“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.”
–The Tao Of Frank.
The federal government is open. At least for another 10 days or so. Or until Democrats throw another hissy fit.
Facing a vote to hold them in criminal contempt of Congress, former President Bill Clinton, and 3 time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, have agreed to testify before an investigative committee dealing with the Jeffrey Epstein files. Let the lying begin!
A review of campaign finance forms reveals that Representative Eric Swalwell (D. Ca.) spent $200,000.00 of campaign cash on . . . childcare for his children. Why should he spend his own money? He is used to spending other people’s money.
“If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped. You’d be justified in shooting the person.”
–Representative Jerrold Nadler (D. N.Y.), urging illegal aliens to shoot ICE agents apprehending them, at a House of Representatives committee meeting.
Despicable. A new low, even for a Democrat.
Would be Trump assassin Ryan Routh was sentenced to life in prison, plus 7 years. Good-bye.
Baltimore, Maryland’s Mayor Brandon Scott (D.) launched into a tirade against a reporter for daring to ask why he needed to waste $163,000 of taxpayer funds to purchase an armor plated Jeep Grand Wagoneer, more expensive than even the SUV of the Maryland governor. According to Mayor Scott, it is “racist” to even ask the question. Uh, huh.
In Mayor Scott’s defense, I would not ride around the streets of Baltimore unless I was in an armor plated vehicle. Too dangerous.
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D.) is outraged that New York City taxis play Newsmax on their backseat television screens. He is demanding that the Newsmax broadcasts be removed. Because Leftists are intolerant, and want to control everything.
In Hays County, Texas, high school students walked out of class in order to protest ICE “brutality” in Minnesota. The protest quickly devolved into a riot, as a group of the students physically attacked, and violently beat, a teacher standing on the sidewalk outside the school. Other than that incident, the protest was “mostly peaceful”.
Texas State Representative and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D.) has managed to make yet another outrageous statement. Mr. Talarico is facing off against U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (D. Tx.) for the Democrat nomination, after former U.S. Representative Colin Allred dropped out of the race. Mr. Talarico told supporters that he signed on to run against “a mediocre black man”, not against a “formidable and intelligent black woman”. Hmmm. The Observations’ problem with his statement is not that he called Colin Allred a “mediocre black man”. Because that is true. But to call Jasmine Crocket “formidable and intelligent”? That is an absolute lie.
Larry Temah is an illegal alien subject to a deportation order. He is also a cadet at the New Orleans Police Academy, and was only a week away from graduation when ICE arrested him. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?!?
In Portland, Oregon, anti-ICE agitators continue to besiege and assault the ICE detention center. But federal Judge Michael Simon–an Obama appointee–is doing something about it. He has issued a court order preventing ICE from using standard crowd control techniques such as the use of tear gas. Because Judge Simon 1) thinks that a judge should be able to second guess executive decisions; and, 2) is on the side of the agitators.
Judge Simon issued a similar order in 2020 during the George Floyd riots. That order was struck down on appeal. This order will be too.
Anti-ICE agitators took over parts of Minneapolis, Minnesota, blocking streets, and maintaining checkpoints, where motorists were stopped while agitators checked the plates and automobiles for ICE officers or sympathizers. This was done with the blessing of the Minneapolis police department.
But now the Minneapolis police department has reversed its “blessing”, and now has cleared out the roadblocks, and stopped the checkpoints. Why? Because people found out what was going on, and were outraged. The anti-ICE agitators are now fuming, accusing the police of colluding with ICE.
It’s official! The Commonwealth of Virginia is now a “sanctuary State”. Woo hoo! Thank you Governor Spanberger (D.)! Don’t you dear readers feel so much safer now?
The Loudoun County, Virginia School Board hired 30 actors to enact a training session on how for Board members to react if a parent showed up at a meeting with a gun. My goodness. This is how these wackos see concerned and involved parents; as terrorists. This School Board has done some despicable things in the past, but this is a new low. All School Board members have demonstrated themselves as unfit to have any role in public education in the Commonwealth.
At The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., a female Asian baby elephant was born. The calf weighs 308 pounds, and stands 3 feet tall. Mother and baby are fine. Father is passing out cigars to interested visitors.
“No one is illegal on stolen land.”
–Pop tart Billie Eilish, at the 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony.
Oh, my, where to start? First, the United States is not “stolen land”. No matter how many times Leftist bozos say it, it is just not true. Second, Billie Eilish lives in a $14.5 million estate. When is she vacating the premises, and returning the property to whatever savage Indian tribe lived there eons ago? Because if she is not, she is merely engaged in performative virtue signaling, hating on her country. The country where she has prospered, and which provides her the freedom and forum to utter such rot.
The Tongva tribe in Southern California reacted to Billie Eilish’s comments, welcoming her acknowledgement that Los Angeles was on their tribal lands, and asking for a dialogue to return her property to them. Let’s see if Billie Eilish is willing to put her money where her mouth is. We’re betting, not.
“Introducing a detention facility into our community shifts our focus away from love, care and welcome and to surveillance, hostility and fear.”
–Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia E. Mark Stevenson, speaking in opposition to the building of an ICE Detention Center in Hanover County, Virginia.
Dolt.
The Cape Cod potato chip company is leaving Hyannis, Massachusetts, where it was founded. The company will concentrate its manufacturing in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.
Mattel, Inc. released an “autistic Barbie”. Sigh.
Starbucks is exploring installing robots in its stores to perform some of the normal barista tasks. That will cost jobs. Maybe the rush to unionize the workforce was a bad idea.
Minute Maid is ending production of its frozen canned concentrated juices after 80 years. THIS IS TERRIBLE! How in the world will partying fraternity boys make a decent grain alcohol punch?
Iran launched a drone against the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. A fighter jet shot it down.
Iranian gun boats attempted to seize and board a U.S. flagged oil tanker. A U.S. naval vessel chased the gunboats away, and escorted the tanker through the Straits of Hormuz.
A Doberman pinscher named Penny won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Congratulations! But what about the Basset Hound?!?
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell assured the media that Bad Bunny and Green Day, who are performing at the Super Bowl halftime show, will not “get political”. HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!
Three Dog Night co-founder Chuck Negron has died at age 83. R. I. P.
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