January 09, 2025
Minneapolis Police Chief Lied About Chauvin
Timothy Birdnow
Well, well, well...
14 Current and Former Police Officers in Minneapolis Claim MPD Police Chief Lied During Chauvin Trial
I never had any doubt about it.
Chauvin was a sacrificial lamb to quiet the mob and to promote the lie of white cops murdering black innocents for sport. This has done irreparable harm to America and must not be allowed to stand. Chauvin should get a new trial immediately.
Well, well, well...
14 Current and Former Police Officers in Minneapolis Claim MPD Police Chief Lied During Chauvin Trial
I never had any doubt about it.
Chauvin was a sacrificial lamb to quiet the mob and to promote the lie of white cops murdering black innocents for sport. This has done irreparable harm to America and must not be allowed to stand. Chauvin should get a new trial immediately.
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Schiff Ready to Impeach Trump Again
Timothy Birdnow
Did you expect anything else?
Adam Schiff Already Talking About Impeaching Trump Again
I assure you Trump will face at least one more impeachment effort before his term expires, probably after the '26 midterms, especially if the Democrats win one or both houses of Congress.
I guess he thinks third time's a charm!
Did you expect anything else?
Adam Schiff Already Talking About Impeaching Trump Again
I assure you Trump will face at least one more impeachment effort before his term expires, probably after the '26 midterms, especially if the Democrats win one or both houses of Congress.
I guess he thinks third time's a charm!
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Trump Loses Appeal in New York
Timothy Birdnow
Trump will never, ever get a fair shake from New York State.
New York High Court Rejects Trump Bid to Stop Sentencing
It comes as no surprise but hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will intervene.
If I were Trump I would begin closing all my operations in New York state - everything. Let them cry into their Rheingold beers.
Trump will never, ever get a fair shake from New York State.
New York High Court Rejects Trump Bid to Stop Sentencing
It comes as no surprise but hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will intervene.
If I were Trump I would begin closing all my operations in New York state - everything. Let them cry into their Rheingold beers.
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Only Part of Smith Report to be Released
Timothy Birdnow
Can you say "cherry pick"?
DOJ To Release Only Part Of Trump Case Related To 2020 Election Interference
At this stage the only value in releasing any of this is to smear Trump and burn it all down as these spiteful monsters are ushered out the door.
I said it before and I'll say it again; Smith was illegally appointed meaning he has no legal authority over any of this. There need to be consequences for Smith and his lackeys.
Can you say "cherry pick"?
DOJ To Release Only Part Of Trump Case Related To 2020 Election Interference
At this stage the only value in releasing any of this is to smear Trump and burn it all down as these spiteful monsters are ushered out the door.
I said it before and I'll say it again; Smith was illegally appointed meaning he has no legal authority over any of this. There need to be consequences for Smith and his lackeys.
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Fani Colluded with J6 Committee
Timothy Birdnow
Newly released documents show Fani Willis colluded with the J6 Committee to take Trump out.
According to Judicial Watch:
BREAKING: The Superior Court in Fulton County, GA, issued an order granting $21,578 "attorney’s fees and costs” in the open records lawsuit for communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee (1/3). https://t.co/qcVL9VTlfT
— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) January 7, 2025
Tom Fitton, head of Judicial Watch stated:
""You know, pretty simple request. We asked for records about her communications with the January 6 committee, the Pelosi operation there, Jack Smith Justice Department, and I think they told us, 1-2-3-4, times they had no documents,
We said, well, hold on a second. There’s at least one letter Jordan released showing that Fani herself wrote a letter to Benny Thompson, I think. And so we sued.”
Willis failed to show up leading to a default judgment and so JD obtained the records.
Fani and company are still foot-dragging on handing over the records.
This is indictable material and when Trump takes over must be dealt with.
What we saw in 2020 and over the four years after is an incredible scam and bloodless coup by the Ruling Class against Middle America. The scope of this boggles the mind. Even if you hate Trump and think him an awful man and terrible President you should be far, far more disturbed about all that has happened to take this guy out.
Newly released documents show Fani Willis colluded with the J6 Committee to take Trump out.
According to Judicial Watch:
BREAKING: The Superior Court in Fulton County, GA, issued an order granting $21,578 "attorney’s fees and costs” in the open records lawsuit for communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee (1/3). https://t.co/qcVL9VTlfT
— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) January 7, 2025
Tom Fitton, head of Judicial Watch stated:
""You know, pretty simple request. We asked for records about her communications with the January 6 committee, the Pelosi operation there, Jack Smith Justice Department, and I think they told us, 1-2-3-4, times they had no documents,
We said, well, hold on a second. There’s at least one letter Jordan released showing that Fani herself wrote a letter to Benny Thompson, I think. And so we sued.”
Willis failed to show up leading to a default judgment and so JD obtained the records.
Fani and company are still foot-dragging on handing over the records.
This is indictable material and when Trump takes over must be dealt with.
What we saw in 2020 and over the four years after is an incredible scam and bloodless coup by the Ruling Class against Middle America. The scope of this boggles the mind. Even if you hate Trump and think him an awful man and terrible President you should be far, far more disturbed about all that has happened to take this guy out.
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It's Newsom's Fault
Timothy Birdnow
Gavin "Gruesome" Newsom is accusing Trump of politicizing the So Cal fires.
On Anderson Stupor Coopper's 360 we have Newsom attacking Trump:
So Mr. Newsom WHY are people fleeing for their lives? Could it be you fumbled the ball, had terrible public policy in regards to land management and fire protection? YOU are where the buck stops GOVERNOR!
Asking questions about poor decisions is NOT politicizing anything; it's what actual leaders do to avoid another such disaster. You can't fix it if you deny there is a problem.
And Mr. Trump has been warning this for many months, long before a Santa Ana wind blew these fires into raging infernos. You ignored him then.
How do you run out of water to fight fires? Could it be because you are refusing to store enough?
As of last year California was storing 15 million acre-feet of water, putting it at just 63% of capacity. That is in the whole state. Why so low? Yes, CA had drought conditions for several years before 2022,but has more than made up for it since.
The fact is California has been on a dam-wrecking kick. The state brags about completing the largest dam removal project in history with removal of the Klamath river dams, for instance. And Newsom supported removing dams around Sacramento, according to the Sac Bee. California's largest reservoir - Lake Shasta - had [kubj=https://www.newsweek.com/california-reservoir-water-levels-now-compared-lowest-point-1974480]dropped roughly 67 feet between June and October of last year. That is a loss of 4.1 billion gallons of water! Yet Mr. Newsom did not seem overly concerned.
And this has nothing to do with evaporation or lack of rain. It is required by state law that the reservoir be drained at this time of year:
Last year water regulators actually had to increase the amount of water released from Lake Shasta as the reservoir was over full.
So this water is being released to flow to the sea to save some damned bait fish. Whose fault is that?
Granted Lake Shasta isn't the source of water to the L.A. area, but a number of reservoirs in the foothills of the Sierras are - dams on rivers like the Owens. And in the L.A. area dams have been removed; for instance the North Debris Dam was removed from the Los Angeles river.
If ground water is depleted and you won't store river water what is left?
So this is a policy problem, not a natural disaster. And policy problems must be discussed rationally and honestly. That last seriously offends Gruesome Newsom because he knows honesty will place blame squarely where it belongs - on his doorstep. This isn't JUST Newsom's fault but as the sign on Harry Truman's desk said "the buck stops here". Newsom wants us to believe he's a capable administrator; he sure fumbled the ball here.
Oh, L.A. Mayor, the appropriately named Karen Bass, had been bragging about making L.A. "greener" before the fire. This is what "green" looks like. I guess charcoal is the new Green.
Gavin "Gruesome" Newsom is accusing Trump of politicizing the So Cal fires.
On Anderson Stupor Coopper's 360 we have Newsom attacking Trump:
"Cooper asked Newsom about Trump’s remarks criticizing the response to the disaster.
"One can’t even respond to it. It’s — people are literally fleeing, people have lost their lives, kids lost their schools, families completely torn asunder, churches burned down,” Newsom said.
"And this guy wanted to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts, and I know what I want to say.”'
"One can’t even respond to it. It’s — people are literally fleeing, people have lost their lives, kids lost their schools, families completely torn asunder, churches burned down,” Newsom said.
"And this guy wanted to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts, and I know what I want to say.”'
So Mr. Newsom WHY are people fleeing for their lives? Could it be you fumbled the ball, had terrible public policy in regards to land management and fire protection? YOU are where the buck stops GOVERNOR!
Asking questions about poor decisions is NOT politicizing anything; it's what actual leaders do to avoid another such disaster. You can't fix it if you deny there is a problem.
And Mr. Trump has been warning this for many months, long before a Santa Ana wind blew these fires into raging infernos. You ignored him then.
How do you run out of water to fight fires? Could it be because you are refusing to store enough?
As of last year California was storing 15 million acre-feet of water, putting it at just 63% of capacity. That is in the whole state. Why so low? Yes, CA had drought conditions for several years before 2022,but has more than made up for it since.
The fact is California has been on a dam-wrecking kick. The state brags about completing the largest dam removal project in history with removal of the Klamath river dams, for instance. And Newsom supported removing dams around Sacramento, according to the Sac Bee. California's largest reservoir - Lake Shasta - had [kubj=https://www.newsweek.com/california-reservoir-water-levels-now-compared-lowest-point-1974480]dropped roughly 67 feet between June and October of last year. That is a loss of 4.1 billion gallons of water! Yet Mr. Newsom did not seem overly concerned.
And this has nothing to do with evaporation or lack of rain. It is required by state law that the reservoir be drained at this time of year:
"From November through February each year, state law requires Reclamation to manage water in the Shasta Reservoir in a way that supports the release of a minimum of 3,250 cubic feet per second (CFS) (average) daily into the Sacramento River."
Last year water regulators actually had to increase the amount of water released from Lake Shasta as the reservoir was over full.
So this water is being released to flow to the sea to save some damned bait fish. Whose fault is that?
Granted Lake Shasta isn't the source of water to the L.A. area, but a number of reservoirs in the foothills of the Sierras are - dams on rivers like the Owens. And in the L.A. area dams have been removed; for instance the North Debris Dam was removed from the Los Angeles river.
If ground water is depleted and you won't store river water what is left?
So this is a policy problem, not a natural disaster. And policy problems must be discussed rationally and honestly. That last seriously offends Gruesome Newsom because he knows honesty will place blame squarely where it belongs - on his doorstep. This isn't JUST Newsom's fault but as the sign on Harry Truman's desk said "the buck stops here". Newsom wants us to believe he's a capable administrator; he sure fumbled the ball here.
Oh, L.A. Mayor, the appropriately named Karen Bass, had been bragging about making L.A. "greener" before the fire. This is what "green" looks like. I guess charcoal is the new Green.
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The Party's Over
Timothy Birdnow
A little bit of Missouri mishmash to attend to this fine cold morning. First we return to our favorite Democratic witch hazel in Missouri, namely the George Soros-funded ex-St. Louis Circuit Attorney (Prosecutor) Kim Gardner.
Gardner was one of the class of prosecutors (like Kim Foxx in Chicago) funded by Soros and supported by Black Lives Matter whose intention was to overturn the law for "equity" sake. Gardner made her name though by prosecuting Missouri's Republican Governor (a former Democrat) Eric Greitens in a travesty of a case that would have been tossed for malfeasance and led to the prosecutor being disbarred and possibly jailed had the racial ramifications not been present. And had Greitens not pissed off the Missouri RINO Republicans (among other things he wanted a five year moratorium on politicians becoming lobbyists, something that was going to cost a lot of retiring Republicrats dearly.)
(Do understand Greitens was a perv and a jackass, butt he was a Democrat who switched parties so what do you expect? Picture Bill Clinton, only less affable. Still, he was elected by the public and the Republicans should not have allowed the Democrats to use lawfare to take him out. This set the trend and is the model they employed against Trump.)
Gardner withheld exculpatory evidence, tampered with witnesses, hired her own private investigator (a guy named Tisdale, who wound up in the slammer), and generally made a huge mess of things. She was cited with contempt of court but wind up being let off and cut a deal with Greitens - he had to resign from office and charges would be dropped, proving clearly this was politically motivated and nothing more.
Gardner had a list of "banned cops" and she would prosecute no charges against anyone arrested and charged by these "racist cops" in the City. Her staff quit in droves.
The last straw for Gardner was when a young punk who was under house arrest rammed his car into a teenage girl here to play in a volleyball tournament; the girl lost both her legs. Turns out the young punk had skipped out with his ankle bracelet over 23 times and Gardner had done nothing to stop it.
She made an agreement to quit rather than be prosecuted (and typically Missouri Republicans agreed to let her walk).
Anyway, the Missouri State Auditor just completed an audit of Madam Gardner's office and the report is staggering.
After months of hunting for Gardner - who went on the lam to Florida to avoid testifying - State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick uncovered some amazing things. For instance, Gardner had over 6,000 referrals from the police for prosecution in her e-mail that she never even bothered to open. And of the ones she addressed at all she chose to NOT prosecute over 60%, including many violent felonies.
Gardner spent over 7 full weeks skipping work to attend nursing classes at St. Louis University, and even skipped court during the Greitens case (leading the judge to threaten her with contempt). Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey made his name pursuing Gardner and he had her followed; she spent large amounts of time at SLU when she was supposed to be in the office doing the work of the people of St. Louis.
Gardner's ridiculous excuse was she was trying "to improve the office and bring mental health awareness” by getting a master's degree in nursing. How does that help anyone but herself? It has no bearing on the job at hand. It's like telling your boss in an accounting firm you needed an auto-mechanic's certificate.
she also misappropriated funds. She used office funds to throw lavish parties, one of which ran up a six thousand dollar bar bill at a local restaurant. That can be characterized as embezzlement.
She spent $58,000 on a chili cookout, having her car detailed, a disc jockey, and her personal legal expenses.
Anyone else would be in prison by now.
At any rate the Auditor has no prosecutory power so it has to wait for state or local authorities to file charges. Andrew Bailey, Missouri's Attorney General, has already shown a willingness to go after her (and buck his own party in the process) so I expect charges to come soon.
As ye sow so shall ye reap; Gardner used the law to destroy political enemies and now her own sins are coming home to roost. If there is any justice in America she will serve quite a bit of prison time.
In other Missouri news outgoing Republican Governor Mike Parsons, the RINO stooge, has shown why Republicans rarely prosper. With St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell going to Congress Parsons had the power to appoint a new prosecutor. He did - a Democrat! Why elect Republicans if they are going to support the Democrats?
After a big fight with St. Louis County Executive Dr. Sam Page (the tyrant of Covid) Parsons caved and appointed Melissa Price Smith after winning in court over Page.
Pior to that Mr.Pasons appointed Gabriel Gore as the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, another Democrat.
What is the point of winning if your guy gives the loses power?
Is it any wonder a person like Gardner could run amok for all that time with friends like Mike Parsons? The Republican GOP is largely worthless, with a few exceptions. Our last three Attorney Generals have been great, but they are anomalies. Missouri is RINO country and it's why we remain a backwater by and large. We can't make progress with this good-old-boys club in power.
A little bit of Missouri mishmash to attend to this fine cold morning. First we return to our favorite Democratic witch hazel in Missouri, namely the George Soros-funded ex-St. Louis Circuit Attorney (Prosecutor) Kim Gardner.
Gardner was one of the class of prosecutors (like Kim Foxx in Chicago) funded by Soros and supported by Black Lives Matter whose intention was to overturn the law for "equity" sake. Gardner made her name though by prosecuting Missouri's Republican Governor (a former Democrat) Eric Greitens in a travesty of a case that would have been tossed for malfeasance and led to the prosecutor being disbarred and possibly jailed had the racial ramifications not been present. And had Greitens not pissed off the Missouri RINO Republicans (among other things he wanted a five year moratorium on politicians becoming lobbyists, something that was going to cost a lot of retiring Republicrats dearly.)
(Do understand Greitens was a perv and a jackass, butt he was a Democrat who switched parties so what do you expect? Picture Bill Clinton, only less affable. Still, he was elected by the public and the Republicans should not have allowed the Democrats to use lawfare to take him out. This set the trend and is the model they employed against Trump.)
Gardner withheld exculpatory evidence, tampered with witnesses, hired her own private investigator (a guy named Tisdale, who wound up in the slammer), and generally made a huge mess of things. She was cited with contempt of court but wind up being let off and cut a deal with Greitens - he had to resign from office and charges would be dropped, proving clearly this was politically motivated and nothing more.
Gardner had a list of "banned cops" and she would prosecute no charges against anyone arrested and charged by these "racist cops" in the City. Her staff quit in droves.
The last straw for Gardner was when a young punk who was under house arrest rammed his car into a teenage girl here to play in a volleyball tournament; the girl lost both her legs. Turns out the young punk had skipped out with his ankle bracelet over 23 times and Gardner had done nothing to stop it.
She made an agreement to quit rather than be prosecuted (and typically Missouri Republicans agreed to let her walk).
Anyway, the Missouri State Auditor just completed an audit of Madam Gardner's office and the report is staggering.
After months of hunting for Gardner - who went on the lam to Florida to avoid testifying - State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick uncovered some amazing things. For instance, Gardner had over 6,000 referrals from the police for prosecution in her e-mail that she never even bothered to open. And of the ones she addressed at all she chose to NOT prosecute over 60%, including many violent felonies.
Gardner spent over 7 full weeks skipping work to attend nursing classes at St. Louis University, and even skipped court during the Greitens case (leading the judge to threaten her with contempt). Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey made his name pursuing Gardner and he had her followed; she spent large amounts of time at SLU when she was supposed to be in the office doing the work of the people of St. Louis.
Gardner's ridiculous excuse was she was trying "to improve the office and bring mental health awareness” by getting a master's degree in nursing. How does that help anyone but herself? It has no bearing on the job at hand. It's like telling your boss in an accounting firm you needed an auto-mechanic's certificate.
she also misappropriated funds. She used office funds to throw lavish parties, one of which ran up a six thousand dollar bar bill at a local restaurant. That can be characterized as embezzlement.
She spent $58,000 on a chili cookout, having her car detailed, a disc jockey, and her personal legal expenses.
Anyone else would be in prison by now.
At any rate the Auditor has no prosecutory power so it has to wait for state or local authorities to file charges. Andrew Bailey, Missouri's Attorney General, has already shown a willingness to go after her (and buck his own party in the process) so I expect charges to come soon.
As ye sow so shall ye reap; Gardner used the law to destroy political enemies and now her own sins are coming home to roost. If there is any justice in America she will serve quite a bit of prison time.
In other Missouri news outgoing Republican Governor Mike Parsons, the RINO stooge, has shown why Republicans rarely prosper. With St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell going to Congress Parsons had the power to appoint a new prosecutor. He did - a Democrat! Why elect Republicans if they are going to support the Democrats?
After a big fight with St. Louis County Executive Dr. Sam Page (the tyrant of Covid) Parsons caved and appointed Melissa Price Smith after winning in court over Page.
Pior to that Mr.Pasons appointed Gabriel Gore as the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, another Democrat.
What is the point of winning if your guy gives the loses power?
Is it any wonder a person like Gardner could run amok for all that time with friends like Mike Parsons? The Republican GOP is largely worthless, with a few exceptions. Our last three Attorney Generals have been great, but they are anomalies. Missouri is RINO country and it's why we remain a backwater by and large. We can't make progress with this good-old-boys club in power.
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January 08, 2025
Willis Has to Pay
Timothy Birdnow
Justice is starting to be served hot and spicy!
Court orders Fani Willis to pay $22,000 in legal fees to Judicial Watch.
Justice is starting to be served hot and spicy!
Court orders Fani Willis to pay $22,000 in legal fees to Judicial Watch.
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Watch 'em Squirm!
Timothy Birdnow
To illustrate how the media has absolutely no understanding of Donald Trump (and probably willfully so) one need but look at this Yahoo News article. In it the author takes everything Trump has said, no matter how tongue-in-cheek, seriously.
Here's the part that gets me:
And they really believe Trump isn't joking? Come on! If Trump were so crazy he wouldn't be where he is today.
It was observed during Trump's first term that the media took what he said literally all the time when normal Americans understood the joke.
Trump has been trolling Canada to get them to reverse some of their more aggregious policies and this seems to have touched a nerve - not with the average Canadian but with the Canadian ruling class and with the media. OF COURSE he's going to keep at this! He's having a great time punking them.
I have no doubt Trump would like to take back the Panama Canal, and possibly buy Greenland. He won't get Greenland I do not think (never say never) but he might get the canal out of the hands of the Chicoms anyway. But none of the rest of this will fly and Trump is no fool; he knows it. He's just having fun and at the same time doing what he does, namely being unpredictablle and making those he is negotiating with nervous.
I really don't know if the average news flunky understands this about Trump. I'm sure the top guys do but it serves their purposes to pretend to be obtuse.
Anyway it's fun watching them squirm.
To illustrate how the media has absolutely no understanding of Donald Trump (and probably willfully so) one need but look at this Yahoo News article. In it the author takes everything Trump has said, no matter how tongue-in-cheek, seriously.
Here's the part that gets me:
"Trump said he "liked” Carter "as a man” but was "strongly against” the former president’s decision to relinquish control.
Even as he flirted with a U.S. takeover of Canada, Trump weighed in with who he thinks should take over as the country’s next prime minister, with Justin Trudeau stepping aside, saying he suggested to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky that he should toss his hat into the ring.
In Trump’s retelling of the conversation between the two men, Gretzky replied by asking whether he’d be running for prime minister — or governor.
"Let’s make it governor,” Trump told him. "I like it better.”
Even as he flirted with a U.S. takeover of Canada, Trump weighed in with who he thinks should take over as the country’s next prime minister, with Justin Trudeau stepping aside, saying he suggested to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky that he should toss his hat into the ring.
In Trump’s retelling of the conversation between the two men, Gretzky replied by asking whether he’d be running for prime minister — or governor.
"Let’s make it governor,” Trump told him. "I like it better.”
And they really believe Trump isn't joking? Come on! If Trump were so crazy he wouldn't be where he is today.
It was observed during Trump's first term that the media took what he said literally all the time when normal Americans understood the joke.
Trump has been trolling Canada to get them to reverse some of their more aggregious policies and this seems to have touched a nerve - not with the average Canadian but with the Canadian ruling class and with the media. OF COURSE he's going to keep at this! He's having a great time punking them.
I have no doubt Trump would like to take back the Panama Canal, and possibly buy Greenland. He won't get Greenland I do not think (never say never) but he might get the canal out of the hands of the Chicoms anyway. But none of the rest of this will fly and Trump is no fool; he knows it. He's just having fun and at the same time doing what he does, namely being unpredictablle and making those he is negotiating with nervous.
I really don't know if the average news flunky understands this about Trump. I'm sure the top guys do but it serves their purposes to pretend to be obtuse.
Anyway it's fun watching them squirm.
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What's in a Name?
Timothy Birdnow
This is the kind of thing that makes me smile. Not sure we want it but just the fact Trump proposed it makes it fun.
Yes, Trump has suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America".
Oh, and Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill to officially change the name.
Granted, if we do that I doubt anyone else in the world will call it by the new name - certainly not the states that border that body of water (like Cuba or whatnot). Also, Mexico will probably rename the Gulf of California in reprisal. But who cares? We have no access to that either.
Which brings up another idea; we should annex Baja California. Purchase it from Mexico and it would become another Florida, a huge vacation destination. Mexico has done nothing with it after all. I'd rather have Baja than Canada, frankly, or even than Greenland.
Another place I'd like to annex is the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia should be willing to sell her; there isn't much there of value to them and we can add it as another state. That would make America span two continents.
Speaking of renaming places, I'm still mad that it's called the Antarctic Peninsula. When I was a kid it was called the Palmer Peninsula, then changed to the American Peninsula. Then, in the globalist fashion, changed to the wholly generic Antarctic Peninsula. Give it a real name, for crying out loud.
I also find myself angry at so many of the other changes we've endured; Bombay is now Mumbai, Peking is Beijing, Ceylon is Sri Lanka, etc. Maybe these are what locals called these places but WE called them by the other names. I want to stick with that. I am also offended at "ArgenTYNES for Argentinians; that was the media not knowing how to say it and choosing that and making it stick (I spell it that way because it's not Argentines by pronounced TYNES by the media.) Oh, and don't even get me started on Mt. McKinley (now Denali).
Changing names and pronunciations is a way to break from the past, something the Left is most eager to do. They do not want continuity. And they've largely succeeded, most young kids would be completely baffled by reading old encyclopedias (like the ones my parents have from the '30's, or the ones from 1912 my parents had in their basement and let get water-logged when their sewer backed up, to my great chagrin.) The one from the thirties speaks of "French West Africa" for example. It also bemoans the rise of dictators in Germany and Italy. The 1912 one was even better, with discussions of things like Africa "There are places in Africa where no white man has yet penetrated". This would sound like alien language to most young people today. We have forgotten our past.
Anyway I doubt this renaming will go anywhere,and I frankly hope it doesn't, but it's fun watching Trump tweak the internationalists and America-haters this way. They should be grateful he's not renaming it "The Gulf of Trump".
MAGA!
This is the kind of thing that makes me smile. Not sure we want it but just the fact Trump proposed it makes it fun.
Yes, Trump has suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America".
Oh, and Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill to officially change the name.
Granted, if we do that I doubt anyone else in the world will call it by the new name - certainly not the states that border that body of water (like Cuba or whatnot). Also, Mexico will probably rename the Gulf of California in reprisal. But who cares? We have no access to that either.
Which brings up another idea; we should annex Baja California. Purchase it from Mexico and it would become another Florida, a huge vacation destination. Mexico has done nothing with it after all. I'd rather have Baja than Canada, frankly, or even than Greenland.
Another place I'd like to annex is the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia should be willing to sell her; there isn't much there of value to them and we can add it as another state. That would make America span two continents.
Speaking of renaming places, I'm still mad that it's called the Antarctic Peninsula. When I was a kid it was called the Palmer Peninsula, then changed to the American Peninsula. Then, in the globalist fashion, changed to the wholly generic Antarctic Peninsula. Give it a real name, for crying out loud.
I also find myself angry at so many of the other changes we've endured; Bombay is now Mumbai, Peking is Beijing, Ceylon is Sri Lanka, etc. Maybe these are what locals called these places but WE called them by the other names. I want to stick with that. I am also offended at "ArgenTYNES for Argentinians; that was the media not knowing how to say it and choosing that and making it stick (I spell it that way because it's not Argentines by pronounced TYNES by the media.) Oh, and don't even get me started on Mt. McKinley (now Denali).
Changing names and pronunciations is a way to break from the past, something the Left is most eager to do. They do not want continuity. And they've largely succeeded, most young kids would be completely baffled by reading old encyclopedias (like the ones my parents have from the '30's, or the ones from 1912 my parents had in their basement and let get water-logged when their sewer backed up, to my great chagrin.) The one from the thirties speaks of "French West Africa" for example. It also bemoans the rise of dictators in Germany and Italy. The 1912 one was even better, with discussions of things like Africa "There are places in Africa where no white man has yet penetrated". This would sound like alien language to most young people today. We have forgotten our past.
Anyway I doubt this renaming will go anywhere,and I frankly hope it doesn't, but it's fun watching Trump tweak the internationalists and America-haters this way. They should be grateful he's not renaming it "The Gulf of Trump".
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The Fires of CA
Timothy Birdnow
California is flaming.
No, I am not talking about San Francisco's gay population. I'm talking L.A., the city of the demons angels.
Wildfires are out of control in America's #2 city, with no apparent end in sight.
Southern California has been battered by ferocious winds with gusts as high as 99 miles per hour. These are the infamous "Santa Ana winds" that bedevil SoCal so frequently and spread wildfires.
Of course the Golden State makes it easy for that to happen; they refuse to remove deadwood from forests out of environmentalist fantasies (believing it's a "pristine forest" but failing to understand "pristine" forests have occasional mass fires) and by refusing to store adequate amounts of water out of environmentalist concernes for snails and bait fish.
And while it will be petroleum that will allow this fire to be put out (by fueling emergency vehicles like fire trucks and running water pumps and the like) the people who brought us these conditions will double down, blaming fossil fuels and "climate change" when in fact it was always terrible public land use and other policies rooted in the superstition of the environmentalist movement.
California sufferes from it's most attractive feature - lots of sunshine. The very thing that draws people means it is fire prone. Most water vapor in the atmosphere settles out in the Sierras, or is drive up north into Oregon and Washington (and tto a lesser extend norther Cal.) Weather in California almost always comes off the Pacific and almost none from North America (unlike the rest of us who get a lot of it from the Gulf of Mexico or from Canada.) Right now we are in La Nina conditions in the Pacific, and La Nino generally causes hot, dry conditions along the Pacific rim, especially in California and in Australia. January is usually California's wettest time, but not this year as La Nina sucks all the moisture towards India and China.
For those who are unaware, La Nina (little girl) is a cooling of the surface waters in the south Pacific off the coast of South America, and it changes the air patterns in the Pacific basin. It's counterpart - La Nina - does the reverse and usually brings bot and we conditions to the basin. The ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) has a profound impact on global climate with effects seen all over the globe, not just in the Western hemisphere.
At any rate the L.A. area was prime for wildfires. And now the region is ablaze.
For all of my SoCal friends, particularly reader Bill, please do be careful and stay safe.
California is flaming.
No, I am not talking about San Francisco's gay population. I'm talking L.A., the city of the demons angels.
Wildfires are out of control in America's #2 city, with no apparent end in sight.
Southern California has been battered by ferocious winds with gusts as high as 99 miles per hour. These are the infamous "Santa Ana winds" that bedevil SoCal so frequently and spread wildfires.
Of course the Golden State makes it easy for that to happen; they refuse to remove deadwood from forests out of environmentalist fantasies (believing it's a "pristine forest" but failing to understand "pristine" forests have occasional mass fires) and by refusing to store adequate amounts of water out of environmentalist concernes for snails and bait fish.
And while it will be petroleum that will allow this fire to be put out (by fueling emergency vehicles like fire trucks and running water pumps and the like) the people who brought us these conditions will double down, blaming fossil fuels and "climate change" when in fact it was always terrible public land use and other policies rooted in the superstition of the environmentalist movement.
California sufferes from it's most attractive feature - lots of sunshine. The very thing that draws people means it is fire prone. Most water vapor in the atmosphere settles out in the Sierras, or is drive up north into Oregon and Washington (and tto a lesser extend norther Cal.) Weather in California almost always comes off the Pacific and almost none from North America (unlike the rest of us who get a lot of it from the Gulf of Mexico or from Canada.) Right now we are in La Nina conditions in the Pacific, and La Nino generally causes hot, dry conditions along the Pacific rim, especially in California and in Australia. January is usually California's wettest time, but not this year as La Nina sucks all the moisture towards India and China.
For those who are unaware, La Nina (little girl) is a cooling of the surface waters in the south Pacific off the coast of South America, and it changes the air patterns in the Pacific basin. It's counterpart - La Nina - does the reverse and usually brings bot and we conditions to the basin. The ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) has a profound impact on global climate with effects seen all over the globe, not just in the Western hemisphere.
At any rate the L.A. area was prime for wildfires. And now the region is ablaze.
For all of my SoCal friends, particularly reader Bill, please do be careful and stay safe.
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Health Nazis Coming for Your Eggs (Again)
Timothy Birdnow
After years of fake news about the health dangers of eating eggs, we have finally reached the place of sanity. Everyone admits eggs are fine.
Only now the Left, never willing to lose a fight, are at it again, trying to say eggs are horrible and you're going to die if you eat them.
I suspect the war on eggs is ultimately like the war on smoking; if they can kill eggs they will move on to meat and milk and eventually get us eating tofu and maybe bugs. It's a wedge issue, methinks. Take out one industry and you can move on from there.
No doubt they also want to hide their own culpability in the exploding price of eggs.
Well, the yolks on them; Americans love eggs and will not be deterred, not by rising prices nor by endless claims of health concerns, concerns which have no smoking gun evidence. (At least with cigarettes there was ample evidence it was terrible for us). The health racket has screwed the pooch, destroyed their own credibility with Covid and other lies they told us. We no longer buy it. They are the boy who cried "wolf!".
So my advice is to eat up on the eggs; eggs benedict, scrambled, fried, poached, however you like 'em. Have a big chunk of ham steak, or a big hunk of bacon (NOT Canadian, but the real America pork belly stuff!) and some fried potatoes. And tell the health Nazis to pound sand.
After years of fake news about the health dangers of eating eggs, we have finally reached the place of sanity. Everyone admits eggs are fine.
Only now the Left, never willing to lose a fight, are at it again, trying to say eggs are horrible and you're going to die if you eat them.
I suspect the war on eggs is ultimately like the war on smoking; if they can kill eggs they will move on to meat and milk and eventually get us eating tofu and maybe bugs. It's a wedge issue, methinks. Take out one industry and you can move on from there.
No doubt they also want to hide their own culpability in the exploding price of eggs.
Well, the yolks on them; Americans love eggs and will not be deterred, not by rising prices nor by endless claims of health concerns, concerns which have no smoking gun evidence. (At least with cigarettes there was ample evidence it was terrible for us). The health racket has screwed the pooch, destroyed their own credibility with Covid and other lies they told us. We no longer buy it. They are the boy who cried "wolf!".
So my advice is to eat up on the eggs; eggs benedict, scrambled, fried, poached, however you like 'em. Have a big chunk of ham steak, or a big hunk of bacon (NOT Canadian, but the real America pork belly stuff!) and some fried potatoes. And tell the health Nazis to pound sand.
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Trump Bringing in New Data centers
Timothy Birdnow
Do we really want massive data centers keeping tabs on us?
President-elect Donald Trump announced a $20 billion foreign investment in new data centers Tuesday
This might be good for business, but at what cost to our privacy and secuity?
We need to be reducing the amount of data on file for everyone, not increasing it.
BTW Whatever happened to that NSA data center in Utah, the one keeping tabs on all Americans?
Do we really want massive data centers keeping tabs on us?
President-elect Donald Trump announced a $20 billion foreign investment in new data centers Tuesday
This might be good for business, but at what cost to our privacy and secuity?
We need to be reducing the amount of data on file for everyone, not increasing it.
BTW Whatever happened to that NSA data center in Utah, the one keeping tabs on all Americans?
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The Addicts
Timothy Birdnow
As you all know I am very hard on Iowa Senator Joni Ernst. But when she gets something right I will praise her. She is getting [/link=https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/07/exclusive-joni-ernst-evicting-washington-bureaucrats/]this one right.
Ernst wants to kick many of the bureaucracies out of Washington, forcing them to relocate well outside the beltway. She also wants to reduce the amount of "work from home" positions (which are essentially no-show jobs like the mafia uses to milk federal funds from construction projects).
I've long argued the District of Columbia should become a purely symbolic seat of government, that the actual work of government should occur in the states themselves. I would especially like to see Congress move back to their respective home states and face their voters. How many times have we seen guys elected, move to D.C. and never return home? I remember Missouri's own Dick Gephardt, who was the House Minority Leader for the Democrats. He was considered a moderate, pro-life Democrat when he ran for office but as soon as he got a taste of the high life in D.C. he turned into a radical swamp-rat and never looked back. Gephardt left Congress in 2004 and has since been a lobbyist, President and CEO of Gephardt Group. He never returned to Missouri or his home here in South St. Louis (where I live).
We should MAKE them live in their home districts. it can be done with virtual votes in Congress and teleconferencing. Perhaps they can come to D.C. a couple times of year but then they should have to live in barracks-style housing, spartan at best. Make them stay at home and face the people who they supposedly represent.
The party should be over. Now it's one endless party with all sorts of goodies and fun! fun! fun! as they eat, drink, and are merry on the taxpayer dime. That needs to change.
That's why you have to cart these people out in a pine box. Look at McConnell. Look at Pelosi. Look at Biden They are geriatrics who should have long ago taken up the rocking chair. Instead they are running America and doing a terrible job in the process. Nobody wants to voluntarily leave the best gig anyone could ever have.
The legendary S-F writer Arthur C. Clark once wrote a short story about politics and how polital ambition eats the ambitious alive in a wonderful non-science fiction story called Death and the Senator. If you have time I suggest you download it and read it.
In the end what does all that money and power and privilege get you? What does it cost you? When you are on your deathbed it won't matter much that you were a famous Senator who traveled and partied and enjoyed the company of women. You will lie there full of regret at what you didn't do - be there for your family, protect your friends, LOVE people. Your life will largely be in vain.
So it may be a charity to break the cycle for so many who are tethered to Washington. Washington is a drug and the political class, including the beuracracy, are addicts.
As you all know I am very hard on Iowa Senator Joni Ernst. But when she gets something right I will praise her. She is getting [/link=https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/07/exclusive-joni-ernst-evicting-washington-bureaucrats/]this one right.
Ernst wants to kick many of the bureaucracies out of Washington, forcing them to relocate well outside the beltway. She also wants to reduce the amount of "work from home" positions (which are essentially no-show jobs like the mafia uses to milk federal funds from construction projects).
I've long argued the District of Columbia should become a purely symbolic seat of government, that the actual work of government should occur in the states themselves. I would especially like to see Congress move back to their respective home states and face their voters. How many times have we seen guys elected, move to D.C. and never return home? I remember Missouri's own Dick Gephardt, who was the House Minority Leader for the Democrats. He was considered a moderate, pro-life Democrat when he ran for office but as soon as he got a taste of the high life in D.C. he turned into a radical swamp-rat and never looked back. Gephardt left Congress in 2004 and has since been a lobbyist, President and CEO of Gephardt Group. He never returned to Missouri or his home here in South St. Louis (where I live).
We should MAKE them live in their home districts. it can be done with virtual votes in Congress and teleconferencing. Perhaps they can come to D.C. a couple times of year but then they should have to live in barracks-style housing, spartan at best. Make them stay at home and face the people who they supposedly represent.
The party should be over. Now it's one endless party with all sorts of goodies and fun! fun! fun! as they eat, drink, and are merry on the taxpayer dime. That needs to change.
That's why you have to cart these people out in a pine box. Look at McConnell. Look at Pelosi. Look at Biden They are geriatrics who should have long ago taken up the rocking chair. Instead they are running America and doing a terrible job in the process. Nobody wants to voluntarily leave the best gig anyone could ever have.
The legendary S-F writer Arthur C. Clark once wrote a short story about politics and how polital ambition eats the ambitious alive in a wonderful non-science fiction story called Death and the Senator. If you have time I suggest you download it and read it.
In the end what does all that money and power and privilege get you? What does it cost you? When you are on your deathbed it won't matter much that you were a famous Senator who traveled and partied and enjoyed the company of women. You will lie there full of regret at what you didn't do - be there for your family, protect your friends, LOVE people. Your life will largely be in vain.
So it may be a charity to break the cycle for so many who are tethered to Washington. Washington is a drug and the political class, including the beuracracy, are addicts.
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The Same Old Song
Timothy Birdnow
The simple answer is no.
Trump Wants Quick Action on His Agenda—Can Congress Deliver?
The GOP does not have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and John Thune refuses to eliminate it, so everything Trump wants will wind up dying in the "Greatest Deliberative Body on Earth" as it is jawed to death.
The Democrats have shown they aren't going to play ball even now, and I suspect the RINO wing won't either. Trump's riding a headwind at this moment but that won't last, and the Deep State will wait it out and stifle it as they did last time.
I really don't expect much in the way of legislation. Trump is going to have to move his agenda forward with executive orders, alas, and he's going to have to fight tooth-and-nail in federal courts to get it.
This Epoch Times article argues the Republicans can use budget reconciliation, which will mean no filibuster in the Senate. Good luck getting that; the Republican RINO wing isn't going there.
I hope I'm wrong but I am confident in the GOP's ability to SNAFU this whole thing (BTW, for those who do not know snafu was an acronym from the milittary meaning "situation normal, all f%&ked up".) Much as I hope otherwise (hope springs eternal in the human breast) I'm realistic enough to know they are going to resist what Trump wants, but they won't come right out and do it. No; it'll be on the sly, with monkey wrenches thrown into the machinery to gum it up. Trump has to get all this done immediately, while the glow of victory is stillon him and the stink of defeat on his opponents. Last time Trump could have completely routed the Democrats had Mitch McConnell tried to move his agenda - he didn't. I see no reason to believe Thune will do any better.Or even try to do better.
Trump promised to "drain the swamp" but has supported the swamp rats in Congress. Why does he believe he'll fare any better with the same jerks in charge? Why do we?
The simple answer is no.
Trump Wants Quick Action on His Agenda—Can Congress Deliver?
The GOP does not have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and John Thune refuses to eliminate it, so everything Trump wants will wind up dying in the "Greatest Deliberative Body on Earth" as it is jawed to death.
The Democrats have shown they aren't going to play ball even now, and I suspect the RINO wing won't either. Trump's riding a headwind at this moment but that won't last, and the Deep State will wait it out and stifle it as they did last time.
I really don't expect much in the way of legislation. Trump is going to have to move his agenda forward with executive orders, alas, and he's going to have to fight tooth-and-nail in federal courts to get it.
This Epoch Times article argues the Republicans can use budget reconciliation, which will mean no filibuster in the Senate. Good luck getting that; the Republican RINO wing isn't going there.
I hope I'm wrong but I am confident in the GOP's ability to SNAFU this whole thing (BTW, for those who do not know snafu was an acronym from the milittary meaning "situation normal, all f%&ked up".) Much as I hope otherwise (hope springs eternal in the human breast) I'm realistic enough to know they are going to resist what Trump wants, but they won't come right out and do it. No; it'll be on the sly, with monkey wrenches thrown into the machinery to gum it up. Trump has to get all this done immediately, while the glow of victory is stillon him and the stink of defeat on his opponents. Last time Trump could have completely routed the Democrats had Mitch McConnell tried to move his agenda - he didn't. I see no reason to believe Thune will do any better.Or even try to do better.
Trump promised to "drain the swamp" but has supported the swamp rats in Congress. Why does he believe he'll fare any better with the same jerks in charge? Why do we?
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The Dems Vote Against Laken Riley Bill
Timothy Birdnow
What about the 159 Democrats who voted against this act? They put foreigners - and their own political power - ahead of protecting innocent Americans.
Full List of Democrats Who Voted for Laken Riley Act - Newsweek
If the Democrats wonder why they lost power they need seek no further for answers. They show here they don't give a damned about native born Americans.
Who in even their wrong mind would oppose a bill allowing the deportation of violent offenders from a country they shouldn't be in in the first place?This is pure evil.
What about the 159 Democrats who voted against this act? They put foreigners - and their own political power - ahead of protecting innocent Americans.
Full List of Democrats Who Voted for Laken Riley Act - Newsweek
If the Democrats wonder why they lost power they need seek no further for answers. They show here they don't give a damned about native born Americans.
Who in even their wrong mind would oppose a bill allowing the deportation of violent offenders from a country they shouldn't be in in the first place?This is pure evil.
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Meta Malarkey
Timothy Birdnow
Notice how Zuckerberg has only come to this conclusion AFTER his election inerference has failed spectacularly and he's facing scruttiny by the DOJ and other now-Trump-controlled agencies!
Mark Zuckerberg Promises Less Censorship on Facebook as He Scraps Biased Third-Party ‘Fact Checkers’
Rest assured; he'll find some sneaky backdoor ways to censor. Politifact and the other "third party fact checkers" were only the visible way they did it at Facebook; they had all sorts of sneaky tricks, like shadow-banning and suspensions for all sorts of things up to and including "going too fast" and dropping people down in the feed. It's not going to change; Zuckerberg knew all this was happening and took no steps. Now he's just playing for time.
In point of fact the fact checking had the honesty of at least admitting they were doing it. Granted, if they really wanted an honest fact check they would have paired the liberal fact check with a conservative fact check but they weren't going to do THAT. The real winner there was when they used a fact check site that was owned by Meta in the first place. That used to really cheese off my Facebook friends.
I still favor suing Meta for antitrust. I certainly know I have no trust in them. (Glad you can't throw rotten tomatoes through a computer screen.)
Notice how Zuckerberg has only come to this conclusion AFTER his election inerference has failed spectacularly and he's facing scruttiny by the DOJ and other now-Trump-controlled agencies!
Mark Zuckerberg Promises Less Censorship on Facebook as He Scraps Biased Third-Party ‘Fact Checkers’
Rest assured; he'll find some sneaky backdoor ways to censor. Politifact and the other "third party fact checkers" were only the visible way they did it at Facebook; they had all sorts of sneaky tricks, like shadow-banning and suspensions for all sorts of things up to and including "going too fast" and dropping people down in the feed. It's not going to change; Zuckerberg knew all this was happening and took no steps. Now he's just playing for time.
In point of fact the fact checking had the honesty of at least admitting they were doing it. Granted, if they really wanted an honest fact check they would have paired the liberal fact check with a conservative fact check but they weren't going to do THAT. The real winner there was when they used a fact check site that was owned by Meta in the first place. That used to really cheese off my Facebook friends.
I still favor suing Meta for antitrust. I certainly know I have no trust in them. (Glad you can't throw rotten tomatoes through a computer screen.)
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A Rejection of All Things Woke
Timothy Birdnow
Pretty much hits the nail on the head!
A Re-Declaration of Independence
Pretty much hits the nail on the head!
A Re-Declaration of Independence
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Mr. Smith Leaves from Washington
Timothy Birdnow
Can someone explain to me how Jack Smith is still preparing a "final report" and wants to release it to the media when Judge Aileen Cannon ruled his appointment unconstitutional? Who is paying Smith? Funding his team? If he was illegally appointed he should be forced to pay for all of this out of his own pocket, should he not? And he is going to release privileged and even classified information, information he had no right to possess in the first place.
At least Judge Cannon put a temporary stay on the release of the report until the 11th circuit could rule on whether it can be released.
Part of why Smith wants to do this now is he knows the Biden DOJ will help him do it, and he wants to tarnish Trump's inaugural.He really is a petty, vindictive little man.
Smith needs to be investigated for crimes. He was undoubtedly colluding with the White House, and we know he was colluding with Fani Willis and probably Alvin Bragg as well. And here he blew through $50 million taxpayer dollars to get Trump; at a minimum he should have to pay it all back out of his own pocket. And since his appointment was illegal every single charge brought against every single person involved should be immediately dropped, and the people so charged compensated for their legal fees.
Frankly, I think Smith should be charged with racketeering. What he is doing now can be seen as a kind of blackmail, to tarnish Trump so he doesnt pursue criminal charges. It's disgraceful.
Can someone explain to me how Jack Smith is still preparing a "final report" and wants to release it to the media when Judge Aileen Cannon ruled his appointment unconstitutional? Who is paying Smith? Funding his team? If he was illegally appointed he should be forced to pay for all of this out of his own pocket, should he not? And he is going to release privileged and even classified information, information he had no right to possess in the first place.
At least Judge Cannon put a temporary stay on the release of the report until the 11th circuit could rule on whether it can be released.
Part of why Smith wants to do this now is he knows the Biden DOJ will help him do it, and he wants to tarnish Trump's inaugural.He really is a petty, vindictive little man.
Smith needs to be investigated for crimes. He was undoubtedly colluding with the White House, and we know he was colluding with Fani Willis and probably Alvin Bragg as well. And here he blew through $50 million taxpayer dollars to get Trump; at a minimum he should have to pay it all back out of his own pocket. And since his appointment was illegal every single charge brought against every single person involved should be immediately dropped, and the people so charged compensated for their legal fees.
Frankly, I think Smith should be charged with racketeering. What he is doing now can be seen as a kind of blackmail, to tarnish Trump so he doesnt pursue criminal charges. It's disgraceful.
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The Oily Fingers of Joe Biden
Timothy Birdnow
Why Trump will find it difficult to reverse Biden's EO closing offshore drilling.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-ban-offshore-oil-gas-100551895.html
FTA:
OR Trump could get a higher court to reverse the lower court, even if it requires going to the Supreme Court. There is nothing in American jurisprudence that allows an EXECTIVE ORDER to supercede future Pressidential directives. This court had it's headquarters where it's hindquarters should have gone; an executive order cannot have the force of law - it is merely a rule imposed by the President ON THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. We do not have kings in this country.
This court ruling was in 2019, at the outset of the Covid pandemic, and clearly wasn't appealed.
According to the American Bar Association, executive orders are:
It is NOT a law; it is a directive to the President's subordinates on how the exectuve branch will operate. Since so much money is involved, and so much regulatory power in place, eo's have the defacto force of law in our country. But the law mentioned by the media that will bind Trump is no more binding on him than any other law any president has used discretion in enforcing. Certainly Mr. Biden has refused to enforce multiple laws, such as immigration laws, just because he didn't agree with them. Trump has all the authority he needs to restore offshore drilling.
As another website states:
Yet now we're being told Trump cannot repeal Biden's eo. He can do so any time he likes; he's not repealing the LAW but the way the Biden Administration sought to exercise the law.
It was a federal judge in Alaska who issued the ruling in 2019 - the case did not go to the court of appeals. This was a constitutional issue; the court had no jurisdiction over this.
What I suspect is that the media and Biden are trying to set Trump up for another article of impeachment; they want him to tell them to pound sand over this and then accuse him of "willfully violating the law" when in fact he is exercising his legal authority. Prettymuch every corporate media outlet is saying Trump cannot overturn this. And I've not seen any alternative media in a Google or Yahoo search disagreeing (even though I know there are constitutional scholars who are probably shouting about this.)
Oh,btw,why did Biden wait until his last days to pull this? Anybody?
The law in question isthe 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act which the media assures us cannot be contravened by a Presidential eo. But Trump would not be contravening it - he would be exercising his authority and actually obeying the law.
Sooo...the President via his Sec. Interior can at any time grant leases to the highest qualified bidder. Not sure where the "once locked up always locked up" theory comes from except the mind of a leftist judge in Alaska.
The Trump team needs to have a lawsuit ready and sue the Administration in a friendly court so this judge's ruling will be overturned immediatley. It was typical liberal overreach.
Why Trump will find it difficult to reverse Biden's EO closing offshore drilling.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-ban-offshore-oil-gas-100551895.html
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"It's ridiculous. I'll unban it immediately. I will unban it. I have the right to unban it immediately," Trump said in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt radio program.
During his term, Biden also limited new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters, drawing criticism from drilling states and companies.
But the Lands Act, which allows presidents to withdraw areas from mineral leasing and drilling, does not grant them the legal authority to overturn prior bans, according to a 2019 court ruling - meaning a reversal would likely require an act of Congress. That order came in response to Trump's effort to reverse Arctic and Atlantic Ocean withdrawals made by former President Barack Obama at the end of his presidency.
Trump also used the Lands Act to ban sales of offshore drilling rights in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida through 2032. Biden's decision will protect the same area with no expiration.
It is unclear whether lawmakers would support reversing Biden's decision to protect these waters.
During his term, Biden also limited new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters, drawing criticism from drilling states and companies.
But the Lands Act, which allows presidents to withdraw areas from mineral leasing and drilling, does not grant them the legal authority to overturn prior bans, according to a 2019 court ruling - meaning a reversal would likely require an act of Congress. That order came in response to Trump's effort to reverse Arctic and Atlantic Ocean withdrawals made by former President Barack Obama at the end of his presidency.
Trump also used the Lands Act to ban sales of offshore drilling rights in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida through 2032. Biden's decision will protect the same area with no expiration.
It is unclear whether lawmakers would support reversing Biden's decision to protect these waters.
OR Trump could get a higher court to reverse the lower court, even if it requires going to the Supreme Court. There is nothing in American jurisprudence that allows an EXECTIVE ORDER to supercede future Pressidential directives. This court had it's headquarters where it's hindquarters should have gone; an executive order cannot have the force of law - it is merely a rule imposed by the President ON THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. We do not have kings in this country.
This court ruling was in 2019, at the outset of the Covid pandemic, and clearly wasn't appealed.
According to the American Bar Association, executive orders are:
" a signed, written, and published directive from the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government."
It is NOT a law; it is a directive to the President's subordinates on how the exectuve branch will operate. Since so much money is involved, and so much regulatory power in place, eo's have the defacto force of law in our country. But the law mentioned by the media that will bind Trump is no more binding on him than any other law any president has used discretion in enforcing. Certainly Mr. Biden has refused to enforce multiple laws, such as immigration laws, just because he didn't agree with them. Trump has all the authority he needs to restore offshore drilling.
As another website states:
" The executive actions outlined above can often occur quite quickly because every president is free to repeal or modify any executive order"
Yet now we're being told Trump cannot repeal Biden's eo. He can do so any time he likes; he's not repealing the LAW but the way the Biden Administration sought to exercise the law.
It was a federal judge in Alaska who issued the ruling in 2019 - the case did not go to the court of appeals. This was a constitutional issue; the court had no jurisdiction over this.
What I suspect is that the media and Biden are trying to set Trump up for another article of impeachment; they want him to tell them to pound sand over this and then accuse him of "willfully violating the law" when in fact he is exercising his legal authority. Prettymuch every corporate media outlet is saying Trump cannot overturn this. And I've not seen any alternative media in a Google or Yahoo search disagreeing (even though I know there are constitutional scholars who are probably shouting about this.)
Oh,btw,why did Biden wait until his last days to pull this? Anybody?
The law in question isthe 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act which the media assures us cannot be contravened by a Presidential eo. But Trump would not be contravening it - he would be exercising his authority and actually obeying the law.
"The Act empowers the Secretary to grant leases to the highest qualified responsible bidder on the basis of sealed competitive bids and to formulate regulations"
Sooo...the President via his Sec. Interior can at any time grant leases to the highest qualified bidder. Not sure where the "once locked up always locked up" theory comes from except the mind of a leftist judge in Alaska.
The Trump team needs to have a lawsuit ready and sue the Administration in a friendly court so this judge's ruling will be overturned immediatley. It was typical liberal overreach.
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