Fascinating, read all!-----I am a firm believer that in 2016, Trump really didn’t expect to win when he ran.

The idea that, if Congress ‘budgets’ (I’ll stop laughing at some point) a sum of money to a department or program, yet no one knows how those funds are actually spent, or by whom, or to whom, it is a legitimate usage of taxpayer money, is criminal. - Lindy Denham 

• DOGE - The process of doing data analysis on Federal spending systems via computer algorithms is absolute genius. Starting at the low-hanging fruit that is USAID, Musk and his boys uncovered MILLIONS of tax dollars of foolish, inappropriate, and wasteful spending on a crazy scale, especially in the DEI, LGBTQ+, and Climate arenas...
• My thoughts on the Federal spending apparatuses, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), and the work of the Administrative State, known as the Deep State, are as follows:  this is similar to the failure to implement tighter rules and systems to prevent voter fraud.  The only reason we do not have iron-clad, fraud-proof voting systems is because the powers that be want the ability to CHEAT...
• This is likely how a congressman can have a gross salary of $175K/year, be in office 10 years, and leave as a multi-millionaire (hint: their salary is NOT it)...

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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach in (Obama) 2015. This breach targeted U.S. government security clearance records and affected approximately 22.1 million records, including those of government employees and individuals who had undergone background checks. The attack was carried out by state-sponsored hackers believed to be working on behalf of the Chinese government. The stolen information included personally identifiable details such as Social Security numbers, names, dates and places of birth, and addresses. This breach is considered one of the largest in U.S. history and had significant implications for national security2.

• U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (Bush-2006): A data breach affected 26.5 million veterans when a laptop containing their personal information was stolen.
• National Archives and Records Administration (Obama-2009): This breach exposed the personal information of 76 million individuals.
• U.S. Voter Database (Obama-2015): A breach exposed the personal information of 191 million voters.
• Social Security Data Hack (Biden-2024): A massive breach resulted in the theft of 2.9 billion records, including Social Security numbers...

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Greed is natural

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President Trump is working non-stop to Make America Great Again and finally reign in the out of control DC Swamp spending spree. This commonsense agenda is desperately needed but we can't stop there. DC is a mess, but so is Michigan.

Michigan needs DOGE to put an end to this wasteful spending and bring real accountability to Lansing.

Michigan taxpayers deserve to know exactly where their hard-earned dollars are going. It's clearly not going to fixing our roads or helping our kids learn to read. Instead, Democrats are funneling your money into pet projects and corporate handouts:

• $4.5 billion wasted on corporate welfare
• $125 million for a CCP-linked battery plant
• $15 million for “aerial drone projects”
• $2 million for a boxing gym
• $3 million for solar panels in Grand Rapids
• $1 million for horseback riding in Detroit
• $2.9 million for e-bikes 

Meanwhile, our roads are crumbling, law enforcement is underfunded, and families are struggling with rising costs.

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When they think no one is looking!

• Detroit News-Michigan man sentenced for embezzling $400K from family trust
• A Michigan man accused of embezzling more than $400,000 from a family trust is heading to prison, officials said. David White ...
• MLive- Flint/Saginaw/Bay City on MSN-Midland County woman charged with embezzling over $100K from little league. Christina Renee-Somers Richardson was arraigned Tuesday, Feb. 11, in the Midland County District Court on a felony charge of ...
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• The treasurer of the Fremont Little League is accused of embezzling thousands of dollars for her personal use.
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• Detroit News-Detroit man sentenced in pandemic wire fraud scheme. Officials said Tracey Dotson and his partner used stolen identities to file hundreds of false unemployment claims in multiple states.
• CBS News-Michigan man sentenced for embezzling $400,000 from family trust
• David White, 68, of Union City, was sentenced Thursday to 4 to 20 years in prison after being found guilty by an Oakland ...
• clickondetroit.com-Michigan man gets 4 to 20 years in prison for embezzling $400K from father’s trust
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• Midland Daily News-Woman charged with embezzling $100K from Bullock Creek Little League
• Christina Richardson, 43, was arrested Monday on felony embezzlement of $100,000 or more ... Midland County Sheriff Scott Holzinger said the charge stems from an investigation that began in.
• USA Today-Michigan man charged with setting fire to Bensalem home, injuring six people
• Harrison Frederick Jones, of Rockford, Michigan is charged with six counts of felony attempted murder, arson and related charges in the blaze, which left the home uninhabitable. Officers with the ...
• The Macomb Daily-Pair charged with stealing $1 million from stolen mail in six Michigan counties
• Shelby Township police said the pair stole mail containing checks from 27 different cites and townships in six counties.
• WWMT Grand Rapids/Lansing-Lawton woman charged with embezzling $50k from vulnerable aunt
• A Lawton woman has been charged with embezzling funds from her vulnerable adult family member. 66-year-old Barbara Cavner was arraigned for embezzling roughly $50,000 from her aunt
• MSN-State charges second person in embezzlement scheme
• The Michigan Attorney General’s office charged Shelley Letzer, 67, of West Bloomfield, with four felonies for allegedly financially exploiting a vulnerable adult. Letzer’s co-defendant ...
• MSN-Michigan pharmacist among four sentenced in Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance fraud case.Four pharmacists were sentenced after investigation of $13 million in losses to Medicare, Medicaid and Blue Cross.
• Detroit News-2 accused of stealing $1M in checks from Michigan mailboxes. Two Detroit men are accused of stealing $1 million in mailed checks, Shelby Township police announced Monday.
• thetimesherald-MSP: Man posed as bail bondsman in fraud case targeting Wales Township woman
• A Michigan man is facing fraud charges for allegedly posing as a bail bondsman and scamming $8,500 from a woman. The suspect, Mike Kelley Tristant, told the woman her grandson was in jail and ...
• MLive-Republican senator’s wife being investigated for alleged embezzlement
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• Detroit News-3 accused of retail fraud, fleeing police in St. Clair Co. arrested
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• Detroit News-Local chamber of commerce accuses Michigan senator's wife of stealing $32,000
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• Hosted on MSN-Michigan pharmacist among four sentenced in Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance fraud case. In this case, pharmacist Ali Abdelrazzaq, of Macomb County, Michigan ... on conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud; along with related charges.
• MLive-Ex-Saginaw County Animal Control director accused of embezzling pleads to lesser charge
• SAGINAW, MI — Four years after she was charged with embezzling five figures from Saginaw County Animal Care & Control Center, the agency’s former director has accepted a plea deal. In doing so ...
• Hosted on MSN-Former Glen Dale city clerk pleads not guilty to embezzlement charges
• Former Glen Dale City Clerk Jane Criswell made her initial court appearance on Monday, facing charges of embezzlement and falsifying city accounts. Criswell pleaded not guilty to the charges.
• Local News-Michigan pharmacist among four sentenced in Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance fraud case.DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ ... 5 to the four on conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud; along with related charges. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial ...
• MLive-Michigan pharmacist sentenced to federal prison in fraud conspiracy
• A Michigan pharmacy owner has been sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to commit health care fraud and wire fraud.
• Hosted on MSN -3 sentenced on federal charges over Nigerian-based fraud conspiracy — 1 from Michigan, 2 from Dallas GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - A Michigan resident and two Texas residents have been sentenced on federal charges over a multifaceted mail and wire fraud scheme originating in Nigeria.
• Hosted on MSN- Former Glen Dale city clerk pleads not guilty to embezzlement charges
• Former Glen Dale City Clerk Jane Criswell made her initial court appearance on Monday, facing charges of embezzlement and falsifying city accounts. Criswell pleaded not guilty to the charges.
• Hosted on MSN-Former Nicholas County volunteer fire chief indicted on embezzlement, fraud charges
• A former volunteer fire chief in Nicholas County was indicted last month in an embezzlement investigation, court records said. Charles W. Bickford was indicted by Nicholas County Grand Jury in 
• Portland Press Herald- Kennebunk High School theater teacher nominee charged with embezzlement won’t be hired. After learning that she was arrested on embezzlement charges, a nominee for the Kennebunk High School interim theater teacher will not be hired, the RSU 21 superintendent said in a written statement.
• wchstv20d - Former Nicholas County volunteer fire chief indicted on embezzlement, fraud charges
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• CBS News- Embezzlement charges filed after more than $400K taken from 87-year-old man, diverted to nonprofit group. (CBS DETROIT) — A Hartland man has been charged with embezzlement in a case that ... in the 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a press release ...
• MSN -Michigan liquor store owner charged with felony for alleged fake bottle return scheme
• An investigation by the Michigan State Police alleges that Shango created fake bottle deposit return invoices that were made ...
• Regtechtimes on MSN-Michigan Based Doctor Pleads Guilty to $6.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
• The Sophisticated Scheme of Dr. Sophie Toya Dr. Sophie Toya, a respected physician based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• Hosted on MSN-Former Lakeside police chief pleads guilty to embezzlement. For the embezzlement charge, Gordanier has a deferred sentence for a period of four years of supervised probation and will pay $26,088 to the Town of Lakeside. For the other charge, he was ...
• Hosted on MSN-Former Stockton Unified School District president indicted on fraud, embezzlement charges.(FOX40.COM) — A former school board president in San Joaquin County has been indicted on felony insurance fraud and embezzlement charges, the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s office ...
• UPI News on MSN.com-Michigan AG charges 4 for double voting in primary; 3 assistant clerks face charges, too.4 (UPI) --Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Friday charged four St. Clair Shores ... cases of election fraud, and have ...
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DOGE shows up at IRS, sending taxmen into panic | Blaze Media

DOGE shows up at IRS, sending taxmen into panic | Blaze Media: 

After making its penetrating gaze felt at over a dozen federal agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the DOGE set its sights on the Internal Revenue Service.

Victor Davis Hanson: Ukraine, It’s Time to Make a Deal

After 4 years the Durham Report has been released! You might be surprised to learn that we were right about EVERY THING!!!

You might be surprised to learn that we were right about EVERY THING!!!  - James Pleickhardt@JamesPleickhar2

Lunch video-----Is New York About To Drown?

Noon-toon

 

Nancy Mace calls on Congress to censure Democrat over threat against Elon Musk | Blaze Media

Nancy Mace calls on Congress to censure Democrat over threat against Elon Musk | Blaze Media: 

Mace said that she aimed to make an example out of Garcia in order to warn others about calling for political violence.

"How many more times will Democrats incite violence against [the president] or Republicans on national television? We have NO CHOICE but to rein them in. We’re introducing a motion to censure him," she said on social media. "The Left is officially out of control."

Amazing what a real leader can accomplish.

 

“Climatologist Exposes How Junk Climate Science Drives The Billion-Dollar Fear Machine” by Dr. Matthew Wielicki

Scientific publishing has long prided itself on rigor… at least in theory. Peer review is supposed to act as a firewall, ensuring that only results meeting strict statistical and methodological standards make it into prestigious journals.
I know this process firsthand, having spent years reviewing academic papers and funding proposals.

• Statistical significance is the bedrock of scientific validity, without it, results are meaningless noise...
• Yet, when it comes to climate science, it seems that fundamental principles of statistical significance are being ignored in favor of pushing alarmist narratives.

Take the latest example from Nature Geoscience, a journal that should, in principle, uphold the highest academic standards. 

Their recent publication on Greenland’s ice sheet explicitly states:


The study’s data fails to show a statistically significant Greenland-wide trend, yet it gets spun into alarming conclusions. 

That’s bad science.
In any other field, that admission alone would be grounds for rejection...

The entire democrat party is the party of theft! And a bunch of RINOs too!

 

Free trade and no tariffs by everyone who trades, is the statement of a goal, not a policy.

If it is a rule it has to be a rule that governs everyone, not just the US. - Lynn Chu

Free trade and no tariffs by everyone who trades, is the statement of a goal, not a policy.

• If it is a rule it has to be a rule that governs everyone, not just the US.
• This is where "liberals" call on a "international rules based order" to step in to make the "rules" for all. 

But most of these international rules based order pseudo-legalistic entities have been utterly unable to enforce any of their rules, and have become captured and led to promulgate bad rules, or stupid rules, or outright evil rules, such as the international denunciations of Israel which in recent years have morphed into outright antisemitism and demands for a Palestinian state to be erected dedicated to war against Israel and its destruction.

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513 billion dollars in money that is still going to programs that have expired (one expired 40 years ago) or lack Congressional authorization.

the more information that comes out, it damn sure appears Congress is asleep at the switch and has been for years. - Michael Smith

• I just saw an X post from earlier today where Team Musk has identified 513 billion dollars in money that is still going to programs that have expired (one expired 40 years ago) or lack Congressional authorization.

Look, it is easy to blame the bureaucracy for all this wasteful spending and lack of oversight but the more information that comes out, it damn sure appears Congress is asleep at the switch and has been for years.

• I noted the other day that there are seven gates that approvals and reviews are alleged to pass through on the way to Treasury cutting a check - including an office of Inspectors General at each agency and none of them have identified anything like what Team Muskrat have found in two weeks - and they have been there for decades...

Name one democrat, anywhere, who supports ANY investigation into the fraud!

 

TDS 2.0: Elon derangement syndrome is real, and Democrats have it BAD | Blaze Media

TDS 2.0: Elon derangement syndrome is real, and Democrats have it BAD | Blaze Media: 

“It’s just the funniest thing to me, they’re just absolutely pathetic. I mean, do they think that it’s a winning strategy to go against the guy that is saving the taxpayer money? It’s so crazy to me that they think that this is going to be the optics of that,” she continues.

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AM Fruitcake---A few days late but, still a beautiful emotion.

 

History for February 16

History for February 16 - On-This-Day.com 

Sonny Bono 1935 - Singer (Sonny and Cher)

• 1804 - A raid was led by Lt. Stephen Decatur to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia. The ship had been taken by pirates.
• 1857 - The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College.
• 1883 - "Ladies Home Journal" began publication.
• 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont.
• 1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.
• 1968 - In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.
• 2005 - The Kyoto global warming pact went into effect in 140 nations.

'It stops today': DOJ files charges against New York, including Kathy Hochul and Letitia James * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'It stops today': DOJ files charges against New York, including Kathy Hochul and Letitia James * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Bondi confirmed, "We're here today because we have filed charges against the state of New York. We have filed charges against Kathy Hochul, we have filed charges against Letitia James, and Mark Schroeder, who is with DMV."

She said, "This is a new DOJ, and we are taking steps to protect Americans, American citizens, and angel moms, like the mom standing right behind me … ."

She charged, "New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today."

The way we were-----Mustard: A Spicy History

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Tulsi Gabbert correctly observes that if we treat Zelensky's hold on power as legitimate, we will have incentivized war as a mechanism for maintaining power in other countries, including our own.

When the constitution of any nation is suspended because of an emergency, POWER SEEKERS WILL CREATE AN EMERGENCY TO GAIN/RETAIN CONTROL. - Patricia Anthone | Facebook
Think that's crazy?

• Zelensky's term ended in May. But he justified canceling elections and suspending Ukraine's Constitution by saying, "we're at war". 

A nation whose population has been decimated by an unwinnable war has been rendered politically impotent by their. The right of the people to change course is even more important when they are being led over a cliff.
By accepting Zelensky's claim to legitimacy in the absence of CONSENT, are we conditioning Americans to accept this argument as well.

• Covid19 showed us That there was no tyranny our government would not perpetrate under the header of emergency.
• When the constitution of any nation is suspended because of an emergency, POWER SEEKERS WILL CREATE AN EMERGENCY TO GAIN/RETAIN CONTROL.

It is never, ever acceptable under any set of circumstances to suspend the right of the people to seat their government.

• At this moment Zelensky's rule is illegitimate.
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THIS is why our country is doomed to financial... | Facebook

...how do our elected representatives (whether D *or* R) end up being worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars on a $200k salary?? - Roy W. Spencer
THIS is why our country is doomed to financial ruin... how do our elected representatives (whether D *or* R) end up being worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars on a $200k salary?? 

• Because they get financially REWARDED by vested interests for legislation they pass in congress! 

Like I have always said (and I don't see ANYONE pushing this), pay congresspersons in proportion to how much they cut federal spending! 

THEN we will see budget cuts! (That's how the private sector works... you get paid in proportion to how much $$ you save the company).

Trump fires IG who oversaw USAID while waste, fraud, and abuse exploded | Blaze Media

Trump fires IG who oversaw USAID while waste, fraud, and abuse exploded | Blaze Media: 

The inspector general tasked with monitoring spending habits at the controversial U.S. Agency for International Development is now out of a job. On Tuesday evening, Trent Morse, deputy director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, emailed USAID Inspector General Paul Martin to let him know that he had been "terminated, effective immediately."

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left's Addiction to Drama

This matters a lot, cuz she LIED! Left out the most important part!-----Maddow Attack on Musk Goes Down in Flames With Surprise Assist From Politifact

Rachel Maddow ripped into Elon Musk on Wednesday in a segment that had a lot of people riled up, claiming that Elon Musk had somehow convinced the State Department to buy $400 million in armored Tesla units. - Nick Arama

The Biden administration had asked the State Department to explore interests by private companies to make armored EVs, leading to a public Request for Information to find interested EV-makers... According to the State Department website, the document was last revised on Dec. 23 — about a month before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.

Lunch video-----Elon Musk is Sherlock Holmes - Movie Trailer Parody featuring Donald Trump...

Noon-toon

 

The REAL reason Democrats are TERRIFIED of Elon Musk and DOGE | Blaze Media

The REAL reason Democrats are TERRIFIED of Elon Musk and DOGE | Blaze Media: 

Democrats are furious that President Trump is trusting Elon Musk with so much, repeatedly calling him an “unelected billionaire” — but Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” believes their criticism is less about Elon and more about themselves.

And Trump is only proving Glenn’s point.