April 15, 2026
The Graft of Omar and Civilizational Jihad
Timothy Birdnow
Ilhan Omar tried to steal a million dollars, attempting to sneak it in to a funding bill to give to a "rehab clinic" in a Somali restaurant.
How much longer are we going to tolerate this woman in Congress? She is little more than a pirate.
FTA:
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said a far-left Democrat in Congress tried to sneak through an earmark of over $1 million for a suspicious "substance abuse clinic” housed at a Somali-owned restaurant.
In the Jan. 8 interview on "Varney and Company” that resurfaced via the Libs of TikTok X account early Tuesday morning, Ernst highlighted the supposed clinic and said that fraud like the Somali day care scandal could extend to earmarks requested by "members of Congress.”
"One of our spending bills making its way through Congress was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork,” Ernst told Varney. "Tons of red flags.”
"So this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers,” Ernst continued. "Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well.”
Ernst said that after she raised the issue, the earmark was stripped from that spending bill.
And Ernst just figured that out? Woman's not to quick on the uptake, is she?
Democrats have been doing this sort of thing for years. It's only coming out now because Trump is in office and his DOJ will listen to people investigating this sort of thing. It's become much harder for the Democrats to hide the graft.
At any rate Omar should be stripped of her naturalized citizenship and deported to Somalia. She has used the great gift of citizenship to loot America and that should not be tolerated.
But it will be and Congress will do nothing unless and until the situation makes such a huge public spectacle that they have to take some sort of action, then they will do the least they can get away with. Why? Because they all have their fingers in the cookie jar and don't want it to end. That includes Republicans.
Omar just got greedy about it, but she's far from alone.
They will all try to ride this out and when Trump is gone get back to "business as usual"; that's why both parties tried to destroy Trump in his first term. It's also why they keep secretly undermining him with things like the Amnesty bill put forward by Republicans recently (despite immigration security being their top winning issue) and why John Thune, like his predecessor, refuses to recess the Senate to prevent President Trump from filling vacant positions that Thune won't move forward to fill. The Republicans are in some ways worse than the Democrats; Democrats clearly define themselves as enemies and a scorpion stings because it can. Republicans are in some ways worse because they are our friends to our faces but secretly put the knife in our backs when we are not looking. There is a reason why people like Brutus, or Judas Ischariot, or Benedict Arnold are reviled in the annals of history; a traitor is a far greater danger than an acknowledged enemy. An enemy is at least honest about his intentions.
At any rate we may at least get rid of Ilhan Omar at some point. Of course we'll get someone as bad or worse in that district. Omar was a civilizational jihadist and the next Somali up will be the same, no doubt.
We need to send all these Somalis out of the U.S., every one of them not born here. Time for them to go home.
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The Abolition of Man
Timothy Birdnow
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev. 13:15
Now Zuckeberg is known to be a less-than warm and fuzzy fellow, and having him staring at you from a computer screen all the time is going to give employees nightmares at a minimum. This is a mental health crisis in the making. Imagine having your boss hovering around you all day, popping up on your computer all the time. Now imagine your boss could clone himself so he is watching EVERYONE all the time...
And what does it say about Zuckerberg that he wants to clone himself on computer? It suggests a little man with a HUGE God complex.
The above qute is apt here and this is just the beginning; AI is going to start cloning people now, and in the process it will be turned to ppolitics. Imagine a politician being able to give speeches without ever going anywhere or even speaking; he just let's his image do it for him.
At some point the man will become irrelevant and the AI take over. I wonder; the Antichrist is said to miraculously heal from a mortal head wound. Maybe he actually dies but his avatar lives on, running things from it's server farms and whatnot. Not saying that is what is going to happen but it could. And he'd get elected, too; here in Missouri we elected a dead guy to the U.S. Senate a while ago (Mel Carnahan) and his widow served his term. He was already room temperature on election day! (that was the last time a Democrat won at that high a level in Missouri, thankfully.) If we could elect a dead guy here, why can't a dead guy ne elected and then an AI operate in his place? Doesn't being deceased fall under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
It's not as far-fetched as it seems.
At any rate this is the first step and naturally a big ego narcissistic type like Zuckerberg would be all in.
He may regret it too if the AI does a better job than he did.
There was a Dudley Doo-right cartoon where Snidley Whiplash replaced Dudley with a robot. He used a record of Dudley's voice saying stock phrases which were always wildly inappropriate but the mechanical Do-Right was a far better Mountie than Dudley, and he and Snidley teamed up to get rid of the mechanical Do-Right. Zuck may find the machine makes a better CEO, and perhaps even a person, than he himself.
This is but one more step towards the abolition of Man.
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Light Blogging for the Next Few Days
Timothy Birdnow
Apologies for light blogging for the next few days. I am very busy, with doctor's appointments (both for myself and my brother) and a lot of other stuff that is going to make it hit-or-miss. I'll do what I can when I can but I should be fairly quiet for the next few days. But keep checking back in; I'm going to push as hard as possible in the time I have.
Prost!
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April 13, 2026
Hungry in Hungary; Orbin Out
Timothy Birdnow
It's a sad day; Orban was a bulwark against the insanity of the E.U.
Peter Magyar, the victor, has also won a big majority in parliament.
Orban was a stout ally of President Trump and we had very good relations with Hungary as a result.
Six million people voted in a country of nine million, with the vote going 53% Magyar and 38% Orban.
Makes me wonder; it sounds remarkably like the election of 2020 in the U.S., does it not?
The E.U. has accused Orban of "attacking democracy" and the opposition has claimed Orban was trying to "steal the election" Do either of those accusations sound familiar? It is what they accused Trump of doing when THEY stole the election and attacked democracy. I'll bet they did exactly that.
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Swalwell Out
Timothy Birdnow
Eric Swallows, er, Swalwell, the home of the Fang Fang, is out of the California gubernatorial race.
The deranged Trump-hating, Chinese spy loving has been brought down by accusations of sexual abuse by staffers, who have accused the Congressman of very inappropriate behavior.
No surprise; this is a guy who took up with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
There is no word from Democrats if they will support Republican efforts to remove him from Congress but you can bet your bottom dollar (all that you have left if you are from California) that they will fight to keep him in, arguing it's the "people's decision" and not theirs. On the other hand maybe they will choose to go the special election route after all, since they still have a good chance of winning the seat with a replacement.
Even Adam Schiff called for Swalwell to step down. That's something to lose Schiff.
One must suspect that the Democrats looked at internal polling and decided Swalwell would lose and forced him out this way. It's their MO.
We'll know if they don't hold a special election to replace him in Congress; if they do then it means his numbers were too low. If they don't it means they just feared the political fallout. But the point is moot; either way they threw this guy under the bus.
I wish he'd stayed in, frankly; we'd have a great opportunity to retake the Governorship there if he had.
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Trump Closes Strait of Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
It's a pleasure to watch Trump in action, isn't it!
Hopefully we'll start confiscating any ships that do pay the Ayatollahs.
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April 12, 2026
Storm Intensity Declining
Timothy Birdnow
I thought Climate Change was causing more and worsening storms!
Bjørn Lomborg
April 6 at 6:15 AM
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Did you know that hurricanes hitting the US are not more but slightly less frequent? That climate disaster costs are declining?
That our current climate policies costs a lot and deliver little?
You can read more in my peer-reviewed article here https://sciencedirect.com/.../article/pii/S0040162520304157
A word from Tim:
One commenter suggested this is a coefficient of better warning systems. I pointed out that warning systems won't let you move your house out of the path of a hurricane. I also pointed out that drownings have been declining for twenty years now despite allegedly increasing weather disasters - how could that be? In the end it's clear that extreme weather events are declining if anything. oh, and this despite the fact that we are now building in flood plains and other places that in bygone days we avoided for just such a problem.
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China Directly Arming Iran?
Timothy Birdnow
It's not surprising they want to do this but it is a major escalation and President Trump will retaliate.
The report said that China was supplying hand-held anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down our planes. The Pentagon says that is what the Iranians used to take down a fighter jet recently.
Naturally the Chicoms denied it.
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Iran to Head U.N. Counterterrorism
Timothy Birdnow
You can't make this stuff up.
As if we needed any more evidence the United Nations is just a sad little joke.
This is obviously a slap at the United States and intended as a direct insult to President Trump and the American People, nothing more.
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The Irish are Revolting
Timothy Birdnow
Ireland is mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore!
Mad about high fuel prices and a host of other things caused by Ireland's leftist government (such as massive Muslim immigration) people are taking to the streets on the Emerald Isles and blocking traffic and otherwise forcing the Irish economy to a halt.
I fear it's too little too late and it was the Irish People who put these radicals in power in the first place. This will probably peter out like the trucker protests in Canada or the farmer protests in the Netherlands did.
But maybe not; you never know.
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April 11, 2026
Did the Maunder Minimum Cause the Salem Witch Trials?
Richard Cronin
Just got to thinking about the folly of even declaring a "global temperature” and the assumptions of a homogeneous terrestrial system for heat distribution tied to radiation.
Anyone who has sailed on the open ocean will observe that on a relatively balmy day the bottoms of the clouds are invariably as flat as a pancake. The clouds sit at a uniform height above the flat ocean surface. But as warm, moist ocean air moves over land the air mass flows up over coastal plains and uplands. It gains elevation to start condensing and forming the aerosol droplets of clouds. Clouds shade the land and provide reflective albedo, cooling things off. Then precipitation.
Now then, 2/3rds of the continental land mass is in the Northern Hemisphere. We witness how the Japan Current delivers moist air, clouds and precipitation from the Aleutian Islands down to the rainy Pacific Northwest. The North Atlantic Gulf Stream delivers clouds and precipitation across Iceland, Norway, Ireland, the UK, all the way down to the Iberian peninsula.
In the Southern Hemisphere we have the clouds and rains across the Argentinian pampas and Tierra del Fuego but the interiors of Australia and South Africa are quite arid and cloudless.
Overcast conditions dominate in the Northern Hemisphere.
This relates to solar activity and Forbush Reductions wherein solar proton events diminish cloud cover. The Solar Cycle runs every 11 years. Notable exceptions were the Maunder Minimum (1645 - 1715) and Dalton Minimum.
The Dalton Minimum spanned 1790 to 1830. It was overcast, with invariable gloom and damp.
In 1850, John Tyndall gazed out on a sunny day in the Alps and worried that his favorite glaciers seemed to be retreating. Of course, in sunlight and dry, elevated low pressure conditions of the mountains there is sublimation. Water vapor produced directly from ice.
Nope. The first thought that sprang to Tyndall’s mind: "Man did this by burning coal.”
Wait !! There’s more !!
The Maunder Minimum provided sustained overcast conditions. Damp and gloomy conditions produced several poor harvests in the late 1600s. In 1692 a fungus developed on rye crops in New England. It caused allergic and hallucinogenic reactions in the farm girls.
The Salem Witch trials ensued.
We haven’t progressed so very much further in understanding gloomy weather.
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Loss of Confidence Caused by Media Gaslighting
Timothy Birdnow
Proof people are really stupid and have the attention span of gnats:
Gaslighting by the media to the contrary all of the numbers show a strong, vibrant economy, yet the public is fooled by the doom and gloom of the media into believing it's the Great Depression all over again.
The media did this to George H. W. Bush; they created a recession by talking about how a recession was coming and eventually the public believed it. This led to the election of Bill Clinton and the nation began a slow, horrible decline that has only just now been reversed.
This is all based on University of Michigan data.
FTA:
"Many consumers blame the Iran conflict for unfavorable changes to the economy,” the survey’s director, Joanne Hsu, wrote in a report about the survey. Consumers responded by saying they now expect inflation to rise 4.8% in the next year, a full percentage point jump from March’s survey.
Consumer sentiment is a closely watched economic indicator given that consumer spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product each year. The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index previously registered a 6% decline in March, with declines seen across all ages and political parties,
The University of Michigan index reading was even lower than it was during 2008’s Great Recession when consumers were forced to confront harsh economic conditions that resulted from massive defaults in the housing and financial sectors and was also lower than it was during former President Joe Biden’s administration, when inflation peaked at 9.1% following the passage of massive spending bills on COVID and the climate.
The consumer price index increased 0.9% in March, pushing the annual inflation rate to 3.3%, largely due to a 10.9% spike in energy costs resulting from the war in Iran.
The annual rate reading was the largest recorded since April 2024 and increased from 2.4% in February, CNBC reported. Gasoline prices skyrocketed by 21.2% in March as the Strait of Hormuz, a major route for shipping oil, remains largely closed due to the war, accounting for three-quarters of the inflation increase.
Inflation is still quite low and came in below expectations. And wages are up. And the job market improved.
But the media won't tell anyone about any of that. This is gaslighting.
You know what this is like? Most of the gloomy numbers are FORECASTS. Just like the climate models which wind up not describing reality, these are predictions, prophecies by political actors and not actual discussions about the numbers themselves. The fact is inflation is far lower now than under Joe Biden (9%) and all the other numbers are doing much better.
Wars often lead to economic booms, I might add, and not economic downturns. The downturns usually come after a war is over, like the economic depression of 1919 or the brief return of the Great Depression after in the late forties.
Don't believe this; it's just a lie. But sadly a lie can succeed if nobody makes it their mission to call it out.
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Number of Republicans Supporting Amnesty Rises
Timothy Birdnow
The number of Republican House members supporting the amnesty bill is now up to 19 as the "Dignidad Act" makes it's way through a Republican Congress utterly determined to lose the next election..
The Litany of shame is:
Rep. Michael Lawler (R-NY)
Rep. David G. Valadao (R-CA)
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA)
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO)
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN)
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE)
Rep. Young Kim (R-CA)
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Rep. James Baird (R-IN)
Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)
Del. Kimberlyn King-Hinds (R-MP-At Large)
Del. James Moylan (R-GU-At Large)
Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-TX)
Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY)
Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL)
Rep. Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA)
Rep. Zachary Nunn (R-IA)
Mike Lawler, when pressed by Laura Ingraham, began mumbling about "people in the shadows" as it that is a cogent argument for legalizing millions of scofflaws who had such little respect for us they simply wandered in and stole our jobs and social services.
Uh, if they are here illegally they belong in the shadows - or in their ow countries.
As Ingraham pointed out, there is no way to vet the claimants to the amnesty and they will, of course, have Democrats telling them what to say to stay in the country, and Demoocrat judges hearing their cases. This is a Charlie Foxtrot, only without any lube, at least for the American People.
The vast majority of Americans oppose amnesty for illegal aliens.
So the Republicans are kowtowing to their big monied interests and breaking the promise they made to the citizens in this country. And six month before the midterm elections to boot. They didn't even have the good sense to wait until after November.
They are complete idiots; all they are doing is abetting their own eventual extinction by empowering a solid Democrat block, and they are too short-sighted to grasp that fact. All these fools care about is the campaign funding they will get from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
No doubt they figure Mike Johnson will kill this, and if not it won't pass the Senate (it may well) and if not Trump will veto it. Perhaps but they just told America they are snakes, not to be trusted.
Even a strong majority of Hispanic voters hate amnesty for illegals.
These RINO Quislings in the GOP need to go.
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China Sends Out Her Navy
Timothy Birdnow
When the cat's away the mice will play.
They won't use this as an opportunity to, say, seize Taiwan; that would risk getting into a real war. But they want to make it clear they are there and the U.S. may not be the star countries want to hitch themselves to for protection.
And who knows? They may want to send those ships to the Persian Gulf to try to threaten the U.S. After all, this war is strangling their economy.
I would point out the Bible says that Armageddon would see "The King of the East" invade with an Army of 200 million. Now why would anyone do that? Well, assuming China is that king it would be an obvious move if the Strait of Hormuz was blocked and they wanted to open it.
The stage is rapidly being set for the Apocalypse.
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DUI's While Sober
Timothy Birdnow
Increasingly you can get a DUI without drinking or doing drugs as Police tighten the screws and hand them out based on "field tests".
I remember how it all began. It came all at once, with expose's in every newspaper and on television and so I knew there was something rotten in the state of Denmark. Prior to the birth of a major media blitz there were laws against D.W.I. (which morphed into D.U.I. because they wanted to make it easier to arrest people and the standard for being actually drunk was 1.5% blood alcohol in the seventies) but you had to actually be drunk to get arrested. This campaign changed all that with a precautionary principle.
Now it's starting to come out that people are being arrested for DUI with NO blood alcohol at all, just based on "field sobriety tests" by cops who are under intense pressure to issue the lucrative charges.
It costs a LOT of money to get out of a DUI these days - and it makes a lot of money for the local authorities.
I would add the rise of ride sharing companies has greatly reduced the number of DUI's so the authorities have to find a way to make up for the shortfall some way. That was is to charge as many people as possible (and usually white people; they aren't going to risk stopping black folks in this day and age) and hoping they don't all contest the charges.
I ran afoul of such practices when I was in college. I was stopped by a local cop (who had a vanity plate on his car "DUI King") and ordered to say the alphabet starting in the middle. I knew three different alphabets and used the Russian one far more than the English. Naturally, with all the flashing lights and cars whizzing by, I mixed them up and wound up being taken to the police station for a breathalyzer. I eventually got let go but the point is these tests are not that helpful. I am mindful of a Steve Martin movie where he was ordered to do field sobriety tests "hop on one leg while singing the star spangled banner and touching your nose" "now do summersaults". Yeah; it's kind of like that.
"Damned, your drunk tests are hard!"
At any rate they suspended basic Constitutional rights with the whole DUI campaign, such as the fourth amendment. Sobriety checkpoints are an utter abomination for civil rights and yet the courts found a "compelling state interest" that they said overrode the Constitution.
Look, I get it; we DO have a compelling state interest in getting heavily intoxicated or drugged out people from behind the wheel lest they kill someone. I am in no wawy arguing for zero enforcement. But "buzzed driving is drunk driving" as the campaign slogan says is not always correct. I knew a guy who never drank at all and he had one (count them ONE) gin and tonic at a bar and he drove his car just next door to his motel (he was on a business trip with some of his employees) and he got stopped and arrested and has a DUI on his record.
This was always about money and control. The Ruling Class wanted to test to see if they could push this far and they could.
The DUI push began about the same time as the anti-smoking campaign and was done for identical reasons and that wasn't the public health. They have largely ended smoking in America and drinking and driving is way down. That was proof of concept. It's why they dared to pull the Covid lockdowns, these lesser measures had worked so now it was time to see if they could manipulate the public into giving up even more of their freedoms.
The Left never sleeps and everything that comes up in the media needs to be examined for it's ulterior motive.
At any rate the arrests of people not guilty of any crimes was inevitable with this and we should not be at all surprised by it. This was never really about the public safety. (If it was about safety they would support the local police and want to arrest really dangerous drivers, but most of them are exempt, usually because of their ethnicity.)
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Colorado Businesses Ask for the Boot to be Taken Off their Throats
Timothy Birdnow
Pointing and laughing "ha ha"!
Colorado has lost 13,000 jobs since 2022 as a result of their California dreamin' and the businesses that are still in the Rockies are demanding the government tone down the wokism and heavy regulatory schemes of the Democrats in Denver...
98 companies have relocated from the state and 34 public corporate headquarters have split.
This is what "democratic socialism" breeds. The Democrats in Colorado are running out of other people's money.
According to the article:
More than 200 business and civic leaders signed a letter to Gov. Jared Polis, Sen. John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, and Democratic gubernatorial candidates Michael Bennet and Phil Weiser. It warns of dire consequences if Colorado doesn't become a more welcoming place for job creators.
Fat chance getting anywhere with that motley crew of Bolsheviks.
(Full disclosure; I knew John Hickenlooper's brother from high school. His family were wackos, even if George was a good guy. George went to Hollywood and got blacklisted for refusing to felate a bigshot Hollywood producer. George - a talented filmmaker - never amounted to that much because of that and he made a film called The Low Life about it. If you ever get a chance to watch it do so. George became fairly conservative and voted Republican after reality smacked him in the head.)
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Attempt to Assassinate Sam Altman
Timothy Birdnow
Echoes of the assassination of Bruce Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare.
This is what happens when you no longer condemn political violence.
Not the Bee theorizes the assassin's AI girlfriend broke up with him. Maybe. More likely the nerd made a move on it and got shot down by the machine. "Never in a million years...."
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