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Sunday, August 17, 2025

The U.S. Navy’s next-generation guided-missile destroyer, the DDG(X), is a critical “clean-sheet” design intended to replace the aging Ticonderoga and Arleigh Burke classes.

This 14,500-ton warship will feature an advanced integrated power system, enhanced stealth, and significant growth margins for future weapons like lasers.
However, the program is already facing major headwinds. The Congressional Budget Office projects a cost of $4.4 billion per ship—33% higher than the Navy’s estimate...

Government at its most "democrat"!-----At One Fed Agency: Bumbling Lawyers, HR Annoyers, and One Guy, Grifting Away in Margaritaville

In 2023, Commissioner Pham was the canary in the coal mine as to what seems to have been overzealous and controlling attorneys for the agency. - Jim Thompson

Caroline Pham is a Republican commissioner at the little-known Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). It regulates derivatives and will, in the future, be tasked to regulate cryptocurrency.

They ran roughshod over a Canadian firm called Traders Global Inc., and it cost the agency 3.2 million dollars.

The commission's attorneys claimed that Traders Global had committed fraud by wiring money from the Cayman Islands to Canada.
In fact, the wires were for tax payments to the Canadian government.
When confronted, Traders Global produced evidence that it was paying taxes.
Canada also provided receipts to the CFTC...

Former insider exposes takes fight to Big Pharma | Blaze Media

Former insider exposes takes fight to Big Pharma | Blaze Media:

“I would say a big breakthrough moment for me was when the CEO, the CFO, the head of investor relations, and the head of R&D of one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world came into our office to reassure us about their stock,” Manookian tells BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan.

Global Wildfires: What the Media Isn’t Telling You

It's VERY easy to cheat when you're the democrat government!-----Two Michigan Politicians Indicted For More Of That Election Fraud That Doesn’t Exist

Kentucky Driver’s License Scam = Registering Illegal Aliens To Vote - Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

From Kentucky comes news of DMV clerks selling drivers licenses to illegal aliens that also provides a backdoor for getting those illegal aliens on the voter rolls.
A bombshell investigation in Kentucky just exposed what Democrats are desperate to hide.

Whistleblower Melissa Moorman caught government employees at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet selling driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

The price? Two hundred bucks cash, under the table. This wasn’t rare. Nope. Moorman says it happened four to five times every single day at Louisville’s Nia Center Licensing Branch.
Every. Single. Day...

Lunch video-----Iran Challenges America’s Ghost Bomber — BIG MISTAKE

Noon-toon

Former WaPo 'Fact-Checker' Admits He 'Screwed Up' by Dismissing Lab Leak Theory 5 Years Later

Former WaPo 'Fact-Checker' Admits He 'Screwed Up' by Dismissing Lab Leak Theory 5 Years Later:

Former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler admitted Thursday that he was “completely wrong” to label the COVID lab leak theory as “doubtful” in 2020, conveniently coming clean five years later after recently leaving the publication.

During an interview with The Editors, Kessler’s 2020 Washington Post fact-check article entitled, “Was the new coronavirus accidentally released from a Wuhan lab? It’s doubtful,” was discussed.

Opposing points of view.

NewsBusters Turns 20: The Most Absurd and Obnoxious Outbursts

NewsBusters Turns 20: The Most Absurd and Obnoxious Outbursts - Geoffrey Dickens
This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of NewsBusters, so as part of this momentous event we are looking back at some of the most outrageous outbursts of bias captured by our analysts and bloggers over the years....

Hajime Miura just clinched his 8th 3A World Yo-Yo Championship title at the World Yo-Yo Contest 2025 in Prague...

...cementing his legacy as one of the most dominant players ever. - Massimo @Rainmaker1973

National Suicide Is Better Than Rudeness | Frontpage Mag

Would Europe rather be polite than alive? - Daniel Greenfield

“A Small European Nation Has a Big Explosions Problem,” a New York Times story recently reported. The story clarified that the small nation was the Netherlands, it never did clarify who was behind the over 700 bombings so far this year.

Saying it out loud would have been impolite.

European nations, small and great, have all sorts of mysterious unexplained problems that they never used to before.

The Netherlands has a rash of bombings.
In the UK, acid attacks are up 75%...
“Sweden’s new normal: Bombs in the suburbs on a weeknight,” Politico reported in 2023. This January, there were 30 bombings. An Economist story blamed the attacks on “teens”. Sweden’s National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh warned that 14-year-olds are being recruited for “murder assignments” by gangs and foreign countries.

Which teens?

Which countries?

#1 This day 1964-----Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (1964)

NO DICE: Thread Shows Just How WOKE the Smithsonian Has Become, and Why Trump Is Right to Overhaul It Amy Curtis Amy Curtis

Now here's a thread that shows how bad things are at the Smithsonian.

Read it all!

Fig leaf!

'Very much by design': U.S. Armed Forces provide no training in the Constitution that all service members swear to defend * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps

'Very much by design': U.S. Armed Forces provide no training in the Constitution that all service members swear to defend * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps:

Why don't service members know the Constitution? Why don't Americans, in general, understand it? These are two questions that heightened Spears' interest in the topic, compelling him to write an article titled "The Case for a Constitutional Training Culture in the Military." For Spears, the answer lies in a lack of "institutional instruction." He explained to WND, "Many schools are deliberately not teaching civics in elementary education, and the worst offenders are in the public school system."

Excellent with sources!-----The global EV boom is not revolution—it’s engineered illusion.

China leads the charade with centralized ambition, while the West oscillates between populist realism and dogmatic fantasy.

All paths underscore the basic truth:

This revolution is strategically hollow, economically reckless, and socially extractive.
We are not heading toward a cleaner future—we are racing toward a collapse of trust, assets, and industrial integrity...

AM Fruitcake

History for August 17

History for August 17 - On-This-Day.com

Davy Crockett 1786 - Frontiersman, soldier and politician. He died at the Battle of the Alamo

1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City.

1863 - Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC, harbor during the Civil War.

1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate.

1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.

Saturday, August 16, 2025

'We made some headway': Trump, Putin make 'progress' on goal of ending Ukraine war * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'We made some headway': Trump, Putin make 'progress' on goal of ending Ukraine war * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:

President Donald Trump, after a roughly three-hour summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, confirmed that there was significant progress made on the agenda of getting the killing in the Ukraine war halted, but it's not completed. Yet. "There's no deal until there's a deal," Trump confirmed.

The way we were-----The New Tsar: How Putin Became Russia's Dictator | Foreign Correspondent

Fear The Weather, Not Carjackings

City-Run Kansas City Grocery Store Closes Despite Millions in Taxpayer Funding | National Review

A city-run grocery store in Kansas City that was propped up by more than $18 million taxpayer dollars has closed. - Haley Strack

Sun Fresh Market opened in 2018 in the city-owned Linwood Shopping Center...

But after months of bare shelves, severe crime problems that Kansas City has spent additional money to curb, and what one reporter described as a “rancid odor” connected to improper drain maintenance, Sun Fresh has shut its doors.

“Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we are no longer, at this time, able to serve the residents of this important community,” a sign on the front door of Sun Fresh said...

Using fear to get rich/powerful!-----“Too Big to Fail A major new scandal in climate science”

In 2024, Nature published “The Economic Commitment of Climate Change,” by Kotz et al. (KLW24). A press release accompanying the paper’s publication announced that it projected enormous future GDP losses due to climate change, much more than almost all other studies - ROGER PIELKE JR.

Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study published in “Nature” finds. These damages are six times larger than the mitigation costs needed to limit global warming to two degrees.

The paper’s extreme results got a lot of attention — According to CarbonBrief, in all of 2024, KLW24 was the second most mentioned climate paper in the media...

We now know, however, that KLW24 and its application in policy by the NGFS and others are fatally flawed.
Today, I discuss these flaws and their broader implications for climate research and policy.¹...

New York Times hit with brutal backlash over op-ed calling for radical government change so the left can compete | Blaze Media

New York Times hit with brutal backlash over op-ed calling for radical government change so the left can compete | Blaze Media:

The New York Times is getting hit with a wave of online criticism over an article arguing that the left cannot win unless there is a radical restructuring of the government. The article is titled "Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court," and has as a subheading, "Why the left can't win without a new Constitution."

The Minnesota Shooting Case is Getting Weirder | New Details Revealed

Adolf would have been jealous!-----WMU professors' paper about spreading tick-borne meat allergy in humans prompts backlash.

Western Michigan U. scholar says the paper is a thought experiment, not an endorsement of spreading illness; and he eats meat - Leona Salinas - Texas State University

Two bioethics professors at Western Michigan University are exploring a controversial thought experiment: Should spreading a debilitating meat allergy be morally required if eating meat is considered wrong?

The paper recently sparked backlash online amid a larger trend of climate change scientists calling for reduced meat consumption...
In their paper “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” published in July in the journal Bioethics, Dr. Parker Crutchfield and Dr. Blake Hereth, both professors of medical ethics, considered whether the intentional spread of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne illness that causes an allergic reaction to meat, could be justified morally...

However, Crutchfield and Hereth wrote in their paper that the syndrome has “no significant negative effects on human health (so long as one avoids eating meat).”...