I thought Ted Turner died in 'Nam! No? Then who did Jane Fonda kill there?

May 6, 2026  Ted Turner, leftist billionaire, CNN founder, Captain Planet, married to Jane Fonda, age 87
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□ [“FBI Raids Office of Virginia’s Democrat Senate President Pro Tem Over Major Corruption Probe"]

She's in her 80s and has been in the Virginia Senate since I was in high school.  Apparently the FBI investigation has gone on for a few years.  We don't know what the investigation was about but the raid included the next-door cannabis store.  Several people were arrested there.

The Virginia governor was asked for her opinion of this happening to her ally and her response was actually sensible.  This was a big deal and she would wait until more information became public before commenting.  In other words, she knows what this is about and clearly understands that she needs to keep quiet.  She probably has an opinion already but the rest of us haven't been filled in so it doesn't matter.

We are getting reports about something being done by law enforcement.  In Tennessee, a House member ran a Political Action Committee which scammed its donors and gave at least part of the money to the Kamala Harris campaign.  Harris promoted that PAC as it listed offices which didn't exist, its phone number was fake and it did a bad job reporting to the Federal Election Commission.  Harris may have no clue what's going on but she claimed to be a responsible leader.

I ignore a lot of these investigations because there still hasn't been many arrests.  As much as I complain about that, I will admit that there is the impression that law enforcement is going through a maze.  But the problem is still there.  These people are looting taxpayer money and getting away with it.  Trump gets a lot of support just because he's the only Republican willing to actually do anything after years of promises but we still aren't getting any meaningful results.

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□ [“Scared Nick Shirley Makes Insurance Video Hiding From Cuban Intelligence In Havana Hotel Room"]

95% certain this is a fake or a set-up of some sort.  For all the applause this kid has gotten for exposing leftist fraud, this is just stupid.  First of all, why would you go to Cuba?  You couldn't find a lion's den to spend a few weeks in?  You think your pale white skin will just blend in and the government will never notice you, the government that does a very good job spying on its own people?

The Cuban government knows where he is, if they wanted him they'd take him.  He makes sure to announce that he's in one of the hotels that has 24/7 electricity.  Not many of those.  Oh but he has two security guards.  So what?  Dude, you're on an island.  You will not escape without government permission.  That is very well-known knowledge without going all the way to Cuba first and then finding out.

Then there's other issues.  Does he speak Spanish?  With a Cuban accent?  That's going to be hard to hide from the government if he really wants to pretend that's what he's doing.  Then there's just the idiocy of doing this.  'Exposed fraud in Minneapolis, exposed fraud in California, I guess going to Cuba is next on the to-do list.'  I'm not buying it.  That's where the 95% chance this is a set-up comes from, the other 5% is that he really is this stupid.

If I had a real reason to go to Cuba?  Like I found a huge oil reserve right there or it was the one place on earth that desperately needed to learn my religion or I was obsessed with this hot Cuban chick who'd been sexting me?  My first step would be to contact the US government - or whatever country I fall under - or the leaders of my religion.  I'm going *here,* I will arrive on this date at this time, what can I do to advance your goals so that you'll pay attention to me and, if something goes wrong, try to get me back?  That's why I think it's most-likely that he's doing this on behalf of the Trump administration.  No idea why, it still sounds stupid, but there he is.

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Marvel Comics had always been connected to the distribution field and connected to other companies.  Not just in the obvious way, delivering comics to the news-stands, founder Martin Goodman started out in distribution, working for Louis Silberkleit who would later co-found Archie Comics.  The company they worked for went bankrupt in 1932 so they formed a new distribution company.  They also started publishing pulp magazines the following year.

When superhero comics became popular, they got in on it too, officially the start of Marvel with "Marvel Comics #1," starting the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner.  It was popular enough to keep going so Goodman started doing more comics.  It's never been clear how his businesses were organized or which books were published by which company.  Publishing in New York City was quite rambunctious back in those days but for convenience, historians have called all of it "Timely Comics."  Soon they would add Captain America but Goodman's companies would publish pulp magazines and novels, girly magazines, a wide range of printed works that was usually considered second-rate at best.

Despite being founded by a distributor, Timely did not have its own distribution.  They worked through other parties, most notably the American News Company.  The comics were also wide-range, flooding the market with copies of whatever was popular.  This was back before "comic books" and "superheroes" weren't used as interchangeable terms.

After the war, comics sales started going down.  Goodman tried to get back into distribution by starting his own company.  There was also a number of changes which don't make much sense, trying to organize his dozens of shell-companies under a Red Circle - the unofficial name - and it's not clear why he was bothering with this.  Or why he'd started so many companies in the first place.

He tried to boost sales by bringing back Captain America, Sub-Mariner and the Torch with this new distributor but it failed quickly.  Their titles had only been canceled a few years before and there wasn't a new generation of kids looking for this kind of thing.  It would still be a few years before DC did something similar with the Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman to start the Silver Age of Comics.

"Red Circle" isn't the only name used for this era, most comics historians call it "Atlas," after the distributor's name and, I think, this was generally considered the comics publisher as well.  I got into comics when the direct market was already established and growing so it's quite mysterious how any really determined sales in the news-stand market.  After several months, the news stands would rip off the covers and return the comics they didn't sell for a refund - the cover-date indicates when the books can be returned - but there seems to be ways things could go wrong.

But despite Goodman's experience, his distributor only lasted a few years.  His publishing company, of which Timely/Atlas/Marvel was only one small asset, would continue for another decade until he sold it in 1968 but with the distributor failure in 1956, he needed another option.  First he turned to American News Company but they were immediately shut down by a Justice League Department investigation.

I just cannot see that timing as a coincidence.  Was Goodman working with the Feds?  Or was he a dupe who helped them get in without knowing about it?  ANC  owned a lot of news stands and this was considered 'restraint of trade,' similar to how movie studios don't own theaters.  But as an enormous distributor, it just vanished.  And Goodman was back to needing help.

This is yet-another of the details that just makes no sense.  Why did Goodman need to keep Marvel operating?  And at this point it is generally considered to be where "Marvel Comics" as we know it started but as seen, your mileage may vary on that.  Goodman was rich, he was still publishing tons of crap magazines and books, why did he work to keep Marvel going?  Maybe he hoped for some big success like Superman but it had been almost twenty years and his biggest hit, Captain America, had bombed at Atlas.

There's no evidence or anything to speculate on, but the only thing I can think of was that he was just willing to give Stan Lee a job.  In the early-40s, his wife's cousin Stanley Lieber had been given a job as an office toady in the early-40s, cleaning up, doing whatever tasks were needed.  With others quitting or being fired, he had quickly been promoted to editor and had stayed ever since.  It still doesn't make any sense but what other reason would Goodman have to keep the comics business going, especially in that dying market?

[Even stranger, he stayed at Marvel as publisher for a few years after he had sold it.  Then he left and founded a new comics company, also called "Atlas."  He would show better business deals, offering creator royalties for their titles, so he did get a bunch of big names working for him, but it immediately failed.  Despite having his fingers across the print medium and distribution, comic books seem to be what he devoted himself too.  When this company failed after a year, he effectively vanished from public sight and died in 1992.]

So needing to keep Stan employed for some reason and having lost the biggest distributor in the US, he turned to DC Comics.  In the mid-1930s, they had been founded by people who owned a distribution company.  The comics just brought in extra cash, at least until Superman exploded.  The comics market was shrinking by the mid-50s but Superman was still popular in cartoons, tv shows, toys.  I'm not sure how popular Batman was at this point but he was still there while the other superheroes had faded away.  In short, DC was doing very well and not only in comics.  And now a competitor was asking them for help.

I've always wondered why they would help Marvel the way they did.  They didn't really need the extra books on the stands.  Perhaps this was more about personal relationships between the publishers.  Many of them had started off in 1920s-30s NYC publishing and distribution so they knew each other.  Many were also part of the Comics Code Authority.  They may officially be there to keep comics 'safe for children' but there would be time to discuss other shared interests.  This may be where Goodman had something to offer DC.

So what remained of Marvel was now distributed by Independent News, the company which founded DC Comics.  Not wanting to help a competitor too much, Marvel was limited to eight titles a month.  I have not done a full check but as far as I know, Marvel titles were all bi-monthly so it was sixteen different titles being published at any one time.  I've heard even that was a bit iffy, sometimes a seventeenth title might slip by and nobody said anything.  I've heard that Fantastic Four #1 was an example of that happening.

It's also been noted that at this point, Stan Lee was reaching middle-age.  He wanted to be a great writer but had really gone nowhere.  He would make a few small attempts to break out of the comics business, nothing that got any attention.  His life was going nowhere, as popular as he might be at work or home.  The best that could be said was that, now that he wasn't rushing to churn out dozens of comics every single month, he had more time to focus on what could be done with the remaining eight books and how to develop them.

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□ [“Minnesota Mayors Clash With Tim Walz, Refuse to Fly New State Flag"]

This has several aspects which are relevant.  The new flag, established last December, is very similar to the Somali flag.  This is picking out one group to be pandered to among the entire citizenry.  By an amazing coincidence, this group gets large amounts of taxpayer-money through fraud.  They also need to be reminded of their true home, Somalia, instead of the country they moved to and are supposedly integrating with.

From there, it's the basic conflict of nationalism.  You can blame Somalians specifically since they're relevant here but this is part of the argument over immigration.  I don't have a hard argument either way, I tend to agree that because America is superior, it really is the sort of nation that immigrants can move to and become part of the citizenry.  I'm not committed this this belief and there are certainly solid arguments against it, but they have to actually become part of our country.  Otherwise it's no different than an invasion taking over, which is what we see here.

□ [“Minnesota Dems Block Fraud Committee on Ilhan Omar’s Role in $250M Covid Fund Scam"]

This is installing the protected class, the new elites who run our lives and help themselves to our money.  They're not even trying to hide it.  If anything, they want everyone to see that they're defying their federal government, as well as their own citizens who don't fall into this class.  Perhaps they will break the US apart but they won't be among the groups that survive.  The ones who insist on starting a civil war like this rarely are.

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