Where's the equity? Why don't they hire more men as prostitutes?

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□ [“Minnesota Nonprofit Siphoned $6.5 Million for Luxury Cars, Vegas Trips, Personal Spending"]

I'm sure this is a valid case but it looks like a scapegoat.  There's no indication that Somalis are involved and the fraud is only a few million, much less than the Somalis are already known for.  The lawsuit was filed by Minnesota AG Keith Ellison whom we've heard about since he was DNC Deputy Chair and before that spent over a decade in Congress until he was replaced by Ilhan Omar.  And this is who he decided to go after first.

Meanwhile Omar is getting more attention because of how interactive she was with Feed Our Future who is currently on trial for $250 million in fraud.  That's a much bigger case than the one Ellison is going after but I guess he couldn't find anything better to do.  One of the people on trial in this case used to be on Omar's staff.  Another one is the restaurant where she celebrated her 2018 primary win.  These people are personally connected to her, yet she stays silent.  Even to oppose fraud of taxpayer money, she will not release her side of the communications to the fraud committee.

I'm betting that a lot of citizens are looking into what other fraud is going on, in Minnesota as well as the other 49 states.  We've heard about a few - IIRC mostly in California - but we know there will be a lot more.  This might be connected to the sudden outrage about redistricting, just as Democrats had a way to bring in illegitimate votes, they also had a way to bring in illegitimate piles of money for their own use.  I am developing the theory that they really did establish a 'shadow government' and these would be two ways to maintain it without anybody else noticing.

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□ [“Western Media Says Khamenei Is Gay, Crippled and Disfigured – Iran Says He's Healed From ‘Scratch Behind the Ear’"]

This is a bit strange, he's been in charge for over two months and has yet to make any public appearances.  Military and government probably has communications which the US attacks haven't destroyed, so they know how he's doing.  Let me rephrase that, they know the official-yet-secret status, whether or not there's any truth to it.  Then they have to go out and tell the public the Ayatollah is doing fine.  Only those around Khamenei know how well he's actually doing these days.

It's not that different from the US being able to implant spies or drones at the site he's being hidden at.  They would also know the truth but couldn't tell us.  That's why we are getting these reports, gay, permanently injured, whatever.  They're believable but there's still no evidence.  But we're not in the same condition Iran is in.  A theocratic tyranny can't just have its leader be absent for months and still be taken seriously.  Even the IRGC must be worried.  Their strength could keep them in power but they've lost the spiritual center the whole government depended on.

Meanwhile their economy is collapsing, they're out of places to store oil and they've lost the Strait of Hormuz.  They've tried bullying ships there and have totally failed.  China and Russia aren't rushing in to help, nore are other Muslim nations.  Trump has been very restrained, given what he could do so they're really out of options.  They best they can do is try to hold out for another eight months and pray Democrats take over Congress, a long-shot at best.

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□ [“Biden to Fight DOJ Over Release of Audiotapes, Conversations with Ghostwriter"]

I highly-doubt Biden is going to have much to do with this.  It's actually his lawyers and other sycophants who will handling this.  There will probably be a lot of jokes about their authority to represent him being signed with an autopen.  He and his people have until Tuesday to respond to this.

They claim these were conversations with his biographer which weren't supposed to become public.  Then what's the point of the autobiography, you just want to make sure no one reads it?  Or maybe this is about all the classified information Biden had stored unprotected at his house which he showed the ghostwriter who wasn't authorized to see any of it.  Maybe that's the stuff Biden doesn't want the public to know.

The leftists-in-charge had declared these audiotapes "top secret" and locked them away.  But Biden was in no trouble for having shared this info in the first place.  We've already seen this with Hillary that the rules don't apply to them.  It would be nice to hear that this was the point of the Mar-a-Lago raid, that Trump had set up a trap.  I'd like to think he had declassified the documents as POTUS and they were left there to expose secrets that the officials conducting the raid weren't supposed to know.  That would be a long-ranging scheme that could be awesome.  The alternative is that Trump defied the rules too and got away with it like Biden and Hillary did.

Anyway, these are 70 hours of audiotapes that those 'in the know' really wanted to hide.  Supposedly they were talking about Beau Biden.  For 70 hours of audiotapes?  Doesn't seem likely unless he was into something that they *really* need to keep secret.  Given that Biden has spent all these years believing he died in Iraq, maybe there really is something ready to be exposed.

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I've long-suspected that from the very start, Spider-Man was always intended to be the central point of the Marvel franchise.  The problem is that there's very little evidence to point to and what there is was just the printed comics.  He immediately started interacting with other Marvel characters, mostly the Fantastic Four but soon including the Hulk and Daredevil.  His supporting cast immediately included a newspaper publisher, a convenient way to represent mass media across the Marvel version of New York City.

There was also the fact that Spider-Man was a teenager.  Marvel was trying to appeal to an older audience than the kids who usually gave up comics when they discovered girls.  By now comics had been around for a couple decades so they did have fans who were interested in the history and were willing to stay as readers but they needed something at least slightly more-relevant.

This may also have been why Stan Lee tried to get two artists involved.  We only have a short description of Jack Kirby's attempt but there would have been discussions which were carried over when Steve Ditko produced the version the company went with.  Only three people who were relevant but that's still an attempt at working as a team and functioning as their own 'test group.'  This may have been where they got the notion of Spidey being a loner, even distrusted by society-in-general.

But there's almost none of that present in his origin story.  The media attention Spider-Man gets from performances is noted but without detail or importance.  Fellow high-school students make fun of Peter for the title page and a five panels on page two, that's their only relevance to the story.  The readers could relate to that but it's only there as a set-up and nothing else.

Perhaps the point was to interest the reader, give him something to relate to, and then flesh out the superhero fantasy origin story.  It's still difficult to figure out what the intent was, especially given how different this story was from everything that followed.  Even the short stories that made up the first two issues of the ongoing Spider-Man series are paced and narrated very differently.  Just looking at the art, everybody is specifically posing, like they're smiling at the audience.

Perhaps that was deliberate.  It's been a long time since I've actually focused on Amazing Fantasy #15 just because the story is so out-of-character from what came next, but looking at it now, there's a lot of work going into it.  Virtually every panel is seen at eye-level except when Peter gets to use his spider-powers.  That's very restrained given how much Ditko moved the camera around in the ongoing series.  Even in the Peter Parker scenes, people would look more normal and act like believable people.

That also applies to the story, Aunt May and Uncle Ben only appear in five panels total but three different scenes as the story keeps building.  In a movie they'd be almost non-existent but comics are a very different medium.  The reader can focus as long as he wants on each panel, go back and forth around the story and re-read it over-and-over.

The plot is broken down quiet well.  It's difficult to tell a full comics story in only ten pages, plus a title page, but this pulls it off.  Page one and two, Peter the nerd.  Page three, bitten by a spider.  Page four, discovering he has powers.  Page five, discovers he can make money as a wrestler, page six, makes a costume, end of Part One.  If this is aimed at the growing audience of superhero comic fans, it works quite well as a set-up.

Part Two, page seven, Spidey the media star, page eight, lets the thief get away, page nine, comes home one night to find his uncle is dead so he'll go after the murderer, page ten and eleven, the climax.  It must have been a conscious decision to not include any of the standard superhero tropes of the time.  It's still very out-of-character for the Spider-Man we know but it's understandable why Lee and Ditko would see more they could do with the character.  The media, the kids at school, the dead uncle, this was a unique approach to an ongoing superhero series, whether or not they knew Amazing Fantasy would immediately be cancelled.

But none of this provides any concrete evidence on why exactly Spidey would set the standard for the Marvel Universe.  But that's clearly what he became right-away.  Maybe Marvel just intended to use the 'web' as a deliberate analogy.  He did make early appearances in Strange Tales - fighting the Human Torch - and Avengers #3, where most of the Marvel Universe made a cameo.  Back in those days, Marvel would even include a caption that this character appears "by special arrangement with the Amazing Spider-Man Magazine."  The audience hadn't yet learned what they were doing here.

The second-to-last caption of the story includes the phrase Stan Lee would always be best known for.  I assume he didn't give it any thought, just dashing out an ending.  Ditko would remake that final panel many times in many ways to end stories in his run.  And the final caption tells us "a legend is born" in this "world of fantasy."  That sounds like generic promotion like Stan Lee would always use but at least on the surface, it does indicate that they'll do more if they get the chance.

As I said, this story is very out-of-character from what Lee and Ditko did with it.  I haven't focused on it for a long time but this time around, was much more impressed than I had expected.  It's not serious literature and doesn't show any sign that it'll be a huge success, yet it obviously worked.

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