JD Vance Suggests Mammon, Not God, May Explain the Stance of US Catholic Bishops on the Migrant Invasion

Earlier in the week, Trump's Border Czar, Tom Homan, did something I don't think any American official has done. He took a shot at the Pope, labeling his position as hypocrisy. - streiff

• The Pope called the policy a "disaster" and said that Trump would show he was "not a Christian" if he went ahead with it. 
• The new executive order has provoked calls for resistance by progressive state and local officials, and it has also caused the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which represents (lol) the interests of American Catholics, to oppose the policy.

They have a wall around the Vatican. And if you illegally enter the Vatican, the crime is serious. You'll be charged with a serious crime. Be jailed. So he can protect the Vatican where he lives. He can build a wall where he lives, but American people are not allowed that.

Homan is referring to Vatican City's no-nonsense ban on illegal immigrants that can bring a stiff jail sentence.
Sunday, on Meet the Press, Vice President JD Vance put the USCCB on notice...

#1 Movie this week 1985-----Beverly Hills Cop - Trailer

Who Should America Protect, and How? - American Thinker

Who Should America Protect, and How? - American Thinker - John F. Di Leo 

• At this writing, the offense of the hour (it will soon change, but for this hour, anyway) is that the new Trump-Vance administration has stripped several former high-level bureaucrats of very expensive Secret Service protection.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and former NIAID director Anthony Fauci (long the most highly-paid federal employee, for what it’s worth) were among those whom the country has been providing with robust round-the-clock security for years.
What do we mean by robust? 

•  Millions of dollars per year. 
•  Each...

#1 This day 1963-----Walk Right In - The Rooftop Singers {Stereo} 1963

Muscular Leadership is Sexy - by Michael Smith

And Trump 2.0 is bringing the F*ck Around and Find Out/I Don't Give a F*ck sexy back. - Michael Smith 

When I evaluate what Trump has done in less a week, it is a masterclass in taking extraordinary measures to force a nation to do the ordinary things it was tricked into forgetting how to do...

• In a brief few days, America has remembered that leadership is sexy – particularly FAFO/IDGAF muscular leadership - and President Trump is bringing sexy back...

Why is it important for America to have a strong leader as president?
Because the world needs America to lead.
The world is in chaos today for two reasons:

• There are countries, political systems, and religions in the world that are using the chaos to damage and weaken America. It is to their benefit to keep instability going as long as possible to do as much damage as possible.
• American leadership is missing from the world today... 

"I was just informed..."

 

Trump admin drops charges against whistleblower who exposed transgender operations at Children's Hospital in Texas | Blaze Media

Trump admin drops charges against whistleblower who exposed transgender operations at Children's Hospital in Texas | Blaze Media: 

The Biden administration was accused of unfairly targeting the whistleblower.

The Trump administration moved to dismiss charges against a doctor whistleblower who exposed transgender surgeries being performed in secret at a Texas children's hospital.

Texas surgeon Dr. Eithan Haim obtained documents proving that Texas Children’s Hospital was providing gender transition services in secret and passed them on to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo in order to stop the illegal procedures.

Can every city ignore federal laws??-----Grand Rapids police ‘not in the business of immigration enforcement,’ chief says

“We are not to inquire about immigration status. We’re not asking about it. Even if it was proactively provided to us, we are prohibited from detaining based on immigration status,” Winstrom said. -  John Tunison 

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom said his officers will not be arresting or detaining people solely on the basis of an immigration violation...

• “The Grand Rapids Police Department is not in the business of immigration enforcement, period,” Winstrom said...
• Winstrom said the policy guiding Grand Rapids officers was created in 2019 and is not new.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 27

History for January 27 - On-This-Day.com 

Hyman Rickover 1900

• 1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
• 1926 - John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television.
• 1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
• 1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.
• 1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
• 1998 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
• 1999 - The U.S. Senate blocked dismissal of the impeachment case against President Clinton and voted for new testimony from Monica Lewinsky and two other witnesses.

Milei boldly slams UK jailing citizens who call out Muslim rape gangs | Blaze Media

Milei boldly slams UK jailing citizens who call out Muslim rape gangs | Blaze Media: 

Milei started his case by eviscerating European leaders for destroying the foundations of Western civilization in favor of mass immigration: Since the West is supposedly the root cause of all of the world's evils in history, it must redeem itself by opening its borders to everyone, which leads to a form of reverse colonization that resembles collective suicide.

The way we were-----60's LIVE #1

Should We Return To "Old Hollywood" ?

Instapundit - THEY PROTECT THEIR OWN

What are the chances the Chinese knew, too, and had a great blackmail target? - Stephen Green

THEY PROTECT THEIR OWN:

What are the chances the Chinese knew, too, and had a great blackmail target? - Stephen Green

Not Taking Crime Seriously - California’s Prop 47 Exacerbated Crime and Drug Abuse

This paper presents a data-based argument on how Prop 47 shifted dynamics in both offender behavior and prosecutorial decision-making that damaged public safety and public health. - Hannah E. Meyers 

Executive Summary

• In November 2014, California voters approved a criminal justice reform measure, Proposition 47 (“Prop 47”), with almost 60% support.[1] 
• Ten years later, California voters are now considering rolling back some of its soft-on-crime policies. Prop 47 identified six “petty” crimes—grand theft, larceny, personal drug use, forgery, and two types of check fraud—and reclassified them. 
• It downgraded these crimes, including thefts with property values under $950 and illegal drug possession for personal use, from felonies to misdemeanors.

This paper presents a data-based argument on how Prop 47 shifted dynamics in both offender behavior and prosecutorial decision-making that damaged public safety and public health. 

Representative data from Riverside, one of California’s largest counties, suggest that Prop 47 

• increased re-offending, 
• including serious felony re-offending, 
• detention times, 
• failures to appear in court, 
• warrants issued on offenders, 
• case dismissals in conjunction with plea deals, and the persistence levels of drug and theft offenders.
• Additional data collected from both Riverside and San Bernardino law-enforcement agencies show a significant drop in sentencing and in arrests, due partly to the diminished incentive for businesses to promptly report thefts...

BoA Suffers Catastrophic PR Disaster - Claims Didn't Debank Conservatives, Then Conservatives Come Out of the Woodwork

BoA Suffers Catastrophic PR Disaster - Claims Didn't Debank Conservatives, Then Conservatives Come Out of the Woodwork: 

In sum, one marvels at BoA’s brazenness in posting a statement so easily challenged by a number of purported victims.

Moreover, the bank’s apparent complicity in Biden-era tyranny raises a question applicable to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and many others.

If pressured by the federal government to deplatform your fellow American citizens, did you comply out of cowardice? Or, did you secretly enjoy being part of the tyrannical mob?

Anyone who lived through the COVID era and the Biden years in general may rightfully suspect the latter.

Visit California: It's America's Future

Can geothermal heat pumps really work in the harshest of climates?

How about wintertime in Alaska, where temperatures can drop to a bone chilling -40°F? - Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming - Gus Mahlr 

The goal of the research project—which replaced the 77,000 Btu/hr oil-fired condensing boiler that had been heating the 5,000 square foot office space—was to monitor the system for 10 years to better understand the performance of geothermal heat pumps in sites with permafrost and high heat needs, helping to inform future designs.

• Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Alaska put this idea to the test, and their results were nothing short of impressive!
• With over 700 gallons of fuel oil saved per year ..., it's clear that geothermal is the most efficient and cost-effective way to heat any size of space.

To read the full article, click the link below:
https://www.energy.gov/.../geothermal-heat-pump-case...?
Mike Austin - Two points, needs a heat source, like warm volcanic rock, as that will allow the heat cool cycle to work in areas like Alaska. In the lower 48 states, the deap ground is warm enough naturally. Permafrost will not work...

Lunch video-----THOR's Greenland Quest: A Donald Trump Parody

Noon-toon ---If "Blazing Saddles" was made today!

 

Trump promises to activate Army Corps of Engineers to help rebuild North Carolina * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Trump promises to activate Army Corps of Engineers to help rebuild North Carolina * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Not even a week into his second presidential term, President Donald Trump is visiting the regions in North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene months ago, where roads still are closed, residential areas simply have vanished and life is anything but moving forward after Joe Biden promised benefits of a few hundred dollars to victims. And Trump has announced he has plans to help Los Angeles recover from the wildfires that struck at the New Year.

Learn the SCIENCE!

 

Michael Smith - Long ago, I lost my surprise at how lacking in... | Facebook

Michael Smith - Long ago, I lost my surprise at how lacking in... | Facebook - Michael Smith

Long ago, I lost my surprise at how lacking in self-awareness the American Democrats are.

The New York Times produced this entire video fretting over things Trump MIGHT do that would signal growing tyranny and authoritarianism that the Biden/Harris administration actually DID.

• But it is (D)ifferent when they do it.

• nytimes.com - Opinion | How Tyranny Begins

Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.

"...political officers..."

 

#1 This day 1960-----Running Bear - Johnny Preston - Original recording 1959.

Public schools collapsing!-----Michigan school district enrollment, mapped | Most Michigan school districts are losing students. See where yours ranks. - Crain's Detroit Business

Enrollment has dropped in 80% of Michigan school districts over the past 15 years.  

Between 2009 and 2023, 80% of Michigan’s traditional school districts experienced enrollment declines.

To see how headcount has changed in an individual Michigan school district, 

• tap the interactive map or 
• use the sortable table that follows.

Christians, Trump and the healing and renewing of America * WorldNetDaily * by David Kupelian

Christians, Trump and the healing and renewing of America * WorldNetDaily * by David Kupelian: 

What's up, of course, is that despite Trump's stunning re-election victory, America remains engaged in what amounts to an ongoing civilizational war. A war not merely political in nature, but cultural, ideological, psychological and ultimately spiritual – a long-term struggle between forces of decency, morality and sanity on one side and astonishing deception and evil on the other. And logically, one of evil's key targets would have to be the Christian church.

And yet, the libs refuse to clean up the brush.

Trump admin drops charges against whistleblower who exposed transgender operations at Children's Hospital in Texas | Blaze Media

Trump admin drops charges against whistleblower who exposed transgender operations at Children's Hospital in Texas | Blaze Media: 

The Biden administration was accused of unfairly targeting the whistleblower.

The Trump administration moved to dismiss charges against a doctor whistleblower who exposed transgender surgeries being performed in secret at a Texas children's hospital.

Texas surgeon Dr. Eithan Haim obtained documents proving that Texas Children’s Hospital was providing gender transition services in secret and passed them on to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo in order to stop the illegal procedures.

‘Politicized Science’--Legacy Media Falsely Blame Record Cold And Snowfall On Climate Change - Climate Change Dispatch

Lately, a series of mainstream news outlets, including USA Today, AP News, BBC Future, and Fast Company, have churned out articles claiming that January 2025’s record cold and heavy snowfall across the United States are to greater or lesser degrees due to climate change, or at least that such a connection can’t be ruled out. - Anthony Watts This is false.
Their arguments hinge on the increasingly popular yet scientifically dubious idea that climate change is disrupting the polar vortex, causing frigid Arctic air to dip southward into mid-latitude regions like the United States.

• While this explanation is neatly packaged to fit the narrative that “everything bad is caused by climate change,” the science backing these claims is weak, unsubstantiated, and riddled with contradictions...
  
• As outlined below, there is no solid evidence to support these claims. 
• Instead, the mainstream media’s claims rely on flashy headlines and alarmist language, leaving out inconvenient facts that undermine their sensationalist conclusions.

Let’s start by summarizing the claims made in these articles:

USA Today describes the recent Arctic blast as being caused by a disrupted polar vortex, which it links to melting Arctic ice supposedly induced by human-caused climate change...

A close examination of these claims, that of a link between variations in the polar vortex and climate change, reveals glaring problems with the logic and science behind these claims.

• The polar vortex is a long-established well-documented feature of the upper atmosphere—known decades before politicized climate scientists and media mavens began talking about climate change.
• The polar vortex was first described in 1853, but the term became popular with the media in 2014 after a cold snap in North America...