June 15, 2026
Democrat Bum of the Month Club
Timothy Birdnow
Kamala Harris is way out front in new presidential polls of Democrats.
Yes, word salad sally, the woman who couldn't put five words together, is leading the pack.
That's how weak the Democratic bench is these days.
Of course it's very early; someone may emerge who can win for the Democratic Socialist Party. But it ain't looking good and we have great people on our side - J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and a host of others.
The Camel sits at 27% while her nearest rival - Gavin "Vidal Sassoon" Newsom comes in at 14%.
Of course Kamala checks all the boxes for a liberal candidate and she comes across as not as crazy as, say, Crazy Eyes Ocasio-Cortez, so the Dems are willing to take another shot with her. (Occluded Cortex comes in at 6%).
Pete Butigiege, the transportation secretary who seemed to have nothing to do with transportation and on whose watch we saw multiple train derailments as well as aircraft disasters- zoomed in at 11%.
The Democrats have nobody who appeals to middle America even to the liy have run who won showed up since beral laborites in middle America. And they are running out of ways to fool the public.
Don't expect any of these people to wind up the nominee; the nominee will be a dark horse, someone coming out of nowhere so they can claim he's a new Democrat. That's how every guy they have run since Bill Clinton.
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A Win's a Win
Timothy Birdnow
Or at least until the Iranians renege on the deal, which they will.
The Strait will be opened without tolls, the Iranians promise to not seek nuclear weapons, and the blockade is ended.
Hip hip hoorah! But it still depends on the Iranians doing what they say they will do - which is something they have never done before.
Still, the Iranians have been set way back in their quest for nukes and are now in a bad position to finance and arm terrorists around the globe. It wasn't a touchdown but a nice field goal win.
Sometimes that is the best you can get. Of course we'll be doing this again in ten, twenty years, but at least we have some breathing room.
Of course the Iranians will spin this as an American defeat, and the media will do likewise. I see Barack Obama is already criticizing it as a failure, as if anything he negotiated was anything but a failure.
It wasn't an absolute victory but was a victory nonetheless. To mix sports metaphors it was a win on points rather than a knockout. But a win's a win!
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California Scheming
Timothy Birdnow
"Definite evidence of fraud in California's elections.
Ashley Zavala@ZavalaA·FollowAmid elections investigation, @USAttyEssayli says his office has found evidence of voter fraud in California.
Is his office investigating state/local government? Essayli could not say, per DOJ rules.
"Is this widespread fraud?... that's the question we're trying to answer"
It's systematic and clearly they have repeatedly stolen seats from Republicans over the years. But in times past there has been no appetite to pursue this - until now.
The Democrats had built a political machine and thought to hold eternal power. It's almost impossible to defeat a machine from the inside; you have to dismantle it from outside. That is what is happening now - and that is part of why the Democrats are so enraged by President Trump. He knows what they were doing and is trying to stop it.
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The Best We Can Get
Timothy Birdnow
The point this author misses is what Mr. Trump said a few days ago "America has no stomach for this".
Trump is right; we just don't have the balls to fight this war to it's logical end. It's a shame our people are so myopic because we need to finish the Mullahs; that would put an end to so much of the troubles in the Middle East. But Americans just don't want that fight because they would have to make some temporary sacrifices that aren't prepared to make.
Iran would not be Iraq. It would be much harder to invade with ground troops, but the people there are far more eager to embrace the end of their government than were the Iraqis, and a big problem we had was that Syria and Iran were aiding the insurrectionists. Iran would be alone in this - there would be no aid flowing from her Arab neighbors.
But it WOULD be much harder militarily. Iran sits on a high plateau, by and large, and is quite mountainous, easy to defend, which is why the Persians and the Parthians built great empires in the first place. They didn't have to worry overmuch about defense. Afghanistan taught us that mountain warfare is some of the hardest warfare possible and that would be true in Iran. But it would be fairly easy to set up a new government and we could even bring back the Shah to give it legitimacy. Still, it would be a tough slog.
But if we wrecked the infrastructure and took the islands in the Gulf the government would be very hard-pressed.
The problem is nobody has an appetite for this. We are going to let this historic opportunity slip by us.
The author states:
Any serious agreement after a military crisis requires discipline. Washington must know what it absolutely needs; what it can live with; and what it should not spend blood, money, political capital, and economic stability trying to obtain. The Trump administration, by contrast, has too often treated negotiations as another arena for pursuing objectives the war itself failed to deliver.
Perhaps but that is always the objective in post-war negotiations. We aren't demanding a unilateral surrender after all since we don't want to go the whole nine yards. We have to win at the table what we are unwilling to take on the field of battle.
I believe Trump is wrong in thinking he's going to get a good deal from the Iranians; they are people who believe in Taqqiya, holy lying, and they will restart their nuclear program in secret as soon as they are able. I suspect Trump knows it too but his options have always been limited and now, with the pressure of the midterms coming up, he has to cut his losses. At best he has to get a deal that gives the appearance of victory and prepare for round two down the road.
The author continues:
That is where the trap emerges. If America demands a perfect deal, the crisis stays alive, because no imperfect agreement looks sufficient. If it accepts a narrower deal, the administration must explain why the war was necessary only to return to limited diplomacy. And if it keeps striking while negotiating, diplomacy becomes the continuation of war by other means.
True enough but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Victory is a better thing but we are not in bad shape because we still have wiped out the Iranian navy, used up the majority of their missiles, and otherwise have disarmed them, and disorganized their internal workings by taking out so many of their leaders. If nothing else we bought precious time, quite a bit in all probability. Iran's nuclear ambitions are on hold for a while and they are going to find funding Hezbollah and other terrorist groups problematic for a while.
The President can capitalize on that and probably will. The problem is he has to get that message out over the din of the mainstream media who will call this a failure. Of course the mainstream media would have called the Revolution a failure after Bunker Hill, or called the Civil War lost after Bull Run.
The author also states:
This confusion has reached the American economy. The latest inflation numbers should be a warning to Washington: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the all-items index rose 4.2 percent over the 12 months ending in May, and energy accounted for more than sixty percent of the monthly increase.
While the BLS (rather reminiscent of Blsht, eh?) is charting rising prices it is wrong to call this inflation. Inflation is not rising prices so much as increasing money supply causing rising prices. They are actually different things and prices drop back down after an event driven spike caused by external events. It doesn't appear the author understands this (and probably not the folks at BLS either). Inflation is a monetary issue - not a pricing problem.
Actually this author is correct but not for the reasons he thinks. A part of this IS inflation, a good part of it, as the Federal Reserve has started a new round of Qualitative Easing, pumping money into the economy in the last six months at an alarming rate.
As they economy had been doing quite well and did not require any "pump priming" one must conclude this is Jerome Powell's way of sticking the knife in Donald Trump's back and twisting. Powell is playing Nicholas Biddle to Trump's Andrew Jackson. Biddle tried to wreck the economy to influence the elections but Jackson won anyway and closed the Bank of the United States. Biddle did exactly what Powell is doing right now. Whether Trump can overcome this sneaky attack is another matter. At least he has the war to blame for the rising prices. But when the war is over and prices continue to rise...
At any rate I think it wrong to criticize Mr. Trump for his handling of this, although I think he should have gone after a lot more than he has militarily. It's clear the Mullahs have not learned their lesson and we should have made our point a bit more, uh, colorfully. But Mr. Trump has a keen grasp of the American mind and he understands what is possible. I trust him in many ways, and he knows what he is doing - I hope.
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Denaturalization
Timothy Birdnow
Ilhan Omar has to be sweating through her Burkha about now.
Omar got her brother in the country by claiming she was her husband and has committed a number of felonies since in all likelihood. She may wind up back in Moghadishu before long.
Frankly that's where she belongs.
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June 13, 2026
The Weakening AMOC
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Timothy Birdnow
This courtesy of Dana Mathewson.
This actually isn't anything new; the AMOC has been weakening for decades now and it correlates with the weakening of the Earth's magnetic field. My friend Richard Cronin - a geochemist - would no doubt say the two are interconnected, although correlation does not presuppose causality. .)
Still, if the AMOC isn't moving out cold water then we will see (or should see) an increase in ice mass at the North Pole. That would be consistent with the increase in the Earth's rotation (Global Warming theory says the opposite, that the Earth should be slowing down as ice melts and moves mass around the globe rather than it being all bunched up at the top and bottom of the planet.)
Blaming this on changing atmospheric conditions is just plain silly. This is a deep-ocean thing. Oh, and it is in direct opposition to current climate theory which says the Missing heat" is bunched up in the oceans - it's not holding heat but cold it appears.
At any rate put this in your Shakespear file (there are more things in Heaven and on Earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy.)
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Just a Little Longer
Timothy Birdnow
I'm making pretty good progress gang and may be back on in a few more days (God willing). I think I'm almost over the hump,
Please be patient a little longer.
I haven't had to take anything stronger than Advil for a few days now and can move about fairly well. Still I am reluctant to sit at the table with the computer (since that's how this started) and so I'm going to take it easy for a bit longer yet.
Thank you for your patience.
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June 12, 2026
American Biolabs in Ukraine
Timothy Birdnow
I've long argued that the U.S. was running biolabs in Ukraine and that the Russians went into Ukraine at least in part because o that. I've been sneered at over this but guess what? Tulsi Gabbart has just declassifiied documents showing we do, in fact, have those biolabs and they are doing gain of function research.
Imagine if the Russians were running bioweapons labs in Tijuana or Matamoros; we'd be apoplectic.
These labs go back to the early days of Ukrainian independence and pose an existential threat to the Russians. That they are right there and not farther away speaks volumes to the Russians, who are paranoid at the best of times (rightfully in many cases as they 've been invaded repeatedly by the West over the centuries).
It does not justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine, don't mistake me on this. But it is an extenuating circumstance and it will be used by Putin to justify his actions.
The Russians are bad guys, no question, but in many ways we made them so. We won the Cold War and made sure they knew it. That's why Putin rose to power in the first place and why we are where we are now.
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The Back comes Back
Went to physical therapy yesterday. While the therapist was quite competent I wound up in worse shape after the session than before - I could barely walk after it. I had to go to Walgreens for medicine and I shuffled through the place like an old, old man.
What was really bad was that I had to get trash out yesterday. It wasn't that hard taking the trash out but it was a real bear getting the can back in after my therapy session. And the trash guys, who had just collected it, watched me the whole time as they took a break while I struggled to move the can back to the side of the building. I had rather hoped one of them would be a Good Samaritan and help me but fat chance of that. It was like running a marathon.
At any rate I slept 12 \hours last night and still feel exhausted, plus my back is where it was a week ago.
I was able to skip the pain pills yesterday but had to take one this morning when I got up.
Boy it sucks to be getting old!
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June 09, 2026
The Practice of Medicine
Timothy Birdnow
So I went to the orthopedicist today. They kept me waiting for an hour and a half after my appointment time, sitting in one of those little uncushioned chairs the entire time, with my back feeling like it was breaking the whole time. The appointment was at the hospital, a particularly ridiculous hospital that requires vast stretched of walking - walking for a man who can barely stand with a cane right now. I had to teeter my way from the parking garage, which is more like a demolition derby than a garage - and had to peg leg my way through the enormous place to get to Orthopedics in the first place.
After making me wait all that time a young guy, probably no more than 23, came in to give me a quick exam He was a trainee - the hospital is a teaching school - and he did not inspire any confidence in me.
Sadly the doctor himself was only at most five or six years older and inspired no more confidence. He gave me a quick, perfunctuary once over and then declared me unfixable. He told me "well, these sorts of things usually work themselves out in six weeks or so" as if that was even remotely practicing medicine. I could have told him THAT! He also confirmed he wasn't going to give me any more pain killers "we can't do that" and suggested I take Tylenol, to which I sought to suggest he turn around, drop his drawers, and find me the biggest bottle of said product so I may practice my soccer kicks, but I was in too much pain to fight with the guy. He also said he couldn't keep me on steroids - which have been working - and the muscle relaxers would have to go too. He said he'd call in some sort of pain killer but I rather suspect it will be a variant on Tylenol. Doctors seem to have some sort of romantic attachment to that stuff.
So I am on the precipice of all the pain coming back and no way out of it. I so despise the medical community.
I've got two pain pills left and will have to save them for times when I cannot stand it. God grant they be but two. I doubt I can take weeks more of this.
I assure you if HE were in the pain I'm in he would have whatever he needed, but I'm just some old fart who showed up one day and so he treated me as if I were precisely that - another faceless rabble.
I tried to explain to the guy that I am alone and can't bend over to pick up stuff that falls on the floor. My apartment has stuff everywhere now just sitting on the floor, waiting for fall, I suppose. And fixing food is a real bear. EATING food is equally difficult as I have to lie there, tipped well back, to eat. No soup or chili or anything that slides for me! And since I haven't been strong enough to shop at the grocery store I'm relegated to just what I can fix that I can buy at Walgreens. Not a very good diet.
I have an appointment with this guy in six weeks. If I am still laid up then he'll look to give me an MRI and then probably spinal injections - something he could do right now but won't. Part of it is insurance but he says he agrees with their thinking on this - proving he has absolutely no heart for his patients.
So who knows how this will play out. I may or may not get better, and I'll waste a bunch of time taking Tylenol and doing Physical Therapy and being in pain the entire time. Oh joy!
This is the third doctor I've seen about this now and nobody wants to do anything with it.
At any rate I got to the car and realized I'd forgotten to get my parking ticket validated. I had to shuffle all the way back to the hospital with my ticket to get it validated (otherwise it costs an arm and a leg) and they said the gate was open, thus meaning I went on a fool's errand.
I had to go to my house to get my mail and had to go to one of the pharmacies I use to get some meds that were due, so it was a very busy day. I'm feeling o.k. now, but I usually do in the afternoon. It's the evening and night and morning that I really fear.
So I probably won't be blogging much for at least another week. If it gets better earlier I will but as far as I know it won't get better at all.
I sooooo loathe the medical profession in this country.
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June 07, 2026
Broken Wing
Dear readers,
I'm still laid up with a bad back and won't be blogging for a bit yet. Please be patient and check back in a few days. I seem to have screwed my spine up a bit more than I thought.
At any rate I'll be a few more days. Thank you for your patience!
Tim
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June 03, 2026
The Party of Nazis
Timothy Birdnow
36% of Democrats support Hamas.
Which is the party of Nazis?
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Take My Ball and Go Home MAGA
Timothy Birdnow
'This essay is, well rather silly. It argues that we should stay out of fights like Iran and focus on China.
This is rather like saying that, when you are walking home from a bar at night and see a guy you got into a fight with walking down the street you should ignore the mugger coming up behind you.
He also makes some factual errors - like saying we've been the world's policeman for thirty years - uh, it was since WWII, which makes it over well over twice as long. He furthermore doesn't understand China became a world power because we knowingly, willingly made them one. I remember New Gingrich talking about it in the nineties; he argued that we needed to use engagement with China because when they allowed free markets into their economy, allowed our goods, the public in China would like the wealth flowing in and there would be reforms of the Communist regime. That is like saying greater prosperity would lead to reforms of the Mafia, but that was what so many were thinking then and with the Soviet Union falling and "the end of history" being proclaimed nobody wanted to face the fact that our enemy was only partially gone. So we implemented a strategy to build China economically, moving factories there to take advantage of cheap labor and did ebverything in our power to Make China Great Again. Guess what? It worked - at our expense.
Yes, China is a seriojs, existential threat. But so is a nuclear Iran.
I agree that the Washington elites pine for the old days when they could play with the "peace process" which never seemed to lead to peace, and other internationalist clap-trap. In point of fact the Washington Establishment used the Cold War to justify the creation of the very thing Dwight Eisenhower warned against - the Industrial Military complex. Actually he warned against even more than that - he warned about a technocracy run by universities and research facilities and with the media complicity. Ike knew where we were headed and warned us.The elites miss the good old days of endless wars to "make America safe for democracy". It allowed them to remake America in their own democratic socialist image.
And it is also correct we are exhausting our economic power by spending so much money on multiple foreign wars.
But that's not what we are doing here and it is not what MAGA was about. America First meant precisely that - putting our interests first. Stopping a nuclear armed Iran most assuredly is a first priority for America, as they are prone to chanting "Death to America" and attacking our national interests. You may remember they have bee implicated in a plot to assassinate President Trump,, and they've attacked our military bases even before the current war.
Meanwhile this author wholly fails to see how Trump's Iran war is squeezing the daylights out of China, preventing the Chinese from getting the oil it desperately needs without leading to open conflict with the Chicoms. This war is as much about China as it is about Iran.
The "take my ball and go home" Conservatives have not actual plan; it's just about returning to a simpler time before the Spanish American war where we could stay in our own hemisphere and let the world go by. Satellites and ICBM's and supersonic aircraft make that impossible now. We can't hide from that fact. That doesn't mean we have to get into every disagreement - getting involved in the Ukrainian-Russian war is an example of where we should butt out. But when our own safety and security and economic interests are involved we have every reason to take action.
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Welcome to the Machine
Timothy Birdnow
Proof of fraud; 1.47 million voter registrations in New York State turned out to have the same signature on them.
So Democcrat Kathy "Hochum" Hochul won the Governorship through fraud, among others.
I've long said the Democrats would be a solidly minority party if they didn't have a massive, nation-wide fraud machine.
FTA:
damning discovery of voter registration fraud in New York has flown under the national radar. Andrew Paquette, the research director of the New York Citizens Audit — a non-partisan group of New York citizens who use publicly available voter roll databases obtained directly from state and local boards of elections — discovered 1.47 million voter registrations that currently possess identical signatures. This is an impossibility among legitimate registrations and a clear violation of the law. A number this large is cause for concern no matter the margins of any given election. The concern is even greater given that crucial elections like the 2024 Presidential election between President Trump and Kamala Harris, as well as the 2022 gubernatorial race between now-EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Kathy Hochul, were decided by just 1,040,296 and 377,834 votes, respectively.
As the article points out, this is just one case of fraud in what is probably a helluva lot more in any of a myriad of ways. New York may well be a pink state - not purple - if votes were counted fairly.
The article continues:
Beginning with New York, as it stands with the results that were tabulated with these 1.5 million registrations in play during our most recent elections, President Trump cut previous Republican general election loss margins from 25 percent nearly in half. That margin may still sound large, but the raw vote margin came in at just over a million, while this proven instance of registration fraud sits at 1.47 million. If these illegal registrations were not permitted, the election in New York would undoubtedly have been closer and perhaps even been won by the president. It would also signal to ALL voters (in this instance conservatives in "blue” states) that their vote is worth taking the time to cast moving forward.
We've been winning all along and yet we have been out of power 12 of the last 26 years in terms of the Presidency and Congress has flipped back and forth - and the blue states remain blue despite growing dissatisfaction with Democratic governance. Now we know why.
Because the Democrats steal the country on a regular basis.
I've long argued the Republicans have to win by at least three percentage points to tie the Democrats. I was wrong; it's probably more like seven or eight percentage points. There isn't a thumb on the scale, there is a whole butterball turkey.
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Where is the Oil?
Timothy Birdnow
Why American oil companies aren't increasing drilling in the wake of an obvious oil shortage resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
While current wells are producing more than ever, the actual number of wells has dropped. Why?
What is holding up major new investments is a combination of uncertainty about oil prices, a history of costly overproduction in a chronically boom-and-bust industry, and lingering fears that a changing of the guard in Washington could resurrect the Biden administration’s anti-fossil-fuel policies.
They don't want to have to cap wells if and when the Strait reopenes and prices drop, but I think the biggest reason is they fear Congress will be in the hands of the Democrats after the next election and that the Presidency could be in Democrat hands come '28. They don't want to sink a lot of money into oil production which will be shut down.
We could get the price of oil down if they would just ramp up drilling but can you blame them? They can ill-afford to piss of the Left until they know the current policies will remain in place for a while.
This is the kind of stagnation that results in a command economy in a culture that is more about regulation and control than about production and growth. It's a sure sign of a civilization in decline - the Roman Empire was no different at the end. Nobody dared do anything because it was either forbidden or it's antithesis was compulsory.
The social fabric of America is ripe for a fall. I fear Mr. Trump may be waging an ultimately losing battle as too many Americans are more concerned with playing Doodle Jump on their I-Phones rather than in producing wealth or stabilizing our nation.
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Trump Admin. Caves on J6 Weaponization Fund
Timothy Birdnow
The Trump Administration loses bigly as the Weaponization Fund is cancelled to avoid a fight with Congressional Republicans.
""We’re not moving forward with the fund, period,” according to acting AG Todd "retreat" Blanche told Congress in testimony.
A number of "conservative" Republicans objected to this measure, which stemmed from a settlement made by President Trump with the DOJ to settle the lawsuit over Biden's Administration leaking his tax returns as a political weapon.
Many in Congress have been spied on too, or abused by the Biden Administration but they get a separate fund, one they are now denying the little people.
So who were the Republicans who played pattycake with the Democrats in killing this?
Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Katie Britt of Alabama, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Thune previously stated he was "not a fan.”
'Nufff said!
The Trump Administration wanted to avoid a fight over funding for DHS with this.
This is a classic example of how we have a uniparty with both parties ultimately sailing in the same direction. There is zero reason for the Republicans - any Republicans - to oppose this. This is, in fact, precisely what Sun Tzu meant when he admonished generals to "seize that which the enemy holds dear". By paying restitution to J6 tourists the Administration was seizing something the enemy held dear - the two-tiered system of justice whereby the Left can riot and loot and use violence and the Right can barely be allowed to protest mostly peacefully. Violence is a big part of the Democrat's election strategy; they offer peace in return for their being given power. Republicans always just go along with it. By taking the initiative and creating a weaponization fund Trump went right to the very heart of Leftist political activism.
IF the liberal Republicans didn't like the fund being open to everyone they at least should have limited it to non-violent offenses. Etering the Capitol building should not have ruined someone's life.
Every day in every way the GOP shows that it is a captive, suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Many Republicans actually like the Democrats and want to be liked by them in return. They refuse to treat this as what it is - a cold war, one that is heating up because they refuse to act in our defense.
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June 02, 2026
the Luciferian Beauty Principle
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Pundit Bill O’Reilly recently said he was "surprised” that ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lost to Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral race.
"I thought,” he told Cuomo during a May 14 discussion, "you were going to wax them [your competitors].”
Do you know when I realized Mamdani would win?
The very first time I saw him on TV.
No, it wasn’t that Mamdani was promising to rob Peter blind to pay Paul and then send both home to rent-frozen apartments on a free bus. It was that I understand the Luciferian Beauty Principle.
Now, you can take the following as metaphor if you’re not a theist. In Christian theology, Lucifer chose pride over God, rebelled and became the purest manifestation of evil: Satan. But he also was something else: As Lucifer, whose name means 'light bringer,' he was known as the most beautiful of angels.
There is an all-important lesson there. It’s not just that evil doesn’t appear comic-book style, with a pitchfork and horns; it masquerades as something beautiful and impressive.
The malevolent know how easily humans are seduced by what pleases the eye and ear. We see this, for example, whenever a man is deceived by a comely gold-digger.
As for Mamdani, the power- and national grave-digger, he’s a good-looking young guy with an easy smile, charisma on command and the most silvery of tongues, eloquent and articulate to the hilt. Note here the studies showing that it doesn’t matter what you say; if you say it well, you will sway people. It’s a testimonial to the power of style over substance.
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June 01, 2026
I'll be right back..
Dear readers,
I seem to have thrown out my back and that makes sitting at the computer a very difficult task. So there won't be much blogging for the next cuople of days. Please accept my apologies.
Hopefully I'll be back in a day or so. I need to let the old back rest a bit.
Cheers!
Tim
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May 30, 2026
Trump Off!
Timothy Birdnow
Robert Byrd's name is all over everything in West Virginia and was while he was a sitting Senator. Will this judge order Byrd's name be expunged?
I would like to know how this case even was heard. It should have been dismissed for lack of standing by the Democrat who brought it.
The judge also ordered the center not be closed for two years for maintenance.
The suit was brought by a Democrat Congresscritter, not by the board of directors of the center, who are the ones who are responsible for naming the center and for maintenance.
The article gives us the judge's reasoning:
"The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” Cooper said.
Congress organized the center as a "bureau” within the Smithsonian Institution directed by a board of trustees, he said.
The board was given several duties, including "programming obligations,” "memorial obligations” honoring the legacy of Kennedy, and general maintenance obligations, the judge said.
To satisfy these obligations, Congress "empowered the Board to do the kinds of things that boards typically do: negotiate contracts, prepare budgets, employ personnel, solicit and accept gifts, transfer property, bargain with employees, procure insurance, and issue annual reports.”
The lawsuit’s claim that the center’s board violated its fiduciary duty in voting to close the center was "likely to succeed,” the judge said.
A fiduciary duty is a duty of loyalty, care, and good faith that one party owes to another in positions of trust.
Isn't it a fiduciary duty to see to it the center is safe and does not become run down?
And while I do not have the actual statute that created the center I rather doubt that it specifically said the center could not be formally renamed, especially if Kennedy's name remains a part of the new name.
No, I think this guy is just writing his own law just to piss down Trump's back.
This is how it is with the Left; they fight every single battle, no matter how relatively unimportant. They can never let the other side ever have a win.
I wonder who paid for this lawsuit by the Democrats? You and me, probably.
The judge said the injunction will not prevent the center from proceeding with capital repair work it has planned and that is "sorely needed.” Nor will it stop the board from closing the center "should it come to this decision anew after independently balancing its multiple obligations to the Center in a prudent fashion.”
"Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” the judge said.
The new ruling came in response to litigation initiated in December 2025 by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) who sued Trump and the Kennedy Center board of trustees over its renaming as the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Beatty is an ex officio member of the center’s board of trustees.
Uh, the board of directors made a prudent decision to close the center and this judge overruled them. He now says they can close the center but it must be a prudent decision aka he is the one who will make it.
And again I rather doubt only Congress can change the name.
The Left wants Trump's name to be anathema a curse to be muttered darkly, like voldamort in the Harry Potter books "he who shall not be named".
Now I think it ridiculous Trump wanted to put his name on the center, but I know why he did it; the center had become a stain on the American arts community and Trump was thumbing the stuffed shirted leftists in the eye by despoiling their pet institution. But churlishness aside, I don't think the naming of the center - nor the renovation thereof - is any of this damned judge's business.
At any rate this is a prime example of judicial overreach. Until we rein in the judiciary the Left will continue to hold the line, and will win when they get power.
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Despite Donald Trump and the America First movement almost all jobs in the U.S. are going to aliens - especially in the South and West, where they are coming in vast numbers to take American jobs and help to flip Republican states.
This has got to stop.
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9 of every 10 new American jobs since pre-COVID went to someone born outside the country.
Triple checked the data. It's real.
+4.3M foreign-born.
+471K native-born.
Meanwhile, 335,000+ American layoffs in 2026.
HOW DO WE ALLOW THIS?
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So since Covid 9 out of 10 jobs has gone to a foreigner - even with President Trump heading the MAGA movement.
What the hell are they doing in D.C.? The Trump Administration was elected to put a stop to this.
Right now Americans should be fighting off headhunters and should have great jobs. The fact that, despite mostly good economic news, the public is still complaining about economic problems is a complete mystery until you see these numbers. Americans can't get jobs, and especially can't get good jobs. Corporations are bringing in our replacements even now.
If we didn't have those H1B and other "gues worker" visas we'd all be rich. And American corporations would be forced to hire and TRAIN Americans for the "jobs Americans just won't do". Now corporations want to hire people for cheap, and if there is no training all the better! But who pays for this? WE do.
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