That was charming. Esp. the ostriches nodding to the music.
Thank you very much.
Also Queen’s Brian May earned his Phd in Astrophysics, although he never left Queen.
Jason Everman has definetly lead a crazy life, he was briefly in both Nirvana (before they were big) as well as briefly playing bass in Soundgarden, then decides to becomes an Army Ranger seeing combat in Iraq and Afganistan.
That video is fun, but not necessarily factual. Norman Rogers (“Terminator X”) briefly ran an emu (not ostrich) farm years ago, but went back to his career as a hip-hop DJ.
Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter, original member of Steely Dan and often with the Doobie Brothers and Spirit, among other bands, became a consultant on strategic defense and helped start the initiative to develop ship-based theatre ballistic missile defense.
Barry “The Fish” Melton played guitar for Country Joe and the Fish.
In the late seventies he took a correspondence course in law. He passed the California state bar in 1982 and has had a criminal defense practice since then. He has held various public defender positions in California.
It must be rare to pass the bar without a real law degree.
Fun video. My favorite local band has a lead guitarist who still flies corporate jets as his day job.
I heard about Skunk Baxter long ago. A classic wild story of this sort.
I believe the keyboard player for No Doubt left the band when they were still just some local band, to find employ as a graphic designer. He’s the brother of Gwen Stefani. Some people said he was rather mortified when the band later hit it big, though that may have been just a presumption.
Short account of the fall of Christian Constantinople to the Muslims – the anniversary is tomorrow. Seems the Emperor thought that maybe they were being judged by God for their sins. Such a historic point in history. Many of the nuts running the US school system would rather waste time propagandizing kids into transgenderism and anti white thought processes than to teach history.
@Jon Baker:Short account of the fall of Christian Constantinople to the Muslims
It was the end point of a long process of decline; the primary damage had been done by the Crusaders and Venetians in 1204, who established a Latin Empire on its ruins. One of the Byzantine successor states reconquered it in 1267 but it was never the same after that, and by the time the Ottomans got it they were practically down to the city walls and had been a puppet state and tributary to them for a long time.
Incidentally the Ottoman sultans took the title “Caesar of Rome”. From their perspective, the Roman Empire had changed rulers, language, and religion a second time.
I designated UNRWA as a foreign terrorist organization a long time ago.
The fourth crusade was a self inflicted wound that would seem to be gibbons verdict
I caught a few glimpses of video of Trump in a cabinet meeting today. Pete Hegseth looked quite sullen and chastened to me. Had he been dressed down by Trump(?), was my thought.
Newscum says bill of attainder and excessive fines to take 100% of weaponization payouts from cali victims. What a lawless tool.
Also, how on earth did an employee at the CIA get hired with falsified credentials and then end up getting $40 million in gold bars issued as “work-related expenses?”
Looks like the Iranians put out another smoke screen about a possible agreement. Treasury Secretary Bessent conducted the While House press briefing today and was non- committal about it. Like many here, I think that any deal that does not include the Iranians turning over their pile of enriched uranium is a mistake.
The never ending story….98% deal, no deal, some exchange of fire; rinse, repeat. Very tiresome.
Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor, died a hero’s death. Just before the Turks’ final assault the famous elite contingent of Genoese crossbowmen, who had fought valoriously for the emperor throughout the siege, but had determined to escape the doomed city while they still could, offered Constantine a place on one of their ships and asylum in Genoa. The emperor refused their offer, saying that he would fight to the death with his people, on the now-broken walls of his once-fair city. When it was apparent that all was lost, and hordes of Turks were pouring over battlements, he cast aside his imperial regalia and charge into the thick of the fighting, never to be seen again. After the battle ended the Turks tried to find and identify his body, but could not. The valiant emperor had disappeared into history.
In the aftermath of the battle the Turkish sultan, Mehmed II — only 22 years old and a vicious pederast — loosed his troops on the city in an orgy of rapine, violence, and destruction. One of the captured Byzantine nobles was brought with his young son before the sultan, who was then seated on a temporary throne that had been set up for just this purpose. The sultan offered to spare their lives if they publicly converted to Islam. The father and his son refused to convert, and were executed forthwith — although it is said that Mehmed raped the boy before having him beheaded. This may indeed have happened. Mehmed was well known for his penchant for having sex with you boys..
It is the descendants of Mehmed and his people who have defiled, and continue to defile one of the holiest and most beautiful churches in all Christendom by using it as a mosque.
@physicsguy: The never ending story….98% deal, no deal, some exchange of fire; rinse, repeat. Very tiresome.
I confess I’m getting impatient too. Especially because the current negotiation is about the Memorandum of Understanding, which is only a prelude to the “real” negotiations, thus eating another sixty days.
All we hear from Trump is DealSpeak, which may be effective, but I don’t find informative.
Trump had better know what he is doing. Maybe he’s got it worked out that Iran collapses economically real soon. Still, it seems he is cutting it pretty close. He may say he doesn’t care about the midterms, but a lot of Americans care more about the economy than Iran.
The CEO of Exxon today claimed that there are about 3 to 4 weeks of crude oil inventory left, an all time, or long time low. He said that when we run out of that (he didn’t say if, though that could be an oversight) fuel prices will really go up.
I imagine that prices will have to be high enough for some serious demand destruction, to match consumption to whatever the continuing supply is.
Kate
Also, how on earth did an employee at the CIA get hired with falsified credentials and then end up getting $40 million in gold bars issued as “work-related expenses?”
Just following the Company’s Standard Operating Procedures Manual. You know, the same procedures that got John Brennan hired after he admitted in his job interview that in 1976 he cast his vote for President for the CPUSA’s Gus Hall.
(One irony about Brennan’s 1976 vote is that at the time, the CPUSA’s bagman for bringing back Moscow gold was Morris Childs, who was working for the FBI. See John Barron’s Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin. Morris Childs performed his duties as the FBI/CPUSA bagman for over two decades.)
If J. Edgar only knew!
Kate,
That is a puzzle, the CIA is famous for no enrichment unless you know someone
Kate,
That is a puzzle, the CIA is famous for no enrichment unless you know someone!
I wonder if any of them did rock for the.money to finance what they really wanted to do!
Very interesting video, the morphing from the early (I suppose real) videos of the musicians to the later (also real?) depictions in their new careers is very well done.
In re the CIA con man, who was arrested by the FBI — I guess their honeymoon from RussiaGate is over.
Jeff Childers has a hilarious write-up of the farcical scandal.
I promise I am not making this next story up. Yesterday, the New York Times ran a Bablyon Bee-style headline: “F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home.”
Actually, I wish I were making this up, because if I had the kind of imagination required to invent this story, I would not be lawyering for a living. I would be a Senior Executive Service-level official at the Central Intelligence Agency, which is apparently a job where you can walk up to the supply room and ask for forty million dollars in solid gold bars for “work-related expenses,” and the supply clerk will just hand them to you, possibly along with a complimentary box of diamond-crusted paperclips from Saddam Hussein’s palace.
RTWT, but first put down your beverages.
PowerLine had stories on both the Judge and the CIA liars, leavened with the usual wit of the authors, and some interesting details.
A couple of thought provoking stories from PowerLine, especially the first one, in light of the now-nearly-daily stories of government and business officials with serious Chinese connections.
That was charming. Esp. the ostriches nodding to the music.
Thank you very much.
Also Queen’s Brian May earned his Phd in Astrophysics, although he never left Queen.
Jason Everman has definetly lead a crazy life, he was briefly in both Nirvana (before they were big) as well as briefly playing bass in Soundgarden, then decides to becomes an Army Ranger seeing combat in Iraq and Afganistan.
That video is fun, but not necessarily factual. Norman Rogers (“Terminator X”) briefly ran an emu (not ostrich) farm years ago, but went back to his career as a hip-hop DJ.
Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter, original member of Steely Dan and often with the Doobie Brothers and Spirit, among other bands, became a consultant on strategic defense and helped start the initiative to develop ship-based theatre ballistic missile defense.
Barry “The Fish” Melton played guitar for Country Joe and the Fish.
In the late seventies he took a correspondence course in law. He passed the California state bar in 1982 and has had a criminal defense practice since then. He has held various public defender positions in California.
It must be rare to pass the bar without a real law degree.
Fun video. My favorite local band has a lead guitarist who still flies corporate jets as his day job.
I heard about Skunk Baxter long ago. A classic wild story of this sort.
I believe the keyboard player for No Doubt left the band when they were still just some local band, to find employ as a graphic designer. He’s the brother of Gwen Stefani. Some people said he was rather mortified when the band later hit it big, though that may have been just a presumption.
Short account of the fall of Christian Constantinople to the Muslims – the anniversary is tomorrow. Seems the Emperor thought that maybe they were being judged by God for their sins. Such a historic point in history. Many of the nuts running the US school system would rather waste time propagandizing kids into transgenderism and anti white thought processes than to teach history.
https://orthodoxtimes.com/on-may-29-1453-a-civilization-was-irrevocably-swept-away/
Probe of UNRWA expands, may lead to its designation as a foreign terrorist organization.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/exclusive-us-probe-of-embattled-un-gaza-relief-agency-expands-to-1500-staffers-suspected-of-hamas-ties-unrwa-could-soon-be-labeled-a-foreign-terrorist-organization/
@Jon Baker:Short account of the fall of Christian Constantinople to the Muslims
It was the end point of a long process of decline; the primary damage had been done by the Crusaders and Venetians in 1204, who established a Latin Empire on its ruins. One of the Byzantine successor states reconquered it in 1267 but it was never the same after that, and by the time the Ottomans got it they were practically down to the city walls and had been a puppet state and tributary to them for a long time.
Incidentally the Ottoman sultans took the title “Caesar of Rome”. From their perspective, the Roman Empire had changed rulers, language, and religion a second time.
I designated UNRWA as a foreign terrorist organization a long time ago.
Georgia again.
(What do they put in the water, there?)
“Judge reprimanded for noisy sex in chambers revealed as Obama appointee …”—
https://nypost.com/2026/05/28/us-news/judge-reprimanded-for-noisy-sex-in-chambers-revealed-as-obama-appointee-who-sentenced-todd-chrisley/
Might as well change DEI to DIY….
Buckaroo Banzi waves hello to the video-short.
The world will only be made right again when Christian worship resumes in the Hagia Sophia.
Next year in Constantinople.
I saw the Hagia Sophia before it was transformed back into a mosque. I assume the mosaics have once again been plastered over.
What the Times whitewashed left out
Michelle & Barack & Bernardine & Bill: The Real Story of the Obamas and the Terrorist Couple – TinaTrent.com https://share.google/XxEh4r6BuYfReweRw
The fourth crusade was a self inflicted wound that would seem to be gibbons verdict
I caught a few glimpses of video of Trump in a cabinet meeting today. Pete Hegseth looked quite sullen and chastened to me. Had he been dressed down by Trump(?), was my thought.
Newscum says bill of attainder and excessive fines to take 100% of weaponization payouts from cali victims. What a lawless tool.
Also, how on earth did an employee at the CIA get hired with falsified credentials and then end up getting $40 million in gold bars issued as “work-related expenses?”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-feds-seize-40m-gold-bars-cash-rolexes-senior-us-govt-official-faked-navy-pilot
Looks like the Iranians put out another smoke screen about a possible agreement. Treasury Secretary Bessent conducted the While House press briefing today and was non- committal about it. Like many here, I think that any deal that does not include the Iranians turning over their pile of enriched uranium is a mistake.
An article in “The Hill” about the press briefing today
https://thehill.com/homenews/5899984-trump-iran-nuclear-deal/
Bob Wilson,
The never ending story….98% deal, no deal, some exchange of fire; rinse, repeat. Very tiresome.
Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor, died a hero’s death. Just before the Turks’ final assault the famous elite contingent of Genoese crossbowmen, who had fought valoriously for the emperor throughout the siege, but had determined to escape the doomed city while they still could, offered Constantine a place on one of their ships and asylum in Genoa. The emperor refused their offer, saying that he would fight to the death with his people, on the now-broken walls of his once-fair city. When it was apparent that all was lost, and hordes of Turks were pouring over battlements, he cast aside his imperial regalia and charge into the thick of the fighting, never to be seen again. After the battle ended the Turks tried to find and identify his body, but could not. The valiant emperor had disappeared into history.
In the aftermath of the battle the Turkish sultan, Mehmed II — only 22 years old and a vicious pederast — loosed his troops on the city in an orgy of rapine, violence, and destruction. One of the captured Byzantine nobles was brought with his young son before the sultan, who was then seated on a temporary throne that had been set up for just this purpose. The sultan offered to spare their lives if they publicly converted to Islam. The father and his son refused to convert, and were executed forthwith — although it is said that Mehmed raped the boy before having him beheaded. This may indeed have happened. Mehmed was well known for his penchant for having sex with you boys..
It is the descendants of Mehmed and his people who have defiled, and continue to defile one of the holiest and most beautiful churches in all Christendom by using it as a mosque.
@physicsguy: The never ending story….98% deal, no deal, some exchange of fire; rinse, repeat. Very tiresome.
I confess I’m getting impatient too. Especially because the current negotiation is about the Memorandum of Understanding, which is only a prelude to the “real” negotiations, thus eating another sixty days.
All we hear from Trump is DealSpeak, which may be effective, but I don’t find informative.
Trump had better know what he is doing. Maybe he’s got it worked out that Iran collapses economically real soon. Still, it seems he is cutting it pretty close. He may say he doesn’t care about the midterms, but a lot of Americans care more about the economy than Iran.
The CEO of Exxon today claimed that there are about 3 to 4 weeks of crude oil inventory left, an all time, or long time low. He said that when we run out of that (he didn’t say if, though that could be an oversight) fuel prices will really go up.
I imagine that prices will have to be high enough for some serious demand destruction, to match consumption to whatever the continuing supply is.
Kate
Just following the Company’s Standard Operating Procedures Manual. You know, the same procedures that got John Brennan hired after he admitted in his job interview that in 1976 he cast his vote for President for the CPUSA’s Gus Hall.
(One irony about Brennan’s 1976 vote is that at the time, the CPUSA’s bagman for bringing back Moscow gold was Morris Childs, who was working for the FBI. See John Barron’s Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin. Morris Childs performed his duties as the FBI/CPUSA bagman for over two decades.)
If J. Edgar only knew!
Kate,
That is a puzzle, the CIA is famous for no enrichment unless you know someone
Kate,
That is a puzzle, the CIA is famous for no enrichment unless you know someone!
I wonder if any of them did rock for the.money to finance what they really wanted to do!
Very interesting video, the morphing from the early (I suppose real) videos of the musicians to the later (also real?) depictions in their new careers is very well done.
Curiously in sync, see this comment by huxley for a fictional story with the same theme of career change.
https://thenewneo.com/2026/05/26/butler-was-staged/#comment-2852936
In re the CIA con man, who was arrested by the FBI — I guess their honeymoon from RussiaGate is over.
Jeff Childers has a hilarious write-up of the farcical scandal.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/inconveniently-thursday-may-28-2026
RTWT, but first put down your beverages.
PowerLine had stories on both the Judge and the CIA liars, leavened with the usual wit of the authors, and some interesting details.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/05/in-camera-inspection.php
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/05/deep-state.php
A couple of thought provoking stories from PowerLine, especially the first one, in light of the now-nearly-daily stories of government and business officials with serious Chinese connections.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/05/whos-behind-the-war-on-data-centers.php
The Trump administration really is playing hard ball now: if you don’t let ICE deal with illegal aliens in your sanctuary state or city, you don’t get immigration services for your airports.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/05/will-the-administration-shut-down-international-travel.php
Delaney Hall (NJ ICE center) isn’t summer camp, it’s a detention facility: Chad Wolf | Wake Up America – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/05/delaney-hall-nj-ice-center-isnt-summer.html
om,
Don’t you mean Mary!