A Republican-appointed federal judge in Boston sharply ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration's policy targeting foreign students and faculty for pro-Palestinian activism violated the First Amendment's free speech protections. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to consider whether to lift the long-standing prohibition on a merger between any of the largest four broadcast networks and to consider relaxing other media ownership rules.
"Fireworks were spitting on the spaceship." Astronaut Chris Hadfield let the words hang as the room sat in darkness. On the twin screens flanking the stage, video from his space missions flickered, holding 250 people at the BMO Centre in Calgary in total silence. What looked like glitter outside the International Space Station was liquid ammonia, the coolant that kept the entire station from overheating. If the leak continued, the $150-billion laboratory would be lost.
The Pentagon issued several memos on Tuesday that outlined a broad range of personnel changes, instituting stricter grooming standards and gender-neutral standards for combat jobs. The memos follow a Tuesday address by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of senior military leadership at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., previewing the new policy changes for the military. "From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this war fighting," Defense Secretary Hegseth said. "Preparing for war and preparing to win, unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not because we want war " no one here wants war " but it's because we love peace."
A U.S. Navy destroyer is operating in the Baltic Sea as part of a NATO mission that is adding air defense to its underwater focus as the alliance confronts repeated unidentified drone incursions into northern European countries. USS Bulkeley joined Baltic Sentry on Tuesday, the first deployment of a U.S. ship to the mission, an unidentified Defense Department official said Tuesday, speaking on background because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the matter.
Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI (1999)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Verse 1]
Someone tell me why I do the things
That I don't wanna do
When you're around me
I'm somebody else
[Verse 2]
Someone tell me why I act like a fool
When things don't go my way
When you're around me
I'm somebody else
...
Joan Osborne - One Of Us (1995)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
[Chorus]
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryna make his way home?
...
The headline from the Newsweek article
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Donald Trump's Ex-Spiritual Adviser Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse
imo, the world leaders seem to be kissing up to Pres Trump because of his transactional approach to inter-country relationships.
So, they may agree for a short-term benefit but, what about the long-term?
a.k.a. what happens next?
Jack Ingram - I Can't Leave You (1997)
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...
You'd think that I had the guts to leave you
A man like me can't stand to sit around
When I met you I swore that you were freedom
But the strings you've tied they've chained me to the ground
But I can't leave you
Even though I want to
There's something about you makes me stay
No I can't leave you
Believe me I've tried to
So I wake up just a hating everyday
Well I promised you that I'd write you a love song
It'd be something to bring teardrops to your eyes
So far I'm the only one that's crying
Writing about this crazy love that died
[Chorus]
I promised you that I'd write you a love song
It'd be something to bring teardrops to your eyes
So far I'm the only one that's crying
Writing about this crazy love that died
'Cuz I can't leave you
Even though I want to
There's just something about you sweetheart that makes me stay
No I can't leave you
Believe me I've tried to
So I wake up just a hating every single day
...
@#5 ... Sometimes reading can be beneficial. ...
I agree.
So, e.g., how does Connecticut seem to be unable to "pay its bills?"
CT headed for second-largest surplus in state history
ctmirror.org
Yeah, reading is indeed beneficial.
Yer up.
2nu - This Is Ponderous (1990)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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"This Is Ponderous" is an avant-garde spoken word novelty song about a bizarre dream Jock Blaney, then the production director at KPLZ FM, once had.
After the basic dream concept was used in a local hot tub commercial, Blaney and producer Michael Nealy made it into a full-length song and aired it on KPLZ where it quickly became the #1 requested song on the station for weeks.
Atlantic Records noticed and signed the duo, releasing the track to moderate nationwide success. The song reached #46 in the US and got airplay in Thailand, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, Austria & Germany in early 1991.
This is ponderous, man, really ponderous
I had this dream the other night
I went to work one day
And nobody remembered who I was
So, I decided to take the day off
On my way out
I run into my boss and he says
Hey, you look familiar
I said, thanks, people say that
A lot in these dreams
Then the horns kicked in
And my shoes started to squeak
Then all of a sudden
I'm standing on a beach
In some tropical part of the world
And there's this sign that says
'Aren't you supposed to be at work'
Sort of screamed out at me
Then I remembered
I'd been here in other dreams
But usually there was a water polo game
And a girl who could talk with her eyes
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Louis Armstrong
Die With A Smile
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Slime You Out
Drake
And she'd say
'Can you see what I'm saying'
Then the horns kicked in
And my shoes started to squeak
Before I knew it
I was walking near a lake
When a phone rings
And the operator speaks to me
In a language I don't understand
Oom papachucka maka nanu singow
Meling kapalana wani domo chingpow
Heddy kapalua cuma jenising tea
Oomama chucka pana one is now three
Then the horns kicked in
And my shoes started to squeak
Before long, I was coming up
On this really weird part of my dream
You know, the part where
I know how to tap dance
But I can only do it
While wearing golf shoes
...
Call - I Don't Wanna (1987)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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I ain't here to hold you when you cry
I ain't here to hold your shaky hand
I ain't here to look you in the eye
Or beg for you to understand
I ain't gonna walk you thru your dreams
Walk you thru this life that we all know
I ain't here to listen while you speak
I ain't here to heal your broken soul
...
Ms Goodall taught us so much. We should be forever grateful for her work.
Dame Jane Goodall
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...Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in London. Her father, Mortimer Morris-Goodall, was a well-known race car driver. From early childhood, Jane was fascinated by all animals, an interest encouraged by her mother, Vanne. When Mortimer Morris-Goodall went to war, young Jane moved with her mother and younger sister, Judy, to live with her grandmother and aunts in the seaside town of Bournemouth, where they remained when her father and mother divorced following the war.
A precocious reader in a family of women who encouraged intellectual accomplishment, Jane read everything she could get her hands on about wild animals and Africa. She did well in school despite an unusual neurological condition, known as prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize faces. Unable to afford a university education, she moved to London after school to work as a secretary for a documentary film company. When an opportunity arose to visit a friend's family in Kenya, she returned to Bournemouth and worked as a waitress in a local hotel, living at home to save money for her trip.
Young Jane Goodall loved animals, books, and books about animals. (Courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute)
In Kenya, Goodall was introduced to the legendary anthropologist Louis Leakey. Leakey hired her as an assistant and secretary, and she accompanied him and his wife Mary on an archeological dig at Olduvai Gorge.
A leading authority on the evolution of man, Leakey knew there was a lack of hard data concerning the behavior of chimpanzees -- our nearest evolutionary relatives -- in the wild.
Although Jane lacked scientific training, or even a college degree, she was eager to attempt the research herself.
Despite Leakey's confidence in her abilities, other experienced professionals did not believe a lone young woman from England could survive in the African bush. When the British colonial authorities refused to allow her to travel alone to the chimpanzee reserve near Lake Tanganyika, she recruited her mother to stay with her.
In the summer of 1960, Jane Goodall and her mother arrived at Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in what is now Tanzania. At first the Gombe chimps fled at the sight of a human intruder, and Goodall could only observe them from a distance through binoculars.
Over the months that followed, she gradually won the trust of a single male chimpanzee she named David Graybeard. ...
3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes
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Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files
www.theregister.com
Oracle says hackers are trying to extort its customers
www.reuters.com
etc., etc., etc....
Shriekback - This Big Hush (1985)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
[Verse]
Is there a fire in the sky?
Is there a moon up there?
Is there anything alive now?
This darkness is what I hear
This is a breathless silence
A moment out of time
I see your face in the shadows
The telltale signs are in your eyes
[Chorus]
More than I can hold in my hands
Running through the gaps like water
Aching with a passion inside
Deep as the river
All desire, the ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside and the light from you
[Verse]
Is there a flame in the dark?
Is there a bright hard star?
These creatures look the same now
We freeze wherever we are
We wake alone in the blackness
We sleep wherever we fall
One dream all around us
This big hush infects us all
...
@#9 ... Under the memo, "Reduction of Mandatory Training Requirements to Restore Mission Focus," the department will relax or remove a number of trainings, including on cybersecurity. ...
Reducing training in cybersecurity at a time when cybersecurity has become quite important?
So, maybe not trying to prevent this from occurring?
Top Trump officials included The Atlantic editor in group chat about plans to bomb Yemen (March 2025)
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... Top Trump officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance allegedly discussed the details of a highly sensitive operation to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen in a group chat that inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Goldberg wrote on Monday. ...
@#5
Then there's this ...
Trigger Hippy - Rise Up Singing (LIVE - circa 2014)
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Ms Osbourne went on to other endeavors with a couple Black Crowes members..
Quite the good tune,imo.