Saturday, July 19, 2025

"Leveraged"??!!

 


But, but, but those Up-Northers seemed so nice!-----Canada Slaps Higher Tariffs on Chinese Steel | The Epoch Times

Ottawa said the measure will ensure Canadian steel producers are “more competitive” by protecting them against trade diversion from other countries. - Matthew Horwood 
  • Canada will implement an additional 25 percent tariff on steel imports from China before the end of July, among new measures aimed at bolstering Canada’s steel industry and preventing steel dumping in the Canadian market, Prime Minister Mark Carney says...
It will apply to steel imports from all non-U.S. countries containing steel melted and poured in China...

Hurry up!!

 


Who's funding/buying the violent rioters??!!-----CEO claims he rejected $20M offer to recruit anti-Trump protesters | Fox News

CEO admits rejecting offer because demonstrations would 'make us all look bad' as 1,500 events planned across country - Rachel del Guidice
  • The CEO of advocacy group Crowds on Demand, Adam Swart, says his organization turned down an offer that he said would have been worth around $20 million to help recruit protestors for a national rally against President Donald Trump...
  • "Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17th movement have approached us and, in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million dollars," Adam Swart, the CEO and founder of Crowds on Demand, told NewsNation’s Brian Entin in an interview that aired on Tuesday...

#1 This day 1977------Looks Like We Made It

MI state Board of Canvassers recently approved petition language for Ranked Choice Voting. Petitions will soon be circulation to put RCV on the 2026 election ballot.

City of Muskegon Election & Ranked Choice Voting
  • If passed, this will drastically change the way we vote.
  • Do NOT sign any petition for Ranked Choice Voting!
Rank Choice Voting is a very bad idea for Michigan and the following are some of the reasons why:
  • Complex and confusing process– RCV requires voters to rank candidates and triggers multiple elimination rounds. 
  • That complexity leads to more spoiled or uncounted ballots if you miss or mis-fill a ranking.
  • Voter ballot exhaustion– Many votes go uncounted if someone fails to rank every candidate. So your vote might never count at all...


Fed Chairman not too worried 'bout "renovation inflation"!

 


BUSTED: Video shows J&J scientist admitting vaccine unsafe | Blaze Media

BUSTED: Video shows J&J scientist admitting vaccine unsafe | Blaze Media

Two days ago, guerrilla journalist and O’Keefe Media Group founder James O’Keefe dropped a bombshell on Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson knew all along that their COVID-19 vaccine was unsafe and ineffective. Joshua Rys, a lead regulatory scientist at the company, just boldly admitted it.

AM Fruitcake

 


History for July 19

History for July 19 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Colt 1814
  • 1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
  • 1870 - France declared war on Prussia.
  • 1943 - During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
  • 1971 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for Two World Trade Center (South Tower) took place. The ceremony for One World Trade Center had taken place on December 23, 1970.
  • 1974 - The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S. President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
  • 1982 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981.
  • 1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.

Friday, July 18, 2025

'Taking your tax dollars and using them against you': House probes public money sent to left-wing groups * WorldNetDaily * by Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal

'Taking your tax dollars and using them against you': House probes public money sent to left-wing groups * WorldNetDaily * by Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal

He noted the SEIU contributed $1.6 million to the liberal New Venture Fund and $1.8 million to the liberal grantmaker Tides Foundation. Meanwhile, he noted the AFL-CIO gave $410,000 to New Venture and $100,000 to Tides. "Not only did the SEIU and AFL-CIO send part of members' dues to support leftist causes, but they also benefit from a process known as 'official time,'" O'Neil said. "Federal employees can bill the taxpayer for time they spend not doing their jobs but doing work for the union. This creates yet another stream of taxpayer funds supporting unions that then back leftist causes."

The way we were-----Uncovering Colonial Penn's Terrible Life Insurance Scam

Michigan Gov. Facing Possible Federal Investigation Over $20 Million Gra...

What If The Marines Got The Money They Needed, And NPR Had To Hold A Bake Sale? - Mitch Berg

Tell an NPR supporter that their network is "Government Media", and the standard response has always been "Ack-shyu-ally, NPR only gets 2% of its funding from the federal government".
  • "So then you won't really miss the money", you might respond.
  • "NOOOOOOOOOO! You'll be killing Teri Gross and Elmo!"
Until this past week or so, I thought "Government funding is simultaneously no big deal and a life or death essential" was the biggest conundrum NPR supporters faced.
NPR didn't help itself out much by responding to charges of editorial bias by picking Katherine Maher as CEO - a woman with impeccable credentials who proposed doubling down on everything that'd made NPR suspect in the first place:

Maher has supported “deplatforming” anyone she deems to be “facsists” and even suggested that she might support “punching Nazis.” She also declared that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction [in] getting things done.”...

One editor had had enough. Uri Berliner had watched NPR become an echo chamber for the far left with a virtual purging of all conservatives and Republicans from the newsroom. Berliner noted that NPR’s Washington headquarters has 87 registered Democrats among its editors and zero Republicans.

Well, that backfired, didn't it?...

Prisoners of Lies

Again, from the top: if there was some experiment done in the twentieth century which forms the basis of lefty beliefs there is a high chance it was faked. - Sarah A. Hoyt
At the very least, the methodology is wrong and the data improperly collected. 
The Stanford Prison Experiment was supposed to explain how the horrors of Nazi Germany happened in the (at the time) most civilized place on Earth.
It studied this by having students divided into prisoners and guards. 
  • And supposedly it proved that, driven by peer pressure, these arbitrarily chosen prisoners and guards fell into their roles. Right?
  • It’s been quoted everywhere, over and over again.
Or did it?
Well, apparently not. This article admits that:

data collected from a thorough investigation of the SPE archives and
interviews with 15 of the participants in the experiment further
question the study’s scientific merit. These data are not only
supportive of previous criticisms of the SPE, such as the presence of
demand characteristics, but provide new criticisms of the SPE based on
heretofore unknown information. These new criticisms include the biased
and incomplete collection of data,
the extent to which the SPE drew on a
prison experiment devised and conducted by students in one of
Zimbardo’s classes 3 months earlier,
the fact that the guards received
precise instructions regarding the treatment of the prisoners, the fact
that the guards were not told they were subjects, and the fact that
participants were almost never completely immersed by the situation.

This one is a little more candid...

U.S. Navy commander now investigated for exposing 'unconstitutional and illegal actions by military leadership' during COVID-shot mandates * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps

U.S. Navy commander now investigated for exposing 'unconstitutional and illegal actions by military leadership' during COVID-shot mandates * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps

"Ever since the Trump administration came in and Secretary of Defense Hegseth took the helm at the Pentagon," said Spears, "life hasn't gotten easier for conservatives." To the contrary, he said, "it has gotten harder because progressively minded officers who were raised under the Obama and Biden administration are insecure about the fact there's a new sheriff in town and they're clamping down even harder on those who hold a basic constitutional, traditional worldview." "From what I have seen, the arguments Commander Green shares are not partisan, nor in violation of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) or Defense Department regulations against political expression by service members," Spears pointed out. "He's simply calling out where the admirals and other senior military commanders continue to violate the law, due process and the very Constitution which they swore to uphold and defend."

Anti-farming activist has ‘no idea’ how the world works

Five years later: Why did the lockdown happen?

Whitmer has avoided serious questions about her seriously questionable decisions
On this day five years ago, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's first lockdown took effect. 
Lockdown policies were unprecedented in the state's history and deviated from Michigan's official plan...
  • It banned "all public and private gatherings of any number of people." 
  • Whitmer signed it on the morning of March 23 and made it effective at 12:01 a.m. on March 24. 
  • Michigan residents had about 12 hours to prepare to be subjected to a first-of-its-kind shelter-in-place, a policy typically only considered in wartime.
Some other important questions remain about Whitmer's COVID-19 response. 
These include:

Lunch video-----How America's Debt Spiral Could Spark The Next Crisis

Noon-toon

 


PROOF: ICE is arresting VIOLENT criminals | Blaze Media

PROOF: ICE is arresting VIOLENT criminals | Blaze Media

The raid is believed to be one of the largest in ICE history — and, of course, the left is up in arms over the result — claiming they were all just here for a better life.

“And of the 361 illegals arrested, you know, all these people here in search of a better life, it’s just women and children coming in for a better life. It’s just strange because there were some convicted of rape, kidnapping, child molestation, serial burglary, DUIs, hit-and-runs,”.....

It's not about fake photos. It's about government employees who are lying morons!

 


‘X Isn’t Real Life’: CNN Data Analyst Floored Over Latest Trump Approval Numbers - Katie Jerkovich

CNN Data analyst Harry Enten was truly floored over the latest approval numbers for President Donald Trump, and, believe it or not, these numbers are post the drama over the essential closure of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
"You might think his approval ratings were going down, if anything, they're going up," the analyst said, pointing to a graph that read, "Republicans who approve of Trump."...
As for the Quinnipiac poll, the jump was similar, with those approval ratings going from prior numbers of 87 percent to 90 percent.
  • "If anything, Trump's approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started...
  • Cong Dems, OTOH, are at their worst standing with Dems ever...

Let the leftists pay for their owned leftist-drivel!

 


George Stephanopoulos Versus Reality - by Ira Stoll

Decades after President Reagan’s tax cuts, the press’s refusal to accurately report on the reality of their impact is clouding the reaction to President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Here is ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos on the July 6 “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” show
Stephanopoulos is interviewing the chair of Trump’s White House Council of Economic Advisers, Stephen Miran:

Stephanopoulos’s claim, in relation to Reagan’s tax cuts, that “the growth didn’t come” is not accurate.
  • Actually, real GDP growth for 1984 was an astonishingly strong 7.2 percent.



#1 This day 1986-----Genesis - Invisible Touch (Official Music Video)

For your lib-friends...cuz maybe they forgot?-----25 Liberal Calls for Violence, Harassment, and Lawlessness During the Trump Years in Quotes

As bad as that is, what makes it worse, is that even as the Left calls for violence while winking at riots and assassination attempts, they try to gaslight everyone about it.: - John Hawkins
Liberals have romanticized political violence for decades, but the violent rhetoric during the Trump years has been off the charts...
  • Worse yet, that kind of bad behavior is ENCOURAGED by prominent liberals.
Calling for violence, harassment, and lawbreaking is how you gain credibility among liberals, not how you lose it...
  • They will literally spend months trying to convince the public that Trump and his supporters are Nazis that are a dire threat to democracy and then stand in front of buildings other liberals have set on fire during a protest and call it a “mostly peaceful protest” while fretting about conservative rhetoric:


Never trust the lib-media. NEVER!

 


University of Michigan now under fire after Chinese scholars allegedly smuggle bio-weapon | Blaze Media

University of Michigan now under fire after Chinese scholars allegedly smuggle bio-weapon | Blaze Media

Interim U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon described the pathogens as a "potential agroterrorism weapon." One week later, federal authorities arrested another Chinese scholar with ties to the university on similar charges. The suspect was accused of mailing packages containing "biological material related to round worms" from Wuhan to the Michigan university.

Instapundit - OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND

Instapundit -Why was a schoolgirl punished over a Union Jack dress? - Ed Driscoll
Courtney, like all Bilton School students, had been encouraged to wear ‘traditional’ outfits for Culture Day, and to ‘proudly represent their heritage’, including their ‘nationality or family heritage’.
You might say Courtney’s outfit was not exactly ‘traditional’, inspired by Geri Halliwel’s famous Union Jack dress from the 1997 Brit Awards. But that was clearly not the issue. 
What the school’s instructions really meant was that she should dress as any nationality or heritage, so long as it’s not British...
Courtney’s school also stopped her from giving a speech about what being British meant to her
‘In Britain’, she would have said, ‘we have lots of traditions including drinking tea, our love for talking about the weather and we have the Royal Family’. ‘We have amazing history, like kings and queens, castles, and writers like Shakespeare.’ It also praised British humour, ‘our values of fairness and politeness’, and fish and chips. Not exactly Enoch’s ‘Rivers of Blood’, is it?
Far too many British institutions see any expression of patriotism, no matter how mild or innocent, as a problem to be contained.”