Lindsey

 Last known to be alive in Ukraine.

Polonium is very fast.

RIP 

Iran Attacking Arab Countries? Not Exactly

If you read today's headlines, you get the impression that Iran is tossing missiles at other Arab (Muslim) countries.  Because Big Mad or sumpin'sumpin'.

In reality, acknowledged by some news sources:

 ...IRGC announced they launched a ballistic missile attack against the supply, logistics and refuelling station of the U.S. Navy in Duqm, Oman.

This facility is the main logistics centre for American aircraft carriers, the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS George H.W. Bush....

And...

 ...Iran’s retaliation attacks after US attacks in Iran’s southern soil

Following US attacks, Iran’s IRGC says it targeted:

- MQ-9 drone hangars & C&C center at Prince Hassan Air Base, Jordan

- Fighter jet maintenance & repair hub centers at US Al-Udeid Airbase, Qatar

( ! ) The supply, logistics and refueling platforms for US Navy & aircrafts of the US Navy in Duqm, Oman

Iran’s Army (Artesh) says it targeted:

- US Patriot system, ammunition depots, and radar sites of the US at a military base in Kuwait, with drones...

So yes, Arab countries.

Even more yes:  US war-making facilities in Arab countries. 

 

Praising the Suicide Pact

We are in awe of this one:

 John Roberts kicks ass. The chief justice's supremely magisterial end-of-term majority opinion in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case, powerfully vindicated the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment. Roberts's impressive historical analysis left the lead dissenter, Justice Clarence Thomas, looking like the bloodied loser of a Trumpian UFC cage match....

Uh-huh.

Roberts writes a suicide-pact version of the 14th Amendment--against all common sense and pertinent precedent in common law and English practice--and someone calls Roberts a genius and Thomas a bumbling moron.

Only on the East Coast is this considered wisdom.  Same place as the War for Israel is supported, by the way. 

"Renewable" Energy = EXPENSIVE Energy

The Wisconsin Public Service Commission pushes "renewable" energy.

Wisconsin Electric rates have increased by THREE HUNDRED PERCENT since 2000.

Gee.  Is that just co-incidence?

Nope.

 ...The effort to increase the percentage of electricity generated by intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar inevitably brings about large increases in the actual price of electricity that must be paid by consumers. The price increases grow and accelerate as the percentage of electricity generated from the intermittent renewables increases toward 100 percent.  These statements may seem counterintuitive, given that the cost of fuel for wind and solar generation is zero. However, simple modeling shows the reason for the seemingly counterintuitive outcome: the need for large and increasing amounts of costly backup and storage – things that are not needed at all in conventional fossil-fuel-based systems.  And it is not only from modeling that we know that such cost increases would be inevitable.  We also have actual and growing experience from those few jurisdictions that have attempted to generate more and more of their electricity from these renewables.  This empirical experience proves the truth of the rising consumer price proposition.

In those jurisdictions that have succeeded in getting generation from renewables up to as high as about 30% of their total electricity supply, the result has been an approximate tripling in the price of electricity for their consumers. The few (basically experimental) jurisdictions that have gotten generation from renewables even higher than that have had even greater cost increases, for relatively minor increases in generation from renewables. ...

Think those batteries in Kenosha County will help? Read the REST of the linked essay.

OR, you could read this item:

...Researchers with the National Center for Energy Analytics set out to find out if it’s possible to power the grid with wind, solar and batteries. Their report, which was released Thursday, casts considerable doubt on renewable energy proponents’ promise that batteries can resolve the problems of intermittency with wind and solar. 

“This study demonstrates that a wind-solar-battery policy to meet electricity demand is physically implausible, cost-prohibitive, and unjustifiable on the basis of goals to reduce CO2 emissions,” the report concludes. ...

Really?  How "unjustifiable" is it?

...To compensate for the intermittency of wind and solar under the renewable-only scenario, the analysis found, PJM* would need to add roughly 10 times the total generation capacity by 2045 than would be needed under the natural gas and nuclear scenario. That extra capacity would not only serve daily and seasonal variations in supply and demand, it would accommodate days in which there’s little to no wind or sunshine. 

The study also found that to pay for this ideal net-zero grid with no new nuclear facilities, ratepayers served by PJM would need to fork over $4 trillion over the next 20 years. That figure accounts for savings on fossil fuels. ...

(*PJM = Pennsylvania, Jersey, Maryland, D.C. )

First things first!  Get rid of all the members of the Public "Service" Commission; then find people who understand reality as opposed to "dream world" energy scenarios.  Dump the idiocies pushed by the Failed Obama/Biden/Evers/Doyle administrations.

Then build nukes and coal plants. 

Ballot Problems in Green Bay? No Surprise At All!

Although media missed this little bit of info, we find it .........tantalizing.

 The Green Bay city council approved the appointment of Celestine Jeffreys as the new city clerk at its meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 19.

Jeffreys served as chief of staff for both Mayor Eric Genrich and former Mayor Jim Schmitt.

Jeffreys was appointed to serve in the position by Genrich after the former clerk and deputy clerk resigned following the November election....

The former clerk quit because a New York City Democrat organizer was actually running the Fraudlection of '20 in Green Bay.

Anyhow, here's Part Two:

 Green Bay’s mayor on Thursday announced that Clerk Cellestine Jeffreys has been placed on leave after she mailed duplicate ballots to some voters for the second straight election.

“While we have no concerns with the security or propriety of the electoral process, these errors in the Clerk’s Office are unacceptable,” a statement from the Green Bay mayor’s office said. “As we work to ensure these errors are never replicated, we welcome the input of the WEC and its staff.”

Jeffreys mailed 152 duplicate ballots ahead of the April election. She mailed an unknown number of duplicate ballots again ahead of August’s primary....

The dumbass got caught.  

The *wink-wink* deal with Mayor Genrich (a notorious Extreme Lefty) was "DO NOT GET CAUGHT."

Oh, well, Mr. Mayor.  If at first you don't succeed, you get to try again before the next election! 

 

Trump's Back-and-Forth Dances: America First??

Maybe there is a strategy here, but it's not "America First."

Trump made a Big F*'n Deal about refusing to sign another Section 8-expansion bill.  He stamped his widdle feets and screamed about "SAVE America Act," and stomped out of the room.

But he knew that not signing it didn't mean a damn thing; the bill became law yesterday.

Thanks, Donald!

Now comes Kevin Warsh, a Trump appointee who is Chair of the Fed Reserve.

  ...Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh announces an advisory network of business and economic leaders to help guide FED policy on a variety of subjects. [CITATION] Within the Productivity and Jobs taskforce, Asha Sharma surfaces as an advisor “to inform the Federal Reserve’s policy judgments.”...

That miserable bitch held high positions in companies whose business model is to hire non-US people for US-based positions, by fraudulent means if necessary.

Is Trump really a better President than Harris would have been?

The "Yes" to that question is more marginal every day. 

Republicans Do Fraud, Too

Fraud is not exclusively synonymous with "Democrats."  

However, it IS synonymous with "Politicians."

 ...The political and social media spheres have been buzzing for nearly a month about Sen. Addison Mitchell McConnell’s state of …  existence. The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican reportedly was admitted to a D.C.-area hospital on June 14 after he suffered “cardiac arrest” at his Capitol Hill townhouse.

And then he just seemed to disappear. ...

Yah, well.  It has to do with the timing of replacing the anti-Trump jackass.

McConnell has until 8/3 to declare himself dead..........whatever.  If he meets that deadline (see what I did there?) there will be a special election BEFORE the scheduled general.  If he does not, then the seat will be filled at the general election in November.  But the moment he's gone, the Pubbie Party in the Senate is nearly powerless.  (That may actually be a good thing, given the crapola sandwich they make us eat daily.)

Anyhow.....

The GREAT FEAR in the Professional Pubbie Party has a name:  Thomas Massie, who could enter the special-election race with no trouble at all.  THAT is why McConnell's status is a secret more well-kept than the nuclear codes.

Heh. 

Surprise! UW-Mad Hosts Anti-Trump Lawyer Group

 If "terribly corrupt" is in the same sentence as "lawyers" you might want to check further.

 A coalition of progressive prosecutors promising to target federal immigration agents has amassed a war chest funded by secret donors with the help of left-wing networks. Legal experts said the arrangement is "terribly corrupt" and blurs the lines between legitimate law enforcement and politically motivated prosecutions....

(Josh Kaul has a similar arrangement, by the way.)

Anyhow.  "Terribly corrupt" "enemies of Trump" "lawyers" have a home base at UW-Madison's Law School.

Surprised?

Does the "press" really give a rotten damn?  HINT:  Did the "press" give a rotten damn about Kaul's little deal?  First 10 query results list Spectrum and WPR as the only two major "press" outlets to mention it.

Huh. 

Evers' "PERFECTLY CLEAN" Medicaid.....???

 Not reported by the "press" but on video at the Milwaukee Vance event:

Wisconsin's "durable medical equipment" billings increased by FORTY PERCENT over the last two (Evers) years.

FORTY PERCENT.

Is that related--in any way--to observable conditions?  Was there a FORTY PERCENT INCREASE in elderly-disabled in your neighborhood?  Or just 'disabled' in general?

Nope.

It is evidence--but not yet proof--of fraud, and it's on Tony Evers' watch--along with Kirsten Johnson (fired at Milwaukee), Deb Standridge, and Stan Austin.

Think the "press" will ask questions of those three?

Hell, no. 

How "Healthcare" Screws You

 Orren Cass is a thinker.  In this essay, he writes a history of health insurance and proposes to tell us--later--about how to fix the system.  We're not convinced he is right about all his contentions, but here are a few excerpts of interest.

...Health care is mostly something we use if there is a problem with our health, and health care insurance is really something we should only need in the very rare case where a catastrophic event requires health care far in excess of a typical year’s consumption. The Affordable Care Act’s health care insurance subsidies, then, should be something of an oxymoron. What kind of insurance product has a baseline premium, meaning the amount you pay when you don’t have a catastrophic event, that itself represents a catastrophic cost necessitating government assistance?

A subsidy might make sense as an element of the safety net for low-income households, but the current debate is over expanded health care insurance subsidies for the middle class and beyond. The basic insurance product has reached a price where politicians feel they must help even households with incomes more than four times the poverty line in order to deliver the holy grail of universal coverage. Meantime, access to actual health care is generally in decline and Americans are generally in lousy health....

Yes, so far.

...[The patient] in the eyes of the system [is] not so much a patient as a junk bond. His stream of future cash flows is unpredictable, as a standalone asset he is uninvestable. But securitize him in a sufficiently deep pool of assets with uncorrelated risk and voila, he is sound as the pound. This was how the Blue Cross system began, using large employers to create insurable risk pools. Exempted from World War II wage controls and income taxation, corporations poured resources into health insurance coverage not because it was anyone’s preferred compensation, but as a form of financial engineering. As health care costs exploded, each insurer negotiated rates with select providers and covered access only to them....

Not so sure that his comments on the emergence and popularity of Blue Cross/Blue Shield are accurate; health insurance was very popular, at least in the '60's/'70's.  But yes, the system did "progress" to HMO's, which were very UN-popular. 

A couple of things were important in the following decade(s):  very expensive health-care technology and drugs, and the growing population of high-cost health consumers such as the aged, plus non-aged but expensive.  

  ...In 2019, the costliest 5% of patients accounted for half of all health expenditures. The costliest 20% of patients accounted for more than 80%. Put another way, the cost to provide care to each member of the bottom 95% of the population is half the cost of providing care to everyone. If insurance coverage for the entire population costs $10,000 per person per year, insurance coverage for a pool that included only the least expensive 80% of the population would cost just $2,000 per person per year....

That's a helluva gap.

... Common sense would suggest that, in such circumstances, funding the care for those uninsurable risks would become the responsibility of a public program. But the nation’s center-left and center-right were both determined to prove that they were pro-market, and that markets could solve the problem, so they advanced instead the idea of an “individual mandate,” a brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, that would force everyone to buy the same insurance, priced at similar rates. Asking healthy Americans to pay higher taxes to provide care to unhealthy Americans was outrageous, big-government overreach. Telling healthy Americans they had to pay the same amount of extra cash to an insurance company to cover the cost of providing the same care to the same unhealthy Americans was a “market-based solution.”...

First off:  "common sense" and "Government" have NOTHING in common.

Secondly:  The Heritage Foundation 'thinker' who came up with that should join Fauci in the Medical Hall of Shame.  But that "Heritage" stamp is why Paul Ryan would not bust ObamaCare; Paul was a property of Heritage--or at least had to follow their lead.  See above:  Ryan was "Government" so "common sense" was not present in him.

Besides:  both hospitals and insurers LOVED ObamaCare--at the beginning.  Now, only the insurers love it, as hospitals have found that the loving embrace of healthcare is strangling them.  Just desserts, but having no hospitals is ..........  not an option, either.

In Cass' telling, all this descended into lunacy, with the cooperation of the Democrats.

...To prove its market bona fides in the ACA debate, the Democratic Party ultimately rejected even the idea of a “public option” insurer run by the government. The taxes disguised as premiums could go only to private companies. The Republican Party, determined to be more pro-market, proposed simply relaxing the various regulations and reducing the funding, as if this would somehow allow the artificially constructed market to work better rather than just falling apart. Everyone supported various permutations on tax-advantaged accounts, in hopes that yet another financial product could further buttress a sense of agency while addressing no element of any underlying challenge. ...

What Cass is apparently heading toward is this:  find the 20% who are ultra-expensive.  Put them on Gummint programs of some sort.  Put the other 80% on a "loss-limit" plan.  Taking his figures, a family of four could spend $8K/year on healthcare (MD, RX, Dental) and after that, their insurance plan kicks in for the rest of the year.  Real insurance, not Gummint moneys. 

He may have a better plan; you can follow it at his substack. 

 

WE's Battery-Pals Stomp on Locals

 Don't kid yourself about "Robin Energy Storage."  They're a contractor hired by WE, a Chicago-based high-rate electric utility.  VERY high-rate, as we all painfully know.  And going higher, as they will add "Robin Energy Storage" charges to your bill.

 ...Despite a unanimous 22-0 Kenosha County vote to adopt a one-year moratorium on battery storage approvals — Robin Energy Storage filed its engineering plan directly with the Wisconsin Public Service Commission on June 18th. The company plans to submit its full application. If approved — 244 battery storage containers would be placed on acres of active agricultural land in the Town of Wheatland — with construction potentially beginning as early as late 2027....

Mommy said "No"?  Go ask Daddy!!

Lithium batteries are totes safe.  Never any spontaneous combustion, and as to disposal problems?  Who knows, and who cares?

Not WE!! 

Peace on *Every* Block, Wednesdays Only?

Maybe "every block" but only on Wednesdays?

 Milwaukee community members gathered at pop-up events across the northwest side Wednesday as part of "Peace on Every Block," a week of activities aimed at building community, mentorship and sharing resources for violence prevention.

The week is organized by Advance Peace Milwaukee, Milwaukee Community Cross Roads and Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services.

"We want to see everybody win, and that's the whole theme about it, about healing, coming together, stopping the violence," Desilynn Smith of Uniting Garden Homes said....

That was Wednesday.  On Thursday:

 A 27-year-old man was killed, and a 22-year-old was sent to the hospital with injuries after a drive-by shooting near North 27th Street and West Atkinson Avenue shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday....

 ...A cousin of the victim, who identified himself only as Yae, remembered him as a Milwaukee rapper and a generous person.

"A Milwaukee rapper, good guy, good dude, good personality. Always looked out for the people he was around," Yae said....

Perfectly innocent guy, of course.  Had babies.  Rapper.  Big smile.  See??

The guy used to be a member of Gwen Moore's "community" until she discovered illegal aliens who might vote for her or sumpin'sumpin'. 

 

Who the Hell Is "Our Community," Gwen?

Apparently there's an upcoming election, because Gwen Moore (D-??) is running her mouth.

...Congresswoman Gwen Moore led the charge Thursday, calling out ICE's tactics, alongside Milwaukee's mayor, common council president and others.

"We just letting you know that we are standing up for our community," Moore said.....

"Our community" includes people here illegally, taking jobs from Moore's previous "community" and shoving that previous "community" out of their homes--not to mention snatching welfare and medical money from the previous "community"???

Wow. That's quite a "community" you have there, Gwen!

By the way, Moore opened her mouth (and bought new glasses) to bitch about a grand total of fifty-seven  ICE arrests statewide--not just in the hell-hole of Milwaukee.

Fifty-seven less Moore voters.  Inch-by-inch, as they say. 

 

Legal Opinion on Flock Cameras

 It is fortunate that someone with genuine legal creds offers his opinion.

Childers:

... [Destroying Flock cameras] is illegal, dangerous, and wrong. These cameras are vital public safety infrastructure. They cost approximately $3,500 each. They are not watching you. Please. They are merely photographing your vehicle, capturing your license plate, recording the time and location of your travel, storing that information in a database accessible to law enforcement and who knows who else, and retaining it for up to 30 days, at which point it is automatically deleted, unless it isn’t.

But I can understand how there may be some confusion about what these cameras actually do. Captain Ryan Bailey of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office reassured everyone that “the camera itself is only capturing the vehicle traveling down the road.” That’s it. Just the vehicle. And the plate. And the time. And the location. And the direction of travel. And the make, model, and color. But definitely not the driver. Unless the driver is visible through the windshield, in which case, also the driver. But that’s it. Probably....

Ex-gal-pals, ex-spouses, and anyone a blue-shirt does not like, well...... 

There are quite a few in Brookfield. 

 ...DO NOT approach a Flock camera with any cutting implement, power tool, or vehicle of sufficient mass with a bumper guard. For example, do not purchase a Milwaukee M18 FUEL Cordless Angle Grinder, or a DeWalt Brushless Angle Grinder Tool, which cut through metal poles with alarming speed and run on batteries, so there is no cord to trace. We are not saying this because it would be effective. We are saying it because it would be illegal, of course.

DO NOT purchase a cordless reciprocating saw, which is a tool designed for cutting through wood, metal, and other materials quickly and quietly, which fits easily in a backpack, and is available for overnight delivery. This is not a recommendation. This is a warning....

That's the absolutely FREE legal advice.   

 

Voya "Service"? Nope!

 The most horrible, terrible, and awful telephone service ON EARTH is from Voya Retirement.

Trust me. 

Call Santhosh Keshavan.  He's the "IT genius" who designed a system that does not work.

THREE phone calls.  One HOUR for a twenty-minute transaction. 

Not only does their GENIUS work-from-home phone system work only part-time; their automated-response mechanism is as glitchy as a teenaged girl.

 

Nutbag Supports Tony Evers (!!)

Not a shock at all.  Tony's Nutbag Caucus loves him.

 ...Outside the [VP Vance] event, dozens of protesters lined Pennsylvania Avenue opposing the vice president’s visit and the administration’s broader policies.

“I want him to know that we’re not believing what he’s saying about fraud, waste and abuse,” protester LuAnn Bird said. “It’s people needing healthcare.”...

Well, then, LuAnn:  YOU pay for the illegals and fraudsters.  WE will pay for citizens who are actually in need.

Bird is a nutbag.  Has been one for years. 

But that's Tony Evers' base of support. 

Credit Where It's Due: Mayor Johnson

Johnson's decision on I-794 makes sense.

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson recommended on Wednesday, July 8, that the elevated portion of Interstate-794 between downtown and the Historic Third Ward be improved. He said while there are benefits to tearing the freeway segment down entirely, "the negative consequences of doing so became apparent upon more detailed analysis," the mayor said. ...

The Progressive (Dope-Smoking Hippie) bunch is now, and ever shall be, against automobiles.  When you have a car, they cannot control your range of mobility and motion.  The same principle applies to transport routes:  convenience and speed must be quashed, because that allows too much individuality.

Thus their inane pressure for the Massive MoneyLoser "Hop" and the Madistan-MKE Choo-Choo.

Johnson's move here took some courage.  He deserves credit. 

Trump's America IS "Affordable"

Well, well, well.

 Americans quietly stopped reaching for their credit cards in May. The Federal Reserve’s G.19 Consumer Credit report, released July 8, 2026, showed total consumer credit posting a flow of negative $2.2 billion on an annual basis, the first flat or declining reading since 2024....

IOW, the Biden Doom-Inflation-Regime ended, the Trump Pay-Increase-Regime took hold, and things are stabilizing.

Affordability in everything except ObamaCare.  Surprised? 

She Did the Crime, Won't Do the Time

Baretta is frustrated.

But hey!  She's a nice white gal from the 'burbs,' and it's only a white-collar crime, so it's all good. 

Adelman *Hearts* Dugan

A 'no-time' sentence, a paltry $5K fine--about a month's pension for the crook, and she walks away.

Surprised?

Not me!! 

Dead? Veggie? How to Solve the McConnell Mystery

Laura Loomer claims that "White House source" told her that McConnell is brain-dead.

Scott Jennings said he had a pleasant conversation with McConnell.

Hmmm.

OK, then, let's settle it.  Have McConnell call a journalist like, for example, John Solomon.  Even better, invite Solomon to the hospital for a live and in-person dialog.

 

"This Does Not Happen." Really???

Listen to Tony Evers (or don't--your sanity is on the line) and you hear that "THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN."

 

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an Australian national who is now charged with voting in multiple federal elections.

Denise Nataly Migliore, a lawful permanent resident (LPR)  from Australia, is accused of knowingly making false claims of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, according to information provided to the Daily Caller....

IT DOES NOT HAPPEN.

Sure, Tony, you senile old goof. 

Sparkle--a "Judge"--Loses in Fed Court

This will be fun to watch.

 A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore some of the key features of its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls.

The ruling overturns a D.C. judge's ruling,...

That "DC judge" was Sparkle Sooknanan.  Too bad she didn't read the Florida ruling before her stupid move.

 ...U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ruled that the DHS violated a settlement with states, including Florida, by disabling the features. Wetherell approved the settlement last year and has maintained jurisdiction to enforce the settlement.

"Defendants are plainly in violation of the settlement agreement because it is undisputed that they disabled the bulk-upload and SSN-search features that the agreement expressly required the SAVE system to have," he wrote in the order. "The fact that defendants disabled those features to comply with [the judge's] order does not change the fact that they violated the agreement."

Wetherell determined that the features did not violate federal law, concluding the SSN-search functions align with 8 U.S.C. §1373, which overrides other restrictions on sharing citizenship or immigration status information, according to Florida's Voice News....

Maybe Sparkle didn't bother to read 8 USC 1373, either.

So much to learn when you become a "judge." 

Obama's "Affordable" Legacy

Remember:  this is "affordable" healthcare--so named by the closet Communist Socialist "Democrat" President and passed by a perfidious Congress.

 ...The median premium for an Obamacare insurance plan is projected to increase by roughly 14% in 2027, according to KFF’s review of rate filings from nearly 80 insurance companies operating on the federal and state Obamacare exchanges. The median rate for Obamacare plan premiums last year rose by 20%, making 2027 the second year in a row of double-digit increases....

 (You can also thank Paul Ryan, a Useless Toadie.)

Prepare for the usual kvetching from the MSM and from closet Communist Socialist "Democrat" politicians clamoring for higher office so that they can give you more "affordability" right up your ass. 

"Let's Go Zero-Emissions!!!": Germany, 2015

"To Save the World, vee shall go emissions-free!!  No more coal!!  No more NatGas!!  Only windmills, sun-catchers, and hydro!!!  Also, shut down the nukes!!!"

Great plan, except-----

 

Is DSA a Real Threat? To the Democrats, Yes!

 The Democrat-Socialist Party gets a lot of coverage from the (like-minded) press.  "Free Everything" has always appealed to the ink-stained/pixellated bunch.  Just ask Summerfest or State Fair why they provide Free Eats to the press......

Moving on.

SOME Democrat Party regulars have figured out the scam.

 ...Trump is on record calling the whole DSA group communists. On the one hand, it’s remarkable that so far there really hasn’t been much outrage and pushback from mainstream Democrats. On the other hand, why would they push back? Many view the DSA contingent as invaders who used the Democratic Party’s structure to power their campaigns — for the purpose of defeating incumbent Democrats. “If your movement is so strong, why does it keep needing the Democratic Party’s ballot line, infrastructure, volunteers, donors, and voter file to win?” former Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison posted on X. “Apparently your apparatus isn’t strong enough to do it on its own. Fight to make the Democratic Party better. Push it. Challenge it. But don’t use the Democratic Party as an Uber to get to office and then complain about the ride after you arrive.”...

Sagacious, Jaime!

So.  Both Trump and Jaime are correct.

"Free Everything" is the motto, and yes, the ink-stained, the Communists, and the Democrat-Socialists are peas in a crowded pod. 

Team USA v Belgium

 We don't watch soccer.  But we DID watch the last two USA matches. And one does not have to be a soccer-genius to understand the problem last night:

The US played most of the first half on their own side of the field.

Good defense--mostly.  But scoring still counts, and you do that on THEIR side of the damn field. 

HA!!  A well-known soccer player agrees with Dad29.

 

 ... The primary correlation with winning in soccer is shots on target, not time of possession. Anything you’re doing that reduces shots on target is reducing your chance of winning. The USA had 56% possession, lost the shots on target contest 7-2, and lost 4-1....

Yup. 

RoJo: WassaMattaYouse??

 It is reported that Sen Ron Johnson 'gaveled in' the US Senate, thus preventing President Trump from appointing his peeps----again.

Johnson certainly plays the 'not Deep State' card enough.

Why doesn't he act the part? 

Mitch McConnell: Dead for HOW LONG?

It is reported that Mitch McConnell (R-Red China) is brain-dead.

It is further reported that his wife, an employee of the Red China regime, left the USA three days after McConnell was hospitalized and she has not yet returned.

So.

How long has McConnell been brain-dead?

Inquiring minds, and all that. 

Question for Mark Kelly (D-Uninged)

 This news-note raises a question for Kelly.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) was called a “disgrace” on Sunday for wearing a Mexico jersey during a World Cup watch party....

Did he get that jersey from his Cartel pals? 

Netanyahu Pushes His B.S.

It's one thing to push out a fact-free delusion.

It's another thing entirely to expect people to believe it.

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that some Christian villages in Lebanon have “asked to be annexed” by Israel to gain protection from the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah....

That's news to "Christian" towns.

 Netanyahu did not specify which villages have made such requests to Israel. The mayor of the Christian village of Rmeish, Hanna al-Amil, quickly denied Netanyahu’s claim as “absolutely out of the question” in an interview with Lebanese public television.

“Fifteen Christian towns had issued a statement two days ago denying these allegations,” he said.

That doesn't mean that the villagers are happy campers.

 ...“For three years now, we have been suffering because the Lebanese state failed to extend its sovereignty over its own land,” Rmeish civil activist Gaby al-Hajj told Arab News, looking back to hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel during the Gaza War.

“That left us at the mercy of illegal weapons, and we are paying for it now,” al-Hajj said. “The Israelis have us under siege – yet we refused to leave our villages. We have not turned our backs on Lebanon and we will not. We have held on, regardless of the cost.”

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday praised the loyalty statement from border villages, and warned Lebanese citizens to ignore “Israeli political misinformation” intended to “sow discord among border communities.”

Berri also urged the Beirut government and its allies to halt the “systematic destruction and the ongoing demolition of villages.”...

A "systematic destruction and ....demolition" perpetrated by Netanyahu's Greater Zion effort.

 ...The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have demolished buildings and homes in southern Lebanon that were allegedly used by Hezbollah to hide its fighters and weapons.

Residents of the Marjeyoun district of Lebanon’s southern Nabatieh province said they received text messages from the IDF on Monday, warning them not to allow displaced residents to return to their homes....

And where the Hell are they supposed to go, Bibi? 

(We have an idea:  send them to Mark Levin's home here in the US.  Or Loomer's.  Or Lindsey's plathhce.  Huckabee's house is empty.....)

Time for Trump to call Bibi again and ask him to Back the F**k Off or the money-spigot closes.

And fuggedabout that "merger" of Pentagon/Israel defense & intel operations. US taxpayers have zero interest in "Greater Zion" wars.

Parallel Governments?

 Early on, Mgr. Vigano made it clear that the Vatican had just as much a "Deep State" problem as did Trump.  When +Vigano pushed the envelope, stating that the See was vacant after the election of Franny 1, +Vigano was bounced and effectively silenced.

Was +Vigano's initial claim of 'parallel Deep States' valid?  If so, when Vox writes about "Clown World"--another name for the Deep State and all its canp-followers worldwide, can it apply to Rome?

... Clown World is collapsing. The good news is that the reason these fake groups [i.e. the Patriot Front] keep being constructed and offered up as false opposition is because the terrible truth about Clown World is gradually penetrating the mainstream. And I can pretty much guarantee that there is a very good reason the clowns are so desperate to conceal the truth, because it is almost certainly much worse than any of us, including me, are fully capable of imagining....

Hmmmm. 

Mutatis mutandis, as they say, we can hope and pray. 

What's It All About, Alfie??

 Attended Mass today and heard a bunch of bombast about the SSPX thing.  Since the Mass was at a church in an area where a lot of peeps are very conservative, I suppose the sermon was........necessary?....but perhaps a bit defensive.

The preacher made a fatal error early in his declamation, telling us that Luther & Co. were "reformers."  He used the PC terminology describing the events as "The Reformation."  He would have been far better off if he called it what it was:  a Revolution--that would have made his point about the SSPX much, much, clearer (and more convincing.)

Oh, well.

He did something else which was bothersome; he only told half the story.  He talked about the Old Rite Mass as though it were the trip-wire, but of course, the Mass is NOT the point of the SSPX's revolt.  Perhaps the priest did not want to get into the real points of contention--the theology of 'who is saved'--because it would be quite a journey and occupy much more than 7 minutes.  And maybe he would have revealed a grave problem with Rome's current Ruling Class.

But if he thought that he might settle the matter in the minds of the congregants......well.......we'll see.  At least he had the good sense to make clear, twice, that there are bad people in high Church positions.

Agreed, Father! 

Whoopsie!! SSPX Retains Confession, Marriage Authority

Apparently Cdl. "Kissy-Face" Fernandez screwed up.

So SSPX retains the authority to forgive sins and witness marriages.

Whoopsie!!

We cannot, of course, speculate on the reason for Cdl. Kissy's apparent problems with legalities.

But if we could....... 

Trump Goes for Triumph Over EPA

You notice that the MSM and its Totalitarian-Left partners have gone hair-on-fire about Trump's latest Presidential pardons?  It is not co-incidence that Trump issued these during the lead-up to Independence Day.

President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including a former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and nine people identified by the White House as having helped people bypass emissions control systems on vehicles....

Yup.  The crime? Defying the EPA and its manic fixation on "emissions." 

We have a lot of acquaintances and friends in the auto industry.

ALL of them will tell you that 'The EPA is why we cannot have nice things.'  Look at the record.  Diesel-engine drivers spend hundreds of hours in down-time for "sensor repairs" or replacements.  Caterpillar refuses to sell its diesels to truckers (or bus companies) because it WILL NOT adopt the EPA's preferred engine-wrecking 'technology,' "exhaust gas recirculation," which jams a load of nasty little things into perfectly polished cylinder sleeves.  A million or so Wisconsin drivers are forced to take their cars through "tests" of "emissions."  If--after spending several hours locating a shop and waiting for the test to be completed and scored--if their car fails, they are liable to spend up to $400-$500 to "fix" it, or stop driving because the car's license will not be renewed.

This is pure bulls**t. 

Trump has eliminated the EPA's atomic-bomb regulation "endangerment finding."

 ...The finding — which the EPA issued in 2009 — said the global warming caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane endangers the health and welfare of current and future generations.

“We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy,” Trump said at a news conference. “This determination had no basis in fact — none whatsoever. And it had no basis in law. On the contrary, over the generations, fossil fuels have saved millions of lives and lifted billions of people out of poverty all over the world.”...

The EPA is full of s**t and everyone knows it--except the dead-heads running EPA until recently.

Thank you, Mr. President! 

Aiming for 500!

 Listen here and contemplate the gifts God has given you in this land.

 

 

Obama-desta vs. Newsom

 Best explanation we've seen.

 You may have read the article from the New York Post about the FBI enlisting a close insider to California Governor Gavin Newsom to wear a wire and record conversations within Newsom’s circle.  However, did you overlay the timeline?...

It began a full month before Biden dropped out, and was an op OK'd by Lisa Monaco (read:  Obama) to make sure that Newsom would not pose a threat to Kammy.

The trials should be juicy, to say the least.  All that discovery, and all that testimony, and all those names....

 

The Declaration vs. the Communists/DSA

 PowerLine does us all a favor by quoting one paragraph from Cal Coolidge's speech about the Declaration of Independence.  It is well-worth re-posting here.  Pay particular attention to the last couple of lines.

 ...About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers....

Communism is Totalitarian.  It is not 'democratic,' and there are no "inalienable rights," and all men are definitely NOT created equal.

Jus' sayin' 

Trump Got THIS Right

Members of the Democrat Socialist Party........pay attention.

 ...Communism “is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11," Trump said Friday night in a pre-Independence Day spectacular in South Dakota. "We're not going to let this happen to us. Believe me, we're not letting it happen, because communism is the enemy of free people."

"Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — it is death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil," he declared.

He accused leftist activists of trying to swap the ideals of America with those of Karl Marx. 

“As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land, or that our heroes were oppressors, they're doing something much worse than slandering our past," Trump said. "They are slandering and attacking our future."...

People embracing the Democrat-Socialist platform are--in fact--Enemies of the State and should be treated as such with no quarter given.

 

Pritzker's Ignorance

Pritzker, the next target of DSA, issued an excuse for violating the Second Amendment.

 ...Gov. J.B. Pritzker cited the 2022 Highland Park parade shooting as a reason why Illinois’ statewide ban should be upheld.

The governor spoke at a cannabis dispensary in Chicago on Thursday, two days after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Viramontes v. Cook County and a similar case in Connecticut....

....“The rights of people to go to a 4th of July parade and be safe, and not have 48 people shot with more than 60 bullets per second, issued by a weapon that shouldn't be available to the public,” Pritzker said....

The S&W M&P 15 is an AR-based platform using 5.56x45 ammo.  At full-auto, the AR can fire up to 900 rounds/minute, or FIFTEEN rounds/second.

Not SIXTY rounds/second.

Math is hard, Governor.  Have your aides do it for you. 

Perhaps the Governor was confused due to cannabis?  

But there's no small irony in his waving his porky-finger in front of a WackyWeed shop; long-term use of marijuana can result in a violent temper.  Ask anyone in the DSA about that. 

NYC Ruled by POS

 Not much more to say about that creature.

 ...Mamdani gave an address on Friday morning, preceding President Trump’s address to the nation from Mount Rushmore, during which the immigrant mayor surrounded himself with foreigners and lectured Americans on how bad our country is. America, he said, “is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.”

 “How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal,” he said of American citizens who value our national heritage, accusing them of racism and xenophobia.

At one point, Mamdani used the address to attack ICE, Capitalism, and the rich, including figures like Elon Musk.

“We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more,” he said.

“We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors, before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.”...

"Soft hands", eh?  He should know.

 ...As noted by the New York Post, after graduating from Bowdoin College with a degree in Africana Studies, Mamdani, who lived most of his life in subsidized housing, went on to become a liberal activist, a failed rapper in Uganda*, campaign manager for a failed State Senate race, a nonprofit financial counselor, and then ran for State Assembly in 2020. Much like the Somali fraudsters he cares so much about, Zohran Mamdani is a scam artist who has done nothing for this country.

Now, he lives off a quarter-million-dollar salary in the historic Upper East Side residence of Gracie Mansion, paid for by the people of New York City....

 "A taker, never a maker" in the Musk-provided epigraph.  And not one callous nor scar on that foreign-born body, either.

*  How the Hell does one 'fail' as a 'rapper' in Uganda?

Speaker Johnson Did Good. And Bad.

How d'ya like these apples?

On Thursday, Speaker Johnson forced the SAVE America Act into the NDAA bill. It puts tremendous pressure on the Senate to pass it once the House sends it over.

Sen. Mike Lee said, “He assured me that the MIRV process will guarantee the two bills are merged and received in the Senate as one bill, with the SAVE America Act in the base text.”...

That's the good news.  The bad news?

S.702, the "We Spy On You!!!" law, is included in the NDAA.  So is joining Israel's intel with the Pentagon's.   

 

 

Huh! Truth!!

 

MSM's Lie By Omission on Reflecting Pool Case

 Those of you who watched last night's See B.S. bit on the canoe-paddler who vandalized the reflecting pool saw the story that See B.S. wanted you to see.

But it was not the whole story.

See B.S. didn't tell you that there were WITNESSES to the canoe-paddler's vandalism.  Those WITNESSES informed the Capitol Police who arrested the perp.

Oh. 

The Illegals Are Sucking Up SocSec Money

 Several years ago, it was common knowledge that Social Security would run out of money sometime around 2040-2050.

But a month ago, the new estimates predict it would run dry by 2030.

What happened?

Illegals, among other things.

 ...whether you want to call it waste or not, Social Security money is being spent for purposes other than funding the retirement benefits of the workers who paid into the system, and illegals receive state and federal benefits, including Social Security, through several mechanisms....

A little history:

... The original 1935 Social Security Act paid benefits only to workers who had contributed. The 1939 Amendments, signed by Franklin Roosevelt, added benefits for a retired worker’s spouse and minor children, as well as survivors’ benefits for the family of a worker who died prematurely. This marked the first time trust fund dollars flowed to people who had never paid FICA taxes themselves....

Things went well until the Great Recession in Children (beginning around 1965) happened.  The number of pay-IN peeps dropped while the pay-OUT peeps grew.  Not good. 

About those illegals taking SS funds:

 ...Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, U.S. citizen children in mixed-status households remain eligible for SNAP, Medicaid, CHIP, and WIC regardless of a parent’s status. The fact that illegal alien families collect federal and state benefits through their anchor babies is one of the reasons the Trump administration is working to end birthright citizenship.

Separately, SSA’s Office of Inspector General has an active caseload of individuals who used stolen or borrowed Social Security numbers to file for and receive benefits outright....

Then there's Supplemental Security Income (SSI):

...Because SSI eligibility requires only citizenship or qualified-alien status, age or disability, and income under a threshold, a stolen identity satisfies the first gate, and the remaining two are ordinary eligibility questions.

The 2004 Social Security Protection Act requires that an alien whose Social Security number was assigned on or after January 1, 2004, have had work authorization at some point to gain insured status. Numbers assigned before that date carry no such requirement, meaning earnings recorded under a pre-2004 number can generate benefit eligibility, including for citizen dependents, without the worker ever having held legal status....

There is NO doubt that the pay-IN to pay-OUT ratio is the most significant factor in the shortage.  But the illegals, and SSI (often fraudulently abused by US citizens, too) are a factor which should be fixed. 

 

A Podesta Snitching on Newsom (!??!)

 This has all sorts of "interesting!!" written over it.

 The FBI had a mole inside Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political orbit before the agency’s corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife, The Post has learned.

Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom’s then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May, according to Williamson’s attorney.

The revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024...(NYPost quoted at Gateway)

 Did Ms. Podesta help the FEEBS from a sense of duty?

Or did she trade her services on behalf of one (or two) of her family members?

Inquiring minds, and all that. 

Buffalo Has PATRIOTS. The Mayor Is Not One of Them

 We've been to Buffalo, NY.  The city is aging--like Milwaukee--but has its charms, along with a decent amount of old-line union-labor industry.

So when we first saw that the City of Buffalo decided to raise the Somali flag, we were shocked.

But given what we noted above, this is not a surprise:

 A Somalian flag that was raised outside of Buffalo’s City Hall to commemorate Somali Independence Day was stolen in an overnight heist, the city’s leftist mayor decried.

“The City of Buffalo’s flagpole in Niagara Square sustained damage after unknown vandals broke the access panel, cut the cable, and removed the Somali flag during the overnight hours of Wednesday, July 1,” Mayor Sean Ryan wrote on Facebook.

Ryan said the Buffalo Police Department was investigating the alleged vandalism ...

Let's re-write the Mayor's statement with the correct language, shall we?

 “The City of Buffalo’s flagpole in Niagara Square sustained damage after unknown vandals patriots broke the access panel..."

One more thing:

... Ryan [who thinks that he's the Mayor of Mogadishu] said the Buffalo Police Department was investigating the alleged vandalism...

My bet is that the Cop Shop will take about 20 years to complete its investigation, and have "no conclusions" when it's over.

Cops are patriots, too.