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  Alex Pretti  So now we have names behind who murdered Alex Pretti. At first I couldn't comprehend the complete irony that Pretti was shot by two men of Mexican ethnicity. But then I thought of my girlfriend from high school, Maria, who was Mexican American. She lived most of her young life in a nice American suburb in the Midwest, living with her grandparents who spoke no English. Maria was the product of a one night stand. Her absent father lived in Chicago while her mother raised her other children in southern Texas. I first believed Maria was my savior and friend. My first introduction into her true nature arose when we were driving through Elgin, heading to her Uncle's home for the weekend. They both started speaking in Spanish while they pointed and laughed at a group of men standing outside a home. I didn't understand them until Maria used a slur I definitely understood. It was a shock to me and I felt sick to my stomach. We didn't talk this way in my home. How ...

  Can a movie be both absolutely beautiful and horrifically racist? There was some chatter yesterday regarding the movie, 'The Searchers.' It stars John Wayne who was a wonderful actor, there's no doubt regarding that. He would have made a great Maga. I'm sure he would be supportive of the orange man in office, but my feathers are ruffled when others speak for the dead, so I shouldn't presume anything. Perhaps, he would have seen the light, eventually. Back in the day, 1972, after Sacheen Littlefeather spoke at the Oscar's, regarding the plight of Native Americans depicted on film and in real life, Wayne had to be held back because he wanted to harm her. When people watch the movie they all have different viewpoints. Yes, the main character, Ethan Edwards despises Native Americans. He considers them all savages. After his niece is kidnapped by a local tribe he is obsessed with finding her, first out of family duty, then out of rage. His niece is now tainted. She...

  Since when did making $7 million on a $40 million production become a success? I'll tell you! When the Magas want you to believe this to be true. The White House is claiming the documentary, 'Melania,' made $10 million, the best a documentary has done in years. That might be true. A little context here. Documentaries rarely make big money. They also don't cost $40 mil to make. And we all know where that $7 million is coming from. Barron dug into his crypto account.   I know I should let this this Melania debacle go because I have so much more doom scrolling to keep me occupied, but I just can't help myself. I'm mad at Joanna Coles for liking the documentary. She found it to be slick and hip, like a MTV music video. We learn nothing new about the first lady other than she definitely doesn't sleep with the cankle man and Barron is as weird as we believe him to be.  It really is a show about nothing, directed by a scumbag creep who is looking to get back int...

  Really, what can I say? I have read only a small amount of the latest release of the Epstein files. The degradation, the depravity is limitless. The way these men talked to each other about women just drops me to my knees. It's like they're ordering livestock and demanding the best of the roundup. These are men who have daughters. These are men who absolutely knew what they were doing was wrong as they write to Epstein in coded messages and slimy innuendo. It's the bro club protecting each other so they can rape girls.  Now that we have seen more of Epstein's empire, where he not only provided powerful men with girls, he kept track of all their dirty secrets to possibly use against them. I never really believed Epstein was murdered in prison, but after seeing how perverted these men are and how desperate they needed Epstein to remain silent, it is absolutely possible he was murdered. I'm glad he's dead, but that leaves the possibility that someone who didn...

I learn something new every day. I don't have to know Latin (well, maybe a little) to see where this word is going. This seems to be the latest malady our orange man suffers from. Here's the definition... Okay, that's of Greek origin. Uh, loquacity... (Be right back..) That's Latin for running of the mouth! For those in the know, Trump has always rambled. I prefer not to listen to him anymore if I can help it, so I cannot, at this point verify his incessant word flow. It would not surprise me. We can see he is visually falling apart. It reminds me of an episode of, 'Tales from the Dark Side,' or something like that, where old gramps refuses to die. He sits at the dinner table, also rambling whilst body parts fall into his soup. No one believes me that this show exists, but I have seen it. And now we can all see what happens when the regime cannot stop the melting man from channeling his most inner chaos onto the rest of us. Eventually, someone has to take Grandp...

  It's no surprise the White House likes to use AI images where they post them on the official  government website. They have no problem lying right to our faces, so this is nothing new. The ten images The Guardian shared are clearly interfering with reality and should be dismissed as most of what comes out of Trump's and Karoline Leavitt's mouth are, with the exception of a few that will tell you everything you need to know about this regime. The people in the White House remind me of the bullies I went to school with. They are relentless in their cruelty. They have fine tuned their ability to dig deep inside and pull out their most vile thoughts and behavior. They feel immense satisfaction, like a serial killer, after they have hit their mark. For the most part, those who became the victims of their tormenters stood mute. For me, I just wanted to do my time, as if a prisoner running out my sentence, knowing there would be no help from the guards, in our case, teachers or...

When I see a story in the news about a horrible event like a shooting, I think I'm like most people who want to know who could do such a thing. I want to see a face to connect to the monster. Knowing the identity of the two ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti won't change anything. I don't plan on seeking them out or threatening them in any way. I just want to see what they look like. Usually there are no clues revealed. It's a human face, nothing special, nothing otherworldly about it, but I still try to find answers there. Why did you kill him? How could you kill a human being who was no threat to anyone? What happened in your life that made you think it was ok to eliminate anyone who disagrees with your world view? Mostly, I just see another person looking back, eyes fixed, face grim and there is nothing to give away any explanation to the whys. Some people get angry when the public focuses more on the suspect rather than the victim. That's understandable. As oft...