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Quote:The 25 Rules of Disinformation
April 17, 2017

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Isaac Davis, Staff Writer
Waking Times 
We are in the post-constitutional era in the United States, a time when the government does whatever it wants to whomever it wants, and there is not a thing anyone can do about it.
How it is possible that the president can bomb a foreign country or threaten a full-scale international war without so much as even mentioning the need for Congress to chime in, let alone actually vote on a declaration of war?
The short answer is, disinformation and propaganda, which is the domain of mainstream media. When people are confused, when truth is hidden, when agendas are presented as life or death options, and when the public has no clue about which laws government is bound to, then anything goes.


Regarding disinformation, the following list of 25 rules of disinformation is from Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney, and offers a comprehensive way of processing information in a time of universal deceit.
READ: 11 Tactics Used by the Mainstream Media to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy
1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Regardless of what you know, don’t discuss it — especially if you are a public figure, news anchor, etc. If it’s not reported, it didn’t happen, and you never have to deal with the issues.
2. Become incredulous and indignant. Avoid discussing key issues and instead focus on side issues which can be used show the topic as being critical of some otherwise sacrosanct group or theme. This is also known as the “How dare you!” gambit.
3. Create rumor mongers. Avoid discussing issues by describing all charges, regardless of venue or evidence, as mere rumors and wild accusations. Other derogatory terms mutually exclusive of truth may work as well. This method works especially well with a silent press, because the only way the public can learn of the facts are through such “arguable rumors”. If you can associate the material with the Internet, use this fact to certify it a “wild rumor” which can have no basis in fact.4. Use a straw man. Find or create a seeming element of your opponent’s argument which you can easily knock down to make yourself look good and the opponent to look bad. Either make up an issue you may safely imply exists based on your interpretation of the opponent/opponent arguments/situation, or select the weakest aspect of the weakest charges. Amplify their significance and destroy them in a way which appears to debunk all the charges, real and fabricated alike, while actually avoiding discussion of the real issues.
5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary attack the messenger ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as “kooks”, “right-wing”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “terrorists”, “conspiracy buffs”, “radicals”, “militia”, “racists”, “religious fanatics”, “sexual deviates”, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.
6. Hit and Run. In any public forum, make a brief attack of your opponent or the opponent position and then scamper off before an answer can be fielded, or simply ignore any answer. This works extremely well in Internet and letters-to-the-editor environments where a steady stream of new identities can be called upon without having to explain criticism reasoning — simply make an accusation or other attack, never discussing issues, and never answering any subsequent response, for that would dignify the opponent’s viewpoint.
7. Question motives. Twist or amplify any fact which could so taken to imply that the opponent operates out of a hidden personal agenda or other bias. This avoids discussing issues and forces the accuser on the defensive.
8. Invoke authority. Claim for yourself or associate yourself with authority and present your argument with enough “jargon” and “minutiae” to illustrate you are “one who knows”, and simply say it isn’t so without discussing issues or demonstrating concretely why or citing sources.
9. Play Dumb. No matter what evidence or logical argument is offered, avoid discussing issues with denial they have any credibility, make any sense, provide any proof, contain or make a point, have logic, or support a conclusion. Mix well for maximum effect.
10. Associate opponent charges with old news. A derivative of the straw man usually, in any large-scale matter of high visibility, someone will make charges early on which can be or were already easily dealt with. Where it can be foreseen, have your own side raise a straw man issue and have it dealt with early on as part of the initial contingency plans. Subsequent charges, regardless of validity or new ground uncovered, can usually them be associated with the original charge and dismissed as simply being a rehash without need to address current issues — so much the better where the opponent is or was involved with the original source.
11. Establish and rely upon fall-back positions. Using a minor matter or element of the facts, take the “high road” and “confess” with candor that some innocent mistake, in hindsight, was made — but that opponents have seized on the opportunity to blow it all out of proportion and imply greater criminalities which, “just isn’t so.” Others can reinforce this on your behalf, later. Done properly, this can garner sympathy and respect for “coming clean” and “owning up” to your mistakes without addressing more serious issues.

12. Enigmas have no solution. Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the matter to begin to loose interest more quickly without having to address the actual issues.
13. Alice in Wonderland Logic. Avoid discussion of the issues by reasoning backwards with an apparent deductive logic in a way that forbears any actual material fact.
14. Demand complete solutions. Avoid the issues by requiring opponents to solve the crime at hand completely, a ploy which works best for items qualifying for rule 10.
15. Fit the facts to alternate conclusions. This requires creative thinking unless the crime was planned with contingency conclusions in place.
16. Vanishing evidence and witnesses. If it does not exist, it is not fact, and you won’t have to address the issue.
17. Change the subject. Usually in connection with one of the other ploys listed here, find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more manageable topic. This works especially well with companions who can “argue” with you over the new topic and polarize the discussion arena in order to avoid discussing more key issues.
18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how “sensitive they are to criticism”.
19. Ignore proof presented, demand impossible proofs. This is perhaps a variant of the “play dumb” rule. Regardless of what material may be presented by an opponent in public forums, claim the material irrelevant and demand proof that is impossible for the opponent to come by (it may exist, but not be at his disposal, or it may be something which is known to be safely destroyed or withheld, such as a murder weapon). In order to completely avoid discussing issues may require you to categorically deny and be critical of media or books as valid sources, deny that witnesses are acceptable, or even deny that statements made by government or other authorities have any meaning or relevance.
20. False evidence. Whenever possible, introduce new facts or clues designed and manufactured to conflict with opponent presentations as useful tools to neutralize sensitive issues or impede resolution. This works best when the crime was designed with contingencies for the purpose, and the facts cannot be easily separated from the fabrications.
21. Call a Grand Jury, Special Prosecutor, or other empowered investigative body. Subvert the (process) to your benefit and effectively neutralize all sensitive issues without open discussion. Once convened, the evidence and testimony are required to be secret when properly handled. For instance, if you own the prosecuting attorney, it can insure a Grand Jury hears no useful evidence and that the evidence is sealed an unavailable to subsequent investigators. Once a favorable verdict (usually, this technique is applied to find the guilty innocent, but it can also be used to obtain charges when seeking to frame a victim) is achieved, the matter can be considered officially closed.
22. Manufacture a new truth. Create your own expert(s), group(s), author(s), leader(s) or influence existing ones willing to forge new ground via scientific, investigative, or social research or testimony which concludes favorably. In this way, if you must actually address issues, you can do so authoritatively.
23. Create bigger distractions. If the above does not seem to be working to distract from sensitive issues, or to prevent unwanted media coverage of unstoppable events such as trials, create bigger news stories (or treat them as such) to distract the multitudes.
24. Silence critics. If the above methods do not prevail, consider removing opponents from circulation by some definitive solution so that the need to address issues is removed entirely. This can be by their death, arrest and detention, blackmail or destruction of their character by release of blackmail information, or merely by proper intimidation with blackmail or other threats.
25. Vanish. If you are a key holder of secrets or otherwise overly illuminated and you think the heat is getting too hot, to avoid the issues, vacate the kitchen.

Our story -a true one mind you, begins on the 14th of September 1786 after a violent storm bombarded a little fishing port
called Porthleven in the county of Cornwall, England. Such tempestuous weather wasn't unusual for that part of the British
Isles as the Atlantic Ocean with its warm westerly gulf stream waters can bring squalls and gales that will have even the
most sanguine of fishermen cussing into their fire hearths and wondering how many lobster pots they'll lose.



When the winds finally dropped and the crashing waves relented on their assault on the sandy beach beneath the harbour
wall, two young boys made a pact that when morning came, they'd be the first to discover any poor vessel that had been
hurled ashore along that part of the Cornish coast and maybe find treasures to change their subdued lives in a town known
as a haven for shipwrecks.

The pair of unnamed scallywags did find something, but it was something they might have found in only the wildest of their
dreams. As dawn broke, the two excited lads surveyed the scene from the cliffs above a battered small cove and around a
mile away, they spied what they believed at first was the side of an unfortunate ship which had the preceding night been
broken to pieces by the extremities of the Porthleven shore.

Full of anticipation, they raced down the grassy pathway and nearing the spot where the waves were breaking across the
huge shape, the boys elation quickly drained as they realised the hulking form was alive. Having the forbearance to realise
they -like the thing on the beach, were out of their depth, they quickly sought the wisdom of older residents of the fishing
port.

After pressing the two youngsters on the matter with queries designed to quarry out a prank or mistaken identity, the small
group of men agreed to arm themselves with hatchets, pokers and large sticks and visit this washed-up creature who had
arrived from last night's tempest. Approaching the scene of the strange advent, the Porthlevions increased in number as the
story raced around the village and all would be alarmed at what they witnessed.

Bravely walking across the damp sand of the cove, they saw the monster slowly raise -what they suddenly realised was, its
head and begin to lurch towards them. Some of the villagers immediately fled and weapons were discarded in their fear, but
a few more-lionhearted of Porthleven stood their ground and prepared to do battle with whatever the storm had deposited on
their shore.

These plucky fishermen later reported that they could initially see no legs on the creature and it appeared to crawl on its
belly. Raising its body at times a little from the sand with a great pained exertion, the oncoming undulating monster resembled
one of the fishy characters from the older fishermen's tall tales.

The creature's length would later be measured at 48 feet and 10 inches and its circumference in the largest part of its body 24
feet and a half. A more detailed description would also be forthcoming, but first the men needed to do what was expected
back in 1786 when they believed they'd come across a giant mermaid, they needed to kill it.

After an hour of beatings, stabbings and other forms of violence, the monster expired with a groan and the examination began.
The large head was described as prickly at its rear and 'not formed much unlike that of a man'. The dead brute's eyes were
greenish and it sported a large mouth and flat human-like nose. Also resembling the upper torso of a man, the creature's
back was hard and more difficult to penetrate than the shell of a turtle.

Two stunted fore limbs that were formed like the paws of a monkey were observed and and the carcase's lower extremities
were shaped something like the hinder part of a porpoise. Splayed in the wet sand was a large fan tail, which when spread
measured a full 7 feet in width at the extent and 5 feet long.

Again, this was the age when across that great sea where the creature had emerged from, a man called Nathaniel Gorham
was being chosen as the new President of the U.S. Confederation Congress to substitute for John Hancock, who couldn't
take office because of illness. The Cabinet of Great Britain agreed to the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay in
Australia and the last wolf in Ireland was killed because of its preference in sheep on its menu.

It was also an age when pragmatism and frugalness were common lodgers in the homes of those who's own fare were at
the mercies of the elements and the seasons and so when a storm tosses the commoners lemons, they make lemonade.
The body of the Porthleven monster was boiled down for oil and even though the fins and the shell on its back were at some
pont considered to be of great value, no evidence exists of it today.

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Future shocks are rapid advancements that severely disrupt society.

In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then spun it into one of the most mind-bending comments on identity in the digital age that is quite profound. Excerpt clip:

Quote:McLuhan: Yes because we now have the means to keep everybody under surveillance. Then no matter what part of the world we are in we can put them under surveillance. It has become one of the main occupations of mankind just watching other people and keeping a record of their goings-on and invading privacy. The invading privacy in fact just ignoring that it's a everybody has become porous, they got to let the light and the message go right through us. And by the way at this moment right we are on the air and we at on the air we do not have any physical body when you're on the telephone or on radio or on TV, you don't have a physical body you're just an image on the air. When you don't have a physical body you're a discarded being. You have a very different relation to the world around you and this I think has been one of the big effects of the electric age. It has deprived people really of their private identity.

Mike McManus: So that's what this is doing to me?

McLuhan: Yes. Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being masked man. By the way one of the big marks of the loss of identity is nostalgia and so revivals on all hands in every phase of life today. Revivals of clothing of dances of music of shows of everything. We live by the revival it tells us who we are or where.

Therefore, propaganda is our Achilles heel. It's our weak point. We will buy anything if it see it got a good hard sell tied to it. What now briefly is this thing called media ecology it means arranging various media to help each other so they won't cancel each other out to buttress one medium with another.

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This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt—or fail to adapt—to the future. Much has been written about the future. Yet, for the most part, books about the world to come sound a harsh metallic note. These pages, by contrast, concern themselves with the "soft" or human side of tomorrow. Moreover, they concern themselves with the steps by which we are likely to reach tomorrow. They deal with common, everyday matters—the products we buy and discard, the places we leave behind, the corporations we inhabit, the people who pass at an ever faster clip through our lives. The future of friendship and family life is probed. Strange new subcultures and life styles are investigated, along with an array of other subjects from politics and playgrounds to skydiving and sex.

Quote:Future shock will not be found in Index Medicus or in any listing of psychological abnormalities. Yet, unless intelligent steps are taken to combat it, millions of human beings will find themselves increasingly disoriented, progressively incompetent to deal rationally with their environments. The malaise, mass neurosis, irrationality, and free-floating violence already apparent in contemporary life are merely a foretaste of what may lie ahead unless we come to understand and treat this disease.

Future shock is a time phenomenon, a product of the greatly accelerated rate of change in society. It arises from the superimposition of a new culture on an old one. It is culture shock in one's own society. But its impact is far worse. For most Peace Corps men, in fact most travelers, have the comforting knowledge that the culture they left behind will be there to return to. The victim of future shock does not.

Take an individual out of his own culture and set him down suddenly in an environment sharply different from his own, with a different set of cues to react to—different conceptions of time, space, work, love, religion, sex, and everything else—then cut him off from any hope of retreat to a more familiar social landscape, and the dislocation he suffers is doubly severe. Moreover, if this new culture is itself in constant turmoil, and if—worse yet—its values are incessantly changing, the sense of disorientation will be still further intensified. Given few clues as to what kind of behavior is rational under the radically new circumstances, the victim may well become a hazard
to himself and others.

Now imagine not merely an individual but an entire society, an entire generation—including its weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational members—suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass disorientation, future shock on a grand scale. This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it.

The Ultra short pulse Laser shoots a beam traveling at 300 million K a second which means nothing will run away if it is targeted.  This new Laser is called a pulse Laser and shoots with more power than I thought possible just a few years ago due to better material science.
If they can make a 7 or 8 pound rifle with this technology (think Terminator) I want one !!

It would be nice to see or hear something good coming out of some of the 3 letter agencies but alas we are the droids they are looking for..
https://reclaimthenet.org/foreign-malign...nce-center

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The Disinformation Governance Board Is Out. The “Foreign Malign Influence Center” Is In.
A rose by any other name.

• By Didi Rankovic
  
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Disinformation Governance Board met an ignoble demise last year, when it was disbanded within months, amid public criticism and staff-related scandal.
Despite being derisively referred to as “the Ministry of Truth” – i.e., a US government’s alleged attempt to create an Orwellian-like institution – it was a fairly safe bet that the strong backlash notwithstanding, the initiative would rear its head again at some point. Soon.
Meet the Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC), located at the Office of the Director of US National Intelligence (ODNI). Some sentiment suggest that this might be a Disinformation Governance Board 2 – what with a similar declarative focus on foreign threat, which is then easy to transition, as a smokescreen, to turning the authorities’ sights onto “domestic dissenters.”
And that would mean more censorship, in effect flying under the radar, critics fear.
A deceptive tactic, they continue, which could easily use foreign threats simply as an excuse to influence politics at home.
Speaking of interference – the FMIC could also “duplicate” other US efforts, such as that of a State Department’s unit that has taken it upon itself to suppress what’s seen as “populism” in other countries.
Now, this is what the FMIC has to say for – and about itself – the threat from abroad is constant and “dynamic” – no doubt – but therefore, “informing efforts to counter it requires constant attention, a whole-of-government approach, support from the private sector, and engagement from the public.”

However, the “soothing” mention of foreign threats is not the only thing the FMIC will be dealing with – there’s also “protection of US public opinion.” And this, opponents may suspect, might be a euphemism for “policing domestic narratives.”
The existence of the Center seems to have been presented to the public in a rather low-key fashion. It was last Thursday that it came up during an address by ODNI chief Avril Haines, a full 45 minutes into the speech, during a hearing organized by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Matt Taibbi, who pored over Twitter’s internal documents to become one of those behind the explosive Twitter Files, doesn’t look at this kind of initiative very kindly.
In fact, he seems to pretty much consider it a ruse whose real goal is to “slowly adjust aim to domestic targets.”
But first – what Taibbi calls “the basic rhetorical trick of the censorship age” must “raise a fuss about a foreign threat, using it as a battering ram to get everyone from Congress to the tech companies to submit to increased regulation and surveillance.”

Not many folk know that the deepest body of water -or Lough, in Ireland resides down in the western county of Kerry and
is titled Lough Muckross. Depths of 246 feet have been reported in this goal of many tourists who wish to visit the ancient
woodland and spectacular waterfalls.



To be specific, Lough Muckross -sometimes called 'Middle Lake' is in the Killarney National Park and close to a larger lake
called Lough Leane. The Atlantic Ocean borders the west, the grand river Shannon to the north and the beautiful province
also owns the award for having Ireland's tallest mountain, Carrauntoohil.

But Lough Muckross holds a strange story hiding in the dark depths of its quiet waters and the locals call it 'Muckie'. Down
there with the Brown Trout, Salmon and the rare blunt-snouted Irish char, something once swam without the concerns that
its cousins like Nessie and Champ have to deal with daily. And it was these fish that caused a group of scientists to discover
Muckie's furtive lifestyle.

In 2003, The Irish Charr Conservation Group -founded by Dr. Fran Igoe, Myles Kelly, Steven Neylon and Paul Mitchell, sent
their group to Kerry in order to determine the fish population in Muckross. Known as the Earc Uisce project, Eileen Sheehan,
John Sexton, Margaret O’Shea and Lynda Horgan spent the year plumbing the depths of Logh Muckross with sonar and as
they finished up the echo-sound readings in early 2004, they discovered something highly unorthodox on their recordings.

Something the size of a 'two-storey house' was moving across their sonar beam and as Andrew Long, a specialist fisheries
consultant later said: “We have been unable to identify exactly what the image is, but we know it was not a computer or
logging error, as the gear was functioning normally.”

Legends had been abound of a massive serpent living in the Killarney and MacGillicuddy Reeks area. Some researchers
found a myth surrounding MacGillicuddy Reeks mountains known locally known as Cnoc na Peiste or for those who aren't
fluent in the Gaelic language, 'Peak of the Serpent'. In 1981 a photograph was allegedly taken of a flipper-like appendage
in Lough Muckross, however no image has surfaced to reappear here.

Oddly enough, on Google Maps... there's something in the water.

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"The MAD Primer of Bigots, Extremists and Other Loose Ends," from MAD #129,  September 1969. Something to amuse and/or offend almost everyone.

Do any of these look familiar today? They tried to tell all of us, and only some of us listened. LOL.






Chapter 1: The Super Patriot



Chapter 2: The Ku Klux Klansman



Chapter 3: The American Student



Chapter 4: The Right-Wing Extremist



Chapter 5: The American Nazi



Chapter 6: The Yippies



Chapter 7: The Black Militant



Chapter 8: The Looters

I got curious one day and went on a timeline trip down moviedom.



Years in which these films were set:


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2015: Back To The Future II (1989)

2019: Blade Runner (1982)





2019: The Running Man (1987)

2022: Soylent Green (1973)

2023: Surrogates (2009)

2024: The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

2024: Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

2024: A Boy and His Dog (1975)





2024: Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) [We all become sterile]

2025: Chrysalis (2007)

2026: Metropolis (1927) (film is now in public domain)





2027: Children of Men (2006)

2027: Babylon A.D. (2008)

2027: Nemesis (1993)

2029: The Terminator (1984)

2031: Snowpiercer (2013)

2032: Demolition Man (1993)

2034: Gamer (2009)

2035: 12 Monkeys (1995)





2035: I, Robot (2004)

2035: The Martian [2035–2038, 2043]

2035: Moon (2009)

2036: Android (1982)

2037: Mindwarp (1990)

2042: Rain Without Thunder (1992)

2043: RoboCop (1987)

2043: The Book of Eli (2010)

2045: Ready Player One (2018)

2045: Red Planet (2000)





2046: Doom (2005)

2047: Event Horizon (1997)

2049: District 9 (2009)

2050: The Adam Project (2022)

2050: Code 46 (2003)

2053: City Beneath the Sea (1971)

2053: Harrison Bergeron (1995)

2054: Minority Report (2002)

2054: Renaissance (2006)

2055: A Sound of Thunder (2005)

2055: The Age of Stupid (2009)

2057: Sunshine (2007)

2058: Lost In Space: 1998 (1960s version) / 2058 (Netflix version and movie)

2062: Jetsons (TV Series 1962–1963)

2067: Interstellar (2014)

2069: Doppelgänger (1969)

2072: Equilibrium (2002)

2073: A.P.E.X. (1994)

2074: Cyborg 2 (1993)

2077: Oblivion (2013)

2078: Ultraviolet (2006)

2079: The 10th Victim (1965)

2079: Impostor (2001)

2083: Ender's Game (2013)

2084: Total Recall (1990)





2087: Cyborg 2087 (1966)

2089: Prometheus (2012)

2092: The Hunger Games (2012)

2097: Ad Astra (2019)

2101: Supernova (2000)

2122: Alien (1979)

2130: The Black Hole (1979)

2133: Planet Earth (1974)

2139: Judge Dredd (1995)

2142: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (ends in 4142)

2154: Avatar (2009)

2154: Elysium (2013)

2155: Strange New World (1975)

2169: In Time (2011)

2170: Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

2179: Aliens (1986)

2197: Starship Troopers (1997)

2199: The Matrix (1999)

2200: The Giver (2014)





2220: Forbidden Planet (1956)





2247: Trancers (1984)

2263: The Fifth Element (1997)





2265: Original Star Trek series (1966-69)



2274: Logan's Run (1976)





2350: The Expanse (2015-2022)

2401: THX 1138 (c. 2401–2500) (1971)

2415: Æon Flux (2005)

2500: Waterworld (1995)

2505: Idiocracy (2006)

2583: The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

2586: Timestalkers (1987)

2805: WALL-E (2008)

2989: Millennium (1989)

3978: Planet of the Apes (1968)





5021: Planet of the Apes (2001) [starts in 2029]

10,191: Dune (1984)



2271: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

2285: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

2285: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

2286: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

2287: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

2293: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

2293–2371: Star Trek Generations (1994)

2063–2373: Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

2375: Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

2379: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

2233; 2243; 2250; 2255; 2258; 2387: Star Trek (2009)

2263: Star Trek Beyond (2016)

2259: Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Daily Mail

From 15th to 53rd in 40 years, and the median age of a Senator is now 65. It should be the top scandal every day that an elite gerontocracy established itself & then never left power as the wealth gap precipitously grew. The parasites obsessively cares about "freedom" except of its citizens.


1977: "By 1974 the average age of Politburo members reached 65...  at the level of top decision making, higher ages have often been accepted, but this may be due largely to past accumulation of prestige and political acumen rather than continuing top level performance."


A Note on the Ageing of the Politburo




The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (2015) By Steven Lee Myers.




President: 80
Possible 2024 GOP nominee: 75
Speaker of House: 81
House Majority Leader: 82
House Whip: 81
Supreme Court Justice: 83
Most influential Covid authority: 82

The 80+ Club:

1. Pelosi = 83
   
2. Maxine 'Mad Max' Waters = 84
   
3. Bill Pascrell = 86 (D-NJ)
   
4. Grace Napolitano = 86 (D-CA)
   
5. Alcee Hastings = 84 (D-FL, died in office April 2021)
   
6. Pat Roberts = 85 (R-KS, finally retired in 2021)
   
7. Eddie Bernice Johnson = 87 (D-TX, finally retired in Jan 2023)
   
8. Jim Inhofe = 88 (R-OK, retired in 2023)
   
9. Richard Shelby = 89 (senator R-Alabama retired in 2023)
   
10. Immortal Chuck Grassley = 89 (longest serving Republican in U.S. Senate history) That Iowa corn must be good stuff. On Sept 17th will enter the 90+ club.
    
11. Don Young = 88 (R-Alaska, died in office last year, longest-serving Republican in congressional history)
    
12. Danny K. Davis = 81 (D-Illinois)
    
13. Jim Clyburn = 82 (D-South Carolina)
    
14. Steny Hoyer = 83 (D-Maryland)
    
15. Hal Rogers = 85 (R-Kentucky)
    
16. Jim Risch = 80 (R-Idaho senator)
    
17. Mitch McConnell = 81
    
18. Bernie Sanders = 81
    

Sylvester scared the poop out of me this morning, and made my heart stand still. He also made a liar out of me.

I always tell my crits that they had better behave themselves, and if they got into trouble, I was going to bury them in the back forty, because there was no way I was going to spend my hard earned coin on taking then to the vet, because they decided to be stupid.

Well when Sylvester started making the most God awful noise I have ever heard in my life, I could not get him to the vet fast enough. Sylvester is the quiet one, but his growlish screams put my loud mouth Enoch to shame.

Crazy thing was that the Huskies would have a melt down every time he would do that growling scream thing. I tried to keep them away, but all four Huskies had to be around him, licking him, and whining. Enoch look scared, but he tried to comfort him too.

I rushed him to the vet, and found out he had a urinary blockage. I just got a call from the vet telling me he was doing fine. He was awake from the anesthesia, and he will leave the catheter in until morning. He will see how well he does urinating on his own, and if he does well he can come home Saturday.

The house is so quiet and so still. The Huskies and Enoch are so depressed. I can't wait to see what they are going to do when he comes home on Saturday.

Right now Sylvester is still groggy so he won't really realize he is in strange country until tomorrow.

So much for the freeze dried salmon treats. Now I am afraid to even give them to the dogs.

The cats and the dogs love them, but I think they may be just too much of a good thing.