#Lloyd Billingsley

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Some highlights from my week at STLV

- Meeting Garrett Wang first, giving him a special Voyager limerick I wrote for him, and him loving it

- Getting my picture with John Billingsley and his wife Bonnie and getting some great advice about starting out in the acting industry from them

- Telling Tawny Newsome she looked beautiful and her complimenting my TOS inspired blue eyeshadow (and then her recognizing me the day after when I got her autograph)

- Jess Bush also complimenting me on my eyeshadow

- Walking past Anthony Montgomery and telling him “Hi! I think you’re really cool!” and him replying “Thank you, I appreciate that! I think you’re cool too!”

- Getting a duo picture with Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner, and Frakes telling me that I looked pretty

- Talking to Marina Sirtis, telling her I was there for my birthday, and her wishing me happy birthday and gifting me a free signed photo of Deanna

- Talking about Out to Sea with Brent and listening to him regale the fun he had making that movie

- Talking with Cirroc Lofton about his experience working with Avery Brooks and mutually agreeing that Star Trek needs more wholesome parent/child relationships

- Listening to John de Lancie talk about his experience sailing from California to French Polynesia (I could listen to him talk for hours, his voice is so soothing)

- Going to a memorial panel for Nichelle Nichols that featured her sister as a surprise guest (holy moly, she looked and sounded exactly like Nichelle 🥹)

- Going to another memorial for Aron Eisenberg and getting to make a toast to him with Cirroc and other fans (they used root beer for the drinks and had gummy worms “tube grubs” as table snacks)

- The moderator for the TNG panel not showing up, allowing Frakes to take over and him, Brent and Gates going absolutely batshit feral on stage

- Walter Koenig speaking out against the genocide in Palestine (and just getting to hear him talk in general)

- Seeing Armin Shimerman again and getting to tell him how much I enjoyed Betrayal of Angels (and his face lighting up when I told him how great an author he is)

- Sara Mitich and Ronnie Rowe both wishing me happy birthday and just being all around so kind and patient

- Telling Nana Visitor that she had the voice of an angel when she sings, and seeing how big and beautiful a smile she got

- Telling Kate Mulgrew she looked beautiful and her replying “Thank you! So do you.”

- JG Hertzler telling an absolutely hilarious story about how Avery Brooks and Rene Auberjonois got into a fight about one of Rene’s line deliveries while filming Far Beyond the Stars

- Richard McGee, Jay Chattaway and Jeff Russo conducting an absolutely phenomenal orchestral concert of Trek songs

- Seeing a really fun dinner show with some of the actors singing Broadway songs (my personal favorites being Nana, Robert Picardo, Bonnie Gordon, Jon Jon Briones and Celia Rose Gooding)

- Seeing Jeffrey Combs again and getting to ask him during his panel what would happen if all of his Trek characters were in the same room together (his answer: they would probably start either a baseball team or a rock band)

- Getting a picture taken with myself and both Carol Kane and Christopher Lloyd together

- Getting Mary Chieffo’s autograph and her writing happy birthday in Klingonese on it

- The entirety of the Rat Pack performance

- Getting to meet and interact with Trekkies of different ages, race, gender and sexuality and all of them incredibly nice

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Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket - Round 1

Round 1 (All polls)

Bea Arthur Vs. Bea Benaderet

Barbara Eden Vs. Kathryn Leigh Scott

Kellye Nakahara Vs. Janine Turner

Betty White Vs. Gracie Allen

Joely Richardson Vs. Miranda Richardson

Holland Taylor Vs. Joan Collins

Joan Chen Vs. Rachel Bilson

Lucille Ball Vs. Suzanne Pleshette

Angela Lansbury Vs. Eartha Kitt

Alex Kingston Vs. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Gina Torres Vs. Sherilyn Fenn

Katee Sackhoff Vs. Geraldine James

Barbara Feldon Vs. Carol Cleveland

Amanda Tapping Vs. Nana Visitor

Amanda Randolph Vs. Barbara Mullen

Kate Jackson Vs. Kim Cattrall

Emma Thompson Vs. Penelope Keith

Rue McClanahan Vs. Barbara Stanwyck

Thalía Vs. Sheila Kuehl

Joan Bennett Vs. Grayson Hall

Julie Newmar Vs. Lalla Ward

Farrah Fawcett Vs. Catherine Bach

Diahann Carroll Vs. Siân Phillips

Mary Tyler Moore Vs. Jan Smithers

Nichelle Nichols Vs. Yvonne Craig

Carolyn Jones Vs. Lara Parker

Janet Hubert Vs. Marcia Strassman

Jackée Harry Vs. Dawn French

Tina Louise Vs. Linda Cristal

Eva Gabor Vs. Anne Francis

Lynda Carter Vs. Peggy Lipton

Courteney Cox Vs. Mädchen Amick

Vivica A Fox Vs. Julia Duffy

Valerie Harper Vs. Jaclyn Smith

Doris Day Vs. Dawn Wells

Debbie Allen Vs. Elizabeth Montgomery

Karyn Parsons Vs. Katy Manning

Deidre Hall Vs. Phyllis Logan

Jeri Ryan Vs. Mira Furlan

Lucy Lawless Vs. Claudia Black

Morena Baccarin Vs. Shannen Doherty

Jonelle Allen Vs. Francesca Annis

Jane Seymour Vs. Annette Crosbie

Diana Rigg Vs. Joanna Lumley

Melissa Joan Hart Vs. Lisa Robin Kelly

Lisa Bonet / Lilakoi Moon Vs. Lisa Hartman

Eliza Dushku Vs. Chloe Annett

Fran Drescher Vs. Mariska Hargitay

Lauren Graham Vs. Charisma Carpenter

Marlo Thomas Vs. Lily Tomlin

Connie Booth Vs. Barbara Billingsley

Gillian Anderson Vs. Alexandra Paul

Penny Johnson Jerald Vs. Mag Ruffman

Sarah Jessica Parker Vs. Judy Parfitt

Cicely Tyson Vs. Aimi MacDonald

Anna May Wong Vs. Peggy Ashcroft

Carol Burnett Vs. Elisabeth Sladen

Sarah Michelle Gellar Vs. Hattie Hayridge

Pamela Anderson Vs. Loretta Swit

Itatí Cantoral Vs. Audrey Meadows

Jane Krakowski Vs. Jennifer Aniston

Terry Farrell Vs. Nicole de Boer

Carole André Vs. Melissa Leo Vs. Sabrina Lloyd

Eve Arden Vs. Dorothy Provine Vs. Vivian Vance

[dominickeating-source]

SFX Issue 134 (2005)

LOOK WHO'S STALKING... 

THE SFX STALKER ASKS THE QUESTIONS THAT REALLY MAKE THE STARS  GO..."FREAK!" 

DOMINIC KEATING 

For four years, Dominic Keating played Star Trek: Enterprise's token Brit, Malcolm Reed.  But now that's gone down the crapper, he's back in Blighty. 

Dominic, you've got a posh name. Are you very posh? "Semi-posh. My Mum's family is quite posh. My Dad was a very rural lad from the wilds of Ireland. I come from quite a dichotomy. My grandfather was a Brigadier OBE, but my grandfather on my dad's side was a lighthouse keeper."  What's the worst trouble you've ever been in?  "Oh gosh...at the tennis club disco when I was 13. I was snogging Sally Jinks quite vehemently, and I got this tap on the shoulder. It was the matron of the tennis club. I didn't even turn round but I sort of tipped my lips away from Sally and went 'Sod off!' I was immediately yanked off her and was in a pile of trouble..."  I heard that you were in a drag act, to get your Equity card.  (Wearily) "Yes I was. I did let that out one time, years ago..."  How Method did you go? Did you wear ladies knickers?  "I didn't wear the knickers. I had my boxers on. We did a charity gig at the Crypt in Brixton. There's me, a little public school boy, getting changed in the corner with 40 lacerating drag queens. ' What's the matter, didn't they have your size?' It was a hell of an experience, and very strengthening..." If I rifled through your bins, what would I find?  "You missed your opportunity. I just took back my flat in London after ten years and I did a huge throw out, and it was remarkable the amount of stuff I found."  And the most embarrassing thing you found?  "Er...I'd kept a Page Three of Kathy Lloyd that was wrapped up. (Laughs) What a serious pair she had, eh?"  Did you put that back in a draw for safekeeping?  "No I chucked it out! My fianc�e was there and I went very quiet for a second, and she went, ' What have you found?' 'Oh...nothing!' "  Which of the other Enterprise blokes could you beat in a fistfight?  "Oh, none! Hmm, maybe John Billingsley [Dr Phlox]...but he's got the weight on me. Connor and Anthony and Scott are big strapping, corn-fed fellas. I'm fairly fit - by English standards - but these guys, they're six foot and all muscle. I'm not even 5' 10". But as they say, diamonds are small...!"  Finally, a philosophical question...  "Philosophical? Oh you've lost me right there. (Puts on a Vicki Pollard voice) A what? Yeah, but, no but, yeah. Shut up!"  Please be serious, Dominic. Okay, here's the question : If there was a fight between a group of cavemen and a group of astronauts, who would win?  "Well, it depends on the environment really, doesn't it? But I would imagine the cavemen could kick the living crap out of the astronauts - they're all mathematicians. My money's on the cavemen mate!" 

Source: www.dominickeating.com

[mightyflamethrower]

By Lloyd Billingsley, Power Line

On August 2, 2023, Tablet editor David Samuels interviewed David Garrow, author of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a massive attack on Israel and committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In light of those events, and the recent attack on Israel directly from Iran, consider some of Samuels’ own statements during “The Obama Factor” interview:

The sheer amount of political capital and focus Obama put into achieving the JCPOA during his second term, to the near-exclusion of other goals, suggests that the deal was central to his politics. It also carries more than a whiff of the kind of politics in which the American Empire is seen not just as unexceptional, but also, in some ways, as actively evil. It was a politics born out of the confluence of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, which saw a racist war abroad being used to protect a racist power structure at home. That old alliance of civil rights, anti-imperialism, and identity politics made the Democratic Party that Obama positioned himself to lead—college-educated, corporate-controlled—seem cool, allowing it to use post-1960s radical ideology as a language to sell stuff.

In the absence of what was once American journalism, it is hard to know which portrait of Obama’s post-presidency is truer to life: Obama as a celebrity-obsessed would-be billionaire, or as a would-be American Castro, reshaping American society from his basement, in his sweats.

"Touchdown!" 

The election of Joe Biden in 2020 gave the Obamas even more reasons to stay in town. The whispers about Biden’s cognitive decline, which began during his bizarre COVID-sheltered basement campaign, were mostly dismissed as partisan attacks on a politician who had always been gaffe-ridden. Yet as President Biden continued to fall off bicycles, misremember basic names and facts, and mix long and increasingly weird passages of Dada-edque nonsense with autobiographical whoppers during his public appearances, it became hard not to wonder how poor the president’s capacities really were and who was actually making decisions in a White House staffed top to bottom with core Obama loyalists. When Obama turned up at the White House, staffers and the press crowded around him, leaving President Biden talking to the drapes—which is not a metaphor but a real thing that happened. (Samuels’ link)

I have heard from more than one source that there are regular meetings at Obama’s house in Kalorama involving top figures in the current White House, with Secret Service and cars outside. I don’t write about it because it’s not my lane. There are over a thousand reporters in Washington, and yet there are zero stakeouts of Obama’s mansion, if only to tell us who is coming and going. But he clearly has his oar in.  The easy explanation, of course, is that Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration. Obama is. He doesn’t even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already inside the White House. They hold the Iran file. Tony Blinken doesn’t.

Rob Malley is just one person. Brett McGurk. Dan Shapiro in Israel. Lisa Monaco in Justice. Susan Rice running domestic policy. It’s turtles all the way down. There are obviously large parts of White House policymaking that belong to Barack Obama because they’re staffed by his people, who worked for him and no doubt report back to him. Personnel is policy, as they say in Washington.

Which to me is a very odd and kind of spooky arrangement. Spooky, because it is happening outside the constitutional framework of the U.S. government, and yet somehow it’s been placed off the list of permitted subjects to report on. Which is a pretty good indicator of the extent to which the information we get, and public reactions to that information, is being successfully controlled. How and by whom remain open questions, the quick answer to which is that the American press has become a subset of partisan comms.  What scared me back then was coming to understand that a new milieu had been created consisting of party operatives, the people in the FBI and the CIA who are carrying out White House policy, and the press. It is all one world now. And that’s something people still seem loathe to admit, even to themselves, in part because it puts them in a state of dissonance with this new kind of controlled consensus that the press maintains, which is obviously garbage. But if you question it, you’re some kind of nut.

But historically speaking, Jews are not, or were not, a particularly American obsession, except among some morons and leather fetishists on the right. But they are a major obsession on the periphery of the American empire, where envy and fear of the mythic role that Jews supposedly play in Washington, because of Israel, are defining emotions, regardless of the facts. So how do you talk all this foundation-land, community-organizer shit and then preside over the transformation of the country into a Gilded Age oligarchy? Maybe I just answered my own question: Obama is the Magic Negro of the billionaire industrial complex. And targeting Jews as outsiders and pushing them outside the circle was the way that the Gilded Age oligarchy consolidated itself in America, back then and also now.

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   Duesberg knew that retroviruses don’t kill the host cells they infect, so he was skeptical when HIV was proclaimed to be the cause of AIDS, with no scientific study making the case. In March of 1987, Duesberg published a paper in Cancer Research questioning the role of HIV as the cause of AIDS. As Lenzer noted, the man colleagues might once have regarded as the “Einstein of biology” was then smeared as an AIDS “denier,” but there was more to it than name-calling.

   For the previous 23 years, Duesberg never had an application for public funding turned down. That funding began to disappear under Anthony Fauci, who as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) controlled both AIDS policy and spending on medical research. Fauci also contrived to cancel Duesberg’s media appearances, and tailored policy to the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), whose activists also harassed Duesberg.

   Fauci promoted trials of AZT (azidothymidine), marketed as Zidovudine, a DNA chain terminator rejected for cancer treatment because of excessive cytotoxicity. Despite the dangers, Fauci and the AIDS activists urged those testing positive for HIV to go on AZT.

   “These people are running into the gas chambers,” said Duesberg at the time. “Himmler would have been so happy if only the Jews were this cooperative.” For further reading see John Lauritsen’s Poison by Prescription: The AZT Story, with a foreword by Duesberg.

   Fauci’s prediction that AIDS would ravage the general population was hopelessly wrong but he remained at the helm of NIAID.  In 1996, Duesberg authored Inventing the AIDS Virus, a virtual post-grad course on virology, a thorough investigation of AIDS controversy, and a meditation on the state of scientific research.

   “The modern biomedical research establishment differs radically from any previous scientific program in history,” the Berkeley professor contended. “Driven by vast infusions of federal and commercial money, it has grown into an enormous and powerful bureaucracy that greatly amplifies its successes and mistakes all the while stifling dissent. Such a process can no longer be called science, which by definition depends on self-correction by internal challenge and debate.”

   Duesberg challenged that powerful establishment, and it cost him. His laboratory once boasted two secretaries and jostled with graduate students and postdocs, but by 2008 the only occupants were Duesberg and one graduate student. Asked why he challenged the government AIDS orthodoxy when it meant financial losses, professional rejection, and social isolation, Duesberg said, “I don’t want to be a ‘good German.’”

[ljones41]

Favorite Television Series

Below is a list of my favorite television series (in chronological order).  I only listed my favorite shows . . . no television movies, miniseries or specials:

FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES

“Leave It to Beaver” (1957-1963) - This surprisingly witty comedy sitcom was about the adventures of an inquisitive and often naïve boy and his adventures at home, school, and around his suburban neighborhood.  Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley starred. 

“The Dick Van Dyke Show” (1961-1966) - Another witty sitcom that centered on the work and home life of a television comedy writer named Rob Petrie.  Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore starred.

“Hawaii Five-O” (1968-1980) - Jack Lord starred in this first-rate crime drama about a special police task force for the Hawaii State Police.

“The Mod Squad” (1968-1973) - This crime drama was about three young undercome police detectives for the Los Angeles Police Department.  Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton and Tige Andrews starred.

   “Remington Steele” (1982-1987) - Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan starrred in this elegant mystery drama about a female private detective partnered with a former thief who assumes the role of a fictitious detective in her business.

“Agatha Christie’s Poirot” (1989-2013) - David Suchet had starred in this long running series that featured episodes and television movies based on the novels and short stories of mystery writer, Agatha Christie.  Suchet portrayed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

“Homefront” (1991-1993) - Kyle Chandler and Tammy Lauren starred in this superb period drama about a small Ohio town in the years following the end of World War II.

“Babylon 5″ (1993-1998) - J. Michael Straczynski created this award-winning space opera about the human military staff and alien diplomats stationed on a space station in the 23rd century.  Bruce Boxleitner, Mira Furlan and Michael O’Hare starred.

“Friends” (1994-2004) - This award-winning sitcom centered around six friends in their 20s and 30s who live in Manhattan.  Jennifer Anniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer starred.

“Star Trek Voyager” (1995-2001) - Kate Mulgrew starred as Star Trek series about the adventures of the Starfleet vessel U.S.S. Voyager and its crew’s attempts to return home to the Alpha Quadrant after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant.

“Lost” (2004-2010) - Damon Lindelof, J.J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber created this superb and original science-fiction/fantasy drama about the survivors of a commercial jet airliner that crashed on a mysterious island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean.

“How I Met Your Mother” (2005-2014) - This award-winning sitcom featured a father’s recount to his children of the journey he and his four best friends had taken, leading up to him meeting their mother.  Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders and Neil Patrick Harris starred.

“Eureka” (2006-2012) - This entertaining science-fiction series told the story of a U.S. Marshal, who becomes the sheriff of a small town in Oregon that serves as the home of scientific geniuses, who work for an advanced research facility called Global Dynamics.  Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Joe Morton starred.

  “Jericho” (2006-2008) - Skeet Ulrich and Lennie James starred in this excellent post-apocalyptic action drama about the residents of a fictional Kansas town in the aftermath of a nuclear attack on 23 major cities in the United States.

“Modern Family” (2009-2020) - Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd created this funny and award-winning family sitcom about the lives of three diverse family set-ups in suburban Los Angeles, linked by patriarch Jay Pritchett.

“Game of Thrones” (2011-2019) - David Benioff and D. B. Weiss created this adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy saga, “A Song of Ice and Fire”, a series of novels set in the fictional lands of Westeros and Essos.  Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke and Kit Harrington starred.

“New Girl” (2011-2018) - This excellent sitcom centered around an offbeat young woman who moves into a Los Angeles apartment loft with three single men.  Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamone Morris, Hannah Simone and Damon Wayans, Jr. starred. 

“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (2013-2020) - Clark Gregg starred in this sci-fi action series about a team of operatives for S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division), a peacekeeping and spy agency in a world of superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

“Black Sails” (2014-2017) - Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine created this superb adventure-historical series that served as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel “Treasure Island”.  Toby Stephens, Hannah New and Luke Arnold starred.

“The Flash” (2014-present) - Grant Gustin starred as D.C. Comics superhero the Flash aka Barry Allen in this comic-book hero action drama.

“Mercy Street” (2016-2017) - Lisa Q. Wolfinger created this excellent period medical drama about the Union hospital, Mansion House Hospital, in 1862 Alexandria, Virginia.  Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor and Hannah Green starred.

[libraryleopard]

Here’s all the books I read in 2021!

* = reread

Probably missing a couple comics because I read a lot this year, minus stuff I read for school

January

Loveless by Alice Oseman

The Folker Keeper by Franny Billingsley*

Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan

Wayward Witch by Zoraida Córdova

Shadowplay by Laura Lam

Masquerade by Laura Lam

Thorn by Anna Burke

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Final Draft by Riley Redgate*

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

Young Avengers Presents by Ed Brubaker etc.

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones*

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

February

Young Avengers: The Complete Collection by Allan Heinburg and Jim Cheung*

Young Avengers: the Children’s Crusade by Allan Heinburg and Jim Cheung*

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Young Avengers Omnibus by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie*

A Cathedral of Myth by Kat Howard

Empyre by Al Ewing etc.

The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi

Quicksilver: No Surrender by Saladin Ahmed

The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor*

The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

The Poppy War by R.F Kuang*

So many 90s X-Force comics hahaha why did I just do that

The Vision vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man by Tom King

The Vision vo1. 2: Little Better Than a Beast by Tom King

March

The Unstoppable Wasp vol. 1: G.I.R.L. Power by Jeremy Whitley*

X-Factor Investigations vol. 1: The Longest Night by Peter David

Angela, Asgard’s Assassin vol 1. Priceless by Marguerite Bennett and Kieron Gillen*

Angela, Queen of Hel: Journey to the Funderworld by Marguerite Bennett*

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

The Unstoppable Wasp Unlimited vol. 1: Fix Everything by Jeremy Whitley

Midnighter vol. 1: Out by Steve Orlando

Midnighter vol 2: Hard by Steve Orlando

Midnighter & Apollo by Steve Orlando

Like so many issues of X-Factor Investigations dear GOD

Astonishing X-Men vol. 10: Northstar by Marjorie Liu

Astonishing X-Men vol. 11: Weaponized by Marjorie Liu

Astonishing X-Men vol. 12: Unmasked by Marjorie Liu

Astonishing X-Men vol, 13: Frozen by Marjorie Liu

Die vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang

New Mutants: Dead Souls by Matthew Rosenberg

Die vol. 2: Split the Party by Kieron Gillen

Iceman vol. 1: Thawing Out by Sina Grace*

Tithe by Holly Black

Iceman vol. 2: Absolute Zero by Sina Grace

Iceman vol 3: Amazing Friends by Sina Grace

Shatterstar by Tim Seeley

Extermination by Ed Brisson

Age of X-Man: X-Tremists by Leah Williams

Ruinsong by Julia Ember

X-Force by Ed Brisson

Crier’s War by Nina Varlea

We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Dark Wolverine: the Prince by Marjorie Liu

Daken: Dark Wolverine vol. 1 by Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu

Daken/X-23: Collision by Marjorie Liu

Daken: Dark Wolverine - Big Break by Rob Williams

Daken: Dark Wolverine - The Pride Comes Before the Fall by Rob Williams

Daken: Dark Wolverine - No More Heroes by Rob Williams

House of X/Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman

X-Factor vol. 1 by Leah Williams

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo*

April

Excalibur vol. 1 by Tini Howard

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

Excalibur vol. 2 by Tini Howard

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes

Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga by Christ Claremont

All-New Wolverine vol. 1: The Four Sisters by Tom Taylor

The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe

All-New Wolverine vol 2: Civil War II by Tom Taylor

Marauders vol. 1 by Gerry Dugan

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Iron Heart by Nina Varela

Silk & Steel edited by Janine A. Southard

X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont

All-New Wolverine vol. 3: Enemy of the State II by Tom Taylor

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

New X-Men vol. 1: E is for Extinction by Grant Morrison

New X-Men vol. 2: Imperial by Grant Morrison

New X-Men vol. 3: New Worlds by Grant Morrison

New X-Men vol. 4: Riot at Xavier’s by Grant Morrison

New X-Men vol. 5: Murder at the Mansion by Grant Morrison

New X-Men vol. 6: Assault on Weapon Plus by Grant Morrison

New X-Men vol. 7: Planet X by Grant Morrison

New X-Men vol. 8: Here Comes Tomorrow by Grant Morrison

May

I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan

New Mutants classic vol. 1 by Chris Claremont

All-New Wolverine vol. 4: Immune by Tom Taylor

Generation X vol. 1: Natural Selection by Christina Strain

Generation X vol. 2: Survival of the Fittest by Christina Strain

All-New Wolverine vol. 5: Orphans of X by Tom Taylor

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor*

New Mutants Classic vol. 2 by Christ Claremont

Deeplight by Frances Hardinge

Rogue and Gambit: Ring of Fire by Kelly Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. X vol. 1: Love and Marriage by Kelly Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. X vol. 2: Rogue and Gambit Forever by Kelly Thompson

West Coast Avengers vol. 1: Best Coast by Kelly Thompson

Loki: Agent of Asgard vol. 1: Trust Me by Al Ewing*

New Mutants classic vol. 3 by Chris Claremont

Loki: Agent of Asgard vol. 2: I Cannot Tell a Lie by Al Ewing*

Loki: Agent of Asgard vol. 3: Last Days by Al Ewing*

Norroway vol. 1: The Black Bull of Norroway by Cat and Kit Seaton*

The Unstoppable Wasp vol. 4: G.I.R.L. vs. A.I.M. by Jeremy Whitley

The Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake*

June

All-New Wolverine vol. 6: Old Woman Laura by Tom Taylor

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

Marauders vol. 2 by Gerry Dugan

X-Men vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman

X-Men vol. 2 by Jonathan Hickman

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene by Megan Grumbling

Magik: Storm and Illyana by Chris Claremont

Longshot by Ann Nocenti

West Coast Avengers vol. 2: City of Evils by Kelly Thompson

Ironheart vol. 1: Those With Courage by Eve Ewing

That Way Madness Lies edited by Dahlia Adler

Black Widow: the Name of the Rose by Marjorie Liu

New Mutants classic vol. 4 by Chris Claremont

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Empyre: X-Men by Jonathan Hickman

Sandman vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

New Mutants classic vol. 5 by Chris Claremont

To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

Madness by Sam Sax

X of Swords by Jonathan Hickman et al

New Mutants classic vol. 6 by Chris Claremont

July

X-Men: From the Ashes by Chris Claremont

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

Constantine: The Hellblazer vol. 1: Going Down by Ming Doyle and James Tynion IV

Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia

Heartstopper vol. 1 by Alice Oseman*

Heathen vol. 1 by Natasha Alterici

Age of X-Man: Prisoner X by Vita Ayala

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 1: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie*

All Systems Red by Martha Wells*

Heathen vol. 2 by Natasha Alterici

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 2 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie*

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 3 by Kieron Gillen and various others*

Artificial Conditions by Martha Wells

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

New Mutants classic vol. 7 by Chris Claremont

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

X-Men: Mutant Massacre by Chris Claremont

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 4 by Kieron Gillen

The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

August

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 5 by Kieron Gillen

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 6 by Kieron Gillen

New Mutants: The Return of Legion by Zeb Wells

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 7 by Kieron Gillen

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 8 by Kieron Gillen

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

X-Men: Fall of the Mutants by Chis Claremont

The Wicked and the Divine vol. 9 by Kieron Gillen

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Midnighter vol. 1: Hard by Steve Orlando*

Midnighter vol. 2: Out by Steve Orlando*

Midnighter and Apollo by Steve Orlando*

Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl

September

Inferno by Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson

Marvel pride anthology

DC pride anthology

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Batman: Under the Red Hood by Judd Winick

Hellions vol. 1 by Zeb Wells

Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson

Suicide Squad: Bad Blood by Tom Taylor

Gotham Academy vol. 1 by Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher*

Gotham Academy vol. 2 by Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher*

Gotham Academy: Yearbook by various authors/illustrators*

Gotham Academy/Lumberjanes by Chynna Clugson Flores*

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

Gotham Academy: Second Semester vol. 1 by Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan, and Karl Kersch*

Gotham Academy: Second Semester vol. 2 by Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan, and Karl Kersch*

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman

Odd Spirits by S.T. Gibson

Original Sin: Thor & Loki: The Tenth Realm by Al Ewing

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Jack of Hearts and Other Parts by L.C. Rosen

October

Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones*

How to Be Ace by Rebecca Burgess

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djéli Clark

Sandman vol. 2: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman

November

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco*

Hellblazer vol. 1: Original Sins by Jamie Delano

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Siege: Battleworld by Kieron Gillen

S.W.O.R.D. vol. 1 by Al Ewing

New Mutants vol. 1 by Vita Ayala

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Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace

How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love With the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gillibrand

Hellblazer vol. 2: The Devil You Know by Jamie Delani

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Boy in Bloom by Nina Powers

Marvel’s Voices: Identity # 1

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Eternals vol. 1 by Kieron Gillen

The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente*

Hellions vol. 1 by Zeb Wells*

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

Hellions vol. 2 by Zeb Wells

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djéli Clark

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BYE BYE BU**HEADS!!!

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California: Judge vacates sentence of convicted terrorist, blames CAIR lawyer’s incompetence

Hayat claimed jihad was the duty of all Muslims and gleefully stated he was “so pleased” jihadis cut Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl “into pieces.”

By Lloyd Billingsley

In 2006, federal judge Garland E. Burrell sentenced Hamid Hayat of Lodi, California, to 24 years in prison for, as the U.S. Department of Justice explained, “a series of terrorism charges related to his 2003/2004 attendance at a jihadi training camp in Pakistan and his 2005 return to the United States with the intent to wage violent jihad.”

As prosecutors charged, the man with “a jihadi heart and a jihadi mind” intended to target hospitals, banks and grocery stores. Hayat boasted about giving money to Sipah-e-Sahaba, a group that Pakistan declared a terrorist organization. The case was one the first major prosecutions of terrorism in the wake of 9/11.

Nearly 14 years later, judge Burrell, an appointee of George H.W. Bush, has vacated the sentence and conviction of Hamid Hayat, now 36.  This  action was based not on new exculpatory evidence but what amounted to a post-facto performance review of Hayat’s trial attorney by magistrate judge Deborah Barnes.

In May of 2006, Hamid’s father, Umer Hayat, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI and United States Customs and Border Protection. He was tried by a separate federal jury but the proceeding ended in a mistrial and Umer Hayat gained release in August of 2006. Hamid Hayat’s attorney Wahzma Mojaddidi, a former CAIR president in Sacramento, contended there was no evidence that Hamid attended a terrorist training camp and pushed for a new trial.

In 2007, federal authorities argued against a new trial, and as their legal brief noted, Hayat claimed that jihad was the duty of all Muslims. In recorded interviews, Hayat gleefully stated he was “so pleased” that jihadis had cut Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl “into pieces.” Hayat said Pearl “was Jewish” and that as a result of this “good job,” now “they can’t send one Jewish person to Pakistan.”

In 2013, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Hayat’s conviction and in 2014 U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell denied Hayat’s motion for summary judgment to vacate his conviction. Following that ruling, former U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, who headed the Hayat’s 2006 prosecution, told reporters it was “a righteous prosecution and a just result.”

Hayat’s defenders CAIR and the Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) went shopping for a judge and found magistrate judge Deborah Barnes. A relative newcomer to California’s Eastern District, Barnes spent much of her career in the office of California’s attorney general, where she worked on environmental issues.

Barnes’ June 7, 2017 order raised “serious questions concerning the competency of the defense.”  That was the defense Hayat’s team wanted, led by CAIR rising star Wahzma Mojaddidi, who denied she was to blame for losing the case. The judge wasn’t done, and in January of 2018 Barnes ordered an evidentiary hearing on the Hayat case that proved revealing on several fronts.

Hayat’s new attorneys wanted family members to testify by video from Pakistan. For prosecutors, that raised questions about how the witnesses would be sworn in, and the consequences if they lied.

Barnes’ hearing included two nights of testimony for the Pakistani witnesses, using an encrypted federal court videoconferencing system and an Urdu interpreter. All the witnesses testified that Hamid Hayat was a great guy and could not have attended a terrorist training camp. It remains unclear if any cross-examination took place.

Last January, Judge Barnes submitted a 116-page recommendation that the conviction of Hamid Hayat be vacated, based on the same performance review of Hayat’s attorney Wazhma Mojaddidi, CAIR’s choice to defend him in the first place.  That recommendation went to judge Garland Burrell, whose July 30 ruling contends that Hayat’s attorney, Wazhma Mojaddidi, “provided him with deficient representation.” Therefore, Hayat’s “convictions and sentence should be vacated.”

Sacramento CAIR boss Basim Elkarra told reporters the Hayat case affected “the young generation of Muslim Americans who saw one of their own convicted in a post-9/11 world while completely innocent.” As prosecutor McGregor Scott noted, Burrell had only ruled on the competence of Wazhma Mojaddidi, and did not determine Hayat’s guilt or innocence. At this writing, no appeal has been announced but it seems clear one is needed.

A higher court might have some thoughts about Hayat’s family members testifying from Pakistan by video, in a night session. How these witnesses established their identity, and under what system of law they were sworn in, remains unclear. By all indications, magistrate judge Deborah Barnes believed the Pakistani Muslims told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. A higher court might have some questions about that, and a lot more.

Two judges accept the claim that Wazhma Mojaddidi was incompetent, therefore her client Hamid Hayat is innocent and should be released. By this reasoning, an incompetent attorney constitutes exculpatory evidence, and a judge’s performance review is sufficient to turn loose a man convicted of “a series of terrorism charges.”  A higher court might have trouble with that, and more, but for Hayat’s legal team it’s a done deal. 

According to the Sacramento Bee, the day after Burrell’s ruling, a prison counselor told Hamid Hayat, “start packing your stuff, you’re ready to go home.” If this absurd ruling stands, other terrorists will also be heading home, bringing on more cases of no justice and no peace.

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»The Green Side of White Coat Supremacy«

LePenseur:»von LePenseur  ... betitelt sich ein Artikel des Independent Institute, der selbst einen an unverfrorene Korruption in der Zwischenzeit schon halbwegs »gewöhnten« Normalbürger fassungslos macht: Anthony Fauci and NIH boss Francis Collins got part of $350 million in undisclosed royalties. May 13, 2022  By K. Lloyd Billingsley “An estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalties were paid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and hundreds of its scientists,” the Epoch Times reports, “including the agency’s recently departed director, Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to a nonprofit government watchdog.” That watchdog is Open the Books, headed by Adam Andrzejewski.From 2010 to 2020, Andrzejewski told reporters, “Francis Collins, the immediate past director of NIH, received 14 payments. Dr. Anthony Fauci received 23 payments and his deputy, Clifford Lane, received eight payments.”(Hier weiterlesen) Es gilt hier selbstmurmelnd, wie immer, die Unschuldsvermutung. Vielleicht wußten die »begünstigten« Wissenschaftler nicht, von wem sie welche Gelder bekamen. Kann bei so Kleinigkeiten schon passieren ...   http://dlvr.it/SQfZpP «

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Fauci’s War on His AIDS Critic | Frontpagemag

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Hot Vintage TV Women's Bracket - List of the Ladies!

As promised below is a full list of all 130 women in the Hot Vintage TV Women's Tournament! Thank you to everyone who submitted their favs!

Just a brief bit of cleanup before the list. Thank you for all the submissions. If your submission didn't make it into the bracket or some of your propaganda isn't used know that I still appreciated the submission even if we weren't able to use it. Some things got cut for being outside the bounds of the tournament, some things got cut because the links were broken, etc. Anything I wasn't sure about got brought to family and friends for a second opinion. I did my best to keep as much in as possible but some things just ended up leaning too far outside of our criteria. If you notice some stuff that seems outside the criteria slip by it's because I tried to be very generous so as long as something wasn't obviously outside of our time period or rules I usually gave it a pass.

Anyway, I am working on the bracket as we speak and apologize in advance cause I don't think there's any way to make round 1 completely painless, as you'll see we have a pretty stacked line-up so I'm excited to see how things work out! Enjoy and see you all on Monday April 15th for round one of the Hot Vintage TV Women's Bracket!

Eartha Kitt

Dawn French

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Nichelle Nichols

Loretta Swit

Joan Bennett

Mary Tyler Moore

Yvonne Craig

Barbara Stanwyck

Lara Parker

Bea Arthur

Barbara Feldon

Rue McClanahan

Lynda Carter

Kellye Nakahara

Jan Smithers

Elisabeth Sladen

Diana Rigg

Janet Hubert

Carol Burnett

Jackée Harry

Betty White

Gillian Anderson

Anne Francis

Peggy Lipton

Eliza Dushku

Joan Chen

Terry Farrell

Gina Torres

Catherine Bach

Tina Louise

Carolyn Jones

Dawn Wells

Vivica A Fox

Mariska Hargitay

Deidre Hall

Aimi MacDonald

Carol Cleveland

Valerie Harper

Lisa Hartman

Julie Newmar

Fran Drescher

Melissa Joan Hart

Mira Furlan

Nana Visitor

Claudia Black

Courteney Cox

Sarah Jessica Parker

Jane Krakowski

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sherilyn Fenn

Eve Arden

Elizabeth Montgomery

Marlo Thomas

Lucy Lawless

Joanna Lumley

Barbara Eden

Kathryn Leigh Scott

Grayson Hall

Eva Gabor

Siân Phillips

Shannen Doherty

Lisa Robin Kelly

Debbie Allen

Lisa Bonet / Lilakoi Moon

Rachel Bilson

Karyn Parsons

Jane Seymour

Jonelle Allen

Julia Duffy

Lalla Ward

Miranda Richardson

Mag Ruffman

Penelope Keith

Carole André

Amanda Tapping

Lucille Ball

Nicole de Boer

Jeri Ryan

Penny Johnson Jerald

Katy Manning

Charisma Carpenter

Morena Baccarin

Katee Sackhoff

Janine Turner

Marcia Strassman

Farrah Fawcett

Kate Jackson

Jaclyn Smith

Lily Tomlin

Melissa Leo

Sabrina Lloyd

Joan Collins

Diahann Carroll

Jennifer Aniston

Pamela Anderson

Alexandra Paul

Chloe Annett

Hattie Hayridge

Thalía

Itatí Cantoral

Connie Booth

Linda Cristal

Doris Day

Angela Lansbury

Dorothy Provine

Vivian Vance

Suzanne Pleshette

Bea Benaderet

Gracie Allen

Amanda Randolph

Anna May Wong

Sheila Kuehl

Barbara Billingsley

Barbara Mullen

Phyllis Logan

Annette Crosbie

Geraldine James

Audrey Meadows

Peggy Ashcroft

Holland Taylor

Emma Thompson

Judy Parfitt

Francesca Annis

Mädchen Amick

Joely Richardson

Alex Kingston

Cicely Tyson

Lauren Graham

Kim Cattrall

[rielpolitik]

MOB RULE: 'Follow The $cience', The Drugfather – By K. Lloyd Billingsley

MOB RULE: ‘Follow The $cience’, The Drugfather – By K. Lloyd Billingsley

Source – eurasiareview.com ”….The NIAID budget of more than $6 billion gives Fauci power over research funding. Oppose Fauci and your funding will sleep with the fishes. With his wife heading bioethics at the NIH, Dr. Fauci also boasts a powerful consigliere. Whatever Dr. Fauci wants, dutiful wife Christine will tell him it’s the right thing to do. On the other hand, when politicians and…

[mightyflamethrower]

Obama and the Gilded Age

By Lloyd Billingsley, Power Line

On August 2, 2023, Tablet editor David Samuels interviewed David Garrow, author of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a massive attack on Israel and committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In light of those events, and the recent attack on Israel directly from Iran, consider some of Samuels’ own statements during “The Obama Factor” interview:

I find Barack Obama deeply sympathetic as a person. I identify with him emotionally. Yet there was something about this fictional character that he created actually becoming president that helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now. Obama’s hostility to American exceptionalism also seemed linked to his hostility to Israel, or more specifically to America’s identification with Israel, which finally resulted in his determination during his second term to reach his agreement with Iran—an agreement with the main objective of integrating that country into America’s security architecture in the Middle East, while limiting Israel’s power in the region. Again, why?

The sheer amount of political capital and focus Obama put into achieving the JCPOA during his second term, to the near-exclusion of other goals, suggests that the deal was central to his politics. It also carries more than a whiff of the kind of politics in which the American Empire is seen not just as unexceptional, but also, in some ways, as actively evil. It was a politics born out of the confluence of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, which saw a racist war abroad being used to protect a racist power structure at home. That old alliance of civil rights, anti-imperialism, and identity politics made the Democratic Party that Obama positioned himself to lead—college-educated, corporate-controlled—seem cool, allowing it to use post-1960s radical ideology as a language to sell stuff.

In the absence of what was once American journalism, it is hard to know which portrait of Obama’s post-presidency is truer to life: Obama as a celebrity-obsessed would-be billionaire, or as a would-be American Castro, reshaping American society from his basement, in his sweats.

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Under the Camp David Accords, brokered by President Jimmy Carter, Israel returned to Egypt the Sinai Peninsula, occupied during the 1967 war. Begin and Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1978. On June 22, 1982, while Israel was tangling with the PLO in Lebanon, Menachem Begin appeared in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Sen. Biden told Begin that if Israel did not immediately cease building settlements in Judea and Samaria, the United States would cut off economic aid to Israel.

“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work,” Begin responded. “I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

Biden then raised his voice at Begin and banged twice on the table.

“This desk is designed for writing, not for fists.” Begin said. “Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.”

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