The first half of this episode completes their recommendations for changes to the Department of Defense. Then we're up to Chapter 5, titled "Department of Homeland Security" and written by anti-immigrant, anti-birthright citizenship, anti-abortion, and bigoted homophobic weasel Ken Cuccinelli.
Part eleven of my "Project 2025" reading is now online!
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I got through about twenty minutes of "Melania." It's a test. If someone you know watches all of it and likes it? It's time to take away their car keys and get them a full-time caregiver.
Sync music now available on Pond5! "Plans Go Awry in Dubai (minimal mix)" is a cinematic instrumental with Middle Eastern influences featuring synthesizers and strings. 80bpm, key: D minor
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Psychological or counseling training on her part? NADA. Just pure woo-woo.
I'm basically a super hero and yes, she's evil at this point. Sells bullshit "empowerment" sessions for women who need someone else to tell them how to live.
In 1980, I did something I'd never done and didn't do afterward. I was in junior high and my sister was in elementary school. She was barely ten minutes late from getting home but it bothered me. I found her and a group of girls taunting another group of kids and yelled, "TRACY! COME HOME!"
It's MARCH
There really really should be a free app (or feature in Windows) that allows you to throttle the network use of an app that doesn't play nice with others. A simple "25%/50%/75% Internet" setting when you right-click on a running app would be just fine.
Accompanying mood:
"War Pigs" - Post Malone/Slash/Duff McKagan/Chad Smith/Andrew Watt
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Fun fact: Daylight Savings Time does NOT mess up your circadian rhythm if you do unstructured freelance work from home.
Meta sucks.
Sorry, folks, there’s just no money for universal health care. Trump and his goons have children to bomb.
Pentagon Tells Congress First Week of Iran War Cost More Than $11.3 Billion
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Are you on Mastodon yet? Gotta diversify that digital portfolio…
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<insert metaphysical joke about putting your own late-90s industrial music into an A.I. filter which removes noise and it erased most of the song here>
Looks like the pro-Trump trolls found me on Threads. Much like they did on Facebook. Snowflake losers.
... also my first thought.
This was a fascinating & fun read and quite a compelling glance at the former Scottish-American turned Frenchman turned exile who all but invented modern finance systems.
New audiobook narrated by yours truly! “Paper Fortunes: The Frenchman Who Tried to Buy an Empire (Crash Course: A History of Financial Folly)” is now available for purchase on Audible, and it will be available on iTunes and Amazon within the next few days.
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Three letter word for Trump? OAF
Try to prove me wrong if you want. I accept all challenges.
At 1:18 in the Melania movie, Trump says he wants to be a peacemaker. Well, that was a lie.
