March 01, 2025
Trump Kicks Zelensky Out of White House
Timothy Birdnow
Volodymyr Zelensky wants security assurances from the U.S. to ink a deal on Ukrainian minerals. He was willing to infuriate Trump and almost scotch the deal to get them (and if the U.S. becomes dependent on Ukrainian rare earth elements that offers a much stronger assurance than some piece of paper).
Zelensky stated:
So he's claiming essentially the U.S. is unnecessary in this process - he's already got a guarantee from Europe. Why does he need a guarantee from the U.S.? Because he knows the Europeans promises aren't worth the paper they are printed on, and when push comes to shove they will simply not honor their agreement. It's easy to offer assurances if someone else is going to do all the heavy lifting. Zelensky knows this which is why he's so hot to get the U.S. commmitted.
Frankly, there is no reason why the U.S. should be involved. If this war showed anything it's that Russia's ground forces are inept and should a coalition of European powers take military action they probably would kick the Russians into senselessness. No American help is needed, it seems to me. Russia couldn't even take out corrupt little Ukraine after all.
And as for nukes, Britain and France both have their own stockpiles so why should we backstop them?
Zelensky and company were accused of being disrespectful and ungrateful. Trump kicked them out. They were supposed to get a free lunch in the White House and Trump gave that instead to White House staff!
Well, he's right in doing so. Zelensky acts as if we owe him the money rather than he is asking for our help. And he wants everything on his own terms. Oh,by the way, he is indeed a dictator.
Zelensky is qualitatively no different than the Deep State which thinks they are owed a good living off the taxpayer dime. Zelensky, like the bureaucrats being canned by DOGE, is angry that he's not just being handed the money without question.
Well, those days are over and the world better get used to the idea that the U.S. isn't some giant ATM, some money tree to be shaken.
Zelensky told Brett Baier he did nothing wrong and need not apologize to anyone.
It was clear Zelensky was grandstanding for the cameras. He said things that normally are for private conversations between himself and Trump/Vance. He was hoping to gin up a groundswell of popular support for his "heroic" leadership among the American Ruling Class. If that meant insulting America's people and leaders in the process oh well!
Volodymyr Zelensky wants security assurances from the U.S. to ink a deal on Ukrainian minerals. He was willing to infuriate Trump and almost scotch the deal to get them (and if the U.S. becomes dependent on Ukrainian rare earth elements that offers a much stronger assurance than some piece of paper).
Zelensky stated:
"When we say no NATO, what security guarantees can we have? I’m not pushing. We’re not pressuring. We’re just asking.”
Zelenskyy added that Europeans have already committed to providing security to Ukraine with boots on the ground. He also noted that the United States might consider offering support, potentially as a backstop "just to guarantee that they are with Europeans.”
Zelenskyy added that Europeans have already committed to providing security to Ukraine with boots on the ground. He also noted that the United States might consider offering support, potentially as a backstop "just to guarantee that they are with Europeans.”
So he's claiming essentially the U.S. is unnecessary in this process - he's already got a guarantee from Europe. Why does he need a guarantee from the U.S.? Because he knows the Europeans promises aren't worth the paper they are printed on, and when push comes to shove they will simply not honor their agreement. It's easy to offer assurances if someone else is going to do all the heavy lifting. Zelensky knows this which is why he's so hot to get the U.S. commmitted.
Frankly, there is no reason why the U.S. should be involved. If this war showed anything it's that Russia's ground forces are inept and should a coalition of European powers take military action they probably would kick the Russians into senselessness. No American help is needed, it seems to me. Russia couldn't even take out corrupt little Ukraine after all.
And as for nukes, Britain and France both have their own stockpiles so why should we backstop them?
Zelensky and company were accused of being disrespectful and ungrateful. Trump kicked them out. They were supposed to get a free lunch in the White House and Trump gave that instead to White House staff!
Well, he's right in doing so. Zelensky acts as if we owe him the money rather than he is asking for our help. And he wants everything on his own terms. Oh,by the way, he is indeed a dictator.
Zelensky is qualitatively no different than the Deep State which thinks they are owed a good living off the taxpayer dime. Zelensky, like the bureaucrats being canned by DOGE, is angry that he's not just being handed the money without question.
Well, those days are over and the world better get used to the idea that the U.S. isn't some giant ATM, some money tree to be shaken.
Zelensky told Brett Baier he did nothing wrong and need not apologize to anyone.
It was clear Zelensky was grandstanding for the cameras. He said things that normally are for private conversations between himself and Trump/Vance. He was hoping to gin up a groundswell of popular support for his "heroic" leadership among the American Ruling Class. If that meant insulting America's people and leaders in the process oh well!
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Biden Aid Made Big Bucks Off Illegals
Timothy Birdnow
We all knew there were big bucks passing around the Democrats.
DOGE Finds Top Biden Aid Received Millions for Shady Contract for "Migrant Housing"
As DOGE tweeted on X:
So the mass invasion was getting Democrats rich at taxpayer expense (and no doubt funding the election of many of them). I believe this sort of thing has gone on for decades and nobody ever called it out. It's what has made the Democrats politically viable; they are always over-funded by stealing taxpayer dollars. Without it the Democrats would be a solidly minority party and may well wind up collapsing as a result.
We all knew there were big bucks passing around the Democrats.
DOGE Finds Top Biden Aid Received Millions for Shady Contract for "Migrant Housing"
"A Texas nonprofit tied to Biden’s transition team members received a government contract for an overflow facility in Pecos.
Family Endeavors, which had employed the transition team member since 2021, saw its "cash and portfolio of investments grow from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023”—with the federal government as its sole source of funds, DOGE reported.
Family Endeavors’ managers have been receiving $18 million per month to operate the facility since 2024.
However, the facility, which was meant to house unaccompanied migrant children, remained empty.
Despite having no residents, the money continued to flow.
"With national licensed facility occupancy now below 20%, HHS was able to terminate this contract, saving taxpayers over $215M annually,” states the post on X, which also tags Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin."
Family Endeavors, which had employed the transition team member since 2021, saw its "cash and portfolio of investments grow from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023”—with the federal government as its sole source of funds, DOGE reported.
Family Endeavors’ managers have been receiving $18 million per month to operate the facility since 2024.
However, the facility, which was meant to house unaccompanied migrant children, remained empty.
Despite having no residents, the money continued to flow.
"With national licensed facility occupancy now below 20%, HHS was able to terminate this contract, saving taxpayers over $215M annually,” states the post on X, which also tags Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin."
As DOGE tweeted on X:
A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020… pic.twitter.com/KacroxqRcl
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 26, 2025
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020… pic.twitter.com/KacroxqRcl
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 26, 2025
So the mass invasion was getting Democrats rich at taxpayer expense (and no doubt funding the election of many of them). I believe this sort of thing has gone on for decades and nobody ever called it out. It's what has made the Democrats politically viable; they are always over-funded by stealing taxpayer dollars. Without it the Democrats would be a solidly minority party and may well wind up collapsing as a result.
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Trannies Gone Wild
Timothy Birdnow
Tranny insurrection.
Yes, girls really do go wild in Iowa.
Twenty five hundred protesters showed up in Des Moines to protest a bil to make sex binary (as it always has been). It seems unlikely that these are grass-roots Iowans, I might add, but probably rather are a rent-a-mob from outstate. I wonder how many are even transsexuals? Probably vagrants given liquor to show up.
One protester in the gallery as the state legislature voted had this pearl of wisdom:
That latter is no doubt a practice many of these folks enjoy as a part of their weekend sexual trysts.
The sad fact is reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, won't go away. (Phillip K. Dick) Trannies may believe what they please but it in no way impacts the reality, which is there are men and there are women and if you were born with a Y chromosome and a schnickle you ain't the latter. These folks are simply mentally ill.
Tranny insurrection.
Yes, girls really do go wild in Iowa.
Twenty five hundred protesters showed up in Des Moines to protest a bil to make sex binary (as it always has been). It seems unlikely that these are grass-roots Iowans, I might add, but probably rather are a rent-a-mob from outstate. I wonder how many are even transsexuals? Probably vagrants given liquor to show up.
One protester in the gallery as the state legislature voted had this pearl of wisdom:
'"Hope you’re proud of yourself,” while another shouted, "Fascist scumbags, eat sh*t!” before being removed by security."
That latter is no doubt a practice many of these folks enjoy as a part of their weekend sexual trysts.
The sad fact is reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, won't go away. (Phillip K. Dick) Trannies may believe what they please but it in no way impacts the reality, which is there are men and there are women and if you were born with a Y chromosome and a schnickle you ain't the latter. These folks are simply mentally ill.
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Girlcott by DEI Fans
Timothy Birdnow
Leftists wage a boycott to protest the Elimination of DEI, vowing to not shop on one day at Amazon and other online venues.
According to the article:
Preshopping impacts these corporations how? YOUR STILL BUYING THE SAME AMOUNT OF STUFF just not on one particular day.
If they were serious they would simply do without but liberals are spoiled brats and always have been, unable to make real sacrifices (that's for the hoi poloi, the schlubs of Middle America). So they will skip one day of shopping and think this somehow will impact these companies.
Sadly, some junior executives probably will be frightened by it. Liberal executives, the kind who pushed to put this nonsense in place in the first place.
They continue:
???? They are overturning prior generations and the work that went into building America. THEY are the despoilers.
And in fact they built such a better future that they no longer have anything to complain about, which is why they have had to invent "microaggressions" and other fictitious sins to protest against. Basically they are spoiled malcontents, children who want to do great things but have no challenges they can see to fight against. So they have invented their own, and will rage against normalcy and fair treatment for all as some sort of racism.
Leftists wage a boycott to protest the Elimination of DEI, vowing to not shop on one day at Amazon and other online venues.
According to the article:
"A flyer promoting the boycott urges participants to pre-shop and "only grab essentials” on Friday.
"Disrupting the economy for even one day sends a powerful message,” the flyer states.
"If they don’t listen, we make the next blackout longer. Our numbers are powerful. This is how we make history!”'
"Disrupting the economy for even one day sends a powerful message,” the flyer states.
"If they don’t listen, we make the next blackout longer. Our numbers are powerful. This is how we make history!”'
Preshopping impacts these corporations how? YOUR STILL BUYING THE SAME AMOUNT OF STUFF just not on one particular day.
If they were serious they would simply do without but liberals are spoiled brats and always have been, unable to make real sacrifices (that's for the hoi poloi, the schlubs of Middle America). So they will skip one day of shopping and think this somehow will impact these companies.
Sadly, some junior executives probably will be frightened by it. Liberal executives, the kind who pushed to put this nonsense in place in the first place.
They continue:
"For generations, our families worked, sacrificed, and fought to build a better future, yet here we stand, still waiting,” the group posted in a video on Instagram.
"We the people will not wait any longer. We stand in solidarity to honor the past and carve a new path for the future.
"We the people will not wait any longer. We stand in solidarity to honor the past and carve a new path for the future.
???? They are overturning prior generations and the work that went into building America. THEY are the despoilers.
And in fact they built such a better future that they no longer have anything to complain about, which is why they have had to invent "microaggressions" and other fictitious sins to protest against. Basically they are spoiled malcontents, children who want to do great things but have no challenges they can see to fight against. So they have invented their own, and will rage against normalcy and fair treatment for all as some sort of racism.
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Vote Fraud in P.A.
Timothy Birdnow
THREE top Pennsylvania Democrat election officials are being charged with election fraud.
No vote fraud in America my big white posterior!
THREE top Pennsylvania Democrat election officials are being charged with election fraud.
No vote fraud in America my big white posterior!
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February 28, 2025
Whining from the WSJ
Timothy Birdnow
The Wall Street Journal cries like a teenage girl whose boyfriend asked another girl to the dance in one of the whiniest pieces about Kash Patel and the FBI I have ever had the misfortune of seeing.
FTA (if I had to suffer through it you may as well do likewise):
I would remind everyone that while the Wall Street Journal has a conservative editorial board, by and large (they are Bush-style Republican internationalists who like making money but have always hated Trump's brand of patriotic conservatism) their news department is actually the most biased of all journalistic enterprises SLANTING TO THE LEFT.
The article continues:
I didn't know it was the job of the chief of the FBI to be "sensitive"; I thought it was to enforce laws! Silly me!
Patel is trying to get them to quit, dimbulbs! He wants to winnow the agency down to only those needed to do the job and he isn't allowed to just fire them due to the law, so he's seeing who is willing to fight to stay on. Those hanging around Quantico were probably unnecessary personnel in the first place.
So cry me a river. This has been a long time coming. And it has to be done, and ruthlessly and right now; this is the moment we have to accomplish a restoration of government. Wait until an election year and all the momentum is lost.
The Wall Street Journal cries like a teenage girl whose boyfriend asked another girl to the dance in one of the whiniest pieces about Kash Patel and the FBI I have ever had the misfortune of seeing.
FTA (if I had to suffer through it you may as well do likewise):
His first week at the bureau has laid bare the extent to which his tenure could upend the tradition-bound agency and transform its culture, according to interviews with a dozen current and former FBI officials.
Soon after arriving, Patel cleared out all civil-service staff in the leadership suites and replaced them with political associates; ordered 1,500 employees relocated out of Washington without money in place to pay for the move; and broke a promise he made to agents to appoint a deputy from their ranks.
FBI headquarters in Washington.
He also got a second job running another law-enforcement agency, an unusual arrangement given that being FBI director is seen as one of the toughest jobs in government.
Patel’s partisan background as a surrogate for Trump during the 2024 election campaign and open criticism of the agency set him apart from previous FBI directors. Patel and the president share the view that the FBI must be purged of what they perceive as bias against Trump and other conservatives. His ascendance to the job after officials from Trump’s first administration found him unqualified and untrustworthy is a remarkable one.
Soon after arriving, Patel cleared out all civil-service staff in the leadership suites and replaced them with political associates; ordered 1,500 employees relocated out of Washington without money in place to pay for the move; and broke a promise he made to agents to appoint a deputy from their ranks.
FBI headquarters in Washington.
He also got a second job running another law-enforcement agency, an unusual arrangement given that being FBI director is seen as one of the toughest jobs in government.
Patel’s partisan background as a surrogate for Trump during the 2024 election campaign and open criticism of the agency set him apart from previous FBI directors. Patel and the president share the view that the FBI must be purged of what they perceive as bias against Trump and other conservatives. His ascendance to the job after officials from Trump’s first administration found him unqualified and untrustworthy is a remarkable one.
I would remind everyone that while the Wall Street Journal has a conservative editorial board, by and large (they are Bush-style Republican internationalists who like making money but have always hated Trump's brand of patriotic conservatism) their news department is actually the most biased of all journalistic enterprises SLANTING TO THE LEFT.
The article continues:
"On Friday, his first day on the job, Patel ordered officials to relocate 1,500 employees from Washington to cities with high crime rates including Minneapolis, Detroit and Cleveland. Another FBI official piped in with a harsh reality, according to people familiar with the exchange: Each move could cost up to $100,000, and the bureau didn’t have the funds to cover such a restructuring, the official said. Government agencies generally aren’t allowed to spend money in ways not authorized by Congress, and often don’t have money for basic employee perks like office coffee. Patel was unmoved. Figure out how to do it anyway, and fast, he told them.
Current and former agents have said they support sending more personnel to field offices, but some said they were put off by what they saw as Patel’s insensitivity to the personal challenges and costs agents would face if forced to leave quickly.
Current and former agents have said they support sending more personnel to field offices, but some said they were put off by what they saw as Patel’s insensitivity to the personal challenges and costs agents would face if forced to leave quickly.
I didn't know it was the job of the chief of the FBI to be "sensitive"; I thought it was to enforce laws! Silly me!
Patel is trying to get them to quit, dimbulbs! He wants to winnow the agency down to only those needed to do the job and he isn't allowed to just fire them due to the law, so he's seeing who is willing to fight to stay on. Those hanging around Quantico were probably unnecessary personnel in the first place.
So cry me a river. This has been a long time coming. And it has to be done, and ruthlessly and right now; this is the moment we have to accomplish a restoration of government. Wait until an election year and all the momentum is lost.
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Steyn on the German Elections
Timothy Birdnow
Mark Steyn does an analysis of the German elections and says "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
The "conservative party" and Merz's unwillingness to partner with the AFD means nothing changes in Germany and the country will continue to slide into the ashbin of history.
In fifty years all that will be left of Germany will be the name; the culture and the people will be gone, subsumed into the new Middle East.
Mark Steyn does an analysis of the German elections and says "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
The "conservative party" and Merz's unwillingness to partner with the AFD means nothing changes in Germany and the country will continue to slide into the ashbin of history.
In fifty years all that will be left of Germany will be the name; the culture and the people will be gone, subsumed into the new Middle East.
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What is English?
Timothy Birdnow
A British Indian asks "what does it mean to be English" and decides it's more than just being born in a place but goes to ethnic and cultural roots that transcend the current view of society that Englishness (or Frenchness, or Danishness, or what have you) is conferred just by showing up.
A good read. He makes an argument that used to be standard but is now considered taboo.
A British Indian asks "what does it mean to be English" and decides it's more than just being born in a place but goes to ethnic and cultural roots that transcend the current view of society that Englishness (or Frenchness, or Danishness, or what have you) is conferred just by showing up.
A good read. He makes an argument that used to be standard but is now considered taboo.
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Meghan Kelly Has Illness from Covid Shot
Timothy Birdnow
Meghan Kelly was a big promoter of the Covid shot back in he early days of this decade and she bragged when she received it. Now she has an autoimmune disease and is repenting of her earlier advocacy - but it's sadly too late.
From Western Jounranlism:
Hindsight is 20/20. The fact is everyone trusted the medical community and they were lying to us about both the safety and efficacy of the drug, which essentially underwent it's clinical trials in the general population. Kelly assumed, wrongly, that this was a vaccine; it wasn't. It was a radical gene therapy, and the genetic damage done is probably irreversible.
In the interest of full disclosure I allowed myself to get badgered into getting the shot. I was traveling with some of my wife's family and they were pretty adamant about it so I took the plunge. Stupid, especially as I have a number of health issues already. As of yet there is nothing new, at least nothing I can point to and say "this is definitely from the shot". So Kelly is to be forgiven for her previous advocacy - she was lied to and she fell for it.
A lot of people will pay dearly for what they did, if not in this life then in the next.
Meghan Kelly was a big promoter of the Covid shot back in he early days of this decade and she bragged when she received it. Now she has an autoimmune disease and is repenting of her earlier advocacy - but it's sadly too late.
From Western Jounranlism:
"Then, he asked Kelly about her own similar experience. The host has admitted several times in the past that she, too, suffered from autoimmune-related problems after getting the Pfizer vaccine and booster.
"Yeah, that I tested positive for an autoimmune condition, though it was undiagnosed or unspecified which one,” Kelly said.
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"Right. OK,” Malhotra replied. "And in your mind you feel it may have been linked [to the vaccine]?”
Kelly then explained that she asked that very question of her rheumatologist, who replied, "Yes, I do.”
"In New York, you couldn’t travel. You couldn’t do anything unless you proved — it was just ridiculous,” the host recalled. "I wish I hadn’t done it, but I did.”
"Yeah, that I tested positive for an autoimmune condition, though it was undiagnosed or unspecified which one,” Kelly said.
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"Right. OK,” Malhotra replied. "And in your mind you feel it may have been linked [to the vaccine]?”
Kelly then explained that she asked that very question of her rheumatologist, who replied, "Yes, I do.”
"In New York, you couldn’t travel. You couldn’t do anything unless you proved — it was just ridiculous,” the host recalled. "I wish I hadn’t done it, but I did.”
Hindsight is 20/20. The fact is everyone trusted the medical community and they were lying to us about both the safety and efficacy of the drug, which essentially underwent it's clinical trials in the general population. Kelly assumed, wrongly, that this was a vaccine; it wasn't. It was a radical gene therapy, and the genetic damage done is probably irreversible.
In the interest of full disclosure I allowed myself to get badgered into getting the shot. I was traveling with some of my wife's family and they were pretty adamant about it so I took the plunge. Stupid, especially as I have a number of health issues already. As of yet there is nothing new, at least nothing I can point to and say "this is definitely from the shot". So Kelly is to be forgiven for her previous advocacy - she was lied to and she fell for it.
A lot of people will pay dearly for what they did, if not in this life then in the next.
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February 27, 2025
Flynn to Comey - "You're Going to Jail"
Timothy Birdnow
Oh, I most earnestly hope so!
General Flynn Issues Ominous Warning to James Comey: "You’re Gonna Go to Jail”
Oh, I most earnestly hope so!
General Flynn Issues Ominous Warning to James Comey: "You’re Gonna Go to Jail”
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D.C. Jobless Claims Say it All
Timothy Birdnow
Rememnber, all the job growth we experienced since the Pandemic has been in government or filled by illegal aliens.
DOGE Wins As DC Jobless Claims Soared Last Week
No doubt the media will trumpet to the Heavens the poor employment numbers that will be coming as a result of busting out government jobs (which should never have been created in the first place). Biden took credit for that three letter word - JOBS. But most of the jobs he "created" were just rehirings from the pandemic shutdown. Others were taken by the millions of illegals. And the rest were government jobs - he expanded the Federal workforce by over 6% according to offical statistics (he added 709,000 in 2023 along, according to one estimate, and in fact a quarter of all the jobs he "created" were government jobs.
We have to trim this back, at least to what we had just a few short years ago.We cannot fix our financial problems without firing these people.
Rememnber, all the job growth we experienced since the Pandemic has been in government or filled by illegal aliens.
DOGE Wins As DC Jobless Claims Soared Last Week
No doubt the media will trumpet to the Heavens the poor employment numbers that will be coming as a result of busting out government jobs (which should never have been created in the first place). Biden took credit for that three letter word - JOBS. But most of the jobs he "created" were just rehirings from the pandemic shutdown. Others were taken by the millions of illegals. And the rest were government jobs - he expanded the Federal workforce by over 6% according to offical statistics (he added 709,000 in 2023 along, according to one estimate, and in fact a quarter of all the jobs he "created" were government jobs.
We have to trim this back, at least to what we had just a few short years ago.We cannot fix our financial problems without firing these people.
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CDC, EPA Ignore Trump Orders
Timothy Birdnow
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has simply ignored Trump's order severing all ties with the World Health Organization, along with the FDA.
Trump has pulled America out of the WHO for their horrible rsponse to Covid and the fact the U.S. was being stuck with most of the check for the WHO. But that won't stop the internationalists who have agreed to join a conference by WHO anyway in direct violation of the President's directive.
From the article:
The Bureaucracy is pulling the same crap it pulled last time Trump was in office, simply disregarding his orders as if they were an independent branch of government. Heads need to roll at both agencies.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has simply ignored Trump's order severing all ties with the World Health Organization, along with the FDA.
Trump has pulled America out of the WHO for their horrible rsponse to Covid and the fact the U.S. was being stuck with most of the check for the WHO. But that won't stop the internationalists who have agreed to join a conference by WHO anyway in direct violation of the President's directive.
From the article:
"In a blistering report from the U.K.’s Daily Mail, CDC officials confirmed with the outlet that they have no intention of severing ties with the WHO.
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A CDC representative confirmed with the Mail that the organization "will be actively participating virtually” at an upcoming WHO conference in London about flu vaccines.
Additionally, the Mail reported that the FDA is also participating in this conference, in further defiance of Trump’s executive order.
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The Mail further added: "But the two government agencies would likely have had to seek an exemption from the Trump administration due to its ban on all communications with the WHO.
"Twice annually, WHO organizes consultations with an advisory group of experts to analyze global flu data, with recommendations issued on the composition of vaccines for the next flu season.”
Neither the CDC nor the FDA made public that they would be participating in this conference.
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A CDC representative confirmed with the Mail that the organization "will be actively participating virtually” at an upcoming WHO conference in London about flu vaccines.
Additionally, the Mail reported that the FDA is also participating in this conference, in further defiance of Trump’s executive order.
Related:
The Mail further added: "But the two government agencies would likely have had to seek an exemption from the Trump administration due to its ban on all communications with the WHO.
"Twice annually, WHO organizes consultations with an advisory group of experts to analyze global flu data, with recommendations issued on the composition of vaccines for the next flu season.”
Neither the CDC nor the FDA made public that they would be participating in this conference.
The Bureaucracy is pulling the same crap it pulled last time Trump was in office, simply disregarding his orders as if they were an independent branch of government. Heads need to roll at both agencies.
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Gene Hackman RIP
Timothy Birdnow
Gene Hackman RIP.
Yes, the great Gene Hackman has passed awayy. His wife and dog were also found dead in their Santa Fe New Mexico home. He was 94.
Local law enforcement has not announced a cause of death but confirmed they are not at this moment considering foul play.
Hackman was in innumerable movies, breaking out in the iconic Bonnie and Clyde and starring in such great films as The French Connection (for which he won an Oscar), the Poseidon Adventure, Superman (where he played Lex Luther), No Way Out, Unforgiven, and even a small part in Young Frankenstein, among many others. He was an actor's actor, all about the work and not interested in the glitz and glamour.
He had retired about twenty years ago.
I once read Hackman was voted least likely to succeed by his acting school (the Pasadena Playhouse) and passed with the lowest marks possible - goes to show how wrong people can be. Hackman did well because he was dilligent and really worked at his craft.
Dustin Hoffman was there at the same time and also received this high honor. The two became roommates, both determined to prove their detractors wrong.
At any rate Hackman was an icon of American film and will be missed.
Gene Hackman RIP.
Yes, the great Gene Hackman has passed awayy. His wife and dog were also found dead in their Santa Fe New Mexico home. He was 94.
Local law enforcement has not announced a cause of death but confirmed they are not at this moment considering foul play.
Hackman was in innumerable movies, breaking out in the iconic Bonnie and Clyde and starring in such great films as The French Connection (for which he won an Oscar), the Poseidon Adventure, Superman (where he played Lex Luther), No Way Out, Unforgiven, and even a small part in Young Frankenstein, among many others. He was an actor's actor, all about the work and not interested in the glitz and glamour.
He had retired about twenty years ago.
I once read Hackman was voted least likely to succeed by his acting school (the Pasadena Playhouse) and passed with the lowest marks possible - goes to show how wrong people can be. Hackman did well because he was dilligent and really worked at his craft.
Dustin Hoffman was there at the same time and also received this high honor. The two became roommates, both determined to prove their detractors wrong.
At any rate Hackman was an icon of American film and will be missed.
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Oath Breakers at DOGE
Timothy Birdnow
Why the "mass resignations" at DOGE don't mean jack.
Pure Gold: DOGE Staffers Resigned, Left Misttake Letter Proving Just How Bad They Really Were
The dirty little secret is that all 21 of these staffers were already employed under the U.S. Digital Service, the Obama creation repurposed as DOGE by the Trump Administration (putting the lie to the claim it has no legal authority.)
Western Journalism pokes the sore point:
A non-story indeed. But the media seeks anything to divide and to make the American People turn away from Trump (and they first need to put some daylight between Trump and Musk.) So they take some disgruntled Obamabots/Bidenbots and build an attack story around them.
Pruning away dead wood is precisely what DOGE is intended to do; it's a good thing if they prune their own department, no?
Why the "mass resignations" at DOGE don't mean jack.
Pure Gold: DOGE Staffers Resigned, Left Misttake Letter Proving Just How Bad They Really Were
The dirty little secret is that all 21 of these staffers were already employed under the U.S. Digital Service, the Obama creation repurposed as DOGE by the Trump Administration (putting the lie to the claim it has no legal authority.)
Western Journalism pokes the sore point:
"They probably should have re-read that email first, however, before it was leaked.
"We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the staffers wrote in the collective resignation email. "However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
Read that again.
Their job, as civil servants, was to serve no matter who the president was. They knew that when they took the oath. They say that.
They also knew they were working at an agency with a broad and obscure purview, except that it mostly had to do with the digital footprint of the U.S. government. From the "Our Mission” page of the USDS’ website, which is still up despite the repurposing to DOGE: "We collaborate with public servants throughout the government to address some of the most critical needs and ultimately deliver a better government experience to people. We work across multiple agencies and bring best practices from our various disciplines, which include engineering, product, design, procurement, data science, operations, talent, and communications.”
I again pose the Bobs’ question from "Office Space”: What would you say … you do here? Because it sounds like pretty much whatever the government wants you to do at that point in time; the main reason the USDS was established in the first place was because of the trainwreck that was the roll-out of Healthcare.gov, the infamous Obamacare portal. Since then, it’s mostly done whatever digital work suited the administration in charge.
So they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and do their duties regardless of administration at a vague, distal limb of the Beltway leviathan and now admit, actually, they didn’t really mean it if they’re being asked to be civil servants under a president that makes them do something they disagreed with.
TL;DR: They lied when they took the oath required for their job. They now expect to be treated sympathetically.
Now, this is a non-story; Musk himself noted on X that the staffers were "Dem political holdovers” that "would have been fired had they not resigned,” and the rest of the letter seems to bear that out.
"We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the staffers wrote in the collective resignation email. "However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
Read that again.
Their job, as civil servants, was to serve no matter who the president was. They knew that when they took the oath. They say that.
They also knew they were working at an agency with a broad and obscure purview, except that it mostly had to do with the digital footprint of the U.S. government. From the "Our Mission” page of the USDS’ website, which is still up despite the repurposing to DOGE: "We collaborate with public servants throughout the government to address some of the most critical needs and ultimately deliver a better government experience to people. We work across multiple agencies and bring best practices from our various disciplines, which include engineering, product, design, procurement, data science, operations, talent, and communications.”
I again pose the Bobs’ question from "Office Space”: What would you say … you do here? Because it sounds like pretty much whatever the government wants you to do at that point in time; the main reason the USDS was established in the first place was because of the trainwreck that was the roll-out of Healthcare.gov, the infamous Obamacare portal. Since then, it’s mostly done whatever digital work suited the administration in charge.
So they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and do their duties regardless of administration at a vague, distal limb of the Beltway leviathan and now admit, actually, they didn’t really mean it if they’re being asked to be civil servants under a president that makes them do something they disagreed with.
TL;DR: They lied when they took the oath required for their job. They now expect to be treated sympathetically.
Now, this is a non-story; Musk himself noted on X that the staffers were "Dem political holdovers” that "would have been fired had they not resigned,” and the rest of the letter seems to bear that out.
A non-story indeed. But the media seeks anything to divide and to make the American People turn away from Trump (and they first need to put some daylight between Trump and Musk.) So they take some disgruntled Obamabots/Bidenbots and build an attack story around them.
Pruning away dead wood is precisely what DOGE is intended to do; it's a good thing if they prune their own department, no?
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February 26, 2025
Racial InsurrectionistsSueing the Department of Education
Timothy Birdnow
The American Federation of Teachers and the American Scatological, er, Sociological Association are suing the Depatment of Education over a letter it sent to school districts threatening to withhold funding if they continued to promote DEI. Their argument? It violates the First Amendment (the right to free speech) and the fifty (the right to not self-incriminate and to due process). Only a leftist would try to use these in so creative a fashion.
The stronger case is the First Amendment, which states Congress shall make no law "abridging the freedom of speech". But nobody is abridging anyone's freedom of speech - just saying they won't be paid by taxpayers to promote a radical ideology. These teachers are free to talk about DEI all they want on their own time. But they are employees of the schools where they teach, and as employees they cannot teach what they please. That has always been the case.
If they can teach DEI why can't a Christian teacher teach religion in their classes? They can't and the Left would melt down if they tried, but it's fine for them to teach THEIR religion in schools. Then it's suddently a matter of free speech.
There are all sorts of abridgements of free speech in education. You can't teach the Earth is flat. You can't teach kids that the Nazis were the good guys and racism was a wonderful thing. You can't teach kids to snort cocaine. You can't teach kids to break the law.
And you cannot demand taxpayer money for promoting your own views; there are standards and if you break those standards you should expect to lose your job. These folks are telling us they intend to do as they please and we have to pay them to insult us.
The argument based on the Fifth Amendment is utterly laughable; how is this "incriminating themselves"? I suppose their argument is this is a violation of due process, but it's not; it's not a legal matter at all, but an amployment matter. Nobody is being charged with a crime - just not being funded for violating a policy set down by the DOE.
Was it a due process crime when Ronald Reagan fired PATCO? Was it a due process violation when Clinton fired the U.S. attnorneys, or when he sacked the travel office? Was due process violaed when Barack Hussein Obama fired the military top brass? What about all these other firings of Federal workers by Obama? No because he had every right to fire government employees. This isn't even about firing, just not giving funds to insurrectionist educrats.
The sad thing is they no doubt chose the court they will appeal to carefully and will probably win the first round or two. That's how the Left rolls. And the courts are still utterly corrupted.
The litigants claim the policy is over-broad and vague, but how is that so? We know exactly what DEI entails and what they are promoting. Schools are not forums for radicalization and if that is what they want to be they can stop taking public funding.
Craig Trainor, acting head of civil rights in the DOE, defined it simply enough:
Now how hard was that?
The plaintiffs argued the letter "radically upends and re-writes otherwise well-established jurisprudence,” yet cites no specific examples. I can think of a few well-established jurisprudences DEI upends - like Title VI of the Civil Rigth Act of 1964. That states:
What is so hard for these dopes to understand? All that the acting director is doing is enforcing this provision of the law.
The radical Left is furious because they use these laws to their advantage and don't like having to obey them when they are not so advantageous.
Hopefully the DOE will win in the trial but probably not. Not only is common sense gone but so is fairness and the Rule of Law.
The American Federation of Teachers and the American Scatological, er, Sociological Association are suing the Depatment of Education over a letter it sent to school districts threatening to withhold funding if they continued to promote DEI. Their argument? It violates the First Amendment (the right to free speech) and the fifty (the right to not self-incriminate and to due process). Only a leftist would try to use these in so creative a fashion.
The stronger case is the First Amendment, which states Congress shall make no law "abridging the freedom of speech". But nobody is abridging anyone's freedom of speech - just saying they won't be paid by taxpayers to promote a radical ideology. These teachers are free to talk about DEI all they want on their own time. But they are employees of the schools where they teach, and as employees they cannot teach what they please. That has always been the case.
If they can teach DEI why can't a Christian teacher teach religion in their classes? They can't and the Left would melt down if they tried, but it's fine for them to teach THEIR religion in schools. Then it's suddently a matter of free speech.
There are all sorts of abridgements of free speech in education. You can't teach the Earth is flat. You can't teach kids that the Nazis were the good guys and racism was a wonderful thing. You can't teach kids to snort cocaine. You can't teach kids to break the law.
And you cannot demand taxpayer money for promoting your own views; there are standards and if you break those standards you should expect to lose your job. These folks are telling us they intend to do as they please and we have to pay them to insult us.
The argument based on the Fifth Amendment is utterly laughable; how is this "incriminating themselves"? I suppose their argument is this is a violation of due process, but it's not; it's not a legal matter at all, but an amployment matter. Nobody is being charged with a crime - just not being funded for violating a policy set down by the DOE.
Was it a due process crime when Ronald Reagan fired PATCO? Was it a due process violation when Clinton fired the U.S. attnorneys, or when he sacked the travel office? Was due process violaed when Barack Hussein Obama fired the military top brass? What about all these other firings of Federal workers by Obama? No because he had every right to fire government employees. This isn't even about firing, just not giving funds to insurrectionist educrats.
The sad thing is they no doubt chose the court they will appeal to carefully and will probably win the first round or two. That's how the Left rolls. And the courts are still utterly corrupted.
The litigants claim the policy is over-broad and vague, but how is that so? We know exactly what DEI entails and what they are promoting. Schools are not forums for radicalization and if that is what they want to be they can stop taking public funding.
Craig Trainor, acting head of civil rights in the DOE, defined it simply enough:
"At its core, the test is simple: If an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person’s race, the educational institution violates the law,”
Now how hard was that?
The plaintiffs argued the letter "radically upends and re-writes otherwise well-established jurisprudence,” yet cites no specific examples. I can think of a few well-established jurisprudences DEI upends - like Title VI of the Civil Rigth Act of 1964. That states:
"No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
What is so hard for these dopes to understand? All that the acting director is doing is enforcing this provision of the law.
The radical Left is furious because they use these laws to their advantage and don't like having to obey them when they are not so advantageous.
Hopefully the DOE will win in the trial but probably not. Not only is common sense gone but so is fairness and the Rule of Law.
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They Made the Girl Tranny and there is Nothing the Parent's Can Do
Timothy Birdnow
This is why we need to start impeaching judges. Shoot; in times gone-by this court would have had angry villagers with torches and ptchforks coming for them!
From the Blaze:
PARENTS, not school administrators, not teachers, not judges, have the final word on how their children are to be medically treated and how they are to be educated. This ruling should have been a no-brainer but apparently the judge had less than no brain. Is it possible to have a negative brain?
And you don't let children make life-altering decisions for themselves; they do not know enough and they do not understand some decisions are irrevocable, and they do not understand how much more of life they are facing. As Andy Griffith said, kids will grab the fist shiny thing that comes there way and when they realize there's a hook in it it's too late.
This girl unquestionably came to believe she was transgendered because teachers were telling her she was - and she wanted to please her teachers. It made her feel special, gave her status. She doesn't realize she's throwing away her childhood, that she will never get those years back (and the other kids will never accept her as a boy). Thes education bastards have destroyed this poor girl's life. And the parents lives too.
These teachers and educators will have to answer to God for this,and His judgment will not be easy on them.
A boycott needs to be organized, and picket lines set up in front of this school. The teachers and administrators in question need tobe called out publicly. So should the Fifth Circuit and this Judge Mark G. Mastroianni who made the initial ruling. I hope MAGA legislators are looking into impeaching these clowns and perhaps defunding this school and the district.
Until there is punishment for this sort of radical revolutionary behavior and abuse of children it will continue.
This is why we need to start impeaching judges. Shoot; in times gone-by this court would have had angry villagers with torches and ptchforks coming for them!
From the Blaze:
The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling from 2022 by U.S. District Judge Mark G. Mastroianni and dismissed the appeal filed by parents of a student at Ludlow Public Schools in Massachusetts.
The school argued that their gender protocols were appropriate in order to 'ensure a safe and inclusive school learning environment for students.'
Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri filed the lawsuit against the Ludlow school and several officials after the school encouraged their daughter to use new pronouns and a new name without their consent, as previously reported by Blaze News.
The parents had been informed by school officials in Dec. 2022 that their daughter had expressed feelings of depression and poor self-image as well as same-sex attraction. The parents thanked the officials and sought therapy for their daughter.
The parents also emailed teachers to request that they not discuss the matter further with their daughter, but the lawsuit claims that teachers ignored their directive and used her changed name while counseling her on gender change. After the girl emailed teachers requesting they use new pronouns for her, school officials refused to inform the parents and also prevented them from directing the mental health of their daughter.
The decision was based on Ludlow schools following an order issued in 2012 by the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to avoid discrimination on the basis of gender.
The school argued that their gender protocols were appropriate in order to 'ensure a safe and inclusive school learning environment for students.'
Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri filed the lawsuit against the Ludlow school and several officials after the school encouraged their daughter to use new pronouns and a new name without their consent, as previously reported by Blaze News.
The parents had been informed by school officials in Dec. 2022 that their daughter had expressed feelings of depression and poor self-image as well as same-sex attraction. The parents thanked the officials and sought therapy for their daughter.
The parents also emailed teachers to request that they not discuss the matter further with their daughter, but the lawsuit claims that teachers ignored their directive and used her changed name while counseling her on gender change. After the girl emailed teachers requesting they use new pronouns for her, school officials refused to inform the parents and also prevented them from directing the mental health of their daughter.
The decision was based on Ludlow schools following an order issued in 2012 by the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to avoid discrimination on the basis of gender.
PARENTS, not school administrators, not teachers, not judges, have the final word on how their children are to be medically treated and how they are to be educated. This ruling should have been a no-brainer but apparently the judge had less than no brain. Is it possible to have a negative brain?
And you don't let children make life-altering decisions for themselves; they do not know enough and they do not understand some decisions are irrevocable, and they do not understand how much more of life they are facing. As Andy Griffith said, kids will grab the fist shiny thing that comes there way and when they realize there's a hook in it it's too late.
This girl unquestionably came to believe she was transgendered because teachers were telling her she was - and she wanted to please her teachers. It made her feel special, gave her status. She doesn't realize she's throwing away her childhood, that she will never get those years back (and the other kids will never accept her as a boy). Thes education bastards have destroyed this poor girl's life. And the parents lives too.
These teachers and educators will have to answer to God for this,and His judgment will not be easy on them.
A boycott needs to be organized, and picket lines set up in front of this school. The teachers and administrators in question need tobe called out publicly. So should the Fifth Circuit and this Judge Mark G. Mastroianni who made the initial ruling. I hope MAGA legislators are looking into impeaching these clowns and perhaps defunding this school and the district.
Until there is punishment for this sort of radical revolutionary behavior and abuse of children it will continue.
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Air Crashes Decrease Under Trump
Timothy Birdnow
Suck on this media!
January Had Fewest Plane Crashes Since Data Began Being Recorded - February Projected to Be Even Safer
The media has been trying to blame the Canadian air crash on Trump cutting out extra staff at the FAA. Turns out under Trump there are FEWER crashes!
Suck on this media!
January Had Fewest Plane Crashes Since Data Began Being Recorded - February Projected to Be Even Safer
The media has been trying to blame the Canadian air crash on Trump cutting out extra staff at the FAA. Turns out under Trump there are FEWER crashes!
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The Language Gene
Timothy Birdnow
Fascinating; new research suggests that humanity's language may be in our genes.
From the Tech Science Daily article:
I'm intrigued by language; it seems to have stimulated our evolution, and our culture, and it seems that our improvement in culture and technology spurred the devolopment of our language as well. It was a kind of bootstrapping process.
Human beings have Brocca's Region, a rather large lobe in the left hemispheres of our brains. No other animals have that. Brocca's Region is the seat of language (although language appears to inhabit other areas as well. Why did Brocca's Region develop?
But it's not really that simple; animals can and do communicate, and sometimes quite sophisticatedly. I saw a documentary about chipmunks; they had very complex vocalizations and we were able to decode some of it (most of which was too high for us to hear) and it was obvious they had a rather complex linguistic pattern and could impart some information. There appeared to been a specific word for human and words for colors as well.
Does that mean Chipmunks speak as do we? No; undoubtedly their language had nouns and adjectives but lacked the flexibility to get across complex ideas.
Which is why human beings can exist in past and present and can predict the future to a limited degree; we can pass on what we learned.
I had a brilliant cat not so long ago. I often called him the Albert Einstein of cats because he was so smart; he could figure out what things did and how they operated. He figured out how the toilet flushed and took to flushing it to amuse himself; he was fascinated at how it worked (I had left the lid off and he would flush it and watch the water go down.) He would try to operate the door handles but couldn't without thumbs, but he knew how they worked. I tried to harness train him so I could take him out; the harness was supposedly animal proof, with clamps that had to be grabbed from both sides to open. He went under a bush and was free in a matter of minutes. Brillian animal.
And he clearly understood much of what we said. I could tell him "we're going in in fifteen minutes" and he would come up to the door in fifteen minutes. If I just went and got him he's be angry. I could tell him to get my wife out of bed and he'd do it. He would often move his mouth and it was clear he was trying to speak. He could communicate with us in a lot of ways though.
We know chimps and gorillas learn sign languge, too. So there is undoubtedly much more communication in the animal kingdom than we give them credit for, but they still can't think in the abstract way we do.Human speech (and the thinking that comes from it) is a whole order of magnitude above the animals.
Civilization was born of human speech, no question. So this isn't an idle question for academics.
And it's no idle question for modern civilization. Our ability to speak is degrading thanks to terrible education, and the younger generation has been steadily declining in it's ability to elucidate thoughts or even think them. That is the failure of modern education to teach kids to speak properly and read.
Computers have led to the young not reading, and when they do they just read snippets, and this failure to develop the speech centers of their brains has ramifications for the long-term survival of our species. We seem to be devolving back to the Neanderthal/Denisovian era, with speech being entirely direct and unsophisticated.
At any rate I find this discovery of a gene to be an interesting development. The more we understand language the more we understand the human mind.
Fascinating; new research suggests that humanity's language may be in our genes.
From the Tech Science Daily article:
"The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Were Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a distant freshwater source or describe the nuanced purples and reds of a dramatic sunset?
Close relatives such as the Neanderthals likely possessed anatomical features in the throat and ears that could have enabled them to speak and hear spoken language. They also share with us a variant of a gene linked to speech ability. Yet, only in modern humans do we find expanded brain regions critical for language production and comprehension.
Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.
In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers in the lab of Rockefeller researcher Robert B. Darnell discovered that when they put this exclusively human variant of NOVA1—an RNA-binding protein in the brain known to be crucial to neural development—into mice, it altered their vocalizations as they called to each other.
The study also confirmed that the variant is not found in either Neanderthals or Denisovans, archaic humans that our ancestors interbred with, as is evidenced by their genetic traces that remain in many human genomes today.
Close relatives such as the Neanderthals likely possessed anatomical features in the throat and ears that could have enabled them to speak and hear spoken language. They also share with us a variant of a gene linked to speech ability. Yet, only in modern humans do we find expanded brain regions critical for language production and comprehension.
Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.
In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers in the lab of Rockefeller researcher Robert B. Darnell discovered that when they put this exclusively human variant of NOVA1—an RNA-binding protein in the brain known to be crucial to neural development—into mice, it altered their vocalizations as they called to each other.
The study also confirmed that the variant is not found in either Neanderthals or Denisovans, archaic humans that our ancestors interbred with, as is evidenced by their genetic traces that remain in many human genomes today.
I'm intrigued by language; it seems to have stimulated our evolution, and our culture, and it seems that our improvement in culture and technology spurred the devolopment of our language as well. It was a kind of bootstrapping process.
Human beings have Brocca's Region, a rather large lobe in the left hemispheres of our brains. No other animals have that. Brocca's Region is the seat of language (although language appears to inhabit other areas as well. Why did Brocca's Region develop?
But it's not really that simple; animals can and do communicate, and sometimes quite sophisticatedly. I saw a documentary about chipmunks; they had very complex vocalizations and we were able to decode some of it (most of which was too high for us to hear) and it was obvious they had a rather complex linguistic pattern and could impart some information. There appeared to been a specific word for human and words for colors as well.
Does that mean Chipmunks speak as do we? No; undoubtedly their language had nouns and adjectives but lacked the flexibility to get across complex ideas.
Which is why human beings can exist in past and present and can predict the future to a limited degree; we can pass on what we learned.
I had a brilliant cat not so long ago. I often called him the Albert Einstein of cats because he was so smart; he could figure out what things did and how they operated. He figured out how the toilet flushed and took to flushing it to amuse himself; he was fascinated at how it worked (I had left the lid off and he would flush it and watch the water go down.) He would try to operate the door handles but couldn't without thumbs, but he knew how they worked. I tried to harness train him so I could take him out; the harness was supposedly animal proof, with clamps that had to be grabbed from both sides to open. He went under a bush and was free in a matter of minutes. Brillian animal.
And he clearly understood much of what we said. I could tell him "we're going in in fifteen minutes" and he would come up to the door in fifteen minutes. If I just went and got him he's be angry. I could tell him to get my wife out of bed and he'd do it. He would often move his mouth and it was clear he was trying to speak. He could communicate with us in a lot of ways though.
We know chimps and gorillas learn sign languge, too. So there is undoubtedly much more communication in the animal kingdom than we give them credit for, but they still can't think in the abstract way we do.Human speech (and the thinking that comes from it) is a whole order of magnitude above the animals.
Civilization was born of human speech, no question. So this isn't an idle question for academics.
And it's no idle question for modern civilization. Our ability to speak is degrading thanks to terrible education, and the younger generation has been steadily declining in it's ability to elucidate thoughts or even think them. That is the failure of modern education to teach kids to speak properly and read.
Computers have led to the young not reading, and when they do they just read snippets, and this failure to develop the speech centers of their brains has ramifications for the long-term survival of our species. We seem to be devolving back to the Neanderthal/Denisovian era, with speech being entirely direct and unsophisticated.
At any rate I find this discovery of a gene to be an interesting development. The more we understand language the more we understand the human mind.
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Judge Blocks Trump Freeze
Timothy Birdnow
A Biden-appointed social justice warrior judge has issued a restraining order to stop Trump's Federal aid freeze.
Until there are real-world consequences for this these activist judges will keep pulling this nonsense.
There is no fundamental right to free stuff and the President has authority to not hand out goodies. It's not that complicated; taxpayer money does not belong to people who come hat-in-hand demanding it.
A Biden-appointed social justice warrior judge has issued a restraining order to stop Trump's Federal aid freeze.
Until there are real-world consequences for this these activist judges will keep pulling this nonsense.
There is no fundamental right to free stuff and the President has authority to not hand out goodies. It's not that complicated; taxpayer money does not belong to people who come hat-in-hand demanding it.
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Willis: "Stop Bullying Me!"
Timothy Birdnow
Cry me a river Fani!
Stop 'Bullying' Me! It's Black History Month
Yes, Fani Willis is actually accusing Jim Jordan of "bullying" her. She was the biggest bully of all, bringing bogus charges against Donald Trump for political gain.
Sorry but it doesn't matter what month it is; if it's Christmas Day you still have to answer for your actions. Willis has likely broken the law in a number of ways and now she wants to worm her way out of it with accusations of racism and bullying. It no doubt always worked for her in the past.
Willis said:
"Rather than honor and uphold the oath you took, you have chosen to expend your time attempting to bully me, which is a complete waste of your time,"
Cryme a river FAni; you brought it all on yourself by not doing your job and by bending the rules when it suited you. Your letter - and your very existence - is a complete waste of our time.
Cry me a river Fani!
Stop 'Bullying' Me! It's Black History Month
Yes, Fani Willis is actually accusing Jim Jordan of "bullying" her. She was the biggest bully of all, bringing bogus charges against Donald Trump for political gain.
Sorry but it doesn't matter what month it is; if it's Christmas Day you still have to answer for your actions. Willis has likely broken the law in a number of ways and now she wants to worm her way out of it with accusations of racism and bullying. It no doubt always worked for her in the past.
Willis said:
"Rather than honor and uphold the oath you took, you have chosen to expend your time attempting to bully me, which is a complete waste of your time,"
Cryme a river FAni; you brought it all on yourself by not doing your job and by bending the rules when it suited you. Your letter - and your very existence - is a complete waste of our time.
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