Tuesday, October 06, 2026
Sounds Bad
I wonder who the foreign powers are.
Former German spy chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, treason and obtaining classified information for a foreign power, the German Federal Prosecutor's Office says.Hanning headed the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005 and has since been working as a private consultant.Prosecutors allege that he used classified intelligence to "draft an analysis" for one foreign intelligence service and maintained contact with another foreign spying service. Investigators have not disclosed which foreign powers were involved.
I bet there is quite a lot of this type of thing, not in the Cold War spy movie version of ideological defectors, but more the world of corporate influence peddling. People are peddling information for money, and the line between corporation and state is a bit fuzzy!
I don't know what is going on here, of course.
As I Said, The Man Has A Point
Speaking at a Republican political rally in Nebraska, the president sought to justify the Iran war as necessary for “keeping the world safe.” He then suggested there could be strikes on the United States, including the Democratic-led Californian cities.
“They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take — Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”
It was not immediately clear what Mr. Trump meant, but his comments were met with anger from officials in California, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who called the president “deranged and dangerous.”
Monday, October 05, 2026
The Crimes of Cloudy John
Linkrot has made it difficult for me to put together a portfolio, but basically he regularly did what I would call "Jeff Gerth specials" about Democrats. He had it in for Harry Reid in particular.
He'd publish pieces that made perfectly ordinary behavior sound suspicious, leaving out key facts (or getting them a bit wrong) and descriptions that would make that obvious, leaving readers with the impression that something naughty was going on. He either knew exactly what he was doing, or was a happy conduit for someone who did.
Denny Who?
I suspect that if the former Dem Speaker of the House had been disgraced (disgraced themselves) in this fashion, "we" would have never stopped hearing about it.
Former Rep. Dennis Hastert, who served eight years as speaker of the House — longer than any Republican in U.S. history — and then spent more than a year in prison after he left Congress for scheming to cover up sexual abuse allegations, died over the weekend, according to Kendall County Coroner’s Office in Illinois.
Maybe Trump will give him a State funeral.
Cloudy John
John Solomon had a good run as a "real" journalist.
From 1987 until 2006, Solomon worked at the Associated Press, where he became the assistant bureau chief in Washington, helping to develop some of the organization's first digital products, such as its online elections offering.[17][5][6]
In 2007, he served as The Washington Post's national investigative correspondent.
He was one of those people that the rabid lambs of the internet would complain about, pointing out that he was who he obviously was. Journalists refused to listen to any criticism from The Left back then, so here we are.
U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart says, “If you want to get a message to the president, talk to" John Solomon and Amanda Head
Letting The Terrorists Win
I maintain my stance that there was no "terrorism plot" - just some fuel thieves - and that everything that is happening is to maintain Donald Trump's delusional reality.
The United States rushed over the weekend to withdraw all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation, two U.S. officials said on Sunday.
And it isn't very HIGH T to retreat, is it.
Sure Why Not
It is definitely a problem that supposedly educated people think that spicy autocomplete actually knows things, instead of being able to assemble word patterns in an attempt to provide the answer whoever is querying it is looking for, as that is what it is programmed to do.
Former New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has been on a media blitz this week, seeking to clear his name after resigning amid allegations of sexual harassment and ethics violations.
And in one unusual comment, Caldwell revealed that he ran his case through AI platforms for help.
In an on-camera interview with NJ PBS, Caldwell said he fed the investigative report through different artificial intelligence platforms about 59 times, asking in repeated prompts: “What would your findings be?”
It is not actually a moral or legal authority. It is not God.
A million judges and attorneys just cried out in agony:
"Everyone should put that through," he said. "And I think we can use AI to stop legal abuse."
The man's wiki bio:
Dale Gilbert Caldwell[1] (born July 6, 1960) is an American academic administrator and author who served as the fourth lieutenant governor and 35th secretary of state of New Jersey from January to September 2026. A member of the Democratic Party, Caldwell was the first man to serve as the state's lieutenant governor. He previously served as president of Centenary University from 2023 to 2025, and was the university's first black president.[2][3][4]
A former president of the Educational Services Commission of New Jersey (2001–2024), Caldwell was also the founding president of the College Achieve of Greater Asbury Park Charter School[5] and served as a member of the New Brunswick Board of Education from 1998 to 2024. He is also the pastor of Covenant United Methodist Church in Plainfield, New Jersey.[6] Following a report alleging that Caldwell had engaged in sexual harassment and ethics violations, Caldwell announced his resignation in September 2026.[7]
Your honor, the computer says I am good, actually. I move to dismiss!
Sunday, October 04, 2026
Juiceless
It is reasonable to fear that Donald Trump will decide he can run for president again, but only because it will be one more opportunity for the balls and strikes gang to destroy whatever is left of the constitution.
He wouldn't actually win again (and yes there are other election shenanigans and coup concerns of course).
90 Bucks
I am still laughing at Trump's 90 buck promise. Of course any amount of money is welcome (if it shows up) to people who need it, but a one time gift of just 90 bucks is gonna be a joke even to them
Morning
Sunday funday.
I am doing a 10K+ trail run which is going to be a bit more trail (and hill) than I thought when I signed up.
Saturday, October 03, 2026
Doxxing Cotton
I am not surprised that Trump would do this, just a bit surprised he is doing it over this issue.
"Nearly $100"
My teen nieces would be, um, less than thrilled if their birthday present was a hundred bucks. I admit that for awhile I thought maybe their expectations were a bit high, but then I thought about my birthday cash presents from non-parent relatives when I was a teen, did the inflation math, and realized...nah, actually, they were right.
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