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The building from where Ursula Von Der Leyen and her unelected jackbooted elites issue their tyrannical edicts and fines shut off their the AC
….for floors 1-7.
Floors 8-13 were kept on.
Thus confirming that soome animals are indeed more equal than others.
A modern day Marie Antoinette…..and she can’t see herself.
Morning, Monti ☕
History rhymes or repeats. She should think about that 😎
Good morning my friend.
Going to be a firecracker hot Independence Day here in our wee corner of the world. Heat advisories through Sunday. Humidity at 56% at 1000AM making the real feel 92 degrees already. Actual temperature forecast at 99 or 100 this afternoon.
Fun times down on the farm….weaning a calf and watching two expectant mothers. My good wife had a start when gathering the eggs…..started to reach in a nesting box to get a black Astrolorp hen off the eggs….was a black serpent that reared up to defy any such moves. I was informed that the eggs could stay there unless I slew the dragon and removed it from the premises.
We have for the first time in memory paused our haying operations until this intemperate weather passes, its just too hot.
Let us pray that our fearless and tireless President Trump takes steps to make the SCOTUS own their imprudent actions. God bless the USA and all our treeper friends.
Sounds like a Black Racer snake.
Good morning Eagle61.
It was….had already swallowed an egg or two.
Had them around our last house. Good field mouse control.
Rough on chicken eggs, though.😎
1/2 inch hardware cloth is about the only deterrent for chicken coops.
Had to use chicken wire cages around my raised garden beds this year, to stop the squirrels from stealing my tomatoes. Rascally little critters.
If it’s a black racer, don’t kill it!
They take poisonous snakes out.
Good snake to have on your property if you’ve got poisonous snakes in your area.
And I say that as someone who absolutely *hates* snakes.
Oh Monti…
If you can track down All Creatures Great and Small on Masterpiece, please do so, dear friend. With the picture you’ve painted, I feel safe in recommending it. Six beautiful series that will make you laugh and touch/ break your heart (at least as what was and is no more in post WWII rural Yorkshire). One episode even revolves around a free ranging snake. YIKES!! Yes, waiting is much advised 😬 I think you and your beloved are meant to see this splendid (nonWoke) series…watched 5 times by us (so far).
I hope the hot will be very temporary, if there are such degrees by which it can be measured. Unpleasant and dangerous for humans and animals. Nothing for it except to keep hydrated and sheltered as best as can be achieved. Prayers headed in your direction for you and every living being in the path…
As for us?
I’ll say no more…at least for the moment 😘🙏🏻
I posted on some branch, the Kankakee River flowing after the wintery ice log jam broke…
Offering the hope that is “Winter is Coming”….
Ah, yes, the Kankakee. Used to hang out at Rock Creek falls tributary during high school days and many other places along that river. Many infamous bars and my favorite was The Pier in Aroma Park on the Kankakee.
Unfortunately for the city of Kankakee the entire south side with riverfront has been taken over by rentals and deterioration. Even the famous first prairie style Frank Loyd Wright home on the Kankakee called B Harley Bradley Home with the adjoining Warren Hickox house have struggled with the declining neighborhood.
River street used to be a thriving place in Kankakee but no more. One of the classic hold outs is Jaenicke’s root beer and hot dog drive in. Many memories of that place.
Rest assured, winter is coming. Always has during my 74 years on earth. And, it will be followed by summer (I’m in Texas – no such things as 4 seasons here). Hook em and Gig em.
Are those the only two options??
Dang….
All Creatures Great and Small is one of my favs!
The part that began to get to us was when the Doc would put that thermometer back into his jacket pocket every darn time.
I love those stories too – they used to also appear in the Reader’s Digest (read all the stories again on Kindle) – loved the ones where the cows gathered around the farmer to keep him warm until morning after he had broken a leg.
Britain has squandered its beautiful heritage, Patti. We have to be prepared to have our hearts broken every time we re-watch it with the remembrance of how it was. That we return time and again is testament to how splendid it is. And the price we are willing to pay.
The most incredible(!) thing about these tyrants is the degree to which they want to record their tyranny.
It isn’t enough that they live in comfort. It is “vitally important(!)” to them that y-o-u don’t.
It matters(!) to them that “floors 1-7” are suffering in heat! Because this is what proves their (gasp!) p-o-w-e-r over (gasp!!) d-e-p-l-o-r-a-b-l-e-s!!
Likewise, when they construct “monstrous criminal enterprises against [you],” it is vitally important to them. First, that they obsessively record it. And then, that they ##CLASSIFY## it.
And yet, they never destroy the “classified” records. Instead, they pile “burn bags” into some “secret” closet that “no one has ever heard about.” But, they never light a fire in the parking lot . . .
It … is … weird.
NAZIs obsessively recorded everything too.
Except after Hitler was embarrassed for having his name on the ‘kill the mentally unfit and handicapped’ program, they made sure to keep his instructions to kill Jews off the record.
Still, they had so many records of their atrocities that they could not destroy them all.
BTW, the entire concept of ‘lebensraum’ guaranteed that they would not stop killing when all the Jews were dead. All that Slavic held land needed to be depopulated so Germans would have room to live in the east.
I would bet that deep in the bowels of our own security services records of thousands or hundreds of thousands of deaths which rightfully should fall on our souls for not purging this once great and FREE nation of the filth and rot as incubated by our Godless politicians of Blue Hats and Red Hats…SHAME ON US!
Their egos, Mike.
History is nothing but compilation after compilation of such documentation secreted by their predecessors who did exactly the same. And were certain that they would escape the coals which eventually have been heaped upon their heads.
The next chapters will be written.
And the ship of fools sails on…
The forever loser likes to brag arrogantly.
This was Alex Jones’ superpower. He would merely read what these monsters wrote. All these Bond Villains are compelled by hell to proclaim their malignant plans from the pit of hell.
Hamas
Haman
Herod
Hitler
Hezbollah
and, of course, Hobama.
John 10
4 After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. 5 They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”
We hear You, Lord Jesus!
Oh yes, dear Gipper 💕
It’s all there in the pages of books…the ones warning and dedicated to exposing what was and the godless monsters consumed by their psycopathies.
…and the Holy Book which gives us hope every single day.
No wonder the monsters of today try so hard to eradicate both.
Love it, Bets!
Be blessed, dear friend 😘
What a glorious picture!!!
This one engenders something within me I have no words for, sis…
That’s a bummer lamb!
Can’t thank you enough for this, Bubby, which I had forgotten about 💕
We are all Bummer lambs.
The bloviator brigade.
Blah, blah, blah…
Tedious baffoons!
The list is lengthy.
Don’t listen.
Don’t care.
Also…
PSA alert…
Planned Parenthood is now advertising on TV, for people to ‘donate’…I saw it on one of commy comcast’s cable channels…my reaction was a loudly uttered WTF….
I don’t remember if it had the standard $19 a month for the free t-shirt…
I am reading that regardless of the shutting down of NGOs and various funding apparatuses, Congress is still funding PP, Aggie.
It sickens me to say that the Big Pharma lobbyists probably haven’t stopped filling congressional pockets to make sure they get their human sacrifices and body parts for ongoing “research” and “vaccines”.
Evil never ever rests. And there are untold numbers who are quite willing to volunteer for its employ.
As we look around, the shades having been removed from our eyes, I have to ask a question which has been pressing on me lately…How can God Bless America when this (and other atrocities) show no signs of being ended?
Dear Betsy- thanks for your comment….I ask same question…is not only misery what BIG PHARMA brought to general public but also wars in the which we are involve and they did not stop after 01/22/2015…. Yes how can God Bless our nation..????
How long will His patience endure, dear sejmon? We have no way of knowing. But Heaven does as men and women test it daily.
And as you say evil never rests, doesn’t it seem to be exploding now?
Obviously all the illegal terrorists, cartel drug rapists make it worse, thanks to bidum.
Wow.
Would not surprise me if that was intentional.
Heavens to BETSY– Betsy!
When will the insanity end?
Only God knows, dear Lorrie.
Strong delusions and reprobate minds writ large.
seen to me insanity end if VSGPDJT and military restore Constitutional Republic…and end USCorp.
Paris Deputy Mayor Audrey Pulvar released a lengthy statement blaming the United States for the heat wave over France this past week. “Your cities ‘90% air-conditioned’ are not unrelated to this. In Paris, we take responsibility.” Pulvar went on to explain that Paris has implemented measures to fight air pollution and develop energy-efficient renovations for the city, arguing that air conditioning “contributes and aggravates the problem” of global warming.
“If every American city made the same ecological transition efforts as Paris and many European cities, believe me, the whole world would be better off. So please, enough with the lecture. Just start doing your part. Best regards,” she concluded.
Does anybody else see this as an admission that all these wonderful policies to combat climate change DON’T WORK? Oh my, these poor people are doing everything they can and somebody else comes along and spoils it.
Where are the people demanding that these policies show results or be terminated? Any result would be fine except that there are no studies showing that any policy has reduced temperature or weather extremes. Has anyone ever heard a greeniac bragging about how all this fraudulent spending actually does anything?
No, you haven’t because it doesn’t and even if it did, they couldn’t publish it. Why? Because if some policy was actually proven to reduce “climate change” it would undercut funding for more. Think about it. If a policy is working and temperature goes down, why do we need more of what is already working?
This is all proof the whole climate disaster narrative is a lie.
Climate Change is their god, Mike. It is at that altar at which they worship. And they are past fanatical about it. They’ve all become terminally afflicted with a deadly ideology which has enriched them beyond the imaginings of the ordinary people they killed or destroyed.
Madame DM is the poster girl for their moral sickness.
Best to meme her out of her delusional state. I doubt most believe her.
Their satanic alter…
Correct version of meme would have the exhaust from Chinese and Indian coal burning but They May Not Be Questioned. More pretending.
Well they will wish for global warming when the next Ice Age hits.
Being a leftist always means being a victim and deflecting any blame. By definition.
Notice how she doesn’t lambast China and the 50 coal-fired power plants they built last year with even more commissioned for 2026. China burns more coal each year than all other countries combined. Meanwhile since 2000, the per capita CO2 production in the US has dropped from over 20 tons to under 15 tons. However, those benefits are somewhat mitigated when a potted plant’s administration lets in 10 to 20 million illegals in 4 years.
Pulvar likely gets her talking points from Greta Thunberg.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/06/30/socialist-paris-deputy-mayor-blames-u-s-for-french-heat-wave/
She’s a socialist. (Probably has her AC cranked because she is so essential to combating climate change.)
And…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/paris-deputy-mayor-blames-us-air-conditioning-french-heat-wave
All good comments but, again, why aren’t these people challenged to produce results? Make them put up or shut up.
If they ever do come up with a study or measurements that show the temperature is going down, doesn’t matter if it’s even a lie, any increase in funding will be shut down.
What would they try to spin if required to prove policies work? No matter who they blame or what they say, lies or not, they will never brag about accomplishing anything because the money then dries up and the sheeple can’t be controlled. All they can do is say they tried. We can all try forever to flap our arms and fly but at some point we have to give up.
Simple question to ask your climate catastrophe friends. Do you know of any studies showing the climate policies are lowering temperature or stopping weather extremes? They can’t answer either yes or no because neither answer furthers their agenda.
The people who have produced results (Dr Judith Curry for example) to actually prove the lies are all censored or shut down.
When there is no one to counteract the bilge Climate Cultists vomit out with no studies to prove their point, they can simply use that old canard “99% of ‘scientists'” agree.
Or they adjust their language… global warming morphs into global cooling morphs in the catch all climate change. So their fraud…i.e. graft/money laundering… is protected either way.
It’s always the parents fault when they push the adult kids out of the nest.
Always. Victims.
Why do I have the feeling that the “Climate Change” narrative is just running cover for the fact that they just can’t afford the infrastructure to support their population and all these initiatives are really just about money? They want to keep taxpayer money to support the lifestyle of those at the top while those below swelter in the heat. A modern day serfdom. Now that Europeans have discovered the many benefits US citizens enjoy, including air conditioning, they are now trying to deflect the USA loving video narratives by reminding their citizens that they are suffering in this heat because of the US and certainly not due to socialist policies.
Better yet, where are the people demanding that these politicians be terminated?
Dear Betsy,
In the name of accuracy please consider the word “parasite” in place of “elite”.
Done 👍🏻 😎
I might even add “blood sucking” for more accuracy and impact.
😉
Cork sucking, iceholes.
Hat tip, Johnny D.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15946349/columbus-ohio-somalia-flag-city-hall.html
FTA “he capital of Ohio was forced to delete an announcement claiming that Somalia’s flag would be raised above its City Hall.
On Wednesday, the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department referenced celebrating the ‘unification of the Trust Territory of Somaliland and the State of Somaliland into the Somali Republic in 1960.’ The post finished off with an announcement that ‘City Hall will be raising the flag of Somalia,’ alongside a graphic of the country’s blue flag with a white five-pointed star.
Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, a Republican, pushed back on the post announcing the supposed flag raising ceremony. ‘There is only one nation’s flag that should ever be flown on American government buildings or property,’ Moreno wrote on X. He added: ‘This action by Columbus is a total disgrace and takes away from the epic celebration on Saturday of this country’s 250 year celebration.’ Somalia Independence Day is celebrated on July 1, while the United States will commemorate its 250th anniversary this upcoming July 4.”
What’s the deal with this support and fascination with the corrupt lawless country Somalia and their corrupt to the core low IQ citizens? I just don’t understand it!!!
Somalis defraud Americans of millions of dollars and politicians get a percentage to look the otherway.
Thats why
Somalis are definitely not that smart. They only succeed in defrauding hundreds of millions of dollars because Democrat States encourage them to while Republicans turn a blind eye to the fraud! 😎
For a general explanation
cueing up a song:
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LCqL8_9NOxg?playlist=LCqL8_9NOxg&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&start=
Excellent!
This came up on my you tube feed, after Natasha…and I think, altho long, we can all relate, especially at 5:15:
Recently I drove from South Texas to Eastern Tennessee and the interstate hwy system is a patchwork of potholes and interchanges under repair or being expanded. It’s really a disgrace! Every year Congress passes an infrastructure spending bill and they complement/congratulate each other for it then next to nothing gets done!!! Unbelievable! Yet we spent a trillion dollars on Middle East wars that got us nothing!!! America First!!!! It’s replacing “Remember the Alamo”!!!
Apropos.
This video captures perfectly the attitude of Walz and all his ilk.
Is Columbus a democRat ruled city???
democRats rule most State Capitol Cities in Repub States.
Didn’t Minnesota change its State flag to be a cross between the Minnesota and the Somali flags? I have heard Mike Lindell say that if he wins the governorship that the State flag will revert to the Minnesota flag.
Even the communist Star Tribune/Kare 11/U of M poll shows that just 30% of Minnesotans approve of the new flag compared to 50% who disapprove and 20% who are undecided. And, just 39% of Minnesotans approve of Gov. Walz’s performance.
Glad to know that the majority of Minnesotans are level headed.
Yes, sadly!
This is a psy op to discourage us and gives us cognitive dissonance.
Celebrate a foreign nation whose people have stolen billions while poo-pooing UIS 250.
Wtf, why did you come to the US if Somalia is so great and should be celebrated?
So nobody in Minnesota is going to be arrested for all the fraud??
I bet Illhand, Tampon Timmy and Muslim Keith helped get the money out of the country,
After swiping their cut.
Yes you do. The Somali Refugees and Illegal Somalis Vote.
A uniquely Danish approach…
“The Overton Window in Denmark didn’t just shift. It cracked open … .”
Big government doubles down on islamic invaders. Liberal secularism treats muslims as it does Christians. Seems like NYC might take notice – or is it too late?
I like that Denmark courts told EU courts to pizz off
That was excellent. We thought Hungary was the resistor, but it was centrists in Denmark, too.
(different than a lot of the eee uuu)….The Danish (and Hungary) people avoided taking the wooden nickels. : )
“Prove all things,
hold fast to that which is good.”
-per request by the Thessalonians, Paul wrote in reply to the Thessalonians 5:21
The Danes took the wooden nickles for quite a while. Then they made a some big changes. I hope it is the right thing for them and in time for them.
Looks to me like the main thing that happened is their politicians and bureaucrats bypassed wokeness and were willing not to pretend. That’s a very big deal.
As the video points out, they are a small country (population a little bigger than Oregon) and recognized that they couldn’t afford to keep doing dumb stuff forever. Or even for a few more years.
Thanks for posting this vidro Old Dog! The Danish Model gives me hope for the West. We should adopt it on steroids.
Great video, thanks for posting! Seems like the U.S. could take some immigration lessons from Denmark, just like many other European countries are considering (or actually implementing).
Sugar Land, Texas…
https://rairfoundation.com/another-piece-america-slips-away-sugar-land-texas/
Meet Denmark.
And Milton Friedman:
“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.”
Thanks, Barnestormer.
This article about Sugarland says, “… their own entire parallel ecosystem.”
The Danes decided very specifically that this is not acceptable.
And Sugar Land is far from alone.
Everyone should make time to watch this.
Top shelf, thanks Old Dog.
End of the inning I’m going for a couple halal dogs and a couple Bud Lights … that should do it – they will all be gone by the top of the 4th.
Hope it’s not a long game. Which way is east?
Thanks to all of you I can now take a 10 year old into a bath house, do whatever I want, and Walz will pardon me! Gotta be careful though because I’m white so I have to say I’m gay. Wow, you guys sure have privilege with that tanned African look.
Nah, it’s empty, like his head.
Who says that Trump doesn’t have a sense of humor?
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/2072681271566708832/video/1
AI is scary……..
Stellar!
Ace of Spades HQ:
We Need Proof of Life of Mitch McConnell—Disinformation Expert Ace
“This isn’t Russia — we are entitled to know which of our “representatives” are living and capable of working.
But of course this nation increasingly resembles Russia.
Two weeks after deliberately vague reports about McConnell being “rushed” to the hospital, it is only due to a leak of EMS radio traffic that we now find out he was discovered “unconscious” and in need of “advanced life support.”
So where is he now? Is he conscious?
Our Soviet officials won’t tell us.” …….
Looks like Mitch has gone full-Weekend at Bernie’s and his chief of staff Otto Penn is voting for him. You know–the Way the Framers Intended(tm).
#TheBluegrassBrezhnev
Cocaine Mitch is MIA as is Maxine Waters…does ANYONE in the MSM care about actually following up on either of these stories?
They care–about Otto Penn.
Maxi Pad is MIA?
I spent 20+ in a busy fire department, what is “dispatched” is very different than what you see upon arrival. Also, ALS – “advanced life support” – can be starting an IV and giving drugs.
Am I saying he’s in top-notch health and should still be in the Senate, NO, but someone being unconscious doesn’t equal cardiac arrest. I don’t know if he’s diabetic, but a lot of middle of the night “unconscious” calls were diabetics with low blood sugar and treated with advanced life support: IV, dextrose via IV push for low blood sugar. He could’ve had a stroke. Who knows, but I get the need for “privacy”; however, that ends when you are an elected representative.
If you’re an elected representative and want to keep your health matters private, resign. If you don’t want to resign, be forthcoming and allow the people, through their voice, to decide if you should stay in office.
Interestingly, he told me he wanted the Senate to go into full recess 😂
He changed his mind on the Filibuster and the SAVE Act, too!
I suspect his staff are up to dirty tricks by delaying any reports of his death. If we get to early August, within 3 months of the election, then any of the 3 Republicans on a list that has to be submitted to the Democrat governor for appointment will serve until the next general election after the midterms. If he dies before then, the special election takes place in November.
The problem is that all 3 of those names will probably be RINOs, and we need a MAGA candidate to run against him in November.
So the UNIPARTY gets to pick if they can hide it for another month. After that, they might have a real MAGA challenger.
#ProofOfLifeNow!
He is probably on life support. Hiding a corpse is a serious crime. Life support can keep him alive until the end of his term. He can’t vote so may as well be dead, but he can’t be replaced so he is a no vote on President Trump’s agenda.
Senator, 84, secretly found unconscious and given CPR
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, 84, was found “unconscious” at his home last month before CPR was administered.
The Republican lawmaker may have suffered a heart attack, according to an emergency personnel call made public and reported by The New York Post.
The June 14 call detailed an emergency dispatch to McConnell’s Washington, D.C., residence, where “CPR in progress” was underway due to “cardiac arrest.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senator-84-secretly-found-unconscious-and-given-cpr/ar-AA26ZS5P
“You Cannot Kill the Beast Until You Name it”: Democratic Politician Denounces the Declaration of Independence
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/07/02/you-cannot-kill-the-beast-until-you-name-it-democratic-politicians-denounces-the-declaration-of-independence/
That was King George’s opinion also.
Current Pedo King of GB and PMs as well.
Rabb is a proponent of reparations. That’s his primary platform.
So, in effect, he wants tax money. Same grift, different face.
I truly wonder if people this far off the reservation believe any of the Bravo Sierra they use to get votes from stupid people.
And Do We, Correctly Name democRats as Bolsheviks???
Or more importantly rinoRats even repubRats as Quislings???
With the fate of Senator Mitch McConnell currently unknown, we are compelled to ask a simple question, “WHEN IS A U.S. SENATOR ACTUALLY DEAD?”
There have been a number of such senators who APPEARED to be dead over the years. Is the definition of “dead” different for U.S . senators than that for mere mortal peasants? Should a U.S. senator be legally required to blink his/her eyes a certain number of times upon request to establish proof of life?
From birth.
Now you know reason number 2 for the data centers. Virtual politicians to collect the graft.
You mean MORALLY?
You probably can be fairly sure they are dead once they’ve been planted. But until planted they are still affecting important upcoming votes and the current governor can’t appoint anyone to take their place.
This photo…he looks rather ‘cadaverous’…
Senator, 84, secretly found unconscious and given CPR
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, 84, was found “unconscious” at his home last month before CPR was administered.
The Republican lawmaker may have suffered a heart attack, according to an emergency personnel call made public and reported by The New York Post.
The June 14 call detailed an emergency dispatch to McConnell’s Washington, D.C., residence, where “CPR in progress” was underway due to “cardiac arrest.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senator-84-secretly-found-unconscious-and-given-cpr/ar-AA26ZS5P
He’s dead. Come on Republicans. Geez.
Wave a $100 bill in front of him and see if he moves!
American Patriots Must Focus on Domestic, Domestic, Domestic.
EU and GB only show where Not to Go. They are Dead Civilizations stumbling into their Graves of history!!!
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
If you had pressed the engagement to the high ground yesterday perhaps the situation would be different. Gen Early was culpable on day 1.
For sure. Ewell also let Early dawdle. The battle wouldn’t have occurred there had Jackson not been shot at Chancellorsville. He would have run Buford’s cavalry through and the Federals would have been forced to choose a different spot.
The outcome of the war was inevitable, but Gettysburg was almost pure Confederate mistake.
Absolutely agree. There was a computer game years ago on windows that allowed you to develop the battle playing either Union or Confederate. If Ewell pressed day 1 to Culps and Cemetary then all high ground was held day 2. If Meade had continued to attack it would have been a 2nd Fredericksburg only worse for the Union forces.
Everything about Gettysburg was an error starting with a missing Stuart and incomplete intelligence. Lots of soldiers didn’t agree with invading the North and left Lee under strength.
Or if the Confederate battle plans for Gettysburg weren’t found wrapped around cigars left on South Mountain, the Union might not have had any chance.
Special order 191……..
That was what happened at Sharpsburg (Antietam) Todd W.
Both times Lee invaded north the dice went against him. Antietam had the single bloodiest day of the war.
Ask General Longstreet……….
I know what most of us think about DeSantis, at least as a presidential candidate, but have to admit that since taking over the Governor’s office he’s done a pretty good imitation of a MAGA proponent:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/desantis-revives-fight-against-cair-redesignates-islamist-group/
The key word being “imitation”….
Alligator population in Florida out of control.
In Florida, the ban is set under Florida law and enforced through the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC): it’s unlawful to intentionally kill, injure, possess, or capture alligators unless authorized by FWC rules (Fla. Stat. § 379.409), and FWC issues the regulations/permits for any legal harvest.
Evidently it is Florida Law.
BE = Becky
“Out of control” doesn’t seem to be accurate. The current alligator population in Florida is estimated at just over one million and has been stable for over 40 years. Just as with any other wild game, hunting alligators is allowed through a license and permit program.
My 70+ years as a native Floridian who enjoys our swamps, lakes and forests frequently has seen no siginificant increase/decrease in the alligator populations where I visit. This link seems to confirm my anecdotal observations: Guide to Alligator Hunting in Florida | FWC.
I reckon your post was a shot at DeSantis but thought I’d try to set the record straight on the ‘gators.
All the best.
All I know is that when I visit a good friend near Wesley Chapel about 25 miles northeast of Tampa, just about every house has a pond nearby — and EVERY pond seems to have gator or two. I see them all the time when down there. Gators are about as common there as deer are near me here in Middle TN 🙂
I think all the canals built for construction have made an easy access for them to travel to the Grand Floridian
As a former Navy man and Florida “Gator” myself, I lived some time in Florida before migrating north. I agree with you about the gator population. What may be different now and what people may be observing is that the gators go where the food is plentiful, and that just happens to be in recent times, nearer to human populations.
BE, what is out of control is folks who want to live where they have no business.
Why does Florida still have a Red Flag law on the books?
DeSantis has been a very good Gov.
That DOES NOT mean he would be any good as President 🙂
You can say that about any person.
DeSantis is a very effective chief executive and policymaker and pragmatic, principled thinker.
JD Vance is the Cice President and the hierarchical assistant to President Trump. He is TOTALLY dependent on President Trump to raise his standing. Why should I feel that, given the circumstances, he would not do exactly as Mike Pence did?
I am willing to trust and appreciate JD Vance because I have to. Frankly, however, Marco Rubio inhabits MAGA ideology far better. So do others in the cabinet. So does Ron DeSantis.
I am not without ambivalence about DeSantis. I feel like he betrayed the President when Mar a Lago was raided. Or, maybe he did not and we don’t know. President Trump or others could have been killed then – orders of shoot to kill.
But PDJT has totally frozen out other treacherous people like Pompeo and Bolton. So I am willing to suspend my presumptions about DeSantis because President Trump does work with him very effectively. DeSantis executes MAGA policy and does more than talk.
I can’t get past the feeling that JD Vance does a lot posturing that gets exposed the more he talks. He’s smart, but he is prideful enough to think he can fool all of the people some of the time. Whenever I see that, I think of Barack Hussein Obama, the magic Harvard ‘scholar,’ perhaps our first gay President, and a host more of what we don’t know that was shielded from us like it was Ivermectin.
Wasn’t he the Governor when they shut down the open beaches?
Doesn’t sound too MAGA to me.
I don’t hold it against President Trump for his promotion of the vaccines.
COVID brought with it many missteps, and for some like Andrew Cuomo, the missteps were more egregious.
Last internet update on Venezuela…close to 2300 deceased and over 11,000 injured. WLS is reporting a man was pulled out alive, today.
Are many thousands of people still missing?
According to a specialized ‘missing persons’ website, 43,251 but other unofficial estimates are as high as 68,000.
C&C has a great post today about Bill Pulte and Trump allowing him to declassify anything he wants…
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UN-INTELLIGENT ☙ Thursday, July 2, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
(Spy versus spy at the ODNI; the Supreme Court caps a terrible year for gender-bending advocates; and a lightning round of fantastic, under-reported news.)
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/un-intelligent-thursday-july-2-2026
Jeff Childers’ posts are must read everyday.
Citizen Vigilante stuff:
Minnesota Gov Walz Pardons Convicted Child-Molester, Blocking Deportation
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/minnesota-gov-walz-pardons-convicted-child-molester-blocking-deportation
If someone is an illegal immigrant in the United States he can still be deported even if his crime was pardoned by a state governor. It may take a little more “work” on the part of ICE but this guy should be Deportee Number One on the To-Do List!
How does this block deportation?
“…it is a cultural thing…to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.”
I believe that we should use British General Charles Napier as a guide in this situation. In India in 1850 Hindus claimed that the practice of Sati (burning of widow on husband’s funeral pyre) was a cultural thing. The general responded: “This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property.”
So in the spirit of Charles Napier, I propose that we respond, “It’s a cultural thing that men who have sex with children are hung by their testicles.”
Walz should be publicly hung by the neck until dead.
That’s the prescribed execution for traitors, and Walz is the American Vidkun Quisling.
A CHILD RAPIST. Not a molester.
And he blamed the child.
And walz pardoned him so he would not be deported.
History – Patterns – Choices
Five years ago:
Bravo Bravo Mr. President. More scallops delivered off OUR coast right to our tables. President Trump opening up our waters for our fishermen. Announced on Truth Social. 😎👏
Obluma and Bidung both Manchuriat house sitters. Common sense isn’t common on the left. Ignorance and feel good emotions are the plan of the day for these people. Good grief. Spit
Still waiting on the DOJ to get the ball rolling on nullifying the 2020 Presidential vote thereby nullifying Bidungs time fraudulently sitting in the Whitehouse. What a stain on the Peoples House! Spit
“Please destroy the evidence against me. Please, please, PLEASE!”
Succint translation!
Wha’dya expect a career criminal to say to other career criminals about her own foot-tracks & fingerprints on her criminal-paper-trail…???
Still trying to stay out of jail, eh Crooked?
Marc Elias? Nuff said.
More news on Iran…
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/europe-capitulates-sees-iranian-hormuz-fee-collection-inevitable
yep,….it`s that hot………….stay as cool as ya can ….drink lots of water…………
107F out in our driveway, and not yet the peak of the day. We might hit 110 before dinnertime here.
We’re “chilling out” in our 72F basement, watching Jack Lord Hawaii Five 0 reruns, and listening to the ice maker create more cubes across the room.
Stay hydrated!
Oldersoul….stay cool my friend……book em Dan-o
Those surfboards and boats go a long way.
You too.
Reposted by Sundance
According to Grok on X this is said to be fake. Says no record or archive that she actually posted this.
I have no use for AOC, but I seemed to recall this one going around in the past.
I like to be factual. If there is evidence that she really did post this, please provide a link.
Thanks!
Grok can’t find what is no longer available 🙂
” And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed— if all records told the same tale— then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ ”
1984 Part 1 Chapter 4
https://www.george-orwell.org/1984/3.html
THIS POSSIBLITY IS WHY i SAVE DATA in my NAS and in HARD COPY
( Books, Magazines, Photos, … )
” DATA UPDATES ” – CHANGE data
EVEN the ” WAYBACK MACHINE ” is Being Manipulated
think of the students using iPads and Kindles for their ” textbooks ” – CBT ( COMPUTER BASED TRAINING )
Mayor Jacob Frey
Sure it is 🙂
They need an Undependence Day.
Or a totally dependent day.
food should be good. We, the American people, paid/pay for it as well as the celebration.
Sounds like a good holiday to celebrate in Somalia, since they’re so free.
“The only thing that’s going to save the Republicans is a massive turnout of the lower propensity, lower information Trump voters,”
– Steve Bannon. July 2, 2026
The context of that s b comment may have been
that there is an existing untapped voter potential (to overcome illegal voters)
and that there is a general statistic that about 40% of the christian, u.s. population
is complacent about the act of voting (i.e. do not like politics or desire to participate ).
imho
Trump is hosting an unprecedented mid-term convention in Dallas on Sept 9th and 10th; likely followed by rallies.
“Somalia.”
Human Trafficking has an address . . .
“Here’s the bottom. Come on down.”
“Here’s the Ghetto. Where ‘all of you have to’ live now.”
Because: If you want something better for yourself, “you are <<>>ist.” You can’t have anything better than the least, and you are guilty for even asking for it!
(Unless(!) you are one of the Government Minions who are telling you this!! Filet mignon, please.)
E-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y … s-o-m-e-t-h-i-n-g … s-n-a-p-s.
It “snaps.” But actually, not always violently. Sometimes, people simply stand up, look you square, see you for what you have become, and say: “NO!”
The(!!) most powerful word in the English language contains two letters.
On July 4, 1776, a group of Englishmen finally, and eloquently, said this very thing: “NO!”
We will NOT Comply.
have a grand evening Treepers…………….
I vividly remember two things about my maternal grandfather.
One was seeing him out on the lake in his boat, fast asleep. With his wind-up alarm clock.
The other was noticing that he was fishing, but had cut the barb and circle of the hook off! He said that he did this when he didn’t want to actually catch the fish: he only wanted to watch it strike.
I remembered that, and have since done it also. (Although I’m not much of a fisherman …) It’s much more “civil,” I think, than “catch and release.” The moment they take the lure, and the float goes bobbing up and down, “you won.” They swim away, and “you fed them the hard way.”
He was good at fishing. If he set out in the morning to come back with a dinner’s worth of fish, he always and faithfully did it. If he didn’t want the fish, well, he had his entertainment.
“RIP, Grandpa.” 🐟 (Also Grandma, sitting patiently on the porch while he was out on the lake all day, crocheting amazing things.)
Mike ..great story….thank you.
BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES
Live long & prosper.
That’s what it’s all about. Beautiful setting.
Have a relaxing evening.
“Jeanine Pirro said Hearn “violently and forcefully” ripped up the sealant.”….
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Grand Jury Indicts
Former Olympic Canoeist David Hearn on Felony Charges For Vandalizing Reflecting Pool – Faces 10 Years in Prison (PIrro Presser)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/breaking-grand-jury-indicts-former-olympic-canoeist-david
I think that we should respond forcefully and decisively against the vandalism of public property. Decisively enough to stop it for good. Yes, this is a felony offense, and should be prosecuted accordingly.
But we should also be realistic: “Not ‘ten years.'” Do not destroy a man’s life for this.
Send the unmistakable message. Do not destroy.
Let’s have a J-6er weigh in.
Yes, I destroyed no person, or property, nor protested in any worse manner than liberals since at least Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearings; funny hew I did not get my cheap trespassing ticket.
I did not suffer like many, due to being arrested shortly before the re-election of Trump, but had he not won, I would be sitting in prison today, with quite a few years left. I’m not exactly feeling sympathetic at the moment.
Not according to the news…..eyeroll.
(VIDEO) Police Stop North Carolina Church Massacre Arresting Man Who Showed Up with Flamethrowers, Crossbows, More Than 500 Rounds of Ammo
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/video-police-stop-north-carolina-church-massacre-arresting
NPLC Files Bar Complaint Against E. Jean Carroll’s Far-Left Trump-Hating Attorney Roberta Kaplan
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/nplc-files-bar-complaint-against-e-jean-carrolls
Am I the only one hoping to read that mass raids took place simultaneously on birth tourism houses and the residents were approved for immediate deportation? Like, yesterday?
I dont know what to believe on this one.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/07/german-prosecutors-ukraine-behind-nord-stream-destruction/
More likely right than not – was much more likely than the US doing it. Ukraine and UK were my top
21.I like what you did there.
From our friends at TLD, an article from Epoch Times:
https://thelibertydaily.com/supreme-court-denies-appeal-reporter-catherine-herridge-after/
Judge Blocks USPS Ballot Rule Tied to Trump’s Election Integrity Order
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing a Trump administration proposal to boost election integrity by enhancing ballot tracking and verification, finding it conflicted with a 2021 settlement requiring the agency to prioritize the timely delivery of election mail.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled on July 1 that USPS could not move forward with the proposed rule, which would have required states using the mail for federal absentee and mail-in voting to adopt standardized ballot envelopes with trackable barcodes and provide USPS with voter participation lists to make ballot verification easier. Ballot mailings that failed to comply would have been rejected.
One day after the proposed rule was published in early June, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) returned to court in a long-running lawsuit originally filed during the 2020 election, asking Sullivan to enforce a 2021 settlement that requires USPS to prioritize the monitoring and timely delivery of election mail through the 2028 election cycle.
The proposed rule stems from President Donald Trump’s March executive order directing USPS to develop new standards for handling federal ballot mail as part of a broader thrust to bolster election integrity.
The Justice Department, which represented USPS in the case, did not respond to a request for comment before publication.
Rule Boosts Election Integrity, DOJ Says
In opposing the NAACP’s motion, the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in a court brief that the proposed rule was designed to improve—not hinder—the handling of election mail.
Attorneys representing the Trump administration wrote that requiring standardized Election Mail logos and Intelligent Mail barcodes would make ballots easier to identify throughout the postal network. They argued this would allow USPS to better monitor the movement of mail-in ballots and help implement the “extraordinary measures” USPS has traditionally used to expedite election mail before federal elections.
“Such requirements promote the ’monitoring and timely delivery of Election Mail’; they do not frustrate it,” they wrote in the brief. “And while the Postal Service has proposed requiring state and local election officials to identify the names and addresses of the persons to whom they send ballots and to provide the barcodes for the ballot envelopes, requiring this information—which officials already, by definition, have—would not compromise the lawful delivery of any mail.”
The administration stated in the proposal that the new rule would strengthen election integrity by creating a uniform ballot-tracking system while leaving decisions about voter eligibility entirely to the states.
Election officials—not USPS—would determine who is eligible to vote by mail and would submit lists of voters receiving mail ballots, together with unique barcode information, through a federal portal. The Postal Service would use that information only to verify ballot mailings and improve tracking, not to decide who could vote.
“State and local election officials would maintain full control over who they send ballots to,” government attorneys said in the brief.
“There are no plausible concerns, certainly at this stage, that the Proposed Rule would negatively impact USPS’s ability to timely and reliably deliver Election Mail. Rather, this provision would, again, assist USPS in better being able to track (and thus deliver) such important mail.”
Plaintiffs Claim ‘Confusion and Uncertainty’
The NAACP argued in its motion that the new requirements would violate the 2021 settlement and could prevent eligible voters from receiving mail ballots.
“Implementation of the Proposed Rule would threaten to prevent millions of eligible voters from receiving mail-in ballots to which they are entitled,” attorneys representing the plaintiffs wrote.
They also argued that, even while the rule remains in proposed form, it already caused confusion within USPS, and among election officials and voters, about what procedures will be in place for mail-in ballots in the November 2026 election cycle.
“The pendency of the Proposed Rule … creates confusion and uncertainty,” they wrote. “USPS, for example, cannot conduct internal or external trainings to plan for a rule that is not yet finalized. Nor can it provide answers or guidance to election officials and voters to mitigate confusion or uncertainty.”
The case traces back to August 2020, when the NAACP sued USPS over operational changes introduced around that time that plaintiffs said caused widespread mail delays during the COVID-19 pandemic and threatened the timely delivery of absentee ballots.
The parties settled the case in December 2021. Under the agreement, USPS committed through 2028 to issue nationwide election-mail guidance, organize regular “outreach meetings” with the NAACP before federal elections, provide performance reports, and make good-faith efforts to prioritize the monitoring and timely delivery of election mail.
Trump’s March executive order directed USPS to develop new standards to strengthen election security, prompting USPS to publish the proposed rule, which the NAACP challenged.
The judge sided with the plaintiffs, concluding that the proposed procedures conflicted with USPS’s commitment to prioritize the timely delivery of election mail.
Allison Zieve, director of Public Citizen Litigation Group, which represented the NAACP in the case, praised the ruling.
“The court today correctly recognized that USPS’s plan to create roadblocks to mail-in voting was inconsistent with its commitment to timely deliver election mail,” she said in a statement. “USPS’s plan was unwise, unlawful, and a threat to the millions of voters who rely on mailed ballots to participate in our democracy.”
Here we go again….
Emmet Sullivan is one of the serial obstructionists that needs removed from the bench…
Wasn’t he the judge in the Gen. Flynn case who decided to continue prosecuting the case even when the DOJ dropped it?
There are no Somalians on the city council. That is fake news. There are 9 on the council and none are Somalians. But that doesn’t explain away the flying of that flag.
This is the Fourth Branch Sundance has posted about previously!
If true, everyone of the people doing the withholding should be hung at a gallows in the center of DC on July 4th for sedition…
I’m not even sure I’d call it the 4th branch. The 4th branch is really just the forward facing profile that has it’s fingers clenched around three branches outlined by the Constitution. What’s in it for these people anyway? Arrogance and stupidity?
Start firing anyone who won’t comply for insubordination.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump announces he’s MOVING FORWARD with FIRING Democrat Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked him
Cont and video…
Trans gunman caught in alleged casino terror plot with huge cache of weapons — as cops release chilling footage
Allison Howlett, 36, who was born a man but lives as a woman, was arrested Saturday on charges of making terroristic threats, assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, gun theft and other offenses.
The wild story unfolded shortly after 9:30 a.m. Saturday when Howlett’s former spouse, who is female, called police to report Howlett had stolen her car and the vehicle held numerous firearms, Henderson Police Chief Reggie Rader said.
The former spouse said Howlett intended to commit “suicide by cop” or carry out a mass shooting, Radar said.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/us-news/trans-gunman-was-allegedly-plotting-vegas-mass-shooting/
The Perp
Pathetic..
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15949349/Secret-Service-knew-Thomas-Crooks-roof-TWO-MINUTES-shot-Trump-bombshell-intelligence-report-reveals.html
Japan set to honor our 250th anniversary – America’s best ally.
AWESOME! The North Carolina Legislature has OVERRIDDEN the Democrat governor’s veto, forcing a new law to take effect that BLOCKS taxpayer funds from going to illegal aliens in welfare and housing
“Senate Bill 153, legislation that in part orders to agencies to ensure any and all beneficiaries of state services can prove citizenship.”
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“Congress was never told the truth” about results of CIA mind-control experiments, “Chaos” author tells House Oversight hearing
Tom O’Neill, investigative journalist and author of “Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties,” delivered this opening statement at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday about the MK-ULTRA program, where he claims the CIA has been lying to Cogress for almost 50 years that human experiments never successfully figured out how to create and erase memories.
“”I believe Congress was never told the truth about what this program actually achieved,” he said. “I believe the agency misled Congress in 1977 when it characterized MK-Ultra as a failure.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/congress-was-never-told-the-truth-about-results-of-cia-mind-control-experiments-chaos-author-tells-house-oversight-hearing/ar-AA26TBPO
BREAKING: The Somali flag flying over Buffalo City Hall has been reportedly STOLEN just hours after it was raised.
Buffalo’s Democrat Mayor Sean Ryan, claims that individuals cut the cable in the middle of the night and took the flag down. He then goes on a rant about “diversity.”
Police are currently investigating, and no charges have been filed.
https://truthsocial.com/@libsoftiktok/116852424295437217
Angry Woman Confronts Massachusetts Mayor For Canceling America 250 Fireworks (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/woman-confronts-brockton-mayor-canceling-america-250-fireworks/
Appeals court rules in favor of Trump admin on issue of removing signs at National Park sites
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/appeals-court-rules-favor-trump-admin-issue-removing-signs-national-park?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
https://truthsocial.com/@justthenews/116852208955605531
As an officer, he should be brought up on charges under the UCMJ pronto…
FRIDAY NIGHT: Watch President Trump’s address, spectacular fireworks at Mount Rushmore Celebration in S. Dakota! LIVE coverage starts 10 PM ET, only on @NEWSMAX. #Freedom250
https://truthsocial.com/@NewsMax/116852759169958244
NYC should just ban AC altogether to prepare their people for the Communism they voted for….
Asking people to set the indoor temp to 78 is hardly cruel and unusual punishment. A regional blackout would be far worse and potentially deadly.
Does Gracie Mansion have AC? How about Madison Square Garden, surely the Swift/Kelce wedding party is not sweating it out? I have questions.
Interestingly, the “office” of nearly-dead mitch mcconnell ias admitted that the senate is “out of session”
““Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital. The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is OUT OF SESSION.”
https://www.wlwt.com/article/kentucky-senator-mitch-mcconnell-hospital-update/71811210
PDJT should make some appoinments to showcase congresscritter lies that they are “in session” when just one person bangs a gavel when they are all gone and there is no quorum. And not one congresscritter is honest enough to simply ask for a quorum (and maybe move to pass the SAVE act to require proof of citizenship or only one vote while the citizen ia alive)
HAVE the VP JD VANCE Call For a QUORUM
Andrew Kolvet
@AndrewKolvet
The preliminary hearing in the case of the State v. Tyler Robinson will take place in Provo, UT next week, July 6-10. This is going to be an incredibly difficult but important week for all of us in the Turning Point family, but especially Erika and Charlie’s parents.
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about what exactly this means and what to expect.
This is NOT the trial. This is a pre-trial judicial proceeding. There will be no jury and the sole purpose of the hearing is to determine whether prosecutors have gathered enough evidence for the case to move forward to trial.
The hearing is expected to last most of the week and will include witness testimony, evidence presented by prosecutors, and cross-examination by the defense.
Cont reading…
Uh-oh!
FBI infiltrated Gavin Newsom’s inner circle by convincing governor’s ally to wear a wire: lawyer
https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/us-news/gavin-newsom-ally-alexis-podesta-wore-fbi-wire-in-corruption-probe-lawyer
Happy 250th !