Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

Bonus!  Hydraulics for Dummies (like me).

One of the main reasons Republicans have trouble getting traction?

Because there are too many Tom Emmers in the country: "Minnesotans Begged GOP Rep To Stop The Somalis Over A Decade Ago — He Told Them It Was Impossible".

As far as I'm concerned, this guy, whether intentionally or not, aided and abetted the Democrat machine in flooding Minnesota with largely unassimilable aliens who developed a fairly substantial and sophisticated criminal class that, as we are finding out in spite of a media blackout, has been responsible for an enormous financial fraud against the U.S. taxpayer.  And he's majority whip in the House? Please.

The GOP is dying a death of a thousand cuts - and most of them are in the back.

The main point

Some conservatives (and purported conservatives) have lamented the on-going fracas between Tucker Carlson and those on the right who vigorously oppose his most recent ideological iteration as an anti-Israel, Nazi-curious friend of Islam, viewing this situation as a distraction from the key issues of retaining control of the House of Representatives in the next election. Essentially, these hand-wringers are complaining about what they take to be an internal feud. 

I disagree. Criticisms of Tucker Carlson (and even more bizarre opinionators such as Candace Owens) are no longer an "internal" matter, if they ever were. Carlson has placed himself well beyond the pale of anything representing historical and practical American conservatism. He is not an internal problem; he is an external foe who, perhaps, could be said to be infiltrating the right; however, he is no longer of the right - or, at least, he is no longer part of any rightist faction that I recognize or am able to see as acceptable.

And I am beginning to wonder to what extent he may simply be...not all that bright: "Tucker Carlson: 'I Don’t Know Anyone Who’s Been Killed by Radical Islam.'”

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Is there no limit to the depth and breadth of Democrat corruption?

 Apparently not.

Remember how shocked everyone was when Kamala Harris strangely chose quirky Tim Waltz as her VP running mate?

What if it wasn’t a strange decision at all and a calculation based on access to billions of dollars of Somali fraud money that could be funneled to her Presidential… pic.twitter.com/rG58i5fo4p

— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) December 28, 2025

Many details of the unfolding scandal can be found here: "FBI Says Minnesota Fraud Arrests 'Tip' Of The Iceberg... Here's Just What Nick Sherley Found".

Archiving the fall of Great Pretty Lame Britain

As friend and commenter R-Man wrote in re a previous post, "If it hasn't been already, Britain is about to be added to the list of countries in the world that are beyond any hope of salvation."

Herewith, more evidence in support of that statement.

Classical corner

From Ottorino Respighi's tone poem, The Pines of Rome, here is the third movement, "The Pines of the Janiculum".