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FTFY!

It was suggested already a couple weeks ago by people who taken upon themselves looking at this horror far more often, far more closely, and far more attentively than I do that this is what he was up to.

UPDATED 1 MINUTE AGO https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyregion/man-on-fire-trump.html Um just what does this mean? "The official requested anonymity because the man had not been publicly identified." Since, buddy, you just did it. You are as confused and making as little sense as Azzarello as to who, what, when and why.

See the quoted content above, please! which tells you: "Further details were not immediately available."

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-19-24#h_a0c5ea747751ddad7bc88749d2f559d1

They are currently flogging the back-to-back production of The Witcher's final two seasons. 3 Body was last month -- and they did a promo / roll out worthy of a Hollywood tent pole. Next!

‘Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’ Review: Of Stars and Wars A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, Zack Snyder’s film isn’t good, but it sure is something. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/movies/rebel-moon-part-two-the-scargiver-review.html For whatever reasons it delighted me that the caption giver pulled "isn't good, but it sure is something" straight from the author's own text. Ha! Though, s/he could have pulled from the text, "The film has plenty of death, yet little life," for equal delight. This too is excellent -- "I found myself thinking of that moral debate in Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” about the never-seen workers who died building the Death Star for Darth Vader. At least Snyder shows their faces. Then he mows them down."

Yet, wider food production ... left so many Brits so nutritionally deprived that a most significant portion of volunteers and conscripts at the start of of WWI were so badly off they didn't even reach the height minimum for an English soldier. It hardly sounds like even approaching an equitable distribution of wealth and resources even inside the UK from the plundering of the resources of others for the past few centuries -- and leaving the plundered populations worse off in the main, including health, just like in the UK. As noted previously -- "and always wrong!"

April 18, 2024 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON APR 19, 2024 .... Many congress members have left Washington, D.C., since Friday was to be the first day of a planned recess. This meant the partisan majority on the floor fluctuated. Olivia Beavers of Politico reported that that instability made Freedom Caucus members nervous enough to put together a Floor Action Response Team (FART—I am not making this up) to make sure other Republicans didn’t limit the power of the extremists when they were off the floor. ....

Look at the photo here of him leaving the courthouse today Former President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he leaves court on the second day of his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 16, 2024 in New York City. (Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty Images) -- he is losing weight. https://www.salon.com/2024/04/18/hes-dropping-little-clues-the-troubling-message-we-are-missing-from-maga-rallies/

Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant streaming service. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/media/netflix-earnings.html.

Very much from Egypt once the British occupation moved in as 'advisors' to the Khedive (1882 -- the last Brit forces left in 1956) and started building dams. Along with vastly increasing the cotton growing plantations (with slave labor, btw, in many cases), do much standing water in the irrigation canals also brought ophthalmia, trachoma, malaria and other diseases that turned a vast percentage of the labor force into very sickly people, which the Egyptian fellahin had not been prior. Of course earlier, for many decades, there was the vast wealth generated by the (slave, or as good as) opium plantations and factories in India to addict China, so the UK could have something to market there that the Chinese would want. O there were so many places the UK's raw (and finished!) good came from since the sun never set on the empire.

Socks! I love my sox. I cannot have too many, just there are never too many (pretty) undies in the drawer and too many shoes/boots in the closet.

Two more gone. one saying s/he doubted could have a fair judgment, the other dismissed because some of the answers provided by the prospective jury appeared iffy upon further investigation.

If you get a chance to watch it, it well worth it. I personally had a very hard time with the centering of degradation and torture of some female characters, i.e. doubtful this was necessary to have such prolonged views of same to advance plot and develop characters.

Thieves keep thieving. First we as a whole plunder it from others. Then we plunder it from ourselves. That's how it works, amirite.

This trial is in the Manhattan County state criminal court, from where the charges are brought. So it would be Manhattan addresses for the pool, if I have that right.

Yet, smashed to pieces, from the era of Assyria to Rome to the Eastern Empire and Islam, it managed to reemerge under different names and titles, over and over. Until, perhaps in the era of the Mongols, it was finished for good -- with the exception, perhaps, some of the elements that made up the Mughal empire in India. That is of vast interest!

And always wrong!

One of the jurors selected on Tuesday has had to leave, because the media posted so many details about her that everyone knew it was her.

Red states threaten librarians with prison — as blue states work to protect them No surprise these are the same states that ban contraception and plan/threaten to prosecute women for utilizing it, along with anyone else who might have assisted her, say in having an abortion because being pregnant will kill her. The graph/chart of which states have done what and plan/threaten to do more is useful. BTW -- how often has your librarian tried to give you pornography? Ya, I thought so. The actual porn problem in libraries, as it is on public transportation, including flying, is guy demanding to use porn on their own personal devices and ya, you know, do right then there what guys do with porn. Don't fool yourselves. This is about white washing the history of the United States, prosecuting LGBTQ+AI, denying women any information about their bodies and birth control, and making sure African Americans, Latinos, and anybody else can't learn anything about their history in this great nation of the WHITE USA. In states like WV, all our books could be prohibited for obscenity, since slavery itself is all about obscene acts and behaviors, despite one of them at least, is for sale in the book store at Monticello -- and the arch villain, among thousands, in this book, is Thomas Jefferson himself. gift link -- no paywall -- https://wapo.st/3JkJQxp

The reality of being a criminal defendant on trial finally dawned on Trump. He didn’t take it well. Donald Trump will spend most of this spring in a drab county courtroom, and he’s not happy about it. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/16/trump-trial-reality-criminal-defendant-00152421

Your guess is as good, if not better, than mine! https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trump-presses-republicans-for-kickbacks-when-using-his-likeness-1.2060490 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-demands-cut-donations-down-ballot-republicans-1235006262/ https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/trump-campaign-fundraising-five-percent-00152830

.... “Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC. This includes, but is not limited to, sending to the house file, prospecting vendors, and advertising,” Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita wrote in a letter reported on by Politico. “Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations," the letter added. ....

See how conditioned we are as to how entertainment/fiction is supposed to work? My very young self reading the novel was quite -- bewildered.