It’s not like they have to try all that hard.

1200 years old…

… creator died

I guess so. Pretty good run though.

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again

He was talking about the U.S.A. He just didn’t realize. Or care.

Cultural Appropriation.

I had a friend at work who would come to my office at lunch time and remind me to stop working and have lunch. I’d be stuck on a problem and want to keep working on it, and he’d insist that I stop. He say that if I took some time away, I’d come back with the solution, and he was usually right.

He would also stop by my office at the end of the day to remind me to go home. I worked with him almost 20 years.

He retired in November of 2023 and passed away in June of 2024. I still miss him.

Not even against America and Israel?

How dare you!

The FBI will get him extradited to the US and ICE will grab him and deport him back to Mexico.

If Russia could stop the US from striking Iran, you’d think they’d stop Ukraine from striking Russia.

I don’t have a flagpole. I want to put one in, but my wife objects.

The reason she objects is because she thinks it will make us a target.

I want to fly a pride flag under the American flag. The point being that the American flag stands for all Americans, not just the Americans who agree with the current regime.

I’d probably change the lower flag from time to time, depending on events, time of year, or my mood.

Who fighting who?

Then in the US, where the one decent thing to come out of the revolution was licking out the monarchy, you’ve got a while crop of traitorous morons trying to establish one here.

I was always disgusted by the way my fellow citizens seemed to crave a monarchy. I see now that they were just waiting for a person vile enough to qualify.

Nothing says true religion like using police to force people to follow it.

“When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its Professors are obliged to call for the help of the Civil Power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”

-Benjamin Franklin

I’m assuming that the reason he shared state secrets with Epstein is because Epstein had something on him.

Well, it certainly wasn’t because he couldn’t implicate the billionaires.

https://youtu.be/HMIyDf3gBoY

Perhaps that’s the state secret he’s being punished for revealing: all the child rape among the rich and powerful.

Everything I’ve read about this says that the misconduct in question was sharing state secrets with Epstein.

The child raping doesn’t appear to be concerning them.

I don’t speak Portuguese, but sometimes I get in a mood to listen to bassa nova. I like the rhythm.

Mas Que Nada - probably my go to. I listen to that enough to annoy people around me.

I also like Águas de Março, particularly Elis Regina’s duet with Jobim.

Unfortunately, Humanity lacks an enforcement mechanism.