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The California governor, who once said he would approach Trump with "an open hand, not a closed fist," has since taken a markedly more combative posture.
As the fighting in the Middle East roars on, cyber experts are increasingly warning of online attacks from Iran on U.S. businesses and infrastructure. read more
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On March 8 British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada, will change their clock for the last time. read more
Regarding Mayor Mamdani ...
Manhattan Transfer - Boy From New York City (1981)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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Ooo wah, ooo wah cool, cool kitty
Tell us about the boy from New York City
Ooo wah, ooo wah c'mon kitty
Tell us about the boy from New York City
He's kind of tall
He's really fine
Some day I hope to make him mine, all mine
And he's neat
And oh so sweet
And just the way he looked at me
He swept me off my feet
Ooo whee, you ought to come and see
How he walks
And how he talks
Ooo wah, ooo wah cool, cool kitty
Tell us about the boy from New York City
He's really down
And he's no clown
He has the finest penthouse I've ever seen in town
And he's cute
In his mohair suit
And he keeps his pockets full of spending loot
Ooo whee, say you ought to come and see
His dueling scar
And brand new car ...
I notice that Pres Trump seems to be ~going after~ Iran alone.
So alone.
Only Pres trump seems to be involved.
Contrast that to the Iran Nuclear deal that fmr Pres Obama had forged, and that Pres Trump endlessly criticizes ...
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
en.wikipedia.org
... The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ... ,[5][6] also known as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran deal, was an agreement to limit the Iranian nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and other provisions.
The agreement was finalized in Vienna on 14 July 2015, between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) -- China, France, Russia, the U.K., U.S."plus Germany)[a] together with the European Union. ...
OpEd: Is the Whole Universe Just a Simulation? (February 2026)
research.gatech.edu
... How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can't be seen, but you believe in them because a parent or a teacher told you, or you read it in a book.
As a physicist, I use sensitive scientific instruments and complicated math to try to figure out what's real and what's not. But none of these sources of information is entirely reliable: Scientific measurements can be wrong, my calculations can have errors, even your eyes can deceive you, like the dress that broke the internet because nobody could agree on what colors it was.
Because every source of information " even your teachers " can trick you some of the time, some people have always wondered whether we can ever trust any information.
If you can't trust anything, are you sure you're awake?
Thousands of years ago, Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly and realized that he might actually be a butterfly dreaming he was a human.
Plato wondered whether all we see could just be shadows of true objects.
Maybe the world we live in our whole lives inside isn't the real one, maybe it's more like a big video game, or the movie "The Matrix." ...
Text article ...
Senator connects the dots between Russian intel and Epstein-Trump saga
www.alternet.org
... Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) walked through all of the details that connect trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence. Those connections also link President Donald Trump.
According to Whitehouse, the pathway goes through Ghislaine Maxwell's father, which the senator read from his MI6 file that Robert Maxwell was "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia."
Whitehouse walked through all of the relationships that Epstein had with international assets, including Israeli and U.S. intelligence. Recently released files prompted Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to announce they would do a wide-ranging investigation into Epstein's possible links to Russian intelligence.
One of those was Epstein's relationship with Oleg Deripaska, who also had a close relationship with Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort. ...
@#24 ... A majority of Iranians are 30 or younger. They like America and despise the regime. ...
Found this ...
What young Iranians think about the latest US-Iran conflict
www.vox.com
... Babak stays up late, so he saw the news in real time, in the early Friday morning hours in Iran. The Americans had killed Qassem Soleimani, one of the country's most celebrated military figures, in a targeted strike.
"I didn't know how to feel," Babak, a 25-year-old software engineer from Bandar Abbas, a city in southern Iran, told me. "I couldn't say I'm glad that he died, and I couldn't say I was happy."
Babak was shocked that the Trump administration had taken out Soleimani. But he also saw the senior military commander as an extension of the Iranian regime " a man who served the government, and not necessarily the people of Iran.
Most of all, Babak was nervous. So, too, were other Iranians Vox spoke to in the aftermath of Soleimani's death. Nervous about what would happen next. Because Tehran would retaliate, it had no choice. And that could provoke the United States, again.
Which meant things could only get worse for Iran.
Like Babak, most of the people Vox spoke to, via encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, are skeptical of the current Iranian regime. (Vox is not using full names to protect the privacy of those who participated in this story.) They're all relatively young, educated, and tech-savvy (while Iranians have access to social media, they often need to use workarounds with VPNs to tap into Western media). And they're just a very, very small sliver of the voices in Iran, as they themselves said. ...
Peter, Paul and Mary - Puff, the Magic Dragon (1963)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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"Puff the Magic Dragon" by Leonard Lipton (lyrics) and Peter Yarrow (music) appears on the 1963 Peter, Paul and Mary album, 'Moving.'
An urban myth soon arose that the song was about drugs.
It's really a backward look at childhood, and all that was left behind.
[Verse 1]
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff
[Chorus]
Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee
[Verse 2]
Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout, perched on Puff's gigantic tail
Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came
Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name
[Chorus]
Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee
[Verse 3]
A dragon lives forever, but not so, little boys
Painted wings and giants' rings make way for other toys
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar
[Verse 4]
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane
Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave
So Puff, that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave
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Why American Frackers Aren't Rushing to Pump More Oil
www.wsj.com
... The Middle East is on the cusp of a prolonged conflict that could push oil prices to heights not seen in four years. For now, American drillers are sitting this one out.
The U.S. oil benchmark settled at $74.56 a barrel Tuesday, a threshold not breached since last June, when American bombers dropped bunker-busting bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites. But to West Texas oilmen, it makes little sense to add expensive rigs and boost production when the war could be short-lived and crude prices drop. What they don't want is to add to an already big glut and waste their last few sweet spots. ...
Britney Spears DUI arrest: Drugs and alcohol suspected; singer was swerving her BMW, CHP says
www.latimes.com
... "This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable," a representative for Spears told The Times in a statement Thursday morning.
"Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in a long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney's life. Hopefully she can get the support she needs during this difficult time. ...
@#134 ... Talarico tried to get the brain dead clump of broccoli biden to ...
All your current trolling alias seems to be able to proffer are unsubstantiated assertions.
That observation leads me to wonder, what might be the goal of it?
To disrupt, or to contribute?
Yer up ...