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August 15, 2025
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I saw "Winter Kills" 40 years ago when it first came out. Between that picture and "Cutter's Way" a few years later you can sort of see the roots of "The Big Lebowski": Conspiracy theories + slacker/hipster milieu + Jeff Bridges.
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You can now get an AI tutor for foreign language study at a fraction of what a real live human tutor would charge. The tutor is cute but annoying. She keeps saying, "Are you trying to say that ..." and "Do you mean that ..." plus the intended phrase with the right grammar, syntax and pronunciation. I suppose she gives language learners a focus and a face for their frustration and rage. Still, you can't actually punch her. You probably could change the face and the voice, but you still can't punch any of the AI tutors.
The Daily Mail has doxxed Jen Psaki, showing readers her actual home in Arlington, Virginia.
It's a 6-bedroom McMansion palace worth $2.5 million dollars. She's married and has 2 kids, so it's quite shocking that she would have the extra funds to purchase a 6-bedroom home in one of the nation's safest cities.
The home's location is easily discoverable using Google now. You just have to plug in the photos they published and ask any of the AI programs around to match it to a location.
So now, you and I can do what Democrats frequently do: They show up to Republican's homes and hold demonstrations at 3 in the morning. Except now we can all do that to Jenn Psaki and scare the ever loving fuck out of her kids. Which, by the way, we can infer where they go to school based on their age and location to nearby schools. So it's not too hard to find them, either.
So it's quite cool to see one media organization declare WAR on another media organization this way.
The Daily Mail only did this because Jenn Psaki has been falsely telling her viewers on MSNBC that Washington, DC is perfectly safe and that Donald Trump is executing a fascist takeover of the police - Hitler style - in preparation for declaring himself the Dictator of America soon.
Except that Jenn Psaki doesn't LIVE in unsafe, crime-ridden Washington, DC. So they showed people where she actually lives. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Very white. Very safe.
Now, we can go to Jenn Psaki's house, in the early morning hours when her kids feel safe all snuggled in their beds, and protest her. And we don't have to worry about being car-jacked to and from her house. We can spend all day and night protesting her at her home. Where her family lives.
Like Democrats do.
I am looking forward to a similar view all next week, just a bit further south. I'd share pics, but I don't want to create another social media account. Besides, Ann's and Meade's are perfect on their own.
Trump is a very stupid man taken to task by VVP who agreed to nothing. And if you didn't believe in "Russia, Russia, Russia" before, there is no doubt now that Russia owns him. Putin said not a single word about a deal but Trump is fundraising because nobody makes a deal like Trump.
Trump promised a call to President Zelensky about any progress on a deal. but went on Fox News with for an exclusive interview with Sean Hannity instead.
Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall, released 1961. I first head this album in1965 and loved it.
Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
Russia if your listening "Release the Epstein tapes and files" Donny you can leave here and head into space but when you return its the same old place. Prices rising, still fighting and killng in war zones, and EPSTEIN ain't going away. The biggest tax on Americans (tariffs ) ARE STARTING TO SHOW THE REAL NUMBERS,YOU BETTER FIRE ALL THEM PEOPLE AND GET YOUR CHRONIES IN.. And entertaining a war criminal on US soil is riduculous like this fake meeting that accomplished nothing but stop news cycle for 10 minutes anyway..
Putin was smirking and holding back actual laughter, especially when Trump brought up “Russia Russia Russia” during the so called press conference. How embarrassing for the US to have this fool of a president bring up his petty domestic grievances to Putin as if Putin were his daddy. Trump clapping for Putin on the red carpet, it was cringeworthy and debased the US presidency.
william50: The Grateful Dead did a great version of Big Boss Man as well.
https://youtu.be/v6hK9L42bvE?si=YR0aRkkEeNiXcNS0
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JSM
“Trump is fundraising”
Glad to hear it.
Putin is playing Trump like a Deliverance banjo. Putin is playing 3 dimensional chess. Trump is playing checkers. Putin knows that Trump has no standing, since he already promised the American voters that he would end the Russia/Ukraine War within 24 hours, which of course never happened. All talk and no show on Trump's part. Putin knows this.
War and death will continue. Lefties jump for joy.
Disgusting.
Inga wrote: "How embarrassing for the US to have this fool of a president ..."
Hillary Clinton said today that she will nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he is able to get Russia and Ukraine to stop their war. Hillary Clinton said this. Hillary. Clinton.
The thing about Donald Trump is that he puts himself in the arena - in the line of literal fire. Repeatedly. So that "people" like Inga can snipe at him and take their cheap shots.
Teddy Roosevelt knew about people like her. He said:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the woman who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who strives, who dares greatly, and who perseveres; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Inga doesn't understand that men spend themselves. She is a taker in life. But that's not what men do. Men spend themselves on these endeavors, knowing full well the risk of failure. Yet they persist.
I really feel sorry for Inga, living such a shallow, safe, protected life. Never once knowing the thrill of victory, or the agony of defeat.
Europe should deploy the weapon systems and forces to the eastern border and those logistical and support forces inside Ukraine that will constitute the overall future deterrent force to face Russia. Containing Russia is going to be a long-term mission requiring the deployment of significant hard power on an extended basis. The goal will be to establish a Cold War-like ceasefire in place along the entire eastern border.
The current barbed-wire border in eastern Ukraine is just one border among many along the entire eastern European border with Russia. It is an integrated problem regardless of the formality of which treaty or agreement covers which border. Russia is sure to test all of them.
Europe should put significant air forces and artillery capabilities that could quickly intervene in Ukraine--particularly air defense and air offensive capabilities--into eastern Nato countries while concurrently putting a large logistics force inside Ukraine that would free up troops for active deployment on the contested border. The logistic force itself would have something of a trip wire presence.
America has gone wobbly. European leaders should further explain this to voters while explaining that a prosperous economy and secure living spaces require a permanent and robust security presence along the entire eastern border. The challenge is wider than just the Ukraine.
It is also time for European leaders to back away from happy talk about cheap expansion and to start talking about the real costs of securing borders and consolidating the cohesion and integration of the existing EU and European community.
Europeans do not want to be part of Trump's America even if they could be. So they need to go about finishing the European Project which was always going to ultimately involve finishing a European defense and security architecture that was European led and not American-led. That time has arrived.
The comments here sound like they were cribbed from the BBC, NSNBC, or a Democrat Politician. Its embarrassing the way the MSM (including Fox news) is quoting hillary Clinton, or john bolten, or any of the other fucking losers.
We don't serious media and we don't have serious country. And we have the Democrats and their dumbshit followers just using this as an attempt to attack Trump. But then they're amoral scum. They don't care about Genocide in Gaza, they don't care about ending the Ukraine war which has killed hundreds of thousands. They don't even care about fucking WW III!
Nope, its all Orange man bad. And let me follow the party line. Putin bad. Cause, Stephen Colbert said so. Most them can't even tell you what country Kursk is in! Nuclear weapons? What are those? NPR didn't tell me. LOL.
Goddamn, Trump isn't perfect but compared to Scum like Biden and Hillary, he's a Goddamn George Washington. At least he tries to do what's right.
I see the lefty mincing has begun in earnest. Must be Friday evening.
..["Trump isn't perfect but compared to Scum like Biden and Hillary, he's a Goddamn George Washington. At least he tries to do what's right."
Trump has long preferred the company of Vladimir Putin to that of most leaders of US allies. This preference is not due to Putin having secret leverage over Trump, but rather because Trump perceives that leaders from Europe, Canada, Australia, and other democratic nations neither like nor respect him.
This dynamic is similar to Trump’s close relationships with Mohammed bin Salman and other Gulf leaders. Additionally, Trump admires their ability to govern without the checks and balances that constrain his own leadership.
“I really feel sorry for Inga, living such a shallow, safe, protected life. Never once knowing the thrill of victory, or the agony of defeat.”
Unlike former law clerks…
@FormerLawClerk, Clinton doesn’t mean it. She lies reflexively, like most people breathe.
This happened three weeks ago, sorry I did not see it earlier, but coverage has been scarce (geee, I wonder why....) (except for the obligatory simp story from the Tom Barrett bought and paid for Milwaukee Urinal Sentinal):
Up at the UW Eau Claire, piece of $hI+ leftist faculty scumbag, José Phillipe Alvergue, has been suspended for one year without pay, denied full professorship, and wrote a non-apology apology for his unhinged violent attack against the campus student Republicans.
To our esteemed hostess, a legal question: nolo contendere pleas vary by state. Does WI allow a litigant to use no contest pleas in lawsuits?
That was the Fyre Festival of summit meetings...
Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
Remember, they’re not afraid that Trump will fail to negotiate a peace. They’re terrified that he will.
Trump had the Stealth Bomber buzz Vlad with a flyover. You know that jet. The one that bombed Iran's nuke facility.
Trump is a genius. A highly stable genius.
Personally, I wasnt surprised no deal was concluded. NATO and Zelensky want forever war. Their position is "No land concessions to Russia". The Russia-Ukraine border of 2000 cant be change.
Except, Russia has control of Crimea, and the breakaway Republics and these places are now part of Russia. Not just Putin, but the Russian people aren't giving those places back. Period.
Amoral freaks like Hillary, biden, and Lindsey Graham, just want the killing to continue. As Miss lindsey chortled "We're killing Ruskiees and at bargin Prices".
Ultimately, the war will end when the Ukrainian people rise up get rid of Dictator Zelensky. Or Russian tanks roll into the outskirts of Kiev and impose regime change. Because the strongman with 3 passports and a zillion dollars socked away, is determined to please his NATO/Neo-con masters.
John, thanks for the link! Jerry missed a verse but made up for it with his guitar playing. Thanks again.
"Trump had the Stealth Bomber buzz Vlad with a flyover. You know that jet. The one that bombed Iran's nuke facility."
I wondered what they were looking up at.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimates around 250,000 Russian soldiers have died since February 2022. Their analysis suggests over 950,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the start of the war.
Russian can't keep suffering these losses; especially with low oil prices and more sanctions that Trump will impose.
"Unlike former law clerks… "
I have known both victory and defeat, of course, as all men have. As has Trump. He was bankrupt. Then Barack Obama thought he should try to dunk on Donald Trump. And if you saw Obama's gay ass first pitch at that baseball game, you'd know that Barack Obama is a little girlie man, unworthy of taking down someone with so large a set of balls such as Donald J. Trump. He literally throws a baseball like a fucking girl.
How'd that shit work out? How'd trying to murder Donald Trump work out. Twice?
Inga's grandchildren need to get her to bed now. It's past time.
What was accomplished? Putin got his 'Summit' moment to steady his image on top of a shaky economy and military quagmire. Trump put Epstein on the back page.
“I have known both victory and defeat, of course, as all men have.”
I’m getting goosebumps.
FormerLawClerk said...
"I really feel sorry for Inga, living such a shallow, safe, protected life. Never once knowing the thrill of victory, or the agony of defeat."
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Oh, I think Inga's experienced the agony of defeat. That pic of a dumpy, bespectacled woman in a lime green jacket screaming at the clouds, taken when it was clear Trump had beaten Hillary?
That's either Inga--- or her unlucky doppelganger.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is run by the chairman of the Hyatt Hotel chain.
You'll remember them as having the distinction of being the hotel chain that owns the record for killing American citizens with their engineering talent.
That record stands at 114 dead Americans.
I don't think I'm taking their advice on anything.
“That pic of a dumpy, bespectacled woman in a lime green jacket screaming at the clouds…”
You’re a bad husband not recognizing your own wife.
"I’m getting goosebumps."
I'm getting dry heaves knowing that I've somehow titillated someone of your girth.
Oh, I think Inga's experienced the agony of defeat.
I was talking with a Greek friend one time about the Iliad. I said, "No way, King Agamemnon laid siege to Troy for a decade just over some tart who ran off. I am pretty sure he did it to take over Troy's stranglehold on trade from the Black Sea, and therefore Asia. He could have gotten fabulously rich." My Greek friend said "You have obviously been internalizing Trojan propaganda."
FLC must need some more victories, talking like a big macho man on Althouse just isn’t cutting it.
This is a really sad news story about a guy (who had had a stroke) who was lured into taking a trip that led to his death:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/
Here's more Inga : Watch the video here
I just returned tonight from a full day at my State's Fair. My wife and I had a lot of fun, even though it was hot, crowded, noisey, and somewhat chaotic. There were so many people there that all of the parking lots were full, so we had to pay $10 to park on someone's lawn and then walk all the long way to the gates. One lasting memory I have is of all of the morbidly obese people there at the fair. Maybe it's because of all of the junk food that they serve at a fair. Foot long deep fried corn dogs. You get the picture. The only other two places that I have observed that had so many morbidly obese people were at a Wal Mart, and at a Trump campaign rally.
I like the sequence of your sunrise photos - looks like the tide was ebbing as the Sun arced higher.
I love the way Gavin Newsom is trolling Trump lately, very well done!
Video: A conspiracy motherload, condensed in 1 minute and 15 seconds.
"I love the way Gavin Newsom is trolling Trump lately"
LOLOLOLOLOoooooooooo
That's some Grade A cope right there, boys.
"Trump brought up “Russia Russia Russia” during the so called press conference. How embarrassing for the US to have this fool of a president bring up his petty domestic grievances to Putin as if Putin were his daddy. Trump clapping for Putin on the red carpet, it was cringeworthy and"
Considering that Obama's intelligence agencies fabricated a narrative that Putin meddled in the 2016 election, I wouldn't exactly characterize it as solely domestic. Not only was it treasonous, it was dangerous.
Looks like a long unpleasant night in the Comments.
FLC, ref picketing Psaki: anyone doing that would enter the vortex of a perfect storm. Arlington is safe because their police still arrest people. Which would include anyone violating time/place/manner restrictions. And then you'd pinball from righty police to a lefty jury.
How dare you aspire above your tier of the justice system? Silly citizen. Work, pay your taxes, and stfu.
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JSM
After falling behind 8-1 in the 2nd inning, the Brewers battle back to win 10-8.
"The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimates around 250,000 Russian soldiers have died since February 2022. Their analysis suggests over 950,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the start of the war."
CSIS estimated the Ukrainian KIA are 100,000 which makes me doubt their numbers. Russia has a massive superiority in drones, missiles, artillery, and AFVs. The Ukrainian offensive into Kursk was remarkable for its disregard for losses, and the UFA normally lets its soldiers get killed or taken POW rather than give ground.
Either Ukrainian losses are a million, or Russian losses are much less than 1 million. Pick one.
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