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Many remember the late Dick Cheney for his service as President George W. Bush’s vice president from 2001 to 2009, shaping the War on Terror. Others remember his multi-decade failing heart--”he has his own parking spot on the ER comedians joked”--and how he shot his 78-year-old hunting companion attorney Harry Whittington in the face in 2006.

Fewer know about his love of put-and-take hunting in which game animals are “put” (released) by an organization and hunters pay a fee to “take” them. Real hunters often disdain such no-chase. no-miss pastimes which use no skill.

In 2003, Cheney’s hunting party killed 417 pheasants at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, PA, Cheney personally killing 70 pheasants and an undisclosed number of ducks. The birds were donated to Rolling Rock Club staff though the pellets had to be removed before they could be eaten.

The next year, on the day after John Kerry was defeated by Bush, the Veep availed himself of Air Force Two to visit Pierre, SD where a motorcade sped him to a Gettysburg area hunting lodge for what was characterized as a victory hunt.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Hundreds of swarming, angry Asian Giant Hornets, the world's largest, stung to death a vacationing American father and teenage son while they were jungle ziplining, reports from northern Laos said.

Daniel Owen, a 47-year-old headmaster of an international school, and his son Cooper, 15, suffered extremely painful deaths on Oct. 15 after they were rushed to a hospital, reportedly conscious, in nearby Luang Prabang.

"It was very, very painful. A lot of stings, more than one hundred, over the whole body," said Dr. Phanomsay Phakan.

"I have never seen a death [from hornet stings] and I have been working more than 20 years," the doctor said, according to the Times of London on November 4.

It was unclear why news of their deaths was not earlier reported, but all media is controlled by the Communist government in tiny, impoverished, landlocked Laos which is surrounded by China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

The tragedy occurred after the father, son, and a zipline guide climbed up to a tree-mounted platform and harnessed themselves to a long, slightly downward vertical steel zipline.

I was born into an America who's character was reflected by the words on the Statue of Liberty, which are ““Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” All Americans of my generation were proud of that!

The Orange King has turned America into a hell hole that is intent on punishing the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses. It has become the cruelest of countries, governed by psychotically cruel people. The majority of Americans did not vote for this, and many are protesting vehemently, to no avail. Some pretend that this administration will give up power based on an election which is completely delusional. Unbelievably a large minority of Americans support this as if the victims are criminals.

Chris Walker reports on “Trump’s Push to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing Rests on Falsehoods,” November 3, 2025 (https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-push-to-resume-nuclear-weapons-testing-rests-on-falsehoods). Walker is a news writer at Truthout, and is based out of Madison, Wisconsin. Here’s some of what he writes. 

“This past week, President Donald Trump called on the Department of Defense (DOD) to restart nuclear weapons testing ‘immediately, citing false claims about other countries’ nuclear arsenals and testing.”

“Despite Trump’s suggestion that other countries are testing nuclear weapons, only one country, North Korea, has even tested such weapons in the 21st century. Indeed, most countries ended their nuclear weapons testing in the 1990s. (The U.S. suspended tests in 1992.)”

President Trump endorsing Cuomo over Sliwa the Republican candidate in NYC's mayoral election is a betrayal to the Republican party and I hope diehard Republicans' voters will cast their votes to Mamdani who is the likely winner. Just like the saying goes, "No one likes to ride in a sinking ship."

Justice Department found Cuomo sexually harassing employees in the past is the only reason Trump likes him and they are two peas in a pod.

Let's face it, Trump is a Muslim-hater and he is very desperate to have Mamdani lose because he is Muslim and that is the ugly truth. However, I feel I have better odds of getting hit by lightning than Andrew Cuomo winning the NYC mayoral election.

 Curtis Sliwa said his own children, who were raised Jewish, are "afraid" of Mamdani. Why should religion matters? Sliwa confound me even more when he called Mamdani a "real threat" and that equating a vote for Mamdani is a vote for a "supporter of terrorism" or a "terrorist himself." In other words, a Muslim-American candidate should not be trusted, and s/he could not be a loyal American.

US law prohibits foreign interference in federal and state election

America is under shutdown for the last 31 days and Gaza Strip has been under siege for the last 19 years. So, how did Gazans manage to survive and what lesson can American learn from Gazans during the government shutdown to make ends meet?

First of all, with almost no aid allowed in and food prices soaring, parents and children in Gaza are risking their lives to get even small amounts of food or safe water. Many are walking for hours, waiting in crowds, or dodging dangerous strikes and fire – only to return empty-handed.

 However, Gazans have adapted to extreme food shortages by relying on a few meals a day, often skipping meals to feed their children. The UN World Food Program (WFP) reports that most families in Gaza survive on one meal a day, with one-third going entire days without eating. The meals available are often thin broths, lentils, rice, or a combination of herbs and olive oil known as "duqqa." 

Since October 1, Congress failed to pass appropriations bills, leading to a lapse in funding for non-essential government operations. This situation can significantly disrupt employment and unemployment across the country.

I was born and grew up in New York City. I rode the subway to school way, way downtown. School buses were for sissies. I was a typical New York City tough kid. For years I lived with my mother in run-down old hotels owned by my father who was clawing his way up from a modest life on the Lower East Side.

The idea of ‘affordable housing,’ a shibboleth now popular with the general public, barely existed. On those distant days, save on the wilder shores of leftwing unionism, you worked hard as hell to pay your rent or slept on the roof or in the park.

In 1991, Zohran Mamdani appeared in the big city out of nowhere. Mamdani had won an election as an assemblyman in New York’s 36th District. He had been born in Uganda and, like many ethnic Indians, fled the rampages of despot Idi Amin. Uganda’s Asians have produced a large number of highly talented people, among them the young Mamdani. Astoundingly, he is a proud Muslim in a city dominated by pro-Israel, wealthy Jewish residents, Latin Americans and Haitians.

Has Donald Trump's sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments immediately sparked two opposing views: for some, his position represents the clear demarcation of a genuine shift in US foreign policy; for others, it is nothing more than a political ploy designed to claw back credibility lost by the US during two years of Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Hour 1
We begin with the obvious question:  Does Trump have dementia?

Of the past six presidents, 3.5 have been incompetent.

Our resident expert DR. NANCY NIPARKO concurs on Reagan, a bit on W but less so on Biden & moreso on Trump. 

Co-host MYLA RESON challenges the idea that Trump’s murders in the Caribbean  are rooted in dementia rather than corporate greed.

We note that MAGA commentator Tomi Lahren is screaming at Trump for bailing out the Argentine cattle industry while destroying the one here in the US.

Co-host MIKE HERSH then introduces ANTHONY FLACCOVENTO who explains to us his innovative Rural New Deal.

From the rural woodlands of central California JULIE LEVINE warns us of lethal alienation.

We then welcome legendary network news veteran DAVID SALTMAN to offer alternatives to the billionaire-dominated “legacy” media that now all sounds like Fox.

Hour 2
The World-Changing Transition from Fossil-Nukes to Solartopia is Happening Now