Meade braved the cold and got that photograph. I hid inside again. The "feels like" temperature was 1°.Talk about whatever you like in the comments.
December 30, 2025
Sunrise — 7:12.
Meade braved the cold and got that photograph. I hid inside again. The "feels like" temperature was 1°.
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Keith Ellison says the quiet part out loud
"[Ellison] says they even go out to ballot harvest for Democrats and the Somalians are used in multiple states to swing elections for Democrats."
"AG Keith Ellison “Well, the Somali community is critical. In my own election, I wouldn't be in office without the help of the Somali community."
“We believe that the Somali community is a critical, plays a critical role, not just in Minnesota, but in Ohio and in Virginia."
This is what the democrats "open borders" program is all about.
AA : So, what's the lowest acceptable "feels like" temp you can handle?
For fans of Old Time Radio and the theater of the mind, this is a wonderful episode of "You Are There", a radio drama in which CBS News correspondents were dispatched to report on historical events as they happened. This one on Columbus discovering America is just brilliant radio, script, acting, sound effects and sound design, presentation... just excellent all around. I will note that there are several segments/interviews in Spanish which our bilingual commenters might appreciate especially.
https://archive.org/details/you-are-there-1950-04-16-87-thermopolae/You+Are+There+1947-07-28+(3)+Columbus+Discovers+America.mp3
"What kind of day was today? A day like all days, filled with those events which alter and illuminate our times. All things are as they were then, except You Are There."
Mike, you’ve seemed to be grasping more than usual here of late.
Politicians thanking a voting bloc isn’t an admission of fraud — it’s literally how elections work. Ballot assistance is legal in Minnesota, applies to all voters who need help, and is audited.
Non-citizens can’t vote, and if mass fraud existed, there would be prosecutions, not memes.
Saying “I couldn’t have won without X community” is something every elected official says — unless we now believe farmers, labor unions, evangelicals, and seniors are all running secret election schemes too.
Meade did pretty dang good!
Currently camping at the old Clements Scout Ranch in E Texas for BSA Winter Camp. Got pretty cold for Texas.
I’m prepared. Dual heaters in my tent. My 7th Winter Camp for my kids troop.
We sent some scouts on a trek to WI I think for a cold weather trek. I’ll take 30* over 2*…
Nice work Meade! Well framed and good eye.
Bank robbery is illegal too. Therefore, it doesn't happen.
Minnesota's same-day "vouching" system contains no controls on citizenship. It's designed for fraud.
The bigger picture is that importing millions of illegals distorts Congressional representation and the electoral college. It is a cynical, purposeful strategy.
There was an interesting episode concerning not only tbe gen plagues (volcanic irruption) but also the location of moses crossing and the wandering in thd desert (apparently in deep arabia)
No matter how many times Google offers three shorts with women carrying surfboards and getting a menu "not interested" check, the same three pics keep being offered.
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2025 - Part 15 of 16
#2 - Lenka - "Trouble Is a Friend" - Lenka (2008)
Lenka Eden Kripac is an Australian actress and singer. I found this album by chance when it showed up among my Albums For You choices. The first single from the album was "The Show," which is a pretty good song, but it was this one that reached out and grabbed me. I looked up the video(s) for this song and was surprised that they had about 132 million views. Hey, that many people can't be wrong!
https://youtu.be/QHpvlr_kG6U?si=Py3xQJH_V7QwkGsx
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2025
Bonus Song - Lenka - "The Show" - Lenka (2008)
I enjoyed this one, too. I think the reason the other video has so many views is because of a 2024 plagiarism case where an Indonesian musical artist used the melody without attribution, causing a big controversy. This song is the one that actually got the most exposure during the album's original run in 2008-09.
https://youtu.be/SwAuVo_HAio?si=IVczTYTCFcF-Gcht
79. Consider this example. If one says ``Moses did not exist'', this may mean various things. It may mean: the Israelites did not have a *single* leader when they withdrew from Egypt--or: their leader was not called Moses--or: there cannot have been anyone who accomplished all that the Bible relates of Moses--or: etc. etc.-- We may say, following Russell: the name ``Moses'' can be defined by means of various descriptions. For example, as ``the man who led the Israelites through the wilderness'', ``the man who lived at that time and place and was then called `Moses' '', ``the man who as a child was taken out of the Nile by Pharaoh's daughter'' and so on. And according as we assume one definition or another the proposition ``Moses did not exist'' acquires a different sense, and so does every other proposition about Moses.--And if we are told ``N did not exist'', we do ask: ``What do you mean? Do you want to say ... or ... etc.?""
But when I make a statement about Moses,--am I always ready to substitute some *one* of these descriptions for ``Moses''? I shall perhaps say: By ``Moses'' I understand the man who did what the Bible relates of Moses, or at any rate a good deal of it. But how much? Have I decided how much must be proved false for me to give up my proposition as false? Has the name ``Moses'' got a fixed and unequivocal use for me in all possible cases?--Is it not the case that I have, so to speak, a whole series of props in readiness, and am ready to lean on one if another should be taken from under me and vice versa?
- Wittgenstein
Great pic, Meade!
A metaphor
Is there anyone of the last generation as brave as bardot
An eva green probably not
"f mass fraud existed, there would be prosecutions, not memes."
As Hemingway said: "Isn't it pretty to think so."
If they are voting as a disciplined bloc, able to dominate low turnout primaries and then to swing elections, they are not going to get prosecuted by the people they vote in. I notice that you don't have any actual rebuttals, and don't seem to care at all that programs designed to help those in genuine need are being ransacked by people who are imported from countries with an entirely different moral universe to that of "Minnesota nice" and, guess what? The dirt in Minnesota is not magic.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Mike, you’ve seemed to be grasping more than usual here of late.
Politicians thanking a voting bloc isn’t an admission of fraud — it’s literally how elections work. Ballot assistance is legal in Minnesota, applies to all voters who need help, and is audited.
Yep, audited, just like the billions of dollars paid out in subsidies each year... BTW- if someone is too incompetent to fill out a ballot by themselves- how in h-ll do you perform an audit? Ask a random number of incompetents if the assist was done correctly? There is no way to perform a meaningful audit. As in- NONE AT ALL. Not even remotely possible.
This is why theh stole in 20 snd followed up in 22
I see that after Trump made the comment that the attack on Putin's private residence by drone showed that the Ukrainians could never be trusted with Tomahawks, it was all hands on deck to deny it ever happened, when Zelensky just wished for the death of Putin in his Christmas message a couple days ago.
I don't know the truth but Ukraine has been carrying out assassinations in Russia for as long as the war has been going on. So if it is a propaganda gambit by Russia, well, Ukraine laid itself open to it.
There you go again Mike. Bank robbery leaves arrests and evidence. Large-scale election fraud would too — especially in Minnesota, with paper ballots, audits, bipartisan judges, and courts. Same-day registration still requires a sworn citizenship oath and post-election verification; vouching covers residence, not citizenship. If this were “designed for fraud,” Republicans would be winning cases, not recycling claims.
As for census representation — counting all residents is constitutional, centuries old, and applied long before today’s immigration politics. Losing elections isn’t proof of rigging.
The only way to protect elections is to rigorously enforce every rule. How many voter registrations in Wisconsin, for example, were missing DOB. If you can't remember your birthday, or can't be bothered to fill out the form completely, you should not be allowed to vote, just on the vulnerability to fraud that overlooking these violations opens.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/meet-sarah-whitt-official-behind-wisconsin-voter-rolls-included-3-42-million-extra-ineligible-voters/
Was putin at the black sea compound, then it would be a waste otoh why would the ukrainians target him
rh hardin re Wittgenstein - https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-thinking-and-god
"counting all residents is constitutional, centuries old, and applied long before today’s immigration politics."
Right, the loophole has always been here, and Joe Biden exploited this loophole by letting in millions of "asylum seekers" without the first bit of vetting. How this is supposed to prover your point, I don't know. I guess your point is that nobody had ever been as shameless as Joe Biden, so we should just ignore what Joe Biden did.
@rhhardin -- re YT, if a short is played even briefly, there is a right-click option "Don't recommend this channel". Not 100% effective, but better than "not interested".
What if one is interested, hypothetically?
Big if true: “A third of community college applicants were fake. $17 billion was spent on High-Speed Rail with no track. $24 billion in homelessness funds disappeared. $32 billion was lost to unemployment fraud. Medi-Cal and SNAP are rife with improper payments.”
In that case -- like, comment, and subscribe.
The Valdai residence could be a high-profile target, as Putin is known to be spending time there during the summer. The palatial property sits inside a large government vacation resort in the Valdai national park, on a peninsula wedged between two lakes. Access to the whole complex is severely restricted – the 40 hectares of grounds are surrounded by water on three sides and fenced off from the rest of the park.
Here is a whole article in CNN that seems to be about scoping out Valdai as a target.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/18/europe/putin-summer-residence-fortification
Talking about how the air defenses there have been ramped up, how Putin spends time there, etc. Why does it seem so unlikely that Ukraine could have caught wind of Putin being there.
The idea that it is somehow so unlikely that Ukraine would try it that it proves that they wouldn't is just bizarre given that we know that Ukraine has a lot of spies in Moscow and that he may very well have been spending time in his well defended fortress for his own reasons.
I can't tell if Ronald J. Ward is as stupid as the ideas that he posts here, the arguments that he makes, or he thinks that we are stupid.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Mike, you’ve seemed to be grasping more than usual here of late.
Politicians thanking a voting bloc isn’t an admission of fraud — it’s literally how elections work. Ballot assistance is legal in Minnesota, applies to all voters who need help, and is audited.
Non-citizens can’t vote, and if mass fraud existed, there would be prosecutions, not memes.
Saying “I couldn’t have won without X community” is something every elected official says — unless we now believe farmers, labor unions, evangelicals, and seniors are all running secret election schemes too.
Democrats literally imported voters and paid them with taxpayer money.
They are just traitors and need to go to Somalia when we send the Somalis back home.
All of the above
Jaq said...
I can't tell if Ronald J. Ward is as stupid as the ideas that he posts here, the arguments that he makes, or he thinks that we are stupid.
It is Chuck.
So he is just stupid and as dishonest as it is possible to be.
Physics The Feynman Way is my favourite YouTube channel right now.
He was a real scientist the ones we dont get anymore
Bank robbers don't donate and vote as a block for the cops.
Keith Ellison's elected job is to prevent the people putting him in office from making a fortune via fraud. He might be just a little less than motivated.
The same is true of dedicated Democrats who put party over country, justice, and law and order.
If you find yourself automatically defending what looks a lot like blatant and widespread fraud, you might be a little conflicted yourself. Just imagine if it was Republican voters in Florida suspected of this with the same evidence. I sure as hell wouldn't be making excuses for them.
Thanks Phaedrus, Clyde, and happy new year to all good Althouse readers and commenters!
Here is an article from November purporting to "prove" that Putin is hiding out at times in Valdai.
https://knews.media/2025/11/13/where-is-putin-the-russian-leader-is-in-hiding-we-reveal-the-behind-the-scenes-of-the-kremlins-activities/
"...If mass fraud existed, there would be prosecutions, not memes."...." and it would be prosecuted aggressively, if there weren't AG's put into office on Soros money with stated policies to not prosecute lawbreakers of certain odors, while also committing publicly to defunding police departments. And the fraud would be reported, if there was an objective media that wasn't in the tank for Democrat party policies by press corps whose political donations of record are 99% to Democrat coffers, as evidenced by a 22 year old that just broke the whole stinking mess wide open with a cell phone camera, etc. etc. etc. etc. The end of the gravy train has come, and the process of eliminating the deceits is underway, and I guess we'll see how far it goes, won't we. Bad Faith is no longer something to be tolerated, it's something to be confronted and its oxygen taken away. E.S.& D.
"Physics The Feynman Way is my favourite YouTube channel right now."
I just bought his Six Not So Easy Pieces.
I have to say, however, that I've listened to a lot of Feynman lectures and I think they're a bit overrated.
"I kind of feel like I'm watching a version of The Office when I'm watching Somalis defend themselves."
"Same-day registration still requires a sworn citizenship oath and post-election verification;"
I'm going to be charitable and say you haven't been paying attention to what's going on in Minnesota.
"Right, the loophole has always been here, and Joe Biden exploited this loophole by letting in millions of "asylum seekers" without the first bit of vetting. How this is supposed to prover your point, I don't know."
Yep, that's the import of Ellison's comments. All of the pain and chaos and deficits of Biden's open borders strategy is to one aim; elect democrats.
It has been reported the former President Biden was given an honorary Doctorate of Linguistics degree from the Quality Learing Center in Minneapolis just prior to his departure from the office.
It was not reported at the time because there were no students in the audience during Biden’s speech, only a collection of family members. When asked where were the students, the school administrations responded the Learing Center had sent them on a field trip to points unknown, possibly overseas.
"If mass fraud existed, there would be prosecutions." - Ronald J. Ward
"Bwaaaaaahahahahahaahahaaaaaaa." - George J. Soros
You know that foreigners are coming to your country and stealing YOUR hard earned money that you only agreed to give up because it was going to help needy deserving people like veterans and children. Those needy people, who are your fellow Americans, are suffering because of this fraud. It's all being allowed by the people you voted for because they lied to you about it, and your natural instinct is to protect these people?
WTF is wrong with you?
"WTF is wrong with you?"
In Chuck's case, I believe he is being paid.
"The "feels like" temperature was 1°."
Jeeze, I called everyone locally to say temp was 40 this morning. Now I feel warmer.
When it gets in the occasional 90s here I call people in Phoenix and Las Vegas to cool down.
Dedicated loyalist dems refuse to ever admit when their team cheats.
"WTF is wrong with you?"
Forget it, Jake. It's Somalitown.
"Those needy people, who are your fellow Americans, are suffering because of this fraud."
I guess I'm a rube, but I am kinda shocked at the lack of outrage from the left.
There is a theory that Hitler lost the war when the allies "accidentally" bombed Berlin, drawing Hitler into an emotional overreaction where instead of sticking to his knitting, and destroying the RAF, he attacked London in "retaliation" and had he just stuck to systematically destroying the RAF, the war might have gone differently.
People study how wars are won and lost. Provocations that seem irrational to us normies are not necessarily irrational.
"Jeeze, I called everyone locally to say temp was 40 this morning. "
We call that "Spring".
"It has been reported the former President Biden was given an honorary Doctorate of Linguistics degree from the Quality Learing Center in Minneapolis just prior to his departure from the office."
So Nick Shirley got Little Joey enrolled after all.
I guess I'm a rube, but I am kinda shocked at the lack of outrage from the left.
@Original Mike, not a rube but you did overlook the 21st century evolution of well-intended programs meant to help the needy into fraudulent programs meant to launder money destined for well-connected Democrats.
"Look at me, I am the quality learer now."
I think it’s time for another Althouse poll: What is the color of the sky on the planet where Ronald J. Ward lives? My vote is for chartreuse.
Original Mike said...
"Jeeze, I called everyone locally to say temp was 40 this morning. "
We call that "Spring".
In Greenland it’s called “August.”
Were these programs ever well intended, or were they just cover for graft from the beginning?
A Falling Iguana Warning has been issued for Naples and Collier County. When temperatures drop into the low 40s, iguanas become comatose and drop from their perches, remaining immobilized on the ground below. When the temperatures rise again, they recover and go about their business.
Did any one here know that Tony West was Kamala Harris’ brother-in-law?
2009–2012 — Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division (nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate).
2012–2014 — Served as Acting Associate Attorney General starting in March 2012, then formally confirmed by the Senate as the full Associate Attorney General (the DOJ’s third-ranking official) until his departure in 2014. He oversaw multiple divisions (e.g., Civil Rights, Antitrust, Civil) and led efforts securing billions in settlements from financial institutions related to the 2008 crisis.
Were these programs ever well intended, or were they just cover for graft from the beginning?
My guess is that since the days of Tammany Hall, somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter to a third of government expenditures have been embezzled for the benefit of the Democrat Party and its cronies. Some of the corruption is quite above board, like laws forcing government contractors to submit to ridiculously inflated union-scale wages and work rules even in places where there are no unions. But much of it is of the phantom Somali daycare type. Outright fraud, with a healthy kickback for Democrat politicians, and a reliable bought-off voting bloc.
If only Jaq could figure out who is committing the provocation. We know there was no attempt on Putin’s life: his own military and the local residents said it didn’t happen, though they will soon be ‘persuaded’ to amend their statements, I’m sure. Putin didn’t even bother to show fragments of the alleged shot-down drones. He is quite obviously faking justification for some escalation, or just an excuse for refusing to negotiate a truce. Not that it matters: the Russian economy is past the point of no return. Even an end to the war won’t save it now.
By the way, in explaining why he thought Zelenskyy would try to kill Putin, Jaq never mentioned that Putin has tried to kill him ~10 times. An odd omission: some assassinations are apparently OK with Jaq.
Whether it's Hillary Clinton making $100,000 in cattle futures 14 years before she became First Lady or Donald Trump making $1.7 billion from his DJT meme stock while serving as president, both sides have made money in controversial ways.
Its tempting to assume that such as RJW/Chuck are paid, but I cant believe that Althouse's blog is so large and influential as to make it worthwhile for some political influence operation to spend a few hundred dollars a day to keep Althouse comments stocked with trolls.
Strange as it may seem, I am satisfied that this is a "labor of love" (or whatever strange emotion substitutes for love).
I gather a lot of Americans are having fairly wretched weather, but it is cold and clear, here in Oregon. The sun has set, and in the East, my planet is rising. It is good to see him again, and give him the Roman greeting; "Ave, Jove".
I pronounce it, "A-oo-ay, Yo-way". I think that is how a Roman citizen, 2000 years ago, would have hailed the rising god/planet. The "v" was like a "u", and the "J" like a "Y". So, not at all surprising that when the Romans imported YAWEH into their pantheon, they wrote His name JOVE.
Actually, I gather that YAWEH was a Hebrew deity, and Hebrew did not have a lot of vowels. So it was just YAWH. Phonetic spelling wasn't really even a concept. Except among the Phoenicians, of course. Which would have included the Carthaginians.
👆It's a real fever swamp on Althouse at times....
Democrats abetting fraud for their own political gain is clearly Trump’s fault.
It was feel like +23f today. I couldn’t breathe! I just had to puff on small gulps of air through pursed lips. This from a guy who lived and worked in Eastern Europe and Alaska!
Getting old sucks.
The Romans crushed a thousand cultures, and they are mostly forgotten. But Hannibal crossed the Alps, with his elephants, and to this day, Anibale is a name Spaniards give to their male children.
Muhammad is a name they give to what their dogs do, on their neighbors lawns.
neighbors'
Ukraine has often hit meeting sites of Russian military and state officials and known headquarters. Initially these were quite close to the front lines, until the Russians wised up and improved their communications "depth" and opsec, and kept their senior officers out of range as far as possible.
Valdai like many of these sites was marked out by too-obvious defensive measures, being improperly concealed Pantsir and other SAMs. Even if not Putin its obvious that something important was going on there, as the Russians were devoting scarce resources to its defence.
Something that had to be, moreover, fairly close to the war front. Its really quite silly for Putin to hang out so close to known drone range of the Ukrainians, so I doubt he did.
Jaq said...
The idea that it is somehow so unlikely that Ukraine would try it that it proves that they wouldn't is just bizarre given that we know that Ukraine has a lot of spies in Moscow and that he may very well have been spending time in his well defended fortress for his own reasons.
12/30/25, 7:28 PM
It is beyond strange that the Ukraine supporters are pretending that Ukraine wouldn’t blow up Putin if they could. As far as I’m concerned, Putin is a legitimate target. Start stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I didn’t approve of Ukraine blowing up the young, Russian, female reporter in her car in Moscow. That was a terrorist attack.
Let's recall, that the Iberian Peninsula was, for quite some time, a Carthaginian stronghold. And later, for quite some time, a stronghold of Islam. So, that Iberians know their Hannibal, and they know their Muhammad.
Kak: "both sides have made money in controversial ways.
These imported hood rats aren't "making money."
They're fucking STEALING our money. Americans are literally burying their grandchildren in national debt while a bunch of imported black people are committing grand theft right in front of us.
And they're not even running. Now that they've been outed, you'd think they'd haul their black asses on back home with the loot. But they're not doing that. They're trucking in kids in a fake show to try to weather what they know will be the media's one or two day attention span. Then it's back to the grind. They know they aren't going to jail.
Donald J. Trump had better start perp walking these fuckers on national television and putting them on planes to be tossed out with parachutes over Africa. Or he's going to find the last 2 years of his presidency without a single person to protect him from what the Democrats are going to do to him.
Bill:
What young female reporter? If you mean Dugin’s daughter, there’s no reason to believe Ukraine did it. She had plenty of enemies in Russia, starting with Defense Minister Shoigu, whose job she wanted. We don’t even know whether the bomb was aimed at her or her father: they’d just switched cars.
Russia has killed many Ukrainian journalists, male and female, by bombing pizza parlors or torturing them in prison. I don’t believe Ukraine has killed any Russian reporters, any more than they have bombed apartment buildings.
Interesting that Althouse’s two biggest Zelensky supports, Dr. Weevil and buwaya, are arguing against each other about whether or not Ukraine attacked the Putin compound.
It just shows you how big an Ukraine toady Dr. Weevil is.
Original Mike said…
Were these programs ever well intended, or were they just cover for graft from the beginning?
I think you know the answer.
It's amazing how well they have hoodwinked their base into thinking it's for the poor.
Will Bill answer my question about the “reporter” supposedly murdered by Ukraine, or will he confine himself to swinish lies?
Anibal is quite a rare Spanish name, and it always has been.
Its more common in Italy.
The #1 Spanish name is actually Antonio, quite decisively, and it is of course Latin Antonius.
Far more common (than Anibal) in modern Spain is the very Basque Aitor.
I am working on my southern hemisphere observing list and I am on Cetus, The Whale right now. Cetus is always called "The Whale", but I am reading that Cetus is the Sea Monster of the Andromeda myth that was turned to stone when Perseus exposed it to the severed head of Medusa.
Cetus is The Kracken!
I'm not arguing against the Weevil, just giving my judgment call. These things are unknowable to us.
Of course, honest people can disagree about particulars while agreeing on broader questions, as I do with buwaya. Only propagandists consistently toe (not ‘tow’) the party line.
lol
I guess I'm a rube, but I am kinda shocked at the lack of outrage from the left.
If fraud on this scale was being committed by - say, TPUSA - the left's screams of outrage would be deafening. Their reaction isn't shocking. It's predictable.
Is this why the deep staters were so panicked about a Trump Presidency?
Dr Weevil, you say Ukraine hasn’t killed any Russian reporters. Now tell us how many US citizens reporters have been imprisoned and tortured to death by your beloved SBU?
One of the reasons.
"lol"
I was expecting some sort of satire, not a documentary.
Meade, you are the man.
Gonzalo Lira had been expelled but insisted on returning to Ukraine. He was not a reporter as such, his Youtube stuff was pure opinion. As are many Youtubers, granted, and that gives them no particular consideration as they are not suppliers of facts unavailable to other observers.
As a pro-Russian foreigner putting out pro Russian propaganda he had no business remaining in a country at war, and the Ukrainians were within their rights to expel him or imprison him.
The Ukrainian story is he died in prison of pneumonia. You will have to wait to the end of the war for a satisfactory investigation.
Answer my question and I’ll answer yours, Billy boy.
And to refute the passive aggressive swishy insinuation that I’m a progandist.
Let me make my position clear. Putin and Zelensky are both corrupt autocrats. Russian and Ukraine both are brutal countries. The Russian-Ukraine war is a civil war that has no vital US interest involved.
I base my opinions on having lived and worked in the old East Germany, Prague and Ukraine for 10 years.
Looks like buwaya saved me the trouble, though Bill still owes me an answer. As for Gonzalo Lira, I would add that he was reportedly an overweight heavy smoker, it was winter, and even non-prisons get awfully cold in the winters, what with the Russians bombing the power plants every night. Pneumonia is not torture.
And brave Sir Weevil runs away from the question. Buwaya once again he shows he is a man with integrity.
"The #1 Spanish name is actually Antonio, quite decisively, and it is of course Latin Antonius."
After Marcus Antonius?
Dr. Weevil, Dr. Weevil, Dr. Weeeeeeeeeee-vil just now.
Just now I Dr. Weevil, Dr. Weevil,
Just now.
Cracked it open,
Cracked it open,
Cracked it ooooooooooo-pen, just now.
Just now I cracked it open, Dr. weevil,
Just now.
Why can’t Bill tell me whether the Russian ‘reporter’ allegedly murdered by Ukraine was or was not Daria Dugina? And how stupid and hypocritical do you have to be to use the phrase “swishy insinuation”, complaining about insinuation in the very act of commenting it?!
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"Will Bill answer my question about the “reporter” supposedly murdered by Ukraine, or will he confine himself to swinish lies?"
There are lies, swinish lies, and statistics.
Ukraine has always murdered no reporters from EastAsia.
"Yes! We murdered no, reporters!
We murdered no, reporters, today!"
Ran away from the question? That’s what weasel Bill keeps doing. Name the murdered reporter! Your stupid and dishonest question about Lira has already been answered, partly by me, mostly by buwaya.
No, no particular Roman emperor. It is just extremely traditional. My son was so named after his grandfather. The other "top 10" are mainly hebrew/biblical, plus Javier (Xavier) and Francisco, which means Frankish, but as there were very few Franks or French in Spain its probably due to the popularity of St. Francis of Assisi. Javier(Xavier) is Basque but "broke through" to greater Spain from its home ground in Navarra. Most likely due to the great celebrity of the missionary Jesuit St. Francis Xavier. Far better known than his boss Ignacio (which is Latin) Loyola. Ignacio is also a popular name btw.
Oops. I didn’t see Weevil’s propagandistic response. What evidence is there that Lira was in a prison that had no electricity? Why would Ukraine imprison an US citizen journalist for his opinions on the war. A free country would not arrest and imprison a non-citizen journalist for their opinions. A civilized autocratic country would expel a non-citizen journalist they did not approve of their opinions. A brutal Slavic nation would imprison a journalist and deny him penicillin.
“Dr” (like “Dr Jill Biden”) Weevil denying that Darya Dugina was on the list to be assassinated that was published by the close associate of the head of the SBU?
The Ukraine SBU is the Ukrainian descendent of the USSR’s KGB. The Russian version is the FSB.
Lira was a propagandist for the devils side. A "Lord Haw haw" wannabe. "Reporter" he wasnt. Why such people sell themselves into hell I will never understand. There are several here.
Jupiter:
The fact is that Russia has been murdering reporters, priests and ministers, surrendered soldiers, and miscellaneous civilians throughout the invasion, raping and torturing prisoners, and bombing apartments, hospitals, trains and train stations, and stores full of people, among other war crimes. Many of these crimes are on film, with Russians gloating about them on social media. Ukraine has done none of those things. Joking about it is pathetic.
Another unique, unrepeatable sunrise, like a fingerprint. I try not to take it for granted.
For those of you who are tech savvy:
False Claims Act (FCA) – For Fraud Against the Government
law for reporting fraud involving federal funds (e.g., government contracts, Medicare/Medicaid billing fraud, defense contractor overcharging). If successful, whistleblowers receive 15–30% of the recovered amount (including treble damages and penalties).
You could become a billionaire.
Bill thinks I’m a propagandist but Gonzalo Lira wasn’t, and believes the SBU’s hit list is publicly available on the web! That’s a claim I hadn’t heard in years.
Bill thinks I’m a propagandist but Gonzalo Lira wasn’t, and believes the SBU’s hit list is publicly available on the web! That’s a claim I hadn’t heard in years.
“Is this why the deep staters were so panicked about a Trump Presidency?”
Yes, it’s most likely the primary reason, IMO.
It could end the Gravy Train.
ICE Barbie is seeking emergency approval to demolish 13 historic buildings at the historic federal campus St. Elizabeths, established by Congress in 1855 and originally called the “Government Hospital for the Insane.”
It is possible that Trump has threatened to move her, along with livein boyfriend Corey Lewandowski, out of the Navy Yard and into Saint E. which now houses the Dept. of Homeland Security.
"Ukraine has denied doing any of those things and we all know that Ukraine never lies and the Russians never speak the truth!"
Fixed it for you.
Do you have a link to the Russian military denying that the attack on Valdai happened?
All I have seen is a story. in the "Moscow Times," published out of Denmark, I believe, and a CIA front, that the locals in Valdai didn't hear or see anything. The story from the Russian military was that the wave of drones encountered multiple layers of air defenses, and never made it to Valdai.
But if you have a denial from the Russian Military, share it, I would be happy to consider it. I keep my mind open.
If it was a "false flag" it was a pretty stupid one, because Trump will soon enough discover that Putin lied to him. There is a story about Khrushchev catching JFK in a lie and how angry he got that JFK lied to his face. I just don't believe that Putin would tell an easily disproven lie to Trump. It would be way too stupid.
Time will tell.
“I guess I'm a rube, but I am kinda shocked at the lack of outrage from the left.“
Agreed. If they don’t feel ripped off by it and outraged by that alone, shirley (heh) they would be outraged by all the negative attention that they are getting, and would want to at least appear innocent.
Oh Fly. St E's has been the DHS HQ campus for over 10 years. The first campus was an old very small navy base on Nebraska Ave near American U. Both campuses are made up of old small buildings not fit for their new purpose. And I am certain they're full of asbestos and other hazmat. Yet the inertia of historic buildings in DC means no construction has been done all these years. And meanwhile DHS has been leasing commercial space in other parts of DC.
I think what prompted this is the FBI moving from their brutalist HQ to the Reagan Building, thus pushing out DHS components. Also, the targeting of ICE and other DHS components for violence emphasizes the need for a relatively remote, walled campus as opposed to office space in the middle of heavily trafficked areas. CC, JSM
Every state needs a DOGE satellite to audit use of federal monies and re-engineer the allocation and spending procedures to enable annual audit of the outlays. We complain about the recent lack of ability to audit the military, for example, but the states consume a lot more of our money.
Yes, that video won the internet for the day.
Kak/Richsockpuppet/paidActbluetroll said...
"Whether it's Hillary Clinton making $100,000 in cattle futures 14 years before she became First Lady or Donald Trump making $1.7 billion from his DJT meme stock while serving as president, both sides have made money in controversial ways."
Kak/Richsockpuppet/ paidActbluetroll is putting his Learing Center learing to good use again, I see.
12/30/25, 8:49 PM
Eva Marie--You know, of course, that Medicare/Medicaid billing fraud is illegal, and the law says that there are supposed to be audits.
Ergo, there is no Medicare/Medicaid billing fraud.
It's like all those other illegal things, such as political kickbacks, Social Security fraud and tax evasion. Or, well, illegal immigration. We have laws against these things. ;^I
Derisive shoutout to all the morons who made this happen. Way to go.
The U.S. has surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the CDC. ~ ABC News
The "feels like" temperature is a lie. Still air is the abnormal so wind chill shouldn't start till a strong breeze hits.
"The U.S. has surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the CDC. ~ ABC News"
So those millions of illegals Biden let in without so much as a by your leave to the American people, or to Congress, are not part of that number? I take it by your comment that you know that to be true.
Well, thank you, Meade and Ms Ann. Thank you for putting up with me all these years. I wish you both a happy and prosperous new year.
Kakistocracy said...
"Derisive shoutout to all the morons who made this happen. Way to go."
You mean the people you championed and voted for. Democrats.
Up until the great illegal flood measles was all but eradicated in this country. Not anymore. Thanks to you, shithead.
The default talking point blaming immigration for measles outbreaks didn’t originate nor is it supportive of any scientific evidence. Instead, it recycles older misinformation and political rhetoric that predates the Biden presidency and has resurfaced during multiple outbreaks.
Where’s the evidence? There is none. It’s rooted in social media misinformation, political commentary that connects disease outbreaks to immigration for rhetorical effect, and public misinterpretation of how measles spreads.
It’s yet another case of the misinformed insisting to be misinformed.
A few things and thoughts that GP, EpochTimes, the latest YouTube influencer, et al may have isolated some from;
Democrat wins Iowa state Senate race, blocking GOP from regaining supermajority by 71%.
Trump claimed that windmills “are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles” showing a picture of a dead bird beneath a wind turbine. The bird was a falcon killed by a wind turbine in Israel in 2017.
If Jerome Powell is a “moron” and “incompetent” like Trump says, shouldn’t he accept some blame for appointing him?
Politifact isn’t doing a Lie of The Year for 2025 but rather calling 2025 The Year Of The Lies.
Trump just said that no hostages were released from Gaza during the Biden administration. That’s not true. In the 2023 cease-fire, 105 hostages were released.
Let it ALL out, Cleaver… out with your remaining horseshit and an opportunity for you to be honest in the coming year.
I believe it’s called “turning a new leaf”…
Meh vizzini is tiresoms
He always lies if by commission if not omission
Theres not enough maalox iman
I scrolled my last two comments looking for the alleged dishonesty and lies.
Nope, don’t think I’m interested in the alternative facts world.
Youre soaking in it, vizzini
👆Trump’s fans are so dense that light bends around them.
Chuck, every comment you post is a lie. You know it, I know it, and the American people know it.
Triple top in the NYSE average over the last five years, since the pandemic low in early 2020. The third of that triple itself took the form of a triple top. Could there be any more left?
European stock markets, as captured in Vanguard's VGK, extremely similar.
Meade said...
Chuck, every comment you post is a lie. You know it, I know it, and the American people know it.
Assuming you’re addressing me, that comment is blatantly false on multiple fronts. You know it, I know it, and I don’t have the ability to state what the American people know or doesn’t know.
“Thank you for putting up with me all these years.”
Rusty, you’re welcome. It’s been our pleasure. Happy 2026 and beyond!
And that goes for every reader and/or commenter of the blog.
Except Chuck.
Global Dow also. Momentum failing. Global Dow is 40% US stocks, 60% other. No place to hide.
Russian bot writes truth I don’t have the ability to state what the American people know or doesn’t know.
Trump’s Revenge Tour New Year’s gift to Colorado; “No drinking water for you”.
Yes, without question, all of the millions that Biden imported from third world countries were totally up on their vaccinations. It would be foolish to believe otherwise.
Bushman, Pew Research says roughly 11–12 million new immigrants likely entered under Trump 45.
But, that be okay, right? Or, them be Biden’s fault too?
Before I hear Liar Liar, AI says; The number "11-12 million" is close to the total estimated size of the long-standing unauthorized immigrant population during much of Trump's first term, not the number of new arrivals during that period.
“AA : So, what's the lowest acceptable "feels like" temp you can handle?”
I could have handled it. The decision whether to go out is multi factored. One factor is the temperature but another is the wind. A strong wind when it’s cold is a lot worse than a very low temperature. The “feels like” idea doesn’t really express what I personally feel — especially where I’m going to be walking which involves some very exposed places near the water. I also take into account the cloud cover because if I think the sunrise is going to be especially beautiful or colorful at all, I’m much more likely to go out than if I see there’s 100% cloud cover. And to some extent I take into account whether I’m involved in working on something at my desk. Sometimes I don’t want to tear myself away from the writing I’m doing, and I will if I think it’s going to be a good sunrise, but not if I’m sure it won’t be. The actual “feels like” temperature is important but not all important.
So there’s really no lower limit in “feels like” terms. Each morning has its own complex feel, and I respond as it suits my whim
You can feel more if you don't put a suit on your whim.
Naked and simple like that. Not complex: show, don't tell.
But I agree: morning sexx is best...
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