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One of my favorite GOP Senators needs to learn there are no rules anymore.

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Senator Kennedy is wrong here. He wanted Pam Bondi to commit to not following the precedents set by the current administration. There are no rules anymore. President Trump and his people can do any damn thing they need to do to our enemies. And if the senator doesn’t like that, well, maybe he can join them. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mEkWuulfgF0&t=305s&pp=2AGxApACAQ%3D%3D

My comment on captivating video on the Shroud of Turin.

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MY COMMENT (edited for one typo): “My problem with the shroud – and this extends even back to the time when I was of dogmatic religiosity – is the idea that divine action would leave such a physical trace. Spirit is not subject to (physical) matter. For such a divine act to leave such a residual seems to limit the spiritual.  I haven’t read it, but things like this always make think of the title of  Gloria Loring’s book: “ Coincidence Is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous.” The divine intent will be manifest,  of course, but it seems strange to think of the divine touch leaving trace evidence. It reminds me of efforts to prove the existence of a “soul” by weighing a body just before and just after death. If such a soul is of the spiritual realm, it would have no physical weight.  All of it goes to making life beyond, apparently subject to the physical, and thus itself physical. Almost a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”-type view of the dead and demons. I enjoyed that show, ...

Early live TV “story-within-a-story” twist: “Tales of Tomorrow” episode: “The Window.”

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In 1952 people were still trying to figure out how to use the brand new medium. This episode stands out for playing up the potential. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FE5Ft6GS-Fs&pp=ygUcdGFsZXMgb2YgdG9tb3Jyb3cgdGhlIHdpbmRvdw%3D%3D According to a commentary HERE , there was supposedly a disclaimer attached to it, but no known surviving recordings of the episode show it. And apparently it was interrupted midstream in a few US cities by stations thinking it was real.

THE DAILY FUDD: E278: “Relating Charlie Kirk statement to TDF RKBA approach.”

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Charlie Kirk addressed to question from someone at least presenting himself as a rather purist RKBA advocate. Whether that purist was sincere or a mole/troll, I do not know. MY COMMENT: “Political realities, folks, preclude this fellow’s approach regardless. Holding onto some private firepower requires a moderate approach. Purism will only turn a vast swath of the American  people against gun rights. See my channel page for a link my blog’s “Daily Fudd” series. Edition 10–"An Originalist fudd-ish argument regarding full-auto and 2A” offers a prospective  that can give judges a line to be true to the Founders and secure essential firepower, including our AR15s and such, while excluding items like cruise missiles.” Kirk is not college-educated. His ability in things like historical analysis of the Constitution is limited. He will often take a knee-jerk surface approach to things, though as he has aged and matured he has done better. So I do not know if he would except the ideas...

“Equity” — 50-second video: Black racial agitation exposed by Black racial agitator.

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They want handed what they cannot rightly gain.

Brief Firefly promo.

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Intro:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-sp68GjYL0&pp=ygUTZmlyZWZseSBpbnRybyB0aGVtZQ%3D%3D Opening sequence from Shepherd Book. Tells the basic story setting.  https://m.youtube.com/shorts/2gIvX4ym-ig Two clips summarizing opening of the “second pilot” Ep 2–“The Train Job.” Gives a flavor of the show regarding Western vs SciFi. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/amkJVcFNt7E https://m.youtube.com/shorts/OE1-wHPY8Ac

Off Topic??? — TV show and movie ideas I have hatched in the past.

Someone is likely to steal these, but since I have no means of making them happen, I really can’t complain too much. 1.  "My Two Wives" : By a weird fluke, a man has two different marriages registered at exactly the same time, and because the laws of his state forbid marrying when one is already married, but not simply having two wives at the same time, he and his wives slip through the crack. After all, says the lead character, "You tell me which one I married first!" It would be a CBS-type sit-com vaguely like "The King of Queens" (cf Episode 6x24: “Awful Bigamy”) focusing on the obvious humor, yet leaving virtually unaddressed any community response to the situation, which is not kept secret. 2.  "The Littlest Country" : Vaguely a mix of "Grand Duchy of  Fenwick " series and "The Almost Royal Family" 1980s ABC  Afterschool  Special with a young Sarah Jessica Parker. Due to a treaty fluke centuries ago, a few people find the...