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News You Can Use

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How can you use this news? By learning the lesson: don’t do this.

Oh, and also, Christmas is only 4 months away.

St. Pete woman wearing hot dog costume arrested after putting toilet paper on neighbor’s vehicle
Fox13 News | 8/22/2025

The St. Pete Police Department said Marcia Morgan was arrested Monday for disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.

Officers said Morgan was upset that her neighbor was parking near her yard when the incident started. They said she, while dressed in a hot dog costume, started leaning against her neighbor’s vehicle.

She also ripped toilet paper and started placing it all over the vehicle, the responding officer said in her arrest affidavit.

She’s accused of being intoxicated and refusing to cooperate with the investigation, according to SPPD.

“Started leaning against her neighbor’s vehicle” can cover a bewildering variety of scenarios.

At a Loss for Words

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Pritzker signs bill allowing immigrants to become driving instructors
WAND News (Illinois) | 08/21/2025 | Mike Miletich

Illinois started to provide standard driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants last year. Gov. JB Pritzker has now signed a bill into law to allow them to become driving instructors.

In 2013, Illinois led the country as one of the first states to issue temporary visitor driver’s licenses to help drivers who passed road tests regardless of immigration status. The 2024 law allowed undocumented immigrants to receive standard IDs without the large purple mark stating not valid for identification.

House Bill 3125 will allow anyone with a TVDL for at least two years to teach driving courses. Sponsors said this change will help expand the people eligible to become driving instructors without reducing qualifications for the job.

“Some of these qualifications include good moral character,

like residing in a country illegally

a criminal background check,

ICE included?

passing an exam from the Secretary of State’s office on traffic laws and safe driving practices, while being able to physically operate a motor vehicle safely and graduating from an accredited high school,” said Sen. Karina Villa (D-West Chicago).

Potential driving instructors must also be authorized to work in the United States.

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The new law will take effect on Jan. 1.

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Science Nook: Where All The Castaways’ Clothes Came From

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From Wikipedia:

… it turns out that in addition to the black hole interior region that particles enter when they fall through the event horizon from the outside, there must be a separate white hole interior region, which allows us to extrapolate the trajectories of particles that an outside observer sees rising up away from the event horizon. For an observer outside using Schwarzschild coordinates, infalling particles take an infinite time to reach the black hole horizon infinitely far in the future, while outgoing particles that pass the observer have been traveling outward for an infinite time since crossing the white hole horizon infinitely far in the past (however, the particles or other objects experience only a finite proper time between crossing the horizon and passing the outside observer).

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Rendering my chances of hooking up with MaryAnn nil?

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Oppo in science class: “Um-hm. Boobs.”

Mike Brady

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Did Mike Brady really afford a wife, a maid, six kids, an adopted kid, a dog, a house in a nice neighborhood, two cars, a vacation in Hawaii, a story, and wide ties, on an architect’s salary?? He must’ve been a pretty good architect.

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Music and Sanity Interlude

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Failed politician Stacey Abrams says Trump is a “Grand Ayatollah” with “mystical power.” – “Elections are not real.”
X (Breaking 911)

WATCH: Failed politician Stacey Abrams says Trump is a “Grand Ayatollah” with “mystical power.”

“Elections are not real.”

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🎶🎶🎵 🎵🎶🎶

“Let me take you down

‘Cause I’m going to.”

Hogbelly Fails

“Elections are not real”

So I don’t know why she hung about

Her 15 Minutes Feels Forever

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— Lemon/Bacardi, “MAGA’s Mystical Power Tour”

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Straight Line of the Day: Helpful Ideas for Disney Corp.

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So, it’s not just the Democratic Party:

Disney Is Reportedly Desperate To Get Male Audience Back After Years Of Pushing It Away
Outkick | August 21, 2025 | Ian Miller

On Thursday, Variety reported that sources say that Disney Studios is actively soliciting ideas and pitches from creatives that it hopes will lead to new movies that appeal to younger men. Specifically, males aged 13-28. That’s not a misprint; a movie studio is trying desperately to figure out stories and ideas that might appeal to teenage guys and young male adults.

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Sidebar — An apt and ept writer:

The masculine stampede from the Democrats
American Thinker | 22 Aug, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

… Now Democrats can’t define what a dude is; they want to wokify the military into some gaudy pageant for drag queens who fear guns; and they’ve replaced “politically incorrect” humor with stern lectures. No wonder American men are fleeing the Democrat Party like it’s a sexually transmitted disease.

Speaking of STDs, one of the Democrat lectures that Americans are forced to endure is that young people shouldn’t “discriminate” against potential partners who have HIV. Democrats have even gone out of their way to decriminalize the intentional act of infecting someone with the virus. This is the same political party that calls men “homophobic” and “transphobic” if they refuse to date “trans women” (psychologically disturbed men wearing push-up bras). …

Perhaps that’s why the “right-wing” pejorative has lost most of its sting since Obama “fundamentally transformed” America into an oasis for femboys and pansexual furries. Can you imagine how many teenage boys have asked, “So the ‘Nazis’ get to date pretty girls who wear Sydney Sweeney’s jeans?” Once they realize that Democrats merely graffitied the Republican Party’s front door with lies and slurs and that the average Republican voter just wants to live well and be free, the choice of future political affiliation is easy. Democrats live in fantasy; Republicans prefer reality.

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Straight Line of the Day: Other “Oopsies” in the Judicial System That Would Be Kind of Bad: …

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Shocking Moment Judge Announces Wrong Verdict in Murder Trial: ‘Didn’t I Say ‘Not’?’ [Police Murder]
New York Post | Aug. 21, 2025 | Patrick Reilly

A judge in Atlanta left a courtroom gasping after he mistakenly delivered a devastating “guilty” verdict for a man charged with murdering a police officer — when the defendant was found “not guilty” on all counts.

Another New Word

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Vishing. You heard it here first. Well, second, if you read Channel News Asia.

Can people tell a real voice from an AI-generated one? We put it to the test
Channel News Asia

AI-related fraud attempts surged by nearly 200 per cent in 2024, according to a cybersecurity firm. CNA takes a closer look at deepfake voice phishing, an increasingly common method used by scammers.

“Hi, how have you been? So I heard about this restaurant that just recently opened up. Want to go check it out the next time we meet?” These were the innocuous sentences used in a simple experiment to find out if people in my social circle could distinguish my real voice from an AI-cloned version.

The result was some confusion – but more importantly, the ease with which the imitation was generated suggests that more attention should be paid to the phenomenon of deepfake voice phishing, or vishing.

♪ “When you vish a porno star . . .” ♪

Millions of dollars have been lost to scammers using cheap yet increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence tools to impersonate the voices of real people.

… AI-related fraud attempts surged by 194 percent in 2024 compared to 2023, with deepfake vishing emerging as one of the most commonly used methods, said the company’s senior fraud analyst for the region Yuan Huang.

“Vanity, V.D., Vishing.”

— Bilious Caesar