April 18, 2025
Real I.D. Mishmash
Dana Mathewson on the his experience getting the Real I.D.:
This Real ID thing is, if you ask me, a whole lot of smoke but no fire. My wife and I went through the rigmarole of getting them this year. I had no trouble, but my wife had a lot of fuss. She's been married three times, with me being number three. All three marriages are nicely documented, and so are her two divorces, all with stamped and embossed certificates. And so is her birth certificate. But the first functionary at the Motor Vehicles Bureau who looked at everything was apparently overwhelmed by the volume of paperwork and just said "We can't accept all this." My wife said "Yes you can," and walked her through the paperwork piece by piece, and after the girl had called in somebody else to help her, she finally got everything approved and took my wife over to take her photo. Meanwhile I was waiting because mine was all done.
Six weeks later we got our new licenses, and they don't look a damn bit different from the old ones. I'm just waiting to present mine somewhere and have some a**hole say "This isn't a Real ID."
This Real ID thing is, if you ask me, a whole lot of smoke but no fire. My wife and I went through the rigmarole of getting them this year. I had no trouble, but my wife had a lot of fuss. She's been married three times, with me being number three. All three marriages are nicely documented, and so are her two divorces, all with stamped and embossed certificates. And so is her birth certificate. But the first functionary at the Motor Vehicles Bureau who looked at everything was apparently overwhelmed by the volume of paperwork and just said "We can't accept all this." My wife said "Yes you can," and walked her through the paperwork piece by piece, and after the girl had called in somebody else to help her, she finally got everything approved and took my wife over to take her photo. Meanwhile I was waiting because mine was all done.
Six weeks later we got our new licenses, and they don't look a damn bit different from the old ones. I'm just waiting to present mine somewhere and have some a**hole say "This isn't a Real ID."
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April 15, 2025
Schumer Essentially Calls for Invasion of El Salvador
Timothy Birdnow
What? Trump should invade El Salvador to get this guy out?
Chuck Schumer says Trump's refusal to follow Supreme Court edict is 'dangerous and outrageous'
Schumer made the following stattementa:
It's interesting Schumer wants due process for an alien and tried to deny it to MAGA patriots exercising their right to protest at the Capitol. It's interesting he wasn't too concerned about George Zimmerman (the White Hispanic) or police officer Darren Wilson (who shot the "gentle giant" Mike Brown in Ferguson). I don't remember him getting exercised about Derrick Chauvin's due process rights. Schumer's sense of the Rule of Law and Due Process seems a big, uh, unbalanced.
The President of El Salvador won't release this guy and what is Trump supposed to do? Maybe he should doa "raid on Entebbe" style operation to rescue the dude from prison overseas?
What? Trump should invade El Salvador to get this guy out?
Chuck Schumer says Trump's refusal to follow Supreme Court edict is 'dangerous and outrageous'
Schumer made the following stattementa:
"President Bukele's comment today is pure nonsense. The law is clear, due process was grossly violated, and the Supreme Court has clearly spoken that the Trump administration must facilitate and effectuate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He should be returned to the U.S. immediately,"
"Due process and the rule of law are cornerstones of American society for citizens and noncitizens alike, and not to follow that is dangerous and outrageous. A threat to one is a threat to all.
"Due process and the rule of law are cornerstones of American society for citizens and noncitizens alike, and not to follow that is dangerous and outrageous. A threat to one is a threat to all.
It's interesting Schumer wants due process for an alien and tried to deny it to MAGA patriots exercising their right to protest at the Capitol. It's interesting he wasn't too concerned about George Zimmerman (the White Hispanic) or police officer Darren Wilson (who shot the "gentle giant" Mike Brown in Ferguson). I don't remember him getting exercised about Derrick Chauvin's due process rights. Schumer's sense of the Rule of Law and Due Process seems a big, uh, unbalanced.
The President of El Salvador won't release this guy and what is Trump supposed to do? Maybe he should doa "raid on Entebbe" style operation to rescue the dude from prison overseas?
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Roasting Noem
Timothy Birdnow
But a big part of the strategy to get people out and keep them out is to publicize arrests and raids. You won't get anywhere if what you are doing is secret. The whole point is to dissuade people from coming, or encourage them to leave.'
Kristi Noem’s Made-for-TV Approach to Homeland Security
This is a Wall Street Journal story, and they have always wanted open borders.
I'm not a huge fan of Noem, but her approach is sound. It's not about ARRESTING people but deporting them - and getting them to not come in the first place. That requires publicity.
While I find Noem wearing fatigues rather silly I do think her publicizing what she is doing is a smart idea. You go girl!
But a big part of the strategy to get people out and keep them out is to publicize arrests and raids. You won't get anywhere if what you are doing is secret. The whole point is to dissuade people from coming, or encourage them to leave.'
Kristi Noem’s Made-for-TV Approach to Homeland Security
This is a Wall Street Journal story, and they have always wanted open borders.
I'm not a huge fan of Noem, but her approach is sound. It's not about ARRESTING people but deporting them - and getting them to not come in the first place. That requires publicity.
While I find Noem wearing fatigues rather silly I do think her publicizing what she is doing is a smart idea. You go girl!
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Real I.D., Real Bad
Timothy Birdnow
As of May 7 the Federal government will require all Americans to have a so-called "real i.d." to board airplanes or other public transportation, to enter Federal buildings, or to go to nuclear power plants (Drat and double drat! Now what am I going to do for recreation!)
Q quick thought; the Democrats tell us the poor and immigrants are incapable of obtaining driver's lisences and that it is an undue burdon on them to present them when voting, yet they are apparently fine with making them get a real i.d., which entials presenting a birth certificate, social security card, and proof of residency. It's MUCH harder to get the federal i.d. than a state one, yet the Dems are perfectly happy with discriminating against the poor and immigrants in this way but won't allow anyone to prove they actually are who they say and are eligible to vote.
IF the Democrats truly believe their own arguments about voting they would demand the law be rescinded over the real i.d. Their arguments are even more salient in this case. But they remain strangely silent.
And will you kill more people with a bomb on an airplane than a bomb at the polls? I've been at the polling places on big elections and there were hundreds of people who would die if someone smuggled in a bomb, and nobody is there doing security. Why do you need to inconvenience the average American at the airport but not at the polling place?
I wish Trump would twist Mike Johnson's arm and get this silly law repealed. It is nothing but a power grab by the Feds. Furthermore, have any of the post-911 reforms actually saved lives? We don't know. Granted, they haven't pulled off another 911 style hijacking, but they tipped their hand then and such a trick has diminishing returns. I suspect we did as well or better before creating the TSA and all the rest. Many airports have gone away from using TSA screeners because they are basically the post-office who give body cavity searches.
The real i.d. will be easy to circumvent and only will end up applying to honest folks. But then, in my mind, it always WAS intended for that, to give the Federal Government greater control and knowledge of the whereabouts of the citizenry. Stopping terrorism was secondary.
As of May 7 the Federal government will require all Americans to have a so-called "real i.d." to board airplanes or other public transportation, to enter Federal buildings, or to go to nuclear power plants (Drat and double drat! Now what am I going to do for recreation!)
Q quick thought; the Democrats tell us the poor and immigrants are incapable of obtaining driver's lisences and that it is an undue burdon on them to present them when voting, yet they are apparently fine with making them get a real i.d., which entials presenting a birth certificate, social security card, and proof of residency. It's MUCH harder to get the federal i.d. than a state one, yet the Dems are perfectly happy with discriminating against the poor and immigrants in this way but won't allow anyone to prove they actually are who they say and are eligible to vote.
IF the Democrats truly believe their own arguments about voting they would demand the law be rescinded over the real i.d. Their arguments are even more salient in this case. But they remain strangely silent.
And will you kill more people with a bomb on an airplane than a bomb at the polls? I've been at the polling places on big elections and there were hundreds of people who would die if someone smuggled in a bomb, and nobody is there doing security. Why do you need to inconvenience the average American at the airport but not at the polling place?
I wish Trump would twist Mike Johnson's arm and get this silly law repealed. It is nothing but a power grab by the Feds. Furthermore, have any of the post-911 reforms actually saved lives? We don't know. Granted, they haven't pulled off another 911 style hijacking, but they tipped their hand then and such a trick has diminishing returns. I suspect we did as well or better before creating the TSA and all the rest. Many airports have gone away from using TSA screeners because they are basically the post-office who give body cavity searches.
The real i.d. will be easy to circumvent and only will end up applying to honest folks. But then, in my mind, it always WAS intended for that, to give the Federal Government greater control and knowledge of the whereabouts of the citizenry. Stopping terrorism was secondary.
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Weaponizing Justice
Timothy Birdnow
Investigations into Civil Rights violations in public education doubled under Joe Biden.
Such investigations were a tool to enforce content control of what these institutions were teaching.
This was done under the auspices of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), which Donald Trump is asttempting to defund.Naturally they've filed a lawsuit with a rent-a-judge to force Trump to give them money. OCR is under the Department of Education.
The article states:
Anyone who believes this is intended to do anything except political activism is seriously deluded; the way it's set up is to empower Leftist activism.
Defense of Freedom Institute co-found Jim Blew said:
So this agency makes it into a national policy issue and not just an isolated incident. This is how you fundamentally transform a society.
Many of the complaints received by OCR were filed by just one person, leading us to suspect an attempt to pad the books.
According to the article:
Looks to me like it was possibly someone from OCR itself padding the complaints to justify a bigger budget.
During the Biden years complaints exploded and the types of complaints changes. Disability complaints used to compromise the majority, but under Biden they switched to sexual discrimination complaints. Why do you suppose that is? I rather suspect it tied in with the "gender" nonsense.
At any rate the hyenas are howling now as they watch their tools taken from them. Outfits like this are and always were about social change and not about justice.
Investigations into Civil Rights violations in public education doubled under Joe Biden.
Such investigations were a tool to enforce content control of what these institutions were teaching.
This was done under the auspices of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), which Donald Trump is asttempting to defund.Naturally they've filed a lawsuit with a rent-a-judge to force Trump to give them money. OCR is under the Department of Education.
The article states:
"A complainant does not need a personal connection to a school. Indeed, petitioners don’t even have to live in the same state, and legal standing is not a factor. They do not even need to identify themselves. They are not required to try to resolve their problems at the local level before notifying the feds – though many do. Consequently, the office’s operations sometimes function as a nationwide anonymous sounding board rather than a source of last resort, a place where anyone can make a federal case out of any slight, real or perceived.
Although OCR probes include many serious allegations, the system’s structure means the number of cases can be inflated through duplication, serial filers and ambitious bureaucrats.
"The numbers aren’t really what they first appear,” said Teresa R. Manning, policy director at the National Association of Scholars, a conservative counterweight in higher education to the liberal American Association of University Professors. "A lot of this was by design. If they didn’t have complaints, they wouldn’t have jobs, so a lot of federal bureaucrats and campus officers want any grievance to become a federal case.”
Although OCR probes include many serious allegations, the system’s structure means the number of cases can be inflated through duplication, serial filers and ambitious bureaucrats.
"The numbers aren’t really what they first appear,” said Teresa R. Manning, policy director at the National Association of Scholars, a conservative counterweight in higher education to the liberal American Association of University Professors. "A lot of this was by design. If they didn’t have complaints, they wouldn’t have jobs, so a lot of federal bureaucrats and campus officers want any grievance to become a federal case.”
Anyone who believes this is intended to do anything except political activism is seriously deluded; the way it's set up is to empower Leftist activism.
Defense of Freedom Institute co-found Jim Blew said:
"Skepticism is legitimate, because by declaring something is ‘systemic,’ then rather than resolve that one issue they can turn it into a federal case,”
So this agency makes it into a national policy issue and not just an isolated incident. This is how you fundamentally transform a society.
Many of the complaints received by OCR were filed by just one person, leading us to suspect an attempt to pad the books.
According to the article:
"Also, totals were swollen by one unnamed individual. For example, in 2022 when OCR received 9,948 complaints of Title IX violations, nearly three out of four – 7,339 – came from this person. That same individual slipped a bit the following year, accounting for only 69% of the 5,590 complaints. RCI asked several people familiar with Office of Civil Rights work who this person might be, but none said they know.
Looks to me like it was possibly someone from OCR itself padding the complaints to justify a bigger budget.
During the Biden years complaints exploded and the types of complaints changes. Disability complaints used to compromise the majority, but under Biden they switched to sexual discrimination complaints. Why do you suppose that is? I rather suspect it tied in with the "gender" nonsense.
At any rate the hyenas are howling now as they watch their tools taken from them. Outfits like this are and always were about social change and not about justice.
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Outing Their Inner Stalin
Timothy Birdnow
To illustrate how really dim witted the Left truly is we have this little gem; Lefties believe Trump is going to declare martial law and make himself dictator because he asked the heads of Homeland Security and Defense to prepare a report making a determination of whether he should invoke the Insurrectio Act to secure the southern border. Naturally they think it is a prelude to goose-stepping thugs in black seizing the country and sending dissidents to El Salvadorian concentration camps.
The crazy conspiracy theory started with the San Francisco Chronicle's article which argued:
If you are going to seize power why ask your cabinet to produce a report giving recommendations to that effect? Wouldn't you hide it? Wouldn't you just do it? Time is of the essence in any coup.
And of course this acts as though we do not have a record of Mr. Trump's to analyze. Trump was very carefful to observe the law when he was President before. He undoubtedly wanted to send in troops to quell rebellion in places like Portland Oregon but did not do so. Why? Because Federalism required the state governors to ask him for help. Without a requst for the National Guard Trump's hands were tied. He respected the Rule of Law.
Liberals live inside their heads and not in the real world and this is what THEY would do if the situation was reversed so they assume Trump will do it too.
Here is what the order actually says:
This article goes on to chronicle the crazed musings of a screwball called Aletheisthenes who prophecies an October Revolution by Trump in April:
This Allosaurus fellow, or whatever his name may be, really believes we have a RIGHT WING MEDIA in the tank FOR TRUMP! Sheesh; what a Maroon, as Bugs Bunny would say!
I would like to know how he thinks invoking the Insurrection Act at the border would translate into seizing cities across the country, cities like Chicago or Milwaukee or Denver? The Insurrection Act ONLY authorizes the President to deploy the military to specified places, and only on invitation by the Governor or Legislature of that particular state. It' useless as a toolf ro seizing power across the country. At best (or worst, depending on your viewpoint) Trump could send troops to states that are already friendly to him. Not much use in that, is there?
Here's his list of events as he sees them unfolding:
So it never occurres to Big Al that the obvious solution is for Leftist across the country to NOT riot, not loot and burn and break windows and beat people in the street. Trump will have nothing if they don't give him anything,by this guy's own reasoning.
He is basically saying Trump will impose the Insurrection Act over, oh, I don't know, INSURRECTION and he's evil for doing so!
He convieniently forgets who actually did that - Joe Biden, who tried to use the Insurrection Act against MAGA people when they protested at the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. In other words it was the very policies of his own he is now projecting onto Trump. It's always projection with the Left. Who historically has used insurrections to overthrow govenrments? Almost all historical examples are Communists overthrowing the established governments - not Conservatives. There are just two examples of the opposite - the American Revolution, which was no reveloution at all but a secession from the British Empire by well-established governments and the Nazi takeover of Germany, and Nazis are not right wing but Leftists. Oh, and they were elected to power anyway. They merely stampeded the hopelessly corrupt German parliament after the Reichstag fire. The point is THAT about runs the whole gammut of historical examples of "right wing" insurrections. We have every Communist regime on Earth to point to Left wing attempts to do likewise.
Where were the revolutionaries during the Biden era? There have been three attempts on Trump's life as of now and yet there was little effort to kill Mr. Biden, at least by our side. We now see people's Teslas being torched or vandalized; never happened to anything the Liberals owned back then, did it? If WE were the ones plotting a takeover wouldn't there have been violence during Biden's Administration? Even though we felt cheated in the election of '20 there was no violence, except a minor outbreak at the Capitol and only once.
If you ever want to see what the Left is planning themselves just look at what they accuse us of doing. They will out their own inner Stalin every time.
To illustrate how really dim witted the Left truly is we have this little gem; Lefties believe Trump is going to declare martial law and make himself dictator because he asked the heads of Homeland Security and Defense to prepare a report making a determination of whether he should invoke the Insurrectio Act to secure the southern border. Naturally they think it is a prelude to goose-stepping thugs in black seizing the country and sending dissidents to El Salvadorian concentration camps.
The crazy conspiracy theory started with the San Francisco Chronicle's article which argued:
" The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending "whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
Many of us are now holding our collective breath, knowing that the report and what it contains could put us on the slippery slope toward unchecked presidential power under a man with an affinity for ironfisted dictators.
Many of us are now holding our collective breath, knowing that the report and what it contains could put us on the slippery slope toward unchecked presidential power under a man with an affinity for ironfisted dictators.
If you are going to seize power why ask your cabinet to produce a report giving recommendations to that effect? Wouldn't you hide it? Wouldn't you just do it? Time is of the essence in any coup.
And of course this acts as though we do not have a record of Mr. Trump's to analyze. Trump was very carefful to observe the law when he was President before. He undoubtedly wanted to send in troops to quell rebellion in places like Portland Oregon but did not do so. Why? Because Federalism required the state governors to ask him for help. Without a requst for the National Guard Trump's hands were tied. He respected the Rule of Law.
Liberals live inside their heads and not in the real world and this is what THEY would do if the situation was reversed so they assume Trump will do it too.
Here is what the order actually says:
"Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.
This article goes on to chronicle the crazed musings of a screwball called Aletheisthenes who prophecies an October Revolution by Trump in April:
" And as his two months in office has already shown, he won’t stop at just a legal opinion.
Expect an executive order even that same day or the next, officially declaring the Insurrection Act, restricting freedoms in the name of restoring control of the border and perhaps in blue-state cities, and setting the larger plan in motion.
Of course, this won’t be framed as an attack on democracy. It will be packaged as a necessary response to crisis — as authoritarian takeovers always are.
But once it happens, there’s no going back.
This will be the point of no return.
On or slightly after April 20th, 2025, Trump will most likely sign an executive order invoking the Insurrection Act.
The excuse will be to secure the border and deport violent gang member illegal aliens, and possibly bring order to out-of-control cities, but it will actually be the first step to eventually fully declare martial law across the United States, and suspend civil liberties, and the US Constitution.
To most it will come without warning. The press might not even report on it until the last minute. When it happens, expect confusion, misinformation, and panic. Many will be caught off guard.
Expect an executive order even that same day or the next, officially declaring the Insurrection Act, restricting freedoms in the name of restoring control of the border and perhaps in blue-state cities, and setting the larger plan in motion.
Of course, this won’t be framed as an attack on democracy. It will be packaged as a necessary response to crisis — as authoritarian takeovers always are.
But once it happens, there’s no going back.
This will be the point of no return.
On or slightly after April 20th, 2025, Trump will most likely sign an executive order invoking the Insurrection Act.
The excuse will be to secure the border and deport violent gang member illegal aliens, and possibly bring order to out-of-control cities, but it will actually be the first step to eventually fully declare martial law across the United States, and suspend civil liberties, and the US Constitution.
To most it will come without warning. The press might not even report on it until the last minute. When it happens, expect confusion, misinformation, and panic. Many will be caught off guard.
This Allosaurus fellow, or whatever his name may be, really believes we have a RIGHT WING MEDIA in the tank FOR TRUMP! Sheesh; what a Maroon, as Bugs Bunny would say!
I would like to know how he thinks invoking the Insurrection Act at the border would translate into seizing cities across the country, cities like Chicago or Milwaukee or Denver? The Insurrection Act ONLY authorizes the President to deploy the military to specified places, and only on invitation by the Governor or Legislature of that particular state. It' useless as a toolf ro seizing power across the country. At best (or worst, depending on your viewpoint) Trump could send troops to states that are already friendly to him. Not much use in that, is there?
Here's his list of events as he sees them unfolding:
1. "Resist!” Demonstrations Grow — Just As Planned
2. The False Flag Crisis: Turning Protest into "Terror”
3. Trump Declares Expanded Martial Law — And Calls for Militia to assist the police and Military
4. Mass Arrests of Opposition Leaders
5. Military & National Guard Take Over Major Cities
6. Press Censorship & Total Media Control
7. Borders Close & Dissidents Are Trapped Inside
8. Elections Are "Postponed” Indefinitely
2. The False Flag Crisis: Turning Protest into "Terror”
3. Trump Declares Expanded Martial Law — And Calls for Militia to assist the police and Military
4. Mass Arrests of Opposition Leaders
5. Military & National Guard Take Over Major Cities
6. Press Censorship & Total Media Control
7. Borders Close & Dissidents Are Trapped Inside
8. Elections Are "Postponed” Indefinitely
So it never occurres to Big Al that the obvious solution is for Leftist across the country to NOT riot, not loot and burn and break windows and beat people in the street. Trump will have nothing if they don't give him anything,by this guy's own reasoning.
He is basically saying Trump will impose the Insurrection Act over, oh, I don't know, INSURRECTION and he's evil for doing so!
He convieniently forgets who actually did that - Joe Biden, who tried to use the Insurrection Act against MAGA people when they protested at the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. In other words it was the very policies of his own he is now projecting onto Trump. It's always projection with the Left. Who historically has used insurrections to overthrow govenrments? Almost all historical examples are Communists overthrowing the established governments - not Conservatives. There are just two examples of the opposite - the American Revolution, which was no reveloution at all but a secession from the British Empire by well-established governments and the Nazi takeover of Germany, and Nazis are not right wing but Leftists. Oh, and they were elected to power anyway. They merely stampeded the hopelessly corrupt German parliament after the Reichstag fire. The point is THAT about runs the whole gammut of historical examples of "right wing" insurrections. We have every Communist regime on Earth to point to Left wing attempts to do likewise.
Where were the revolutionaries during the Biden era? There have been three attempts on Trump's life as of now and yet there was little effort to kill Mr. Biden, at least by our side. We now see people's Teslas being torched or vandalized; never happened to anything the Liberals owned back then, did it? If WE were the ones plotting a takeover wouldn't there have been violence during Biden's Administration? Even though we felt cheated in the election of '20 there was no violence, except a minor outbreak at the Capitol and only once.
If you ever want to see what the Left is planning themselves just look at what they accuse us of doing. They will out their own inner Stalin every time.
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April 14, 2025
Higher Ed Slush Fund
Timothy Birdnow
Can you say "slush fund"?
Harvard Professors Try Blocking Audit Into Billions in Government Grants
Bet most of that money went to Democrat party funding.
Can you say "slush fund"?
Harvard Professors Try Blocking Audit Into Billions in Government Grants
Bet most of that money went to Democrat party funding.
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Harvard Hiding Funding
Timothy Birdnow
Can you say "slush fund"?
Harvard Professors Try Blocking Audit Into Billions in Government Grants
Bet most of that money went to Democrat party funding.
Can you say "slush fund"?
Harvard Professors Try Blocking Audit Into Billions in Government Grants
Bet most of that money went to Democrat party funding.
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Another Attempt on Trump's Life
Timothy Birdnow
Another assassination attempt on Trump, this time by a kid who first murdered his parents.
Federal agents claim he was a neo-Nazi with literature about Naziism and "saving the white race".
Interesting; I thought Trump was supposed to be one of them. Now we find Nazis trying to kill him? Or is this a lile to hide the fact this kid - who obviosly has an eastern European heritage being named Nikita Casap. I can't swear that is a Russian name but it seems likely. Casap was in communication with someone speaking Russian so it may well be he was a recruit by Russian intelligence to take out Trump.
He murdered his mother Tatiana - age 35 - and his stepfather Donald Mayer, 51 in an effort to steal their money to finance the scheme. (Does anyone find this marriage improbable in the first place? Mayer was 16 years older than his bride.)
So either the Russians had a hand in it or the CIA is making it LOOK like the Russians.
Casap left a manifesto - bet we don't see it.
Another assassination attempt on Trump, this time by a kid who first murdered his parents.
Federal agents claim he was a neo-Nazi with literature about Naziism and "saving the white race".
Interesting; I thought Trump was supposed to be one of them. Now we find Nazis trying to kill him? Or is this a lile to hide the fact this kid - who obviosly has an eastern European heritage being named Nikita Casap. I can't swear that is a Russian name but it seems likely. Casap was in communication with someone speaking Russian so it may well be he was a recruit by Russian intelligence to take out Trump.
He murdered his mother Tatiana - age 35 - and his stepfather Donald Mayer, 51 in an effort to steal their money to finance the scheme. (Does anyone find this marriage improbable in the first place? Mayer was 16 years older than his bride.)
So either the Russians had a hand in it or the CIA is making it LOOK like the Russians.
Casap left a manifesto - bet we don't see it.
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ABC Lies About Tornadoes
Timothy Birdnow
The Absolute Bullcrap Netword aka ABC spreads misinformation about recent tornadoes.
No ABC: Climate Change Didn't Cause 2025's Severe Tornado Outbreak
The Absolute Bullcrap Netword aka ABC spreads misinformation about recent tornadoes.
No ABC: Climate Change Didn't Cause 2025's Severe Tornado Outbreak
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Four Fool's Fables
Timothy Birdnow
They're at it again.
Yes, the Gang Green is busily chirping about their great obsession - so called climate change, or the artist formerly known as global warming.
Here are a few of the articles I found at Sci Tech Daily on the subject.
First, seems your dog is wrecking the ecology and we must get rid of pets or we're all going to die.
The ridiculous article actually warns darkly that dogs present a "climate emergency"!
According to the article:
Well duh! That's what animals do when faced with other predators, like wolves, in nature. It's no more damaging to the environment than a wolf pack coming through.
The point is to encourage people to stop having pets. All part of the Malthusian scheme as pets eat food that humans should be eating, the lunaey left believes. And keeping pets diverts attention from the Great Cause.
Next we have this little tidbit:
Earth’s Freshwater Is Suffocating: According to Scientists, It’s a Global Emergency
Notice how everything is an emergency to these people and how we're all going to die unless we implement draconian government regulations.
Funny; we were told that global warming is making the planet warmer; fish thrive in warm conditions by and large.
FTA:
The only solution is drastic population reduction and the dismantling of industrial civilization. Or they are just full of crap.
My money is on the latter; this is all based on computer models and not actual observation.
BTW fish have survived through the Jurassic and Cretaceous and are in no way threatened by a very minor warming of 1*. These folks never look at the big picture, but rather compartmentalize to the point of idiocy.
A third article argues that pollution is hiding Global Warming and so scientists can't find it, even though they are just by golly SURE it's there!
(I mean they've looked everywhere; under the couch cushions, behind the radiator, etc.)
FTA:
Hah! We have gone full circle here, going back to the "global cooling" scare of the '70's. The argument then was that aerosols would cool the planet and we would go into an ice age. When that didn't pan out they simply shifted gears and announced industrial emissions were raising carbon dioxide levels and we were all going to fry. It was going to be Jurassic 2.0 and the world would turn to desert and we would be beset by floods and tornadoes and raining frogs and plagues of locusts and the like. Of course it didn't happen that way then...
Finally we have this story about mangroves being found further north than previously recorded in Georgia. What of it? Mangroves do well in marshland - something civilization used to eliminate via dams and leveees. But now we are"restoring" our "wetlands" and are surpised to find these wetland inhabitants settling into the region.
Naturally it's blamed on "climate change" and not on changes to public land use policies.
Temperatures in Georgia have risen by 0.8°F, according to researcxhers. so how is this spurring on mangrove migration? Anybody?
The article states:
Soooo
What they are saying is satellites have discovered more mangrove stands than we knew were there and they automatically concluded that these are new stands, not marginal groves that had been there all along. Ri-ight.
This is what has been happening all along; we have new data that is showing us things we didn't know and we assume the things are all new when in fact most of them were there before. Like Greenland seeing melting, it has happened plenty of times in days of yore, but we focus laser-like on carbon dioxide as the culprit and claim this is entirely new and a potential catastrophe'.
Someone really should name this tendency of people to seek out the most hysterical, apocalyptic interpretation of events.
I see a full court press coming on "climate change" as the Trump Administration winds down the hysteria over a very modest warming trend over the last century. Global Climate Flatulence (my name for it) was far too handy a tool for social and politcal control as well as for gaming the system for money that they can't let it go. They are going to pile on the youths with everything being a extinction level event to frighten people into returning the Democrats to power and restoring the whole corrupt scheme. Mark my words.
They're at it again.
Yes, the Gang Green is busily chirping about their great obsession - so called climate change, or the artist formerly known as global warming.
Here are a few of the articles I found at Sci Tech Daily on the subject.
First, seems your dog is wrecking the ecology and we must get rid of pets or we're all going to die.
The ridiculous article actually warns darkly that dogs present a "climate emergency"!
According to the article:
"New research from Curtin University highlights the significant but often overlooked environmental impact of pet dogs, revealing widespread negative effects on wildlife, ecosystems, and the climate.
Although the ecological damage caused by cats has been well documented, this study shows that dogs, currently the most common large carnivores on the planet, pose a substantial and complex environmental threat.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Bill Bateman, from Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences, explained that pet dogs, even when leashed, can disturb and directly harm wildlife, particularly shorebirds.
"As well as predatory behavior like chasing wildlife, dogs leave scents, urine, and feces, which can disrupt animal behavior long after the dogs have left,” Associate Professor Bateman said. "Studies have found that animals like deer, foxes, and bobcats in the US are less active or completely avoid areas where dogs are regularly walked, even in the absence of the dogs.”
He continues, "Dog waste also contributes to pollution in waterways and inhibits plant growth, while wash-off from chemical treatments used to clean and guard dogs from parasites can add toxic compounds to aquatic environments. In addition, the pet food industry, driven by a vast global dog population, has a substantial carbon, land, and water footprint.
Although the ecological damage caused by cats has been well documented, this study shows that dogs, currently the most common large carnivores on the planet, pose a substantial and complex environmental threat.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Bill Bateman, from Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences, explained that pet dogs, even when leashed, can disturb and directly harm wildlife, particularly shorebirds.
"As well as predatory behavior like chasing wildlife, dogs leave scents, urine, and feces, which can disrupt animal behavior long after the dogs have left,” Associate Professor Bateman said. "Studies have found that animals like deer, foxes, and bobcats in the US are less active or completely avoid areas where dogs are regularly walked, even in the absence of the dogs.”
He continues, "Dog waste also contributes to pollution in waterways and inhibits plant growth, while wash-off from chemical treatments used to clean and guard dogs from parasites can add toxic compounds to aquatic environments. In addition, the pet food industry, driven by a vast global dog population, has a substantial carbon, land, and water footprint.
Well duh! That's what animals do when faced with other predators, like wolves, in nature. It's no more damaging to the environment than a wolf pack coming through.
The point is to encourage people to stop having pets. All part of the Malthusian scheme as pets eat food that humans should be eating, the lunaey left believes. And keeping pets diverts attention from the Great Cause.
Next we have this little tidbit:
Earth’s Freshwater Is Suffocating: According to Scientists, It’s a Global Emergency
Notice how everything is an emergency to these people and how we're all going to die unless we implement draconian government regulations.
Funny; we were told that global warming is making the planet warmer; fish thrive in warm conditions by and large.
FTA:
"More farming, more wastewater, more dams, and a warmer climate—they all change how our freshwater ecosystems function,” says Junjie Wang. With more nutrients flowing into rivers, lakes and reservoirs, algae grow faster, but when they die and decompose, they use up huge amounts of oxygen. "We found that the main causes lay in these direct human activities. First, it turns out that nutrient input through, for example, over-fertilization, is a major driver of this acceleration. Secondly, the longer travel time of freshwater to the sea through the construction of dams and reservoirs has proven to be just as important,” says Jack Middelburg.
The only solution is drastic population reduction and the dismantling of industrial civilization. Or they are just full of crap.
My money is on the latter; this is all based on computer models and not actual observation.
BTW fish have survived through the Jurassic and Cretaceous and are in no way threatened by a very minor warming of 1*. These folks never look at the big picture, but rather compartmentalize to the point of idiocy.
A third article argues that pollution is hiding Global Warming and so scientists can't find it, even though they are just by golly SURE it's there!
(I mean they've looked everywhere; under the couch cushions, behind the radiator, etc.)
FTA:
An international study led by the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Institute has shown that the formation and characteristics of low-altitude clouds are highly sensitive to changes in atmospheric aerosol concentrations. This discovery has important implications for understanding how human-generated fine particles may have moderated climate warming caused by greenhouse gases. The findings were published in Nature Geoscience.
Hah! We have gone full circle here, going back to the "global cooling" scare of the '70's. The argument then was that aerosols would cool the planet and we would go into an ice age. When that didn't pan out they simply shifted gears and announced industrial emissions were raising carbon dioxide levels and we were all going to fry. It was going to be Jurassic 2.0 and the world would turn to desert and we would be beset by floods and tornadoes and raining frogs and plagues of locusts and the like. Of course it didn't happen that way then...
Finally we have this story about mangroves being found further north than previously recorded in Georgia. What of it? Mangroves do well in marshland - something civilization used to eliminate via dams and leveees. But now we are"restoring" our "wetlands" and are surpised to find these wetland inhabitants settling into the region.
Naturally it's blamed on "climate change" and not on changes to public land use policies.
Temperatures in Georgia have risen by 0.8°F, according to researcxhers. so how is this spurring on mangrove migration? Anybody?
The article states:
"Today, scientists follow in Muir’s footsteps by studying mangrove ecosystems up close in muddy, waterlogged environments. But unlike Muir, modern researchers also have access to satellite technology that offers a broad, detailed view of coastal habitats. Using both ground surveys and satellite data, scientists have recently discovered previously unrecorded mangrove stands along the U.S. East Coast, evidence that these tropical trees are expanding their range more rapidly than expected."
Soooo
What they are saying is satellites have discovered more mangrove stands than we knew were there and they automatically concluded that these are new stands, not marginal groves that had been there all along. Ri-ight.
This is what has been happening all along; we have new data that is showing us things we didn't know and we assume the things are all new when in fact most of them were there before. Like Greenland seeing melting, it has happened plenty of times in days of yore, but we focus laser-like on carbon dioxide as the culprit and claim this is entirely new and a potential catastrophe'.
Someone really should name this tendency of people to seek out the most hysterical, apocalyptic interpretation of events.
I see a full court press coming on "climate change" as the Trump Administration winds down the hysteria over a very modest warming trend over the last century. Global Climate Flatulence (my name for it) was far too handy a tool for social and politcal control as well as for gaming the system for money that they can't let it go. They are going to pile on the youths with everything being a extinction level event to frighten people into returning the Democrats to power and restoring the whole corrupt scheme. Mark my words.
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Learning by Osmosis
Timothy Birdnow
Joe Biden must be a genius...
According to Scientists, Zoning Out Could Actually Help You Learn
When I was in high school I attended a Jesuit academy and one of my math teachers was a very old school Jusuit, robed in full cassock rather than the hipster black pants and shirts of the others. He was something of a freak of nature but we all loved him just the same. He kept his hair crwecut-short. He would draw a perfect circle on the blackboard by hanging his hand down and just flipping it. He made us write AMDG on the upper right corner of all assignments - Ad Mundi Dei Gloria, to the Greater Glory of God.Turn in a particularly bad assignment and he would publicly tear the AMDG off! But the guy always was humorous in a dry way.
At any rate he moved me to the front of the class after I blew a test (math was my least favorite subject) and one day he caught me "zoning out" and announced to everyone I had devised a new learning technique using osmosis. Everyone laughed, including me (he was never mean).
I wish I'd see him again to tell him about this; it's clear I was a pioneer in the field of education.
I am sure he's long gone now so I will never get to tell him, alas.
Joe Biden must be a genius...
According to Scientists, Zoning Out Could Actually Help You Learn
When I was in high school I attended a Jesuit academy and one of my math teachers was a very old school Jusuit, robed in full cassock rather than the hipster black pants and shirts of the others. He was something of a freak of nature but we all loved him just the same. He kept his hair crwecut-short. He would draw a perfect circle on the blackboard by hanging his hand down and just flipping it. He made us write AMDG on the upper right corner of all assignments - Ad Mundi Dei Gloria, to the Greater Glory of God.Turn in a particularly bad assignment and he would publicly tear the AMDG off! But the guy always was humorous in a dry way.
At any rate he moved me to the front of the class after I blew a test (math was my least favorite subject) and one day he caught me "zoning out" and announced to everyone I had devised a new learning technique using osmosis. Everyone laughed, including me (he was never mean).
I wish I'd see him again to tell him about this; it's clear I was a pioneer in the field of education.
I am sure he's long gone now so I will never get to tell him, alas.
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April 13, 2025
Seed Stealing; Is China Plotting an Attack on Our Food Supply?
Timothy Birdnow
Chinese nationals are digging up crop seeds from Iowa and otther agricultural farm fields and shipping them back to China. Why?
Could it be they are working on a biological agent that would decimate our crops? I wonder if they aren't plotting a bioweapon that will starve us, not kill us directly.
I have long suspected Covid was a bioweapon test. It wasn't intended to kill lots of us, but to provide proof of function and to help get rid of Trump. That latter worked; Trump would have won re-election had it not been for Covid.
There is no good reason to steal our seeds; it's not like they are saving any real money by planting them. They have to be doing it to analyze who is growing what and why, and then tailoring SOMETHING to our crops.
The Chicoms really do think that way. We need to be vigilant.
Chinese nationals are digging up crop seeds from Iowa and otther agricultural farm fields and shipping them back to China. Why?
Could it be they are working on a biological agent that would decimate our crops? I wonder if they aren't plotting a bioweapon that will starve us, not kill us directly.
I have long suspected Covid was a bioweapon test. It wasn't intended to kill lots of us, but to provide proof of function and to help get rid of Trump. That latter worked; Trump would have won re-election had it not been for Covid.
There is no good reason to steal our seeds; it's not like they are saving any real money by planting them. They have to be doing it to analyze who is growing what and why, and then tailoring SOMETHING to our crops.
The Chicoms really do think that way. We need to be vigilant.
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The Gates of Thy Enemies
Timothy Birdnow
What is Hegseth smoking? Is this coming from Trump?
Seeking Stability, Hegseth Bolsters U.S. Troop Presence and Reaffirms Panama’s Control Over Canal
Remember the fundamental negotiating principle of demanding the moon and settling for Nesark. It may be that Trump simply wanted the Chinese out of there and Panama to understand that we will take the canal away from them if they don't toe the line. Or Hegseth just went rogue.
It would be very hard to take the canal back at this point, and hard to keep it safe if we did take it. Better perhaps to keep the Panamanians in APPARENT control while we hold veto power. But that means kicking China out completely.
I remember when Carter made this horrible deal. The argument was "we stole the canal" which was total hogwash; we BUILT the canal, and our "gunboat diplomacy" only benefitted Panama, which rose in rebellion against their mother country Columbia. Our gunboats were there to defend Panama, not threaten them. Nobody stole anything. If anyone is owed an apology it is Columbia, who got shafted by losing their northern province.
In Genesis 22:17 it is promised to Israel:
"I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies."
Now we possessed one of the great gates, but now China holds the upper hand in the gate we built.
Gates are important (as are walls); the British controlled Gibralter, the entry to the Mediterranean. They also controlled the Falkland Islands, which stand at the entrance to Cape Horn and the straig of Magellan. The British also co-owned the Suez Canal, another critical gate. And guess what? They ruled the world for a century (with the French, the other co-owners of Suez, right behind them.) Britain also controlled the entrance to the Red Sea and to the Persian Gulf via the Protectorate of South Arabia. They used to understand the importance of gates.
We gave our gate away and now it is coming back to bite us.
Trump wants it back. He also wants Greenland, which would give us control of the far less useful Northwest Passage.
Speaking of gates, the Punic Wars, which were essentially world wars between Rome and Carthage, were fought over another gate - Sicily. The Romans occupied much of the island preperatory to moving into North Africa while Carthage built a colony on the south-west part of the island to secure their trade routes. Sicily sits right in the middle of the Mediterranean, being the obvious port for ships moving between the Levant and the western Mediterranean. Carthage, located in modern-day Tunisia, had to have a base there for it's defense. Rome didn't like that, and several wars were fought that ended with Carthage completely destroyed and salt sowed in the Earth to prevent it's resettlement.
That's how important gates are.
So I don't know what Hegseth is doing, but he's not been backed up by the guy whose responsibility it is to actually deal with foreign affairs - Marco Rubio. Is this coming from Trump? We need to find out now.
What is Hegseth smoking? Is this coming from Trump?
Seeking Stability, Hegseth Bolsters U.S. Troop Presence and Reaffirms Panama’s Control Over Canal
In a diplomatic bid to ease mounting tensions between the United States and Panama, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth publicly reaffirmed America’s recognition of Panama’s sovereignty over the Panama Canal, despite President Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that the U.S. would "reclaim” the strategic waterway.
"We certainly respect the sovereignty of the Panamanians,” Hegseth said before leaving Panama for Washington, aiming to defuse controversy stirred by Trump’s remarks and assure Panamanian leaders that no takeover was planned.
The controversy erupted after a discrepancy between the joint statement issued by the two governments following high-level meetings earlier in the week.
While Panama’s version explicitly reiterated its sovereignty over the canal, the U.S. version omitted such language, instead referencing a commitment to working within Panama’s constitutional framework—which already affirms national authority over the canal.
For many in Panama, the omission stoked fears of a reversal of the historic 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties, which led to the official transfer of the canal from U.S. to Panamanian control by the end of 1999.
Trump has sharply criticized that deal, repeatedly claiming the U.S. should never have relinquished the canal, and even told Congress in March that the United States was already "reclaiming” it.
"We certainly respect the sovereignty of the Panamanians,” Hegseth said before leaving Panama for Washington, aiming to defuse controversy stirred by Trump’s remarks and assure Panamanian leaders that no takeover was planned.
The controversy erupted after a discrepancy between the joint statement issued by the two governments following high-level meetings earlier in the week.
While Panama’s version explicitly reiterated its sovereignty over the canal, the U.S. version omitted such language, instead referencing a commitment to working within Panama’s constitutional framework—which already affirms national authority over the canal.
For many in Panama, the omission stoked fears of a reversal of the historic 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties, which led to the official transfer of the canal from U.S. to Panamanian control by the end of 1999.
Trump has sharply criticized that deal, repeatedly claiming the U.S. should never have relinquished the canal, and even told Congress in March that the United States was already "reclaiming” it.
Remember the fundamental negotiating principle of demanding the moon and settling for Nesark. It may be that Trump simply wanted the Chinese out of there and Panama to understand that we will take the canal away from them if they don't toe the line. Or Hegseth just went rogue.
It would be very hard to take the canal back at this point, and hard to keep it safe if we did take it. Better perhaps to keep the Panamanians in APPARENT control while we hold veto power. But that means kicking China out completely.
I remember when Carter made this horrible deal. The argument was "we stole the canal" which was total hogwash; we BUILT the canal, and our "gunboat diplomacy" only benefitted Panama, which rose in rebellion against their mother country Columbia. Our gunboats were there to defend Panama, not threaten them. Nobody stole anything. If anyone is owed an apology it is Columbia, who got shafted by losing their northern province.
In Genesis 22:17 it is promised to Israel:
"I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies."
Now we possessed one of the great gates, but now China holds the upper hand in the gate we built.
Gates are important (as are walls); the British controlled Gibralter, the entry to the Mediterranean. They also controlled the Falkland Islands, which stand at the entrance to Cape Horn and the straig of Magellan. The British also co-owned the Suez Canal, another critical gate. And guess what? They ruled the world for a century (with the French, the other co-owners of Suez, right behind them.) Britain also controlled the entrance to the Red Sea and to the Persian Gulf via the Protectorate of South Arabia. They used to understand the importance of gates.
We gave our gate away and now it is coming back to bite us.
Trump wants it back. He also wants Greenland, which would give us control of the far less useful Northwest Passage.
Speaking of gates, the Punic Wars, which were essentially world wars between Rome and Carthage, were fought over another gate - Sicily. The Romans occupied much of the island preperatory to moving into North Africa while Carthage built a colony on the south-west part of the island to secure their trade routes. Sicily sits right in the middle of the Mediterranean, being the obvious port for ships moving between the Levant and the western Mediterranean. Carthage, located in modern-day Tunisia, had to have a base there for it's defense. Rome didn't like that, and several wars were fought that ended with Carthage completely destroyed and salt sowed in the Earth to prevent it's resettlement.
That's how important gates are.
So I don't know what Hegseth is doing, but he's not been backed up by the guy whose responsibility it is to actually deal with foreign affairs - Marco Rubio. Is this coming from Trump? We need to find out now.
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God Bless the Crude!
Timothy Birdnow
Energy for a strong America!
US Crude Oil Exports Hit Record High: EIA
From the Epoch Times:
Do note that by the end of Biden's Presidency growth had slowed to a crawl. That's going to change as Trump has empowered the oil and gas industry by removing draconian regulations.
Energy is the lifeblood of any industrial civilization, and oil and natural gas are the cornerstone of energy across the globe. Make more and we prosper, make less and we decline. It really is that simple. Now the left has been pushing a reduction in energy production for decades, and that for a variety of reasons. Yes, there are the warmiacs who are in a panic over carbon dioxide, but more because of the desire to create "parity" between the First and Third worlds. The intelligentsia believes we have it too good in America, that we "gobbled up all the resources" and deserve to live like the poor nations. At the same time they think that by hamstringing the West the Third World will catch up - especially since they don't have the draconian regulations in their countries so industries will move to such places. But this fails to grasp the simple fact that it is primarily the West that is creating the things that make the post-industrial world operate; the Third World can build stuff, but not create new stuff.
That has always been the problem with industrializing in the Third World; they concentrate on industry but not on the economy as a whole. They get foreign companies to build factories, but the people are starving and can't afford to buy anything made there anyway.
Hapan was the first nation that successfully modernized without any help from the West. They did it by first modernizing their agricultural sector, and imposing a free market system on the country. Other nations - notably India and China - have done quite well at that but still took massive help from the West.
The point is all that hamstringing the West does is impoverish the Third World. It does nothing to raise them up.
They key to economic success is universal - empower the individual to succeed by offering proper rewards, and limiting the meddling of government in the economy. But human nature is fallen, and there is greed and special interests and stupidity that lead many to utilize the sword of government to force others to their will, and in the process this hurts economic growth and their fellow man. The Democrats have made an art form out of power lust and greed and the end result is what we see now.
The way out is to unleash free enterprise and provide the energy to do this. The Left has treated energy like the Pharoah treated water; it was his weapon to keep his empire together. The Left seeks to restrict energy usage for the same reason.
Water was and is the lifeblood of agriculture - energy is the lifeblood of industrial civilization. Control both and you own the People.
Unleash both and you empower them, and that is what is happening now. I expect an economic boom to come quite soon.
Oil makes us strong. Oil is life to us (literally; heat, air conditioning, lights, etc. rely on it). Oil makes us free.
God bless the crude!
Energy for a strong America!
US Crude Oil Exports Hit Record High: EIA
From the Epoch Times:
"U.S. crude oil exports in 2024 surpassed the previous record set in 2023, exceeding an annual average of 4.1 million barrels per day (b/d),” the agency said in an April 10 report.
Despite the new record, crude oil export year-over-year growth slowed in 2024 to 1 percent, well below 2023’s 14 percent growth and 2022’s 21 percent.
Crude oil production in the lower 48 states, which excludes Alaska and offshore output, hit a record high in November. This added more supply to the market for exports.
Even though the number of active oil rigs fell in the states, a boost in production efficiency compensated for the decline. As a result, production in the lower 48 rose 3 percent in 2024.
In contrast, oil output in Alaska and offshore in the Gulf of America fell last year, with the EIA blaming the decline partly on production disruptions triggered by hurricane activity.
Despite the new record, crude oil export year-over-year growth slowed in 2024 to 1 percent, well below 2023’s 14 percent growth and 2022’s 21 percent.
Crude oil production in the lower 48 states, which excludes Alaska and offshore output, hit a record high in November. This added more supply to the market for exports.
Even though the number of active oil rigs fell in the states, a boost in production efficiency compensated for the decline. As a result, production in the lower 48 rose 3 percent in 2024.
In contrast, oil output in Alaska and offshore in the Gulf of America fell last year, with the EIA blaming the decline partly on production disruptions triggered by hurricane activity.
Do note that by the end of Biden's Presidency growth had slowed to a crawl. That's going to change as Trump has empowered the oil and gas industry by removing draconian regulations.
Energy is the lifeblood of any industrial civilization, and oil and natural gas are the cornerstone of energy across the globe. Make more and we prosper, make less and we decline. It really is that simple. Now the left has been pushing a reduction in energy production for decades, and that for a variety of reasons. Yes, there are the warmiacs who are in a panic over carbon dioxide, but more because of the desire to create "parity" between the First and Third worlds. The intelligentsia believes we have it too good in America, that we "gobbled up all the resources" and deserve to live like the poor nations. At the same time they think that by hamstringing the West the Third World will catch up - especially since they don't have the draconian regulations in their countries so industries will move to such places. But this fails to grasp the simple fact that it is primarily the West that is creating the things that make the post-industrial world operate; the Third World can build stuff, but not create new stuff.
That has always been the problem with industrializing in the Third World; they concentrate on industry but not on the economy as a whole. They get foreign companies to build factories, but the people are starving and can't afford to buy anything made there anyway.
Hapan was the first nation that successfully modernized without any help from the West. They did it by first modernizing their agricultural sector, and imposing a free market system on the country. Other nations - notably India and China - have done quite well at that but still took massive help from the West.
The point is all that hamstringing the West does is impoverish the Third World. It does nothing to raise them up.
They key to economic success is universal - empower the individual to succeed by offering proper rewards, and limiting the meddling of government in the economy. But human nature is fallen, and there is greed and special interests and stupidity that lead many to utilize the sword of government to force others to their will, and in the process this hurts economic growth and their fellow man. The Democrats have made an art form out of power lust and greed and the end result is what we see now.
The way out is to unleash free enterprise and provide the energy to do this. The Left has treated energy like the Pharoah treated water; it was his weapon to keep his empire together. The Left seeks to restrict energy usage for the same reason.
Water was and is the lifeblood of agriculture - energy is the lifeblood of industrial civilization. Control both and you own the People.
Unleash both and you empower them, and that is what is happening now. I expect an economic boom to come quite soon.
Oil makes us strong. Oil is life to us (literally; heat, air conditioning, lights, etc. rely on it). Oil makes us free.
God bless the crude!
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Person of Interest
Timothy Birdnow
This takes "person of interst" to a whole new level.
Minority Report: UK Government Developing 'Murder Prediction' Program
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
The UK government is in the process of developing a system to predict whether people will commit homicide in the future.
The idea is the literal plot line of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian story ‘Minority Report,’ where individuals are arrested before they are able to commit crimes thanks to a ‘precrime’ predictive policing system.
It’s the exact same thing, minus the mutant human precogs. In reality the program will be much more boring, using ‘algorithms’ to churn through data and spit out results.
Given that the data will presumably include spicy social media posts, which are now being punished with prison sentences in the UK, you can see where this is going.
The Guardian reports:
Another backdrop to all this is the fact that the government just enacted racially biased criminal codes to punish white men more harshly than women or minorities.
Will the Minority Report program reflect this? Or will it reflect reality…
JD Vance was right, the UK now operates within a full on dystopian apparatus:
fin
Britain is becoming a fascist state and nobody seems to worry about it.
This takes "person of interst" to a whole new level.
Minority Report: UK Government Developing 'Murder Prediction' Program
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
The UK government is in the process of developing a system to predict whether people will commit homicide in the future.
The idea is the literal plot line of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian story ‘Minority Report,’ where individuals are arrested before they are able to commit crimes thanks to a ‘precrime’ predictive policing system.
It’s the exact same thing, minus the mutant human precogs. In reality the program will be much more boring, using ‘algorithms’ to churn through data and spit out results.
Given that the data will presumably include spicy social media posts, which are now being punished with prison sentences in the UK, you can see where this is going.
The Guardian reports:
The UK government is developing a ‘murder prediction’ programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.
Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.
The scheme was originally called the ‘homicide prediction project,’ but its name has been changed to ‘sharing data to improve risk assessment.’ The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it ‘chilling and dystopian.’
Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.
The scheme was originally called the ‘homicide prediction project,’ but its name has been changed to ‘sharing data to improve risk assessment.’ The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it ‘chilling and dystopian.’
Another backdrop to all this is the fact that the government just enacted racially biased criminal codes to punish white men more harshly than women or minorities.
Will the Minority Report program reflect this? Or will it reflect reality…
JD Vance was right, the UK now operates within a full on dystopian apparatus:
fin
Britain is becoming a fascist state and nobody seems to worry about it.
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Quit Whining and StartMopping
Timothy Birdnow
Trump's budget cuts has led to management cleaning toilets in national parks.
Gotta love it!
FTA:
Manual labor builds character (as Morgan Freeman, playing God Almighty, told Jim Carey in Bruce Almighty and went so far as to get Carey's character to mop the floors with Him). Too many government workers spend too much time schemeing and trying to avoid actual labor. This will do them much good. It certainly did me good; I always had jobs where I occasionally had to pitch in with cleaning or other "menial" labors - even when I was a grocery store manager. You can't ALWAYS have people for that.
For far too long government workers were "above" such things. Now they must get back in the trenches and learn what it's like to be a laborer. That's American. We must remember that there is dignity in ANY job well done. It is service to God Himself.
So quit whining and start mopping!
Trump's budget cuts has led to management cleaning toilets in national parks.
Gotta love it!
FTA:
"SFGate acquired an internal email that detailed information about the Resources Management and Science Division’s new responsibilities as employees like wildlife specialists, biologists, and hydrologists will need to pick up at least one cleaning shift each.
The employee who relayed the email said, "I’m not above cleaning a bathroom but personally am sick of our leadership not pushing back on anything and just towing the line.”
Another email said this is not a permanent arrangement, as Superintendent Stephanie Burkhart wants employees for this work for mid-April though early May; however, that is a minimum time frame.
The employee who relayed the email said, "I’m not above cleaning a bathroom but personally am sick of our leadership not pushing back on anything and just towing the line.”
Another email said this is not a permanent arrangement, as Superintendent Stephanie Burkhart wants employees for this work for mid-April though early May; however, that is a minimum time frame.
Manual labor builds character (as Morgan Freeman, playing God Almighty, told Jim Carey in Bruce Almighty and went so far as to get Carey's character to mop the floors with Him). Too many government workers spend too much time schemeing and trying to avoid actual labor. This will do them much good. It certainly did me good; I always had jobs where I occasionally had to pitch in with cleaning or other "menial" labors - even when I was a grocery store manager. You can't ALWAYS have people for that.
For far too long government workers were "above" such things. Now they must get back in the trenches and learn what it's like to be a laborer. That's American. We must remember that there is dignity in ANY job well done. It is service to God Himself.
So quit whining and start mopping!
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April 12, 2025
The Return of Kacklula
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats are in disarray. Who they gonna call?
Kammie!
Yes, plenty of Democrats want to run cackula for a second humiliation.
I soooooo hope that is true!
People didn't like her then; why do they think we'll like her now? But Democrats always believe in the power of the press to twist American minds, as well as their own ability to steall votes. Sadly they are right much of the time.
But who in their right mind would think a retreaded Harris would fare any better in the next election? The woman is a joke.
The Democrats are in disarray. Who they gonna call?
Kammie!
Yes, plenty of Democrats want to run cackula for a second humiliation.
I soooooo hope that is true!
People didn't like her then; why do they think we'll like her now? But Democrats always believe in the power of the press to twist American minds, as well as their own ability to steall votes. Sadly they are right much of the time.
But who in their right mind would think a retreaded Harris would fare any better in the next election? The woman is a joke.
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Zuckertreason
Timothy Birdnow
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook (now Meta) is facing criminal prosecution over testimony by a former employee that Facebook offered classified information to the Chinese.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, META’s former director of global public policy, made the shocking claim in a testimony before Congress. She said Zuckerberg, desperate to gain a major foothold in China, offered the Chicoms proprietary technology that may not be exported.
I always thought Zuckerberg would sell his own mother to a Juarez pimp if it served his interests. I'm sure he found plenty of justifications for selling out his own country. Remember Dante's Inferno Mark; the lowest place in Hell is Cocytus, the place where traitors go, and the lowest of those is Antenora, reserved for traitors to kin and country.
At long last we are starting to see justice return to the land.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook (now Meta) is facing criminal prosecution over testimony by a former employee that Facebook offered classified information to the Chinese.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, META’s former director of global public policy, made the shocking claim in a testimony before Congress. She said Zuckerberg, desperate to gain a major foothold in China, offered the Chicoms proprietary technology that may not be exported.
I always thought Zuckerberg would sell his own mother to a Juarez pimp if it served his interests. I'm sure he found plenty of justifications for selling out his own country. Remember Dante's Inferno Mark; the lowest place in Hell is Cocytus, the place where traitors go, and the lowest of those is Antenora, reserved for traitors to kin and country.
At long last we are starting to see justice return to the land.
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Letitia James Could FaceReal Estate Fraud Charges
Timothy Birdnow
There will be justice, in this world or the next.
As the Bible says, waht doth it profit a man (or woman) to gain the whole world but lose his soul?
If This is What it Looks Like NYAG Letitia james is in a World of Trouble
James is the scumbag, er, prosecutor who campaigned on "getting Trump" and went looking for a crime (much like Beria said in the Soviet Union "show me the man and I'll show you the crime") She created a fraud case out of thin air and naturally won in Trump hating Manhattan, to the tune of $455 million despite the fact Trump's creditors in now way thought themselves defrauded. The key was to horribly low-ball the value of Trump's property than claim it was HIS responsiblity to give these numbers to the bank, instead of that being THEIR due dilligence). James has also no doubt facilitated the charges against Trump that led to his multiple convictions in a New York court under William Bragg, who created a completely novel interpretation of the law, turning a misdomener that the Federal government dismissed into a felony at the state level. In short, she led the charge against an innocent man, framing him because she hated him and loved the Democratic Party more than her oath of office or the truth.
Well....
A former financial fraudster turned forensic investigator names Sam E. Antar, has unearthed some interesting documents showing Letitia gave power of attorney to her cousin Shamice Thompson-Hairston to do some real estate trading for her. Turns out James swore in an affadivit that a house she and Shamice bought together in Virginia would be her prime residence and not a commercial venture.
So either she's lying to New York about being a resident or she lied to get a loan about being a resident of Virginia.
Insurance is much lower on a primary residence than on a rental.
And, as James was not a resident of New York if she did indeed reside in Virginia, she was automatically out of office - and that when Trump was being prosecuted. In other words, her prosecution was illegal.
So she has to say she committed perjury and fraud. She prosecuted Trump for perjurty and fraud.
It's delicious. Hopefully she can and will be held accountable.
James could be charged with Federal wire fraud charges which can carry a penalty of $1 million fine and/or 30 years in prison.
Pam Bondi, are you reading this?
As ye sow so shall ye reap! Reap it and weep Letitia!
There will be justice, in this world or the next.
As the Bible says, waht doth it profit a man (or woman) to gain the whole world but lose his soul?
If This is What it Looks Like NYAG Letitia james is in a World of Trouble
James is the scumbag, er, prosecutor who campaigned on "getting Trump" and went looking for a crime (much like Beria said in the Soviet Union "show me the man and I'll show you the crime") She created a fraud case out of thin air and naturally won in Trump hating Manhattan, to the tune of $455 million despite the fact Trump's creditors in now way thought themselves defrauded. The key was to horribly low-ball the value of Trump's property than claim it was HIS responsiblity to give these numbers to the bank, instead of that being THEIR due dilligence). James has also no doubt facilitated the charges against Trump that led to his multiple convictions in a New York court under William Bragg, who created a completely novel interpretation of the law, turning a misdomener that the Federal government dismissed into a felony at the state level. In short, she led the charge against an innocent man, framing him because she hated him and loved the Democratic Party more than her oath of office or the truth.
Well....
A former financial fraudster turned forensic investigator names Sam E. Antar, has unearthed some interesting documents showing Letitia gave power of attorney to her cousin Shamice Thompson-Hairston to do some real estate trading for her. Turns out James swore in an affadivit that a house she and Shamice bought together in Virginia would be her prime residence and not a commercial venture.
So either she's lying to New York about being a resident or she lied to get a loan about being a resident of Virginia.
Insurance is much lower on a primary residence than on a rental.
And, as James was not a resident of New York if she did indeed reside in Virginia, she was automatically out of office - and that when Trump was being prosecuted. In other words, her prosecution was illegal.
So she has to say she committed perjury and fraud. She prosecuted Trump for perjurty and fraud.
It's delicious. Hopefully she can and will be held accountable.
James could be charged with Federal wire fraud charges which can carry a penalty of $1 million fine and/or 30 years in prison.
Pam Bondi, are you reading this?
As ye sow so shall ye reap! Reap it and weep Letitia!
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