I almost had something to say. Gotta nip that bad habit in the bud.

Trump Withdraws from Globalist UNESCO for the Second Time
July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025 Ozzy Osbourne, rock star, age 76
□ [“Rock Legend Ozzy Osbourne Dead at 76"]

Haven't thought much about Ozzy for quite a while but otherwise I would have assumed this was obvious.  First saw it with David Bowie and later Chuck Berry, famous rock stars who haven't done much in ages suddenly start releasing music.  In Ozzy's case, he kept retiring touring, then finished with Black Sabbath, then go to do one last concert a couple weeks ago.  Pretty sure it was always deliberate.  Ozzy was also a pioneer of reality tv so there's probably more ways to profit here.  I'm sure many people will be speculating on how this helps the devil these days.

I was never a big fan.  No More Tears and Ozzmosis have a number of songs I like but otherwise there isn't a lot from his solo career, and I'm not much bigger of a Black Sabbath fan.  I'm not dismissing their work, maybe I'm just getting too old to care that much about heavy metal.  I do have most of their work, at least up through the early 2000s, but it never stuck with me and I've never had to sit through The Osbournes.

So knowing him only from vocals, I just never got the impression he added much.  He usually didn't even write lyrics.  Maybe he changed stuff when there was a reason but otherwise it looked like he just sang whatever he was given and was co-credited as songwriter because giving him a chunk of the royalties still meant more for the other writers than if they had done the song with someone else.  Didn't pay attention to him so there might be lots of evidence that I'm wrong, I just saw him as an empty shell that rich activist elites and their megacorporations worked through.

So they were influential but it's unclear how good that was.  Listen to "Iron Man" fer pete's sake, Ozzy's just singing the guitar riff.  Anyway, there is something entertaining somewhere in this work.  While writing this, I listened to "I Just Want You" which I hadn't heard in many years.  It was all right.  If I can remember anything, I may listen to more tonight.  And we'll see if the demons have anything to mourn.

Anti-migrant British Protests Spread to Norfolk, Targeting ‘Single Adult Male’ Hotel to House Illegals
July 22, 2025

□ [“'The Gloves Are Off…Go F**k Yourself!' – Stephen Colbert Flips Out After Trump Mocks Him"]

He and his crew got to spend all weekend working and this was the best they could come up with?  Considering how much money his show loses every year, you have to wonder why the network is leaving him on for almost another full year.  My guess is this is deliberate.  They're hoping to get more viewers with this nonsense, perhaps even attracting viewers who want to see Colbert go down in flames.

I'm currently keeping my distance from Trump's latest stunt.  It's kinda contradictory, I don't approve of it but that doesn't mean I think it's wrong.  It's possible he's not even going about it in a bad way.  More than anything, I'm trying to track how the left is responding to this because that will probably show us more about what's relevant.

□ [“Jeff Daniels Hopes Trump Supporters Suffer, 'I Hope You’re Losing Tons of Money'"]
□ [“Ellen DeGeneres Bashes America, She Fled to UK Because of Trump:  'Everything Here Is Just Better’"]

The obvious example is leftist elites who need to delude themselves that others are suffering.  They're deliberately trying to purge their audience of anyone they don't like, probably following Disney's example.  But they don't see how this will damage their careers, so hopefully they keep whatever wealth they have.  These two work regularly so there's probably at least a basic income, although no clue if that can maintain their lifestyle.

Looking at their credits, they're almost entirely out of my life.  I saw Purple Rose in Cairo once and did like it but remember nothing about it, and I probably watched SNL for Adams' first time hosting.  That's it.  DeGeneres appeared on an episode of two tv shows I'm pretty sure I watched and I may have seen Coneheads the movie.  These are not memorable works by people you feel the need to pay attention to.

Anyway, my comments are less about these two and more about what rich Hollywood people are stupid enough to get involved in this.  Just their attitude seems to be enough to turn most people off, not caring what rich celebrities have to say about anything.  If you're on the fence about what Trump is doing, they're more likely to encourage support rather than opposition to it.

NPR’s Editor-in-Chief Resigns After Passage of $9 Billion Rescissions Package
July 22, 2025

□ [“Tulsi Releases 230,000 Pages of Martin Luther King Assassination Files"]

Jeez, 230,000 pages?  Maybe I'm misremembering but I don't think there was anywhere near that much for JFK and RFK.  Glanced at a few and what I've seen are very hard to read, and labelled 'best copies available.'  One of them said it was authorized for release in 1978.  And of course a lot of information is still crossed out with no clue when it happened or who or why.

Hopefully these files have some search mechanism that makes it easier to find whoever you've been trying to track down for 60 years.  I'm also sure people are pumping all the pages through A.I. to see what they can find.  But based on the very immediate responses, doesn't sound like anybody found anything, that's oh for three.

These are still the same problems, there's really no sense that we're getting *everything.*  But what we are getting is enormous and effectively impossible to read so there's no way to know what's been hidden, if anything.  The arguments are too strong in either direction.  No there was no big secret being covered up all this time, or yes, that's why it had to be hidden and we're still only getting part of the story.  And there's a legitimate question, why are we bothering on this stuff?  Well, some people have been obsessed with it for decades, others wanted it hidden for whatever reason.

I guess the point is just to make us stop caring about this stuff, for whatever reason we had to focus on it.  I'm not sure I'd agree with that but like everything else, it's believable.  Maybe it's just showing us the way government operates, overloaded with tons and tons of details that they aren't any better of following than anybody else, and this was all centered around these three 1960s icons.

US Olympics and Paralympics Ban Transgenders from Women’s Events to Comply with Trump’s Order
July 22, 2025

□ [“James Carville Says Democrat Party Has Become ‘A Cracked-Out Clown Car’"]

Why is this person still given any attention?  Just a few months ago he insisted the Republican Party would dead in a month.  No one even asks him how that worked out or why anybody should ever listen to him again.  Yet here he is getting publicity.  It's probably mostly for right-wing entertainment but he's writing this for the New York Times so it must be relevant to leftists somewhere.

One thing that's natural to forget about the left is how they surround themselves with 'yes men' which just lets them ignore the real world.  So as the years pass, they're mostly ignorant of how old and irrelevant they've become.  They're rich and famous so they expect that to last forever.  Well, it probably will, but it doesn't mean they get meaningful attention.

Below the political figures, we see that with Hollywood and the media corporations.  Once again, people who get to be rich and famous by saying everybody should be equal and never notice the contradiction.  This is what their party has been focused on for decades and people like Carville won't get out of the way for the younger generation, despite promoting exactly that.  He's one of the big-name clowns in the car and doesn't even realize that.

14-Year-Old Stabs Grandmother to Death in Toronto Parking Lot
July 22, 2025