Saturday, January 31, 2026
Public Occurrences January 31, 2026
Facing Immigration Backlash, Trump Called Schumer to Cut a Deal
The president and the top Senate Democrat, who are often at each other’s throats, agreed to try to keep the government open and to start talks on new limits on federal immigration agents.
10:09 am:
Israelcide Kills 30 More Palestinians, Mostly Women and Children in Air Strikes
45's 25 Male Cows 31, End 1. What good does it do following this dog team. They're going to win 43-45 games.
Giannis Do Not Come to Miami It's Losersville!
The G-Leaguers start...
Wig-o
Myron Gardner
Bam
The Taking of
Jako
Myron Gardner
Bam
The Taking of
Jako
Can you believe that drek? That's what trump is!
THE FUCKING "HORNETS" ARE 6W! BEAT SAN ANTONE TODAY 111-106
Charlotte--the Queens!--officially are the hottest (8-2) team in the NBA. Sincere congratulations to the star-crossed franchise and cheers to the Charlotte fans.
Continuing our popular series, "Insulting Trumpists in the language of Trump"
Trump: "you're a horrible human being."
Trump: you're an "animal", a 34-time convicted felon.
Pamela Jo Bimbobondi: "be quiet piggie".
Steven Miller: "'Garbage' Jews such as you will never replace us."
Paul George Statement
"Over the past few years, I've discussed the importance of mental health, and in the course of recently seeking treatment for an issue of my own, I made the mistake of taking an improper medication. I take full responsibility for my actions and apologize to the Sixers organization, my teammates and the Philly fans for my poor decision making during this process. I am focused on using this time to make sure that my mind and body are in the best condition to help the team when I return."
-To Shams Charania
The undersigned is a believer in Better Living Through Chemicals. In my years of living my motto I cannot call up a drug for "mental health" that would violate an athletic anti-doping policy. Paul George's jocular/serious advice to Joel Embiid was in reference to overcoming the pain from multiple, major injuries. Pain killers are common causes of violations of anti-doping strictures. Drugs for mental health-I'm thinking depression, bipolarity, etc.--are not, I don't think.
Pat Riley must land his last great whale in Giannis to Miami Heat
Yes. And Riley will not. For reasons previously stated, and obvious to some, Riley, the Godfather, can make Beer an offer they cannot refuse by making Bam Adebayo the centerpiece of his offer. Including Adebayo would blow away any other offer from any other team. But Riley will not. Adebayo is untouchable, even to land Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Friday, January 30, 2026
Thursday, January 29, 2026
FT Male Cows 113 45's 116
I no follow this closely. Thought it was in Bang Bus. Weren't. In Wind.
"Heat" 26-23-->43.5 dubs.
National Shutdown Day
I will be shutting down (I'm not in school and am retired.). I just did the grocery shopping for two days. I will not spend sny money Friday.
MIA 24 CHI 26, 4:12 1Q
First of three straight games against Male Cows tonight. Second of four games in five nights for the 45's
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
SnooPeripherals4884
[Barry] ESPN saying it will be hard for anyone to top possible Warriors offer of Butler, 4 unprotected firsts & Kuminga for Giannis and Kuzma
JBIII? According to Shams, Beer is looking for young talent and/or multiple first round draft picks. JBIII does not fill that mug. The 4 unprotected 1st rounders plus Jonathan Kuminga is very good. But does it top the "Heat" offering Bam + say, Tyler, and however many firsts we have, three or four I think, if we get our pick back from the Terry Rozier trade? Beer would be getting two All-Stars from us. From Golden State, they'd be getting Kuminga, who will become an All-Star when he gets the p.t. The beauty of the Bam-for-Giannis trade to me though is that both teams get a like replacement. Now, of course, I have no fucking idea if Pat Riley would trade his Captain, not even for Antetokounmpo. But if he doesn't, and if Bam is the lynch pin for this deal, then Riles is a dotard.
NBACentral
@TheDunkCentral
The Heat believe they have a real shot at landing Giannis Antetokounmpo, per
@TheSteinLine
“So what team out there could actually tempt the Bucks into a deal in the next week-plus? The most common answer to that question when posed to various league executives continues to be Miami. Now is that merely because the Heat themselves are said to be transmitting a vibe of confidence that they can somehow sway the Bucks? Possibly. Miami, for what it's worth, is said to believe it has a real shot at crafting a pathway to Antetokounmpo.”
(Via http://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJ…)
The Stat
I noticed at HT that although we had a nine-point lead, possessions were within one as I recall and we were losing on the component stats, offense boards and turnovers. We had Simone Fontecchio alone to thank for our lead. Well, The Stat at FT tells the tale as well as the scoreboard does.
Shots: Miami 88 Orlando 104! +16 ✅"Magic". To let the full force of this stat hit you between the eyes, consider: Miami shooting, 50%; Orlando 50%. Miami shooting three 44%; Orlando 42%. We shot better than they did from range! We even had more FTs and more makes! 21/23 to 13/17. The difference: Orlando took sixteen more shots.
Offensive Rebounds: Mia 9 Orl 12 ✅"Magic.
Turnovers/points conceded off: Miami 18-24 (!), Orlando 7-11 ✅"Magic"
Ballgame.
Erik Spoelstra started the same lineup he has for...too long, four games maybe. And it went the same way. I don't know if Spo is punishing 3J for fucking his ex-wife or what, but Jako started and was completely ineffective, 20', tyoo points, as many points as turnoverS, -6. 3J played 28' off the bench: 13 pts, +2. But Andrew was the anchor man tonight (in +/-): 32', 16 pts, -15.
The "Heat" 3W streak ends. They fall to 25-23 -->43-39.
We have lost FOUR straight to Orlando!
In hallowed Bang Bus, Orlando blew it wide out open in the 3Q to blow the fire of the "Heat" out. 20-40 in the quarter was the difference. FT MIA 124 ORL 133. The L broke our 3W streak; the W broke Orlando's 4L. We cannot beat this team.
Diz 8-0 run, "Heat" 21-32, 1:56 1Q
Lose this one and it will be our fourth in just over one-half season to the same team.
GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO, MILWAUKEE OPEN TO TRADE
The mid-season trade deadline is February 5 but Milwaukee is in no hurry and may well wait until the summer. Milwaukee wants "blue chip young talent and/or a surplus of draft picks." Miami, Minnesota, New York, and Golden State are "serious suitors" for Antetokounmpo.
While this news is a dramatic departure from the previous public stances of Milwaukee and Antetokounmpo, it was expected by the cognoscenti. For the "Heat", it is a dramatically positive development. They're in the ballpark. The team has had 11 and one-half seasons of an average record of 44-38. Antetokounmpo would instantly deliver them from that purgatory of mediocrity. For the same reason it is also a defining moment in Pat Riley's last years. The "Heat" haven't landed a "whale" since, by my lights, LeBron James sixteen years ago. Jimmy Butler, in the undersigned's opinion, was a very big fish but not a whale. Of course, the undersigned does not know what Minnesota, New York, and Golden State have in mind, but I do think that if Riley is willing to include Bam Adebayo, with whom Antetokounmpo is largely redundant and a significant upgrade, Miami could land this whale. And with Bam as the lynch pin, to the extent that Giannis has a say, and the reporting today from Shams Charania is that the org. and player are working collaboratively, I think Miami would vault over the two Leastern Conference suitors as a title contender and preferred destination for Giannis.
One Wig, One Purse, One Skirt
Deliverance-Born, Identity-Changing, Cross-Dressing, James Donald Bowman aka James David Vance, Married to "Non-White"
Dago Bimbo Pamela Jo Bondi Honored as Distinguished NAIF
"'Bimbo' has been used by some right-wing influencers and critics to describe Pam Bondi"
See Google, even your AI cites rightist racists use of bimbo to describe Bondi so it's okay!
"Which Way Western Man, the title of a 700-page antisemitic book, long a favourite among white supremacists" CBC
Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?
5:02 PM · Aug 11, 2025
·5.8M Views
"DHS, White House shared white nationalist song in ICE recruitment posts" SPLC
Which has been used as a rallying cry by the KKK, the Proud Boys, and other white supremacists.
On Jan. 9, multiple accounts run by DHS communications staff shared an image with the caption “We’ll have our home again” on Facebook and X (the website formerly known as Twitter). The image included the phrase and a picture of a man in a cowboy hat riding through a snowy field as a military plane flies overhead, as well as a link to apply to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). SPLC
Trump and Department of Labor: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage”
Which echoes the Nazi slogan "One People, One Empire, One Leader."
U.S. Department of Labor
@USDOL
One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.
Remember who you are, American.
7:08 PM · Jan 10, 2026
·23M Views
For an Administration as racist-fascist ss this...
[Dago Bovino's] social media suspension has raised a collective eyebrow on the right, as social media censorship has long been one of most animating causes for members of the president’s political base.
McCreesh, NYT
McCreesh, NYT
YES! I'm going to be offensive toward Trumpie whities as I can be today. You wouldn't dare censor me, would you Google?
Dago Bovino Neutered, Soc-Med Account Terminated :(
Bovino could be blasé about the bloodshed on American streets.
It is one thing to be demoted. It is another thing entirely to lose your social media megaphone. In this administration, there may be no worse fate.
President Trump rules by social media and it’s difficult to be a power player in his court if you’re not power posting, too. To lose one’s account is to lose the ability to brag about all the righteous work one does for him. It means losing the ability to tar one’s common enemy. How is one supposed to build a profile within the MAGA universe if one cannot post?
Mr. Bovino, 55, seemed to understand all of this. He used his X account to mix it up with journalists, lawmakers, critics, fans, Stephen King — whoever. CMDROpAtLargeCA became an expression of the persona he crafted for himself, every bit as important as the coat and the haircut.
Even though it became clear that Mr. Bovino would be the one to take the fall, it was somehow surprising that he would be suspended from social media. There was really nothing about his behavior online that wasn’t perfectly in keeping with how his superiors behave online.
...
It’s hard to imagine what was off-kilter about the way Mr. Bovino was using social media. After all, the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, the Labor Department and other sectors of this administration have spent the year posting references to neo-Nazi literature, QAnon conspiracy theories and white-supremacist song lyrics on official government accounts.
...
...the taming of CMDROpAtLargeCA offered a glimpse into an administration in damage control mode.It is one thing to be demoted. It is another thing entirely to lose your social media megaphone. In this administration, there may be no worse fate.
President Trump rules by social media and it’s difficult to be a power player in his court if you’re not power posting, too. To lose one’s account is to lose the ability to brag about all the righteous work one does for him. It means losing the ability to tar one’s common enemy. How is one supposed to build a profile within the MAGA universe if one cannot post?
Mr. Bovino, 55, seemed to understand all of this. He used his X account to mix it up with journalists, lawmakers, critics, fans, Stephen King — whoever. CMDROpAtLargeCA became an expression of the persona he crafted for himself, every bit as important as the coat and the haircut.
Even though it became clear that Mr. Bovino would be the one to take the fall, it was somehow surprising that he would be suspended from social media. There was really nothing about his behavior online that wasn’t perfectly in keeping with how his superiors behave online.
...
It’s hard to imagine what was off-kilter about the way Mr. Bovino was using social media. After all, the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, the Labor Department and other sectors of this administration have spent the year posting references to neo-Nazi literature, QAnon conspiracy theories and white-supremacist song lyrics on official government accounts.
EXCELLENT article by Shawn McCreesh, NYT
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Private Occurrences
So ends the ugliest, most disturbing 24 hours for my son and me that I can remember.
Public Occurrences January 27, 2026
Man Attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) During Town Hall
He jumped out of his seat in the front row, lunged and sprayed her with something.
"We will continue," she said. "These fucking assholes are not going to get away with this.”
The man was then removed from the room.
Trump has attacked Omar, [in posts] the first Somali-American elected to Congress, and the larger Somali-American community for weeks. E.g.:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
This is the gunman’s gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go – What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers? The Mayor and the Governor called them off? It is stated that many of these Police were not allowed to do their job, that ICE had to protect themselves — Not an easy thing to do! Why does Ilhan Omar have $34 Million Dollars in her account?
Why does Russian-agent-brain-damaged Trump think and type without transition, spelling, or grammar?
9:44 am:
Europe, India Isolate the Radical in M.O.A.D.
The "Mother of All (trade) Deals", so denominated by both sides, between the two was twenty years in the making, drastically reduces tariffs, and is in line with Canadian PM Mark Carney's "path" away from the erratic, irrational, unreliable America 2.0 under Trump. The American people need to be made to yelp in pain.
12:29 am:
DHS probes whether agents killed VA nurse following accidental discharge during Minneapolis ICE raid
DHS is investigating whether Border Patrol agents mistakenly believed they were under fire after an apparent accidental gun discharge, leading to the fatal shooting
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether U.S. Border Patrol agents thought they were being fired upon when one fatally shot Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street over the weekend.
The New York Post reported that an accidental discharge of Pretti's Sig Sauer P320 pistol, which was being held by an agent after it was taken away from him, may have made authorities believe their lives were in danger.
Source: 🦊
So ICEtapo were so befuddled, stupid and incompetent Trumpists, that their new line ONE OF US BEFUDDLED, STUPID INCOMPETENT TRUMPISTS MAY HAVE ACCIDENTALLY FIRED THE GUN OF THE MAN WE THEN SHOT 10 TIMES AND KILLED! OMG ICETAPO! Befuddled, stupid, incompetent Trumpist ICEtapo, 🙏🙏🙏USE THAT DEFENSE IN COURT WHEN YOU'RE CHARGED WITH UNLAWFUL HOMICIDE!
Speeches
As a subject for the remarks of the evening, the perpetuation of our political institutions, is selected.
In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.--We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them--they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. Their's was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; 'tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation, to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform.
How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny. Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country, from New England to Louisiana;--they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former, nor the burning suns of the latter;--they are not the creature of climate-- neither are they confined to the slave-holding, or the non-slave- holding States. Alike, they spring up among the pleasure hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order loving citizens of the land of steady habits.--Whatever, then, their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.
It would be tedious, as well as useless, to recount the horrors of all of them. Those happening in the State of Mississippi, and at St. Louis, are, perhaps, the most dangerous in example and revolting to humanity. In the Mississippi case, they first commenced by hanging the regular gamblers; a set of men, certainly not following for a livelihood, a very useful, or very honest occupation; but one which, so far from being forbidden by the laws, was actually licensed by an act of the Legislature, passed but a single year before. Next, negroes, suspected of conspiring to raise an insurrection, were caught up and hanged in all parts of the State: then, white men, supposed to be leagued with the negroes; and finally, strangers, from neighboring States, going thither on business, were, in many instances subjected to the same fate. Thus went on this process of hanging, from gamblers to negroes, from negroes to white citizens, and from these to strangers; till, dead men were seen literally dangling from the boughs of trees upon every road side; and in numbers almost sufficient, to rival the native Spanish moss of the country, as a drapery of the forest.
Turn, then, to that horror-striking scene at St. Louis. A single victim was only sacrificed there. His story is very short; and is, perhaps, the most highly tragic, if anything of its length, that has ever been witnessed in real life. A mulatto man, by the name of McIntosh, was seized in the street, dragged to the suburbs of the city, chained to a tree, and actually burned to death; and all within a single hour from the time he had been a freeman, attending to his own business, and at peace with the world.
Such are the effects of mob law; and such as the scenes, becoming more and more frequent in this land so lately famed for love of law and order; and the stories of which, have even now grown too familiar, to attract any thing more, than an idle remark.
But you are, perhaps, ready to ask, "What has this to do with the perpetuation of our political institutions?" I answer, it has much to do with it. Its direct consequences are, comparatively speaking, but a small evil; and much of its danger consists, in the proneness of our minds, to regard its direct, as its only consequences. Abstractly considered, the hanging of the gamblers at Vicksburg, was of but little consequence. They constitute a portion of population, that is worse than useless in any community; and their death, if no pernicious example be set by it, is never matter of reasonable regret with any one. If they were annually swept, from the stage of existence, by the plague or small pox, honest men would, perhaps, be much profited, by the operation.--Similar too, is the correct reasoning, in regard to the burning of the negro at St. Louis. He had forfeited his life, by the perpetration of an outrageous murder, upon one of the most worthy and respectable citizens of the city; and had not he died as he did, he must have died by the sentence of the law, in a very short time afterwards. As to him alone, it was as well the way it was, as it could otherwise have been.--But the example in either case, was fearful.--When men take it in their heads to day, to hang gamblers, or burn murderers, they should recollect, that, in the confusion usually attending such transactions, they will be as likely to hang or burn some one who is neither a gambler nor a murderer as one who is; and that, acting upon the example they set, the mob of to-morrow, may, and probably will, hang or burn some of them by the very same mistake. And not only so; the innocent, those who have ever set their faces against violations of law in every shape, alike with the guilty, fall victims to the ravages of mob law; and thus it goes on, step by step, till all the walls erected for the defense of the persons and property of individuals, are trodden down, and disregarded. But all this even, is not the full extent of the evil.--By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit, are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint, but dread of punishment, they thus become, absolutely unrestrained.--Having ever regarded Government as their deadliest bane, they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations; and pray for nothing so much, as its total annihilation. While, on the other hand, good men, men who love tranquility, who desire to abide by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, who would gladly spill their blood in the defense of their country; seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose. Thus, then, by the operation of this mobocractic spirit, which all must admit, is now abroad in the land, the strongest bulwark of any Government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed--I mean the attachment of the People. Whenever this effect shall be produced among us; whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and burn churches, ravage and rob provision-stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure, and with impunity; depend on it, this Government cannot last. By such things, the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it; and thus it will be left without friends, or with too few, and those few too weak, to make their friendship effectual. At such a time and under such circumstances, men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity, strike the blow, and overturn that fair fabric, which for the last half century, has been the fondest hope, of the lovers of freedom, throughout the world.
I know the American People are much attached to their Government;--I know they would suffer much for its sake;--I know they would endure evils long and patiently, before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come.
Here then, is one point at which danger may be expected.
The question recurs, "how shall we fortify against it?" The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;--let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap--let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;--let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.
While ever a state of feeling, such as this, shall universally, or even, very generally prevail throughout the nation, vain will be every effort, and fruitless every attempt, to subvert our national freedom.
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made.--I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed. So also in unprovided cases. If such arise, let proper legal provisions be made for them with the least possible delay; but, till then, let them, if not too intolerable, be borne with.
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. In any case that arises, as for instance, the promulgation of abolitionism, one of two positions is necessarily true; that is, the thing is right within itself, and therefore deserves the protection of all law and all good citizens; or, it is wrong, and therefore proper to be prohibited by legal enactments; and in neither case, is the interposition of mob law, either necessary, justifiable, or excusable.
But, it may be asked, why suppose danger to our political institutions? Have we not preserved them for more than fifty years? And why may we not for fifty times as long?
We hope there is no sufficient reason. We hope all dangers may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise, would itself be extremely dangerous. There are now, and will hereafter be, many causes, dangerous in their tendency, which have not existed heretofore; and which are not too insignificant to merit attention. That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.--Then, all that sought celebrity and fame, and distinction, expected to find them in the success of that experiment. Their all was staked upon it:-- their destiny was inseparably linked with it. Their ambition aspired to display before an admiring world, a practical demonstration of the truth of a proposition, which had hitherto been considered, at best no better, than problematical; namely, the capability of a people to govern themselves. If they succeeded, they were to be immortalized; their names were to be transferred to counties and cities, and rivers and mountains; and to be revered and sung, and toasted through all time. If they failed, they were to be called knaves and fools, and fanatics for a fleeting hour; then to sink and be forgotten. They succeeded. The experiment is successful; and thousands have won their deathless names in making it so. But the game is caught; and I believe it is true, that with the catching, end the pleasures of the chase. This field of glory is harvested, and the crop is already appropriated. But new reapers will arise, and they, too, will seek a field. It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them. The question then, is, can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Most certainly it cannot. Many great and good men sufficiently qualified for any task they should undertake, may ever be found, whose ambition would inspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial or a presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon?--Never! Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.--It sees no distinction in adding story to story, upon the monuments of fame, erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving freemen. Is it unreasonable then to expect, that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time, spring up among us? And when such a one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm; yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.
Here, then, is a probable case, highly dangerous, and such a one as could not have well existed heretofore.
Another reason which once was; but which, to the same extent, is now no more, has done much in maintaining our institutions thus far. I mean the powerful influence which the interesting scenes of the revolution had upon the passions of the people as distinguished from their judgment. By this influence, the jealousy, envy, and avarice, incident to our nature, and so common to a state of peace, prosperity, and conscious strength, were, for the time, in a great measure smothered and rendered inactive; while the deep-rooted principles of hate, and the powerful motive of revenge, instead of being turned against each other, were directed exclusively against the British nation. And thus, from the force of circumstances, the basest principles of our nature, were either made to lie dormant, or to become the active agents in the advancement of the noblest cause--that of establishing and maintaining civil and religious liberty.
But this state of feeling must fade, is fading, has faded, with the circumstances that produced it.
I do not mean to say, that the scenes of the revolution are now or ever will be entirely forgotten; but that like every thing else, they must fade upon the memory of the world, and grow more and more dim by the lapse of time. In history, we hope, they will be read of, and recounted, so long as the bible shall be read;-- but even granting that they will, their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been. Even then, they cannot be so universally known, nor so vividly felt, as they were by the generation just gone to rest. At the close of that struggle, nearly every adult male had been a participator in some of its scenes. The consequence was, that of those scenes, in the form of a husband, a father, a son or brother, a living history was to be found in every family-- a history bearing the indubitable testimonies of its own authenticity, in the limbs mangled, in the scars of wounds received, in the midst of the very scenes related--a history, too, that could be read and understood alike by all, the wise and the ignorant, the learned and the unlearned.--But those histories are gone. They can be read no more forever. They were a fortress of strength; but, what invading foeman could never do, the silent artillery of time has done; the leveling of its walls. They are gone.--They were a forest of giant oaks; but the all-resistless hurricane has swept over them, and left only, here and there, a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage; unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few gentle breezes, and to combat with its mutilated limbs, a few more ruder storms, then to sink, and be no more.
They were the pillars of the temple of liberty; and now, that they have crumbled away, that temple must fall, unless we, their descendants, supply their places with other pillars, hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason. Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.--Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws: and, that we improved to the last; that we remained free to the last; that we revered his name to the last; that, during his long sleep, we permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON.
Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the rock of its basis; and as truly as has been said of the only greater institution, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:
Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
Abraham Lincoln, January 27, 1838
The Crazy Season
/Sensitive City (4W) streaking, wins again, pounds Disney in Pawn Shop. Diz in opposite direction (4L)
"HORNETS", QUEENS! playing ROYALLY, reduce 7 foot sixers to five foot sixers in 130-93 Demolition.
Who knows with the Least?
Champion, Top Seed, Home Court Playoffs
1. Zollner
Homecourt Playoffs
2. Beans -5
3. Ontario State -6
4. Mamdani City -6.5______
Playoffs
5. Sensitive City -7 -Homie Hopeful-
6. Seven Foot Sixers -9.5 (.001 over Miami)
Play-In
7. Miami -9.5 -Playoff Hopeful-
8. Diz -10.5 -Playoff Hopeful-
9. Wind -11 -Playoff Hopeful-
10. Pigeons -12_______
The Least has coaleast. Nobody is a Champion Hopeful, nobody close. Only Sensitive City is a Homie Hopeful. The 7-9 Play-In mediocrities are Playoff Hopefuls; Pigeons are not; no team currently is a Play-In Hopeful.
Monday, January 26, 2026
RIGHT! In a democracy, you blame the PEOPLE who elected the leaders
"And then the last thing I would say is, the citizens of Minnesota, I'm wearing a Minnesota Star Tribune, I have to say the press is doing a great job there, the Minnesota Star Tribune and others.
"These are citizens that are not going to take this shit. And I know you call for leaders, but we are the leaders, right? Citizens are the leaders, not our politicians.”
From Pivot: Is Alex Pretti Shooting a Turning Point?, Jan 25, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719?i=1000746623248
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