The wealthy families who knew who Epstein was and were fine with their children spending time with Epstein probably considered their children safe with him. And they were almost certainly right; Epstein would understand what crossing the line with the children of wealthy families could cost him. What the wealthy families understood was that it was only other people's children that were his prey. Which makes those families monsters.
68F today, a recorded history high temp record for 2/15 in these parts.
Anyhoo, when things get crazy, I like to remind myself that once upon a time Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio and Cozy Powell were in the same band at the same time.
I swept a broom handle under the couch and like a half dozen cat toys came skittering out.
Harry likes to play with his toys by pushing them under the couch to where he can barely reach them. Or, not reach them at all. So, this is routine cat toy recovery.
He said he'd never be in a room together - lunch was out on the veranda which is not a room, see? They just flew in to St Thomas, then floated the 3-hour tour out to Little St James. With the babushka nannies. Or maybe the nannies were young hotties they picked up on the sidewalk outside Jeffrey's NYC townhouse. Howard's not tellin! He can't remember why, there's no vacay pix. Cash can sure scour away 7-year-old guhross cooties, and your memory.
I really must stop watching Escape to the Country. The unrealistic expectations I have given the state of my retirement account....Anyone want to start a Golden Girls-esque commune somewhere in Scotland?
Yes. I grew up in very rural Iowa an hour+ from Sioux City/Omaha/Des Moines. I currently live on the Oregon coast where it is definitely blustery, damp, and cold most days. The Scottish Highlands and/or the coast just seem so magical.
One critic described it as the protagonist's ongoing and futile efforts to convince the townspeople that we live in a world of Cartesian reality. Or something like that.
I currently live on the Oregon coast, so cold and damp is fine by me. I grew up having to scoop snow in the winter, and play softball in 90º+ temps in the summer. I will take being a weather wimp any day over that.
The douchebag who got caught panting after Ghislane Maxwell in the Epstein files (while married to someone else, natch) has been forced to give up his big-deal talent agency. No more partying with elite jocks and musicians, too bad so sad.
But he's still in charge of planning the Olympics in L.A. in 2028. And I'm sure the athletes are sleeping safer already.
He was defiant at first when they asked him to quit. Then his clients abandoned him in droves and his talent agency evaporated. 2028 is a long time off, I don't think he'll still be in charge.
Of course he was defiant. His daddy, a legendary agent himself, set him up by handing him a golden contacts list. What the fuck else can he possibly be capable of doing that will allow him to continue the lifestyle he's been leading? He'd be pitiable, if he weren't a douchebag.
And re: the Olympics, from your keyboard to God's eyes.
This 900w 2.45GHz transmitter shows 903w of power on my meter, well within spec. The spectral purity (3rd order harmonics) are well within FCC limits. The controls offer a complete selections of operation cycles and but the minimal display only provides timing information, nothing about power output or standing wave ratios. The output of the transmitter is directed at a small Faraday cage, which is well shielded for the expected operating frequency. Do note that if electrically conductive items are placed in the cage during RF excitation some arcing may occur. Organic objects with water content will experience elevated temperature under prolonged operation. Some of the lab techs have used this phenomena to playfully reheat cold coffee and one even using it to explosively expand solid corn kernels.
For the price, the ML-EM09PA(SS) microwave exciter, provides a decent value if you have a lab situation where you need a medium RF output at this frequency sent into a small Faraday cage. The choice of 2.45 GHz is interesting since it produces an electromagnetic field constantly flips polar water molecules, creating intense intermolecular friction that produces heat. It would be nice if Toshiba made other other frequencies available so that one could avoid this complication. But if one carefully selects their samples, this model provides a workable solution at a good price.
Back in the 90's we lost a few microwaves in the break room to popcorn fires. Burnt the hell out of those microwaves. Idiots didn't use the "popcorn" setting for cooking. Raised by wolves I reckon.
"So, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, released in 1975, continues to amuse millions of fans today. But, for fans, one question from the movie often provokes discussion – “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
It’s time we finally had an answer to this famous question. However, the answer is not as simple as you might initially believe. Here’s why."
No problems in this country are being caused by the left. No problems in this country are really being caused by immigrants. No problems in this country are being caused by anything a republican believes is the cause. All of the problems in this country are caused by domination, and exploitation and greed. But they are going to try and kill and enslave us all before they let us solve the real problem.
We are going to get the what the Business Plot wanted to "solve" the great depression. The mass murder and practical enslavement of everyone that's inconvenient for business. It's what Palantir and all its little sister companies are for. It's what the warehouse concentration camps are for.
It's what the technoligarch psychopaths want. It's what the christian nationalists want. It's what the ethno-supremacists want. Psychosis of greed and dominion in a lot of very sick people that our society won't even recognize as sick.
"According to the president, the American side is promoting the narrative that the withdrawal of Ukraine’s Armed Forces from Donbas would supposedly guarantee peace from Russia. However, Zelenskyy is convinced that Russia’s real goal is the complete takeover of Ukraine. “I think they have never pursued any other objective except the occupation of Ukraine. At a minimum, they want 100% of Donbas in order to sell it as a victory to their own society,” the head of state emphasized. He stressed that the idea of a “territorial exchange” is unacceptable, as it concerns hundreds of thousands of people who remain there, as well as the lives of defenders who have been sacrificed in that direction. - 02/15/2026."
This war isn't ending until Putin is removed. When Russia pulls out of Ukraine, then peace talks can begin. Ukraine isn't going to be a vassal state for Russia, that's the future.
I have heard that when people are very wealthy they need things that are weirder and more peculiar to get them excited, like younger girls, drugs, depraved activities, dangerous behavior, etc.
Arrived in Todos Santos for a week of sun and reading.
That name sounds like a game software company from the 1980s.
the cover art on those games never really lived up to the reality
Nice.
Off to the Dominican Republic tomorrow for some of the same.
The wealthy families who knew who Epstein was and were fine with their children spending time with Epstein probably considered their children safe with him. And they were almost certainly right; Epstein would understand what crossing the line with the children of wealthy families could cost him. What the wealthy families understood was that it was only other people's children that were his prey. Which makes those families monsters.
Nutlick seems expendable to this regime
To Trump, everybody else is expendable.
all are expendable
We all are.
Boy nutlick is a nasty, foul piece of work. Scraggly, dirty, smelly. Unkempt, unclean. Detour!!
And those are his more charming qualities.
He and nasty Steve Bannon share these fine qualities. A lot doshare, but these two align pretty close
68F today, a recorded history high temp record for 2/15 in these parts.
Anyhoo, when things get crazy, I like to remind myself that once upon a time Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio and Cozy Powell were in the same band at the same time.
https://youtu.be/zEaxow3PoO0
I swept a broom handle under the couch and like a half dozen cat toys came skittering out.
Harry likes to play with his toys by pushing them under the couch to where he can barely reach them. Or, not reach them at all. So, this is routine cat toy recovery.
Part of your service contract, I imagine.
Yeah, he’d probably poop on the couch or something if I didn’t timely refresh his cat toy supply.
He said he'd never be in a room together - lunch was out on the veranda which is not a room, see? They just flew in to St Thomas, then floated the 3-hour tour out to Little St James. With the babushka nannies. Or maybe the nannies were young hotties they picked up on the sidewalk outside Jeffrey's NYC townhouse. Howard's not tellin! He can't remember why, there's no vacay pix. Cash can sure scour away 7-year-old guhross cooties, and your memory.
So, not snorting coke off the back of the toilet.
I really must stop watching Escape to the Country. The unrealistic expectations I have given the state of my retirement account....Anyone want to start a Golden Girls-esque commune somewhere in Scotland?
Oregon is expensive. You should have came to Oklahoma. But it's hard to pass up those deep, coastal forests.
Hell no! I've lived in the land of tornadoes, corn, heat, and humidity. I'm sticking with the ocean.
Have you lived in a rural environment before?
Yes. I grew up in very rural Iowa an hour+ from Sioux City/Omaha/Des Moines. I currently live on the Oregon coast where it is definitely blustery, damp, and cold most days. The Scottish Highlands and/or the coast just seem so magical.
Oh! You need to come to WitP's wake. Where on the coast?
Coos County! I'm not too far north of Anarchy Pony.
I was born in Des mowwenies and spent a lot of time in NW IA -- Sioux Center, Rock Rapids.
My sincere condolences and congratulations for no longer living near Sioux County.
I grew up calling it Siouxer City, so there's that.
I used to head up that way as a high schooler for the foreign language fair in Le Mars every year.
I've seen it in the movies!
"We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
Green Acres was not, contrary to popular opinion, a sitcom. It was/is cultural commentary.
One critic described it as the protagonist's ongoing and futile efforts to convince the townspeople that we live in a world of Cartesian reality. Or something like that.
The Potterville Universe.
Not really. I don't speak the language.
Why Scotland? It gets colder than a witches' tit up there.
I like the change of seasons myself, but not quite that much.
I currently live on the Oregon coast, so cold and damp is fine by me. I grew up having to scoop snow in the winter, and play softball in 90º+ temps in the summer. I will take being a weather wimp any day over that.
The douchebag who got caught panting after Ghislane Maxwell in the Epstein files (while married to someone else, natch) has been forced to give up his big-deal talent agency. No more partying with elite jocks and musicians, too bad so sad.
But he's still in charge of planning the Olympics in L.A. in 2028. And I'm sure the athletes are sleeping safer already.
He was defiant at first when they asked him to quit. Then his clients abandoned him in droves and his talent agency evaporated. 2028 is a long time off, I don't think he'll still be in charge.
Of course he was defiant. His daddy, a legendary agent himself, set him up by handing him a golden contacts list. What the fuck else can he possibly be capable of doing that will allow him to continue the lifestyle he's been leading? He'd be pitiable, if he weren't a douchebag.
And re: the Olympics, from your keyboard to God's eyes.
"He'd be pitiable, if he weren't a douchebag."
This is some kind of rhetorical fallacy, right?
I forget which one.
I dunno...begging the question?
And people wonder why I don't care about "professional" sports.
I’ve long since stopped caring about any sporting event that I’m not participating in.
Unless one of the participants is the University of Nebraska. I’ll always root against the Bugeaters.
Like me and the N.Y. Yankees.
Like me and 1) the Packers and 2) any team coached by Sean "Bounty" Payton (currently the Broncos).
Fuck Ted Cruz and Fuck the Yankees.
When will all the Epstein shit come to a head?
Start looking at all the connections with Thiel, Palantir, etc. It's not going to end that simply or neatly.
The DoJ now says all the relevant Epstein files have now been released.
Ha. "Relevant". We'll see about that, motherfuckers.
Don't you dare call me a liar! - Pam Bondi
Pam, you'd better thank God you don't have a Pinnochio nose, because it'd stretch from here to Saturn by now. *rolls eyes*
THE DOW!
It's over fifty dollars!!!
DOJ says!!!
I'm with weejee. I just can't see it happening during this administration's tenure.
Look abroad maybe.
This administration's problem is too much looking at broads.
October surprise?
The 12th of Never.
Oh, a few more strokes of the news cycle.
Surely there will be some sort of climax in the narrative.
Sure, but after that everyone will lose interest.
My review of my new microwave oven:
This 900w 2.45GHz transmitter shows 903w of power on my meter, well within spec. The spectral purity (3rd order harmonics) are well within FCC limits. The controls offer a complete selections of operation cycles and but the minimal display only provides timing information, nothing about power output or standing wave ratios. The output of the transmitter is directed at a small Faraday cage, which is well shielded for the expected operating frequency. Do note that if electrically conductive items are placed in the cage during RF excitation some arcing may occur. Organic objects with water content will experience elevated temperature under prolonged operation. Some of the lab techs have used this phenomena to playfully reheat cold coffee and one even using it to explosively expand solid corn kernels.
For the price, the ML-EM09PA(SS) microwave exciter, provides a decent value if you have a lab situation where you need a medium RF output at this frequency sent into a small Faraday cage. The choice of 2.45 GHz is interesting since it produces an electromagnetic field constantly flips polar water molecules, creating intense intermolecular friction that produces heat. It would be nice if Toshiba made other other frequencies available so that one could avoid this complication. But if one carefully selects their samples, this model provides a workable solution at a good price.
All that just to reheat pizza.
900W? I didn't think they made sub-1kW microwave ovens anymore?
It was $40 more to get to 1kW. We're talking 59.5dBm vs. 60dBm.
Also, this had same day shipping. Got it about 5 hours after I ordered it.
"This 900w 2.45GHz transmitter shows 903w of power on my meter, well within spec"
I wasn't sure I'd ever meet someone nerdier than me.
You are nerdier than me. If my microwave heats up pizza or melts butter, eh, that microwave is fine.
You noticed that the only flaw I pointed out is that it heats organic samples.
Back in the 90's we lost a few microwaves in the break room to popcorn fires. Burnt the hell out of those microwaves. Idiots didn't use the "popcorn" setting for cooking. Raised by wolves I reckon.
Yeah, this is a cheap one without the moister sensor. But I don't do popcorn.
I am reminded that Einstein received three patents for refrigerators.
He was a stone cold fucker.
I totally forgot to add this to the movie post.
Smart people looked at the question.
"So, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, released in 1975, continues to amuse millions of fans today. But, for fans, one question from the movie often provokes discussion – “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
It’s time we finally had an answer to this famous question. However, the answer is not as simple as you might initially believe. Here’s why."
https://interestingengineering.com/science/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-airspeed-velocity-of-an-unladen-swallow
Obligatory:
African or European?
You understood the assignment!
Thank you for this Ziggy!
And thank you, Ziggy, for dedicating it to Katy. I forwarded the posting link to her mom.
This is the digital age! It's how much data can an avian carrier transfer!
The brightest minds of the internet have researched this and come up with standards.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549.html
IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
No problems in this country are being caused by the left. No problems in this country are really being caused by immigrants. No problems in this country are being caused by anything a republican believes is the cause. All of the problems in this country are caused by domination, and exploitation and greed. But they are going to try and kill and enslave us all before they let us solve the real problem.
We are going to get the what the Business Plot wanted to "solve" the great depression. The mass murder and practical enslavement of everyone that's inconvenient for business. It's what Palantir and all its little sister companies are for. It's what the warehouse concentration camps are for.
It's what the technoligarch psychopaths want. It's what the christian nationalists want. It's what the ethno-supremacists want. Psychosis of greed and dominion in a lot of very sick people that our society won't even recognize as sick.
As Beau and Belle remind us: "Your political problems are not caused by people with less political power than you."
Yes, and people need to start realizing and facing this if they haven''t already. Even good liberals, who remain terrified of the left, apparently.
"Psychosis of greed," yup.
Nicole goes dark at the end of the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0v2hsWw2oQ
And yes, she's my Canadian girl friend, go find your own!
"According to the president, the American side is promoting the narrative that the withdrawal of Ukraine’s Armed Forces from Donbas would supposedly guarantee peace from Russia. However, Zelenskyy is convinced that Russia’s real goal is the complete takeover of Ukraine. “I think they have never pursued any other objective except the occupation of Ukraine. At a minimum, they want 100% of Donbas in order to sell it as a victory to their own society,” the head of state emphasized. He stressed that the idea of a “territorial exchange” is unacceptable, as it concerns hundreds of thousands of people who remain there, as well as the lives of defenders who have been sacrificed in that direction. - 02/15/2026."
This war isn't ending until Putin is removed. When Russia pulls out of Ukraine, then peace talks can begin. Ukraine isn't going to be a vassal state for Russia, that's the future.
I doubt he trusts any sort of security guarantee coming from Trump. He knows Trump's word has the approximate value of used toilet paper.
5,000,000% THIS.
Even if they settle for Donbas for a decade, they'll want more eventually.
I have heard that when people are very wealthy they need things that are weirder and more peculiar to get them excited, like younger girls, drugs, depraved activities, dangerous behavior, etc.
Let them take up self-mutilation and leave everyone else alone.
Judging by recent pix, Elno Skum has reached that stage.
https://youtu.be/utZZrdRw6-s?si=YSbLvVgMetXYqcID
Let It Be