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Jamba 666

8/14/2026

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Formerly Jamba Juice, if you look at a logo and turn it on its side, it reads 666. It is owned by GoTo Foods, formerly known as Focus Brands, an affiliate of the private equity firm Roark Capital Group. Roark Capital is a private equity firm, not a publicly traded company owned by shareholders. It is controlled by Neal Aronson and the leadership team, and the capital it invests comes from institutional investors like endowments, insurance companies, and pension funds. Roark Capital owns Subway, Dunkin' & Baskin-Robbins, Inspire Brands (Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Sonic Drive-In, Jimmy John's), and GoTo Foods (Auntie Anne's, Cinnabon, Jamba). Neal Aronson is Jewish. International financial publications such as Forbes Israel consistently include him in their annual tracking of prominent global Jewish business leaders and billionaires. His net worth is estimated at roughly $4.0 billion, according to the Forbes Billionaires List. Soliciting them does not make you evil. Tubers will flip their lids. Choose wisely. I will take this down in 30 minutes to prevent Tubers from using my content.
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top of the world

8/6/2026

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My website will suspend indefinitely, and any further entries will be in the UAP Category only. Many people are taking my intellectual property and not commenting, crediting the source, or expressing appreciation. In linguistics and politics, the party that controls the terminology controls the debate. Before 1969, the Missal was simply The Roman Missal (Missale Romanum). By successfully shifting the global vocabulary so that everyday Catholics—even traditional ones—now say TLM, the post-Vatican II framework successfully reframed the ancient liturgy as a specialized, backward-looking exception rather than the rule. You see, I really do understand the language I've been speaking for 74 years and the original language of the Church that I began learning at 14. Reform or return isn't real ... it's more barbed wire for the inmates.​ Tranche #5 was released on 8/7/2026 and is in the UAP Category.
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nine nuclear nations

8/5/2026

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​The place that evolved from England became a leader in openness by publishing declarations on its military fissile material (plutonium) and historical stockpile maximums in 2000. It declared an operational cap of fewer than 120 deployed warheads in 2015. However, the country reversed course, stating it would no longer publish exact operational totals.

France historically maintained a ceiling of under 300 total warheads and took the unprecedented step of inviting international inspections to dismantle its Pacific nuclear test centers. However, France announced it will cease publishing exact numbers on its nuclear arsenal.

Russia conducts data exchanges with the US under strategic arms reduction treaties like New START Treaty. However, it does not match American voluntary comprehensive disclosures of its entire non-strategic or total military stockpile independently.

China, India, Israel, North Korea, and Pakistan maintain strict secrecy or ambiguity, releasing no official numerical data on their military warhead stockpiles, meaning that independent estimates come from groups like the Federation of American Scientists.

None have democratic republican governments. None tolerate independent thinking. None have released any documents since the release of the four tranches by the US.
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my pleasant insanity

8/5/2026

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​Nearly every clear night I look up in the sky over Mather Airport and see inexplicable things. What would you do if you saw something in the night sky, yet felt unsure whether anyone et alia would believe you?

Without the aid of binoculars I see multiple, multi-colored objects that are completely stationary. I asked Gemini why the fear of reporting. Gemini follows my every move, and I follow it, without fear. It is far better than quarreling with non compos mentis ad-dolt ass-holes.

Answer
Many pilots, military personnel, and civilian workers do not report unidentified anomalous phenomena because they fear public ridicule or professional harm. Stigma often stops people from speaking out. However, official reporting channels now exist to encourage safe reporting without negative career impacts.

Reasons for Underreporting
  1. Social Stigma: People fear others will laugh at them or doubt their sanity or worse.
  2. Job Risks: Pilots and government workers worry about losing their flying status or security clearances.
  3. Lack of Process: Past decades lacked a clear, safe place to log unusual sightings.

New Reporting Channels
  1. AARO: The Department of Defense established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to gather reports safely.
  2. NASA Studies: NASA formed independent research teams to destigmatize data collection and scientific inquiry.
  3. Confidential ASRS: Pilots can use the Aviation Safety Reporting System to log events without penalty.

That ended the colloquy. ​One Catholic YouTube channel said that I am involved with the occult. Sorry, baby dolls, check your neurons.


4/8/1951-6/20/1951
Operation Greenhouse
was the fifth American nuclear test series, conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground on the Enewetak Atoll. Managed by Joint Task Force 3, the primary objective of the operation was to optimize nuclear physics designs by reducing the weight and required fissile material of weapons while maximizing their destructive yields. Operation Greenhouse validated the foundational radiation-implosion principles that directly accelerated the development of the thermonuclear hydrogen bomb.

4/1/1952-6/5/1952
Operation Tumbler-Snapper 
was a series of eight atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States at the Nevada Proving Ground. Managed jointly by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense, the operation was executed in two distinct functional phases to advance battlefield nuclear doctrine and optimize weapons development.

11/1/1952
​The Ivy Mike Thermonuclear Test took place on Elugelab Island within the Enewetak Atoll (also spelled Eniwetok) in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean. The massive 10.4-megaton thermonuclear detonation vaporized the island.

3/1/1955
The "Tesla" nuclear test was a 7-kiloton atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted at the Nevada Test Site as part of the US military's Operation Teapot.

3/7/1955
The Turk detonation was a 43-kiloton atmospheric nuclear test conducted as part of Operation Teapot. Sponsored by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, the weapon was placed atop a 508-foot steel tower at the Nevada Test Site to assess tactical nuclear capabilities and weapon designs.


Born the summer of 1952, I guess I'm the only person who sees the unplanned presence of the other. That's my pleasant insanity.

1951 Drill

Today, defense relies on active interception technology and strategic government protocols.
  1. Missile Interception Systems: Advanced radar and defense shields (such as ground-based interceptors) are designed to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles mid-flight.
  2. Early Warning Networks: Satellites and global sensors provide immediate detection of rocket launches, feeding data directly to military command centers.
  3. Government Continuity Plans: Modern focus has moved away from public fallout shelters toward secure underground bunkers and rapid communication protocols for leadership, rather than routine civilian survival drill.
If traveling to Yosemite, do not pass up Tioga Pass, named after the Tioga Mine, named after an Iroquois and Mohawk word meaning "where it forks" or "where it branches in two".
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Nevada State Route 375, aka the Extraterrestrial Highway, is accessible via 395. 
  • Take 395 to State Route 167, just north of Mono Lake.
  • Drive east on SR 167 across the state line as it transitions into Nevada State Route 359 toward Hawthorne.
  • From there, use Nevada connecting roads—such as U.S. Route 95 South to U.S. Route 6 East—to arrive at the northern terminus of the Extraterrestrial Highway at Warm Springs.
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Confiteor twice

8/5/2026

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The Novus Ordo does not have a Confiteor (the I confess deprecatory absolution prayer) right before Holy Communion. That specific practice—where the server recites the Confiteor and the priest gives a prayer of pardon and remission just before distributing communion—belongs exclusively to us.
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SI summer reading

8/4/2026

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INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES
Students must read all three books: 

  • March, Book One (John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell) 
  • March, Book Two (John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell) 
  • March, Book Three (John Lewis, Andres Aydin, Nate Powell)

ENGLISH
  • Turtles All the Way Down (John Green)
  • Darius the Great is Not Okay (Adib Khorram)
  • The Sun is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon)
  • Frankly in Love (David Yoon)
Some are required to read one novel, and others two. That is the summer reading list for students entering St. Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco. I've never heard of these authors. In the summer of 1966, I read six novels, all classics, all required. Is is capitalized in a title.
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Bao Miệng Lưỡi

8/4/2026

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​Laurent Demets, FSSP, is the only priest stationed year-round in Vietnam, a lonely post. Keep the lighthouse keeper in your prayers.
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Các Thánh Tử Đạo Việt

8/4/2026

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1838
Francis Đỗ Văn Chiểu, a young lay teacher captured while physically shielding his parish priest from armed soldiers, refused to disclose where other parishioners were hiding and was executed shortly thereafter.

1839
Andrew Dũng-Lạc, a Vietnamese lay teacher who became a priest, changed his name multiple times to evade capture but was repeatedly arrested and finally beheaded.

1839
Augustine Phan Viết Huy/Nicholas Bùi Đức Thể, royal soldiers ordered by the emperor to trample upon a cross, tortured and released, then stricken by grief, repenting and traveling to the capital to present themselves, there refusing to back down a second time, were tortured again and sawed in half.

1841
Agnes Lê Thị Thành, a mother of six who hid priests in her home, was arrested, severely tortured, and died of her injuries in prison.

1855
Andrew Nguyễn Kim Thông, a wealthy provincial leader and dedicated teacher who hid the bishop, was arrested, stripped of his lands, forced to walk hundreds of miles in heavy iron chains to an exile camp, and collapsed and died of exhaustion on the road.

1857
Michael Hồ Đình Hy, an elite mandarin and commander of the royal silk mills under Emperor Tự Đức, for years secretly using his wealth and influence to fund Catholic charities and protect hidden priests, when found was sentenced by the emperor to public humiliation and beheading.

​1862
Dominic Huyên/Dominic Trần Văn Toại, simple, poor fishermen arrested together, who, despite facing repeated floggings and starvation in dark cells, outright refused to trample the cross and were burned alive.

2026
No paintings or glass for them, their names remain.
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GW & whiskey

8/3/2026

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George Washington went back home to Mount Vernon to produce rye whiskey after leaving office. He started a large stone distillery in 1797 with his farm manager, James Anderson, reaching nearly 11,000 gallons of whiskey a year by 1799, making it one of the largest distilleries in the new nation, using a mix of 60% rye, 35% cornmeal, and 5% malted barley. While he preferred fortified wines like Madeira and porter, historical records show that he consumed and served his own spirits. The unaged whiskey was sold directly out of wooden barrels, not glass bottles. Roughly 47% of people with the surname Glass share British & Irish roots, 22% have French & German ancestry, and about 11% are of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.

Ardagh Group, Luxembourg
O-I Glass, Owens-Illinois
Vetropack, Switzerland
Verallia, France
Vidrala, Spain

You can do nothing about these things. You just need to know where the rot begins and ends.
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Catholics get off YT

8/3/2026

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To all Catholic podcasters on YouTube: close your accounts and get off YouTube. Here's why.

The Missionaries of Vietnam
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Early 1500s
  • Initial arrivals: Portuguese and Spanish priests, including Dominicans and Franciscans, visited coastal regions in the 1500s via trading ships.
  • Limited results: These early visits had modest or slow success in converting local populations.

Early 1600s
  • First permanent community: Jesuit priests Francesco Buzomi and Diogo Carvalho set up the first steady Catholic community in Hội An in 1615.
  • Key converters: Jesuit priests Father Alexandre de Rhodes and Pero Marques baptized over 6,000 people in the northern region of Tonkin between 1627 and 1630.
  • Language impact: Jesuits like de Rhodes and Francisco de Pina created chữ Quốc ngữ, the Latin-based alphabet used for the Vietnamese language today.

The development of chữ Quốc ngữ was a multi-stage, collaborative effort where Francisco de Pina laid the foundation through immersive local learning, and Alexandre de Rhodes later standardized, refined, and published the system in Rome. The transition from a character-based system to a Latin script happened in distinct phases.

Phase 1: Francisco de Pina’s Immersion (1617–1625)
  • The Language Problem: The local writing systems—Classical Chinese (chữ Hán) and a modified vernacular script called chữ Nôm—required memorizing thousands of complex characters. This limited literacy to a tiny elite.
  • Going Native: Arriving in 1617, the Portuguese Jesuit Francisco de Pina recognized that relying on interpreters failed to connect with the population. He became the first European to speak fluent Vietnamese by living alongside local communities in Hoi An and Thanh Chiêm Palace.
  • Phonetic Groundwork: Around 1620, de Pina began recording the sounds he heard using the Roman alphabet. He drew inspiration from Portuguese phonetics and earlier romanization frameworks used by missionaries in Macau and Japan.
  • First Manuals: By 1623, de Pina drafted a basic vocabulary and a lost treatise addressing Vietnamese orthography and tonalities. He taught his students, including a newly arrived Alexandre de Rhodes, how to map these spoken sounds to Latin letters.

Phase 2: Collaboration and Evolution (1625–1640s)
  • The Tragic Gap: De Pina tragically drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Đà Nẵng in 1625.
  • The Portuguese Connection: Other Portuguese Jesuits, specifically Gaspar do Amaral and António Barbosa, built directly upon de Pina's early notes. Do Amaral compiled a Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary, while Barbosa drafted a Portuguese-Vietnamese version. Though these specific manuscripts were later lost, they served as critical intermediary steps.

Phase 3: Alexandre de Rhodes’ Codification (1627–1651)
  • Systemizing the Script: After mastering the language under de Pina's initial tutelage, French Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes spent over a decade listening to different regional dialects across northern and southern Vietnam.
  • Solving the Tonal Challenge: Vietnamese is a tonal language where changing a pitch entirely changes a word's meaning. To map this into a 26-letter Latin alphabet, de Rhodes systematically integrated diacritical marks (accents and hooks) adapted from Greek, Portuguese, and Latin. These symbols indicated both vowel quality (like â, ă, ê, ô, ơ, ư) and five specific tonal pitches (such as the acute, grave, tilde, hook, and underdot).
  • The Landmark Publication: In 1651, after being expelled from Vietnam, de Rhodes traveled to Rome and published the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum. This monumental trilingual dictionary officially synthesized and preserved the collective work of de Pina, do Amaral, and Barbosa into a standardized script.
Missionaries booked passage on private Portuguese or local merchant vessels that regularly traded with Vietnamese ports like Hội An (Faifo) in the south or commercial areas in Tonkin in the north. A missionary’s full journey from Europe to Vietnam in the 1600s typically took one to two years to complete, covering a sailing distance of roughly 15,000 to 18,000 miles (24,000 to 29,000 km). Because ships could not sail directly, the journey was broken into distinct maritime legs defined by miles, days, and long waiting periods for seasonal monsoon winds. (end of AI)

I compiled this history in less than 20 minutes using Gemini. All this missionary labor was done in 36 years under arduous conditions with no help from the outside world, in jungles and villages with no medicine whatsoever, with a people completely different from Europeans, and no trains, planes, or modern conveniences. You YouTubers have done nothing equivalent. Find real, hard work!

de Rhodes idealized
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He's right up there with Paul.
Asians like shades of red and gold.
Widen your horizons and start growing up.

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SP NorCal-NV 1957

8/2/2026

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Norden is the highest elevation for the train. The rail line tracks Interstate 80, a major east-west highway connecting San Francisco-Oakland to the Nevada border via Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada mountains. Late at night when it's quiet I can hear freight trains from where I live in Sacramento, just as I could hear fog horns on the Golden Gate Bridge growing up in San Francisco. To hear the fog horns, check out the Pretty Murder Category.
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Big 4

8/2/2026

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Nick Bilton, Jew, is the executive producer of 60 Minutes, taking over the role in May 2026, appointed by CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, Jew, to modernize and oversee the broadcast. CBS News, a division of the media conglomerate Paramount Global, owns 60 Minutes, the network’s flagship newsmagazine program, airing continuously on CBS since its debut in 1968, the same year elite Israeli commandos carried out Operation Gift on Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, the only operational commercial airport in Lebanon. Paramount Skydance is currently acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. The U.S. Department of Justice approved the deal, but antitrust lawsuits have delayed the final merger. Once complete, it will shrink Hollywood’s major studios from the Big Five to the Big Four. Rush to Home Depot before tool belts shrink thomas more.
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Huntsville City Schools

8/1/2026

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Huntsville City Schools (Alabama)
www.usnews.com/education/k12/alabama/districts/huntsville-city-103543

​They earned an 89 on the state report card and an 88 on the federal report card. However, elementary reading proficiency is at 48%, math at 28%; middle school reading is at 46%, math at 22%; high school reading is at 35%, math at 37%. The schools maintain a 17:1 student-teacher ratio with 99.7% licensed teachers across roughly 24,222 students.

New Aviation and Defense Facilities
1) Signature Aviation opened a brand-new state-of-the-art private terminal at Huntsville International Airport (HSV).
2) Science and Engineering Services (SES) launched a massive 111,000-square-foot aircraft hangar at HSV to expand fixed-wing flight operations.
3) Northrop Grumman opened a large advanced manufacturing facility near the airport for next-generation air defense work.

Established Aerospace Hubs
1) Redstone Arsenal houses key U.S. Army aviation and missile commands alongside NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
2) ​U.S. Space Command Headquarters is permanently moving its primary operations to the Huntsville area.

Active recruiting is occurring, but are the students qualified from Huntsville city schools?

Kaye Ivey, Governor, Zion
Tommy Tuberville, Senator, Zion
Katie Britt, Senator, Zion

Linda McMahon, U.S. Secretary of Education (?)

Israel
High school graduation rates exceed the average at roughly 92%, and nearly half of the adult Jewish population holds post-secondary degrees, as measured by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which functions as a global data and policy hub that compares school systems, funding, and student learning across different countries. Historically, standardized testing data has shown steady multi-year improvements in math and English proficiency across both Hebrew and Arab public schools.
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Ripperger to Rossetti

7/31/2026

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Chad Ripperger is a priest whose extensive lecture clips, audio sermons, and long-form podcast guest appearances, including massive multi-million-view interviews, dominate search results on spiritual warfare. YouTube

Carlos Martins is a priest and host of the hit multi-million download project, The Exorcist Files, who actively publishes case studies, video interviews, and active media appearances discussing diabolic influence. YouTube

Dan Reehil is a priest frequently featured on high-profile interview channels and independent podcast networks discussing exorcism and spiritual combat, pulling millions of views per appearance. YouTube

Stephen Rossetti is a priest who built a large digital footprint via the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal website, social media, and interviews discussing spiritual warfare. YouTube

What bishops approved this?
Ripperger - Edward J. Slattery, Tulsa. Novus Ordo
Martins - Local bishop at the location. Novus Ordo
Reehill - J. Mark Spalding, Nashville. Novus Ordo
Rossetti - Fired, Washington DC, Novus Ordo

lining pockets
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Sequoia

7/20/2026

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Giant sequoias grow naturally in only one place on Earth, the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in central California at an elevation of 4,000 to 8,000 feet.


​Mom made all our trips to the Sierras worthwhile, an incalculable loss to her son. She turned 100 last month on the fourth and resides with my Lord.
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American divers

7/20/2026

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Fulcrum is a Latin word.
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Diving boards are made of aircraft-grade aluminum in competitive springboards for maximum strength and flexibility.
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See the triangle as boy steps onto the board?

​Enter with as little splash possible and vertical. DD is degree of difficulty. Judges are in red. Rydan blessed himself and works those judges with eye contact. They are not persuaded! He knows that, but it doesn't hurt. Faces are blurred because they are underage.
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Where Is Everybody?

7/20/2026

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https://ok.ru/video/6907514063526
The Twilight Zone, Season 1, Episode 1, 1959
Earl Holliman (marriage isn't the answer)
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The title of the TV series reflects the show's core premise, namely the middle ground between reality and fantasy. Creator Rod Serling borrowed the phrase "twilight zone" from a US Air Force aviation term describing a critical moment on a plane's descent when the horizon disappears and pilots navigate between the light of sunset and total darkness.

The final episode

https://ok.ru/video/714014198512
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China #1 enemy

7/19/2026

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WASHINGTON, 2/17/2026 (Reuters) - A senior US official official on Tuesday revealed what he said were new details of an underground nuclear test blast that China allegedly conducted in June 2020. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw told an event at the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington that a remote seismic station in Kazakhstan measured an "explosion" of magnitude 2.75 located 450 miles (720 km) away at the Lop Nor test grounds in western China on June 22, 2020.

Gemini
Dr. Youlin Chen, a China-born American seismologist, has been secretly detained in China since November 2024 and formally charged with espionage in May 2025. He has not yet stood trial. The US State Department has officially designated him as "wrongfully detained", marking him as a top diplomatic priority. Chen is a US government contractor who worked with the State Department and the Air Force Research Lab, specializing in analyzing seismological data to detect underground nuclear tests, including those conducted by North Korea.

He has a PhD in Statistics, 2021, University of Chicago, and a BS in Electrical Engineering, 2014, National Tsing Hua University.

President Trump brought up Dr. Chen's detention directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing in May 2026.

The first nuclear test code-named "Trinity" was conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945. As part of the Manhattan Project, the US Army detonated a plutonium implosion device, nicknamed "the Gadget", at 5:29 in the morning in the Jornada del Muerto desert at the Alamogordo Bombing Range, now the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico.

Thomas Poon, President of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, also sits on the boards of The Beijing Center in Beijing, China, operating in the Chaoyang District on the campus of the University of International Business and Economics, and the 
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
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Knesset & Trump

7/18/2026

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members of the Knesset
https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/mk/apps/mklobby/main/current-knesset-mks/all-current-mks

​Ram Ben-Barak was deputy director of the Mossad before entering politics.

rabbis rabbanim (רבנים)
1. Abutbul

2. Asher
3. Gafni
4. Kariv


Gemini

Lebanon & Iran Conflicts: Cracks in the alliance have appeared as Trump prioritized foreign policy pragmatism. He has expressed public frustration over Israel's ongoing campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, criticizing the high civilian death toll. Trump's focus on securing a deal with Iran to stabilize global oil prices and ease economic pressure has complicated U.S.-Israeli alignment, as Israel continues targeting groups backed by Tehran.


The F-35 Sales Dispute: In July 2026, Netanyahu went on [Jewish] Fox News to publicly criticize Trump’s intention to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. This deeply angered Trump, with White House officials stating Trump was "pissed off" and felt Netanyahu "had no right" to publicly undermine American defense deals.

The Oval Office Snub: Following the F-35 dispute, Netanyahu reportedly spent over two weeks trying to "will a meeting into existence" with Trump in Washington. Trump and the White House pointedly refused to schedule the meeting, effectively leaving Netanyahu hanging in an unusual diplomatic snub.

We defend the weak from the powerful, primarily China, Russia, and Israel.

Scottish Jewish Heritage Center/synagogue/school

​sjhc.org.uk/

Election Integrity
Arizona
​California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
​Maine
​Massachusetts
Michigan
​Minnesota
Nevada
New Jersey
​New Mexico
​New York
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
​Washington

​Venezuela
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Street Corner

7/17/2026

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​language and tactics of a pimp
Peggy Cummins d. 2017; Terence Morgan d. 2005

Gemini
​

American English has heavily influenced British English far more than the reverse, driven primarily by global media, technology, and economic power.

American Influence on British English
  • Vocabulary adoption: Younger Britons routinely use American terms like cookie, movie, and cell phone instead of biscuit, film, and mobile.
  • Grammar shifts: Phrases like "on the weekend" instead of "at the weekend" and the use of "gotten" are increasingly common in the UK.
  • Cultural dominance: Hollywood movies, streaming TV shows, and tech platforms accelerate the daily intake of American idioms into British speech.

British Influence on American English
  • Prestige vocabulary: Americans occasionally adopt British terms like loo, mate, or flat (apartment) for stylistic or trendy effect.
  • Spelling: Noah Webster intentionally changed American spellings (like color instead of colour) in the late 1700s to separate US culture from Britain, but modern shifts rarely flow backward.
So, if you want to be in the know, speak like an American.
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vetting vance

7/17/2026

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​Cagle Cartoons
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​Andromeda
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Six veeps became president on their own, and only Jefferson was seminal.

John Adams 1797​
Thomas Jefferson 1801
Martin Van Buren 1837
Richard Nixon 1969
George Bush1 1989
Joe Biden 2021
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Jewish News

7/16/2026

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Newsmax
Cohen
Coleman
Halperin

Hammer
Huddy
Kestenbaum
Klein

Leib
Menken (Ken doll)
Rosenbaum
Turx


Other

Bash
Blitzer
Gessen
Milbank
Rubin (rubies!)

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over ​950 more listed @
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish-American_journalists

​
Latin Mass 0
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Gerhard Müller

7/16/2026

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Gemini

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has faced significant scrutiny and controversy regarding the handling of clerical sexual abuse, alleged cover-ups, financial management, and public rhetoric, and he has never been prosecuted.

The primary scandals and controversies involving him include
  • Regensburg Abuse Allegations: During his tenure as Bishop of Regensburg (2002–2012), Müller was criticized by diocesan officials and victims’ advocates for his handling of clerical abuse cases. Allegations arose that he reinstated a priest who had a prior conviction for sexually abusing minors into a new parish, relying on psychological evaluations over church safety protocols. The priest subsequently abused children again in his new assignment.
  • Abuse Case Backlog and Marie Collins Resignation: While leading the Vatican's CDF, Müller's office accumulated a backlog of roughly 2,000 pending sexual abuse cases. This led to intense criticism from Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins—a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors—who resigned in 2017, citing "unacceptable" resistance from Müller's dicastery to implementing necessary child-protection reforms.
  • Financial Improprieties and Investigations: In 2015, the CDF was investigated by Vatican financial authorities regarding the handling of administrative income. Reports indicated that departmental funds were kept as discretionary cash and thousands of euros were mismanaged.
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bat & ball riddle

7/16/2026

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Proposition
A bat and ball cost $1.10.

Question
How much does the ball cost if the bat costs $1 more?

You're thinking 10 cents.

​There are five steps.

1) Assign variables
cost of ball is x
cost of bat is x + 1.00

2) Set up equation
x + (x + 1.00) = 1.10

3) Simplify equation
2x + 1.00 = 1.10


4) Subtract 1.00 from both sides
2x = .10

5) Divide both sides by 2
x = .05

Solution
​5 cents

You hit a Homer.
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Platti & Gillot

7/15/2026

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Claude Gillot (1673–1722) was a French painter, engraver, and Antoine Watteau's master. Pioneer of Rococo whimsy, Gillot revolutionized French art by turning away from strict academic conventions to focus on theatrical scenes, commedia dell'arte performances, and mythological satire.

Concerto per il Violino Principale (circa 1730)
lots of triangles on the humorous Harlequin
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Title: Les deux carrosses
Artist: Claude Gillot
 (1673–1722)
Description: Le théâtre de foire et la Commedia dell'arte furent l'un des thèmes favoris de Gillot. Inspirée d'un fait divers, cette scène humoristique fut ajoutée à la pièce de Regnard et Dufresny, La foire Saint-Germain, créée en 1695. Scaramouche et Arlequin, déguisés, s'apostrophent avec une véhémence caricaturale.
Dimensions: heighth 50 in; width 63 in
Medium: oil on canvas

Date: circa 1707
Louvre

​Asking me if both were Catholic is stupid. There are plenty of unnamed saints. Stop glorifying for a day and think about it. Pau Ng does a masterful job of matching art with music.

common Jewish names: Platt and Gill

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