Why did the gang members cross the road? To get to the other side.

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□ [“Senate Agrees to End Shutdown – Fund DHS Except for ICE and CBP"]

This drama is continuing.  Republicans caved because they're the majority so of course they did.  It was the middle of the night so only a few were physically present and they're all getting ready to go on vacation so it's not like they have to worry about it.  Now the House has to comply.

Their plan is to restore the ICE-funding and the requirement for voter ID.  I still say that part of the problem with Congress is including these things where they don't belong.  I support voter ID yet do not think it should be here in this bill.  You can say this is part of the 'sausage factory' of politics but it's a valid reason why people want nothing to do with it.

From a certain point of view, it's also seen as at least a partial win.  The Big Beautiful Bill funded ICE until 2029 anyway so that's not an issue unless a Democrat supermajority in both houses ever has an opportunity to undo it.  Meanwhile they've been ranting for the last year about how ICE is forbidden to wear masks, their personal info must be easy to find, other stupid regulations, and there's none of that found in what the Senate passed.  They're not getting much of what they demanded and don't look good for trying to get this far.  Someone's found a 2015 quite from Hakeem Jeffries that it as their job to fund DHS, 180 degrees away from his position now.

Meanwhile Trump just signed an executive order to fund TSA.  Not sure where the money comes from but I'm sure the chief executive can move money around enough.  I think Democrats are planning to sue him for this which seems really pointless but there you go.  Things like this were why Romans stopped caring so much about the Senate and were more supportive of a big strong man who made decisions.

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□ [“JD Vance:  ‘Ilhan Omar Definitely Committed Immigration Fraud,’ WH Fraud Task Force Will Go After Her"]

This is about when she married her brother.  This happened in 2009, she entered Congress in 2019 and only now are they going to do something about it?  Do these people not know what a clock is?  Time is passing.  It's things like this that make this administration as guaranteed to defeat as everything else.

And why isn't Congress doing anything about it?  They're supposed to police their own people, it's not like this information is new.  So what's the hold-up?  We know that they're all holding secrets over each other, multiple levels of blackmail as part of their regular business, but again, this has been public for quite a while.  No one even asks Omar about it.

Then there's the connection to all the Somali fraud going on in Minnesota.  Notice we haven't heard anything about that for a while.  Certainly haven't seen anything done about it.  Probably more crimes being "investigated" until we all die of old age.  IIRC the last we heard was that the governor had stepped back, effectively admitting he was part of all the fraud so the federal government had to step in.  And nothing's been done about it ever since.

All Minnesota House Democrats Vote to Let Children Watch Porn, Age Verification Bill Dies in 67-67 Tie
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□ [“Trump Weighing ‘Final Blow’ Options to End Iran War"]

No reason to think this is real or, if it is real, that it's truthful.  I assume Trump has made all the relevant decisions months ago and is letting the military leaders call the shots as much as they need to.  This statement - which doesn't come from Trump - contradicts what he has said about hitting them with something big in 48 hours and then delaying that for up to ten days.  Even if he really did say something like this, he's Trump, it's just part of the negotiations with the mullahs and IRGC.

He did say that they had given him a very big gift from these negotiations, turns that's 10 oil tankers allowed to go through the straits.  Not sure how that's a gift to Trump.  It's also unclear what's going on with the strait, the news goes back and forth on if anyone can get through or if they're guarded by their own nations or what.  So basically this isn't the gift I was hoping for.

They're still firing missiles at other countries though.  They just wounded 10 US service members in a strike on an airbase in Saudi Arabia.  Well at least they're aiming for a military target, that's something.  We also haven't heard any updates on how many missiles they still have.  And now that we've taken down the highest-ranking leaders and a lot of their replacements, who is still available to order these missiles to be fired?

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) Found Guilty of 25 Ethics Violations
March 27, 2026

□ [“Star Wars:  Luke Skywalker Reunites with Han and Leia, and Says Goodbye to Ben Kenobi"]

A.I. continues to grow.  People are now using it to generate Star Wars videos.  Except for one or two short ones, I don't think I've sat through an entire clip but I'm genuinely surprised that I've played any of them.  This one is about 15 minutes long, I started it somewhere in the middle but immediately realized they were trying to recreate the Thrawn trilogy.  As you may know, I have very little knowledge and even less interest in this franchise outside of the original three movies but the Timothy Zahn books are the exception.

Parts of the clips I saw here seemed interesting, making me genuinely curious how those books would be translated into video.  Parts of them were stupid, horrible acting, dialogue and editing.  Some of them just didn't fit, this isn't a straightforward recreation of the Zahn novels, I don't know if it's from some of his other books, someone else's books or just made up for this.  That did make it easier to not bother playing the whole video but I'm still surprised I had any interest at all.

But of course that's not all that A.I. is doing, even just in videos.  I'm still enjoying the pop song remakes and I'm thrilled that Britain has Amelia to sing patriotic songs of their history.  I've also enjoyed a few clips of movies and tv shows where the cast at the time is shown taking pix with their current selves, although it doesn't really work if the actor is dead.  Once or twice, I guess it's ok but if most of the cast is dead, why bother?

I suspect these videos might be created, not by fans but by the companies that own the IPs.  I also think that about some of those videos of people recording their first time viewing an old movie, just because a lot of them seem to have very accurate guesses of what will happen next.  Big Media needs some way to handle A.I. and stuff like this is quite possibly the best option they have.

One thing we should probably accept is that normal people won't have as much access to A.I. as we'd like.  You can tell it what movie to generate, it's possible there will be a point where you can write your own screenplay, but it probably won't let you edit it fully.  I hope to be proven wrong on this but it just seems like the sort of thing big corporations would want to keep to themselves.  Wouldn't want us focusing on generating stories with their IPs on a laptop.

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