Archive for 2025
June 12, 2025
HEAR BETTER: Audien ATOM Rechargeable Hearing Amplifier to Aid and Assist Hearing. #CommissionEarned I just bought some similar hearing aides and it does help a lot, especially if you have tinnitus. It tends to drown out the noise.
THE PEOPLE I KNOW SEEM TO BE GETTING STRONG RESULTS: Study: Real-world results of GLP-1 drugs don’t match trials.
JON CALDERA: Why has Boulder become the ideal soft target for violence?
The city pastime in Boulder is not baseball. It’s virtue signaling.
According to census data, more than 15% of Aurora’s population is “Black or African American.” Boulder’s population is only 1.02% African American. Boulder’s racist housing policies make it nearly impossible for poorer people, mostly people of color, to live there. Yet Boulder is the undisputed champion for most white households with “Black Lives Matter” yard signs.
The message is clear. Just because black lives matter, it doesn’t mean we want them living next to us. We’ll make an exception for Deion Sanders.
As a whole, Boulderites are unaware of how people outside of their elitist bubble perceive them. If you are off your rocker, planning to do violence, are you pulled to target the place where everyone not only knows they are better than everyone else, but must announce it?
Then there are some practicalities of violence to consider. If you are going to go on a violent rampage, the last thing you’d need is some armed citizen putting a quick end to you and your fun.
El Paso County has the highest number of concealed weapons permit holders, around 50,000, while Boulder County has about 3,000. Additionally, Boulder made carrying a gun in seemingly every place illegal.
Only 50,000 CCW holders here in El Paso County? I’m doing my part but those are rookie numbers.
UP IN SMOKE: One of California’s most expensive licenses is now basically worthless.
A license to legally sell cannabis in California was once a coveted item, with some selling for millions of dollars. But now, as the California market’s struggles have left some pot licenses effectively worthless, that exuberance has turned into gloom.
Case in point: One cannabis company is offering its retail license in the Southern California city of Oxnard for “free” to anyone who will assume responsibility for paying the lease on the retail location, which has not yet opened for business. The listing still prices the license at $35,000, but broker Meilad Rafiei confirmed to SFGATE the seller is willing to walk away without getting any cash.
“From day one I was telling [the license holders], I don’t know if there’s any value here,” Rafiei said.
Rafiei, the CEO of cannabis industry consulting firm WeCann, said the Oxnard license could have once been sold for as much as $3 million, making the current deal a stunning drop in value.
Ryan George, the CEO of 420Property.com, which is a marketplace for cannabis licenses and real estate, said during the early years of legalization, licenses could trade from $500,000 to $3 million, with one Santa Ana license selling for $8 million. Now he’s increasingly seeing licenses trade for free as they become “effectively worthless” in certain areas.
“Fast forward to today, and the picture has changed dramatically. Market saturation, regulatory challenges, and competition from the illicit market have driven values down,” George said in an email.
As Steve wrote last week, “Sacramento forgot that, long before legalization, California had a robust ‘unlicensed’ infrastructure in place for the production, distribution, and sale of pot. Were they stupid enough to think they could tax and regulate licensed producers and sellers to the point where their product was more expensive than the ‘unlicensed’ stuff — and still collect their precious taxes? I suppose they were that stupid.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE HAS TAKEN UP TRANSCENDENTAL MEDIATION: L.A. Mayor’s Damning Response to Riots PROVES She Is All-In on Rioters’ Extortion Racket.
NEW MILKEN INSTITUTE REPORT OUTLINES HOLLYWOOD’S BLEAK FUTURE (video):
In the current issue of Commentary, Rob Long implores, “Stop Giving Show Business Free Money:”
Let me tell you what happens when you give a movie studio some money: They use it to give themselves raises. In the same way that the union contracts of 2023 led to the Great Irish-Hungarian Exodus, the sugar that the state and global governments sprinkle on production budgets just helps us pay more to the above-the-line, high-salaried players. When I was shooting a show in New York State, for instance, the cash rebate allowed us to hire a lot of expensive writers (from Los Angeles) and a line producer (from Los Angeles) and a do-nothing non-writing producer (from Los Angeles) and an overpaid showrunner who ended up getting the show cancelled (me). When the show was done with, we moved out of the Grumman plant, and to my knowledge, it’s still empty. How, exactly, did the New York State taxpayer win?
And finally, there’s the impossible task of deciding what a “foreign” production really is. Rob Lowe’s show, The Floor, appears on American television with American contestants. It’s shot in Ireland, was developed by a Dutch company, and appears in versions all over the world. Is it Dutch? Is it American? Is it Irish? Do we slap Rob Lowe with a 100 percent tax? Or do we subtract the part of the budget that’s coming back to the United States and tax only the Irish portion?
Or do we just let show business figure out how to make stuff at home? Look, nobody wants to leave sunny, relaxed Los Angeles for rainy Ireland or spooky old Budapest. People in show business want to drive their cars from Brentwood to one of the studios and then head back to their giant kitchens with farmhouse sinks. What show business needs to do is what every other business needs to do, at some point, and that’s to come to grips with economic reality or go broke. What it doesn’t need—from the taxpayer, or the president—is help.
To revise and extend the remarks by the late P.J. O’Rourke, you can’t get good Chinese takeout in China, Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba, and the TV and movie industry is failing in California. That’s all you need to know about communism.
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I MEAN, WHEN YOU’RE A THIRD-WORLD S***HOLE DICTATORSHIP THAT’S LOST THE UN…:
BREAKING 🔴
For the first time in two decades, the UN’s nuclear watchdog has officially declared that Iran is violating its nuclear obligations. pic.twitter.com/0izcWmDPug
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 12, 2025
THE LEFT’S WAR AGAINST WOMEN: Trans-Identified Male Killer Accused of Raping Female Inmate in Illinois Women’s Prison Remains at Facility Despite Officials’ Attempts at Transfer.
Patterson, also known as Janiah Monroe, was first transferred from a men’s detention center to the Logan Correctional Center for women in April of 2019 as a result of litigation backed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois. Court documents reveal that Monroe continues to be detained at Logan, a women’s correctional facility, despite efforts by authorities at the Illinois Department of Corrections to remove him.
In June of 2019, just two months after being transferred into Logan, a woman who was made to share a housing unit with Monroe filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) report alleging that he had raped her. Under the protection of anonymity, “Jane Doe” also accused prison officials of attempting to coerce her to lie about her ordeal, which she would later reveal the details of in a February 2020 lawsuit.
“The transfer of transgender inmates from male to female prisons has been a contentious policy within IDOC,” stated attorneys for the alleged victim. “In an attempt to justify the transfers … IDOC employees covered up the sexual assault of Plaintiff and tried to falsely classify it as consensual, to keep it from being considered a PREA violation.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor sends email encouraging campus to join LA protests against ICE.
CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: Look In Their Eyes: MSM Hacks Know They’re Lying and That Their Industry Is Dying.
THOSE PEOPLE ALL LOOK ALIKE: Al Sharpton seemingly suggests all Latinos are the same as activists plan for ‘Day of Defiance.’
MAYBE NOW POWELL WILL CUT?
"Here Come The Layoffs"; Jobless Claims Rise To 8 Month High As Continuing Claims Unexpectedly Soar https://t.co/uOdq2d1rWu
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 12, 2025
JULIE KELLY: Who Really is to Blame for Anti-Deportation Riots?
As riots now spread to major cities from Seattle and Chicago to New York City, one can safely argue the individual most responsible for initiating the chaos is D.C. Judge James Boasberg. Few people have worked harder to keep illegals here while seeding a dangerous—and false—account of what the president is trying to do.
Boasberg lit the match on March 15 during a series of hasty proceedings to advance the first lawsuit against the president’s Alien Enemies Act (AEA). Within hours of the president signing the act, the American Civil Liberties Union sought a restraining order to stop the removal of illegal Venezuelans associated with the multi-national crime racket known as Tren de Aragua, the basis of the AEA.
Working quickly that Saturday, Boasberg immediately banned the deportation of anyone covered by the AEA. But that wasn’t enough. During a Saturday evening hearing, Boasberg made an outrageous demand of the DOJ, which had been given no time to file a response or even gather their collective thoughts on the matter.
Boasberg: “[Any] plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States, but those people need to be returned to the United States. However that’s accomplished, whether turning around a plane or not embarking anyone on the plane or those people covered by this on the plane, I leave to you. But this is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately.”
At the time, two planes carrying AEA subjects were about to land in Central America—far out of U.S. airspace and clearly outside of Boasberg’s jurisdiction. Further complicating the issue, likely by design, Boasberg failed to include his unhinged verbal demand to return planes in a subsequent written order. (The planes were not sent back to the U.S., opening the door to Boasberg’s contempt trap, as I explained here.)
Even though the Supreme Court reversed Boasberg’s reckless decisions—and later put a lid on his contempt investigation—the die had been cast.
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
DON’T MISS THIS: You Have to See Sen. John Kennedy Nuke Maxine Waters and Gavin Newsom.
NICE BEAST. PRETTY BEAST: Karoline Leavitt Goes Beast Mode on Reporter Defending Violent Rioters.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Feature, Not a Bug — Everything Trump Does Triggers the Press. “That doesn’t mean that President Trump is deliberately antagonizing the Democrats. Here’s merely doing his job. His job happens to be doing what’s best for America, and that’s what bothers the Dems.”
WOULD THE LEFT EVEN EXIST WITHOUT ASTROTURF AND LIES?
🚨BREAKING: Another TikToker reveals they were offered $200 to join the nationwide “No Kings Day” protest in NYC—targeting ICE and President Trump’s deportation policies. pic.twitter.com/Ffrzu19GKO
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) June 11, 2025
REPORT: There appears to be a coordinated messaging campaign spreading throughout TikTok where large creators have released nearly identical statements on the ICE raids