"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-----
Tuesday, July 07, 2026
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.
Monday, July 06, 2026
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.
Sunday, July 05, 2026
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!
Saturday, July 04, 2026
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.
Friday, July 03, 2026
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.
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 unknownvandalspatriots 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.
Thursday, July 02, 2026
Two Enemies of the State
Convenient picture.
What are they doing? Issuing orders to their co-conspirators in CIA. Homeland Security, State Department, and FBI.
What are the orders?
"DO NOT OBEY LAWFUL ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT, NOR HIS DNI.
OUR ELECTION SHENANIGANS WILL BE EXPOSED. OUR FOREIGN BANKING TRANSACTIONS MAY BE EXPOSED. DEMOCRAT PARTY ELECTION FRAUD WILL BE EXPOSED. WORSE: ALL OUR SPYING ON TRUMP AND ALL HIS SUPPORTERS WILL BE EXPOSED!"
USMCA Probably Dead. New State Coming?
Teh Nooz doesn't accurately convey........
(That part is Not News. It is almost always true..)
In the case of the USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement...)
...given how much false information has been pushed on this issue, the Canadian team will now believe they have a period of ten consecutive years of negotiation before the trade deal is over. This is structurally and completely false. The Canadian media will likely continue selling this false hope.
In reality, with the non-renewal announcement now made, President Trump and USTR Greer can now complete the bilateral trade discussions with Mexico (noted in the announcement) and then move to stage two.
Stage two will be the United States announcing a complete withdrawal from the USMCA, which triggers a six-month countdown clock. The formal notification of withdrawal will likely happen once the U.S. and Mexico complete the bilateral free trade agreement....
Trump can, and probably will, leave Canada to the tender mercies of Red China.
Alberta will quickly move to join the US.
Heh.
The Trouble With College
If you pay attention to the Blue-if-i-cation of Wauwatosa, Elm Grove, and Brookfield, you notice the pattern described here.
Graham Platner is ahead of Collins by 2 points in new NYT poll. --@shanegoldmacher quoted at AOSHQ
...So how is Platner winning?
With college educated voters!
Platner is demolishing Collins with college-educated voters--by 34 points....
Elm Grove, Brookfield, and Wauwatosa (particularly the western half) have College Grads as a majority of their voter-base.
That particular disease (College Educationitis) is also slowly overcoming Pewaukee (about 40% Left-voter) and certain parts of Washington County.
And all this time, you thought that sending your kids to college was a good thing; that they would learn how to think with logic, and that 'first things' would be imprinted on their sponge-like brains.
You blew it.
Rome Pulls a Smackdown
Part of this is no surprise at all. The other part? Wow!
The Vatican has declared that the Society of St. Pius X no longer offers licit sacraments after bishops, clergy and – under certain conditions – lay members of the Society of St. Pius X were excommunicated following the consecration of four bishops without papal approval....
That was not a surprise.
...As a result, the sacraments of confession and marriage have been ruled “invalid,” while other sacraments remain valid but administered “illicitly,” according to the dicastery....
It's a legalism, but that's the way it is.
N.B.: An absolution (in confession) rendered to a penitent 'in danger of death' remains vaild. That's the only exception.
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
The Roberts Requirement: Let's Do It!
Last Refuge has a proposal--until legislation is final.
The Roberts Requirement: Each female visa applicant must present a valid negative pregnancy test taken no longer than 10 days prior to travel to the United States.
The certified document, negative pregnancy test, together with all related visa approvals must be presented to Customs and Border Patrol at each port of entry. Failure disqualifies the traveler.
This is the same protocol as COVID-19, only using pregnancy status as the disqualifying health issue. It is a lawful regulation, born from a new standard established by the Supreme Court, that does not need congressional approval....
Of course it will not be 100% successful, but that's not the point. Go back and look at the red-highlighted text.
... The bigger objective is to make it extremely difficult to come to the USA and THEN pin that global compliance requirement on Chief Justice John Roberts, making him live every day with the consequences of his blinded American stupidity; facing him, belittling him, ridiculing him, sitting on the front pages of his peers and global friends....
How? Easy!
...No exclusions for diplomats, sports figures, foreign actors, employees, H1Bs, student entry or any other visa type – the works. Make the total visa entry system subject to a regulatory and compliance nightmare at a scale that is unheard of. That is the scale of the problem Roberts has created. Now blame John Roberts for it.
This ‘Roberts Requirement’ applies to all visa types.
The objective, and it can accompany many other requirements such as a “bond” attachment required for 15- to 45-year-old females to travel, is to create such an overwhelmingly restrictive visa process that it creates ridicule on the SCOTUS decision.
Make every regulation specifically cited to the Supreme Court decision and make it exceptionally burdensome.
Make SCOTUS own the outcome....
And make the visa renewals 90-day, not one day longer.
Heh.
D.A.R. Cannot Define "Daughter"
It's come to this.
Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) is an organization whose members can trace their lineage directly back to a soldier who fought for the American Revolution. You can’t even join if you’re adopted....the leadership has been pushing to admit transgender individuals.
They have decided to let biological men join.
So now a Daughter of the American Revolution may actually have a d**k.
We can't even.......
Listen to Walz, Please!!
Wherein we agree with Tim Walz (D), Governor of Minnesota.
...Now, [Walz] is calling for all transgender (transvestites) people to go to Minnesota to play in women’s sports. This is his response to today’s Supreme Court decision which supports state bans on biological men playing in women’s sports....
This is probably the ONLY time we will agree with Tampon Tim.
"Illegal" Means "Illegal," PLUS LOLs!!
Plenty of Politic-Slop up for translation here.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed ICE agents arrested 39 people across Wisconsin over the weekend, a sweep drawing backlash from immigration advocates and families of people detained....
Translation: DHS did its job. Local screechers were activated for the cameras.
... Munoz-Sosa said her husband came to the United States from Mexico when he was 4 years old. She said his passport expired in September, but he was in the process of getting his legal status processed....
Translation: He filled out a form at the Voces de la Frontera office a month ago.
Speaking of Voces....
...Voces disputed ICE's characterization of the arrests.
"The overwhelming majority that have no criminal record whatsoever," said Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director for Voces de la Frontera....
Translation: "We do not give a flying f**k about your law!"
Now comes the "Laugh Out Loud" part of this story.
... "Some of this activity took place at a city of Milwaukee police station. We didn’t believe it. We couldn’t believe it. We were in shock. Yes, our response was: no, this can’t be, because we have the ice-out package that says that cannot happen on city of Milwaukee property," said Milwaukee Alderwoman Marina Dimitrijevic....
Translation: "Are the cameras on? Do I look OK for the cameras?? OK, then, show me stamping my widdle feets and waving my fist."
More? Sure!! We have more!!
... People arrested also reported ICE agents were masked. A Milwaukee ordinance bans law enforcement from masking in many situations. MPD said, given legal questions, the department has asked the city attorney's office for a formal, written legal opinion on the ordinance....
Translation: "The MPD would rather be in Philadelphia. Meantime, we'll ask the City Attorney to spend 60-90 days (or more, pretty please?) screwing around with their law-books because there is NO WAY IN HELL we will get in the way of ICE agents."
You don't have to be bi-lingual to render accurate translations. You just have to read "politic-slop" accurately.
The Kaul Inanity
Actually, it's the SCOTUS inanity. Kaul showed up and pushed some cake down his pie-hole.
...Chief Justice John Roberts, in the majority opinion, wrote: "The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to "every freeborn person in this land." ... We keep that promise today."
Wisconsin was among 24 states to join the lawsuit against the Trump administration. Attorney General Josh Kaul called it a win for the rule of law...
Actually, it was a defeat for the rule of reason.
But you wouldn't expect Kaul to understand "reason."
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The Fourth vs. Flock?
Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling on "geofencing" being a 4th Amendment violation (in the case of criminal suspicion) brings up another possibility: that "Flock" is also subject to 4th Amendment restrictions.
As the Ticker opines:
...[Another decision] that is likely to have wide-ranging impact in the world of ever-increasing surveillance, particularly the "Flock" nonsense as it both exists now and is expanding rapidly with scanners that profile on Bluetooth and WiFi MAC (and similar) addresses tying people to locations beyond that of license plates.
This decision in fact goes to exactly that "beyond" question in that it applies to "geofence" requests made to providers that are not governments, in this case Google.
The government did not seek a warrant and doesn't on a routine basis when it uses FLOCK and similar data today. This decision ends that when the inquiry is one of criminal culpability beyond something like a license plate that is otherwise subject to direct casual, personal observation....
It is not likely that Flock's observations of license plates is per se a violation. However, when the cops are seeking a criminal suspect and utilize Flock's videos to determine criminal culpability --that is, whether Suspect A was "at the scene" or not--it may, indeed, be a violation of the Fourth.
Trump "Family Business" Reeks
It didn't have to happen, but it did. Two rich kids use their daddies' connections to get even richer.
Not unusual in private industry, or in Fortune 50 circles--but sadly, it's the way business is done in the current White House, just like in the last one.
The [NYT] reports that Eric and Donald Trump Jr., sons of President Donald Trump, and Kyle and Brandon Lutnick, sons of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, are tied to a billion-dollar tungsten-mining deal that the US government is financing in Kazakhstan....
The combox will soon have a post asking why Dad29 supports Trump.
Easy!! To avoid Biden-style corruption from Kammy.
Mouse Roars, ICE Says "Screw Off"
This is a funny story in its own way.
Cell phone video appearing to show masked ICE agents making arrests in Milwaukee over the weekend has reignited debate over a city ordinance banning law enforcement from wearing face masks in most circumstances while on duty.
The Milwaukee Police Department confirmed ICE agents are in the city for what ICE describes as targeted enforcement against criminal activity. The operation is expected to last a week...
....unless they decide to evict all the Syrian and Haitian illegals, too....
Moving on.
...Milwaukee prohibits federal law enforcement officers from wearing face masks to hide their identities under most circumstances while interacting with people in the city.
Alderwoman Zamarripa believes that ban should be enforced, with agents potentially facing fines of $5,000 to $10,000 as outlined in the ordinance if they continue to wear masks in the city.
"I think it breeds fear in the community to see these masked agents coming into our neighborhoods with vehicles unmarked, no license plates," Zamarripa said....
Actually, that's the point. Better that they have the fear of God (and US law) instilled and self-deport than that the Feds have to muscle them outta here. But YMMV.
Some random bystander babe refused to go on camera, but wailed and snorted nonetheless.
...A Milwaukee woman, who asked that her name and face not be shared out of fears for her family, described the emotional toll of the enforcement operation.
"It's very heartbreaking because I could definitely relate. I have family members that, as I said, they're just scared to go out and do what they even have to go to a grocery store," she said....
Then she went to the Heights of Irony script!
... When asked what it means to see agents wearing face masks, the woman said: "It just feels like they're doing whatever they want and we just have to take it in the chin, and it's just not right....
Kinda like the illegals, sweet cheeks? Just barging in, ripping off taxpayers for welfare, Medicaid, food stamps........and raising the cost of housing for US citizens along the way? And that's before we get to the drunk-driver-homicides, un-insured, un-licensed..........we could go on.
ICE had something to say to the Roaring Mouse Zamarippa:
... "State and local sanctuary politicians attempting to ban our federal law enforcement from wearing masks is despicable and a flagrant attempt to endanger our officers. To be crystal clear: we will not abide by unconstitutional bans. The Supremacy Clause makes it clear that state and local sanctuary politicians do not control federal law enforcement," the DHS spokesperson said....
That was the very long version of "FU and the horse you rode in on."
Not satisfied with merely ranting for the suckers camera, Zamarippa has DEMANDS!!
... "If they continue to work here in a secret capacity with full masks on like I've seen, then we are asking MPD and the city attorney to act as the enforcement entity and write citations to ICE," Zamarripa said....
Dead silence from the Milwaukee Police Department, which cannot find one single solitary cop to volunteer for that task. And they never will, either.
Good.
Monday, June 29, 2026
How To Build a DataCenter? Secretly!!
To clear the air: we are not opposed to "datacenters" per se. Each one should be examined on its own merits and demerits. That said, the slime-scuzzy practices outlined here should prevent any such proposal from going forward.
...They arrive a year early, force your mayor to sign a secret NDA, and quietly rig the local zoning laws. By the time you find out about the hyperscale data center, it's already too late. ...
...These agreements frequently prohibit disclosing the existence of the project, the company’s identity, scale (e.g., power demand in MW, number of buildings, water usage), or even the NDA itself in some cases. Officials sometimes sign to “stay in the room” for negotiations or incentives, or under pressure that transparency could scare away investment....
...Announcement or formal approvals often come only after land is secured, and preliminary steps are advanced, making organized opposition harder. Public input, if any, is compressed into rushed hearings.
... Impacts on communities: Data centers are massive (hundreds of acres, enormous electricity and water demands for cooling, noise from fans, traffic during construction and operation). Critics argue that secrecy prevents informed debate on grid strain, water resources, land conversion (often farmland), tax breaks, and limited long-term local jobs versus temporary construction work...
You don't have to be preternaturally intelligent to suspect that the Port Washington datacenter included all of those elements, and perhaps more. The guilty look on the Mayor's face, whenever he allowed Nooz Peeps to ask questions, tells you everything.
Think we're Conspiracy Theorists?
The article here shows a LOT of positives for Wisconsin businesses, such as Regal/Rexnord, Generac, and Trane. But then there's the slime:
...At least four communities signed NDAs for major projects. In Beaver Dam, the economic development corp signed with “Balloonist LLC” (later tied to Meta) in December 2023; public awareness came approximately 14 months later, after land deals and TIF work. In Menomonie, NDA in Feb. 2024 with the same shell; two months later, the council quietly changed a land-use ordinance to explicitly include data centers under “warehousing.” The $1.6B project faced backlash, went on hold, and zoning was later reversed after community input. Similar patterns occurred in Kenosha and Janesville....
Noteworthy: WE (the company that increased electricity charges by THREE HUNDRED PERCENT since 2000) has asked the PSC to relieve datacenter operators of the "burden" of providing credit guarantees. So if the damn thing goes out of business--which can happen--ratepayers are left to pay for a helluvalotta excess high-voltage wires, towers, transformers, and switchgear.
For "good deals" as advertised, there is a lot of stink here.
"Chavez-Crete"=Styrofoam Walls, the Socialist Solution
How the Socialists' Communists' buildings are built.
First thing, get a committed Socialist Communist into office.
Next, have the Communist promise "Housing for the Poor."
Third: have the Communist let the contracts to his BFF's.
Fourth: shave cost-of-building by using STYROFOAM between thin layers of concrete instead of 100% formed concrete walls.
Then move to a countryside palace which is built of real materials so you're out of the area when everything collapses.
HT: PowerLine
The Quakers Go All Nutbag (!!)
For all those years, you thought the Quakers were a harmless bunch of anti-war types. And since "anti-war" is an acceptable, but somewhat smarmy, viewpoint, you thought they were basically harmless.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D.), appearing alongside a convicted murderer and a registered sex offender in a webinar with a prison abolition group, endorsed "any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons" and said locking up criminals was akin to "robbing" them of their freedom.
El-Sayed was the featured guest on a webinar hosted by the Carceral State Project and the American Friends Service Committee in August 2020 regarding their report "I Don't Want to Die in Prison." The American Friends Service Committee advertised the show—using the hashtags #FreeThemAll and #AbolishPrison—as a platform to "discuss the report findings and the road to decarceration and abolition with Abdul El-Sayed."...
"American Friends Service Committee" is the formal name for the Quakers.
Pretty much ruins that oatmeal breakfast you had in mind, eh?
"No License". Same As "Illegal"??
Another car crash with fatality.
A Milwaukee man has been criminally charged, accused of driving drunk and crashing into another vehicle and killing the driver.
Alan Ontiveros, 23, is charged with several felonies for the crash that happened at 11th and Greenfield on Sunday, June 21...A records check with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation showed he did not have a valid driver's license.
'Ontiveros does not have a valid driver's license'. That looks like a signal about his status.
Good. Very good!
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Brennan the Communist and His Effects
It would be an understatement to suggest that Sam Faddis intensely dislikes John Brennan--Obama's CIA Director. From the writing here, the better phrase would be 'intensely hates' Brennan.
Remember that Brennan said he voted for the Communist candidate back in the day, and that he worked for GWBush (the Dumber) as Director, Counter-Terrorism Center. As we all know, Bush and his Daddy are Globalist Scum extraordinaire.
...Today’s CIA is a creation of John Brennan. He was not a case officer. He was not an operator. He spent almost no time abroad. His focus was on climbing the ladder politically and acquiring personal power. He did that by attaching himself to Bill Clinton and aligning himself with the liberal Democratic Party agenda.
As Director of the CIA, Brennan worked overtime to weaken the Directorate of Operations (DO) and to sideline career case officers. He didn’t just do that on an ad hoc basis by virtue of who he promoted. He retooled the entire structure of the CIA to guarantee that his people, largely analysts, support personnel, and political appointees, were in control....
...Brennan’s stated goals were to break down long-standing “stovepipes” between spies and analysts, improve integration and accountability, speed up decision-making, and better address modern threats like cyber warfare and digital. His real goal was to destroy the CIA as an apolitical intelligence agency dominated by operational personnel and turn it into an overtly political organization. He did not care one whit about producing intelligence and protecting America. He was laser-focused on making sure CIA at the senior levels would align itself with the political agenda of ‘Permanent Washington’ and the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
CIA was already in desperate need of reform. Brennan came close to killing it operationally....
Ask yourself this: why does the US have to rely on Israeli "on-the-ground" humint?
The answer appears to be the Communist/Globalist/Bush-Obama Boy, Brennan.
Why It Takes So DAMN Long....
....to get rid of the viruses, jackwads, and barnacles in the FedGov.
...President Trump is in the White House. His appointees sit at the top of most federal agencies. Below that top level, where the work is done and power resides, the bureaucracy remains firmly under the control of the Deep State and those hostile to the America First agenda. They are working hard every day to ensure no real change is made and to pave the way for the recapture of the White House.
This is what we call a stay behind program in the world of special operations and intelligence. A “stay-behind” program is a strategy in which a country pre-positions secret operatives, special units, or clandestine organizations within its own territory. These assets are designed to remain active (or “stay behind”) if the territory is overrun or occupied by an enemy force.
In this case, Trump and his supporters are that “enemy force.”
The stay behind operatives gather intelligence and report to their superiors. They sabotage and disrupt the efforts of the occupying force. They form the nucleus of an underground movement and prepare for the day they will return to power....
It is a bit early to call for kinetic action.
Next Crime Coming to Milwaukee Soon
Theft-of-airbags from your car.
It's a hot item in Chicago, so you can expect to see it in MKE within a year or so.
If you didn't know this, airbags are horribly expensive. Generally, if you had an accident that caused your airbags to deploy, your car is totaled.
"Gee-Whiz" NOT Good in Cars
ZeroHedge has the story. Briefly: buy cars made before 2010.
In another story, Ford RE-HIRED over 300 senior engineers after finding out that AI + Junior engineers were creating (and not solving) problems. We are not shocked.
Core Services, Big Inflation
This is not good.
The “core services” PCE price index jumped by 0.46% in May from April (+5.6% annualized, blue in the chart below). The six-month core services PCE price index jumped by 4.2% annualized, the worst since June 2024 (red).
Core services dominate consumer spending, and that’s where inflation has been accelerating for a year, after coming down from the surge in 2021 through early 2023. Core services are where inflation is tough to battle. A lot of these core services lack adequate competition that consumers can leverage, and once companies that sell these services are confident they have pricing power, they raise their prices, and consumers wail and gnash their teeth and pay them....
OK, so what are "core services"?
Core services in cost-of-living typically include housing, food, healthcare, transportation, and taxes. These services represent essential expenses that individuals need to maintain a basic standard of living in a specific area...
Hmmmmm.
Are Pocan and Moore Next To Fall??
Won't happen this election, but if you pay attention to "social media," you'll notice that Pocan (D-Madistan) is mentioned often as the next victim of the Democrat Socialist Communist revolution.
You could include Gwen Moore with Pocan, if Childers is a solid prophet:
...‘Moderate’ Democrats aren’t rallying around their sudden, rediscovered patriotism. They are organizing against a movement that is stealing safe Democrat seats. It’s self-defense. They know abolishing prisons is not a winning issue.
The lid is off the blue crock pot, and the fondue is boiling over. The Democrats’ messy internal divisions are finally spilling onto the open battlefield: the civil war between ‘moderate’ Democrats and radical socialists....
Both Pocan and Moore occupy very safe (D) seats. Both have a reputation for doing very little in Congress--aside from collecting paychecks and putting out inane positions on X.
Tick-Tock.....
By the way, Childers inserted a still from "Red Dawn" in that column.
History Is Fun
Grim recounts history from his temporary place at a motorcycle rally in North Carolina.
...Locally you see a lot of Confederate flags. This is because the Confederacy won the war here. At the end of the war, Thomas' Legion of Indians and Highlanders compelled the surrender of the last Union forces in the region. The Cherokee Nation declared war on the Union and allied with the Confederacy, for the obvious reason that the Union had been waging war on them since at least President Andrew Jackson, and for the less-obvious reason that they also were a slave-owning power. They joined with Scottish and Scots-Irish Highlanders to form a combined arms force that fought through the entire war. Together, they defeated the Union forces and obtained an agreement to surrender in the local town of Waynesville, North Carolina. As it happened, news of Lee's surrender to Grant arrived at about that same time, so they still held the surrender but reversed the polarity about which side was surrendering. However, the mountain folk were not only never defeated, they won. They remember that they won. The Cherokee often fly the Confederate flag too for the same historical reasons as the Highlanders. ...
Who knew?
The Problem With Little Benny Shapiro
Well, yes, there are LOTS of problems with Benny.
But this one stands out:
...In sum: Shapiro supports the forcible displacement of non-Jews from Greater Israel, even as he welcomes the dilution of America’s European stock via mass migration. Set aside your own views on those matters: Does this not seem a rather bewildering instance of moral incoherence?...
Documentation can be found at the link.
Does he still have an audience?
Sending Your Kids to Camp Minikani? Ask Questions!!!
A lot of children from western MKE suburbs and the North Shore go to summer camp at Camp Minikani, which is run by the YMCA.
YMCA. Vanilla, non-controversial, safe place, good programs for the kids, right?
Not so fast.
The American Parents Coalition released a “Lookout” notification to parents over the YMCA’s transgender-inclusive camp and programming policies that include allowing males into female cabins and restrooms.
Executive director of parents group the American Parents Coalition Alleigh Marré told The Center Square that “by not complying with Title IX, the YMCA’s policies treat biological sex as irrelevant in the spaces where it matters most for privacy and safety like bathrooms, locker rooms, sports teams, and sleeping accommodations.”...
Before you send your girls to Minikani, ASK QUESTIONS and INSIST ON ANSWERS.
...The Lookout highlighted the transgender-inclusive policies of many individual YMCA camps.
For instance, in Michigan, Sherman Lake YMCA camp’s policy for cabin placement states that “campers are assigned to cabins based on their identified gender.”
Sherman Lake is not alone, with camps in Colorado, Wisconsin and California in having similar policies....
The Wisconsin camp which displays the transgender-friendly wording is located in St Croix:
YMCA Camp St. Croix (WI) policy: welcomes “campers of all backgrounds, walks of life, and genders,” adding that, “campers are assigned to their cabin based on age and gender-identity.”...
No surprise that the St Croix camp is run by the Twin Cities Y.
Pay attention, parents!
ICE Clean-Up in MKE Underway
Are you in MKE due to your lying? Fraud? Overstay of your visa?
Not to worry!! ICE will give you a nice ride home soon.
Arrange your affairs accordingly.
Vaya con Dios!
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