January 09, 2026
Still Just Thugs
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting if windy explanation of the "NPR Voice" and why it matters.
The author spills considerable digital ink addressing the Enlightenment and the way Liberals think, and he's not wrong, but it boils down to just one simple proposition.
They are just pompous buffoons trying to pretend they are divine-like voices of pure reason.
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The thread connecting all of these Enlightenment movements is the effort to discredit patrimonial authority — grounded upon religion, relational affinity, and fealty to tradition — as arbitrary and autocratic. The various Enlightenment movements aimed to displace the personal, autocratic modes of authority that had grounded the fading Late Medieval order and install in their place a regime of impersonal, rationally grounded authority structures that would legitimize the ascendant powers of capital and "scientific” state management.
Strange to say, this fact lies at the heart of the liberal’s affinity for NPR voice. The breezing monotone functions to obscure personal agency. The monotonous, anodyne drone that characterizes NPR voice serves to convey the illusion that the words the listener hears are "spoken” by a disembodied Spirit of Disinterested Rationality, unleavened by any preference, agenda, perspective, or personality. If "The Science” could speak, it would do so in NPR voice.
In other words they are like gods. Gods do not have to shout or make a fuss; they speak quietly because they can. And this also gives the impression of deep thought and careful consideration, something that is not true but is rooted in human psychology. The person who is loud and aggressive is usually thought to be the less intelligent.
That is why the Left has so much dichotomy; they need shock troops, foot soldiers to be loud and aggressive and even violent while others, such as the stooges at NPR, speak with this quiet intellectualism. They divide in two what most of us do as a unified thing so they can lay claim to both the high ground intellectually/morally and at the same time can attain the benefits of bullying and strong-arming. It's the carrot and the stick.
That's why the Left has power bases in both academia and in Big Labor - the carrot and the stick.
Conservatives do this too to a much lesser degree. We see that today with the division between the old Paleocons, the National Review folks who despise the MAGA people as uncouth hillbillies. The National Review types are the same as the NPR voice whisperers in many ways, and rarely raise their voices or display passion lest someone think them unmannerly. They don't like the people who get down and dirty. But the fact is the Left has always understood the need for both and have divided the labor while the Right seems to struggle with that. But then we are more nearly human in our thinking than are they and we require less division by and large. Oh, and you can divide this way when you have control of the dissemination of information; shut out a group and it has no choice but be loud.
At any rate the NPR voice is largely a stuffed-shirt attempt to take the high ground, pretend to be disinterested. Yes, it probably was born out of the Enlightenment, but then we've had this sort of thing since the Greeks, no doubt, and probably well before.
Anyone remember Tom Daschle? He was the very soft spoken Senate Majority leader back in the Bush days. He always spoke softly and sounded quite gentle, even though he was the most viciously partisan creep in the government at that time and he did awful things all while using the NPR voice. Harry Reid did that too, to a lesser extent.
It's pure hypocrisy but it's not intended to be anything but. It's intended to calm people's fears while you are plunging in the knife.
It's a form a lying, lying by tone of voice. They are not dispassionate but ruthless thugs who hide behind a mild voice to ease people's fears. But in the end they are still just thugs.
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In Vain
Timothy Birdnow
So, the woman who was killed by ICE agents in Minnesota was a radical activist who hooked up with a group of RESIST! types through her son's woke school. Oh, and she's a lesbian, did I mention that?
FTA:
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts "social justice first” and prioritizes "involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
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Good and her wife, Rebecca, 40, were raising the boy together in the mostly working-class, activist-heavy neighborhood of south Minneapolis, which features tree-lined streets and a large number of homes with windows decked out in LGBTQ+ flags or signs depicting George Floyd.
I'm sorry but a neighborhood with LGBTQ signs and rainbow flags and homages to George Floyd is not a "working class" neighborhood; it's a gentrified homosexual neighborhood that was formerly working class.
I used to work for a property management company and saw this on many occasions; gay folks moved into formerly working class, often decaying, neighborhoods and made them their own, and they did much to improve the place. That is fine and they would make those areas their own. More power to 'em I sez. But let's not give a false impression. This was not a "working class neighborhood". It was gentrified, or on it's way to being so.
And the school she sent her kid (adopted I assume)? It was clearly a lunatic asylum full of the wokest of woke idiots. There she got involved in ICE Watch, a group dedicated to disrupting raids on illegal invaders.
Good and her sapphic life partner had immigrated to Canada after the election of Donald Trump but true to form returned to make mischief in the U.S. Leftists always threaten to leave, and even when they do they never STAY gone. If they hate America so much why not become Canadian permanently? There is no culture shock after all. But they just won't do that. That's because leftists suffer from a mental disorder and are determined to make the whole world suffer from the same disorder so they won't be alone.
That appears to be what this Good chick had going anyway.
This is, of course, exactly what the Left had hoped for; some idiot foot soldier to push right up to the edge and get shot and then they would have their martyr. All revolutions need martyrs. And they will ride this thing as long as they possibly can. I have little doubt groups like ICE Watch were told by their funders to start getting more aggressive with just this in mind. With mid-terms coming up they need an issue to be able to use to get the public to turn on the Trump Administration and Republicans and a few deaths of a few dim-wits like this Good chick is a small price to pay for political power.
I wonder if her partner will actually learn anything from this. Probably not.
Fortunately Trump isn't the average Republican, who would have scurried for cover by now. I caught J.D. Vance in a presser, defiant and unwilling to be made into the bad guy in this. That is what must happen; the public will hear and believe. In the old days the GOP always looked guilty because they went into CYA mode and actually tried to explain whey they had stopped beating their wives. Hemming and hawing is a sign of guilt, even if the person is innocent - he LOOKS guilty. An innocent man is defiant, and so should the Administration remain. It was GOOD's antisocial attack on an ICE agent that led to her own death, not the actions of the law enforcers. In fact some of the others, like Good's partner, should be charged in this.
An automobile is a quarter ton weapon and can be used even more effectively than a gun in the wrong hands.
Before I met my wife she did that. She was in college at the time and coming home. Someone had broken into her car and was forcing her to drive; no doubt he planned on raping her and probably would have killed her afterward. She was smart; she sped up and ran every stop light and stop sign and the man was terrified - he jumped out of the car as soon as she stopped and ran for it. Had she just obeyed he would have raped her and likely put her in the ground. See, he had a knife - she had a car, a far deadlier weapon. (In fact I ripped that last phrase off writer Larry Niven, who wrote a story similar to my wife's experience and he based it on similar stories he had heard. It happens more than people realize; the car is a quarter ton of death.)
This woman planned to use that quarter ton of death to murder a federal agent and no doubt everyone is surprised she was killed when attempting an assassination.
The point is the Democrats and the Left have raised this to a fever pitch and are now engaging in open violence. They have already gone to the assassination phase, having tried and almost succeeded in murdering Trump and having murdered Charlie Kirk. This is revolution. And still the Democrats call the minor riot on Jan. 16, the one where only a rioter was killed and where people mostly went in the Capitol and strolled about, taking selfies, an insurrection while they themselves refuse to call out this sort of violence on the part of their own supporters. They are traitors, frankly.
A caller to Hannity's radio show yesterday made a great point; the Democrats supported the insurrection in 1860 to keep their slaves and they support insurrection today to keep their wage slaves. Who will wash our dishes or cut our lawns if we don't bring in millions of people? The Antebellum Southerners made the same argument "who will pick our cotton or tote our baggage if we don't have slaves"? They haven't changed much since 1865 it seems.
Actually they have - a lot. The Southern rebellion had a core principle rooted in America, and could be seen as a small c conservative movement in that it attempted to preserve a status quo that had to change. And it was about the rights of states to determine their own destiny, something implicit in the Constitution. Now it's about a radicalism that seeks to destroy the U.S. and re-establish it along a more "modern" European value system, with a new population brought in from overseas to water down the old American beliefs and establish a "more just" social order built on socialism and the rule of "experts" and other elites. This is quite at odds with what the South was trying to do at the time of the Civil War; the South just wanted to be left alone. Now the Democrats - the party that once led the rebellion - wants to remake us and demands we pay for it, and they are the ones who refuse to leave anyone else alone.
So perhaps they still follow form if not function. Any way you look at it they are perfectly happy to use whatever means necessary to impose their will, up to and including murder and mayhem.
At some point this is going to go too far and all hell will break loose. We are in a civil war right now, how bad it gets depends on how vicious they want to be. School shootings, for instance, are a coefficient of this same movement and is designed to terrorize Americans and get us to knuckle under for peace. The shooters are usually just dumb kids who are easily recruited and stimulated into it, but it is the left who establishes networks and groups and who WANT this.
Saul Alinsky once said that it was necessary to "rub raw the sores of discontent". In other words, get everyone angry and frightened and at each-other's throats then they can offer a way out. That has been the Left's MO for a century or more. It works by and large.
So that's what this woman was about; she was a foot soldier in a war that ultimately was not in her interest or anyone's but the elites she probably believes are the villains but in fact were her masters.
Her death was at best in vain. That is a sad legacy indeed.
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Some Personal Notes from Tim
Dear readers,
I am sorry blogging has been even lighter than usual; I have been under the weather for the last week or so and, coupled with some family issues as well as cleaning up some messes left from when Cathy passed away I haven't had the time nor the inclination to post much.
Hopefully that will change in the immediate future, although it's still going to be a while before I get back to the blogging of yore. I still can't seem to work up a lot of enthusiasm for it. That is what grief does to you.
At least that's what the grief counselor I spoke with told me. She was great; I was on the phone with her for about an hour and a half. She came from Gentiva, the hospice firm, which was absolutely wonderful through the entire process of Cathy's passing. She called ME and she knew all about my case and who I was and what I was going through and it was wonderful to actually speak with someone who could address my specific situation, who understood, rather than just gave easy platitudes and stock answers.
She warned me that my concentration would be off for a while, which it has been. So too would my interest in most things - even the stuff I love. It's normal, to be expected. She told me to take plenty of time for muself.
We spoke about my father, and his situation. I am quite worried about my father. As regular readers know my father is in his mid-nineties and has been sick this last year. In fact we put him in the same nursing home as my wife so I could keep an eye on both of them, and I was like one of those '50's roller skating waitresses, shooting back and forth between their two rooms and going to talk with the staff about their many mistakes (which were constant in that place). Now Cathy is gone but Dad remains but isn't well and I feel I should be doing more. The grief counselor advised me strongly to let my brother handle it and take time off; she said I desperately need it and will probably really injure myself if I do not. I already spent five days in the hospital as a result of the pressure of it all, just when Cathy was about to die, too. {She thoughtfully waited for me to get back before leaving this weary old world). I need to take my time.
At any rate I remain worn down and was quite sick a few days ago. I was having trouble breathing and thought to call for an ambulance but the thought of getting dressed and being dragged to a place where I was just going to sit and wait for hours anyway seemed daunting, so I rode it out. I figure if God wanted to take me He would have, and if not then staying home wasn't going to kill me. It didn't. I have felt progressively better each day, though I'm still not back to normal.
I WAS exposed to the flu; my neighbor came over to me and was talking my ear off and she said "this is the first time I've been out of the house in a while; I have had the flu". Great. She's a very nice lady and I was glad for the company but it may have just been standard influenza, or even Covid, but at least it wasn't my heart condition. I live with the regular diseases.
At any rate I am still not totally up to snuff.
And yesterday was a series of disagreeable events. I went to open the blinds on my bedroom window to let light in when I got up and the blinds fell down. I had a devil of a time getting them back up and when I did they were all cattywumpas and wouldn't work. I wound up hanging a lace throw over the window for some privacy; I'll have to address those blinds in a day or two, when I feel up for it.
Then the wifi went out and so did my televisions. I was cut off from the world.
I tried to pay my gas bill over the phone and they said my credit card was declined. I checked it when I went out; it worked elsewhere. So now I have to make sure the stupid gas company gets paid so they don't shut me off - something that could well happen given my luck over the last year.
I've had trouble with my bank card since I misplaced my checkbook and put a temporary hold on my account. I couldn't just take the hold off, oh no! I had to get a new card with new numbers, and new passwords, and now this stupid card only works about 75% of the time. The stupid thing gets denied fairly often these days for no good reason except that I made the mistake of asking the bank to hold the account until I found the checkbook.
Then I needed to draw money out of my retirement funds and when my money manager tried he said there was a hold on the account; they had found out Cathy, who was the principle name on the fund, had passed away and so I couldn't get the money. I need it; I have big bills to pay and in fact wrote some checks that are now going to be pushing me uncomfortably close to insufficient funds. I should have enough but it's cutting it fine; no more spending until I know the money is in the account. I had to go out to my money manager's office, and they moved into a new building which I had a devil of a time finding. It was creepy too; a very deep basement parking garage, dark and forbidding. You could survive a nuclear attack down there easily (assuming you had food and water of course). Then I dropped my garage ticket and had to go back into the place (a fairly long walk) and look for it. Fortunately I found it on the floor. By this time much of the day was over and I had no desire to go grocery shopping, as I had planned. I would up eating some leftover spaghetti that was suspiciously aged I dug out of the fridge. Given my tendency to eat antiquities these days it's a wonder I haven't passed from some food-born pathogen.
So that's how it's been going for some time now; one minor mishap after another, interspersed with major disasters. I had hoped my luck was about to change but no dice.
At any rate I got the wifi back last night and just plunked down to watch t.v. and answer the phone calls from my brother, who called me numerous times about my father. No rest for the wicked they say; I must have been a bad, bad boy in a past life (assuming there were such). My mother used to collect all manner of stuff (she was a pack rat) and she had these little figurines. One had a man sitting under a tree with a bird above him and it was captioned "go ahead; everyone else does". I am feeling like that these days.
Hopefully I'll be back in the saddle soon. Please stay tuned.
Tim
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January 08, 2026
Houston We Have a Problem
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone remember the movie Apollo 13 when Fred Haise, after Commander James Lovell asked how he was feeling, said "I think (Jim) Swaggert gave me the clap".
The astronaut on the ISS (Once to be called Freedom when it was solely an American project) called Mission Control and asked to speak to a flight surgeon on a private line. Now apparently the mandarins at NASA are thinking about scrubbing the whole mission.
Very curious.
One wonders just what it could be; obvious they fear something contagious, or deadly, or both.
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January 06, 2026
Hegseth to Strip Mark Kelly of Rank, Pension
Timothy Birdnow
Senator Mark Kelly figured he could shoot his mouth off and nothing would happen. He should think again.
FTA:
What Kelly was saying about "illegal orders" means lower ranks simply deciding they didn't like the Commander-in-Chief's orders and so refuse to obey them.
The President is the Commander-in-Chief and unless his orders are way over the top (like ordering trooops to shoot American citizens in peacetime) they must be obeyed. If people like Kelly don't like that they can work to remove the President legally. They have no right to subborn insobrdination.
Hopefully this will just be the beginning of ways they will punish this jerk.
No doubt Kelly will try to challenge this in civil court.
Senator Mark Kelly figured he could shoot his mouth off and nothing would happen. He should think again.
FTA:
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday began taking steps to demote Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly from his current military rank over his role in a viral video telling U.S. service members and spy agencies they must "refuse illegal orders” by the Trump administration.
Hegseth posted a statement to social media saying the Pentagon is taking administrative action to initiate retirement grade proceedings to demote Kelly from a retired Navy captain to a lower rank, with a corresponding deduction in pay. Hegseth also announced a formal letter of censure, outlining Kelly’s "reckless misconduct.”
"Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice,” Hegseth wrote in a Monday morning X post.
"Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret),” the War Secretary added. "The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.
Hegseth posted a statement to social media saying the Pentagon is taking administrative action to initiate retirement grade proceedings to demote Kelly from a retired Navy captain to a lower rank, with a corresponding deduction in pay. Hegseth also announced a formal letter of censure, outlining Kelly’s "reckless misconduct.”
"Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice,” Hegseth wrote in a Monday morning X post.
"Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret),” the War Secretary added. "The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.
What Kelly was saying about "illegal orders" means lower ranks simply deciding they didn't like the Commander-in-Chief's orders and so refuse to obey them.
The President is the Commander-in-Chief and unless his orders are way over the top (like ordering trooops to shoot American citizens in peacetime) they must be obeyed. If people like Kelly don't like that they can work to remove the President legally. They have no right to subborn insobrdination.
Hopefully this will just be the beginning of ways they will punish this jerk.
No doubt Kelly will try to challenge this in civil court.
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Lies for Hire in Minnesota
Timothy Birdnow
Well, well, well...
SUBMITTED: Minneapolis Craigslist post in search of child actors for daycare site where funding was "cruelly ripped away without cause.”
"To help hurry this state vetting process, we are looking to hire 20 child actors for 3 days while state is present on site.”
$1,500/day… pic.twitter.com/vvhDCR235g
— Liz Collin (@lizcollin) January 4, 2026
Well, well, well...
SUBMITTED: Minneapolis Craigslist post in search of child actors for daycare site where funding was "cruelly ripped away without cause.”
"To help hurry this state vetting process, we are looking to hire 20 child actors for 3 days while state is present on site.”
$1,500/day… pic.twitter.com/vvhDCR235g
— Liz Collin (@lizcollin) January 4, 2026
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Babbitt Butcher Makes Good
Timothy Birdnow
Remember Michael Byrd? He was the Capitol Hill cop who shot and killed Ahsli Babbitt on January six, then received not a punishment for shooting an unarmed protester but actually was given a promotion.
Well since that time he's become very rich at taxpayer expense.
Developing: Lt. Michael Byrd Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Dead on Jan. 6, 2021 in Cold Blood, Runs an ‘Unaccredited’ Day-Care Center in Maryland at His Home and Has Pocketed $190 Million in HHS Funds
Byrd was an incompetent "affirmative action" hire who once left his service revolver in a public restroom at a restaurant and who was in trouble for getting into a fight at a kids soccer game, among other issues. Yet they kept him and, after shooting Babbitt who posed no threat to his personal safety, was not only never charged with a crime but actually received a promotion.
Now it seems he's been living the life of Reilly, enjoying the fruits of the Walz scam that has plucked American taxpayers like chicken destined for the cookpot.
This is how it works with the Left; they not only protect their own but reward them for it. Byrd should have been prosecuted for manslaughter at least, or wreckless homicide. They rewarded him. Oh, and they probably want him to keep his mouth shut about what really happened that day. I suspect Mr. Byrd knows more than he's told.
The Gateway Pundit dishes:
$190 MILLION for a home daycare??!! This is fraud on a massive scale and this scumbag needs to be put in prison for a long, long time.
And this guy was dirty long before he murdered Mrs. Babbitt, it seems. How long has this daycare scheme been going?
Meanwhile Ashli Babbitt has a life sentence in a pine box and her family has no visiting privileges.
Remember Michael Byrd? He was the Capitol Hill cop who shot and killed Ahsli Babbitt on January six, then received not a punishment for shooting an unarmed protester but actually was given a promotion.
Well since that time he's become very rich at taxpayer expense.
Developing: Lt. Michael Byrd Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Dead on Jan. 6, 2021 in Cold Blood, Runs an ‘Unaccredited’ Day-Care Center in Maryland at His Home and Has Pocketed $190 Million in HHS Funds
Byrd was an incompetent "affirmative action" hire who once left his service revolver in a public restroom at a restaurant and who was in trouble for getting into a fight at a kids soccer game, among other issues. Yet they kept him and, after shooting Babbitt who posed no threat to his personal safety, was not only never charged with a crime but actually received a promotion.
Now it seems he's been living the life of Reilly, enjoying the fruits of the Walz scam that has plucked American taxpayers like chicken destined for the cookpot.
This is how it works with the Left; they not only protect their own but reward them for it. Byrd should have been prosecuted for manslaughter at least, or wreckless homicide. They rewarded him. Oh, and they probably want him to keep his mouth shut about what really happened that day. I suspect Mr. Byrd knows more than he's told.
The Gateway Pundit dishes:
On Tuesday, investigative journalist Paul Sperry discovered recently and posted on Tuesday that Former Lt., now Captain Mike Byrd, has been running an unaccredited day-care center with his wife in their Maryland home since 2008. That is nearly 17 years!
The Byrds have received $190 million in this HHS day-care scheme.
The Byrds have received $190 million in this HHS day-care scheme.
$190 MILLION for a home daycare??!! This is fraud on a massive scale and this scumbag needs to be put in prison for a long, long time.
And this guy was dirty long before he murdered Mrs. Babbitt, it seems. How long has this daycare scheme been going?
Meanwhile Ashli Babbitt has a life sentence in a pine box and her family has no visiting privileges.
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Biden's Fault (What Else is New?)
Timothy Birdnow
I know it seems like we blame Biden for everything but Biden is pretty much to blame for everything...
Trump’s HHS rescinds Biden rule that gave child care centers funding without verifying attendance
Recently Bill H. opined that Tim Walz was chosen to be the V.P. to Kamala Harris so he could take this program national, and undoubtedly the reason they wanted that was sos they could skim vast sums of wealth off the top. I suspect Bill is correct; everything seemed to work together here to create what is perhaps the most massive fraud machine in history.
I doubt we have even scratched the surface on this. Remember, the daycare scam was only one element of this; the DOJ is investigating multiple cons over a wide range involving the Somalis in partnership with the political class.
I know it seems like we blame Biden for everything but Biden is pretty much to blame for everything...
Trump’s HHS rescinds Biden rule that gave child care centers funding without verifying attendance
Recently Bill H. opined that Tim Walz was chosen to be the V.P. to Kamala Harris so he could take this program national, and undoubtedly the reason they wanted that was sos they could skim vast sums of wealth off the top. I suspect Bill is correct; everything seemed to work together here to create what is perhaps the most massive fraud machine in history.
I doubt we have even scratched the surface on this. Remember, the daycare scam was only one element of this; the DOJ is investigating multiple cons over a wide range involving the Somalis in partnership with the political class.
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January 05, 2026
Walz Out of Race
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like Tampon Tim is quitting his bid for re-election.
Tim Walz Reportedly Ending Re-election Campaign; Has a New Retard Been Slected?
If Walz were a team player he'd resign but I don't think he's man enough.
Looks like Tampon Tim is quitting his bid for re-election.
Tim Walz Reportedly Ending Re-election Campaign; Has a New Retard Been Slected?
If Walz were a team player he'd resign but I don't think he's man enough.
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January 04, 2026
Dems Suddenly Discover Rule of Law
Timothy Birdnow
"Trump’s unilateral operation last night was an illegal act of war without Congress’s authorization,”
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.)
He seems to have forgotten when Bill Clinton bombed an aspirin factory in the Sudan on the eve of his impeachment, or Barack Hussein Obama making drone strikes on American citizens.
"This war is illegal, it’s embarrassing that we went from the world cop to the world bully in less than one year"
Ruben Gallego D Arizona
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) also chimed in.
"President Trump’s unilateral military action to attack another country and seize Maduro — no matter how terrible a dictator he is — is unconstitutional and threatens to drag the U.S. into further conflicts in the region,
"The American people voted for lower costs, not for Trump’s dangerous military adventurism overseas that won’t make the American people safer.”
Elizabeth "Big Smelly Sqwah" Warren, DMASS
I hate to tell this dope but the War Powers Act grants the President this very authority.
Here's more:
"Without authorization from Congress, and with the vast majority of Americans opposed to military action, Trump just launched an unjustified, illegal strike on Venezuela,”
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
In fact WWII was the last time Congress actually declared war, so what are these clowns beefing about? we've fought plenty of wars without formal Congressional approval.
I caught Jonathan Turley this morning saying this has very solid legal grouds as it was ultimately a law-enforcement issue, and no boots were on the ground except Delta Force, and they were in and out well withing the legal timeframe.
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January 03, 2026
Atlanta Churches Commit Vote Fraud
Timothy Birdnow
Whatever happened to "thou shalt not bear false witness"? Fake voter registrations are breaking this Commandment.
If white churches in, say, Texas tried this people would go to jail or at least lose their tax exempt status.But liberal black churches are not about God or Christ so much as about social activism and are given a pass because, like, racism and stuff!
This is felony vote fraud.
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Portland Orders Employees to Rat Out ICE
Timothy Birdnow
This is a crime.
18 U.S. Code § 118 - Interference with certain protective functions
Any person who knowingly and willfully obstructs, resists, or interferes with a Federal law enforcement agent engaged, within the United States or the special maritime territorial jurisdiction of the United States, in the performance of the protective functions authorized under section 37 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2709) or section 103 of the Diplomatic Security Act (22 U.S.C. 4802) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
(Added Pub. L. 109–472, § 4(a), Jan. 11, 2007, 120 Stat. 3555.)
FTA:
Portland, Oregon, officials across the city government are instructed to call an activist group for help if they spot Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and to record their actions for potential legal cases, according to a November memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
City workers should call a hotline to the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) when ICE appears, demand that the agency present judicial warrants for access to buildings and send documentation of any ICE incident to the city attorney, the memo says. "PIRC will activate MigraWatch volunteers to investigate and confirm reports of ICE,” reads the document, which is labeled an "Employee Guide” for interacting with immigration authorities.
fin
Portopottyland is in open rebellion against the laws of the United States.
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U.S. Captures Maduro
Timothy Birdnow
This is from NOt the Bee, not the Bee:
PBS is reporting this too, apparently. Or at least they are reporting the government is saying this is so.
The U.S. launched a major air offensive just as Maduro was meeting with the Chinese, leading him to flee into a trap.
The Venezuelans appear to confirm this:
Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Maduro and Flores were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation when they were captured.
"That's where they bombed," he said. "And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the president and the first lady of the country."
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Maduro's wife was also grabbed by American special forces in the raid.
It doesn't pay to screw with Donald Trump.
(George Bush would have taken two years to build up a massive coalition and then invaded, losing Maduro in the process. It's great to have a guy who knows how to do this kind of stuff.)
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Hochul Insults New York and all the First Responders by Honoring Islam at World Tkrade Center
Timothy Birdnow
And New York givenor, er, governor Kathy "Hockum" Hochul says Islam in New York makes the state stronger, conveniently forgetting the thousands dead on 911 when the twin towers went dow at the hands of Muslims.
[linj=https://notthebee.com/article/new-york-lights-up-world-trade-center-green-in-honor-of-islamic-heritage-month-and-the-comments-are-not-happy]New York lights up One World Trade Center green in honor of Muslim Heritage Month and the internet is not happy
Governor Kathy Hochul@GovKathyHochulThe resilience, compassion, and contributions of Muslim communities help make our state stronger.
Tonight landmarks across the state are lit green as New York celebrates Muslim American Heritage Month.
Charming. In addition to forgetting about the 911 attacks she has also forgotten the first World Trade Center bombing as well as multiple "incidents" deemed as crimes where Muslims attacked and murdered non-Muslims, particularly Jews.
One interesting thing; I wanted to look up a few such cases and remember a number of them and yet the search engines - even Duckduckgo, wouldn't find any. I tried to go to Conservapedia and could not open it despite trying from multiple directions. No searches showed it had closed. Curiouser and curiouser.
One tech blog I found, which mocked the site endlessly and viciously, said it was down due to overdemand for the servers. Perhaps. But it was all I could find and this was a horribly biased site. I suspect cyber attacks; we've seen this often.
At any rate the point is that Muslims have been killing folks in New York for some time now and apparently Hochul doesn't know or care.
Imagine if some Southern rednecks moved to New York and killed people and blew up the Twin Towers; Hochul would sing quite a different tune.
If New Yorkers re-elect this buffoon they deserve what they get.
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Timothy Birdnow
True to his nature; a Muslim and Communist.
If I were Jewish I'd get the hell out of New York. And I'd vote Republican for the rest of my life no matter how attached I was to the old Democrat Party.
From One America News Network (OANN):
In Mamdani’s (D-N.Y.) first action since his swearing in on Thursday, January 1st, he overturned orders signed by Adams (D-N.Y.) that implemented pro-Israel policies.
Adams’ Executive Order 61 recognized the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and provided additional New York Police Department (NYPD) security to synagogues in New York City. A separate directive blocked city agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel.
"On his very first day as @NYCMayor, Mamdani shows his true face: He scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel. This isn’t leadership. It’s antisemitic gasoline on an open fire,” the Israel Foreign Ministry wrote in an X post.
It also should be pointed out that Menshevik Momdani swore his oath of office on the Koran. As I pointed out years ago, the Koran explicitly encourages oath breaking when it advances Sharia.
[Bukhari:V7B67N427] "The Prophet said, ‘If I take an oath and later find something else better than that, then I do what is better and expiate my oath.'"
So essentially Menshevik Momdani swore an oath on a religious document that encourages oathbreaking hen convenient. And we let him do it.
And of course the Koran and Haditha are chock-full of passages calling Jews Pigs and subhuman and encouraging their destruction. THIS is what the man swore to uphold, not protections for every citizen in the Big Wormy Apple.
This is the first crack in the American armor against Sharia, and if it isn't closed it will spread just as it has done in Europe. Momdani is the equivalent of a barbarian chieftain invading the Roman Empire; fail to stop him and the whole thing eventually will fall.
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Russia Gives Evidence Zelensky Tried to Assassinate Him
Timothy Birdnow
Putin has handed over the evidence to the Trump Administration proving the Ukrainians did indeed target him for assassination by drone.
The Ukrainians deny this and so does the Central Intelligence Agency.
Putins evidence is the drone's black box, which showed it's point of origin and telemetry.
Trying to assassinate Putin is a major escalation and if Trummp simply denies it or says "so" things could get hairy - hairier than they already are now.
"Kostykov described that the "decryption of the content of the memory of the navigation controller of the drones carried out by specialists of Russia’s special services confirms without question that the target of the attack was the complex of buildings of the Russian president’s residence in the Novgorod region."
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Putin had informed President Trump about the alleged incident on the day it occurred via phone call, and Trump initially appeared to accept Moscow’s version, expressing sympathy and saying he "wasn't happy about it." He followed by sharing a New York Post article which said Moscow "is the one standing in the way of peace."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would not withdraw from peace talks with Washington, but would still adjust its negotiating stance and respond militarily, adding that potential targets had already been selected. "Such reckless actions will not go unanswered," he said.
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In response Russia will likely increase her attacks on Odessa, the lifeline of the Ukrainian economy. NATO-assisted Ukrainian military operations have been launched from Odessa into Russia in recent weeks and the Kremlin is likely planning to strangle that major city.
Meanwhile a report in the New York Times has confirmed the CIA has remained heavily involved in the escalation of the war there despite Trump issuing orders to stay out of it for the Pentagon and other espionage agencies.
This war is only winnable for the Ukrainians if they get direct aid, boots on the ground, from NATO, and that will guarantee the Big One. Russia is not going down so quietly.
Trump desperately wants to settle this; he had promised to end it within days of his election and now, 11 months later, there is little progress. And Trump wants the Nobel Prize because that would be a huge boost to his political authority in the U.S. and help him advance his program (not to mention being a giant ego-booster). Mr. Trump dare not walk away from this, but his involvement is extremely dangerous. We are walking a tightrope at this point.
Where this is going to go is anyone's guess but if the Democrats take Congress you can bet it goes south faster than Sherman.
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Sharia in Britain
Timothy BIrdnow
Here's how the media lies to the public. Usually not with overt lies but with what they refuse to say.
While technically true the lead makes you think these are just average British kids when in fact they are Ibrahim Ishfaq (left) and Mohammed Hasan, both eighteren and adults, and a third 17 year old whose name thus cannot be released. Look at the photos in the article; these thugs look like they just stepped off an ISIS recruitment poster.
22 year old Idris Urfan was also charged with aiding and abetting.
Naturally police did not release the name of the victim, who undoubtedly was English and not a Middle Eastern Muslim.
Yes, this is the BBC so we expect bias from it, but no mention was made of motive in this story, which tells us that the motives were undoubtedly religious in nature.
Britain isn't committing suicide via immigration it already has done so. People are afraid to question the motives of thugs like this because the authorities might prosecute someone who draws the obvious conclusions. Britain is truly now under Sharia law, if only informally. As the number of Muslims rise that will become a formal arrangement
God save the king because nobody else will in the end. Eventually instead of a king they will have a Caliph.
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January 02, 2026
All Murders in the Kremlin
Timothy Birdnow
In my best Spencer Tracey voice "ri-ight".
I always believe anonymous national security people. I mean, they had it so right when they said Trump was a "Russian asset" or that the Hunter Biden laptop story was "Russian Deezinforrmation" or whatnot.
Of course we all know Putin would never tell a lie; the man makes George Washington look like Joseph Goebbles.
Actually there is a third possibility, one not considered by tge good folks at Conservative Treehouse; both could be telling the truth. So what does that mean?
Either WE or another third party tried to drone Vlad the Invader. That is not an impossibility. In fact, droning Putin would go a long way towards ending this conflict, no question.
I do not believe Donald Trump would authorize such a thing, because the likely successor to Putin would probably be much worse, but many in our national security apparatus wouldn't think that far ahead and would happily issues orders to assassinate the mad poisoner if they thought they could get away with it.
So, we essentially have these options: Zelensky tried to drone Putin (which also would have served him well), the U.S. or NATO tried to drone him, or the Russians did it themselves in hopes of replacing their leadership. I rather doubt that as it would be a death sentence for anyone who plotted that particular action inside of Putin's junta but it is possible. The Ukrainians are still the logical candidates, but I wouldn't put it past the CIA to pull this sort of thing.
Oh, one final option; the Russians did it themselves to give a reason for not accepting any peace deal. I dismiss this out of hand; Putin is not so foolish and he knows that won't work to garner any sympathy for his cause. Putin is a realist.
I think it was either the Ukrainians or the CIA. Not sure which but Ukraine is essentially the CIA's proxy country these days and has been since they engineered the Orange Revolution and installed a puppet government there.
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Day Five in Iran
Timothy Birdnow
Some eyeball witness reporting as Iran enters it's fifth day of insurgency.
The Mullahs will use whatever is in their power to hang on.
My prediction is this will go nowhere, but then you never know. It would be a great thing if the theocracy were to fall in Iran and the Medea/Persian empire should return to a more modern, Western system. The people there deserve no less.
BTW this is proof that economic pressure works and can take out even some of the worst tyrants Trump's been squeezing Iran since he came into office and this is the inevitable outcome.
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The Bear Facts
Timothy Birdnow
And I thought I had problems with mice in the house...
[linjk=https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/2005992092854620184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2005992092854620184%7Ctwgr%5Ed056ebe11505b6993eacb9edf2aaeaf97e809732%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fibloga.blogspot.com%2F] California homeowner threatens to sue after state REFUSES to remove 550-pound bear living under his house
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Unlimited L's@unlimited_lsNEW: California homeowner threatens to sue after state REFUSES to remove 550-pound bear living under his house
Kenneth Johnson, 63, says a massive male black bear moved into the crawl space of his $1.5 million Altadena home just before Thanksgiving
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife later captured a smaller bear instead
He says officials told him he could not try to lure the bear out on his own
Johnson is now threatening to sue the department. He accuses officials of negligence and emotional distress
He says he rigged a burglar alarm to make loud clattering sounds and played hours of dog barking through speakers pointed into the vents.
Noise is fine but he should have used gunshots; that would be something the bear would probably recognize as a danger. Dogs are not a danger to bears.
He should have lured the bear out with pick-a-nick baskets.
No doubt Fish and Wildlife has some environmentalist prohibition against removing the dangerous beast. It IS California after all.
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