The Fourth vs. Flock?

 Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling on "geofencing" being a 4th Amendment violation (in the case of criminal suspicion) brings up another possibility:  that "Flock" is also subject to 4th Amendment restrictions.

As the Ticker opines:

 ...[Another decision] that is likely to have wide-ranging impact in the world of ever-increasing surveillance, particularly the "Flock" nonsense as it both exists now and is expanding rapidly with scanners that profile on Bluetooth and WiFi MAC (and similar) addresses tying people to locations beyond that of license plates.

This decision in fact goes to exactly that "beyond" question in that it applies to "geofence" requests made to providers that are not governments, in this case Google.

The government did not seek a warrant and doesn't on a routine basis when it uses FLOCK and similar data today.  This decision ends that when the inquiry is one of criminal culpability beyond something like a license plate that is otherwise subject to direct casual, personal observation....

It is not likely that Flock's observations of license plates is per se a violation.  However, when the cops are seeking a criminal suspect and utilize Flock's videos to determine criminal culpability --that is, whether Suspect A was "at the scene" or not--it may, indeed, be a violation of the Fourth. 

Trump "Family Business" Reeks

 It didn't have to happen, but it did.  Two rich kids use their daddies' connections to get even richer.

Not unusual in private industry, or in Fortune 50 circles--but sadly, it's the way business is done in the current White House, just like in the last one.

The [NYT] reports that Eric and Donald Trump Jr., sons of President Donald Trump, and Kyle and Brandon Lutnick, sons of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, are tied to a billion-dollar tungsten-mining deal that the US government is financing in Kazakhstan....

The combox will soon have a post asking why Dad29 supports Trump.

Easy!!  To avoid Biden-style corruption from Kammy. 

Mouse Roars, ICE Says "Screw Off"

 This is a funny story in its own way.

 Cell phone video appearing to show masked ICE agents making arrests in Milwaukee over the weekend has reignited debate over a city ordinance banning law enforcement from wearing face masks in most circumstances while on duty.

The Milwaukee Police Department confirmed ICE agents are in the city for what ICE describes as targeted enforcement against criminal activity. The operation is expected to last a week...

....unless they decide to evict all the Syrian and Haitian illegals, too.... 

Moving on.

...Milwaukee prohibits federal law enforcement officers from wearing face masks to hide their identities under most circumstances while interacting with people in the city.

Alderwoman Zamarripa believes that ban should be enforced, with agents potentially facing fines of $5,000 to $10,000 as outlined in the ordinance if they continue to wear masks in the city.

"I think it breeds fear in the community to see these masked agents coming into our neighborhoods with vehicles unmarked, no license plates," Zamarripa said....

Actually, that's the point.  Better that they have the fear of God (and US law) instilled and self-deport than that the Feds have to muscle them outta here.  But YMMV.

Some random bystander babe refused to go on camera, but wailed and snorted nonetheless.

...A Milwaukee woman, who asked that her name and face not be shared out of fears for her family, described the emotional toll of the enforcement operation.

"It's very heartbreaking because I could definitely relate. I have family members that, as I said, they're just scared to go out and do what they even have to go to a grocery store," she said....

Then she went to the Heights of Irony script!

... When asked what it means to see agents wearing face masks, the woman said: "It just feels like they're doing whatever they want and we just have to take it in the chin, and it's just not right....

Kinda like the illegals, sweet cheeks?  Just barging in, ripping off taxpayers for welfare, Medicaid, food stamps........and raising the cost of housing for US citizens along the way?  And that's before we get to the drunk-driver-homicides, un-insured, un-licensed..........we could go on.

ICE had something to say to the Roaring Mouse Zamarippa:

... "State and local sanctuary politicians attempting to ban our federal law enforcement from wearing masks is despicable and a flagrant attempt to endanger our officers. To be crystal clear: we will not abide by unconstitutional bans. The Supremacy Clause makes it clear that state and local sanctuary politicians do not control federal law enforcement," the DHS spokesperson said....

That was the very long version of "FU and the horse you rode in on." 

Not satisfied with merely ranting for the suckers camera, Zamarippa has DEMANDS!!

... "If they continue to work here in a secret capacity with full masks on like I've seen, then we are asking MPD and the city attorney to act as the enforcement entity and write citations to ICE," Zamarripa said....

Dead silence from the Milwaukee Police Department, which cannot find one single solitary cop to volunteer for that task.  And they never will, either.

Good. 

How To Build a DataCenter? Secretly!!

To clear the air:  we are not opposed to "datacenters" per se.  Each one should be examined on its own merits and demerits.  That said, the slime-scuzzy practices outlined here should prevent any such proposal from going forward.

...They arrive a year early, force your mayor to sign a secret NDA, and quietly rig the local zoning laws. By the time you find out about the hyperscale data center, it's already too late. ...

 ...These agreements frequently prohibit disclosing the existence of the project, the company’s identity, scale (e.g., power demand in MW, number of buildings, water usage), or even the NDA itself in some cases. Officials sometimes sign to “stay in the room” for negotiations or incentives, or under pressure that transparency could scare away investment....

 ...Announcement or formal approvals often come only after land is secured, and preliminary steps are advanced, making organized opposition harder. Public input, if any, is compressed into rushed hearings.

... Impacts on communities: Data centers are massive (hundreds of acres, enormous electricity and water demands for cooling, noise from fans, traffic during construction and operation). Critics argue that secrecy prevents informed debate on grid strain, water resources, land conversion (often farmland), tax breaks, and limited long-term local jobs versus temporary construction work...

You don't have to be preternaturally intelligent to suspect that the Port Washington datacenter included all of those elements, and perhaps more.  The guilty look on the Mayor's face, whenever he allowed Nooz Peeps to ask questions, tells you everything.

Think we're Conspiracy Theorists?

The article here shows a LOT of positives for Wisconsin businesses, such as Regal/Rexnord, Generac, and Trane.  But then there's the slime:

  ...At least four communities signed NDAs for major projects. In Beaver Dam, the economic development corp signed with “Balloonist LLC” (later tied to Meta) in December 2023; public awareness came approximately 14 months later, after land deals and TIF work. In Menomonie, NDA in Feb. 2024 with the same shell; two months later, the council quietly changed a land-use ordinance to explicitly include data centers under “warehousing.” The $1.6B project faced backlash, went on hold, and zoning was later reversed after community input. Similar patterns occurred in Kenosha and Janesville....

 Noteworthy:  WE (the company that increased electricity charges by THREE HUNDRED PERCENT since 2000) has asked the PSC to relieve datacenter operators of the "burden" of providing credit guarantees.  So if the damn thing goes out of business--which can happen--ratepayers are left to pay for a helluvalotta excess high-voltage wires, towers, transformers, and switchgear.

For "good deals" as advertised, there is a lot of stink here. 

"Chavez-Crete"=Styrofoam Walls, the Socialist Solution

 How the Socialists' Communists' buildings are built.

First thing, get a committed Socialist Communist into office.

Next, have the Communist promise "Housing for the Poor."

Third:  have the Communist let the contracts to his BFF's.

Fourth:  shave cost-of-building by using STYROFOAM between thin layers of concrete instead of 100% formed concrete walls.

Then move to a countryside palace which is built of real materials so you're out of the area when everything collapses. 

HT:  PowerLine 

The Quakers Go All Nutbag (!!)

 For all those years, you thought the Quakers were a harmless bunch of anti-war types.  And since "anti-war" is an acceptable, but somewhat smarmy, viewpoint, you thought they were basically harmless.

No longer so.

 

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D.), appearing alongside a convicted murderer and a registered sex offender in a webinar with a prison abolition group, endorsed "any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons" and said locking up criminals was akin to "robbing" them of their freedom.

El-Sayed was the featured guest on a webinar hosted by the Carceral State Project and the American Friends Service Committee in August 2020 regarding their report "I Don't Want to Die in Prison." The American Friends Service Committee advertised the show—using the hashtags #FreeThemAll and #AbolishPrison—as a platform to "discuss the report findings and the road to decarceration and abolition with Abdul El-Sayed."...

"American Friends Service Committee" is the formal name for the Quakers.

Pretty much ruins that oatmeal breakfast you had in mind, eh? 

 

"No License". Same As "Illegal"??

Another car crash with fatality.

 

A Milwaukee man has been criminally charged, accused of driving drunk and crashing into another vehicle and killing the driver.

Alan Ontiveros, 23, is charged with several felonies for the crash that happened at 11th and Greenfield on Sunday, June 21...A records check with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation showed he did not have a valid driver's license.

'Ontiveros does not have a valid driver's license'.  That looks like a signal about his status.

Good.  Very good! 

Brennan the Communist and His Effects

 It would be an understatement to suggest that Sam Faddis intensely dislikes John Brennan--Obama's CIA Director.  From the writing here, the better phrase would be 'intensely hates' Brennan.

For good reason.  

Remember that Brennan said he voted for the Communist candidate back in the day, and that he worked for GWBush (the Dumber) as Director, Counter-Terrorism Center.  As we all know, Bush and his Daddy are Globalist Scum extraordinaire.

 ...Today’s CIA is a creation of John Brennan. He was not a case officer. He was not an operator. He spent almost no time abroad. His focus was on climbing the ladder politically and acquiring personal power. He did that by attaching himself to Bill Clinton and aligning himself with the liberal Democratic Party agenda.

As Director of the CIA, Brennan worked overtime to weaken the Directorate of Operations (DO) and to sideline career case officers. He didn’t just do that on an ad hoc basis by virtue of who he promoted. He retooled the entire structure of the CIA to guarantee that his people, largely analysts, support personnel, and political appointees, were in control....

 ...Brennan’s stated goals were to break down long-standing “stovepipes” between spies and analysts, improve integration and accountability, speed up decision-making, and better address modern threats like cyber warfare and digital. His real goal was to destroy the CIA as an apolitical intelligence agency dominated by operational personnel and turn it into an overtly political organization. He did not care one whit about producing intelligence and protecting America. He was laser-focused on making sure CIA at the senior levels would align itself with the political agenda of ‘Permanent Washington’ and the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.

CIA was already in desperate need of reform. Brennan came close to killing it operationally....

Ask yourself this:  why does the US have to rely on Israeli "on-the-ground" humint?

The answer appears to be the Communist/Globalist/Bush-Obama Boy, Brennan. 

Why It Takes So DAMN Long....

 ....to get rid of the viruses, jackwads, and barnacles in the FedGov.

 ...President Trump is in the White House. His appointees sit at the top of most federal agencies. Below that top level, where the work is done and power resides, the bureaucracy remains firmly under the control of the Deep State and those hostile to the America First agenda. They are working hard every day to ensure no real change is made and to pave the way for the recapture of the White House.

This is what we call a stay behind program in the world of special operations and intelligence. A “stay-behind” program is a strategy in which a country pre-positions secret operatives, special units, or clandestine organizations within its own territory. These assets are designed to remain active (or “stay behind”) if the territory is overrun or occupied by an enemy force.

In this case, Trump and his supporters are that “enemy force.”

The stay behind operatives gather intelligence and report to their superiors. They sabotage and disrupt the efforts of the occupying force. They form the nucleus of an underground movement and prepare for the day they will return to power....

It is a bit early to call for kinetic action. 

Next Crime Coming to Milwaukee Soon

 Theft-of-airbags from your car.

It's a hot item in Chicago, so you can expect to see it in MKE within a year or so.  

If you didn't know this, airbags are horribly expensive.  Generally, if you had an accident that caused your airbags to deploy, your car is totaled.

"Gee-Whiz" NOT Good in Cars

 ZeroHedge has the story.  Briefly:  buy cars made before 2010.

In another story, Ford RE-HIRED over 300 senior engineers after finding out that AI + Junior engineers were creating (and not solving) problems.  We are not shocked.

 

Core Services, Big Inflation

This is not good.

 

The “core services” PCE price index jumped by 0.46% in May from April (+5.6% annualized, blue in the chart below). The six-month core services PCE price index jumped by 4.2% annualized, the worst since June 2024 (red).

Core services dominate consumer spending, and that’s where inflation has been accelerating for a year, after coming down from the surge in 2021 through early 2023. Core services are where inflation is tough to battle. A lot of these core services lack adequate competition that consumers can leverage, and once companies that sell these services are confident they have pricing power, they raise their prices, and consumers wail and gnash their teeth and pay them....

OK, so what are "core services"?

 Core services in cost-of-living typically include housing, food, healthcare, transportation, and taxes. These services represent essential expenses that individuals need to maintain a basic standard of living in a specific area...

Hmmmmm. 

Are Pocan and Moore Next To Fall??

 Won't happen this election, but if you pay attention to "social media," you'll notice that Pocan (D-Madistan) is mentioned often as the next victim of the Democrat Socialist Communist revolution.

 You could include Gwen Moore with Pocan, if Childers is a solid prophet:

 ...‘Moderate’ Democrats aren’t rallying around their sudden, rediscovered patriotism. They are organizing against a movement that is stealing safe Democrat seats. It’s self-defense. They know abolishing prisons is not a winning issue.

The lid is off the blue crock pot, and the fondue is boiling over. The Democrats’ messy internal divisions are finally spilling onto the open battlefield: the civil war between ‘moderate’ Democrats and radical socialists....

Both Pocan and Moore occupy very safe (D) seats.  Both have a reputation for doing very little in Congress--aside from collecting paychecks and putting out inane positions on X.

Tick-Tock..... 

By the way, Childers inserted a still from "Red Dawn" in that column. 

History Is Fun

Grim recounts history from his temporary place at a motorcycle rally in North Carolina.

...Locally you see a lot of Confederate flags. This is because the Confederacy won the war here. At the end of the war, Thomas' Legion of Indians and Highlanders compelled the surrender of the last Union forces in the region. The Cherokee Nation declared war on the Union and allied with the Confederacy, for the obvious reason that the Union had been waging war on them since at least President Andrew Jackson, and for the less-obvious reason that they also were a slave-owning power. They joined with Scottish and Scots-Irish Highlanders to form a combined arms force that fought through the entire war. Together, they defeated the Union forces and obtained an agreement to surrender in the local town of Waynesville, North Carolina. As it happened, news of Lee's surrender to Grant arrived at about that same time, so they still held the surrender but reversed the polarity about which side was surrendering. However, the mountain folk were not only never defeated, they won. They remember that they won. The Cherokee often fly the Confederate flag too for the same historical reasons as the Highlanders.  ...

Who knew? 

The Problem With Little Benny Shapiro

Well, yes, there are LOTS of problems with Benny.

But this one stands out:

 ...In sum: Shapiro supports the forcible displacement of non-Jews from Greater Israel, even as he welcomes the dilution of America’s European stock via mass migration. Set aside your own views on those matters: Does this not seem a rather bewildering instance of moral incoherence?...

Documentation can be found at the link. 

Does he still have an audience? 

Sending Your Kids to Camp Minikani? Ask Questions!!!

 A lot of children from western MKE suburbs and the North Shore go to summer camp at Camp Minikani, which is run by the YMCA.

YMCA.  Vanilla, non-controversial, safe place, good programs for the kids, right?

Not so fast.

The American Parents Coalition released a “Lookout” notification to parents over the YMCA’s transgender-inclusive camp and programming policies that include allowing males into female cabins and restrooms.

Executive director of parents group the American Parents Coalition Alleigh Marré told The Center Square that “by not complying with Title IX, the YMCA’s policies treat biological sex as irrelevant in the spaces where it matters most for privacy and safety like bathrooms, locker rooms, sports teams, and sleeping accommodations.”...

Before you send your girls to Minikani, ASK QUESTIONS and INSIST ON ANSWERS.

 ...The Lookout highlighted the transgender-inclusive policies of many individual YMCA camps.

For instance, in Michigan, Sherman Lake YMCA camp’s policy for cabin placement states that “campers are assigned to cabins based on their identified gender.”

Sherman Lake is not alone, with camps in Colorado, Wisconsin and California in having similar policies....

The Wisconsin camp which displays the transgender-friendly wording is located in St Croix:

 YMCA Camp St. Croix (WI) policy: welcomes “campers of all backgrounds, walks of life, and genders,” adding that, “campers are assigned to their cabin based on age and gender-identity.”...

 No surprise that the St Croix camp is run by the Twin Cities Y.  

Pay attention, parents! 

ICE Clean-Up in MKE Underway

 Are you in MKE due to your lying?  Fraud?  Overstay of your visa?

Not to worry!!  ICE will give you a nice ride home soon.

Arrange your affairs accordingly.  

Vaya con Dios! 

Where Do We.....

 ....get such men?

During the Camp Mystic flood-disaster....

... For three hours, with no radio and no cell service, he was the only trained responder on site, setting up triage, organizing safe zones, carrying children barefoot in the dark, and comforting each one before moving to the next. His coordination enabled 165 rescues on a day where twenty-seven people died. What set him apart was that he was the only person who stayed behind—voluntarily grounded—so others could be lifted out to safety....

He will get the Tillman Award. 

Your Future Under Socialist-Democrats? Be Prepared.

 American Thinker quotes portions of an essay from a left-leaning newspaper guy in Venezuela.

You won't like what you read, especially if you live in NYC or Los Angeles.

First, from the Thinker essayist:

 Look at the despair and the sorrow of the people unable to rescue their injured loved ones from beneath the tons and tons of rubble, some of them calling out, dying, in homes transforming by the hour into tombs. . . There's no search and rescue, there's no ambulances, there's no hospitals, there's no fire trucks, and yes, fires are breaking out nightmarishly enough -- Venezuela's health care lies in ruins - nor is there an organized effort to dig out.

Socialism has well and truly taken over in that country, and as this leftish but still good essayist in the Caracas Chronicles notes, one of the effects is that the state has abandoned its basic functions of government. . .

Los Angeles already has experience with that--more specifically, Pacific Palisades, which found out what it REALLY costs to be governed by a Progressive Communist.  No water, horrific mistakes by Fire Department command, no clear path to rebuilding...........and Pacific Palisades is no more.

Not as bad as Venezuela.  Yet.

The state of roads in the City of Milwaukee is a signal.  Faint & distant, yes, but.......So rather than commit more State dollars to road maintenance for municipalities, our Governor's Radical Left Communist aides are petitioning for a choo-choo train.

(Quoting the Venezuelan author:)  

Since at least 2022, the Venezuelan state has increasingly adopted a hands-off approach to governance. This shift, shaped by a post-socialist form of laissez-faire economic policy, reduced state control over large parts of the economy and contributed to a modest but visible revival in business activity. In many ways, the state appeared to retreat from major areas of public administration while preserving absolute control over others, particularly the security apparatus and the machinery of censorship and political repression ...

Oh.  Sorta like how the Biden Regime controlled social sites?  Hmmmmm??  Sorta like the Biden Regime's persecution of J6 grannies?  Trump loyalists?  Catholics?  And on the flip side, its promotion of chaos in sexual perversions, "trannies", and abortion?

Some think that the trend toward Totalitarianism-by-Socialist-Democrat Communists will reverse because that form of governance simply does not work, and the lessons of Pacific Palisades and the rest of California, (not to mention what will soon happen in NYC) will be recognized and then the voters will reverse course.

Maybe.

But buying more ammo, and a couple of spare rifles, is never a bad idea. 

 

Is the Iran War Justified? Nope.

 There is a lot of rhetoric about whether the War on Iran is "justified."  Much of that rhetoric came from a small country in the Middle East, but a noticeable portion came from the White House and other US official sources.

In this essay, written by a US Army LTC (Retired), there is an examination of Thomas Aquinas' criteria for just war.  Sadly--but not surprisingly--not one of TA's criteria was met in this war.

Excerpts:

[1]  ... Our bombing of Iran, which began on Saturday, February 28, was not a last resort.  In fact, we were in the middle of a round of negotiations. ...

[2]   ...A nation has a right to defend itself from an immediate threat.  The leaders who make the call to go to war must be doing so to protect the innocent and vulnerable, and they have the obligation to conduct war with the ultimate aim of ensuring a lasting peace.  What was the immediate threat here?   If Iran has been chanting “death to America” for the past 40 years, then how can we suddenly claim that the threat is imminent, urgent, and immediate? ...

 ...there was no nuclear weapons program, so this recent attack against Iran did not save us from one.  It is also important to point out that in October 2003, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued an oral Fatwa forbidding the production and use of WMD in any form. A Fatwa is somewhat similar in scope and application to what we call an encyclical. [3]

For those who will argue that we cannot trust the Iranians, Fatwa or not, then, by the President’s own words, the facilities were buried under rubble in 2025 and our satellites have been watching it since then.  The Director of National Intelligence at the time, Tulsi Gabbard, confirmed this...

(That brings up the question about Gabbard's departure, doesn't it?)

[3]  ... The military force that is applied must be proportional to the offence that is being addressed. Our war efforts in Iran fail on this point as well.  There was nothing in the situation that existed in Iran prior to February 28 that would justify the assassination of a foreign leader; in fact, doing so was a barbaric act unbecoming of our nation.  Within the West, the assassination of foreign leaders has been prohibited since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648....

[4]  ... In order for a war to be a just war, it must be declared by competent authority.  The use of military force must fall under the laws governing the nation, which in our case requires that the War Powers Act are invoked. ...

Yes, well, that part is messy due to both the President and to Congress.

[5]... Injury or death of noncombatants must be avoided at all costs if engagement in armed conflict is to be justified, and on this point we failed miserably. ...

The girls' school "accident."

Throwing out #4 due to the legal mess over the War Powers Act, and generously throwing out #5 because errors actually do happen, it is still likely that under Thomas Aquinas' criteria, this is not a "Just War."

So........why was it started??? 

 

 

 

Solution for Soc Sec Shortage!!

 These two suggestions won't cure the entire shortage in Social Security funds, but it's a start--if the USG does what it ought to do.

 

The Justice Department today announced the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud and opioid abuse schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims and significant patient harm, including death.

Today's Takedown represents a new era in federal, state, and international cooperation to combat health care fraud: cases in 56 federal districts and 45 U.S. states and territories, with 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units participating, the most in Department history.

In addition, unprecedented international cooperation over the two-week Takedown resulted in the apprehension and return to the United States of the following health care fraudsters: one defendant in Kyrenia in connection with an over $3.7 billion scheme; two defendants in Estonia in connection with a previously charged $10.6 billion scheme; and, in the Philippines, one of FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters in connection with a previously-charged $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme....

Here's the plan:

A)  1)  Sell everything the defendants own.  2)  Clean out their bank accounts.  3)  Claw back every dime they put into 'trust' accounts for their children.

Deposit all the proceeds into the Social Security Trust Fund. 

B)  Then take every property and all the cash owned or controlled by Ukraine officials (past and present.)

Deposit all the proceeds into the Social Security Trust Fund.

See how this works?

Merely take back all the money that the USG should never have pissed away in the first.  damn.  place.  and give it back to the US taxpayers. 

GWB & Obama Killed Cars

 We've often referred to GWB as "the Dumber."  And you all know what we think of Obama.

It won't surprise you to learn that they teamed up to kill off the passenger car.

 ...After 1985, the CAFE standards didn’t change for 25 years. But then in 2010, thanks to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the mandate for cars started ramping up again, hitting 44.2 mpg in 2020. The one for “light trucks,” however, went up far more slowly.

As a result, while cars only had to be 17% more fuel efficient than “light trucks” in 2010, in 2025 they had to be 40% more efficient, according to data from the Department of Energy.

Not surprisingly, that’s when sales of SUVs started to overwhelm the market. (See the chart above.)

“If you could build a passenger vehicle that people wanted to buy, classify it as a light truck, and face a significantly lower regulatory burden while doing so, why would you build sedans?” writes Autoblog’s James Ochoa....

Buick and Chevy no longer offer cars.  Ford offers the Mustang--for the time being.  Chrysler will bring back the 300, after killing it off a couple years ago.

By the way, that change in offerings is deadly.  See the linked article. 

Trump HHS Cleans Up "Sex Ed"

 We are opposed to "sex ed" in schools.

That said, this is a start:

 

On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reportedly poised to strip nearly $70 million dollars from a Biden-era sex education program that focused on abortion, masturbation, and other sexually explicit material, returning to more need-to-know, traditional teaching on the sensitive topic. 

"Federal funds may not be used to indoctrinate America's children with radical ideologies or other inappropriate material," read a statement from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.

The Office of Population Affairs, under the Assistant Secretary for Health, reviewed the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and decided to end 53 of its 67 grants. The programs, awarded during the Biden administration, included materials promoting pornography, contraception, abortion and gender ideology to middle and high school students, according to department documents....

Expect lawsuits in       3,           2,           1, ..................        

Planned Barrenhood/Perversion Central will be one of the plaintiffs.

Another Trump Win at Appeals

While we're waiting for SCOTUS to rule on so-called "birthright" citizenship.....

 

A federal appeals court is greenlighting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to restart “expedited removals” of illegal aliens to their native countries in a legal victory for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

... the left-wing group Make the Road New York sued, and a federal court blocked expedited removal in August of last year.

Now, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is allowing the Trump administration to restart expedited removals, finding that the lower court was wrong in its decision and that the policy is not a violation of due process....

Good.

The Oil

 What is in that Middle Eastern oil?  Only everything we need.

 

The Archbishop is Catholic and American (!!!!)

 Refreshing.  Too bad Abp. Cordileone is the Lone Ranger here, eh?

 The Archdiocese of San Francisco has defended several San Francisco Giants players who referenced a Bible passage during the team's Pride Night game, saying athletes should be free to express their religious beliefs publicly and respectfully and "should not be asked to check their faith at the clubhouse door."...

You can bet your best bat and glove that the statement was run past the Archbishop--if it wasn't written by him.

MLB's headquarters is in NYC.

Didn't hear from the Archbishop there, did we?  Or the one in D.C., either.

Is the 1st Amendment inoperative in those areas? 

The Cost of Israel

A certain Special Ally is burning tax dollars--and critical US munitions.

...The Pentagon needs $80 billion to cover expenses from the Iran War and other expenses, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. The details of the funding constraints were reportedly unveiled by Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg during phone calls with lawmakers. ...

That's a lot of cash.  Could be used domestically to repair a Helluvalotta roads.  But we digress.

 ...The Iran War has not only been a draw on the Department of War’s budget, but also critical munitions stockpiles. Key quantities of Patriot interceptor missiles and THAAD have been particularly affected since the war began.

The U.S. military has used somewhere between 45% and 61% of its Patriot missiles since the Iran War began, according to a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report. Between 1,060 and 1,430 of the 2,330 Patriot missiles in the stockpile have reportedly been expended.

Likewise, between 52% and 80% of the THAAD munitions stockpiles have already been expended during the Iran War, according to the CSIS report, which estimates between 190 and 290 of the 360 THAAD munitions in the stockpile have been depleted....

The Zion crowd screeches that Iran should NOT have self-defense missiles.

They're doing a great job of making sure the US does not have self-defense missiles, too.

That's because they are Our Greatest Ally, see?? 

Know Your Leakers

 Public service announcement from Last Refuge.

 ...This reference resource is based on historic patterns and generally has an 80/20 accuracy rate.  While there are some leaks that cross through the data pattern, in the aggregate this basic outline has shown to be correct.

The leak source identification can help interested political observers understand the motives and objectives.

When you see the term “exclusive” in the originating media report, this guide increases in accuracy:

• The State Department leaks to CNN
• The CIA leaks to The Washington Post
• The DOJ/FBI leaks to The New York Times and Politico
• DHS domestically leaks to the Wall Street Journal
• The National Security Council leaks primarily to Axios and Politico, NYT secondary
• The Pentagon leaks to Fox News and the Wall Street Journal (Axios more recent)
• Kash Patel leaks to John Solomon – Just The News
• ¹DNI leaks to the Wall Street Journal, however:

¹The ODNI gets a little complicated due to the structure of the ODNI.  Each intelligence agency has a liaison office inside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  Generally, the topline guide above overlays with the desk assignment.

Example 1: CNN gets an ‘exclusive’ leak related to the DNI; the leak sourcing is therefore most likely to be the State Dept Desk inside the DNI office. (State Dept leaks to CNN)

Example 2: Washington Post gets an ‘exclusive’ leak related to the DNI.  The leak sourcing is directly from the CIA liaison desk inside DNI.  (CIA leaks to WaPo)

This is the consistent pattern that established itself over the past 20 years....

Keep it for future reference. 

The Climate Jerk-Around: "Record High"

 We're getting into That Season.  DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM!!!!! climate crapola with "Record High" temperatures.

Statistically?  It's all BS.  Or, more elegantly phrased:

 ...To those who have made climate change a foundational belief of their faith system, any heat wave is indisputable proof that global warming is real. But it’s not. Instead, it’s normal weather repackaged as climate propaganda, exploiting the statistical ignorance of the target audience, as well as that of the media pushing the climate scare....

OK.  Stats were a low-point of my sashay through HS education.  So....

...In the United States, temperature records date back about 100 to 140 years, depending on location. It would be fair to say that approximately 120 years is the typical historical database for a location’s temperature data. For each station, there is a record-high temperature for each day of the year, and also a record-low temperature for each day of the year. With 365 record-high temperatures for each station, spread over 120 years, that means that each station should record about three record-high temperatures each year, with a normal distribution. If there are fewer than three record highs being recorded in a given year, that would actually be below average.

NOAA monitors a domestic database of about 15,000 weather stations across the U.S. Therefore, with each of these 15,000 weather stations expected to have, on average, three record-high temperature readings per year, there should be approximately 45,000 documented daily high-temperature records per year in the United States alone.

Beyond record daily highs, we also periodically hear the terrifying reports of an “all-time highest temperature ever” being recorded for a given location. It sounds terrifying when climate alarmists are reporting it, but again, that is hysterics, not statistics or probability. With 15,000 weather stations divided by 120 years, there should be, on average, about 125 stations in the U.S. reporting their all-time record-high temperatures each and every year....

Oh.

So it will be hot during the summer, sometimes--in some places--REALLY hot.  So do what Sly Stone says! 

 

 

Scripps "News" vs. Truth

It is what they DO NOT tell you that makes the difference.

Scripps on the Trump re-do of the reflecting pool:

 ...after a Reflecting Pool renovation project cost north of $15 million, some area residents are not pleased with the result.

As was often the case before the renovation began, the pool is currently rife with green algae growth.

A researcher at George Mason University who tested the water this week shared images of the microscopic lifeforms with Scripps News.

And there are some signs the new blue coating may already be peeling.

"It is a rush job," said Jason Davison, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Catholic University of America. "Not having the design engineers, the environmental scientists involved is one of the main reasons why we're seeing this failure of the coating."...

Oh, really?  Only engineers and "environmental scientists" could have saved the pool?

Here's what Scripps and the CU Geek did NOT tell you:

...Sabotage the Lincoln Reflecting Pool! Man arrested for cutting out a big piece of blue sealant ...

Oh.  Well.....

Go find another scandal to manufacture, Scripps. 

Israel Blowing Up "The Deal"

Vance told Israel that the US is Israel's only remaining great friend in the whole world.

That friendship may not last another week.

 Talks between the U.S. and Iran were called off Friday after intense fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, officials said, raising questions about an initial agreement to end the war in Iran....

 ...Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said the military has not received different instructions from the government. He said Israeli forces were operating in a “forward defense zone” and will continue doing so....

 ...Iranian officials did not travel as planned to Switzerland, insisting that the fighting in Lebanon must stop before the talks can take place, according to three regional officials and a fourth person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive conversations behind the scenes. U.S. Vice President JD Vance also postponed his trip.

Israel’s military struck targets in southern and eastern Lebanon overnight, and Hezbollah reported intense fighting. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least 21 people were killed, and Israel said four soldiers died....

"Forward Defense Zone" = the country of Lebanon, part of the 500,000 square miles of the Levant that Israel claims as a gift from God.

UPDATE:  fighting has ceased for a while.

 

Fauci, CIA, Multiple Perjuries

 Another pundit remarks that now--given what we KNOW to be fact--Dr. Fauci is the world's leading mass-murderer.

And here's the most appropriate commentary featuring a well-known "Devout Catholic" Attorney-Liar whose Daddy employed Epstein:

 

Francesca Hong's DSA Party

A woman named Francesca Hong is campaigning to be the (D) nominee for Governor of Wisconsin.

She's actually a member of the Democratic Socialist Party and proud of it!

That Party is ambitious. 

 ... the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has simultaneously grown more extreme. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the group’s “Red Rabbits” initiative. The Red Rabbits Security Commission, a subgroup within the DSA focused on “community defense” efforts, is, according to its authorizing resolution, preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.” In practice, that means training cadres in tactics like armed and unarmed self-defense, blocking intersections, and fighting “fascists” with umbrellas....

Oh.

Does Francesca have an umbrella in her home?  Two?  More?? 

Terror Plot Leader? An Illegal.

 He's a product of Barack Hussein Obama.

 The alleged "ringleader" of a planned mass casualty event at the UFC Freedom 250 event is an illegal immigrant from Mexico. 

Abraham Alvarez, who federal documents identify as the "ringleader" of the alleged plot, overstayed his visa, according to Fox News, which cited Homeland Security information. He was arrested by the FBI on Sunday, the day of the fight, in Omaha, Nebraska. 

Alvarez came to the U.S. as a child, and his B2 visa had expired in 2001. He remained in the country, and the Obama Administration granted him deportation relief in 2014 through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program....

Another reason for the existence of ICE--and why deportation is a very, very, good thing. 

S. 702 Dead. Or IS It?

The US Senate will not pass the SAVE Act.  They may pass a renewal of S. 702, the "We Spy on YOU!!!" law which offers a workaround to all that silly paperwork they have to fill out in order to get around the Fourth Amendment, ya'know.  But if they pass it, the President will veto it, unless they pass SAVE.

So the "We Spy on YOU!!!" thing is dead?

Nope.

In an report about another "Cloud People" club* (you are NOT in it), the New American mentions a couple of factoids.

...The most troubling part of the report, however, is not the eccentric agenda. It is the overlap between nominally private data companies and public power.

Dialog’s chairman, Auren Hoffman, is not just a conference organizer. He is a data-industry operator and investor: the founder of SafeGraph and LiveRamp, companies tied to location data and identity resolution, and a general partner at Flex Capital, a seed-stage venture firm with a broad portfolio across the digital economy. That makes him a connector as much as an entrepreneur, someone whose network sits at the intersection of data infrastructure, venture capital, and political access.

Alongside Thiel, another Palantir co-founder, Joe Lonsdale, is also listed in the report. Lonsdale is another Trump donor. He helped fund Trump’s 2024 campaign through Elon Musk’s America PAC. He then advised the administration on “government spending and efficiency” through the now-infamous DOGE.

Buried beneath the loud political theater of long-promised government efficiency, DOGE’s true mission had been spelled out early: to “modernize government software” in line with an “AI First Agenda.” The result was not so much the exposure and cutting of government “waste, fraud and abuse” as the digitization of government itself. That is what DOGE appears to have successfully achieved.

Once that happened, the Trump administration contracted Palantir to fuse datasets on every American, potentially creating detailed profiles on every citizen....

So S. 702 is dead, but it is also UN-dead, under a different protocol.

Now don't you feel better?

*Some of the attendees/members include:

Ted Cruz (Senator from Jerusalem) and:

Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
Peter Goettler, president of the Cato Institute
Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Representative Jim Himes (D-Conn.)
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East envoy
Tom Lue, general counsel and head of governance at Google DeepMind
Souad Mekhennet, former Washington Post reporter
Wes Moore, governor of Maryland
Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Jared Polis, governor of Colorado
Rick Warren, evangelical pastor
Ezra Klein, political commentator 

John Arnold, Centaurus Advisors and Arnold Ventures; $2.8 billion
Nicolas Berggruen, Berggruen Holdings and Berggruen Institute; $2.9 billion
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian; $7.7 billion
Scott Cook, Intuit; $4.4 billion
Marcos Galperin, MercadoLibre; $6.8 billion
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn and Greylock Partners; $2.7 billion
Henry Kravis, KKR; $12.2 billion
Joe Lonsdale, Palantir, 8VC, and OpenGov; estimated $2.8 billion
Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI; $1.3 trillion
Eric Schmidt, Google and Schmidt Futures; $40.1 billion
Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital Group; $3.1 billion
Peter Thiel, Palantir, Founders Fund, and PayPal; $27.8 billion

There's plenty to read and learn at that link above.  Take the three minutes.  Your childrens' future is important to you, right? 

 

Sen. Kennedy NEEDS the Illegal Vote

Well, as it turns out, Sen. Kennedy--the Funny Man--has a good reason for opposing the SAVE Act.

 

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) isn't launching a presidential campaign — at least not yet. But if the field fills up with "goobers," don't count him out....

Kennedy--a Globaloney Twit (with good writers)--will need every single non-citizen vote he can get if he puts on a run for the America First seat in the White House.  That's because Kennedy is NOT "America First," nor "MAGA."

He's just a smirking snotfaced jerk. 

By the way, American owes Sen. Mike Lee a big "Thanks" for exposing this backwater jagoff. 

What Jacob Murphy (CBS58) Should Report On

This "data center" thing is ridiculous.

 

A new proposal from the City of Milwaukee and outside developers could reshape the empty Walmart and parking lot in the Midtown Center area. ...

 ...The proposal includes 200 affordable housing units in the parking lot, a city library inside the building along with a computer research facility. ...

The computer research facility became a "data center"--which it is not--and lots of neighborhood people are agitated.

Are they?  Or is it just one or two screechers who are lying to that area's residents??

Mr. Murphy should find the person or persons who are waving and screaming "DATA CENTER!!  DOOM!! DOOM!!" around the neighborhood and ask a few questions, like "Where did you get that information?" and "Are you a member of the Democrat Socialist Party, or the Party of Socialism and Liberation?  The latter is a known Chinese Communist front.

He will learn something.  He could interrogate the person who is giving "tips" about the meetings, too, and revealing that person's identity would bring a lot of clarity to the story.   

You know the word:  TRANSPARENCY.  Right, Jacob?? 

The KUSD Affordability Problem

Let's talk about AFFORDABILITY!!! 

 Took about 10 seconds to find the financial problem with Kenosha United Schools.  But first....

 Kenosha Unified School District families are facing a difficult reality — a projected $17 million deficit that could mean the elimination of sports programs, fine arts, and dozens of teaching positions unless voters approve an operational referendum in November....

That's the usual M.O.:  threaten to kill off sports and extracurriculars, and add a few teaching slots as the 'shiny object' to distract from the real problem:

 ... Average annual salary was $75,403 and median salary was $70,971. Kenosha School District average salary is 12 percent higher than USA average and median salary is 30 percent higher than USA median salary. From 2024 to 2025, the average salary of employees at this employer increased 3.2 percent, the median salary increased 3.6 percent.  ...

Then there's the administration.

We didn't get to benefits yet.  Health insurance is mentioned by the Superintendent, and if KUSD is--like many other districts--paying the premiums for a "rich" plan, KUSD taxpayers are going to have a horrible next several years. 

Kenosha is a Union Town, like Milwaukee.  In this case, like in Milwaukee, the Union makes things unaffordable.

Think Kelda Roys or Vanessa Hong will "fix it"? 

 

Extreme Weather Aims at Gays (!!)

 A fact that NOBODY knew until just now:

... The Annapolis Office of Emergency Management published an eyebrow-raising natural disaster emergency preparedness guide this week, arguing that extreme weather events are more likely to affect gays than straights. The release states that “after a disaster, LGBTQ+ people are almost twice as likely as the overall population to be displaced,” while adding an important reminder that “extreme heat can be challenging for those who rely on gender-affirming clothing.”...

Just in time for Juneteenth Day, "the poor" have been displaced by "the perverts."

You didn't have that on your bingo card, didja?? 

How Is This Even a Question?

 This is a statement which will set hair on fire on certain people:  Cruz, Levin, Cotton, Insurrection Barbie, Laura Loomer, and Little Bennie--not to mention Rabbi Huckabee:

 Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) on Wednesday evening suggested he is open to Iran retaining some non-nuclear weapons in the peace deal it is negotiating with the United States.

The senator’s take on the matter echoes President Donald Trump’s position. The president said earlier Wednesday he could be on board with Iran having some ballistic missiles in a final peace deal,...

Marshall mentioned "self-defense" as the reason.

Doh.

Let's see who argues that Iran should NOT have the ability to defend itself. 

Lie: "Gun Laws Make You Safe"

It's just lying, but that's what Democrats do.

 Wisconsin law currently allows private gun sales without background checks, which gun safety advocates say is leading to gun getting the wrong hands.

Their "remedy"?

Make it illegal to sell a gun to anyone without running a background check first.

Think about that.

In order to prevent a criminal from selling a gun to another criminal, the State will require Criminal #1 to run a background check on Criminal #2.  No doubt that Criminal #1` will comply, filling out all the paperwork and filing it with the appropriate State agency, right? 

Oh, yah.  that's the ticket!!!

They just lie, and lie, and lie. If they don't they would have to admit they are utterly stupid.

Transgender Suicides? Nope. Another Lying Study

 Surprise, surprise!

 ...It is not uncommon for researchers in gender medicine to exaggerate their findings and let allied media spin the rest. But in this case, the authors of the NHB study themselves promoted a narrative of cause and effect. “In this study,” wrote lead author Wilson Lee on LinkedIn, “we presented causal evidence that enacting state-level anti-transgender legislation increased suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary young people in the US.” Co-author Ronita Nath told CNN, “We’ve long known that the associations between anti-transgender policies and negative health outcomes for LGBTQ+ young people exist, but this is the first time any study has shown this causal relationship.”

Yet, in what has become routine in this research area, the NHB study’s findings and conclusions later crumbled under scientific reexamination. As a methodological criticism published (to its credit) in the NHB last month—over a year after the original study—shows, the observed elevation in suicide attempts came from a small sample (roughly 100 youth) in a single state (Idaho), at a time when that state’s “anti-transgender” laws were not even in effect. Further, the researchers did not properly control for confounding factors. (The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine has published its own methodological analysis, which is worth reading.)...

No, the original's authors did not apologize, nor offer corrections. 

Col. Mac Goes Optimistic

 During this 1-hour video, you'll hear all sorts of positives about Trump's peace-deal in the Middle East, plus some insights on wars and economies that Trump apparently took into consideration.  That is, positive for the USA.  He's not at all positive about Israel's position, activity, or philosophy, which in combination will result in more war--for Israel.  That means--of course--that Trump and his successor(s) will always be under severe pressure to bring in the US Marines.  

It will take strength to ignore that pressure, because Congress remains bought-and-paid-for. 

He's not as optimistic about Ukraine, and he says why:  Congress and the M I C.

It will make your day because it's informed commentary, unlike that of the "Kill 'em all!!" bunch on certain TeeVee networks, and also unlike that of the Mad Hatter TDS crowd.

 

Hawley Goes for MLB's Throat. Good!

After the cuck-worm girly-men at Major League Baseball's HQ stripped Bible verses from San Francisco pitchers' hats, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri issued a statement.

In relevant part:

 ...Alone among America’s professional sports leagues, baseball enjoys a sweeping, judicially manufactured exemption from the federal antitrust laws—a privilege the Senate Judiciary Committee has examined with bipartisan skepticism in recent years. A league that benefits from such an extraordinary dispensation owes the public a corresponding measure of accountability, and it invites the closest scrutiny when it appears to wield its market power to punish Americans for their beliefs. That exemption, in any event, has never been understood to shield the league from its legal obligation not to discriminate against its employees on the basis of religion... 

Make them cry, Senator.  Then make them crawl to the players and ask forgiveness.  THEN take away their exemption. 

Why SocSec Will Dry Up.....

You don't have to look very far to perceive why Social Security payments will drop by 25% in a few years.

 

...Oz further touted Vice President JD Vance’s work in exposing the fraud for criminal referral with his White House anti-fraud task force. While speaking at an anti-fraud roundtable with state attorneys general and White House officials last month, Vance revealed staggering numbers his team had discovered, including over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans, more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements, $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts, and $60 million in student aid fraud....

That's not counting Minnesota (and perhaps not counting California.)  And that's just "so far."  There will be billions and billions more.

YES, we know that SocSec is not the same as Medicaid, the SBA, and fraud-contract/fraud-student loans.  But money not stolen from the other programs could have been destined for the SS Trust fund.  And we haven't estimated the damages caused by immigrants, sixty percent of whom are grabbing welfare of one sort or another--and then add the fraud-immigrant bunch.......

There's more. 

The Big Fraud industry also has a very active "Social Security Disability" component.  We're not alone in noticing "disabled" people partying like it's 1968--that is, showing zero signs of "disability."  JDVance should get around to that bunch, too.

That, plus the usual Congressional whoring to voters, is what caused the problem.    

US/Iran: a New Paradigm?

 We really want this to be true, but suspect that it's optimistic.

... What Trump has actually accomplished is to reframe the Islamic Republic as a legitimate actor in world affairs, rather than a Forever Enemy whose very existence America can scarcely tolerate. “We got along very well with Iran,” Trump said on Monday in a joint press conference with France’s President Emmanuel Macron. “I find them to be more rational, very smart,” Trump told NBC News last week. Would any American president before Trump have been caught describing the Islamic Republic in this way?... 

.... If the U.S. can’t topple the Iranian regime, and if the health of the global economy depends on Washington and Tehran getting along, then Trump can no longer follow the lead of uber-hawks who reject, in principle, U.S.–Iran diplomacy....

Umnnhhhh......maybe.

The author here, one Mr. Day, forgets that Iran remains an Islamic country, and Islam is flat-out incompatible with Christianity, the nominal basis of Western civilization.  The Muslims also despise Jews.

So while Iran and the West may get along on economic terms, there will always remain an underlying dissonance.  That dissonance shows at the edges of those tectonic plates--specifically at the Israeli borders.  So we can expect plenty more trouble as it is clear that Israel does not share Trump's view of Iran. 

Starmer Pushes the Envelope

It's known  that England and its EU allies really, really, really want to "punish" Russia.  It's also known that Trump doesn't agree.

So Starmer is upping the ante a bit.  (He's also playing "man" for the cameras.)

 British armed forces boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel in the early hours of Sunday morning, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said.

In an operation lasting six hours, Royal Marine Commandos and specially trained law enforcement officers from the National Crime Agency intercepted the vessel and, for the first time, boarded it, supported by the RAF.

The vessel, Smyrtos, will be held and monitored off the south coast of England as investigations continue, the MoD said in a statement....

This will irk Putin, but it's not serious enough for anything more than a Strongly-Worded Letter.

Keep your eyes open.  If Starmer plays "man" again with another Russkie asset, one of more value, you'll know that he's hoping for a Russkie response which may trigger the NATO mutual-defense clause. 

Israel's Credibility and Sympathy Reservoirs? Gone.

 Beginning in the '60's, the state of Israel built a reserve of credibility and sympathy in the US.  The creds came through Israel's excellent intel and counter-intel activity, along with its successful assassinations; the sympathy came through its 'little guy that fights back and wins' reputation, despite Israel's documented track record of terrorism and "ethnic cleansing" of its territory.

But during the period beginning in the '70's, Israel's activities as a buyer of Members of Congress and various Administration officials also emerged, leading Pat Buchanan--and a number of other D.C. observers--to issue warnings about Israel.  But by that time, Israel's propaganda-and-money influence operations in the US were fully flowered, so Buchanan, Sobran, and other Cassandras were summarily "othered" as rabid anti-Semites and Israel, with its US citizen allies, continued to build positives here.

Then came the Zionists, a hard-right group in Israel which believed that God granted them a large chunk of the Levant, including Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and pieces of Egypt (if not more.)  Their influence on Netanyahu was weighty.  These are the people who despise Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims--and make that clear through their words and actions.

(To be clear, we are not fans of Mohammed, either.)

The Zionists provided the tipping-weight for scaled-up Israeli kinetic action against Persia and towards "Greater Israel".  Along with a loud Amen Corner in Congress and an extremely loud Amen Chorus in social media which included a number of theologically ignorant Protestant figures and highly-paid "influencers" such as Laura Loomer, (plus the exceptionally large cash contributions of US-citizen Jews to Trump's campaign), the decision was made to beat Persia into submission.

Rumors abound that Trump was sold a bill of goods, beginning with the falsehood that de-capitating Persian leadership, combined with a number of strategic missile-and-bomb demolition derbies, would bring Iran to its knees immediately.  No sweat.  Easy-Peasy!!!.  Walk in the Park!!!

Since the US' intel inside Iran was slim-to-non-existent, Trump relied on Israeli intel, which was very good, if that "decapitate and demolish" line was accurate.

It wasn't.  

As a result, the US's foot was now in the quicksand, and more pounding and de-capitations were launched.  Easy-Peasy!!  Walk in the Park!!

But Persians, the people who invented chess, had plans, too.  They smashed a number of US radar installations, (reportedly) took out a lot of US warbirds, and were able to pose a very effective threat to the US Navy with mines in the Strait of Hormuz.  Too bad that the Navy had scrapped its minesweepers, eh?  (Who the Hell made THAT decision?)  Iran and its Crazy-Uncle allies the Houthis now controlled the Strait and threatened another Strait on the other side of Saudi Arabia, too; and with that control, the control of 60++% of the world's supply of petroleum.  

That's when the dog's bite started ripping flesh and sinews.

After a few more agonized writhings, Trump gave up.  The "deal" he has does not accomplish "regime change", nor does it keep the "free flow of oil".  The Persians did not give up their "nuclear dust."  They did not lose one inch of territory, AND they demanded that Israel keep her mitts off southern Lebanon (which Israel, of course, met with more rockets, bombs, and missiles.)  They got a few hundred $billion, and they will promise not to even think about nuclear arms.

Trump promised that the US and Israel will not continue the demolition of Beirut.

But Israel ignored Trump and launched missiles and bombs into Lebanon anyway, as is their wont. 

That last--the Beirut Bombings--mark the end of Israel's US sympathy reservoir in the Oval Office and (with the exception of the Amen Corners in Congress and social media) the end of that sympathy across the US.  Of course, Israel can and will continue to invest in its effective propaganda-and-purchase plots, but along with that reservoir of sympathy, its reservoir of credibility ("Easy-Peasy") is gone for the time being.

Some people will pay a very high price for this misbegotten and expensive war.  Tulsi Gabbard is one.  JD Vance is another.  If you're paying attention, they are already being vilified as traitors to the US (!!!) and semi-Nazi scum anti-Semites.  It's possible that Vance will not get nominated to replace Trump and that Gabbard will never see another day in service to the US in any capacity.  And--by the way--both of them should double their security, especially at their six.

There may be a concerted Israeli-led defamation campaign against Trump, too.  His recent inane comments on other topics, along with his now-barely-concealed ego problem, are not engendering all the love he fervently thinks he's owed.  He's weakened.

Quite a chapter!  Trump, Vance, and Gabbard are probably out of the picture for the next decade or so.

But Israel will be back.  They'll have another war for us to fight.  Count on it. 

P.S.:  Israel hosted "World-Wide Prideland" last week.  Fittingly, at the Dead Sea.  They're gathering allies, you know.  Israel also offers free abortions to anyone....THIS is the country the US fights for? 

Trump Understates......

The Donald is far too kind.  Here are his remarks after setting up the deal with Iran:

...  in a phone conversation with the New York Times,  [.......] he said Netanyahu “is a very difficult guy, and to be honest with you, he should be very thankful to us for doing this.”...

Here's a translation:

"Netanyahu is a royal pain in the ass.  He has not yet, and never will thank the US taxpayer for what they've done here, and the next time he calls, I will be unavailable.  In fact, I will not be available to take his call until........oh........2060 or so."

"And tell Mark Levin, Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, and that dried-up wrinkled bitch Laura Loomer that they are not welcome at Mar-a-Lago for the next 20 years, either."

That's what he really said.

Wait until you hear what JD Vance has to say about that cast of characters............ 

 

Other Than This, No Worries!!

A lot of people have an intense interest in you.  And it ain't about love.

 Image courtesy of AND Magazine.

 

Their Plans for YOU

 A number of (non-US) central banks have signed up with this CLIMATE DOOM CLIMATE DOOM CLIMATE DOOM-aversion plan.  US banks, prompted by overseas insurance companies and those offshore centrals, were aligned with this at one time, but eventually discerned that the plans were suicidal for them AND for their customers.

But it's still out there, pushed by the Moron-in-Charge of Canada and the ultra-thin-blooded King Charles of England.  Think you'll like it??