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You are lost in the woods. There is a fork in the road ahead, one fork leads home and the other to a bear’s cave. You don’t know what path to take. The paths look the same. You approach a house where identical twin brothers live. One always tells the truth, one always lies. You are allowed to...

Washington Post Pentagon gives ultimatum to defense firms to build weapons as Iran war depletes stocks The Pentagon is asking the U.S. defense industry to rapidly escalate the production and delivery of weapons, including munitions that are in extreme shortage due to the war with Iran, according...

I'm not opposed to comfort. BUT ! I'm not opposed to personal safety. It seems odd that President Trump would not recall the history of Pan Am flight #103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Kudos for creature comforts. BUT ! Considering what Trump places at risk while cruising at altitude over open...

I can't get past Facebook's membership wall, not even to lurk. So for me Facebook links @CV.us are dead-ends. It seems there's a conspiracy against those without smartphones. Even the U.S. federal government is in on it. If either of you knows how to gain lurk access there, please let me know.

Or let the malware sleep, to awaken only after a certain date. I got a jolting education in computer malware reading about Stuxnet. I did not know that.

"Odd" indeed. It exposes Trump as a spectacularly bumbling incompetent. Iran was vastly less a problem before Trump undertook to teach Iran a lesson. I suspect that depends on the details, in some cases yes, in other cases no. Is it wrong for the West to caution mainland China to respect the...

Perhaps Trump perceives two possible outcomes: a) failure, in which case one more severe demonstration of Trump incompetence, or worse b) success, thereby demonstrating a how-to to Trump's numerous adversaries at home and abroad, that might land Trump in fed pen Beaumont, Texas. Or let the ICC...

It's S.O.P. for the master of disaster. When heat from the current scandal becomes intolerable, Trump starts another one. note: I'd like to see Greenland impound the Halliburton litter, and sell it on condition buyer removes if from Greenland sovereign territory.

Israel rejects Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza, Netanyahu says BBC George Wright Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US President Donald Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza, stating that no military pull-out will happen until Hamas is "genuinely" disarmed. Trump's Board of Peace...

No More Bear Butchering On Cornell Campus !

By definition, I thought.

This evening NBC-TV News reports Iran demands: - The U.S. never threaten or insult Iran in any language - Withdraw its military forces from around Iran - Lift sanctions and pay back assets to Iran President Trump has a tiger by the tail.

We're running out of water, despite floods reported elsewhere in the U.S. AZ Central Lake Mead hits lowest levels since 1937 as Arizona braces for cuts Brandon Loomis, Arizona Republic / Fri, August 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM GMT-5 Lake Mead's water levels reached a new low early Aug. 7, a record that...

National Security How the U.S. Squandered Its Strategic Advantage Idle threats and munitions shortages have boxed Trump in. By Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan Lemire The United States is running out of missiles. After five months of war with Iran, stockpiles of long-range weapons are so low...

Canada can deal. In the U.S. we have The Bill of Rights which includes our First Amendment right to free speech. BUT ! Popular speech, "I love you Mommy!" doesn't need much protection. It's unpopular speech which our First Amendment most prominently protects. Our Skokie precedent provides...

If not the only risk, a prominent risk of nude images of minors includes child porn. How such free speech restrictions should apply to family photographs of a family newborn on a bearskin rug, above my pay grade. But in matters of child welfare my preference is to err on the side of caution...

Splendid. BUT ! Those that sincerely believe prayer can reasonably be expected to do that have been disinformed. Prayer may not do that. That does not mean prayer is bad, or worthless or inferior. It's different. All that too cheerful for you? No problem. Beachgoers warned after deadly...

point: counterpoint: The notion of a static climate is delusion. Change is inevitable, ever-present in our cosmos. A tiny bit less certain is whether climate progression / evolution is anthropogenic. Scientists seem to have reached consensus that it is. BUT ! We don't absolutely NEED to...

Tequila mockingbird ?

Chip-level testing my help find some. Bad guys may try to evade such testing by putting a timer / calendar trigger on malware (software or hardware). I'm w/ R5 on this. Such matériel should be made domestically.