One of these days, to the Moon! And then it turned out to be today. So can you pay for my bail?

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□ [“Minnesota Judge Hands Somali Fraudster Just 6 Months After $500K Theft in Child Food Scam"]

I don't follow the news articles about activist judges but I do see them on a regular basis.  I don't know what we can do about these activist judges but something must be done.  If we're lucky, Trump did something by attending a Supreme Court hearing but we probably won't hear about that for a while.  Just a few days ago, this same judge gave another Somali fraudster one year and one day in jail for stealing millions during Covid.  Even worse, she was appointed judge by Trump in 2018.

I don't know how much Trump can be blamed for any of this because every POTUS seems to appoint these activist judges.  They're just looking for whatever's anti-Trump and that's the verdict.  A Trump executive order shuts off funding for PBS and NPR, an Obama-appointee blocks that because somehow government media is fair.  Is there a way for Trump to change these broadcasts to blatantly pro-Trump propaganda and include this judge's verdict as the reasoning?  'He made this happen and you pay taxes for it!'

I keep saying this but I don't have a clue how any of this can be fixed.  If the judges aren't activist enough, their replacements are, as are all the law schools.  These people already want to be paid by government, a lot of politicians have law degrees.  My big worry is that there's no way to change things without a total purge of the population and even that would take many years.  The clock is on the enemy's side.

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□ [“Artemis II Leaves Earth Orbit - Orion Spaceship Is Now on a Four-Day Journey to the Moon"]

Well this is...  I'm not even sure what to say.  It's awesome that we're doing a trip to the moon.  It's disappointing that we're not landing, it's not even an orbit.  The pilots are swinging around using gravity, effectively the longest and most expensive amusement park ride ever.  I get that it's been fifty years and we might want to do a pass-by before we try harder but it's been fifty freaking years!  We were supposed to have people complaining that these cities are too big and overpopulated by now so they were moving out to Mars or the asteroid belt, they could afford the commute.

Of course there's the big question if any of this is real.  I'll say it is but of course there's no proof.  I think it's more likely that we planted something there on previous visits and we need to check if it's properly developed, there's just not enough reason to fake such a thing.  There'd just be too many people involved with incentive to spill the beans and say it was all A.I.-generated.

It's also a valid question what this will accomplish.  I admit to being a bit thrilled that we're finally going to the moon again but don't get the point.  I also have to wonder what the Moon has been doing for the last 50 years without us.  The Earth and the Moon had always known of each other as next-door neighbors but July 1969 was the first time their living celestial bodies had interacted and I've always seen that as where society had changed to the modern era.  Just look at the timeline of world events that month, leading up to and afterwards.  I think they're all connected but that's just the sort of conspiracy theorist I am.  And now we've finally got the next step of the program.

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□ [“Trump:  'A Little More Time' so the US Can 'Open the Hormuz Strait, Take the Oil & Make a Fortune”']

As always, Trump finds a way to crush the optimism we give him.  He said just a few days ago the strait wasn't our business.  I'm not opposed to getting the oil but just taking it isn't a good idea and we - you and me - aren't getting the money for it no matter what.  We want to get rid of the mullahs and Make Persia Great Again, that's the priority.  The fact that he even thinks a post like this is a good idea makes me seriously question who we've been following all these years.

There's also issues with the strait that raises more questions than answers.  The UN just took a vote to have them open.  The Security Council resolution was blocked by China, Russia and France.  WTF is France doing?  To the extent any ships have gotten through peacefully - I think there's been some - the first one was French.  And this is who they're siding with?  That's not even getting into why China would want this, they rely on oil sent via the strait.  I can't even think of a precedent for this, it's like betting you a hundred dollars that you'll beat me in poker.  Who's on what side here?

In other news, after several weeks of shooting at the US planes overhead, Iran finally took one down.  I've paid very little attention to the reports because I wouldn't trust them anyway, but it's reported that both pilots are alive.  I think one was rescued and the other is safe but I may be misremembering on what little info I did see.  It did make me wonder if that was the real point, to send in ground troops to get him back, and maybe blow up a few other things along the way.  Or for that matter, get some friendly Iranians to come by and protect him.  I'm making up these theories on the spot but we just can't trust anything about this.

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April 3, 2026

□ [“Supergirl Actress Is Angry... and It's All Men's Fault!  Flop Incoming"]

Still amused by the upcoming DC failure.  The actress needs to insult the people who might buy tickets to her movie.  Men are bad so they don't have any reason to show up and nobody's ever found a female audience to replace them.  And yet again the studio spending all this money just lets her go out and do this.  That's not a good way to promote a movie and especially not Supergirl.

It'll also be interesting to see what happens to James Gunn for this movie.  As we recall, some old tweets came out about how he really wants sex with children and Marvel fired him.  Then the Guardians of the Galaxy actors demanded he be brought back, so he was.  The resulting movie was one of the few successes Marvel has had in the last several years and Gunn had already been hired to go over and reboot the DC cinematic universe.

But that's not going very well.  It's possible that last year's Superman wasn't a box-office failure but it wasn't successful by much.  Expensive movies really need to be successful by much.  He's done two tv shows with characters nobody is interested in and all we hear about them is that nobody's watching them either.  And now we get a movie with a drunken girl-boss on an alien planet trying to save a teeny little puppy.  The Superman cameo is being expanded with reshoots but that's not going to help.  The only chance this movie has is Lobo and that's not where Supergirl should be.

DC has enough problems with all their expensive failures.  If this movie isn't a hit - and it won't be - they will need to get rid of Gunn and reboot the DCU for the third time in a little over a decade.  And that's not counting that AOL/Time-Warner is being purchased by a new megacorporation, Paramount, who really doesn't need this hassle with some of their biggest IPs.

Artistically, it's stupid enough to try to tie together all these IPs.  At least in comics it's cheap and you can do with with a small number of creators.  But you also get a very different fanbase from what movies require.  I'm not sure there's any chance of them working but I would say go back to cheap 90-minute stand-alone adventures.  I'm in the minority that says you don't need the big characters as long as the work itself is interesting and fun but the odds for success are still very slim.  It's not even worth thinking about.  And now you have this obnoxious female up front to push the whole thing.  Bad idea.

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