February 15, 2026
Geese, Ganders, and Democracy
Timothy Birdnow
I was never elected to Congress; I demand the right to vote for the passage of House bills. Why should I be prevented from doing so? Why must I prove I am a member of Congress to go into the Capitol and vote?
You may remember that a bunch of MAGA folks went into the Capitol during a protest and the government hunted them down and sent them to prison - some for decades. Why is the Capitol sacrosanct when the rest of America is not?
If MAGA protesters are going to be banned from the Capitol why shouldn't others be banned from the rest of the country?
Congressmen have to prove who they are to vote for bills, and they have to be certified by the sitting Congress when they are elected. Who says? Shouldn't we all just go and vote as we see fit?
That is Democracy, after all, something they keep telling us is what makes us great. But if we tried to exercise our democratic rights we would be tossed out of the building, and probably arrested like the J6 folks. Seems they want to exempt themselves from things they impose on the rest of us.
Hat tip: Carlos Velazquez.
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Tropospheric Warming
Timothy Birdnow
In a discussion group I belong to on Facebook a poster asked why the troposphere was warming (slightly). He was challenging skeptics to give him an explanation. Here's mine:
Mostly because we have been coming out of a cool period, and because we last year we had a dearth of cloud cover to reflect the heat back into space.
The model predicts a far more robust warming in the whole troposphere but in particular in the tropical troposphere - it just isn't living up to the models.
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A Defense of Western Civilization
Timothy Birdnow
Actor Nick Searcy posted this on Facebook:
Please, anyone who listens to me, please watch this entire speech by Marco Rubio.
It is the most comprehensive and stirring defense of Western Civilization, and why we matter, since Reagan’s Tear Down This Wall speech.
This is what is at stake, and why we must fight to save it.
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Stupid Climate Tricks
Timothy Birdnow
You have GOT to be kidding me!
Maybe in a few billion years, as the sun expands.
How they could write such stupidity with a straight face is beyond me.
The Earth has survived with over ten times as much carbon dioxide as it currently has, and it did just fie.
From the so-called article at MSN:
"Research shows that several Earth system components may be closer to destabilising than once believed,” the researchers urged. "While the exact risk is uncertain, it is clear that current climate commitments are insufficient.”
The analysis is based on climate "tipping points,” meaning collapses of environmental systems that lead other climate systems beyond their own tipping points, creating a snowball scenario where the planet spirals into a worst-case-scenario known as "hothouse Earth.” Under this scenario, the long-term temperature is projected to rise about 9 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial averages — which would be really bad.
"Crossing even some of the [tipping point] thresholds could commit the planet to a hothouse trajectory,” said Christopher Wolf, a scientist at the environmental group Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates.
Even with the scenario of a nine degree rise in temperature the planet would hardly be uninhabitable; it would require adjustment, no question, but that would mean the average planetary temperature would rise from 59 to 69 degrees; this would make the tropics too warm but the temperate zone would be tropical and the poles quite nice. Considering the vast amount of land near the poles in Siberia and the whole continent of Antarctica the human race would be o.k. and so would most of the life on the planet.
That is worst-case scenario, and it's purest fiction, like that stupid movie "The Day After Tomorrow" it makes for a good disaster film but has no basis in reality.
It is astonishing that people actually buy this. The fact is the planet has warmed about one degree since the early days of the 20th century, and actually before that as we have been moving out of the Little Ice Age of the 18th and early to mid 19th centiuries with the ebd of two solar minima - the Maunder and the Dalton, which made that period especially cold.
But this is, of course, about political and social control and not about the actual science. As Michael Crichton called it, it is about a state of fear designed to herd the public in the direction the elites in our society wish them to go. Fear has become the lprimary mechanism for social control, where in the old days it was honor, and then guilt. Honor died when we kicked out the old order in the post-enlightenment era, since the Church and the hereditary order were the primary keepers of honor. It was replaced by guilt and guilt is still a major mechanism for societall control (just look at any Woke person) but the newest of them all is fear and as Crichton pointed out the way it works is new doomsday scenarios are devised in the Universities, and disseminated by a completely ignorant and willing media, then the politicians take it up. The public, ever pushed to the end of their seats by the newest doomsday warning, complies in order to "save the planet" for themselves and their progeny.
But it's as fake as the hair glued onto the Wolf Man, or Dracula's canine choppers.
This illustrates that perfectly. It is not about science at all but about scaring the public. If this were about science they would explain that this 'worst case scenario" is very, very, very unlikely indeed, even if "climate change" aka global warming is real and is a problem.
And to make this prediction after the whole country experienced a particularly cold and snowy winter illustrates their measure of desperation; they have to get the global warming scare back on track. They know this last winter did them no favors in terms of p.r. and so they are going to double down on this sort of stupidity to trick the weak minded.
If they truly believed this, truly believed the world is in peril from carbon dioxide emissions, they would alter their own lifestyles. They wouldn't buy beachfront property. They wouldn't fly in private jets. They would sell their mansions and buy these tiny houses which are all the rave now. No more swimming pools, private yachts, etc. But they aren't selling they are buying. What does that tell us class?
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February 13, 2026
Inflation is Down
Timothy Birdnow
Inflation has dropped to 2.4%, the lowest it's been since 2001.
Put THAT in your crack pipes and smoke it Demo-media!
People do not understand inflation. It is, essentially, when the money supply outstrips the growth of the economy. That usually (but not always) happens when the government spends too much money and the Federal Reserve is forced to "print" more (it doesn't really print it but rather simply creates a fiat on paper). The value of the money drops and if there is not adequate economic growth the average person is forced to spend more of his income on basics, which are more expensive. During periods of economic growth they do too but they are making so much more money nobody cares. But in inflationary periods the growth of real wages (not just how much one is paid in dollars but how much those dollars can purchase) stagnates while prices keep rising.
Naturally prices will not decline; that is deflation and it has it's own problems (while you get cheaper stuff you get pay cuts instead. And also it dries up lending as nobody wants to lend a dollar now that will be worth a buck fifty if you wait.) But if the people are making more it balances out.
In the end it's always government manipulation of currency that leads to inflation, and that is almost always a trick to spend more money to buy more votes. It really is that simple.
BTW the Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression by massively contracting the money supply, leading to an economic collapse. And then government under first Wilson and then Roosevelt attempted to spend their way out of the problem with money that people didn't have in the first place, sucking the economy ev er drier.
So this is good news and proof that Trump is on the right track. And it proves that tariffs don't cause inflation as the Keynsians all claimed it does.
Now we have to make sure the public is aware of this; the media is still saying we are in a bad economic time despite all the numbers looking up. They have subtly suggested that a lack of deflation means the economy is bad - a bald-faced lie.
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WSJ Hit Job on Kristi Noem
Timothy Birdnow
The Wall Street urinal is at it again, with yet another hit piece[ designed to embarrass the the Trump Administration and attempting to force Kristie Noem out of office (as did the media and Democrats).
[link=https://archive.is/LJvWF]A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
The Wall Street Journal is no longer a credible source of information.
Most of the "blockbuster" revelations are pretty much nothingburgers business as usual for Washington. They allege Noem had an affair with Corey Lewandowski, for instance. If true (and they are just citing cases of Lewandowski going across the street to see Noem, his boss), or her firing a pilot of the plane she flew on. I mean, THIS is the best they have on her?
While an affair is morally repugnant it certainly happens all the time in Washington; two thirds of the people there have planted their flags on foreign soil and the WSJ knows it. Both Noem and Lewandowski have denied there is an affair and this is no real word evidence to make the case.
She is accused of berating other officials. Oh MY! First, that is an internal problem and President Trump and is Chief of Staff can choose to deal with it or not. It's really none of the business of the WSJ or any media. And it's not like we haven't had this sort of thing in days gone by; anyone remember how Hillary Clinton treated staffwhen she was First Lady? Or Michelle Obama? I think a senior staffer is a big boy/girl and can fight their own battles, and if not they do not belong in that position.
So why haven't any of them complained?
Then there is this complaint:
"The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter. DHS is leasing the plane but is in the process of acquiring it for approximately $70 million. DHS has previously used other planes through the Coast Guard or other agencies for the secretary’s use"
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Obviously Noem believes the Coast Guard has a problem, probably with security. Using a private plane may be the only good way to protect someone who is high on the assassination list for the Left and the WSJ knows it.
Were they anywhere near as concerned about Nancy Pelosi flying a private jet on the government dime when SHE did it?
There are more yawning complaints; do read the whole hit piece.
The reality is this is a huge effort to smear Noem and Lewandowski, two very loyal Trump aids. This is the old "Get Nixon" plalybook; if you can't get a good shot on the President go after his subordinates and pick them off one by one, then you can claim the President himself is corrupt. Make him lose support by taking his best friends.
You may remember the hit piece run by the Wall Street Journal over an alleged letter by Trump talking about obscene things with Jeffrey Epstein. It was pure fiction yet they dutifully reported it. The Wall Street Journal is not a conservative news source not by a long shot. In fact, years ago a researcher noted it's news division was the most left wing of any major news outlet in America (it has a conservative editorial board, by and large, although they are more RINO than MAGA.)
At any rate this is obviously a hit piece and sadly I found it on Citizens Free Press, Charlie Kirk's old aggregate news site. They apparently take this seriously, and that is not o.k. Kirk never would have made this mistake.
For the record I am often underwhelmed by Kristi Noem but this is complete hogwash and everyone on our side should come down on this like a ton of bricks.
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No Bunny Love
Timothy Birdnow
I guess that's why he's called BAD bunny!
This is the left-wing Mediate saying so - not Fox News.
Of course the NFL didn't learnt heir lesson after Colin Kapernick so why would they learn from this fiasco? Frankly I hope the DOJ moves forward with Rep. Randy Fine's referral and sues the pants off the NFL for violating FCC regulations.
"Based on my understanding of the data, Bad Bunny lost more [percentage] of the Super Bowl viewership from the end of the second quarter than has ever happened before."
Front Office Sports on Wednesday, with reporterRyan Glasspiegel
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Lorena Bobbitt is Vindicated in California
Timothy Birdnow
There is nothing "affirming" about cutting off a kid's penis or breasts, and it certainly isn't "care":
You know, if a kid were to take a knife and slice off his joystick we'd put him in a mental hospital. But let a doctor do it for him and we call him transgendered and praise his "bravery".
Maybe Lorena Bobbitt got a raw deal; she was just helping her husband with his little trans problem, after all!
If there is true justice in the afterlife people like Gavin Newsom would have their genitalia removed and he would have to go through eternity a ball-less, stickless wonder.
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The Sore Loser's Act of 2026
Timothy Birdnow
Boy are the Democrats sore losers!
After illegally releasing his tax return information (and finding nothing amiss) they now seek to prevent him from getting any compensation for the violation of his civil rights.
From Townhall:
Senate Democrats are moving to block President Donald Trump from benefiting from his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department. They have introduced a bill that would seize any payout he might receive from the government over the handling of his leaked tax returns.
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a measure called the Stop Presidential Embezzlement Act on Tuesday that would prevent Trump from receiving a settlement payment from the IRS if he wins his lawsuit, according to a press release.
Trump filed the lawsuit on January 29 in Florida, naming himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization as plaintiffs. He is accusing the IRS and the Treasury Department of failing to stop former contractor Charles Littlejohn from accessing and leaking his confidential tax returns.
Littlejohn admitted to pulling the president’s tax records, along with others belonging to wealthy individuals, and gave them to news outlets such as The New York Times and Propublica between 2018 and 2020.
These are small, hateful people. They know full well what was done to Mr. Trump was an egregious violation of his rights as an American but they simply can't stand to see Trump win at anything. This is like the bully who gets hit by his victim then runs to the teacher.
Cowards.
BTW I seriously doubt the Constitutionality of any such law passed by Congress as the President is not under their branch of government and he is entitled to the same rights as any other American. This is simply denying his right to seek redress from the courts and Chuck U knows it.
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Inconvenience Store
Timothy Birdnow
They just don't seem to understand there is a new sheriff in town and he isn't playing these games.
From El Zoro News:
Michael Lynch, deputy administrator of the General Services Administration, sent a letter to Doug Rosencrans, 7-Eleven’s COO, on Feb. 5 requesting any information from a potential internal investigation into the altercation.
Lynch noted that a federal government partnership could be in jeopardy between the Trump administration and the world's largest international chain of convenience stores.
"As 7-Eleven, Inc./Speedway LLC locations accept the GSA SmartPay fleet card for fuel and other authorized purchases on behalf of Federal fleets —i ncluding those operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — these actions raise concerns about the ability of Federal vehicle operators to access necessary fuel and services at convenient locations," the letter reads.
Donald Trump arrivesThe Trump administration is demanding answers from 7-Eleven after a Border Patrol commander and federal agents were allegedly denied service at a Minnesota gas station, raising concerns about access to fuel for federal fleets. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
A viral video captured by conservative activist Cam Higby posted on Jan. 21 shows Bovino leaving a Speedway gas station, a chain which is owned by parent company 7-Eleven, followed by a manager who said, "I don’t support ICE, and nobody here does."
GSA said in the letter that "the reported refusal appears to have encompassed both in-store purchases and potential fuel transactions."
No doubt 7-11 will fire the manager and perhaps close this store if it comes to it. But one wonders if this policy hasn't come down from higher up than the store manager.
At any rate Trump is doing the right thing; cut off all business from the federal government and see how they like the loss of all that cash. Past administrations would have shrugged "what can you do" and kept spending taxpayer dollars there anyway.
Until we show everyone that open defiance of the law and violating the civil rights of Americans for woke ideology will cost dearly this will keep happening. The Left used this power for decades, boycotting and defunding and strangling opposition, even when it was unlawful for them to do so. FINALLY we have someone who understands how to use this same power.
In bygone days the thinking was we needed to act better than our leftist enemies, that we "can't stoop to their level" even while they were bringing the whole country down to their level. Now we are pretty much in a position of fight or die, and we now have a man leading us who is willing to fight. Even Ronald Reagan didn't have the stones of Donald Trump and that is why so much of the Reagan Revolution failed after Mr. Reagan was gone from the scene; he didn't pull this stuff out by the roots. Trump is attempting something much harder than what Reagan tried; he's attempting to not just trim the weeds but eradicate them.
At any rate I think the old 7-11 slogan "oh thank Heaven for a friendly store like 7kk011" is no longer applicable. Perhaps they should amend it to "It's not Funny Please Givle us Back You're Money".
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Canada Dry and On the Rocks
Timothy Birdnow
No Canada! I suspect without Alberta the whole rotten structure will collapse.
Alberta's oil and gas is one of the cornerstones of the Canadian economy and without it Canada will struggle to pay her bills.
I wish we could annex British Columbia too in order to have a land connection between the lower 48 and Alaska, but the BC public is quite liberal thanks to Vancouver and would wind up being a Democratic stronghold if we were to annex it. So we can be content with Alberta sticking well up into the heartland of Canada, a sort of giant middle finger to Canadian socialism and the leftists in Ottawa.
The article points out that the numbers do not appear to be there for secession (and Canada has rules about seceding, which have to be addressed unless Albertans want to fight a war of independence). And it appears many Albertans aren't that interested in joining the U.S. yet, but that may change in due course.
Of course Texas will howl if we take Alberta into the Union; they would become the THIRD largest state. They were already fit to be tied over the entrance of Alaska into the union, bumping them from the top slot.
But annexation and statehood would be swift, provided Congress approved it. Alberta is not some frontier settlement but a thriving settled territory all ready to go. It would just need to write a new state constitution and buy some American flags. They could use the Canadian flags to wipe up any oil spills...
Meanwhile Quebec is renewing it's own independence demands, and should Quebec leave the Dominion Canada would become a wholly anglo nation and would be much more conservative, likely leading to the end of guys like Mark Carney's rein of error. We could only hope, anyway. Yes, BC and Ontario are no doubt still going to send lefties to Parliament but the balance of power would shift.
And Quebec is the center of at least 20% of the Canadian economy. So if Quebec leaves Canada will have to kiss the bottoms of the Albertans or risk the complete collapse of the country. If both leave that's the end of the Dominion of Canada (as it is formally known).
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Microsoft Should be Sued
Timothy Birdnow
Recently I purchased a new laptop, a Lenovo, and started using the Chinese machine. The thing about this gadget is it was cheap and for a reason; it comes in s-mode, which forces you to purchase any aps from the Microsoft ap store. You can take it out of s-mode and I did that with the first Lenovo, which subsequently lost it's cursor, forcing me to return it. I strongly suspect it was designed to fail if someone left s-mode; they couldn't just tell you that because that would be restraint of trade, but I think they designed it to become buggy once the gatekeeper program was removed.
So I haven't taken the replacement out of s-mode. The end result is if I just do a search it goes to Bing (I can do other search engines but have to open them and if I am in a hurry to blog I frequenly don't.)
At any rate I've noticed Bing has a peculiar trick. If you are searching for something and go to a "mainstream" news source you get the hyperlink to that source when you open it but if you go to an alternative source, say, Townhall, it gives you a Bing link, a very long link which I am sure is managed by the good people at Microsoft to control the flow of news.
It's quite annoying. But more than annoying it's a form of censorship, I am sure; these links appearing in any text probably downgrades said texts in their search engine. In short, they are using this to suppress conservative thought.
The DOJ needs to look into lawsuits to break up Microsoft.
I don't know how the Left managed to take control of the internet but they did. Now all the major computer corporations are run by leftists. Of course the CIA had a hand in many such companies, from Google being seeded by them to Facebook's connection to Peter Thiel, who was always besties with the CIA.
At any rate I thought this was worth mentioning.
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Murkowski Gets Slammed over SAVE
Timothy Birdnow
She voted for the act befor she was against it:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowskiWhen Democrats attempted to advance sweeping election reform legislation in 2021, Republicans were unanimous in opposition because it would have federalized elections, something we have long opposed. Now, I’m seeing proposals such as the SAVE Act and MEGA that would effectively do just that. Once again, I do not support these efforts. Not only does the U.S. Constitution clearly provide states the authority to regulate the "times, places, and manner" of holding federal elections, but one-size-fits-all mandates from Washington, D.C., seldom work in places like Alaska.
Election Day is fast approaching. Imposing new federal requirements now, when states are deep into their preparations, would negatively impact election integrity by forcing election officials to scramble to adhere to new policies likely without the necessary resources. Ensuring public trust in our elections is at the core of our democracy, but federal overreach is not how we achieve this.Readers added contextSenator Murkowski voted to advance the 2021 voter reforms she references here. She was the only Republican to do so.
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Murkoowski was elected in 2010 when Tea Party candidate Joe Miller defeated her in the GOP primary (she was appointed to fill out her father's term in the Senate then served one elected term) and she ran as an independent - she wasn't even on the ballot - and received a dubious amount of mail-in votes. I suspect had the Alaskan elections been supervised by the Feds she would not have ever been in the u.S. Senate, or she would now be a professor at some obscure Alaskan college. The very fact of her opposition is suggestive, in my humble opinion.
Alaskan politics have been corrupt for a long time. The Democrats prosecuted former Senator Ted Stevens, for example, on trumped up charges and there was prosecutorial abuse of power in that trial - in which Stevens was ccused of corruption and the prosecution hid exculpatory material - led to Stevens losing his seat. It was later proven to be false and the presiding judge in the case called the trial "one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct " he had ever seen.
Steven's conviction was vacated shortly after the election.
I've long wondered if Murkowski had a hand in that. Pure speculation but there it is. At least she knew this was bogus and failed to come to Stevens' aid. Stevens was almost as big a RINO as the Murk, though. Still, it was clear her election in 2010 was murky, pun intended. I suspect she is quite corrupt. Certainly her father Frank's top aid was found guilty of corruption charges while in his employ, and he was probably the fall guy.
So the crabapple doesn't fall far from the tree, methinks. And Lisa does everything she can to screw over her own Party when it suits her. Like now.
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Hawley: Keith Ellison Should be in Jail
Timothy Birdnow
I have zero doubt this is the case.
Josh Hawley Calls For Indictment of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison over Alleged Ties to Somali Fraudsters
Muzzie Ellison accepted large campaign contributions right after meeting with Somalis, who were complaining about being investigated. These are the same people who wound up at the center of the fraud scandal.
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Trump Orders CIA to Hand Over to "Stop the Steal" Organizer
Timothy Birdnow
President Donald Trump has ordered the CIA to hand over classified material related to the election of 2020 to Stop the Steal organizer Kurt Olsen, who is working as a part time employee of the White House, for review in the leadup to the '26 midterms.
Liberal heads are exploding as they desperately try to stop this move. They say Olsen has no national security experience and so can't evaluate raw data properly. ??? As this is about internal American affairs and not foreign espionage one wonders at why the CIA has this data in the first place and why a layman cannot understand it, but there you have it.
If the recent raid on Fulton County taught us anything it is that the Democrats probably stole Georgia in 2020 and by extension stole the entire election; if Trump had won Georgia he would have won the country.
The Democrats will try it again too if given the chance, which is why we MUST expose what they did in 2020. For years now the media has carried their water, completely refusing to admit even the slightest possibility of the election being stolen, and viciously attacking anyone who said otherwise. But now the facts are dribbling out and this could be the steak in the vampiric heart of the Democratic (sic) Party.
You know you are on the right track when the media howls; it's a sign you touched a nerve.
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Mo Canada; with Friends Like These...
Timothy BIrdnow
No fewer than six Republicans joined with every single Democrat save one to force an end to Trump's tariffs on Canada.
The litany of shame is as follows:
Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.),
Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.),
Thomas Massie (R-Ky.),
Jeff Hurd (R-Colo.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.),
Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)
I used to respect Massie but no more; he's pulling the old John McCain trick of thumbing his own party in the eye. And Fitzpatrick? Et tu?
That Squeeker Johnson couldn't hold his own caucus together over this is a testament to his comparable weakness.
There is absolutely no excuse for this; tariffs on Canada forced them to the table already and they have been slowly but surely coming around. They made some changes already to their own tax code to grant better access to the U.S. as well as have cracked down on border security. The tariffs were working as planned and along come these n to pull the rug out from under the Administration, taking away their leverage.
What is the point of electing Republicans if they are going to screw us?
Friends like these...
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February 11, 2026
New Idea for Pizza Topping
Dana Mathewson
I haven't worn my hat as Aviary Food Editor in a long time, but this article I just encountered gave me the idea that I should locate my hat and see if it still fits.
These days you're apt to find just about anything on pizza, including (ugh) pineapple. Here's something you can find only at Bucks Coal Fired Pizza in Lake Park, Florida, where owner Frankie Cecere decided to make use of a "found item" to top a pizza with.
Florida has been having some very unseasonably cold temperatures recently; you may have seen news items of iguanas freezing and falling out of the trees. Iguanas are an invasive species in Florida, and... well, wait for it.
Bucks Coal Fired Pizza in Lake Park, Florida, created what owner Frankie Cecere called "the first iguana pizza in the history of mankind."
After corralling a handful of cold-stunned green iguanas during Florida's recent freeze and humanely euthanizing them, content
creator Ryan Izquierdo took his unusual haul to Bucks Coal Fired Pizza.
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Cecere's concoction was a white pizza topped with three types of meat: venison, bacon and "the star of the show."
The idea for the iguana pizza came from Izquierdo, who told Fox News Digital he'd been collecting cold-stunned iguanas when temperatures dropped low enough to immobilize the invasive reptiles.
During the two-day cold snap, Florida waived its law requiring permits to transport iguanas, allowing residents to nab the pesky invaders and bring them to the state's wildlife officers to be euthanized.
It's legal to humanely kill iguanas on private property in Florida.
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While the iguana topping was new, the restaurant is no stranger to unconventional ingredients.
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He equated the taste to "frog legs" and called it "a little bit sweet."
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Well, there you are. I'd try it; how about you? This restaurant also serves venison (YUM!) and alligator tail on their pizzas. Me, I just want to know if you can get anchovies on them!
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Dying for Lack of Knowledge
Timothy Birdnow
Thomas Jefferson is arguably the father of universal education in America. He believed (correctly) that liberty could only exist with an informed, educated public. (So did most other Founders which is why they restricted the vote to landholders, who generally were more likely to be educated.)
Jefferson said it many times:
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
And in that light Jefferson advocated the founding of schools and universities to help better educate the public.
That is why John Dewey, who was a radical socialist, created public education in the first place; he wanted to take control of the educational system in America so he could brainwash the youths. He apparently had read his Jefferson but put Jefferson's plans to work in the service of darkness.
Yes, few understand the definition of socialism which is forced government ownership or control of the means of production. I once had an argument here on Facebook with a guy I grew up with (he was older than me, actually) who was a big labor union guy. He had absolutely no idea what socialism is. None. He was shocked when I provided the definition to him - he thought socialism and a big welfare state were the same thing. When I told him Sweden was not a socialist country he was absolutely flabbergasted; his union always told him it was. I pointed out that Sweden is actually more business friendly than the U.S. (which it was then) and he couldn't believe it.
That is what a public school education buys you.
That's why so many believe Fascism is "right wing" too; because they don't have a clue of what socialism is or how it applies. Fascism is socialism with a nationalistic character. Mussolini turned away from the Italian socialist PARTY because he believed people needed a spiritual component to their ideology and the Italian Socialists were pure materialists - more llike the Marxists. So he created a system whereby the People were God and the State was the Church. This is straight out of Rousseau, who was both father to fascism and grandfather to communism. Rousseau suggested deifying the People and making the State it's holy church, I might add.
Now many people believe "right wing" and "fascism" are one in the same when in fact they come from completely different intellectual roots. In fact, "nationalism" which is what fascism was called before Mussolini, was of great concern to the Conservatives of the 19th century; they knew it's poisonous roots. "Nationalism" has come to mean Patriotism but then it meant what today we call Fascism, or Naziism. It was worship of the People with the State as their holy church.
The fact is Fascism is socialist. Government owns or controls industries and determines who gets what and for how much. It is a doctrine of extreme regulation. It compels the individual to accept the constant intervention of government in their lives. Mussolini said "all within the state, nothing outside of the state, nothing against the state" meaning every aspect of life is to be governed by the community. The idea was they were going to build a "new man". This is qualitatively no different than what the Communists were trying to do, except that Communism sought to subsume the nations into the larger hegemony whereas Fascism sought to deify the country instead o the whole collective. In fact, the Communists had a slogan before Hitler attacked them "First Brown then Red" and they saw Fascism/Naziism as an intermediate stage between Capitalism and Communism, one that would eventually fade away as people took the final step.
But few know any of this, believing that socialism is merely a "fairer" distribution of wealth, helping the poor and whatnot. They think it is the message of Christ, which of course it's not; Jesus commanded YOU to be charitable, to be kind, to be loving, to help your neighbor NOT the state, which has to steal wealth from one person to give it to another. Freee will is lost completely in a socialist scheme.
The Left piggybacked on Christian thought. I would add God created poverty as one of the punishments to Man for the first sin and He could solve it any time He wishes. He doesn't need our help. Poverty is there to give us the opportunity to be charitable, to be more like Christ.
Another thing; corporatism is dangerously close to fascism, and no less a personage than G.K. Chesterton understood that. Chesterton once said "the difference between a Capitalist and a Socialist is a bigger paycheck" and by Capitalist he meant the crony capitalist we see in this day and age. I hate the term Capitalist precisely because it came from Karl Marx as a pejorative; it's free enterprise versus all the isms, which are all artificial. Free markets are natural, natural law in action. People naturally trade with one another. Isms require convoluted models and draconian regulatory schemes.
At any rate this ignorance is by design and it is a self-perpetuating ignorance (like the lie that a socialist told in a textbook he put out back in the 19th century that people thought the world was flat until Columbus - it was a lie but a whole generation grew up believing that and many still do.)
"my People are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6
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And the Dumb Shall Speak
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An anti-ICE Sheriff makes a fool of himself before Congress.
This guy didn't know a sheriff operates under the Executive branch of government; he thought it was judicial.
I will say this; when asked about which branch he worked for he kept insisting it was his county. In a way he was correct; he doesn't work for the Federal government at all but rather for his county, which is under the state government. But I suspect he didn't understand this at all.
It's easy to be a Democrat; you just say what you FEEL and facts do not matter.
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GOP Outraising Democrats
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Watch for some Hail Mary pass from the Democrats, like massive nation-wide riots.
I'm not surprised; the Trump Administration has disrupted so many of their illicit funding sources (like USAID and the Somali Daycare swindlers) that they are finding it tough to come up with the cash.
Our politics has been artificial for decades as the Democrats have been flush with dark money, dirty money, and have manufactured votes and voters who do not exist. Now the playing field is being leveled and they are finding it hard to compete. Democrats shouldn't have held power since Ronald Reagan, frankly. They've cheated their way to dominance.
There is a new sheriff in town though.
Accordingto the article, after debt is taken into account, Democrats have about $137 million for their campaigns, while Republicans have more than twice that amount, about $320 million. Of course they will make a lot of this up via dark money donations from Soros and people of his ilk, but it still will not be what is needed to mount the massive kind of campaign required to gaslight America. People can see they are doing better and that the nation feels better.
It's really tough to gain seats, or not lose any, in Congress in a midterm. So the GOP has an uphill battle. But it can be done and it must be done or the Trump Spring is doomed. The Democrats will roll their tanks over it as surely as the Soviets rolled their tanks over the Prague Spring.
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