February 7, 2026

Feel free to use the graphic below dating to the early '70s post-Hippies, regarding your

"I had not realized that I needed to adhere to your standards and take into account your sentiments before I posted."

February 6, 2026

A side, trivial note: The sheriff is all Meta in discussing the case, how they lost sleep, reacting

to what media is saying, more. In this and many events, the spokespeople seem to be affected by being in the media, in different degrees - deer-in-headlights or thrilled by the spotlight or nervous or occasionally thoroughly in charge.

As for this Meta sheriff, seems like he shouldn't be so personal in his details, both about him and his staff and about this victim and family.

I know the locale is not L.A., but on a brief visit I saw how law enforcement interacted with celebrity types (not big names) with extreme solicitousness and deference, like supplicants to the important people.

February 4, 2026

My main lesson from defending Bill the last time was, never again put an individual above the party's AGENDA.

When the dust settled, and it took years, my paradigm changed to regarding "leaders" only as instruments in the service of the Agenda, not as idols, and I then came to think that he should have resigned and let GORE take over. I defended him to the last ditch in real time based on purely partisan terms. As of now, I'm repulsed at the MAGAts doing this (again), but have no idea what or any involvement Bill has, but defending him now is not my option, just he can look out for himself.

January 30, 2026

Estate sale, with free cookies

This A.M. there were at least three different news bits separately about very recent mental and physical disfunctions - KRASNOV "rocking" while Melania was discoursing, him forgetting her origin country, and some physical symptom connected to early dementia. No, not a credentialed specialist here, and certainly not in-person diagnoses. Will reserve conclusions until later if there are articles that there were all these signs before something happened.

But last night, dawdling, there was a sampling of bling suitable for an estate sale. And while cleaning out my cache cookies, there was one "dhs" and another one "whitehouse.gov" - hmmm.

January 23, 2026

if (we) have an internet connection - WEISS is conserving her outside activities to focus on CBS for awhile.

I love how The Daily Beast uses "goons" and "MAGA-curious" and "MAGA-coded"! And I'm choosing to see WEISS cutting back as a portent that she is on a steroided trajectory version of Chris LICHT on his way out at CNN - so early!!!!!!!!!!

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/maga-coded-cbs-boss-shelves-side-venture-as-network-spirals/ar-AA1UL33N?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69739394917643e8b8b3c04275c1ad0c&ei=35

CBS News’s MAGA-curious editor-in-chief is putting her personal podcast on pause to put out fires at her new job.

Bari Weiss, the former opinion journalist installed as the head of the national news organization despite having no prior television experience, announced on Thursday that her Honestly podcast will take a break.

“As you may have heard if you have an internet connection, I’ve also taken on a new role, and that’s as editor-in-chief of CBS News,” Weiss, 41, said. “It’s a huge responsibility, and it’s an extraordinary opportunity to bring the values that drive this show, and that drive The Free Press into a much bigger arena.”

“So, here’s the news: Honestly is taking a little bit of a pause," she added, saying that it would return in “just a few short months.” ....

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January 20, 2026

What she's thinking, "This is a real boss" - Susie WILES looking at Exxon boss - (a few weeks ago)

That *is* WILES (am sure to be corrected), ain't it? We haven't seen that look since way back Meloonia thirsting over Justin TRUDEAU. Because she know real-deal-bosses - her father, the Florida goon - such that KRASNOV can't fool her (why is she still there? ).

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January 20, 2026

Remember our youth - "John Foster DULLES" sounded heroic, State Dept - brother Allen DULLES, CIA

They were at the core of our national meddling in our country's and our personal lives that KRASNOV (by his string-pullers) is attempting to do right now on a world and us/individual level. In the absence of our courts and Congress stopping him, seems like the EU is the last defense.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_(Kinzer_book)#

is a 2013 book by the New York Times journalist and historian Stephen Kinzer.[1] It has been described as "a riveting chronicle of government-sanctioned murder, casual elimination of 'inconvenient' regimes, relentless prioritization of American corporate interests and cynical arrogance on the part of two men who were once among the most powerful in the world."[2] Kinzer traces how the activity of the Dulles brothers "helped set off some of the world's most profound long-term crises."[3] It is based on secondary sources.[4]

The book mentions that the Dulles brothers play a vital role in leading the U.S. into the Vietnam War, and assisting to overthrow cold war governments such as Guatemala, Iran, the Congo, and Indonesia.[3]

The book's first several chapters give information about the family background, childhoods, and college educations of the two brothers. In this way, some points of their personal life are provided: Foster was a devoted husband while Allen was an unfaithful one. Kinzer explains how the actions of the Dulles brothers were aimed at removing world leaders whom they considered dangerous to the American interests. The brothers had a significant effect on the United States foreign policy and global conflicts. [5]

The book mentions "six monsters" that the "Dulles brothers believed had to be brought down": Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Sukarno in Indonesia, Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, and Fidel Castro in Cuba. Ho Chi Minh and Castro espoused left-wing politics. The other leaders on the list were nationalists who campaigned for their country's independence. The book also discusses Iran at length. While explaining the careers of the brothers, Kinzer describes events from American history such as mind-control experiments “in which psychoactive drugs were administered to unknowing victims.” [2][4] ....

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Carol BURNETT: "I Made a Fool of Myself over John Foster Dulles"

January 18, 2026

RUBIO-Batista (not related to BATISTA) - "the very model of a modern" pipsqueak dictator

Disclaimer: Am barely guessing at stereotypes of the history of other countries in this hemisphere - have dipped into about one (1) podcast of a Venezuelan exile who spouts MAGA parrot points (before KRASNOV's recent kidnapping) attacking/mocking anything from our Democratic Party with his followers chiming in with the most outlandish crap - like "God Bless (KRASNOV), sent by God to liberate the world from socialist/communist Democrats." They equate anything smacking of social services to be socialist/communist, are super anti-Woke, all the usual MAGAt indoctrination. They are Wingnuts back over there and same here.

The Cuban Exiles of the first generation were the CIA/DULLES-brothers-plants/BATISTA-Mob ilk, already Wingnut because of, as the documentary below says, "U.S. investments and Mob ties," benefitting only the dictator himself and the financial elites supporting him. I remember how some of our most idealistic DUers favored the beyond-Leftists in South America who became dictators. And all of these dictators are the same - BATISTA took hundreds of millions with him when he skeedaddled. CASTRO always wore uniform but he soon lived the bestest life, with billions in banks somewhere, a private island that would make EPSTEIN drool with envy (very few were allowed in, among them Barbara WALTERS).

*** But back to RUBIO-Batista. He's of the *heritage* if not the first generation. What floats to the top about him is how he has become subservient on the surface while clearly his wheels turning are obvious, how he thinks he is playing a long game for himself, fooling himself that he is using KRASNOV for the future. Why did he run in the 2015 primaries with his pipsqueak image? Because back then everybody, including us and including KRASNOV, thought KRASNOV could never win, that he was a ridiculous clown (which he is), that KRASNOV was a disposable loser (which he is but needs a cool eye to do the disposing).

So when KRASNOV came back, RUBIO-Batista decided to swallow the subservience and bide his time. Time for what - not here (but we've been wrong before). But somehow in our national imaging, RUBIO-Batista and the rest of the Exile-heritage ones have escaped what they came from - the right-wing, Mob, elite of the BATISTA years. RUBIO, of Cuban Exile heritage, reaped extreme benefits of immigration and residency that other Hispanic branches didn't get - imagine *two* Senators and presidential candidates and extensive colonization of a state (Florida) and significant impact on both political parties (hatred towards Dems, collaboration with Reps). The Red Scare years here implemented the DULLES brothers (at the State Department and CIA) of intalling Rightwing dictators in the hemisphere, and of fostering the Strong Man culture and the conflation in the minds that anything (Liberal, Dem) such as social services was "communist'. So the Exiles were already predisposed to be hostile to the Dem Party, but the Bay of Pigs sealed the deal for them to hate JFK personally and the Dem Party at large.

This BATISTA documentary is very short, does a scant review of the "American investments and Mob" but there are longer ones at YouTube. And there are probably more on RUBIO-Batista himself, his background with the Miami exile entertainment (and nose candy?) community (ex-brother-in-law is a big star).

January 17, 2026

I, who am Democratic and *not* a "royalist" note the passing of "princess" Irene of Greece.

Yeah, for some reason there's lots of "royalty" sentiment at this Democratic board. It's really about *celebrity* ain't it? Goes back to ancient days when the kings were annointed by best looks, and Saul was the best looking? Then peeps caught on that looks don't equate to best performance.

So all things don't go away, there are things going on that always happened before. But so we daily hear and follow the "royalty" of the Brits, but in the inner corridors of foofieness, there are supposed rankings and cache, and there are other supposed prestigious better-than-youse-and-moi, other "royalties."

So Irene of Greece passed in Spain. Sister of "Queen" Sofia of Spain/Greece. Inseparable sisters. YouTube enlightens. Why has Queen(mother) Sofia been so disrespected by her commoner daughter-in-law Leticia who was a mere journalist, now known to have a scandolous past (have we all?). And Juan Carlos former "king" of Spain, her supposed spouse, now abdicated and housing in some oil place (may KRASNOV join him), had *THOUSANDS" of infidelities in his spouse's face with untold wastrel-ing of riches and shame and slaughtering of endangered animals, finally sealing his abdication.

But why did "queen" Sofia of Greece put up with the lifelong humiliation? Well, it's a long story. Turns out that her parents, Paul of Greece and Federica of Hanover (tough lady) had an arrangement - him Gay and her leave-me-alone. So Sofia knew how to adjust. But their family history is another layer - overthrown, refugees in South Africa, her performing humanitarian nursing labor or something, until she found a safehold as a "monarch" her due. So she survived/adjusted.

And the recently deceased sister Irene of Greece, lifelong survivalist, the two of them clinging, has passed. Meanwhile, in recent years, the current "royalies" have, for who-knows-why have humiliated Queen Sofia, her commoner daughter-in-law Leticia the journalist stopping photos with the granddaughters, with one of them swatting Sofia's embrace away in a vast public Easter photo op.

January 17, 2026

I, who am not a cineaste, have my (few) tastes, hence Reflections in a Golden Eye

And all the aficionado/experts/gourmets have never known/cited/cared about it. It's an English Major little novel made into a spectacular (not in the epic sense) movie - HUSTON director, Liz & Marlon "stars" being their best (I don't know), back when they were only known as "stars" not now in the YouTube days when everybody's dirty laundry is out there - and I do mean *everybody's" such as JFK, Jesus, all the biggest celebrities and supposed notables of all time. (No "hero" is left for all time.)

So, finally, this YouTube exposes a spectacular book/movie.