February 05, 2026
The Insane Democrat Demands for ICE Reform
Timothy Birdnow
What reforms are Democrats insisting on to fund the Department of Homeland Security? They are insane.
1. Requiring bench warrants signed by judges rather than administrative warrants signed by administrative judges. The courts have ruled repeatedly that administrative judges have the authority to sign warrants and those warrants are legally valid, but why let that get in the way of a good time?
If criminal judges have to sign off on this nobody will get deported; they don't have time to do it.
I would add that this would probably be unconstitutional as the President has sole discretion on matters involving immigration and this takes the issue out of the Executive and puts it in the Judiciary, a place it was never intended to be.
2.They demand ICE agents not wear masks, thus opening them and their families to retaliation.
3. They demand ICE agents wear name tags. Same comment as the last except I find it ironic in the extreme that the Democrats resist Voter I.D. so illegals can vote but demand I.D. on those enforcing immigration law. If we are going to treat illegals with such loving kindness why don't we apply the same standard to these law enforcers?
4. They seek to restrict officers from conducting operations at "sensitive locations” which include medical facilities, schools, child-care facilities, and churches, polling places, and courts.
This is creating sanctuary spaces for the illegals, and anyone who knows ICE is after them need but go to one of these places. Of course courts are THE place to pick up illegals; they are already in trouble with the law if they are there and picking them up at courthouses is far safer for everyone than making raids on the street.
What do I have to say about polling places? It should be woefully apparent that the sole reason to stop raids at polling places is so they can vote illegally.
Oh, and it is the height of hypocrisy that they demand no arrests at churches when their buddies have invaded churches to protest ICE operations. But that's o.k. because it's their side doing it, right?
5. They demand an end to racial profiling of illegals. They want to enshrine in the law what we saw after 911 where little old ladies and obvious non-terrorists were being pulled out of line and given random full body cavity searches at airports. They want ICE to do this too, and no doubt there will be a review of how many clearly American folks are stopped and questioned or taken into custody.
Newsflash idiots; illegal aliens are distinguishable from native born Ameriricans precisely because they look, act, and sound different. If you can't use physical cues to find them you won't find them.
6. They demand an end to ICE operations in locations that employ large numbers of illegals or where large numbers congregate. "Thumpers" will n longer be targeted. (A thumper is a day laborer who hangs out in front of a place, often produce companies, waiting for an offer of a day's work for cash.)
So what is ICE supposed to do to catch them? The Democrats would scream bloody murder if they went into a house without a warrant. And then there is the castle doctrine which many Democrats have already said justifies shooting ICE agents.
7.They are demanding extended training for officers and a probationary period for anyone who is involved in a shootout. Anyone who understands law enforcement knows the book is of limited value when your life is in peril. All this does is create busy work for the officers. And the probationary period just takes good officers off the streets. Of course that is their goal.
8. They demand all evidence be shared with state and local jurisdictions so said jurisdictions would be able to prosecute ICE agents whom they deem used "excessive force".
9. They are demanding ICE get permission from state and local authorities before conducting any raids.
That would mean there would be NO raids in sanctuary cities and states, which is exactly what has caused the current crisis.
10. They are demanding changes in the law to make it easier for state and local authorities to bring lawsuits against ICE.
11. They are demanding the right of any representative to visit any ICE detention facility at any time without any restrictions.
12. They want it to be illegal to create a database of people involved in "mostly peaceful protests". So the professional revolutionaries can't be watched.
13. They want to take ICE agents out of the uniforms they wear to protect them and take away their weapons and shields, making them simple constables. This would put them at the mercy of any criminal illegal with a gun or other dangerous weapon.
14. They demand Trump fire Kristi Noem, no questions asked.
This would destroy any and all immigration enforcement and they know it, which is why they make these demands. The public needs to know what they are doing; this shows they care nary a wit about the American People and their safety but rather solely about their own power.
If the GOP entertains any of this they are truly insane and the nation is lost.
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Indeed. Whatever the donkeys ask for, Trump should do the opposite.
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Rents at Four Year Low
Timothy Birdnow
Don't tell me TRUMP has an "affordability problem"!
According to new data, rents posted their sixth straight monthly decline in January, with the largest annual drop in more than two years — down 6.2% from their Biden-era peak.
"2026 is shaping up to be one of the more renter-friendly periods we’ve seen in a decade,” says one real estate expert..
BTW the U.S. saw 4.1% economic growth in the last quarter, a staggeringly wonderful amount. Europe, playing by the old rules, had just 0.3%. What is the difference? Europe is following the plan for "sustainability" which essentially means just enough growth to balance off any rise in population. Sustainability is a sanitized word for no growth. That has been the plan of the elites at Davos and the World Economic Forum for a long time - create an economy that doesn't grow but doesn't shrink, just sits there balanced. Of course that means nobody can look forward to a better life, this is the best they will ever have. This leads to despair and a slowly declining standard of living that the geniuses in the moderate leftist international lobby do not take into account.
Trump rejected the no-growth order and look at how things are going! The only problem we have is the media is lying to the American People about the economy, because if they told the truth there wouldn't be a Democrat elected in November (well, not many anyway).
This growth shows America First works, that tariffs do not cause inflation and poverty, and that roiling the international order in no way costs the U.S. in terms of imports and exports. On the contrary it only enhances our ability to trade fairly.
One more thing; we had this growth despite the longest government shutdown in history, and after a big housecleaning inside the government after DOGE recommended big cuts in spending. What does that tell us class? It suggests to me government isn't the solution, government is the problems. Not only did we not suffer at all from the shutdown we may well have actually benefitted from it.
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Media Ignores Chinese Lab Story
Timothy Birdnow
NBC, CBS, and other corporate media outlets are simply refusing to cover anything about the Chinese bioweapons lab in Las vegas.
Isn't this "newsworthy?
If anyone needs proof the mainstream media is a gaggle of traitors it's this. This news would frighten voters into supporting Trump over the Quisling Democrats and so they will simply pretend it didn't happen.
To their credit ABC News did cover this story. Here is what was said about it:
DAVID MUIR: Tonight, the new and disturbing allegations here about the discovery inside a home in Las Vegas. Was it an illegal biolab inside? Now comes news tonight multiple people who had been in the home claiming they have been sickened. The vials recovered from that home and what we learned tonight. Here is Melissa Adan now.
MELISSA ADAN: Tonight as the FBI pours over mysterious vials and other evidence seized from an alleged biolab inside a garage in this Las Vegas neighborhood, new court documents claim multiple employees of the home's property manager became, quote, "deathly ill” after entering the home's garage or spending time in the home, which was also an AirBnb. One employee who they call Kelly, because she didn't want to give her name, told investigators five days after entering the garage they got so sick they could not get out of bed. A law enforcement source has told ABC News they took 1,000 items from the home, including vials of unknown substances, some labeled in Mandarin Chinese. The property manager, Ori Solomon, now under arrest facing both federal and state charges, including disposing of hazardous waste consistent with biological agents. The homeowner is a Chinese national arrested in 2023 after authorities in Reedley, California said he operated an illegal biological lab that was funded by Chinese banks. He’s pleaded not guilty. David, records show that homeowner has two dozen properties that ABC News sources say are now being searched. David.
MUIR: Melissa Adan here in Los Angeles tonight. Melissa, thank you.
Remember when people were saying Covid came from a lab in Wuhan China? The media completely melted down, calling that a conspiracy theory and sneering as only they can sneer. But it turned out to be correct and running an illegal biolab inside a private residence in the U.S. is clearly about weapons and not about a new cough medicine.
The news media is the father of all lies and they will get us all killed in their quest to empower Democrats and create the New World Order.
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Our news media certainly is a disgrace. And it goes back years. Even Walter Cronkite was no saint.
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Epstein and the View
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Well, well, well...
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BREAKING: Multiple cast members of The View are mentioned in the Epstein Files.
-Whoopi Goldberg is mentioned nearly 2 dozen times (21).
-Alyssa Farah Griffin 20 times
-Joy Behar 3 times.
-Ana Navarro twice
-Sunny Hostin 0
-Sara Haines 0
The old harpies made such a stink about getting access to those files - wonder if they are still happy about it?
What does Whoopie Goldberg and Alyssa Sarah Griffin know and when did they know it?
Among other things she asked him to use his private jet to fly to Monaco. Now why wouldln't she want to fly commercial like the rest of us?
Nicholas Fondacaro
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A NewsBusters investigation discovered e-mails showing someone reaching out to Epstein on Whoopi Goldberg's behalf requesting use of his Gulfstream G2 jet to fly her to a White Feather Foundation charity event in Monaco in 2013.
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I think those old biddies still believe there is stuff lurking in those files that will make Trump look bad. They can't believe that if there really were, it would all have come out by now. They're all like Rachel Madcow and the Russia-Russia-Russia BS.
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Just Like ICE
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Here is a jaw-droppingly stupid comment from a woman manning the "free zone" in Minneapolis:
"We are literally creating a place that we know who’s coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods.”
Isn't that just what ICE is doing?
Also, do that to, say, black folks and you will be in big trouble for violating their civil rights. But it's fine when Leftists do it.
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This anti-ICE stuff is mostly being run by women who don't have anything better to do. Another way of putting it is that they aren't getting any.
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Behar: Don Lemon Like Eisenhower, Arrest like Dachau
Timothy Birdnow
And the dumb shall speak (and boy is she dumb):
"I was reading something the other day about World War II. When the Americans liberated Dachau, after World War II during the Holocaust – after the Holocaust, Dwight D. Eisenhower said take pictures of these concentration camps because years will go by and people will not believe this happened. So, this administration does not really like somebody like Don Lemon who has a camera, who [has] a position - like we do in a way - to speak to the people and tell them what really is going on. So, you know, God bless Dwight D. Eisenhower and Don Lemon.”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, February 3.
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It's really amazing how somebody like Joy can read about, say, Eisenhower's reaction to the horrors of Dachau and totally not understand it, to the point of trying to extrapolate it to something totally different. And keep her job, even. Perhaps she's paid to be deliberately stupid, like Fox News dummy Juan Williams?
I was reading an article on Townhall today by a salty author about how Democrats are totally dumb; my wife looked over my shoulder and said "That's not always true," and she was right because we know some who aren't, but if she'd read Behar's remark she'd understand the Townhall writer's sentiment.
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Right you are Dana. And so is Martha.
Often the Left SOUNDS stupid because they can't tell us their real goals; they have to make up a reason that might fool a few weak minded people. They dare not tell us their real plans.
Many on the Left are very bright indeed but their intelligence is in the service of their goals and ambitions, which are ultimately irrational and immoral.
In fact I would say that the Left is way ahead of the Right in most cases. They are brilliant tacticians (only Trump is as goo on our side) but it's what they are trying to achieve which is pure stupidity. They don't care; it's an article of faith to them, not a rational philosophy.
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February 04, 2026
ICEing on the Cake
Timothy Birdnow
Oh, this should be jolly fun!
The lawsuits will fly fast and furious over this one. I can't wait to hear all about 'voter suppression' and other such hysterics.
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I am not sure this is a great idea, because so many people have been led to distrust and fear ICE. But in fact the only people who need to fear ICE are the illegals, who of course shouldn't be anywhere near polling places anyhow. Martha and I, upon going to our polling place, which is our City Hall, if we see any ICE officers, will smile and say "Hi, guys!" If we're at the point where we need to present ID, well, we have those new-fangled "Real ID" driver's licenses.
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Judge Suppresses DOE ADvisory Report on CO2
This was one of the most biased and brazenly stupid articles I've read Carlos.
I love this paragraph:
"What do the emails reveal? The Climate Working Group was organized by a political appointee at the DOE (one who was previously at the libertarian Cato Institute) and done with the intention of producing material that would aid the EPA with overturning the greenhouse gas endangerment finding. The group recognized that its members’ opinions were outside of the mainstream, but they viewed most mainstream scientists as hopelessly biased and generally ascribed that to their political views."
As if the original endangerment finding wasn't done in the exact same way for the exact opposite purpose.
The purpose of this group was to counterbalance the original report calling carbon dioxide a dangerous pollution that needs to be regulated. Why would you stick a counter-balance group with the same people who produced the original report?
Then there is this:
"There was some talk of having the group’s report peer-reviewed, motivated by an executive order naming that a necessary component of "gold standard science.” That discussion largely focused on thinking about scientists who shared their views and would give it a favorable review."
As if peer review is anything but a biased exercise these days. We know from the Climategate e-mails https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/climategates-10th-anniversary-the-stain-continues/ that peer review has been subverted purposefully by the "hockey team" at a minimum (that is the name given the group of e-mailers in the chain which included guys like Phil Jones from the Climate Research Unit at the Hadley Center in Britain, guys like Michael Mann, etc.) We know from their e-mails that they were strong-arming journal editors to keep "denier" papers out, were making it so they could do the peer review and thus give thumbs up to alarmist papers and rejecting papers that questioned the orthodoxy, etc. We know they have been blackballing young scientists who dared question the orthodoxy. We know they subverted peer review in the case of Roy Spencer and his paper in Remote sensing which led to the editor pulling Dr. Spencer's paper and then resigning.https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/09/the_warmists_strike_back.html
I would also like to point out the SCOTUS ruling was made because the Bush Administration refused to challenge the claim that CO2 is a pollutant and that it isn't causing SCOTUS said the Clean Air Act was applicable. This is akin to a bank robber not challenging the fact he robbed the bank but said the security guard didn't have the authority to arrest him. There was no way to win with this argument and the EPA lawyers knew it.
As to the Ars Technica article, it says a whopping 85 "scientists" tore into the report - no mention of scientists who agreed with it. I'm sure if they looked they could have found an equal number. Shoot; the Oregon Petition had over 40,000 signators disputing man-made climate change and AT didn't mention THAT!
Do notice the author did not give out the names of anybody; that's because he feared a lawsuit, no doubt.
Also notice that every complaint made about this is predicated on what is essentially technicalities. There is no there here.
This big ARS article is what is the thinly-veiled politics masquerading as scientific reporting, not the report put out by this advisory group.
As to the advisory group, it does sound like they didn't follow protocols, which is a shame. But I would ask, were they actually a formal advisory group or an informal one? At any rate this is hardly the slapdown that Ars Technica claims it to be. And of course we haven't heard the argument made by the DEO - we were just given a few sketchy details.
This can probably be done better in the near future.
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Chinese Bioweapons Labs in the U.S.
Timothy Birdnow
The Chicoms are
running secret biolabs inside the United States and people are getting sick in an air-b-and-b as a result.
There is only one reason to run such labs; to make biological weapons to unleash on Americans.
What the HELL is the Trump Administration doing about China? They are funding the rioters in Minnesota and elsewhere in an open attempt to tamper with our upcoming election and they are running secret police stations to strongarm and compel Chines immigrants to obey the Communist Party and now we learn they are running bioweapons labs here in the U.S. Yet Trump recently called his phone call with Xi Xiangping "excellent" when he should have reamed the old SOB a new one over this stuff.
I trust Donald Trump by and large but only to a point. I need to know we are taking steps to squeeze the life out of the Chicoms. This has to stop.
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Republican Senators Fail to End Welfare for Illegals
Timothy Birdnow
How do you get rid of roaches or mice? You first make sure there is no food to attract them.
Senate GOP fails to halt welfare funding for non-citizens
As long as we are laying out an all-you-can-eat buffet they will keep coming. Many of them are here to suckle on the teat of the American taxpayer.
The Senate shows by this vote they really aren't serious about protecting the American taxpayer, nor about ending illegal immigration.
From Just the News:
U.S. Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to refugees.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act to end taxpayer benefits for refugees, asylees and illegal immigrants earlier this week.
In an impassioned plea on the Senate floor Friday afternoon, Paul argued that the U.S. shouldn’t be "the world’s sugar daddy.”
"Many refugees are good people, frankly, some of the best Americans just got here, but our welcome mat should not be a welfare check. Anyone who sponsors immigrants or refugees should be responsible for their welfare,” the senator argued before the vote.
You know, the Republicans should call the Democrat's bluff and tell them we would stop all demands for deportations and even strict border vetting in return for an end to any and all government welfare programs for illegal aliens. You know how that will turn out; they'll refuse, and no doubt call Republicans racist in the process. It might expose them but the meia will labor to cover it up. The fact is the Democrats need the welfare programs as much as they need the aliens; it's the only way their scheme to gain eternal dominance in politics will work. They not only need the aliens here to vote and become citizens but they need the programs to lure them and bribe them into voting Democrat.
Cut off the money and you cut off the enticement to immigrate. I compared it once to feeding birds in the park; you start with tossing some stale bread to one bird and before you know it you have a whole flock. You would have just the one bird pecking the ground if you hadn't decided to be Mr. Nice Guy. Now you got 'em all hounding you and crapping on your car.
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Trump Won't Use Feds to Impose Order in Rioting States
Timothy Birdnow
I don't think this is a good idea at all.
Senate GOP fails to halt welfare funding for non-citizens
As long as we are laying out an all-you-can-eat buffet they will keep coming. Many of them are here to suckle on the teat of the American taxpayer.
The Senate shows by this vote they really aren't serious about protecting the American taxpayer, nor about ending illegal immigration.
From Just the News:
U.S. Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to refugees.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act to end taxpayer benefits for refugees, asylees and illegal immigrants earlier this week.
In an impassioned plea on the Senate floor Friday afternoon, Paul argued that the U.S. shouldn’t be "the world’s sugar daddy.”
"Many refugees are good people, frankly, some of the best Americans just got here, but our welcome mat should not be a welfare check. Anyone who sponsors immigrants or refugees should be responsible for their welfare,” the senator argued before the vote.
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You know, the Republicans should call the Democrat's bluff and tell them we would stop all demands for deportations and even strict border vetting in return for an end to any and all government welfare programs for illegal aliens. You know how that will turn out; they'll refuse, and no doubt call Republicans racist in the process. It might expose them but the meia will labor to cover it up. The fact is the Democrats need the welfare programs as much as they need the aliens; it's the only way their scheme to gain eternal dominance in politics will work. They not only need the aliens here to vote and become citizens but they need the programs to lure them and bribe them into voting Democrat.
Cut off the money and you cut off the enticement to immigrate. I compared it once to feeding birds in the park; you start with tossing some stale bread to one bird and before you know it you have a whole flock. You would have just the one bird pecking the ground if you hadn't decided to be Mr. Nice Guy. Now you got 'em all hounding you and crapping on your car.
]substantial drawdown of Federal Agents in Minnesota.
I know what Trump is doing; he's trying to avoid a trap in which he sends in the National Guard and they can then say he's trying to take over. But how will this be perceived by the average American? All they will see is Nero sawing on his fiddle during the fire. The Democrats will accuse him of letting these states burn. And in some ways it's an accurate accusation insofar as Trump's sworn duty is to protect life and property and if the Blue Man Party refuses to do it it's his responsibility. Of course the media won't put any blame on Walz or any other governor who is violating THEIR sworn duty, and the hypocrisy is astonishing, but the average person will just see rioting and Trump not doing anything about it. It's the reason why they are rioting in the first place; they know this will peel off the low information voters, who will want a return to "normalcy" and an end to the MAGA "experiment".
I said it before; imagine if Lincoln had just let the Confederates storm Ft. Sumpter without any sort of Federal response; it would have been the end of the United States.
These are revolutionary times and in revolutionary times you MUST show a firm hand. If you appear weak or vacillating the radicals will only be emboldened.
Trump must get far more aggressive if he wants to put a stop to this, and if he fails to put a stop to this the Democrats will win Congress, and if that happens everything comes back, the endless investiagions, the impeachments, the false charges. And Trump will get none of his agenda through, as he largely didn't in much of his first term.
Then he'll be out of office and facing criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions - he probably will spend the rest of his life in prison. All this if he doesn't handle this correctly. Oh, and the United States will fall apart and become a Soviet Republic.
Trump may have a plan. I hope he does, but his moves in this have been less than stellar and I can't see where he is going with this. I suspect he's just stalling for time in the hopes of winning in November but the GOP won't win in November unless they show some cajones. Trump is banking on the economy improving dramatically and thus winning the low-info vote, but the economy was roaring when Trump lost Congress in his first term. He's giving the public too much credit.
Just taking this threat off the table emboldens the radicals.
Meanwhile he needs to disrupt and prosecute the networks funding this, and that doesn't appear to be a high priority with Pam Bondi, anyway. Trump should investigate the sources of funding, many of which are foreign entites, and he should go on television with a rundown of who and what is tampering with the American political landscape. We were told the Russians tampered with the 2016 election and that led to a huge investigation of Trump and was used as justification to spy on him and other Republicans; why is this not an issue now?
Trump needs a masterful counter-stroke.
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Judges Gone Wild
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Another day, another judicial abomination.
This Uruguayan born judge blocked Trump;s ending of TPP
The text of the TPP law is quite explicit - there can be no judicial review of decisions made by the President. Since it is exercising his power over immigration the courts have no say in the matter.
But this Puta - judge Ana Reyes - is simply ignoring this provision. She argues it doesn't apply because, well, basically, she doesn't want it to apply:
the word "any determination” captures all determinations the Secretary may make—whether to expand, designate, or terminate—but it does not capture the process by which she reaches that determination.
So it depends on the meaning of the word is.
And since the Haitians who are here don't want to go back to a poorly run impoverished hellhole and poop into a hole in the ground Trump and his friends can't make them, so there!
This judge's primary argument is that Haitians benefit the economy. So she can rewrite laws passed by Congress because SHE believes it will be good for the economy. That isn't at all her field. Economic policy is political by design and the Judiciary is supposed to be the one branch of government that is a-political. She's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.
In another episode of Judges Gone Wild an appellate court has
Boasberg repeatedly approved "Arctic Frost" warrants to spy on Trump and on others in the GOP. He has twice faced articles of impeachment in Congress, articles which died because of Democratic opposition.
We have to rein in the Judiciary; it was never supposed to dow what it has been doing. The weaponization of the Law is one of the great tragedies of the 21st century.
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In the case of Judge Reyes, it would certainly seem to me that the wording of the law should be enough to slap her down. Perhaps since she's foreign-born, she's not well-enough versed in the language to understand the ins and outs of the law, but someone in the Executive Branch ought to be able to fix things properly.
In the case of Bozoberg, it's really past time he was sent to pasture with the help of some heavyweights. Guido, are you listening?
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Reyes shouldn't have a law license if she can't understand the text of the law, much less be on the bench.
As for Boasberg he's not even trying to follow the law. He should be assigned no cases and moved into a broom closet until we can turn Congress enough to successfully remove him from office.
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The Hypocrites
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There is apparently no limit to the hypocrisy of the wokeratti.
Yes, the woman who said we have no right to restrict illegal aliens because we "stole" the land has taken a man to court and gotten a restraining order for his trespassing in one of her homes.
So she is fine restricting access to HER property but isn't ok. with other people doing the very same thing.
That is hardly "stolen" land in Minnesota, I might add. There was nothing there until white people came and developed it.
John Locke's theory of property said that you cannot own land if it is in a state of nature, raw and undeveloped. It is only by improving land that you can claim ownership. That doesn't mean you have to build a city, but some changes, a fence, a well, even a shack, secures your right to ownership. The Indians didn't improve their lands - they just passed through most of them and laid claim with no other justification.
In English law (and thus American too) there is a concept called adverse possession. Commonly called "squatters rights" it says that if a person settles on unused property for a specified time (often seven years) with no complaint by the owner that person takes possession of said property (provided his residency was "open and notorious" so the owner would be aware someone was squatting.K).
So no, the land was not "stolen".
But if we accept her premise, was not the land on which her mansion is built stolen as well? If so, how dare she keep someone out. There is no right to own any land if "No one is illegal on stolen land.” All land was stolen from people who had been there before. Do we give Japan back to the Caucasian Ainu People? What about the Sioux, who claimed the Black Hills for their own when in fact they had only been there a hundred years, having kicked other tribes out (and those tribes acted as scouts for the military because they hated the Sioux for it.) And if this is the case, don't the Jews have first dibs on their land? I rather suspect Billie here is probably a big supporter of Hamas, yet Hamas was living on stolen land, stolen from the Jews.
At any rate this dim singer has shown her enormous hypocrisy.
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Billie-Baby has not, to my knowledge, made any attempt to turn any of her "stolen" land over to any of the people it was presumably "stolen" from. If she did, she might find that it would be more difficult than she originally thought. That land may well have been occupied (though probably without legal deeds) by various "Native American" tribes, who would have warred over it to claim possession, going back perhaps to ancient Denisovan peoples.
I'll betcha that Billie's never heard of any of those peoples. Anybody want to take me up on that?
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There actually is an Indian tribe who had claim to the land before it was settled and they issued a statement, very polite but back-handed, thanking her for caring about Indian rights but basically telling her to get off their property. Of course she is making no effort to do so.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at February 04, 2026 09:18 AM (umJ+Y)
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Dark Matter Between the Ears
Timothy Birdnow
Except Dark Matter is still speculation with no real evidence for it's existence.
Science is becoming increasingly medieval, with fanciful speculations about how fanciful speculations might work being presented as science. It's not. Dark Matter is the ultimate in this regard (if one discounts Climate Change theory, that is). Dark matter is theorized solely as a way to balance the books because the expansion of the Universe doesn't go as the standard model predicted. They had to find something that slowed down universal expansion to the level we see so they postulated a form of matter that is invisible, like a Romulan warbird using a cloaking device Then when they put Dark Matter into the equations they find the universe shouldn't be expanding at all, or more slowly, so they then postulate Dark Energy which drives expansion while Dark Matter slows it.
This is rather like the old legend about the world sitting on the backs of four elephants. When the guru who said that is asked "what do those elephants stand on?" He replies "more elephants". When asked what THEY stand on he grows exasperated "it's elephants all the way". That's what Dark Matter reminds me of.
Actually there is a scientific theory that was all the rage in the late 19th century and well before that, going to classical times. The aether, or fifth element, was a theorized substance that moved through everything and was invisible but which pushed things. Many thought gravity was caused by the aether pushing downward into the Earth, for instance. Newton thought that. This theory was postulated to be what allowed light to move too. At any rate there was an experiment called the Michaelson-Morley Experiment in which a single beam of light was split, bounced off mirrors in different directions, then reconnected to measure the time lag between the two in the hopes of seeing which direction the Earth was moving relative to the aether. The light came back at the exact same time.
So Albert Einstein dismissed the existence of the aether for lack of evidence, and he managed to explain a lot of things in new and strange ways by chucking it. Today it is a quaint remnant of an earlier age, an incorrect exploded theory.
Actually there IS a kind of aether that passes through us all the time - neutrinos. Neutrinos are fermions - they have half integer spin - and not completely massless but nearly so. They pass through our bodies all the time harmlessly because they do not interact with matter. First theorized by Wolfgange Pauli in 1930 neutrinos have actually been detected.
But they do not compromise the aether as it was traditionally envisioned.
I think Dark Matter may well be just another theory like the aether. It sounds good and solves a lot of problems but ultimately is holding science back.
Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with normal matter. This self-interacting dark matter may trigger a dramatic collapse inside dark matter halos, heating and densifying their cores in surprising ways. Until now, this crucial middle ground of behavior was nearly impossible to model accurately. The new code makes these simulations faster, more precise, and accessible enough to run on a laptop.
So "physicists" have worked out a whole cosmology with angels dancing on the heads of pins here, when Dark Matter is as yet an unproven hypothesis. How many angels CAN dance on the head of a pin?
This is speculation, but notice the tone of the article; it's treated as "settled science". Much like Global Warming it may or may not have some validity but the people making money off science - the establishment - dare not say "well, we have no proof" so they simply act as if this is settled and they aren't just wasting donor and taxpayer dollars playing games on their laptops.
That's what passes for science these days. It is increasingly flights of fancy and not grounded in fact.
NASA claims to have found proof of Dark Matter; NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope allegedly found direct evidence. But there are still many people who don't believe the NASA data, and given what we know about NASA and their willingness to fudge data when it suits them it is wise to be skeptical.
According to the article:
"We detected gamma rays with a photon energy of 20 gigaelectronvolts (or 20 billion electronvolts, an extremely large amount of energy) extending in a halolike structure toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The gamma-ray emission component closely matches the shape expected from the dark matter halo," said Totani.
The observed energy spectrum, or range of gamma-ray emission intensities, matches the emission predicted from the annihilation of hypothetical WIMPs, with a mass approximately 500 times that of a proton. The frequency of WIMP annihilation estimated from the measured gamma-ray intensity also falls within the range of theoretical predictions.
Importantly, these gamma-ray measurements are not easily explained by other, more common astronomical phenomena or gamma-ray emissions. Therefore, Totani considers these data a strong indication of gamma-ray emission from dark matter, which has been sought for many years.
So based on a minute gamma ray emission 33,000 light years away we are to believe we have "proven" Dark Matter. I remember many other "discoveries" like the one saying neutrinos move faster than light, which wound up being measurement errors. Color me skeptical.
This is an old problem I might add - scientists pretending to more knowledge than they have. The problem the Pope had with Galileo, for instance,, was he was teaching Copernicanism as a fact, not a theory, and the Pope told him to just teach it as a theory, something the stubborn jackass Galileo refused to do (in fact he insulted Pope Urban VIII, who had been a friend to the old Gal and who was very favorably inclined towards Copernicanism by putting the Pope's arguments in the mouth of his character "Simplicio" aka the fool, in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Urban was said to be furious when learning about this. Urban was not just Galileo's boss (Galileo worked at a Catholic university) but was also his sovereign. Old Gal was arrested and tried, found guilty, and sentenced to house arrest - a very light sentence for the times. He could pretty much come and go as he pleased and even left town on at least one occasion.
The point is Galileo got lucky and was right, and ever since the assumption is always that any scientific idea is correct, lest we be accused of being like the Pope (who was not what they accused him of being at all). It's now at a point in science when the weirder and wackier a theory is the better. All the trans research is proof positive of that.
I think it is entirely possible in a hundred years scientists will shake their heads in befuddled amusement at the obsession with Dark Matter. But of course they will also have climate change and the dozens of "genders" and other stupidities that infect our modern era to laugh at.
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There's one theoreticist who posits that the universe is not expanding at all, and that therefor we don't need the fiction of dark matter, but rather that distance changes the nature of light in some way that we don't understand. He calls it the "tired light" theory. It sounds as likely as the conventional one to me, actually more likely since it requires us simply to
not understand something rather than to
make some shit up to compensate for what we don't understand.
Posted by: Bill H at February 03, 2026 10:39 AM (FRG6e)
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Agreed Bill. Until we have enough knowledge we should just say "we don't know". But science has become the new religion and priests are not supposed to say "we don't have the answer for you".
You may remember the whole fight over the position of the Earth relative to everything. I touched on Galileo above, but to flesh it out the standard model at the time with the Earth at the center of the universe had a real problem; the planets seemed to move backwards from time to time in what were called epicycles. Nobody could explain that. Copernicus' theory reduced the number of epicycles and explained some of them were illusions, but they were still there (which is why Copernicanism wasn't universally accepted at first). It was only accepted when Kepler discovered the planets move in ellipses. Elliptical orbits eliminated ALL epicycles and thus restored balance to the theory. The point is there were those on both sides who argued their case but neither side was declared definitive and they were open to new information leading to changes in their worldview. Now we slavishly follow dogma because a "concensus" of scientists say it is so.
When one multiplies errors the end result is more errors, and more, exotic ways to fix the system. The principle of Occham's Razor is ignored in favor of an ever-more-complex system that becomes more theological than scientific. I fear many of the things we now believe are at that point.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at February 04, 2026 09:47 AM (umJ+Y)
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