If you can't remember having amnesia, how can you be sure it really happened?

Ex-Mr. Kellyanne Conway Cries as He Admits Blowing His Children’s Inheritance on Defeating Trump
April 9, 2026

29-Year-Old NASA Nuclear Propulsion Engineer Went Missing Last July, Found Dead in Burned-Out Tesla Wreck
April 23, 2026

□ [“Trump Announces Israel and Lebanon Have Agreed to Extend Ceasefire by Three Weeks"]

This annoys me less than the same ceasefire for the same reason with Iran.  At least with Iran, it's direct and we should just wipe them out.  I'm positive that Iran's involved with Lebanon although I have no idea whether they're the cause or if they're just supporting their own people.  This actually does sound like a more-valid way of bringing peace to the region and I'm sure whoever's in charge of Iran doesn't like it.

□ [“NYT:   Iranian Supreme Leader Is Waiting for Prosthetic Leg, Will Need Face Surgery"]

Did he otherwise look in decent shape?  How was his voice?  They did speak to him directly, didn't they?  Or are they just reporting what government officials want people to hear?  Something about that seems kinda iffy.  The NYT could at least cite their sources who spoke to the Ayatollah in the last couple days, just to confirm that he's still alive.  Otherwise, what are they paying for?

It's slowly becoming clear that the last fifty years or so of leftism has been directed by Iran and the New York Times is one of their central pillars, so nothing about this seems believable.  It's entirely possible he's still alive but as the spiritual leader of the nation, his supporters would need to promote that constantly.  Otherwise he just looks weak and easy-to-ignore, basically the same situation his father has been in for the last couple months.  That's not going to help win a war against the infidel.

New Jersey Congressman Has Been Missing for Over a Month - No One Has Seen or Heard from Him
April 23, 2026

US Soldier Used Classified Information on Maduro's Capture to Profit $400,000 with Polymarket Bets
April 23, 2026

□ [“Thousands of Californians Finally Get Permits to Rebuild from Wildfires After Trump's EO"]

The left runs the government, they allowed the fires, did nothing to stop them, burned down all these houses and then prevented people from rebuilding.  Trump took action with an executive order in January with overruled all the regulation and delays.  I'm not saying California deserves that but it's still a good move.  I also think it's an example of the larger plan we're getting a glimpse of.

Essentially, hoping I'm not being naively-optimistic, the plan was to pull back and let Democrats show off who they really are.  They've won most of the random elections that have happened since November 2024 and their ilk is already causing problems, even for their voters.  A Muslim socialist became New York City mayor and has almost completely failed to keep any of his promises.  Not only that, he's being sued by a neighborhood of rich people who voted for him because he's trying to build a homeless shelter there.  Leftists don't want poor people around them yet here they are.  Meanwhile Virginia's new governor is pushing programs she campaigned against.

All across the board, they're showing that they'll lie to gain power and already gloating about the tyranny they'll inflict on people they don't like as soon as they get the chance.  That's what I suspect the administration planned.  Between his experience with negotiations and the stern military men he's appointed, they are using tactics and strategy to build up to the mid-terms.  Meanwhile Democrats are busy trying to delude themselves into thinking they're doing great.  They did that in November 2024, and June 2024 before that, and look how that worked out for them.

California continues to be the main symbol of what they're doing.  Gavin Newsom thinks he's entitled to be installed as POTUS and doesn't have much to show for his years of failing upwards.  He was supposed to be replaced by Eric Swalwell who was the big favorite just a couple weeks ago.  They're still trying to avoid explaining why they put themselves into this mess and haven't even gotten around to explaining Biden and Harris.  I don't know how it's possible but I really do think the Trump administration has prepared for this.  Newsom spending a billion dollars to bring in hundreds of thousands of illegals isn't really going to help them.

London rental ads exclude applicants based on religion and offering “Muslims only” housing
April 23, 2026

The first two issues of Spider-Man consist of two stories each.  It is not known what order they were created in.  The second story in each issue was 10 pages, the length of the story in Amazing Fantasy #15, so it's most-likely that they were created to run in that title, before learning that the book had been cancelled, cover-dated August 1962.  So when the new series was started, March 1963, longer stories were created to fill out the remaining pages, before moving to stories that filled the whole issue.

For convenience, I assume that the respective stories in each issue were created in that order, #1 story two, #2 story two, #1 story one, #2 story one.  That may just be my own aesthetics and unless someone can dig up Marvel payment records from 63 years ago, we will never know the truth.  The reason I put them in this order was because that I do assume Spider-Man had always intended to be the centerpoint of the franchise, interacting with other characters.  In this story, he meets the Fantastic Four.

It's not even a special event, noteworthy for its own sake.  Carrying on from the death of his uncle, Peter Parker needs to bring in money, so he thinks he can get a job with the FF.  It's a quick two-page scene, entertaining for what it is, then it gets back to the main topic of the story.  Jack Kirby would do an expanded version of it a couple years later, selling the same thing to the Fantastic Four audience, just in case they weren't the same readers.

Marvel heroes to this point did not fight standard supervillains, they fought monsters, aliens and Russians.  Although the Chameleon is a Russian spy, he's otherwise treated as a normal supervillain.  His plan is to trick the hero and impersonate him while committing a crime so he'll get the blame.  The use of a fistfight to solve the problem was modified.  In a fight with police, Spidey didn't even realize he had revealed the Chameleon who was now impersonating an officer, and ran away thinking he had failed.

Ditko's layout and pacing also stands out, changing camera-angle often to show what's going on while other times leaving it the same for multiple panels to show the reaction of the characters.  It's been a long time since I looked this closely at other superhero books from this era so I don't know how brilliant and original this really was at the time, but it still stands up quite well.  It's a very entertaining way to push the new character.

The next story is the most out-of-character event in Ditko's run.  At school, Peter is picked for a weekend job by a scientist.  His first task will be to pick up a radio sent in for repairs.  The repair shop is suspicious so later Spider-Man investigates and discovers aliens planning to conquer the Earth.  Once again, the pacing is actually quite good although the story just gets dumber as it progresses and we never hear about this again.  Every single other Ditko story had something that would eventually return or be relevant, this was essentially one of the monster stories Marvel was already doing.

The opening story in #1 is where the overall tone of the series is seen.  Peter recaps his origin and tries to think of ways to bring in money to earn a living and support his aunt.  Crime's not an option and no entertainment company will pay him cash.  This introduces the media tycoon J. Jonah Jameson.  He hates Spider-Man just because he can and is also promoting his son who is an astronaut.  Back in the early-60s, those were the ones promoted as heroes.  Of course Jameson's son has rocket problems, only Spidey can save him and that just gives the media another excuse to hate him.

The theme of big media and business is introduced and will slowly build through Ditko's run.  The point was that Spider-Man was trying to do the right thing and ended off worse at the end of the story because of it.  That's a believable human problem everyone can relate to.  It's unknown how much Lee and Ditko really thought about this and how much they were just trying to crank out stories to entertain kids but it's still a more intelligent narrative than you'd expect from superhero comics.

The first story in #2 brings in another supervillain, the Vulture, and continues to expand the different aspects of Peter's life.  He has schoolmates who hate him, an aunt who raised him but needs money and we're still developing the mass media part of the story.  JJJ wants pictures of the Vulture.  Aunt May gives Peter a camera his uncle used to have.  She's already started selling things to make ends meet, why hasn't she sold that already?  Never mind, anyway, Peter now has someone who will pay him for pictures of Spider-Man, a happy ending.

The battle scenes of these stories certainly look good, lots of running around and clever camera angles.  Each story has included a part where Peter shows his interest in science.  Not remotely realistic but still believable and helps develop the character.  The bullies at school are very one-dimensional, probably another way to appeal to the sort of comics readers this was aimed at.

The media aspect is still being developed.  The basics for J. Jonah Jameson are there but he's currently a magazine publisher.  The Daily Bugle won't be introduced until next issue.  There is a secretary seen at the front desk whom I will assume is Betty Brant although there's not enough detail at this angle to prove that.

It's interesting to see how slow the development was here, all things considered.  Action Comics #1 just showed Clark Kent walking into a newspaper, getting a job and immediately dealing with Lois Lane without any delay.  By comparison, even these short stories were deeper and more thoughtful.  The subject matter could be very subtle but would continue to grow and show why this character would be the heart of the Marvel franchise.

The dialogue and storytelling just comes off as excellent, at least by comparison to their competitors.  As many problems as Lee and Ditko would have for the thirty-eight issue run, it was already intriguing and was just getting started.  I have (mostly) grown out of superhero comics by now but I can still see the appeal works like this had back in my youth.  Considering these stories are over a decade older than I am, it's easy to see why the franchise would continue to grow.

Somali Jihadist/Ilhan Omar Donor Gets Slap-on-the-Wrist Sentence — 8.5 Years for Trying to Join ISIS
April 23, 2026

□ [“British Cabinet Ministers Turn on Starmer Over His Mishandling of the Mandelson Vetting Crisis"]

He'll probably be gone quickly.  There's the fact that he couldn't vet his own people who turned out to be tied to Epstein.  We're even told that he ignored warnings about this and ordered his ambassador to the US to pass no matter what.  He's also been accused of taking free expensive gifts and letting criminals out of jail but that's not a problem for leftists.  His appointees have to resign for their own ethical problems, still not a problem.  It's the connection to Epstein.

This is making the point that a lot of the worldwide elites were tied to him.  I'm getting the theory that whoever handled the public release of Epstein files did a 'control F' and replaced a lot of names with "Trump."  That way Trump-haters would give it tons of attention while the real names would know that it's going to be turned on them once the truth comes out.  We see an early example of that here with Starmer, he needs to be dumped now before anyone else gets caught in the trap and they know they're going to be caught.

It is surprising how all the noise about Epstein from the left has died down.  They still recite the old rhetoric about how it's proven that Trump molests children but they never get around to showing that proof in public.  They certainly never wonder why the Biden administration never did anything about with all that evidence right there.  But like I said, this is just generic leftist ranting, no different from complaining about global warming or how white men are bad.  They can't apply it to reality but that doesn't bother them.  The real problem is that they might get caught doing what they accuse others of.  That's why they need to turn on their own as quickly as possible.

Germany Unveils Strategy for Turning the Bundeswehr Into Europe’s Strongest Military by 2039
April 23, 2026

Like most people, I work out notes for an essay on Steve Ditko I hope to write.

Set-up - how much of 'multiverse' and DC do I need to include?
Jack Kirby returning to Marvel, Ditko being hired
Distributors

Flash 123 FF 1
Challengers of the Unknown, Kirby and Schiff
Golf game
As distributor, DC knew all

Anything else I have to say about FF
Hulk - monster book
Setting up franchise
Thor - Kirby's mythology interest

Ant-Man - 1st appearance
    2nd appearance
    Goodman's interest

Kirby's Spider-Man
Why not print?
Where is the art?
Goodman paid for it
Stolen?
    When old thieves die, what about the art?

Amazing Fantasy 15 - not sure what to say

Short stories for #1 and 2
    Stereotype of superheroes
    Aliens, monsters, Russians - Spidey was the normal one
    Chameleon - Russian / FF - franchise
    Most out-of-character story
    JJJ 1st appearance
    Vulture - not sure Betty appears
    JJJ/Betty start the longrange plots

Peter's home life and school life

#3 Doc Ock is Ditko's main villain - Johnny Storm
    I've asked Ditko Facebook if he'd done a long story before this issue

#4 Sandman at school
#5 Dr. Doom - #4-5 were the first monthly issues
#6 Lizard - is JJJ involved?
#7 Vulture returns - Betty at Bugle

Peter + Betty
    #7 ending
    #8 School - Kirby FF
    Flash Thompson - not much to say about him
    Liz

#9-12
    Betty - She's worried - Her past - Her rother - Leaves but comes back
    Liz changes her mind

#10 opens subplots
    Aunt May gets sick in 9, meets Betty - blood transfusion is in 10
    Big Man

9-12 finish talking about that - Betty vs. Liz
    This is where Ditko started his long storylines, assuming he wasn't already starting them

Betty vs. Liz #13, 14, 15
    Mary Jane, Aunt May wants Peter to meet a girl
    Liz as rival - Liz and MJ
    Liz and Betty meet MJ - Liz quits
    Betty and Ned - the Fountainhead

Finish the stuff about Betty
    Gwen as replacement for Liz
    Speculation about MJ

Aunt May gets sick three times in Ditko's run
   Speculation on what Ditko would do with her

Villains up through the Sinister Six

JJJ - too useful as a character to define
    Media - Daily Bugle
    Business/crime

#10 Foswell - his part of the story

Green Goblin
    Ditko's only public statement
    Other examples of his playing with identity
    #14 first appearance - sets it all up to get Spidey, appears on first page, walks away on last page
        Hulk, FF story, Movies
    #17 Second appearance, still no basis for his character
       He wants to destroy Spidey - why?
    Liz's father

#17-19 Sandman, Torch, Enforcers
    It's a multi-part story

#20 JJJ - Scorpion - not sure what to asy

Other Goblin appearances
Ditko's storytelling in later issues - was the point to be boring?
Norman Osborne
My favorite issue
    Credit to Stan for that dialogue
    Problems with Stan - the Master Planner set-up
Ditko breaks with Stan
How Stan had to clean it up after Ditko left
    Betty - MJ - Goblin - Kingpin
If I can get all this written, go back and try to work out every step of my DC/Multiverse essays to build up to this

16 - DD Circus of Crime
21 - Johnny Storm, Beetle
22 - Circus of Crime
23 - Goblin/Mob
24 - Mysterio
26-27 - Goblin/Mob
28 - Graduation, Molten Man
29 - Cat Burgler, setting up Master Planner - these were Spidey's equivalent of "graduation"
34 - Kraven - 35 Molten Man - these are repetitive
36 - Meteor/Gwen - she's hooked
37 - Stromm/Osborne
The last several villains were repetitive or pointless, it might be Ditko's version of 'what happens after graduation?'

18 - sees Betty with other man, we'll learn it's Ned - making Peter jealous
19 - Peter isn't jealous
20 - Ned leaves for Europe
29 - Ned returns - both issues have Scorpion - 30 Ned has proposed

The question should be "what's up?" The real question should be "what isn't up?" Do we even know what "up" is?

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan Fired
April 22, 2026

□ [“Famous UFO Researcher David Wilcock Dead from ‘Apparent Suicide' age 53"]]
□ [“Long-Time Washington Post Editor Found Dead in His Home, Age 60"]
□ [“Rep. David Scott (D-GA) Suddenly Dies, Age 80"]

None of these people are "celebrities" any real sense of the world but they're high enough in society that I basically take any of these people dying with suspicion.  Haven't noticed much in the way of huge celebrity deaths lately, by my count Chuck Norris, Jesse Jackson and Robert Duvall are the biggest names to die in 2026.  They were all very old, that needs to be taken into account.  But these three...?

Even the old congressman, he just suddenly dies?  Given everything that's going on and my suspicion that Georgia is one of the central points of modern leftism, I find it hard to believe that he just had a heart attack or fell down a flight of stairs, even though I'm sure that's what's going to be reported.  And the other two weren't even that old.  But the Post editor was long-time media, he's in on all the cover-ups.  And the other guy, everything about this looks suspicious.

He's trying to find the secrets about UFOs.  He's posted before that he's not remotely suicidal.  Yet he's going through *something* over the weekend and that's it, he shoots himself, simple as that?  This is why people believe in things like demon possession, the most logical explanation we can conceive of.  It's why I continue to just assume there's a huge demon-worshipping cult among our elites and deaths like these are part of the plan.  Maybe it's straightforward human sacrifice, maybe it's something else.

And maybe deaths like these always happen quite often, it's just social media that makes us all more paranoid.  Or it's just results from the Covid vaccine.  I'm paranoid and enjoy making up conspiracy theories but I do try to look for explanations that would prove me wrong.  That helps me reinforce the conspiracy theories, like wft is going on with these deaths?

Small Plane Hits Powerlines, Flips and Crashes to the Ground in California
April 22, 2026

Whoopi Goldberg of The View Claims Trump is Planning a Military Draft to Fight Iran
April 20, 2026

Gunman Opens Fire at Top of Teotihuacán Pyramid in Mexico — One Tourist Killed, Dozens Injured
April 21, 2026

□ [“Iranian Women to Be Executed – Where Is the Radical Left?  Where’s the Pope?"]

Not sure what their crimes were, maybe they were the ones dressing like whores and posting those pix on the internet.  If that isn't enough to get you executed, I don't know what is.  But news has already come out that Trump posted that they shouldn't hurt the women so Iran was nice and obedient and decided not to hurt the women.  You know, I remember when hating women used to mean something.

So of course the pope and the left will ignore it.  To acknowledge something happened would mean they couldn't support Iran's government as much as they do.  They also pretend to support women so it's just easier if these chicks get late-term aborted.  And that's not even getting into their opposition to the death penalty except for those they don't like but just ignore that.  They're so open-minded and loving.

I'm becoming more convinced that the Iranian government doesn't really exist anymore.  This may be part of their plan and they may have prepared to be independent groups but otherwise they're just in pieces.  The IRGC is probably the strongest force remaining and I'm guessing the mullahs are basically ignored.  They can't contribute anything to survival so the 'power behind the throne' has to do all the work.  And while writing this paragraph, I happened to see an article claiming that the IRGC has been preparing for this sort of autonomous resistance - 31 separate provincial commands - for the last 20 years.  So this is probably their best chance.

We're nearing the last thirty days of this operation before Congress needs to vote on it.  The regime is planning to hold out.  Trump has issued some threats, I doubt those will be taken seriously but it's not clear how that relates to the ceasefire which may or may not be nearing an end.  I've also heard that the people might be ready for rebellion but if that happens, we'll probably be the last to know.

First Labour Member of Parliament Calls for the Resignation of British PM Starmer
April 22, 2026

Two CIA Officers Killed in Fiery Car Crash After Drug Lab Raid in Mexico
April 21, 2026

Minnesota School to Construct a Prayer Room and Foot-Washing Stations to Accomodate Muslim Students
April 21, 2026

□ [“Virginia Court Strikes Down Democrat Gerrymander Referendum as Unconstitutional"]

The point was to gerrymander the map so all Republican voters were in one district and the other ten could all vote Democrat.  Voters went for this on Tuesday but 51.5-48.5%.  State law requires there to be a 2/3 vote in favor of placing this on the ballot which didn't happen so this very-slight victory shouldn't have happened.  My guess is that, assuming the next highest court doesn't immediately overturn this court, the politicians will still ignore the ruling this fall.

The point is to give all the congressional seats to Democrat voters no matter how much of the population votes Republican.  The new Virginia governor campaigned against this and then supported it as soon as she took office.  I forget which Democrat public spokesman said it - probably several - but they're openly urging candidates to lie just to achieve power so they can go on to push the real goals.  Tyrants are fine with that.  So are Democrats.

Beyond that, there's also evidence that taxpayer-funded schools were pushing which way to vote on their students which is not what Virginia schools are supposed to do.  This is going to look bad for everybody except Democrats.  There's also a theory that part of Virginia used to be part of DC but was moved back to the state to defend slavery, so Trump could write an executive order taking that land back and really mess up the gerrymandering.  That certainly sounds like something Trump would do but I have no idea if he'd take on yet-another headache.  Ok, let me rephrase that, I don't know if he'd take on this specific headache.  But the left is continuing to demonstrate that they are all-in on Civil War 2.0.

Two Armed Philadelphia Thugs Steal $1.8 Million from Armored Truck in Broad Daylight and Escape
April 22, 2026

London Sees Third Attack on Jewish Sites in a Week, as Attempted Arsonist Targets Synagogue
April 19, 2026

□ [“Ilhan Omar’s California Winery LLC Dissolved 9 Days After She Scrubbed Her Financial Disclosures"]

It looks like she's the next target.  Can't go after Nancy Pelosi, she's too rich.  Also old and white.  AOC is also getting richer but she's still to popular for some unknown reason.  But Omar is tied to the Somali fraud in Minnesota which we haven't heard about for a few months.  So that's probably the next step.

Omar isn't handling this well.  She refuses to answer any questions about what she's doing with taxpayer money or why she's too stupid to know that the financial documents she signs are incorrect.  She's certainly not going to say anything bad about her accountant - no indication he's been fired - or why her husband has spent all these years investing money but they're still living paycheck-to-paycheck.  But at least they suddenly ditched the winery which it's strange a Muslim woman would ever invest in.  Nice timing.

We're slowly getting hints at what our elite politicians and bureaucrats invest their wealth in to get more money.  The releases are going way too slow and still nobody's been arrested.  The best we can say is that at least a few members of Congress have stepped down and we are still learning more.  There's what we got from DOGE, the laundering money for our elite class, not to mention the way the left is obeying Muslims.  This may wind up explaining the whole *woke* movement which put people like Omar in charge.

Appeals Court Overrules Lower Court, Sides With Texas on 10 Commandments in Classroom
April 22, 2026

My name is Sue. How do you do? Now you gonna die! Oh sh*t, I'm in the wrong place, aren't I? Sorry, my bad.

Adult Illegal Who Sexually Assaulted a Dozen Virginia High School Girls Gets Light Sentence – 135 Days
April 21, 2026

□ [“Trump Extends Ceasefire with Iran"]

His statement says this is from a request by Pakistan.  Iran's government is a shambles so they need time to make a genuine peace proposal.  The ceasefire will last until they make that proposal.

This could go either way.  The Iranian government doesn't want peace and is perfectly willing to hold out as long as possible, which is easier if the US military isn't wasting them all day every day.  Trump does want a deal, so he looks weak for not getting one.  He also doesn't want to send in troops but that really is a crucial part of winning a war.  Without that, Trump will soon be gone and the mullahs can get back to what they were doing, at least in theory.

But this doesn't account for the problems the Iranian government is having.  Trump's not dropping the blockade so there's still a lot fewer supplies coming in.  A few days ago, he even said there was no pressure to make a deal, if that was better than a bad deal like Obama made.  So in that sense, he's fine keeping Iran on a holding pattern.  But that does have to end soon.

We can't account for the mullahs, the IRCB or the Iranian people.  The military always makes plans to invade every country so they had fifty years of analysis on Iran to go through preparing for this attack.  I'm sure that was all taken into account but we have no way to know how right or wrong they were.  That's why the Venezuela attack was so awesome, it was over almost before we knew about it.  And Trump is over halfway to the point where Congress needs to approve anything he does with Iran.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth Announces Flu Vaccine Policy for Service Members is Now Voluntary
April 21, 2026

□ [“Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FA) Resigns Over $5 Million FEMA Funds Scandal"]

The third member of Congress to resign this month.  It's the sort of thing you'd expect more will follow but there's a legitimate question about who would replace them.  If twenty or forty are forced to leave and their replacements are appointed by governors or whoever, then there'd be a chunk of Congress with no concerns about winning the voters.  That's not a good place to be in.

McCormick's public statement didn't call everybody "racist," that's a surprise.  She does call it a witch hunt and she's the one being persecuted for routing FEMA disaster funds to her family businesses and her 2021 campaign.  The ethics committee has already voted against her, even leftists like AOC said they'd vote to kick her out if it came to that.

We really do need a better look at what's going on.  But that said, it's clear that at least some in Congress and the executive branch are going after politicians and bureaucrats for both illicit financial and sexual gains.  Neither side is becoming well-known, especially with nothing to outrage the public, 'oh no!  They're doing that!!!'  It's a good thing in that it helps the investigations continue quietly but it also means we getting no sense of progress.  They could end tomorrow and we wouldn't notice.

Japan Lifts Ban on Weapon Exports In Break With Post-WW2 Pacifism
April 21, 2026

□ [“Pope Leo Changes Tack on Immigration — Surprise Message to Africans Looking to Migrate"]

Sounds like his handlers have told him he needs to back up a bit.  He's getting ready for an African tour but needs to stay away from where all the Christians are being slaughtered.  It might offend Muslims if he says anything about that so he needs to make up for that by saying *maybe* it might be better for people to stay where they are and make things better instead of invading other countries.  Anybody who would think he believes this has already fallen for the leftist nonsense and everyone else is working out how to protect themselves.

The Catholic Church is the oldest organization on the planet - unless you count the hereditary Japanese monarchy - so there's really no clue how long it would take them to collapse.  But the last two popes are doing everything they can to make it happen, whether they acknowledge this or not.  Catholics worldwide could say 'this is not my pope' and that would probably work but how far down the line would it go and what would the result be?

I am not a fan of organized religion but not in the sense that I expect to outlive it.  But I do think believers should take a massive retreat from these institutions.  Small groups, whether or not they're connected to each other, and focus on the religion itself and not all the financial aspects that comes along with it.  Believers can get by without these mortal institutions, no matter how big they are.  But the institutions cannot get by without the believers.  Or if they can, they need the taxpayers.  Time to make them suddenly have no one to fall back on in times like these.

Video with Female Overweight NYPD Trying to Restrain Punk Shows Mamdani’s NYC Is Doomed
April 21, 2026

□ [“DOT Secretary Sean Duffy to End New York's Right to Issue Commercial Drivers Licenses"]

Interesting although I'm not sure anybody can foresee all the consequences we're looking at.  53% of New York commercial driver's licenses are issued to foreigners.  Nor sure those are all specifically for truck drivers or if they include taxis and pizza delivery.  Duffy's statement does specify that they're "foreign" so it's not clear if they're all illegal immigrants or not.  Maybe he said something more specific elsewhere but he also says that this is against DOT regulations so whatever the specifics, I assume he knows what he's talking about here.

New York was given four months to fix things, they refused to obey so he announces that he'll remove their ability to issue CDLs.  Out of curiosity, is there a reason he needs to publicly announce this?  He probably has to tell the state DOT but could do that in an email.  Then when they refuse to obey, there's still the email and they'll have to admit they received it.  'We told you this would happen four months ago and you ignored it.'

No idea how New York will respond to this.  They will probably sue the DOT for defying DOT regulations but that won't end well.  The DOT is already using this as an excuse to cut $73 million in transportation funding so if the state wasn't in enough debt yet, this will help them get further.  They'll also have to handle all the truck drivers they support breaking the law.  That's another bad precedent they're setting here.

And what if they panic, realize they were totally wrong and will try to fix things now, what are they supposed to do?  This would be harmful to logistics and not limited just to New York.  It would probably be the worst there but this would apply to anywhere these truckers are authorized to go.  This could be a huge mess because suddenly there's a lot of empty trucks that no one is authorized to use.  Maybe the federal government or other state can send in people to handle it but that won't be cheap.  Replacement New York drivers wouldn't be cheap either, meaning prices would quickly rise.  That's what I mean about the effects we can't predict right now.

But otherwise I'm fine with this.  Cutting off illegals is always a plus, then there's giving the leftist governments a lesson on how supply and logistics actually work.  This is something everybody should learn, especially the elites.  Let them suddenly have to work to maintain all their expected daily requirements and get hit with blame for poor people having to go without.

War-Obsessed Germany Plans To Call Reservists Up to the Age of 70
April 21, 2026

If you really loved me, you'd give me a joke to post here.

Hungary’s New PM Says He Would Arrest Israel’s Netanyahu For War Crimes
April 20, 2026

□ [“House Ethics Committee Releases List of Investigations for Sexual Misconduct by Congressmen"]

28 congressmen investigated in the last 50 years.  Ted Kennedy alone should have had more than 28 investigations.  There was a pic of him and another congressman groping a waitress at a public restaurant, I think it was from the 1980s.  Hell, just put together all the pics of Joe Biden groping women, you think he only started that after leaving Congress?

There's no listing all the accusers who were paid off.  I'm sure there's been a lot of them and that's certainly the best place to start, I'm just curious how many people went through this without any public accusations.  They were there trying to gain power or because they just liked it.  You think Kamala Harris was always proper, considering the unprofessional way she got her job?

As always, there will be the obvious question about how many of these politicians are womanizers and how many are gay?  The answer would probably disturb most of us.  That's why I'm just pessimistic about reports like this or any supposed investigations going on.  What are the odds anyone in Congress wants this to come out?

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□ [“British PM Starmer Admits He Misled Parliament On Vetting of Epstein-Linked Mandelson"]

In a way, this seems to be an equivalent of what we're going through with Congress.  Starner appointed Lord Mandelson to be US ambassador and told Parliament he had passed all the security checks for this position.  The guy was tied to Russia, China and Epstein but Starmer is insisting he had not been told about that before he went to Parliament.  So it's not his fault, really.

I'm guessing most or all national government are facing problems like this.  We're Americans so we wouldn't know about any of that.  I just checked, Tony Blair is the last PM I could name without looking it up and he left office in 2010.  They're on their seventh PM since then and how many people could name any other British politician in the 21st century?  There's even less attention to Europe, the EU, and still less for any other country on Earth.

So my point is that I think these sort of sex scandals are happening everywhere, respective to each country and its people and history.  Now maybe they're all tied to Epstein and his ilk but it's just as likely they're tied to China.  Starmer strikes me as another one of those leftist male politicians who really isn't good for anything and his wife stays in the background but gives him all the orders.  She wouldn't have to worry about elections and he has no chance of getting free from the leash.  Once again, I think this sort of thing is happening everywhere else.

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□ [“Germans and Englishmen Join the Irish in Protesting the Far-Left’s Tyrannical Policies"]

I'm still worried this is a tease.  Or worse, they'll just give up.  Haven't heard anything for a while about the Irish protests so there's really no actual evidence they're still going on.  Or if they are that they're as strong as they were a week or two ago.  The same thing applies to Germany and England.  The article says thousands of vehicles are in Berlin, surrounding the chancellor's residence.  In England it was just a protest in Manchester although I noticed the crowd in the video were all carrying a St. George flag.

Not sure what reaction the governments will have to this.  Or the left.  At least in America, we know the left will theoretically go on strike in a week and a half, we'll have to see if anybody notices.  I really can't guess what would happen with a similar strike in Europe.  At least there, the left probably gets more positions of government authority required to make anything happen so if they don't show up, the people would have to survive on their own.  You and I might think that sounds great but Europe hasn't been able to do that for several generations.

I'm not aware of any counter-protests.  At least in the US we have old white leftists who show up for a couple hours when they get the instructions but I'm not sure how Europe could do that.  They would look like they're opposed to the government and that's a bad thing for them.  I'm not sure what else there is to say, I'm just irritated by the teasing going on while the elites still remain comfortable in power.

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□ [“250 Journalists Sign Letter, Demand ‘Forceful’ Anti-Trump Protest at White House Correspondents’ Dinner"]

Who is this supposed to impress?  Trump hasn't showed up to the WHCD so far in two terms.  Reportedly he is supposed to show up this time but I don't see any reason for that.  Maybe we'll be lucky and he won't show up, don't even bother informing them.  Let everyone see how they behave when they don't know what's going to happen.

This event just comes off as a get-together for elite media.  They work for the government, they just can't admit that to the public.  Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson signed this letter, they're in their mid-90s and have been part of government-propaganda since long before I was born.  And they're still making demands.  This has nothing to do with free speech, the public can completely ignore you.  That's the right you don't want us to have.

We know that they aren't going to say anything about all the secrets they've been hiding to protect their favorite politicians.  There's a chance that they'll mention people like Swalwell but most likely they'll focus entirely on Trump.  He's their bread-and-butter, they couldn't afford to inform the public on anything else that's going on.  No wonder they need to celebrate themselves in events like this.

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April 20, 2026

It was the west of times, it was the burst of times.

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□ [“Rep. Anna Paulina Warns Of ‘Major Purge’ Coming to Capitol Hill"]

She says at least three members could be exposed.  That's less than 1% of Congress so it seems a bit iffy.  I'm not sure there's any way to do this which doesn't just come off as 'going after people we don't like and ignoring the rest.'  But that may just be part of how it goes, we're not supposed to know about any of this.

Hopefully (I keep using that word, don't I?) this is part of the investigations on all the fraud and laundering.  There's a lot of evidence from decades of the uniparty, who's going to crack first?  Who's going to turn on others to save themselves?  It's tough to say you have no clue what your party members were up to when you've been right next to them for many years.

I'm guessing the perverts will be the first to lose.  They may already be trying to negotiate if they can just resign with no bad publicity.  Then there's the people who are interested in perversion and also keeping tons of taxpayer money.  This is where it's going to get depressing because they've had the most protection.  It's a lot easier to just let them continue as normal than to answer why everyone knew and nobody did anything.  And they'll definitely be able to rat on fellow congressmen.

□ [“'Lives a Double Life' – OnlyFans Content Creator Posts Sex Videos with Secret Service Agent"]

I'm skeptical, just for personal reasons.  I have a tendency to perceive these type of agents as almost-mythical creatures even though I'm fully aware that they aren't and are perfectly capable of doing things like this.  The chick is very ugly so if this is true, there's also a question of why anybody would be stupid enough to throw their career away for her.  And if they are that stupid how did they get on the SS?  Officially this guy is one of Biden's guards which is not encouraging.

There's a lot of room for conspiracy theory here.  These agents would have ties to every relevant person in or out of government.  If they get corrupt or perverted, someone has a lot of access to the biggest government secrets.  We always look at politicians or maybe their aids who are into this stuff, maybe bureaucrats, a scandal like this would be explosive.  And it would explain a lot.

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April 19, 2026

□ [“US Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship Trying to Run Strait of Hormuz Blockade"]

Other ships can get through but not Iranians.  Iran's economy was in bad shape before this conflict started so they doing worse now.  It's possible that's why this ship was so desperate to try making it through the blockade.  Now you have one less ship and didn't bother the US in the slightest.

There's also the problems - not yet confirmed - that whatever remains of the Iranian government doesn't know who's in charge.  Yesterday there was a report of an Indian ship going through that was fired at by Iran.  There's audio of the captain complaining, he had permission to go, he's on their list and now they're attacking?  There are several possible reasons for this, my guess is that the people firing on the ship are from a different group than the ones who let it pass and there's no contact between them.

At LAX, an Iranian woman - in the country legally - was arrested for trying to broker for arms, bombs and drones to help Iran.  I'm sure more of this is going on but I doubt much can be done this way.  Without Iran and Venezuela, China must be hurting and now an Indian ship was attacked.  This is a crack in BRICS that nobody could have seen coming.  Yes they'll use whatever assets they have in the US to fight us but although I'm sure they'll cause damage, it just seems like a guaranteed loss for all of them.

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April 19, 2026

□ [“Ilhan Omar Blames ‘Accounting Error’ For Financial Disclosure Showing Her Immense Wealth"]

Her wealth has been public knowledge for months and she only now gets around to denying it?  Still doesn't make her look good, her excuse is that she was too stupid to notice that the numbers listed were in the millions.  Either that or her accountant was that stupid and she just signed whatever she was told.  Why not just say she waited all these months to complain because that's how long it took to hide the money?

This also raises some questions about her husband, the one who's not her brother.  He's supposed to be an investor, in wineries and such.  Yet he hasn't brought in any money after all this time?  If he's just investing five or ten dollars here or there, he's not really an investor, that's a pretend-job.  If he's investing more than that then what happened to it?  You didn't lose anything and you didn't make anything, that's the way it's been for several years?

She'll need to do more than this.  I'm amazed we haven't heard anything about the Somali fraud in Minnesota.  I am certain it's being looked into, by citizens if nothing else.  It's similar to what we'll see in Congress, who's willing to turn on the others to protect themselves.  Omar is a very obvious target from everybody.  Can't recall where but just recently she complained about being attacked by other Somalis, they weren't supporting her nominee or something to that effect, but it came off as tribalism.  That's what you want, that's what you get.

Mark Zuckerberg to Axe 10 Percent of Meta’s Workforce in May as AI Bloodbath Deepens
April 19, 2026

Note to self: next time hide the greatest secret in the universe in a place the cat won't find it.

Leftist Leaders Gather In Barcelona ‘In Defense of Democracy’ Summit to Plot Anti-Trump Agenda
April 18, 2026
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April 17, 2026

□ [“Dick Morris Confirms a Huge Rumor About Bill and Hillary Clinton"]

He's from upper-class NYC society but for some reason started working with Bill Clinton's governor campaign in 1979.  He and Bill stayed close up through 1996 when, a couple months before the election, Morris was caught with prostitutes.  Probably a normal part of his job back then but did he just get diagnosed with cancer and has only six weeks left to live or something?  Why is he suddenly saying this now, thirty years later?

His revelation was that Bill discussed getting a divorce multiple times before the re-election campaign.  His suggestion is that it wasn't so much that Bill wanted it but Hillary did.  Which is entirely believable 'The woman behind the man' is an old stereotype for a reason and I've been working on a theory that the uniparty is rife with this.  Hillary wanted power on her own, the problem is she had never done anything to earn it.  Without Bill, she'd be nobody.  At least if she keeps the ring on her finger, they can't be forced to testify against each other.

So it sounds like the husbands involved aren't very smart.  Or at least they're easily distracted by power or women.  It sounds like Bill was discussing this with Morris to get some feedback for Hillary to make a decision.  I think we see this with others, particularly Gavin Newsom, probably Obama.  Most members of the Uniparty.  If Trump wasn't on his third wife, there'd be plenty of reason to suspect him too.

This would also go a long way to explain the leftist mindset since, well, the Clinton administration.  The gay and trans movements, abortion, everything is interchangeable so everything is "racist."  Underlying all of this is collectivism and opposition to the family.  Look at how quickly the left ran for the 'no kings' slogan.  The Queen Bee doesn't need a king either.

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April 18, 2026

□ [“Married Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) Accused of Kissing Much Congressional Staffer at Party"]

A few other stories like this come out.  A Republican suddenly resigned the same day as Swalwell.  Had an affair with a staffer who later killed herself.  I'm guessing everyone in Congress, and near them, expects this to start coming out.  Heard about drug-fueled orgies going on in Congress a few months ago, any news on that?

Something about this just looks like a sequel to the 'me too' movement in 2017-8.  All of a sudden social media is flooded with propaganda about how awful men are and every woman is abused.  That said, something about this also seems different.  Can't figure out what but I'd like to think the Trump administration has hacked the *woke* movement and is using their own weapons against them.  The most obvious example is members of Congress being hit with this, including an investigation on Eric Swalwell.

□ [“Lead Activist in Greta Thunberg’s ‘Freedom Flotilla’ Accused of Sexual Misconduct With Three Volunteers"]

It's not limited to Washington either.  But this makes it harder to figure out who's behind this.  The description doesn't look remotely abusive, he wanted to get laid and it's easier to do that when you associate with drugged out leftist chicks.  So was there any actual misconduct or is this just mindless feminism going straight for accusations of the most convenient targets?  A Palestinian group is the one making the accusations so are they bringing Muslim views onto this boat, similar to how they needed eliminate the gays from a previous cruise?  No idea how much authority this guy actually has in the organization but Thunberg may just want to get rid of a rival.  That's several possibilities right there.

This will continue to hurt the left more than they expect.  They're the ones who want sexual freedom, they're the ones who kept all these abuses secret until they could find a way to use them, the media protected all of them.  I just realized, we haven't heard them demanding the Epstein files be released for a while now.  They ignored this for years, then last year they suddenly demanded all the secrets come out, and now they're back to ignoring it.

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April 18, 2026

□ [“Federal Appeals Court Overturns Block on Trump Ballroom Construction"]

It was blocked just yesterday, this keeps happening.  I'm guessing this is part of the conflict going on in the judicial system.  We haven't even gotten to all the activist judges releasing violent criminals to go attack people, at least this case is more understandable.  Fewer rapes and murders anyway.

Maybe that's why Trump took it.  He's a builder so it's the sort of thing he'd go for, as well as an excuse to have this fight with the three branches of government.  Wouldn't surprise me if they worked out their plans and then just had to decide what part of the White House needed renovation the most.

The judiciary might be the most unnerving part of this conflict.  Most of us have no clue how they're organized or how they operate and their job is to keep that private.  So many of these activist judges are just openly defying the law, essentially trying to get people hurt or killed just because they can.  And even some of the Supreme Court has spoken out.  Still very restrained but public disagreements, even with each other.

Because we don't know where this is going or how it can possibly be worked out, there's no way to know how long it will last.  Just another aspect of the war that makes no sense.  The only future event I can predict is if Trump needs to appoint more judges, as well as Democrats promising to overload the system with activists if they ever take power again.

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□ [“How Much Will Admission Cost to Obama’s Presidential Library?"]

$30 per ticket, far more than other presidential libraries.  Considering the time and expense of Chicago traffic and parking, that's going to become a lot more expensive just to say you visited this place.  It used to be a city park that was free but apparently that's not important enough to the people of Chicago.  The people who work there probably get paid quite a bit, that money's got to come from somewhere.

I have to wonder how many people will actually go there.  In theory it might be a tourist sight but I'm not sure.  Obama has basically stayed out of the public eye for the last decade so suddenly opening an expensive building like this isn't as interesting as they might expect.  He's a Chicago Democrat so this might be about laundering money.  That might also apply to every other presidential library, might be worth looking into.

It doesn't help that I'm not sure what there is to remember about his presidency.  Obamacare didn't fix anything, we barely even remember it.  Libya?  The rise of the *woke* agenda?  Well, the latter will probably be represented here but that's not an appeal to most people.  Considering how he was idolized, he seems to have been almost entirely forgotten.  That's normal for the ex-POTUS and then there's Trump but this just seems like a project so big and expensive, it's guaranteed to fail.

U.S. Officials Travel to Cuba For First Time in a Decade, Lay Out Demands to Collapsing Regime
April 18, 2026

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After UK and France, Now Kanye West’s Show in Poland Gets Cancelled
April 17, 2026

□ [“Iran Caves, Declares Strait of Hormuz 'Completely Open' for All Commercial Ships"]

Wasn't it just a week or so ago that Iran declared they weren't going to put up with our crap anymore and were shutting the strait down for everybody?  The UN made demands, China, Europe, but none of them contributed anything to solving the problem.  Iran has announced that the strait is open but Fars News - Iranian government media - is challenging this.  Now it sounds like they have government officials arguing on twitter, like nobody knows who's in charge or has any real plan.

Although I'm not happy with how long it's taking - a month and a half so far! - Trump is showing major affects on global economics and taking down a tyrannical state without actually needing a war.  Few people on the planet could do this sort of thing but the rest of the world can see this accomplishment.  And that is what this is, Iranians and their neighbors and the rest of the world see how easy this regime is made pathetic and weak after all these decades.  And we did it without our so-called allies.

□ [“Euro-Globalists Meet in Paris To ‘Discuss’ the Strait of Hormuz, After Iran Has Re-Opened the Waterway"]

Is there any chance they realize this and that's what this meeting is really about?  Macron, Merz and Starmer, France, Germany and Britain, all get together and do what, congratulate each other on their great victory?  The International Energy Agency - a Paris-based organization - has said Europe has only six weeks left of jet fuel if they don't get the strait re-opened.  This would be a good time to discuss ways to get oil without being so dependent on Iran's kindness and decency.  Might also be a good time to discuss how to have a stronger military so that you aren't so dependent on the US.

I don't know how much European media is censored but it would be fair to assume European citizens are watching this too.  They've seen how America can help protect freedom and the economy and they want some of that too.  And they see you opposed to that.

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□ [“Undersecretary of Defense: Ukraine Military Support Can’t Depend on the US"]

Boy, we haven't heard much about this war in a while.  So it's really unclear what they're doing at this point.  Russia is still in the winning position but it seems to be having its own problems because of what Trump is doing in the Middle East.  It's not clear what those problems are and I'm sure no trustworthy media will report what it actually means.  I assume their troops are continuing to move forward although I can't remember the last time I saw any news to that effect.

Now they're also threatening Europe for arming Ukraine with drones.  They're also purchasing US equipment and giving that to Ukraine although I'll guess that's not being brought up.  Threats to Europe are a big enough deal.  But what is either side supposed to do about it?  Europe makes itself a target by getting involved in what's none of their business, they can't fall back on the US for defense and they don't have anything else to fight with.  I've always speculated that Russia has been deliberately slow on this but it's been over four years and they don't have much to show for it.

Trump is probably still involved although at least he's kept quiet about since whatever the most-recent peace negotiations failed.  We also haven't exposed the money laundering that goes on which, as far as I'm concerned, was the only reason to pay attention to it.  I'm guessing that Ukraine joining NATO or the EU has been dropped for the time being but that's temporary, they'll try again in a couple years.  Or sooner if the war starts getting worse for them.

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□ [“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Swalwell Pal, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)"]

Gotta admit, if this happened a week ago, I'd have a little less optimism about this.  After all, the last sixteen months have given us a lot of reasons to hope something would actually be done about the leftist elites but we haven't seen much of that.  Can't get tired of wins when you aren't getting any.

But with Swalwell taken out in barely a week, it looks like something can actually be done with the Uniparty.  I still think they're part of a demon-worshipping cult but whatever this is, it sounds like they have evidence on the next target.  The main worry is that a vast majority of politicians and officials are in on this so they don't have to turn on each other to save themselves, they just have to hold out and remain fully protected by the media.

It has been noted that the left has spent all these years claiming they have evidence of Trump doing all these awful things with Jeffrey Epstein or whoever, at some point they're going to need to ask why nobody ever does anything with that evidence.  A week ago, Swalwell was a congressman and popular candidate for governor, suddenly he's gone.  Why can't you do that to Trump after all this time?  The Biden administration sat on the Epstein files for four years, were they just too stupid and lazy or were they the ones who'd be exposed in the files?

Quite possibly California is going to continue having problems like this.  The New York Times just reported that Gavin Newsom's PAC purchased two-thirds of the printed copies of his latest book.  They measure the NYT Best Seller list so they'd know but admitting it to the public suggests the game is up, at least for some people.  And that's not even counting what else the money is used for.

Utah Supreme Court Justice Has ‘Inappropriate’ Relationship w/ Attorney Who Helped Dems Steal a Congressional Seat
April 17, 2026

□ [“‘Too Coincidental’ 11 Mysterious Dead and Missing UFO Researchers"]

Another example where I say just knock this off and release the information.  It can't be a coincidence, these are government officials with important jobs.  They'd be tracked minute-by-minute.  So it can't be foreign agents or our people would have started to be protected early on, meaning it's either an inside job or, well, it's the aliens.

Trump has spoken out about this, suggesting that they're getting ready to release these secrets.  Normally I'd be thrilled by that but we haven't seen to many promised releases yet.  A couple weeks ago, a Tennessee congressman said he'd checked government records on this and yes, there are aliens.  Others have been saying similar things in recent months, I think even Obama spoke out, although he quickly backtracked to say it was just what he'd been told.

So they're giving the impression that they're trying to put this stuff out but the delay really makes no sense.  Otherwise STFU about it.  This comes off as a ploy to waste people's attention when, in case you haven't noticed, there's a lot more relevant things going on in our lives and the work.  I enjoy conspiracies and this just comes off as tiresome.

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