It was a bit hectic yesterday. I spent time teaching English as a second language (ESL) remotely. I did a bit of shopping and made my second set of half-lap joints that were clean, straight from the saw.
At to that taking Ally to a presentation, and I ran out of go juice and time.
Which got me this tune, first broadcast in 1957, which seems like it was taken straight from woke culture.
And I found an early video of Gavin Newsom.
Tomorrow’s article will be titled “I’m Proud To Be An American.”
There have been so many nasty postings over this weekend that I need to vent.
Meanwhile, standup straight and be proud of our country.
What Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Means For Your Wallet
https://www.zerohedge.com/
…the legislation locks in Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and introduces new tax breaks—including deductions for tips, overtime pay, and auto loan interest—while also offering a special $6,000 deduction for seniors who receive Social Security…Tax Cuts…New Parents…Families With Children
Families raising kids under 17 will see expanded tax relief under the bill…Service Workers…Car Buyers…Taxpayers in High-Tax States…Seniors
Student Borrowers…Medicaid Recipients…People on Food Stamps…Small Businesses and Gig Workers…Taken together, the One Big Beautiful Bill promises tax relief and new financial perks for millions of Americans—from young families to seniors—while tightening the belt on federal spending for programs such as Medicaid and SNAP.
MTG shares LIT 4th of July video plugging gun give-away
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., isn’t “fighting the nasty, America-last Democrats” in Washington, she’s posting lit gun giveaway videos on X…
Marjorie Taylor Greene @mtgreenee To celebrate 250 years of the red, white, and blue I’m giving away one of my favorite guns, the iconic FN M249S PARA
video – 00:01:45 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
What Are We Going to Do About All This Mental Illness?
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
Back in May 2022, a Muslim identified only as Mohammed L. murdered Alban Gervaise, a 40-year-old physician, by stabbing him multiple times… Gervaise, Mohammed repeatedly screamed “Allahu akbar,” and later explained that he committed the murder “in the name of Allah.”…April Fools Day 2023, a Muslim migrant to Canada named Abdul Aziz Kawam spent two minutes praying at a bus stop in Surrey, British Columbia. Then he slit the throat of another person who was waiting for the bus. When the bus arrived, Kawam got on board and asked a fellow passenger if he was a Muslim. Kawam then slit the throat of a passenger…he performed both of his throat-slashings in accord with the Qur’anic command: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike necks.”…Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, who, according to a June 2025 CTV News report, has been “convicted of terrorism offences in the United States, and who had ties to al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.”…He “was sent to hospital for psychological support between the date of the alleged offence and his arrest,” because anyone who did such things must be mentally ill, right? What else could he possibly be?…I could multiply incidents of this kind indefinitely. European authorities refuse to admit that there even exists such a thing as the global jihad, and so they have to classify jihadis as something else. They’ve settled on calling it mental illness for now, but as psychiatric hospitals are increasingly filled with jihad terrorists, this will become untenable. As jihad activity becomes ever more frequent across Europe, European authorities may one day even admit what it actually is. But that will probably only happen when they’re surrendering and officially submitting to their new Islamic overlords.
The Worst Governor in America Gavin Newsom to Test Presidential Waters in Rural South Carolina
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is wasting no time in testing the waters for a presidential run in 2028, planning a visit next week to rural South Carolina, hoping to find a warm reception among poor, black voters…Newsom will focus on meeting Tuesday and Wednesday with rural voters in eight of the “the most economically challenged and environmentally vulnerable” counties…Newsom’s theme will be a shared experience of natural disasters — though he has proven inept at managing them in his own state, whether leaving the country during blizzards or failing to provide water during fires.
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Mexico City Protest Against American Ex-Pat ‘Invasion’ Turns Violent
https://www.zerohedge.com/
In a role reversal that underscores a universal resentment of economic and social impacts caused by a major influx of foreigners, demonstrators marched in Mexico City on Friday to protest against the city’s status as a hot new residential destination for American ex-pats and remote workers. Though it started peacefully, many demonstrators turned violent, with some of them accosting Americans and smashing the restaurants, banks and other businesses that cater to them…Some of the demonstrators started attacking businesses in Condesa and Roma, smashing windows, spray-painting graffiti, tearing down awnings, vandalizing cars, completely destroying a restaurant patio, and looting. A Starbucks outlet was among the most-damaged properties:
VIDEO – 00:00:11 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
VIDEO – 00:01:12 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
It is not racism when they do it.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
So a section of the Mexican population seems to be disgusted with the idea that gringos are settling in their land and “gentrifying” real state out of their incomes because it is apparently cheaper for John Smith to live South of the Border than in L.A…What is hilarious is that they are marching in what is one of the oldest richest neighborhoods in the city and unaffordable to them even before the evil invader gringos decided to buy/rent property there. The area was not being gentrified because it was already out of their economic level populated by the local Richie Riches which makes this just 100% bullcrap worry about the downtrodden middle class…Simply put, it is just another episode of “We can’t fix our own shit so we blame the gringos as excuse” political soap opera.
VIDEO – 00:02:51 – https://youtu.be/1_4rEKAinWg
DHS Has Another Interesting Observation on Those Violent Mexico City Protests About ‘Gringos’
https://redstate.com/nick-
People got a big reminder over the weekend that leftist violent protests aren’t just something that happens in this country when things got out of hand in Mexico City on Friday…there was a protest where hundreds came out against “gentrification” in the tourist areas, upset that foreigners, including many Americans, have moved into the area. Some of the signs were ironically fascinating… the masked kids in black went all smashy-smashy. They even broke the windows out of at least one store and looted it…Homeland Security @DHSgov – https://x.com/DHSgov/status/
video – 00:01:12 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
video – 00:01:09 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
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LEO Sources Report Active Shooter with Rifle and Tactical Gear Ambushed Border Patrol Agents
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/
Border Patrol agents were ambushed by a shooter with a rifle and tactical gear as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas. Local police and federal agents returned fire, killing him.
Federal Agents Respond Accordingly (and Massively) After Karen Bass Demands Immigration Sweeps Cease
https://redstate.com/sister-
We are with hundreds of federal agents and military as a massive federal immigration enforcement operation is underway in the MacArthur Park area of the sanctuary city of Los Angeles, an area with heavy MS-13 influence. Mayor Bass has demanded raids stop, Feds respond with one of the largest yet, including Border Patrol agents on horseback. Protesters already showing up.
Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Diversity Is Our Weakness
https://wilderwealthywise.com/
Welcome to the latest issue of the Civil War II Weather Report. These posts are different than the other posts at Wilder Wealthy and Wise and consist of smaller segments covering multiple topics around the single focus of Civil War 2.0, on the first or second Monday of every month. I’ve created a page (link below) for links to all of the past issues
FOOD for THOUGHT
The BLT that broke my brain (and exposed a bigger problem)
https://www.theblaze.com/
…That moment wasn’t just about a sandwich. It was a snapshot of the country we’re living in — where solutions exist, but systems won’t allow them…
YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID / DUPLICITOUS / INSANE
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What Liberal Voters Are Demanding Democrats Do to Stop ICE Is Insane: ‘Not Just Unreal, but Dangerous’
https://redstate.com/rusty-
Axios on Monday published an astonishing report citing numerous Democrat members of Congress who say their voters want to see representatives literally willing to take a bullet to “protect our democracy.” Several lawmakers chose to keep their identities shielded to offer candid assessments about what they’re seeing from their base at various town halls and speaking events. It’s more than likely they did so because some of that base is clearly unhinged. “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot,” when visiting ICE facilities, one House Democrat told Axios…”Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.” Another unnamed resistance lawmaker tells the outlet that his constituents have insisted “civility isn’t working” and Democrats need to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”
Democrat Politicians Claim Their Base Wants Blood
https://bearingarms.com/
The grassroots wants more. “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios.
“Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” the lawmaker said.
A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”
A fifth House Democrat told Axios that “people online have sent me crazy s*** … told me to storm the White House and stuff like that,” though they added that “there’s always people on the internet saying crazy stuff.”
There sure are, but it’s also undeniable that a large portion of the Left has become utterly unhinged since Donald Trump defeated Joe Biden in the 2024 elections, and they’ve only gotten worse since Trump was sworn in and has actively begun reshaping the federal government.
Many lawmakers said these voters tend to be white, well-educated and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods.
“What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and … a lot of times that’s coming from economically very secure white people,” said an eighth House Democrat.
“Not only would that be a gift to Donald Trump, not only would it make the job of Republicans in Congress easier if we were all mired in legal troubles … [we are] a group that is disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ people — people who do not fare very well in prison.”
The bottom line: “The expectations aren’t just unreal. They’re dangerous,” the eighth House Democrat said.
Democratic Lawmakers Disturbed as Their Own Voters Demand Violence: ‘There Needs to Be Blood’
https://www.westernjournal.
“What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and … a lot of times that’s coming from economically very secure white people.”…For nearly a decade, Democrats have pushed nonstop doomsday rhetoric about President Donald Trump and the conservative movement. They’ve compared him to Hitler. They’ve called him a dictator. They’ve claimed without evidence that the country is experiencing a death rattle…These people incited not one, but two assassination attempts against Trump last summer — that we know of…These people incited not one, but two assassination attempts against Trump last summer — that we know of… This is what happens when partisan media and elected officials normalize panic and desensitize imbalanced people to violence. It’s liberal voters, egged on by years of apocalyptic headlines, outright lies, and wild accusations. The left is reaping what it sowed, and its elected officials are afraid of the monster they’ve created.
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CNN panelist claims diabetes is caused by the N-word
https://www.theblaze.com/
Former Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York went on a fiery rant on CNN, blaming everything from obesity to heart disease in the black community on Republican colleagues and getting “called the N-word.”…“The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day,”
Biden Claims European Leaders, Dems, & Republicans Are Calling Him As Trump Unravels His ‘Accomplishments’
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Joe Biden asserted Wednesday that European leaders, as well as Democrat and even Republican office holders have been reaching out to him since President Donald Trump took office. Biden also complained that his “accomplishments” from his stint in the White House were “changing so rapidly” under President Donald Trump
video – 00:07:35 – https://youtu.be/GZCZhf4XDHI
John Dickerson: “Make the case for PBS.” BS from @KenBurns on @FaceTheNation – https://x.com/BrentHBaker/
: “It is the Declaration of Independence applied to the communications world….It mainly serves rural areas in which the PBS signal may be the only signal they get. They have…homeland security, crop reports, weather, and emergency information. we’re going to take away? This seems foolhardy and seems misguided mainly because there is a perception among a handful of people that this is somehow a blue or a left wing thing when this is the place that for 32 years gave William F. Buckley a show.”
VIDEO – 00:01:32 – https://x.com/i/status/
Joy Reid and James Carville Are Predicting Trump Will Never Leave Office and He’s Rigging the Midterms
https://twitchy.com/warren-
Democrat consultant James Carville and kooky Joy Reid (late of MSNBC) have latched onto the hilarious conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump is going to illegally meddle in upcoming elections. Per the demented Dem duo, Trump is going to refuse to leave office after his term and find a way to postpone the midterm elections.
(The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans. – James Carville – jlr)
Cruel Lefty Removed From Houston Food Insecurity Board After VILE Comments About TX Flood Victims
https://twitchy.com/amy-
(Such hatred for those killed in this event, especially towards the children – jlr)
Pediatrician fired for vile post suggesting Texas flood victims were Trump supporters who got ‘what they voted for’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/07/
Imagine finding out the doctor you’ve been taking your children to for care is ok with certain children drowning because of the way their parents vote.
a Houston pediatrician…a Houston pediatrician who thought it was smart to post something this awful, this vile, this UGLY, after the floods
Cultural Vertigo and Political Exhaustion
https://chrisbray.substack.
The single most obvious cultural reality about the current moment is that we’re inundated, every day, by signals telling us that [X] is [Not X], the don’t believe your lying eyes messaging that forms the hardened core of media and political product….Over and over again, people signaling in media and political space trip over the most obvious obstacles, saying things that no sane person could believe — but not noticing the disconnect. You fucking MAGAts all DESERVE to die, because you’re not committed to KINDNESS like we are! As a response to rescue teams pulling dead 8 year-olds out of a river. This is mental illness, not politics, the Cluster B Society roaring to a crescendo.
Dems unveil latest hoax in desperate quest to take out Trump
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
This week, the company settled the suit brought by Trump over the alleged doctoring of a “60 Minutes” interview with Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris that aired weeks before last year’s election, deceptively editing one of the then-vice president’s loopy “word salad” answers about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make her look good…The settlement, which clears the decks ahead of the company and its CBS News subsidiary’s proposed $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, sparked calls for bribery investigations from top Democrats, a desperate attempt to spin a rational business decision into a nefarious conspiracy centered around Trump, but taking it to another level by threatening Paramount.
FIREARM NEWS
One Big Beautiful Bill’s Passage Prompts ‘Big Beautiful Lawsuit’ Over NFA
https://bearingarms.com/
GOA’s “One Big Beautiful Lawsuit” will ask the courts to strike down the NFA’s absurd new $0 tax and registration scheme for certain suppressors and firearms with short barrels. In the 1930’s, the Supreme Court only narrowly upheld the NFA solely as a tax statute—not as a firearms regulatory law. In Sonzinsky v. United States (1937), the Court ruled the NFA was permissible under Congress’s taxing power. But once the tax is reduced to $0, the constitutional justification for the law collapses…“The Supreme Court has made clear that the NFA survives only as a tax law. Once the President signs this bill and the tax disappears, the registry becomes an unconstitutional relic…
IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
The Joy of Banana Ball
https://patriotpost.us/
Savannah Bananas, the barnstorming team that has come up with a madcap version of baseball that is widely popular and selling out stadiums around the country. The Bananas, or the Nanners, as devotees call them, sold out Clemson University’s Memorial Stadium back in April, with 81,000 in attendance. Tickets for a couple of games at Yankee Stadium in September are selling on secondary sites at rates significantly higher than any Yankees game.
Humor
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
“Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It’s more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.” ― Dr. Seuss
A little humor…To start the week!
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (367th Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/
Monday Morning Meme Madness
https://twitchy.com/
Cartoons and Memes · July 7, 2025
https://patriotpost.us/humor/
I would call this a pesto but it isn’t actually pesto. There’s no Parmesan cheese, and no pine nuts. On the other hand, it’s healthy, and ZOMG so good. I made this two nights in a row, once over gnocchi, and once with chicken and veg, and it was just incredible. This is the chicken version.
Ingredients:
In a blender or food processor, add the basil, yogurt, yeast, tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper, and pulse until thoroughly mixed. If it is too thick, add a drizzle of either milk or a non-dairy milk substitute (oatmilk or soy milk). Set aside or refrigerate until ready to use.
In a large pan, saute your chicken until it’s browned. Add in the onions and mushrooms, and cook until the onions soften and the mushrooms have released their liquid. Add in the tomatoes and spinach at the end of the cooking time for just a minute or two. Turn off the heat, and add the creamy basil sauce. Stir to incorporate it evenly.
This can be served as is, or over pasta or rice. It’s quite good over potatoes, too. I would actually love this over cold pasta as a pasta salad!
For lack of a nail and all of those things. Never a truer statement was made.
I have three workbenches in the shop. One is filled with machining detritus. It always needs to be cleaned up. The second currently is full with a mini-mill and storage containers that are waiting to be placed on the wall. The third is the grinding station with two bench grinders. One wheel is accessible because have the bench is blocked by wood that is waiting for a home.
Moreover, none of these workbenches are set up to be used for wood working. There is a copper jawed vise on the machining workbench. That workbench is a 24-inch by 96 sheet of 3/8 inch plywood atop a pair of 2x4s resting on a pair of folding saw horses.
If I bang on it, everything on the table jumps.
The mini workbench is stable enough, but it is set up for electronics work, doesn’t yet have good lighting, It is only 60-inches long, no vise and no room for working on longer boards.
The third is in a corner with no real access.
Thus, the new workbench.
I’m sure this could be knocked together in a couple of days, but that’s not me.
For the first trestle, I did knock it together. Construction adhesive and good old fashion screws. It was strong enough, but not pretty, and I can see my errors today.
The end apron, a piece of 2×10 by 24 inches cupped. I didn’t understand what this really meant when I put that apron on.
The difference between knowledge and skill.
It took me almost two weeks to get the braces cut. Some of that was plain stupid choices in my past. I didn’t have a saw that would for cutting the tenons.
Mostly, it was lack of skill and rain.
I’ve gathered more knowledge and a bit more skill.
To get good joints, you need to have flat, smooth, square connections. I didn’t have that.
I’ve located some 5 wood planes so far. I knew of 2 of them, I suspected 1 more. I found 3 more after that. I also picked up 3 planes for a few dollars each, used.
That’s a total of 8 planes. Two block planes, Four #4 style planes. One #5 plane. One jointer, I think it is a #8 or #9.
One of the #4s is a piece of junk. It is stamped steel for the frog. Even after spending a couple of hours working on it, it doesn’t cut worth a damn. The second #4 isn’t ready yet. It has so much paint and gunk on the sole, that I haven’t gotten it ready yet. The third is a new Stanley #4. I’ve not checked it out yet.
That leaves one, #4. It is an older Stanley with a slightly cupped sole, but I have it mostly tuned, and it is doing its job of smoothing.
I realized that the #5, jack plane, hadn’t been checked since I purchased it 30 years ago. It needed sharpening, but is now doing a fine job.
Those two and a block plane I was playing with are all work ready.
This gets me smooth boards.
A smooth board is one that doesn’t have any roughness, but it might not be straight nor flat.
To make it flat, you need to test for flatness with a straight edge. Using an expensive Starrett combination square for woodworking messes with my head. I have multiple combination squares, but this one is my nicest.
You can have a board that is very smooth, but which undulates the length of the board. A longer plane, like a jack plane, will help with that, but ultimately, you need to locate those undulations with your straight edge.
After making sure your board is smooth, you set to work with your straight edge to find and mark all the high spots.
Knocking down the high spots will make the board flat. Using a longer plane will help isolate where you are cutting to just high spots.
The problem is that the longer the plane, the more work it is to use. They get heavy and that means more work. They also don’t cut as fast because they can only shave the high spots in that longer distance.
I am to the point where I can do this. I have the skill to make a board smooth and to remove the high spots.
This leaves the board with one more potential issue, twist.
Just because your board is smooth and flat in a local area does not mean it is flat over a longer distance.
This requires a different tool to measure.
The winding sticks.
Winding sticks are two sticks that can stand on edge, have tops that have the same angle relative to their bottoms.
Think of them as thick rulers that can be easily balanced on edge.
The sticks are placed near the ends of the board, across the board.
You then lower your eye, watching for the far stick to disappear behind the near stick.
If the sticks are parallels, then the far stick should disappear at once. If there is any twist, one end will disappear before the other.
That indicates that the other side is high, relative to the near stick.
This tells you where to remove wood to remove the twist.
As long as the sticks have the same angle, relative to their bases, then this works great.
So I need winding sticks to finish prepping my apron boards.
Simple, plane one face of a 4×1 by 16 inches smooth. Make it flat, ignore minor twist. I.e., get it as flat as you can without winding sticks.
Now hold the board on its edge and plane the other edge smooth and square to the major face. Then flip it over and do the same for the other edge.
You require a square to make sure that the edge is perpendicular to the face.
This requires holding the board on edge. Except I don’t have a vise to clamp the board on edge.
We’ll assume I can solve that with a wedge board, later.
Once you have both edges square to the face, use your marking gauge (you do have a marking gauge? If not, stop now and make one.) to find the narrowest part of the board. Use that to strike a line (another skill) from one end to the other.
Now plane the board to that line. When you are done, if you have done everything well, you will have two smooth edges, square to the face, and parallel to each other.
At this point, use your marking gauge to find the center of the board. You can do this by eye, actually. Still another skill.
Stroke a line down the center, carry it to the back of the board, maintaining your registration on the same reference edge.
Now rip the board into two equal, or nearly equal, halves. Still another skill I have to learn.
That’s where my bandsaw comes into play. That is what I will use instead of a hand saw. I don’t have the vise to rip safely and easily.
Find the narrowest part of both boards with your marking gauge. Strike that line. Plane down to the line.
When done, you will have two boards that should be the same. You can joint them to make sure, this is the best thing to do.
If you joint them, make sure you mark the matching ends so that you can easily find them again.
You now have your winding sticks. To make it a bit better, darken the top edge of one of the sticks, to create contrast when you are using them.
Another tool. Find a 1×6 about 12 inches long. Find the center and mark a point 4 inches from one end at that center.
Drop lines from a point 1 inch in from the edges to the center marked point.
Now drill a 1/4 inch hole at the center point.
Rip cut from the end to the hole. This will create a V notch, 3.5 inches wide at the mouth and just a 1/4 wide at the throat.
You can now attach this V notch board to the surface of your workbench near the left end, or in my case, one of my apron boards, with the notch facing the center of the board.
You can now place almost any board, on edge, and jam it into that notch. The notch will hold the board upright, on edge.
Now just plane to the lines.
I’m having a blast turning knowledge into skills. This is my daily exercise. I figure that by the end of today, I should have the second trestle completed.
While the adhesive is drying, I will plane the two apron boards smooth and flat, ready to be attached to the legs, which I have already planed smooth and flat.
Maybe I’ll have something good to report by Friday.
July 4th, 2025
President Trump Signs the One Big Beautiful Bill at WH Military Family Picnic
https://redstate.com/beccalowe
Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration could greatly impact Democrats’ political clout
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
Outrage Erupts After Hacked Data Shows Mamdani Identified as ‘Black or African American’ on College Application
https://www.westernjournal.com
Townhall Daily – Jul 04 – Wait…NYC’s Communist Mayoral Candidate Applied to Columbia As a Black Man?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
US Patriotism Among Democrats Crashes As Marxist Demands Grow Louder
https://www.zerohedge.com/poli
“We’ve Become Serfs On Our Own Land”: The USDA Trap, Foreign Land Sales, And The Collapse Of American Farming
https://www.zerohedge.com/food
77 family farms vanish every day in the U.S. But what’s really killing them?”…I can’t even legally sell what I grow on my farm to any of my friends, family, or neighbors,” Sagdal says. Why? Because of USDA slaughter rules. With few exceptions, unless meat is processed at a USDA-inspected facility, and labeled with a USDA stamp, it’s illegal to sell. An issue compounded by the fact that just four companies have monopolized the few meatpacking plants that still exist. USDA inspectors have helped shut down local and regional slaughterhouses for decades, while court documents and video footage show an inspector giving a free pass to a Tyson-owned pork facility—fueling criticisms of USDA selectionism. Between 1990 and 2016, federally inspected plants fell 36% and non-federally inspected facilities dropped 42%. As a consequence, many small farms lack access to USDA‑inspected custom or state processing facilities—locking them out of grocery chains and school lunch contracts, even when their meat is superior.
IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (Independence Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/t
4th of July Meme Explosion
https://wilderwealthywise.com/
4th of july memes
https://boriquagato.substack.c
Memes by Themes #19: Freedom
https://margaretannaalice.subs
July 5th:
A Big, Fat Liar
https://www.americanthinker.
Zohran Mamdani has admitted listing his race as “black” on a college admission form. He is not black—he is ethnically South Asian because, by his own admission, his ancestors all came from India. It is impossible to know what went through his head when Mamdani lied on his Columbia University admission form, but the most obvious reason for doing so would have been to give himself an advantage over other applicants. If that was the case, it was not just lying; it was cheating.
(NONE of this matters to his base. Wealthy, educated, Liberal white people, primarily Liberal white women, in NYC. To Liberals, gaming the system by cheating or lying is a resume enhancement. It’s the same as getting arrested at a protest for a proper cause, getting caught taking a bribe/kickback/skimming. Being censored in Congress, or any of a myriad of other offenses. Liberals see all of this as resume’ enhancements – with the GOP, the only sin is getting caught. You are then thrown out, to the waiting MSM wolves – Why do you think that most of Congress Critters arrive in their 1st term with barely 2 nickels to rub together, yet a couple of terms later they have millions of dollars visible in the bank, on a $200K salary – jlr)
Huge American Grocery Chain Set to Close 60 Stores
https://2024conservative.com/
Kroger announced plans on Friday to close approximately 60 stores across the United States within the next 18 months. The move was disclosed during the company’s first-quarter 2025 earnings report and comes as part of a broader effort to streamline operations and boost efficiency.
No kidding…And no real surprise over here…
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/
The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes…This falls right in line with the loss of trust in the mainstream media and most of the politicians. Personally, I think a LOT of this relates directly back to the whole WuFlu debacle. From the ‘experts’ who had no real idea of what to do, to those who suppressed data, to the power hungry who closed schools, businesses, etc., on the ‘whims’ of the elites, ad infinitum. For many of us ‘peons’ it seemed that common sense solutions were immediately tossed to the winds, and we saw many instances of ‘not invented here’ syndrome. All of this caused many of us to do the cocked head look and go away mumbling to ourselves.n And I don’t think it’s getting any better…
rcd via e-mail
US Department of Transportation instructs states to get rid of gay crosswalks
https://notthebee.com/article/
‘Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork. Today I am calling on governors in every state to ensure that roadways, intersections, and crosswalks are kept free of distractions,’ said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. ‘Far too many Americans die each year to traffic fatalities to take our eye off the ball. USDOT stands ready to help communities across the country make their roads safer and easier to navigate.’…In short, states and cities will need to paint over their gay crosswalks.
AOC Fights Back Tears, Calls the Passing of Trump’s Bill ‘One of the Saddest Days in Modern American History’
https://www.westernjournal.
“I think this is one of the saddest days in modern American history,” AOC told the press. The lawmaker elaborated, “This is the largest withdrawal and ending of healthcare in American history,”…While it’s hard to surmise what her definition of “modern” is, it’s safe to say some pretty sad and horrible days have taken place in modern history: Pearl Harbor, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, to name a few…
FOOD for THOUGHT
in praise of childhood consequence – and the end of “child as customer”
https://boriquagato.substack.
yesterday, i was eating breakfast in a restaurant. the table next to me had a (i’m guessing) 3-year-old boy who started to have a melt down. i was bracing for a long, miserable dining experience as “my kid is expressing his inner air raid siren, you all need to deal with it!” certainly seems to have become the core parenting praxis of late. instead, the father simply stood up, collected his son, then took him outside. this alone was lovely and comment-worthy (a sad statement about the current state of affairs), but the rest just kept getting better. the dad came back. alone. mom (who was with the other boy child) said, “where’s billy?” (i’m making up this name) dad: “in the car.” mom: oh, ok. other son (perhaps 5) nodded sagely as if he too had once learned this lesson…any gen X remembers this. you act up in a restaurant? no one is negotiating with terrorists. car. right now. no questions. no reprieve. get it together or go sit by yourself until you can…it still works. turns out nothing has changed except parental will to be parents instead of “appeasing buddies” and society’s will to let them.
YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID/INSANE
‘This Is Embarrassing’! The Hill Serves Up an Alternate Universe Hot Take About Trump’s Failures
https://twitchy.com/dougp/
… The Hill served up an op-ed that caters to the trembling TDS crowd and it’s another alternate universe doozy, especially considering what we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks…https://thehill.com/
The Word is MALES: ABC Trots Out ‘Experts’ to Whine About Banning ‘Transgender Females’ In Sports
https://twitchy.com/grateful-
…A couple ot days ago, fresh on the heels of allowing states to ban mutilation of minors, the Supreme Court announced that they will hear two cases regarding the constitutionality of states banning men (a.k.a, ‘trans women’) from competing in women’s sports….Naturally, this has the gender cult in a panic. They are so scared, in fact, that ABC News decided to coin a brand new term for men in womanface. They’re not ‘trans women’ anymore, they are ‘transgender females.’…ABC News also cites ‘legal experts’ who are opposed to the ban. You may want to take a seat for this, but it turns out that ABC is lying about that, to…How can two people who can’t define what a woman is be considered ‘experts’ about anything?…But … but … but it hurts the feelings of the deranged cultists! Shouldn’t that make it unconstitutional? (Don’t laugh too hard. This is likely to be the crux of their argument.)…. The assault on language from cultural Marxists has always been deliberate. It’s what Marxists do. What’s funny about it is that the gender cult is dying a slow but well-deserved death, and yet they still think they can get away with this type of gaslighting propaganda.
Hakeem Jeffries’ Terrible, Horrible No Good, Very Bad Week Ends With Him Becoming the Scream Meme
https://twitchy.com/grateful-
His ‘leadership’ of the opposition to President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has just been one massive faceplant after another. He tried looking tough with a baseball bat, but ended up looking like a benchwarmer on a Little League team. His nine-hour grandstanding speech trying to stop the passage of the bill was so boring, he even put his fellow Democrats to sleep…when he was finally done talking, House Republicans simply dismissed him and passed the bill in a matter of minutes…to add insult to injury, The Daily Caller landed a finishing blow to Jeffries with an image of him on his knees, screaming on the floor of the House chamber. photo – https://x.com/DailyCaller/
Feds Breeding Billions of Flies, Planning to Dump Them on Texas and Mexico
https://www.westernjournal.
News
Luis Marcus Luna drives cattle through a gate in the border fence from Mexico into the United States at the Santa Teresa International Export/Import livestock crossing on June 5, 2019, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Luis Marcus Luna drives cattle through a gate in the border fence from Mexico into the United States at the Santa Teresa International Export/Import livestock crossing on June 5, 2019, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Feds Breeding Billions of Flies, Planning to Dump Them on Texas and Mexico. The federal government is currently breeding billions of sterile screwworm flies in an effort to combat a deadly parasite that targets livestock and wildlife across parts of Texas and Mexico. The multinational project, which has been active for decades, is being expanded with new infrastructure built to combat a growing threat posed by the screwworm fly.
FIREARM NEWS
What failure looks like 20 years later.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
Every single Gun Control Group, almost every newspaper and media outlet was furiously bashing the law and Democrats were swearing on several dozen stacks of bibles that Florida was about to become the Wild West. The fight against SYG continues for at least 5 more years till they figure it out that Floridians liked the law, and a case in Miami made it to the State Supreme Court and it was confirmed as firm law of the land.
IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (365th Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/
(For some reason, when I see the 1st picture, I hear the JAWS theme going “DIRNDL……..DIRNDL……
July 6th:
Here’s the Gross Anti-Trump Narrative Libs Are Peddling About the Horrific Flash Floods in Texas
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
It’s the deadliest weather disaster of 2025 thus far: flash floods in central Texas caused immense damage, killing at least 50 people, 15 of whom were children. It’s been a hellacious event. In Kerr County, a Christian girls’ camp was washed away – – –
video – 00:00:30 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
As search and rescue operations are underway, liberals are jumping for glee, concern trolling, or outright spewing hatred. It’s the same game: these red states deserve it, or ‘this is what happens when you cut too much government.’…the biggest crux of the anti-Trump narrative about this from the media: the National Weather Service didn’t give enough warning. Not the case
(READ THE COMMENTS IN THE ARTICLE – jlr)
Another Wildfire Has Hit California and Newsom’s Plan Is to Attack Trump
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
Earlier this year, wildfires hit Los Angeles. It was a tragic story of blue state incompetence…. Another wildfire has hit, the Madre Fire, which has hit the central part of California….Newsom is making it his mission to go after Trump…”Trump needs to WAKE UP and start funding federal firefighters and land-management teams in these rural communities – instead of giving tax cuts to billionaires,”…”Trump’s incompetence is endangering lives,”…Newsom has been consistently posting his hysterical outrage about the OBBB from both his official and political X accounts, but this takes it to a new level. There’s been 10,000 replies and he may also be hit with context from Community Notes, since wildfire management is a matter of how the state responds. Newsom cut $100 million in fire prevention from the 2024-2025 state budget.
FL State Dems Cry About Illegals, Demand Access to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’; Florida GOP Mocks Them
https://redstate.com/
…it makes no sense at all that some no-name, Florida state Democrats decided it would be a smart idea this week to barge over to what’s likely the most recently opened, illegal immigrant holding center, colloquially known as “Alligator Alcatraz,”…A group of five Democratic state lawmakers in Florida said they were denied entry to “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility, on Thursday due to “safety reasons,“ days after President Trump toured the facility alongside Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)…Jones’ sad attempt to make a nothingburger protest into something by using all caps up-top, posting on X later on Thursday…One of them, who appeared to be the spokesperson of sorts, cries to the media gaggle about the illegal aliens who did not get “due process” before becoming the first residents inside the place, then has the gall to dub the facility a “political stunt.” This is a group of people that needs to invest in a mirror, if they’re going to talk about political stunts. That’s exactly what this is, much like the fake concern visits to both facilities and immigration courts in states like New Jersey, New York, and California…Imagine if they cared this much about homeless veterans or hurricane victims
Former NFL Star Jason Kelce Celebrates July 4th, Finds Out the Hard Way That Leftists Hate America
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/
https://www.instagram.com/
Man I love the 4th! One of the great days we all can set aside our differences in this country, and enjoy the one thing we all share in common. That we are American! Cheers to you oh beautiful America…leftists didn’t like that. How dare you praise the country that is oh so evil, that wants to imprison everyone, that is worse than Iran, that is now a Donald Trump autocracy?…Poor Kelce—the craziness came hard, and it came quick…Almost immediately, he was ripped in the comments…”Set aside differences? One party wants to feed children. The other wants to feed brown people to alligators,” one person wrote…”Unfortunately Jason this is not real life for many. They signed the worst bill for so many Americans today just to rub it in our faces. I know it’s hard to understand, but so many will suffer,” another added…Another user called his post “tone deaf.”
Supporters of Jihadi Communist Zohran Mamdani Take to NYC Streets Chanting “Fc k the 4Th!” “We Reject Eric Adams! Fck the Mayor!” Burn American Flag on Independence Day
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
New York City will never survive a Mamdani win. – When they tell you what they mean to do, believe them…We are not fear mongering Islamophobes; He literally says the thing out loud. Zohran Mamdani: “We came here to remake this state in the image of our people.”
video – 00:00:39 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
video – 00:00:49 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
Obama’s Hatchet Man John Brennan Should be in Prison
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
How does the highest of crimes escape indictment? -Damning declassified handwritten notes CONFIRM: CIA Director John Brennan briefed Barack Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including Hillary Clinton’s approval—on July 26—to initiate an operation aimed at overthrowing the United States government during the 2016 presidential election…More damning emails obtained by John Solomon CONFIRM: CIA Director Mike Morell asking CIA Director John Brennan if he could assist in the effort to overthrow the U.S. government during the November 3, 2020 election. Mike Morell wrote: “Trying to give the campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this issue.” John Brennan : “Ok Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative. Thanks for asking me to sign on.” In other words, John Brennan, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others were involved in a conspiracy to attempt the overthrow of the United States government in 2016, and the overthrow of the United States government in 2020.
video – 00:01:18 – https://x.com/i/status/
Boxer Chávez Jr. Expected To Be Deported To Mexico To Serve Sentence, Mexican President Says
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on July 4 that she expects boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. to be deported to Mexico to serve a prison sentence after his arrest in Los Angeles by U.S. immigration authorities…“The hope is that he will be deported and serve the sentence in Mexico,” Sheinbaum said during a news briefing Friday, referring to charges the boxer faces in Mexico related to arms and drug trafficking. She added that Mexico had not previously arrested Chávez because he had been living primarily in the United States…Chavez has an active arrest warrant issued in 2023 for alleged involvement with the Sinaloa cartel and trafficking of firearms, ammunition, and explosives. U.S. immigration officials say he has links to organized crime and called him an “egregious public safety threat,” but a Biden-era entry in a DHS law enforcement system indicated he was not an immigration enforcement priority…“It is shocking the previous administration flagged this criminal illegal alien as a public safety threat, but chose to not prioritize his removal and let him leave and COME BACK into our country,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “Under President Trump, no one is above the law—including world-famous athletes. Our message to any cartel affiliates in the U.S. is clear: We will find you and you will face consequences. The days of unchecked cartel violence are over.”…
US Expands Militarized Zones To One Third Of Southern Border
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees…The move places long stretches of the border under the supervision of nearby military bases, empowering U.S. troops to detain people who enter the country illegally and sidestep a law prohibiting military involvement in civilian law enforcement. It is done under the authority of the national emergency on the border declared by President Donald Trump on his first day in office…Two militarized zones form a buffer along 230 miles of border, from Fort Hancock, Texas, through El Paso and westward across vast New Mexico ranchlands…
FOOD for THOUGHT
“The Struggle To Get ‘Normal’ Again Is Epic… And Harsh…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/
O, Norman Rockwell, where are you when we really need you?…Forgive us, Emma Lazarus, our second thoughts about those huddled masses yearning to breathe free…the wretched refuse of your teeming shore(s)…That was then, and this is now. O, beautiful for spacious skies (but, why so many contrails criss-crossing overhead from the New York Island to the gulf stream waters?).
O, land of tattooed grandmas, hostages of the tiny screens, the sexually confounded, the illiterate and innumerate, the lawless and the feckless, brainwashed youth marinated in Marx, the deranged, befuddled, the bought-off, the bug-eyed and bewildered, the lame, the halt, the addicts, grifters, hustlers, porn-stars, drugstore cowboys, alpha dogs, beta boys, shrieking Karens, and sundry victims of future-shock — whither, this hallowed experiment in nationhood
(It’s WORTH the time to read the whole thing – jlr)
TEXAS
TX Police Officer Shot in Neck at ICE Detention Center, Multiple Suspects Arrested Wearing Body Armor
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/
…Just before 11 p.m., the Alvarado Police Department said it was called to the 1200 block of Sunflower Lane, outside the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility, on a report of a suspicious person. When officers arrived, they saw a person who appeared to be carrying a firearm, according to a news release…According to Alvarado police, several armed suspects were taken into custody after trying to flee the scene with the help of local agencies, including the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office…What’s disturbing about this incident is these folks were clearly ready for battle, and like the deranged assassin in Coeur d’Alene who shot responding firefighters, tragically killing two, these guys appear to have intentionally lured authorities to the scene…reports indicate that more than a dozen masked individuals dressed in black arrived at the Prairieland ICE detention facility late Friday night and vandalized vehicles and security cameras in the parking lot…launched fireworks in an apparent effort to lure law enforcement.
Camp Mystic Flood Rescue Ongoing via “The Texas Flyover” newsletter
Rescuers are still searching central Texas for 27 girls missing from Camp Mystic after flash flooding tore through Kerr County on July 4, killing at least 32 people—18 adults and 14 children. Three young campers have been confirmed dead, and families are gathering at reunification centers in Ingram and Kerrville for news of their loved ones. The Guadalupe River surged more than 26 feet in under an hour, devastating the riverside town of Hunt and wiping out much of the camp. As of Friday night, at least 237 people had been rescued—167 by helicopter. More than 6.5 inches of rain fell in three hours, a rare, century-level storm that triggered flash flood emergencies across the Hill Country. To relieve pressure on the river system, floodgates at two upstream dams were opened. Gov. Greg Abbott declared a disaster across 15 counties and deployed more than 1,000 state responders. “We will stop at nothing to ensure…that everybody involved in this is going to be fully accounted for,”.
Five deceased campers identified as death toll continues to rise after devastating Texas flood
https://www.foxnews.com/us/
Gov. Abbott: ‘We will stop at nothing’ to find Hill Country flood victims
https://www.kens5.com/article/
Camp Mystic director died while trying to save campers from catastrophic Texas floods
https://www.kens5.com/article/
As the Death Toll Rises in Texas, Democrats Choose to Be Black-Souled, Evil Ghouls
https://redstate.com/bonchie/
…multiple Democrats have decided to eschew any empathy in pursuit of selfish partisan gain. Ron Filipowski, editor of the left-wing outlet Meidas Touch, posted this on Saturday…Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski – The people in Texas voted for government services controlled by Donald Trump and Greg Abbott. That is exactly what they getting…Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener – Trump & Musk gutted the National Weather Service. The result was predictable: A bad forecast leading to the death of children in a horrific flood…Texas Officials Slam Trump’s National Weather Service for Botched Forecast – https://www.thedailybeast.com/
YES, THEY ARE THID STUPID / DUPLICITOUS / INSANE
Democrats Uncork Crazy Talk on the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
https://townhall.com/
Democrats can say the wildest and craziest things and know that all those badly named “mainstream” media outlets and fact-checkers won’t care in the slightest…They are very upset after that “Big Beautiful Bill” extending the Trump tax breaks for most Americans passed Congress…”Tim, extreme House Republicans just approved the largest cut to Medicaid and food assistance in American history to fund tax breaks for their billionaire donors. The latest GOP stunt will rip healthcare away from 17 MILLION Americans, jack up our utility bills and take food out of the mouths of children, seniors and veterans…Don’t bother noting that Republicans wanted to stop giving illegal immigrants government benefits and wanted to install work requirements for government programs. For example, only 28% of able-bodied adults on food stamps work… from “Speaker Emerita” Nancy Pelos “House Republicans just voted to CUT Medicaid and food assistance for up to 20 MILLION vulnerable Americans — including their own constituents — to give tax handouts to billionaire CEOs. Tim, I don’t say this lightly: This bill will usher in a dark and deadly moment in our country’s history.”…We just watched Republicans pass a bill in the Senate to rip health care from MILLIONS of Americans — all to fund tax breaks for billionaires like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s heartless. It’s corrupt. It’s SINFUL. And it’s our job to make Republicans pay the price at the ballot box.”
Chubby Woman Is Ready to Fight, Doesn’t Care If People Abuse SNAP Benefits
https://twitchy.com/brettt/
…The Daily Caller posted what we’re pretty sure is an AI-generated image of House Minority Leader Extreme Hakeem Jeffries doing the classic “Trump scream” on his knees on the House floor…All of the congressional Democrats have done their X posts about how many people are going to die because the One Big Beautiful Bill was passed…Let’s reach out and see how the American public is doing. This woman posted a video of herself just crying.
(video – 00:00:17 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
here’s a woman who doesn’t look like she’s struggled to get a hold of food saying that she doesn’t care if people abuse SNAP. People are going to be driven to stealing loaves of bread, like the looters we always see outside Apple stores and high-end boutiques, and the prisons are going to fill up. Nice going, Republicans.
(video – 00:01:25 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
CNN Stunned As Majority Of Americans Back Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan
https://www.zerohedge.com/
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major deportation victory on Thursday. On the same day, the GOP-led House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in a narrow 218–214 vote—legislation that paves the way for over one million deportations annually. Meanwhile, the first illegals arrived at “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, with outbound flights soon to follow. With these massive wins stacking up, Trump has secured yet another victory: the hearts of the American people, who overwhelmingly support this effort to restore national security…with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—set for President Trump’s signature on Friday afternoon—the bill permanently secures the border through the largest investment in immigration enforcement in U.S. history. It includes funding for over one million deportations annually and provides resources to complete the southern border wall…Trump’s deportation agenda is gaining serious momentum, and one key driver is public sentiment. As it turns out, even legacy mainstream media polls show a clear majority of Americans support the administration’s illegal alien crackdown. CNN hosts appeared visibly stunned by the numbers, revealing that the public is firmly behind Trump in restoring law and order nationwide…Trump’s overwhelming support from voters for mass deportations suggests the left’s NGO propaganda machine is failing to control the narrative. The optics look increasingly dire for Democrats, especially as some within their ranks openly cheerlead radical Marxism.
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Ozzy Osbourne goes out on a high at farewell gig
https://www.bbc.com/news/
76 with Parkinsons, sitting on a bat throne, having a grand time… lotsa love in that arena
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath have gone out with a bang at what they say will be their final gig, in front of 40,000 fans and supported by an all-star line-up of rock legends who have been influenced by the founding fathers of heavy metal.
video – 00:00:54 – https://www.bbc.com/news/
IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Mexican Restaurant’s Authenticity Questioned After Experiencing Zero ICE Raids
https://babylonbee.com/news/
ATLANTA, GA — Locals have begun questioning the authenticity of purported Mexican restaurant “El Bandido” as ICE has yet to raid the restaurant a single time. With nearby restaurants being hit by ICE on a near-daily basis, concerns about El Bandido’s genuineness have risen as no waiter, cook, or busboy has been taken into custody. “It’s a bad look,” said former patron Dan Billings. “How do you claim to serve authentic Mexican cuisine and your kitchen door hasn’t even been broken down by ICE? It just doesn’t add up. I’m taking my business over to Julio’s, they’re getting raided all the time. Just last week, ICE hit ’em right when I was getting my enchiladas. That’s how you know it’s good.” The owner of El Bandido has defended his restaurant, adamantly maintaining its authenticity. “I’m sure ICE will be here any day, I’ve got so many illegals in the back — just give us time!” stated Mr. Javier Lopez. “Please, you’ve got to believe me, there’s not one green card holder back there. I promise!” At publishing time, Lopez had begun offering a free enchilada plate for any ICE officer who arrested one of his staff.
Planned Parenthood Warns Funding Cut Will Result In Birth Of Thousands Of Babies
https://babylonbee.com/news/
Following the passing of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” to set the government’s spending budget, Planned Parenthood warned that the massive funding cut would result in the birth of thousands of babies. The abortion provider issues a solemn public statement on Friday, letting Americans across the country know that the crippling reduction in government funding would likely cause a chain reaction that would lead to thousands upon thousand of healthy, adorable babies being born into the world. “It’s important to let everyone know what’s going to come from this,” said Planned Parenthood spokesperson Jeannie Raye. “We were hoping to avoid this outcome, but we regret to inform the American people that this cut in funding due to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will, in all likelihood, result in large numbers of babies being born instead of murdered. It’s a horrifying realization for all of us here.” Inside sources reported that Planned Parenthood leaders were worried that America would be unprepared for the onslaught of beautiful infants that would be produced in the wake of the spending bill’s passing. “It is, indeed, a sad day,” one source said. “We’d love to keep dismembering babies in their mothers’ wombs, but without our federal funding, we’re afraid that these lovable little human beings will instead be born alive. Who wants to live in a country like this?” At publishing time, Planned Parenthood also warned that the thousands of births that would result from the loss of funding could result in stronger, more stable families led by parents who learn to live like responsible adults.
How do we know that either Hell is one single temperature or there are no engineers in Hell? If there was a temperature differential and an engineer, they would have made a heat pump and be enjoying mild temperatures.
When you have a device that can both heat and cool the inside of a building, we call it a “heat pump”. An Air Conditioner is a heat pump that is optimized to pump heat out of a building.
A heat pump is a practical application of the Ideal Gas Law. The gist of the Ideal Gas Law, in this context, is that as the pressure decreases, heat also decreases.
You can feel this when using a spray can. If you allow the gas to escape, the pressure inside decreases and the can gets colder.
So a heat pump works by having a compress turn a gas into a liquid. This causes the temperature of the liquid to go up, lots. That hot liquid is then moved through a radiator. A fan blows air through that radiator, transferring heat from the liquid to the air.
This causes the air to be warmer leaving the heat pump than when it entered.
That compressed liquid is now cooler. It is then moved to an orifice where it is allowed to expand rapidly. Following the Ideal Gas Law, this causes the temperature to drop.
This cold gas is then pushed through a different radiator. This radiator takes heat from the air being blown across it and transfers that heat to the gas.
The gas then ends up back at the compressor, ready to start its trip again.
Heat pumps can be efficient if there is enough temperature differential on the waste side. In other words, they don’t work well in the north country where you are attempting to pull heat from sub freezing air. The cooling side still works in hot places because it is easier to add heat to already hot air than to pull heat from cold air.
The real problem is that compressor. That compressor does real work. Real work always has waste heat. So that compressor is turning expensive electricity into heat and then trying to get rid of the heat.
For a heat pump to work, you need an appropriate gas, a compressor, two heat exchangers, and at least two fans.
These things are old technology. They have been around for thousands of years. The basic method they use is to move air across water. The air moving across the water causes the water to evaporate. As the water evaporates, it sucks heat out of the air.
We will start with some numbers.
To raise one gram of water (also known as a ml) requires one calorie.
There are 252 calories in a BTU.
To raise one ml of water from 24°C to 100° requires 76 Calories.
To cause water to change state from a liquid to a gas requires 540 Calories.
That means that causing one ml of water to evaporate will take two BTUs of heat.
A swamp cooler does just this. It transfers heat into water vapor. You place the swamp cooler where there is a cross breeze. A fan blows air across a water impregnated membrane of some sort, think a porous towel or a piece of cheese cloth.
As the air moves across the water, the water evaporates, pulling heat from the air.
The cooler air now flows into the room with a little more moisture in it.
Depending on the amount of moisture in the air, a swamp cooler can drop the temperature, in the local area, by up to 30°F.
That’s not bad.
Above is a homemade version of a swamp cooler. It works by blowing air on water that then evaporates and cooler air comes out the side vents.
I purchased a Chinese made version. It is about 2.5 ft tall, about a foot square. It holds 4 liters of water, a little more than a gallon.
It has a fiber honeycomb to hold the water. There is a small fish tank type pump in the reservoir to pump water up to a holding tank. From there, water flows at a fixed rate into the honeycomb.
There is one major fan to move air across the honeycomb. There is a second, small motor to move vanes to redirect the air.
That’s it.
This thing pulls less power than one of our normal window fans. That’s because we aren’t running the fan at full speed. Instead, we are running the fan at medium while the pump and oscillator run.
And bluntly, the only reason I know the oscillator has its own motor is because there are electronic controls to turn it off and on.
One nice thing is the remote. There have been a couple of times when the room has gotten too cold for sleeping comfortably. The remote has an easy to find “off” button. Which is what I use.
Total cost for this? $99 from Amazon.
If you are running fans for cooling, it is worth while looking into a modern swamp cooler.
You know you done f’ed up when Kagan is siding with the conservative side of the court.
The gist of the issues is that the Supreme Court issued a stay regarding an inferior district court’s injunction stopping the Trump Administration from deporting criminal, illegal aliens. The 8 deportees in question have all been adjudicated guilty of violent crimes. Rape, rape of a child, murder, attempted murder and other crimes.
All of them have had not only full due process for a criminal alien, but also for somebody accused of a serious crime. They were found guilty.
After the court found them guilty, a final order for removal was issued.
These people were so despicable that their origin countries refused to take them back. This left the Administration with limited options. When a criminal alien is deported, the choices are to the last country they were in or their country of origin. If their country of origin and the last country refuses them entry, then it is the duty of the Administration to figure out what to do with them.
Since we can’t just execute them. Even though a wood chopper is the tool of choice for kiddy diddlers, that isn’t allowed under our morals.
The administration could just let them live in the comfort of a US jail/prison. Or they can deport them to a third-party country.
Nobody wanted these people. That is how bad they are. The Trump Administration negotiated with several countries before a couple agreed to take these monsters. We don’t know what it costs to be rid of them.
This inferior court judge decided that he was the person to set foreign policy and to decide how immigration policy should be.
Of course, he is in the First Circuit out of Boston. One of those 5 districts that issued 35 universal injunctions.
And this injunction was another universal injunction. Since this was before Trump v. CASA, universal injunctions had not been ruled unconstitutional.
Now, the left likes to play games with words. Trump is playing that even better. The injunction issued by the District Court’s injunction said that the DoJ could not deport these criminals. So the administration let the DoD deport them.
So the Administration followed the letter of the “law” but ignored the spirit. This Biden appointee, with less than 200 days on the federal bench, had a hissy fit.
He issued an order for remedial action against the Trump Administration. His order created new immigration policy. It set up new, never before used rules and methods. In short, he decided he was able to dictate to the Article II executive how immigration policy should be done.
The administration appealed to the First Circuit, which ruled against them. A foregone conclusion.
This was then appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court issued a stay on June 23rd.
This stay allowed the government to deport non-citizens to third countries.
The same day the stay was issued, the inferior district court issued an order stating that the remedies that had been ordered were still enforce because the government had not challenged the remedies.
This led the government to go back to the Supreme Court looking for a “Clarification”. This is almost unheard of.
This is one of the parties telling The Court that their inferior court was disobeying a direct order.
The Court granted that clarification. Even Kagan thought it should be clarified and agreed it was correctly clarified.
If the injunction is stayed, then any penalties that were issued by the inferior court are also stayed.
This is actually another powerful opinion from the Supreme Court.
In J.G.G. v. Trump, the district court was found to lack jurisdiction over the case. The case was transferred to the appropriate court, through the district court of New Jersey. The New Jersey district court got the case and immediately transferred it to Texas. Honest judges are doing such a good job that we don’t even hear about the case anymore.
The judge in the D.C. district court found “probable cause” to find the Trump Administration in contempt of an injunction he did not have the jurisdiction nor authority to issue.
This current opinion, DHS v. D.V.D. will help in the J.G.G. v. Trump case.
I’ve tagged this “from behind enemy lines” because I didn’t know where to put it. It’s replacing today’s prepping article because I only have time to write one, and this one needs to be written.
Many of you know, maybe all of you, that I’ve drifted Right over the past few years. Some of it is indeed that the Left has run so far Left that I look Right, but some of it is the conservative beliefs I already had (fiscal conservatism, for instance, and my stance on 2A) coming to the forefront. I have gone from being a “never Trumper” to being cautiously optimistic about him. I think that’s the most I could ever really have for any President, because the act of becoming President means I should be examining their every move carefully. I don’t care if it’s Gandhi or Mother Teresa. If you’re President, every action you take should be scrutinized, constantly and unendingly. You are MY employee, not the other way around, and in order to make sure you do a good job, I need to watch what’s going on.
I am not a fan of the BBB (Congress.gov). First and foremost, I believe that things need to be simple, and people I trust have stated that this bill is full of pork. It’s as full of pork as any other budget that’s been put in front of the House. I don’t want pork. We The People didn’t elect Trump to put pork into bills; he was hired to remove it. The fact that it took some 16 hours for the bill to be read to the Senate says enough. The fact that I don’t have time to read the damn thing from beginning to end says more. The fact that the table of contents itself is larger than I believe ANY bill should be pretty much puts the last nail in the coffin.
If it’s too long for ME to read, then the average American isn’t going to read it. That’s just a statement of plain fact. It’s also a damn shame. It puts the country in another moment of “you have to vote the bill in to know what’s in it.” Nothing that this country’s government is passing should be beyond the understanding of the average American (I realize we need to educate our people more, and that’s another fight for another day, but let’s just assume that most people have the reading ability and comprehension to read most bills). If the government is inking up rules for us that we cannot comprehend, then we’re no better than Britain was 250 years ago, folks. It means we have a ruling class, and that is EXACTLY what we fought to get out of.
I realize some folks are always going to consent to be ruled from on high. I can’t help them. Frankly, I’m not even interested in helping them (though the thought of deporting them has come to mind). If you haven’t voted in the last four Presidential elections, then I’m not really talking to you. You can move along. I’m talking to those of you who give a shit, who try to keep up with this crap, and attempt to understand it in order to make educated choices.