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September 6, 2025

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41 comments:

wildswan said...: Movie of the Week:
The Magnificent Seven; 9/6/25, 6:02 PM
wildswan said...: "We deal in lead, my friend."; 9/6/25, 6:03 PM
Original Mike said...: Rain has kept us from our daily walk the last couple of days. Today, we see the first widespread tree changes; some maples sliding from green to yellow in northern WI (Vilas County).; 9/6/25, 6:03 PM
Inga said...: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-says-names-two-associates-epstein-wired-100k-250k-stay-secret-rcna229408

“DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret

The Justice Department request came after NBC News asked a federal judge to unseal the names of two people Epstein paid and helped protect from prosecution.”

Are their names David Dennison and John Barron? JK, but why is the DOJ trying to keep their names a secret?; 9/6/25, 6:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The NYT publishing former CDC directors rebuking RFK Jr was at the very least misleading. Dark Horse podcast looked back and found out The CDC wasn’t even tracking the covid vaccine adverse effects to begin with. They weren’t doing their job, looking out for the welfare and safety of Americans.

YouTube The CDC was not on the job; 9/6/25, 6:21 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump’s thinly-veiled attempt at a hostile takeover of the Federal Reserve indicates that the tactic is to cram down interest rates and let inflation accelerate over the long term — a bizarre choice for a president elected in part due to public unease over price rises, but there you go.

This will lead to regime change in Washington (and elsewhere).

If Washington takes over the Fed, then Washington owns the Fed. And if markets demand a new policy, then Washington has got to be changed. The authoritarians will get thrown out by either votes, civil unrest, or external military defeat. Given enough time Trump might succeed at all three!; 9/6/25, 6:26 PM
Humperdink said...: Tim Kaine (D-Moron) at a recent committee hearing: “ The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the creator -- that's what the Iranian government believes."

Thomas Jefferson responds: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.

How in the world did this blooming idiot get as far as he did?

https://townhall.com/columnists/kathrynlopez/2025/09/05/columnistskathrynlopez20250905blame-it-on-the-kaine-n2662840; 9/6/25, 6:39 PM
Mason G said...: "The CDC wasn’t even tracking the covid vaccine adverse effects to begin with."

To be fair, when you're busy trying to justify grabbing guns, some things are bound to fall through the cracks.; 9/6/25, 6:40 PM
Mason G said...: "How in the world did this blooming idiot get as far as he did?"

The answer is in your comment: the "D" in (D-Moron).; 9/6/25, 6:42 PM
buwaya said...: Inflation is historically low at the moment. Its a decent argument that interest rates are, therefore, higher than they should be. Fed-driven interest rates are not, historically, a driver of inflation, but an emergency brake on inflation. A tool, and a troublesome one.
What has driven inflation is fiscal policy, deficits.; 9/6/25, 6:42 PM
buwaya said...: I have a lot of money on t-bills at the moment (mutual funds). I'm making over 4% vs inflation at 2.7%; 9/6/25, 6:47 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Twenty year US Treasury zero coupon bonds have moved from 6.25% to 5.01% yesterday, over about twelve weeks. Full coupon issues behaved similarly.; 9/6/25, 7:00 PM
rhhardin said...: Long Treasury rates are the market's bet on inflation, not the market's bet on Fed rates. Short Treasury rates are the opposite.; 9/6/25, 7:06 PM
Narr said...: It was summer here yesterday. Now it's fall, at least for a few days. We could use some rain.; 9/6/25, 7:07 PM
FullMoon said...: From Ingas link:

One name appears publicly available. Other appears to be Maxwell.
Less than
50/50 chance Clinton is mentioned
"Prosecutors also wrote that “this individual was also named and featured prominently in the Herald series.”

Prosecutors added that “the same records show that just three days later, on or about December 3, 2018, the defendant wired $250,000 from the same trust account to [REDACTED], who was also named as a potential co-conspirator — and for whom Epstein also obtained protection in — the NPA.”

The prosecutors continued: “This individual is also one of the employees identified in the Indictment, which alleges that she and two other identified employees facilitated the defendant’s trafficking of minors by, among other things, contacting victims and scheduling their sexual encounters with the defendant at his residences in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.”; 9/6/25, 7:08 PM
FullMoon said...: See, contrary to popular opinion, Bill Clinton is yet to be named:

"The filing does not identify who received these payments. Epstein’s prior agreement identifies as possible co-conspirators Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff and Nadia Marcinkova, who each worked for or were otherwise associated with Epstein. Previous attempts to reach them have been unsuccessful.

https://archive.is/20190713000459/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/epstein-paid-suspected-co-conspirators-which-prosecutors-suggest-may-have-been-to-influence-them/2019/07/12/eebd5148-a4ed-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html#selection-1729.0-1729.304; 9/6/25, 7:24 PM
Big Mike said...: @Humperdink, before he ran for senator Tim Kaine had been a decent governor. As mayor of Richmond and governor he was a supporter of Project Exile, a program where criminals who used guns in the commission of crimes were passed along to the federal government for trial on gun crimes, usually resulting in harsher sentences than they would have otherwise received, plus incarceration out of state, resulting in turn in fewer visits from family and friends. He always has been smarmy as far back as I can recall, and once in DC as a senator he became a loyal Democrat soldier, believing what he was told to believe and doing what he was told to do.; 9/6/25, 7:24 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: Movie of the Week:
The Magnificent Seven

Denzel or Yul? (or Toshiro!); 9/6/25, 7:41 PM
rhhardin said...: Favorite AI-produced and generated new YouTubes on WWII prisoners. You can't avoid them now.
German POWs Couldn't Believe Girls and Starbucks Coffee in US Prison Camps
German POWs Couldn't Believe Women and McDonalds in American Prison Camps

LLM anachronisms.; 9/6/25, 8:05 PM
William50 said...: Movie of the Week:
The Magnificent Seven
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Now clap your hands together.; 9/6/25, 8:11 PM
rehajm said...: The Magnificent Seven Dwarfs

Hi ho hi ho It’s off to work we go Hi ho hi ho It’s off to work we go; 9/6/25, 8:30 PM
rehajm said...: earworm. You’re welcome; 9/6/25, 8:31 PM
Iman said...: “It's Saturday night and I'm just hangin' out
Lookin' for a place to party
I jumps into my ride and I hits the road
Cause there's only one place to go…”; 9/6/25, 8:40 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: I sent a message about my blood pressure to my physician vie the Epic portal yesterday. In the message, I mentioned some recent BP readings, the medication I was taking, and that I had been going to the gym a lot recently which I believed had helped my BP improve. After sending the message, I left the Epic open, and opened Copilot, the Microsoft LLM, to ask for the latest recommendations for BP for a person my age. The Copilot answered in detail, and made specific mention of the medication I was taking, praised my exercising habits, and said that my specific readings were quite acceptable.
It was as though the Microsoft app was reading my messages in real time, so it would be ready to comment if I asked it anything. Very disconcerting. I opened the settings and found the privacy tab. Apparently, by default if allows itself to look at “…the current webpage, open tabs, browser history, or your preferences in Microsoft…” to provide better answers to queries. If it looks at enough browser history, it will know more about my and my interests than I could ever remember. I unchecked that in a hurry, having no expectation that Microsoft will from henceforth mind its own business.; 9/6/25, 8:50 PM
Narr said...: "Cause there's only one place to go . . ."

Goan downtown
Gonna mess aroun'
Ooo-ooo-ooo boogie down.; 9/6/25, 8:58 PM
Peachy said...: A Soros Mayor? I'd guess so.; 9/6/25, 9:00 PM
Inga said...: OMG! LOL, this woman, an Australian model, recounts when she went with Epstein to Trump’s apartment dressed as a sexy nurse.; 9/6/25, 9:03 PM
Original Mike said...: "It was as though the Microsoft app was reading my messages in real time,"

Yeah.
I am in the process of divorcing myself from my lifelong* Microsoft affiliation. Copilot is too creepy for me.

*OK, for half my life there weren't personal computers, but that's getting harder and harder to remember.; 9/6/25, 9:11 PM
Kakistocracy said...: "Long Treasury rates are the market's bet on inflation, not the market's bet on Fed rates."

Hedge funds employing steepener strategies—betting that long-term yields will rise relative to short-term yields, which are more closely tied to benchmark interest rates—are currently among the winners. Gold investors and those holding financial instruments tracking its price are also thriving, as gold reached a new record high this week. However, when investors favor a shiny metal over the full faith and credit of major governments, it’s a troubling sign.

High yields eventually become their own remedy. At some point, they become too attractive for investors to ignore, as seen in the increased bond buying toward the end of this week. Still, stock investors know they’re not insulated. If the bond market hits rock bottom, it weakens the case for buying stocks, especially those with inflated valuations. What happens in the bond market rarely stays confined to it.; 9/6/25, 9:13 PM
Original Mike said...: Inga's link: What the hell is youtu.be?; 9/6/25, 9:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: CIA Whistleblower : Epstein was Intelligence; 9/6/25, 9:23 PM
Flat Tire said...: The Phillies Karen looks just like Elizabeth Warren.; 9/6/25, 9:26 PM
effinayright said...: FullMoon said:

"Epstein’s prior agreement identifies as possible co-conspirators Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff and Nadia Marcinkova, who each worked for or were otherwise associated with Epstein. Previous attempts to reach them have been unsuccessful."
***********
Some should start looking in those 90 cars divers recently found in the Chicago River.; 9/6/25, 9:27 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: More Epstein content Comedian Lewis Black said he was in Epstein's house; 9/6/25, 9:37 PM
TickTock1948 said...: West Texas. Had a somewhat similar experience with my IPhone. Email automatically composed a premature response to opposing counsel. I never saw the proposed response, and somehow, it sent the email. Either a butt email from my back pocket, or perhaps it over heard my wife yelling at her favorite football team and understood something she said as assent to send. I'm a very big fan of AI, but not the way it's being deployed now where it changes the behavior of some of the apps we use daily without telling us. I am turning off the AI features that have been introduced into MS Office, and Apple products until they get its auto behavior mor under control. In the interim some someone(s) are going to suffer some very negative consequences.; 9/6/25, 9:37 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: X Twitter: Is it The Phillies Karen or is it Memerex; 9/6/25, 9:53 PM
TickTock1948 said...: Most certainly, wife was not yelling at a football team. Probably trying to get the Giants to score a few runs ...; 9/6/25, 10:19 PM
Dr Weevil said...: West TX Intermediate Crude (8:50pm):
I wouldn't trust Microsoft to mind their own business, either. On the other hand . . . . I've had iPhones for 12 years now, only only upgraded once when forced to. In all that time, Siri talked to me once. I guess I asked myself a question out loud, something I don't often do, but must have done that one time. I was surprised, realized what had happened, and said, slowly, distinctly, and very firmly "Siri, shut up, go away and do not EVER speak to me again". I'm still a bit surprised that it worked, and I haven't heard a peep in the 5+ years since.; 9/6/25, 10:31 PM
Michael McNeil said...: Thomas Jefferson responds: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Benjamin Franklin actually wrote that pithy opening to the Declaration of Independence, replacing Jefferson's proffered flowery text.; 9/6/25, 10:46 PM
Michael McNeil said...: Next try 7 Samurai.; 9/6/25, 10:47 PM
Lazarus said...: How pathetic does a state have to be to consider the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidental Library a plus? Biden's decided on Delaware, rather than Philadelphia or Syracuse, and I guess they won't turn him down.

This would be a good moment to junk the whole presidential library idea. The problem is that we have to put all the presidents' official stuff somewhere, and getting donors to pay for a building would be less of a burden on the national debt than the federal government having to pay for more and more warehouses.

Still, some Democrat donors refused to contribute to the Biden family's early fundraising efforts. Will they stick to their resolve? Probably not -- they're weak-willed and have money to burn -- but if they held out, what could the Bidens possibly be able to offer them to change their minds?

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The background to Kaine's comments was the opposition to Catholic ideas of natural law. This surfaced in the opposition to some recent Supreme Court justices but was lost in all the phony sex stuff. Of course, natural law isn't just a Catholic idea, but it was portrayed as such by progressive groups to sink the nominees. My guess is that Dim Tim (who was raised Catholic) was just reading what some staffer wrote for him.

I remember that in mid-20th century America, an incredible amount of stress was put on the idea that our rights and freedoms did not come from the state, but from God. It's not surprising that Tim couldn't figure that out on his own, but it is surprising that he never heard that growing up or couldn't remember it now.

In a sense, Tim married the boss's daughter, that is the daughter of Linwood Holton, Virginia's first Republican governor since Reconstruction. I suppose that gave him a lot of connections. Holton was a liberal Republican, and his progeny are involved in Democrat, if not radical, politics.; 9/6/25, 10:55 PM