Read all!-----My neighborhood grocer has to lock up laundry detergent | the Aspen beat

People were stealing so much laundry detergent that my grocery store had to put it behind locked glass doors.

To buy some, you ring a bell and an employee comes to unlock the case for you. 

This is for a $12 item, mind you.
(It’s not clear to me how this procedure prevents theft. Can’t the thief still walk out with the merchandise? Maybe the stupid thieves haven’t figured that out yet.)

• There’s a whole movement out there legitimizing shoplifting. 
• Mainstream “influencers” now say shoplifting is OK – in fact, the shopkeepers deserve it because the people have been ripped off by “corporations.”..

Frightening!

May 12, 2026 $149,500 of taxpayer money was approved for "all gender locker room" for the Grand Rapids MI Police Department

"all gender locker room"  - John Guyton

#1 This day 1963----- Jimmy Soul - If you wanna be happy - YouTube

(38) Jimmy Soul - If you wanna be happy - YouTube:

"Arctic sea ice measured 4.6 million km2 at the 2025 summer minimum, which is 35% higher than the record low of 3.4 million km2 set in 2012.

Late-season ice retention has improved drastically in the past 13 years. - Electroverse@Electroversenet
Losses have not accelerated. 

And when the trend is extended, the data show no net summer ice loss for 18 years now. 

• A collapse was forecast. 
• But it did not occur.

"Where did they get it?"

 

Exclusive: Border Patrol discovers 19 people hiding in drainage system trying to illegally enter US | Blaze Media

Exclusive: Border Patrol discovers 19 people hiding in drainage system trying to illegally enter US | Blaze Media: 

They arrested 19 suspects, 16 adults and three unaccompanied minors, all of whom are Mexican citizens.

“The dedicated men and women of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, alongside our law enforcement partners, have arrested and removed thousands of criminal aliens from the country — including gang members, rapists, kidnappers, and drug traffickers — to make our communities safer,” the CBP stated.

Guardian: "Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO" - Watts Up With That?

“Far from being a fading priority or fake news, climate change poses an immediate and long-term threat to health, economic, food, water, environmental, personal, community and national security.”… - Eric Worrall

The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said...
The report also called for measures to tackle disinformation, greater use of national climate health impact assessments, as well as recognition that climate change was also a mental health crisis.

In my opinion when they have to lead your argument by assuring readers they aren’t fake news, in a news outlet like The Guardian, they’ve already lost.

• The WHO also has its own credibility problems. WHO was widely perceived as stooging for China during the early days of the Covid pandemic...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 20

History for May 20 - On-This-Day.com 

Dolley Payne Madison 1768 - U.S. First Lady, wife of 4th President James Madison

• 1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior
• 1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.
• 1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
• 1939 - The first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean began with the take-off of the "Yankee Clipper" from Port Washington, New York.
• 2013 - In New York, NY, One World Trade Center reached its full height when the spirt was installed atop the building. The height of 1776 feet put the building at the tallest in the Western Hemisphere.

The Founders Likely Built the Most Famous Phrase in the Declaration of Independence from a Christian Sermon

The Founders Likely Built the Most Famous Phrase in the Declaration of Independence from a Christian Sermon: 

“They decided that if we were going to get everybody on the same page, there was this pastor years ago who preached these great sermons. We should reprint those sermons and have them so Americans can reach them because that would help them understand what we’re thinking and where we’re coming from,” Barton said.

David Barton noted that the Sons of Liberty was a group that included Declaration signers Samuel Adams and John Hancock.

The way we were----- Dan Quayle Speech About Murphy Brown and Family Values - YouTube

(38) Dan Quayle Speech About Murphy Brown and Family Values - YouTube:

Mamdani’s Mobs SEIZE NYC Hospital… Then ICE Deports The ENTIRE BUILDING

Mamdani’s Mobs SEIZE NYC Hospital… Then ICE Deports The ENTIRE BUILDING:

How exactly does vote fraud occur?

Well, there are dozens and dozens of ways. - John F. Di Leo

Maybe even hundreds (since I've been studying the issue for decades, and I'm always still discovering people committing methods that are new to me)...
The Washington Times has an interesting report today about a California Democrat who pled guilty to a raft of crimes in this arena, to be summed up as follows:

She'd be recruited as a paid petition collector or voting registrar, meaning that sometimes she'd be hired at a flat fee per name to collect signatures or to get people to register to vote..... if they weren't already registered when she asked them to sign a petition, she'd take care of both issues the same day.
One of her favorite methods was to troll the various Skid Rows of Los Angeles and its vicinity, looking for homeless people. 

If they didn't have an address, she'd let them use one of her own addresses.
This way, since California likes to mass-mail ballots to registered voters, she would get lots of ballots delivered to her house - and yes, she could vote them all...

𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐓𝐓 𝐉𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐍𝐍: 𝐈𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒, 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐒

“𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 — 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺. 

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘪𝘮 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘶𝘱.” - M.A. Rothman
The historical record Jennings is naming:

• — The 𝐊𝐊𝐊 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 from Reconstruction through the 1960s.
• — 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐢𝐦 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞 was passed by Democratic state legislatures.
• — The 1964 Civil Rights Act passed with 𝟖𝟎% 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 in the House and 𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦.
• — The Voting Rights Act of 1965 cleared the Senate with 30 of 32 Republicans voting yes; 21 Democrats voted no.

The modern Democratic talking point inverts the historical record...

'What is not ready?': Maria Bartiromo presses acting AG on probe into Trump-Russia hoax * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

'What is not ready?': Maria Bartiromo presses acting AG on probe into Trump-Russia hoax * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in July released documents and a memo detailing what she called a "years-long coup" against Trump after he defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department. Bartiromo asked Blanche why there had not been any indictments over the targeting of Trump by the Obama and Biden administrations. "You heard the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee saying that there has been a conspiracy over 10 years. What have you done about it?" Bartiromo asked Blanche.

Museum Car Gets Ticket Without Being Driven - YouTube

(38) Museum Car Gets Ticket Without Being Driven - YouTube:

The Spencer Pratt's (Los Angeles mayoral candidate) campaign is on fire.

This one is so LA it hits hard! -Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson

• I don’t know who does all of these, it’s several people, but they’re profoundly impactful. 

Lunch video-----Lions vs. Scavengers: The Values That Built the West | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU - YouTube

(38) Lions vs. Scavengers: The Values That Built the West | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU - YouTube

Noon-toon

 

Parents urge Congress to investigate pediatricians pushing transgenderism on kids * WorldNetDaily * by Ireland Owens, Daily Caller News Foundation

Parents urge Congress to investigate pediatricians pushing transgenderism on kids * WorldNetDaily * by Ireland Owens, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

The American Parents Coalition is urging Congress to investigate the American Academy of Pediatrics' federal funding, alleging that the group has prioritized promoting transgender ideology "over parental rights," the Daily Caller News Foundation has first learned.

The divorce came out of nowhere.

The divorce came out of nowhere. - 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 @Hoang_HQ

Doesn’t matter who you are - if you steal from the taxpayers you belong in prison.

That’s why today I asked the DOJ to investigate Whitmer’s connection to the Beydoun scandal. - Aric Nesbitt@aricnesbitt

• It’s time to declare WAR on fraud.

How corrupt?