Lead Paint Problem? We Have Solutions!!

 It's all politics, because it most certainly is not facts.

Lead paint has been recognized as a serious health problem for MORE than 50 years, and it has been banned from use since 1978.

It's not like Milwaukee Public Schools didn't have adequate warning.

But they ignored all that, and it turns out that several (or more) schools have NEVER remediated their lead paint.

The CDC used to run tests on lead paint and painted surfaces, but Trump--in his wisdom--asked why in Hell all the taxpayers in the USA should pay for local problems, like--for example--the lazy and useless MPS Superintendents and Board members.

So Trump shut down that part of CDC.

Suddenly, MPS discovers a problem because their students develop lead paint poisoning symptoms.

So the bitching about Trump commences.  It's a Shiny Object!!!  "News" outlets take their dictation, and read their shorthand notes over the air because they are incapable of asking a question like this one:

"WHO ELSE PERFORMS LEAD PAINT TEST AND ANALYSIS??"

Type this into your search bar:   lead paint testing and analysis

FIVE results of private contractors showed up on DuckDuckGo.  About 30 showed up on Brave.

Think Corvair Johnson, the dumbest Mayor in the country, can handle it?  

How about the morons at MPS?

Maher/Trump. So What?

The first thing to know is that no one really should give a flying damn about "What Bill Maher thinks" about anything--except, perhaps, late-night television.

That's that.

 

That OKC Bombing and the FBI Coverup

 Kinda getting to be routine:  when the FBI is involved, "coverup" is going to be someplace in the article.  As they say, "Template."

 After the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI launched a massive manhunt for a mystery accomplice to Timothy McVeigh known as “John Doe 2”—only to later claim that he never existed, and that McVeigh acted largely alone.

Nearly 30 years later, an attorney in Utah named Jesse Trentadue is still working to unearth the truth through his ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for surveillance footage of the blast. According to FBI and Secret Service records, the footage shows McVeigh with another unidentified subject.

Since McVeigh’s other known accomplice, Terry Nichols, was confirmed to have been in Kansas on April 19, John Doe 2’s identity remains a subject of debate. Credible researchers have made the case that he may have been an undercover informant, or even an agent....

It's a long article; you can read the rest at your leisure.  But you get the idea, just like with the Epstein files, the JFK & RFK assassinations, the 'rest of the story' on the Butler PA near-assassin, and probably hundreds of other, far-less-prominent, stories.

FBI?  Lie.  Coverup.  Make certain that Congress never, ever, pulls off a real investigation.  (How do they do that, hmmmmmmmmm??)

 

Deportation a "Mistake"? Nope.

The whining and mewling from a (totally un-informed) MSM about deporting an MS-13 member back to his home country is disgusting.  After all, he was ordered to be deported by a judge SIX YEARS AGO.

But then, when 10-year-olds throw fits, it's disgusting.

We will give them this:  the "mistake" language that they use was actually put into the DoJ's brief, by a hard-left Democrat DoJ lawyer who has been FIRED for their treachery.  (You can expect more of this in the future.)

All the rest, including the March-Around-Around-Around at UW-Milwaukee and on S. 5th St., is theater for the TeeeVeeee crews to film.

Does Haaahvaaahd Have a RIGHT To Our Money?

 This seems rather simple.

The Administration demands that Haaaahhhvaaaahd comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964--that is, to stop its racist practices.

Haaaaahhhvaaaahd says "Shove it, Bozo!"

The Administration says "OK.  Kiss about $9 BILLION taxpayer dollars goodbye.  And don't let the door hit you in the ass."

Haaaaahhvaaaahd says "We Will SUE YOU for the MONEY!  We have RIGHTS!!!!"

The question before the Court is simple:  is Harvard entitled to taxpayer money no matter how egregiously they practice racism (and anti-Semitism, whatever that may be)?

Don't count on Federal Courts to go with "common sense." 

"Non-Violent" Child Killers, Like Planned Parenthood

Trump's call for CBS to 'lose its license' is certainly justifiable.  

Even more so, his decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood.

CBS News  reported about an ancient city just outside present-day Mexico City. Teotihuacan—”the city of the gods” or “the place where men become gods”—is best known for its twin Temples of the Sun and Moon....

 ...Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, said that the Teotihuacan altar was believed to have been used for sacrifices, “especially of children.”...

Child sacrifice.  That would make the Teotihuacan tribe the model for Planned Parenthood, yes? 

CBS managed to find a "scientist" who has a different narrative on killing children.

 ...María Belén Méndez, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, said the discovery confirms “that there has been an interconnection between both cultures and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like.”

“We see how the issue of sacrifice exists in both cultures. It was a practice; it’s not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies,” she said....

Planned Parenthood's "celestial bodies" are US dollars.  Same for the AWFLs who vote for abortion every time they get a chance.

There is nothing new under the sun.

 

Best Rule? Follow The Money!

Tucker Carlson interviews an ex-Congressman who retains multiple high-level CIA/ex-CIA contacts; that Congressman tells a similar story.

It's all about the money.

 ...in the years before Moscow’s invasion, Democrats enriched themselves politically and personally from Russian oligarchs and businesses in the region while empowering Putin with energy and technology deals that still haunt America today.

President Barack Obama, after taking office in early 2009, set in motion the merging of U.S. business interests with the Russian economy through the famous “reset” in relations between the two powers. Obama’s reset began in 2009 as an effort to cool tensions that had ballooned after Russia’s invasion of its small neighbor Georgia in 2008. 

The reset set the stage for several prominent Democrats and their benefactors to profit from the burgeoning business opportunities in Russia being facilitated by the Obama administration.

 In one case, the policy of Obama’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to support and develop Russia’s “Silicon Valley,” known as Skolkovo, may have undermined U.S. national security while the family’s Clinton Foundation pocketed donations from Russian donors....

... Clinton’s spouse, former president Bill Clinton, also reaped rewards from the Russian reset, collecting a $500,000 speaking fee from a Russian investment bank, Renaissance Capital. The speech came at the same time that Secretary Clinton was opposing sanctions measures on Russian officials that later became the Magnitsky Act, Fox News reported....

Exit Clintons, enter Bidens!!

 ...Joe Biden, gave an early voice to the administration’s new policy towards Russia weeks after their term in office began. “The last few years have seen a dangerous drift in relations between Russia and the members of our Alliance,” Biden said at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 7, 2009. “It is time—to paraphrase President Obama—it's time to press the reset button and to revisit the many areas where we can and should be working together with Russia.”

Hunter Biden, the vice president’s son, and his business partners took full advantage of the new thaw, waging a concerted campaign to squeeze oligarchs in Vladimir Putin's country for investments, an effort that ultimately paved the way for the first son to score a big payday from Burisma Holdings in neighboring Ukraine, Just the News previously reported....

The difference between this story and Weldon's? 

In Weldon's telling, there are a lot more people who raked in the money, including CIA agents, supervisors, and managers.

Surprised??

Malleable Expertise!

 

It Will Be EASTER

Last year, it was Tranny Day.

This year?

 

Ramesh Ponnuru Was Smart, Once

Let's not get too detailed here.

Ponnuru pretends that the TrumpTariff impositions are only about import taxes.

Maybe he's a propagandist, because he cannot be that ..........ahhh.........mentally challenged, can he?

It's hardly "just tariffs."  

There are non-tariff trade barriers.  There are pay-backs for US generosity.  There are budget-balances.  There are serious defense-industry considerations.  There are the pharmaceuticals that should be made here, and rare-earths that should be mined here.  And there are American families who would love to see a nice, steady, factory-job income.

Yes, Ramesh, BigBank, Inc., BigBond, Inc., and a variety of Venture Vultures hate tariffs; their bonuses are going to disappear.  Libertarians, who are congenital twits, hate tariffs because they live in an imaginary La-La-Land and like to beggar their neighbors.

We don't care.

We DON'T CARE.

 

Gee, Thanks, Presidents Clinton & Bush!!

The Big Bankers along with such vermin as Fink and the Goldie-Sachs crowd, weep and screech because their bonuses are threatened.

Didn't see a single flower from them at any of the funerals they caused while in cahoots with Clinton and Bush the Dumber....

 ...Recent research has uncovered the significant social impact of U.S. international trade policies, linking these to increases in fatal drug overdoses and other public health crises. For instance, a 2020 study in the American Economic Review highlighted that job losses resulting from unfair trade were connected to an uptick in fatal drug overdoses, particularly among white individuals of working age. The findings suggest a correlation between policy shifts and rising “deaths of despair” since the year 2000.

Additionally, research published in 2019 in SSM – Population Health demonstrated a positive association between job losses due to trade and increased mortality from opioid overdoses at the county level between 1999 and 2015. Specifically, for every 1,000 trade-related jobs lost, there was a 2.7 percent increase in opioid-related deaths. Moreover, when the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl was involved, this increase soared to 11.3 percent, underscoring the severe consequences of employment shifts driven by unfair trade....

However, the widows were able to buy very inexpensive funeral-wear at Wally World.

ANOTHER Would-Be Trump Assassin!!

Kittle is a Wisconsin writer; this came up before the Waukesha parricide-jackwad's game was revealed.

 ...Shawn Monper, 32, of Butler — the same Pennsylvania community where Trump came within a fraction of an inch of being assassinated last July — faces federal charges of making threats to assault and murder Trump, DOGE advisor and Tesla founder Elon Musk, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and others, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. ...

Kittle's a smart reporter (with a terrible radio personality).  He will have a field day digging around to find out whether Roush, Monper, and Kasap have any friends in common--and from what countries.....

 

Hegseth's Challenge, Part 2

One day, two posts about the problems Hegseth faces.  This one is cadged from Vox and describes the problems of fighting a war with stuff that is too f*n complex to use in a war.  Go ahead.  Figure that out!

 ...The PzH 2000 howitzer, while advanced, is so technically fragile that its combat usefulness is in doubt. The Leopard 1A5 tank is used mostly as makeshift artillery due to weak armor. The Leopard 2A6 is too expensive and complex to maintain at the front.

Air defense systems also face problems. The IRIS-T works well, but ammo is too costly and scarce. The Patriot system is called “unsuitable for combat” because its MAN carrier vehicles are outdated and lack spare parts....--quoting Der Spiegel

We could summarize this very irreverently as the brass' preference for Toys, Not Boys.  

IOW, 'the toys are really whiz-bang neat-o wunderwaffen toys!!  Who cares whether the boys survive'? 

You should not be surprised; these bozos-with-stars were appointed or promoted by Lefty politicians who manifest the same priorities, mutatis mutandis, in their countries toward the untermenschen:  'Take care of the non-profit NGO's and Government employees.  Who cares if the poor or homeless actually benefit?'

 

An Explainer for Amy Coney Barrett

Many of my friends have asked "What happened to Amy Coney Barrett?"

Here's the explainer, written about another female-in-authority who was FIRED, a solution we wish were possible with ACB.

... Colonel Susannah’s maternal instincts were inflamed. She experienced an overwhelming (and professionally fatal) emotional need to contradict the Vice President to calm everyone’s bruised feelings, especially the Danes among the base’s mixed-nationality group. She unleashed the dogs of virtue and loosed a base email, which began by saying she’d reflected on “actions taken, the words spoken, and how it must have affected each of you.”...

"Maternal instincts" and "emotional need"...........combined with "feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllings".....

Pretty much how ACB renders judgment on Constitutional matters found in Article Two, Sentence One. 

Sub-context:  Are girls boys?  Are boys girls?  Nope.

 

Democrat Substance

 The Governor-ette of Michigan shows us what backbone Democrats have.  Remember that this is the female who played "victim" in the FBI-led "plot" to kidnap her.  

IOW, it's all theater to the Democrats.

 

Hegseth's MASSIVE Challenge

 You don't have to read much of this essay to understand that Pete Hegseth has a challenge fit for Hercules.

At the same time, it will be clear that DOGE is going to have a field day at the Pentagon.

The essay is a discussion of the IG report on a drone attack which killed three USAR people in Syria last year.  We will only quote a few grafs; the rest is a must-read.

... CENTCOM had requested anti-drone defense systems based on its risk analysis, but the entire US Army only had one, count them, one, system available, and it was reserved for redeployment training. Why you'd bother to use training time to gain familiarity with a system you will never see again is an unanswered question. Needless to say, nothing is too good for the troops, and that is exactly what they get. The base had one electronic warfare system designed to counter drones, but it was not used....

That would be one systemic and then one "applied" problem.  

...Tower 22's radar was not optimized for the most likely threat. Frequently, operators could not distinguish birds from drones. A better radar system had been requested and denied....

You get the drift?  The Pentagon has a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET this year but will NOT send must-have (not "nice-to-have") equipment into danger zones. 

Excuse us for asking, but WTF are they spending ONE TRILLION DOLLARS on?

What Is "Democracy"?

PowerLine finds a real gem in a book review by Prof. Busch; he reviews a book by a fellow named Ganz.

The money graf from the review:

 ...Driving Ganz’s analysis is a particular way of thinking, captured neatly in his list of the “good guys” of the early ’90s: Jesse Jackson, Bernie Sanders, Tom Harkin, Jerry Brown, Harris Wofford. His partisan leanings lead him to make observations that he is unable or unwilling to process fully. Clearly, he fears demagoguery and authoritarianism—at least from the right—but he simply equates democracy with egalitarianism, never pairing it with constitutionalism, rights, or the consent of the governed. Yet, it is precisely democracy untethered to constitutionalism or fundamental rights that is most vulnerable to demagoguery and authoritarianism. Once that door is opened, any unscrupulous actor can walk through. Ganz quotes Huey P. Long as claiming, “There is perfect democracy [in Louisiana], and when you have perfect democracy it is pretty hard to tell it from a dictatorship.” Long might well have read Aristotle. But, sincere or not, Long was nothing if not a voice for egalitarianism—the veritable Bernie Sanders of the 1930s....

IOW, the virtue is in self-restraint (or State-restraint.)

Self-restraint:  it's not just for Lent.

 

Owen Asks the Right Question

Owen of Boots & Sabers has the right question.  

The post focuses on an unexpected result of "Free Tuition" at a prestige medical school; that result was that the "underprivileged" admissions dropped by seventy-five percent (!!).

Anyhow, here's Owen's take:

 ...What the story doesn’t talk about is outcomes. How many students were able to complete their degrees? How many graduated and went on to good careers? Colleges focus so much on the equity of admissions but not the success of their students after they graduate....

That query leads to a broader--and just as critical--question:  Is college really the One Necessary Thing?

In this country, taxpayers, parents, and students commit very large resources to 'a college education.'  But for many students, the money is wasted; they are not able to do actual "college work."  (Defining "college work" is another large problem when Harvard is forced to offer remedial math...)

In Milwaukee, Allis-Chalmers led the parade of employers requiring a college degree for all of its administrative (e.g., customer service, computer programmer, mid-level accounting) and management employees back in the mid-'70's.  (Shortly afterwards, the CEO who emitted that demand led the Company off the cliff; Allis-Chalmers is no more.)   Were those degrees really necessary?

Are they today?

Nah.   

There will be a very significant reduction in the number of colleges and universities operating in the USA over the next 10-20 years.  It's largely demographic-related; but another noticeable component is the growing perception that college is not 'all that.'

Finally!

Cutback in College "Overhead" for Research....

 Somehow or other, the "press" missed this factoid.  Could it be because the "press" never asked the question?  Could it be that the press just typed up the colleges' responses and read them on the air?

 

New @Energy policy caps university grant overhead at 15%, consistent with for-profit, non-profit, and state/local government awardees.

This saves taxpayers >$400M/yr. 

More money available for research, and less money to administrative bloat.

Imagine that!!  Everybody getting energy-research dollars can live happily with 15% for administration--except colleges and universities.

Why is that?

Truth Bomb Here

 

Parent-Killer's Satanic Associations

Apparently that Ukrainian kid had a large target in mind:  Donald Trump.  Killing his parents allowed him to grab a lot of cash, which would be used to purchase the weapons needed to knock off the President.

But there's more to the story, a portion NOT reported by Channel 12.  (Channels 4 & 58 have nada zip zero on this.)

 ....According to the warrant, investigators uncovered material on Casap's cellphone related to "The Order of Nine Angles." The group is described in FBI documents as a "satanic cult" with "strong anti-Judaic, anti-Christian, and anti-Western ideologies" that claims to "incite chaos and violence."...

Hmmm.  "Chaos," eh?

The FEEBS are digging around among the connections found on the murderer's phone.

Those results should be very interesting, indeed.  Can you say "Ryan Routh"?

CDC Will Not Do MPS' Job. Surprised?

The local rag's subscription spiral is earned.

Their headline:  CDC Denies Milwaukee Request For Help With Lead-Paint Crisis.

In fact, CDC will not do the job that Milwaukee Public Schools should have been doing for the past 30 years or so.

MPS' money is not spent on such foolishness as preventing students from being poisoned.

It is spent on administrators and--huge numbers here--salaries and fringe benefits for teachers, kids be damned.

No reason for Federal taxpayers in Horicon or Taos, NM, to pay for that work.  None at all.

The War Against Red China

This is not about tariffs.

This is about taking down the largest remaining national system of murder and oppression--not to mention slavery and naked oligarchy:  Communist (Red) China.

And those "experts" and "Wall Street executives" who tell you that Trump's tariffs are going to ruin the US economy are, frankly, running dogs.  Or they are literally bought-and-paid-for Red China shills.

The Libertarians?  Not quite as bad; but they--frankly--despise their neighbors.  

You can catch a great deal of smarts on the REAL war at Bannon's Episodes 4400 and 4401.

It's worth the time.

Trump to Slap Madison. Hard.

Madison, WI., (a/k/a Madistan) is the Midwest's answer to San Francisco.  Relentlessly Leftist, Election Fraud leader (in percentage terms) and a great place to commit a crime because you won't be punished.

But Trump?  He's going to punish Madistan for being a "sanctuary city." 

President Donald Trump said his administration is close to finalizing a plan that would withhold all federal funding to cities and states that have enacted "sanctuary" zones and do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities. ...

This will be fun to watch.  The University of Wisconsin has already been hit by Trump's 15% overhead limit on Federal research grants.  There's a lot of Federal money sloshing around in that town, and it's about time someone demanded Order.

Gwen Moore Loves Her Some Alien Voters

The Pubbies have tried to woo "black community" voters (really, they are "voters") with all sorts of promises.

But the best way to bring VOTERS to your side?

Show them that their current "representation" despises them.

Gwen Moore voted FOR illegal-alien voting rights.

Republicans did not.   

So Gwen Moore lines up with the classes who need maids and groundskeepers.  And cheap, cheap, labor.  That's "representing" the "community"?

Trump DoJ Quashing J6 Discovery?

Pam Bondi is unavailable for comment, as she is putting on makeup for another Fox appearance.

 On April 9, 2025, J6 defendant Ryan Zink, with the help of his attorney Roger Roots, obtained an order from Chief Judge James E. Boasberg that effectively opened up the truth about J6 to the public.

On March 22, 2025, Roots filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to lift the protective order restricting access to the global discovery for January 6.

This trove of discovery—consisting of over 8 million files—has been hidden from the public for over four years.

The government failed to file a response to the motion, forcing Boasberg to grant it....

Yah, but that's not the end of the story.

... On the same day, the protective order was lifted, Jennifer Blackwell, a DOJ prosecutor, filed a motion for leave to oppose Zink’s motion—after the fact—and begged the court to reverse its order....

Bo-Ass-berg may side with DoJ/Bondi, or may not.

Dear Scott Johnson: REALLY??

PowerLine is a valuable aggregator; its contributors pay attention to a large number of news and opinion outlets and curate good ones daily.

That said.....

Scott Johnson proceeds to tell us that--in the words of Sen. Tom Cotton (Warmonger, MO)--Tucker Carlson lied.

Apparently it never occurred to Scott Johnson that Tom Cotton (Warmonger, MO) might also lie.  After all, Cotton is a two-fer:  both lawyer AND politician.

Do better, Scott.

The REAL Reason Dimon Doesn't Like Tariffs

You don't have to be a genius to figure this out.  It is rumored that Jamie Dimon (CEO, JPMorganChase) appeared on a Fox TV show because Trump watches that show.  Dimon went there with a message:  back off the tariffs.

Since JPMChase has a large presence in China, and has made a bunch of loans in China, and since Trump Tariffs are going to strangle Chinese businesses,.............is it just possible that Dimon's "concern" has to do with getting the loans paid back?

Same with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, BlackRock.........all of them.  They have large money tied up in that country (and lots of others).  If Trump succeeds in bringing manufacturing back to the USA, those investments and loans will be worth a lot less.

Maybe they'll be worth nothing.

That would be bad.  Bonus-time will be pretty crappy, indeed.  All those JPMChase (Citibank, BlackRock) shares awarded over the last decade...........well, let's just say they declined in value.

 

 

Another Christmas Day

Nah, Not the markets, which hit historic gains.  More significant than mere money:

 The Trump White House has begun declining to respond to media requests from reporters who include gender pronouns in their email signatures. The move aligns with the administration's broader rejection of what it calls "gender ideology" in the federal government.

"As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in an email to a New York Times reporter asking about climate research.

Katie Miller, a senior adviser at the Department of Government Efficiency, echoed that approach in a separate exchange, telling another Times journalist, "I don't respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts."  --AOSHQ quoting MXM News

Yes.  We remember well the MSM's lying about "Follow the Science."

In fact, you can learn all about "science" from something called "John Oliver" right here!  It's obvious that his understanding of "science" surpasses that of God, who created them male and female only.  

Bow down to "John Oliver."  (Does the "science" tell us that he is a male?  Are we certain?  Just asking....) 

$2 BILLION Just Today

 That's tariff-revenues.

About $700 BILLION/year totaled--assuming they stay as they are.

That should reduce the rates on the bonds, no?

Solution To Courthouse Arrests!

The wailing and gnashing of teeth--usually found in Hell--emanates from the mouths of lawyers.  (Hmmmmm.....)

Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested two people at the Milwaukee County Courthouse Complex....

One of them was ordered out of the USA by a judge several years ago.  The other had gun and drug charges against him.

The Extreme Left has been screeching and wailing, and gnashing their teeth about this for several days, desperately trying to gin up more "active" resistance to the Trump Administration.

 ...Immigration attorneys told FOX6 News ICE arrests in or near courthouses aren't new, but fairly uncommon since the 9/11 attacks.

"If this is a solution in search of a problem – or it makes no sense – what is the point? And perhaps the cruelty is the point," defense attorney Craig Mastantuono said.

 "What's different is they're coming into our house, where we are supposed to be free to come here to get justice," civil attorney Mark Thomsen said....

It's not a 'solution in search of a problem', Craig.  It is a solution.  The problem(s) are the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT detainees.

By the way, the name "Thomsen" will be familiar to anyone who followed the Election Fraud of '20; he is a highly-partisan member of the Wisconsin Election Commission.  His reference to "our" house is deliberately misleading.  That "house" was built by taxpaying US citizens, not criminal illegals.

But in the spirit of "nice," we have a solution.

Let's put both those ICE detainees into Thomsen's house.  His personal home.  People in the neighborhood of the bad guys will be relieved, and Thomsen can put his money family where his Extreme Left Mouth is.

Deal?

Flu Vaxx: Worse (!!) Than Useless

 Yes, the FLU vaxx.  Not the Covid "vaxx."

... Among 53402 employees, 43857 (82.1%) had received the influenza vaccine by the end of the study. Influenza occurred in 1079 (2.02%) during the study. The cumulative incidence of influenza was similar for the vaccinated and unvaccinated states early, but over the course of the study the cumulative incidence of influenza increased more rapidly among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. In an analysis adjusted for age, sex, clinical nursing job, and employment location, the risk of influenza was significantly higher for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated state (HR, 1.27; 95% C.I., 1.07 – 1.51; P = 0.007), yielding a calculated vaccine effectiveness of −26.9% (95% C.I., −55.0 to −6.6%)....

That's the  Cleveland Clinic report on the '24-'25 flu season.

NEGATIVE 27% effective.

Think you can get your money back?

A Little Sagacity on "The Markets"

CBD over at Ace's Place makes a valuable contribution to the discussion about the "stock market" and  TehTariffs.

...a more accurate picture of the state of the financial markets should include more than one index. And there are others besides the ones I have mentioned. And because these indexes are plain numbers, it is important that the percentage change is taken into account, rather than the raw change.

October 19th, 1987 saw the Dow drop by 508 points. That doesn't sound so bad, but it was 22.6%... the greatest one-day drop in history. The worst day last week isn't even in the top 20 worst days in history.

I'm not trying to paint a rosy picture of the economy, because the shift toward a tariff-driven trade policy is going to have its downsides, which will be reflected in the stock markets, hopefully just in the short term. It will also have significant upsides in American employment, international trade, and a more rational approach to the national security needs of raw materials and manufactured products.

The problem with our ignorant, biased, and lazy media is that they report the most shocking data, and don't bother with seemingly simple things like percentages vs. raw numbers, historical context, or the difference between the Russell 2000 and the Dow! Why? Well, they are "journalists," which is a placeholder for "mis-educated, innumerate, lazy leftists."

Anyone care to bet that 50% of the "journalists who have confidently pontificated about the financial markets the last several days can't tell you what the Russell 2000 is (it's a sucker bet)?...

He also gives you a very nice outline of the various averages and their contents.

 

Get the Wood Chippers Started!!!!

This makes me a Happy Guy.

Tampa Bay-10 ran a troubling but also encouraging story headlined, “'Faces of evil': Florida authorities announce arrests in global child abuse ring bust.” Florida’s new Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the international indictments in a deeply disturbing press conference....

...The CSAM ring, organized out of Turkey, involved seven Floridians and spanned multiple countries. “The level and brutality of these images is sickening,” Uthmeier said, shaking his head. Authorities seized millions of horrific videos—including those showing “real, identifiable children in the United States” listed in the National Missing and Exploited Children registry.

Many victims were babies.

Some of the unidentified children were thought to be illegal immigrants, trafficked across the border under Biden’s open-door policy for “families with children.”...

Trafficked because NGO's like Catholic Charities and Lutheran Family Services provided open-arms welcome mats for the traffickers and the children--no matter whose children they happened to be.

Moving on....

...Authorities continue investigating the international connections— linking the ring to Canada, Ireland, and other foreign countries. TikTok was apparently the gateway platform, providing users who paid just $100 access to a dark web portal where the massive library of “dangerous material” was hosted....

 ...The articles were silent about this part, but … what about all the people who paid the $100? Law enforcement almost certainly has the data— logins, IP addresses, credit card transaction trails.

You can see why officials didn’t mention it. No warnings. They don’t want these people bleach-bitting their hard drives like Hillary or fleeing to Ukraine. I would bet that those names have already been referred to agencies and jurisdictions all over the country. Maybe even all over the world....

They were, and they are getting results.  

In the past few weeks, several Wisconsin residents were arrested on child porn charges.  One in Racine, one in the Fox Valley, and one in West Bend, one in Menomonee Falls, TWO in Crawford County, and the list goes on.

Those wood chippers are going to wear out.

Good.

Did the EU Cave on Tariffs?

 In a word, nope.

 ....Yesterday, Politico ran a story headlined, “EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffs.” EU President Ursula Von der Leyen said the EU “stands ready to negotiate” and “has offered zero-for-zero tariffs” on all industrial goods, including cars, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, rubber and plastic machinery...

But but but Dad29!!  You can SEE that "zero-for-zero tariffs" in the story.  How can you say "Nope"?

Easy.

...it omits consumer and agricultural goods. Second, the EU is one of those places where they play games with non-tariff trade barriers like VAT taxes and “safety standards.” And third, Trump already rejected a similar offer in his first term.

In a White House presser yesterday, the President explained the EU’s sneaky non-tariff barriers. "It's tariffs where they make it impossible for you to sell a car ... they make it so difficult, the standards and the tests," Trump said. "They come up with rules and regulations that are just designed for one reason: that you can't sell your product in those countries. And we're not gonna let that happen. Those are called non-monetary barriers."...

Mercedes will not be the only Euro biz to eat the tariffs themselves.  Waiting for the EU twits to stop lying and cheating will be a disaster for most Euro businesses.

The REAL Nashville Tranny-Mass-Shooter

As our source remarks, it's no wonder the FEEBS buried this.

...The manifesto, which was written by trans mass shooter Audrey Hale, confirms what we already figured: this was a radical, mentally unhinged leftist who openly hated white people, Christians, America, and her own body. The FBI and Nashville PD conveniently left this out of their report....

...In the pages, Hale described herself as a “violent extremist” obsessed with hatred, destruction, and death. Her writings included lines like:

“Kill all the white kids. Kill my own race.”
“Female pronouns make me feel like I wanna die.”
“I have to kill so I can be remembered in the most horrific way possible.”...

Trannies are NOT harmless little adorable puppies or kittens.  They are time bombs.

And the drug regimen doesn't help at all.

 

Find the Fraud = Find the Illegals

 Too bad we can't get our money back, too.

...Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez reported last month that she discovered tax advisers had set up a table outside a migrant shelter in New York City, coaching illegal immigrants on how they could file tax returns and get up to $14,000 in tax refunds, whether they were presently working or not.

She obtained a copy of a flier saying that migrants are eligible for child tax credits, with three children equaling $14,255....

That's tax fraud.

So DHS/INS can use IRS records to find these thieves and deport them.

And they will, Bo-Ass-Berg and his ilk notwithstanding.