US heat wave: California bursts into flames

(CBS News) Severe weather across USA, heat wave: California's Summit Fire is 0% contained

• List of heat waves (Wikipedia)

Arches across the world revealed

(Project Chronos)

Pyramid theory: it was lasers

Louvre jewel heist: suspects won't talk

(WW2 Accounts) 2 suspects arrested in Louvre heist. Who are the suspects? What's known

What other treasures are housed in the Louvre?

On Oct. 19, 2025, thieves disguised as construction workers stole eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels valued at €88 million [$100-150 million U.S. dollars] from the Galerie d'Apollon (lit. "Apollo's Gallery") of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

The robbery took less than eight minutes, of which the thieves spent four inside the museum itself, and took place during regular museum hours [1][2]. It was the first art theft from the Louvre since the 1998 theft of the painting Le chemin de Sèvres [3][4].

(China Observer) Chinese female, 24, steals gold from French museum

At least they have leads. Come see me!

ARRESTS: On Oct. 25, 2025, two suspects from Seine-Saint-Denis, both around 30 years old, were arrested, one of them at Charles de Gaulle Airport as he was preparing to board a flight abroad [5][6]. Police are still looking for the others as the suspects prepare for a long interrogation [and possible torture]. More

South Park rips Trump and celebs

At least they didn't get my buddy Mr. P Diddy.

(ManBearClips) South Park: Who got it the worst? When Matt and Trey tear him a new one, is it child molester Pres. Donald John Trump bearing the brunt...or Mel Gibson (Passion of the Christ), Kanye West, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Issac Hayes (all of whom are famous Church of Scientology members known as Scientologists), Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Cesar Milan, Cartman, Jennifer Lopez, Carlos Mencia, Tiger Woods, Lorde, transsexual Bruce Caitlyn Jenner, political correctness, Prince Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle, or Lizzo?

Review of South Park's Episode 3

(Syntell) REVIEW" South Park drags Trump, tech bros, Chat GPT on Season 27 Episode 3

(Pod Save America) South Park triggers and makes MAGA mad

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Hating Trump the dumb, dumb liar (JKL)

Trump's rambling lying Meet the Press interview, trip to Paris, suspected healthcare insurance CEO killer caught for eating McD's

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Dec. 9, 2024: Clueless cops have apprehended a man in Pennsylvania named Luigi Mangione in the execution-style murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO in Manhattan, the New York Mets signed outfielder Juan Soto to a $765 million deal (far eclipsing Dodger who is regarded as the greatest baseball player ever born), President Elect Trump was in Paris making an ass of himself and the nation over the weekend for the grand re-opening of a Catholic church named the Notre Dame Cathedral (which burned years ago causing tons of inexplicable lead in its roof to melt and contaminate God's holy house of ancient ET or Mud Flood technology), he spent some time with Prince William there, Dr. Jill Biden was seated next to him as he farted and soiled his adult diapers, letting off a putrid smell as she seemed to hold her breath at the Notre Dame ceremony and he used a photo of them together as an ad for his new official fragrance line for MAGA Hicks who want to smell awful, wife Melania was busy practicing her QVC skills selling some crappy Christmas ornaments on Fox & Friends, DJ had a long and rambling interview with Kristen Welker for “Meet the Press” where they had an exchange he made uncomfortable by repeatedly lying and trying to deceive her and getting mad that she was neither deceived nor taken in by his grade school bullying, he was awarded “Honorary Patriot of the Year” this weekend on Fox News, and while all of the Trump administration’s cabinet nominees have been very unsettling, it’s also a lot of fun for kids! #Kimme

Football, DJ, GOP, Hunter B, Notre Dame

DJ hawks new skunk cologne, Gov. DeSantis eyed for defense secretary, and more anger over Hunter pardon

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Dec. 4, 2024: J had a very Hollywood Blvd. experience this morning, J and Guillermo share their “Spotify Wrapped” lists for 2024, Republicans and some Democrats are mad about Genocide Joe pardoning his son Hunter and J has had a hard time digesting some of the outrage, G-Joe took a sudden trip to Angola, Africa, after the pardon to avoid criticism and as part of a summit, DJ is hawking a new fragrance, current Fox New Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is facing difficulty after allegations of sexual misconduct and drunken behavior, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is reported to be tapped in as his even worse alternative choice, Lara Trump was dancing to gay pride "YMCA" with the president of Argentina, and a new Xmas album featuring all the fun holiday characters from the MAGA-verse. #Kimmel

DJ Trump heading to Notre Dame in Paris, GOP's pretend outrage over pardoned criminal Hunter (from the Biden Crime Family), California DJ proofs

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Dec. 3, 2024: Today is #GivingTuesday when Americans are encouraged to give back, Jameis Winston of the Cleveland Browns decided to have some fun on Monday Night Football and gave an unusual post-game pep talk, Advent Calendars have really (d)evolved over the years, the deadly McRib is coming back, DJ is heading to France this weekend to witness the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Republicans are exploding with pretend outrage after corrupt G-Joe pardoned his criminal, tax cheat, drug addict son Hunter, bears are stealing things from cars in Lake Tahoe, and as California Governor Gavin "The Gavinator" Newsom plans to “Trump proof” the state so JKL sent our Josh Meyers to LA's iconic Farmers Market to share his fake plans with real Californians. #Kimmel

SUTRA: The Danger of Waves (AN 4.122)

Danger? Olympic surfing in Surf City USA (Huntington Beach, OC) (NBC Olympics)

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  Surf the Seine River by the Eiffel Tower, Paris

  Surfers, is there any greater danger than waves? Yes, according to the Buddha, there are crocs, whirlpools, and sharks, too. He recognized these dangers as symbolic for a monastic, a Buddhist monk or nun who leaves the low life of the ordinary uninstructed worldling for the high life of the path and precepts, wandering asceticism he used in his awakening to the complete freedom of nirvana. There are dangers to anyone who would escape the simulation, this samsara, the Wheel of Life, Death, and thus far unbounded suffering.
• Olympic Surfing: Paris 2024 event guide, athletes, how to watch, daily schedule | NBC Olympics

Numerical Discourses (AN 4.122, 13. Fears), "The Danger of Waves")

ALERT: Big surf good, tsunami bad (Japan).

“Meditators, anyone who enters the water should anticipate [these] four dangers. What are the four? The dangers of waves, crocodiles, whirlpools, and sharks.

“These are the four dangers that anyone who enters the water should anticipate.

“In the same way, a person gone forth from the lay life to the left home life in this teaching and training (Dhamma-Vinaya) should anticipate four dangers. What are the four? The dangers of waves, crocodiles, whirlpools, and sharks.

What leviathans or nagas roam the seas?

“What, meditators, is the danger of waves? It is when a person has gone forth out of confidence [saddha, faith in the enlightenment of the Buddha, the enlightening power of the Dharma, and the enlightenment of disciples in the Noble Sangha] from the lay life to the left home life, thinking:

“‘I’m swamped [flooded, overtaken, overwhelmed] by rebirth, old age, and death, by sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. I am swamped by disappointment [dukkha, unsatisfactoriness, ill, woe, suffering, mired in it].

“I hope I can find an [escape, a way out, an] end to this entire mass of suffering.’

The waves inside our heads: tsunamis

“When such a person has gone forth, one’s spiritual companions advise and instruct one: ‘Go out like this, and come back like that. Look ahead like this, and to the side like that. Contract the limbs like this, and extend them like that. This is how to wear the cloak, alms bowl, and monastic robes.’

“Such a person thinks, ‘Formerly, as a lay person, I advised and instructed others. Now these monastics — who I might think were my own children or grandchildren — imagine they can advise and instruct me!’ Angry and upset, one quits the training and returns to the lower life [of a layperson]. This is called a monastic who rejects the training and returns to a lesser life for fear of the danger of waves. ‘Danger of waves’ is a term for anger and distress. This is called the danger of waves.

Crocodilian gharials with gaping mouths await.

“What, meditators, is the danger of crocodiles? It is when a person has gone forth out of confidence from the lay life to the left home life… When one has gone forth, that person’s spiritual companions advise and instruct: ‘Eat, consume, drink, and taste these things, but not those. Eat what is allowable, but not what is disallowed. Eat at the right time [between dawn and noon], but not at the wrong time.’

“One thinks, ‘Formerly, as a layperson, I used to eat, consume, drink, and taste what I wanted, not what I did not want. I ate and drank both allowable and disallowed things, at the right time and the wrong time. These faithful householders give me delicious fresh and cooked food at the wrong time of day. But these other monastics imagine they can gag my mouth!’ Angry and upset, one quits the training and returns to the lower life. This is called a monastic who rejects the training and returns to a lower life for fear of the danger of crocodiles. ‘Danger of crocodiles’ is a term for gluttony. This is called the danger of crocodiles.

Who fear the reptilian dragon crocs? 15 terrifying creatures still roaming the sea

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Be careful or be sucked in insidiously.

“What, meditators, is the danger of whirlpools? It is when a person has gone forth out of confidence from the lay life to the left home life… When one has gone forth, one puts on robes in the morning and, taking alms bowl and cloak, enters a village or town for alms without guarding body, speech, and mind, without first establishing mindfulness, without restraining the sense faculties.

“There one sees householders or children amusing themselves, supplied and provided with the five kinds of sense strands of pleasure. One thinks, ‘Formerly, as a layperson, I amused myself, supplied and provided with the five sense strands of pleasure. And it is true that my family is wealthy. I can both enjoy my wealth and make merit. Why do I not quit the training and return to the lower life so I can enjoy my wealth and make merit?’

“One quits the training and returns to the lower life. This is called a monastic who rejects the training and returns to the lower life for fear of the danger of whirlpools. ‘Danger of whirlpools’ is a term for the five sense strands of pleasure. This is called the danger of whirlpools.

Sharks represent the sex we find attractive.

“What, meditators, is the danger of sharks? It is when a person has gone forth out of confidence from the lay life to the left-home life…

“When one has gone forth, one puts on robes in the morning and, taking alms bowl and cloak, enters a village or town for alms without guarding body, speech, and mind, without establishing mindfulness, and without restraining the sense faculties.

Get back! Get away! I'm leading a pure life!

“There one sees a female scantily clad, with revealing clothes. Lust infects his mind, so he quits the training and returns to the lower life. This is called a monastic who rejects the training and returns to a lower life because one is afraid of the danger of sharks. ‘Danger of sharks’ is a term for [objects of lust, whether females or males, from the point of view of monks and nuns]. This is called the danger of sharks.

“These are the four dangers that a person gone forth from the lay life to the left home life in this teaching and training (Doctrine and Discipline) should anticipate.”

• Bhikkhu Sujato (trans.), AN 4.122: Ūmibhaya Sutta—"The Danger of Waves" (suttacentral.net) edited by Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Sports War: Olympics finally end (TDS)

Sports War: Ronny & Kosta on medaling with Covid and the B-Girl who broke breaking

(The Daily Show) Aug. 14, 2024: On an Olympics edition of Sports War — the show where the hosts are legally not allowed to agree with each other — Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta recap the biggest stories from the 2024 Paris Games, including Lebron James’s flex against France, Noah Lyles's attempt to outrun Covid, and why Australian breaker Raygun is sure to be this year’s hottest Halloween costume. #DailyShow #Olympics #Breakdancing #LebronJames

French pole vaulter gets porn offer

Hun, we don't need any more vases.

The Olympics are a nasty business, even back in ancient Greek days. The Greeks came up with the gymnasium, from gymnos or "nude," a nasium (training facility) for nudity, where older married men went to:

• ogle younger single men,
• form gay relationships with them involving pederasty,
• stand around naked in front of each other while oiling their bodies,
• training or socializing, pursuing intellectual and physical hobbies,
• getting rub downs, showing off wealth and status, and what not.

Bi Greek bearded man kisses boy (Louvre)

We really just watch to see cute athletes in leotards and form fitting bikinis, tights, and swimsuits jumping around, trying to make their country proud. China was No. 1 in Paris, but no American could say so. Patriotism depends on blind devotion. And the Chinese may have been cheating by juicing with steroids, rumor has it.

The original Olympics Games were, it is said, played in birthday suits -- naked, nude, without clothes. No females got to play, and they probably weren't allowed in the audience either. One is reminded of the gay hit song It was a Greek gay fest.

What went wrong?

Does no one think it ironic that he has a wrap-around snake tattoo on his bicep?

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(Page Six) French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati speaks out after his "bulge" (schwanz, wang chung, full monty, johnson, package) cost him an Olympic medal. Losing due to his clumsy knee and slo-mo "boing" has gotten him an offer from an adult website.

If you don't reign it in, that snake will ruin you.

Aug. 6, 2024 (12:05 pm) "When one door closes, another one opens," it is said. Ammirati was left disappointed after his “big” slug, shlomo, shank, pocket pool stick cost him an Olympic medal.

The French pole vaulter went viral losing over the weekend after failing to clear the bar because his knees and crotch got in the way — eliminating him from competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Take the money and run [all the way to Bhutan]?

However, the unfortunate circumstance may have opened up other opportunities for Mr. A. as he was offered a quarter of a million dollars ($250K) to show off his manhood for 60 minutes.

Watch to learn more about the possible light at the end of the tunnel of the one-eyed train headed this way. Subscribe for the latest on favorite stars and celebrities: French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati speaks out after his bulge cost him a medal, gets offer from adult website (pagesix.com)

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Olympics' BDE, RFK Jr. kills and eats meat

RFK Jr.’s dead bear cub story and highlights from 2024 Olympics | The Daily Show

RFK Jr. as crazy as Dr. Faustian Fauci?

(The Daily Show) Aug. 5, 2024: Michael Kosta covers all things Olympics, including an American runner who won by a hair, a pole vaulter with interfering genitalia, and an Algerian boxer whose womanhood is challenged. As the election grows closer, RFK Jr.’s bear carcass dump has him securing his place as the weirdest candidate, and Desi Lydic reveals other confessions we can expect from him. #DailyShow #Olympics #RFKJr #Trump

Well, so much for a viable 3rd party any time soon

Golden Simone Biles does it again!

The hardworking gymnasts of Team USA, Paris Olympics 2024 (msn.com)

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Simone Biles Owens is in danger of draining world gold supplies to make her more medals as she takes gold again today in overall performance. What must MyKayla Skinner be thinking? Biles Owens is not the only one making a spectacular showing at the Paris Olympics, but she is the most decorated gymnast ever. At 27, she is about to retire and seems to be ensuring that no one will surpass her anytime soon.

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• Simone Biles and husband Jonathan Owens full relationship timeline (Brit + Co)
• Katie Ledecky wins 13th medal, most ever for female Olympian in history

Girlfight: Mykala Skinner vs. Simone Biles

Olympians Simone Biles and MyKayla Skinner's drama explained (people.com)

Simone Biles says she was BLOCKED by former teammate MyKayla Skinner | 2024 Olympics | E! News

(E! News) July 31, 2024: Simone Biles reveals she has seemingly been blocked by former teammate MyKayla Skinner amid Team USA’s Olympic victory. The retired gymnast previously apologized for comments she made about U.S. gymnast’s work ethic. Full story: eonline.com/videos/235984... #simonebiles #teamusa #enews

• Simone Biles and MyKayla Skinner's drama explained (people.com)

MyKayla Skinner, not to be confused with nose twitching McKayla Maroney, is very jealous of the great gold medalist and most winningest Simone Arianne Biles Owens and her Team USA teammates. Or so it seems from recent posts.

(AP) Olympic medal-winning gymnast MyKayla Skinner Harmer is drawing criticism for a since-deleted YouTube video in which she said the U.S. Center for SafeSport is making it difficult for coaches to do their job.

Skinner, who won silver on vault at the Tokyo Olympics, said coaches “can’t get on athletes” out of fear of being reported to SafeSport, an independent entity that handles allegations of abuse from various governing bodies across the U.S. Olympic movement.

“[Coaches] have to be really careful about what they say, which in some ways is really good, but at the same time, to get where you need to be in gymnastics, you have to be…a little aggressive and a little intense,” Skinner said.

The 27-year-old Skinner, who retired after Tokyo, seemed to draw a direct line between the lack of structured coaching and most of the five-woman team [Team USA] that will represent the U.S. at the Paris Olympics. [That's stepping on Simone Biles Owens, 27.] Former Olympic gymnast MyKayla Skinner draws criticism (AP News)

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Greatest American for a day: Simone Biles

Team USA raises the American flag after winning gold with Simone Biles Owens in the center

Back, long ago, before Paris, Team USA succeeded. And now Simone Biles wins gold (CNN).

Team USA's Jade Carey (left), Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, and Simone Biles celebrate after winning gold during the gymnastics team final at Bercy Arena on Tuesday in Paris (Wally Skalij/LA Times).

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Look, Everybody, I can fly! Gymnast Biles in air

(LA Times) Fans at Bercy Arena wore white T-shirts with the Olympic rings printed across the front. Each ring featured a photo of a U.S. gymnast inside. Underneath, there was a single word: “Redemption.”

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This felt like more. It was relief. It was a release. It was gold. The four members of the Olympic team who remembered their Tokyo disappointments rewrote their narratives by leading the United States of America back to gold with a dominant wire-to-wire performance in the team final on Tuesday.

Finishing with an untouchable 171.296 score, the north Americans ran across the floor after Simone Biles clinched the victory on floor, raising the U.S. flag to all sides of the arena and posing for photos.

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Three years after withdrawing in the Olympic final because of "mental health" concerns, Biles blew a kiss to the crowd as she saluted the judges after her floor routine. More:

• Simone Biles leads dominant U.S. to gold in Olympic gymnastics team competition

Watch her on NBC Sports (Peacock)

I don't like this slave Jesse Owens fellow.

Her name is Simone [Aryan] Biles OWENS? And no one has noticed the similarity to that other great Olympian, Jesse Owens? He humiliated Hitler, Nazi officials, and white supremacists everywhere as a Black American beating the "master" race and others while Adolf and colleagues sat in the stands having to explain it to themselves. That was the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Blacks are better at sports? Diverse Americans are better than monochromatic Germans?

Ha, ha, Hitler! Eat this flag. This one's for Jesse Owens, furor! Go, Team USA, go!

Simone Biles is greatest; where's McKayla?

• Exclusively on NBC Sports, home of the Paris Olympics
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Today (July 28, 2024) Simone Biles showed the world what she is capable of at the Paris Olympics.

Simone Biles just did a new routine. No one has ever seen anything like it

(Gymnastics Rewind) June 16, 2024: UNITED STATES. Simone Biles sells merch: 🇺🇸 Simone Biles Flag: https://amzn.to/3wzCiUR 🤸 Air Tumbling Mat:  https://amzn.to/4axBptH 📚 Simone Biles: Inspirational Biographies:  https://amzn.to/3wVihrE 🥋 Gymnastics Leotard:   https://amzn.to/4bNaJ9j 🎒 Simone Biles Grip Bag:  https://amzn.to/4bQX01r.

Simone Biles shows greatness and grit on floor, vault in qualification | Paris Olympics

(NBC Sports) July 28, 2024: Simone Biles pushed through calf pain [brought about by an injury from over-exerting herself during the warmup] during the qualification round in Paris, helping lead the U.S. team to the top of the leaderboard after subdivision two. #NBCSports #Olympics #Paris2024. Live Olympic coverage on NBCOlympics.com: nbcolympics.com/schedule Watch the Paris Olympics on Peacock: smart.link/fs2ge7i8m3qlv.

McKayla who? Whatever happened to?

(Grunge) June 16, 2024: Here's the tragedy of McKayla Maroney (one of the great Olympians of the past who used to compete against superstar Simone Biles) explained. Gymnast McKayla Maroney helped the U.S. win multiple medals in the Olympics, but behind the glory lurked some devastating circumstances and official sexual abuse. Here's a look into the sometimes tragic world of the former Olympic champion. #Gymnast #Tragedy #Explained. Read full article: bit.ly/45rzANU

• All the injuries | 0:00
• Sexual abuse | 1:48
• Nude photos | 3:32
• Her father's death | 4:48
• Retirement‌ | 5:58

Does the world remember sassy, snotty McKayla Maroney?