Notice the "Wobbles" in Your Devices??

 The Market Ticker can tell you why your Apple phone, or MS browser, or Spectrum network, or your VPN or ad-blocker, occasionally goes wonky-wobble for a while.

...Virtually all technology-related firms have, for more than two decades, fired or laid off their best and most-competent people.  Most of them here in America were Americans.  They replaced said people with H-1bs, OPTs, CPTs and similar, most from India but not all, with many who do not even actually have the skills claimed and none of them have the experience which is why they're cheaper.  Doing this also instantly destroys the pipeline of new people in America coming into the field and the transference of said knowledge to the next generation as these foreigners are not citizens and never will be; they at best want green cards and send huge amounts of their earnings home where they intend to return after basically "mining" America for a wage that is several times what they can earn at home which permanently takes their acquired knowledge with them.

The latter problem does not show up for years or even decades but when it does the outcome is ruinous and impossible to rapidly correct as the knowledge is quite-literally lost.  The people who had it are either out of the workforce and will not return due to being previously screwed or are dead and went to their grave without passing on what they knew to the next generation.

Leaving aside outright fraud, kickbacks, race-based hiring and similar all of which is illegal between that importation and the export of the jobs themselves by moving entire departments out of the United States because its cheaper to not have to comply with US labor standards and taxes you are inevitably firing those who know the most simply because they've been there the longest and destroying the pipeline that transfers knowledge from those with gray hair like myself to the younger generation that ought to ultimately take our place and further advance the state of the art. ...

Most times, the small corps of Old & Experienced Guys that did NOT get pushed out the door and replaced by Curry-Eaters can diagnose and fix the problem.  But "Most" is not reassuring with national defense tech, nor for personal finance-tech goodies--like online banking or loan websites.

When MS forced its last OS (from 10 to 11) change into the market, Spectrum stability went bonkers.  But field-level techs did not know it was MS 10 (the old OS) causing the problems with stability, so the techies repeated the same temporarily-useful "fixes" again, again, and again, with the same problems re-occurring.  It's possible that Spectrum did not care--with them that's always a possibility--but it's more likely that they simply did not know.

Imagine that! 

  

Surber Nods

Don Surber is one of the best pundits in the US.

But even Surber nods.

... ITEM 11: Senator Elissa Slotkin, D-Ranged Michigan, said, “Right in the last two weeks of the election, they [Trump’s administration will] somehow come up with a national security incident that only they can protect us from.”

Elect retired CIA agents, get paranoia....

Wrong, Don.  That last line should read:

Elect retired CIA agents, get Insurrection-by-Color Revolution.

 

Israel Controlled Biden, Too

 Apparently Israel's command of US Presidents did not start with Trump.

 When confronted with warnings that famine was spreading across northern Gaza in early 2024, members of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy team could not believe what they were being told. The alarming reports came from U.S. agencies and respected international humanitarian groups, but they starkly contradicted Israel’s version of events. ...

... Not only were staggering numbers of Palestinians desperate for food. They lacked clean drinking water, medicine, and shelter. They were being torn to pieces—in many cases by U.S.-manufactured bombs—as the Israeli military  kept up its relentless offensive. Yet the president and his top aides failed to meaningfully exert their influence to alleviate the suffering. Instead, their response was shaped by credulous deference to the Netanyahu government and disregard for both U.S. and international law....

There is a pattern, and it repeats.

 ...Netanyahu and the fanatics in his coalition were bent on conquest and ethnic cleansing—and not in Gaza alone. They eventually expanded their war to southern Lebanon, while also giving free rein to rampaging settlers in the West Bank. Herein lies another disastrous Biden legacy. His failure to restrain Israel in 2023-24 dramatically accelerated the regional instability the increasingly enfeebled president said he and he alone was qualified to prevent....

Shakespeare was anachronistically correct on the Middle East:  "A pox on both your houses!" 

Pp Leo's Forgetfulness

 Here's a news item:

 

Pope Leo XIV stated this Sunday, during the Angelus prayed in St. Peter’s Square, that “we cannot truly love God if this love does not overflow into love for our brothers and sisters.”...

Apparently Pp Leo forgot about 'overflowing love' for adherents of the Old Rite. 

They Think You Are STUPID

Big dog-and-pony show to "convince" you that THERE ARE NO ELECTION FRAUDS AND THERE HAVE NEVER BEEN ELECTION FRAUDS AND THERE WILL NEVER BE ELECTION FRAUDS, DAMMIT!!  NOW STFU, TRUMPZOIDS!!

*Cough*

The election frauds--and there are thousands--are due to mail-in ballots.  They are mailed OUT to somebody, and somebody may or may not actually mark those ballots.  Sending a ballot to an illegal, or a nursing-home dementia patient, is the preferred method, not running silly "show and tell" games.

We know it.  Trump knows it.  And at some point in time, you'll pay for it. 

  

AI? Nope. It Cannot Be

 You don't have to get far in Rummelsburg's essay to know where it's going and yes, it strips "Artificial Intelligence" naked for all to see.

...[C. S.] Lewis presaged the current crisis of intellect when he described the men that a debunking education produces. He called them Men without Chests; we call them “critical thinkers.” Of them he wrote: “It is an outrage that they should be commonly spoken of as Intellectuals. This gives them the chance to say that he who attacks them attacks Intelligence.” Today, “intelligence” has suffered the same fate as the “intellectual.”

It is not hard to call "debunking education" sophomoric; "debunking" is--at root--what you often see in the sophomoric 'argumentation' in almost all social media:  the snarky put-down.

...“Mind” and “intellect” are words that point to realities that are immaterial in nature. Consistently eradicating all immaterial things from educational theory leaves these concepts especially vulnerable to abuse....

... The word “intellect” comes from the Latin intus legere – to read the interior. Our senses perceive outward qualities; the intellect grasps what things are, conceptually. A man sees and recognizes a particular dog, but his intellect grasps the nature it shares with all dogs. Unlike sight, it is not tied to a bodily organ; schools should cultivate its use and proper end. Aquinas teaches that the intellect’s end is truth, the conformity of mind to reality...

One is reminded of the great James Schall* (SJ's) insistence on "What IS."

 ...Intellect is a power of the soul with two operations Aquinas calls intellectus and ratio. Josef Pieper, in Leisure, the Basis of Culture, describes intellectus as “simply looking,” the mind at rest receiving reality. The student who grasps the structure of a fugue, a proof, or a proverb is doing more than perceiving: he is apprehending what the thing is. Ratio, or reasoning, is the active capacity to move from what is known by first principles to what was previously unknown.

Reasoning becomes rootless when it is not preceded by the intellect’s apprehension of the first principles....

Modern schools of thought on intelligence are dangerously insufficient.  They would teach the Bach St John Passion without reference to the text Bach quotes.  "It has sad notes" is true--but WHY it has such is simply passed over without mention.  

... Gardner’s “multiple intelligences” splits the unity of intellect into eight or more capacities, such as mathematical, kinesthetic, and musical; the intellect exercises these abilities, but they are not the intellect itself. “Emotional intelligence,” the premise of the social-emotional learning programs, inverts the order of intellect and passions. Artificial intelligence is no more like intelligence than fake flowers are like flowers; it simulates its effects, not the thing itself. Only the habit of judging by appearances lets us confuse the two....

...Dante, passing through the gate of Hell in Canto III of the Inferno, learns from Virgil that he will see the sorrowful who have “lost the good of the intellect,” not the power to think, but its object, the truth that is God – the Good....

The intellect can--and should--be formed to understand What Is:  the "I Am Who Am",  which is Truth Whole.

Artificial Intelligence cannot do so. 

Need more?  Another essay--this on iconoclasm--touches the same theme:

...We deny the humanity of another image of God: our very selves. The Greek word for image is eikon; in the Septuagint’s Genesis, God declares that man is made kat’ eikona Theou—in the image, the icon, of God. Humanity is the original icon, and today we are witnessing a global campaign of anthropological iconoclasm. We deny the physical, historical, and created reality of our own human nature.

The iconoclasts contended that God’s infinitude makes Him uncircumscribable; therefore, He cannot be painted. The Council Fathers, drawing on St. John of Damascus, argued that God the Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, assumed a real human body, redeeming matter and circumscribing Himself. The modern iconoclast smashes his own nature because he believes he should be infinite and uncircumscribable....

IOW, seeing a part and missing the whole, thus missing What Is (True). 

*You can still get Fr. Schall's "Another Sort of Learning" from Ignatius Press.  It's worth it. 

 

The Fun Starts on Election Day!

We're not absolutely certain that DataRepublican's sketch is fact.

But being prepared is always useful.

 ...in the Senate, Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a former CIA analyst, recently announced she’s ready for a Trump election-stealing scenario, most likely “in the last two weeks of the election, (as) they somehow come up with a national security incident that only they can protect us from.”  [Slotkin is one of the Insurrectionist Six, and has openly threatened people who join the Administration with 'retribution.'  She is--in short--a Piece of Shit.]

With many polls now showing Dems with a lead in the midterms, all that will have to happen is for Republicans to hold the Senate and do better than expected in the House, and that will be proof enough for Slotkin and her Deep-State allies. [New York City resident Tammy Baldwin is making noises about 'election interference' already.  She's stupid--but she can read a script.]  What will they promote? Riots? Demonstrations? A takeover of government through violent insurrection?

The Democratic Socialists of America are already planting the seeds of violence if things don’t go their way in the election, with their “New Battlefield Project,” calling on 10,000 “volunteers” to guard polling places.

Here’s what’s really happening.

“Activists are planning mass protests if the Trump administration tries to interfere with voting or ballot counting,” U.S. News reported in September. “And [hard-Left] legal scholars [Norm Eisen-like] are distributing white papers advising judges what they should do if the government tries to seize ballots.”

Meanwhile, “A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers” on how to prepare for “Trump administration interference in midterm elections,” the Washington Post reports.

Sounds pretty much like they plan their own interference if the GOP wins.

 Make sure your guns are clean and your ammo is sufficient.

Fed "Judge" Making S**t Up......

It's one thing to use AI.  It's another thing entirely to get caught.

 The Fifth Circuit allowed Mississippi's anti-DEI education law to take effect and ordered the case reassigned to a different judge, sharply criticizing AI-generated fabrications and serious legal errors in Judge Henry Wingate's rulings blocking the law...

... Wingate's original order included nonexistent parties, fabricated declarations, unsupported factual claims, and misquotations of Mississippi law. Even his corrected order cited a nonexistent Fourth Circuit decision....

 Henry was appointed by............RONALD REAGAN.

Henry's picture is below.  Think he'll be disciplined?  Removed from the bench?

 

Sure, Ilhan, It's Your "Faith". Yup.

This little turd is circling the drain--so now it's a "religion" persecution.

 Ilhan Omar says critics just don't think someone of "my faith" should be in Congress....

Well, maybe it's not ONLY your "religion", scumbag:

 The Center for Immigration Studies found 81% of Somali-headed households in Minnesota use at least one welfare program. 54% get food stamps. 73% have someone on Medicaid. For native Minnesota households, it's 21% on any welfare. Ilhan can play the victim card all she wants. The numbers don't care.

Your "religion" is inimical to the US Constitution and its political system.  That much is true.

But there's good news for you!  After your time in Club Fed, you get to go home, permanently. 

NOT Mentioned in JSOnline? No Surprise.

USA Today, the sister of JSOnline, does not mention this as of this morning.  It goes without saying that none of the local TeeVee "news" outlets mentioned it either.

 New court documents unsealed reveal Ilhan Omar has been living under a fraudulent identity...her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. This could mean every single government document she has ever filled out has been fraudulent. Her whole time in America she has been trying to cover up who she is....

A Marxist-Muslim (probably non-citizen) Member of Congress is living (and voting in Congress) under a fake name.

But "news" stations don't think you should know that here in MKE.

Illegal Voting in WI? Kaul Covers It Up

 Josh Kaul--who claims to 'fight for Wisconsin'--sued to protect non-citizen voters in Wisconsin.

He won, using a Jackwad (crooked?) Judge-ette in the Land of Fruits and Nuts.  

Yup.  That's how Josh rolls.

 California Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín blocked the Trump administration from investigating voter fraud by noncitizens in 9 states. The Supreme Court has already rejected judges’ rulings for other states or anywhere outside its jurisdiction. This judge did it anyway.

This one judge ordered DHS to stop its voter probes in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin....

(That judge-ette was born in Mexico.)

Kaul has done his best to do nothing as AG, except to block any serious reforms initiated by the Feds.

Vote him out. 

Crowley: Jack Up License Costs, Tolls--AFFORDABILITY!!!

Crowley calls this "affordability."

 Question: "Mr. Crowley, are you open to new user fees for transportation funding?"
Crowley: "I am open."
Question: "Are you open to tolling?"
Crowley: "I think we should be open."

So let's jack up car & truck registration to $125?  $150? per year, jack up your driver's license fees, and then slap a toll on I-94, I-41, and I-43 drives--say $5 to get from downtown to Waukesha, or Mequon, or Oak Creek.

That's affordability!! 

Crowley: Sparkles, Rainbows, and Free S**t! and He Runs Away!

 It is the Democrat and Democrat-Socialist position:  make promises, fuggedabout details, and TRUMPF BAD.

...Crowley called for a fairer tax system, saying, “We need to make sure that everybody in the state of Wisconsin can get access to groceries, can afford a roof over their head.”...

What the Hell does "fairer" actually mean?

 ....Crowley opposed expanding the voucher program and said he would not support abruptly ending Milwaukee’s program.

“We cannot expand the voucher program in the state of Wisconsin,” Crowley said.

He called for more public school funding...

How much is "more"?  How high is "up"?   

After the debate, Tiffany stuck around to answer questions from reporters.

Crowley ran away.

THAT tells you everything you need to know. 

Channels 4 & 12 did not mention 'Runaway Dirt McGurk' in their reports.  Only Channel 58 (!) did. 

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

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

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

Pat Murphy & Vince Lombardi

 Former college players remember Pat Murphy fondly.

This graf reminded me of a Vince Lombardi technique:

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

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

IIRC, with Lombardi it was "grass drills."

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

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

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

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

Fox6 Plays "Hide the Judge"

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

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

You'll never know that, either.

Here's the Fox6 version of the game:

 

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

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

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

Virginia Starts the War?

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

 Virginia’s AG just ordered election officials to:

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

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

❌This is an operational plan, not theory. 

❌The conditions for escalation are being set in advance.

Hmmm.

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

Medicaid "Slashed" UP???

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

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

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

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

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

 

Abortion and the Invasion of the West

 We were reminded of a story about Ireland.

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

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

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

Just coincidence?

Really??? 

The NAFTA-Cartel Fusion

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

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

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

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

Colleges Play "Publishers' Clearinghouse" DEI Game

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

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

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

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

NBC Babe Wants Suicide Pact in Oregon

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

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

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

Live with it, sweetie, and STFU.

A Moment of Sympathy for GWB

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

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

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

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

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

 

Difficulties Across the Ocean

Trump was interviewed.  Here's the takeaway line:

 

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

Yes.

But is he more difficult than Netanyahu??? 

Yovanovitch: Another Lying Sack of Shit (D)

 Democrats:  lying is what they do.

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

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

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

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

Somali Frauds Thank Catholic Charities

 The USCC continues to disappoint.  Bigly.

 

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

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

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

The Somalis?

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

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

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

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

I understand that helicopters are available for the task. 

 

Ritz Crackers Now Schitz Crackers

 Noticed exactly the same thing.  They are awful.

Troy Jackson Just Lost the Race

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

 Troy Jackson tells Collins to ‘shut up’

That was the headline.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blah, blah, blah, blah.  

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

But then, waaaayyyy down in the propaganda story:

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

Coverage?  There's plenty of options:

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

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

Do you have special needs?  Under Trump:

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

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

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

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

And they may NOT find that. 

Waaaaayyyyy down at the bottom, you find this:

 

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

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

You cannot hate the MSM enough. 

"Hide the Judge" From Channel 12

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

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

In this case:

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

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

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

Sad failure.  A betrayal of the voting public.

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