Thanks Neo. Very interesting. There is a lot of good in AI.
Trump saying he will not invade Greenland, want negotiations.
I have no idea why we would suppose that what we read in the media about Greenland has any relation to what is actually going on with Greenland.
Trump is not a dictator. The people who work for the executive branch only barely follow his directives. Hundreds of people are working on these negotiations, and it’s not because Trump had a brainwave about Greenland and they all follow him like robots.
I see this morning that Trump has ‘clarified’ his stance on Greenland.
I am sure that he is following a strategy that is much too sophisticated for me, or most of the world, to understand; but I wish he would control his rhetoric. To the unsophisticated, he sounds delusional.
On the bright side, my modest investment portfolio is up on 1/21, so either the market understands his rhetoric; or ignores it.
I don’t trust AI. I really believe that a lot of it is smoke and mirrors. Again, it may be lack of sophistication on my part; but I did have an advanced degree in computer ‘stuff’ about 50 years back.
Who was thinking about Greenland before Trump raised the topic? Kudos to him for this, besides all the other good he has done and is trying to do!
@Selfy:Who was thinking about Greenland before Trump raised the topic?
This is exactly what I’m talking about. Lots of things are going on all the time that don’t get into the national conversation. That Greenland is in the popular consciousness relatively recently doesn’t mean that nothing important was going on with it before it did. And Trump doesn’t tweet all he knows or does.
Scott Johnson of powerline blog has gone silent about his grandstanding buddy forner US attorney Joe Thompson. Thompson is not looking good after refusing to investigate the attempted murderer Doreen Good. Good riddance of Thompson.
“Following the anti-Trump resistance fashion of resigning from the Department of Justice as a sign of protest against their higher-ups and the president, six prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota quit earlier this week rather than pursue an inquiry into the woman described as the “widow” of Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist shot and killed on January 7.
One of the departing lawyers, Joseph Thompson, had led the office’s multi-billion dollar fraud investigation into several Medicaid-funded organizations in Minnesota. But he left his post on Tuesday—not before allowing a New York Times photographer into his government office for a photo shoot, it appears—rather than follow orders to do his job. “Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Good,” the Times reported on Jan. 13. “Mr. Thompson, 47, a career prosecutor, objected to that approach, as well as to the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful.”
I was reading some of yesterday’s discussion about Pam Bondi. I second those who point out that the process takes time. I see this over in the comment section of Fox News , also, like people think this stuff just should happen instantly. Also in the the Fox News comments there are people who think there should never be plea bargains in criminal trials. While I realize there are ridiculously lenient plea bargains being made part of the time , I also realize there are limited courts to take everything to trial. Probably a lot of the people complaining about plea bargaining also complain about jury duty . Or just use their age to opt out.
Who was thinking about Greenland before Trump raised the topic?
Selfy:
That’s what I thought too. However, with a bit of research I see we’ve been working on Greenland since 1867.
Secretary of State, William Seward, who had successfully managed to buy Alaska from Russia came close:
____________________________
In 1868, negotiations by the secretary [Seward] for purchasing both Greenland and Iceland from Denmark for $5.5 million in gold were reportedly “nearly complete.”
Ah, the Louisiana Purchase, the Alaska Purchase (AKA Seward’s Folly) …
Good times!
“Party like is is 1773!”
Palin said that, and was then mocked for not knowing that everything actually happened in 1776.
The Brits took over Greenland in WW2 because Denmark tried to stay neutral. Later Canadian and American forces occupied it.
it does, of course the swamp and the possums collaborate with each other in preventing indictments from coming to fruition, most recently lindsey halligan, and her work in going after leticia james and comey, (funny how that works) note how sievert, who had conflicts of interests with comey, refused to indict as well
the mutineers like walz, flanigan and frey, are of course not going to cooperate,
its a fascinating thing, how greenland is the path of at least half of the Russian missile bases, targeted at DC, at least in the old maps
what we xould ascertain from the poorly conceived ken burns production is it was not inevitable that the Revolution would happen if nor for the mAssacre and the stamp act,, which necessitate the tea oarty, and finally lexington and concord,
Surprise, surprise. Not. Trump makes progress on the Greenland question, scraps European tariffs.
For all the hype about AI, we are light-years away from being able to provide the necessary electrical power at the levels needed. That’s why the sudden silence on the climate change front. The same people pushing that want AI, so the climate scam has to take a back seat. Personally, I think we are at least a decade from having anything approaching a true artificial intelligence worth the name. As long as AI uses social media as its teacher, it will be full of false, misleading or outright lying information.
Read Rick Atkinson’s The British are coming American Revolutionary War 1775-1777 and now his The Fate of the Day 1778-1780. Didn’t go near Ken Burns diatribe of Culture Marxism without a word of why the War was fought.
Little video was neat to see.
ANOTHER Vitamin D benefit – – it helps prevent you from getting colds and flu!! Re-Post
But we all had to know this—it’s their MO! It’s in their DNA:
TRANS BABY, TRANS!!
(as in TRANSformation).
OTOH, why so many pediatricians felt they had to jump aboard this moral/ethical train wreck is another (HUGE) question…
**Jes’ jokin’. With the Democrats, it’s NEVER reasonable to think it might be safe to dip yer toe in the water….
I’ve commented here before about how, when people embezzle relatively small, or even large sums of money–thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or more–they are caught, convicted, and sentenced, and part of their sentence is to pay some or all of that money back–from what I can see, quite often that money just never gets paid back.
The court makes the ruling, but you never see reporting about courts following up to see that the restitution is paid, or about how the court has punished those who don’t pay such restitution.
The perps supposedly have no assets (or if they do, the smarter criminals have squirreled a lot of the money they stole away somewhere), they sometimes deliberately take such a low paying job that it’s impossible to pay any real restitution, they can’t or won’t get a job to pay back money over time, or they just flat out refuse to pay anything.
Here is a report about a man whose Ponzi scheme resulted in him scamming investors out of $380 million dollars, which he spent on luxury real estate, cars, chartering private jets, and on high living.*
Do you think that the authorities can “claw back” even a small portion of that money, or that even a fraction of that money will be ever be paid back to these investors?
P.S. For instance, I’ve read about how the DEA confiscates the high powered cigarette boats of drug smugglers (those that we don’t blow up) and then sells these often pretty beat up items at government auctions, or uses such government auctions to sell the (also often beat up) real estate, cars, artwork, and jewelry they ‘ve confiscated from various criminals.
But, I’m under the impression that the authorities get only a small percentage of the real worth of these items from these auctions.
If the crime was something like embezzlement, I wonder, does any of that recovered money ever find it’s way back to the victims?
Think about it.
Say the perp buys a Rolls Royce, that you can seize.
But, if he rents one for a Grand Tour of Europe, you aren’t going to be able to claw back all the stolen money he paid out for the rental, fuel, parking, etc.
If he buys a jet plane you can seize it, but if he just rents one, that money’s gone.
If he buys a Rolex Daytona, if you can find it, you can confiscate it.
But, are you going to be able to claw back all the money he might have spent during that Grand Tour on the finest hotels, entertainment, meals, and very expensive wine, illegal drugs, and perhaps on high end female “companionship” during that grand tour?
No.
Say, he also hires a couple of guys for “security.” You can’t claw back their salaries and expenses.
So, if a lot of that stolen money was spent not on physical objects, but on “intangibles,” the money spent on services and intangibles is just gone, and I’d assume unrecoverable.
Thanks Neo. Very interesting. There is a lot of good in AI.
Trump saying he will not invade Greenland, want negotiations.
I have no idea why we would suppose that what we read in the media about Greenland has any relation to what is actually going on with Greenland.
Trump is not a dictator. The people who work for the executive branch only barely follow his directives. Hundreds of people are working on these negotiations, and it’s not because Trump had a brainwave about Greenland and they all follow him like robots.
I see this morning that Trump has ‘clarified’ his stance on Greenland.
I am sure that he is following a strategy that is much too sophisticated for me, or most of the world, to understand; but I wish he would control his rhetoric. To the unsophisticated, he sounds delusional.
On the bright side, my modest investment portfolio is up on 1/21, so either the market understands his rhetoric; or ignores it.
I don’t trust AI. I really believe that a lot of it is smoke and mirrors. Again, it may be lack of sophistication on my part; but I did have an advanced degree in computer ‘stuff’ about 50 years back.
Who was thinking about Greenland before Trump raised the topic? Kudos to him for this, besides all the other good he has done and is trying to do!
@Selfy:Who was thinking about Greenland before Trump raised the topic?
This is exactly what I’m talking about. Lots of things are going on all the time that don’t get into the national conversation. That Greenland is in the popular consciousness relatively recently doesn’t mean that nothing important was going on with it before it did. And Trump doesn’t tweet all he knows or does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BlkTSKqE_8
De Tocqueville take note: Democracy still be vibrant in America…
https://nypost.com/2026/01/21/us-news/wild-video-shows-dem-lawmakers-fighting-after-town-hall-meeting/
Scott Johnson of powerline blog has gone silent about his grandstanding buddy forner US attorney Joe Thompson. Thompson is not looking good after refusing to investigate the attempted murderer Doreen Good. Good riddance of Thompson.
“Following the anti-Trump resistance fashion of resigning from the Department of Justice as a sign of protest against their higher-ups and the president, six prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota quit earlier this week rather than pursue an inquiry into the woman described as the “widow” of Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist shot and killed on January 7.
One of the departing lawyers, Joseph Thompson, had led the office’s multi-billion dollar fraud investigation into several Medicaid-funded organizations in Minnesota. But he left his post on Tuesday—not before allowing a New York Times photographer into his government office for a photo shoot, it appears—rather than follow orders to do his job. “Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Good,” the Times reported on Jan. 13. “Mr. Thompson, 47, a career prosecutor, objected to that approach, as well as to the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful.”
https://www.declassified.live/p/becca-and-renee-good-were-not-married?triedRedirect=true
I was reading some of yesterday’s discussion about Pam Bondi. I second those who point out that the process takes time. I see this over in the comment section of Fox News , also, like people think this stuff just should happen instantly. Also in the the Fox News comments there are people who think there should never be plea bargains in criminal trials. While I realize there are ridiculously lenient plea bargains being made part of the time , I also realize there are limited courts to take everything to trial. Probably a lot of the people complaining about plea bargaining also complain about jury duty . Or just use their age to opt out.
Who was thinking about Greenland before Trump raised the topic?
Selfy:
That’s what I thought too. However, with a bit of research I see we’ve been working on Greenland since 1867.
Secretary of State, William Seward, who had successfully managed to buy Alaska from Russia came close:
____________________________
In 1868, negotiations by the secretary [Seward] for purchasing both Greenland and Iceland from Denmark for $5.5 million in gold were reportedly “nearly complete.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_acquisition_of_Greenland#1867_proposal
____________________________
Ah, the Louisiana Purchase, the Alaska Purchase (AKA Seward’s Folly) …
Good times!
“Party like is is 1773!”
Palin said that, and was then mocked for not knowing that everything actually happened in 1776.
The Brits took over Greenland in WW2 because Denmark tried to stay neutral. Later Canadian and American forces occupied it.
it does, of course the swamp and the possums collaborate with each other in preventing indictments from coming to fruition, most recently lindsey halligan, and her work in going after leticia james and comey, (funny how that works) note how sievert, who had conflicts of interests with comey, refused to indict as well
the mutineers like walz, flanigan and frey, are of course not going to cooperate,
its a fascinating thing, how greenland is the path of at least half of the Russian missile bases, targeted at DC, at least in the old maps
what we xould ascertain from the poorly conceived ken burns production is it was not inevitable that the Revolution would happen if nor for the mAssacre and the stamp act,, which necessitate the tea oarty, and finally lexington and concord,
Surprise, surprise. Not. Trump makes progress on the Greenland question, scraps European tariffs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15485717/Trump-halts-tariffs-Greenland.html
For all the hype about AI, we are light-years away from being able to provide the necessary electrical power at the levels needed. That’s why the sudden silence on the climate change front. The same people pushing that want AI, so the climate scam has to take a back seat. Personally, I think we are at least a decade from having anything approaching a true artificial intelligence worth the name. As long as AI uses social media as its teacher, it will be full of false, misleading or outright lying information.
Read Rick Atkinson’s The British are coming American Revolutionary War 1775-1777 and now his The Fate of the Day 1778-1780. Didn’t go near Ken Burns diatribe of Culture Marxism without a word of why the War was fought.
Little video was neat to see.
ANOTHER Vitamin D benefit – – it helps prevent you from getting colds and flu!! Re-Post
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/01/another-vitamin-d-benefit-it-helps.html
And just when one thought it might be safe to dip one’s toe in the water…ANOTHER—never-ending—Democratic Party grift**:
“Fraud Is ‘Fundamental’ Part Of Child Transgender Medical Field”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fraud-fundamental-part-child-transgender-medical-field
But we all had to know this—it’s their MO! It’s in their DNA:
TRANS BABY, TRANS!!
(as in TRANSformation).
OTOH, why so many pediatricians felt they had to jump aboard this moral/ethical train wreck is another (HUGE) question…
**Jes’ jokin’. With the Democrats, it’s NEVER reasonable to think it might be safe to dip yer toe in the water….
I’ve commented here before about how, when people embezzle relatively small, or even large sums of money–thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or more–they are caught, convicted, and sentenced, and part of their sentence is to pay some or all of that money back–from what I can see, quite often that money just never gets paid back.
The court makes the ruling, but you never see reporting about courts following up to see that the restitution is paid, or about how the court has punished those who don’t pay such restitution.
The perps supposedly have no assets (or if they do, the smarter criminals have squirreled a lot of the money they stole away somewhere), they sometimes deliberately take such a low paying job that it’s impossible to pay any real restitution, they can’t or won’t get a job to pay back money over time, or they just flat out refuse to pay anything.
Here is a report about a man whose Ponzi scheme resulted in him scamming investors out of $380 million dollars, which he spent on luxury real estate, cars, chartering private jets, and on high living.*
Do you think that the authorities can “claw back” even a small portion of that money, or that even a fraction of that money will be ever be paid back to these investors?
I don’t.
* See https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/us-news/florida-financial-advisor-todd-burkhalter-pleads-guilty-to-380m-ponzi-scheme-in-georgia-largest-scheme/
P.S. For instance, I’ve read about how the DEA confiscates the high powered cigarette boats of drug smugglers (those that we don’t blow up) and then sells these often pretty beat up items at government auctions, or uses such government auctions to sell the (also often beat up) real estate, cars, artwork, and jewelry they ‘ve confiscated from various criminals.
But, I’m under the impression that the authorities get only a small percentage of the real worth of these items from these auctions.
If the crime was something like embezzlement, I wonder, does any of that recovered money ever find it’s way back to the victims?
Think about it.
Say the perp buys a Rolls Royce, that you can seize.
But, if he rents one for a Grand Tour of Europe, you aren’t going to be able to claw back all the stolen money he paid out for the rental, fuel, parking, etc.
If he buys a jet plane you can seize it, but if he just rents one, that money’s gone.
If he buys a Rolex Daytona, if you can find it, you can confiscate it.
But, are you going to be able to claw back all the money he might have spent during that Grand Tour on the finest hotels, entertainment, meals, and very expensive wine, illegal drugs, and perhaps on high end female “companionship” during that grand tour?
No.
Say, he also hires a couple of guys for “security.” You can’t claw back their salaries and expenses.
So, if a lot of that stolen money was spent not on physical objects, but on “intangibles,” the money spent on services and intangibles is just gone, and I’d assume unrecoverable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3XIt5GpXM