Sunday, May 18, 2025

#1 This day 1967-----The Young Rascals - Groovin' (1967)

This is why relying on China for manufacturing is a bad idea

U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them - Tom Knighton 
But China is also our enemy, and too many people forget about this, often despite firm reminders.
Power inverters, which are predominantly produced in China, are used throughout the world to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids. 
They are also found in batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers...
  • However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.
  • Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said...

"Trust us. We're honest AND smart!"

 


Report: Charges coming for congresswoman who stormed ICE facility * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Report: Charges coming for congresswoman who stormed ICE facility * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

A new report documents that federal charges are coming for a member of Congress who was part of a leftist team that stormed into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. A report from the New Jersey Globe had speculated that charges would be filed against Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., on Friday, but then later updated that to say they apparently will come later.

Read it all!-----Highlights of the week - Don Surber

Highlights of the week - Don Surber

  • ITEM 1: NBC reported, “A House Republican proposal to reduce federal funding to the nation’s largest anti-hunger program would have a disastrous effect on low-income families, advocates say.”

The obesity rate for food stamp recipients is 37% for men and 52% for women.

  • ITEM 2: End Wokeness tweeted, “Rep. Shri Thanedar has formally introduced DJT articles of impeachment.”

How did Detroit manage to find and elect the one Indian in America who is stupid?

On Tuesday, CNBC reported, “Annual inflation rate hit 2.3% in April, less than expected and lowest since 2021.”...

AM Fruitcake - Yes!

 




History for May 18

History for May 18 - On-This-Day.com 
Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyla) 1920
  • 1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.
  • 1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.
  • 1983 - The U.S. Senate revised immigration laws and gave millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program.
  • 1994 - Israel's three decades of occupation in the Gaza Strip ended as Israeli troops completed their withdrawal and Palestinian authorities took over.
  • 2012 - Facebook Inc. held its initial public offering and began trading on the NASDAQ. The company was valued at $104 billion making it the largest valuation to date for a newly listed public company.
  • 2014 - Russian President Putin signed a bill to absorb Crimea into the Russian Federation.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Vance tells Glenn Beck Congress needs to 'get serious' about codifying DOGE cuts | Blaze Media

Vance tells Glenn Beck Congress needs to 'get serious' about codifying DOGE cuts | Blaze Media

In the first few months of his presidency, only five bills from Congress have made it to Trump's desk and been signed into law. Meanwhile, Louisiana Republican Speaker Mike Johnson's "big, beautiful bill" has been the focal point of Capitol Hill drama with promises to codify the MAGA mandate Trump was overwhelmingly elected for. Although the mandate is reflected in certain provisions in the bill, Vice President JD Vance himself said that Congress needs to do more to codify DOGE cuts and rein in spending.

The way we were-----EVERY BILLBOARD #1 HIT (1950 - 1959) WITH VIDEO

The Elite Universities Are Collapsing Under Their Own Lies

The Hottest Year Ever? Not Even Close.

How Climate Science Erased 4,000 Years of Warmth to Make 2024 Look Like the Apocalypse Dr. Matthew Wielicki
You’ve probably seen it by now. 
National Geographic and every major outlet are screaming some version of:
  • "2024 was the hottest year ever—and the coldest year of the rest of your life."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/shifting-baseline-syndrome-climate-change
It's a clever bit of psychological framing: evoke fear and inevitability in a single sentence. 
But it only works if you ignore both context and history. 
These headlines are not scientific conclusions; they are marketing slogans designed to reinforce a narrative—that today's warming is not just unusual, but unprecedented and therefore catastrophic.
That claim collapses the moment you ask a simple question:
Compared to what?
  • To keep the climate panic engine running, each year must be declared the hottest, every anomaly must be historic, and every event must be framed as proof of worsening climate extremes. 
  • This isn’t about science anymore—it’s about maintaining an illusion of crisis to justify more money, more control, and more censorship of dissenting views.
I’ve unpacked this manipulation in past articles. 
For example, in this critique of the 125,000-year claim, I break down the absurdity of comparing satellite-era temperatures to smoothed, proxy-based estimates from deep time...

12 Facts That Prove That Our Society Is Causing Boys To Fall Way Behind Girls From A Very Early Age

From a very early age, our society tends to reward feminine characteristics and it tends to suppress masculine characteristics. 
  • Little boys just don’t like to sit still and pay attention for long stretches of time. 
  • They are designed to be hunters and explorers and adventurers. 
But our schools are not designed for hunters and explorers and adventurers. 
As a result, boys tend to have disciplinary problems more often than girls, and girls tend to get higher grades than boys...
But statistics show that our boys are faring significantly worse than our girls. 
The following are 12 facts that prove that our society is causing boys to fall way behind girls from a very early age…

#1 Boys are being forced to repeat kindergarten far more often than girls…

Coast Guard wants 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate declared unlawful * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps

Coast Guard wants 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate declared unlawful * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps

On the heels of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling the 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate "unlawful as implemented," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is being strongly encouraged to follow suit.

The 85% Rule: Why Most People Die Before 82 - Five Deadly Mistakes Senio...

"And with Tlaib crying, we are up to 3/6 elected Democrat Congress members from Michigan embarrassing our state in just one week.

Anna Hoffman on X: "Scholten, McDonald, or Stevens next?


Lunch video-----What's Next for U.S.-Canada Relations?

Noon-toon

 


Illegal alien teen in blue state avoids jail time despite killing woman in car crash | Blaze Media

Illegal alien teen in blue state avoids jail time despite killing woman in car crash | Blaze Media

A prosecutor's office is facing outrage after agreeing to a plea deal with only probation and community service for an unlicensed teenage illegal alien who killed a woman in a car accident.

Michigan's gov did same thing!

 


Who’s To Blame For The Left’s ‘Assassination Culture’? - I & I Editorial Board

A university report published last month shows that more than half of those who identify as being left of center on the political spectrum believe assassinating President Donald Trump would be justified.  - I & I Editorial Board
This didn’t come about organically. 
It’s the product of a vicious campaign waged by the Democratic Party-mainstream media axis.
  • According to a Rutgers Social Perception Lab-Network Contagion Research Institute brief, 55.2% of Americans on the left “reported that if someone murdered Donald Trump, they would be at least somewhat justified.” Overall, 38.5% hold the same belief.
  • Trump, who has survived a pair of assassination attempts (one of which was celebrated), is not the only legitimate target, say many Americans. The data show that nearly half, 48.6%, say murdering Elon Musk would be justified.
The report’s authors say, “support for political violence – including property destruction and
assassination – is not expressed in isolation, but as part of a tightly interconnected belief system.”...
It’s an effort to dehumanize him, which is a tacit approval for violent behavior. 
To this end, various playactors, politicians, and grifters have:
  • Wanted to punch Trump in the face (Robert DeNiro)
  • Wished they could “take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him” (Joe Biden)
  • Wondered when “was the last time an actor assassinated a president” (Johnny Depp)...

Say all of this and more for long enough, and tens of millions will declare their allegiance to the “assassination culture” identified in the Rutgers report.

Good advice!

 


DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Instapundit - The Real Reason Yale Professors Are Leaving Trump’s America.
“We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.,” a Wednesday New York Times headline read.
At the heart of the issue is a redefinition of the word “fascism” in such a way as to make it sound like it means the same thing as “patriotism.” 
  • These Yale professors — and a good many people who think like them — find the American assertion that this country, with its quasi-sacred founding and its insistence on the rights of man given him by God, is an exceptional one a troubling concept. 
They seem to equate “Make America Great Again” with Adolf Hitler’s “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.”

Flashback: The Left’s fear of fascism under Trump is the ultimate example of projection.

UPDATE: NYT’s ‘Fascism’ Narrative Is So Tiresome It Has Become Self-Parody.

  • As George Orwell famously wrote, “The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’”

#1 This day 1980-----Blondie - Call me

A Massachusetts School District Provided a Math Assignment on 'Systematic Racism'

"Newton Schools work hard to ensure that their captive audience of students uncritically adopts their preferred world view — even in math class. - Madeline Leesman
The assignment was focused on incarceration rates of people who were white, black, and Hispanic. One part of the question tells students: “Explain how you believe systematic racism creates the data displayed by the above timeplot.”
"Newton Schools work hard to ensure that their captive audience of students uncritically adopts their preferred world view — even in math class. What happens if a student doesn't believe in structural racism? Do they fail 9th grade math?" Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for DE, told Townhall.
This isn’t the first time Defending Education sounded the alarm about this school district...

Biden's scheme??!!

 


Alleged illegal alien hit man wanted for 4 murders in Venezuela was allowed into US under Biden, ICE says | Blaze Media

Alleged illegal alien hit man wanted for 4 murders in Venezuela was allowed into US under Biden, ICE says | Blaze Media

Astatement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that an accused hit man wanted for four murders in Venezuela was allowed entry into the U.S. under the Biden administration.

42-year-old Anthony Fabian Marin La Torre was apprehended by ICE in Grapevine, Texas, on May 2 after he was identified as a suspect in the contract killings of four people. He is also accused of being a lieutenant of the “El Chamu” gang.

Who Started the Lawfare Era? - by Matt Taibbi - Racket News

A new motion in an international court dispute draws in a wide range of political luminaries, from Canada's new Prime Minister to the head of Donald Trump's new "Weaponization Working Group"
This week, the storied Boies Schiller law firm filed a motion alleging widespread wrongdoing on the part of Brookfield Asset Management, a private equity titan chaired by Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney until a few months ago...
  • Technically, this is just a business litigation about a privatized toll road in Peru. 
  • It’s become more than that. 
The case is now a key proxy conflict in the increasingly heated “lawfare” arena in which courts, police, and prosecutors are turned into political weaponry.
  • Prior to 2025, status quo figures openly praised lawfare tactics and embraced everything from politicized prosecutions to ballot-blocking campaigns on the grounds that extreme measures may be needed to “save democracy” from the likes of Trump. 
  • Lawfare in the context of Trump became a celebrated word, connoting “hard national security choices” an enlightened institutional vanguard might need to make to save us...

AM Fruitcake

 


History for May 17

History for May 17 - On-This-Day.com 
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 1900
  • 1756 - Britain declared war on France, beginning the French and Indian War.
  • 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded at 70 Wall Street by 24 brokers.
  • 1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was run at Louisville, KY.
  • 1881 - Frederick Douglass was appointed recorder of deeds for Washington, DC.
  • 1932 - The U.S. Congress changed the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico."
  • 1940 - Germany occupied Brussels, Belgium and began the invasion of France.

Friday, May 16, 2025

Web of 'Chinese Spies' Has Fully Infiltrated Prestigious US University, Student Investigation Finds

Web of 'Chinese Spies' Has Fully Infiltrated Prestigious US University, Student Investigation Finds

A bombshell investigation by the Stanford Review, published May 7, has uncovered what it described as a widespread Chinese espionage operation at Stanford University. The student-led probe alleged that the Chinese Communist Party has deeply infiltrated the prestigious institution. The investigation, first reported by the Review, drew on over a dozen interviews conducted between July 2024 and April 2025. Interviewees included Stanford faculty, students, and independent experts on Chinese intelligence operations.