2026-09-05, Simply Saturday

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Seems like such an obvious solution. We need a Conservative majority.

Elon Echoed The Obvious…

Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

First up.

Stunning economic news, that may not have been posted yesterday…

US Economy Added 3 Times as Many Jobs as Economists Projected in August

“HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS!”: The economy added 162,000 new jobs last month — shattering economists’ expectations.

More than one million private sector jobs have been added since President Trump took office.

"HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS!": The economy added 162,000 new jobs last month — shattering economists' expectations.

More than one million private sector jobs have been added since President Trump took office.

🚀🚀🚀 pic.twitter.com/AwsTLO2Z6S
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 4, 2026

US Economy Added 3 Times as Many Jobs as Economists Projected in August

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Continuing the awakening, reawakening, everything Covid, Covidiot Jab, mRNA…

Early last evening, PAVACA posted this, worthy read…

BREAKING: STUDY FINDS mRNA “VACCINES” COULD INDUCE OR ACCELERATE CANCER VIA 35 DISTINCT MECHANISMS

The most comprehensive analysis to date examining the link between mRNA “vaccines” and cancer identifies convergent mechanistic, clinical, and population-level evidence of turbo cancer.

by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Cancer is rising at an increasingly alarming pace. Early-onset malignancies are climbing in younger adults, aggressive cancers are appearing in patients with little warning, and U.S. cancer mortality has departed sharply from its pre-pandemic trajectory. Against this backdrop, one of the most important questions in medicine is whether the unprecedented mass deployment of nucleoside-modified mRNA technology could be contributing to cancer initiation, reactivation, or accelerated progression.

We have now fully answered this question in a new paper titled “Potential Oncogenicity of Synthetic mRNA Vaccines: Convergent Mechanistic, Clinical, and Population Evidence for a Concurrent-Hit Model of Accelerated Malignancy” authored by John A. Catanzaro, NMD, PhD; Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (myself); Raphael B. Stricker, MD; Jamie K. Waselenko, MD, FACP, FICT; and Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH.

In the most comprehensive analysis to date examining the link between mRNA “vaccines” and cancer, we brought together mechanistic biology, published clinical cases, large population cohorts, U.S. cancer-incidence data, and national mortality records to evaluate whether these gene products could induce, accelerate, or unmask malignancy.

The findings converge on the same alarming picture: TURBO CANCER IS REAL.

And the implications extend far beyond COVID-19 vaccination, because the same underlying mRNA technology is now being pushed directly into cancer treatment.

Below is a concise breakdown of what we found:

MECHANISTIC EVIDENCE

We identified 35 distinct cancer-promoting mechanisms converging through 4 major routes: (1) protooncogene activation, (2) mutation pressure, (3) protein–protein interaction network interference, and (4) cancer stem-cell clonal acceleration.

Key mechanisms include EGFR/RAS/MAPK and STAT3–MYC activation, p53/BRCA suppression, impaired DNA repair, residual plasmid DNA and SV40 regulatory elements, LINE-1 reverse transcription, m1Ψ-associated frameshifting, chronic LNP inflammation, immune suppression, and cancer stem-cell expansion—pathways capable of promoting genomic instability, uncontrolled growth, immune escape, dormancy reactivation, and metastatic outgrowth. The full inventory of cancer-promoting mechanisms can be found in Table 4 of our study.

Our central concurrent-hit model proposes that these processes do not necessarily operate independently or sequentially. Multiple cancer-promoting hits overlap in the same susceptible host, compressing the time required for dormant, indolent, or microscopic disease to become clinically aggressive.

CLINICAL EVIDENCE

The published clinical literature includes 333 documented turbo cancer cases across 27 countries, involving lymphomas, leukemia, melanoma, breast cancer, lung cancer, glioblastoma and other glial tumors, sarcomas, and pancreatic cancer. The vast majority of these cases occurred following COVID-19 vaccination, with a minority following SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Approximately 86% of the post-vaccination cases occurred after nucleoside-modified mRNA products—about 56% after Pfizer-BioNTech, 25% after Moderna, and another 5% after exposure to both mRNA products across different doses.

Across these cases, recurring patterns include rapid cancer progression, short-latency recurrence, reactivation of previously controlled disease, and tumors involving the injection site or nearby draining lymph nodes.

Lymphoid malignancies represent the largest category in the published case literature, while glioblastoma and pancreatic adenocarcinoma were among the cancers most consistently associated with reports of unusually rapid progression.

POPULATION EVIDENCE

The population-level evidence reinforces these clinical and mechanistic signals.

OUR CDC WONDER ANALYSIS: At least 119,130 EXCESS U.S. CANCER DEATHS, rising to approximately 153,000–197,000 after accounting for mortality displacement.

INDEPENDENT CDC WONDER ANALYSIS: 154,330 excess U.S. cancer deaths, closely matching the lower end of our corrected range.

UNITED STATES (SEER): Early-onset cancer incidence surged 6.4% in just 2 years, from 2021–2023, alongside sharp increases in brain and nervous-system tumors (+19.5%), colorectal cancer (+19.4%), small-intestine cancer (+15.5%), ovarian cancer (+12.8%), stomach cancer (+7.3%), and female breast cancer (+3.6%).

SOUTH KOREA: A nationwide cohort of 8.4 million people found vaccinated individuals had an increased 1-year cancer risk across 6 cancer types: thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, breast, and prostate cancer.

ITALY: Vaccinated residents had a 23% higher risk of cancer hospitalization, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 1.23 compared with unvaccinated residents.

These findings come from entirely different data streams and study designs, yet they repeatedly point toward the same concern: accelerated cancer emergence and progression following the era of widespread mRNA exposure.

mRNA ONCOLOGY DANGER

The very mRNA platform now linked in our paper to 35 oncogenic mechanisms is being repurposed to treat cancer itself.

Modern individualized mRNA cancer products encode patient-specific mutated tumor proteins and package them into RNA delivery systems designed to generate a strong immune response against those targets.

But the fundamental safety problem remains: where does that encoded antigen actually get expressed?

The platform can distribute systemically, causing vulnerable tissues including the heart and brain to express tumor-derived antigens—raising the risk of off-target immune attack, cardiac injury, and neurological damage.

Even more concerning, the LNP delivery vehicle itself promoted metastatic outgrowth in mice even without mRNA cargo, suggesting that some oncologic liabilities reside in the platform itself—not only the encoded antigen.

And now the first randomized test of individualized mRNA as monotherapy in residual cancer has FAILED. The Phase 2 BioNTech BNT122-01 trial enrolled 327 patients with molecularly confirmed residual colorectal cancer, crossed its futility boundary, and was terminated due to a mortality imbalance.

This matters enormously because these therapies are being moved into precisely the patients most vulnerable to accelerated disease: people already subjected to multiple mRNA boosters with residual cancer and genomic instability.

OUR CALL

On the combined weight of the mechanistic, clinical, and population evidence, we call for IMMEDIATE MARKET WITHDRAWAL of nucleoside-modified mRNA-LNP products from broad preventive use and a halt to their expansion into adjuvant and neoadjuvant cancer treatment.

35 mechanisms. Hundreds of documented turbo cancer cases across 27 countries. Up to ~197,000 excess U.S. cancer deaths by our analysis. A failed randomized mRNA cancer trial. And the same technology is now being pushed deeper into oncology.

It’s time to END this madness.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation

Support our mission: mcculloughfnd.org

Please consider following both the McCullough Foundation and my personal account on X (formerly Twitter) for further content.

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-finds-mrna-vaccines

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

2026-08-29, Simply Saturday

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Below seems like such an obvious solution.

We need a Conservative majority.

Until then, we’ll…

Stuff…

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Chiefio Techie thoughts.

Techies may like this stuff. Likely some eye rolling, followed by, scrolling. 🙂

Micro$oft Backdoor & P.O.’d Security Tester

A Feud between Micro$oft & A Security Guy going hot…

This is a fun one…

Has everything from corporate intrigue to morality play, big corp crushing small guys who keep fighting, and just to round it out, a zero day exploit that looks a lot like a “backdoor” (or could just be stupid programmer games).

I’d worry if I ran anything Microsoft, but I don’t, so I don’t 😉

Yes, it is a couple of months old, but I don’t usually follow M.S. stuff closely. The White hat “Nightmare Eclipse” is having a bit of a feud with M.S. over their ‘bug bounty’ program. Having not been paid for turning in some serious exploits, Nightmare Eclipse then started dropping “zero day” exploits on public servers. M.S. responded by getting them banned from Git Hub and Git Lab (so a bit of “whack a mole” going on). That won’t end well as the more they push the disclosure toward dark web / mesh network tech, the more exploits will be zero-day for the Black Hat community and hidden from the White Hats & the company.

Yes, a ZERO DAY exploit is bad. Yes having it quarantined with the company until a fix is published is better. BUT when the company goes all Pissy Dissy at the folks notifying them, the company can expect lack of cooperation in return. Companies can play nice or have Dark Web Exploits floating around for weeks or months before they find out. M.S. is not known for playing nice, IMHO.

FWIW: I survived all sorts of zero day exploits for years (decades…) via other site sanitation measures. Just because a given computer has an exploit doesn’t mean you can’t protect it. Isolation of critical systems from communications networks (i.e. not everything needs to be on the internet all the time…), very tight isolating firewalls, network architecture that prevents some kinds of access, access control facilities and more. They all work.

For example: I have a lot of data on disk. It is absolutely safe from attack from the internet. Why? Because the disk is not plugged into a computer, it is locked in a drawer. Also, the computer is left turned off and without power 99%+ of the time (that computer is only used when I want to access those disks) and, unless I’m actively downloading data from the internet, it doesn’t need an internet connection. I can download things (on a different system / uSD chip) that that gets moved to the archival system, maintaining isolation.

Bit of a PITA for things like system updates and adding data? Yeah, but a lot less trouble than getting shut down or data corrupted / stolen. Also note that I have copies of my various computer builds in the archive. IF one of my systems got corrupted or “locked” for ransom: I just remove the media with the locked OS on it, flash a new one from the saved image using my offline system builder system, and I’m back in business. All the important offline data is still secure and the online system recovered. Maximum loss is whatever I’ve done very recently, not backed up, and usually that’s easily recreated or just not important to me.

So yes, were I running a live on-line corporate center, some of those zero day exploits would matter to me a lot more (they did back when was doing that for a living). BUT, I find it a lot easier to have a dedicated system for personal web / on-line stuff that is semi-disposable, AND separate systems used only for things like financials, archives, and building systems. Compromising an exposed system doesn’t compromise anything important. With a separate computer costing in the $100 range, and uSD cards for an isolated system down around $10, running multiple computer images is very cheap and easy. Add that the Raspberry Pi 4 & 5 are enough for common web browsing stuff, and the barriers to entry for isolating “random browsing” from “important stuff” drops to the cost of a fancy coffee or at most a tank of gasoline.

Yes, that also involves avoiding the Microsoft Tax on the systems (one licence each) via Linux, but I’m fine with that 😉

So, here’s the Soap Opera Story, along with the tech of the exploit(s) involved:

Yes, this “exploit” requires access to the hardware. That’s one of the first big barriers to protect yourself. Keep your hardware / systems away from physical access by randoms. The laptop I use “on the road” at public WiFi has NOTHING on it of importance. No financials. No email archive. At most, a couple of days of “on the road” email reading records (email left on the server when on the road). Isolating use cases, it’s a good thing.

Also note that at about 11 minutes, there’s a ‘letter’ from Nightmare Eclipse stating that M.S. patched a vulnerability under active exploit without telling anyone (a bad behaviour). Once you push the patch, you notify everyone so they can assure they patch it AND find out if they were hacked.

For this particular bug, I don’t see it as a major risk for most users / use cases. For secure sites depending on disk encryption? Yeah, it would be an issue. OTOH, as someone who has needed to use “exploits” to recover other folks systems sometimes: To me it looks more like a way to recover an encrypted disk when the employee left the company or the PIN was lost… not all “security bypasses” are bad all the time…

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Worthy re-run from Tuesday…

A Nice Summary of Why Ubuntu Now Sucks

I’m removing Ubuntu from any of my systems

Why? Because the path forward now sucks. Management at Canonical has made a series of “corporate friendly user hostile” decisions. SNAP is obligatory, which also means loss of control of YOUR code as it self updates “packages”. The inherent code bloat has pushed memory demand to levels higher than Microsoft Windows(!). Wayland is now obligatory so kiss off any old Xorg applications or recovery methods. Want to remove SNAP? Then you also lose sound as computer sound now depends on it. Kernel stable? Maybe, maybe not, as the Long Term Support version release may happen before kernel stability date. Then there is Uutils, the Rusty re-write of well tested well proven Gnu Coreutils pretty much guaranteed to induce bugs, script failures, downtime and commands that do not act as they did before.

I also have several very old PC boxes that I like to keep in service. Keeps e-waste down and old hardware useful. Canonical is abandoning old hardware, so abandoning me.

The “good news” is that the only system I’ve regularly used with Ubuntu was an Asus Laptop that came with it pre-installed. After some effort, I’ve reached the point where I can manage EUFI well enough to swap the OS on it – just as the keyboard and power connection have started being flaky… so I bought a new Think Penguin laptop with Devuan pre-installed. My only other Ubuntu systems tend to be alternative uSD cards for various Single Board Computers since many vendors supported Ubuntu first or only. Odroid, for example, liked to support it. For them, I’ve generally gotten a Devuan or Armbian alternative running as the main OS. I’ll now be “not bothering” to use the alternative Ubuntu, and actively replacing it.

Some of the boards (Odroid N2) were purchased with a pre-installed Ubuntu on an emmc chip. I’ll be putting the main OS on that chip instead… Devuan where possible, Void sometimes,others as interesting. Slackware runs on some of them too.

Canonical has embraced “The Microsoft Way” and abandoned The Unix Way, so I’m abandoning them. Here’s a nice 17 minute summary of why Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sucks:

https://chiefio.wordpress.com

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Chiefio, Seems to be on a rant of sorts over Linux, Big Tech taking over…or something…

Wonder how our techie brainiacs feel about Chiefios perspective on Linux, Ubuntu…

Linux, Corporate Capture, and Init Freedom / X11

Posted on 28 August 2026 by E.M.Smith

A Minor Rant about Huge Corporations trying to “enclose the commons”

Over the last couple of decades, a growing trend in Linux has been Big Corporate “Support” in the form of Money, Programmers on Staff, and Membership In Governance Boards.

This has been very helpful in that resources have been provided to what had been a “Potluck Programming by The Little Guys” process without much funding or resources at all. This has been bad to the extent that the Big Corporate Players gain power over the direction of Linux, and then use it to capture it, and remove the very freedom that created it in the first place.

Microsoft has long had a known strategy of “Embrace and extend” (to capture and kill…). So they would “embrace” a proposed Standard, but then extend it in proprietary ways that were not compatible. Due to their size, they could do this with impunity, but it also prevented Other People and Other Companies from running on their “stuff” and ‘encouraging’ you to Buy Micro$oft products…

RedHat rose to dominate a lot of the Userland Codebase, so what RedHat did got propagated out to many (most?) other distributions. SystemD is a good example. Now owned by IBM (since 2019). Note that IBM has a long history of attempted monopoly practices in various markets. (Disclosure: At one time I worked for Amdahl Corp. who made “IBM compatible” mainframe computers, so saw this up close.) IBM does not care, at all, about Open Source or keeping free software free. ANY “new and improved” way of doing things from RedHat / IBM is something I will suspect of being directed at capturing control of the commons.

Canonical (Ubuntu) is also a large corporation and mostly cares about making an OS Release that works well and is easy for them to maintain. Your control and your choices and machine efficiency not so much. So they embrace SNAPS despite resources that uses and despite putting the package run (and updates to it) beyond your control. (SNAPS are automatically updated when Canonical feels like it, on your machine, for example.) Canonical is also making somewhat incompatible changes to their version of Linux, pushing you into being tied to their way of doing things – like forcing the use of the Rust based uutils instead of the GNU CoreUtils.

Mozilla (the FireFox browser) is pushing their creation of the Rust computer language. Supposedly for the “memory safety”, but that is only one type of bug and is NOT concerned with memory footprint or efficiency on small machines (like the Single Board Computers -SBCs- I like). After the re-write in Rust, FireFox tended to keep hold of more memory when a lot of tabs were kept open. I like to keep a lot of tabs open, even if inactive. This eventually had me move from FireFox to Brave (that seems to understand a page cached to disk doesn’t need to stay in memory). Do I really want ever more chunks of my Rusty-Linux system to demand memory residency?

Somewhere in my Bone Yard is an old Hitachi Laptop from about 1988? that has 8 MB of memory. Yes MEGAbytes. It has a RedHat Linux on it (from that era, not updated). I “inherited it” for free when it could no longer run Windows (so I don’t really know how old it is…). I turned it into a firewall / router for my office when I was the Build Master & IT Guy for a small software company of about 50 people. All MY traffic went through it to the corporate network. (Why? Because the Systems Admin AND a guy in charge of defending the sanctity of a build chain MUST protect against all kinds of things, even folks inside the company). The point?

Re-purposing old small memory & CPU equipment is of no interest to Major Corporations (selling new equipment is), but it IS in the interest of small corporations, independent developers, students, anyone who is poor and living in the 3rd World, and folks interested in reducing the tonnage of resources hitting landfills as eWaste.

A large part of the Linux World population has goals and values that do not align with those of the Major Corporations. Major Corporations want to control the commons and exploit it for their profit and gain. Not necessarily a bad thing (I’m all for profit in corporations, as long as it is not evil in execution). The problem comes with the “Enclosure of the commons”. A problem defined since before Medieval times. When there was a “commons” where everyone could chop wood or hunt food, then The King (or other local Lord) would claim it was for his private use alone. Under his rules. Kind of like saying: You Must use SystemD, Gnome & Wayland…

Also note, that the Rusting of various packages often comes with a licence change from GPL (GNU Public Licence that is “copyleft” and requires changes be published) to MIT (“permissive” that lets you keep changes a hidden secret). The point of a copyleft license is to prevent “Embrace and extend” as a way to “enclose the commons”. The move away from GPL to MIT helps big corporations, but endangers the Open Source Community and encourages making Variations Of Linux that are NOT compatible with others, that are proprietary and tied to one vendor.

I choose to stay in the GPL License world. Not as energetic about it as Richard Stallman, I’ll accept proprietary driver code for some odd peripheral, but aware of the risks of Corporate Capture, Enclosure of The Commons, and Proprietary incompatibility risks “going forward”. So I will run Wayland sometimes, but encourage Xlibre. I’d try to avoid SystemD, and I’ll not use Gnome at all. Ubuntu is on my “walk away and avoid” list due to their changes over the last few years, and Void is coming on board.

Embrace those Linux distributions who recognize these Corporate Capture Risks. Stay free.

This article was inspired by this video:

More…

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Slow, pause the scrolling….please.

ht Marie Ursula and Wolf.

THIS Is 100% worthy of your attention.

Marie Ursula posted
Wolf reposted Thursday
Slow guy posts for a third time today…

IF you have not watched this video, please do so.

May be wise to share with siblings, children, grands, friends…

An Inconvenient Study

MarieUrsula dropped off a link for one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years – and IMO you would do well to watch this, too.

Her comment:

MarieUrsula (@guest_1644157) Online

August 25, 2026 00:55

#1644157

Found on my trapline a few hours ago, on a related subject:

“Here’s a story about vaccines with danger, deception, and intrigue, like a thriller. It’s an important piece of the vaccine puzzle. Produced by Del Bigtree, it’s essential for anyone still considering the validity of vaccines.” c. 1 hour 22 minutes.

https://www.aninconvenientstudy.com

You can actually download the movie yourself (below), or watch it online at the link (above). Both are FREE.

Downloadable Link (MP4 Format) – https://static.arkengine.com/video/cmgoige8f000g6dc3us4ib19o/file/mp4/AIS_1_5.mp4

This movie explains a whole bunch of things – even more than they intended to explain. The logic is beautiful. Del Bigtree is a truly excellent journalist. He understands exactly how to make things make sense with zero ambiguity.

This movie explains…..

numerous problems with vaccines
a critical study which went unpublished because it gave the wrong finding, but had a “plausible” exit for the author and institution
why RFKJ wants to do placebo studies
how the vaxxbots skate out of placebo studies on bogus ethics grounds

https://www.aninconvenientstudy.com

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

2026-08-22, Simply Saturday

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We need a Conservative majority.

Until then, we will…

Stuff…

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Revolution of ideas

Lawrence Reed’s new book, “Born of Ideas: How Principles, Faith, and Courage Forged America,” is out September 1, and every American thinker will appreciate it.

Greg Maresca | August 21, 2026

At a time when universities are shuttering their presses, Grove City College has launched Faith & Freedom Press through publisher Whitaker House. Their inaugural book, “Born of Ideas,” written by distinguished author, academic and historian Lawrence W. Reed, frames how our nation’s founding was “born of ideas” through the lens of faith, personal responsibility and divine purpose.

Rather than reiterating the more conventional Revolutionary yarns, Reed commences his dissertation not in 1776 but with the Mayflower Compact in 1620. Reed is a learned student of the genre and devotes nearly a quarter of his tome explaining why the Mayflower Compact is not merely a political agreement but was rooted in the Pilgrims’ religious conviction that they were acting under God’s providence.

Reed, the author of more than a dozen books that blend liberty, economic history and political philosophy, underscores how America emerged first not from battlefields or politics, but from covenantalism that shaped much of freedom’s prevailing rise.

Divine Providence is a partner to the covenant. It is with the whole of the people not just between leaders covering the whole of life and the consent of the governed mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. Historically, it dates back to the book of Exodus that many scholars argue influenced the development of self-government and the later American doctrine of the consent of the governed.

Reed acknowledges America’s founding was first “a revolution of ideas” while still emphasizing the extraordinary nature of the American Revolution. As he writes in the Introduction, “Ours was first a revolution of ideas that produced a revolution in governance accomplished by heroes and ordinary Americans.”

The brevity of the 32 chapters does not diminish its clarity. Rather, it sharpens Reed’s argument and keeps the narrative moving into a fast read of 143 pages that can be accomplished in one sitting that delivers a fresh look at what makes the American experiment exceptional.

It is this mosaic approach that is the book’s defining strength. The chapters are historical vignettes that are crisp, thematic and tightly focused that absorb the founding era and its moral, philosophical and economic foundations. These engaging essays Reed says, “tells a particular story about a key figure or an aspect of the Revolution.”

Reed introduces readers to both the known and unsung heroes whose convictions shaped a nation. Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine appear, but Reed also devotes space to lesser-known contributors: Pelatiah Webster, “America’s First Economist”; Mercy Otis Warren, “The Conscience of a Great Cause” and Joseph Warren the fallen hero of Bunker Hill that made the American experience unique and yet remain essential today.

Whether discussing paper money, Native American alliances, Lafayette’s contributions, or the Roman influence on American republicanism, Reed returns repeatedly to the same core ideas: liberty, moral courage, personal responsibility and the belief that ideas, not accidents, forged the nation.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/revolution-of-ideas

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Hilariously winning, without DumoCrat whining AND Pravda News incessant playing the illegals Victim Card.

Trump’s huge deportation success story

One of the Trump administration’s unheralded recent accomplishments is the speed, efficiency, and volume of its current deportation efforts.

Andrea Widburg | August 21, 2026

One of Trump’s biggest campaign promises was that he would close our borders to illegal immigration and remove those illegal aliens already here. He has indeed almost completely closed America’s southern border, but the Democrats then managed to turn deportation into a cause célèbre that seemed to derail that effort. It didn’t occur to them that Trump would find another way to accomplish the goal, or that Democrat politicians in blue states would help him.

Early this year, the headwinds seemed to be blowing in the Democrats’ direction. When Rebecca Good was killed while aiming a car at an ICE agent and a (legally) armed Alex Pretti was killed while violently resisting ICE agents, they seemed like the perfect poster children for the Democrats’ anti-ICE and anti-deportation push. Democrats thought it helped that there were other incidents in which illegal aliens confronting ICE also managed to get killed.

But somehow, despite the Democrat base’s hysteria, the American public didn’t rally to the cause. Those illegal immigrants who were killed turned out to have been engaged in violent actions against ICE agents or had heinous personal records. There were no George Floyd-style marches and riots. Without COVID lockdowns to make people desperate for any reason to get out of the house, and with most Americans happy to see the last of violent illegal aliens in their communities, this was not going to be a winning cause.

Trump then wisely removed the grandstanding Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security, replacing her with the ostensibly low-key but incredibly effective Tom Homan. With that, the air really went out of the Democrat anti-ICE balloon.

Sure, the Democrats are still agitating over ICE. It’s their cause, and the Democratic Socialists’ cause. Indeed, the DNC, reflecting the DSA’s power within the party, just approved competing resolutions about ICE. One demands that ICE reform, while the other wants to abolish it entirely.

However, while Democrats at the national level are fighting over the finer details of leaving tens of millions of illegal aliens in America, Benny Johnson reports that ICE is going about its work with Homan-esque low-key efficiency:

Something big is about to happen with deportations in America. You should be ready for this…

I just spoke with a senior DHS official. They shared deportation numbers with me that frankly stunned me.

+27,000 deportations. Last week.

+3,600 a day average.

Tracking for 1.4… pic.twitter.com/FBKboHnmt4
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 19, 2026

The tweet continues:

…million deportations across the calendar year.

+69,000 illegals are in DHS jails waiting to be deported at this moment.

And you haven’t heard a blip about it in the corporate press. Why? My DHS source says “stealth tactics.”

“We’re everywhere in every major city. We tell no one. Plain clothes. Beat up old cars. Quick work. Tactical strikes. No one sees anything. No drama. No tears. No media circus. You’re just going back home where you belong.”

And here’s where it gets insane…

DHS tells me blue states are quietly and very secretly working with the Trump administration to assist in the mass deportation of criminals. The criminal alien issue has become so “politically toxic” and “costly” that Democrat Governors have given the green light to Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in major blue cities to drop their illegals off with undercover ICE for removal.

It’s happening. You just don’t see it.

We can track if these numbers hold, but as for now this is a historic white pill and exactly what MAGA voted for.

This is great news. We are a country of people whose forebears immigrated here legally and promised when they arrived never to become a charge on the American people (a promise my hard-working parents kept).

It is absolutely unsustainable for a nation to be flooded with people whose first act is to violate the law, who immediately suck on the government teat (whether federal, state, or local), who are often criminally inclined, and who do not share our values and cannot or will not assimilate. If you want to see how that story ends, just look at Europe and the UK, which may be majority Muslim in the next 10 or 15 years.

There’s one more thing I like about the tweet, and that’s the bit about the blue state politicians assisting ICE. They’re cowards for refusing to do this openly, and they’re hypocrites for aiding deportations but not speaking out against their party’s stance on illegal aliens in America. And of course, we know that, once the illegal aliens are gone, leading to an inevitable decrease in crime rates and a drop in housing costs, they’ll claim that it was their leftist policies that made the difference.

For that reason, I sincerely hope that, once ICE drains a blue city or state of its illegal aliens, Tom Homan turns around and thanks those Democrat politicians for all their help with getting the job done.

Image created using AI.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/trump-s-huge-deportation-success-story

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In case someone missed this one.

Trump quietly reopens Hormuz

We can now move a lot of oil without them being able to do much about it.

Frank Friday | August 21, 2026

As I wrote at the time, Pres. Trump made a good deal in June, got the oil flowing, and left the Iranians with no leverage and few benefits. So the IRGC reneged on it in a few weeks and started shooting.

Now we learn the U.S. Navy has set up a stealth convoy system for Hormuz that is taking 9-15 million barrels a day out of the Gulf, according to Energy Sec. Chris Wright. When you combine that with the 7-8 million barrels from the Hormuz bypass pipes, we are getting back to the pre-war normal of 20 million barrels from the Gulf.

Wright was bitterly mocked by the MSM when he announced this last week, but further mainstream reporting is now conceding this is basically true. While all the national and international media obsessed about the hopeless position the United States had reached, the stalemate was carefully being reversed.

It seems our military specifically targeted Iran’s anti-ship capacity, including coastal radars and look-out boats, over the last two months. It is very much harder to hit fast-moving tankers with a missile than a fixed land target. Especially if it is being protected by Navy jammers and interceptors.

The ball is in the Iranian court. We can now move a lot of oil without them being able to do much about it. Complicating things further, while the IRGC is firmly in control of the country, apparently each commander has near autonomy for his own forces. That leaves decision-making slow, and the guys in charge of the dwindling missile forces may not be in agreement with Tehran on what to do next.

While they figure it out, we might see a big drop in oil prices. This may lead to a situation like 1988, when the Iranians threw in the towel after President Reagan destroyed their navy and ended Iran’s first attempt to block the Gulf.

On the other hand, if the IRGC wants to keep playing a losing hand, they can strike the oil fields and desalination plants of their neighbors and try to take everyone down with them.

So far, they talk like that, but I wonder if that is more for show. All-out war would, in the end, leave Pres.. Trump and the Arab states no choice but some kind of Allied ground invasion to end the regime; much like Pres. Trump did in 2017 with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. I suspect the Iranian regime knows whose side most ordinary Iranians will be on if it comes to that.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/trump-quietly-reopens-hormuz

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Just for the hell of it.

Newsom Math:

We will spend 5 billion but get 1 billion back.

That’s 1 billion in savings.

They’re coming for your cars in California

New tire regulations will add hundreds of dollars to tire costs and drive 70 percent of tire manufacturers out of the market.

So what happens under solid blue rule when the budget gets blown out, the taxes hit the limit, the billionaires flee, and the government appetite for spending just gets bigger?

In California, they start to eye the things that make California California: Cars, freedom, houses, prosperity. It’s not just necessity, of course. They also long to make it Not California.

We’re seeing these kinds of new developments, and none of them are good.

According to the Santa Monica Observer:

Sacramento just dropped another regulatory bomb on everyday Californians.

The California Energy Commission unanimously approved the nation’s first replacement tire efficiency standards on Monday, setting strict limits on rolling resistance for tires sold in the state. Phase 1 kicks in for tires manufactured starting in 2029. The tougher Phase 2 hits in 2033.

Tire industry representatives say the 2033 standards would eliminate roughly 70% of the replacement tires currently on the market from being sold in California. Goodyear and America’s Tire have warned that applying the Phase 2 limits to today’s inventory would knock out the majority of available options.

The rules require lower rolling resistance (less energy lost as heat when the tire rolls) and a minimum wet-grip standard so replacement tires match the efficiency of the ones that come on new cars. Specialty tires – deep-tread off-road, certain winter/all-weather, competition, and some others – get carve-outs.

The Energy Commission insists the changes will save drivers nearly $1 billion a year in fuel and electricity costs statewide and cut 2 million metric tons of CO2 annually. It pegs the extra cost to consumers at just $1.50 per tire in Phase 1 and $6.50 in Phase 2, with fuel savings quickly offsetting that.

State officials claim it will add just $6.50 to the cost of a tire, a veritable nothingburger, not explaining why they needed to use an obscure 2003 law to justify it, or why they need to do it in phases. After all, why not do it all at once and reap the tax benefits if it’s just the little piddly thing they claim it is? We all know this story.

Here’s the lie sheet from the California Energy Commission, no guaranteed refunds offered when the opposite of what they promise actually happens, and it will. Many have noted that tire manufacturers are not at all onboard with this bad idea, and the supposed support from the big ones is the equivalent of CostCo getting its shops open during the lockdowns while everyone else had theirs closed, they stand to benefit from all the small fry shutting down. Meanwhile, if you like to stick your head into a live volcano, read the comments section:

Let’s set the record straight on California’s tire efficiency standard.

Learn more: https://t.co/0MWulkcOBQ pic.twitter.com/2jtC1lP73F
— California Energy Commission – ⚡#CalEnergy (@CalEnergy) August 18, 2026

Newsom Math: We will spend 5 billion but get 1 billion back. That's 1 billion in savings. https://t.co/mBTOv2TpoU
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) August 20, 2026

This very odd bird who is now regulating what tires you can get in CA just gave away the whole scam. She cites high gas prices to justify it: "If we can bring down those costs even a little bit, why wouldn't we do it?"
Of course, no mention of reducing CA's self-imposed gas taxes… pic.twitter.com/Ua3NZiOwfK
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 18, 2026

⛽️ DO NOT FORGET! This is the SAME @GavinNewsom Energy Commission that has a WRITTEN plan to TAKE OVER REFINERIES: make it impossible to operate refineries in California, then have state purchase & run refineries, controlling the supply and cost of gasoline. In plain English👇… https://t.co/l3odJcfkfn pic.twitter.com/VKk0YcoJF3
— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) August 18, 2026

California just mandated what tires you're allowed to buy. Their own numbers say it costs you more. Analysts say up to $365 a set.

Gas tax. Registration. Paid parking at Balboa. Now tires.

They're not banning your car. They're pricing you out of it. One fee at a time. pic.twitter.com/hMmm07URZN
— Bill Wells (@MayorBillWells) August 19, 2026

More…

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/they-re-coming-for-your-cars-in-california

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Back to boilerplate…

Looking forward to Alberta leaving Canuckistan.

Hopefully joining America.

Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

2026-08-15, Simply Saturday

Administrivia.

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Seems like such an obvious solution. We need a Conservative majority.

Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

Ed Dowd article below, initially posted on Wednesday. Worthy read if ya missed it.

US Disabilities Hit an All-Time High of 37 Million In July: UP 23% Since Feb 2021

The Signal No One Wants to See

I’ve been tracking this series since early in the COVID era. The charts have been public for years on the Phinance Technologies site and in repeated threads on X. Month after month the total population with a disability grinds higher. From the pre-2020 plateau into early 2021 the numbers were relatively stable. Then something changed.

February 2021 marks the clear inflection. The rate of increase shifted to a new, steeper trajectory, a 3-to-4 sigma departure from the prior trend. In the years since, the survey has added seven million people. Growth of that magnitude in a mature population is not normal aging, not “long COVID” in isolation, and not some gradual sociological shift. It was sudden. It has persisted. And it continues to be treated as background noise by the same public health authorities who spent years obsessed with every other metric.

Let me address the predictable objections, because they surface every time these numbers are posted. First: “It’s just fraud. People are gaming disability benefits.” That claim collapses under basic scrutiny of the data source. This is not Social Security Disability Insurance claims. It is not SSDI awards, which lag, require medical determinations, and are subject to administrative backlogs and incentive effects. This is the Current Population Survey, the same monthly household survey that produces the unemployment rate and labor-force participation numbers. Roughly 60,000 households are contacted each month. Six simple questions are asked about serious difficulty hearing, seeing, concentrating/remembering/making decisions, walking or climbing stairs, dressing or bathing, and doing errands alone. Any “yes” classifies the person as having a disability for statistical purposes.

I laid this out in detail years ago in threads that are still easy to find. The series is real-time, not claims-driven, and has nothing to do with benefit eligibility. The questions have been consistent since 2008. Response patterns do not suddenly invent millions of new disabled respondents because the political winds shifted. When the same survey that markets, banks, and the Federal Reserve rely upon for labor-market signals produces a multi-year, multi-sigma break in disability prevalence, the responsible reaction is investigation, not dismissal.

Second: “It’s illegal aliens flooding the numbers.” This one is equally weak. Undocumented immigrants have long been known to under-respond or avoid government surveys altogether out of fear of detection, deportation risk, or general distrust of authorities. They are not lining up to answer detailed questions about household members’ health limitations over the phone or in person. If anything, the survey systematically undercounts this population relative to reality. The sharp, sustained rise in reported disability began in February 2021, well before the largest recent surges in border encounters, and has continued in a manner inconsistent with simple demographic inflows. The data do not support the claim that the disability spike is an artifact of illegal immigration.

Public health agencies and the media have largely ignored the signal. There has been no serious, transparent inquiry into why the disability rate changed slope so sharply in early 2021 and has remained elevated. Temporary explanations such as COVID itself, lockdowns, mental-health effects of isolation all fail the timing and magnitude tests. The virus was already circulating in 2020 without producing this sustained break. The sharpest acceleration aligned with the mass rollout and subsequent workplace mandates. Correlation is not causation; we are constantly reminded. Fair enough, but when a novel medical intervention is administered to hundreds of millions of working-age adults on an accelerated timeline, and the independent, high-frequency survey of population health then records a multi-sigma regime change precisely then, the burden of proof shifts. Authorities who spent years demanding every other correlation be investigated suddenly lose interest.

The economic implications are not abstract. More than 37 million people reporting disability means a permanently larger share of the population facing barriers to full participation. Labor-force participation among the disabled remains far lower than among those without disability. Employers face higher absence rates and higher costs. Insurance pools absorb elevated claims. The fiscal pressure on entitlement programs grows even if this particular survey is not the claims pipeline. All of it is occurring against a backdrop of demographic aging that was already expected to raise disability prevalence gradually but not at the abrupt rate observed since early 2021.

I have posted the charts for years: total population 16+, the civilian labor force subset, men, women, employed versus not. The pattern is consistent. Rate-of-change moderation appears occasionally, then another leg higher. The February 2021 inflection remains the defining feature. A 3-to-4 sigma shift in trend is not something serious analysts discard. It is the kind of signal that, in any other domain…markets, epidemiology, engineering…would trigger immediate forensic review.

Health authorities have chosen another path. The data continues to accumulate. The total population survey keeps printing higher numbers. The questions asked of households have not changed. The methodology is the same one used for the official employment statistics that move markets every month. Yet the disability series is treated as an inconvenience rather than a red flag.

The conclusion from the data is straightforward. The timing, the magnitude, the concentration among the previously healthy working age population, and the failure of alternative explanations all point to the COVID vaccine campaign as one of the primary driver of the excess disability. That is the assessment I have maintained as the numbers have updated. Ignoring a sustained, multi-sigma break in a core government survey does not make the break disappear. It only guarantees that the consequences continue to compound while institutions look the other way.

The July 2026 print at 37 million is simply the latest confirmation. The trend that began in February 2021 has not been explained by health authorities, has not been investigated with appropriate rigor, and has not been reversed. Until that changes, the data will keep speaking whether anyone in authority cares to listen or not.

Through my piss poor administrative skills, Slow Guy lost the link. Good news, Google will have it via basic search.

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ht Wolf.

A few days back, Wolf posted this video. To REFRESH our memories, of the Covidiot nightmare we lived through.

100% well worth revisiting The J A B S.

Inside mRNA Vaccines – The Movie

The Bastards Have Doubled Down.

14 of 15 Must Go.
R E S I S T We Must!

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Trump sparing lives on all sides… (Bonus. Conserving high tech ordnance.)

Trump is Using “Siege Tactics” on Iran

POTUS is perfectly content in our current position. He is utilizing a modern day version of siege tactics.

Rather than utilizing ground troops and mass casualties, he neutralized Iran from range, surrounded them, cut off their imports/exports, and is squeezing them economically.

So for those saying nothing is happening, or that Trump needs to hurry up, that we need a full-scale invasion, etc., you need to understand the approach. Trump is saving countless lives, while restructuring the global flow of energy, and waiting for Iran to collapse economically.

The only thing Iran have going for them, is that their handlers also control the US/Global media. Iran and global media, are both assets of the transnational criminal organization, known as the Deep State.

As Trump highlights below, “all they have is FAKE NEWS”. This is the only arrow left in their quiver, so to speak. Their only way to fight back is on the information battlefield, because they have already been destroyed on the kinetic battlefield. All they can do is try to convince the American People that Trump is a failure, the US MIL are losing, Iran is awesome, yada yada yada.

It’s up to you to ignore their seeds of doubt.

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/trump-is-using-siege-tactics-on-iran?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=782803&post_id=210914244&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=14j1o3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

2026-08-08, Simply Saturday

Administrivia.

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Seems like such an obvious solution. We need a Conservative majority.

Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

placeholders for 0001 each Saturday through Sep. If any are FUBAR, AI did it. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. < ht Wolf.

Likely first week Sep, some substance offered each Saturday.

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

2026-08-01, Simply Saturday

Administrivia.

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Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,063.39 Silver $58.46 Bitcoin $63,000

Seems like such an obvious solution. We need a Conservative majority.

Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

Ideally, below article(s) and such of interest, that caught my eye.

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

2026-07-25, Simply Saturday

Administrivia.

APMEX https://www.apmex.com Bitcoin https://www.bitcoin.com/

Prices pulled last evening. Gold $x,xxx.xx Silver $xx.xx Bitcoin $xx,xxx

Seems like such an obvious solution. We need a Conservative majority.

Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

Ideally, below article(s) and such of interest, that caught my eye.

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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

2026-07-18, Simply Saturday

Administrivia.

Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.

America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…

In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.

Pass SAVE America Act
Trash Filibuster
Trash Blue Slips
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
ALL The AboveUnlikely.

R-Cons need to…

Speaking of embracing…THIS.

American Spirit. Alyssa Liu

American Spirit. Jack Hughes.

If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.

It’s Saturday. GOT Coffee? GOT Tea? GOT Scroll Wheel? 😊

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Stuff…

Boiler Plate Saturday +.

America 250 IS a year long celebration.

A few recent Road To Liberty Releases. EACH worthy of our time.

Road to Liberty: Give Me Liberty

4:29

The Boston Tea Party, America’s Greatest Heist

5:43

Siege Of Yorktown

4:35

Battle of Saratoga

3:59

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250 years later.

Dumbass Brits, have learned NOTHING, since America told the Brits, PISS OFF.

Image AI. From American Thinker

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“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Arnold Toynbee.

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Good to know, never forget…

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Fundamentally.

~~islam~~ Nuff said.

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Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.

Merica…The Land that I, We Love.

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Simon & Garfunkel Saturday

El Condor Pasa

4:20

Mrs. Robinson

4:03

The Sound of Silence

3:16

Homeward Bound

2:29

Seriously…

…We’ll get through this, just fine!

T A W

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Relax. It’s Saturday. Back To Basics…

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Somewhere over the Rainbow – “IZ”

3:47

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Night crew, your nickel.

2026-07-11, Simply Saturday

Administrivia.

Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.

America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…

In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.

Pass SAVE America Act
Trash Filibuster
Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
Trash Blue Slips
Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
Confirm Trump Nominations.
Codify Trump Executive Orders.
Ban Sharia Law.
Pass Communist Control Act
ALL The AboveUnlikely.

R-Cons need to…

Speaking of embracing…THIS.

American Spirit. Alyssa Liu

American Spirit. Jack Hughes.

If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.

It’s Saturday. GOT Coffee? GOT Tea? GOT Scroll Wheel? 😊

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Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,136.00 Silver $60.64. Bitcoin $64,000

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Stuff…

1st up. As promised…

Buc-ee’s

WHY Buc-ee’s?

WHY a Beaver mascot?

Who, What, When, Where, Why…

Buc-ee’s came to be.

A couple decades ago an astute observation AND business mind observed.

Gas stations commonly sucked.
Lines at the pumps, typically dirty and unfriendly.

Solution Set.

Buc-ee’s Mission Statement.

Clean. Friendly. In Stock.
(Slow guy adds. Gas pump lines unheard of. Also, Huge spacious parking lots.)

WHY a Beaver mascot? 🙂

Answers to above questions AND more…

The evolution of Buc-ee’s.

25:18

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Given 2A, “shall not be infringed” this is totally a ridiculous issue.

Crossing a State Line Shouldn’t Cost You Your Right to Self-Defense

The right of self-defense shouldn’t stop at the border, especially for Americans who have already proven themselves to be law-abiding.

Imagine a woman driving across state lines alone at night, fearful that her car might break down and leave her vulnerable. Or picture a truck driver hauling valuable cargo across the country. In states such as California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon—five of the ten states that refuse to recognize concealed handgun permits from other states—these travelers can find themselves defenseless. Nine states also either deny non-residents permits altogether or make them extremely difficult to obtain.

Last week, President Trump again called for passage of national concealed carry reciprocity. The legislation would allow anyone legally permitted to carry a concealed handgun in their home state to carry across state lines, much as Americans use their driver’s licenses nationwide. The legislation would affect millions of law-abiding Americans.

Much of the gun-control debate centers on hypothetical risks. With reciprocity, however, we don’t have to speculate. With 21.5 million concealed handgun permit holders in the United States, we already know how they behave. In addition, most Americans already benefit from reciprocity. The average state recognizes permits from 30 other states, allowing permit holders to travel legally with their firearms.

Last year, when the House Judiciary Committee passed national reciprocity along party lines, Democrats also opposed legislation that would allow current and retired law enforcement officers with at least ten years of service to carry firearms in facilities open to the public—including schools—while traveling across the country. Given their fear that allowing experienced current or retired law enforcement officers to carry would endanger public safety, it comes as no surprise that they also oppose allowing civilians to carry across state lines.

Congressional opponents of reciprocity warned that permit holders would commit crimes but cited no evidence to support that claim. The facts point in the opposite direction. Concealed handgun permit holders are extraordinarily law-abiding. States revoke their permits for firearm-related violations at rates measured in thousandths—or even ten-thousandths—of one percent. Police officers rarely commit firearm crimes, yet permit holders lose their permits for firearm offenses at only about one-twelfth the rate at which police are convicted of firearm-related crimes.

“This legislation is a dramatic infringement on states’ rights,” claimed Emma Brown, executive director of the gun-control group Giffords, echoing a common criticism. Yet those same organizations routinely advocate federal gun-control laws that override state policy choices.

Opponents also claimed that national reciprocity would confuse travelers about which gun laws apply in each state and lead to more arrests. But reciprocity already exists across much of the country, and no evidence shows that out-of-state permit holders create such problems. Indeed, the same situation exists for drivers when they cross state lines: They are required to follow the driving regulations for the state they are in.

Critics also argue that permit standards vary from state to state. Yet no evidence shows that states with less restrictive permitting systems experience higher permit revocation rates.

Despite these fears, more than 86 percent of police chiefs and sheriffs support national reciprocity, and over 90 percent of rank-and-file officers support concealed carry laws. These officers see firsthand how concealed carry works in practice. They understand that police deter crime, but they also know they usually arrive after the crime has begun. Victims often must defend themselves first. Consistent with that experience, the overwhelming weight of academic research finds that allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns reduces crime.

With tens of millions of Americans legally carrying concealed handguns over many decades, if opponents could identify even dozens of cases in which out-of-state permit holders created serious problems, their concerns would deserve careful consideration. They cannot. Such cases remain exceedingly rare. Americans do not need to guess whether gun-control advocates’ concerns are justified.

Carrying a firearm provides the greatest benefit to those who face the largest physical disadvantages—women and the elderly—and to those who face the highest risk of violent crime, including many poor black residents of high-crime neighborhoods. Not surprisingly, these groups have accounted for the largest percentage growth in permit ownership over the past decade. Between 2015 and 2024, permits held by women grew 112 percent faster than those held by men, while permits held by black Americans grew 284 percent faster than those held by whites.

Real life is not the movies. Most women cannot overpower several larger, stronger men, no matter how well-trained they are. Men also generally possess greater upper-body strength and speed.

A firearm changes that equation. It gives women a far more effective means of self-defense. If an attacker has already closed the distance enough to seize a woman’s firearm, she is already in grave danger regardless.

Peer-reviewed research finds that allowing concealed carry reduces murder rates for both men and women. The reduction for women, however, is roughly three to four times larger than the reduction for men.

The House will likely pass national reciprocity, but it faces a steeper challenge in the Senate. Breaking the expected Democratic filibuster will require 60 votes, meaning at least seven Democratic senators must cross party lines. Those senators need only examine their own states’ experience. Six states represented by 12 Democratic senators—Arizona, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Virginia—already recognize concealed handgun permits from every other state. None has seen a problem with reciprocity.

Police play an indispensable role in public safety. But around 700,000 officers cannot protect over 340 million Americans everywhere at once. Congress should ensure that law-abiding Americans do not lose their ability to defend themselves simply by crossing a state line.

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Moving on. Well, a recurring thought

Talk about, Can’t Fix Stoopid.

250 years later.

Dumbass Brits, have learned NOTHING, since America told the Brits, PISS OFF.

Image AI. From American Thinker

Truth be known AND we know it… Gotta get our own house in order. Commies. islamis.

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“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Arnold Toynbee.

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Good to know, never forget…

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Fundamentally.

~~islam~~ Nuff said.

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Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.

Merica…The Land that I, We Love.

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Clint Black Saturday

Like The Rain.

4:43

Good Run Of Bad Luck.

2:48

When My Ship Comes In.

3:57

Seriously…

…We’ll get through this, just fine!

T A W

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Relax. It’s Saturday. Back To Basics…

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In line with Simply Saturday, No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems

3:29

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On the road for the next ten days.

Night crew, your nickel.

2026-07-04. July 4th, 1776

Administrivia. Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights.

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.

Formailties complete. Please do consider, putting your feet up & relax.

Perhaps, skip the scroll wheel. Grab a beverage. Coffee, tea, juice, water…

Something light to munch on.

Before celebrating America’s 250th Birthday.

A few minutes to

Honor Unknowns, Forgotten, Fallen…

Changing of the Guard at Arlington National Cemetery

9:03

One more minute before celebrating America…

Honor Those “Who Gave It all”.

“Taps” – Bugle Call: USMC Drum & Bugle Corps

1:19

Let’s Celebrate.

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4th of July.

America’s 250th Birthday!

Ponder, America’s Unique Greatness.

Everything America, Everything Americans have endured, achieved…

Appreciate, The Blessings, We Enjoy Daily.

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A handful, of what I think are treasures, to listen in on.

An inspirational document read.

Historical story or two.

Beautiful music, celebrating America. OUR America. Bursting with pride here.

1st up.

Excellent reading of,

The Declaration of Independence.

Truly worth listening, to every word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE-tqe0xsQ

The Declaration of Independence . 10:21

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Superb listen. Explanation of the words of,

Our Pledge of Allegiance.

Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance 4:08

Personal observation.

As I go through life, observing flags in folks yards, some ragged. Once upon a time, the ragged flags irritated Slow Guy.

These days, I reflect on Johnny Cash’s, Ragged Old Flag.

FWIW, most every flag in the hood refreshed this year.

Nearly 50% homes in the hood, have a Flag on their home, flagpole or streetside.

Please listen in on…

Small Town Pride – Old Glory.

Johnny Cash – Ragged Old Flag 3:10

Henry Battle Tested…~84 years after 1776. 🙂

The Revolutionary Henry Model 1860 Rifle – The Weapons of the Wild West

Henry Rifles | “Made in America”

Put a smile on your face. ONLY one minute. 🙂

1:01

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Whitney’s Unforgettable, Star Spangled Banner. 1991 Super Bowl.

Whitney Houston – Star Spangled Banner (National Anthem) 3:36

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Sneaking this one in. Lived in Ridgecrest, Mojave Desert, CA 2010-2015.

Annual, 1000 Flags Parade. A beautiful sight and pure joy to participate in.

1000 Flags Ridgecrest California 9/10/2011

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God Bless The USA. Trump Rally Staple

Lee Greenwood – God Bless The U.S.A. 3:10

Inspiring and beautiful…

The Battle Hymn of the Republic. 5:18

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Pure Americana.

The Stars and Stripes Forever. 4:43

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Every 4th of July, celebration should have,

“The 1812 Overture”

The National Symphony Orchestra Performs “The 1812 Overture” | 2024 A Capitol Fourth. 4:01

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Couple more. Also worthy of our time.

ht TT. IIRC,TB wrote about British Prison Ships – Martyr Ships, in his American series…

With the above refreshed in our minds.

THIS…

Every American should know this story.

Frances Scott Key.

Star Spangled Banner As You’ve Never Heard It. 11:38.

Fantastic rendition of, America The Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYH8v42a2w

Ray Charles – America The Beautiful. 3:35.

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OK, I fibbed. One More. Kate Smith.

Kate Smith’s Heart-Stirring ‘God Bless America’ – This Is the Army. 5:06.

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Returning to select, “Simply Saturday” stuff, inline with America First

Talk about, Can’t Fix Stoopid.

250 years later.

Dumb Ass Brits, have learned NOTHING, since America told the Brits, PISS OFF.

Image AI. From American Thinker

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Trains are awesome. BNSF For The Win.

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🎉🚂 Our big secret, (or three) is out!

BNSF is proud to unveil today three specially painted locomotives honoring America’s 250th birthday, units 250, 1776 and 2026, wrapped in red, white, and blue and carrying the spirit of “We the People.”

These locomotives pay tribute to… pic.twitter.com/tmDCGZVt5S
— BNSF Railway (@BNSFRailway) May 14, 2026

Freedom Train… Trump Train…

WATCH: @POTUS arrives in Medora, North Dakota aboard the @Freedom250 train. 🔥🚂🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/57AFR3XMik
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 1, 2026

American Spirit, Winning…Jack Hughes