May 24, 2025
Oil's Well that Ends WEll
Timothy Birdnow
This is what hapens when you promise to "drill baby drill".
Crude Oil Prices Decline Amid Unexpected US Inventory Buildup
In a puzzling statement the article from the Epoch Times states:
???????
Donald Trump's whole agenda was and remains to GET CRUDE PRICES DOWN. Get crude prices down you get retail gasoline prices down, and you jumpstart the economy.
The article actually tries to blame Moody's downgrading the U.S. economy for dropping crude prices. How does that work? That would have RAISED prices as money for drilling and other things would become harder to obtain.
Stock prices rose, and that doesn't take a genius to understand; more people are buying oil futures because it's obvious the market will boom very soon. And crude prices declined. This is exactly what you would expect with an oil-friendly government promoting drilling and production.
A May 21 Report from the Energy Information Administration stated:
Note the inventories are below the five year average; that makes perfect sense. The public is buying more gasoline because they feel renewed confidence in the direction of the country and the oil supply. Forinstance, AAA is predicting record breaking travel numbers for this Memorial Day weekend.b People can afford to drive or fly now.Gas prices have hit a four year low just in time for this holiday weekend.
So, prices are down and yet the media is STILL warning this is a bad sign.
The oil inventory glut was guaranteed to happen as people had been driving and flying less and stockpiles rose. Now the public, thanks to declining prices, are on the move again. And with that movement comes money being spent and an economy loosening up.
The auto club says:
Gee; I wonder what happened a in the intervening time? Oh...Trump was elected.
Trump has been in office just three plus months now.
This all makes perfect sense to anybody except economists and Democrats.
Again, the article blames Moody's downgrading the American economy but how would that work? Oil is a growth market, after all. It's a much safer bet than,say, T-bonds.
Futures are down, but that was predictable when crude preices are dropping. There is less profit in it, by and large. But it is a safer investment now and new investors will be in it soon enough. What we are seing is a transformation of the types of investors now in the market.
This is great news and suggests the U.S. economy is about to heal. Any other interpretation is just plain silly.
This is what hapens when you promise to "drill baby drill".
Crude Oil Prices Decline Amid Unexpected US Inventory Buildup
In a puzzling statement the article from the Epoch Times states:
"Concerns about the U.S. economy following Moody’s credit rating downgrade also put a downward pressure on prices."
???????
Donald Trump's whole agenda was and remains to GET CRUDE PRICES DOWN. Get crude prices down you get retail gasoline prices down, and you jumpstart the economy.
The article actually tries to blame Moody's downgrading the U.S. economy for dropping crude prices. How does that work? That would have RAISED prices as money for drilling and other things would become harder to obtain.
Stock prices rose, and that doesn't take a genius to understand; more people are buying oil futures because it's obvious the market will boom very soon. And crude prices declined. This is exactly what you would expect with an oil-friendly government promoting drilling and production.
A May 21 Report from the Energy Information Administration stated:
"U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 1.3 million barrels from the previous week.”
"At 443.2 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 6 percent below the five-year average for this time of year,” the report reads.
The 1.3 million barrel jump in oil stocks came as markets expected a dip in inventories.
A buildup in inventory happens due to multiple factors, such as an increase in production or a decline in demand. Rising levels of inventory suggest market oversupply or that people are using less fuel than normal. This puts downward pressure on oil prices.
"At 443.2 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 6 percent below the five-year average for this time of year,” the report reads.
The 1.3 million barrel jump in oil stocks came as markets expected a dip in inventories.
A buildup in inventory happens due to multiple factors, such as an increase in production or a decline in demand. Rising levels of inventory suggest market oversupply or that people are using less fuel than normal. This puts downward pressure on oil prices.
Note the inventories are below the five year average; that makes perfect sense. The public is buying more gasoline because they feel renewed confidence in the direction of the country and the oil supply. Forinstance, AAA is predicting record breaking travel numbers for this Memorial Day weekend.b People can afford to drive or fly now.Gas prices have hit a four year low just in time for this holiday weekend.
So, prices are down and yet the media is STILL warning this is a bad sign.
The oil inventory glut was guaranteed to happen as people had been driving and flying less and stockpiles rose. Now the public, thanks to declining prices, are on the move again. And with that movement comes money being spent and an economy loosening up.
The auto club says:
The national average price of regular gas was $3.19 per gallon on May 22, down by more than 11 percent from the $3.61 a year back.
Gee; I wonder what happened a in the intervening time? Oh...Trump was elected.
Trump has been in office just three plus months now.
This all makes perfect sense to anybody except economists and Democrats.
Again, the article blames Moody's downgrading the American economy but how would that work? Oil is a growth market, after all. It's a much safer bet than,say, T-bonds.
Futures are down, but that was predictable when crude preices are dropping. There is less profit in it, by and large. But it is a safer investment now and new investors will be in it soon enough. What we are seing is a transformation of the types of investors now in the market.
This is great news and suggests the U.S. economy is about to heal. Any other interpretation is just plain silly.
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Thievery
Timothy Birdnow
Oh,about all that grant money shoveled out the door in the last days of the Biden Administration...
Joe Biden's $93 Billion Scandal taht No One is Talking About Yet
Oh,about all that grant money shoveled out the door in the last days of the Biden Administration...
Joe Biden's $93 Billion Scandal taht No One is Talking About Yet
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$38/hr Minimum Wage
Timothy Birdnow
Los Angeles just approved a $38 per hour minimum wage and hotels are rebelling in the face of insolvency.
This law applies to airports and hotels only.
BTW LA is about to host the Olympics and will need tehse hotels,but leave it to liberals to befoul their own environment.
When I started working I was paid $3 an hour and was grateful to get it; it was sixty cents more than minimum wage at the time.
This wage cannot be paid, plain and simple. Minimum wage is for unskilled labor, and hotels use a lot of that - maids, bell boys, etc. Make them pay this ridiculous amount and the prices MUST skyrocket or the hotels will close.
Frankly, the hoteliers should simply close up, putting L.A. in a bind. It's the only way to stop this sort of thing.
Liberals do not understand that without profit businesses have no reason to operate. It's why the Soviet Union never had anything; there was no profit and so no reward for hard work or risk taking. Life was miserable there because the People had nothing, and that was because there was no incentive to make or do anything.
L.A. has just become a People's Republic.
Los Angeles just approved a $38 per hour minimum wage and hotels are rebelling in the face of insolvency.
This law applies to airports and hotels only.
BTW LA is about to host the Olympics and will need tehse hotels,but leave it to liberals to befoul their own environment.
When I started working I was paid $3 an hour and was grateful to get it; it was sixty cents more than minimum wage at the time.
This wage cannot be paid, plain and simple. Minimum wage is for unskilled labor, and hotels use a lot of that - maids, bell boys, etc. Make them pay this ridiculous amount and the prices MUST skyrocket or the hotels will close.
Frankly, the hoteliers should simply close up, putting L.A. in a bind. It's the only way to stop this sort of thing.
Liberals do not understand that without profit businesses have no reason to operate. It's why the Soviet Union never had anything; there was no profit and so no reward for hard work or risk taking. Life was miserable there because the People had nothing, and that was because there was no incentive to make or do anything.
L.A. has just become a People's Republic.
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GOP Senate Ready to Tank Spending Bill
Timothy Birdnow
I would call this cutting off your nose to spite your face but it's more like shooting off your danglies to spite your JohnsonFour Republican Senators are Prepared to Vote No on Trump Bill "There is Zero Debt Reduction"
Would I like more spending reduction? Of course. But this is likely the best bill we can get through. For the love of all things holy, what value do this imbeciles find in blocking this? There won't be anything better coming, and the American People will only see the GOP as feckless and impotent (well, I gues syou aRE if you shot off your family heritage.)
It's just going to make winning Congress harder come next year. They need to have a major accomplishment to show they mean business. If tax cuts can't pass a Republican Senate then nothing at all can.
I would call this cutting off your nose to spite your face but it's more like shooting off your danglies to spite your JohnsonFour Republican Senators are Prepared to Vote No on Trump Bill "There is Zero Debt Reduction"
Would I like more spending reduction? Of course. But this is likely the best bill we can get through. For the love of all things holy, what value do this imbeciles find in blocking this? There won't be anything better coming, and the American People will only see the GOP as feckless and impotent (well, I gues syou aRE if you shot off your family heritage.)
It's just going to make winning Congress harder come next year. They need to have a major accomplishment to show they mean business. If tax cuts can't pass a Republican Senate then nothing at all can.
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Dinosaurs and Furry Little Mammals
Timothy Birdnow
They can't. These aren't liberals - they're socialists, radicals who believe the public BELONGS to them. They see no reason to reach out and if they do they have nothing to offer groups outside of their base.
Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks has tthis to say. From the article:
They have systematically purged the people who would compromise for the sake of a long-term victory; they came to believe the war was won when Obama was President and they just had to mop up. Now they are seeing it's not so, but they no longer have a voice off reason to help them return to the shadows long enough to win. The Left is sick of cowering in the shadows; they did it for a hundred years or more, hiding who they really are to fool the public and systematically change society to attain power. They changed themselves in the process. Now they can't face putting the mask back on, despite the fact the public was horrified when they saw their true face.
Also, it's not in their DNA to defend themselves; they have always been on the offensive, with the aid of the media. But media is no longer that powerful thanks to smart phones, podcasts, and other advances in technology that removed filters from the public's eyes. Now when they say Joe Biden was sharp as a tack everyone can see videos of Biden stammering and stumbling and know it is a lie. And the Right, long in the wilderness of powerlessness, is learning to go on the offensive, take the fight to them. Trump taught us that.
So I think the Democrats and the Left are going to have a tough time coping with the new reality. Unfortunately the GOP seems stuck in 1984 and doesn't understand that they no longer have to hide. They believed the media was reporting the truth, and many still do. But they are a dying breed, like the mighty T-Rex, seemingly at the top of the food chain only to be replaced by furry little mammals.
Well, I'll embrace being a furry little mammal any day.
Behold, I make all things new. The things are passing away, the Bible says. While we've been fooled in the past, notably after Reagan and then during the nineties with Gingrich and the "Contract with America" into thinking we were winning there definetly seems to be a sea change happening, that the public may well be about to reject the whole rotten Progressive project. We've seen just how bad it is. But the Democrats could reverse this easily, and may do so in the off-year elections. We MUST win those or this whole thing falls apart.
Watch for massive, unprecedented vote fraud; the Left is in panic, and understand this is the keystone for their survival.
They can't. These aren't liberals - they're socialists, radicals who believe the public BELONGS to them. They see no reason to reach out and if they do they have nothing to offer groups outside of their base.
Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks has tthis to say. From the article:
"It’s both selfish because I can’t help but just tell people how I actually feel about the issues we talk about, but it’s also because I respect my audience. I want my audience to know the truth. And so if I see the left doing something that’s counterproductive — if I see something that I don’t like — I’m going to speak out about it,” Kasparian added.
Democrats have made efforts to reach out to young male voters. Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg on May 9 called out the party for losing young male voters.
Kasparian went on to say that while she might have some hope that Democrats will learn their lesson, they have instead continued to "intentionally” see supporters as "their public servants.”
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"The reason why I do that is because there’s still a little bit of hope that maybe they’ll learn some lessons. Maybe they’ll heed the advice and recalibrate some of their behavior and some of their policies so they can attract a broad coalition of voters to support them,” Kasparian said. "But instead what I’ve noticed by the Democratic Party is that rather than self-reflect they like to lash out. They see us as their public servants, instead of them being our public servants. And that is a huge, huge problem.”'
Democrats have made efforts to reach out to young male voters. Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg on May 9 called out the party for losing young male voters.
Kasparian went on to say that while she might have some hope that Democrats will learn their lesson, they have instead continued to "intentionally” see supporters as "their public servants.”
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"The reason why I do that is because there’s still a little bit of hope that maybe they’ll learn some lessons. Maybe they’ll heed the advice and recalibrate some of their behavior and some of their policies so they can attract a broad coalition of voters to support them,” Kasparian said. "But instead what I’ve noticed by the Democratic Party is that rather than self-reflect they like to lash out. They see us as their public servants, instead of them being our public servants. And that is a huge, huge problem.”'
They have systematically purged the people who would compromise for the sake of a long-term victory; they came to believe the war was won when Obama was President and they just had to mop up. Now they are seeing it's not so, but they no longer have a voice off reason to help them return to the shadows long enough to win. The Left is sick of cowering in the shadows; they did it for a hundred years or more, hiding who they really are to fool the public and systematically change society to attain power. They changed themselves in the process. Now they can't face putting the mask back on, despite the fact the public was horrified when they saw their true face.
Also, it's not in their DNA to defend themselves; they have always been on the offensive, with the aid of the media. But media is no longer that powerful thanks to smart phones, podcasts, and other advances in technology that removed filters from the public's eyes. Now when they say Joe Biden was sharp as a tack everyone can see videos of Biden stammering and stumbling and know it is a lie. And the Right, long in the wilderness of powerlessness, is learning to go on the offensive, take the fight to them. Trump taught us that.
So I think the Democrats and the Left are going to have a tough time coping with the new reality. Unfortunately the GOP seems stuck in 1984 and doesn't understand that they no longer have to hide. They believed the media was reporting the truth, and many still do. But they are a dying breed, like the mighty T-Rex, seemingly at the top of the food chain only to be replaced by furry little mammals.
Well, I'll embrace being a furry little mammal any day.
Behold, I make all things new. The things are passing away, the Bible says. While we've been fooled in the past, notably after Reagan and then during the nineties with Gingrich and the "Contract with America" into thinking we were winning there definetly seems to be a sea change happening, that the public may well be about to reject the whole rotten Progressive project. We've seen just how bad it is. But the Democrats could reverse this easily, and may do so in the off-year elections. We MUST win those or this whole thing falls apart.
Watch for massive, unprecedented vote fraud; the Left is in panic, and understand this is the keystone for their survival.
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The Dying Doctor Who
Timothy Birdnow
Fans of Doctor Who, the longest running sci-fi show in ttelevision histtory (some game shows and news programs have been on longer; Dr. Who started in 1964, being canceled briefly but rebooted in the mid '90's)may finally be coming to an end. The beloved science fiction drama has seen it's ratings bottom out as a result of poloitical correctness and now the show may well be heading for the ashbin of history.
The show centers around an alien who calls himself simply "The Doctor" and who has a unique fondness for modern London and Cardiff, that with all of time and space to play in. He is a time-traveler, from a species that call it'self "Time Lords" because they can go anywhere at any time. The Doctor is pretty much the last of the Time Lords, the rest having been trapped in a time bubble as a result of a war between all the higher species of the universe. The Doctor is basically immortal and he goes around doing good deeds and visiting all sorts of places, past and future.
The show was originally for children, to teach science and history to them, but it was the parents who started watching the show while the kids played on the floor. It soon became a more adult program, aolthough it was family-friendly. It is a British institution.
To replace Doctors when they quit they came up with the ingenious idea of them "regenerating" when at the point of death, so they are new people.
In the late '80's the show was in trouble, not because of low ratings but because the BBC was being run by woke people who thought it too violent. They insisted the show be made more kid-friendly, so clownish costumes and ridiculous, childish plots wer eimplemented on the last two Doctors (they dressed Colin Baker like a clown and had an episode with Sylvester McCoy with a man made of candy.) But the producers couldn't stay off of interesting and dark themes and the show got sacked. It was resurrected when a change in leadership at the BBC allowed it's return. It was wildly popular in it's second iteration, which really upped it's game in terms of plots and special effects.
But one of the writers (a good one, actually) named Russell T. Davies took over as producer, and he was also a homosexual activist. Suddenly homosexuality was everywhere on Dr. Who, with gay guest stars and normalizing marriages between women or men.
Still, tthe show did well as long as they made sexuality a side issue. But leftists can never be content with some; they always have to have it all.
They introduced a main character named Captain Jack Harkness, who was a very randy bisexual. He was on a few episodes and was popular but parents didn't like it so the BBC spun him off on his own late night show.
The real change was coming though. The Master, one of the top villains on the show, was turned into "Missy" a woman. The Master was another Time Lord and old friend of the Doctors', but he went mad and became evil. At any rate the show had already introduced an evil Time Lady called The Rani, so they didn't need to do this, but they did anyway. The master regenerated as a chick. We all knew where this was headed.
When Peter Garibaldi decided to leave the show they replaced him with a woman - Jodie Whittaker. While I've not seen her performance I'm given to understand she did well - but that isn't Dr. Who. The Doctor is a man and always had been.
Trouble was creeping up; Whittaker's tenure was stormy, with all sorts of troubles rocking the production and ever-dropping ratings. Not her fault; the writing was increasingly poor, They also had her indulge in a lesbian relationship with one of her companions, I might add. I understand. When she finally quit (no doubt under duress) the show was in big trouble. They pulled out the big guns, bringing back former Doctor David Tenant and his companion Catherine Tate for the relaunch. Sadly they screwed that up too, and the Christmas special that was supposed to relaunch the show bombed despite two of teh most popular characters on the show returning.
See, they decided to have a black Doctor. This too was obviously coming; there were multiple black characters on the show for the last few years - the companion Martha Jones, for instance. And Donnal Nobel - Tate's character, was engaged to a black guy and then later married another. So they were pushing for this.
In fact rumor had it Eddie Murphy was offered the gig but turned it down. He at least would have brought star power.
But instead they hired Ncuti Gatwa, a Rwandan immigrant to Britain. A GAY Rwandan immigrant to Britain.
But wait; there's more!
His first companion was a drag queen.
The show was seriously tanking so the BBC decided it needed to be sold off. So they sold it to Disney.
Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire! Disney destroyed STAR WARS for crying out loud!
The secret to Dr. Who's success was in part the show was clean, fun for the whole family. There was no sexuality in it until the reboot. The closest it came was when Peter Davison regenerated and his companion Peri complained "I liked how you looked" the way a lover would a bad haircut. But in the newer episodes the Doctor had a lover (Rose Tyler) and was heart-broken, and had several other women who traveled with him who obviously were smitten with him. But it was always kept out of the plot; no sex scenes.
But now the show is trans and gay and openly promoting things the public doesn't like, and doing that for children. It should not surprise anyone; it's what sexual politics is all about, getting the young and normalizing sodomy. But it's not what the People want.
So now the show is in freefall, and typical of leftists the producers are doubling down on the stuff that the public despises about it. Instead of waking up to the fact that the MAGA Era (MEGA - Make England Great Again) is here and people are wanting more tradition, more of what made their countries great. This is a backlash to the radical push made by the Left across the globe to build their internationalist, socialist paradise. People want to go home; they now feel like strangers in a strange land.
Dr. Who could have capitalized on that. The Doctor HAS no home, except the Tardis (his time machine - Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). But Progressives always want new and different and weird and hate tradition and harmony. And they ultimately hate the people on whose behalf they claim to be working.
It's sad; this was an institution in Britain, as old as am I (it started in 1964 while I was busily being born). Now it may wind up gone forever,another victim of DEI and wokism.
Liberalism destroys everything it touches.
Fans of Doctor Who, the longest running sci-fi show in ttelevision histtory (some game shows and news programs have been on longer; Dr. Who started in 1964, being canceled briefly but rebooted in the mid '90's)may finally be coming to an end. The beloved science fiction drama has seen it's ratings bottom out as a result of poloitical correctness and now the show may well be heading for the ashbin of history.
The show centers around an alien who calls himself simply "The Doctor" and who has a unique fondness for modern London and Cardiff, that with all of time and space to play in. He is a time-traveler, from a species that call it'self "Time Lords" because they can go anywhere at any time. The Doctor is pretty much the last of the Time Lords, the rest having been trapped in a time bubble as a result of a war between all the higher species of the universe. The Doctor is basically immortal and he goes around doing good deeds and visiting all sorts of places, past and future.
The show was originally for children, to teach science and history to them, but it was the parents who started watching the show while the kids played on the floor. It soon became a more adult program, aolthough it was family-friendly. It is a British institution.
To replace Doctors when they quit they came up with the ingenious idea of them "regenerating" when at the point of death, so they are new people.
In the late '80's the show was in trouble, not because of low ratings but because the BBC was being run by woke people who thought it too violent. They insisted the show be made more kid-friendly, so clownish costumes and ridiculous, childish plots wer eimplemented on the last two Doctors (they dressed Colin Baker like a clown and had an episode with Sylvester McCoy with a man made of candy.) But the producers couldn't stay off of interesting and dark themes and the show got sacked. It was resurrected when a change in leadership at the BBC allowed it's return. It was wildly popular in it's second iteration, which really upped it's game in terms of plots and special effects.
But one of the writers (a good one, actually) named Russell T. Davies took over as producer, and he was also a homosexual activist. Suddenly homosexuality was everywhere on Dr. Who, with gay guest stars and normalizing marriages between women or men.
Still, tthe show did well as long as they made sexuality a side issue. But leftists can never be content with some; they always have to have it all.
They introduced a main character named Captain Jack Harkness, who was a very randy bisexual. He was on a few episodes and was popular but parents didn't like it so the BBC spun him off on his own late night show.
The real change was coming though. The Master, one of the top villains on the show, was turned into "Missy" a woman. The Master was another Time Lord and old friend of the Doctors', but he went mad and became evil. At any rate the show had already introduced an evil Time Lady called The Rani, so they didn't need to do this, but they did anyway. The master regenerated as a chick. We all knew where this was headed.
When Peter Garibaldi decided to leave the show they replaced him with a woman - Jodie Whittaker. While I've not seen her performance I'm given to understand she did well - but that isn't Dr. Who. The Doctor is a man and always had been.
Trouble was creeping up; Whittaker's tenure was stormy, with all sorts of troubles rocking the production and ever-dropping ratings. Not her fault; the writing was increasingly poor, They also had her indulge in a lesbian relationship with one of her companions, I might add. I understand. When she finally quit (no doubt under duress) the show was in big trouble. They pulled out the big guns, bringing back former Doctor David Tenant and his companion Catherine Tate for the relaunch. Sadly they screwed that up too, and the Christmas special that was supposed to relaunch the show bombed despite two of teh most popular characters on the show returning.
See, they decided to have a black Doctor. This too was obviously coming; there were multiple black characters on the show for the last few years - the companion Martha Jones, for instance. And Donnal Nobel - Tate's character, was engaged to a black guy and then later married another. So they were pushing for this.
In fact rumor had it Eddie Murphy was offered the gig but turned it down. He at least would have brought star power.
But instead they hired Ncuti Gatwa, a Rwandan immigrant to Britain. A GAY Rwandan immigrant to Britain.
But wait; there's more!
His first companion was a drag queen.
The show was seriously tanking so the BBC decided it needed to be sold off. So they sold it to Disney.
Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire! Disney destroyed STAR WARS for crying out loud!
The secret to Dr. Who's success was in part the show was clean, fun for the whole family. There was no sexuality in it until the reboot. The closest it came was when Peter Davison regenerated and his companion Peri complained "I liked how you looked" the way a lover would a bad haircut. But in the newer episodes the Doctor had a lover (Rose Tyler) and was heart-broken, and had several other women who traveled with him who obviously were smitten with him. But it was always kept out of the plot; no sex scenes.
But now the show is trans and gay and openly promoting things the public doesn't like, and doing that for children. It should not surprise anyone; it's what sexual politics is all about, getting the young and normalizing sodomy. But it's not what the People want.
So now the show is in freefall, and typical of leftists the producers are doubling down on the stuff that the public despises about it. Instead of waking up to the fact that the MAGA Era (MEGA - Make England Great Again) is here and people are wanting more tradition, more of what made their countries great. This is a backlash to the radical push made by the Left across the globe to build their internationalist, socialist paradise. People want to go home; they now feel like strangers in a strange land.
Dr. Who could have capitalized on that. The Doctor HAS no home, except the Tardis (his time machine - Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). But Progressives always want new and different and weird and hate tradition and harmony. And they ultimately hate the people on whose behalf they claim to be working.
It's sad; this was an institution in Britain, as old as am I (it started in 1964 while I was busily being born). Now it may wind up gone forever,another victim of DEI and wokism.
Liberalism destroys everything it touches.
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May 23, 2025
Trump Wins at Court
Timothy Birdnow
Big win at SCOTUS
COTUS Upholds Trump's Removal of Biden Appointees on Federal Boards
Big win at SCOTUS
COTUS Upholds Trump's Removal of Biden Appointees on Federal Boards
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Paper Dragon
Timothy Birdnow
Like I've been saying all along...
China Is Hardly the Economic Juggernaut That Many Western Analysts Believe
Like I've been saying all along...
China Is Hardly the Economic Juggernaut That Many Western Analysts Believe
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Little Willie Won't - Go Home
Timothy Birdnow
There's no lech like an old lech...
Bill Clinton Faced With New Sexual Misconduct Allegation From Inside His Own Team
We all knew Lewinsky and Jones were just the tip of the iceberg (sorty to mention tips and Bill Clinton in the same sentence; I know that hurts my mind's eye too). But now other stories are coming out.
In this case it was a stewardess on an air force flight.
From the Lifezette article:
Notice that last; Clinton often seemed to go for sweet women. Makes perfect sense given the Gila Monster he cohabitated with (as little as he could get away with, of course, but he still was married to the beast.)
But let's face it; Clinton had a real problem. I don't know if he got too little attentioin when he was a child or what, but there are deep psychological problems plaguing the former President. Nobody is led by their willies like Slick Willie.
There's no lech like an old lech...
Bill Clinton Faced With New Sexual Misconduct Allegation From Inside His Own Team
We all knew Lewinsky and Jones were just the tip of the iceberg (sorty to mention tips and Bill Clinton in the same sentence; I know that hurts my mind's eye too). But now other stories are coming out.
In this case it was a stewardess on an air force flight.
From the Lifezette article:
Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, who served as the senior military aide responsible for carrying the "nuclear football” during the Clinton administration, shared the account in a post on X.
The incident, he says, occurred while returning from a trip on Air Force One and involved inappropriate conduct by the then-president toward a young female member of the military staff.
"We landed on the South Lawn at about midnight,” Patterson wrote.
"And, after ensuring the president was on his way to his residence upstairs, I headed to my bedroom in the East Wing. Shortly thereafter, my phone rang and it was the AF-1 presidential pilot. ‘Buzz, we have a problem,’ he said.”
Patterson stated that the pilot informed him of an incident in which President Clinton had allegedly "cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her.”
The stewardess, a married Air Force staff sergeant with children, was described by Patterson as someone he knew personally and considered "super sweet.
The incident, he says, occurred while returning from a trip on Air Force One and involved inappropriate conduct by the then-president toward a young female member of the military staff.
"We landed on the South Lawn at about midnight,” Patterson wrote.
"And, after ensuring the president was on his way to his residence upstairs, I headed to my bedroom in the East Wing. Shortly thereafter, my phone rang and it was the AF-1 presidential pilot. ‘Buzz, we have a problem,’ he said.”
Patterson stated that the pilot informed him of an incident in which President Clinton had allegedly "cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her.”
The stewardess, a married Air Force staff sergeant with children, was described by Patterson as someone he knew personally and considered "super sweet.
Notice that last; Clinton often seemed to go for sweet women. Makes perfect sense given the Gila Monster he cohabitated with (as little as he could get away with, of course, but he still was married to the beast.)
But let's face it; Clinton had a real problem. I don't know if he got too little attentioin when he was a child or what, but there are deep psychological problems plaguing the former President. Nobody is led by their willies like Slick Willie.
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Leftist Judge to Preside Over Trial
Timothy Birdnow
Meet the judge who is going to preside over the trial of Judge Hannah Dugan, the woman who interfered with ICE by schlepping an illegal criminal alien out her back door (no, that's not a ribald comment.)
Turns out the guy who drew the lucky straw is a radical leftist Trump-hating activist named Lynn Adelman.
Adelman was a Bill Clinton appointtee known for his radicalism. Jonathan Turley observed:
So we have one radical judging another radical. What could go wrong?
Meet the judge who is going to preside over the trial of Judge Hannah Dugan, the woman who interfered with ICE by schlepping an illegal criminal alien out her back door (no, that's not a ribald comment.)
Turns out the guy who drew the lucky straw is a radical leftist Trump-hating activist named Lynn Adelman.
Adelman was a Bill Clinton appointtee known for his radicalism. Jonathan Turley observed:
…Judge Adelman attacked Chief Justice Roberts as lying in his confirmation hearing and described Trump as "an autocrat” who is "disinclined to buck the wealthy individuals and corporations who control his party.”…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 20, 2025
"He was previously reversed and rebuked in a voter ID case after largely ignoring controlling precedent. For many conservatives, they may see little difference between the two judges in the case in terms of their demeanor and detachment,” Turley continued.
"Judge Alderman’s public commentary is another example of how extrajudicial statements undermine the judiciary. This history should not be added to a controversial case and raise questions over the objectivity and neutrality of the court.”
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 20, 2025
"He was previously reversed and rebuked in a voter ID case after largely ignoring controlling precedent. For many conservatives, they may see little difference between the two judges in the case in terms of their demeanor and detachment,” Turley continued.
"Judge Alderman’s public commentary is another example of how extrajudicial statements undermine the judiciary. This history should not be added to a controversial case and raise questions over the objectivity and neutrality of the court.”
So we have one radical judging another radical. What could go wrong?
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The Whole Abortion Enchilada?
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a piece at Western Journalism about how the GOOP is making a huge mistake in their handling of abortion in Missouri.
The author here is wrong; Missouri is not a "deep red state" but rather a pink state with the GOP holding a supermajority. That is not because Missourians are ultra conservative (though many of us are) but because the state Democrats are so over-the-top and leaderless they haven't been able to offer any reason for Missourians to vote for them.
But the state GOP is RINO, not conservative, and while we have some great guys from here like Josh Hawley or Eric Schmidt we are also the state that gave America John Danforth and Roy Blunt. And we elected Claire McCaskill TWICE. I would also point out Corey Bush was from Missouri and she was a squad member.
Missourians recently approved a constitutional amendment enshring abortion and the state GOP, in a moment of backbone, wants to annul that vote.
Voters approved the amendment 51.6% to 48.4%.
The state legislature has introduced House Joint Resolution 73, which seeks to put abortion back on the ballot.
The House Republicans left in the weasel clauses, omitting "fetal anomalies" and exempting rape and incsts.
I get the author's complaint; he sees abortion (as do I) as murder plain and simple, and argues this will enshrien abortion into the Constitution. I get his problem here. But it is fruitless to tilt at windmills and overturning abortion in the state without those exemptions is impossible, meaning many more children will die simply because some people are determined to stand on principle and cut off their own noses to spite their faces.
A huge part of why Missourians voted for the amendment enshrining abortion into the constitituion in the first place was because the state GOP had been discussing banning abortion with no exceptions. Polls show clearly Missourians want certain situations exempted.
He doesn't like that and I get it. But if we can repeal abortion first, we can update the constitution later and eliminate the loopholes. But there is nothing to be gained by obstinacy.
Missouri Right to Life favors the bill, which should tell us it's the best we can do. They are not compromisers. (My mother was big in Missouri Right to Life when I was a kid, by the way.)
The author of this piece doesn't understand that the amendment that made abortion the law of the land passed by narrow margins in a wave election for the GOP, and going into an off-year election will likely fail as voters traditionally favor the party out of power - and their policies. It would be a much harder fight to get this out than to stop it last time. If we couldn't stop it during a wave of conservatism, how do we roll it back without that wave?
I get his viewpoint and largely share it; I'm not known as a great compromiser. I believe that we should LEAD, that in leading people will follow. The GOP for decades has not wanted to lead, but merely wetted a finger and poked it in the air. I've long argued for boldness in politics, that you get people on board by bold colors and not pastels. But this is an instance where I think slow and steady wins the race. I've disagreed with many Conservatives over this idea we should eliminate abortion quickly and decisively because I am pretty certain this will only lead to a backlash. The abortionists had 52 years to win the hearts and minds of Americans; we should at least be willing to take a few years to win them back. I know children are dying, but losing out on restrictions because we go for the whole enchilada will only lead to more children dying needlessly. It's rather like Zelensky being unwilling to negotiate a settlement in Ukraine; he could wind up president of an empty country. Obstinacy can be quite foolish sometimes.
Here is a piece at Western Journalism about how the GOOP is making a huge mistake in their handling of abortion in Missouri.
The author here is wrong; Missouri is not a "deep red state" but rather a pink state with the GOP holding a supermajority. That is not because Missourians are ultra conservative (though many of us are) but because the state Democrats are so over-the-top and leaderless they haven't been able to offer any reason for Missourians to vote for them.
But the state GOP is RINO, not conservative, and while we have some great guys from here like Josh Hawley or Eric Schmidt we are also the state that gave America John Danforth and Roy Blunt. And we elected Claire McCaskill TWICE. I would also point out Corey Bush was from Missouri and she was a squad member.
Missourians recently approved a constitutional amendment enshring abortion and the state GOP, in a moment of backbone, wants to annul that vote.
Voters approved the amendment 51.6% to 48.4%.
The state legislature has introduced House Joint Resolution 73, which seeks to put abortion back on the ballot.
The House Republicans left in the weasel clauses, omitting "fetal anomalies" and exempting rape and incsts.
I get the author's complaint; he sees abortion (as do I) as murder plain and simple, and argues this will enshrien abortion into the Constitution. I get his problem here. But it is fruitless to tilt at windmills and overturning abortion in the state without those exemptions is impossible, meaning many more children will die simply because some people are determined to stand on principle and cut off their own noses to spite their faces.
A huge part of why Missourians voted for the amendment enshrining abortion into the constitituion in the first place was because the state GOP had been discussing banning abortion with no exceptions. Polls show clearly Missourians want certain situations exempted.
He doesn't like that and I get it. But if we can repeal abortion first, we can update the constitution later and eliminate the loopholes. But there is nothing to be gained by obstinacy.
Missouri Right to Life favors the bill, which should tell us it's the best we can do. They are not compromisers. (My mother was big in Missouri Right to Life when I was a kid, by the way.)
The author of this piece doesn't understand that the amendment that made abortion the law of the land passed by narrow margins in a wave election for the GOP, and going into an off-year election will likely fail as voters traditionally favor the party out of power - and their policies. It would be a much harder fight to get this out than to stop it last time. If we couldn't stop it during a wave of conservatism, how do we roll it back without that wave?
I get his viewpoint and largely share it; I'm not known as a great compromiser. I believe that we should LEAD, that in leading people will follow. The GOP for decades has not wanted to lead, but merely wetted a finger and poked it in the air. I've long argued for boldness in politics, that you get people on board by bold colors and not pastels. But this is an instance where I think slow and steady wins the race. I've disagreed with many Conservatives over this idea we should eliminate abortion quickly and decisively because I am pretty certain this will only lead to a backlash. The abortionists had 52 years to win the hearts and minds of Americans; we should at least be willing to take a few years to win them back. I know children are dying, but losing out on restrictions because we go for the whole enchilada will only lead to more children dying needlessly. It's rather like Zelensky being unwilling to negotiate a settlement in Ukraine; he could wind up president of an empty country. Obstinacy can be quite foolish sometimes.
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Poison Ivy League
Timothy Birdnow
Kristi Noam has banned Harvard from accepting foreign students for abusing their privilege.
This ban was instituted because Harvard failed to rein in anti-semitic student activity and allowed the abuse of Jewish students, as well as their complicity with the Chinese government and accepting large cash donations from an enemy power.
Noem had demanded Harvard "provide information about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus,” with the threat of losing their SEVP approval. Harvard declined and so now is being blocked from accepting foreign students.
Harvard had 6,793 international students as of the current academic year - 27% of the college's enrollment.
Harvard has also been stripped of government contracts and funding to the tune of two and a half billion dollars for these same misdeeds.
That Harvard is willing to continue to resist the Trump Administration proves they were seriously overfunded for decades and also that they have wealthy foreign powers aiding and abetting them. China alone contributed 12.9% ($5.6 billion) of all Harvard funding, for instance. And probably more that was laundered through third parties. Qatar too is a major donor at $894 million last year alone.
In fact foreign donations are so good Harvard has a reserve of $53.2 billion just sitting there making money for the top brass. They can last a while without foreign money, it seems. This while they charge $57,328 in yearly tuition (not countinf multiple fees).
If there ever was an entity that deserved to be defunded by the U.S. taxpayer it was Harvard. It's one of the citadels of Satan.
The Ivy League is the core of America's problems and in fact the core of the whole world's problems. It is there that every bad and evil idea is generated. We conservatives often complain bitterly about the media,but they ultimately take their cue from academia. Michael Crichton noted this in his novel State of Fear, that the root of everything is the Ivy League. He was right.
The Ivy League is where everyone who runs anything in America is trained. It is rare to find anyone in the top echelon of any corporation or in any boardroom or runing any foundation or NGO or at the top of government who didn't receive an Ivy League education, despite the fact that said education is no better than at many universities, perhaps worse since so much time is wasted on political correctness and DEI. But they have prestige and they take care of their own.You won't find a graduate of St. Louis University or the University of Nebraska or Georgia Tech at the top of any major entity. It's always Ivy League.
And all they do in the Ivy League is teach people not to think. They are brainwashing factories, rather like viruses that take over the machinery in the cells and replicate themselves until the host cell dies.
So I hope this is just the beginning of efforts to break the iron grip of the major universities over American life at taxpayer expense. America cannot be revitalized as long as the Ivy League continues to run everything.
Kristi Noam has banned Harvard from accepting foreign students for abusing their privilege.
This ban was instituted because Harvard failed to rein in anti-semitic student activity and allowed the abuse of Jewish students, as well as their complicity with the Chinese government and accepting large cash donations from an enemy power.
Noem had demanded Harvard "provide information about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus,” with the threat of losing their SEVP approval. Harvard declined and so now is being blocked from accepting foreign students.
Harvard had 6,793 international students as of the current academic year - 27% of the college's enrollment.
Harvard has also been stripped of government contracts and funding to the tune of two and a half billion dollars for these same misdeeds.
That Harvard is willing to continue to resist the Trump Administration proves they were seriously overfunded for decades and also that they have wealthy foreign powers aiding and abetting them. China alone contributed 12.9% ($5.6 billion) of all Harvard funding, for instance. And probably more that was laundered through third parties. Qatar too is a major donor at $894 million last year alone.
In fact foreign donations are so good Harvard has a reserve of $53.2 billion just sitting there making money for the top brass. They can last a while without foreign money, it seems. This while they charge $57,328 in yearly tuition (not countinf multiple fees).
If there ever was an entity that deserved to be defunded by the U.S. taxpayer it was Harvard. It's one of the citadels of Satan.
The Ivy League is the core of America's problems and in fact the core of the whole world's problems. It is there that every bad and evil idea is generated. We conservatives often complain bitterly about the media,but they ultimately take their cue from academia. Michael Crichton noted this in his novel State of Fear, that the root of everything is the Ivy League. He was right.
The Ivy League is where everyone who runs anything in America is trained. It is rare to find anyone in the top echelon of any corporation or in any boardroom or runing any foundation or NGO or at the top of government who didn't receive an Ivy League education, despite the fact that said education is no better than at many universities, perhaps worse since so much time is wasted on political correctness and DEI. But they have prestige and they take care of their own.You won't find a graduate of St. Louis University or the University of Nebraska or Georgia Tech at the top of any major entity. It's always Ivy League.
And all they do in the Ivy League is teach people not to think. They are brainwashing factories, rather like viruses that take over the machinery in the cells and replicate themselves until the host cell dies.
So I hope this is just the beginning of efforts to break the iron grip of the major universities over American life at taxpayer expense. America cannot be revitalized as long as the Ivy League continues to run everything.
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Sounding the Warning
Timothy Birdnow
For the last four years St.Louis has been run by Tishuara Jones, whose father Virvus had been an alderman and went to prison for corruption. Tishuara was better than some - she was NOT a BLM activist, like Corey Bush, but she was wholly incompetent. We have solid proof of that now.
City's Emergency Chief Blasted as DEI Hire After 'They/Them' Left Tornado Siren Off During Deadly St. Louis Storms
The deadly tornado that rolled through north and central-western St. Louis came as a surprise to city residents because the sirens failed. Nobody had bothered to check them to make sure they were working properly.
I know for a fact; I never heard them, and I live in south city.
Granted, you can't blaem everything on Jones, the board of Aldermen also failed spectacularly. Of course, four of the leaders of the board, including the President, went to prison for corruption not long ago.
At any rate Jones was clearly an affirmative action candidate, and the North Side all voted for her (she was the first woman Mayor and black too.) She ran against Lewis Reed, a black man, who happened to be the same president of the Board of Alderman mentioned above.
That's St. Louis for you. Run entirely by Democrats since the last Republican mayor served in 1948 and corrupt to it's very core.
Cara Spencer, the new mayor, is at least making a show of horror at this and has ordered reviews of all emergency systems. I doubt Spencer's capabilities; she's a rich white woman from a gated community looking for something to give her life meaning, a true limousine liberal. But she has to be better than Jones.
All the blame appears to be falling on Sara Russell, the head of the city's Emergency Management Agency. Russell was no doubt a patronage hire for that job. I have little doubt she's politically connected to the city machine. But it was Jones who was at the helm all along and should have made sure her subordinates were doing their jobs. The buck stops there.
This article says the sirens were not sounded, and asks why not,but that's old news; equipment tests showed they weren't working. Nobody had bothered to test them or do proper maintenance.
Oh, it turns out Russell describes herself as "non-binary" and lists her pronouns on the city's contact page.
Whose fault is that though? She was hired because she checked off the diversity boxes. Ultimately the fault was Mayor Jones's.
This little bit of political correctness caused the death of five people.
Russell and other top officials at CEMA were attending a workshop elsewhere when this happened. I would point out that it probably was a free vacation paid by the taxpayers of St. Louis.
this is the kind of incompetence we've seen in St. Louis for decades. Mayor Spencer won the last election because of kitchen table issues involving the city. The public was very angry at the way the city handled the big snowstorm we had this winter; many people were simply trapped in their sidestreets for weeks because the city does nothing to prevent snow buildup or keep city streets clear. (They don't plow because city streets are one-way and narrow and they would bury cars if they plowed. Plus hit many of them. But they could at least lay some salt in advance.) Right now the gas company - Spire - has torn up the entire area where I live, with multiple detours and lane closures all over. It's infuriating. I was trying to go to a doctor's appointment and a ten minute drive turned into something like forty minutes. The City Street Department wasn't doing this, granted, but they let Spire simply tear up all the roads at once, causing a huge logjam. Tishuara Jones should have told them they couldn't do that, that they had to do one section at a time.
Also last winter we had multiple water main breaks, all over the place. Interestinglly enough there was a bill before the voters to replace many water lines. Coincidence? The city owns the water company in St. Louis; it's not a private corporation.
Increasingly St. Louis looks like a Third World city. There are large swaths of it that are simply ruins, or vacant lots. Packs of wild dogs roam the north side, living in abandoned buildings. Basic services are degrading. The forestry department doesn't prune the trees along the streets, and whenever there is a storm large limbs fall on peoples cars and otherwise block roads and do damage. And don't get me started on street conditions; potholes are as common as holes in chunks of swiss cheese. Recently the city installed speed bumps on many side streets; they needn't have bothered as the potholes force drivers to go slow.
And while violent crime SUPPOSEDLY dropped I seriously doubt it; I believe they just aren't reporting the crimes to the FBI. Every day there are shootings.
Increasingly St. Louis seems like Kinshasa, or San Salvador,or Tijuana, or some other desolate place.
And it will never change. St. Louis takes on big projects to try to rejuvenate the city but in the end the plans fail (even if they succeed for a time) because the city is structurally incapable of rejuvenating or of growth thanks to the Democratic stranglehold. The City Earnings tax, which must be paid if you are a resident or even just work in the city, drives businesses out. A business can simply set up just outside the city limits and not pay the onerous tax. (Sports franchises that play here have to pay it too, which is why St. Louis never gets any big sporting events and why sports franchises are slow to relocate here. It's part of why St. Louis lost the Rams football team, for instance, as they did the Cardinals before them.)
There is a lot to be proud of here, but St. Louis will never be a world class city again, and that's because it is being run into the ground and has been for over 75 years now. This failure to sound the tornado warnings is just one more example of why nobody wants to live or work in St. Louis anymore.
For the last four years St.Louis has been run by Tishuara Jones, whose father Virvus had been an alderman and went to prison for corruption. Tishuara was better than some - she was NOT a BLM activist, like Corey Bush, but she was wholly incompetent. We have solid proof of that now.
City's Emergency Chief Blasted as DEI Hire After 'They/Them' Left Tornado Siren Off During Deadly St. Louis Storms
The deadly tornado that rolled through north and central-western St. Louis came as a surprise to city residents because the sirens failed. Nobody had bothered to check them to make sure they were working properly.
I know for a fact; I never heard them, and I live in south city.
Granted, you can't blaem everything on Jones, the board of Aldermen also failed spectacularly. Of course, four of the leaders of the board, including the President, went to prison for corruption not long ago.
At any rate Jones was clearly an affirmative action candidate, and the North Side all voted for her (she was the first woman Mayor and black too.) She ran against Lewis Reed, a black man, who happened to be the same president of the Board of Alderman mentioned above.
That's St. Louis for you. Run entirely by Democrats since the last Republican mayor served in 1948 and corrupt to it's very core.
Cara Spencer, the new mayor, is at least making a show of horror at this and has ordered reviews of all emergency systems. I doubt Spencer's capabilities; she's a rich white woman from a gated community looking for something to give her life meaning, a true limousine liberal. But she has to be better than Jones.
All the blame appears to be falling on Sara Russell, the head of the city's Emergency Management Agency. Russell was no doubt a patronage hire for that job. I have little doubt she's politically connected to the city machine. But it was Jones who was at the helm all along and should have made sure her subordinates were doing their jobs. The buck stops there.
This article says the sirens were not sounded, and asks why not,but that's old news; equipment tests showed they weren't working. Nobody had bothered to test them or do proper maintenance.
Oh, it turns out Russell describes herself as "non-binary" and lists her pronouns on the city's contact page.
Whose fault is that though? She was hired because she checked off the diversity boxes. Ultimately the fault was Mayor Jones's.
This little bit of political correctness caused the death of five people.
Russell and other top officials at CEMA were attending a workshop elsewhere when this happened. I would point out that it probably was a free vacation paid by the taxpayers of St. Louis.
this is the kind of incompetence we've seen in St. Louis for decades. Mayor Spencer won the last election because of kitchen table issues involving the city. The public was very angry at the way the city handled the big snowstorm we had this winter; many people were simply trapped in their sidestreets for weeks because the city does nothing to prevent snow buildup or keep city streets clear. (They don't plow because city streets are one-way and narrow and they would bury cars if they plowed. Plus hit many of them. But they could at least lay some salt in advance.) Right now the gas company - Spire - has torn up the entire area where I live, with multiple detours and lane closures all over. It's infuriating. I was trying to go to a doctor's appointment and a ten minute drive turned into something like forty minutes. The City Street Department wasn't doing this, granted, but they let Spire simply tear up all the roads at once, causing a huge logjam. Tishuara Jones should have told them they couldn't do that, that they had to do one section at a time.
Also last winter we had multiple water main breaks, all over the place. Interestinglly enough there was a bill before the voters to replace many water lines. Coincidence? The city owns the water company in St. Louis; it's not a private corporation.
Increasingly St. Louis looks like a Third World city. There are large swaths of it that are simply ruins, or vacant lots. Packs of wild dogs roam the north side, living in abandoned buildings. Basic services are degrading. The forestry department doesn't prune the trees along the streets, and whenever there is a storm large limbs fall on peoples cars and otherwise block roads and do damage. And don't get me started on street conditions; potholes are as common as holes in chunks of swiss cheese. Recently the city installed speed bumps on many side streets; they needn't have bothered as the potholes force drivers to go slow.
And while violent crime SUPPOSEDLY dropped I seriously doubt it; I believe they just aren't reporting the crimes to the FBI. Every day there are shootings.
Increasingly St. Louis seems like Kinshasa, or San Salvador,or Tijuana, or some other desolate place.
And it will never change. St. Louis takes on big projects to try to rejuvenate the city but in the end the plans fail (even if they succeed for a time) because the city is structurally incapable of rejuvenating or of growth thanks to the Democratic stranglehold. The City Earnings tax, which must be paid if you are a resident or even just work in the city, drives businesses out. A business can simply set up just outside the city limits and not pay the onerous tax. (Sports franchises that play here have to pay it too, which is why St. Louis never gets any big sporting events and why sports franchises are slow to relocate here. It's part of why St. Louis lost the Rams football team, for instance, as they did the Cardinals before them.)
There is a lot to be proud of here, but St. Louis will never be a world class city again, and that's because it is being run into the ground and has been for over 75 years now. This failure to sound the tornado warnings is just one more example of why nobody wants to live or work in St. Louis anymore.
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Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Likely Role In Historic Excess Mortality Rates Must Be Explored Revisited
Timothy Birdnow
I thought I'd recycle this from 2023 so we can compare it to what we now know.
Covid19 mRNA Vaccines Likely Rolein Historic Excesse Mortality Rates Must be Explored
James Doogue,a master statistician, penned this post showing how heart issues are tied to the Covid vaccine.
I know it's old hat, but I thought it fun to see what he was saying in '23 and compare it withthe present.
BTW while I had a host of heart problems I developed a new one -Afib -about a year after getting the shot. Coincidence? Maybe, but I had a TIA which is caused by clots. The vax is well documented to cause clots.
I thought I'd recycle this from 2023 so we can compare it to what we now know.
Covid19 mRNA Vaccines Likely Rolein Historic Excesse Mortality Rates Must be Explored
James Doogue,a master statistician, penned this post showing how heart issues are tied to the Covid vaccine.
I know it's old hat, but I thought it fun to see what he was saying in '23 and compare it withthe present.
BTW while I had a host of heart problems I developed a new one -Afib -about a year after getting the shot. Coincidence? Maybe, but I had a TIA which is caused by clots. The vax is well documented to cause clots.
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The Craven ACB
Timothy Birdnow
Amy Conehead-Barely shows again she's the reincarnation of David Souter.
Breaking | Supreme Court issues ruling in Oklahoma religious school case — Barrett recuses in 4-4 decision
Amy Conehead-Barely shows again she's the reincarnation of David Souter.
Breaking | Supreme Court issues ruling in Oklahoma religious school case — Barrett recuses in 4-4 decision
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The Bitter End - Not a Bang but a Whimper
Timothy Birdnow
Great Briain is not so great now. In fact I would call it Mediocre Britain these days. Utterly determined to divest themselves of what they perceive in their liberal minds as the "sin" of colonialism, the British government has done a deal with the Chinese-allied Mauritus to hand over the Indian Ocean island chain The Chago Archipelago which includes the critical base at Diego Garcia.
The sun has finally set on the British empire. Britain owned this island group, for instance. They also own a few niggling Pacific islands, including primarily the Pitcairn group, of which only one is inhabited (by the mutineers of the Bounty). The British gave independence to all her other Pacific colonies and protectorates. Britain still owns (probably not for long) the Faulkland Islands, which Argentina ahs long coveted and will probably get in time. Other than that they own a few uninhabited islands (like South Georgia) in the south Atlantic, and they own a few other islands in the Atlantic, primarily the small colony of Tristan Da Cunha (the most isolated inhabited place on Earth) Also Ascension Island, an uninhabited rock, is British. Britain also owns St. Helena, and a number of Carribean islands, notably Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla, and of course Bermuda. Lastly they own Gibralter.
Now they have one less piece of empire. As empires go Britain has become a pathetic doddering old coot.
So now they are completely out of business in the Indian Ocean. The sun has truly set over the empire.
So if war breaks out the British aren't coming. They would prefer to sit on their drizzly little island chain and pretend men are women and Arab and Moorish Muslims are British.
Farewell old friend. We'll miss you.
Great Briain is not so great now. In fact I would call it Mediocre Britain these days. Utterly determined to divest themselves of what they perceive in their liberal minds as the "sin" of colonialism, the British government has done a deal with the Chinese-allied Mauritus to hand over the Indian Ocean island chain The Chago Archipelago which includes the critical base at Diego Garcia.
The sun has finally set on the British empire. Britain owned this island group, for instance. They also own a few niggling Pacific islands, including primarily the Pitcairn group, of which only one is inhabited (by the mutineers of the Bounty). The British gave independence to all her other Pacific colonies and protectorates. Britain still owns (probably not for long) the Faulkland Islands, which Argentina ahs long coveted and will probably get in time. Other than that they own a few uninhabited islands (like South Georgia) in the south Atlantic, and they own a few other islands in the Atlantic, primarily the small colony of Tristan Da Cunha (the most isolated inhabited place on Earth) Also Ascension Island, an uninhabited rock, is British. Britain also owns St. Helena, and a number of Carribean islands, notably Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla, and of course Bermuda. Lastly they own Gibralter.
Now they have one less piece of empire. As empires go Britain has become a pathetic doddering old coot.
So now they are completely out of business in the Indian Ocean. The sun has truly set over the empire.
So if war breaks out the British aren't coming. They would prefer to sit on their drizzly little island chain and pretend men are women and Arab and Moorish Muslims are British.
Farewell old friend. We'll miss you.
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Admiral Convicted
Timothy Birdnow
This is your new Navy at work! Thanks Biden and Obama!
Retired Navy Admiral Found Guilty in Bribery Scheme Involving Executive Training Firm
This is what happens when political ideology and identity politics matter more than merit and a will to fight for and serve one's country.
Retired Admiral Robert Burke was found guilty of steering contracts to companies that gave him lucrative kickbacks. Three guesses why those companies were getting training contracts in the first place. Can you say DEI? I knew you could.
We just experienced the most corrupt period in our history, methinks. It's what you get when you put the Left in charge.
This is your new Navy at work! Thanks Biden and Obama!
Retired Navy Admiral Found Guilty in Bribery Scheme Involving Executive Training Firm
This is what happens when political ideology and identity politics matter more than merit and a will to fight for and serve one's country.
Retired Admiral Robert Burke was found guilty of steering contracts to companies that gave him lucrative kickbacks. Three guesses why those companies were getting training contracts in the first place. Can you say DEI? I knew you could.
We just experienced the most corrupt period in our history, methinks. It's what you get when you put the Left in charge.
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Smartmatic Destroyed Evidence
Timothy Birdnow
Did anyone think otherwise?
Fox News Accuses Smartmatic Executives Of Deleting Evidence Amid 2020 Defamation Lawsuit
OF COURSE Smart(ass)matics destroyed evidence; this was a grift from the very beginning. And Fox fell for i8t and settled - and in the process fired their top show host.
They have to cover their tracks now lest they be caught in their lies.
Did anyone think otherwise?
Fox News Accuses Smartmatic Executives Of Deleting Evidence Amid 2020 Defamation Lawsuit
OF COURSE Smart(ass)matics destroyed evidence; this was a grift from the very beginning. And Fox fell for i8t and settled - and in the process fired their top show host.
They have to cover their tracks now lest they be caught in their lies.
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Old Pennywise
Timothy Birdnow
How stupid do they think we are?
CBS News is actually saying Biden didn't get a prostate screening because he didn't want to spend the money![/linbk]
Like spending money stopped him at any time!
Let us remember some of the extreme waste he had in his budgets,prompting The Hill to call him the the most wasteful President in history from transgenderism to Green Energy.to freebies for colleges and research to see if mice could be turned trans, Biden never met a cost he didn't love.
So claims he worried about spending the money is beyond ridiculous.
How stupid do they think we are?
CBS News is actually saying Biden didn't get a prostate screening because he didn't want to spend the money![/linbk]
Like spending money stopped him at any time!
Let us remember some of the extreme waste he had in his budgets,prompting The Hill to call him the the most wasteful President in history from transgenderism to Green Energy.to freebies for colleges and research to see if mice could be turned trans, Biden never met a cost he didn't love.
So claims he worried about spending the money is beyond ridiculous.
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Biden (and Fauci) Lied, People Died
Timothy Birdnow
This has got to be a violation of some Federal law.
Biden admin covered up potentially deadly COVID vaccine side effects for months: Senate report
Hmm...maybe this is why Biden just announced he has prostate cancer and will likely die soon? Maybe he is trying to hide behind the "sick old man" shibboleth he used to slither out of trouble with Robert Hur.
From the article:
So Biden and the CDC and Anthony Fu Chi Fauci lied and people died. A lie of omission is still a lie.
If nothing else this should open everyone involved to massive lawsuits that will ruin them. Trump should allow these suits to go against the Federal government as well.
The Covid shot was a massive crime, on a scale the Nazis would have been quite proud to have achieved.
This has got to be a violation of some Federal law.
Biden admin covered up potentially deadly COVID vaccine side effects for months: Senate report
Hmm...maybe this is why Biden just announced he has prostate cancer and will likely die soon? Maybe he is trying to hide behind the "sick old man" shibboleth he used to slither out of trouble with Robert Hur.
From the article:
A report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said government officials knew as early as February 2021 about the harmful side effects but waited until June to inform the public of the inherent dangers.
'The federal government was very well aware of the myocarditis signal, particularly in young men.'
The report revealed that U.S. health officials "knew about the risks" the vaccines carried related to myocarditis, inflammation of heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the fibrous sac surrounding the heart, but "downplayed the health concern" and "delayed informing the public about the risk."
RELATED: HHS scrapping COVID jab recommendations for pregnant moms and kids: Report
The report, first obtained by the Daily Wire, showed that the U.S. government ignored warnings from several sources.
In February 2021, U.S. entities were notified of adverse effects by the Israeli Ministry of Health, as the country rolled out vaccines faster than America did. Still, CDC officials declined to make public the "large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine."
It is unclear whether the Israeli government made an effort to notify the public, either.
That same month, a CDC official who co-led the Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group emailed her colleagues about 19,536 vaccine adverse event reports (through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) that included 980 deaths after vaccination.
"Where known, the cause of death was often cardiovascular," the report read.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told the Daily Wire that the Biden administration did not want to increase "vaccine hesitancy" by reporting the side effects openly.
'The federal government was very well aware of the myocarditis signal, particularly in young men.'
The report revealed that U.S. health officials "knew about the risks" the vaccines carried related to myocarditis, inflammation of heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the fibrous sac surrounding the heart, but "downplayed the health concern" and "delayed informing the public about the risk."
RELATED: HHS scrapping COVID jab recommendations for pregnant moms and kids: Report
The report, first obtained by the Daily Wire, showed that the U.S. government ignored warnings from several sources.
In February 2021, U.S. entities were notified of adverse effects by the Israeli Ministry of Health, as the country rolled out vaccines faster than America did. Still, CDC officials declined to make public the "large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine."
It is unclear whether the Israeli government made an effort to notify the public, either.
That same month, a CDC official who co-led the Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group emailed her colleagues about 19,536 vaccine adverse event reports (through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) that included 980 deaths after vaccination.
"Where known, the cause of death was often cardiovascular," the report read.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told the Daily Wire that the Biden administration did not want to increase "vaccine hesitancy" by reporting the side effects openly.
So Biden and the CDC and Anthony Fu Chi Fauci lied and people died. A lie of omission is still a lie.
If nothing else this should open everyone involved to massive lawsuits that will ruin them. Trump should allow these suits to go against the Federal government as well.
The Covid shot was a massive crime, on a scale the Nazis would have been quite proud to have achieved.
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