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Monday Stuff

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:11:36 +0000

This is good news people, but’s let’s have no illusions; this campaign is going to be a fight until the very end, so let's keep up our efforts (and to help Bob Harvie, click here).

To begin, Kyle Kulinski tells us that it looks like “pastor” Kenneth Copeland is big mad at Dems again, invoking more hellfire and damnation over all those babies the “D” team allegedly murdered, as if the Clintons, Obama and Biden invented abortion (I guess I shouldn’t snark on that too badly because I’m sure that’s what a lot of folks actually believe)...I don’t know anybody else besides Kyle calling out our disgusting war crimes with our “ally” “Bibi” that we conducted against Iran (and yes, I know Iran are bad actors overall, but that doesn’t excuse our pre-emptive war either)...I would only add on top of Kyle’s great (though profane of course) response the following question: is Our Lord going to have the likely million names read to Republican voters of everyone sentenced to death (mainly kids) in sub-Saharan Africa from King Elon I destroying US AID? Also, I know Kyle misspoke a bit; we are WAAAY past the primaries, dawg (definitely NSFW/H)...

...and Brittany Page discusses the role of corporate media and some Dems in bringing us to the sorry point in our politics where we are at the moment, with the Gropenfuhrer calling the shots from An Oval Office, and I realize that Dementia J. Trump is just going to keep mispronouncing the name of the Dem U.S. Senate candidate from Michigan up to and including Election Day (“Mohammed El Allah Akbar Jihadi El-Sayed,” or other idiotic variations)...and I’ll give David Axelrod a measure of credit for playing the role he did in getting President Obama elected twice, but Axelrod also was lucky enough to land with a charismatic and skilled candidate, to be fair...I think some of the CNN panel observations are kind of moronic, actually; sooo, just let Trump and Mike Rogers spout these lies about El-Sayed, and the Dem should just let them get away with it??? That has a lot to do with why people don’t have much to do with the “D” team, to be honest...I’m glad Page also gets into the BS with Jan Crawford of the formerly highly respectable CBS News and the fact that Crawford went waaaay out of her way to attack El-Sayed, showing that Crawford is merely a political actor supported by Bari Weiss as opposed to a legitimate news professional...I didn’t know about Crawford’s softball “interview” with Strip Search Sammy, but that tracks also sadly...and let’s bring David Brooks to the party also and his take against Jon Ossoff for quite rightly calling out the white nationalist garbage concerning Ossoff’s opponent Mike Collins; what discussion of faux media equivalency is complete without BoBo, I wonder...mildly NSFW/H...

...and Farron Cousins discusses Repugs in Michigan telling #47 to stay away; so many reasons why, but Our Ochre Abomination’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran and those beyond stoo-pid tariffs are the biggest culprits, you might say...it looks like #47 went ahead with his little Bund rally anyway, and with a typical bit of misogyny of course...

...and this CBC News report informs us of the backlash to data centers and the problem for the Repugs, particularly in Ohio...glad to see people of different political allegiances working together to fight against the encroachment of these monstrosities consuming precious resources, driving up costs and ruining folks’ quality of life, but it should not have come to this point...don’t know much about that Alan (“date centers have been around forever”) Sturm guy, but he’s definitely part of the problem also...and oh yeah, it’s really rich for Jon Husted in Ohio to blame Democrats on the issue of data centers – WHO THE HELL IS IN CHARGE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGAIN, SPARKY??!!...more on this is here, and to help Sherrod Brown, click here...

...and speaking of Husted (and harking back to the Nicki Minaj stuff also), I’ll give you a little insight into how the “sausage gets made” again...I honestly deliberate and weigh the pros and cons of the videos I put up here and try to evaluate how much they could impact voters’ perceptions and people’s involvement in the political process...oh, WTF – I’m just kidding...I saw this clip from Mr. Newberger and took about 10 seconds to decide based on this...

...and I definitely like this newer number, though it kind of wraps up quick (and I thought about Bri-Fi on the title for sure).

Saturday Stuff

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:06:12 +0000

This is just a reminder that our PA-01 rep Bri-Fi has served our *preznit faithfully over the last two years – not so much for PA-01 overall I would argue (here)...oh, but now Fitzpatrick is claiming here that says town halls are funded by “dark money,” or some such nonsense (i.e., the reason why he chickens out on them...not nearly good enough as far as yours truly is concerned).

Brian Tyler Cohen discusses an utter raging trash fire of a political campaign, and that would be Vivek Ramaswamy’s quest to be governor of Ohio...we learn about Vivek’s typically disgusting attack ad against his Dem gubernatorial opponent Amy Acton...sooo, thanks to Vivek’s garbage, we learn that Acton and her brother were removed from their mother’s custody when she was 12 because the mother’s sick, disgusting boyfriend was accused of statuary r*pe of the now-Dem gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, a rare case of BOTH sides ganging up on the failed off-patent drug salesman, who (as we see) confessed to being responsible for this vile, hateful crap...and leave it to Couch Boy to say Vivek’s horror show isn’t his concern, or whatever (and I definitely don’t want to contemplate Vance’s web browser history, at least not on a full stomach, as long as we’re on the subject)...more on this here...NSFW/H...

...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report let us know that it looks like Repugs are getting some resistance in Flori-DUUH to the typical “communism” and “socialism” BS even thought that’s pretty much baked in to the political DNA as Sam points out because of Cuban and Venezuelan expats; looks like these people have wised up a bit to the fact that #47’s ICE Gestapo will go after them too, though again, this is the Sunshine State and it’s not as if they’re all going to magically turn into tree-hugging libs...Repug Ashley Moody, running to hold her appointed U.S. Senate seat against Dem Angie Nixon, may be getting some blowback on that...I’d forgotten about Moody’s involvement in laundering (allegedly) dough intended for a kids’ charity into a political PAC for Guv #DeathSantis (and how typical is it for Fix Noise to lead into a “news” segment with “yeah, but Moody is innocent of laundering campaign funds”)...good explanation here from Emma about how those funds from a settlement (to be distributed to sick kids by #DeathSantis’s wife) ended up going to a PAC to defeat cannabis legalization instead...

...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 10/24/20, in which we learn more about “Disappointed” Susan Collins falling down on the job as Maine senator – what’s past is prologue, I’d say (and I’ll withhold comment for now on the props handed out here to Olympia Snowe and Bill Cohen)...an update is here; to do something about Collins, click here...

...and Robert Reich and MoveOn discuss a potential AI dystopia...yep, we’re being sold more patently ridiculous BS on AI and related technology, while these data center monstrosities blight our landscapes, consume resources, drive up utility prices and generally ruin our quality of life (and I definitely DO NOT take Apartheid Clyde seriously when he says he favors UBI)...I knew that Alaskans receive dividends from oil and mining businesses, which sounds like a damn good idea to yours truly (and I didn’t know about “surveillance pricing,” yet another dirty trick by our “pay no price, bear no burden” oligarchs)...

...and speaking of the Gropenfuhrer’s mini-me, we get more nonsense about J.D. (“Tell Me What You’re Good At”) Vance from Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show...and I’ll be honest; we’re so hip deep in Trumpian corruption that it is indeed difficult to keep up with it all (and I realize that that’s the point from these cretins)... and I’m pretty sure I already noted that SecDef Kegseth’s boss said “no dice” on live streaming the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad, but here is another mention of that (and apparently, televising the state-sponsored murder of a guy in a wheelchair is “a bridge too far” for this regime – got it)...mildly NSFW/H...

...and I thought this was a pretty cool newer number for the weekend – hope it’s a good one for one and all.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:27:20 +0000

Farron Cousins lets us know that Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy is totally cool with Vlad The Butcher’s ongoing terror campaign against the brave people of Ukraine, and King Elon I is playing games with Starlink to hurt that country standing up to Russian aggression...and yeah, I have to admit that our PA-01 U.S. House rep is making some good noises on this, but I’ve seen this movie before (i.e., when the media shifts its focus to something else, so does Bri-Fi, but we’ll see, and particularly given that this is an election year of course and Apartheid Clyde is throwing truly stoo-pid money at the “R” team as Cousins points out)...

...and this New York Times video informs on in the matter of a fight over fish in Alaska that could flip that state’s U.S. Senate seat...looks like larger fishing operations in their trawlers are picking up the salmon that smaller businesses would get to maintain their operations...also sounds like Repug Dan Sullivan wants to limit trawling, but Dem Mary Peltola wants to ban it outright, even though climate change is a bigger issue as we learn...I’m sure there’s more to this story, but this is the sort of thing that interests yours truly as opposed to whatever crazy thing Don The Con just said or did over the last news cycle...

...and I honestly try not to attack “team D” and participate in a circular firing squad, but I absolutely have to over the latest nonsense from James Carville, going on Bill Kristol’s podcast to say that Carville would rather see Republicans keep control in the U.S. House by 5 seats instead of the Dems taking over because if the Dems win the House by 5, then Hakeem Jeffries will be held hostage by the DSA as Carville sees it (and the DSA only has 7 members as Gay tells us); assuming Carville is actually right, please explain how that’s a bad thing...another reason why I could care less about Carville is that I honestly can’t recall him showing similar concerns when you had President Manchin and “Curtsy Kyrsten” holding the Senate hostage when the Dems had a slim majority in THAT body...Carville, among his other offenses, is one of these characters who often fires off texts and Emails yelling at yours truly to give him money – he also represents boomer entitlement big time and is one of the reasons for the divide between his demographic cohort (and mine, to be fair) and “Gen Z” and what will hopefully be the Dem voters of today and the future...the “raging Cajun” (who hasn’t won an election in over 30 years) can go on Bill Maher and carry on and pout in that space while we continue with the business of trying to win elections...mildly NSFW/H...

...and I admit that this is an unsettling ad, but please try to explain to me how this ISN’T based in reality, sadly (here)...

...and after something as heavy as that, I’d like to now present something a little more upbeat...Steve Harness of Really American now gives us a lot of anti-Trump AI slop (including some neat little tunes and a Star Wars “I’m your father, Luke” takeoff), with about two weeks to go until Election Day...and oh year, Our Ochre Abomination struck a deal with Daddy Vlad to buy diesel and screw over Ukraine again, because of course (NSFW/H)...

...and happy 70th birthday to Dwight Yoakam – always liked this Grateful Dead cover.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:08:04 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick won’t come out of hiding and debate his Democratic challenger Bob Harvie running in this fall’s election.

Thom Hartmann tells us about Amendment 82 in Colorado (pushed by yet another dark money group called Advance Colorado), which apparently would strip local pollution regs and lock in fossil fuel dependence (peachy)...as Thom says, if somehow this passes (God forbid), we can expect similar legislation to pop up across the country...of course, there is definitely an alternative in renewables (I’d also like to get in a commercial of sorts for the great state of Vermont that we recently visited, where there were solar panels all over place and it definitely didn’t blight the glorious landscape)...great discussion here on the Germany Rooftop Solar Plan that Thom mentions; also didn’t know that Nebraska has managed to keep a for-profit utility company out of the state for about 80 years (BTW, it looks like about $600 billon in green energy investment from Biden managed to get allocated despite the efforts of Dementia J. Trump to wipe it out as noted here)...

...and Jesse Dollemore brings us the video of Dem U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan putting that Repug operative in his place over that beyond ridiculous Muslim brotherhood question at a recent town hall (something that, again it should be noted, Bri-Fi refuses to participate in)...and oh yeah, the next time you hear a Repug whine about “paid protestors,” I would ask that you keep in mind the $200 to be comped to college students making imbeciles out of themselves while they attempt to make Dems look bad (that amount does indeed buy a lot of Ramen)...telling that all “Tommy” could do is sneak out like a coward after he got a dose of reality (mildly NSFW/H)...

...and Belle of the Ranch informs us that the Consumer Price Index released by the BLS climbed 0.6 percent in September, as we learn, up from 0.4 percent in August, so inflation is not only going up, but at a faster rate...the biggest factor behind this is gas price increases (9.1 percent in September) due to #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...housing costs also rose 0.4 percent from last month, as we also learn...average hourly pay fell 0.5 percent in September, which is another headline...”slowing inflation doesn’t mean prices go back to where they were; it just means that they rise more slowly” indeed...

...and Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ talks about younger voters and what appears to be a 50-plus point swing in a direction away from #47 from two years ago...not hard to see why for the reasons Khan points out, namely affordability overall, the cost of education, the crappy job market, wrecking government agencies where they could potentially be employed, etc...and a 91 percent disapproval with the Gropenfuhrer on inflation?? Jumpin’ Judas H. Priest on a pogo stick!...and if the Dems are returned to power in Congress, they’re going to have their hands full to be sure, but they should allocate some time to investigate taxpayer dough Our Ochre Abomination has used for political propaganda...and I’m trying really hard not to dump on at least one of those younger voters in that clip, partly because what they say is the result of endless wingnut indoctrination to the exclusion of any perspective related to actual common sense (this Bluesky link provides further info for college loan borrowers, and when it comes to "Team D" and younger voters, let's keep this in mind please)...

...and the Onion News Network informs us that SecDef Kegseth has a bold plan to “kill everyone” by 2028...as usual, dancing on that razor’s edge between satire and reality...

...and we recently observed what would have been the 100th birthday of Chuck Berry – here’s a little number for the occasion.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:16:01 +0000

What follows are clips from last Saturday’s No Kings protests in various locations across the country – we begin with a trip around Buffalo, NY and the Great Lakes, including Williamsville...

...next, we go across the country to Alameda, Oakland and San Francisco (nice job to make that beach sign, by the way...interview with former SF supervisor Gordon Mar)...

...there was also a protest in Mississippi (smaller crowd I’ll admit, but it all matters) – kind of sad that that state doesn’t have early voting...

...folks also came out in Little Rock, Arkansas...echoing similar themes of early voting and making a plan to vote on Election Day...

...and across North Texas also...

...next up is Salt Lake City, sharing similar themes of protecting democracy for future generations...

...also, Boise, Idaho (good idea also to volunteer for campaigns; even though it’s a little late for that, it’s not too late to make a plan to get folks to the polls and maybe do some last-minute phone banking or door knocking...just a thought)...

...Seattle as well (also with an emphasis on voting early...good job also to honor victims of ICE)...

...along with Portland, Oregon (about 4K folks protesting according to police...showing up to protest the Iran war, the rotten economy, rampant corruption including attack on LGBTQ rights, and on and on)...

...and Greenville, South Carolina (hundreds, again, with an emphasis on protecting the right to vote)...

...Albuquerque, New Mexico (good job by Dem U.S. House rep Melanie Stansbury, as opposed to that Repug woman running against her – “failed policies,” huh? Which party is it that’s in change of D.C. again?)...

...Chicago also, echoing similar themes (on behalf of both national and local issues)...

...next up are the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul...

...Grand Rapids, Michigan...

...Plattsburgh, NY...

...also, folks in Chesapeake, VA braving the weather, including Navy vet Rick Bush...

...with similar concerns echoed in Asheville and elsewhere in North Carolina...

...Louisville, Kentucky and southern Indiana also, echoing similar themes (lower gas prices, protection for basic rights, etc.)...kudos to Morgan McGarvey also; no excuse whatsoever for any Democrat to not show up to one of these events...

...Madison, Wisconsin also...protestor “Sariah” mentions #47 saying he’ll let his lawyers worry about “Constitutionality,” or something to that effect (heightened a bit by the fact that Trumpist numbskull Tom Tiffany is running for governor in that state...and that Wisconsin GOP statement at the end is about as nutty as you would expect)...

...Vermont as well (Monkton I believe, and probably other towns including Burlington)...

...and Philly of course (kind of shocked to see the clip of Combover Caligula spewing more lies as usual, but I guess they need to present the crazy point of view for “balance,” though I think he’s actually right in a typically weird way...we SHOULD pretend he’s on the ballot - info on drop box locations in Bucks County, PA is here)...

...and if you're looking for a tune for the occasion, I'd like to offer the following.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:01:47 +0000

Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tells us about PA Dem Senator John Fetterman sending out a fundraising Email to Repug donors, saying he’ll “reject socialism” and that he apparently is working with his best bud Dave McCormick on behalf of Mango Mussolini; at this point, Fetterman should probably just make it official, especially since he doesn’t appear to have a war chest anymore as Gay tells us...contrast that with Fetterman raising $10.5 mil in just three months when he opposed Dr. Crudite in ’22, as opposed to raising just $21K now, which is a microscopic amount of dough (and yeah, I know it shouldn’t be about the money, but it is unfortunately)...and 75 percent of the donation may go to some shadowy group behind the fundraiser and not to the candidate (and Fetterman gets a MAGA donor list?) God, what a mess our campaign financing is (once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...also, at this point, I don’t see how Fetterman has an excuse any longer to at least bother to dress like an actual U.S. Senator and get rid of the hoodie and sweat pants...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about some Fix Noise hairdo trying to attack Pete Buttigieg; actually, she’s right that inflation was 9 percent in June ’22 under “No Malarkey Joe,” with all of the post COVID supply chain disruption and energy price surges, but as “Mayor Pete” notes, it was 3 percent when Biden left office (and as BTC points out, it’s currently 3.7 percent under Dementia J. “I Love The Inflation” Trump)...and “1.7 – 1.8 inflation over the last three months”?? Looks like gramps is sundowning again...also, I could put up that quote form former Ambassador Michael McFaul again about how Obama prevented Iran from getting a nuke and didn’t totally f-up the Strait of Hormuz to do it, but I think you get the picture (and I could also remind everyone again about #47 killing the Murphy-Lankford bill that would have addressed immigration, but yeah, I know that gets repetitive also)...

...and Jesse Dollemore informs us of Cantaloupe Capone sending out his DHS goons at the direction of former plumber Markwayne Mullin to try and intimidate Ilhan Omar (I would ask if Fetterman feels like an idiot for endorsing Mullin, but I’m sure I already know the answer)...and I swear, it’s always the same utterly stoo-pid pattern; some idiot online influencer puts out a garbage meme (Trumpist lickspittle Benny Johnson in this case), then a Trumpist lackey promotes it or acts on it, and then Dear Leader gets the glazing he wants over it...and I’m not the least bit surprised that Fix Noise was the only alleged news org involved in this...so the supposed excuse for this is citizenship paperwork allegedly filled out by Omar’s father??? Yep, doesn’t even come close to passing the “smell” test (NSFW/H)...

..and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us that it looks like Freedom Caucus head Andy Harris in Maryland flipped out because he got laughed at for claiming that “environmental regulation” is the reason diesel prices have gone up (and yeah, as Sam says, the First Amendment to the Constitution doesn’t disallow getting laughed at...Harris is truly a numbskull)...and oh, Harris continues with his wankery in the second of two clips here, attacking reporters for recording him as a PUBLIC PERSON in a PUBLIC SPACE, as noted (which, again, is protected by that pesky First Amendment...a “Bulworth moment” indeed)...mildly NSFW/H also...

...and it looks like Bronzer Beelzebub has decided not to televise the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, so we won’t necessarily be in league with Iran, North Korea and other despotic regimes for the moment (here) – Jesse Welles still came up with a typically pithy little number over it, though...

...and here’s a tune for tomorrow’s “No Kings” protest to help us get into the mood to stand up against our fascist regime.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:10:20 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick has refused to debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie, which is in keeping with Fitzpatrick’s pattern of avoidance in that he refuses to hold in-person town halls also.

To begin, this clip from CBC News discusses the beyond idiotic anti-Canada rhetoric from the Gropenfuhrer and his utterly pointless trade war with that nation and the economic impact that we’re dealing with over it...we revisit the NAFTA debate between Poppy Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot, featuring the “giant sucking sound” quote from Perot about jobs going to Mexico, which turned out to be prescient...

...and this TYT segment takes a look at #47’s immigration crackdown hitting red states pretty hard – c’est dommage...report discusses #47’s declining support among Latinos, particularly in Texas and businesses along the border including agriculture and construction...not familiar with the concept of “elite over production,” but I have to admit that it makes sense unfortunately...also, though it appears that enrollment in trade schools did decline, it looks like enrollment is rebounding fortunately based on this...glad to hear that the typically disgusting gerrymandering by Texas Repugs might bite them in the ass...I honestly don’t know what the hell Ana Kasparian means by “unmitigated immigration,” but otherwise I think she makes some good points here (I also wish she’d mentioned the Murphy-Lankford Senate immigration bill and how that got killed to help Don The Con two years ago)...

...and Farron Cousins gives us more on the decision to live stream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan...yep, the Trumpist regime is acting like terrorist outlaws because 1) They can, and 2) That is what they are...Cousins is right that this will encourage further nut jobs who want to publicize themselves while they go out in a “blaze of glory,” and it will ALSO give those who would do us harm an excuse to do this to OUR OWN MILITARY, if, God forbid, any of them are captured – I realize this didn’t occur to any of the alleged adults running our government, but I definitely think it needs to be mentioned...

...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report tell us that it looks like Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy is going to his Russian benefactor to help with gas prices...typical...I have to admit that I didn’t have Brian Kilmeade actually making sense on my Bingo card (and Rachel Campos Duffy is about as “out to lunch” on this as you can expect)...as noted here, those supposedly great numbers on the amount of diesel fuel Don The Con says we’ll get from Vlad The Butcher doesn’t even cover a day of the actual demand for the stuff – more like 12 hours, unfortunately...four Repug U.S. Senators and two Dems actually found spines on this and stood up to Mango Mussolini, which, given that our *preznit certainly won’t listen, is merely a symbolic gesture, though admittedly it is still important...

...and the Onion News Network presents “In The Know” with Dwight Richmond, concerning the matter of #47 running as a “mid-term *preznit” (as usual, messing with us with satire, though probably not by much versus actual reality)...

...and happy 80th birthday to Justin Hayward, the last surviving member of the Moody Blues.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:57:10 +0000

This is an update to the “Daisy” ad from LBJ way back when, which only ran once, though its impact on the ’64 presidential election was for sure undeniable; the difference this time around is that, sadly, it’s based on a literal quote from our *preznit (I think you could argue that Barry Goldwater, the subject of the original ad, though he was a big-time wingnut, knew where to draw the line partly because he served our country, something Cantaloupe Capone ridicules of course)...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf informs us that it looks like ICE is deporting the father-in-law of the son of Paul LePage, former awful governor of Maine and now a congressional candidate (oh, but DHS says a work permit doesn’t give legal status, huh? Gee, karma sure is a bee-yaa-tch, isn’t it?)...LePage has called for the Maine cops to work with the ICE Gestapo to get rid of all of those baaad criminal illegals, no matter which innocent folks get swept up in the mayhem...I’d forgotten that “little Marco” Rubio voted against his own immigration bill, and of course they also scuttled the Murphy-Lankford bill that would have addressed the issues they’ve been caterwauling about, but the “party of Lincoln” doesn’t actually want to solve any issues, as we know - I realize this clip/story is a little old, but I didn't want to ignore it...

...and this report from Status Coup tells us about the protest in NYC against Palantir’s push into health care, overseeing Mt. Sinai and their CEO Dr. Brendan Carr...it should definitely set off all kinds of alarms to realize that AI will likely be used to make health care-related recommendations, to say nothing of potentially deciding to deny coverage... more on Palantir supporting the Israeli military and the ongoing Gaza carnage is here, along with Palantir supporting ICE and their ongoing thuggery (here)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know about Professor Paul Krugman calling out Trumpist Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (definitely miss Krugman’s columns in the NYT, but I also understand why he walked away from writing them)...interest rates and borrowing costs (including the 30-year treasury yield) are increasing according to Steven Rattner and some other folks who actually know what they’re talking about on this stuff, reaching their highest levels in 24 years...oh, and #47’s policies are “non-inflationary,” huh? I don’t think so (here)...

...and Mr. Newberger gives us another pithy little sendup of Cheetoh Hitler based on today’s headlines...

...and the first “Bridge” school benefit concert was held by Neil Young on 10/13/86 for the institution he played a major role in founding and developing (here) – his involvement stemmed partly from the fact that Young’s sons were born with cerebral palsy, with one profoundly affected (here)...hard to find the words of appreciation for the courage of everyone involved with trying to overcome an obstacle like that.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:58:22 +0000

Lawrence O’Donnell tells us here that there are 3 reasons why Generalissimo Trump spouts off his crazy nonsense: 1) Pathological lying, 2) Stupidity, or 3) Dementia, or some combination of the three...more evidence to support this is presented in an interview #47 gave with Time Magazine...I realize our *preznit is allergic to actual facts and data and I know it’s tiresome to mention that anything he doesn’t like is automatically branded as “fake,” but alas, it does need to be pointed out...I also get it that there’s not much new stuff here, but I believe the case needs to be made periodically that Combover Caligula is a demented lunatic...O’Donnell tells us about some of the “enemies of ours” who have been paid back for the Gropenfuhrer’s illegal (and utterly ruinous) tariffs, including Walmart, Apple, Target, and Amazon; of course, by association, since we’ve paid those stinking tariffs as O’Donnell points out, that “enemies of ours” line by default also applies to everyone else in this country...

...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know that ICE thugs recently shot a man named Oscar Belgal during an attempted arrest on the border of Manhattan and the Bronx; Belgal survived with a neck wound, while his 5-year-old son in the vehicle was uninjured – oh, and this ICE lunatic was apparently masquerading as a construction worker...NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood tall IMO with his response, as opposed to professional dipsh*t Markwayne Mullin (as Jesse correctly puts it IMO) and those soulless humanoids flanking Mullin (mildly NSFW/H)...

...and I know I haven’t had anything from The Lincoln Project for a little while, and I also realize that they’re mainly yesterday’s (and probably tomorrow’s) Republicans, but when they do good work, I think they need to get props for it (clip is very slightly NSFW/H...and when it comes to Repugs supporting Dementia J. Trump, let’s not forget about Bri-Fi, and to do something about him, click here)...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us more on Roger Marshall in Kansas going after his patients for unpaid medical debt, and for some truly piddling amounts in some cases (like $100), with Marshall charging 18 percent interest, which is higher than some credit card APRs (also, it looks like Marshall FINALLY got around to comping that family baker who made cookies for Marshall)...glad to see Dem Adam Hamilton making an issue out of all of this (definitely NSFW/H)...

...and Jonathan Pie tells us about the live streaming of the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan, as announced by SecDef Kegseth (here)...didn’t know the latest nonsense about Zuckerberg, Bezos, Peter Thiel and King Elong I getting access to military intel, but yeah, what could go wrong with THAT I wonder...NSFW/H also...

...and I thought that was a bit of “goth” animation for this newer tune which is apropos for this month I suppose.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:33:55 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick still refuses to stick his head out of his shell and debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie; I realize at this point that isn’t likely to change, but I also believe it’s important to keep reminding everyone about that.

David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know about another Trump voter (Ronald from West Virginia) apologizing on CSPAN, and it looks like a three-time Trump voter in MA, of all places (points for being contrarian I guess) also now has regrets...but oh, Spray Tan Satan is planning to give seniors 90 WHOLE DOLLARS to help with health insurance premium costs? What a guy! I guess that promise is about as reliable as his claim to give everybody $5K if the Repugs hang onto power next month (more here)...

...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 10/10/18, with John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson talking about the FBI report on “I Like Beer” Brett Kavanaugh and how the “investigation” was rigged to not ask questions that would put the then-SCOTUS nominee in a negative light, as well as not bothering to investigate claims from Deborah Ramirez, one of the women who accused Kavanaugh of s*xual abuse (looks like “Disappointed” Collins got a nice payday for playing along as noted here, and to do something about her, click here)...

...and David Pakman informs us that the “party of Lincoln” collectively had a nightmare evening with recent candidate debates, including Susan Collins and Troy Jackson in Maine (yeah, as far as I know, a reduction in the cost of road salt won’t do a damn thing to help with health insurance coverage or the cost of groceries)...also, Dem Governor Wes Moore of Maryland apparently had a good night against his Repug opponent Dan Cox, specifically on the question of the SNAP error rate, as in incarcerated folks getting SNAP who should be disqualified (Moore is kind of a mixed bag for yours truly I’ll admit, but credit where it’s due)...additionally, we go to the Michigan governor’s race between Dem Jocelyn Benson and Repug John James...finally, we get Georgia Republican Rick (“Gas Stores”) Jackson flailing around in his gubernatorial debate versus Dem Keisha Lance Bottoms (and Jackson is a healthcare company CEO, by the way)...

...and Thom Hartmann speaks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about the increasing popularity of Medicare for All (I may look into that book by Nancy Altman)...I would tend to agree with Lawson’s claim that the neoliberal experiment, if you will, has failed, and extracting whatever profit out of people for the sake of a few oligarchs is indeed the driver behind unaffordability...a study from Yale University tells us that M4A will save 100K lives (and $1 trillion) a year – works for me...I also agree with Thom about St. Jude Hospital as well as these stories about people starting Go Fund Me pages to pay for medical treatment – yes, those are heart-warming tales, but THE POINT IS THAT IT SHOULDN’T BE NECESSARY TO DO THAT!!!...health care in this country is indeed a “rich care” system...

...and Chris Hayes discusses Bronzer Beelzebub’s taxpayer funded PSAs – yeah, right (am I the only one who can whiff out yet another scam from Cantaloupe Capone? Somehow I don’t think so)...and these ads cost $10 million, huh? Figures (and again, the whole thing with the background noise forcing reporters to shout questions was a trick perfected by The Sainted Ronnie R)...Hayes speaks with Dem U.S. House Rep Jamie Raskin about the illegality of #47 coordinating with his Super PAC; I’ll grant you that our campaign finance law in this country is a joke, but at least there are SOME restraints at the moment, which Don The Con doesn’t care about of course...I’m glad to hear what Raskin is saying about red states including Flori-DUUH, but I definitely won’t count our chickens before they hatch, you might say...

...and since I try to keep the content as timely and relevant as possible here, I think it’s apropos to give us the latest from Lewis Black – don’t quite share his apparent desire to transcend to the afterlife, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a laugh over our mortality either...

...and I know I just included a tune from Jackson Browne, but since today is his birthday, I’ll add this as well...hope it’s a good one...

...and The Eternal John Lennon would have been 86 today.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:31:03 +0000

Tennessee Brando points out here that Dementia J. Trump just spoke publicly about bombing Los Angeles and San Diego – I totally agree with Brando that that means that Cantaloupe Capone needs to be carted out of the White House and put in a cell a la CECOT or something comparable RIGHT FREAKING NOW (and I don’t know where the hell he uttered those vile words, but it looks like the “MAGA faithful” just pretended it was another day with a ‘y’ in it based on their reaction)...”a depraved bunch of lunatics being led by a lunatic” indeed (referring to those attending that Bund rally of course...and I think it’s also correct to say we’re being “governed” by an unhinged maniac and his death cult - NSFW/H)...

...and Robert Reich tells us How To Eat Healthy in Trump era, and apparently the answer is to barely eat anything at all since the FDA under our ruling cabal has been derelict in ensuring the safety of our food and medicines, with Bobby Brainworm deciding not to monitor cyclospora (explosive diarrhea) and other pathogens...and this Dr. Heidi Overton who has been nominated to run the agency looks like she’ll be another cipher for her boss – terrific...didn’t know that the Gropenfuhrer got $2 mil from Taylor Farms after delaying implementation of a traceability requirement that could have proactively taken care of the diarrhea outbreak before it struck (slightly NSFW/H)...

...and Brittany Page informs us of a Christian Nationalist audience cheering “Running Man” Josh Hawley’s call to restrict access to the mifepristone abortion pill...important to note the comparative safety of abortion pills versus other medications like Viagra as well as carrying a pregnancy to the full term (as I and others have said, if men got pregnant, there would be abortion rooms at every Lowe’s and Home Depot right next to the aisle selling power tools)...IMO, the “D” team is at fault on this issue for its failure to overturn the utterly wretched 1873 Comstock Act that provides the flimsiest of excuses to try and ban the distribution of abortion pills (which Hawley and his other anti-choice zealots are using as a rationale for their cruel position against women’s bodily autonomy)...and Tony Perkins is indeed a cretinous right-wing hack on the abortion issue as well as LGBTQ rights...Page also gives us more on Heidi Overton, who apparently thinks an IUD is used for abortions (Overton I mean of course...can’t think of a word to describe how pathetic it is that that belief is out there in this day and age, and by an alleged medical professional also)...NSFW/H also...

...and I’d like to mention a couple of milestones...first, today is the 20th anniversary of the murder of acclaimed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was one of the people from way back warning us of just how bad Vlad The Butcher truly was...I realize not many folks besides yours truly may think it’s worth it to keep reminding everyone about this, but I do because I believe it still matters...three people were convicted in 2014 for her murder, though the person who ordered the killing has to date not been identified (though I’m sure you can imagine what kind of speculation has been ongoing given this awful crime, considering what has happened also to Alexei Navalny and others opposing the Russian warmonger)...

...also, today is truly a date that could live in infamy, you might say, because it’s also the 30th anniversary of Fix Noise going on the air (here)...Carlos Maza discusses the impact of that accursed network...I could probably fill up this post with about a hundred examples at least of The Roger Ailes BS Factory choosing to manufacture a “scandal” that gets picked up by our beyond useless corporate media, but one example is how the Obama Administration and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supposedly played a role in the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya (including Ambassador Christopher Stevens) while choosing to completely ignore this...and oh yeah, we’re also reminded about the outrage over Dem U.S. House Rep Ilhan Omar’s remark related to 9/11, saying “some people did something” as if Omar was trying to trivialize the attacks (she wasn’t of course)...NSFW/H as well...

...and I suppose this newer number is apropos given the prior clip in particular...hope you agree.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:49:44 +0000

Ali Velshi of MS NOW takes a look at the impact of the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck on Arizona’s 6th U.S. congressional district, where the Dem candidate (and U.S. Marine vet) Joanne Mendoza is trying to unseat Trumper Juan Ciscomani...apparently the district is more than a quarter Latino in terms of population; looks like, based on the Repug and Dem candidate votes, it’s a pretty “purple” district (R for U.S. House and prez and D for U.S. Senate)...Ciscomani’s vote for that legislative atrocity is getting called out by Mendoza (interviewed by Velshi), which is as it should be, since the SNAP cuts are particularly ruinous in this district apparently...and I realize wingnuts like Ciscomani will be blaming Former President Biden for whatever they can for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer (and I'll have something related to SecDef Kegseth shortly)

...also, it seems that s*xual predator (and former Repug U.S. House Speaker) Dennis Hastert recently died...this TYT segment from awhile back includes a discussion of what likely were payments from Hastert to at least one victim...I get the point here that investigating what were likely hush money payments sounds a bit illogical, though I don't think those payments should have escaped scrutiny either (clip also includes John Iadarola, Ben Mankiewicz, and the beyond ridiculous Jimmy Dore...NSFW/H)...

...and Sam Seder of The Majority Report talks about a local news station in Iowa calmly taking apart the typical propaganda from the Gropenfuhrer on a proposed $10 billion steel plant in that state...”they’ve already started building” – maybe in the fever dreams of Dementia Donnie, but not so much in the real world...no permits issued, no plans for surrounding infrastructure that would be needed, etc....I also hadn’t realized that Janet Mills in Maine has not endorsed Troy Jackson in the latter’s U.S. Senate contest against “Disappointed” Susan Collins; kind of wondering why the hell not...also, speaking of Maine, I keep waiting for charges to be filed against Graham Platner for those allegedly awful actions that forced him to leave the race; if that happens, I’ll acknowledge it of course...

...oh, and speaking of SecDef Kegseth, it seems that he’s trying to institute an Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon, something else that has not a damn thing to do with helping our military escape the Iran quagmire created by this awful regime (Mr. Newberger gives that the treatment it deserves IMO here)...

...for another take on matters tied to spirituality a bit, however, I give you this from Rachel Maddow on why protest matters...Maddow discusses the cumulative impact from a mass movement even when those protesting may be impacted to varying degrees, and I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that ties into a faith tradition since that also has to do with belief and a lack of empirical evidence...I have to admit that I’m not familiar with the latest protests in Ireland, so I can’t comment on that...also didn’t know about the protest march against ICE in California; props to them for that, nor did I know about the upcoming anti-ICE march in Seattle led by Japanese Americans and their descendants who were victimized during World War II, as well as a similar protest outside Tucson, Arizona against opening another ICE concentration camp...additionally, there was an anti-ICE protest in Williston, Vermont led by clergy trying to shut down an ICE surveillance center...anti-ICE protests are ongoing in Alexandira, Louisiana also as we learn...props also to the Interfaith Alliance, trying to register people to vote on moral grounds...there is also resistance to the Trumpist jackbooted tactics also in Utah, where Repug Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson is getting pressured to turn over voting data to our criminal ruling cabal...there will be additional reminders here about the next “No Kings” protest on October 17th also FWIW...

...additionally, I should point out that yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Iran-Contra scandal, with Eugene Hasenfus getting shot down in a plane carrying military supplies for the Contras fighting an insurrection against the Nicaraguan government under the Sandinistas, which was in violation of U.S. law (doing my best here to make sure that that appalling episode under The Sainted Ronnie R doesn’t get the “memory hole” treatment)...makes me recall this tune.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:45:03 +0000

Here is another reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Bri-Fi still refuses to come out of hiding and debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie, which fits the profile for the incumbent who still refuses to hold in-person town halls...

...also, last Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in Lancaster Country, which killed 5 Amish girls (the gunman took his own life)...I can still remember how that crime pretty much shocked the conscience of our entire area as well as elsewhere in this country and the world...this is an unfortunate recent update (for the city of Lancaster, that is)...

...and Rachel Maddow, Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels inform us that “Team D” needs to let everybody know what they plan to do if (crossing fingers and toes) they’re returned to power this fall (and saying nothing of the fact that we need to keep up our efforts to make that happen as much as possible)...I don’t think saying we’re going to need a “second Reconstruction” is hyperbole, but again, we need leaders on the blue side willing to meet that moment...also, I’m definitely OK with referring to what’s described here as a “spiritual” movement, since the notion of spirituality can be defined all kinds of ways IMO...

...and Tennessee Brando gives us his take on the awful Cornell story...I definitely give Brando credit for taking the time to process this tragic crime before saying anything; I generally try to hold back also until I opine on something as well, FWIW...I also totally believe his anecdote about listening to women’s horror stories in bars, which is disgusting and repugnant of course; no excuse for that kind of treatment from alleged men (and OF COURSE MAGA “influencers” are trying to find a way to justify this monstrosity)...NSFW/H...

...and usually I get a laugh or two out of these clips from Mr. Newberger, but that’s definitely not the case here, and for a good reason I believe (sorry to be such a downer with these clips)...

...and RIP Peter Byrne of the band Naked Eyes.

Saturday Stuff

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:54:57 +0000

OK, I’m going to try and get this thing going again, though that may happen in fits and starts, you might say...to begin, I give you this ad from Bob Harvie, running against Bri-Fi for the incumbent’s PA-01 U.S. House seat of course...

...and when it comes to the completely unnecessary economic battle waged by Bronzer Beelzebub against our longtime trade partners, Elliott Morgan of Rebel HQ discusses Canada’s tariffs strategically targeting U.S. industries in battleground states in the upcoming elections...pretty damn smart move IMO in response to this “51st state” and ”Governor Carney” garbage also...I’d honestly forgotten about this getting replayed from the stinking tariff nonsense in 2018 from the first ruinous Trump term...and leave it to Dementia Donnie to find a way to make Canadian Premier of Ontario Doug Ford actually look smart...and it was so nice not to have to endure another somnambulant and idiotic “sir” story from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule for the last few days...can’t think of a word for the stoo-pidity of the 11 percent of those polled who apparently think they’re going to get a $5K check if they reward the grifters and frauds who have brought all of this ruin upon us...I’m also down with Morgan’s snark about #47 at the end, BTW...

...and Chris Hayes talks about #47's attempt to ban media outlets from the White House, including MS NOW, CNN and Politico (I know I’m late on this story in particular, but I didn’t want it to slip by)...there are times when I’ll admit that I don’t have a tear to shed for our corporate media cousins, but I also acknowledge that there’s a larger principle involved here, namely the First Amendment of the Constitution...and yes, I realize that 29 percent approval rating for Our Ochre Abomination could indeed be an outlier, but given everything going on, are you really surprised?...oh, and apparently, Natalie Harp was the bearer of the bad news that recent sent Our Demented Toddler of a *preznit over the edge...I’m loathe to give Fix Noise credit for anything, and admittedly the bar is set pretty low, but props to them for taking a stand in solidarity with the other boycotted news orgs, along with everyone else in the press pool who pushed back over this latest nonsense (an update is here)...

...and while we escaped to our blue state paradise (with solar panels everywhere in sight, perfectly complimenting the breathtaking natural scenery), it appears that cases of measles in our beloved commonwealth spiked up again, and Our Treasonous Orange Pustule and his HHS lackey Bobby Brainworm are having a harder time trying to deny the outbreak on their watch...oh, and for the record, 4 people in PA who were fully vaxxed managed to come down with measles out of 1,000 total cases...also, David Pakman tells us that about 300K kindergartners are now susceptible to measles; once you get a conspiracy theory going, it is indeed hard to suddenly shut it off as Pakman notes...also, I heard about the botched execution of the woman in Tennessee (here) – I don’t have a particularly brilliant “hot take” on that; from what I read, what she did was particularly monstrous and horrible on the one hand, but on the other hand, I realize that doesn’t automatically justify capital punishment either...typical hand-wringing lib I know...

...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” on the latest political nonsense (looks like Ken Paxton in “the land of the yellow rose” is telling Cheetoh Hitler “thanks but no thanks” on campaign advertising...I don’t give Paxton credit for anything, but I don’t totally blame him on this either)...and oh, NOW Repug U.S. Senate candidates Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson want the Iran war to end, since it’s hurting them politically? Maybe you should have actually DEFIED you Orange Overlord on this in the first place (yes, I can dream, can’t I?)...and oh yeah, that “liquified natural gas pipeline” in Alaska that’s due to be completed in three years sure is going to be a game changer for the elections, amirite?...also, when it comes to who actually watched that midterm convention mess from about a month ago, I give you this...and oh yeah, Cantaloupe Capone is running an ad promoting “the spirit of the country,” so it MUST be legal? Looks like that last lonely synapse in his noggin is flickering on and off again...

...and I thought this was a pretty cool newer tune with a big-time weekend party vibe – I’ll probably return to “moldy oldies” shortly after this one :-).

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:17:46 +0000

I don’t know if you can trust the polling here either, but it appears that the Repugs are forced to defend seats that you would assume are safe with Don The Con dragging down their prospects, as Sam Seder of The Majority Report tells us...and I would agree with Sam’s analysis on what Jon Tester said; yet another case of Chuck Schumer screwing the metaphorical pooch (I also think the Dem should get out in Montana and endorse Seth Bodnar, the independent, who has a better shot of taking out Repug Kurt Alme)...that polling number in Idaho absolutely blew my mind, and that Matt Loesby guy should pack it in there also to try and help out Indie Todd Achilles...by the way, as noted here about Kansas U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, he sued about 700 patients in his OB-GYN practice who had unpaid bills and it wasn’t directly related to C-sections (though Marshall apparently charged 18 percent interest on those debts, which is pretty usurious on his part I think)...

...and Robert Reich lets us know how Fix Noise mocked him for being right about egg prices...I think we have a case of TMI with Senator Foghorn Leghorn on this one, with avian flu blamed as the initial reason for high egg prices, even though egg producers received about $1 billion in bird flu bailouts while the supply didn’t drop commensurately...you can also chalk this up to monopolization of the egg market and producers dictating their prices...I think Reich’s snark here is called for given the messages among the egg producers, especially that one “we need to bid like they vote in Chicago – early and often”...and I guess we should be grateful that Cal-Maine, one of the producers, got any punishment at all...

...and Thom Hartmann informs us that Greenland and Antarctica have lost about 11 trillion metric tons of ice, enough to bury this country about five feet deep, according to a recent study,...also, apparently Trumpist Fish and Wildlife Director Brian Nesvik reinterpreted the Endangered Species Act so that only “intentional” killing counts as illegal (and good luck trying to sift through the legalese as to what “intentional” means)...additionally, it looks like Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to hand a wide swath of Yellowstone to a developer from another damn private equity firm (and OF COURSE the CEO who benefits from this is a Trump donor)...we also have two more measles deaths in PA that will be ignored by Bobby Brainworm, bringing the total thus far to four...and I don’t know if anybody out there is ready for bird flu, but that might be on the way also – terrific...I knew book reading was good, but I didn’t know how much especially for older folks (“a country that stops reading is a country that’s easy to fool” indeed)...

...and Brittany Page discusses the recent appearance of Paul Webster of The Cicero Institute before a House subcommittee in which he was grilled pretty ferociously (almost to the point of obnoxiousness, to be honest) by Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib...listen, I’m fundamentally on the same side as Tlaib, and this Webster guy is truly a guttersnipe (and Tlaib is right to point out that the people pulling strings for Cicero are making bank from private prisons, which should be illegal – here), but I just think she took it a bit far, that’s all (and this Joe Lonsdale is another member of the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch of course)... looks like this Brendan Gill so-and-so of Texas realized he was out of his depth and bailed when trying to confront Samantha Batko of The Urban Institute...didn’t know the Gropenfuhrer increased his net worth by about $2 bil, but that figures too...hearing was geared to demean Housing First, without empirical evidence of course, led by this Jonathan Choe guttersnipe of The Discovery Institute...good point about having an actual homeless person at that hearing – what a concept!...

...and America’s Finest News Source tells us that we can all rest a little easier now that Congress has addressed the pressing matter of a minimum wage for billionaires (dancing on that razor’s edge when it comes to satire yet again)...

...and I like this newer tune – looks like this guy might be trying to pick up the mantle of Tom Petty...we’ll see...

...and with that, I take my leave of you for a little while – I’ll plan to get back to this in about ten days or so.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:09:05 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick continues to evade public scrutiny over his failure to debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie, which, again, makes sense in a weird way since Fitzpatrick also refuses to hold face-to-face town halls.

This clip from The Independent shows Dem U.S. House Rep Sean Casten of Illinois trying to pin down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on how much dough is allegedly coming into this country (and to who in particular) from #47’s decision to take over Venezuela however many months ago that was, with Bessent offering a whole lottta “Gee, I dunno” in response (our Trumpist regime is full of incompetent liars of course, but Bessent isn’t even very good at that task I think)...

...and Chris Hayes tells us that, with all of the ongoing misery led by #47, he continues to obsess over vanity projects at the expense of real-world crises he has initiated (the Iran war, doing his best to allow “Bibi” to continue destroying the Middle East, wrecking our economy, allowing gas prices to soar through the roof, gutting any clean energy initiatives, etc.)...I didn’t know he was planning to build a golf course on federal land, but that fits also unfortunately...and apparently, Bill Pulte never passed out of a Comp 50 class in college either...and yeah, trying to steal the honor of renaming an arts venue (or threatening to destroy it) named after our slain 35th president is demented even for a life form like Combover Caligula (glad to see Hayes paying particular attention to this...as soon as Our Treasonous Orange Yam started yapping about this, a crew of reporters should have toured inside the facility and made recordings to demonstrate what appears to be the immaculate state of the center, despite Don The Con’s idiotic blathering about that)...

...and John Iadarola and Jackson White of The Damage Report tell us that “Disappointed” Susan Collins recently cast a vote to advance Mathew R. Byrne, another product of The Federalist Society (pretty much run by Leonard Leo of course) and an anti-choice nut job...typical for Collins, since, as John tells us, she played a big role in bringing us “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh, he of the “Kavanaugh stops” also...this Byrne guy doesn’t believe in the right to abortion in the event or r*pe or incest, but only to save the life of the mother (which is pretty much always a dodge for these characters as far as I’m concerned)...on the subject of women’s reproductive freedom, the family of Tierra Walker is suing the thoroughly corrupt Ken Paxton and the doctors responsible for the death of this woman (here)...apparently she was afflicted with preeclampsia about four months into her pregnancy and her doctors said, “hey, the fetus is OK and that’s all we care about” (allegedly of course)...and 90 people were involved in Walker’s case, BUT NOBODY OFFERED HER AN ABORTION??!! And oh yeah, the fetus died anyway along with the mom...heckuva job!...and I would call this “the lethal confluence of all of their bigotries” also...

...and J.T. Cestkowski of Status Coup tells us about a massive heat dome descending over this country primarily affecting the Midwest, with record-high temps of course...part of me isn’t sympathetic to Texas enduring only 3 days since August 3rd with temperatures below 100 degrees, but part of me is because we’re all in this together and the “divide and conquer” nature of our politics has a lot to do with how we got to this wretched state...at least there’s an attempt to hold some of these energy criminals to account in Oregon with a $50 billion lawsuit...oh, and Repugs in BOTH chambers of Congress introduced legislation giving dirty energy companies immunity from lawsuits; there are MANY reasons to vote these characters out of office, but that’s a pretty damn big one IMO (and the utterly odious Leonard Leo pops up again here, along with Chucky Koch and ALEC, no doubt coordinating with the just-as-wretched State Policy Network to try and get “model bills” passed across states to gut environmental regulation)...slightly NSFW/H...

...and yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan at Zuccotti Park (here), which spawned worldwide protests...the goals of the protests were laudable IMO, given the utter failure to hold the banksters to account for the Big Casino crash in 2008, but I believe it ended up ultimately being a missed opportunity in that the group couldn’t translate their activism into a political movement...still, the effort was commendable I think – better to at least try than to sit on your couch held captive by “doomscrolling”...

...and tomorrow marks what would have been the 85th birthday of “Mama” Cass Elliot (oh, and speaking of those nutty '60s, we also just lost another icon of that era).

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:45:56 +0000

Jesse Dollemore informs us that, apparently, Uday Trump Jr. got some Russian oligarch to bankroll his ridiculously over-the-top, three-day (!) wedding celebration at two exclusive private islands last May, with Umar Kremlev spending “hundreds of thousands of dollars” on the events (here)...as Dem U.S. House Rep Robert Garcia said, the issue is what Kremlev got as a payback for this largesse (I wouldn’t give a fig about Trump Jr.’s latest wedding if it weren’t for that...and oh yeah, the “OMIGOD, WHAT DID HUNTER BIDEN DO NOW??!!” nonsense looks even more ridiculous)...that said, I have to admit that it’s news to me that Biden The Younger has apparently gone big into crypto, which is a pretty rank way to build clout IMO, and I don’t give a damn which party we’re talking about...glad to hear that utterly worthless Senate minority “leader” Schumer get taken to task yet again, and I’m not surprised Chris Murphy stepped up on this...oh, and I guess Anna Paulina Luna-tic doesn’t think the Trump Jr. stuff matters because a laptop isn’t involved – yeah, that figures from her...mildly NSFW/H...

...and Tennessee Brando lets us know that Thomas Massie introduced an impeachment resolution against “I’ll Drink To That” SecDef Kegseth, and as a result, “MAGA Mike” Johnson shut down the U.S. House (here), presumably so he’d have more time to watch p*rn with his son (here)...so glad to hear Brando acknowledge the Gropenfuhrer refusing to put his hand on the “good book” when he was sworn in, which should indeed have been a tipoff to anyone previously not paying attention...also, not the biggest fan of Massie on most issues, but credit to him for standing tall here...Brando is also right that we need something like a Nuremberg Trials 2.0 for all of this misery, but don’t expect a single Repug to support that of course (NSFW/H also)...

...and Kyle Kulinski tells us that, apparently, Israel is running out of water because an algae bloom in the Mediterranean is affecting 5 of their 6 water desalination plants, with the algae bloom caused by refuse from Gaza sewage treatment plants that Israel has bombed back beyond the Stone Age...interesting exercise in karma, I must say...also, apparently the IDF is running out of ~~victims~~ ~~suckers~~ individuals to serve in Israel’s military, with some exempt for religious reasons...”a hallmark of right-wing governance is incompetence” indeed...definitely NSFW/H also...

...and this CBC News report by Alexandre Silberman tells us that folks in Montreal have called for more in the way of gun legislation 20 years after the Dawson College shooting...Louise De Souza, mother of the girl who was killed, has worked tirelessly to combat gun violence, and Hayder Kadhim, one of the shooting survivors, has done his best to raise community awareness...one of the reasons I’m highlighting this is to point out that Quebec took action right away and banned guns in public places and created a firearm registry, which are steps we should have taken long ago but for the pernicious influence of the gun lobby, of course...

...and Josh Johnson of The Daily Show gives us a rundown on the latest news...and I can just hear it now; “oh, you dastardly lib with your ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ memes about Mitch McConnell...well, don’t you feel dumb now?”...actually, no, I don’t – name for me ANY OTHER EMPLOYER who would allow an elderly employee to COMPLETELY DISAPPEAR FOR ABOUT THREE MONTHS WITH NO EXPLANATION while he recovered, collecting a paycheck and bennies the whole time, not to mention the fact that the employee in question has done MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE over the last couple of decades to make the U.S. Senate VIRTUALLY USELESS...and I don’t have a clue about what’s going to happen with AI, and I don’t have the bandwidth to care at this moment (but OF COURSE this story provides an opportunity for A Certain Treasonous Orange Egomaniac to tell the world how smart he thinks he is) – God willing he’ll be gone one way or the other someday (and define “gone” however you want), and I’m getting to the point where I don’t care how or when that happens (and what’s the deal with his hairpiece anyway?)...NSFW/H also...

...and I suppose we’re getting closer to the holiday shopping season, so some acts/performers are going to be issuing commemorative recordings of sorts with that in mind...this tells us that Bob Dylan has a 39-disc set scheduled to come out, which is a little “over the top” as far as yours truly is concerned...recordings were with the Rolling Thunder Review 50 years ago so they’re likely to be good, but I would probably need a cosigner to get the dough I’d need to make a purchase like that (I’ll just remain content with the vinyl that I’ll try to transfer to disc one day).

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:33:08 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about a recent debate in Kansas between incumbent Repug U.S. Senator Roger Marshall and his Dem challenger Adam Hamilton, in which Marshall heard it from the crowd over the ruinous economic policies of the head of Marshall’s party...I thought this was a good description by Cohen of the “doom loop,” if you will, of trying to appease Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy, losing your credibility in the process, and then hearing it from your constituents in response when you decide to make a public appearance...but just to show that I’m going to TRY and comprehend what Marshall is saying, according to him, Kansas lost 1700 manufacturing jobs over two decades but are getting 100 back, as it that’s supposed to be a win; funny that Marshall doesn’t mention those ridiculous tariffs against Canada, which could lead to Kansas manufacturing not buying planes from Canadian company Bombardier, putting 1,000 Kansas jobs at risk, to the point where Marshall and his fellow Senate Repug Jerry Moran told the head of their party to back off against Bombardier as noted here (as if #47 will listen)...I don’t know anything about the cost of soybeans or whatever that was that Marshall was saying (not trying to dismiss matters important to farmers – just saying that I’m not going to try and move Heaven and earth checking Marshall’s claims on that)...slightly NSFW/H...

...but the big story on Action News, you might say, is the SCOTUS stopping the Gropenfuhrer’s attempt to block states from sending out mail-in ballots (24 states plus D.C. sued in response)...this nonsense started in late March with another bogus executive order telling states to create a “state citizenship list”; that idiocy was blocked by a lower court, so of course the appeal went up immediately to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR...also tells you something that the online portal that the Feds need to manage in order to upload voter info from the states still isn’t operational (elect a clown, expect a circus)...oh, and OF COURSE, Strip Search Sammy Alito and Almost Silent Clarence Thomas thought the order from the Gropenfuhrer was just peachy (and maybe “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh also)...Maddow speaks with Marc Elias, who, for my money, knows more about how Republicans continually try to “ratf*ck” elections than anyone else (some really clear-eyed commentary from Elias on this that we all need to hear, reinforcing the fact that Don The Con is the most unrepentant scumwaffle on the face of this planet)...I’m sure Maddow and Elias are 100 percent correct that the next move from our ruling regime will be to yell “WAAAH! THE SUPREME COURT WON’T LET ME DO WHAT I WANT!! THE ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED!!!”...

...and I now have a bit of a “compare and contrast” exercise coming up...I know I’ve said I’ll be careful with clips of TYT, and you’ll have more information on that shortly – first, Ana Kasparian lets us know about some Israeli settler named Yona Schreiber, who was just acquitted in an attack on a French nun – this monster apparently pled an insanity defense and it worked...good point to mention that these anti-Christian attacks from Jews also happen in Armenia...I definitely want to see a follow-up report as to whether or not this Schreiber person actually ends up in a psychiatric hospital for six years in accordance with the sentence; my guess is that he’ll be discharged as soon as this story fades from the headlines...and 88 incidents of harassment and assault from settlers against Christians in this year alone? I DEFINITELY would call that a trend...and even vandalizing graves??? Pretty damn strange behavior IMO from a country that is supposed to be an “ally”...I’m objecting here to what Israel is doing against Christians, but what they’re doing against Muslims is pretty damn vile also...

...and with the prior clip in mind, I would ask that you watch the following from Brittany Page...I think TYT occasionally deals with important issues such as the one in the above video, and I agreed with them in the clip above, but it also looks like they’re playing footsie, you might say, with The Swanson TV Dinner Heir, spouting his schtick with more than a bit of racism and white supremacy thrown in (and I remember that pic of Cenk Uygur laughing and holding hands with Charlie Kirk)...unintentionally hilarious to hear Tuckums claim that institutions created by whites are more benevolent (with this Peter Brimelow character, who created the VDARE website as noted) – yeah, maybe to OTHER WHITES...use that Google thingie and look into “redlining” housing districts and related discriminatory practices by Our Ochre Abomination and his family, including his dad in the real estate biz – you can find examples all over the place in this country...and oh yeah, whites are supposedly being eliminated, which ISN’T A THING...glad to hear Page resurrect William F. Buckley, who was one of the people long ago who wrote the conservative grievance playbook, constantly whining about the “liberal media” when his idiot theories were disproven (if you want to dive in really deep on this topic, read McGeorge Bundy’s critique of Buckley’s “God And Man At Yale”)...also, I know TYT has cozied up to Joe Kent for some ungodly reason, he being the guy who lost to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in Washington State in a U.S. House election; MGP is absolutely NO BETTER than Kent IMO...”clout chasing drama goblin” – good one...unpleasantly surprised to hear about Ryan Grim, and Saagar Enjeti is just another useful media idiot...and I also knew about the fascist party winning in Germany, of all places, with King Elon’s help – not sure I need to point out how awful that is...I often don’t include videos this long because I just don’t have the time to pick them apart as much as I want, but I think this is an important (and particularly well done) clip from Page – it’s obvious that she knows what she’s talking about on this, though she does on her other topics also IMO...NSFW/H also...

..and Tennessee Brando tells us that “I’ve been talking with Tennessee voters, and this shocked me”...and of course, we have a big-time example in PA-01 of a Repug politician deciding not to face his constituents, which I’ve tried to point out at this site recently (and Tim Burchett is another example in Brando's "holler," if you will)...in a weird way I’ll admit, I admire the directness of preachers in Brando’s world wearing their “R” party allegiance on their sleeve, you might say, even though they‘re utterly wrong to do that of course, as opposed to this area, where that advocacy is treated with a bit of a wink, implying that you’re either “in the club” or you’re not...so glad to hear Brando invoke the TVA, one of the transformative New Deal programs that genuinely impacted people’s lives for the better...”politics is talking to you every day” indeed...mildly NSFW/H also...

...and I have a hard time saying no to just about anything from Walter Trout, including this tune from within the prior year.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:51:35 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick won’t stick his head out of his shell and debate Dem nominee Bob Harvie. In a weird way, that makes a bit of sense since Bri-Fi refuses to hold in-person town halls also.

I know I said I’d be careful about clips from TYT, but I thought this was a good one from Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discussing gas prices continuing to skyrocket, with oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz pretty much shut down at this point, with the lowest amount of traffic since May (I would call 4.9 million barrels per day versus 21.6 million quite the dropoff)...as AAA tells us, gas had never been about $4 a gallon on Labor Day, but IT IS NOW, TRUMPERS (so much winning!)...and it looks like Trumpist DOE Secretary Chris Wright can’t even spin the propaganda correctly, blaming governors in “Democrat”-run states for keeping prices up...wrong, you asshat - as Ana Kasparian points out, energy futures are NOT going down according to a benchmark for that, despite Wright’s lying about it...also, I’m not mad at Ana for saying Ukraine attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure is contributing to this; I think anyone who’s sane understands why Ukraine needs to do that, but it’s just a fact, and now the Houthis (no doubt with Iran’s help) are ratcheting everything up in that area of the world also, which could have been foreseen by any adult with an actual brain...additionally, Iran’s ballistic missile capability is concerning for sure, and since there are no actual adults in this administration, I KNOW they’re not prepared for the economic shock of ever-increasing prices combined with Canada’s retaliatory tariffs (and not blaming Canada, but just mentioning a fact...I’m not surprised to hear Cenk go off on Israel, but guess what? I think HE’S ABSOLUTELY GODDAMN RIGHT...and I have to admit that I can do without the T-shirt promo for Hasan Piker, but I’m not going to get too bent out of shape over it)...

...and related to that, Belle discusses #47 pushing Iran to get a nuke...important to note that, based on our intelligence (which has probably been degraded to some degree by virtue of the knuckleheads we have in this administration in critical roles related to this, like Crazy Eyes Kash Patel), it doesn’t look like Iran is looking to get a nuke at this time (which makes this ridiculous war even more unjustifiable), but we can’t rule that out 100 percent of course, especially with Combover Caligula basically telling Iran to build a nuke to be taken more seriously (SMDH)...

...and Farron Cousins brings us the story of ICE taking over a Maryland town for a couple of days and beating up protestors (tracking someone to a neighborhood called Tasker’s Chance) – so a guy flees an ICE stop (not good, but I don’t completely blame the person either), and the ICE goons descend en masse on this neighborhood, and some charge the house and others beat up protestors I guess because it’s a day of the week with a “y” in it...oh, and no arrests, since apparently the main goal here was for a bunch of rednecks to pretend to be actual law enforcement and bust heads...yep, just because TikTok is probably using an AI to decide which videos to upload (and keeping out anything it thinks is controversial), that doesn’t mean ICE’s garbage isn’t still going on...

..and former 60 Minutes Managing Editor Guy Campanile decided to “spills the beans” on what that program has become under Bari Weiss...oh, and Campanile had worked at the network for 34 freaking years...as John Iadarola says, there’s definitely a plan behind “the Epstein class” buying up the media, and that goes for social networks also; Lord knows they have the money to do it, absent any kind of government intervention (and normally I wouldn’t automatically say that we need that, but I think that’s unavoidable here)...as one example, this tells us what Hungary is doing to dismantle the apparatus set up by Viktor Orban to control the media in that country...we need to pass meaningful reform when it comes to corporate ownership of our media (e.g., if you own a TV station, you can’t own a newspaper or radio station either) that includes devoting an approximate amount of time/space to opposing/minority points of view, as well as consulting with media representatives for other reforms...basically, we need to replace the “guardrails” that were abolished under The Sainted Ronnie R (equal time rule, the Fairness Doctrine), and I realize there is zero appetite from the frauds and charlatans in charge now for that...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us that Texas Republicans are not shy about sharing their dislike of Ken Paxton...gee, what’s not to like? The marital infidelity, the kickbacks to support AI data centers in locations Paxton doesn’t live, and speaking of which, there’s Paxton’s 15 houses on his six-figure-a-year salary...yep, it definitely paints a contrasting image between 20,000 pounds of food to be donated and the $20-$25K minimum for the “have mores” to be included to attend the “Trump-a-palooza” last week...and yes, I give James Talarico props for handling that question about gender too, but for future reference, do you know how you handle that? You say there are two genders but multiple gender identities, because that’s how corporations look at it (to say nothing of the fact that it’s ridiculous to be preoccupied with that with another forever war vs. Iran and a cratering economy, and a continually warming planet also)...and I suppose you need to present that speech excerpt from the hero of The Great Unwashed, though I wanted to vomit in my mouth as I watched it (another “sir” story, the damn accordion hands...jumping Judas H. Priest on a pogo stick!)...

...and happy belated 80th birthday to Dennis Tufano of The Buckinghams.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:31:45 +0000

Jimmy Kimmel explains why his interview with Dem U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas had to go right to YouTube and could not be aired on TV (referencing that BS "convention" that just ended also - more here...seems that a certain rotund, sweaty orange sack of trans fats and his FCC minion objected and Kimmel didn’t want to cause problems for any ABC affiliates in “the land of the yellow rose,” as Kimmel tells us...wonder if Our Ochre Abomination will go crying to Natalie over it?...

...and Robert Reich explains How Trump Made America Expensive Again...the damn Iran war, his stinking tariffs, the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck which gutted health care among its other travesties, cuts to renewable energy which will increase out utility bills, trying to cram these disgusting AI data centers down our throats, and all the while, the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch continues to “live large” at our expense...

...and Jordan Chariton of Status Coup informs us that a Trumpist federal court judge recently ruled that the residents of Jackson, Mississippi don’t have a constitutional right to clean drinking water (oh, and they don’t have a right to reliable information from public officials either)...Jackson residents have apparently been boiling their water for some time to protect themselves, some for 10-15 years believe it or not...the numbskull responsible for this ruling is Judge Kurt Engelhardt...for background, it should be noted the suit had to do with the “bodily autonomy” of the residents, who pretty much have been poisoned for decades by the city of Jackson, which has not upgraded its water infrastructure (and did I mention that the population of Jackson is majority black?)...sounds like Engelhardt was definitely splitting legal hairs here, saying that the statute in question applied to cases of sexual assault but not poisoned drinking water (imagine being in a position where you have to rely on bottled water and somebody tells you “you have too much water”)...I honestly don’t know the latest on the Flint water crisis; Gretchen Whitmer inherited it from Rick Snyder, but if the water is indeed still messed up after all this time, she owns that now by default (NSFW/H)...

...and I realize I’m a little late with this next item, but I wanted to get to it anyway...Steve Harness of Really American informs us that the Spider-Man guy who tried to keep wingnuts from attacking peaceful protestors in Minneapolis is going to be prosecuted, while Jake Lang who started all the trouble with his idiocy is going to walk away...looks like counter protestors siding with Lang drove their vehicles onto the sidewalk in protest...my spider sense is telling me some wingnut asshats got some hurt fee-fees, because nothing says you want to peacefully resolve differences more than trying to ram someone with about 2,000 pounds of steel, right?...I have to admit that “prior communication” between Lang’s goons and the cops is an interesting excuse to let Lang off...whoever this Lubuc guy with the Minneapolis cops is should end up permanently behind a desk, since he doesn’t belong interacting with the public (fist bump emoji)...NSFW/H also...

...and these next two clips are timely for this day also of course - hard to imagine it's been 25 years (I once expounded on this topic here long ago, for what it's worth...related items are here and here...oh, and this is typical for Our Orange Pustule-In-Chief also...and I thought this was also a timely reminder).

Update 1: More here.

Update 2: In the immortal words of David Huddleston in "Blazing Saddles," "Now who can argue with that?" (here).

Update 9/12/22: Important related info is here.

Update 9/12/23: And this needs to be remembered also.

Update 9/13/24: As we know, there is truly no bottom with this treasonous egomaniac (here).

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:18:30 +0000

Lawrence O’Donnell talks about that ridiculous mini “Trump-a-Looza” convention, or whatever that was, which mainly wasn’t attended by a few incumbents of the Trump Party, though there were exceptions (two of them from PA will be noted in a minute)...oh yeah, oil prices are going to be “tumbling downward” right after the election, huh? And his cruel and stoo-pid war of choice versus Iran will end also after November 3rd? Says the failed casino owner, real estate developer, steak and vodka salesman, crypto boss, and on and on and on...Alaska Repug U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, in a race with Dem Mary Peltola, didn’t attend Trump’s little party because Sullivan knows what the numbers are and he’s not an idiot (though he likely is a crook)...and “the Hormone Strait”?? God, what a delusional nut case Our Sweaty Orange Boy truly is...

...and Dem U.S. House Rep Madeleine Dean is interviewed here on C-SPAN responding to that traitor John Fetterman’s recorded speech at that sham “convention”...good for Dean to point out not only Fetterman’s ridiculous words, but his actions by rubber stamping the wretched nominees from Mango Mussolini to cabinet positions and heading government departments...the two Repug U.S. House Reps from PA who Dean is referring to are Ryan Mackenzie and Rob Bresnahan (and of course, pretend “moderate” Bri-Fi passed on showing up, though he would have been right at home if he did)...apparently, Fetterman praised #47 for supposedly helping steelworkers (uh, no)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ points out how Cantaloupe Capone is sinking GOP candidates nationwide, including Texas, with #47 having the worst record on inflation ever recorded by an incumbent prez...and yeah, the Charlie Cook stuff is good news, but what matters is what happens on November 3rd; rosy forecasts have gone wrong before as we know...didn’t know Dems hadn’t won a statewide election in “the land of the yellow rose” in 38 years, but with all of the voting games that go on down there (what The Eternal Molly Ivins once called “the national laboratory for bad government”), I’m not totally surprised (disgusting that the political punditry on elections centers around money, but once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United...and what a big spender Bronzer Beelzebub is to fork over $10 million to Ken Paxton; maybe Paxton won’t have to steal any pens for a little while)...and yeah, we know what Turd Blossom is, but I hate to admit it; he knows how to win elections, and I trust his explanation on how far the Super PAC dough goes versus the spending by a candidate’s campaign...

...and Brittany Page reminds us that it looks like “Dr. Crudité” wants up to keep working until we’re just about ready to die all for the sake of growing the economy his idiot boss is doing his best to utterly wreck, which would suit the purposes of the “R” party pretty well actually...when I listen to this fraud speak about what he thinks is best for our end-stage capitalist economy. I wonder what his definition of “work” truly is...I mean, it can’t be someone trying to cobble a living together working two or more crappy service jobs including gig work like Grub Hub or Door Dash deliveries on top of Walmart and/or Amazon, for example; I would imagine anyone doing that is trying to hang on until they can somehow retire early, which at this stage they can’t do unless they’re about 62..oh, but if someone can somehow endure that for an additional year, Oz thinks that could help contribute an extra trillion dollars (and as Page says, despicable frauds like OZ NEVER say that about SNAP benefits, ACA credits, extending the child tax credit, or other stuff that would actually do some good)...good discussion IMO from Page about what you could call the multiplier benefit of funding SNAP and how that helps local businesses providing food assistance and how those using that benefit can use their savings to aid our economy in other ways, with every dollar spent on SNAP results in $2 of economic activity (something Trumpist wingnuts will never understand)...you would think Repugs would embrace something that increases GDP with a great return on investment, but you’d be wrong of course because the punishment is the point (and I LOVE his Philly health care worker example, which I think is a damn lie anyway; see my earlier comment about someone working in a gig economy job in addition to another service job, with this example in health care...and no, I don’t condone criminal behavior either, again, assuming that even happened...tripe like that is nothing but a sop to the suburban conservative boomer audience watching that business channel...”it’s those damn minorities stealing from hard working white people again, Gertrude!”)...also, I think it’s particularly rich for Oz to site COVID as an example of people running scams, since companies in which he owned stock received forgivable PPP loans, as noted here (and why the hell should he be allowed to receive earnings from those companies while those loans are outstanding, then?)...

...and what would a Trumpist enterprise be without yet another lying scam? I’ll let Jonathan Pie take a shot at answering that (NSFW/H of course)...

...and I guess it's about time for this tune, with autumn closing in, as the other song goes.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:07:08 +0000

This is your occasional reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick still refuses to debate Dem challenger Bob Harvie, along with the fact that Bri-Fi hasn’t held a face-to-face town hall with constituents for-freaking-evah.

To begin, Thom Hartmann speaks with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films about How Billionaires Are Controlling All Of Our Media...apparently, Greenwald has a new production called “Murdering 60 Minutes,” which actually mimics the format of the show before it was trashed by Bari Weiss...Greenwald draws the line from the Ellisons (David in charge of CBS, and trying to acquire CNN) right to the IDF, which for my money is a terror organization in its own right...we learn that 12 state Attorneys General have filed suit to prevent Paramount/Skydance from taking over Warner Brothers, with a March court date coming up...sounds like the Ellisons over-leveraged themselves to try and make this awful acquisition, and yeah, that means that still more people will lose jobs to try and make up for that...and as Greenwald says, social media is by no means immune from the pressure of oligarchs who want only their message to get out...

...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know that Cantaloupe Capone and SecDef Kegseth intend to steal $$ from the NIH for the Iran War...yeah, who needs research into studying allergies and infectious diseases when it’s time to kill brown-skilled people on the other side of the world?...Rosa DeLauro is frequently the target of wingnut umbrage, mainly because she doesn’t take any sh*t, and she demonstrates that again here...good point that, given the obscene funding of the DoD, imagine what kind of mismanagement is going on that apparently the Trumpers think it’s necessary to steal dough from elsewhere in our government to wage yet another damn pre-emptive war launched by a Repug *preznit...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf tells us about another judge blocking #47’s birthright citizenship order, the latest in a series of legal smackdowns on this issue...even the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR said, “naaah...this violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution,” so Combover Caligula ignored that and tried again, and Judge Deborah Boardman (judge for the U.S. District Court of Maryland) blocked it again, citing the SCOTUS ruling...leave it to this gaggle of idiots to come up with the term “birth tourism,” as if an expectant mother risks her life to come here to book a cruise on Royal Caribbean...as Waldorf says, it’s so far beyond pathetic that this wretched administration keeps wasting time and money on losing causes like this while ignoring the issues that matter most to the majority of this country...

...and Farron Cousins brings us some data to tell us that Gen Z voters are done with Trump...31 percent of those who supported him now regret it, with 28 percent of millennials feeling that way also, along with 20 percent of Gen X’ers and 10 percent of boomers, which is still way too low for that latter cohort IMO...also, 93 percent of Gen Z’ers (about 49 million) plan to vote in the election (you paying attention, Dems? You plan to give these folks a reason to support you??)...

...and heading “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie presents the latest on The Reform Witch Hunt, with Nigel Farage and “loose pub talk”...looks like Farage got a bare minimum of scrutiny and then started crying like a little bitch over what the UK “Reform” party is up to (more here) – sound familiar??...NSFW/H...

..and I think the title of this song should be our mantra as we move ever closer to November 3rd.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:48:36 +0000

(The individual who took this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a returning POW during the Vietnam War passed away a short time ago as we learn here, and as wonderful as the moment is that he captured...well, let’s just say there was more to the story, and I’ll leave that there.)

To start, Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tell us that the Department of Labor for Mango Mussolini is eliminating a report/spreadsheet used to investigate potential hiring discrimination based on race and sex, because of course...”whoever controls that data controls what you can prove” indeed, and Trumpette Andrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC, decided to stop collecting the data...oh, but Lucas is apparently running a case against Nike, saying the company discriminates against white employees (and if you believe that, I have a bridge to one of the five New York boroughs to sell to you)...I didn’t know this came from that accursed Project 2025, but that tracks too, I have to say...also didn’t know the EEOC processed 88K worker complaints, winning $660 million for over 17K workers (and when it comes to Labor Day and the Trumpers, this isn’t surprising I know)...

...and John and Yasmin Khan of The Damage Report inform us that a Canadian pollster has found that there’s push back not only against #47, but other Repugs running for Congress, with Dem U.S. Senate candidates leading in 4 of 5 races, and yes, I know this is just one poll...the only one where a Repug is up is in South Carolina, where Darline (“Don’t Know Much About Foreign Policy”) is ahead...and once again, it’s independent voters pushing back the hardest in this poll...God blees the Canadians in that poll who still have a favorable opinion about this country (around 74 percent) despite all the Trumpist bullsh*t (and by the way, the Canadian tariffs are due to kick in today)...

...and sticking with our neighbors to the north, David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us that it looks like Don The Con’s name change of Lake Ontario to Lake America was every bit the mistake you can imagine it to be with the “MAGA faithful”...and oh yeah, that goes for the stinking tariffs also (63 percent opposed according to the poll cited here, separate from the one in the Damage Report clip I believe)...and oh yeah, Apple Maps and Google Maps (which went along with this idiotic name change) have been deleted by “hundreds of thousands” – serves them right...and the inverse applies to MapQuest IMO...good job in this report to show the economic impact to this typical idiocy from Bronzer Beelzebub on both sides of the border (and I sincerely hope that Canadian town renames the streets and gets rid of the New York references because we deserve it)...

...and this is another typically well-done IMO report from More Perfect Union, this time from Salwa Shameem who tells us what’s really going on with this “Board of Peace” grift, led by Wonder Boy Jared Kushner...looks like they want to glass Gaza and the people and turn it into another playground for the ultra-rich...oh, and the World Bank Fund that was supposed to contain funds for Gaza’s reconstruction is completely tapped out, with some of the dough going to J.P. Morgan...oh, and it looks like the U.N. Security Council is another rubber stamp on behalf of the corporations trying to make bank out of all of this despicable suffering (author Casey Michel is interviewed)...oh, and it looks like every member country trying to join this board has to pay a billion up front (and as luck would have it, the board is approved before the charter is finalized, which is NOT how this stuff is supposed to work, to my knowledge)...also, Our Treasonous Orange Pustule remains as chairman of the board even after he no longer resides in An Oval Office (so many levels of grift going on here...someone, or a group of folks, are going to have to try and investigate this at some point, including hidden bank accounts)...no mention of Gaza in the charter, as we also learn...and apparently, Kushner’s “Affinity Partners” is the group making inroads overseas to other shadowy outfits for funding (and it links back to those damn West Bank settlements)...one of my questions is what kind of military involvement this country may get roped into to preserve this scam operation (I don’t think private contractors by themselves will “cut it,” at least not without help); if anybody thinks there WON’T be some kind of “intifada” in response, then you haven’t been paying attention...also, “Little Marco” is trying to dismantle the ICC, which could hold all of the miscreants mentioned here accountable (I can’t help but recall how much our supposedly august members in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” were in such a rush to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State because they thought he was “in the club”...the phrase ”so-called international law” is another typical F-U from the Trump regime)...”war will always be a money maker” – sadly, I think that’s about right...

...and America’s Finest News Source is on the beat again with another timely clip (just kidding...this is a repeat, but I think it’s pretty spot-on for now)...

...and happy belated 75th birthday to Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders...this tune was the lead-in to Flush Limbore’s radio show and he used it without permission of course, so Hynde quite rightly took him to court...I believe the terms of the settlement were that he could continue to use it as long as it didn’t include Hynde’s vocals and Limbaugh made a contribution to PETA (a favored Hynde charity), which I though was a good way to take care of the matter FWIW.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:56:06 +0000

Here is a clip reminding us of the importance of today's holiday, as well as of the labor movement overall (more here , here, here, here, and a true relic is here...and as noted here, the beat goes on, you might say)…

...also, this story tells us about the Chicago Labor Day March, with the theme of workers over billionaires (rallying at Haymarket, which is a storied location in the history of organized labor, as noted in the first video)...

...and this tells us about the nurses’ protests at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, highlighted by a one-day strike followed by a four-day lockout by management in July...the core issues are wages and cost-of-living adjustments along with nurse/patient staffing ratios and charges of unfair labor practices...my understanding is that negotiations are ongoing...more here...

And as long as I’m including a clip about vitally important health care workers, I have to add something.

A very dear and beloved family member works in health care (taking care of an elderly population), and it is an absolute horror show at her employer, who generally is good (and this scenario is replaying itself with other facilities of this type). The reason is the cut in Medicare/Medicaid funding from The Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck; all of these places are scrambling to make up the lost revenue (and that’s why situations occur where LPNs show up for work and they’re definitely needed for the type of adult population which is prone to accidents such as slips and falls, but these LPNs are told to go home because there’s no funding for them). Oh, and facilities of this type are cited by the state which regulates this business (oh, excuse me...in PA, it’s the ”commonwealth), so there’s added pressure to comply if they fall short (and again, they’re falling short for staffing reasons because the reimbursement from the government was cut out). I sincerely hope you don’t have a family member receiving care at one of these places that is experiencing issues of this type, but if they are, I likely just stated the reason.

If you’re reading this, I realize you’re not likely to vote for a Republican. But if somehow you’re inclined to do so, because of that horrible bill alone (which is catastrophic for health care for all of us and just rewards the ”pay no price, bear no burden” bunch yet again), I just have one question: Are you out of your f*cking mind???!!!!

...and here is a report on the Long Island Railroad workers strike last May...a tentative agreement was reached after three days...

...and Robert Reich tells us about 5 ways to strengthen labor and the middle class of this country...video is 12 years old, but it still has some good points about leveling the playing field, you might say, for workers...and I’m pretty sure the minimum wage adjusted for productivity and inflation is around $15 an hour now (what the federal minimum wage should be, I mean)...good idea about increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit also (and let's not forget this, by the way)...

Update 9/2/24: Well said.

Update: For Bluesky folks, I offer this.

...and here is a tune for the holiday.

Dueling Grumpy Cats!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:24:00 +0000

A little "Calling it a Night", mood music! - Sam Smith - "Stay With Me"

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:07:09 +0000

Nightly News in a Minute!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:59:16 +0000

Hillary and Bill Clinton in Iowa, "We are Back!", just not officially running for president yet. Unofficially, game on!

Powerful, "Hurricane Odile", looming for a direct hit on Mexico's resorts region!

Team USA slam dunks home a epic win, with a rout of Serbia, winning the Basketball World Cup Championship!

White House, we are ready to arm Syrian rebels like yesterday, Congress, please vote, so we can spend more money we don't have!

Scottish aid worker David Haines beheaded by ISIS, brother Mike Haines mourns, condemns continued evil and vile acts of murder and violence!

The Queen of England, "Think very carefully about the future!", Kind of sounds like a thin veiled threat aimed squarely at the Scottish people voting for independence!

The "Real Truth" about Kanye West's wheelchair rant? Does this guy like to cause his own pain? Seriously?

YouTube video of the Kanye West wheelchair incident!

You are living under a rock if you haven't noticed Hillary Clinton is the Queen Incarnate or President-Elect frontrunner if she chooses to run!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:23:20 +0000

Hillary is once again putting her name and face out in the public's eye. The (non) candidate (cough, cough) was welcomed to a mixed reception of DNC loyalists.

Bill and Hillary Clinton were the keynote speakers at the final Harkin Steak Fry on the hot-air balloon grounds outside Indianola, south of Des Moines. The event served as an emotional commemoration of Harkin's 40 years in Congress and a rallying cry for Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections.

Hillary Clinton has not been in Iowa since her 2008 caucus loss to now-President Barack Obama. Harkin dubbed the Clintons the "comeback couple," though he has not said if he would endorse Clinton if she runs, saying he wants her to make her decision first.

Clinton played coy on her 2016 plans, telling the crowd, "I am thinking about it." She concluded by saying, "It's really great to be back, let's not let another seven years go by."

Politically-wise, I really wish she would come out in the open and say what is really on her mind.

She's going to run, and the whole world expects this.

She's a Clinton, a political mastermind, a pitbull that stood face to face with moronic tools on Congress who tried to embarrass her in well-staged, choreographed congressional inquiries, and she held her ground and embarrassed every Congressional RNC windbag that tried to come after her.

I think those like Karl Rove forget whom they are dealing with.

This woman smoothed the road for Bill Clinton's 1st and 2nd presidential races and electoral stints, even with a president-elect who could not keep his penis in his pants or stay away from Big Macs at McDonald's.

At one point, she had to do the political equivalent of the Hail Mary in saving Bill's legacy and ass, and she did it with the precision of a razor-sharp brain surgeon, quickly shutting down the whole Lewinsky debacle.

For every low blow or quick punch you sneak in, she has 5 lined up for the return blow, knocking you out, from her colleagues and closest allies.

She is very well-networked, and she has reach and influence expanding beyond our naturalized borders thanks to her stint as the "Secretary of State," or "President for dummies, foreign policy dry run" as I like to call it.

I truly believe it's not "will she run," but "when will she finally make the 'official' announcement," pushing her deep into the presidential race mode 24/7, and her losing the freedoms she enjoys as a private citizen doing high-priced speeches and helping lesser knowns, saving their political asses.

On a personal level, I don't have a horse in this race as I am a non-affiliated, independent voter that both sides will spend millions to woo, but at the end of the day, she is a Clinton, and that alone speaks volumes over what I could ever say.

I'm pretty confident that the term President-Elect Hillary Clinton could be spoken in the very near future, and I honestly feel very sorry for the sacrificial lamb the RNC totes out to be mangled and utterly destroyed.

It will be amazing and explosive political theater to watch, and I will enjoy my seat from the sidelines, taking it all in.

Again, I repeat this: she's a Clinton, enough said.

Do you really know what is going on? Do you really care? (Op-ed)

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:05:39 +0000

I really love the meaning of this quote and meme. There are so many important things going on this world that people don't either care to educate themselves about or speak up when they see something unethical or illegal going on. It's this lack of care or lack of using energy for things like activism and supporting an important cause that those with evil intentions feed off.

If the populace is going to keep happily living in the shadows, there is no need for those who purposely do nefarious things to ever worry about accountability or being outed in the public.

Quite simply, by lack of action, the masses are giving their seal of approval, supporting things they most likely wouldn't if they had all of the facts in front of them and knew how the deeds would be effecting them, be it short term or long term, good or bad.

One of my favorite REM songs kind of sums it up: "It's The End Of The World As We Know It." The lyrics kind of summarize what I'm saying here.

People are either scared, told that if they speak up or out they will be labelled terrorists in this post 9-11 era, or they are so involved in their vices -- alcohol, sex, tv, drugs, and technology -- that their attention is diverted from the crimes going on around them, that they don't even notice a travesty happening right in front of their noses.

It's by design, I believe.

If you are entranced in this digital age --Facebook, text messaging, YouTube, your favorite TV shows; all at the minimalist ground level -- you aren't being observant about your civil liberties, privacy, or the things in your bedroom that no one should legislate or have intimate knowledge of which are being violated, legislated, or actively being spied on (NSA).

I learned one thing a long time ago, that still rings true even today: perception is not always reality.

What if the perception you have has always been forcefed since birth, so the reality you believe that is real is just a forced reality that does not exist, but you are in too deeply conscious-wise to tell the difference?

Basically, what you read in the papers, what you see on the evening news, even what is tought in your pre-approved history books (remember, the victors always write history!) is almost all a complete mirage or mental pre-conditioning to breed a civil and controllable society.

You have this false notion that everything is hunky dory or just about as good as it will ever be, so you pretty much never question anything and by design, you are extremely controllable and subservient.

I tend to subscribe to the above theory.

Think about it; certain segments in our society growing up match up perfectly here.

You go to a public school, and the goal of the entire system is conformity and establishing the class system.

You are taught to be quiet and do your work, but stay with the flow and do your expected work.

You quickly are a part of the social circles; the wealthy, the athletes, the geeks, the goths, and the reclusive people (the loners) start to form.

You go to college or straight into the work force and those divisions and classifications further cement themselves.

You go to college, you get student loans, and you are stuck with $80,000 in student loans; debt that hangs over your head like a 100 pound weight.

You have to make every payment regardless of other needs, or the system designed to help you get into and pay for college will destroy you and your credit. No filing bankruptcy, no getting away from it; they practically come after you.

If you go the straight-to-work route, you are stuck in a menial food service/sales job or a factory job where you are living paycheck to paycheck, barely making ends meet, and the fact you need the job(s) to survive is held over your head like a guillotine. Fairness, decency, and even a living wage are denied to you, Joe Q. Public, with the thought by management that there are 10

other Joes there who are unemployed who would love your job.

You have an innate fear of being homeless, of losing your vehicle(s) you cannot really afford and the house that you are not upside down on because of several vulturous refinances of your loan by banks who are slowly killing you financially like a cancer, simply because of their greed.

It's all stacked up against you.

Remember, he who controls your debt, the ability to put you in debt or a moment of living crisis, controls you.

Please, repeat after me: I love my country, and I'm free?

What I'm saying is this: since birth, you have no way to really win in this life, and it is all done by design. Unless you went to school with a chauffeur dropping you off to a school system that is very private, only the world's best-off attend, you never had a chance.

It was that way on purpose, and it will always be that way.

You will always tread water in one way or another, while those with so much will laugh and mock you from their golden perches way above you, enjoying the sight of you struggling but never getting ahead.

You will be the butt of their jokes, the memes they pass around on their invite-only Facebook-like networks for them and their über-wealthy friends.

My final thought is this:

There is no American dream; the often famed story of that guy who was another "rags to riches story," who went from being penniless to an overnight millionaire.

This is the real, cold, harsh world, and that shit just doesn't happen here.

"By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return." - Genesis 3:19.

The above bible verse sums it up nicely.

You were poor, made from dust, and you will return to the ground poor, as dust once again. Never really had a chance, and when gone, you or your lineage moving forward won't either.

And like I said before, this is all by design.

You're welcome....

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Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:17:17 +0000

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Dennis Williams, a homeless friend, used and abused by a bad church!

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:11:58 +0000

A decent guy in my opinion and a guy possibly set up for a crime he did not commit was most likely used and abused by our former church, and then sent back to prison by the very same people that used him as a pawn in their evil schemes.

I first met Dennis during a cold early March drive to a food bank in New Albany, Graceland Baptist.
He was wearing a heavy coat, very quite and reserved as many homeless people I have met are and was a man kind of quiet and to himself.

As I later became more involved in church activities, and volunteer work, I got to meet and see Dennis more and more.

He wasn't a bad guy in my mind, just a guy who had made a ton of bad choices and no one really gave him a chance to get back on his feet.

He lived under a bridge by the #4 Clarksville exit of I65 and never really came around people other than hanging out at McDonald's, helping with church tasks going to Exit O stops for food or hanging around with me when I'd run places.

His biggest problem is the fact I think he tried to be a people please and please everyone. He was the atypical homeless guy, afraid to tick off those who were helping him, for they might cut him off or not help him get to the things he needed.

I guess he did a hard, long job search and people would use his criminal status against him. He would tell me over and over again about people being rude or abrasive telling him they don't hire his type there.

I guess his therapy group leader at his court ordered therapy would attack and threaten him and he'd hold the line and give it back.

The threat of sending him back to prison did nothing against a guy like Dennis who had been in the rotten system for 10 years. He would say, over an over again, that he'd rather go back than wear the stupid bracelet and deal with the constant harassment that comes along with it.

After I had came out of the hospital, I had heard that Dennis was now in prison, to serve out the remainder of his term.

I don't know 100% for sure, but I bet this is how his screw job unfolded.
They (Blair Birge or others involved) offered him help with staying out, maybe a guarantee and food, something of value or money in turn for his false testimonies.
He took there deal as he is a homeless guy with nothing often and it sounded like a win, win.

He was an active participant in the 3-4 deliberate false DCS complaints, backing up their already made up and evil lies, meant to hurt me and my family.

When they thought they had delivered the death blow and our world was going to end, so sad it didn't, they sent him packing to prison.
Who is going to believe the tales of a guy in prison trying to tell people how a supposedly great church put a loving family through Hell on purpose for speaking out?

I don't fault Dennis in all of this.
I fault Blair Birge

, any pastors or elders at the Southeast Indiana Campus,

a satellite church of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, who had a hand in this evil scheme.

(http://www.southeastchristian.org/ , they worship Neo-conservative Republican Jesus there.)

I liken their motivations and lack of Christian values to the actions of the Pharisee's, scholars/ elders and Sudacee's who tried time and time again to lure Jesus into a trap with false witness and lies.

God knows my heart, the father of the victims family, the heart of my wife and our desire and willingness to serve and walk with the Lord.
We aren't going to stop being disciples or helping others because of the works of evil men, no, just the opposite, we are going to pick it up another notch.

We are going to warn the masses though about the hidden dangers of huge mega churches and what certain Hell does ensue if you do the right thing and speak out.

Together | LeBron James

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:51:27 +0000

Get a Special Look at Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron"

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:50:56 +0000

Пореченков в донецком аэропорту

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:50:29 +0000

The Colbert Report: Gamergate - Anita Sarkeesian

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:49:58 +0000

Sam Smith/Ed Sheeran - Stay With Me (Manchester Albert Hall 29/10/14)

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:49:25 +0000

Microsoft Band: Live Healthier

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:48:26 +0000

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Final Trailer – “Burn”

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:47:01 +0000

Daniel Radcliffe Raps Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics"

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:24:03 +0000

T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:23:40 +0000

Iraqi Pershmerga arrive in Kobani to fight ISIL!

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:11:24 +0000

Ohio Governor Kasich pretends that oppenent doesn't exist - The video Kasich tries to suppress!

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:09:48 +0000

Halloween 2014 Light Show. Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody. Thomas Halloween Ho...

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:57:28 +0000

4 Psychological Terms That You're Using Incorrectly

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:35:34 +0000

Get a Special Look at Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron"

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:38:26 +0000

Epic, can't wait to see this movie! -

Minority Report like FBI computer system is now a reality and out in the wild!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:28:09 +0000

Minority Report was a sci-fi thriller that showed how future law enforcement would possible use precognition software to arrest people for future crimes and track citizens pretty much anywhere in the US or the world even, with a vast network of high tech cameras watching your every move.

It seems life has immitated art once again:

The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is now fully operational, after more than three years of development. The bureau announced today that development on the project is complete, and it would be rolling out new features for ongoing criminal notifications as well as a controversial facial recognition feature called the Interstate Photo System, or IPS. IPS will serve as "an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities," according to the release.

The facial recognition system has come under fire from privacy groups for mixing traditional mug shot photos with non-criminal faces pulled from employment records and background check databases. The system is expected to collect as many as 52 million faces in total.

My only questions are these.
Who is watching the watchers and guaranteeing that the data and images collected are used properly and not abused for malicious purposes. (NSA)
And isn't the idea of being tracked from point A, to point B, to point C, not a democratic society ideal, but something more likened to Communists, Warlords or Dictaitors?
The possibilities and implications for abuse are just overwhelming and too numerious.

Google bring the Android One ultra-cheap smartphone to the developing world!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:54:13 +0000

Google bridges the gap Android wise between the west, and the rest of the developing world...

Google has unveiled the first smartphones to run on its Android One platform, a standard designed to help push affordable smartphones in the developing world.

Android One devices will ship with support for more languages, including Hindi, and feature more local publications in Google Play Newsstand. Google is also making a special version of YouTube available which will allow Indian users to download videos and re-watch them multiple times without incurring excessive data charges. The first phones are expected to retail for 6399 rupees ($105).

I have to say that I am very impressed, and even though I'm sure profit motives are partially behind this push to reach into the mulit-million strong untapped market, many in the developing world will get to enjoy their first android phone expereince with a phone that actually has pretty good specs.

The initiative kicks off in India, where Micromax, Spice, and Karbonn are all selling phones with 4.5-inch screens, 1GB of RAM, 5-megapixel main and 2-megapixel front cameras,1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processors, dual-SIM slots, microSD expandable storage, and FM radios.

The future smartphone wise is very bright for those in developing nations , and those users will even get to enjoy the much anticipated Android L operating system experience.
I'm very happy to see this push regardless the motivation, as knowledge truly is power, and those in these regions will now get a chance to view media and cultures they have been previously shut out from.

Nice, a win, win in my book....

Insulting, but funny!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:26:34 +0000

I'm a religious guy, and I found this funny!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:25:33 +0000

Friday Stuff

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:14:30 +0000

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of TYT bring us up to date on the latest nonsense with this “Freedom Fuel” scam from Dementia Donnie (and yes, I realize Ana knows Philadelphia isn’t a state, so I’ll overlook that for now)...also, I have no issue with her snark about Israel because I think she’s right...and the price of gas at these shyster outfits has gone back to the market rate, huh? Figures...sooo, according to the inevitable-in-this-case lawsuit, somebody named Syed Kazmi and his brother purchased $4 million in fuel and then his company, KRSM, proceeded to stiff the outfit he bought the gas from (Mansfield Energy), allegedly of course; hard to root for anybody here I’ll admit...an “accounting dispute” over misplaced invoices, huh? Interesting euphemism for theft I’ll admit (again, allegedly)...I think Cenk goes off the rails a bit here when talking about the Kochs (more on what he’s talking about is here), though I’m sure he has a point in another context...also, the Kazmis have a history of pulling stuff like this, as we learn (whoopsie!)...

via GIPHY

...and when it comes to financial nonsense from the “party of Lincoln,” Repug U.S. Senator Ashley Moody of Flori-DUUH! was caught skimming about $10 mil from a children’s health fund (here) – also allegedly of course...maybe I’m more sympathetic than I should be towards the grand jury that found so much damn corruption between Moody and outgoing governor #DeathSantis and his wife that they couldn’t sort through all of it to file charges; what a goddamn cesspool!...but oh, “Governor Fancy White Boots” predictably shows his ire towards the leaker of the report to the grand jury, as opposed to admit getting caught red handed (yeah, a naïve thought on my part I’ll admit about #DeathSantis showing anything approximating contrition)...definitely an opportunity to get a word in here for Angie Nixon, and yeah, I know it’s Flori-DUUH!, but we need to fight as best we can anyway...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us more sordid tales of financial mismanagement from the regime of Bronzer Beelzebub – it’s really a shame that we apparently don’t have actual, honest-to-goodness adults in this administration who know what the hell to do about the bond market (here)...definitely above my pay grade, but as noted, higher bond yields makes lending/borrowing more difficult (in response to inflation and debt, by both countries and corporations...and oh yeah, Our Tiny-Handed Egomaniac’s war of choice versus Iran isn’t helping either)...oh, but the stock market is doing great, so everything is fine, except for the fact that the stock market is riding the ”sugar high,” if you will, of the AI bubble, and when that pops, it will be everyone for themselves...also no insight on whether or not Vlad The Butcher will try to nuke Ukraine, God forbid, which would also impact neighboring countries covered under NATO’s Article V...is it time to start drinking heavily yet?...

...and Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tells us that there’s nothing to see here, just the Gropenfuhrer’s DOE posting a video equating Our Ochre Abomination with a certain German Nazi guy from the 1930s and 40s (from that Gary Oldman move about Churchill); of course, since we’re talking about the regime of Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, they were too dumb and/or too arrogant to care...I’d forgotten that the ruinous plan for the DOE was to shut down the whole damn agency (yeah, who needs an educated and trained workforce to compete for jobs in the 21st century, amirite?)...

...and David Doel tells us that it looks like Fix Noise shill Maria Bartiromo is out of a job, though I have no doubt that our cretinous ruling regime will find a spot for her somewhere...well, at least Mike Huckabee has praise for him/her (???)...and I guess we need to revisit Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy whining for the zillionth time about the 2020 election – God willing, one day we won’t have to be inflicted with this nonsense any more...looks like Oliver Darcy got the lowdown on all of this; regardless of who you are, you can’t violate the policy of your employer as Bartiromo did in sharing internal information, especially with THIS White House (slightly NSFW/H)...

...and RIP Gloria Steinem; Willie Geist hosts a look back at her life and career...among her many accomplishments was advocacy for the Equal Rights Amendment, which guaranteed equal legal rights regardless of sex (will always remember how that privileged, insulting harpie...and I could think of worse names for her...Phyllis Schlafly sabotaged it)...with Susan Page, Eugene Robinson and Jonathan Lemire (good point about the ridicule Steinem endured from the usual wingnut suspects, and I’m sure they’ll still have the “knives out” even though Steinem has passed)...

...and I have to admit that I’m liking these little musical numbers from Jesse Welles more and more...

...and since we’re heading into the Labor Day weekend, it’s time once more for some “Friday with Frank.”