'A key grand jury witness in a case against a former Olympic canoeist accused of tampering with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool testified that the area was already damaged and would have required repairs regardless, lawyers said in a court filing Monday. [...] The witness, who is not identified, was the only person who testified about damages, and said that the property had already been damaged before, authorities say, Hearn stuck his hands in the water, according to Hearn’s team.'
...
'Hearn’s team questioned whether there is enough evidence to show he caused more than $1,000 in damage to the pool, the threshold necessary to charge him with a more serious crime. The witness’ testimony, according to Hearn’s lawyers, “established that the pool had substantial preexisting damage requiring repair before any alleged conduct by Mr. Hearn.”'
Also, although its easy to put ever present climate change in the category of “inconvenient “ the reality is, for us simmering frogs, the raging, non stop hurricane of climate change is still coming. And already all year long, somewhere on earth, people are experiencing life changing impacts of climate change. Life ending as well. It is and has been for 30 years THE issue, and, except for Biden, America has chosen to minimize or outright ignore it. What climate change is saying in places like Bordeaux is “may I have your attention?”
'One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months.
'A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise.
'Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but they accidentally requested records for the username “fus_ro_dah” (one underscore after “fus”). This one-character difference led them not to the perpetrator but to a Canadian man named Brandon Klayme.
'(Ars readers may recognize “fus ro dah” as the Unrelenting Force “dragon shout” from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.)
'Despite finding no evidence of the crime on his digital devices, Canadian police arrested Klayme in 2020 on child sex abuse charges. He was convicted after a trial in 2023 and sentenced in 2024 to 18 months in prison. He served the full term.
'Even after release, Klayme continued to fight his conviction. In the process of preparing his appeal, the username mistake that led to all these years of disruption was finally discovered. On Thursday, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned Klayme’s conviction, writing: “Mr. Klayme is factually innocent of the offences. He should never have been charged, let alone convicted.”'
If enemy combat capacity is "X," X-8% after all these months and all these precision munitions, you have spent all this time, money, and these resources to accomplish jack shit.
'Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow new limits on mail ballots'
-- 'The appeal to the justices is part of a high-stakes push by President Donald Trump and his allies to put fresh limits on voting ahead of pivotal elections where control of the House and the Senate is at stake.'
'The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for a sweeping executive order that would place major new restrictions on mail-in voting for November’s midterm elections.
'A divided panel of a Massachusetts-based appeals court last week upheld a federal judge’s block on the order, finding that it would “sow confusion” and “threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.” Judges appointed by Joe Biden and George W. Bush voted for the block, while a Trump appointee voted against it.
'The appeal to the high court is part of a high-stakes push by President Donald Trump and his allies to put fresh limits on voting ahead of the pivotal elections where control of both the House and the Senate is at stake. Trump claims that voting irregularities are widespread, despite a lack of evidence.'
-- We are less than 100 days from the general election, and IIRC significantly less than that from several outstanding primaries. If SCOTUS is going to even *pretend* that the Purcell Principle -- that they themselves created -- is intended to do anything other than help Republicans, then they need to reject cert.
Why are all of these headlines the same? Why do they all look like they were written by the same White House staffer to make it sound like this is normal and Trump has the authority the constitution doesn’t give him?
"And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? FOr God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yied himsef to the angels, not unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will."
"Punch was abandoned by his mother after his birth a year ago Sunday, presumably because of exhaustion. Zookeepers nursed him and gave him the toy to develop his gripping ability, something newborn macaques need to survive."
'exhaustion' - I know human mothers who claim exhaustion - let it all go Human Moms! Theyll be fine.
Further adventures in a comm/tech person's hoarder room. Mostly 1990s stuff, some of it at the commercial level: not for you Plebeians. Once had a cell phone yanked because some eBay programmer saw too many episodes of The Wire.
This time it's a manual + software for a QAM analyzer, which is a quiet gadget to check out what's traversing cable lines. Well, Google lost its shit and tells me I can't even have the manuals of anything coming out of this company that's involved in SIGINT. Oh come on, there's lots of QAM analyzers out there, just not by this one company that was bought by another secret decoder ring company. And certainly not the manual/software, unless you count the FOUR stashed at my pad and now on sale. I'd give you more details, but you could look it up, find my handle, and track me down to my safe house. Probably not even bring beer.
Anyway, it was a 1997 manual/software on PC-DOS 6.22. Not even blow jobs were classified in 1997. Fun fact: PC-DOS 6.22 was the last standalone version of Microsoft's OS in 1994, and as such is called the "gold standard" for 16-bit retro hardware setups. Yep, lots of shit happened in the 1990S tech world. We had the World Wide Web! Until now, you didn't know what the "www" stood for in URLs. It was classified.
"Lauren Boebert reluctantly talked to TMZ while still feeling the effects of a recent Botox treatment.“I’m talking out of the side of my mouth like a damn politician cause my Botox hasn’t caught up on this side,” she continued, pointing to the left side of her mouth. “Maybe in two days this side will catch up to the other side. But here we are.”
A WSJ article said it was “unheard of” for a politician to admit using Botox. “These are considered luxury treatments that not everyone can afford, and they are appealing to voters of all socioeconomic status,” D.C.-area dermatologist Dr. Terrence Keaney told the newspaper."
Bobo is dumb as dog shit and utterly useless, but she's in a district so red that she isn't even bothering to raise campaign money for the general election.
'Witness in Reflecting Pool case conceded damage before canoeist touched water'
-- 'David “Davey” Hearn was indicted this month and accused of damaging the pool. He has pleaded not guilty.'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/reflecting-pool-case-witness-conceded-damage-olympic-canoeist-davey-he-rcna589510
'A key grand jury witness in a case against a former Olympic canoeist accused of tampering with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool testified that the area was already damaged and would have required repairs regardless, lawyers said in a court filing Monday. [...] The witness, who is not identified, was the only person who testified about damages, and said that the property had already been damaged before, authorities say, Hearn stuck his hands in the water, according to Hearn’s team.'
...
'Hearn’s team questioned whether there is enough evidence to show he caused more than $1,000 in damage to the pool, the threshold necessary to charge him with a more serious crime. The witness’ testimony, according to Hearn’s lawyers, “established that the pool had substantial preexisting damage requiring repair before any alleged conduct by Mr. Hearn.”'
Apropos of nothing: Seen on a t-shirt worn by a graybeard at the gas station:
"I'm connected! - With PRODIGY Internet!!"
I think I fell into a glitch in the space-time continuum...
$2 shirts from Goodwill IS the way to go!
Ironically hip?
Hey, I might have known him from Usenet.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I told him to contact me by electronic mail at User612332@compuserve.net.
Also, although its easy to put ever present climate change in the category of “inconvenient “ the reality is, for us simmering frogs, the raging, non stop hurricane of climate change is still coming. And already all year long, somewhere on earth, people are experiencing life changing impacts of climate change. Life ending as well. It is and has been for 30 years THE issue, and, except for Biden, America has chosen to minimize or outright ignore it. What climate change is saying in places like Bordeaux is “may I have your attention?”
I find it disgusting that there are so many deniers. It's just gross. Fucking pea-brains that we are held hostage to.
Someone needs to convince him it's time to turn on that big faucet up NW
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-river-water-crisis-trump-cuts/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/arizona-border-wall-endangered-species?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Watch the FBI weasel squirm and fail to come up with an answer when Bennie Thompson asks him how many Antifa members there are and where.
https://youtu.be/BfBLTMwYSF4?is=bFxZqdw947a4dpow
'A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months'
-- 'When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.'
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/
'One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months.
'A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise.
'Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but they accidentally requested records for the username “fus_ro_dah” (one underscore after “fus”). This one-character difference led them not to the perpetrator but to a Canadian man named Brandon Klayme.
'(Ars readers may recognize “fus ro dah” as the Unrelenting Force “dragon shout” from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.)
'Despite finding no evidence of the crime on his digital devices, Canadian police arrested Klayme in 2020 on child sex abuse charges. He was convicted after a trial in 2023 and sentenced in 2024 to 18 months in prison. He served the full term.
'Even after release, Klayme continued to fight his conviction. In the process of preparing his appeal, the username mistake that led to all these years of disruption was finally discovered. On Thursday, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned Klayme’s conviction, writing: “Mr. Klayme is factually innocent of the offences. He should never have been charged, let alone convicted.”'
His lawyer didn’t catch this? HE didn’t catch this?
Incredible screwups by the cops, the prosecution, the defense, and the jury!
but ultimately, cha-ching!
"They're 8% of what they were," because words have specific meaning, is not a flex, you dumbfuck.
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mrniirymc22z
If enemy combat capacity is "X," X-8% after all these months and all these precision munitions, you have spent all this time, money, and these resources to accomplish jack shit.
Dumbfuck.
What percentage of the Strait of Hormuz is open?
100%
He said so.
no love for 600% anymore?
“And I still can’t overcome that 8% because I’m a stone-cold loser.”
"Ninety percent of the game is half mental."
~ Yogi Berra
60% of the time it works every time.
'Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow new limits on mail ballots'
-- 'The appeal to the justices is part of a high-stakes push by President Donald Trump and his allies to put fresh limits on voting ahead of pivotal elections where control of the House and the Senate is at stake.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/27/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-allow-new-limits-mail-ballots/
'The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for a sweeping executive order that would place major new restrictions on mail-in voting for November’s midterm elections.
'A divided panel of a Massachusetts-based appeals court last week upheld a federal judge’s block on the order, finding that it would “sow confusion” and “threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.” Judges appointed by Joe Biden and George W. Bush voted for the block, while a Trump appointee voted against it.
'The appeal to the high court is part of a high-stakes push by President Donald Trump and his allies to put fresh limits on voting ahead of the pivotal elections where control of both the House and the Senate is at stake. Trump claims that voting irregularities are widespread, despite a lack of evidence.'
-- We are less than 100 days from the general election, and IIRC significantly less than that from several outstanding primaries. If SCOTUS is going to even *pretend* that the Purcell Principle -- that they themselves created -- is intended to do anything other than help Republicans, then they need to reject cert.
I'm not holding my breath.
precedent, schmecedent
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof ...
Meanwhile, twatwaffle votes by mail.
Alito: Heads Republicans win, tails Democrats lose.
USA Today: Ahead of midterms, Trump wants Supreme Court help on mail-in ballots
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/07/27/trump-supreme-court-mail-ballot-appeal/91065051007/
Politico: Trump asks SCOTUS to permit blocks on mail-in ballots before midterms
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/27/trump-asks-scotus-to-permit-blocks-on-mail-in-ballots-before-midterms-01013126
MS NOW: Trump asks Supreme Court to allow mail-in voting order in time for midterms
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-mail-in-voting-order-in-time-for-midterms
Why are all of these headlines the same? Why do they all look like they were written by the same White House staffer to make it sound like this is normal and Trump has the authority the constitution doesn’t give him?
wouldn't it be fun to be a headline writer, and do "WTF IS GOING ON WITH . . . ."
They're just accurately describing what is happening.
Because it is the same article, just rerun by different publishers.
So will the Sleazy Six go all in to rig the midterms for Trump?????
Of course they will. We NEED TO OUT VOTE THEM IN VAST NUMBERS.
Yup.
𝐃𝐨𝐉 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥-𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝐸𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑢𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡’𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑠
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/27/trump-doj-supreme-court-voting
If they "shadow-docket" this shit...
It's WAY PASSED TIME to march on DC.
String some fuckers up.
"And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? FOr God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yied himsef to the angels, not unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will."
Joseph Glanvill
motto at the head of Ligeia by Poe
It's a good story and it'd be cool if there were stories like this with humans in them.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-zoo-monkey-punch-birthday-8b18814f76b8a256a4d1bcbbdd80d0e7
"Punch was abandoned by his mother after his birth a year ago Sunday, presumably because of exhaustion. Zookeepers nursed him and gave him the toy to develop his gripping ability, something newborn macaques need to survive."
'exhaustion' - I know human mothers who claim exhaustion - let it all go Human Moms! Theyll be fine.
Back in the day, a new mom spent three days in the hospital. Resting.
When my mom gave birth, it was a week, plus a day for every child you had to care for at home.
Conway Savage, longtime keyboard player for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, was born on this day in 1960. Here's the band with "Stagger Lee":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbe5RERDh4k
From 2014, here they are on Austin City Limits playing "Jubilee Street":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_swo25ctM
And here is the band on Later performing "Red Right Hand":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsggKgp4w9Y
Further adventures in a comm/tech person's hoarder room. Mostly 1990s stuff, some of it at the commercial level: not for you Plebeians. Once had a cell phone yanked because some eBay programmer saw too many episodes of The Wire.
This time it's a manual + software for a QAM analyzer, which is a quiet gadget to check out what's traversing cable lines. Well, Google lost its shit and tells me I can't even have the manuals of anything coming out of this company that's involved in SIGINT. Oh come on, there's lots of QAM analyzers out there, just not by this one company that was bought by another secret decoder ring company. And certainly not the manual/software, unless you count the FOUR stashed at my pad and now on sale. I'd give you more details, but you could look it up, find my handle, and track me down to my safe house. Probably not even bring beer.
Anyway, it was a 1997 manual/software on PC-DOS 6.22. Not even blow jobs were classified in 1997. Fun fact: PC-DOS 6.22 was the last standalone version of Microsoft's OS in 1994, and as such is called the "gold standard" for 16-bit retro hardware setups. Yep, lots of shit happened in the 1990S tech world. We had the World Wide Web! Until now, you didn't know what the "www" stood for in URLs. It was classified.
Peter Gunn theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DgFOsEs-kE&list=RD9DgFOsEs-kE
"Lauren Boebert reluctantly talked to TMZ while still feeling the effects of a recent Botox treatment.“I’m talking out of the side of my mouth like a damn politician cause my Botox hasn’t caught up on this side,” she continued, pointing to the left side of her mouth. “Maybe in two days this side will catch up to the other side. But here we are.”
A WSJ article said it was “unheard of” for a politician to admit using Botox. “These are considered luxury treatments that not everyone can afford, and they are appealing to voters of all socioeconomic status,” D.C.-area dermatologist Dr. Terrence Keaney told the newspaper."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-boebert-botox-tmz_n_6a671535e4b00feba84614d0?origin=home-zone-c-unit
this is important news?
Everyone knows they all get Botox treatments. And mini lifts. And collagen injections. And ...
There's a tumbrel waiting for her.
lol
Bobo is dumb as dog shit and utterly useless, but she's in a district so red that she isn't even bothering to raise campaign money for the general election.
I totally mixed up the idiots and assumed you were talking about Loomer. I was about to get real pissed, "SHE'S NOT A POLITICIAN!"
Then I realized it was all still fitting for Boebert.
Nicole Wallace for whom I have near utmost is doing a piece on trump et al un-deading American troops.
Corpulent, draft dodging POS saluting from the tarmac.
I'm ashamed, and that's sayin a lot.
The Eric Burdon Band from WAY back when, with Aalon Butler (guitar, vocals), Alvin Taylor (drums), and Randy Rice (bass):
https://youtu.be/tnSli6fwmYc