Friday, May 23, 2025
Soldier's Story
It's War
NO MISTAKE: Scott Jennings Reminds Us LEFTISTS Are Waging a Violent War on Western Civilization https://t.co/qFsnDWhQyg
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 23, 2025
JACK POSOBIEC: The Left’s Cognitive Dissonance Has Turned To Violence https://t.co/AWPhpepcCv via @dailycaller
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 23, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
The bill with many adjectives gets passed in the House
Conus power to "check President" not actually in the Conus
Vance Calls Chief Justice Roberts ‘Profoundly Wrong’ For Checking Trump While Letting Lower Courts Run Amok https://t.co/0lFyu2eZeG via @dailycaller
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 22, 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
News on Starship seems hard to come by
Thanks to this little nugget, the complaint I had is now tossed into the bit bucket.
5/19/25:
Sure, there's a lot of youtubers out there posting stuff. Some of what they're reporting is getting to be a bit stale, though. Others seem to be click-bait-ish.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Something wicked this way comes
Comment:
I'm not much interested in the "internet of things". The internet has a dark side, and is too much of a part of everyone's life as it is. The fact that it is Red Chinese makes me suspicious. The Chinese just want to take on Google and Apple in order to keep it all for itself. As for Apple and Google, I don't think much of them either, so just having an even bigger Google and Apple is not the ticket, in my opinion.
Corruption of need of reform, please
Why wouldn't these Congress-critters cut the bloated government? Could it be the result of corruption? It cuts both ways. It isn't a partisan issue...
Member of Congress charged with violence
Does that mean that she also supports political violence?
If so, shouldn't she be censured by the Congress? If convicted, shouldn't she be removed from office?
The Chutzpah of these Dems is amazing
Trump Calls For 'Major Investigation' Into Performers At Harris Campaign Events https://t.co/7G5whufsCB --- Sauce for the goose, you might say. They've got a kangaroo court conviction of Trump on far flimsier "evidence" than this, imo. Harris' campaign was "in your face" here.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 20, 2025
Pretty arrogant of them, is it not? It takes a lot of gall for them to be complaining about Trump.
Musk: "We are not dictators"
Not to mention Comey's 8647 threat, and the general lefty approval of the assassination attempts of Trump. The left has no problem with political violence.
https://t.co/bmmlNllIyW --- The political left complained about unelected DOGE, but opposes it with unelected judges, who have no statutory authority to overrule the POTUS. Who's the "dictators", who also want to impose censorship, and to jail the opposition?
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 20, 2025
John Solomon Podcast: "The Censorship Complex"
Just The News link: (Click on description link on right, in podcast box , for quick summary of podcast), OR click on link below:
How Tax Dollars Targeted Conservative VoicesMonday, May 19, 2025
Deadly onions
Can't happen here? Already did in 2020...
The EU's Quiet Coup in Romania by @amuse
Read on SubstackJoe Biden got a clean bill of health 6 months ago
Joe says he had cancer 2 years ago & everyone said it’s a gaffe. When he clearly had dementia, everyone said he’s lucid. Now that he’s no longer useful they’re all shocked that they missed it.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 19, 2025
Everyone was in on the cover-up!
Who was running the country?
We need accountability! pic.twitter.com/D70nzmsstx
It's a start
https://t.co/ixZ0kLYY1k -- In an 8-1 Decision, SCOTUS says POTUS can deport illegals aliens that Biden gave protective status to. ( I must've missed the news).
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 19, 2025
If nobody else can or will do it, perhaps it is an opportunity for me
They launched the first test flight without a flame trench. Flame trenches are pretty well established in launching rockets. Why did SpaceX follow the path that produced the "rock tornado"? It must be some sort of hard-headed attitude of doing it their own way that sometimes gets SpaceX into trouble.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Truth embeds, 5/17/25
Dinesh D'Souza on Biden's autopen pardons
Green Frog Labs babies talking like adults
Supreme Court's silly decision
The decision regarding the deportations is bereft of any common sense. It would seem that the Court could get the memo from the electorate. Joe Biden imports every Tom, Dick, and Crook in the world. It would seem to be common sense to allow the public's will be done and send the undesirables back home. Trump ran on it, won on it, and was trying to govern on it. The Courts step in to stop it.
Starbase morale is low?
Ellie in Space youtube channel--- she says that "disgruntled employees" said that morale is low. Seems to me that is a qualifier. Of course disgruntled employees would say that... It does not follow that everyone agrees, or there would be massive numbers of disgruntled employees. No suggestion of this was in the vid. Musk will give a talk soon. Perhaps issues can be clarified in the talk.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Unnoticed Trump Executive Order
As one blogger likes to say: "faster please"...
One Of Trump’s Most Important Executive Orders https://t.co/9tTruxZdA4 --- Federal agencies have become too powerful, so Trump has trimmed their powers a bit. This is a bigger problem than an EO can solve. CONUS originally shunned making Federal laws applying to individuals.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 15, 2025
Geeking out
Some of the nuts and bolts of censorship
NewGuard gives a rating, and it affect advertising rates and even who gets to advertise. Sounds like censorship to me! Don't check your brain in at the door. Trust your own crooked eye, said the Soviet dissident. Seems like we've lost the plot somehow.
NewsGuard is responsible for censorship, while often targeting conservative outlets: https://t.co/1lhUSxdC75 via @JustTheNews --- It's a racket favoring the political left. What should a person believe when the so-called watchdogs don't bark when they should, and vice versa?
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 15, 2025
Rise and shine, or whatever
It is an unusual morning so far. Lots of thoughts that aren't jelling into a post.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
"Topple the West"
Comment:
More than likely, this is highly correlated with the political left, which has a home within the American Democrat party. If you listen closely enough to them, and correlate it with the racist history of the Democrat party, you may conclude that the Democrats have exchanged white racism for anti-white racism.
You may misunderstand the meaning of "anti-white" racism. It is a type of racism that bred the term "white nigger" once uttered by former Senator and clansman Robert Byrd. Robert Byrd remained in the Democrat party until his death. So far as I know, he never renounced the use of that term "white nigger".
Furtermore, the late Julian Bond once said that the word "racism" was to replace the word "nigger". It would involve treating the former white race like the black race was treated. It is a type of racially motivated revenge against the white man. Hence, the hysteria of admitting the Boer. It may even explain how Russia never got the favorable treatment that Red China has gotten.
I vividly recall how Soviet Russia sought Most Favored Nation status during the "detente" years of the Cold War. But China was admitted into the full embrace of the west without blinking an eyelash. Why is it? Could it be that Russia is predominantly white, and that China is not?
It would be hard to hold China to the same standards as Russia was during the Cold War even though the Chinese have never renounced communism. We have very foolishly admitted an enemy within our midst. Red China has become very dangerous.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Is this machine going to Mars?
Opinions vary. I think it's definitely going...
PRUFROCK: ELON’S TUNNELING MACHINE IS COMING FOR GARY THE SNAIL
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 13, 2025
The Boring Company’s newest invention, Prufrock, is a tunneling robot that “porpoises” — meaning it launches straight from the surface, digs underground, then resurfaces without needing giant pits.
It can start… https://t.co/UGUdbFz2Sa pic.twitter.com/BIMZ2a8cjY
Dems seem to favor Red China over their own country
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: https://t.co/xKFjNBloDF --- How honest are these polls? Kamala Harris is a lot more leftist than what people seem to think. She got too many votes to jibe with this poll. If the public really do not know who they are voting for, it may explain that.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025
AGW is bunk, 5/13/25
An oldie but goodie of my own on the subject.
Cosmic rays, not carbon dioxide, cause climate change - https://t.co/TOTtkN60SJ --- Article debunks warmist claims of global warming, then points to another article that says why cosmic rays can cause it. Don't check your brain in at the door.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025
Spin machine could be gearing up
Article says that some RINO types are trying to buy off some conservative sites. Presumably, this is for "conservative" empowerment, but I'm a bit skeptical.
The Counterproductive Move To Consolidate Conservative Media - American Thinker https://t.co/aUtnBNMIjH --- Methinks something foul could be afoot. I'm noticing some subtle messaging changes on my usual peregrinations thru the web.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025
All the more reason to take what you hear with a grain of salt --- Treasury report surplus for the month
Also, according to this, the revenue increases in budget aren't being counted by the Congressional Budget Office. The new revenue sources aren't trivial. In other words, the story is being spun for some reason. If the CBO is staffed with Democrats, that could explain it. RINOS may be letting the spin go by for some strange reason.
U.S. Treasury Shocks With the Second Biggest Budget Surplus in History https://t.co/XASqF8zxZg --- Budget situation may be better than what is being reported.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025
Monday, May 12, 2025
America is subsidizing free health care in Europe
President Trump is fully exposing Europe's free healthcare scam. It's never been free cause AMERICANS were paying for it one way or another.
— George (@BehizyTweets) May 12, 2025
"This means American patients were effectively subsidizing socialist healthcare systems in Germany, in all parts of the EU." pic.twitter.com/kTR2YZBQat
If Trump bans pharma ads on TV, half the mainstream media will die overnight https://t.co/v3sIy1XnBM
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 12, 2025
Oh Cana-duh
In my opinion, the Liberals of Canada are doing it to themselves. Pollyview coulda been a better candidate, and maybe he could have won. If Canada falls apart, it will be Carney and the Liberals' fault.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Western Journal: Deficit spending under Trump's first 100 days drops 92%
David Bombal: "Reclaim Your Privacy" (video)
As for yours truly, I'm almost free of Windows. Google is an almost situation too. I do have a pixel phone which has been de-Googled. However, someone did it for me ( Brax Me website).
Dirty Harry--- District Attorney Scene
A real life example is the OJ Simpson murder case. His acquittal was shocking to me personally. However, Simpson never got back his reputation. That wasn't much in the way of accountability, but it was better than nothing at all. In an imperfect world, this may be the best that can be done. The DA in the Dirty Harry movie should have prosecuted. The taxpayer argument was just an excuse to do nothing.
Will justice be served?
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
— Jim Verdi (@jjverdi) May 9, 2025
For the "nothing is getting done" crowd: Ed Martin just revealed to @VinceCoglianese that he has been closely working with Dan Bongino on the J6 pipebomber case and on the overcharging of J6 defendants. Full interview to air on Vince podcast on Rumble, Monday at…
This is the same Ed Martin who had his nomination as US Attorney for DC shot down by Senator Tillis?
Anyway, the story seems to have gone cold. That reminds me of something. Perhaps there's something about it that may not be best served...
Friday, May 9, 2025
Cults are the latest thing
This one is now on my radar screen. Thus, I will discuss it.
The political left has gone beserk over Elon Musk. He has 71% of Democrats agreeing to the proposition that Musk should be in jail. It wasn't that long ago that Musk was the darling of the political left. He was electrifying the automobile's power plant (ICE), which AlGore called the most dangerous thing on Earth ( or something like that ). If that didn't raise him to the level of a God, then what else could for the left? The left is now outrage that the automotive God has fallen to the status of the Devil. Rational people didn't do this, and rational people won't demonize the guy because he hooked up with Trump.
Ah, and then there's Trump. The Devil du jour for the left. The left cannot stand opposition, and will not tolerate it. Trump isn't new in that regard. They did the same for George W. Bush and the papa Bushie. They would've done it to Reagan if they could've. They forced Nixon to resign. It is to be expected that there would be opposition in a democratic system, but this is beyond reason. There can be no such thing as a Loyal Opposition according to the left. Anybody who disagrees is a bad person.
Let's not exempt the so-called "right" from the discussion. The cultish impulse runs pretty strong.
But there should be accountability in the system. But there are RULES to follow. These RULES are called laws. The laws exist for a REASON. However, once cultism takes over, reason goes out the window.
Reason depends upon logic and evidence. A person guided entirely by emotion cannot be reasoned with.
You don't throw somebody in jail just because they disagree with you. You don't allow someone to be judge, jury, and executioner of somebody you don't like.. Does that ring a bell? Luigi Mangione anyone? The guy who got shot allegedly by Mangione did not get any DUE PROCESS. Due process works for everybody, or it doesn't work at all.
But wait! What about the "Maryland Man"? The Maryland Man has gotten due process already. How many times does he get due process before it counts? The Supreme Court said itself that the POTUS has the authority to deport him. What else is there to decide?
A society can be paralyzed into indecision if there are competing cults everywhere who contradict each other at every turn. Matters have to get settled. We used to have elections for that purpose. Evidently, elections don't seem to matter anymore.
But what good is an election if the election doesn't follow basic rules? What good are elections if the losing side won't accept the outcome? The left originally AGREED that Trump won the latest election. Now they are trying to overturn that result.
Something has to give. Perhaps the cultish fad is the thing that has to go. We have processes that determine guilt if laws have been violated. Even if a conviction cannot be obtained in a courtroom, a type of accountability CAN be obtained. OJ Simpson didn't get convicted of the murder of his wife and Ronald Goldman, but he wasn't in any more Hertz commercials.
It's not much, but it is better than nothing. The political left is pushing the cultish impulse. They reject reason. The reject logic. They disregard evidence. The BELIEVE things. For them, the belief matters above all else. Against this we have the potential to guide ourselves reasonably. It seems like a clear direction to follow. Otherwise, it is the rule of the jungle, which means no rules at all.
Incidentally, I posted on this before. The Vice News thing was a hit piece because it came after the Twitter acquisition. If Musk is a cult figure, it was because the left fell for it. Now they are pissed off because he's not one of them after all.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Trump withdraws Martin nomination for US Attorney for DC
The Ed Martin nomination is now kaput, as POTUS just withdrew the nomination. How does this affect the possibility of Boasberg taking over the selection?
It's not about due process, it's about the revolution
Holy deja vu, Batman! In 2017, the Dems got Sessions to recuse, and we ended up with Mueller as Special Prosecutor. This brought in the Democrats in 2018, and we got two impeachments.... They're going to try the same thing all over again. They got rid of Gaetz, and we got Bondi. Bondi is a light weight. No prosecutions of any note yet, and probably never if this goes down. Then, we get Boasberg nominating the DC prosecutor, and we'll get BIG TROUBLE.
Unbelievable as it may seem, it follows the same kind of pattern. It must be stopped NOW before it is too late.
Urgent! The Clock Is Ticking, Boasberg Is In the Wings https://t.co/cOsT6f8LEm --- Less than two weeks to confirm, or this guy could nominate Jack Smith as Us Attorney for DC. It would be inexcusable to allow this to happen. It was bad enough in 2017 when AG Sessions recused...
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 8, 2025
6:41 AM:
What leftists really care about - American Thinker https://t.co/Exmn0nNwAc --- It's all about the revolution. The issue isn't the issue, the revolution is the issue. It also says that conservatives should engage the real issue, which is the revolution, not the fake one.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 8, 2025
Bill Clinton deported 12 million illegals during his presidency -- AND 93% of those aliens were deported WITHOUT a 'due process' hearing.pic.twitter.com/IGdDFNOBpi
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 6, 2025
The right of “due process” is to protect citizens from their government, not to protect foreign trespassers from removal. Due process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) May 5, 2025
Paxton is running against Senator John Cornyn of Texas
Wrap your mind around this one, fellow Texans... John Cornyn won't say if he will vote to confirm or not confirm Ed Martin. Is it because Martin will vigorously investigate ALL of what happened on J6th, and prosecute ANYONE who violated the law? That would include any false flag events, I would presume. I am very suspicious of John Cornyn here, and in general. He tries to pass himself off as a Trump supporter in his ads for reelection, but if Martin is not confirmed, this radical judge will appoint the US attorney for DC.
Just chew on that one for awhile...
Just a reminder for sanctimonious @SenThomTillis
— John Strand (@JohnStrandUSA) May 7, 2025
USCP cuffed an FBI informant (CHS), brought him to the side, and happily uncuffed him to share a celebratory fist-bump—Fedsurrection accomplished.
We all know J6 is a coverup, and we’re going to expose everything…and everyone. pic.twitter.com/W9kcNTF3uz
5/7/25:
Where does Cornyn stand on the issue of Boasberg v the elected President of the United States?
John Cornyn is trying to undermine President Trump's agenda by refusing to say if he supports @USAEdMartin and intentionally stopping his nomination by wasting time we don't have.
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) May 5, 2025
President Trump, Ed Martin, and the American people deserve better. pic.twitter.com/MbwVngA93F
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
A day that would live in infamy if a nation had any honor left to lose
https://t.co/uzoH2ZG2A2 --- I've written about this for years. Technology developed here in America is given away by Obama to the Red Chinese. Absolutely disgrace to our nation that we allowed China to beat us in something that was invented here 1st.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 7, 2025
Perhaps it is fitting that the only thing that this country seems to be good at anymore is in rewarding those who would destroy it.
Some would point to me and ask why I am tearing down the country. If asked thusly, I'd answer with that I'm only reporting what our alleged leaders have done with their inheritance. But we choose our leaders. Yes, and we will likely reap what we've sown.
This is a dark day. A day of mourning for a wayward nation should take place, but only a celebration for its self-immolation.
P.S. This looks like the insides of a tokomak, which is a fusion reactor. There's no reason for a fission reactor to look like this.
Texans should sit up and take notice of this
5/7/25, 7 AM:
If you don't understand this post, you aren't paying attention. Or you are in denial. Boasberg is as rogue as they come. But a faction of Senators are going to allow him to appoint the US Attorney to the DC Circuit. This is like setting up a shadow government. A government within a government.
You may not like Trump, but even the left wingers agree that he was elected. Boasberg has not been elected, and is not accountable to anyone...
10:24 AM:
This one snuck up on me. It so happens that Tillis is on the committee, and without his vote, the nomination cannot get out of the committee. That one got by me. Therefore, because of this one guy, we get this result. Cornyn escapes blame, but I don't like him anyway.
The blame should go to the Majority Leader, if that is his responsibility to put a guy like this on an important committee as this one.
Unbelieveable to me that the GOP can run Congress and the Presidency, but it won't matter anyway. The Dems might as well be in charge if you can get a result like this. Somebody is going to have to pay for this hanging, you might say.
5/6/25:
Karl Rove…the Biggest Loser? https://t.co/aj8Tl09o87 --- Is there a palace coup in the works? If Boasberg appoints the US Attorney for DC, lots of bad things could happen. Which brings us to Rove. Are disaffected GOP'ers trying to sabotage POTUS?
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 6, 2025
Beamer upper for the day
FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists edge closer to affordable superconductors: Novel materials could eventua https://t.co/MaM1QPw3gr --- Smarter please... the article mentioned doesn't say how to get to more affordable superconductors. The materials aren't novel, either.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 7, 2025
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Let's see what Carney's got
Perhaps he can turn the EEEEViL Trump to the good side like Luke Skywalker did. Then we'd all be fwee! Yippee!
Kissing the ring. https://t.co/U9lXmp59ac
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 6, 2025
Canada has 3X the US’s oil reserves but less than 40% the production.
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) April 27, 2025
Why? Anti-oil politicians like Mark Carney who say they’re protecting Earth’s coldest country from global warming.
Here's the story of Canada's squandered oil opportunity—and how to reverse it 🇨🇦👇 pic.twitter.com/IoWWX3eJWS
Catturd
He must’ve been in on it. Nothing else makes sense.l https://t.co/wlixRNMN8x
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 6, 2025
The GOP is useless. Must do an aggressive primary campaign to get rid of as many of them as possible. It should start now. Take no prisoners...
5:40 PM:
Uh, oh! It's worse than I thought. If this guy isn't confirmed, a very bad judge Boasberg is going to be able to appoint the US Attorney for DC. If that happens, we get a lot of very bad outcomes, youse people.
It so happens that one of Texas' Senators is one of the holdouts on the confirmation. If he lets this happen, his name should be MUD. But it has always been so for me, though. Cornyn has to go.
Musk has problems with leftist goons
BREAKING: FEC records reveal the main complainants fighting @elonmusk over a security fence for his Austin home are anti-Trump activists who've given several grand to Dems inclg Beto, Allred, Warnock. Neighbor Anne Yeakel has also given hundred$ to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project.
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) May 5, 2025
Andy Ngo
Raised in Portland by Vietnamese refugees, @MrAndyNgo knows the dangers of left-wing radicalism.
— PragerU (@prageru) May 6, 2025
As a journalist, he was brutally assaulted by Antifa during a protest, leaving him with lasting injuries.
Despite relentless threats, Andy continues to defend America and expose the… pic.twitter.com/zpgRlwqQNe
Why is Gen Z so poor? (video)
Why are there so many pedophlles among the ranks of Antifa?
Why are there so many pedophiles among the ranks of Antifa? That is a serious question. Maybe young people should consider this when picking a side. https://t.co/09Cj42kTuq
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) May 5, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
Bill of Rights? What's that????
These videos will open your eyes. But it does little good if you intend to be willfully blind.
Ivermectin type drug as a cancer treatment
Communism can only succeed if it is allowed to succeed.
In 'fighting Oligarchy' can Democrats win back the working class? https://t.co/a1fqXDEoQd via @JustTheNews --- Einstein said that the mind that caused the problem cannot be the mind that solves it. The loss of the middle class is primarily a leftist invention. History shows it.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 5, 2025
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Rush Limbaugh's opening monologue on his first TV show in 1992
War Between the US and Canada? Yes, It’s Now a Real Possibility
Comment:
The recently posted link to a video should dispel any notion that there'll be a "war". Canada cannot make much of a war against the USA, and the USA doesn't need to invade.
The article is junk.
Neil Oliver and David Krayden Discuss Recent Canada Election and Future of Alberta Secession
Comment:
Neither of these two in the video are Americans. Canadians were swindled. Carney will oversee the destruction of Canada, and the Canadians thought they voted against that.
Confirmation: The political left hates the truth
Maybe it wouldn't have made any difference, but it sure seems peculiar that they'd make an issue out of telling the truth.
Saturday, May 3, 2025
A pity that the weak-kneed GOP enables this double standard. The country deserves better.
Hegseth’s 'Signal' Snafu and Selective Media Outrage by Sharyl Attkisson
Read on Substack
Ruth Buzzi RIP
Divided they rule, so here it comes
Conservative Nationalism is a new name for the same old sheet.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Trump bypasses Boeing to get an newly refurbished 747 Air Force One
Comment:
The incompetence is alarming. Boeing makes planes. Or used to...
Boeing should be required to refund the US Government any and all funds with respect to their failure to deliver on a contract.
But if that were to happen, Boeing just might go bankrupt. Then what? Sheesh.
Al Fin: "China's losing its grip"
China Losing its Grip; Panics in Game of Chicken https://t.co/GPq4lHPp4w --- Interesting...
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 3, 2025
Vicious mothers aren't they?
New York looks like a fascist dictatorship. Kinda like Hitler's Germany. As for Germany, they are up to their old tricks. They want to ban parties. The last time they did that, der Fueher was in charge.
New York’s 'RFK Jr. Act' would mandate vaccine tracking for adults https://t.co/gfRJkeP0sy --- Why is the bill named after RFK, Jr? Did he advocate for such a policy? What's going on? Privacy advocates do not seem to favor this bill. Smells like liberal COVID tyranny to me.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 3, 2025
A modern day OJ Simpson trial dead ahead?
Wasn't this guy the one who shot down a man in the middle of the day in front of the whole world? Now he says he is innocent? Will justice be done here? Or will NYC descend into chaos? The rule of law is on trial in the most liberal city in America.
The Media is pulling the wool over your eyes
Blogging was light today. There was a doctor's appointment today. Doc says I'm doing fine. Trouble is, more tests and doctor appointments must be done in the near future.
But that news doesn't go with this post. So to get on with this update, I note that the latest economic reports seem to favor Trump, but are being politically spun to look unfavorable.
Which reminds me of a quote of Solzennitzen, a Russian dissident from the Cold War Era. He said that you should only trust your own crooked eye. It is a wry joke about human nature. People don't always tell the truth doncha know. That's how you can look at the "news". Trust what you see with your own eyes. The official version of events may not match what you can see for yourself.
8:36 AM:
In a post that is presumably about the jobs report, the CNBC fails to mention the jobs numbers. Instead, the media outlet decides to discuss the Federal Reserve. What does Trump say? Here's a discussion of that on Truth Social.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
War with China?
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
On the other hand...
Despite all the massive whining about DOGE, very little has been accomplished. The Federal deficit is still wildly out of control. Congress is useless.
The leftists are ruining all of Western Civilization, and this is all we can do?
This is not very impressive.
Cana-duh votes to continue suffering under commie misrule
https://t.co/FyVW3Fhjrq --- Trump didn't endorse anybody in the Canadian election, but it wouldn't have made any difference if he did. Neither of these two were much of a choice for Canadians. The same thing happens in the USA until Trump. If you want change, then CHANGE it.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 30, 2025
AGW skepticism isn't naughty
Certain Europeans are dismayed at Trump's first 100 days.
Then you have the Canucks, who elected a guy who said America betrayed them. Betray?! I was reminded of this German girl who posts on YouTube a lot. What does this German girl have to say about America and Americans? So I looked her up again on YouTube, and she doesn't have much to say about politics and such. But she did have something to say about "facts".
It seems that we get a lot of lectures from the world on the subject of "democracy". We get a lot of lectures from the world about a lot of things. Like from China. China gots its communism from a bunch of disgruntled Europeans from the 19th Century. Wasn't Karl Marx a Jew? If he was, then we get a lot of lectures from the Asian followers of a disgruntled European Jew. I have to laugh.
Germany has the gall to lecture us about Democracy? China has the gall to lecture us about the work ethic? Physicians, heal thyselves. We are doing just fine. At least for the moment.
8/1/22:
Maybe I have too much time on my hands, or maybe I'm just wasting a lot of time. The reason I write that is that I'm watching a lot of videos these days, and some of them are from suggestions from YouTube. One of these suggestions seems to be from a gal called 'Feli' from Germany . She has lived in the USA for five years or more, and she puts up a lot of videos.
One of those videos said a few things that she still cannot get used to in America. Of these things, she mentioned the lack of belief in facts. I found that a bit of an odd thing to say. It did cause me to give some thought on what a fact actually is. In other words, I looked up the dictionary definition of what a fact is supposed to be. Basically, the definition given boils down to what's true or not true.
It would be strange for someone to accuse someone like me of this. Yet that is kinda the direction she is going. The definition mentioned did not go far enough of the philosophy of knowledge, ie. epistemology. Epistemology of the study of knowledge. After all, what IS knowledge? It may well to give it some thought.
Not everyone agrees on what is true and not true. Even in science, the "facts" can change. So, when someone says that you don't believe in facts, you are really saying is that people disagree with what you believe the facts to be. If someone powerful says something that is obviously false, they can punish you if you contradict it. The point being that the thing that is regarded as true is often colored with the effects of authority. A high profile example from history is when Galileo contradicted the Church, and was punished for it. History has confirmed what Galileo said, not what the Church said at the time.
I've written many times on this blog that the truth is a slippery thing. You may not have a grasp of it even if you think you do. The point is don't be so 100% sure about everything. There is the possiblity of error.
I do not find the arguments in favor of authority to be persuasive. So the appeal to authority of some finding of such a number of scientists who claim something like AGW to be true must not the final say on a matter. If they say it, it is also subject to error. Even the best minds have been wrong in the past. That's why we should have the right to disagree. Most would agree NOW that the punishment of Galileo to have been in error. That wouldn't have been the case THEN.
It may well be the case that AGW skepticism is in error. It may well also be the case that AGW is bunk. My approach is from the skepticism side. I'm not going to allow others to do my thinking for me.
It is ironic that she talks about science and such, and that it isn't a belief. Yet, what is the source of her belief in AGW? Is it not also in the way of religion? Or even more so?
What is the most reliable way to truth? Probably not the way it is done today. What is likely today is a lot like what was likely in Galileo's time. In that time, which is considered primitive, authority was being used to suppress free discussion of what was being set forth as truth. For his trouble, Galileo was punished. He was punished for being right.
There would be those who would respond saying that Galileo shouldn't have been punished because he was the true authority. Nope. He shouldn't have been punished because his was the less accepted view at the time, which is what argument from authority did to him.
NOBODY should be punished on that basis. In other words, freedom should be honored. This is the best way that we have at getting at truth, in my opinion. Compulsion has the least place in the quest to arrive at the truth, not the preferred place.
UPDATE:
Germany's recovery from COVID the weakest of any advanced country.
She also included her assertion about COVID, as if it were gospel truth.
Skepticism of what the authority says is essential to a free society. When that is shut down, you can get some really bad outcomes. Like an Adolf Hitler.
That may be playing it rough, but there's that pesky truth thingie again.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Pathological distortion
An intervention is suggested...
Consequences Delivered: Wisconsin Supreme Court Takes Action Against Rogue Judge Hannah Dugan https://t.co/H8t5KcsEfL --- The comparison of the Judge to the Holocaust victim Anne Frank, is truly bizarre. Those folks have a screw loose.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 30, 2025
An idea whose time has come?
What are Goldbacks? Here's a FAQ's page .
If 1 goldback equals 1/1000th of an ounce, that would mean it would be worth about $3.50, since the gold price currently is about $3500 oz.
Interesting idea.
Could this be expanded a bit? What if you were to replace the US dollar with a currency that would be backed not by debt, but by something of value. Such as Goldbacks, for example.
You could then pay off all the debt with goldbacks, and save money on interest. Interest payments are becoming too cumbersome to service. Either spending is cut drastically, or the currency is expanded to a degree that may cause massive inflation.
There may be objections to the creation of currency out of thin air, but that happens already. Why add to the problem by having the additional burden of debt? Make the currency worth something in itself, so that people will want to own it.
It's an idea. We need something because the leftists are shutting down everything. We need to open things up. When the leftists shut everything down, inflation must result. Opening things up will actually do more to tame inflation than to keep interest rates sky high.
The real purpose of sky high interest rates is to cripple the economy. In so doing, the schemers will try to pose as white knights that will rescue us from the disaster that they created themselves.
Dick Morris is a has-been
Dick Morris advised Slick Willy. That might seem like a gold star for him, but to me, it is an albatross.
The leftist propaganda machine v Trump
What does Trump say in his own words? Well, here it is from the social website "Truth Social".
Oh Canada goes into the next act of this farcical tragedy
The pinkos and their useful idiots on the the so-called "right", will try to obfuscate that. Hopefully for the future of everyone on the North American continent, Trump will begin to clarify things SOON.
The Liberal Party Wins Canadian Election https://t.co/jIJvqySBdQ --- Trump has gotten into their heads, lol. When Trump gets into a pinko's head, he makes them do goofy stuff. This "election" has got to be the goofiest yet.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 29, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
Ivermectin, the cancer fighting drug?
Even if you seem to have it under control, there's always this lingering worry that it could come back. What if you could knock it out for good?
Dr. McCullough Reveals the Cancer-Fighting Drug Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know About https://t.co/UyOZQJsY9N --- I know I've seen this elsewhere. What a revelation it would be if this generic drug can be useful in treating cancer? As a cancer survivor, this means something
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 28, 2025
Opinions are like a-holes, everyone has one ( updated )
The report seems to be out. One rhetorical question here: Why does it take all this time to belabor the friggin' obvious?
It costs money for an investigation. All they can tell you now is what you already knew from the beginning. Whoop-de-doo.
2/18/25:
An update on the investigation. I watched 18 minutes of it. Discussion is mostly focused on the altitudes of the two craft involved in the crash. See video below.
2/4/25:
NTSB confirms helo was too high. Comment: Not a lot of info in this article. Apparently, that one little bit of info is all they ran the story on. But it is something. It means that the black boxes and the radar data with respect to the altitude, weren't that far off. There may have been some reason to think there may have been a discrepancy. However, even if there is a discrepancy, the fact remains that the chopper was out of its "lane", so to speak.
2/1/25, 11:33 AM::
Did the (army) helo leave the base without authorization? Reading through the comments brings that possibility into play. Base was said to be requesting helo to return. Shouldn't have left without one other person, and the take off may not have been authorized for this type of flight.
Video showing new angle of DC plane crash is crazy: ‘There’s no way’… https://t.co/SaFDoTlfcE --- The more you study this, the worse it looks
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) February 1, 2025
1/31:25:
Me too. A reaction to this tweet, ya'll.
I took this video 6 days ago leaving Reagan International Airport and thought it was kind of crazy seeing these choppers right next to us. I wonder if it was something like this that caused the collision tonight. pic.twitter.com/0I2GGTM7hS
— Kyle Salewski (@Sa_Les_Ski) January 30, 2025
Comment:
Like it or not, the choppers are allowed to do this near a busy airport, which seems crazy. Anyway, it has been a regular thing, and that alone is not a reason for why the crash happened. HOWEVER, the crashed chopper did appear to be TOO HIGH. These choppers are restricted to 200 ft and below, and must stay on the far bank of the Potomac. This chopper that crash was at 350-400 ft, and that's too high. Notice in the video here how low they are to the ground.
I agree with the tweet that this seems crazy to me. There's a lot of info out there, but all of the sudden, it has dried up. I'm trying to pick up on this investigation again, but it is proving to not be so easy. Incidentally, that's how I came across that info about regular chopper flights in this area. That was quite interesting bit of info to me, but now I can't find it again. But there's other stuff. This tweet is one.
Note: this post got a bit discombobulated, and I can't explain it. Two tweets got mixed up, and how does that happen? Anyway, the chopper appears to be in the wrong place. That's all I have on it now.---end @ 2:49 AM 1/31/25
9:29 AM:
There was one video in which an experienced pilot said that helo altitude could be kept as low as 100 ft, so if the collision was at 300-400 ft, the helo was in the wrong place. The black box will tell the tale of the altitude where the collision occurred. There's a report that the black box has been recovered.
There are other reports, but I will classify those as noise. You don't go into motivations as a possibility until you know exactly who is in the wrong.
Update: 2/1/25, 9:38 AM : This is why you don't report on everything you see out there. It's the Bongino Rule. I suspected that the rumors of transexuality were just that. You need confirmation of info like that, and to report it as soon as you see it could be a mistake. We still don't have all the info on the pilots, so you really can't say for certain if it has been completely debunked. The investigation is just getting started.
Freedom has two sides; one side is toward failure, the side is toward success
Which will it be? Is America terminally stuck-on-stupid, or will we climb out of our stupidity and rise to success once again?
https://t.co/BtSiM5yxhz --- I don't need to hear lectures from a wet behind the ears young communist propagandist. Trouble with America is that we have the freedom to be stupid as well as smart. Commies in China won't let you be free to be what you wish.
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) April 28, 2025