April 03, 2026
Vance Suspends Hundreds of Medical Facilities for Fraud
Timothy Birdnow
Previously 70 providers had been suspended in the Las Angelas area. The rest of these are also in the city of the angels.
This sort of thig is exactly why we put the Trump Administration in office.
Meanwhile Pam Bondi was sacked as AG. I suspect there is a link between these two events.
Bondi reminds me of Tom Hagen in The Godfather "you're not a wartime consigliere". She's a good lawyer and faithful but not up for this sordid business. We need a pirate now, a Blackbeard, and not a William Bligh (who was actually too soft despite what they movies portray).
Stopping all the graft and corruption is also the way to right the ship of state, which has been mired in all this corruption. I have little doubt the Democrats get a taste of every penny that is stolen in California, in Minnesota, in Ohio, in Virginia etc.
This more than anything is why the Democrats so hate Donald Trump; he's doing what no previous Administration had ever done, which is go directly after the funding of the Democrat machine.
The last guy to do something like this was Grover Cleveland and they despised him too.
So getting Bondi out and bringing charges against these corruptocrats will defund the enemy just when they need money most.
People need to go to jail. Party of why Trump's numbers aren't where we would like (he should be beloved right now) is because of this failure to go after criminal behavior by the Democrats (and some Republicans too). People look at that and think "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and so lump Mr. Trump in with all the rest, who protected the Establishment and set rules that were fundamentally different than the rules Americans lived under.
A big part of Trump's appeal was that he was an outsider, and he kept his promises. He has to do this or be seen as reneging on what he assured the American People. Oh, and it's good politics too.
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April 02, 2026
Carville Threatens Trump's Family
Timothy Birdnow
James Carville wants to go after Donald Trump's family if the Democrats take power in November.
Donald Trump had better take this seriously ands go after people like James Carville and his stupid Jack-faced kids.
I wonder if that's not why he sacked Biondi as AG; she wasn't going aggressively enough after the Democrats who plan another round of attacks on the President and his family.
Most of the more thoughtful Republicans excuse Biondi because "she couldn't get a conviction in court". But what would Democrats do? They would keep filing cases and forcing the enemy to respond, to waste resources, to waste time. "The prosecution is the punishment" they say. We need to go after them in an identical way, even if we lose the case. Drag their names through the mud and make them waste millions on attorneys and the like.
I know most of these cases wind up having to be filed in D.C. but try to find a way, any way, to file them in friendly courts outside of the power base of the Democrats. (Now we know why it's important to win the judgeships and to get a President who picks good ones.)
At any rate the Democrats are going to get very, very nasty if they regain power this fall. We need to make it clear that if they do this they will face the wrath of the Lord.
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Carville's fulminations against Trump have gone past their entertainment value and are now to the point of being dangerous. I don't know if Bondi's reluctance to prosecute him and dozens of other donkeys was what caused Trump to sack her, but the next AG had better be prepared to go after these people hammer and tongs. Threatening the president and his family is not child's play.
I was on my way to get an oil change today, and listening to Clay and Buck on the radio discussing the Bondi situation -- this was before she had been sacked but the threat was there. They had heard that Lee Zeldin was being discussed as a possible replacement, and were liking that, but thought a better possibility would be Ron DeSantis, who was approaching the end of his term as Governor of Florida and who was term-limited. I think that might be an even better idea. Zeldin currently has a good job in the administration.
They also suggested Sen. Ted Cruz but did not want to pull him out of the Senate, and I heartily concur on that idea!
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Yes, this is dangerous rhetoric and is approaching criminality, no question. Carville's words could cause harm to the President and the Secret Service should open an investigation of him.
I like the DeSantis idea. Zeldin is doing too well where he is right now to be pulling him out. And Cruz would be a terrible idea, given Texas is already getting dicey and the GOP may well not hold the seat if Cruz leaves.
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GOP Surrenders Again
Timothy Birdnow
So Mike Johnson earns my nickname for him "tiny" as he surrenders and promotes a bill identical to the crap sandwich that John Thune negotiated in a backroom deal just a short while ago.]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-passes-bill-fund-most-dhs-after-house-gop-caves
What is the point of electing Republicans if they don't have the stones to go the distance? Why were they worried about this when the Democrats weren't?
The GOP is nothing but a bunch of ball-less wonders.
Saul Alinsky said that if you push a negative long and hard enough it will break through and become a positive. That's what the Democrats did here. And on the flip side of this Sun Tzu said that opportunities multiply as they are seized and the corollary is they dry up when you let them slide by. The GOP has never understood that standing firm opens many doors for you but surrendering leaves you with few options.
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The Chosen (for Such a Time as These)
Jack Kemp (not the politician):
This is a short video posted below.. The speaker is obviously from India and he speaks of saving the Jews, but as Pres. Trump said this evening that he is saving all of us in the United States and around the world from the barbarity of the Iranian Mullas' plans and actions..
The Islamists have a saying, "First the Saturday People" (Jews with a Sabbath on Saturday). "Then the Sunday People" (Christians). That's who the Iranian regime wants to kill.
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I sent this video to Tim last night, after Jack sent it to me. Watching it, I became so excited I darn near spilled my drink. This Indian didn't go far enough -- perhaps the video was truncated -- and yes, Trump is flawed, reminding me of many flawed people the Lord sent into battle who triumphed. Consider Gideon, who was a coward but who was addressed by God's angel as a valiant man and who became one.
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God uses the flawed and Trump is clearly being used by Him. I don't think there is any doubt - and that is why there is such fury and hatred of the man. That always happens to those touched by God.
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Yes, that's true, Tim. And those people are also given great stamina by the Lord, which is why Trump can operate on such little amounts of sleep as he does. And that is another reason we all need to pray for him often. Every time I see him on TV he looks tired. He didn't, during his first term.
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April 01, 2026
Starmer Wants Back in E.U.
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting post that touches on something important. British Prime Minister Keir Stammer, er, Starmer is talking about de-Brexiting because he's ruined the British relationship with the U.S. over the Iran war and now wants to cozy up to Europe.
In other words he's going to use this crisis to get what he has wanted all along.
The British upper class loved the E.U. and was angry about having to leave that corrupt and useless body. They schemed to keep Britain in the Great Harlot before Brexit and are still scheming to get Britain back in. This despite the fact a majority of British citizens do not want to rejoin the oppressive and bureaucratic nightmare on the continent.
I say if Starmer wants to rejoin the E.U. let him; it will only finish what he and his cronies on the Left started in Lesser Britain.
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Oh... is there still an EU left over there? Who knew? It's true there's a NATO, although perhaps in name only. History is changing virtually every day, and much of Europe has refused to change along with it.
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Yep; they are like Peter Pan, unwilling to grow up. I don't blame them; they had a very easy time of it with us to protect them and help them while they could play with these giant welfare states and drink their wines or good beers and bemoan how uncouth the Americans are. Now we have someone unwilling to play that game any longer in power in the U.S. and they can't understand why we are mad about it.
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Starmer certainly is a midget compared with people such as Churchill and Lady Thatcher!
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A Mossy Little Ruling
Timothy Birdnow
It is largely a symbolic victory because Congress has defunded those leftist rags and there is no way the judiciary can compel Congress to fund them.
But it sets a precedent, a bad one. For one thing, the reasoning is terrible; they are saying government cannot violate the First Amendment rights of these "news" organizations, but how is this violating their first amendment rights? These outfits - and they aren't news agencies but rather propaganda outlets - are not being told what they can or cannot say, but rather that they have no right to stick their grubby paws in the pockets of taxpayers. Trump just told them they couldn't get any more free money. That is in no way a First Amendment issue. If One America News were getting federal subsidies and Joe Biden had cut them off none of us would dream of suing on that basis.
Oh,, the black robed jackass who made this ruling is Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee. Bet you didn't see that coming, did you?
This will probably be overturned on appeal, if the Trump Administration chooses to bother with it. They should; this strikes at the heart of the Executive Branch's authority to utilize funds wisely.
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Dem Mayor wants to Remove Mural of Murdered Ukrainian Immigrant
Timothy Birdnow
An illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record stabbed an Ukrainian immigrant to death on a Charlotte light rail car and this sparked an artist in Providence, Rhode Island to make a big mural to honor Iryna Zarutska. Only problem is the mayor of Providence - the "honorable" Brett Smiley -
wants it taken down as "divisive".
That's how little the Democrats care about victims of crime and victims of illegal aliens.
The mural is right outside a gay nightclub and is perhaps offensive to the patrons there.
At any rate the mayor is trying to take this thing down, which is an appeal for stricter laws and is backed by Elon Musk.
Smiley had this to say about it:
"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence,”
How so? It is merely a picture of Iryna. How is this "isolating"? Being murdered was pretty isolating for her, and no doubt her poor mother, both of whom immigrated from Ukraine to be safe from the war there.
So all the professed love of the Democrats is a farce; immigrants are only there for the benefits that can be derived by the Democrats. Oh, and since they were WHITE immigrants that automatically makes them bad.
This Smiley face fellow should be ashamed of himself.
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Italy Denies U.S. Permission to Land in Sicily
Timothy Birdnow
So
Italy just dissed us, refusing their NATO ally and friend and benefactor permission to land bombers in Sicily. This is a pretty stunning, brazen betrayal by a nation that was liberated with American blood and which to the present day relies on American military power to keep it safe.
We sought permission to land our bombers at the "Hub of the Med" Sigonella airbase and were refused permission by Italian authorities.
Considering we pay the lion's share of NATO it sure doesn't seem we're getting our money's worth. President Trump has made suggestions we may want to rethink our whole participation in NATO, an organization that was created to contain the Soviet Union, a nation that no longer exists.
Spain has also pulled this on us, denying us use of their airspace. And Britain was thinking about it but Trump made it clear our number one ally wouldn't be permitted to screw us in that fashion.
With friends like these...
Although we built this base we lease it from the Italians. And the contract stipulates we get permission from Rome for any actual warfare activities (as opposed to routine stuff). European countries all want American military bases because they bring a lot of American dollars into their economies. But when we need to actually USE the bases we get pushback like this. Maybe it's time to simply pull out of many of these European countries? Frankly, I think we should probably think about pulling out of NATO; it will collapse if we were to leave. We can make a new coalition "of the willing" to service our needs without carrying the deabeats. Deadbeats like Italy.
Italy is now saying that any request to use Italian airspace should be debated in Parliament first.
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Western Europe is on the fast track to total decline. I am sure this is Europes way of trying to smooth over its relations with Russia being as dependent as they are on Russian oil. The lack of involvement isnt being unnoticed by the oil producing Arabs and who is filling this gap, Zelensky. From the way its going Ukraine will come out as the biggest winner of this war. They are entering into 10 yr. agreements with 3 of the Arab states furnishing them with the expertise and hardware to combat Irans drones, the same drones used by Russia, and the knowledge they gained by breaking Russias blockade of their ports. In return the Arabs are giving oil and guarantees of future loans when the Western Europeans abandon Ukraine. The other loser is China. When they turned their ships around and told Iran it should surrender Iran retaliated by attacking the Chinese built oil facility in Kuwait. Iran also that day turned around 2 Chinese flagged ships. Big time face was lost over this move by Iran. Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize because the oil producing nations have sent their oil experts to Israel to explore the possibility of using Israeli ports as transfer stations for their oil. Times are changing and new friends are being made of old enemies as old friends are becoming new enemies.
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Excellent points all Mike. You have a fine grasp on the dynamics of this situation.
And don't forget all the Muslims in Europe and the Europeans are afraid of angering them by helping. Cowards.
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Trump's Plan to Attend SCOTUS Triggers Van Jones
Timothy Birdnow
"First of all, Donald Trump is doing the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong place for the wrong reason, as usual. The President of the United States has no business being in the Supreme Court. We have a separation of powers for a reason. It’s not just unprecedented, it’s unwise, it’s unbecoming, and it’s unfair for someone who appointed people to the bench to be sitting there mad dogging them, trying to get his way. This is a terrible idea. It’s a terrible argument.”
Van Jones, who enthusiastically supported Barack Obama, the man who showed up at SCOTUS to bully the justices into approving Obamacare:
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Really now???
"Presidents who have attended oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court:
John Quincy Adams (6th President)He attended oral arguments multiple times while he was President (1825–1829).
He continued attending even after leaving office, as he served in the House of Representatives.
Abraham Lincoln (16th President)Lincoln attended oral arguments at least once as President (in 1860, before his inauguration, and again during his presidency).
Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President)FDR attended oral arguments on at least one occasion.
William Howard Taft (27th President)Taft attended several times — both as President and later as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (the only person to hold both offices).
Modern Presidents:
No modern President (from Truman onward) has attended a Supreme Court oral argument while in office, with one notable exception:Barack Obama attended oral arguments once as President on March 26, 2012, for the landmark case NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare case). He sat in the VIP section with his Solicitor General."
There is a special designated seating area for the President in the SCOTUS hearing chamber.
I don't recall hearing Van Jones complain about that at the time.
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Would Van Jones have been happier if the POTUS had tried to bully the justices this time? As it was, he kept his mouth shut, which certainly could not have been easy for him. Since he did, I can't see that Jones, or anyone else, has anything to gripe about.
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Exactly. He just attended the hearing (and there is always a chair reserved for the President at all Supreme Court proceedings I'm given to understand although it's almost always empty.)
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Judge Spanks California
Timothy Birdnow
It's high time the legal games be punished.
The judge - Roger Benitez - multiplied the fine because the defendants who happen to be the State of California played all sorts of games, refiling a request for dismissal just one day after the judge denied their motion and otherwise making jackasses of themselves to stretch this out in the hopes of exhausting the Thomas Moore Society, the plaintiffs.
If courts would do this more often we'd waste a lot less time and money. Courts are already backed up because of frivolous lawsuits and legalistic maneuvers designed to pump up billable hours and deny justice by financially exhausting one party. It's time that sort of nonsense ended.
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Kagan Spanks Brown Jackson
Timothy Birdnow
From Fox News:
Kagan joined the eight justices in finding that the Colorado government erred in regulating Chiles' practice because the state used a 2019 law that only banned therapists from counseling minors if the therapy entailed advising them on how to resist becoming transgender or gay. That amounted to restricting one viewpoint, in violation of the First Amendment, the majority said.
Kagan said that if the law were "content-based" rather than "viewpoint-based," it would present less of a free speech problem.
"Because the State has suppressed one side of a debate, while aiding the other, the constitutional issue is straightforward," Kagan said. "It would, however, be less so if the law under review was content-based but viewpoint neutral."
That pretty much sums it up; the state cannot suppress counseling on a controversial issue as opposed to "content based" aka if the medical professional was advocating some novel treatment that has no basis in science. But that's not what talk therapy is doing, and so people have the right to express a viewpoint when engaging in what is essentially a conversation.
This couldn't be clearer - except to Brown Jackson who is about as sharp as a feather. Even a low wattage bulb like Kagan can see that.
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March 31, 2026
SCOTUS Overturns Colorado Law Prohibiting Conversion Therapy
Timothy Birdnow
Well this is certainly good news!
Government has no right to stop parents or the kids themselves from seeking counseling to change what they themselves do not want. Would the state of Colorado ban alcoholism treatment? Basically "conversion therapy" is alcoholism treatment for sexual disorders.
Maybe we should have a celebration of alcoholism then? Make it a legal right, an identity that is celebrated? Maybe we should force drunks into women's locker rooms? Maybe we should exempt them from DWI laws because "they were born that way"?
Actually Federal law makes it a crime to discriminate against drunks; you can't refuse to rent to an alcoholic, for instance. So the Left has actually sought to implement that, although that was a tough sell.
Liberals be crazy.
At any rate this thing was shot down by a whopping 8 to 1 vote, with only the insane idiot Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voting to allow Colorado to infringe the right to freedom of speech (which is what this law did). Brown argued it was Colorado's right to "regulate healthcare" and that justified suspending the First Amendment. (That woman should never have been on ANY court, not just SCOTUS.)
Conversion therapy is talk therapy and not negative reinforcemet. There is no punishment for "slipping" as some alcohol treatment programs employ. (These programs often use a drug that makes the alcoholic deathly ill if he even smells alcohol to condition him to fear and loath booze.)
No therapist would risk the punishments for violating this law if it stood, meaning they could not discuss body issues unless advocating for gender reassignment aka transing the kids.
Naturally LGBTQ groups were horrified; it means fewer perverts to swell their ranks.
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12 Time More Cold Deaths than Heat Deaths
Timothy Birdnow
The Gang Green is on record saying the planet is getting hotter and that this will lead to more heat deaths.
I guess it's "cold because it's hot" as Judah Cohen and the rest of the nitwits claim.
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Yeah, how many times have we heard that one? I lost count; hope you haven't.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 31, 2026 09:35 PM (k9h1C)
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Yep. How stupid do they think we are?
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Yes, unfortunately, no one really cares about global warming anymore, which is a shame
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Climate Change isn't Raising Chicago Insurance Premiums - Liberalism is
Timothy Birdnow
And don't forget ever rising taxes and the increasingly dangerous criminal climate in the Windy City.
It's more expensive to insure properties in the Land of Lincoln, Winkin' and Nod.
FromWattsupwiththat:
A recent article at the Chicago Sun Times (CST) claims that "Climate change is fueling a surge in Illinois home insurance premiums,” via increases in severe weather. This is false. Severe weather is not getting worse in Illinois, so it cannot be the driver for insurance costs. Other factors, like increasing home values and inflation, are driving insurance rates higher.
The article is sponsored by the environment focused media group Grist, so there is already an incentive to inflate the climate angle and downplay the more important reasons why insurance costs are rising in already-expensive Illinois. Those other reasons are mentioned briefly in the post, "the value of a home, the cost of the materials needed to rebuild it, and even the credit scores of the homeowner,” all impact insurance costs, but the CST insists that really climate change is the main problem.
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A New Jersey proposal will build a floating solar panel array on a 20 acre reservoir that services about 1.2 million people with fresh water. 1.2million guinea pigs drinking cancerous water, what could go wrong?
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Yep Mike! And the lack of sunlight in the water will lead to fungus growth in it too.
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Another Day, Another Trump Bashing Article in the Wall Street Journal
Timothy Birdnow
What a total load of diaper pudding!
It’s a fundamental democratic question: Does he represent voters or himself?
Let me see; Mr. Trump faced being sent to prison (and still might be), and his company lost vast sums of money, including a judgment that cost him three quarters of a billion dollars, and he almost lost his life in one of two assassination attempts.
Sorry, but you cannot possible make this case with a straight face in light of what Trump has sacrificed for America.
Meanwhile his policies are all in line with what the majority of Americans want and asked him to do.
Also, if we are to go there, what about the war in Iran? Trump does not stand to benefit from that personally at all, but rather this could lose Congress in the next election which will mean Trump's impeachment and possibly eventually his imprisonment (like Bolsonaro in Brazil). How is Trump "profiting" from any of this?
The Wall Street Urinal is precisely that these days - nothing but "Orange Man Bad".
At the beginning of this article the author suggests Trump will cut a deal as if that is a bad thing. Trump ALWAYS cuts deals if his opponents are willing. But he drives a hard bargain. And if he didn't cut a deal he would be accused by people like this author of being rigid and stubborn and "not having the temperament to lead".
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Robots to Take McDonalds
Timothy Birdnow
In 1968 Science Fiction writer Larry Niven wrote "Intent to Deceive", a short story about an all-robot restaurant that malfunctions in a big way, leading to the inevitable demise of one of the characters as he attempts to flee through the kitchen.
That's what I thought about when I read this:
We all have wondered about the amount of actual beef in a Big Mac in times past; now we may REALLY have to worry about that!
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Guess I'll just keep going to Wendy's, as long as they stay open. And Sonic has a store a couple miles from me; their garlic butter burger is VERY much to my taste and my wife's; plus their fries are very nice.
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I've never eaten at Sonic, although we have quite a few around here. I do have a local burger joint named Jovick Brothers near me that is just delicious, and they have tater tots, which I like much better than french fries.
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The Liberal Hate Machine
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Tim Graham looks at the reasons why PBS should be not just defunded but lose their broadcast licenses.
I caught part of this fauxcumentary; it dragged out every imaginable shibboleth against Conservatives that it could stuff into such a film.
Of course this little teleplay failed to address the many black and Latino folks who voted for Trump. How could they when the "MAGA Media Machine" was preaching hatred for blacks and Latinos?
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Senate to go for the Whole Enchilada?
Timothy Birdnow
Who here believes for a minute the GOP in the Senate will go to the mat like this? The feckless Senate Republicans haven't got the 'nards for this.
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NEW: Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) tells reporters GOP didn’t introduce the House passed DHS funding bill via unanimous consent today because Sen. Coons (D-DE) was here to object/kill it.
I asked why not at least try and let Dems kill it?
Hoeven indicated they may try to get consensus before the Senate reconvenes on Thursday & may try it then.
BUT….
Hoeven also indicated Senate Republicans are done negotiating with Democrats & he wants to pivot instead to passing 3 years of DHS funding via reconciliation, which wouldn’t require Dem votes.
"We're taking this off the table, that that's enough of this with the Democrats,” Hoeven said.
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And This Gospel Shall be Preached Unto the Whole World
Timothy Birdnow
They're also converting to Protestantism too but less so since the mainline Protestants have become so insanely liberal.
Here is something that gets me:
Catholic ministries on college campuses, including Texas A&M University, University of Notre Dame and Arizona State University, are also reporting increasing converts, The Catholic Standard reported. Notre Dame saw its largest group of new Catholics in at least 25 years, with 125 receiving the sacraments last Easter, according to The Catholic Standard. The outlet noted that, this year, Notre Dame expects there to be 163 candidates and catechumens, which are unbaptized individuals undergoing conversion.
Notre Dame is a CATHOLIC school, for crying out loud; why should there be ANY converts there? That means Notre Dame has been taking in all sorts of non-Catholics over Catholics. What's the point of a Catholic university if it doesn't first cater to , uh, Catholics?
But the others are secular universities and this is a wonderful development.
Why is it happening now? These younger people have lived in a society steeped in Leftist Secularism and now the Left has bared it's fangs and they see it for what it is - a bankrupt, empty, angry philosophy of hatred. And they know from their own lives, having been raised under the banner of secularism, that there is no peace and no joy and no hope in the leftist doctrine of demons.
Ultimately Christianity is the only thing in this world that offers real hope. Islam? If you are a woman you are still second class in Allah's afterlife. In fact you don't have much to look forward to there even if you are a man unless you die in Jihad. Oh, you get to shag as many women as you like on Earth - you get four wives and as many "concubines" aka hookups as you please - but anyone who has lived that sort of life will tell you it is empty and hopeless after a while. Promiscuity is fun until you have your fill then it becomes torture. An endless string of people with whom you share nothing but a couple of minutes of physical pleasure. Empty.
Islam was always an appeal to Man's carnal nature; sex, women, power, fighting. And that is Christianity's chief rival. Judaism offers at least a better moral standard but it has problems too insofar as most Jews do not believe in a Heaven but expect to get their reward here. Life is not very rewarding and so it drives so many Jews into the arms of the Left because that offers the quick and easy path, or so many believe. Not all Jews certainly but a good many.
And these are the two main competitors of Christianity. Of course there is Hinduism, a doctrine of despair in my view as you must spent eons being reborn again and again in a pointless cycle of misery that ends with you actually being subsumed into a kind of Borg Collective where you become a kind of cell in the great brain that is god. Buddhism is more of the same, and actually less because it's not even a religion but more in line with Liberal thinking, a philosophy for life. Many Buddhists believe when you die you are just gone - poof! - and that is that as your atoms rejoin the Earth and recycle into new life. Who wants that?
All of these faiths are, in the end, traps, cycles you cannot break from of and which ultimately do not offer much in the way of peace of mind.
Christianity does and I would argue Catholicism does best of all because it lays out structure for you, roots to secure you properly. So many Protestant faiths offer simple grace with no strings, meaning it is meaningless in the end. No matter what you do you are "saved" to many Protestant sects. So you are free to be an ass if you like because your actions don't matter for your salvation - only the cross of Christ. Catholicism, on the other hand, says the Cross saves but you have to not only accept it but live it yourself. There is a partnership in salvation that should be very comforting because it means we have a hand in our own destiny. God not only gives us salvation as a gift but gives us a better gift - the pride of participating actively in what He is doing.
I know that many of you are Protestant here and that's fine; it works for you and that's what matters. But this is my own view of it and the view of the Catholic Church, or it used to be anyway before the Catholic Church turned Leftward and began preaching only a social Gospel devoid of the salvation of souls.
What the younger people are finding so appealing about Catholicism is this aspect, as well as the long and venerable traditions of the Catholic Faith (which is also true of the Orthodox, but that's a whole other can of worms) and the sense of being part of something far larger than yourself. You can get that in some Protestant faiths too but the very oldest Protestant faiths only go back a tad over five hundred years while Catholicism goes all the way back to St. Peter (and the Orthodox go back the same amount of time). Also, Catholicism is not as subjective as Protestantism; Protestants largely are the keepers of their own consciences and while they have to adhere to the doctrines of their particular sects they are pretty free to think as they please. Catholicism has a very clear set of doctrines, and there isn't a whole lot of subjectivity involved. Also, priests have real authority, whereas ministers are just guys who know more of the Bible than do their parishioners.
So I see why Catholicism is growing, despite the Church having now had two different Progressive imbeciles in the Papacy.
Naturally the Progressives in the Church will try to claim it was the reforms of Pope Francis and now Pope Leo that is driving the rise in conversions when in fact those conversions are happening IN SPITE OF the Progressivism infecting the Catholic Faith. People are coming not because it is easier these days but because it is still harder than many other religious traditions. Anything of value is worth sacrificing and laboring toward. If something is attained too easily it is just as easily valued. Young people realize this and want to believe in something real, and want to earn their place in the world.
At any rate, I welcome any conversion to Christianity, be it Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox. The only way we can defeat the forces of darkness which have all allied to destroy Christ's Church is by growing that Church and bringing in new people, just as Christ commanded us. Right now there is a dark alliance between Muslims and the radical Left and that alliance is nothing short of the work of Satan himself, the old serpent, who is still trying to drag as many souls with him into Hell. All you had to do is look at the No Kings rallies to see the truth of that last statement. Look at the alliances; gay activists joining with Muslims, who toss homosexuals off buildings for Allah, because both hate Christ's Church more than each-other. You have radical feminists making common cause with the Iranian Ayatollahs, who would love nothing better than to put those loud-mouthed old hags under heavy tarps to hide their visage from the world, and who would stop them from being educated, from driving cars, from going out in public without a male chaperone. Everything the feminists claim to hate is advocated by the people they are standing with. But stand with them they do because they aren't white male Christians. This is the same hatred as that of Lucifer.
In Paradise Lost there is a scene where Satan is climbing out of Hell to despoil the Garden of Eden solely to spit at God and God is talking among Himself and marveling at the hatred of his once favorite angel. Does that seem any different than the hatred of the Progressive-Left towards America, towards Christians, towards white people an men? If so I don't see the difference.
So many young people are seeing the true ugliness of Liberalism and shuddering and turning away. And we are welcoming new brothers and sisters into the Kingdom of Heaven.
God be with them all.
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