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His insane AI videos in response to the 'No Kings' protests really underscored what the protests were all about -- for a so-called 'entertainer' he can't read a room for, dare, I say it, sh*t. (If you saw the video, you'll get the reference).
I th…
Watched this one, first time in months, to see what the guests are saying about credit and duration. JPM's Priya Misra is a longtime, excellent guest, imho; always have liked her take. I think I'll stretch just a hair out in duration, and do a littl…
So a railroad tunnel from no railhead to no railhead. Sure, that makes sense. (Assuming they'd take the shortest route under the Bering Sea, the Trans-Siberian is way south of where the tunnel would come out, and the nearest railhead on the U.S side…
The one that I missed:
“The less booze thing is not working out for me.”
I chose Homer - I couldn't believe that even Hegseth would be stupid enough to say something like that.
That's our SecDefWar!
Ha! How about this quiz: Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?
https://newrepublic.com/article/194639/homer-simpson-pete-hegseth-who-said-it-quiz
Paul K. agrees, saying here on his substack: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-making-china-great
There is one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing.
California's attempt to swing 5 districts to the D's and balance the Texas redistricting 5 to the R's is on the state ballot Nov. 4. If it fails, the House will stay R unless there's a blue wave nationally. https://calmatters.org/california-voter-gu…
ICE FISHING. Great stuff!
Just found this: more ICE, DHS, CBP gestapo bullshit, this time at EWR. It's NOT SAFE for foreigners to come here, now.
https://hyperallergic.com/1023753/tourist-denied-us-entry-after-ice-found-jd-vance-meme-on-his-phone/
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Crash: How about those dangerous lefties in frog and dino costumes creating criminal mayhem in Portland? "Dancing In The Streets."
From the NYT:
Outside the ICE building, demonstrators against the Trump administration’s immigration policies have b…
Machado is a right-winger, and a fan of Dump. Maybe the committee is signaling they're not discriminating against the political right when they laugh off the idea of his Dumpness's deserving the peace Nobel.
"Overwhelmingly elected" to poison the water we drink, the air we breathe, atmosphere, oceans ... in one of the closest elections in 100 years. With these a******s, there is no bottom. At least China's taking the problem semi-seriously.
Several months ago, we froze asset transfer in our Fidelity accounts including ACATS transfer. You can unfreeze it temporary to make withdrawal and freeze it immediately. Very convenient to do on Fidelity site.
Thanks for mentioning that, Sven. …
I should have known there was a hook in that "free" link. CNN does the same thing, and also plants about 50 unwanted cookies on your browser.
Same here, recently on a "gift" NYT article. I couldn't get the gift link to work until I shut off DuckDuc…
Well, that someone active in our current state of disrepair is of less than average intelligence (except for extortion and lying, where he lands in the top 0.0001%) and well below the borderline in mental health. So Adolf may compare favorably with …
NCAA Saturday football has been catching my attention.
The only team I really root for, the Ducks, are back with maybe their best team yet, jumping to #2 in the rankings by beating PSU. Their line outplayed a top Big Ten team, O and D, for probab…
Yeah, and if they can get it up to 4 or 5, they could pad it with say 10-15 blank pages in the middle.
It'll never make it to trial unless they get an A. Cannon-style judge. Malice paired with incompetence; what a combo.
Good piece by NYT's David French on the details of what actually happened (no paywall). But the indictment itself?
The indictment is so short and so bereft of detail that it’s hard to determine the factual allegations in the case.
https://www.nyti…
C'mon now- they just got their asses chewed real good for that 80-pager that they filed against... hell, I don't even remember who anymore, they've filed so damned many. Maybe they're just trying to stay out of trouble.
Anyway, it should cost Comey…
A disaster of his own making. Court found the tariffs to be illegal, but granted him ample time to appeal. Feces. It's all of his making, but the rest of us have to pay. Is he dead yet?
When he does go, for whatever reason, the internecine warfare w…
From the SC decision in NRA v. Vullo (May 30, 2024):
Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.
https://adflegal.org/article/unanimous-supreme-court-states-cant-c…
Tennyson's lines about the Pleiades, playing a little with the spelling/pronunciation ...
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
@Old_Joe: I've started hoping there'll be enough birds and non-human mammals left behind that they can be dominant mega-life forms for the next iteration after sapiens is done.
Meanwhile the Voyagers are 15 billion miles out (after 48 years), and it'll be 40,000 years more before V-1 is closer to another star than to our own Sun. https://www.iflscience.com/in-40000-years-voyager-1-will-have-a-close-encounter-with-gliese-44…
Senate Repubs voted down the Dem stopgap plan too. Each party voted down the other's proposal, by party-line vote, except for two Repubs and one Dem.
Let's not forget that. The D proposal is all about healthcare affordability.
Yep, I am very familiar with DHEAX, having owned it for years. I am also very familiar with SEMMX, also having owned it in the past, but dumped it after its terrible performance in the 2020 crash. I have not looked at it since Medalist took it ove…
You mentioned DHEAX in an earlier post, @dt, and I think it is right up your alley. SEMRX, the IG cousin of SEMPX/SEMMX, has tracked DHEAX closely since a management change in 2023, when Semper and a group called Medalist merged. In the last year, t…
