"American rock band Butthole Surfers, released in July 1983. It is also known as Brown Reason to Live and Pee Pee the Sailor (see "Title controversy"). All songs were written and produced by Butthole Surfers."
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
First National Bank of Enid.
"Champlin participated in the land run of 1893, investing in the Enid State Guaranty Bank. Champlin became ill and returned to Kansas. Upon recovery returned to operate a lumber yard with operations in Enid, Hobart, Kingfisher and Lawton. Charley and Sherman Goltry had taken control of the Bank during Champlin's absence, and Champlin repurchased the bank from them.
During the wave of bank closings in March 1933, Governor William H. Murray ordered all banks in the State of Oklahoma to close.
Champlin refused and continued to operate the bank which was financially sound.
In response, the governor called out the National Guard.
Captain Stephen J. England led eighteen militia men into town to close the bank, earning the
First National Bank of Enid
the distinction of the only bank ever
to be closed by the military in American history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Champlin_House
"William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray
(November 21, 1869 – October 15, 1956)
was an American educator, lawyer, and Bigot politician who served as
the first Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma, and as the 9th Governor of Oklahoma.
He was a Southern Democratic member of the Democratic Party
who opposed the New Deal
and supported racial segregation."
"In the 1920s, he traveled South America attempting to start a colony. He eventually negotiated a contract for a colony with the Bolivian government under President Bautista Saavedra in 1922, but the colony, Aguairenda, was largely unsuccessful. "
"returning to Oklahoma, he was elected the ninth governor of Oklahoma, serving from 1931 to 1935. During his tenure as governor in years of the Great Depression,
he established a record for the number of times he used the National Guard
to perform duties in the state and for declaring martial law at a time of unrest.
In his later life, Murray published a three-volume memoir and several books which contained racist and antisemitic claims.
Historian Reinhard H. Luthin described his populist campaign tactics and rhetoric
as demagoguery."
__
"Celanese Corporation, formerly known as Hoechst Celanese,
is an American technology and specialty materials company headquartered in Irving, Texas.
It is a Fortune 500 corporation.
The company is the world's leading producer of acetic acid,
producing about 1.95 million tonnes per year, representing approximately 20% of global production.
Celanese is also the world's largest producer of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celanese
"Celanese operates 25 production plants and six research centers in 11 countries, mainly in North America, Europe, and Asia.
The company owns and operates the world's three largest acetic acid plants:
one in the Clear Lake area of Pasadena, Texas, one on Jurong Island in Singapore, and a third in Nanjing, China."
___
"Petrofina was a Belgian oil company. It merged with Total in 1999 to form TotalFina, which after subsequent mergers has changed its name back to Total.
In the United States, Fina's former refining and marketing operations are
now owned by
Delek US." (7-11 franchises)
___
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It was organized in Delaware and headquartered in two skyscrapers in The Woodlands, Texas:
The company was the subject of multiple environmental cases, including
the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history -
the 2014 settlement related to the former Tronox subsidiary of Kerr McGee, a company purchased by Anadarko in 2006
"the 2019 Forbes Global 2000, Anadarko Petroleum was ranked as
the 587th -largest public company in the world"
Anadarko was formed in 1959 as a subsidiary of Panhandle Eastern Corporation Pipe Line Company after the discovery of large amounts of natural gas in the Anadarko Basin, which underlies the western part of the state of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and extending into southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado.
April 2000, the company acquired Union Pacific Resources in a $4.4 billion transaction
"Anadarko owned a 25% non-operating minority interest in the Macondo Prospect, which was 65% owned and operated by BP,
and was affected by
the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadarko_Petroleum
"In April 2014, Anadarko settled with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency to pay
$5.15 billion
to clean up environmental waste sites around the country.
It was the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history"
___
1954: Purchased by the Chicago Corporation for $55,000,000. This parent company changed its name to Champlin Refining Company in 1956.
1964: The Celanese Company purchased the company.
1970: The company was sold to Union Pacific Corporation and was kept as a wholly owned subsidiary.
1984: The Retail business of Champlin was purchased by American Petrofina, after Champlin closed the refinery.
around 1986, Union Pacific Corporation and Champlin Petroleum Company sold the Corpus Christi Refinery.( To citgo .)
The Champlin trade name was part of the deal.
Champlin's name was changed to Union Pacific Resources Company (UPRC).
During late 1990s, Union Pacific Corporation spun off the Union Pacific Resources Company.
2000: Anadarko Petroleum acquired Union Pacific Resources.
Monday, July 28, 2025
Oklahoma’s Trump-Loving, Bible-Thumping Superintendent Faces Porn Probe"
" Oklahoma’s Trump-Loving, Bible-Thumping Superintendent
Faces Porn Probe"
"Two Oklahoma board of education members said Ryan Walters was not apologetic after a video of naked women played in his office during a state meeting"
By Naomi LaChance
July 26,
2025
"Walters, a conservative Republican, has pushed for proposals to further integrate religion in schools, such as placing Bibles in them.
He has also advocated for requiring students enrolled in state public schools to provide proof of U.S. citizenship."
"These falsehoods are the desperate tactics of a broken establishment afraid of real change.
They aren’t just attacking me,
they’re attacking the values of the Oklahomans who elected me to challenge
the status quo."
Walters and his spokesman, as well as Deatherage, Carson and the four other members of the Board of Education, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Off Leash Dogs
"Rusty"
"Around 4.5 million Americans are bitten by dogs every year,
resulting in some 800,000 seeking medical treatment."
Street Response interaction
"Oh, I have a leash"
"Around 4.5 million Americans are bitten by dogs every year,
resulting in some 800,000 seeking medical treatment.
Yes, dog poop can kill grass. It's not just a nuisance; it's a potential hazard to your lawn due to the high nitrogen content. While grass needs nitrogen, the concentration in dog waste is often too high, leading to "urine burn" or burning the grass, leaving behind unsightly brown patches.
"Children between the ages of one and four
are the most frequent victims, accounting for 29.4% of the fatalities from dog attacks in 2022;
those under the age of seventeen accounted for 56.7% of all fatalities that year."
"estimated that 15% to 20% of dog bite wounds become infected,
with occasional cases of meningitis and endocarditis leading to death"
___
"Don’t try to outrun the dog unless you are a very strong rider. If you can’t completely outrun it, the dog may catch your wheel and knock you down.
While on the bike, don’t try anything beyond your bike-handling skills.
In a loud, firm voice say, “No!” “Bad dog!” “Go Home!” or other common commands.
Carry pepper spray or a commercial dog deterrent spray, and use according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Carry an “English Bobby”-style or dog-training whistle; they can often stop charging dogs in their tracks and send them home.
Just stop. If you do, the dog may also stop, allowing you to walk or ride slowly away.
Get off your bike quickly; if the dog attacks, use your bike as a barrier. "
"It's an on leash area"
'Fuck off".
"911."
"Go ahead."
"Come here, honey"
"Go play in the road, honey"
"In Portland, Oregon, dogs are required to be on a leash in public parks and spaces unless they are in a designated off-leash area.
Recent policy changes implemented in June 2025 allow park rangers to issue citations for off-leash dogs in on-leash areas
without issuing a prior warning, with potential fines ranging from
$50 to $150."
Wow, $50-150.
Gaetz Trumps Attorney General Choice
Gaetz campaign paying former Epstein lawyer amid sex trafficking investigation
"Half of that went to the law office of New York criminal defense attorney Marc Fernich,
who lists on his website "notable clients" that include convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,
Mexican drug lord El Chapo,
former mobster John A. "Junior" Gotti,
and "alleged propagandist in Nazi Hungary" Ferenc Koreh."
"Gaetz has also continued to pay political operative Roger Stone amid the ongoing investigation. "
"ABC News previously reported that Gaetz sought a blanket presidential pardon from the Trump White House, which was ultimately not granted."
" Gaetz has wild party surrounded by beautiful women"
"In November 2024, Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration as Trump's attorney general nominee after federal investigators said they discovered payments he made to a number of women in exchange for sex"
"Rep. Lauren Boebert wants Matt Gaetz to lead special counsel investigation into Epstein files
Lauren Bobert suggested that Matt Gaetz was an appropriate figure to deliver the ‘truth’ about Jeffrey Epstein"
"the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, in May, concluding that accepting the aircraft was “legally permissible”, and the White House accepted the jet just days after it was completed.
Bondi previously worked at Ballard Partners as a lobbyist for Qatar, a Gulf country that the Biden administration labeled a “major non-Nato ally” in 2022."
"The timing has raised additional concerns, coming shortly after the Trump Organization secured a deal with Qatar for a luxury resort and golf course development outside Doha, the country’s capital.
Questions persist about whether Qatar initiated the aircraft offer or responded to approaches from Trump’s team.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation submitted its Foia request on 15 May. But the press release says the justice department estimated it
would take more than 600 days to fulfill despite granting expedited processing."
Kompromat Epstein gold mine
Epstein allegedly showed inappropriate behavior toward underage female students at the time, paying them constant attention, and even showing up at a party where young people were drinking, according to a former student. Other former students also often saw him flirting with female students. Eventually, Epstein became acquainted with Alan Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Bear Stearns, whose son and daughter were attending the school. "
Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader. He swiftly moved up to become an options trader, working in the
special products division,
and then advised the bank's wealthiest clients, such as Seagram president Edgar Bronfman, on tax mitigation strategies.
Jimmy Cayne, the bank's later chief executive officer, praised Epstein's skill with wealthy clients and complex products.
In 1980, four years after joining Bear Stearns, Epstein became a limited partner.
In 1981, Epstein was asked to leave Bear Stearns for, according to his sworn testimony, being guilty of a "Reg D violation". Even though Epstein departed abruptly, he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and
was a client of Bear Stearns until its collapse in 2008."
In August 1981, Epstein founded his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc. (IAG), which assisted clients in recovering stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers.
Epstein described his work at this time as being a high-level bounty hunter
Epstein also stated to some people at the time that he was an intelligence agent.
During the 1980s, Epstein possessed an Austrian passport that had his photo, but with a false name.
The passport showed his place of residence as Saudi Arabia.
2017, "a former senior White House official" reported that Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who had handled Epstein's criminal case in 2008, had stated to interviewers of President Donald Trump's first transition team:
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to 'leave it alone'", and that Epstein was "above his pay grade".
During this period, one of Epstein's clients was the Saudi Arabian businessman Adnan Khashoggi, the uncle of Dodi Al Fayed who was the middleman in transferring American weapons from Israel to Iran as part of the Iran–Contra affair in the 1980s.
Khashoggi was one of several defense contractors that he knew.
In the mid-1980s, Epstein traveled multiple times between the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
While in London, Epstein met Steven Hoffenberg. They had been introduced through Douglas Leese, a defense contractor, and
John Mitchell, the former U.S. Attorney General.
"Steven Hoffenberg hired Epstein in 1987 as a consultant for Towers Financial Corporation (unaffiliated with the company of the same name founded in 1998, and acquired by Old National Bancorp in 2014),[64] a collection agency that bought debts people owed to hospitals, banks, and phone companies.
In 1993, Towers Financial Corporation imploded when it was exposed as one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in American history, losing over US$450 million of its investors' money (equivalent to $1 billion in 2024)"
The only publicly known billionaire client of Epstein was Leslie Wexner, chairman and CEO of L Brands (formerly The Limited, Inc.) and Victoria's Secret.
In 1986, Epstein met Wexner through their mutual acquaintances, insurance executive Robert Meister and his wife, in Palm Beach. A year later,
Epstein became Wexner's financial adviser and served as his right-hand man. Within the year, Epstein had sorted out Wexner's entangled finances.
In July 1991, Wexner granted Epstein full power of attorney over his affairs
often attended Victoria's Secret fashion shows, and hosted the models at his New York City home, as well as
helping aspiring models get work with the company.
2015, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Epstein invested in the startup Reporty Homeland Security (rebranded as Carbyne in 2018).
The startup was connected with Israel's defense industry.
It was headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also at one time the defense minister, and chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
The CEO of the company is Amir Elihai, a special forces officer, and Pinchas Bukhris, a director of the company and former defense ministry director general and commander of IDF cyber unit 8200.
Epstein and Barak, the head of Carbyne, were close, and Epstein often offered him lodging at one of his apartment units at 301 East 66th Street in Manhattan.
Epstein had past experience with Israel's research and military sector. In April 2008, he went to Israel and met with a number of research scientists and visited different Israeli military bases.
"Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his properties
to allegedly record sexual activity with underage girls or prominent people for criminal purposes such as blackmail"
Epstein allegedly "lent" girls to powerful people
to ingratiate himself with them
and also to gain possible blackmail information.
According to the Department of Justice, he kept compact discs locked in his safe in his New York mansion with handwritten labels that included the description: "young [name] + [name]".
Epstein implied that he had blackmail material when he told a New York Times reporter in 2018, off the record, that
he had dirt on powerful people,
including information about their sexual proclivities and recreational drug use."
*$*$*$*
Epstein was a longtime acquaintance of
Prince Andrew
and Tom Barrack, and attended parties with many prominent people, including
Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Mark Zuckerberg,
Donald Trump,
[219] Katie Couric, Woody Allen,[220]
Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin,
Naomi Campbell, Stephen Hawking,[222] and Harvey Weinstein.[223]
Contacts listed in his printed phone directory included
Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, John Kerry,
Richard Branson, Alec Baldwin, David Koch,
[225] and Michael Jackson.[226]
The "black book" also included
Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, British prime minister Tony Blair, and Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
According to Michael Wolff, former Trump chief Strategist Steve Bannon and Epstein were introduced in December 2017
Bannon met with Epstein several times at his mansion in New York.
Also according to Wolff, Bannon coached Epstein for a 60 Minutes interview which never occurred.
A New York Times article reported that Bill Gates's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein started in 2011, just a few years after Epstein's conviction, and continued for some years.
In August 2021, Gates said the reason he had meetings with Epstein was because
Gates hoped Epstein could provide money for philanthropic work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
Poison-gold
"Epstein owned a private Boeing 727 jet, nicknamed the "Lolita Express" by local residents, and traveled in it frequently, logging "600 flying hours a year ... usually with guests on board".
The jet was nicknamed the Lolita Express by the locals in the Virgin Islands, because of its frequent arrivals at Little Saint James with apparently underage girls."
In 2009, Epstein's brother Mark claimed Trump had flown on Epstein's plane at least once. He later told The Washington Post that
Trump flew "numerous times" on Epstein's airplane,
although Mark was present on only one of the flights.
According to Michael Corcoran, Trump flew Epstein on his own airplane at least once.
In September 2002, Epstein flew Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker to africa
In 2002, a spokesman of Bill Clinton lauded Epstein as "a committed philanthropist" with "insights and generosity".
At the time Epstein was on the board of Rockefeller University, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a major donor to Harvard University
Epstein visited the White House while Clinton was president on four known occasions
From the 1990s to mid-2000s, Epstein often socialized with Donald Trump.
Author Michael Wolff wrote that Trump, Epstein, and Tom Barrack were at the time like a "set of nightlife musketeers" on the social scene.
In a 2017 recording, Epstein stated that he was "Donald's closest friend for ten years."
Epstein and Trump socialized both in New York City and Palm Beach, where they both had houses
November 2004, Epstein and Trump's friendship ran into trouble when they became embroiled in a
bidding war for a $40 million mansion, Maison de L'Amitié, which was being auctioned in Palm Beach.
Trump won the auction for $41 million, and successfully sold the property four years later for $95 million to the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.
That month was the last time Epstein and Trump were recorded to have interacted."
In 2002 Epstein said "I invest in people — be it politics or science.
It's what I do"
Epstein was rumored to be associated with Intelligence agencies
The U.S. journalists Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin and James Robertson linked Epstein to the Israeli Mossad in their book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales. They relied for the most part on the former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe.
According to him, Epstein's activities as a spy served to gather compromising material on powerful people in order to blackmail them.
"As U.S. Attorney in Florida, the later U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta
reached a settlement with Epstein's lawyers (including Alan M. Dershowitz) in 2008, which allowed him to receive a very light prison sentence.
Acosta later reportedly stated that he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence"
and that the issue was above his "pay grade." According to Acosta, he was pushed to give him a good deal.
Former CIA Director and diplomat William J. Burns met with Epstein three times.
According to a CIA spokesperson, Burns hoped that Epstein would help him "transition to the private sector "
"According to various sources, beginning in the early-2000s Epstein developed a strong interest in "improving" the human race through genetic engineering and artificial intelligence,
including using his own sperm. He addressed the scientific community at various events and occasions and communicated his fascination with eugenics.
It was reported in August 2019 that Epstein had planned to "seed the human race with his DNA"
by impregnating up to 20 women at a time
using his New Mexico compound as a "baby ranch",
where mothers would give birth to his offspring.
He was an advocate of cryonics and his own idiosyncratic version of transhumanism, and had said that he intended to have his penis and head frozen.
Apple pie, baseball, and racist kidnapping by masked men with guns
"Congresswoman says she
‘can think of nothing more American’
than Ice dragging people out of court"
Apple pie, baseball, and racist kidnapping by masked men with guns.
“The … Republican party base gets off on this cruelty,”
Walsh continued. “She knows who she’s talking to.”
Meanwhile, X user Richard Angwin, a self-styled progressive with more than 200,000 followers, wrote:
“Nancy Mace’s gleeful endorsement of Ice’s courthouse ambushes on undocumented immigrants
exposes her as a hypocritical opportunist who prioritizes
performative cruelty over constitutional due process "
"recent Ice data showed most people that the agency was taking into custody in the first several months of Donald Trump’s second presidency had no violent convictions"
Beheading lunatic politicians with cucumbers is also a fine American pastime. So slow and wet.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Parks Why do many dogs dislike skateboards, bicycles, motorcycles, etc.
"Not just bicycles, cars and motorcycle but skateboards and roller blades, wheel chairs as well.
Even properly socialized, dogs with high prey drive
or herding instincts
can see these things as rabbits with a death wish or very large quick sheep"
"Dear Trainer: My Dog Loses Her Mind Whenever She Sees a Skateboard "
"Why do dogs hate skateboards? Dogs may react negatively to skateboards due to sensory overload, a lack of familiarity, and past negative experiences. The noise of the skateboard wheels rattling over concrete triggers a dog’s chase response. This instinct causes dogs to raise their defense mechanisms."
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Melanie's Uncle's grandchildren
Philip Champlin Obituary
Philip Champlin
September 1, 1939 - February 23, 2023
Retired Napa Superior Court Judge Philip AD Champlin passed away on February 23, 2023 from congestive heart failure.
Judge Champlin was born on Sept. 1, 1939 at Annapolis, Maryland. He retired from the Napa bench in 2000 after nearly 23 years of service on the Napa Courts. After retirement, he continued to serve in the Chief Justice's Assigned Judges Program until 2021.
He was the son of RAdm. Jackson S. Champlin, U.S.N. (Ret.)
and Betty Trotter Champlin, who predeceased him.
Judge Champlin is survived by his wife of 55 years, Lynne Champlin, their two adult children Christopher Champlin (Janna) of Roseville, CA and
Catherine Eisele (Alex) of St. Helena, CA
and his grandchildren Cooper and Samantha Champlin and Simon and Tristan Eisele.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/philip-champlin-obituary?id=50726414
"The Napa Valley wine industry generates an annual economic impact of over $13 billion in Napa County.
National Impact:
The industry's economic impact on the U.S. economy is estimated at $50 billion, creating over 300,000 jobs and generating $9.2 billion in wages.
Employment:
The wine and vineyard sector directly and indirectly employs nearly 40,000 people in Napa County, which is nearly half of the county's total employment.
Tourism:
The wine industry is a major draw for tourism, with hotels, restaurants, and wineries collaborating to promote the region. "
eddy wastrel (2017)
four hart in a stream owned by tomorrow
whose factory-sluice death runs cold their marrow
three eagles gnaw salmon killed off by tycoons,
ten aeons hence, one mushroom-cloud june,
storm clouds are canned, come popping from nodes
on digital whims and oligarch codes
nine wolves deep cave resting, prowling nocturnal
five winds sub-arctic, hell cats primordial
cubicle glacier, our snowshoe of speed
runs factory precision on table spread greed
a billion tonnes calving but who really counts
our personal souls droppings: a whopping one ounce
floating past gods, their form in the doe
our human waste frozen and nowhere to go
2017
Eyes Eyes (1972) Hurley
Protein monster ate a sack of poison sugar
Crawlin out of the barn to the weeds to die
He's rollin' his eyes... eyes, eyes.
Mama molasses broke my glasses
And the moon came up and we wiggled our asses
She's got red eyes... eyes, eyes.
Marilyn Monroe pointed her toe
Crawlin out of the pool, from the water so cool
Camera flashes flashin back from her eyes... eyes, eyes.
The werewolf cries and everybody hides
He won't be scared when he dies
Look in his eyes... eyes, eyes.
You call me a bum, sleepin' all day
There was nothin I wanted to say
I'm closin my eyes... eyes, eyes.
Michael Hurley
1972
transnational repression
Singapore 71
United States 58
Hong Kong 55
Mexico 25
Israel 24
Russia 10
Italy 6
Switzerland 3
Ireland 3
Other 17
"Hong Kong’s national security police have issued arrest warrants for 19 activists based overseas, accusing them of subversion under a stringent national security law, marking the largest such tally yet."
The UK’s foreign and home secretaries condemned the move in a joint statement, calling the arrests
“another example of transnational repression”
and saying it damages Hong Kong’s international reputation.
“[The UK] will not tolerate attempts by foreign governments to coerce, intimidate, harass or harm their critics overseas,” they said in a statement on Friday.
In response, the Chinese embassy in the UK said the British government’s remarks “constitute a gross interference” in China’s internal affairs and the rule of law in Hong Kong."
***
"The US Chamber of Commerce estimates that the US is short roughly 4.5m homes."
" In seven California counties – Sierra, Trinity, Mono, Alpine, Plumas, Modoc and Calaveras –
investors owned
more than 50% of homes."
"Tourist-heavy states Hawaii and Alaska clocked in with the highest share of investor-owned homes with 40% and 35%, respectively. Affordable states such as Arkansas (30%) and West Virginia (30%) also ranked highly.
By quantity, California had the second highest number of investor-owned homes in the country (1.45m) after Texas (1.66m),
with Florida clinching the bronze medal at 1.21m."
___
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/doge-ai-tool-delete-list-federal-regulations
Doge reportedly using AI tool to create ‘delete list’ of federal regulations
‘Department of government efficiency’ is proposing to use tool to cut 50% of federal regulations by January
The “Doge AI Deregulation Decision Tool” will analyze 200,000 government regulations,
according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Post, and
select those which it deems to be no longer required by law.
___
Friday, July 25, 2025
Disproportionate By Comparison
Starmer said:
"The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting.
The continued captivity of hostages,
the starvation and denial of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people,
the increasing violence from extremist settler groups,
and Israel’s disproportionate military escalation in Gaza are all indefensible."
Hostages? Count them as dead and martyred. Dead corpses.
Living children, babies, mothers, fathers, the elderly, civilians? 2 million Palestinians.
FU Starmer
FU King Charles.
"Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war."
Sentiments performative
" The UK, France and Germany have issued a statement saying the Gaza “humanitarian catastrophe must end now” They have called on Israel to “immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid”.
“The humanitarian catastrophe that we are witnessing in Gaza must end now,” a joint statement reads.
Arrest Netanyahu
Arrest Israeli Fascist Ministers
Take Ron Dermer's Visa
Quit Arms Shipments to Israel
Surround Israel with UK, France and Germany armed forces
Nah, just quip sentiments.
red flag, dopple fascism
Saying it doesn't make it so
Stamping it in red makes it Republican, tho
Proving your point auto be ez
Hire a bot, Orwell
Use an algorithm to put it top shelf
46 ladders high
Out of reach, danger.
Kids it's dangerous,
You don't want that
Trust me
Trump, Howard Stern
“I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I have not thought about,” Trump told reporters
"I'm allowed to break into Watergate, but I have not ever ever done that"
"I'm allowed I'm the President I can do what I want I'm king President "
"I allow myself to transact and wear a AI Pope costume"
"Grab them by the pussy. When you're a star, they let you. I'm allowed, I'm President, and born rich, and went to Wharton School of multiple felony bankruptcy rapes."
"I speak, but haven't thought about it"
"I hang myself, but I'm Pope, it's kinky hanging."
___
"Video footage of the incident captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men*, two of whom are undocumented.
They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.”
Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping:
“You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”
__
"Asked if there was any age limit in who he might go after, Trump said,
“No, I have no age — I mean, I have age limit. I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”
Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida, resigned from the House that year following allegations that he had sent sexually explicit messages to teenage boys who had been congressional pages. This August, Foley sat behind Trump at a rally in Florida, in seats reserved by the Trump campaign staff.
In one of their conversations about Trump’s daughter, Stern complimented Ivanka Trump’s looks and asked: “Can I say this? A piece of a--.”
“Yeah,” Trump responded.
__________
________
sacred silicon cow scientologist
"in 1963, Adi Da experimented with various hallucinogenic and other drugs.
For 6 weeks he was a paid test subject in drug trials of mescaline, LSD, and psilocybin conducted at a Veterans Administration hospital in California.
He wrote later that he found these experiences "self-validating"
in that they mimicked ecstatic states of consciousness from his childhood,
but problematic
as they often resulted in paranoia, anxiety, or disassociation"
"he felt that he discovered a structure or "myth" that governed all human conscious awareness,
a "schism in Reality" that was the "logic (or process) of separation itself,
of enclosure and immunity, the source of all presumed self-identity".
He understood this to be the same logic hidden in the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus,
the adored child of the gods,
who was condemned to the contemplation of his own image
and suffered the fate of
eternal separateness"
"He served as an acolyte in the Lutheran church during his adolescence and aspired to be a minister, but after leaving for college in the autumn of 1957,
expressed doubts about the religion to his Lutheran pastor.
Adi Da attended Columbia University where he graduated in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. He went on to complete a master's degree in English literature at Stanford University in 1963, under the guidance of novelist and historian
Wallace Stegner"
(Not that Google knows squat about Stanford,
LSD
The US Army
Or manipulating Cult Members 101.)
exhaustive writing, exhaustive writing, exhaustive writing, exhaustive writing, exhaustive writing, exhaustive writing
Jolly West
Feeling none of his Lutheran professors understood this experience, Adi Da left and
briefly attended St. Vladimir's Russian Orthodox Seminary in Tuckahoe, New York.
his autobiography, Adi Da related how he was granted shaktipat initiation, the awakening of the Kundalini Shakti that is said to reside at the base of the spine
After returning to New York, Adi Da and Nina became members and then employees of the Church of Scientology. members and then employees of the Church of Scientology.
Over a period of years, Adi Da entered into what he called "emotional-sexual reality consideration" with his formal devotees.
It included "sexual theater",
a form of psychodrama that sometimes involved the switching of partners,
the making of pornographic movies,
orgies and other intensified sexual practices,
with the aim of revealing and releasing emotional and sexual neuroses.
Adi Da spoke of the cultish and contractual nature of conventional relationships, particularly marriage, as being a form of reinforcement of the ego-personality and an obstacle to spiritual life. Many couples were initially encouraged to switch partners and experiment sexually.
Drug and alcohol use were sometimes encouraged, and earlier proscriptions against meat and "junk food" were no longer adhered to for periods of time.
In investigative reports and interviews, some ex-members made numerous specific allegations of Adi Da forcing members to engage in psychologically, sexually, and physically abusive and humiliating behavior, as well as accusing the church of committing tax fraud. Others stated that they never witnessed or were involved in any such activities
homeopath Gabriel Cousens wrote an endorsement for
Adi Da's biography
The Promised God-Man Is Here"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Da
"Adi Da heavily edited subsequent editions of his books, for which they have been criticized as auto-hagiography and self-mythology.
University of Southern California religion professor Robert Ellwood wrote, "Accounts of life with [Adi Da] in his close-knit spiritual community [describe]
extremes of asceticism and indulgence,
of authoritarianism and antinomianism… Supporters of the alleged avatar rationalize such eccentricities as
shock therapy
for the sake of enlightenment"
Wikipedia Throat
"Prior to the Watergate scandal, Felt had become estranged from Joan. They had been close during her childhood, but after she graduated from Stanford, she had gone to Chile under a Fulbright scholarship to continue her studies.
While there, she became friends with Marxist revolutionary Andrés Pascal Allende, nephew of future president Salvador Allende.
When she returned home, her political views had shifted to the extreme left, putting her in conflict with her conservative father.
She earned her master's degree in Spanish at Stanford, and then joined a hippie community in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Felt and his wife went to visit her once
and were appalled at her counterculture lifestyle and use of drugs;
he was reminded of members of the militant Weather Underground that the FBI had been persecutingprosecuting.
Joan's friends were equally shocked that her father was an FBI agent. Following their visit, Joan terminated most contact with her parents
As a result, and combined with the fact that she did not follow the news, she was unaware of her father's legal problems arising from the Watergate scandal.
The stress of following her husband's career, which kept him away from home much of the time, resulted in Audrey suffering a nervous breakdown in 1954 while the family was living in Seattle.
When Felt was put on trial in 1980, she attended the first day, but did not return, as she was unable to bear it. On July 20, 1984, she committed suicide using Felt's revolver.
Felt and Mark Jr., an officer in the United States Air Force who flew Air Force Two for then-vice president George H. W. Bush, decided to keep this a secret
and told Joan that her mother had died of a heart attack.
Joan did not learn the truth about her mother's suicide until 2001
Meanwhile, Joan had become an adherent of Adi Da, who had founded a new religious movement in San Francisco called Adidam, and she was living in Santa Rosa. She had borne three sons– Ludi (later Will), Rob, and Nick, the latter two from another Adidam devotee whom she never married –but her parents had only met Ludi during their visit in 1974.
After Audrey's death, Felt began making yearly visits to see Joan and his grandsons, and they also came to visit him and his new girlfriend, who lived in the same apartment complex. In 1990 Felt permanently moved to Santa Rosa"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt
William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008) was an American law enforcement officer who worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1942 to 1973 and was known for his role in the Watergate scandal. Felt was an FBI special agent who eventually rose to the position of Deputy Director, the Bureau's second-highest-ranking post. Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's headquarters.
In 1980, he was convicted
of having violated the civil rights of people
thought to be associated
with members of the Weather Underground,
by ordering FBI agents to break into their homes
and search the premises
as part of an attempt to prevent bombings.
He was ordered to pay a fine, but was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan during his appeal.
decrepitude has our # (2018)
Pesto by the fork, rake the top
Listen to snock
Boogie in an armchair with a hot water bottle
We're old and decrepitude has our #
Walnuts garlic parm basil olive oil
Who needs pasta, who needs snock
It's the walnuts
Making the zen under the salt
Or the not all silver fork I didn't melt down
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