The PEN Register Act on 1986 allows L.E. to ascertain phone numbers called from a given phone.

Law Enforcement must obtain a warrant to do so.

I think Special Prosecutor Smith obtained a warrant from a court to permit him to determine phone numbers which certain members of Congress placed from their phones during a select period of days surrounding J6. Such a warrant falls under the Pen Register Act of 1986.

Special Prosecutor Smith did not apply for any warrant to listen in on ("wiretap" ) any telephone calls. Grassley suggested that Smith had indeed listened in, which, of course, is a lie by Grassley.

When Raymond Burr's character discovers he has been watched.

His very last two remarks were flippant non-answers.

Question: "Do you know the number of transgender people who have committed mass shootings?"

Kirk: "Too many."

[audience applause]

Question: "Do you know the exact number?"

Kirk: "Gang or non-gang involved?"

[BANG]

End of Prove Me Wrong event

Thank you for your excellent tour through decades of evil and corrupt influences.

I recall when, in the Autumn of 1973, gasoline prices rose overnight from twenty-five cents to fifty cents per gallon. There were many international and domestic events happening at the time. A war broke out between Israel and an affiliation of Arab States (with Egypt and Syria at the vanguard). The media blared the unsettling report that the U.S.S.R. had announced that it might send troops unilaterally into the mideast. (That now sounds laughable).

About the time of the hostilities (now referred to as the Yom Kippur War) oil companies hiked the price at the pumps overnight, and vehicles lined up to top off their tanks. The term "Energy Crisis" was christened. Soon, the international strife cooled off, vehicle lines at the pumps diminished, but gasoline prices remained at about forty-five cents per gallon.

The next chapter in the drama of October 1973 came with Nixon's effectuating the firing of the special prosecutor who was investigating the Watergate matter. (That firing sounds quaint now). That event led to a surge in the Democrats' movement to impeach Nixon over Watergate.

As a diversion from the international and political unrest, we had reports of numerous UFO sightings which would continue into November and December.

Oh, what an interesting month October 1973 was.

He was a disturbed twenty-year-old.

I am just guessing, but I do not think he had any definitive political ideology as to conservative versus progressive matters. I do not think he had a political cult mindset devoted to Trumpism. I think he was just a lost twenty-year-old who had been living in his truck for a year and who had a background with firearms courtesy of his parents.

However, the Putin-financed propaganda machine has been going at it since this morning with the lie that he was a violent liberal who rebeled against his loving, wholesome MAGA parents and was radicalized by leftist propaganda. Of course, that lie is ridiculous, but it is the type of lie which the MAGAs eat up and repeat.

Scalia clamored for the execution of a defendant . . .

. . . who was subsequently exonerated by DNA evidence.

The defendant was a man of color. He was released from prison after DNA evidence established he was not the perpetrator.

In speeches before conservative groups, Scalia was making the man's conviction (which he was ultimately found not to have committed) into a clarion call to speed up executions. Scalia toned it down after DNA evidence exonerated the man. Not long after, Scalia died in bed in a friend's home in Texas.

Of course. Mother nature's strength and immensity dwarf humans' silver bullets.

The energy of a bomb is intense in the atmosphere, but it is handily absorbed by rock strata. The power of a bunker buster wanes when it is absorbed by millions of cubic feet of rock near the surface.

Likewise, the scope and energy of an ocean storm dwarfs that of a nuclear bomb. Trump does not understand the basics of science. Grade school classes teach that there is more kinetic energy in a bathtub of tepid water than there is in a red-hot nail. The energy of a nuclear bomb detonated in an ocean storm (as Trump suggested) would be minuscule compared to the power of the storm which covers millions of square miles.

Faux promotes Musk's lies.

A few weeks ago, sickening Faux featured on its website a story claiming that Musk was "pulling back the curtain" on his next round of DOGE savings. The article featured a closeup photo of Musk beaming with a crafty grin. The article was complete B.S. Sadly, the low-information MAGAs who read it believed it was true, and they still do. They think Musk and DOGE have saved trillions of tax dollars. More than likely, the opposite is true.

It looks to me to be Putin-funded propaganda.

Low-information MAGAs will buy into it. Any rationalal person who does the least bit of research will discover the video showing that Babbitt was entering a locked area by way of a broken glass pane. She was among a throng of violent intruders who shattered the pane and meant to enter the secure area where members of Congress were huddled.

Putin-financed propaganda continues to divide our nation.

U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops supported G. W. Bush in 2004.

The conference did so in a manner just subtle enough to avoid jeopardizing the hallowed tax-exempt status of the church. The platform of the conference, as I remember it, fostered "tort-reform" which would shield the church from lawsuits from victims of abuse. I stopped being a practicing Catholic at that time.