D’Oh!
Glad I don’t work for the Pentagon — or this could be serious.
FLOP! New York Magazine Columnist Who HATED Filibusters Now Loves Them
Newsbusters | March 21, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick2021: Filibusters are evil and a hinderance to progress.
2025: Filibusters are a great way to stop the GOP agenda.
Both those sentiments sums up the wildly varying attitude of New York magazine columnist Ed Kilgore. Although he hated Senate filibusters in 2021 he now loves them as a way to slow down or halt Trump’s legislative program. To get an idea of just how much Kilgore hated filibusters when the Democrats held the Senate, let us look look at his February 6, 2021 article, “What the Filibuster Has Cost America.”
Directive from the POTUS himself:
Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Executive Orders
White House.gov | March 25, 2025 | The White HouseBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall consider, as appropriate, issuing instructions to agencies to enforce the following pre-certification criteria for disbursement requests submitted by COs (Vouchers) before they are certified for payment by the CO:
(v) Payees are not deceased individuals, to the greatest extent permitted by law.
I think my grammaw is deceased to the greatest extent permitted by law, so I should be OK.
Joe and Jill Biden take in ‘Othello’ opening night in NYC in first major outing since leaving White House
NY Post | March 24, 2025 | Emily Crane
Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love.
— Macbeth
Waltz said:
“A staffer wasn’t responsible. And, look, I take full responsibility.” Waltz also said that Goldberg’s contact “looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean is something we’re trying to figure out.”
Are the best and brightest in charge?
I mean: “Oppo” looks very much like “Let’s invite this guy to the non-secure text meeting on a commercial carrier without vetting, even though we control and invented the most secure communications on earth.”
Lazy F-ups. Either plain drunk or power-drunk. Action, Trump?
Is it really going to be April next week?
Results
Caroline Munro | No Preference | Catherina Murino |
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117 | 1 | 105 |
Olga Kurylenko | No Preference | Olga Bisera |
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152 | 0 | 42 |
Week of 3/26/2025
Match 1
Lois Chiles (Holly Goodhead) vs Gemma Arterton (Strawberry Fields)
Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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Lois Chiles | 0 – 2 – 0 | 142 – 0 – 214 |
Actress: Lois Chiles Nationality: American Bond Movie: Moonraker (1979) Synopsis:
Holly Goodhead was a CIA agent working undercover as an astronaut for the Hugo Drax organization. After spending the night together with Bond, the two met up at the top of Sugarloaf mountain in Rio. On the cable car ride down, Jaws tried to kill them, and Holly’s cover was blown. Bond managed to escape, and rescued Holly after the pair were almost killed in a rocket blast chamber. They went to space together and shot down Drax’s globes that contained fatal gases meant to kill the human race on Earth.
VS
Contestant | Record | Toal Scores |
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Gemma Arterton | 2 – 0 – 0 | 329 – 2 – 145 |
Actress: Gemma Arterton Nationality: English Bond Movie: Quantum of Solace (2008) Synopsis:
Strawberry Fields was an MI6 office worker in Bolivia at the British consulate. She was tasked with ensuring that James Bond flew back home, but she ultimately failed. She spent the night with Bond and went with him to Dominic Greene’s fundraiser, helping him escape by tripping one of Green’s henchmen. Greene got his revenge by leaving her dead on Bond’s bed, covered in oil from head to toe, in a throwback to Jill Masterson from Goldfinger.
Match 2
Corinne Clery (Corinne Dufour) vs Bérénice Marlohe (Sévérine)
Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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Corinne Clery | 2 – 0 – 0 | 223 – 1 – 96 |
Actress: Corinne Cléry Nationality: French Bond Movie: Moonraker (1979) Synopsis:
Corinne Dufour was Hugo Drax’s personal assistant and pilot. She flew Bond over Drax’s estate, giving him a guided tour of the Moonraker complex and flying him to meet Drax. After spending the night with Bond, Corinne revealed the location of Drax’s safe, where Bond photographed secret documents. Drax discovered this, and Corinne was killed by Drax’s vicious pack of dogs.
VS
Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
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Berenice Marlohe | 0 – 2 – 0 | 55 – 4 – 396 |
Actress: Bérénice Marlohe Nationality: French Bond Movie: Skyfall (2012) Synopsis:
Sévérine was a captive of Raoul Silva’s, who had taken her out of the Macau sex trade at a young age. Bond met Sévérine at a casino and convinced her that he could kill Silva and let her go free if she helped him out. After killing her bodyguards, Bond managed to escape the casino and travelled with Sévérine to Silva’s private Island. The pair were caught, and for her betrayal, Silva placed a glass of Scotch on Sévérine’s head and asked Bond to shoot it off. Bond purposefully missed, but Silva shot her in the head anyway, killing her and knocking off the Scotch. Bond coldly commented that it was a waste of good Scotch.