August 01, 2025
“Racism”: Want to Cancel Hulk Hogan? Fine, Then Muhammad Ali’s Got to Go, Too
by Selwyn Duke
And while we’re on the subject and slaughtering woke sacred cows, it’s not just Ali, either. Just consider comments the much revered Mohandas Gandhi made while in the British army in southern Africa in 1908. "o be placed on the same level as the Natives seemed
too much to put up with,” he said.
Kaffirs [a derogatory term for blacks] are as a rule uncivilized – the
convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live like
animals.” He also asserted that Indians are "undoubtedly infinitely
superior to the Kaffirs.”
It wasn’t long after legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan’s passing that we heard the condemnations. Don’t honor him, the nattering ne’er-do-wells insisted—he was a stone cold "racist.” When evaluating this, too, I want you to consider the following quite telling and damning line:
- "A black man should be killed if he’s messin’ with a white woman.”
Now, ESPN's David Dennis Jr., who sparked great
controversy by writing a quite condemnatory article about Hogan while
the flamboyant star’s body was almost still warm, was clear on how he
feels about the man. "When you are a racist that is your legacy above
all else. It’s not complicated,” Dennis unequivocally stated.
I’m glad he said that, too, because, you see, the above-quoted line about killing a white-woman-messin’ black man wasn’t actually uttered by Hogan. No, that remark, which sounds as if it could’ve been disgorged by the murderers of 14-year-old Emmett Till, was instead made by someone else:
Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
Yes, really.
Ali made the comment in a 1975 Playboy interview, if incredulous doubters are wondering.
What’s more, when the interviewer then asked, "And what if a Muslim woman wants to go out with non-Muslim blacks—or white men, for that matter?” Ali responded:
- "Then she dies. Kill her, too.”
(What Ali said between the two remarks was just as eyebrow-raising, mind you.)
So let’s review the operative principle here, again. "When you are a racist that is your legacy above all else. It’s not complicated,” right?
Right, Mr. Dennis?
This is where, however, I suspect Dennis might find that it actually isa bit complicated—because people are complicated. Heck, I think Dennis just might find his opining-pen spinning like a dervish and moving like a butterfly.
The Irish Times sure took this tack the year Ali died, 2016. "Muhammad Ali could be all too human at times,” its headline kindly stated. Aww, shucks, the cute little guy just got ahead of his skis on occasion, ya’ know? (Ali was the better part of 34 during the ’75 interview, do note.)
Hogan, though, he’s got to be in Hell (as I’ve heard internet commenters say).
In fact, the Times praised Ali for his "intellectual honesty.” The paper claimed that an "older and more reflective Ali admirably renounced such attitudes [his racist ones],” only, it provides no actual examples. This is for good reason:
None
exist that I can find. I even asked Grok AI (which can scour the web
like nobody’s business) if Ali had. After dancing around the issue like
a young Cassius Clay danced in the ring—you’d think Grok was the man’s
agent—it confessed that "there is no documented instance where Muhammad
Ali explicitly repudiated his earlier racist beliefs.”
In contrast, Hogan did apologize for the negative remarks he made about black people (for whatever such apologies are worth).
Of course, Ali’s case was different because, you see, it appears that media never even confronted him about his 1975 Playboyremarks. Could you imagine a white man saying such a thing and receiving such deference? Talk about cultural affirmative action.
In reality, had Hogan uttered such a line, he also might not be subject to a cancellation attempt after death.
He likely would’ve been canceled long before.
Now, lest I be misunderstood, I have little to nothing against Ali. In fact, and I say this not to be politically correct, I like him. I’ve watched many boxing retrospectives over the decades, and not only was Ali entertaining, but it appears he generally treated those around him well, notably his longtime white trainer Angelo Dundee. (He often was unfaithful during his marriages, though, and there were four of them.) I’m neither a fan nor critic of Hogan, either, and I don’t care one way or the other about any remarks he made. I realize that some may wonder why I haven’t related his racial comments, which you can read in Dennis’s article if interested, but that’s because they’re irrelevant. The issue here is bigger: the double standard that condemns whites for indiscretions non-whites can commit with impunity.
The truth is that if we’re going to use that r-word I quite detest, then Ali apparently was, applying today’s standards nottendentiously, an unrepentant "racist” his whole life. Yes, he was a great boxer and a Barnum-worthy showman, but he’s about as deserving of being a civil rights icon as George Wallace.
And while we’re on the subject and slaughtering woke sacred cows, it’s not just Ali, either. Just consider comments the much revered Mohandas Gandhi made while in the British army in southern Africa in 1908. "
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Terror Attack on German TRains
Timothy Birdnow
Germany has never had these kinds of problems, not until they let a bunch of Middle Easterners immigrate.
Suspected sabotage disrupts major rail line between Düsseldorf and Duisburg
FTA:
Germans are a rule-based people and terrorism is the antithesis of their way of thinking. They see it as dirty pool; you can't win a fair fight so you cheat. There has been surprisingly little of this sort of thing in bygone eras in Germany. Only after WWII did Germans ever see anything akin to terrorism with the so--called Werewolves, and the Allies crushed them without mercy, blowing up houses which were thought to hide the terrorists and not worrying about collateral damage. But the Werewolves never amounted to much; the Germans surrendered, and largely stayed surrenred. In today's climate they would have launched a dirty guerilla war but that was then.
This shows that the Islamization of Germany is making a fundamental change in the character of the nation.
Yes, we've seen terrorism before, at least in recent years (like the Kindel-market attacks) but it is growing in scale and frequency, and that is a coefficient of letting in all these Muslims.
The stupidity of the Western liberals is in thinking that all they have to do is give people a fresh start, show them we mean them no harm, and they will become just like us. That is not true and never was; they are still Syrian or Iraqi or Palestinian Muslims and still follow the strictures of the Koran which tells them to terrorize and kill the infidel. In fact many if not all of these people are in Germany to turn her into part of the Caliphate. It's jihad by breeding and immigration.
It's sad to see Germany and France and the rest of Europe be absorbed into the horrible Islamic culture, but these nations have lost whatever vigor or worth they once had and have turned their backs on the culture which gave them so much. There is now a vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum. The Muslims are pouring in to fill it.
If you believe in nothing than others will wind up defining your beliefs.
Germany has never had these kinds of problems, not until they let a bunch of Middle Easterners immigrate.
Suspected sabotage disrupts major rail line between Düsseldorf and Duisburg
FTA:
A Deutsche Bahn spokesperson said trains would be massively delayedImage: Christoph Reichwein/dpa/picture alliance
Police in Germany are investigating an alleged act of sabotage targeting a major railway line between Düsseldorf and Duisburg, which has disrupted both regional and long-distance services.
The fire broke out in a cable duct near Düsseldorf and was discovered when a train driver noticed smoke and raised the alarm.
Deutsche Bahn warned of significant delays, rerouted trains, and suspended stops at several stations in the region.
High-speed rail lines to Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, as well as connections to northern and southern Germany and the Netherlands, have also been impacted, the rail operator announced.
The cables in the affected tunnel segment were destroyed and will need to be replaced.
Police in Germany are investigating an alleged act of sabotage targeting a major railway line between Düsseldorf and Duisburg, which has disrupted both regional and long-distance services.
The fire broke out in a cable duct near Düsseldorf and was discovered when a train driver noticed smoke and raised the alarm.
Deutsche Bahn warned of significant delays, rerouted trains, and suspended stops at several stations in the region.
High-speed rail lines to Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, as well as connections to northern and southern Germany and the Netherlands, have also been impacted, the rail operator announced.
The cables in the affected tunnel segment were destroyed and will need to be replaced.
Germans are a rule-based people and terrorism is the antithesis of their way of thinking. They see it as dirty pool; you can't win a fair fight so you cheat. There has been surprisingly little of this sort of thing in bygone eras in Germany. Only after WWII did Germans ever see anything akin to terrorism with the so--called Werewolves, and the Allies crushed them without mercy, blowing up houses which were thought to hide the terrorists and not worrying about collateral damage. But the Werewolves never amounted to much; the Germans surrendered, and largely stayed surrenred. In today's climate they would have launched a dirty guerilla war but that was then.
This shows that the Islamization of Germany is making a fundamental change in the character of the nation.
Yes, we've seen terrorism before, at least in recent years (like the Kindel-market attacks) but it is growing in scale and frequency, and that is a coefficient of letting in all these Muslims.
The stupidity of the Western liberals is in thinking that all they have to do is give people a fresh start, show them we mean them no harm, and they will become just like us. That is not true and never was; they are still Syrian or Iraqi or Palestinian Muslims and still follow the strictures of the Koran which tells them to terrorize and kill the infidel. In fact many if not all of these people are in Germany to turn her into part of the Caliphate. It's jihad by breeding and immigration.
It's sad to see Germany and France and the rest of Europe be absorbed into the horrible Islamic culture, but these nations have lost whatever vigor or worth they once had and have turned their backs on the culture which gave them so much. There is now a vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum. The Muslims are pouring in to fill it.
If you believe in nothing than others will wind up defining your beliefs.
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Saloon Salon
Timothy Birdnow
(You knew we had to be on the hard stuff...)
A post from yesterday prompted a very thoughtful discussion here on The Aviary and I thought I'd share it with everyone.
Reader Bill had this to say:
I agree with the basic point. Do we really need twenty different brands of corn flakes? On the other hand, stores are prone to outages to a degree that was unknown prior to Covid. I go to Ralph's and without fail they do not have several things on my list. I then go to Von's and get the things that Ralph's did not have. It's never the same things, so it's not a case of one store carrying the item and the other one not. It's that stores are always out of stock on items that are in high demand. "Supply chain" problems which started during Covid and which, after five years, are still problems.
Dana Mathewson chimed in: more...
(You knew we had to be on the hard stuff...)
A post from yesterday prompted a very thoughtful discussion here on The Aviary and I thought I'd share it with everyone.
Reader Bill had this to say:
I agree with the basic point. Do we really need twenty different brands of corn flakes? On the other hand, stores are prone to outages to a degree that was unknown prior to Covid. I go to Ralph's and without fail they do not have several things on my list. I then go to Von's and get the things that Ralph's did not have. It's never the same things, so it's not a case of one store carrying the item and the other one not. It's that stores are always out of stock on items that are in high demand. "Supply chain" problems which started during Covid and which, after five years, are still problems.
Dana Mathewson chimed in: more...
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July 31, 2025
Hawley Goes All RINO
Timothy Birdnow
Not sure what happened to Josh Hawley but he really messed up big time with this.
Trump Torches GOP Sen For Blocking Effort Investigating Pelosi Stock Trades
When Hawley first ran for the Senate he was Missouri's Attorney General and a good one. But he allowed the legal lynching of Republican (former Democrat) Governor Eric Greitens by a partisan hack BLM St. Louis city attorney named Kim Gardner, who broke multiple laws in her witch hunt. Greitens was railroaded and Hawley stood back and let it happen when he could have stopped it. I was very angry at him for that (even though Greitens was something of a dirtbag as any Democrat is). If you let them get away with that once they will do it again and again. Hawley could have shut her down, and could have prosecuted her for crimes (she solicited the complaint, for instance, going so far as to meet the complainant in a motel in Illinois before filing charges, and she hired a private investigator to find evidence rather than use the SLPD, she hid evidence, she gave surprise evidence, etc.) Hawley was running for the Senate and feared angering black voters by doing anything about Gardner, a black woman and BLM enthusiast.
Since then Hawley has been quite good, but he appears to be returning to form here. Why?
Not only has Hawley spiked a report on Nancy Pelosi's unsavory, perhaps illegal, trading practices but he also joined with Democrats in trying to limit President Trump's authority to trade and own stocks.
Trump smacks him down good:
Pelosi was quite enthusiastic about the stock trading bill, and that should be a huge red flag.
Trump said:
Senator Rick Scott, who sponsored the bill to investigate Pelosi, was disgusted with Hawley and the scheme to ban stock trading (which Mr. Trump has long done). Scott rightly pointed out that this is just another weapon the Democrats are going to try to use against Mr. Trump.
The fact is this ban is aimed at getting Pelosi off the political hook; she can say she supported restrictions. It's like when John Mccain supported campaign finance reform after he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Not sure what happened to Josh Hawley but he really messed up big time with this.
Trump Torches GOP Sen For Blocking Effort Investigating Pelosi Stock Trades
When Hawley first ran for the Senate he was Missouri's Attorney General and a good one. But he allowed the legal lynching of Republican (former Democrat) Governor Eric Greitens by a partisan hack BLM St. Louis city attorney named Kim Gardner, who broke multiple laws in her witch hunt. Greitens was railroaded and Hawley stood back and let it happen when he could have stopped it. I was very angry at him for that (even though Greitens was something of a dirtbag as any Democrat is). If you let them get away with that once they will do it again and again. Hawley could have shut her down, and could have prosecuted her for crimes (she solicited the complaint, for instance, going so far as to meet the complainant in a motel in Illinois before filing charges, and she hired a private investigator to find evidence rather than use the SLPD, she hid evidence, she gave surprise evidence, etc.) Hawley was running for the Senate and feared angering black voters by doing anything about Gardner, a black woman and BLM enthusiast.
Since then Hawley has been quite good, but he appears to be returning to form here. Why?
Not only has Hawley spiked a report on Nancy Pelosi's unsavory, perhaps illegal, trading practices but he also joined with Democrats in trying to limit President Trump's authority to trade and own stocks.
Trump smacks him down good:
Josh Hawley from the Great State of Missouri, join with all of the Democrats to block a Review, sponsored by Senator Rick Scott, and with the support of almost all other Republicans, of Nancy Pelosi’s Stock Trading over the last 25 years,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post. "The Democrats, because of our tremendous ACHIEVEMENTS and SUCCESS, have been trying to ‘Target’ me for a long period of time, and they’re using Josh Hawley, who I got elected TWICE, as a pawn to help them.”
Pelosi was quite enthusiastic about the stock trading bill, and that should be a huge red flag.
Trump said:
"I wonder why Hawley would pass a Bill that Nancy Pelosi is in absolute love with — He is playing right into the dirty hands of the Democrats,” Trump wrote. "It’s a great Bill for her, and her ‘husband,’ but so bad for our Country!”
Senator Rick Scott, who sponsored the bill to investigate Pelosi, was disgusted with Hawley and the scheme to ban stock trading (which Mr. Trump has long done). Scott rightly pointed out that this is just another weapon the Democrats are going to try to use against Mr. Trump.
The fact is this ban is aimed at getting Pelosi off the political hook; she can say she supported restrictions. It's like when John Mccain supported campaign finance reform after he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
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West Point Speech CzarFired
Timothy Birdnow
THIS is how woke our milittary has become!
Army Secretary Orders Removal Of Biden Censorship Czar From West Point
West Point had a CENSORSHIP CZAR! I thought we had a First Amendment! And I thought these people took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution!
According to The Federalist:
Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military philosopher, admonished "seize that which the enemy holds dear" and West Point and the military were held quite dear by conservatives and Americans in general. So they Left targeted them both and dropped a huge load of Progressive Poop all over them.
What the Obama/Biden people tried to do was nothing short of a bureaucratic revolution. It was top down, bottom up, inside out as Marxist Van Jones put it. It would have worked too if they hadn't overplayed their hand with Trump. It still might.
Charges need to be brought; you cannot suppress constitutional rights in this way. And if there are no legal charges possible then lawsuits need to be filed - hundreds, thousands of them.
Unless this sort of thing is punished, and severely, these termites will try it again and again.
THIS is how woke our milittary has become!
Army Secretary Orders Removal Of Biden Censorship Czar From West Point
West Point had a CENSORSHIP CZAR! I thought we had a First Amendment! And I thought these people took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution!
According to The Federalist:
As described in a June 2023 report by the House Judiciary Committee, CISA was originally founded in 2018 "to be an ancillary agency designed to protect ‘critical infrastructure’ and guard against cybersecurity threats.” In the years that followed, however, it "metastasized into the nerve center of the federal government’s domestic surveillance and censorship operations on social media.”
A separate House committee report released later that year showed that CISA colluded with Stanford University to pressure Big Tech companies into censoring prominent conservative voices — including The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Sean Davis — leading up to the 2020 election. The agency’s censorship operations would continue to grow under Easterly’s tenure, with House lawmakers noting its efforts to "camouflage its activities” from the public by 2022 and 2023.
In addition to ordering Easterly’s termination, Driscoll instructed West Point to "immediately pause all non-governmental and outside groups from selecting employees of the Academy, including instructors, professors, teachers, and shaping academic or developmental lectures.” He further requested the chair of West Point’s Board of Visitors to "conduct an immediate top-down review of the United States Military Academy’s hiring practices.”
A separate House committee report released later that year showed that CISA colluded with Stanford University to pressure Big Tech companies into censoring prominent conservative voices — including The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Sean Davis — leading up to the 2020 election. The agency’s censorship operations would continue to grow under Easterly’s tenure, with House lawmakers noting its efforts to "camouflage its activities” from the public by 2022 and 2023.
In addition to ordering Easterly’s termination, Driscoll instructed West Point to "immediately pause all non-governmental and outside groups from selecting employees of the Academy, including instructors, professors, teachers, and shaping academic or developmental lectures.” He further requested the chair of West Point’s Board of Visitors to "conduct an immediate top-down review of the United States Military Academy’s hiring practices.”
Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military philosopher, admonished "seize that which the enemy holds dear" and West Point and the military were held quite dear by conservatives and Americans in general. So they Left targeted them both and dropped a huge load of Progressive Poop all over them.
What the Obama/Biden people tried to do was nothing short of a bureaucratic revolution. It was top down, bottom up, inside out as Marxist Van Jones put it. It would have worked too if they hadn't overplayed their hand with Trump. It still might.
Charges need to be brought; you cannot suppress constitutional rights in this way. And if there are no legal charges possible then lawsuits need to be filed - hundreds, thousands of them.
Unless this sort of thing is punished, and severely, these termites will try it again and again.
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VDH on Mexico
Timothy Birdnow
This is a condensed version of a Victor Davis Hansen discussion from the Daily Signal.
VDH rightly points out Americans are subsidizing Mexico by allowing their citizens to send back remissions while enjoying government handouts - when they aren't supposed to be here in the first place.
As always it's well worth you time to read.
This is a condensed version of a Victor Davis Hansen discussion from the Daily Signal.
VDH rightly points out Americans are subsidizing Mexico by allowing their citizens to send back remissions while enjoying government handouts - when they aren't supposed to be here in the first place.
As always it's well worth you time to read.
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Streaming Killed the Video Star
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an essay arguing that we all want less and not more, we want limitations on us. The author waxes nostalgic for Blockbuster Video and cocludes such nostalgia stems from our desire for fvewer choices. He's right in no small part (and the nostalgia stems from a home to which we can no longer return - our youth - but he doesn't discuss that.)
Again, he's right; we just have too many choices these days. I go to the grocer and have to spend half an hour looking over items because they have nearly a dozen of similar products. In times past you might have two or at most three competing items but now there are dozens, and a single company makes different versions of the same product too. Take Fritoes; they come in regular, scoops, jalepeno, twisties, low sodium, etc. And that doesn't mention the generic corn chips sold at the store. Every decision about every product is a big production. There is a kind of freedom in limitations.
Man was built for limitations. Whether it is the physical limits of our abilities, or laws (like the Ten Commandments) we are happy having choices BUT lines drawn to keep us moving straight. That is the thing the Left has destroyed; their idea of freedom is doing whatever they want or being whatever they want or having whatever they want. They don't understand that we are bound by Natural Law, and in that way we are bound by God Himself. Those boundaries are not tyrannical or capricious; they are there for our own happiness. You can't play a game if you don't adhere to the rules.
But liberals don't play by rules because they want to make their own. This is the sin of Lucifer, who wanted to be a god unto himself. He got it and is miserable because of his bad choice. It really sucks to be a god, but it is alluring. People want power.
So as a society we have rejected limitations. Boys now put on dresses and demand we all call them "her" and our insane society goes right along with it. Two dudes or two chicks can now adopt a child and claim they are married. Sexual restraint is completely disappeared. So too are other restraints, on anger, on discourtesy, etc. We do not have freedom now but license, and that is the greatest oppressor of all. The lines are drawn to act as guides, not prisons. Prisons are the inevitable outcome of license without reasonable restraint. Liberals want to use law to enforce guardrails to keep the crazies they have created from hurting themselves or others. True freedom lies in self-control, a control that can only be exercised if the lines are clear.
I would also add that this is a kind of proof of God; we all long for someone to guide us, and to set boundaries.
So this nostalgia for Blockbuster makes perfect sense if you are pondering the decline of our culture, even while we have more options on things. Spoiled children aren't spoiled because they were denied - they are spoiled because they were given more than they could handle.
At any rate I miss the old days of video stores too. It was fun; you wandered the aisled looking for a movie, found one, and looked forward to it the rest of the day. You appreciated it much more when you watched it. Now people just sit in the same spot they always sit in, glued to a computer screen, and click. There is nothing special about it; just part of the day.
In fact computer technology and home delivery has made most things mundane. The young have little to look forward to because they are never denied for even an hour. When you get everything you want you lose interest in everything. Anticipation is a big part of the joy of living. (Most things don't meet your expectations in the end anyway.)
I suspect this is why the young are chasing old stuff these days. They brought the vinyl record back, for example. They drink Pabst Blue Ribbon because their grandfather's drank it (at least those who drink, which most young people don't do these days.) This generation seems to be the most nostalgic of any and that's because modernity is just a bore, when it's not stressful and aggravating. The young realize there is something amiss but can't put their finger on it, so they try to capture a piece of the "good old days" through nostalgia. Of course most don't understand WHY they were "good old days" and in facet those days weren't always so good, but they were compared to today because everyone knew who they were, knew their place in this world, and had some sense of purpose. Everyone BELIEVED in something; God, country, their family. Now the young live in a gray paste, a world without borders, a word that gives them no guidance on how to live and what to believe. They are like people in a shipwreck floating in the sea helpless. They actually have less control of their own lives - and that in no small part because of all the choices they are offered and the lack of guidance given by society.
Many retreat into themselves, into the artifical world of the internet. Others join political causes (which is in no small part the intent of the Left who have systematically picked society apart for just this reason - to offer politics as the new religion). Few of them have actually realized they need to turn off the I-Phones and gadgets and start participating in life. You can't live if you don't choose to do so.
This is a volatile situation and will end very badly if our civilization continues to push relativism and unlimited freedoms. We are meant to have boundaries. Civilization will eventually collapse and be replaced by something new. If history is any guide that something new will not be good. It takes a LOT to put back together a fallen civilization. For athousand years or more people tried to put Rome back together. Heck; the German and Russian kings were called Caesar,and that in the 20th century! You just can't go home again.
Nor can you go back to the video store.
Here is an essay arguing that we all want less and not more, we want limitations on us. The author waxes nostalgic for Blockbuster Video and cocludes such nostalgia stems from our desire for fvewer choices. He's right in no small part (and the nostalgia stems from a home to which we can no longer return - our youth - but he doesn't discuss that.)
Again, he's right; we just have too many choices these days. I go to the grocer and have to spend half an hour looking over items because they have nearly a dozen of similar products. In times past you might have two or at most three competing items but now there are dozens, and a single company makes different versions of the same product too. Take Fritoes; they come in regular, scoops, jalepeno, twisties, low sodium, etc. And that doesn't mention the generic corn chips sold at the store. Every decision about every product is a big production. There is a kind of freedom in limitations.
Man was built for limitations. Whether it is the physical limits of our abilities, or laws (like the Ten Commandments) we are happy having choices BUT lines drawn to keep us moving straight. That is the thing the Left has destroyed; their idea of freedom is doing whatever they want or being whatever they want or having whatever they want. They don't understand that we are bound by Natural Law, and in that way we are bound by God Himself. Those boundaries are not tyrannical or capricious; they are there for our own happiness. You can't play a game if you don't adhere to the rules.
But liberals don't play by rules because they want to make their own. This is the sin of Lucifer, who wanted to be a god unto himself. He got it and is miserable because of his bad choice. It really sucks to be a god, but it is alluring. People want power.
So as a society we have rejected limitations. Boys now put on dresses and demand we all call them "her" and our insane society goes right along with it. Two dudes or two chicks can now adopt a child and claim they are married. Sexual restraint is completely disappeared. So too are other restraints, on anger, on discourtesy, etc. We do not have freedom now but license, and that is the greatest oppressor of all. The lines are drawn to act as guides, not prisons. Prisons are the inevitable outcome of license without reasonable restraint. Liberals want to use law to enforce guardrails to keep the crazies they have created from hurting themselves or others. True freedom lies in self-control, a control that can only be exercised if the lines are clear.
I would also add that this is a kind of proof of God; we all long for someone to guide us, and to set boundaries.
So this nostalgia for Blockbuster makes perfect sense if you are pondering the decline of our culture, even while we have more options on things. Spoiled children aren't spoiled because they were denied - they are spoiled because they were given more than they could handle.
At any rate I miss the old days of video stores too. It was fun; you wandered the aisled looking for a movie, found one, and looked forward to it the rest of the day. You appreciated it much more when you watched it. Now people just sit in the same spot they always sit in, glued to a computer screen, and click. There is nothing special about it; just part of the day.
In fact computer technology and home delivery has made most things mundane. The young have little to look forward to because they are never denied for even an hour. When you get everything you want you lose interest in everything. Anticipation is a big part of the joy of living. (Most things don't meet your expectations in the end anyway.)
I suspect this is why the young are chasing old stuff these days. They brought the vinyl record back, for example. They drink Pabst Blue Ribbon because their grandfather's drank it (at least those who drink, which most young people don't do these days.) This generation seems to be the most nostalgic of any and that's because modernity is just a bore, when it's not stressful and aggravating. The young realize there is something amiss but can't put their finger on it, so they try to capture a piece of the "good old days" through nostalgia. Of course most don't understand WHY they were "good old days" and in facet those days weren't always so good, but they were compared to today because everyone knew who they were, knew their place in this world, and had some sense of purpose. Everyone BELIEVED in something; God, country, their family. Now the young live in a gray paste, a world without borders, a word that gives them no guidance on how to live and what to believe. They are like people in a shipwreck floating in the sea helpless. They actually have less control of their own lives - and that in no small part because of all the choices they are offered and the lack of guidance given by society.
Many retreat into themselves, into the artifical world of the internet. Others join political causes (which is in no small part the intent of the Left who have systematically picked society apart for just this reason - to offer politics as the new religion). Few of them have actually realized they need to turn off the I-Phones and gadgets and start participating in life. You can't live if you don't choose to do so.
This is a volatile situation and will end very badly if our civilization continues to push relativism and unlimited freedoms. We are meant to have boundaries. Civilization will eventually collapse and be replaced by something new. If history is any guide that something new will not be good. It takes a LOT to put back together a fallen civilization. For athousand years or more people tried to put Rome back together. Heck; the German and Russian kings were called Caesar,and that in the 20th century! You just can't go home again.
Nor can you go back to the video store.
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Monsters in the Midst
Timothy Birdnow
Just another poor alien in search of a better life being harrassed by ICE!
'Cold-blooded' illegal alien murdered 15-year-old who was trying to stop him from raping his mother, ICE says
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But, but, but...we need people like this to clean our hotel rooms and cut our grass and wash our dishes! Hunter Biden says so!
Just another poor alien in search of a better life being harrassed by ICE!
'Cold-blooded' illegal alien murdered 15-year-old who was trying to stop him from raping his mother, ICE says
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Gildardo Amandor-Martinez, 36, is accused of shooting and killing Luis Jocsan Nanez Lopez in an incident on July 20 where he tried to rape his girlfriend, the boy's mother.
'The Biden administration's open-border policies allowed this monster to walk American streets and commit these evil crimes, including murder, assault, and attempted rape, against a mother and her children.'
Court documents said that Amandor-Martinez had returned to the home from a bar at about 2:30 a.m. and tried to have sex with his girlfriend, who refused. When she screamed as he tried to force himself on her, Lopez intervened.
The teenager asked his mother if he should call the police, and Amandor-Martinez told him to leave the room. Amandor-Martinez then prepared to leave the residence when he fired three gunshots through a door, striking Lopez in the face.
'The Biden administration's open-border policies allowed this monster to walk American streets and commit these evil crimes, including murder, assault, and attempted rape, against a mother and her children.'
Court documents said that Amandor-Martinez had returned to the home from a bar at about 2:30 a.m. and tried to have sex with his girlfriend, who refused. When she screamed as he tried to force himself on her, Lopez intervened.
The teenager asked his mother if he should call the police, and Amandor-Martinez told him to leave the room. Amandor-Martinez then prepared to leave the residence when he fired three gunshots through a door, striking Lopez in the face.
But, but, but...we need people like this to clean our hotel rooms and cut our grass and wash our dishes! Hunter Biden says so!
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Public Service Announcement
Timothy Birdnow
Now for a public service announcement.
Popular Diabetes and Weight Loss Drug Doubles Risk of Eye Disease That Causes Blindness, Study Warns
The drug is Mounjaro, which I took for a short time. I'm thankful my pocketbook was allergic to it; I already have retinopathy, the blindness-causing eye disease the study warns about.
If you are on this drug I would suggest you speak with your doctor about switching.
Granted just a little over one percent of people suffered this, but it is twice the level of people NOT on it. No point in risking your vision.
I assure you that you won't enjoy retinopathy; you have to get shots in your eyeball or eyeballs all the time to try to stop your retina from detaching, and you may wind up getting surgeries.
Now for a public service announcement.
Popular Diabetes and Weight Loss Drug Doubles Risk of Eye Disease That Causes Blindness, Study Warns
The drug is Mounjaro, which I took for a short time. I'm thankful my pocketbook was allergic to it; I already have retinopathy, the blindness-causing eye disease the study warns about.
If you are on this drug I would suggest you speak with your doctor about switching.
Granted just a little over one percent of people suffered this, but it is twice the level of people NOT on it. No point in risking your vision.
I assure you that you won't enjoy retinopathy; you have to get shots in your eyeball or eyeballs all the time to try to stop your retina from detaching, and you may wind up getting surgeries.
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Earth's Sea Level at Lowest Point Ever
Timothy Birdnow
Take a look at this. A new study recreated the sea levelsfor the last 540 million years. Guess what? We are in a period of extremely low sea levels. Notice how the graph nose-dives at the end.
Here is an article discussing the issue.
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Soooo...sea levels can rise if more sediment pours into them - like the sediment coming from rivers that have levees on them to move the water and the sediment out to sea. Interesting in that we have been told sea levels are rising because of planetary warming from CO2.
The author of the article concludes:
Why doesn't he see the obvious, that we are in a period of ridicculously low sea levels and that rising seas are NATURAL? And how does he think a very modest planetary warming is going to drive a huge sea level increase? I believe this study actually suggests the opposite as a rise in sea levels means an increase in planetary albedo thanks to more clouds acting as aerosols to blot out solar radiation.
Also the planet war much warmer during periods of low sea levels in days of yore.
The fact is sea levels have been dropping for 11,000 years now because the Earth is undergoing a climatic shift.
Also, what does he propse we do about it? End industrial civilization? Stop breathing? Stop breeding cattle for food? Stop planting soybeans and corn? The answer is to do what Mankind has always done - adapt.
I would point out yet again that nobody, especially the rich, are moving away from seasides. If it IS a problem it's a very slow problem and isn't causing anyone but liberals to lose sleep.
The Warmiacs never miss a chance to claim any phenomenon is proof of their pet theory.
Take a look at this. A new study recreated the sea levelsfor the last 540 million years. Guess what? We are in a period of extremely low sea levels. Notice how the graph nose-dives at the end.
Here is an article discussing the issue.
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Fundamentally, what is more important is the volume of ocean basins, and the volume of terrestrial land (and its density). If the land is worn down to a peneplane, then the volume of high-standing mountains is absent, and former mountains have been turned into sandstones and shales, which end up in the oceans. Shortly after orogenies, the volume of mountains is large; similarly, after extended eruptions of Large Igneous Provinces, the volume of basaltic terrestrial rocks will be much larger than several ten’s of millions of years later. It is all in flux, and we lack detail on the location, altitude, shape, and even area of all the terrestrial rocks because they are continuously eroded, worn away, and recycled as igneous intrusions and metamorphosed roof pendants. The eroded sediments largely end up in the oceans, displacing water, and reducing the effective volume of the ocean basins.
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Also, what is an unstated assumption is that the volume of sea water, including liquid and frozen phases, has been essentially constant for the last 540 million years, and hasn’t been bound up chemically, isolated in lakes, retained in aquifers, diverted to the atmosphere, or temporarily removed from the oceans by subduction of plates. What do the phenomenally thick salt beds throughout the world tell us about evaporation of water and its temporary residency as the salt piles get thicker and thicker? The Clausius-Clapeyron relationship tells us that we can expect that during the Hothouse climates, much more of the water was to be found as vapor in the atmosphere and as droplets in clouds, and therefore, not residing in the oceans.
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Also, what is an unstated assumption is that the volume of sea water, including liquid and frozen phases, has been essentially constant for the last 540 million years, and hasn’t been bound up chemically, isolated in lakes, retained in aquifers, diverted to the atmosphere, or temporarily removed from the oceans by subduction of plates. What do the phenomenally thick salt beds throughout the world tell us about evaporation of water and its temporary residency as the salt piles get thicker and thicker? The Clausius-Clapeyron relationship tells us that we can expect that during the Hothouse climates, much more of the water was to be found as vapor in the atmosphere and as droplets in clouds, and therefore, not residing in the oceans.
Soooo...sea levels can rise if more sediment pours into them - like the sediment coming from rivers that have levees on them to move the water and the sediment out to sea. Interesting in that we have been told sea levels are rising because of planetary warming from CO2.
The author of the article concludes:
"So, right now the ocean levels are at their lowest point in all of the last 540 million years. Hmmmm….. So, it wouldn’t take mush in the way of green house gasses to make that sea level rise a lot. Thus amplifying the effect of global warming caused my the burring of fossil fuels."
Why doesn't he see the obvious, that we are in a period of ridicculously low sea levels and that rising seas are NATURAL? And how does he think a very modest planetary warming is going to drive a huge sea level increase? I believe this study actually suggests the opposite as a rise in sea levels means an increase in planetary albedo thanks to more clouds acting as aerosols to blot out solar radiation.
Also the planet war much warmer during periods of low sea levels in days of yore.
The fact is sea levels have been dropping for 11,000 years now because the Earth is undergoing a climatic shift.
Also, what does he propse we do about it? End industrial civilization? Stop breathing? Stop breeding cattle for food? Stop planting soybeans and corn? The answer is to do what Mankind has always done - adapt.
I would point out yet again that nobody, especially the rich, are moving away from seasides. If it IS a problem it's a very slow problem and isn't causing anyone but liberals to lose sleep.
The Warmiacs never miss a chance to claim any phenomenon is proof of their pet theory.
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July 30, 2025
Moses Signature Found
Timothy Birdnow
Is an ancient inscription found in a mine the work of Moses? Some think so.
From Arkeo News:
It's little surprise that there is no smoking gun evidence the fathers of Judaism really existed after all this time. Remember, the Jews were a minor tribe of people living in Egypt at the time and had no great historical significance as of yet. People save the writings of Pharoahs, not of shepherds.
At any rate this is an exciting development. Increasingly archaeology is turning up proofs of the historicity of the Bible. For example, scientists found coins inscribed with the name of Pontius Pilate, proving Pilate was a real person (some scholars thought he was just a myth). And elsewhere an inscription of Quirinius, the governor of Syria was found, proving the Bible was accurate in that.
We've also learned that the Dead Sea Scrolls are actually older than thought, nearly contemporary with the events in the Old Testament.
The more we learn the more accurate the Bible appears. Yet the more people reject it because it ultimately requires people repent of their sins and they don't want to do so.
Is an ancient inscription found in a mine the work of Moses? Some think so.
From Arkeo News:
Mysterious Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions may point to Moses and Joseph as historical figures, sparking global scholarly controversy.
A groundbreaking proto-thesis by independent scholar Michael S. Bar-Ron suggests exactly that. After eight years of rigorous epigraphic analysis, Bar-Ron argues that two inscriptions found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, contain the Semitic phrase "This is from MŠ” — a possible early rendering of the name Moses (Moshe).
The inscriptions, dated to Egypt’s late 12th Dynasty during the reign of Pharaoh Amenemhat III, are written in Proto-Sinaitic, considered one of the world’s earliest alphabetic scripts. According to Bar-Ron, this writing system reflects an early Northwest Semitic dialect remarkably close to Biblical Hebrew, but with traces of Aramaic structure.
"If correct, this could be the first inscriptional evidence of Moses as a historical individual,” Bar-Ron states. "And the implications for our understanding of the Exodus traditions are enormous.”
The cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University MainzThe cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University Main.
A groundbreaking proto-thesis by independent scholar Michael S. Bar-Ron suggests exactly that. After eight years of rigorous epigraphic analysis, Bar-Ron argues that two inscriptions found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise mining site on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, contain the Semitic phrase "This is from MŠ” — a possible early rendering of the name Moses (Moshe).
The inscriptions, dated to Egypt’s late 12th Dynasty during the reign of Pharaoh Amenemhat III, are written in Proto-Sinaitic, considered one of the world’s earliest alphabetic scripts. According to Bar-Ron, this writing system reflects an early Northwest Semitic dialect remarkably close to Biblical Hebrew, but with traces of Aramaic structure.
"If correct, this could be the first inscriptional evidence of Moses as a historical individual,” Bar-Ron states. "And the implications for our understanding of the Exodus traditions are enormous.”
The cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University MainzThe cave markings were first found in the early 1900s. Credit: Johannes Gutenberg University Main.
It's little surprise that there is no smoking gun evidence the fathers of Judaism really existed after all this time. Remember, the Jews were a minor tribe of people living in Egypt at the time and had no great historical significance as of yet. People save the writings of Pharoahs, not of shepherds.
At any rate this is an exciting development. Increasingly archaeology is turning up proofs of the historicity of the Bible. For example, scientists found coins inscribed with the name of Pontius Pilate, proving Pilate was a real person (some scholars thought he was just a myth). And elsewhere an inscription of Quirinius, the governor of Syria was found, proving the Bible was accurate in that.
We've also learned that the Dead Sea Scrolls are actually older than thought, nearly contemporary with the events in the Old Testament.
The more we learn the more accurate the Bible appears. Yet the more people reject it because it ultimately requires people repent of their sins and they don't want to do so.
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Monkey Mafia
Timothy Birdnow
I've heard of monkey business, but monkey mafia?
Monkeys lift wallets and other things from tourists in Bali and turn them in to their Capos for rewards.
From the Wall Street Journal article:
Monkey see monkey screw. They must have been trained by Democrats.
I've heard of monkey business, but monkey mafia?
Monkeys lift wallets and other things from tourists in Bali and turn them in to their Capos for rewards.
From the Wall Street Journal article:
Every week, they steal dozens of phones, wallets and other valuables from tourists in broad daylight and exchange them for handsome rewards. It’s been going on for decades and nobody’s been able to stop it.
The culprits? Long-tailed macaques.
"The monkeys have taken over the temple,” said Jonathan Hammé, a tourist from London whose sunglasses were stolen by a monkey during a visit last year. "They’re running a scam.”
On the southern tip of the Indonesian vacation hot spot known for its beaches, tourists flock to Uluwatu Temple for traditional fire dance shows and panoramic views at sunset with the Indian Ocean crashing below. The Balinese Hindu site dates back to at least the 11th century and the roughly 600 monkeys that inhabit it are considered by locals to be sacred guardians of the temple.
Primate researchers have found that the macaques steal belongings to use as currency to trade with humans for food. Some monkeys can distinguish between objects we highly value (smartphones, prescription glasses, wallets) and those we don’t (hats, flip flops, hair clips)—and will barter accordingly, according to a University of Lethbridge team that spent years filming the macaques and analyzing hundreds of hours of footage.
In other words, the monkeys have "unprecedented economic decision-making processes,” the researchers wrote in a 2021 academic paper. Talk about monkey business.
The culprits? Long-tailed macaques.
"The monkeys have taken over the temple,” said Jonathan Hammé, a tourist from London whose sunglasses were stolen by a monkey during a visit last year. "They’re running a scam.”
On the southern tip of the Indonesian vacation hot spot known for its beaches, tourists flock to Uluwatu Temple for traditional fire dance shows and panoramic views at sunset with the Indian Ocean crashing below. The Balinese Hindu site dates back to at least the 11th century and the roughly 600 monkeys that inhabit it are considered by locals to be sacred guardians of the temple.
Primate researchers have found that the macaques steal belongings to use as currency to trade with humans for food. Some monkeys can distinguish between objects we highly value (smartphones, prescription glasses, wallets) and those we don’t (hats, flip flops, hair clips)—and will barter accordingly, according to a University of Lethbridge team that spent years filming the macaques and analyzing hundreds of hours of footage.
In other words, the monkeys have "unprecedented economic decision-making processes,” the researchers wrote in a 2021 academic paper. Talk about monkey business.
Monkey see monkey screw. They must have been trained by Democrats.
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Parents Make Better Parents
Timothy Birdnow
This is the kind of "help" we get from our government nannnies.
3 Year Old Boy Dies After Being Left in Hot Car by the Department of Human Resources who took HimAway from his Father
Parents make better parents than do bureaucrats.
This is the kind of "help" we get from our government nannnies.
3 Year Old Boy Dies After Being Left in Hot Car by the Department of Human Resources who took HimAway from his Father
Parents make better parents than do bureaucrats.
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Roses are Red
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. economy grew 3% in the last quarter, upsetting the alarmist predictions of many economists.
Joe Biden enjoyed an average GDP growth rate of 3.2%, but one must remember that he was starting with a low baseline due to the Covid shutdown of the economy. There was no way Biden would NOT have had a good growth rate. But it wasn't real growth, just a return to what had been before the economy was shut down. And it primarily profited illegal aliens and high dollar investors. What Trump has done is jump-start the economy while raising tariffs, and in the process he's seen a surplus in tax dollars. And he did so while adding 177,000 jobs during the first quarter. Oh, and inflation has slowed to a crawl at 2.3%.
Everything's coming up roses for America these days. Naturally the media will say it all sucks.
The U.S. economy grew 3% in the last quarter, upsetting the alarmist predictions of many economists.
Joe Biden enjoyed an average GDP growth rate of 3.2%, but one must remember that he was starting with a low baseline due to the Covid shutdown of the economy. There was no way Biden would NOT have had a good growth rate. But it wasn't real growth, just a return to what had been before the economy was shut down. And it primarily profited illegal aliens and high dollar investors. What Trump has done is jump-start the economy while raising tariffs, and in the process he's seen a surplus in tax dollars. And he did so while adding 177,000 jobs during the first quarter. Oh, and inflation has slowed to a crawl at 2.3%.
Everything's coming up roses for America these days. Naturally the media will say it all sucks.
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The Return of the Reich
Timothy Birdnow
Never thought I'd be agreeing with an author at The Daily Kos but a stopped clock is right twice a day.
A Podcast for the Young Blames Jews for the Holocaust: What if Jews did something to the Germans
The author is himself in shock at this attitude by the New (insane) left and well he should be, but he shouldn't be surprised. Nazis were themselves leftists, and the Bolsheviks, despite preaching equality for all, actually suppressed the Jews in a big way (which is why New York has so many Jews now; they left Russia and Poland to get away from the Communists, who mistreated them.)
If you want to ask what the Jews did that made Germans so mad it was what they didn't do but were falsely blamed for doing. Hitler hated Jews because he believed they were the reason Germany lost WWI, and he noticed (correctly) that many of the communists involved in the labor unions were Jewish. Of course they were - and they were Germans, and they were every other ethnicity. But the Jews stoood out to Hitler, who had no doubt read the Czarist propaganda work "The Protocols of the Elders of Zionism" which was pure fantasy but many fell for it. Rosenberg, for instance, fell for it after finding a copy of the book in his hotel room in Moscow. Jew hatred was there from the beginning in the Nazi movement, and the German people, like all peoples, were looking for an easy answer to why the Communists were so influential. Just like we are today. But back then it was easy to say it was a Jewish conspiracy.
So the Jews are minding their own business and find their neighbors increasingly hostile for things they had nothing to do with. It is, of course, much like blaming white people today for slavery and many black folks do just that, even though a great many of the white people in America had their ancestors come AFTER the Civil War and the banning of slavery. Oh, and many more fought in that war to END an abominable practice. But it's easier to blame whitey, all whites, and also blame them for the failures of black culture, which has unfortunately turned quite malevalent under the kind tutelage of white liberals. So you get things like this mob attacking a white man recently and no doubt the attackers justified it by lumping all white people together as slavers.
Let me ask these geniuses who think the Jews did something evil and Hitler had no choice but take them out; why did Hitler do so in secret? The public was unaware of the nature of the concentration camps and most were shocked when they learned what was happening in them. I suspect most thought these people were being relocated outside of the Third Reich but they were not - they were being slaughtered. Why did Hitler need to hide that if the Germans were all on board with this? If the Jews actually did something to merit their deaths?
Here is one genius making an airtight argument:
Does it not occur to this benighted person that Jews dominate the medical profession and that a "collapse" of the healthcare system would cost them dearly? 14.1% of all doctors in America are Jewish despite them being just one percent and change of the U.S. population. It's one of their primary occupations. So I ask again, what value is there in destroying the medical field? Shouldn't they prefer to strengthen one of their own industries? It's like saying coal miners in West Virginia want to push laws banning coal fired plants. This is drool cup territory.
Sadly antisemitism is rising like a phoenix and it should scare the heck out of all of us. This won't end well I fear.
Never thought I'd be agreeing with an author at The Daily Kos but a stopped clock is right twice a day.
A Podcast for the Young Blames Jews for the Holocaust: What if Jews did something to the Germans
The author is himself in shock at this attitude by the New (insane) left and well he should be, but he shouldn't be surprised. Nazis were themselves leftists, and the Bolsheviks, despite preaching equality for all, actually suppressed the Jews in a big way (which is why New York has so many Jews now; they left Russia and Poland to get away from the Communists, who mistreated them.)
If you want to ask what the Jews did that made Germans so mad it was what they didn't do but were falsely blamed for doing. Hitler hated Jews because he believed they were the reason Germany lost WWI, and he noticed (correctly) that many of the communists involved in the labor unions were Jewish. Of course they were - and they were Germans, and they were every other ethnicity. But the Jews stoood out to Hitler, who had no doubt read the Czarist propaganda work "The Protocols of the Elders of Zionism" which was pure fantasy but many fell for it. Rosenberg, for instance, fell for it after finding a copy of the book in his hotel room in Moscow. Jew hatred was there from the beginning in the Nazi movement, and the German people, like all peoples, were looking for an easy answer to why the Communists were so influential. Just like we are today. But back then it was easy to say it was a Jewish conspiracy.
So the Jews are minding their own business and find their neighbors increasingly hostile for things they had nothing to do with. It is, of course, much like blaming white people today for slavery and many black folks do just that, even though a great many of the white people in America had their ancestors come AFTER the Civil War and the banning of slavery. Oh, and many more fought in that war to END an abominable practice. But it's easier to blame whitey, all whites, and also blame them for the failures of black culture, which has unfortunately turned quite malevalent under the kind tutelage of white liberals. So you get things like this mob attacking a white man recently and no doubt the attackers justified it by lumping all white people together as slavers.
Let me ask these geniuses who think the Jews did something evil and Hitler had no choice but take them out; why did Hitler do so in secret? The public was unaware of the nature of the concentration camps and most were shocked when they learned what was happening in them. I suspect most thought these people were being relocated outside of the Third Reich but they were not - they were being slaughtered. Why did Hitler need to hide that if the Germans were all on board with this? If the Jews actually did something to merit their deaths?
Here is one genius making an airtight argument:
"Jews, Jews are the reason why the healthcare system and everything around us, and the government, is collapsing. Because they’re sitting up, they’re stealing away from the American people."
Does it not occur to this benighted person that Jews dominate the medical profession and that a "collapse" of the healthcare system would cost them dearly? 14.1% of all doctors in America are Jewish despite them being just one percent and change of the U.S. population. It's one of their primary occupations. So I ask again, what value is there in destroying the medical field? Shouldn't they prefer to strengthen one of their own industries? It's like saying coal miners in West Virginia want to push laws banning coal fired plants. This is drool cup territory.
Sadly antisemitism is rising like a phoenix and it should scare the heck out of all of us. This won't end well I fear.
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Climate is a State of Mind
Dana Mathewson
As regular readers of this site are aware, I never tire of pointing out that I live in the crazy-ass (at least politically) state of Minnesota, which contains the city of International Falls, home of the regularly seasonal coldest temperatures in the continental U.S. (New Hampshirites will carp that Mount Washington beats us, but that's not a city and people don't live on it.) And yet we often get summer temperatures in the high 90's, and it has more than once cracked 100 on my indoor/outdoor thermometer -- something that has happened only once in Tampa, FL (just the other day, in fact) since records began to be kept.
But the thing is, we (or at least my wife and I) don't look at those readings and say "Oh golly gee, that's two degrees hotter than last year on this day, the world must be heating up." We are more apt to say "It's a couple degrees hotter than yesterday." But the actual temperature may be a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. Indeed, last week the temperatures were in the 60's for three or four days.
We are more apt to pay attention to the humidity, especially if we're spending much time outside; and "global warming" isn't causing that. Air quality is another thing: Canuckistan is still generating forest fire smoke on many days, cutting off sunshine and stinking up the air badly, causing us to grumble about Manitoba's lousy forestry practices -- are they run by a bunch of retired Californians?
The upshot of this is that we don't believe the Global Warmiacs and never have. We see a lot of people driving Teslas, including a couple of people in our group of town homes, and if that's what floats their boats, fine, but they're polluting the earth more than the air, considering the mining of materials to make those batteries. Same thing for batteries of hybrids.
Summer quandary? Get out of town! Same with winter quandary. For three years we lived just north of New York City, where they never got any snow, and my wife hated it. That's one reason we moved here, to get four seasons, only we didn't know that they'd be Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, and Road-repair. That last CAN be a quandary!
Tim adds:
Yawp. Everywhere there is warm to hot summer temperatures. Heck; even the polar regions get them occasionally. But people just remember two days out at most.
I remember about ten years ago here in Missouri we were getting temps between 98 and 110 for almost two weeks. Nothing remotely like that since. That is the difference between weather and climate.
Dana, you guys have seasons that depend on which coat you will wear outside. And when it DOEs get warm you need to wear mosquito netting!
As regular readers of this site are aware, I never tire of pointing out that I live in the crazy-ass (at least politically) state of Minnesota, which contains the city of International Falls, home of the regularly seasonal coldest temperatures in the continental U.S. (New Hampshirites will carp that Mount Washington beats us, but that's not a city and people don't live on it.) And yet we often get summer temperatures in the high 90's, and it has more than once cracked 100 on my indoor/outdoor thermometer -- something that has happened only once in Tampa, FL (just the other day, in fact) since records began to be kept.
But the thing is, we (or at least my wife and I) don't look at those readings and say "Oh golly gee, that's two degrees hotter than last year on this day, the world must be heating up." We are more apt to say "It's a couple degrees hotter than yesterday." But the actual temperature may be a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. Indeed, last week the temperatures were in the 60's for three or four days.
We are more apt to pay attention to the humidity, especially if we're spending much time outside; and "global warming" isn't causing that. Air quality is another thing: Canuckistan is still generating forest fire smoke on many days, cutting off sunshine and stinking up the air badly, causing us to grumble about Manitoba's lousy forestry practices -- are they run by a bunch of retired Californians?
The upshot of this is that we don't believe the Global Warmiacs and never have. We see a lot of people driving Teslas, including a couple of people in our group of town homes, and if that's what floats their boats, fine, but they're polluting the earth more than the air, considering the mining of materials to make those batteries. Same thing for batteries of hybrids.
Summer quandary? Get out of town! Same with winter quandary. For three years we lived just north of New York City, where they never got any snow, and my wife hated it. That's one reason we moved here, to get four seasons, only we didn't know that they'd be Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, and Road-repair. That last CAN be a quandary!
Tim adds:
Yawp. Everywhere there is warm to hot summer temperatures. Heck; even the polar regions get them occasionally. But people just remember two days out at most.
I remember about ten years ago here in Missouri we were getting temps between 98 and 110 for almost two weeks. Nothing remotely like that since. That is the difference between weather and climate.
Dana, you guys have seasons that depend on which coat you will wear outside. And when it DOEs get warm you need to wear mosquito netting!
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July 29, 2025
Judge Issues Universal Ban on Defunding Planned Parenthood
Timothy Birdnow
What part of "you can't issue nation-wide injunctions" doesn't this puta understand?
Judge Indira Talwani Expands Order, Mandates Medicaid Funding for All Planned Parenthood Clinics
This was a law dutifully passed by Congress and signed by the President. There is no constitutional issue with it. She is simply imposing her personal prejudice on the matter and usurping lawmaking power.
She should be impeached for this.
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Odd; I don't recall seeing a right to Federal dollars for abortionists in the U.S. constitution, not even in the amendments.
And her reasoning is that it somehow denies people healthcare access, but Planned Parenthood does little besides abortion and contraception and they almost always refer patients who need actual health care to another provider. They are almost exclusively an abortion mill.
She's going to be overturned on appeal, but since this is not a permanent injunction it will probably stay in her court (which is no doubt why she did it this way). This forked tongue Indian lass is playing for time, methinks.
What part of "you can't issue nation-wide injunctions" doesn't this puta understand?
Judge Indira Talwani Expands Order, Mandates Medicaid Funding for All Planned Parenthood Clinics
This was a law dutifully passed by Congress and signed by the President. There is no constitutional issue with it. She is simply imposing her personal prejudice on the matter and usurping lawmaking power.
She should be impeached for this.
FTA:
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a President Obama appointee, granted a preliminary injunction, blocking the provision and essentially mandating Medicaid funding for all Planned Parenthood clinics as litigation continues. Talwani released the expanded order after issuing an order last week only partially blocking the provision for a subset of clinics that did not independently meet the provision’s "prohibited entity” definition: [Planned Parenthood Federation] members that do not provide abortions because of state law or those who received less than $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in 2023.
"Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” Talwani wrote in her order. "In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs.”
Talwani added that the court is "not enjoining the federal government from regulating abortion and is not directing the federal government to fund elective abortions or any healthcare service not otherwise eligible for Medicaid coverage.”
She wrote:
Instead, this order grants preliminary relief that prevents Defendants from targeting a specific group of entities—Planned Parenthood Federation Members—for exclusion from reimbursements under the Medicaid program where Plaintiffs have established a substantial likelihood that they will succeed in establishing that such targeted exclusion violates the United States Constitution, and where Plaintiffs satisfy the remaining requirements to obtain a preliminary injunction.
"Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” Talwani wrote in her order. "In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs.”
Talwani added that the court is "not enjoining the federal government from regulating abortion and is not directing the federal government to fund elective abortions or any healthcare service not otherwise eligible for Medicaid coverage.”
She wrote:
Instead, this order grants preliminary relief that prevents Defendants from targeting a specific group of entities—Planned Parenthood Federation Members—for exclusion from reimbursements under the Medicaid program where Plaintiffs have established a substantial likelihood that they will succeed in establishing that such targeted exclusion violates the United States Constitution, and where Plaintiffs satisfy the remaining requirements to obtain a preliminary injunction.
Odd; I don't recall seeing a right to Federal dollars for abortionists in the U.S. constitution, not even in the amendments.
And her reasoning is that it somehow denies people healthcare access, but Planned Parenthood does little besides abortion and contraception and they almost always refer patients who need actual health care to another provider. They are almost exclusively an abortion mill.
She's going to be overturned on appeal, but since this is not a permanent injunction it will probably stay in her court (which is no doubt why she did it this way). This forked tongue Indian lass is playing for time, methinks.
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Bolton Helped Frame Trump
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The Walrus helped in Trump frame-up.
John Bolton Hid Memo That Could Have Cleared Trump on Russia Hoax
Will the warden make him shave his 'stash?
The Walrus helped in Trump frame-up.
John Bolton Hid Memo That Could Have Cleared Trump on Russia Hoax
Will the warden make him shave his 'stash?
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The Kindness of Donald Trump
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Here is the soft side of Donnald Trump the media will never show America.
Trump takes time to send the grieving mother of slain DC intern a heartfelt letter…
Trump has done random acts of kindness many times over the years and did not seek any credit - and received none from the snarling media, of course.
Here is the soft side of Donnald Trump the media will never show America.
Trump takes time to send the grieving mother of slain DC intern a heartfelt letter…
Trump has done random acts of kindness many times over the years and did not seek any credit - and received none from the snarling media, of course.
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What Did Gina Know?
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Peter Schweitzer is calling for an investigation of former CIA lady hog Gina (Edwina) Haspel.
Another Former CIA Director Enters the Crosshairs After Recent Russia Hoax Revelations
From Lifezette:
Schweizer specifically raised questions about Haspel’s positioning in London during the time when the now-discredited Steele dossier and other intelligence alleging ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia were being circulated.
He pointed to her 2014 reassignment by then-CIA Director John Brennan to the agency’s London post, a move he described as "highly unusual.”
"One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel,” Schweizer said.
"She was the CIA director, appointed by Donald Trump. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she was the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, CIA Director John Brennan sent her back there, which was a highly unusual move, and she was there during this period. Much of the fake Russia collusion intel, from Steele and others, was coming out of London.”
Schweizer added, "So, what role did she play in creating this? And also, what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?”
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So Haspel was at the center of the whole plot at the critical moment of it's inception. What did she know and when did she know it?
Peter Schweitzer is calling for an investigation of former CIA lady hog Gina (Edwina) Haspel.
Another Former CIA Director Enters the Crosshairs After Recent Russia Hoax Revelations
From Lifezette:
Schweizer specifically raised questions about Haspel’s positioning in London during the time when the now-discredited Steele dossier and other intelligence alleging ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia were being circulated.
He pointed to her 2014 reassignment by then-CIA Director John Brennan to the agency’s London post, a move he described as "highly unusual.”
"One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel,” Schweizer said.
"She was the CIA director, appointed by Donald Trump. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she was the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, CIA Director John Brennan sent her back there, which was a highly unusual move, and she was there during this period. Much of the fake Russia collusion intel, from Steele and others, was coming out of London.”
Schweizer added, "So, what role did she play in creating this? And also, what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?”
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So Haspel was at the center of the whole plot at the critical moment of it's inception. What did she know and when did she know it?
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