Oct062026

Episode 1260 – We Need Radical Change Or Else…

The United States is getting a preview of what will happen here from the country of France.

A pair of has-been actors a screaming and cursing about Trump again, trying to encourage people to get out and vote.

And Donald Trump has been a busy bee.

This Is What Cowardice and Suicidal Empathy Get You

According to the Daily Wire:

French teenagers stormed back to the barricades Tuesday for a third round of their increasingly violent school revolt, and this time the grown-ups joined them.

Scuffles erupted between protesters and cops on the streets of Paris, and clashes flared in Lyon and Strasbourg as thousands of high schoolers once again blockaded their schools. Authorities braced for as many as 40,000 marchers to flood the capital.

The students now have reinforcements. A coalition of teachers’ unions, the hard-Left Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) labor federation, the Socialist Party, and French Left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise joined the students. A radical farmers’ union even urged its members to roll up to the blockades on their tractors.

The movement, which started over complaints about crumbling classrooms, packed schedules, and a shortage of teachers, has spiraled into riots.

Cops have made more than 6,000 arrests since September 28, and over 5,000 people, most of them minors, have been hauled into custody, according to France’s Interior Ministry. More than 700 police officers and nearly 100 school staffers have been hurt.

Protests have disrupted 589 schools and left at least 190 students injured. In the northern town of Lens, a 15-year-old lost his hand after picking up a police grenade.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/student-agitators-storm-back-for-biggest-day-yet-as-far-left-foments-riots?author=Hank+Berrien&category=undefined&elementPosition=1&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Student+Agitators+Storm+Back+For+Biggest+Day+Yet+As+Far-Left+Foments+Riots

These People Are Ridiculous

Here is Mark Ruffalo:

Here is Robert DeNiro:

Good Move!

According to the Daily Wire:

President Donald Trump has approved the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by a U.S. Army firing squad, a step toward what would be the first military execution of a U.S. service member in more than six decades, the Pentagon announced Monday night.

Hasan, an Arab-American and former Army psychiatrist, was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in the November 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. Prosecutors said he shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the rampage.

Trump’s stamp of approval follows a pledge from Hegseth, who said in September that he was committed to carrying out Hasan’s death sentence. 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-approves-firing-squad-execution-of-fort-hood-muslim-terrorist?author=Jacob+Wheeler&category=undefined&elementPosition=5&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Trump+Approves+Firing+Squad+Execution+Of+Fort+Hood+Muslim+Terrorist

This Is What They Wanted

According to the AP News:

 President Donald Trump on Sunday tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence.

Trump is calling it the “Super Intelligence Force,” because he has tried to rebrand AI as “super intelligence.” The announcement comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White House last week and said they had signed a voluntary accord that would effectively self-police the development of the technology.

The task force will coordinate the federal effort “to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans,” Trump in a post on social media Sunday.

The task force will reach out to consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and AI companies, the Republican president said.

Others on the task force include the Federal Trade Commission’s chairman, Andrew Ferguson; Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer; and Scott Kupor, the director of the Office of Personnel Management.

The group will report to Trump and his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-jay-clayton-artificial-intelligence-task-force-b8689ea07de9102a52bd1cd2049b5901

Who’d of Thunk It?

According to the California Post:

LA’s “mansion tax,” sold to Angelenos as a way to tax the rich and boost housing, has instead blocked the building of 9,100 homes, wiped out 16,650 full-time construction jobs and cost $452 million in revenue.

A damning new report says the tax, officially known as United to House LA, or ULA — has had a negative impact on the city’s high-end and multi-family real estate markets and collected less than half what it was expected to generate to tackle the city’s housing crisis.

The ULA was expected to raise about $900 million a year, or $2.7 billion over its first three years. Instead, it brought in about $1.2 billion.

The tax — which went into effect in April 2023 and was championed by socialist mayoral hopeful Councilwoman Nithya Raman — means if a property in LA sells for more than $5.4 million, the seller is taxed 4% of the price at closing. If it sells for more than $10.9 million, it increases to 5.5%.

Despite its nickname, LA’s “mansion tax” applies far beyond luxury homes. Apartment buildings, offices, warehouses and vacant land can all trigger the tax if they sell above the thresholds.

About 1,000 of the 9,100-plus new homes lost would have been affordable units — the very thing the tax was supposed to create — according to RAND corporation, a non-partisan, nonprofit research group.

Westside real estate broker Danny Brown told The California Post the tax was ”another disaster initiated by the incompetent socialists who run our city.”

“ULA has chopped the legs from under the residential and commercial real estate industry, which is one of the largest parts of our city’s economic engine,” Brown said.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/real-estate/la-mansion-tax-blocked-9100-homes-killed-16650-jobs-and-cost-452m-report/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

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Oct062026

Episode 1259 – I Hate To Say I Told You So, But…

Donald Trump has done something else that I cannot support. This leads me to worry that Conservatives have lost their way.

Gavin Newsom signs a bill into law that will further lead this country away from our founding principles.

And, I hate to say that I told you so, but, I told you so.

This Is A Bad Idea

According to AP News:

President Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums.

The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes after the president last month said about 1 million people would get rebate checks of $500 for Affordable Care Act premiums. He has also promised on the campaign trail to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.

That pledge — which would require approval from Congress — would likely cost more than $1 trillion, adding to the deficit and worsening inflation.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-medicare-payments-midterms-2a314c1c4b5ae929f3dfc8a262b4f1c7

Well, He Did It

According to the California Post:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that formally recognizes two Muslim holidays as state holidays on Sunday, making it the second state to formally recognize both holidays statewide.

California Assembly Bill 2017 officially added Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to the list of state holidays, which would permit public schools and colleges to close and allow state employees to be eligible to observe the holidays. 

However, schools and businesses will not be required to close on these days, and courts will be required to stay open.

This makes California the second state in the country, after Washington state, to pass statewide legislation recognizing the Muslim holidays.

Before signing AB 2017, Newsom had multiple bills on his desk that provided protections and exceptions for other religious observances, including Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. 

https://nypost.com/2026/10/01/media/gavin-newsom-signs-eid-al-fitr-and-eid-al-adha-into-law-as-new-california-state-holidays/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost

I Told You So!

Four orders of Catholic nuns, joined by Catholic health-care organizations and the Diocese of Rockville Centre, sued New York officials in federal court over the state’s new Medical Aid in Dying Act. Their central claim is that the law’s counseling, referral, documentation, and accommodation requirements could force religious ministries to facilitate physician-assisted suicide in violation of their Catholic beliefs and federal constitutional/conscience protections.dioceseofscranton+1

The lawsuit

The plaintiffs include:

  • Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm
  • Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
  • Missionary Sisters of St. Benedict
  • Little Sisters of the Poor
  • The Diocese of Rockville Centre and Bishop John O. Barres
  • Several Catholic health-care ministries, including Catholic Health

The suit was filed July 17 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. It names New York Attorney General Letitia James and state health officials—not Hochul personally—as defendants, although the challenge is to the law Hochul signed.san+1

What the law does

Hochul signed New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act on February 6. It permits certain mentally capable, terminally ill adult New York residents—generally those expected to have six months or less to live—to request medication that they may self-administer to end their lives. A clinician can prescribe the medication but does not administer it.san+1

Hochul’s position is that participation is voluntary and that religious facilities can opt out.wfmd

Why the nuns object

The Catholic plaintiffs do not contend that they would have to directly prescribe or administer the drugs. Rather, they argue that the statute and related patient-information requirements may compel them to do things they consider participation, such as:

  • Counseling patients about assisted suicide.
  • Discussing eligibility or access to life-ending medication.
  • Making referrals or transfers to providers who participate.
  • Adopting policies or recordkeeping that support a patient’s pursuit of the procedure.
  • Permitting staff to assist patients in navigating the process within their facilities.san+1

They say those duties conflict with Catholic teaching, which regards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide as morally impermissible. Their legal theories include the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause and federal health-care conscience protections.dioceseofscranton+1

Where it stands

A federal judge, U.S. District Judge Anne M. Naracci, issued temporary protection on July 30, preventing enforcement of the disputed provisions against the religious plaintiffs while the litigation proceeds. Reporting says the state agreed not to apply those requirements to the plaintiffs for the time being; that is not a final decision on the constitutionality of the law.san+1

So the short version is: this is a religious-liberty challenge to the institutional participation requirements surrounding assisted suicide—not a ruling that has struck down New York’s assisted-dying law statewide.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/3a9b2414-9b1d-478d-8afa-356448ddee07

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Oct062026

Surprise Podcast: Things Actually Ain’t That Bad!

More of This Please

According to the California Post:

The US federal workforce has plunged to about 2.7 million employees under the Trump administration — the lowest level in 60 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The government has shed more than 300,000 workers since President Trump returned to office in January 2025, shrinking the federal workforce by about 11%, according to the latest analysis from the BLS.

The majority of the cuts occurred in the first year of Trump’s second term, with federal employment remaining at a consistent level through 2026.

Trump campaigned on a promise to shrink the federal government, with the president giving Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth, free reign to purge employee payrolls to find savings under his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The cuts hit nearly every major federal agency, with the Departments of Education, Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development.

The Department of Homeland Security was a notable exception, with headcount barely changing since Trump took office and rolled out his anti-immigration policies.

The biggest cuts occurred at the end of September 2025, when more than 150,000 federal employees accepted buyouts from the government, resulting in the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years.

Despite the downsizing, the government has yet to see any notable savings.

Notice the last statement? There are no noticable savings? Does this mean this policy has failed to do what it intended to do?

No, not at all. What it shows is how enormous the government is and the tremendouse amount of money they spend. If you can cut 2.7 million jobs and it isn’t even a speck in the government spending, the government is spending too much.

This is a big win for Trump, whether the Democrats like it or not.

In fact, Trump has a lot of big wins that should be touted before the elections. Let’s go over some:

  • The ending of several wars.
  • The closing of the border.
    • Says it has deported 3M+ people, arrested 800K+ undocumented immigrants and cut border encounters by 96%.
  • Signed the Laken Riley Act and halted refugee admissions.
  • The lowering of inflation.
  • Passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” tax cuts, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and tax relief for seniors on Social Security.
  • Points to these figures:�
    • Median household income of $87,460, the highest on record after inflation
    • Poverty rate down to 10.2%
    • Record household wealth
    • S&P 500 up 31% this term
    • 159.1M jobs on payrolls
  • Launched “Trump Accounts,” investment accounts for children.
  • Revoked more than 250,000 visas.
  • Says homicides fell 21% in 2025.
  • Ended the Israel–Hamas war with a ceasefire and a Gaza peace plan, and secured hostage releases.
  • Says military strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, in Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury.
  • Captured Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and removed his government.
  • Carried out military strikes on drug cartels.
  • Moved forward on the Golden Dome missile defense system, raised military spending and pushed NATO allies to commit to more spending.
  • Expanded oil drilling, backed coal and revived nuclear power.
  • Required Big Tech companies to pay for their own data-center power needs, and set up a “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”.
  • Reformed SNAP (food stamps) and reset federal nutrition guidelines, under “Make America Healthy Again”.
  • Revamped childhood vaccine recommendations.
  • Lowered prescription drug prices.
  • Says SNAP enrollment is down by 4.3M people.
  • Ended DEI programs in the federal government.�
  • Made federal policy recognize only two sexes.�
  • Restricted transgender athletes in women’s sports.�
  • Made English the official language.�
  • Took on White House construction projects costing at least $900M.
  • Launched America.gov which uses AI to streamline processes for citizens to access government services such as registering for a passport.
  • Finally, believe it or not, we are winning the Iran war (economically and militarily). This will lead to a normalization of relations between Israel and the other Middle Eastern countries and will lower fuel prices.

There have been a lot of wins. Heck, some of the wins happened so quick (illegal immigration), no one thinks of them as great victory. Even “Conservative” outlets like Fox News kind of ignore all these accomplishments. No Republican politicians are touting these accomplishments (most of these accomplishments had nothing to do with Congress which explains why they are probably going to lose).

Here’s the reality, the economy is in really good shape. Add AI into the mix, the economy could boom. That doesn’t mean that things aren’t expensive, they are. Here’s the reality, the prices of certain things are going to stay high. The great lie of the Biden administration is that the high prices that occurred under his administration were transitory and prices would go down. They didn’t and won’t.

The only way to fix the economy and defeat the “affordability crisis” is to explode the economy. That means less government spending (including entitlements), less government interference against business (less taxes, fewer regulations, and, dare I say it, less tarifs), and an embrace to technology (AI and the space race).

https://nypost.com/2026/09/30/us-news/us-federal-workforce-drops-to-lowest-level-in-60-years-after-trump-purged-hundreds-of-thousands
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/74f115d7-fb29-4c37-bbf2-e1ff5245cd5a

F-ing California

According to the City Journal:

California runs the nation’s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care, and other programs for the poor and downtrodden. To sustain the arrangement, the state imposes the nation’s highest tax rates.

In theory, these programs are supposed to help struggling Californians. In reality, many serve large numbers of illegal immigrants. Today, California oversees a shadow welfare system that allows noncitizens to receive health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones on the taxpayers’ dime.

We visited four public-services offices in Southern California, each of which admitted that illegal aliens can enroll in public-welfare programs or receive benefits on their children’s behalf. In total, California taxpayers spent at least $11 billion subsidizing illegal immigrants in the last fiscal year. The state’s shadow welfare system, it seems, shows no signs of slowing down.

Local officials were remarkably transparent. In Glendale, we spoke to a welfare officer about California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), a state-funded alternative to Supplemental Security Income that provides monthly cash assistance to low-income noncitizens who are elderly or disabled.

“If [you are] a citizen, you cannot get CAPI,” he said. “I don’t care about legal or not. Not being [a] citizen [is the key].”

In Los Angeles, we heard more of the same. We asked another welfare officer about the benefits available to illegal immigrants and their children. While some state programs are closed to illegals, we learned, they are open to those aliens’ U.S.-born children.

“If you were born here and the child was born here, you get money for two,” the officer said of CalWORKs, the state’s version of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. “Because she is not and the child is, she only gets money for the child, and not for her.”

These benefits add up. In California, illegal immigrants can qualify for CAPI, public health insurance, and various tax credits. Their children qualify for others, including CalWORKs and, as in other states, Section 8 rental subsidies. All told, a family of five in California with two illegal-alien parents, two U.S.-born children, and one illegal-alien grandparent can receive public services worth more than $100,000 per year.

State leaders are proud of it. In a recent podcast episode, Governor Gavin Newsom bragged about his “controversial” decision to extend Medi-Cal coverage to illegal immigrants. His wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, encouraged people to sign up for the California Earned Income Tax Credit, a program whose promotional materials assure applicants that “no Social Security number” is “no problem.”

How is all this possible?

Federal law generally prohibits states from using federal dollars to serve illegal aliens. To dodge those restrictions, California created parallel state- and locally funded programs that allowed the state to extend benefits to illegal immigrants. Perhaps as a result, more than one in four California residents today is foreign-born.

Medicaid is a good example. Federal law prohibits states from using federal dollars to provide wraparound coverage to illegal immigrants. So, California used a state-funding “bucket” within its Medi-Cal program to extend “full-scope” coverage to illegal aliens. The expansions enrolled some 1.7 million people, costing the state an estimated $10 billion annually—more than twice what the state legislative analyst originally projected.

California also uses a distinct legal category that enables certain migrants to qualify for state programs. The state deems certain aliens to be “permanently residing under color of law”—living in California with the “knowledge and permission” of immigration enforcement—and allows them to use this designation to enroll in Medi-Cal, CAPI, and other government programs. In practice, because aged or disabled individuals are typically not deported, this means elderly foreign retirees can arrive in California and receive extensive benefits.

Another way that California shuffles cash to illegal immigrants is through those aliens’ children. CalWORKs allows illegal-immigrant parents to receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born kids. BenefitsCal, the state’s welfare clearinghouse, even tells applicants that the program will accept a “statement” that the applicant “intend[s] to file or [is] taking steps to become federally eligible” to qualify for the program.

This model—permissive rules and large loopholes—costs the state billions per year. As benefits and eligibility continue to expand, that figure will only increase in the years ahead.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-illegal-immigrants-shadow-welfare

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Oct062026

Episode 1258 – If At First You Don’t Succeed…

There was a botched execution yesterday in Tennessee. Now everyone is in an uproar. I’ll give you a little insight: She still should be executed and I have a way to verify we never botch another execution.

And Seattle’s policies have decimated business growth. So what does the council do? The same things. I don’t know if they will ever learn.

So? Do It Again!

According to Fox News:

Tennessee officials were unable to execute death row inmate Christa Pike on Wednesday night after she remained alive following two doses of a lethal injection drug, according to court filings from her attorneys.

The failed execution prompted Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to halt the state’s remaining scheduled execution this year and order “a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred.” Pike was taken to a hospital by ambulance for treatment, her attorneys said.

The Tennessee Department of Correction said it “followed every step of the State’s lawful, established execution protocol approved by the Attorney General’s Office.”

But the execution did not proceed as expected. Pike remained awake and at one point raised her head, asking prison officials whether her arm was supposed to feel that way.

At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said the executioners had “injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring,” her lawyers said in a federal court filing, according to The Associated Press. 

Pike’s attorneys said in emergency court filings that she “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat,” arguing that the attempted execution was causing “unnecessary agony.”

What did she do? That seems to be buried to the very end of the article:

Pike, 50, was 18 in 1995 when she, her boyfriend and another person beat, kicked and stabbed their 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer to death in a brutal “satanic” attack that Pike claimed took between 30 minutes and an hour, according to court documents.

Pike and Slemmer knew each other through a vocational program in Knoxville called the Job Corps Center, the documents state.

Pike had accused Slemmer of “trying to get [her] boyfriend” and “running her mouth,” the case file shows. A day before the killing, she told another classmate she wanted to kill Slemmer because she “just felt mean that day,” according to the records. She was armed with a box cutter and a meat cleaver.

Pike and her accomplices lured Slemmer out, telling her they wanted to go to a music store and pick up some marijuana they’d hidden in a park nearby.

Pike attacked her, knocked her to the ground and hit her in the face with her knee and foot, according to court documents.

At one point, Slemmer broke away from Pike and tried to flee, but Pike’s boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, grabbed her and held her down while Pike slashed her with the box cutter. The victim begged for her life, but the attackers kept going. At some point, they gagged her with a hair tie.

Shipp also carved pentagrams into the victim’s face and chest.

At trial, forensic psychiatrist Dr. William Bernet testified that the crime had “satanic elements” but also appeared to involve “the phenomenon of collective aggression, in which a group of people become emotionally aroused and ‘the end result is that they engage in some kind of violent, extremely violent activity,'” court records show.

Dr. Eric Engum testified that Pike had been diagnosed with “very severe borderline personality disorder” in addition to showing signs of cannabis dependence and depression. However, he said, she had no symptoms of brain damage or insanity.

Pike took a piece of the victim’s crushed skull as a trophy and later showed it off in school, recounting that Slemmer had begged the trio to stop, according to court records. Pike told the friend she’d cut Slemmer’s throat a half-dozen times and then smashed her head with a rock. She showed off her bloodstained sneakers to another classmate and brought Slemmer’s skull fragment to breakfast the next morning.

Pike’s supporters counter that her defense did a poor job presenting mitigating factors before her sentencing, including untreated bipolar disorder and PTSD stemming from repeated domestic violence and sexual assaults. Just under 25,000 people had signed a petition to Gov. Bill Lee asking him to commute her death sentence to life in prison.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-clears-way-teen-killers-execution-after-last-minute-reprieve

FAFO!

According to the New York Post:

Seattle is slated to increase its minimum wage to $22.14 an hour in 2027 as the broader metro area contends with a sharp drop in job openings and Seattle businesses face mounting cost pressures.

Beginning in 2025, all Seattle employers, including small businesses, were required to pay the same minimum wage, which is adjusted annually for inflation. Several Seattle restaurant owners who have since closed their businesses have cited rising labor costs among the financial pressures that contributed to their decisions.

During the first half of 2025, shortly after the wage hikes went into effect for all businesses, 450 Seattle restaurants — about 16% of the city’s total — closed. Restaurant and retail transactions fell by as much as 7% over the prior year in some business and shopping districts around Amazon and Microsoft campuses, according to Square data cited by The Wall Street Journal.

If no other jurisdictions increase their minimum wages to match or surpass Seattle, the Emerald City will have the highest minimum wage in the country next year. An individual working full-time on minimum wage in the city will make just over $46,000 annually.

“If the servers are making $20 an hour, then I gotta pay the cooks $35,” one Seattle restaurant owner said of the wage increases to Eater in 2024.

“Operators are making less money than ever and are charging more than ever,” Anthony Anton, CEO of the Washington Hospitality Association, said last year, according to The Center Square.

Later in the article:

From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 to 2023, about 500 local businesses closed, according to the Downtown Seattle Association. A year later, the association counted 543 vacant storefronts in the city. During this period, many business owners cited property crime as well as local economic factors as the reasoning behind their exits.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/30/us-news/liberal-stronghold-set-to-adopt-eye-popping-minimum-wage-amid-business-exodus/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

I Believe This

According to the New York Post:

Spouses who don’t share a last name get divorced far more often than those who do — and they split up sooner, data reveals.

Married couples with different surnames call it quits at a 50% higher rate and make it an average of just eight to 10 years before filing for divorce, according to an analysis from the Institute for Family Studies.

By contrast, couples with the same last name stick together about 12 years before divorce on average, according to the report, which analyzed 2023 Pew Research Center data and Texas divorce records.

“Couples who hold more things in common — from names to money — are more likely to take a ‘team-first approach to marriage life’ that reinforces cooperation, trust, and a sense of a common future,” writes the report’s author, Lyman Stone.

He also cites elopements and shotgun weddings as a possible factor.

“Obviously couples who do not share a last name will include some very thoughtful partners who are philosophically opposed to taking the husband’s last name — but it will also include a lot of couples who got married on the spur of the moment and who couldn’t be bothered to get their paperwork in order,” he suggested.

“Non-shared names may partly select for hasty, ill-considered weddings to begin with.”

Some women, however, may simply be staying married to avoid the massive paperwork headache of changing back to their maiden names, the report notes.

Overall, the report found that roughly 75-80% of married couples share surnames nationwide, and that conservative, white, and older women were more likely to take their spouse’s name.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/17/us-news/why-couples-who-dont-share-the-same-last-name-are-more-likely-to-get-divorced-study/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

This Is Going to Fail

According to the New York Post:

Here’s some good news for adults who “didn’t wanna grow up,” as the old ad jingle had it.

Toys “R” Us is kicking off its biggest expansion in nearly a decade, opening 120 stores amid surging demand from adult customers, the company said Thursday.

The retailer — whose 2017 bankruptcy devastated the toy industry — inked one-year leases across the country as toy sales notched their biggest spike since 2020, according to Circana, which tracks consumer data.   

The new locales include Woodbury Commons and the Westchester in White Plains, NY, and the Mall at Short Hills in Millburn, NJ.z

Toy sales in the US grew 17% in the first half of the year – the strongest first-half performance in six years – largely fueled by adults who are snatching up trading cards and collectibles, according to Circana.

Adults now account for 55% of all toy sales, the researcher found.

Mall operators like having toy stores on premises, “so shoppers don’t feel like they have to leave the mall and go to Walmart or Target,” observed former Toys “R” Us chief executive Gerald Storch. 

The new stores will offer some of the biggest brands, including LEGO, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Pokémon and KPop Demon Hunters – and some will have cafes and candy shops, according to the company.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/17/business/toys-r-us-to-open-120-stores-biggest-expansion-in-years-thanks-to-adults-who-didnt-wanna-grow-up/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

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Oct022026

Episode 1257 – An Attack Thwarted!

A terror attack is thwarted above Saudi Arabia.

In a huge surprise, Democratic women blame men for all their problems.

And everything is racist.

I Told You This Was Coming

According to the Daily Wire:

A knife-wielding Omani co-pilot repeatedly stabbed his Emirati captain and tried to nosedive a packed Tel Aviv-bound jetliner on Wednesday, sending it plunging 18,000 feet before a band of heroic Israeli passengers smashed into the cockpit and wrestled the attacker to the floor, according to Israeli officials and passenger accounts.

Israel has reportedly classified the incident as an attempted terror attack.

Flydubai Flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, took off from Dubai early Wednesday with roughly 174 people on board, including about 27 children, bound for Ben Gurion Airport. About an hour and a half out from Israel, the jet first flashed a general distress signal, code 7700. Minutes later, it switched to 7500, the code for “unlawful interference,” aviation shorthand for a hijacking. Then it vanished from flight-tracking apps.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets roared into the sky, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz huddled in an emergency meeting.

Early reports painted the drama as little more than a cockpit scuffle between two feuding pilots. That story fell apart fast.

According to passenger testimony and Israeli security assessments, the co-pilot pulled a pocketknife and plunged it into the captain again and again. He then allegedly seized the controls and aimed the plane at the ground.

As the co-pilot attacked the captain, the aircraft spun out of control for several terrifying minutes as it dropped like a stone.

That’s when ordinary Israelis became extraordinary.

Crew members and passengers reportedly forced their way through the cockpit door and overpowered the attacker. Two off-duty pilots riding in the back reportedly helped steady the crippled jet.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/passengers-overpower-terrorist-hijacker-stop-9-11-style-plane-attack?author=Hank+Berrien&category=undefined&elementPosition=3&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Passengers+Overpower+Terrorist+Hijacker%2C+Stop+9%2F11-Style+Plane+Attack

I Believe This

According to the California Post:

Democratic women are far more likely to blame men for their problems than conservative women are — and less than a quarter of young Republican men blame their ills on women, a recent survey found.

Young Democratic women were particularly likely to lay the blame for their problems at men, with 66% of 18 to 29-year-olds saying “the challenges that women face in American society” were “a great deal due to the behavior or actions of men,” according to the Survey Center on American Life.

They also said women faced “a lot” of discrimination in America, the poll found.

But far fewer Republican women felt the same way — with just 18% blaming men for their problems in the US.

Those disparities generally shrank as women grew older, with fewer Democrats blaming men and more Republicans blaming them.

Between ages 30 and 49, 54% of Democratic women blamed men for their problems while 33% of Republicans did. And from ages 50 to 64, 47% of Democratic women faulted men and 25% of Republican women did.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/30/us-news/democratic-women-more-likely-to-blame-men-for-their-problems-but-republican-men-fault-women-for-theirs/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Here We Go Again!

According to the New York Post:

The BBC removed an article that suggested the trend of leaving fingernails unpainted could perpetuate “White supremacist” beauty standards after it drew backlash Saturday.

The original article, “How the bare nails trend became a class issue,” explored the beauty trend of women preferring clear and polished “naked” nails over the more stylish nail designs over the past few years. 

The BBC reported that while some consider this trend part of the ever-shifting standards in fashion, critics suggested the image said “something about class” and could potentially stigmatize Black, Latino and Asian communities that popularized heavily designed nails.

“That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to [B]lack and [B]rown communities,” beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo told the BBC.

“They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate [W]hite supremacist standards of beauty.”

American Conservation Coalition CEO Danielle Franz joked, “Bad news for the ladies who thought they were saving $80 on a manicure but were actually dogwhistling.”

https://nypost.com/2026/09/30/media/bbc-removes-article-claiming-nail-trend-perpetuates-white-supremacy/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

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Episode 1256 – The Election in 2028 is Going to be So Much Fun!

The lone juror who wanted to hold Linsey Clancy responsible for murdering her three children finally speaksout.

Kamala Harris is talking again. That is always fun.

And Bill Gates has found another existential threat to humanity to tout.

He’s an F-ing Hero!

Michael Desronvil, the holdout juror

What is happening with the case:

  • The defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, is a real work of art.
  • The defense wants to investigate the lone juror.
  • The defense wants to open the deliberations file.
  • The defense wants a bench trial.
  • The defense wants the judge to prevent the prosecution from putting Clancy on trial again due to double jeopardy.
  • The prosecution has asked for a gag order.
  • The motions will be heard on November 2.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/lindsay-clancy-holdout-juror-asks-one-thing-new-video-mistrial-drama

Just F-ing Dumb!

Kamala isn’t the only one who thinks that AI is a problem because she’s too stupid to know the difference between yellow and pink flowers. Bill Gates, the has-been tech giant, says that AI will kill billions of people. Mind you, not millions, but billions of people.

According to the Post Millennial:

Bill Gates has claimed that AI is powerful enough to “cause a billion deaths” as there have been some that have called for a slow down on the technology while President Donald Trump has said that the US must go full speed ahead in developing AI.

Gates made the comments in an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that was released on Friday. He was asked if the technology could end humanity.

https://thepostmillennial.com/bill-gates-claims-ai-could-cause-a-billion-deaths-doesnt-say-how

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Episode 1255 – Hollywood Needs to Leave Classic Literature Alone!

Terrorists are caught in Great Britain. You’ll never guess who they are.

Sunny Hostin has gone full narcissist.

And Hollywood is doing everything they can to normalize evil by destroying great works of literature.

Gee, I Wonder Who Could Have Done It

So what happens when you import millions of military age men who hate your civilization?

According to the Daily Wire:

British authorities arrested five men near a military base hosting U.S. forces early Sunday on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.

RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire in southwestern England, serves as a forward operating location for the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command and has recently been used to launch B-52 and B-1 bombers targeting Iran.

President Donald Trump praised the arrests while speaking to reporters Sunday and said the United States had worked with British authorities on the case. “The arrest in the UK was fantastic,” he said. “Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. We had them under investigation.” Trump said the suspects were “looking to do big damage” and that the group had been under watch “for a long time.”

Police were alerted around 12:45 a.m. to three suspicious vehicles apparently bound for the base, according to a Metropolitan Police statement. Armed officers responded and detained five men in the nearby village of Whelford on suspicion of explosives offenses, then rearrested them on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism.

Authorities evacuated about 85 households as a precaution and established a 400-meter cordon around the vehicles while Army bomb disposal specialists were examining them. A nearby recreation center opened to accommodate displaced residents. “We are in the early stages of an investigation, and five men remain in custody,” said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans, Counter Terrorism Policing’s senior national coordinator.

“We continue to work with Gloucestershire Police to keep the community safe as we work to gather evidence from the scene,” Evans added. Gloucestershire Police Assistant Chief Constable Richard Ocone said emergency services had established plans for responding to major incidents.

“A cordon is in place as a precaution and the public can expect to see an emergency services presence in the area for some time,” he said.

A spokesperson for the United States European Command told the Daily Wire, “We are working closely with our UK counterparts to monitor this situation, minimize impacts and ensure the safety of US personnel, their families, and the local community.”

The spokesperson added that the command would not discuss its security posture:

“For operational security reasons we will not discuss specific force protection measures. U.S. European Command remains vigilant and will take appropriate actions to ensure the safety and security of our U.S. service members, civilians, contractors, and their families across the European theater. We constantly assess a variety of factors that determine what measures we institute or modify to protect our installations, our people and their families.”

The New York Post reported that the five suspects were stripped down after officers suspected they might be wearing suicide vests. The Telegraph reported that authorities are investigating whether there is a link to the Iranian regime. In August, Iran threatened to attack U.S. air bases in Europe if President Donald Trump escalated the war. “Should the US go too far, Iran will defend itself at any price, go beyond the region and hit Europe, too,” said a source close to the Iranian regime.

Of course, the UK is trying to hide the fact these are Islamists. Pictures were released before the government had a chance to blur the faces out, so we know what they look like.

The government is also saying not to assume who these people are which means these people are Islamists. They only say not to assume things when they are trying to protect people.

The suspects are believed to be tied with the IRGC and Iran. Of course, Iran denies any knowledge of these guys even though they said they’d start bombing military airports like the one these guys were trying to bomb.

In a continued attempt at suicide of their country, the 5 terrorism suspects are already out on bail.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-police-thwart-suspected-terror-plot-near-base-hosting-us-bombers?author=Brecca+Stoll&category=undefined&elementPosition=6&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Inside+The+Sinister+Terror+Plot+Targeting+America%E2%80%99s+Most+Powerful+Bombers
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-iran-war-news-peace-talks-hormuz-september-28

This is Pure Narcissism

By the way, this is why I love AI.

According to Perplexity:

The controversy is about Sunny Hostin’s recent claim that she was the decisive “holdout” juror in the 1991 trial of Daniel Rakowitz, the so-called “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.” Contemporary reporting and accounts attributed to other jurors conflict with parts of her retelling.nbcnews+1

What Hostin said

On The View in September 2026, Hostin said she had served on Rakowitz’s jury before attending law school and was initially the lone juror favoring a verdict of not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. She described nine days of sequestration, said another juror threw a chair in anger, and said she gradually persuaded the other jurors until the panel unanimously reached the insanity verdict.ew

Rakowitz was tried in the killing, dismemberment, and cannibalization-related case involving his roommate, Monika Beerle. The jury ultimately found him not criminally responsible because of mental illness, resulting in psychiatric commitment rather than a conventional criminal conviction and prison sentence.nbcnews+1

Why it became disputed

The dispute is not mainly whether Hostin was on the jury—reports indicate that she was, under her legal name, Asunción Cummings. The question is whether she was the single, decisive holdout and whether the deliberations unfolded as she described.syracuse+1

Claim or issueWhat the reports say
Hostin was a Rakowitz jurorSupported; contemporaneous coverage identified her as a juror under her legal name. syracuse
She was the only holdoutSeveral contemporaneous accounts reportedly described a male, unemployed juror as the principal holdout. foxnews+1
There may have been two holdoutsA contemporaneous Newsday account reportedly said 10 jurors favored conviction while two favored an insanity finding—leaving room for Hostin to have been one of the dissenters, but not necessarily alone. mediaite
She converted all 11 other jurors one by oneThat is Hostin’s account, but the surviving reports do not clearly substantiate that specific version of events. ew+1
Her 1991 public comments align with the current storyCritics point to reported comments attributed to Hostin at the time suggesting Rakowitz “knew what he was doing,” which appears difficult to reconcile with her current portrayal of herself as firmly committed to the insanity defense throughout deliberations. mediaite

Hostin’s response

When questioned about the discrepancy, Hostin reportedly maintained: “I was the holdout juror.” The dispute therefore remains a conflict between her current firsthand account and incomplete, inconsistent contemporaneous reporting—not a settled finding that she fabricated jury service or had no role in the insanity verdict.syracuse+1

Bottom line

The strongest cautious summary is: Hostin did serve on the jury, but the claim that she was the sole juror who single-handedly reversed the panel is contested. Archived reports suggest either a different principal holdout or possibly two jurors holding out, which undercuts the clean “11-to-1, then I converted everyone” narrative without definitively proving she was not among the jurors resisting a guilty verdict.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/70b8e918-1b72-4538-82a4-119720436ddf

They Are All Turning Over In Their Graves

One of the things that bothers me is the rewriting of great works of literature. People who couldn’t come up with their own pieces of work decide to take the classics and twist the stories to meet their own ideologies to the point that the new version is completely devoid of the original premise intended by the author.

One of the things

Let us go over a few of these movies:

  • Star Wars
  • Snow White
  • The Little Mermaid
  • 101 Dalmations
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • The Odyssey
  • Animal Farm
  • Wuthering Heights
  • The Chronicles of Narnia

Now they are doing it with John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.

In the book, one of the main characters is named Cathy Ames. She is pure evil and was meant to be pure evil.

According to Perplexity:

Cathy Ames

The central disruptive force in the novel is Cathy Ames, later known as Kate.

Cathy is portrayed as unusually manipulative, deceitful, and emotionally detached. From childhood she lies and exploits others. She ultimately burns down her parents’ house, killing them, and disappears.

Later she becomes involved with a man who runs a prostitution operation. After attempting to manipulate him, she is severely beaten and left injured near the Trask property.

Adam finds her and becomes fascinated with her. Charles immediately distrusts her.

Adam falls completely in love with Cathy, but his love is largely based on an idealized version of her that does not really exist. He sees goodness and innocence where there is little evidence of either.

Cathy eventually marries Adam, although she repeatedly makes clear that she does not want the life he imagines for them.

At one point, Cathy sleeps with Charles, creating uncertainty about the biological father of the children she will later bear.

This is what John Steinbeck, himself, said about Cathy Ames. I looked this up on Perplexity:

Steinbeck was unusually explicit about Cathy Ames, both in East of Eden itself and in the letters he wrote while composing the novel.

In the novel, he introduces her with one of the starkest descriptions he ever gave a character: “I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.” He goes on to suggest that, just as someone can be born with a physical deformity, a person might be born with what he calls a “malformed soul.” Cathy is his example of that idea. SparkNotes

What is interesting, though, is that Steinbeck became less certain about that judgment as the novel progressed. Later he writes, “When I said Cathy was a monster it seemed to me that it was so,” but then says that after examining her more closely, he began to wonder whether that conclusion was really true. eNotes

His private writing shows the same complexity. In Journal of a Novel, the letters he wrote to his editor Pascal Covici while working on East of Eden, Steinbeck described Cathy as “a tremendously powerful force in the book” and repeatedly returned to her with fascination, even referring to her affectionately as his “dear Cathy.”

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-p-6ab819a6446c819198faad2993e5e2c7-literature/c/6ab819a7-9778-83e8-bf63-4d4d41e5d6a9

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Episode 1254 – You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

Did you think all the panic about the sun monster killing us all was over? O thought it was. But it’s back with a vengeance. They just decided to rename it “El Nino.”

And we have a story we must go through in full. It shows us that wokeness is still out there, is still crazy, and will still eat its own.

Come On, Guys!

According to the California Post:

The warm weather anomaly could cause an estimated 451,000 excess heat-related deaths by February 2027, per a frightening forecast by the Climate Impact Lab.

According to the paper, compiled by scientists from the University of Chicago, the Super El Niño will “lead to 44% more extremely hot days than we would expect in a normal year.” The apocalyptic phenomenon has already propelled sea surface temperatures to 3.07°C (around 5.5 F) — tying the record set by the 2015–16 El Niño — with scientists projecting it could become the hottest event in 1,000 years.

Understandably, the fallout is expected to be apocalyptic, per the study. Of the over 400,000 projected excess deaths from June through February, 239,000 are forecast to occur in the next six months.

However, researchers claim that the toll could be even higher based on predictions that El Niño will hang around until Spring, with residual impacts such as preternaturally high temps and heat-related deaths persisting into next summer.

The lion’s share of the forecasted casualties will be concentrated in the “Global South,” per the report. Nigeria boasts the highest projected death toll with 31,000 additional heat-related deaths from September through February compared to a normal year.

Following close behind, per the model, are Indonesia with 19,300 and Sudan with 17,600 estimated excess deaths. Meanwhile, Africa’s arid Sahel region, which comprises Niger, Chad, Nigeria and Sudan, is forecast to see 66,800 heat-induced deaths over the next six months.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/23/science/hottest-el-nino-on-record-could-kill-up-to-451000-people-in-six-months-scientists/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

Just Dumb

You have to read the whole story to get how stupid the Left is.

According to Fox News:

A lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, sparked community backlash after lifting its mask mandate for one night a week, with accusations of ableism and boycott directed at the struggling business.

Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue recently removed its mask requirement on Saturdays in an effort to boost business, but some members of the small city’s queer community objected to the change, according to The Boston Globe.

Some critics accused the bar’s owners of putting disabled people at risk and compared the policy change to a “mass disabling event” and a “eugenicist” attack while also wishing violence against the establishment, according to The Boston Globe.

“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” one commenter wrote on the bar’s social media post announcing the change.

“People like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” wrote another.

“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” a third said.

“When y’all close, let the record state it was ableism + complying in advance, because that’s what it is,” another wrote.

“Does COVlD not disable people on Saturday nights?” added another user, who had a picture of himself in a mask as his profile picture.

This comes years after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared over by the federal government in 2023. State and local governments, as well as most businesses across the country, had also lifted masking requirements several years ago.

Additionally, Greenfield had not reported a COVID-19 case in more than two months, according to The Boston Globe.

The bar has been sparsely attended on what would normally be busy Saturday nights as some angered customers have called for a boycott, according to The Boston Globe.

The backlash came as the bar was already struggling financially under to the bar’s unusual business model that includes rules such as “Nobody will be barred from entry due to lack of funds.”

Last Ditch also had the mask mandate in place as part of a policy intended to make the space accessible to disabled and immunocompromised patrons, meaning the face covering requirement was designed to protect anyone who was immunocompromised.

Customers were told that they were expected to mask up unless they were actively taking a bite of food or a sip of a drink.

The bar’s owners began to fall behind on their bills and were unable to pay themselves or even their staff.

Jackie Matellian, the remaining owner involved in daily operations, lived in her truck for six months, working four jobs and carrying a $50,000 loan, according to The Boston Globe.

The two other owners stepped back from daily operations months ago, including one who had enrolled in clown school and another who is a drag performer using it/its pronouns.

Because of the financial woes, the bar decided to lift the mask mandate on Saturdays to increase revenue and keep the business afloat, The Boston Globe reported.

“It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” Last Ditch wrote on an August Instagram post that ignited the backlash.

The bar first attempted to ease tensions and apologize for its post, writing: “We are sorry for our passive and dismissive tone of our change to the norms and schedule impacting the most intersectional of us. We understand everyone faces different intersections and we are always working to consider all needs fully.”

But that did little to lower the temperature, as critics said Last Ditch’s post failed to include written “alt text,” a short written description of an image added to the HTML code of a webpage for visually impaired people.

“This is not an accessible post,” one person commented. “It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality.”

Last Ditch again sought to address the controversy during its monthly community meeting on Sept. 11, according to The Boston Globe.

Outraged attendees who were joined by Zoom began flooding the chat with comments that were read aloud for the in-person group to hear.

The meeting took another twist when critics made an allegation of racism because the mediator, a licensed therapist, was white.

“A lot of people are calling for an acknowledgment of harm and I’m hearing a WHITE therapist … center[ing] the feelings of a majority white and white adjacent staff,” one person said, the newspaper reported.

Attendees also took issue with a therapist being there at all and said it made them feel “widely unsafe” since that made the woman a mandated reporter, meaning she is required by law to report known or suspected abuse.

Matellian broke down in tears when it was her turn to speak, saying she was only trying to help her friends with the bar before taking over once they left and having a difficult time trying to survive financially.

Matellian has fallen behind on rent and the bar’s landlord wants $3,900 by the end of September.

“It was not my passion project,” Matellian cried while masked up. “I never really wanted this. I don’t think I’m doing a very good job.”

But the bar’s critics had no sympathy for the struggling business owner.

“You chose to use your time to spill tears and center your feelings,” one person responded. “This is incredibly racist and deflecting behavior.”

The mask-optional Saturday nights have not helped with business, as the barroom has been nearly empty each weekend despite drink deals and DJs that would attract dozens of customers in the past.

One person recently suggested having a Lady Gaga-themed party to pull in more patrons.

“Gaga is canceled,” the bartender said. “Gaga is Zionist.”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-lesbian-bar-ignites-fury-after-easing-mask-rules-for-one-night-a-week
https://nypost.com/2026/09/22/us-news/massachusetts-lesbian-bar-nearly-bullied-out-of-town-after-lifting-mask-mandate-for-one-night/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

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Episode 1253 – Beware of False Prophets and Mystics!

I talked about the dangers of the MAiD program in Canada just yesterday. Well, a new study came out yesterday making the MAiD program look bad and the Second Amendment look pretty good.

California keeps adding regulations that give the state government more control, takes power away from small communities, and will make your life far more expensive. That’s what good communists do.

And, the Bible has always warned us to beware and shun false prophets. This advice is as true today as it was 2000 years ago.

So, What Is More Dangerous?

According to the Post Millennial:

Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program accounted for more deaths than gun homicides in the United States in 2024. This is despite the US having roughly eight times the population as Canada.

A total of 16,499 people received MAID in Canada in 2024, according to Health Canada’s Sixth Annual Report on MAID, the latest report available. In the US, 15,364 people were killed by a gun in 2024, per a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. The MAID total is 1,135 higher.

MAID deaths reached a record high in 2024 and made up around 5 percent of all deaths in Canada, or about 1 in 20.

Senator Mike Lee commented on the difference between the death rates with MAID and gun homicide and responded, “State-administered death is now more common in Canada than gun homicide is in the U.S. That didn’t happen by accident.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-more-canadians-die-from-maid-each-year-than-americans-do-from-gun-homicides?utm_campaign=64466

Good Job, Gavin!

According to the California Post:

Californians may have to pay even higher homeowners association fees thanks to a law that could be signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom before the end of the month.

Assembly Bill 2050 would require HOAs to maintain a 30-year reserve fund and conduct a study of the reserve account.

If an HOA’s reserves fund is projected to fall below zero at any point during the 30 years, the association must transfer at least 15% of its gross annual budget into reserves each year beginning January 2032.

If the HOA’s budget can’t cover the required transfer, the bill requires the HOA to raise fees on homeowners through a “special assessment.” It’s not clear how much the bill could raise monthly fees for homeowners.

The law would affect millions, as nearly a quarter of California households pay HOA according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Newsom has until September 30 to sign the bill into law or veto it.

Later in the article, I found the reason why the California government wants to control community organizations:

Proponents of the bill say it would make sure HOAs are better able to keep up building maintenance and other costs. Robert DeNichilo, legislative co-chair at the Community Associations Institute’s California Legislative Action Committee, told the SF Chronicle that the bill budgets “the actual cost of ownership.”

In California, HOAs can can increase regular dues by up to 20% per fiscal year without a vote from community members.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/21/real-estate/california-law-could-raise-hoa-fees-for-millions-of-homeowners/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

That’s Why Women Aren’t Pastors

Here is Babs Miller, the lesbian pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Texas. This is the “church” James Talarico attends and preaches.

James Talarico is the Senate candidate in Texas, running against the awful candidate, Ken Patterson. In case you don’t know much about Talarico, he is a socialist that for trans-ing the kids, getting rid of all fossil fuels, believes God and Jesus are non-binary, thinks that Jesus supported illegal immigration, and thinks everyone should be a vegan.

This is crazy talk. This is blasphemy.

  • God was not just a vengeful God in the Old Testament. He was training us.
  • The Virgin Birth is the cornerstone of the Christian faith.
    • Mary was not married when she conceived through the holy spirit.
    • Joseph married her anyway because God told him to in a dream.
    • Mary ascended into Heaven, as Jesus did, and was crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth.
    • This was accounted for by the prophets and apostles.
  • The free choice and having the ability to think for ourselves.
    • We already know this.
    • Jesus wrote parables about it (Matthew 25:14–30) about the landowner giving his servants different amounts of money to invest.
    • We also have free will. We can reject God (Jesus is God) as this woman has done.
    • We always have choice. The Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament always taught this.
  • As far as the 12-step program, she’s wrong.
    • I was in AA. You did not get rid of anything.
    • The goal was to get rid of your resentments and ATONE for your past transgressions (SINS).
    • In fact, to cure oneself, one needed to believe in a higher power, which was God.
    • We closed every session with either the Our Father or the Serenity Prayer.
  • Jesus did exist. Every legitimate historian believes Jesus existed.
    • The Romans kept records including tax records, census records, and citizenship records. Jesus is listed.
    • It was also listed that Jesus was a problem and it was because He was teaching against the Sanhedrin. This was recorded.
    • Roman leadership wrote about Jesus in their diaries, usually not in endearing terms.
    • There were witnesses at the Crucifixion that were converted, including Roman soldiers. They wrote about it.
    • St. Paul was a pro-Roman Pharisee and a witness of Christ’s life. He wrote a huge portion of the New Testament.
    • Three of the four Gospels were written by Jesus’ desciples.
  • The New Testament of the Bible is an actual historical record of Jesus’ life. No one doubts this and there has been confirmation.
  • Science is even beginning to believe the Shroud of Turin is real!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-talaricos-pastor-says-jesus-didnt-die-for-sins-slanders-virgin-mary?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Jacob+Wheeler&category=Exclusive&elementPosition=0&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Talarico%E2%80%99s+Pastor+Says+Jesus+Didn%E2%80%99t+Die+For+Sins%2C+Slanders+Virgin+Mary

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Episode 1252 – This WILL BE Coming to a Hospital Near You!

The Left continues digging to find racism. My question is when are people going to stop apologizing to the mob?

The attorneys for Lindsey Clancy continue their harassment of the lone standout juror. A juror we now know.

And we need to listen to stories out of Canada concerning the MAiD program. It’s a very flawed program, an immoral program, and it is coming to the United States.

This is Illegal

According to Fox News:

Lindsay Clancy’s defense has filed a double jeopardy motion seeking to have the three first-degree murder charges she faces for the strangling deaths of her young children dismissed. 

Attorney Martin Weinberg, who also represented Karen Read in her double jeopardy claim, filed a motion for Clancy Monday raising claims under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.  Read’s claim failed, but she was later acquitted of all homicide-related charges in her second trial.

Weinberg argued that there was no “manifest necessity” to declare a mistrial on Sept. 4 “given the absence of judicial inquiry regarding repeated reports that one juror was refusing to apply the Court’s instructions regarding reasonable doubt.”

The jury split 11-1, with only the holdout wanting to find her guilty. The others were in favor of finding her not criminally responsible for the children’s deaths after Clancy’s defense claimed she suffered from postpartum psychosis.

Judge William Sullivan previously overruled a defense motion to have the holdout juror dismissed and replaced with an alternate, saying he felt it was not appropriate for him to get involved in the deliberations.

Weinberg’s motion argued that Sullivan’s decision to declare a mistrial before investigating the holdout is improper, alleging that the jury foreperson accused the holdout of making “statements acknowledging doubt but refus[ing] to apply it to the verdict as the law states.”

Weinberg also argued that there was a legal basis for conducting a probe into the holdout before the mistrial was declared. However, Sullivan did not hold one.

On Friday, Clancy’s trial attorney Kevin Reddington called for an investigation into the holdout juror who wanted to find her guilty of murder charges in connection with the strangling deaths of her three young children.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/lindsay-clancy-defense-demands-investigation-holdout-juror-blocked-not-guilty-verdict

You Have to be Kidding Me?

According to the Daily Wire:

The shoe brand Converse has apologized after social media users accused the company of putting out a “racist” advertisement.

The ad in question, which shows K-pop singer Karina wearing a skirt and holding a pair of Chuck 70 X sneakers, caused controversy as critics accused the company of promoting the KKK and lynching.

“How any American who is remotely educated can look at this horrifying ad & not see a klan hood and the feet of a hanging body…makes me speechless,” one person said, echoing what many others were saying. 

“No, you’re not crazy. Yes, the Converse ad is racist. Yes, it looks like a Klan outfit. Yes, it looks like a lynching. And no, ‘it’s just a shoe ad’ is not a defense,” another popular comment said.

The backlash got so bad that Converse released an apology via social media.

“We’re sorry,” the Boston-based company said in the statement, per ABC 7. “We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong. We removed it from our channels and are working to remove it everywhere it appeared. This should not have happened and we will do better.”

Karina has yet to release a public statement, but followers have also targeted her for participating in the photo shoot, even though she didn’t know what the final ad would look like. Several users have referenced the original, uncropped photo to defend her involvement.

Plenty of people are wondering what all the fuss is about.

“When you look hard enough, you find racism in everything,” one X commenter observed.

“It’s not about reality. It’s about the reality that the Party tells you exists,” another person agreed.

The Converse brand launched in 1908 and is best known for the popular Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker. Converse is now owned by Nike.

This incident comes on the heels of Target yanking a so-called racist costume from shelves after followers started freaking out about it.

Photos of the costume, which was called “Kids’ Glows under Blacklight Circus Clown,” showed a young black child modeling the outfit. The costume included a black-and-orange printed bodysuit and hood with an oversized smile and a mini top hat.

The listing and photos led customers to compare the costume to blackface performances from the Jim Crow era.

“We removed an offensive Halloween costume that should never have been part of our assortment,” Target wrote in a statement last month, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “It is no longer for sale. As a company, we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/converse-apologizes-for-racist-ad-promises-to-do-better?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Amanda+Harding&category=News&elementPosition=4&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=Converse+Apologizes+For+%E2%80%98Racist%E2%80%99+Ad%2C+Promises+To+%E2%80%98Do+Better%E2%80%99
https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/18/converse-apologizes-for-ad-compared-to-ku-klux-klan-lynching/

Coming to a Hospital Near You

The Left is a party of death and destruction. I have said this over and over:

  • Abortion.
  • Trans-ing kids.
  • Homelessness.
  • Drug legalization.
  • Supporting terrorism.

According to the Post Millennial:

Speaking with the Daily Mail, Brigitte Kranendonk said she sat down with her grandmother, Brigitte Stegemann, two days before the procedure took place to make sure she understood what was going to happen.

“I used very frank terms. I said: ‘Do you know that you’re going to die on Friday?’” Kranendonk said her grandmother was in disbelief and cried for 45 minutes upon hearing this. “I’ve made a mistake,” Kranendonk recalled her grandmother saying. “She was bawling. Inconsolable.”

Kranendonk said that in a cognitive test administered to Stegemann, which is designed to determine whether a person seeking MAID is of sound mind to consent, Stegemann “got every question wrong, believing that her two living siblings were dead.

48 hours after Kranendonk spoke with her grandmother, Stegemann was dead. She reportedly died with her hands clasped in prayer and covered in her own blood after the first attempt at connecting the IV, which was allegedly administered by a nurse not wearing gloves, was botched. Stegemann’s death took place on July 10 at The Pearl care home in Cannifton.

Kranendonk alleges that MAID practitioners had taken advantage of her vulnerable grandmother. “She was a vulnerable human being, and they saw an opportunity.” She added, “No one had ever done MAiD at this residential home before: this was their very first MAiD procedure. So I don’t know if they just dropped the ball, because they didn’t know what they were doing.” The care home has maintained that Stegemann had legally consented.

Speaking on that morning, Kranendonk said, “There was a phenomenal amount of blood. She said a nurse had failed to find the correct vein in her grandmother’s right arm for an IV, and switched to her left arm after having “poked her about three or four times with the needle.”

“It is all over my Oma’s arm, it is all over her nightie, soaking through her pillow, all over the sheets, there is so much blood. And throughout all this time, mind you, the nurse is not wearing gloves.”

Kranendonk spoke of a February incident in which her grandmother was fitted with a medical port. Stegemann repeatedly ripped it off, yelling, “I don’t want the death shot!”

Kranendonk had been Stegemann’s caregiver for 12 years and her medical power of attorney for six years. A year and a half before Stegemann’s death, her family made the decision to place her in The Pearl as her cognitive and physical health began to decline. In February of 2026, she was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. Doctors, however, were uncertain about the amount of time she had left to years, with estimates ranging as high as two years.

Kranendonk spoke with her grandmother about all options for the final stages of her life after the diagnosis, including MAID, and remembered her grandmother saying, “No, I don’t want that.” Kranendonk said her grandmother’s religiosity was a large factor in why she didn’t want it.

She was told on July 3 that the care home was booking a MAiD assessment for her grandmother. Kranendonk had been on a 10-day trip, and earlier on the trip, no one had said anything about a dramatic decline in her grandmother’s health.

“I truly believe that one nurse really saw us as an obstacle,” Kranendonk said. “We were getting in the way of her doing MAID on my grandmother. I think she really, truly believes that MAID is the best for people, and shame on me for trying to stop that.”

Kranendonk said she was present for her grandmother’s second MAID assessment. She said the doctor spoke in “really loose terms, never using the words death or dying.”

“She explains MAID to my grandmother by saying: ‘We’re going to give you medicine, you’re going to feel at peace. And I just want you to know that you won’t have a bowel movement.’ She’s saying it in these strange terms, that aren’t literal.” She added, “My Oma’s just kind of nodding. Her first language is not English, she is 83-years old and severely hearing-impaired.”

Kranendonk said she has yet to see the MAID paperwork that a nurse claimed her grandmother signed. Stegemann got questions wrong on her assessment and was confused in the days leading up to her death. Kranendonk said that she felt cornered and rushed in the days leading up to her grandmother’s death. She said that when the doctor arrived to administer the life-ending medication and asked Stegemann if that was ok, Stegemann did not respond. The doctor proceeded.

https://thepostmillennial.com/83-year-old-christian-woman-killed-against-her-will-by-canadian-government-she-was-praying-as-they-took-her-life-report

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