THE SPHINX—WHO CALLS THE TUNE
Mind your own business. If you look for trouble, you will find it.
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You go Gavin.
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Bessent news.
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Trump sends out checks, and will attend Alabama-Georgia game.
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Democrats support a military take over of the government.
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Football trolls.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50087404/college-football-trolls-week-5
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Bad news.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/japan-us-marine-crime-okinawa/2026/10/04/id/1271658/
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An indictment after 20 years.
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Elon is back.
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Kroger gets new work clothes.
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Not this time.
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Best grocery store ????????
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The Puzzled Editor: Is that a secret code, LL ?
The Fair Cat: No, it’s an old proverb. Whoever pays the bill, tab, cost decides what goes where.
https://englishdaily626.com/proverbs.php?080
This is a good example.
It is public money. Students owe over a trillion dollars to you.
Ask Mr. Ed.
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Almost an original idea.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-announces-plan-to-gift-iran-a-giant-wooden-horse
Astronomy Picture of the Day
A Complete Auroral Oval from SMILE
Explanation: Have you ever seen a complete auroral oval? You can’t see one from the ground because it makes too large a circle around one of Earth’s magnetic poles. But spacecraft high above the Earth can see them. The featured video from ESA and CAS‘s robotic SMILE spacecraft shows not only a full auroral oval, but using ultraviolet light, one that occurred during the day. The time-lapse covers about an hour in late July and shows visually how variable and turbulent auroras really are. The points of light on the sides are distant stars that appear to move only because SMILE’s camera view shifts as the spacecraft orbits the Earth. A goal of SMILE is to better understand how the Sun’s wind interacts with the Earth’s magnetosphere — and so better understand how to protect astronauts, spacecraft, and ground-based electrical grids from solar storms.
Tomorrow’s picture: a ghost
Bible Verse
When you do not receive the things that you hope for,
it makes you sad. But when you receive what you have always wanted, you are very happy.
Monday Morning Meme Madness
Here…Kitty, Kitty Part 3
Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom
The four most beautiful words in our common language:
I told you so.
Gore Vidal
Wacky & Weird Facts: Animals Part 14
Owls are unable to roll or move their eyes, so they have to turn their heads to look sideways.
The bowhead whale, which lives exclusively in the Arctic, has the thickest blubber of all whales. It can get as thick as twenty-eight inches.
Cockroaches are not the toughest insect when it comes to resisting nuclear radiation. Insects like the flower beetle have been proven to have higher nuclear radiation resistance.
Cats can actually get something called whisker stress from eating or drinking from a bowl that is too small. Whiskers are very sensitive to pressure, and anytime they come close to something, it triggers a sensation in your cat. If you see your cat trying to scoop out food with their paw, it might mean that they have whisker stress.
Dogs don’t feel guilt or shame. However, they do feel sadness when their owners yell at them.
THE SPHINX—AMERICAN MEDICAL DOCTORS
A missing plane near Nantucket, Massachusetts.
https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/us-news/boston-bound-plane-goes-missing-after-losing-contact-with-faa/
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The NFL must be getting serious.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50085721/49ers-owner-jed-york-suspended-six-games-fined-500k-nfl
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Two heroes.
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Iran has a PSA for Democrats.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/30/iran-regimes-psa-vote-democrat-n3819468
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Again, don’t get old.
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Never go into the stands.
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Colleges have enough teams in the national championship playoff. The money grabbers want the kids playing more games than the professionals.
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Even killers get forgiveness.
https://nypost.com/2026/10/02/sports/trail-blazers-fire-broadcaster-after-past-racists-post-emerge/
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McDonald’s.
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Mr. M.D. Editor: What is going on with American Health, LL ?
Stay Healthy Cat: Everything in America is screwed up. It’s hard to tell where to start cleaning up.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/26/opinion/us-medical-schools-have-gone-dei-crazy-with-deadly-results/
The link explains some of the problems.
America’s policy is almost like suicide or self destruction.
Oooooh.
https://theonion.com/math-teachers-duplex-too-depressing-to-tp/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/
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One sign.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams
Explanation: A deep image of the Sombrero galaxy reveals surprises. M104 is named the Sombrero galaxy because, on shorter exposures, it looks like a hat. A key defining feature of this huge galaxy is a dark brim of dust that circles the disk galaxy’s center. A much longer exposure, however, brings up a hairy past where a bright, hazy halo is revealed that extends well past the central disk and contains many unresolved stars. Surprisingly, in this stellar haze, structures can be seen that include a diagonal ring. These structures and tidal streams provide fresh evidence that M104 had a violent past and is surely the result of collisions and mergers of smaller galaxies. Light takes about 30 million years to reach us from the Sombrero galaxy, which fully spans about 150 thousand light years across. The featured image was taken over seven days in mid-2026 from Namibia.
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Tomorrow’s picture: a smile