Public Occurrences September 7, 2026

The poorest in the US can’t find housing even as low-income units sit empty

AP

1:37 pm:

                         A Jewish Reich

Israeli airstrikes on a village in southern Lebanon kill 12 people, including 2 children

The Health Ministry said one of the strikes hit a building, killing 11 people, including two children and four women. Eight were also wounded, including three children and a paramedic.

The ministry said that another strike on a car in the village killed a paramedic with the Lebanese Islamic Risala Scout Association and wounded two others.

The Israeli military said the strikes come in retaliation for two Hezbollah drone attacks that exploded while targeting Israeli troops in Lebanon from the area on Monday. It said the strikes targeted a Hezbollah militant trying to transport weapons to Kfar Rumman.

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Kfar Rumman’s mayor, Abdullah Farhat, described what happened in the village as “a massacre in every sense of the word.”

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[A resident] Saleh Medlej, pointed to the destroyed building and said this was home to families with children. “Are there missiles here?” he asked in reference to the building where the families lived.

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Earlier Monday, Israel’s military issued an evacuation warning for a home in the village of Deir al-Zahrani and shortly afterward a building was struck. The military said the strike was in retaliation for a drone attack by Hezbollah militants. There was no word on casualties.

On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed at least seven people in southern Lebanon and leveled an empty hospital.

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9:24 am:

                              An Impotent Man

As War Grinds on, Trump Relishes Renovation Projects

President Trump is basking in the momentum of the various projects he has spurred around doentown Washington

nyt

Alternative for Germany

AfD...leaders have used Nazi slogans and minimized the Holocaust

...rising prices and high unemployment helped win the far-right party...more than twice the number of votes as Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right incumbent party.

"Developed Europe is going through a version of sophisticated state failure. Governments are unable to address cost-of-living concerns. They are not able to deliver for their voters.”

-Mujtaba Rahman, Eurasia Group analyst.

“In both [Germany and France], the antifascist front that had prevailed since the end of the Second World War seems on the verge of collapse."

-Philippe Marlière, a professor of French and European politics at University College London.

In France, Marie Le Pen’s...poll numbers are more than double those of the leading centrist, Edouard Philippe, or the leading far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Don't forget "Hormuz Strait"!

 Little boys draw...

and doodle...

...and play with legos...

...and fantasize about being the toughest kid in the class...

...when they're just little boys.

Prospective Public Occurrences

In four hours and three minutes Canada's reciprocal tariffs on Trump Toilet Nation go into effect.

Impotence

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Sep 06, 2026, 1:48 PM

'When Manchester City comes through you don't say no'.--Everton winger Iliman Ndiaye

Ev and Tottenham Notspurs had agreed to the transfer fee...but that was before City came through.

Public Occurrences September 6, 2026

Amazon Cargo Jet Crashes in Miami, Five Killed

4:57 pm:

Far-Right, Anti-Immigration, Pro-Russia Party Wins Election in eastern Germany

The Alternative for Germany (AfP) struck a "disastrous" blow to Chancellor Friedrich Merz' Christian Democratic Union with a "strong" victory.

AP

Investors prosper and consumers pay as the Iran war exacts an uneven economic toll 6 months in

AP, Aug. 28

Here Comes the Mon

 

Trump’s first major midterm money move: A $10M Texas Senate ad blitz

AP headline

 

Israel's Revenge War

Defense Minister Izzy Katz and National Security chief Itty Ben Gvir have turbocharged the state's intent and fervent desire to exterminate the Palestinian population. Katz stated that Israel is raring to go with the "only solution" to the Palestinian question, the "migration by any means necessary" of all Palestinians from Gaza, and is "only awaiting President Trump's approval". The U.S. State Department swiftly denounced the idea. Forced migration of a population is a war crime and one of the buffet of elements to choose from when making genocide, of which Israel seems intent on hitting for the cycle, batting .400 Ted Williams style and hitting 714 home runs, making them a lock for the Genocide Hall of Fame. Genocide is a crime against humanity.

Separately, Itty visited a detention center for Palestinian women ostensibly to hear their complaints about unsanitary, unhealthy conditions in the facility, really to tell the women prisoners that he heartily approved of the "minimum of minimum" necessities provided them. "You kidnapped our children," Itty justified. Mistreatment, maltreatment, or intentional deprivation of prisoners of war is a war crime.

Revenge war is a war crime.

Finally, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has for the second time in a month, accurately labeled West Bank settlers who are continually attacking Palestinians, detaining American elected officials, attacking American news organizations' vehicles and persons, and destroying Palestinian homes and mosques, as "terrorists". Wrote one of the Israeli terrorists on a wall of a damaged mosque "Huckabee from the terrorists". "At least they admit it", said the ambassador.

The Israeli people are responsible. They perpetrate these atrocities, they have chosen repeatedly the government that ministers to their wishes.

Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith and Miami’s Malachi Toney have wasted no time launching their respective Heisman Trophy campaigns.
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Here’s a look at how some other potential Heisman contenders fared this weekend.

— Ohio State QB Julian Sayin, who finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting last season, went 21 of 25 for 320 yards with three touchdowns. He also ran for a touchdown.

— Miami QB Darian Mensah, who led Duke to an Atlantic Coast Conference title last year, threw five touchdown passes in his first game with his new team.

— Gunner Stockton went 15 of 16 for 202 yards with three touchdowns as No. 3 Georgia trounced Tennessee State 63-3.

— South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers was 19 of 23 for 270 yards with three touchdowns in a 57-0 victory over Kent State.

— Southern California QB Jayden Maiava, the reigning AP national player of the week, went 25 of 29 for 286 yards with two touchdown passes in a 39-0 win over Fresno State on Friday night. Maiava has thrown five touchdown passes and six incompletions through No. 14 USC’s first two games of the season.

— Maybe it’s too soon to put Pitt QB Mason Heintschel on this list, but he set an Atlantic Coast Conference single-game record by throwing seven touchdown passes in a 59-14 rout of Miami (Ohio). He went 31 of 41 for 459 yards.

HEINTSCHEL FOR THE HEISMAN! SEVEN TDS, PITT BLOWS OUT MIAMI 59-14

Mason Heintschel was 31/41 for 453 yards. The "Panthers" had 646 total yards in the rout.

The "Daisy Chain": The Formation That Revolutionized Tackle Football

NEBRASKA RHULES! "HUSKERS" BLOW OUT OHIO 49-21!

Nebraska trailed at the half and trampled in the second half for the HUGE dub to start HC Matt Rhule's third season in Lincoln.

Public Occurrences September 5, 2026

Tit: U.S. Says Iran "Targeted" Navy Warships; Tat: U.S. Hits Three Iranian Oil Tankers

 

Another "hoax". Trump: Iran "small potatoes", not a war

“I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us. It’s not a big thing.”

The conflict has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $37.5 billion and left 18 U.S. service members dead.

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Affordability a "Hoax"?

                                       Inflation 3.4% in July (year over year)

             Growth in average hourly earnings 3.2% in July

The hourly-wage worker, the one who does the heavy lifting and grunting, the one who makes minimum wage, the one who is the most vulnerable to micro-changes in the macro economy, the backbone of the U.S. economy, lost .2% of his/her purchasing power in July 2026 from July 2025 to ONE factor, inflation.

Whipped cream on her nose🙄

 

Friday Night is for for Flirtation

 

Public Occurrences September 4, 2026

A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S.

New intelligence reports have assessed that Iran now has a far better understanding of its capabilities and the limits of U.S. power.

nyt

Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator

Poised to be a possible swing vote in a divided Congress, he churns through staff as he dodges constituents, alienates fellow Democrats and courts Israel lobby

I gave $200 to Fetterman in 2022. I have never given money to an out-of-state candidate since. He has been an unmitigated disaster as senator and a complete embarrassment to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, my home state, which I still care about. He will be defeated in 2028 either in the Democratic primary or by a Republican. I can't help but think that Fetterman suffered a personality change when he had a stroke in the middle of the 2022 campaign. His campaign gave little information and down-played and whitewashed when they did. A change in personality is not uncommon in those who have had brain injuries, whether from trauma or from a bleed. Regardless of reason, Fetterman clearly has not been fit to serve.

9:34 am:

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SCHADENFREUDE! Ruptures Lost to UMass Hohoho!

The supposably "B1G" team was shellacked at hallowed Shia Stadium 37-21 by a team that had lost 16 straight games. The Scarlet Pimpernel were 29.5 favorites. Roflmao Ruptures.

 

The Case of the "Clippers" and Manchester City

There is so much fog surrounding the English Premier League's case against City that one would think we were still in the Court of Chancery days. Only the broadest generalities can be sketched. But there are internal emails and documents common to both cases, and a failure to cooperate with the investigation in both cases, which convince me, a City fan of over twenty years that my beloved City are guilty of substantial, deliberate circumvention of Financial Fair Play, the near equivalent of the NBA's salary cap conventions. There are significant, specific differences, for example the offset rules in the EPL for community investment, the allegedly inflated endorsement agreement with Etihad Airways which has stood the test of time. However, I see, albeit with my 20/400 vision through the London fog, guilt by City, specifically on failure to cooperate, a serious offense on both sides of the Atlantic and across the two different sports. And I see the credibility of the EPL at stake even more so than the NBA's credibility was at stake in the Kawhi Leonard fraud. 

I believe, I hope, and I expect in the name of "fair play" and the integrity of the Premier League, even though potentially devastating to my beloved City, that the rules are enforced equitably on this richest of league owners and the team which I love so dearly, and that the punishment fits the crime(s), plural. I expect the punishment to be severe and historic, as was the NBA's of the Los Angeles "Clippers". The harm to my City may likely, and perhaps deservedly, be apocalyptic, a severe deduction of points amounting to relegation, vacating of titles won, perhaps expulsion form the Premier League and the Football Association. 

Manchester City is forever for me and wherever they end up I will never give up my loyalty to them. Sheikh Mansour is the greatest owner of any club in any sport in sports history. But I am pretty well convinced that our trophy cabinet constitutes in some significant measure ill-gotten gains.

The NBA has set down a marker for the EPL. I want justice done. I want City to remain an EPL power and for the EPL to remain a credible, respected fixture on the short-pants worldscape. Those may be incommensurate desiderata. Very well. I accept whatever outcome.

City Forever!

This was NATIONAL news yesterday (I missed it until today)

 

NBA suspends Clippers owner Ballmer, fines team $30M, Kawhi Leonard $700K in cap circumvention case

That's from NPR. It's a fucking big deal. The Association has never punished a franchise like this before. And they did it to Steve Fucking Ballmer. Adam Silver's first major decision was to ban former "Clippers" owner Donald Sterling ne Tokowitz, for LIFE. Adam's term as commish still has three or four years to go, but the decision yesterday is an appropriate bookend to the latter part of his tenure.

 

The Storm Before the Calm

Eleven is in a coma-like deep sleep. Hasn't uttered a meow. The heat wears her out, too.

ELEVEN'S HEAT ENDED!

 

"Clippers" Investigation Findings

https://www.wlrk.com/docs/Report_of_Independent_Investigators_Concerning_the_LA_Clippers_and_Kawhi_Leonard.pdf

"Clippers" response: 

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/clippers-response-nba-ruling-vehemently-212459689.html