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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Last week, a Jeep driver turned to Reddit to do what people do best on the site -- complain. Every time they hit the brakes on their Jeep, they wrote, a promotion for an extended warranty plan popped up in the center console. read more


The U.S. has become much less Christian, driven in large part by Gen Z and younger Millennials, according to a new Pew study. read more


Russia's newest envoy has made his opening gambit: offer up the prospect of lucrative business deals to Elon Musk and Donald Trump.


The FBI said it found 2,400 new records related to the assassination of JFK. Investigations against Jeffrey Epstein started in March 2005. Epstein died of apparent suicide in 2019. read more


Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Many of the receipts published by Elon Musk's DOGE aren't receipts at all -- they're negotiated deals with vetted vendors who might do future government work. read more


Comments

Grand Drive - Wheels (2000)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

Wow, another tune I heard on college radio that does not seem to have lyrics available.

Oh well...

Just listen, if you're interested.


fwiw ...

Thucydides
en.wikipedia.org

... Thucydides (/jusddiz/ thew-SID-ih-deez; Ancient Greek: , romanized: Thoukudd"s [tukydds]; c.460 " c.400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. ...

Thucydides has been called the father of the school of political realism, which views the political behavior of individuals and the subsequent outcomes of relations between states as ultimately mediated by, and constructed upon, fear and self-interest.[6] ...


@#68 ... So, now your alias seems to be able to look into my mind and know what I think? ...

Here's something that is currently bouncing around in my mind ...

Cramps - Goo Goo Muck (1989)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Well, when the sun goes down and the moon comes up
I turn into a teenage goo goo muck
Yeah, I cruise through the city and I roam the street
A-looking for something that is nice to eat, mmm

[Chorus]
You better duck
When I show up
The goo goo muck

[Verse 2]
I'm the night headhunter looking for some head
With a way-out body underneath that head, ooh
Yeah, I'll get you, baby, with a little luck
'Cause I'm a teenage tiger and a goo goo muck
...


Yeah, that song just popped up on a playlist here.

So that's on my mind now.

Did your alias know that?

@#11 ... The playbook being executed has been successful in Russia and Hungary ...

A good observation in one respect ...

'Trump Before Trump': How Hungary Foreshadows America's Right-Wing Embrace
www.newsweek.com

... Hungarian Foreign Minister Pter Szijjrt has nothing but praise for U.S. President Donald Trump, having developed a strong relationship during the first Trump administration and seeing only positives from the initial month of Trump's second term.

Touting Hungary as "kind of Trump before Trump," Szijjrt sees the two countries increasingly aligned on policy and worldview. ...


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