March 02, 2025
Maryland Democrats want to put condom machines in preschool.
For whom? The staff maybe?
These people are mad as march hares!
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Volodymyr Zelensky,having put his foot in his mouth when trying to embarrass and shame President Trump in the Oval Office, has gone on a tweet storm, inserting not just his foot but both of his legs as well.
This guy doesn't know when to shut up.
You do not demand, insult, and insist when you are asking somebody for lots of money.
After offering a perfunctory thanks to America he goes on to rail about how Putin breaks his ceasefire promises and so apparently there should be no deal with him. He may have broken the deals in the past (or did Zelensky?) but if the U.S. brokers this it's a different matter entirely. (The Russians are great legalists and usually have a legal point when they do something even if we do now always like it. To blame them for breaking a deal is fine and dandy but often they have a reason that justifies such actions.)
Be that as it may, the fact is what Zelensky is calling for when he said "lasting peace" is a Russian surrender and the return of all territory, including Crimea, and maybe some extra territory to boot.
Zelensky and the American media forget that the Minsk Agreement was violated repeatedly by the Ukrainians. They damed the Dneiper to cut off water to Crimea. They closed pipeline access. They regularly shelled Russian forces in Crimea. They are not clean in this by any stretch.
If Putin violates the cease fire then it will trigger greater Western involvement. He knows that; he's not stupid. Zelensky knows it too. But zelensky doesn't want to pay for the war and for the peace; he's hoping to suck the U.S. in without giving any concessions to us. The mineral rights deal was wtered down to become very favorable to Ukraine but Zelensky STILL blew it up, and probably because he figures he can force the U.S. into the war anyway.
As they author of this piece points out, Zelensky basically took a cease-fire off the table, which took any negotiations off the table. Then he told Trump the U.S. was going to keep underwriting what is becoming HIS war.
Apparently Zelensky doesn't remember Versailles; after the First World War the Germans met with the Allies to discuss terms for peace. With Clemenceau and Wilson involved it morphed into a dictation of complete surrender by Germany, which only led to the rise of Naziism and the Second World War. But the point is the Germans would never havee accepted a surrender in the first place had those terms been made. Zelensky would have simply prolongued the war had he been one of the negotiators. (That wouldn't have been a bad thing; the war would have ended in a stalemate had the U.S. not stuck it's nose in and a stalemate would have left the governments that ran Germany and Austria in power, thus preventing the rise of Hitler. But this is a different situation and if Russia doesn't have something to gain to save face it will fire Putin - literally, with guns - and a far worse leader will take power there. Putin's possible replacements make him look positively Jimmy Carter-esque.)
Zelensky figures what has worked on Biden and on the leaders of Europe will work on Trump. He has another thing coming.
After spending $200 Billion to prop up his corrupt regime Trump may just pull the plug. Ukraine won't last long without aid. Zelensky is willing to lose his whole country out of personal pique and a misguided idea that he can actually win the war with Russia. He's like the dark knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail who, after Arthur cuts off all four of his limbs, says "O.K. - we'll call it a draw!" The fool doesn't know he's already lost.
BTW Zelensky was rolling his eyes and mocking Trump nonverbally throughout the discussion, and making it clear he didn't respect the current President of the United States. He didn't walk out on his own either but was "escorted" out aka tossed out on his rump.
This was the right thing to do. In a tough negotiation you have to be ready to walk away from the table, or kick the other guy out.
Oh, one more thing; Zelensky met with Congressional Democrats just before his cocky up-yours to Trump. Coincidence? I think not.
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New research suggests "night owl" habits lead to much higer incidents of mental health issues than do their early rising cousins.
People who regularly stay up well past midnight are 40% more likely to suffer from emotional and stress-related disorders than are others, according to a New Study by Stanford Medicine published in the journal Psychiatric Research. The study tracked the sleep habits of 73,888 people and found a clear correlation between the times the late nighters went to bed and other issues (like depression).
The study focused on older adults. They were given monitors to see how much activity was involved so as control for that.
These problems could be reduced or eliminated if night owls would impose earlier bedtimes on themselves, the researchers found.
I know from personal experience that I feel much better and am happier if I maintain a cons istent bedtime before Midnight. I try to go to bed at the same time every day too,so as to avoid insomnia. I used to suffer from terrible insomnia, and when I worked the graveyard shift (for three years) I hardly ever slept. But returning to a normal schedule completely cured me of insomnia and it's rare when I get it now,provided I follow the rules about bedtime and whatnot.
Benjamin Franklin admonished "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" and it appears that, by and large, he was right.
Humanity's whole existence was dominated by the day/night cycle, and that even predates the human condition. We are day creatures by evolution. Our primary sense is sight, and it doesn't function well in the dark (unlike some creatures like cats). We are thus day hunters and gatherers and are evolved for operating in daylight. The invention of artificial light (starting with fires) made it possible for us to stay awake after dark,but there never was a really good light source until the nineteenth century when gas lighting was invented, followed by electric. Candles and whale oil lamps and olive oil lamps just don't put out that much light. May as well just go to bed when the sun goes down. And if you do burn the lamps you risk burning up all your precious oil for them!
Electricity changed all that. Now we get power from miles, hundreds of miles, away and it's easy; just flip a switch and you have light! That made staying up late atrractive, but in the end we weren't built to be owls or bats. We have a natural rhythm.
Which is disrupted by late nights. Corisol prroduction is interrupted, as is melatonin production. The end result is the night owl gets less REM sleep and as a result feels more tired and tends to become depressed and lethargic. Not all,of course, and there are people who do amazing things at three a.m. (look at Donald Trump) but for the lion's share of us it does not serve us.
Truckers, for example, often bing-drive, going well into the night. They are 22% more likely to suffer from depresion and anxiety and other stress-related problems than the general public. All shift workers have higher rates of mental health issues than does the daytime public (33% as a whole). Does anyone wonder why Dracula was such a jerk?
so a good nights sleep makes for a happy life, and to get one an earlier bedtime really helps.
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March 01, 2025
The Empire Strikes Back - via Algov.
read about it here.
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Here is a terrific piece on globalists and the Ukrainian war. I highly recommend it.
The author argues WWIII is still a possibility as the Europeans are trying to "Trump proof" their Ukrainian war and force the U.S.'s hand by putting troops on the ground and thus compelling America to send in "peacekeepers" - and thus escalate, pushing Putin to counter.
The author rightly sees the goals of this war in the WEst - to illustrate the "dangers" of rogue nation states and empower international governing bodies and illustrate the futility of individual national action. While he doesn't specifically address the matter, I believe it is to bleed one of the few power blocks outside of the internationalists control until it bends it's knee to the plutocracy in the West. He does discuss the way Russia is fighting a war of attrition and how it's strangling Ukraine, but what he fails to mention is that is precisely the war the West is fighting against Putin and Russia.
I think he knows this but it's not the thrust of his essay, and in the interests of time he has to hold back on it.
Boots on the ground would change everything.
He points out, rightly, that the go-ahead to use long range ballistic missiles to strike deep into Russia by the outgoing Biden Administration was an attempt at escalation to bind Trump's hands and force the war to continue, in fact to move into a new phase.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; Putin will be killed if he is removed from office, and he will be removed from office if he loses. He can't afford to lose. He will do anything to prevent that, up to and including the use of nuclear weapons.
And I ask; what will we do if he uses tactical nukes? Will we fry them with our entire arsenal? Theirs is bigger and newer than ours and would do more damage.
This has been a dangerous game we've been playing for some time now.
As the author points out, Zelensky's arrogance does not come out of thin air; he was clearly punped up from some source. Who? The Europeans? The Neocons and Democrats? Somebody has been telling Zelensky they have his back with Trump.
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Here is the scoop about the release of the Epstein files phase I by a journalist at The Blaze. She, and a host of other conservative journalists, is not happy.
Pam Bondi seriously overpromised. She also played this in a way that embarassed the conservatives who participated.
Either Bondi has the goods as she claimed and is not releasing them or she is being stonewalled by the FBI. Either way she should tell us exactly what is going on here.
If she has the goods and can't release it yet that is fine; there are many reasons not to do so, because releasing the information can compromise ongoing investigations. But she needs to come clean on that.
Right now Bondi looks like another Deep Stater who managed to worm her way into a key position. She needs to come clean or get out.
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And they are the ones always worried about freedom and democracy...
California Liberals Just Banned Smoking in Private Homes
And yet smoking pot is legal in California, and has been so since 2016. What they Left does is just batcrap crazy.
I suspect they will lose if this goes to the Supreme Court but it will be a long, grueling process. The Fourth Amendment is applicable here in no uncertain terms.
IF they are going to make smoking illegal in the state - and banning it in private homes is essentially backdooring a total ban - then why don't they have the courage to actually SAY they are banning all tobacco products from the state? Because they would lose in court and they know it. So instead they will use "health" as a tool to create a defacto ban.
This ban is only applicable to apartments and condos, places with shared walls. And while it also bans smoking cannibus the very fact that they are trying to ban smoking any kind of legal product (and they included vaping, which produces no smoke) shows just what tyrants the California Nazis really are.
You won't be able to smoke outside either.
This ban is being put in place by a local community and not statewide, but if it succeeds you know the state will adopt it.
Liberals are quick to abrogate the rights of people if they think something is a good idea, yet they claim to be the ones who support freedom. Ri-ight!
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Volodymyr Zelensky wants security assurances from the U.S. to ink a deal on Ukrainian minerals. He was willing to infuriate Trump and almost scotch the deal to get them (and if the U.S. becomes dependent on Ukrainian rare earth elements that offers a much stronger assurance than some piece of paper).
Zelensky stated:
Zelenskyy added that Europeans have already committed to providing security to Ukraine with boots on the ground. He also noted that the United States might consider offering support, potentially as a backstop "just to guarantee that they are with Europeans.”
So he's claiming essentially the U.S. is unnecessary in this process - he's already got a guarantee from Europe. Why does he need a guarantee from the U.S.? Because he knows the Europeans promises aren't worth the paper they are printed on, and when push comes to shove they will simply not honor their agreement. It's easy to offer assurances if someone else is going to do all the heavy lifting. Zelensky knows this which is why he's so hot to get the U.S. commmitted.
Frankly, there is no reason why the U.S. should be involved. If this war showed anything it's that Russia's ground forces are inept and should a coalition of European powers take military action they probably would kick the Russians into senselessness. No American help is needed, it seems to me. Russia couldn't even take out corrupt little Ukraine after all.
And as for nukes, Britain and France both have their own stockpiles so why should we backstop them?
Zelensky and company were accused of being disrespectful and ungrateful. Trump kicked them out. They were supposed to get a free lunch in the White House and Trump gave that instead to White House staff!
Well, he's right in doing so. Zelensky acts as if we owe him the money rather than he is asking for our help. And he wants everything on his own terms. Oh,by the way, he is indeed a dictator.
Zelensky is qualitatively no different than the Deep State which thinks they are owed a good living off the taxpayer dime. Zelensky, like the bureaucrats being canned by DOGE, is angry that he's not just being handed the money without question.
Well, those days are over and the world better get used to the idea that the U.S. isn't some giant ATM, some money tree to be shaken.
Zelensky told Brett Baier he did nothing wrong and need not apologize to anyone.
It was clear Zelensky was grandstanding for the cameras. He said things that normally are for private conversations between himself and Trump/Vance. He was hoping to gin up a groundswell of popular support for his "heroic" leadership among the American Ruling Class. If that meant insulting America's people and leaders in the process oh well!
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We all knew there were big bucks passing around the Democrats.
DOGE Finds Top Biden Aid Received Millions for Shady Contract for "Migrant Housing"
Family Endeavors, which had employed the transition team member since 2021, saw its "cash and portfolio of investments grow from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023”—with the federal government as its sole source of funds, DOGE reported.
Family Endeavors’ managers have been receiving $18 million per month to operate the facility since 2024.
However, the facility, which was meant to house unaccompanied migrant children, remained empty.
Despite having no residents, the money continued to flow.
"With national licensed facility occupancy now below 20%, HHS was able to terminate this contract, saving taxpayers over $215M annually,” states the post on X, which also tags Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin."
As DOGE tweeted on X:
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020… pic.twitter.com/KacroxqRcl
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 26, 2025
So the mass invasion was getting Democrats rich at taxpayer expense (and no doubt funding the election of many of them). I believe this sort of thing has gone on for decades and nobody ever called it out. It's what has made the Democrats politically viable; they are always over-funded by stealing taxpayer dollars. Without it the Democrats would be a solidly minority party and may well wind up collapsing as a result.
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Tranny insurrection.
Yes, girls really do go wild in Iowa.
Twenty five hundred protesters showed up in Des Moines to protest a bil to make sex binary (as it always has been). It seems unlikely that these are grass-roots Iowans, I might add, but probably rather are a rent-a-mob from outstate. I wonder how many are even transsexuals? Probably vagrants given liquor to show up.
One protester in the gallery as the state legislature voted had this pearl of wisdom:
That latter is no doubt a practice many of these folks enjoy as a part of their weekend sexual trysts.
The sad fact is reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, won't go away. (Phillip K. Dick) Trannies may believe what they please but it in no way impacts the reality, which is there are men and there are women and if you were born with a Y chromosome and a schnickle you ain't the latter. These folks are simply mentally ill.
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Leftists wage a boycott to protest the Elimination of DEI, vowing to not shop on one day at Amazon and other online venues.
According to the article:
"Disrupting the economy for even one day sends a powerful message,” the flyer states.
"If they don’t listen, we make the next blackout longer. Our numbers are powerful. This is how we make history!”'
Preshopping impacts these corporations how? YOUR STILL BUYING THE SAME AMOUNT OF STUFF just not on one particular day.
If they were serious they would simply do without but liberals are spoiled brats and always have been, unable to make real sacrifices (that's for the hoi poloi, the schlubs of Middle America). So they will skip one day of shopping and think this somehow will impact these companies.
Sadly, some junior executives probably will be frightened by it. Liberal executives, the kind who pushed to put this nonsense in place in the first place.
They continue:
"We the people will not wait any longer. We stand in solidarity to honor the past and carve a new path for the future.
???? They are overturning prior generations and the work that went into building America. THEY are the despoilers.
And in fact they built such a better future that they no longer have anything to complain about, which is why they have had to invent "microaggressions" and other fictitious sins to protest against. Basically they are spoiled malcontents, children who want to do great things but have no challenges they can see to fight against. So they have invented their own, and will rage against normalcy and fair treatment for all as some sort of racism.
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THREE top Pennsylvania Democrat election officials are being charged with election fraud.
No vote fraud in America my big white posterior!
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February 28, 2025
The Wall Street Journal cries like a teenage girl whose boyfriend asked another girl to the dance in one of the whiniest pieces about Kash Patel and the FBI I have ever had the misfortune of seeing.
FTA (if I had to suffer through it you may as well do likewise):
Soon after arriving, Patel cleared out all civil-service staff in the leadership suites and replaced them with political associates; ordered 1,500 employees relocated out of Washington without money in place to pay for the move; and broke a promise he made to agents to appoint a deputy from their ranks.
FBI headquarters in Washington.
He also got a second job running another law-enforcement agency, an unusual arrangement given that being FBI director is seen as one of the toughest jobs in government.
Patel’s partisan background as a surrogate for Trump during the 2024 election campaign and open criticism of the agency set him apart from previous FBI directors. Patel and the president share the view that the FBI must be purged of what they perceive as bias against Trump and other conservatives. His ascendance to the job after officials from Trump’s first administration found him unqualified and untrustworthy is a remarkable one.
I would remind everyone that while the Wall Street Journal has a conservative editorial board, by and large (they are Bush-style Republican internationalists who like making money but have always hated Trump's brand of patriotic conservatism) their news department is actually the most biased of all journalistic enterprises SLANTING TO THE LEFT.
The article continues:
Current and former agents have said they support sending more personnel to field offices, but some said they were put off by what they saw as Patel’s insensitivity to the personal challenges and costs agents would face if forced to leave quickly.
I didn't know it was the job of the chief of the FBI to be "sensitive"; I thought it was to enforce laws! Silly me!
Patel is trying to get them to quit, dimbulbs! He wants to winnow the agency down to only those needed to do the job and he isn't allowed to just fire them due to the law, so he's seeing who is willing to fight to stay on. Those hanging around Quantico were probably unnecessary personnel in the first place.
So cry me a river. This has been a long time coming. And it has to be done, and ruthlessly and right now; this is the moment we have to accomplish a restoration of government. Wait until an election year and all the momentum is lost.
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Mark Steyn does an analysis of the German elections and says "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
The "conservative party" and Merz's unwillingness to partner with the AFD means nothing changes in Germany and the country will continue to slide into the ashbin of history.
In fifty years all that will be left of Germany will be the name; the culture and the people will be gone, subsumed into the new Middle East.
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A British Indian asks "what does it mean to be English" and decides it's more than just being born in a place but goes to ethnic and cultural roots that transcend the current view of society that Englishness (or Frenchness, or Danishness, or what have you) is conferred just by showing up.
A good read. He makes an argument that used to be standard but is now considered taboo.
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Meghan Kelly was a big promoter of the Covid shot back in he early days of this decade and she bragged when she received it. Now she has an autoimmune disease and is repenting of her earlier advocacy - but it's sadly too late.
From Western Jounranlism:
"Yeah, that I tested positive for an autoimmune condition, though it was undiagnosed or unspecified which one,” Kelly said.
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"Right. OK,” Malhotra replied. "And in your mind you feel it may have been linked [to the vaccine]?”
Kelly then explained that she asked that very question of her rheumatologist, who replied, "Yes, I do.”
"In New York, you couldn’t travel. You couldn’t do anything unless you proved — it was just ridiculous,” the host recalled. "I wish I hadn’t done it, but I did.”
Hindsight is 20/20. The fact is everyone trusted the medical community and they were lying to us about both the safety and efficacy of the drug, which essentially underwent it's clinical trials in the general population. Kelly assumed, wrongly, that this was a vaccine; it wasn't. It was a radical gene therapy, and the genetic damage done is probably irreversible.
In the interest of full disclosure I allowed myself to get badgered into getting the shot. I was traveling with some of my wife's family and they were pretty adamant about it so I took the plunge. Stupid, especially as I have a number of health issues already. As of yet there is nothing new, at least nothing I can point to and say "this is definitely from the shot". So Kelly is to be forgiven for her previous advocacy - she was lied to and she fell for it.
A lot of people will pay dearly for what they did, if not in this life then in the next.
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February 27, 2025
Oh, I most earnestly hope so!
General Flynn Issues Ominous Warning to James Comey: "You’re Gonna Go to Jail”
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Rememnber, all the job growth we experienced since the Pandemic has been in government or filled by illegal aliens.
DOGE Wins As DC Jobless Claims Soared Last Week
No doubt the media will trumpet to the Heavens the poor employment numbers that will be coming as a result of busting out government jobs (which should never have been created in the first place). Biden took credit for that three letter word - JOBS. But most of the jobs he "created" were just rehirings from the pandemic shutdown. Others were taken by the millions of illegals. And the rest were government jobs - he expanded the Federal workforce by over 6% according to offical statistics (he added 709,000 in 2023 along, according to one estimate, and in fact a quarter of all the jobs he "created" were government jobs.
We have to trim this back, at least to what we had just a few short years ago.We cannot fix our financial problems without firing these people.
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has simply ignored Trump's order severing all ties with the World Health Organization, along with the FDA.
Trump has pulled America out of the WHO for their horrible rsponse to Covid and the fact the U.S. was being stuck with most of the check for the WHO. But that won't stop the internationalists who have agreed to join a conference by WHO anyway in direct violation of the President's directive.
From the article:
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A CDC representative confirmed with the Mail that the organization "will be actively participating virtually” at an upcoming WHO conference in London about flu vaccines.
Additionally, the Mail reported that the FDA is also participating in this conference, in further defiance of Trump’s executive order.
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The Mail further added: "But the two government agencies would likely have had to seek an exemption from the Trump administration due to its ban on all communications with the WHO.
"Twice annually, WHO organizes consultations with an advisory group of experts to analyze global flu data, with recommendations issued on the composition of vaccines for the next flu season.”
Neither the CDC nor the FDA made public that they would be participating in this conference.
The Bureaucracy is pulling the same crap it pulled last time Trump was in office, simply disregarding his orders as if they were an independent branch of government. Heads need to roll at both agencies.
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Gene Hackman RIP.
Yes, the great Gene Hackman has passed awayy. His wife and dog were also found dead in their Santa Fe New Mexico home. He was 94.
Local law enforcement has not announced a cause of death but confirmed they are not at this moment considering foul play.
Hackman was in innumerable movies, breaking out in the iconic Bonnie and Clyde and starring in such great films as The French Connection (for which he won an Oscar), the Poseidon Adventure, Superman (where he played Lex Luther), No Way Out, Unforgiven, and even a small part in Young Frankenstein, among many others. He was an actor's actor, all about the work and not interested in the glitz and glamour.
He had retired about twenty years ago.
I once read Hackman was voted least likely to succeed by his acting school (the Pasadena Playhouse) and passed with the lowest marks possible - goes to show how wrong people can be. Hackman did well because he was dilligent and really worked at his craft.
Dustin Hoffman was there at the same time and also received this high honor. The two became roommates, both determined to prove their detractors wrong.
At any rate Hackman was an icon of American film and will be missed.
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