BIG BEAR LAKE, Southern California - When, O, when will our birds fly above the foothills, above the City of Lights that is Los Angeles? Jackie and Shadow have gone through so much already, losing baby Brutus, selling off the naming rights to the others. It's time to take to the air and become fledglings.
Sonny 'n Gizmo at 10 Weeks, it's time to fly
Bald eaglets Sonny and Gizmo getting ready to spread wings and fly from Big Bear nest
(KCAL News) May 9, 2025: Nicole Comstock reports from Big Bear, where wildlife enthusiasts say that the bald eaglets are getting ready to spread their wings and fly from the nest for the first time.
An energetic liar can confuse, mislead, and deceive people. Yet, in many cases, that same liar is unable to reverse the deception. Hoodwinked people embrace their misperceptions.
A Con Man Named Trump
Trump's not bald...except for the toupee on top.
(Ace1000ks1975) An American Western filmed in the 1950s just coincidentally speaks of a man named "Trump" coming to town to fleece everyone of their money by scaring them that if they don't the world is going to end?
Predictive programmingis what we see in the eerily specific predictions of The Simpsons.
What can protesters do to unmask this con man?
He's going to build a "wall" to protect everyone, if they just believe and give him the money. They can't arrest him, they can't make any charge stick, he has freedom of speech to cheat people.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled,” observed Mark Twain, or at least it was attributed to him and stuck (Quote Investigator).
Awful guy, a symptom of our lying dirty politics
And the moral to the story is, “Elect a clown, expect a circus.” The disruptor, the Swamp drainer, the jailer who locks 'em up, all lies. But it isn't enough he lied before, the "town" panics and rallies to elect him again, not that we the people really elect anybody.
Ex-Pres. DJ Trump is a lying liar who lies.
Candidates are vetted and selected. He knows it and wants to be a dictator so as to not be locked up. Kamala is little better, so follow the fear. Either way, another Yalie (like Skull 'n Bones' own G.W. Bush) will be sitting in the Oval Office re-reading Hillbilly Elegy by the time they're trying to implement Project 2025.
The scenario this American Western, some 1950s' TV show drama, lays out was also explored in The Twilight Zone when a neighborhood block turns on itself because of malicious gossip and rumors. Words can be very dangerous things, and our mouths are like loaded guns. Just ask Hitler, and if he's not available, Trump can probably answer. Not that he'll tell the truth. Why start now. Why would he ever, even in court? So maybe Gene Sharp's book From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which came up as the Occupy Movement was being systematically undermined, would be good for the nation to read.
You will respect my authority or...
This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear book is a guide to overthrowing dictatorships by nonviolent means. It lists 198 specific methods to consider: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, hunger strikes... It is a remarkable work that made Sharp into the world's most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to authoritarian regimes. Or we could riot in the streets after Nov. 5th, which is exactly what they're hoping, expecting, and prepared for. More
While the Line Fire continues to burn over 28,000 acres on Monday night in the San Bernardino Mountains, the Bridge Fire has scorched more than 34,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest.
The Bridge Fire was first reported at 2:00 pm Sunday at East Fork Road near Glendora Mountain Road [in the San Gabriel Mountains].
Within a few hours, the brush fire erupted to about 800 acres, Angeles National Forest officials reported.
By Tuesday evening, CAL FIRE reported the flames had blackened more than 34,240 acres. On Sunday night, mandatory evacuation orders were issued north of [the City of] Azusa in the East Fork communities of Camp Williams Resort and the River Community. More: Bridge Fire California, Mt. Baldy, Angeles National Forest (vvdailypress.com)
We thought we knew bald-on-top Trump, but incontinent, bad breath, dentures, cocaine nose?
Don't look at my corroded face, false teeth, combover, gray roots, bald patch, cake makeup...
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Trump's drug abuse and diaper problems
(Grouchy Marx) Noel Casler is a former production assistant on shows like "The Apprentice," "Celebrity Apprentice," "Saturday Night Live," and others working with the Trump family, incestuous kingpin daughter Ivanka Trump in particular.
You smell like shit, Bitch, and you just sat down! - I'm in con, in-con, I wear adult diapers.
I personally know fecal Don Trump firsthand.
Casler witnessed firsthand many of Donald John Trump's disgusting habits behind the scenes and on the set of various TV shows Trump has been on -- regularly crapping his trousers due to the laxative effect of stimulants like cocaine and Adderall, all-junk food diet, horrific breath of arrogance from not brushing and wearing dentures, potty mouth of literal fecal breath, narcissist, rapist, Pedophile Island-visiting child abuser, sexist aggressor, utter hypocrite, Bibi-backing, Bible thumping, sociopathic liar, exaggerating, bragging, self-aggrandizing, wearing lifts, laced up girdle to hold his belly in, coating himself in foundation (tanning makeup called Bronx Concealer #5), suffering psychopathy symptoms, dementia, senility, abuse of others, engaging in chronic incestuous behavior...
gay supporter of gays (according to a grouchy Black activist), manipulated by his daughter Ivanka who uses sex not only for their documented lap dance but inside where she manipulates him and massages his, uh, ego, because Melania his trophy wife won't, pro-abortion Bible-seller, pretending to be a Christian to dupe Christian dupes, who rationalize that the Orange One must be "God's choice" for president to save the country from baby-killers like Genocidal Joe Biden and Over-the-Hillary when Trump has always been pro-abortion and a funder of Democrats who now admits aloud, a dyslexic, angry moron, NLP trickster, dishonest businessman, corrupt and nepotistic politician, litigious attorney-supporter, and loser.
A critic of senile old Biden, Trump is suffering obvious signs of early dementia, doctors say.
He smells like shit. I detest him. He gives me a billion reasons to stay, but I'll testify against him.
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I wear fake caps to cover foul rotten teeth.
These condensed, edited, and enhanced-with-photo references (with a few humorous bits) are from an incredible full interview on "The Hole Podcast - 285."
Fox News destroys narcissist liar Trump
Trump gets publicly humiliated by Fox News in his worst TV appearance of all time
(MeidasTouch) 6/20/23 Trump's interview on Fox News with interviewer Bret Baier went badly. MeidasTouch contributor "Boston Brian," who is no fan of Trump, reports.
This is my natural tan. I should know, I bought it.
A BIG thanks to Noel Casler and those at The Hole Podcast for exposing Trump and his ilk to the public. Casler has been on the forefront of those who have personally witnessed Trump up close, continues to cover Trump (and politics in general), and encourages others in the know to come forward. He appears on several shows like The Stephanie Miller Show: @politicalvoicesnetwork.
I'm a Jew like Jared 'n Ivanka, I back Bibi's Israel
Whistleblower Noel Casler has his own podcast: noelcaslercomedy. To see how Trump keeps his deceived followers mesmerized, click here:
• Trump's Hypno-hands
TBS on YouTube (Seth MacFarlane's American Dad,), March 10, 2024; Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY
Homer, rich Kurt wasn't Bean's worst parent.
Sex is too uncomfortable to talk about with my teenage son. Fortunately, some eighth graders in Beverly Hills got in trouble making porn and were unfairly made an example out of by being expelled from school, making this discussion a little easier.
Eighth grade is about 13, a year or two late for this pivotal, life-altering, father and son discussion. But the wife says I have to do it or he'll hear about it on the streets or worse, from his peers in school with their internet access, social media, iPhones, TikTok accounts, and sexting pics.
What if Patriarch Jesus got a tattoo? (Lev. 19:28)
Maybe we can just watch cartoons first and be surprised when American Dad breaks the ice by bringing up the subject first...before going too far and bringing up worse subjects in the world of today that I'll have to talk about with my daughter. No, that's her mom's job.
Wasn't Prince Siddhartha (who later became the Buddha) the worst father? - No, he was the best. - But he left. - Yes, but why did he leave? He did not leave, as many think, because he thought he would be a bad father and that he was doing his family a favor. He left to find what no one else could give them -- a solution to the problem of suffering (brought on by craving, karma, old age, and death).
Your father's back!! That's him! Go ask, Rahula.
It strikes us all, and would have included all of Prince Siddhartha's his future subjects, his parents, his children (he may have had two boys), siblings (a half-brother and sister he grew up with), two or three moms (depending how one counts), many cousins (extended family of Scythians/Shakyians), and a longsuffering dad, who did as much as a father could do.
At least that was true until the Buddha taught that there was one more thing. What more could a parent do for a child than King Suddhodana, the Buddha's father, did for Prince Siddhartha? A parent, beginning with the Buddha, could thereafter teach the child the Dharma, the Path to Freedom we now call Early Buddhism.
Anyone for whom this is news must what the Buddha did seven years after his great awakening under the bodhi tree, his first turning of the wheel of the Dharma, and his establishing of a fourfold (composed of monks, nuns, and male and female disciples) assembly called the Sangha (spiritual community) to keep the Dharma in the world as long as possible, all of which had been his goal from past lives over four aeons up until his final rebirth.
The mom, Francine, on American Dad!
The Best of Stan Smith | American Dad | TBS
"My Purity Ball..." (American Dad! S12, E10)
(TBS) March 10, 2024: U.S. father Stan Smith (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is an all-American CIA agent, husband, and dad. He can be pretty selfish, but when it comes down to it, all he wants is the best for his family: wife Francine, daughter Haley, son Steve, pet Klaus, and Roswell survivor Roger. Check out some of his best moments and comment. Watch American Dad on TBS. #AmericanDad #StanSmith #SethMacFarlane #TBS
Ancient Geographic, 8/19/23; Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
I was hiking through Europe when I was killed. I hope it wasn't my skin color. I'm Euraasian.
It was an ancient murder that took 50 centuries to solve, as an arrow and headwound took Otzi down. Whodunnit? Was it Officer Og and his, pale-skin, anti-Anatolian patrolmen?
Are Eurasian-Turks "white"? Is Turkey Europe if we induct it into the EU? This becomes important when scientific research discovers that the 5,000-year-old Iceman "Otzi" is a dark Anatolian (Asia Minor, Eastern, Turkish) man, not a blond, blue-eyed, pale skin hiker like were led to imagine.
5,000-year-old European Otzi the Iceman's DNA reveals very dark skin
It's the oldest European mummy science has, a preserved Neolithic man (militarypress.com)
X-ray of Otzi's skull looks very "white." *Irony* Skulls were used to define classify whites as supreme. Hard to believe, but see the "scientific racism" of Georges Cuvier and his peers.
Otzi's mountain man rags
(Ancient Geographic) This new scientific evidence has rocked the world of archeology and has revealed a new and completely unexpected identity for Otzi the Iceman.
The surprising discovery was made that he was darker than any other European ever found. What does this new information mean for the history of Otzi the Iceman and his European identity?
Otzi the Iceman was initially portrayed as a long-haired [white] European mountain-man [with 62 tattoos], but the examination of his DNA has yielded novel insights, challenging the prevailing scientific [racist] understanding of his ancestral lineage.
The findings of a new study add to the genetic picture of the Iceman: His genome shares an unusually high proportion of genes with those of early Anatolian (Turkish) farmers when compared to other contemporary Europeans. Contrary to previous findings, his skin pigmentation was much, much darker than expected. The Iceman is Europe's oldest natural mummy, who lived around 5,300 years ago.
The mortal remains were discovered on the border between [future fascist and Nazi] Italy and Austria, at an elevation of 3,200 meters, by hikers in the Ötztal Alps. The hikers went off the marked trail and discovered half a human body sticking out of the melting snow.
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