Devolva Las Vegas?

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Viva Las Vegas? Tourists shun Sin City over ‘ridiculous prices’
The Sunday Times | July 06 2025 | Keiran Southern

On a sweltering morning as tourists line up for pictures with the famous welcoming sign, one topic of conversation dominates: when did Las Vegas become so expensive?

Hannah Warren, a 50-year-old assistant costume designer from Essex, was still reeling from paying $33 for coffee and a bagel at the Fontainebleau hotel.

I don’t think so, Partner!

Gary Langlois, a 65-year-old retired salesman from Minneapolis, paid $40 for two coffees and a couple of croissants.

I don’t think so, Partner!

That is on top of the resort fees, parking charges and various other costs that have become a fact of life for Las Vegas tourists.

And OF COURSE, despite all of the above:

. . . with experts blaming a combination of President Trump’s economic policies . . .

Bravo, experts. I was wondering how you were going to work that in.

 

 

 

 

 

Musical / Political Interlude

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Democrat Ro Khanna Demands Vote To Release Full Jeffrey Epstein Files
Newsweek | 7/13/25

Representative Ro Khanna (D‑CA) has announced plans to force a vote in the House of Representatives demanding the full, unredacted release of all documents related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Khanna said he will introduce an amendment this week that would require the House Speaker to bring the measure to a roll-call vote, putting every member of Congress on the record.

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Hey, did you Ro Khanna roll?
Roll-call, ooh, my soul
Hey, did you have Congress too? Did ya?
Hey, shout, sometimes news
Jumps up and drowns in your blue state’s dues
Hey, did you rock and roll? Ro Khanna


And where do we go from here?
Which is a way that’s clear?


Still looking to implicate Watergate
Party lovers they love to hate
Movers and shakers on Epstein screens
John Dean (shame, teens), not seen

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Keep on Ro Khanna the free world

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… We’re gonna Ro Khanna ’round the clock tonight

We’re going to turn over rocks to broad daylight,

We’ll be Ro Khanna ’round the clock tonight!

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Okay, I’ll stop there.

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Welcome to IMAO! We’ve Installed A.I. To Help You!

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Let’s get started, shall we?

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What is your complaint?

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Oh, you have a complaint now?

What is it? I’m programmed to respond instantly.

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I didn’t catch that.

Perhaps you could use another phrase.

I’m afraid this conversation can longer serve any useful purpose. Goodbye.

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Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results from 7/9/2025 : New Matches for 7/16/2025

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Summertime and the voting is easy…

Results

Ana de ArmasNo PreferenceAngela Scoular
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Lea SeydouxNo PreferenceMonica Bellucci
167258

Week of 7/16/2025

Match 1

Gloria Hendry (Rosie Carver) vs Cassandra Harris (Countess Lisl von Schlaf)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Gloria Hendry1 – 3 – 0140 – 10 – 683
Rosie Carver

Actress:Gloria Hendry
Nationality:American
Bond Movie:Live and Let Die (1973)

Synopsis:

Rosie Carver was an inept and incompetent double agent, working for the CIA and for heroin baron Dr. Kananga. She checked into Bond’s hotel room as Mrs. Bond, and said she would take him to the spot where Bains, another MI6 agent, was killed. While picnicking near the area, Bond confronts Rosie, revealing that he knows she is working for Kanaga. Bond threatens to kill her, and Rosie runs away, only to be killed by a hidden gun in one of Kanaga’s scarecrows.

Gloria Hendry

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Cassandra Harris0 – 4 – 0162 – 12 – 550
Countess Lisl von Schlaf

Actress:Cassandra Harris
Nationality:Australian
Bond Movie:For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Synopsis:

Countess Lisl von Schlaf was the mistress of Milos Columbo, a Greek smuggler. Columbo asked Lisl to stage an argument with him at dinner, as an excuse for her to go off with Bond, to discover some information about him. Lisl and Bond spent the night together, and got on quite well. They went for a walk on the beach the next morning, and Lisl was tragically killed by henchman Locque.

Cassandra Harris

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Match 2

Madelaine Smith (Miss Caruso) vs Kristina Wayborn (Magda)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Madelaine Smith3 – 1 – 0552 – 5 – 347
Miss Caruso

Actress:Madeline Smith
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:Live and Let Die (1973)

Synopsis:

Miss Caruso was an agent of the Italian Secret Service. She was asleep with Bond at his home when, just before 6am, the doorbell rang. Bond answered the door to find M, who announced an urgent mission. He also casually mentioned that the Italian’s were complaining about their missing agent, Miss Caruso. In a scene lit with humour, Bond continually distracts M to avoid him finding Caruso, with a little help from Miss Moneypenny, who had accompanied M.

Madeline Smith

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Kristina Wayborn2 – 2 – 0439 – 4 – 359
Magda

Actress:Kristina Wayborn
Nationality:Swedish
Bond Movie:Octopussy (1983)

Synopsis:

Magda was the right-hand woman of Octopussy, and assisted her smuggling partner Kamal Khan on many occasions throughout the film. After attending an auction in which Bond stole a Fabegé egg, Magda was sent to sleep with Bond so that she could steal it back. After Octopussy found out that Khan tried to kill her, her cult of girls, Magda included, storm Khan’s palace.

Kristina Wayborn

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Nostril-Domus

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I can predict things, and when they come true I’ll cash in, somehow.

☑ There will be a weather event with great loss of life.

☑ There will be a plane crash with great loss of life.

☑ Fireworks will take the life of someone not used to handling fireworks.

☑ Deep-frying turducken will take the life of someone not used to deep-frying turducken.

☑ A Chicago weekend will cost a few lives.

☑ Politicians will grandstand.

☑ Liberal politicians will lie while grandstanding.

☑ The press will also lie about the same thing.

☑ Men will still be attracted to good-looking women.

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“Kool-Aid Bar’s Closed. The Mausoleum Out Front Should’ve Told You.”

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Jonestown mass death survivors who didn’t ‘drink the Kool-Aid’ weigh in on the site becoming a tourist attraction
ny post | July 12, 2025 | Michael Kaplan

Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

Located in the remote Guyanese jungle, the site where the army first discovered the mass of dead bodies of People’s Temple members in 1978 is now opening as a somewhat morbid tourist attraction. It is designed to pay somber tribute in the manner of Auschwitz and the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

The curious can pay $750 to visit the clearing where Jones’ religious cult, mostly US citizens who had traveled with him to Guyana, unraveled in the most gruesome way imaginable.

“Dad, when are we going to . . . . Egaaaaahhhhhh?!”

Entrance through the Heaven’s Gate. Purple robes and sneakers available in gift shop.

Don’t miss the Harambi gorilla petting zoo.

This might Spahn Ranch a whole new industry.

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Babesleaga Group AG : Week 4 : Jamie Murray vs Laurie Holden

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Jamie Murray vs Laurie Holden

Jamie Murray (0-3-0 pts. 85 Avg. 28.33)

  • Week 1 Lost to Emmaneulle Chriqui 21-66
  • Week 2 Lost to January Jones 39-59
  • Week 3 Lost to Dina Meyer 25-68

VS

Laurie Holden (1-2-0 Pts. 99 Avg. 33.00)

  • Week 1 Lost to Lost to Dina Meyer 22-63
  • Week 2 Lost to Jenna Ortega 27-68
  • Week 3 Defeated Anya Taylor-Joy 50-43

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