All Show, No Go, Donald.....

This showed up at AND Magazine, authored by an anonymous ex-spook with umpty-ump years' experience in Central and Latin America.  His topic is the upcoming election in Colombia.

 ...Venezuela’s Marxist regime is still firmly in power. The arrest of Nicolas Maduro and the naming of his friend Delcy Rodriguez as “president” of Venezuela have not resulted in any significant changes in the oppressive Chavez/Maduro government. Venezuelans still live in fear and misery, and they are still threatened by regime thugs if they dare to protest. It appears that an amoral gang of American businessmen with interests in Venezuela pushed President Trump to settle for the illusion of “stability” and oil, rather than freedom for Venezuela. We will pay a heavy price for the incompetence of our Latin American intelligence analysts who fell for this dirty deal and urged it on Trump. A recent article in Politico suggests that some of the worst actors, including a Palm Beach bottom-feeding oil and asphalt mogul, are now under investigation by the FBI for their shenanigans.

If Colombia falls into the hands of Cepeda, the two countries will form a bloc that Trump will be unable to deal with. It will be a disaster for American foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere. If Abelardo is elected, President Trump’s stance in Venezuela will become untenable. Unlike the fools who urged on Trump a false plan of “stability” under Delcy Rodriguez, de la Espriella knows exactly what Delcy Rodriguez is and what she, Chavez, and Maduro have done to Colombia. There will be no “peaceful co-existence”. Abelardo de la Espriella is a friend of the United States, but he will not pretend to be a friend of the junta in Caracas. He was the lawyer for Alex Saab, Maduro’s major bagman. Not even a towering diplomatic intellect like Jared Kushner* will b.s. him into seeing the Delcy Rodriguez regime as illegitimate and criminal....

Cepeda=Very Bad.  Abelardo=Good Guy, but no fool. 

*Denotes heavy sarcasm.

Can Trump do as badly in Central America as he has done in Iran?

Stay tuned. 

Eight Years of Evers: Hiring Takes a Dump

 After only eight years of Tony Evers--not to mention a less-than-friendly tax and regulatory environment--Wisconsin doesn't look very good here.

 

Pp Leo Gets It!

Finally.  Someone told him about reality.

 U.S-born Pope Leo XIV sharply criticized the advocates who encouraged the deadly migrations that have killed many thousands of migrants over the last 10 years....

... "Mafias that profit from despair, traffickers who enslave women and children, and those whose indifference allows the poor to be swallowed up by exploitation or forgetfulness." [he said.]...

... In a later June 12 speech in Spain, the pope also told migrants — including self-segregating Muslim migrants — that they should integrate themselves into the host countries: “Open yourselves with trust to the community that welcomes you, to learn its language, to respect its laws, to get to know its customs, to participate in communal life, and to offer your gifts with gratitude.”...

That might take a few more weeks, Holiness. 

The Pope also took a not-too-subtle slam at "economic migration":

... "While there is a right to seek refuge when life is threatened, there is also the right not to have to migrate: the right to remain in one’s own home without hunger, war, persecution, violence, the land becoming uninhabitable, corruption stealing the bread from the poor or weapons destroying the future of children. We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead."...

Sending JDVance over there to chat has had good effects.

Now, someone please inform the Bishop of El Paso. 

USCC Loses All on Immigration Law

 Perhaps the US Bishops confused Trump with Biden?

 President Donald Trump signed legislation June 10 providing US$70 billion to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.

Prior to the bill's passage, the US bishops were among those who urged lawmakers to make immigration policy reforms aimed at protecting the dignity of migrants, such as efforts to prevent the separation of families.

However, after months of debate over possible reforms, none of those measures were ultimately included in the final bill as negotiations in Congress fell apart....

The Bishops' extreeeeeeme left-wing advisors didn't want "reforms."  They wanted capitulation, loopholes, and a foothold for their propaganda campaigns.  They over-reached and got zero.

Too bad, so sad. 

It's The SPENDING, Stupid!!

Ticker makes the case very well.

You can fill in the blank for "Who's Stupid" after reading this.

First he quotes the news:

The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 1.1 percent in May, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices advanced 1.1 percent in April and 0.7 percent in March. (See table A.) On an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand increased 6.5 percent for the 12 months ended in May, the largest 12-month rise since moving up 7.4 percent in November 2022....

Then he launches the artillery:

 

This is not Iran.

It is the monetary expansion from deficit spending which Trump did exactly nothing to curtail and is now presenting severe cost-push pressure into the supply chain across the board.

I pointed this out as a serious problem in January before the first shots were fired and it has only gotten worse since.

On the final demand (closest to the consumer) side removing foods and energy the escalation was 0.8% on the month which, on a 12 month rolling basis is just over 10%.  Again that's excluding food and energy.

What's far worse is unprocessed intermediate which again, less food and energy, is up 2.6% on the month and the 12 month total run rate is 22%!  The monthly increase annualized is 36% and processed goods less foods and energy were up 1.8% on the month which once again annualized comes to 23.9%....

It is true that Trump "did nothing" about the spending.  To be fair, neither did Biden.  It is ALSO true that Congress, led by spineless twits with pretty hair, spends money as though it were tossing confetti during a parade.  

Now comes the announcement that Social Security payments will decrease by 25% or so in about 6 years.  The combination of less money AND more costly EVERYTHING will take care of the "aging Boomers are a pain" problem, alright.  But those Costly Everythings are also going to affect everyone else.

It is the spending.  It always has been the spending.  It always will be the spending. And until we get the Beautiful Hair Twits off their TeeVee vanity shots and back down to earth, it will be a Great Depression-causing problem.

Additional takes on this are available here and here. 

Making Evers & Kaul Cry

One prominent election-fraud vehicle may soon disappear.

... The case is Watson v. Republican National Committee, and the issue is whether the State of Mississippi’s statute allowing ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted violates federal law....

Of course it does.

PowerLine cites both the Constitution AND Federal law.

 ...The Republican National Committee says the federal statutes mean what they say: for national elections, we have an Election Day, not an Election Season. At oral argument, most justices seemed sympathetic to that argument....

This obviously applies only to Federal elections.

But will States jury-rig elections so that State and local results take a few weeks but the Federal ones are apparent same-night?

Dear Justice Thomas:  make Evers and Kaul cry. 

PI Lawyers and FRAUD?? Be Still, My Heart

 There is a reason that Personal Injury lawyers have a certain 'reputation.'

This story underlines it.

California agreed to pay out $4 BILLION to young 'victims of abuse' at various shelters and state-run facilities.  So far, so good.

But then the whispers started......

 ...reports that some plaintiffs fabricated stories of sexual abuse - and sometimes were never even in custody at the facilities.

An LA Times investigation in October found nine people who claimed they were paid small amounts of cash by recruiters to sue the county, claiming they were sexually abused in juvenile halls.

They described how a network of individuals approached them on the street and incentivized them to fabricate stories of sexual abuse within the juvenile justice system in exchange for cash payments ranging from $50 to $200.

Those who spoke to the LA Times said they received the payments when they filed a claim specifically with Downtown LA Law Group, one of the main firms involved in the settlement.

One person even claimed a vendor drove them to the law firm's office and paid them cash after the claim was filed.

Some also said they were plied with scripts about what to tell the attorneys once they agreed to file claim....

You've noticed that local TeeVee stations seem to get a lot of "tips" from lawyers who just happen to have an interest in the story, and often the stories are told with some parts "missing".  Often those "missing parts" are important, such as when the "ILLEGAL" word is NOT used when a Tale of Woe comes up over an immigrant.

Some lawyers are evil bastards. 

"We Spy On YOU!! S 702" No Longer Authorized

 This is a good thing, no matter the DOOM! DOOM!! DOOM!!! DOOM!!!!screeching from the Speaker.  

He knows, and we know, that S702 was and is used to spy on US citizens without a warrant.  Yes, the pretext is "foreign terrorist connections," but that's a stretch, to say the least.

Remember this:  that "connection" runs out to the SIXTH degree.  So if your sister talks to her brother-in-law who spoke with his cousin who talks with his friend in Europe and that friend calls a terrorist-suspect in......say.........Palestine---well, when you call your sister, YOU are "terrorist-linked."

BANGO!!  You get the S702 treatment:  every call, email, and text is checked.  No warrant, no warning.

And that doesn't count the illicit use of the system by rogue contractors or Government employees.

If the "WE SPY ON YOU" legislation is brought up again, it should have serious restrictions--like, e.g., "Get a Warrant".  

N.B.:  every Wisconsin Republican voted to KEEP S 702 active.  Every one of them deserves a swift kick in the ass. 

 

Trump Brags on Piddly Oil Shipments

 The President continues to fight Israel's war.

He brags that the Navy escorted 100 million bbls of oil in the last 30 days.

Really, Donald?

Before Israel's war, the Strait accommodated 20 million bbls every.  damn.  day.

Just get the Hell out of there, Donald.

Agitators Get Active in MKE

About 30 seconds into this vid, you see the obviously-imported (paid?) agitator.

That "Party of Socialism and Liberation"  

white girl with normal hair and good teeth......Yup.  Belongs to that neighborhood, alright. /sarc

She's one of several in the crowd.  Looks like the cops will be busy this summer--again.

Birds, Feathers, McCord and SPLC

A little side-bit of information which is very revealing.

 The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on the topic of the Southern Poverty Law Center, operating a program to fund, organize and stimulate racist activity, just so the SPLC could fight against racism and fundraise over it.

Amid the panel of voices presented to discuss the issue is the familiar Lawfare operative, Mary McCord.  It makes sense for McCord to get invited by the HJC because McCord was lead staff for the HJC (Nadler/Schiff) during the impeachment effort.  The relationship between Mary McCord and the HJC is lengthy.

McCord noted that law enforcement agencies routinely pay for operatives to infiltrate organizations in order to target them, so congress should not be too concerned with the SPLC funding white racists for the same purpose. ...

The SPLC has been more than a little suspicious since--to my memory--about 1975-80.  Turns out that it was not only true, but that SPLC was worse than we thought.

That's why Mary McCord fits right in.  She, too, is worse than anyone might have thought.  That's proven by this: 

 ...What McCord carefully avoided was noting how the SPLC is neither a law enforcement entity nor an investigative agency of the government....

She is a practiced liar, but we all learned how to 'parse' during the Clinton regime. 

Sheriff to Judge: 'Stick It Up Your....'

First instance like this that we've ever seen.

 ....Sheriff Kevin McMahill has refused a judge’s order to release a repeat offender. Sheriff McMahill cited Nevada Revised Statute 211.250, which states a sheriff can deny certain releases if they create an “unreasonable risk to public safety.”

Judge Eric Goodman has threatened Sheriff McMahill with contempt of court if he does not comply with the court’s ruling.

The repeat offender, Joshua Sanchez-Lopez, has been arrested 35 times, including for “substantial battery.”...

The judge is PO'd, as is the defense attorney for the scum.  Screw them!

Let's run McMahill for President. 

Not Gonna Take It......

 Apparently the Irish have had it with immigrant Sudanese criminals.

 

According to the Belfast Telegraph, protests over the alleged attempted murder were held across the city, some of which descended into scenes of chaos and violence. Multiple vehicles, including a city bus and a police car, were set on fire by rioters.

Meanwhile, reports have also emerged of demonstrators throwing petrol bombs at police officers in the Cloughfern area of the city. Separately, residents were forced to evacuate their homes after they caught fire in East Belfast.....

...The outbreak of chaos comes a year to the day after similar anti-migrant riots erupted in Northern Ireland after Roma migrant teens had been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the town of Ballymena.

This led to multiple days of violence and reportedly forced multiple families of Romanian and Bulgarian heritage to leave the area altogether...

(Roma is the polite word for "gypsy".)

The problem in England is worse, but the English are a bit more docile than the Irish. 

*Shock*! NFL Is Greedy

 When you look up "Greed" in Webster's, you find the NFL shield.

... The [Congressional] report, at its heart, zeroes in on the league's Sunday Ticket offering. It highlights evidence from the ongoing Sunday Ticket antitrust case, including a 2024 jury verdict that found the NFL violated antitrust law and awarded more than $4.796 billion in damages to plaintiffs. That verdict was later vacated by a judge, wrongfully so, according to the report....

 Page 18 of the report is especially troubling for the NFL relative to its decisions with The Sunday Ticket package. It outlines that:

    ESPN reportedly proposed a Sunday Ticket package priced around $70 per season.
    According to documents cited in the report, the NFL objected to the lower price point.
    The NFL also opposed a team-by-team purchase option that would have allowed fans to buy only their favorite team's games.
    The report argues these decisions limited consumer choice and kept fans locked into a more expensive bundle....

Fox has this story.  The fact that Fox has to pay up to run NFL games is mere co-incidence.  And if you want to know how "non-advertising" propaganda works, recall Rush Limbaugh's continual promotion of the Sunday Ticket?

Yah.  He didn't get rich on his good looks. 

They're Just THROWING Money Away

Not that you'll be surprised.

 ...officials warned that weak oversight systems leave federal programs vulnerable to both waste and fraud if longstanding deficiencies are not fixed. The report explained that improper payments “can include overpayments, underpayments, and payments where an agency is unable to determine whether a payment was proper because of insufficient or lack of documentation.”

The report identified seven federal agencies with programs that posted improper payment rates above 10% for multiple consecutive years between 2021 and 2024.

Five of those agencies, including the Departments of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Treasury and Agriculture, lacked sufficient internal procedures to secure timely reporting and monitoring of payment integrity problems. GAO said those agencies did not always provide “complete and timely information” as required under federal law....

You can hear the discussion.  "Gee, boss, we can't find documentation for this spend.  What should we do?"  Boss:  "Write a check, dammit.  It's not YOUR money."

Notice that the "We NEVER pass an audit and go suck our ass if you think we care!!!" Pentagon is missing from that list?  We did, too.

Think Hegseth gives a rip?  We don't, either. 

Sen. Warner Had ZERO Intel Experience....

 Amusing whine from a Deep State figure complaining about the Pulte nomination.  

Here he is on CNN:

 ...WARNER: "I didn‘t think Trump could still surprise me, but he literally shocked me. And I think all of my Republican colleagues on the intel committee by picking somebody with literally no security background....

Warner's "security background" began in 2011 when he was given a slot on the Senate Intel Committee.  Before that, Warner's "security" experience consisted of buying and selling small companies and governing Virginia.  IOW, he didn't know s**t about "security" until 2011, but got one of the most powerful "security" seats in the country.  If you're asking why, you're on the right track.

The Senate Intel Committee, along with its House counterpart, has been the locus of almost every plot against the American people.  They use every three-letter agency in D.C. to propagandize, lie, and cheat; and in many cases, they see to it that their political enemies are........ahhh.......neutralized, usually through smear campaigns.  (It helps to have the FEEBS placing honeypots and filming the action.)

'Hypocrite' is the middle name of most politicians; Warner is at the front of that parade. 

Pp Leo Voices the Old "Fix the Root Cause" Gambit

 Where have we heard this one before?

 American-born Pope Leo XIV urged Spanish politicians to welcome economic migrants — but he also wants the Spanish government to help them stay in their home countries.

Migration “gives rise to a twofold demand for social justice: to offer safe and legal pathways, a respectful welcome and real opportunities for integration; and, at the same time, to promote the right to remain in one’s own land, ” Leo told the Spanish parliament on June 8.

Governments should welcome migrants and “ensure that no one has to leave their home due to a lack of peace, security or decent living conditions, including economic inequalities,” Leo added...

That's the "root cause is poverty" argument made by US Lefties since the '60's, and a lot of immigrants have used that to get into the US legally.

For that matter, it was a commonplace during all the immigration waves--those of the Irish, Germans, Poles, and Italians--during the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

But all that immigration was legal.

The US already has "safe and legal pathways" to immigration along with "a respectful welcome and real opportunities."  The immigration laws we have are designed for all of that.

It would be nice if the Pope acknowledged that, too, ain'a? 

Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Green Bay.......

This was obvious from the git-go, of course.  Pratt will lose.

... There are still several days of ballot counting ahead.  After all, the creation of ballots takes time and resources, and as noted by several people in/around the LA area, locally sourced, artisanal ballots can take much longer to be grown and curated....

Milwaukee's election commission has already lawyered up; there are rumors that some have spilled the beans on the Election Fraud of '20.

It's water over the dam, and there will be no prosecutions, no jail-time--and probably continued fat and sassy salaries and benefits for the perps.

But you never know.  Stuff happens. 

"De-Islamify Iran"? And Then......?

 We read in today's agitated American Greatness blog one of those......ahhh.......embarrassing screed/"solutions" to the Israel-Iran War, written by T. McCotter, an allegedly educated man.

 Regime change requires the eradication of the ruling ideology, not merely the removal of some of the rulers who enforce it....

...When the U.S. and its allies occupied Nazi Germany following its unconditional surrender, de-Nazification was a comprehensive, whole-of-society effort to eradicate both the ruling ideology and the rulers themselves. This was necessary to eradicate over a decade of Nazi indoctrination and genocidal totalitarian rule over the German people, as well as the vile regime’s similar domination of occupied nations, which occurred with the support of elements within those local populations. Consequently, a root-and-branch elimination of the Nazi ideology followed. While Hitler and other top Nazis cheated the hangman, the Nuremberg war crimes trials resulted in the execution and/or imprisonment of remaining key regime leaders. Thus, in the instance of regime change in Nazi Germany, both the National Socialist ideology and its regime’s leadership were eradicated....

Umnnnhhhh............Dear Thad:

What followed that "de-Nazification" in half of Germany and all of Eastern Europe?

Did you forget already?

Do you have a better plan than the one from Roosevelt and Truman and their collaborators in England and France?

Hmmmmm?????? 

We're pretty sure that there are other Islamic countries, Thad.  What are THEY going to do while you "de-Islamify" Iran? 

 

Ghoul-Creeper Jim Himes Wants Terror Attack on US

 

This is the kind of creeper which flourishes in D.C.

 Representative Jim Himes is the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).  During an interview on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Himes looks forward to the political benefit he predicts following terrorist attacks inside the USA as soon as the FISA (702) program expires next Friday.

Elimination of FISA (702) authority is not a bad outcome; in fact, many of us want that outcome because FISA (702) is warrantless surveillance of American citizens.  However, watching Himes be gleeful at the possibility of terrorist attacks resulting from FISA (702) expiring, is, well, a little weird....

Himes--like most MC's and exec-branch people--thinks he is Very Important to the Entire American Project.

Don't you think so too?? 

Welker: Blind, or Just Invincibly Ignorant?

On this video of the J6 disturbance, only 15 seconds in, we see CapCops ushering and escorting J6 protesters (no fires, no trashed cars) into the Capitol.

This is the evidence that NBC's Welker claimed "does not exist."

Can anyone really be that stupid?  This video is three years old.  Run a search on 'capitol cops ushering J6' and this pops up immediately.

And Teh Nooz wonders why nobody trusts them any more. 

 

On The Martyrs of Uganda

Right during Pride Month!

The feast-day of St. Charles & Companions, The Martyrs of Uganda, is June 3rd. 

St. Charles Lwanga was one among 22 young African men who were martyred in the 1880s in Uganda. These young men were, in various ways, in service to the King and were evangelized by the local French missionaries. 

They were baptized and instructed by the local French priests and resisted the King’s request that they engage in homosexual acts in his court. The King’s anger at their refusal led him to kill the French missionaries and many of the young Catholic boys of his court. 

St. Charles Lwanga was the first to be burned alive, and many other young men followed his martyrdom through various forms of torture and death. Only two bodies could be identified, those of St. Charles Lwanga and St. Mathias Malumba. 

All twenty-two men were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1963 and today are a great example to Courage members, inspiring them to continue in their pursuit of chastity and holiness. ...

That's from Courage International. 

(Question:  were those "French priests" in the Holy Ghost order, same as Mgr. LeFebvre?  Wouldn't THAT be ironic....)

How "Secret" Is D.C.'s Spy-On-YOU!! Law??

This is Mad Magazine Spy vs. Spy territory.  

In an article narrating the current status of "The Cloud People Will Spy On You Any Damn Time They Please" S.702 legislation pushed by Tom Cotton (a Totalitarian pretending to be "conservative") and the ultra-Totalitarian Mark Warner (D)), we find this:

 

...A 2022 FISC opinion found an FBI analyst had queried the Section 702 database of Americans’ data to run a batch search on over 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign, with the Justice Department determining only eight of those queries had sufficient ties to foreign influence activities to comply with standards. Wyden and Massie have separately said the FBI and other intelligence agencies are now using what Massie calls “an innovative loophole to spy on Americans in ways” he cannot disclose because “the interpretation of the law” itself is “top secret.”...

Got that?

You cannot find out how the FEEBS (and other political operatives) are spying on you because they use a method to get around the Fourth Amendment which is "top secret."

Massie is bound and determined to shut down S.702, which is ONE of the reasons Massie was bounced out of his seat come January.

Side-question:  do ya think that those massive data centers might be handy for compiling and indexing comms from every.  single.  American.  in the not-too-distant future?

Well, DO ya', punk?  You ought to.  Because they can.

 ... three-letter agencies would still retain a parallel and largely unregulated avenue for mass data collection, surveillance, and profiling via commercially available data for purchase, known as the “data broker loophole.” As Eddington explains, “the Section 702 program’s threat is dwarfed by the avalanche of commercially available data—and radically permissive DHS and Justice Department investigative policies on what agents are allowed to do with that data.”...

They are helped along in that regard by EO's from Ron Reagan (!) and Bush the Dumber.

 

Didja Notice the Arrests?

Over the past several months, Teh Nooz in Milwaukee has run stories about child-sex-predator arrests.

There's a reason for that:  the FBI.

 “7,200 kids that we found that got to go home. 3,400 child predators and traffickers arrested. That’s up 99% from the best year Biden ever had. That means kids are being protected at levels that are simply unheard of!” “And that means this FBI, here’s another thing. We didn’t just do the physical work on the streets. We went to the cyber community and we dismantled 3 million pedophile accounts off the Tor network where these predators prey on our children and think they can hide from this FBI.” “They can’t. We are going to the ends of the earth and the cyber realm to make sure our most precious commodity kids are safeguarded.” “And the numbers speak for themselves because the FBI are putting kids first.” @FBIDirectorKash...

If you've paid attention, you also noticed that there were very few--if any--similar events during the Biden Kakistocracy.  That's because the FEEBS had other priorities:  arresting citizens who are pro-life and favored MAGA.  That way they didn't have to expose Hunter any more than he had already exposed himself.

Now the big question:  when will the FEEBS start arresting the D.C.-based sex predators?   

Trump and Henry Clay Economics (!!!!)

Trump's economic plan is a re-run of Henry Clay's plan.  It's also the enfleshment of what Pat Buchanan shouted about during his '92 run.

This video contains the essence, and quotes Peter Navarro (at 7:39) on 'How It Works.'

Did the assassination attempts on Trump fall right into line with past Presidential assassinations?

Now there's an interesting thought! 

Much more information can be found--as usual--at the Treehouse. 

Claire Woodall Now in L.A.??

 Looks like Claire Woodall--who oversaw a lot of "elections" in Milwaukee--may have moved to Los Angeles.

 ...Republican Spencer Pratt's chances of advancing to the Los Angeles mayoral runoff have dropped in prediction markets as rival Nithya Raman, a Democrat, continues to gain ground in the ongoing ballot count, narrowing the gap to fewer than 8,000 votes.

The latest results show Raman rapidly closing in on the former reality television star in the race for second place behind incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, also a Democrat, who has already secured a spot in November's runoff election. More than three-quarters of ballots had been counted as of early Sunday....

Just as in Milwaukee (and Green Bay, Madison, Racine, and Kenosha), the mail-in-late-arriving ballots are going to determine the winner.  IOW, after election day, the Left knows how many "votes" they have to manufacture, and they do it.

Even if they allow Pratt to defeat Raman, they will never let Pratt have more votes than Bass in the November contest.

Never. 

This picture depicts the only part of the Milwaukee "election" of '20 that really counted, except Claire Woodall is not nearly as attractive as the girl here.  It's the model for the Los Angeles "election" of this month.  

 

WIC Fully Funded. "Progressives" Lie About That

You have to get EIGHT grafs deep into this news story propaganda piece to get the facts about "why."

EIGHT.

 ...According to The Washington Post, the House voted 213-210 on the funding bill for fiscal year 2027. Four Democrats joined Republicans to pass the measure. Five Republicans voted against it. 

By the numbers:

According to the progressive Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the cuts would slash more than $141 million in fruit and vegetable benefits for about 5.4 million WIC beneficiaries, including pregnant women, new mothers, toddlers and preschoolers. ...

DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM!!!!!!  Do you understand them?  It is DOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

...The National WIC Association said the cuts would lower monthly healthy food benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children. ...

Gee.  WIC has a National Association?  Gotta be an unbiased source of info, right?

Well, as it turns out, they ARE biased.

...Rep. Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture, said the bill includes $8 billion in WIC funding, which "will fully fund the program," The Post reported. 

"No woman or their children will lose or be denied coverage," Harris said. ...

Congress' funding is reduced because there are fewer people taking the benefits.  No point in allocating funds that won't be legitimately used.  But the National WIC Association probably had plans for a nice new building and a few more lobbyists liars.

The manner of reporting this story tells you why "da Nooz" is no longer a respectable source of information.  How long before "da Nooz" figures it out? 

 

 

Illegals AND Managers at Factory Nailed by ICE

This is very good news.

[The] Department of Homeland Security has arrested two managers and almost 50 illegal migrants at a manufacturing site in South Carolina.

“Good stuff by @ICEgov,” said Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project. “This is what we should see at scale, daily to solve the illegal alien problem.”...

 ...The arrests follow a multi-year investigation into the mass production of fake documents for illegal migrants....

 ....sharing pics of operation at Burnstein von Seelen Precision Castings in Abbeville, South Carolina. One witness told me, “…they had every employee in handcuffs for an hour, while they checked for citizenship and warrants..”...

Linnnnnnnddseeeeeeey! said this raid was about drugs.  That confirms that he is clueless about what goes on in his own State, much less the rest of America. 

ICE should continue arresting management figures who knowingly employ illegals.  There are a lot of those managers out there--and ICE should walk those arrests right up the chain to the CEO level. 

Lucid EV? Trouble!!

 Too bad, because these are some of the most beautiful cars on the road.

 The Canadian owner of a 2024 Lucid Air Pure has prevailed in a lemon law arbitration case that compelled Lucid to cancel his lease and reclaim the vehicle approximately 18 months into a four-year agreement. Among many issues with the EV, the company told him he can’t park an EV outside in the wintertime and expect it to function properly....

Yes.  That's actually what Lucid's lawyers said.

That's not the only problem with that brand.

 ...This individual case emerges against a backdrop of broader quality concerns affecting the Lucid Air lineup. The Air Pure has been subject to several safety recalls that raise questions about quality control as production scales. One recall involved 3,627 Air Pure sedans regarding rear-drive half-shafts that could detach while the vehicle was in motion. Investigators traced this problem to irregularities in bolt fastening, adhesive application, and instances of bolt reuse. A separate recall covering 2,039 Air sedans addressed a Gen 4 inverter defect capable of causing sudden, unannounced loss of drive power, with 55 confirmed failures documented between March 2025 and March 2026.

The company’s newer Gravity SUV has encountered similar troubles....

We've seen a Lucid sedan around the neighborhood.  Hope the owner knows it must remain inside, warm and cozy during winter. 

"America's Best Ally", Eh?

This post will be classified as "Anti-Semitic".

 ...The Pentagon has raised the counterintelligence threat level regarding Israel to the highest category, according to multiple U.S. officials. The Defense Intelligence Agency made the assessment in recent weeks, concluding that Israeli espionage efforts against the United States have become significantly more aggressive than usual.

...The move reflects growing concern inside the Pentagon that Israel is actively trying to collect information on internal U.S. decision-making, particularly regarding the war with Iran and the Trump administration’s plans going forward. Officials described the assessment as a formal internal document that includes specific incidents which heightened suspicions.  ...

 ...Israel has historically maintained an aggressive intelligence posture toward the United States, as seen in past cases such as the Jonathan Pollard espionage affair in the 1980s. What appears to have changed is the intensity of the activity at a time when Washington and Tel Aviv are not fully aligned on strategy in the Middle East....

See?  That's ANTI-SEMITIC.  Just ask Tel-Aviv Levin, or Histrionic Huckabee.

MORE:  A Senate proposal (S. 622) will join all US intel with that of Mossad--and make certain that future such access can NOT be stopped by the President.

Sharing is nice.  

 

The SSPX Brouhaha: What's It All About?

 For those paying attention to the pitched battle between the SSPX and the Vatican (or a few bureaucrats therein), Bp. Schneider presents a clarifying essay.

Here's the guts of it:

 

...Among the other twenty ecumenical councils, one finds numerous pastoral or disciplinary statements and documents that are no longer applicable today ... as well as non-definitive doctrinal statements (e.g., on the matter and form of the sacrament of Holy Orders from the Council of Florence) that were later corrected by the Magisterium of the Church. One cannot absolutize every concrete historical form of Church leadership, for doing so would eliminate the necessary distinction between, on the one hand, the unchanging and enduring truths of faith (Depositum Fidei) and, on the other, the various modes by which those truths are transmitted (e.g., a pastoral statement, non-definitive doctrinal statement, or ex-cathedra definition), each of which carries a different degree of authority and binding force.

Today, however, to be in full communion with the Holy See, one must accept those affirmations and teachings of Vatican II that are pastoral and certainly non-definitive in terms of their magisterial nature. This raises an important question: Why is the unconditional acceptance of the texts of Vatican II presented as a conditio sine qua non for full communion with the Holy See, while no comparable requirement exists with respect to the pastoral, disciplinary, or non-definitive teachings of the preceding twenty Ecumenical Councils?

Among the non-definitive teachings of Vatican II there are several—particularly those concerning religious liberty, ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, and collegiality—whose formulations are ambiguous and difficult to reconcile with doctrines taught consistently by the Magisterium from the era of the Church Fathers through the period immediately preceding the Council.

There is also the question of the ritual and doctrinal deficiencies of the Novus Ordo Missae. Such concerns can no longer be dismissed out of hand...

.The good Bishop's observations and questions are not only sincere, but valid.  The ambiguities expressed in some of the VatII docs have been remarked upon since they day they were published, and by people of good will (and some not-so-good-willed.)

We are not adherents to SSPX, and we attend a New Rite parish--but are perfectly comfortable in the Old Rite and are sympathetic to those who prefer it.

It appears that Pope Leo is .........ahhh.........ambiguous about this whole thing.  He is certainly hesitant about attempting to enforce any sort of "ban" on the Old Rite.  That said, some of his lieutenants in the Vat are hell-bent for leather to crucify the SSPX along with the Old Rite.

Stay tuned. 

 

Are Dogs Human?

Think that's a ridiculous question?

Think again, after listening to the ranting of the woman on this Fox6 story. 

There IS a Divinely-ordained order of creation at play here, and it is vitally important that we maintain that order. 

The animal kingdom of dogs, cats, mice, cattle, rats (etc.) is subject to mankind; that is, mankind is charged with subduing the animal kingdom as far as necessary, but not more than that, for the overall benefit of mankind.

...One experiment aimed to determine if Abbott Laboratory's Freestyle Libre glucose monitor works when a dog is under anesthesia. Another involved injecting a blue chemical to see where anesthesia actually goes inside the dog during surgery. After the experiments, the dogs were euthanized for further study.  ...

Here is the key quote:

"We’ve sacrificed one life for another," Soffes said. [Lindsey Soffes is with Rise for Animals, an animal rights group] 

Yes.  That is what the UW (and Abott) did.

In that quote, Soffes placed animal life on the same plane as human life.  That is a fatal category error in her argument.  And it is a category error to which Bryan Polcyn (and his employer) subscribe; you'll see that in the story, too.

We do not argue that any or all animal experiments are justifiable; we take no position on the experiment described above, although users of the Libre glucose monitor probably have some thoughts, as Polcyn and Soffes might if one of those experiments saved the life of their spouse, son, or daughter.

What we do argue is that putting humans and animals on the same plane of creation is bad epistemology.  It is of a piece with the "genders" error, which should be a signal; both flow from Gnosticism, the delusion that man is smarter than God.

But we are not.

The REALLY Big Problem With Intel on Iran?

The guy who wrote this is an ex-Chief of Station in the Middle East.

...The horrible truth is that 9/11 was not a failure to connect dots. It was a failure to collect the necessary dots in the first place. We were not running the sources we needed. We were not in fact doing much of anything to actually recruit those sources or collect the intelligence we required.

Osama Bin Laden had been telling us for years that he intended to take the fight to the “far enemy.” That was us. He had blown up two of our embassies. He had come perilously close to sinking a U.S Navy destroyer in Yemen. He wasn’t talking smack. He was deadly serious.

We knew all that. Everybody on the planet knew all that. And, yet, year after year, a creaking, Cold War relic of an intelligence bureaucracy did everything it could to stop us from collecting the necessary intelligence and pretend like espionage was still a “gentleman’s game.”...

It's not the first time we've heard that "HUMINT" (people on-the-ground) is sorely lacking in the CIA.

Now for a very, very, telling quote:

... We are in the middle of a war with Iran right now in which intelligence on the inner machinations of the Iranian regime is of critical importance. I can guarantee you, as can anybody else with any insight, that we know effectively nothing about what is happening at the senior levels in Tehran. The same goes for the actual status of the Iranian nuclear weapons program, or any other topic that is critical to our winning this war....

So what?

Here's what:  a total lack of US intel operators in Iran means that the intel we do get comes from other parties, who may or may not share US interests.

Whether those 'other parties' are England, Pakistan, Turkey, or Israel is irrelevant.  Each of them has their own twist--their own priorities--in mind.

Not our priorities.  Theirs. 

 

Leo XIV's Newest "Ooooopsie!"

There's no nice way to put this one, so we'll quote an acerbic guy.  A woman named Alvarado, currently employed by EWTN, stepped hip-deep into a pile:

 In a 2022 discussion on Nostra Aetate, Alvarado described “supersessionism” as the idea that Christianity nullifies the Jewish faith, then said: “there’s this idea that all Jews should become Christians, which obviously is wrong.” LifeSiteNews reported the clip after her Vatican appointment....

 ...Israel’s vocation is fulfilled in Christ. The Messiah did not come to found a dialogue committee with the synagogue. He came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets and to draw all men into His Body.

Even the Catechism states, in its modern softened phrasing, that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church His Body, and that the Church is necessary for salvation because Christ explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and baptism. Dominus Iesus likewise reasserts that Jesus Christ is the universal Redeemer and that the salvific incarnation of the Word is not one path among several parallel religious economies....

"Go ye therefore and make disciples of ALL nations........."---some famous New Testament Guy.

Leo's appointments allow only two alternatives:  either he is being sandbagged by leftover Franny/Masonic/Communist Vatican termites, OR.........ughhhh.........Leo is one of them.

Oremus. 

 

Didja Need Oil?

 Read it and weep.  Trump knows this.

 

Lefties Name Obama Monument to Self

 The Guardian--a far-left English "news" outfit--refers to Obama's pile of bricks in Chicago as "A Klingon Prison."

Pretty good description.

 

Gee, Donald, What's Going On Here???

 Within 60 days or so, petroleum inventories will be dangerously low worldwide.  Not just in Europe, or Africa, or SE Asia, but in the USA, too.

Nonetheless, Israel continues to push its war, dragging the US and Arab countries in its smelly wake.  This is a partial list of What Happened THIS MORNING in the Middle East:

 Explosions were heard near Qeshm Island in Iran on Wednesday morning.

Kuwait's Army announced its air defences were intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks, while reports noted that two US bases were targeted in Kuwait, with explosions in the Ali al-Salem and Arifjan bases where US soldiers are stationed. 

Furthermore, air raid sirens sounded in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with explosions also reported in Saudi Arabia, while explosions were heard in Qamishli, Syria, and earlier reports noted multiple explosions in the centre of Iraqi Kurdistan with the headquarters of anti-Iranian separatist groups targeted.

IRGC said the US attacked Qeshm Island, and in response, Iran carried out precise and intensive missile strikes on US bases in Kuwait, while it warned further US aggression will be met with a seismic, crushing and decisive response.

IRGC said the headquarters of the US 5th Fleet in Bahrain was attacked by missiles and drones from the IRGC Aerospace Force, while it targeted a US-affiliated vessel named Panaya with missiles and clarified the recent attack was in retaliation for the US targeting an IRGC communications tower in the south of Qeshm Island.

US CENTCOM said Iran launched several ballistic missiles towards neighbours and that forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian missiles, while US forces had conducted strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran. 

CENTCOM stated that forces shot down three one-way attack drones launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters, and US forces also conducted self-defence strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island. Furthermore, it denied IRGC claims that Iran struck the 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain and a US airbase in the region, and stated that all Iranian attacks on US forces failed.

US CENTCOM says forces disabled a Botswana-flagged unladen oil tanker that was attempting to sail toward an Iranian port on the Arabian Gulf on June 2nd. Says: US aircraft disabled the vessel by firing a Hellfire missile into the ship’s engine room, preventing the tanker from reaching Iran.

A reminder:  it's not only petroleum.  It's also--critically--fertilizer.  So lots of people will die of starvation for Israel's little 'weekend excursion.'