I found this amusing. I guess she didn't "trust the science" when it came to attempting to do away with her husband! 

Quote: The attorneys for a former Norton Commons doctor accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband are trying to prove that she was "delusional" and acting under "extreme emotional disturbance" in fear of her children's safety at the time of the crime.

As proof, the defense recently included text messages Stephanie Russell sent a Brazilian "spiritual healer" saying she was "looking for a death spell" for her ex-husband, asking how much it would cost and whether a sacrifice would be used.

I was particularly interested in the carrier USS FORRESTAL which had a really bad day with over 100 lost souls.

Quote:0:00 Introduction 0:54 NAVAL AVIATION 4:19 THE CAMERAS 6:46 DECK ACTIVITY 9:02 TAKEOFFS 11:08 Control System Failure 17:11 RAMP STRIKES 19:50 BARRIERS 22:01 HARD LANDINGS 27:00 PLANE GAURD 27:37 NO EASY DAYS 34:59 USS FORRESTAL

https://x.com/MeCookieMonster/status/176...90276?s=20

it appears to that the dem ones are starting to go after shrinkflation.

a couple of dem senators jumped on it real quick, one turned out to be just a campaign fund raising bumming sales pitch.

Quote:In response, Brown wrote: "Me too, Cookie Monster. Big corporations shrink the size of their products without shrinking their prices, all to pay for CEO bonuses. People in my state of Ohio are fed up — they should get all the cookie they pay for.

Quote:Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, also responded to the hungry blue monster, saying: ‘I’m on it."

"I need your help to hold big corporations accountable for using shrinkflation to rake in record profits," he wrote. "Can you chip in $3 to help fight back?"

Quote:Bill empowers Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to crack down on corporations reducing product size without a reduction in price

Since fall 2023, Senator Casey has produced four reports detailing his investigations into corporate greed squeezing families’ budgets

Stop Shrinkflation: Casey Introduces Legislation to Crack Down on Big Corporations Shrinking Products Without Reducing Prices

Quote:President Joe Biden on Tuesday will launch a new task force to take on “unfair and illegal” corporate pricing, which Biden sees as a major reason why consumers are not yet feeling the impact of cooling inflation rates and a strong economy.

The task force will be jointly led by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, two agencies at the forefront of the Biden administration’s aggressive regulatory agenda over the past three years.

Biden to launch task force to crack down on 'unfair and illegal pricing' amid rising inflation

Quote:13,145 views Mar 6, 2011
The video consist of three defferant versions of happy birthday for bluebell 100th birthday celebration in the year of 2007.The audio sounds were recorded at sugarhill recording studios in houston,texas. The video was shot at and by moffett produtions in houston,texas.The choir version was arranged by joe "qb" stevenson.It was shown in the following states,kansas.oklahoma,texas,louisiana,mississippi,alabama,georgia and a few other southern states.The add ran from april1,2007 until july 2007.

Best vid I've seen on this legend.

Quote:An intensive and thrilling look inside the SR-71 Blackbird, one of aviation's absolute greatest legends.

Special thanks to Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum (retired SR-71 Pilots Jerry Glasser and Buz Carpenter, and Arnie Gunderson (retired Pratt & Whitney J58 PM).

CREDITS
Jacob O'Neal - Research, script, narration, 3D modeling / animation, music

SOFTWARE USED
I use Blender 3D to create these models. It's free and open source, and the community is amazing:
https://www.blender.org/

0:00 Intro
03:18 Aerodynamics of supersonic flight
08:13 Radar cross section
10:18 J58 Jet Engines
15:49 Inlet spike
20:39 Engine supporting features
23:12 Start carts
23:48 Fuel system
26:48 Flight control surfaces
33:11 Landing gear
34:20 Cockpits
34:47 Front cockpit
45:07 Rear cockpit
46:08 Cockpits (cont'd)
47:15 Flight suit
49:32 Reconnaissance equipment
53:20 Hero shot
54:11 Credits
54:22 Epilogue

9 to 0 ruling says Colorado and all others have to leave Trump on ballots. Just in time for Super Tuesday..

New musical rabbit hole to drift on down...They are Battery Operated Orchestra (BOO) and this song is "Clown". Artists that create music that challenges official narratives. A bit of retro new-wave from the 80s:




BOO-cast Song Stories: Unbecoming



The Unbecoming song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igc6pADt7f4








BOO-cast Song Stories: Sparrow Dance and the History of Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IediO6bduXE

BOO-cast is a monthly livestream about being a DIY synthpop band.


BOO-cast: Synth of the Month: Podcast Playlist

Quote:Doing. Is. Thinking (UK Electronic Sound Magazine)

The Office For Personal Development are here to help you achieve all your personal development goals, and they’re recruiting right now at a particularly depressing shopping mall in the English town of Bexhill On Sea where they have their corporate HQ.

Don’t worry if you can’t take advantage of this opportunity in person, because you can join in with the motivational seminar online thanks to the above video on their YouTube channel.

Director Trevor Deeble, Head of IT Del Querns and Goals Liaison Officer Jenni Love have a warm welcome ready for you over at their Office Supplies website where you can pre-order their debut LP, ‘Doing. Is. Thinking’ on OPD green vinyl and other formats, including the ever-essential floppy disk.

Hi all.

So I see in my account that if I pay of a premium in one go that I don't have to pay extra fees for each payment saving quite a bit. 

Now I want to do this, in order to save some money, my concern is that the premium may go up on the next renewal , because paying the premium amount in one go may make it look like "I have money" and so they will jack my rates up 
Which they will do anyway, so there's really no way of knowing, but maybe someone here can give some insight? 

Thanks

Yeah.....

MAPS.... 

We know where this is going.

https://www.newsweek.com/karen-berg-prop...or-1875024

Kentucky Democrat Proposes Child Sex Dolls for Pedophiles

Quote:A Democratic state senator from Kentucky has suggested providing "child sex dolls" to pedophiles in a bid to reduce the chance of them abusing children.

Speaking at the Kentucky General Assembly on Thursday, Senator Karen Berg said there was research suggesting the dolls "actually decrease their proclivity to go out and attack children." The remarks sparked an angry backlash on social media with one prominent commentator accusing Berg of "sexualizing kids and defending pedophiles."
The Context
There is an ongoing debate involving academics and politicians over whether child sex dolls could help prevent assaults on children or whether they act as a gateway for potential abusers. Republican Representative Dan Donovan has twice introduced legislation in the House that would make the "importation or transportation of child sex dolls" illegal, while others have called for an outright ban.

"But there are what they call 'MAPS,' Minor Attracted Persons and the limited amount of research that's done on these dolls suggests that they actually, for people who are attracted to minors, that these dolls actually decrease their proclivity to go out and attack children.

"That it actually gives them a release that makes them less likely to go outside of their home and what was interesting is the research did not support the same conclusions for people who were adult attracted using dolls."
Footage of Berg's remarks was shared on X, formerly Twitter, by Robby Starbuck, a conservative-leaning activist who produced the Elon Musk-endorsed documentary The War on Children. The clip has so far received more than 595,000 views and 3,100 reposts from other X users.
Newsweek reached out to Senator Karen Berg via email at 6:50 a.m. ET on Friday. This article will be updated if she wants to comment.

Berg's proposal sparked an angry reaction on social media, though some academics have suggested the idea should be taken seriously. In addition to posting the video, Starbuck commented: "Democrats like Karen are sexualizing kids and defending pedophiles. Pure evil, criminally stupid or both."

Indiana-based attorney Aleks Djuricic, who has over 9,000 X followers, responded: "The right thing to do would be to immediately remove her from the building and from office."
Paul A. Szypula, an X user with 124,000 followers, wrote: "Sen. Karen Berg should really get expelled from the Kentucky Senate for what she said here. It's gross and abusive towards children. Berg shouldn't be allowed near them."
Robin O'Brien, a social media manager from Atlanta, Georgia, posted: "White liberal women are destroying the American family single-handedly. In mom social groups they advocate for gender fluidity, divorcing a husband you're frustrated with and cutting off the grandparents if they don't share your politics."
During a 2018 interview with NBC News Ron Arkin, a professor of robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who specializes in human-robot interactions, said it isn't clear whether child sex bots could reduce offending by pedophiles.
"We don't know the answers yet. But recidivism in child sex offenders is a major problem in society that needs to be addressed, and there's a possibility that technology may be able to help with that," Arkin said.

Front cover to British Goblins (1880), a book of Welsh myth and folklore. Amongst the supernatural beings described are "Bwbachod", friendly goblins who help out with chores; and "Gwyllion", female fairies who haunt the mountain roads:

Quote:In British Goblins (1880) Wirt Sikes, the United States consul to Cardiff from 1876 to 1883, describes the mythology and legends of Wales, a land steeped in folklore. (Considering its geographic focus, why the book is not simply called Welsh Goblins remains a mystery.) The first section of the book concerns the fairies, which are known as “y Tylwyth Teg” in Welsh, meaning the fair folk or family. They come in five varieties: Ellyllon (elves), Coblynau (mine fairies), Bwbachod (household fairies), Gwragedd Annwn (underwater fairies), and Gwyllion (mountain fairies).

The Ellyllon are pigmy elves who haunt the groves and valleys. They dine on poisonous toadstools and fairy butter, which they extract from deep crevices in limestone rocks. Their hands are clad in the bells of the foxglove, the leaves of which are a powerful sedative. They are sometimes kindly, sometimes menacing and almost always mischievous. One variety of Ellyllon, the Ellylldan, will wait in boggy wetland and flash their fiery lures to lead travellers off the safe path, sometimes to their death.

The Coblynau populate the mines, quarries and underground regions of Wales. They are about half a metre tall, very ugly to look it, and generally good-natured. They will make a peculiar knocking or rapping sound to let miners know the whereabouts of a rich vein of ore. The word coblyn has the double meaning in Welsh of “knocker” and “sprite”. And, Wirt Sikes asks, “may it not be the original of ‘goblin’?”

The Bwbachod are friendly goblins who will help you out with chores at home or on the farm, like making butter, if you behave correctly. That means making a good fire last thing at night and leaving a bowl of cream out for the Bwbachod to drink. It also means drinking a good deal of ale yourself, for the Bwbachod hate teetotallers. There was once a Baptist preacher in Cardiganshire who was much fonder of prayers than of ale so a Bwbach took to pestering him while he prayed: jerking the stool from under him; jangling the fire-irons on the hearth; making the dogs howl; frightening the farm-boy into fits of screaming by grinning through the window. At last the Bwbach took on the exact aspect of the preacher and confronted him as he crossed a field. The preacher fainted in fright. When he eventually came to he packed up and left Cardiganshire never to return.

The Gwragedd Annwn are female fairies of the streams and lakes, particularly the isolated lakes of the high mountains, where they serve as “avenues of communication between this world and the lower one of annwn, the shadowy domain presided over by Gwyn ap Nudd, king of the fairies.”

The Gwyllion are also female fairies. They haunt the lonely roads of the Welsh mountains. Like the Ellylldan, they have a habit of luring travellers away from safety. In stormy weather they will sometimes knock on a door and ask for refuge by the fire. To refuse them is to risk great harm.

The fairies interact with non-human animals too. In the excellently titled subchapter Occult Intellectual Powers of Welsh Goats, we learn that those bearded ruminants possess secret intelligence and knowledge and are on very good terms with the fairies. Every Friday night the fairies comb their beards “to make them decent for Sunday.”

The second section of British Goblins departs fairyland and travels to the spirit world. Subchapters worth a dip include: Spectral Animals; The Gwyllgi or Dog of Darkness; The Stupid Medieval Devil in Wales; The Story of Haunted Margaret; The Corpse-Bird; and The Question of a Future Life.

Section three concerns “quaint old customs” and contains insights into such matters as: The Spiritual Potency of Buns; Marketing on Tombstones; The Puzzling Jug; Welsh Morality; and The Sin-Eater.

Section Four is all about “bells, wells, stones and dragons”. There you can discover: The Bell that committed Murder and was damned for it; The Gigantic Rock-tossers of Old; Obstacles in the way of Treasure-Seekers; Whence came the Red Dragon of Wales?; and The Goblins of Electricity.

Enjoy!