I thought it stood for either Orange County or Old Cocaine User.

#10 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-27 06:50 PM

I live in Orange County, but as for the 'cocaine', the strongest drug that I've every imbibed is a couple of beers once in awhile and perhaps a shot of Irish whisky when our son and his wife (who's from Ireland) is staying with us, which they usually do for a few months every winter (they're arriving from Michigan in mid-January).

OCU

OCU stands for Old CAD User...

OCU

It's been awhile since I had read anything by Dave Berry, but he hasn't lost his knack to make absurd things and events sound like they were really absurd.

OCU

Merry Xmas. Sunny here for a moment in OC, CA, more rain tomorrow! Last night was wild.

#24 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-12-25 12:57 PM

Yes, on the way to church this morning we saw a double rainbow.

OCU

Despite a request from the Bishop in Miami and several other members of the local clergy, Trump says that ICE operations will continue across the country on Christmas day. After all, he claimed, that he was elected to rid the nation of all illegal immigrants and he's not going to tell DHS to suspend operations just because it's a holiday.

OCU

Does the Navy still operate garbage-scows...

OCU

You can bet that if this had been Florida or Texas, that Trump would have hand-delivered the money personally...

OCU

is an EO all it takes?

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-19 07:15 PM

No, the executive order only makes a request that the DEA and the DOJ start the process to reclassify marijuana as a Class III drug as apposed to its current status as a Class I. It's going to take time and it's also going to take some actions by Congress to make it as effective as many people are asking for, particularly when it comes to the banking aspects of this change, which if we don't get that, there's not much of an advantage to change the legal classification of just the drug.

OCU

I don't often have the opportunity to do something like this, but I have to give credit where credit is due...

Trump Signs Executive Order To Reclassify Marijuana As Less Dangerous Drug

Now it's still unclear if this is going to change the banking rules about how money is handled which is generated from the legal sale (on a state by state basis) of marijuana.

And we also need to note that during the Biden administration, Biden tried to do the same thing but failed to get sufficient support from his own party. With that in mind, Trump may find himself in that same situation since it may take an act of Congress to actually get this done.

Disclaimer: My support for this reclassification has nothing to do with any personal situation on my part as I've never smoked (except for some possible second-hand smoke) nor ingested any marijuana ever in my life, nor do I expect to start, because of something like this.

OCU

Smells of more socialism...

OCU

Here's the link to the White House's retweet of Trump's original 'Truth Social' post:

Like no one ever thought that this sort of thing might happen...

OCU

But it's been reported that Pam Bondi if going to try and take a third bite from that apple.

It's reported that they're looking for another prosecutor, perhaps from a different office, which they're going to assign the task of getting an indictment.

I really don't know what the intent is here other then just harassing James and causing her to spend money on her defense, since I can't see a judge allowing a case like this going forward, let alone finding a jury that would convict.

I think an indictment is the goal, not a conviction. It's all about shaming and intimidating.

OCU

Trump has for literally years now loudly bragged over and over and over and over about "acing" the same simple cognitive test. Do you know anyone else who does that? Anyone? Buehler?

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-05 02:10 PM

Well, I've taken the Montreal Cognitive Assessment multiple times, and while I won't brag that I've 'aced them', I did pass them, which is all that can be expected, if there's no problems.

Nine years ago I was given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment something like five times over a three-month period of time. This was when they replaced my aortic heart valve. I was given the test a week before the procedure, along with a physiological exam. Then the cognitive teat was repeated the day after my surgery and then the day I was discharged from the hospital. Both tests were again repeated at my 30-day and 90-day follow-up visits. But that was it, because they were making sure that the procedure, which necessitated halting the blood flow thru my heart for something like 45 seconds, which is how long it took to install the new heart valve (it was done using the so-called TAVR method), had not resulted in any mental or physiological impairments.

My situation was one of those where the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is used, to make sure that there was no brain damage after a surgical procedure, in my case, the replacement of my heart valve. The other time when the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is most often given is when a physician suspects that their patient might be suffering from some sort of mental issues, such as brain damage (from a stroke, a TIA or head trauma), or early-onset dementia or perhaps even Alzheimer's, a disease which runs in the Trump family. Trump lost his father, his sister, who had served as a federal judge, and his uncle, who had been a professor at MIT, all three to complications resulting from Alzheimer's. That's not a good track record and if I were on Trump's medical team, I would be conducting cognitive evaluations on a regular schedule.

OCU

And I'll bet that Trump still thinks that Monsanto is an American-owned company.

OCU

I don't care what Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, there's something seriously wrong with Trump...

OCU

We're not with family this year, as they're spread around the country (Northern California, Texas, Michigan, Washington and Oregon) however, we are going out for Thanksgiving dinner (my wife doesn't do big holiday meals anymore) with three of our friends, whose families are also not close by.

Besides, we saw most all of our family just over two weeks ago in Texas at our granddaughter's wedding. And while there was no turkey or cranberry sauce, we did have a barbecue of burgers and brats and corn-on-the-cob.

OCU

This sounds just like when Nixon claimed that when the president does something, then it wasn't breaking the law.

OCU

The question now is, were there other cases for which interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan was the lead prosecutor that are now at risk of also being thrown out of court?

OCU

JFK was assassinated in Dallas 60 years ago today.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-22 02:21 PM

Actually 62-years ago today...

I guess I was right about my comment with respect to 'conspiracy theories' that I made at the end of my opening entry in this thread...

OCU

I see another multi-million dollar wrongful termination lawsuit in the future...

OCU

Under the Unified Code of Military Justice, the UCMJ, a member of the military can be court-martialed for obeying an unlawful order irrespective of their rank or that of the person giving them the order.

Mike Johnson can't have it both ways...

Earlier this year, Trump's own DOJ announced that when it came to the Epstein files, that there was no there there. That is that there was no evidence that would lead the DOJ to open investigations into any previously un-indicted individuals.

But this morning, prior to the vote on releasing the Epstein files, Johnson condemned the Democrats and the Biden administration for not taking up this issue when they had their chance.

If what Trump's DOJ said was true, then it was also true four year ago.

As I've said all along, it was Trump and the MAGA crowd who made Jeffery Epstein an issue during the 2024 campaign and if you look into it, you can see how this all went back to the birth of MAGA during the 2016 campaign when they attacked Hillary and the Democrats over all sorts of stories about pedophilia, remember 'Pizzagate'. I think that during Trump's first term, despite Epstein's indictments and eventual 'suicide', the pedophilia issue sort of died down. However, when Trump was lanuching his 2024 campaign, in order to stir up the MAGA base and it's still deep seated, smoldering conspriacy theories over pedophilia, he made this pormise to release the Epstein files, along with the files on JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, UFO's, etc. Anyway, I think Trump just assumed that while these issues would make for good sound bites to toss around during his stump speeches, that once he was back in office, it would all go the way it had gone during his first time around, that is that the whole pedophilia issue would be forgotten as he implemented what was his really on his mind, that is 'Project 2025'.

And as far as I can find, it appears that the only mention of pedophilia in 'Project 2025' was with respect to using it to undermine LGBTQ Rights.

OCU

I still think it's going to be a long time before any of us on the outside are actually going be seeing the Epstein files. I think we'll hear a lot hype and rhetoric and people telling us that what we're seeing is everything, but I suspect that in the end, we're not going to see all that much more than what has already been released, leaked or reported on. Now I'm sure there will be a significant number of people who will look at it and say that it was good enough, and that may last for awhile, but I think eventually there will be a realization that there's still more that's been kept from the rest of us, hidden by that 'smoke' I mentioned earlier. Anyway, time will tell...

OCU