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Ay yi yi, the week this guy is having!
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TJM definitively ranks Otto Preminger's movies.

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Trump Says 'We Have the Makings' of a Peace Deal in Ukraine It sounds nice, but please take Winston Wolf's advice. [CBD]

Brigitte Bardot, Star of 'And God Created Women' and 'Contempt,' Dies at 91
If you have forgotten what she looked like, try this. [CBD]

This isn't Christmas Eve fare, and I thought about waiting until the 26th to post it, but supposedly an amateur detective has solved the Zodiac killer mystery. And the horrific Black Dahlia killing. He says it's the same person! I always thought of them as very far apart in time but I think Black Dahlia was mid-fifties (nope, 1947) mid and the Zodiac murders began in 1968 so it's possible it's the same killer.

The killer, if it's the same man, would have been in his 20s when he killed the Black Dahlia and his 40s when he did the Zodiac murders. Possible.

A little caveat: I saw someone snark on Reddit, "The Zodiac case gets solved more often than Wordle." There are a ton of coincidences here, supposedly, like a Zodiac cipher being solved by the name "Elizabeth." Elizabeth Short was the name of the so-called Black Dahlia.

If you don't know about the Black Dahlia, don't look it up. Just accept that it's grisly on the level of Jack the Ripper.

Yes, the named suspect resembles the police sketch of Zodiac.

Here's a podcast with the amateur sleuth who claims he cracked the Zodiac.
Daily Mail article.
Link to get around the LA Times' paywall for their article.

Podcast: The great Trump fleet? The economy is solid, Somalia's corrosive effect on America, Merry Christmas, and more!

The "Donroe Doctrine:" Trump means to end the terrorist-supporting Ghost Fleet of oil tankers used to fund Iran's Qods Force and Hezballah. He might just happen to dethrone Maduro in the process.

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Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published. Contact OrangeEnt for info: maildrop62 at proton dot me Cutting The Cord And Email Security Cutting The Cord [Joe Mannix (not a cop)] Cutting The Cord: It's Easier Than You Think [Blaster] Private Email and Secure Signatures [Hogmartin] Moron Meet-Ups TBD	« Saddam's Funniest Home Torture Videos \| Main \| Weekend Cogitation Announcement » June 19, 2004 That's So Damn Smart-Sounding I Wish I Understood What the Hell it Meant Doug, commenting upon something I said over at Allah's Paradise, actually attacks honesty as a virtue. I'm always a big fan of 1) contrarianism 2) cynicism and 3) interesting writing generally. I don't know if I agree with any of the following, but damn, it sure sounds pretty smooth as you go through it. "Again: Anger is his right. Dishonesty about that anger is not." Nietzsche called honesty "the youngest virtue," which was his deft way of pointing out that it hadn't been considered a virtue for very long. Right, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," so the prohibition against lying in court has been around for thousands of years. But all that praise of "honesty," "sincerity," or "authenticity" is rather new. So I'm going to sit here and speak honestly and say that if clever deceit--not Sullivan's kind, the clever kind--isn't a virtue, then it's at least virtuoso, which is better. On the other hand, my honesty may be a moral virtue, but it surely isn't virtuoso; it's a weakness born of my malicious enjoyment of wounding the weak-minded with the truth. And still I indulge my vice of honesty. Really, I hope we win the "War on Terror" with every strategem of deceit (and violence) and I don't care whether we have a right to be dishonest. There are occasions when it's just lovely to be dishonest and we're in the middle of one. In case it needs to be made clear, THIS post isn't about Sullivan. It's about the wussiness of going on about honesty as if it were just the greatest thing. Praising honesty and sincerity a wussy value! Well! I'll give Doug one thing-- that position is, if nothing else, a novel one. posted by Ace at 02:40 AM Comments That sounds like it was written by Bill Clinton's lawyer. Posted by: Sweet Jesus on June 19, 2004 10:10 AM He's a Cynic in the most classical Greek sense. I thought that died with the Enlightenment. Posted by: The Black Republican on June 19, 2004 10:30 AM Ah, c'mon, Ace, that's not so new a stand. Machiavelli attacked virtue as a political failing hundreds of years ago. at least, and I'm sure he wasn't a new idea to him either. It's like saying "truth is for people who can't make up a good lie." Maybe I'll go look up Greek Cynicism ... Posted by: Dirge on June 19, 2004 11:17 AM Ah, c'mon, Ace, that's not so new a stand. Machiavelli attacked virtue as a political failing hundreds of years ago. at least, and I'm sure he wasn't a new idea to him either. It's like saying "truth is for people who can't make up a good lie." It might be old news to you. But not to me. I'm a moron. But yeah, I realized it probably wasn't new. But it was new-ish to me. I hadn't read Nietzche's quote, for example. Posted by: ace on June 19, 2004 12:16 PM It seems like "Doug" or should I say "Douglas" likes to dance alone with his flowery prose, but would suffer, oh so brutishly, if there was no one there to watch. Abu Ghraib You...."Doug" Posted by: sonofnixon on June 20, 2004 01:28 AM Hey, if you're a moron Ace, I'm twice the moron you'll ever be. You regularly post information here I've never heard, and analysis I wouldn't have come up with on my own. So there. Posted by: Dirge on June 20, 2004 08:07 PM Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Comments: Remember info?	Now Available! 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New Yorkers are shocked after footage goes viral of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Tenant Director stating that white people will be HEAVILY impacted after they transition property "as an individual good to a collective good" [CBD] Samurai sword-wielding man removes squatters for desperate San Francisco homeowners No crazier than most things in CA! [CBD] Forgotten 80s Mystery Click Ch-ch-ch-ch-chaka khan, chaka khan The global launch industry in 2025: The real space race is between SpaceX and China [CBD] Podcast: The Somali grift might be the biggest financial scandal in American history, will the Mullahs finally fall? CFPB gets a lifeline from a corrupt judge, Brigitte Bardot...RIP, and more! Farage’s New Year’s Appeal to Britons – ‘Reform is Britain’s Last Chance.’ [CBD] Lurker extraordinaire announces impending surgery: Victor Davis Hanson: 'Not Yet and Not Today' Best wishes for a speedy recovery! 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There are a ton of coincidences here, supposedly, like a Zodiac cipher being solved by the name "Elizabeth." Elizabeth Short was the name of the so-called Black Dahlia. If you don't know about the Black Dahlia, don't look it up. Just accept that it's grisly on the level of Jack the Ripper. Yes, the named suspect resembles the police sketch of Zodiac. Here's a podcast with the amateur sleuth who claims he cracked the Zodiac. Daily Mail article. Link to get around the LA Times' paywall for their article. Podcast: The great Trump fleet? The economy is solid, Somalia's corrosive effect on America, Merry Christmas, and more! The "Donroe Doctrine:" Trump means to end the terrorist-supporting Ghost Fleet of oil tankers used to fund Iran's Qods Force and Hezballah. He might just happen to dethrone Maduro in the process. Recent Comments Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. : "[I]168 Anyway, chicken shawarma bowls in the works ..." 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