March 16, 2026
How the GOP Made it Worse to be White
Timothy Birdnow
How the GOP's efforts to promote color blindness in hiring and school admissions
cost only white people when it all came down to ending racial discrimination.
The reforms made to establish "color blindness" merely switched the favored racial status from Black/Latino to Asian while maintaining the Black/Latino favoritism.
The article points to Harvard admissions, which simply took more Asians and fewer whites even though the university itself admits that under a fair assessment the whites would be the lion's share of admissions.
The GOP is a feckless, hapless bunch, ever stepping on their own Johnsons. Sadly there is nobody advocating for the white community any more, even as the whites are slipping out of power in an America increasingly colorized.
Will the new majority, once they have it, be as kind as the supposedly racist white people? I rather doubt it.
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The Oily Silk Road
Timothy Birdnow
This guy's not wrong.
Most Americans know very little about central Asia and the Caucasus and that is a shame because it is of growing importance.
The U.S. has long had ties to two nations in the region - Armenia and Georgia. We have long sought to build oil and gas pipelines to get central Asian oil and gas to Europe while bypassing both Russia and Iran. The Russian invasion of Georgia back in 2008 was intended to prevent the cozy relationship between Georgia and the U.S./NATO and to stop Georgia from building pipelines. The first thing the Russians did was bomb the Mozdok-Tbilisi natural gas pipeline at the outset of the war.
Azerbaijan is a pro-western republic, even though it is primarily Shia Muslim. The U.S. has had limited diplomatic relations with Azerbaijan and that since the 1992 Freedom Support Act restricts aid to Azerbaijan. That outdated law needs some serious reform but we are still stuck in this Clinton-era mindset.
At any rate Israel is a close ally of Azerbaijan and supported them in their recent war with Armenia (you'd think they'd be allies since both suffered attempts at genocide against them but the Armenians and Israelis appear to genuinely dislike each-other.)
The Chicoms know all this and will pivot away from Iran if it suits them - and right now it does. This oily silk road between the fields in Asia and Europe is a critical energy corridor and the Chinese are going to need it. While there is an alliance between Russia and China there has never been any love lost between the two and China no more wants to be dependent on Russia than do the Europeans. So the Chinese need this trade route - not just for oil but for other things the Euroweenies want.
We should get our foot in the door now in the region. It is a much neglected but important area that is of critical importance to the flow of oil and gas, and it illustrates how to reform the Islamic world, particularly how Iran should and could be run.
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Alexandria on the Tigris
Timothy Birdnow
Amazing; a city founded by Alexander the Great has just been discovered.
The city was founded in the fourth century B.C. on the Tigris river in what is now Iraq. The Tigris river's channel changed, leaving the city high and dry (literally) and it withered. By the third century A.D. it was pretty much gone.
The city is extraordinarily well preserved. It was two and a half square miles in area - huge as ancient cities went.
At any rate we live in exciting times.
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The Convenient Illness of Jair Bolsonaro
Timothy Birdnow
Pnuemlnia, or was he being poisoned?
This article falsely claims Bolsonaro is serving time in prison for a coup attempt. This is a lie; he's a political prisoner who is serving time in prison for protesting a stolen election just as President Trump did. The only thing is the Bolshevik who took power was able to make this accusation against Bolsonaro and had the power to make it stick in Brazil.
This is a reprint of an Ass Press, er Associated Press story.
I wish Donald Trump would take steps to get Bolsonaro out. I'm sure there is some leverage he can apply to force Brazil's hand.
At any rate his death would be most convenient for the ruling Bolsheviks. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he isn't being poisoned.
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The Agony of "The Feet"
Timothy Birdnow
I didn't know Michelle Obama was in the Buckeye state!
This information comes from the Bigfoot Society, proving that people have waaayy too much free time on their hands.
Don't know about Bigfoot but certainly Moosechelle has been elusive these days.
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Don't Let the Door Hit You...
Timothy Birdnow
Check it out; Marco Rubio is streamlining the process to renounce your citizenship.
In an effort to squeeze very penny he could out of American expats Barack Obama increased the fee to renounce citizenship from $450 to $2350 in order to force former Americans to pay a ridiculously high Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Obama raised taxes on expatriated folks to prevent the rich from offshoring their bank accounts and thus deprive him of money he could swindle the productive out of to buy votes.
So Rubio is trying to streamline the renunciation process (it now takes multiple reviews and permission) and wants to lower the cost back to $450.
Renouncing your citizenship should not cost you a penny, frankly. Getting it back should be what is difficult.
At any rate this will make it more attractive to the Hollywood screwballs and others who think America sucks, and hopefully we can waive a fond farewell to the people who hate half of their fellow citizens. If you don't want to be a citizen then get out.
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Iran Blinking on Strait of Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
I've said it all along; if the Strait of Hormuz is closed to shipping the Iranians will be hurt worse than anyone else. Closure does as much a disservice to Iran as it does to the United States - maybe more so. Iran's chief export moves primarily through that strait.
Yes, the airstrikes on Kharg Island and Trump's unwillingness to back down have given the Iranians pause, but I suspect they are starting to realize this closure hurts them more than it helps them. And in the process it infuriates their Arab neighbors based in the Gulf of Arabia.
Actually there is no good reason NOT to burn out the island, which is the nerve center for Iran's oil industry. We can ship the crude elsewhere for refining.
The idea of building a canal to bypass the Strait of Hormuz has been kicked around for decades. For instance, Dubai thought to do it
back in 2008 but the cost is prohibitive and it would only have value in times of war. There would be no profit for such a canal in peacetime.
The canal would need to stretch `112 miles and travel over the Hajar mountains, moving ships with locks. Since oil tankers are ridiculously heavy and large the task would be daunting - and very expensive.
Another option is building a pipeline and offloading the ships in the Gulf. Abu Dhabi has the Habshan Fujaira pipeline to move oil from the Gulf to the Indian Ocean, but it's like trying to feed an elephant with an eyedropper. A much larger pipeline is needed. But of course you have the same problem; it's economically impractical during peacetime.
So it looks like the Strait of Hormuz is going to be the lifeline of energy into the forseeable future. It's too bad because this gives Iran enormous power if they choose to exercise it. Of course, as I say, it is a double edged simitar for Iran as closing the strait hurts them as much or more than it hurts anyone else.
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Man Crucifies Pastor
Timothy Birdnow
So where is Pope Leo in this? He's mouthing off about the Iran War yet he has never condemned Islamic abuses of Christians, nor has he ever condemned crimes such as this and he still hasn't as far as I can tell.
This guy clearly doesn't grasp what the death penalty entails, apparently. He will move on FROM his life, not with it...
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Pope Leo the Chicken Hearted
Timothy Birdnow
Dope Leo the Chicken Hearted:
When Pope Urban II called for the first Crusade he didn't do so for land or conquest or treasure but for the fact that the Turks massacred over 1400 pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem, peaceful people whose only crime was being Christian and not Muslim. Urban and his successors had finally had to face the fact that Islam cannot be satiated, you cannot make peace with them. Islam can only be restrained and Urban understood that. So he called for a Crusade, which would entail Christian kings and princes and other nobility (plus plenty of commoners) to go to Jerusalem to make a pilgrimage despite what the Turks wanted, and to do so with enough arms to secure the road to the Holy City.
Yet here we are with the post-modernist thinking that Man is inherently good and this little dustup between the U.S. and Iran is just an unfortunate spat that should be resolved over tea and cookies because we just don't understand each-other. That is Leo's thinking and he also thinks about Christ's admonition to not fight enemies but love them. That is true in a personal context but God Himself said that our leaders were given the power of the sword to punish evildoers and that is especially true of a terrorist nation like Iran, who did great evil leading up to this and would do far worse evil if allowed to do as it pleases.
Love thy enemies is a personal thing it does not apply to international relations.
That doesn't mean we let our foreign policy be simply in our own interests and screw everyone else. But it does mean that there are times for war and this was one of them; it meets Augustine of Hippo's Just War theory. Iran was behind the unprovoked attacks on Israel, and President Trump gave them ample warning. They refused to heed that and indeed stated plainly they were going to pursue an atomic bomb - and that they already had 11 such devices. Given that they are "12ers" who want to start Armageddon and would likely use those weapons when they were ready it was obvious that President Trump was averting a greater evil by launching tis war, a war many Iranian People have celebrated around the globe and even inside Iran.
So Leo's liberal knee jerk reaction is wholly unwarranted, yet he made it anyway because that is what liberals do; they never look at things like this with any context or nuance, only with a faux Christian simplicity that boils everything down to "war is bad" as though we didn't already know that. Naturally if this war was something the Left wanted Leo would suddenly find nuance and context.
If this weren't a just war no war is. The Iranian mullahs have been waging war against the United States and Israel since 1979, and they have murdered countless innocents in their quest to wipe out the "crusader" state of Israel. They don't do it like soldiers either but creep around and stab people in the backs, using the dirtiest and most treacherous style of warfare imaginable. They have killed many innocents and plan to kill a great many more. Their own people hate them and feel oppressed, and in fact they just murdered 40,000 of their own for daring to protest the regime. How can you find some sort of moral parity here? Yet Leo seems to do so with ease.
No sir; when Leo meets his Maker he will be asked to justify his statements here, and God will ask him why he let the innocent suffer under the heel of not just Islam but of the Iranian apocalyptic horror. WE as Christians, are duty bound to render aid to the Iranian People rather than excuse and give comfort to the oppressors in dark robes and long beards. God will demand Leo give an accounting. Leo could help to end the Iranian nightmare if he chooses, but he refuses to so choose because he is a Progressive Christian and the whole world is but Barney the Dinosaur to him. His is the most gutless, myopic, and cowardly form of Christianity one could imagine.
We are in a largely leaderless world and this Pope contributes to the spiritual and moral vacuum that has infected the Western World. His is the palsied hand that steers the ship into the rocks.
It's time for people like Pope Leo to grow up. The Apostle Paul admonished the church of Corinth, the one he helped get their starts, chastising them for:
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
1Corinthians 3:2
A mature Christianity would understand how this is supposed to work but Leo is still drinking milk, absorbing nothing but the first baby steps of the Christian faith. You have to understand the difference between love and stupidity.
Dope Leo is the latter, I fear.
Leo made this imbecilic claim
"Today many of our brothers and sisters in the world are suffering because of violent conflicts, caused by the absurd claim that problems and disagreements can be resolved through war, when instead we must engage in unceasing dialog for peace," he said during his homily.
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Did the Second World War fail to resolve problems in Europe? While it left a power vacuum that the Soviets filled (causing a host of problems itself) the war definitely ended the scourge of Naziism and the murdering of innocents, particularly Jews. Wars very often do indeed solve problems. The United States was born of a war that solved our British problem, and so too did the War of 1812. The Mexican War certainly solved our problems with Mexico. The Civil War ended slavery in the U.S. and led to the enfranchisement of black people across a continent. I don't see any communists in Granada. Rome solved it's Carthage problem by wiping the whole city out. Greece solved her Persia problem by winning the war against Xerxes. I could go on but the point is made; wars can and do solve problems all the time. But Leo is just a liberal who buys into these shibboleths. Anyone who actually believes this "war solves nothing" slogan is a dope.
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Crazy Crockett's Con Copper Killed
Timothy Birdnow
One of Texas Democrat Congresswoman's bodyguards was
killed in a Mexican standoff with police after he barricaded himself in a car on the parking lot of a local hospital. The man - Mike King - was wanted for impersonating a police officer, and for driving his replica undercover cop car with stolen plates.
CBS News says Mike King is one of several aliases used by the decedent, who apparently was involved in things requiring aliases.
This is the kind of guy Crazy Crockett would employ for security.
I find it interesting that Jasmine Crockett feels the need for security at all; she advocates defunding the police and open borders after all. So why does she get security when others do not?
<r. King No His Real Name ran a company called Off Duty Police Services which was an employment agency for moonlighting cops. He frequently used multiple aliases.
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March 15, 2026
Chicom Funding Anti-Energy Lawsuits
Timothy Birdnow
Of course they are.
FTA:
The Pelican Institute For Public Policy published a report outlining the institutional barriers preventing Louisiana from developing its energy industry. Earthjustice, an environmental law organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, receives millions of dollars in funding from a non-profit organization with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) connections, according to the Pelican Institute.
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And they aren't the only ones. This sort of lobbying by a foreign power is illegal, I'm pretty sure. If not it should be.
George Soros also has a big hand in this, naturally, and so does Michael Bloomberg, former "republican" mayor of New York City and notorious busybody.
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Trump Restarts California Oil - Newsom Vows to Resist
Timothy Birdnow
Naturally, Gavin Newsom vows to resist at all cost. Just because gas is over five bucks a gallon in California doesn't mean he isn't going to stop anyone from obtaining more energy.
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Big Bucks so Catholic Charities could Facilitate the Invasion of Illegals
Timothy Birdnow
I am a Catholic but this makes me want the Church to lose it's tax exempt status:
Green Beret Nap Time
@GBNT1952
Remember when Southwest Key, Catholic Charities USA, and Endeavors, all non profit organizations, received about $5.6 billion of tax payer money under Biden from 2021-2024 to help facilitate illegal immigration?
Their CEOs made millions of dollars in salaries and most of their executives made $600-700k salaries annually each, all funded by you and yours so they could relocate illegal aliens all over the country.
Lots of people got rich off of our money to ensure the establishment never loses again.
Now our legislature is refusing to pass the SAVE Act… I wonder why?
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Top NGO recipients of your tax dollars:
Catholic Charities USA - $1.4B
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service - $180M+
Endeavors - $1.18B
Southwest Key - $3B
USCRI - $1.1B
Some grew their budgets 10x in just 2 years.
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Stationary News Cycle
Timothy Birdnow
Andrew Clark
@AndrewHClark
In 72 hours we went from:
Trump never expected the possibility of Hormuz closing,
To:
Trump was briefed Hormuz could close but riskily did it anyway,
To:
Trump bombed Kharg Island but it likely won’t force Iran to open the Strait
To:
Iran opened the Strait
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Kilmead Tries to Get Trump to Spill Secrets
Timothy Birdnow
"Yeah, but, Brian, I can’t answer a question like that. And you shouldn’t ask it. You shouldn’t even be asking it. It’s one of so many different things. It’s not high on the list, but it’s one of so many different things. And I can change my mind in seconds, but, you know, for you to ask the question, who would answer a question like that? You’re asking me a question. Kharg Island. Who would ask a question like that, and what fool would answer it? Let’s say I was gonna do it or I wasn’t gonna do it, what would I tell you? ‘Oh, yes, Brian, I’m thinking about doing it. Let me let you know what time and when it will take place.’ It’s not, you know, it’s sort of a foolish question. A little surprising for you because you’re a smart man,”
Donald J. Trump when asked by Fox host Brian Kilmead if he was thinking of taking Kharg Island.
I've long said Kilmead is an intellectual lightweight and it shows with stupid questions like that. OF COURSE Trump can't tell him his war strategy. Who does Kilmead think Trump is? George W. Bush?
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All the Soros of the World
Timothy Birdnow
How did the anti-war kooks get out so fast after we attacked Iran? You know who was at the center of that.
Soros has been funneling big bucks to these radical groups - like ANSWER and the old Clinton-era Moron.ogr, er, Moveon.org.
It's worth a read.
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March 13, 2026
About the Public Trust
Timothy Birdnow
Carlos Velazquez forwards
this paper discussing the crucial role of trust in a democratic republic like ours and how it is being eroded in the modern age - and how that is an existential threat to the belief of the citizenry in the governing structure of our nation.
The author is absolutely correct, but he doesn't go far enough.
At the outset of 2019 the Democrats were in a demoralized state; everything they had thrown against Trump had failed and they were desperate to regain power. The only way they could, as they saw it, was to change the rules.
They did this by using the pandemic, which they blew up way beyond the degree of seriousness it deserved in order to justify those rule changes. They closed their own states, thus damaging the economy in the process, then blamed Trump. But the real goal was to get the rule changes in place.
The rejection of mail in voting WAS a bipartisan issue for a long time; after the election of 2000 the bipartisan Carter Baker Commission warned mail in voting was ripe for fraud. The Democrats basically took their report and used it as a blueprint on how to steal the election of 2020, and with a complicit media they pulled off a true coup against the Trump Administration, then pursued Mr. Trump and anyone who challenged the election results with the full force of law. The FBI was spying on people who suggested the election was stolen. Places like New York or Atlanta brought charges against Trump aids (like Rudy Giulliani) in kangaroo courts to suppress evidence of fraud.
I could go on but the point is that this was always intended to steal elections just as letting in millions of illegal aliens served that purpose.
As the authors says, this had led to an erosion in trust, and trust is what makes a democratic republic function. As John Adams stressed "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other". Yet so many Americans have highly immoral and irreligious peoples into office because those individuals offered largesse from the treasury and promised immoral and irreligious things.
So there have been enough Democrats, and they have become ruthless and Macchiavellian enough to purposely try to hide what they were doing, which is rig the game in their own favor. The more ruthless the politician the more they have been rewarded, and so the moderate Democrats are now all gone. Power is all that it has come to matter in politics.
They have been building a Tammany Hall style machine, a Bill Daley machine, in Washington and while much of that is illegal they have hidden it in plain enough sight; they know the media is in the tank for them and will run interference. (One can fairly hear Emperor Palpatine in the form of James Carville shrieking in joy as he murdered Master Windu "Unlimited Power!" from Star Wars III.)
But of course this is an end-game thing; it has destroyed the public trust in the fairness of elections, and in time that could rent the whole republic asunder.
So now the Republicans want to require voter i.d., a very modest proposal that all other countries on Earth require and the Democrats are fighting this tooth-and-nail. They argue minorities are too stupid to be able to get an i.d. card! I suspect everyone knows this is a canard, which is why the blacks and latinos aren't angry like they would be at Republicans if they were to make such an argument, but it is a testament to how far this nation's moral and spiritual center has imploded.
We desperately need the SAVE America act.
When the Founders established this country it took days for information to travel across a state, much less the country, and so elections were left to the individual states. The Founders could never have anticipated the rise of electronic communications and mechanized travel and how that would give an empire to the media. That empire has outpaced the checks and balances put in place by the Founders. Political parties can subvert the vote through carefully coordinated efforts that are only possible with modern technology. The only way to restore balance is to prevent them from cheating at the local and state levels by putting in minimal standards.
(Vote Fraud has always been an issue. There were reports of massive cheating in the election of 1864 for instance. And the election of 1960 was clearly stolen by Kennedy. But it has never been so easy to do and easy to hide as now.)
The fact is the Federal government has long imposed minimal rules and standards on states.
We used to have a national speed limit, for instance. We have a national drinking age. We have a national tax. We have national food and drug safety standards. We have standards in how we deal with minorities. We have standards that deal with the treatment of the handicapped. We have air pollution standards. We have limitations on who can be medical doctors, or airline pilots. Yet we have zero standards with how we handle our most important civic function.
It's insane, but it's a conscious policy. And as our moral center has disappeared it seems many Americans just don't care.
In the end if we do not restore public confidence in our electoral system we will continue the division in this country until we come to civil war. It's the inevitable outcome of a system where power is all that matters and different sides are willing to do whatever it takes to acquire it. Setting voting standards to restore public trust is absolutely vital to keeping America from tearing herself apart.
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Churchill to be Replaced by Animal
Timothy Birdnow
And not just Churchill and not just with beavers; the Bank of England wants to replace all of the great historical people represented on British currency with wildlife.
They claim they took a poll. I'm sure they did - polling leftists to get that conclusion. I have to hope that is the case because otherwise the nation itself is completely gone, every one of them.
The United Kingdom has fallen. It is now become a farse.
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F'r cryin' out loud! If they had to replace Sir Winston with an animal it really should have been with a bulldog! Anyone want to argue with me there?
This is a gross insult!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 14, 2026 12:49 AM (jo816)
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Indeed it is Dana - which was the whole point of their doing it.
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They could have chosen Greta. Speaking of the attention whore make sure you are available March 21 to join her in the flotilla to save the Cuban socialist gov't. So successful was the Palestine flotilla to save hamass that she and her gang of commies are heading to Cuba to thwart as she calls him" pedophile Trump " from reintroducing capitalism to Cuba.
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She needs to hook up with David "Publicity" Hogg; they'd make quite a couple.
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Land Stealing Shapiro
Timothy Birdnow
Democrats are all corrupt. It's in their genes.
"Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s neighbors are suing the Democrat, accusing him of stealing a slice of their land to erect an eight-foot-high security fence around his private residence in an ‘outrageous abuse of power,’” reports the New York Post. "The neighbors, Jeremy and Simone Mock, are currently duking it out with the governor in court over a 2,900 square foot parcel of land located between their two homes in Abington, Montgomery County, court papers show.”
It gets worse. Shapiro is essentially claiming squatter’s rights on the land.
The Mocks alleged in a lawsuit filed last month that Shapiro and his wife, Lori, unlawfully seized the stretch of land after initial negotiations to buy it from them went up in flames.
Shapiro claimed in a countersuit that he owns the disputed land due, citing an "adverse possession” loophole that makes it his because he has maintained the sliver of property for decades.
The land-grab tit-for-tat kicked off last year when the Shapiros first sought to erect the huge fence and upgrade security following an arson attack on the governor’s official residence in Harrisburg while they were all sleeping inside on April 13.
"This is a case of squatters’ rights, which is the colloquial term for the legal doctrine known as adverse possession," attorney Chad Cummings told Realtor.com. "Where a person continuously maintains possession of another’s property openly, visibly, and notoriously for a set period of time, which varies by state, the squatter can file a court action to ask the court to recognize the squatter—the 'adverse possessor'—as the legal owner through a quiet title action.”
This isn't undeveloped rural land. Shapiro claims he maintained it but that is not enough to allow him to seize it by adverse possession.
There are two elements that must be present for adverse possession - the squatter must occupy the land "openly" and "notoriously". His occupation must be clearly visible and it must be known by the community and the owner. Cutting the grass on a patch of land does not constitute this. If he were to build stuff on the land it would.
It generally requires seven years to implement "squatter's rights" on a property.
I own land in the Ozarks and my property is land-locked, meaning it does not touch a road. I have access via an easement - by law the owners of the land along the road have to give me ingress and egress. I've used the little road I've cut through the woods for twenty years now but it would in no way grant me possession via adverse possession; I never built anything on the access road. Had I paved it, or even put down gravel, it might be different (I'd have to look that up) but I can't take it even though I have labored to build the little road and maintain it because I did not "openly and notoriously" claim possession by major improvements to the land.
I'm not worried; as I say by now I have a legal easement. In fact the state of Missouri built me a little on-ramp to the state highway on the owner's property (which only improved it for him). And the owner is apparently a very old man in a retirement home who has no interest in the property at all (I would like to buy it from him but doubt he's up for selling it.) Of course, that was a few years ago when I found out who actually owned the shaggy woodland; it may have sold by now. I'm always receiving offers to buy my property, and the offers have gone up in price over the years. If I hold onto it I will probably make out very well. Taxes are still ridiculously cheap on it so why sell? And my trees keep growing; white oak, red oak, all timber that will bring a good price should I decide to harvest it. I'll make more from harvesting timber than I would for selling - which is why people want the property in the first place.
But to get back to the subject at hand, all these oh-so-loving Democrats will steal the milk money from a baby's poor mother if it is in their interest to do so. Shapiro shows he is no different here.
And despite this case not yet being settled Shappiro ordered State Police to patrol the disputed land, and they kicked the rightful owners off of it.
And he has landscaped the property and flies drones over it to make sure his neighbors don't set foot on it.
Oh, and then there is this:
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
PA Democrat Gov Josh Shapiro wants to build a security wall around his house…. But promised to sue if Trump built a border wall!
Funny how Democrats zealously patrol their own property but won't patrol the United States. Shapiro is using the State Police as his personal version of ICE.
Republicans should push a bill to defund the state cops for the same reasons that guys like old Josh want to defund our border agents.
At any rate the guy may talk a good game but in the end he's a self-seeking scoundrel like every other Democrat in these modern times.
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Stupid Kid Makes Good
Timothy Birdnow
Look at the corruption of Gavin Newsom!
Despite his low SAT scores and his inability to read and write he sure seems to understand a ledger.
According to Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Mag:
Gov. Gavin Newsom had helped set up a state government agency for his wife and then a quasi-government non-profit to which he has directed millions of dollars which in turn helped promote yet another non-profit that puts millions of dollars in the pockets of the Newsoms.
That convoluted arrangement may explain why Newsom won’t turn over his tax returns.
Gov. Newsom promised to be the first California governor to release his tax returns every year, but media outlets have been grumbling that the last time he released a tax return was quite a few years ago when he was legally required to because he was running for reelection.
The questions got louder when he bought a $9 million house in addition to their $6 million house. The new 5,609 square foot estate comes with a spa, sculptures and Brazilian decks, and was bought from a member of the billionaire Pritzker clan, who have been one of Newsom’s major donors, and carries a $6.5 million mortgage with $600,000 in annual payments plus over $100,000 in property taxes. Some have been asking where all that money was coming from.
This may only be the tip of the iceberg considering that in 2019, the Newsoms had paid their household staff $288,000 alone. Assuming that the staffing costs have kept pace, California’s first family should be looking at very some very huge bills to maintain their outrageous lifestyle.
Not bad for an ignoramous! In fact, I would say stupid kid makes good.
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