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January 22, 2026

Mr President We Cannot Allow a GIUK Gap!

Timothy Birdnow

Here is what hs wanted all along; he wants the U.S. to have total access to Greenland without haing to crawl to Denmark every time we want to build a base or station forces or whatnot.

And this is the deal that is being negotiated now; full access. Talk of annexation - voluntary or not - was Trump's negotiating tool to force the Danes to quit playing footsie with the Chicoms and Russians and let us defend the island and the GIUK Gap properly. (That's the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap, fyi. The open water connecting the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and only really opne waters in the Arctic.)

Last summer Denmark expanded U.S. access to Greenland to stave off Trump, and now they are going to have to do so again.

BTW The title of this is a paraphrasing of the last line from the great Peter Sellers' movie Dr. Strangelove and is spoken by George C. Scott's character General Turgis.

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Big Court Win in Minnesota

Timothy Birdnow

ICE wins a major victory in court with an appeals court overruling the partisan hack judge in Minnesota who issued draconian rules of engagement when dealing with unruly illegals.

Just In: Trump Scores Major LegL Win in minnesota

Just as I predicted.

FTA:

An appeals court on Wednesday reversed a lower court decision in Minnesota that placed severe restrictions on federal immigration agents when it comes to handling violent and disruptive agitators.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued an administrative stay, pausing a lower court’s preliminary injunction that had limited the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents against protesters and "observers.”

Wednesday’s decision comes amid Operation Metro Surge, a large-scale immigration enforcement initiative launched by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in early December 2025, which has deployed over 3,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The operation has resulted in the arrest of more than 10,000 individuals, according to U.S. Border Patrol officials.

The case originated from a lawsuit filed on December 17, 2025, by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota on behalf of six plaintiffs who alleged violations of their First and Fourth Amendment rights while observing or protesting ICE activities. The plaintiffs claimed they were subjected to arrests, pepper spray, intimidation with firearms, and unjustified traffic stops without probable cause or reasonable suspicion.

As I said this was intended to be a trap all along, the insurrectionists hoped for an incident in violation of the judge's order and thus a contempt citation could be issued, giving legitimacy to the insurrection. I'm not surprised ICE won on appeal, but I am surprised at the speed at which it came.

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Church Invader Organizerr Arressted

Timothy Birdnow

About time!

Attorney General Pamela Bondi

@AGPamBondi

Minutes ago at my direction,

@HSI_HQ

and

@FBI

agents executed an arrest in Minnesota.

So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

We will share more updates as they become available.

Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP.

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January 21, 2026

James Birdnow RIP

Timothy Birdnow

My father just passed away. He died peacefully in his sleep during the night at Bluebird, a local care facility. He was a month away from his 95th birthday.

He was ready go; in fact he was excited about seeing my mother again along with his friends and family. And he did die peacefully - he looked like he was just asleep, and seemed quite peaceful. He welcomed going home.

The hospice nurse called me this morning in the wee hours and I was up and out the door by five. I was very surprised; I had just seen him yesterday and was thinking he was doing much better. The hospice folks said that is often the way of it, people improve before they die frequently. At any rate I had a strong sense my wife was with me this morning and telling me "don't worry, I've got him" and sensed she was with him, leading him to Jesus. I believe that; that is just the kind of thig she would do.

So I'm doing o.k. today. Not sure how it will be tomorrow when the shock wears off. I really don't think a person should lose two loved ones in a month this way but I suppose God has His reasons. Dad knew his time was past and he was ready to go, so who am I to dispute that?

For local friends of the family the funeral will be some time next week. It is being handled by Kriegshauser Brothers so check their website for details. Also, we'll post a death notice in the Post-Dispatch.

I would prefer it if nobody sends flowers; they will just wind up going to waste, which would be a shame, and Dad wasn't much of a flower guy. A mass card would be better, or a donation in his name to a charity. Might I suggest the American Heart Association or the American Lung Association. He had congestive heart failure as well as COPD, so both would be appreciated.

My first memory was of my father, not my mother. I remember being in the cradle and crying because I wanted - something. He came to the crip and asked me which pacifier I wanted - the red one or the yellow one. I remember choosing the red. That was the first thing I remember in this world.

Dad was a great guy as everyone will attest. He grew up during the Depression and his father was a railroad man. The railroad didn't want to lay too many people off so they had a job sharing arrangement, with grandpa working a couple of months then being laid off a couple of months. When he was laid off they shipped my dad (by boxcar) to the tiny little town of Bismarck, Mo. where his grandmother owned a farm. It was, uh, rustic; no electricity, no running water, no heat except wood stoves, etc. They used an outhouse to go to the bathroom, and they got water out of the creek behind the house for drinking. Eventually great grandma sprang for a well but it tasted of kerosene (she probably had oil on the property like Jed Clampett but didn't know it.) So they continued to drink water from the creek. They had to be careful; cottonmouths and copperheads liked to hang out down there too. When they got too bad great grandma would rent a couple of pigs and they'd clean 'em out.

(Speaking of great grandma, she was about 4 foot ten and eighty nine pounds of pure spitfire. Her husband was also a railroad guy and he would be gone three days a week, and on the fourth day would stay in town so he could go to the local saloon. Grandma was a Methodist and thought drink was bad. Anyway, she employed a black family to work for her and one night the Ku Klux Klan showed up, demanding she turn them over. Granny did what any self-reliant person would do; she went inside, got her shotgun, and calmly told them if they didn't leave now she'd blow their heads offf. They left.)

At any rate Dad was drafted into the Army where he was put in the 101st Airborn but his fear of heights made it impossible. He eventually settled into the 28th Infantry "the Bloody Bucket" where he won an award for best marksman in his company. He turned down an opportunity to go to OCS (because it meant an extra year in the service) and he was sent to Germany, where he went on maneuvers and drank a lot of German beer. And flirted with a lot of fraulines.

Upon returning from the Army Dad met my mother and they married in 1960. Eric came along in '61, Brian 11 months later, and I showed up a few years after - in 1964.

He was a good, loving father and devoted husband and everyone liked him; he was easy-going and charming. He loved sports and was quite athletic in his day.

He was raised Methodist but converted to Catholicism in time to be my Confirmation sponsor. He was far more devout as a Catholic than he had been as a Methodist.

At my wife's funeral he was the happiest I had seen him in some time. He wasn't happy about Cathy dying but he liked seeing his three sons together and all the family and friends. It was kind of his farewell party in addition to my wife's.

At any rate I'll miss him very much.

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January 20, 2026

Strategic Ice Box

Timothy Birdnow

This was posted by Wretchard T. Cat on Facebook. It is an angle I hadn't really considered:

Why did Greenland suddenly become an issue? The aggressive efforts of the US to purchase Greenland – and potentially encircle Russia – would not have been politically possible, or perhaps even necessary, without a proximate cause – the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russian threat in Ukraine has put a gun to the Euro’s heads and given Washington the leverage it otherwise lacked in European capitals because they need to keep the US onside.

It is fascinating to compare the Greenland situation to the Alaska purchase. In 1867 it was Russia which was afraid. Russia feared that Great Britain (with its strong presence in Canada and British Columbia) might seize Alaska in a future conflict, especially after Russia's vulnerabilities were exposed in the Crimean War (1853–1856).

By selling to the U.S., Russia aimed to place a friendly (or at least non-British) power between its Siberian territories and British North America. Europe's reaction to the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 was generally one of concern and alarm, particularly among the major powers, though it varied by country and was often overshadowed by pressing European issues like post-Crimean War tensions, German unification efforts, and the Eastern Question.

The deal highlighted the growing strength of both the United States (fresh from its Civil War) and Russia, while raising fears of shifting power dynamics in the Pacific and potential U.S.-Russian alignment against European interests. Substitute Trump’s America for Andrew Johnson’s and China for Czarist Russia and you can see the resemblance. The world is changing and Greenland, a one-time backwater, is suddenly on the crossroads.

Granted Trump wanted Greenland BEFORE Putin invaded the Ukraine, but he understood it's importance even during his first term.

This is an excellent point; Trump has really ramped up his call for Greenland because of changing geopolitical alignments. He needs to keep the Russians and Chicoms out of our hemisphere.

It is, of course, the same reason Napoleon sold Louisiana; he needed money and wanted to keep Britain from simply taking it. Louisiana made the U.S. a great power, as Napoleon observed when handing it over.

Greenland, sitting athwart the largest entry to the Arctic Ocean, is the key to the whole region in terms of military and economic access. The only other entry points are around Iceland or through the Bering Strait, which we control. With Greenland in our hands the best the Russians could do would be to sail out of Archangel and try to round the Norweigan coast. We could close the Baltic to them easily, even if Denmark doesn't want to cooperate.

It's increasingly obvious we need Greenland. There are minerals there to be developed, there is it's geopolitical importance, and we are defending it anyway so we should be able to develop it to make that chore easier.

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1 No doubt about it. I really wish, though, that Mr. Trump had gone about this differently.

I've pointed out before that as a technique of his "Art of the Deal," Trump often begins his negotiations by throwing a grenade on the floor, and after the smoke from the explosion settles, he starts the actual negotiations. I'm not quite sure if he's throwing only one grenade this time...

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 20, 2026 11:03 PM (k9h1C)

2 It's called the "GIUK Gap," Greenland, Iceland and the UK, and we already control it with SOSUS, nuclear submarines, and bases on Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and England. During the Cold War Russia could not access the North Atlantic from their north coast because we had that transit completely blockaded. That's why they need Crimea, for access to the Atlantic without a route that is already controlled by NATO. We do not need to "own" Greenland to take control of a sea lane that we already fully control.

Posted by: Bill H at January 21, 2026 10:01 AM (FRG6e)

3 I agree Dana; Trump went about this the wrong way. But then American Presidents have been trying for some time to do this without any luck.
You are absolutely correct Bill, but given the way thinngs are going in the U.K. and Iceland and with the Chinese nosing around there it becomes imperative to have greater control of Greenland.
Last June the Danish Parliament amended long-standing rules that limited American access to Greenland to the old Thule base (which is now a Spaceforc base with a name I can't remember at the moment - Pufikin or something). They did this out of fear Trump would keep pushing for the island. But being able to "enter" it and being able to build covert bases and place strategic forces there isa whole different matter.
This article shows that Trump wanted military bases there all along and that is the driving force behind what he is doing As Dana says, Trump tosses hand grenades in then negotiates from a position of strength. That's clearly what he's doing here. From the Hindustan Times:
"However, the New York Times cited three sources to reveal key terms of the deal. The publication reported that a potential compromise under which Denmark would grant the US sovereignty over limited areas of Greenland to establish military bases has been approved. An official told NYT that Rutte had pushed the idea."
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These are the most recent negotiations with Denmark and Trump is being offered a lot more than what he had before - and he already got half a loaf last year.
This is vintage Trump.
This also puts not just Denmark but all our erstwhile "allies" in NATO on notice, making it clear we aren't going to let them continue to screw us over, especially where China and Russia are concerned. Trump is telling them that if they cut a deal with either they may wind up getting Daned.
Your point about Ukraine is spot on Bill! The Russians need warm water ports and with Americans at that Gukky Gap it is hard to use the North Atlantic for nefarious purposes - and using the Bosporus and Dardenelles still leaves them in the Mediterranean, so they either have to go through Suez or Gibralter.

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The Laws of God and Man in Minnesota

Timothy Birdnow

Hey Lemonhead and the Racial Justice Network creeps who invaded a Minneapolis church:

18 U.S. Code § 248

(2) "Whoever… by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship … shall be subject to the penalties provided in subsection (b) and the civil remedies provided in subsection (c).”

(b)Penalties.—Whoever violates this section shall—

(1)in the case of a first offense, be fined in accordance with this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and

(2)in the case of a second or subsequent offense after a prior conviction under this section, be fined in accordance with this title, or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both;

This law was designed to go after anti-abortion protesters and the Biden Administration used it with abandon to go after people who were truly fighting for the most basic of human rights - the rights of babies to live. But the law is the law and even if this isn't what was intended the wording here makes it perfectly clear you can't do what this gang did.

The woman who ran this little beerhall putsch published the names of many of the leaders and others involved on Facebook, and I was scrolling through the comments section. The commenters - mostly white women - were all supportive and they tried to pass this off as the moral high ground, saying Jesus was an illegal allien from AFrica and other stupidities. But what got me was the way they twist the Bivle to buttress their positions. For example, they argued that Christianity called for loving your neighbor as yourself. But they ignore the very fact God Himself invented nations, purposely splitting us up at Babel, and there were always laws about controlling immigration. Jesus said "the shepherd comes in through the gate, anyone who comes in another way is a thief and robber" in John 10:1. We aren't rounding up people who came in through the gate.

Nor are we rounding up people who merely broke our immigration laws, but we are getting criminals; rapists, murderers, drug pusheers, and the worst of the worst. IF you love your neighbor you would advocate getting these people out. The illegal immigrant community is equally oppressed by these scumbags. Love demands we clean up this mess.

The Apostle Paul stated plainly that the "king" is "given the power of the sword" to "punish evildoers" (Romans 13:14) and that is what ICE is attempting to do. Nowhere does it say that authorities have no right to enforce the law because someone might get hurt or killed resisting them. That's why Paul said sword and not daffodils or something. Swords are there to kill people.

Also, the Bible is quite clear about Christians obeying the laws of the land.

Romans 13:1-7 states,

"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.”

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These people who invaded the church in their anger against deportations are certainly violating that last, and the other things mentioned here as well.

Don Lemon spoke of the First Amendment. What does it say?

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.".

Do note freedom of religion is mentioned first and with more vigor than the prohibition about abridging freedom of speech or the press. Lemon apparently never read the actual text of the Amendment.

The courts have ruled repeatedly that the First Amendment applies beyond Congress, that it is a foundational principle. You can't use Brownshirts to do your bidding, which is basically what Timmy Walz and company are doing with these leftist shock troops. This is clearly a First Amendment violation

But, but, but...They are answering a higher authority they try to claim. Love trumps all they say.

In what way is it loving to lure millions of unvetted people into the country? Was it loving when huge numbers of unaccompanied children came and were simply lost as they were under the Biden Administraion? You know those children ended up as slaves, frequently sex slaves. How is that loving? How is it loving to bring a bunch of criminals, or the insane, in to prey on the people who left their homeland to get away from these sorts in the first place? How is it loving to drive housing prices up for America's poor by so increasing the number of people seeking housing? How is it loving to swamp emergency rooms and make it hard to obtain medical care? How is it loving to bring in all the old diseases we had eliminated in the past? Other countries could take many of these folks if they were truly refugees; Mexico, for one, which they were passing through to get here anyway.

The fact is this was and is political and their hypocritical attempt to link their terrorism with "love" is a crock. This is about political power and remaking America into a failed socialist utopia, nothing more. If these people TRULY loved their illegal alien neighbors they would raise funds to help them return home in safety and with a nest egg to live off. They aren't doing that. They are rather stalking and harassing and abusing people who ae trying to enforce the laws of the nation, laws that were duly passed by their own reprrtesentatives. If they don't like those laws they are free to replace said reps and change the laws but you notice they won't do that. Why? Because they are a small minority, a rent-a-mob being funded by leftist plutocrats. There "loving care" is entirely astroturf.

Like Satan they pretend to care about others, but that is a ruse to trick the public into a trap bent on their destruction.

This is an insurrection and the sooner we start treating it as such the better.

Oh, and anyone who believes the officer who shot Renee Good should have made a non-lethal shot is completely ignorant of firearms usage; it's firearms 101 - you shoot for the biggest part of the target so as not to miss. That was a life and death situation. The officer had to make a snap decision and was being pushed by the car (he has internal injuries ACCORDING TO CBS, no Trump loving institution.

Renee Good did this to herself. And those who are saying she was murdered are also talking about "hands up! Don't shoot!" which has been proven to be a lie.

But why let a niggling thing like the Truth get in the way of a useful mantra, eh?

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When Life Gives Don Lemons

Timthy Birdnow

If some lefties get a criminal defense fund going for Don Lemon, who recently joined with thugs who invaded a Minneapolis church, will they call it "Lemon-aid"?

Just asking.

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January 19, 2026

Ancient Chinese Secret

Timothy Birdnow

No. I'm not talking about Calgon.

According to Peter Schweizer a million Chinese may well vote in the next election and determine the course of America's future.

This is what birthright citizenship and unrestrained immigration gives us.

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Iran; It's a Gas!

Timothy Birdnow

Iran just gassed their protesters.

The U.K.'s GB News is reporting that thr regime used poisonous substances on protesters in violation of international law and human decency.

This regime can't fall fast enough..

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Oops, Hilton Did it Again

Timothy Birdnow

Hilton made a big show of kicking out their franchisee who canceled a reservation for ICE agents, but oops they did it again.

Time to cancel the Hilton, I guess. They can join the Hyatt and the Pritzker family in a boycott.

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CNN's Fake News Poll

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a big nothingburger.

Did anyone really doubt Democrats are motivated to vote Democrat in the midterms? Is that really news?

Here's what I find interesting:

A full 72% of those surveyed said they disapprove of the way Democratic leaders in Congress are handling their jobs, while 28% approve.

Meanwhile, 80% of Democrats said they are "extremely motivated” or "very motivated” to vote in the upcoming elections, compared with 74% of Republicans who say the same.

The poll, conducted Jan. 9-12 among 1,209 adults, revealed shifts in political thinking:

— 64% said they disapprove of the way Republican leaders are handling their jobs compared with 35% who approve.

— 46% said they would vote for the Democratic Party’s candidate if elections were being held today while 41% said the Republican Party’s candidate.

— 52% think Republicans in Congress are doing too much to support President Donald Trump while 36% think Democrats are doing too much to oppose the president.

— 39% said the country will be better off if Democrats win control of Congress while 37% say worse off.

— 50% said Trump has had a bad effect on the Republican Party while 32% say he has had a good effect.

The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points and 3.5 points among registered voters.

Remember, this is a CNN poll and it's intended to dispirit Republicans, to get them to stay home, and to encourage Democrats, the party whose lunch Mr. Trump has been feasting upon for some time.

And I would add this poll is about the midterms, not about Donald Trump. Midterms are generally decided on local issues and the voting is local in nature, which is why a President often loses the midterms but wins re-election during the general.

Given the high dissatisfaction rate with Democrats by their own party (notice this poll doesn't tell us the satisfaction/dissatisfaction rate among Republicans with Congress and the President) one has to take this with a huge grain of salt.

We should be concerned and need to get the vote out, no question. If the Democrats take power they will impeach Trump again and again, and Trump's agenda is finis. This is a must win for the GOP. But don't let yourself be panicked by this; Trump has always come from behind, and these poll numbers are not unusual for this time in a Presidency.

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Lying Temperature Data

James Doogue

Official US Temperature Record Gains 1°C Of 'Warming' After NASA's Artificial Adjustments.

During what was meant to be an accelerating rate of global warming from the late 1990's, there was a period of about 15 years during which there was no increase in global temperatures. The activist climate scientists couldn't have this. So all meteorological bureau's around the world simultaneously went through a process of homogenising and adjusting their temperature records to fix what they claim were errors in past measurements.

At the end of 2000 NASA published a graph showing the average temperature for mainland USA from 1895 to 2000. In 2019 when NASA published their 'new and improved' data set. Warming between 1895 and 2000 had increased by 1°C.

When you look at the data it's clear that this was achieved by adjusting the temperatures from 1895 to the mid 2000's downward, to show the greater warming trend.

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology did a similar thing as did all similar organisations around the world. This the activist scientists were able to bring the temperature record in line with their global warming modelling.

Tony Heller explains what NASA did in the excellent video linked to the post.

The strange thing is that none of the meteorological organisations have allowed an independent audit of their individual temperature station adjustments, or how they decided to drop certain stations from their temperature record while adding others in. Which is essentially what my post is about.

Of course by doing this artificial cooling they also wiped from the record some of the hottest days ever experienced. So today we often here that a new temperature record has been set somewhere, yet we can pull up newspaper records of higher tem

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The Insurrection Act Needs Updating

From Carlos Velazquez

As much as I see the need for strong federal action and sympathize with President Trump in this matter, I need to add some necessary context to this screenshot.

The Insurrection Act is an old law. Not just old in years, but old in assumptions. It was written for a world where defiance of federal authority was overt, documented, and unmistakable. Governors stood in doorways. Orders were issued on paper. National Guards were openly deployed to block federal law or federal court orders. Responsibility was visible, traceable, and undeniable.

That world no longer exists.

The Insurrection Act could not have anticipated the internet. It could not have anticipated smartphones in every pocket. It could not have anticipated instant text communication, livestreaming, viral video, or real-time coordination across thousands of people with no formal chain of command. It could not have anticipated encrypted messaging apps, disappearing messages, burner accounts, or decentralized networks that can mobilize crowds in minutes and dissolve just as fast. It could not have anticipated social media platforms that algorithmically amplify outrage, nor activist ecosystems that blur the line between spontaneous protest and coordinated interference.

Most importantly, it could not have anticipated plausible deniability as a governing strategy.

Today, officials do not need to issue formal orders to obstruct federal law. They do not need to deploy the National Guard to block anything. They can signal hostility rhetorically, encourage "documentation,” tolerate selective non-enforcement, and allow sympathetic actors to interfere, all while maintaining clean hands and careful language. The obstruction happens anyway, but responsibility is diffused. Intent is implied, not declared. Action is outsourced to crowds, activists, and digital networks rather than state forces.

In earlier eras, this kind of behavior would have required explicit conspiracy and coordination. Today, it happens organically, at scale, and at speed, through tools that did not exist when the statute was written. The law assumes that defiance looks like defiance. Modern defiance looks like ambiguity, omission, and signaling.

That means the Insurrection Act should not be invoked lightly, or that it necessarily applies in every modern conflict. But it does mean the statute is operating with blind spots that did not exist in 1957 or 1963. It was built to handle governors who said "no.” It struggles with governors who never quite say anything at all, but whose words, timing, and tolerance produce the same practical result.

If the Act is to remain relevant in a digital, hyper-connected, polarized society, it needs to grapple honestly with that reality. Otherwise, we are left pretending that modern obstruction must look like a man standing in a doorway, even though power no longer works that way.

In short, the Act needs updating to take into account 21st century conditions.

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Not So Hot

Here is another story in New Scientist which argues that volcanic carbon dioxide output has greatly increased in recent years, much higher than it was in past geological ages. (The author makes the mistake of saying atmospheric carbon dioxide is the sole driver of warming and cooling, when it is demonstrably false; some of the coolest periods in Earth's history have had much higher levels of carbon dioxide, such as the

Meanwhile, new research suggests the high North Atlantic Ocean was not so hot during the Miocene, a period with comparable atmospheric carbon dioxide.

If the water was colder than scientists thought during higher carbon dioxide levels why is it a "planetary emergency" now?

Off course we know the Antarctic is gaining ice mass, both land and sea, and havs recorded regard cold numbers in recent years.

The principle researcher of this study said she lived in the Caribbean and saw life struggling during high temperatures. Hmmm. I suspect she didn't consider how that enormous quantity of life in tropical climates would fare if dumped into cold water. A greater variety of life lives in the tropics for just this reason. Life generally likes warmer weather, not colder. Life adapts to colder but in the end if there was no dangerous competition any life form will gravitate to the warmer, richer zones.

Yes, if it's too hot creatures will struggle; they aren't used to it. But we have life forms that exist in boiling hot water in volcanic vents, so it's what you get used to that matters.

So many scientists view the universe through their own experience and do not actually consider their experience may not be typical.

At any rate climate change theory is far, far from "settled" and an honest person would admit that.

I would point out the Eocene was generally warm but, despite atmospheric carbon dioxide DROPPING to 700 to 800 ppm (double what it is today) an ice age began and the planet cooled WAY down at the Eocene/Oligocene despite these still very high carbon dioxide levels. The onset of "icehouse earth" led to an extinction event.

So much of current climate theory is pretending to far more knowledge than scientists actually have, and speculation now informs most research on the subject rather than facts and an open-minded approach to it. We live in an irrational age.

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New Climate Model Lets Lefties Sue for "Destroying the Planet"

Timothy Birdnow

Well at least they are calling it what it is - a weapon, not a legitimate scientific effort!

The Secret Weapon that could Finally Forcle Climate Action

From Pseudo Scientist, er, New Scientist:

Yet Pujianto’s case is at the crest of a wave of litigation underpinned by innovative climate attribution models. Climate scientists say the most advanced type of model, called end-to-end attribution, can demonstrate a robust chain of cause and effect from an individual company’s carbon emissions all the way to local communities – no matter where they are.

Whether the studies will stand up in court is now being tested. "The science is evolving very rapidly and that’s allowing for new kinds of legal arguments,” says climate litigation expert Noah Walker-Crawford at the London School of Economics. What’s more, with the recent COP30 climate conference failing to deliver much meaningful action, some activists hope these advanced climate models could offer a powerful new weapon against global warming

It is no more possible to pin climate changes on a specific company than it is to pin salinity in the ocean to human urination. But that isn't going to stop the Gang Green, no sir! They will create flights of fancy supposedly linking a company with the weather and they'll judge shop, find a friendly judge who will instruct a jury in such a way as to make it impossible for a fair outcome to be had

This is politics by law. It's a disgraceful money and power grab. And New Scientist is happy about it.

Shame on them!

The short story (I won't call it an article) goes on to blame all the woes of the world on "climate change" and promotes every unexplained phenomenon on human caused warming (something not even proven as of yet). The dopey author doesn't seem to have ever read newspaper articles from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries about equally bizarre events, things like rains of frogs or whatnot.

This dimbulb doesn't understand that climate is always changing and always has been and we are just along for the ride in most cases. It is extreme hubris to think we are the sole determinant of how warm the planet is or how warm it will be. We had nothing to do with any of it, not the last ice age, not the Holocene warming, not the many warming or cooling periods. But now because we are increasing by a very slight margin atmospheric carbon dioxide (and we are in one of the lowest periods for carbon dioxide in geological history) we are "destroying the planet". Newsflash! The planet did fine before we came and will do fine after we leave and there's not much we can do about it. Even a nuclear war would have only a short-term impact on this planet.

Ths is what passes for science these days!

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January 18, 2026

Walz's Rebel Yell

LTimothy Birdnow

I a stunned; Tampon Timmy Walz has gone full insurrection.

Minnesota Governor Activates National Guard

This was done to stop ICE from making raids on illegals.

The word you are looking for is "treason".

Sundance dishes:

According to the Minnesota Dept of Public Safety, Governor Tim Walz has activated the national guard. However, in a statement on their X account the officials note, the guard "are not deployed to city streets at this time, but are ready to help support public safety, including protection of life, preservation of property and supporting the rights of all who assemble peacefully.”

This is likely a proactive move to block President Trump from invoking the ‘insurrection act’ to stop the chaos being fueled by the governor himself as well as professional leftists in the region.

He's gone full John C. Calhoun.

I don't think it's just to stop Trump from invoking the Insurrection Act but to put boots on the ground to tamper with ICE operations.

This guy is going to HAVE to go to prison and for a long time before this insanity ends.

Sundance continues:

As federal efforts led by the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) together with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue, the governor and local municipal leaders throughout Minneapolis have continued to call for activists in the street to maintain operations against immigration enforcement and criminal illegal alien arrests.

Underneath all of the state opposition is a matrix of financial fraud purposefully being hidden by the officials throughout the state of Minnesota including Governor Walz himself. In essence, the state government is trying to protect themselves from criminal investigations of fraud by creating chaos as a defense mechanism.

He's right; I suspect just about every official in Minnesota has their hands dirty with the Somali carnival of sleaze. Walz most of all and he no doubt knows a cell awaits him in some high security prison. He's going down swinging. And he's willing to take many lives to do it; he's the very definition of a monster.

This situation is starting to spiral out of control. We may be in a full-blown civil war by the summer.

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Only the Beginning

Timothy Birdnow

Why America is sca-rude!

Brent Buchanan: The Minnesota incident — a case study in media narrative versus reality

Mr Buchanan is the head of the Cignal Group, a top polling company.

He finds that especially white women believe what the media tells them and think violence is acceptable "in the name of righteousness". As he points out this shooting of Renee Good is just the beginning.

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Black Holes Tunnelling Through Our Heads

Timothy Birdnow

They are catching up with me. I've long argued that our universe is probably a decayed black hole and now science seems to think so too, at least this particular research group does.

Of course I couldn't prove it with the mathematics, which is why I am a blogger and not a particle physicist.

The article states:

It is a mathematical connection between these two opposite arrows of time. This reinterpretation has powerful consequences.

"These mathematical bridges not only retain the vision of ER, but also restore the unitarity in curved spacetime,” the study authors added.

For instance, one of the biggest puzzles in physics is the black hole information paradox. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit radiation and can eventually evaporate, seemingly destroying all information about what fell into them. This violates a core rule of quantum mechanics, which says information must always be preserved.

The paradox arises because physicists usually describe black holes using only one direction of time. In the new framework, information is not destroyed at the event horizon. Instead, it continues evolving along the mirror, time-reversed component of the quantum state.

From our perspective, it disappears—but at the fundamental level, nothing is lost. The laws of quantum mechanics remain intact, without requiring exotic matter or radical changes to Einstein’s theory.

How this affects black holes, the Big Bang, and the universe itself

If this picture is correct, its implications go far beyond black holes. For instance, the same time-mirror structure could apply to the entire universe. The Big Bang may not have been the absolute beginning of time, but a quantum "bounce”—a transition between a contracting universe and an expanding one, each with opposite arrows of time.

In this scenario, our universe could be the interior of a black hole formed in a previous cosmos. As that region collapsed, quantum effects prevented a final singularity, causing spacetime to rebound and expand again.

Some traces of the pre-bounce universe—such as small black holes—might have survived and reappeared in our own cosmic expansion. Intriguingly, such relics could help explain part of what we currently call dark matter.

None of this is really new. The "big bounce" universe is an old idea, going back to at least the '60's and probably before that.

And since the Big Bang theorized that the universe started from a "cosmic egg" about the size of Mars it was unquestionably the equivalent of a black hole.

There are other aspects of this too. Wormholes, for instance, are often portrayed to the public as tunnels in spacetime and often used as faster than light highways for imaginative science fiction. But they are extremely small and can only accommodate, say, an electron. They collapse very fast too. (There is a theory that a tunnel diode effect is the creation of a small wormhole that allows an electron to pass through an energy barrier by simply tunneling through it, for example.) These phenomenon (assuming both are different things) is more easily explained if one assumes a fundamental shift in time.

A while back I read about an experiment where scientists got a beam of light to travel backwards along it's trajectory. It did so at a speed far greater than the speed of light, which everyone thought impossible Now this doesn't mean we have proof of concept for a faster-than-light spacecraft drive, nor that Einstein is overthrown; no information could be carried this way, meaning Einstein's relativity is still in tact. But what does it mean? Imagine a particle moving along with the beam of light. What would we see as outside observers? I suspect we'd see the particle in complete reverse, with spin and all other aspects of it reversed aka antimatter. It would seem to be turned to antimatter for a very short time. Was it? No because it is only under these very unusual conditions for a short period. But a particle that is moving backward in time would also appear this way. I think this is a very limited form of time travel. Time outside the event continues to move normally but inside the event it reverses for a moment, and at the same time the light moves faster than light because it is essentially flowing backwards in time and the limits imposed by the fabric of the universe on the beam's velocity is shifted.

I've also wondered if quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation are not related to this. When we split a particle the two parts are identical and remain "entangled" with an action influencing one particle also influencing another. Much thought has gone into the question of how they "communicate". I have long thought they were simply the same particle existing in two separate spaces. Never had any proof of that. But this suggests I may well be right about that.

And this may explain why dark matter is a crock, as it increasingly appears to be thanks to recent research suggesting dark energy does not exist. We know gravity and time are closely related; perhaps the extra gravity we witness is a coefficient of gravity from the past catching up with the universe? Remember, we don't see the universe all at once; we see it in different stages of it's existence depending on how far the light has traveled to get to us. We see our solar system largely in real time (well, within hours anyway) but not the stars in the Milky way and most certainly not the most distant galaxies. The Einstein–Rosen bridge may connect us with past gravitational influences as well as with those of the present.

I don't know but it could explain why there seems to be a bunch of mass hiding from us. We assume that because the universe should be expanding much faster than it is. But to explain the slower expansion we have to postulate a bunch of extra matter, and then to explain how it has expanded as much as it has we have to postulate an opposite force, Dark Energy, to explain THAT. Cosmology increasingly resembles the Medieval argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Seems to me there is a simpler, as-yet unthought of solution.

I don't know and I certainly can't work out the math.

At any rate it's fun to think about even if it twists your brain into knots.

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What Greenlanders Want

Timothy Birdnow

Greenland's populace (Denmark and the E.U.) "they stole our future".

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/01/17/greenlanders-blast-danish-rule-they-stole-our-future-n2198239

From Red State:

But Greenland's native population may have other ideas.

Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame.

Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had.

Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.

"I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. "That choice was taken from me.”

Amarok Petersen isn't the only Greenlander to have reason to be unhappy with Danish rule.

Even in adulthood, medical decisions were made without Petersen’s consent. Plagued with problems after the IUD, she had repeated surgeries for unexplained pain. It wasn’t until years later that doctors informed her that her fallopian tubes had been removed in one of the operations in the early 2000s.

Her family also suffered under Denmark’s so-called "Little Danes experiment,” in which Greenlandic children were forcibly sent to Denmark for adoption or institutional care — often permanently separated from their families, she said.

The program, which ran from the 1950s through the 1970s, was part of Denmark’s broader effort to assimilate Greenlandic children, often without parental consent.

I find this interesting because it clearly illustrates the West's obsession with Mlthusianism, with overpopulation and the sneaky underpinning of eugenics that governs the European mind even now, 81 years after the fall of the Third Reich.

I have little doubt Denmark treats the native population like little children, and pesky ones at that. Of course the leadership in Greenland doesn't want to split from the Danes; that is what keeps them in power. But the average person lives on about 3 grand a YEAR and has no real opportunities. Denmark enforces all the E.U. environmental regulations there, no doubt. That means no development, which means no jobs. If you are a Greenlander you are a subsistence farmer or fisherman. That is the best you can hope for.

The article continues:

The island has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to researchers, with an estimated 81 per 100,000 people annually killing themselves.

"They took our resources. They took our bodies. And then they told us to thank them,” she said of Danes. "How do you thank someone who stole your future?”

Usually with bullets but in the case of Greenland I doubt they have any. The Danes have imposed draconian gun control laws on the Greenlanders "for their own safety". Granted, they do drink a lot in Greenland, but what else is there to do? Still, it's a happy coincident, I'm sure, that Greenlanders don't have any weapons (even while there are polar bears and other dangerous critters about) to kick the Viking horde off of the island.

Given the vast amount of wealth that the U.S. will brig them, coupled with the fact that we will impose far fewer nanny state regulations, I have no doubt most Greenlanders would welcome the change to America. Greenland is, after all, an Island that is part of the North American continent and not part of Europe. Europeans are colonizers.

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