Basil Copeland @CopelandBasil

I lived in Taiwan in 1961. Wikipedia reports 5 CAT 5 typhoons that year in the eastern Pacific, one of which crossed Taiwan. It had peak intensity of 180 mph, before weaking to 145 mph as it crossed Taiwan. Typhoon Violet was stronger, 205 mph at peak intensity, but did not impact any significant landmass. In the 20 months that I lived in Taiwan 1961-1962, 9 typhoons impacted Taiwan at some point. Two were CAT 4 and three were CAT 5. I think only two, maybe three, were below CAT 3.

The first Farrell's opened in Portland in 1963, and opened a second one at the Lloyd Center mall. I moved to Portland with my family in the summer of 1964, fresh out of high school. Farrell's was the go to place, and the one at the mall was popular because of the ice skating rink.

BREAKING: DHS releases a bullet-point list of what they say are false claims about the shooting of a Venezuelan illegal alien in Austin, TX. They say claims that he was legal and had a valid work permit are false. Per DHS: “CLAIM: ICE refused to remove the bullet from the illegal alien’s body. FACT: This is false. ICE does not and would not advise, nor be the authority on, a medical procedure for an illegal alien at a hospital.  CLAIM: The illegal alien had a valid work permit. FACT: This is false. The illegal alien’s work permit expired in 2025. Furthermore, a work permit does NOT grant legal status. CLAIM: The illegal alien was ordered removed in absentia. FACT: Yes. This is why aliens must show up to their removal proceedings. Legal obligations do not end because someone’s address changed. CLAIM: This illegal alien is here legally. FACT: This is false. This person is in the U.S. illegally. He entered illegally under the Biden Administration. The illegal alien had no valid work permit, had no protective status, and had a final order of removal from a Department of Justice (DOJ) Immigration Judge. CLAIM: This illegal alien has received no pain medication. FACT: This is false. This illegal alien is receiving medical care around the clock, including pain medication. CLAIM: The illegal alien has been forced to sleep on the floor. FACT: This is false. This alien was released from the hospital and arrived at the detention facility just a few hours later, where he slept on a bed. Aliens in ICE custody receive a higher standard of living than most prisons that hold U.S. citizens. CLAIM: This illegal alien was indiscriminately targeted by ICE. FACT: This is false. This illegal alien was the subject of a targeted vehicle stop. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S. DHS Sec. Mullin statement: “Sanctuary politicians and the mainstream media have wasted no time in spreading lies about an ICE officer-involved shooting of an illegal alien in Austin, Texas,” said Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “Contrary to their claims, this person is an illegal alien who has no legal status to be here and has been given some of the best medical care he’s ever received in his life. No amount of smears and false narratives will slow down ICE from doing its job by removing dangerous illegal aliens from our communities and making America safe again. Sanctuary politicians may continue to shamelessly protect illegal aliens, but the Trump Administration will remain focused on protecting the American people.”

America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating. Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground. The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves. It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors. Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence. True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over. Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market. We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.

Well said

🇺🇸 David J. Urban 🇺🇸 @DavidJUrban

a month ago

If Dario Amodei and Sam Altman want to slow the pace of AI, nothing is stopping them. We don't need to grow the size and scope of government to accomplish what these men already have the power to do themselves.

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I've been covering politics since 2008. The anti-AI-regulation takes from the left (by no means all/most of the left; Bernie disagrees!!!) might be the most literally incomprehensible political position I've ever encountered.

@shipwreckedcrew "Inapt." But not surprising, considering the source.

Mamdani still without federal security clearance after 9 months as NYC mayor trib.al/2Q1Xm3T

Block him from access to NYPD anti-terrorist activity also. He cannot be trusted.

New York Post @nypost

a month ago

Mamdani still without federal security clearance after 9 months as NYC mayor trib.al/2Q1Xm3T

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Yesterday, in Sweden, the conservative party lost to the radical leftist party by 30,000 votes… Why? Because 400,000 Muslim immigrants, voting 98 PERCENT for the left, participated in the election. The left IMPORTED the victory… And they plan to do it here ALSO.

Liberals are more offended by the abuse of the dolphin than by the local girls being raped by the invaders. Tells you everything you need to know. w.

Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood

a month ago

Ricky Gervais has joined the outcry after a young dolphin was allegedly dragged from the water at Trampolin Beach in Ceuta, Spain, on September 2. Footage circulating on social media appears to show a group of migrants lifting the calf above their heads while others gathered

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*snrk* What excellent news for the accelerationists this is. It's always good when your opponents acquire a spokesman with negative credibility. What will the safetyists do next? Rouse Joe Biden from a persistent vegetative state to weigh in with his usual coherence?

Polymarket @Polymarket

a month ago

BREAKING: Kamala Harris calls for an urgent slowdown in frontier AI development to ensure AI doesn’t “completely escape human control.”

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How exactly can SCOTUS FORCE the Postmaster General to mail ballots to illegals? USPS CANNOT be required to aid and abet federal felonies. Therefore, the Postmaster General should decide on his own NOT to mail election-related parcels to non-citizens.

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

a month ago

🚨 BREAKING: The US Supreme Court has BLOCKED President Trump’s request to implement his new USPS restrictions on ballot mailing So basically, USPS will be FORCED to mail ballots to illegals and non-citizens. SCOTUS REALLY doesn’t want us to have a country anymore. Alito and

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.@DavidSacks says if Dario Amodei truly believes frontier AI could end humanity, he has no business running Anthropic. Make it safe, shut the lab down, or step aside.

What threatens the US other humanity is not AI—it is Communist China. Our mortal enemy is working on ways to use advanced chip super-processing capabilities to attack the Internet, and the financial and infrastructure systems that rely on it. While China is planning how to conduct a crippling cyber assault—with chips we sell them and technology they steal from us— our government, tech industry and media are busy fomenting ridiculous paranoia about AI becoming self-aware and wanting to do away with humanity. apnews.com/article/artifi…

@amuse Everyone with an IQ below 100 is not "more than half." It is exactly half, the bottom half.

Kudos to the Trump EPA for (finally) issuing the rule ending CO2 emissions limits from power plants. But the fight is not over. There will be litigation and the Trump @TheJusticeDept sucks at it. Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division does not even have a political appointee running it. @AGToddBlanche should hire a trusted and competent outside law firm to conduct this and all other environmental litigation, at least until a competent appointee can take over. nytimes.com/2026/09/13/cli…

It is perfectly acceptable to be opposed to migration simply because you don't want your nation's culture to change.