Category: Knowledge

With most items on the list, I was either very familiar with the cases or didn’t care, but the case of Richard Colvin Cox really grabbed my attention.

Based on the Wikipedia story, my only question is. “Why has this never been made into a movie?”

Some of these are new to me. Some are dubious. Some are not actually facts at all. Others are true and interesting.

One accurate example from the list:

There are literally hundreds of corpses on Mount Everest, and they are used as way points for people trying to climb it. The bodies are too high up to be safely retrieved, so they are left there.

True. As of now, approximately 340 people have died on Everest, and 200 or more bodies are still on the mountain. Many of these victims are located high on the mountain, where extreme conditions can make recovery impossible.

There is also pastry talk here and there. It’s obvious from the context that this is coded language. Many people have pointed out that “cheese pizza” was the code for “child porn” on 4Chan, but it’s not 100% certain that Epstein meant exactly this. For example, others refer to “pizza” as code for “piece of (ass).” Various people have speculated about “grape soda,” like “grape = rape,” but nobody has been able to decode it with absolute authority. I have not read any speculation about “Chinese cookie.”

The most upsetting thing about these communications is that the names (other than Epstein’s) have been redacted, in direct contravention of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

For example, what legitimate reason could there be for redacting the name of the sender in this e-mail to Epstein:

You can probably figure out who that is by searching the Epstein files for other mentions of “Chinese cookie,” “pizza,” “go kno” and “grape soda.” Interestingly, the DoJ redacted one of the participants in that conversation, but not the other. (Somehow Woody Allen is also involved in that text. Now that I consider it, that’s probably not surprising.)

After I looked through the files, one thing that struck me is that the pizzagate QAnon nutbags were kinda-sorta on to something. They misread all the code, targeted all the wrong people, and got all the details wrong, but it seems there was a pedophile ring, and pizza was somehow related.

The steamiest gossip so far: Bill Gates got the clap from Russian hookers. According to an Epstein memo to himself, Bill Gates got STD’s from Russian prostitutes, and then asked Epstein for antibiotics that Bill could secretly give to Melinda without her noticing. (That entire memo is an entertaining read. Gates asked Epstein to delete all e-mails that described his penis!)

One document I am still waiting for: the U.S. Marshal’s office allegedly assembled a complete list of all the people who arrived and left from St. Thomas on Epstein’s plane. The only such logs I have seen have redacted every single name except Jeffrey Epstein!

Riding on the Epstein plane in general meant nothing. Rich dudes catch rides on each other’s private planes, or their companies’ planes, all the time. They avoid commercial transportation so they don’t have to hobnob with the hoi polloi (the insignificant, unanointed nobodies like you and me). If somebody rode on Epstein’s plane from Boston to Atlanta, it means absolutely nothing.

But anybody who went to or from St. Thomas on the Lolita Express was almost certainly going to Sex Island (Little St. James), which is a short chopper ride from St. Thomas. Taking this flight is what caused trouble for former Harvard president Larry Summers, as well as Prince Andrew.

I passed up a chance to see Plitvice Lakes National Park when I was in Croatia in 2023. When I look at this gallery, I’m sorry I missed it.

Her resignation followed a ruling by a Trump-appointed judge that was about as blistering as anything I have ever seen from a federal judge. He basically used proper reasoning and legalese to call Halligan a liar and an idiot!

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Ms. Halligan’s Response asserts that she is free to act in an unlawful capacity, because she disagrees that she does so unlawfully. But that’s not how our legal system works.

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Ms. Halligan has no legal basis to represent to this Court that she holds the position. And any such representation can only be described as a false statement made in direct defiance of valid court orders.

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The Court recognizes that Ms. Halligan lacks the prosecutorial experience that has long been the norm for those nominated to the position of United States Attorney in this District. Consequently, and in light of her inexperience, the Court grants Ms. Halligan the benefit of the doubt and refrains from referring her for further investigation and disciplinary action regarding her misrepresentations to this Court at this time. However, this Memorandum Order provides notice that, should Ms. Halligan persist in ignoring Judge Currie’s Orders and this Memorandum Order in any matter before the undersigned, the Court will initiate disciplinary proceedings against Ms. Halligan and any other signatory to an offending pleading pursuant to Federal Rule of Disciplinary Enforcement V(A).

Here is what all that means in laymen’s language:

Part 1. Disagreeing with a law doesn’t give you permission to break it. Children know that.

Part 2. By using the title in defiance of a court order, Halligan has been lying to the courts.

Part 3. I’m not going to hold Halligan liable for perjury or recommend that she be disbarred, because she’s obviously too ignorant to know how to conduct herself in court, but this ruling remedies her ignorance. If she does this again, she will be disciplined. This also applies to any other official who co-signs a document where she misrepresents herself. (In other words, if Bondi and/or Blanche also sign off on her perjurious claim, the courts will go full Giuliani on their asses.)