10 Years Ago This Week......

This week will mark the 10th anniversary of a dubia sent to Franny 1 about his highly-questionable yammerflapjaw, Amoris Laetitia.

 

...Dated September 19, 2016, the letter asked the pope five short questions which call for ‘yes or no’ answers which would immediately clarify the meaning of the confusion-plagued document on precisely those points where theologians, priests and even bishops have offered contradicting interpretations.

After nearly two months of the pope’s refusal to respond, the Cardinals have released their letter with an explanatory note giving the faithful the opportunity to see their grave concerns, which touch directly on the integrity of the Catholic faith.

Signed by Cardinals Walter Brandmüller, Raymond Burke, Carlo Caffarra, and Joachim Meisner, the letter tells the Pope of the “uncertainty, confusion, and disorientation among many of the faithful” stemming from Amoris Laetitia. 

The cardinals explain that they are “compelled in conscience by our pastoral responsibility” to call on Pope Francis “with profound respect” to give answer to the questions posed, reminding him that as Pope he is “called by the Risen One to confirm his brothers in the faith” and to “resolve the uncertainties and bring clarity.”...

That letter is still sitting on a desk someplace in the Vatican.

Leo will never respond, either. 

A couple of the questions:

 1.  It is asked whether, following the affirmations of “Amoris Laetitia” (nn. 300-305), it has now become possible to grant absolution in the Sacrament of Penance and thus to admit to Holy Communion a person who, while bound by a valid marital bond, lives together with a different person “more uxorio” (in a marital way) without fulfilling the conditions provided for by “Familiaris Consortio” n. 84 and subsequently reaffirmed by “Reconciliatio et Paenitentia” n. 34 and “Sacramentum Caritatis” n. 29. Can the expression “in certain cases” found in note 351 (n. 305) of the exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” be applied to divorced persons who are in a new union and who continue to live “more uxorio”?

2.    After the publication of the Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (cf. n. 304), does one still need to regard as valid the teaching of St. John Paul II’s Encyclical “Veritatis Splendor” n. 79, based on Sacred Scripture and on the Tradition of the Church, on the existence of absolute moral norms that prohibit intrinsically evil acts and that are binding without exceptions?

3.    After “Amoris Laetitia” (n. 301) is it still possible to affirm that a person who habitually lives in contradiction to a commandment of God’s law, as for instance the one that prohibits adultery (cf. Mt 19:3-9), finds him or herself in an objective situation of grave habitual sin (cf. Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Declaration, June 24, 2000)?

Franny1 was caught with his pants down, thus his refusal to even acknowledge the existence of the letter.  

Leo won't acknowledge it, either--which fits his style of "No answers here!" governance.

Sheesh. 

Scott Fitzgerald's Dismal Record

Fitzgerald (R-WI) is snug as a bug in a rug; like Trump, he'd be re-elected even if he shot someone on Bluemound Road while naked.  

That accounts for his dismal Congressional voting record.

He's a Big Spender Government Guy who loves him some Globaloney.

But he wears nice clothes. 

 

Meantime, in Ceuta...

 The socialist government of Spain allowed several thousand Moroccans to invade a Spanish enclave.

Then that socialist government allowed the invaders to remain.

What the socialist government forgot?  That the citizens of that enclave have agency.

So this happened.

Think that's a lesson that Trump will learn?

Umnnnhhhhh....... 

 

Well-Earned Reward in Berkeley

 Berkeley, CA., has been a Leftard location since the '60's; now it gets its reward.

A fashionable Bay Area locale has been taken over by massive homeless encampments which a liberal judge has ordered can stay.

The encampments have cropped across Berkeley and were recently spotlighted by San Francisco reporter Lyanne Melendez, who shared concerning footage showing the sprawling tents behind her son's new college dorm....

 ...Winston said that businesses in the area had encountered 'used needles' and 'very scary threats.'

She believed sales at her business' location on Sixth Street had dropped 'because it's pretty scary' for families with children.

Winston insisted that the 'dystopian scene' had gone on for 'way too long.'...

Too bad.

Madison is comparable to Berkeley in a lot of ways.  Think they're next? 

 

 

He Probably Votes Democrat

Bodycams are worth it.

 

A Racine County public defender has admitted in court to making up accusations that a sheriff's deputy shoved his client into a wall, with body camera footage showing the claims were false.

The incident occurred in March 2025 inside the Racine County Courthouse, where 28-year-old public defender Cole Covey argued with a sheriff's deputy after his client walked toward the judge's chambers....

Lying.  It's what Democrats do. 

Both Good and Bad: Silk Closing

Strip joints usually attract undesirables.

So when a strip joint closes down for "security" reasons, it's a good thing, (and good for the moral climate, too.)

Good riddance. 

Crowley Won't Do This

 If the Tiffany campaign is paying attention.....

The Trump administration's "MAHA" program helps States to restrict SNAP (Food Stamps) purchases; it disallows candy, sugar-heavy soft drinks, snack foods, (etc.).

But there is no such program in Wisconsin, where there are 650,000+ food stamp (SNAP) users.

Crowley will NOT restrict purchases.

Will Tiffany?? 

Did Netanyahu "Suicide" Israel?

 When the NeoCon leader says so....

...For years, Iran confronted a balance of power in the Middle East that tilted against it. The region was dominated by a hostile American superpower, a nuclear-armed and militarily superior Israel, and significant local actors—Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates—that were strategically and economically aligned with the United States. Today finds Iran in entirely new circumstances. It has gone head-to-head with the superpower and Israel, withstood a pounding from their most advanced weapons, and more than survived. As a result, Iran has, with American help, completely reconfigured the power structure of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. The dominant power in the region going forward will be Iran, not the U.S. or Israel. Neighboring countries are already making their adjustments to this new reality. More distant powers will too. For years, the world has been dealing with an Iran constrained. It will now discover what Iran unleashed looks like. ...--quoted at Vox

Tulsi told Trump that Netanyahu was full of shit.  So did a number of Pentagon officials.  The American public had repudiated Israel's war by electing a (faithless) Trump.

So now Israel will pay that price. 

Hey, Mike Rowe!!

Mike Rowe is a classically-trained operatic bass singer.  He also knows the value of working with his hands.

Mike Rowe is a great American.

He oughta love this.

 ...The College of St. Joseph the Worker is built on a simple idea that modern higher education has largely forgotten: the man who knows St. Augustine and the man who knows how to frame a house need not be two different men.

Students pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Catholic Studies while training in a skilled trade such as carpentry, HVAC, plumbing, or electrical work. Their education moves between the classroom and the job site, where they earn wages, gain practical experience, and learn the habits of craftsmanship alongside philosophy, theology, history, and the broader Catholic intellectual tradition.

The goal is not merely to produce graduates with both a degree and a trade. It is to recover a more complete Catholic understanding of education, one in which intellectual formation, useful work, family life, and the pursuit of holiness belong together. The College seeks to form men who can think clearly, work competently, provide for their families, and carry the Faith into the communities they help build....

Cdl. Newman's "Idea of a University" combined with how-to smarts.

Nothing about opera singing, but......... 

 

Crowley Will NOT Do This

One hopes that Tiffany's campaign management is awake.

 Ron DeSantis announced this week that Florida will prohibit residents from using welfare benefits on “non-essential items” like pornography and tattoos. Believe it or not, no other state has done so. 

Besides porn and permanent body ink, the new policy will ban Floridians from using Temporary Cash Assistance to purchase vapes, drugs, video games, entertainment subscriptions, and fortune-telling services...

Tiffany should ask DataCenterDave about that in their debate. 

Garage Bar, State Fair, and "Doh! News"

 Some bar on Brady street named "Garage Bar" issued a fatwah on "Milwaukee rapper music".

Hoo boy!!  The local "nooz"--all "highly-trained professionals"--hit that place like a ton of bricks for its TERRIBLE AWFUL DISCRIMINATION ANTI-BLACK HITLER ACT. 

(Sorry about that "Hitler" thing.  That can only be applied to Trump.)

Moving on....

There's a reason that the manager of that bar banned the music:  the State Fair. That's the exact same reason that Summerfest does not have a midway-rides section any more.  Ever hear of Water Street?  How about looking at your own archives under "Brady Street Disturbance"?

Certain People are Not Welcome so we do not want to play music that brings them in.

But did the "highly trained professionals" ask the bar manager why he issued that command?

Are the "highly trained professionals" able to add 2+2?

Ach.  Fuggedaboutit.  

 

Ruling Class Strikes Again.....

 In an earlier post, we quoted Codevilla's essay on the "Ruling Class" (Cloud People) and how their cat's paw Administrative State twits are making life less bearable every.  damn.  day. for American citizens (but NOT for illegal aliens, nor for Certified Ruling Class Members.)  We speculated that the crescendo of laws, regulations, and impositions-of-will over the last 80-100 years is what drove citizens to revolt over Data Centers, whether those centers deserve it or not.  But there is no question that the turmoil over Universal Spy Cameras is part-and-parcel of that revolt.

Anyhow, another example of Arrogant Legalistic Administrative Twittery just popped up.

 A Missouri grandmother has refused to stop serving free breakfasts to her community after she was threatened with legal action by the local health department...

...The grandmother's cooking, which includes breakfast burritos, sausage, egg and cheese biscuits, gravy and coffee, quickly became a hit and more people started coming by the house. ...

Well, now.  THAT deserves lawyer (or police) intervention!!!

...But in early July, Kite was stunned when she received a letter from the Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services Department stating that she needed to obtain a food permit or face legal action.  ...

The letter was signed "Snidely Whiplash."

We recently were at a luncheon which had a fair amount of leftover food in the warming trays.  I suggested to the restauranteur that they should wrap it all up and I would take it to a local homeless shelter.

"No Can Do," she replied.  Wisconsin forbids that sort of generosity and sharing.  The food went into the dumpster instead.  

(In Tennessee, restaurant leftovers are shipped to homeless shelters.  Perfectly legal, and we have not heard of any mass deaths resulting from that generosity.)

"It's for your own good."  "It's for your safety."  "It's Economic Development."  "Our experts tell us to......"

Uh-huh.

Here's a gentle reminder:  there are two redresses available to US citizens:  ballots and bullets.

Let's try to keep it at "ballots." 

England: "Let's You and Him Fight!!"

 This is not the first time we've encountered the thesis that England is pushing war against Russia, using Ukraine as its cat's paw and the US as the major financier.

Biden got involved because Biden Crime Family--there was money to be had, and a lot of it.

But that was long after the CIA's "Color Revolution" which sparked the whole thing.

Maybe Trump will get tired of dissing his voters with a continuous diet of Mo' War; his CIA Director appears to be making nice-nice with the Russkies. 

The BIG question:  will Trump quit Israel's Zionist campaign?

Nah. 

Talk About "Cloud People".......

Have no idea who this woman is--nor who she THINKS she is....

 

Political commentator Gretchen Carlson said Thursday on CNN’s “The Arena” that “the American people will have an insurrection” if President Donald Trump demolished the Kennedy Center....

Meh.

The building is in terrible shape (Democrat rule in D.C.); and it's just a building.  

Second:  Who's "WE", chick-a-dee?  The vast majority of D.C. residents would not give a flying damn if your precious little theater building were to disappear in a cloud of dust, and neither would the vast majority of the "dirt people" whose name you arrogantly invoke.

Sit down and STFU.  Please. 

  

Codevilla, "Ruling Class", DataCenters

 We had characterized Angelo Codevilla's essay as 'one of the most important of the decade.'

We were wrong.  It's one of the most important of the entire century.  Codevilla's work pointed to the "Ruling Class" as perpetrators of a number of aggressions against the "Country Class"--us peeps who pay & obey.  We put excerpts on this post for your pleasure, but as refresher:

...As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.

...The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.

When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term "political class" came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public's understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the "ruling class." ...

Yes, it's bi-partisan.  Decidedly bi-partisan.

And it's not new; talk of the "ruling class" was present in the mid-1800's and--guess what?--it was a Senator who defined that group and detailed its reason for existence:

... Accordingly, by nature, superior men subdue inferior ones as they subdue lower beings or try to improve them as they please....

And they have plans!!

.... The ruling class knows that Americans must learn to live more densely and close to work, that they must drive smaller cars and change their lives to use less energy, that their dietary habits must improve, that they must accept limits in how much medical care they get, that they must divert more of their money to support people, cultural enterprises, and plans for the planet that the ruling class deems worthier....

Eradicating Constitutional norms about "laws" and "justice," we also have this:

... Ordinary people have also gone a long way toward losing equal treatment under law. The America described in civics books, in which no one could be convicted or fined except by a jury of his peers for having violated laws passed by elected representatives, started disappearing when the New Deal inaugurated today's administrative state -- in which bureaucrats make, enforce, and adjudicate nearly all the rules. Today's legal -- administrative texts are incomprehensibly detailed and freighted with provisions crafted exquisitely to affect equal individuals unequally. The bureaucrats do not enforce the rules themselves so much as whatever "agency policy" they choose to draw from them in any given case. If you protest any "agency policy" you will be informed that it was formulated with input from "the public." But not from the likes of you....

And the "country class"?

 ...It has no privileged podiums, and speaks with many voices, often inharmonious. It shares above all the desire to be rid of rulers it regards inept and haughty. It defines itself practically in terms of reflexive reaction against the rulers' defining ideas and proclivities -- e.g., ever higher taxes and expanding government, subsidizing political favorites, social engineering, approval of abortion, etc. Many want to restore a way of life largely superseded. Demographically, the country class is the other side of the ruling class's coin: its most distinguishing characteristics are marriage, children, and religious practice. While the country class, like the ruling class, includes the professionally accomplished and the mediocre, geniuses and dolts, it is different because of its non-orientation to government and its members' yearning to rule themselves rather than be ruled by others.

Codevilla goes on, but doesn't mention the last several years' abuses, which include the Covid Fraud, the likelihood of Election Fraud on a massive scale (81 MILLION votes??) the obvious 'They Will Not Be Punished" two-tier justice system, the also-obvious nascent beginning of PanOpticon--which--together with Data Center capabilities--will create a surveillance state that Stalin would have died for.  No need for "snitches'!!

So to those who ask "What's the Problem with Data Centers"?

Let's start with hubris, move on to "Who Pays" and then to that Surveillance State that they facilitate.

It's not really "Data Centers" per se.  They just happen to be the Ruling Class' newest toy which will be shoved down your stinking throat no matter what you say or do--just like those damn cameras.

By the way, this whole Codevilla thing is also why JDVance is popular, and why his Catholic Social Doctrine-fueled "populism" is attractive.

This is not over, friends. 

 

"Measles Deaths" in PA? Not Likely

 The first thing you notice about the "measles-related deaths" in PA is the word "RELATED."

Yep.  That's the FauciFraud returning.

One of them was an infant whose cause of death was "ruptured spleen."  You know exactly what that means.  

The other?

"Related."  Maybe they drove their motorcycle into a wall at 70 MPH while having measles, f'r instance. 

"Super El Nino" = Super B.S.

A few weeks ago, Da Nooz was all agog over "Super El Nino."  It even crossed into some Local Yokel coverage.

It's all B.S., of course.

 Deutsche Welle (DW) claims in “How climate change is teaming up with ‘Super El Nino” that a developing “Super El Niño,” combined with climate change, could make 2026 one of the hottest years on record while increasing the risks of heat waves, wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, and marine heat waves around the world. This is highly misleading. El Niño are long-recognized naturally recurring ocean-atmosphere cycles that have operated for thousands of years and strong El Niño events have occurred periodically throughout history, long before industrial greenhouse gas emission began to increase.

The first red flag appears in the headline itself. There is no official meteorological definition of a “Super El Niño.”...

The "Super" is pure propaganda.

But you suspected as much when the "news" people began having orgasms over the term.

Soros Money, Then "Seditious Six"

 Data Republican prints "the REST of the story" about the "Seditious Six" members of Congress who pushed the ball toward refusing orders of the Commander-in-Chief.

The ball started here:

 

On January 30, 2017 — ten days into the first Trump presidency — Rosa Brooks published a piece in Foreign Policy laying out four ways to remove a sitting president before his term ended: impeachment, the 25th Amendment, resignation under pressure, and a military coup. Of the last, she imagined the moment senior officers would look at a lawful commander-in-chief and refuse:...

So who is this insurrectionist?

... In late 2018 [Rosa Brooks] joined the advisory council of National Security Action — the organization assembling the personnel. Prior to joining, she sat on the board of Open Society Foundations’ U.S. Programs, the grant-making entity upstream of the money that funded it. She was a senior fellow at New America — which itself takes $1 million-plus annually from Open Society — running its Future of War program, the intellectual shop studying exactly the civil-military questions her network would later litigate.

One person. Four seats. The board of the funder, the think tank writing the framework, the council assembling the staff, and ... then, the project that would rehearse what that staff should do with power....

Oh, yes:  she also teaches at Georgetown.  That fact alone should make you snap to attention.

Data has the rest here. 

What Blew Up the US-Canada Deal?

Hilarious crapola from Canada.  That's what blew up the deal.

 ...Essentially, it boils down to four issues. !1) Removal of tariffs on Canadian assembled Semi-Trucks. (2) U.S. streaming services writing code for “search engines” in the French language. (3) Canada demanding 5% of gross revenues from U.S. tech platforms, and the last one is silly because it already exists: (4) the U.S. having a right to reject a trade deal made by Canada with a non-market economy, ie. CHINA....

The Silly Senatrix from Wisconsin couldn't figure out what that (2) actually meant, so she decried it as 'the US demanding Culture Change in Canada' or some such asinine claim.

Carney wants political points AND prefers to deal with Red China.

Hope the Snow Mexicans enjoy that ride! 

Bp. Barron and Dad29

Gee.  The Bishop gets it.  There's something implied here that +Barron won't say out loud, but it's obvious.  

In an O'Reilly interview, +Barron said this:

 ...Catholic social teaching says a government has a right to maintain its borders to enforce its immigration laws. It has to do it humanely, of course, but those two things are in a healthy tension with each other.

What I said to Vance was, you know, my job as a churchman is to articulate the principles. Your job, especially as a Catholic politician, is to formulate the policy. Don’t turn to me to say, “Now, what exactly should we do with this piece of immigration legislation?” I don’t have the detailed knowledge on the ground. That’s for people like you....

Yup.

He then went on to say that the US (and all other countries) must defend their borders because:

 ...the chaos caused by an open border — and I mean the moral chaos. Just [consider] the issue of child sex trafficking, which is staggering. And the more we read about that and more that becomes clear to us, the more we see that an unregulated border is a morally very dangerous proposition.

So, I don’t hold to that simple-minded view that, yes, welcome the stranger, therefore no immigration laws, therefore no regulated border. No, no, no, Catholic social teaching is nuanced on that point....

Gee.  We've been saying that for quite some time, and we've gone further.  USCC bureaucrats (and some simple-minded Bishops) are morally culpable for the sex- and drug- and labor-trafficking. Not all of them are "simple-minded," either; take that for what it's worth.

Barron implies exactly that. 

$100K/H1-B Fees Coming Up

 Trump will impose a $103+K fee for each H1-B put on the payrolls in the US.

There are hundreds of H1-B computer programmers and engineers in the Milwaukee area. 

Think Milwaukee Electric Tool will pay $100K for each of its 400 H1-Bs?  CapGemini for its several hundred?  (Cap is a bodyshop.  Think "Kohl's" and/or "Deluxe Data")

Yah. Nope.

Naturally, this will go to court again.  First time around, some twit-in-black said that the fee is a "tax."

This time around, Trump claims that the FEE will be used to offset expenses incurred for administering the H1-B program.

(No judge has been asked to review Roberts' asinine ObozoCare "fee/tax/fee/tax" ruling--yet). 

Ted Cruz, the Back-and-Forthright "Conservative"

 American Conservative notes the vast differences between the Ted Cruz(es) serving in the Senate.

No wonder Charlie Sykes had a b*ner whenever Ted spoke.

Tea Party Yes!!  Tea Party No!!  Foreign wars NO!!  Foreign wars YES!!

At least he hasn't gone Switch.  Yet. 

A.G. Kaul's Anti-Cop Grantee

 Hint:  Kaul's office is funding anti-cop jackwads in Madison.

... The state DOJ, which Kaul runs, has continued giving Freedom Inc. federal money despite years of incendiary and outrageous statements against police. For example, another $48,000 grant went to the group in 2025. Kaul’s agency shoveled another $98,000 to the group for 2025-26. In 2023-24, Wisconsin DOJ listed Freedom Inc. receiving a whopping $745,550. DOJ determines grant awardees for federal money through the Violence Against Women Act. The city of Madison and another state agency have also given the group money....

Plenty more at the link.

No wonder ChubbyBitch Kaul hasn't put his face in public even though he's running for another term as A.G. 

It's All About the SPENDING, Stupid!

 The essay linked here is the long-form version of this chart.  Read the essay, too.

Note the WILD OVERSPEND of both Obozo and Cabbage; so:  what really causes inflation? 

 

St. Augustine On America's Immigrant Problem

Interesting bit of knowledge about St Augustine's thought which happens to pertain to America's current political situation.

 ...In the political and theological thought of St. Augustine, populus (a people) is defined in The City of God as a multitude of rational beings united by a common agreement as to the objects of their love.

A true populus is bound together not merely by laws, but by what its members collectively value and love.  ...  Augustine uses populus specifically to denote a unified, conscious polity rather than a random crowd (turba) or a mere ethnic group (gens). ...

That should clarify the problem with certain groups of immigrants--both "legal" and not--which believe and act as though the United States should conform to their politics and religion rather than ours.  IOW, if you don't like a Christian republic, you're not part of the 'populus' here.

 

 

About That Flock Thing

 Want to trade the Fourth Amendment for a little "security"?

 

 

Ford Re-Shores; Buick Remains in China

 Good wages and bennies for FoMoCo people!

 Ford is expanding production of their Lincoln vehicles in the United States, adding thousands of jobs and reducing reliance on Chinese imports.

The automaker said the move will “further strengthen Ford’s position as America’s No. 1 auto producer,” per an Aug. 12 report from CNBC.

The move is expected to bring “thousands of direct and indirect U.S. jobs” as more Lincoln models are manufactured domestically....

Buick continues to manufacture the Envision in Red China.  Mary Barra maximizes GM profits and stock price to pad her retirement to The Villages.

 

Sending Omar Ilhan Home? About Damn Time!

 The Congress-critter (D-Somalia) has been under investigation for immigration fraud.

Things are moving in the right direction.

[President Trump]  appeared to confirm that federal immigration authorities have active or contemplated enforcement proceedings against radical “Squad” Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota over long-standing allegations of immigration fraud.

Trump shared a bombshell report from Just the News revealing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused to release records concerning its investigation into the Minnesota Democrat.

ICE claimed that disclosing the records could interfere with “enforcement proceedings.”...

Got popcorn? 

The Bessent FAIL (Twice)

Recall that Bessent worked for Soros and was instrumental in breaking the British pound.

This columnist doesn't think much of Bessent's "Save the World" bond action.

...Bessent is playing games with the hugely important bond market, trying to fool the buyers and sellers with his two hocus-pocus shows – the big kahuna joint US-Japan yen intervention at the beginning of August, and the announcement of the doubling of the Treasury buybacks on Wednesday. Those two shows were designed to push down long-term Treasury yields. But the bond market doesn’t want to be played with. It has bigger problems. Real problems.

This time, the hocus-pocus show worked for only one day. And that effect was wiped out in two days. Long-term Treasury yields have now fully re-gained the drop on Wednesday.

The 30-year Treasury yield rose by another 4 basis points on Friday to 5.27%, having in two days regained the entire 10-basis-point hocus-pocus drop on Wednesday. On Monday, the 30-year yield had gone over 5.30%, the highest since June 2007, more than wiping out the effects of Bessent’s first hocus-pocus show, and it had spooked Bessent, and rattled, he came up with the second hocus-pocus, which has now also flopped....

Some would love to blame Trump for this problem and it's true that he deserves blame.

But the REAL blame, and 90% of the problem, is spelled C-O-N-G-R-E-S-S.

Whether they are merely shelf decorations like Scott Fitzgerald or utter and total public menaces like Schumer and Pelosi, they all love to spend more than they have.

There are plenty of trees and ropes in this country which are presently un-used.

We have suggestions...... 

DARPA, Gates, & Epstein (??)

 The essay at RedState raises a question that RedState does not ask.

 The mystery surrounding Bill Gates' extraordinary access to some of the federal government's most sensitive information is a bone-chilling look at how America’s elites are corrupting our government.

And the latest trail leads through nuclear research, the Pentagon, DARPA — and, strangely enough, Jeffrey Epstein....

Much later in the piece:

...in November 2010, Gates’ science adviser Boris Nikolic emailed Jeffrey Epstein that he had just arranged a private dinner—“only three of us – Regina, Bill and me and it was great!”—with Regina Dugan, then-director of DARPA. Contacts continued through 2011, including scheduling notes and a confirmed DARPA meeting.

This establishes a direct, ongoing channel between Gates’ inner circle and the head of the Pentagon’s premier research agency, reported in real time to Epstein....

The question not asked:

Why was Epstein looped in to Gates, Dugan (DARPA), and Nikolic?

Hmmmmmm? 

 

JDVance: Right Here, Minute 22:00

JDVance was in Middletown, OH., (his home town) speaking at the old Armco Steel plant.  (Milwaukee had an Armco office.)  He talked about the "Free Trade" ghouls and their effects on Americans.

Beginning at 22:00, you'll hear one of those stories that will NEVER leave your mind--unless you're on the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal, or on the Board of the US Chamber of Commerce.  To those cold-blooded reptiles, it's just a 'cost of doing business.'

But it's also symbolic of what Clinton and Bush the Dumber did to the industrial Midwest. 

NOTE:  Link Fixed 

Once Again, "Catholic" Charities

Almost like a broken record.

 A ... federal judge has struck down the Trump administration’s suspension of immigrant visas for foreign nationals of 75 countries, handing immigration activists another victory against President Trump’s effort to slam the brakes on mass immigration.

And once again, a law passed more than 60 years ago — the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, better known as the Hart-Celler Act — is a specter still haunting America’s broken immigration system.

At the heart of the case is the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), a “religious” organization that has gotten into the legalized human trafficking racket....

CLINIC is a subsidiary of the USCCB, and we all know that the Catholic Bishops have facilitated human (and drug, and sex-trafficking) through the border since before Trump 1.

This particular case, however, boils down to welfare-sucking.

 ...“Vargas ruled the policy was reviewable under the APA because it was final agency action: it imposed mandatory instructions requiring consular officers to refuse visas and had immediate legal consequences, even though individual officers implemented those refusals.”

Here is what the legacy media is not highlighting about this huge case: It has to do with the extraordinary numbers of immigrants who are on public welfare....

How much public welfare?

 Currently, the United States has 59 percent of non-citizen households and 53 percent of immigrant households on public welfare. That’s according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)....

Bishops will tell us that the Church mandates charity to the stranger.  But the Church's own Catechism has conditions:

CCC #2241: “The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin.”

Oh.  

"...to the extent they are able...."  Hmmmm.  

Further note--this is important--that the immigrant "cannot find" a "means of livelihood" in their home country.

The US Bishops would do well to examine closely their "immigration assistance" operations (found all over the USA) to make certain that 1)  the immigrants ARE obeying the laws of the US (also a part of the Catechism's teaching) and 2)  that the (LEGAL) immigrants find jobs so that they are not public liabilities.

Reminding the Bishops that the Government's first responsibility is seeing to the welfare of its own citizens may help.  

Cutting off donations to the "Annual Appeal" will also be helpful. 

 

Remember These Names?

Sundance assembles a list of names.  The FBI seized laptops and/or phones from these people.

But you've never seen ANY of the materials on those devices, have you?

Nope. And you know why.

... Hunter Biden laptop, Huma Abedin laptop, Anthony Weiner cell phones, Hillary Clinton phone(s) and laptops; Awan Brothers laptops (4) and phones; Seth Rich phone and laptop; Jeffrey Epstein, phones, laptops, hard drives; Stephen Craig Paddock phones and laptops, Syed Rizwan Farook/Tashfeen Malik cell phones, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev phones and laptops; Senator Bob Menendez, phones and laptops etc....

It's easy to remember Biden, Clinton, Epstein.  But we're willing to bet that most of you 18 readers do NOT recognize all the other names, or even most of them.

Yes, there is a reason for that, you miserable peasant. 

Pocan Confirms His Commie Creds

Looks like Mark Pocan (D?-WI) is shoring up his Commie Creds before Francesca Hong primaries his homosexual ass.  Here, he attacks the US/Rubio clampdown on his BFF Castro-ite Cuban dictators:

 ...The “silent Gaza” talking point had previously been promoted by four radical leftist members of Congress, Rep. Mark Pocan, Rep. Maxine Dexter, Rep Teresa Leger-Fernndez and Rep. Delia Catalina-Ramrez, who, despite the supposed “collapse of infrastructure” and “fuel shortages” that UN human rights experts were complaining about, were able to fly in and tour Cuba.

“I think Marco Rubio is making this personal and not professional,” Rep. Pocan whined, implying that the son of a Cuban refugee should really not take the dictatorship that destroyed his homeland personally. Rep. Pocan, who had spent much of  the last few years defending Hamas-run Gaza from Israeli attacks on the Islamic group, claimed Cuba was a “silent Gaza.”...

This posturing and pandering probably won't make a difference.  Hong will demolish Pocan in a fair fight.  The city of Madison has been a Communist redoubt for well over 50 years, fueled by the UW-Madison's professoriate, and has trended even-more-Lefty every year. 

Still and all, it will be fun to watch Pocan twist and squirm while Hong roasts him on a spit.

"Catholic" Biblical Association? SRSLY?

"Woke" is not limited to political twits. 

 The Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA) has elected for the first time in its 90-year history a Jewish president. Biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine, a specialist in the New Testament and a member of the association since 1988, will serve as president for the 2026-2027 term...

What could go wrong?

... Her appointment is particularly significant given that the organization’s statutes require its work to be carried out in accordance with Catholic Magisterium and that it provides counsel to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

Levine has previously advocated for reconsidering the full proclamation of the Passion according to Saint John on Good Friday and has held positions on the contemporary application of certain biblical texts related to homosexuality that differ in some respects from Catholic moral teaching. She now intends to collaborate with U.S. bishops on biblical guidelines for preaching and catechesis, as well as to strengthen resources for clergy and religious educators....

Oh.  Well.  Is that all??

... The new president also does not consider that “everything attributed to Jesus in the New Testament comes directly from Jesus.” Among her arguments she mentions that Christ spoke Aramaic while the New Testament texts were written in Greek. Levine maintains that this historical-critical approach is compatible with Catholic doctrine and specifies that the Church’s proclamation is based on the words of Scripture as they have been received, not on a possible scholarly reconstruction prior to them....

Cdl. Cupcake will be pleased, as will the current Abp. in D.C.

Actual Catholics?  They'll continue to ignore the CBA, just as they have for the last several decades. 

 

City of MKE Drowning in Tax/Spend Problem. Solution HERE!!

 Long story short, the City of Milwaukee has a spending problem AND a revenue problem.

The city's comptroller--who knows which side his bread is buttered on--blames the State (specifically, the Republican legislature) for the City's spending and revenue problems. Note that he "forgets" that Tony Evers signed the deal, but that's politics.

... His first report, released Wednesday, forecasts a $52.5 million structural deficit for 2027. By 2031, his office projects that number nearly doubles to $104.5 million, which represents 5 percent of the current budget....

Not good.

 ...Part of the reason Christianson said that's too big a gap to solve with just budget cuts stems from state law. The same legislation that allowed the city to impose its 2 percent sales tax also mandated hiring more police officers and firefighters.

"The two largest departments – we're not able to... we have no ability to shrink. They're in fact going to grow," Christianson said....

The Republicans have a fetish about ......ahhhh.....'satisfying'...........the police union.  The firemen's union is a hard-left bunch, so we have no idea why Vos & Co. included them here.

...While the city can increase property taxes, the amount remains limited by state law, and collecting more sales tax requires state approval. ...

So the City must spend on police & fire, and "may not" raise revenue, all due to State laws passed by the meanie-mean Republicans.

OK.  Here's our solution:

The next Legislature and Governor should remove all revenue and spending mandates for the City.  Let the City of Milwaukee solve its own problems by raising taxes and/or cutting police and fire services.  The City's own Controller says those are the problems--so let the City fix them. 

RoJo Disappoints With "Pro-Forma" Sessions

In order to prevent President Trump from naming permanent high-end Federal officials, various US Senators have "gaveled in" Pro-Forma sessions. 

That includes Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).

RoJo was ordered to do so by Jackwad #1:  John Thune.  The disappointment?  RoJo did what he was told to frustrate Trump AND ALL TRUMP'S VOTERS.   

RoJo knows better.  Shame on him.

"Da Merder Works" Re-Charges

 An old pal and union President who worked there referred to Waukesha Engine as 'Da Merder Works"--a play on "Motor"....

Anyhow.

 

Waukesha manufacturer Innio is rolling out plans to invest $300 million to expand its facility and says it will add 500 jobs in the years to come.

The company says it wants to expand its footprint to help keep up with what it calls the "rapidly growing data center" business....

Innio purchased the old Waukesha Engine business.  GE had purchased it from Dresser Industries and moved the HQ to Canada (!).  For a while, there were not a lot of cars in their parking lot, but that appears to be changing.

Demand for large standby generators has also been very good to Generac, another Waukesha County-based manufacturer. 

No More Tax Bennies for Illegals!

 Another (long-overdue) correction.

 Cheats should never prosper. The Trump administration heeds that ethos and has stopped illegal immigrants from profiting off kickbacks drawn from four major refundable tax credit programs.

The initiative was announced Wednesday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and is destined to benefit taxpayers by an estimated $3 billion.

The NY Post first reported the Treasury Department and IRS unveiled new rules “to tighten the requirements for the adoption, child, American opportunity, and earned income tax credits so that only U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and qualified aliens can get them.”...

Utterly shocking that the Cabbage Administration didn't do this./sarc  

Also--for you eGOP twits living in the past--surprising that Bush the Dumber didn't do this, either./sarc

Democrats, last-century Republicans.........all the same.