May 27, 2025
The Weeping Man
Timothy Birdnow
The increased feminization of men.
This is a very womanly type of thing, calling friends to wish them a good night. Men don't do this sort of thing.
That's why the Left wants them doing it; it's just another thread pulled out of masculinity. I suppose next they'll have us all saying "I love you" to drinking buddies, and not when they are at the bar.
The article speaks of emotional connections. THAT is our problem in modern America; we have too many emotional connections. People don't have any real problems these days; they chase after their emotions. Americans have become narcissistic and weepy and pathetic. The male virtues, which we need now more than ever, have been eclipsed by the therapeutic cultture which values weakness and emotionalism.
Frankly, if a friend of mine called to wish me a good night I'd ask him what closet he came out of. But if he called to call me an SOB I'd be content.
No wonder the American testosterone levels are dropping precipitously; we are all acting like teenage girls now.
The increased feminization of men.
This is a very womanly type of thing, calling friends to wish them a good night. Men don't do this sort of thing.
That's why the Left wants them doing it; it's just another thread pulled out of masculinity. I suppose next they'll have us all saying "I love you" to drinking buddies, and not when they are at the bar.
The article speaks of emotional connections. THAT is our problem in modern America; we have too many emotional connections. People don't have any real problems these days; they chase after their emotions. Americans have become narcissistic and weepy and pathetic. The male virtues, which we need now more than ever, have been eclipsed by the therapeutic cultture which values weakness and emotionalism.
Frankly, if a friend of mine called to wish me a good night I'd ask him what closet he came out of. But if he called to call me an SOB I'd be content.
No wonder the American testosterone levels are dropping precipitously; we are all acting like teenage girls now.
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Elephants All the Way
Timothy Birdnow
Increasingly animal rights is becoming a legal matter.
How?
Recently the Colorado Supreme Court had to rule elephants are not people. My question is, how was this case ever in court? Elephants cannot file the peitition themselves, and nobody else had standing.
This is PRECISELY what standing is intended for; to keep third parties from intervening in legal matters that do not concern them.
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And this while every attempt to deny personhood has been made in the case of fetuses. The hypocrisy and inconsistency off the Left is breathtaking.
And yet a fetus is a human being. It will turn into that remarkable entity if given time and the right environment and proper care. An elephant or a gorilla will never be anything but an elephant or gorilla. (BTW Gorillas are the smartes of animal, smarter than elephants, and yet they eat their own waste and wander around naked, humping a female whenever it suits their fancy. I would speak to Orcas but they are pretty much the same.)
What makes someone human? DNA first off. (It's amazing how the Left hates that inconvenient little molecule.) There are many other aspects of humanity though; our intellect, even of the stupidest of us, is WAY above the smartest animal. It's high enough to where we have free will, and can and must make all sorts of choices. (It's not so high we lose free will beause we always know the right answer.) Animals don't do that; they live by their instincts. Intelligence may help them solve basic problems but that's the extent of it. Animals do not progress. There is no culture of animals that changes and grows. There is no improvement of animal technology.The life of an elephant is pretty much the same as the life of it's parents and this goes back all the way. Only environmental changes matter to the beasts. They do not have cultural or political or technological changes because they do not think, not the way humans do. It seems doubtful there is any introspection among them. They lack hopes and dreams - they just are. Their existence is entirely bound by their circumstances and the NOW. They do not live in past, present, and future as do humans.
They may have some sort of love but you won't find it being as complex a thing as human love. The Greeks had 7 different words for love and all of them meant something different. I rather doubt elephants have agape love, or any of the more distinct forms. Yes, they have eros, and probably Philia, but it's doubtful they had any of the rest.
And while they can communicate with one another in some fashion they lack formal language and thus cannot communicate complex ideas as do we. Humans have a specific speech centers in the brain known as the Wernicke's and Broca's areas, among a few others. No animal has that. Animals CAN communicate and Gorillas have been taught to use basic sign language, but it's always pretty simple stuff. Research on Chipmonks showed they have a kind of language and can communicate things like color. But they can't possibly communicate things like Relativity theory or Shakespearean sonnets.
Animals do not create or enjoy music.
Animals do not laugh. Whether they have a sense of humor or not is questionable too. I believe my cats did,but I can't prove it. At any rate there are no Jewish comedians in the animal kingdom.
Animals do not write. Animals do not make fire. Animals do not worship. I don't know if animals have a sense of the existence of God or not, but they clearly don't do anything about it. Only Man seems to be cognizant of God and practices religion.
Some animals do have crude funeral rituals, but they don't seem to be much. Elephants do have graveyards, but they don't bury their dead; they are content to just let the flesh of their fathers and mothers and children rot in a big pile of bones.
I could go on but the point is made; there is a distinct differnce between "personhood" which is a way to get around the non-human nature of critters, and being human. (Personhood,by the way, has long been the philosophical argument used by leftists to justify abortion and euthenasia both. They claim sound minds are necessary for "personhood" which frees them from the moral obligations of human beings - thus putting them into the class of animals, which also do not seem to be too constrained by any moral code.)
And there is absolutely no reson for any court of law to hear such cases. Until an elephant can actually sign it'sname to a legal complaint the point is moot.
Of course the elephant can't take the witness stand and raise it's right hand when so instructed either.
This is all part of the desacrilizing of Mankind. We used to rightly understand we were not animals except in the basics of our flesh. But there are those who rejected Christianity, indeed, all religions and thus they must drag us down to the mud. The only way we can operate a society run by "the best and brightest" without restraint is to make Man no differnt than the animals. Man is not a glorious spirit, a little less than the angels, inside a physical body but rather the body and the corporeal universe is all there is and they intend to prove this by giving "personhood" to animals. If their view becomes the majority view then they can do anything to anybody at any time. The only restrictions are those a majority of people agree with, or which the oligarchical rulers of society allow. If you are a guy who wants to be a girl so be it! Natural law and the sacredness of humanity doesn't enter into the decision, nor does accepting any role put forward by nature. We can kill human beings if we deem them non persons (remember the Holocaust) which makes ruling the public a lot easier. In fact you can be a god unto yourself if you follow this route; just will it so! But to get to that point one first must reject anything beyond this immediate existence. Raising up animals to equality with Man is simply another tool of the Devil.
Well, if we are to give elephants rights then I insist they take the same responsibilities as we all must bear. They should pay taxes. They should be forced to go to jury duty. They should have to register for the draft (I suppose Hannibal drafted elephants in his army, but I rather doubt the animals registerd for it first.) They should have to wear clothing, defecate in private, and obey all pedestrin traffic laws.
Somehow I suspect they won't be able to do that.
The reality is our society has become batcrap crazy and the very fact we are pushing animal rights is proof of that. Animals do not have rights. Humans have responsibilities for treating animals ethically. There is a huge difference.
Increasingly animal rights is becoming a legal matter.
How?
Recently the Colorado Supreme Court had to rule elephants are not people. My question is, how was this case ever in court? Elephants cannot file the peitition themselves, and nobody else had standing.
This is PRECISELY what standing is intended for; to keep third parties from intervening in legal matters that do not concern them.
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The Colorado Supreme Court did not hear from the elephants directly. They heard from the Nonhuman Rights Project, which filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of the pachyderms, arguing that their confinement in a Colorado Springs zoo violated their right to bodily liberty.
Over the past decade, the Nonhuman Rights Project and several other animal rights groups have waged a novel campaign to extend legal "personhood" to animals, which would allow them to be plaintiffs in civil lawsuits. Many of these cases have attempted to free large, charismatic animals such as elephants and chimpanzees from zoos under the great writ of habeas corpus, which allows individuals to challenge unlawful imprisonment.
Other courts around the world have recognized fundamental rights for animals. In Pakistan, the Islamabad High Court declared in 2020, in the case of a shackled and mistreated elephant, that it "is a right of each animal, a living being, to live in an environment that meets the latter's behavioral, social and physiological needs." In 2022, Ecuador's Constitutional Court ruled that animals were subject to "rights of nature" enshrined in the country's constitution. And last year, indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands signed a treaty recognizing whales as legal persons.
Critics scoff that this amounts to little more than absurdist lawfare and that legal recognition of animal personhood would almost certainly empower busybody environmentalists—and might not even improve conditions for the animals. There are also public pressure campaigns and existing legal avenues that could improve animal welfare without attempting to shift one of the bedrock principles of Western law.
But the question at the heart of these cases—whether a nonhuman entity can have a cognizable liberty interest—has surprisingly deep implications, not just for animals but for human freedom and flourishing. Research into artificial intelligence (AI) may eventually run into similar ethical considerations.
Over the past decade, the Nonhuman Rights Project and several other animal rights groups have waged a novel campaign to extend legal "personhood" to animals, which would allow them to be plaintiffs in civil lawsuits. Many of these cases have attempted to free large, charismatic animals such as elephants and chimpanzees from zoos under the great writ of habeas corpus, which allows individuals to challenge unlawful imprisonment.
Other courts around the world have recognized fundamental rights for animals. In Pakistan, the Islamabad High Court declared in 2020, in the case of a shackled and mistreated elephant, that it "is a right of each animal, a living being, to live in an environment that meets the latter's behavioral, social and physiological needs." In 2022, Ecuador's Constitutional Court ruled that animals were subject to "rights of nature" enshrined in the country's constitution. And last year, indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands signed a treaty recognizing whales as legal persons.
Critics scoff that this amounts to little more than absurdist lawfare and that legal recognition of animal personhood would almost certainly empower busybody environmentalists—and might not even improve conditions for the animals. There are also public pressure campaigns and existing legal avenues that could improve animal welfare without attempting to shift one of the bedrock principles of Western law.
But the question at the heart of these cases—whether a nonhuman entity can have a cognizable liberty interest—has surprisingly deep implications, not just for animals but for human freedom and flourishing. Research into artificial intelligence (AI) may eventually run into similar ethical considerations.
And this while every attempt to deny personhood has been made in the case of fetuses. The hypocrisy and inconsistency off the Left is breathtaking.
And yet a fetus is a human being. It will turn into that remarkable entity if given time and the right environment and proper care. An elephant or a gorilla will never be anything but an elephant or gorilla. (BTW Gorillas are the smartes of animal, smarter than elephants, and yet they eat their own waste and wander around naked, humping a female whenever it suits their fancy. I would speak to Orcas but they are pretty much the same.)
What makes someone human? DNA first off. (It's amazing how the Left hates that inconvenient little molecule.) There are many other aspects of humanity though; our intellect, even of the stupidest of us, is WAY above the smartest animal. It's high enough to where we have free will, and can and must make all sorts of choices. (It's not so high we lose free will beause we always know the right answer.) Animals don't do that; they live by their instincts. Intelligence may help them solve basic problems but that's the extent of it. Animals do not progress. There is no culture of animals that changes and grows. There is no improvement of animal technology.The life of an elephant is pretty much the same as the life of it's parents and this goes back all the way. Only environmental changes matter to the beasts. They do not have cultural or political or technological changes because they do not think, not the way humans do. It seems doubtful there is any introspection among them. They lack hopes and dreams - they just are. Their existence is entirely bound by their circumstances and the NOW. They do not live in past, present, and future as do humans.
They may have some sort of love but you won't find it being as complex a thing as human love. The Greeks had 7 different words for love and all of them meant something different. I rather doubt elephants have agape love, or any of the more distinct forms. Yes, they have eros, and probably Philia, but it's doubtful they had any of the rest.
And while they can communicate with one another in some fashion they lack formal language and thus cannot communicate complex ideas as do we. Humans have a specific speech centers in the brain known as the Wernicke's and Broca's areas, among a few others. No animal has that. Animals CAN communicate and Gorillas have been taught to use basic sign language, but it's always pretty simple stuff. Research on Chipmonks showed they have a kind of language and can communicate things like color. But they can't possibly communicate things like Relativity theory or Shakespearean sonnets.
Animals do not create or enjoy music.
Animals do not laugh. Whether they have a sense of humor or not is questionable too. I believe my cats did,but I can't prove it. At any rate there are no Jewish comedians in the animal kingdom.
Animals do not write. Animals do not make fire. Animals do not worship. I don't know if animals have a sense of the existence of God or not, but they clearly don't do anything about it. Only Man seems to be cognizant of God and practices religion.
Some animals do have crude funeral rituals, but they don't seem to be much. Elephants do have graveyards, but they don't bury their dead; they are content to just let the flesh of their fathers and mothers and children rot in a big pile of bones.
I could go on but the point is made; there is a distinct differnce between "personhood" which is a way to get around the non-human nature of critters, and being human. (Personhood,by the way, has long been the philosophical argument used by leftists to justify abortion and euthenasia both. They claim sound minds are necessary for "personhood" which frees them from the moral obligations of human beings - thus putting them into the class of animals, which also do not seem to be too constrained by any moral code.)
And there is absolutely no reson for any court of law to hear such cases. Until an elephant can actually sign it'sname to a legal complaint the point is moot.
Of course the elephant can't take the witness stand and raise it's right hand when so instructed either.
This is all part of the desacrilizing of Mankind. We used to rightly understand we were not animals except in the basics of our flesh. But there are those who rejected Christianity, indeed, all religions and thus they must drag us down to the mud. The only way we can operate a society run by "the best and brightest" without restraint is to make Man no differnt than the animals. Man is not a glorious spirit, a little less than the angels, inside a physical body but rather the body and the corporeal universe is all there is and they intend to prove this by giving "personhood" to animals. If their view becomes the majority view then they can do anything to anybody at any time. The only restrictions are those a majority of people agree with, or which the oligarchical rulers of society allow. If you are a guy who wants to be a girl so be it! Natural law and the sacredness of humanity doesn't enter into the decision, nor does accepting any role put forward by nature. We can kill human beings if we deem them non persons (remember the Holocaust) which makes ruling the public a lot easier. In fact you can be a god unto yourself if you follow this route; just will it so! But to get to that point one first must reject anything beyond this immediate existence. Raising up animals to equality with Man is simply another tool of the Devil.
Well, if we are to give elephants rights then I insist they take the same responsibilities as we all must bear. They should pay taxes. They should be forced to go to jury duty. They should have to register for the draft (I suppose Hannibal drafted elephants in his army, but I rather doubt the animals registerd for it first.) They should have to wear clothing, defecate in private, and obey all pedestrin traffic laws.
Somehow I suspect they won't be able to do that.
The reality is our society has become batcrap crazy and the very fact we are pushing animal rights is proof of that. Animals do not have rights. Humans have responsibilities for treating animals ethically. There is a huge difference.
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NPR Suing Trump
Timothy Birdnow
I thought the Federal Government cannot be sued unless it allows itself to be sued.
NPR Sues Trump Over Federal Funding
Sovereign Immunity grants blanket immunity from civil lawsuits.
And Article II of the Constitution grants abosolute immunity to the President from lawsuits while he is in office.
So by what right does NPR sue over ending funding? For that matter how have most of these lawsuits continued?
I'm no lawyer so maybe one can explain it to us? Anybody?
I suspect the judge they went to to file this with is the one who authorized the go-ahead. But by what authority does a minor judge allow this?
Our legal system is totally out-of-control.
I thought the Federal Government cannot be sued unless it allows itself to be sued.
NPR Sues Trump Over Federal Funding
Sovereign Immunity grants blanket immunity from civil lawsuits.
And Article II of the Constitution grants abosolute immunity to the President from lawsuits while he is in office.
So by what right does NPR sue over ending funding? For that matter how have most of these lawsuits continued?
I'm no lawyer so maybe one can explain it to us? Anybody?
I suspect the judge they went to to file this with is the one who authorized the go-ahead. But by what authority does a minor judge allow this?
Our legal system is totally out-of-control.
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Reopening Cases
Timothy Birdnow
The FBI is reopening several politically charged cases that the Biden DOJ had closed. They include the January 6 pipe bomb incident, the 2022 Supreme Court draft opinion leak, and the 2023 cocaine discovery inside the White House.
We need more than jawboning and hearings. We need answers. We need prosecutions. We need prison sentences.
It's time for Bondi and Patel and Borngino to put up or shut up.
The FBI is reopening several politically charged cases that the Biden DOJ had closed. They include the January 6 pipe bomb incident, the 2022 Supreme Court draft opinion leak, and the 2023 cocaine discovery inside the White House.
We need more than jawboning and hearings. We need answers. We need prosecutions. We need prison sentences.
It's time for Bondi and Patel and Borngino to put up or shut up.
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Machine Farming
Timothy Birdnow
So, how does America find farm labor without brining illegal aliens in to do "the work Americans just won't do"?
Here's how:
John Deere Addresses Farm Labor Shortages with Autonomous Tractors
Innovation has always been the key to American success and mechanized farming was a big part of it. Amerian farmers make up just 2% of the population, way, way down from a hundred years ago, yet these same individuals feeed not only America but the whole world. Why? Because they worked out new ways of doing things, utilizing machines to turn a long, slow, laborious process into a relatively light and speedy one. Tractos made ploughing easy. Machines plant the grain. Machines harvest the grain, by and large. Yes, there are some crops that still require hand cultivation and harvesting, but there are fewer and fewer of them, and the only reason machines weren't invented to handle them is because we began letting in so much cheap labor that there was no pressure to do so. But now, with the alien labor drying up, Americans are going to find new ways of doing things. It's how we traditionally succeeded.
Take wineries. There are grape harvesting machines, but most winemakers don't want to use them. Why? These machines harvest grapes by smacking the grapevines, knocking the fruit off the vine and then sucking them up. This bruises and damages the fruit and the resultant wine tastes like it too. You can make cheap jug wine with that but not quality wine. So winemakers have to rely on hand harvesting, and in California that means illegal laborers. (In other states too.) But there is no reason why, with modern technology, a true robot grape picker cannot be produced, one that doesn't beat the grapes to pulp first. We have technology that would allow such a machine to recognize grape bunches and then send up a small saw to cut the bunches loose and then just move the bunches into a bucket. Just like a laborer only they don't have to be fed or watered or given rest breaks or paid. Sure; the machines would probably cost a lot, especially at first, but they would pay for themselves several times over. Nobody has built one because the need just didn't seem there as long as Mexicans and Central Americans were coming to do the job.
You know, slavery in the antebellum South had been dying out until Eli Whitney invented the cotton Gin. Cotton was a semi-precious material because it was full of seeds that had to be laboriously removed by hand. Whitney found a way to make cotton affordable, but he didn't find a way to harvest it by machine. The end result was cotton plantations had a terrible labor shortage, and so owning slaves became lucrative. It was well-recognized back then that slave labor was inefficient and immoral, but anyone who paid laborers to pick cotton was going to go broke; he couldn't compete with FREE labor. Slavery hollowed out the entire Southern economy. It disincentivized innovation, and it sucked away all decent jobs that poor whites could have taken. That is why the South was almost feudal in nature; vast plantations controlled much of the wealth and political power. All of this was on the backs of the slave economy, and that economy was only profitable because nobody had every invented a cotton-picking machine.
This mechanized tractor by John Deere is just the next step in the American agricultural revolution. And it is a welcome development indeed. It means we can end the wage slavery and feudal orderthat was being established in America to "do the work Americans just won't do".
So, how does America find farm labor without brining illegal aliens in to do "the work Americans just won't do"?
Here's how:
John Deere Addresses Farm Labor Shortages with Autonomous Tractors
Innovation has always been the key to American success and mechanized farming was a big part of it. Amerian farmers make up just 2% of the population, way, way down from a hundred years ago, yet these same individuals feeed not only America but the whole world. Why? Because they worked out new ways of doing things, utilizing machines to turn a long, slow, laborious process into a relatively light and speedy one. Tractos made ploughing easy. Machines plant the grain. Machines harvest the grain, by and large. Yes, there are some crops that still require hand cultivation and harvesting, but there are fewer and fewer of them, and the only reason machines weren't invented to handle them is because we began letting in so much cheap labor that there was no pressure to do so. But now, with the alien labor drying up, Americans are going to find new ways of doing things. It's how we traditionally succeeded.
Take wineries. There are grape harvesting machines, but most winemakers don't want to use them. Why? These machines harvest grapes by smacking the grapevines, knocking the fruit off the vine and then sucking them up. This bruises and damages the fruit and the resultant wine tastes like it too. You can make cheap jug wine with that but not quality wine. So winemakers have to rely on hand harvesting, and in California that means illegal laborers. (In other states too.) But there is no reason why, with modern technology, a true robot grape picker cannot be produced, one that doesn't beat the grapes to pulp first. We have technology that would allow such a machine to recognize grape bunches and then send up a small saw to cut the bunches loose and then just move the bunches into a bucket. Just like a laborer only they don't have to be fed or watered or given rest breaks or paid. Sure; the machines would probably cost a lot, especially at first, but they would pay for themselves several times over. Nobody has built one because the need just didn't seem there as long as Mexicans and Central Americans were coming to do the job.
You know, slavery in the antebellum South had been dying out until Eli Whitney invented the cotton Gin. Cotton was a semi-precious material because it was full of seeds that had to be laboriously removed by hand. Whitney found a way to make cotton affordable, but he didn't find a way to harvest it by machine. The end result was cotton plantations had a terrible labor shortage, and so owning slaves became lucrative. It was well-recognized back then that slave labor was inefficient and immoral, but anyone who paid laborers to pick cotton was going to go broke; he couldn't compete with FREE labor. Slavery hollowed out the entire Southern economy. It disincentivized innovation, and it sucked away all decent jobs that poor whites could have taken. That is why the South was almost feudal in nature; vast plantations controlled much of the wealth and political power. All of this was on the backs of the slave economy, and that economy was only profitable because nobody had every invented a cotton-picking machine.
This mechanized tractor by John Deere is just the next step in the American agricultural revolution. And it is a welcome development indeed. It means we can end the wage slavery and feudal orderthat was being established in America to "do the work Americans just won't do".
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The Russians AREN'T Coming
Timothy Birdnow
Russia is building up her military forces in a move that is making Finland very nervous.
The Fins have confirmed a major expansion of Russian forces along their border with Finland, and the Fins - a NATO member - are taking appropriate action.
What does this tell us?
It tells us that 1.Russia is probably worried about NATO sending trooops into the region via Finland, an o bvious attack route. If not a direct invasion route it at least is a good covert operation base.
2. It suggest Russia may be getting serious about negotiating a settlement and may trying to put up a show of force to get the Euroweenies to back off during negotiations. It has been Europe that has thrown monkey wrenches into prior peace negotiations.
Does Russia plan to invade Finland? How. They couldn't even take out Ukraine. Finland is a much more modern society and has full NATO membership.
No, this is either an act to secure a vulnerable flank, or it's a negotiating tool, or it's both. But the Russians have to know they do not have the manpower to fight a two front war right now. And they know they can't tackle NATO. Putin may be crazy (as Trump recently stated) or more likely is tactical (just as Trump is happy to be thought crazy by his enemies) but even he can't argue with basic mathematics. The Russians cannot do this; it's mathematically impossinle.
According to Statista:
NATO has 3.3 million.Also, it has been expressed by many NATO members that the organization should send troops into the war. Is it any wonder the Russians are securing their northern flank?
Russia has been begging allies for trooops for some time now to aid them in their fight with Ukraine, and North Korea in particular has sent troops in to fight for Mother Russia. Russia has over half a million troops tied up directly in the war at present.
So how could Russia possibly invade Finland? They cannot spare the resources and manpower.
Not that the Fins aren't correct in worrying about it or in preparing for it. You prepare for war so you don't have to fight. But I see no way the Russians would dare make such a move given their war machine is pretty well exhausted and they STILL haven't crushed Ukraine. THAT is their primary objective, or at least winning the peace.
Russia is building up her military forces in a move that is making Finland very nervous.
The Fins have confirmed a major expansion of Russian forces along their border with Finland, and the Fins - a NATO member - are taking appropriate action.
What does this tell us?
It tells us that 1.Russia is probably worried about NATO sending trooops into the region via Finland, an o bvious attack route. If not a direct invasion route it at least is a good covert operation base.
2. It suggest Russia may be getting serious about negotiating a settlement and may trying to put up a show of force to get the Euroweenies to back off during negotiations. It has been Europe that has thrown monkey wrenches into prior peace negotiations.
Does Russia plan to invade Finland? How. They couldn't even take out Ukraine. Finland is a much more modern society and has full NATO membership.
No, this is either an act to secure a vulnerable flank, or it's a negotiating tool, or it's both. But the Russians have to know they do not have the manpower to fight a two front war right now. And they know they can't tackle NATO. Putin may be crazy (as Trump recently stated) or more likely is tactical (just as Trump is happy to be thought crazy by his enemies) but even he can't argue with basic mathematics. The Russians cannot do this; it's mathematically impossinle.
According to Statista:
The Russian Armed Forces had 3.57 million troops as of 2025, with 37 percent of them, or 1.32 million, being active military personnel. Two million were reserve service members, and 250,000 were paramilitary forces.
NATO has 3.3 million.Also, it has been expressed by many NATO members that the organization should send troops into the war. Is it any wonder the Russians are securing their northern flank?
Russia has been begging allies for trooops for some time now to aid them in their fight with Ukraine, and North Korea in particular has sent troops in to fight for Mother Russia. Russia has over half a million troops tied up directly in the war at present.
So how could Russia possibly invade Finland? They cannot spare the resources and manpower.
Not that the Fins aren't correct in worrying about it or in preparing for it. You prepare for war so you don't have to fight. But I see no way the Russians would dare make such a move given their war machine is pretty well exhausted and they STILL haven't crushed Ukraine. THAT is their primary objective, or at least winning the peace.
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The Limp Wrists of Hollywood
Timothy Birdnow
"So Johnnie, do you like movies about gladiators?"
Gladiator2 Actor Cheers Hollywoods War on Alpha Males and Traditional Masculinity
You know, Hollywood has always been full of effeminate men and radical homosexuals. They all want a limp-wristed America. But so too do our enemies. It would behoove China, say, to promote the feminization of American men. China puts a lot of cash into American films.
BTW the quote at the start is from the movie Airplane where Peter Graves, the plane's pilot, is speaking to the young boy who came to visit the cockpit. He also asks him "have you ever seen a grown man naked" and "have you ever been in a Turkish prison". Back in 1980 we could still joke about such things.
"So Johnnie, do you like movies about gladiators?"
Gladiator2 Actor Cheers Hollywoods War on Alpha Males and Traditional Masculinity
You know, Hollywood has always been full of effeminate men and radical homosexuals. They all want a limp-wristed America. But so too do our enemies. It would behoove China, say, to promote the feminization of American men. China puts a lot of cash into American films.
BTW the quote at the start is from the movie Airplane where Peter Graves, the plane's pilot, is speaking to the young boy who came to visit the cockpit. He also asks him "have you ever seen a grown man naked" and "have you ever been in a Turkish prison". Back in 1980 we could still joke about such things.
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Calling Us Terrorists
Timothy Birdnow
The Biden Administration labeled anyone who opposed Covid vaccine mandates as potentially violent extremists granting DHS, the FBI, and the Counterterroism Center the authority to treat everyday Americans as possible domestic terrorists and to spy on them and run other investigations of them.
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This is more like the Stasi or KGB or Gestapo than American law enfforcement agencies.
See, we have this niggling little thing called the Constitution. I know it's passe' but it's still there. And in that document we have a few guaranteed rights, like the right to freedom of speech, freedom of "the press" meaning what we write, and the right to be secure in our houses, persons, papers and effects. We cannot be spied upon without a warrant.
All of these guaranteed rights were broken here.
And for what? To promote an untested, unproven drug that may or may not have worked (it didn't) and may or may not have been dangerous (it was).
Interesting; I do not see forced vaccinations as one of the enumerated powers of the United States government, nor the authority to suppress dissent from a health or scientific viewpoint.
Heads not only need to roll, but need to roll into the bottom of a pit outhouse.
The Biden Administration was tyrannical, there is no other word for it. Had America elected Harris how far down the road of authoritarianism would we have gone? We would have the Chicoms trying to catch up with US.
The Biden Administration labeled anyone who opposed Covid vaccine mandates as potentially violent extremists granting DHS, the FBI, and the Counterterroism Center the authority to treat everyday Americans as possible domestic terrorists and to spy on them and run other investigations of them.
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Newly declassified documents released Friday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard show that federal agencies under the Biden-Harris administration labeled Americans who opposed COVID-19 mandates as potential "Domestic Violent Extremists” (DVEs), sparking new scrutiny over the government’s response to political dissent during the pandemic.
The documents, first obtained by Public and Catherine Herridge Reports, reveal that the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) jointly produced an intelligence assessment on December 13, 2021, titled "DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates.”
The reports declassified by @DNIGabbard suggest the Biden administration’s political goals, such as full compliance with the COVID vaccine mandates, drove intelligence collection requirements so that raw data would reinforce, not undercut the policy.
This approach… https://t.co/eWgiEo7mtu
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) May 23, 2025
Former FBI agent Steve Friend told Public that the DVE label gave federal authorities an "articulable purpose” to initiate assessments on individuals—a preliminary step in launching investigations.
The documents, first obtained by Public and Catherine Herridge Reports, reveal that the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) jointly produced an intelligence assessment on December 13, 2021, titled "DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates.”
The reports declassified by @DNIGabbard suggest the Biden administration’s political goals, such as full compliance with the COVID vaccine mandates, drove intelligence collection requirements so that raw data would reinforce, not undercut the policy.
This approach… https://t.co/eWgiEo7mtu
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) May 23, 2025
Former FBI agent Steve Friend told Public that the DVE label gave federal authorities an "articulable purpose” to initiate assessments on individuals—a preliminary step in launching investigations.
This is more like the Stasi or KGB or Gestapo than American law enfforcement agencies.
See, we have this niggling little thing called the Constitution. I know it's passe' but it's still there. And in that document we have a few guaranteed rights, like the right to freedom of speech, freedom of "the press" meaning what we write, and the right to be secure in our houses, persons, papers and effects. We cannot be spied upon without a warrant.
All of these guaranteed rights were broken here.
And for what? To promote an untested, unproven drug that may or may not have worked (it didn't) and may or may not have been dangerous (it was).
Interesting; I do not see forced vaccinations as one of the enumerated powers of the United States government, nor the authority to suppress dissent from a health or scientific viewpoint.
Heads not only need to roll, but need to roll into the bottom of a pit outhouse.
The Biden Administration was tyrannical, there is no other word for it. Had America elected Harris how far down the road of authoritarianism would we have gone? We would have the Chicoms trying to catch up with US.
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Make America Fed Again
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone who's old enough remembers the '80's ad campaign by Wendys with the old woman who is looking at her "hamburger" "where's the beef!"
So, where IS the beef?
New USDA Report Paints Troubling Picture for America’s Cattle Industry
This Zeero Hedge article leans extensively on a USDA report which is saying tariffs and other measures to bring back beef production to the U.S. is leading to shortages at the moment, shortages that will end as we rebuild our industry.
Of course, this fails to mention the war on beef, one waged by the Biden Administration, that decimated the industry. Biden's camp told us we should eat bugs and veggies and not beef.
We know there have been multiple attacks on the cattle industry. Take the case of Cliven Bundy, the rancher whose family had grazed cattle on land owned by the government for decades. The government decided he couldn't do it anymore, and he did it, and there was a military standoff and eventually death and jail time. Bundy was the most dramatic case of it's kind but you know full well the Feds have been doing this for years now, systematically squeezing the family ranch.
There are other issues at work too. For instance, most states have property taxes. And with more people - and more money - those taxes continue to rise. Eventually ranchers can't afford to own the giants ranches they need to keep their cattle fed. Taxes take it away from them.
I would add my great grandmother wasn't a rancher but a farmer in southern Missouri and she lost her farm in just this way; taxes went up and she had to sell it piecemeal to pay them.
In fact I was just watching a marathon of Yellowstone this weekend and that is the premise of that show; the Dutton ranch was beset by investors who wanted to take the land by hook or by crook, and one of the tools to do it was building stuff to drive the taxes up and make ranching economically unviable.
At any rate the internationalists have largely succeeded:
Another point to ponder; American ranchers have been unable to sell beef in Europe and elsewher thanks in no small part to the overuse of antibiotics and radiation to sterilize the meat. So we simply stopped raising the beef and started importing more of it from places without these regulations and procedures.
We have to start raising cattle hormone and antibiotic free, or as free as possible anyway.
While it's easy to blame the ranchers for this the fact remains the FDA has a tight grip on the handling of beef, from the field to the table, and the ranchers are doing all of this primarily to provide a product that comports with the health and safety regulations imposed by the Federal Government.
I've written about how the government squeezes the dairy industry, a closely related industry. Regulations have always been at the root of the problems in cattle and dairy farming.
As has the desire to force Americans to stop chewing the fat. I wrote about it here.
We've all heard the phrase "an army moves on it's stomach" and that is true; a well-fed army will be strong - a hungry army will not. But it applies to society in general; a well-fed nation will prosper, a starving nation will be in the stone age.
which is why the first thing Japan did when it decided to break it's isolation in the 19th century and modernize was stabilize it's farming, stabilize and modernize food production. The Japanese did NOT start building industries first, or arms manufacturing plants, as so many nations that tried and failed to modernize attempted. They concentrated first on food. And it worked beautifully; now Japan is a First World nation. And it grew strong enough to threaten the United States itself. All of that was because they wwere wise enough to make sure everyone had enought good food to eat.
Food is the very heart of civilization, and in fact civilization was founded around agriculture. Everyone could be well-fed and happy, own things and be comfortable, provided the farms and ranches could be protected. The old way of wandering around hoping to find food or steal it from others faded away as the agricultural revolution gave us a superior way of life. In the final analysis all Man's proud civilization was because of a desire to fill our bellies.
And with the way the Left has tried to change our diets, tried to reduce our "footprint" so the world can become what we labored for it not to be, we were on our way to deindustrialization. Hatred of industrialization was at the root of the utopianism of the Left. Having rejected God and the hope of Heaven the Left seeks to create paradise on Earth, and to do that they must believe there WAS a paradise on Earth. They have stolen many things from Christianity; a belief in a paradise that was and a fall from grace by Man as he rejected the joys of the natural in favor of agriculture and technology, and a dream of restoring paradise by destroying the forbidden works of Man, so Mother Earth can restore some mythical balance.
But it's all lies; Nature never was beneficient. Naature is pure material, doesn't care if we live or die, and in fact order is much harder to achieve than disorder (entropy) so everything breaks down, falls apart. A food source we enjoy now simply disappears as minute changes occur. It's why civilization was created in the first place. Civilization is a war against entropy.
As Hobbes observed, Nature is sharp of claw. In a state of nature one lives a pitiable existenOce; hot in summer, cold in winter, wet when it rains. Hungry, thirsty, naked. Food is scarce and often tainted with disease. Ditto water. People die young; by their mid thirties a stone age person is pretty much geriatric. No medical care.
It was not Heaven; it was hell.
Hell is what these people seek to restore, and killing beef was their prime objective for now. If they could kill beef they could systematically kill off all meat. Bugs woud replace meat, then even the bugs would be protected.
But where does it stop? I can easily see a movement to ban eating plants too. What right have we to kill plants? Aren't plants a part of nature too?
Teh Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is ultimately where such thinking leads; Human beings should simply 86 themselves "for the good of the planet". Then an empty world can continue to spin around the sun without the molestation of Man!
And all of this starts with beef. Beef is the Original Sin to many of these moonbats.
So let us rebuild American beef, reconstruct the ranches and Make America Fed Again!
Anyone who's old enough remembers the '80's ad campaign by Wendys with the old woman who is looking at her "hamburger" "where's the beef!"
So, where IS the beef?
New USDA Report Paints Troubling Picture for America’s Cattle Industry
This Zeero Hedge article leans extensively on a USDA report which is saying tariffs and other measures to bring back beef production to the U.S. is leading to shortages at the moment, shortages that will end as we rebuild our industry.
Of course, this fails to mention the war on beef, one waged by the Biden Administration, that decimated the industry. Biden's camp told us we should eat bugs and veggies and not beef.
We know there have been multiple attacks on the cattle industry. Take the case of Cliven Bundy, the rancher whose family had grazed cattle on land owned by the government for decades. The government decided he couldn't do it anymore, and he did it, and there was a military standoff and eventually death and jail time. Bundy was the most dramatic case of it's kind but you know full well the Feds have been doing this for years now, systematically squeezing the family ranch.
There are other issues at work too. For instance, most states have property taxes. And with more people - and more money - those taxes continue to rise. Eventually ranchers can't afford to own the giants ranches they need to keep their cattle fed. Taxes take it away from them.
I would add my great grandmother wasn't a rancher but a farmer in southern Missouri and she lost her farm in just this way; taxes went up and she had to sell it piecemeal to pay them.
In fact I was just watching a marathon of Yellowstone this weekend and that is the premise of that show; the Dutton ranch was beset by investors who wanted to take the land by hook or by crook, and one of the tools to do it was building stuff to drive the taxes up and make ranching economically unviable.
At any rate the internationalists have largely succeeded:
5th Generation Cattle Rancher Steve Lucie: I think at this point, we should be all-in on what's happening… We have the lowest beef herd that we've had since 1950 and that's because so many people have gotten out of the industry. If we could've exported more of our beef, I don't… pic.twitter.com/Hmkq30KmYa
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 7, 2025
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 7, 2025
Another point to ponder; American ranchers have been unable to sell beef in Europe and elsewher thanks in no small part to the overuse of antibiotics and radiation to sterilize the meat. So we simply stopped raising the beef and started importing more of it from places without these regulations and procedures.
We have to start raising cattle hormone and antibiotic free, or as free as possible anyway.
While it's easy to blame the ranchers for this the fact remains the FDA has a tight grip on the handling of beef, from the field to the table, and the ranchers are doing all of this primarily to provide a product that comports with the health and safety regulations imposed by the Federal Government.
I've written about how the government squeezes the dairy industry, a closely related industry. Regulations have always been at the root of the problems in cattle and dairy farming.
As has the desire to force Americans to stop chewing the fat. I wrote about it here.
We've all heard the phrase "an army moves on it's stomach" and that is true; a well-fed army will be strong - a hungry army will not. But it applies to society in general; a well-fed nation will prosper, a starving nation will be in the stone age.
which is why the first thing Japan did when it decided to break it's isolation in the 19th century and modernize was stabilize it's farming, stabilize and modernize food production. The Japanese did NOT start building industries first, or arms manufacturing plants, as so many nations that tried and failed to modernize attempted. They concentrated first on food. And it worked beautifully; now Japan is a First World nation. And it grew strong enough to threaten the United States itself. All of that was because they wwere wise enough to make sure everyone had enought good food to eat.
Food is the very heart of civilization, and in fact civilization was founded around agriculture. Everyone could be well-fed and happy, own things and be comfortable, provided the farms and ranches could be protected. The old way of wandering around hoping to find food or steal it from others faded away as the agricultural revolution gave us a superior way of life. In the final analysis all Man's proud civilization was because of a desire to fill our bellies.
And with the way the Left has tried to change our diets, tried to reduce our "footprint" so the world can become what we labored for it not to be, we were on our way to deindustrialization. Hatred of industrialization was at the root of the utopianism of the Left. Having rejected God and the hope of Heaven the Left seeks to create paradise on Earth, and to do that they must believe there WAS a paradise on Earth. They have stolen many things from Christianity; a belief in a paradise that was and a fall from grace by Man as he rejected the joys of the natural in favor of agriculture and technology, and a dream of restoring paradise by destroying the forbidden works of Man, so Mother Earth can restore some mythical balance.
But it's all lies; Nature never was beneficient. Naature is pure material, doesn't care if we live or die, and in fact order is much harder to achieve than disorder (entropy) so everything breaks down, falls apart. A food source we enjoy now simply disappears as minute changes occur. It's why civilization was created in the first place. Civilization is a war against entropy.
As Hobbes observed, Nature is sharp of claw. In a state of nature one lives a pitiable existenOce; hot in summer, cold in winter, wet when it rains. Hungry, thirsty, naked. Food is scarce and often tainted with disease. Ditto water. People die young; by their mid thirties a stone age person is pretty much geriatric. No medical care.
It was not Heaven; it was hell.
Hell is what these people seek to restore, and killing beef was their prime objective for now. If they could kill beef they could systematically kill off all meat. Bugs woud replace meat, then even the bugs would be protected.
But where does it stop? I can easily see a movement to ban eating plants too. What right have we to kill plants? Aren't plants a part of nature too?
Teh Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is ultimately where such thinking leads; Human beings should simply 86 themselves "for the good of the planet". Then an empty world can continue to spin around the sun without the molestation of Man!
And all of this starts with beef. Beef is the Original Sin to many of these moonbats.
So let us rebuild American beef, reconstruct the ranches and Make America Fed Again!
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Thank You Vets!
Timothy Birdnow
To all who gave their lives tto keep America safe, thank you!
Let's actually remember what the memorial is all about on Memorial Day.
While we should thank every veteran we especially must keep the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice dear in our hearts. We have what we have today thanks to them.
God bless you all!
To all who gave their lives tto keep America safe, thank you!
Let's actually remember what the memorial is all about on Memorial Day.
While we should thank every veteran we especially must keep the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice dear in our hearts. We have what we have today thanks to them.
God bless you all!
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Russian Orthodox are Real Men!
Timothy Birdnow
Interesting; Russian Orthodoxy is growing by leaps and bounds in no small part because it values masculinity.
Young US men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'
You can tell by the tone of this (an article from teh BBC) that the authors fear and disapprove of this. That says it's on the right track to me.
Men need to reclaim their masculinity. For a long, long time now men were told masculinity was evil and we should be ashamed of being men. We have told that the idea is to be girlish. In fact, so many have been told this that we've seen a huge rise in transgenderism as young boys realize there is no future in being male and so try to join the other team. What is lacking, and has been lacking, is an unapologetic defense of masculinity and the virtues therein.
We used to understand those. When I was a kid we had the Boy Scouts whose mission was to inculcate those values in young boys so they would grow into decent, God fearing men. Such men were the backbone of society.
Is it any wonder society is incrasingly in a mess at a time when masculinity is despited and discouraged?
And that no doubt played a part in the election of Trump, who is clearly testosterone fueled, unlike the limp-wristed candidates the GOP put forward in days of yore.
So I say Godspeed to the Orthodox church and the men who are reclaiming our God-given male heritage.
Interesting; Russian Orthodoxy is growing by leaps and bounds in no small part because it values masculinity.
Young US men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'
You can tell by the tone of this (an article from teh BBC) that the authors fear and disapprove of this. That says it's on the right track to me.
Men need to reclaim their masculinity. For a long, long time now men were told masculinity was evil and we should be ashamed of being men. We have told that the idea is to be girlish. In fact, so many have been told this that we've seen a huge rise in transgenderism as young boys realize there is no future in being male and so try to join the other team. What is lacking, and has been lacking, is an unapologetic defense of masculinity and the virtues therein.
We used to understand those. When I was a kid we had the Boy Scouts whose mission was to inculcate those values in young boys so they would grow into decent, God fearing men. Such men were the backbone of society.
Is it any wonder society is incrasingly in a mess at a time when masculinity is despited and discouraged?
And that no doubt played a part in the election of Trump, who is clearly testosterone fueled, unlike the limp-wristed candidates the GOP put forward in days of yore.
So I say Godspeed to the Orthodox church and the men who are reclaiming our God-given male heritage.
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Their Cup Runneth Over
Timothy Birdnow
Booze in Saudi Arabia? Yes, it's really coming!
Saudi Arabia to lift booze ban at 600 tourist locations by 2026 in bid to lure in holidaymakers ahead of World Cup
The trouble with the whole Middle East is that you can't get a good snort anywhere. Islam officially restricts alcohol, and without alcohol most tourists won't come. The region could be huge - certainly it's as dry and miserable in Las Vegas, and Vegas doesn't have nice seaside areas. But Vegas has booze and dancers and gambling, while Saudi Arabia has - camel burgers and veiled women and Jihadis.
Even National Lampoon couldn't find a way to make an interesting Vacation movie set there.
So this is probably a smart move, although it will no doubt infuriate traditionalists in Islam and lead some of them to question the House of Saud's control over the holiest sites in Islam.
Oh well; they can suck down a few and that will calm their anxiety nicely.
Booze in Saudi Arabia? Yes, it's really coming!
Saudi Arabia to lift booze ban at 600 tourist locations by 2026 in bid to lure in holidaymakers ahead of World Cup
The trouble with the whole Middle East is that you can't get a good snort anywhere. Islam officially restricts alcohol, and without alcohol most tourists won't come. The region could be huge - certainly it's as dry and miserable in Las Vegas, and Vegas doesn't have nice seaside areas. But Vegas has booze and dancers and gambling, while Saudi Arabia has - camel burgers and veiled women and Jihadis.
Even National Lampoon couldn't find a way to make an interesting Vacation movie set there.
So this is probably a smart move, although it will no doubt infuriate traditionalists in Islam and lead some of them to question the House of Saud's control over the holiest sites in Islam.
Oh well; they can suck down a few and that will calm their anxiety nicely.
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Lock and Key
Timothy Birdnow
Here's the way liberals solve a problem like breaking and entering.
Come July Keys Will be De-Facto Illegal in Minnesota
Yes, the state that brought you Tim Walz is going to make it illegal to own keys.
They have backdoored this in by passing a new law restricting the amount of lead in anything. Most keys have more lead than the law allows so - no keys!
Of course this helps cut down the crime rate by forcing people to leave their homes and cars open, thus making it impossible to "break and enter" since the door was open. This pads the crime stats in the Democrats' favor!
From the article in Reason:
Lead and cadmium poisoning from keys has never been an issue in society. This is nothing but a way to control the populace.
And even if it's not the reality is the government has no business sticking it's nose here. There is no compelling state interest involved.
This is the nanny state run amok.
On the other hand the good people of Minnesota keep electing crazies into high positions in state government so perhaps there IS a lead problem. Clearly a lot of Minnesotans have some sort of brain damage...
Here's the way liberals solve a problem like breaking and entering.
Come July Keys Will be De-Facto Illegal in Minnesota
Yes, the state that brought you Tim Walz is going to make it illegal to own keys.
They have backdoored this in by passing a new law restricting the amount of lead in anything. Most keys have more lead than the law allows so - no keys!
Of course this helps cut down the crime rate by forcing people to leave their homes and cars open, thus making it impossible to "break and enter" since the door was open. This pads the crime stats in the Democrats' favor!
From the article in Reason:
The purpose of that law was to remove dangerous heavy metals from products that come into contact with children. The trouble is that almost all keys sold today have more lead than the new law's 0.09 percent limit on lead content.
Locksmiths have been warning that the state's lead ban will outlaw most of the products they sell. Alternative metals would require lengthy and expensive transition to using less functional materials, they say.
"Approximately 75 percent of all products that we stock have become prohibited for sale," said Rob Justen of Doyle Security Products.
"Aluminum is too brittle," another locksmith told Valley News Live. "It breaks instead of bends, and it's not as easily machined as brass is. The same problem with steel, it rusts and it's much harder to machine."
Lawmakers have proposed a range of fixes, including raising the lead threshold to 1.5 percent for keys (which is California's standard) or, more modestly, delaying the ban for another three years.
But a legislative fix is not locked in yet.
Locksmiths have been warning that the state's lead ban will outlaw most of the products they sell. Alternative metals would require lengthy and expensive transition to using less functional materials, they say.
"Approximately 75 percent of all products that we stock have become prohibited for sale," said Rob Justen of Doyle Security Products.
"Aluminum is too brittle," another locksmith told Valley News Live. "It breaks instead of bends, and it's not as easily machined as brass is. The same problem with steel, it rusts and it's much harder to machine."
Lawmakers have proposed a range of fixes, including raising the lead threshold to 1.5 percent for keys (which is California's standard) or, more modestly, delaying the ban for another three years.
But a legislative fix is not locked in yet.
Lead and cadmium poisoning from keys has never been an issue in society. This is nothing but a way to control the populace.
And even if it's not the reality is the government has no business sticking it's nose here. There is no compelling state interest involved.
This is the nanny state run amok.
On the other hand the good people of Minnesota keep electing crazies into high positions in state government so perhaps there IS a lead problem. Clearly a lot of Minnesotans have some sort of brain damage...
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At Ease Disease - There's a Fungus Among Us
Timothy Birdnow
The Gang Green gets crazier all the time with this climate idiocy!
Climate change putting millions more people at risk from infection ...
Yes, they really are claiming a fungus will eat you out from the insde thanks to planetary warming. Odd; it didn't do it during the Medieval Warming Period. It didn't do it during the Roman Warming Period. It NEVER has done it before.
The prophecy (I won't call it anything but a prophecy, like what you might get at a fortune teller) argues Aspergillus flavus, a fungal infection that kills people in Britain, will metastasize and start killing everyone and we're all going to DIE!
But how will this fungi become so much more active when planetary temperatures are a scant 2*c warmer than the 20th century mean? Who actually believes any of this nonsense anymore?
Do notice they say the infections will increase in the future, but that is illogical; they should already be on the increase and it should be provable that it is warming alone causing such things. But of course this is, once again, the supremacy of models over nature.
We live in stupid times.
The Gang Green gets crazier all the time with this climate idiocy!
Climate change putting millions more people at risk from infection ...
Yes, they really are claiming a fungus will eat you out from the insde thanks to planetary warming. Odd; it didn't do it during the Medieval Warming Period. It didn't do it during the Roman Warming Period. It NEVER has done it before.
The prophecy (I won't call it anything but a prophecy, like what you might get at a fortune teller) argues Aspergillus flavus, a fungal infection that kills people in Britain, will metastasize and start killing everyone and we're all going to DIE!
But how will this fungi become so much more active when planetary temperatures are a scant 2*c warmer than the 20th century mean? Who actually believes any of this nonsense anymore?
Do notice they say the infections will increase in the future, but that is illogical; they should already be on the increase and it should be provable that it is warming alone causing such things. But of course this is, once again, the supremacy of models over nature.
We live in stupid times.
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Phil Robertson RIP
Timothy Birdnow
Rest in Peace my friend! You are now in Heaven with God.
Duck Dynasty Star Phil Robertson Passes Away
Rest in Peace my friend! You are now in Heaven with God.
Duck Dynasty Star Phil Robertson Passes Away
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Son of Covid!
Timothy Birdnow
China has just released announced a new strain of Covid and it's extremely painful.
According to the Epoch Times
FTA:
China has just released announced a new strain of Covid and it's extremely painful.
According to the Epoch Times
FTA:
Zhong Nanshan, one of China’s leading pulmonologists and epidemiologists, said in an interview with China-based media on May 19 that the "razor blade throat” symptom is more pronounced in this wave of resurgence, accompanied by more frequent coughing.
"Razor blade throat” is a term used in China to describe severe throat pain, akin to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades.
Dr. Li Tongzeng, director of the Infectious Diseases Department at Beijing You’an Hospital, told Chinese media that the new wave of COVID-19, which began in March, is expected to peak in late May.
According to Zhong, the dominant strain in this wave is the Omicron XDV variant, which is highly transmissible but relatively less virulent. Early symptoms include fever, headaches, fatigue, a burning throat, and severe coughing.
He believes the epidemic is still in the "climbing phase” and is expected to last six to eight weeks and subside by the end of June.
Chinese netizens described their painful experiences with this new strain on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform closely monitored by the Chinese regime.
Netizens shared comments such as: "During lunch time a few days ago, a colleague was coughing so wildly I thought she choked on food. She said it was a lingering effect from this COVID wave. When I asked about her main symptom, she said ‘razor blade throat.’”
Other comments include, "I’ve been hit with razor blade throat and feel completely drained.”
"Post-COVID razor blade throat is brutal—swollen, painful, and I can barely speak. Any quick remedies?” another one read.
A female Beijing resident, infected for nearly 10 days, told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times: "I had a fever, sore throat, yellow phlegm with blood streaks, nosebleeds, cough, sneezing, a runny nose, dizziness, and no energy. It’s terrifying—I sneezed once and my nose started bleeding, which scared me to death. This round of COVID is too severe.”
This is what Fauci has done to the entire world. He and the rest of his mad scientist scumbag friends need to be thrown in a dungeon somewhere and the key tossed into the Marianis trench.
"Razor blade throat” is a term used in China to describe severe throat pain, akin to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades.
Dr. Li Tongzeng, director of the Infectious Diseases Department at Beijing You’an Hospital, told Chinese media that the new wave of COVID-19, which began in March, is expected to peak in late May.
According to Zhong, the dominant strain in this wave is the Omicron XDV variant, which is highly transmissible but relatively less virulent. Early symptoms include fever, headaches, fatigue, a burning throat, and severe coughing.
He believes the epidemic is still in the "climbing phase” and is expected to last six to eight weeks and subside by the end of June.
Chinese netizens described their painful experiences with this new strain on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform closely monitored by the Chinese regime.
Netizens shared comments such as: "During lunch time a few days ago, a colleague was coughing so wildly I thought she choked on food. She said it was a lingering effect from this COVID wave. When I asked about her main symptom, she said ‘razor blade throat.’”
Other comments include, "I’ve been hit with razor blade throat and feel completely drained.”
"Post-COVID razor blade throat is brutal—swollen, painful, and I can barely speak. Any quick remedies?” another one read.
A female Beijing resident, infected for nearly 10 days, told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times: "I had a fever, sore throat, yellow phlegm with blood streaks, nosebleeds, cough, sneezing, a runny nose, dizziness, and no energy. It’s terrifying—I sneezed once and my nose started bleeding, which scared me to death. This round of COVID is too severe.”
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ANTIFA Attacks Christians
Timothy Birdnow
And here the Southern Poverty Law Center tries to claim there is RIGHT WING TERRORISM all over the country. But who is it who always does the attacking?
Christian Rally In Seattle Park Attacked By Violent Woke Mob
Violence is where people go when they can't win with words. It's why the Left always becomes violent; in time their words ring hollow, even with the help of a compliant media and academics. In the end they have to use violence to MAKE people accept their viewpoint. It's all they have in the end.
And here the Southern Poverty Law Center tries to claim there is RIGHT WING TERRORISM all over the country. But who is it who always does the attacking?
Christian Rally In Seattle Park Attacked By Violent Woke Mob
Violence is where people go when they can't win with words. It's why the Left always becomes violent; in time their words ring hollow, even with the help of a compliant media and academics. In the end they have to use violence to MAKE people accept their viewpoint. It's all they have in the end.
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Illegals on Medicaid
Timothy Birdnow
House Squeeker Mike "Tiny" Johnson says there are $1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid.
Is it any wonder the program is almost broke?
House Squeeker Mike "Tiny" Johnson says there are $1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid.
Is it any wonder the program is almost broke?
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May 25, 2025
The New World Order Tried to Kill Coal
Timothy Birdnow
Their hearts black as coal.
FTC, DOJ File ‘Statement of Interest’ Against BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard in Coal Manipulation Case
I'm not at all surprised; "climate change" is a religious belief system and these big, international speculators are every bit on-board with the internationalism that the creators of the climate scam hoped to achieve. Coal has long been the enemy of the Left, mainly because it makes America the King Arab; we have more coal than anyone and with it alone we would be energy inddependent. The climate scam is about knitting the world together economically, and then politically. The European Union was created this very way; it started as an economic entente' between Germany and France. The French came up with the idea of linking their two economies together so tightly the Germans would never attack them again. Other countries soon joined and the Common Market was created. Then the political union was consummated. Europe went from a continent of free, independent nations to a federation run from Brussels by a shadowy committee and while local matters are still run by the member states all serious policy is simply handed down by an autocracy. This is what they wanted for the world, to tie us all together economically so we had no choice but to unite behind the United Nations into a world government with a socialst economic model.
The plan was to make certain regions specialized and force everyone to trade. The Arabs and the Russians would be the energy sector, the Asians would be the manufacturing region, the U.S. the high tech zone. So America divested itself of manufacturing, outsourcing to countries designated as the manufacturers (in ASia and Latin America). Blue collar jobs disappeared, leaving the Democrats' power base unemployed and angry (thus electing Trump). We also hamstrung our energy production, locking up large swaths of land where oil and gas could be found, and by waging war via environmental regulations on coal. To trick America into doing this they promoted "climate change" and "green energy" which was intended to fail all along. Part of what the internationalists wanted was to reduce the standard of living in the U.S. and in Europe and Australia while the standard was rising in the Third World thanks to their being given our industries. Eventually we would have "equity" meaning we all would have identical income and standards of living. In the proces America would suffer and learn humility, that we have no right to hord our wealth and success and learn to share and share alike in the new socialist utopia. Punishing Americans was always part of the deal.
These big multinational corporations were always at the forefront (aka Vanguard) of this movement. They saw profits in it - many profits. And they wanted this world government so they were free to pursue their interests aborad without trouble from foreign governments or tariffs or whatnot.
So I am not at all surprised these outfits moved to restrain trade and to murder America's energy sector.
Godspeed DOJ! It's time to make these outfits pay for this crime.
Their hearts black as coal.
FTC, DOJ File ‘Statement of Interest’ Against BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard in Coal Manipulation Case
I'm not at all surprised; "climate change" is a religious belief system and these big, international speculators are every bit on-board with the internationalism that the creators of the climate scam hoped to achieve. Coal has long been the enemy of the Left, mainly because it makes America the King Arab; we have more coal than anyone and with it alone we would be energy inddependent. The climate scam is about knitting the world together economically, and then politically. The European Union was created this very way; it started as an economic entente' between Germany and France. The French came up with the idea of linking their two economies together so tightly the Germans would never attack them again. Other countries soon joined and the Common Market was created. Then the political union was consummated. Europe went from a continent of free, independent nations to a federation run from Brussels by a shadowy committee and while local matters are still run by the member states all serious policy is simply handed down by an autocracy. This is what they wanted for the world, to tie us all together economically so we had no choice but to unite behind the United Nations into a world government with a socialst economic model.
The plan was to make certain regions specialized and force everyone to trade. The Arabs and the Russians would be the energy sector, the Asians would be the manufacturing region, the U.S. the high tech zone. So America divested itself of manufacturing, outsourcing to countries designated as the manufacturers (in ASia and Latin America). Blue collar jobs disappeared, leaving the Democrats' power base unemployed and angry (thus electing Trump). We also hamstrung our energy production, locking up large swaths of land where oil and gas could be found, and by waging war via environmental regulations on coal. To trick America into doing this they promoted "climate change" and "green energy" which was intended to fail all along. Part of what the internationalists wanted was to reduce the standard of living in the U.S. and in Europe and Australia while the standard was rising in the Third World thanks to their being given our industries. Eventually we would have "equity" meaning we all would have identical income and standards of living. In the proces America would suffer and learn humility, that we have no right to hord our wealth and success and learn to share and share alike in the new socialist utopia. Punishing Americans was always part of the deal.
These big multinational corporations were always at the forefront (aka Vanguard) of this movement. They saw profits in it - many profits. And they wanted this world government so they were free to pursue their interests aborad without trouble from foreign governments or tariffs or whatnot.
So I am not at all surprised these outfits moved to restrain trade and to murder America's energy sector.
Godspeed DOJ! It's time to make these outfits pay for this crime.
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Leo Wants to Give Aid, Comfort to Enemy
Timothy Birdnow
The newly minted Pope Leo XIV is right in his compassion for the victims here, the People of Gaza, but he doesn't understand that all this does is drag the war on and cost more lives and suffering.
Pope Leo XIV Calls for Humanitarian Aid in War-Torn Gaza
He's just looking at this in a linear fashion, thinking "there are people suffering - we must help them" rather than "what is the best we can do for them?"
Remember, it's the people of Gaza and the West Bank who put Hamas in power, and even now support waging war on Israel. They are not beaten. Until they feel beaten, know the cause is lost and are prepared to make ERAL peace this will just continue year after bloody year. Sending in aid to make them more comfortable only makes them feel they still can win.
Sherman said it best "war is Hell". Lee echoed this when he said "it is good war is so terrible lest we grow too fond of it". Lee was not as ruthless as Mr. Sherman, who razed Georgia to the ground in his infamous "march to the sea". Sherman rightly understood that the war could never be won until the people themselves suffered such loss that they lost the will to resist. It was not kind, nor was it even remotely praiseworthy, but it was sound strategy. Sherman won, Lee lost. In the end there were probably more lives saved by winning quickly than fighting for every inch of ground against an unrepentent enemy.
The new Pope should know his American history but he was raised in Chicago so probably doesn't.
He called for humanitarian aid, but did not offer to do it himself. The Vatican is filthy rich and could easily finance this endeavor and in fact implement it with Vatican resources. But I notice Leo isn't suggesting he spend his own money - he wants the "international community" to take taxpayer dollars to finance the continuation of the war.
The Vatican's wealth is estimated at between $10 and $73 billion dollars, depending on who you ask. I suspect if you include their overall assets, such as real estate, that number is lilliputian. They can spare half a billion or so if this Pope really, truly believes this is the right course of action.
But that's not how liberals think; it's always government's job to fix every problem and throw good money after bad.
Been there, done that. We wasted a huge amount of money building infrastructure to get aid to the Gazans and in the end accomplished nothing. All we are doing is feeding Hamas.
I get it; Jesus told us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the sorrowful, etc. The Catholic Church is bound by the Corporal Works of Mercy. And we are suppoed to do good to our enemies.
But war is acceptable under some circumstances, and we are not required to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Gaza made their beds but do not want to lay in them now. I believe our Christian duty is to end this war as quickly as possible and that will only happen when Israel wipes Hamas out. Sending in "humanitarian aid" only strengthens their hand.
The newly minted Pope Leo XIV is right in his compassion for the victims here, the People of Gaza, but he doesn't understand that all this does is drag the war on and cost more lives and suffering.
Pope Leo XIV Calls for Humanitarian Aid in War-Torn Gaza
He's just looking at this in a linear fashion, thinking "there are people suffering - we must help them" rather than "what is the best we can do for them?"
Remember, it's the people of Gaza and the West Bank who put Hamas in power, and even now support waging war on Israel. They are not beaten. Until they feel beaten, know the cause is lost and are prepared to make ERAL peace this will just continue year after bloody year. Sending in aid to make them more comfortable only makes them feel they still can win.
Sherman said it best "war is Hell". Lee echoed this when he said "it is good war is so terrible lest we grow too fond of it". Lee was not as ruthless as Mr. Sherman, who razed Georgia to the ground in his infamous "march to the sea". Sherman rightly understood that the war could never be won until the people themselves suffered such loss that they lost the will to resist. It was not kind, nor was it even remotely praiseworthy, but it was sound strategy. Sherman won, Lee lost. In the end there were probably more lives saved by winning quickly than fighting for every inch of ground against an unrepentent enemy.
The new Pope should know his American history but he was raised in Chicago so probably doesn't.
He called for humanitarian aid, but did not offer to do it himself. The Vatican is filthy rich and could easily finance this endeavor and in fact implement it with Vatican resources. But I notice Leo isn't suggesting he spend his own money - he wants the "international community" to take taxpayer dollars to finance the continuation of the war.
The Vatican's wealth is estimated at between $10 and $73 billion dollars, depending on who you ask. I suspect if you include their overall assets, such as real estate, that number is lilliputian. They can spare half a billion or so if this Pope really, truly believes this is the right course of action.
But that's not how liberals think; it's always government's job to fix every problem and throw good money after bad.
Been there, done that. We wasted a huge amount of money building infrastructure to get aid to the Gazans and in the end accomplished nothing. All we are doing is feeding Hamas.
I get it; Jesus told us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the sorrowful, etc. The Catholic Church is bound by the Corporal Works of Mercy. And we are suppoed to do good to our enemies.
But war is acceptable under some circumstances, and we are not required to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Gaza made their beds but do not want to lay in them now. I believe our Christian duty is to end this war as quickly as possible and that will only happen when Israel wipes Hamas out. Sending in "humanitarian aid" only strengthens their hand.
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