First?

And Yul Bryner

Thanx, Tom.

Lord, another lefty seffer. Another effing lawyer too.

So many of these causes du jour are simply an emotional outlet for messed up people. Remember when they were in a frenzy about Tamils in Sri Lanka?

Move over Danube, look at the Congo river running at quiet times.
Imagine it flooding

A true chess genius.

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In 1964, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer demonstrated his unparalleled skill by playing 50 opponents simultaneously in a remarkable exhibition.

At just 21 years old, Fischer took on a mix of grandmasters, club players, and amateurs in a display of sheer intellectual dominance. The event, held at the Manhattan Chess Club, saw Fischer roaming the room, making moves with exceptional speed and precision while keeping track of all the games at once.

His ability to play multiple games without a single error was a testament to his extraordinary memory and deep understanding of chess. By the end of the marathon session, Fischer had won 47 of the games, drawing 3, a result that left a lasting impression on the chess world.

This exhibition solidified Fischer’s reputation as one of the greatest chess minds of all time, and foreshadowed his eventual rise to the World Chess Championship in 1972.

From the Journal

Marica Zellers and a friend zigzagged around the outskirts of Altadena last Thursday, looking for an opening that would allow her to evade barricades and check on her house. “The police were guarding every single street,” she said.

Then Zellers got a tip from a friend: The parking structure of the Super King Market offered an entry point that bypassed the roadblocks.

When Zellers arrived, she saw that her house on West Mariposa Street was rubble. She hunted for her safe, which was intact. After she and her friend managed to pry it open, she said, they had to jump back. “The safe was burning inside because it was holding all the heat,” she said.

Her house was gone, she said, and so was everything in her safe: birth records, property records, sports memorabilia, family history documents and $40,000 worth of Treasury bonds.

If banks started offering safe deposit boxes again, they could be making bank (pun intended).

Labor making the same mistake as Newsom.

Labor rejects health insurance hikes as Private Healthcare Australia claims soaring medical costs necessitate increases (Sky News, 15 Jan)

Labor has rejected proposed premium increases from private health insurers and ordered them to resubmit “more reasonable” prices, as the Albanese government keeps one eye on cost of living pressures ahead of the next federal election.

The next set of premium increases will take effect from April 1 this year and the government has called on insurers to submit applications for Health Minister Mark Butler to review.

But in December the Minister was largely unsatisfied with the companies’ initial increase proposals and demanded they all resubmit prices that were “more in the interests of their members”.

Mr Butler on Wednesday revealed that he was once again unhappy with the proposed price hikes and has turned back to the private health insurers for premiums that he felt were appropriate.

“Last year premiums went up about three per cent and the cost to insurers has gone up about eight per cent,” Mr Harris said.

“Insurers can’t do that forever.

So he’s twice knocked back their proposed increase for this year. And they can’t recover their costs, after an inadequate rise last year.

Well we know what happens next – just like in California.