Notices by Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social)

8647 is now a death threat.

Number 8647 is pronounced eight thousand six hundred forty seven. Number 8647 is a prime number. The prime number before 8647 is 8641. The prime number after 8647 is 8663. Number 8647 has 2 divisors: 1, 8647. Sum of the divisors is 8648. Number 8647 is not a Fibonacci number. It is not a Bell number. Number 8647 is not a Catalan number. Number 8647 is not a regular number (Hamming number). It is a not factorial of any number. Number 8647 is a deficient number and therefore is not a perfect number. Binary numeral for number 8647 is 10000111000111. Octal numeral is 20707. Duodecimal value is 5007. Hexadecimal representation is 21c7. Square of the number 8647 is 74770609. Square root of the number 8647 is 92.989246690142. Natural logarithm of 8647 is 9.0649677189604 Decimal logarithm of the number 8647 is 3.9368654589756 Sine of 8647 is 0.97279791624714. Cosine of the number 8647 is 0.23165537797602. Tangent of the number 8647 is 4.1993323217726

https://www.numberempire.com/8647

Here's a simple bit of personal knowledge and experience that I thought I ought to pass on to those of us who might be considering encountering this situation in the future.

Being beaten by cops with a billy-club does hurt; it hurts a lot.

(A few years later, when a 2nd time began to unfold, this wisdom was revealed to me: It is much less painful to climb over a tall chain link fence than to be beaten, again, by the LAPD.)

Remember the Black Panthers?

I wonder when we will see the rise of the Brown Panthers to resist the oppression from ICE and other US gov't agencies?

(As a student I knew many Panthers - generally nice people who had become fed up and angry.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Panther_demonstration.jpg

This is not only an unconstitutional bribe it is a mountainous waste of money.

Boeing is already well along at converting two existing 747-s to be new flying royal barges.

There is no reason to think that this airplane could be converted any more quickly - and the cost would be duplicative of what is already being paid to duplicative.

By-the-way, the 747's that what we call Air Force One is really *TWO* essentially identical aircraft, not one.

And can you image how garish this bribe will be - enough gold to sink a Titanic.

"Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources"

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511

@kenwhite.bsky.social I once watched as the LAPD shot and killed a naked man standing on his front lawn. Yes, the guy had a knife but the officers were all nearly 50 feet away - totally out of danger. But they shot him anyway and left him dying, flipping and flopping on the ground, with no assistance or help from the cops, while they brought an ambulance from downtown Los Angeles at rush hour, although UCLA medical center was a few blocks away. He died in the 30+ minutes before the ambulance arrived.

It didn't even make the news.

It was murder by cop.

@feld @cascheranno @chris The polarization of the Heads Up Display is not really the fault of Hyundai's designers, it's due to the way that reflections can become polarized - and a heads up display is essentially a projection that is reflected off of the inside of the windshield.

The only other car I've driven with a HUD was a BMW 5 and I was rather more focused on the fact that it was so vastly heavier and sluggish than my prior BMW.

So, now the American Stasi/Maga is trying to shut down Wikipedia.

The letter from the Dept of "Justice" is pure krap, unadulterated krap that reeks of suppression of free speech - it is utter McCarthy/Nazi rubbish.

The Do"J" letter makes accusations that would equally shut down other 501(c)(3) organizations, such as ICANN.

Wikipedia may have the resources to fight this, other organizations will not and will, as a consequence, die.

One thing that we can do is to assure that the so-called lawyers who have written these letters - such as Edward R. Martin, Jr. - will be disbarred and will find that after the end of the maga-era that they will never find work in the legal community ever again.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNyx34Et19sKtlta0bTPPzSPcpi375T/view

Were I in Congress I would ask my constituents to write and suggest bills for me to introduce. Most would, of course, die at the hands of the maga-drunk R-party. But since Congress has refused to use its power of the purse to restrain FFOTUS/Musk-doggie, we need to seek other means, even little means. (Remember, the Lilliputians subdued Gulliver with a large number of small threads.)

My own first bill would be aimed at FFOTUS' vanity - I would submit a bill to remove funding for any but long term maintenance - and ban usage expenditures on - a pair of "VC-25" (Boeing 747) aircraft usually known as "Air Force One".

By-the-way, last time I checked - about two decades ago - the cost to taxpayers of a member of Congress submitting such a bill in Congress was on the order of $50,000. I am sure it is much higher now.

It is clear to me that whether impeached/convicted, the 2028 election lost, the 25th amendment, or biological death - the only way that FFOTUS will leave the White House is feet first on a gurney or being frog-walked by a pair of very large, very strong, very silent officers.

Except for the gurney path we have to expect that those big, strong, silent officers will be US Army soldiers or US Marines, or DC police, with those Army or Marines standing by.

Yesterday was the day to begin reinforcing among our military officers and enlisted ranks their oath and obligation to follow and protect the Constitution even if commanded otherwise by superior officers or the Commander in Chief.

These reminders should be coming out of the mouths, pens, and keyboards of every elected official, every judge, every form of media, every TV show/video/movie, and every citizen.

Every member of our military should from this day forth be marinated in their obligation to the Constitution despite orders to the contrary.

Q: Is FFOTUS an agent of Bin Laden or an agent of Putin?

Both of those people desire(d) an emasculated, crippled United States and FFOTUS is delivering, and wow is he delivering!

Wow, El Stupido (aka FFOTUS) has just dropped a trade bomb that probably amounts to the greatest tax increase (in the form of tariffs) on American citizens in the history of the USA.

This tax increase is highly regressive - the rich won't feel it because the tax/tariff is essentially a Federal sales tax. However, the middle class and people on even lower incomes here in the US will be clobbered. These people will react in a rational way by cutting back on their purchases - which is a road to recession or worse. It may also be inflationary because US vendors will increase their prices because of reduced foreign competition.

@HistoPol FFOTUS is "Fat Felon of the United States"

Last night I watched the 1941 Powell and Pressburger film "49th Parallel". I had not seen it before. (It came around on TCM within the last few days.)

(I rather like Powell and Pressburger films [especially "A Matter of Life and Death".)

Anyway 49th Parallel was most definitely a propaganda film. But it conveyed Canada in a light that ought to be remembered in view of FFOTUS' threats against Canada.

(My grandfather was stationed in WW-II in the general vicinity of some of the locations near Labrador in the movie. And I recognized some of the locations in Banff from my own travels.)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033627/

@heidilifeldman I am reading Caro's book "The Power Broker" about Robert Moses.

It is interesting how the methods that Moses used to run-over the NY city and state governments is very similar to what the Musk-Dog-ies and Project 2025 gang are doing.

Moses went through the motions of asking oversight bodies for permission, but he also went ahead to get construction of his projects (even without permission) to begin and progress to the point where by the time the oversight body acted it was too late to put things back the way they were.

It is pretty clear that the Musk-o-vites are working to destroy agencies before courts (or our feckless Congress) can try to stop things.

In our national case, we are in a humpty-dumpty situation where FFOTUS is breaking our governmental eggs so quickly and furiously that there will be no way to restore the status quo ante.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

@Lana Yes, we got a lot of gifts and benefits back then (and since).

But please don't forget that when we were buying homes the interest rates often ranged into the 15%/year (and above) range plus "points" and with a rather large down payment. As a consequence, for many of us housing was unaffordable.

So, how much has your net worth declined since January 20, 2025?

I am starting to encounter an increasing number of people who seem to be giving up on fighting FFOTUS/Musk because "The D's won't do anything and they have no power anyway, and the courts are packed in FFOTUS favor and besides the decisions of courts will be ignored by FFOTUS."

These are the kinds of seeds that grow into extra legal activities ranging from civil disobedience to IRA, Irgun, or Chechyn style terrorism.

This is pretty good...

"What can I do to fight this coup?"

https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

I went to law school way back in the mid-late 1970's. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA) was new then.

Our courses were extremely practical - once I had to set up a manufacturing business in Ghana and I ended up in DC negotiating the terms with the Ambassador.

Our course about FPCA was even more practical - the profs (who had a lot of experience overseas) wanted us to experience the kind of pressures we would be put under. So this class actually involved hotel rooms with (fake) drugs, a fair amount of real cash, and nearly naked women. We were subject to blackmail (again, not real, but it was scary).

So here is FFOTUS saying to Americans - go forth and bribe, go forth and accept drugs, money, and sex, go forth and be blackmailed.

The US was better when we had a solid FCPA to give us backbone to resist.

Now our whore-monger in chief is telling us to engage in the worst of practices, to abandon ethics, and to make us no better than Nigerian Princes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html

Read this, then read the complaint (which is a .pdf linked-to from the article.)

I will probably be launching a donation in the direction of Public Citizen later today.

https://www.citizen.org/litigation/alliance-for-retired-americans-afge-and-seiu-v-bessent/