May Is Now USCC "Mental Health Month"

 Things change.

Only last year (and for all of the last 100++ years or so) May was the Month of Mary, Mother of God, in the Catholic Church.  Cheap, sentimental Tin-Pan-Alley hymns (Bring Flowers of the Rarest..., Mother Dear O Pray for Me) were dragged into service, and children in Catholic schools crowned the statue of the Blessed Virgin with a garland of flowers.  Despite the hymns, Catholic devotion to Mary as Mediatrix of all Graces and as a loving mother was near-universal and very healthy.

Now the USCC has made it into "Mental Health Month."

Actually, that's not too surprising.  The Church in America has feminized over the last 50 years, following the close of the Second Vatican Council.  Not only that, but the females are generally Lefties, pushing for theological impossibilities like "wimmin deaconettes" and "wimmin priests."  They also pushed hard to downplay the mortal sin of artificial contraception and are leading all sorts of parades for "gay rights."  (Were they ever actually 'wronged'?)

Lefty Women are disproportionately afflicted with mental health problems.  We really didn't have to tell you that, did we? 

Draw your own conclusions. 

Daily Caller's Stinking Pile of Financial Crap

One wonders how anyone can write such crap.

Headline:

American Households Financially Underwater Like Never Before

"Underwater" means that one's debts are larger than one's assets.  There is NO sign that this is the case in the story from Daily Caller. 

Selected "fact" from that story:

... Household debt increased by $18 billion to reach a total of $18.8 trillion between the fourth quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026,...

Reality check:

... the number of households has grown over the years, and the income per household has grown on average, and total household income has grown faster than total household debt, and the burden of this debt on that income has declined over the years....

30- to 60-days delinquencies?

... The number of Americans who are at least 30 or 60 days behind on their payments was “mostly steady,” according to the Federal Reserve’s Monday press release. Delinquency rates for mortgage debt rose from 1.22% in fourth quarter of 2025 to 1.48% in first quarter of 2026.

Additionally, auto debt rose from 2.94% to 2.97%, credit card debt from 7.04% to 7.10%, and student loan debt from 8.04% to 10.86% during that same time period....

"Mostly steady" means "No Significant Change."  The 2 point jump in student loan delinquencies has everything to do with the termination of the "pause" which began during Covid.  Even with that, 2 points is not DOOM DOOM DOOM.

"Underwater"?

...The debt-to-disposable income ratio in Q1 dropped to 79.9%, as disposable income rose to a record while debt balances essentially remained unchanged.

This ratio was the lowest in the data going back to 2003, except for two quarters during the stimulus era, when disposable income was bloated out of all proportion by massive government handouts, including the stimulus checks, PPP loans, and numerous other programs.

Consumers are working and earning record amounts of disposable income, and their aggregate balance sheet is in good shape: 65% own their own homes, and about 40% of them own their homes free and clear, while another big portion has only a relatively small balance left on their mortgages. Over 60% of households have at least some equities, and their prices have exploded. And they hold precious metals and cryptos and are sitting on $5 trillion in money market funds plus a pile of CDs.

In other words, the balance sheet of the economic entity of American households is in good shape...

Daily Caller's Spencer Lombardo should be ashamed. 

 

Hey, Donald! It Is NOT All About the Money

 Over the last several months, Donald Trump has made a number of statements which point to money as THE motivator in US citizens' lives.

The latest?

 ...During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” President Donald Trump said that he doesn’t love Chinese nationals buying up farmland and land near military bases, but “you want to see farm prices drop, you want to see farmers lose a lot of money? Just take that out of the market.”...

Believe it or not, Donald, there ARE more important things than money.  Keeping enemy agents away from critical military bases is one of them. 

Kars4(Not Just ANY)Kids

What a racket this is!

 A judged [sic] ruled that Kars4Kids ads are banned in California, believing that the charity violated false advertising and unfair competition laws by using donations to pay for teenagers’ trips to Israel and a $16.5 million building in the country....

Testimony from the COO of Kars4Kids:

 ...She testified that Kars4Kids is the primary funding source for Oorah. She admitted that the donations funded “matchmaking programs” for young adults and trips to Israel for 17 and 18-year-olds, according to court documents. In her testimony, she added that the company spent $437,000 on Middle East outreach and used the funds to purchase a $16.5 million building in Israel....

Bart Starr's outfit takes donated cars for the benefit of kids of ALL religions.  Act accordingly. 

Schneider National Gets BAD Score

There is a national "inspection week" for semi-trucks going on.

One of the "Top 10 Not-Good" carriers?

Schneider National, the Green Bay "Pumpkin Truck" hauler.

 ...The worst carriers list by OOS rate — minimum 10 inspections — surfaces names that are not household brands. Annett Holdings Inc (DOT #87409) leads at 27% OOS rate: 3 of 11 inspections resulted in OOS orders with 6 total violations. Western Express Inc (DOT #511412) is at 21% with 4 of 19 inspections OOS and 36 total violations. Swift Transportation Co of Arizona LLC (DOT #54283) is at 15% with 2 of 13 OOS and 16 violations. Central Transport LLC at 14% and Schneider National Carriers Inc (DOT #264184) at 13% round out the five....

"OOS" means the truck was forced to park.  Right then and there.  Out Of Service.

Huh. 

So One Night, Jessica McBride.........

Go ahead.  Read this.

Jessica does have a sense of humor.

But this was apparently written after about 4 Old Fashioneds.

You betcha. 

Freight Brokers Lose, Citizens Win

 Here's the bare-bones of the case.

 The Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, this morning. It was unanimous. Nine to zero. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the opinion. Justice Brett Kavanaugh filed a concurrence, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, saying the case was closer than the majority opinion suggested, but agreeing with the result....

Freight brokers are intermediaries between shippers and truckers or trucking companies.  For a fee, a broker will find truckers/companies who can transport Product A from Place B to Place Z.

Until yesterday, those brokers were essentially held harmless if they directed freight to a trucker or trucking company with a crappy safety record--or with a crappy driving record.  Now with the ruling, and in combination with the Trump crackdown on CDL mills and totally un-qualified illegals, this will begin a huge swing in the trucking marketplace.

Legal experts say the ruling increases the importance of formal, documented carrier-vetting procedures.

Among the steps attorneys say brokers should consider:

• Reviewing FMCSA safety ratings and inspection histories
• Monitoring out-of-service and crash rates
• Documenting how safety red flags are evaluated
• Standardizing carrier-selection procedures
• Maintaining clear records showing why a carrier was approved

Texas-based law firm Galloway recommended brokers use “clear, objective vetting criteria” and carefully document how safety concerns are handled.

IOW, brokers not only have to document their own 'safety protocols', they will be requiring the same from truckers/companies.  This is likely to be hard on independents (owner-operators) because more paperwork, but it will have an impact on such as Ego, a company with a long track record of safety problems.

Maybe it will also have the effect of eliminating foreign ownership of trucking companies--which is usually associated with safety problems.

So yes.  SCOTUS struck a blow for protecting people who drive legally and safely. 

 

Price of Housing? Look to President Cabbage

This explains a lot.

During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs. Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income Americans...

So in areas with H-1B penetration, President Cabbage's FHA was extending mortgages with zero down to non-citizens.  Naturally, the price of housing rose.

In greater MKE, there are dozens of firms which use H-1B.  GE Medical, Milwaukee Electric Tool, Deluxe Data, M&I Data, Kohl's.........and those are just the large ones.

It gets worse.

...The H1-Bs can bring their spouse and children under H-4. That H-4 can apply for an EAD, employment authorization document, and enter the workforce. So you are potentially replacing two American jobs, preventing American citizen home ownership and bringing more people in to compete for common goods driving demand and prices up. The kids can go to public schools which is taxpayer funded.  ...

You'd almost think that President Cabbage and his henchmen hated actual American citizens.

You would not be wrong. 

Trump Moving Away From Mass Deport's UPDATED

 Rumors over the last few weeks appear to be substantiated.

 

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced his resignation from the agency effective immediately. Banks’ abrupt departure is the latest of several high-ranking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to leave the agency in recent months....

... Breitbart Texas spoke to former El Centro Sector Border Patrol Chief and CBP Commander Gregory Bovino who also confirmed Banks retirement. Bovino spoke to Breitbart Texas about Chief Banks saying, “Banks was out there on the ground with us in Minnesota and stood beside his agents when the bricks and rocks were being thrown.” Bovino says Banks was in the mass deportation camp of the Trump administration and understood the only way to undo the damage done to the country during the Biden administration’s years of an open border was through large-scale interior removal operations....

Mass removal of all illegals is controversial.  Trump seemed to have that as an objective during his first term and while campaigning.  But un-named 'Administration officials' are not in favor of that move.

This bears watching. 

UPDATE:  In an item at Ace's Place we read:

... as much as 20% of Fairfax County's population is deportable...

Maybe, maybe not.  But that's where a LARGE contingent of Administration peeps live.

IOW, their housemaids and landscapers might disappear, and then Junior will have to cut the damn grass.

Huh. 

Debt, Delinquency, Foreclosures: Not Bad at All!

If you watch the TeeeeVeeee news, you've heard noises about 'foreclosures rising' and 'delinquencies spiking.'  That is called "managing the information" and is meant to throw shade on the Trump Administration.  See, people are huuurrrrrrrrrrrtinggggg.

Poppycock.

The number of foreclosures is at a level below pre-pandemic levels, which is very low indeed.

The "spike" in delinquencies?  Student loans.  The forbearance period, instituted during the pandemic, has ended.  So 90+ day delinquencies are back up to around 10%.  That's less than in the period between 2013 and 2020.  

Other delinquencies? About 3-4%, just like in 2020, and far below 2010.

Relax. 

CIA to Watergate Guys: "Hold Muh Beer!!"

 By this time, if you haven't noticed the stench coming from Langley, you're probably dead.

 The CIA raided Tulsi Gabbard’s office and seized files on the JFK assassination and MKUltra, which the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was about to declassify. The president ordered these files to be released....

Later "clarifications" say that it was not a "raid."

It was merely a theft, done during the 'shutdown.'

Soooooooooo much better, no? 

Tax Deal Dead. Real Reason?

There's a lot of noise being made about the Vos/LeMehieu/Evers tax-rebate+school aid bill.

It died.  Democrats didn't like it because because.  Pubbies didn't like it either.

But the Pubbies had coaching from their Gubernatorial candidate, Tom Tiffany.

Let's do the math.  The State is projecting an $800+ million surplus for the end of the budget year (June, 2027.)  The spending in this bill?  $1.4 billion.

That means that the State would have a deficit of $600 million or so when Tiffany has to create his first budget.

You think Tiffany wanted to start from a $600 million-deep hole?

HELL, NO.  And we don't blame him.

Notable, again:  NONE of the three characters who cut this deal will EVER stand for election in Wisconsin again.  We think that's all you really need to know. 

Mad, Mad, Mommy in Watertown

 The short story:  Watertown HS band director programs piece directly tied to the Stonewall riot (which actually had NOTHING to do with persecuting homosexuals); then the Board of Ed nixes the piece.

Of course, the Little Darlings walked out of school.  That's the universal Rite of Spring; all they needed was some stupid reason.

A Mad Mommy talked about the vast majority of School Board members:

... "This is a slap in the face," said Jessica Thomm, a parent. "They were dismissive. They were argumentative. They were combative. They were toxic. And they shut the kids down."...

Kinda like every Lefty school board member and Democrat Party operative when asked about boys in girls' shower room, or when asked about a genuine audit of the '20--not like the "forensic" audit which proved not.  one.  damn.  thing.

Yah.  Just like that.

Goose.  Gander.  Sauce.  Shove it where the sun never shines, Jessica. 

Snowball Survives Hell!!

The Governor and I agree!

... "So many Wisconsinites feel left behind, frustrated, and disillusioned by politics these days because they think a lot of politicians in the Capitol are only here to serve themselves," Evers said....

Huh.  A truth-bomb from Tiny Tony. 

MKE County Clerk Goes Hair-on-Fire

 Some politician named Christenson is very agitated.  

 ..."I can confirm that a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited the home of my Elections Director and left her business card. We will be following up to determine the nature of this visit. It is unfortunate that the FBI chose to visit the private residence of Milwaukee County’s Elections Director rather than contact the Election Commission’s office directly. No dedicated public servant should be subjected to that type of intrusion simply for carrying out her responsibilities with integrity and professionalism.

"While we cooperate with all legitimate law enforcement actions, we will defend against any attack on our democracy and will defend the rights of voters of Milwaukee County. Our responsibility as election officials is to safeguard the integrity of the process through facts, transparency, and adherence to the law, and the record clearly demonstrates that those standards were met in 2020."...

Notice the "intrusion" and "attack on our democracy" garbage-lines in there?

That means that Christenson is wetting his pants.  He knows, and we know, that there are all sorts of leaks in the election plumbing, so to speak; and there may even be leaks in his "perfect, transparent" office.

Heh. 

No Indictments? No Mo' Money!!

This is great!

 

Vice President JD Vance, head of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, announced on Wednesday that the federal government is deferring 1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from California over its failure to take fraud “very seriously.”...

Brylcreem's state is not the only one in the crosshairs.

 ...The move comes after the federal government deferred over $300 million in Medicaid reimbursements from Minnesota....

 ...“New York has had nine indictments over the last year, nine indictments,” he went on to add. “That’s a $100 billion Medicaid program just in New York, and you’ve had nine indictments. Indiana, which has about a third of the population of the state of New York, has had more than four times as many indictments over the same period.”...

Hawaii will also see deferrals.

The money will be used by the Feds--who will be investigating and prosecuting the fraud. 

Pp Leo's Newest SlapSlap (??)

Some people--sensitive souls, they are--take this as an insult.

 Pope Leo XIV has awarded the Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX, the highest active diplomatic distinction of the Vatican, to the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Holy See, Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari. The decision, confirmed by a diploma dated May 8 and signed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State....

Typically, the award is given to foreign diplomats after several years of service.

So.

 

Sen Johnson's Concerns.....???

Yesterday, Sen Ron Johnson defended Trump's war on Iran by telling the interviewer that 'Iran's nukes could hit the US.'  (He assumes that Iran will have them unless the US somehow prevents Iran from making them).

Perhaps Sen. Johnson has classified intel that supports his claim.  

But the intel we've seen indicates that Iran's missiles are only capable of hitting London.  They are NOT ICBM's.

And--of course--Sen. Johnson's concerns about Iran building nukes echo those of a certain Middle Eastern Greater Zion tyrant who has been telling the world that Iran 'will have nukes in 2 years' for about 20 years or so.  

If Ron Johnson can produce valid documentation of his ICBM concerns, we'll instantly change our position on Trump's war Israel's war on Iran. 

 

"OPT" Program Fraud? You Betcha!!

Let's start with the basics.

 ...The OPT program, and its pre-graduation twin, the Curricular Practical Training Program, allow a wide swath of graduates with technology-related degrees to work for up to five years — usually without paying Social Security taxes, and often in software sweatshops. That long work period gives many white-collar migrants time to train, build resumes, and file to enter the annual H-1B program, which provides them with an on-ramp to green cards and citizenship.

The resulting workforce of more than one million subservient and low-wage CPT, OPT, and H-1B workers is used by foreign-managed companies to win low-cost subcontracts from a wide variety of U.S. companies. That imported cheap competition has crippled many U.S. companies, and shoved millions of American graduates out ot of jobs, careers, and middle-class prosperity....In 2024, the program issued more than 400,000 work permits to foreign students and graduates at U.S colleges — even though Congress never approved or even debated the corporate giveaway created by President George W. Bush.

What could possibly go wrong with that?

 ...Markwayne Mullin’s Department of Homeland Security is exposing fraud throughout the huge Optional Practical Training (OPT) program that feeds many white-collar migrants into the careers sought by U.S. graduates.

“We have identified over 10,000 foreign students who claim to be working for highly suspect employers, and that’s just among the top 25 OPT employers,” said Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which oversees the OPT program.

“This is only the tip of the iceberg,” he added, without taking questions at a press conference on Tuesday morning....

"Highly suspect employers" includes a helluvalot of offshore-based sweatshop contractors.

Maybe ICE will release a list of them.  Odds are that they contract with the State of Wisconsin. 

Sen. Nass on the Evers-Vos Deal

Retiring (dammit!!) Sen. Nass does NOT like the Vos-Evers-Whatshisname deal, and he has good reasons.

... Prior to potential passage of Evers-Vos II, the state is already looking at a structural deficit of $580 million in the next biennium even if all $2.3 billion shows up by June 30, 2027.  If Evers-Vos II were to become law, it could increase the starting structural deficit in 2027-29 biennium to in excess of $1 billion....

Nass doesn't say so, but at the very best, it's a trap no matter which candidate becomes Governor next term.  $1BN is a very big hole.

... there are no binding reforms to address the increasingly poor performance in math and reading by students statewide.  And more shockingly, it looks as though Evers 400-year veto increasing property taxes annually remains in state law....

Never will be, either.  None of the players gives a flying fig about the children.

Here's the hammerblow line--which tells you all you need to know:

 

As of now, I can’t support another bad deal cut by leaders that will never face the voters again.”

Yup. 

The Deadline, Mr. Trump

 If this were Hannity, you'd hear his little "Tick Tock" noises.  But Hannity doesn't have the balls to try that these days, does he?

 

Agenda Items for Tiffany

It is understood that there are ZERO bare-knuckle Republicans in Wisconsin.  That includes Tom Tiffany.

But wouldn't it be fun if Tiffany enhanced his agenda as follows:

...If you vote for open borders, then you get all the immigrants..... If you vote for data centers, then you get one built in your town. If you vote for windmills, they get built near your house. If you vote to release the crazies from the asylums, you get the homeless shelters in your neighborhoods. If you vote for the early release of violent offenders, then they are released in your town....

Trump made a laughingstock of the Hamptons crowd back in Trump I.

Tiffany could do the same for Madison, Whitefish Bay, and Shorewood--not to mention River Hills, Wauwatosa, and the eastern half of Elm Grove.

Obama, Brennan, Biden. "Cleansing" and Murder

For context:  Obama is still running the Democrat Party, and all their works, and all their pomps.

A consulting firm headed by John Brennan breached State Department passport files.  At the time, Brennan was working as an "unpaid adviser" to Obama's campaign.

Since the penetrated files were those of Obama's opponents, it looked like one thing.

But it was another.

  ...federal investigators maintained that the target of the illegal activity was [actually] Senator Barack Obama’s passport file.   It does not take a stretch to come to the conclusion this was for the sole purpose of cleansing records of information that would jeopardize Obama’s candidacy.    As many people speculated at the time, the breach of the passport records of the other candidates was merely to create confusion.

...Passport files include an applicant’s name, gender, social security number, date and place of birth, and passport number. Additional information may include birth certificates, naturalization certificates, or oaths of allegiance for U.S. born persons who adopted the citizenship of a foreign country as minors. ...

Some of that stuff might be VERY interesting to voters prior to the election, no?

So that's Brennan and Obama.  What about Biden??

 ...the oversight agency that would be investigating the breach [was]The Senate Foreign Relations Committee [which] oversees the State Department.

...Senator Joe Biden was the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the breach would be investigated....

Are you getting it yet?

There's more:  this time, an ObamaCide!!!

 ...State Department employee, Lieutenant Quarles Harris, Jr. who had the passport access, apparently was the guy who penetrated the database and scrubbed the records.  Harris was killed – April 18th, 2008.

Yes, Lieutenant Harris decided to cooperate with the FBI who were investigating the break-in.   Soon after his cooperation became a matter of record, his body was discovered in his parked car; he had been shot twice in the head, likely a “suicide”....

Just as likely as Epstein's "suicide." 

How Long Has John Brennan Been a Slimeball?

 Apparently, he has been a slimeball for a long, long, time.

 ....John O. Brennan, Obama’s then top terrorism and intelligence adviser, was the owner of The Analysis Corp.  The company was cited in March 2008 for penetrating the files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain in the State Department’s passport office.

At the time of the breach, John Brennan was working as an unpaid adviser to the Obama campaign. ...

Naturally, Brennan denied any knowledge and fired some poor bastard.  He didn't know nuttin'.  

Recall that Brennan was a spook for 25 years, briefly as Chief of Station in Saudi Arabia and as the #2 guy in that outfit--which more and more looks like where he got the majority of his Slimeball Graduate Degree.

So we know Brennan (a Communist voter) has been a slimeball since at least '08.

At the very least. 

The Left's Next Move?

We've seen this in a couple of places.

...even moderate Dems are now talking about seizing their next available chance to pack the US Supreme Court, grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico simply to gain them four safe Senate seats and abolish the Senate filibuster — and so lock in progressive power forever. ...

'Locked-in power forever' is what the King of England's family thought they had back in the 1700's.

"Forever" ain't a thing on Earth.

The Rats Are Jumping Off the (War) Ship

 Maybe Vox' assessment is correct, and maybe not.

But somebody in Israel is pointing the Fickle Finger of Fate directly at Donald Trump.

That's their story and they're sticking to it. 

It's Still Trump vs. Globalist Slime

We are extremely unhappy about Trump's adventures in Israel's war.  We are NOT pleased with his support of S702 renewal.  And he cannot seem to find the VETO pen for Congressional bedwetting spending.

Be that as it may, he remains the bulwark between the Obozo/Starmer/Soros Statist Combine and--frankly--a lot of the world's population, especially that of the US.

 

"Mr Clean" Obama Was Swimming in Sewage

 As usual, Sundance & Co. present the goods, aided by one of the MOST honest peeps in Government:  Gabbard.

Too long to excerpt, but when I headlined that Obama was swimming in the sewage of his regime, I was not kidding.

No, he won't be held accountable. 

"Intelligence"? Nope. Try Again

In reading an article about the Census Bureau's jiggering of the '20 Census, we encountered an error about States which lost representation; the list did not include Wisconsin.

To double-check our creaky memory (was it '10 or '20?) I went to the DuckDuckGo AI.

That was wrong:    

"Wisconsin lost one congressional seat due to redistricting following the 2020 census, which reduced its representation in the U.S. House from eight to seven districts"

Yah, nope.

Wisconsin has EIGHT Districts.  Spakovsky's essay:

... Due to population decreases, seven states each lost one congressional seat: California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia...

Summarily:  the Census Bureau is worse than AI.  AI is worse than creaky memory.

So "Progress" is not all that it's cracked up to be.  Remember that. 

 

Ukie War Over??

In remarks which will come as a surprise to certain conspiracy theorists:

 ...Russia's Tsar Vladimir Putin, speaking to reporters, indicated that the war was "nearing completion." It's a completion that, if it happens, will end a conflict that has killed, by most estimates, 1.8 million people, making it the biggest European conflict since 1945. ...

(The smarmy twit who wrote the story refers to Putin as "Tsar" to diss Putin and the Russians, of course.  The "OCEANIA RUSSIA IS ALWAYS THE ENEMY" gang lives!)

If the war ends, the US taxpayer will only have to support one obnoxious little dictator. 

RELATED:

... Recent polling by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in January indicates that 72 percent of Ukrainians trust former Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhny and 70 percent trust former intelligence chief and current Zelensky chief of staff Kyrylo Budanov, while only 62 percent trust Zelensky—and the latter number has continued to fall. By April, Zelensky’s number was 58 percent. Only 28 percent of Ukrainians say they want to see Zelensky stay on as president after the war....

... An ongoing corruption scandal isn’t making life easier for Ukraine’s president. At the end of 2025, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), in cooperation with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) charged multiple high-level people, including members of Zelensky’s inner circle, in a $100 million kickback scheme involving energy contracts....

Zelenskiy will be lucky to escape Ukraine alive.  My guess is that he will become the newest poster boy for "FAFO" before the end of '27. 

More Minnesota Mysteries

Of course you should be suspicious.  It's Minnesota.

America First Legal, a conservative legal group, has obtained records from the Minnesota Secretary of State showing thousands of Minnesotans used the state's “vouching” system to bypass voter ID while registering or updating their information during recent election cycles....

... Minnesota’s Election Day Registration process allows registered voters or certain residential facility employees to verify another voter’s residency in place of standard identification or proof-of-address documents....

What could go wrong?

 ...According to the data released by AFL, almost 18,900 Election Day registrations in 2024 involved the use of vouching. 

Of those, 13,441 were updates to existing voter registrations, while 5,457 involved new voter registrations.

The records also showed 10,278 voter registrations or updates using vouching during the 2022 election cycle, including 2,215 new registrations. 

In 2020, the state recorded 17,616 vouched-for Election Day registrations or updates, including 5,069 new registrations, the data showed....

Not surprising that Presidential years were about double the mid-terms. 

The fun starts here:

 ...AFL said it tried to get more information from the secretary of state’s office, including data showing whether voters were vouched for by private citizens or residential facility employees, lists of authorized facility staff, and records involving alleged fraudulent or suspicious activity connected to the system.

According to AFL, the secretary of state’s office responded that it “does not record or maintain data on vouching method,” and in several categories replied that there was “no data responsive” to the request....

Like we said:  "What could go wrong?"

Is it possible that Minnesota will out-election-fraud the All-Time Legend ILLINOIS?? 

 

Fuentes, Epps: Feds? SPLC?

 This makes sense.  The FEEBS planted two insurrectionists for the J6 event.  (Yes, they planted more, but these two stand out for the reasons you'll see at the link.)

One decided that he's too old for further 'adventures'; that would be Epps.

The other, Fuentes, kinda liked the money and clicks, so he continues his little game.  Who knows?  Maybe SPLC was stuffing his bank account, too.

 

Refinery Problems.......Sabotage??

Another refinery suffered an explosion yesterday.

That's on top of "problems" at the Joliet BP (Standard Oil) refinery, which came after a Houston-area refinery had an explosion and fire.

ZeroHedge speculates that the problems are a result of continuous high-volume processing.

Maybe.

Also "maybe"?  Sabotage. 

Yes, You Are the Targets

 Denninger explains a recent scare.

 Remember the "scare" a few weeks back when a "new AI Model" was suddenly "restricted" from anyone except "certain trusted people" because it was analyzing codebases and finding serious security problems that had, in some cases, existed for a decade or more?...

So........YOU cannot buy or use this "model" of AI to find serious security problems in--for example--Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, or X.  You also cannot repair such problems.  Only 'trusted peeps' can do so.

Ten years' worth of unsecured data.  Hmmmm.

 ....Was the problem there the entire decade prior?  Why yes it was.  The problem is the presumption: Nobody else had surfaced that for themselves without the AI and had been exploiting it; why, the only way to find it was the AI!

No it wasn't, and odds are no that's not the truth at all.  In fact reality is likely that plenty of smart people did know and deliberately did not disclose and fix it.  Why not?  Well that's obvious, right?...

He easily eliminates 'black hat' hackers; they hack for money, and would have monetized the info a long time ago.

Who remains?

 ...Who has effectively-unlimited resources, employs people to do such things and doesn't need a financial motive to exploit what they find because they have other motives and the capacity to obtain the resources by taking them from others, all "legally"?

Well, duh.

So why the uproar?

Because that tool democratized the discovery of same and thus will and does drive a fix for said problems which instantly and permanently cuts off their exploitation by everyone, including said infinitely and "lawfully"-funded entities.

That said tool was attempted to be "restricted" tells you precisely who these firms that develop said tools actually work for and their actual intent and it is not to benefit you or anyone else in the general public.  And by the way that attempt was, did and always will fail because the United States is not the only nation with smart people, lots of computers and said effectively-infinite resources....

Do you have ANY remaining doubt about the uses of S702?  

And do you have ANY remaining foolish thought that "other State actors"--are whiling away their time improving roads, bridges, and processes for the benefit of the public?

Plan accordingly.  More Ammo would be a good first move. 

Who's Losing This Damned War?

It is reported that the 'one-page' cease-fire agreement with Iran--still not ratified by both sides--is thus:

 

1. Iran committing to a moratorium on uranium enrichment

2. The US lifting its sanctions and releasing billions in frozen Iranian funds

3. Both sides lifting restrictions around transit through the Strait of Hormuz.

4. A 12-15 year duration on Iran’s moratorium on uranium enrichment

5. An end to the war and the beginning of a 30-day negotiation period

K.  So they keep the uranium that the US failed to snatch; they get their money back; sanctions will go away; and Hormuz opens up again.

Wait...........wait.........

Didn't Trump tell us that Iran MUST give up all its enriched uranium (the stuff that was "obliterated" but not really "obliterated")?  Didn't Trump tell us that Iran could NEVER enrich uranium?  Didn't Trump spit on Obama's laughable agreement?

Inquiring minds, and all that. 

IDF Attacks St. George Procession in Bethlehem

Apparently Netanyahu & Co. ignored the Pope's message about unjust wars.

 Israeli military forces assaulted Palestinian Christians celebrating the Feast of St. George on Tuesday evening in the town that bears the saint’s name in Arabic — al-Khader — just south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Hundreds of Christians — and Muslims who also venerate the saint — had gathered around the historic 16th-century Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. George for prayers, religious services and traditional rituals, which include barefoot processions from Bethlehem.

According to multiple local sources, a convoy of Israeli army vehicles suddenly stormed the old quarter of al-Khader, where the monastery stands. Heavily armed soldiers fired barrages of tear gas canisters and stun (concussion/sound) grenades in the vicinity of the pilgrims. The sudden barrage triggered panic and a stampede as people rushed for shelter inside the monastery and nearby buildings....

Smooth move, Netanyahu.

Next?  Israel will issue a statement averring that the participants in this religious procession were actually Palestinian terrorists. Trump--no longer able to simply back out of Israel's war on Persia--will state that he ripped Netanyahu a new one, but will keep supporting this crap.

Don't believe that Israel is deliberately dropping land mines into the peace process?

 

“One credible signal that peace talks are actually proceeding is this massive airstrike that Israel carried out on Beirut just now,” [Ryan] Grim said on Wednesday. “Whenever you’re getting closer to an agreement, you usually tend to see the Israeli military ramp up its violence.”

Iran has always maintained that the ceasefire covers the entire regional war, including Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon. That’s why Israel massively escalated violence in Lebanon after the ceasefire was announced—to sabotage the truce—and in Grim’s view, it’s why Israel attacked Beirut on Wednesday amid new reports of progress in negotiations.

VERY smooth move, Netanyahu. You smacked up the Christians AND kept the US in your war.

The Lethality of Iran.....Really???

The author of this piece hopes that your are stone-cold ignorant of numbers which put this into perspective.

...Most Americans are blissfully unaware of just how effective Iran has been at killing Americans. The official number of Americans killed in Iraq by Iranian-backed militias is 603. Tack on 47 more Americans killed in the Iran-backed Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. The number of slain Americans is probably well north of a thousand at this point since Iran has effectively been at war with the United States for the better part of a half century. ...

Our sympathy goes to the families of those 1,000 who were killed over the last 40+ years.

1,000.

LAST YEAR, 33,000 Americans were killed by other Americans (or illegal aliens) on US highways.

LAST YEAR, 15,000 Americans were killed by other Americans (or illegal aliens) all across the country.

Maybe if US troops were not planted in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, UAE, Saudi Arabia.............Who knows?  Iran might be naming another "Great Satan." 

Follow the (LARGE) Money.....

 There is a good deal of finger-pointing goin' on about several recent futures trades on petroleum, the most recent being a $950 million short resulting in a $125 million profit.

 The common theme of the finger-pointing?

It's a TRUMP crony or TRUMP insider or TRUMP relative.

Almost as though TRUMP is just another BIDEN, eh?

Reality check:  there are likely at least 2 dozen people who know what's going on with the Iran negotiations.  SOME of them are Trump people.

Others live in Pakistan, Israel, and Iran--and perhaps in any of the Arab States.

Rest assured that Bessent is combing through SWIFT transactions.  In fact, he may already know who the perp(s) are, but is holding off.

It could be Netanyahu, ya'know. 

 

"Intel Community" vs. US Voters

 Never forget that Marco Rubio is an "intel community" insider.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has spurred an investigation into evidence that spy agencies tried to conceal U.S. election vulnerabilities, including whistle-blower claims that a CIA officer was asked to alter evidence of China meddling and that President Donald Trump and Congress were intentionally kept in the dark about concerns involving China and Venezuela, according to unclassified memos reviewed by Just the News....

... The National Intelligence Council concluded in 2020 that China had hacked or gained access to several state voter registration databases, but that information was hidden from the American public, state election officials, and Congress. The new memos reviewed by Just the News cite evidence that China may have gained access to between 12 and 18 states' voter registration databases in 2020 alone, an infiltration far larger than previously acknowledged....

 ...The ODNI is currently in possession of allegations made by one or more intelligence officers arguing that foreign interference efforts by China were de-emphasized or omitted entirely from final analytic assessments, kept out of the President’s Daily Brief, or PDB, or hidden from congressional oversight, according to documents reviewed by Just the News. 

These actions within the IC were taken in an alleged effort to undercut Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign and resist his China-related policies, according to the memos reviewed by Just the News....

This is the "intel community" which wants S702 permission to spy on YOU without a warrant. 

 

Is Wisconsin Next?

The fable of "completely accurate and transparent" election processes just took a body-blow in Fulton County, GA.

... Within the last few days, the Department of Justice —now under Todd Blanche’s management— issued a grand jury subpoena to the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections. The DOJ is asking for something fairly straightforward: the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the roughly 3,000 election workers and volunteers who touched the ballots in 2020....

As Childers makes clear, this is a nuclear bomb.  

(As an aside, the MAGA contempt for Georgia's (R) Governor at that time, and for his (R) Secretary of State, is fully justified, no matter what Eric Erickson says about their totes-angelic qualities.) 

There are five other States which deserve an anal exam:  Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Nothing would be more pleasing than to see the arrogant b***h who runs the WEC, along with that arrogant and pompous (D) lawyer on the WEC commission, go to Club Fed for 5-10 or longer.

Could it happen?  You can bet that the above people are having angst-attacks over the news. 

S&P: Fuel Price Goes Up, STAYS Up

 Remember Trump's dictum that fuel prices drive inflation (or deflation)?

You may find out the very hard way that he is correct.

 

...S&P Global Energy, in a recent analysis, said the oil market now features two things that theoretically should not happen in parallel: a decline in inventories and a drop in demand.

As S&P Global Energy said in the analysis, those “seemingly contradictory developments occurring in tandem shows that the full severity of the greatest supply disruption in history is yet to come.”...

... “While there have been significant impacts to date, the oil market has remained somewhat cushioned from the full impact of the loss of 15 million barrels per day in supply,” Jim Burkhard, S&P Global Energy’s vice president and global head of crude oil research, said in the report. “That the cumulative supply loss is now approaching 1 billion barrels is a staggering figure that inventories cannot cover indefinitely. An inevitable market reckoning is coming.” ...

OK.  So what's the bottom line?

 ....“S&P Global Energy expects that, if Hormuz were to be reopened, it would take an additional seven months at minimum to fully restore upstream production, assuming no permanent damage and supply chains operate smoothly,” the report said. “A recovery could take longer if there is damage to ports or other transport and loading infrastructure. The longer the strait remains closed, the more likely the supply crisis extends into late 2026 and into 2027.”

Burkhard’s warning to consumers was ominous. “What is a tremendous curtailment of demand is still being outstripped by the loss of supply,” he said. “That means that higher crude oil and refined product prices are still to come.”...

Lovely.  Just f'n lovely. 

Obama's Marriage Excuse? "Trump Did It"

 We can think of 1,000 reasons that the Obama marriage 'has tensions.'

None of them involve Trump.

But Barky sez it's all Trump, all the time.

OK, Barky. 

Big Mike did not comment.