CNN is trying to blame Trump for the Minnesota Somali fraud scandal.. Why would anyone expect anything different from the Clinton News Network 

OK there have been other proposals for nuclear powered rockets that could conceivably shrink the time travel between places in our solar system but evidently they believe they are ready for the real meal deal in 2027 ??

If I see it then I will believe it but here is hoping. 

Quote:Psychology, depression, personal growth, mental health, and philosophical wisdom are discussed in this video which reveals a psychological awakening. This social commentary is a meditation told with dark humor explaining why so many of us feel broken in a world built on illusions. This is a brutally honest look at the human condition, mixing introspection, self-improvement, and radical honesty with a kind of comedic despair only modern life can produce.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re not actually depressed, you just saw through the lie, this video explores why that realization is both terrifying and liberating. We dig into meaning, identity, emotional exhaustion, societal expectations, spiritual detachment, and what “healing” really means when the system itself is sick.

1. China will continue to piss the world of and may even say some of Russia now belongs to China.
2. The Russian Ukrainian war will end
3. It will become widely known that billions and billions of fraudulent dollars and waste in government programs are being shut down.
4. The Democrats will become more idiotic and strident claiming the economy sucks even though gas goes below $2 a gallon, prescription drug prices are cut in half if not more, tax refunds will be the largest they have ever been for most working people, with inflation now down from the Biden's regime 9% to something like 3 percentage and still falling most people with a brain will thank their lucky stars the two Democratic candidates did not win the election. 

I will just wait and see if my 8 ball fortune telling gizmo is accurate or if it was made in China and is a piece of junk !!



Your Turn

I saw the following on Facebook...dated December 27, 2025, at/around 4:56 p.m. from an account "Maria Jarvis Mitchell"
Not going to link it, because it's on Facebook...

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Has this already been discussed, here...and, I missed it?

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THE FACTS …..
“Trump Isn’t “Pirating Ships” — He Must Seize and Sell 300 Venezuelan Oil Tankers to Satisfy an International Court Judgment Owed to U.S. Companies
A lot of people are reacting emotionally to the idea of oil tankers being seized, but most of the outrage comes from not understanding what is actually being discussed.
So let’s slow this down and explain it clearly, legally, and step by step.

This is not war.
This is not piracy.
This is judgment enforcement — the same principle used every day when courts seize bank accounts, property, aircraft, or cargo from someone who lost in court and refuses to pay.
1. What Venezuela did (the part that always gets skipped)
   In the 2000s, under Hugo Chávez, Venezuela seized oil projects owned by foreign companies, including major U.S. firms such as ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.
   This wasn’t a policy disagreement.
   It was expropriation:
    • Contracts were broken
    • Assets were taken
    • Compensation that had been agreed to was not paid
   That is not controversial. It is historical fact.
2. What the courts decided
   Those U.S. companies didn’t complain on social media.
   They went to international arbitration and U.S. courts — the proper legal venues.
   They won.
   The rulings were:
    • Final
    • Binding
    • Enforceable
   Venezuela lost and was ordered to pay tens of billions of dollars in damages.
3. The real problem: Venezuela refused to pay
   Here is the key point most critics ignore:
   Venezuela refused to comply with the court judgments.
   In any legal system — domestic or international — when a party:
   • Loses in court
   • Owes a judgment
   • Refuses to pay
   …the law allows creditors to seize commercial assets belonging to the debtor outside its borders to satisfy the judgment.
   This is called judgment enforcement.
   Countries do not get a free pass simply because they are countries.
4. Why oil tankers even enter the conversation
   Venezuela’s primary commercial asset is oil.
   Oil moves on oil tankers.
   Those tankers:
   • Carry state-owned Venezuelan oil
   • Are commercial property, not military or diplomatic assets
   • Can be lawfully seized by court order in cooperating jurisdictions
   This is no different in principle from seizing:
   • A bank account
   • A plane
   • A shipment of goods
   Calling this “piracy” is legally incorrect.
    Piracy is theft without lawful authority.
    This is court-ordered seizure to collect a debt already ruled on.
5. The math everyone avoids
   Let’s use conservative, realistic numbers so no one can claim exaggeration.
   • Estimated unpaid court judgments: ~$35 billion
   • Oil price used: $62 per barrel
   • Typical large oil tanker (VLCC): ~2 million barrels
   Value of one full tanker:
   • Gross value: ~$124 million
   • Net value after realistic court-sale discounts: ~$115 million
   Now do the math:
    $35,000,000,000 ÷ $115,000,000 ≈ 300 tankers
   That’s where the number comes from.
   Not one tanker.
   Not ten.
   About three hundred.
   One tanker only covers about one-third of one percent of what Venezuela owes.
6. What this means — and what it does NOT mean
   This does not mean:
   • Tankers are being randomly grabbed
   • This is a military action
   • The goal is punishment
   It does mean:
   • Courts already ruled
   • A debt legally exists
   • Enforcement is the only option left when payment is refused
   When Donald Trump talks about seizing oil shipments, he is not inventing a new power.
   He is talking about using existing legal authority to enforce judgments Venezuela already lost.
   In plain English:
    You took property, you lost in court, you refused to pay — so your commercial assets are seized and sold until the debt is satisfied.
   That is how the rule of law works.
7. Why you don’t see hundreds of tankers seized
   Because enforcement is:
   • Legally narrow
   • Jurisdiction-dependent
   • Deliberately targeted
   Venezuela also structured its exports to:
   • Avoid enforceable ports
   • Use intermediaries
   • Break shipments into smaller pieces
   So tanker seizures are rare, careful, and strategic, not mass roundups.
   Tankers are leverage, not a magic wand.
The bottom line
   • Venezuela seized U.S. assets
   • Venezuela lost in international court
   • Venezuela refuses to pay
   • The debt is ~$35 billion
   • A tanker is worth ~$115 million net
   • It would take ~300 Venezuelan oil tankers to make the judgment whole
   This is lawful enforcement, not piracy.
   This is accounting, not aggression.
   This is what happens when court rulings are ignored.
Final thought
   People arguing “this sounds extreme” are missing the most important fact:
   The court already decided.
   Once that happens, enforcement isn’t optional — it’s inevitable.
   Everything else flows from that reality.

#Venezuela #oiltanker #OilTankerSeizure #pirates #piracy #Trump #captured.  James L Wells”
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Here's a fresh take (I think) on Atlantis that I found interesting.

Quote:The myth of Atlantis has become one of the greatest enigmas and subjects of fantasy, theosophical spin, sci-fi and gossip in our modern day.

However, does a method of analysis exist that may finally resolve the many paradoxes surrounding Atlantis and identify its true location and, more importantly, Plato’s intentional purpose behind the story he outlined in his Critias and Timaeus Dialogues over 2500 years ago?

In this incredible Rising Tide Foundation Interview, I speak with researcher Jack Kelley (creator of the award winning 2024 film The Atlantis Puzzle and new book by the same name) about his efforts to bring the real story to light following the groundbreaking discoveries of his guide and mentor George Sarantatis. Jack describes how this discovery requires a re-appreciation for the mind and most importantly the METHOD of analysis developed by Plato who lived and wrote his dialogues at a time of civilizational crisis and with a specific intention.

Jack and George Sarantatis also make the point that cracking the ‘Atlantis Puzzle’ means following the lead of the great Hans Schliemann (discoverer of Troy), by taking the genuine original Greek texts authored by Plato seriously instead of treating the text like a work of pure imagination. This exercise thus means learning where systematic mistranslations of the Timeaus and Criteas have been spread by Sophists such as Oxford Classicist Benjamin Jowett across centuries derailing the actual truths of Atlantis’ real location and broader lessons available to all honest minds. It also means zeroing in on specific details, words, language, climatology, and other clues left intentionally by Plato throughout his texts. It also means overcoming the false belief that our subjective selves are separate from the objective fact of Plato’s composition, as he did write for all future generations as well as his own.There are many discoveries to be made, and this study is really the gift that keeps on giving.

However, don’t take my word for it.

In this video, inspired by Richard Feynman’s way of teaching, we question the idea that time “flows” and show why physics doesn’t see time the way you do. No metaphors, no philosophy — just a clear explanation of what time actually is, how we measure it, and why your intuition keeps getting it wrong. This video might break your brain. I had to listen to it twice.

Last night, around midnight, I was on the back porch, smoking, when I heard a light buzzing, then noticed the lights of a small drone moving along (and, at the height of) the power lines in the alley behind my house.

When it neared my house, it began to climb, then continued climbing (to, 200' - 300') while moving east, past me, 3 more houses.

It hovered over that 3rd house for a minute or more, then moved over the house next-nearer mine, and hovered another minute or so.

I moved out from under the eave, to observe, as it had positioned almost out of my line of sight...and, it took off in an east-southeasterly direction (toward downtown)...'til out of sight.

I did not see it turn, or return.

From the time I noticed it, to where it went out of sight, it had probably traveled a little less than a mile.

I purchased a couple of drones for family members, some years back...and don't recall them able to travel as far as this must have.

The only way I see it working, is if, whoever was flying it, was staying within range, in a vehicle...or, if it was owned/operated by someone other than 'civilians'.

Any thoughts?

Found a couple of uses for the Win10 task manager.

Task manager lets a user see which processes and programs are running on the PC.  It can be started by right clicking on the taskbar and selecting the "task manager" option.

Recently, my browser misbehaved and took too much memory, which made the PC unusable for most anything.  I wanted to maximize a minimized window, but couldn't. I found in task manager, for some processes, one can right click on the process name and one of the options offered is "maximize", which brought the window back up immediately.

Yesterday, I mistakenly closed the "explorer.exe" process, thinking it was the file explorer program.  Everything BUT task manager disappeared from the PC screen.  The screen was black and would not respond to mouse clicks.  I thought I might have to restart the PC.  Again, in task manager, a right click on the process name sometimes gives the option "open file location".  So I tried that for a process, and bingo, the file explorer program started and placed me in the directory that process starts from.  From there I could navigate and restart explorer.exe -- the graphical user interface started right up and I could work normally again.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has produced a bunch of tools but average users never see any guidance on how to use them.  Task manager is one of those tools.

Logan’s Run (1976) is missing between 10 and 20 minutes of footage – and those deleted scenes quietly broke the story. In this Golden Flicker video essay, we dig into the lost version of this 70s sci-fi classic and show how studio cuts warped the film we know today.

If you’ve ever felt that Logan’s Run is rushed, confusing, or full of strange continuity errors, you’re not imagining it. To secure a PG rating and a wider audience, MGM removed entire scenes: violent moments, character beats, and connective tissue that originally made the plot and relationships much clearer. The result is a compromised theatrical cut that jumps, stalls, and sometimes barely makes sense.

In this in‑depth movie analysis, we walk through what was filmed versus what survived into release. From the darker original opening hunt to the missing details of the Ice Cave and Box, we reconstruct the lost version of the story and explain how those edits changed the tone, themes, and emotional impact of Logan’s journey.