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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some people still don't get it. 

ObamaCare Costs Force HEALTH-CARE People to Drop Insurance

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

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

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

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

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

 

Learn To Code, Sweetie....

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

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

Awwwww.

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

Well, then:  learn to code. 

Who Likes the Wars? The Green Bunch!

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

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

Very long-term, and rather expensive, too.

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

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

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

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

Never thought of that, didja? 

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

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

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

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

"Judge" Sparkle Gets Doused

 Such a sparkler she.......ahh......WAS.

 ...back in June, D.C. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan —a name that belongs on a glitter pen— ruled the whole thing was profoundly illegal and must stop. (Biden appointee.)

Her order scolded that “Congress put protections in place to prevent precisely this type of centralized data bank,” and accused the administration of having “haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable,” thereby allowing states to “actively remove United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information.”...

SCOTUS reversed, 6-3.  That'll douse her sparkle! 

Political Violence Coming Here?

The columnist here is a retired FEEB who has a serious case of TDS.  But the surveys he presents are....ahh.....interesting.......in that Chinese Curse sort of way.  The good news?  Violence isn't in the cards soon.  (But don't let your ammo supplies run down like the Pentagon's!)

...I listened to Pape discussing his idea with Mario Nawfal yesterday. The basic idea—based, he says, on five years of research—is that approval for political violence among Americans of all political stripes has soared in the last few years. His surveys, he says, show that no less than 30% of Americans of both Left and Right approve of political violence. Not fringe types, but ordinary seeming Americans.  ...

But the stats he cites in the column do not reflect "all" stripes.  Instead, he cites from:

... a survey that was conducted by The Center for Strategic Politics survey on Sept. 3 and Sept. 8-10 among 683 Democratic voters nationwide.....

K.  So Lefties.  You know them:  the Peace and Love Bunch.

 ...Nearly six in 10 Democrats said they would react positively if military leaders removed President Donald Trump from power, while 55% said the same about Trump dying in his sleep.

Forty-three percent said they would feel “very positive” about the military scenario, while 16% said they would feel “somewhat positive,” bringing the total positive response to 59%. Twenty-eight percent said they would feel negatively, and 13% said they would feel neither positively nor negatively. ...

IOW, 'have someone else do the dirty work--like the Generals, or God.  But hey!  We're fine with Trump being dead!' 

Now look at the cross-tabs tables in the column.  What's noticeable?

Old.  White.  Just like you see at those silly March-A-Rounds and Sign-Wavings.

Maybe they would pound Trump-ists with their canes?  Signs?  Walkers?? 

Violence is not the answer, of course--and based on what he presented, it won't be. 

MKE Police, Stupid "Questions," and Black Fatigue

This sort of crap is what leads to "Black Fatigue."

 Milwaukee police released body camera footage Wednesday from the deadly shooting of 23-year-old Printis Smith.

The shooting happened around 6 p.m. near 37th Street and Meinecke Avenue following a car chase that ended about a block north in an alley near 38th and Wright streets on Tuesday, Sept. 8....

Occupants of the car had fired a few rounds off in Glendale; the Milwaukee police saw the car and gave chase.  Eventually the car stopped and an officer began a foot-chase (that's the video.)

So what's the Stupid Question of the Month?

... Smith's family doesn't dispute that he was armed, but say that he never shot at the officer....

Implicit:  Well, if the goblin didn't SHOOT at the cop, why did the cop shoot at HIM?

Yes, that's a stupid question; the goblin POINTED A GUN at the cop and the cop did exactly what YOU would do if someone pointed a gun at you from 6 inches away.

"Questions," my ass. 

On another channel, the anchor went with another stupid question, which was "Why didn't the cop yell 'Drop your weapon!!!' (like they do on all the TeeVee shows)?" 

He had to be reminded that the video was NOT a TeeVee show, for crying out loud.  This anchor is a full-grown man.........we think........ 

The Stupid Questions were given to the reporters/anchors by a rabble-rousing black lawyer who miraculously turns up following every police shooting--if the person who was shot is black.  Not if they were white (rare, indeed), nor Hispanic.  Only the black ones.

Now you know why the term is "Black Fatigue." 

Mayor Johnson Demands MORE State Money

The theme for the Extreeeeme Left?

"Gimme MO' MONEY!!!"

Mayor "Corvair"* Johnson demands what is not rightfully his:

..."The state of Wisconsin is sitting on billions and billions of dollars that should be going back to local governments," Johnson said ...

Actually, that surplus belongs to the people who paid State taxes which were not spent on Extreeeeeme Lefty wishes.

Here's another half-truth un-challenged by "the Press":  

 ... To balance his budget, Johnson proposed increasing the city’s property tax levy by 2% – an increase Johnson notes is below the rate of inflation – from $336.8 million in 2026 to $343.6 million in 2027, with the property tax rate likely to go down to $7.29 per $1,000 of assessed value...

Cute.  What they did NOT tell you?  The "rate" only measures taxes taken vs. the assessed value of the home. The average home assessment has grown from $180K to $220K since 2018.  So while the Mayor wants you to think you're paying less, you're paying more.  The 2026 assessment is up 7.2% over the 2025, so Corvair's "less-than-inflation" B.S. is just that. 

But the Extreeeeeeeme Left knows that repeating lies often enough makes them seem like truth.   

And they know that the camp-follower media will not present any counter-arguments from responsible politicians.

*Corvair:  unsafe at any speed. 

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

It's a great selling method, by the way.  IBM used that triumvirate for years--contrasting their machines to those of Burroughs, NCR, Data General, DEC.......and you haven't heard of those brands lately, have you?

F.U.D. works in other venues.

Trump mentioned the F.U.D. of climate.  First it was cooling:  50 years to mass death.  Then--when cooling stopped--it was warming:  50 years to mass death.  Warming stopped, so now it's "climate change":  50 years to mass death.

There was Covid19:  only 10 years to mass death unless everyone took Teh Vaxx.

There is AI:  only a couple years to mass deaths!!!

Note well:  the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt worked in every one of those cases--until it didn't work any more.

But you'll NOT hear this one mentioned, whether by Trump, or anyone else:

TWO YEARS UNTIL IRAN HAS NUKES!!  MASS DEATH!!!

That record's been played for about 20 years.  Some Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt must continue!!

Wonder why no one mentions that one........ 

Russia and Diesel Fuel

Some would pin the price of diesel on the Iran/Netanyahu War.

It ain't necessarily so, even if it is partially so....

 ...Back in July, when NATO began increased targeting of Russian refinery infrastructure, Russian President Vladimir Putin proactively signed a government order banning the export of Russian diesel fuel.  There have been no exports of Russian diesel since, with exceptions to the shipping industry and some humanitarian farm shipments.

Russia is the world’s second largest producer of diesel fuel and as soon as Putin made this announcement global prices of diesel began to rise. Russia then extended the bans, and the current export ban will run from Aug. 1 until Jan. 31, 2027....

Trump has to walk a fine line here, keeping Putin close.

Don't look to the Usual Idiot Democrats to have a grasp on this. 

Accomplishments of Congress

This is just the RECENT accomplishments list.  Speaker Johnson--he of the very pretty hair--has sent Congress home because there's nothing left to do.  And yes, we know that the DoJ is also disinclined to pursue cases which will endanger the DeepState/Protected Class.

 

Josh Kaul: Another Blithering Idiot Lefty

The (D) Party is running TWO incompetent extreme-Left candidates here; one for Governor, and one for Attorney General.

In the Governor's race, "Dirt McGurk" Crowley has blown his County budget by wild overspending, compounded by having an alleged narcotics trafficker on his payroll--and then forgetting to renew the County's health-insurance contract (!)

In the case of Josh Kaul?  His Department of Justice funded an extreme anti-police outfit in Madison with Federal grant money, and overpaid them by almost $50K.  The "errors" were so outrageous that the BIDEN Administration called Kaul's DOJ a "high-risk grantee."  BIDEN!!!

Kaul recently awoke from his 4-year nap to make a couple of campaign appearances.  Wisconsin should vote for Toney and allow Josh to go back to sleep in his Mommy's basement again. 

Exxon Offline Refinery......???

 Last Refuge is suspicious when a Midwest refinery producing 11 MILLION gallons of gasoline and diesel goes off line for a week.

C'mon.  Primary AND secondary electrical feeds go down simultaneously all the time.

Pumps fed by those lines cannot hold back floodwaters.

It's all natural. 

George Carlin Was Right

Carlin made a lot of brilliant observations.  Here's one:

 

 

Who IS This Cow Dana Bash?

It's "gross" that Americans will not vote for Shari'a?

It's time for you to change the channel in your airport.  See if CNN can pay this bint Bash without a stream of tax dollars. 

Hegseth: "Put On Your Big Boy Pants, NATO"

 No wonder Hegseth is under continuous attack.  No more European vacations for generals and aides-de-camp in Brussels; wives will be PO'd......Congressmen won't be "inspecting" US facilities in Europe.....

 ...This summer, Hegseth told NATO allies that the U.S. will take a hard look at its force structure in Europe, with an eye toward having Europe increasingly protect itself....

....European allies “have to be willing to stand up and do something in a strong way about” defending their own continent.

Hegseth said the review would last no longer than six months, according to a news release on the War Department website.

“We’re going to keep a close eye on allies who are not doing that and who say ‘no,’ or ‘maybe’ or ‘wait and see’ when it matters most,” he said. “It’s a review that some countries will fail ...

...“This is the right thing to do by the American people; it’s the right thing to do by this alliance. Europe can and must take primary responsibility for its conventional defense as it pledged at The Hague Summit and in the process safeguarding Europe’s defense for generations to come,” he said....

Reports are that US could withdraw up to 40% of its forces in Europe, which would save the US taxpayer a whole lotta cash that could be used to reduce the deficit, or the national debt, or to fix roads.  

 

Accurate, But Incomplete

Actually, this depiction covers the entire RINO & Deep State bunch.

 

Rep. Salazar: WHO Do You Represent??

 This woman thinks she represents legal Hispanic immigrants?

 ...“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far,” the three-term congresswoman said. 

“In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record,” she claimed. “Be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policies. 

“The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.” ...

That's confusing, dear.  Are you saying that the ILLEGALS 'helped get Trump to the White House,' or that actual US citizens of Hispanic descent are PO'd about tossing the illegals out of the country?

If it's the latter, then we have a real problem here. 

Paul Mitchell Schools: Tax Drains

A few Wisconsin schools specialize in taking tax money and flushing it down the drain.

Students of the "Paul Mitchell The School" operations in Milwaukee and Madison have sucked up $2.2 million or so in the last couple of years, but forty percent of those loans will go unpaid.

"Paul Mitchell, The School" ops depend on tax dollars for between 66%-84% of their revenue.

Maybe some responsible Wisconsin government entity should take a look at those dumps. 

 

The Boasberg Problem Gets Worse

Natalie Winters is a jewel.  Let's hope she has a good security detachment.

 Judge James Boasberg, who confronted the Trump administration over its 2025 deportation flights, was a nine-time host for a Chinese law exchange funded by a Chinese Communist Party-linked spy front.

Six of those annual host credits came while Boasberg served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. One came in 2020, when he was its presiding judge. The court reviews some of the government’s most sensitive applications for foreign-intelligence surveillance and searches....

Of course, no other DC-based jurists knew anything about this, right.  We think of CJ Roberts, for example, who does the "see no/hear no/speak no act very well, indeed.

There are lots of other blackrobes around D.C., too.

NONE of them had the sense to warn Boasberg about his associations?

Nor did ex-Cong. Swalwell..... 

Trump Buried Epstein Report

 Recently, Tucker Carlson has been somewhat erratic.  But this one is not just tossing poop at a wall:

... [Carlson] said that he warned the president about the political ramifications of withholding the files in the summer of 2025 when Trump was facing overwhelming scrutiny for his administration's handling of the late pedophile's files. 

'My position from the beginning with Trump, I said it to Trump, was, 'I don't understand why you would ever keep any of this stuff secret.' And I got like a bunch of different answers,' Carlson told the outlet. ...

... 'The order to cover it up came from Trump,' the former Fox News host said. 'I asked him why. And he gave me this long, very emotional explanation that this was all a plot against him, like Russiagate.'...

So far, Tucker's claim looks utterly ridiculous, right?

Read on:

 ...Responding to Carlson's claims, the White House did not directly deny the account, but noted how Trump has 'been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein' and that he has done more for the pedophile's victims 'than anyone before.'...

So Trump DID give the order.

We don't think Trump was a visitor to Pedo Island.  But at least one of his buddies was, and probably more than just one.  But that's not the real scandal, which is that Epstein was an Israeli operative.  That's something Trump really wants to keep secret. 

More Welfare for Israel--and Horrific Results for Palestinians

 Trump's actions here are intolerable.

 According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs....

That's only the beginning of the story.  The Mark 84 is an extremely destructive instrument; the US has never used it in any civilian areas for exactly that reason.

 

At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951

How very nice of us.

Doesn't look like a hard sell:

... The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it....

If all this is true, Congress should take a very long and hard look at who--exactly--is funding this Zionism Ultra move.  It won't be hard:  all it requires is a mirror. 

Patel Has the Losing Side on Bestiality and Flock

This guy Patel has a strange view of the world.  First, he constructs a statistically near-impossible case.

... Patel has doubled down on defending the policy after the FBI revised its hiring standards in June, allowing some applicants with past involvement in prostitution, employer theft, bestiality, or animal cruelty to remain eligible under certain circumstances, according to a CBS News report....

Oh.

Patel has an explanation, too!!

The new guideline allows the FBI to hire people who have INVOLUNTARILY participated in bestiality.

Oh.

... [Sen.] Kennedy later pressed Patel on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary conduct.

“How do you involuntarily do it?” Kennedy asked.

Patel explained that human traffickers, whom he called “some of the worst individuals on planet earth,” can force victims into degrading acts beyond prostitution.

“They don’t just traffic you for prostitution; they traffic you for degrading acts of all kinds, and they force you into that type of conduct,” Patel said. “And some of these individuals go on to be law enforcement officers who qualified to be law enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI.”...

So.  First you need a cartel.  Then you need a goat (dog, sheep, chicken....whatever.)  Then you need some person who f***s the critter--and is otherwise qualified to be a FEEB.

Really, Kash? How many people are there who funnel into that set of parameters?  8?  2?

Really??

Patel then goes on to love him some Flock. (We shall not play the "Flock/Bestiality" game here.)

... Trump-appointed FBI Director Kash Patel echoed Trump's recent sentiments on Flock cameras and defended the FBI's access to and use of the cameras, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee he believes Flock license-plate cameras are not mass surveillance because they are in public places, so people should not expect privacy there....

BTW, Trump is wrong, too.  Both of them should read Carpenter. 

Channel 58 Goes Dirtball-Stupid

 Ms. Merck should be ashamed to show her face again in polite society.

 Online records show the political and aviation history of the man who landed the plane on Lake Wausau with Congressman Tom Tiffany on board....

Gee, Ms Merck!  You didn't investigate the pilot's marriage, wife, and children?

Did he ever return a library book late?  How about parking tickets?

Get back to work.  Find SOMETHING. 

The Archdiocese's Ms. Gallagher vs. 8 USC §1324

 

(A) Any person who—

(i)

knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;

(ii)

knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;

(iii)

knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;

(iv)

encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or

(v)

(I)

engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or

(II)

aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,

shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—

(i)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;

(ii)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

(iii)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and

(iv)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.

 

 

Cowherd: The Packers Are "Soft"

 Cowherd's analysis of the Packers' SIX-GAME LOSING STREAK:

They are "soft."

That fits Matt LaFleur's style.

To the Packer Board of Directors:

YOU COULD HAVE HAD HARBAUGH.  

Comer: Blowing the Call Here? Why??

House Oversight has long been the domain of show-horses.  NOT the domain of "go"-horses.  Remember Mr Wrestler, Jim Jordan?

Yah.

His successor, Rep. Comer, now "demands" the FBI's findings on the Somalian-in-Congress, Omar.  But as we all know, if the Feds release their findings, their case for immigration fraud (along with the case for immediate expulsion from the USA), goes straight down the porcelain tube.

So why is Comer "demanding" it?

Think twice before answering...... 

Lawyer? Or Just a Race-Monger?

 This guy has a track record and it is not a good one.  So his choice--to continue digging--will not produce what he wants, unless he really wants to touch off a war.

...The civil rights attorney now representing Smith's family, B'Ivory LaMarr, said family members who were shown the body camera video saw something completely different than what police described. ...

Maybe they did.  Or maybe the "lawyer" said it.

...Milwaukee Police Association President Alex Ayala released the following statement:

"I have personally reviewed the officer’s body-worn camera video of the incident. While I will not interfere with the independent investigation or disclose every detail of footage that has not yet been publicly released, I cannot remain silent while a Milwaukee police officer is falsely accused of carrying out a "cold killing" or an "execution," as described by the attorney and the family of the deceased."...

"The video shows Printis Smith fleeing with a gun in his hand, repeatedly disregarding the officer’s commands to get on the ground and becoming involved in a close-range physical struggle with the officer. In the final visible image before the gunfire, Smith still has the gun in his hand and his finger is engaging (or pulling) the trigger."...

It is unusual for Ayala to come out swinging this hard over a police shooting, which tells you something.  

Li'l B'Ivory is overplaying his hand.  That's not smart business. 

 

"Guilty," Says Waymo Car

 If you can't discern the problem here..........

 

A Waymo vehicle pulled over around 4 a.m. on September 3 and police were contacted after the company detected a “violation of … terms of service involving a firearm,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

The incident involving two passengers occurred in San Francisco, where Waymo “cooperated fully” with police....

Oh.

What we really need in this country is more cameras.