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This year's tax filing season will begin on Jan. 24, 17 days earlier than last year, the Internal Revenue Service announced Monday.

How special!

 

 

 

Oregon, Again

What’s up everybody. The city of Salem is forcing @valleyroofingoregon to remove the mural I painted or to give the mural to the Salem art society. This mural is painted on the property of the business owner. Far away from the street or city property. The city is fining him 200 plus dollars a day if it doesn’t get removed. Or he has to give the mural to some art society. .

We are making a petition to keep it up.

Not only do they want it removed immediately. But they want it removed during the winter. Where you cant even paint over it. What a play by the city of Salem.

 

The offending mural:

 

 

Oregon, where anything goes - except freedom of expression.

 

Reedies & Waste

The U.S. federal government, via its National Institute of Health (NIH), gave more than $465,000 to Portland, Oregon's Reed College to fund a study on gambling that taught pigeons to play slot machines.

Sen. Paul released a statement to the Daily Wire in which he noted, "It seems like just yesterday the national debt was $20 trillion, but now the U.S. has managed to breeze past $28 trillion, spending and wasting more than we ever have."

But remember, Sen. Paul, that people are happier after hearing good news.  So let's focus on the fact that we now have pigeons capable of playing slot machines.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/sen_rand_paul_releases_annual_festivus_report.html

Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) on Wednesday released his annual "Festivus Report," this year reportedly uncovering a whopping $52 billion in wasted federal government dollars — which he said went toward things like a study on gambling that paid for pigeons to play slot machines and another study verifying that, yes, kids crave junk food.

As Congress-critters go, Rand Paul seems most level-headed. How he remains so in that environment remains a mystery.

 

A Man With A Plan

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday floated sending migrants to President Biden’s home state of Delaware, in response to the dozens of migrant flights DeSantis says have landed in Florida at the behest of the Biden administration.

"If they’re going to come here, we’ll provide buses," DeSantis said of the migrants on the flights. "I will send them to Delaware and do that."

Seems like a winning strategy to me; since Biden refuses to secure the border, let him deal with the result in his home state.

 

About...Face!

Heeding cries to “defund the police,” Portland, Oregon, cut millions from its police budget. Now, a year and a half later, officials are partly restoring the cut funds. Portland's not the only city doing an about-face. https://t.co/2TUgUzZ2Wn

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 18, 2021

Well, that explains why I've not seen a squad car cruising through the neighborhood like they used to. I always enjoyed seeing them around, but they disappeared. Now I see why.

It was a city council thing; we never got to vote on it. Belatedly, the council has decided to sort of reverse course a bit:

Only in Democratic cities do you find people who honestly think that less police means less crime.

Breaking: The Portland City Council has decided to defund police by $15 million. @KGWNews https://t.co/Y8Zz2CxjR7

— Bryant Clerkley (@bryant_clerkley) June 17, 2020

Almost immediately the wait times for 911 calls shot up mostly due to the massive increase in crime.

Portland riots, defund police help unleash staggering crime wave https://t.co/0PqiVkR2ll pic.twitter.com/TkwfsVExI9

— Oregon Catalyst (@oregoncatalyst) April 3, 2021

Portland has suffered a crime wave that has given them record breaking homicide rates that have not been seen since the 1980’s.

Portland continues to deal with the consequences of the city’s BLM-antifa inspired decision to defund police & abolish the gun violence reduction team. pic.twitter.com/kIswtelPW2

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) September 22, 2021

So now they're restoring about a third of what they cut out of the department in the hopes that doing so will make things all better. Once again, they're wrong. But at least they're sort of inching back toward sanity.

Now if they could hire more cops to replace the ones the city lost due to city council's idiocy, things may actually improve around here.

Bidenomics: Energy

The Biden administration is reviewing shutting a pipeline in Michigan after anonymously sourced reports said federal officials were quietly studying its potential environmental impact, a White House spokeswoman confirmed on Nov. 8.

When pressed by a reporter during a news conference, White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre disputed reports saying President Joe Biden was going to terminate Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline, which stretches from Canada into Michigan. However, she conceded that the Army Corps of Engineers was reviewing the matter.

“Yes, we are. We are,” Jean-Pierre said. “I thought you were saying that we were going to shut it down, but that is not inaccurate. The Army Corps of Engineers is preparing an environmental impact [statement] to look through this.

On Nov. 7, Politico reported that the administration was weighing the potential market effects of a shutdown of the pipeline in the face of Republican, Canadian government, and industry opposition. More than a dozen GOP lawmakers last week sent a letter to President Joe Biden, warning that the move would further cause gas prices to increase amid already-high prices.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/biden-admin-weighing-shutting-down-another-pipeline-white-house-confirms_4092918.html?

No big deal; it only carries half a million gallons per day from Canada to the USA....

 

California, Again

LOS ANGELES (NewsNation Now) — California is now the first state in the country to require a gender-neutral children’s section at large retailers.

The new law requires stores with 500 or more employees to sell some of their toys or childcare products, such as toothbrushes, outside of traditional boys and girls sections. It does not outlaw traditional boys and girls sections or include clothing.

The large retailers have until 2024 to implement the change or face fines of up to $500.

Clothing will likely be next.

Maybe they should go back to letting people decide for themselves.

 

Wave Of The Future!

Flooding was caused by a slow-moving, low-pressure weather system that sat over the region from 15 July, releasing two months’ worth of rain in two days. Over 10 inches of rain fell continuously in some places in the hilly Ardennes, Eifel, and Ruhr regions; in many cases, this was then channeled down steep-sided river valleys, unleashing massive destructive power in towns and villages in the water’s path.

There's nothing quite like modern rail; just ask the Germans:

That's not going to buff right out...these lines will be down for months (and in many cases, years).

You can see why so many politicians here in America are so eager to dump millions of tax dollars into modern rail.

 

 

The U.S. Military Tries "Anti-Aging Pills" For Troops

U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the organization that administers America’s Spec Ops forces, says it will soon start clinical trials of an “anti-aging pill” that could halt some naturally degenerative effects of aging.

The hope seems to be that these will make them bigger, stronger, and able to quickly recover from injuries in order to rejoin their comrades faster than would normally be the case with their untreated counterparts. Presumably, they're going to have to wait a while in order to assess the relative effects of the treatments.

“We have completed pre-clinical safety and dosing studies in anticipation of follow-on performance testing in fiscal year 2022,” Navy Commander Tim Hawkins, a SOCOM spokesperson, told Breaking Defense.

 

 

Glenn K. Beaton

I like this man's commentary. He says what's on his mind, with no mincing around, and it's easy to see why many agree with him.

As an example, he recently published the following:

A fawning “report” in the Aspen Daily News breathlessly announced more federal COVID funds for Glitter Gulch, otherwise known as Aspen, Colorado. You know the place. It’s where the house pictured above just sold for $72 million, and houses routinely go for $3-5,000/sq ft. Where insiders such as newspaper reporters and city council members get slope-side multimillion dollar homes for dimes on the dollars under the taxpayer-subsidized housing program.

The fed money this time is for Aspen’s vagrants. Er, I mean “homeless.” Er, I mean “persons experiencing homelessness.” Whom, we’re told, are camping on the sidewalks and pooping in the gutters because they’re afflicted with something called “shelter-resistance.”

Aspen already has a “homeless shelter” for people who say they can’t afford a roof over their heads but nonetheless choose to live in one of the most expensive places in the world.

As he so often does, Beaton gets right to the root of the "problem", there. He doesn't simply "flatten the curve"; he pretty well nukes it.