I'm not worried

My money's tucked away in Imperial Russian War bonds and Packard Automobile stock. They're comin' back, baby!

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— Jack Lombardi II (@JackLombardi) April 5, 2025

Evil is destructive

So much so, that it ultimately becomes self-destructive: "Chuck Schumer's Political Career Could Be in Jeopardy".

Ever since Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer voted for the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) last month, the backlash has been severe, and many on the left have been calling on socialist firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to challenge Schumer for his Senate seat.

Taking on a sitting member of party leadership is no small feat. Most of the time, these challenges come from fringe candidates with little name recognition and even less chance of winning. But a stunning new poll flips that script entirely — AOC leads Schumer by a jaw-dropping 19 points in a hypothetical Democratic primary. According to the Data for Progress survey, AOC pulls in 55% support, while the longtime incumbent trails far behind at just 36%.

Sunday funnies

 

Can You Guess What Word British People Use For These Everyday Items?

British justice, old school.

The imposter.

Language barrier.

I wonder if they ever caught him.

Nope, no more long, cold winters for me.

"Fool" Around and Find Out

From Power Line's The Week in Pictures.

Hard to believe that Colorado was once a rough and tumble region of the old west

But then, so was California: "Colorado House Democrats Pass Bill That Allows State to SEIZE Children from Their Parents if They 'Misgender' and Makes 'Misgendering' a Discriminatory Act".

Jewish soldiers of the Third Reich

Another fascinating look at an odd corner of WWII history by Mark Felton.

A final word on Val Kilmer

One movie that Kilmer starred in, but I did not see highlighted in the obits, was The Ghost and the Darkness, a fictionalized treatment of an actual series of incidents involving two man-eating lions that terrorized a railroad construction camp and the surrounding countryside in Kenya in 1898.

In the movie, Kilmer plays a military engineer tasked with completing a key section of the railroad; construction has been delayed by the predations of two lions that wreck havoc on the workers. Kilmer takes up his rifle with the goal of killing the lions, and is joined by professional hunter Charles Remington (played by Michael Douglas). The particular cunning and bloodthirstiness of the lions creates an undercurrent of fear that the beasts may actually be evil spirits.

In this scene, the two hunters discover the lions' den, and come to a grim realization of the scope of the horror they're up against.

The 10 States Most Likely to Survive an Alien Invasion

I'm in pretty good shape: North Carolina is in the eighth spot. "The 10 States Most Likely to Survive an Alien Invasion".

Virginia's number one, but with the electorate there currently swollen with Democrats working in D.C., an alien invasion might be more of a net positive.

"Yew jes' climb back in that thar spaceship, pilgrim, and head on over to New Yawrk or Chicago or some other Yankee ant hill."

Update  The study linked above only deals with the U.S. I put the question to my Australian readers: what you gonna do when the aliens come for you?