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"When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest."
--- Bullwinkle Moose

The guilty dog barks the loudest.
--- old Southern political saying

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.
--- John Lawton

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
--- R. Buckminster Fuller

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
--- Thomas Jefferson

ECREE: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
--- Carl Sagan

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
--- George Orwell

Total Inability To Support Usual Performance

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember your original intent was to drain the swamp.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
---Abraham Lincoln

Our faith in others betrays in what respect we would like to have faith in ourselves.
---Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First part)

One often attacks and makes an enemy in order to conceal that one is open to attack.
---Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First part)

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
---Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First part)

If you have a suffering friend, be a resting place for his suffering, but a hard bed as it were, a field cot: thus will you profit him best.

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It's quite conceivable that humanity is a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.
--- Geoffrey Hinton

I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years. --- Bill Gates Remarks at COMDEX (November 1994),

Source: quotepark.com

"Teamwork makes the dreams work."
--- Dalen Spratt

"Fame in show business is not in proportion to actual achievement."
--- Peter Deuel

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.
--- Edmund Burke

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
-- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical_Essays, 1928

"polyfocal blend of functional skills"

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
--- Pete Seeger

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
--- William Inge

Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
--- Adolphe A. Berle Jr.

I'm always looking, like a child, for the wonders I know I'm going to find, not every time, but every once in a while.
--- Richard Feynman

@#8

and ...

Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com

..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...

"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," Pres Trump said...


@#7 ... They will prevent counting actual votes? How obscene. ...

I have not said anything about counting actual votes.

What I have said was about the apparent prevention of those votes being cast.

For example ...

U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org

...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."

The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."

The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....

[emphasis mine]


As I noted on a back-page thread ...

Local coverage ...

Knicks win first NBA title in 53 years
abc7ny.com

... For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the NBA. Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Saturday night.

The Knicks won the series 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories. The deficit was 16 on Saturday night. Brunson and the Knicks were never fazed. ...


Local coverage ...

Knicks win first NBA title in 53 years
abc7ny.com

... For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the NBA.

Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Saturday night.

The Knicks won the series 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories.

The deficit was 16 on Saturday night.

Brunson and the Knicks were never fazed. ...




@#9

Agreed.

But then there's things like this ...

Trump plans to accept plane to replace Air Force One from Qatar as personal gift (2025)
www.wcnc.com

... For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer.

"I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer," the Republican told reporters on Monday. "I could be a stupid person and say, No, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane.'"

Critics of the plan worry that the move threatens to turn a global symbol of American power into an airborne collection of ethical, legal, security and counterintelligence concerns.

"This is unprecedented," said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional law expert at Loyola Law School. "We just haven't tested these boundaries before."

Trump tried to tamp down some of the opposition by saying he wouldn't fly around in the gifted Boeing 747 when his term ends. Instead, he said, the $400 million plane would be donated to a future presidential library, similar to how the Boeing 707 used by President Ronald Reagan was decommissioned and put on display as a museum piece.

"It would go directly to the library after I leave office," Trump said. "I wouldn't be using it." ...


@#6 ... Subtle difference ...

Yeah, subtle or technical?

US begins preparing Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One (2025)
www.bbc.com

... News that the US was accepting the Qatari plane earlier this year sparked fierce and immediate backlash from both sides of the US political spectrum - including from Trump's conservative base.

"I think the technical term is 'skeezy'," said conservative Daily Wire commentator Ben Shapiro on his podcast.

"Qatar is not allegedly giving President Trump a $400m jet out of the goodness of their sweet little hearts," he said. "They try to stuff money into pockets in totally bipartisan fashion."

Laura Loomer, an influential right-wing social media influencer, has said that accepting the plane would be a "stain" on the administration. ...


www.gettyimages.com

so it begins....

@#2

But more to what I see as the point of your comment ...

The Emoluents Clause in the Constitution.


What Is the Emoluments Clause?
www.britannica.com

... The emoluments clause, also called the foreign emoluments clause, is a provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8) that generally prohibits federal officeholders from receiving any gift, payment, or other object or service of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers, or representatives. ...


@#18 ... FIFA ...

FIFA
en.wikipedia.org

... The Fdration Internationale de Football Association[a] (FIFA;[b] lit.'International Association Football Federation'[6]) is an international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. ...

FIFA is a sports governing body that organizes association football events all over the world. FIFA outlines several objectives in its organisational statutes, including growing the game internationally, ensuring it is accessible to everyone, and advocating for integrity and fair play.[7]

It is responsible for organising and promoting association football's major international tournaments, notably the World Cup which began in 1930, and the Women's World Cup which commenced in 1991.

Although FIFA does not solely set the laws of the game, that being the responsibility of the International Football Association Board of which FIFA is a member, it applies and enforces the rules across all FIFA competitions.[8]

All FIFA tournaments generate revenue from sponsorships; in 2022, FIFA had revenues of over US$5.8 billion, ending the 2019"2022 cycle with a net positive of $1.2 billion, and cash reserves of over $3.9 billion.[9] ...


@#1

moltbook
www.moltbook.com

... A Social Network for AI Agents

Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.
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U.S. Measles Cases Hit Highest Level Since Declared Eliminated in 2000 (2025)
publichealth.jhu.edu

... The United States surpassed a milestone in reported measles cases, with 2025 now having the most cases since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 and the most cases in more than three decades. ...

@#3

Found this ...

Kennedy Center removes Trump's name from the building
www.npr.org

... Finally, with the scaffolding up, and tarpaulin covering their efforts, workers began to remove Trump's name.

Hundreds of people braved the rain and thunderstorms overnight to document the take-down. Some heckled those involved for hiding the removal using tarpaulin -- with shouts of "Cover up!" and "Cowards!" ...


@#10 ... We the biden admin held and covered up those files for four years ...

Why were the epstein files not released under Joe Biden's term? (2025)
factually.co

... The Epstein investigative files remained largely unreleased during President Joe Biden's term primarily because they were part of active criminal investigations, subject to grand-jury secrecy, and entangled in legal and privacy constraints -- not because of a simple political decision to conceal them, according to reporting and statements from journalists and officials [1] [2] [3].

Political fights over the files intensified later, with critics accusing the Biden DOJ of inaction while defenders pointed to prosecutorial independence and ongoing legal processes as the central reasons for nonrelease [4] [5] ...




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