Don't Be a Patriot at Planet Fitness in Cudahy....

 Some dude got tossed out of Planet Fitness in Cudahy (WI), for wearing a jacket saying "Protect ICE, Protect the Country."

Reminder:  Planet Fitness also supports tranny men in women's locker rooms..... 

Pat Murphy & Vince Lombardi

 Former college players remember Pat Murphy fondly.

This graf reminded me of a Vince Lombardi technique:

 ...Former Notre Dame outfielder Mike Rotkis recalled a 28-10 loss at Western Michigan in Murphy’s debut season. When the Irish returned to campus, Murphy had them do sprints.

“It was like the scene in ‘Miracle,’“ Rotkis said, referring to the Kurt Russell movie about the 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team. “I can’t go anymore, you’re trying to run as fast as you can and you’re barely walking, you can barely lift your leg. He’s like, ‘All right, that was an embarrassment. Don’t let it happen again,’ and walked out.”...

IIRC, with Lombardi it was "grass drills."

...One of the favorite things of Vince Lombardi, coach, general manager and spiritual leader of the world-champion Green Bay Packers, is the grass drill. He lets an assistant coach lead the bending and stretching exercises, the calisthenics, but he himself must run the part of the drill that turns grown behemoths into groveling, gasping, sweat-soaked, foamy-mouthed animals without breath enough left to complain. It is a simple drill best conducted in the summer sun at brain-frying temperatures because sane men will not do it. The crazy men run in place, double time, as hard as they can, while Vince Lombardi shouts at them in his irritating, nasal, steel-wool-rubbing-over-grate voice. “C’mon, lift those legs, lift ’em. Higher, higher.” Suddenly he yells, “Front!”, and the players, who averaged $41,000 each for fourteen football games last season (there also were two post-season games), many of them no longer boys, but men in their thirties with families to care for and paunches to battle, flop on their bellies and as soon as they do, even while they are falling, Lombardi shouts, “Up!”, and they must leap to their feet, running, running, faster, higher. “Front!”, and they are down. “Back!”, and they roll over on their backs. “Up!” Run. “Front!” Down. “Up!” Over and over, always that raucous voice, nagging, urging, demanding ever more from rebelling lungs and legs. “Move those damn legs. This is the worst-looking thing I ever saw. You’re supposed to be moving those legs. Front! Up! C’mon, Caffey, move your legs. Keep them moving. C’mon, Willie Davis, you told me you were in shape. Front! Up! C’mon, Crenshaw, get up. It takes you an hour to get up. Faster. Move those legs. Dammit, what the hell’s the matter with you guys? You got a lot of dog in you. You’re dogs, I tell you. A bunch of dogs. Let’s move. Front! Up! For the love of Pete, Crenshaw, you’re fat. Ten bucks a day for every pound you don’t lose. Crenshaw! It’s going to cost you ten bucks a day. Lift those legs!”

The sound of their panting—seventy men reduced to sodden football suits filled with quivering muscles—rises over them in a moist, squishy roar. As the drill goes on the noises they make breathing almost drown out the sound of Lombardi’s voice. The breathing becomes louder and somewhat wetter, until it sounds like the ocean when the last wave rolls up into the sucking sand. Finally, when they are beyond the point of humanity or sanity, Lombardi lets up. “All right,” he shouts. “Around the goalpost and back. Now run!”

“That’s when you hate him,” says Henry Jordan...

The players make more money these days.  I wonder if MLF makes them do grass drills when they lose a game.

Fox6 Plays "Hide the Judge"

All four TeeeVeeee "news" outlets play the game of "Hide the Judge."

That happens when a convict gets little or no prison-time for serious--SERIOUS--offenses.  The "news" channel doesn't tell you who the "judge" was.  Is there a reason?

You'll never know that, either.

Here's the Fox6 version of the game:

 

A Milwaukee man who’s never had a driver’s license and previously served prison time for hitting and nearly killing two people – in two separate hit-and-run crashes – is now charged in a recent crash that amputated the leg of an innocent bystander....

Yes, he was in prison.  He COULD have gone in for 30 years on those counts.  Instead, he got only 7.  Who was the sentencing judge?

Fox6 won't tell you.  They play "Hide the Judge." 

Virginia Starts the War?

IF TRUE, this is interesting, and probably significant.  Grim has thoughts on it.

 Virginia’s AG just ordered election officials to:

• Deny ordinary DOJ monitors access to polls
• Tell federal agents to leave and call local police
• Document badges, weapons, vehicles & movements
• Challenge federal subpoenas
• While eliminating Election Day voter eligibility challenges

❌No specific unlawful federal operation identified—just preemptive resistance that sets up the “red line” showdown and shifts authority to the state and transfers legitimacy and control to Democratic state officials -- in Virginia's case, leftwing extremists Governor Abigail Spanberger and Attorney General Jay Jones -- 

❌This is an operational plan, not theory. 

❌The conditions for escalation are being set in advance.

Hmmm.

The Governor-ette of VA is ex-CIA.  That is an agency whose reputation is--frankly--in the shitter, and apparently for very good reason. 

Medicaid "Slashed" UP???

One thinks that Steil and Tiffany will be running ads soon.

... The latest Treasury report shows that Medicaid spending this year was up 8% compared with FY 2025. And last year’s spending was up 8% compared with FY 2024, all of which overlapped with Joe Biden’s last full year in office. Keep in mind that spending in Biden’s last year in office reflected massive increases he’d engineered allegedly to mitigate the economic effects of COVID....

IOW, Biden-the-Cabbage jacked Medicaid spend 'due to the Democrat Disease, CoVid'.

Then Trump "slashed" Medicaid, which caused Medicaid spending to go UP 8%.

Here's a question:  who benefits from that Slash-Up trick??? 

 

Abortion and the Invasion of the West

 We were reminded of a story about Ireland.

In 2018, Ireland effectively repealed its Constitutional provision banning abortion.  That action had been discussed by the Bishop of Dublin and a woman member of Parliament.

The Bishop told her that should Ireland go through with the repeal, 'a curse will fall on the land.'

Subsequently, Ireland--like all of Western Europe AND the United States--was invaded by Third World natives.  Many are Muslim, bnt many more are "Nones"; either way, the backbone and fibers of the countries are being ground to dust.

Just coincidence?

Really??? 

The NAFTA-Cartel Fusion

The Gringos believed--stupidly--that Mo'Money solves all sorts of problems.  In fact, Mo'Money attracted Mo'Cartels--and pays them very well.

 ...Since the negotiation of NAFTA in the early 1990s, one of the assumptions underpinning hemispheric trade has been that growing wealth would help Mexico modernize its government institutions, defeat widespread corruption, and ultimately begin winning the war against its powerful criminal cartels. But despite the wishful thinking of the American trade lobby and the international business community, this has not in fact occurred.

The troubling reality is that Mexico’s homegrown corruption and powerful criminal cartels prosper by taking a cut of legal commercial activity—and that commerce is overwhelmingly tied to the country's northern neighbor. And patriotic Mexicans who seek to change this have few tools to do so. They are losing their battle....

One wonders how much Ford and GM have paid the cartels--knowingly or not. 

Colleges Play "Publishers' Clearinghouse" DEI Game

Face it.  There ARE no 'standards' in colleges any more--other than the gold (revenue) standard.

 ...“Hundreds” of colleges across the United States are sending unsolicited admissions letters to students who never actually applied to them in a possible bid to boost their minority enrollment without affirmative action policies.

The Wall Street Journal reported that schools participating in “direct admissions,” through which schools make decisions on the basis of high school transcripts, have “more than tripled since 2023-24” on the admission application Common App. Other schools contact county officials to “get all of the will-be seniors in high school and evaluate every transcript,” then notify the highest-performing students they would be accepted, University of Nevada-Reno admissions director Steve Maples told The College Fix....

"YOU'VE WON THE SWEEPSTAKES!!!  CONTACT YOUR LOCAL COLLEGE FOR LOANS!!" 

NBC Babe Wants Suicide Pact in Oregon

 Some really-dense NBC babe wants the Good Guy With a Gun to be hauled into court for saving lives.

 On Friday’s edition of NBC’s “Here’s the Scoop,” host Yasmin Vossoughian...said, “Oregon has some really strong gun laws, more restrictions on gun ownership than most other states. I know that the Bend-La Pine School District ... banned concealed carry on its property, closing a legal loophole in the state. Despite that, the shooter was killed by a quote, unquote good guy with a gun, who was close enough to walk in right behind him. Is this going to bring up hard conversations when it comes to gun restrictions?”...

No, actually, Yasmin, the conversation is simple:  people who are shooting innocents must be stopped quickly.  That usually requires on-the-spot execution of the goblin.  Your implicit call for the arrest and incarceration of the good guy with a gun is irredeemably stupid.

Live with it, sweetie, and STFU.

A Moment of Sympathy for GWB

We've made it clear--to our mind, George W Bush is really stupid.

But we have room in our shriveled heart for him in his moment of anguish.

...Barbara Bush [GWB's daughter] donated to a super PAC that is supporting Talarico, the Austin American-Statesman reported Friday, citing information on the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) website.

The FEC site showed Bush’s name as the source, the recipient as Lone Star Rising PAC, the $2,500 donation, and the date, which was September 23, 2026....

Our sympathy, George.  You don't have to issue a statement about the brainless brat--but you should.

 

Difficulties Across the Ocean

Trump was interviewed.  Here's the takeaway line:

 

...Show host Rob Finnerty looks briefly shocked when Trump bluntly says "I find Zelensky to be more difficult to deal with than Putin"...

Yes.

But is he more difficult than Netanyahu??? 

Yovanovitch: Another Lying Sack of Shit (D)

 Democrats:  lying is what they do.

 Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, one of the Democrats’ star witnesses in their first impeachment of Donald Trump, received repeated briefings, emails and memos related to the Ukrainian energy company that employed Hunter Biden, according to declassified documents that directly conflict with her and other witnesses’ testimony in the failed bid seven years ago to remove the president from office.

The documents released Friday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force show Yovanovitch and her aides were apprised of corruption concerns about Burisma Holdings, efforts by the company to repair its image or curry U.S. favor that would not “pass The Washington Post sniff test” and even a bid to get the Trump administration to approve a U.S. visa for Burisma’s controversial owner Mykola Zlochevsky, who was banned from American travel.

The memos provide a stark contrast to Yovanovitch’s testimony...

Is it possible that there IS a Democrat who does not lie like a rug? 

Somali Frauds Thank Catholic Charities

 The USCC continues to disappoint.  Bigly.

 

...Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota — leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The Post can reveal.

Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000 Lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations....

The resettlements began with Hmong refugees who had assisted the US in Laos during the VietNam war.  Those are understandable actions.  My barber is a Hmong and her dad still lives in Minneapolis.  He's a truck driver; assimilated into the country just fine.

The Somalis?

Looks like it was an Income Opportunity for the USCC--and they maximized it, importing 29,000 Somalis at $2,500/head.  Were they vetted?  By whom?  

The State of Minnesota committed hara-kiri, too; it wasn't just Catholic Bishops....

... The population today is over 100,000 in Minnesota according to data, thanks to chain migration (also known as “family reunification”) and the state’s generous welfare system, which became a magnet for Somalis, including those initially placed elsewhere in the US....

Well--100,000 LESS the umpty-hundreds (thousands???) who are about to be deported for fraud, gang activities, drug dealing, rapes, murders, (etc.).

I understand that helicopters are available for the task. 

 

Ritz Crackers Now Schitz Crackers

 Noticed exactly the same thing.  They are awful.

Troy Jackson Just Lost the Race

 This Jackson guy had plenty of negatives going in, but he sealed his fate with the female voters last night:

 Troy Jackson tells Collins to ‘shut up’

That was the headline.

He could have told her to "calm down."  Same difference.   

MEDICARE DOOM!! TRUMP DOOM!! (It's All BS)

As you should expect, the MSM is doing its best to scare the Hell out of Granny.  So the first few grafs of the Medicare supplement story--which everyone reads--is DOOM DOOM DOOM TRUMP DOOM!!

...Fewer health insurance plans. Higher out-of-pocket costs. Skimpier supplemental benefits.

This upheaval is what senior citizens will have to contend with when Medicare Advantage open enrollment for 2027 coverage begins on Thursday. That’s why it’s even more important that enrollees review their plan options so they aren’t hit with unexpected bills and other surprises next year, experts say.

Medicare Advantage, which covers just over half of Medicare’s roughly 71 million enrollees, is going through its third year of turmoil as health insurers overhaul their offerings. The changes are largely being spurred by medical costs outpacing reimbursements from the federal government, which pays insurers to provide coverage to Medicare enrollees....

Blah, blah, blah, blah.  

ARE YOU SCARED YET??  WILL TRUMP MAKE YOU DIE, PENNILESS AND IN THE GUTTER???

But then, waaaayyyy down in the propaganda story:

Actual numbers?  About 3 million people will have to replace Medicare Advantage plan.  Last year, 2.9 million did.  The year before?  2 million.  Remember that all this was caused by "AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE" from Democrat Obama.

Coverage?  There's plenty of options:

... most enrollees will still have a choice of multiple policies. The average beneficiary will have 28 Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage to select from...

... there will be 5,532 Medicare Advantage plans next year, decreasing by only 21,...

Do you have special needs?  Under Trump:

... Some 744 chronic condition plans are available for next year, up from 376 in 2025, according to Strock. Enrollment in those types of plans has skyrocketed to more than 1.8 million, up from about 401,000 in the fall of 2021....

So MORE people are covered under those plans.  Apparently, TRUMP IS NOT KILLING GRANNY.

Don't you love conditionals?  CNN loves them because they can't be blamed for lying like Hell....

... Insurers are also expected to trim the generosity of their supplemental benefits, though CMS has yet to release its overview of these offerings for 2027, experts said. Enrollees may find that their dental and hearing benefits don’t cover as much care as they have in the past, their medical transportation benefits are curtailed or their allowances for over-the-counter products are reduced....

And they may NOT find that. 

Waaaaayyyyy down at the bottom, you find this:

 

...Average monthly premiums, weighted for enrollment, will dip 7% to $12.11 overall...

But hey!  Premiums down, dozens of plans available, special-needs plans are plentiful, and MAYBE there will be cutbacks in benefits.  So obviously, Trump is killing grandma.  In Wisconsin, Tiffany is killing her, too--and Tiffany's also killing grandpa!

You cannot hate the MSM enough. 

"Hide the Judge" From Channel 12

The game of "Hide the Judge" is a rotten tradition in the Milwaukee area press.  Channel 12 happens to be the one we pick this week.

"Hide the Judge" happens when a convict commits a second (or third, or fourth, or fifth) offense after being released back onto the streets by a Milwaukee County judge.  Which judge?  You'll never know.  (Fortunately, another outlet DOES name names.  See the end of this post.)

In this case:

 ...Court records show the 22-year-old previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver cocaine and felon in possession of a firearm in a 2024 case. The judge originally sentenced him to five years in prison and five years of extended supervision, but stayed his sentence and gave him six years' probation....

Stayed it so.........what?  To let the perp go to med school?  Engineering school?  To save the babies from starvation in a Third World shit-hole? 

Da Nooz will NEVER tell you which Milwaukee County judge released him/her, or set a tiny bail for release.  They never explain it, either.  Then Da Nooz screeches about "informed voting" being a requirement "for democracy."

Sad failure.  A betrayal of the voting public.

N.B.:  ONE outlet names (and shames) idiot judges--in this case, Anderson M. Gansner.  Congratulations, "judge"!!!  You let a killer loose.  Please get in line for your DumbF**k award!

Jack Smith Makes Flock Look Like Kindergarten

 Some of you are concerned with privacy issues surrounding Flock cameras.

But Jack Smith, a hero of the Democrats, makes Flock look like playground time.

...[Senator] Chuck Grassley on Wednesday revealed the Biden Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained detailed donor data and voter information on over 639,000 individuals during the Arctic Frost investigation.

The types of information contained in the spreadsheet include: names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, party affiliation, places of employment, donation amounts, credit card information, and donor habits. 

Additionally, the donor and potential voter data ranged from 2005 to 2021,...

Those were largely "small-dollar" contributors.

One more thing:

 ...They also obtained information on “sales of red MAGA hats, including individual buyers, their purchases and their shipping addresses for home delivery.” ...

Hero to the Democrats!!!

So............

What if that sort of Hero also used Flock camera data--or started with the Flock camera data and worked backwards to the list above?

Don't think that will ever happen?

Think again. 

Remember:  all this was done with the knowledge and consent of various Federal judges, so ....... 

Battle's On! LaRouche vs. Birch

 Keeping track of the players requires diverse reading.  So we link to The New American as a counter-play to Last Refuge's pushing of the "Promethean Action"/Lyndon LaRouche bunch.

Both have some good ideas.  Both have some really--ahhhhh--strange ideas.  For example, Promethean insists that Trump is warring against the 'British hegemony' of finance and a bunch of (invisible and maybe not-even-existing) petroleum-price controllers.

Birch, of course, is the most ferocious anti-Communist bunch in the US, and is able to see a Commie under every tree--including such folks as JDVance and (surprise!!) Donald Trump.

This is why God gave Conservatives "common sense."  Sort it out using your own brains, education, and street-smarts. 

N.B.:  He did not waste the gift of Common Sense on Democrats, as is obvious by merely listening to them or reading their drivel.   

FAFO, Zelenskiy!

 Looks like Ukraine's dictator/grifter Zelenskiy has screwed around with Trump too much.

 ...Ukraine has accused Elon Musk’s SpaceX of imposing new restrictions on its Starlink satellite internet service without warning, disrupting Ukrainian military operations.

It comes as Russia intensifies attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure despite President Donald Trump’s proposed “energy ceasefire.”...

That little worm could use a few more lessons in "Who's Your Daddy?" over the next couple of months.  It is truly sad that so many Ukrainians have to die because of Zelenskiy (and Joe Biden, and our CIA), but maybe the remaining population will overthrow this POS.

 

Measles DOOM, Really????

 We've mentioned the Measles DOOM!! DOOM!! DOOM!! stories running on local TeeVee; Channels 12 and 58 are very happy to run them, for example.

But let's take another look at the numbers; for that purpose, Fox (national) News will do.

... The Fox News Report of October 6 opened with the number of measles cases reported by the CDC this year. But it was the death toll that reached for the biggest number of all – five. That number is reported by the state of Pennsylvania, which counts anyone who died within 30 days of a lab-confirmed case of measles. The segment never mentioned that the CDC lists only two measles deaths for the entire year, counting only deaths where measles is the underlying cause on the death certificate, according to KFF....

Recognize Pennsylvania's trick-accounting scheme?  It's the same one Fraudci used--counting anyone who died within 60 miles of Covid19 a "Covid death."  Remember the motorcyclist who hit a tree and still managed to die from CoVid?  Yah.  That trick.

There's more!

... The CDC reports that 95% of cases are in people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. These are two separate groups folded into one number. A missing record is not the same as a refused shot. Only about 10% of cases have resulted in hospitalization, according to CIDRAP. And the 1991 comparison leaves out the rest of the picture: that year there were 9,643 cases, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and this year’s 4,080 is still less than half of that....

The latest DOOM!!! DOOM!!! DOOM!!! from Channel 12 includes the near-meaningless number of 214 cases!  Sounds like a lot, until you understand that Wisconsin has 1,083,000+ children under the age of 19.

Gee.  This is just another "Follow the Money" game, and you know whose money:  Healthcare workers' unions, Big Pharma, and--of all people--the Soros family.  Again.

   

 

FINALLY! Omar Gets Hit

 The best part?  Hearing alleged "conservatives" denounce equal justice under the law.

Makes it easy to find targets to spit on, eh?? 

Diesel, Trump, and You

Approximately two zillion people (some consider themselves important) have bitched about Trump's Diesel Deal with Big Bad Putin, including this yahoo.

"It's only a small portion of what the US uses."  "It's helping the Evil Putin."  "It's going to hurt Zelensikiy."  A Nebraska (!!!) Globalonist Congress-slime screeched that last one, apparently forgetting that Nebraska's monstrous ag economy runs on diesel, not pixie dust.  But his concern is Zelenskiy?? 

No one mentioned that the price was exceptionally favorable to the US.

There's a reason for that.  Trump just demonstrated that diesel pricing is not always determined by the actual seller and actual buyer (here, Russia and the US), but most often that price is set by intermediaries, speculators, and profiteers.

He upset another apple cart, just as he did by shutting down USAID, the principal channel of funding to the Democrat Party and the worldwide Left.  USAID was merely a smokescreen; it funded "NGOs" which were largely malevolent (including the CIA) and which were, coincidentally, often headed up by wives and children of sitting Congress-slimes and/or Federal officials.

You can tell by the volume and length of the screaming that he dropped a grenade into their money-engine.  Again.

Heh. 

"The Health of the State"....

That's war.

But as Tulsi reminds us, war is the health of the (deep) state, but it is NOT the health of its citizens.

In this short speech, Tulsi reminds us of the necessity of war--for purposes of D.C., the Congress, and the Executive branch (but NOT for the purposes of citizens)--beginning at about 8:00.  

Those Flock cameras are complementary to the "Patriot" Act's NSA surveillance of phone and interned communications of ALL citizens.  Are you "safer"?  

Then she turns to Islam, and issues a very stark and clear warning.  Islam is bad, period.

Catholics know this from long and bloody experience in the Middle East and parts of Europe.

Bush the Dumber--well--he was dumber.  Obama saw Islam as a contributor to the "fundamental change" of America.  Trump pretends not to hear the drumbeat.

She's quite the orator, by the way. 

Smelling the Bacon Hypocrisy

This twit needs a serious correction.

 Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) expressed support for the bill, arguing that consumers’ need for lower diesel prices doesn’t justify pressuring Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries...

Bacon OUGHT to know that diesel prices are a serious challenge for farmers.  (He certainly knows that farmers and meatpackers like to have illegal aliens around to help with running a farm.) 

Maybe Bacon should represent US farmers instead of Ukrainian grifters.

Bring the bacon HOME, Don. 

Cardinal of India Preaches New Faith

 We don't know what's going on in his head, but this guy has problems.

... Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa and Daman and president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, delivered an introductory address on family life at the Paul VI Hall in Vatican City during the second day of the summit marking ten years of Amoris laetitia. Speaking before assembly participants, the Indian prelate asserted that traditional family structures are “increasingly giving way to smaller, nuclear households” across the globe. On account of this, he claimed that the Catholic Church must alter her understanding and pastoral practices to accommodate modern relationship models, rather than insisting on immutable moral norms....

So what does he mean by "smaller, nuclear households?"

... Neri Ferrão detailed what he described as “major shifts” transforming household “composition” in Asia and beyond, explicitly noting that “new forms of partnership and cohabitation are emerging, amid changing understandings of gender and relationships in urban settings” alongside a rise in “interfaith marriages.”...

Oh. 

Then, just to make it perfectly clear that this guy is not really a Catholic Cardinal:

 ...he called for an institutional transformation where families – including non-traditional or irregular situations – are viewed as “partners in mission” and even active places (“loci”) of divine Revelation....

Maybe he never heard of the Reformation Revolution--which led to the French Revolution, which became the basis of Freemasonry--which is the faith he is now preaching.

He should read up and then--if he's honorable--resign. 

 

An Excellent Question

 

How To Create Dodgers' Payroll? Fraud!!

We all know that the Los Angeles Dodgers' payroll is gigungous:  about triple that of the Brewers.

So where did all that money come from?

Dodgers owner Mark Walter was named in a class-action lawsuit this week, giving him a new legal headache to deal with amid the ongoing federal investigation into the dealings of his business empire.

As The Wall Street Journal first reported, a Florida-based client of one of Walter’s insurance companies, Delaware Life, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of Miami seeking damages for negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract and aiding and abetting fraud — stemming from allegations that the company didn’t disclose potentially improper loans made to other Walter-owned businesses as so-called “affiliated” transactions....

 Gives the name "Artful Dodger" a whole new meaning, eh?

 

FINALLY!! Trump Slams H-1B Frauds

 Took a long time, but the day finally arrived!  Sec. Labor Sonderling announced:

 ...I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world: Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCO, and Capgemini. And also, due to multiple active federal investigations, the Department of Labor is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program....

JD Vance was present; this action is in his wheelhouse.

At one time, Cap Gemini was a French-owned outfit which picked up a large share of the US market by purchasing DASD.  Tata and Wipro were always India-based.  Gates is simply a lowlife scumbag.

Locally, this will have repercussions on Kohl's, Milwaukee Electric Tool, Deluxe Data, GE Medical, the old M&I Data and FiServ--among others.  All have been infested with curry-loaded semi-competent keyboard slammers.  In addition, the State of Wisconsin has several departments which are jam-packed with ultra-low wage earning H-1B's.  

It is a fact that once an Indian became a manager, that person eliminated all Americans (black, white, or Asian) from their area of responsibility and backfilled with more Indians waving their "degrees" from I.I.T..  It's also a fact that most of those Indians are not really competent and lied/cheated their way through school AND the H-1B entry process.

Actual Americans who took all sorts of undergrad and graduate courses on IT, IT security, IT auditing, and software engineering will finally have a chance to use those studies and knowledge.

First, they'll have to power-wash the curry stains and stink off the walls, keyboards, and carpets.  

 

THIS Is What We Voted For

It's a CNN release, so you're supposed to be horrified and revolted.

 

The Department of Homeland Security’s sweeping election-fraud operation has drawn on tens of millions of records, scrutinized dozens of nonprofit voter-registration groups and considered deploying undercover agents to investigate organizations suspected of helping noncitizens register to vote, according to newly obtained internal documents....

Actual Americans are pleased and encouraged.

CNN--well--you know about them.

Next Chapter in Cornell Case?

The woman accusing some men of rape.....

 ...The woman also sued her own sorority, Delta Delta Delta, both the local chapter and the national organization. The lawsuit says that before she arrived at the Chi Phi fraternity house that night, she had "consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past 3 hours." Looking at the lawsuit's timeline, it appears nearly all of that drinking took place at the Delta Delta Delta sorority house.

The lawsuit said that Delta Delta Delta "held itself out to the public, and more particularly to [the woman] herein, as possessing the proper degree of safety measure to adequately protect its members and to use reasonable care and diligence in its monitoring and policing of the [local chapter's] house and those living in and utilizing said house." In other words, the woman is suing her sorority for allegedly not putting a stop to her heavy drinking....

We are not making that up. 

Daily Caller Is Just WRONG Here

Some sort of brain disease must have overtaken the Daily Caller.

 Money is flooding Wall Street as Americans thirst for financial relief amid war-fueled inflation and soaring household debt...

"Soaring household debt"?  Really?

 The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today issued its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit. The report shows total household debt decreased by $13 billion, a 0.1% decrease, in Q2 2026, to $18.8 trillion. The report is based on data from the New York Fed’s nationally representative Consumer Credit Panel. It includes a one-page summary of key takeaways and their supporting data points....

That's dated August 11. 

Moreover:

 The historical household debt-to-income ratio in the U.S. has fluctuated over the years, reaching a peak of 86% before the Great Recession and declining to around 82% as of 2024. This ratio reflects the balance of household debt compared to disposable personal income...--DuckDuckGo AI

DuckDuckGo does not include 2025, nor any of 2026.  However, the debt reduction it shows is largely a result of the inflationary "free money!!!" issued by The Cabbage-Brain.

Daily Caller needs to retract their Fake News. 

 

Yes, Anti-Trump "Protesters" Were Paid--by USAID

 When Trump cut off USAID dollars, there were lots of very good reasons, including this one.

 ...The Daily Caller reported in February 2025 that the State Department and USAID had awarded more than $27 million to the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center across several presidencies. Tides is the fiscal sponsor Democrats use when they do not want their name on the check. It funds groups that supply lawyers to people arrested at left-wing protests, including activists under federal investigation. A later Daily Caller review found the Tides Center reporting more government money in the year before Trump’s return than in any year of the prior decade, and sending $48,500 in 2024 to the Civil Liberties Defense Center, which represents Antifa-aligned protesters...

 ...USAID did not need to hand a protester a per diem to feed the machine. It trained the staff and then dumped them into it. The Washington Examiner found well over 100 USAID alumni working at Arabella-linked groups, Soros philanthropies, the DNC, the Center for American Progress, and Planned Parenthood. The Daily Wire counted 97 percent of reported USAID employee political donations in the 2024 cycle going to Democrats....

Instead, the protest MANAGEMENT was paid.

Remember the gray-haired old hags/bags and docile husbands of "No Kings"?  They women were being led by the nose by paid organizers; the men followed, hoping to get laid for being a good boy.

 ...The respectable wing of the same business is Indivisible. George Soros’s Open Society Foundations has given it $7.61 million since 2017, including a $3 million grant in 2023 for data and communications with participants in the No Kings protests. Indivisible held the permit for the main march at the Minnesota State Capitol. In December 2025, Senator Chris Murphy’s American Mobilization PAC sent Indivisible $100,000 in two payments. Murphy’s own site said the money was for training staff and volunteers, materials, recruiting, and permits, and for building “durable mass mobilization capacity.” A sitting Democratic senator put campaign money into the group coordinating anti-ICE unrest and then let the press call the crowds organic....

By no coincidence, South America's elections are tossing the Communists out in several countries, following the USAID funding cuts.

Not to worry; this is another story which will NOT be told by "the Press." 

 

UW-Madison Helps Red China Domestic Spying

You should not be surprised; UW-Madison has had sketchy relationships with Communists worldwide for decades.

 

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin worked for nearly a decade with partners in China on sensitive technology projects that likely helped China build its notorious domestic surveillance apparatus, including in Xinjiang province, where the Chinese are accused of brutal repression of the ethnic Uyghur population, a new report has found.

The quiet partnership between Wisconsin's flagship Madison campus and multiple Chinese entities developed technologies "that further entrench China's surveillance state — and that also have significant dual-use implications" for the Chinese military, according to the investigation by the global intelligence firm Strategy Risks....

Another story which will NOT be reported by the "news" outlets in MKE. 

DOOM!! DOOM!! Measles!! Run!! Hide!!

Channel 12 anchors read from the DOOM DOOM DOOM script provided by the "Health Services" bunch in Madistan as though the "Health Services" bunch in Madistan actually retains some credibility after their dismal-terrible-awful-horrible track record on CoVid19.

Channel 12 news editors should take a deep breath.  Measles is just Not.  A.  Big.  Deal.  Most people over the age of 65 had it as kids and look!! we're still here, pissing you off.

Just stop. 

Matt Walsh Will Need Bodyguards

Those of you who pay attention have noticed that Matt Walsh is a fierce defender of civilization--that is, the Catholic-based civilization of the Western world.  

So when he goes on tour and slaps the bejabbers out of silly little girls with their EMO "argumentation", he's putting himself in the crosshairs.

Trump and Charlie Kirk found out that Satan's legions do not play.

Let's hope that Walsh has learned something from them. 

"Student" Protests in France? Not Entirely....

Last night, CBS ran the "accepted view" (read:  the Globaloney/Leftist view) of the riots in France, telling its audience that these were merely 'student' riots over poor conditions in the public schools.  

If they are 'student' riots, how come there's a Palestinian flag-waver in the crowd?

And how come other on-the-scene sources name the Communist Party as one of the instigators?

By the way:  France spends about $14K/student.  Algeria, Chad, and Morocco spend about $1,000/student.  That's not just Union Wage differential, friends.

France is now the test case for a Muslim/Communist revolution and takeover.  Of course, we do not approve of killing, but there is no doubt that the Muslims and Communists will be duking it out for Top Doggie in the future.  

Obama v. Trump

 That's the theory of Don Surber, anyway:  Obama hates Trump, has done so for at least 20 years, and is determined to finish off the Trump Era in '28.

Here's an outstanding insight from his column:

 ...The facts tell us that Obama’s jealousy of Trump reared its dainty head in 1991, some 20 years earlier when, along with Robert Fisher, Obama wrote, “[Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don’t make it, my children will. [But] those of us on the political left [often forget] the degree to which coalition and consensus-building among the American electorate has necessarily preceded any major federal program to reform or restructure America’s economic and political landscape.”

Obama rightly sees the problem as American optimism. And because he knows we won’t readily trade the American dream in for the nightmare of Sovietism, Obama is a full believer in incrementalism, which fully distilled is really hoping to impose rules on generations that you don’t have to live under....

The MSM is totally complicit in moving Obama's "fundamental change" agenda.  That is why the MSM has done its damndest to quench that American optimism over the last 24 months.  And they have lied like Hell in doing it.

Real wage increases are greater than inflation numbers.  Americans are actually saving more money than ever before, not spending all they have on "unaffordable" whatevers.  The price of housing is going down.  The price of ethical drugs is going down.  More Americans are working at jobs they want--thus less unemployment claims are being filed.  Manufacturing jobs are up, and non-residential construction is way, way, way, up.

NONE of that is reported in the MSM.  Not.  One.  Damn.  Part. 

You cannot hate the MSM enough. 

The (Terrible) Streets of Old Milwaukee

 This is only one of the hundreds of stories.

 A road depression at the intersection of National Avenue and Layton Boulevard on Milwaukee's near south side has damaged multiple vehicles, leaving at least one family facing costly repairs....

Take a drive on Sherman Blvd, southbound from Hampton.  But don't do it in a large truck, or anything with a long wheelbase.  You'll get seasick.  No potholes, but the El Cheapo Concrete Paving Co. job will do a number on you.  Take 35th St. north from I-94 to--say--North Ave.  Still have tires on your car?  They must be made of iron.  

 We've found ways to NOT drive in the City

(Yah, but Milwaukee has Tommy Barrett's Ultra-Stupid Choo-Choo!! That must count for something). 

Sometimes the Low Bid or the DEI contractor is the worst possible choice.  That's a lesson that nobody in City Hall wants to learn. 

CDC Ignored Vaxx Complaints--and Now.....

Coffee & Covid mentions Jeffrey Tucker's work on the CDC.  In this instance, the CDC ignored complaints about The Vaxx (3,300++ of them) and buried the actual complaints with a specially-designed form made to keep us ignorant.

That's bad enough.

But news today is that CDC has done a 180 and now "recommends" The Vaxx for infants and children.

Apparently there were not enough deaths and mutilations the first time. 

Bourla On the Stand (!!!)

This is good news and will be fun to watch.

 ...On Thursday, Florida sued Pfizer and its CEO Albert Bourla personally under the state’s deceptive and unfair trade practices act. Importantly, DUTPA claims exist in the elusive liminal spaces beyond the PREP Act’s iron liability shield. (Two other states have tried the same tactic; Texas’s was dismissed because of PREP, but Kansas’s has, so far, survived in its state court.)...

Bourla will have to spend money defending himself.  Are you sad?

Remember this:  that lying POS said that Americans who spoke out against The Vaxx are "criminals."

Let's hope that his defense lawyers get rich beyond the dreams of avarice on this one. 

BigBank/Big Green Likes High Oil Prices

Last Refuge prints an interesting theory on the price of oil, BigBank interests, and the geopolitics.

Trump likes cheap fuel.

Big Green hates it--and BigBank, with London, Ottawa, and the EuroGreens--are in their corner.

So naturally, the Hate Targets of the day are Trump peeps who have interests in Lukoil, the Russia-based petroleum conglomerate (think ExxonMobil, or the old Standard Oil, except in Russia.)  Also indirectly targeted?  Petroleum producers, largely in the Middle East.

So happens that YOU are behind that target; as the guns fire, you will be hit.

Do you seriously think that Big Green or BigBank give a flying damn about YOU as collateral damage? 

 

The AI Gnostic-Nutbag-Pervert Axis

(It's Artificial Intelligence, not Super Intelligence.  Trump's ignorance of metaphysics is disappointing but not surprising.)

Anyhow.

This whole "AI" gang is composed of people who are off-the-edge Gnostic nutbags.

...Anthropic’s founders and many of their staff are utopians who believe they are uniquely equipped to save humanity thanks to their superior intelligence and extreme wealth. 

Of all the “frontier” AI companies, Anthropic has been the most alarmist about stoking public fears that the machines will kill us all. 

It makes sense when you realize that the company is infused with the philosophy of the weird, perverted, vegan, quasi-religious Effective Altruism (EA) network, which has a cultish end-of-times attitude toward AI. 

When he was a physics doctoral student at Princeton, Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei became an acolyte of EA’s intellectual leader Eliezer Yudkowsky, who admitted to being “polyamorous” with a “strong sexually sadistic streak” in a dating profile unearthed by the Daily Mail. 

Bernie Sanders’ favorite AI doomer, Yudkowsky has argued that girls should sell their virginity, and thinks killing an 18-month-old shouldn’t count as murder.

The EA movement was largely shaped by the views of utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, the Australian-born Princeton professor emeritus, who has advocated bestiality, as long as the sex between humans and animals is “mutually satisfying.” 

Singer claims it is “speciesism” to differentiate between humans and animals and does not believe that human life necessarily has a greater moral value than animal life. Nor does he believe that all humans are of equal moral value — newborns and disabled people, for instance, are worth less than able-bodied adults in his view....

The Democrat Party is fully on board with Singer's implicit license-to-kill 'useless eaters.'  That's why they are pushing "Assisted Suicide," having established BabyKilling before this.

Good to know that Pp. Leo flat-out told Anthropic's Chief Yutz that no way in Hell would the Church agree that AI has "consciousness."  Ontologically, it does not--but that doesn't stop these people from proclaiming it to be so.

Trillions are at stake. 

 

Question for Ilan Omar

 

For TN: Hillary, or This Guy??

 

The Illicit Sophistry of (D) Campaigns

A few days ago, Fr. Ripperger's brief lecture on "sophistry" was made available.  It's worth a listen, especially if you do not know what "sophistry" is.

We sent the link to a fellow blogger who happens to be pretty damn good with such figures as Plato and Aristotle; he critiqued Fr. Ripperger's lecture and offered various quotes from those two Greeks while doing so.

One of his comments on Aristotle's thought was striking, as it directly condemns Democrat Party campaign rhetoric which they've used since FDR:

 ...Aristotle does not reject all sorts of emotion, however: he is specific that he is rejecting a set of prejudicial emotions -- he names especially anger, envy, pity. These emotions should never be raised in political rhetoric because they warp the judgment such that it is difficult to measure correctly even if you are devoted to it. This is the point that Fr. Ripperger makes explicitly. ...

 We've said it often:  envy is a vice and one of the Seven Deadly Sins.  So Democrat talking point reliance on "Fair Share" and "Billionaires" in ALL their advertising, plus using pity in their 'please let us kill babies and the elderly' pushes are major-league violations of reasoned political discourse.

That's exactly why they do it, of course.

Here are the pertinent URL's:

Fr Ripperger:    https://www.lifesitenews.com/episodes/fr-ripperger-how-to-identify-sophistry-and-avoid-being-misled/

 Grim's (four) discussions, in order:

 https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2026/10/sophistry-ii.html

 https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2026/10/sophistry-iii.html

 https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2026/10/sophistry-iv.html

Have at it!! 

 

Rinse, Repeat: PhRMA's Tricks, Healthcare Costs

And by "tricks" we mean.........not GOOD ones.

A notoriously out-of-touch Swamp Pubbie (and friend of Paul Ryan!!) will be heading up the drug industry's lobbying group, PhRMA.  That would be Eric Cantor.  It is apparent that the Drug Boyzzz expect to get happy in '28.  That is to say, RFKjr out.  We'll see.

More interesting is this part of the essay:

 ...As someone who worked on Capitol Hill during the debate on Obamacare in 2009-2010, I recall that the head of PhRMA at the time was another former Republican member of Congress: Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., who had served as chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, with jurisdiction over most health care programs. 

While working as PhRMA head, Tauzin played a key role in helping get Obamacare enacted. His organization and the pharmaceutical sector became the first to make a “backroom deal” with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., then the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and the Obama administration in support of Obamacare....

Of course, that "backroom deal" shows us how much of a lying sack of shit Obama really was....

... But all the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing also went directly against Barack Obama’s promise that all the health care negotiations would be televised on C-SPAN, as he pledged repeatedly during his 2008 campaign...

ObamaCare--as we now know--is the single largest driver behind out-of-control healthcare costs.

Not bad for a bastard from Kenya, eh? 

UW-Whitewater? Un-Serious.

 Some 'academic counselor' at UW-Whitewater should be fired for duping these poor kids.

 The University of Wisconsin--Whitewater enrolled only six undergraduate students across its Women's and Gender Studies degree programs during the fall 2025 semester....

Starbucks awaits your applications. 

Fixing Flock? Hawley's Bill

This appears to be a good start.  But it may be inadequate, as Flock has a track record of doing whatever the Hell it wants to do....

 ...U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wants federal rules for Flock cameras and other AI-powered license plate readers. He doesn’t want to get rid of them.

The Missouri Republican on Wednesday rolled out the Stop Flock Abuse Act, which would bar local governments from selling the data, require written approval and a paper trail for every search, and force agencies to delete drivers’ information after 10 days unless it’s tied to an active criminal case....

 Ban selling or sharing vehicle location data with private, non-government third parties
Require written approval before any search, with every search logged
Require audit logs showing who searched, why, who approved it and what came back, with supervisors reviewing those logs regularly
Require the data to be encrypted and kept inside the United States
Require driver data to be permanently deleted after 10 days, with narrow exceptions for active criminal investigations
Bar license plate reader technology from foreign adversaries
Prohibit facial recognition in license plate reader networks...

Hawley's bill includes supervisory written approval before running a search, however, it does NOT include a warrant requirement for searches.  That's a weakness.

And it does not include penalties for abuse such as what we've seen by the FBI and such cretins as Jack Smith and the US Department of Justice's wholly partisan activities.

Penalties should be in place, and they should be severe. 

US Steel To Be Made in Iowa

Yes, that's a pun-headline.  The US will be making steel at a plant in Iowa, using taconite from Minnesota's Iron Range.  This happens despite the "stop-and-starve' efforts of Obama and Biden.

Thank you, President Trump!

...Thanks to President Trump, steel policy flipped after 2025. Raw steel output is up 9% since Trump returned to office. Nearly 6,000 steelworker jobs have been added after almost 10,000 were lost under the prior administration. American mills now supply 84% of the U.S. finished steel market, up from 77% in 2024. New mill orders hit $17.3 billion in July 2026. Domestic shipments hit $16.9 billion that month. Officials tie those numbers to 50% Section 232 steel tariffs, faster permitting, and domestic energy.

The United States surpassed Japan in crude steel production in 2025 for the first time since 1999 and is now the world’s third-largest producer.

Eastern Iowa is in line for a heavy-industry footprint it has not had in generations. Minnesota ore stays in a U.S. supply line, and the work stays in American towns. That is this administration’s commitment. Bring the jobs home, keep the steel American, and run the mine-to-mill chain from Minnesota to Iowa instead of from a foreign dock to a U.S. factory floor....

That steel will be shipped into Wisconsin--to Ariens, Kohler, Case-IH, Mayville Metals, and Deere among lots of others.   

 

Crowley Moves To Word-Salad Campaigning

Yup.  Crowley spent time with Kamala in sunny California.

You can tell because he is now in "Word Salad" campaign-mode.

 ....When asked about the trip to California for an event that reportedly included former Vice President Kamala Harris, he said he'll talk to everybody about the importance of Wisconsin. 

Crowley was also asked how he would pay for his plans to lift Wisconsin families, and that's when he lashed out at his opponent and the president.

"When you look at what Congressman Tom Tiffany and Donald Trump are doing, they're peeing on us and telling us it's raining," Crowley said. "It's time for us to fight back and make sure that we're doing everything that we can to speak truth to power and undo the hurt and pain they have caused Wisconsin families."...

Huh?

"How to pay for plans":  "....fight back.....truth to power.....undo hurt........"

OK, Dave.  Whatever. 

MO' MONEY!!

 Less than 50% means "F" on your report card.

... According to data from the Wisconsin Student Assessment System — which includes the Forward Exam, Dynamic Learning Maps, the PreACT Secure and the ACT — 48.4 percent of students in grades 3-11 were proficient or above in ELA, while 48.7 percent were proficient or above in math. ...

Believe it or not, those scores are an improvement from last year.

Sure, they're dreadful, awful, terrible, and the children have been screwed.

So have the taxpayers, who are pouring more than $19K/year PER KID into Wisconsin public schools.   

But the answer to this problem that will come from the mouth of Jill Underly, Tony Evers, and the MPS Board?

MO' MONEY!!!! 

Because MO' MONEY has worked so well for the last 30 years.... 

And in Milwaukee?  It's even worse.

English Language Arts: 23.6% to 25.1%, up 1.5 percentage points
Math: 19.3% to 20.1%, up 0.8 points
Science: 20.3% to 23.3%, up 3 points
Social studies: 27.4% to 29.3%, up 1.9 points

Who the Hell is going to hire these kids after graduation?  They can't read.  They can't speak.  They can't add or subtract.  They don't know history.

Nonetheless:  MO' MONEY!!! 

Sen. Justice: Another Back-and-Forthright Windbag

It's amusing that the Daily Caller headline says "backtracked"--when quoting Sen. Justice NOT "backtracking."

Justice' original remarks on immigration enforcement and ICE:

... “Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you’re dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don’t know that we need to be doing that stuff,” he said in an interview....

It is clear as crystal:  Justice is NOT happy with removing illegal aliens who have been here for a long time.  Key word:  "ILLEGAL"....

His "backtrack"--which is NOT a backtrack:

...“Our brave ICE officers are doing an incredible job protecting our communities, and they must continue to focus on criminals who are here illegally and putting Americans in danger. Violent criminals, drug traffickers, gang members and others who threaten our communities should be identified, arrested and removed,” ...

Oh.  So illegals who are not violent criminals...........???

Never Mind, said Emily. 

Sen. Foghorn Leghorn rides again! 

ZeroHedge Is Wrong! And Fed Is Corrupt, Too!

In an article about the Taj Mahal renovated Fed HQ, ZeroHedge has this:

 ...One thing is certain: a building project that nearly doubled in cost thanks to poor planning, no price cap and "inflation" is a perfect metaphor for the institution it will house.

We think ZeroHedge's assessment is very wrong.

That 'building project' is a metaphor for the entire Deep State.

And--just like Jerome Powell and his Board of self-aggrandizing twits--they don't give a flying f**k what you think or how much you pay.

And if you object too loudly, or present a danger to their projects, there's always the FBI/CIA/NSA/JackSmith treatment, complete with 6-month to 2-year imprisonment BEFORE trial. (Think of the J6 grandmas as The Model.)

Meantime, Sundance calls for the execution firing of the entire Board of the Fed AND its "Inspector General" Clouseau Horowitz:

 

...The FED Board awarded a no-bid contract to the contractor, without an agreement on the building renovation project and the construction costs associated with it until President Donald Trump began drawing attention to it.  This is gross corruption at a massive scale....

 ...It wasn’t until President Trump drew attention to the FED having spent over $2 billion, that FED Chair Jerome Powell, and the FED board requested the construction manager and construction company to provide a cost estimate.  This is unreal, especially considering that IG Michael Horowitz finds no unlawful decision-making in the overall fiasco....

...The FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD just gave the construction company an open-ended blank check to spend as much as they wanted of TAXPAYER MONEY, with no limits and no expectations of cost.  This, according to IG Horowitz is a little concerning, but entirely not a legal problem.

These are the people supposedly in charge of running monetary policy for The United States of America!

Now, we can understand exactly why IG Michael Horowitz was moved from protecting Washington DC corruption within the Dept of Justice, to protecting Washington DC corruption at the Federal Reserve.

Michael Horowitz is not an Inspector General.  He is the corruption manager for the U.S. government!...

Being "Corruption Manager" for the entire USG is exhausting; the guy must be working 24X7.  So he should get a long rest.  At Leavenworth.

So should the Moron (ex-) Fed Chair.  And the rest of the FRB Board.

But no.  This will be another in the endless series of "We Fuc**ed You, and You Can't Do a DAMN THING About It." 

 

  

The REAL GM Dipsticks

 It's actually hard to believe that GM did this.

 General Motors is removing one of the most basic tools under the hood of its new trucks: The oil dipstick. No pulling it out. No wiping it clean. No physically checking your oil yourself. Instead, GM says newer engine hardware made it difficult to package a traditional dipstick, so engineers replaced it with an electronic oil-level sensor that lets drivers check their oil from inside the cab. But it was the way they explained it that really set people off. “We were able to delete the dipstick…” Delete the dipstick. Replace it with electronics.

Trust the sensor....

Trust the sensor?

Sure.  Because sensor-warning lights NEVER give you a false flag.  Sensors NEVER fail.

Right.

The REAL GM Dipsticks are in the engineering department.

For their next trick?  Battery location change. 

Yessss! This!!!!!

We all know that the Jim Jordan model (Talk, talk, talk, pound the table, talk, talk, talk) is preferred by the useless House and Senate figures whose only real concern is TeeeVeee Time and donations for their lifetime sinecures.

So this image is posted solely because posting it feels good.  It will not DO any good....

 

Trump's Diesel Disaster

We've seen all sorts of *stuff* about the diesel price problem.  Two things stand out:  1)  the US actually refines MORE diesel than it uses.  And 2)  Europe is desperate for diesel.

... At the heart of the problem is the fact that Europe won’t purchase cheap Russian diesel as they did before the start of the war in Ukraine. Instead, Europe now relies on the Middle East and the US for it’s supply. According to recent figures, the Middle East produces roughly 40% of Europe’s diesel imports while the U.S. now accounts for 50%. But as a result of the war in Iran, however, Middle Eastern infrastructure has been damaged, and energy flow through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed considerably. Without cheap Russian energy as an option and with limited Middle Eastern output, Europe has placed immense demand on U.S. diesel inventories. That, in turn, has driven up domestic diesel prices in the United States. And since Trump doesn’t have the diplomatic skills to immediately end the hostilities in the Middle East, supply pressure will continue to inflate the diesel market, at least in the near term....

The proposal that Trump should ban export of diesel becomes very interesting in light of the above, but you can bet your net worth that Big Oil is throwing a lot of........ahh..........incentives at Trump & Co. about such a ban.

The cost of Netanyahu's War continues to rise.  Be sure to thank Ms. Adelson next time you're in Vegas. 

Lucy Is Still With Us!

"Peanuts" and "Calvin" were a couple of the best strips.  Both are discontinued, but both have valuable lessons within them.

Here's one from "Peanuts":

 

More Dirtball FEEB Action

 For many FBI agents, acting in accord with American principles will be a big change after years of McCabe, Mueller,  Wray and Comey (among others).

 

Two veteran Washington, DC, FBI agents have been reassigned over their handling of a probe involving threats made to conservative podcaster Katie Miller, the wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, CNN claimed in a report late Saturday.

Sourcing “two people familiar with the move,” the network reported that Michael Burgwald, the special agent in charge of counterterrorism matters at the bureau’s D.C. field office, and his deputy, Courtland Rae, “were ousted from their positions by bureau leadership after investigators determined that allegedly harassing phone calls Katie Miller received from unknown individuals did not warrant further investigation.”...

There are plenty of vacant slots in--say--Wyoming, or Alaska, and plenty of open slots for transcriptionists, office-boys, and maintenance workers.   

Screeching "AI!! AI!! DANGER!!!"

 Gates, of course, this time with the tongue-bath of the NYT.

Remember:  a computer does ALL and ONLY what it's programmed to do.

Last Refuge condenses all this DANGER!! DANGER!! folderol this way:

 ...Put AI control in the hands of government regulators and what exactly do you think they will do with the “trust and safety” mission?  The answer to that question is self-evident from the U.S. government operation over the X (Twitter) platform, and the banning of unapproved information related to the issues of COVID.

The AI FEAR narrative serves two simultaneous interests.  The first is the big tech group who wants AI immunity. The second is the big govt group who want AI control.  When you understand this dynamic, things make sense.

The need for information control, is a reaction to information fear....

By the way:  the Flock database is within easy reach of the US Government.  That's the Government which brought you Covid-19 social controls, shutting down internet sites which had DISapproved content. 

Some people still don't get it. 

ObamaCare Costs Force HEALTH-CARE People to Drop Insurance

Laughing while he said it, Obama calls this "affordable care."

Some U.S. health-care workers are now dropping health insurance coverage as costs continue to skyrocket.

Many health professionals are currently grappling with unaffordable medical bills, according to multiple recent reports. More medical workers will likely forgo health insurance in the near future, potentially straining the nation's healthcare system, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation....

You can thank the dead McCain and a lackluster performance by Paul Ryan (and the Senate (R) Leader) for NOT killing ObamaCare.

And you can thank Obama for the disaster it is.  Have you thanked him appropriately?? 

 

Learn To Code, Sweetie....

These people can join the no-longer-employed "reporters."

Several Hollywood actors, including Princess Diaries star Heather Matarazzo, are trying to raise awareness about new actor’s union requirements that could cause many performers to lose their healthcare benefits....

Awwwww.

Most Hollywood actors campaigned loud and long for ObamaCare.  Now that you're looking at it face-to-face, you don't like it?

Well, then:  learn to code. 

Who Likes the Wars? The Green Bunch!

 For all his recent vagaries, Carlson still has a grip on the Big Picture.

In this video, he notes that Middle Eastern and Russian refineries have been targeted and either destroyed or crippled--and that rebuilding them is a long-term project.

Very long-term, and rather expensive, too.

Then he notes that the Green Crowd has been dead silent about the wars and all the CO2 releases derived from those wars, not to mention the Russia-to-Europe gas-pipeline demolition which Biden did.  (Oh, wait!!!  You're told that it was Ukraine that pulled that off??  So sorry, my mistake.)

He notes the curious price of diesel, gasoline, and other petro-derived products such as fertilizer, those prices seemingly having nothing to do with the quoted price/bbl of petroleum.  (See the price of gasoline vs. the quoted per-bbl price during Biden's regime and compare those numbers with today's.)

Then suggests that all of this ties together, using Bill Gates' unfortunate spilling of the (real) plot: there will be less humans, and the humans that remain will be creating far less CO2--meaning even less humans.

That "less humans" thing has been the Number One Goal of the Green bunch and the Malthusian Enthusiasts, and the Club of Rome, for decades.

Never thought of that, didja? 

It would not surprise us in the least to learn that provoking Putin was part of the plan, and as Tucker notes, who the Hell in this world really cares about 2 oblasts, anyway?  (A good question, that!)

Iranian nukes?  Very responsible people--such as Tulsi Gabbard--simply do not believe that Iran was going to make nuclear bombs.  Also recall that Trump told us that the Iranian nuke program--whatever its progress--was OBLITERATED.  So why did the US have to "OBLITERATE IT" again?  And now that it's gone, why the continuing aggression of the US?

You are right:  Tucker did not explain the Houthis, nor is there a convenient explanation for all the "Who's on First?" dancing going on in the Middle East.

But his theory has the merit of causing one to pause, ain'a?