POLITICAL: Why can’t we just declare “victory” and end the War on Drugs?

Thursday, January 15, 2026

https://internationalman.com/articles/the-idiocy-of-using-a-200-billion-navy-to-enforce-a-140-cocaine-premium/

The Idiocy of Using a $200 Billion Navy to Enforce a 140× Cocaine Premium

by David Stockman

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-01-09>>

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Stated differently, the idiots behind Prohibition—from alcohol to cocaine and heroin—believe that they can win by defying the law of supply and demand.

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And that gets us to the absurd economics of the so-called War on Drugs. In this case, we are talking about using hundreds of thousands of domestic law enforcement personal led by the DEA, thousands of Coast Guard and other border patrol and now $40 billion Navy carrier battle-groups to hunt down 312,000 pounds of a drug that is no more lethal than alcohol!

After all, the US governments at all levels spends an estimated $100 billion per year on the War on Drugs. So even if just 20% of that is directly against the cocaine traffic, that’s nearly $320,000 per pound of cocaine interdicted!

That’s surely stupid enough, but it’s not even the half of it. Spending that much on policing, interdiction and supply destruction drives the price skyward.

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The folly described above is not an isolated mistake but a symptom of a system that no longer understands economics, incentives, or limits. An empire that misuses power abroad while debasing its currency at home inevitably reaches for coercion when the bill comes due.

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Like Vietnam, the Gooferment should just leave the War on Drugs or the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” by declaring “victory” and saying the problem is no longer “out of control” or “significant”.  We all know that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.  So why not let it “lie” its way out of a stupid policy?

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DISCOURAGING: Seems like “Somali Immigration” is a national disaster!

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/watch-gop-rep-brandon-gill-busts-receipts-during/

WATCH: GOP Rep. Brandon Gill Busts Out the Receipts During Hearing and HUMILIATES Democrat Witness After Dem. Asserts Massive Somali Immigration Stengthens Minnesota
by Cullen Linebarger Jan. 7, 2026 12:20 pm

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GILL: Let me ask you one more: What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?.

BALLOU: I don’t know.

GILL: It’s 81%…After ten years of being in the United States, what percentage of Somali households continue to be on welfare?

BALLOU. I don’t know.

GILL: The number is 78%.

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GILL: What percentage of working-age Somalis who have been in the U.S. for ten years or more, how many of them speak English very well?

BALLOU: I don’t know.

GILL: The answer is about half. That seems pretty low, doesn’t it?

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Hard to see any positive impact of “Somali Immigration” except that the D’s seem to like it just fine.  The Taxpayers of Minnesota and the USA may have a much different perspective.

I have a few “modest” solutions:

  • All felons are immediately deported.  If they are naturalized citizens, then they are immediately “denaturalized”!
  • All Federal programs must end.  If States want to fund something, then they can do it.
  • All immigrants must pass a basic English test or will not be admitted.
  • All immigrants must have a sponsor, just like back in the old days.  The sponsor bears responsibility for those they sponsor —  if a felon is committed, the sponsor goes to jail.

That should clean stuff up in a hurry.  It’s all about incentives.

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MEMORIES: Reflections upon another year around the sun

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

An old tradition in parts of Germany for men who were still single on their 30th birthday was to sweep the steps of city hall while dressed in drag until they could find a virgin to kiss. Fortunately, it’s been modernized a bit since then. Now, single men and women spend their 30th drinking cheap booze with their friends while sweeping steps or doing other chores to show they’re “eligible” for marriage.

“Birthdays” are just “life’s participation trophies”.

I once wrote:

Maybe someday it’ll be worth “grazillions” at that Antique Roadshow. I can hear it now: “Yes, Veronica, it’s an original primitive author from the earliest days of print on demand when the aboriginal people committed their stories to bound pages of paper. How did you come by this?” “My Great Great Grandmother Terry was a Real Estate Agent and sold Ferdinand a house. And, he was so pleased he gave her this book. She didn’t think much of it, but my Great Grandmother prized it. So it was handed down to me.” “You do know this is an original with a self-proving provenance?” “Really, I had no idea!” “Yes, all of the originals from the author have a personal dedication and are signed on page 51. Do you have any idea how much it is worth?” “No, but always thought $100 because of it’s uniqueness.” “Well, as an original American primitive author, it’s very rare. We believe less than 100 copies were created at cost of less than $20 each. And, it gives us a rare authentic insight to the American culture from the 1950’s to the 2010’s. So, at auction, we believe that it will be sold for … …”

and there the dream ends. ROFL!

Who knows when life really ends?  Maybe when we lose our senses — humor, pathos, frustration, wonder — those are our real senses.

In any event, until the final curtain, this Reinke will just “Face Life”.

Laugh!

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ENCOURAGING: Cuban refugee marvels at a Costa Rican farmers market

Monday, January 12, 2026

https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/12/28/shed-never-seen-that-much-food-before-a-hard-truth-from-a-farmers-market-n4947618

She’d Never Seen That Much Food Before: A Hard Reality From a Farmers Market
Sarah Anderson | 3:39 PM on December 28, 2025

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While filming herself seasoning a large roast, she adds:

I don’t know if you know this, but Christmas isn’t celebrated in Cuba. Most people don’t even have enough money to buy a piece of meat or decorate their homes with lights.

Things are so incredibly different here that I invite you to appreciate it; you can’t imagine how happy people are in this country, and they haven’t even realized it.

Today, I’m only thinking about my family, about how many people didn’t even have a plate of food to eat, how they spent Christmas without electricity, without water, without motivation, and without hope.

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While “We, The Sheeple” in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk vote in a “democratic socialist”, here we have testimony about living in a Communist country.  We have great examples of “socialism” and what results.  Yet we are too stupid to learn the lesson.

Argh!

More examples like this are encouraging since the difference is so dramatic.

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HEALTHCARE: Shouldn’t the US emulate Denmark with respect to vaccines

Sunday, January 11, 2026

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/can-the-us-emulate-denmarks-control?publication_id=1119676&post_id=183742515&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Can the US Emulate Denmark’s Control Over Communicable Disease?
Dr McCullough responds to vaccine ideology
from Peter Hotez on FOX Business, The Evening Edit
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Jan 07, 2026

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Denmark maintains high control over vaccine-preventable diseases despite having one of the most streamlined childhood vaccine schedules among high-income nations. The Danish program vaccinates children against about 10–11 diseases, fewer than the 16–18 historically targeted by the U.S. schedule. Core Danish vaccines cover measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal disease, and HPV. The system omits universal vaccination for RSV, influenza, rotavirus, hepatitis A and B, varicella (chickenpox), and meningococcal disease.

Denmark has universal healthcare, a national health registry, and high compliance rates, which enable rapid outbreak detection and treatment.

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I especially like the idea that patients and doctors can decide if a particular vaccine is needed.  Since individuals are different, everything should be subject to their specific needs.  We are learning that now organs are being created custom for the individual to avoid complications and rejections.  

We need more “science” and a lot less Gooferment “knowing what is best for us”. 

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Stop shielding criminal police

Saturday, January 10, 2026

https://downsizedc.org/act/qualified-immunity-end-it-2/

Qualified Immunity: End it!
Stop shielding criminal police

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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that qualified immunity did NOT protect the cops this time. That means that citizens of the 5th Circuit – in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi – may now have slightly greater protection against police misconduct.

Sadly, qualified immunity continues to protect cops when they lock prisoners in sewage-flooded cells, assault innocent people with tear gas, steal hundreds of thousands of dollars, and shoot kids while attempting to murder dogs. Only congressional legislation can fix this problem once and for all, especially given that the Supreme Court declined to hear the most recent qualified immunity case. 

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The litany of offenses of police, politicians, and bureaucrats is undeniably long and an affront to justice.

Time to have Congress correct it and put accountability back where it belongs.

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HEALTHCARE: When the number of administrators goes up at a rate 18 times as much as … … 

Friday, January 9, 2026

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/01/02/the-healthcare-grift-in-one-chart/

THE HEALTHCARE GRIFT IN ONE CHART

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When the number of administrators goes up at a rate 18 times as much as the number of physicians, you no longer have healthcare, you have a massive grifting operation, designed to enrich health insurance corporations, hospital corporations, Big Pharma corporations, corporate executives, government bureaucrats “overseeing” the healthcare grift, and the politicians who were bribed to create and exacerbate the grift.

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I remember seeing my Mom’s bill for my appendectomy when I was I’m guessing about 10.  It was for my three day stay in the (I hink) Knickerbocker Hospital.  (I remember thinking that was a funny name for a hospital.)  It was for more than one hundred dollars, but less than two hundred.  My Mom luckily had (?Blue Cross Blue Shield?) thru her employer AT&T.  But she had to pay the bill first and submit a “claim”.  (I’d never heard that before.).  Since it was a lot of money, her whole family sat down and looked at the bill, line by line, and item by item.  I never knew if they found any discrepancies.  But, in the end, everyone chipped in.  I wasn’t privy to who kicked in what.  And, when my Mom got the check for 80% of the claim, she paid everyone back.  Simpler times; lower costs.

From that story, I distill that “Health Care costs” would be a lot less if everyone has to pay a percentage.  Maybe, that percentage could be tied to the poverty line. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), everybody pays something. One tenth of a percent up to say ten percent for Medicare / Medicaid Insurance.

I remember two facts: (1) when motorized wheelchairs were new, there was a TV commercial that promised a free one for every one of Medicare; and (2) some news report asserted that a sixth of all Medicare claims in southeast Florida were fraudulent.  Wish I had captured those two “facts” as proof but I am positive of the memory.  (I so sure because at the time my sainted Mother In Law was always griping about phone calls trying to get her to take one. )

So, instead of sending people to jail, the grift was allowed to continue and grow.

Argh!

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POLICY: “Malinda’s Law,” a nation-wide registry for individuals with a history of child abuse

Thursday, January 8, 2026

https://www.change.org/p/enact-malinda-s-law-for-child-safety-in-pennsylvania?signed=true

Enact Malinda’s Law for Child Safety in Pennsylvania

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We propose “Malinda’s Law,” a new nation-wide registry for individuals with a history of child abuse. This registry would enable real-time communication between agencies whenever a child-related emergency or abuse report involves a prior offender. By strengthening these lines of communication, we aim to protect innocent children from slipping through the cracks of a broken system.

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And, why not have such a registry in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee?

I’m a little L libertarian but convicts should be registered.

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DISCOURAGING: The Trump administration is really like a Monty Python skit

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

https://internationalman.com/articles/dropping-the-facade-propaganda-power-and-the-absurdity-of-empire/

Dropping the Façade: Propaganda, Power, and the Absurdity of Empire

by Chris MacIntosh

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It’s like we’re living in a live Monty Python skit. If we are to consider that the Trump administration can end wars started by previous administrations (pretty easy to cut the funding), then the current podium donut of the Deep State in the US has failed spectacularly.

Existing wars: Ukraine and Israel’s war. Can’t really call it a war, but… well, that conflict.

Trump has continued to fund the oligarchs in Ukraine. He’s continued to fund the Zionists’ genocide in Gaza. He’s bombed Iran on behalf of his handlers. He’s bombed Yemen, funded and assisted in the overthrow of Syria and installed the previous head of ISIS (you can’t make this shit up). And he’s now threatening war with both Venezuela and Colombia on the laughable excuse of “drug trafficking.”

It is the most insane inversion of the truth. I understand how history tends to unfold, and reading through the collapse of previous empires I’m quite sure that none were so terribly absurd as this. Curiously, the rest of the world is no longer playing by the empire’s rules.

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In this article, he uses “words” and phrases that are really quite good.  I particularly like the phrase “podium donuts” to describe pundit and spokespeople who say a lot of words but really say nothing.  There is a “word” “shulbit” which I haven’t heard since I worked on Wall Street.  They used it to describe politely <synonym for excrement from a male cow> accounting. 

The substance of the whole rant is that DJT4547 could stop these conflicts with the stroke of his pen.  What can anyone do to him?  That hasn’t been done already.  Impeachment?  Sure go ahead and try.  He can’t be reelected, so there’s no threat there.  “They” have already tried to kill him twice.

DJT wants to have legacy?  Just cutoff the money supply to ALL foreign and domestic war mongers.

Remember Gandhi?  He stopped Muslim Hindu violence cold with a hunger strike.  

That’s a peace prize that is within his grasp if he just has the stones to do it.

I’d like to think I could, but it would take a heroic level of courage.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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ENCOURAGING: Meanwhile, another student called 911, ensuring help was on the way.

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/brother-sister-spring-into-action-to-help-save-their-school-bus-driver-from-medical-emergency/?utm_source=newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=brother-and-sister-save-the-day&_bhlid=cf3cf024260334bd3a789a9735873968f30e5b46

Brother-Sister Spring into Action to Help Save Their School Bus Driver from Medical Emergency
By Andy Corbley – Dec 31, 2025

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Siblings Leap to the Rescue When School Bus Driver Faces Medical Crisis

When an Ohio school bus driver suffered a medical emergency, 8-year-old Catrina quickly noticed and asked if she was alright. Realizing the driver was in distress, Catrina ran to the back of the bus to alert her older brother, Charlie.

Charlie, a 7th grader, rushed to the front and used the radio to call the school for help. Meanwhile, another student called 911, ensuring help was on the way.

The bus driver had previously taught her riders how to use the radio in emergencies, and she later expressed gratitude that they remembered her instructions.

Their calm, quick actions were praised by the school superintendent, who called the siblings’ response truly outstanding.

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Well maybe the children of a future generation will not be helpless mind-numbed robots?

I note the story because one child had a cell phone and used it.  

Remember the politicians and bureaucrats want to take cell phones away from children in Gooferment Skrules!

I STILL disagree.  I remember student using their phones during more than one school shooting.  Hard to do that if they are not there, or in a secure Faraday pouch, or locked in school principal’s office, or a a child’s locker.

Children should ALWAYS be able to connect to their parents,

It’s up to the school’s leadership how to make that happen and “confiscation” is NOT the answer!

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