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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the endâwhich you can never afford to lose âwith the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
--Vice Admiral James Stockdale
"In Brandâs case, we donât even have to believe the women. We could have just believed him." --@KSPrior
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He was convicted. From what I was able to read, the evidence was substantial, particularly multiple women.
The jury verdict looks correct. I would have voted to convict.
Whether or not Russell Brand is a Christian, that's not my judgement to make.
But based on the evidence presented in court, he is guilty of rape and multiple sexual assaults.
This right here.
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. Youâre a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. Youâve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
Youâre a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldnât have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it canât find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least weâre stopping their nuclear bomb. You werenât even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people arenât speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. Youâre forced to leave early after a âteen takeoverâ turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. Theyâd rather play videogames in their parentsâ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousinâs family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight theyâre celebrating his nephewâs birth, the familyâs first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck heâs even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you Americaâs future depended on your vote. Now you arenât even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
Youâve spent a decade demanding Bobâs loyalty. Youâve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but canât find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
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You can't name a folder "con" on a Windows computer. Go try it right now, Windows will flat out refuse and tell you the device name is invalid.
That's because your PC still has that word reserved for a keyboard and screen from 1981. And it's the same reason your main drive is called C: instead of A:.
So here's how it happened. A: and B: were the floppy drives, and plenty of early IBM PCs only had one of them. DOS assumed you had two anyway. If you asked a one-drive machine for B:, it would pretend the same slot was a second drive and stop to tell you "Insert diskette for drive B: and strike any key when ready." If you were around back then, you probably remember swapping the same two disks in and out for an hour just to copy a few files.
Then IBM put a 10MB hard drive inside the PC XT in March 1983. A and B were already spoken for, so the hard drive got the next letter in line. Every installer for the next 40 years hardcoded C:\ into its file paths, and after that the letter was never moving.
That same update, DOS 2.0, is why Windows uses backslashes. IBM's tools were already using the regular slash for command options, so folders got \ instead. It's the whole reason websites use / and your Windows folders use \.
The "con" thing goes back even further. DOS 1.0 didn't have folders at all, so you talked to hardware like it was a file. CON was the console, PRN was the printer, AUX was the serial port, and NUL was a black hole that ate whatever you sent it. Microsoft's own Raymond Chen traces the rule straight back to DOS 1.0, and Windows still enforces it so programs written 45 years ago don't break.
Almost all of this traces back to one guy in Monterey, California.
Gary Kildall started writing CP/M in 1974 while he was teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School, and it became the first popular operating system for small computers. He's the one who labeled drives with a letter and a colon, and he let programs talk to devices like they were files, habits he'd picked up from the big mainframes and minicomputers he'd worked on. In 1980, IBM came looking for an operating system for its new PC, and the talks with Kildall's company fell apart. So Microsoft went to Seattle Computer Products, where a programmer named Tim Paterson had spent four months writing a CP/M lookalike he called QDOS, short for Quick and Dirty Operating System. Microsoft paid $75,000 total for it, the last $50,000 just 16 days before the IBM PC launched. Kildall's letters came along for the ride.
He sold his company to Novell in 1991 and died three years later at 52. Every time somebody clicks on C: in File Explorer, they're using the letter he picked for a third disk drive back in the '70s. That's 1.6 billion Windows machines, and almost nobody using them has ever heard his name.
Sadly, it rains on the just and unjust. đż
Start-up founder Adam Robinson, who passed away in the Florida plane crash, wasnât a programmer.
He was a credit default swap trader at Lehman Brothers. If you remember 2008, you know how that story ended.
When Lehman collapsed, Adam didnât go back to Wall Street. He jumped into tech with no background. With a few co-founders, he started Robly, an email marketing company, in one of the oldest and most crowded spaces in software.
He got no big funding, no big investor, just the mind of a storyteller.
Robly grew to about $5 million in revenue. Then something interesting happened. One small feature inside Robly, a tool that helped businesses identify visitors on their websites, started getting more attention than the main product.
So he spun it out. It became GetEmails, later renamed Retention.com, and launched in November 2019.
Robly sold for eight figures. And Retention.com grew to over $20 million a year in revenue with around six employees, without raising a single dollar.
Then he did it again. He used Retentionâs cash to build RB2B, which hit $4 million in annual revenue in record time.
His secret weapon wasnât code. It was honesty. While everyone else on LinkedIn posted success stories, Adam posted the ugly parts: the mistakes, the real numbers, the struggles. People trusted him because he didnât pretend to be who he wasn't.
Engineers might look at what he built and say thereâs nothing technically impressive about it.
Maybe. But he shipped, he sold, and he built three companies from nothing.
On Sunday, he was flying to the Bahamas with his wife, Helen, their two little kids, and close friends.
He was 44.
Rest in peace, Adam.
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This is how Scott Crossfield died. General Chuck Yeager honored him by using it for a flying lesson: no matter how good a pilot you are you canât beat the weather..
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The NTSB held its second and final on scene media briefing regarding N722BD this afternoon. The agency says it recovered the aircraftâs left elevator in three pieces between 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the crash site. flightradar24.com/blog/flighâŚ
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As a former Marine and police officer, Iâve seen people freeze or fall apart under pressure. I listened to 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha on Learjet N722BD as it dove at over 20,000 feet per minute in an overspeed. She never stopped transmitting clear, critical information even though she had to know she was going to die. That young co-pilot stayed on the radio to the end. Most people twice her age wouldnât have.
This.
Fact is, that gal was the aviation equivalent of LeBron James or Kobe Bryant or Moses Malone: straight from high school to the NBA.
Yes, when that was allowed, it was rare. But by all accounts, she was a hard-working, serious professional.
Guys, we need to have an honest conversation about DEI. And some fellow conservatives arenât going to like this.
My son attends @ERAU_Daytona, arguably the top flight school in the world. He earned a 4.0 GPA last semester and just scored a 97 on his commercial pilot exam.
Heâs 6â3â, confident, and has sailed with me through ocean storms so violent I probably should have been arrested for bringing him aboard. Weâve hiked deep into the wilderness for days with nothing but backpacks.
I donât say this to brag. I say it because the kid is a rock star.
Heâs exactly the kind of young man youâd want to see at the end of the jetway.
Now letâs talk about the tragic Learjet crash that killed nine people.
The captain was Jeff Gregory, 55, a white man with decades of experience and the gray hair and seasoned appearance that inspire confidence.
His copilot was Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, a 20-year-old woman.
And immediately people started screaming DEI.
That makes my blood boil.
Iâm DEAD set against DEI quotas. I believe cockpit seats should be earned through competence, judgment, and merit. Not race or gender.
But if you look at a female pilot and automatically assume sheâs a DEI hire, YOU ARE DOING EXACTLY WHAT YOU CLAIM TO OPPOSE.
Consider this:
My son is 20. She was 20.
My son has hundreds of flight hours. She reportedly had over 1,300.
My son is working on his commercial certificate. She earned hers as a teenager.
My son flies single-engine piston aircraft. She was flying a JET the military uses.
Put it in baseball terms: My son is the college phenom with every Major League scout in the stands, watching his every move and predicting a brilliant future.
But she? At the same age, she was already batting cleanup for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the New York Yankeesâ Triple-A team.
A the same age, she was operating at an entirely different level of professional aviation.
Was she a great pilot? YES. You donât move up that fast if you suck. The testing is just too hard.
Bringing DEI into this is just wrong.
YES there are DEI pilots.
YES some airlines have pushed mediocre women too fast and too far.
But Nathalia wasnât one of them.
Iâve discussed this extensively with @JavonPrice. Iâm a proud dues-paying member of the Organization of Black Maritime Graduates.
What I love about them is they donât give a damn about your skin color when it comes to joining or getting a scholarship. They want outstanding mariners.
Yet whenever I promote an exceptional Black graduate, someone inevitably says:
âWe donât need another DEI hire.â
Or, âDonât tell me to hire him because heâs Black.â
IâM NOT.
Iâm telling you to hire him because heâs a damn good mariner.
Hereâs what conservatives need to understand:
You cannot demand a meritocracy while refusing to recognize merit because liberals have rigged the game.
You cannot condemn identity politics and then judge someone by their identity.
You have to be color blind but also make absolutely certain you give everyone a fair assessment and donât swing the other way.
And if your first thought when you see a woman or minority is âDEI hire,â that does NOT make you racist. DEI has created legitimate concerns about merit. But it DOES mean you have a bias and itâs YOUR responsibility to recognize it, challenge it, and judge the individual on merit.
Do not compensate by giving the person extra points on their job interview but đŻ DO spend a little more time digging into their resume to see if they are a rockstar.
As a ship captain, I donât care whether the officer standing watch beside me is Black, white, male, or female.
I care whether they can do the damn job.
ONE STANDARD. FOR EVERYONE.
Nine people died in that crash. Their families deserve answers, not political accusations.
The ocean doesnât care who you are.
Gravity doesnât care who you voted for.
If weâre going to fight for meritocracy, weâd damn well better defend merit wherever we find it.
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At last some facts instead of romanticised neopagan myths...
Unfortunately the Monk missed a book or two in his history class. We just researched and discussed this topic on Thursday. If you are interested in the actual historical lineage, the records we found in this case are as follows:
Note the below is what we found specific to the chronological list of the Catholic development of All Saintsâ Day and All Soulsâ Day, with key source documents for each stage, followed by the later Samhain conflation, which the Monk in the video omits and therefore gives an unsubstantiated conflation.
Early Christian commemorations of martyrs and the dead (3rdâ7th centuries)
Christians commemorated individual martyrs on the anniversary of death (their âbirthdayâ into heaven) and developed collective feasts as numbers grew. Eastern and Western sources record all-martyrs observances tied to spring or the Easter season. Monastic communities kept commemorations of their own deceased.
Source documents:
St. Ephrem the Syrian (c. 359), Carmen (hymn) mentioning a commemoration of the martyrs of Edessa on 13 May (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 219).
Sermons of St. John Chrysostom and St. Maximus of Turin (5th century) placing a feast of martyrs/saints on the Sunday after Pentecost.
St. Isidore of Seville (d. 636) and early Spanish practice of a day for the deceased near Pentecost or Sexagesima.
Early monastic records (Benedictine) of commemorations of deceased members around Whitsuntide/Pentecost (6th century onward). Names of the dead were entered in diptychs.
Dedication of the Pantheon as St. Mary and All Martyrs (609/610)
Pope Boniface IV received the Pantheon from Emperor Phocas and dedicated it on 13 May under the title S. Maria ad Martyres. An annual anniversary was observed in Rome.
Source document:
Liber Pontificalis, life of Boniface IV: âHic [Boniface] ⌠accepit a Phoca principe templum ⌠Pantheon ⌠et fecit ecclesiam beatae Mariae semper virginis et omnium martyrumâ (dedication on 13 May). Standard edition: Louis Duchesne, Le Liber Pontificalis, vol. 1 (Paris, 1886â1892), pp. 317â318.
Gregory IIIâs oratory in St. Peterâs and association with 1 November (c. 731â732)
Pope Gregory III built an oratory in Old St. Peterâs dedicated to the Savior, Mary, the apostles, all martyrs, confessors, and âall the just and perfect who are at rest throughout the whole world.â A synod on 12 April 732 regulated its liturgy; the anniversary became linked to 1 November in Rome.
Source document:
Liber Pontificalis, life of Gregory III: âHic fecit oratorium ⌠in basilica beati Petri ⌠iuxta arcum maiorem ⌠in quo ⌠reliquias ⌠omnium apostolorum, martyrum, confessorum, perfectorum iustorumque, in toto orbe terrarum requiescentium.â A council of 12 April 732 set the liturgical provisions (marble inscriptions survive in fragments). Duchesne edition, vol. 1, pp. 417â418. English translation in Raymond Davis, The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liverpool University Press).
Extension of 1 November throughout the Frankish realms (835) **This is where the monk in the video begins his story.**
At the urging of Pope Gregory IV and with episcopal agreement, Emperor Louis the Pious ordered the feast of All Saints celebrated on the Kalends of November in Gaul and Germany.
Source document:
Sigebert of Gembloux (d. 1112), Chronographia (or Chronica), entry for 835:
âMonente Gregorio papa et omnibus episcopis assentientibus, Ludowicus imperator statuit, ut in Gallia et Germania festivitas omnium Sanctorum in Kalendis Novembris celebraretur, quam Romani ex instituto Bonefacii papae celebrabant.â
(Patrologia Latina 160:159; also Monumenta Germaniae Historica).
Related notice in Ado of Vienneâs Martyrologium.
Medieval liturgists later discussed the practical reasons for the November date (e.g., John Beleth, Rationale divinorum officiorum, c. 1165; Sicard of Cremona, Mitrale, on the eventual suppression of the May 13 observance).
Formalization of All Soulsâ Day at Cluny (late 10th / early 11th century; traditionally c. 998, or between 1024â1033)
Earlier local or monastic commemorations of the faithful departed existed on various dates. St. Odilo of Cluny ordered an annual commemoration on 2 November (the day after All Saints) for Cluny and its dependent houses, with Masses, the Office of the Dead, prayers, almsgiving, and fasting. The practice spread rapidly.
Source documents:
Jotsaldus (monk of Cluny), Vita Odilonis (written shortly after Odiloâs death in 1049), recounting the institution and the associated vision of souls in purgatory.
Cluniac customaries and later monastic and diocesan records showing the rapid diffusion (Liège among the earliest dioceses; full Western adoption by the 13thâ14th centuries).
Summary in the Catholic Encyclopedia entry âAll Soulsâ Dayâ (drawing on these and earlier German/Spanish practices, e.g., Widukind of Corvey on 1 October commemorations c. 980).
Later medieval and modern liturgical status.
By the high Middle Ages, All Saints was a major solemnity with a vigil (All Hallowsâ Eve / Halloween) and later an octave (Sixtus IV, 15th century; both later suppressed). All Souls became a universal commemoration tied to the doctrine of purgatory and the communion of saints. Three Masses on All Souls became customary in some regions (Dominican origin; later extended).
Source documents: Medieval liturgical books (sacramentaries, missals, breviaries) listing Natale omnium sanctorum on 1 November; Roman Martyrology; modern Roman Missal and Code of Canon Law (c. 1246 on holy days of obligation).
The later conflation of Halloween with Samhain (primarily 18thâ20th centuries)
Halloween is the English name for the vigil of All Saints (All Hallowsâ Eve). Samhain was a Gaelic quarter-day festival around the end of October/beginning of November. Strong claims of direct origin, deliberate âreplacement,â or an unbroken pagan âfestival of the deadâ are largely products of later antiquarianism and popular writing rather than contemporary early-medieval evidence.
Key source documents and scholarship:
Medieval Irish literature (Tochmarc Emire, Echtra Nerai, Serglige Con Culainn, etc.) places major narrative events at Samhain and associates it with the Otherworld/sĂde, assemblies, and liminality. These texts post-date Christianization and do not clearly describe an ancestral âfeast of the deadâ in the later popular sense.
Charles Vallancey (1780s), Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis and A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland: invented or misderived a âgod of the deadâ named Saman/Samhan/Balsab with unsupported etymologies.
No such deity appears in early Irish sources; the claim was widely criticized even in the 19th century.
19th-century popularizers: John Rhšs and especially Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough (multiple editions), who projected later customs and a âCeltic New Year / feast of the deadâ narrative backward.
Modern corrective scholarship: Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (Oxford, 1996), chapter on Samhain, and later articles (including 2024 work in Folklore). Hutton concludes that evidence for Samhain as a feast of the dead is âutterly wantingâ in the early material, that the November All Saints date developed in Anglo-Germanic/Frankish contexts, and that strong continuity claims overstate the case. Nicholas Rogers, Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night (Oxford, 2002), similarly qualifies the pagan-origin narrative.
Early Irish calendars and martyrologies (e.g., FĂŠlire Ăengusso, Martyrology of Tallaght) show spring All Saints observances persisting in Ireland longer than in Frankish or English contexts.
Summary of the documentary evidence:
The fixing of All Saints on 1 November and All Souls on 2 November rests on clear papal, imperial, and monastic sources from the 8thâ11th centuries (Liber Pontificalis, Sigebert, Odilo/Jotsaldus).
The name âHalloweenâ is purely Christian.
Seasonal overlap with Gaelic Samhain exists, and some regional folk customs show continuity or syncretism, but the narrative that Halloween or All Saints originated as a Christianized Samhain, or that Samhain was a god of the dead, depends on 18thâ19th-century speculation rather than the primary early-medieval evidence.
The monk may be a dedicated man of God, but he should have dedicated more to study before he gave his statements on this video.
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F-16N Fighting Falcon (serial number 163269) in a distinctive white and dark green "splinter" aggressor camouflage scheme, marked with "MARINES"
Operated by the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), historically based at NAS Miramar, California, for adversary air-combat training
