New York National Guard troops and New York State Police troopers will be deployed into the subway system to help riders feel safe after a spike in transit crime, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday.

I caught myself doing this today in ChatGPT.

Going through some investment strategies and ending with a “Thanks”.

After this I thought to myself… why the F did I just do that..does anyone else do that??

This one is a doozy.

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When Donnie comes marching home again,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The men will cheer, the boys will shout,
The ladies, they will dance about,
And we'll all be there,
When Donnie comes marching home!

The old church bells will peal with joy,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
To welcome home that daring boy,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The village lads and lassies, they
Will scatter roses by the way,
And we'll all be there,
When Donnie comes marching home!

Get ready for the jubilee,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give the hero three times three,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The laurel wreath is ready now
To place upon his loyal brow,
And we'll all be there,
When Donnie comes marching home!
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DEVELOPING: MN Management and Budget Office now projecting deficit of $5.1 billion in 2028-29 state budget, including projected inflation. In short-term, MN has $616 million surplus for 2026-27. State budget officials releasing details now in St. Paul.

Show that you can bet $1.00 on Kamala, and still walk away with $0.00.

"No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong," the president wrote.

Good for him!:
Sheriff Chad Chronister, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration, withdrew his name from consideration for the office on Tuesday, only three days after he was nominated.
Sheriff Chronister, who is in charge of the sheriff’s department in the Florida county that is home to Tampa, announced his withdrawal in a message on social media, saying that as “the gravity of this very important responsibility set in,” he had changed his mind about accepting the nomination.
“There is more work to be done for the citizens of Hillsborough County and a lot of initiatives I am committed to fulfilling,” he wrote. “I sincerely appreciate the nomination, outpouring of support by the American people, and look forward to continuing my service as Sheriff of Hillsborough County.”
With 48 days still to go before Mr. Trump takes office, Sheriff Chronister is the second of Mr. Trump’s appointments to back out of a nomination. Last month, Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman, withdrew his name from consideration as attorney general after it became clear that he did not have enough votes to pass confirmation in the Senate amid allegations of sex trafficking and drug use. And a handful of other picks are facing potentially rocky paths in the Senate.

From the outset, Sheriff Chronister was a surprising choice to run the D.E.A., the nation’s top drug enforcement agency, which operates in more than 60 countries and oversees complex and diplomatically difficult investigations against Mexican drug cartels and Chinese money launderers.
While he had a 30-year background in local law enforcement, he had no experience in the geopolitical aspects of the drug war. Mr. Trump has arguably made that war more challenging by threatening to impose tariffs on Mexico and China if the countries do not stem the flow of drugs and immigrants into the United States.
After his nomination, Sheriff Chronister immediately came under fire from some of Mr. Trump’s most ardent right-wing supporters for his decision to vigorously enforce Covid-19 regulations during the pandemic. His critics pointed in particular to his arrest of a Florida pastor in March 2020 for holding a church service in violation of lockdown rules.
Current and former D.E.A. agents also started circulating a video of Sheriff Chronister’s son, George Zachary Chronister, rapping about his involvement in a knife attack against another man during a brawl in 2017. The son was sentenced to 22 months in prison for the stabbing and later released a rap video describing it, titled “Slash Yo Face.”
Sheriff Chronister’s withdrawal from consideration to run the D.E.A. was a setback for Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, whom Mr. Trump selected to run the Justice Department after Mr. Gaetz dropped out. Ms. Bondi is close to Sheriff Chronister, who worked in a lower position in the Hillsborough County sheriff’s office when Ms. Bondi was in charge of one of its sister agencies, the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office.

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A Pennsylvania native who once worked in construction and as a hotel bellhop, Sheriff Chronister married into a family with ties to Mr. Trump more than a decade ago. His father-in-law, Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., has donated to Mr. Trump’s political campaigns and received a pardon from Mr. Trump in 2020.
The pardon expunged Mr. DeBartolo’s guilty plea in 1998 stemming from an extortion plot connected to a riverboat casino license that a company he invested in was seeking in Louisiana.
When Sheriff Chronister was named to run the D.E.A. on Saturday night, many longtime agents had no idea who he was.
His withdrawal opens a possible path to nomination for two D.E.A. veterans who were previously under consideration for the top job: Derek Maltz, the former head of the agency’s special operations division, who has a wealth of experience in international cases, and Ray Donovan, the former chief of operations, who played a central role in the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.

For four years, keepers at Birdland Park and Gardens waited patiently for Maggie, their prized female king penguin, to lay an egg.
She kept flirting with the male penguins. There was even mating, particularly with Frank, another penguin in her enclosure.

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But never did Maggie, who was imported from Denmark as part of a breeding initiative, hatch a chick, perplexing officials at the wildlife park in the Cotswolds, central England.

The mystery was finally solved this year, when a DNA test conducted on Maggie’s feathers revealed that the 10-year-old penguin had been incorrectly sexed the whole time.
“Maggie is in fact a male penguin,” said Alistair Keen, Birdland’s head keeper, in a phone interview that he squeezed into his surprisingly busy media schedule Wednesday, as news of the DNA results spread across Britain, apparently delighting the country.
“We’ve renamed him with the fine Scandinavian name of Magnus,” he said, a nod to the penguin’s origins.


Keen’s team of birdkeepers once had high hopes that the penguin would lay an egg. In 2020, the year that Maggie — as the penguin was then known — came to sexual maturity, it was seen flirting with Frank, another king penguin in the enclosure. “But no egg was laid,” said Keen. “Same again in 2021. Same again in 2022. In 2023, they were seen mating quite regularly.”



The flirting involved various behaviors, including making noises and posturing: “They do a low trumpeting call, which is basically them saying, ‘I’m free and I’m single. Who’s interested?’ And whoever’s interested then shouts back,” said Keen. “They’ll even check out their partners’ feet, as they incubate their egg on their feet.”
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Keen recalled one moment in particular when he and his colleagues were particularly hopeful for a chick. “At one point we thought we had an egg, because Frank sat with his tummy tucked over his feet,” said Keen. “But he was incubating a leaf.”
When the DNA test eventually came back showing the penguin as male in October, Keen said he was not that surprised — there had been signs.

“I’d had my suspicions when Maggie or Magnus began mating the males,” said Keen, referring to Magnus’s assumption of the dominant role in the act. “Which female penguins don’t do.”


The keeper’s suspicions rose further when the penguin set its sights on others, too, he said: “She was also seen mating another one of our males called Spike.”
Size is not a guarantor of a penguin’s sex, but taller king penguins tend to be males. “As it reached maturity, this penguin has looked very tall compared to everyone else,” Keen said. “So I wasn’t 100 percent surprised when I found out.”
The revelation that Magnus was forming same-sex bonds the whole time is not surprising. Such bonds between penguins, like many other animals, have been documented around the world.

Earlier this year, a same-sex penguin pair in Sydney, who had been together for six years, made global headlines after one sang a tribute when the other died. In New York City’s Central Park Zoo, a pair of penguins raised a chick from a fostered egg, inspiring the children’s book, “And Tango Makes Three.”


Their behavior can also be less cute. In the Netherlands, two males went on an egg-stealing rampage — taking one from a heterosexual pair and another from a “lesbian” couple the following year.
“Magnus/gie,” as Keen also referred to the penguin, arrived at Birdland in 2016 as part of a bid to boost wildlife’s number of female king penguins and its overall penguin population.
“We’ve told the breeding program, so I’m kind of hoping that gives them an excuse to give me another female,” said Keen. The mix-up was understandable given how easy it is to misidentify a penguin’s sex, he added.

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive the American electorate for putting this clown back in office:

Attorneys for Donald Trump asked a Georgia appellate court Wednesday to consider the “unconstitutionality” of the ongoing 2020 election interference case against him now that he is the nation’s president-elect and order the presiding judge to dismiss all charges against him.

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The motion asks the Georgia Court of Appeals to find that it no longer has legal jurisdiction over the matter because it is unconstitutional to prosecute a sitting president “in any way.” It asks the appeals court to order Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the criminal racketeering and conspiracy case, to dismiss the indictment against Trump.


Trump attorney Steve Sadow wrote in the motion that “the continued indictment and prosecution of President Trump by the State of Georgia are unconstitutional. Trump respectfully submits that upon reaching that decision, this Court should dismiss his appeal for lack of jurisdiction with directions to the trial court to immediately dismiss the indictment against President Trump.”
A spokesman for Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Des Moines metro developer, charity founder is claimed to owe $70 million, Watchdog finds​

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Daniel Pettit painted himself as a bold and adventurous developer, who appeared to have not only a Midas touch but a heart of gold.
A one-time mayoral candidate in Waukee, Pettit announced some of that city’s most ambitious projects before the pandemic hit – from a massive 40-acre, $101 million entertainment district called “The Quarter” to an 88,000-square-foot event and office space nearby.
In 2021, Pettit convinced West Des Moines leaders and lenders to back two major commercial-residential projects, The Village at Sugar Creek and Banks Landing, on Booneville Road and South 88th St., north of Des Moines University’s new campus.


Along with his former wife, Rachael, the Drake University graduate founded a faith-based nonprofit called Trailhead International Builders, once enlisting former President George W. Bush to speak at Hy-Vee Hall to help raise money. Pettit said the organization built churches in some of the world's most impoverished countries, from Guatemala to Cuba, an effort that led him to be recognized as one of 10 Outstanding Young Americans by the Jaycees, now known as JCI USA.

But the 43-year-old also had an appetite for lavish things, buying a mansion worth at least $2.4 million with a nine-hole golf course and fishing pond in Johnston, a $1 million painting from pop artist Rob Prior in Miami, and a Bugatti Chiron Super Sport, a rare sports car, from Texas.
And as 2023 draws to a close, Pettit finds himself drowning in financial trouble, hounded by lenders and unhappy former investors and wanted by the law after being held in contempt of court in three civil court cases. On Nov. 30, a Polk County judge sentenced Pettit to six months behind bars for repeatedly ignoring court orders or failing to respond to subpoenas – but he failed to show up Friday morning to voluntarily begin his jail sentence for contempt, court documents show.

Among the willful conduct by Pettit this year that Judge Jeanie Vaudt noted in the sentencing: Pettit liquidated accounts this spring and summer, tried to write a check for a $275,000 Michael Jordan jersey, and transferred around $100,000 from a personal account to a joint account with a woman in Nevada, where he'd headed up a failed cannabis cultivation business. In August, Pettit also applied for life insurance with a $10 million death benefit to be awarded to his own revocable trust, the judge found.
"To put it plainly, it appears that defendent Daniel E. Pettit has consistently not been forthcoming to plaintiffs about his true financial condition and the kinds of results he could deliver to his investors," Vaudt's ruling said. "Many individuals and companies – big, medium and small – potentially have been economically damaged by (his) empty promises and lack of candor as to his true financial position... It is reasonable to assume that some of the money funding that lavish lifestyle came from defendant Daniel E. Pettit's investors."
In September, Pettit claimed in a financial statement submitted to the court to have cash assets of $2 million and total assets of $56 million. He listed his liabilities at $68,000, court documents show.
But documents reviewed by Watchdog in more than two dozen cases filed in Iowa courts show banks have foreclosed on properties he or his corporations purchased. Contractors from consulting to construction have filed mechanic's liens on his property. Investors from Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, New York and Utah have obtained court judgments worth millions. Several former business partners have accused him of fraud while Pettit defaulted on tens of millions he borrowed.

The Watchdog review revealed judgments and debts of nearly $70 million claimed against Pettit and limited liability corporations in which he is involved. Mechanic's liens taken out against his properties in West Des Moines by others owed money – some for a few thousand, others for almost $800,000 – add to that total.

Police question whether Daniel Pettit was involved in staging a holdup in his home​

Pettit, who did not respond to an email and phone call seeking an interview, has no criminal record in Iowa.
But as his troubles mount, Pettit also finds himself at the center of a law enforcement investigation in Johnston, court documents show. Search warrant documents filed in Polk County District Court show Johnston police seized Pettit’s cellphone in late September to conduct a data search after he reported an armed robbery at his home on Sept. 10.
A search warrant application made after the robbery shows he reported the theft of three handguns, two Rolexes worth almost $100,000, about $25,000 worth of Cartier jewelry and a Bentley that he was driving but did not belong to him.
A preliminary search of Pettit's phone after the robbery showed he “promised and/or made payments” for sex and sexually explicit photographs, police allege. The officer involved in the investigation said he had probable cause to believe further evidence of prostitution would be found in the phone, according to search warrant documents filed in Polk County.

A report on the case by Johnston police obtained by Watchdog alleges that Pettit had communication with the robbery suspect and that police sought access to communications on his cell phone to determine "whether Daniel had involvement in the planning and/or staging the incident."
As he faces a barrage of legal trouble, Pettit has already placed the home he owned with his ex-wife on 26 acres in Johnston into a revocable trust under his name alone.
Rachael Pettit, the mother of his two minor children who divorced him earlier this year, has sought to distance herself from him legally and financially, court documents show. Reached Friday, she said she could not comment on the advice of her attorney.
Before Pettit's sentencing, Steven Katz, the head of a brokerage and advisory firm in New Jersey who recruited investors for Pettit and represented some plaintiffs in court cases, said Pettit belongs behind bars.
“Defendant Pettit needs to be confronted with the magnitude of these proceedings and the severity of his failures to comply with the legal process,” Katz said in the affidavit.
Katz told Watchdog Nov. 30 he would not comment on any of the legal action against Pettit, but said he was still in contact with Pettit and that Pettit owed him a lot of money.

David Bruck, a New Jersey attorney representing Sari Kramer, a psychologist who invested more than $500,000 through Katz with Pettit, said she is one of many people damaged by Pettit's failure to pay on loans. “As far as I can see, it was all a fraud,” Bruck said.

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