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Navigating the New Year 0

Mrs. Betty Bowers offers some advice for 2026. Methinks she makes soem good points.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A bearer of false witness? NJ.com reports:

Canadian musician Ashley MacIsaac is expressing concern about his safety and has even lost a gig over an erroneous Google AI summary that incorrectly labeled him as a sex offender.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Ruben Navarrett Jr. unpacks the ten biggest lies about immigrants. Here’s one; follow the link for the others.

“Immigration enforcement is about the rule of law.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are under so much pressure to meet a daily quota of 3,000 arrests that they break the law to enforce the law. They scrapped due process, engaged in racial profiling, abandoned their own standard of “reasonable suspicion” before a search, and brutalized U.S. citizens. There is no rule of law, only the law of the jungle.

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QOTD 0

Hayley Mills, in the voice of Lizzy Thornfield:

They say that time is a great healer, but that’s a lie. When you lose someone you love, the pain never goes away.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Oath Bleeper 0

Title:  America's New Foreign Policy.  Image:  Group of persons behind a rmapart under the U. N. flag.  May looking through telescope says,

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And the Winner Is . . . . 0

John Young offers his selection for the hypocrite of 2025.

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Songs Come True, Everybody Knows One 0

They tied his wallaby down, sport.

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The Resolution 0

Donald Trump holding a bloodstained paper in blood-spotted hands.  The paper reads,

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Las Vegas Sun, Eric Foster decodes de code.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

The incident happened around 6:20 a.m. near Morgan Road and Reno Avenue. Police told KOCO 5 that the man was holding a gun when it went off and hit him on the back of his legs.

And another gun that is implied to have fired itself . . . .

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QOTD 0

Thomas Hardy:

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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Good Riddance 2025 0

Train wreck

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Trustworthy? At Psychology Today Blogs, CUNY professor Azadeh Aalai reminds us that

(s)ome of the perils of AI include the spread of false information and the potential to manipulate.

And, speaking of the potential to manipulate . . . .

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Extra-Special Bonus QOTD, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

UVa’s Larry Sabato, regarding Donald Trump’s reaction to the death from cancer of JFK’s granddaughter:

There is no bottom for Trump.

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American Stasi 0

From the Youtube page:

A Texas federal judge wasn’t buying ICE’s story after bodycam footage exposed a wildly exaggerated arrest. In a scathing ruling, the Bush-appointed judge blasted DHS for pushing a “largely fictional” case that could’ve sent a Honduran immigrant to prison for 20 years — all after an agent injured himself while smashing a car window. The case was thrown out, but the disturbing implications for civil rights and unchecked immigration enforcement remain. Rick Strom breaks it down.

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Greeting the New Year 0

Outgoing 2025 says to incoming baby 2026,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up (emphasis added).

. . . Throughout the investigation, Welch and the victim claimed the shooting was an accident, according to court documents. The victim “later explained the ‘accident’ occurred after an argument over Christmas cookies had ensued.” Welch also claimed to have disposed of the gun used along a road near the house. . . .

I guess that’s how the cookie crumbles in NRA Paradise.

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All the News that FIts 0

Steve M. diagrams the misdirection plays.

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QOTD 0

Jack Klugman:

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

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