Fixing Flock? Hawley's Bill

This appears to be a good start.  But it may be inadequate, as Flock has a track record of doing whatever the Hell it wants to do....

 ...U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wants federal rules for Flock cameras and other AI-powered license plate readers. He doesn’t want to get rid of them.

The Missouri Republican on Wednesday rolled out the Stop Flock Abuse Act, which would bar local governments from selling the data, require written approval and a paper trail for every search, and force agencies to delete drivers’ information after 10 days unless it’s tied to an active criminal case....

 Ban selling or sharing vehicle location data with private, non-government third parties
Require written approval before any search, with every search logged
Require audit logs showing who searched, why, who approved it and what came back, with supervisors reviewing those logs regularly
Require the data to be encrypted and kept inside the United States
Require driver data to be permanently deleted after 10 days, with narrow exceptions for active criminal investigations
Bar license plate reader technology from foreign adversaries
Prohibit facial recognition in license plate reader networks...

Hawley's bill includes supervisory written approval before running a search, however, it does NOT include a warrant requirement for searches.  That's a weakness.

And it does not include penalties for abuse such as what we've seen by the FBI and such cretins as Jack Smith and the US Department of Justice's wholly partisan activities.

Penalties should be in place, and they should be severe. 

US Steel To Be Made in Iowa

Yes, that's a pun-headline.  The US will be making steel at a plant in Iowa, using taconite from Minnesota's Iron Range.  This happens despite the "stop-and-starve' efforts of Obama and Biden.

Thank you, President Trump!

...Thanks to President Trump, steel policy flipped after 2025. Raw steel output is up 9% since Trump returned to office. Nearly 6,000 steelworker jobs have been added after almost 10,000 were lost under the prior administration. American mills now supply 84% of the U.S. finished steel market, up from 77% in 2024. New mill orders hit $17.3 billion in July 2026. Domestic shipments hit $16.9 billion that month. Officials tie those numbers to 50% Section 232 steel tariffs, faster permitting, and domestic energy.

The United States surpassed Japan in crude steel production in 2025 for the first time since 1999 and is now the world’s third-largest producer.

Eastern Iowa is in line for a heavy-industry footprint it has not had in generations. Minnesota ore stays in a U.S. supply line, and the work stays in American towns. That is this administration’s commitment. Bring the jobs home, keep the steel American, and run the mine-to-mill chain from Minnesota to Iowa instead of from a foreign dock to a U.S. factory floor....

That steel will be shipped into Wisconsin--to Ariens, Kohler, Case-IH, Mayville Metals, and Deere among lots of others.   

 

Crowley Moves To Word-Salad Campaigning

Yup.  Crowley spent time with Kamala in sunny California.

You can tell because he is now in "Word Salad" campaign-mode.

 ....When asked about the trip to California for an event that reportedly included former Vice President Kamala Harris, he said he'll talk to everybody about the importance of Wisconsin. 

Crowley was also asked how he would pay for his plans to lift Wisconsin families, and that's when he lashed out at his opponent and the president.

"When you look at what Congressman Tom Tiffany and Donald Trump are doing, they're peeing on us and telling us it's raining," Crowley said. "It's time for us to fight back and make sure that we're doing everything that we can to speak truth to power and undo the hurt and pain they have caused Wisconsin families."...

Huh?

"How to pay for plans":  "....fight back.....truth to power.....undo hurt........"

OK, Dave.  Whatever. 

MO' MONEY!!

 Less than 50% means "F" on your report card.

... According to data from the Wisconsin Student Assessment System — which includes the Forward Exam, Dynamic Learning Maps, the PreACT Secure and the ACT — 48.4 percent of students in grades 3-11 were proficient or above in ELA, while 48.7 percent were proficient or above in math. ...

Believe it or not, those scores are an improvement from last year.

Sure, they're dreadful, awful, terrible, and the children have been screwed.

So have the taxpayers, who are pouring more than $19K/year PER KID into Wisconsin public schools.   

But the answer to this problem that will come from the mouth of Jill Underly, Tony Evers, and the MPS Board?

MO' MONEY!!!! 

Because MO' MONEY has worked so well for the last 30 years.... 

And in Milwaukee?  It's even worse.

English Language Arts: 23.6% to 25.1%, up 1.5 percentage points
Math: 19.3% to 20.1%, up 0.8 points
Science: 20.3% to 23.3%, up 3 points
Social studies: 27.4% to 29.3%, up 1.9 points

Who the Hell is going to hire these kids after graduation?  They can't read.  They can't speak.  They can't add or subtract.  They don't know history.

Nonetheless:  MO' MONEY!!! 

Sen. Justice: Another Back-and-Forthright Windbag

It's amusing that the Daily Caller headline says "backtracked"--when quoting Sen. Justice NOT "backtracking."

Justice' original remarks on immigration enforcement and ICE:

... “Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you’re dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don’t know that we need to be doing that stuff,” he said in an interview....

It is clear as crystal:  Justice is NOT happy with removing illegal aliens who have been here for a long time.  Key word:  "ILLEGAL"....

His "backtrack"--which is NOT a backtrack:

...“Our brave ICE officers are doing an incredible job protecting our communities, and they must continue to focus on criminals who are here illegally and putting Americans in danger. Violent criminals, drug traffickers, gang members and others who threaten our communities should be identified, arrested and removed,” ...

Oh.  So illegals who are not violent criminals...........???

Never Mind, said Emily. 

Sen. Foghorn Leghorn rides again! 

ZeroHedge Is Wrong! And Fed Is Corrupt, Too!

In an article about the Taj Mahal renovated Fed HQ, ZeroHedge has this:

 ...One thing is certain: a building project that nearly doubled in cost thanks to poor planning, no price cap and "inflation" is a perfect metaphor for the institution it will house.

We think ZeroHedge's assessment is very wrong.

That 'building project' is a metaphor for the entire Deep State.

And--just like Jerome Powell and his Board of self-aggrandizing twits--they don't give a flying f**k what you think or how much you pay.

And if you object too loudly, or present a danger to their projects, there's always the FBI/CIA/NSA/JackSmith treatment, complete with 6-month to 2-year imprisonment BEFORE trial. (Think of the J6 grandmas as The Model.)

Meantime, Sundance calls for the execution firing of the entire Board of the Fed AND its "Inspector General" Clouseau Horowitz:

 

...The FED Board awarded a no-bid contract to the contractor, without an agreement on the building renovation project and the construction costs associated with it until President Donald Trump began drawing attention to it.  This is gross corruption at a massive scale....

 ...It wasn’t until President Trump drew attention to the FED having spent over $2 billion, that FED Chair Jerome Powell, and the FED board requested the construction manager and construction company to provide a cost estimate.  This is unreal, especially considering that IG Michael Horowitz finds no unlawful decision-making in the overall fiasco....

...The FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD just gave the construction company an open-ended blank check to spend as much as they wanted of TAXPAYER MONEY, with no limits and no expectations of cost.  This, according to IG Horowitz is a little concerning, but entirely not a legal problem.

These are the people supposedly in charge of running monetary policy for The United States of America!

Now, we can understand exactly why IG Michael Horowitz was moved from protecting Washington DC corruption within the Dept of Justice, to protecting Washington DC corruption at the Federal Reserve.

Michael Horowitz is not an Inspector General.  He is the corruption manager for the U.S. government!...

Being "Corruption Manager" for the entire USG is exhausting; the guy must be working 24X7.  So he should get a long rest.  At Leavenworth.

So should the Moron (ex-) Fed Chair.  And the rest of the FRB Board.

But no.  This will be another in the endless series of "We Fuc**ed You, and You Can't Do a DAMN THING About It."