I loved seeing the full moon at sunrise, but I didn't like any of my still photographs of it. They looked, in a word, stupid. But scroll down 2 posts and you'll see Meade's video of the big orange disc beginning to dip behind the distant shore.
Write about whatever you want in the comments.
UPDATE: I stepped out to gaze at the sky at 6:47 CST. The moon was too far above the horizon to look extra large, but because the iPhone didn't realize I was doing a night picture and it decided to make a long exposure and I was entirely unprepared for that, so I got a cool surprise:
Reset to normality, the iPhone gave me this:
पोस्ट्स
१६१ टिप्पण्या:
I have never bought into the "supermoon" folderol.
Those are coots. Duck season opens in the morning. Quack, quack.
They think they’ve caught the Jan6 pipe bomb planter and arrested him in Virginia. The case had been put on the back burner since April 2021, when Chris Wray and Merkin Garland allegedly determined it was probably a lefty anarchist as the miscreant, which would’ve imploded the entire “Insurrection” load of horseshit if made public.
It will be interesting to see where this leads… 😬
It is cold here in the Tucson area (where the esteemed Dr. Michael K lived). We were in the 30's in the early am. Brutal. It did warm up to the 60's. Nice!
I miss Michael K.
RIP dude. You were something special.
"It's Cosmo's moon!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAU4pf0uhoY
An interesting video on the growth of fan fiction and how modern literature is progressing.
spoiler: it isn't going in the right direction.
And websites like AO3 are basically pornhub for women. Except what women are reading would get you thrown in jail if you watched it on pornhub.
I didn't realize what "shipping" was or how Harry Potter was where Twilight came from and twilight was where 50 shades of grey came from.
Word update. Tim Walz says that people are driving by his house and using the R-word.
Another good photo for a jigsaw puzzle.
The actor who uttered "It's Cosmo's moon" also played Don Giuseppe Zaluchi who's memorable for what he said in giving his approval for the Mafia to go into the drug business big-time.
Probably couldn't its way into a script today,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmucyqOOKZU
Vhy a duck, Beasts, vhy not a chicken?
Maynard said...
..I miss Michael K..
I miss the Dr too.. things were better with him around.
Does Mt Lemon have snow on it yet?
"Word update. Tim Walz says that people are driving by his house and using the R-word."
"Racist"? I don't think Democrats know any other R-words.
Donald Fagen - Countermoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mja6U6iE4Zk&list=RDmja6U6iE4Zk&start_radio=1
CC, JSM
Wife went hunting this evening. Four pigs. Three rounds. Earned respect amongst the old timers at the post game…
Too overcast and foggy for moonspotting here tonight.
The suspect arrested today for the J6 attempted bombing of both RNC and DNC headquarters is Brian Cole, Jr. He is black (CNN, with the accuracy for which they are famous had called him a “white man”), he is 30, and he lives in his parents’ house in an apartment over the garage. Not clear who he works for or if he is even employed at all.
How’s that “shipwrecked sailors clinging to wreckage" horseshit working for you Fredoingamark’fly?
@bennyjohnson
The January 6th pipe bomber terrorist was…
- a young black guy
- radical anti-Trump activist
- sued Trump & ICE & DHS
- extreme racial justice advocate
- works at his family bail bonds company that frees criminal aliens from ICE custody
Yeah, this explains exactly why the FBI & DOJ could not “find” this guy for 4 years. The Biden FBI had mountains of evidence against Brian Cole. Receipts, cell data, license plate, photos and videos of the crime. They knew exactly who did it!
But Brian’s profile destroys their entire ‘MAGA white supremacist insurrection bomber’ narrative in one blow.
The FBI didn’t “fail” to catch him.
Leftists protected their own.
This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history. What a nightmare…
It's just one FBI scandal after another.
I don't think Democrats know any other R-words.
“Retarded.” Very not PC.
So, which iPhone image truly represents to reality? Maybe the first one was taken by accident, excluding the filters that the human brain usually enforces
So, the bombs were real. And planted by a Black BLM leftist. But the la-de-da behavior of the secret service protecting Kam harris on J6 still has to be explained. They let her get far too close to a planted bomb without any real concern.
It looks like Wray was a liar, a leftist, and total creep. Even worse than Comey - only smarter. Wow, 1st term Trump sure could pick 'em! Of course, NJ fats is still defending Wray.
I hate the way Trump and call Democrats "stupid" or "Retarded". That implies they want to do whats right, they just aren't smart enough. Wrong. They're immoral. It doesn't take a genius to see illegal immigration is bad, or letting somalis commit fraud in return for votes or kick backs is crooked.
IQ has nothing to do with it. Morality = everything.
The Hack(D) soviet media are reporting that this kid's grandma thinks he's a nice guy.
4 years of Crook Joe and his crocked FBI - hid the truth.
Jan 6th - a fraud. Why?
It's our constitutional right to investigate a stolen election.
Joe biden was installed.
"So, the bombs were real".
Eh. It's pretty clear that the Capitol Police officers who "found" the "bombs" were well aware that they posed no danger to anyone.
"It's our constitutional right to investigate a stolen election."
Well, yeah, but. It's becoming increasingly clear, that our method of selecting our public officials is vulnerable at every point to manipulation by what FDR called "malefactors of great wealth". It's baked in. When we clutch our pearls about the subversion of "democracy", the collection of looters called the Democrat Party just say, "You gave us the votes. Now count 'em!".
It is clear, that if everyone on Earth gets to vote, on how much money the US government should give to everyone on Earth, the answer will be, "Lots and lots!".
love the images of the super orange moon.
Insurance policy. Don't ever forget the FBI worm who said that.
The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey.
Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again.
With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my lips as if I might cry.
Well by the force of will my lungs are filled and so I breathe.
Lately it seems this big bed is where I never leave.
Shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
Quiver in my voice as I cry,
"What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away."
I hear the sound of a noon bell chime.
Now I'm far behind.
You've put in 'bout half a day
while here I lie
with a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my lip as if I might cry,
"What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away?"
Do I need someone here to scold me
or do I need someone who'll grab and pull me out of this four poster dull torpor pulling downward.
For it is such a long time since my better days.
I say my prayers nightly this will pass away.
The color of the sky is grey as I can see through the blinds.
Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again
with a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my voice as I cry,
"What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away?"
I shiver, quiver, and try to wake.
Like the Weather -- Song by 10,000 Maniacs ‧ 1987
'Like a Prayer' by Madonna was released two years later.
Fox News : "Gov hopeful Steve Hilton warns California fraud '1,000 times worse' than Minnesota"
Here’s Cali’s Fraudster in Chief:
https://x.com/BoredElonMusk/status/1996379441703141629?s=20
And then there is the "fanfiction" of history, which is alternate history. If you think things might have gone in a better or more interesting way, well then rewrite Gibbon or Samuel Eliot Morison, not JK Rowling. I'm a fan. I like alternatehistory.com
Its got stuff like the future guy who takes over the mind of "Bomber" Harris, or that 1930s US defense policy had been rational (yeah, it IS still a fantasy), or what would have happened if Paul Reynaud's fascist mistress had died in a car crash before France fell in 1940.
Not chicklit, so no sex, or hardly any.
My gut and background tells me that CA being 1000 times worse than Minnesota is probably correct.
Video : 2 Years of AI progress.
The only time the moon is absolutely full is during a lunar eclipse. Then it’s even oranger.
Fox News : Gov Tim Walz’s GOP challenger warns fraud scandal is 'tip of the iceberg'
Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth told Fox News Digital that oversight failures under Gov. Tim Walz enabled more than a billion dollars in alleged food-aid fraud.
From CTH: “Florida AG Pam Bondi previously helped her friend Ben Crump, a man of notorious racial manipulation, and now as U.S. AG Pam Bondi is prosecuting the son of Ben Crump client, Brian Cole Jr.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/05/wild-coincidence-j6-pipe-bomb-suspect-is-mentally-simple-his-father-also-brian-cole-worked-with-civil-rights-lawyer-ben-crump-a-close-personal-friend-of-pam-bondiie/
In J-6 bomber case, AG Pam Blondi (sic) says no new tips, no new witnesses, just diligent police work “cracked” the case. Apparently the world’s greatest investigative agency, the FIB, was tied up investigating pro-life protesters.
Speaking of crack, no word on whether the cocaine in the White House investigation will resume.
The arrest affidavit for Brian Cole, now accused of laying the pipe bombs discovered on January 6, includes only purchase records and location information. There's not a single data point between Trump's December 19 announcement of the January 6 rally and Cole's presence on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2021.
The FBI chased down five Nine Volt Distributor’s nine-volt battery connectors from Micro Center in northern Virginia on or about November 12 and December 28, 2019. So we are to believe that the bomb plot was initiated two years before Jan 6? No gunpowder purchases by Cole have been discovered. And why a bomb for each political party not set to go boom? General cell phone locations are pretty weak tea. Could this arrest be made because we're approaching the five-year limit on this no-harm, no-foul incident?
Perhaps Kash Patel has forgotten that his boss pardoned some 1500 criminals after Trump authorized the attack on the Capitol. If Brian Cole is tried, far better evidence says that Whiskey Pete needs to be brought up on murder charges.
If you had a classic enlarger (darkroom appliance) you could produce a convincing thick fog by moving the enlarger enlargement while exposing the print.
Headline: “AndyMcCabe Says It’s Unlikely the J6 Pipe Bomber Case Was Ignored, It Was Just a Tough Case to Crack” (Twitchy)
Laughable. Especially tough to crack if you put it to sleep.
Gavin Newsom has had his balls surgically removed.
Evidence.
“Ben Crump Law represented Brian Cole Sr. in late 2021 in a racial discrimination matter involving his Tennessee-based company, Free At Last Bail Bonding,” Crump’s office told The Post. “The engagement lasted less than a month.”
That certainly isn't important and has nothing to do with Brian Cole Jr.'s arrest.
Oh Gadfly: let's break it down point by point:
Terse arrest affidavit: They typically are terse. Just have to show PC for one count. Everything else can wait for the indictment. Agents and AUSAs are in a hurry. They also may make the tactical decision not to show all their cards this early.
Parts bought in 2019: The search of the suspect's house this week, five years after the incident, found still more bomb parts. The guy builds stuff like this all the time. Having bomb parts long before and long after 1/6/2021 actually strengthens the evidence that he did it.
Why a bomb for each party? Why not? Lots of people hate the Uniparty. Some small number of them will engage in terror against the Uniparty.
Arrest made because we're approaching 5-year SOL: Yes, because the deep DOJ diddled for 4 of those 5 years, while they dedicated millions of agent- and AUSA-hours to the J6 trespassers. I am sure the Patel/Bongino-energized FBI would have preferred to work the case longer, maybe do a sting to catch the guy with bomb in hand or something. But you work with the time you have.
Patel forgot the J6 pardons: No, Patel was one of the main people pushing for them. What the heck does this have to do with the RNC/DNC bombs?
Better evidence against Hegseth: What the hell does this have to do with the RNC/DNC bombs? And when all your "evidence" is in the form of hearsay and leaks, how is that possibly better than receipts, physical items found at the suspect's house, and technical evidence? CC, JSM
More Fly: "“Ben Crump Law represented Brian Cole Sr. in late 2021 in a racial discrimination matter involving his Tennessee-based company, Free At Last Bail Bonding,”
The bonding company specialized in immigration bonds. Cole Sr sued because ICE was collecting too much of his money. Crump jumped on the suit since he needed more loud suits and giant lapel pins. Crump and Cole Sr. lost.
Yeah, Cole Jr growing up in a house full of race grievances has nothing to do with why, after a year of racial political violence, he might engage in political violence. CC, JSM
rehajm said...
Wife went hunting this evening. Four pigs. Three rounds. Earned respect amongst the old timers at the post game…
Those trips to the pig pen for a big shoot are really difficult, eh? Slaughterhouse killers usually use one pistol shot to the brain of each pig.
There's not a single data point between Trump's December 19 announcement of the January 6 rally and Cole's presence on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2021.
Perhaps Kash Patel has forgotten that his boss pardoned some 1500 criminals after Trump authorized the attack on the Capitol.
So they are unrelated other than location. Not sure what the pardons have to do with anything then. Please tell us how you connect those dots, botfly.
You can expect Minnesota style fraud anyplace housing mass illegals to tip the congressional districts- CA IL MA NY CO…Gotta keep em happy or they’ll pack up and head to opportunity in TX and FL like everyone else…
Boy the gad is shooting in every direction this morning.
TGIF: Piddly, Stupid Stuff
The Somalians have boarded the Nordic-style social welfare state of Minnesota with skiffs and grappling hooks, emerging extraordinarily victorious. This week we found out that as the group known as Feeding Our Future was allegedly plundering Minnesota’s public assistance coffers, the state feebly tried to stop them. In response: Feeding Our Future threatened to sue. And worse, much worse: They threatened to call the state agency who complained racist. The scammers wrote that if Minnesota delayed approval for applicants from “minority-owned businesses” they would accuse the state of racism and make sure it was “sprawled across the news.” Minnesotan officials were apparently terrified of the prospect and backed off, continuing to funnel cash to the scams.
This scam story has finally broken containment and become a big New York Times investigation, not just a little local news they’re trying to sweep away, which means you know it’s really bad. When a story breaks containment, you should honestly be scared. When the Hunter Biden story broke containment is when we also found out he was basically running our government. When the Covid lab leak story broke containment, it meant we for sure paid to develop Covid in that Wuhan lab. I don’t know what’s downstream of the Somali scam story, but my guess is it won’t unite us.
"Broke containment." I love it. Bubble, popped.
Governor Tampon Tim Walz claims citizens are driving by the governor’s mansion are shouting the other R word. Considering the mansion is surrounded by an iron fence that would be a stretch.
Known as a serial prevaricator (similar to kaka), Walz has said Minnesota state investigators have been all over the Somali billionaire dollar fraud case. He put ‘em in jail he said. Sure.
More from Nellie...
The Council for Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Minnesota held a press conference addressing Trump’s decision to rescind Temporary Protected Status for Somali migrants in Minnesota, reported on, of course, by The Washington Free Beacon. CAIR’s top state official said getting upset over the scams was anti-American and also Zionist: “This fight, or this conversation, is happening because there is a major debate about whether we are America First, we care about America and , America’s interests, or we are Israeli First, then America First.” I’m completely serious. (Personally, I’m California First, America Second, Minnesota Thirty-Ninth.) Meanwhile, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was reportedly meeting with the key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal in 2021 to assure them of his continued support—and protection against any investigations.
“[Tim] Walz agrees with me that this piddly, stupid stuff running small people out of business is terrible.”
Piddly, stupid stuff.
And even when some fraud was prosecuted, Minnesota’s empathetic judges wouldn’t let punishment go through. A jury found Abdifatah Abdulkadir Yusuf guilty of $7.2 million in Medicaid fraud—and last week Minnesota Fourth Judicial District Judge Sarah West overturned the jury’s decision, saying it relied on “circumstantial evidence.”
Sometimes, when a state government gets this silly and refuses to have any rules or regulations around their public services, any double-checking, they are asking to be scammed. It’s like putting a sticky note with your PIN and a smiley face above an ATM. Yeah, I’ll say it: Minnesota’s regulatory skirt was too short. You really can do a lot of bad stuff out there in the Midwest before you get in real trouble. For example, here is a screenshot from a random news story this week in Minneapolis:
"Abdimahat Bille Mohamed, 28, of Minneapolis, kidnapped and raped a woman he met on Snapchat, prosecutors say."
"Mohamed was sentenced in May in two previous rape cases, but served no jail time."
The movement to keep folks out of jail is done in the name of anti-racism. But I stand by my controversial take that letting violence and fraud happen is not anti-racism. People in poor neighborhoods do not want rapists running around unpunished, no matter what you were taught at Bard. Stopping the guy who is doing a ton of rapes from raping is something that I am sure the community around him would appreciate! Our anti-racist movement got so very weird.
This scam story has finally broken containment and become a big New York Times investigation
NYT told us when they stopped acting as a news organization so you know this is a political op, putting the screws to Walz or Omar or some other entitled next up leftie. Watch the follow up to see who they’re favoring…
Wind chill is marketing of weather. That way you can beat records all the time, comparing current wind chill to record temperature.
An aluminum flagpole at 20 degrees in a 60 mph wind is at 20 degrees. Temperature is temperature.
Why care? The significant thing is snow shoveling heart attacks, which are unaffected by wind or wind chill. The heart attack comes from having to heat up all the air that you breathe to body temperature, and that takes a huge slice of your aerobic capacity. If you don't have much aerobic capacity, you run out.
Furthermore to compensate you breathe harder, making it worse.
That's temperature regulated, not wind chill regulated.
When we see Annie Leibowitz tailing Newsom we’ll know for sure…
Nobody I know ever agreed to banning the r-word, except of course Althouse. Governed by sadz.
It could also be a deflection, a gee thank gaia we found ALL the fraud so we can focus on affordability…
rhhardin said...
"Nobody I know ever agreed to banning the r-word, except of course Althouse. Governed by sadz."
Banning the R-word has been a thing for years in the Special Olympics community, for reasons that should be obvious. That said, even euphemisms accrete derogation after a while, and they too must be retired.
Democrats don't say "retard."
They just pay a doctor to stab your unborn baby in the neck.
He was buying components for nearly two years going back to 2019 cair is a lobby of the enemy first funded by the saudis abd the uae back in the day, most recently by qatar
Julie Kelly writes: "Never forget that the guy in charge of the pipe bomb investigation was Steven D’Antuono, head of DC FBI office, promoted after heading up the Detroit FBI office during Whitmer fednapping hoax."
No! Not the upstanding "FBI source" cited by our local low-information "medical expert." I knew that name sounded familiar when it was written here recently.
So after Patel took him off the case six weeks ago it gets solved pretty quickly. How weird that the same FBI that identified every single J6 trespasser using cell phone data was never able to find Cole even though he had his cell phone pinging at the bomb site at the exact time tapes show him planting them (allegedly). They tracked 1600 people from all over the country down but missed the one local guy.
Wray should be hung for malfeasance.
It's kind of **chef's kiss** perfect that the perp works in his family business "providing bail bonds to illegal aliens who are arrested." (AOS) It'd be nice to see some reporter pull that thread a little. Also, just a passing observation that the (alleged) perp also has sued Trump three different times so far since planting the bomb. Not really shrinking from the fight is he?
What does it say about Minnesotans?
They peaked at picking the wrestler.
Then they went for the target twit
Saint (Biden Legally Won) Croix, et al, it’s hard to imagine how so many encapsulate themselves in tabloid style reporting and low level Trump style logic but, well, here we are.
It’s worth noting that every instance of fraud deserves prosecution, including what happened in Minnesota. But treating this case as a cultural indictment or proof of “multicultural rot” ignores the much larger reality: COVID relief was the biggest uncontrolled slush fund in U.S. history.
Democrats intentionally created 3 major oversight bodies in the CARES Act because of Trump’s grifting ways.
A. The Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR)
A dedicated IG to monitor Treasury’s spending.
B. The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC)
An umbrella group of 20+ inspectors general.
C. The Congressional Oversight Commission
Bipartisan congressional watchdog over Treasury & Federal Reserve pandemic spending.
All three were required under the law Trump signed and weren’t legally optional.
Yet, Trump then immediately neutered the oversight he was legally obligated to respect. He issued a signing statement saying he didn’t have to comply with oversight provisions. He himself declared parts of the oversight law was “unconstitutional.” He then fired or sidelined multiple inspectors general including acting Pentagon IG (Glenn Fine) who was supposed to lead PRAC — effectively gutting the committee before it started. He blocked the COC from receiving info and he then said publicly: “I’ll be the oversight.”
Trump altered the ability of watchdogs to monitor the trillions that were about to be dumped into the economy.
Pandemic fraud happened everywhere — because the national oversight system was dismantled.
Minnesota’s case was one small instance in a nationwide wave of fraud enabled by weakened oversight, speed-of-payment mandates, lack of verification requirements, overwhelmed state agencies and pressure to approve aid immediately.
Even more telling in the MAGA induced outrage is that Trump gave the game away when he said he wanted them all out. Not just the criminals but everyone of them- because everyone of them “stink” and are “garbage”.
And that’s the exact mentality and reality of the masks Gestapo style rounding up of those who meet the stinking and garbage criteria.
Now, I actually get it that that’s actually why many voted for Trump- Make America White Again. Get the stinking garbage out- everyone of them- up to where one never has to press one for English again.
But just knock it off with the low level intellect crime excuse.
Technofog has the receipts on cole
So that big expose on patel went splat
No one likes to be called Rotund, especially a corpulent blowhard governor.
He enabled the destruction of his capital the ruinous lockdown and the largest hawala evarr
The Netflix WB deal is on. Netflix prolly feels a little silly sucking up to Obama and the other lefties when they should have been running The Apprentice and Trump’s Wonderful World of Golf. Oh well, they still got lots of grise…
Ronald J. Ward said...
Democrats intentionally created 3 major oversight bodies in the CARES Act because of Trump’s grifting ways.
We literally have the bank records of the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
The Joe Biden in on record taking open bribes and this piece of shit called it "Russian disinformation."
Barrack Obama has been paid millions and millions of dollars to produce Netflix movies that about 3 people have seen.
And all of the COVID fraud was created while President Trump was impeached and Mitch McConnell was openly threatening to convict him.
Just remember all this when a retard like Ronald J Ward is trying to tell his lies.
We had a great look at the moon last night. Talk about big and bright.
Its obvious the FBI knew who the bomber was. Remember, Patel new group didn't do any new investigation, they just looked at the gathered evidence.
No doubt once Wray and his gang found out he was a leftwing black, they stopped in their tracks. I wonder if there's a smoking gun. A memo or email telling the old FBI group to stop and stand-down. Most likely it was all verbal. But maybe we'll get lucky.
“ Not sure what the pardons have to do with anything then.”
Psychologists call it deflection. Deflection is a behavioral defense mechanism: when someone shifts attention away from something uncomfortable, avoids blame, or changes the subject to protect their self-image or avoid stress.
The Lefties here use it all the time.
I think Patel needs to do more house cleaning.
I enjoyed Michael K's postings too—until he attacked me as a troll (I've been a regular on this blog, under my own name, for like 20 years)—and then wouldn't take No for an answer.
I don’t recall seeing any posts from Cookie here lately. I hope he’s Ok.
Visualize what the Red, Blue, Purple state maps would look like if Trump could boot all of the illegals out of the country.
https://substack.com/@technofog/note/p-180761311?r=2czur
My gut and background tells me that CA being 1000 times worse than Minnesota is probably correct.
Of course it is. There's 1000 times as much "free" money involved.
Achillies @ 7:55
Ronald Ward said “Democrats intentionally created 3 major oversight bodies in the CARES Act because of Trump’s grifting ways.”
Achillies responds;
“the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, Joe Biden in on record taking open bribes and this piece of shit called, “Russian disinformation.", Barrack Obama has been paid millions and millions of dollars to produce Netflix movies that about 3 people have seen, COVID fraud, President Trump was impeached, Mitch McConnell , retard, and Ronald J Ward is trying to tell his lies.”
Why do the Gulibles no longer want to include Benghazi?
Not a word about Trump illegally assuming a role of oversight and handing out a couple trillion $ in slush funds, mainly to corporate cronies and donors.
But thanks for bringing this reality back; Democrats intentionally created 3 major oversight bodies in the CARES Act because of Trump’s grifting ways.
I think most of the Gulibles wanted it to go away.
When I was a kid, everyone used "retard" in a clinical sense to refer to people who were actually mentally disabled, and as a slur against people who weren't necessarily mentally disabled. People are taking to using "retard" again, but only as a slur and not to refer to the mentally disabled. I'm okay with this. "Idiot" and "moron" are also old-timey clinical terms used to classify people with extreme mental limitation, but nobody today seems offended at the use of those terms as slurs.
Walz will soon be claiming he actually is retarded as a defense.
Even forrrest gump wouldnt buy that
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Speaking of the full moon as well as eclipses, the next total eclipse of the moon will occur in almost exactly 3 months—a quarter-year away, on 2026-03-03—at which time (pre- and post-totality) half the planet will be able to see earth's curvaceous shape marching across the face of the “man in the moon” just as if our satellite were a gigantic projection screen.
Most of the U.S., especially the West (along with the whole Pacific basin), will be able to see it—though the moon will likely be setting in Wisconsin and points East (eastern U.S.) during the course of it.
Costco pursuing the quixotic tariff case perhaps because of the biden officials like gina raimondo on the board
The "Somali community" in the US is basically running Somalia using US welfare money. This is a link in the City Journal article.
https://riftvalley.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Remittances-and-Vulnerability-in-Somalia-by-Nisar-Majid-RVI-Briefing-2018.pdf
Anyone else see the story about Nike sneakers dropping retail prices by 50%? Apparently as soon as SNAP benefits were halted in OCT-NOV the market just dried up overnight. So did remittances to Mexico.
If related ("correlation is not causation yadda yadda") these facts inspire the question: Is this crap what we intend SNAP to pay for?
@RJW
"Not a word about Trump illegally assuming a role of oversight and handing out a couple trillion $ in slush funds, mainly to corporate cronies and donors."
Why not give us a couple of words on that. Explicit examples rather than the vague accusations an generalities you are so fond of.
Democrats LOVE ripping off tax payers.
D's love hurting good people - and rewarding criminals.
@RJW
"Not a word about Trump illegally assuming a role of oversight and handing out a couple trillion $ in slush funds, mainly to corporate cronies and donors."
WHO?
name them.
Biden was installed.
I took two drake Gadwalls this morning. Beautiful birds and dinner tomorrow night is set! lol
The Japanese have a fine phrase for the sweet energy and phenomenon of the Sun and the Moon looking at each other across the world:
"Face to Face"
Maybe it is just a quirk of my X feed, but Europe seems to be losing its collective mind in pursuit of WW3. I've been seeing apparently sober people propose the "peaceful splitting up of Russia" and putting its resources into "western custody". They are going mad over there. I think a big part of it is hatred of Trump and anything he does.
Headline: “Andy McCabe Says It’s Unlikely the J6 Pipe Bomber Case Was Ignored, It Was Just a Tough Case to Crack”
Yeah--it's pretty clear that this Cole guy is a criminal mastermind. He hid his tracks almost as well as those crafty Somalis in MN.
Sorry. close
Invading russia from the west has to be in the top ten worst ideas
boatbuilder.
the corrupt left have a lame excuse for everything.
In an effort to be shown as a commoner, Sen. Schumer questioned whether President Trump has ever been in a grocery store.
This from the guy slaps cheese on a raw burger on his gas grill.
off
Well he had a rally outside a bodega numbnutz
Thank you, Peachy.
For future reference (although of course I will never screw up again!) can you explain how to shut off the open italics after the mistake has been posted?
Just use the close italic string, bb.
"Mamdani Taps Felon Who Served Seven Years for Robbing NYC Taxi Drivers as ‘Criminal Legal System’ Adviser."
Like I keep saying - the corrupt democrat party is now officially the party of and for CRIME and criminals.
Start with the close italic string is probably better said. lol
Boatbuilder.
use the same method you would to close them out:
boatbuilder:
wow - that did not post: I'm going to place spaces between - see if this works:
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that - minus the spaces.
The Somalis are just a tip o’ the iceberg as far as “welfare” fraud…
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Tim Walz…
ICE: “Gestapo”
Trump: “bastard”
Elon Musk: “dipshit”
Trump: “son of a bitch”
Trump Supporters: “fascists”
Etc…
Walz wants to play the victim after he called us all kinds of names.
And violence always comes from the Left not the right.
Continue to mock him. He deserves it.
Another Chuck rabbit hole. The CARES Act was passed in April of 2020. The Biden Admin took over in January of 2021. With a Democrat House and a 50/50 Senate. What happened to "oversight" then? Why wasn't Trump's alleged handing out of slush fund monies to corporate cronies a subject of impeachment and/or prosecution?
Was it because the Dems and their media allies are so reserved and deferential about Trump?
Look! Squirrel!
Thanks Beasts and Peachy--It doesn't seem to work when I try it.
But I'm not going to test it until I screw it up again.
Mollie on X: "@tomselliott Genuinely find Abby's aggressive-overconfidence-while-being-wrong to be annoying as all get out. Also, her rudeness to anyone to the right of Mitt Romney." / X https://share.google/t37ma4W2q04uJ5a2n
Not a word about Trump illegally assuming a role of oversight and handing out a couple trillion $ in slush funds, mainly to corporate cronies and donors.
This never happened.
You just made it up out of whole cloth.
If a reeking slime of criminal corruption stood up and walked like a man, it would be Benjamin Crump. If he is a "close personal friend" of Pam Bondi, then Pam Bondi is the Thing from Okeefenokee. Trump needs to figure out that they have swamps in Florida, too.
I almost forgot that Crump and Bondi were both involved in the St. Skittles clusterfuck. Ugh.
"This never happened.
You just made it up out of whole cloth."
Look, Dude. Evidence is evidence. Why should Mr. Ward trouble himself to rummage around in the internet for stuff other people made up, when he can just roll his own?
"I almost forgot that Crump and Bondi were both involved in the St. Skittles clusterfuck. Ugh."
Yeah, me too. I knew at the time, that she had appointed that pig-in-lipstick special prosecutor, which was dicey. I did not realize that she had intervened to help her "close personal friends" Crump cover up his egregious subornation of perjury.
For those of you who don'tknow, that chick who testified at the trial of George Zimmerman, claiming to have been Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, and to have been on the phone with him during the confrontation, was lying from start to finish.
"Wind chill is marketing of weather. That way you can beat records all the time, comparing current wind chill to record temperature.
Why care?"
Well, for one thing, it *feels* colder when the wind is blowing than when it's still. I'd rather it was a windless 18 degrees than 30 degrees with a 20mph breeze.
As far as records go, I don't care but when I go out, I'm less interested in what the actual temperature is than how it feels to be out in it.
A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.
Beasts of England said...
I almost forgot that Crump and Bondi were both involved in the St. Skittles clusterfuck. Ugh.
Bondi has to be the most disappointing aspect of this administration.
I can no longer chalk it up to incompetence.she cannot be that stupid.
She is Trump’s biggest failure.
Achillies & Peachie, I’ll concede one point, “mainly” was poor wording and should have been “many”. I think we can all agree the slush fund was wide and deep.
If you want to bask in your gotcha liar liar moment, have at itbut it doesn’t change the broader points.
Trump did not literally “take over” oversight in a criminal sense, but he undermined legally mandated oversight mechanisms in the very bill he signed. He fired the inspectors general (e.g., Glenn Fine, who would have chaired the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee). He issued a signing statement claiming parts of the oversight law were unconstitutional. And he said his administration would not fully comply, nor would he report to Congress.
It also undermines his excuse of what’s going on in Minnesota and how crime has nothing to do with his masked Gestapo fulfilling his dream of getting all of his described stinking garbage back to their shithole countries.
And yes, I have a list available of questionable businesses, donors, and loyal actors who did quite well from the slush fund but I have question why I should be your Google bitch simply because you don’t like what a simple search question would pull up.
If you are making an argument, you must actually MAKE the argument. Simply saying "do the reading" is lazy and insufficient.
"The heart attack comes from having to heat up all the air that you breathe to body temperature, and that takes a huge slice of your aerobic capacity. "
Not this shit again. I suspect hardin doesn't shovel his own walk.
Achilles, I agree. Blondi is a dud. Gaetz was an M-80 waiting to go off, probably been fired by now. Surely there is a firebrand out there who could replace her.
’claiming to have been Trayvon Martin's girlfriend’
No doubt. That young playa would not be dating that whale.
’…his masked Gestapo fulfilling his dream of getting all of his described stinking garbage back to their shithole countries.’
Yo, bro - when you use the term Gestapo, everything else you argue is dismissed as stinking garbage. Be better.
"A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children."
Actually, no.
From what I’ve seen Beast, unwanted facts are going to be dismissed regardless of how they’re presented here.
And it’s like I’ve said time and again, if supporters of Trump policies get discouraged with the Nazi labeling, maybe they should quit supporting Nazi things.
I mean, it’s not like Trump is trying to hide it.
’if supporters of Trump policies get discouraged with the Nazi labeling’
Godwin’s Law.
They were dubbing thatcher racists just because just as with Reagan
Minneapolis is the no 1 recruit origin for islamic state
@RJW
So, nothing concrete again? Just the same old gobbledygook? I keep telling you anti-Trumpers there are valid criticisms to be made. Try the OBBB for example. Here's a couple hints. Tax complexity. Salt deductions (although it would be easy for a Dem to get caught in a contradiction on that one, be careful). No gobbledygook please. Specifics. Thanks.
The irony Beast, is that Mike Godwin introduced it as a warning: when people throw around casual or flippant Nazi analogies, it drags down serious discourse and numbs us to real authoritarian danger.
But what’s happening now is the opposite.
It’s being used as a conversation-stopper—a way to shut down discussion even when the comparison isn’t about people, but about patterns: things like due process being ignored, ethnic groups being targeted, dehumanizing language, or the state using disproportionate force, and subjecting people to the most inhumane conditions- not because of their alleged crimes but because of who they are.
Again, Trump isn’t being subtle in his language and actions.
I’m not calling anyone a Nazi.
I’m saying that history leaves us warning signs, and we ignore those patterns at our own risk.
But hat tip in your success. You did manage to derail the abject hypocrisy and scapegoating after Trump raided the Treasury during his first term.
Pacwest, what specifics are you asking for? Be specific.
On that ugly bill, it’s my opinion Republicans are going to choke on it in November. Paying for tariffs, crops rotting in the fields, and employers not know what to do from one day to the next isn’t going to help.
WHO?
name them.
Liar won’t stop lying.
"Trump raided the Treasury during his first term."
There is a metric we can use here to determine Trump's overall achievement here. If the national debt on Jan20 2029 is less than 41 trillion his Presidency was a success. Personally I am hoping for closer to 40T. The arc would definitely be downward then. And that would be after refilling the NPR and weaponry both of which Biden drained.
Pacwest, what specifics are you asking for? Be
Leland, WHO stands for World Health Organization. I think WHO is ran by Pete Townshend but not sure.
WHO’s also on first base. What’s your question?
Specific: I gave you two examples to follow. Comment on those if you have none of your own to give. You are the one calling it horrible. How so?
As for the the two examples you give, both relate to tariffs. The inflationary aspect: inflation is running at 3% and shows no upward pressure. The coming change in Fed policy is likely to address this in a positive manner by lowering rates which will raise GDP. The farmers: This is addressed in the OBBB. You're right imo that crop prices are likely to be lower near term. Soy beans especially since China is using this as a weapon in negotiations. Again, the OBBB addresses this. Both of these are intertwined with Trump's energy policy which entails a lot more than drill baby drill. It includes in large part on his foreign policy. Canada, ME, and Russia.
Without going into the weeds it hard to get more specific. This is the specificity I am asking for as relateTHE OBBB.
Also, we both know Trump is not an autocrat. That's bullshit and you know it. Any President for the last 100+ years could have those charges leveled against him. A better conversation to have is why Congress has been so reluctant to fulfill their duties.
’I’m saying that history leaves us warning signs, and we ignore those patterns at our own risk.’
I’m versed in the Third Reich, so no warnings are necessary. Deploying any terms from that country’s era, including Hitler, Nazi, and Gestapo, is beyond absurd and insulting. Please make your arguments without them.
Or, if you feel those descriptors are appropriate: list the similarities between the two leaders and their policies. Here’s a hint: deporting people is not that same as concentration camps. And labeling some crooks as ‘garbage’ is not the same as the Nuremberg laws.
"A better conversation to have is why Congress has been so reluctant to fulfill their duties."
Half of Congress are Democrats and half of the other half are RINOs, so...
Beasts: "Deploying any terms from that country’s era, including Hitler, Nazi, and Gestapo, is beyond absurd and insulting"
This gave me an idea for Trump's next reverse-psychology masterstroke: He should start calling himself the Caliph, the Sultan, the Amir Al-Mumineen, the Mahdi, etc. Lefties will be caught in an infinite loop of "oh, that's horrible! Wait, we can't say that about Muslim leaders! Let's say he could never hold a candle to the great Muslim leaders of the past and present! Oh wait, we're trying to avoid pandering to tiny minorities....does not compute....does not compute...." CC, JSM
’He should start calling himself the Caliph…’
The sharif don’t like it. (rock the casbah)
Prewest @12:47, Trump added $8.4 trillion to the national debt in his first term—the second-largest four-year increase in history. The debt trend line under Trump was sharply upward, not downward.
Setting a metric like “if it’s under $41T, he succeeded” is trying to give Trump credit for slowing a trend he helped accelerate and reframes expectations so Trump can only be judged positively.
Your metric assumes Trump could reduce the debt trend, which is not realistic.
The CBO projections—based on existing law, not politics—already point to the national debt exceeding $45T by 2029 if no major cuts or tax hikes occur.
To get the debt down to $40–41T, Trump would need to cut several trillion in spending or raise taxes or massively cut safety net programs.
Massive cuts are in place to happen under the OBBB but, and this is a big ugly butt, it does nothing to bring the debt down. It’s only purpose is to ease more debt for tax breaks included in it.
The claim that Biden “drained” the SPR is misleading. He released oil from the SPR during the post-Russia invasion price spike Just like every president since Reagan. The SPR is now being refilled at lower prices and current refill levels are publicly documented.
The statement is a talking point, not a factual depletion.
You’re defining a metric so generous that Trump can later be declared a fiscal success even if debt rises by $8–10 trillion.
You next want to pre-assign responsibility for high debt to Biden: “Biden drained the SPR”, “Biden drained weaponry”, “Biden caused high spending” so Trump isn’t accountable for what he inherits.
That’s constructing a “Trump fixes the mess” story before any data exists.
I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like you’re saying Trump’s second term will be a success even if the debt rises by several trillion more, as long as it rises a bit slower. Is that what you mean?
Beast @ 1:58, I appreciate that you’re well-versed in the Third Reich, and I’m not disputing that. But when I refer to historical patterns, I’m not invoking Nazi labels as insults or suggesting equivalence between leaders. I’m pointing out that democracies erode through processes, not personalities. I can see where I should have toned it down but civil discourse isn’t exactly the sitting here. I’ll work on that.
You asked for similarities between leaders and policies, but that’s actually not what I’m talking about. History warns us about tendencies, regardless of who is in office: undermining due process, treating certain groups as inherently suspect, using dehumanizing language to justify harsh treatment, normalizing state actions that previously would have been unthinkable, and encouraging the idea that “real citizens” and “outsiders” have different rights.
Those are structural warning signs. They appear across authoritarian movements in many countries and many eras—not just 1930s Germany.
And yes, you’re absolutely right: deportation ≠ concentration camps, and calling someone “garbage” ≠ the Nuremberg Laws. But the lesson of the 1930s isn’t “watch for concentration camps.” It’s “watch for the early steps that make extreme actions palatable.”
You’re free to reject the analogy, of course. But asking people not to reference historical patterns because the final outcomes aren’t identical is like saying we shouldn’t mention “iceberg warnings” unless the ship is already sinking.
I’m not comparing people. I’m comparing warning signs—the kind historians study precisely so societies avoid repeating the worst chapters of their past.
I’ll rephrase my earlier comment; if Trump supporters feel insulted by Nazi referencing of his policies, maybe they should take a hard look and see if they resemble Nazi policies.
’History warns us about tendencies, regardless of who is in office: undermining due process, treating certain groups as inherently suspect, using dehumanizing language to justify harsh treatment, normalizing state actions that previously would have been unthinkable, and encouraging the idea that “real citizens” and “outsiders” have different rights.’
I agree with this, but I see the vector differently. Mandatory vaccines and lockdowns? Biden’s ‘red’ speech attacking half the country? I would call the first unthinkable state actions, and the latter dehumanizing language.
"Is that what you mean?"
Yes. The trend line for deficit spending for Trump45 and Biden is a straight line upwards with little to no variation. Pointing the trendline downwards is the goal. Any trend downwards is an an accomplishment. CBO predictions are based on this trendline. 41T national debt in 2029 would be a major feat. This will be the metric I will use to judge Trump's monetary policies.
Last one on this thread.
Beast, just to clarify — the vaccines and lockdowns applied to everyone.
What I’m talking about is a much narrower pattern historians warn about: when a government singles out a specific group and says, “these people are dangerous,” “they aren’t real citizens,” “they don’t deserve the same rights,” and then reduces their protections or due process on that basis.
Pandemic rules never created an “out-group” with fewer legal rights.
Biden’s “red speech” didn’t strip anyone of due process.
It may have been divisive, but it wasn’t the same as depicting fleeing immigrants as criminals or as an invading force.
What concerns me — and why I’ve been critical of ICE — is the trend of masked officers, sometimes without warrants, rounding up people not because of a specific crime but because of who they are. That’s the kind of thing past eras taught us to be wary of.
And Trump doesn’t ease that concern when he says, “I don’t want them in our country.” Biden never went that far.
So my question is simply this:
Do you think pandemic policies actually reach the level of targeting a distinct group for fewer rights or reduced due process, or is there a clearer example?
Because that’s the pattern I’m pointing to — and the one historians consistently warn about.
’That’s the kind of thing past eras taught us to be wary of.’
I certainly agree that Democrat icon FDR shouldn’t have forced American citizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent into internment camps without due process.
And the vaccine mandates did create an out-group of people employed by hospitals accepting Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those employed by companies with more than 100 employees.
Biden’s ‘red’ speech was grotesque, and it was aimed at American citizens. Due process is a red herring in this context, and his speech was the most disgraceful recent event of which to be wary. Absolutely indefensible.
p.s. I appreciate the reasoned exchange.
I agree with you completely about the Japanese internment camps. That episode shows precisely why “it can’t happen here” is never a safe assumption—FDR was enormously popular, and yet due process evaporated for entire communities overnight. That’s exactly the kind of historical pattern I’m talking about.
Where we may diverge a bit is how we define “warning signs.”
Vaccine mandates for hospitals or large employers were definitely controversial, but they weren’t based on ethnicity, religion, or inherited status. They were (rightly or wrongly) tied to workplace safety policy and were challengeable in court—which many groups did. That’s very different from treating a class of people as inherently suspect or less deserving of constitutional protections.
Biden’s red speech absolutely landed poorly for many people, including me. Tone matters. But it was aimed strictly at political behavior—“those who refuse to accept the results of elections”—not at a racial, ethnic, or national group. We can say it was overly harsh without placing it in the category of dehumanization or stripping due process from entire populations.
And that’s the core distinction I’m making: Patterns that target inherent characteristics versus patterns that target actions or beliefs. One has a long, catastrophic historical record. The other is often just the rough edge of politics.
I genuinely appreciate the civil exchange as well. These are difficult topics, and the only way they get less toxic is if people are willing to discuss them in good faith.
Thank you for that.
Ronald: I do appreciate your nuance, re: certain groups. And I’m aware of the historical examples where such rhetoric was the advent of ugly actions. And if Trump suggested the internment of Americans of Somali descent, I’d be the first to come unglued.
I’m a libertarian (minuscule ‘L’) and revere our Constitution as the greatest secular document ever composed. We are blessed to be citizens of this country and I hate the current division, because it allows the scoundrels of both parties in DC to jerk us around.
Of course, my solution to that issue is reverting back to the enumerated powers of the federal government, as designed. We may not agree on that, but something has to change.
Cheers!
I appreciate your tone here, genuinely. We clearly come at this from different angles, but there’s more overlap than it may seem.
If any president suggested internment of Somali-Americans—or any group of citizens based on ancestry—I’d be standing shoulder to shoulder with you. That’s the exact sort of bright red line history teaches us not to cross, and it’s one reason I harp on patterns. These things rarely begin with “we’re building camps.” They begin with softening the public to the idea that certain groups are suspect.
Where we differ a bit is the idea of reverting fully to the original enumerated powers. I respect the philosophy behind it—skepticism of centralized authority is healthy, and our Constitution absolutely built in that tension for a reason.
But the country that existed in 1787 had: no standing national economy, no national infrastructure, no industrialized health system, no global threats or global markets, and a population smaller than many modern metro areas.
Our guardrails work today because constitutional principles were adapted through law, amendment, and practice to deal with a 330-million–person society. To me, that evolution isn’t a betrayal of the Founders—it’s the very thing they expected the system to do.
Where I think we absolutely agree is here: Division makes it easier for scoundrels in both parties to exploit people’s fear, anger, and loyalty. My whole point in these threads is that we can’t afford to ignore warning signs—whether they come from the left or the right—because democratic erosion almost always happens when people are too busy fighting each other to notice what’s slipping.
I appreciate the thoughtful back-and-forth. That’s rare these days.
Cheers to you as well.
’That’s the exact sort of bright red line history teaches us not to cross, and it’s one reason I harp on patterns.’
No issue there at all. And that we see patterns on opposite sides is healthy, as well.
I’ll also agree that some evolution was necessary and even understood by the Founders. I think they’d be accepting of our interstate highway system as supporting the general welfare.
But, I have no doubt they’d be dumping chests of tea if they observed our current income taxes, the regulatory state, and the barely accountable authority granted to those regulatory agencies. I mean, they’d want toilets that actually flush. :)
"I mean, they’d want toilets that actually flush. :)"
Once we explained to them what toilets are.
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