A Tale Of Two Societies On This Fourth Of July

 

There are two different societies in the West, perhaps particularly in the U.S. and Canada. This striking dichotomy is not, per se, between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, white folk and people of color, or even rich and poor. It is the profound difference between those in large urban areas and those who live in the country and more remote places. It is nearly all-encompassing. City-dwellers tend to be far more “progressive.” By necessity they often need to rely on others for transportation. Many of the “elites” in coastal metropolises couldn’t change a tire or fix a leaky faucet to save their souls. By contrast, those who reside in the country tend to be much more self-sufficient, and far less entitled. Most are capable of growing, building, and fixing things. These “flyover country” folks provide everyone with food, lumber, and energy. And they are too often reviled for doing so.

In large part, the majority of Albertans share the same values and outlook as the majority of those who live in, say, Wyoming or Oklahoma. It would certainly be less frustrating—and likely more beneficial—for these hardy souls to join together. Especially to help overcome the punitive policies and smug attitudes of the massive federal bureaucracies that comprise and surround Ottawa and Washington. The same could be said of Dutch or German farmers, fishermen—and many others who labor with their hands and hearts.

How do we make this happen? Who makes the first move? This potentially could be so much more than “sister cities.” It would be a coalition of the willing and productive…and yet would stand expressly and steadfastly against “One World Government” and rampant globalism.

The Leftist leviathan never stops pushing to make the world Marxist. Islam never stops trying to make the world Muslim. The WHO, the WEF, the UN, and various other international agencies and organizations are always all too willing to take our money and tell us what to do. And now, entrenched bureaucrats in the Deep States and the leftists in positions of power combine to try to prevent their political opposition from getting on the ballot…or even existing at all. This is radically anti-democratic, no matter their preposterous rhetoric. And it poses an existential danger to freedom, natural rights, and the very livelihood of countless millions. Moreover, too many Western leaders in too many Western nations seem hell-bent on replacing their native populations with illegal/undocumented immigrants. Or, at the very least, ignoring their wishes while catering to the migrants. This egregious usurping of control must not stand.

Marx’s Communist manifesto famously contained the slogan, “Workers of the world, unite!” Communism didn’t work out well for the workers. It never does and never will. It can’t, because of human nature and certain irrefutable economic principles.

That said, the producers of the world should unite. Extraction workers, energy producers, fishermen, farmers, lumbermen, builders, etc. And all those who rely on them. In Ayn rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” they just disappeared. We need to do the opposite. We need to publicly and visibly reach out to each other and stand with each other to the greatest extent possible. When Germany’s AfD party is threatened with being outlawed, when a tweet disagreeing with the English government can get you fined and/or imprisoned, when a political leader that wishes to “drain The Swamp” is nearly assassinated—twice—when those in Washington, Ottawa, and Brussels essentially attempt to ban farming and the production of oil, coal, and gas, and when globalists want you to eat bugs not meat… it is time to make a stand. Against tyranny, intolerance, and insanity.

Dutch farmers, Edmonton and Texas oilmen, and West Virginian coal producers all have a common interest. In truth, most of us who live in rural areas do. Yet we are outvoted by a few large cities. And used by those in power who mock us.

There is a great scene in the hit television show “Landman” (language alert) in which Tommy explains to a young Eastern hotshot lawyer why petroleum is so necessary to the world. He tells it like it is and she is flustered. She gets even more flustered when a rattlesnake threatens to bite her. She is paralyzed with fear until Tommy chops the head of the snake off with a shovel. The lawyer is then upset that he killed the snake.

Progressives can bitch and moan about anything and everything, but the world owes a debt of gratitude to the producers, the men and women of vision, courage and capability who provide us with food and energy. It is time we (figuratively) cut off the head of the snake that threatens us. Our governments too often try to divide us. Let us come together in our quest for liberty and justice.

As someone once said, “We shall overcome.” Let’s do so together. Rise up, rubes. Fight back flyover folks.

I know it is far-fetched and naïve to think that this could really happen, but, after I finished writing this piece, I stumbled across this article. Could there really be a chance?

On this Independence Day, I say: “Let freedom ring!”

 

 

District Court Judge Claims Primacy Over U.S. Supreme Court

 

I know this is “old” news, but, hey, I was in Canada fishing last week…and it is an important story. So here goes:

Radical activist U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy previously blocked President Trump from deporting criminal illegal aliens to non-originating countries. This, understandably, prompted the Trump administration to appeal the injunction to the Supreme Court. The high court ruled in favor of the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security.

This did not deter Judge Murphy, who doubled down on his injunction, preposterously asserting that the Supreme Court decision does not pertain to his order. Hello?!

Indeed, in response to the Supreme Court overruling his decision, which it has every right to do, Judge Murphy said that his injunction blocking the deportation of certain non-citizens to third-party countries “remains in full force and effect.”

SAY WHAT?! You’ve gotta be kidding me! Defying a Supreme Court ruling? His injunction “remains in full force and effect?” Does he not understand the pecking order here? Who does he think he is?! Where are the “No Kings” protesters? There is a reason the highest court in the land is called the Supreme Court. Its job is, in part, to rule on lesser court’s findings. Murphy’s maniacal “ruling” (“Murphy’s Law?’) goes far beyond judicial tyranny…into the realm of insanity. He obviously is afflicted by a Napoleon Complex, but whether that Napoleon is Dynamite or Bonaparte is unclear.

Unlike the Supreme Court’s ruling.

 

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Says Detained Cannibal Tried To "Eat Himself"

 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared at a press conference recently with President Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The presser occurred at the remote “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility in the southern part of the Sunshine State, surrounded by gator-infested wetlands

Noem started off by thanking ICE officers and Border Patrol officers for their hard work and noted that “violence against them has increased over 500% since Trump has gone back into the White House—because he’s upholding the law, and because a bunch of liberals, socialists, and Marxists are out there lying about what President Trump is doing.” She called out CNN specifically for lying “every single day about what these operations are.”

Noem stated: “We are going after murderers, rapists, traffickers, and drug dealers—getting them off the streets and out of this country—because Joe Biden let the worst of the worst come in here.” She asserted that some of these criminals are “so deranged” they cannot be allowed to roam our streets.

And then she said this: “The other day, I was talking to some marshals who have been partnering with ICE. They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home. While they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention.”

This is obviously a sad and disturbing story…but sometimes you have to laugh to relieve the pain and sorrow and keep from going insane. I think there should be a new term for a cannibal that eats himself. “Cannibal” doesn’t do this person justice. More on that in a minute.

 If one was disposed to literally eat one’s self to death, where would one start? A thigh? A leg? A breast? I mean, there isn’t much meat on a foot or a hand. I suppose a person could tuck into a forearm. Persons so disposed could—literally—disarm themselves, no doubt making Democrats happy. Alternately, they might find that they—literally-- have no leg to stand on. But at least they’d be full. And they could make the phrase “bite the hand that feeds them” a reality. So many possibilities. Though some parts are hard to get at and would require much dexterity. And some parts are utterly inaccessible. And what kind of condiments would one employ to make one’s self taste better?

This is a topic you can really sink your teeth into!

Furthermore, instead of using the cruder but common “go bleep yourself” retort on someone with whom we are angry, we could instead say, “go eat yourself.” This would be even harder to accomplish, especially for the likes of Pritzker, Nadler, and Christie.

Speaking of which, I suggest “egoeaters” as the term for cannibals who actually consume themselves, but am open to suggestions. Please keep any comments clean, folks!

(Where else are you going to get classy, high-end writing like this, dear readers?! And for free!! I humbly aver nowhere.)

Marxist Muslim Mayoral Candidate Wins New York Primary

 

New York has fallen.

At the very least, New York City has collapsed. If Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should someday soon be kicked out of Persia, it is possible he could come to New York, where he would likely be elected mayor.

 The sequence of NYC mayors is astounding. From Guliani to Bloomberg to de Blasio to Adams. And perhaps soon to Zohran Mamdani, an avowed Marxist who has previously indicated his desire to “globalize the intifada.” (Mamdani defeated three-term ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the June 24^th mayoral primary.) How to make a sh*thole city in four easy steps! The Chief of Police for the NYPD has already stated that, should Mamdani be elected, his pro-crime anti-cop policies would cause mass exodus from the city’s police force. The resultant effect would be catastrophic.

The Big Apple, not so long ago one of the safest big cities in the world, is now rotten to its core. “My kind of town,” “The city that never sleeps,” etc., is now no place for “infidels.” And a city that ever weeps. A sanctuary city for criminals. An asylum for the insane and outlandish.

When I set out writing this article, I did not intend to reference a musical piece. However, after reading that, should Mamdani win the general election, New York might well surrender its status as the financial hub of the U.S. to Miami, I had to include a few lines from the Billy Joel song, “Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)”

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the ruins at my feet

You can see it coming in so many ways. The Empire City is no more. And, from a future perspective:

You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive

I fear Billy was just off by about a decade. What’s next for Gotham City? Today’s fun—if tragic—fact: the term “Gotham” was borrowed from the English village of “Gotham,” known for its “simple-minded fools.”

If the shoe fits.

Chicago Teachers' Union President Says "All Children Belong To" The Union

 

Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) president Stacy Davis Gates recently said that “all children belong to” the union. Seriously. For real.

According to the Daily Caller, Gates trashed President Trump for diminishing the power of teachers’ unions during a recent City Club Chicago event, going so far as to characterize Trump’s education agenda as a “re-litigation” of the Civil War. All while complaining about the failing state of Chicago schools.

Gates told the crowd, “The children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe.” Gates then mocked parents who might disagree by saying “CTU thinks your children are its children.” She added, “Yes, we do. We do.”

No, they aren’t. They aren’t, Gates. That view is the opposite of reality. Parents are in charge of their kids. And they pay you clowns to teach them well and respect them. Nothing less. You no more own other peoples’ kids than you own other peoples’ homes, cars, or spouses. And what the hell is “re-litigating the Civil War” supposed to mean? Might I remind Gates that the Republican Party was founded in large part to oppose slavery, and northern states (the Union) fought to banish it. By contrast, Democrats of the 1800s thought they owned their slaves, just like Gates and her ilk think they own your kids today.  

The failing state of Chicago schools is not hard to fathom. “Liberal” policies virtually guaranty that outcome. (See also: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, etc.) Too many of today’s teachers just want to have sex with kids. And/or indoctrinate them. Too many other teachers want to shield students…from the truth. Far too few want to shield them from aberrant sexual practices.

As it turns out, we need a second Emancipation Proclamation. This one to free our children.

Democrats despised the original Emancipation Proclamation. They would hate this one, too.

Sologamy?

 

By now, I assume most of you have heard about “sologamy,” the practice of marrying one’s self. Kind of the opposite of “polygamy,” but not really any more traditional or inspiring.

This, from womensbusinessdaily.com:

“In a 2019 Vogue interview, Emma Watson described herself as ‘self-partnered.’ She used the term to describe how she wasn’t pursuing a partnership but was instead focusing on ‘dating’ herself. The term ‘sologamy’ really isn’t much different. As opposed to monogamy, or even polyamory, someone prescribing to sologamy is first and foremost dedicated to loving themselves. This idea isn’t meant to promote selfishness and narcissism. Instead, it promotes self-love, focusing on improving and adoring yourself.” Alrighty then. Perhaps it is a tad narcissistic, but whatever, right?

And more from womensbusinessdaily.com:

“Kshama Bindu married herself in India’s first sologamous wedding. She performed many traditional Hindu wedding rituals but only invited 10 close friends and family members. She isn’t the first person to have a sologamous wedding. In 1993, a dental hygienist named Linda Baker in LA declared she was tired of ‘waiting for the chain of events that lead up to feasting on [a] wedding cake.’ So she invited seventy-five friends to watch her marry herself, becoming ‘her own lovely wedded person.’”

Sologamy, you say? I have one question: what if you asked yourself to marry yourself and you turned yourself down? That would be heartbreaking! Would you have recourse against yourself?

Would it be possible to leave yourself at the altar? That would be a bummer.

But why not marry yourself? I mean, everyone else is flawed, right?

These Brave New Times are so liberating and intoxicating for open-minded progressives like us!

I can’t wait until I can renew my vows with myself! So meaningful and special!

Kids? Don’t harsh my mellow, dude! The last thing this world needs is more kids—even if they should somehow happen to turn out as great as me.

 

Should The U.S. Give The American Southwest Back To Mexico?

 

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             Some lefties would like the U.S. to give the southwest back to Mexico-- and maybe the vast midsection of the country to France. Oh, and the eastern seaboard to England... as long as the English agree to quickly pull up and head back east across the ocean to their little Isle. Is there anything else we can give back?

Well, while we're at it, perhaps we could expunge some of the ideas and concepts that we have conceived and/or perfected here. Little things, such as natural rights, the rule of law, a jury of one’s peers-- and limited government of, by, and for the people. U.S. out. Bye!

But is even this really enough?

If we do this, perhaps the rest of the world should give back their land too... to the people they stole it from. Who can then return it to the people they stole it from, ad infinitum. Until, perhaps, humanity has retreated back to the Cradle of Civilization…never to venture forth again.

Perfect, no?

 

A "Disproportionately Affected" And "Marginalized" Taxpayer Pleads For Sanity

 

I am “disproportionately affected” since I am a taxpayer. I pay more than the majority of the country does in taxes to the U.S. federal government, since about half of its citizens pay nothing in federal income taxes. Why have I been singled out? What's more, I have been “marginalized.” And worse, if there can be such a thing… Just because of who and what I am, immutable characteristics which I cannot change. You see, I am a straight, white, Christian male, and so I am often branded as a member of the patriarchy, a toxically masculine male. I have been labeled a MAGA member, a fascist, a Hitler lover—and bigoted, racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc., etc., etc.

Fair? Definitely not.

What I actually am is a patriotic American who believes in limited government…of, by, and for the people…the rule of law, the free-market capitalist system-- and in not judging anyone solely by the color of their skin or any other immutable characteristic. As Martin Luther King, Jr. noted, any judging should be based on the content of one’s character.

It is perfectly acceptable today to mock Christianity in any way, shape, or form. Hollywood does it routinely. So does The Left. Christian churches are vandalized and burned across Western Europe and Canada. In some areas, mosques are replacing churches with great rapidity. (And Jews are, once again, fair game, as well.) Males are the butt of many jokes and the receivers of endless vitriol. And not a few “progressives” believe white people are inherently bad, and are—get this— necessarily racist because of their whiteness. Members of the so-called lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender “community” have an entire month dedicated solely to their “pride” and importance. Not so heterosexuals.

How did we get here? Misplaced guilt and hyper-tolerance…particularly of the Christian variety.

Be careful what you wish for radical secularists, feminists, LGBTQers, progressives, and Marxists. A world without straights, whites, Christians, and successful taxpaying males might not be the utopia the most extreme amongst you believe it would be. Think about it.

 

Most In Government Have No Idea How the Economy Works-- And Don't care

 

Unlike President Trump, the vast majority of those in the US federal government have no effing idea how the economy-- or the world-- works. None. Nor do they care. They don't give a rat's ass about anything, least of all you, unless it brings them money or power (which are essentially the same thing)…even as they berate everyone else for being greedy. Don't wish to cough up even more of your money to taxes? You're a heartless, MAGA-loving, country club Republican! Of course, truth be told, there is no such thing. The Trumpian Revolution was the revolution of the common man and the unseen against those in power, particularly the unelected leviathan of the Deep State. And it was a rejection of old-fashioned country club Republicans—and, by extension, today’s RINOs.

 As has recently been illustrated by the findings of DOGE, and other events -- and as I have stated for years on this very site-- the vast majority of those in our vast government (Uniparty) care only--and only-- about enhancing their own power and feathering their own nests, whether via lobbying groups, Big Pharma, insider stock trading, or any other possible avenue to assure that they have more of whatever it is they want than you do, even as they blather on about ‘equity.’ More power. More money. More prestige. More invitations to ritzy soirees. And more power over you, me, and everyone else that isn't in their camp and doesn't drink of their mind-altering Kool-Aid.

Not cottoning to their agenda? You are dead to them. And the only reason they might not want you actually dead is because you would no longer generate the taxes they extract from you. Today’s so-called ‘liberals’ and ‘progressives’ often speak of the evils of ‘extraction industries,’ which is ironic and hypocritical because the biggest extraction industry in the world-- and it's not close-- is ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ controlled big government extracting money from the citizens who have earned it. And no government is as good at doing this as that of the United States when controlled by Democrats and RINOs.

You see, those in the Uniparty don’t have to know how the economy works. As long as you and I keep working…and they can keep taking our money.

 

 

CNN Host Says "Death To America" Chants Were Mostly Friendly

 

CNN host Erin Burnett recently said that there is a “friendliness” to Iranians who vehemently chant “Death to America.” This will cause the sanest among you to vehemently exclaim, “Say what?!!”

‘Tis true. While reporting from Iran for “Inside Politics,” the alleged journalist remarked that Iranians chanting “Death to America” were often “happy” to talk to her and other Americans.

Burnett: “I remember, Dana [Bash], at one point being in Tehran years ago and they’re chanting ‘Death to America’ all around me even as I say ‘oh, I’m an American reporting for CNN’ and they were happy to speak to me,” Burnett said. “So, those two are sort of jarring realities of the chant and the friendliness have existed together.”

Yes. Much like the “mostly peaceful” riots CNN described back in 2020, with Minneapolis burning in the background, CNN would have you believe that there was a latent “friendliness” to those shouting “Death to America!”

Did the redoubtable CNN duo perceive a certain je ne sais quoi in the “Death to America” chants that was appealing to them? Maybe they even sensed an underlying amity, benevolence, and fellowship in the otherwise apparently fanatically violent slogan. The Germans called such great good feeling “gemütlicheit,” but failed to exhibit much of that in the 1930s and 1940s. Maybe Bash and Burnett would have characterized Hitler’s rantings and the subsequent extermination of the Jews as “good-natured” or “cordial.”

Call me hypersensitive, but even the friendliest and gayest “Death to (your country here)” seems to me, at minimum, a bit judgmental… if not borderline rude.

I hereby characterize Burnett’s remarks as “cogent.”

Not.

An End To Illegal Immigration-- And The Debate Surrounding It

 

Can we end this stupid illegal immigration “debate” once and for all? The U.S. economy is not dependent on illegal aliens. And it is incredibly demeaning them to say things like, “Who will clean our pools, tend our gardens, cook our food…and wipe our arses. Wages go up with s lesser supply of labor, and Americans will do those jobs. But the main thing is the main thing, as they say, and 8 billion people won’t fit in this country. Neither will 4 billion—or two. We’ve seen the rapid and catastrophic degradation of many large American cities—and virtually all sanctuary cities-- over the course of the Autopen years. This has been due in no small part to the 10-15 million illegals that crossed over the border during this time. Imagine the ecological destruction, pollution-- and the strain on infrastructure, hospitals, police forces, etc., etc., if we continue on with unfettered immigration. It is simply untenable and unsustainable. We know the enlightened residents of Martha’s Vineyard don’t want thousands of undocumented migrants hanging around. How many of us really want to see our communities, roads, byways, and lakes, for example, get ever more crowded?

And what if it went the other way? What if the tables were turned? If, as Ilhan Omar says, the U.S. is becoming “one of the worst countries in the world,” what if 12 or 15 million of us decided to leave it and walk into El Salvador, Ecuador, or Costa Rica? Should those countries be obligated, morally or otherwise, to accept us all? If we migrated to France or Fiji? What if we opened up our jails and prisons and told the erstwhile inmates to head to Mexico or parts south? Or to Canada? And what if, upon arriving in those nations, we protested against them, burning and looting and harassing their law-enforcement personnel as we went…while carrying American flags?! Think they’d be pleased?

No, this is not about opportunity, “fairness,” humanitarianism, or even jobs. It is much the opposite. This is about sewing chaos and destroying social fabric and cohesion. It is ultimately about “fundamentally transforming” (destroying) the United States. Period.

Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but no one is entitled to “their own truth.” Because there is no such thing. Just because a man wants to believe he is a woman, or a woman wants to believe two plus two equals seven doesn’t make it so. Diversity is not always inherently good. Reason, sanity, and objective truth* are. And are becoming ever scarcer politically, economically, and culturally. Certain policies, for example, have been historically proven to work. Others have been continually been proven to be abject failures.

And, because nearly all of the policies Democrats promote have been historically proven to be abject failures, Democrats and their mainstream media mouthpieces must obstruct and cover-up these truths. Hence, misinformation, “fake news,” and deliberate deception. And, other than Democrats, who is “the great deceiver?” The devil himself. Satan.

 

*Objective truth refers to that which exists and remains valid regardless of personal feelings, cultural differences, or subjective perspectives. It stands above opinion and preference, indicating that some truths are universally applicable and not influenced by individual beliefs. In essence, objective truth is the idea that certain things will always be true, and others will always be false, independent of human perception.

 

 

 

My Updated Predictions For The Latter Half Of 2025

 

Back in mid-January I issued “My Predictions For The Rest Of 2025.” We are half a year in, and I thought I should issue an update. Ergo, I hereby present to you “My Updated Predictions For The Last Half Of 2025:”

*June 25—A lone federal district court judge rules that President Trump must re-rename the large body of water between Florida and Mexico “The Gulf of Mexico.”

*June 26—A lone federal district court judge, installed by Barack Obama in 2015, rules that all African-Americans must be given $2 million each in reparations—and a $1,000 IHOP gift card.

*June 27—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) takes to the Congressional podium to vehemently declare that illegal aliens’ right to vote must be immediately codified and enshrined in law, while white people “and other infidels” should not be allowed to vote, in order to “save our democracy.”

*June 28—Yes, the Chicago White Sox are mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.

*July 7—Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney jointly issue a stunning announcement: Minnesota will become Canada’s 11^th province as of August 1st.

*July 24—A lone federal district court judge rules that President Trump must “immediately restore the White House to exactly as it looked at the very moment when President Biden left office on January 20^th, 2025.”

*August 12—With the Canadian wildfires raging as strong as ever, four months in, President Trump, citing national security and health concerns, decides to annex Canada and put out the fires. This also reunites Minnesota with the United States. Sort of. Trump says, “I must protect the rights of American citizens to go outdoors, play golf, and breathe without being forced to inhale toxic smoke that could eventually kill them.”

*August 30—A lone federal district court judge rules that Trump must un-annex Canada and restart the Canadian wildfires.

*September 10—Elon Musk, continuing to try to patch things up with President Trump, says that he misspoke when his tweet implied that Trump visited Epstein Island. Musk says what he meant to tweet was that Trump had once visited Gilligan’s Island. “My bad,” says Musk.

*September 23—A lone federal district court judge rules that, contrary to recent Trump administration directives, the United States military must be at least 50% comprised of members of the LGBTQ Community by Jan. 1, 2027.

*September 30-- Extensive new studies find that COVID-19 vaccines injured or killed far more people than originally thought…prompting the mainstream media to immediately launch a series of programs revisiting the “January 6 Insurrection.”

*October 12—Kamala Harris is found passed out on a San Francisco street, empty wine box to her side.

*October 29—Nancy Pelosi is found passed out on a San Francisco street, empty Hagen Daz containers and vodka bottles to her side.

*November 18—It is revealed that CNN became the first cable news network ever to have a negative ratings share for any week. Lifesitenews brands the network’s Nov. 9- Nov. 15 performance “a miracle.”

*November 20—Congressional Democrats propose a bill that would require the payment of reparations to Blacks and mandate that the U.S. return the southwestern states to Mexico, the middle of the country to France, and the Eastern seaboard to England. An amendment to the bill calls for all English-speaking folks to subsequently return to England, effectively returning the erstwhile United States to the Indigenous Peoples.

*December 10—A lone federal district court judge’s ruling declares that President Trump must only wear boxers, never briefs.

*December 31—Yes, CNN’s Anderson Cooper does accidentally vomit on air after guzzling a glass filled with a mix of Wild Turkey and Clorox Bleach-- and taking several prolonged bong hits to celebrate the New Year.

A sneak peek at 2026:

*January 9—Al Gore says that, unless all human activity on planet Earth immediately ceases, the planet will spontaneously combust by the end of the year.

*January 27—The U.S. observes the 10-year anniversary of Al Gore stating that, unless the Earth took “drastic measures,” it would reach the “point of no return” in 10 years.

*January 29—A lone federal district court judge invalidates the 2024 presidential election, finding that “the American people are incapable of voting in a way that furthers and supports our precious democracy.” He rules that Kamala Harris be immediately installed as president and Tim Walz as vice-president. He adds, “There are no kings in this country. I have spoken!”

 

Progressive Nirvana: A Ban On All Things American

 

Progressives believe the way to stop violence, foster equity, and increase happiness is to ban everything. Ban ‘misgendering’ and ‘dead-naming.’ Ban mean or ‘offensive’ tweets or posts. Ban guns. Ban ammunition. Ban knives. Ban air conditioning. Ban gas stoves and appliances. Ban shirts with the names of firearm manufacturers on them from our school grounds. Bannish parents from school board meetings. Ban gasoline operated vehicles. Ban fracking. Ban oil exploration. Ban nuclear power plants. Ban hate-speech (except their own). Ban the Ten Commandments from appearing in public. Ban pastors from reciting certain Bible passages. Ban designated-sex bathrooms. Ban the sale of soft drinks in containers over, say, 16 or 24 ounces. Ban trans-fats (but not trans-kids!).

         At this point, a particularly astute observer may detect a pattern.

         Some particularly radical leftists even want to ban ICE/border enforcement, police, the free-market system, Capitalism, the pursuit of profit (except their own), the opposing political party…and opposing political thought.

         Preposterously, many progressives claim that all of this is for ‘our own good,’ or even to ‘save our democracy.’ But banning everything is not progressive, not good, and not the answer. Attempting to ban your political opponents is the opposite of attempting to ‘save our democracy.’ So called ‘progressives’ would have us be as a train racing blindly down the wrong track…towards a deep, dark abyss.

         Inanimate objects aren’t the problem. The search for affordable energy is not a problem. The desire to force others to think like you, act like you, and worship you, however, is a problem. And that desire and problem, that intolerance disguised as tolerance, is evil.

         We can’t ban evil. But we can recognize its existence. And we can fight it and defeat it.

         That is precisely what must happen, if we are to prevent the extinction of freedom and morality. And, possibly, humanity itself.

 

 

United Nations Population Fund Report Says Fertility Decline Best Addressed With Better Access To Contraceptives And Abortion

 

According to the Catholic News Agency (CNA), the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA (where did the ‘A’ come from?), “issued a report that surveyed reproductive-age adults and recommended ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a solution to global fertility rate decline, a solution that received pushback from pro-family experts.” The report, “The Real Fertility Crisis: The Pursuit of Reproductive Agency in a Changing World,” surveyed over 14,000 adults in 14 countries including the United States. “Reproductive agency?”

Rather than simply suggesting that people be incentivized to have more children, a net good, the report noted “There are real risks to treating fertility rates as a faucet to be turned on or off.” In fact, it reportedly actually criticized campaigns that encourage people to start families and claimed that tax credits for parents can “stigmatize people who get the benefits and that incentives for larger or smaller families can ‘lead to constraints on reproductive choice by increasing men’s and women’s vulnerability to coercion from partners, families, or in-laws.’”

So, what is the solution to the growing global fertility crisis? Well, the CNA says the UNFPA report endorsed “more sex education in schools, stronger access to contraceptives and abortion, adoptions by homosexual couples, access to assisted reproductive technology, and the dismantling of traditional gender norms.”

Nailed it! If we need more kids, we should either prevent ourselves from conceiving them…or kill them if we have already done so. Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that?! I mean, I just want to help!

This is like saying that the solution to endless wars is more death. Which, I suppose, could be the case if carried to an extreme…as it is difficult to conduct wars-- or abortions-- when there are no humans left on earth. So perhaps it’s more like stating that the solution to gonorrhea is more sexual intercourse.

Or like stating the solution to hunger is to make it much more difficult and less profitable for farmers to grow us food. Oh, wait, we’re doing that, too.

Asshattery.

Maybe that’s where the ‘A’ came from.

Michael Moore Slams ICE

 

Michael Moore is not particularly bright.

There, I’ve said it. Can we all agree on that? Okay, we all can’t even agree on what a woman is, but can most of us agree with that statement? I hope so. The infamous activist recently posted a lengthy blog post in which he asked, "Who's really being removed by ICE tonight?" He continued, "The child who would've discovered the cure for cancer in 2046? The 9th grade nerd who would’ve stopped that asteroid (sic) that’s gonna hit us in 2032? Do we care?"

Moore added: "For every time I have heard a negative word or blatant hatred spewed toward those who came from afar, I have felt that I should pause, get down on one knee, and thank all of those who gave up their lives elsewhere to come here and be with us."

I’m keen to address his verbal assault on reason and reality.

As for his virtue-signaling lament that ICE may be removing kids who could someday benefit society…I would simply note that Moore is adamantly pro-abortion. You see, parents have the inalienable right to kill the utterly innocent kids that they created with their own actions, but the United States does not have the right to deport those folks who enter the country illegally. And this could make sense how? Apparently, Moore purports to believe that the hundreds of thousands aborted yearly in America could never have amounted to anything. And that those who came here illegally could never have amounted to anything in their home countries…but could very well cure cancer and stop asteroids if only they could stay here. And that the U.S. is a hateful, bigoted place where the marginalized have no chance. “Amazing” doesn’t begin to describe irrationality on this level. Mental illness comes closer.

Moreover, Moore claims he wants to “get down on one knee and thank all of those who gave up their lives elsewhere to come here and be with us." I don’t know how often Moore prays, or even if he can get down on one knee, but wanting to “thank all of those who gave up their lives elsewhere to come here and be with us” is a bit much. Does he think most of those who walked thousands of miles to enter the country during the Autopen Administration were sacrificing the gilded lives they led in their homelands? To “come here and be with us?” And help to stop asteroids? Incredible.

Moore has regularly trashed native-born Americans-- and our culture—in the past, even flatly saying, “We are not good people.” Like most Democrats, he prefers “undocumented immigrants” to American citizens.

In truth, those whom ICE has been removing could also have trashed the hotel rooms they were put up in or looted stores and assaulted police officers. They could have been involved in drug and sex-trafficking. Or murdered Laken Riley.

Actually, some of them did do all of those things-- and more.

And who knows what those killed by illegals would have been able to accomplish?

Certainly not Michael Moore.

Pride! It's In Your Face!

 

From The Daily Wire:

“An LGBT ‘Rooted in Pride’ art exhibit surrounding a children’s playground in Brooklyn, New York, features nude images and what appears to be a man dressed in drag, and promotes gender confusion and anti-Trump messages. The LGBT content surrounds the JJ Byrne Playground, where families and children as young as toddlers play, according to images provided to The Daily Wire, and other images accessible via Google Maps. The art pieces will be displayed all summer long, until August 1.”

From LifesiteNews:

“St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Manhattan plans to celebrate its annual ‘United In Love Pre-Pride Festive Mass’ at the end of the month to coincide with the city’s LGBT events commemorating ‘WorldPride’ weekend.”  

The church will celebrate ‘Pride Mass’ to commemorate the start of ‘Pride weekend,’ and do so “with a joyful liturgy affirming God’s love for all,” according to the parish’s events calendar.

I want to know if St. Francis of Assisi will have its own exhibit adjoining the JJ Byrne Playground. Perhaps a priest will be on site in drag. Maybe with an in-character name of “Divine,” “Jezebel,” “Adam Eve,” or “The Scarlett Preacher.”

What the hell happened to us? I don’t care what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own abodes, rather it’s the over-the-top in-your-face Pride! that irks me. Biblically speaking, pride itself is considered a sin. Being preposterously proud of one’s own PRIDE! at being a member of the (PROUD!) Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Community can’t be any less of one.

In days of yore, cohabitation and fornication outside of marriage were considered to be sins. Hell, you weren’t allowed to chew gum in school. Today? Put on some women’s lingerie, grab your crotch and your “It Can’t Lick Itself” sign and head to the nearest playground.

Tolerance. Pass it on.

 

 

 

Weird News? Not Anymore!

 

The Murray, Kentucky, Police Department recently noted it received a complaint about a man intentionally releasing a raccoon inside a business on the evening of June 6. The animal subsequently bit a patron. The man, 40-year-old Jonathan Mason, was arrested just 6 months earlier for being drunk and disorderly—and trying to leave a bar…on a mule. (One jackass atop another.)

I’ve always been a fan of weird news. In fact, I used to read the newspaper column “News of the Weird” religiously. Today, however, almost all the news is weird. So much is preposterous, bizarre, and dumb—and so little is garden-variety, unbiased, unvarnished news, that old-fashioned weird news doesn’t stand out anymore. When you routinely have men dressed as (slutty) women reading “stories” to 4-year-olds in church basements and libraries, when a significant percentage of the population declares that they can’t tell men from women or define what a woman is, when radical progressives declare war on the man who built the world’s largest electric vehicle company, and when many college-age youth protest carrying signs reading “Queers for Palestine,” a guy with a gerbil inserted in his backside just doesn’t carry the same shock value as it used to in days of yore.

How I long for those halcyon days.

We have throngs of “undocumented immigrants” protesting around the country, holding flags of the nations they fled and cannot countenance going back to, while they desecrate the flag of the nation to which they chose to migrate. That makes perfect nonsense. As does so very much today. It is enough to make a rational and sane person fervently ask, “why?!”

Men demand to be on women’s sports teams-- and in their lockers and bathrooms-- and many women passively say “okay.” Democrats openly side with criminals over law-enforcement and the law-abiding. They side with illegal aliens over their own citizens…in their own districts. Some despise Russia, somewhat understandably, but see China as a veritable role model…and “moral authority.” Don’t tell that to the Uyghurs.

In recent years we have been told we shouldn’t go outside because of toxic smoke from Canadian wildfires-- or because it is too hot, cold, sunny, stormy, windy, rainy, snowy…or because of a “pandemic.” We used to just call these things “weather” or “the flu.”

In such a time as this, in an era of topsy-turvydom, the bizarre has become the pedestrian. To the extent that, to some, sanity and reason are the oddballs, the mark of the legitimately marginalized and dangerous.

And that, if not quickly corrected, is the death knell of any society.

 

 

Canada To Issue "Places Of Pride" Stamps Touting Historic 2SLGBTQIA+ Locales

 

The Canada Post, the nation’s government-run postal organization, recently announced it will be issuing “Places of Pride” stamps to mark “pivotal moments” in LGBT history. Sorry, make that “2SLGBTQIA+” history. The organization issued a press release stating, “Canada Post announces Places of Pride, recognizing four vital places for 2SLGBTQIA+ in Canada.” (Not exactly Shakespearian wording, or worthy of Robert W. Service for that matter, but neither of those two were gay. They’re not getting a stamp.)

The release continued: “From early meeting spots to safe spaces for community organizing, these spaces were often the backdrop to pivotal demonstrations and hosted events that shaped 2SLGBTQIA+ communities across the country – and Canadian society.”

One of the stamps, all of which were designed by LGBTQ artist Tim Singleton, features a depiction of Club Carousel, Calgary’s first gay bar. Another shows Hanlan’s Point Beach, in commemoration of the 1971 “Gay Day Picnic,” during which LGBTQ activists composed the “We Demand” letter, which was written in an attempt to push the Canadian government into codifying LGBTQ rights into law. A third stamp highlights the 1977 Montreal Truxx bar raid protests, which led to Quebec’s ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation. The fourth stamp celebrates the third North American Native Gay & Lesbian Gathering of 1990, at which activists coined the term “Two-Spirit” to refer to gender non-conforming and homosexual Indigenous people.

 For perspective, Mr. Singleton’s Instagram page includes posts claiming that “everyone has an HIV status” and “there’s no place like homo.” (The remains of L. Frank Baum may be rolling over in his grave.)

From the Canada Post:

OTTAWA - Today Canada Post announces Places of Pride, recognizing four vital places for 2SLGBTQIA+ in Canada. From early meeting spots to safe spaces for community organizing, these spaces were often the backdrop to pivotal demonstrations and hosted events that shaped 2SLGBTQIA+ communities across the country – and Canadian society.

Whether it is Canada, the U.S.-- or other Western nations-- the urge to promote and celebrate “vital” and “historic” sites of and for the LGBTQ Community appears to be preposterously strong.

“Places of Pride?” How about Juno Beach, Canada?

America? Maybe tout Lexington and Concord, Yorktown, Gettysburg, and Omaha Beach as “Places of Pride.” Don’t want to celebrate war? Okay, then how about Menlo Park where Thomas Edison worked, or Independence Hall, where the Constitution was ratified-- and freedom, self-governance, and the worth of the individual was, too.

Places of Pride, indeed.

 

 

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Opens New Theme Park

 

Apparently so. According to reports, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has opened a new theme park, “Heaven Time,” which is-- bizarrely and ironically-- designed to give visitors an up-close and personal experience of the torments of hell. The oddly named Heaven Time theme park is located at the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base in the northern Iranian city of Fouman. Iran International, a Persian-language satellite television channel, recently reported that the exhibit is meant to “offer a visceral experience of the afterlife—particularly the torments of hell.” Doesn’t that sound fun, kids?! I wonder how many rials it costs to get in?

Upon further reflection, the theme park seems redundant. I mean, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the IRGC have made certain Iranians are already living in hell. They don’t need to go to a theme park to see what it looks like.

Speaking of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini himself famously railed against fun, saying: “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.” 

“There is no humor in Islam.” Really?  Next, he’ll be telling me there is no beer or wine, either. What’s that you say?! Holy crap, I’m out!!

Christians worship life, radical Islam worships death. We are fond of humor, too often Islam is fond of violence. “Great good humor” is a very good thing, indeed. The ability to laugh, especially at oneself, is a sign of emotional strength and maturity. Humor is one of God’s greatest gifts. Laughter is not biologically necessary, yet is often “the best medicine.” It can be a catharsis, a reliever of pain. And a revealer of truth. Each laugh inherently contains a glimmer of hope. Surely, the Holy Spirit recognizes humor as essential to a well-rounded life. Faith, hope, and love are divine. To those, however, I would add humor. Faith, hope, humor, and love, these four we should adore. We can see the hunger for (good) humor—and its connection to the divine-- by the extraordinary success of the Babylon Bee, a Christian site.

So go ahead and laugh—with me or at me, I don’t care. Because, in the final analysis, the joke is on the humorless.

 

 

 

Democrats And Their Media Friends Are Covering Up Their Cover-Ups

 

Everything is a cover-up. Nothing you hear is true. At least if it comes out of the mouths of Democrats and their mainstream media sycophants…or flows from their pens or keyboards.

Turns out the Biden administration and the CDC knew the COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous but covered-up that knowledge rather than properly informing the public. Big shock? Not to most of us. Turns out the Biden administration knew cancer-causing chemicals were released into the local environment after the train derailment in East Palatine, Ohio. Also turns out, they covered that little bit of info up and instead proclaimed everything was A-OK, nothing to worry about, ‘nothing to see here.’ They lied. Knock me over with a feather. The media lied about the Russia-gate scam and then tried to cover that up. The media also lied about not having any idea that Biden wasn't in anything but tip top shape. They have since been covering that up and subsequently flat-out lying about their lack of knowledge and malfeasance.

 Shall I go on?

Democrats and their trusted toadies in the lamestream media covered up many pertinent facts about the January 6th “insurrection,” including the facts surrounding the murder of Ashley Babbitt and the number and reason for other deaths that occurred on that day and shortly thereafter. It now appears that we may soon learn that they have also covered up the identity of the would-be pipe bombers on that date. Imagine that.

(And, while the Trump administration is unquestionably the most refreshingly transparent in recent memory, it seems likely that even it may be hiding something pertaining to-- and stonewalling the release of-- the Epstein Files.)

And I could go on. And on, And on.

One of the lessons this all should teach us is this: Government is not the answer, at least not to the vast majority of questions.

The following quote, once attributed to George Washington but never confirmed, seems applicable here. If George did not say it, which now seems likely, he should have, as it is indisputably true: "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master." 

And those in the legacy media that is supposed to be unbiased and hold the feet of the powerful to the fire? They have long-since chosen sides. They routinely lie and cover for Democrats while sabotaging Republicans at every turn. They are as a crazed conflagration bent on burning down the White House when a Republican inhabits it-- and yet timidly douse themselves when a Democrat resides there. 

Try as they might, Democrats and mainstream media types can’t cover up who they really are. And, in one sense, that’s a shame. Because the view isn’t pretty.

 

Christian Churches Under Siege From Inside And Out

               Christian churches have been under attack in recent years. Many have burned or been vandalized. Many more, particularly in Europe, have closed due to lack of attendance, which is itself due to secularization on the one hand and demographic change on the other. Some have been converted into mosques.

And some Christian churches appear to have been taken over by those who disdain Christianity. Germany’s Paderborn Cathedral of Westphalia may be one of those, if a recent ‘performance’ it hosted is any guide. The cathedral, long one of Germany’s most prominent and sacred, hosted a show during which three shirtless male dancers swung, threw, and ‘walked’ raw, headless chicken carcasses stuffed in diapers around the chancel as if they were little children. That is bizarre and disturbing enough in and of itself, but they did this while singing “Meat is Meat” (a play on the Austrian pop song “Live is Life”).

The ’show’ was part of a commemoration of the 1,250^th anniversary of the Westphalia region, and was attended by Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, other German officials, and Archbishop Udo Markus Bentz.

Many folks consider the ‘performance’ to be a mockery of the Eucharist, the Body of Christ—and a “desecration” of the sacred cathedral. One such person is Maria Wirth, a Hindu herself, who subsequently stated that Christianity is “under attack, and maybe undermined from the top.” Wirth took to ‘X’ to write, “It was not a ‘misjudgment’ as claimed. It was in all likelihood deliberate desecration. The debasement of humanity is in full swing. Who is behind it? What is the purpose? Can it be stopped and turned around?”

The jury is out on that question, Maria.

What is not in doubt is that this ‘performance’ was an attempt at utterly desecrating the sanctity of life, of Christianity, and of God Himself.

“Live Is life” morphed to “meat is meat?” I can't imagine anything more disgusting. Dead, decapitated chickens, bloody steaks, newborn infants in diapers or swaddling clothes…they’re all the same, right? Just meat?

The only further comment necessary is this one: God help us. Please.