The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that states can regulate prediction market platforms like gambling and sportsbooks, dealing a heavy blow to the industry.
The surging Democratic left is taking its ideology onto America's preeminent conservative network, and at times showing some growing pains.
The Trump administration is eyeing a land swap that would give part of Yosemite National Park to a private company, according to a document submitted to Congress.
"This downward spiral is antithetical to our Constitution that recognizes our right to speak freely," a San Francisco federal judge wrote in a case by international students who had their visas threatened.
Wyoming's attorney general is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials monitored poll workers and observed voters in the state's most populous county during the Aug. 18 primary, a spokesperson for Republican Gov. Mark Gordon said Friday.
Gordon called the monitors' behavior "a bit aggressive" and "irregular" in an otherwise routine meeting to confirm the election results in the mostly rural and Republican state.
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? (2002)
www.youtube.com
They also did an amazing cover of Pink Floyd back in the day.
Lemme see if I can find it ...
@#11 ... This is the 'fine print' that I'm sure Trump is hoping that the people will never read: ...
Then there is also this ...
Exxon and Chevron decline new spending in Venezuela while taking a wait-and-see approach for the years ahead (January 2026)
fortune.com
... U.S. Big Oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron said Jan. 30 they have no plans to increase their capital spending in Venezuela this year while they wait and see how legal and political reforms unfold to make the country more inviting to foreign oil investments.
Since forcibly removing leader Nicolas Maduro from power, President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted U.S. oil companies will spend more than $100 billion in Venezuela to dramatically rebuild its dilapidated infrastructure.
But Exxon Mobil chairman and CEO Darren Woods infamously drew Trump's ire earlier this month when he told the president that Venezuela is currently "uninvestable" until major reforms are enacted and the country sees real stability. After all, Exxon had its oil assets expropriated in Venezuela less than 20 years ago.
Trump later said Woods' remarks were "too cute" and that he may be inclined to keep the world's largest Big Oil player out of Venezuela.
Woods said Jan. 30 on his fourth-quarter earnings call that he does believe the Trump administration is committed to making the necessary changes to eventually turn Venezuela into a viable investment option. How soon remains to be seen. Venezuela's National Assembly began approving reforms to its oil and gas laws on Jan. 29. ...
Yeah, my guess of Ms Parton's opinion of Pres Trump may be more along the lines of ...
Soup Dragons - Divine Thing (1992)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
... [Verse 1]
You are the one supreme being
Just dressed to kill and fulfill just any dream
And you are the one heart's desire
All hips and lips made to trick just any fool
[Chorus]
I could have sworn that you were an angel
'cause you're a sweet, sweet, sweet, divine thing
But I should have known that you were the devil
Dressed like a sweet, sweet, sweet, divine thing
[Verse 2]
And you lack the one thing that is devotion
Not always there, in your hair in a daze
Just too mixed up in your own emotions
Your vanity will always be your greatest thing
...
Wow, written in 1992 ...
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Television The Drug Of The Nation (1992)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
One nation
Under God
Has turned into
One nation under the influence
Of one drug
[Hook:]
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
...
T.V. is the reason why less than 10 percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
Means Kansas
Socialism means un-American
And Apartheid is a new headache remedy
Absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our mind the most
...
It's the perpetuation of the two party system
Where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
The fast food culture
Where straight teeth in your mouth
Are more important than the words
That come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
Will he not get elected on...
...
T.V., is it the reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us
Or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
Twelve years old and we wonder why we've created
A Jason generation that learns to laugh
Rather than to abhor the horror
...
Back again, "New and improved"
We return to our irregularly programmed schedule
Hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
Beer and car commercials
CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless", "fresh frozen"
"light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
Have become standard
T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
Like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"Crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
And being killed by your own Army
Is now called "friendly fire"
...
... John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers ...
fwiw ...
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
en.wikipedia.org
... John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers were an English blues rock band led by multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter John Mayall. The band has been influential as an incubator for British rock and blues musicians.
Many of the best known bands to come out of Britain in the 1960s and 1970s had members that came through the Bluesbreakers at one time, forming the foundation of British blues music that is still played heavily on classic rock radio.
Among those with a tenure in the Bluesbreakers are guitarists Eric Clapton (later of Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos and a successful solo career), Peter Green (later of Fleetwood Mac) and Mick Taylor (later of the Rolling Stones), bassists John McVie (later of Fleetwood Mac), Jack Bruce (later of Cream) and Tony Reeves (later of Colosseum), drummers Hughie Flint, Aynsley Dunbar (later of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Journey and Jefferson Starship), Mick Fleetwood (later of Fleetwood Mac) and Jon Hiseman (later of Colosseum), and numerous others. ...
Not to mention Johnny Almond and Jon Mark, who later formed the Mark-Almond Band, and were both mentioned in the intro of the cited song.
Yeah, an incubator of talent...
OK, it seems to have gone quiet here.
So I'll go off-topic ...
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal (1992)
www.youtube.com
OK, found this ...
Flaming Lips - Hangout Fest 2012 - Dark Side of the Moon (Full Show Pro Shot)
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