Good coffee and gardening as El Niño appears… however given my dog named ‘Aster’ and female longhair weim- (a candle lite both ends life)- plus got to share a very older quote
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
@ChicagoBears One of only two people, alongside Tom Flores, to win a Super Bowl as a player, assistant coach, and head coach. A profound and legendary great.
Da Coach will be missed. 🐻
RIP Mike Ditka, 1939–2026.
Hall of Fame tight end. Super Bowl champion as a player, assistant, and head coach. The heart of the '85 Bears.
Tough, loud, loyal, and unmistakably Chicago. Da Coach will be missed. 🐻
UPS (United Postal Service): in and for the USA? Nope. F-35 stealth parts headed home from Australia were rerouted via Hong Kong, and China now has them. A missed email isn't an excuse. F-35 R&D: $55B+. ITAR fines: ~$1.2M per violation. The penalty doesn't come close to what's at stake, F-35 weapons bay. That's ITAR non-compliance
AI has US earnings on track for a 3rd straight quarter of 25% growth. Our share? A supercharged Google search, higher power bills, 35 gas turbines by Memphis homes, dry-well fears in Indiana and a 24/7 bitcoin-mine hum in Texas. Free is expensive. So what is free? Pic is largest bitcoin in north America. The Ai data center is larger in Memphis, Tennessee. Please comment
A Soviet bioweapons defector once described secret antibiotic-resistant plague work at Irkutsk's anti-plague institute. Now a 28-yr-old lab tech there is dead, ~200 contacts isolated. Moscow says "pneumonia of unknown etiology." Trump: US "always willing to help." Heads up as this unfolds.
Jim Bakker passed tonight at 86, presumably straight to sainthood. He sold salvation, timeshares that didn't exist, and a fake COVID cure, and still outlived most of the people who trusted him. Now he finds out whether any of it was true.
Saudi-backed government forces say they made a fast advance on Monday to retake the coast around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait up to Mocha, pushing the Iran-backed Houthis out of most of the ground they seized last month. The Houthis deny it. The same day, Turkey and Pakistan announced a "rapid deployment" of troops to Saudi Arabia under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a mutual-defense pact the three countries signed on August 7, 2026, under which an attack on one counts as an attack on all. Turkey is now committed by treaty, has forces heading to the kingdom, and is the pact's main supplier of drones and air defense, but for now it is a backstop for Saudi territory rather than a combatant in Yemen. The fight centers on a city whose name is on every café menu: Mocha, the port that first carried Yemeni coffee to the world.
A 28-year-old lab worker at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died Oct 2 after a suspected infection, reportedly from a broken test tube. ~197 contacts identified, 189 hospitalized for monitoring. Officials cite "pneumonia of unknown etiology"; no cause confirmed.
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Turns out that "Romancing the Stone" chemistry wasn't all acting. Michael Douglas admits in his new memoir that he and Kathleen Turner had a real romance on set, and Turner has shrugged it off with grace. Some rumors just take 40 years to confirm.
A lawsuit can be its own kind of abuse, a way of shouting "stop!" But if a real injury happened, it's also an "ouch," a need to be heard, whether or not anyone truly understands. As this trial goes forward, it becomes the story of both parties. And whether they listen to each other or not, in the end the house is empty: no guests, no dishes left to wash.
In June 2022, the Virginia jury found that Heard had defamed Depp on all three statements he sued over. They awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Virginia caps punitive damages at $350,000, so his total came to about $10.35 million. Heard won one of her counterclaims. The jury found that one of Depp's lawyers, Adam Waldman, had defamed her when he called her abuse claims a hoax, and awarded her $2 million. Both sides appealed. In December 2022 they settled: Heard agreed to pay Depp $1 million, reportedly covered by her insurers, and both dropped their appeals. Depp said he would donate the money to charity.
It also went the other way in Britain. In 2020, Depp lost his libel case against The Sun, which had called him a "wife beater.*" The UK judge found most of Heard's abuse allegations substantially true.
So the "winner" depends on the courtroom, and this became a paper chase. *In fair play, The Sun should retract that label, given the US verdict.
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Look closely at this Fox News story, published today, September 29, 2026. The embedded video shows crude oil at $70.19.
Crude is actually trading in the low-to-mid $90s right now.
FAKE NEWS. The news agency must think people are stupid.