Putin's Puppet?

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“And this will restore gas service directly to chuck schumer’s grill”

American LNG: After 'Drill, Baby, Drill' It's Finally 'Sell, Baby, Sell' Time Again

Biden “paused” LNG exports to Europe, so that continent turned to Russia for supply and thereby helped finance Russia’s war against Ukraine.

...Europe spent $255B on Russian energy and totalled $893B since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.  

On the other hand, Europe has provided Ukraine $73B in aid, of which 35% are loans, and $53B in military aid.   

At what point does the level of absurdity reach a tipping point? Europe has funded both sides of the war.  

They virtue signal over Ukraine while simultaneously bankrolling Russia’s war machine.

Trump’s undone Biden’s action and the gas is flowing east again. That’s very bad news for Putin, but because we’ve been told that the dictator controls our president, it will be interesting to learn how this is actually all part of a devious plan to benefit the Russians.

Waiting with bated breath.

That horse left the barn long ago, and you and your co-conspirators are the ones who shooed it out and locked the stable door behind it

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soon to be seen in a post office near you

I’d thought the old bastard had cleared out his desk and left the premises months ago, but at least he’s gone now.

Ousted Director Francis Collins Demands Americans Pay ‘Utmost Respect’ to NIH

Dr. Francis Collins has abruptly retired after being stripped of his directorship by new HHS boss RFK Jr. and left a resignation letter on the dung heap:

“NIH is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world. It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name.  It should be.  NIH supports everything from basic science to clinical trials, providing the foundation of many breakthroughs.  When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades.  When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by NIH. It has also been the largest supporter of global health research in the world, winning us many friends and colleagues from across the globe.  I have loved being employed by this extraordinary, life-giving institution for 32 years. I will continue to devote my life in other ways to seeking knowledge and enhancing health, to healing disease and reducing suffering, and to doing what I can to bring together our fractured communities around the shared values of love, truth, goodness, and faith.  As I depart NIH, I want to express my gratitude and love for the men and women with whom I have worked side-by-side for so many years. They are individuals of extraordinary intellect and integrity, selfless and hard-working, generous and compassionate. They personify excellence in every way, and they deserve the utmost respect and support of all Americans.”

A friend of mine who’s in his mid-30s recently told me that he’d graduated from school as a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, and as an earth scientist whose job takes him outside into the field for days at a time, he considers himself a staunch environmentalist. But, he said, he increasingly saw articles and claims in his area of expertise: chemical pollution; hydrology; etc. that, although asserted as fact, he knew to be untrue, and he grew uneasy.

“Then came COVID”, he said, “and the bullshit that was being spewed by “scientist authorities” cured me of, first, trusting anything coming out of the CDC and NHI, and the all the other stuff I’d been hearing and trusting from other parts of the government, and that was it.”

And so another conservative was born; thank you, Francis.

Yo, moron: your hall pass just expired

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gooder and harder

State Department revokes first visa of foreign student linked to 'Hamas-supporting disruptions'

The State Department has revoked the visa of a student who participated in protesting in favor of Hamas, a move in line with President Donald Trump's call for canceling visas of students involved in the anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses.

…. "Yesterday evening, we revoked the first visa of an alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions," the State Department said. "This individual was a university student. ICE will proceed with removing this person from the country."

The State Department reviewed over 100,000 student visas and none were revoked during the Biden administration, despite all the anti-Israel protests and disruptions on college campuses. 

Trump has repeatedly called for foreign students attending American universities to have their visas revoked for supporting Hamas and other terror groups. 

Upon taking office in January, he signed an executive order to combat antisemitism. 

"To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," Trump is quoted in a fact sheet issued by the White House. "I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before."

IF AI CAN TRACK DOWN AND EXPOSE FUNDING FOR PERUVIAN TRANSGENDER MICE DANCE TEAMS, IT CAN DIG UP THESE VERMIN


…. On Thursday, Axios reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled "Catch and Revoke" effort to cancel the visas of foreign students who appear to support designated terror groups.

"Those who support designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, threaten our national security," he wrote on X. "The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists. Violators of U.S. law — including international students — face visa denial or revocation, and deportation."

This is HUUGE! — for Perkins Coie, anyway

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The Law Firm That Laundered the Russia Hoax Has Been Stripped of Security Clearances

The law firm that produced the Steele dossier on behalf of the Clinton campaign and laundered the Russia hoax against President Donald Trump during his first term no longer has access to classified or sensitive U.S. government information. 

"This is an absolute honor to sign. What they've done is just terrible. It's a weaponization, you could say weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again," Trump said before signing an executive order stripping the firm of security clearances. 

More background on Perkins Coie courtesy of RealClearInvestigations: 

Michael A. Sussmann, a partner in Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements to the FBI about his clients and their motives behind planting the rumor, at the highest levels of the FBI, of a secret Trump-Russia server. After a months-long investigation, the FBI found no merit to the rumor.

The grand jury indicated in its lengthy indictment that several people were involved in the alleged conspiracy to mislead the FBI and trigger an investigation of the Republican presidential candidate -- including Sullivan, who was described by his campaign position but not identified by name.

The Clinton campaign project, these sources say, also involved compiling a "digital dossier” on several Trump campaign officials – including Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and Carter Page. This effort exploited highly sensitive, nonpublic Internet data related to their personal email communications and web-browsing, known as Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses.

Perkins Coie is one of the biggest of the big international law firms and has its tentacles embedded everywhere there’s a dollar to be extracted: From NYC to Silicon Valley to the mother lode of all corporate and government money, Washington. If none of its thousands of lawyers have a security clearance, there goes their lobbying and much of its corporate work and there would go the firm.

Which won’t happen, I predict. There are Perkins Coie alumni seated in federal courts around the country, and it will be a simple matter to get one of them or, really, and D.C. judge to issue a stay of Trump’s order, and then keep everything in abeyance until Democrats return to power in 2028 or even 2036.

But it’ll be fun to watch them squirm.

So crazy, it just might work; something better had

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Stephen Green has a brianstorm, and a suggestion:

An Army of DIY Drones

Sometimes a small story gives you a big idea, and today it's a report this week out of Ft. Campbell, Ky., where soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division launched a deadly new DIY project. Taking inspiration from the Russo-Ukraine War and a dash of "necessity is the mother of invention," soldiers are 3D printing their own drones.

The unit was faced with a couple of problems when it came to procuring the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) its soldiers needed to stay lethal in a combat environment increasingly dominated by tiny flying bombs and surveillance systems. 

One problem was the old Army attitude where soldiers were disciplined for losing assets, even though drones are supposed to be cheap, plentiful, and expendable. Changing a military mindset is never easy, but seeing what drones could do in the Russo-Ukraine War got the job done. 

The second problem was political, or "fiscal constraints," as the 101st's CO, Maj. Gen. Brett Sylvia delicately put it. "Based off of the fact that we still don’t necessarily have a budget," he told Defense Scoop this week, "we’ve been operating under a continuing resolution [since the beginning of fiscal 2025], and there are some fiscal constraints associated with what we’ve been doing now."

That's the problem with Congress's irresponsible reliance on continuing resolutions instead of doing its actual job of producing a budget every year. Our armed forces are stuck with the same amount of money for the same items each year, regardless of what our men and women require to perform their missions.

Gen. Sylvia said, "The team went back and said, 'OK, well, if we can’t buy anymore, let’s start making our own.'" Then they did just that, courtesy of 3D printing and a small budget for off-the-shelf motors, remote controls, and the like.

Sylvia also said that the 101st spent “a bunch of money” last year to purchase just 20 or so UASs, including drones from Skydio, for a major training exercise involving the division's 2nd Brigade. Since then — and at a fraction of the cost for Pentagon-approved UASs — they've been able to 3D print more than 100 small drones.

Left unsaid: no contractors' palms were greased, no procurement officer was promised a cushy job at Lockheed after retirement, and no congresscritters were treated to steak and scotch at a D.C.-area steakhouse. Some soldiers used inexpensive gear and a little imagination to roll their own — designing cheap drones that served their needs, not some gold-plated kit that padded a contractor's bottom line. 

“What works in a lab with a very technical expert may not necessarily work with a 19-year-old soldier who’s out there in the rain and the mud. We got to figure out how do we do that. We got to get it out there quicker,” Sylvia said. It takes about 18 hours to "print" a single drone airframe, but the Army is looking into ways to speed that up.

That's the part of this little story that gave me a big idea: local fundraisers, held all across the nation, to buy 3D printers and supplies for your local Army, Air Force, Navy, or Marine unit. Active duty? Reserves? National Guard? These 3D printers are so inexpensive now that it wouldn't take much effort to cover them all.

What will they come up with? Nobody knows, and that's the whole point. But with the entire military making local decisions — fast and cheap — about each unit's actual needs, the possibilities are endless.

Sometimes stubbornness pays off; if you aren't in any particular rush to move

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40 Upland Drive, asking $5.995 million, finally has a contract after first setting a tentative toe in the sales ocean back in April 2024. In this market, that’s practically forever, yet the initial price of $6.225 million was reduced only once, by 3.7%, last September. Hey — if it works for an owner’s relocation schedule, good; even if nothing else changes, inflation will eventually make its price look reasonable.

Absolutely. Then confiscate the vehicles of the idiots who block highways and bridges

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CT police chiefs want ability to seize, sell cars involved in street takeovers

HARTFORD — New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson has a simple solution to the dangerous, unannounced, unruly masses of motor vehicle drivers and spectators that block traffic and threaten public safety: "No more cars, no more street takeovers."

That was his message to state lawmakers this week in pushing for legislation that would allow police to seize cars involved in street takeovers and sell them at auction.

"These street takeovers can happen in any town, any time of the day or night," Jacobson, speaking for the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association during a public hearing Tuesday before the legislative Public Safety & Security Committee. "They're extremely disruptive and dangerous to those on the road. These incidents have encountered mob mentality behavior from those participating in takeovers." Many of the drivers use different sets of license plates to avoid detection, he said.

While takeovers often involved hundreds of vehicles and drivers who outnumber law enforcement, Jacobson believes that seizing the vehicles, then selling them, would send an easy-to-understand consequence while giving towns and cities revenue to pay for the stepped-up enforcement.

"These investigations and the prosecution of these incidents are extremely difficult, since most, if not all of the participants are from different states and areas outside of Connecticut," Jacobson said. "The arrests we have made are from Mass, New Jersey and Connecticut. We need a penalty, which will stop these activities. There have been four shootings in New Haven related to street takeovers and we've seized three guns during arrests for street takeovers. They are setting fires in the street, throwing fireworks at police officers and jumping on police cars when the officers are outnumbered. They are taking over residential intersections as well as highway areas."

In recent months spectators were injured during a December street takeover in North Haven. Last month New Haven Police arrested a Milford woman who allegedly announced takeovers around the state on Instagram.

"When we do disband a street takeover there are hundreds of cars leaving at the same time," said Jacobson, stressing that regional efforts involved police from multiple towns and State Police, have been somewhat effective. "It takes drones, multiple officers, stop sticks, many other law enforcement efforts. We need penalties which make all these efforts worthwhile. We threw stop sticks one night and we probably stopped 50 car tires but we didn't have enough cops to make arrests, so those people drove home without tires and I think that kind of slowed them from picking New Haven as the areas because since that arrest night we haven't seen a lot of activity."

No influence left to peddle, the Notebook Kid has gone bust

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“Who knew that spending all your money on high-priced hookers and crack weren't a solid investment strategy?”

Well, That Didn’t Take Long: Hunter Biden Is Already Broke

Just weeks after Donald Trump took back the White House from Joe Biden, his formerly crack-smoking son Hunter is broke. Now, he is seeking to drop his own federal laptop hacking lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler, who exposed the contents of Hunter's infamous laptop through his Marco Polo non-profit website. 

No one wants his paintings, no one will pay to hear him, Amtrak doesn’t want him back on its board of directors, and even his cash-bearing Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian friends won’t return his calls.

Sad.

The truth will set you free: to find another job

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State Farm Fires Executive After What He Told an Undercover Reporter

Some idiot spilled the beans to an O’Keefe reporter (how does he keep finding these morons?)

A State Farm insurance executive has been fired after he blasted Los Angeles fire victims and told an undercover O’Keefe Media Group journalist that the company discriminates against white people in its hiring.

“I personally, I task my HR team, finding me… the perfect profile of the workforce of the future,” Haden Kirkpatrick, the former Vice President of Innovation and Venture Capital at State Farm, says in the recording. “I want the 2040 workforce. So go find me the demographic profile of America in 2040: more Hispanic and Latinos.”

Kirkpatrick also criticized California fire victims for their “egos building in a f***ing desert.”

OMG’s James O’Keefe summarizes the conversation:

“People want to build in areas where they want to have, like, natural areas around them for their ego. But it’s also a f*ing desert. And so, it dries out as a tinderbox.” He also acknowledged that wildfires in these areas are not surprising to insurance professionals, claiming, “Climate change is pushing these seasons.” He explained, “If you’re an insurance professional, it’s predictable.” 

Kirkpatrick also admitted that State Farm’s decision to pull out of the California insurance market was a calculated move in response to financial concerns and state regulations: “Our people look at this and say, ‘Sh*t, we’ve got, like, maybe $5 billion that we’re short if something happens.’” He revealed, “We’ll go to the Department of Insurance and say, ‘We’re overexposed here, you have to let us catch up our rate.’ And they’ll say, ‘Nah.’ And we’ll say, ‘Okay, then we are going to cancel these policies.’” 

State Farm, which previously covered over a million homeowners in California, provided insurance against fire, theft, and other damages. However, their decision to withdraw coverage has left thousands of residents without financial protection following devastating wildfires. “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there,” except for the Californians now facing the aftermath of destruction without insurance coverage.

Following the exposé, State Farm terminated Kirkpatrick and issued the following statement to O'Keefe:

Does anyone doubt that State Farm is enmeshed in the entire DEI scheme, including hiring and promoting? In the Peoples Republic of Cali? I don’t.

And it’s a fact that State Farm left the state after California’s insurance regulators turned down the company’s request for a rate hike sufficient to cover what everyone know will be catastrophic losses, and it’s a fact that the cost of wildfires has soared as people have spread into previously empty wildfire zones that burn regularly: Californian’s have always described their weather as divided into “drought, fire and flood seasons”, long before the global warming hoax got started.

The fact that this former executive buys into the global warming story is irrelevant: State Farm and the other property insurers in the Golden State are facing disaster, and the eco-nuts and “consumer advocates” are simply whistling past the graveyard.

That’ll work until it doesn’t.