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October 17, 2025

Sunrise — 7:07, 7:08.

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FullMoon said...: Possibly not related, but weather here has been better since Trump was elected.; 10/17/25, 6:48 PM
n.n said...: Heark! A light through yonder dark sky breaks. It is the sun and I will no longer be captive to the darkness.; 10/17/25, 6:56 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/17/25, 7:10 PM
Gospace said...: Headline from the South China Morning Post:
China expels He Weidong, Miao Hua and 7 other generals from party and military

I wonder if all the Chinese district court judges approved...; 10/17/25, 7:15 PM
FullMoon said...: Campaigning against Trup, Hillary referred to Fox as fake news.
Trump turned it around and now the phrase belongs to him referencing MSM.
Maybe he will do same thing with "fuck". Use it against opposition frequently to minimize its vulgarity.
Frankly, fuck used to be way more special. Was used when dad gonna get the belt. Now, used when latte gets cold.; 10/17/25, 7:16 PM
tcrosse said...: The Times (of London) informs us that Debbie Harry is now 80 years old. Never my cup of tea, but she's still not too hard to look at.; 10/17/25, 7:19 PM
narciso said...: Its too bad laura brannigan died so young; 10/17/25, 7:22 PM
Hassayamper said...: Frankly, fuck used to be way more special. Was used when dad gonna get the belt.

I remember when I first heard the word from my father's lips. I was about 7 and doing my best to "help" him with chopping some fireplace wood after he went in the house to take a leak. I was not experienced with a full sized axe, and cut a big gouge in my shoe that missed my big toe by a millimeter or two, just as he came back out of the house to resume work. I didn't get the cane that time; I think he was just happy I was uninjured and had learned a lesson.; 10/17/25, 7:24 PM
rehajm said...: I’ve realized I’m so old I remember when ‘big fucking deal’ was ballsy and celebrated…; 10/17/25, 7:25 PM
Hassayamper said...: The Times (of London) informs us that Debbie Harry is now 80 years old. Never my cup of tea, but she's still not too hard to look at.

It doesn't seem possible.

In her prime, I thought she was the most gorgeous woman who ever sang on a stage, and precious few could match her voice. Her ravishing beauty blows Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and all the others right out of the water.; 10/17/25, 7:29 PM
rehajm said...: She wore one of those bitd green leathery onesies for the Blondie musical guest numbers on SNL…magic; 10/17/25, 7:30 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/17/25, 7:40 PM
William said...: The n-word now has far more potency than any obscenity ever had. You'd get banned from TV for saying fuck out loud, but your wife wouldn't leave you and take custody of the children as would happen if you got caught saying the n-word. The ancient Israelites would get struck dead if they uttered Yahweh out loud. That's the only word with comparable power.; 10/17/25, 7:40 PM
Kakistocracy said...: President Donald Trump commutes former New York GOP Rep. George Santos' prison sentence ~ Fox News

George Santos, model Republican! If grifters don’t look out for one another, who will?; 10/17/25, 7:43 PM
narciso said...: https://www.tiktok.com/@blondieofficial/video/7464662177354435871; 10/17/25, 7:43 PM
narciso said...: The word is shibboleth

I think that word shouldnt be used ', it doesnt rob it of its power' no one should but we know it doesnt work that way; 10/17/25, 7:46 PM
William said...: Blondie not only looked like that, but she looked the way her music sounded.....There was something immersive about the way she looked and sounded......I wonder why her acting career never took off. She was better looking than the average movie star.; 10/17/25, 7:47 PM
narciso said...: That was the best link i could find and yowza; 10/17/25, 7:47 PM
Leland said...: I’m glad to see Kak supports the heavy prosecution of political opposition. Gird your loins, Kak. It’s your turn.; 10/17/25, 7:47 PM
narciso said...: Besides videodrome which i vaguely recall; 10/17/25, 7:48 PM
n.n said...: Laura Branigan - Gloria

She left us too soon, but not alone.

Blondie - Heart Of Glass

Debbie is fun.; 10/17/25, 7:52 PM
narciso said...: We remember as they were in their peak; 10/17/25, 7:57 PM
Inga said...: “President Donald Trump commutes former New York GOP Rep. George Santos' prison sentence ~ Fox News

George Santos, model Republican! If grifters don’t look out for one another, who will?”

Next up, Ghislaine Maxwell. If pedophiles don’t look out for each other…; 10/17/25, 7:59 PM
narciso said...: Put it away your outrage is fake; 10/17/25, 8:01 PM
n.n said...: Once I had a love and it was a gas

Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass
- Heart of Glass

Life is chaotic, evolutionary.; 10/17/25, 8:03 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Yes George is FREE a Fraud just loves another Fraud, Beautiful ! MAXWELL up Next . Hey sky is the limit when you got the SCOTUS in the bag and BASICALLY full AMNESTY if you just say its normal business ,Good work Roberts and crew. King George would be pleased...; 10/17/25, 8:04 PM
tcrosse said...: Debbie Harry at 80. An Interview; 10/17/25, 8:05 PM
Jupiter said...: Chicks ruin everything.; 10/17/25, 8:10 PM
Peachy+2 said...: JD Vance on X: "A friend shared these truly disturbing messages from a Young Republican group chat. The group's leader "genuinely" calls for murdering the children of his political opponents. Oh wait, actually this is from Jay Jones, the Democrat running for Attorney General in Virginia. Testing; 10/17/25, 8:11 PM
Jupiter said...: Well. OK. Almost everything.; 10/17/25, 8:12 PM
buwaya said...: Debbie Harry was the reason I survived disco.; 10/17/25, 8:13 PM
n.n said...: Chicks are hot, fun, complementary, and not a bloc act.; 10/17/25, 8:20 PM
Leland said...: This is just wrong. I hope the right people get involved and fix this: https://youtu.be/TxExBnSg2xI; 10/17/25, 8:31 PM
Peachy+2 said...: George Santos - LOL. Big deal! Big big deal.

President auto-pen pardoned actual criminals. 3000 of them.; 10/17/25, 8:32 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Leftists care about a Group Chat; 10/17/25, 8:38 PM
Peachy+2 said...: The Democrat Party/ Crook Joe - allows a Hamas Nazi to enter illegally.; 10/17/25, 8:49 PM
Peachy+2 said...: eee gads; 10/17/25, 9:00 PM
Aggie said...: Well, there's a big No Kings rally that's been paid for, for this weekend, so I guess Trump thought he would add a Queen to the mix.; 10/17/25, 9:04 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Good that Santos sentence got commuted. Never did understand what he did that deserved 7 years. The justice system is insane. Killers serving less 5 years and getting out. Or even getting 1 year in jail ! Muggers or people assaulting others and putting them into the hospital getting 1 year in jail. Other criminals committing 40 crimes and still running loose.

One standard of justice for D Pols and another for R's. Biden pardoning his whole family and the J6 committee after trying to put Trump in jail, and prosecuting almost every Trump associate. Craziness.

Legislatures and Congress need to drastically reduce the leeway these judges have in passing down sentences and laying down $ judgements in civil trials. The Judges cant be trusted anymore.; 10/17/25, 9:12 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: I think Alex Jones is a bozo and borderline crook, but 1 billion dollar judgement for defaming Sandy hook. Thats absurd, given Sarah Palin couldn't get a nickle when the NYT's defamed and lied about her. Again, no equal justice under the law.; 10/17/25, 9:14 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Around my area - No Kings, No shows, No fucks given.; 10/17/25, 9:15 PM
Eva Marie said...: This is Trump’s statement:
“George Santos was somewhat of a “rogue,” but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison. I started to think about George when the subject of Democrat Senator Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal came up again. As everyone remembers, “Da Nang” stated for almost twenty years that he was a proud Vietnam Veteran, having endured the worst of the War, watching the Wounded and Dead as he raced up the hills and down the valleys, blood streaming from his face. He was “a Great Hero,” he would leak to any and all who would listen — And then it happened! He was a COMPLETE AND TOTAL FRAUD. He never went to Vietnam, he never saw Vietnam, he never experienced the Battles there, or anywhere else. His War Hero status, and even minimal service in our Military, was totally and completely MADE UP. This is far worse than what George Santos did, and at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN! George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated. Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”
I’m very happy Trump did this.; 10/17/25, 9:21 PM
Breezy said...: “No Kings” rallies are so silly. No one disagrees with that.; 10/17/25, 9:21 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Democrats assume they own power. Like kings.
So the whole thing is mass-projection and mental illness.; 10/17/25, 9:23 PM
Jim at said...: “No Kings” rallies are so silly. No one disagrees with that.

Actually, I think they're successful.

What's this, their second one? And ... still no kings.
Kudos.; 10/17/25, 9:36 PM
Yancey Ward said...: The only reason Santos was charged and convicted is because he was a GOP congressman. I have no problem with fighting a double standard justice system with this commutation. The GOP who think they can fight such a system using "muh principles" other than this will have their supporters kneeling before a trench waiting for the bullet in the back of the head at some point in the future.; 10/17/25, 9:43 PM
Peachy+2 said...: If Trump were really a king - everyone at these self-obsessed rage-rallies would lose their heads. funny how that never happens.; 10/17/25, 9:49 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I discovered Blondie in the summer of 1978 when a local radio station played their first two albums back to back on a midnight radio show- I was a fan from that point forward and wore out the cassette recording I had made of that broadcast. I got "Parallel Lines" through the record club membership in 1980 and bought "Blondie", "Plastic Letters", "Eat to the Beat", and "Autoamerican" on vinyl by the end of 1980. I wore them out over the next 4 years.

My favorite video is this one. Of the 34 million views as of right now, I bet over 500 of them are by me over the last decade.; 10/17/25, 9:55 PM
Yancey Ward said...: The thing about the "Atomic" video is that Debby Harry could make a garbage bag look really, really good.; 10/17/25, 9:57 PM
Krumhorn said...: Brewers heading back to monitor the vats and line up clean bottles.

Dodgers about to hoist a few with a NLCS win. Sorry, Cheeseheads.

- Krumhorn; 10/17/25, 10:03 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Like I predicted months ago during the big winning streak- the Brewers would go tits up against the Dodgers. Sorry to see it since I detest the Dodgers.; 10/17/25, 10:23 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: I’ve always had a crush on Debbie Harry. She was scheduled to play a small bar venue in my town in the 90’s. I bought two dozen roses for her. Her show was canceled at the last minute due to weather. I sold the roses to a bartender who had a fight with his GF.; 10/17/25, 10:26 PM
Iman said...: Yancey… I made the same call. Hate the Dodgers, but they are a well-oiled machine and I don’t see anyone beating them this year.

Oh… also… Rock (and Blondie) lost one helluva drummer with the recent passing of Clem Burke. The guy was phenomenal!; 10/17/25, 10:29 PM
Moondawggie said...: And the Big Dodger in the Sky continues to smile down on the City of Lost Angels...; 10/17/25, 11:18 PM
BudBrown said...: 5 days a Brewers fan.; 10/17/25, 11:45 PM
Leora said...: I was noticing people claiming that Blue States have higher GDP than Red States. I was wondering what the numbers would look like if government spending was excluded from GDP. I recall Murray Rothbard had a formula for this but I don't see that anyone is tracking that number - which he called PPR for some reason.; 10/18/25, 12:06 AM
Clyde said...: Re: Blondie, I stumbled across this song a couple of years back. It's an interesting early version of a song that later became a hit after they reworked it. From Wikipedia:

[Debbie] Harry said that "'Heart of Glass' was one of the first songs Blondie wrote, but it was years before we recorded it properly. We'd tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked", and that "the lyrics weren't about anyone. They were just a plaintive moan about lost love." It was only when the band met with producer Mike Chapman to start work on Parallel Lines that Harry recalled Chapman "asked us to play all the songs we had. At the end, he said: 'Have you got anything else?' We sheepishly said: 'Well, there is this old one.' He liked it – he thought it was fascinating and started to pull it into focus."

Once I Had A Love (AKA The Disco Song) (1975 Version / Remastered 2001)
https://youtu.be/M6bsNGBGhNE?si=XLgEJepPNu1TPdA4; 10/18/25, 3:45 AM

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