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More interesting flowers at the link, including one actually grown for fuzzy seed heads. Expand your horizons!
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Years ago, I bought Mrs. BD a bouquet of tulips. The bulbs were still attached. Mrs. BD, having no luck ever with tulip bulbs, tossed all the bulbs out except for one. She took one of our granddaughters outside for some garden planting activity in our north Israel vacation home.
One year later, lo and behold, we’ve had tulips blossoming ever since then at around this time of the year.
Best Regards from northern Israel,
Biden’s Dog
Not every tulip will re-bloom in a warm-winter climate. Lovely.
Thanks for sending it in! Great story.
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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
Question about growing tomatoes from NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker:
Black Beauty Tomato
I’m sitting here daydreaming about a vegetable garden and our #1 plant... tomatoes. It got me thinking though, and wondering about my problem with them and I wonder if it’s weird or common. Tomato plants make me itch to high heaven and my arms turn red after digging through them to pick. I am not allergic to tomatoes. The only way to get it to stop is first using gojo liberally and thoroughly win dry skin and hands, rinse off then wash well with soap. So... strange or common?
I do love the garden thread and appreciate your work. And I hope you are doing much better.
Has anyone else experienced something like this?
Any tips if you have noticed this?
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Mid-afternoon here now. Just stepped outside into our back garden and noticed that the lemon tree is very pretty!
Biden’s Dog
Yes, it is very pretty. Bet it smells great.
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KT - Hoping you are doing better.
What I think I like best about spring is that hope springs eternal, and our motivations to do better this year abound.
I had a terrible gardening year last year, tomato blight, other disasters, a real wet fall that stayed very warm until all of a sudden it wasn't. The strawberry bed failed, and fruit trees didn't fruit. A disaster. And I wasn't very motivated and almost didn't get the winter garlic in. The carburetor in my garden tiller was failing. Ugh! No salsa! Very few pickles! No peach or strawberry preserves! I felt like Richie in a Christmas Story when the neighbor's dogs get the Christmas turkey.
I did manage to get the garlic in right before an extremely hard freeze hit. Planting location was driven by where the garden was dry enough to get my failing tiller to create a planting bed. They say even if it isn't prime garlic planting time, some garlic is better than no garlic.
In January I was poring over seed catalogs as well as remedies to attack my blight problem, as well as some other soil improvements.
At the beginning of March I hauled 3 cu yds of compost, mixed in ammonium sulfate to try and do a bit of Ph repair (better in the fall I know), then covered it with 2 cu yds of fine mulch. I had to get it all done before the rain came, after work each night, right after we had come back from an Arizona vacation. And you know how work goes when you have been gone for a week.
I'll till it all into the soil in May before the tomatoes are ready to plant. That corner that is barren will get a cubic yard or so of a sand based compost to re-establish the strawberries - which I need to order today.
Then I needed to make sure the seedlings got started in time - I was a bit late last year (foreshadowing much, right?). I've been migrating to the bigger Jiffy peat pellets. All planted and coming up - I even went out and got some seed starting heating pads.
I've got professional black cloth mulch ready to go to put down in the tomato garden to help keep down weeds and hopefully combat the blight coming up from the ground.
I've got my lists for tomato cage replacements and new posts I need. The tiller got repaired this week. And here is what my garlic efforts have produced.
A garden coming out of winter with:
Little garlics! Almost like I've been rewarded for being a bit more diligent this winter.
Fruit trees have been pruned - the apple trees will be oil soap sprayed this week. Perhaps this year will be a better one. Spring is the time for redemption - I hope.
Black JEM
YAY Hope your garden turns out great this year.
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Ah, Nature
Photo from DaughterH and a photo from Hrothgar his own self
Fits the Pet thread because she took this picture whilst walking her pups;
Fits the garden thread because this is a natural scene with (presumably) wild swans
Fits the landscaping thread because the Tulip Magnolia managed to make it to full bloom status before the errant winds of Spring blew ALL the blossoms as usually happens.
Love these. Don't you?
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Gardens of The Horde
When I got my diagnosis in October, I decided to order lots of bulbs and flowers so that I would have something pretty to look at this Spring (I kind of overdid it in a BIG way...).
Anyway, when they came in I had our lawn service guys plant them all over our postage-stamp-sized gardens, and now they are starting to come up. The Hyacinths smell AMAZING!
Poor Mr. TiFW is going to have to figure out what to do with all of these bulbs when they come back next Spring if I'm not here . . .
Teresa in Fort Worth
They are beautiful! We all hope that you see all the bulbs return next year and that you send in more photos!
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NEW: California’s High-Speed Rail project needs $7 Billion by next summer, lawmakers learned today.
“We have no plan, we have a good likelihood it's going to get worse, and we have a short time to solve the problem,” said Democratic Asm. Steven Bennett.
From the accompanying news article: "That's not a good place for government to put itself into".
Lawmakers on the Assembly’s budget subcommittee focusing on transportation learned about the budget gap in a hearing this morning.
That hearing happened hours after Gov. Newsom released his latest podcast episode, in which he spends a chunk of time defending the project.
Newsom had, as I recall, held a ceremony involving "ceremonial" tracks (not real tracks) in Bakersfield not long ago, so he seems committed to some part of the project.
There are some good points made by commenters in the thread on X linked above, plus a call for fact-checking on the podcast with Ezra Klein.
The project was originally pitched to voters in 2008 as a $40 billion bullet train that could take riders from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Since then, the price tag for the original vision has swelled to at least $100 billion, and most of the money has yet to materialize.
I imagine that the reason the project suddenly needs 7 billion dollars by June for the Bakersfield to Merced run is that work has actually sort of started. When the project began, land was condemned and torn up here and there mostly along an even shorter route - Shafter on the south to somewhere a little north of Fresno. In other words, they started with what they thought would be the easy parts of the project so there would be no turning back. It caused a lot of problems for locals, but this is not a highly populated area, and the farmers whose land was affected don't have a lot of political power.
Now there are detours and impressive mounds of dirt and holes in the ground everywhere. There is work on vehicle overpasses and such. Less of the giant diesel equipment and support vehicles which have long been featured in the landscape seems permanently fixed in place. Those giant machines move!
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Let's recall February of 2019, when Newsom broke the news to Jerry Brown that he was putting Brown's dream of the Los Angeles to San Francisco high-speed rail on the back burner. And he also defied AOC's hysteria over an all-electric train system for the country:
Casting aside Brown's obvious love for a statewide system linking Sacramento and San Francisco in the north to Los Angeles and San Diego in the south, Newsom called for completing just the roughly 100-mile-long initial San Joaquin Valley segment, from Merced to near Bakersfield, and making it a high-speed system.
However, electrifying the track now under construction and buying high-speed trains to run on it would be an enormously expensive gesture for such short service. More likely, the stretch of track, when completed, will be folded into the region's existing Amtrak service.
But about the rest of the State of the State address, Walters wrote:
All in all, Newsom set an ambitious agenda for his governorship, the sort of multi-point plan that Brown had often denigrated. And in doing so, the new governor set a high mark for his political future.
Achieving all he seeks would propel him into White House contention sometime after 2020. Failing, for whatever reason, would make him a footnote in California's political history.
How is that working out for Newsom?
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What about the Transbay Transit Center?
Newsom's home turf. From 2019 again:
When we last reported on the extraordinarily expensive (but dreamy) Transbay Transit Center, it was due to open in 2017. It apparently opened for bus service in August of 2018 and closed for repairs in September of 2018, It remains closed. Cracked girders were found. After Newsom's recent announcement, backers are wondering how to pay for rail lines into the center:
Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who chairs the county Transportation Authority board, was unfazed. At this point, he said, San Francisco and the South Bay should go it alone.
"Our responsibility has always been connecting Santa Clara County to downtown San Francisco by bringing Caltrain to the Transbay Terminal, and we will continue to do that with zeal," he said. "Otherwise, we will have built the most expensive bus terminal in the history of humankind."
The shorter but more realistic link from Bakersfield to Merced would be a mere shadow of what Newsom described at the 2010 groundbreaking ceremony for the transit center, when he was mayor of San Francisco.
San Francisco’s vision to make the desolate Transbay transit center the “Grand Central Station of the West” has received support from the federal government, which has pledged $3.4 billion toward the city’s downtown rail extension project.
The massive, four-block transit hub in SoMa opened in 2018 equipped with a dormant train platform in its basement and has, so far, lived a muted existence. That could change with the completion of a 2.4-mile rail extension that would connect California’s High Speed Rail and the Peninsula’s Caltrain commuter rail to the heart of downtown.
The dreams keep getting bigger. Demands for money keep getting bigger, too. Wonder why the realities keep falling short of the dreams?
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WEEKEND
Music
Maybe people can ride horses from Bakersfield to Merced.
The Classical Saturday Coffee Thread & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus)
[Happy Birthday Wishes!]
Good morning boys, girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Three Lakes).
1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. And no, you can't jump on the furniture.
3) It's the end of the 1st quarter, have you met your health insurance deductible? Running with sharp objects is strictly prohibited.
4) Have a great weekend. Even if you can't run with sharp object.
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
1/18 – Jrgunn77 requested prayers for health, which was fine a few months ago, but recently has been his with extremely high BP spikes, anxiety attacks, constant headaches, and hernia troubles. Jrgunn is on meds for the BP and anxiety, scheduled for a colonoscopy, and has referrals for a cardiologist and neurologist. These out of the blue anxieties are the worst. Jrgunn also asked for prayers for a friend from church, Rodney, who has recently suffered lung failure and is on oxygen, to come home from the hospital, and Pastor Ben and his brother, for comfort after the passing of their little sister from drug addiction.
3/8 Update – Pneumonia has cleared, and the neurologist is treating him for Parkinsonian tremor. The CT scan showed 3 hernias. The BP, head pressure, and physical strength is better and he was able to work a couple of hours. Rodney is awake, but has intestinal bleeding. They are still waiting for test results, and if they are bad, he will be knocked off the transplant list. He’s still on 100% oxygen.
3/8 Update – Lester Fahrner posted that BP spikes and anxiety needs lab and urine tests for carcinoid tumor and pheochromocytoma.
3/15 Update – Rodney was placed on the official transplant list on 3/12. On 3/15, he received donor lungs during a 14 hour surgery. Now prayers are for his recovery and for God’s provision for the avalanche of medical bills.
1/31 – Bif Bewalski gave an update on Smash. The blood work confirmed that she does not have pancreatitis. They gave her fluids, 3 types of digestive system meds via IV, and then ignored her for 8 hours. Anyway, she is home and feeling better.
3/22 Update – They are going to run an upper GI series of tests to confirm whether a previous surgery has allowed fluid to settle onto the upper stomach, causing all the issues. Then Smash got the flu, which turned into pneumonia. On the mend now.
2/15 – Ben Had asked for continued prayers for Jim Sunk New Dawn. He hasn’t been on the ONT for a while now.
2/22 Update – Doof heard from Jim SND and posted an update. Jim SND says he is doing OK and is in good spirits, all things considered. He’s just struggling to keep up with things here on the blog due to physical limitations. Doof plans to keep checking on him. Jim SND definitely appreciates our prayers and support.
3/7 Update – Jim Sunk New Dawn sent an update to Weird Dave. Jim SND sends his greetings and thanks for the prayers. He can’t reply to everyone; his 80 wpm is now about 8. He can barely type, and chewing is even tough. He says he is a walking skeleton. He is getting full benefits from the VA, so that helps with ADA mods to the house, healthcare, etc.
2/18 – Teresa in Fort Worth asked for prayers for her husband’s niece, Amanda, who has just been put on the waiting list for another new heart. After 4 years with her first donor heart, her body is starting to reject it. She is only 40 years old, and has had heart issues her entire adult life. Please pray that Amanda’s body would stay well long enough for her to have another transplant. And also prayers for the family of this as-yet-unknown donor. Amanda knows full well what her receiving a new heart “means” to the donor family.
3/4 Update – Amanda still needs prayers. St. Luke’s cannot give her a second heart, so they have turned to Methodist in Houston, hoping that they will be able to handle her complex case.
2/27 – Ciampino’s daughter asked for prayers for Ciampino. They are not sure what is wrong yet, but they had to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He was very weak and couldn’t walk or even stand up. The hospital has been giving him fluids, and he is more responsive now. Thank you for the prayers.
3/8 Update – Home now. Getting stronger, but still easily winded. Finally had a long sleep. Thank you all for your prayers. Love you.
3/15 Update – Thank you to everyone who prayed for Ciampino. No more surgery was needed, but an abscess was drained of 4800 ml. Appetite is returning slowly.
3/1 – antisocial justice beatnik would appreciate some prayers for Mom, who is continuing to suffer terribly from a botched medical procedure back in mid-Dec. Mom was rushed from her rehab facility to ER on 2/28, then back to the hospital that botched her care in Dec. Antisocial justice beatnik and Dad are doing their best to support her and each other, but Dad has his own existing medical issues to worry about, and AJB’s FMLA is running out.
3/8 Update – Mom is stable but continues to suffer with a horrific bed wound and blood clots in her legs. She will be bedridden for the foreseeable future. Dad is still having medical issues but is still mobile. AJB and Dad still take shifts to visit Mom. AJB also figures s/he will be looking for another job soon, so has found a resume and will start applying.
3/15 Update – It was a rough week. For the first part of the week, Mom spent every waking moment groaning in agony from osteomyelitis due to her bed sores. The pain has been better controlled the last few days.
3/1 - thefritz requests prayers for his friend Jeff, his wife, and two children. Jeff’s pancreatic cancer has spread to his liver. They have stopped chemo and moved him to home hospice.
3/17 Update – Jeff succumbed to pancreatic cancer on 3/16. Please pray for his wife and two grown children.
3/6 – Bulg asked for prayers. He is planning to send a conciliatory letter to his only sister, who has been estranged for 20 years. There had been a family breakup over the parents’ estate. The sister has begun communicating with Bulg’s brothers, so he is going to try and reestablish contact. Prayers that his attempt will be successful are appreciated.
3/6 – Toad-O asked for prayers for a son-in-law, his mother, and the rest of the family. The mother is in the hospital with severe lung damage and her survival is uncertain. The mother’s mother just died of a similar illness. Also, her husband is also in the hospital with a ruptured colon. All of these things hit in the same week, and the impact has been devastating. A miracle is desperately needed.
3/8 Update – The mother passed away on 3/8, on her 61st birthday. As you can imagine, the family is devastated. Prayers for comfort in this time of sorrow are requested.
3/8 – Misanthropic Humanitarian offered a prayer. “Dear Father, Thank you for sparing Donald J. Trump’s life in Butler, PA. Thank you for a President who loves his country and is trying to do everything he can to improve our citizens lives. We often come to you with our troubles and not to you as often as we should when we should be thankful. We pray through Your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.”
3/8 - Tonypete asked for prayers for K and Mr. X. K started dating Mr. X, and he is a very nice gentleman, but he mentions his late wife in every other sentence. It’s starting to wear on K.
3/8 – Ben Had asked for continued prayers for AZ deplorable as he works to get his strength back.
3/22 Update – AZ deplorable moron reports that he is on the mend after the stroke. His left side is still not up to snuff, but he is working on it. Thank you all for your prayers.
3/8 – Retired Buckeye Cop asked for prayers for his younger brother, J. He has been a police officer at a local Catholic university for 26 years. Due to internal politics, the police chief has informed J that his position (Captain) is being phased out as of 6/30 and he needs to seek employment elsewhere. May J find a new job soon.
3/8 – Piper asked for prayers for a close friend who has breast cancer. It’s already at stage 3 when it was discovered. She has chemo, surgery, and radiation coming up. She is a mom, with a son age 12. Her husband is being a trooper, but it’s hard.
3/8 – Cosda posted good news. Two years ago, we prayed for a sister who had colon cancer and was undergoing surgery and chemo. That was successful. On 3/7, her checkup showed that she was still cancer free. Thank you for the prayers and thank God for the healing.
3/13 – Teresa in Fort Worth’s health continues to improve with her cancer treatments. Her CA19-9 results continue to go down, which is great news.
3/15 – Grammie Winger updated that Rev is still weak, but he is eating and his spirits are good.
3/15 – Fenelon Spoke requested prayers for the daughter of their beloved, retired, organist. The daughter is a dear woman on her second bout of cancer and is having treatments. Thanks so much!
3/15 – Smell the glove sent thanks for the prayers. The aunt is doing well with her treatment for colon cancer.
3/15 – MkY asked for continued prayers for his wife, Judy, who was diagnosed with stage IV renal cancer 2 months ago. She is getting immunotherapy, along with another drug that is supposed to enhance immunotherapy. She is very weak, and they don’t know if the various issues she is having is due to the cancer(s) or the drugs. Probably both. In early April, she is due for another CT scan with contrast (which hurts). If the tumors have not shrunk, they will probably start alternative therapies.
3/20 – L asked for continued prayers for her daughter, Shannon. She is the Franciscan sister, who was traveling to Cleveland for surgery. The operation was a success! It involved replacement of two valves, and repair to aortic aneurysm. The surgery was 3/11, and she was released 3/18. She is staying with her aunt, a retired nurse, this week, and will go to her sister’s house for continued recovery next week. L and her husband have not seen her in person, since they came down with a bad flu, but have visited via a video call, and can see improvement. L sends her thanks for the prayers. Shannon appreciated it, L appreciated it, and it helped keep them all calmer.
3/22 – Eromero could use prayers. He was in ICU with double pneumonia, but is improving and out of ICU now. He is on a pegtube the rest of his life.
3/24 Update – Eromero posted his thanks for the prayers. “I have no words to convey how much I appreciate your prayers. Please keep them rolling.”
3/22 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for her husband, because layoffs are expected at his company soon.
3/22 – screaming in digital got her mom moved into assisted living on Tuesday. There have been some rough spots, and no doubt will be more, but she is doing better than they dared hope. Many thanks for your prayers.
3/22 – J.J. Sefton posted that his latest MRI indicated no new tumor growth and the surgical wound is healing nicely. He took his final chemo pull last night, so fingers crossed, he thinks he is in the percentage of glioblastoma patients that ultimately outpace recurrence by greater than the expected timeframe. MRIs now every two months for the rest of his life. God bless you all for your prayers and kindness.
3/24 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for a young friend, “C”, who was just in the hospital, probably for depression. Fen doesn’t have all the details yet. “C” has the intense job of being an addictions counselor and is a very bright, caring RC woman. She needs healing and the rough places made smooth. Thanks very much.
3/24 – Mister Ghost posted “Hospitals can kill you. Prayers are much better. I am stuck in a hospital in the Boston area for the 8th straight day and am starting to look like a concentration camp survivor. This is brutal and if there’s anyone who could say a prayer for me, I would be eternally grateful. Prayers carry a great deal of power. I’m not as sure about modern medicine….”
3/24 – Update on Jewell45. Her daughter posted an update, with approval to share: "Okay. Need to do a life update for mama. She hasn’t been doing so hot the last couple weeks. Like I said last month, the cancer has been spreading. She’s been declining quite a bit since then. Her energy level is very low and she’s struggling with breathing after the smallest tasks or even if shes talks too much. The decision has been made to transition to hospice care. I want to be clear here about a couple things. Number one, she is NOT in her final days although her oncologist estimates with how the cancer has progressed that she is probably down to several months, 6-9 maybe more. Number 2. She is up for visitors but not much. Please contact myself, dad or her first. She won’t last much longer than 15-20 minutes if you do stop by, so keep your expectations low. Other than that, continued prayers and good vibes are always appreciated. Much love to you all. If you have questions, feel free to contact me privately. This is obviously a difficult time as you can imagine but I’ll do my best."
3/24 – Ellipse (“…”) asked to enlist the prayers of the amazing horde, for a good friend’s wife, who is in need of a rather sudden biopsy.
3/27 Update – They are waiting on results from a mass that was somehow missed last month on a mammogram. They are understandably very scared and won’t know until 3/31. She has other symptoms too. The kids are older but not grown.
3/27 – Cosda asked the Horde to keep his wife in their prayers. She recently had a mole removed from her thigh and the biopsy report came back this morning as melanoma cancer. They will be seeing an oncologist the week of 3/31.
3/27 – Sponge sent an update. “Thank you, all of you, for your thoughts and prayers for the First Lady during this ridiculously difficult journey the last several months. Your kind words and heartfelt prayers really made a difference for her and we're eternally grateful for it. God is great and we've crossed over what should be the final big hurdle in this battle. She's over the moon excited and is feeling incredibly blessed today. God Bless you all and thank you so very much.”
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Well, now xAI officially has access to and is fully integrated with Twitter rather than semi-officially having access to and being fully integrated with Twitter.
Also, xAI was valued at $50 billion just three months ago.
It's a 16" laptop with a 120Hz 2560x1600 OLED display - not astounding but perfectly usable, up to a Ryzen 370 (four Zen 5 cores and eight low-power Zen 5c cores, plus 16 graphics cores), up to an RTX 5090 - laptop edition, meaning a downvolted desktop 5080 with 24GB of RAM rather than 16GB, up to 64GB of soldered RAM, up to 4TB of SSD, and almost but not quite the Four Essential Keys because Razer literally hates you.
I mean, the keys are there, but PgUp is where Home should be and PgDn is where PgUp should be and the other two are weird squiggles that I can't interpret. (Game Mode and Performance Mode, apparently.)
Windows PowerToys can solve that, except for the labels being wrong.
It lasts over seven hours on battery playing video, which is not all day but blows other gaming laptops out of the water; some don't even manage three hours.
Fortunately, there's the price: Starting at $3000 and going up to $4900, there is no chance that I would ever consider buying one.
Putting an iron ball heated to 1000 degrees F on to a pineapple skin. Why do this? I don't know, but USAID paid $63 million for it. Also, some condoms for Nigerian teenagers.
Poor dog lost her front legs, so she decided she'd just have to walk on two legs.
A lot of people are complaining about this tweet, and in a sane world, I probably would too. But let's be honest here. Every single norm was shattered by Democrats and the media over the past nine years--starting with their completely fabricated plot to paint President Trump as a Russian agent, all the way to sending an army of agents to rifle through Melania's underwear drawer. In New York, they even changed a law retroactively--a move that even tinpot countries don't make--just to get Trump.
The craziness of it all was off the charts, and because of that, it's important not to do the norms thing. Maybe in a few years, when Democrats and the media snap out of it--or maybe never. But certainly not now.
A little inflammatory but at this point, I don't care. Inflame the left. Spur them towards the violence that they've already decided on. Let's get it on.
Update: "Eric In Atlanta" says that that meme is based on a real picture of a real illegal alien fentanyl dealer who was arrested and is being deported. There was a trend people were doing this week of using AI to "ghibilify" photos into Japanese (?) cartoons, and this meme is an example of that.
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Federal judge overturns Snow White's 1.8 of 10 IMBD score
The "migrant influencer" who posted advice on how to defraud the US of government payments and how to squat in Americans' homes and claim the right to live there rent-free forever has been deported back to Venezuela.
You won't believe this -- this low-executive-function savage disrupted his deportation flight.
The brazen "migrant influencer" who infamously flashed around wads of US government cash handouts and encouraged other illegal border crossers to squat in American homes has finally been deported back to Venezuela -- after causing uproar on the flight back.
Leonel Moreno, who encouraged illegal migrants to "invade abandoned houses" in sick TikToks, was sent back to the narco state this week, after President Trump resumed deportation flights to the country.
Venezuela's Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, said Moreno was "welcome" back, however, the freeloading migrant caused disruptions on the flight and upset his fellow passengers.
The firebrand TikTokker had to be placed in his own section of the plane with extra security to calm tensions.
It is unclear why Moreno caused a disruption or what he was doing.
After he stepped off the deportation flight, he flashed a thumbs up and received a pat on the shoulder from a security official escorting him off the plane.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) "liked" Facebook comments referring to wheelchair-bound Texas governor Greg Abbott as "hot wheels" in 2021--a year before he started busing migrants to Democratic cities, the policy Crockett said she was referring to when she called Abbott "hot wheels" herself.
"We in these hot ass Texas streets, honey. Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on now! And the only thing hot about him is that he's a hot-ass mess, honey! Yes, yes, yes, yes!" Crockett said to applause at a Human Rights Campaign event on Saturday.
After clips of Crockett's remarks went viral on Tuesday, the congresswoman denied that they referenced the governor's condition. "I wasn't thinking about the governor's condition--I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable," Crockett wrote on X.
But Crockett was aware--and supportive--of the derisive label for the governor before he began the migrant transfers.
"Hot wheels something else," reads a June 2021 Facebook comment that Crockett "liked" on the platform. The comment was a reply to a Crockett post about Abbott.
Jasmine Crockett "liked" a comment on Facebook that referred to Greg Abbott as "hot wheels."
That same month, Crockett reacted with a heart emoji to a comment that said, referring to Abbott, "When I say I sick of hot wheels....I am SICK OF HIM."
As you probably know, Democrats are trying to show how "authentic" they are by engaging in a coordinated, focus-group tested Profanity Offensive. They're routinely using f-bombs in their public statements and even in congressional speeches.
Remember when they all piously moaned that Trump was "coarsening our precious civil discourse" by dropping his own (authentic) profanities from time to time?
White liberals explain that Voter ID laws are racist because black people can't get to the DMV. One totally non-racist White Girl whitesplains that black people "really don't have the knowledge of how it works."
Mother: We told the Fairfax School Board we didn't want them to trans our children behind our back so they voted 16-to-0 to do it anyway.
Woke waitress tells MAGA voters they're not allowed to eat tacos. She's then fired. She says it's no big deal, she'll just get another job. Will you though? Who'd want to hire you? You're bragging about driving customers away based on your puerile politics and tantrums. Who's going to sign up for that?
Cops are wearing Palestinian flags on their vests in Patterson, NJ.
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NEW: Allentown, Pennsylvania employee LaTarsha Brown charged after placing a noose at her own desk to stage a hate crime.
Jussie Smollett would be proud.
About two months ago, Brown reported finding a noose at her desk at City Hall.
Police requested DNA samples of people who were working in the office at the time of the incident.
According to Capt. Steve Milkovits, every employee at the office agreed except for Brown.
The Pennsylvania State Police Forensic DNA Division later released a report revealing that the DNA on the noose matched Brown's DNA.
Brown worked for the city's community and economic development department.
She faces misdemeanor charges including making false reports and fabricating physical evidence.
We're all waiting to find out how this is all our fault. You know, the very fact that this woman felt she had to fake a hate crime proves how serious hate crimes are, Bigots.
SHOCKING: Speaker Julie McCluskie (D) is effectively encouraging Coloradans on Medicaid to have an abortion instead of giving birth, because it's cheaper for the state.
He says it's "very doable" and doesn't even involve the controversial calls and hard stuff, like cuts to Social Security.
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk and seven members of the team shed light on the department's cost-cutting mission in an exclusive sit-down interview with "Special Report" Thursday.
"We want to reduce spending by eliminating waste and fraud and reduce the spending by 15%, which seems really quite achievable," Musk told "Special Report" executive editor Bret Baier.
"The government is not efficient, and there's a lot of waste and fraud. So we feel confident that a 15% reduction can be done without affecting any of the critical government services."
How sad is it that 15% of one year's budget is $1 trillion.
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"This is a revolution. And I think it might be the biggest revolution in government since the original revolution. But at the end of the day, America's going to be in much better shape," he said.
"It's going to be a fantastic future."
As of March 27, DOGE claims on its site it has saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer.
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During the "Special Report" exclusive, Musk and the seven DOGE members illustrated key efforts of the department to achieve Trump's goal. Davis brought up federal credit cards, which he labeled a "mundane" but "illustrative" example of DOGE's work.
"There are in the federal government around 4.6 million credit cards for around 2.3 to 2.4 million employees. This doesn't make sense. So one of the things all of the teams have worked on is we've worked for the agencies and said, 'Do you need all of these credit cards? Are they being used? Can you tell us physically where they are?'" Davis explained.
"Clearly there should not be more credit cards than there are people," Musk responded.
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The top DOGE official also argued that when critics "attack DOGE, they never attack any of the specifics."
"They'll say what we're doing is somehow unconstitutional or illegal or whatever. We're like, 'well, which line of the cost savings do you disagree with?' And they can't point to any."
Below, Musk explains that the entire Democrat attack line that he's "cutting Social Security to make poor old people go to Social Security offices to make changes" was a lie. What is going on, he says, is that fraudsters, many being foreign criminals working for foreign mafias, call into Social Security posing as retirees and con SS workers into re-directing their direct deposit checks into different accounts -- accounts controlled by the fraudsters, of course.
He's not stopping the use of phones to change where direct deposit payments go to save money or hurt seniors -- he's trying to make it harder for fraudsters to just get on a phone and get grandma's social security payments directed into his own account.
What is shocking is that he says 40% of calls made to these offices are for the purposes of fraudulent theft of seniors' money.
Fat liberal hack Bret Baier tried to shame Elon Musk for calling Arizona Democrat Senator Mark Kelly a "traitor" for putting Ukraine's interests above America's.
Musk wasn't having any of that.
Fox News presstitute Bret Baier tried to make Elon Musk feel guilty for criticizing a blood-for-money warmonger, and this is how it went.#BretBaierpic.twitter.com/10sSsYdh5M
Fox News @BretBaier asks Elon Musk about the pace of the DOGE work. From Musk: 'In the context of the government, we're moving like lightning. In the context of what I'm used to doing, it is slower than I would like.'
He says he plans to retire after 18 months, his original estimated time of how long it would take. He thinks he can get to the one trillion in cuts in that time.
Feminists are making me actually sexist. I am coming to doubt that women, at least of the leftwing kind, have the capacity for rational thought at all. Here we are talking about reforming the government and cutting $1 trillion from the budget to keep us from going bankrupt and what Erin Burnett brings to the table is "Oh my God, I looked at the screen and successfully deduced the sexes of the people on the screen, and there were no women so that's bad."
This is what liberal women claim is analysis and intellectual review? Showing off the skills they learned when they were literally two years old in telling men and women apart?
And -- given the left's claims about gender, how do they even know these male-presenting males were not women? Maybe they are men who identify as women but choose to present as "genderfuck," a "gender" which exists to question your peasant notions of what gender even is?
DOGE's team, of course, consists mostly of engineers, particularly software engineers. Women self-select out of such careers. Liberal women prefer jobs like... newsreader.
I can't help noticing that when we talk about issues, the people talking about what's good for everyone tend to be white men. Whereas leftwing women are only concerned about how many Ratty Purple-Haired Lesbians are in positions of power, and minorities tend to talk only about how many minorities have jobs.
It's not my fault if the left has made itself into the party that literally never discusses the public weal generally, but only which constituent identity groups are "represented" and getting dip their beaks in the federal trough.
Meanwhile: Las Vegas police arrested a man for firebombing the LV Tesla dealership, and he's mostly what you'd guess he would be.
BREAKING: Las Vegas police have arrested 36-year-old Paul Kim for firebombing a Tesla dealership. He’s facing charges including arson, firing a rifle at cars, and possessing an explosive device.
Authorities say he had pro-communist and pro-Palestine posts on social media and was… pic.twitter.com/rKc8GE6EmT
This appears to be the FB account belonging to Paul Kim, the dude who was arrested for allegedly setting a Tesla location on fire. He advocated for people to donate to help get violent BLM rioters get out of jail.
On Thursday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Ingraham Angle," Attorney General Pam Bondi said that, at her instruction, the Department of Justice will not engage in any negotiations on plea deals with anyone arrested for and charged for anti-Tesla violence.
While discussing a case in Las Vegas, [relevant remarks begin around 5:40] Bondi stated, "That was remarkable police work, working with the state police, our FBI, they have been going nonstop on this case. This guy is in custody. Laura, he is facing [a] five-year minimum mandatory, to 20 years in prison. And this was great police work. This guy thought he got away with it. So, these people better look out. They better cut it out. Because we are coming after you. And, at my direction, there will be no negotiating on these people."
That's a dangerous position, because leftists will engage in jury nullification, so if you don't offer a plea deal, leftists will just set them free.
And thereby signal that we are now in a state of civil war in which violence is now acceptable "resistance."
They continue to not understand that not only can the right play that game too, but we're better armed and physically stronger and many of us have actual military training.
They will learn, though.
The terrorism is out of control. If Jake Tapper says "Cite?," I can offer:
And this too -- vandalizing a wheelchair-bound woman's expensive modified Tesla.
People are being forced to spend time and money to replace their Tesla's branding with fake branding reading "PRIUS." That accounts says that lefties are changing the branding to protest Tesla but I think they're doing it so that other lefties don't destroy their expensive cars.
There's a video of one of these road rage Democrats repeatedly racing ahead of a Tesla and then slamming on the brakes. Ultimately the Democrat blows through an intersection and hits another car.
Another victim of the woke mind virus tried to over take a Tesla to brake check the driver and when that failed, karma and FAFO kicked in and took over.
Obviously these people should be imprisoned and have their drivers licenses revoked for life. And if they're illegal aliens, send them to El Salvador's supermax prison.
President Donald Trump hosted a celebration of Women's History Month at the White House on Wednesday.
He recognized Susie Wiles, the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, as "the most powerful woman in the world," and he said Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to be press secretary, was "knocking them dead."
Trump mentioned "legends" like Harriet Tubman and Amelia Earhart and recognized many women lawmakers at the event. When he got to Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Trump said, "I owe you a call. I'll call you."
Trump also criticized Democrats' record on transgender issues at the event, saying the previous administration wanted to "abolish the very concept of womanhood."
"No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject, if you're born with male DNA in your body, you can never become a woman," Trump said.
Video below the jump.
This is a hard truth that those made insane by trans propaganda don't want to grapple with, but it's high time someone disabused them of these harmful fantasies by giving them a reality check.
Trump is flushing woke out of America's premier museums and bringing back the monuments radicals wanted forgotten.
The left's long march through the institutions was a resounding success. Numerous businesses, churches, libraries, law enforcement agencies, schools, and other organizations have for decades served as incubators for radical activists and amplifiers for pernicious ideologies.
Leftist marchers are, however, now being routed.
Conservatives and other normalcy advocates have in recent years undertaken a reconquest, enjoying success with certain academic institutions such as the New College of Florida as well as major businesses including Walmart, Harley-Davidson, and John Deere.
Normalcy Advocate -- I like that.
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Trump intends to rid the Smithsonian Institution, its 21 museums and 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo of radical leftist programs, policies, and installations.
In an executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," the president noted, "Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth."
'Museums in our Nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn -- not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination.'
"This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light," continued Trump. "Under this historical revision, our Nation's unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed."
Trump slammed the Biden administration for advancing this "corrosive ideology" and cited the following as examples of the anti-American propaganda at issue.
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Cognizant and critical of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum's initiative to feature male cross-dressers in future exhibits, Trump also insisted that the museum does "not recognize men as women in any respect."
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Trump directed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to figure out whether public monuments, memorials, statues, or other properties within the Interior Department's jurisdiction were removed or changed during this radical campaign "to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology."
The president demanded further the reinstatement of pre-existing monuments that were removed.
POTUS: "No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject, if you’re born with male DNA in every cell of your body, you can never become a woman. You're not going to be a woman." pic.twitter.com/XF70L5jOak
The Audacity: Hillary Clinton, Who Kept Classified Information on an Unsecured Server to Hide Her Communications from Congress and the Public, Attacks Trump's Team for Using Signal to Communicate
Hillary Clinton lambasted the Trump administration over its Signal chat leak and repeatedly called its policies "dumb" in a blistering essay published Friday in the New York Times.
The former Democratic presidential candidate and secretary of state assailed President Donald Trump and his team as careless and stupid over its short tenure in office so far.
"It's not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it's the stupidity. We're all shocked -- shocked! -- that President Trump and his team don't actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws," Clinton wrote.
This drunken Satanic sow illegally used her own server so that her communications would be protected from exposure by records retention laws. This was a secret server until someone discovered it -- she did not disclose it so that the federal government could copy all of these messages. She did not disclose it so that people fililng FOIAs would even know what records to request.
And she sits her in Her Satanic Hubris and accuses others of using Signal to "avoid records retention" laws.
By the way, in case you don't know this, Biden approved the use of Signal for communication precisely because it was more unhackable than the easily-hackable federal systems.
"But we knew that already. What's much worse is that top Trump administration officials put our troops in jeopardy by sharing military plans on a commercial messaging app and unwittingly invited a journalist into the chat. That's dangerous. And it's just dumb."
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Clinton boasted in the Times essay that she employed "smart" power as the first secretary of state under President Barack Obama.
"The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump's America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless," Clinton wrote.
Among Clinton's complaints were the Trump administration's gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), closing embassies and consulates, and layoffs within the government hitting intelligence agencies.
Clinton hammered away at the theme that Trump's team was unintelligent, calling various Trump administration moves "not smart," "dumb power," "dumb," and "dumb and dangerous."
Cirrhosis isn't just a river in Egypt.
Unrelated: Justice Roberts has finally asked a district court judge to respond to Trump's demand to explain where the judge thinks his authority to usurp the president's sole authority to conduct foreign policy comes from.
NEW: Trump adm asks SCOTUS to vacate Boasberg’s orders related to Alien Enemies Act. DC appellate court on Wednesday denied Trump’s request to lift the orders. pic.twitter.com/G9J2l7KEaB
A new poll suggests Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) best reflects the Democratic Party's principles.
The CNN survey conducted earlier this month handed Ocasio-Cortez the highest ratings when voters were asked which Democratic leader "best reflects the core values of the Democratic Party."
Ten percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents polled picked the New York lawmaker, the most of any candidate, with former Vice President Kamala Harris placing second at 9%, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at 8%, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) at 6%.
The survey painted a pessimistic picture for the Democratic Party as its members continue to debate about how to recoup from devastating losses during the 2024 elections.
The Democratic Party's favorability rating hit a historic low with the public, 29%, marking a decline of 20 percentage points since January 2021 and coming 7 points short of the Republican Party's 36% approval rating.
A majority of Democrats surveyed said their leaders are taking the party in the wrong direction, as the share of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents with a favorable view of the party is down by 18 points since 2021 -- to 63% from 81%.
The AOC Train Wreck is Coming, and it's Going to Be Spectacular
Nationwide rallies are spurring "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez 2028" whispers, and it's already clear: the CIA couldn't do a better job of discrediting the American left
From the New York Times Sunday article, "As the Left Looks to 2028, It Waits on Ocasio-Cortez's Big Decision."
As Democrats find... their party's popularity at a generational low, progressives are also staring down the prospect of a post-Bernie future... The 83-year-old Mr. Sanders has signaled that he does not intend to run for president again. The question now is who will lead the network he built from scratch into the next presidential election...
Virtually everyone interviewed said there was one clear leader for the job: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Hoo, boy. Making Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (a.k.a. Vogue's "Consummate Power Dresser") the face of a left populist movement is the latest episode of the longest-running television show in history, How Will the American Left Screw Up This Time?
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Legacy outlets are already boosting the notion of AOC as a 2028 contender, which itself should scare Sanders, but somehow doesn't. Why would the same press goons who smeared him for years suddenly embrace his successor?
Taibbi talks about what brought the Democrats to their lowest point in 100 years.
His answer? Hillary Clinton.
The "aristocratic niche politics" that are the Democrats' whole agenda arose from Hillary Clinton's thirst for power in 2015-2016.
The Democrats' move toward what we now think of as social justice politics started in the early nineties, when Bill Clinton and his Democratic Leadership Council began running on social issues like abortion and gay rights after opening their doors to Wall Street money, forcing a move away from hardcore labor and economic issues. The original Clintonian idea was a move to the middle (and specifically toward a "forgotten middle class" of white swing voters), but Hillary Clinton was forced to rebrand during the 2016 primary. The upstart Sanders was drawing blood via complaints about Hillary's obscene fees for bank speeches; she fought back by picking at his lack of fluency with justice lingo, attacking "Bernie Bros" as angry white men, and asking "if I broke up the banks tomorrow... would that end racism?"
Clinton followed up by tweeting a chart showing that "We face complex, intersectional challenges" that put "investments in communities of color" at the center, along with goals like "investments in underserved communities." In a flash Hillary's banking-relationships problem became Bernie's race problem, with interviewers spending much of the rest of the campaign pushing Sanders to recite required liturgical terms like "black lives matter."
The Clintons' avaricious embrace of corporate donations and Wall Street money required them to embrace radical social policies. This became the agenda of the Democrat Party: Greedy, shameless corporate cash-grabs plus rancid identity politics pandering.
Thus the "aristocratic niche politics" that are driving them into the grave.
They stopped being the party of "the workin' man" and became exclusively the party of neurotic, bored, listless Affluent White Female Liberals looking for some great cause to bring passion and purpose to their lives.
Eat. Pray. Vote Democrat.
As Ryan Grim later wrote in his excellent book The Squad, the jargon-bombs might have been effective at knocking Sanders out in the primary, but hurt Hillary overall:
To the extent that the campaign tactic moved the needle at all, it likely pushed moderate voters paying only marginal attention to the campaign toward Sanders, who spoke like a normal person, while Clinton began ascending into what her ally James Carville would later call "faculty lounge speak..." Former president Bill Clinton, surveying the landscape and the ham-handed efforts at identity politics, was bereft, lamenting to a longtime friend in the fall of 2016 that Hillary's campaign "could not sell pussy on a troop train."
Modern Democrats didn't agree with once-sainted Carville and Bill, though, and spent eight years betting heavily on "faculty lounge speak." No one exemplified the trend more than Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected in 2018 and along with three fellow congresswomen (Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tliab, and Ilhan Omar) soon made up a famed progressive quartet called "The Squad." AOC's rapid identification with social-justice gobbledygook was a bit of a stunner, because as Grim's book explains, the Bernie-backed group Brand New Congress supported the first run of the former waitress precisely because she seemed like a "normal person" who "didn't have the vibe of an activist who would turn off voters."
AOC's tweaking of the Hillary and Bill Clinton Corporatism + Social Marxism fusion involves doubling down even harder on noxious identity politics, while also promising to ravage the economy through Marxist revolution.
Before long AOC mostly became famous for her "tweetstorms," which sometimes at night, thumb-typing seemingly randomized piles of jargon, at the end of which she'd usually endorse whatever the maximalist version of the SJW position on any issue was. She planted flags in Abolish ICE, Defund the Police, Trans Girls Are Girls, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Censorship ("We're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment"), and a long list of other once-fashionable positions. She even reamed fellow Democrats on Instagram for not using "Latinx"...
For all this, AOC's goofy takes need not be fatal to an economic populist enterprise. What is fatal is economic populism that doesn't know anything about economics. Unlike European counterparts, the American left doesn't want to go full Lenin and call for seizing of the means of production. That's a good thing, but it also means a person inheriting a Sanders-type movement needs to have some kind of plan for coexisting with the market. That's tough to do when you don't have a clue about it.
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AOC has shown time and again she resents having to make the numbers work at all. Her stump address on this tour is full of lines like, "We deserve better than this," and "You deserve better now" and "We just deserve so much better" and "Our lives deserve dignity" and "Our work deserves dignity" and "We have to commit to building the country we all deserve" and on and on.
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I'm no socialist, but I think working-class people need serious political representation and governments tend to run better when there's at least one legitimate labor party with influence. But instead of putting forward someone who can express the common-sense frustrations [Bill] Maher references, what remains of the left is putting its hopes in a politician whose three areas of expertise are intersectional bosh, regulations, and taxes, a chemical combination known as Voter Repellent. An AOC presidential run would obliterate progressive politics for a generation, making George McGovern seem like Kennedy. Every dipshit legacy pundit in the country is cheering the AOC rallies as the beginning of something special, which is how you know it will end in tears; when The New Yorker says the rallies are proof "the left still has a pulse," you know it's really on its deathbed. I guess it deserves to be, but man, how do they not see it?
Also clearly running for president: Tampon Timmy Walz.
Fresh off its decision to claw back $20 billion in "greenhouse gas reduction" money the Biden Environmental Protection Agency parked at Citibank, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another massive chunk of planned green spending receiving less attention.
The $7 billion Solar for All program -- part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund -- is meant to "enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy," according to the EPA's website.
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While Solar for All (and much else) remains in limbo, supporters continue to defend it as essential to fight climate change. But critics are denouncing it as a green boondoggle aimed at lining progressives' pockets. Sixty Solar for All grants have been earmarked for various state and tribal agencies, as well as other green energy nonprofits that rely on public funding for much of their work.
A RealClearInvestigations review of Solar for All's records reveals a tight circle of publicly funded environmental outfits and government agencies, with the lion's share of the now-frozen funds slated to go to Democrat-run states. So far, $30.8 million of Solar For All grants have been distributed, according to the EPA.
"These grant programs are the most blatant instances of self-dealing I've ever witnessed," said Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, one of 50 free market-oriented groups that called on Congress to repeal the IRA's climate spending.
"The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress loaded the IRA with billions of dollars of walking around money to fund organizations -- some of which didn't even materialize until after the bill was passed -- to promote and advance the green agenda at the expense of American taxpayers and families," Pyle said.
Almost $450 million of Solar for All was supposed to go to various Native American groups. A group called Three Affiliated Tribes was set to receive $135.2 million, while another $304.4 million was to be divided between four other Native American entities, records show.
The biggest award to a green nonprofit, $311.4 million, was won by Grid Alternatives, an Oakland-based nonprofit that said it would use the money to help 37,000 households gain access to solar energy. Prior to the Solar for All freeze, Grid Alternatives had received $756,791 from its grant, records show.
"This groundbreaking program, funded by the EPA and led by Grid Alternatives, is designed to bring the benefits of clean energy to income-qualified and environmental justice communities across America," it announced on its website.
Tax-exempt since 2014, Grid Alternatives' work notably includes government contracts with the state of California and the District of Columbia. The company's website states its four guiding principles are "equity, anti-racism, economic justice (and) environmental justice." One of its founders, Tim Sears, was named a "White House Champion of Change for Solar Deployment" during the Obama administration in 2014.
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The second largest batch of awards involved nearly $1 billion divided among four recipients. Those four grants -- all for the same amount, $249.3 million -- were awarded to entities in Democratic strongholds. Three went to the California Energy Commission, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and Harris County, Texas' deep blue 18th Congressional District in Houston, according to the Treasury Department's usaspending.gov.
The fourth award of $249.3 million went to Inclusive Prosperity Capital in Hartford, Connecticut. That nonprofit provides financing for "traditionally underserved markets" and lists as one of its partners Inclusiv Inc. in New York City, which itself was given a separate award of $1.9 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund money deposited in Citibank.
Inclusive Prosperity Capital, which did not respond to a request for comment, has been tax-exempt since 2014, and in 2022, its salaries and compensation exceeded its revenue, according to its tax return. All told, a half dozen people at Inclusive Prosperity make more than $200,000 annually, and another five make more than $100,000, tax records show.
Trump Plans to Drain Universities of Their Pipleline of Foreign Radical Campus Operatives By Cutting Off All Foreign Student Visas to Pro-Hamas Schools
Want to get Academia's attention? A president has three options, all within his executive authority:
Cut off grants and other federal research monies
Aggressive use of Title VI, VII, and IX investigations to ensure proper compliance
Sever income streams from abroad via visa management
You could add "tax endowments" to that list, but that would require Congress to act. As Donald Trump is demonstrating, a president can use the three steps above to make universities and colleges know he's serious about cleaning up campus unrest, especially that fomented by terrorist organizations abroad. According to Axios' Marc Caputo, Trump has already begun planning Step 3:
The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are "pro-Hamas," senior Justice and State Department officials tell Axios.
Why it matters: The effort -- which could include grand jury subpoenas --marks another escalation of Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration and antisemitism that civil libertarians say stifles campus speech and has led to several lawsuits.
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At the heart of the plan is the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which certifies schools to accept student visa-holders. Institutions have been decertified in the past if the government determines they have too many student-visa holders who are using the education system as a ruse to live and work in the U.S., officials say.
Now, the Trump administration is threatening to apply that decertification framework to the post-Oct. 7 demonstrations on college campuses.
Years and years ago, UNLV's basketball team was given, I think, the so-called NCAA "Death Penalty" for various infractions. I forget the details. Stuff like paying "student" athletes to come to the school, probably.
The "Death Penalty" forbade UNLV from participating in NCAA tournaments for like ten years, basically destroying its program. What top athlete wants to go to a college if you know in advance you can never compete in March Madness?
I bring that up because Trump must now be considering something like the "Death Penalty" for Columbia University, an executive order forbidding any federal funds to the school for ten years or more.
Because, reports David Strom, Columbia made promises to Trump to get its federal funding restored.
And the president just publicly stated she lied and had no intention of honoring those promises. It was all a lie to get the money back, and then keep on doing what they're already doing.
[I]magine my shock and horror to discover that the President of Columbia University, AWFL Katrina Armstrong, held a Zoom meeting with her faculty to assure them that all the changes they promised they would make in a letter to President Trump were not going to happen. It was a ruse, a lie, a total falsehood, and that things would go on as before.
That's what Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong told approximately 75 faculty members who assembled on a Saturday morning Zoom call to hear from her about a letter sent by the school to the Trump administration on Friday outlining a series of steps Columbia says it is taking to address "legitimate concerns raised both from within and without our Columbia community, including by our regulators" about the eruption of anti-Semitism on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.
Throughout the conversation, which lasted approximately 75 minutes and included Columbia provost Angela Olinto and general counsel Felice Rosan, Armstrong and Olinto downplayed or denied that change was underway, particularly when it came to meeting the Trump administration's demand to put the school's Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department under academic receivership.
"This is not a receivership," Olinto told the group. "The provost will not be writing or controlling anything. It's the faculty," she continued, adding, "Your department is totally independent."
Columbia's Middle East Studies department has been a flashpoint in the disputes that have roiled the university since Oct. 7, with critics citing its faculty members as a leading source of anti-Semitism. One of them, Joseph Massad, described the Hamas massacre as "awesome."
Armstrong went on to say the school had made "no changes" to rules surrounding the sorts of masked protests that plagued the university last year, though Friday's letter announced that masks are no longer allowed "for the purpose of concealing one's identity in the commission of violations of University policies or state, municipal, or federal laws."
The Washington Free Beacon obtained a transcript of the meeting, which seems to have been created because Columbia administrators were unable to disable the Zoom function that generates an audio transcript. The transcript itself captures administrators struggling to prevent the software from creating a transcript and then moving forward without success.
Perfect -- they tried to hide the admission of their lies, but they were too incompetent to figure out how to turn off the auto-transcript feature.
"I am unable to turn it off, for technical reasons, so we're all just going to have to understand," an unnamed administrator said at the outset. "This meeting is being transcribed. If you are the requester of this, I would ask you to turn it off."
"Yeah, that seems to be the default. I keep telling my people to stop this thing," Olinto, the provost, responded.
They all wanted the transcription turned off so that no one would know what was said on the call.
The Death Penalty is needed. Schools throughout America are in nearly-open defiance against the Supreme Court's ruling that discrimination against whites and Asians is just as illegal as discrimination against the left's favored "BIPOC" groups. But they've all conspired to continue this discrimination by requiring "diversity statements" from students, which are just essays wherein minority students tell the school they're minorities so that the schools can give them DEI advantages while claiming "We never demanded anyone tell us their race!"
At some point, the Death Penalty has to start coming down, and banning these schools from receiving any taxpayer dollars for 20 to 50 years.
Whatever we do, we can't eject these Scholars contributing so much to Humanity:
Lying on visa applications makes Khalil deportable. Fraudulent entry voids rights, even for citizens. Visit the link below to watch the full episode:https://t.co/Xr8HYIytXmpic.twitter.com/qeizjVEvqc
THE MORNING RANT: Regarding Harvard and Its “Introductory” Math Course for its Students Who Can’t do 9th Grade Math
—Buck Throckmorton
There is a story that has suddenly gained a lot of media traction, especially in conservative corners of the internet. Specifically, the story is about Harvard introducing a remedial math course for its students who arrive with “a lack of foundational algebra skills,” to use the language from a Harvard Crimson article titled “Harvard Launches New Intro Math Course to Address Pandemic Learning Loss”
Among the outlets running stories in recent days are:
Investor Elad Gil has had hundreds of thousands of views of this tweet, which takes aim at Harvard for rejecting 97% of applicants for enrollment, while still needing to teach an introductory math class to some of the 3% who make the cut:
The Harvard Crimson article that everyone is referencing is actually from last September, at which time I offered up some thoughts here at Ace of Spades about Harvard needing to teach 9th grade math to its incoming students. Our friend Mike LaChance at Legal Insurrection also gave some coverage to the story, but other than that, it didn’t really gain traction in conservative media.
I’m not sure why this story is finally getting some exposure, but because: 1) I’ve already written about this; and 2) I only have time for a quick post today, I am going to re-publish my piece from last September.
Below the fold is my original post from 9/13/2024:
Harvard has launched an “Introductory” math course for students who don’t belong at Harvard.
Actually, “students who don’t belong at Harvard” isn’t really fair, because whatever Harvard might have once been, there is nothing “elite” about those who get admitted to Harvard any longer - neither intellectually nor in character. With a student body heavily composed of privileged nepots whose parents purchased their enrollment, affirmative action admits, and Jew-hating foreigners, Harvard is more odious than elite these days.
So it’s not surprising that Harvard is having to introduce remedial math classes to bring its very special student body up to par with the proficiency level expected of 9th graders in a typical American suburb.
The Harvard Math Department will pilot a new introductory course aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students, according to Harvard’s Director of Introductory Math, Brendan A. Kelly.
He said the Covid-19 pandemic led to gaps in students’ math skills and learning abilities, prompting the need for a new introductory course.
Many thousands of students not accepted into “elite” Ivy League schools are heading off to college without the need for remedial math tutoring. I don’t know for a fact that every student admitted to a Kennesaw State or a Western Kentucky is smarter than the typical Harvard enrollee, but I do know that if I hire a Kennesaw State grad, I won’t likely be dealing with a toxic combination of ignorance, arrogance, and entitlement.
These Harvard students - despite their incapacity for college-level work - will likely graduate with straight-A grades, since that is pretty much the only grade that Harvard gives out.
But back to The Crimson’s article about remedial math tutoring at Harvard…
“The last two years, we saw students who were in Math MA and faced a challenge that was unreasonable given the supports we had in the course. So we wanted to think about, ‘How can we create a course that really helps students step up to their aspirations?’” he said.
“…step up to their aspirations”?? How can we protect the rest of us from credentialed mediocrities being awarded Harvard degrees and imposing their “aspirations” on us?
With their Harvard degrees, these “prestigious Ivy League graduates” will likely be going into “public policy” positions, despite their inability to do the math that I was doing in 8th grade, and that used to be expected of most 9th graders. Therefore, it is reasonable to doubt their capacity to handle municipal budgets, or understand tax law, or comprehend the math required for bond issues, etc. There are abundant roles in the workplace for those who cannot handle high-school level math, but elite-level policy positions should be out of their reach. A “participation trophy” degree from Harvard doesn’t make them any smarter.
In addition, there are any number of community colleges that can help these students learn high school-level math – if they have the aptitude for it – but the fact that Harvard has such an abundance of unqualified admits that it must provide remedial math courses is a reminder of how meaningless a Harvard degree is.
To be safe, I am just going to assume that every Harvard enrollee is a special admit that is incapable of handling a college level curriculum without special hand-holding.
“Students don’t have the skills that we had intended downstream in the curriculum, and so it creates different trajectories in students’ math abilities,” Kelly added.
“Different trajectories in students’ math abilities…” Well done, Harvard! The word “remedial” has now officially been deemed offensive and forced through the euphemism treadmill, getting replaced by “different trajectory.”
He said the department “investigated a number of different strategies” used by different schools when assessing how to address students’ skill gaps.
Testing a student’s math proficiency – or “skill gap” - is actually quite simple. You give the student a math test at expected grade level. But our best and brightest at Ivy League universities are instead “investigating a number of different strategies used by different schools.” Harvard is beyond parody.
It’s not my intent to mock those whose education suffered during the imposition of Covid sharia. (My intent is to mock Harvard.) The school closures and the refusal of so many teachers across the country to do their jobs during that social panic certainly had a negative impact on many students who did want to learn. There are many avenues for those students to still obtain high school level math skills and move forward with their educations. But if Harvard is doing the work of community colleges, then Harvard deserves to be mocked.
Good morning kids. So on the latest episode of the podcast (here and in the sidebar) CBD and I gave a perfunctory acknowledgement of the current non-scandal/scandal over Goldberg-gate. And while it certainly has been covered to death by honest reporters and commentators including yours truly,
In an age where high-level remote government meetings have become the norm, important decisions in America and Europe are arrived at by video chat and text.
But there may be bigger reasons why the Trump administration and everyone in D.C. should be wary about using Signal. While the app is ubiquitous because it’s perceived as being more ‘private’ than WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, Brian Acton, the man behind WhatsApp, created the Signal Foundation and is a major liberal donor. Moxie Marlinspike, Signal’s other founder and coder, claims to be an anarchist, and no fan of the Trump administration.
Liberal foundations helped fund Signal’s rise and the initial fiscal sponsorship for Signal was provided by the Freedom of the Press Foundation whose key figures, Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers, Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, are better known for leaking damaging government information to leftists, rather than for keeping it secret.
Signal continues to be run today by leftists who passionately hate the Trump administration. . .
. . . Other foundation board members include Katherine Maher, the current head of NPR and former head of Wikimedia, who famously claimed that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.”
. . . Conservatives should use Signal cautiously and Trump administration officials would do well not to hold meetings using a supposedly secure app run by some of their worst enemies.
Ironically enough, or perhaps not "SIGNAL" was the name of the Nazi Waffen SS monthly picture magazine.
In any case, priority number one must be the removal of Signal and any other means and methods that allow our enemies Domestic and Foreign, the former being our worst and most dangerous as history past and present shows us to bring us own from within and without.
I'd say RICO the shit out of SOROS, and all these other phony subversive groups, but our Judiciary is rotten to the core.
Rochester leaders scolded local cops for violating their sanctuary city policies after they responded to a request for backup from Border Patrol agents conducting a traffic stop.
Border Patrol asked for emergency police assistance on Monday after pulling over a van with an estimated eight people inside.
Rochester cops responded to the scene with lights and sirens, ordered the suspects out of the vehicle and helped put them in handcuffs, according to local WABC affiliate WHAM.
It was not immediately known why the van was stopped.
But the completely routine police response was enough to raise the ire of Democrat Rochester Mayor Malik Evans, who held a press conference on the incident Wednesday. “The officers on the scene verbally directed the occupants to get out of the vehicle, and this is against our policy,” he said.
“Our policy is crystal clear. City police officers do not help or participate in federal immigration activities,” he added, noting he personally instructed Police Chief David Smith to remind every member of the force about the directive. . .
. . . Rochester’s sanctuary city resolution was first adopted in 1986 and reaffirmed in 2017, according to the outlet. The Rochester Police Department is prohibited — under General Order 501 — from enforcing federal immigration laws.
The US Army should move on Rochester City Hall, arrest this Malik scumbag Insurrectionist, dissolve the city council and declare Rochester a Federal territory to be administered by the DHS. Dissolve the city's Democrat Party, arrest and detain anyone who resists and ship them to Gitmo to Git Some!
I'm done with these bastards.
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“Maybe more, it might be more than 300 at this point,” Rubio said. “We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa.” Rubio said he hopes the numbers rise as time goes on. “I hope at some point we run out because we have gotten rid of all of them, but we’re looking every day for these lunatics that are tearing things up,” he said. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Says 300 Foreign Students Had Visas Revoked
Rochester leaders scolded local cops for violating their sanctuary city policies after they responded to a request for backup from Border Patrol agents conducting a traffic stop. Border Patrol asked for emergency police assistance on Monday after pulling over a van with an estimated eight people inside. Rochester cops responded to the scene with lights and sirens, ordered the suspects out of the vehicle and helped put them in handcuffs, according to local WABC affiliate WHAM. It was not immediately known why the van was stopped. Sanctuary city mayor, police chief scold cops for assisting Border Patrol officers who asked for backup: ‘Against our policy’
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, says hundreds of illegal aliens “should have been afforded the right” to deny that they are associated with the Tren de Aragua or MS-13 gangs before they were deported from the United States by President Donald Trump’s administration. (Cancer is as cancer does - head first in a mikvah until he's cured, that is until we're cured of him!- jjs) Top Democrat: Illegals Deported by Trump ‘Should Have Been Afforded the Right’ to Deny Their Gang Membership
A police spokesman indicated there had been prior reports regarding a robbery in the area, though it is not yet confirmed what that incident was connected to the stabbings. “We are present at the Sint Nicolaasstraat near the Dam following a report of a stabbing incident with injuries. There is, therefore, a cordon, also on the Dam. More information will follow,” the spokesman said in an update on social media. Authorities have not yet disclosed the conditions of those injured. Multiple Wounded in Stabbing Attack.
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The suspect, identified as Maria Del Carmen Lopez Lozanno, allegedly posted a series of alarming statements on social media on March 25, 2025. According to a person familiar with the matter, Lopez Lozanno wrote that she was going to “blow everything up in Freddie Mac right now so they know this is real and not fake. Give me a few more minutes and I will blow up this mother ****** building at Freddie Mac so people know that this is real and not fake.” Exclusive: Former Freddie Mac Employee Arrested for Alleged Bomb Threat Against Trump Appointee
Kennedy was attempting to prove that Franks’ activist beliefs influence her thinking when it comes to the law. He did so by repeating past tweets, or X posts, along with articles she had previously written that clearly explained her personal positions on different topics, particularly her words against the First and Second Amendments, along with her anti-white male stances. 'Curb My Nausea!' Sen. Kennedy Calls Out Smug Law Professor for Her Radical Beliefs
UAW President Shawn Fain, who campaigned for former President Joe Biden last year, hailed the auto tariffs as a critical investment in the nation’s auto industry. “We applaud the Trump administration for stepping up to end the free trade disaster that has devastated working class communities for decades. Ending the race to the bottom in the auto industry starts with fixing our broken trade deals, and the Trump administration has made history with today’s actions,” Fain said in a statement. Union Workers Praise Trump for Ending ‘Free Trade Disaster’ with Auto Tariffs
“We must be unified to accomplish our Mission, and Elise Stefanik has been a vital part of our efforts from the very beginning,” Trump continued. “I have asked Elise, as one of my biggest Allies, to remain in Congress to help me deliver Historic Tax Cuts, GREAT Jobs, Record Economic Growth, a Secure Border, Energy Dominance, Peace Through Strength, and much more, so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” Donald Trump Pulls Elise Stefanik’s Nomination as U.N. Ambassador to Protect House Majority
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Enten gave the network’s lefty viewers a “reality check” this week with the new poll numbers, showing Trump has a higher favorability rating now than at any point in his first term. “All we talk about is how unpopular Donald Trump is,” Enten began. “But in reality, he’s basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one and more popular than he was when he won the election back in November of 2024.” Trump more popular than ever – percentage of Americans who think country is on the right track ‘through the roof,’ says CNN analyst
Bolsonaro, and seven other “co-conspirators” that the court collectively described as the “crucial core” of the alleged plot, will face charges of attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, attempted coup d’état, involvement in an armed criminal organization, and qualified damage and deterioration of listed heritage in the yet-to-be scheduled trial. Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro Due for Trial, Facing up to 39 Years in Prison
The King has been dealing with health issues since being diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer over a year ago, managing a full schedule of public activities despite his medical condition. Buckingham Palace stated that the King experienced “temporary side effects that required a short period of observation” and that he is “working away as usual.” They added that King Charles intends to remain transparent about his health status while observing medical privacy. King Charles Hospitalized, Cancels Upcoming Engagements.
“We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland. And, you know, we’ll see what happens. But if we don’t have Greenland, we can’t have great international security,” President Trump said. POTUS Vows to ‘Go As Far As We Have to Go’ for Greenland.
“The scandal here isn’t what the government failed to keep secret. . . The war is not in fact necessary for America’s economic interests.” The Real Scandal of the Signal Leak
“We will not allow the Portland Public Schools District or any other educational entity that receives federal funds to trample on the antidiscrimination protections that women and girls are guaranteed under law,” ensured Craig Trainor, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in OCR's press release. Trump Admin Investigates Portland, Oregon For Letting Boys Invade Girls' Sports
Tony Dolan's strategic rhetoric, rooted in moral clarity, played a key role in shaping Reagan's Cold War speeches and accelerating the Soviet Union's collapse. . . In celebrating the life of Tony Dolan, President Reagan’s chief speechwriter, the most remarkable fact is that he was executing a strategy he conceived to defeat the Soviet Union.
Well, not quite. He's talking about assessing the intelligence of AI, and the point is that asking questions that actually assess that intelligence, rather than creating a thousand page general-knowledge quiz where everything is easily looked up, is harder than answering that poorly designed quiz assuming you are allowed to look things up.
You can see on that page that the equivalent 96GB kit is $230, so bumping it up to the next tier is well worth it.
As I mentioned, I don't need 128GB of RAM, but the point of this build is to go a bit beyond so I can play around with things. My work laptop has 40GB of RAM and I can hit that mark without trying.
The other factor is that DDR5 runs much slower if you fill up all four slots. These are pretty standard 5600MHz models, but if you fill all four slots, the memory speed drops to 3600MHz. The real world effect isn't quite that dramatic ranging from insignificant to quite noticeable, but best to avoid that fuss unless you really need more than a single dual-channel kit can provide.
Even more so than regular web crawlers, and I've blocked plenty of those.
Musical Interlude
Musical Interlude List
For those keeping track.
28/3 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Air a Danser
27/3 OK Go - Needing/Getting
26/3 Animals - House of the Rising Sun
25/3 Girls Generation - Dancing Queen
24/3 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
23/3 Dodie Stevens - Pink Shoelaces
22/3 Rose - APT
21/3 Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
20/3 Cheap Trick - Dream Police
19/3 Doors - Light My Fire
18/3 Gangajang - Sounds of Then
17/3 Supertramp - Logical Song
16/3 Split Enz - Dirty Creature
15/3 The Kinks - Lola
14/3 Julian Lennon - Now You're In Heaven
13/3 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
12/3 Skyhooks - Horror Movie
11/3 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
10/3 Orff - O Fortuna (Wrong Lyrics)
9/3 Dragon - April Sun in Cuba
8/3 Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
7/3 Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
6/3 Petula Clark - Downtown
5/3 David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
4/3 Deborah Conway - Alive and Brilliant
3/3 Wendy Matthews - Token Angels
2/3 Elias Naslin - Stick Together (AMV)
1/3 Flowers - We Can Get Together
28/2 Choirboys - Run to Paradise
27/2 Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
26/2 Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
25/2 Garbage - Cherry Lips
24/2 Mariya Takeuchi - Plastic Love
23/2 Mental as Anything - The Nips Are Getting Bigger
22/2 Royal Republic - Getting Along (AMV)
21/2 Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
20/2 One Republic - I Lived (AMV)
19/2 Hoodoo Gurus - Wipeout
18/2 Shocking Blue - Venus
17/2 Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
16/2 Norwegian Recycling - Six Songs Collide
15/2 Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
14/2 Joan Jett - I Love Rock N' Roll
13/2 Suzi Quatro - Devils Gate Drive
12/2 One Republic - Counting Stars (AMV)
11/2 Kate Ceberano - Brave
10/2 Big Pig - Breakaway
9/2 Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line
8/2 First 12 Minutes of MTV
7/2 Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (Amiga)
6/2 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
5/2 Art of Noise - Paranoimia
4/2 Stranglers - Golden Brown
3/2 Eddie Rabbitt - I Love a Rainy Night
2/2 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
1/2 AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
31/1 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
30/1 Sara Nagare ft. Jinn - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (Cover)
29/1 Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
28/1 Arcade Fire - Everything Now (AMV)
27/1 Goanna - Solid Rock
26/1 Carpenter Brut - Hairspray Hurricane (AMV)
25/1 Saint Motel - Van Horn
24/1 Good Lovelies - Crabbukkit (AMV) (Cover)
23/1 Weird Al - Tacky
22/1 TISM - Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
21/1 Gary Numan - Cars
20/1 Puretone - Addicted to Bass
19/1 Elvis Presley - A Little More Conversation
18/1 Crowded House - Weather With You
17/1 Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
16/1 Chris Rea - Let's Dance
15/1 Blondie - Atomic
14/1 Lucky Starr - I've Been Everywhere
13/1 Swingers - Counting the Beat
12/1 Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
11/1 Babymetal - Gimme Chocolate!!
10/1 Promises - Baby It's You
9/1 American Authors - Best Day Of My Life (AMV)
8/1 Scatman John - Scatman
7/1 TV on the Radio - Lazerray (AMV)
6/1 Wintergatan - Marble Machine
5/1 Cardigans - Lovefool
4/1 The Grid - Swamp Thing
4/1 Midas - Touch Tone Telephone (Cover)
3/1 Chantoozies - Wanna Be Up
31/12 Belle Stars - Iko Iko
31/12 Madonna - Material Girl
31/12 B-52's - Love Shack
Today is the 189th anniversary of the Goliad Massacre. Traces of Texas has the story.
The Texas Quote of the Day is fascinating, but needs a bit of background. Today marks the 189th anniversary of the Goliad Massacre, the tragic event that occurred on March 27, 1836, when 425–445 prisoners of war from the Texian Army of the Republic of Texas were killed by the… pic.twitter.com/c6PRlWFQBW
Just a few weeks later, Texians would get their revenge, and their independence, at San Jacinto, an overwhelming victory made possible in part because the Mexican commander was busy dallying with a mullato girl named Emily West when the Texians attacked. For her pivotal, if unintended, role in the victory, Wast was thereafter known as the Yellow Rose of Texas. And now you know.
The Navy is awash in studies, all saying roughly the same thing: Not enough—be it warships, logistics, salvage, support, shipyards and workers, naval personnel, ordnance, inventory, or time. The Navy’s sea power problem is not for lack of study, but lack of stuff. To paraphrase former Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Elaine Luria (D-VA), we know what the problems are, and the time for action is now.
This is not to say that, in parallel with action and advocacy, there is not hard intellectual work to be done. However, that is for developing a coherent, competent, and cohesive vision for sea power—not further study of the problem. As Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL) and the Center for Maritime Strategy’s retired Navy Admiral James Foggo shout in various forums, the United States still lacks a national maritime strategy. “Rebuilding . . . maritime strength requires a holistic approach, considering the readiness of our entire maritime machinery—infrastructure, workforce, technology, policies, industry, shipping fleets, and sea services. We need our own National Maritime Strategy to pull all these elements together,” Waltz noted.1
But aggressive action on every front should not await a strategy. Whatever that grand national maritime strategy may be, a decade of studies roughly outlines how every component Representative Waltz listed is broken. The Navy could resource or advocate for aggressive expansion of any aspect of shipbuilding, because none is sufficient to meet any future vision for sea power.
The navy badly needs more ships. Build, baby build!
A 27-year-old man has been arrested after a Kansas babysitter found him hiding under a child’s bed, police said.
At around 10:30 p.m. Monday, the Barton County Sheriff’s Office says a babysitter at a home near Great Bend was putting the children to bed when one of them told her that a monster was under their bed.
The babysitter, hoping to comfort the child by showing them there was nothing, looked under the bed and came face-to-face with a man hiding underneath, authorities said. There was an alleged altercation, and the babysitter and a child were knocked over.
Not your traditional under bed monster, but a monster nonetheless.
In a scene right out of a movie, cars with stolen license plates parked outside a home in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, made famous by BLM rioters when a career criminal was shot during a fight in a train station, and the men inside opened fire on the homeowner.
The homeowner grabbed his gun and returned fire.
While such sights are not unknown as criminals have taken over the streets in major California cities, this was not a gang drive by, or if it was, the gang in question appeared to have ties to a large network of the area and the entire state’s Democratic Party political establishment including the city’s DA and even the state’s attorney general and possible next governor.
Cali is a shithole.
Personal News
I'm going to be a published author! My friend invited me to submit a story for the second anthology set in his WWIII universe, and it got accepted! Just finished the (hopefully) final round of edits tonight. They're going to pay me for the story and everything. It's kinda cool.
We are not a nation of laws, and we never have been. We are a nation of political will, and we always will be.
For more than a generation, the right has either failed or refused to acknowledge this essential truth. Meanwhile, the left has embraced it with unwavering commitment. As a result, it was on the verge of fulfilling Antonio Gramsci’s vision of a “long march through the institutions” — until the 2024 election stopped the left just short of the goal line.
The good news is that after the 2024 election, we’re still in the fight. The bad news? We have 99 yards to march in the opposite direction. Here’s how we got here.
To many New Yorkers, the answer is clearly the second. The rising abundance movement is built on the belief that neighborhoods like Windsor Terrace must reject the politics of scarcity and embrace growth and change, even at some personal cost. But while their goals are noble, the challenges they face in places like Windsor Terrace reveal the limits of the project. A politics of “abundance” can never get by on class warfare. If YIMBYs want to succeed, they’ll need to stand behind profit-seeking real-estate developers—the true vanguard of neighborhood change.
Consider the massive gap between the number of existing housing units in New York City and the number needed to make housing truly abundant and affordable. My colleague Eric Kober estimates that the city would need 500,000 new units over the next decade to reach that goal—roughly twice the rate of housing production that City Hall projects over that interval. Keep that number in mind as we look to what’s actually happening on the ground.
See, if it was "foreigners" who were attacked, then we shouldn't worry that it was also a foreigner who went on the knife jihad, stabbing an elderly woman, a little girl, and three others.
The "foreigners" attacked were... tourists.
-- A knife-wielding assailant in Amsterdam seriously wounded five people -- including two from the United States, one from Belgium and one from Poland -- in a stabbing attack Thursday on a busy shopping street, Dutch police said.
The attack lasted several minutes before the assailant was stopped by a passerby near the city's Dam Square in the late afternoon. Police cordoned off the area and several ambulances and a trauma helicopter were called to the scene.
Authorities said in a statement that no motive had been established for the attack, but that police were considering a scenario where the man targeted victims at random.
The victims were identified as a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year old man from the United States, a 73-year-old woman from Belgium, a 26-year-old man from Poland and a 19-year old Dutch woman from Amsterdam.
The 69-year-old man from the United States is a "foreigner" in Amsterdam, see.
...One witness told Dutch media that the attacker had stabbed a young woman in the back, with the perpetrator then running away.
"I saw a knife at least 10 centimeters (nearly four inches) sticking out of the girl's back, between her shoulders," they told Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool.
As far as "no known motive" -- this account claims that the mayor has been making statements against antisemitism among Unknown Groups, and maybe that was the cause of the knife jihad.
@MeanLILMeoW
#BREAKING Stabbing Attack
#Amsterdam
- The incident happened near Dam Square, in the southern part of the Dutch capital
MOTIVE NOT STATED - however, there was a city council meeting going regarding the mayor Femke Halsema, who's been under fire for her passionate words about Antisemitism calling them hooligans though she did Apologize since then.
They have been having what is called "jew hunt" according to some spiking tension.
The guy seen straddling the terrorist in the below post is a civilian who helped subdue the Dutch Man Whose Motive May Never Be Known. He might turn out to be a "foreigner," too.
A true hero emerged today in Amsterdam when a brave bystander tackled and held down a suspect who had just stabbed five people near Dam Square.
Despite the chaos, this individual restrained the attacker until police arrived, likely preventing more harm. pic.twitter.com/8EahxiID8b
By the way: Netflix made a movie about Youths Who Stab People.
As Podcast of the Lotus Eaters pointed out: This is the first known case of a black-to-white race-swapping in Hollywood history.
The other night, I was watching a show on Netflix called Adolescence. It’s based on a true story about a British knife killer who stabbed a girl to death on a bus, part of a wave of knife attacks plaguing the UK.
— Isabella Maria DeLuca (@IsabellaMDeLuca) March 20, 2025
Isabella Maria DeLuca
@IsabellaMDeLuca
The other night, I was watching a show on Netflix called Adolescence. It's based on a true story about a British knife killer who stabbed a girl to death on a bus, part of a wave of knife attacks plaguing the UK.
So you can imagine my surprise when Netflix chose to portray the 13-year-old Black migrant as a 13-year-old white boy who was supposedly "radicalized" by the red pill movement.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click I see the problem start
I watch the tension grow
I see you keeping it to yourself
And then instead of reaching conclusions
I see you reaching for something else
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton babble on about the tempest in a teapot that is the Goldberg files, the economy, including tariffs, that is improving, deportations are lovely, Crockett2028, the deep state hanging on like leeches, and more!
I feel bad about this but I'm going to have to post about Rachel Zegler again...
Masih Alinejad "Where are @AOC, @IlhanMN, the left-wing activists who called me an Islamophobe, and the campus protesters chanting "I am Hamas"? The killers sent by the Islamic Republic to assassinate a woman on US soil were convicted in federal court, You're silent. Why?" [CBD]
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton discuss the pending Ukraine ceasefire, Israel going back into Gaza, should President Trump simply ignore the courts, Roberts is a crap Chief Justice, violence directed at Tesla (and others) by the left, and more!
Black Conservative Perspective has a hot take on the Harry Sisson "cancellation" -- he thinks it's all a psyop He thinks Democrats trying to portray the very femmy Sisson as straight to appeal to the young straight male voters Democrats need, despite widespread belief that he's as gay as a peacock at high tea. He thinks they've arranged for female Democrats to accuse him of Toxic Masculinity and Absolutely RECKING That Poon. This is a silly theory, except for when you remember that literally every single messaging offensive by the Democrat Party is 1 fake and 2 gay
Brian Cranston is a nasty leftwing idiot I never understood why people joined the mass delusion that he was a "serious actor." He's Tim Watley, that's it. That's as good as he gets.
The Ivy Exodus"As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap." "Jewish" academics rejected their religion and culture long ago, and chose instead to worship progressivism. And they are paying for it! It would take a heart of stone not to laugh! [CBD]
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton dig into the Ukraine cease fire, the Z-man bending the knee to Trump, deporting a Hamas cheerleader from Columbia University, Taxing the rich by taxing endowments, egg prices, tariffs, and more!
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