January 17, 2025
Projection
Timothy Birdnow
A very black kettle insulting a shiny pot.
Washington Post Cartoonist Who Called Republicans "Groomers” Arrested on Child Porn Charges
A very black kettle insulting a shiny pot.
Washington Post Cartoonist Who Called Republicans "Groomers” Arrested on Child Porn Charges
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January 16, 2025
1 Out of 5 Never Heard of Holocaust
Timothy Birdnow
Doomed to repeat...
20 percent of adults have never heard of the Holocaust
Doomed to repeat...
20 percent of adults have never heard of the Holocaust
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RIP Mr. Baseball
Timothy Birdnow
R.I.P. Bob Uecker
Uecker was a great baseball player, a great actor (remember Mr. Belvedere?) a funny and geniunely warm man. Go with God my friend!
R.I.P. Bob Uecker
Uecker was a great baseball player, a great actor (remember Mr. Belvedere?) a funny and geniunely warm man. Go with God my friend!
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In the Cool, Cool, Cool of Inaugural
Timothy Birdnow
Gobal Warming my big white, uh, foot!
Monday set to be coldest Inauguration in 40 years.
If thermogeddon is upon us, if it really is hotter than Venus, if the Earth really "has a fever", why will this inaugural be so Mars like cold?
Gobal Warming my big white, uh, foot!
Monday set to be coldest Inauguration in 40 years.
If thermogeddon is upon us, if it really is hotter than Venus, if the Earth really "has a fever", why will this inaugural be so Mars like cold?
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Chinese Drone Company to Remove "Geofencing"
Timothy Birdnow
A Chinese drone manufacturer just announced they will no longer supply geofencing for it's drones, thus freeing them to fly over restricted airspace.
Read all about it here.
Intersting; just as Trump is coming into office they are removing the restrictions on where drones can fly.
Apparently (and I didn't know this) most drones had programming making them unable to fly over restricted areas, like airports or military bases or the White House.
What this suggests is that the Chicoms have probably been exempting themselves from the "fencing" all along and know Trump is going to out them when he takes office. So they are officially changing their policy now.
Time to shoot the bastards down. I know there is a risk, but any drone in restricted space needs to be taken out.
And this company should be banned from any business inside the U.S. Time to quit pussyfooting around.
A Chinese drone manufacturer just announced they will no longer supply geofencing for it's drones, thus freeing them to fly over restricted airspace.
Read all about it here.
Intersting; just as Trump is coming into office they are removing the restrictions on where drones can fly.
Apparently (and I didn't know this) most drones had programming making them unable to fly over restricted areas, like airports or military bases or the White House.
What this suggests is that the Chicoms have probably been exempting themselves from the "fencing" all along and know Trump is going to out them when he takes office. So they are officially changing their policy now.
Time to shoot the bastards down. I know there is a risk, but any drone in restricted space needs to be taken out.
And this company should be banned from any business inside the U.S. Time to quit pussyfooting around.
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The Return of the Dead Lie
Timothy Birdnow
This Revolver article discusses the "quad-demic" and looks for answers.
Tthe author mentions that this is political - which it unquestionably is, an attempt to revive the thing that wrecked Trump's first Presidency - but he misses the obvious.
Infections are up, and that is perhaps the fault of the Covid potion, but more likely it is a coefficient of the massive numbers of illegal aliens who have invaded America, bringing with them their Third World hygiene and dormant infections.
You can't bring 12-22 million people into the country, most of whom are living in the shadows, and be surprised at epidemics. We've seen a rise in Tuberculosis, with the U.S. TB rate increasing by 15%, from 2.5 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023, according to the CDC, a rather dubious source in my book. It is likely higher. And this is only the numbers our government knows; many illegals won't be reported because they won't go to the hospital or seek treatment.
We are seeing a lot of this with the influx of illegals; lots of diseases we thought we had under control are coming back. As is to be expected from the Deep State they are blaming it on those stupid parents who won't take their word on the glories of vaccinations. That may even be true to a minor degree, but the fact is most of these diseases do not require a vaccination if people aren't exposed to them. We want to bring in a bunch of sick people and then force our own citizens to endure a draconian regulatory medical scheme.
A pox upon them!
At any rate the article is good but he needed to tie this to the invasion. So many of our problems lie at the feet of that - and of other things, like the belief in "experts" over common sense and the lust for power that is the true pandemic in this tired old world.
This Revolver article discusses the "quad-demic" and looks for answers.
Tthe author mentions that this is political - which it unquestionably is, an attempt to revive the thing that wrecked Trump's first Presidency - but he misses the obvious.
Infections are up, and that is perhaps the fault of the Covid potion, but more likely it is a coefficient of the massive numbers of illegal aliens who have invaded America, bringing with them their Third World hygiene and dormant infections.
You can't bring 12-22 million people into the country, most of whom are living in the shadows, and be surprised at epidemics. We've seen a rise in Tuberculosis, with the U.S. TB rate increasing by 15%, from 2.5 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023, according to the CDC, a rather dubious source in my book. It is likely higher. And this is only the numbers our government knows; many illegals won't be reported because they won't go to the hospital or seek treatment.
We are seeing a lot of this with the influx of illegals; lots of diseases we thought we had under control are coming back. As is to be expected from the Deep State they are blaming it on those stupid parents who won't take their word on the glories of vaccinations. That may even be true to a minor degree, but the fact is most of these diseases do not require a vaccination if people aren't exposed to them. We want to bring in a bunch of sick people and then force our own citizens to endure a draconian regulatory medical scheme.
A pox upon them!
At any rate the article is good but he needed to tie this to the invasion. So many of our problems lie at the feet of that - and of other things, like the belief in "experts" over common sense and the lust for power that is the true pandemic in this tired old world.
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Biden's SEC Launches Sham Prosecution of Musk
Timothy Birdnow
Just as Biden goes out the door he leaves a parting gift.
SEC Lawsuit: Elon Musk’s Failure to Disclose Twitter Stake Let Him Buy at ‘Artificially Low Prices’
???? You may remember Musk got swindled by Twitter, which had artificially inflated it's value by using bots to pretend to be legitimate traffic. Mr. Musk tried to cancel the deal but was forced to execute. See Musk abandons deal to buy Twitter; company says it will sue, an AP article.
So Musk was forced to buy a failing platform where HE got swindled and Biden's last act as President is for his SEC to attack Musk. Clearly the price Musk paid was too high, not too low.
FTA:
How, pray tell, does owning some stock in the company constitute fraud when purchasing more of it? Someone please explain this to me.
The Left used to own Twitter and it was one of the power bases of the Deep State until Musk bought it and opened it to what it was intended to be - a public forum. They have attacked Musk at every turn as payback for taking "their" social network. And when a leftist feels slighted their knee-jerk reaction is to repress free speech and attack using whatever weapon is handy, especially the law. Lawfare is as natural to them as breathing.
This is a disgrace and hopefully Paul Atkins will ask for this to be dismissed as soon as he takes office in a few weeks.
These people came in like Pr#%&s and went out the same way. That phrase was used about Jimmy Carter but it REALLY sums up the Biden Administration.
Just as Biden goes out the door he leaves a parting gift.
SEC Lawsuit: Elon Musk’s Failure to Disclose Twitter Stake Let Him Buy at ‘Artificially Low Prices’
???? You may remember Musk got swindled by Twitter, which had artificially inflated it's value by using bots to pretend to be legitimate traffic. Mr. Musk tried to cancel the deal but was forced to execute. See Musk abandons deal to buy Twitter; company says it will sue, an AP article.
So Musk was forced to buy a failing platform where HE got swindled and Biden's last act as President is for his SEC to attack Musk. Clearly the price Musk paid was too high, not too low.
FTA:
"CNBC reports that in a civil complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the SEC alleges that Elon Musk committed securities fraud in 2022 by not disclosing his ownership of more than five percent of Twitter shares within the required 10 calendar days of reaching that threshold. This lack of transparency, according to the SEC, enabled Musk to underpay for Twitter shares by at least $150 million."
How, pray tell, does owning some stock in the company constitute fraud when purchasing more of it? Someone please explain this to me.
The Left used to own Twitter and it was one of the power bases of the Deep State until Musk bought it and opened it to what it was intended to be - a public forum. They have attacked Musk at every turn as payback for taking "their" social network. And when a leftist feels slighted their knee-jerk reaction is to repress free speech and attack using whatever weapon is handy, especially the law. Lawfare is as natural to them as breathing.
This is a disgrace and hopefully Paul Atkins will ask for this to be dismissed as soon as he takes office in a few weeks.
These people came in like Pr#%&s and went out the same way. That phrase was used about Jimmy Carter but it REALLY sums up the Biden Administration.
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Global Warming Causes Kidney Stones?
Timothy Birdnow
I about fell off my chair when I read this article this morning.
This Epoch Times article was discussing the rise in kidney stones amount children and youths. I was interested, having enjoyed the exciting and rewarding challenge of passing uric acid stones myself (and not passing them, but rather having to have them cut out of me quivering innards)
They gave good reasons for why kidney stones are increasing among kids; poor hydration since few actually drink WATER any longer, too much salt, and activity levels comparable to a sessile creature, like an oyster or clam. (I had a cat who never moved and he wound up with such stones and had to have surgery to clean a huge number of stones out of his bladder and urinary tract, and it was just because he simply refused to move.)
But I was taking a sip of coffee and spit it all over the dining room table over this:
This isn't the mindless drivel coming from Democratic Underground or The Huffington Post. It's from THE EPOCH TIMES for crying out loud!
I know; they are just summarizing another article but for the love of all things holy they owed everyone at least an emoji denoting shock and amazement at so ridiculous a claim.
Now, the Earth has warmed perhaps 2* F. over the last hundred years, according to the very biased NOAA, and that is assuming the 1930's was cooler than today - an unsupportable assertion made by NOAA and NASA only after jimmying their data because they couldn't find a way to explain that it was warmer when there was less co2. It also is certainly no warmer than the height of the Medieval Warming Period which was 2* F. warmer than today. While we may not have good records on kidney stones during the Middle Ages we certainly have no indication there was an increase in them from any literature available.
But even if that is so, so what?
First, the climate models themselves make the case that most of the planetary warming (and they are giving us a GLOBAL average) occurs in the polar regions and around the tropopause in the atmosphere. (No tropospheric hot spot has been found, btw., contradicting climate models.) Very little of the warming is FELT at ground level. What's more most of this warming is diurnal, meaning warmer nights in summer and winter (something we just aren't seeing). This is what the models all predict.
So the kids are sweating more when they are in bed?
I hate to point out to this dim-witted author (one Sheramy Tsai) that we now have a little thing called air conditioning. When I was a kid we didn't have air conditioning at all, not in my home, or in our cars. Yes, you could get it in bars or supermarkets or whatnot, and many homes did have it, but we didn't. I remember trying to sleep in a furnace, sweat soaking my bedsheets. Air conditioning became ubiquitous in the '70's. I remember my father getting a car with a/c (which he refused to use because it used up gas). I also remember when we moved into a home that had two window units; they didn't work that well but it was a dream come true for us WHEN MY PARENTS LET US PUT IT ON and then it had to be above 95*. When we got central air installed it was so very much better, but still my parents rarely put it on.
At any rate, kids now live most of their lives indoors and are always in air conditioned conditions. So how is "climate change" leading to more kidney stones? These kids sweat less, not more.
This alone made me disregard the whole article, and the author.
She also discusses "microplastics" as a possible cause of increasing kidney stones. But we didn't see the rise in kidney stones until just a few years ago and plastics have been used for over half a century in large amounts. (BTW I miss the old days of returnable soda or beer bottles; beverages tasted SO much better in glass than in plastic! But you had to worry about cutting your lip on a chipped bottle, and returning them was a pain. When I first started working at age 16 I worked for a grocer and hated having to mess with bottle returns; they were always broken and you had to watch out lest you cut your hand. But I still think it was wise to use returnable glass over plastic.)
According to the Kidney Foundation:
Do note there is little concern about the disparity based on sex (not "gender") because men are taking tthe brunt of it.
At any rate this does correlate to the rise in plastic containers, notably the use of plastic water bottles (many people now refuse to drink tap water, which is ridiculous as it is frequently as good or better than the stuff you get claiming to be "spring water" in a plastic jug.) But correlation does not equate to causality.
In point of fact plastic consumption has never been definitively proven to cause health problems. While I tend to think it's probably not a good idea, there is no solid science linking health concerns with plastic ingestion. We ingest worse things than plastics sometimes. But plastics are blamed for every and any health issue, from autism to cancers, metabolic disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and fertility issues to ingrown toenails. But there is no science that definitively proves this linkage.
No, climate change and "microplastics" are not the cause of kidney stones in children. Bad parenting and sloth and terrible eating habits are. Let's call a spade a spade here.
I despair of human stupidity. One day I'm going to move to trash island and live there atop the alleged huge island of plastic trash (supposedly three times the size of France, so why don't ships run aground on it?) in the Pacific. Maybe I'll create my own country "Trashsylvania".
Shoot; the Aztecs used to build rafts and grow crops on them - mobile farms - which they rowed to market. Why not a giant country floating on plastic waste? Much of America is essentially a trash heap these days after all.
You may say I'm a dreamer but at least I'll be rid of the incessant flood of imbecility coming from even people ostensibly on our side (as this writer for the Epch Times is assumed to be).
Here is a list of things allegedly caused by "climate change" as asserted by media, by the Ruling Class, and by government agencies. Kidney stones is in there somewhere if you have the time to page through this massive laundry list.
I about fell off my chair when I read this article this morning.
This Epoch Times article was discussing the rise in kidney stones amount children and youths. I was interested, having enjoyed the exciting and rewarding challenge of passing uric acid stones myself (and not passing them, but rather having to have them cut out of me quivering innards)
They gave good reasons for why kidney stones are increasing among kids; poor hydration since few actually drink WATER any longer, too much salt, and activity levels comparable to a sessile creature, like an oyster or clam. (I had a cat who never moved and he wound up with such stones and had to have surgery to clean a huge number of stones out of his bladder and urinary tract, and it was just because he simply refused to move.)
But I was taking a sip of coffee and spit it all over the dining room table over this:
"Rising global temperatures amplify this risk by increasing sweating and dehydration, which lead to more concentrated urine—a known factor in stone development."
You may pick your jaw up off the floor now. Do close the mouth too lest you catch flies.This isn't the mindless drivel coming from Democratic Underground or The Huffington Post. It's from THE EPOCH TIMES for crying out loud!
I know; they are just summarizing another article but for the love of all things holy they owed everyone at least an emoji denoting shock and amazement at so ridiculous a claim.
Now, the Earth has warmed perhaps 2* F. over the last hundred years, according to the very biased NOAA, and that is assuming the 1930's was cooler than today - an unsupportable assertion made by NOAA and NASA only after jimmying their data because they couldn't find a way to explain that it was warmer when there was less co2. It also is certainly no warmer than the height of the Medieval Warming Period which was 2* F. warmer than today. While we may not have good records on kidney stones during the Middle Ages we certainly have no indication there was an increase in them from any literature available.
But even if that is so, so what?
First, the climate models themselves make the case that most of the planetary warming (and they are giving us a GLOBAL average) occurs in the polar regions and around the tropopause in the atmosphere. (No tropospheric hot spot has been found, btw., contradicting climate models.) Very little of the warming is FELT at ground level. What's more most of this warming is diurnal, meaning warmer nights in summer and winter (something we just aren't seeing). This is what the models all predict.
So the kids are sweating more when they are in bed?
I hate to point out to this dim-witted author (one Sheramy Tsai) that we now have a little thing called air conditioning. When I was a kid we didn't have air conditioning at all, not in my home, or in our cars. Yes, you could get it in bars or supermarkets or whatnot, and many homes did have it, but we didn't. I remember trying to sleep in a furnace, sweat soaking my bedsheets. Air conditioning became ubiquitous in the '70's. I remember my father getting a car with a/c (which he refused to use because it used up gas). I also remember when we moved into a home that had two window units; they didn't work that well but it was a dream come true for us WHEN MY PARENTS LET US PUT IT ON and then it had to be above 95*. When we got central air installed it was so very much better, but still my parents rarely put it on.
At any rate, kids now live most of their lives indoors and are always in air conditioned conditions. So how is "climate change" leading to more kidney stones? These kids sweat less, not more.
This alone made me disregard the whole article, and the author.
She also discusses "microplastics" as a possible cause of increasing kidney stones. But we didn't see the rise in kidney stones until just a few years ago and plastics have been used for over half a century in large amounts. (BTW I miss the old days of returnable soda or beer bottles; beverages tasted SO much better in glass than in plastic! But you had to worry about cutting your lip on a chipped bottle, and returning them was a pain. When I first started working at age 16 I worked for a grocer and hated having to mess with bottle returns; they were always broken and you had to watch out lest you cut your hand. But I still think it was wise to use returnable glass over plastic.)
According to the Kidney Foundation:
"The prevalence of kidney stones in the United States increased from 3.8% in the late 1970s to 8.8% in the late 2000s. The prevalence of kidney stones was 10% during 2013–2014. The risk of kidney stones is about 11% in men and 9% in women."
Do note there is little concern about the disparity based on sex (not "gender") because men are taking tthe brunt of it.
At any rate this does correlate to the rise in plastic containers, notably the use of plastic water bottles (many people now refuse to drink tap water, which is ridiculous as it is frequently as good or better than the stuff you get claiming to be "spring water" in a plastic jug.) But correlation does not equate to causality.
In point of fact plastic consumption has never been definitively proven to cause health problems. While I tend to think it's probably not a good idea, there is no solid science linking health concerns with plastic ingestion. We ingest worse things than plastics sometimes. But plastics are blamed for every and any health issue, from autism to cancers, metabolic disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and fertility issues to ingrown toenails. But there is no science that definitively proves this linkage.
No, climate change and "microplastics" are not the cause of kidney stones in children. Bad parenting and sloth and terrible eating habits are. Let's call a spade a spade here.
I despair of human stupidity. One day I'm going to move to trash island and live there atop the alleged huge island of plastic trash (supposedly three times the size of France, so why don't ships run aground on it?) in the Pacific. Maybe I'll create my own country "Trashsylvania".
Shoot; the Aztecs used to build rafts and grow crops on them - mobile farms - which they rowed to market. Why not a giant country floating on plastic waste? Much of America is essentially a trash heap these days after all.
You may say I'm a dreamer but at least I'll be rid of the incessant flood of imbecility coming from even people ostensibly on our side (as this writer for the Epch Times is assumed to be).
Here is a list of things allegedly caused by "climate change" as asserted by media, by the Ruling Class, and by government agencies. Kidney stones is in there somewhere if you have the time to page through this massive laundry list.
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Guy in Charge of Fire Control in L.A. Phones in Bomb Threat to City Hall
Timothy Birdnow
L.A.'s Deputy Mayor for Public Safety allegedly made a bomb threat to City Hall and has been on administrative leave. This is the guy charged with fire safety.
I kid you not.
This clown was hand-picked by Mayor Bass.
From the Blaze:
THESE are the people running Los Angeles; no wonder the place is burning to the ground.
William's race is not mentioned in the article but there are indications from the response by black residents that he is African American. While this is has no bearing on the crime itself it does speak to the defense of Williams by city employees and others. In some black communities Papa Doc Duvalier would be defended just because of his race, particularly in the racial-minded Los Angeles,which worships DEI.
Certainly this articlesuggests Williams is very active in the black community, being described as "mentoring" black youths.
Much like the black community here in St.Louis rallied behind St. Louis Circuit (Prosecuting) Attorney Kim Gardner despite her dreadful behavior, so too a certain segment of the black community will rally behind a guy like Williams.
No explanation has been offered as to why he made the bomb threat (which has not fully been established yet although it appears likely). But one thing is certain; if it wasn't Williams it was someone close enough to make it appear it was Williams, which still means there is big, big problems in the L.A. city government.
But we already knew that.
L.A.'s Deputy Mayor for Public Safety allegedly made a bomb threat to City Hall and has been on administrative leave. This is the guy charged with fire safety.
I kid you not.
This clown was hand-picked by Mayor Bass.
From the Blaze:
"About a week before Christmas, FBI agents raided the home of Brian Williams, the deputy mayor of public safety in Los Angeles, on suspicion that he had called in a bomb threat at Los Angeles City Hall. Los Angeles police officers opened an investigation into the threat but later handed the investigation over to federal agents because of the suspect's connection with their department.
"Our initial investigation revealed that the source of the threat was likely from Brian Williams, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety," LAPD said in a statement. "Due to the Department’s working relationship with Mr. Williams, the investigation was referred to the FBI. The FBI remains the investigating agency."
After the raid, Williams was placed on administrative leave. Sources told the L.A. Times that the bomb threat associated with Williams was made sometime in October."
"Our initial investigation revealed that the source of the threat was likely from Brian Williams, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety," LAPD said in a statement. "Due to the Department’s working relationship with Mr. Williams, the investigation was referred to the FBI. The FBI remains the investigating agency."
After the raid, Williams was placed on administrative leave. Sources told the L.A. Times that the bomb threat associated with Williams was made sometime in October."
THESE are the people running Los Angeles; no wonder the place is burning to the ground.
William's race is not mentioned in the article but there are indications from the response by black residents that he is African American. While this is has no bearing on the crime itself it does speak to the defense of Williams by city employees and others. In some black communities Papa Doc Duvalier would be defended just because of his race, particularly in the racial-minded Los Angeles,which worships DEI.
Certainly this articlesuggests Williams is very active in the black community, being described as "mentoring" black youths.
Much like the black community here in St.Louis rallied behind St. Louis Circuit (Prosecuting) Attorney Kim Gardner despite her dreadful behavior, so too a certain segment of the black community will rally behind a guy like Williams.
No explanation has been offered as to why he made the bomb threat (which has not fully been established yet although it appears likely). But one thing is certain; if it wasn't Williams it was someone close enough to make it appear it was Williams, which still means there is big, big problems in the L.A. city government.
But we already knew that.
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CA Price Controls Leaves Burned Out Citizens "Unhoused"
Timothy Birdnow
This is what happens when government inserts itself into the free market.
Experts Warn California’s Price-gouging Laws Prevent Fire Victims From Renting Houses
Price controls inevitably lead to shortages. And now with so many seeking temporary housing, and with so many illegal aliens sucking up such housing, we are going to see a lot of good people going "unhoused".
Many Californians are going to have to leave the state or live in tents. It's that simple.
This is what happens when government inserts itself into the free market.
Experts Warn California’s Price-gouging Laws Prevent Fire Victims From Renting Houses
Price controls inevitably lead to shortages. And now with so many seeking temporary housing, and with so many illegal aliens sucking up such housing, we are going to see a lot of good people going "unhoused".
Many Californians are going to have to leave the state or live in tents. It's that simple.
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Biden's Farewell Finger
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a good analysis of Joe Biden's Farewell Address. Biden's stupidity is only eclipsed by his arrogance and condescension.
At the end of his speech he actually read "end of quote" off the teleprompter! Nobody was home it seems.
And he railed against the end of government funded "fact checkers" despite that niggling thing called the First Amendment which guarantees people free speech - even if it's incorrect (and the fact remains the fact checkers were generally the ones who were incorrect in most instances and that purposely so.) He also complained of an "oligarchy" of billionaires, but who put Mr. Biden and Barack Obama in power in the first place? George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, etc. These plutocrats were fine as long as they were supporting the Dems. But let one support Trump (Musk) and suddenly we must fear an oligarchy.
The dirty little secret is America has had an oligarchy for decades now, run by the Deep State and the plutocrats. This election got away from them because they got greedy and tried to grab too much; the public rebelled. So, in typical leftist fashion, they accuse their opponents of that which they themselves are most guilty.
Trump and MAGA was a rebellion AGAINST the oligarchy. Musk was wise enough to smell this coming and get on the right side of things. Now others, notably Bezos and Zuckerberg, and trying to do likewise. But we remember they are the ones who gave us Obama, and they are the ones who gave us Biden.
Remember Zuckerbucks? The Facebook founder used his considerable fortune to "upgrade" voting systems across the country PROVIDED the money be used in the way he dictated - and that as much as anything led to abuse and fraud, the abuse and fraud that let Mr. Biden take power. I didn't hear Biden complain about "oligarchs" back then.
So Biden has gone out as he came in - A petulant, nasty old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn. He's going down in history alongside guys like James Buchanan or Woodrow Wilson or Ulysses S. Grant or either Bush or Richard Nixon. He was even worse than Jimmy Carter, if you believe it.
But fret not; the media will labor long and hard, as they did with Carter, to rehabilitate Biden's memory and future generations will say "eh..he wasn't so bad" just as they do with Carter now. Carter was a total disaster and anyone who lived through that era and remembers it has to admit it. Now Carter is considered a guy who was facing overwhelming challenges that nobody could fix (yet strangely enough Ronald Reagan fixed them in just a year or two.) Carter gave us stagflation (something the Keynsian economists he was listening to said was impossible), sky high oil prices, gas shortages, rioting and civil unrest, the humiliation of the Iran Hostage Crisis (which ended just when Reagan took office), the threat of the Soviet empire (which Reagan destroyed), rising communist insurrections around the globe, especially in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, in Honduras and other key spots, and Carter's general appearance of stupidity (such as the "attack of the killer rabbit" when Carter was in a canoe and had to fight a RABBIT off with a paddle, saying he was threatened) or his brother's antics, such as urinating on the tarmac in front of foreign diplomats, or his hemorrhoid operation, or his interview with Playboy where he said "I have lusted in my heart after women", etc.)
Carter gave us double-digit inflation, sky high interest rates, And he couldn't take the blame himself; he accused America of being in "a malaise" because it just COULDN'T be HIS fault!
He gave us the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Carter actually believed Khomeini was a REFORMER and Iran would be better off with him than the Shah. When the Shah called for help Carter refused to talk to him, famously saying "f%$* the Shah!". All the subsequent terrorism in the Middle East was his fault.
The man was a braying jackass - but Joe Biden is probably even worse.
I could go through a list of Biden's many disasters but I think we all remember them.
When Carter left office Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neal said "those guys came in like Pr$&ks and they went out the same way. Carter didn't leave with half the ill-grace as Joe Biden is leaving with now.
Here is a good analysis of Joe Biden's Farewell Address. Biden's stupidity is only eclipsed by his arrogance and condescension.
At the end of his speech he actually read "end of quote" off the teleprompter! Nobody was home it seems.
And he railed against the end of government funded "fact checkers" despite that niggling thing called the First Amendment which guarantees people free speech - even if it's incorrect (and the fact remains the fact checkers were generally the ones who were incorrect in most instances and that purposely so.) He also complained of an "oligarchy" of billionaires, but who put Mr. Biden and Barack Obama in power in the first place? George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, etc. These plutocrats were fine as long as they were supporting the Dems. But let one support Trump (Musk) and suddenly we must fear an oligarchy.
The dirty little secret is America has had an oligarchy for decades now, run by the Deep State and the plutocrats. This election got away from them because they got greedy and tried to grab too much; the public rebelled. So, in typical leftist fashion, they accuse their opponents of that which they themselves are most guilty.
Trump and MAGA was a rebellion AGAINST the oligarchy. Musk was wise enough to smell this coming and get on the right side of things. Now others, notably Bezos and Zuckerberg, and trying to do likewise. But we remember they are the ones who gave us Obama, and they are the ones who gave us Biden.
Remember Zuckerbucks? The Facebook founder used his considerable fortune to "upgrade" voting systems across the country PROVIDED the money be used in the way he dictated - and that as much as anything led to abuse and fraud, the abuse and fraud that let Mr. Biden take power. I didn't hear Biden complain about "oligarchs" back then.
So Biden has gone out as he came in - A petulant, nasty old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn. He's going down in history alongside guys like James Buchanan or Woodrow Wilson or Ulysses S. Grant or either Bush or Richard Nixon. He was even worse than Jimmy Carter, if you believe it.
But fret not; the media will labor long and hard, as they did with Carter, to rehabilitate Biden's memory and future generations will say "eh..he wasn't so bad" just as they do with Carter now. Carter was a total disaster and anyone who lived through that era and remembers it has to admit it. Now Carter is considered a guy who was facing overwhelming challenges that nobody could fix (yet strangely enough Ronald Reagan fixed them in just a year or two.) Carter gave us stagflation (something the Keynsian economists he was listening to said was impossible), sky high oil prices, gas shortages, rioting and civil unrest, the humiliation of the Iran Hostage Crisis (which ended just when Reagan took office), the threat of the Soviet empire (which Reagan destroyed), rising communist insurrections around the globe, especially in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Grenada, in Honduras and other key spots, and Carter's general appearance of stupidity (such as the "attack of the killer rabbit" when Carter was in a canoe and had to fight a RABBIT off with a paddle, saying he was threatened) or his brother's antics, such as urinating on the tarmac in front of foreign diplomats, or his hemorrhoid operation, or his interview with Playboy where he said "I have lusted in my heart after women", etc.)
Carter gave us double-digit inflation, sky high interest rates, And he couldn't take the blame himself; he accused America of being in "a malaise" because it just COULDN'T be HIS fault!
He gave us the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Carter actually believed Khomeini was a REFORMER and Iran would be better off with him than the Shah. When the Shah called for help Carter refused to talk to him, famously saying "f%$* the Shah!". All the subsequent terrorism in the Middle East was his fault.
The man was a braying jackass - but Joe Biden is probably even worse.
I could go through a list of Biden's many disasters but I think we all remember them.
When Carter left office Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neal said "those guys came in like Pr$&ks and they went out the same way. Carter didn't leave with half the ill-grace as Joe Biden is leaving with now.
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It's Only Election Denial When Republicans Do It
Timothy Birdnow
I thought the Democrats were the party that believed every vote should count and that you cannot challenge election results!
After Running on a "Protect Democracy” Platform, Tampon Tim Is Silent as State Democrats Refuse to Let the GOP Take Control
The Democrats are trying to pull a disappearing act to thwart a quorum and thus not let the GOP take power in the state. Seems they held a secret swearing-in ceremony outside the state capitol, something unheard-of in bygone years.
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Gee; I thought if you lose you lose; that's what the Demcrats said when they stole the election from Trump four years ago. Now when you lose you do everything fair or foul to get your way.
I don't know the law in Minnesota but many states require their legislators to show up, and if they don't marshalls can come and collect them. But Tampon Tim won't enforce the law.
Hypocrites.
I thought the Democrats were the party that believed every vote should count and that you cannot challenge election results!
After Running on a "Protect Democracy” Platform, Tampon Tim Is Silent as State Democrats Refuse to Let the GOP Take Control
The Democrats are trying to pull a disappearing act to thwart a quorum and thus not let the GOP take power in the state. Seems they held a secret swearing-in ceremony outside the state capitol, something unheard-of in bygone years.
FTA:
Republican lawmakers have criticized Walz, who ran for vice president on a platform to "protect democracy,” for appearing to condone House Democrats’ threats to deny their Republican colleagues a necessary quorum to conduct legislative business on behalf of their constituents that elected them in November.
"It’s outrageous that Tim Walz has given Minnesota Democrat legislators blanket approval for a secret, behind-closed-doors, swearing-in last night (no public, no media) and a green light to not show up for work on Tuesday, the first day of the legislative session,” Republican Minnesota Rep. Pete Stauber wrote on his campaign account on X Monday. "Minnesotans deserve better!”
ANY state legislator who fails to show up for work has no business collecting a taxpayer-funded check. If you can’t do the job, you don't deserve the seat. https://t.co/5VHAHk7K6N
— Tom Emmer (@tomemmer) January 13, 2025
Minnesota House Republicans hold a 67-66 majority heading into the start of this year’s legislative session with one vacancy in a seat previously held by a Democratic lawmaker. The special election for the vacancy is slated to take place on Jan. 28, granting Republican lawmakers at least two weeks during which they will enjoy a majority.
Republican lawmakers argue their current 67-member majority meets a quorum due to the one vacancy in the House, which sets the total number of members to 133. State Democratic lawmakers disagree, arguing the quorum should be set at the usual 68 lawmakers despite the one vacancy, which could prevent Republican lawmakers from conducting legislative business if every Democratic lawmaker boycotts the session.
State House Democratic lawmakers, led by their speaker-designate, Democratic Minnesota Rep. Melissa Horton, are threatening to do everything in their power to deny Republican lawmakers the opportunity from having a quorum to organize a majority and elect a speaker, according to a statement Horton released Monday.
"Denial of quorum is a legitimate parliamentary tactic,” Horton said. "In the event Democrats choose to deny quorum, we wanted to be sure to have all our members properly and legally sworn in and we did that this evening.”
House Republican lawmakers are pledging to move ahead with the beginning of the statehouse’s legislative session even if House Democrats boycott Tuesday’s proceedings.
"It’s outrageous that Tim Walz has given Minnesota Democrat legislators blanket approval for a secret, behind-closed-doors, swearing-in last night (no public, no media) and a green light to not show up for work on Tuesday, the first day of the legislative session,” Republican Minnesota Rep. Pete Stauber wrote on his campaign account on X Monday. "Minnesotans deserve better!”
ANY state legislator who fails to show up for work has no business collecting a taxpayer-funded check. If you can’t do the job, you don't deserve the seat. https://t.co/5VHAHk7K6N
— Tom Emmer (@tomemmer) January 13, 2025
Minnesota House Republicans hold a 67-66 majority heading into the start of this year’s legislative session with one vacancy in a seat previously held by a Democratic lawmaker. The special election for the vacancy is slated to take place on Jan. 28, granting Republican lawmakers at least two weeks during which they will enjoy a majority.
Republican lawmakers argue their current 67-member majority meets a quorum due to the one vacancy in the House, which sets the total number of members to 133. State Democratic lawmakers disagree, arguing the quorum should be set at the usual 68 lawmakers despite the one vacancy, which could prevent Republican lawmakers from conducting legislative business if every Democratic lawmaker boycotts the session.
State House Democratic lawmakers, led by their speaker-designate, Democratic Minnesota Rep. Melissa Horton, are threatening to do everything in their power to deny Republican lawmakers the opportunity from having a quorum to organize a majority and elect a speaker, according to a statement Horton released Monday.
"Denial of quorum is a legitimate parliamentary tactic,” Horton said. "In the event Democrats choose to deny quorum, we wanted to be sure to have all our members properly and legally sworn in and we did that this evening.”
House Republican lawmakers are pledging to move ahead with the beginning of the statehouse’s legislative session even if House Democrats boycott Tuesday’s proceedings.
Gee; I thought if you lose you lose; that's what the Demcrats said when they stole the election from Trump four years ago. Now when you lose you do everything fair or foul to get your way.
I don't know the law in Minnesota but many states require their legislators to show up, and if they don't marshalls can come and collect them. But Tampon Tim won't enforce the law.
Hypocrites.
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January 15, 2025
Johnson's Pound of Flesh
Timothy Birdnow
The empire strikes back.
Thomas Massie Gets Removed from House Rules Committee
Tiny Johnson is doing payback for Massie's opposition to him as Speaker.
The empire strikes back.
Thomas Massie Gets Removed from House Rules Committee
Tiny Johnson is doing payback for Massie's opposition to him as Speaker.
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Johnson Restores Flags to Full Staff
Timothy Birdnow
Joe Biden ordered flags be flown at half staff on Trump's inauguration, ostensibly in honor of President Jimmy Carter, who recently passed away.
Mike Johnson showed a little backbone finally and ordered them flown at full staff over the Capitol, of which he is in charge.
Good for him. But I still trust him about as far as I can toss him.
If I were Speaker I'd order extenders to put on top of the Capitol flagpoles and make the flags fly even higher than normal! But this is the best we can get, I suppose.
Joe Biden ordered flags be flown at half staff on Trump's inauguration, ostensibly in honor of President Jimmy Carter, who recently passed away.
Mike Johnson showed a little backbone finally and ordered them flown at full staff over the Capitol, of which he is in charge.
Good for him. But I still trust him about as far as I can toss him.
If I were Speaker I'd order extenders to put on top of the Capitol flagpoles and make the flags fly even higher than normal! But this is the best we can get, I suppose.
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Biden Ties Up More Land in California
Timothy Birdnow
In yet another exposure of the dark side of the moon from Joe Biden the erstwhile President has just tied up vast sums of land in California, declaring two new Federal Monuments.
FTA:
"Biden signed proclamations establishing the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument south of Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California, and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, spanning more than 224,000 acres of pristine forests and unique geological features near the Oregon border."
So, what natural resources is he trying to deny America? Rare earth metals? Oil? He didn't just do this out of concern for the environment, I assure you.
This man really is a huge douche...
In yet another exposure of the dark side of the moon from Joe Biden the erstwhile President has just tied up vast sums of land in California, declaring two new Federal Monuments.
FTA:
"Biden signed proclamations establishing the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument south of Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California, and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, spanning more than 224,000 acres of pristine forests and unique geological features near the Oregon border."
So, what natural resources is he trying to deny America? Rare earth metals? Oil? He didn't just do this out of concern for the environment, I assure you.
This man really is a huge douche...
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Newsom to Blow Money to Resist Trump
Timothy Birdnow
Doesn't Newsom have more important fires to fight?
Newsom approves $50 million state fund to fight Trump deportations.
No doubt he'll demand the Feds pay for all of the damage caused to California by his mismanagement, yet he can find fifty million to resist Trump's efforts to keep America American.
Doesn't Newsom have more important fires to fight?
Newsom approves $50 million state fund to fight Trump deportations.
No doubt he'll demand the Feds pay for all of the damage caused to California by his mismanagement, yet he can find fifty million to resist Trump's efforts to keep America American.
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Biden Lifts Cuban Sanctions
Timothy Birdnow
Just another huge FU from Joe Biden to the American People and to thumb the incoming Administration in the eye.
U.S. sanctions lifted on Cuban military.
If there was any reason at all to do this why didn't Biden do it in the four years prior? Anybody?
Just another huge FU from Joe Biden to the American People and to thumb the incoming Administration in the eye.
U.S. sanctions lifted on Cuban military.
If there was any reason at all to do this why didn't Biden do it in the four years prior? Anybody?
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It's the Homeless Stupid!
Timothy Birdnow
Here's one of the dirty little secrets, one the media and Cali government won't discuss. Homeless are a big part of the fire problem in the Charred State as they light fires for warmth outside and wind up burning the place down.
LA fire chief begging homeless people to stop lighting fires during wildfire disaster gets hit with online backlash
While this fire chief used all the politically correct buzz words (unhoused, for example) he still touched on a salient point. Of course, asking homeless junkies to stop lighting fires is like asking snakes to stop killing rats. Won't happen.
The point is the media never mentions this source of fire, nor do any of our brave representatives, who are more eager to blame "climate change" than homeless meth heads or illegal aliens.
Here's one of the dirty little secrets, one the media and Cali government won't discuss. Homeless are a big part of the fire problem in the Charred State as they light fires for warmth outside and wind up burning the place down.
LA fire chief begging homeless people to stop lighting fires during wildfire disaster gets hit with online backlash
While this fire chief used all the politically correct buzz words (unhoused, for example) he still touched on a salient point. Of course, asking homeless junkies to stop lighting fires is like asking snakes to stop killing rats. Won't happen.
The point is the media never mentions this source of fire, nor do any of our brave representatives, who are more eager to blame "climate change" than homeless meth heads or illegal aliens.
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January 14, 2025
Arizona AG Plans to Continue Lawfare Against Trump
Timothy Birdnow
I've said it before and I'll say it again; the only way to end this is to respond in kind.
[linl=https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/01/13/arizonas-attorney-general-vows-to-continue-jack-smiths-lawfare-n2650430T]Arizona AG Vows to Continue Jack Smith’s Lawfare Against Trump
All the Left understands is power and they won't quit until they realize this hurts them worse than it hurts their opponents.
In Milton's Paradise Lost there is a terrific scene where Lucifer, having broken the lines of Michael's defending army, are storming the Primus Mobilum itself and Jesus comes out to meet them. He speaks reasonably to them, offering forgiveness and they sneer at him in disdain "Now that you are defeated you want to talk!" Jesus sadly tells them "if all you understand is power, power is what you will receive" after which His face turns into a horrifying visage and He so terrifies the rebellious angels they flee to the parapet of Heaven and jump into the abyss, landing in Hell.
Milton is giving us the roadmap for handling this sort of thing; at some point power is all they understand and power is what they must receive.
We used to call it Mutual Assured Destruction during the Cold War; nobody dared launch because they knew the consequences would be utterly terrible. That is what has been lacking in the GOP for decades, but it's the only way to stop such things. The Democrats crossed the Rubicon; they broke the rules. Now the rules should no longer apply and they are fair game too.
I personally regret this but you cannot have unilateral obeisance to the rules - that is just surrender.
We need to dig into these people and find ways to charge them with crimes. Ruin their lives as they would ruin others. It sucks it has come to this but the aggressor sets the rules of engagement and the Left is most assuredly the aggressor.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; the only way to end this is to respond in kind.
[linl=https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/01/13/arizonas-attorney-general-vows-to-continue-jack-smiths-lawfare-n2650430T]Arizona AG Vows to Continue Jack Smith’s Lawfare Against Trump
All the Left understands is power and they won't quit until they realize this hurts them worse than it hurts their opponents.
In Milton's Paradise Lost there is a terrific scene where Lucifer, having broken the lines of Michael's defending army, are storming the Primus Mobilum itself and Jesus comes out to meet them. He speaks reasonably to them, offering forgiveness and they sneer at him in disdain "Now that you are defeated you want to talk!" Jesus sadly tells them "if all you understand is power, power is what you will receive" after which His face turns into a horrifying visage and He so terrifies the rebellious angels they flee to the parapet of Heaven and jump into the abyss, landing in Hell.
Milton is giving us the roadmap for handling this sort of thing; at some point power is all they understand and power is what they must receive.
We used to call it Mutual Assured Destruction during the Cold War; nobody dared launch because they knew the consequences would be utterly terrible. That is what has been lacking in the GOP for decades, but it's the only way to stop such things. The Democrats crossed the Rubicon; they broke the rules. Now the rules should no longer apply and they are fair game too.
I personally regret this but you cannot have unilateral obeisance to the rules - that is just surrender.
We need to dig into these people and find ways to charge them with crimes. Ruin their lives as they would ruin others. It sucks it has come to this but the aggressor sets the rules of engagement and the Left is most assuredly the aggressor.
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Illegals Shut Down Aurora Apartment Complex
Timothy Birdnow
The apartment complex in Aurora Colorado that the media and Colorado's Democratic government assured us was not controlled by Venezuelan gangs has been closed by an emergency safety order.
They assured us everything was fine there, so why did they have to shut it down?
Judge Shawn Day signed the emergency order January 10 after the City of Aurora filed for an injunction to close the property as a threat to public safety.
But I suppose it had nothing at all to do with illegal immigrants taking it over! Just a huge honking coincidence!
BTW I worked in the field of property management and dealt with this sort of thing. The owners are not at fault; government regulations make it next to impossible to clean a place like that out. You cannot deny someone tenancy without good cause and all of these people showed up and no doubt the state of Colorado was pushing landlords to rent to them. Once in they have to be evicted through legal channels and when they are they have to be bodily removed by the Sheriff's department. Then any representative from the management company is in peril if he tries to go into the building. It's a losing proposition.
In fact, when I was doing it, we would sometimes ask a judge to shut a building down because it was the only way to get control of it. That was always a great danger though, because once shut down it might be a bear to reopen. Usually a building inspector comes and tears it apart, costing the owner thousands of dollars. Oh, and the evictees usually tear the place to the ground before you regain possession.
No, this is the fault of Colorado's Democratic government and the failure of the Biden Administration to secure the border. I feel for the poor sOB's who own this place.
The apartment complex in Aurora Colorado that the media and Colorado's Democratic government assured us was not controlled by Venezuelan gangs has been closed by an emergency safety order.
They assured us everything was fine there, so why did they have to shut it down?
Judge Shawn Day signed the emergency order January 10 after the City of Aurora filed for an injunction to close the property as a threat to public safety.
But I suppose it had nothing at all to do with illegal immigrants taking it over! Just a huge honking coincidence!
BTW I worked in the field of property management and dealt with this sort of thing. The owners are not at fault; government regulations make it next to impossible to clean a place like that out. You cannot deny someone tenancy without good cause and all of these people showed up and no doubt the state of Colorado was pushing landlords to rent to them. Once in they have to be evicted through legal channels and when they are they have to be bodily removed by the Sheriff's department. Then any representative from the management company is in peril if he tries to go into the building. It's a losing proposition.
In fact, when I was doing it, we would sometimes ask a judge to shut a building down because it was the only way to get control of it. That was always a great danger though, because once shut down it might be a bear to reopen. Usually a building inspector comes and tears it apart, costing the owner thousands of dollars. Oh, and the evictees usually tear the place to the ground before you regain possession.
No, this is the fault of Colorado's Democratic government and the failure of the Biden Administration to secure the border. I feel for the poor sOB's who own this place.
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