WTF-Beta

And now arresting police officers: https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-arrests-police-officer-radule-bojovic-hanover-park-illinois-accuses-being-us-illegally-montenegro/18019608/?ex_cid=TA_WLS_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+(Feed)&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawNfGH1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgkZH-nNJ6OCNBhiJ9edCdmkdyTlHNPwqnd4Hi6WSVTeWFRCNYgaTXmxBjtX_aem_bYCCBgpBe7E6T0sX1Y1Z9g "Background checks performed by the FBI, Illinois State Police reveal no criminal history," Craig said. "If Officer Bojovic did not hold federal work authorization, he would not have been hired."

Hmm, "arrangements for the birds" made me stop and think, what about our two dogs if we had a fatal car accident today? Two adult daughters inherit equally and our sisters are executors; but could any of our immediate family take even one of the dogs? Extended family perhaps. Otherwise they'd have to be found homes and I'd like to think attractive kennel club border collies would be snapped up for breeding if nothing else. Hmm. I guess trusts & investments are best left to solicitors. Certainly one of my childless Aunts who left the usual house & cash, also had a million in shares; so she appointed her solicitors as joint executors who were instructed to deal with those shares, the tax, and all prepaid funeral arrangements. This ensured the nephew's executor part of the job was a doddle.

This is immeasurably upsetting. It really seems more and more like the bad guys are winning.

Edit as of late Thursday: University of Pennsylvania and USC have joined the “no, thanks” list. The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university has rejected a White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in return for agreeing to a series of demands. Brown University on Wednesday declined an offer by the Trump administration to join a compact that would potentially give preferential funding in exchange for a list of changes to school policy, including no longer considering sex and ethnicity in admissions and capping international enrollment. The letter was sent to nine universities at the beginning of the month. The compact is aimed at “the proactive improvement of higher education for the betterment of the country,” according to a letter sent to the universities. Out of the nine offers, only Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have rejected the proposal. Other schools – a mix of public and private universities – have either said they are reviewing the compact or haven’t commented publicly. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/us/trump-universities-compact-funding

Another breakthrough in computer graphics and simulation: Link to video

@Bernard

Have wondered where all the tariff money goes. Do I want to know?

Will wait for the movie.

I am an alcoholic living with a Parkinson's patient. Having no luck trying to find a joke for this.

@wtg said in About those shutdown firings: “And we have laws here, and the things that are being articulated here are not within the law.” Louder for the people in the back!!

@CHAS said in Checking out the competition: @AndyD A two liter, two turbo gas burner should be quite zippy. Also 7speed automatic and 4wd, with 328bhp... so everyone can drive it 0-60 in under 5sec and max 172mph. Sat in a couple, about £23k for a 3yr old with 30k miles on the clock. Maybe get one late next year. Sorry off topic. Back to the threats of China. Their spying on and hack of our government was discussed in Parliament today.

I remember that. Seems so ancient watching the clip.

@Steve-Miller thanks!

I have to agree with Trump that it was the right time to stop what was beginning (or "biginning" as Trump wrote in the Knesset visitors book ) to be a one sided stalemate. The Palestinian terrorists however have not released all the hostages, they have openly executed 'collaborators' in the streets, and are fighting with splinter group (who may be worse terrorists).

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