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Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Tribute performances that defy a world that seems to lack weight or reverence.

Official Keith Emerson Tribute - Lucky Man / The Great Gates Of Kiev - Live in L.A. 2016


Thursday, March 27, 2025

The Kyle Kulinski Show
20:50 40,842 views 6 hours ago

This contains footage of the assault and Ryan Grims response.


Block, the Bay Area tech giant behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay, is abruptly laying off 931 workers, according to an email from CEO Jack Dorsey to workers on Tuesday. More than 200 of the employees worked in California.

Dorsey, who co-founded and led Twitter before co-founding the financial tech juggernaut, wrote in his all-lowercase note that Block would be cutting 80 managers, 391 workers from teams that are "off strategy" and 460 workers who were said to be underperforming. The cuts arrived suddenly, but that's as Dorsey prefers it; Business Insider reported in 2023 that the CEO decided to eliminate drawn-out performance improvement plans in favor of cutting underachieving workers "without delay."


Thursday, March 06, 2025

Randy rocks.


Sunday, February 23, 2025

Rich, bitchy, righteous but amazing nonetheless. read more


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@#58 ... You aren't a RL superhero ...
Yeah, that's a great opening theme for that Star Trek series (the first Star Trek theme with sung lyrics, btw), and I have posted that tune before.
But, I'm not sure what you mean by "RL superhero."
Can you explain?
thx.
#59 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-17 01:35 AM

The alias is inquiring as to our personal relationship.

The original performed live

The unsung lyrics:

Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand'ring in star-flight
I know
He'll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.

(* Without Courage's knowledge, Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the theme, not in the expectation that they would ever be sung, but in order to claim a 50% share of the music's performance royalties. Although there was never any litigation, Courage later commented that he considered Roddenberry's conduct unethical. Roddenberry was quoted as responding, "Hey, I have to get some money somewhere. I'm sure not gonna get it out of the profits of Star Trek.")

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/startreklyrics.html

@#50 ... To my knowledge they all have been, and all studies are regarding children with autism who have been vaccinated. ...
So, "to your knowledge" you admit that your knowledge takes into account only a subset.
thx.
That's a major reason why I ask so frequently here for substantiation.
Sometimes the comment I reply to are lacking in information, and I need more information to form my opinion.
And, I do thank the redlightrobot alias for admitting that it really has not a clue on this topic.
#53 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-17 01:01 AM

If that is what you perceive, I guess I can't make you.. drink?:]

Rather, what I am substantiating is the professional arena being utterly certain that vaccines play no part in autism occurring.

That is in opposition to what thousands of parents have experienced and described to said "professionals".

I can presume that ALL of these children have been vaccinated with the standard MMR series because it is routine. Perhaps Canada is different, but it's legally required inside most of the United States. FYI.

I believe the parents when they explain the autism began directly after immunization.

Children developing verbal skills stop entirely. They appear to "retreat". Using THIS PDF as a reference there are NO alternatives considered, only the mainstream medical opinion.

I am having difficulties locating any data from any government source on the number of children not vaccinated with MMR series, as it is considered "routine".

Perhaps you know differently, and if you want to continue this conversation without insinuation and derision, than I'm all for "it".

"Rather than admit its mistake, because of Mr. Mayfield's Muslim faith, the U.S. government was willing to subject Mr. Mayfield to the death penalty," said Mayfield's attorney, Gerry Spence, in a statement. Mayfield, through his attorney, also said the audit confirms "he was the victim of religious profiling." Mayfield has sued the government over his detention.

The case has been controversial not only because of the faulty fingerprint data but also because the FBI used secret warrants to collect information about Mayfield. The FBI obtained Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants in the case and intercepted electronic communications and conducted covert searches of his property with a court order.

The inspector general's audit found that the controversial Patriot Act was not abused in the case; certain provisions of the act allowed government investigators to widely share information they had collected about Mayfield. The review noted, "We did not find any evidence that the FBI misused any of the provisions of the Patriot Act in conducting its investigation."

In a statement, the FBI said, "We appreciate the work of the Office of the Inspector General in providing additional insights and perspective into how the FBI can strengthen the process of fingerprint identification. Of particular importance, the OIG report confirmed there was no misconduct by the FBI or misuse of the USA Patriot Act. We are confident that the OIG's findings and recommendations, combined with corrective measures already implemented, will significantly enhance our ability to perform our duties to the public."

The report also confirmed that the Justice Department used highly secretive National Security Letters to collect information on Mayfield. Much of that information has not been disclosed publicly because much of the 273 page report remains classified.

Sections of the Patriot Act are due to expire at the end of the month unless Congress renews the anti-terrorism law. The debate over the Patriot Act and the government's authority to collect information has intensified in recent weeks in light of recent disclosures that the National Security Agency collected information on people inside the United States without obtaining a court order."

The Patriot Act was officially the death of democracy, imo.

Report: FBI Problems Led to Wrongful Terror Arrest ABC News January 6, 2006, 3:15 PM

"Portland attorney Brandon Mayfield was incorrectly identified by the FBI as a suspect in the attacks because of incorrect fingerprint data. Mayfield was arrested on May 6, 2004, and secretly held as a material witness for two weeks. He was released when the Spanish National Police eventually matched the fingerprints to an Algerian national.

A review by Glenn Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general, found several problems with the actions of FBI employees, as well as systemic problems at the FBI lab in Quantico, Va.

Specifically, the unusual similarity between Mayfield's fingerprint and the fingerprint on a bag of detonators found in Madrid confused several fingerprint experts. FBI laboratory examiners identified Mayfield's fingerprint as matching a print found on a bag of detonators connected to the Madrid commuter train attack, which killed 191 people and injured almost 1,500. A court-appointed fingerprint expert also misidentified the prints.

The Spanish National Police had provided digital photographs of the prints on the detonator bag from Madrid and sent the pictures to the FBI lab, where they were entered into the bureau's computer. When no exact matches were found, a second search was performed, prompting the computer to return a list of 20 candidates whose known prints had features in common with the ones found on the detonator bag.

"We concluded that the examiners committed errors in the examination procedure, and that the misidentification could have been prevented through a more rigorous application of several principles of latent fingerprint identification," the report said.

The inspector general report also looked into whether Mayfield's conversion to Islam was a factor in the FBI's focus on Mayfield. Mayfield, a practicing Muslim, also piqued the investigators' interest because he was an attorney for a convicted terrorism suspect.

The report noted, "One of the examiners candidly admitted that if the person identified had been someone without these characteristics, like the 'Maytag Repairman,' the laboratory might have revisited the identification with more skepticism and caught the error." The Justice Department review states that Mayfield's religion and representation of a convicted terrorist contributed to the examiners failing to reconsider the fingerprint misidentification but said there was no evidence his religion played a role in the FBI prolonging the investigation.

Mayfield's attorney, however, was not satisfied with the report's conclusion."

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