instead of the "pride” hat.
As noted by NBC, the verse Roupp highlighted says: "And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.’”
The League was not amused, especially since this flipped the script on the meaning of a rainbow.
The Giants issued the following statement:
"The San Francisco Giants are proud to support Pride Night and the LGBTQ+ community. Baseball should be a place where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued. We also respect that individuals may make personal choices about participating in team activations,
We understand that the choices by individual players have caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ+ community and we are sorry for that. Those choices do not change our organization’s commitment to inclusion, belonging, and creating a welcoming environment for all. We remain grateful to our fans, partners, employees, players, and coaches who help make Pride Night a meaningful celebration,”
A "welcoming environment for all" would be a sex-neutral experience, not a celebration of homosexuality. How do the average folks feel about "Pride Day"? Imagine if they had a day for Nazis to feel good about themselves and made the team wear swastikas and lightning bolt SS insignia? Far easier to leave sexuality out of the game just as you would leave political or social issues out of it.
And if the gay community doesn't like this that is just tough; you can't make everyone happy. These Christians did not put the passages from the Bible condemning homosexuality on their hats, after all. They could have done THAT but didn't. They were every bit as inclusive.
These are not just homosexuals but atheist homosexuals, ones who are angry at God for sundry reasons.
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June 15, 2026
Democrat Bum of the Month Club
Timothy Birdnow
Kamala Harris is way out front in new presidential polls of Democrats.
Yes, word salad sally, the woman who couldn't put five words together, is leading the pack.
That's how weak the Democratic bench is these days.
Of course it's very early; someone may emerge who can win for the Democratic Socialist Party. But it ain't looking good and we have great people on our side - J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and a host of others.
The Camel sits at 27% while her nearest rival - Gavin "Vidal Sassoon" Newsom comes in at 14%.
Of course Kamala checks all the boxes for a liberal candidate and she comes across as not as crazy as, say, Crazy Eyes Ocasio-Cortez, so the Dems are willing to take another shot with her. (Occluded Cortex comes in at 6%).
Pete Butigiege, the transportation secretary who seemed to have nothing to do with transportation and on whose watch we saw multiple train derailments as well as aircraft disasters- zoomed in at 11%.
The Democrats have nobody who appeals to middle America even to the liy have run who won showed up since beral laborites in middle America. And they are running out of ways to fool the public.
Don't expect any of these people to wind up the nominee; the nominee will be a dark horse, someone coming out of nowhere so they can claim he's a new Democrat. That's how every guy they have run since Bill Clinton.
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A Win's a Win
Timothy Birdnow
Or at least until the Iranians renege on the deal, which they will.
The Strait will be opened without tolls, the Iranians promise to not seek nuclear weapons, and the blockade is ended.
Hip hip hoorah! But it still depends on the Iranians doing what they say they will do - which is something they have never done before.
Still, the Iranians have been set way back in their quest for nukes and are now in a bad position to finance and arm terrorists around the globe. It wasn't a touchdown but a nice field goal win.
Sometimes that is the best you can get. Of course we'll be doing this again in ten, twenty years, but at least we have some breathing room.
Of course the Iranians will spin this as an American defeat, and the media will do likewise. I see Barack Obama is already criticizing it as a failure, as if anything he negotiated was anything but a failure.
It wasn't an absolute victory but was a victory nonetheless. To mix sports metaphors it was a win on points rather than a knockout. But a win's a win!
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California Scheming
Timothy Birdnow
"Definite evidence of fraud in California's elections.
Ashley Zavala@ZavalaA·FollowAmid elections investigation, @USAttyEssayli says his office has found evidence of voter fraud in California.
Is his office investigating state/local government? Essayli could not say, per DOJ rules.
"Is this widespread fraud?... that's the question we're trying to answer"
It's systematic and clearly they have repeatedly stolen seats from Republicans over the years. But in times past there has been no appetite to pursue this - until now.
The Democrats had built a political machine and thought to hold eternal power. It's almost impossible to defeat a machine from the inside; you have to dismantle it from outside. That is what is happening now - and that is part of why the Democrats are so enraged by President Trump. He knows what they were doing and is trying to stop it.
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The Best We Can Get
Timothy Birdnow
The point this author misses is what Mr. Trump said a few days ago "America has no stomach for this".
Trump is right; we just don't have the balls to fight this war to it's logical end. It's a shame our people are so myopic because we need to finish the Mullahs; that would put an end to so much of the troubles in the Middle East. But Americans just don't want that fight because they would have to make some temporary sacrifices that aren't prepared to make.
Iran would not be Iraq. It would be much harder to invade with ground troops, but the people there are far more eager to embrace the end of their government than were the Iraqis, and a big problem we had was that Syria and Iran were aiding the insurrectionists. Iran would be alone in this - there would be no aid flowing from her Arab neighbors.
But it WOULD be much harder militarily. Iran sits on a high plateau, by and large, and is quite mountainous, easy to defend, which is why the Persians and the Parthians built great empires in the first place. They didn't have to worry overmuch about defense. Afghanistan taught us that mountain warfare is some of the hardest warfare possible and that would be true in Iran. But it would be fairly easy to set up a new government and we could even bring back the Shah to give it legitimacy. Still, it would be a tough slog.
But if we wrecked the infrastructure and took the islands in the Gulf the government would be very hard-pressed.
The problem is nobody has an appetite for this. We are going to let this historic opportunity slip by us.
The author states:
Any serious agreement after a military crisis requires discipline. Washington must know what it absolutely needs; what it can live with; and what it should not spend blood, money, political capital, and economic stability trying to obtain. The Trump administration, by contrast, has too often treated negotiations as another arena for pursuing objectives the war itself failed to deliver.
Perhaps but that is always the objective in post-war negotiations. We aren't demanding a unilateral surrender after all since we don't want to go the whole nine yards. We have to win at the table what we are unwilling to take on the field of battle.
I believe Trump is wrong in thinking he's going to get a good deal from the Iranians; they are people who believe in Taqqiya, holy lying, and they will restart their nuclear program in secret as soon as they are able. I suspect Trump knows it too but his options have always been limited and now, with the pressure of the midterms coming up, he has to cut his losses. At best he has to get a deal that gives the appearance of victory and prepare for round two down the road.
The author continues:
That is where the trap emerges. If America demands a perfect deal, the crisis stays alive, because no imperfect agreement looks sufficient. If it accepts a narrower deal, the administration must explain why the war was necessary only to return to limited diplomacy. And if it keeps striking while negotiating, diplomacy becomes the continuation of war by other means.
True enough but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Victory is a better thing but we are not in bad shape because we still have wiped out the Iranian navy, used up the majority of their missiles, and otherwise have disarmed them, and disorganized their internal workings by taking out so many of their leaders. If nothing else we bought precious time, quite a bit in all probability. Iran's nuclear ambitions are on hold for a while and they are going to find funding Hezbollah and other terrorist groups problematic for a while.
The President can capitalize on that and probably will. The problem is he has to get that message out over the din of the mainstream media who will call this a failure. Of course the mainstream media would have called the Revolution a failure after Bunker Hill, or called the Civil War lost after Bull Run.
The author also states:
This confusion has reached the American economy. The latest inflation numbers should be a warning to Washington: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the all-items index rose 4.2 percent over the 12 months ending in May, and energy accounted for more than sixty percent of the monthly increase.
While the BLS (rather reminiscent of Blsht, eh?) is charting rising prices it is wrong to call this inflation. Inflation is not rising prices so much as increasing money supply causing rising prices. They are actually different things and prices drop back down after an event driven spike caused by external events. It doesn't appear the author understands this (and probably not the folks at BLS either). Inflation is a monetary issue - not a pricing problem.
Actually this author is correct but not for the reasons he thinks. A part of this IS inflation, a good part of it, as the Federal Reserve has started a new round of Qualitative Easing, pumping money into the economy in the last six months at an alarming rate.
As they economy had been doing quite well and did not require any "pump priming" one must conclude this is Jerome Powell's way of sticking the knife in Donald Trump's back and twisting. Powell is playing Nicholas Biddle to Trump's Andrew Jackson. Biddle tried to wreck the economy to influence the elections but Jackson won anyway and closed the Bank of the United States. Biddle did exactly what Powell is doing right now. Whether Trump can overcome this sneaky attack is another matter. At least he has the war to blame for the rising prices. But when the war is over and prices continue to rise...
At any rate I think it wrong to criticize Mr. Trump for his handling of this, although I think he should have gone after a lot more than he has militarily. It's clear the Mullahs have not learned their lesson and we should have made our point a bit more, uh, colorfully. But Mr. Trump has a keen grasp of the American mind and he understands what is possible. I trust him in many ways, and he knows what he is doing - I hope.
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Denaturalization
Timothy Birdnow
Ilhan Omar has to be sweating through her Burkha about now.
Omar got her brother in the country by claiming she was her husband and has committed a number of felonies since in all likelihood. She may wind up back in Moghadishu before long.
Frankly that's where she belongs.
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June 13, 2026
The Weakening AMOC
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Timothy Birdnow
This courtesy of Dana Mathewson.
This actually isn't anything new; the AMOC has been weakening for decades now and it correlates with the weakening of the Earth's magnetic field. My friend Richard Cronin - a geochemist - would no doubt say the two are interconnected, although correlation does not presuppose causality. .)
Still, if the AMOC isn't moving out cold water then we will see (or should see) an increase in ice mass at the North Pole. That would be consistent with the increase in the Earth's rotation (Global Warming theory says the opposite, that the Earth should be slowing down as ice melts and moves mass around the globe rather than it being all bunched up at the top and bottom of the planet.)
Blaming this on changing atmospheric conditions is just plain silly. This is a deep-ocean thing. Oh, and it is in direct opposition to current climate theory which says the Missing heat" is bunched up in the oceans - it's not holding heat but cold it appears.
At any rate put this in your Shakespear file (there are more things in Heaven and on Earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy.)
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Just a Little Longer
Timothy Birdnow
I'm making pretty good progress gang and may be back on in a few more days (God willing). I think I'm almost over the hump,
Please be patient a little longer.
I haven't had to take anything stronger than Advil for a few days now and can move about fairly well. Still I am reluctant to sit at the table with the computer (since that's how this started) and so I'm going to take it easy for a bit longer yet.
Thank you for your patience.
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June 12, 2026
American Biolabs in Ukraine
Timothy Birdnow
I've long argued that the U.S. was running biolabs in Ukraine and that the Russians went into Ukraine at least in part because o that. I've been sneered at over this but guess what? Tulsi Gabbart has just declassifiied documents showing we do, in fact, have those biolabs and they are doing gain of function research.
Imagine if the Russians were running bioweapons labs in Tijuana or Matamoros; we'd be apoplectic.
These labs go back to the early days of Ukrainian independence and pose an existential threat to the Russians. That they are right there and not farther away speaks volumes to the Russians, who are paranoid at the best of times (rightfully in many cases as they 've been invaded repeatedly by the West over the centuries).
It does not justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine, don't mistake me on this. But it is an extenuating circumstance and it will be used by Putin to justify his actions.
The Russians are bad guys, no question, but in many ways we made them so. We won the Cold War and made sure they knew it. That's why Putin rose to power in the first place and why we are where we are now.
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The Back comes Back
Went to physical therapy yesterday. While the therapist was quite competent I wound up in worse shape after the session than before - I could barely walk after it. I had to go to Walgreens for medicine and I shuffled through the place like an old, old man.
What was really bad was that I had to get trash out yesterday. It wasn't that hard taking the trash out but it was a real bear getting the can back in after my therapy session. And the trash guys, who had just collected it, watched me the whole time as they took a break while I struggled to move the can back to the side of the building. I had rather hoped one of them would be a Good Samaritan and help me but fat chance of that. It was like running a marathon.
At any rate I slept 12 \hours last night and still feel exhausted, plus my back is where it was a week ago.
I was able to skip the pain pills yesterday but had to take one this morning when I got up.
Boy it sucks to be getting old!
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June 09, 2026
The Practice of Medicine
Timothy Birdnow
So I went to the orthopedicist today. They kept me waiting for an hour and a half after my appointment time, sitting in one of those little uncushioned chairs the entire time, with my back feeling like it was breaking the whole time. The appointment was at the hospital, a particularly ridiculous hospital that requires vast stretched of walking - walking for a man who can barely stand with a cane right now. I had to teeter my way from the parking garage, which is more like a demolition derby than a garage - and had to peg leg my way through the enormous place to get to Orthopedics in the first place.
After making me wait all that time a young guy, probably no more than 23, came in to give me a quick exam He was a trainee - the hospital is a teaching school - and he did not inspire any confidence in me.
Sadly the doctor himself was only at most five or six years older and inspired no more confidence. He gave me a quick, perfunctuary once over and then declared me unfixable. He told me "well, these sorts of things usually work themselves out in six weeks or so" as if that was even remotely practicing medicine. I could have told him THAT! He also confirmed he wasn't going to give me any more pain killers "we can't do that" and suggested I take Tylenol, to which I sought to suggest he turn around, drop his drawers, and find me the biggest bottle of said product so I may practice my soccer kicks, but I was in too much pain to fight with the guy. He also said he couldn't keep me on steroids - which have been working - and the muscle relaxers would have to go too. He said he'd call in some sort of pain killer but I rather suspect it will be a variant on Tylenol. Doctors seem to have some sort of romantic attachment to that stuff.
So I am on the precipice of all the pain coming back and no way out of it. I so despise the medical community.
I've got two pain pills left and will have to save them for times when I cannot stand it. God grant they be but two. I doubt I can take weeks more of this.
I assure you if HE were in the pain I'm in he would have whatever he needed, but I'm just some old fart who showed up one day and so he treated me as if I were precisely that - another faceless rabble.
I tried to explain to the guy that I am alone and can't bend over to pick up stuff that falls on the floor. My apartment has stuff everywhere now just sitting on the floor, waiting for fall, I suppose. And fixing food is a real bear. EATING food is equally difficult as I have to lie there, tipped well back, to eat. No soup or chili or anything that slides for me! And since I haven't been strong enough to shop at the grocery store I'm relegated to just what I can fix that I can buy at Walgreens. Not a very good diet.
I have an appointment with this guy in six weeks. If I am still laid up then he'll look to give me an MRI and then probably spinal injections - something he could do right now but won't. Part of it is insurance but he says he agrees with their thinking on this - proving he has absolutely no heart for his patients.
So who knows how this will play out. I may or may not get better, and I'll waste a bunch of time taking Tylenol and doing Physical Therapy and being in pain the entire time. Oh joy!
This is the third doctor I've seen about this now and nobody wants to do anything with it.
At any rate I got to the car and realized I'd forgotten to get my parking ticket validated. I had to shuffle all the way back to the hospital with my ticket to get it validated (otherwise it costs an arm and a leg) and they said the gate was open, thus meaning I went on a fool's errand.
I had to go to my house to get my mail and had to go to one of the pharmacies I use to get some meds that were due, so it was a very busy day. I'm feeling o.k. now, but I usually do in the afternoon. It's the evening and night and morning that I really fear.
So I probably won't be blogging much for at least another week. If it gets better earlier I will but as far as I know it won't get better at all.
I sooooo loathe the medical profession in this country.
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June 07, 2026
Broken Wing
Dear readers,
I'm still laid up with a bad back and won't be blogging for a bit yet. Please be patient and check back in a few days. I seem to have screwed my spine up a bit more than I thought.
At any rate I'll be a few more days. Thank you for your patience!
Tim
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June 03, 2026
The Party of Nazis
Timothy Birdnow
36% of Democrats support Hamas.
Which is the party of Nazis?
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Take My Ball and Go Home MAGA
Timothy Birdnow
'This essay is, well rather silly. It argues that we should stay out of fights like Iran and focus on China.
This is rather like saying that, when you are walking home from a bar at night and see a guy you got into a fight with walking down the street you should ignore the mugger coming up behind you.
He also makes some factual errors - like saying we've been the world's policeman for thirty years - uh, it was since WWII, which makes it over well over twice as long. He furthermore doesn't understand China became a world power because we knowingly, willingly made them one. I remember New Gingrich talking about it in the nineties; he argued that we needed to use engagement with China because when they allowed free markets into their economy, allowed our goods, the public in China would like the wealth flowing in and there would be reforms of the Communist regime. That is like saying greater prosperity would lead to reforms of the Mafia, but that was what so many were thinking then and with the Soviet Union falling and "the end of history" being proclaimed nobody wanted to face the fact that our enemy was only partially gone. So we implemented a strategy to build China economically, moving factories there to take advantage of cheap labor and did ebverything in our power to Make China Great Again. Guess what? It worked - at our expense.
Yes, China is a seriojs, existential threat. But so is a nuclear Iran.
I agree that the Washington elites pine for the old days when they could play with the "peace process" which never seemed to lead to peace, and other internationalist clap-trap. In point of fact the Washington Establishment used the Cold War to justify the creation of the very thing Dwight Eisenhower warned against - the Industrial Military complex. Actually he warned against even more than that - he warned about a technocracy run by universities and research facilities and with the media complicity. Ike knew where we were headed and warned us.The elites miss the good old days of endless wars to "make America safe for democracy". It allowed them to remake America in their own democratic socialist image.
And it is also correct we are exhausting our economic power by spending so much money on multiple foreign wars.
But that's not what we are doing here and it is not what MAGA was about. America First meant precisely that - putting our interests first. Stopping a nuclear armed Iran most assuredly is a first priority for America, as they are prone to chanting "Death to America" and attacking our national interests. You may remember they have bee implicated in a plot to assassinate President Trump,, and they've attacked our military bases even before the current war.
Meanwhile this author wholly fails to see how Trump's Iran war is squeezing the daylights out of China, preventing the Chinese from getting the oil it desperately needs without leading to open conflict with the Chicoms. This war is as much about China as it is about Iran.
The "take my ball and go home" Conservatives have not actual plan; it's just about returning to a simpler time before the Spanish American war where we could stay in our own hemisphere and let the world go by. Satellites and ICBM's and supersonic aircraft make that impossible now. We can't hide from that fact. That doesn't mean we have to get into every disagreement - getting involved in the Ukrainian-Russian war is an example of where we should butt out. But when our own safety and security and economic interests are involved we have every reason to take action.
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Proof of fraud; 1.47 million voter registrations in New York State turned out to have the same signature on them.
So Democcrat Kathy "Hochum" Hochul won the Governorship through fraud, among others.
I've long said the Democrats would be a solidly minority party if they didn't have a massive, nation-wide fraud machine.
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damning discovery of voter registration fraud in New York has flown under the national radar. Andrew Paquette, the research director of the New York Citizens Audit — a non-partisan group of New York citizens who use publicly available voter roll databases obtained directly from state and local boards of elections — discovered 1.47 million voter registrations that currently possess identical signatures. This is an impossibility among legitimate registrations and a clear violation of the law. A number this large is cause for concern no matter the margins of any given election. The concern is even greater given that crucial elections like the 2024 Presidential election between President Trump and Kamala Harris, as well as the 2022 gubernatorial race between now-EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Kathy Hochul, were decided by just 1,040,296 and 377,834 votes, respectively.
As the article points out, this is just one case of fraud in what is probably a helluva lot more in any of a myriad of ways. New York may well be a pink state - not purple - if votes were counted fairly.
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Beginning with New York, as it stands with the results that were tabulated with these 1.5 million registrations in play during our most recent elections, President Trump cut previous Republican general election loss margins from 25 percent nearly in half. That margin may still sound large, but the raw vote margin came in at just over a million, while this proven instance of registration fraud sits at 1.47 million. If these illegal registrations were not permitted, the election in New York would undoubtedly have been closer and perhaps even been won by the president. It would also signal to ALL voters (in this instance conservatives in "blue” states) that their vote is worth taking the time to cast moving forward.
We've been winning all along and yet we have been out of power 12 of the last 26 years in terms of the Presidency and Congress has flipped back and forth - and the blue states remain blue despite growing dissatisfaction with Democratic governance. Now we know why.
Because the Democrats steal the country on a regular basis.
I've long argued the Republicans have to win by at least three percentage points to tie the Democrats. I was wrong; it's probably more like seven or eight percentage points. There isn't a thumb on the scale, there is a whole butterball turkey.
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