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June 4, 2026
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Update on a case discussed here a few months ago:
"A judge on Thursday dismissed a second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer, the Arkansas sheriff candidate who was scheduled to go on trial this month for killing a man accused of sexually assaulting his teenage daughter."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/us/aaron-spencer-murder-charges-dismissed
Main reason for dismissal is the prosecution lost the SD card from the decedent's dash cam.
Spencer is now free and clear to take office if he wins the general in November. CC, JSM
I started getting out on my runs early enough to say hello to mr sun.
It does make the day better.
Bolton going to jail would kinda put a damper on any Summer of Violence fun the party was planning…
New fawn in the back just now. Barely dry
tonight's fun facts:
Immediately after the attack on 8 June 1967, Israel told the U.S. that it had mistakenly attacked the Liberty, believing it to be an enemy ship during the Six‑Day War, and expressed “deep regret” and offered assistance.
An official Israeli investigation later concluded that a chain of “regrettable mistakes” led to the attack by Israeli jets and torpedo boats, emphasizing failures of identification and communication rather than deliberate intent.
In May 1968, Israel paid the U.S. government $3,323,500 dollars as full compensation for the families of the 34 Americans killed in the attack.
In March 1969, Israel paid approximately $3,566,457 dollars to compensate 171 men who were wounded.
On 18 December 1980, Israel agreed to pay $6 million dollars to settle a U.S. claim for damage to the ship itself.
On 17 December 1987, the U.S. and Israel exchanged diplomatic notes formally closing all outstanding claims related to the Liberty incident; total Israeli compensation is often summarized as roughly 12 million dollars to the ship’s crew and families, and for material damage.
I like the first two.
If I had to pick one, it would be the top.
It was a perfect New England late Spring day today. The pond is back up to 70°F
Yeah they screwed up
Bolton at some point became a retainer of viktor pinchuk a well connected oligarch in kiev as other like kolomoisky lost their patron
Preference for the sunsets
Yep, the first two pictures are beauties.
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/fearless-with-jason-whitlock/jason-whitlock-unmasks-the-6-women-destroying-caitlin-clark?utm_source=theblaze-
The left destroys everything In their path
Just back from a week in DC. Our upper level hotel only played CNN because everyone in DC is a loony Democrat. My Democrat wife enjoyed meeting James Carville in the elevator.
Life goes on.
Thats like the tv in mcmurphy asylum
@rehajm: "New fawn in the back just now. Barely dry ..."
Went out today to stack some more boxes on the hives, which are getting full of honey. As I eased up to the shed to unload them, a doe leapt up out of the grass and bolted to the woods. As I got out of my truck a tiny fawn tottered up and started toward me, bleating. The little thing was still wet, and had a twin that remained bedded down, as they are supposed to do. I quickly offloaded and got out of there so it wouldn't imprint on me. When I went back later, both were gone so mama must have come and collected them. That time of year !
turns out creating your own custom node delete tool is not intuitive.
it works now but it unearthed a bunch of broken legacy links and showed that the filesystem is not particularly resilient.
annoying.
Does it remove the headers on the links
john mosby said...
Update on a case discussed here a few months ago:
"A judge on Thursday dismissed a second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer,
"He needed killing." should be a valid defense in such cases. There was no injustice done as the rapist was killed.
The possums tell us of their contempt with that bogus SAVE act vote (without debate without whipping the vote) they also stood against constitutional authority by letting that war powers resolution through
Not doing anything about the gas tax institutionalizing the doge reforms (what are they good for) judicial confirmation not that we can discern
Venus and Jupiter are grazing... or is that gracing us with their presence. Venus appears the brighter of the two on account of being closer to the sun, I suppose. I don't know much about astrology ;-)
Are they in alignment
delete works, but the display cache still displays stale data.
The Judge and the jury couldn't watch the 5 minute video where Digwa filmed Nowak as he was bleeding. It was too painful for the fucking pieces of shit.
Then the police got there and told Nowak he hadn't actually been stabbed and handcuffed him because he was racist.
And digwa with a short sword clearly visible told the police Nowak was a racist and he never stabbed him.
The police believed the foreign invader because they are leftist pieces of shit and handcuffed Nowak who took an hour to bleed out on the ground with a trauma center 5 minutes away.
I will say it again. Everyone involved should be publicly executed.
Anyone who knelt for BLM and George Floyd but doesn't kneel or burn shit down for this should be given a choice between death or exile to Afghanistan.
I was in a stare down with a little nub buck today. Ten feet in front of me. Neither of us were budging. I got bored first.
I was browsing the headlines and postings and just thought, “Who Cares?”. Maybe it’s finally summertime and wanting to just disengage. You know, it might be good to check out for a while.
I do like the Pond temp update is 70 today
I've been starting my runs at 5:00am lately because we're already hitting 99F, and I can't stand the heat. I can run an easy 10 miler on a rural road next to a river and be back at my car by 6:30 before it gets too warm. I've seen deer, javalina, rattlesnakes, skunks, turkeys, bobcats, eagles, hawks, and otters on this road while I'm out running. Arizona isn't all bad, just too damn warm.
4 Republican Senators just broke from their party to stop the SAVE act. The four? Collins, Lisa Murkey, Mitch McConnell, and Thong Tillis.
This is why Collins must go. She's really a Democrat and just keeps Maine from ever having a Conservative Senator. As for Mitch the bitch, let that vote sink in. This was the Republican Senate leader for almost 20 years. And yet he sabotages the chances of other R's to get elected. Why? Because he's 84 and no longer has to pretend.
As for Thong Tillis, his entire political career was due to his being a Republican. He owes the party a lot. But he's looking forward to being a lobbyist for a Rich billionaire democrat.
What a contrast between the DC republicans and democrats. When the D's decide to Retire, they just keep helping their party. But the Retiring R's? Half the time, they "drop the mask" and start voting their personal views - which are almost never conservative.
If look McConnell's career and stop imagining he was a Conservative (just campaign rhetoric) and understand he was a Big Business, internationalist, Democrat it all makes sense. He didnt become a Republican because he was a conservative, he did it because the Democrat would never have nominated him for Senate.
#1 soothing to eye
“He didnt become a Republican because he was a conservative, he did it because the Democrat would never have nominated him for the Senate.”
This is 100% true. McCain as well. These are would be Democrats who couldn’t make the A team. So they joined the B team but always looking for praise from the Dems.
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
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Democrats and Republicans are all hogs gorging themselves at the same taxpayer trough. When the unthinkable happened in 2016, their very existence was threatened by one man. Trump in turn pissed in that trough and said enough is enough. When he did, they decided he had to go.
https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/2062640363886801066?s=20
narciso:
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton was paid $115,000 for participating in meetings held by Ukrainian steel oligarch Viktor Pinchuk’s foundation shortly before entering President Donald Trump’s White House as national security adviser, a position first held in the Trump White House by General Michael Flynn. Bolton’s unpublished manuscript reportedly accuses Trump of wanting to withhold military aid to Ukraine, but Trump denies that this had anything to do with a Quid Pro Quo situation.
Bolton reportedly said, in two panel discussions in Kyiv and Munich, that Trump would not make radical changes to the United States’ foreign policy.
“When the unthinkable happened in 2016, their very existence was threatened by one man.”
I think it’s possible there’s more to the story. There is no reason these men should have been so fearful of Trump. If they had just negotiated with him - I think at the time he would have been open to that. Either they were so drunk with their own power that they underestimated him or there’s a piece to the puzzle we’re not aware of.
good news is john mccain is still dead.
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@Badhombre
"Notice how there’s not a single “pride month” edition biopic, interview, puff piece, magazine cover, brave-and-stunning award, or daytime talk-show segment for the first gay Treasury Secretary."
gadfly - you and bolton share qualities.
What makes me mad at the McCain campaign is that all the now neverTrumpers lectured us that we needed to support the party and I did. Then Trump came along and all that party loyalty went out the window.
Stunning pics, all.
Other times, other dawns, other waters. Memories.
Eva, Trump was chanting “lock her up” about Hillary. And he had 30-some years of public pronouncements on trade. Those two alone were pretty threatening. Then there’s the elites’ knowing deep down inside that the majority of Americans don’t share their views. The uniparty was really worried about a preference cascade breaching the whole dam.
But you are right: Trump was willing to negotiate, and did. Plus he was naive in his first term, thinking that just like in business, when you hire people they work to support your vision.
The uniparty took that as their opportunity, but in the long run they just trained Trump and the people to come back harder. CC, JSM
Well-put, Eva Marie
Peachy said...
good news is john mccain is still dead.
As I’ve written before, that unknown North Vietnamese peasant who rescued the young, badly injured, John McCain from Truc Bach Lake ultimately did more harm to the United States than all the NVA generals together.
Achilles, some 20 years ago, police in Britain were using blogging to oppose the complete culture capture of policing, which was turning it against native and non-criminal legal immigrants for some time already. They had dozens of anonymous blogs, a virtual samizdat of popular opinion and ominous prediction. The government moved in and not only shut them all down but destroyed the careers and employability of these patriotic bloggers. The one post I've been trying to find for years was of an earnest young man, brave enough to show his face, called The Last Command, or something similar.
Over the last few months, the evening programs on Fox News have been allowing more and more allusions to the illegitimacy of the 2020 election. Jesse Watters has been doing a lot of wink-wink-nudge-nudge. A couple nights ago, Jeff Foxworthy was on Gutfeld and made a joke about going to bed with one guy leading and waking up with someone else winning. Finally last night on Gutfeld, in a block about the SPLC funding the Klan, Tom Shillue listed a bunch of hoaxes: Russia, 'fine people,' Covid, etc., and finished up with "isn't it time to admit Biden didn't win in 2020?"
I wonder if this is part of a coordinated or at least correlated strategy to make the midterm elections all about Dem electoral fraud? Maybe the October Surprise will be a bunch of arrests? CC, JSM
Pino Americano
@PinoAmericano
If we are speaking honestly and objectively, Senate Republicans have done more to stop and delay the Trump agenda than Democrats ever thought was possible.
7:22 PM · Jun 4, 2026
https://x.com/PinoAmericano/status/2062676356152926231?s=20
Tina, yes, I used to read those UK cop blogs. I forget the names. There was one called PC Bloggins, I think. Another guy was so fed up he emigrated to Western Canada, where he got a cop job right away since it's the same sovereign.
Most of the bloggers at that time were just focused on generic bureaucracy: how many different forms to fill out for one arrest or even voluntary contact, etc. Not too much mention of 2-tier stuff.
Maybe the one led to the other. So much focus on numbers and forms led to lost sight of the object of policing: public order. And making arrests a PITA ensured that coppers would only lock up the people their bosses insisted they lock up, which happen to be native otherwise-law-abiding Brits. CC, JSM
John Cochrane on Inequality I’d add teach some friedman in grade school so children don’t grow up to loaths finance…
@john mosby: I completely forgot about lock her up because I never took it seriously. But of course Hillary and co. took that very seriously.
Yeah well we were right: Hillary should be tried for the Coup of 2016 when she and Obama conspired to deny Trump the office he won despite the everpresent DNC cheat machine. Lock her up. Better late than never.
@Tina Trent: use Grok or whatever AI you use and feed it as much info as you remember and you might find yhe blog you’re looking for.
This is what I got from Grok with the limited info I gave it:
PC David Copperfield (started ~2004): One of the earliest and most influential. Written by a Staffordshire PC (real name Stuart Davidson), it was a diary-style blog exposing “wasting police time” on paperwork, targets, and underclass issues. It led to a bestselling book Wasting Police Time (2006) and media attention. He later outed himself and moved to Canada. 
• Inspector Gadget (Police Inspector Blog, 2006–2013): A rural inspector’s sharp critiques of bureaucracy, political correctness, health & safety, and leadership failures. Very popular in conservative circles; it influenced public debate and was referenced on shows like Have I Got News For You. Stopped due to pressure on anonymous bloggers. 
Other notables from the era included NightJack (a Lancashire detective, unmasked in 2009), WPC Bloggs, and a few more that popped up and faded. Many discussed shift work, command structures, and frustrations with senior officers — which might align with what you recall. 
Where to Look Now
• Archives like the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) often have snapshots of these old blogs.
Mccain removed all doubt in his performance in 2008, he doubled down going on the stupid crusade against qaddafi
He was probably the real bamboo candidate
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