November 24, 2025

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39 comments:

Achilles said...

Why did Mamdani win?"

I don't agree with Shoe on the means, but the goals are pretty clear for most.

The part where Lindsey Graham is happy about the Trump administration because we are running out of bombs should cause some critical thinking to start.

narciso said...

Well they had bad candidate in cuomo, but also only 1/7 voted

narciso said...

The aurora effect in the second pic

Beasts of England said...

Both are impressive!!

FullMoon said...

Mamdani just the beginning. Like gay marriage approved in one state, eventually. things escalate to sex change for kids. Detroit, Minnesota NY. Might not make a diff, time will tell.

narciso said...

A commie on the east coast a commandante on the west bass

Laslo Spatula said...

The light is already fading; the refrigerator door is almost closed: make that final sweet Zima last.

The Trump election resulted in about six good months, six months that have come and gone.

We are now in the slow wide paralysis of judges, waiting for the inevitable Democrat leaders down the pike who will undo the early 2025 Executive Orders like they never even happened.

Because the Republicans in Congress have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

There should be a new bill every week, win or lose.

A new bill, each and every damned week.

Put these Executive Orders to Law, to begin.

Vance should be out, every damned day, calling them to serve.

But the Republicans in Congress do nothing, because doing Nothing is Easier. Doing Nothing gives them a better chance to keep being Uniparty, and the Stock Market Magic that seems to come with it for them.

Somalia is not going to stay put in Minneapolis.

Somalia is not going to stay put in Minneapolis.

Somalia is not going to stay put in Minneapolis.

I am Laslo.

Eva Marie said...

Is the movie The Age of Disclosure (available on Amazon) a trap set to ensnare Marco Rubio?
The documentary is about a multi-decade, unauthorized, above-top-secret reverse-engineering effort involving non-human technology, and Congress has been kept in the dark.
Includes interviews with Marco Rubio, Kirsten Gillibrand, James Clapper, John Brennan.

narciso said...

They have been very possumy

narciso said...

They are already in maine and also ahia

Peachy said...

Lalso - it's true.

FullMoon said...

Black Friday? Should name be changed to something less racist?

Gospace said...

Seems demoncRATs are in a panic over the illegal orders comments they've made, or have been made by their stellar examples of military officers who are demoncRATs. People coming out of the woodwork to say, "Hey, we're just reminding servicemembers of their duties!" And a lot of former enlisted (and officers like Kurt Schlichter) coming out and saying, "Yeah, we see exactly what you're doing- encouraging mutiny." Not using the word mutiny, per se, but encouraging the disobeying of legal orders that you may not like.

If you say something in complete innocence, with no ulterior motives, you don't need to defend the statements afterwards. There's an awful lot of effort going into defending these so called totally innocent reminders... which means, of course, they weren't totally innocent.

narciso said...

They got in over their skis like wile e coyote into the cliff face

narciso said...

Adam Lehrer SOS on X: ""Udo Kier Was the Last of His Kind" for @tabletmag "[Kier] was one of the most singular character actors in cult and avant-garde film, and his passing feels like the final nail in the coffin of an entire approach to cinema that has already faded in the digital age." Link below https://t.co/RLht9QMEih" / X https://share.google/uos8zIrFyK5DdJ7NT

Kakistocracy said...

“I think Ukraine, with the support of the European union, is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form.” ~ Donald Trump, 09/23/2025

n.n said...

To paraphrase NAACP: Black Whore day at the intersection of racism and sexism under the Diversity umbrella incorporation.

rehajm said...

…all the left are above the law until it is decided they are not…

narciso said...

Tablet Magazine on X: "Omar El Akkad’s viral tweet became a National Book Award winner by “hawking fabricated atrocity porn,” fantasizing Israeli crimes, and practicing the displacement that defines today’s anti-Israel propaganda machine. https://t.co/8pe381PRXR" / X https://share.google/D2Cim4527Hrj8xtHD

rehajm said...

Cosby’s out of prison, too because reasons…

FullMoon said...

Mutiny and x trolls have pushed Epstein aside temporarily.

n.n said...

"the left are above the law until it is decided they are not"

Fascists invariably are. That said, all's fair in lust and abortion. Let us bray: In Stork They Trust.

RCOCEAN II said...

If you believe in Rotten Tomatoes website, you need to rush and watch "one Battle after another" - either on netflix or another streaming service. 94 percent postive critic rating. 85 percent positive audience rating. Based on 5000 reviews. Or see "Wicked" in the theater, 95 percent positive audience ratings based on 25,000 reviews. 88 percent critical rating.

boatbuilder said...

Eva Marie--I dunno. All four of them do seem to have unmistakenly human characteristics.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Just finished reading a book by Agatha Christie written in 1969, a Hercule Poirot novel titled Hallowe'en Party. It threw me because the book I read was a paperback printed in 2023 and titled A Haunting In Venice. This was done to capitalize on a 2023 movie loosely based on the original story, and when I say loosely I mean that if you saw the movie and read the book you would have no idea that they were in any way related except for the characters names.
Anyway, Hallowe'en Party was an okay story. It was my first Agatha Christie novel and I was expecting it to be a lot better. I found myself speed reading through a lot of it, found the characters to be indistinguishable, some plot points and details that were never pursued and others that were wrung out again and again and didn't really mean much in the end. She was 79 when she wrote it, so maybe not at her best. I read that she used to narrate her novels into a dictaphone then have a secretary write it all down, and Christie would edit from there, so maybe that's why a lot of the narration seemed repetitive and unfinished. She was trying to sort through the story as she told it and maybe decided not to flesh out other ideas that she had begun, I dunno. It was okay, I guess. But again, nothing in common with the movie. I kept looking at the book's title A Haunting in Venice, and thinking Where's the haunting? When do they get to Venice? Spoiler alert: There is no haunting, nothing supernatural at all, and they never get to Venice or mention Venice or even think about Venice even once in the whole book. So, meh...

robother said...

Laslo: "But the Republicans in Congress do nothing, because doing Nothing is Easier."
Yes, it's become painfully clear that Congress (both Parties) love the 60 vote filibuster in the Senate, because it allows them the luxury of doing nothing, while endlessly fundraising from their base in the hope that after the next election we'll get to [outlaw/save abortion, end/save Obamacare, etc, etc.) Think about how many years it's been that Congress passes one omnibus budget bill, usually in the last half of the fiscal year to which it relates, and that's it. To hear Congressional types from either party droning on about the Executive usurpation of Congressional law-making power is the purest refined bullshit. Like the Roman Senate in the late stage Republic, they exist to stop anything that might threaten the elite class and its profits, the populace be damned.

Josephbleau said...

Congress is the high school student council. The popular kids who know they will never need to produce anything, or work for a living. Like the parliament of old England, a cast of second sons who’s parents needed to find them a respectable thing to do to keep them from embarrassing the family.

Josephbleau said...

America has lost this, if your brother in LA is a swinish perv it means nothing to a businessman in Boston, we are too big a territory to have guilt by family association, except for the notables like the Kennedys.

Aggie said...

I took one look at Udo Kier and said: Man ! That guy was in Ace Ventura Pet Detective. Is it a cult film?

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

YouTube: ”Consider everything an experiment”

Political Junkie said...

Laslo for Congress!!!!!

Eva Marie said...

Save your money. If you listen to Joe Rogan #2416, you don’t need to spend 20 bucks on The Age of Disclosure. Plus Rogan makes it seem interesting. And no Rubio doesn’t say anything remotely controversial.

Jupiter said...

"Tablet Magazine on X: "Omar El Akkad’s viral tweet became a National Book Award winner by “hawking fabricated atrocity porn,” fantasizing Israeli crimes, and practicing the displacement that defines today’s anti-Israel propaganda machine."
A substantial fraction of the "1200 Israelis" killed on 10/7 were horribly burned. Burned almost beyond recognition, in their homes. It is generally agreed that the Gazans who invaded Israel on 10/7 only had "small arms", such as rifles and pistols, which could not possibly have inflicted such extensive and devastating destruction. Unlike the Israeli Apache helicopters that responded to the invasion.

Jupiter said...

"Israel’s army on Tuesday admitted that an “immense and complex quantity” of what it calls “friendly fire” incidents took place on 7 October."

Ampersand said...

Please Jupiter, explain the moral and strategic significance of the information you have shared

Dr Weevil said...

Michael Fitzgerald:
Was that Agatha Christie's last novel? I read quite a few years ago that she died of Alzheimer's, that readers had long found her last novel or two inferior to the previous ones, but that computers had finally allowed a quantitative comparison, which showed (I think) that her vocabulary shrank something like 30% in the last novel, and the sentence structures (if I remember rightly) were much less varied, more repeated. In other words, her Alzheimer's was already affecting her mind when she wrote the last book.

Eva Marie said...

Regarding Hallowe’en Party:
1. Keneth Branaugh, the director of Death in Venice, is reviled by Agatha Christie fans. His movies have nothing to do with the actual AC novels he adapts for the screen. Sheer drek.
2. Hallowe’en Party is late AC, written when she was 79 and her decline as a writer became obvious to her readers.
3. AC has been the subject of several computational linguistic analyses that document the progression of her dementia. Third Girl (1966) is where the linguistic deterioration first shows up in the data.
4. She wrote 4 more mysteries after Hallowe’en Party.

Eva Marie said...

Kenneth not Keneth

Eva Marie said...

Of those late mysteries, I enjoyed Hallowe’en Party, Nemesis (1971), and Elephants Can Remember (1972) - mainly because my favorite characters Mrs. Oliver or Miss Marple appear in them. Postern of Fate (1973) and Passenger to Frankfurt (1970) are my least favorite.

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