November 05, 2025
Capitol Cops Used Lethal Force
Timothy Birdnow
So now it's starting to all come out. The authorities are the ones who caused violence on J6.
Capitol Police repeatedly used lethal force on protesters early on Jan. 6, video shows
Who authorized this?
FTA:
Again, who gave the order? We know at least one guy:
So with no warning despite his claims to the contrary (video proves he gave no warning) this Where's Waldow guy had his men fire at the heads of protesters, risking their deaths. Then everyone was surprised that the crowd was so angry.
Gee ya think!
At any rate one wonders who gave this fellow the order to use force in this manner. The whole J5 thing stinks to high heaven.
So now it's starting to all come out. The authorities are the ones who caused violence on J6.
Capitol Police repeatedly used lethal force on protesters early on Jan. 6, video shows
Who authorized this?
FTA:
In the span of less than 10 minutes after a huge crowd of protesters filled the U.S. Capitol West Plaza beneath the inauguration stage on Jan. 6, Capitol Police repeatedly used lethal force on the crowd, targeting people in the head, neck, face, and upper body — actions one use-of-force expert called "criminally negligent.”
During that brief span, at least 16 people were shot with kinetic-impact projectiles, including nine who took shots to the top of the head, face, and base of the neck, according to Capitol Police surveillance video obtained by Blaze News.
‘We need munitions! Unload! Unload it all! Take ’em out!’
The rounds are designed to be shot at or below the waist or skipped off pavement to strike the legs and cause trauma and "pain compliance.” None of the rounds observable on the surveillance footage struck below the belt, putting all of the observable rounds in dangerous and potentially lethal territory.
The targeting of the crowd and one graphic, bloody injury to a protester’s face enraged the crowd and appeared to lead to a large escalation of violence toward police, including the throwing of water bottles and flagpoles and the use of pepper spray and bear repellent, the video showed.
During that brief span, at least 16 people were shot with kinetic-impact projectiles, including nine who took shots to the top of the head, face, and base of the neck, according to Capitol Police surveillance video obtained by Blaze News.
‘We need munitions! Unload! Unload it all! Take ’em out!’
The rounds are designed to be shot at or below the waist or skipped off pavement to strike the legs and cause trauma and "pain compliance.” None of the rounds observable on the surveillance footage struck below the belt, putting all of the observable rounds in dangerous and potentially lethal territory.
The targeting of the crowd and one graphic, bloody injury to a protester’s face enraged the crowd and appeared to lead to a large escalation of violence toward police, including the throwing of water bottles and flagpoles and the use of pepper spray and bear repellent, the video showed.
Again, who gave the order? We know at least one guy:
Deputy Police Chief Eric Waldow claimed in a U.S. Capitol Police radio dispatch about 1:11 p.m. that his officers were using "indirect firing,” but the department’s surveillance video contradicts that claim.
Waldow also said he gave "repeated warnings” to the crowd to disperse or face chemical munitions, but video shows he did not have a bullhorn, and no warnings could be heard on ground-level video or the USCP surveillance video.
He ordered Capitol Police grenadiers to open fire on the crowd at 1:06 p.m.
"I got a crowd fighting with officers, pushing, throwing projectiles," he broadcast. "I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less-than-lethal team positioned above me to identify the agitators and start deploying. Launch, launch, launch!"
Stan Kephart, an expert witness on police use of force who reviewed the Jan. 6 surveillance video, said firing crowd-control weapons from an elevated platform into a dense crowd and striking targets above the shoulders is both "criminally negligent” and "potentially a lethal act.”
"There is a wealth of clear and convincing evidence here that police were not trained or equipped to move, disperse, and arrest stragglers,” Kephart told Blaze News. "Instead they adopted a punishment tactic, inflaming the crowd and resulting in injury that they are responsible for.”
‘If you really want to start a riot, shoot them in the head.
Waldow also said he gave "repeated warnings” to the crowd to disperse or face chemical munitions, but video shows he did not have a bullhorn, and no warnings could be heard on ground-level video or the USCP surveillance video.
He ordered Capitol Police grenadiers to open fire on the crowd at 1:06 p.m.
"I got a crowd fighting with officers, pushing, throwing projectiles," he broadcast. "I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less-than-lethal team positioned above me to identify the agitators and start deploying. Launch, launch, launch!"
Stan Kephart, an expert witness on police use of force who reviewed the Jan. 6 surveillance video, said firing crowd-control weapons from an elevated platform into a dense crowd and striking targets above the shoulders is both "criminally negligent” and "potentially a lethal act.”
"There is a wealth of clear and convincing evidence here that police were not trained or equipped to move, disperse, and arrest stragglers,” Kephart told Blaze News. "Instead they adopted a punishment tactic, inflaming the crowd and resulting in injury that they are responsible for.”
‘If you really want to start a riot, shoot them in the head.
So with no warning despite his claims to the contrary (video proves he gave no warning) this Where's Waldow guy had his men fire at the heads of protesters, risking their deaths. Then everyone was surprised that the crowd was so angry.
Gee ya think!
At any rate one wonders who gave this fellow the order to use force in this manner. The whole J5 thing stinks to high heaven.
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The Gang Green Strikes Back
Timothy Birdnow
So the good folks at COP 30, the Gang Green pushing teh lies of human-caused climate change melting the world, are returning to an oldie but goodie - claiming oil companies are using tobacco tactics to make up lies about the science.
I thought we slew this dragon some time ago. It was proven that the science that contradicts AGW alarmist theory was NOT funded by Big OIl, but it WAS proven climate change science was funded by Russia and China ato trick the West into killing it's own energy production so the Russia could clean up and China would have the oil and gas for itself. We also exposed the fact governments (espeically via USAID and the like) were funding the Climate Change Alarmist movement through a series of grants to NGO's. We also had the Climategate e-mails to prove collusion among the so0-called "scientsists" who ran things like the Hadley Center in the U.K.
For a long time this was on the back burner because we had exposed them, but once again they are trotting out the old, time worn accusations of "misinformation" when in fact it's always been they who are misinforming. They are liars.
That's how the Left operates, and it goes back to Hegel and the dialectic. They launch some campaign and create a series of arguments that can be rebutted by their opposition. So they pull back and wait and trot the same arguments out again to a younger crowd, one that doesn't remember the argument and it's outcome. This crowd has been "prepared" through government schooling which repeated lies and softened the kids up. Now these arguments come across as new and fresh and rebutting them becomes harder because the media won't cover the detractors and it will take years to re-rebut them. Lather, rinse, repeat.
And notice how they do this; they spoke in the article about wind turbines but said TRUMP attacked them, not scientists who actually did show they caused the problems mentioned, And they ignore the more obvious ones - like the fact these turbines chop up birds, or that they cause damage to people's eardrums, and headaches, and other proven things. Oh, and the worst is they simply refuse to admit they don't generate enough power, or reliably enough. They just SAY claims they are unaffordable are not true without providing solid data.
There is a reason why Germany, which had gone heavy into wind and solar, is now moving back to oil and gas and even coal; the "renewables" are unreliables.
I love this quote:
????? First, "Azerbaijan is a major oil and gas poducer and and a major route for oil and gas pipelines and OF COURSE a lot of pro-fossil fuel people will show up. So what? How does that impact the event itself? It doesn't. Second, who are these so-called "lobbyists" lobbying at these summits? Can anyone claim they have made any impact on the reports put out by the U.N.? The fact is the IPCC has always had scores of green activists writing large swaths of their reports all along. Why do they deserve a seat at the table and not the detractors?
And are these people actually working for oil companies or are they just in disagreement with the radical interpretation of climate change?
The article doubles down:
Oohhh....they bought ADVERTISING to get out facts they want the public to know! How DARE they! Funny; I seem to remember when the U.S. government was forcing pro-climate alarmist views on Facebook and Istagram, along with a host of other things (like Covid Vax promotion or suppression of disagreement with the lockdowns) and suppressed anything about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and other such things. In fact I was on Facebook and was banned all the time, and shadow banned when not officially banned, for discussing climate sience in an objective way.
How much advertising have proponenents of catastrophic climate change bought over the years? How much has been funded by the Tides Foundation, the Open Society, and a host of other leftist networks owned by billionaires?
How much in taxpayer dollars have gone to it? If you want to follow the money, bring it on! The Gang Green has benefitte far mroe from money and advertising than have the climate realists.
They lost the argument and now want to silence their opponents. I said it; they will never give this thing up; it means too much money and power to them. They dreamed of creating a world government and a socialist economy based on this lie, and when science didn't bear them out they just suppressed science - and the scientists who were disagreing with them. I have dialogued with a great many of them over the years and saw how they were purged, fired from jobs, attacked as shills for Big Oil, had their papers rejected and whatnot. One time Dr. Roy Spencer wrote a paper that passed peer review and was being published when the Gang Green attacked and forced the editor of the journal to resign, then pulled the paper. It wasn't because it was no good, it was because it was TOO good and damaged the movement. Yeah; that's science!
Who is guilty of misinformation? These are the same people who report more hurricanes when in fact we've been in one of the quietest hurricane periods in the holocene. They report Antarctica is melting when in fact most of Antactica is gaining ice mass - just the floating West Antarctic ice sheet is declining. They lie and say wildfires are caused by heating yet it's mostly caused by changes in land management practices. I could go on and on but the point is made. They have lied to use from the get-go.
And they dare to "ask media and big tech to screen harmfull and false content" when it is they pushing said content. Why don't they simply rebut the arguments?That would be easy enough for them to do if they had the TRUTH on their side; they have the media in their pockets, after all. And the universities.
So we are back to this and will have to fight again to make sure both sides of the argument are heard. And these leftists will accuse us of doing what they themselves are doing - suppressing free speach, ignring real science, pushing a political agenda,etc. (You will notice how many times they trotted out the name of Donald Trump, as if he's the only guy who disagrees with the theory; that's because they need to "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, then polarize it" and Trump is all they have to do that. They have to go after him so as to offer a face, a face of "evil".)
So the good folks at COP 30, the Gang Green pushing teh lies of human-caused climate change melting the world, are returning to an oldie but goodie - claiming oil companies are using tobacco tactics to make up lies about the science.
I thought we slew this dragon some time ago. It was proven that the science that contradicts AGW alarmist theory was NOT funded by Big OIl, but it WAS proven climate change science was funded by Russia and China ato trick the West into killing it's own energy production so the Russia could clean up and China would have the oil and gas for itself. We also exposed the fact governments (espeically via USAID and the like) were funding the Climate Change Alarmist movement through a series of grants to NGO's. We also had the Climategate e-mails to prove collusion among the so0-called "scientsists" who ran things like the Hadley Center in the U.K.
For a long time this was on the back burner because we had exposed them, but once again they are trotting out the old, time worn accusations of "misinformation" when in fact it's always been they who are misinforming. They are liars.
That's how the Left operates, and it goes back to Hegel and the dialectic. They launch some campaign and create a series of arguments that can be rebutted by their opposition. So they pull back and wait and trot the same arguments out again to a younger crowd, one that doesn't remember the argument and it's outcome. This crowd has been "prepared" through government schooling which repeated lies and softened the kids up. Now these arguments come across as new and fresh and rebutting them becomes harder because the media won't cover the detractors and it will take years to re-rebut them. Lather, rinse, repeat.
And notice how they do this; they spoke in the article about wind turbines but said TRUMP attacked them, not scientists who actually did show they caused the problems mentioned, And they ignore the more obvious ones - like the fact these turbines chop up birds, or that they cause damage to people's eardrums, and headaches, and other proven things. Oh, and the worst is they simply refuse to admit they don't generate enough power, or reliably enough. They just SAY claims they are unaffordable are not true without providing solid data.
There is a reason why Germany, which had gone heavy into wind and solar, is now moving back to oil and gas and even coal; the "renewables" are unreliables.
I love this quote:
UN climate summits have been a major focus of fossil fuel companies looking to delay the energy transition. Last year, one analysis said more than 1,770 fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to COP29in Baku, Azerbaijan — outnumbering all but three country delegations.
????? First, "Azerbaijan is a major oil and gas poducer and and a major route for oil and gas pipelines and OF COURSE a lot of pro-fossil fuel people will show up. So what? How does that impact the event itself? It doesn't. Second, who are these so-called "lobbyists" lobbying at these summits? Can anyone claim they have made any impact on the reports put out by the U.N.? The fact is the IPCC has always had scores of green activists writing large swaths of their reports all along. Why do they deserve a seat at the table and not the detractors?
And are these people actually working for oil companies or are they just in disagreement with the radical interpretation of climate change?
The article doubles down:
In 2023, researchers revealed that fossil energy companies paid Meta — which owns social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — up to $5 million (€4.3 million) for climate disinformation ads in the lead-up to COP28 in the United Arab Emirates.
Oohhh....they bought ADVERTISING to get out facts they want the public to know! How DARE they! Funny; I seem to remember when the U.S. government was forcing pro-climate alarmist views on Facebook and Istagram, along with a host of other things (like Covid Vax promotion or suppression of disagreement with the lockdowns) and suppressed anything about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and other such things. In fact I was on Facebook and was banned all the time, and shadow banned when not officially banned, for discussing climate sience in an objective way.
How much advertising have proponenents of catastrophic climate change bought over the years? How much has been funded by the Tides Foundation, the Open Society, and a host of other leftist networks owned by billionaires?
How much in taxpayer dollars have gone to it? If you want to follow the money, bring it on! The Gang Green has benefitte far mroe from money and advertising than have the climate realists.
They lost the argument and now want to silence their opponents. I said it; they will never give this thing up; it means too much money and power to them. They dreamed of creating a world government and a socialist economy based on this lie, and when science didn't bear them out they just suppressed science - and the scientists who were disagreing with them. I have dialogued with a great many of them over the years and saw how they were purged, fired from jobs, attacked as shills for Big Oil, had their papers rejected and whatnot. One time Dr. Roy Spencer wrote a paper that passed peer review and was being published when the Gang Green attacked and forced the editor of the journal to resign, then pulled the paper. It wasn't because it was no good, it was because it was TOO good and damaged the movement. Yeah; that's science!
Who is guilty of misinformation? These are the same people who report more hurricanes when in fact we've been in one of the quietest hurricane periods in the holocene. They report Antarctica is melting when in fact most of Antactica is gaining ice mass - just the floating West Antarctic ice sheet is declining. They lie and say wildfires are caused by heating yet it's mostly caused by changes in land management practices. I could go on and on but the point is made. They have lied to use from the get-go.
And they dare to "ask media and big tech to screen harmfull and false content" when it is they pushing said content. Why don't they simply rebut the arguments?That would be easy enough for them to do if they had the TRUTH on their side; they have the media in their pockets, after all. And the universities.
So we are back to this and will have to fight again to make sure both sides of the argument are heard. And these leftists will accuse us of doing what they themselves are doing - suppressing free speach, ignring real science, pushing a political agenda,etc. (You will notice how many times they trotted out the name of Donald Trump, as if he's the only guy who disagrees with the theory; that's because they need to "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, then polarize it" and Trump is all they have to do that. They have to go after him so as to offer a face, a face of "evil".)
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Fraud and Waste in Disaster Reliefr
Timothy Birdnow
$1 trillion of pandemic relief was lost to fraud, and nearly every American's personal data is for sale online: '60 Minutes'
Much of the fraud came from state actors like Russia and China. The way it works is the theives steal someone's identity then use that to apply for emergency aid and whatnot.
The article also states:
So any of us could fall victim to identity theft any time. It's impossible to stop.
If state actors are doing this that would constitute an act of war, in my view. It's a cyber-attack on America.
At any rate is it any wonder inflation is so high and our lifestyles declining?
$1 trillion of pandemic relief was lost to fraud, and nearly every American's personal data is for sale online: '60 Minutes'
Much of the fraud came from state actors like Russia and China. The way it works is the theives steal someone's identity then use that to apply for emergency aid and whatnot.
The article also states:
Among the more astounding claims was that nearly every American's Social Security number and other private information were available for purchase on the dark web.
"Is it true that the Social Security number of just about every single American is available for sale on the dark web?" asked Cecilia Vega of CBS News.
"That is a true statement. All of our personally identifiable information — name, date of birth, former addresses, social security number — is available on the dark net and can likely be purchased," said Vorndran.
"Is it true that the Social Security number of just about every single American is available for sale on the dark web?" asked Cecilia Vega of CBS News.
"That is a true statement. All of our personally identifiable information — name, date of birth, former addresses, social security number — is available on the dark net and can likely be purchased," said Vorndran.
So any of us could fall victim to identity theft any time. It's impossible to stop.
If state actors are doing this that would constitute an act of war, in my view. It's a cyber-attack on America.
At any rate is it any wonder inflation is so high and our lifestyles declining?
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The Brink
Timothy Birdnow
As America ponders sending Tomahawk missiles to the Ukraine the Russians are threatening to retaliate by sending nuclear-capable missiles to Venezuela.
It Has Been 63 Years Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Now a New Missile Crisis Threatens to Plunge the Globe Into a State of Turmoil
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Why wouldn't they? We're directly threatening them with Tomahawks, which are nuclear-capable. You can't really blame Russia for matching us.
Yes, you can blame Russia for starting the war in the first place by invading the Ukraine, but we weren't involved but have now gone all in with this. These are offensive weapons, not defensive, and of course the Russians will aid an ally being threatened by the U.S.
Not that there's anything wrong with that (in my best Seinfeld voice); something should have been done long ago about Venezuela. We had a golden opportunity when Biden was in office too but he took no action. That action should have been a Contra-like insurgency funded and trained by the American military and led by expatriats. But we didn't do that.
Now Trump is looking at direct military action and Russia feels it's time to shank the American prison guard. Putin is playing the game well, knowing Trump will have to back down over giving the Tomahawks to Ukraine to avoid a Mexican standoff (even if it involves Venezuela and not Mexico).
Meanwhile Hezbollah is rebuilding and ready to strike. Israel won't allow that. FTA:
So good news from all over. And we still have to worry about China and it's nibbling away at TAiwan.
As America ponders sending Tomahawk missiles to the Ukraine the Russians are threatening to retaliate by sending nuclear-capable missiles to Venezuela.
It Has Been 63 Years Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Now a New Missile Crisis Threatens to Plunge the Globe Into a State of Turmoil
FTA:
The Russians are considering sending Kalibr cruise missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear warheads to Venezuela, and the U.S. is considering sending Tomahawk cruise missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear warheads to Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Middle East is on the verge of being destabilized as well.
[...]
On Tuesday, news that Russia may send "its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela” caught a lot of people by surprise…
Russia could send its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela as tensions with the United States escalate.
Alexei Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defense committee, told Russian news outlet Gazeta.Ru there were "no obstacles” to providing the Oreshnik or Kalibr missiles to the "friendly” nation.
"Russia is actually one of Venezuela’s key military-technical partners. We supply the country with nearly the entire range of weapons, from small arms to aviation. The details and volumes of deliveries are classified, so the Americans might be in for a surprise. I see no obstacles to providing our friendly nation with new systems such as the Oreshnik or the well-proven Kalibr missiles. No international commitments restrict Russia in this regard,” Zhuravlyov said.
The Russians must not do this.
[...]
On Tuesday, news that Russia may send "its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela” caught a lot of people by surprise…
Russia could send its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela as tensions with the United States escalate.
Alexei Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defense committee, told Russian news outlet Gazeta.Ru there were "no obstacles” to providing the Oreshnik or Kalibr missiles to the "friendly” nation.
"Russia is actually one of Venezuela’s key military-technical partners. We supply the country with nearly the entire range of weapons, from small arms to aviation. The details and volumes of deliveries are classified, so the Americans might be in for a surprise. I see no obstacles to providing our friendly nation with new systems such as the Oreshnik or the well-proven Kalibr missiles. No international commitments restrict Russia in this regard,” Zhuravlyov said.
The Russians must not do this.
Why wouldn't they? We're directly threatening them with Tomahawks, which are nuclear-capable. You can't really blame Russia for matching us.
Yes, you can blame Russia for starting the war in the first place by invading the Ukraine, but we weren't involved but have now gone all in with this. These are offensive weapons, not defensive, and of course the Russians will aid an ally being threatened by the U.S.
Not that there's anything wrong with that (in my best Seinfeld voice); something should have been done long ago about Venezuela. We had a golden opportunity when Biden was in office too but he took no action. That action should have been a Contra-like insurgency funded and trained by the American military and led by expatriats. But we didn't do that.
Now Trump is looking at direct military action and Russia feels it's time to shank the American prison guard. Putin is playing the game well, knowing Trump will have to back down over giving the Tomahawks to Ukraine to avoid a Mexican standoff (even if it involves Venezuela and not Mexico).
Meanwhile Hezbollah is rebuilding and ready to strike. Israel won't allow that. FTA:
Hezbollah has been rebuilding its forces, and Israel has been responding with targeted airstrikes.
But that hasn’t been enough to deter Hezbollah, and Fox News is reporting that the IDF is now "weighing broader operations”…
As Hezbollah rebuilds its forces and Lebanon is accused of failing to enforce the ceasefire terms brokered last year, Israel’s defense minister has fired off a warning to Beirut.
On Sunday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said, "Hezbollah is playing with fire, and the president of Lebanon is dragging his feet,” he said. "The Lebanese government’s commitment to dismantle Hezbollah’s weapons and remove it from southern Lebanon must be realized. Enforcement will continue and deepen — we will not allow a threat to the residents of the north.”
His warning comes as Fox News Digital has learned that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is weighing broader operations against the Iran-backed terrorist group after repeated violations of the truce.
If Hezbollah would just abide by the terms of the ceasefire, conflict could be avoided.
But that was never going to happen, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that his nation is ready to do whatever is necessary…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Hezbollah was looking to rearm and that Israel would do whatever is necessary to prevent that from happening.
"Hezbollah is constantly taking hits, but it’s also trying to rearm and recuperate,” said Netanyahu at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting,
"We expect the Lebanese government to uphold its commitments, namely, to disarm Hezbollah. But it’s clear that we’ll exercise our right to self-defense as stipulated in the ceasefire terms,” he said.
I think that it is just a matter of time before Israel and Hezbollah start going at it again.
But that hasn’t been enough to deter Hezbollah, and Fox News is reporting that the IDF is now "weighing broader operations”…
As Hezbollah rebuilds its forces and Lebanon is accused of failing to enforce the ceasefire terms brokered last year, Israel’s defense minister has fired off a warning to Beirut.
On Sunday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said, "Hezbollah is playing with fire, and the president of Lebanon is dragging his feet,” he said. "The Lebanese government’s commitment to dismantle Hezbollah’s weapons and remove it from southern Lebanon must be realized. Enforcement will continue and deepen — we will not allow a threat to the residents of the north.”
His warning comes as Fox News Digital has learned that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is weighing broader operations against the Iran-backed terrorist group after repeated violations of the truce.
If Hezbollah would just abide by the terms of the ceasefire, conflict could be avoided.
But that was never going to happen, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that his nation is ready to do whatever is necessary…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Hezbollah was looking to rearm and that Israel would do whatever is necessary to prevent that from happening.
"Hezbollah is constantly taking hits, but it’s also trying to rearm and recuperate,” said Netanyahu at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting,
"We expect the Lebanese government to uphold its commitments, namely, to disarm Hezbollah. But it’s clear that we’ll exercise our right to self-defense as stipulated in the ceasefire terms,” he said.
I think that it is just a matter of time before Israel and Hezbollah start going at it again.
So good news from all over. And we still have to worry about China and it's nibbling away at TAiwan.
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November 04, 2025
Microsoft Hires Frost Nazi
Timothy Birdnow
Microsoft has hired an Arctic Frost Nazi and put her in a cushy job where she can work to suppress Conservative voices.
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This shows Microsoft is still at the forefront of censorship and abuse and is still in bed with the junta that gave us Joe Biden and unrestricted lawfare against political opposition.
Hopefully the DOJ has something they can indict her on.
But the Trump Administration can pull contracts from Microsoft as she poses a security threat to the nation.
Microsoft has hired an Arctic Frost Nazi and put her in a cushy job where she can work to suppress Conservative voices.
FTA:
The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) is demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) review its contracts with Microsoft after the tech giant hired former Biden Justice Department official Lisa Monaco, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter warns that Monaco’s senior position poses a national security risk, as she is privy to sensitive information between Microsoft and the federal government.
"The risk that Monaco could again use access to information contained in Department contracts to turn against her political opponents, or even those Microsoft users within the government with whom she disagrees, is great given her past outrageous behavior,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick stated to DHS. "Considering the various national security implications of Microsoft’s government contracts being overseen by Monaco, we ask you to immediately initiate a review of Microsoft’s contracts with the Department for potential termination.”
Appointed earlier this year as Microsoft’s president of global affairs, Monaco previously served as deputy attorney general under President Joe Biden. As a top prosecutor within the Biden administration, Monaco played an integral role in "Arctic Frost,” a wide-ranging investigation that Republicans contend used an election interference case as a pretense to essentially target the entire Republican Party.
"The risk that Monaco could again use access to information contained in Department contracts to turn against her political opponents, or even those Microsoft users within the government with whom she disagrees, is great given her past outrageous behavior,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick stated to DHS. "Considering the various national security implications of Microsoft’s government contracts being overseen by Monaco, we ask you to immediately initiate a review of Microsoft’s contracts with the Department for potential termination.”
Appointed earlier this year as Microsoft’s president of global affairs, Monaco previously served as deputy attorney general under President Joe Biden. As a top prosecutor within the Biden administration, Monaco played an integral role in "Arctic Frost,” a wide-ranging investigation that Republicans contend used an election interference case as a pretense to essentially target the entire Republican Party.
This shows Microsoft is still at the forefront of censorship and abuse and is still in bed with the junta that gave us Joe Biden and unrestricted lawfare against political opposition.
Hopefully the DOJ has something they can indict her on.
But the Trump Administration can pull contracts from Microsoft as she poses a security threat to the nation.
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Bomb Threats in Jersey (but What Else is New)
Timothy Birdnow
Bomb threats closed a number of New Jersey polling places as the tight election for Governor boils over.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/11/04/bomb-threats-force-multiple-new-jersey-voting-locations-to-close-on-election-day/
Bet these were Republican precincts.
of course bomb threats are nothing new in Jersey; it's the way business has been done there forever.
Bomb threats closed a number of New Jersey polling places as the tight election for Governor boils over.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/11/04/bomb-threats-force-multiple-new-jersey-voting-locations-to-close-on-election-day/
Bet these were Republican precincts.
of course bomb threats are nothing new in Jersey; it's the way business has been done there forever.
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Greenland Ice Melt Caused by Waves
Timothy Birdnow
Well isn't that special!
Invisible Skyscrape Sized Waves Found to be Eating Away at Greenland's Glaciers
These waves are supposedly caused by calving glaciers/ice shelves. So why are these glaciers calving? is it the 1* of ATMOSPHERIC warming? That seems highly doubtful.
Other factors contribue; increased volcanism and earthquakes can cause this, for instance.
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Calving of icebergs from glaciers can actually be a sign of MORE ice, not less; the greater weight leads more ice to the water's edge and when the waves hit they split off, much like a woman's fingernail after a certain point.
And as I say, volcanism under these glaciers changes over time and if Greenland is entering a more volcanic era it may be causing this ice loss.
Certainly Greenland was far less icy in times past. When Eric the Red settled the island there was a lot more farmable land. The Vikings left Greenland when the climate cooled and the ice piled up. We are now finding artifacts that were buried under ice since the time of the Vikings, so we may just be entering an interglacial for the big island.
if anything, this does not buttress the case for anthropogenic climate change so much as for natural variability.
Well isn't that special!
Invisible Skyscrape Sized Waves Found to be Eating Away at Greenland's Glaciers
These waves are supposedly caused by calving glaciers/ice shelves. So why are these glaciers calving? is it the 1* of ATMOSPHERIC warming? That seems highly doubtful.
Other factors contribue; increased volcanism and earthquakes can cause this, for instance.
FTA:
The researchers used a technology called Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), which detects ground motion by monitoring cable strain caused by crevasses forming in the ice, falling ice blocks, ocean waves or changes in temperature. "This enables us to measure the many different types of waves that are generated after icebergs break off,” says lead author Dominik Gräff, a UW postdoctoral researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich.
Underwater waves amplify glacier melt and erosion
Following the initial impact, surface waves, known as calving-induced tsunamis, surge through the fjord, initially mixing the upper layers of water. As seawater in Greenland’s fjords is warmer and denser than glacial meltwater, it sinks to the bottom.
But the researchers also observed other waves propagating between density layers long after the splash, when the surface had stilled. These underwater waves, which can be as tall as skyscrapers, are not visible from the surface but prolong water mixing, bringing a steady supply of warmer water to the surface. This process increases melting and erosion at the glacier’s edge and drives ice calving.
"The fiber-optic cable allowed us to measure this incredible calving multiplier effect, which wasn’t possible before,” says Gräff. The data collected will help document iceberg calving processes and improve our understanding of the accelerating loss of ice sheets
Underwater waves amplify glacier melt and erosion
Following the initial impact, surface waves, known as calving-induced tsunamis, surge through the fjord, initially mixing the upper layers of water. As seawater in Greenland’s fjords is warmer and denser than glacial meltwater, it sinks to the bottom.
But the researchers also observed other waves propagating between density layers long after the splash, when the surface had stilled. These underwater waves, which can be as tall as skyscrapers, are not visible from the surface but prolong water mixing, bringing a steady supply of warmer water to the surface. This process increases melting and erosion at the glacier’s edge and drives ice calving.
"The fiber-optic cable allowed us to measure this incredible calving multiplier effect, which wasn’t possible before,” says Gräff. The data collected will help document iceberg calving processes and improve our understanding of the accelerating loss of ice sheets
Calving of icebergs from glaciers can actually be a sign of MORE ice, not less; the greater weight leads more ice to the water's edge and when the waves hit they split off, much like a woman's fingernail after a certain point.
And as I say, volcanism under these glaciers changes over time and if Greenland is entering a more volcanic era it may be causing this ice loss.
Certainly Greenland was far less icy in times past. When Eric the Red settled the island there was a lot more farmable land. The Vikings left Greenland when the climate cooled and the ice piled up. We are now finding artifacts that were buried under ice since the time of the Vikings, so we may just be entering an interglacial for the big island.
if anything, this does not buttress the case for anthropogenic climate change so much as for natural variability.
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Embearassed
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Sooo....Gavin Nuisance, er, Newsom wants to redistrict California to eliminate five Republican seats and steal them for Democrats. Ron Desantis isn't going to take that lying down:
Newsom had mumbled about "you poked the bear and now the bear is poking back" and so too is the alligator.
Wee'll win the redistricting wars; the Democrats have already done about all the redistricting they can do and Republicans never did it so there is fertile ground for it. We're going to pick up a lot of seats that should have been ours to begin with, and the Democrats are going to find they are powerless to stop us.
Eventually when you cheat at poker you will run up against someone who cheats you back. For years the Dems have done this on the theory the Republicans would fear retaliation to avoid just such a contingency. But Trump is a different breed of cat and he's willing to take the slings and arrows of the media, and he's made it obvious that in the end the media's power is waning, if it ever really did exist. Saul Alinsky once said that it's not the power you have but the power the enemy thinks you have that matters. For decades we believed they had all this power. Now, thanks to Trump, we know better.
Power is self-feeding too, if you wield it. If we win a solid majority in Congress thanks to this we will be able to realign things to secure that power, and to grow it. The Democrats have always understood the manipulation of power and it's exercise; look at any Democrat machine, be it in Chicago, which eventually took the whole state of Illinois, or in any other machine city or state. Once you start winning you can run the table if you don't grow timid.
We stand in an unique historical position. Right now we have the opportunity to completely destroy the Democrats, or turn them into a solid minority at any rate. They are in a trap of their own making, with the lunatic fringe now controlling the party in many ways. That fringe lacks any appeal to the majority of Americans and can only win in specific areas. We appeal to the center of the country. But they can't dislodge the radicals because too many of them hold too much power and if they anger the base of the party, which is now more Bolshevik than anything else, they will lose. Bill Clinton and the other triangulators have no place in the Democratic Party anymore. Shoot; Nancy Pelosi is considered a moderate when she in fact was a radical upon her elevation and promised to be "boldly Progressive". She fought the good fight every day and never cowared. Yet now she's too soft for them. The Party is now Trotskiite and will soon be Stalinite. While that appeals to some idiot youths it isn't what most Americans want. And now so many Americans are waking up to that fact.
I think the death of Charlie Kirk is going to have a much larger impact than historians will ever give it credit for; the Democrats could have embraced him as a decent man if misguided (in their view) and called for peace and that would have gone a long way towards bringing back the public. But most of them didn't do that, prefering to call for the murder of his widow and children, and showing the truly demonic nature of the Party. It's going to be a lot harder to win back many of these folks. Evil is such an ugly thing, which is why it usually hides in the shadows.
So we have Charlie Kirk, who was just the latest in a string of murders, of lawfare and abuse going all the way to the attempts on the President's life. Such violence has often served communists well in the past but it only works when the public has no alternative and just wants peace at any price. In this case we have galvanized the core of the American People and have a viable alternative that is neither cowardly nor fascistic, but which will do what is needed within the confines of the law.
In the end decency and a willingness to fight for what is right will prevail - as long as we remember this nation was consecrated to God and protected by Him. I think this redistricting is just one example of how we always had it in our power to win; we just had to have the courage and wisdom to try. And to have those we needed the Holy Spirit, who gives us those things.
Sooo....Gavin Nuisance, er, Newsom wants to redistrict California to eliminate five Republican seats and steal them for Democrats. Ron Desantis isn't going to take that lying down:
BREAKING: The red state of FLORIDA is eyeing redrawing its 2026 Congressional map to add a whopping 3-5 REPUBLICAN SEATS, removing 3-5 Democrats as a result
Gavin Newsom’s California map is up to Democrat+5 seats. FLORIDA alone can cancel out Gavin, THEN we have Ohio, Texas,… pic.twitter.com/WiffiRGVYj
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 3, 2025
Gavin Newsom’s California map is up to Democrat+5 seats. FLORIDA alone can cancel out Gavin, THEN we have Ohio, Texas,… pic.twitter.com/WiffiRGVYj
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 3, 2025
Newsom had mumbled about "you poked the bear and now the bear is poking back" and so too is the alligator.
Wee'll win the redistricting wars; the Democrats have already done about all the redistricting they can do and Republicans never did it so there is fertile ground for it. We're going to pick up a lot of seats that should have been ours to begin with, and the Democrats are going to find they are powerless to stop us.
Eventually when you cheat at poker you will run up against someone who cheats you back. For years the Dems have done this on the theory the Republicans would fear retaliation to avoid just such a contingency. But Trump is a different breed of cat and he's willing to take the slings and arrows of the media, and he's made it obvious that in the end the media's power is waning, if it ever really did exist. Saul Alinsky once said that it's not the power you have but the power the enemy thinks you have that matters. For decades we believed they had all this power. Now, thanks to Trump, we know better.
Power is self-feeding too, if you wield it. If we win a solid majority in Congress thanks to this we will be able to realign things to secure that power, and to grow it. The Democrats have always understood the manipulation of power and it's exercise; look at any Democrat machine, be it in Chicago, which eventually took the whole state of Illinois, or in any other machine city or state. Once you start winning you can run the table if you don't grow timid.
We stand in an unique historical position. Right now we have the opportunity to completely destroy the Democrats, or turn them into a solid minority at any rate. They are in a trap of their own making, with the lunatic fringe now controlling the party in many ways. That fringe lacks any appeal to the majority of Americans and can only win in specific areas. We appeal to the center of the country. But they can't dislodge the radicals because too many of them hold too much power and if they anger the base of the party, which is now more Bolshevik than anything else, they will lose. Bill Clinton and the other triangulators have no place in the Democratic Party anymore. Shoot; Nancy Pelosi is considered a moderate when she in fact was a radical upon her elevation and promised to be "boldly Progressive". She fought the good fight every day and never cowared. Yet now she's too soft for them. The Party is now Trotskiite and will soon be Stalinite. While that appeals to some idiot youths it isn't what most Americans want. And now so many Americans are waking up to that fact.
I think the death of Charlie Kirk is going to have a much larger impact than historians will ever give it credit for; the Democrats could have embraced him as a decent man if misguided (in their view) and called for peace and that would have gone a long way towards bringing back the public. But most of them didn't do that, prefering to call for the murder of his widow and children, and showing the truly demonic nature of the Party. It's going to be a lot harder to win back many of these folks. Evil is such an ugly thing, which is why it usually hides in the shadows.
So we have Charlie Kirk, who was just the latest in a string of murders, of lawfare and abuse going all the way to the attempts on the President's life. Such violence has often served communists well in the past but it only works when the public has no alternative and just wants peace at any price. In this case we have galvanized the core of the American People and have a viable alternative that is neither cowardly nor fascistic, but which will do what is needed within the confines of the law.
In the end decency and a willingness to fight for what is right will prevail - as long as we remember this nation was consecrated to God and protected by Him. I think this redistricting is just one example of how we always had it in our power to win; we just had to have the courage and wisdom to try. And to have those we needed the Holy Spirit, who gives us those things.
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The BBC Lied About Trump and J6
Timothy Birdnow
How the BBC doctored Trump's J6 speech to promote the lie he was calling for an insurrection.
Fromthe Telegraph:
So the BBC spliced two completely separate statements by the President together to give the impression he was calling for open rebellion. This from the news source that has hectored us about "misinformation" and "fake news".
Remember too the BBC is government funded and not a private news source. It has a responsibility to fairness and accuracy. One must suspect the BBC was actually doing the will of it's masters in the British government, meaning they were tampering with the security and political atmosphere of the United States of America. Trump needs to punish them. Maybe we should tamper with THEIR politics.
(I've long suspected MI5 or MI6 - never sure which is which - has had a hand in the attacks on Trump all along.)
The J6 self-guided Capitol tour was in no way what it has been portrayed by the media and the lie is collapsing. Now it's time to hold the liars accountable.
How the BBC doctored Trump's J6 speech to promote the lie he was calling for an insurrection.
Fromthe Telegraph:
The BBC "doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph. A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the US election, "completely misled” viewers by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to "fight like hell”, when in fact he said he would walk with them "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.
The "mangled” footage was highlighted in a 19-page dossier on BBC bias, which was compiled by a recent member of the corporation’s standards committee and is now circulating in government departments. The dossier said the programme made the US president "‘say’ things [he] never actually said” by splicing together footage from the start of his speech with something he said nearly an hour later. It claimed senior executives and the BBC’s chairman had ignored and dismissed a string of serious complaints raised by the corporation’s own standards watchdog.
The Telegraph will soon publish other excerpts of the memo, which accuse the BBC’s Arabic service of bias over its coverage of the war in Gaza, and accuse the corporation of "effective censorship” of its coverage of the transgender debate.
The document raises serious questions about the culture at the BBC, how it affects impartiality and how managers including Tim Davie, the director-general, are accused of turning a blind eye to evidence of bias
The "mangled” footage was highlighted in a 19-page dossier on BBC bias, which was compiled by a recent member of the corporation’s standards committee and is now circulating in government departments. The dossier said the programme made the US president "‘say’ things [he] never actually said” by splicing together footage from the start of his speech with something he said nearly an hour later. It claimed senior executives and the BBC’s chairman had ignored and dismissed a string of serious complaints raised by the corporation’s own standards watchdog.
The Telegraph will soon publish other excerpts of the memo, which accuse the BBC’s Arabic service of bias over its coverage of the war in Gaza, and accuse the corporation of "effective censorship” of its coverage of the transgender debate.
The document raises serious questions about the culture at the BBC, how it affects impartiality and how managers including Tim Davie, the director-general, are accused of turning a blind eye to evidence of bias
So the BBC spliced two completely separate statements by the President together to give the impression he was calling for open rebellion. This from the news source that has hectored us about "misinformation" and "fake news".
Remember too the BBC is government funded and not a private news source. It has a responsibility to fairness and accuracy. One must suspect the BBC was actually doing the will of it's masters in the British government, meaning they were tampering with the security and political atmosphere of the United States of America. Trump needs to punish them. Maybe we should tamper with THEIR politics.
(I've long suspected MI5 or MI6 - never sure which is which - has had a hand in the attacks on Trump all along.)
The J6 self-guided Capitol tour was in no way what it has been portrayed by the media and the lie is collapsing. Now it's time to hold the liars accountable.
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The Decline and Fall of Fedex
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How Fedex has destroyed a small town after an Indian man took over as head of the company and is imorting Indian workers as fast as it can.
Federal Express: Collierville - the Great Overnight Replacement
Anyone who doubts replacement theory should read this.
The Roman Empire fell for the exact same reason; they imported huge numbers of aliens, legal and illegal, and set them to work doing the work Romans JUST WON'T DO. The immigrants did not see themselves as Romans at all but as Goths or Vandals or whatnot. And when push came to shove they were unwilling to defend the Romans or the Roman way of life; they were a new nation inside the husk of an older one. That is the very definition of multiculturalism.
The Romans were replaced and did it to themselves. We are doing that now.
At any rate this Raj fellow who now runs the show is degrading quality and importing aliens as cost-saving measures but it's just wrecking the company and ruining lives. Fedex never used to lay people off and now it's cutting workers ruthlessly. It is tranforming communities cenetered around the company. And in the end it's still cratering because the alleged cost savings end up costing more in the end.
This is what happens when you put profit ahead of people. And when you stop seeing an American company as actually American but start thinking of it as a citizen of the world.
How Fedex has destroyed a small town after an Indian man took over as head of the company and is imorting Indian workers as fast as it can.
Federal Express: Collierville - the Great Overnight Replacement
Anyone who doubts replacement theory should read this.
The Roman Empire fell for the exact same reason; they imported huge numbers of aliens, legal and illegal, and set them to work doing the work Romans JUST WON'T DO. The immigrants did not see themselves as Romans at all but as Goths or Vandals or whatnot. And when push came to shove they were unwilling to defend the Romans or the Roman way of life; they were a new nation inside the husk of an older one. That is the very definition of multiculturalism.
The Romans were replaced and did it to themselves. We are doing that now.
At any rate this Raj fellow who now runs the show is degrading quality and importing aliens as cost-saving measures but it's just wrecking the company and ruining lives. Fedex never used to lay people off and now it's cutting workers ruthlessly. It is tranforming communities cenetered around the company. And in the end it's still cratering because the alleged cost savings end up costing more in the end.
This is what happens when you put profit ahead of people. And when you stop seeing an American company as actually American but start thinking of it as a citizen of the world.
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Finding Nancy
Timothy Birdnow
Scientists FINALLY figured out Nancy Pelosi lives there.
Climate change and habitat loss threaten the newly named trapdoor spider.
it should be called the "shut your trap spider" in her honor.
Isn't it odd that the Gang-greenous scientists keep making these dire warnings that species are dying out yet we are forever finding ones we've never encountered. They were there all the time; we just didn't notice them. If that is so, how can we say species are extinct?
Scientists FINALLY figured out Nancy Pelosi lives there.
Climate change and habitat loss threaten the newly named trapdoor spider.
it should be called the "shut your trap spider" in her honor.
Isn't it odd that the Gang-greenous scientists keep making these dire warnings that species are dying out yet we are forever finding ones we've never encountered. They were there all the time; we just didn't notice them. If that is so, how can we say species are extinct?
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Martian Lager
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like you could brew beer on Mars!
This Common Organism Could Survive on Mars
If Baker's Yeast can survive there no doubt so too could Brewers.
So what beer do you brew there? A red ale is the obvious choice. A Marsen would be good too.
Don't expect any warm-fermented ales or steam beers. You would have to warm the fermentation tanks up to get to lager temperatures!
One of the things the team of Indian researchers did was see if yeast could survive the tremors caused by large meteor impacts (Mars gets pummeled by meteors; it's at the edge of the asteroid belt and also has almost no air to stop any space rocks) so an IPA would fare well. India Pale Ale was a higher alcohol beer exported by the British for their troops in India. It would sit in the holds of ships, being rocked and buffetted by storms, through the hot tropics. Of course this IPA will be not hot but cold, very, very cold. But at least we now know the yeast will continue to make our beer even if meteors shake the ground.
There used to be a cheap wine called Dago Red; I guess on Mars our beer would be "little green red".
At any rate the survival of the yeast on the surface is less important than actually growing the barley needed to make the malt. Oh, and hops are going to be hard to come by too.
So if you ever crash land on Mars and have a sack of barley and have to store your yeast out of doors, you should still be able to quench your thirst. Of course you'll need to find water somewhere too. And be careful about exposing the mash to the atmosphere because then it will suck the water and the alcohol right out of the bin - or freeze it solid.
It's tough to be a Martian.
Looks like you could brew beer on Mars!
This Common Organism Could Survive on Mars
If Baker's Yeast can survive there no doubt so too could Brewers.
So what beer do you brew there? A red ale is the obvious choice. A Marsen would be good too.
Don't expect any warm-fermented ales or steam beers. You would have to warm the fermentation tanks up to get to lager temperatures!
One of the things the team of Indian researchers did was see if yeast could survive the tremors caused by large meteor impacts (Mars gets pummeled by meteors; it's at the edge of the asteroid belt and also has almost no air to stop any space rocks) so an IPA would fare well. India Pale Ale was a higher alcohol beer exported by the British for their troops in India. It would sit in the holds of ships, being rocked and buffetted by storms, through the hot tropics. Of course this IPA will be not hot but cold, very, very cold. But at least we now know the yeast will continue to make our beer even if meteors shake the ground.
There used to be a cheap wine called Dago Red; I guess on Mars our beer would be "little green red".
At any rate the survival of the yeast on the surface is less important than actually growing the barley needed to make the malt. Oh, and hops are going to be hard to come by too.
So if you ever crash land on Mars and have a sack of barley and have to store your yeast out of doors, you should still be able to quench your thirst. Of course you'll need to find water somewhere too. And be careful about exposing the mash to the atmosphere because then it will suck the water and the alcohol right out of the bin - or freeze it solid.
It's tough to be a Martian.
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Support for Gay Marriage Declines
Timothy Birdnow
support for "gay marriage" has fallen in America to 54%, meaning just a bare majority of Americans support the novel concept. Those who think it should be legal are a mere plurality now. 33% of respondents believe it should be against the law, and the rest are undecided.
When the big push was on for homosexual marriage the Right argued that it was a stepping stone to more and crazier stuff and the supporters of gay marriage strongly disputed that, claiming it was a one and done issue and that once they were granted "marriage equity" they would be satisfied. It was a lie and they immediately began pushing transgenderism and other such things.
I predicted that then and was right. Was Hitler satisfied with Czechoslovakia?
But most people bought it because the media argued it. Most people were wrong.
I asked a supporter of gay marriage at the time why, if we change the definitoin of marriage to two men or two women, should we not then accept any and every claim of marriage? Why can't a boy marry his dog? A father his son or daugher, a mother her son or daughter? Why can't we have marriages between dudes and blow-up dolls? A guy and his car? Certainly there is ample precedent for multiple marriages as that has a long historical pedigree, as well as marriages between cousins.
My interlocutor sneered, saying that's crazy talk. But it doesn't seem so crazy now, does it?
When San Francisco began issuing gay marriage licenses before the SCOTUS ruling a huge line of gay couples formed. I argued at the time we should have sent a bunch of acivists through the line with blenders and toaster ovens and "Chihuahuas and Cappuchin monkeys and the like and demanded to be given marriage licenses. The Left would have done that, made it into a circus, a laughingstock. We don't do things that way. We should.
At any rate this was inevitable and the fruits thereof are, well, more fruits coming out of the woodwork. People thought this would be the end of it; it was only the beginning.
It amazes me that half of the public now supports gay marriage. Back in the early 2000nds the public was solidly against it and we used to taunt the gay marriage crowd with demands they go state-by-state and hold votes. They wouldn't do it because they knew they would lose. But now they might win a lot of states. Still, it's good the tude seens to be turning.
support for "gay marriage" has fallen in America to 54%, meaning just a bare majority of Americans support the novel concept. Those who think it should be legal are a mere plurality now. 33% of respondents believe it should be against the law, and the rest are undecided.
When the big push was on for homosexual marriage the Right argued that it was a stepping stone to more and crazier stuff and the supporters of gay marriage strongly disputed that, claiming it was a one and done issue and that once they were granted "marriage equity" they would be satisfied. It was a lie and they immediately began pushing transgenderism and other such things.
I predicted that then and was right. Was Hitler satisfied with Czechoslovakia?
But most people bought it because the media argued it. Most people were wrong.
I asked a supporter of gay marriage at the time why, if we change the definitoin of marriage to two men or two women, should we not then accept any and every claim of marriage? Why can't a boy marry his dog? A father his son or daugher, a mother her son or daughter? Why can't we have marriages between dudes and blow-up dolls? A guy and his car? Certainly there is ample precedent for multiple marriages as that has a long historical pedigree, as well as marriages between cousins.
My interlocutor sneered, saying that's crazy talk. But it doesn't seem so crazy now, does it?
When San Francisco began issuing gay marriage licenses before the SCOTUS ruling a huge line of gay couples formed. I argued at the time we should have sent a bunch of acivists through the line with blenders and toaster ovens and "Chihuahuas and Cappuchin monkeys and the like and demanded to be given marriage licenses. The Left would have done that, made it into a circus, a laughingstock. We don't do things that way. We should.
At any rate this was inevitable and the fruits thereof are, well, more fruits coming out of the woodwork. People thought this would be the end of it; it was only the beginning.
It amazes me that half of the public now supports gay marriage. Back in the early 2000nds the public was solidly against it and we used to taunt the gay marriage crowd with demands they go state-by-state and hold votes. They wouldn't do it because they knew they would lose. But now they might win a lot of states. Still, it's good the tude seens to be turning.
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Swalwell on the Hot Seat
Timothy Birdnow
After attacking Donald Trump for making payments to a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct our old friend Eric Swallwell is now embroiled in a similar case of his own.
After Persecuting Trump for $130K Hush Money Case, Eric Swalwell Suddenly Has $360K FEC Storm Brewing
Yes, the California Democrat has an unexplained payment of $360 thousand to a staffer, and it appears very much to be a "hush money" payment in exchange for silence over something.
FTA:
This "staffer" sounds like a political fixer/hatchet man, does he not?
Leftists always accuse their enemies of that which they themselves are doing. Swallowell, like all good leftists, probably thought the media would cover this up and he would be safe. In fact he probably took the lead on attacking Trump precisely for that reason; it made him a hero to the Left and they would help protect him from ethics charges.
The Bible says that everything hidden will be uncovered. Sometimes it happens sooner than judgement day too.
After attacking Donald Trump for making payments to a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct our old friend Eric Swallwell is now embroiled in a similar case of his own.
After Persecuting Trump for $130K Hush Money Case, Eric Swalwell Suddenly Has $360K FEC Storm Brewing
Yes, the California Democrat has an unexplained payment of $360 thousand to a staffer, and it appears very much to be a "hush money" payment in exchange for silence over something.
FTA:
The payments, recorded by the Swalwell for Congress campaign and Swalwell’s Remedy PAC, were made to Darly Meyer, a Haitian-American, for amounts ranging from a trifling $53 to more than $12,000, Fox reported.
"The FEC filings list several different reasons for the payments, ranging from travel expenses, car service to security services to salary. There are also several payments to Meyer for things like ‘personal travel expense reimbursement,’ ‘event flowers reimbursement’ and postage,” Fox reported.
There could well be innocent explanations for all of those expenses. Political campaigns, after all, include a variety of events.
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And according to Fox, Meyer is not just a staffer on Swalwell’s campaign; he’s the owner of a North Hollywood, California, limousine company called CYD Global Car Service LLC.
Political campaigns obviously involve a lot of travel, and security arrangements are a part of modern public life. (The Charlie Kirk assassination alone proves that).
But according to Fox, one snag for Swalwell comes from the filings that note Meyer was paid for "security.” Fox noted that Meyer does not appear to have a security license, according to California’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
Meyer is also an administrator of a Facebook page called Calihaitians, made up of Haitian expatriates living in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington
"The FEC filings list several different reasons for the payments, ranging from travel expenses, car service to security services to salary. There are also several payments to Meyer for things like ‘personal travel expense reimbursement,’ ‘event flowers reimbursement’ and postage,” Fox reported.
There could well be innocent explanations for all of those expenses. Political campaigns, after all, include a variety of events.
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And according to Fox, Meyer is not just a staffer on Swalwell’s campaign; he’s the owner of a North Hollywood, California, limousine company called CYD Global Car Service LLC.
Political campaigns obviously involve a lot of travel, and security arrangements are a part of modern public life. (The Charlie Kirk assassination alone proves that).
But according to Fox, one snag for Swalwell comes from the filings that note Meyer was paid for "security.” Fox noted that Meyer does not appear to have a security license, according to California’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
Meyer is also an administrator of a Facebook page called Calihaitians, made up of Haitian expatriates living in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington
This "staffer" sounds like a political fixer/hatchet man, does he not?
Leftists always accuse their enemies of that which they themselves are doing. Swallowell, like all good leftists, probably thought the media would cover this up and he would be safe. In fact he probably took the lead on attacking Trump precisely for that reason; it made him a hero to the Left and they would help protect him from ethics charges.
The Bible says that everything hidden will be uncovered. Sometimes it happens sooner than judgement day too.
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Dick Chaney RIP
Timothy Birdnow
Dick Chaney aka Darth Vader has passed away. He was 84 years old.
They former Wyoming Congressman died of pneumonia and heart disease.
Chaney, the ultimate insider and former Vice President to George W. Bush, had a long career spanning decades. He was a long-servinc Congressman from Wyoming, Chief of Staff in the White House, Secretary of Defense, and Veep.
Chaney was always soft-spoken even while being a razor-sharp and aggressive speaker and debater.
I had little use for him though because he represented the Establishment and he treated anyone from outside of the "circle of trust" horribly. He certainly treated Donald Trump shabbily and undoubtedly worked behind the scenes to wreck the Trump Presidency.
Oh, and I wouldn't want to be around when he was duck hunting; he shot a guy once while engaged in that sport.
At any rate every death dims a light in this tired old world, and even though Chaney did a lot of bad stuff he did a lot of good too. I wish him peace in the hereafter and wish his family the best.
Eternal rest grant unto him o Lord and let the perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.
Dick Chaney aka Darth Vader has passed away. He was 84 years old.
They former Wyoming Congressman died of pneumonia and heart disease.
Chaney, the ultimate insider and former Vice President to George W. Bush, had a long career spanning decades. He was a long-servinc Congressman from Wyoming, Chief of Staff in the White House, Secretary of Defense, and Veep.
Chaney was always soft-spoken even while being a razor-sharp and aggressive speaker and debater.
I had little use for him though because he represented the Establishment and he treated anyone from outside of the "circle of trust" horribly. He certainly treated Donald Trump shabbily and undoubtedly worked behind the scenes to wreck the Trump Presidency.
Oh, and I wouldn't want to be around when he was duck hunting; he shot a guy once while engaged in that sport.
At any rate every death dims a light in this tired old world, and even though Chaney did a lot of bad stuff he did a lot of good too. I wish him peace in the hereafter and wish his family the best.
Eternal rest grant unto him o Lord and let the perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.
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November 03, 2025
Vote Early, Vote Often
Timothy Birdnow
Highest early voting taly in history in the New York City race.
What does that tell us class? It tells me the raasticals, er, radicals are flooding the zone with early votes so they have a commanding lead and won't need to manufacture so many fake ballots on election night.
I sincerely doubt these are people opposed to Mandami who are doing the early voting.Don't expect a surrge for Curtis Sliwa.
If I were Jewish and living in New York I'd get out of there as soon as this guy is elected.
I wish Eric Adams had been the guy everyone coalsced behind and not Andrew Cuomo. I suspect Adams could have beaten Momdani if that had been the case. I doubt Cuomo can win.
Highest early voting taly in history in the New York City race.
What does that tell us class? It tells me the raasticals, er, radicals are flooding the zone with early votes so they have a commanding lead and won't need to manufacture so many fake ballots on election night.
I sincerely doubt these are people opposed to Mandami who are doing the early voting.Don't expect a surrge for Curtis Sliwa.
If I were Jewish and living in New York I'd get out of there as soon as this guy is elected.
I wish Eric Adams had been the guy everyone coalsced behind and not Andrew Cuomo. I suspect Adams could have beaten Momdani if that had been the case. I doubt Cuomo can win.
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He Ain't a Fascist if You Can Call Him One
Timothy Birdnow
This guy gets it.
He said much of what I've been saying for a while now. And he gets it about this shutdown being more than just playing to the lunatic left for political survival of Schumer and company; if the GOP loses this the Democrats own them and Chuck and Hakeem and the rest know it. And of course the longer the shutdown eats into the wallets of their bought-and-paid-for constituents the angrier they will be at the GOP and more motivated to turn out in the next election.
As th author points out the higher the Democrats raise the temperature the MORE likely is a "fascist" dictatorship; the public will turn to authoritarians who support basic civil order and decency over the marxist revolutionaries. And of course Trump isn't even remotely a fascist or they couldn't say he was one in the first place. You can't call someone a fascist and turn out in the streets and call for violent revolution in a fascist regime.
This is a good essay; do read it all.
This guy gets it.
He said much of what I've been saying for a while now. And he gets it about this shutdown being more than just playing to the lunatic left for political survival of Schumer and company; if the GOP loses this the Democrats own them and Chuck and Hakeem and the rest know it. And of course the longer the shutdown eats into the wallets of their bought-and-paid-for constituents the angrier they will be at the GOP and more motivated to turn out in the next election.
As th author points out the higher the Democrats raise the temperature the MORE likely is a "fascist" dictatorship; the public will turn to authoritarians who support basic civil order and decency over the marxist revolutionaries. And of course Trump isn't even remotely a fascist or they couldn't say he was one in the first place. You can't call someone a fascist and turn out in the streets and call for violent revolution in a fascist regime.
This is a good essay; do read it all.
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Aid is not Charity
Timothy Birdnow
I watched the high mass on EWTN yesterday, broadcast from the National Shrine. I had to; they didn't have mass in the chapel at the hospital and I didn't want to miss now, more than ever. So I put on the television and watched the mass.
it was very llong and while beautiful the homily enraged me. The priest was essentially attacking Trump (while not mentioning him by name) over the shutdown and how terrible it was to not give out SNAP benefits. He complained "I don't know why we have 40 million people on SNAP to begin with but that's another matter" and spoke about how as Christians we had a duty to feed the hungry and so we had a duty to make government pay these people.
I wanted to shake the Bishop; we have 40 million people on SNAP precisely because IT'S FREE and everyone knows it. Why not take a freebie? I guarantee you many on the program hide assets or income to get it too.
I used to date a woman (before meeting my wife, of course) who worked for the Missouri welfare bureau and she told me all the tricks the clients used to get on the dole. One woman was denied because she was covered with expensive jewelry, about ten grand worth, according to my old girlfriend. She was denied and so left for two days, came back without the bling and said "that was my boyfriends and we broke up and he took it back" and by the rules they had to follow they had to give it her the relief.
When I worked in real estate I often encountered this too; Section 8 people with brand new SUV's, new computers, cable t.v. etc. living better than I could.
Groups like the Urban League run programs to teach people how to game the system.
So the fact remains there are forty million on the program because it's there, not because they need it. And by the very fact those not in need take the money we have the truly needy unable to access it. They get pushed out by the goats, by the many snouts in the trough.
The fact is we have plenty of private charity and those do far better at serving the poor than do government programs. Oh, and people give to charity voluntarily whereas government steals money from taxpayers to fund the lifestyles of those who may not be in need at all.
I once wrote an essay at American Thinker about this fact. As I pointed out Jesus did not tell Caesar to give to the poor, he told YOU to do so. God as I pointed out, was the creator of poverty as a curse on Mankind for disobedience, and God can end poverty any time He likes. Povery serves a number of purposes in the Divine plan, and one of those is to give His People the opportunity to be charitable and to render aid and assistance to those less fortunate. This is half of the equation. The Bishop celebrating mass seems completely oblivious to any of this.To him it was just a straight line "they don't have and so society must give" with no considerations to any practicality or human nature. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions; this guy was nothing but good intentions, and in fact was judgmental towards those who considered the practicality.
These are the kinds of people who now run the Church; ivory tower academicians or simple-minded do-gooders who wind up making most situations they involve themselves in worse. The fact is Jesus said to be wise and "cunning as serpents" in our practice of faith, not just soft hearted and softer-headed.
Mos of the Catholic heirarchy is just that; soft of heart and softer of head and what they promote has been horribly destructive to those whom they are intending to help.
It is not love to give people whatever they want. We do that all the time with children, deny them things they want for their ultimate benefit. If we were to give children teh food they want they would eat nothing but ice cream and soda and candy.
There was a wonderful episode of the Andy Griffith show where a hobo who made friends with Opie asked Andy "why not let him choose for himself" and Andy gave a very wise answer "because you can't do that. Because they will grab the first shiny thing that comes along and when they realize there's a hook in it it's too late." In the case of the American poor (who ae wildly wealthy by international standards, I might add) that hook was set purposely by the Democratic Party to make these people dependent on them and on government and thus voting for Democrats forever. Of course the GOP isn't innocent on this either and never tried to rein in the massive spending on welfare programs and other assistance. They just promised to spend the money more wisely. But both offered poisoned fruit to the poor, and to the middle class as well. Now we are tasting the bitterness of that.
I know it's tough to lose a stream of income, especially all at once as is the case with this government shutdown, but unfortunately growth always involves pain. And there is nothing loving about keeping people stuck in permanent adolescence, forever forced to take what you give them and pretend to like it. Government "charity" always provides just a meager life, one outside of your control. Serfs and slaves had the same conditions imposed on them. Granted the poor can choose to work and get off the dole and a slave or serf could not, but how does one get off in the first place? The allure of free money is just too great.
If the Church truly wants to love people and obey the precepts of Jesus they would reject govenment aid and do the job themselves. The Catholic Church is fabulously wealthy; spend more of that money on helping the poor instead of helping promote caravans of illegals to invade America, or for building big Cathedrals, or for so many other things they do with the money that could be used to feed people. If they had to actually do it themselves they would be much wiser stewards of the wealth they are proposing to redistribute.
Aid is not charity. The Catholic Bishops need to grow up and understand that simple fact.
I watched the high mass on EWTN yesterday, broadcast from the National Shrine. I had to; they didn't have mass in the chapel at the hospital and I didn't want to miss now, more than ever. So I put on the television and watched the mass.
it was very llong and while beautiful the homily enraged me. The priest was essentially attacking Trump (while not mentioning him by name) over the shutdown and how terrible it was to not give out SNAP benefits. He complained "I don't know why we have 40 million people on SNAP to begin with but that's another matter" and spoke about how as Christians we had a duty to feed the hungry and so we had a duty to make government pay these people.
I wanted to shake the Bishop; we have 40 million people on SNAP precisely because IT'S FREE and everyone knows it. Why not take a freebie? I guarantee you many on the program hide assets or income to get it too.
I used to date a woman (before meeting my wife, of course) who worked for the Missouri welfare bureau and she told me all the tricks the clients used to get on the dole. One woman was denied because she was covered with expensive jewelry, about ten grand worth, according to my old girlfriend. She was denied and so left for two days, came back without the bling and said "that was my boyfriends and we broke up and he took it back" and by the rules they had to follow they had to give it her the relief.
When I worked in real estate I often encountered this too; Section 8 people with brand new SUV's, new computers, cable t.v. etc. living better than I could.
Groups like the Urban League run programs to teach people how to game the system.
So the fact remains there are forty million on the program because it's there, not because they need it. And by the very fact those not in need take the money we have the truly needy unable to access it. They get pushed out by the goats, by the many snouts in the trough.
The fact is we have plenty of private charity and those do far better at serving the poor than do government programs. Oh, and people give to charity voluntarily whereas government steals money from taxpayers to fund the lifestyles of those who may not be in need at all.
I once wrote an essay at American Thinker about this fact. As I pointed out Jesus did not tell Caesar to give to the poor, he told YOU to do so. God as I pointed out, was the creator of poverty as a curse on Mankind for disobedience, and God can end poverty any time He likes. Povery serves a number of purposes in the Divine plan, and one of those is to give His People the opportunity to be charitable and to render aid and assistance to those less fortunate. This is half of the equation. The Bishop celebrating mass seems completely oblivious to any of this.To him it was just a straight line "they don't have and so society must give" with no considerations to any practicality or human nature. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions; this guy was nothing but good intentions, and in fact was judgmental towards those who considered the practicality.
These are the kinds of people who now run the Church; ivory tower academicians or simple-minded do-gooders who wind up making most situations they involve themselves in worse. The fact is Jesus said to be wise and "cunning as serpents" in our practice of faith, not just soft hearted and softer-headed.
Mos of the Catholic heirarchy is just that; soft of heart and softer of head and what they promote has been horribly destructive to those whom they are intending to help.
It is not love to give people whatever they want. We do that all the time with children, deny them things they want for their ultimate benefit. If we were to give children teh food they want they would eat nothing but ice cream and soda and candy.
There was a wonderful episode of the Andy Griffith show where a hobo who made friends with Opie asked Andy "why not let him choose for himself" and Andy gave a very wise answer "because you can't do that. Because they will grab the first shiny thing that comes along and when they realize there's a hook in it it's too late." In the case of the American poor (who ae wildly wealthy by international standards, I might add) that hook was set purposely by the Democratic Party to make these people dependent on them and on government and thus voting for Democrats forever. Of course the GOP isn't innocent on this either and never tried to rein in the massive spending on welfare programs and other assistance. They just promised to spend the money more wisely. But both offered poisoned fruit to the poor, and to the middle class as well. Now we are tasting the bitterness of that.
I know it's tough to lose a stream of income, especially all at once as is the case with this government shutdown, but unfortunately growth always involves pain. And there is nothing loving about keeping people stuck in permanent adolescence, forever forced to take what you give them and pretend to like it. Government "charity" always provides just a meager life, one outside of your control. Serfs and slaves had the same conditions imposed on them. Granted the poor can choose to work and get off the dole and a slave or serf could not, but how does one get off in the first place? The allure of free money is just too great.
If the Church truly wants to love people and obey the precepts of Jesus they would reject govenment aid and do the job themselves. The Catholic Church is fabulously wealthy; spend more of that money on helping the poor instead of helping promote caravans of illegals to invade America, or for building big Cathedrals, or for so many other things they do with the money that could be used to feed people. If they had to actually do it themselves they would be much wiser stewards of the wealth they are proposing to redistribute.
Aid is not charity. The Catholic Bishops need to grow up and understand that simple fact.
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