California’s new tax: A monthly subscription to use state roads

 Washington Examiner   

"California’s budget has since ballooned to $325 billion, and yet Democrats demand more money for the most basic function of government: building and maintaining roads."

"California’s latest scam tax to take money from its residents is essentially a subscription service that bills you every month for how often you drive a car.

"California Democrats, the personification of incompetence, have a two-pronged problem: The state wants to pay for road maintenance through an ever-increasing gas tax at the same time as it tries to force people to buy electric vehicles. Having finally realized the contradiction there, California is now planning to release the findings of a new pilot program, which charges drivers a tax per mile they drive. To spoil the conclusion of this saga for you, California will almost certainly recommend adopting this program statewide, because taxing Californians into the dirt is what the state does best.

"The program, as constructed, is essentially a subscription service that requires you to self-report your usage. Californians will have to report their mileage and be billed per mile every month. KMPH 26 broke down a possible hypothetical as follows: “If you live in Hanford and commute to and from Fresno 5 days a week with a Toyota Camry, you would have to pay just over $11 if the road tax is 3 cents.” That is $11 per week for your job if you commute about 40 minutes to work every day, not counting any other additional drives you may make. That would amount to about $44 per month. A Netflix subscription right now could cost you about $8 per month, for comparison.

"The result is a tax primarily on rural Californians, who must commute further to work, school, grocery stores, pharmacies, doctors’ offices, or relatives’ houses. These are the same rural communities being destroyed by California’s water regulations and EV mandates with insufficient EV infrastructure." . . .

TRUMP REVIVES CALIFORNIA'S WATER WARS BETWEEN FARMS AND FISH

Never forget that real genocide - NOT the trendy campus version - is what Hamas kills families for

Mike Harris Artwork

 New Israeli report says Hamas used sexual violence as a 'weapon of war' in Oct. 7 attack    

. . . "The report states that clear patterns emerged of sexual violence being perpetrated, including victims who were found “partially or fully naked with their hands tied, often to structures like trees or poles; evidence of gang rapes followed by execution; genital mutilation; and public humiliation.” The details add to and corroborate past reporting on sexual violence that took place during the attacks." . . .

Israel and activists accuse U.N. of slow response to accounts of Hamas militants raping women  

. . . “A survivor from the Nova rave party testified, ‘Everything was an apocalypse of corpses, girls without any clothes on, without tops, without underwear, people cut in half, butchered, some were beheaded,’” Yael Reichert, a chief superintendent with the Israeli national police, said at the U.N. meeting. Reichert is taking part in the Israeli government’s probe into sex crimes carried out in the Oct. 7 attack." . . .

Israel presents evidence, witness testimonies of Hamas's sexual violence in Oct. 7 attacks | CBC News   . . . "One unnamed witness of the Nova festival attack said she saw gunmen gang rape one woman and cut off the breast of another and throw it on the street.

"Later, police added, she saw a gunman shoot the woman in the head while raping her. 

"Reuters could not independently verify the accounts and police declined to name the witnesses or make her available to the news agency.

"Nachman Dyksztejn, a volunteer for Zaka Search and Rescue who was at the festival, wrote in testimony shared by Zaka with Reuters that he saw dozens of dead women in shelters. 

" 'Their clothing was torn on the upper part, but their bottoms were completely naked," it read.

"Concert producer Rami Shmuel, who helped in the searches for casualties at the Nova music festival in southern Israel not far from the Gaza border, said he saw the bodies of three women: one naked and the other two stripped from the waist down. One was clearly shot in the back of the head, he said, and torched."

Greta Thunberg's ignorance doesn't excuse her actions

. . . "As for the keffiyeh, did she even look at it before putting it on? Does she know that it’s the ceremonial garment of thousands and thousands of terrorists? It’s hard even to list them all: those who blew up the Sbarro’s pizzeria in Jerusalem in 2001, killing 16 people, including Americans; those who attacked public buses, hotels and even a disco that same year, leaving behind hundreds and hundreds of corpses, including the elderly and young children; those who murdered Israeli athletes and coaches at the Munich Olympics in 1972; and on and on until Oct. 7, 2023, and in all the days since. Terrorists wearing keffiyehs have been responsible for the killing and maiming of thousands and thousands of real, verifiable victims, including the more than 1,200 killed on Oct. 7, unlike the fake casualty figures reported by a Hamas ministry or Al Jazeera." . . .     

Children massacred by Hamas Are these the children of Nazis, Greta?

Well, This Is Awkward: Two Muslim Nations Will Be Facing Off at World Cup 'Pride Match'

Teri Christoph

"I had a saying that I used to tell my kids when they were younger and had been given a random treat or prize: "You get what you get, and you don't complain." Well, it's unlikely that the nations of Iran and Egypt will think of this as a treat or prize, but, thanks to a random draw, they have been chosen to face off in a "Pride Match" at next year's World Cup, the every-four-years global sports spectacle that the United States is hosting. Whether or not the two nations complain is yet to be seen. 

I had a saying that I used to tell my kids when they were younger and had been given a random treat or prize: "You get what you get, and you don't complain." Well, it's unlikely that the nations of Iran and Egypt will think of this as a treat or prize, but, thanks to a random draw, they have been chosen to face off in a "Pride Match" at next year's World Cup, the every-four-years global sports spectacle that the United States is hosting. Whether or not the two nations complain is yet to be seen. 

. . . "With World Cup matches set to take place in venues across the country, Seattle decided to take advantage of the situation and teamed up with area activists to give the matches in their city a decidedly rainbow-colored theme. From the FIFA Seattle website: 

"A spokesperson the Seattle Pride Match Advisory Committee (PMAC) told one media outlet, "The Pride Match has been scheduled to celebrate and elevate Pride events in Seattle and across the country, and it was planned well in advance. It is a Host City–led expression of Seattle and Washington State’s commitment to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone belongs: players, fans, residents, and visitors alike. Soccer has a unique power to unite people across borders, cultures and beliefs."

"The spokesperson added, “We are honored to host a Pride Match and to celebrate Pride as part of a global football community. This match reflects our ongoing commitment to respect, dignity, and unity for all.” . . . More...

Teri Christoph is the author of the Smart Girl Politics meme-letter. Follow her on Twitter or check out her carefully curated meme-posting over on Facebook.

Democrats finally shout FJB; Having lost the immigration war, they scapegoat their president

 Don Surber: Substack   

"Biden should take some blame. Sure, he’s just a Walter dummy sitting on Barack “Jeff Dunham” Obama’s lap, but even a dummy would know better than to do what Biden did."

........ 

   "On Thursday, September 2, 2021, students cheering on the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers in their football game against the Citadel Bulldogs began chanting, “F--k Joe Biden.”

"Coastal Carolina won 52–14.

"The Chanticleers chant posed a problem for Disney’s ESPN, which broadcast the game. I am pretty sure the sports channel’s managers hoped it would not spread. It did. The next night, Virginia Tech students picked up the chant in the Hokies game against UNC. Tech lost 17-10 but the chant spread nonetheless.

"Newsweek pointed out at the time:

Biden received criticism over the evacuation operation in Kabul, especially following the suicide attack at the airport which killed more than 180 people, including 13 U.S. service members.

A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that Biden’s approval rating now stands at 44%—a decline of eight points from May—while his disapproval rate is now at 51%, up nine points from the same period.

The survey also found that while 77% of Americans supported the U.S. withdrawing from Afghanistan, 60% of people disapproved of the way Biden handled it.

"Surrendering Afghanistan and enough military gear to make the Taliban great again unmasked his incompetence.

"The FJB chant spread across like illegal alien truck drivers—the difference being the chant’s presence is lawful and the chant never killed anyone. The chant knocked down Biden’s popularity." . . .   Much more here...

Navy Logbook Found 84 Years After Pearl Harbor Attack

 FOUNDERSCODE.COM...Denise Simon

"We need more feel-good stories than we think we do and here is one for you. History buffs and World War ll historians will love this one…  In full from the Military Times:

"One man’s trash is the National Archives’ treasure.

"After more than 80 years, an old logbook containing the initial descriptions of U.S. vessels after the Japanese attack on Navy Yard Pearl Harbor in 1941 was recovered, the National Archives recently announced. The logbook covers the 16 months before and after the attack that was the catalyst for the U.S. entry into World War II.

"Its whereabouts can be traced back to the moment it was plucked from a trash bin in the 1970s at the old Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California, by Oretta Kanady, The Washington Post first reported.

"In an interview with the Post, Kanady’s son, Michael William Bonds, said she found it in the bin while working as a civilian employee and thought it looked interesting. She asked if she could have it, and it remained in her possession until her death in 2000. Bonds then inherited it.

“In the last few years, I’ve moved here, moved there, it’s just been in a box,” Bond’s told The Post. “I hadn’t really looked at it.” . . .

"A fully digitized copy of the logbook is available online.". . . 

Members of the USS Arizona band, known as Navy Band Unit 22, perform on Nov. 22, 1941, in the semifinal round of the Battle of Music at Bloch Arena at Pearl Harbor. They finished second and advanced to a final competition that would never be held. Everyone in the band died onboard the Arizona during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941.

. . . "The logbook covers the status of vessels in the yard during the period from March 1941 to June 1942, a period of extremely rapid and momentous events. During the time period when the first entries, the U.S. was on a peacetime footing and was in diplomatic talks with Japan; nine months later, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered the war; and by the end of the logbook, just seven months further on, the U.S. Navy won strategic victories at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, and was gearing up to retake the Solomon Islands.

"It also shows the Pearl Harbor yard’s essential work in repairing Navy warships after the Japanese attack, putting cruisers and destroyers back in the fight after severe damage. Within six months, the yard had taken in and redelivered the damaged battleships Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Tennessee; cruisers Honolulu, Helena, and Raleigh; destroyers Helm and Shaw; and three auxiliaries, all fully repaired or patched up for transit for permanent repairs."   More here. 

Denise hosts her own weekly radio show, "The Denise Simon Experience".  Listen to Denise at  WDDQ - Talk 92.1FM, and other terrestrial and Internet based radio networks. Topics and guests cover issues media either ignores. Also heard daily on WGUL 860 AM, The Answer, The Salem Media Group.

In Minnesota, Echoes of Failed Somali Experiment in Europe

"Immigration is judged by outcomes, not slogans. And the outcomes of the Somali experiment in Minnesota, in Scandinavia, in the United Kingdom echo with one conclusion the political class refuses to say aloud: the experiment has failed." The American Spectator

How welfare design and immigration policy collide in Minnesota’s fraud crisis.

"There are scandals that explode with theatrical outrage, and there are scandals that settle over a nation like a quiet, damning verdict. Minnesota’s autism-therapy fraud belongs firmly in the latter category. On November 22, 2025, The Washington Post noted — with the weary delicacy that now accompanies every public-sector failure — that welfare fraud in Minnesota had become “far too common,” highlighting federal charges against eight men, six of them Somali, accused of exploiting the state’s Housing Stabilization Services program under Medicaid and helping force the program’s shutdown.

"But the autism-therapy empire  was something darker, and far more revealing. According to federal filings and local reporting, dozens of clinics — many Somali-owned — are under scrutiny for allegedly mass-producing autism diagnoses and billing Medicaid for therapy that never occurred. In one charging document, prosecutors describe a $14 million scheme centred on falsified treatment notes and kickbacks to parents, tied to defendant Asha Farhan Hassan, who is also charged in the Feeding Our Future food-aid fraud.

"That separate case has already produced more than 40 convictions and guilty pleas in what prosecutors call a $250 million conspiracy to fabricate child-meal claims and loot a federal nutrition program. Medicaid spending on autism services in Minnesota soared in just a few years, from relatively modest sums to hundreds of millions, as the number of providers exploded — a pattern that even sympathetic observers concede is impossible to explain as merely better detection of disability." . . . More...

Trump Levels Omar, Suggests She ‘Go Back’ and Fix Her Own Country: ‘I Don’t Want to See Somalia’ Here

Why STUPID People Are a Greater Threat to Society Than Criminals

The Most Likely to Mug for the C-Span Cameras Award- POLITICO  

Members of Congress routinely make inflammatory statements in congressional hearings to gain attention and cable news hits. But Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has managed to become a perpetual content machine. Her profanity-laced tirades against Elon Musk provide plenty of fodder for both MSNBC and Fox News. In 2023, Crockett went viral when she attacked Republicans’ introduction of articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden at one hearing, holding up photos from Trump’s indictment of classified documents stored in his bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. “These are our national secrets, looks like in the shitter to me!” she said.

Last May, she and Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got into a colorful spat during a hearing, during which Crockett suggested Taylor Greene had a “bleach blond bad built butch body.” Not long after, Crockett filed a trademark on the phrase and used it to start her own merchandise collection, branding her dig as “A Crockett Clapback.”

Rep. Crockett says: 'Law enforcement isn’t to prevent crime'  

Jasmine Crockett: "Just doin crime does not make you a criminal"

Many more at the above link, but I have chosen Crockett because she is the most inclined of the others, Republicans and Democrats listed, to split this nation into race war; a perfect mate for Joy Reid. TD

UPDATE: Crockett's Trainwreck Announcement Underscores Why She's Not Ready for Prime Time  

. . . "Now, I'm not going to assume that she's going to tank big time. As we saw with the New York City mayoral race, there appears to be no low that Democrats won't vote for. But this is Texas." . . . 

Why STUPID People Are a Greater Threat to Society Than Criminals

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell

"Are too many people missing—or refusing to confront—what’s staring them right in the face"  Albin Sadar

Tim Walz, What is a woman? 

Bosnia didn’t fall apart because it was Balkan. It fell apart because it was polarized.

 AFNN   

"Bosnia didn’t collapse because people were evil. It collapsed because people were convinced the other side was."

. . . "But Bosnia’s collapse wasn’t ancient history.

"It wasn’t a medieval tribal feud.

"It wasn’t inevitable.

"It was a functional, modern, educated society that disintegrated in less than two years — not because of poverty, not because of famine, not because of foreign invasion — but because its political factions became so polarized that neighbors stopped seeing each other as citizens and started seeing each other as enemies.

"The warning for America is brutally simple:

"Bosnia didn’t fall apart because it was Balkan.

"It fell apart because it was polarized.

"That’s the part nobody wants to talk about.

"What actually happened in Bosnia — factually, historically

"Before the war:

• Bosnia had intermarriage.

• Mixed towns.

• Shared businesses.

• Shared schools.

• Shared military service.

"Sarajevo was called “the Jerusalem of Europe” because Muslims, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians lived together peacefully for generations.

"Then politics hardened.

"Parties radicalized.

"Each group began to believe the others were existential threats." . . . Read more...

The Savagery We Forgot: Bosnia’s War Didn’t Fade — We Just Stopped Looking

The Welcome Demise of Climate Change Catastrophism

"The public has grown skeptical, especially when faced with real problems like the cost of living."

 The American Spectator  

" . . . that’s a sign that the days of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth propaganda documentary and John Kerry’s “special presidential envoy for climate” globe-trotting vanity gig are officially over.

Having Solved Climate Change, Greta Thunberg Turns Attention To Middle East Peace

. . . "You thought I could only tackle climate change? How dare you!" Thunberg said as she sternly admonished reporters gathered at an anti-Israel protest in Malmo, Sweden. "Nothing can withstand the onslaught of Greta Thunberg. All those who stand in my path will be destroyed." . . . Babylon Bee

"Is the American Left finally waking up from its decades-long climate catastrophism stupor? For years, climate alarmism has reigned as political catechism: The planet is burning, and only drastic action — deindustrialization, draconian regulation, even ceasing childbearing — could forestall certain apocalypse. Now, at least some signs are emerging that both the broader public and leading liberal voices may be recoiling from the doom and gloom." . . .

". . . "The climate alarm machine — powered by the twin engines of moral panic and groupthink homogeneity — is sputtering. When the public grows skeptical, when billionaire techno-philanthropists question the prevailing consensus, and when supposedly mainstream scientific projections reverse course, that’s a sign that the days of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth propaganda documentary and John Kerry’s “special presidential envoy for climate” globe-trotting vanity gig are officially over.

"Ultimately, no one stands to benefit more from this incipient trend toward climate sanity than the American people themselves. In an era where optimism can be hard to come by, the professed certitude of imminent environmental apocalypse is pretty much the least helpful thing imaginable. If one is seeking to plant the seeds of hope, nothing could be worse than lecturing to the masses that one is a climate change-“denying” misanthrope if he has the temerity to take his family on an airplane for a nice vacation or — egad! — entertain thoughts of having more children. Even more to the point, given the overwhelming evidence that Americans are now primarily concerned about affordability and the cost of living, more — not less — hydrocarbon extraction has never been more necessary." . . .

(RELATED: Has the Left Moved on From Climate Change?)

(RELATED: Has the Global Warming Threat Passed?)

Read Derek Chauvin’s New Petition … And Weep For American Justice

Sadly for Officer Chauvin, he has no young Gen Z women adoring him as does Luigi Mangione. 

Issues & Insights  

"For Derek Chauvin, it’s a case that tragically has not only ended a career distinguished by multiple commendations, but any prospect of freedom in the near future."

. . . "The conventional conservative pundit play at this point: join calls for the verdict to be vacated and for Chauvin to receive a fair trial with excluded evidence presented to the jury, false statements corrected, and improper expert testimony disallowed.

"But this commentator will instead posit a brutal near-certainty: regardless of the passage of time and the seeming mountain of evidence of Chauvin’s innocence – and even of prosecutorial misconduct – no court will act to vacate his conviction and grant a new trial, or even grant the fallback request of fresh evidentiary hearings.

"Because no judge wants to take on the extraordinary burden of potentially lighting the fuse that ignites a new season of coast-to-coast riots in the name of “attack(ing) some of the core beliefs and structures of cisheteropatriarchal racial capitalist society.”

"In essence, Chauvin – sacrificed on the altar of economic and racial “justice” to appease BLM-inflamed mobs – will remain the victim not of a heckler’s but a hooligans’ veto.

"But even rampaging and plundering may not be necessary. Simply dropping the race card, and thereby creating the prospect of being smeared as bigots in the media, was reportedly sufficient to intimidate Department of Education officials in the selfsame Land of 10,000 Lakes to greenlight continued payments to Somali groups despite the discovery of hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud.

"Any jurist considering providing real justice to the wrongly convicted law enforcement officer will be certain to be the target of bitter invective spewed by professional grifters, accompanied by systematic character assassination via cynical politicians, bought-and-paid-for social media influencers, and lapdog journalists." . . .

How the Left Turned Chauvin Into a Racist Killer  "Although he made up his mind before jury did, President Joe Biden quickly went public once he learned that the Minneapolis jury had, in fact, convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on all charges.

" 'It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism the vice president just referred to — the systemic racism that is a stain on our nation’s soul.” So said the only president to have given a eulogy at the funeral of an Exalted Klan Cyclops, and that just 10 years before Floyd’s death.

"The comments by Biden, endorsed by the media, frame The Overton Window on George Floyd’s death and Derek Chauvin’s verdict. The only acceptable public opinion is that Chauvin intentionally caused Floyd’s death. If proof were needed, former NFL great Brett Favre was tarred and feathered on Twitter for haplessly suggesting otherwise." . . . 

"To justify $2 billion of damages and dozens of lives lost, the Democrat-media complex needed a cause as epic as the damage. The State and its allies had to overcharge all four of the officers. They had to turn Chauvin from a veteran cop, who may or may not have made an error of judgment in the final moments of Floyd’s life, into a villain. They had to turn the career criminal George Floyd into a secular saint. And, finally, they had to elevate an unintentional death into a racist murder.  If there was “stain on a nation’s soul,” Joe, it was the trial."

How sad the evil that possessed the ignorant youth and academics in the streets, the evil race hustlers like Maxine Waters, the reprehensible, cowardly press championed by such as Joy Reid and other MSNBC clones; made most manifest by the Democrats in Congress and their tool, Joe Biden. TD

Threatening to Prosecute Your Opponents When They Give Up Power Is a Bad Idea

 Kurt Schlichter   

"Maybe we will break apart. It's becoming hard to justify remaining in a country with people who despise us, as well as exploit us. But that's not good."

. . . "All the Democrats out there announcing that as soon as they get power, they're going to use the full weight of government to prosecute anybody who had anything to do with the Donald Trump administration reminds me of a historical analogue. They won't recognize it because most of them don't believe that history started until 1619, or maybe when Barack Obama got elected, and anything occurring before then was just dead white men doing dead white men stuff that doesn't matter. But you know, it totally matters whether they like it or not." . . .

. . . "Yeah, I know, that's crazy talk, which is crazy, and stop being crazy, you crazy guy. But then again, I'm not the one out there threatening to prosecute anybody who participates in any policy that the Democrats don't like. I'm just the guy who notices. Luckily, the Trump administration has noticed too, and it's not playing along. It's not giving in. It's not backing down. Nor should we as citizens play along, give in, or back down. Our enemies are evil, but they're also stupid, and they don't understand human nature, nor do they know history. They somehow think that they can intimidate us and shame us into submission, into giving up our right to participate in our own governance and allowing them to rule over us in perpetuity. That's not going to happen. That's not in the cards. They're playing a very dangerous game.

"Now, Julius Caesar was famously kind to his enemies. He showed mercy to most of the people who opposed him during the Roman Civil War he fought and won. Of course, it was the same people he showed mercy to who ended up stabbing him to death. That's another lesson of history, but one that we need to learn. And when we learn it, it's not going to go well for the enemies who force us to protect ourselves from the oppression they promise to impose upon us.

"But there's hope. It's not too late to not repeat history. I'm just not optimistic that the Left is not so dumb and malicious that it will stumble into a catastrophe.". . . 

Pearl Harbor Day From CNN and MS...um....somethingorother

Babylon Bee: CNN Reports On 'Deadly Boat Accident' At Pearl Harbor  

"HONOLULU, HI - CNN and other mainstream news outlets are reporting on a "tragic, completely accidental" boating accident at Pearl Harbor. As details still come in, CNN is urging people to not rush to judgment or assign blame until the story goes away in a few days. 

:"Such a tragic and completely accidental boating accident," said one news anchor. "The thing that's so sad about it is the tragic, totally random accidentalness of it. Our hearts are with the victims and whatever. Anyway, in other news..." 

"Independent journalists from the scene are sending messages that this was an intentional attack by the Empire of Japan that was designed to inflict as much destruction and casualty as possible. Such messages have been dismissed as unfounded and racist, and likely linked to recent increases in anti-Asian hate crimes. 

" 'We do not need to investigate this any further, or talk about it ever again, as it was an accident," said the local Police Chief in a press conference. "Any talk of motive is unhelpful at this time. I think what's really important is allowing our Pearl Harbor community to heal." 

"CNN then quickly transitioned to a news story about the latest Cary Grant movie."