October 19, 2025
Civilizational Collapse
Timothy Birdnow
My brother lives in Glasgow Village. There is constant gunfire heard in the neighborhood.
tragic: St. Louis Boy Playing Video Games in His Room Killed by Stray Bullet After Neighborhood Thugs Get in Shootout
My father, who lives there now and lived just a few miles away, was caught in his car between two gangbanger groups in a gunfight. He's lucky he survived.
But that's St. Louis for you! It's like the wild west except without guys like Wyatt Earp to stop the outlaws.
This area is owned by the Democrats, as is the city of St. Louis.
My brother lives in Glasgow Village. There is constant gunfire heard in the neighborhood.
tragic: St. Louis Boy Playing Video Games in His Room Killed by Stray Bullet After Neighborhood Thugs Get in Shootout
My father, who lives there now and lived just a few miles away, was caught in his car between two gangbanger groups in a gunfight. He's lucky he survived.
But that's St. Louis for you! It's like the wild west except without guys like Wyatt Earp to stop the outlaws.
This area is owned by the Democrats, as is the city of St. Louis.
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Boomerange Karma
Timothy Birdnow
Karma is a real mother...
So…
"I hope he gets 176 years in jail for what he did.”
– John Bolton on Julian Assange.
John Bolton is now facing 180 years on 18 counts under the Espionage Act.pic.twitter.com/G7hxqRxiHU
— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 17, 2025
Karma is a real mother...
So…
"I hope he gets 176 years in jail for what he did.”
– John Bolton on Julian Assange.
John Bolton is now facing 180 years on 18 counts under the Espionage Act.pic.twitter.com/G7hxqRxiHU
— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 17, 2025
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Trump on Blewski, er, Blue Sky
Timothy Birdnow
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If Charlie Kirk taught us anything it's that we have to engage. Political onanism does no good.
White House opens account on leftist Blue Sky.
You can't influence people if you don't talk to them.
AMGD
If Charlie Kirk taught us anything it's that we have to engage. Political onanism does no good.
White House opens account on leftist Blue Sky.
You can't influence people if you don't talk to them.
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Courts to Shut Down
Timothy Birdnow
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Sounds good to me! Maybe the Democrats won't be able to file all these nuisance suits to hamstring Trump after this.
Federal Courts to Scale Back Operations as Schumer Shutdown Exhausts Funds
When Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam war the military ran out of money within weeks and the whole thing had to be shut down, leading to the humiliation of the fall of Saigon. Government runs on money; it's their natural medium. Without it the whole rotten thing crumbles.
From Zerohedge:
Once shut down we should simply eliminate many of these districts; they are just sources of infection to America anyway, taking on rolls never intended for the judiciary. We would be wise to simply eliminate many of them. America is far too sue-happy these days and it is in no small part because the courts take all cases and treat them seriously - and make new legal precedents that empower the government and the Progressives.
Why, pray tell, are the courts going beyond "essential functions" mandated by the Constitution in the first place? The Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution says that the ONLY functions that are permissible for any branch of the Federal government are those EXPRESSLY GRANTED by the Constitution, after all. All the rest of this is extra-legal stuff, power they usurping from the other branches and the People and the states. It was this explosion of courts that made the judiciary the lead branch of government when it was supposed to be the smallest and weakest.
So let's shut 'em all down, sez I! Who needs courts sticking their noses into state laws in the first place? Who needs them telling us that we must have dudes in dresses in our little girl's bathrooms or on their field hockey teams?
This may well show that we really don't need all these courts in the first place. Hopefully the public will see this and understand we've been funding a con game all along.
AMDG
Sounds good to me! Maybe the Democrats won't be able to file all these nuisance suits to hamstring Trump after this.
Federal Courts to Scale Back Operations as Schumer Shutdown Exhausts Funds
When Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam war the military ran out of money within weeks and the whole thing had to be shut down, leading to the humiliation of the fall of Saigon. Government runs on money; it's their natural medium. Without it the whole rotten thing crumbles.
From Zerohedge:
With the government shutdown about to enter its third week, the federal court system announced Friday that it will begin operating in a limited, unpaid capacity starting Monday – having exhausted the last of the court fees and other stopgap funds that had kept its doors open since Oct. 1.
In a statement, the judiciary said that beginning Oct. 20, it will "no longer have funding to sustain full, paid operations” across its 94 district and 13 circuit courts. The move marks one of the most significant contractions in the judicial branch in decades, as courts transition to the minimum operations required by law until Congress restores government funding.
"Until the ongoing lapse in government funding is resolved, federal courts will maintain limited operations necessary to perform the Judiciary’s constitutional functions,” the statement read.
In a statement, the judiciary said that beginning Oct. 20, it will "no longer have funding to sustain full, paid operations” across its 94 district and 13 circuit courts. The move marks one of the most significant contractions in the judicial branch in decades, as courts transition to the minimum operations required by law until Congress restores government funding.
"Until the ongoing lapse in government funding is resolved, federal courts will maintain limited operations necessary to perform the Judiciary’s constitutional functions,” the statement read.
Once shut down we should simply eliminate many of these districts; they are just sources of infection to America anyway, taking on rolls never intended for the judiciary. We would be wise to simply eliminate many of them. America is far too sue-happy these days and it is in no small part because the courts take all cases and treat them seriously - and make new legal precedents that empower the government and the Progressives.
Why, pray tell, are the courts going beyond "essential functions" mandated by the Constitution in the first place? The Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution says that the ONLY functions that are permissible for any branch of the Federal government are those EXPRESSLY GRANTED by the Constitution, after all. All the rest of this is extra-legal stuff, power they usurping from the other branches and the People and the states. It was this explosion of courts that made the judiciary the lead branch of government when it was supposed to be the smallest and weakest.
So let's shut 'em all down, sez I! Who needs courts sticking their noses into state laws in the first place? Who needs them telling us that we must have dudes in dresses in our little girl's bathrooms or on their field hockey teams?
This may well show that we really don't need all these courts in the first place. Hopefully the public will see this and understand we've been funding a con game all along.
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The Trianulating Rand Paul
Timothy Birdnow
I used to admire Rand Paul as a principled man, but listening to him on Meet the Press this morning proved to me he's nothing but a media whore and bucks his party for the notoriety, much like John McCain used to do.
Host Kristen Welker repeatedly lobbed leading questions and Paul answered in a way guaranteed to get attaboys from him. For instance she spoke of some group chat by young Republicans which allegedly used racial slurs and Paul was in agreement with Welker rather than pointing out that these were people with dubious connections to the Republicans.
He also defended hiw votes against the spending bill by saying "it adds a trillion to the deficit" and says people were telling him to keep fighting. Not sure who but at this stage the Republicans do not have the numbers to NOT put something like this through and it is at least half of what the Donkeys want. By holding out he guarantees a deal that will increase spending considerably. Yet he stands firm because he can then claim to be "principled" when in fact he's simply triangulating.
With friends like these...
I used to admire Rand Paul as a principled man, but listening to him on Meet the Press this morning proved to me he's nothing but a media whore and bucks his party for the notoriety, much like John McCain used to do.
Host Kristen Welker repeatedly lobbed leading questions and Paul answered in a way guaranteed to get attaboys from him. For instance she spoke of some group chat by young Republicans which allegedly used racial slurs and Paul was in agreement with Welker rather than pointing out that these were people with dubious connections to the Republicans.
He also defended hiw votes against the spending bill by saying "it adds a trillion to the deficit" and says people were telling him to keep fighting. Not sure who but at this stage the Republicans do not have the numbers to NOT put something like this through and it is at least half of what the Donkeys want. By holding out he guarantees a deal that will increase spending considerably. Yet he stands firm because he can then claim to be "principled" when in fact he's simply triangulating.
With friends like these...
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I'm Not Fudging
Timothy Birdnow
My brother was in Branson Mo. last week and he was headed to his home in eastern Kentucky when he decided to stop in the scenic Missouri town of Uranus.
In proof that truth is stranger than fiction they visited the local attraction, which was a fudge factory. Yes, they were packing fudge in Uranus.
You can't make stuff like this up.
I wonder if they have a natural gas plant there...
My brother was in Branson Mo. last week and he was headed to his home in eastern Kentucky when he decided to stop in the scenic Missouri town of Uranus.
In proof that truth is stranger than fiction they visited the local attraction, which was a fudge factory. Yes, they were packing fudge in Uranus.
You can't make stuff like this up.
I wonder if they have a natural gas plant there...
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October 18, 2025
Shutdown Polls
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone seen any polling about how the American People feel about the govenrment shutdown? I haven't. Which tells me the Democrats are being blamed and the media won't report it.
Anyone seen any polling about how the American People feel about the govenrment shutdown? I haven't. Which tells me the Democrats are being blamed and the media won't report it.
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We're Fierce, We're Feminists, and We're in Your Face
Timothy Birdnow
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Feminism and cancel culture and the feminization of society.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/
The author stressed the passive aggressive nature of women as the root of cancel culture and the rest a bit too much and ignores the strategic value, indeed the genesis of it being rooted in a pragmatic approach to getting women on board with a brutal social censorship by appealing to basic feminine impulses. (In their own social circles women are often jockeying for position and punish apostates with censorship or banishment fairly often.)
I remember my colege days and there were sociologists and English profs and pychologists pushing this sort of anti-rationalism and feminization of our culture that far back.
At any rate it's an intrigueing premise
FTA:
Read the whole essay; it makes good points.
AMDG
Feminism and cancel culture and the feminization of society.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/
The author stressed the passive aggressive nature of women as the root of cancel culture and the rest a bit too much and ignores the strategic value, indeed the genesis of it being rooted in a pragmatic approach to getting women on board with a brutal social censorship by appealing to basic feminine impulses. (In their own social circles women are often jockeying for position and punish apostates with censorship or banishment fairly often.)
I remember my colege days and there were sociologists and English profs and pychologists pushing this sort of anti-rationalism and feminization of our culture that far back.
At any rate it's an intrigueing premise
FTA:
The basic facts of the Larry Summers case were familiar to me. On January 14, 2005, at a conference on "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce,” Larry Summers gave a talk that was supposed to be off the record. In it, he said that female underrepresentation in hard sciences was partly due to "different availability of aptitude at the high end” as well as taste differences between men and women "not attributable to socialization.” Some female professors in attendance were offended and sent his remarks to a reporter, in defiance of the off-the-record rule. The ensuing scandal led to a no-confidence vote by the Harvard faculty and, eventually, Summers’s resignation.
The essay argued that it wasn’t just that women had cancelled the president of Harvard; it was that they’d cancelled him in a very feminine way. They made emotional appeals rather than logical arguments. "When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill,” said Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at MIT. Summers made a public statement clarifying his remarks, and then another, and then a third, with the apology more insistent each time. Experts chimed in to declare that everything Summers had said about sex differences was within the scientific mainstream. These rational appeals had no effect on the mob hysteria.
This cancellation was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as "wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. How did I not see it before.
The essay argued that it wasn’t just that women had cancelled the president of Harvard; it was that they’d cancelled him in a very feminine way. They made emotional appeals rather than logical arguments. "When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill,” said Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at MIT. Summers made a public statement clarifying his remarks, and then another, and then a third, with the apology more insistent each time. Experts chimed in to declare that everything Summers had said about sex differences was within the scientific mainstream. These rational appeals had no effect on the mob hysteria.
This cancellation was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as "wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. How did I not see it before.
Read the whole essay; it makes good points.
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Anglican Schism
Timothy Birdnow
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Tha Anglican Church has split as badly as J.B. Pritzker's trousers while bending over, with an apparently irreconcilable schism that sees a majority of Anglicans leave the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Progressives in the dust.
From the Gateway Pundit:
It is well past time the sane, spiritual christians in kAnglicanism abandon the radicals who have seized control of their church. Britain is dying and it has been aided in that death by the church founded by Henry VIII, which seems hell-bent on bringing more alliens into the country, pushing homosexuality and transgenderism and every other leftist idea.
The Catholic Church will end up there next if some miracle doesn't reverse it's course. Pope Francis and now Leo both have been steering the Church along the same course as the Anglicans have taken. This is the end result of such a course.
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Tha Anglican Church has split as badly as J.B. Pritzker's trousers while bending over, with an apparently irreconcilable schism that sees a majority of Anglicans leave the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Progressives in the dust.
From the Gateway Pundit:
The Church of England is facing a seismic schism, with the conservative Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon), representing nearly 40 million members—ten times the UK’s Anglican population—declaring itself the authentic Anglican Communion.
Gafcon announced it has severed ties with progressive factions, accusing them of abandoning biblical authority and pursuing a "revisionist agenda.”
The group stated, "We cannot remain in communion with those who forsake the inerrant word of God.”
1. We declare that the Anglican Communion will be reordered, with only one foundation of communion, namely the Holy Bible, "translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the church’s historic and consensual reading” (Jerusalem Declaration, Article II), which reflects Article VI of the 39 Articles of Religion.
2. We reject the so-called Instruments of Communion, namely the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the Primates Meeting, which have failed to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion.
3. We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority and overturned Resolution I.10, of the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
Gafcon announced it has severed ties with progressive factions, accusing them of abandoning biblical authority and pursuing a "revisionist agenda.”
The group stated, "We cannot remain in communion with those who forsake the inerrant word of God.”
1. We declare that the Anglican Communion will be reordered, with only one foundation of communion, namely the Holy Bible, "translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the church’s historic and consensual reading” (Jerusalem Declaration, Article II), which reflects Article VI of the 39 Articles of Religion.
2. We reject the so-called Instruments of Communion, namely the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the Primates Meeting, which have failed to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion.
3. We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority and overturned Resolution I.10, of the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
It is well past time the sane, spiritual christians in kAnglicanism abandon the radicals who have seized control of their church. Britain is dying and it has been aided in that death by the church founded by Henry VIII, which seems hell-bent on bringing more alliens into the country, pushing homosexuality and transgenderism and every other leftist idea.
The Catholic Church will end up there next if some miracle doesn't reverse it's course. Pope Francis and now Leo both have been steering the Church along the same course as the Anglicans have taken. This is the end result of such a course.
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The James Gang
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It's a crime family.
Letitia James’ criminal kin have been charged 11 times in 5 years — but keep getting off easy
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It's a crime family.
Letitia James’ criminal kin have been charged 11 times in 5 years — but keep getting off easy
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Shall Surely Perish by It
Timothy Birdnow
The song Popcorn ran through my mind when I read this. Things are starting to pop, and we should all grab some popcorn and enjoy the show!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3854954/gop-lawmakers-refer-jack-smith-to-doj/
Meanwhile enjoy this perp walk by the Walrus, John Bolton.
He who lives by the sword shall surely perish by it.
The song Popcorn ran through my mind when I read this. Things are starting to pop, and we should all grab some popcorn and enjoy the show!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3854954/gop-lawmakers-refer-jack-smith-to-doj/
Meanwhile enjoy this perp walk by the Walrus, John Bolton.
He who lives by the sword shall surely perish by it.
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The Obamacare Grift
Timothy Birdnow
Up to 40% of all Obamacare recipients may be ghosts, people who are on the rolls but do not exist.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/obamacares-latest-scandal-is-a-35-billion-ghost-story
This is a way to funnel vast sums of money to insurance companies, who turn around and donate it to the Democrats.
That's why the Democrats are so adamant about keeping the govenrment shut down despite the political price they are likely to pay for it; they dare not lose this lucrative revenue stream. That huge sum of money they want for Obamacare is really going into their pockets in the end.
Up to 40% of all Obamacare recipients may be ghosts, people who are on the rolls but do not exist.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/obamacares-latest-scandal-is-a-35-billion-ghost-story
This is a way to funnel vast sums of money to insurance companies, who turn around and donate it to the Democrats.
That's why the Democrats are so adamant about keeping the govenrment shut down despite the political price they are likely to pay for it; they dare not lose this lucrative revenue stream. That huge sum of money they want for Obamacare is really going into their pockets in the end.
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The Image of the Beast
Timothy Birdnow
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In Roman times there were multiple cults that worshipped specific gods or goddesses, and since Romans believed in signs and spiritual prophecy (like the Oracle of Delphi, or the Oracle in Pompey, or anywhere else) it was often necessary to stage miracles and other manifestations in the temples of these false gods. Objects would seem to float. Fire would appear seemingly out of nowhere. It was all conjuror's tricks, sleight of hand, magician stuff. But it gave the worshippers a feeling of something that they craved, that they were close to the gods or goddesses.
This essay made me think about the Romans (and Greeks before them) who worshipped a flim-flam god or goddess and whose false faith was crushed when the One True God made his appearance.
The author is discussing the rise of AI and how it will affect Christianity and spirituality in general.
He doesn't come right out and say it but I suspect he realizes what he's describing is a graven image, a golden calf, an idol. That is what we are going to get from the melding of AI and faith.
He states:
But radio preachers were real people speaking in their own words (or guided by the Holy Spirit) and while many were frauds, so were many wandering preachers in the Middle Ages or whatnot. And internet prayer circles are just people communicating in a new way. AI is different; it is a machine pretending to be a person, or eve God Himself.
Nobody ever prayed TO a radio preacher or an internet prayer circle. But they will pray to this electronic god we've created. These other things were just tools.
I am reminded of the line in the Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkle "and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made". Ours isn't just a neon sign, but a powerful entity capable of mimicing human responses and that thinks at a speed far higher than do we. People are going to worship it.
Just as Revelations foretold:
Sound familiar? To me this sounds amazingly like AI.
The author rightly worries we may well wind up worshipping this creation of ours. And he warns there may be punishment for not doing so. Already we are seeing such punishment as the economy becomes increasingly dependent on smartphones and other tech and it becomes increasingly difficult to live without taking this particular beast's mark. If you don't buy the tech and maintain it at your own expense you are finding it increasingly difficult to just live. Eventually you will not be able to buy nor sell without it.
Now where did we hear THAT from?
AI ultimately must be viewed as a tool and must be limited lest it become our masters. And don't forget our political would-be masters are going to be the ones who control the AI. We've seen that aready as AI tends to provide far-left ideology based on the wishes of the techno-priests.
We are playing with a loaded gun. Sadly we need that gun to survive because our enemies are pushing forward with their own.
Things are spiraling out of control. How long before God judges the world?
AMDG
In Roman times there were multiple cults that worshipped specific gods or goddesses, and since Romans believed in signs and spiritual prophecy (like the Oracle of Delphi, or the Oracle in Pompey, or anywhere else) it was often necessary to stage miracles and other manifestations in the temples of these false gods. Objects would seem to float. Fire would appear seemingly out of nowhere. It was all conjuror's tricks, sleight of hand, magician stuff. But it gave the worshippers a feeling of something that they craved, that they were close to the gods or goddesses.
This essay made me think about the Romans (and Greeks before them) who worshipped a flim-flam god or goddess and whose false faith was crushed when the One True God made his appearance.
The author is discussing the rise of AI and how it will affect Christianity and spirituality in general.
He doesn't come right out and say it but I suspect he realizes what he's describing is a graven image, a golden calf, an idol. That is what we are going to get from the melding of AI and faith.
He states:
There will be those who call this blasphemy and others who call it progress. Both sides have a point. Every spiritual revolution begins with suspicion. The first radio preachers were dismissed as frauds. Online prayer circles were mocked as empty mimicry.
Yet each innovation that once threatened the church eventually became part of it. The question now isn’t whether faith can adapt, but whether adaptation will leave it in the dust.
Yet each innovation that once threatened the church eventually became part of it. The question now isn’t whether faith can adapt, but whether adaptation will leave it in the dust.
But radio preachers were real people speaking in their own words (or guided by the Holy Spirit) and while many were frauds, so were many wandering preachers in the Middle Ages or whatnot. And internet prayer circles are just people communicating in a new way. AI is different; it is a machine pretending to be a person, or eve God Himself.
Nobody ever prayed TO a radio preacher or an internet prayer circle. But they will pray to this electronic god we've created. These other things were just tools.
I am reminded of the line in the Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkle "and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made". Ours isn't just a neon sign, but a powerful entity capable of mimicing human responses and that thinks at a speed far higher than do we. People are going to worship it.
Just as Revelations foretold:
14: "And [the beast from the earth] deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live."
15"And he [the beast from the earth] had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."
15"And he [the beast from the earth] had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."
Sound familiar? To me this sounds amazingly like AI.
The author rightly worries we may well wind up worshipping this creation of ours. And he warns there may be punishment for not doing so. Already we are seeing such punishment as the economy becomes increasingly dependent on smartphones and other tech and it becomes increasingly difficult to live without taking this particular beast's mark. If you don't buy the tech and maintain it at your own expense you are finding it increasingly difficult to just live. Eventually you will not be able to buy nor sell without it.
Now where did we hear THAT from?
AI ultimately must be viewed as a tool and must be limited lest it become our masters. And don't forget our political would-be masters are going to be the ones who control the AI. We've seen that aready as AI tends to provide far-left ideology based on the wishes of the techno-priests.
We are playing with a loaded gun. Sadly we need that gun to survive because our enemies are pushing forward with their own.
Things are spiraling out of control. How long before God judges the world?
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Racial Gerrymandering at SCOTUS
Timothy Birdnow
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Alan Dershowitz thinks SCOTUS will overturn racial gerrymandering of Congressional districts.
Alan Dershowitz Predicts Supreme Court Will Deliver Shift in Election Law
From the article;
Look, everyone has the right to vote if they are a citizen, registered and in good standing (there are conditions that must be met to have the vote which is often forgotten and dismissed by Democrats)but not everyone has tghe right to POWER. Past discrimination does not assure you some place at the table if you would be outvoted under normal circumstances. Racial gerrymandering is an attempt to overrule the rights of the majority to have their votes count in favor of a privileged class which is guaranteed power out of some misguided sense of collective guilt.
Nowhere is such a right guaranteed in the Constitution; this is another of those "penumbra" rights assumed by the courts that do not actually exist anywhere in the Constitution. Yes, we have the Voting Rights Act, but it does not guarantee power, just the right to vote. Racial gerrymandering is nothing but putting a thumb on the scale and it has real-world consequences and disenfranchises the majority.
Discrimination is discrimination, no matter who benefits. IF you are going to discriminate, what is fairer? Discriminating for the minority or for the majority of people who at least have more people who will benefit? It's a simple cost/benefit analysis when looked at in this way. But even this isn't fair and we all know it. It's "damned if you do and damned if you don't" so the default position should be the equivalent of a jurist hippocratic oath "first do no harm". Courts overriding the will of the people (who elected state legislatures and governors who set the district boundaries in the first place) is radical interventionism in the body politic. It's the equivalen of exploratory surgery on a patient who came in for a cold.
And if we start looking at past discrimination as a guide then all is lost because so many grouTimothy Birdnow
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Alan Dershowitz thinks SCOTUS will overturn racial gerrymandering of Congressional districts.
Alan Dershowitz Predicts Supreme Court Will Deliver Shift in Election Law[link]
From the article;
Dershowitz said the Court appears ready to apply the same reasoning it used in the affirmative action rulings to voting districts, curbing efforts to design congressional maps that favor specific racial groups.
"This is not like college admissions, where you can move to a meritocracy, and we know what a meritocracy means. But you can’t have a meritocracy when it comes to creating a district. Creation of the district either will help black people or will hurt or will help white voters or will hurt them. There’s no neutral principle,” Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren. "And I suspect the Supreme Court is moving away from focusing on race in the electoral context, as well as in the college-admission context. So if I had to make a prediction, I would predict that the district will not do well in front of the Supreme Court.”
Dershowitz referenced Justice Felix Frankfurter’s 1940s warning that the Court should avoid the "political thicket” of gerrymandering.
"Back in the 1940s, Justice Frankfurter purposely and very, very correctly talked about the Supreme Court staying out of the thicket, the political thicket, of racial gerrymandering and other forms of gerrymandering, because there’s no neutral answer to this,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz said four key justices will likely determine the outcome.
Finally, a Faith-Based, America-First Wealth Manager With No Allegiance to Wall Street, ESG, or DEI Agendas.
"There’s four key votes in this. And I suspect we’re going to see a lot less sympathy for creating legislative areas which guarantee black seats in Congress and in other elected offices. I think we’re going to see a diminution of the sensitivity toward kind of creating affirmative action in legislative redistricting,” Dershowitz said.
The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it may soon end the practice of drawing congressional districts based on race. During arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose vote could decide the case, along with that of Chief Justice John Roberts, pressed civil rights advocates on when race-based remedies should come to an end.
"The issue, as you know, is that this court’s cases in a variety of contexts have said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time, sometimes for a long period of time, decades in some cases, but that they should not be indefinite and should have an endpoint,” Kavanaugh said. "What exactly do you think the end point should be for the intentional use of race to create districts?”
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Look, everyone has the right to vote if they are a citizen, registered and in good standing (there are conditions that must be met to have the vote which is often forgotten and dismissed by Democrats)but not everyone has tghe right to POWER. Past discrimination does not assure you some place at the table if you would be outvoted under normal circumstances. Racial gerrymandering is an attempt to overrule the rights of the majority to have their votes count in favor of a privileged class which is guaranteed power out of some misguided sense of collective guilt.
Nowhere is such a right guaranteed in the Constitution; this is another of those "penumbra" rights assumed by the courts that do not actually exist anywhere in the Constitution. Yes, we have the Voting Rights Act, but it does not guarantee power, just the right to vote. Racial gerrymandering is nothing but putting a thumb on the scale and it has real-world consequences and disenfranchises the majority.
Discrimination is discrimination, no matter who benefits. IF you are going to discriminate, what is fairer? Discriminating for the minority or for the majority of people who at least have more people who will benefit? It's a simple cost/benefit analysis when looked at in this way. But even this isn't fair and we all know it.
The courts overruling the elected officials (who are accountable to the People) is tyrannical and stupid. Since the courts cannot make a truly fair assessment it becomes a matter of pure political power on the part of the court making the ruling, their political bent, and judicial philosophy overruling the People based just on their own beliefs.
And if we go down that road where does it end? Will we have to create an all-Irish district because the Irish suffered past discrimination? An all Italian? A Jewish?Maybe we should have a majority dentist district, since nobody likes a dentist anyway. The problem with "historical discrimination" is that everyone suffered it in the past at some point; it does not impact people of this daya nd age. Proportional representation based on group identity is as unAmerican as it comes.
Doctors have the Hippocratic Oath, and the have the motto "first, do no harm" yet here we have judges doing much harm without understanding or caring about the consequences of their actions. They override the elected officials to gerrymander crazy minority-majority districts not based on law or on reason but on political ideology and an emotional appeal to "fairness" which artificially empowers minorities because they think it's fair. It's not and it's not Constitutional. Otherwise the framers of the Constitution would have specifically put the courts in charge of redistricting in the first place. They didn't; in fact they gave the central government no authority at all over how elections were to be run, or even if there would be any at all. Most people don't realize it but as late as 1860 some states held no popular election for President, preferring to have the state legislatures choose the candidate theis slate of electors who support. The Electoral College was created in no small part for that very purpose, to impose a wall of separation between the Federal government and the staes control of the vote in their respective jurisdictions. The courts were not supposed to have any authority over it. All they could do was make sure the rules in place were being followed and that only state courts at the state level.
That is why no court has EVER addressed the Constitutionality of gerrymandering. It isn't illegal based on the Constitution. Gerrymandering has been struck down under specific occasions based usually on the Voting Rights Act and only on a case-by-case basis. Certainly the Democrats used it ruthlessly to attain power and hold the Congress to a neck-and-neck race when they should be a solid minority party as of now.
So Dersh is probably right and SCOTUS may well rule this is a state's matter and that race is no grounds for courts ordering districts be redrawn. If they don't do it they should. Of course we have to worry about John Roberts and Amy Conehead Barrett crossing the line and voting with the Democrats.
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Alan Dershowitz thinks SCOTUS will overturn racial gerrymandering of Congressional districts.
Alan Dershowitz Predicts Supreme Court Will Deliver Shift in Election Law
From the article;
Dershowitz said the Court appears ready to apply the same reasoning it used in the affirmative action rulings to voting districts, curbing efforts to design congressional maps that favor specific racial groups.
"This is not like college admissions, where you can move to a meritocracy, and we know what a meritocracy means. But you can’t have a meritocracy when it comes to creating a district. Creation of the district either will help black people or will hurt or will help white voters or will hurt them. There’s no neutral principle,” Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren. "And I suspect the Supreme Court is moving away from focusing on race in the electoral context, as well as in the college-admission context. So if I had to make a prediction, I would predict that the district will not do well in front of the Supreme Court.”
Dershowitz referenced Justice Felix Frankfurter’s 1940s warning that the Court should avoid the "political thicket” of gerrymandering.
"Back in the 1940s, Justice Frankfurter purposely and very, very correctly talked about the Supreme Court staying out of the thicket, the political thicket, of racial gerrymandering and other forms of gerrymandering, because there’s no neutral answer to this,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz said four key justices will likely determine the outcome.
Finally, a Faith-Based, America-First Wealth Manager With No Allegiance to Wall Street, ESG, or DEI Agendas.
"There’s four key votes in this. And I suspect we’re going to see a lot less sympathy for creating legislative areas which guarantee black seats in Congress and in other elected offices. I think we’re going to see a diminution of the sensitivity toward kind of creating affirmative action in legislative redistricting,” Dershowitz said.
The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it may soon end the practice of drawing congressional districts based on race. During arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose vote could decide the case, along with that of Chief Justice John Roberts, pressed civil rights advocates on when race-based remedies should come to an end.
"The issue, as you know, is that this court’s cases in a variety of contexts have said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time, sometimes for a long period of time, decades in some cases, but that they should not be indefinite and should have an endpoint,” Kavanaugh said. "What exactly do you think the end point should be for the intentional use of race to create districts?
"This is not like college admissions, where you can move to a meritocracy, and we know what a meritocracy means. But you can’t have a meritocracy when it comes to creating a district. Creation of the district either will help black people or will hurt or will help white voters or will hurt them. There’s no neutral principle,” Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren. "And I suspect the Supreme Court is moving away from focusing on race in the electoral context, as well as in the college-admission context. So if I had to make a prediction, I would predict that the district will not do well in front of the Supreme Court.”
Dershowitz referenced Justice Felix Frankfurter’s 1940s warning that the Court should avoid the "political thicket” of gerrymandering.
"Back in the 1940s, Justice Frankfurter purposely and very, very correctly talked about the Supreme Court staying out of the thicket, the political thicket, of racial gerrymandering and other forms of gerrymandering, because there’s no neutral answer to this,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz said four key justices will likely determine the outcome.
Finally, a Faith-Based, America-First Wealth Manager With No Allegiance to Wall Street, ESG, or DEI Agendas.
"There’s four key votes in this. And I suspect we’re going to see a lot less sympathy for creating legislative areas which guarantee black seats in Congress and in other elected offices. I think we’re going to see a diminution of the sensitivity toward kind of creating affirmative action in legislative redistricting,” Dershowitz said.
The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it may soon end the practice of drawing congressional districts based on race. During arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose vote could decide the case, along with that of Chief Justice John Roberts, pressed civil rights advocates on when race-based remedies should come to an end.
"The issue, as you know, is that this court’s cases in a variety of contexts have said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time, sometimes for a long period of time, decades in some cases, but that they should not be indefinite and should have an endpoint,” Kavanaugh said. "What exactly do you think the end point should be for the intentional use of race to create districts?
Look, everyone has the right to vote if they are a citizen, registered and in good standing (there are conditions that must be met to have the vote which is often forgotten and dismissed by Democrats)but not everyone has tghe right to POWER. Past discrimination does not assure you some place at the table if you would be outvoted under normal circumstances. Racial gerrymandering is an attempt to overrule the rights of the majority to have their votes count in favor of a privileged class which is guaranteed power out of some misguided sense of collective guilt.
Nowhere is such a right guaranteed in the Constitution; this is another of those "penumbra" rights assumed by the courts that do not actually exist anywhere in the Constitution. Yes, we have the Voting Rights Act, but it does not guarantee power, just the right to vote. Racial gerrymandering is nothing but putting a thumb on the scale and it has real-world consequences and disenfranchises the majority.
Discrimination is discrimination, no matter who benefits. IF you are going to discriminate, what is fairer? Discriminating for the minority or for the majority of people who at least have more people who will benefit? It's a simple cost/benefit analysis when looked at in this way. But even this isn't fair and we all know it. It's "damned if you do and damned if you don't" so the default position should be the equivalent of a jurist hippocratic oath "first do no harm". Courts overriding the will of the people (who elected state legislatures and governors who set the district boundaries in the first place) is radical interventionism in the body politic. It's the equivalen of exploratory surgery on a patient who came in for a cold.
And if we start looking at past discrimination as a guide then all is lost because so many grouTimothy Birdnow
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Alan Dershowitz thinks SCOTUS will overturn racial gerrymandering of Congressional districts.
Alan Dershowitz Predicts Supreme Court Will Deliver Shift in Election Law[link]
From the article;
Dershowitz said the Court appears ready to apply the same reasoning it used in the affirmative action rulings to voting districts, curbing efforts to design congressional maps that favor specific racial groups.
"This is not like college admissions, where you can move to a meritocracy, and we know what a meritocracy means. But you can’t have a meritocracy when it comes to creating a district. Creation of the district either will help black people or will hurt or will help white voters or will hurt them. There’s no neutral principle,” Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren. "And I suspect the Supreme Court is moving away from focusing on race in the electoral context, as well as in the college-admission context. So if I had to make a prediction, I would predict that the district will not do well in front of the Supreme Court.”
Dershowitz referenced Justice Felix Frankfurter’s 1940s warning that the Court should avoid the "political thicket” of gerrymandering.
"Back in the 1940s, Justice Frankfurter purposely and very, very correctly talked about the Supreme Court staying out of the thicket, the political thicket, of racial gerrymandering and other forms of gerrymandering, because there’s no neutral answer to this,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz said four key justices will likely determine the outcome.
Finally, a Faith-Based, America-First Wealth Manager With No Allegiance to Wall Street, ESG, or DEI Agendas.
"There’s four key votes in this. And I suspect we’re going to see a lot less sympathy for creating legislative areas which guarantee black seats in Congress and in other elected offices. I think we’re going to see a diminution of the sensitivity toward kind of creating affirmative action in legislative redistricting,” Dershowitz said.
The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it may soon end the practice of drawing congressional districts based on race. During arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose vote could decide the case, along with that of Chief Justice John Roberts, pressed civil rights advocates on when race-based remedies should come to an end.
"The issue, as you know, is that this court’s cases in a variety of contexts have said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time, sometimes for a long period of time, decades in some cases, but that they should not be indefinite and should have an endpoint,” Kavanaugh said. "What exactly do you think the end point should be for the intentional use of race to create districts?”
end
Look, everyone has the right to vote if they are a citizen, registered and in good standing (there are conditions that must be met to have the vote which is often forgotten and dismissed by Democrats)but not everyone has tghe right to POWER. Past discrimination does not assure you some place at the table if you would be outvoted under normal circumstances. Racial gerrymandering is an attempt to overrule the rights of the majority to have their votes count in favor of a privileged class which is guaranteed power out of some misguided sense of collective guilt.
Nowhere is such a right guaranteed in the Constitution; this is another of those "penumbra" rights assumed by the courts that do not actually exist anywhere in the Constitution. Yes, we have the Voting Rights Act, but it does not guarantee power, just the right to vote. Racial gerrymandering is nothing but putting a thumb on the scale and it has real-world consequences and disenfranchises the majority.
Discrimination is discrimination, no matter who benefits. IF you are going to discriminate, what is fairer? Discriminating for the minority or for the majority of people who at least have more people who will benefit? It's a simple cost/benefit analysis when looked at in this way. But even this isn't fair and we all know it.
The courts overruling the elected officials (who are accountable to the People) is tyrannical and stupid. Since the courts cannot make a truly fair assessment it becomes a matter of pure political power on the part of the court making the ruling, their political bent, and judicial philosophy overruling the People based just on their own beliefs.
And if we go down that road where does it end? Will we have to create an all-Irish district because the Irish suffered past discrimination? An all Italian? A Jewish?Maybe we should have a majority dentist district, since nobody likes a dentist anyway. The problem with "historical discrimination" is that everyone suffered it in the past at some point; it does not impact people of this daya nd age. Proportional representation based on group identity is as unAmerican as it comes.
Doctors have the Hippocratic Oath, and the have the motto "first, do no harm" yet here we have judges doing much harm without understanding or caring about the consequences of their actions. They override the elected officials to gerrymander crazy minority-majority districts not based on law or on reason but on political ideology and an emotional appeal to "fairness" which artificially empowers minorities because they think it's fair. It's not and it's not Constitutional. Otherwise the framers of the Constitution would have specifically put the courts in charge of redistricting in the first place. They didn't; in fact they gave the central government no authority at all over how elections were to be run, or even if there would be any at all. Most people don't realize it but as late as 1860 some states held no popular election for President, preferring to have the state legislatures choose the candidate theis slate of electors who support. The Electoral College was created in no small part for that very purpose, to impose a wall of separation between the Federal government and the staes control of the vote in their respective jurisdictions. The courts were not supposed to have any authority over it. All they could do was make sure the rules in place were being followed and that only state courts at the state level.
That is why no court has EVER addressed the Constitutionality of gerrymandering. It isn't illegal based on the Constitution. Gerrymandering has been struck down under specific occasions based usually on the Voting Rights Act and only on a case-by-case basis. Certainly the Democrats used it ruthlessly to attain power and hold the Congress to a neck-and-neck race when they should be a solid minority party as of now.
So Dersh is probably right and SCOTUS may well rule this is a state's matter and that race is no grounds for courts ordering districts be redrawn. If they don't do it they should. Of course we have to worry about John Roberts and Amy Conehead Barrett crossing the line and voting with the Democrats.
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October 17, 2025
LA Moratorium on Evictions Because of ICE
Timothy Birdnow
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Courtesy of Deplorables Blogger Alliance:
JUST IN: Los Angeles County declares a state of emergency in response to the ICE raids, will provide rent relief.
The LA County Board of Supervisors made the move as the Trump admin continues to ramp up the raids.
"The move allows the LA County Board of Supervisors to provide… pic.twitter.com/DqtvvfhWDu
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 15, 2025
Supervisor Lindsey Horvath introduced the motion calling for the drafting of the emergency proclamation in response to a report presented to the board last week by county attorneys on options for possibly enacting an eviction moratorium or other protections for people impacted by the raids.
The Los Angeles Tenants Union advocacy group has been pushing the board for weeks to enact such a moratorium, saying the raids are creating enough fear to prevent people from going to work, or prompting businesses to temporarily close, leaving their employees unable to work.
The county attorney’s report noted that an eviction moratorium could be enacted during a declared local emergency, but it would have to be "temporary and narrowly tailored” to address impacts of the emergency, while also protecting landlords’ due process rights and requiring tenants to ultimately repay back rent.
TIM ADDS:
So private landlords are just expected to eat the cost? They havee mortgages to pay, remember. This will make housing disappear even more and become more expsneive.
Tupical leftists; they can't conceive of any consequences to their actions. But they can feel good about themselves.
The Trump Administration should sue on behalf of the people being injured by this.
AMDG
Courtesy of Deplorables Blogger Alliance:
JUST IN: Los Angeles County declares a state of emergency in response to the ICE raids, will provide rent relief.
The LA County Board of Supervisors made the move as the Trump admin continues to ramp up the raids.
"The move allows the LA County Board of Supervisors to provide… pic.twitter.com/DqtvvfhWDu
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 15, 2025
Supervisor Lindsey Horvath introduced the motion calling for the drafting of the emergency proclamation in response to a report presented to the board last week by county attorneys on options for possibly enacting an eviction moratorium or other protections for people impacted by the raids.
The Los Angeles Tenants Union advocacy group has been pushing the board for weeks to enact such a moratorium, saying the raids are creating enough fear to prevent people from going to work, or prompting businesses to temporarily close, leaving their employees unable to work.
The county attorney’s report noted that an eviction moratorium could be enacted during a declared local emergency, but it would have to be "temporary and narrowly tailored” to address impacts of the emergency, while also protecting landlords’ due process rights and requiring tenants to ultimately repay back rent.
TIM ADDS:
So private landlords are just expected to eat the cost? They havee mortgages to pay, remember. This will make housing disappear even more and become more expsneive.
Tupical leftists; they can't conceive of any consequences to their actions. But they can feel good about themselves.
The Trump Administration should sue on behalf of the people being injured by this.
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IRS to Go After Leftist Networks
Timothy Birdnow
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The IRS is poised to go after the dark money funding of left-wing terorist groups.
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-admin-retooling-irs-go-left-wing-groups-funding-political-violence-report/
The left hardly has ground to complin; they used the IRS to abuse and suppress conservative groups under both Obama and Biden. Payback is a bitch.
But this isn't payback; it's enforcing the law and holding the financiers of terrorism and lawlessness accountable.
This could have been done at any time going back to to the radical sixties but wasn't. It took a Republican with a pair of danglies.
Americans have always been puzzled by the way that the more things change the more they stay the same in this country. That is because we had a kabuki theater where both parties pretty much had the same agenda and jockeyed for position but not to make any real changes. The GOP liked to talk a good game but in the end kowtowed to the same radicalism that propeled the whole engine of change. Nobody resisted this. Now we have a new ssheriff in town and he's not putting up with it.
AMDG
The IRS is poised to go after the dark money funding of left-wing terorist groups.
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-admin-retooling-irs-go-left-wing-groups-funding-political-violence-report/
The left hardly has ground to complin; they used the IRS to abuse and suppress conservative groups under both Obama and Biden. Payback is a bitch.
But this isn't payback; it's enforcing the law and holding the financiers of terrorism and lawlessness accountable.
This could have been done at any time going back to to the radical sixties but wasn't. It took a Republican with a pair of danglies.
Americans have always been puzzled by the way that the more things change the more they stay the same in this country. That is because we had a kabuki theater where both parties pretty much had the same agenda and jockeyed for position but not to make any real changes. The GOP liked to talk a good game but in the end kowtowed to the same radicalism that propeled the whole engine of change. Nobody resisted this. Now we have a new ssheriff in town and he's not putting up with it.
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Bolton Indictments
Timothy Birdnow
John "The Walrus" Bolton has been charged with 18 counts of espionage for:
Bolton, like so many Deep State hangers-on, believed he was above the law and the system would protect him. Now he's finding out the law applies to everyone and he doesn't like it.
A lower level person would be in prison for this by now.
I would add that this is what they went after PRESIDENT Trump for, even though Trump had a legal right to such documents and Bolton a mere adviser, did not.
Trump stripped Bolton of his security clearance some time ago.
Bolton appears to be the Alger Hiss of our times.
John "The Walrus" Bolton has been charged with 18 counts of espionage for:
Former national security adviser John Bolton’s indictment shows he is charged with 18 criminal counts, including eight counts of transmitting national defense information and 10 counts of retaining national defense information.
The indictment also claims that after Bolton was hacked by a "cyber actor” linked to Iran, he failed to reveal what kinds of classified information he had been sending through the hacked account.
The indictment alleges that "from on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025, BOLTON abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor-including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level-with two unauthorized individuals, namely Individuals 1 and 2.”
The indictment said the former adviser to President Donald Trump during Trump’s first term "also unlawfully retained documents, writings, and notes relating to the national defense, including information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The indictment also claims that after Bolton was hacked by a "cyber actor” linked to Iran, he failed to reveal what kinds of classified information he had been sending through the hacked account.
The indictment alleges that "from on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025, BOLTON abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor-including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level-with two unauthorized individuals, namely Individuals 1 and 2.”
The indictment said the former adviser to President Donald Trump during Trump’s first term "also unlawfully retained documents, writings, and notes relating to the national defense, including information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Bolton, like so many Deep State hangers-on, believed he was above the law and the system would protect him. Now he's finding out the law applies to everyone and he doesn't like it.
A lower level person would be in prison for this by now.
I would add that this is what they went after PRESIDENT Trump for, even though Trump had a legal right to such documents and Bolton a mere adviser, did not.
Trump stripped Bolton of his security clearance some time ago.
Bolton appears to be the Alger Hiss of our times.
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Ice Ice Babies
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OMG, here we go again!
Earth Could Overcorrect Global Warming, Triggering an Ice Age
Didn't we get enough of "global cooling" back in the seventies?
Here are the money quotes:
So it's back to the "ice age" fear and Judah Cohen's "it's cold because it's hot" nonsense.
The alarmist community has lost all credibility.They lost the argument; time to admit it.
Oh, and with zero evidence they are now saying we have passed the first "tipping point" - something they have been telling us for decades now.
They really have become a farce.
OMG, here we go again!
Earth Could Overcorrect Global Warming, Triggering an Ice Age
Didn't we get enough of "global cooling" back in the seventies?
Here are the money quotes:
The study shows that lower oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere, which occurred in the geological past, could have triggered stronger nutrient feedbacks, and thus have caused the extreme ice ages of early Earth history.
As humans today add more CO2 into the atmosphere, the planet will continue to warm. But according to the scientists’ model, it could lead again to a cooling overshoot in the long run. However, the next event will likely be milder, because today’s atmosphere contains more oxygen than in the distant past, which dampens the nutrient feedback.
"At the end of the day, does it really matter much if the start of the next ice age is 50, 100, or 200 thousand years into the future?” asks Ridgwell. "We need to focus now on limiting ongoing warming. That the Earth will naturally cool back down is not going to happen fast enough to help us out.
As humans today add more CO2 into the atmosphere, the planet will continue to warm. But according to the scientists’ model, it could lead again to a cooling overshoot in the long run. However, the next event will likely be milder, because today’s atmosphere contains more oxygen than in the distant past, which dampens the nutrient feedback.
"At the end of the day, does it really matter much if the start of the next ice age is 50, 100, or 200 thousand years into the future?” asks Ridgwell. "We need to focus now on limiting ongoing warming. That the Earth will naturally cool back down is not going to happen fast enough to help us out.
So it's back to the "ice age" fear and Judah Cohen's "it's cold because it's hot" nonsense.
The alarmist community has lost all credibility.They lost the argument; time to admit it.
Oh, and with zero evidence they are now saying we have passed the first "tipping point" - something they have been telling us for decades now.
They really have become a farce.
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Tube Snake Brain Boogey
Timothy Birdnow
AMDG
The sewer system of neurons apparently are at the root of alzheimers disease, with tiny tubes forming to dump waste products passing along harmful chemicals and bad information to other neurons.
From the article:
With the help of powerful microscopes and live-cell imaging, the team watched as neurons created long, slender extensions between their dendrites -- the branching projections that connect brain cells. These "dendritic nanotubes," as the researchers call them, appeared to shuttle harmful molecules from one neuron to another.
"The long and thin column-like structures of these dendritic nanotubes help transfer information quickly from neuron to neuron," says Kwon. "These nanotubes can transport calcium, ions or toxic molecules, and are ideal for sending information to cells that are far away."
Computer simulations of the process mirrored the early stages of amyloid buildup, or "early amyloidosis," and revealed what the researchers describe as a "nanotubular connectivity layer" that adds a new dimension to how brain cells interact
So the plumbing system is faulty and the cells send out poison to their neighbors. This almost sounds like a prion disease, frankly.
At any rate we now are learning a lot about it and hopefully will develop new and better treatments to end this horrible illness, which first robs it's victims of their dignity and their minds.
AMDG
The sewer system of neurons apparently are at the root of alzheimers disease, with tiny tubes forming to dump waste products passing along harmful chemicals and bad information to other neurons.
From the article:
With the help of powerful microscopes and live-cell imaging, the team watched as neurons created long, slender extensions between their dendrites -- the branching projections that connect brain cells. These "dendritic nanotubes," as the researchers call them, appeared to shuttle harmful molecules from one neuron to another.
"The long and thin column-like structures of these dendritic nanotubes help transfer information quickly from neuron to neuron," says Kwon. "These nanotubes can transport calcium, ions or toxic molecules, and are ideal for sending information to cells that are far away."
Computer simulations of the process mirrored the early stages of amyloid buildup, or "early amyloidosis," and revealed what the researchers describe as a "nanotubular connectivity layer" that adds a new dimension to how brain cells interact
So the plumbing system is faulty and the cells send out poison to their neighbors. This almost sounds like a prion disease, frankly.
At any rate we now are learning a lot about it and hopefully will develop new and better treatments to end this horrible illness, which first robs it's victims of their dignity and their minds.
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Blogging Notes
Timothy Birdnow
AMDG
I bought a new keyboard and didn't have any trouble getting it up and running. It's taking some getting used to but I'll be back on track in no time.
Now if I can only get my system updated....
Anyway, busy day again today. I have meetings to attend and some jackass clipped the mirror to my Ford F150, destroying it. Plus it needs a state inspection anyway, so I have to mess with that. I'm going to be using a cab to get around while the old warhorse is in the shop.
And then I need to go out and check on my wife, who has now spent almost eight months in a nursing home after her cancer surgery left her non-ambulatory. The place is good about some things but they are not very good at medications or medical issues, for that matter. She requires constant attention by me - and quite a bit of yelling.
So these are, uh, interesting times. Crazy times too.
AMDG
I bought a new keyboard and didn't have any trouble getting it up and running. It's taking some getting used to but I'll be back on track in no time.
Now if I can only get my system updated....
Anyway, busy day again today. I have meetings to attend and some jackass clipped the mirror to my Ford F150, destroying it. Plus it needs a state inspection anyway, so I have to mess with that. I'm going to be using a cab to get around while the old warhorse is in the shop.
And then I need to go out and check on my wife, who has now spent almost eight months in a nursing home after her cancer surgery left her non-ambulatory. The place is good about some things but they are not very good at medications or medical issues, for that matter. She requires constant attention by me - and quite a bit of yelling.
So these are, uh, interesting times. Crazy times too.
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