CITIZEN OPEN THREAD.
Excellent video on National Debt from Congressman Schweikert
NOTE FROM KANE
As long as the headlines can be seen, green and red showing up as black for example, that’s fine.
I thought they couldn’t be seen at all for colorblind readers — invisible headlines.
So I’m not worried about it now. Thanks for all the feedback below.
Carry on, CFP Nation.
What Is Happening Here?
From The Stack-
‘…See how a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could unfold…’
IMO?
An EMP followed by Drones.
Lots of drones.
China has the capacity thanks to every Western Administration since Dick Nixon.
Millions of autonomous hunter/killers swarming a grid until nothing moves then shifting forward, followed by airborne and amphibious troops. This would provide relatively undamaged infrastructure and deny the defense concealment in the rubble.
Remember Stalingrad?
Rubble made great cover and concealment, the most effective weapon became a sharp shovel, the Russian SPETSNAZ still use them.
Could be it will unfold as the ‘experts’ think but so far, most ‘experts’ refight the last war that their favorite side won.
The rise and fall of the American Bar Association | Jonathan Turley, Opinion Contributor, December 6th
This week, the Federal Trade Commission issued a little-noticed letter to the Texas Supreme Court that could have a significant impact on the legal profession. The state justices are exploring a radical change in bar admissions, seeking alternatives to the American Bar Association.
In their letter, FTC officials indicated that they view the ABA as an effective monopoly in bar admissions. The potential state change itself may be less important than how the ABA itself has changed in bringing about these growing calls for separation from the roughly 150-year-old organization.
In the fall, the Texas Supreme Court issued a tentative opinion that declared that the ABA “should no longer have the final say on whether a law school’s graduates are eligible to sit for the Texas bar exam and become licensed to practice law.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5636627-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-bar-association/
There are many accrediting organizations for colleges and universities, not just one. Do the same for bar exams.
I thought it was significant that Turley wrote about it. His voice on a topic such as this carries a certain weight…
RE: Minnesota Tax Cheats
DOJ & IRS , subpoena every Minnesota NGO’s Tax Form 990.
Tax form 990 is required for every Non- Profit in America to show a paper a trail for said public finances.
Things would be a whole lot more ‘ AFFORDABLE ‘ if States didn’t allow foreign nationals to rip- off our National Treasury.
Make NGO’s legal again.
GOD, Bless America !
We just had another meteorite pass overhead! In the nw sky. There’s been a few in the last weeks!
Cool. And you guys get a lot of the aurora borialises. Is borialises a word?
Borealis is an adjective. Means northern. Plural of aurora is aurorae. Just a little trivia.
Thanks! I love that stuff. And I misspelled borealis. Shame on me. 😁
May not be ill intention, but a ChiCom.
“Jakarta. Indonesian police have named a Chinese national, Lin Jingzhang, as a suspect in a radioactive contamination case involving Cesium-137 at a metal-waste smelting facility in Cikande, Banten Province.”
https://jakartaglobe.id/news/chinese-national-named-suspect-in-indonesia-cesium137-contamination-case
UPDATE
“Chinese National in Cikande Radioactive Contamination Case Barred from Leaving Indonesia”
https://en.tempo.co/read/2071641/chinese-national-in-cikande-radioactive-contamination-case-barred-from-leaving-indonesia#google_vignette
Tina Peters needs to be home for Christmas Eve… if not sooner. Colorado Democrats have no shame.
Utah’s Hi-Fi murders shocked the nation 50 years ago… [50 years ago… in 2024]
What drove the news: Four men held up two employees at gunpoint in the [downtown Ogden] Hi-Fi Shop on April 22, 1974, binding them in the basement and robbing the store.
A 16-year-old boy arrived to speak with the shop owner and was also taken hostage, along with his mother and the father of an employee, both of whom had shown up to look for their kids. [The story is a bit gruesome…]
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/04/22/hi-fi-murders-ogden-utah-death-penalty
The Boss’s
In The Stack…
This happened in Indianapolis when I was a kid, I remember the kidnapping.
Film Trailer | Dead Man’s Wire (true story).
Remarkable details of Tony Kiritsis case.
Well, Tampon Tim and Sister/Brother marriage enthusiast Illham Omar are claiming not to have any connection with the Somali Grifters they were pictured with, all while claiming Trump HAS TO BE guilty of going to Loloita Island because a photo of Trump and Epstein at a party proves Yrump is a child molester.
Anyway, the non-federal law-abiding idiots running the “sanctuary state” of Minnesota, (which famously doesn’t recognize federal law regarding immigration) will now probably declare they don’t recognize federal laws such as RICO, embezzling, and fraud either, so they can get off of helping those same grifters heist over a billion dollars of our money to fund foreign terrorists, buy luxury crap for themselves, etc.
(And people tell me Texas can’t secede from (this soon to be third world “Union”, cause it’s against federal law)
Minnesota’s new state flag bears a resemblance to the state flag of Jubaland, Somalia
Where have I heard that place-name “Jubaland” recently? Oh yes, it was in the news item
“Somali migrant scammer is stealing millions from Maine taxpayers to fund military forces in Somalia.”
RE: Pearl Harbor Day
I’m ok with using our ‘”Midnight Hammer ‘” in the broad noon day sun.
AMERICA FIRST !!!
War is hell. Praise God the Donald Trump wants to end it.
Happy somber Sunday Patriots.
🥲 Yes – Happy somber Sunday Patriots – it does feel just that way today!
My aunt was one of those nurses.
❤️⭐❤️
“Exact Moment Deadly Fire Rips Through Goa Nightclub, Leaving 25 Dead | WATCH”
https://www.republicworld.com/india/exact-moments-of-deadly-goa-nightclub-blaze-caught-on-camera-during-the-mehbuba-performace
Amen.
“Diplomatic tightrope: Red carpet for Putin, now Delhi works on dates for Zelenskyy visit
PM’s ‘not-neutral’ remark Friday echoes what he told Zelenskyy last year”
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/diplomatic-tightrope-red-carpet-for-putin-now-delhi-works-on-dates-for-zelenskyy-visit-10406681/
The ship the Japanese surrendered on
Yes that is me and Mrs. Tbird when we were younger in first photo. The last photo you can see on the left side an awning over the spot where the surrender papers were signed.
W. Crane and I have toured that ship. Very cool!
God bless the men of the Arizona
The museum they opened in 2010 on shore is great if you get the chance to go. The museum is part of the tour out to see the Arizona. You are only allowed 15 minutes in the Arizona Memorial and the navy is strict about that so if you want to really want to see it all plan on 2 or 3 visits. The museum you can stay at all day once inside. Was worth every penny it cost us to go see it.
Never forget how quickly your peace can be shattered or those who fight every day to maintain it.
When 500 Knights Overwhelmed 26,000 Muslims — The Clash That Secured Europe’s Future
Double Bacon, with Cheese on top, because, cheese is make from Milk, which comes from a Tit, the way GOD created food to be.
Ladies, you got ’em, We love’em !
Please, don’t be stingy with the Sexually Transmitted Affection ! ! !
For GOD & Country & Titties !
Amen!
👍👍👍
Yep!
Followup question: Dad, what does fiat currency mean?
🤣🤣 Dad is going to have a long day!
For sure!
From The Stack-
Barricades around Christmas Markets.
Good one TC
“Iran awaits second plane of nationals deported from US”
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/12/07/iran-awaits-second-plane-of-nationals-deported-from-us
“In defense of Trump’s Iran policy
Trump’s presence in the White House is an exceptional opportunity a pillar of strength for global stability, a more secure Middle East, a peaceful Persian Gulf, and an empowered Israel. Opinion.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/418899
PHD… Pearl Harbor Day.
Most of that generation is now passed on or in “retirement”, but the rest of us shouldn’t let the world forget.
My Dad was younger, but drafted towards the end of the war. He served his whole enlistment stateside. He was charged with making sure Army recruits were “water safe”, i.e., they wouldn’t drown getting off of landing craft at the beach, parachuting into a pond, etc. He spent most of his day taking recruits (some “terrified” of heights and water) off the three meter platform. One after the other, climb the three meter ladder and off with the next guy. Some of those scared sh1tless dudes were “huge and a handful”. Dad talked about this experience exactly one time. In a car as I drove Mom and Dad by Fort Ord on the way to visit the newly opened Monterey Aquarium. I watched my Mom’s face in the back seat via the rearview mirror. She was astonished by what she heard – he’d never shared any of it before. People he didn’t know from his home town (a college town where his father taught and led a department) that knew his family befriended him and helped him find that role. He was an excellent swimmer and fearless in the water. He served his time and moved on to civilian life, raising a family in relative obscurity. He was a happy guy, married to a wife that was devoted to him.
What a lucky man you are to have had a dad like that!
very very fortunate man.
Flyin’, thank you! How I love hearing about someone who served and about their experiences. I love how your Dad eased the path for the others. And also about your Mom and Dad in civilian life. Your Mom’s words are very familiar to many folks!
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Declares War on Japan (Full Speech)
War Archives
Good morning from Missouri!
Morning, TC.
Gmornin maris!
Grand Falls?
Looks like Grand Falls to me too.
Grand Falls.
This isnt me, just some random idiot. He fell in, swam to shore and clambered back to the same spot.
Some people are nuts!
Yep!
Gmornin dee!
Morning, Dee.
Good Sunday morning CFPers ☕️☕️
Just poured my first cup! Stressful times going on here- my Dadi is in the hospital, but that presents an issue with his dementia. My hubs or I are always with him, but he’s starting to get cranky and confused with his routine disrupted. At 98, he has never really been ill or spent time in a hospital so we have our hands full thankful, tho, for caring nurses and aides. So ….bring on the coffee!
Aww. Not easy what you are going through!
God bless him! 98? I tell my 96YO Mom that she gets to have whatever preference she wants – she worries that she might offend someone or be judged badly. I tell her, “Not a chance, at 96 you get a free pass on all of that”. To which, she giggles and laughs, thanking me for saying so. Give your Dad a hug from “an online stranger” that applauds him for his resilience and for raising such a fine, loving daughter… [Dee, Good Morning – thanks for sharing…’-]
Recently, Mom shared that she hates her daily vitamins. She didn’t want anyone to know that she secretly discarded them everyday. She has been doing it for months and just told me, sharing that it felt like a huge act of delicious rebellion. I was rolling on the floor laughing! She swore me to secrecy… ‘-)
Without “giving her up”, I had my sibling replace the offending vitamins with something different. Mom reported that she has a new vitamin that she likes, but will now miss her “little, daily act of rebellion”, too. God love her… if you are in your 90s… do what makes you happy! We all love you anyway.
MIG! Reading comprehension fail first thing on Sunday morning! Doh!
[Dee, Good Morning – thanks for sharing…’-]
Thanks, fp for the kind words. It means a lot. 💗. I get their acts of “rebellion, in their minds they are still 35 and vibrant! He doesnt get why he cant just so what he wants in the hospital and being out of his daily routine is so hard on him.
Coffee and Prayers for your beloved Pop !
Universal truth alert
Me too
Funny how that works, eh? Thinking of you often, WW. Stay well
Kennedy Center Honorees
Maybe Kane Can Fix That For Me
Unless He Is Back Out Post Game Tailgating
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Fixed.
https://x.com/annamlulis/status/1997142709333856348?s=20
In honor of my 2 uncles that were on Hickam Field Army Air Base in Pearl Harbor the day the Japanese attacked. They both survived the war and told me all about that day and the days that followed.
Thank you, Thunderbird! God bless your uncles – how lucky for you to have the first hand stories of their experiences. Here we are at Dec. 7.
Excellent, Tbird. I have a great uncle that survived it also. I wish he had told us more about it
Write it down!
My granpa told hundreds of WW2 stories, later in life he would start one and trail off then pick up another one then finish the first one.
My grandpa was in the corps of engineers and helped build the facilities where the Manhattan Project explosive materials were developed in Missouri. The dept. of energy has a museum at the site in Weldon Spring and has old photos displayed that include him in them. His two youngest brothers were my great uncles at Pearl Harbor that day. My grandpa was one of seventeen children, sixteen boys and one girl. Fourteen of the boys served in the military during the war. This is only part of the family, as my mother came from a very large family also so as a kid that loved history I had 26 family members that served in the war in some capacity. Most but not all would talk to me about it. I miss so many of thoes fine men and many of the great women they married. I had a great childhood so very lucky and so very grateful.
Good on your uncles for their patriotic service during dire times.
You are very fortunate to have in your family eye witnesses to a momentous event. Eye witnesses don’t see everything, but the boots on the ground of personal memory reveals a lot more of the reality of historical events.
I read lots and lots of history. Eyewitness accounts always reveal more than what historians choose to describe as significant for them.
The long-awaited originalism debate is finally here! Charles C.W. Cooke, Richard Epstein and John Yoo argue the meaning and limits of originalism, how constitutional text should be interpreted, whether long-standing practices can override original meaning, and where modern doctrines—from Article I courts to immigration policy—fit within the founding framework. It’s a spirited, clear, and tightly argued conversation about how the Constitution should function today. [Includes **audio link**]
https://www.aei.org/multimedia/the-big-beautiful-originalism-debate/
Misunderstanding Originalism [The more that I’m exposed to scholarly original-ism, the more I agree with it…]
John Yoo, December 05, 2025
Merriam and other critics are correct to observe that originalism does not advance a “new constitutional morality.” It does not promote “good” or “bad” outcomes—it simply enforces the constitutional rights and structures established in the constitutional text as understood by those who ratified it.
For example, originalism does not ask whether a right to bear arms makes sense in terms of a natural right of self-defense, a social contract theory of government by consent, a traditional state provision of public safety, or a utilitarian calculus weighing the benefits of gun control in reducing violence. It simply asks whether those who ratified the Constitution would have understood the language of the Second Amendment to protect an individual right to possess firearms. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2012), Justice Antonin Scalia in the former case and Justice Samuel Alito in the latter one may have looked to natural rights theory, but they did so only to understand the historical context that gives meaning to words such as “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.”
Calls for a “new constitutional morality” rest on a mistaken view of the courts and their role in constitutional interpretation. When originalism fails to produce the moral outcomes Merriam and other critics prefer, they treat this as a defect in the method. But originalism does not supply a moral philosophy—it is a method of interpretation. It keeps judges within the boundaries of the proper judicial role set out in the Constitution.
Presidents and Congress, no less than governors and state legislators, play the primary role in identifying public morals and implementing them through statutes, regulations, and executive orders. As Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 78, the “proper and peculiar province of the courts” is “the interpretation of the laws,” not pronouncing or enforcing a specific morality. Judicial review arises only because a court, confronted by “an irreconcilable variance between” an act of Congress and the Constitution, must enforce the law with “superior obligation and validity,” in other words, the Constitution. As Hamilton concluded, “[T]he constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.”
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/misunderstanding-originalism/
The whole piece is excellent…
Thank you for a lucid summary.
Originalism seems philosophically neutral on the issue of the Constitution as a moral stance, though the founders certainly had moral stances.
Originalism’s best use seems to be swatting down all the Johnny-come-lately moral philosophies that want to re-interpret the Constitution to reflect some current fad of moral perfection.
It would appear that our Founders had this in mind by leaving morality to religion rather than including it in the Constitution. Their separation of church (morality codes) from state would seem to confirm originalism.
Just my thought, as I’m neither a lawyer nor a moral philosopher.
Glad you liked it. The country has truly been blessed…
Some music for the boss tonight
Perfect compliment to tonights game!!!
IU game – holy smokes
Great game!!!
Go Hoosiers !
Go Dawgs !
Indiana fans will be celebrating big tonight.
somebody is celebrating…
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How bout those Hooisers.
“All The Glory To God”
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Video:
https://x.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1997524521687847168?s=20
Too cool. TGBTG… ‘-)
God bless: Go Hoosiers!
Awesome game and thrilled with the outcome 😁
The dastardly NJ Dems are at it again. Committee sneaked in a quick vote on S4360 (anti-outside gun ranges) while they thought the good guys weren’t around. Well, the good guys were (NJ Rifle & Pistol and NRA) and word has gotten out via all the clubs and ranges. Any NJ citizens here, it’d be nice if you could contact your NJ state senator and tell them “NO”. Thanks.
New Jersey needs more of this too!
https://www.tampafp.com/revolt-in-the-garden-state-another-new-jersey-town-shoots-down-exorbitant-gun-permit-fees/
Somali pissin’ pirate desecrates Trump’s Hollywood star.