May 05, 2025
Out of Africa
Timothy Birdnow
I've read this in the past (at American Thinker) and it speaks volumes, not just about Africa either. Many of the problems in the black community in America seem to be holdovers from the problems endemic in Africa itself.
What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa
Extended families, allegiance to kin over society in general, a lack of the Golden Rule, a culture where men do as they please and women do all the work, etc. all conspire to keep the Africans in Senegal down. The things Karen Quillin learned there sound suspiciously similar to what we find in ghetto areas of American cities.
Read it all; it's eye opening.
BTW You should read MY article on the American ghetto at Orthodoxy Today from a while back.
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I've read this in the past (at American Thinker) and it speaks volumes, not just about Africa either. Many of the problems in the black community in America seem to be holdovers from the problems endemic in Africa itself.
What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa
Extended families, allegiance to kin over society in general, a lack of the Golden Rule, a culture where men do as they please and women do all the work, etc. all conspire to keep the Africans in Senegal down. The things Karen Quillin learned there sound suspiciously similar to what we find in ghetto areas of American cities.
Read it all; it's eye opening.
BTW You should read MY article on the American ghetto at Orthodoxy Today from a while back.
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The New Gitmo
Timothy Birdnow
If it was good enough for Al Capone...
Trump orders Alcatraz prison to be reopened and expanded to house the 'dregs of society'
If it was good enough for Al Capone...
Trump orders Alcatraz prison to be reopened and expanded to house the 'dregs of society'
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Mike Gallagher is Wrong
Timothy Birdnow
Mike Gallagher is a dope.
He is rambling on about how bad it was for Trump to troll the liberals by putting out a meme of him as Pope.
Gallagher was droning about how we need to "take the high road" and asked "do we need to provoke the other side" and said "it doesn't help him to get done what he needs to get done". ???? Hasn't this guy been around for a while? We took the high road for decades it where did it get us?
Trump does this kind of thing to a.rile his enemies so they make mistakes and look foolish and b.he wants to keep himself in the spotlight. Both serve his ends.
Sun Tzu, the great Chinese military philosopher, admonished generals to be unpredictable. He also admonished them to anger or otherwise inflame passions in their opponents. This is what Trump does quite successfully with this tactic. The Left has always understood this. Take Saul Alinsky "ridicule is Man's most potent weapon. It is infuriating and cannot be rationally fought". Trump is essentially ridiculing the Left here, even while he appears to be being irreverent.
As to the latter point, Trump rightly understands that people are not inspired by the whole Ashley Wilkes sort of honorable and noble approach. Who do you root for in Gone with the Wind? The scoundrel Rhett Butler, not Wilkes, who is by all measure a better man but a less honest one than Butler. It's Trump's finger-in-the-eye that has led him to capture the Millenial votes, I would add. Furthermore, Trump understands that he needs to fire up the base, to keep us engaged and excited. Why did the Reagan Revolution peter out? Because the mantle was handed to George H.W. Bush, a RINO and Internationalist who demanded we be softer and more like Ashley Wilkes. Reagan's revolution died because there was nothing to keep the rank-and-file inspired. Trump is inspiring, even when he's being an ass.
Trump understand all this, yet Mike Gallagher, a good conservative but a largely useless one, wants to take us back to the "high road" which winds up at a collapsed bridge. He lived through all this; he should know better by now.
People like Mike Gallagher are the reason why we are always on the defensive. He argues that we need to move forward and accomplish things rather than mess with them. He said WE are acting like we aren't in power. It's quite the opposite; the Democrats did this to us whenever THEY were in power after all. IF we allow the Democrats and the media time to set the narrative, to key in for the attacks, they will win. Trump is forcing them to react, rather than to launch pro-active attacks. I can't imagine how an establishment Republican can still exist in this day and age. They never won anything.
Trump wins because he knows he needs to keep them angry. It's really that simple. He controls the news cycle - they don't.
Sorry Mike but you are a huge part of the problem.
BTW He just expressed his befuddlement at the fact the media and the Left and all who hate Trump find nothing but fault with him. Gallagher apparently isn't aware of Saul Alinski "you are on the side of angels and they are on the side of devils". NOTHING Trump does will be good, so he may as well troll them and watch their heads explode.
Mike Gallagher is a dope.
He is rambling on about how bad it was for Trump to troll the liberals by putting out a meme of him as Pope.
Gallagher was droning about how we need to "take the high road" and asked "do we need to provoke the other side" and said "it doesn't help him to get done what he needs to get done". ???? Hasn't this guy been around for a while? We took the high road for decades it where did it get us?
Trump does this kind of thing to a.rile his enemies so they make mistakes and look foolish and b.he wants to keep himself in the spotlight. Both serve his ends.
Sun Tzu, the great Chinese military philosopher, admonished generals to be unpredictable. He also admonished them to anger or otherwise inflame passions in their opponents. This is what Trump does quite successfully with this tactic. The Left has always understood this. Take Saul Alinsky "ridicule is Man's most potent weapon. It is infuriating and cannot be rationally fought". Trump is essentially ridiculing the Left here, even while he appears to be being irreverent.
As to the latter point, Trump rightly understands that people are not inspired by the whole Ashley Wilkes sort of honorable and noble approach. Who do you root for in Gone with the Wind? The scoundrel Rhett Butler, not Wilkes, who is by all measure a better man but a less honest one than Butler. It's Trump's finger-in-the-eye that has led him to capture the Millenial votes, I would add. Furthermore, Trump understands that he needs to fire up the base, to keep us engaged and excited. Why did the Reagan Revolution peter out? Because the mantle was handed to George H.W. Bush, a RINO and Internationalist who demanded we be softer and more like Ashley Wilkes. Reagan's revolution died because there was nothing to keep the rank-and-file inspired. Trump is inspiring, even when he's being an ass.
Trump understand all this, yet Mike Gallagher, a good conservative but a largely useless one, wants to take us back to the "high road" which winds up at a collapsed bridge. He lived through all this; he should know better by now.
People like Mike Gallagher are the reason why we are always on the defensive. He argues that we need to move forward and accomplish things rather than mess with them. He said WE are acting like we aren't in power. It's quite the opposite; the Democrats did this to us whenever THEY were in power after all. IF we allow the Democrats and the media time to set the narrative, to key in for the attacks, they will win. Trump is forcing them to react, rather than to launch pro-active attacks. I can't imagine how an establishment Republican can still exist in this day and age. They never won anything.
Trump wins because he knows he needs to keep them angry. It's really that simple. He controls the news cycle - they don't.
Sorry Mike but you are a huge part of the problem.
BTW He just expressed his befuddlement at the fact the media and the Left and all who hate Trump find nothing but fault with him. Gallagher apparently isn't aware of Saul Alinski "you are on the side of angels and they are on the side of devils". NOTHING Trump does will be good, so he may as well troll them and watch their heads explode.
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Batteries Not Included
Timothy Birdnow
Gee...what could go wrong at sea?
World’s largest battery-powered ship launches from Australia
Basically they are carrying a huge number of flammable anchors.
I wonder if batteries are included when you purchase this item?
Gee...what could go wrong at sea?
World’s largest battery-powered ship launches from Australia
Basically they are carrying a huge number of flammable anchors.
I wonder if batteries are included when you purchase this item?
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It's Abuse, not Affirmation
Timothy Birdnow
Finally; someone in power is saying it!
White House: Changing A Minor's Gender Is "Child Abuse" And "Medical Malpractice"
There is nothing "gender affirming" about what the Left has been doing to children. It's gender revolution, rather, and it is the worst sort of abuse. We are talking about taking troubled children and messing their heads up with chemicals and eventually mutilating them sexually. If this were done by a kidnapper he would get the death penalty, but since it's school teachers or psychologists or counselors it's "affirming".
When a man says he's Napoleon Bonapart we lock him up; he's clearly mad. When a man says "I'm a nine year old girl" we say it's his reality. Who is the crazy one?
Finally; someone in power is saying it!
White House: Changing A Minor's Gender Is "Child Abuse" And "Medical Malpractice"
There is nothing "gender affirming" about what the Left has been doing to children. It's gender revolution, rather, and it is the worst sort of abuse. We are talking about taking troubled children and messing their heads up with chemicals and eventually mutilating them sexually. If this were done by a kidnapper he would get the death penalty, but since it's school teachers or psychologists or counselors it's "affirming".
When a man says he's Napoleon Bonapart we lock him up; he's clearly mad. When a man says "I'm a nine year old girl" we say it's his reality. Who is the crazy one?
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War with Canada?
Timothy Birdnow
hile we've all pretty much laughed off suggestions of annexating Canada, there is some possibility he may be serious (not by choice). This article suggests that not only may we annex Canada but that we may be forced to GO TO WAR with them.
I won't spoil it for you, but it ties to Mark Carney and his ties with Europe. Read the article for more.
hile we've all pretty much laughed off suggestions of annexating Canada, there is some possibility he may be serious (not by choice). This article suggests that not only may we annex Canada but that we may be forced to GO TO WAR with them.
I won't spoil it for you, but it ties to Mark Carney and his ties with Europe. Read the article for more.
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May 04, 2025
Un Cabaret
Timothy Birdnow
Back in the '80's a friend of my mother came and stayed with my parents for a couple of months. She had worked for the government in Washington D.C. and she complained that the government was crawling with homosexuals. We didn't believe her then; she was suffering from schizophrenia. We assumed it was part of her mental disorder.
But this makes me wonder if the family friend wasn't right all along. How long has this thing beeen coming on?
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I'm not sure where they have all come from, or how they managed to drive out decent folks from any position of power,but I suspect this is exactly what has happened. We are now the Kit Kat Club from Caberet.
Back in the '80's a friend of my mother came and stayed with my parents for a couple of months. She had worked for the government in Washington D.C. and she complained that the government was crawling with homosexuals. We didn't believe her then; she was suffering from schizophrenia. We assumed it was part of her mental disorder.
But this makes me wonder if the family friend wasn't right all along. How long has this thing beeen coming on?
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A recent hidden-camera interview with a current DHS employee just blew the lid off something many of us already suspected: the US government has been infiltrated by a radical, emotionally chaotic homosexual culture. According to this makeshift whistleblower, the entire system is infested by agents in toxic relationships, drama, weak-minded men, and an overwhelming lesbian/gay presence that isn’t just tolerated; it’s pretty much the entire operating system at this point. The way it sounds, the agent badge should probably come with a juice box and a pronoun.
But honestly, this isn’t just about DHS. It’s about a much bigger mentality that’s infected everything. The Left has mainstreamed this childish, emotionally dependent worldview. It’s a movement that treats normal everyday discomfort as trauma, disagreements as violence, and therapy as a lifestyle. This is a culture that worships safety at the expense of strength and independence. It’s a twisted lifestyle built around group therapy instead of grit, toughing it out, and independence. It’s more about group coddling than individualism.
But honestly, this isn’t just about DHS. It’s about a much bigger mentality that’s infected everything. The Left has mainstreamed this childish, emotionally dependent worldview. It’s a movement that treats normal everyday discomfort as trauma, disagreements as violence, and therapy as a lifestyle. This is a culture that worships safety at the expense of strength and independence. It’s a twisted lifestyle built around group therapy instead of grit, toughing it out, and independence. It’s more about group coddling than individualism.
I'm not sure where they have all come from, or how they managed to drive out decent folks from any position of power,but I suspect this is exactly what has happened. We are now the Kit Kat Club from Caberet.
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Next Pope a CONSERVATIVE?!
Timothy Birdnow
Could we end up with a conservative Pope? Apparently the leftists in the church are sweating the prospect.
Progressive Cardinals sweating bullets. Ready for a conservative Pope? It could happen…
From Revolver:
However, the good news is that this message of unity could do more than just shift the mood; it could deliver the next conservative pope and bring the Church back to its traditional roots.
The New York Times:
Even before Pope Francis was entombed in a Rome basilica on Saturday, conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a divisive disaster that endangered the church’s traditions had begun politicking to sway the conclave electing the next pope.
They have a seductively simple slogan: unity.
The conservative Cardinals are coming together on a mission to take back the Church from the progressives. The good news is that they’ve thought long and hard about this, and they believe their message of unity will gently steer the newer cardinals, who don’t fully understand "Vatican speak,” into voting their way.
It might not have looked like it from the outside, but during Francis’ reign, the conservative cardinals actually held onto an impressive amount of power. A lot of that was thanks to the behind-the-scenes influence of Pope Benedict and Cardinal Sarah, who kept Francis on a shorter leash than most people realize. The New York Times piece goes on:
But unity was central to Francis’ vision of the church, too. He just saw it differently. In 2021, Francis suppressed celebration of the Latin Mass, adored by Cardinal Sarah and other traditionalists, because he argued it was being used by ideologically motivated Catholics to undermine church unity.
That decision only emboldened conservative criticism of Francis as an authoritarian. "That is his style, to divide,” Cardinal Müller said on Thursday in his apartment. "All dictators are dividing.”
As Francis entered the later phase of his pontificate, his progressive supporters expected him to start making concrete changes. Instead, concerns about church unity seemed to prompt him to punt.
When bishops from remote areas in South America came to the Vatican in 2019 for a major meeting desired by Francis, they recommended that, to address a shortage of clergy, the pope should allow older married Catholic men in good standing to become priests.
Francis gave every indication that this practical solution was what he wanted, but around that time Cardinal Sarah coauthored a book with the retired Benedict reaffirming priestly celibacy.
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Personally I have my doubts; Francis still managed to stack the deck with his own people, and removed many of the best conservatives from positions of authority. But in the end God can and will intervene, so we can hope this is what is occurring now.The Catholic Church CANNOT survive another Pope Francis.
The article goes on to catalogue a list of potential pontiffs with an analysis of each candidate.
It's encouraging and I suggest everyone read it.
Could we end up with a conservative Pope? Apparently the leftists in the church are sweating the prospect.
Progressive Cardinals sweating bullets. Ready for a conservative Pope? It could happen…
From Revolver:
However, the good news is that this message of unity could do more than just shift the mood; it could deliver the next conservative pope and bring the Church back to its traditional roots.
The New York Times:
Even before Pope Francis was entombed in a Rome basilica on Saturday, conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a divisive disaster that endangered the church’s traditions had begun politicking to sway the conclave electing the next pope.
They have a seductively simple slogan: unity.
The conservative Cardinals are coming together on a mission to take back the Church from the progressives. The good news is that they’ve thought long and hard about this, and they believe their message of unity will gently steer the newer cardinals, who don’t fully understand "Vatican speak,” into voting their way.
It might not have looked like it from the outside, but during Francis’ reign, the conservative cardinals actually held onto an impressive amount of power. A lot of that was thanks to the behind-the-scenes influence of Pope Benedict and Cardinal Sarah, who kept Francis on a shorter leash than most people realize. The New York Times piece goes on:
But unity was central to Francis’ vision of the church, too. He just saw it differently. In 2021, Francis suppressed celebration of the Latin Mass, adored by Cardinal Sarah and other traditionalists, because he argued it was being used by ideologically motivated Catholics to undermine church unity.
That decision only emboldened conservative criticism of Francis as an authoritarian. "That is his style, to divide,” Cardinal Müller said on Thursday in his apartment. "All dictators are dividing.”
As Francis entered the later phase of his pontificate, his progressive supporters expected him to start making concrete changes. Instead, concerns about church unity seemed to prompt him to punt.
When bishops from remote areas in South America came to the Vatican in 2019 for a major meeting desired by Francis, they recommended that, to address a shortage of clergy, the pope should allow older married Catholic men in good standing to become priests.
Francis gave every indication that this practical solution was what he wanted, but around that time Cardinal Sarah coauthored a book with the retired Benedict reaffirming priestly celibacy.
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Personally I have my doubts; Francis still managed to stack the deck with his own people, and removed many of the best conservatives from positions of authority. But in the end God can and will intervene, so we can hope this is what is occurring now.The Catholic Church CANNOT survive another Pope Francis.
The article goes on to catalogue a list of potential pontiffs with an analysis of each candidate.
It's encouraging and I suggest everyone read it.
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Trump Beats the Press
Timothy Birdnow
I caught Trump's interview with Kristin Welcher, er, Welker, the host of Meet the Depressed. She was combative and interrupted Trump repeatedly and kept demanding an answer when he said he couldn't give one. She was a prime example of why the mainstream media is shrinking as fast as Bill when the Secret Service tells him Hillary is awake and feeling frisky.
She pressed him on things like invading Canada to make it a state of the U.S. (Trump had to actually come right out and tell her he has no plans on annexing Canada). She kept trying to give misleading statistics "proving" he's wrecking the economy (and he corrected her) and she pressed him on whether he thought America was going into a recession. She knowss he isn't going to say "sure we are" even if he believed it - and he doesn't. She pushed him on inflation, saying it was running rampant (it's not) and Trump pointed out energy costs are down as are many other items like homes.
In short she tried every trick she could muster. Where was she during the Biden era? The Obama era? Strange how she and her friends only become the adversarial press when it's a Republican - and most especially Donald J. Trump.
People are wise to the lies of the media now. They lied too many times to the public and now nobody believes them. But in their arrogance they think they still hold all the cards.
I caught Trump's interview with Kristin Welcher, er, Welker, the host of Meet the Depressed. She was combative and interrupted Trump repeatedly and kept demanding an answer when he said he couldn't give one. She was a prime example of why the mainstream media is shrinking as fast as Bill when the Secret Service tells him Hillary is awake and feeling frisky.
She pressed him on things like invading Canada to make it a state of the U.S. (Trump had to actually come right out and tell her he has no plans on annexing Canada). She kept trying to give misleading statistics "proving" he's wrecking the economy (and he corrected her) and she pressed him on whether he thought America was going into a recession. She knowss he isn't going to say "sure we are" even if he believed it - and he doesn't. She pushed him on inflation, saying it was running rampant (it's not) and Trump pointed out energy costs are down as are many other items like homes.
In short she tried every trick she could muster. Where was she during the Biden era? The Obama era? Strange how she and her friends only become the adversarial press when it's a Republican - and most especially Donald J. Trump.
People are wise to the lies of the media now. They lied too many times to the public and now nobody believes them. But in their arrogance they think they still hold all the cards.
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Dept. of Hate and Human Slavery
Timothy Birdnow
"During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking, for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that,”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking, for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that,”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Trump Impeacher an Animal Abuser
Timothy Birdnow
The very lowest of the low are those who abuse children, old folks, and animals.
Shri Thanedar's Evil History of Animal Cruelty Comes Out After He Filed Trump Impeachment Articles
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One suspects that is how the good Congressman would treat children and old people as well.
THIS is the guy who has filed articles of impeachment against the Don.
The very lowest of the low are those who abuse children, old folks, and animals.
Shri Thanedar's Evil History of Animal Cruelty Comes Out After He Filed Trump Impeachment Articles
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As the HuffPost reported in 2018, when Thanedar was a Michigan gubernatorial candidate, AniClin Preclinical Services was forced to close after its parent company went under. When it did, roughly 170 dogs and monkeys had to be rescued from the lab his company ran after they were left to rot inside the facility.
From a USA Today report about the group that rescued the abandoned beagles at the facility:
They had lived the most sterile, regimented lives imaginable.
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Day after day, month after month, year after year, they were confined to plexiglass crates, fed and watered on precise schedules, kept clean. But with no opportunity to leave their solitary little boxes and spend time with others like themselves, with nothing but the most antiseptic contact with humans and no time outside the gleaming, climate-controlled facility, the 118 beagles — lab dogs used to test drugs and chemicals—displayed nothing of the much-acclaimed breed characteristics: joyful, noisy and curious.
Another 55 long-tailed macaque monkeys also were left to fester in the facility.
From a USA Today report about the group that rescued the abandoned beagles at the facility:
They had lived the most sterile, regimented lives imaginable.
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Day after day, month after month, year after year, they were confined to plexiglass crates, fed and watered on precise schedules, kept clean. But with no opportunity to leave their solitary little boxes and spend time with others like themselves, with nothing but the most antiseptic contact with humans and no time outside the gleaming, climate-controlled facility, the 118 beagles — lab dogs used to test drugs and chemicals—displayed nothing of the much-acclaimed breed characteristics: joyful, noisy and curious.
Another 55 long-tailed macaque monkeys also were left to fester in the facility.
One suspects that is how the good Congressman would treat children and old people as well.
THIS is the guy who has filed articles of impeachment against the Don.
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May 03, 2025
The Dogs of (Green) War
Timothy Birdnow
Courtesy of Tony Heller at Real Climate Science
Courtesy of Tony Heller at Real Climate Science
"Dogs have "extensive and multifarious” environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found.”
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Confessed Jew Killer Wins in Court
Timothy Birdnow
Putting the corpse in hanbeas corpus:
Columbia Grad Student Wins Habeas Hearing After Telling People He Was Involved in Murdering Jews In Israel, and That He Likes To Kill Jews
Putting the corpse in hanbeas corpus:
Columbia Grad Student Wins Habeas Hearing After Telling People He Was Involved in Murdering Jews In Israel, and That He Likes To Kill Jews
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U.N. Going Broke
Timothy Birdnow
Oh I most earnestly hope so!
REPORT: The United Nations Could Run Out of Cash Within Months
The U.N. has never stopped a single war, nor has it done any good on this Earth. It's merely been a tool used by tyrants and communists to hold power and create world socialism. The sooner that corrupt body is gone the better.
Oh I most earnestly hope so!
REPORT: The United Nations Could Run Out of Cash Within Months
The U.N. has never stopped a single war, nor has it done any good on this Earth. It's merely been a tool used by tyrants and communists to hold power and create world socialism. The sooner that corrupt body is gone the better.
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With a Whimper
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He said that he would do it and indeed he did!
Trump Signs Executive Order that Aims toCut Funding for NPS and PBS
It's high time the public stop funding the leftist lies told by public radio/television. They've been lying to us for years and we've paid them to do it.
Here is one example of their lies, discovered by yours truly.
Whenever anyone suggested cutting funding the liberals all cried out "Sesame Street" and Barack Obama said "you want to bring the hammer down on Big Bird". Well guess what? Sesame Street sreams of Hoopla and is on Max and other places. We don't need taxpayer funding for it. So what other original and delightful programs are we going to miss? Things nobody watches like America Reframed, that's what.
Frankly I don't think anyone will even notice if PBS and NPR disappear; nobody watched or listened anyway.
He said that he would do it and indeed he did!
Trump Signs Executive Order that Aims toCut Funding for NPS and PBS
It's high time the public stop funding the leftist lies told by public radio/television. They've been lying to us for years and we've paid them to do it.
Here is one example of their lies, discovered by yours truly.
Whenever anyone suggested cutting funding the liberals all cried out "Sesame Street" and Barack Obama said "you want to bring the hammer down on Big Bird". Well guess what? Sesame Street sreams of Hoopla and is on Max and other places. We don't need taxpayer funding for it. So what other original and delightful programs are we going to miss? Things nobody watches like America Reframed, that's what.
Frankly I don't think anyone will even notice if PBS and NPR disappear; nobody watched or listened anyway.
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John Fetterman's Fugue State
Timothy Birdnow
John Fetterman was worse than we have been told having wandered out into traffic in D.C.in a fugue state.
The man belongs in a hospital. I feel sorry for him.
Sadly, he's the sanest, most normal high level Democrat around. What does that say for the party?
John Fetterman was worse than we have been told having wandered out into traffic in D.C.in a fugue state.
The man belongs in a hospital. I feel sorry for him.
Sadly, he's the sanest, most normal high level Democrat around. What does that say for the party?
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The New Gestapo
Timothy Birdnow
The return of the Gestapo in Germany.
German Spy Agency Finds Way To Surveil Right-Wingers Even Harder
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Uh, a free socity does not criminalize what people think, dufuses. That is the very definition of a free society. Germany, on the other hand, has criminalized opposition to the Leftist vision of Germany and efforts to replace Germans with middle easterners and others.
Which is the hate-organization? Seems to me it's the new Gestapo here.
The return of the Gestapo in Germany.
German Spy Agency Finds Way To Surveil Right-Wingers Even Harder
From the article:
The Verfassungschutz, or Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), claimed in the statement that Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) is a right-wing extremist party, paving the way for the government to double down on its surveillance of the organization’s activities, according to The New York Times. AfD came in second place in the February federal elections as its platform proved popular among voters tired of runaway immigration and ceding sovereignty to the European Union.
"The ethnicity and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the BfV said in the statement, according to a BBC translation.
"The ethnicity and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the BfV said in the statement, according to a BBC translation.
Uh, a free socity does not criminalize what people think, dufuses. That is the very definition of a free society. Germany, on the other hand, has criminalized opposition to the Leftist vision of Germany and efforts to replace Germans with middle easterners and others.
Which is the hate-organization? Seems to me it's the new Gestapo here.
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Volstead on Steroids
Timothy Birdnow
I heartily concur.
‘A Supply Problem, Not A Demand Problem’: Tucker Carlson Reveals What Changed His Mind About US Drug Policy
I always thought the American policy of going after users was stupid. It's like playing whack-a-mole, only you aren't even hitting the actual mole, but the guy who is standing next to the machine.
The whole point of narcotics laws is to HELP people, to avoid addiction and the criminality and health problems that come with it. It's become a kind of kill-joy approach. America has always been prone to moralizing and attempting to criminalize what someone thinks is a bad idea. Take Prohibition as one example.
That is not to say I favor legalization of narcotics; I don't. I've seen the destruction caused by them (even pot). But in my view the efforts should be made on the supply side, not the demand side. The customers are the ones we are trying to protect.
Of course the suppliers have the money and can corrupt the system, which is why we go after the customers.
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Take Rush Limbaugh. Rush had back pain - and anyone who has had REAL back pain knows it ruins your life. So he was proscribed Oxycodone. He became addicted, and no doubt did doctor shop. So he was charged with a crime and had a hard time getting out of trouble. HE did nothing really wrong, just violated a law that was designed to help HIM in the first place but which sat in moral judgement of El Rushbo. Rush was not the porblem and resources should never have been wasted on him. He HAD a problem, but shouldn't have been treated like a criminal.
Who cares if someone uses drugs, even strong narcotics, provided they don't hurt anyone? Of course drug addicts DO tend to hurt people, and often turn to crime to get their fixes, so it's society's problem and not just their own. But the point is the addict is as much a victim as anyone. The pushers and importers are the real villains.
Laws should punish those who hurt others, not meddle in the lives of people who aren't doing anything injurious to others.
And we've had the "war on drugs" since the nineties with little in the way of results. Why? Because we're waging war on the wrong people. This is like going into land contested by your enemy in a war and killing the villagers there on the theory that they might join the enemy. Anyone remember My Lai in Vietnam? It was pretty much understood that massacring the people we came to protect was a bad idea.
Carlson continues:
That is correct. In economic terms we on the Right all advocate supply side economics; the idea that clearing the way for those who supply goods and services benefits the economy while imposing blocks, like taxes or regulations, strangled the economy. This is at odds with the Keynsians, who are demand-side conomists, believing it's all about demand from the market. Which works? Supply side has worked every time it'sbeen tried. Keynsiansim eventually strangles the market because the demand simply pushes up prices or leads to shortages if prices are artificially stifled. So if you translate that to the drug market you have the same result; demand side enforcement only leads to more of the drugs coming, making them more easily obtainable. Harassing the users does little to stop the trade because it's lucrative and people are going to use it. But if you dry up the supply you drive up the price and you make it hard to find. People will just pop a beer or maybe smoke some home-grown marijuana which isn't laced with anything and is weaker than what they would get from the cartels.
How did China deal with the opium epidemic they suffered in the 19th century? They burned all the poppy crops, went after dealers and producers, and took steps to find alternatives to sitting around in opium dens. The addicted generation died out and there is now no opium problem in China. (Lots of other problems, granted.) The point is they didn't try to go after every addicted Chinament to dry up demand; they went after supply.
And who is aiding and abetting that? Mexico, for one. China. Probably Russia as well. We let them aid and abet the importation of drugs because these countries pay our political leaders and enforcement officers. If you want to end the problem you would start arresting people who take such bribes. You would also go after the Cartels and squeeze the ports of entry. That's why Trump is putting the military on the border, and why he's squeezing them with tariffs now. Everyone wondered why we are going after Canada; they've been a port of entry for drugs for years. They haven't cared to fight it because it's screwing us, not them. If they fight it they have to deal with the drug lords and others; easier to just make it the problem of the U.S.
You don't destroy a country to save it and you don't destroy people to save them.
I heartily concur.
‘A Supply Problem, Not A Demand Problem’: Tucker Carlson Reveals What Changed His Mind About US Drug Policy
I always thought the American policy of going after users was stupid. It's like playing whack-a-mole, only you aren't even hitting the actual mole, but the guy who is standing next to the machine.
The whole point of narcotics laws is to HELP people, to avoid addiction and the criminality and health problems that come with it. It's become a kind of kill-joy approach. America has always been prone to moralizing and attempting to criminalize what someone thinks is a bad idea. Take Prohibition as one example.
That is not to say I favor legalization of narcotics; I don't. I've seen the destruction caused by them (even pot). But in my view the efforts should be made on the supply side, not the demand side. The customers are the ones we are trying to protect.
Of course the suppliers have the money and can corrupt the system, which is why we go after the customers.
FTA:
I was an unpaid fellow at a libertarian think tank in D.C. I thought I was a libertarian — sort of am libertarian in a lot of ways still. I really don’t want to bother other people,” Carlson said. "But I left after a drug policy conference that I went to that really kind of changed my thinking on the world.”
"At it, they explained the libertarian position on drug policy, which is kind of America’s position on drug policy, which is ‘It’s the drug addict’s fault. Like people get addicted to drugs. That’s their problem. That’s their fault.’ And it’s kind of the demand explanation for the drug epidemic. It’s like we have a lot of drugs because people want a lot of drugs in this country,” Carlson added. "It’s not Mexico’s or China’s fault or the drug dealer’s fault.”
In March, Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz urged the Department of Justice to restart drug interdiction efforts at U.S. airports and transportation facilities. In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the two lawmakers called for the reinstatement of Drug Enforcement Administration searches, which were removed in 2024 under the Biden-Harris administration.
"Yeah, no, the desire for it,” Cella responded. "That’s what Mexico says. It’s like if you people didn’t want it so badly.”
"Exactly. I thought, you know, that makes sense. I mean, it’s kind of like one of those lines you hear. They’re like, yeah, that sounds right. Then you think of your own life and then you think of the people you know who got tragically fucked up or killed by drugs. Of course, I know a lot of them,” Carlson said. "You think, ‘No, actually,’ like some of them are — like your mom — a super-healthy person, obviously a distance runner, the healthiest person in America — distance runners. She has an injury, and some doctor gives her a drug and she becomes an addict.
"At it, they explained the libertarian position on drug policy, which is kind of America’s position on drug policy, which is ‘It’s the drug addict’s fault. Like people get addicted to drugs. That’s their problem. That’s their fault.’ And it’s kind of the demand explanation for the drug epidemic. It’s like we have a lot of drugs because people want a lot of drugs in this country,” Carlson added. "It’s not Mexico’s or China’s fault or the drug dealer’s fault.”
In March, Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz urged the Department of Justice to restart drug interdiction efforts at U.S. airports and transportation facilities. In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the two lawmakers called for the reinstatement of Drug Enforcement Administration searches, which were removed in 2024 under the Biden-Harris administration.
"Yeah, no, the desire for it,” Cella responded. "That’s what Mexico says. It’s like if you people didn’t want it so badly.”
"Exactly. I thought, you know, that makes sense. I mean, it’s kind of like one of those lines you hear. They’re like, yeah, that sounds right. Then you think of your own life and then you think of the people you know who got tragically fucked up or killed by drugs. Of course, I know a lot of them,” Carlson said. "You think, ‘No, actually,’ like some of them are — like your mom — a super-healthy person, obviously a distance runner, the healthiest person in America — distance runners. She has an injury, and some doctor gives her a drug and she becomes an addict.
Take Rush Limbaugh. Rush had back pain - and anyone who has had REAL back pain knows it ruins your life. So he was proscribed Oxycodone. He became addicted, and no doubt did doctor shop. So he was charged with a crime and had a hard time getting out of trouble. HE did nothing really wrong, just violated a law that was designed to help HIM in the first place but which sat in moral judgement of El Rushbo. Rush was not the porblem and resources should never have been wasted on him. He HAD a problem, but shouldn't have been treated like a criminal.
Who cares if someone uses drugs, even strong narcotics, provided they don't hurt anyone? Of course drug addicts DO tend to hurt people, and often turn to crime to get their fixes, so it's society's problem and not just their own. But the point is the addict is as much a victim as anyone. The pushers and importers are the real villains.
Laws should punish those who hurt others, not meddle in the lives of people who aren't doing anything injurious to others.
And we've had the "war on drugs" since the nineties with little in the way of results. Why? Because we're waging war on the wrong people. This is like going into land contested by your enemy in a war and killing the villagers there on the theory that they might join the enemy. Anyone remember My Lai in Vietnam? It was pretty much understood that massacring the people we came to protect was a bad idea.
Carlson continues:
"Carlson then shared Cella’s story, explaining how, as an insecure high school student, he tried drugs, which led him to become a needle-dependent heroin addict. Carlson described how Cella eventually attacked members of the Mexican Mafia with pepper spray, narrowly escaping death.
"That suggests to me that what we have is a supply problem, not a demand problem, like you’re in. You probably would have been happy with Bud Light or Coors Light or whatever,” Carlson said.
"Instead you wind up on heroin because you had access to this drug. So if you take 100 people and give them heroin every day for a month, like what percentage become junkies? All of them?” Carlson asked. "I was just thinking this at this drug policy conference, and I was like, ‘Actually, you’re all liars, probably getting paid by Purdue Pharma to lie.’ And it’s the Cato Institute. They’re definitely liars. I can say that now. But I didn’t understand it because this is the one topic I knew something about, having lived it."
"That suggests to me that what we have is a supply problem, not a demand problem, like you’re in. You probably would have been happy with Bud Light or Coors Light or whatever,” Carlson said.
"Instead you wind up on heroin because you had access to this drug. So if you take 100 people and give them heroin every day for a month, like what percentage become junkies? All of them?” Carlson asked. "I was just thinking this at this drug policy conference, and I was like, ‘Actually, you’re all liars, probably getting paid by Purdue Pharma to lie.’ And it’s the Cato Institute. They’re definitely liars. I can say that now. But I didn’t understand it because this is the one topic I knew something about, having lived it."
That is correct. In economic terms we on the Right all advocate supply side economics; the idea that clearing the way for those who supply goods and services benefits the economy while imposing blocks, like taxes or regulations, strangled the economy. This is at odds with the Keynsians, who are demand-side conomists, believing it's all about demand from the market. Which works? Supply side has worked every time it'sbeen tried. Keynsiansim eventually strangles the market because the demand simply pushes up prices or leads to shortages if prices are artificially stifled. So if you translate that to the drug market you have the same result; demand side enforcement only leads to more of the drugs coming, making them more easily obtainable. Harassing the users does little to stop the trade because it's lucrative and people are going to use it. But if you dry up the supply you drive up the price and you make it hard to find. People will just pop a beer or maybe smoke some home-grown marijuana which isn't laced with anything and is weaker than what they would get from the cartels.
How did China deal with the opium epidemic they suffered in the 19th century? They burned all the poppy crops, went after dealers and producers, and took steps to find alternatives to sitting around in opium dens. The addicted generation died out and there is now no opium problem in China. (Lots of other problems, granted.) The point is they didn't try to go after every addicted Chinament to dry up demand; they went after supply.
And who is aiding and abetting that? Mexico, for one. China. Probably Russia as well. We let them aid and abet the importation of drugs because these countries pay our political leaders and enforcement officers. If you want to end the problem you would start arresting people who take such bribes. You would also go after the Cartels and squeeze the ports of entry. That's why Trump is putting the military on the border, and why he's squeezing them with tariffs now. Everyone wondered why we are going after Canada; they've been a port of entry for drugs for years. They haven't cared to fight it because it's screwing us, not them. If they fight it they have to deal with the drug lords and others; easier to just make it the problem of the U.S.
You don't destroy a country to save it and you don't destroy people to save them.
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Only the Beginning
Timothy Birdnow
The media and the old guard Republicans (and the Democrats, of course) are telling us it's all over, Trump is finished and it's going to be a bloodbath in nthe next election. They claim his poll numbers are way down (event hough he's doing as good as any other President at this point). It's all negativity, gloom and doom.
Don't buy it.
The incomparable Victor Davis Hansen makes this very case.
Democrats Are Terrified Trump’s Policies Are Going to Work
He rightly points out the Trump revolution (a revolution even greater than the Reagan revolution) is just getting started. And every metric suggests spectacular success.
So the Democrats and their media allies and the Republican elites are desperately calling the game before they lose.
Do read the whole thing; as always VDH is brilliant and he nails it.
The media and the old guard Republicans (and the Democrats, of course) are telling us it's all over, Trump is finished and it's going to be a bloodbath in nthe next election. They claim his poll numbers are way down (event hough he's doing as good as any other President at this point). It's all negativity, gloom and doom.
Don't buy it.
The incomparable Victor Davis Hansen makes this very case.
Democrats Are Terrified Trump’s Policies Are Going to Work
He rightly points out the Trump revolution (a revolution even greater than the Reagan revolution) is just getting started. And every metric suggests spectacular success.
So the Democrats and their media allies and the Republican elites are desperately calling the game before they lose.
Do read the whole thing; as always VDH is brilliant and he nails it.
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The Incredible Shrinking New York
Timothy Birdnow
As the state of New York swirls 'round the toilet bowl her wealthy and productive are fleeing to the sunny state of Florida.
125,000 New Yorkers Fled for Florida the Last 5 Years, Taking $14 Billion With Them
New York lost all that money because the ruling Democrats drove them away.
Sadly many are probably going to vote Democrat in Florida; they haven't given up on their party, but merely think it's the NEW YORK Democrats who didn't do it right.
The illusions of Man are unerasable. I am mindful of Plato's Cave, where people tied up in a cave watching a puppet show think that is reality, and kill the dude who got out of the cave and reported it was a lie. That is how most people think.
And even if you flee the state New York continues to tax you, in what is clearly a grossly unconstitutional law. New York is run like the mafia; once in you never get out.
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Anyway, the rich are fleeing and the state is getting poorer. But I doubt they will learn their lesson.
Rudy Giulliani showed how it's done. But they tried to throw Guilli in prison, so apparently they didn't learn a blessed thing from him.
You can only be liberal for so long before reality catches up with you. As Margaret Thatcher said, socialism only works until you run out of other people's money.
As the state of New York swirls 'round the toilet bowl her wealthy and productive are fleeing to the sunny state of Florida.
125,000 New Yorkers Fled for Florida the Last 5 Years, Taking $14 Billion With Them
New York lost all that money because the ruling Democrats drove them away.
Sadly many are probably going to vote Democrat in Florida; they haven't given up on their party, but merely think it's the NEW YORK Democrats who didn't do it right.
The illusions of Man are unerasable. I am mindful of Plato's Cave, where people tied up in a cave watching a puppet show think that is reality, and kill the dude who got out of the cave and reported it was a lie. That is how most people think.
And even if you flee the state New York continues to tax you, in what is clearly a grossly unconstitutional law. New York is run like the mafia; once in you never get out.
ll
Anyway, the rich are fleeing and the state is getting poorer. But I doubt they will learn their lesson.
Rudy Giulliani showed how it's done. But they tried to throw Guilli in prison, so apparently they didn't learn a blessed thing from him.
You can only be liberal for so long before reality catches up with you. As Margaret Thatcher said, socialism only works until you run out of other people's money.
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