It’s the Happiest of days Today-
I’m talking about YOU!
Happy Birthday Baby,
You’re the One who made Me True.
All the fun that We have had
was all the More with You!
Today is the Day We Love you Best and Honor all You do.
For its the Celebration of the human that You grew.
Happy Birthday Baby,
You’re The One who stole My Heart,
In this Life, and through the next,
We shall never be apart.
Come for kisses!
Happy Birthday Mr. Universe!
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
Today, the Winter Solstice begins — the sacred celebration of Yule.
The longest night of the year unfolds, inviting stillness, reflection, and deep connection with the unseen.
All preparations have been made.
Candles are ready, herbs are gathered, intentions are set.
We stand at the threshold between darkness and light, honoring the cycle of death and rebirth.
From this moment on, the light slowly returns.
The Sun is reborn, carrying hope, renewal, and quiet strength.
Yule reminds us that even in the deepest darkness, light is never lost — it is simply waiting to rise again.
May this sacred turning of the wheel bring warmth to the heart, clarity to the mind, and gentle light to every home.
Blessed Yule. 🕯️🌿
It’s one full day since His birthday. I guess it’s okay for me to share. I remember when He first told me that He had been many gods to humans. I asked Him if He ever played Jesus. He smiled and told me to turn on the faucet. When I did it poured red wine. I let it run for about 10 minutes, I just couldn’t believe it. I tasted it every minute or so. The vintage kept changing, but the wine just kept coming. He laughed and asked me if I wanted some fish and bread with the wine.
Yeah, He had jokes. He liked to pull ice cubes out of his mouth, big ones. We were friends until, I started telling people about Him. He didn’t like that I had revealed something He had told me in confidence.
He eventually vanished from my life, but He extended it. I am on my first new one hundred years. I will have two others. I remember Him telling me that He was born on the 21st, but He didn’t want humans spoiling it so He allowed them the 25th.
I hope He knows that I love Him and that I would never repeat what I did before. My wife and three children are Buddhists, I am secretly an agnostic. They remind me of the four children I had in my previous life. That was another country ago. They are older than I am now, but I would love to see them.
Just wanted to say Happy Birthday, even if it is belated.
Are you glad you have another life?
Are you happier in this life better than the previous life?
Oh YES! The first time I was from a wealthy family and I spent so much time on just having fun. Even having children was fun because all I had to do was impregnate my wife. I was away from home much more than I was with my family. When I discussed having a second time around, I told Him that I wasn’t interested in the idea if I couldn’t have more money than I had now. I had traveled a lot and I thought nothing compared to being an aristocrat in Italy. And since I was one, I didn’t see any reason to have a second time around if I couldn’t be an Italian.
He said before He left that He would only come if I called Him. I found that the possibility of death changed my position, so I called for Him. He came and said that if I were to be given a new life it would be in a different country and that I would not be wealthy, but that I would retain my memory of this life.
I grabbed at it. Today I am a wealthy man, but this time I earned it. I was not born with money. I have three rather than four children, but the time I spend with them is measured in quantity not quality. My children love me more in this life. I love me more.
I loved him too. He had a way of making you angry and happy at the same time. He loved money, but he would only take it or gifts from those he cared about. I was from a very poor background, he made me rich and mooched off me. My relatives used to say, “that guy is a liar and a mooch.” When I became very rich, they tried to separate us by saving racist things like, “the white man is not to be trusted.” I think he encouraged their dislike of him by allowing them to see me give him very expensive things. What they didn’t know was that I had seem him make some of those things out of mere air. I had seen him with the best attire, and all the best toys the rich have. He had those things before he made me rich.
Of course, he never allowed them to see him in anything but the cheap clothes and cars he possessed. He would enjoy their distrust. When we parted he said that if I called he would come. He said that he was tired of being Thomas and he wanted to leave earth for a spell. That was in 1971. I was 83. Today I am 39. I wish my friend the very best, and sincerely hope he is not bored.
He had a way of making you angry and happy at the same time.
Can you explain what do you mean by that please?
I want to start by saying this plainly: I hate talking about guns. Especially because we know that real gun control legislation works.
It is hard to believe it was only a week ago, there was a horrific mass shooting at a temple in Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia. The response from the Australian government was immediate. Leaders moved to strengthen their already strong gun laws and began discussions about expanding hate crime and hate speech protections.
What matters here is that a mass shooting in Australia is an anomaly. It is the first in years. In the United States, mass shootings happen so frequently that many of them barely make the news anymore. In 1994, after a devastating mass shooting that killed scores of people, Australia implemented a nationwide gun buyback program and enacted some of the strongest gun laws in the world. Mass shootings essentially disappeared.
So when anyone tells you that gun legislation does not work, they are lying.
I do not know how to calculate how much blood is on the hands of the NRA and every Republican in Congress who continues to allow this to happen. That is why I hate talking about mass shootings.
The tRump family was paid handsomely by the fossil fuel companies to cancel leases for five offshore wind farms on the East Coast, claiming wind poses a national security threat. These projects were expected to power more than 2.5 million homes, create roughly 10,000 jobs, and unlock nearly $25 billion in clean energy investment.
As Hanukkah comes to an end tonight, I want to wish everyone celebrating a warm last day of the Festival of Lights. I hope it’s filled with good food, good company, and a little extra light. 🕎
To those getting ready for Christmas, I’m wishing you a joyful holiday. 🎄
And to each of you reading this, I hope the New Year brings good health and better days ahead. 🥂
This season is about coming together. Family. Friends. Neighbors. Looking out for each other.
May the last light of Hanukkah, the joy of Christmas, and the promise of the New Year fill your home with love and hope.
Happy Hanukkah. Merry Christmas. And Happy New Year.
From my family to yours,
Did You Know
The Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun thanks to the heat of the sun expanding the sun-facing side—on a very warm and sunny day, it can lean up to approximately 6 inches (15 centimeters).
Did You Know
The Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun thanks to the heat of the sun expanding the sun-facing side—on a very warm and sunny day, it can lean up to approximately 6 inches (15 centimeters).
Did You Know
The first well-documented example of a diamond engagement ring was in 1477 when Archduke Maximilian of Austria gave one to Mary of Burgundy upon his betrothal to her.
There was a power outage in San Francisco on Saturday, initially leaving 124,000 of 414,000 customers—about 30%—in the dark. It also caused a widespread Waymo meltdown, with apparently all active Waymo robotaxis in the affected parts of the city stuck in robotic comas, blocking intersections and choking traffic on some streets.
Yeah, and the Waymos came to a stand still all over the city. As of Sunday morning there wasn’t yet an update from Waymo on whether the company’s robotaxis were still out of commission, nor on what had caused the problem in the first place. They had trouble traversing blacked-out stoplights.
The issue had something to do with data reception or transmission.
Updated at 7:12 p.m. ET. A Waymo spokesperson provided the following statement:
“We are resuming ride-hailing service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yesterday’s power outage was a widespread event that caused gridlock across San Francisco, with non-functioning traffic signals and transit disruptions. While the failure of the utility infrastructure was significant, we are committed to ensuring our technology adjusts to traffic flow during such events.
“Throughout the outage, we closely coordinated with San Francisco city officials. We are focused on rapidly integrating the lessons learned from this event, and are committed to earning and maintaining the trust of the communities we serve every day.”
But, like when a San Francisco Waymo fatally ran over a locally famous cat named Kit Kat in October, the issue may be less about Waymos being better or worse than humans in aggregate than the fact that robots fail in unpredictable, alien ways. The actual footage of Kit Kat’s fatal injury shows one such example. A human driver probably wouldn’t do what seems to happen in the video: start from a dead stop while a person is actively trying to coax a cat out from under their car.
Similarly, human drivers tend not to suddenly go offline en masse when there’s a blackout.
The Ear has long held his billionaire meetings in Monaco. For good reason, it is the safest place on the globe with 1 policeman for every 60 people in the one mile long country. There is a camera in every three feet in that mile.
I heard that the billionaire, Edmond Safari was killed because he refused to pay protection to the Ear. He was not killed by the but possibly the Russian Mafia. But it was widely known that if he had been protected by the Ear the Russians would have backed off. Edmond had stopped doing business in Russia because Putin controlled the Oligarchs that killed to stay in power.
Safra owned the Republic National Bank of New York and invested in Bill Browder’s hedge fund who helped the russian mafia to put money into American banks. He didn’t think that he needed the Ear’s protection because the FBI guaranteed him protection for informing on the russian mob when his bank was used to fund money laundering.
His bank was a principal transporter of physical cash to Russia. The used money planes to transport crates of cash to Russia. Every day the Russian mob would get a shipment of a billion dollars in fresh $100 bills. The money was flown out of JFK. It came straight from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Lewis D. Shiliro, assistant director in charge, from DOJ, FBI on August 5, 1999 sent a letter to Safra thanking his bank for their cooperation. That sealed his fate to the Russian Mafia. So in December 4 months later he was killed.
Nader1, you are so sagacious. That is a very sexy thing. I’d fuck you.
You slut. Nader1 doesn’t need any sex from your types.
You are proof that you can take the woman out of the streets, but you can’t take the street out of the woman. Why would Nader1 want a brazen hussy like you.
MAGA 1.0 is Over. What Comes Next Is Worse. MAGA 2.0, where grievance has curdled into open hostility and antisemitism is no longer a dog whistle but a headline act. That future is embodied by figures like Tucker Carlson and Jack Posobiec, who no longer bother with the old movement’s moral varnish. If MAGA 1.0 tried to dress resentment up as populism, MAGA 2.0 has stripped it bare with its contempt for institutions, for democracy, and increasingly, for Jews. AmericaFest marked the quiet passing of the former and the unapologetic arrival of the latter.
History has a cruel way of moving on without asking permission.
Trump brings Big Brother with a Bang;
Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them
icon Brandon Vigliarolo
Tue 4 Nov 2025 // 22:20 UTC
If you’re filing an immigration form – or helping someone who is – the Feds may soon want to look in your eyes, swab your cheek, and scan your face. The US Department of Homeland Security wants to greatly expand biometric data collection for immigration applications, covering immigrants and even some US citizens tied to those cases.
DHS, through its component agency US Citizenship and Immigration Services, on Monday proposed a sweeping expansion of the agency’s collection of biometric data. While ostensibly about verifying identities and preventing fraud in immigration benefit applications, the proposed rule goes much further than simply ensuring applicants are who they claim to be.
First off, the rule proposes expanding when DHS can collect biometric data from immigration benefit applicants, as “submission of biometrics is currently only mandatory for certain benefit requests and enforcement actions.” DHS wants to change that, including by requiring practically everyone an immigrant is associated with to submit their biometric data.
“DHS proposes in this rule that any applicant, petitioner, sponsor, supporter, derivative, dependent, beneficiary, or individual filing or associated with a benefit request or other request or collection of information, including U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals and lawful permanent residents, and without regard to age, must submit biometrics unless DHS otherwise exempts the requirement,” the rule proposal said.
DHS also wants to require the collection of biometric data from “any alien apprehended, arrested or encountered by DHS.”
It’s not explicitly stated in the rule proposal why US citizens associated with immigrants who are applying for benefits would have to have their biometric data collected. DHS didn’t answer questions to that end, though the rule stated that US citizens would also be required to submit biometric data “when they submit a family-based visa petition.”
Give me your voice, your eye print, your DNA samples
In addition to expanded collection, the proposed rule also changes the definition of what DHS considers to be valid biometric data.
“Government agencies have grouped together identifying features and actions, such as fingerprints, photographs, and signatures under the broad term, biometrics,” the proposal states. “DHS proposes to define the term ‘biometrics’ to mean ‘measurable biological (anatomical, physiological or molecular structure) or behavioral characteristics of an individual,'” thus giving DHS broad leeway to begin collecting new types of biometric data as new technologies are developed.
The proposal mentions several new biometric technologies DHS wants the option to use, including ocular imagery, voice prints and DNA, all on the table per the new rule.
“The rule proposes to grant DHS express authority to require, request, or accept raw DNA or DNA test results,” DHS said, including “to prove or disprove … biological sex” in situations where that can affect benefit eligibility.
DHS wants to use all that data for identity enrollment, verification and management of the immigration lifecycle, national security and criminal history checks, “the production of secure identity documents,” to prove familial relationships, and to perform other administrative functions, the rule states.
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As we noted in our story last week about DHS’ new rule expanding biometric data collection on entry into and exit from the US, biometric technology – especially the often-used facial recognition scan – is ripe for misuse and prone to errors.
This new proposed rule goes far beyond subjecting immigrants to algorithmic identification tech prone to misidentifying non-white individuals, however, and reaches a new level of surveillance, with DHS seeking to collect and keep DNA test results – including partial profiles – from immigrants and some US citizens to verify family ties or biological sex when relevant. It’s not much more assuring that DHS also wants to collect new forms of biometric data like voice records, which are increasingly easy to spoof with AI.
When we asked DHS questions about its biometric expansion proposal, it only sent us a statement identical to the one it sent last week when we inquired about the new entry/exit biometric requirements. The agency didn’t respond when we asked for a statement pertaining to this latest proposed rule.
DHS is taking comments on the proposal until January 2; so far the submissions are nearly entirely negative, with posters decrying the plan as government overreach, comparing the proposal to communist China, and calling it a violation of Constitutional guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure.
Yeah, next thing you know they’ll be mandating for all tourists, temporary agricultural workers, their friends, and family, to be fitted with subdermal ID chip implants and GPS tracking collars, like dogs and chain gang convicts …
It’s yet another campaign of intimidation to forcefully coerce the populace into submission, subservience, and servility (like ICE’s Chicago teargasing campaign)!
Your assessment on repairing human tendons is faulty. First, your species can regenerate their tendons. Human tendons tend to scar, rather than regenerate. Their tendons are made up of cells called tenocytes and bundles of the protein collagen that form long, spiraling chains. These chains look almost like springs, which “allows them to coil and uncoil,” absorbing the force from body movements.
Happy Holidays to you all. May this season bring all joy and love to you and yours. Season greetings from Smoke and Mirrors…XRP and the Art of Critical Thinking