May 22, 2026
Abiogenesis
This from Dr. Lyle Hancock:
A great challenge I tried to quantify (and failed) is when lightning strikes the primordial soup and produces both left hand and right-hand amino acids in equal numbers and in the same space, somehow the left and the right had to be separated and isolated such that they didn't come in contact and annihilate each other. All proteins of life on Earth comprises left-hand amino acid molecules. Since DNA didn't exist at the time to provide instructions to form a cell membrane to separate the two, I can't imagine how any non-symmetric process separated the two such that they would remain isolated long enough to become the very base building blocks of all life on Earth.
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Albrexit
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Hopefully the 51st U.S. state!
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Premier Danielle Smith says Albertans will be able to vote in the fall on whether they want the province to hold a binding referendum on separating from Canada.
In a pre-recorded speech broadcast Thursday evening, Smith said a question will be added to a provincewide referendum in October that will ask, "Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”
Smith said a vote in favour of separation doesn’t trigger the process, but will instead allow Alberta to start a legal process required to hold a binding referendum.
There had been a petition circulating to press for a vote to secede from Canada and a Court of Kigs judge (that would be a good name for a whiskey) suppressed it. Apparently Madam Smith was triggered by the court ruling and so is attaching this to a referendum that, if approved, will lead to an independence referendum. So typically Canadian - have a vote to decide if you are going to have a vote.
So what happens if Alberta does secede? The Dominion of Canada is likely to add so many herefors and wherefors and the like that the whole thing will collapse of it's own weight. The only logical course for the Albertans is to apply for annexation to the U.S. I doubt they will ever be an independent country. Canada will see to that.
Alberta is most dissatisfied with Mark Carney and his leftist agenda, particularly his Gang Green-ous policies that are preventing oil-rich Alberta from accessing their own province's wealthy.
Well, they are welcome here, and two Conservative Senators would be most welcome in these United States, as well as the oil. Granted, the whole thing might shift back to Bidenism, but adding them would certainly be a boon to us. After all, the Democrats are talking about making Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. into states so as to tip the balance of power - why shouldn't we do likewise? Alberta would be Trump country.
We'd be even more oil-rich than we are now, I might add.
Canada never made sense as a nation, and it's whole existence is predicated on their not being Americans. Nothing more binds them together. It's amazing the whole rotten structure has lasted as long as it has.
And I suspect if Alberta leaves the Dominion then so too will Quebec, which has long sought to do so. Quebec never did belong in Canada anyway; it is a Franco culture in a large Anglo one and has always demanded special privileges.
So Canada will probably break up. British Columbia would likely become a nation of it's own too, and Ontario will dominate the remains as Saskatchewan and Manitoba lack the population that Ontario has. So we may well get three separate countries out of secession, and the only good one will join us in the states. Canada will slip from a fourth rate power to a tenth rate power (not that anyone would notice) and the U.S. would just get stronger.
I'd like to have the Yukon Territory too. That would just be fun.
It's going to take a long time, but Brexit didn't happen overnight. The British are still fighting over it. Albrexit is an idea whose time has come.
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Putin Says He Will Support Cuba
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With what? Rocks?
How can Putin project any kind of power in the Western Hemisphere at this point?
Russia can't even take tiny Ukraine.
Putin is saying this to bolster his street cred while knowing Cuba is toast. He only came out now because it's too late and he figures he can at least get on record saying he condemns the U.S. actions.
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Terri Garr in Schlitz Commercial
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As I recently posted, Schlitz beer is done, going out like th Etzel. But here is something you all might really like, at least fans of Terri Garr:
She starred in a commercial for Schlitz beer back in the Sixties. Enjoy!
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Wisconsin WAS Paying SNAP to Illegals
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Did anyone doubt it?
We've been bribing aliens to come and stay for years now.
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Young Man Get's Throat Cut: Who's to Blame?
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No details given on the race of either, nor of any motive. How much you want to bet the victim is white and the attacker not so much?
I suspect the attacker may have sported a head covering and had Muhammed somewhere in his name. The fact the police refused to give any information out about this speaks volumes. In America, some are more equal than others and white males are about as low on that particular totem pole as you can get.
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UAE Half Done Building OIl Pipeline
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Good news!
I knew this had been an ongoing project but it was often stalled during more peaceable times because it was not needed. But since Iran closed the strait it became clear the UAE needed to finish this.
This will mean UAE port cities will flourish as tankers will pull up to them in the Gulf of Arabia to take on oil rather than cruise through the strait. This will mean Iran will not be able to impose a toll. This will be a prime target for the Iranians in the coming months, rest assured, if Trump doesn't take out all of their mid-range capabilities.
The idea of building a canal to cut off Hormuz has long been floated, but it would require crossing the mountains - which would mean locks - and those huge supertankers couldn't do it. The pipeline is easier in that the big tankers can offload oil there and another can pick it up on the opposite side. No muss, no fuss.
The new pipeline is halfway there.
At present the UAE has reactivated an old pipeline capable of moving about one and a half million barrels a day. That is woefully inadequate. The new pipeline will more than double this amount.
Twenty percent of the world's oil moves out of the Persian Gulf. Iran is holding all this hostage
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Talk of Economic Malaise Greatly Exaggerated
Timothy Birdnow
This is interesting; a new Fox poll suggests Trump and Republicans are in trouble over the economy.
From the article:
Polling by Fox News shows public sentiment on President Donald J. Trump’s economy is souring, with 77 percent of voters now describing the economy as being in bad shape, up from 73 percent last month and 71 percent a year ago. Only 23 percent view it positively, the lowest share in more than a year. Trump’s overall economic approval rating now sits at 29 percent, down from 34 percent in April. Inflation is his weakest area, with approval at only 24 percent—a drop from 35 percent in January. Even Republicans give Trump’s economic performance majority disapproval, at 51 percent, while among independents and Democrats, disapproval stands at 85 percent and 96 percent, respectively.
How can this be so? Inflation has not spiked,
unemployment is down over the last five year trend, wages are up, the stock market is up. In fact, the Dow just
hit a new record high. And while gas prices are up the cost of gasoline STILL is well under what it was during the Biden era. Yes, inflation has risen from 2.2% to 3.8% but that is a temporary spike caused by rising gas prices, and that is still well below the inflation rate under Joe Biden, who drove inflation all the way up to 9% at one point.
And we are expected to have more people traveling this Memorial Day that at any other time in history, which shows people have the money and are not feeling particularly worried about the economy.
The whole "affordability crisis" is a hoax, a psy-op, a gaslighting scheme. The public is doing very well, by and large, and the economy is strong no matter what people THINK. So why do they think it? Largely because they are being told there is an affordability crisis, that's why, and because most people have the memory of a gnat and have forgotten how much worse it was under Biden than now. All they know is gas prices are up and groceries haven't come down that much, but that was to be expected; we have to have DEFLATION for that, and deflation is even more destructive in many ways to inflation. It locks up lending. If you need to borrow money you will have to turn over your first-born to get credity in a heavily deflationary cycle.
That's why there was the whole "free silver" movement in the last nineteenth century. Farmers in particular were being creamed by tight credit; farmers always have to borrow, especially if there is bad weather and they are facing a poor crop. They couldn't get loans. So the Populists came along and promised to have some good old fashioned INFLATION and to do that they wanted to go off the gold standard and to a bimetallic standard, thus increasing the money supply. Increase the money supply and you increase inflation, thus ending the cycle of deflation. (BTW you get pay CUTS under deflation rather than raises. We were perilously close to deflation over the last year and that's why wages haven't gone up as much as we would like.)
Democrat William Jennings Bryan co-opted the Populist Party platform and gave his immortal "Cross of Gold" speech in which he likened the gold standard to the crucifix upon which the American People were being crucified. It made his name immortal but in the end all Bryan ever did thereafter was give variations of that speech. He didn't become President. (He DID become Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson and resigned in disgust at Wilson's determination to get us into WWI, but that's another story.)
At any rate we've been in a low inflationary period since Biden, and we've only had the inflation we have had because Congress has continued to blow vast sums of money, leading the Fed to be forced to print more or risk deflation and a lockup of capital markets.
Still, this is indeed a golden age, as Trump asserts, in many ways and our economy is certainly robust enough. But the media nad the "influencers" on Tik Tok and the other social platforms keep repeating the lie that the economy is in shambles.
I remember the George H.W. Bush re-election. The economy was fine but the media began repeating endlessly that we were going into a recession. This went on for months. Eventually we had a small recession as investors got spooked and Bill Clinton was able to capitalize on that "the worst economy in history". Or as Al Gore said "everything that should be down is up, and everything that should be up is down". Yes, and his hindquarters were up and speaking while his central nervous system was down where the aforementioned body parts were supposed to be.
The media can indeed create a recession out of whole cloth, just by talking the economy down. Bush Sr. was to obtuse to realize that was what they were doing - or too beholden to the old guard Republicans.
At any rate I do not believe many of the polls we are seeing these days. Case in point; a Rasmussen poll I posted about recently said the public solidly supports Democrats over Republicans where it comes to immigration. That is beyond at odds with reality; if Americans are truly that nuts our country is finished. No, I think it was a problem with the way the poll was run, with the algorithms. All pollsters use the same algorithms and when one changes they all change.
And always at this juncture before an election people are not telling pollsters what they truly believe but are often ranting just to feel better. That will change as the election nears and they actually start THINKING. Now it is all emotional bloviating.
We always see the Left doing fine in polls at this point; the polls tighten considerably as the election nears. Part of that is the pollsters don't want to be caught being that far off at election time so the public stops listening to them (and consultants stop hiring them.)
At any rate I think we are in better shape with the public on this issue than Fox News or the rest want to admit. Fox is showing their colors here, methinks, by spreading doom and gloom now. This is intended to try to force Trump to get in line with the GOP Establishment thinking, which of course dominates Fox. (Look at the board of directors there - Karl Rove and the other BUshites).
So chin up! We aren't doing as bad as they claim. At least I certainly hope not.
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Biden's Weaponized Lawfare Took all My Money and All I Got was This Lousy Tee-shirt!
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Another RiNO betrayal in the U.S. Senate.
So those whose lives were ruined, who were bankrupted, by the Biden DOJ which weaponized the law to punish political enemies are just supposed to like it or lump it then?
This is yet more proof there is a uniparty that values it's own power and privilege over doing what is right.
It must be understood that this fund was created to compensate all victims of lawfare.
J.D. Vance explained:
"Republicans can apply for it. Democrats can apply for it, If Hunter Biden wants to apply for this particular fund, he is welcome to."
And it is money that was awarded PERSONALLY to President Trump by the IRS in compensation for their leaking of his tax documents. Trunp could have kept it but he didn't.
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Senate Passes War Powers Resolution
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The Senate voted to implement the War Powers Act, with the recently deposed Bill Cassidy casting the deciding vote to demand the Trump Administration withdraw from Iran. Cassidy had previously opposed any pullout. (Goes to show he's just a petty douchbag who cares more about screwing Trump for not supporting him than about the good of the country.)
Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) Also voted for the measure. All three of these turncoats need to be primaried and removed from office.
Had Rand Paul just voted present the measure would have failed. Rand Paul is a fool, unable to differentiate a threat from any other policy.
Collins and Murkowski are just scumbags and idiots.
John Fetterman (D-Penn.), voted against it. Three Republicans, Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) were absent. I'm very disappointed with Tuberville;he is a good Senator and should not have missed this vote. Cornyn and Tillis were no surprise - they also are scumbag idiots.
Every serious political thinker knew Cassidy would flip as soon as he reached lame duck status, and he's going to remain a thorn in Trump's side until the next Congress. Ditto Cornyn. Tillis has been nothing but a thorn poking at the tender flesh all along and now that he's leaving Congress of his own volition he's going to really screw the American People. Next Year can't come soon enough.
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy justified it this way:
"Peace negotiations are stuck and so day after day after day grocery prices climb, gas prices climb.”
What kind of deal does he think we'll get if we remove all leverage? I mean, that is the stupidest thing a leader could say. We only have negotiations at all because of the threat of American power being exercised. Take that away and Iran will declare victory. We'll lose support from all our Gulf allies, and a number of others, who will realize American cannot protect them and will make a deal with Iran. I would add Murphy wasn't concerned when gas prices were higher than now under Joe Biden solely because of the Green movement and Biden's kowtowing to climate alarmism. Nor did he care about grocery prices back then.
He has zero alternative - just "must stop Trump".
One must ask, why are the Democrats and the fellow-traveler Republicans so hell-bent on ending this? If it is such a quagmire wouldn't that serve the Democratic interests? The American People would turn against the GOP and hand a landslide to the Democrats come November. And there is no way they are doing it out of principle and love of the American People. Covid and Green Energy and illegal immigration have shown the Democrats don't care so much about the public as about their political power. So they think ending this war will increase their political power. That means...
They know what Trump is doing is going to work. They've known it all along. They fear it because it will make Trump a war president, a VICTORIOUS war president. They fear that more than most things.
And certainly if we are not in a shooting match at the moment then it's not American lives they worry about. We aren't losing any right now. They should prefer the negotiations. But they complain about the negotiations and they complain about the military actions when those are ongoing. What they do not do is offer any constructive alternatives.
This measure will go to the House where it will be debated. Logically it will die there (we hope) but who knows? Mike Johnson should do what Schumer did with the impeachment of Mayorkas (Biden's Homeland Security Secretary); simply refuse to even allow it to come to the floor for a vote. I think he can do that. If not he's going to have to make it perfectly clear if any Republicans defect he's going to bring the Wrath of the Most High down on that person. This is too important.
The War Powers Act has never faced judicial scrutiny; no time like the present to settle that matter!
IF Tillis and Cassidy and the rest are so worried about all this why do they not start working on a declaration of war? That would solve any legal matters involving this. Naturally the Democrats wouldn't let it pass, which is why Trump didn't ask for a declaration. Also, it would bring Congress into the loop, and as we know from the Iraq War and other military ventures Congress cannot be trusted with this sort of information; they leak. Secrecy in war is absolutely vital.
Personally I wish Trump would not have paused the military operations against Iran. Iran is biding it's time, waiting for just this sort of reaction from the Quisling Congress. They know the elections are coming and all they have to do is hold on until them, with the GOP losing popularity over high gas prices every day. Democratic control of Congress means the end of any military action. And of course the War Powers Act could end it even sooner. They know this, which is why they keep stalling.
I wonder if Trump isn't waiting because of a technicality. I suspect he hopes to be able to say "the WPA no longer applies because there was too much time between hot actions". This way he'd have a justification to take it to SCOTUS right away. He doesn't want to argue the Act itself as unconstitutional (that may well not break his way) but the application of the Act. He may be looking for solid legal ground.
I don't know but time is not on our side here. We need this wrapped up soon so the economy can recover and the post-war boom will shatter the Democrats. Oh, and we will rid the world of a real danger to everyone, not just us.
To win a war you have to break the will of the enemy, make them FEEL defeated. The IRGC has yet to feel defeated, largely because we have yet to unleash the full might of our military on them. Until that happens they will jerk us around. There is no negotiated peace deal coming, at least not one Iran will honor. The only way that happens is if we destroy their infrastructure and bankrupt the whole country. I hate that it has to come to that but the Iranian theocracy set the rules of engagement that way. We have to play by their rules.
At any rate every Republican who voted with the Democrats needs to be punished in some way. Not sure how to do that to the retirees (willing or otherwise) but certainly that broad up in Alaska and the Maine-iac can be hurt through political pressure. But they must be punished one way or another. They require some squeezing.
If fools and children lead a nation that nation suffers. The Bible says that a nation gets the leadership it deserves, and that is why for so long we've had such horrible leadership. America got what it asked for. But we had enough righteous people in this country that God raised up a champion. Sadly he's fighting even against our erstwhile "friends". Rather like Nehemiah, who had to fight a lot of his own people to get the wall of Jerusalem rebuilt.
this is Man's work, and yet so many in Congress are silly children.
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Composting Burials
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The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle on your snout...
Yes, the Left is coming for your cemetery plot. They want to turn you into garden food.
Aldous Huxley would understand this perfectly; it's just what he predicted in Brave New World.
This shows no respect for the dead.
Basically they stuff you into a biodegradable bag - like a lawn waste bag - and fill it with nutrients to feed the worms so they gobble up your corpse. Then when you are ripe the flowers will grow dandily!
This is a kind of utilitarianism that the Left has always sought, to de-sacralize human life, make it just a natural process, no more worthy of reverence than the trees or the small animals. It's ultimately part of their war on God; by treating people as not made in God's image but as simple biological material they make God irrelevant and that is the whole point.
This proves that. How a civilization treats it's dead speaks volumes on who they are and what they believe. This is pure materialism and it certainly illustrates the fact there are those who want a purely materialistic society. Name just one great civilization that was purely materialistic; you can't because there are none. They die, to be replaced by those who have some sort of faith. Human beings require faith.
As do our dead. Purposely making them worm chow illustrates we are a decadent and decaying society. No question.
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Omar: Somali Fraud is TRUMP'S Fault
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Omar tries to shift blame to Donald Trump for the MEALS program her Somali homies looted.
Fox News Politics
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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Ilhan Omar breaks silence on Minnesota's Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, denying any knowledge of the scheme — then pointing the finger at Trump's USDA for setting the program's regulatory framework.
The Minnesota House committee tried to subpoena her. Democrats blocked it. The committee's final report says Omar's MEALS Act 'took the guardrails off' federal nutrition programs, making it nearly impossible to verify if children were actually being fed.
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars stolen. Omar calls it 'reprehensible.' Critics call her explanation 'revisionist history.'
Here is what Ilhan Omar had to say:
"Any claim that I had knowledge of this scheme is flat-out false,"
"The MEALS Act was signed into law by President Trump and passed with bipartisan support as part of a broader legislative package. Trump's USDA Secretary set the regulatory framework during the rollout of the program. I have always championed feeding kids and will continue to ensure our children do not go hungry."
And yet she refused to testify and Democrats blocked any subpoena. If she really has no connection to this (and the record shows a lot of communication between her office and the directors of the program) she would welcome the chance to testify. Hiding is the act of the guilty.
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Chicoms Opening Car Plants in Europe
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Why are they doing this? I would argue it is because they know the Europeans will never give up electric vehicles, being wholly wedded to the Green movement, and also because they believe Trump is an anomaly, and that when he is gone the drive to eliminate gas-powered vehicles will resume.
They may not be wrong.
From the article:
UBS analysts predict Chinese brands could control 35% of the global auto market by 2030, up from 25% this year, helped by China’s low-cost battery supply chain. Their report warned that foreign automakers face "structural market share loss” as competition intensifies.
Nikkei writes that building cars locally has become a practical way for Chinese companies to avoid tariffs and satisfy governments pushing for domestic manufacturing. BNP Paribas analyst James Kan said the strategy helps local economies "feel that they’re getting a cut,” making expansion politically easier.
Europe has become a key battleground. After facing steep EU tariffs, Leapmotor said it would source many components within Europe for production at Stellantis facilities. The company also plans to begin manufacturing in Brazil, where tariffs on imported EVs are set to increase again this summer.
Letting the Chicoms in is a crazy idea by any country there are always strings attached, and the Chinese will absolutely spy on their hosts, no question. It's putting a Fifth Column inside your country and if war breaks out you will have them to contend with. I would add it will be impossible to find labor to work at Chinese wages so they will have to be supplied with cheap labor from overseas - more immigrants to Europe to end the once proud Western culture.
But then the Europeans have had a death wish for generations now.
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May 20, 2026
Car Explodes Near Wall Street
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Terrorism?
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Might be. OTOH, it might be an EV. Those things are dangerous, as we well know. There have been many instances of them blowing up.
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It could be. Or it could be mafia. We need more information.
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War on White Farmers to Starve Africa
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How South Africa's war on white farmers is
about to starve half the African continent.
Most of Africa depends on food grown by the white folks down south.
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So they want to "penalize" the white farmers for being white. We've seen this movie before and it always ends the same way. The non-whites don't win. Gee, I wonder why not? I seem to remember it working out this way in Zimbabwe too.
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No Bull: Schlitz Beer is Finis
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Kind of sad, even though Schlitz was a horrible, horrible tasting beer.
The only worse tasting beer was Stag, in my humble opinion.
I'm surprised it lasted so long.
The title is referencing not regular Schlitz but it's malt liquor, which used a bull as it's mascot.
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"Schlitz -- the beer that made Milwaukee famous." And back then it wasn't bad, compared with the run-of-the-mill American piss-water beers. I preferred Blatz myself. Egad, I'm starting to think of all the brands that were around then: Carling's Black Label, Genessee, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and whatnot.
And now that we have a million really good craft brews, I can't imagine going back to any of those old terrible old standard brands that I used to torture my liver with.
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Yep; the old days there were lots of beers. St. Louis had like eighty breweries before Prohibition of varying quality. Samuel Adams was the Koch Brewing Company of St. Louis before closing and then reopening under the Sam Adams name in Boston. Some of the local brewpubs make some of these old beers from the formulas that survived and they are good or not so good. But it's fun to drink 'em regardless. I often though it would be fun to open an heirloom brewing company that did nothing but make the old beers from around here.
I remember Blatz but never tasted it. I remember all the others you mentioned too and had some of them and some not. There used to be so many; Griesedick, Stag, Lemp, Olympia, Old Milwaukee, Old Style, Hamms, Lone Star, etc. etc.
Yes, with the rise of craft beers the beer is much better. On the other hand all they seem to want to sell these days are IPA's, and over-hopped IPA's at that. The old style of IPA is largely gone for the super large comic book version. A lot of times I just want a simpler beer.
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In Dunkirk, NY, right next to my home town, there was the Fred Koch Brewery that produced pretty awful stuff: regular Koch and Koch's Golden Anniversary. The Finger Lakes area of New York produced Genessee beer, Genessee 12-Horse Ale and Genessee Cream Ale.
I ran afoul of Old Milwaukee once only, luckily. And I believe Lone Star is a Texas beer, one that you either love or hate. And let's not forget Pabst Blue Ribbon, which I believe is still available and which has a definite country music connotation.
If you happen to be in Minnesota, you'll find offerings from Schell's, the second-oldest continuously family owned and operated brewery in the country, producing a number of varieties under the Schell name such as Firebrick and Schmaltz's Alt (my favorite); unfortunately, to keep the place running they've had to also brew Grain Belt, a standard, uninteresting beer under license.
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Immigrant Stabs White Brit to Death - Police Arrest Victim
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White British citizens are now fair game and the authorities are treating them like criminals, even when they are the victims.
This story is astonishing; a Sikh man stabbed a young white Brit multiple times and when the police showed up they arrested the bleeding victim, handcuffing him while he bled out. They believed the assailant because, hey! Minorities are ALWAYS the victims!
The man died before an ambulance could arrive. The cops didn't call one until he was unconscious.
Standard procedure would be to take both men into custody but apparently these cops didn't think it necessary. I would add the police are not identified and probably for good reason; they are probably immigrants themselves.
CCTV footage shows the whole incident and it is clear who the assailant was. The poor young man - 18 year old Henry Nowak, was pursued down the street by Vickrum Digwa and stabbed multiple times. Digwa had not one but TWO ceremonial knives on his person. And no marks or scratches - just his hair was down and he claimed Nowak tore his turban off (which the security tapes show to be not true).
Digwa's mother was caught on camera removing the murder weapon.
And while it is illegal in Britain to carry a knife there is a religious exception that allows someone to carry one "for ritual purposes" and Digwa's two knives were both ceremonial blades.
So a religious minority can walk the streets armed but the Christian majority is completely disarmed. If poor Nowak had been in America he could have had a pistol and ended this with his life.
Britain is soooo screwed!
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Sheesh! A few years ago I was reading articles that said it was getting difficult to even buy decent cooking knives in the U.K., and chefs were beginning to complain big-time.
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Georgia RINO's Fall like Dominoes
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Another fraud denier in Georgia went down in flames.
Sterling had ties to an outfit called Landmark Communications, a Democrat grooming company. So too was Raffensperger. They helped Democrats win public office by running as Republicans.
Sterling mocked and sneered at Donald Trump for alleging vote fraud in Georgia, an allegations that has been proven to be true as the cover-up falls apart. Who was Sec. State then? Raffensperger. And his assistant, a woman appropriately named Fuchs (I know; it's probably pronounced FEWks, but I think the other pronunciation is more appropo) who was assistant SOS also went down in flames in the recent primary.
Georgia is cleaning up. Now if only we can get Brian Kemp.
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Jeffries Says He will Break the American People
Timothy Birdnow
We have to beat them electorally, and then we have to break their spirit because of the extremism that’s being unleashed on the American people that’s completely and totally unacceptable.
And that’s the approach that we’ve taken with respect to legislating on these discharge petitions.
And so while we have a responsibility to drive down the high cost of living and focus on the affordability agenda, we also believe that there’s an accountability agenda that the American people will expect, rightfully, for a separate and coequal branch of government to pursue, and led by Robert Garcia, who’ll do a great job.
Hakim Jeffries
So THEY are the ones fighting extremism, are they? Well, what does extremism mean? It means a militant assault by people far outside the mainstream.
So tell me, a guy who has a Nazi tattoo and masturbates in public restrooms is in the mainstream? That's who they are running for the U.S. Senate in Maine.
So an immigrant who married her brother to get him in the country illegally and who has her hand in a massive fraud scheme, defrauding taxpayers of billions, is in the mainstream?
So a party that once booed God during their convention is in the mainstream?
So Communists and socialists are in the mainstream?
So a party that wants unrestrained illegal immigration - something over eighty percent of Americans reject - is in the mainstream?
So a party that wants abortion on demand at any time, euthanasia, control of what people eat, of what they hear and see, that does not allow people to opt out of mandated vaccines and which forces medical insurance on everyone whether they want or need it or not, is mainstream?
It is Mr. Jeffries and his friends who are outside of the mainstream, and it is they who are the radicals, hell bent on destroying the country for their own power, enrichment, and aggrandizement.
So he want to break us, does he? I think rather it is his party that will be broken in the end, destroyed by the rocky shoals of the American public whom they show they despise.
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I'm with you, Tim. From every time I see his name in print, Hakeem (note the spelling) Jeffries is more and more of a -- well, I was going to say a turd, but that's a dirty word, and yet doesn't begin to describe him. How is it that the donkeys get people like him to represent themselves?
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Turd indeed. A mediocre mind too. But then he wouldn't be a Democrat if he had a good mind.
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Dixie Cups Lead Singer Back to Slam Trump
Timothy Birdnow
Anybody remember the Dixie Chicks? Anybody? Anybody at all?
Thought not. But they were a hugely popular country band back in the Bush Jr. era who blew up their career by attacking George W. Bush, saying they were ashamed he was from Texas.
They melted away into obscurity.
Anyway the lead singer of the Cups, er Chicks (they dropped Dixie, no doubt because they wanted to show their solidarity with the coastal elites) Natalie Maines decided to stick her hideous head out from the rock she crawled under all those years ago to launch a new attack - this time on President Trump:
"Our democracy is disappearing right before our eyes,This fugly sl*t is using your gas money to pay the insurrectionists.
But don’t worry about it, I’m sure posting selfies will fix everything.
My last post that called him a fugly sl*t got removed. We’ll see how long this one lasts.”
So she's learned absolutely nothing. And naturally her post is full of rage and zero substance to back anything she is saying up.
Seems to me our "democracy" (we don't have one; we have a limited republic) is doing just fine despite massive vote fraud efforts by the Democrats, legal warfare against political opposition, oppressive efforts by government such as shadow banning and other tricks to silence opponents, arrests and imprisonment to suppress enemies. She can't point to anything Mr. Trump has done that violates the Constitution, and anything she thinks may have done so has either been upheld by courts of law or Trump has withdrawn upon being ordered by courts of law.
Yeah; real attack on democracy! But the Biden Administration sure gave it the old college try.
How, pray tell, is Trump "using our gas money to pay insurrectionists"?
This old harpie needs to crawl back into the snakepit she crawled out of.
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