Quote:Southerners have a way with words.  Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy; the Will Rogers of our time.
 
"I’m a good ol' southern boy telling it like it is". . . actually, he may be the smartest person in government!
 
Kennedy graduated Magna cum Laude from Vanderbilt, has a Law degree from the University of Virginia and a degree from Oxford in England .  He is no country bumpkin; he is very insightful & a bit humorous.


Comment about Andrew Cuomo lecturing us. "It's like a frog calling you ugly".
 
This election in Ga will be the most important in history.  You have nothing to worry about unless you are a taxpayer, parent, gun owner, cop, person of faith, or an unborn baby!
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana describes Democrats as the “well-intended arugula and tofu crowd.”
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 You can only be young once, but you can always be immature.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress, but we can’t figure out what they are good for.  


Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal.”
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 It’s as dead as four o’clock.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 Always follow your heart.....but take your brains with you.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 The short answer is ‘No.’   The long answer is ‘Hell No.’
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 It must suck to be that dumb.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy


When the Portland mayor's IQ gets to 75, he oughta sell.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 I keep trying to see Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's point of view, but I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy


 Go sell your crazy somewhere else...we are all stocked up here.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 She has a Billy goat brain and a mockingbird mouth!
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) said on Wednesday that he trusted most Middle Eastern countries as much as gas station sushi.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 You can get a goat to climb a tree, but you’d be better off hiring a squirrel.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 This has been going on since Moby Dick was a minnow.


 Don't stand between a dog and a fire hydrant.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots..                            


 --Louisiana Sen John Kennedy


It appears that he might do the right thing, but only when closely supervised and cornered like a rat.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 This is why space aliens won't talk to us.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Democrats are running around like they found a hair in their biscuit.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 What planet did you parachute in from?
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Just because you CAN sing doesn’t mean you should.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi, “She can strut sitting down!”
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

Chuck Schumer just moo’s and follows Nancy Pelosi into the cow chute.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

That tapping you hear is more nails going into the coffin of the Big Bang theory , its been confirmed James Webb has again found the oldest Galaxy in the known Universe dating back to just 280 million years after the supposed Big Bang , MoM-z14 is estimated to be about 500 light-years in diameter, dense and possibly minus a Super Massive Black Hole (although I doubt that) but so soon after the beginning of the Universe it really shouldn't be there.

Meet MOM -Z14.

Quote:View of the MoM-z14 galaxy obtained with the NIRCam camera with three filters. In terms of remoteness among galaxies, it is the new record holder, as of 2025. JWST measured its spectrum and detected several emission lines, fixing its status as originating when the Universe was only 282 million years old.
https://universemagazine.com/en/the-olde...-big-bang/

Since Tommy removed the video he was sent to prison for showing and posting on X the court decided to remove the 4 month punitive sentence he received on top of his contempt charge for the X post meaning he was eligible for early release , the video on X racked up over 167 million views so job done.

Political prisoner No 1 is free from solitary confinement now political prisoner No 2 , Lucy Connolly , needs to be released along with the other concerned British citizens locked up for using their voice or typing words.

Statement from Tommy outside HMP Woodhill.

You know, I really loved the 1980's.  Just loved everything about that time in my life.  I loved the cars; I loved the women; I loved the music; I loved society back then, and I just can't say enough good about it.  However...

I really need to stop trying to relive the 1980's when it comes to buying ammunition.  I go in a gun store and look at the prices of handgun ammo and I feel like I've just hopped on a bicycle with a screaming belt-sander for a seat!  I really do.

Now, I know ammo prices have been inflated ever since Obama was elected, and availability was a serious issue during the scam-demic, but I was digging around down in my shop today and came across an old box of Federal .357 ammo from the 1980's.  I looked at the price sticker (they had price stickers back in those days; they even put 'Warning' stickers on the dinosaurs which roamed the planet back then too); it said $9.99 (let's say $10 bucks).  Today, a box of the same will cost about $27 bucks (2.7x more).  (trigger the belt-sander again).  But then I started thinking.  In 1982 a brand new 4x4 truck cost about $20k, and this was for a NICE model.  Today, that same truck costs near $100k (5x more vs. 2.7x more for ammo).  In fact, I just paid more than that on a new RAM last year.

Looking out across the political horizon, I can't see any particular situation which is likely to ever change the price of ammo very notably (downward). 

Most of my old brass is shot out, and what isn't has just been lost over time.  It's time to restock on multiple calibers.  I'm good on semi ammo (I think), but I really need to backfill my wheel gun stocks.  Maybe it's time to unplug the ol' belt-sander, and to stop feeling like every box of shells I buy is a retirement investment (i.e. can't be touched).

What are your thoughts?

edit - I still think the girls of the 1980's were, by far, WAY hotter than the girls today!! Fortunately for me, I married one, and she still looks pretty darn good to me. I think I'll keep her!

Plus, I'm sure I'm just a little bit uglier than I was in the 1980's too, and I'm not gettin' any younger.

Anyone remember that piece I posted by Dmitry Orlov? He disappeared off the interwebs but I found a recent interview with him and wow, he's blunt and straight to the point, no BS with that Russian style humor.

"this idiotic idea of putting pressure on Putin, I think that's the way they put it by proposing more sanctions on Russia, well there's a saying for that. Trying to frighten a hedgehog with your bare ass that's basically what it is and will have no effect whatsoever and and it'll just make the Russians smile. So if you're trying to make Russians smile just impose more sanctions."

"The sanctions are much worse for Europe and the United States and have negligible negative effects on Russia."




Note: the audio breaks up several times, though not bad.


Couldn't find what I posted here so must be on the old RN site. Here's the gist of it:

The 5 Stage taxonomy of Collapse
Stage 1: Financial collapse
Stage 2: Commercial collapse
Stage 3: Political collapse
Stage 4: Social collapse
Stage 5: Cultural collapse

Here's the short essay from 2008 that he wrote while researching for his book "The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit", June 1, 2013 by Dmitry Orlov. Amazon

The company is doing it right IMO

Quote:May 16, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

When P.M. emailed me the following story, I knew that I would have to blog about it, because just when you think the Nazis are dead and gone and no longer play any active role in world events and deep politics, they're back, and no, for those of you suffering from terminal cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome, I don't mean his administration, alarming as some of his policies may be (like, for example, the sovereign wealth fund and its heavy use of the crypto-currency scam). No, I mean real, honest-to-badness Nazis, like Klaus Barbie, and his connection to South American neo-Nazi groups and drug cartels:

World Infamous Nazi war criminal helped set up top drug cartel and worked with Pablo Escobar, report says

Notice that this story first ran a couple of days ago in Germany's well-known Der Speigel magazine, and that it exposes the relationship between Lyons, France's Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, to a major Latin American drug cartel:

Quote:Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was deeply involved in setting up one of South America's most important drug cartels, according to a report Friday by German news weekly Der Spiegel.

Dubbed the "Butcher of Lyon" for his wartime torture of prisoners, the former Gestapo chief in the occupied French city fled to South America after the end of World War II.


Barbie was eventually arrested after being tracked down by France's most famous Nazi-hunting couple, Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate, the BBC reported. He was extradited from Bolivia to France in 1983 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 on charges of crimes against humanity.

Barbie died in prison in 1991.

According to Der Spiegel, Barbie -- living under the alias Klaus Altmann -- became a security adviser to drug baron Roberto Suarez after the two men met in the 1970s.

But much later in the article we get this intriguing revelation:

Quote:A CIA dispatch from May 1974 seen by Der Spiegel reveals that the agency's officers already suspected Barbie of involvement in the drug trade, the magazine said.

Roberto Suarez's son-in-law Gerardo Caballero told Der Spiegel that "Barbie helped us a lot, including in working together with Pablo Escobar," the Colombian drug kingpin.

Barbie was recruited as an anti-communist agent by American Secret Services after the war, and the United States later apologized to France for helping Barbie evade justice.

Der Spiegel has previously reported that Barbie was also active as a secret agent for West German intelligence in Bolivia.

The magazine said he was recruited in late 1965 in the Bolivian capital La Paz and given the code name "Adler" ("Eagle").

Note how these last sentences are carefully revealing, and what they reveal: firstly, they reveal that Barbie was an intelligence asset of the United States after the war, as an "anti-Communist"; secondly, they reveal that he also became an agent for West German intelligence, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, at that time still under the watchful controlling eye of its founder, former Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen, who headed the Wehrmacht's military intelligence unit for the Eastern Front, Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East). And finally, note that Barbie was also connected with, and was "security advisor" to several Latin American drug cartels. He was, in effect, a kind of Nazi International consigliare to the criminal drug underground.

But again, all of this has been known for some time. Indeed, Henrik Kruegger outlined much of this US Intelligence-Nazi-drug cartel connection in his classic 1970s and 1980s book on the topic, The Great Heroin Coup, and how this was all connected to the Clowns In America's restructuring of the international drug trade in view of the impending collapse of the American war effort in Vietnam. I briefly outlined these same connections in my book The Nazi International, which relied on Kruegger's work.

So the story is not new.  And this raises a question: why revive this whole connection now? What is the purpose? Is it mere distraction, an attempt to get people to "see Nazis" everywhere? Or is it something else?

It's in answer to that last question that I propose some rather unusual high octane speculation. There are two factors on the geopolitical stage that need to be born in mind in any attempt to answer this question: (1) Mr. Trump's statements and executive orders that have placed the Mexican drug cartels on the international terrorism list, a signal message to the other Latin American drug cartels, and (2) the incoming German coalition government's attempts to lock the Alternativ fur Deutschland, now the largest political party in Germany, out of power and to tar it with the brush of being a Neo-Nazi organization, even while it races into a coalition with Die Linke, an ultra-radical left party that is mostly a "makeover" of the old East German Communist Party.  Strange bedfellows indeed for the Christian Democratic Union, the party of West Germany's first post-war Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, who definitely was not a Communist.  So why revive the story now?

That depends on who is driving the story back into the public consciousness. The most obvious candidate is the German government itself, and its direct links to media organs like Der Spiegel, a magazine with clear connections to the government and its intelligence agencies, much like the "newspapers of record" in the United States. Think of Der Spiegel as Germany's version of American intelligence's "mighty Wurlitzer" and "Operation Mockingbird".  It puts out what "the German powers that be" want people to be thinking about. And right now, the German government wants to tar the AfD with the "far right brush", and that, in Germany, means Nazis. It could, similarly, be the United States and the Trump administration itself, but for very different reasons, namely, to remind people of the very real, and very nasty, links that the Latin American drug cartels have: not only to Communist China, but also to that hornet's nest, that postwar cesspool, of the Nazi International as I have called it. That extra-territorial "state" spread throughout the world, and funding its operations precisely through such arrangements with the drug cartels. The two - international fascism and international criminal undergrounds - piggyback on each other to a great extent, as Mr. Kruegger revealed in his classic study.

But the third possibility is that it is coming ultimately from that nexus between the cartels and that fascist/Nazi international itself, as a warning, perhaps, to Mr. Trump to remember what he proposes to tango - and tangle - with. This view has a significant thing to commend it, since the story appears both in German and the USA at more or less the same time. As noted, that implies an infrastructure of influence in both countries that the intelligence nexus between them, via that postwar Nazi International, can provide. Its appearance now would suggest that that whole nexus still survives and operates in the current world.

But whatever one's view of this - whether it reappears now because of its utility to the German, or the American, or the post-war fascist causes - I highly doubt its reappearance at a time when we're seen power outages across a wide swath of Europe, the election of an American pope, a lawsuit filed against the Vatican bank by a Roman Catholic archbishop, hostilities between India and Pakistan, all at the same time, is purely accidental and coincidental.

See you on the flip side...

There's nothing more traditional in Britain than throwing yourself down a hill to capture an escaping cheese and today is the day thousands of people from around the World descend on Cooper's hill in Gloucestershire to take part in the tradition first mentioned in 1826 , the tradition is believed to be far older and part of Pagan festival to celebrate the return of spring , sadly today is a most unlike Spring day but cheese still needed to be caught.

Bumps , scrapes and bruises but nobody died and no cheeses were harmed  



Silly Lemmings.