Everyone grandstanding and trying to thread the needle for their side.

GOP saying Biden broke the law and should have been charged but Trump somehow still shouldn't have.

Dems saying Hur shouldn't have said he was too old and feeble to be charged but still shouldn't have been charged.

Took these last summer. But haven't posted anywhere.

Sony A7r IV, Nikon 20mm 1.8

This turned into quite a brawl. Top three player-going-into stands moments: 1) Malice at the Palace, 2) Bruins fight Ranger fans in ‘79, and 3) …

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No Ritchie Blackmore and of course Jon Lord is dead.

All on defense, shocker.

2025 center Trevin Jirak was was an integral piece for Valley, who repeated as 4A state champions on Friday. I caught up with the Tigers' coach, BJ Windhorst on Jirak's development, and how he could be a fit with the Hawkeyes.

STORY: https://iowa.rivals.com/news/coach-speak-trevin-jirak-and-valley-repeat-as-4a-champions

Won the North Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary yesterday.

Stay classy Republicans! 🙄

The Trump-endorsed candidate quoted Adolf Hitler in a 2014 Facebook post that normalizes the German dictator’s stance on racial pride.

In other posts, Robinson has minimizedthe horrors of the Holocaust, claimed a “satanic marxist” had made the movie Black Panther to pull “shekels” out of Black audiences, likened women getting abortions to murderers, and derided gay people as “filth” and “maggots.”
He has also expressed archaic views about women’s role in society, telling a Charlotte-area church in 2022 that Christians are “called to be led by men.”

“God sent women out … when they had to do their thing, but when it was time to face down Goliath, [He] sent David. Not Davita, David,” Robinson said at the time.

Says the Biden he talked to at a fundraiser this year is not the Biden of 2000, not even the Biden of several years ago. I understand this is a big deal due to his large donations.

Almost died of Covid like Trump and still acts like it’s a joke.

Congrats to all you ****os who think like Steve. You tools suck at life.

Describes Trump as a violent pedophile, but funny how the media isn’t talking about that at all?

Tell me why I screwed up by doing this....

Eight years ago, Verizon had the best signal in some of the off-the-beaten path places I visit.

Today? Not so sure.

T-Mobile definitely has the best 5G coverage of all the carriers. And the customer service so far BLOWS Verizon away!

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez faces new counts on Tuesday, as he was charged with obstruction of justice in a superseding indictment in his bribery case.

Federal prosecutors in September accused Menendez and his wife of accepting bribes— including gold, cash, a luxury vehicle and payments toward a home mortgage—from businessmen Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes in exchange for advancing their interests, as well as those of the Egyptian government while Menendez was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to court documents. Menendez stepped down from the role following the indictment. He and his wife Nadine Menendez deny all charges against them.

In the indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Menendez and his wife face additional charges, resulting in a new total of 18 criminal counts against the senator. The new charges leveled against Menendez include conspiracy, obstruction of justice, public official acting as a foreign agent, bribery, extortion and honest services wire fraud.

Menendez again denied any wrongdoing and has accused prosecutors of targeting him.

Read the Full New Indictment​

Newsweek has reached out to Menendez via email for comment on Tuesday.

Many of the new counts also involve alleged schemes with the three New Jersey businessmen, who have already been linked to the senator's previous indictment, but prosecutors now charge Menendez directly with bribery, extortion and acting as a foreign agent rather than only conspiracy.

The charges come the day after a judge rejected Menendez's claims that the search warrants that led to his initial charges were unconstitutional, and just days after one of his co-defendants, Uribe, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Uribe told a judge last week that he provided Nadine Menendez with a Mercedes-Benz "in return for Senator Menendez using his power and influence as a United States senator to get a favorable outcome and to stop all investigations related to one of my associates."

"I knew that giving a car in return for influencing a United States senator to stop a criminal investigation was wrong, and I deeply regret my actions," he said.

However, in the new charges, prosecutors allege that Menendez and his wife paid Uribe back for the payments he had made on the Mercedes and falsely referred to that money as a "loan" in conversations with their lawyers, deliberately mischaracterizing the transaction.

Menendez has resisted calls to resign, as his trial is expected to begin Wednesday.

The charges pose a challenge to Menendez's reelection bid, as the Democratic senator is set to face Garden State voters in November.

Ice cream sandwiches. The good old fashioned run of the mill ice cream sandwiches. Haven’t changed a bit. Nor should they ever. Still get the shit on your fingers and everything. God bless them.

We have lawsuits going forward in court that were pulled allegedly because of threats to the person pursuing the lawsuit. We have new document drops of Epstein tapes that suggest Trump was involved was involved with forced sex acts of children. And we have interviews where Trump is asked about Epstein and his demeanor suddenly changes to defensiveness and the great desire to change the subject.

Legally we all know Trump is protected. But what are the actual odds that he was involved in child rape?

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed three of President Biden’s close aides, with the panel’s Republican leader alleging that the aides are attempting to “cover up President Biden’s declining cognitive state inside the White House” by limiting access to him.
“President Biden is clearly unfit for office, yet his staff are trying to hide the truth from the American people,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), said in a statement.


The three aides are Annie Tomasini, who serves as White House deputy chief of staff; Anthony Bernal, assistant to the president; and Ashley Williams, deputy director of Oval Office operations. In letters to the White House, Comer cited recent reports from Axios and other outlets that detailed how the aides had “shielded” Biden, such as limiting his encounters with senior political officials as well as butlers who serve the president in his living quarters.
The White House did not immediately reply to questions about whether the three aides would sit for depositions, which the committee tentatively scheduled for later this month.
The “subpoenas are a baseless political stunt intended for [Comer] to get media attention instead of engage in legitimate oversight,” Ian Sams, a White House spokesperson, wrote in an email.
The House Oversight Committee on Sunday also requested an interview with Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, citing his reported refusal to order a cognitive test for the 81-year-old president and other matters related to the Biden family. The White House has not said if O’Connor will comply with the request, which was not accompanied by a subpoena.

Unless you fall into one of these categories, I think we can all agree that the wingers are both stupid. Which one is more offensive and why?

I did a search on Masterworks because I thought I'd mentioned this before, but I didn't find anything. I saw an article about Masterworks in Kiplinger a few months ago. On a concept level it is intriguing, you pool money to buy art. They have almost $1 billion in cash and assets at this time. You buy fractional shares and either get the proceeds when the piece of art is sold, or you can trade it to another investor.
I thought of it again because when Mrs. Lucas and I went to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis a few weeks ago to see the Keith Haring exhibit I noticed that quite a few pieces were on loan from Masterworks. So, the artwork is out being shared, and marketed at the same time.
Side note, the Haring exhibit is excellent. If you happen to be in Minneapolis try and catch it.

Or just another Wednesday

EPA was signed into law by Nixon in 1970

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I have to do this soon for my Doctor.

I have a feeling I'm going to mess it up...literally. 🤢