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Mark Rober (Former NASA Engineer of "Stolen Package Glitterbomb" fame was being outsmarted by squirrels successfully raiding his birdfeeders, so he decided to science it into submission. LINK: Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder-The Ultimate Squirrel Obstacle Course!"

This video is only seven minutes, but can give you the fact based tools to see current events in their proper perspective. I implore you to use your time wisely by watching it. Opening commentary from linked video at:"Black Lives Matter Kills People" by Bill Whittle (originally published on August 30, 2016): “Black Lives Matter is a Democratic Party scam. It is a combination street army, terrorist organization, and voter turnout machine and has killed, and will continue to kill, policemen, white people, hispanics, and asians. Oh, and…Black Lives Matter gets black people killed too." That summarizes Black Lives Matter...

Bill Whittle mentioned this video in one of his streaming sessions while discussing the recent successful SpaceX mission. This video was released by SpaceX, and shows the failures they had leading up to their first successful booster recovery They set the sequence of videos to John Philip Sousa's "The Liberty Bell"...a masterful choice and implantation here, but known to many people as the theme song for "Monty Python's Flying Circus"...:) You can watch the entire thing at the link above, but if you want to see what I consider the finest synching of a teeth rattling explosion to the music...

The political persecution of Lt. General Michael Flynn is one of the most shameful political assassinations this country has ever seen. It is seen by some as a sideshow to the efforts by the Left to bring down President Donald Trump, but I have come to believe the events surrounding Flynn are central to the overall abuse of power and betrayal of the trust of the American public by the Obama Administration. I view the lawlessness and bitter vindictiveness of the Obama Administration and its allies in the media who have played a major role in this scandal as...

On the Dan Bongino show today, he discussed an issue with has had a lot of theories advanced about it: Where did the FBI get the transcript of the phone conversation between Michael Flynn and the Russian Ambassador Kislyak? There are a limited number of legal ways to get this conversation and the names of the two people, one a foreign national, one a US citizen: Go to a court and get warrant. There needs to be a worthy reason that is a violation of the law, and that is presented to the judge when applying for the warrant. It...

In the last three days, I have begun having issues using Google (I have to use Google for work, and I haven't seen the issue there) getting constant CAPTCHA, and this morning, out of the blue, my banking program refused to work saying that I had cookies blocked. Now, I haven't made any changes to my browser settings (I use Safari) so I made sure VPN was off, cleared all caches, history, and cookies, but was still unable to login. So I decided to change some settings I haven't touched in years, and one of them was the setting for...

COVID-19 Comedy: Too Soon or Not Soon Enough to Laugh in a Pandemic? (Bill Whittle) I thought everyone could use a good chuckle about this situation. My wife was wondering what I was snickering at as I watched it... Please enjoy!

Like many Americans, I am astonished and outraged at what the Democrat Party has attempted to do with the Coronavirus Relief Bill. I am not a fan of bailouts, but this situation is unprecedented, and I am inclined to go along with a bill to help people and businesses affected by this. And there are many. When I heard the list of things that had been inserted in this bill by Nancy Pelosi and her ilk, it made my blood boil. Then, when I began looking closer, the range of things seemed bizarrely disconnected, as if they had taken their...

Bill Whittle: Pop President: What Donald Trump Gets That Ronald Reagan Could Not "President Trump puts on a spectacular display of message dominance while drowning out the mainstream media. Does this consummate entertainer — this pop president — get something that even Ronald Reagan could not? Have Americans changed in the intervening years so that Reagan couldn’t cut it today?"

I had to put my cat to sleep today, he was suffering. What a good boy, I shall miss him. I know he was only a cat, but I sure did love his company. He was an unusual and interesting cat. He worshiped my wife and followed her around as if she were some kind of feline deity, but would deign to spend some time with me as well. Damn. I sure will miss him.

This is the "FUNNIEST TRUMP CAN'T WIN COMPILATION from a while back, and I hadn't seen it before...it contains this famous scene: The Infamous Drop of the Phone by Obama I know there have been a lot of these out there, but I somehow missed this one, and as I watched it, I realized that probably more than any other video compilation of this kind, it explains why they hate him on the Left.

If The Titanic Sank Today."This brilliant cartoon illustrates a point covered here, made available by the very medium I wish to both praise and criticize. Let me preface this: I am not a Luddite. I am and have always been mostly an early adopter as a consumer, in the vanguard of change. So this is not an expression of nostalgia for "the good old days". These are just my thoughts on The Internet and computer technology in general, and the effects these things have had on our world. The Internet isn’t in and of itself a bad idea...it’s a great...

Bill Whittle, one of the most eloquent of conservative voices to be found, is also a pilot and an aviation enthusiast. On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Bill Whittle has hosted a four part series on the Apollo program titled "What We Saw". There are four hour-long episodes: Apollo 11: What We Saw: Part 1 - We Choose to Go to the Moon Apollo 11: What We Saw: Part 2 - The Clock is Running and We're Underway! What We Saw: Apollo 11: Part 3: In the Beginning... Apollo 11: What We Saw - Part 4:...

I live in a Blue State, and I thought about my Fourth of July experience today, and contrasted it with what I might see in other states. I would like to hear about other people who went to parades, what you saw, and how you see it relating to our nation today. I had an experience today that made me angry, and two other experiences that were memorable and rewarding for me. Post about this day, how you experienced it, and how you see the state of our country today through the prism of the Fourth of July. This is...

Bill Whittle, Scott Ott, and Stephen Green on Right Angle discussion: Salon, ThinkProgress, Vox and other Progressive media outlets struggle to stay out of bankruptcy despite the growing popularity of socialism in the United States. Is this proof that free enterprise is a failed economic model when a good-hearted Progressive can't make a profit trying to destroy capitalism?

Historian-author-pundit Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Case for Trump, opened the Freedom Center's annual West Coast Retreat at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes (April 5-7, 2019) with a wide-ranging and stirring keynote address.

Note that this is not a real article. It was composited and altered from various sources and changed to make a point (to protect the "guilty" some might say) It may sound vaguely familiar to some. I have changed names, crimes, and technologies. This was done as an exercise. *********************************************************** In June of this past year, Fox News, asked the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward about the story: “Are members of the media, do you think, Bob, too scandal-obsessed, looking for something at every corner?” According to an analysis by the Media Research Center, the news coverage of the congressional hearings...

I find it interesting that there seem to be few analysis pieces that show the cost of illegal immigration to this country annually, and compare it to the cost of a wall, never mind just $5 Billion of the wall Trump is asking for in the 2019 budget. I tried to construct an analogy that might resonate more with normal people...when you talk about billions here or trillions there, it tends to lose impact. The numbers are too big for us to relate to. Also, I tried to think of it from a business perspective. Imagine you were a farmer...

Lucky France. The yellow vest protests are showing no signs of letting up. In fact, France is revving up for a new round from les gilets jaunes, so it's going to get ugly once again. Ahead of that, the tax-protesting revolutionaries, who lit the bonfire last November over the French government's scheme to raise fuel taxes in the name of "going green," have not only forced the unpopular government of President Emmanuel Macron to delay its much loathed fuel tax, but taken the battle to a related quality-of-life front that hurts them a lot: speed cameras. Those Orwellian devices that...

Statement by President Trump on the Paris Climate Accord, June 1, 2017 THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you. I would like to begin by addressing the terrorist attack in Manila. We’re closely monitoring the situation, and I will continue to give updates if anything happens during this period of time. But it is really very sad as to what’s going on throughout the world with terror. Our thoughts and our prayers are with all of those affected. Before we discuss the Paris Accord, I’d like to begin with an update on our tremendous — absolutely tremendous —...