“Fuck Around and Find Out” Is a Two-Way Street

Stephen Miller, the Temu Nosferatu, thinks that “might makes right” and to prove it, he’s goading Trump to use the US military to smash-and-grab Greenland.

But Stephen Miller and his fascist wife live on a US military base.  

Why?  

Because they’re cowards who are afraid American citizens will kill them. 

But guess what? 

Stephen Miller and wife don’t have to *just* worry about Americans any more.

Why?

Because as of today, there are entire special forces units in other countries now ready to show Stephen Miller what bombs and bullets can actually do to human flesh.

A dead Stephen Miller and a smoldering pile of rubble where Mar-a-Lago used to exist, will be where this ends if it continues in the current direction at the current velocity.  

And Greenland?  

Greenland will remain Danish and free, while Stephen Miller’s body will be rotting in an unmarked grave.

Cat Stevens :: If You Want to Sing Out

Bring the Pain to Bring the Change

A joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland:

"Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."

To be clear; this is NOT ENOUGH.

▪️NATO countries need to announce that any attack on Greenland or Canada will result in the immediate sale of all US Treasuries, which will tank the US economy.

▪️NATO countries need to be prepared to file economic sanctions and/or close every Trump- and Kushner-owned and associated business, from hotels to crypto currency, from shipping to web services. 

▪️ NATO countries need to be prepared to file criminal murder charges in the ICC against Trump Administration officials (including Trump, Vance, Kushner, Miller, and Rubio).

▪️ Denmark and Canada need to acquire scores of bomb-carrying stealth sea drones to ensure that any attack on Greenland or Canada results in a massive loss to American naval vessels from no-point opponents.  Caribbean and Latin American countries need to engage in parallel acquisition and organization to counter threats to Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Cuba.

▪️NATO needs to announce that it has organized a non-NATO quick reaction force that includes combat-ready troops capable of blowing up US-owned private property and sinking American oligarch yachts around the world if Greenland or Mexico is attacked. A similar quick reaction alliance is needed among Caribbean and Latin American countries.

▪️NATO also needs to announce that any attack on Greenland will result in the immediate closing of US Naval bases in Spain, Italy, and Greece.

Why You’ve Never Heard of Venezuelan Oil

You’re asked to name oil producing countries.

No problem:  Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, the UAE. 

More?  The US, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Nigeria.

Missing from you list:  Venezuela, which statistically has the most oil in the world.

But guess what?  You can’t pump statistics.  

Most of Venezuela’s oil reserves look much better on paper than they do in the field.

Most Venezuelan oil is tar-like extra-heavy crude, or tar sands.  The very heavy, sulphur-rich, “sour” Venezuelan oil is too thick to pump through a pipe unless it is cut with thinner stuff trucked or piped in from some distance.

In addition, there are very few refineries, anywhere in the world, that can process this stuff, and the cost of doing so is phenomenal.

How bad is it?  

Consider this:  Venezuela mostly runs on imported fuel.

Time to Cut the Head Off the Snake

During the Vietnam era, the US military would engage in “protective reaction strikes,” the official term for an airstrike initiated by US aircraft in response to threats and foreseeable action by enemy forces, aka Vietnamese nationalists opposed to colonial rule. 

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.  

With Donald Trump engaged in routine murder on the high seas, kidnapping and human trafficking at home, and armed invasion of other countries for bad-faith reasons, the rest of the world needs to dial in its sights and prepare for what is clearly ahead. 

So far, Trump had  gotten away with it all, and he is not going to stop unless he feels the hammer blow of deterrence.

With daily threats now being directed at Columbia, Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Nigeria, Cuba, and Mexico, a “protective reaction strike” on Trump himself can easily be justified by at least a half dozen countries.

And in an era of “nonpoint” source warfare, thanks to low-cost drones armed with powerful explosives, 

Trump and the United States may soon discover neither the White House nor Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club are defendable spaces.

Waiting is not an option. If we have learned anything from Trump himself, it’s that it’s best to strike hard and early, before defensive forces and contingency plans are in place.

To be clear, if Trump is not stopped NOW, it will be impossible later on, whether at home or abroad.

Wait?  

For who?  The US military cannot be trusted to hold the line, and neither can Congress or the American courts. 

Every American guardrail has failed, not just once, but dozens of times.

The courts?  The US Supreme Court has said Trump cannot be prosecuted for anything — not even murder of a political opponent.

Congress?  They have abdicated all responsibility. The Constitutional Republicans are cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown, while the Democrats have been reduced to issuing tweets and “strongly worded” press releases.  

Pathetic.

The military? They have not batted an eye. The US military has murdered hundreds of people in the Caribbean without trial and without any of the murdered making threat to anyone. 

Our armed forces — every branch, and from top to bottom — have been actively complicit in occupying our cities and invading other countries, without any sort of Congressional approval or oversight.

This is fascist dictatorship at its most base level, and we are still early in the arc of destruction to come.

Right now, $100 billion has been earmarked, not for schools or hospitals, but for armed thugs answerable only to Trump, and for a system of detention facilities to be filled by those self-same thugs.

Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill,” signed in July of last year, allocates $45 billion in new funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities.  

You don’t build $45 billion worth of detention facilities to deport a few thousand criminal aliens, or even 100,000 non-criminal illegal aliens.  

You build $45 billion in detention camps when you intend to round up hundreds of thousands of dissenting citizens.

Trust me; this is coming — along with more invasions of other countries, and more “disappearing” of people rendered to dark sites in impoverished Third World countries far from lawyers, and conveniently adjacent to torture facilities and cemeteries.

This is a well-traveled path. We have seen it before, from Germany to South Africa, from occupied Palestine to Iraq, from North Korea to Guatemala, from Chile to Serbia.

Something wicked this way walks, and we can no longer say we do not see it coming.

It’s time to cut the head off the snake. One way we know it’s time, is that by simply talking about what’s going on right now, folks are beginning to worry about their personal safety.

Intimidation into silence is the quiet distress signal of a burning democracy. If we can be intimidated into silence now, then what comes next is going to be well and truly terrifying.

I am telling you to Open Your Eyes.  Wake up now, or forever live in the nightmare to come.

Acapella Blackbird

Psychotic Murdering Used Car Salesmen

"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Looking For Love In All the Wrong Places

It seems a lot of folks have NO IDEA how to quickly find a good rescue dog.

Let’s start with the basics:

▪️Almost every breed has a breed -specific rescue operating in your state.  Use the Google and contact the breed club.  For example, if you were looking for a Papillon, try >> https://bfy.tw/UTJu  Note:  Not one commenter has ever said they first called a breed rescue.  Amazing!  It’s almost as if the commenters are  not *really* looking for a dog, but for an excuse to go to a breeder.  Which is fine, but just be honest about it.

▪️If you are going to County pounds, you’re doing it wrong. That’s like going to a police holding cell to look for a date, while ignoring every on-line dating site.  Most rescues and shelters feed their available dogs into petfinder.com, which is searchable by breed, size, age, etc.  It’s a terrific tool (funded by Purina) and it has placed over 40 million dogs, cats, and other pets.  Try >> https://www.petfinder.com and look at dogs within 100 miles of your house.  If you won’t drive 100 miles to see a dog, please do NOT get a dog.

▪️Pet stores often have rescue and foster “meet and greet” events, which is a great way to meet folks at rescues and find out about dogs even before they are listed.  Rescue vans are coming into your area all the time, and if your solid application is in, it’s a bit like pre-qualifying for a mortgage.   Try >> https://bfy.tw/UTJv

▪️Petsmart has its own local rescue lookup. Try >> https://petsmartcharities.org/adopt-a-pet/adoption-events

Time to Sink American Oligarch Yachts

IT’S JANUARY 2026, a Republican is president, the United States is starting a war with Venezuela.

Who Invented Designer Dogs?

John Henry Walsh invented the Kennel Club "designer dog,” created to feed fashion and stoke fad, and to be sold at a profit by rapacious dog dealers and puppy peddlers.

He was the first person to crank out “standards" -- cookie cutter judging criteria based on a series of arbitrary points compiled by folks who may not have even owned any of the dogs they were writing a "standard" for.

Walsh was editor of The Field magazine, and wrote for that publication under the pseudonym of ‘Stonehenge.’

In 1867, a scant eight years after the first formal dog show (where he was one of the judges), Walsh published The Dogs of the British Islands, in which he and several friends set out to to detail the physical attributes of various designer breeds, and to assign various "points" to their features so that the dogs could be judged in a systematic way from show to show.

Walsh's point system (along wih the eugenics theories of Francis Galton) served as the backbone and architectural model of the Kennel Club point system which is used to judge dogs in the ring, and on the bench, to this day. 

Walsh's point system gave ZERO points to health and field performance, and that is still true in the Kennel Club ring to this day. 

Any wonder then why health and performance are so pitiful among Kennel Club dogs?

Dog in Roman Mosaics

While canine types are old, most breeds are not, and truth be told, most of the dogs of the ancient world were of one type, still common across the developing world:  the Pariah Dog or “Pye Dog”.

The dogs patrolling the village edge in Asia, the dumps of Latin America, or lounging among the ruins of Egypt all have similiar morphological attributes. 

These dogs typically weigh 30-45 pounds with short yellow coats and pointed faces.

This animal is not a Wolf, but it can breed with wolves and produce fertile young, same as it can breed with a Coyote, Golden Jackal, or Dingo and produce a fertile cross.

What else can we say about these natural dogs? 

Well, for one thing, none have the kind of crooked or “benched” legs common to anchondroplastic breeds such as Bassets, Dachshunds, Bulldogs, and the like.

None have the smashed-in faces common to brachycelphalic breeds, such as Pugs, Toy Spaniels, French Bulldogs, Boston Terriers, and the like.

None have long coats with wild hair cascading down their sides. 

All have erect ears.

Pariah Dogs are too big to have the serious dental and brain box neurological issues that too often come with teacup breeds, nor are they giant dogs beset by gastric  torsion, cancer, and heart issues.

A mixed breed is less likely to have the skin problems found in deeply wrinkled dogs, and more likely to have the kind of muzzle that prevents eye damage and predictable respiratory and palette problems.

In short, Mother Nature clearly has preferences for canine health and canine function.

Is there a lesson there?  I think there is.

You Need More Help Than I Have

Only Pit Bulls in Gainesville?

I’m told it’s only Pit Bulls in Gainesville, Florida.  

Nope.  

All these dogs — and more — are on Petfinder.com right now.

The Rise and Fall

Dog training is a union 

between risen apes 

and fallen wolves.

Dog Years

Try Harder

People who say they can’t find a cute dog on Petfinder.com are not trying very hard.

Happy New Year!

Turkey Vultures Cleaning Up Dead Deer

Revenue of the Top 10 Pet Food Makers

▪️Nestlé Purina PetCare — $22,457,000,000

▪️Mars Petcare Inc. — $22,000,000,000

▪️Hill's Pet Nutrition — $4,483,000,000

▪️General Mills — $2,375,000,000

▪️J.M. Smucker — $1,719,000,000

▪️Diamond Pet Foods — $1,500,000,000

▪️Simmons Pet Food — $1,300,000,000

▪️Spectrum / United Pet Group — $1,151,000,000

▪️Alphia — $1,000,000,000

▪️Freshpet — $975,200,000

Source: https://shorturl.at/3zHcW

A Billion Pounds of Pet Food a Year

Alphia is among the top 10 pet food makers in the US, cranking out a billion pounds of dog and cat food a year, and yet you’ve probably never heard of them.  Why?  Simple:  they make dog and cat food sold under the name of other, “private-label,” brands. 

If you’re buying a premium pet food from a smaller brand, or a retailer's private label, there's a good chance Alphia made it

Alphia was created in 2020 by merging C.J. Foods, American Nutrition, and three smaller supporting companies into a larger, more efficient, whole.  Though Alphia is headquartered in Denver, they have production and warehouse facilities in Washington, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, Texas, and Pennsylvania.

Alphia sells itself as a complete turn-key solution for anyone looking to enter the dog food market. Just follow their handy “buyers journey” guide at >> https://www.alphia.com/buyers-journey/

Deer In Grey Brush

It's hard to focus when you have this much brush in front of the subject.

Floyd Boudreaux Is Dead at 91

For those who don’t know, Boudreaux was a breeder of fighting Pit Bulls, though his family says he himself had not fought dogs in over 50 years.

What is undeniable is that Boudreaux lived in poverty, supported by breeding fighting dogs and fighting cocks in a dirt yard filled with rusting metal, old tires, piles of old lumber, rolls of chain link fence, a mobile home, broken cars, and chained dogs sleeping in collapsing dog houses and old pickel barrels. Boudreaux’s  chained dogs wallowed in muddy pools of standing rainwater from the circular ruts proscribed by their chains.

In a 2005 raid, 57 pit bulls were seized and euthanized, though charges were ultimately dropped three years later. The Boudreaux’s claimed their dogs were used for hunting, shows, competitive weight pulling and as pets, and that the anabolic steroids found in the raid were for the fighting cocks.

The fighting dog community, of course, knows why they lionized Boudreaux, and it wasn’t for pet dogs or sterling care, was it?  

No, it was not.

What’s any of this have to do with working terriers?  Not much, but a little. 

Look at Floyd Boudreaux’s card and notice the word:  “Patterdales”.  

Another dog dealer trying to con the gullible and the pretenders? 

I don’t know.  All I know is what I have said before: 

“If there was ever a stranger group than young bulldog afficionado's, I have not met them. They are a truly odd bunch of people that lurk at the periphery of the working terrier world.

“On the one hand, you have the dog fighters and wanna-be dog fighters. These numbskulls range from preening fakes and short-tooled fools to sick sadists. Any way you cut it, they are a sad case with even sadder dogs.”

See >> The Stink of Dog Dealers and Pit Fighters