Rubio speech and where is Talarico
Friday, October 09, 2026
Crime is down
The numbers speak to themselves.
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uddenly, everybody is saying the same thing: Crime is down since we cleaned up the border. Let's check this post from Christopher Tremoglie:
President Donald Trump is heading to San Antonio on Wednesday to highlight the miraculous turnaround he orchestrated in protecting the country from violent criminals, including many who were in the country illegally. Since his second term began, he has continued to remove the “worst of the worst.”
For four years under President Joe Biden, the country suffered from Democrats’ disastrous border security policies, which led to the unnecessary deaths of innocent women and girls such as Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn Nungaray at the hands of violent illegal immigrants. Trump has spent much of his second term cleaning up the mess created by Democrats who previously held power -- many of whom want your vote again in November. There is still violent crime in the country, but there has been much less of it since Trump’s second term began less than two years ago.
Not long ago, saying that criminals were crossing the border was an easy way to get called a racist or anti-immigrant. Tell me about it.
We were often reminded that illegals committed less crime than legal citizens or residents. Of course, no one was saying that illegal immigrants committed more crimes. All we were saying is that people not vetted could turn out to be criminals, and many did.
The numbers speak for themselves, as the article points out:
Under his watch, statistics show that the country experienced the largest decrease in violent crime since 1936, the first year such crime data were reported. The nation’s murder rate also dropped by 18.5% in 2025 to “4.1 per 100,000 residents, tying 1955 and 1956 for the lowest rate since FBI national estimates began.”
We have to credit the Trump policy for those numbers. Closing the border to unvetted people also contributed to the good results.
We were never against immigrants, but rather against opening the border to unvetted people.
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1977 and listening to "How deep is your love" by Bee Gees
Two months later, the whole world was watching "Saturday Night Fever" and the rest is history.
"How deep is your love" is one of the greatest songs composed and recorded by the Brothers Gibb. It ranks high in every one's favorite compilation of romantic tunes!
Barry sang lead and Robin & Maurice did some fabulous harmony.
No wonder it stayed in the Top 10 for 17 weeks. It was great!
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October 9, 1940: We remember John Lennon
We remember that John Lennon was born on this day in Liverpool in 1940.
Once in a while, I check out a Beatles' song with John doing the lead vocals. Let me tell you about two of my favorites:
"Strawberry Fields Forever" gets better with age. It is a song about his childhood in Liverpool.
"Dear Prudence", from the "White Album", is about their trip to India in 1968.
They are both great songs and wonderful reminders of John Lennon.
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1967: Che is still burning in hell after all of these years
By 1965, Che Guevara had faded from public life. His disappearance created all kinds of speculation about Che’s relationship with Fidel and Raúl Castro. After all, some close to Castro in 1959 had been killed in accidents, like Camilo Cienfuegos, or stuck in political prisons, like Huber Matos. Cienfuegos’s plane was never found, and Matos was eventually released in some prisoner exchange. Matos spent the rest of his life in exile.
Che reappeared in 1966 in Bolivia, where he hoped to bring about a revolution. How did he get there? Who paid his bills? Why did he suddenly leave Cuba? Many believe that Fidel and Raúl wanted him out, and starting a revolution in Bolivia was the exit. I think it’s fair to say that Che had worn out his welcome with the Castro brothers, specially after they saw how popular he was with the international left. As we learned, there is only one “popular” person in Cuba, and that’s Fidel.
Fifty-five years ago this week, Che was captured and executed by Bolivian troops operating with the CIA. It happened very fast. As we learned in his diary, Che and his men lacked food and medicine and were barely surviving in the jungle. It’s possible that Che would have died of bad health and no medical care. He was battling asthma attacks constantly. Also, they were not getting a lot of help from Cuba, either by design or because the supplies could not reach them. My guess is that Che was happy to get captured and hoped for some prison time and then a return to Cuba. He did not get his wish.
Che subsequently became “the image” on all those t-shirts. He became the ultimate anti-U.S. symbol, the image that every left-wing group goes to when its members have a gripe against the U.S.
Ironically, he was captured because the campaign in Bolivia failed miserably. It failed for two reasons, as Humberto Fontova explained in Exposing the Real Che. Read the book for more details, but it went down like this:
1) Bolivia was not Cuba.
2) The natives in Bolivia never bought into the idea that a band led by a guy from Argentina and Cubans was there to save them. In the end, it was the villagers he was trying to “liberate” who turned him in. Again, the Bolivian campaign was a total failure. The locals never read the memo about Cuban health care, I guess.
Che was a murderer and a man who said awful things about blacks, for example. This is from Guillermina Sutter Schneider:
In his diary, he referred to black people as “those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing.” He also thought white Europeans were superior to people of African descent, and described Mexicans as “a band of illiterate Indians.”
Today, we would call him a racist and a homophobe! We’d cancel him from universities. Twitter would delete his account.
So I still remember my father saying in Spanish that they got him. Indeed they did, and many champagne bottles popped in the Cuban exile community this week in 1967.
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October 9, 1974: A's beat Orioles in game 4 with only one hit
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On this day in 1974, the A's beat the Orioles in the ALCS to return to the World Series. They went on to beat LA and win their 3rd title in a row.
In game 4, the A's took advantage of Mike Cuellar's 9 walks and managed to get a run without a hit. Later, Reggie Jackson hit a double to left field and the A's got their second run. The O's rallied in the bottom of the 9th but fell short when Rollie Fingers struck out Don Baylor to put the A's in the World Series.
Here is the box score!
In game 4, the A's took advantage of Mike Cuellar's 9 walks and managed to get a run without a hit. Later, Reggie Jackson hit a double to left field and the A's got their second run. The O's rallied in the bottom of the 9th but fell short when Rollie Fingers struck out Don Baylor to put the A's in the World Series.
Here is the box score!
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'They got him': The death of Che Guevara
By 1965, Che Guevara had faded from public life. His disappearance created all kinds of speculation about Che's relationship with Fidel and Raúl Castro. After all, some close to Castro in 1959 had been killed in accidents, like Camilo Cienfuegos, or stuck in political prisons, like Huber Matos. Cienfuegos's plane was never found, and Matos was eventually released in some prisoner exchange. Matos spent the rest of his life in exile.
Che reappeared in 1966 in Bolivia, where he hoped to bring about a revolution. How did he get there? Who paid his bills? Not sure. Why did he suddenly leave Cuba? No one knows. Many believe that Fidel and Raúl wanted him out, and starting a revolution in Bolivia was the exit. I think it's fair to say that Che had worn out his welcome with the Castro brothers, especially after they saw how popular he was with the international left. As we learned, there is only one "popular" person in Cuba, and that's Fidel.
Fifty-five years ago this week, Che was captured and executed by Bolivian troops operating with the CIA. It happened very fast. As we learned in his diary, Che and his men lacked food and medicine and were barely surviving in the jungle. It's possible that Che would have died of bad health and no medical care. He was battling asthma attacks constantly. Also, they were not getting a lot of help from Cuba, either by design or because the supplies could not reach them. My guess is that Che was happy to get captured and hoped for some prison time and then a return to Cuba. He did not get his wish.
Che subsequently became "the image" on all those t-shirts. He became the ultimate anti-U.S. symbol, the image that every left-wing group goes to when its members have a gripe against the U.S.
Ironically, he was captured because the campaign in Bolivia failed miserably. It failed for two reasons, as Humberto Fontova explained in Exposing the Real Che. Read the book for more details, but it went down like this:
1) Bolivia was not Cuba.
2) The natives in Bolivia never bought into the idea that a band led by a guy from Argentina and Cubans was there to save them. In the end, it was the villagers he was trying to "liberate" who turned him in. Again, the Bolivian campaign was a total failure. The locals never read the memo about Cuban health care, I guess.
Che was a murderer and a man who said awful things about blacks, for example. This is from Guillermina Sutter Schneider:
In his diary, he referred to black people as "those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing." He also thought white Europeans were superior to people of African descent, and described Mexicans as "a band of illiterate Indians."
Today, we would call him a racist and a homophobe! We'd cancel him from universities. Twitter would delete his account.
So I still remember my father saying in Spanish that they got him. Indeed they did, and many champagne bottles popped in the Cuban exile community this week in 1967.
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Thursday, October 08, 2026
TDS alive and well. Crime is down and where is Talarico?
TDS alive and well. Crime is down and where is Talarico?
Maybe he's cheering for the Brewers and Braves
Maybe he's cheering for the Brewers and Braves:
It's always more convenient to make it about Trump than for the mayor of LA to explain the failures of the city, or for the governor of California to explain the exodus of businesses.
1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn won The Nobel Prize in Literature
We remember how Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was given the prize back in 1970. The Soviet Union did not allow him to receive the award. In 1974, he was expelled for treason and moved to the U.S.
Solzhenitsyn was a great man, writer and hero. He was willing to write books in a country that did not tolerate dissent. He was exactly the kind of man for a Nobel Prize.
He died in 2008 at age 89. His books are very difficult to read but they remind us of what repression in the old USSR was like.
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