October 20, 2026
Poland, Lithuania and the Ukrainian Drone.
Timothy Birdnow
In other Russo-Ukrainian war news the Ukrainians sent their attack drones against St. Petersburg via Poland and Lithuania without their permission, marking a major international incident which the media in the West is not reporting on.
The Kyiv Independent describes it as a lone drone and an accident caused by Russian jamming, but the the Russians are viewing this in a far less charitable light as you may expect. They warn retaliation should the Poles and Lithuanians be aiding Ukraine. And rightly so; that is an act of war.
The world is sitting on a powder keg and some dern fool is likely to light their cigar...
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From Russia with Love
In the final analysis I am more than a little suspicious about this alleged Russian attack.
Timothy Birdnow
I'm not just a little suspicious about the timing of this.
Bear in mind it was the Ukrainians who reported this; there is no independent corroboration.
Vladimir Putin is a lot of bad things but no fool and he was not going to do this just before the elections to embarrass President Trump and by extension hand Democrats talking points. He's not that stupid. If this happened it did not come from the top brass and probably was in error - IF IT HAPPENED. This looks like one of those staged stories we see coming out of Palestine about "Israeli atrocities" which turn out to be bogus.
Yes, Russia has intensified bombing and a lot of civilians have been killed. But that is a world away from Russia purposely targeting civilians. This has been a war of attrition and those always end with civilians getting bombed (and not in the way Boris Yeltsin used to). Think about how many civilians were collateral damage during the last days of WWII.
America firebombed Tokyo. The Europeans firebombed Dresden.
At any rate Steve Witkoff is flying to Russia to set up peace talks and then this happens. Coincidence? I think not. Zelensky doesn't want peace - he wants Crimea back and some Russian territory as compensation to boot.
I saw one conservative blog (which I respect) arguing this was a "genocide" which is flat out ridiculous; this is not a systematic attempt to wipe out a race. At most it's an attempt to terrorize the civilians. It may also well be just Russia's ability to control it's weapons degrading. One of the things that hit was a cruise missile.
Meanwhile a former ambassador of Serbia warned Putin would use nuclear weapons if invaded. We need to think very carefully about THAT.
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Illegal Voting in California
Timothy Birdnow
Good luck with that. The judiciary is crawling with leftist activists who think illegals voting are just fine.
No doubt this will wind up going to the Supreme Court, as does everything involving Trump. The Democrats dominate the judiciary; we gave them their picks but they never returned the favor.
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Omar in Big Trouble
Timothy Birdnow
The walls are closing in on our favorite Muslim Congresswoman.
Shouldn't Mike Johnson strip her of her committee assignments pending the outcome of this?
I would have liked her to keep her passport though; maybe she'd self-deport and save us the trouble.
Omar has nobody but herself to blame; she ran her mouth way too much. If she had been a little quieter nobody would have noticed what she had done and was doing but she pushed everyone into looking into her. She could have been a Congresswoman but just not so vocal. But she's arrogant and dared America to come at her. Now we have.
BTW they had to go dumpster diving to get her DNA. But they take swabs of DNA all the time when crimes are alleged; shouldn't a sitting Congressman have his DNA on file with the government? I mean, it's just there in case but we do it with criminal cases and if there was ever a criminal case almost every act of Congress fits that description. Bill Clinton had to give a cheek swab and that proved the semen on Monica Lewinsky's blue dress was his (something that cost him his law license, although it should have resulted in jail time but the judge was an old law student of his). I want DNA on file for each and every Congressman and top guys in the Executive branch too.
Hopefully Omar gets deported sooner rather than later. If anyone deserves it it is she.
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The Problem with Our Military
Timothy Birdnow
The great Victor Davis Hansen does a cost analysis of why our war making capabilities are a very bad deal.
Patriot missiles cost $4 million a piece, Tomahawks cost 3-4 million, and the Hellfire is two hundred grand and has to be shot from a plane, rising our pilots. The enemy can fight with drones that cost five to six THOUSAND dollars and can be made very easily.
So we are spending twenty to thirty times as much to knock them down as they spend to put them up. It's a recipe' for disaster.
Yes, ours can do more, but who cares? In the end ours are the best weapons we won't be able to afford.
Meanwhile we've lost a quarter of our own drones and at most it is projected we will produce 300,000 new drones - while war-raveged Ukraine is making over a million. There is something wrong with this.
And our drones cost several million dollars to make. We've got to do this much more cheaply. Much more.
Maybe we should arrest all the illegal aliens and force them to serve sentences in drone factories; make cheap labor (in this case free) work for us for a change.
There is no reason we can't build Predator drones and at the same time make cheap expendable ones.
It's the same old problem; American labor costs are too high due to labor unions, government regulations on environmental and work safety conditions, etc. But if we outsource we spill the secrets about our equipment and put ourselves in danger of having our hardware supplies cut off.
Hansen contrasts our wonderful military of today with the military hardware that won WWII:
When we rearmed, and we started the war with number 19 in size of our army and almost virtually no air force to speak of except some B-17s and out-of-date fighters. We had a good Navy, but the idea was we were not going to try to match the Germans or the Japanese necessarily, in the quality of each particular plane.
We were not going to build a Panther or Tiger tank that was indomitable as far as the power of its gun, and the armor, but would be produced in very limited, at 5,000 or 6,000 Panthers to a little over 2,000 Tigers. We were going to do something different. We were gonna produce 50,000 Sherman tanks.
Pretty good tanks. 10 hours on the road, one hour maintenance. Not like the Tiger or Panther, one hour maintenance, one hour on the road. Easy to maintain. Very crew adaptable. If they were hit, you could drop out on the bottom through a trapdoor. Three out of five of destroyed Sherman crewmen escaped with their lives.
This was based on a war of attrition model. America abandoned that when it became obvios Russia and China could outlast us in a war, so we went full Wehrmacht and devised a new kind of military, one which could outmaneuver the enemy.
But times change and now we are seeing that our wonderful gadgets and superior tech is too expensive and can be countered by cheap, simple tech. All this fancy hardware does is force us to waste money and resources better served with a more lean approach.
When Rome and Carthage went to war in the first Punic war the Romans were at a serious disadvantage because, while they had the best close-range fighters in the world, they had virtually no navy. Carthage had far and away the best navy on Earth, with vast capabilities in what was then the best ship on Earth up to that time - the Quinquereme - which balanced speed and power and maneuverability. The Romans couldn't hope to compete - they were fighting the best sailors of the time. So they took a low-tech shortcut; they put grappling hooks on their ships, closed with Carthaginian ships, then sent in Roman soldiers to fight hand to hand. Worked beautifully and the Romans quickly neutralized the superior Carthaginian vessels and won the war. Carthage never could recover from that and in the end Rome utterly destroyed the city and sowed salt in the Earth to make the place uninhabitable for a long time.
Lower tech can often outperform the spiffy new tech that everyone becomes enamored of so quickly. Mostly because it's cheap and takes little in the way of resources.
The Chinese invented a repeating crossbow and they could then use children or women with no training to help fight battles. reasonably low tech but it worked.
And we all remember what the Vietcong did to us during the Vietnam war. They hid in the jungle, lay nasty, hidden traps, and generally did not engage us directly. It worked.
The point is it is sometimes better to use cheap and small than big and expensive. Low tech - especially when there is an innovation nobody expected - can often defeat a superior opponent. Too much pomp. It's part of why the British lost the Revolutionary War. They strutted around in their fancy uniforms while the Colonials moved faster in their simple clothes and shot faster with their simple varmint guns.
America needs to overhaul our military system. The time of wars with big armies going at each-other and navies dominated by carriers is largely over. Now it's drones and precision missiles. We need to adapt or wind up like Persia after Marathon.
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Vomitorium
And that is just what is happening in Europe, with the enthusiastic efforts of the Ruling Class.
Timothy Birdnow
And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
Leviticus 18:28
Follow the money.
It's government money and NGO's, most especially the Catholic Church, who is moving these Muslims into Europe in an insane effort that is incomprehensible; it will swallow Catholicism whole, as it did Orthodoxy centuries ago.
Spain is the lynchpin, or one of the chief ones anyway, and the Spanish facilitate the invasion so they can get more money from the European Union. Most of the migrants move through Spain to get into France and from there the U.K. and much of Western Europe. Italy and Greece too.
But there is vast sums of wealth flowing to make this happen. Someone sure as hell wants to disappear Europe and replace it with an Islamic Caliphate.
Boats leave from several North African states but mostly from Mauritania and then they reach Spanish territory, where they are then offered the fatted calf:
A worker for the UN's International Organization for Migration says Spain deliberately lets the boats keep coming so it keeps receiving EU money.ACCEM, a Catholic NGO that took in about €225 million in 2024, mostly from the Spanish state, moves arrivals from the Canary Islands to the mainland, houses them in camps and pays them a monthly allowance.Migrants are flown by the hundreds from Gran Canaria to Madrid.In the Spanish border town of Irun, an activist group has painted a trail of footsteps guiding migrants past police and into France, where a city-run shelter takes in people with no papers.The UN's own migration agency says the priority should be "facilitating, not restricting" migration...
Many of these are Black Africans, which is why the Left in Europe wants them so badly; they want a multicultural Europe, a multi-racial one. They think Europe is too white and too Western. So the push for Arab, Berber, and especially Sub-Saharan Africans to migrate into the heart of Europe so as to replace the "racist" old white folks with a new Europe, a "more colorful" Europe.
The only thing is nobody ever ASKED the Europeans if they wanted this; the elites just did it. Where is their precious democracy now?
Never in history has a People not just stumbled into collapse but actively sought it's own demise and yet the Western World is doing precisely that, purposely endeavoring to eliminate her own people, to replace them, solely to "atone for the sins" of their great great great grandfathers. It's insane But it is what happens when you gut the core out of Christianity and leave the bare-bones aspects of it. Christianity is universalist and requires good things be done for the less fortunate. The Left kept that but gutted the other aspects of Christianity. The Bible speaks all the time about not just letting alien peoples in your midst - just look at what the Jews were commanded to do to the Amalekites.
God made Israel His special People - he did not want them erasing themselves out of some misguided sense of charity.
Being Christian means understanding family and country come before others. Yes, you should care about others, but you should care first about those entrusted to you by God. Muslim military aged men are not entrusted to the Papacy - Europeans and the nations that sprang from Europe were.
There is no wisdom in Rome any longer, nor in the capitals of Europe.
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SAVE at the State Level
Timothy Birdnow
The problem is reciprocity; illegal aliens can get liceses in sanctuary states then get relicensed in the states with the SAVE act at the state level.
Also, things like the national database are not in place.
Immigration and illegal immigration necessitates a federal response; the states simply lack the power and authrority to do it on their own. And of course the blue states are the problem in the first place.
But it is a good start. We don't want TOO good a start though because it will absolve the GOP in the Senate from passing a Federal law, a law that is necessary for the security and safety of our country.
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Polling and Plan B
Timothy Birdnow
The media clings to their claim that the polls show a Democrat Blue Wave next month despite clear evidence the "lead" is eroding and the public isn't buy what they are selling. It occurs to me that they want the Demo-Left to have this illusion shattered to trigger rioting similar to what we have just seen in France. They want a revolution.
If the Dems have a "slim lead" they have no lead at all.
But if there is a red wave, or even just a holding action, the Democrats will cry foul, say Trump stole the election, and trigger "No Kings" riots across the country. I think this is their plan B.
BTW this poll ended October 1, still before the public is fully engaged, and before some of the more egregious comments by a number of key players. If anything I suspect the polls have improved considerably for Republicans.
The article points out:
To get at overall preference, the I&I/TIPP Poll asked: "Which party do you prefer to control Congress after this year’s midterm election?”
The answer: 46% of voters preferred Democrats, 42% preferred Republicans, and 12% weren’t sure.
I suspect a lot of those "aren't sure" voters have gone to the light side, but so too some of those 46% who said they are supporting the Darkness will change their flags after listening to some of the crazies in the People's Democratic Party. Many of them claimed support for Democrats purely to protest against things like high gas prices, but in the end they may well realize gas prices will be much worse if Democrats are back in power. They were just a few short years ago.
Remember, the GOP has outraised the Democrats in funds and will be able to answer the Donkey ads in the home stretch; it's not like in some years where the Democrats have the only voice since the Republicans are out of money.
Many American voters ARE dimwits who forget what happened a week ago and who are so ignorant of the ramifications of policy they can be manipulated, but many are smarter than some think and, while they may not be up on all of it, have to know that they have been gaslighted by the media about how bad the economy is and how terrible a job Donald J. Trump is doing. And I suspect many understand that Iran was and is an existential threat ot our national security - the primary job of the Federal government.
We will see how easily Americans can be manipulated in the upcoming election. But I suspect we're going to have a good night.
I think the polls are WAY off this season. I hope and pray I'm right.
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Becoming Oceania
Timothy Birdnow
An article in American Thinker by a British teacher shows how Orwellian Britain is becoming.
When I read this I couldn't help but think of Tallbloke. Tallbloke is a climate blogger of some renoun in Britain who was arrested and had his computer seized by the government when a commenter on one of his posts leaked the Climategate e-mails. You may remember they were private e-mails between members of the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia and a few Americans, notably Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann. They exposed the whole global warming thing as a scam from the word go. The British government desperately wanted to strangle this baby in utero and so they arrested Tallbloke and seized his computer. This was not something they had any right to do - they just did it.
We see this increasingly in Lesser Britain these days as the nation has become increasingly Bolshevik in character and is forcing people to hide what they really think in favor of what a few elites have decided is acceptable thought and speech.
Anyway the author of this post tells a true story about what happened to him - a teacher - for writing for American Thinker and other subversive acts when in private. He was eventually exonerated after a "tribunal" but that won't continue; next time the knock on the door will end with GUILTY! and the accused will wind up in prison. It's happening in Europe these days right now. French actress the late Bridgit Bardot went to prison for "insulting Islam". Now France is burning and Britain will be next.
They think this makes them enlightened but thought control and suppression of speech is barbarism, not enlightenment. But of course the ruling elites crossed that Rubion long ago. They are attempting to impose the self-extinction of a People and a way of life so they can rule over a new kingdom without restrictions. It is natural for human beings to resist their own extinction. And the public knows it is being lied to, being pushed into the shadows. Not everyone in Britain cares only about ale and soccer.
So the British ruling class is going back to the Soviet playbook and using the tried and true methods that bring destruction and misery to assert their own power.
The Aristocracy never forgave the rise of the commoners, and always wanted their power back. Now they are moving to take it and anyone who objects will be silenced. And that power will be in the form of a reduction in British. As was said in the movie Braveheart "the trouble with Scotland is there are too many Scots" and so ways to get rid of a lot of them needed to be found. "If we can't get them out we'll breed them out". The British upper class used that movie as a blueprint.
I fear Britain is as lost as is France. How long before this comes to America? It's already in Canada and Australia.
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October 19, 2026
Tiny Homes for Tiny Brains
Timothy Birdnow
How the tiny home movement collapsed and why it was always a terrible idea.
They were, in essence, large campers as opposed to actual homes. Not even full sized trailer homes, just camper sized. When I was in real estate we would occasionally have studio apartments but we could never keep them full; people called in a few months asking us to move them. Studios were just too small and the tenants became claustrophobic after a while. And there was no place to put their stuff either.
People forget that they still have to have utilities, a lot, and all the things a regular house has. Also, the trim work requires as much effort and time - probably more - in a tiny house as opposed to a big one. More square footage does not necessarily mean more work.
And, as the article mentions, there are still all the fun little goodies like municipal inspections and the like, and codes were not written with these things in mind.
A few years ago there was a story that made me laugh; here in St. Louis a teenage girl built a tiny home and had it in her parent's back yard. A thief came and simply carted her house away! Then thieves stole another tiny home from a suburban area where Habitat for Humanity had built it.
Funny but it's going to happen when you can put your house on a truck bed.
I really like some of these tiny houses on television and would love to have owned one so I could take it to the country and use it as a cabin. They are nice places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. The Ozark Hilton, my home-made cabin in the pines, is about five hundred square feet - larger than most of these crazy things.
But of course I was not going to pay $40,000 for it. I could just get a camper for less.
Anyway the "sustainability" movement, the Gang Green environmentalists and the Left, want to get us all used to the idea of living with less, having less, using less energy. Energy is the measure of wealth in modernity and so basically they want us POOR, living frugally. So many of them are still stuck on stupid, buying into Paul Ehrlich from the seventies. They dream of people living in 250 square feet, basically in cells like prisoners. They flatter themselves that they are the wise ones, the enlightened, and that everyone should live poor and be virtuous like they are. It's a form of mental illness.
I once got into it with some tiny home advocates on ST. Louis University's website. They were all gung-ho about building them for the homeless and I pointed out they could buy full sized houses in neighborhoods on the north side and rehab them for less than the tiny house would cost, and that the homeless recipients would quickly tear up so small a building in short order. Naturally they simply said "nuh-uh!" but could give no good reason why the tiny houses were a superior idea to buying an existing house with utilities and a lot already there. St. Louis is lousy with abandoned houses and people are always deeding their abandoned property to the Mayor.
Tiny homes are for tiny people and if anyone should think this a good idea needs their head examined.
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L.A. Times Admits Illegal Aliens Vote
Timothy Birdnow
Well they finally admitted the truth!
Los Angeles Times@latimesSurge in ICE raids is aimed at discouraging voter turnout, immigration advocates say
So the LA Times is admitting illegal aliens vote, and in numbers large enough to impact elections! Wisdom in their dotage!
That is exactly what they are SUPPOSED to do; discourage illegal aliens from voting!
Bear in mind Democrat Elise Slotkin admitted that the SAVE America Act would "make it harder for Democrats to win" by eliminating illegal aliens, the presupposition is that said aliens are already voting. And we know from the large numbers of aliens being arrested for just this crime that it is true. We have barely seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to voting by aliens.
Look, a political party is not going to go against the public sentiment on so lopsided an issue if they didn't have something up their sleeve. They Democrats are desperate to keep the door wide open, and that can only be so they can acquire and keep power. They've worked for decades to build a nationwide political machine similar to the Daley machine in Chicago, only across the whole country. That is why they scattered the illegals through all the states; those illegals were intended to be a cornerstone in their lust for power.
The last election and the one prior to Biden were a case of too many Americans showing up to vote for them to seal those. Biden's election was pure vote theft; the mail-in ballots were unsecured and Biden, who did not campaign at all, won while hiding in his basement. This while Trump won more votes than any person in history. This while Biden won more African American votes than Barack Hussein Obama. This when statistician William Briggs said it was mathematically impossible for Biden to win the way he did. This when all the bellweathers failed.
'20 was purely stolen. Trump won it back with a massive outpouring. Now the Donks are trying to rebuild the shattered machine but the Trump Administration is't buying it.
So the LA Times spills the Mexican jumping beans. Illegal aliens vote, and they affect elections.
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There IS Something Wrong with That
Timothy Birdnow
Here's how to handle the crazy Left.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld mocked a pro-Palestinian heckler from the stage while doing a show in Chicago.
From X:
Everintrigued@EverIntriguedJerry Seinfeld to the heckler:
"I’m racist. It’s a genocide. I’m into it.”Then: "I’m gonna find out how much your ticket was and I’m sending it to Israel.”
The heckler was being hauled away by security after interrupting Seinfeld's act and shouting:
"Twenty-two thousand Palestinians who are children now are killed with our taxpayer money, and you’re making jokes!”
Well, Jerry got the last laugh. Good for him!
And of course this number is pure horsepoop. It comes from the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health and not any credible source.
More people need to treat these people as the jokes that they are and they should be shouted down when they disturb decent Americans. If this woman wanted to send a message she should try Western Union. This was neither the time nor the lace and the audience had paid good money to be entertained by a comedian, not listen to her lecture about how rotten Israel is in her puny little mind.
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The real Brownshirts are marching out of the Democratic National Committee
Timothy Birdnow
Democratic Rep. Elise Slotkin says the quiet part out loud:
"I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.
I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that, I want that deterrence message sent.”
This was the goal of the endless accusations, investigations, and impeachment of Trump in his first term and it isn't going to end when Trump is out of office. The Left is going to pursue Trump as long as he is alive, and will try to ruin the lives of anyone who dared work for him. It's going to be happening for a long, long time to come.
The Democrats first started experimenting with this sort of thing when Richard Nixon was in office; by the end working for Nixon was a career death sentence. They tried doing that to Reagan as well, and now they have tripled down with Trump.
And Barack Hussein Obama, who weaponized the DOJ along with his self-proclaimed "wing man" Eric Holder were the ones who ginned up the fake and phony Russian Collusion hoax to take Trump out. Yet now he has the goal to say:
""It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say,”
This when he himself did exactly that. The chutzpah is astonishing. Perhaps he has forgotten how he used the IRS to target conservative groups he did not agree with?
Obama also sent corporate execs to prison for crimes of which they were not even aware in a stunning dilution of basic civil rights.
He sent a bunch of whistleblowers to jail for outing some of the things he was doing he was not supposed to do.
He seems to have forgotten his investigation of members of the press and his spying on many of them. Secret tapings and seizing phone records for the AP and others.
He has forgotten his NSA's PRISM surveillance system which spied on ALL Americans.
Obama is as American as borscht.
And he never made a peep when Biden was bullying and prosecuting a host of people, from Peter Manafort to Steve Bannon to Roger Stone and Rudy Giulliani and dozens of others who were prosecuted solely based on politics. Where was Mr. Obama when THAT was happening?
This is so typical; accuse others of what you yourself are doing.
The fact is a Biden-appointed leftist judge signed the warrant to raid Omar's home because there was definitely probably cause. The Administration didn't go to Ailene Cannon or some other Trump appointee. And his own successor had opened this investigation of fOmar, not Trump.
This is going to be the Bill Clinton defense "you're just picking on me because I am effective" and thus we should ignore the law because, well, just because.
Tom Homan said they are looking at denaturalizing Omar and deporting her. As Patrick Stewart used to say on Star Trek The Next Generation "Make it so!"
At any rate the Democrats are the true fascists and they use thuggery and violence and threats of imprisonment as a weapon against political opponents all the time, but they cry foul when the Law catches up with them.
Anyone remember how dismissive they were when the Supreme Court was being threatened? Remember Chuck Schumer telling the SCOTUS members
"I want to tell you, Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch, you have unleashed a whirlwind, and you will pay the price,"
The real Brownshirts are marching out of the Democratic National Committee.
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Will China Have a Queen?
This from Mike
Will China have a Queen after Xi? No, not that kind of queen, but a female ruler to replace Xi when the time comes.The rumors of Xi's failing health are no longer rumors. His trip here saw him requesting a private bathroom for himself and his wife as well as cutting short an event at the National Archives due to the stairs he had to climb. Following this, his trip to India had meetings cut short and a no show at a stand up meeting. Upon return to China he was hospitalized for several days after which a transition team was formed of mostly family members said to be led by his wife who will most likely replace him. One of the main reason for this is the real fear is that should someone else be put in power the entire family could be disappeared. With Chinas economy in free fall,30 million college graduates with no jobs or future, panic buying of gold, the social net on the verge of collapse and having to resort to AI to find those not paying their fair share and "encourage"participation its time to pop the popcorn and sit back and watch the show.
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October 18, 2026
No Kommissars
Timothy Birdnow
No kings - but a Kommissar is just fine.
This sort of thing may help rally Republicans; be careful what you wish for Comrad.
In honor of the No Kings Rally I give you the lovely sounds of After the Fire - Der] Kommissar.
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Hog Heaven and Hell
Timothy Birdnow
Pork - it's what's for dinner. But apparently not for lunch in Italy.
Why so? It wasn't to make Jewish Italians happy.
We know who this is intended to appease.
The sole reason the Bible and the Koran both ban the eating of pork is for good health. Pork often carries diseases that can jump to humans. Trichinosis, for example. In Biblical times, and in Arabia in the seventh century, nobody had the knowledge or capabilities to prevent these diseases, hence the animals from which they came were deemed "unclean". Pigs do roll around in dirt a lot.
But as a religious tenant Christianity resolved that long ago. Christians were advised to eat whatever was put on their plates by non-believers, and that included pork. There was a big issue with meat offered to idols, but that was resolved because Paul said it was lawful for Christians to eat whatever they wanted if their consciences allowed.
The end result was the Christian world made major advances in our understanding of diseases and preservation of meats and now it's very, very rare to get sick from eating pork.
The Jews stll have the standard because they do not have the New Testament, but it's pretty much ignored by most Jews, with the exception of the really strict ones like the Hasidic. But almost all Muslims still practice this, despite the fact that the main reason for it is no longer valid. They do not believe the Koran was Divinely inspired as do Christians the Bible, they believe it was dictated word for word to Muhammed, who didn't know how to read, or so they say (hardly recommends him, does it?) So if it's in the Koran they won't do it, no matter how safe the meat may be.
So the only reason these Italian schools won't give kids a porkchop or a pork loin sandwich is to appease the Muslims. The Jews never complained. Nobody did.
So the schools won't let the kids have pork. Food trucks should pull up outside selling nothing but pork products, and if that doesn't work kids should receive free pork lunches to take to school with them. I like the idea of putting pork gravy in water pistols...
We should porcinate the place!
Considering how Muslim men rut like pigs I can't see why any Muslim would take offense at children eating bacon with their eggs. Who are true animals here? Men who would murder women and children or the eaters of meat?
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Consecrate Russia Already!
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a rather dull article about Pope Leo greeting a crowd for the first time since his hospitalization for lung cancer. Yawn, right. But it made me think.
There is war all over the world right now and there seems to be no way to stop it, but I know how it could be done and the Pope is the only man capable of doing it. Hear me out.
Of all the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the most talked about and firmly established one is Fatima. It is the Gold Standard of all Marianne apparitions. Of that there is absolutely no question. It has been exhaustively studied by scholars and ruled by the Church to be 100% authentic; God did indeed dispatch His mother to give comfort and counsel to Mankind at the little village in Portugal.
I say this in preamble to my proposal to establish that this is coming from God.
The world is burning and the Pope is fiddling. Why hasn't he gone to Russia, or Ukraine, or Iran?
At Fatima Mary told the visionaries a simple remedy for all of this:
"I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart…If people attend to My requests, Russia will be converted and the world will have peace.”
But no Pope - not even Pope St. John Paul II - dared do it. JPII came close, consecrating the whole world to the Immaculate Heart and he mumbled something about Russia (and we had a limited time of peace and prosperity, just as we made a limited response to her request) but none have dared make this consecration. The Pope, and ONLY the Pope, can do it.
If Leo wants to live up to that name he chose he needs to step up, and to do that he needs to finally fulfill Mary's request. If he consecrates Russia to the Immaculate Heart this destructive Ukrainian war will end and there will be peace. The War in Iran will probably end too if this happens.
He has the power, he has the authority. Now he needs to grow a pair.
The Papacy was terrified of doing this when the Soviet Union was in existence and they feared the political ramifications of it. They also feared angering the Protestants, with whom they were negotiating a return of the Protestant churches - ecumenism. Ecumenism is an attempt to meld the Christian world back together, and the Catholic churches appear much more Protestant now than they did in times past; much of the ritual and even the design of the churches has changed to "modernize" the Church, to make it more inviting for Protestants. No more prayers in Latin, no more having the Priest on the altar with his back to the congregation. The churches now are more open, more inviting, far less judgmental, far less strict, and far more empty as a result. They no longer preach messages with any real content. It's become a social club with a crucifix.
The Pope doesn't want to mess that up by consecrating (dedicating) an Orthodox Russia. He, like his predecessors, have hopes of bringing the Orthodox back into the fold.
So what IS the Pope planning to do? He's going to Uruguay, Peru, and other Latin American countries where he will receive adulation. But that is not where he is needed. He should visit Kiev and then Moscow and try to broker peace. He should visit American troops in the Persian Gulf (obviously not go to Iran - they'd probably kill him in a horrible and vulgar way). Instead he's going to friendly country. In my mind that makes him a coward.
Look, the guy is in his seventies and has lung cancer. If he is killed while visiting these countries it will suck, but he doesn't have THAT long to go anyway and if he truly believes he will be joyous at the prospect. But instead he goes as far away from these conflicts as he can.
And he, like his predecessors, refuses to do the one thing that will bring peace to this Earth.
This is entirely in his hands, and those hands will be stained in blood on Judgment Day. He will have to answer for his refusal to act here. His silence is deafening.
Consecrate Russia already!
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Barbara Bush Donated Heavily to Talarico
Timothy Birdnow
The shrub family shows it's true colors.
With Bush leadership it's no wonder the country has fallen apart.
Bear in mind this is George W.s daughter, not the old lady who would find it difficult to sign the check given her, ah, state and all. Of course that won't prevent her from voting, at least not as a Democrat.
This isn't the first time; Babs had campaigned for Kamala Harris too, so she is a Leftist loser.
I always warned the Bush family is not to be trusted.
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Bless the Least of the Children
Timothy Birdnow
The sad thing is the poorly educated teachers and administrators probably believe they are following the Constitution since it bans CONGRESS from establishing religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. These dopes think it means banning school children from simply showing their Bibles rather than banning teachers from promoting or prohibiting the free exercise of said religion.
The kids in a Washington school had to hide their Bibles in sealed envelopes lest they infect the minds of other children, who may start praying or act out in other destructive ways.
The HORROR!
FTA:
Students attending an optional, off-campus Bible program were required to carry their Bibles and other religious materials in sealed envelopes inside their backpacks when they returned to school.
Now the Everett School District has agreed to apologize, revise its procedures, provide religious liberty training for school board members, and pay $275,000 in attorney’s fees to settle a federal lawsuit.
As Fox News reports, the controversy involved LifeWise Academy, which provides privately funded Bible instruction to public school students during the school day. Parents must give permission, and the classes are conducted away from school property.
But Everett officials weren't satisfied with making children conceal their Bibles. They also required parents to submit new permission slips every week rather than allowing authorization for an entire semester. LifeWise was excluded from certain school community events and opportunities to distribute flyers available to secular organizations.
And then there's school board member Charles Adkins, who at a December 2025 board meeting, publicly declared, "I do in fact hold animus toward LifeWise Academy.”
If you hold animus against LifeWise does that make you Lifefoolish? I would think so.
Undoubtedly this creep is an atheist or some sort of neopagan, or maybe Muslim He may have a philosophical hatred of Christians and Christianity. But many of the others just did it because they were too ignorant of what separation of Church and State" means (and it wasn't even written in the Constitution. That phrase came from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Church "it's as if there were a wall of separation between church and State" was Jefferson's exact quote in his letter to the Baptists.)
The reality is there is a concerted effort to remove Christianity from public life. This is the Soviet model; the Constitution of 1936 expressly granted freedom of worship - but it also granted freedom of anti-religious activities, meaning they could target churches and bust up worshippers. Also, the "freedom" did not allow church schools nor promoting religion with pamphlets or books or whatnot. They wanted to strangle religion while making it appear they were protecting it. Stalin was pleased and the Soviet Union saw church attendance decline drastically over the years.
That is exactly what they are trying to do here. They are making all signs of religion disappear so as to eventually make church attendance fade away. It's unamerican and has no business in our schools but there you are. Teachers tend to be very liberal because they live like leeches off government money. So they all go overboard in stuff like this.
America was founded by Christian men and women and the country was settled by Christians seeking free worship as they pleased. The clause was put into the Constitution to prevent one religious group dominating the country, but it has become a war on religion itself, most especially on Christianity. If you wage war you shouldn't be surprised when war is waged on you; we will eventually have the power to take away your parasitic lifestyle and we are starting to see that now as things like the Department of Education are defunded. Parents pay the taxes for those schools and they can stop paying. The public really has more power than they know and if they exercise it these cretins running our schools will have to back off, or better yet leave the profession entirely. Peddle your Godless Marxism elsewhere. Our children deserve better.
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