DooDiligence

I've been watching Narco's Columbia. I see very little difference between pablo escobar and donald trump, putin, any and all of the leadership in the ME. Bunch of thirsty pricks.

rush limbaugh, any random fox talking head, sinclair media, nexstar, musk, zuckerberg, ellison, take your pick. Without media cooperation, none of this happens.

I can't wait for Nuremberg 2.0

It helps to have a blackmail-able bootlicker or two.

Who's excited about getting their brand new American made tRump phone? It's estimated that somewhere around 600,000 people gave $100 deposit for one of these beauties (with an open ended final cost). Should be a few excited fanboys here on CoBF? https://www.techradar.com/phones/the-trump-phone-seems-to-be-real-after-all-and-we-just-got-our-best-look-yet-at-it

20 for 20 and more. I remember when all 3 network television channels went off the air around midnight. They'd play the star spangled banner and that was it till morning.

This is what I expect Greg to address. Applying his skill as an operator, to allocating capital where it's needed.

WASHINGTON—While recognizing the small detail was of no real significance in the greater scheme of an escalating war with Iran, the entire U.S. populace admitted Tuesday that it was still curious to hear how President Donald Trump would pronounce “Strait of Hormuz.” “He’s gonna have to say it out loud eventually, and it feels like he could take it in some kind of insane direction like HOOR-muzz or maybe horm-SUH,” said Arkansas resident Janet Flitchen, echoing the sentiment of 340 million Americans who agreed that discovering Trump’s idiosyncratic pronunciation of the sea passage’s name would at least add a bit of intrigue to the horrors currently unfolding in the Middle East. “It feels crude to call it a silver lining given how many people are going to die, but you can’t deny that it’s fascinating to see what that guy’s brain does with unfamiliar place names. Even ‘Strait’ feels like it could be up in the air with him. There’s a nonzero chance he goes the whole war calling it the ‘stry-EET of Hermes’ or possibly even ‘Homer’s Street.’ That’s before you even get into the extra syllables he might try to cram in there. Doesn’t mean I support what he’s doing, but I can’t act like I’m not interested in hearing him drop ‘Strant of Hormo’ or whatever at a press conference.” At press time, the nation was reportedly expressing bewilderment at Trump’s bizarre pronunciation of the word “soldier.”

That's a terrible punchline.

He's done pretty good job of branding himself as an expert on the gold standard of capital allocators. Better than Ackman's weak attempts at fluffing himself up.

It's a really good swashbuckler. Fair Blows the Wind has a lot of sword fights too. I mentioned this guy before but Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles are really good. They cover the era surrounding Alfred the Great. There's 13 novels and none of them stunk. His Grail Quest series is also worth repeating.

Speaking of westerns, Louis Lamour's Sackett series. Fair Blows the Wind is a really good non-western prequel (Europe to the Americas). Others of his non-westerns I liked a lot were Walking Drum (12th century Europe and western Asia), and Last of the Breed about a native American U2 pilot downed in Russia and his escape.

It's funny even if you know it's not true.

O Brother, Where Art Thou

Wow! https://apnews.com/article/panama-canal-port-court-ruling-ck-hutchison-110af98b3782a08c242ecb5edb512614

More NVO

I don’t know much, but I do know that you are on to something here. It’s all a crap shoot that relies on a bunch of other people seeing the same thing. Descartes was a numb nuts. There is no thinker behind the thought.

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I've been on a sci-fi jag for a while now. Mostly just re-reading stuff. I'd read Stranger in a Strange land twice (a few decades past) and gave it another go recently. It wasn't as profound as before. Maybe because I saw the tenuous attempts at mirroring buddhism as kinda weak. I still liked the way he framed commercialized religion and got rid of the hypocrisy by allowing adherents to be human. Grokked. Another one that I've mentioned before is Midas World by Frederick Pohl. It's a pretty entertaining satire on consumer society, and is slowly starting to look like today. I'm reading Revolt in 2100 (Heinlein) now, for probably the 3rd or 4th time. There's a great short story in the back called Coventry. Heinlein's, so called, juvenile novels are all great. Starman Jones, Space Cadet, Red Planet, Farmer in the Sky, the Star Beast, Tunnel in the Sky, Rocket Ship Galileo, more. Very entertaining for both YA and adults and they've stood the test of time for me through multiple readings. Historical fiction has always been a favorite of mine too. Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles and his other series, Grail Quest, Richard Sharpe and the Starbuck Chronicles plus a single book story, Agincourt, which brings to life the stupidity of the French against the technological advance of longbow (there's no such thing as a fair fight). Another guy I really like is Conn Iggulden. He does a great job covering Genghis Kahn, and Rome + Julius Caesar from boyhood all the way to stab, stab, stab.

I haven't read Forever Peace. I haven't read Saint Leibowitz yet. The Old Man's War (Scalzi), was really good. The sequels, Ghost Brigades, Last Colony, Human Division and End of All Things were very good too. Zoe's Tale was basically a re-write of Last Colony.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Diaz

A few from the past year, all re-reads: Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller World War Z - Brooks The Forever War - Haldeman Old Mans War - Scalzi Deathworld Trilogy - Harrison Tunnel in the Sky - Heinlein Man Plus - Pohl Mars Plus - Pohl .