Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The Beast is Loose



Pilgrim, diespite what the Democrats profess, inflation is real and I know why if is upon us.

When the non-prime mortgage crisis hit us in 2008, the Federal Reserves balance sheet hovered below one trillion dollars. In order to stabilize our financial system, the Fed cranked up the money printing press and added more than a trillion dollars to our economy.

This proved so effective that the Fed couldn’t stop … and continued adding to its balance sheet through the magic of “Quantative Easing.” And dispute Bernanke’s promise to remove this excess loguidity from the system, the COVI.d pandemic became a convenient excuse to keep buying up government debt … until the end of the Trump administration, the Fed’s balance sheet stood at $4 trillion.

Inflationary? Yes, but the beast had still not escaped its cage.

Enter Biden.

In la little more than two years, the firehouse spending of this administration has, together with the Fed’s accomative policies, increased the Fed’s balance sheet by over $5 trillion … more than twice what it was on Jan, 20, 2021! 

This means that this amount of excess money is sloshing around our economy.


The inflation beast was released from its cage … and will not easily be pacified … as we have recently seen!



STAND UP TO THE INFLATION BEAST!


Revealed


Found on Woodsterman blog


Bernie Sanders’ bull shit factory …



STAND UP AGAINST B.S.’s B.S.!


The Brits

 


There are few things wrong with the British that cooking their bacon crisp wouldn’t fix. —  Fletcher


Or revoking the Ginger’s … and his nasty wife’s …  passports?



STAND UP FOR CRISP BACON!


Headlines

 


Voters of all stripes sour on Santos

Putin warns NATO’s nuclear capability can’t be ignored; future world order is being decided, Russia says

U.S. Energy Department: COVID Lab Leak Theory ‘Most Likely Origin’ for virus

Poll: Nearly 60% of voters ‘have less money in their pockets’

Jill Biden sees East Africa drought up close

Lithium battery recycler Li-cycle scores $375 million conditional loan from Energy Department 

‘Defund the police’ Congresswoman Cori Bush marries security guard

U.S. warns China … Don’t help Russia

Israeli settlers rampage after Palestine gunman kills 2

Twitter reportedly lays off at least 50 in relentless cost cuts

South Carolina lawmaker proposes ‘Yankee tax’ on new residents from North

Epic winter storm turns SoCal Snow White …



STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Monday, February 27, 2023

Babylon Wasp

 


Yoko Ono to visit Kyiv … vows to sing on national TV until the Russians abandon all their occupied Ukrainian territory.





STAND UP FOR HER SUCCESS!


COVID Lies




“I am the science.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci


- COVID came naturally from animals and not from the Wuhan virus lab

- Dr. Fauci did not supply funding or expertise to the Wuhan lab for gain-of-function research

- The COVID vaccine offers better protection than natural immunity that comes from having gotten the virus

- The COVID vaccine will keep you from getting infected or infecting others

- Vaccinated people are less likely to get badly sick or die it they get COVID

- The averse effects listed in the CDC’s VAERS database are not reliable

- Cloth and paper masks keep you from getting COVID or infecting others

- Well over a million Americans died OF COVID rather than WITH COVID

- People need to get vaccinated as often as every three months

- Dr. Fauci gives all the royalties he gets from COVID drug companies to charity

- Lockdowns are the most effective way of stopping COVID pandemics

- Children as young as six months should get COVID vaccinations


Boy, were we suckers!



STAND UP TO COVID LIES!


Prediction



If, when the teacher told you to spit out that gum, you swallowed it instead … you’re probably now a Republican. — Fletcher



STAND UP FOR REOUBLICANS!


More Cute Animals




Something fishy …



STAND UPFOR WIREHAIRS!


Too Late Wise



In today’s Cancel Culture … if an accusation takes more than one short sentence to explain away, you are toast … unless you’re a Lib. Too late lesson learned, Scott!


Afterward: For more on this, see: Stilton’s Place.

After afterward:



STAND UP TO MEDIA DOMINANCE!


Generalizations

 


Be careful making generalizations … they usually come back to bite. — Fletcher


Oops!



STAND UP FOR GENERALIZATIONS!


Headlines

 


Dombas: ground zero in Russia’s war in Ukraine

How an obscure legal doctrine called the Henderson test could change free speech on the internet

Biden announces no plan to visit East Palestine - bizaarely touts conducting ‘whole Zoom video’ on the train derailment

Paul Ryan will skip Republican National Convention if Trump wins primary

Florida Dems - elect Nikki Fried to lead party after ‘horrific November’

Stocks close lower after hot inflation data; major averages log worst week in 2023

Seattle to pay millions to settle lawsuits over ‘CHAZ/CHOP Autonomous Region insanity’

Jeb Bush heaps praise on prospect of DeSantis 2024

Belarusian leader, a key Putin ally, plans a state visit to China next week

Ukraine and the West prepare for the biggest reconstruction since World War II

Class action lawsuit filed against Norfolk Southern on behalf of everyone living within 30 miles of toxic train derailment

Lab leak most likely origin of COVID, U.S. agency now says … New intelligence …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Sunday, February 26, 2023

Artificial Stupidity



Pilgrim, may I assume you would like to know how bright these new AI bots really are? The following comes directly from JunkScience.com … and gives you a taste of what conversing with ChatGPT might be like … in this case about global warming caused by CO2. Read it all the way through … and you will see why the unrelenting cult of global warming will be with us for a long time. 


Chat with ChatGPT on Global Warming



STAND UP TO ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY!


Quotable Quote

 


America persists despite all efforts to the contrary. — Fletcher


Afterward: The first duty of any public servant is informed love of country.



STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Woodsterman Pic

 



If you have a mischievous cat, don’t use “B.”



STAND UP FOR “A!”


Headlines



Sanders supporters took over the Nevada Democrat party. it’s not going well.

As new data shows inflation rose in January, here’s what consumers can expect next

DOJ: Google destroyed chats that were required to be preserved for antitrust investigation

Former Black Panther shocked to learn she has Mayflower ancestors

Al Gore gears up to sell Biden’s climate law

Elon Musk-led Twitter has been sued by at least six companies for failure to pay bills

Soros-backed DA suspends prosecutor for ‘mis-gendering’ trans child molester accused of murder

Zelensky to meet Xi …

Russia may supply Iran with fighter jets, Kirby says

Nikki Haley heads to fundraiser hosted by Wall Street executives

Crime up 23% in Washington, DC as city moves to reduce punishments

Biden ready to run, First Lady says …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Saturday, February 25, 2023

National Interests



Is it in our national interest or the national interests of our European “allies” to keep Russia from overrunning Ukraine? It seems to this observer that Europe should be shouldering three times the burden of keeping this from happening … rather than the other way around?


Perhaps they know something that we don’t?


Afterward: Sorry to be so cynical …

From Mostly Cajun blog


After afterward: Does anyone remember the Viet Nam “Domino Effect?” Was that bullshit too? Will we really ever learn what is in our national interest?



STAND UP FOR OUR NATIONAL INTEREST!


Ozone

 


A consumer product is being sold said to remove bad smells by producing “super oxygen” … or “O-three.’ What this is really is ozone which is standard oxygen (O2) with an extra atom (o3) produced when an electric arc is passed through the air.


Ozone actually has an slightly acrid smell which you would once sense in barber shops using electric razors or now during a thunder storm. And Pilgrim, if you want to know if ozone is good for you, see: CDC’s Ozone Indications and Warnings. You might want to read this before you place your order.



STAND UP FOR DISCLOSURE!


Fractured Defenifion

 

Longest escalator, appropriately in Kyiv, Ukraine

Creeping escalation —  the slowest moving-stairway in the world



STAND UP TO ESCALATION!


Powerline Pic

 




STAND UP FOR AMERICA! 


Social Media



Many view social media as a broad avenue over which one can parade one’s thoughts that will change the world … while, in truth, it's mostly but a cow path. — Fletcher


STAND UP FOR COW PATHS!


News Flash

 



The Biden government lies so often that, when it stumbles into the truth, it’s a news flash! 



STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH!


Headlines

 


Judge won’t unseal details of Trump’s privilege fight over Jan. 6 grand jury

After a year of death and destruction, Ukraine braces itself for a major escalation in the war

Study: U.S. could default on debt as early as summer

Pfizer denies gain-of-function research for coronavirus

New indictment details of Bankman-Fried’s illegal campaign contributions

Another smartphone supports satellite connectivity, as mobile space race heats up

Missouri AG fires Soros-backed prosecutor Kim Gardner

Russia drops ominous warning about attack on second country …

Cancer patients are waiting on innovative treatments. Congress can help.

Jamie Dimon says the Federal Reserve has ‘lost a little bit of control on inflation’

Biden orders more troops to Taiwan

The end: Weinstein sentenced 16 more years, will finish his life in prison …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Friday, February 24, 2023

Pronoun Pukes



Merrick  Garland — Attorney General

Lloyd Austin — Secretary of Defense

Gen. Mark Milley  — Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

Kamala Harris — Vice President

George Gascon — LA DA

Elizabeth Warren — Senator

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  — BU Magna Cum Laude graduate

Rachael Levine — Ass. Sec. of Health

Chelsea Clinton — Web Hubblell’s daughter?

Sam Briton  — Luggage thief


Afterward:




STAND UP FOR BIRTH GENDERS!


My Last Meal?



A glass of milk …

I want to go out the way I came in.



STAND UP FOR KARMA!


Woodsterman Pic


 



STAND UP FOR VOTER IDs!


Headlines



2 former House GOP candidates alerted to improper requests for Air Force records

Alibaba shares rally 6% after a massive earnings beat

House Republicans visit Kyiv, vow there is ‘strong bipartisan support to give Ukraine everything it needs’

[Georgia] Grand Jury foreperson on press tour … coy, cryptic, cringe!

Polls show edge for DeSantis in clash with Trump

Google asks some employees to share desks after an office downsizing

Mystery surrounds death of Clinton aide linked to Jeffery Epstein

USA to expand troop presence in Taiwan for training against China threat …

Russians hunting property in Finland hit a new wall of suspicion

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of plots and provocations ahead of war anniversary

Biden loses latest battle with stairs

Gallup: 7.2% of Americans identify as LGBTQ …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Thursday, February 23, 2023

Cold Sweats



I often wake up in a cold seat with the realization that Pete Buttigieg  … or Kamala Harris for that matter … could be our commander in chief!




Or, even more terrifying, that Joe Biden is …



STAND UP TO COLD SWEATS!


Powerline Charts

 




Behold, Pilgrim! The power of our woke media to influence the “minds full of mush” of our children and grandchildren … 



STAND UP FOR NORMALCY!


Different Drummer



Pilgrim, not only do I march to the beat of a different drummer … but I’m stepping sideways … in my bare feet … with my EarPods playing Janice Joplin. — Fletcher





STAND UP FOR NONCONFORMITY!


Iron Irony

 


The United States is spending itself into penury to save the world for democracy … while quietly destroying it at home. — Fletcher



STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Carnac



The Answer: The Love Canal


The Question: How did Dr. Ruth Westheimer politely describe that key portion of the female anatomy?






STAND UP FOR EUPHEMISMS!


Headlines



Joe may not run — and the top Dems are quietly preparing

‘Unpredictable’ election in Africa’s largest economy is set to resonate around the world

Putin threatens to resume nuclear tests

Factions block Kristi Noem’s attempt to stop China from buying SD farmland

UK slams ‘protectionist’ Biden

Moscow unrepentant after suspending nuclear arms treaty with the U.S.; officials say it was ‘overdue’

Train derails in Nebraska as Buttigieg finally announces Ohio visit

Russia running low on Iranian drones … failed ICBM test …

McClellan elected as Virginia’s first Black woman in Congress

Why it’s so hard to build new electrical transmission lines in the U.S.

Border Patrol seeks help to fight 800% surge in illegals sneaking in from Canada

EPA to take over cleanup of toxic Ohio site …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Ruse

 


On his radio show today, Dan Bongino exposed the ruse of the air-raid siren going off while Biden and Zelensky were walking the streets of Kyiv yesterday … making them both appear heroic.


Bongino, having once been a secret service agent on equivalent presidential details, related that the reactions of the security personnel and the two presidents where so nonchalant that this event had to have been pre-planned.



STAND UP FOR THE STRAIGHT SKINNY!


Obvious Truth (Udated)



When you boil it all down, the Ukraine war … and its many thousands of deaths, its widespread destruction, its millions of displaced people and its hundreds of billions of dollars of expended treasure … is nothing more than a silly contest between the overblown egos of two seriously evil men … and we Americans are forced into the by-jingo position of supporting our evil man. — Fletcher


Afterward: From the Earl of Taint blog


For love of money …


After afterward: When you spend five years wallowing in embellished demonizing of Russia, is it so surprising that it then lives true to form?



STAND UP FOR SANITY!


Quotable Quote



As long as I keep making fewer factual errors than the national media, I consider Fletcher to be ahead of the game. — Fletcher



STAND UP FOR VERACITY!


Headlines

 


Liz Truss: UK should have ‘done more earlier’ to counter Vladimir Putin

‘They started the war’: Russia’s Putin blames West and Ukraine for provoking the conflict

Speaker McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Jan 6 footage

Report: 14 injured after major explosion at metal factory in Ohio

Project Veritas leader removed

Layoffs are spreading, but some employers can’t hire fast enough

Arrest made in fatal shooting of LA Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell

Poland fears next attack …

‘Amazing coincidence’ Moderna offered free vaccine when asked to testify, Bernie Sanders says

China formalizes rules for overseas IPOs

DA drops firearm enforcement charge against Alec Baldwin

Not again: 6.3 mag quake hits northern Turkey, people trapped under rubble …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Today’s Posers

 


Which statement is more likely to be true?

- President Trump was Putin’s puppet.

- President Biden is bought and paid for by Xi.



To help you with your answer:

- Who never asked Xi about the origin of the COVID virus?

- Who invested $1.5 billion in a Hunter Biden venture?

- Who canceled the shutdown of the Confucius Institutes … suspected of stealing American technology?

- Who flew a spy baloon over many sensitive military bases … unchallenged?

- Who gave Hunter Biden a $80G diamond and a $100G shopping spree?

- Who is buying up the $85 billion of military equipment the U.S. left in Afghanistan?

- Who reduced tariffs on many Chinese products and never ask it to live up to its 2020 trade pact?


Are the clouds clearing?



STAND UP FOR AMERICA?


Reality

 


Never forget Pilgrim, the reality created by your government and its lackey media is designed to benefit them … seldom you. — Fletcher


(At least currently.)



STAND UP FOT YOUR REALITY!


Campaign Slogan — MACA




Were Gavin Newsom to run for president in 2024, I have a neato suggestion for his campaign slogan:


Make America California Again!


See also Powerline Blog Post for one suicidal act.



STAND UP FOR MAGA! 


Headlines

 


Biden visits Kyiv ahead of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion

The SEC has a stablecoin in its sight — and it could shake up the entire $137 billion market

SCOTUS cancels arguments in Title 42 cases

Escalation: UK first to supply Ukraine with longer range weapons

U.S. averts U.N. diplomatic crisis over Israel

One year on, Russia’s war in Ukraine ramps up fears over Europe’s next security ‘soft spot’

Elon Musk calls out Washington Post over their latest fake news story

White balloon spotted by pilots over Hawaii …

Los Angeles bishop’s death being investigated as a homicide

Ukraine can still lose the war — but Russia can’t win, Ian Bremerton says

11 shot in Memphis nightclub shooting, one reported dead

Major protests sweep Israel as gov’t set to vote on judicial reform …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Monday, February 20, 2023

Babylon Wasp

 


President Biden made a surprise trip to Ukraine this morning. While there, he and President Zelensky took a walk through the streets of Kyiv. And, on this outing, Lunchbucket Joe stopped, found a pile of shell casings, bent down and spelled out “WIN”on  the lawn of a synagogue.



(Actually, he misspelled it “WIZ” which Volodymyr promptly corrected.)



STAND UP FOR SYMBOLISM!