February 13, 2026
Microsoft Should be Sued
Timothy Birdnow
Recently I purchased a new laptop, a Lenovo, and started using the Chinese machine. The thing about this gadget is it was cheap and for a reason; it comes in s-mode, which forces you to purchase any aps from the Microsoft ap store. You can take it out of s-mode and I did that with the first Lenovo, which subsequently lost it's cursor, forcing me to return it. I strongly suspect it was designed to fail if someone left s-mode; they couldn't just tell you that because that would be restraint of trade, but I think they designed it to become buggy once the gatekeeper program was removed.
So I haven't taken the replacement out of s-mode. The end result is if I just do a search it goes to Bing (I can do other search engines but have to open them and if I am in a hurry to blog I frequenly don't.)
At any rate I've noticed Bing has a peculiar trick. If you are searching for something and go to a "mainstream" news source you get the hyperlink to that source when you open it but if you go to an alternative source, say, Townhall, it gives you a Bing link, a very long link which I am sure is managed by the good people at Microsoft to control the flow of news.
It's quite annoying. But more than annoying it's a form of censorship, I am sure; these links appearing in any text probably downgrades said texts in their search engine. In short, they are using this to suppress conservative thought.
The DOJ needs to look into lawsuits to break up Microsoft.
I don't know how the Left managed to take control of the internet but they did. Now all the major computer corporations are run by leftists. Of course the CIA had a hand in many such companies, from Google being seeded by them to Facebook's connection to Peter Thiel, who was always besties with the CIA.
At any rate I thought this was worth mentioning.
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Murkowski Gets Slammed over SAVE
Timothy Birdnow
She voted for the act befor she was against it:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowskiWhen Democrats attempted to advance sweeping election reform legislation in 2021, Republicans were unanimous in opposition because it would have federalized elections, something we have long opposed. Now, I’m seeing proposals such as the SAVE Act and MEGA that would effectively do just that. Once again, I do not support these efforts. Not only does the U.S. Constitution clearly provide states the authority to regulate the "times, places, and manner" of holding federal elections, but one-size-fits-all mandates from Washington, D.C., seldom work in places like Alaska.
Election Day is fast approaching. Imposing new federal requirements now, when states are deep into their preparations, would negatively impact election integrity by forcing election officials to scramble to adhere to new policies likely without the necessary resources. Ensuring public trust in our elections is at the core of our democracy, but federal overreach is not how we achieve this.Readers added contextSenator Murkowski voted to advance the 2021 voter reforms she references here. She was the only Republican to do so.
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Murkoowski was elected in 2010 when Tea Party candidate Joe Miller defeated her in the GOP primary (she was appointed to fill out her father's term in the Senate then served one elected term) and she ran as an independent - she wasn't even on the ballot - and received a dubious amount of mail-in votes. I suspect had the Alaskan elections been supervised by the Feds she would not have ever been in the u.S. Senate, or she would now be a professor at some obscure Alaskan college. The very fact of her opposition is suggestive, in my humble opinion.
Alaskan politics have been corrupt for a long time. The Democrats prosecuted former Senator Ted Stevens, for example, on trumped up charges and there was prosecutorial abuse of power in that trial - in which Stevens was ccused of corruption and the prosecution hid exculpatory material - led to Stevens losing his seat. It was later proven to be false and the presiding judge in the case called the trial "one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct " he had ever seen.
Steven's conviction was vacated shortly after the election.
I've long wondered if Murkowski had a hand in that. Pure speculation but there it is. At least she knew this was bogus and failed to come to Stevens' aid. Stevens was almost as big a RINO as the Murk, though. Still, it was clear her election in 2010 was murky, pun intended. I suspect she is quite corrupt. Certainly her father Frank's top aid was found guilty of corruption charges while in his employ, and he was probably the fall guy.
So the crabapple doesn't fall far from the tree, methinks. And Lisa does everything she can to screw over her own Party when it suits her. Like now.
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Hawley: Keith Ellison Should be in Jail
Timothy Birdnow
I have zero doubt this is the case.
Josh Hawley Calls For Indictment of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison over Alleged Ties to Somali Fraudsters
Muzzie Ellison accepted large campaign contributions right after meeting with Somalis, who were complaining about being investigated. These are the same people who wound up at the center of the fraud scandal.
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Trump Orders CIA to Hand Over to "Stop the Steal" Organizer
Timothy Birdnow
President Donald Trump has ordered the CIA to hand over classified material related to the election of 2020 to Stop the Steal organizer Kurt Olsen, who is working as a part time employee of the White House, for review in the leadup to the '26 midterms.
Liberal heads are exploding as they desperately try to stop this move. They say Olsen has no national security experience and so can't evaluate raw data properly. ??? As this is about internal American affairs and not foreign espionage one wonders at why the CIA has this data in the first place and why a layman cannot understand it, but there you have it.
If the recent raid on Fulton County taught us anything it is that the Democrats probably stole Georgia in 2020 and by extension stole the entire election; if Trump had won Georgia he would have won the country.
The Democrats will try it again too if given the chance, which is why we MUST expose what they did in 2020. For years now the media has carried their water, completely refusing to admit even the slightest possibility of the election being stolen, and viciously attacking anyone who said otherwise. But now the facts are dribbling out and this could be the steak in the vampiric heart of the Democratic (sic) Party.
You know you are on the right track when the media howls; it's a sign you touched a nerve.
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Mo Canada; with Friends Like These...
Timothy BIrdnow
No fewer than six Republicans joined with every single Democrat save one to force an end to Trump's tariffs on Canada.
The litany of shame is as follows:
Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.),
Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.),
Thomas Massie (R-Ky.),
Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.),
Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)
I used to respect Massie but no more; he's pulling the old John McCain trick of thumbing his own party in the eye. And Fitzpatrick? Et tu?
That Squeeker Johnson couldn't hold his own caucus together over this is a testament to his comparable weakness.
There is absolutely no excuse for this; tariffs on Canada forced them to the table already and they have been slowly but surely coming around. They made some changes already to their own tax code to grant better access to the U.S. as well as have cracked down on border security. The tariffs were working as planned and along come these n to pull the rug out from under the Administration, taking away their leverage.
What is the point of electing Republicans if they are going to screw us?
Friends like these...
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February 11, 2026
New Idea for Pizza Topping
Dana Mathewson
I haven't worn my hat as Aviary Food Editor in a long time, but this article I just encountered gave me the idea that I should locate my hat and see if it still fits.
These days you're apt to find just about anything on pizza, including (ugh) pineapple. Here's something you can find only at Bucks Coal Fired Pizza in Lake Park, Florida, where owner Frankie Cecere decided to make use of a "found item" to top a pizza with.
Florida has been having some very unseasonably cold temperatures recently; you may have seen news items of iguanas freezing and falling out of the trees. Iguanas are an invasive species in Florida, and... well, wait for it.
Bucks Coal Fired Pizza in Lake Park, Florida, created what owner Frankie Cecere called "the first iguana pizza in the history of mankind."
After corralling a handful of cold-stunned green iguanas during Florida's recent freeze and humanely euthanizing them, content
creator Ryan Izquierdo took his unusual haul to Bucks Coal Fired Pizza.
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Cecere's concoction was a white pizza topped with three types of meat: venison, bacon and "the star of the show."
The idea for the iguana pizza came from Izquierdo, who told Fox News Digital he'd been collecting cold-stunned iguanas when temperatures dropped low enough to immobilize the invasive reptiles.
During the two-day cold snap, Florida waived its law requiring permits to transport iguanas, allowing residents to nab the pesky invaders and bring them to the state's wildlife officers to be euthanized.
It's legal to humanely kill iguanas on private property in Florida.
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While the iguana topping was new, the restaurant is no stranger to unconventional ingredients.
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He equated the taste to "frog legs" and called it "a little bit sweet."
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Well, there you are. I'd try it; how about you? This restaurant also serves venison (YUM!) and alligator tail on their pizzas. Me, I just want to know if you can get anchovies on them!
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Dying for Lack of Knowledge
Timothy Birdnow
Thomas Jefferson is arguably the father of universal education in America. He believed (correctly) that liberty could only exist with an informed, educated public. (So did most other Founders which is why they restricted the vote to landholders, who generally were more likely to be educated.)
Jefferson said it many times:
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
And in that light Jefferson advocated the founding of schools and universities to help better educate the public.
That is why John Dewey, who was a radical socialist, created public education in the first place; he wanted to take control of the educational system in America so he could brainwash the youths. He apparently had read his Jefferson but put Jefferson's plans to work in the service of darkness.
Yes, few understand the definition of socialism which is forced government ownership or control of the means of production. I once had an argument here on Facebook with a guy I grew up with (he was older than me, actually) who was a big labor union guy. He had absolutely no idea what socialism is. None. He was shocked when I provided the definition to him - he thought socialism and a big welfare state were the same thing. When I told him Sweden was not a socialist country he was absolutely flabbergasted; his union always told him it was. I pointed out that Sweden is actually more business friendly than the U.S. (which it was then) and he couldn't believe it.
That is what a public school education buys you.
That's why so many believe Fascism is "right wing" too; because they don't have a clue of what socialism is or how it applies. Fascism is socialism with a nationalistic character. Mussolini turned away from the Italian socialist PARTY because he believed people needed a spiritual component to their ideology and the Italian Socialists were pure materialists - more llike the Marxists. So he created a system whereby the People were God and the State was the Church. This is straight out of Rousseau, who was both father to fascism and grandfather to communism. Rousseau suggested deifying the People and making the State it's holy church, I might add.
Now many people believe "right wing" and "fascism" are one in the same when in fact they come from completely different intellectual roots. In fact, "nationalism" which is what fascism was called before Mussolini, was of great concern to the Conservatives of the 19th century; they knew it's poisonous roots. "Nationalism" has come to mean Patriotism but then it meant what today we call Fascism, or Naziism. It was worship of the People with the State as their holy church.
The fact is Fascism is socialist. Government owns or controls industries and determines who gets what and for how much. It is a doctrine of extreme regulation. It compels the individual to accept the constant intervention of government in their lives. Mussolini said "all within the state, nothing outside of the state, nothing against the state" meaning every aspect of life is to be governed by the community. The idea was they were going to build a "new man". This is qualitatively no different than what the Communists were trying to do, except that Communism sought to subsume the nations into the larger hegemony whereas Fascism sought to deify the country instead o the whole collective. In fact, the Communists had a slogan before Hitler attacked them "First Brown then Red" and they saw Fascism/Naziism as an intermediate stage between Capitalism and Communism, one that would eventually fade away as people took the final step.
But few know any of this, believing that socialism is merely a "fairer" distribution of wealth, helping the poor and whatnot. They think it is the message of Christ, which of course it's not; Jesus commanded YOU to be charitable, to be kind, to be loving, to help your neighbor NOT the state, which has to steal wealth from one person to give it to another. Freee will is lost completely in a socialist scheme.
The Left piggybacked on Christian thought. I would add God created poverty as one of the punishments to Man for the first sin and He could solve it any time He wishes. He doesn't need our help. Poverty is there to give us the opportunity to be charitable, to be more like Christ.
Another thing; corporatism is dangerously close to fascism, and no less a personage than G.K. Chesterton understood that. Chesterton once said "the difference between a Capitalist and a Socialist is a bigger paycheck" and by Capitalist he meant the crony capitalist we see in this day and age. I hate the term Capitalist precisely because it came from Karl Marx as a pejorative; it's free enterprise versus all the isms, which are all artificial. Free markets are natural, natural law in action. People naturally trade with one another. Isms require convoluted models and draconian regulatory schemes.
At any rate this ignorance is by design and it is a self-perpetuating ignorance (like the lie that a socialist told in a textbook he put out back in the 19th century that people thought the world was flat until Columbus - it was a lie but a whole generation grew up believing that and many still do.)
"my People are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6
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And the Dumb Shall Speak
Timothy Birdnow
An anti-ICE Sheriff makes a fool of himself before Congress.
This guy didn't know a sheriff operates under the Executive branch of government; he thought it was judicial.
I will say this; when asked about which branch he worked for he kept insisting it was his county. In a way he was correct; he doesn't work for the Federal government at all but rather for his county, which is under the state government. But I suspect he didn't understand this at all.
It's easy to be a Democrat; you just say what you FEEL and facts do not matter.
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GOP Outraising Democrats
Timothy Birdnow
Watch for some Hail Mary pass from the Democrats, like massive nation-wide riots.
I'm not surprised; the Trump Administration has disrupted so many of their illicit funding sources (like USAID and the Somali Daycare swindlers) that they are finding it tough to come up with the cash.
Our politics has been artificial for decades as the Democrats have been flush with dark money, dirty money, and have manufactured votes and voters who do not exist. Now the playing field is being leveled and they are finding it hard to compete. Democrats shouldn't have held power since Ronald Reagan, frankly. They've cheated their way to dominance.
There is a new sheriff in town though.
Accordingto the article, after debt is taken into account, Democrats have about $137 million for their campaigns, while Republicans have more than twice that amount, about $320 million. Of course they will make a lot of this up via dark money donations from Soros and people of his ilk, but it still will not be what is needed to mount the massive kind of campaign required to gaslight America. People can see they are doing better and that the nation feels better.
It's really tough to gain seats, or not lose any, in Congress in a midterm. So the GOP has an uphill battle. But it can be done and it must be done or the Trump Spring is doomed. The Democrats will roll their tanks over it as surely as the Soviets rolled their tanks over the Prague Spring.
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Kelly Ayotte Vetos Bill to Keep Trannies out of Girl's Bathrooms and Locker Rooms
Timothy Birdnow
New Hampshire's Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte has vetoed a bill that would make it illegal for trannies to use the opposite sex's bathrooms or locker rooms or go to jails that do not comport with their birth sex.
Ayotte's reasoning? It would be too hard to enforce!
We pass laws that are hard to enforce all the time. Part of the purpose of a law is to make a moral statement, to show we think this is unacceptable. And in an egregious violation you can arrest such a person. If we choose not to pass laws that are hard to enforce, why have any at all? It's hard to stop a bank robbery too oftentimes; do we make THAT legal?
The GOP is just riddled with opportunists who use the party to get ahead but who in the end do not represent the values of the people they ostensibly represent.
Obviously Ayotte is one such.
She states:
"I believe there are important and legitimate privacy and safety concerns raised by biological males using places such as female locker rooms and being placed in female correctional facilities, At the same time, I see that House Bill 148 is overly broad and impractical to enforce, potentially creating an exclusionary environment for some of our citizens.”
So how many LIVES is "inclusivity" worth Kelly? How many women will be raped because you want "belonging"?
Remember this guy who raped two women while in a woman's correctional facility. Oh, guess you forgot him, didn't you Kel.
Why elect Republicans if they are going to pull crap like this?
There is blood on Kelly Ayotte's hands.
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I'm forced to say that without seeing the actual text of the bill, neither of us should castigate Gov. Ayotte, because the bill may well be written in such a way as to be unenforceable. It may well be "legal mush," and what the governor is doing here is sending it back and saying "Come on, Guys, give me a bill that I can sign and we all can live with." I think we need to give her some leeway here.
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Goodell on the Hot Seat
Timothy Birdnow
Pressure is mounting for the National Football League to fire League Commissioner Roger Goodell for greenlighting the insulting and anti-American and hypersexualized Bad Bunny halftime show.
People are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore.
For years Goodell has been pulling this sort of thing, aligning the League with every woke and radical notion foating around in our culture. Football used to be the entertainment of Middle America, of the working stiff. Now it's the entertainment of the gay stiff, who happens to be grinding against another fellow's buttocks on the Superbowl halftime show.
"Bad Bunny is, and I think that was demonstrated (at the Grammys), one of the great artists in the world, and that’s one of the reasons we chose him," Goodall gushed, completely forgetting he is Commissioner of the NATIONAL Football league, not the World League. Football is uniquely American/Canadian and we speak English here. We also don't like men grinding on each-other or pretending to be performing anal sex in front of our children.
Apparently Goodell wants a new fan base for the NFL. He deserves to get it too.
Mr. Bunny, whose name is really Ocasio (any relation to AOC?) wiped his Instagram account after the performance, suggesting he was getting creamed on it.
At any rate the media keeps gushing about his performance and completely ignores the hypersexualization, the insulting and vile language used by Hoppity which he got away with because it was in Spanish, and the overall weirdness of the whole event. They keep talking about it, too, which tells me they want to rewrite history; people largely hated it.
Here is a petition to get Roger Goodell sacked. Let's all sign it and make a difference.
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February 10, 2026
No Statehood for Puerto Rico
Timothy Birdnow
Here is something that flew in under the radar:
Puerto Rico enacts law recognizing legal personhood of the unborn child
There goes any possibility that Puerto Rico will become a state; the Democrats will never allow it.
The governor signed this into law in December but I'm only learning about it now.
Wonder why Bad Bunny didn't sing about this?
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NFL Elevates Discourse
Caution; salty language in this one. But then, the subject matter was lurid to begin with:
Daniel Jupp
Obviously I’m completely shocked to discover that Bad Bunny’s lyrics are those of a total fucking retard who can barely speak….Spanish.
There was a time when people who could only tell us that their cock was erect and say ‘tits, pussy, tits, pussy’ in an endless slavering loop of sub 70 IQ public masturbation were in asylums where they belong.
God help us there are probably university courses on this degenerate retarded slop.
I expect The Guardian will tell us that Bad Bunny is a monumentally important artist whose talent shines a light on the evils of white supremacy.
Of course objectively speaking there is a lot to feel supremacy over when you read the trash this ‘musical’ Igor slobbers out.
I don’t really believe any of these people are organic and authentic any more. I don’t even think bad music and dumb celebrities get famous by luck or talent. I don’t believe millions of people discover and download a person like this just because he posted stuff online.
It’s always a creation, and money was behind this person from the start.
Even if that isn’t the case, the guy is barely fit to stand in a toilet offering hand towels and aftershave. He could make a filthy urinal dirtier just by sharing his thoughts.
Historians of some other future culture studying this period will be utterly bemused.
Right….so they went from beautiful cathedrals to ‘dick, pussy, dick, pussy’ and told themselves it was progress?
Tim adds:
This is fundamentally no different than the trash talk coming out of 13 year old boys. If it's "toxic masculinity" then why is it art now? Because Bad Bunny is trans? Because he's Latina X?
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No Dates for American Kids
Timothy Birdnow
Naturally. The social atmosphere prevents it:
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See new postsConversationBrad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFSWe're in the midst of a "Dating Recession":
✔️ HS dating has fallen almost 50% since 1980
✔️In 2024, a "mere 46% of high school seniors reported ever going out on dates"
Sexual harassment codes make it very dangerous for a boy to date a girl in this modern age; if she gets mad she can accuse him of raping her or otherwise "sexually assaulting" her and he's in big, big trouble. Meanwhile feminism is all over the educational system and the girls are told boys are all patriarchal abusers and a great many girls fear them for no other reason. Who wants to date the root of all evil?
Meanwhile the kids don't work and have no money to actually date, and most of them don't drive so have no means of going anywhere anyway. Kids in New York may take public transit to date but outside of there few kids are going to ride the bus.
Rising levels of homosexuality and transgenderism are no doubt at work here too.
Couple all of that with the intense pressure of our modern hyper-sexualized culture on young innocent kids and you have the perfect storm.
I would add they say dating is now almost entirely done on-line, either meeting people that way or even more strangely simply chatting online. There is no human contact.
Covid only accelerated this; young people fear being in the company of others now, the gift of several years of the lockdowns.
Interesting how this worked out so well for the neo-malthusians who have feared population growth for over a century. People like Bill Gates and a host of others have seen overpopulation as the number one problem facing the world, and have labored to discourage any population growth. So, is this a happy accident or by design? I would argue the latter.
Paul Ehrlich must be pleased. You do remember HIM; author of The Population Bomb from the seventies, which was used as justificxation for the Club of Rome study "Limits to Growth" which formed the bedrock of so much modern leftist thinking. It was a declaration of despair then and it continues to stalk mankind now.
So America is about to suffer empty womb syndrome and our native born population will start to decline as it has in Europe. And we will suffer the same fate; the demise of American culture as we are overwhelmed by those who are having babies. Our own kids have given up on that, and by extension, given up on life.
Despair is an ugly thing. But that is what Liberalism creates in the end.
Liberalism is a doctrine of demons. It brings nothing but suffering in the final analysis.
BTW I didn't date much in high school either, but that was because I went to an all-boys high school and was shy to boot. My not dating was not because I didn't want to, rest assured. I regret not dating more then, when you have plenty of time to test the waters.
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Judge Rules ICE Can Still Wear Masks
Timothy Birdnow
A win in court.
The rulling does require they wear badges and identify what agency they are with, a reasonable enough restriction.
This judge ruled that California can ban masks provided all law enforcement is required to not wear them. So California may be able to "fix" the legislation. But that's for another day.
Not sure about her legal reasoning in this.
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Timothy Birdnow
The Trump Effect.
Sixty members of Congress are calling it quits, and more Republicans than Democrats.
Why? Because Trump has sucked the fun - and the gravy - out of the job.
Many are probably leaving out of fear that the DOJ will look at them and find their hands in the cookie jar. Many others probably just don't like the ascendancy of America First and miss the good old days when they didn't have to do anything, got to go to swank parties, and enjoyed the good life, with free vacations and insider information. Now they actually have to do something and that's not what they went to Washington to do. They are parasites and parasites don't want the host to recover.
I got a kick out of this:
Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is one of more than two dozen members leaving the House chamber to run for higher office, as he’s running for the open Senate seat in Illinois.
"The chance to be in a body that would, for instance, be able to hold the president accountable, with regard to Supreme Court justices, continue to pursue my agenda with regard to making the American dream possible for people who feel like it’s slipping out of reach right now, making staple items more affordable, it’s too hard to pass up,” Krishnamoorthi recently told NBC News. "So I’m seeking a promotion.”
Asked why so many of his colleagues are retiring, Krishnamoorthi noted that the political arena hasn’t exactly been a pleasant place to be in recent years.
"Over my 10 years here, I think Donald Trump has helped catalyze a real toxic partisan atmosphere,” he said, later adding, "I have not known normal. And I think for anybody who came here expecting something different and then being served up this kind of toxic brew of partisanship and character attacks and name-calling is going to be severely disappointed.”
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Who is he trying to kid? There was endless partisanship under Obama, and before Obama there was huge amounts of abuse heaped on George W. Bush. What this guy doesn't like is the Republicans started fighting back.
Doesn't he remember the passage of Obamacare, with Nancy Pelosi going through a protest holding her gavel aloft just to say FU to Republicans? Doesn't he remember Obama inflaming the BLM rioters with things like "If I had a son he would look like Trayvon (Martin)"? Has he forgotten the Ferguson riots? The repression of Conservatives, such as the abuse of the Pink Sisters or the loss of tax exempt status for groups that opposed the Administration, or the slow walking of applications for tax exemptions?
Remember, Barack Obama was a "community organizer" meaning he was a rabble rouser, who worked for Saul Alinsky's organization. Abusing people and playing dirty tricks and telling bald-faced lies was his stock in trade. YOU wanted him.
And that was just under Obama; Biden was Obama on steroids. Biden is the one who REALLY divided us. He used his toadie at the DOJ to make war on his political enemies. But it's TRUMP who is the bad guy, yes indeed!
Look in the mirror Congressman; it was your party that decided power was more important than decency. You created this.
At any rate the party's over and the revelers who milked the American taxpayer for decades now are suffering an after party hangover. So they are leaving, no doubt to get jobs on CNN or at Ivy League universities where they can still skim off the top.
They are parasites and like all parasites move on once the host is dead.
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How to Reform the Courts?
Timothy Birdnow
People do not understand the Constitution and separation of powers.
Most people think the courts cannot be disciplined by Congress because the Constitution says the courts are a coequal branch of government. But that isn't really true; the Supreme Court is a coequal branch of government and cannot be tampered with, but all inferior courts are created BY CONGRESS. Article III of the Constitution states:
Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Section 2
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State,—between Citizens of different States,—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
You will note that while judges have tenure for good behavior the Congress can indeed limit the scope of their authority.
While they have lifetime tenure, their offices do not and Congress can abolish any court it pleases, or it would not have been empowered to create them in the first place. You will note the Supreme Court was not given the power to create courts. And if Congress can't abolish a court then it can defund it. They have to pay the judge's salary but they don't have to give him any cases; cut funding for that district court to just the judge's salary and you have essentially removed him from office.
You can also give him an office in a tent, or a broom closet; that would go a long way towards reining these jerks in.
The Federalist article explains how judges may not be disciplined nor impeached for POLICY issues based on a Congressional act:
Of course the Democrats would filibuster any attempt to change THAT statute so it would still require sixty votes to pass. Any judicial reform will require that. And of course any change in statute will face challenge - in court. Judges are all going to be unwilling to rule in favor of limiting their own power.The law that creates the process for disciplining federal judges explicitly states that any complaint against a judge "directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling” is to be dismissed. Thus, judges, in essence, have immunity for anything they put into a decision or order. This statute was specifically referenced in a pair of decisions declining to investigate disciplinary complaints against Judge Boasberg, for example.
This is quite the protection for an individual with a lifetime appointment and who was never democratically elected. In theory (or practice?), a judge could look at the Constitution itself and decide he or she does not like the plain meaning of an article or amendment, and issue a ruling that would hold otherwise.
So reform is very unlikely. We will have to find new and creative ways to punish these clowns. It can be done but it takes some outside the box thinking.
The really sad thing is the Supreme Court can't even discipline the inferior courts, and they have to keep making the same rulings over and over as the lower judges just ignore them. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling should be an automatic dismissal, but the Founders didn't think of that. I suppose they figured giving SCOTUS the power to remove inferior judges gave them too much power, but they didn't understand how politicized the court system would become.
And they didn't understand how pucillanimous Congress would be. The Demo-Left uses the courts to simply negate the will of the people and at the same time avoid the consequences of their actions.
The courts are out of control and need to be reminded that they work for the People and not for one political party. We need new and better ideas for reining them in. Frankly, we need a Constitutional Amendment that would allow for the removal of judges. I like a retention vote periodically, as is done with judges in state courts. And maybe allow for a recall petition.
But that would of course require an amendment. Now we are limited in our ability to influence the black robes. But it won't be so forever. Mostly it comes down to finding people to serve in Congress who have a pair of danglies. Too bad so few in the GOP meet that definition.
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Amputating Love
Timothy Birdnow
Kentucky Governor Andy Besheear has been imbibing too much bourbon whiskey, methinks.
Bashear invokes the Bible as justification for promoting transgenderism. Perhaps he ought to actually READ the Bible and not just quote snippets.
After pointing to the Good Samaritan passage (which has nothing to do with human sexuality one way or another) and Jesus calling for us to "love thy neighbor" he goes on to say:
"My faith teaches me, that all children are children of God."
Well and good, but if he wants to actually honor children as "children of God" he must first accept them as they are - as children of God made in His image. God doesn't mistakenly put female souls in male bodies or vice versa.
Truly honoring these disturbed children means protecting them, not mutilating them.
Transgenderism is a form of witchcraft. It is an attempt to use magical thinking to transform what God ordained into something He did not ordaine by an act of human will.
At any rate, my point about Beshear not reading the Bible can be illustrated quite clearly.
Here are multiple relevant Biblical passages condemning transgenderism:
"Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created” (Genesis 5:2).
"He answered, ‘Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matthew 19:4-6).
"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).
Deuteronomy 22:5
"A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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"No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
1Corinthians 6:9
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Guess Beshear missed all of those.
There is nothing loving about encouraging someone into serious sin, nor facing the penalty, be it corporal or spiritual, for rejecting the Will of God. If you want to love transgendered children you would labor to help them overcome their feelings, which are largely a product of their environment. These are sick children, or confused children at a minimum. They requie care, not encouragement ib their delusions.
If a man says he's Napoleon we lock him up, but if a boy says he's a girl we now treat him like one. If we did the same thing with the Emperor of France everyone would agree that is completely mad.
That's why we are seeing more psychological disorders being accepted and mainstreamed, and eventually pedophilia and necrophilia and other really sick stuff will wind up being called natural.
It's not natural and never will be. It's a psychosis. You love a person with a psycosis but not the psychosis itself. Beshear is promoting lovig the psychosis and not the psychotic.
Man HIS priorities are seriously screwed up.
If someone goes to the doctor with pneumonia do we say that's natural and he should be able to live as a pneumonic-American? Now, we treat them to get rid of the illness. Beshear wants to not treat the illness but rather to do actual physical harm, cutting off breasts and testicles and the like and doing permanent damage to what may well be a temporary psychological hiccup.
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Victory Lap
Timothy Birdnow
I keep hearing the song Popcorn playing in my head!
The truth is popping out all over!
They tried desperately to say the election of 2020 was fair and that Trump was just a sore loser and criminal, but their actions always were reminiscent of Shakespeare "me thinks they doth protest too much".
I kept the faith even when a lot of Conservatives were ready to throw in the towel (in the good old Karl Rove fashion). Turns out we here at The Aviary were right and it is now coming to light.
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Megyn Kelly Does Us Proud!
Timothy Birdnow
Megyn Kelly just torched Piers Morgan, completely ripping the British Bumble a new one.
She's nailed it on every point!
She points out that while forty million people speak Spanish in America that means 310 million do not and she went on to say that Britain has lost its culture because of just this sort of thing and America is not going to go quietly. She was really impassioned too.
Do watch it.
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