Cool, damp, then warm and damp. High 70s to low 80sF, especially in the sun. Like most of this week. It’s nice to drive with the windows down, and get some fresh air,even if that air is thick with moisture.
Did my pickups. Did my doctor visit. No issue found, so I’ll go see two more guys. I’ll probably use up my deductible again this year. That will make only the third time in the last 17 years.
It was nice that this new doc could just call up my existing imagery and look at it in the office. That is the way electronic records are supposed to work, not just so that every patient has 27 “portals” to check for communication from their doctors.
Hit the HEB for groceries. Almost nothing on sale. 80/20 hamburger was $4.49/pound. Some pork products were on sale, but not a huge markdown. I saved $1 according to my receipt. I used to be able to average between 10-15% savings every trip. I am buying more snack stuff for the kids, and that never goes on sale, but still the difference is striking.
HEB had Charmin blue on sale, 24 pack for $26. Costco has the 36 pack on sale this week for $28. The rolls are bigger at Costco too. I would like to get two more bales at Costco. Maybe today I’ll pop in.
I’ve got some pickups to do today, and some moving stuff around between my secondary, the shop, and storage. Also some office stuff to do in the morning. I really need to do more work on my office cleanup project too, before my wife explodes because stuff is out in the rest of the house.
Part of the office cleanup is to get to my PCs. I need to clean them, and change the DVD drive for a bluray on my main machine. And I need to swap out the UPS and rearrange what’s plugged into what. Every project is fractal. And I’ve misplaced my bluray drives. I set them aside specifically for this update and now I can’t find them. I should have left them on the shelf with the other drives. But I didn’t. Got ahead of myself and now I’m hosed.
Stacks. I’ve got them. Sometimes though, I’m my own worst enemy. If you stack it, keep track of it.
nick
Thursday. Good morning!
Snowy and foggy outside. I foresee accidents on the roads.
I was shattered after the first day back to work yesterday – going from essentially no screen time (other than posting here occasionally) to a full work day at the PC is really hard on the eyes, despite my special spectacles.
I hope the pace of work today will be a bit less crushing than yesterday. The first day back always involves a lot of running to catch up on things that happened during the absence, but all only in order to be ready for new work.
Doctor’s children need to eat too. Glad to hear there was at least nothing obvious.
I am all for supporting ICE, but… As far as I can see from the two videos online, she is turning *away* from the ICE agent. He was brushed by her front-left fender, as she was turning right.
Yes, it was stupid of her, but I cannot see the shooting as justified.
Not a bad idea. However, he does not have that authority. That’s going to have to be an act of Congress.
Because the US is not already running a massive budget deficit.
I swear, Trump wakes up every morning and rolls dice to see what random thing he is going to say today.
69F this morning. Coffee is started. Lunch is packed. Lions are poked in their dens but not moving.
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Just theoretical but – if your sleep apnea exhibits mainly when you’ve been drinking red wine, but the sleep center tells you not to drink when you are doing the at home sleep study, how does that help?
n
Spitballing. Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street would never allow a bill like that to reach the floor of the House.
Midterm election primaries are coming up in the US, with Wisconsin first on Feb. 17.
Texas, along with a handful of other states, is not far behind on March 5.
Impeachment 2.0 will start the first week of January 2027 if the Orange Man loses the House majority.
Because a certain percentage of doctors and support staff just follow the established script. No thinking allowed.
Yeah, for all the good things Trump has done, I don’t know where stuff like this comes from, or why.
This will be great for the North Alabama area if it actually happens. Screw the kids (and grandkids and great grandkids). What’s a little more debt? /sarc
I actually fear for the future for my son, but there isn’t anything I can really do about it except educate him and give him guidance to try and prepare. If it’s a big, slow decline then I think he will be fine as he has a good head on his shoulders.
more on the shooting in Minneapolis yesterday:
Wife of Slain Minneapolis Domestic Terrorist Allegedly Caught on Tape Filming Incident, Sobbing Afterward
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/01/07/wife-of-slain-minneapolis-domestic-terrorist-allegedly-caught-on-tape-filming-incident-sobbing-afterward-n2197894
Note that the embedded link in the above labelled “disturbing footage” is a man filming from the front porch of a building almost directly adjacent from where the Honda Pilot crashed. He asks people to check their loved ones if the vehicle looks familiar, but does not realize that the sobbing, wailing woman who has collapsed by the mailbox is the dead woman’s wife.
There is more that will be coming out as background. Thses women moved to Minneapolis a few weeks ago and it will be of interest to here why and how they plugged into the local protest network. Of particular interest is whether they got paid to make that move as the left repositions their troops across the U.S. (see final paragraph).
Democrats Are Getting Ahead of Themselves and So Is the Media
Kurt Schlicter’s X post is partially quoted, here’s more:
https://x.com/KurtSchlichter/status/2008995897829675419
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/01/07/democrats-are-getting-ahead-of-themselves-and-so-is-the-media-n3810602
Justified J.R. Dunn January 8, 2026
The Left worked hard for this moment. But it’s unlikely they’ll get what they want out of it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/justified.html
here’s some more of that context:
An ICE case study
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/an-ice-case-study.php
Two weeks earlier, same metropolitan area, about ten miles away. I am going to make a good guess: Federal agents were fully briefed on procedure after this incident.
I looked at video reports from Fox9 and Channel 5 (ABC). In one of those the reporter states that peaceful protesters are not allowed to block traffic. Yet that is exactly what they have been doing with impunity as local law enforcement has been ordered not to cooperate with federal agents by the Minneapolis mayor and the Minnesota governor. Note that they are both screaming murder after creating the situation that unfolded yesterday, and also that both of these feckless idiots were in charge in 2020 and allowing violent protestors free rein to burn the city.
One claim that the leftists are pushing this morning is that the deceased woman was a “legal observer”. This is a term that sounds, well, “legal” but has no meaning. It implies something protected or structured without actually saying it. The wife’s statement that “I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” is inconsistent. Was there, in fact, some training that was was received by these new arrivals to Minneapolis? How is it that the woman was part of the organized effort to illegally block traffic and impede federal agents and her spouse was deployed outside of the vehicle to record video?
It’s also worthwhile to note that Minnesota’s history of throwing police officer’s under the bus for lawful actions did not start with Chauvin:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/judge-sentences-minneapolis-police-officer-who-killed-daunte-wright-to-2-years
@brad
I parsed the slow motion video yesterday with my post at 22:07.
Watch the officer draw, and see the SUV wheels are pointed directly forward. See the wheels spinning (and hear them in the real-time video). The wheels may have turned to the right a fraction of a second before the first shot (which went through the windshield, placing the officer indisputably in front of the accelerating 4400-lb vehicle). The officer was moving driver’s left as the vehicle started to turn right, making . He had little or no sightline to the wheels, nor would he have been looking that way while pointing the gun at the driver who was, from his viewpoint, attempting to run him down.
So if you think the shooting was not justified, please explain why and what you saw differently in the video.
Hedge funds have been buying single family homes, running up t he prices, and in many markets someone who intends to live in the home can’t compete on price with someone buying as a rental property, especially if the investor has a credit line already.
I don’t think FEDGOV needs to be banning anything, just change whatever situation makes it a viable play for the funds.
Or get fedgov out of the home buying economy entirely, no matter if there is a social good to be achieved by encouraging home ownership. That is the argument behind the tax credit, and all the other incentives.
n
I watched the bystander video and it’s possible to argue that she was simply fleeing the scene and only headed toward him because he’d run in front of her.
I want to see the minute before to see why the officers jumped out, ran to the SUV and tried to open the door.
BTW, the officer who ran in front of a suspect vehicle (and then shot it) made a tactical mistake. Who jumps in front of a fleeing vehicle?
There are some other meta things going on with this too. The middle aged white woman as social justice warrior thing, and the bystander who immediately tries to shame the male officers. Women attacking men by shaming them is a thing now, with thousands of hours of social media encouraging and rewarding it.
Having watched far too many hours of women on tictak and instafail I can recognize when they have watched too much by the language they use.
n
Apple has a season of a series targeting that audience, “The Savant”, ready to hit their streaming service, but the debut is on hold right now, most likely out of fear that the series will be savaged by the pop culture commentators on YouTube.
@Nick
“I watched the bystander video and it’s possible to argue that she was simply fleeing the scene and only headed toward him because he’d run in front of her.
I want to see the minute before to see why the officers jumped out, ran to the SUV and tried to open the door.
BTW, the officer who ran in front of a suspect vehicle (and then shot it) made a tactical mistake. Who jumps in front of a fleeing vehicle?”
Look again:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/ice-shooting-roils-minnesota.php
The officer that shot was not in front of the SUV until the driver cut the wheels and reversed. Was it accident or intention that doing so lined him up in front?
Another point that escaped me until this morning is that the person in the light-colored stocking cap who was close by the right side of the vehicle and is not visible until about the 00:10 mark is the driver’s wife.
Note also that wide-open driver door of the larger other vehicle that is slewed across the road to the right of the Honda Pilot in an apparently coordinated attempt to block the street. Was the Honda driver’s wife in that vehicle?
Did they seriously wake up yesterday and decide to take 9,000-10,000 lbs and 500-600HP of trucks to meet up with 50-100 friends and their vehicles and play tag with armed federal agents? If someone similarly decides to play with the mayor’s or the governor’s limousine and protection detail and gets hurt would they be at fault?
>>Hmm, three dee printed tissue isn’t far off…
or grown on pig substrate.
Someone will do it.
Wouldn’t that be ‘TRTS?’
It’s for the trannies, you see.
I guess this won’t happen in Florida with its new “ramming speed” law. When ICE vehicles are surrounded by PLTs, ludicrous speed is activated.
Sadly, this woman FA and FO. She would still be alive. Remember, don’t throw shit at someone with a gun, or stand next to the shit thrower.
Hilton Hotels Officially Pulls the Plug on Rogue Minneapolis Location
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/01/08/mn-hilton-hotel-n2669077
As predicted. Hilton has no incentive to be associated with such nonsense.
I hope that Liz Collins and Alpha News and Nick Sortor (who exposed the lie and doumented the sign removal with photos on his X account) continue to follow up. I suspect that the owners who bought the hotel last summer have violated their loan agreement. They have probably effectively removed themselves from the hotel industry. The question remains as to whether they has any federal loan guarantees though some minority ownership flim-flam.
U.S. Withdraws from the IPCC—and Dismantles a Global Climate Bureaucracy
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/07/u-s-withdraws-from-the-ipcc-and-dismantles-a-global-climate-bureaucracy/
That ones going to leave a mark. In addition to direct support there are dozens of big-name professional climate zealots at our universities who look forward to living high at the annual meetings, which seem to be concentrated in foreign resort communities.
All of those junkets are funded with federal tax dollars, and further guidance on the change will doubtless explicitly remove support for those adventures. I’m sure that other countries will step up to keep the grift going. The Germans in particular are keen on it, so if they can get the electricity back on and not freeze this winter, they may rescue the parties.
Pardon a Vous? RUSSIA Wants Its ‘Citizens’ Back From Captured Rogue Tanker
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/01/08/pardon-a-vous-russia-wants-its-citizens-back-from-the-captured-rogue-tanker-n3810603
Russian citizens?
Armed security guards on a ship without cargo?
Rumors of “high-value Russian weapons are hidden in the hull”? (speaking of international law violations.)
Shame Gordon’s not around to write a song.
Homan: I Won’t Make a Judgment Call Before the Investigation – And Why Would Anyone Else?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/01/08/homan-i-wont-make-a-judgment-call-before-the-investigation-and-why-would-anyone-else-n3810621
For cheap political points, Tom, as you know.
Everyone knows that the investigation just started.
That didn’t stop Frey, Walz, the doorknob Sister Senators from MN (“did I mention I’m a lesbian” and “eat the salad with a comb”), AOC., Goldman, and a host of others jump up to get their pusses on the evening news first.
It would have been stupid to stay silent and let the Democrat machine spew and whip up another city-burning, and Trump and Noem didn’t stay silent.
Accepting your enemies asymmetrical warfare is the definition of stupid.
What’s that movie where the kid takes the basketball away from the bully in the lunch room and walks around giving it the Harlem Globetrotter spin while he lists the psychological reasons for being a bully, ending with “small weiner”? Somebody shop Walz’ head on the bully and his sycophants on his toadies, and send me a link.
@nick
You mentioned yesterday that the Minneapolis decedent was not “domestic terrorism” as claimed by Noem in her press conference.
If this were an isolated incident by a local protester, I would agree.
But that’s not what it was. This was the product of months of planned strategy using vehicular violence against federal law-enforcement personnel. The blonde woman killed yesterday was a pawn in the game.
There’s lot’s of video of these tactics being employed to block and impede federal law enforcement. I’ve looked at quite a few, and for a bunch of libtards engaged in “spontaneous protests” it sure looks like someone is coordinating the use of large vehicles that are not usually associated with this demographic.
In particular, have you seen a Prius blocking ICE on a city street?
So can you be engaged in “domestic terrorism” without knowingly being a “domestic terrorist”
Will Walz Get His War?
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/01/08/will-walz-get-his-war-n3810622
Four ramming attacks on ICE today–three in Minneapolis.
The tab for Walz is about $20 billion dollars so far. What’s burning Minneapolis again?
Stop the printing press in the basement of the Eccles Building
The objective of terrorism is to create terror in the general population, in an attempt to bring about political change, primarily through violence.
No way is it terrorism. TPTB have been expanding their purview and reducing limits on their power by abusing the word ‘terrorism’ and its variants. “Making terroristic threats” is a good example. Add the word “domestic” and they are creating further expansions and creating crimes where none existed, and claiming authority where none exists.
Every time they abstract another level “terroristic” = “threats like a terrorist would make” is abstracted, and how and what a “terrorist” is is another abstraction, they expand and loosen any constraints on their power.
This REALLY needs to be resisted as power once granted is VERY hard to get back.
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I’m not arguing that there isn’t coordination, or a guiding structure, or that they don’t have goals and organization. It just doesn’t rise to the level of terrorism in this case, the same way that the clotshot isn’t a vaccine.
n
Stop the printing press in the basement of the Eccles Building
– almost all the bad things we are seeing are the result of easy money looking for some place to go. So yeah, cut that shit out.
n
I am all for supporting ICE, but… As far as I can see from the two videos online, she is turning *away* from the ICE agent. He was brushed by her front-left fender, as she was turning right.
Yes, it was stupid of her, but I cannot see the shooting as justified.
Brad, I am now starting to understand why you moved from Texas to Switzerland. You just do not like the freedoms and responsibilities of the USA.
First, the woman was driving a vehicle irresponsibly in a crime scene. She should have never driven her vehicle into a ICE crime scene, that was a federal crime right there.
Second, she hit an ICE officer with her vehicle and dragged him 50 yards (50 meters) while he and other ICE officers were screaming at her to stop.
Third, she finally stopped and blocked the road to traffic from both directions in the crime scene while ICE officers are continuing to yell at her to exit the vehicle. She had already committed a felony hit and run at this point and was trying to leave the scene of the felony.
Fourth, she floored the accelerator and tried to leave the scene of the felony hit and run again, striking an ICE office again who fired his weapon at her. When the ICE officer shot her, she stopped running him over. I could care less which way the wheels of her vehicle were pointing.
How many times will you allow a person to run over a federal police officer ? How many times should that federal police officer just let her run him over ?
However, I guarantee that if you do this in Switzerland, you will be arrested too. And maybe shot too.
White liberals in the USA are trying to be the death of all of us. My theory is that when women do not have children by age 30 or so, some of them go insane. We are seeing that now.
Hedge funds have been buying single family homes, running up t he prices, and in many markets someone who intends to live in the home can’t compete on price with someone buying as a rental property, especially if the investor has a credit line already.
I don’t think FEDGOV needs to be banning anything, just change whatever situation makes it a viable play for the funds.
Or get fedgov out of the home buying economy entirely, no matter if there is a social good to be achieved by encouraging home ownership. That is the argument behind the tax credit, and all the other incentives.
Many of these hedge fund homes are sitting empty as the hedge funds are trying to drive prices up and make a few bucks when they eventually sell the homes for 1.5X or 2X. The hedge funds are manipulating the home real estate markets across the fruited plains.
Just remember, the hedge funds are soulless. Pournelle used to say that they would sell human flesh in the marketplace if they could.
Will Walz Get His War?
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/01/08/will-walz-get-his-war-n3810622
Four ramming attacks on ICE today–three in Minneapolis.
The tab for Walz is about $20 billion dollars so far. What’s burning Minneapolis again?
Note that all of the protestors are white. This is absolutely crazy.
“Official Hearing in Minnesota Reveals Tim Walz Blocked Investigations Into High Priority Fraud Cases”
https://rumble.com/v741vum-official-hearing-in-minnesota-reveals-tim-walz-blocked-investigations-into-.html?mref=8g74p&mrefc=2
So when is Tampon Timmy gonna be arrested for mismanagement of federal funds ? Actions have consequences, otherwise everyone will start defrauding the federal government.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
White with a two percenter who manages the trust fund from Daddy on speed dial.
It looks to me that the ICE-ShotTM lady in MN and her wife are grifters. Living in a rented house in Kansas City until “fleeing” to Canada after tRump was elected. Now, all of a sudden, in the hotbed of Minneapolis, protesting and interfering in ICE operations. Let’s see what comes out. I’m betting they were paid to protest. AWFL(-A)s. A poet and “handywoman” with a child (supposed) driving a gas guzzler.
Yep. The Good, Bad, and Ugly of being the preeminent Super Power and the greatest country the World has ever seen. Wherever you live, you should think that it is the best country in the World. Why would you live there if you didn’t?
“’Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams announces plan to convert to Christianity before he dies”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-announces-plan-to-convert-to-christ.html
“Famous author of ‘Reframe Your Brain’ expects to reach Heaven if he lives ‘a good life’ amid prostate cancer battle”
Pascal’s Wager:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
“TRUMP GETS RESULTS: US Trade Deficit Falls to Lowest Level in 17 Years, Since 2009 – Trump Cuts Deficit in Half!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/trump-gets-results-us-trade-deficit-falls-lowest/
“The US trade deficit narrowed sharply to $29.4 billion in October 2025, the smallest gap since June 2009!”
Good.
I think 11th hour ‘Christians’ like this will be disappointed. Either there is no God and Heaven, in which case they gain nothing, and potentially lose credibility at the end of their lives, or there is a God and Heaven, in which case they are trying to litigate salvation against an omnipotent agency which is the only source of what they seek. While I’m sure any God has a sense of humor, I’m also sure they have a sense of justice.
My first downvote! I’d like to thank the Academy, and all the little people who made it possible!
@Gavin, since you got excited I, being one of the little people, gave you another down vote. (I did not do the other one).
I am not a believer. This makes people jump to the false conclusion that means I am a non-believer.
I just don’t claim to KNOW. And I’m too much of an engineer at heart to accept conclusions that are unsupported by evidence.
I’ve been told many contradictory things by Christians in the past. It’s also hard to reconcile the way the Old Testament and the New Testament were shoved together. And that’s before you consider the nuances of interpretation by different preachers in different Christian sects. And don’t get me started on the Mormons, 7th Day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Scientists… Nor the lengthy delays between events and the written recording of those events, and the many languages translated and re-translated.
One thing that always bothered me about Pascal’s wager is the transactional nature of it. Tit-for-tat. Like living 70 years as a libertine, and then saying “Psych!” at the end, and God just has to take it.
The thread I hang onto, in the unlikely event my non-belief is in error, is that I’ve been told (I don’t generally do scripture; it’s not my thing), that
It would be a pity to become a Baptist and discover only Assembly of God members were the One True Faith. Or vice-versa.
I would just declare lpdbw as a god like SteveF, but as Hirohito once said “You can’t imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.”
I think that interpretation is a later invention, and Pascal intended in his argument that you should live your whole life in all things as if God exists and you believe in him. Whether that is true or not, you either lose little, or gain much.
I am also unconvinced that there is, or even can be, evidence to prove the existence of God.
In the book of Revelation, the first test is definitely pass / fail to get you into Heaven. It is a simple question, do you follow Jesus ? Yes or no. I am not sure if documentation will be used or required. Some people get a definite pass like Moses, Elijah, Elisha, 144,000 Jews, etc. One wonders about Adam and Eve and their kids. Cain, I doubt it.
The second test takes your works into account for your reward. I have no idea what the reward is, a mansion in Highland Park or a unheated garage apartment in Desolate Acres.
It would be a pity to become a Baptist and discover only Assembly of God members were the One True Faith. Or vice-versa.
A Baptist and a Catholic pass away and find themselves at the Pearly Gates of Heaven. St. Peter welcomes them and offers to show them around. They are amazed at the continuous parties and people having good times but soon come to a high wall in the back of Heaven. They start to ask what the wall is for but St. Peter says, “Shhh. The Church of Christ members are back there. They think that they are here by themselves.”.
I am Church of Christ, so is my wife. Both born and raised in the Church. You would not believe how many people have told me that only Church of Christ members are going to Heaven.
The basis of faith. I’m a Zion Evangelical Lutheran Christian. I was confirmed in the Church with the whole thing boiled down to: believe in your heart of hearts that Jesus is your personal Lord and Savior, and you will be saved. No going out during the week, whacking people, then saying three Hail Marys on Sunday to get saved. Be a good person.
I think 11th hour ‘Christians’ like this will be disappointed. Either there is no God and Heaven, in which case they gain nothing, and potentially lose credibility at the end of their lives, or there is a God and Heaven, in which case they are trying to litigate salvation against an omnipotent agency which is the only source of what they seek. While I’m sure any God has a sense of humor, I’m also sure they have a sense of justice.
There is the case of the thief on the cross next to Jesus who professed belief in the last minutes of his life. Jesus then told he would be in paradise that night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penitent_thief
We go to Heaven based on God’s Grace and nothing else. Now what happens when we get there is a mystery and may be based on your life’s works.
@Lynn
“So when is Tampon Timmy gonna be arrested for mismanagement of federal funds ? Actions have consequences, otherwise everyone will start defrauding the federal government.”
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=418039
and the title of the post:
Revealed: The ICE Agent Who Shot the Paid Antifa Disruptor When She Turned Her Car on Him… Had Been Run Over By An Illegal Alien Six Months Ago, and Dragged Down the Street With His Arm Trapped in the Car
plus this unattributed tidbit:
Ms. Cook and her wife allegedly moved from Colorado a few weeks ago, I’ve looked but not found a still or video with a clear shot of the license plate, but in light of my earlier comment about the Paucity of Priuses (and Subarus of any kind, and other funky-lefty cars) in favor of 4,000-lb trucks, it begs three questions:
Did the red Honda Pilot have Minnesota plates?
Was it registered to the decedent or her wife? And do they have any vehicles registered in Minnesota or Colorado?
What might be interesting about previous owners, financing, etc. of the vehicle?
@Nick
You know how I know we’re not in a police state yet?
Ms. Cook’s wife was not arrested and immediately interrogated under babble juice.
And her (Ms. Cook’s) mom has not been arrested for giving false information to interfere with a federal investigation.
@Lynn
“I have no idea what the reward is, a mansion in Highland Park or a unheated garage apartment in Desolate Acres.”
Working on engines and never busting a knuckle?
Having all your code work right the first time and be unimprovable by any smart-ass kid with Hot Skilz?
Having your knees, fingers and the rest work like they used to?
Deciding to read or watch tv Saturday night when you actually have other options?
The important part here is that he rebuked the other thief mocking Jesus, acknowledged his own unworthiness, and then declared his belief in the innocence of Jesus and asked to be remembered by Jesus in His kingdom. So he acknowledged the divinity of Christ, confessed his sin and asked for grace. Not the same as a cynical play to negotiate a confession as a ‘get out of jail free’ card.
@Lynn
Not sure where you got this, but some of it is incorrect.
No one was dragged yesterday, but the officer who shot the decedent was dragged 100 yards down a Minneapolis street in June 2025 and required 33 stitches. Yesterday I posted the link to a similar incident in Minneapolis just two weeks ago. Related injuries to DHS officers up 1300% in one year. Weaponizing vehicles is a tactic, and I would bet that it’s a trained tactic.
The woman that was shot was a paid agitator and has been described as leading and directing this particular “protest”, as implicated by her fellow drivers and providing more context in why she was so desperate to get away and why her fellow protestors were apparently helping.
Working on engines and never busting a knuckle?
The last time I worked on an engine, my lower back went out on me in five minutes. Busting a knuckle is trivial compared to your lower back. I even had to go get some muscle relaxants as the spasms were horrible.
I don’t work on vehicles anymore.
Call him “Filthy Frey”:
‘CUFF This Piece of S**t’: Is THIS the Real Reason Mayor Frey Doesn’t Want ICE in Minnesota? Because WOW
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/01/08/mayor-freys-hands-may-even-be-dirtier-than-tim-walzs-check-out-what-we-just-learned-about-his-wife-n2423698
No one was dragged yesterday, but the officer who shot the decedent was dragged 100 yards down a Minneapolis street in June 2025 and required 33 stitches. Yesterday I posted the link to a similar incident in Minneapolis just two weeks ago. Related injuries to DHS officers up 1300% in one year. Weaponizing vehicles is a tactic, and I would bet that it’s a trained tactic.
Ah, I did not realize that the two incidents were date separated. There is a lot of confusing talk going on out there.
To me, attacking somebody with a vehicle is life threatening and felony battery.
I still want to know what happened prior to the incident that caused the ICE agents to rush to her vehicle, and try to open the door.
Despite the video, there is a lot we don’t know.
Like, if it was Texas, and she was fleeing the scene of a felony that you’d witnessed, and you believed she’d get away with the felony if she succeeded, deadly force is justified under the law. MN probably doesn’t have that, and if they had her image and plate, there wouldn’t be any real reason to believe she’d get away with it.
I’m sure there are things like that in this case.
Also remember this is the place where they trained their cops to use the ‘kneeling on a persons head’ technique to control detainees then railroaded him when it went bad. The hypocrisy runs deep in MN.
n
Transgender man, 23, who got pregnant during fling says he will give his baby son up for adoption
Jax Squire, a 23-year-old transgender man, has been pregnant before, decided that he decided on adoption because he ‘couldn’t go through losing another one.’
– that there could be an article like this, and people are supposed to take it seriously, shows how insane our world has become.
How does a woman on that many male hormones become pregnant anyway?
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The Truth Comes Out About ‘Minneapolis Mom’ Renee Nicole Good – and It Confirms Everything You Suspected
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/01/08/the-truth-comes-out-about-renee-nicole-good-n2197928
Trained in the use of a motor vehicle as a weapon.
Revisiting my post from 13:36 yesterday:
“There is an embedded 39-second video that shows a dark red SUV slewed crosswise across two lanes and agents approaching and ordering the driver out (00:07). About four seconds later (00:11) the SUV’s backup lights go on, it reverses about four feet, and then spins its tires as it accelerates forward. An officer fires three shots (last at 00:14).”
Watch it from the beginning:
At 00:00 the officer who shot Ms. Good was behind the SUV filming, walking toward the passenger side, and closely (within or almost within touching distance) of Ms. Good’s wife, who is also filming.
At that point Ms. Good had a clear path in front of her, just pull straight forward and leave.
Instead she waited. Why would an activist with a group “known to use their vehicles as weapons against law enforcement” and “trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training” wait?
The video does not show how long the Honda was in place, but there is nothing to indicate that the driver was inhibited in any way from leaving before the video started.
She has a clear exit path until about 00:03, at which point the officer on the driver’s side is approximately even with the front passenger door.
The officer is filming with some kind of hand-held device. If that video is available, then it may show when the driver became aware of him. If he continued filming as he walked around the front, it would be an interesting pov when he discards it in the course of drawing his weapon.
This part of the action is improperly characterized by the person doing analysis for the NYT. It is corrected somewhat by John Sexton:
“So what they’ve said is 1) the SUV turned right trying to leave and 2) the agent grabbed his gun. That’s misleading and inaccurate. What they should have said, if they wanted to be accurate, is that the car surged forward, the agent drew his gun and then the wheels started turning right, suggesting the driver was attempting to leave.”
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/01/08/the-ny-times-video-of-the-minneapolis-shooting-n3810632
but not, I believe, quite right.
Here was what I wrote after watching the slow-motion video and editing my earlier comments:
The SUV didn’t appear to turn [to the until the first round was fired.Woman trained by an organization that weaponizes the use of trucks to intimidate, assault, and yes, terrorize law enforcement, behaves in exactly the fashion–patiently waiting, aiming the vehicle, flooring it when a target is in front–that would be consistent with a calculated attempt to maim or kill a law enforcement officer.
If I were in Ms. Noem I’d be seeking arrest warrants for every identifiable member of that group as domestic terrorists.
@nick
“I still want to know what happened prior to the incident that caused the ICE agents to rush to her vehicle, and try to open the door.
Despite the video, there is a lot we don’t know.”
We will get the prequel at some point.
Likewise, we will eventually see any bodycam or vehicle camera footage, and hopefully the video taken by the officer from the driver’s side.
But there is one glaring omission, and implicit omissions:
The glaring omission is the video taken by Ms. Good’s wife. The most likely reason we have not seen it is because it does not support “The Narrative”, in which case it is almost certainly destroyed.
Likewise, in the middle of an anti-government operation with dozens of people and multiple vehicles, organized to the extent that Ms. Good’s wife was deployed to take video, we have not seen any video from other anti-government actors. The conclusion, again, is that it does not support “The Narrative”.
Similarly, we do not have more video from the neighborhood.
I expect that the existing video combined with that from law enforcement and the measurements on scene by the crime lab technicians will locate the vehicles and people to within a few centimeters at least.
DHS: CBP Agents Shot Two Tren de Aragua Members in Portland After They Tried to Run Them Over (Updated)
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2009413702018322862
Keith Ellison: ICE Wanted to Kill Renee Good
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/01/08/keith-ellison-ice-wanted-to-kill-renee-good-n3810645
Wonderful. That’s the lot. Keith X has just insured that the State of Minnesota will have no significant part in the investigation of the assault on Officer Ross by the now-deceased domestic terrorist Renee Good.
I’d suggest that DOJ compile a comprehensive file of all the statements made by Minnesota “See No Somalis” officials, and if they try to pull anything in state court hit them with federal conspiracy charges.
Walz: ‘I Have Never Used Inflammatory Terms’
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/01/08/walz-i-have-never-used-inflammatory-terms-n3810631
“It’s Coming”
https://areaocho.com/its-coming-6/
“The left is ramping up their resistance of Trump, and now even local government officials and law enforcement are joining in the resistance.”
“Trump will keep goading them, and they will stupidly continue their idiocy, until it reaches a level that permits him to use military force to suppress the insurrection.”
Yup. It will not be pleasant when they wake up and find 10,000 Marines camped out in the main city park.
Idaho once dropped 76 beavers from airplanes—on purpose
Don’t worry. They had parachutes
https://www.popsci.com/environment/beaver-drop-idaho/?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=popular-science-newsletter
“Heave it to Beaver”
“who can resist a flying beaver? ”
“Idaho’s beaver problem”
“There is a huge beaver movement now”
It is reported that attorney’s are working on a demand for reparations by Geronimo’s family.
The digitally restored documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLz2bTprMA&t=3s
See “Why we committed Grandpa” coming soon.
Transgender man, 23, who got pregnant during fling says he will give his baby son up for adoption
Translated the way Libs Of Tik Tok does it:
“Woman pretending to be a man gets pregnant and she will give up her baby for adoption”
“The First Production All-Solid-State Battery Is Here, And It Promises 5-Minute Charging”
https://insideevs.com/news/783380/first-production-ready-all-solid-state-battery-official-specs/
“Donut Lab claims it can build gigawatt-hours worth of solid-state batteries today without using any rare materials.”
“According to Donut Lab, its production-ready all-solid-state battery has an energy density of 400 watt-hours/kilogram and can be fully charged in as little as five minutes for as many as 100,000 cycles, without having to limit charging to 80%. By comparison, some of the top-tier traditional Li-ion batteries available today have an energy density of around 250-300 Wh/kg and can last for up to 5,000 full cycles, while limiting the maximum state of charge to 80%.”
“What’s more, extreme temperatures have little to no effect on Donut’s solid-state battery, with the startup claiming its product retained over 99% of its capacity at temperatures as low as -22°F (-30°C) and as high as 212°F (100°C).”
That is a lot of very serious claims. Especially the energy density. I wonder if they can really mass produce this battery ?
Of course, one of the major problems with solid state batteries is that they like to discharge very quickly. But Donut says that their batteries are very unlikely to have fires.
Because the US is not already running a massive budget deficit.
First, Trump is having to rearm the military since we gave all of our non-nuclear arms to Ukraine and Afghanistan. This is turning out to be incredibly expensive since most of the more exotic arms assembly lines were shut down, some for decades. The restart costs of finding the machinery and setting it up again is expensive.
Second, Trump always starts his negotiation high. It is his trademarked Art Of The Deal.
Third, inflation is much higher than reported for the last five years. Military payrolls have jumped accordingly.
Fourth, we need to rebuild all of the nuclear weapons containing tritium. The last estimated cost that I saw was over a trillion dollars. I am unsure of the status of the Pantex nuclear recommissioning plant in north Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantex
The most expensive military is the second best military, the losers.
“Has the Insane Iranian Regime Cut Off All Internet Access to Cover up a Mass Slaughter of Protesters?”
https://discernreport.com/has-the-insane-iranian-regime-cut-off-all-internet-access-to-cover-up-a-mass-slaughter-of-protesters/
“The NetBlocks monitoring organization said at about 8:30 local time in Iran that its live data “show #Iran is now in the midst of a nationwide internet blackout; the incident follows a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests across the country and hinders the public’s right to communicate at a critical moment.””
“One CBS News source in the capital said there were “huge crowds out across Tehran. Unprecedented,” and confirmed that the internet was down for most people in the city. He said some people, with more robust, more reliable business accounts could still get online. Not long after, that source became unreachable, suggesting the blackout had widened even further.”
I have not seen any unlicensed usage of my software in Iran in several days now …
Oh shoot, did SteveF miss National Snuggle A Chicken day, January 8 ?
https://nationaltoday.com/national-snuggle-a-chicken-day/
hinders the public’s right to communicate
– the public in Iran has no right to communicate.
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I’m for bed. Got stuff to do tomorrow that didn’t get done today.
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