So Platner is trying to choose who will take over for his campaign, when he has absolutely no leverage to do so. I didn't see this until this morning, but Matt Margolis at PJ Media shared Dana Perino's take on this, and it is brutal. It was pretty obvious even before the primaries that if Platner made it to November, he was going to lose. He just had too much baggage. But he won the primaries, and now things are worse.
Who has the popcorn? I could use some today.
vxbush
7/8/2026 6:28:50 AM
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The next case to make it to the Supreme Court? Just The News:
A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore some of the key features of its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls.
The ruling overturns a D.C. judge's ruling, who determined that the SAVE system's features, including a feature that allowed workers to verify citizenship status through a resident's social security number, violated the Social Security Act and Privacy Act by improperly aggregating and using Americans’ personal data.
JCM
7/8/2026 6:47:32 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1:
The (D)s should be made to own Platner.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 7:22:17 AM
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In #3 JCM said: The (D)s should be made to own Platner.
Yes that's true, but what if they merely say: "God uses sinful men" ?
JCM
7/8/2026 7:53:45 AM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 4:
Everyone has done that forever, King David being a prime example.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 8:29:25 AM
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In #5 JCM said: Everyone has done that forever
Are you justifying it? Saying it's right and proper? Moral and honorable?
JCM
7/8/2026 8:42:09 AM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 6:
Not at all. God does use sinful men, and sinful men have been in power since forever.
I'm just watching the Platner debacle with a bowl of popcorn and enjoying the show. Collins is her own version of a shit show.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 9:05:58 AM
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In #7 JCM said: God does use sinful men, and sinful men have been in power since forever
My point is that the phrase says ... one's content of character, one's behavior, can be anything at all, whatever one wants.
If that is the case, why do we have places of worship? Why do religious studies?
Those who promote the idea are saying that spiritual faith is ultimately meaningless. In a way, they are saying it should be, because God doesn't give a damn.
In the Sixties, Bob Dylan alluded to Judas Iscariot having had God on his side. That is present-day America - very "Sixties". That is what the Web has become - if it feels good, do it - let it all hang out.
If God uses sinful men, then is there any sort of "right versus wrong"? No, there's not. Not in your world.
I'm old school, pre-Sixties "conservative". In that sense, I'm unlike any of you. And if I'm that, then why hasn't someone had the cojones to quit yelling "troll" and simply block me?
A newspaper says not okay to verify that the people voting are citizens, and a court had to tell Homeland Security that it could continue to vet citizenship and immigration after a lawsuit was filed. We have a problem, and it seems to always circle around voting and elections.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 10:26:50 AM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 8:
Nice unsupported, nonsensical, tautological word salad. One can see you've thoroughly schooled yourself in the techniques for passing off gibberish as profundity.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 11:48:40 AM
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Figured out something about a bug. Frontier
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 12:06:46 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10: You are nothing like you were 15 years ago. I'm sorry to see it.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 12:09:03 PM
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There will be a disruption in the Matrix blog at 3:15
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 12:27:57 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 13:
Needs more files uploaded. WIll try again later
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 12:30:37 PM
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In #12 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: You are nothing like you were 15 years ago. I'm sorry to see it.
Right back at you, with bells on.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 12:50:33 PM
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I'm inclined to quip "Cute!", but it's not. It's actually rather sad. I must remind myself of that, to keep from slipping into the same emotional quicksand.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 12:56:05 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 16:
Now is the whiner 'bout his dissed content
Finding it a bummer that he appears a dork.
---Opening lines of "Richard III," rewritten just for you
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 1:06:44 PM
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In #9 vxbush said: it seems to always circle around voting and elections
IMHO, that became the cap-L Left's primary operating tactic. 1993, Clinton signed the motor voter act, and Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were standing behind him as he did. (Refer back into the late '60s and the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which was used to bankrupt New York City in 1975.)
Gaining an influence-able majority of the public is "Gramscian", even though political Communism is dead. The tactic uses class hatreds and warfare, which was at the root of Marxism.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 1:14:25 PM
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Yes indeed. The Web has turned into a public space for wide-open masturbation.
Tim Berners-Lee said as much, several years ago.
C'mon LegalSplat, squirt it out. Rest assured that we are all swooning over your manliness.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 1:18:29 PM
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Historically (no reference to Shakespeare) the basic attitude (god-like self-esteem, and knee-jerk whining that he's being picking on) appears to be much more in line with the content of character of Richard II.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 1:27:32 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 19:Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 20:
Chuck Schumer's Latrine Splat seems upset about something.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 1:42:56 PM
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In #21 buzzsawmonkey said: Chuck Schumer's Latrine Splat
I did have to look that up (along with who exactly Schumer is.)
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 1:47:54 PM
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Someone recently posted a comment saying, ridicule is the tactic of winners, and outrage brands one as a loser.
I would ask ... what is it when the ridicule is spewed in virulent outrage ... with no factuality of any sort in the responses?
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 1:49:52 PM
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In #23 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: I would ask ... what is it when the ridicule is spewed in virulent outrage ... with no factuality of any sort in the responses?
Your recent posting history.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 1:52:26 PM
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Cute
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 1:56:53 PM
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In #24 buzzsawmonkey said: ................. ridicule is spewed in virulent outrage ............ your recent posting history
So why aren't you blocking me? Do you lack the balls? If what you say is correct, then my commenting is utterly "trolling", and trolls are not allowed on this blog.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 2:04:52 PM
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If I get blocked as a troll ... it will (at least to a certain extent) prove my point.
In a way, I hope I do get blocked as a ... quote-unquote ... "troll".
Your sanctimony has become obvious, and getting blocked will publicly announce it.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 2:06:20 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 26:
I have no power to block you, any more than I had "the power to block you" whenever your paranoid self claims, falsely, that I did some time in the distant past. Accordingly, when you show up, as now, to display your current lunacy and lack of content, I shall poke you with a stick as you so richly deserve. If you are capable of reverting to coherence---evidence is increasingly lacking---we can converse.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 2:17:11 PM
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In #28 buzzsawmonkey said: any more than I had "the power to block you" whenever your paranoid self claims, falsely, that I did some time in the distant past
I never said that you wanted to, or even could if you did, block me back at C2. I did say that (the day I blocked myself out) you wanted me to stay in order to input on the pun threads.
I don't know much about clinical psychology, but I think what you're saying is called "projection".
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 2:27:01 PM
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In #29 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: I don't know much about clinical psychology, but I think what you're saying is called "projection".
I think what you're saying is called "obsession." I have no recollection of any of what you've been babbling about regarding some forgotten interchange on a long-dead blog. That you not only do, but appear to be obsessing over it like the dragon Smaug over his hoard in "The Hobbit," argues that you have a pathetically empty life---which, thankfully, is no concern of mine, save that you've shown up here to scatter your mental turds here for no reason whatsoever.
You've had numerous chances here to behave like someone living in the present and behave; instead, you've shat on them all, with loud trumpetings. Should you be capable of actually living in the present and behaving like the adult you believe yourself to be, you would likely be welcomed---even by myself, despite your unrelenting and moronic abuse thus far. The evidence, however, is largely against you.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 2:37:52 PM
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Typing at your keys is not the equivalent of cojones.
Kosh can block me, and you have the ability to get him to. Grow a pair. Get rid of all this stuff that I'm spewing which is making you go bouncing off the walls.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 2:40:59 PM
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If there is another glitch on this site, try again 5-10 minutes later
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 2:42:14 PM
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In #31 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Kosh can block me, and you have the ability to get him to. Grow a pair. Get rid of all this stuff that I'm spewing which is making you go bouncing off the walls.
You came in here for the sole purpose of getting blocked, so you could go back to your stinking cave and brood over the alleged "wrongs" which you intentionally brought on yourself. You haven't posted a damned thing of substance since you popped up like the jackass-in-the-box you are.
You're an idiot, and a disgrace to whatever Marine that spawned you.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 2:42:49 PM
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In #31 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Kosh can block me, and you have the ability to get him to. Grow a pair
Some of the libraries and packages this site uses are old enough the current ones don't work right so the blog needs a complete rewrite to work with them. Turns out the blocking code was never fully implemented.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 2:47:31 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 34: I know of at least two others who've popped up, then just as suddenly disappeared. One of those, you told him you were about to block him.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 2:50:09 PM
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In #33 buzzsawmonkey said: You came in here for the sole purpose of getting blocked
Last November?????
Be careful that the frothing at your mouth doesn't short out your keyboard. Going up through your tongue, it could be very dangerous.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 2:56:22 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 36:
You said as much back then, fatmouth---and have worked to prove it ever since. Try your smokescreens on someone else.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 2:58:08 PM
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In #33 buzzsawmonkey said: ...... a disgrace to whatever Marine that spawned you
I don't care ... but by making that sort of insult, you just burned your kimono before flinging the ashes to the wind. You have just announced yourself as dishonorable behavioral filth. You obviously will stop at nothing. Your content of character was underneath that kimono.
If you do not get me banned -- somehow, any way -- you are a coward.
You want an insulting "screed" flung at you? .... I just did it.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 3:02:05 PM
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In #37 buzzsawmonkey said: You said as much back then
You just exposed what's turned you off so horribly.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 3:04:31 PM
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Anyone notice any difference?
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 3:06:04 PM
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In #40 Kosh's Shadow said: Anyone notice any difference?
Well, if it worked, the person can't reply
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 3:07:24 PM
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In #40 Kosh's Shadow said: Anyone notice any difference?
Should I quietly log out and get Buzz's hopes up?
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 3:18:00 PM
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In #42 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Should I quietly log out and get Buzz's hopes up?
No, fatmouth---let's hear all the crap you have to say. You've been too cowardly to say what's been burning your ass so much that you had to show up here to shit all over the blog; why not go out in a blaze of glory and tell us all what imagined slight has been burning you for---what was you said? Fifteen years? Get it off your tiny chest.
(The article's on the JPost website, but because I'm posting the link, it's obviously fatmouth screed-flinging fakery.)
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 3:32:35 PM
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In #43 buzzsawmonkey said: let's hear all the crap you have to say
Okay ... this very old-school secular Zionist ... thinks Itamar Ben-Gvir sees himself as the prophesied and resurrected Meir Kahane (or possibly Baruch Goldstein), descending the Mountain bearing a Torah scroll wrapped around the handle of a Roman-style fasces axe.
How does that bite you?
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 3:36:06 PM
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OH!!! ... And this very old-school secular Zionist is also a Christian.
Does that add anything?
How about that among my 20 books on Israeli history and biography ... I happen to have a copy of I.F. Stone's "This Is Israel" ?
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 3:38:36 PM
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Just a suggestion ... .... you can coin a new word ... ... "Judeophobic".
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 3:41:17 PM
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In #46 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: How does that bite you?
Try writing a coherent post---there's a good lad.
You could start by explaining what all your babble about Meir Kahane, etc., has to do with the link you posted---then explain what, precisely, you're objecting to, and then maybe why, in your fevered mind, you think I should care.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 3:48:10 PM
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I'm sitting here eating supper, trying to keep it from dribbling down my shirt as I laugh.
The Damascus Gate. The Muslim Quarter. In a comment string last fall. That's where you and Kach's Shadow went utterly ballistic. Everything was calm and rational, until I began describing something I'd written.
All you ever "saw" was one tiny fragment, utterly out of context.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 3:49:27 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 50:
You're babbling incoherently again. You really have problems formulating coherent sentences, don't you?
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 3:53:58 PM
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Tried a server restart. That logs everyone out
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 4:01:29 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 52: Uploaded a couple of files that are separate from the DLL
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:02:41 PM
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In #51 buzzsawmonkey said: You're babbling incoherently again
Yes, of course. You of all people should be well-aware of that.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 4:05:48 PM
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In #54 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Yes, of course.
Why don't you try to write clearly? Or do you merely prefer your endless flatulation?
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:06:59 PM
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In #51 buzzsawmonkey said: You're babbling incoherently again
You are being deliberately insulting. What do you mean by it?
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:10:19 PM
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In #55 buzzsawmonkey said: Why don't you try to write clearly? Or do you merely prefer your endless flatulation?
THAT right there is so cute. You mean "clearly" as a way of saying, in a manner with which you will agree.
During college in the Sixties, I had a semester course in Formal Logic. You would have been laughed out of the room.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 4:11:33 PM
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In #56 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: You are being deliberately insulting. What do you mean by it?
I am handing you a teaspoonful of the shit-shower you've been spewing here. Enjoy.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 4:14:52 PM
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In #57 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: THAT right there is so cute. You mean "clearly" as a way of saying, in a manner with which you will agree.
During college in the Sixties, I had a semester course in Formal Logic. You would have been laughed out of the room.
No, dearie. I'm suggesting that you try saying what you want to say outright instead of dancing around it like a brain-damaged drag queen at Drag Queen Story Hour. You know, stating what your object is, and then saying, "This supports it," or, "This doesn't support it, but I disagree." In other words, trying to actually say something instead of yapping like a demented dog.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 4:16:55 PM
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In #53 Kosh's Shadow said: Uploaded a couple of files that are separate from the DLL
And the wonky file upload interface put them in the wrong place.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:24:27 PM
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You've blanked me out
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:25:32 PM
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Buzz's "dearie" is apparently desperation
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:27:59 PM
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Buzz's ad hominems have become sexual
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:29:40 PM
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Maybe "New York City" Buzz knows why Donald dances to YMCA
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 4:30:47 PM
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In #64 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: Maybe "New York City" Buzz knows why Donald dances to YMCA
Probably just to irritate you.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:31:04 PM
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The little note says "You are not allowed to post" -- You've gotta do better, Kosh.
preBoomer-Marinebrat
7/8/2026 4:34:46 PM
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Whether it is complete or not, I hav gotten it to happen. Congratulation, C2. You're wonderful these days. \\\\\\
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 4:50:14 PM
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OK. No Create button any more
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 4:52:06 PM
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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 67:
Little people celebrate little triumphs.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 5:10:47 PM
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I will see whether this has been fixed.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 5:12:20 PM
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And whether or not the phase of the moon has anything to do with it
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 5:15:13 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 70:
Thank you for your work, Kosh.
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 5:17:00 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 72:
You're welcome. I am not sure everything has been fixed but we will see.
buzzsawmonkey
7/8/2026 5:22:02 PM
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In #73 Kosh's Shadow said: I am not sure everything has been fixed but we will see.
Well, here's hoping that the following song will apply:
JCM
7/6/2026 7:29:31 PM
Kosh's Shadow
7/8/2026 11:48:40 AM