December 28, 2025
Free Market Sophistry
Timothy Birdnow
If history has taught us anything it is that when you stop making stuff for yourself and start buying it from people far away, especially those who bear you no good will, you are in trouble.
The Bronze Age was a period much like today with very free and easy trade among the empires in and around the Mediterranean and it ended when the supply chains were broken by the Sea People and other invading barbarians forces; nobody could make what they needed for themselves and the whole ponzi scheme fell apart as everyone just had part of what they needed. Had they sought a modicum of self-sufficiency things could have turned out differently.
Much abuse is heaped on the merchantilist era, but what was that but an over-reliance on international trade in the first place? Most European countries built giant colonial empires at enormous expense so they had access to resources they needed, but it hollowed out many local markets which would have found ways to cope otherwise. In the end the empire builders became slaves to the very empires they created and to the goods and services coming from Third World colonies. It is that same colonialism that has led to multiculturalism and the immigration crisis in the West that is swallowing up our civilization.
Why did America flourish during the merchantilist times? Because the average person couldn't compete with colonial workers in terms of wages and so it was either immigrate or perish. This didn't change with the end of colonialism and the coming of capitalism (not to be confused with free market economics) and if anything it got worse. Look at the flood of peoples into the U.S. in the beginning of the 20th century, for instance. I would add G.K. Chesterton, as conservative a commentator as can be found, once said the difference between a capitalist and a socialist was a bigger paycheck. He was right, although today we call that not capitalism (which has been confused with free markets) but corporatism. Corporatism was the economic model followed by the Third Reich and Mussolini, the partnership between giant corporations and government. We also call it National Socialism.
All of this bad stuff - even Marxism, which was an overreaction to the rising tide of international exploitive trade - grew out of the dissatisfaction with the very order which Mr Lowry seems to be defending. Internationalism is always justified by the economic Anschluss of international trade run amok.
That' not to say such trade is always bad, and certainly we need things we don't possess and must trade for it and make things we want to sell to our partners, but there have to be common sense limits. We haven't had that for a long time now. The illegal alien invasions of the entire Western world comes from our lust for cheaper labor than we ourselves can get and out of the desire to internationalize the whole world. It is the inevitable conclusion to the merchantilist vision, albeit instead of military empires we have created economic empires ultimately controlled by our enemies. It's a fast path to our destruction as surely as was the overspecialization and free trade in the Bronze Age.
And so to Rich Lowry, here are some we think countervailing points:
We admit to coming from a nationalistic mindset, call it tribal if you want. We are for more fare or reciprocal tariffs in order to help keep extensive productive capacity in operation in our country and not in theory (as Lowry perhaps suggests is good enough) on the presumption that the variety of components necessary, skilled soft resources, raw materials and infrastructure are or would be readily at hand, just flip a switch or something.
When we had more doctrinaire free trade sympathies we did not realize the dark downsides and implications it creates — one world government — "world trade federations’ world health organizations, G summit this and G summit that, none of them to be trusted as they are hallmarks of heavily managed society inuring to one-world government and bureaucratized to the extent one must get permission to do something from Belgium rather than say Bismarck where people are governed by a freedom protecting Constitution.
Raw statistics particularly measured in dollars as we are finding out can hide a lot –how valuable are those dollars when the country that supposedly stands behind them in some way is so much in debt — many many many trillions at a minimum. That we just keep printing more and more money may not be a good reflection of economic activity even adjusted for inflation. If the medium of exchange we promote is not accepted how much is our wealth? And differing with Lowry, when as they say the SHTF, country X might be in need of something more edible than our software. And indeed our society and our families, our culture must be well protected, and in house as to primary needs because without them in the short term many could be dead.
For me the nationalistic sentiments (which have many fathers) referred to as MAGA and its trade policies are about vulnerability in a world that is still volatile. They are about not being a patsy – financing other countries socialism even if it is a downfall for them — because entertaining their lifestyle is long-term pathogenic for both of us. It is about not enhancing or being dependent on other nations for production while our capabilities not merely deteriorate but become lost.
One country doing and selling what they do best and buying from another country what they do best is the mantra of globalism which human nature being what it is is a stalking horse for one-world government to monitor and police the agreements. Of course cheater countries abound because they take the logical progression seriously and are not about to abide by it for their own countries’ broader based industrial survival.
Rich you refer to "more tech and aerospace, less shoes and textiles” as key to our supposed economic health. But the tech (including aerospace) can be and is copied. Our aerospace is to a great extent military oriented and that is also used to protect freeloaders’ lifestyles.
By your lights why should we produce any shoes or textiles? We can "simply” go to India for them right? All manner of countries with their own specialty thinking it can hold the others hostage, no problem. Mutual assured destruction?
More than tech being copied tech can contain vulnerabilities which can be catastrophic. Also, tech depends on our staying a step ahead of our competitors, something we find unprofitable to do as it requires a proper education and work ethic among our own citizenry and it's cheaper to import foreigners to do this research for us. It's a self-destroying machine.
I would argue we have been creating a world that is interdependent to create a world government using the European Union model. It started after the war as an oil and coal entente' between Germany and France, a conscious plot by the French to tie Germany's economy into their to the point they dared never attack the French state again. Soon other nations joined and it became the Common Market, then metastasized into an overlord governing body called the European Union. I believe that has been the goal of "free trade" for some time, to make the world so interdependent that we will accept an international government.
And Climate alarmism is a tool to that end, too; it promotes the idea of "one world" and seeks to restrict the First World so the Third World will be able to compete and eventually catch up. It is a giant scheme to transfer wealth to make us all equal. That can never work; there are good reasons why these countries never developed beyond Third World status to begin with. So they will always require subsidies, and that means we in the wealthy nations must be willing to sacrifice our freedoms and lifestyles to that end.
So capitalism is being used to destroy private ownership and free markets and people like Mr. Lowry fail to see that.
Even if this was not a conscious decision (and it was because it always supports the same outcome) it is where this "free trade" scheme is leading us.
And it was technology that led to the rising standard of living, tech and mechanization. Oil and electronics are what made the last half century so prosperous, not the free trade which probably held everyone back.
Held us back indeed; during the Pandemic we saw a dropoff of industrial output in the West and a turn for the worse in the Third World. We saw breaks in our supply chains, inflation, and stagnant economic growth. This illustrates the vulnerability of the supply chains we rely on these days. And what was the response? To increase government regulations, to print and spend a lot more money, in other words to double down on the thing that was hurting us in the first place.
I am mindful of the mid 2000nds television show Jerico. After a nuclear sneak attack on America the survivors of a small Kansas town struggle to survive. In one of the later episodes a young girl takes up with an idiot guy just to bug her older brother/guardian. The new boyfriend argues that the first order of business needed to be to get the internet back up "then we can buy stuff", when asked how we will actually make and deliver stuff he argues "we'll just order it online". To me so much of the free trade argument is basically that sophistic. There seems to be a magical thinking involved and an inability to understand that if a disaster should befall the world (like an asteroid strike or another Carrington event) these supply lines will be permanently broken and we won't have the tools we need to make anything for ourselves. Society will crumble when it could perhaps survive if more decentralized. But that isn't what they want; they want everyone specialized and thus performing one specific (or a few) task that will be the sole provider for the entire planet. That way lies total destruction in an emergency.
I wish people like Rich Lawry would understand that we are not practicing free trade. Free trade must go both ways.
Even Adam Smith advocated tariffs to level unfair playing fields. Sadly the good people at National Review believe themselves smarter than the father of free markets.
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Cooler Heads and the Extinction of Mass Extinctions
From Jo Nova:
Timothy Birdnow
Sorry kiddies but the next great extinction has been canceled!
New research looked at 500 years worth of extinctions and concludes that species loss peaked about a century ago. Far from the rate accelerating as we pour carbon dioxide into the sky, fewer species are disappearing now than forty or fifty years ago.
Kristen Saban and John Wiens considered data on as many as two million species. They specifically analyzed some 912 plants and animals that became extinct in the last 500 years.
Many of thedoom and gloom forecasts took extinction rates from long ago and extrapolated them mindlessly forward, as climate modelers are want to do.
Yes, species extinctions dropped off in this century. Why? Probably because animals and plants LIKE warmer climates and more rain. Remember, we were coming out of the Little Ice Age after all.
Jo continues:
EurekaAlert
"To our surprise, past extinctions are weak and unreliable predictors of the current risk that any given group of animals or plants is facing,” said lead author Saban, who recently graduated from the U of A and is currently a doctoral student at Harvard University.
Humans have wiped out species, but mostly by bringing in rats, pigs and goats to isolated islands:
Extinction rates varied strongly among groups, and extinctions were most frequent among mollusks, such as snails and mussels, and vertebrates, but relatively rare among plants and arthropods. Most extinctions were of species that were confined to isolated islands, like the Hawaiian Islands. On continents, most extinctions were in freshwater habitats. Island extinctions were most frequently related to invasive species, but habitat loss was the most important cause (and current threat) in continental regions. Many species appeared to go extinct on islands because of predators and competitors brought by humans, such as rats, pigs and goats.
The researchers could not find any evidence suggesting climate change was increasing the rate of extinction:
Somewhat unexpectedly, the researchers found that in the last 200 years, there was no evidence for increasing extinction from climate change.
"That does not mean that climate change is not a threat,” Wiens said. "It just means that past extinctions do not reflect current and future threats.”
It seems like a very comprehensive study. Given it’s importance, I’m sure the UN will be delighted. It’s a wonder they didn’t commission a study just like this 30 years ago…
Well slap my rump and call me Nancy (actually if you try that I'll slug you); seems most extinction events were caused by introducing invasive species and changes in land use.
I would add Dr. Roy Spencer recently wrote a paper showing that ALL climate warming can be raced back to changes in land use]/link] by human beings and it has nothing to do with carbon dioxide emissions.
So, there is no co2 induced warming and no species extinction caused by climate change. What is left?
What is left is an admission that we have been in a generations-long War of the Worlds scare, a con that used pseudo-science and grant money and government pressure to create a faux crisis and stampede the public into supporting draconian regulations and the empowerment of the U.N. and leftist world leaders, that's what is left. They almost pulled it off too; if the warming trend had continued we would all be facing the dawn of the New World Order and international socialism. Thank God there were people out there fighting the good fight.
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The Children of the Swastika
Timothy Birdnow
It's only diversity and inclusion when it serves the Demo-Left.
So Hispanics are supposed to care more about other Hispanics than about their adopted country?
Newsflash Karen; there is NO SUCH THING as a "Hispanic"; it's a generic title to encapsulate all people from many different backgrounds and countries that are often quite different but who were raised speaking Spanish as a first language. A person from Argentina has almost noting in common with a Honduran except language. I guess she doesn't know that.
From Red State:
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass gave further proof of that Friday when she expressed sadness that Hispanics were lining up to get high-quality, well-paying jobs that will help keep America safer. How dare they join the U.S. Border Patrol, she fumed to — of course — the leftist propaganda outfit known as CNN:
Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass expressed disappointment and concern Friday with Hispanics joining Border Patrol – arguing they’re only doing it for the paycheck.
"Well, in a way, I think it’s sad,” Bass said of a CNN report on Border Patrol’s new recruits, many of which are Hispanic.
"I think that those Border Patrol agents are going to have a difficult time when they’re out in the field and they see what actually happens in real life separate from their training,” the mayor told "The Situation Room” host Wolf Blitzer.
That last may be true in some instances and we would be wise to learn from the Romans, who attempted to guard their borders with Germans who let other Germans just stroll into the empire (it was a good thing to live inside the empire).
But that was then and one suspects many Hispanics are more loyal to the nation they adopted than the old Germanic barbarians, who were only going to Rome to, well, do what many illegal aliens seek to do, which is to harvest all the goodies thereof but not join the Anglo nation as true Americans. I would point out many Germanic Romans feared and loathed the barbarians coming in as much as second or third generation Americans of Hispanic descent feel about the invading aliens. They did things the right way and these people simply want to take that which they have not earned at our (and the Hispanic Americans) expense.
Fully HALF of all border patrol agents are of Hispanic origin.
What is so amazing is that Bass understands none of this and lumps them all together as she would African Americans, who themselves were not one people but so lost their ethnic identity during the slavery era that most do not even know they are descended from vastly different peoples - many of whom hated each-other in the old country. African Americans share a common heritage, by and large (though not all; many came here after slavery ended) and so form a single people with common subculture. But "Hispanics" do nothing of the sort. They are ethnically, culturally, and economically diverse to the point of having no binding allegiance to the uber group except language and perhaps a hatred for Anglos, whom some see as imperialists and oppressors (forgetting their own Spanish heritage of course). The idea of the Reconquista is real among many of them.
So is a more collectivist view of economics. Many want it because in the Old Country they didn't have free markets but rather a semi-feudal order and so many Hispanics believe in Socialism as the just foundation of an economic order. And yet they still come here to harvest the fruits of the free market. Go figure.
At any rate Bass has no idea of that which she speaks and can't understand why "Hispanics" should "turn against their class"; they have no class (nor does she, but that is a different meaning of the word). They are as diverse a people as any European; An Englishman has little in common with a Russian, for instance. The division in Latin America is even more stark than that.
So these folks volunteering for ICE are not "Hispanics" but AMERICANS who happen to have ancestors from Latin America or who came here legally and wanted to be American. Bass it utterly clueless.
If a Conservative made this kind of broad-brush stroke on a collection of ethnic groups the Left would have his hide for supper. But when a Leftist does it (and they do such things all the time) it's "compassion" or "justice". How is it compassionate or just to treat different peoples as one, ignoring their unique social heritages? The Left themselves would call that racism.
But we've always known the Left is horribly racist and that they are the children of the Swastika, not the right wing in America.
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Exiled to Paradise
Timothy Birdnow
Trump gets it; he's going to exile illegal aliens to a tropical island in the Pacific.
Palau is a very small nation, and impoverished to boot. Survivor was filmed on one of those islands, I might add.
Getting illegals out of the U.S. is important, and especially out of American jurisdiction so Democrat courts will find it difficult to interfere. And putting them on a tropical paradise makes it impossible for anyone to accuse the Administration of dumping them on some hell-hole. I would; I'd cut a deal with Svalbaard, or perhaps ask Argentina to let us use Terra Del Fuego. But I'm vindictive that way, or rather I think such exile needs to be rather unpleasant so nobody wants to risk it. Punishment must be meted out to people who break the law or everyone will do it. That's how laws are enforced.
Maybe with Chile making a hard right turn we can get them to rent us some of their lovely desert areas?
Rush Limbaugh used to call Gitmo "Club Gitmo" and talk about it being a tropical paradise. Who can complain about a free vacation?
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Indicted Dem Judge Files to Run Again
Timothy Birdnow
You almost have to sort of admire the sheer chutzpah of the Left, almost that is. This one is hard to beleve.
Yes, this Democrat is under indictment for vote fraud and is barred from doing anything at all and yet she plans to run again for her soon to be vacated seat on the bench.
FTA:
"In Frio County, Texas, a suspended county judge facing multiple felony election-fraud charges has decided to seek reelection—not after exoneration, not after trial, but while under indictment and barred from office without pay.
The decision is legally permissible, but the implications are far more troubling.
On Dec. 5, Rochelle Lozano Camacho filed paperwork to run again for Frio County judge. "
She is not waiting for her trial to be exonerated but wants to run now knowing many voters won't know about her case and once in she will likely have to be impeached - a hard thing to do if she wins with a good margin.
Democrats care about nothing but attaining and holding power.
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December 27, 2025
On Rob Reiner's Murder
Timothy Birdnow
He's right; we should not be happy about the death of anyone. And certainly we shouldn't become as callous and hateful as the Left. But we have to be logical about this.
Yes, Reiner did condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk, but we should remember he said some horrible things over the years and while he may have been upset by Kirk's assaassination he should at least remember that he helped create the atmosphere of hatred that led to this.
Remember Reiner's disgusting comments when he learned Rush Limbaugh was dying of cancer? Where were all of these 'decent' liberals when Rob Reiner said these horrible things about Rush Limbaugh after cancer diagnosis, death?
Reomer said when Rush got the Medal of Freedom:
"Only one thing to say about Rush Limbaugh getting a Presidential Medal if Freedom at The State of the Union: I loathe this f***ing man,"
He also accused Rush of being a huge liar and dissembler after he died.
So J.R. it's hard to find a whole lot of sympathy for this guy.
But this is a teachable moment. He was murdered by his son and no doubt because ultimately he messed the son up completely with his radical views and his hatred for others. The son was a serious drug addict and no doubt not thinking clearly but why was he a drug addict? And why did he bear such malice against his father? I believe this is the fruits of Reiner and his wife's sixties radicalism. Leftism makes people angry and bitter and vengeful.
If we are going to discuss any issue properly we must take sentiment out of it and face it squarely. While we should condemn what Nick Reiner did we should also admit Rob was a POS who was consumed by hatred by and large. Yes, he changed his tune when Kirk died, and he should be commended for that. But I for one am not going to give him a pass for what he previously said about Rush or many other conservatives. Reiner was a man with much anger and hatred.
BTW here is an essay saying pretty much the same thing as i, pointing out Reiner and his wife spoiled their son rotten and that this was a model of how liberalism when applied leads to disaster.
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When a Nation Stops Believing in God...
Timothy Birdnow
He's not wrong but I think he misses the point.
His argument is that the Third World, by learning to manipulate the Western psyche, is systematically destroying Western Civilization as we keep reacting to problems in the developing world rather than reacting to them.
He and I agree the West is teetering, and that it was built on a sand foundation, but the problem has little to do with poor countries and everything to do with rising corruption and a rejection of Christianity - the core of the West - as the Left from the time of Rousseau, certainly, and actually before him turned away from the God of our forefathers and embraced new, strange gods. Everything that followed was a rejection of Christian morality and Christian rationality. It is THAT which hollowed out the West. The economics that he so worries about follow the moral, spiritual, and intellectual decay.
Socialism, for example, has hollowed out the West as it has been a constant will-o-the-wisp Western man has pursued. It ultimately fails every time it's tried but we keep trying it because everyone is jealous of the rich and the old idea that we could get rich on our own seem to have disappeared. So now everyone pursues the use of government to force "equity" on the public. This was the brainchild of Jean Jacques Rousseau, as was Fascism, and essentially the West IS fascist in all but name now. Corporatism - the partnership between giant corporations and government, is the model used by the Fascists and Nazis. All socialism, be it Communism or Fascism or Democratic Socialism, eventually leads to poverty and economic distress, as well as spiritual bankrupcy.
It also leads to rising statism and we've seen the metastasizing of the state in the last decades. Statism is rarely that successful because it stifles initiative and takes the best and brightest from pursuing innovation and actually improving people's lives and puts them in government, where they pursue the aims of the King or Emperor of Fuehrer. China was always dirt poor and is only now more wealthy since they took their boot off the throats of business. But of course that won't last more than a few decades if they don't continue to make reforms, something they appear unwilling to do. Oh ,and we in the West set out to MAKE them rich and powerful out of our greed for cheap labor, cheap goods, and the hope to sell a Coke or McDonalds burger to every single Chinaman - all billion plus of them. China's success came from our moral and intellectual failings, and those failings came from our rejection of the Judeo-Christian ethic.
And there has been an insidious marxist movement that has labored for a hundred years to destroy Western civilization, and they control the schools and now even the churches, and their century of labor is finally bearing it's evil fruit.
So all these things the author cites are ancilliary to the core problem in the West. We kicked God out of our schools and turned our children into commodities and are surprised our civilization is dying.
We no longer believe we have a right to defend our own existence, which is why Biden invited millions of aliens - non-Western aliens - into the country. And the same goes for Europe and Australia and New Zealand; there is a hatred for the West born of decades of lies told by the Left about it. So many now actually want civilization to die because they believe the lie that paradise was the pre-industrial West and that what we created poisoned and destroyed Eden. They never read accounts of the "good old days" before industrialization; rampant poverty, starvation, bitter cold in winter and scalding heat in summer, disease riddled food and water, etc. In other words - the Third World. We didn't steal prosperity from the Third World - they never had it to begin with and wouldn't make the necessary changes needed to industrialize and make prosperity for themselves. And we can't just give it to them; we've tried that repeatedly and failed because they don't know how to use what they are given to accomplish more. Instead they simply squander the largess sent them and come back for more.
But we've had decades of anti-Americanism in our schools and a load of guilt was heaped on the American child and now most believe we destroyed the Third World via colonialism. In fact colonialism was the best thing that ever happened to many of these places; we brought them good things, medicines, food, jobs, military security. Sadly the educators, almost all leftists or leaning left, have turned this on it's head and made US the villains. We aren't and never were. Oh, there were lots of bad things that we did, no question, but we were better than the potentates who ruled in their lands.
Take the Aztecs; they were a holy terror whom the other natives so despised and feared they joined Cortez in attacking Mexico. The Spanish could be bad guys, but they were not as bad as Montezuma and his human-sacrificing nation. Yes, the Spanish made many Indians slaves, but that was no big deal to the natives at that time as they all kept slaves themselves. It was ubiquitous in human civilization yet young people now think white men INVENTED slavery. Why do they think that? Because they have been lied to by people they trust to teach them.
I could go on and on but the key point is we no longer believe in an objective truth because we no longer believe in God and so what they majority believes is now "true" and the left labors to change the perceptions and beliefs of the public, seducing them with lies.
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars nor our Third World but in ourselves. As has been attributed to G.K. Chesterton, when man stops believing in God he will believe in anything.
With the rise of television and now AI we see the most devastating propaganda tool in human history and the coming AI craze is going to make people turn to a fantasy world more and more. Truth will only be what The Machine says it is, and it will be able to prove that with photographs it created or with scientific papers that it claims exist even though they do not How do you argue against such a monster? Ultimately the machine will only be as it is programmed to be, and the people doing the programming will put an agenda into it. We've already seen that with the nascent AI tech.
At any rate we are now a nation that believes anything BUT God. God is the measure of all things. This way lies doom.
Oh, by the way, Rome had the exact same problems as do we and they followed a very similar path; most people rejected religion in the old Empire and the Emperors began claiming divinity too, and Rome had a slew of troubles from illegal immigration to inflation to crop failures to civil unrest and an over-concentration of wealth, to the collapse of family farms which became corporate farms, a dearth of people who knew how to do things (thus leading Diocletian to issue orders that said a person had to go into the same profession as his father, thus birthing feudalism), to rising welfare and a host of other problems we recognize today. Sex too;; homosexuality became common, for instance, and those not sodomizing other men were busy doing the lovely ladies of Italy, or Gaul, or what have you.
Rome lost it's spiritual core. While the late empire is described as Christian in most cases people weren't Christian except that they had to be after Constantine made it the law. But the Christianizing of Europe came as a result of many and varied horrible things from barbarian invasions to Viking raids, massive climate change, a volcanic eruption that led to near total darkness in Ireland and mde much of the Western Empire dark, which led to crop failures in the sixth century, etc. Without all that Europe would have gone back to Roman paganism or worse. And with the rise of modern agriculture, world trade, and machinery we have returned to the easy life that the Romans enjoyed, even better. Man is easily corrupted and our civilization now believes we can become gods and dismiss the one who gave us all this prosperity.
This essay was a good try but in the end I think the author fell short.
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December 25, 2025
Darkness at Christmas
Timothy Birdnow
I wrote this just this Christmas morning. I will probably work on it and the final product may be quite different, but I wanted to post it today:
by Timothy Birdnow
December 25, 2025
I watched as the light was extinguished
the icy breath blew out the flickering flame
the dark one came and took her away
she one who so long had lighted my way
a terrible tragedy for the whole world but a disaster for me
the darkness unfurled, the ship lost at sea
I trudge through the darkness and the cold
snow, trapped in the silence of the blizzard which comes from below
she awaits on the other side of the unpassable river
in the cold of the night I can do nothing but shiver
she waits in the lush green fields where the light shines the more brightly
the place where there's no pain and nothing unsightly
But I can no longer see the light; trapped in the mounting snowdrifts and the painful frostbite
She was far too beautiful, to gentle, too bright for this world of dark shadows
they circled round her like hungry wolves in the meadows, seeking to snuff out her light
but she was always one to put up a fight
and they have finally won, the insatiable winner claiming the world for the darkness and the sinner
I cannot fathom how the emptiness could win over such as she
but her time of testing was over and she was called to be free, to go to her true home, leaving me in the frozen waste alone to shiver amid the ashes of what had once been asking God why
alone in the darkness and the cold I can only wait and hope to see some light in the eastern sky
no yule for this Christmas, no hearth or home, no merry lamps to push away the creeping predatory dark
to roam aimlessly o'er snow clad fields so stark
I find myself trapped on the wrong side of the river chasm with none to pay my ransom
with many miles to walk but no sense of which direction to tread
although still alive I feel empty and dead
a rudderless ship at the mercy of the cold gales of December
with nothing but what I remember to help me keep my grip
my frozen feet soaked, shaking and they slip on the ice
a long weary trip ahead and little to entice
I used to walk so boldly and decisively
Her soul lighting my way
now the darkness sneers derisively
and what isn't black is now dark gray
Christmas, you may remember, isn't just a party we throw every December
It was the candle which was lit in the dark and the cold
and with it did the plan of salvation unfold
This Christmas morning I stumble and I shiver
not knowing what is borning, what the morrow will deliver
There must be something in this weary world left for me
a Christmas or two that as yet I can't see
but it all seems so far away, as if it were a mirage
lost in the black and the gray an oasis in camoflage
But that is what Christmas is all about
salvation and victory, there is nary a doubt
I must travel on though my heart is quite broken
I must fight the good fight till my last word is spoken
Cathy you've gone and with you all my light
you lit up my world, made it merry and bright
but no matter how dark the sun will eventually rise
the blackness is but a mask, a disguise
Christmas is the promise of salvation and peace
in the end day will come and I'll meet my release
I love you now, and then, and now and forever
some day I will join you and we will always be together
but it's cold now and dark, truly inclement weather
but that won't last and I'll see you whenever
I wrote this just this Christmas morning. I will probably work on it and the final product may be quite different, but I wanted to post it today:
by Timothy Birdnow
December 25, 2025
I watched as the light was extinguished
the icy breath blew out the flickering flame
the dark one came and took her away
she one who so long had lighted my way
a terrible tragedy for the whole world but a disaster for me
the darkness unfurled, the ship lost at sea
I trudge through the darkness and the cold
snow, trapped in the silence of the blizzard which comes from below
she awaits on the other side of the unpassable river
in the cold of the night I can do nothing but shiver
she waits in the lush green fields where the light shines the more brightly
the place where there's no pain and nothing unsightly
But I can no longer see the light; trapped in the mounting snowdrifts and the painful frostbite
She was far too beautiful, to gentle, too bright for this world of dark shadows
they circled round her like hungry wolves in the meadows, seeking to snuff out her light
but she was always one to put up a fight
and they have finally won, the insatiable winner claiming the world for the darkness and the sinner
I cannot fathom how the emptiness could win over such as she
but her time of testing was over and she was called to be free, to go to her true home, leaving me in the frozen waste alone to shiver amid the ashes of what had once been asking God why
alone in the darkness and the cold I can only wait and hope to see some light in the eastern sky
no yule for this Christmas, no hearth or home, no merry lamps to push away the creeping predatory dark
to roam aimlessly o'er snow clad fields so stark
I find myself trapped on the wrong side of the river chasm with none to pay my ransom
with many miles to walk but no sense of which direction to tread
although still alive I feel empty and dead
a rudderless ship at the mercy of the cold gales of December
with nothing but what I remember to help me keep my grip
my frozen feet soaked, shaking and they slip on the ice
a long weary trip ahead and little to entice
I used to walk so boldly and decisively
Her soul lighting my way
now the darkness sneers derisively
and what isn't black is now dark gray
Christmas, you may remember, isn't just a party we throw every December
It was the candle which was lit in the dark and the cold
and with it did the plan of salvation unfold
This Christmas morning I stumble and I shiver
not knowing what is borning, what the morrow will deliver
There must be something in this weary world left for me
a Christmas or two that as yet I can't see
but it all seems so far away, as if it were a mirage
lost in the black and the gray an oasis in camoflage
But that is what Christmas is all about
salvation and victory, there is nary a doubt
I must travel on though my heart is quite broken
I must fight the good fight till my last word is spoken
Cathy you've gone and with you all my light
you lit up my world, made it merry and bright
but no matter how dark the sun will eventually rise
the blackness is but a mask, a disguise
Christmas is the promise of salvation and peace
in the end day will come and I'll meet my release
I love you now, and then, and now and forever
some day I will join you and we will always be together
but it's cold now and dark, truly inclement weather
but that won't last and I'll see you whenever
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A Child is Given
Unto Us a Son is Born
The Word of the Lord:
1"Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare
the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will
suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the
covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,â€
says the LORD of Hosts.
2But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can
stand when He appears? For He will be like a
refiner’s fire, like a launderer's soap.
3And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like
gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to
the LORD in righteousness.
4Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please
the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.
5"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I
will be a swift witness against sorcerers and
adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the
widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud
laborers of their wages and deny justice to the
foreigner but do not fear Me,†says the LORD of Hosts
Malachi3: 1-5
1"For behold, the day is coming, burning like a
furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will
be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them
ablaze,†says the LORD of Hosts. "Not a root or
branch will be left to them.â€
2"But for you who fear My name, the sun of
righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and
you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be
ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am
preparing,†says the LORD of Hosts.
4"Remember the Law of Moses My servant, the statutes
and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at
Horeb.
5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
coming of the great and dreadful Day of the LORD. 6And
he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their
children, and the hearts of the children to their
fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land
with a curse.â€
Malachi4
And there was silence from Heaven for four hundred
years.
The Gospel according to Luke:
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a
census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2
(This was the first census that took place while[a]
Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went
to their own town to register.
4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in
Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David,
because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5
He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged
to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6
While they were there, the time came for the baby to
be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.
She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger,
because there was no guest room available for them.
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields
nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An
angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of
the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I
bring you good news that will cause great joy for all
the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has
been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This
will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in
cloths and lying in a manger.â€
13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host
appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14 "Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.â€
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven,
the shepherds said to one another, "Let’s go to
Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which
the Lord has told us about.â€
16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and
the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they
had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had
been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard
it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered
them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God for all the things they
had heard and seen, which were just as they had been
told.
21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise
the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had
given him before he was conceived.
The Gospel according to Matthew:
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way.
When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph,
before they came together she was found to be with
child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph,
being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame,
resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he
considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of
David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that
which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name
Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.â€
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had
spoken by the prophet:
23 "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuelâ€
(which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from
sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him:
he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had
given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
The Visit of the Wise Men
2 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in
the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the
east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, "Where is he who has
been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when
it rose[d] and have come to worship him.†3 When
Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all
Jerusalem with him; 4 and assembling all the chief
priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them
where the Christ was to be born. 5 They told him, "In
Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the
prophet:
6 "‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’â€
7 Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and
ascertained from them what time the star had appeared.
8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and
search diligently for the child, and when you have
found him, bring me word, that I too may come and
worship him.†9 After listening to the king, they
went on their way. And behold, the star that they had
seen when it rose went before them until it came to
rest over the place where the child was. 10 When they
saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great
joy. 11 And going into the house, they saw the child
with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped
him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him
gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. 12 And being
warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they
departed to their own country by another way.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
The Word of the Lord:
1"Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare
the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will
suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the
covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,â€
says the LORD of Hosts.
2But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can
stand when He appears? For He will be like a
refiner’s fire, like a launderer's soap.
3And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like
gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to
the LORD in righteousness.
4Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please
the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.
5"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I
will be a swift witness against sorcerers and
adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the
widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud
laborers of their wages and deny justice to the
foreigner but do not fear Me,†says the LORD of Hosts
Malachi3: 1-5
1"For behold, the day is coming, burning like a
furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will
be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them
ablaze,†says the LORD of Hosts. "Not a root or
branch will be left to them.â€
2"But for you who fear My name, the sun of
righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and
you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be
ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am
preparing,†says the LORD of Hosts.
4"Remember the Law of Moses My servant, the statutes
and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at
Horeb.
5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
coming of the great and dreadful Day of the LORD. 6And
he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their
children, and the hearts of the children to their
fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land
with a curse.â€
Malachi4
And there was silence from Heaven for four hundred
years.
The Gospel according to Luke:
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a
census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2
(This was the first census that took place while[a]
Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went
to their own town to register.
4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in
Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David,
because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5
He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged
to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6
While they were there, the time came for the baby to
be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.
She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger,
because there was no guest room available for them.
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields
nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An
angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of
the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I
bring you good news that will cause great joy for all
the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has
been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This
will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in
cloths and lying in a manger.â€
13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host
appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14 "Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.â€
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven,
the shepherds said to one another, "Let’s go to
Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which
the Lord has told us about.â€
16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and
the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they
had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had
been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard
it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered
them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God for all the things they
had heard and seen, which were just as they had been
told.
21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise
the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had
given him before he was conceived.
The Gospel according to Matthew:
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way.
When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph,
before they came together she was found to be with
child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph,
being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame,
resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he
considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of
David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that
which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name
Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.â€
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had
spoken by the prophet:
23 "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuelâ€
(which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from
sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him:
he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had
given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
The Visit of the Wise Men
2 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in
the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the
east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, "Where is he who has
been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when
it rose[d] and have come to worship him.†3 When
Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all
Jerusalem with him; 4 and assembling all the chief
priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them
where the Christ was to be born. 5 They told him, "In
Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the
prophet:
6 "‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’â€
7 Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and
ascertained from them what time the star had appeared.
8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and
search diligently for the child, and when you have
found him, bring me word, that I too may come and
worship him.†9 After listening to the king, they
went on their way. And behold, the star that they had
seen when it rose went before them until it came to
rest over the place where the child was. 10 When they
saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great
joy. 11 And going into the house, they saw the child
with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped
him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him
gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. 12 And being
warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they
departed to their own country by another way.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
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Extinction Event My A, er, Eye!
Timothy Birdnow
I thought we were in the biggest extinction event since the end of the Cretaceous!
We are living in a golden age of species discovery
Turns out we had no idea just how many species were hiding in plain sight.
I thought we were in the biggest extinction event since the end of the Cretaceous!
We are living in a golden age of species discovery
Turns out we had no idea just how many species were hiding in plain sight.
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Ne'er's the Beef
Timothy Birdnow
Yes, they really DO want us eating bugs and grass.
What you eat could decide the planet’s future
This comports with the Malthusian view that humanity is going to die from overpopulation and that we have to start downsizing our lives, particularly what we eat. It's a belief that well predates the global warming hysteria, I might add, which proves climate change is a tool designed to promote the goals of the malthusians and always was intended for that purpose.
FTA:
I argued years ago they were coming for our beef and I knew that as far back as the mid-eighties when I was in college and so many liberals sneered at our eating beef because it meant growing less grain to feed the poor of the world. They saw it as a moral issue then, but that wouldn't sell, so now it's climate change and the need to protect the planet from a faux fear. The Left has always resented the fact we can eat beef or pork or chicken while the Third World is stuck with grains. So they want to rub the West's nose in it's own prosperity by making us feel guilty about eating beef.
The reality is the Left hates people being happy, hates joy and pleasure and wants to punish people of the West. Taking away their steaks and making them eat cockroaches is one way they can do it. It gives them great satisfaction to force us to live like the truly impoverished.
This is just more of the same.
I ask you, are beef cattle on ranches any more "polluting" in terms of greenhouse gas emissions than the wild buffalo which used to wander the plains? I rather doubt it - and there were millions of buffalo at one time.
They also want us to stop eating beef as a way of standardizing cuisine internationally so everyone eats the same rice balls and the occasional bit of chicken or pork. If we are to have one world we have to all eat alike!
This is nothing but a front in the war on the West, particularly on America and Canada
Yes, they really DO want us eating bugs and grass.
What you eat could decide the planet’s future
This comports with the Malthusian view that humanity is going to die from overpopulation and that we have to start downsizing our lives, particularly what we eat. It's a belief that well predates the global warming hysteria, I might add, which proves climate change is a tool designed to promote the goals of the malthusians and always was intended for that purpose.
FTA:
University of British Columbia
Summary:
What we put on our plates may matter more for the climate than we realize. Researchers found that most people, especially in wealthy countries, are exceeding a "food emissions budget” needed to keep global warming below 2°C. Beef alone accounts for nearly half of food-related emissions in Canada. Small changes—less waste, smaller portions, and fewer steaks—could add up to a big climate win.
[...]
Half of us globally and at least 90 percent of Canadians need to change our diets to prevent severe planetary warming. And that number is conservative, because we used 2012 data. Since then, emissions and the world's population have both increased. Looking ahead to 2050, we found that 90 percent of us will need to be eating differently.
We looked at data from 112 countries, accounting for 99 percent of food-related greenhouse gas emissions globally, and divided each country's population into 10 income groups. We calculated a food emissions budget for each person by combining emissions from food consumption, global food production and supply chains, and compared these emissions to the total the world can afford if we want to stay below 2 °C of warming.
[...]
Eat only what you need. Repurpose what you don't. Less wasted food means fewer emissions, less cooking and more easy, tasty leftovers.
Eliminate or reduce your beef consumption -- 43 percent of food-related emissions from the average Canadian come from beef alone. We could have had our beef and eaten it too if we'd followed the agreements laid out in the Kyoto Protocol, but we're now at a point where food emissions also need to fall to avoid the worst of climate change.
Summary:
What we put on our plates may matter more for the climate than we realize. Researchers found that most people, especially in wealthy countries, are exceeding a "food emissions budget” needed to keep global warming below 2°C. Beef alone accounts for nearly half of food-related emissions in Canada. Small changes—less waste, smaller portions, and fewer steaks—could add up to a big climate win.
[...]
Half of us globally and at least 90 percent of Canadians need to change our diets to prevent severe planetary warming. And that number is conservative, because we used 2012 data. Since then, emissions and the world's population have both increased. Looking ahead to 2050, we found that 90 percent of us will need to be eating differently.
We looked at data from 112 countries, accounting for 99 percent of food-related greenhouse gas emissions globally, and divided each country's population into 10 income groups. We calculated a food emissions budget for each person by combining emissions from food consumption, global food production and supply chains, and compared these emissions to the total the world can afford if we want to stay below 2 °C of warming.
[...]
Eat only what you need. Repurpose what you don't. Less wasted food means fewer emissions, less cooking and more easy, tasty leftovers.
Eliminate or reduce your beef consumption -- 43 percent of food-related emissions from the average Canadian come from beef alone. We could have had our beef and eaten it too if we'd followed the agreements laid out in the Kyoto Protocol, but we're now at a point where food emissions also need to fall to avoid the worst of climate change.
I argued years ago they were coming for our beef and I knew that as far back as the mid-eighties when I was in college and so many liberals sneered at our eating beef because it meant growing less grain to feed the poor of the world. They saw it as a moral issue then, but that wouldn't sell, so now it's climate change and the need to protect the planet from a faux fear. The Left has always resented the fact we can eat beef or pork or chicken while the Third World is stuck with grains. So they want to rub the West's nose in it's own prosperity by making us feel guilty about eating beef.
The reality is the Left hates people being happy, hates joy and pleasure and wants to punish people of the West. Taking away their steaks and making them eat cockroaches is one way they can do it. It gives them great satisfaction to force us to live like the truly impoverished.
This is just more of the same.
I ask you, are beef cattle on ranches any more "polluting" in terms of greenhouse gas emissions than the wild buffalo which used to wander the plains? I rather doubt it - and there were millions of buffalo at one time.
They also want us to stop eating beef as a way of standardizing cuisine internationally so everyone eats the same rice balls and the occasional bit of chicken or pork. If we are to have one world we have to all eat alike!
This is nothing but a front in the war on the West, particularly on America and Canada
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Antarctic Sea Ice at Record Levels
Timothy Birdnow
I thought the antarctic ice was disappearing!
Satellite Records Show Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
It's a strange planetary warming that freezes an entire continent. But it's thermogeddon a-comin' yessir!
I thought the antarctic ice was disappearing!
Satellite Records Show Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
It's a strange planetary warming that freezes an entire continent. But it's thermogeddon a-comin' yessir!
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CO2 and Nitrogen
Timothy Birdnow
They just never quit sounding stupid.
Climate Models Got It Wrong: Plants Can’t Absorb As Much CO₂ As We Thought
The argument is that plants can't get enough NITROGEN to absorb more carbon dioxide. Uh, last time I checked, nitrogen made up 78% of our atmosphere. You can't get away from the stuff if you tried.
Carbon Dioxide makes up just 0.04%. Seems to me it would be easy to get all the nitrogen a plant needs but carbon dioxide not so much.
There argument is nitrogen must be bound in the soil for plants to take advantage of it. O.K.; we know soil gets exhausted and high-nitrogen fertilizer will revive the soil. But so what? Nothing has really changed in the wild and plants dying put the nitrogen right back into the soil. More plant growth absorbes more carbon dioxide and at the same time more nitrogen, both of which are returned to the soil upon the plant's death.
If this is true why is it that tropical forests are actually removing more carbon dioxide than scientists thought? If nitrogen availability is limiting plant absorbtion of co2 then it should happen equally in the tropics.
They just never quit sounding stupid.
Climate Models Got It Wrong: Plants Can’t Absorb As Much CO₂ As We Thought
The argument is that plants can't get enough NITROGEN to absorb more carbon dioxide. Uh, last time I checked, nitrogen made up 78% of our atmosphere. You can't get away from the stuff if you tried.
Carbon Dioxide makes up just 0.04%. Seems to me it would be easy to get all the nitrogen a plant needs but carbon dioxide not so much.
There argument is nitrogen must be bound in the soil for plants to take advantage of it. O.K.; we know soil gets exhausted and high-nitrogen fertilizer will revive the soil. But so what? Nothing has really changed in the wild and plants dying put the nitrogen right back into the soil. More plant growth absorbes more carbon dioxide and at the same time more nitrogen, both of which are returned to the soil upon the plant's death.
If this is true why is it that tropical forests are actually removing more carbon dioxide than scientists thought? If nitrogen availability is limiting plant absorbtion of co2 then it should happen equally in the tropics.
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December 24, 2025
The Eve of Salvation
Timothy Birdnow
A reading from the Book of Malachi, the last book in the Old Testament:
"Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire," says the Lord Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. 3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act," says the Lord Almighty.
4 "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel. 5 "See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction."
And there was silence from Heaven for four hundred years.
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Christmas is Not a Pagan Holiday
Timothy Birdnow
From the archives:
This from Zachary Uram
There is no evidence Christmas is pagan.
I'll start with the date.
Sol Invictus was not placed on 12/25 until 354 AD when the Philocalian Calendar records this but doesn't specify any festival with regards to sun worship. Prior to this, the Julio-Claudian fasti inscriptions say Sun festivals were on August 8th, 9th, 28th, and December 11th, and maybe October 19th. The Philocalian Calendar says Emperor Aurelian honored the sun with chariot races every 4 years Oct 19-22 (Steven Hijmans, "Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas", Mouseion, Number 47/3 (2003), 277-298).
Saturnalia was never on 12/25. Macrobius says Saturnalia began 14 days before January, which comes out to December 17th (Saturnalia 1.10.1-23), using Roman Calendrical dates. He says it lasted for 3 days, but according to the Fasti inscriptions, it lasted to the 24th during the days of the Republic.
Yule was placed on 12/25 by King Haakon the Good in the 10th century AD to coincide with Christmas. This goes back to the early historian Snorri Sturluson, and his book "Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway." Snorri says before this, "Yule was celebrated on a midwinter night, and for the duration of three nights" (p. 106). He gives no specific dates, but St. Bede in "The reckoning of Time,†(Section 329) said Northmen calculated their seasons according to the cycles of the moon, so the date of Yule probably changed every year. Pliny the elder also says the Gallic tribes calculated their months according to the moon (nat. his. 16.95.250). Last, according to the Chronicler, Theitmar, the Danes sacrificed to pagan gods in January after the 6th (The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, Book 1.17).
The Winter Solstice had no festive significance to ancient Romans. There were no celebrations planned for the date and they disagreed on when it was. The Julian Calendar does say 12/25, but Pliny the Elder says 12/26 (nat. his. 18.59.221), and Columella says 12/23 (De Re Rustica 9.14.12).
The date of 12/25 was selected by Christians because (according to early authors like Dionysus Exiguus & Hippolytus) they believed Jesus was conceived on the same day he died and they thought he died on March 25th, so just count forward nine months.
Christmas trees only go back to the 16th century in eastern Europe. The first mention of Christmas trees is in an Alsace ordinance in 1561. Almost no early pagans thought pine trees were sacred, let alone associated with 12/25. Germanic tribes believed the oak was sacred (Pliny, nat. his. 16.95). Maximus of Tyre said, "The Celts indeed worship Zeus, but they honor Him in the form of a lofty oak" (Dissertation VIII, section 8).
The most likely explanation is they morphed over from paradise trees. Adam and Eve's festival days is 12/24 and used to be honored with an Adam and Eve play. In Europe, in the dead of winter, not a lot of trees are available, so they would get a pine tree and decorate it with fruits and cakes. After the play, they could eat the treats on the tree and the practice probably just morphed into Christmas. We have no record of Christmas trees prior to this time. See "Christmas: A Candid History" by Bruce David Forbes, pp. 48-59; Encyclopedia of Christmas by Tanya Gulevich, pp. 165-171.
Santa Claus can only be traced back to Dutch immigrants in New York in the early 1800s. He came from the Dutch Sinterklaas, also known as St. Nicolas. His feast day was on 12/6 and was moved to 12/25 around this time to help make Christmas a family holiday. Newspapers promoted it and encouraged to give gifts on Christmas instead of New Years' like it traditionally was before this. Sinterklaas was rebranded from a catholic priest to look like a traditional dutchman from that time period, which included a big red suit (A dictionary of English Folklore, section: Santa). After this Santa was exported around the world and different countries added new spins. Stockings were also promoted around this time period and trace back to Clement C. Moor's "A Visit from St. Nicholas.†In 1927, in Finland, a radio broadcaster, Markus Rautio, morphed the old pagan deity, Joulupukki, into a Santa figure. Santa changed the Joulupukki figure, not the other way around.
Father Christmas, surprisingly, pre-dates Santa Claus. But he is not a pagan deity. Instead, he was a medieval personification of Christmas. Richard Smart of Plymtree is the first to write about him, referring to him as Sir Christmas, and his task is to announce the birth of Christ (Oxford Book of Carols, no. 21, 41-3).
Mistletoes do not go back to paganism. The first we hear of using mistletoe as Christmas decorations are in Robert Herrick, "Hesperides poetry collection," (892, 980), and then William Coles mentions it is a decoration in "The Art of Simpling†(1600s). The tradition of kissing under it did not begin until the end of the 18th century in Britain. See "A dictionary of English Folklore," section: Mistletoe.
Yule Logs do not go back to paganism, despite the name. Yule is also an English word to mean "mid-winter period." The first mention of yule logs is in Robert Herrick, "Hesperides poetry collection (number 784)" and he calls it a Christmas log. It wasn't called a yule log until Aubrey's "In the west-riding of Yorkshire on Christmas eve†(1686, p. 134).
St. Francis is credited for the first nativity scene in 1223 AD, Greccio. His followers then promoted the use of them during Christmas (Life of Saint Francis of Assisi - Saint Bonaventure. Chapter 10.7).
There is no evidence anything associated with Christmas goes past these sources I mentioned here, and therefore, there is no evidence Christmas is pagan.
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This from Zachary Uram
There is no evidence Christmas is pagan.
I'll start with the date.
Sol Invictus was not placed on 12/25 until 354 AD when the Philocalian Calendar records this but doesn't specify any festival with regards to sun worship. Prior to this, the Julio-Claudian fasti inscriptions say Sun festivals were on August 8th, 9th, 28th, and December 11th, and maybe October 19th. The Philocalian Calendar says Emperor Aurelian honored the sun with chariot races every 4 years Oct 19-22 (Steven Hijmans, "Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas", Mouseion, Number 47/3 (2003), 277-298).
Saturnalia was never on 12/25. Macrobius says Saturnalia began 14 days before January, which comes out to December 17th (Saturnalia 1.10.1-23), using Roman Calendrical dates. He says it lasted for 3 days, but according to the Fasti inscriptions, it lasted to the 24th during the days of the Republic.
Yule was placed on 12/25 by King Haakon the Good in the 10th century AD to coincide with Christmas. This goes back to the early historian Snorri Sturluson, and his book "Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway." Snorri says before this, "Yule was celebrated on a midwinter night, and for the duration of three nights" (p. 106). He gives no specific dates, but St. Bede in "The reckoning of Time,†(Section 329) said Northmen calculated their seasons according to the cycles of the moon, so the date of Yule probably changed every year. Pliny the elder also says the Gallic tribes calculated their months according to the moon (nat. his. 16.95.250). Last, according to the Chronicler, Theitmar, the Danes sacrificed to pagan gods in January after the 6th (The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, Book 1.17).
The Winter Solstice had no festive significance to ancient Romans. There were no celebrations planned for the date and they disagreed on when it was. The Julian Calendar does say 12/25, but Pliny the Elder says 12/26 (nat. his. 18.59.221), and Columella says 12/23 (De Re Rustica 9.14.12).
The date of 12/25 was selected by Christians because (according to early authors like Dionysus Exiguus & Hippolytus) they believed Jesus was conceived on the same day he died and they thought he died on March 25th, so just count forward nine months.
Christmas trees only go back to the 16th century in eastern Europe. The first mention of Christmas trees is in an Alsace ordinance in 1561. Almost no early pagans thought pine trees were sacred, let alone associated with 12/25. Germanic tribes believed the oak was sacred (Pliny, nat. his. 16.95). Maximus of Tyre said, "The Celts indeed worship Zeus, but they honor Him in the form of a lofty oak" (Dissertation VIII, section 8).
The most likely explanation is they morphed over from paradise trees. Adam and Eve's festival days is 12/24 and used to be honored with an Adam and Eve play. In Europe, in the dead of winter, not a lot of trees are available, so they would get a pine tree and decorate it with fruits and cakes. After the play, they could eat the treats on the tree and the practice probably just morphed into Christmas. We have no record of Christmas trees prior to this time. See "Christmas: A Candid History" by Bruce David Forbes, pp. 48-59; Encyclopedia of Christmas by Tanya Gulevich, pp. 165-171.
Santa Claus can only be traced back to Dutch immigrants in New York in the early 1800s. He came from the Dutch Sinterklaas, also known as St. Nicolas. His feast day was on 12/6 and was moved to 12/25 around this time to help make Christmas a family holiday. Newspapers promoted it and encouraged to give gifts on Christmas instead of New Years' like it traditionally was before this. Sinterklaas was rebranded from a catholic priest to look like a traditional dutchman from that time period, which included a big red suit (A dictionary of English Folklore, section: Santa). After this Santa was exported around the world and different countries added new spins. Stockings were also promoted around this time period and trace back to Clement C. Moor's "A Visit from St. Nicholas.†In 1927, in Finland, a radio broadcaster, Markus Rautio, morphed the old pagan deity, Joulupukki, into a Santa figure. Santa changed the Joulupukki figure, not the other way around.
Father Christmas, surprisingly, pre-dates Santa Claus. But he is not a pagan deity. Instead, he was a medieval personification of Christmas. Richard Smart of Plymtree is the first to write about him, referring to him as Sir Christmas, and his task is to announce the birth of Christ (Oxford Book of Carols, no. 21, 41-3).
Mistletoes do not go back to paganism. The first we hear of using mistletoe as Christmas decorations are in Robert Herrick, "Hesperides poetry collection," (892, 980), and then William Coles mentions it is a decoration in "The Art of Simpling†(1600s). The tradition of kissing under it did not begin until the end of the 18th century in Britain. See "A dictionary of English Folklore," section: Mistletoe.
Yule Logs do not go back to paganism, despite the name. Yule is also an English word to mean "mid-winter period." The first mention of yule logs is in Robert Herrick, "Hesperides poetry collection (number 784)" and he calls it a Christmas log. It wasn't called a yule log until Aubrey's "In the west-riding of Yorkshire on Christmas eve†(1686, p. 134).
St. Francis is credited for the first nativity scene in 1223 AD, Greccio. His followers then promoted the use of them during Christmas (Life of Saint Francis of Assisi - Saint Bonaventure. Chapter 10.7).
There is no evidence anything associated with Christmas goes past these sources I mentioned here, and therefore, there is no evidence Christmas is pagan.
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On the Sunny Side of the Street
Timothy Birdnow
Trumponomics does indeed work, and quite well.
U.S. Economy Grew at 4.3%
We were told the tariffs were going to tank the economy. We were told we needed all the aliens to "do the jobs Americans just won't do". We were told austerity measures would lead to a recession, especially with so many government jobs being eliminated, since government jobs gave money to people to spend. We were told lots of things that have now been proven to be untrue.
And all this with absolutely no help from the Federal Reserve, which refused to cut interest rates.
The Fed says a surge in consumer spending drove this higher than expected GDP growth. We were told the high unemployment numbers and the continued inflation in some sectors of the economy (most inflation has dropped) were going to lead to stagnant growth or worse. Turns out they were wrong.
Well, that unemployment has been there all along - it just wasn't counted. According to the Fecderal Reserve of St. Louis, the rise in unemployment was caused by an accounting issue. During the Biden era many people were not actively seeking a job and so were not counted in the unemployed rolls. With Trump, who has reduced the safety hammock, many of these folks are now seeking employment and so are now being counted as "unemployed".
Furthermore, as Mr. Trump has pointed out, much of the unemployment is a result of downsizing of govenment, with the more useless people suckling at auntie Samantha's teat now being forced to look for a real job. They don't like it one bit, but they that's the way the it goes in most sectors of the economy.
So people clearly have more disposable income to spend, and
Even ABC, a mortal enemy of Mr. Trump, had to admit Trump's tariffs may have boosted the economy by shoring up exports and reducing imports. Amazing.
Strangely, the lying media has convinced many inflation is up, or at least caused by Trump and not an artifact of Bidenomics. Polls show the public is quite sour on Mr. Trump's economic program even while they are buying more and living better.
Can they keep this up until the next election? Or will the Fed pull some evil stun to crash the economy just before next November? I don't know but I suspect we will have a massive boom in the coming months. And I think the Left knows it too and trembles.
Trumponomics does indeed work, and quite well.
U.S. Economy Grew at 4.3%
We were told the tariffs were going to tank the economy. We were told we needed all the aliens to "do the jobs Americans just won't do". We were told austerity measures would lead to a recession, especially with so many government jobs being eliminated, since government jobs gave money to people to spend. We were told lots of things that have now been proven to be untrue.
And all this with absolutely no help from the Federal Reserve, which refused to cut interest rates.
The Fed says a surge in consumer spending drove this higher than expected GDP growth. We were told the high unemployment numbers and the continued inflation in some sectors of the economy (most inflation has dropped) were going to lead to stagnant growth or worse. Turns out they were wrong.
Well, that unemployment has been there all along - it just wasn't counted. According to the Fecderal Reserve of St. Louis, the rise in unemployment was caused by an accounting issue. During the Biden era many people were not actively seeking a job and so were not counted in the unemployed rolls. With Trump, who has reduced the safety hammock, many of these folks are now seeking employment and so are now being counted as "unemployed".
Furthermore, as Mr. Trump has pointed out, much of the unemployment is a result of downsizing of govenment, with the more useless people suckling at auntie Samantha's teat now being forced to look for a real job. They don't like it one bit, but they that's the way the it goes in most sectors of the economy.
So people clearly have more disposable income to spend, and
Even ABC, a mortal enemy of Mr. Trump, had to admit Trump's tariffs may have boosted the economy by shoring up exports and reducing imports. Amazing.
Strangely, the lying media has convinced many inflation is up, or at least caused by Trump and not an artifact of Bidenomics. Polls show the public is quite sour on Mr. Trump's economic program even while they are buying more and living better.
Can they keep this up until the next election? Or will the Fed pull some evil stun to crash the economy just before next November? I don't know but I suspect we will have a massive boom in the coming months. And I think the Left knows it too and trembles.
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U.S. Underwrote Cuba for Decades
Timothy Birdnow
Why have we been propping up communist Cuba?
Report: Cuba Has Purchased over $8 Billion Worth of Food from the U.S. Since 2001
This was George W. Bush doing this too. And one suspects the Cubans didn't actually pay for any of it but rather the U.S. taxpayer.
The Breitbart article quotes Diario de Cuba, the Madrid outlet that provided the source material:
It's no surprise Obama funded the Cubans, nor Biden, and of course Trump was in a perpetual battle for survival during his first term. But why would Bush not deal with this? Because he and all the rest of the Ruling Class really didn't want to triumph over communism but preferred to keep it in place to cement their interventionism and their power.
Why have we been propping up communist Cuba?
Report: Cuba Has Purchased over $8 Billion Worth of Food from the U.S. Since 2001
This was George W. Bush doing this too. And one suspects the Cubans didn't actually pay for any of it but rather the U.S. taxpayer.
The Breitbart article quotes Diario de Cuba, the Madrid outlet that provided the source material:
For decades, the Cuban regime and its allies around the world have incessantly presented a false narrative that the United States’ "embargo” on Cuba is the one and only cause of all of Cuba’s shortcomings — and not the decades’ worth of failed communist policies, brutal repression, and gross mismanagement of the country’s infrastructure that has pushed the island-nation to the brink of complete ruin.
In reality, the "embargo” is a series of measures that mildly limit economic activity between the two countries yet does not hinder nor prevent the shipping of medicine or humanitarian supplies, especially in emergency situations, nor does it prevent Cuba from importing food from the United States.
Diario de Cuba explained that food purchases from the United States, which started as a "timid acquisition” during the rule of late dictator Fidel Castro, is now one of the "main markets for essential goods for Cuba.”
The outlet — citing statistical data from the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, a private, non-profit, membership-based corporation — Cuba has so far spent $8 billion in food purchases from the U.S. since December 2001 when Fidel Castro authorized an initial $4.31 million purchase.
According to the data cited by Diario de Cuba, Cuba consistently spent hundreds of millions of U.S dollars every year in food purchases since that initial December 2001 purchase, something the outlet described as the "increased dependence” of Cuba on U.S. food. According to the data, 2008 stands as the year with the most dollars spent by Cuba on U.S. food purchases at over $710 million.
The organization noted that the data does not itemize "transportation charges, bank charges, or other costs associated with exports,” as the Cuban regime "reports unverifiable data that includes transportation charges, bank charges, and other costs.”
"Despite complaints from the regime that it has to pay for such imports in advance, given the absence of credit mechanisms between the two countries and the decades of debt accumulated by Havana, even with its allies, the millions needed to make the payments have not been lacking,” Diario de Cuba wrote.
Between January and September 2025, Diario de Cuba reported, the communist regime spent over $359 million purchasing food from the United States. This included increases of between five to eight percent between August and September, respectively. The amount represents a 15.58-percent increase from the roughly $310.96 million that Cuba reportedly spent during the first nine months of 2024.
Diario de Cuba stressed that, despite the million-dollar purchases, both the Castro regime and its state media avoid making mention of them while "playing the victim and blaming Washington for the shortages suffered by the island’s inhabitants.
In reality, the "embargo” is a series of measures that mildly limit economic activity between the two countries yet does not hinder nor prevent the shipping of medicine or humanitarian supplies, especially in emergency situations, nor does it prevent Cuba from importing food from the United States.
Diario de Cuba explained that food purchases from the United States, which started as a "timid acquisition” during the rule of late dictator Fidel Castro, is now one of the "main markets for essential goods for Cuba.”
The outlet — citing statistical data from the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, a private, non-profit, membership-based corporation — Cuba has so far spent $8 billion in food purchases from the U.S. since December 2001 when Fidel Castro authorized an initial $4.31 million purchase.
According to the data cited by Diario de Cuba, Cuba consistently spent hundreds of millions of U.S dollars every year in food purchases since that initial December 2001 purchase, something the outlet described as the "increased dependence” of Cuba on U.S. food. According to the data, 2008 stands as the year with the most dollars spent by Cuba on U.S. food purchases at over $710 million.
The organization noted that the data does not itemize "transportation charges, bank charges, or other costs associated with exports,” as the Cuban regime "reports unverifiable data that includes transportation charges, bank charges, and other costs.”
"Despite complaints from the regime that it has to pay for such imports in advance, given the absence of credit mechanisms between the two countries and the decades of debt accumulated by Havana, even with its allies, the millions needed to make the payments have not been lacking,” Diario de Cuba wrote.
Between January and September 2025, Diario de Cuba reported, the communist regime spent over $359 million purchasing food from the United States. This included increases of between five to eight percent between August and September, respectively. The amount represents a 15.58-percent increase from the roughly $310.96 million that Cuba reportedly spent during the first nine months of 2024.
Diario de Cuba stressed that, despite the million-dollar purchases, both the Castro regime and its state media avoid making mention of them while "playing the victim and blaming Washington for the shortages suffered by the island’s inhabitants.
It's no surprise Obama funded the Cubans, nor Biden, and of course Trump was in a perpetual battle for survival during his first term. But why would Bush not deal with this? Because he and all the rest of the Ruling Class really didn't want to triumph over communism but preferred to keep it in place to cement their interventionism and their power.
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Santa Loves ICE
Tlimothy Birdnow
Ho ho hoorah!
Video: ICE Releases AI Video of Santa Rounding up Illegal Aliens - Avoid the "Naughty List”
I guess this is why Democrats are always so angry; they've been on Santa's naughty list for generations now.
At any rate Santa is no doubt a strong borders guy. He doesn't allow ANY immigration to his country at the North Pole, and nobody is even allowed to visit there. While he does cross national borders pretty much at will one suspects he's got visas for every country or their air defenses would shoot his sleigh down. And he doesn't stay; he moves on to the rest of the world and eventually returns to his snowy kingdom in the far north.
I just saw on Spectrum News that Santa's reindeer were inspected by the government to make sure they weren't carrying any dangerous pathogens, and his sleigh was inspected for mechanical safety, so at least the U.S. government has cleared him for temporary entry into theU.S.
If Santa wants to help with ICE, why shouldn't he? It will make people safer and happier in the end anyway. He's giving aliens a great gift by helping them return home after all.
And remember, being from the frozen north, Santa loves ICE!
Ho ho hoorah!
Video: ICE Releases AI Video of Santa Rounding up Illegal Aliens - Avoid the "Naughty List”
I guess this is why Democrats are always so angry; they've been on Santa's naughty list for generations now.
At any rate Santa is no doubt a strong borders guy. He doesn't allow ANY immigration to his country at the North Pole, and nobody is even allowed to visit there. While he does cross national borders pretty much at will one suspects he's got visas for every country or their air defenses would shoot his sleigh down. And he doesn't stay; he moves on to the rest of the world and eventually returns to his snowy kingdom in the far north.
I just saw on Spectrum News that Santa's reindeer were inspected by the government to make sure they weren't carrying any dangerous pathogens, and his sleigh was inspected for mechanical safety, so at least the U.S. government has cleared him for temporary entry into theU.S.
If Santa wants to help with ICE, why shouldn't he? It will make people safer and happier in the end anyway. He's giving aliens a great gift by helping them return home after all.
And remember, being from the frozen north, Santa loves ICE!
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No More Free Abortions for Vets
Timothy Birdnow
What took so long?
DOJ Reverses Biden-Era Rule That Allowed Veterans Affairs Abortion Funding
Biden tried to put new meaning to the term Veteran Affairs. The military isn't supposed to be a bordello, nor is it obligated to kill babies at the whim of female soldiers. If they can't control their urges, or use good judgment, then it's on them, not the taxpayers.
That is why women traditionally have not been soldiers; too much fraternizing going on.
What took so long?
DOJ Reverses Biden-Era Rule That Allowed Veterans Affairs Abortion Funding
Biden tried to put new meaning to the term Veteran Affairs. The military isn't supposed to be a bordello, nor is it obligated to kill babies at the whim of female soldiers. If they can't control their urges, or use good judgment, then it's on them, not the taxpayers.
That is why women traditionally have not been soldiers; too much fraternizing going on.
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Shempocrats
Timothy Birdnow
Well, of course! Trump is a master at Ju Jitzu, at least where politics and media are concerned.
Clintons DOJ Had First Chance to Prosecute Epstein but Whiffed Opportunity
The article points out that there is little damaging to Trump in the files released but a LOT damaging to herr Schlickster Clinton. No doubt Trump knew that all along and was being coy about releasing the files just to get the Democrats to walk into that particular trap.
That's the problem with Trump Derangement Syndrome; his enemies wind up gnawing off their own feet out of a desperate attempt to damage the Great Orange Peril.
I am reminded of the Three Stooges where Moe and Shemp are tangled up in a phone cord in a booth. Shemp threatens Moe "get your hand out of my face or I'll bite it off" Moe replies "that's not my hand it's yours" and Shemp says "you asked for it" and bites a hunk out of his own hand. The Dems are Shemp all the way.
Well, of course! Trump is a master at Ju Jitzu, at least where politics and media are concerned.
Clintons DOJ Had First Chance to Prosecute Epstein but Whiffed Opportunity
The article points out that there is little damaging to Trump in the files released but a LOT damaging to herr Schlickster Clinton. No doubt Trump knew that all along and was being coy about releasing the files just to get the Democrats to walk into that particular trap.
That's the problem with Trump Derangement Syndrome; his enemies wind up gnawing off their own feet out of a desperate attempt to damage the Great Orange Peril.
I am reminded of the Three Stooges where Moe and Shemp are tangled up in a phone cord in a booth. Shemp threatens Moe "get your hand out of my face or I'll bite it off" Moe replies "that's not my hand it's yours" and Shemp says "you asked for it" and bites a hunk out of his own hand. The Dems are Shemp all the way.
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