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November 15, 2025

Sunrise at Lake Mendota, 6:48, and later, around 1:30, warm sun near Lake Wingra.

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FullMoon said...: With the daily concerns, news, and rumors about underage sex, how many here have had sex prior to being of legal age?
More rare for the boomers, I imagine.; 11/15/25, 6:48 PM
john mosby said...: Fullmoon: yup, I thought it was a tenet of the left that teens should have free love. Standing ovations for Roman Polanski and all that. Yet they wag their fingers like the Church Lady at sex with teens on Epstein Island. Is it Fen’s Law that the left doesn’t really believe the things they say they believe? CC, JSM; 11/15/25, 6:55 PM
Inga said...: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-blasts-trump-for-fueling-threats-against-her-the-man-i-supported-and-helped-get-elected/

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused President Donald Trump of fueling and egging on “threats” against her as she said she’s having discussions with private security firms amid her escalating rift with the president.

“I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world,” Greene posted to X on Saturday. “The man I supported and helped get elected.”

In a Saturday post, Trump called Greene a “traitor” and “disgrace” to the Republican Party.

“Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type rhetoric being directed at me right now,” Greene wrote on X. “This time by the President of the United States. As a woman I take threats from men seriously.”

Greene added she has a “small understanding” of the “fear” Epstein’s victims felt now.

“I now have a small understanding of the fear and pressure the women, who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal, must feel,” she wrote. “As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump‘s bills and agenda, his aggression against me which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone.”🍚

Trump is losing some of his once most loyal supporters.; 11/15/25, 6:57 PM
Inga said...: How might underage girls being trafficked to powerful middle aged billionaires differ than underage sex between minors?; 11/15/25, 7:02 PM
FullMoon said...: Answer the question Inga.; 11/15/25, 7:02 PM
FullMoon said...: Never mind, I see you already did.; 11/15/25, 7:04 PM
FullMoon said...: How many women were groomed by their future husband taking them on dates, showering them with affection and free gifts?; 11/15/25, 7:13 PM
rehajm said...: bobcat in the yard today. wandering around front and back, ate somebody in the front yard, probably a squirrel. Set off the front porch light and camera a few minutes ago…; 11/15/25, 7:23 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump cuts agricultural tariffs in bid to bring down grocery prices ~ WSJ

A tacit admission from Trump that tariffs directly increase prices for US consumers.

Tariffs were always going to be inflationary.

The math don’t math, as they say!; 11/15/25, 7:28 PM
LibertarianLeisure said...: Beautiful pictures! Looks like a lovely, sunny, fall day.; 11/15/25, 7:31 PM
john mosby said...: FullMoon: "How many women were groomed by their future husband taking them on dates, showering them with affection and free gifts?"

You're headed toward "now we're just haggling over the price" territory....CC, JSM; 11/15/25, 7:32 PM
rehajm said...: …all the Presidential white paint reminds me of that Jimmy Carter comedy album…Hail to the Teeth? I can’t remember bit one of the tracks was the Carters making improvements to The White House like lining the drive with tires cut in half. ‘…and paint them white…’ was the repeated punch line. ‘we wouldn’t want it to look tacky…’; 11/15/25, 7:33 PM
n.n said...: Inflation occurs when fiscal policies are mismatched with productivity.; 11/15/25, 7:38 PM
n.n said...: How might underage girls being trafficked to powerful middle aged billionaires differ than underage sex between minors?

Sexual exploitation through a superior position.

You're headed toward "now we're just haggling over the price" territory

All's fair in lust and abortion.; 11/15/25, 7:41 PM
Inga said...: “Increased Foreclosures: In late 2025, reports indicated that foreclosures had jumped significantly compared to the previous year. Data from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) showed a 23% jump in foreclosure starts in the third quarter of 2025 compared to a year prior.

Affordability Crisis: The primary driver for these trends is the ongoing housing affordability crisis. The typical household earns significantly less than what is needed to afford a home, due to high home prices, elevated interest rates (which have generally stayed above 6% since September 2022), and rising costs for insurance and property taxes.”

Forbes; 11/15/25, 7:42 PM
Breezy said...: How many young children were trafficked along the southern border by the open borders loving democrats? Trafficking is horrible no matter where and who — don’t call out one avenue and ignore or actively stifle the others. Have some integrity.; 11/15/25, 7:46 PM
Inga said...: “How many young children were trafficked along the southern border by the open borders loving democrats?”

Why do you think that child trafficking by foreign(or domestic) people was ok with Democrats? Your premise is flawed.; 11/15/25, 7:50 PM
Inga said...: Also, do you think that Americans should not defend or care about these women, many who were trafficked as underage girls by powerful men because children were trafficked at the border? Do two wrongs make a right? Maybe you should have some integrity first before accusing Democrats of not caring about sex trafficked children at the border.; 11/15/25, 7:55 PM
Ann Althouse said...: The obsession with this subject is unwholesome.; 11/15/25, 7:56 PM
Breezy said...: “Why do you think that child trafficking by foreign(or domestic) people was ok with Democrats? Your premise is flawed.“

Because the Biden administration enabled it. That’s why.; 11/15/25, 8:00 PM
Mason G said...: "Sunrise at Lake Mendota, 6:48..."

Sunrise 'round these parts is an hour later than that, and it'll get to be as late as 8:30 before it starts getting earlier again.

Which is why I have no interest in year-round DST. Sure, it gets dark earlier, but who wants a 9:30 sunrise?; 11/15/25, 8:02 PM
Inga said...: “Because the Biden administration enabled it. That’s why.”

“Policies following federal law: Legal experts have stated that the exemption for unaccompanied minors in Biden's asylum policy is consistent with federal laws designed to protect children from trafficking. They note that President Trump's administration also had this exemption.”

Gemini; 11/15/25, 8:05 PM
Kakistocracy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/15/25, 8:11 PM
n.n said...: How many boys were groomed by trans? First, by homos in the closet, now with social progress by couplets, by men in feminine gender mockumentaries, too.; 11/15/25, 8:19 PM
n.n said...: Tariffs compensate for arbitrage. Prices increase when regulatory indiscretion is aborted or otherwise changed.; 11/15/25, 8:22 PM
Kakistocracy said...: "The obsession with this subject is unwholesome."

Trump and his own aides spread the Epstein conspiracy during the 2024 campaign and even earlier.

Of course there are conspiracies involved in the Epstein case. How else did Epstein get a slap on the wrist when he was convicted the first time? If it weren't for the Miami Herald, the whole Epstein affair would have been hushed up.

MAGA opened Pandora's box without realizing their Dear Leader was in there too.; 11/15/25, 8:23 PM
Breezy said...: So, Biden obviously didn’t follow immigration laws by the millions, but he obviously definitely followed child trafficking laws… Got it.; 11/15/25, 8:31 PM
Aggie said...: And just like that, all of the accusations of Trump's supposed serial sexual transactions with underage girls as the bestest pal of Jefferey Epstein at his various properties, have completely evaporated, and now nobody ever heard of Epstein. Epstein who?; 11/15/25, 8:34 PM
Inga said...: “And just like that, all of the accusations of Trump's supposed serial sexual transactions with underage girls as the bestest pal of Jefferey Epstein at his various properties, have completely evaporated, and now nobody ever heard of Epstein. Epstein who?”

What? Is this supposed to make sense?; 11/15/25, 8:37 PM
Lazarus said...: Don't we all sort of know that the "Epstein Files" are kept under wraps because of national security, international politics and "sources and methods"? No administration of either party is going to release them. The Democrats are just playing political games.; 11/15/25, 8:56 PM
Gospace said...: Reports are coming in that the Mexican Presidential Palace has fallen to the mob. The government hasn't fallen- yet. But things are getting interesting down there.; 11/15/25, 9:05 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: “The obsession with this topic is unwholesome”

The mental derangement is breathtaking.; 11/15/25, 9:08 PM
Peachy said...: Oh My: Dem Received Texts from Epstein During 2019 Congressional Hearing - and It Gets Worse; 11/15/25, 9:42 PM
Peachy said...: A 2023 Business Insider investigation showed that Epstein donated large sums of money to U.S. Virgin Islands politicians, including to Plaskett(D).

After Epstein’s arrest in 2019, Plaskett’s office initially said she was unlikely to return her campaign donations from the disgraced financier, but reversed course after public backlash.

"In 2023, six Epstein accusers sued government officials from the U.S. Virgin Islands, including Plaskett(D), alleging that they helped and benefited from Epstein’s sex-trafficking enterprise in the U.S. territory. The lawsuit against Plaskett(D) was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice earlier this year.; 11/15/25, 9:45 PM
Jupiter said...: Here's something to ponder on. The inconceivably brutal political system called the Soviet Union deployed coercive measures almost beyond comprehension in the service of its determination to bring about the only truly just and moral possible state of human affairs. I am reminded, in particular, that people were sealed in barrels, with nails pounded through the sides, that were then kicked down a staircase in the Lubyanka. People were left tied on a cot in a prison cell, for days, with a towel in their mouth tied to their feet, which were drawn up behind their heads. The doctrine of this regime held that any sympathy for its victims was a deviation from moral truth, and deserved a punishment even more devastating than that visited upon its hapless victims. People were elevated to high positions who had no especial capabilities, and who therefore owed the entirety of their preferment to the machine that they served, and hence were constitutionally unable to to oppose it in even its most clearly insane measures.

Such were the dreadful weapons that the Soviet State brought to bear upon all who offered it the least opposition, or merely happened to find themselves in its juggernaut path. One has to suppose that such measures must lead to what Orwell foresaw; A boot, stamping on a human face, forever.

And yet, in only three generations, this awful machine brought to power a group of men who lacked the will to deploy these awful weapons. Stalin's faithful and capable servant, Krushchev, found himself unable to excuse the hideous atrocities in which he had been complicit. If this is not a miracle -- and I think it is not -- then surely it is a caution to anyone who hopes to impose perfection on this crooked timber.; 11/15/25, 9:54 PM
gadfly said...: Since September 2, Donald Trump has summarily executed 76 civilians suspected of drug trafficking in 19 separate airstrikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean.

But the administration admitted in a closed-door briefing to Congress that they don’t even know the identities of the people they’ve killed.

Two people who survived boat bombings were released back to their home countries because the Trump administration lacked sufficient evidence to even arrest them.

In the words of one member of Congress who attended the briefing, “This is just murder.”; 11/15/25, 10:00 PM
Jupiter said...: Perhaps the difficulty, is that the boot must have a foot inside. Which would certainly explain why certain malefactors of great wealth are so determined to deploy robotic feet, controlled by "artificial intelligence". Meaning, -artificial amorality -- a willingness to perform atrocities that is simply a mechanical inability to perceive that some actions are atrocious.; 11/15/25, 10:08 PM
Achilles said...: Inga said...

“How many young children were trafficked along the southern border by the open borders loving democrats?”

Why do you think that child trafficking by foreign(or domestic) people was ok with Democrats? Your premise is flawed.

ICE documented hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors who entered the country during the 4 years of the Biden administration.

These children showed up in court, were processed, then released inside the country to illegals who were not their parents.

I know you are a really stupid person so let me help you out: Child trafficking is bringing a child into the country and releasing them to the care of people who have no familial connection to them.

Since Trump has taken over ICE has found thousands of these children who were being abused and used for child labor.

You supposed hundreds of thousands of children being trafficked. But we already knew you were a piece of shit.; 11/15/25, 10:12 PM
Achilles said...: gadfly said...

Since September 2, Donald Trump has summarily executed 76 civilians suspected of drug trafficking in 19 separate airstrikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean.

Maybe they shouldn't get on a boat in a foreign country full of guns and drugs and try to land on our shores in an armed invasion of our borders.; 11/15/25, 10:14 PM
Achilles said...: Inga said...

“And just like that, all of the accusations of Trump's supposed serial sexual transactions with underage girls as the bestest pal of Jefferey Epstein at his various properties, have completely evaporated, and now nobody ever heard of Epstein. Epstein who?”

What? Is this supposed to make sense?

Only to people with an IQ above 80.; 11/15/25, 10:15 PM
Jupiter said...: 'In the words of one member of Congress who attended the briefing, “This is just murder.”'
Despite the fact that it is gadfly who brings this up, it is an issue. Obviously, if the US were officially at war with Venezuela, and the Venezuelan government was deploying military assault craft against our frontiers, it would be legitimate, within the laws of nations, for the US to use military force to oppose those craft, up to and including their utter destruction, and the death of their crews. Such is war.

The problem, is that such actions are predicated upon the claim, that these watercraft are "fentanyl missiles" launched against the US by the Venezuelan regime, in order to damage the US by deracinating our population. If these are merely private Venezuelan citizens, smuggling drugs in violation of the laws of both nations, then we might call upon the Venezuelan government to suppress them, and we might arrest them, with all due process, pomp, and circumstance, when they arrive in our waters. But it is illegal to simply obliterate them with military munitions.

It turns out, that according to a lot of people, the US Constitution was a suicide pact.; 11/15/25, 10:19 PM
Jupiter said...: If someone is trying to kill you, and you refuse to take efficacious measures against him because it would be illegal ...; 11/15/25, 10:24 PM
Jupiter said...: "If the law believes that, then the law is a ass!"; 11/15/25, 10:28 PM
Maynard said...: The obsession with this subject is unwholesome.

The obsession is all about smearing non-lefties. It's the same bs as the Russia collusion hoax, among other hoaxes.

Igna, gadfly and Kaki are obsessed nearly to the point of insanity, as we all know. They represent the base of the Democrat party.; 11/15/25, 10:50 PM
Prof. M. Drout said...: The "international law" that so many people like to invoke without reading treats traffic in narcotics on the high seas using the same language as is used when discussing piracy. Every nation is required to cooperate to the fullest extent in the repression of piracy, and ANY nation can seize or destroy a pirate vessel.
If a vessel NOT engaged in piracy and was seized or destroyed, the U.S. would be liable for loss or damages caused by the seizure or destruction. So all Venezuela would need to do is to demonstrate that the ships weren't engaged in narcotics trafficking on the high seas.
Seems like it would be pretty easy for them to do so if it was true--you'd have on-shore evidence like contracts to buy bait or ice or nets and other equipment, or you'd have cargo manifests and schedules, right?
But are these vessels flying the Venezuelan flag? In those night-vision images it would be hard to tell WHICH flag they were flying, but no worries, because they aren't flying any flags at all in any of the ones I've seen.
So they are unflagged vessels on the high seas and the state they came from has made no effort to claim specific losses or damages.
Also, the boats we've blow up could only be confused for fishing boats by complete idiots. Where are the nets stowed? Where are the fish stored? If you go OUT of port with the entire boat filled with big blue oil-drums, where are you going to put all the fish you catch with the nets you can't fit into the boat because of the blue containers?

(We haven't even mentioned the NYT article that interviewed neighbors and relatives, who all said things to the effect of 'well yeah he was running drugs, but he really didn't want to and he's a really nice guy, not an active terrorist.' Ok then).

What I find most annoying is that the performative bullshit of whining about this don't actually believe that the U.S. is blowing up honest fishermen trying to make a living. They know that these are drug-running boats, and that they're unflagged vessels in international waters, and that the military isn't picking the boats at random. Everybody knows all this, but some feel a need to pretend that they don't so as to try to appear morally superior. It's not working.; 11/15/25, 11:17 PM
Jupiter said...: I'm thinking about a hypothetical, in which Mexico indicts Eric Holder for various crimes associated with the "Fast and Furious" fiasco, which resulted in numerous deaths of Mexican citizens. Would we extradite his criminal ass?

I have to say, that Eric Holder is a disgusting exemplar of just how far DNA can go wrong. He is a sickening display of shameless criminality, and it is painful to recognize any hint of shared humanity with such a wretched pond of genetic dysfunction. Why do things like this exist? Because we have somehow failed.
And yet; imagine that Eric was extradited to Mexico! Who can deny, that he would be an ornament to any prison in that admittedly imperfect jurisdiction. It is true, Mexico does not have any freezing cold prisons at 12,000 feet, like Peru. Still, I can't help but feel, that a place could be found for Eric. The 21st Century is not over yet, and Eric Holder may still encounter justice. The arc of history ...; 11/15/25, 11:19 PM
Jim at said...: They know that these are drug-running boats, and that they're unflagged vessels in international waters, and that the military isn't picking the boats at random.

If the Obama/Biden Administration was doing it, you'd see the left celebrating it. And the right - while not being fans of said admin - appreciating whatever it took to at least make a dent in the problem.

Again, if Trump cured cancer ... the left would bitch about all the oncologists out of work.; 11/16/25, 12:12 AM
gadfly said...: According to the Chicago Tribune:

The Trump administration on Friday released the names of 614 people whose Chicago-area immigration arrests may have violated a 2022 consent decree, and only 16 of them have criminal histories that present a “high public safety risk.”

The newspaper reports that of the 16 people arrested with criminal histories—representing just 2.6% of the total listed in the filing— “five involved domestic battery, two were related to drunken driving, and one allegedly had an unidentified criminal history in another country.” None had criminal backgrounds that included worst-of-the-worst offenses like rape or murder.

During Wednesday’s hearing, the judge suggested many of those who remain in detention likely have no history of criminal conduct and were targeted by federal agents simply for fitting a specific profile.

Being brown will put you down.; 11/16/25, 3:55 AM
john mosby said...: Jupiter: your Holder hypo was almost beautiful, Why ruin it with "genetic dysfunction?" CC, JSM; 11/16/25, 4:41 AM
Humperdink said...: From Hillary to Christopher Steele to the FBI to the Commies impeachment to the FBI to Judge Boalsberg … and not a soul in jail.; 11/16/25, 5:57 AM

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