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November 24, 2025

Sunrise — 6:42, 7:03.

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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.; 11/24/25, 5:49 PM
narciso said...: Well they had bad candidate in cuomo, but also only 1/7 voted; 11/24/25, 5:51 PM
narciso said...: The aurora effect in the second pic; 11/24/25, 6:04 PM
Beasts of England said...: Both are impressive!!; 11/24/25, 6:11 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 6:39 PM
narciso said...: A commie on the east coast a commandante on the west bass; 11/24/25, 6:45 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 6:49 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 6:50 PM
narciso said...: They have been very possumy; 11/24/25, 6:53 PM
narciso said...: They are already in maine and also ahia; 11/24/25, 6:57 PM
Peachy said...: Lalso - it's true.; 11/24/25, 7:27 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/24/25, 7:30 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 7:30 PM
narciso said...: They got in over their skis like wile e coyote into the cliff face; 11/24/25, 7:34 PM
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; 11/24/25, 7:37 PM
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; 11/24/25, 7:42 PM
n.n said...: To paraphrase NAACP: Black Whore day at the intersection of racism and sexism under the Diversity umbrella incorporation.; 11/24/25, 7:44 PM
rehajm said...: …all the left are above the law until it is decided they are not…; 11/24/25, 7:50 PM
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; 11/24/25, 7:50 PM
rehajm said...: Cosby’s out of prison, too because reasons…; 11/24/25, 7:51 PM
FullMoon said...: Mutiny and x trolls have pushed Epstein aside temporarily.; 11/24/25, 7:57 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 7:58 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 8:10 PM
boatbuilder said...: Eva Marie--I dunno. All four of them do seem to have unmistakenly human characteristics.; 11/24/25, 8:14 PM
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...; 11/24/25, 8:23 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 8:44 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 8:53 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 9:01 PM
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?; 11/24/25, 9:36 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: ”Consider everything an experiment”; 11/24/25, 9:44 PM
Political Junkie said...: Laslo for Congress!!!!!; 11/24/25, 10:05 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 10:23 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 10:32 PM
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."; 11/24/25, 10:39 PM
Ampersand said...: Please Jupiter, explain the moral and strategic significance of the information you have shared; 11/24/25, 10:54 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 11:13 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 11:39 PM
Eva Marie said...: Kenneth not Keneth; 11/24/25, 11:41 PM
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.; 11/24/25, 11:55 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Doctor Weevil, I am not sure about, Agatha Christie's work, although it looks like Eva Marie has the skinny on the later works and the decline of her vocabulary and artistry. She was 79 at the time she wrote Hallowe'en Party, and it was apparently not so well received as earlier work. Of course it was 1969 and there was a general zeitgeist favoring youth and scorning old habits, customs, music and arts, both here and in the UK. I read that her first bestseller was written in 1926, and the mores and styles of the 20's seem further afield from the late 60's than the early 1980's seem to us today, at least that's how it seems to me. She probably seemed very old fashioned to the mods, and she'd already written scores of books read by everyone by that time.
I would say that the prose and sentence structure, literary artistry seemed pretty mundane to me. Maybe I'll get around to reading her 1926 bestseller The Murder of Roger Ackroyd for comparison.; 11/25/25, 12:39 AM
Eva Marie said...: BTW, Agatha Christie is the highest selling fiction author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.; 11/25/25, 1:08 AM
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Eva Marie said...: Hallowe’en Party ranks 20th in sales of her books.; 11/25/25, 1:11 AM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Thank you, Eva Marie! Another little known fact about Agatha Christie- she mysteriously disappeared at one point, and nobody knew what became of her. The story of the missing novelist was in newspapers all over the world. Aimee Semple McPherson had the same problem. Must have been a thing for famous women in the 1920's, disappearing mysteriously for notoriety. McPherson was supposedly kidnapped. Christie was supposedly in a fugue state.; 11/25/25, 1:54 AM
Eva Marie said...: Yeah, she never talked about it. She disappeared the day her husband asked for a divorce. And she was found at the spa/hotel his girlfriend was staying at.
Two years later she married a guy 14 years younger than she was. He was an archaeologist. The older she got, the more interested he was in her - her joke.; 11/25/25, 2:26 AM
Eva Marie said...: There’s a movie called Agatha with Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave that centers on the disappearance. Complete fiction and Agatha’s estate tried to block it. I really liked it. ***spoiler alert*** The movie theorizes that Agatha went to commit suicide and pin the blame on her husband’s mistress.; 11/25/25, 2:39 AM
Humperdink said...: Remember way back when lefties only burned buildings to the ground in major cities? Now they burn young ladies alive. Judges nod!

I long for the good old days.; 11/25/25, 3:15 AM
Tina Trent said...: Humperdink: I keep a file of worst cases. A child was dragged to an apartment roof in Chicago, beated into a wheelchair, sexually violated, then bleach poured down her mouth, muting her.

Why don't we all know her name?; 11/25/25, 3:29 AM
Tina Trent said...: Boy the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade
Guys like us we had it made
Those were the days.; 11/25/25, 3:33 AM
buwaya said...: Shoeonhead is very pretty and charming, and extremely amusing.
Its one of the advantages of the internet that talent like hers (and Joe Rogan, etc) can emerge through her own efforts. She did not have to please network bureaucracies or just be a mouthpiece for writing teams.; 11/25/25, 3:47 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Pluribus: reimagining the living dead.; 11/25/25, 5:43 AM
Jaq said...: https://youtu.be/Ke0oca00UkQ?si=uBABa5ddmZyhJ_Iw&t=132

The Russians think that the 28 point plan is just one more demand for capitulation from the US, but they don't want to just slam the door. Time has borne out this channel's reporting, BTW.

"And no Rubio doesn’t say anything remotely controversial."

Rubio just said last week that we send air defense systems to Ukraine, and "ultimately, a week later, they get destroyed" Here is the short clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Z8IlbHGe8

But we keep hearing that claims that these systems are getting destroyed was "all lies" by "paid, filthy liars."

Basically the peace plan is either DOA, or there is a different version that we are not hearing about that the Russians would accept, which is also possible. It is not possible for us to know the truth about anything important.; 11/25/25, 5:56 AM
Jaq said...: You know what an interesting use of AI would be? Look at the reflected radio signals from cell towers, TV broadcasts, etc, reflecting off the flat bottom of a B2 bomber, and locating it that way. This isn't my idea, BTW, some guy did a proof of concept a decade ago, using standard engineering techniques. It's well known that "passing airplanes" can cause multipath distortion in weak TV signals.

AI like ChatGPT and Grok try to know everything about everything, which is probably never going to be possible, but the AI systems that try to learn everything about something, those seem to be where the benefits are. This is maybe why those of us who know AI through things like Chat and Grok, think it's a bubble, and people working with it are sold on it.

Or they could just be making their judgements based on sunk cost; time will tell.; 11/25/25, 6:04 AM
Humperdink said...: I could be wrong, but I would bet gadfly, kaka, Inga, mark et al have not said a peep about the young girl that was set on fire in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s lovely city. Prove me wrong.

Anyone know where was the gasoline poured on the young lady before she lit off? On her head.; 11/25/25, 7:39 AM
Kakistocracy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/25/25, 7:48 AM
john mosby said...: It would be great to prosecute the Seditious MCs for federal mutiny solicitation - in red districts. You have venue because their video was seen in red states. And the TXARNG, MSARNG, etc; are part of the intended audience. Find some fresh faced NG troops willing to get in front of an exurban grand jury and say how they’re more than a mite confused by that CIA lady’s slick talk.

Even better, some of the southern states have state sedition statutes - passed by the carpetbaggers or the guilt ridden post 1965 whites. Prosecute them in state court. Yes there would be years of court wrangling over supremacy, speech/debate, federal preemption, etc. But that’s a feature! CC, JSM; 11/25/25, 11:33 AM
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narciso said...: https://x.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1993405926204932155; 11/25/25, 3:27 PM