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June 6, 2026

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38 comments:

Mr. T. said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/6/26, 7:52 PM
Mr. T. said...: In a stunning move (to absolutely no one), Obama cronies want to assume dictatorial powers and nationalize the Chicago Bears in order to stop them fleeing to Indiana because Temu mayor Brandon Johnson was doing his usual...something.

I was years old when we had to stop "threats to muh
democracy !!!(TM) because...Trump! Or something...

Where is KKKak and Inga?? Hello hello?! mUh demoCraCY! is calling! Help help!; 6/6/26, 7:53 PM
imTay said...: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/pentagon-raised-threat-israeli-spying/6509657/

Hmmm..

https://www.military.com/2027-ndaa-provision-seeks-sweeping-us-israel-defense-tech-integration

Sounds like the Pentagon is not happy about Congress pushing a bill where Israel gets access to our most closely guarded defense tech secrets, to remove restrictions on how they use or modify US weapons, and to allow the transfer of weapons to Israel without a vote in Congress....

Jonathon Pollard is a national hero in Israel, he stole secrets from the US and passed them on to the Soviets, but Israel applied pressure to get him out of his life sentence, richly deserved, and returned him to Israel as a conquering hero.

Feel free to fact check this post yourself.; 6/6/26, 7:57 PM
john mosby said...: Anthony Head, half of the couple in the Taster's Choice commercials, passed. Only 72. CC, JSM; 6/6/26, 8:07 PM
narciso said...: The sunsets are best; 6/6/26, 8:16 PM
narciso said...: https://share.google/vW0IaJqBsklPPfdNp; 6/6/26, 8:26 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: People on-line are wanking on about Trump not mentioning D-day. Good grief, its been over 80 years. Nobody was talking about Gettysburg in 1944. Nobody was talking about the Argonne Forest in in 1994. Nobody was talking about Yorktown in 1861.

I can remember the 70s and almost no one made a big deal about WW 2 - it was Pearl harbor they talked about. Every old person could tell you where they were when heard about Peal Harbor.

Not D-day. That only came in 1984, when Reagan made his speech.

The world moves on.; 6/6/26, 8:29 PM
narciso said...: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/going-medieval-saturday-june-6-2026?

Carrying over; 6/6/26, 8:31 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Dont hear much buzz about the NBA finals, despite NY Knicks being in the finals. Probably because there's no NBA super-star that the general public cares about. in the 80s there was Magic and Bird. In the 90s - MJ. in the 2010s Lebron. But now? Nobody.

World cup is also about to begin and in North America. But zero hoopla.; 6/6/26, 8:34 PM
Eva Marie said...: In another thread there was a discussion about salesmen. Here’s one of my earliest lessons in how much baggage can be brought to a simple sales call.
When my parents first moved to Arizona and started a business, they were steeped in stories of the New York Mafia. There was a bit of worry in Arizona because Joseph Bonanno had moved to Tucson, and the threat of the Mafia exerting its influence here was a regular feature in the Arizona Republic. So my parents were always on the lookout for any kind of Mafia approach.
We had a salesman who came by twice a year trying to sell us lightbulbs. Why lightbulbs? My parents were convinced this was the Mafia trying to get a foothold in our business. Whenever he showed up, my parents headed for the exits, leaving us kids to explain we didn’t know when the owner would be back or even who the owner was. If my mother didn’t like our answers, she’d emerge from the back to say, “No owner, no owner.” She didn’t speak much English but she could always make herself understood.
The salesman would leave a flyer with his lightbulb prices. My mom would take it home, sit down at the kitchen table, study one side and then the other, look at me and say, “Mafia,” and toss it in the trash. Sometimes I’d dig it out of the trash and try to find the hidden messages she saw.
Years later, this poor, persistent salesman stopped me in the parking lot and said, “Could you please tell your mother I just sell lightbulbs - really good prices. I don’t know who she thinks I am.” I told him we just weren’t in the market for lightbulbs. I wasn’t about to explain the lightbulb-Mafia connection.; 6/6/26, 8:38 PM
Original Mike said...: Illinois can't prevent the Bears from leaving (I assume), but can they prohibit them from using the name 'Chicago'? The Hammond Bears would be a hoot.; 6/6/26, 8:43 PM
Original Mike said...: Or, how about the Hoosier Bears?; 6/6/26, 8:44 PM
narciso said...: Oops that would have been awkward

Similarly i interviewed with a high end real estate company

But there was something fishy about it, in south florida?
I later found out it waa a mob front; 6/6/26, 8:45 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/6/26, 8:45 PM
Eva Marie said...: There ya go. You never know where the Mafia is gonna show up.; 6/6/26, 8:46 PM
Eva Marie said...: On the other hand you could have written The Firm snd become rich and famous.; 6/6/26, 8:47 PM
FullMoon said...: Sometimes I wonder how some of these Democrats were treated growing up. Eric SwallowsWell. Adam Pile of Shiff. Anthony Tiny Weiner..; 6/6/26, 8:49 PM
narciso said...: This was some time after the firm came out; 6/6/26, 8:50 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/6/26, 8:56 PM
Mason G said...: If he had mentioned D-Day, other people online would have complained.; 6/6/26, 9:14 PM
Gospace said...: https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/they-thought-maga-was-just-trump-it-became-a-worldwide-civilizational-revolt/

The title is in the link: They Thought MAGA Was Just Trump. It Became a Worldwide Civilizational Revolt.

And just when you think you're reading about one thing- you're reading about another- that some may or may not believe is connected. "While all the time, the people who celebrated him, {Him is Arthur Miller, author of The Crucible.} who elevated him were practicing demonic magic. Today, Catholic exorcists believe that 25% of us are demonically obsessed and that number rises every year. And that does not count the Luciferians, who run the world now, who are fully possessed by evil."

Quite a number of people I know, including what I think is the majority of Latin Mass Catholics, believe Luciferians are in many seats of power throughout the world. And from reading various accounts of Americans with close relatives overseas, a large percentage of the world believes the elites are deep into child molestation. As in Pizzagate was real.; 6/6/26, 9:19 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Today I thought of commenter Bissage. He used spell out what appeared to be a call of the wild. I must've been thinking of letting out something along those lines.
Suddenly Bissage.; 6/6/26, 9:32 PM
Gospace said...: In the 1970s, when I was a teen, graduating HS in 1973, fathers of friends either talked about their WWII or Korean War experiences if they served in either - AND talked about them. My HS history department head , a Korean War medic, had pictures he would show tot he students who insisted the Communists didn't commit atrocities. My father joined the AAF just after the war just before it became the USAF.

My one uncle told of his travails of being rejected by e very service in January 1942 due to his eyesight, launching him into his merchant marine career. He had medals for every theatre of operation, as well as the WWII Victory medal. He didn't have any ships sunk beneath him. His uncle, my great-uncle, between WWI and WWII had 5 torpedoed beneath him. Never knew that growing up, found out doing ancestry research and finding articles on newspapers.com.

BTW- VE and VJ Days are still on the federal calendar for commemoration. Only Rhode Island still observes a Victory Day holiday each year, 2nd Monday in August.

Most people would have no reason to talk about D-Day unless they were there. But almost everyone knew where they were when they heard about Pearl Harbor. As almost everyone who was around 9/11 can tell you when they heard about the attack on the WTC. But no one talks about it each year on 9/11.; 6/6/26, 9:36 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat From Israel ~ NYT

What this story overlooks is the fact that Prime Minister Netanyahu has been working on a reorganisation of American support for Israel's wars in the Middle East - see Link A. This involves shifting billions in resources from State Department -administered as foreign ODA grants - into general Pentagon procurement accounts, industrial partnerships, etc..
A)https://armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy27_ndaa_chairmans_mark_-_final.pdf

The shift strips away the political and diplomatic oversight mechanisms that have hitherto made the US-Israeli relationship publicly accountable, thus moving it from a visible annual aid vote into the opaque machinery of defense acquisition, where oversight is limited and political accountability is minimal.

Since fiscal year 2019, the US has provided over $3 billion per annum in Foreign Military. Financing (FMF), grants to Israel, plus an additional $500 million per year for missile defense cooperation. Effectively, this money has been a US subsidy to Israel’s military industrial complex and pays its wars and other military operations in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza the West Bank, Yemen, Qatar, etc.

What Israel is aiming to achieve is the new financial arrangement with the US is embedded in Section 224 of the 2027 National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA) which has recently been made public. Section 224 of the NDDA entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” - see Link B - specifically aims to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military. The benefits to Israel would be much more than the estimated $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance that Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948.
B) https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3855/text

Unlike the previous process, the military procurement framework would not be subject to the political scrutiny of Congress and the State Department, but would be evaluated on bureaucratic criteria such as cost, readiness, and capability. This shift would likely be justified by reframing US support not as aid to Israel, but as an investment in American military readiness, industrial capacity, and jobs.

Evidence of the new arrangement will not appear in press releases or diplomatic communiqués that are amenable to public scrutiny. Instead, it is likely to appear in budget justification documents, program element descriptions, and procurement quantity tables in the president’s budget submission and congressional committee reports.

This new financial arrangement with Israel is likely to bind the US military ever more closely into Israel's ambitions to become the regional hegemony in the Middle East.; 6/6/26, 9:38 PM
Eva Marie said...: Video worth viewing via CTH
Trump agrees with Bernie
https://youtu.be/ZTMY0U5QeZs?si=gA8nbdtSzW1yWIZh; 6/6/26, 9:39 PM
Original Mike said...: The two presidencies in a single image.; 6/6/26, 9:41 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: "World cup is also about to begin and in North America. But zero hoopla."

There is a danger that these kinds of negative comments could bring the FIFA World Peace Prize into disrepute and devalue it.; 6/6/26, 9:41 PM
Mary Beth said...: Anthony Head, half of the couple in the Taster's Choice commercials

In my memory it was Taster's Choice too, but the internet tells me it was Nescafe Gold Blend.

I'm assuming we jumped timelines and Taster's Choice was from the old timeline.; 6/6/26, 9:48 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: "The two presidencies in a single image."

The post is from June 5, 2026. Renovations (including resurfacing, sealing, and painting the basin "American flag blue") were ongoing, with water just starting to be refilled around June 4–6. The pool wasn't fully pristine and operational with that perfect look at the exact time of the post.

It's a doctored/AI-enhanced comparison, not an authentic simultaneous snapshot of the two presidencies. The pool is being renovated under Trump (with controversy over cost and methods), but the viral image overstates the transformation for effect. Always reverse-image search or check recent news for these kinds of posts so the most gullible aren't mistaking fact from fiction; 6/6/26, 9:50 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat From Israel ~ NYT

They just need to go to Jared.

I mean to be fair, it’s probably a stretch to call what Israel can do to this administration “spying.” Encouraging stupid people to say things they shouldn’t, listening to drunk people, flattering narcissists, etc. is just human relations.; 6/6/26, 10:16 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: What if consciousness is not a feature, but a runaway development. 🫨

YouTube: "The Most Terrifying Philosophical Theory Ever"

This YouTube video dives into the ideas of Norwegian philosopher Peter Vessel Zapatva. It reminded me of something from another video I posted recently (answering Althouse question; why is this news?) The idea that we have an early dumb brain, and later developed a thinking smart brain. Maybe this fella Zapatva is onto something.

If we are not like birds, maybe we are more like the lobster. The lobster needs to shed it's exoskeleton in order to grow.
That would explain this need a lot of people feel to change/transform themselves. Are we stuck? Do we feel stuck?

"Everybody's changing and I don't feel the same" -- Keane

File under #minority unpopular reports; 6/6/26, 10:26 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: "Why Intelligent Men Always Choose The Wrong Woman" or... More about Monroe and Miller.; 6/6/26, 10:40 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I finally saw the light... I started paying Google to free me from YouTube commercials. I held out too long. I must say.

What character was it that used to say "I must say"?

ai: You are most likely thinking of the hyperactive, cowlick-haired character Ed Grimley, played by comedian Martin Short on SCTV and Saturday Night Live. Known for his sky-high hair, high-waisted pants, and obsessive love for Wheel of Fortune, Grimley constantly punctuated his manic, anxious monologues with his iconic catchphrase, "I must say!" along with "Oh, give me a break!"

Correctamundo; 6/6/26, 10:49 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Cherie DeVaux, after becoming the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner, is the second in four years to do so at the Belmont. Jena Antonucci won it with Arcangelo in 2023. DeVaux is the first woman to win multiple Triple Crown races. "It's overwhelming," DeVaux said.5 hours ago. Rac was a sluggish 2:03 and change due to a rain right at start of race. Golden Tempo Commandment in deep stretch to win the race. Questions were Tempo would need a fast pace to close on a speed favoring track, proved wrong by beautiful thoroughbred and rider Ortiz went 8 wide around turn and closed strongly. Congrats to Cherie, the barn and owners decided to keep Tempo out of Preakness and there will always be THE QUESTION was he the Triple Crown Winner? Barn did what they thought was best for the horse after the giant closing run in the Derby and give him 5 weeks rest..RESPECT!; 6/6/26, 11:27 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: When the bears move they should rename themselves to the Daddy’s so they can be Hoosier Daddy’s; 6/6/26, 11:27 PM
Iman said...: "WHEN I'M DONE, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WILL BE NOTHING BUT A DATING SITE FOR GAY MUSLIMS!!!”; 6/6/26, 11:28 PM
Scott Patton said...: Amazon Prime Video implemented a single click subtitles toggle button! This is the future. Better than flying cars.; 6/6/26, 11:32 PM
Jimmy said...: Lem Vibe Bandit. I use Opera browser for YouTube. haven't seen an ad in years.; 6/7/26, 12:50 AM