POLITICAL: You can’t reason with crazy

Sunday, September 21, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/futility-of-trying-to-reason-with?publication_id=1119676&post_id=173510671&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Futility of Trying to Reason With Lunatics

  • Widespread jubilation at the cold-blooded murder of Charlie Kirk reveals not only ideological possession, but also widespread mental illness.

John Leake  —  Sep 13, 2025

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For several years I’ve been turning over in my mind an idea that initially struck me as far-fetched, but now strikes me as a distinct possibility. Could it be that people suffering from some degree of mental illness are now heavily influencing or even directing cultural, political, and economic affairs? To put it more bluntly, are we now being constantly buffeted and even, in some jurisdictions, governed by lunatics?

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I would rather take my chances at bull riding or venomous snake handing than try to reason with deranged college students. 

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I’m beginning to realize that expecting change from lunatics is like “waiting for Gidot”, the second coming, an honest politician, or the Second Coming.

As such, I’m going to stop trying.  Best to keep to myself and my blog.  Not that anyone cares.

Sadly, it’s frustrating to see things that are so OBVIOUS, and those things must be in Panes 3 and 4 of everyone’s Johari window. (the Hidden area known to self but not to others, and the Unknown area known neither to self nor others)

Sadly.

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The Johari Window model is a tool used to improve self-awareness and interpersonal communication. It consists of four quadrants: the Open area (known to self and others), the Blind area (known to others but not to self), the Hidden area (known to self but not to others), and the Unknown area (known neither to self nor others), helping individuals understand their relationships better.

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MACOSX: Upgrade 26.0 issues

Saturday, September 20, 2025

MAC OSX 26 upgrade

2025-Sep-15

  • Big download and long delay getting it; aborted once and restart seemed to pick up where it left off
  • Multi-hour estimate; left it running overnight

 

2025-Sep-16 0911 

  • wipes out Marsedit 5.3.7 blog settings … …
    … … no heads up from anyone.  Took a few minutes to repair.
  • mac osx 26 lost share action for gmail … …
    … … no obvious fix

2025-Sep-16 1150

  • Firefox 142.0.1 (aarch64) appears to send every link thru google … … 
    … … can’t seem to capture or reproduce?
    … … seems that clicking a link in email gets passed to Google search engine?
    … … Firefox 143.0 (aarch64) updated on restarting Firefox?

2025-Sep-19 1000

  • All tasks when tabbed out now become minimized.  Giant PIA!  Initial inet search shows no fix.
  • Firefox 143 appear to route all new links thru google some how for some reason.
  • In Finder 26 the share selection with a file selected does n’t have “mail” which should have been Firefox Gmail. 

 

 

  • … … Next?

 

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MONEY: Why can’t I have cheap gas?

Saturday, September 20, 2025

I can hope!  I remember 25¢ a gallon with full service, trading stamps, glassware, and a clean windshield.  Then Gooferment “counterfeited” more dollars.  That quarter translates to $5 today. Argh! 

———- Forwarded message ————

From: New Jersey 101.5 <nj1015@trenton.mail.townsquarenewsletters.com>

Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM

Subject: The truth about NJ gas prices

 New Jersey top news… View in browser Don’t expect $2 gas in New Jersey — expert calls it ‘a fantasy’Gas prices in New Jersey have jumped 11 cents since Labor Day, driven by rising oil costs and refinery maintenance with hopes for lower prices as winter blends roll out.

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RANT: Here’s the interefernece I was referring to in my previous post

Friday, September 19, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/media/heres-the-real-reason-abc-suspended-jimmy-kimmel-live/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

Here’s the real reason ABC has suspended ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
By Charles Gasparino
Published Sep. 18, 2025, 10:31 a.m. ET

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Jimmy Kimmel’s comments on the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk weren’t just noxiously offensive and seemingly misleading — their timing was also incredibly bad: They threaten to derail Nexstar’s $6.2 billion takeover of rival broadcaster Tegna, telecom insiders tell On The Money.

The already controversial deal — which would combine two of the nation’s largest owners of local TV stations — poses significant antitrust questions and needs a close review by the Federal Communications Commission and its conservative firebrand chairman, Brendan Carr.

Kimmel’s comments made that approval even dicier. That’s why Nexstar publicly announced Thursday that its stations would no longer carry the show, telecom insiders tell On The Money. Ditto for ABC, which produces and distributes “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to broadcasters like Nexstar — and likewise has business before the FCC.

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Here’s the conflict of interests!

It was wrong when the D’s did it.  It’s still wronger when the R’s do it.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: DJT47 should find out if the Gooferment was involved in this suspension.

Friday, September 19, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-f-king-livid-over-abc-pulling-live-report/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

Jimmy Kimmel reportedly ‘f–king livid’ over ABC pulling ‘Live!’ — as Trump cheers ‘great news for America’
By Anna Young
Published Sep. 17, 2025
Updated Sep. 17, 2025, 10:27 p.m. ET

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Jimmy Kimmel is reportedly “absolutely f–king livid” over ABC’s decision to ax his late-night talk show following backlash to his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination — while President Trump cheered the move as “great news for America.” 

The comedian, 57, was left fuming over the network’s Wednesday decision to suspend him and pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely” after he unleashed a hateful tirade against the gunned-down conservative activist during Monday night’s monologue, sources and producers told the Daily Mail.

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Nexstar Media Group, the major broadcast company that serves as a primary affiliate for ABC, confirmed that it would “preempt” Kimmel’s program in the wake of his remarks.

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But after Monday’s blunder, the FCC chairman says the only reasonable step for ABC, parent company Disney, and the Emmy-nominated host is to issue a public apology — noting that the network’s “unprecedented” rejection of Kimmel by broadcasters is “an important turning point” in the media. 

“This action today by NexStar and Sinclair, frankly, it’s unprecedented,” Brendan Carr told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday. 

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Early reports indicated that Nexstar Media Group was seeking FCC approval for something.  That seems to have “disappeared”.  Was this a quid pro quo to make DJT47 happy?  If so, it’s UNACCEPTABLE.

I’m no Jimmy Kimmel fan. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), was this “suspension” rooted in politics.  Sure seems so.  When you see some of the many examples of “trash” that the broadcast networks air, this seems “mild”.   

 What would the FCC say about George Carlin now?

As much as I dislike Kimmel, this is just WRONG.  And, he should get his show back on the air.

DJT47 should IMMEDIATELY: 

  1. Find out any and all conversations between the FCC and ANY Gooferment bureaucrat with Nexstar Media Group and ANY ABC (or Disney).
  2. Fire anyone in the Gooferment who was involved in this affair.  (The Gooferment, like Caesar’s wife must be above reproach.)  Someone MIGHT have been trying to “please the boss” and gone way too far.
  3. Invite Kimmel to the White House, like he did with Bill Mahr, to have dinner and discuss this and many other topics.
  4. If Kimmel is starting a podcast or internet show like Tucker, then DJT47 should offer to be his first guest.
  5. Everyone, who purports to support the First Amendment, should let DJT47, Nexstar Media Group, ABC / Disney know that this is just wrong.  (I will!)

What would Charlie Kirk be doing?  Certainly, not trying to shut down an opinion.  Any opinion.

Argh!

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — often misattributed to Voltaire

Two memes sum it up!

Because Hate Speech Isn't A Thing - Imgflip

 

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SECURITY: Don’t forget the old printer as a “data leak”

Thursday, September 18, 2025

FROM TLDR Information Security 2025-09-10

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USB drives are still a problem – but they’re not your only data exfiltration risk (Sponsor)

While most organizations focus on blocking USB devices, attackers and insiders can just as easily steal data through network shares, cloud storage, or even local folder access. You need visibility and control over ALL storage access points.

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Yeah, but I remember that brokers used to keep a shadow book at home.  Meticulously copying or printing duplicates of “their” Client accounts.  

Now it’s easy to just use your phone to take a picture.  AI or software will even extract the text from the picture so no reentering data drudgery. 

I’ve even seen utilities that will put files into QR codes for backup and recovery.

Never underestimate human inginuity to get what they want. Be it drugs, sex, money, or data.

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MEME: PSA about “free sppeech”

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

[JR: Seems to sum it up quite nicely to me?]

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POLITICAL: When to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew?

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/09/03/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-228/

SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

James Wesley Rawles September 3, 2025 

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Reader R.W. in Oregon had this comment:

“Well, it took a long time but I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is like the weather. People can bitch about it but there’s not a d*mn thing they can do about it. Politics is gonna happen with or without us.

Our votes haven’t meant sh*t since before reconstruction, the “Parties” and “Machines” captured or created by bankers and industrialists made short work of that. There’s no “Right” or “Left”, it’s just “Us” vs “Them”.

Thank God for people like Smedley Butler who had the courage to call it like it is. What he said applies to the entire world, not just us. Read: “Against the Grain”. Greed and avarice breed tyranny.

The most insightful, wise and thoughtful dissection of that premise, in my opinion, is still the Federalist Papers and various books of the Bible.

Eventually, every corrupt and rotting government finally picks a war (all wars are bankers wars) or drives their economy and culture into the ditch and the people won’t take it anymore. Our job is to know when to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew.

That is the one thing we can do. And, as we are one of the last peoples on this planet to retain that one very important right, the rest of the world is looking to us to do it. 

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A most interesting dictum to us all.  When is enough enough?

Do we wait for “them” to start herding us in to freight cars?  We know from history what comes after that!

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

Or do we, like “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing”, just refuse to kowtow to ever more increasing intrusive demands, diktats, and “trends”?

I think that ₿itcoin is the first step.  Instead of “saving” in “dollars”, I’m “saving” in ₿itcoins, GoldBacks, junk silver, and gold rounds.  Let them figure out how to “inflate” those.

YMMV

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IOS: IOS26 upgrade — issues list

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

IOS26 Upgrade —  Issues list

2025-Sep-15

  • Big download and long delay getting it

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NEWJERSEY: Mikie Sherrill’s voting record is bad news for the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

https://savejersey.com/2025/09/if-given-the-chance-sherrill-will-turn-n-j-into-a-giant-charlotte-light-rail-train/

If given the chance? Sherrill will turn N.J. into a giant Charlotte light rail train.

September 10, 2025  —  Matt Rooney 

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I don’t care what a politician says, Save Jerseyans.

Especially once they’ve developed a record? I care what they actually do, and Mikie Sherrill’s voting record in the U.S. House of Representatives gives me reason to believe she’d be a law-and-order DISASTER as New Jersey governor.

New Jersey is already struggling under the current cashless bail regime, and as the stomach-churning murder of a young immigrant woman on Charlotte’s light rail system vividly illustrates, the consequences of having a leaders who aren’t tough on criminals are inevitably fatal.

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Typical “democrat” soft on everything important!

For a veteran and pilot, I’d have expected a more realistic platform and record.

Not that the R is much better. 

Argh!

To quote from the movie “The Far Side of the World” Master and Commander Capt. Jack Aubrey: “There! I have you! You’re completely dished. … one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?”

It’s just about as significant.

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