Off point, but my favorite pseudo documentary is "The Hellstrom Chronicle" (1971)

That film won the Oscar for best documentary of 1972. It contains excellent photography of insect colonies. The immensity of insect inhabitation in our world is well presented. The "pseudo" element involves a narrator (claiming to be an expert) proclaiming that his warnings of humankind's impending annihilation at the mandibles of insects have been ignored. That aspect of the film is like an April Fool prank, but it is entertaining its own way.

I would rather take my chances with insects than with the Trump regime.

For a while, the popularity of Max Fleischer's cartoons rivaled that of Walt Disney's.

When I was young, did not watch Fleischer's Betty Boop cartoons. I did watch television airings of Fleischer Studio's movie "Hoppity Goes to Town" (1941) which was originally titled "Mr. Bug Goes to Town." The film was designed, in part, as an allegory of socio-economic divide. The theatric screening of the film was held on December 4, 1941. The screening audience was indifferent. The U.S. entry into World War II in the following week ruined the plan for the movie to be a Christmas release.

In 2017, a CNN host posted a tweet on Twitter. This past September, Eric conned the market.

In the tweet, the host REFERRED to Trump using the POS phrase. After the occurrence of the tweet became well known, CNN severed ties with that person who posted that tweet.

It is an old story. It did not amount to much in the first place. There is no point for anyone to make a fuss about it now.

Of course, the Trump crime family will dredge up anything they think might help then in the art of distraction from their numerous dirty deeds. One of those dirty deeds was Eric garnering a multi-billion-dollar paper gain in September regarding the foreign-money-infused World Liberty Financial scam. Eric smiled and flapped his gums big time gloating about that paper gain.

The PEN Register Act on 1986 allows L.E. to ascertain phone numbers called from a given phone.

Law Enforcement must obtain a warrant to do so.

I think Special Prosecutor Smith obtained a warrant from a court to permit him to determine phone numbers which certain members of Congress placed from their phones during a select period of days surrounding J6. Such a warrant falls under the Pen Register Act of 1986.

Special Prosecutor Smith did not apply for any warrant to listen in on ("wiretap" ) any telephone calls. Grassley suggested that Smith had indeed listened in, which, of course, is a lie by Grassley.

When Raymond Burr's character discovers he has been watched.

His very last two remarks were flippant non-answers.

Question: "Do you know the number of transgender people who have committed mass shootings?"

Kirk: "Too many."

[audience applause]

Question: "Do you know the exact number?"

Kirk: "Gang or non-gang involved?"

[BANG]

End of Prove Me Wrong event

Thank you for your excellent tour through decades of evil and corrupt influences.

I recall when, in the Autumn of 1973, gasoline prices rose overnight from twenty-five cents to fifty cents per gallon. There were many international and domestic events happening at the time. A war broke out between Israel and an affiliation of Arab States (with Egypt and Syria at the vanguard). The media blared the unsettling report that the U.S.S.R. had announced that it might send troops unilaterally into the mideast. (That now sounds laughable).

About the time of the hostilities (now referred to as the Yom Kippur War) oil companies hiked the price at the pumps overnight, and vehicles lined up to top off their tanks. The term "Energy Crisis" was christened. Soon, the international strife cooled off, vehicle lines at the pumps diminished, but gasoline prices remained at about forty-five cents per gallon.

The next chapter in the drama of October 1973 came with Nixon's effectuating the firing of the special prosecutor who was investigating the Watergate matter. (That firing sounds quaint now). That event led to a surge in the Democrats' movement to impeach Nixon over Watergate.

As a diversion from the international and political unrest, we had reports of numerous UFO sightings which would continue into November and December.

Oh, what an interesting month October 1973 was.

He was a disturbed twenty-year-old.

I am just guessing, but I do not think he had any definitive political ideology as to conservative versus progressive matters. I do not think he had a political cult mindset devoted to Trumpism. I think he was just a lost twenty-year-old who had been living in his truck for a year and who had a background with firearms courtesy of his parents.

However, the Putin-financed propaganda machine has been going at it since this morning with the lie that he was a violent liberal who rebeled against his loving, wholesome MAGA parents and was radicalized by leftist propaganda. Of course, that lie is ridiculous, but it is the type of lie which the MAGAs eat up and repeat.

Scalia clamored for the execution of a defendant . . .

. . . who was subsequently exonerated by DNA evidence.

The defendant was a man of color. He was released from prison after DNA evidence established he was not the perpetrator.

In speeches before conservative groups, Scalia was making the man's conviction (which he was ultimately found not to have committed) into a clarion call to speed up executions. Scalia toned it down after DNA evidence exonerated the man. Not long after, Scalia died in bed in a friend's home in Texas.

Of course. Mother nature's strength and immensity dwarf humans' silver bullets.

The energy of a bomb is intense in the atmosphere, but it is handily absorbed by rock strata. The power of a bunker buster wanes when it is absorbed by millions of cubic feet of rock near the surface.

Likewise, the scope and energy of an ocean storm dwarfs that of a nuclear bomb. Trump does not understand the basics of science. Grade school classes teach that there is more kinetic energy in a bathtub of tepid water than there is in a red-hot nail. The energy of a nuclear bomb detonated in an ocean storm (as Trump suggested) would be minuscule compared to the power of the storm which covers millions of square miles.