DEMOCRAT JUDGE: Houston man who brutally assaulted a 67-year-old man with dementia had his bail slashed from $1 million to just $20,000. After walking free, he allegedly attacked a woman and now faces new charges for threatening her with a weapon. pic.twitter.com/YaZaqSbVXR
#2
As much as this POS needs to become part of a foundation for a new building.
The 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits excessive bail, ensuring that bail amounts set by the government are not unreasonably high and that individuals are not punished before a conviction. Now, if only the LSD appointed Federal Judges would strictly follow the US Constitution in ALL cases.
Side Note: Maybe the GSP tracking neck collar with a Mega Stun device built in, to prevent removal?
[FoxNews] The report shows today's children may live shorter lives than their parents despite US outspending other nations on healthcare
President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... 's Make America Healthy Again Commission released its anticipated report assessing chronic diseases that have gripped U.S. youths in recent years, pinning blame for a spike in childhood issues on a host of variables stretching from ingesting foods with added chemicals to an increase in prescribing pharmaceuticals to young kids.
"After a century of costly and ineffective approaches, the federal government will lead a coordinated transformation of our food, health, and scientific systems," the report, released Thursday and reviewed by Fox News Digital, outlined. "This strategic realignment will ensure that all Americans—today and in the future—live longer, healthier lives, supported by systems that prioritize prevention, wellbeing, and resilience."
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. serves as chair of the commission and attended a call with the media earlier Thursday, when he explained that the report is a "diagnosis" of the state of U.S. health, and that the "prescription" for the ongoing issues will be released in 100 days at the end of August in the form of policy recommendations for the federal government.
The report's findings include teenage depression nearly doubling from 2009 to 2019, more than one-in-five children over the age of 6 being considered obese, one-in-31 children diagnosed with autism by age 8 and childhood cancer spiking by 40% since 1975.
"Over 40% of the roughly 73 million children (aged 0-17) in the United States have at least one chronic health condition, according to the CDC, such as asthma, allergies, obesity, autoimmune diseases, or behavioral disorders," the report stated. "Although estimates vary depending on the conditions included, all studies show an alarming increase over time."
Chronic diseases have a chilling effect on national security, commission members said in a Thursday morning phone call with the media. Roughly 75% of America's youth aged 17—24 do not qualify to serve in the military due to obesity, asthma, allergies, autoimmune diseases or behavioral disorders, they said.
"We now have the most obese, depressed, disabled, medicated population in the history of the world, and we cannot keep going down the same road," Food and Drug Commissioner Marty Makary said in the phone call with the media. "So this is an amazing day. I hope this marks the grand pivot from a system that is entirely reactionary to a system that will now be proactive."
[The South African] Former world number one golfer, Ernie Els, declared himself a "proud South African" as he was dragged into the ambush of his country’s leader Cyril Ramaphosa by US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... in the Oval Office.
Ramaphosa invited Els and another leading South African golfer, Retief Goosen, to accompany him to the White House meeting on Wednesday, where Trump claimed genocide is being committed against white people in South Africa.
KEEN GOLFER
The South African president had strategically chosen Els and Goosen, who are white and have six major championship titles between them, to appeal to Trump, a keen golfer who also owns several golf courses around the world.
They watched as Trump played a video that he said showed black South African politicians calling for the persecution of white people and Ramaphosa repeatedly tried to debunk the claims.
As Trump dug in, Els, who has played golf with the US president, was invited to speak from his position behind one of the sofas where the South African delegation was sitting.
Els pulled out his passport and described himself as a "proud South African" and referred to post-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela’s calls for unity in South Africa.
"I know there was a lot of anger through the transition, there was a lot of stuff happening in the apartheid days," he said.
"We grew up in the apartheid era, but I don’t think two wrongs make a right."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] One cent coins will stop entering circulation next year.
After more than two centuries the US government has finally decided to kill the penny.
The Treasury Department will stop minting new pennies and putting them in to circulation by early next year.
Soon there will not be enough pennies in circulation to fulfil cash transactions.
As a result, businesses will have to round up or round down their prices to the nearest five cents, the Treasury said in a statement.
The penny currently costs more than four times its value to make and the Treasury lost $85 million minting the coins last year alone.
As a result, businesses will have to round up or round down their prices to the nearest five cents, the Treasury said in a statement.
The phasing out of the penny may save the Treasury some immediate cash, but it raises the next currency problem, that of the nickel.
'If you get rid of the penny, it will increase the amount of nickels,' Rhett Jeppson, a former chief executive of the US Mint said.
'You lose more on a nickel than you do on a penny,' Jeppson told the New York Times.
Nickels, worth five cents, are also a loss-maker for the treasury, leaving an $18 million hole from their production last year.
The problem could be exacerbated by the end of the penny because demand for nickels is likely to shoot up in their place.
Since the Treasury loses more per coin on nickels - they cost around 14 cents to make - an increase in their production to meet demand could soon outweigh any savings made by axing the penny.
The decision to stop making pennies comes after years of bipartisan efforts to eradicate the coins.
President Obama was critical of the penny during his time in the White House.
Most recently, President Trump asked the Treasury to halt penny production in a social media post in February.
'For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,' he wrote on Truth Social.
#1
We all actually know what's going to happen in the next few weeks.
A massive penny shortage develops, as people will start hoarding them.
Which the Gov will use as an excuse to move us to a digital currency.
Then Government can control, track, or turn off how we spend every nickel and dime.
Like Canada does, its citizens now.
Will the various Local, state and federal Gov penny taxes becoming Nickel or Dime.
Like the gas price having 9/10's BS now
Prediction: Mass Protests, with some new stupid Protest slogan like: Save the Penny, it makes sense or something equally as stupid.☺
#3
..paper is cheap. They keep this up, they can sell watermarked paper and we can print our own money.
We've been living with gas at three digits beyond the period for all our lives.
The solution that no one wants is to issue new currency just like other countries have had to do when they inflated their money. We sort of did that when we shifted out of copper pennies and silver coins. Now that slight of hand is beyond repeat.
I remember in 1968 trying to use one of them in Eppelheim just outside PHV, to buy some fireworks. The store owner busted out laughing, then said he'd give me 2 marks for it (50 cents in those days).
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[Regnum] French farmer Michel Dupont discovered about 150 tons of gold nuggets worth about 320 billion rubles on his land. This was reported by the British newspaper Daily Mirror. USD $4,009,379,509.05
"DuPont, 52, was walking along a creek on his farm one night when he noticed something glittering in the water. He dug into the mud and found gold nuggets," the publication states.
At the same time, Dupont does not have the right to independently excavate this deposit. According to French law, he must first obtain the appropriate permission from the regional government. This deposit is already called one of the largest in the republic, and the preliminary cost of all gold nuggets may be about 3 billion euros (320 billion rubles).
According to Dupont himself, his discovery has created a wave of people wanting to buy land near his farm, who also hope to discover gold.
Another reason why President Trump thought it necessary to give Canada a hard time- though originally it was couched in terms of drug smuggling, specifically fentynal.
[FoxNews] Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies executive director, warns of smuggling at northern border
An immigration expert says that the flow of Chinese illegal aliens into the United States could largely be supported by the Chinese community in a western Canadian city and that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is likely using known Canadian smuggling routes to sneak operatives into the U.S.
As southern border crossings have ground to a virtual halt, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Mark Krikorian, shared his thoughts on the continuing flow of Chinese illegal aliens from the north.
"It would be logical if they're trying to come across the northern border instead," he told Fox News Digital. "And there are lots of Chinese people in Vancouver. I mean, there's this very large Chinese population, Hong Kong population, etc."
Krikorian said the Chinese population in Vancouver is not so much "teeming with spies" as it is a tool that serves as cover for potential Chinese bad actors looking to cross into the U.S.
"Whether they're regular criminals or whether they're People's Liberation Army operatives, or who knows what, a Chinese community gives them a medium through which to move where they're not alien," he said.
"It's kind of like one of Mao's sayings," Krikorian said. "'The people are like the sea and the revolutionaries are like the fish.' In other words, they use the people as the sea through which [the revolutionaries] swim."
According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the number of Chinese nationals caught crossing into the U.S. via the northern border so far in fiscal 2025 is 4,042. The total in fiscal 2024 was 12,414.
The fiscal year closes at the end of September, meaning that the U.S. is on pace for fewer crossings by Chinese nationals this year than last.
"It would make perfect sense that they (the CCP) would use preexisting Chinese communities and networks as the medium through which they get into Canada and then [it's] kind of a jumping off point to get into the United States," Krikorian said.
Krikorian said potential Chinese illegal aliens enter Canada in various ways, including through student visas and tourist visas, which allow them to be in proximity to the U.S. border in the first place. He also said he believes smuggling routes are well known to Chinese officials and that the smuggling is facilitated by local CCP allies.
"A lot of them must be hiring smugglers just because if you don't know the ropes, how do you know where to go and who to talk to and what part of the border to sneak across?" he said. "It's harder than it looks."
Krikorian said he does not believe there is currently a grand conspiracy to send groups of Chinese spies into the U.S. via the northern border, especially because of the Trump administration's stricter policies on border security.
An operation like that, he said, would more likely occur with more relaxed border policies like the ones during the Biden administration and that the CCP is patient and calculated enough to simply wait until America's borders are open again.
However, he said it was unfathomable to think that China would give up on exploiting America's border weaknesses or using preexisting smuggling routes they have used in the past.
"I think the main thing is just people coming for dishwashing jobs, like regular illegal aliens," he said. "But if there's a flow like that, the People's Liberation Army is not stupid. They're going to salt it with people they're going to want to use in the future, whether it's saboteurs or spies or what have you.
"Does anybody think the Chinese Communist Party is stupid enough not to have taken advantage of this opportunity Biden gave them? No."
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[PJ] Earlier this week, I made the case that Dr. Kevin O’Connor — Joe Biden’s longtime physician and former White House doctor — should be called to testify before Congress about his role in the cover-up of Biden’s obvious cognitive decline and now his cancer diagnosis. A growing number of medical experts agree that Biden’s condition didn’t just appear out of nowhere; it was likely known about for years. And now, we may finally be seeing the walls start to close in.
On Thursday, House Oversight Chairman James Comer ramped up his investigation into the deliberate and coordinated cover-up, not just of Biden’s mental and physical deterioration, but also the possible unauthorized use of an autopen to greenlight sweeping executive actions, including controversial pardons.
In a major development, Comer sent formal letters demanding transcribed interviews with five of Biden’s closest insiders. The list includes Dr. Kevin O’Connor himself, former Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden, and longtime Biden loyalists Anthony Bernal, Annie Tomasini, and Ashley Williams. According to Comer, these individuals weren’t just witnesses; they were likely key players in the effort to hide Biden’s true condition while quietly allowing others to operate the levers of power on his behalf.
If the Biden team thought they could run out the clock, they have another thing coming. The investigation is gaining traction, and accountability may finally be catching up.
[Federalist] Democrats continue to mindlessly oppose everything President Donald Trump does, even policies they have rabidly supported for years.
Normally extreme supporters of open borders and immigration without limitation, Democrats suddenly oppose Trump’s executive order giving Afrikaners refugee status.
Their bigoted objection? The color of the refugees’ skin. Afrikaners, a persecuted minority ethnic group, are white South Africans with Dutch ancestry and an old European culture.
The government of South Africa has made it legal to take Afrikaners’ farmland without compensation. Trump’s order offers "Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination" refugee resettlement in the United States.
[The Federalist] If you want to understand where the left’s obsession with racial "equity" and "reparations" leads to, look no further than South Africa — where white farmers are allegedly being murdered and face discrimination for the crime of being white. But good luck finding honest coverage of what’s transpiring there in the corporate media, which are hellbent on covering up or dismissing the reality so that Americans don’t begin to question the real goal of the left’s racial resentment agenda.
A new law in South Africa means white farmers could have their land taken away without being paid for it. As I previously reported, "Though framed as a correction to apartheid-era injustice, the law has created an environment where racially motivated persecution may become institutionalized."
Meanwhile, murders are commonplace, with white farmers having allegedly been targeted.
The murders are not random — they are part of a growing pattern of violence toward Afrikaners that South African officials don’t want to acknowledge and that Western media outlets actively work to obscure.
[Decider] Whoopi Goldberg accused President Donald Trump of keeping his middle finger up at the Black community amid his false claims of a white genocide in South Africa.
On this morning’s episode of The View, the ladies dissected Trump’s contentious meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa, during which he confronted Ramaphosa about an alleged persecution of white farmers that has resulted in him fast-tracking the processing of white South Afrikaners to the United States.
"There’s no white genocide. There’s not a genocide happening. There is crime, as there is all over the world. But it’s not about killing off white people. This is just straight —," Goldberg said as the audio cut out. However, she stopped herself before she could finish her sentence with the word "bullshit."
"That was gas," she joked when the sound returned.
#3
...There's a great article on this over at Hot Air. ABC asked nicely, and they got a televised middle finger for their trouble.
That sort of thing does not go over well in the C-Suite, my friends. nosirree bob. The next time somebody misspeaks on the air (like the one who had to be corrected TWICE in the space of one hour) I think they're going to be at the least suspended and maybe fired.
#4
Whoopi, is just another mean, ill-tempered hollywood liberal has been. That is always seeking attention because their acting career ended years ago.
[FoxBusiness] The U.S. and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are taking their artificial intelligence collaboration a step further, with the announcement of an international Stargate deployment.
OpenAI on Thursday revealed that President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... has enlisted it and the $500 billion Stargate Project to launch "Stargate UAE," the first overseas deployment of the AI infrastructure platform.
It also marks the initial partnership under "OpenAI for Countries," the company’s new global initiative to help interested governments build sovereign AI capabilities in coordination with the U.S. government.
"By establishing the world’s first Stargate outside of the U.S. in the UAE, we’re transforming a bold vision into reality," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
[The Federalist] If you want to understand where the left’s obsession with racial "equity" and "reparations" leads to, look no further than South Africa — where white farmers are allegedly being murdered and face discrimination for the crime of being white. But good luck finding honest coverage of what’s transpiring there in the corporate media, which are hellbent on covering up or dismissing the reality so that Americans don’t begin to question the real goal of the left’s racial resentment agenda.
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
