Making the complex more simple? Let's get to the point.

2/14/26:

 

  Yours truly had a thought along these lines just this very day.

  Question: Why does the GOP get pushed around by the left?

  It has its origin in the Quayle-Bentsen debate.   Quayle swallowed his pride and let Bentsen walk all over him.  In the olden days, when Aaron Burr got insulted by one Alexander Hamilton; the insult was returned with a challenge to a duel. Hamilton could not refuse without a loss of face.  You see, when you take someone's face away, you've got to respond appropriately in order to get your face back.

Wha?! This may be hard to grasp, but after that debate, it became clear that Quayle was unmanned. He was disrespected. There was no way he could get that back, because he let the insult go by.

  Since then, the left has owned the so-called right.  Perhaps even before then.  The so-called right hasn't gotten its face back.  They've been "unmanned".  So the left constantly walks all over them, and they do nothing.

  Presumably, it is to keep the peace.  But somehow, this only applies to the so-called "right".  The right just keep swallowing the BS the left dumps on them, and people notice this weakness whether or not they want to admit it.

  Trump isn't addressing this phenomenon adequately.  He is taking steps in the right direction, and that is why the left is so hysterical about any sense of a challenge from the so-called right.   If the left loses out on this, they lose an important advantage, and they sure as hell know it.

  Does the so-called "right" know it? I think not.  They sure as hell don't act as if they do.

7/4/25:



Video: Why you can't manufacture in America

Reaction: Takes too long to get to the point, and even at 15 minute mark, there's no answer to the why you can't manufacture in America.

The guy doesn't know what he is doing. But nobody else does either. This is by design.



Note: There's a lot of celebration about now with the Bill with Many Adjectives passed. There is also a lot of sad faces. AOC was doing her "silly girl" routine with a crying jag. Boo-hooey.

An ad hoc definition here of economics is the management of scarcity. Scarcity can be managed top-down, with some authority who will distribute the scarce goods according to an arbitrary system. Or goods can be managed through the price system. The latter is free, the former is not. Which is better? It seems that the free side is more productive, because people respond to incentives.

How does this relate to the point? The question is why you cannot manufacture in America. There is no incentive to do so, otherwise decision makers WOULD DECIDE to be manufacturing in America, as opposed to elsewhere. The incentives are gone.

You can't manufacture in America because to manufacture means to have self-reliance. Trading is not in the spirit of self-reliance. If you trade for your existence, then you are always dependent upon the source of supply. If the supply comes from someone else, then you are dependent upon someone else. We don't manufacture in America anymore because we lost our sense of independence. It has been drummed out of us by the decisions of the leadership. The leadership has believed that to develop dependence is a good thing, but that dependence has a downside---dwindling freedom.

Tariffs won't solve the dependency problem. Indeed, dependency is a feature, not a bug--according to policy makers. There will have to be a major reordering of the society in order to bring back manufacturing. It won't happen because most people don't want it. They prefer their bondage. Indeed, that is what the leadership wants. Whether or not they really know that they've done this is another topic.

Former Obama WH Counsel Resigns From Goldman Sachs After Epstein Disclosures

  Not that it matters to the fact-challenged nit-wits among us who keep feeding the commie fraud that somehow this is a Trump cover-up; here is the latest bit of evidence that it is quite the opposite.

Not that the truth matters to you people.

It is absolutely unbelievable to me the kind of things that people are saying out there.

Things from people who ought to know better. But sadly, they don't seem to.

Those on the so-called "right" are playing scared. A football analogy if you please. The GOP is trying to play a prevent defense. All a prevent defense does is to prevent you from winning. Played scared isn't the way to go, but that seems to be the way the GOP rolls. Sad to see.

The embedding won't work so a link is all there is. Really smart way to be, people...

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Quick observation, 2/13/26

There seems to be quite a few dead links in the past, as I've indicated before.

There's a phrase that is sitting in the back of my mind that I cannot bring forth at the moment. It is something like "bleach-bit" for history. Ah! It is the memory hole thing.

The use of links to document the time in which it is written can easily be memory-holed so that nobody will know about it.

It is bad news for truth, I tell you. That appears to be the nature of things. For the liars and the frauds to control the mind of an increasingly blinkered and uniformed citizenry. For that is what happened in the Soviet Union, and all totalitarian states. The truth is buried under an avalanche of deceit.

It is so. It cannot be otherwise.

Being weighed in the balance, perhaps?

  Here's somebody I'm not familiar with.

  I'd say that his views are close to mine on the Epstein brouhaha, so I think he's brilliant!  Why, of course I do!

  Not really, I can't back that up.  I mean the brilliant part.

  It all boils down to people who play stupid games, and win stupid prizes.

  The stupid game is the outrage game, where some blowhard makes an issue out of something that can be exploited politically.

  The other players in that game pretend to be outraged, and contribute money to keep it all going.

  Generally, this is how politics "works".  Nothing gets solved.  The last thing in the whole wide world of sports that these people want to do is to actually solve any problems.  What advantage to them is that????????

  An honest person should be able to see through the nonsense, but unfortunately there aren't that many honest people out there. Just sayin'.  Not brilliant at all.  It used to be called "common sense".

Robert Ringer article embed: "Affordability Nonsense"

 

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Why there is a desperate need for the likes of Trump

 

   Trump is the only one who will stand up to them.  That's why they are determined to knock him down, and even kill him.

   The GOP is a bunch of lying cowards, and that is why they hate him too.

  The cure is a bit of guts.  You sure the hell won't find it in the Establishment Wing of the GOP.

  They are determined as hell to lose any election that might finally force them to actually do something about what they claim to care about.

  The commies care about communism, so you can figure on them sticking to the knitting.

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Quick takes on the news, 2/13/26

  Friday the 13th, your lucky day!

  Most of the following are reactions to Instapundit posts:

  Is it possible that I've boycotted marriage all these years? There seems to be a marked reluctance to tie the knot on a few occasions.

  Anybody surprised?, it asks.  I'm not.  What would be very surprising is if anybody in a leadership position outside of MAGA actually did anything about it.

  Squatter's rights.  A co-worker from El Salvador once described how this worked in his country.  He didn't like it.  A homeowner could lose his house that way.

  It's a poison pill or it should be.  If the GOP agreed to this, they should be shot. Not kidding.  But that's what I fear that they might do because it's the way they are.

Now for something besides Instapundit:

  Ground News that follows the Marxist Paradigm: Supposed 'blind-spot' on the so-called right.  Comment: Poisoned fruit from the limp-wristed response to commie treachery?

  This is a kind of projection that Adolf Hitler used when he attacked Poland, and claimed that Poland was the aggressor.  The Moose-limbs loved themselves up a lot of Adolf, and they are in the commie party, aka Democrats.

Dubya coulda taken down Epstein, but didn't

  The commies don't care about Dubya anymore because he's not President. Trump is. That's all you need to know about this.

  As for Dubya, he's one of their favorites as long as he bashes Trump.  Ah, but Bushie doesn't bash Trump all that much, because he knows better.  But he might secretly vote for Kamala Harris for POTUS.

  The knock against the Bushies is that they are two-faced.

  So the Bushies had their chance, but passed.  The commies passed for 12 years of commie rule, but now they care a whole lot!  Yeah, right.

  The Bushies and the Cornyns and the MTG's will like to pose for the cameras and bash the MAGA people, but where the hell are they when you need them?   They quit, shut up, or go join the commies.   For that is what they do best.

More Pam Bondi.

  Jayapal accuses Trump admin of "cover-up". What a joke! Dems are covering for Clinton Inc. This is BS from the commies.

 Der Slickster went to Epstein's Island so many times that it might have straightened out his 'bent crank'.

  Seriously, Der Slickster got caught in a lie, and the commies defended it.  Or does anybody remember that one?  The younger ones weren't even born yet, but that is what happened back then.

  The commies trot out perverts in front of little kids, and they actually care about underage girls?  What a crock.

  We saw how much they cared about it during der Slickster's reign, and they are far worse now.  Even if you had a "blue dress", they wouldn't convict him of anything at all.  It's all a sh!tshow, and all you people know it.  It's to cover up all their crimes, so they accuse somebody else of what they have done themselves. Plus, they (you know who "they" are) need to drag you down to their level, which is the gutter that they live in themselves.  They prefer the gutter, because that's where they belong.  They don't belong in leadership positions, and that's why you need to kick their butts to the curb.

  But no!   You want to stay home and pout.   Like MTG.  And play these sh!tshow games.

"I'm not gonna get in the gutter for her theatrics!"
😮
Bondi and Jayapal throw DOWN over Epstein files "question" at Judiciary Committee hearing. @DailyCaller @NicoleMSilverio pic.twitter.com/dWLMWkCYvA

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) February 11, 2026

This is how propaganda works.

  It's called card stacking.  Nadler asks a "have you stop beating your wife" question, and refuses to let Bondi answer.  The pinkos want their sound bite to go viral.

  There's a lot of supposed discontent out there about Pam Bondi.  Maybe she could do better, but this was a real sh!tshow.  She let her emotions get out.  There wasn't any need to get emotional, but I can forgive that.

  The truth of the matter is that the commies cannot allow her to answer the questions.  They only want the answers they want.  But the best answer ( assuming Pam Bondi had one) was that any charges brought forth in DC will not result in a indictment from a super commie jurisdiction that won't return an indictment no matter what the evidence is.  It's just the way things are in DC, so it isn't Bondi's fault that DC is full of friggin' lying pinkos.

  I say supposedly upset at Bondi.  Everyone who knows what the deal is knows what I'm saying is true, but want to complain about Bondi for some strange perverse reason.

 In other words, they are "virtue signaling".  Or to put it more bluntly, they are just as big of a liar as the Dems.  Indeed, I think they are totally full of it, just as the Democrats.  If they really gave a flip about it, they'd actually DO something NOW, instead playing these sh!tshow games.

  Who are "they"? They are probably the never-Trumpers, who like to pretend to be all for the agenda, but vote against anytime that it matters.  I'm thinking guys like John Cornyn.  Very especially John Cornyn.  I have had an intense dislike of this guy for the longest time.  Now that it is time to run his worthless ass out of DC, a whole lot of these type of characters are joining with the Dems in running these sh!tshows.  That is what I mean, and there are those who know exactly what I'm talking about.

Rep. Nadler: "How many of Epstein's co-conspirators have you even indicted? How many perpetrators are you even investigating?"

Pam Bondi: "Your theatrics are ridiculous!…You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer!" pic.twitter.com/0LtIGMDVI0

— Home of the Brave (@OfTheBraveUSA) February 11, 2026

She could be the next junior senator from Texas.

No? If the wackadoodles get their way, yes. Pray hard. Work harder...

Jasmine Crockett on James Talarico:

"Even the most well-intentioned White folk might be saying [racist] things" in private pic.twitter.com/YkwGGQWt5K

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 10, 2026

SCOTUS votes 9-0 to advance gun rights

Excuse me! Say again? 9 zip? RUFKM?

Quick takes on the news, 2/12/26

 

---Chi-coms front groups in the West.   Way the f**k too many. Scroll down after clicking on the link.  You MIGHT get to read it if you do that.  Otherwise?  Good luck.

---Lame ass commies. The only thing more lame-ass is the GOP!  Even so, the GOP is better, like breathing is better than not; but not necessarily by much.

---Totally predictable.  DC is highly partisan commie pinko land.  That's why it was unwise to go to DC on Jan 6th 2021, even though it was your right to do so. True, I didn't say so at the time.  But some folks out there just don't get it.  Maybe they never will.  I'm sorry, but DC is enemy territory.  Don't expect to be treated fairly.

---More Americans got jobs last year. Illegals got less... That hasn't been true lately. Especially during Slow-Joe's watch.  American hating left refused to hire Americans and gave away the store to illegal aliens.  That has changed. Why go back to that now???  Oh! I get it. Epstein!!!  Orange-man bad!!!

---Another piece at Power-Line.  Comment:  About the trouble with women.   Imo, it's all women everywhere, not just USA.  All fouled up are they.    Even the seemingly sensible ones.

---Quote investigator--who said it? "Quote Origin: In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act"

---Cat watches spinning top as Blood, Sweat and Tears song "Spinning Wheel" plays

News tidbits

2/12/26:

It seems that a number of these links are no longer any good. That's a problem with doing something like this. The links have a short shelf life. What to do about it? Well, there's something called the wayback machine. Maybe it is saved there. There's not enough time to resurrect these dead links. There's no staff here, I am the chief cook and bottle washer, and there's only one of me, and there's just so much time...

10/4/11:

Pee power: Urine-loving bug churns out space fuel
Scientists on Sunday said they had gained insights into a remarkable bacterium that lives without oxygen and transforms ammonium, the ingredient of urine, into hydrazine, a rocket fuel.

How Europe’s Crisis Can Tip U.S. into Recession

Herman Cain's '999 plan': long overdue tax reform or job killer?    Not everybody likes it, evidently.

Are Republicans anti-science?   Or, is it the Democrats?


 Which countries spend the highest percentage of their annual output on research and development?

 Marshall Eubanks and Michael Laine submit a Lunar Space Elevator proposal.

6 Rules From 6 Of The World's Top Investors   That's what I like, news you can use.

Why the GOP lost the shutdown fight, and will probably lose this one too.

  So many of these won't embed.

  Ok, so the link is all that can be shown, unless I click on the approved share button. Which is just another way of having to pass through a toll gate.

  This link is about how the Democrats just don't give a crap about shutdowns, but the GOP acts as if the world will fall apart for them if there was one.  When there is a shutdown, things go on as well as if nothing had happened at all.  But for the Democrats, their core constituencies are harmed.

  But somehow the thing that the Dems initiated is the GOP's fault.  Only because the GOP only validates it by caving in.

  Now the GOP has some of its own priorities ignored too.

  What a bunch of wusses.  The commies can do whatever they want with you, and you do nothing about it.

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Commies trying to flip the script

 

  In case you haven't noticed, the left has tried to make this a GOP scandal.  If it really was that, why didn't they exploit it during Democrat administrations?  It's all a cover up.  It is the Big Lie.

  Keep watching Legacy Media, ya dupes.

  Won't embed, so a link is all there is.

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Quick takes on the news, 2/11/26

 

  It's been one of those kind of days. The day hasn't started well, and seems to be going downhill fast.

  Nevertheless, I shall endeavor to persevere.

  So here's a few short blurbs for the blog that nobody seems to care about, unless I write something completely off-topic and meaningless. In other words, fake.

  The first one there includes the fake science with the real science. Don't mix things up, please.

Should distinguish between fake science and real science.

  The pinko propaganda networks are flooding the zones with negativism. Don't fall for it.

Trump White House Touts Wins as Dems Gripe and Moan "Don't be a panican."

Why the Texas loss hurt so much. The GOP majority can't take many more of these. If you like communism, stay home and don't vote.

Keep yo' eyes on da prize, main

The scene where the patriot gets discouraged and was about to quit, but he turned it all around. Not only for himself, but for the cause of liberty.

Revolver: "There’s one very BIG reason why the Super Bowl shows are deviant and anti-white…"

  Well, it looks like Revolver won't allow embedding of their website.

  There wasn't any reaction to the Stupor Bowl in these here parts. As far as the halftime shew was concerned, I've already commented upon that too.

  The only thing about the NFL that still interested me was the Texans. Well, maybe that should be called into question, too.  Whatever you do to support this evil enterprise just adds to the problem.  If you want to boycott things, boycott the NFL. Not only the NFL, but a whole lot of them.

  "Them" meaning corporations in general.  I've tried that.  I stopped buying Coca-cola, fer instance.  Doesn't matter.  Coca-Cola owns a crap load of other products. Indeed, the only way to boycott them is to start producing your own stuff!

  Well, I've tried that too, by golly by gorsh.

  Nobody pays attention to what I blog.  So why bother?  I dunno.  There's always a chance that people will pull their heads out of their own asses, but increasingly; I'm getting the feeling that this may be a lost cause.

  Staying home as opposed to voting, and boycotting the election process is giving up completely.  Not time for that.  Whenever the Democrats win the VERY NEXT ELECTION, it may be time to give up, and start fighting.

  The Democrats commies have made no bones about what they intend to do when they get control.  You'd better believe that they will keep those promises.

  Not voting is the same as suicide.  Voting may not be much better, if any better at all.  Just keep in mind that the GOP has never won a LARGE majority, plus the Presidency.  There's an opportunity to do that this time around.  Instead of pushing towards that outcome, the GOP is running away from it as they always do.  For if they ever DID win, we'd get the truth about the GOP. Either they are going to do something at some point, or they are not.  They'd always be able to blame the Democrats commies, but if they controlled all the levers, they'd have to produce; or be held accountable.

  Once again, I hold that if you give up now; you will HAVE to fight.  Better to win at the polls, and force through the necessary changes while you have the power.  If we go to war, the outcome will likely not be any better than what we have now.  All wars are based upon deception.  The biggest deception of them all is the supposed inevitability of war.  It can be stopped, if you wanted to badly enough. I'm not talking about surrender, no sir-ree-bobby.  Quite the opposite.

Not that anybody really gives a flip, but there's always a chance.

Update a couple hours later:

I'm trying to figure out something, and frankly don't know what it means right now.

The reason for this update could be that SOMEONE is monitoring this blog, and I suspect it ain't friendly.

As far as the "friendlies", not so sure about them either. That's why friendlies should be friendly; know what I mean, Vern?

The left wants all at each other's throats. Worst thing is to have "friendly fire". Just sayin'.

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An increasingly insulated and isolated hive mind

Worth repeating... 

8/27/22:

A couple of links for thoughts to chew on:

The first one relates to the teaching of dialectics, and the Democrat's shifting coalition. This supports the recent post on that subject:

Not being educated but indoctrinated

That one is included so as to disabuse anyone of the idea that the thought was straight from the hip, so to speak. The next one supports the many posts with regards to the dialectic as it applies to political discourse these days:

Biden says maga gop'ers semi-fascist

Once again, there is support for the proposition that to use the term "right" in reference to oneself is a mistake. Not only a mistake, but wrong. When Biden accuses the MAGA people of being "semi-fascist", he is referring to the fascistic corporatist element, and THOSE belong to the Establishment--not MAGA. These are the people that Biden supports. Their brand of "republicanism" is more akin to corporatism, which the Democrat's ( communists) have infiltrated and made their own. They've turned the corporations into a hive of wokists.

I have long noted that the GOP gets the middle income people. The really rich and the really poor have tended to vote Democrat. If the coalitions are shifting, it may well mean that the Democrats are no longer getting support from the lower income people, but increasingly from the well-to-do. So the poor folks are semi-fascist? The middle income people are semi-fascist? Clearly, that cannot be correct.

Biden may be more semi-conscious that anything else. Maybe he reads his "thoughts" from a teleprompter. Evidently, he hasn't thought of what he says, nor has he compared that to the facts. He and the rest of his so-called highly educated supporters are in a bubble of their own making. Communists believe in the monolith. If that mind-control can be enforced, as it always is in communist-controlled societies, it results in a society-wide groupthink. These lead to bad outcomes, that are endemic to top-down control of collectivist societies.

Dialectics

2/11/26:

This may not seem on-topic, but last nite I watched another version of the Gospel of John. It seemed a bit inferior to the one I usually like to watch, but it is still worth watching. One thing that I noticed, and have noticed in the past is this: Grace and truth comes from Jesus Christ. Without that, you have nothing.

It should be noted that commies are atheists. Please take very careful notes of that. These days are full of satanic levels of deceit, and I get the feeling it is being directed at my way lately.

I may well have gotten on to the radar of some very unsavory types. Know what I mean, Vern?

Whopsie! Dialectics was updated before, but it got messed up somehow... The date for this one was 7/20/21, and that one was, 1/24/24:

This business about left and right, as it applies to politics, has a name. It is called dialectics. Probably most educated folks are familiar with that term. For some reason, I had forgotten it. But it wasn't because I hadn't heard of it, or didn't know about it. I just plain forgot about it.

Actually, I wanted to write something about it today, so when I googled it, I didn't use this term. But the term popped up, and I thought--- "of course".

There are those who would scoff at this, but Reagan's "speech" that launched his political career referred to the dialectic, but not by name. Those who dabble in such things as Marxist theory would have recognized it right off, but I suppose it isn't something that they teach in high school. At least, not back when I was in high school. Reagan's speech was a little before that time, but not that by all that much.

Dialectics is just a means of argumentation, supposedly designed to get at "truth". To tell you the truth, most arguments don't arrive at truth. They may arrive at fisticuffs for those who cannot tolerate being contradicted. This may include a lot of people.

But the argumentation is supposed to be civilized and non-violent. It is an intellectual kind of thing. Supposedly.

Reagan's argument against it set up another form a dialectic. Instead of right v left, he set up the freedom v slavery argument. He didn't frame it quite that way, but the opposite of freedom is slavery. People who are not free cannot help but be slaves, right? There are some who might dispute that. Communists would certainly dispute that their people are enslaved.

But what do you call making people the property of the state? Communist countries do not allow free entry and exit of their peoples. That's what the Berlin Wall was all about. I suppose they still teach this history in our schools, but I wouldn't bet the ranch on it.

If the people of places such as Cuba and North Korea could migrate to a freer country, they would do so. But there are barriers to that. Cuba is an island surrounded by a large body of water. North Korea is bounded by China, and a large body of water. If North Koreans could, they would leave for the south. China was poor itself before it embraced capitalism. But they are closet commies anyway. The Chinese are not a free people.

But the boundary between the two Koreas is one of the most heavily militarized zones in the world. You probably wouldn't want to get shot.

Seems like a lot of young folk admire communists, but they don't know what they are admiring. They went to our schools, which don't do much to educate people anymore.

But this was about dialectics. The Communists loved to call their society scientific socialism. They loved to consider their ideology to be inevitable. The flow of history is supposedly on their side. The dialectic says so. Reality has said otherwise, at least so far.

But communism only leads to people being enslaved by the state. So Reagan was right. There is no right v left, only freedom v slavery. Reagan called it "tyranny". But since America is said to have the "original sin" of slavery, this word should be used when talking about communism. For that is what communism is. People should educate themselves about what it is, instead of being indoctrinated by communists in our "educational" system.

Not only has communism failed everywhere that it has been attempted, but its argumentation has not resulted in what they claim it results in. But they believe in it a whole lot anyway.

Some offer the excuse that it hasn't been tried by the right people. I suppose if they try every country on earth, they'll get the same results. Everybody will be enslaved, and the only people with any freedom at all will be the people at the top.

Anyway, I think the communists have always dreamed of turning America into a communist "paradise". Maybe they think there's something magical about America that will make communism really work this time in this place.

But as the late Rush Limbaugh once said, communism has already been tried here before. It was tried in the first colonies, where everything was communal. But it didn't work worth a darn, so they tried capitalism, and things got better.

If they taught that in schools, instead of the communistic CRT, these kids would be a lot better off. Instead, they will have to go through the living hell of communism if these clowns succeed.

Then you may learn what the truth is. That is, if you don't starve or get shot first.

Treatment zaps high blood pressure at the source - Yahoo! News

2/11/26:

Looks like Yahoo took down the link. Thanks a lot, yayhoos. Wonder who paid you off for doing that little trick. Looks like how you saddle us with a fake vaccine. You know something? The world is full of sell-outs. That's why I wrote that. Which reminds me, Yayhoo is celebrating the latest sell out strategies in the House. Notice how the sell-outs could care less about Americans?

Here's another shot: They sold out to the Chinese the same way that Cocaine Mitch did. Stick that in your crack pipes and smoke, pinkos.

11/17/10:

Treatment zaps high blood pressure at the source - Yahoo! News

Greenland swings like a pendulum do

2/11/26:

Here's another that received a click or two. Very good. One thing that should be noted is the way in which the narrative is framed. "Greenland is not for sale" should be re-worded to "Americans need not apply". We have the Legacy Media to thank for supporting this narrative-building crock of doo-doo. Of course, they've sold out to the Chi-Coms; and so have the Euro-weenies.

Real good reason to vote the Dems back in, eh? Yep, you keep on watching CNN ya dupes. CNN stands for "Commie News Network".

Note:  A good companion post to this was a few days later.  

8/22/19: Comment:

Two observations:

1. The map supplied makes it look like there's a navigable waterway from the North Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean.  If it is, that would seem like news.  There would definitely be an advantage to having that.
2. Trump successfully fought off the Chinese gambit to gain rights to the Island.  If the Danes were seriously considering this, then they must be fools.

The world isn't a kind place.  But the liberals act as if it was.  The only people the libs can hate are the people of the United States of America.

Was Greenland “for sale” when the Chinese were shopping in 2017? https://t.co/c6KPqMGeLL

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) August 22, 2019

Mic drop after this from Speaker Johnson

🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Johnson just MIC DROPPED every Democrat politician in America who opposes the SAVE America Act

"You need an ID to attend events of most Democrat politicians, and even the Democrat National Convention! Why would VOTING be any different?!" 🔥

"They CAN'T… pic.twitter.com/IylrhsjvMy

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 10, 2026

Protecting criminal class in prisons from ICE---why? They got their due process and were convicted. Why protect them? Don't Democrats want convicted felon votes? Ah, yes. Not to mention that they are illegal aliens, who should be deported.

What does that say about the Democrats? Do you really want to reward this??? One thing you could say about the Democrats is that they know who their friends are....

Ukrainian girl recently murdered on train was released by NC Sen candidate NC Gov. Roy Cooper

.  Why reward this lout?

I know, I know! It was Epstein! /sarc

But wait! The Epstein smear just collapsed!



Tweeted here, too...

The Democrats' Trump-Epstein smear just collapsed. pic.twitter.com/CEqRn8uRiJ

— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) February 10, 2026

RINO Senators could sink the SAVE act

 

  The story today is that Murkowski came out against it. Descriptions of her reasons were said to be "ridiculous".

  Collins and McConnell are likely no's as well. If any others defect, that will result in a loss no matter if the filibuster is invoked or not.

  The polls say it is very popular, so it isn't the polls.

  The Democrats will save Democracy by denying the people their choices. Trump was elected to get this done, and presumably, so were a lot of RINOS.

  But Trump is the threat to "democracy". Harumph!!!

If this doesn't embed, then the link will be all you see.

Swing Dance Mashup - Sultan of Swing remix

One of these days...

Janis Joplin is said to have recorded this 3 days before her death in 1970

That was in the comments section... Don't know if that's accurate or not. The dates were given in the comment, so it could be checked, but moi didn't.

The song is like a prayer, but an irreverent one. Be careful what you pray for, I suppose....

What a ripoff

2/10/26:

One thing I don't have is the Midas Touch. This one went south big time. Instead of getting out with a small loss, I took it on the chin. The ripoff was complete.

The brokerage sold off, and forced me into a sale to pay for holding fees. Like I said, a rip-off.

The update was intended to let ya'll know what happened with this stock. It was the last thing I had on that account, and so the account was closed. When? Man, it wasn't that long ago, but it could've been around 2019 or so.

2/4/16:

Starting on my taxes recently.  As I have written before, I've got an ETF "short" position in stocks.  That is to say, the stock is a derivative that gets its value from the stock market.  It is supposed to go up when stocks go down, and vice versa.

On a trade like this in 2007-2009, I made a good profit on such a trade, but not this time.  I figured that the market would go down back in 2013, but it didn't.  It kept going up, but by not all that much.  However, since it magnifies the movement, the slight movement up exaggerated  the fall of my ETF, so that it lost a lot of value.

I sort of forgot about it.  It so happens that a few changes have occurred since that time to this, and now the stock has reversed split.  Because of that event, it required that I make an adjustment in my holding so as to allow the stock to split evenly, because without that adjustment, I'd have a partial share.  Can't allow that.  Since I didn't attend to it, it resulted in a forced sale.  I have to now account for it in my taxes.  It is a loss, but since I didn't buy much, it didn't lose that much.

But while doing this, I noticed how the price action has gone on the dow since I bought it and now.  Instead of being near break-even, as I think it should be, I'm still way down.

I've probably written about this before.  I don't know how they figure that I'm down, since I bought the ETF when the dow was just about 15k.  Now it is around 16k, which isn't that big of a rise, yet I am still way down.  I guess it is the "new math".  Or maybe it is "democrat math".  Heads I win, tails you lose type of math.  Donald Trump math.  Let's do it over type of math, cuz I've been schlonged.

I figure that the thing might make a profit if stocks fall below 10k, which is quite a bit below where I bought it.  Good work if you can find it. /sarc

Let's see how that all works out.  Right now, it looks like a big ripoff.  Or maybe not that big.  I didn't bet the ranch on it.  I figured small risk, big potential gain.  It now looks like big risk, small potential gain.  Just the opposite.

OAN joins YouTube tv --- Rumble video

 This reminds me that I have a Rumble Channel

Incidentally, OAN means One American Network ( I think ).

CTH: "Ilhan Omar Catches a Big Break - Republican Oversight Committee Drops Financial Review, Hands off to Ethics"

"Lucy pulls away the football yet again."

Yep, looks that way.

Comment:

Charlie just keeps letting Lucy fool him. Will Charlie Brown ever learn? Maybe not.

Instead of doing the same thing, the thing that is expected; Charlie should change his tactics. Don't stay home, and don't vote for somebody unless something changes. Even if it means that the lies have to become even more elaborate. One way or another, something has to change.

The point being, if you cannot change them; try changing yourself. Charlie doesn't HAVE to kick that football, you see.

Thoughts on a would be Moon base

 

Update, 2/9/26:

  Now he's talking.  That is, IF he's talking about doing this.   It is reported that SpaceX is moving towards establishing a moonbase, in order to support his Mars ambitions.

  The idea is even more credible given that Musk has found a way to make money in space.  While he is making money in space, he can mine the moon for resources, like oxygen.  All of this infrastructure has to be paid for, and an idea like the one Musk has for supporting AI datacenters in space; will go a long way in funding his Mars ambitions.

  The tweet is is included in the update, and begins directly below this scrollbox.

Elon Musk just announced a major strategic pivot for @SpaceX: the company is officially shifting its primary focus to building a "self-growing city" on the Moon.

The logic is centered on speed. While Mars missions are restricted by orbital alignments every 26 months, SpaceX can… pic.twitter.com/FVY4qBBKpH

— Mark Kretschmann (@mark_k) February 9, 2026

10/30/10:

I got an idea for this post this morning.   I was wondering if there's a way to quickly build a moon shelter and permanent base on the moon.  Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I started to search for what was already out there on the web.  I came across this:  a pdf file on some proposed designs of a moon base.  It has occurred to me that NASA must have plans like these out the wazoo.   So, why haven't these plans ever been implemented?

A further search brought me to this a link about Gregg Easterbrook, who is a critic of manned space flight.  It would be wrong to blame him for the plans not being implemented.  I don't want to slam Easterbrook here.  Only to point out that the criticisms are too harsh.   It has to be balanced by something.  The manned space program needs a champion, like in the early days.   These days, the critics, like Easterbrook, have the upper hand.  To offset the critics, a there must be a champion of manned space flight.

Here's the article he wrote about the shuttle in 1980 ; it is fairly critical article and its tone turns out to be wrong in most respects, but it proved him to be prophetic in predicting failure as two shuttles were lost.  With the loss of two shuttles, his point of view gained ground.  But why did the Shuttles fail?  Was it design failure, or did some other explanation account for this?  To answer this question, it would take an extensive study the reports that came out of each disaster.  Basing it solely on memory, I suspect that a change in specifications led to both disasters.  If these specs weren't changed, perhaps both Shuttles could have survived.  The Shuttle wasn't an inherently unsafe design, if that is true.  To confirm that opinion would be out of the scope of this post.

In Easterbrook's 1980 article, he mentions that a permanent moon base was considered before deciding upon the shuttle program.  He says that a base would have been useless.  But the moon base would not be useless if it can solve the launch problem.  If men and materials can be launch into space at a reasonable cost and be done relatively safely, we can open up the solar system for business.  At one sixth the gravitational field of the Earth, getting to the near Earth asteroids would entail much less energy and consequently, much reduced cost for fuel.   Having a moon base that is self sufficient in terms of life support could mean multiple missions from the moon, before having to return to Earth- giving further savings.  And mining asteroids for fuel and metal ores could defray the costs of manned space flight.  They may even be able to turn a profit.

A Moon base needs a champion.  If the critics win, it may never be done.  At least, not by the USA.  Someone else could and probably will.  If that happens, American leadership in this field will go by the wayside.  Like many other things.  Isn't it time that this trend be turned around?

Update:  So, how much M type asteroid worth?  This question is answered in Mining the Sky:


"As an example of the magnitude and economic value of space resources, we shall assay
the smallest known M asteroid and account for its market value.  That distinction
belongs to the NEA known as 3554 Amun.  Amun is only 2 kilometers in diameter, the
size of a typical open-pit mine on Earth, with a mass of ... thirty billion tons.
... the total market value of Amun ... $20.000. billion" -John S. Lewis
Mining the Sky, pp. 111-112

more info here
According to this: the feasibility of mining asteroids is close with present day technology.
Here is a site that I just found with plenty of info.  It is called spacefuture.com

Those are late nineties numbers, as the book was written then.  Prices have gone up.

I ran the numbers and each ton of the asteroid would be worth $667 at that time.
This would not seem worth the time orthe expense to bring all back.  I suppose you
would need to pre-process the ore before you brought it back.  Platinum at todays
prices would be about fifty million per ton.  The Altair lunar lander which was to
land men on the moon was supposed to be able to handle (in unmanned versions)
up to 15 tons of cargo.

The Democrats' Insanity Defense

 Updated on 2/9/26:

  Tempting thing to say: "Life is nuts."

  And: "Try to make any sense of it will make you nuts, too."

  To counter those thoughts, I'd say: "If you didn't try to make sense of it, then you'll just join the rest of the looney tunes."

  One philosophy that I've held for a long time, and it doesn't seem to have helped me much:  "I try to be rational.  It doesn't seem to work too well in this crazy world."

  Maybe it is my own brand of crazy to keep insisting upon it.

  Whatever.

  I return you to your regularly scheduled nuttiness.

11/2/24:

The Democrats are so crazy, that GOP activists have to tone it down, or they won't be believed.

Tabletmag dot com

If the Democrats are crazy, and people are in denial about that, then does that make a lot of people crazy? It's got to be some type of dysfunction of a massive scale. If Kamala Harris somehow ends up in the White House, this may be a big reason why.

It is a scary thing to consider that there may not be enough sane people around to do what is clearly indicated. This group of people need to go, but will that happen?

Turn a page indeed. These people are nuts, and this isn't the first time I've written that. Here's a campaign slogan --- Make America Sane Again.

Quick take on the news, 2/9/26

  This will be a bunch of Instapundit posts.  Insty has a lot of 'red meat' type posts. Call it whatever you want, but words don't win this game.  Messaging doesn't hurt, mind you.  The thing that goes wrong in the midterms is that the Democrats put Trump on the ballot in their usual BS way; and the MAGA base doesn't give a flip about the GOP.

  Yep, and I'm with ya, dear MAGA folks.  If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times on this here blog; that the GOP refuses to be an actual opposition party. They'd rather run against the base than to run against the Dems.   Anyway, if you don't acknowledge that the Democrats are going to run against Trump regardless of his being on the ballot or not; then it behooves you to go out there and vote in order to support Trump.

  But messaging is fine.   Insty's doing it here, and I appreciate it.  All the same though, there needs to be a strongly ramped up GOTV effort, or the Dems are going to walk away with the prizes in November.  If that happens, the GOP will probably lose in 2028 as well.   So get out there and vote, dammit.

  Now for the Insty links:

Pass the SAVE act. Get on their Congress-critter butts, and move this legislation forward.  Some RINOS in the Senate are holding it up.

Moon first. Yep, and I've said it here before.   Evidently, Musk sees the value of going to the Moon in order to support his efforts regarding Mars.

Filth media.  Once again, couldn't have said it better myself.

Scraping the Marianas Trench.  Ditto!

Good stuff at Insty today.  A smorgasbord of red meat.  Maybe the Swedish Chef can fix you up.

The Democrats really are evil. No doubt there are some evil ones on the GOP side, too.

  How many are evil on each side?  Enough to control things.  There are those who believe that violence is the only way out of this.  We'd better hope that that is not the case.

  If it goes as far as a war, or a general breakdown in order, the final outcome will be unpredictable.  At least, that is what I think.

  There are enough that's good enough to see the evil, PROVIDED that the message gets through to them.  The $64k question is how do you do that?

  I've been trying to do that for the last 14 years on this blog.  Since late 2010, to be exact.  The idea all along is that there are solutions to problems, but there has to be a will to find them, and implement them.

  But no solution will work if too many people are set in their ways, and in their minds.

  The future has perils and promise.  Thus it has always been.  The way people handle it will determine the outcome.  The Romans didn't handle it too well.  Their civilization was overthrown.  What happens to ours?

  There will be those who say that Western Civilization will survive, but are you really sure about that?

  Don't take it for granted.  It might not.  If it doesn't, then what comes after may be what we'd call evil.  For there's no guarantees that they "will live happily ever after".  Too many folks believe in fairy tales.  That's how they let themselves be deceived.  You may wake up some day to figure out that you've been had.  Then what?

  The aftermath of betrayal scene in the 90's movie "Braveheart".

Where does this defeatism come from?

  This idea of staying home so that your enemies can win, is exactly what I'm talking about.  No pun intended, but that attitude is like shooting yourself in the foot.  Why?  Who won the friggin' election in Texas?  Do you really think that electing a gun-grabber will protect your rights better than even an errant Republican?  I understand the frustration, but not the response.  The response is self-defeating.  Primary the suckers!  Get your own kind of people to run and win!

  By the way, this link was obtained from Instapundit. There are those who won't remember, but back before the 2006 elections that resulted in Nancy Pelosi being hoisted to the Speaker's Chair, one Glenn Reynolds said that the GOP should LOSE in order to "teach them (the GOP) a lesson".  Well????  How did that one turn out?  Not so good.

  What was true in 2006 is even more true now.  Nancy Pelosi will seem like a moderate compared to these wackadoodles coming up.  Staying home so that they can assume power is one strategy that should be avoided; that is, if recent experience is any guide.  But some folks never seem to learn.

Trump should channel Archie Bunker

With respect to this latest sham scandal, Trump should tell the Dems to go stick a sock in it.

People may not realize this, but the Dems are in high-attack mode, and the GOP is getting wobbly. But not everybody, fortunately. But there are SOME.

This stupid stuff has got to stop. There are those on the GOP side who think that Trump should rein it in.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

He should NOT rein it in. The Dems want the GOP to get panicky, and that is a big mistake.

It is probably regrettable that somebody did this, but having been done, there is no reason to allow this as an excuse to quit, and roll over for the Dems. That's precisely what they want. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM.

Just do what Archie did.

Archie tells the meat head that he doesn't care. Well, I just don't care about the latest Democrat outrage fit.