Did I call it, or what?
My post from March 26:
Mrs Winchester believed that if she ceased construction on the house, she would die. So continuing to add to it indefinitely was her bid for immortality. It didn’t work out. So there’s hope…
Only certain white Christians. We Latter-day Saints will not be among the chosen.
Much as I hate to confront an appealing and whacko story, I have to point out that Joe Nickell and other “paranormal” investigators have debunked this myth, or at least thrown some cold water on it.
The belief that Winchester built her house in its strange, maze-like manner to confuse and keep spirits from harming her and that her sanity was questionable started in the mid-1890s and has grown in scale since her death.[5][4][14] The doors and windows that open to nothing, the unusually shallow stairs, the stairs that end in a ceiling, interior barred windows and trap doors in the floor are used to confirm Winchester’s spirituality and poor state of mind.[14] According to paranormal investigators Nickell and Ignoffo these house oddities have simple explanations. The barred windows were previously exterior windows blocked off as the house additions grew. The doors and windows that opened to nothing resulted from the 1906 earthquake and the severe damage that happened to the house.[18][14][4] The small steps were built because of Winchester’s declining health.[10] The trap doors were constructed in a greenhouse room where excess water could run and be piped to an outdoor garden.[
In the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), when it added the Winchester home to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, they incorrectly stated that the construction lasted 38 years, and reiterated that Winchester believed she must continue building or she would die. HABS also incorrectly listed the purchase date as 1884 when county records state the purchase was not until 1886.[8]
There were some articles published against the superstitious slant. In one, an unidentified acquaintance refuted these superstitious accusations, stating that they were nonsense and that Winchester was an unusually sensible woman.[5][18]
Trump has his priorities straight:
President Donald Trump on Sunday night broke out some props as he spoke with reporters on Air Force One about one of his biggest obsessions.
With the war in Iran passing the one-month mark, the stock market plunging into correction territory, gas prices soaring by $1 a gallon or more over the past month, and the partial shutdown of the federal government entering its seventh week, the president showed off oversized renderings of the ballroom he is trying to have built at the White House.
“This is a view of the columns as they are going to be made, they’re gonna be hand-carved, isn’t that beautiful? Top of the line,” Trump said as he displayed the image below. “They’ll be Corinthian, which is considered the best, most beautiful, by far.”
It’s too bad we don’t have Ricardo Montalban to say it anymore : “Rich Corinthian columns!”
I think that they aren’t trying to remove Native American citizenship (even this SCOTUS would slap that down, based on the 1924 law). They are citing it as precedent birth on US soil doesn’t make one a citizen if the parents have another allegiance. I don’t agree, but the argument isn’t without merit (and stare decisis is important to this Court when it supports their and/or Trump’s desired outcome).
Among my list of bad rap names is MC LIX.
It’s a little known fact that one of the reasons the Nazis started using things like gas chambers to kill people was that just shooting them caused a lot of stress for the Nazis doing the shootings. Yeah, it turns out that being a weapons grade asshole is stressful, so no, I’m not sympathetic at all towards these people. Fuck them.
When I was a little kid, and first reading, I’d see the Roman numerals for the publication date in some of my books, and thought it was someone’s name or something. In the process, I’d amuse my parents when I tried to pronounce MCMLXVI or whatever (“Mick Mil Icks Vee”).
This cannot be stated too often.
Okay. 
Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 33%.
In one poll, at least.
That’s certainly a low point for a single poll. At least for the last while.
Nate Silver’s poll aggregate now has Trump at 39.7% approval, 17.4% underwater, lowest of this term.
On the economy, he has him at 36.8% approval, again lowest of this term (and trending down)
45 was not an unknown quantity when got his 47 with 77 million votes, winning the popular vote and Electoral College.
This also cannot be stated too often.
Trump is once again posting AI- generated renderings of buildings that will never exist, this time a “Trump Library” comprising a megaskyscraper right near the shore in what I assume is supposed to be Florida, with Air Force One parked in the lobby, golden statues, fighter planes, and a 1:1 replica of the White House, ballroom included.
I loved the big gold Trump triumphantly raising hand after near assassination portion.
Wouldn’t the world be a lot different if that day didn’t go how it went? And I’m strictly talking about how it would’ve gone if assassin wasn’t there, not that he killed him. It is a big deal to his believers.
Can I muse if he was assassinated?
People voting for him in 2016 I can sort of forgive. He is, after all, a consummate con-man.
People voting for him in 2020 do not get that pass. They had four years to figure out what he was and what he’d like to do. That they were indifferent or – worse – enthusiastic makes my gorge rise.
People voting for him in 2024, with a plurality his best showing, can go fuck themselves with a rusty hacksaw blade. They had eight years to figure it out, plus J6, plus an additional four years of listening to him whinge bullshit about stolen elections.
And a convicted felon. And now an actual war criminal.
Typical bully nonsense. Don’t make me hit you. In this case, it’s Don’t make me kill your noncombatants.
He forgot to rename Tallahassee.
I think North Korea hasn’t named as many places after their own idol as today’s pubbies have for the felon. But, hey, today’s Wizard of Id is on point.
Is taco good or bad for your health; if only there were a competent Surgeon General of the US to ask. (The formatting is from the original.)
I guess that’s a reasonable if not charitable view to take.
It’s not mine. Without the 64mil of 2016 you don’t get the 77mil of 2024.
In my view the adherents and boosters of 2016 are the prime enablers of this clusterfuck who gave it credence and “Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out”.