A little delayed today
I just got back from a trip to NYC and am somewhat behind in a host of tasks. So further posting will be delayed till this evening.
It was beautiful in New York. Here are some of the things I saw at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. I recommend them highly this time of year:
Tree peonies. Just about the most beautiful flowers in the world. Not the easiest plants to grow though, unlike regular peonies, which thrive in New England. The photos don’t show how huge they are, either—bigger than a hand.
Everything will be groovy!
We ♫ are the ♪ world! ♫♫♪
enjoy them while you can..
Video: Marines Practice Subduing Citizens Inside Internment Camp
Alarming video footage from a U.S. Marines training drill which took place in Arizona last month shows armed troops chasing down unruly citizens inside a mock internment camp while role players chant for food and water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTIKKxRi4ww
no, those fema camps are not real
no, obama didnt sign a eo allowing russian and chinese troops to help out
no, jade helm is for practive in foregn places which is why domestic police who are not going, are part of it
no, its not an excuse to position military equipment prior to some action
no, the emergency powers created are never to be used
arent you glad?
Very pretty. Hope you enjoyed your trip!
We love our Peonies, but they only last a couple days. Life is fleeting…
Mmmm. Peonies aren’t close to blooming yet in upstate NY where I am. Thanks for the lovely sneak preview.
Gorgeous.
You might be interested in what the NY Daily News uncovered about Brandon Bostian, the engineer of the Amtrak train: he has ranted for quite some time that Amtrak needs to install electronic controls for the trains’ speed:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/engineer-derailed-train-ranted-safety-article-1.2222338
He’s also a far-left political activist. Think he did this as a little demonstration? and lost his nerve right before the curve? Could well be.
Mrs Whatsit:
Tree peonies bloom a lot earlier than regular peonies. But I’m sure neither are blooming yet up there.
@ Bev, kill people to get a point across ?
Pretty sick isn t it ?
My husband heard that Bostian was employed at Target 4 years ago ! probably dosent like 2 nd shift work.
Amtrack removed their *diversity page*
someone said it has info on how they have such
& such % of women, minorities, & *others* on the payroll, nothing said about people being able
to have top notch high speed rail operating skills
or not having greivences about how rails are running but what does the Obama appointee operating Amtrack care about that, neither he nor his family was on the train !
Beverly:
I don’t think so.
Beverly Says:
May 14th, 2015 at 7:15 pm
….He’s also a far-left political activist. Think he did this as a little demonstration? and lost his nerve right before the curve? Could well be.
He’s also far out:
BREAKING & NSFW: Here Are #Amtrak Engineer #BrandonBostian’s Disturbing Dick Pics
Hundreds of them ….
Gorgeous!
The black box on the train indicates that it sped up from about 70 mph to 106 mph just before it hit that curve. What will it take to assign maleficent intention by the engineer? Suicide by train is no more outre than suicide by airliner.
Rush didn’t come right out and say it, but yesterday he suggested that the little twerp might have been pleasuring himself at the time of the crash. Wouldn’t surprise me…
The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens are beautiful. I used to visit them every time I visited my sister in Park Slope. It was always amazing to me how few people were ever there when I went.
So it was possible to have this astonishing experience virtually alone, no crowding or noise. Peaceful paradise, truly.
I would go in the morning, early afternoon and then see a movie at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a gorgeous venue. Again, there was always almost no other person there in the late afternoon showing. Splendorous solitude, and usually a good movie.
The great thing about NYC are the things that you never heard of that you come across through happenstance, things which in another city would have a well known central place of pride.
I used to go to the American Indian Museum in Washington Heights (not far from the Cloisters, if I remember correctly). Wow. I was almost always the only person there. It was easy to spend several hours looking at the fascinating artifacts – – beautiful, thoughtful objects, otherworldly in many cases.
Alas, Dallas tried to buy the museum and some NYC folks outbid them (I think) and moved it near the Battery, where it has turned into a bland shell of itself, ugly really. If I were a billionaire, I would buy the entire collection, move it to Buffalo, and build a world historical museum which puts the entire collection of display. Maybe the Senecas could do this.
Near the American Indian Museum (or was it the Cloisters?) was the Spanish Embassy with its gorgeous plaza. It only took ten minutes or so to see it, but the statues of El Cid and Don Quixote (and the design of the plaza) were well worth the repeat visit.
Those statues remind me of Grand Army Plaza, casually spectacular, near the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
snoper @6:51 – – my impression was that Rush was (facetiously) suggesting more than self pleasuring, given the conductor’s reported ardent advocacy of gay rights.
The real, valid point Rush was making was, what if the conductor had any sort of arguable connection with the Tea Party, the doors would be wide open for any sort of repeated baseless accusation and speculation.
Rush uses the phrase “drive-by media” which is wonderful, but avoids the Pravda/Iskra soviet nature of the leftist media, which Rush accurately says is all about “narrative,” a/k/a propaganda, the latter word he does not use for reasons of prudence.
I am truly sorry for posting yet again and totally off topic.
I just saw a psa at 7:30 AM where Bill Clinton essentially lets us know how deeply concerned he is about the lives of veterans, and how we should support some non-profit agency (I didn’t catch the name).
This is purely a soviet style rehabilitation campaign waged with 501(c)(3) dollars, and implicit campaign ad (damage control) for Hillary.
Point of the ad: see what a sincere, earnest, caring, non-profit, Mother Teresa type of guy Bill is.
My blood is boiling. Andrew Cuomo just spent millions of dollars airing tv ads allegedly on behalf of NY state, though actually just campaign ads for Cuomo.
The list could go on. We (taxpayers) have to pay for leftist propaganda every day, all day long, by the government or by purported charitable organizations.
Alas, so few are aware that the daily propaganda is propaganda. For most, it is just their colored-ribbon reality. Alas.
Peonies, a personal favorite (as they were my mother’s).
I’ve tried to grow them in my yard—–the deer have different designs.
Sure miss them…
Here’s something to look into (h/t: Patterico):
Our “unbiased” media at work:
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U.S. News and World Report:
George Zimmerman Involved in Shooting in Florida
CNN: Police:
George Zimmerman involved in Florida shooting*
NEWSWEEK:
George Zimmerman Involved in Another Florida Shooting*
TIME:
George Zimmerman Involved in Florida Shooting, Police Say
NBC:
George Zimmerman Involved in Florida Shooting Incident
AP:
George Zimmerman involved in Florida shooting; bullet lodged in car, lawyer says
Albany Times Union:
Police: George Zimmerman involved in shooting with man who reported road rage incident in 2014
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The bias?
He was shot ***at***.
That was his “involvement.”
Disgusting. Just disgusting.
“Lincoln involved in assassination,” news at 11.
“Actor breaks ankle fleeing assassination attempt.”
“While protesting oppression and genocide, militant shot through head by police.”
“Several hanged amidst questions about death penalty given to falsely accused.”
“Puppies and kittens are tortured every day by cruel monsters.”
My daughter gave me burgundy colored peonies for Mother’s Day this year. She bought them at Trader Joe’s. These have been amazing. Some started out as buds and bloomed beautifully. I grew up in Chicago and every yard had peonies. The thing I remember most is the ants they attracted. Neo–If you visit Los Angeles, Descanso Gardens (in La Canada) is one of my favorite places to visit. Camellias, roses, tulips (depending on the season)…simply beautiful, and oh, so peaceful.
I prefer the regular to the tree peonies.
How about a post listing favorite botanical gardens?
Denver Botanical (especially while attending a concert there)
Butchart Gardens, Victoria, B.C. (personal favorite)
I have some regular peonies that do quite well, but right now I’m in lilac season. Next weekenend our botanical garden is having it’s spring plant sale. This is usually timed to coincide with the wonderful rhodendrons blooming on all the hills.
Border checkpoints inside USA concern residents… / Citizens interrogated traveling in own country..
Last week, Jessica A. Cooke, 21, Ogdensburg, was pulled over at a border checkpoint in Waddington by border patrol agents who wanted to search her car’s trunk. During an altercation that followed, Ms. Cooke allegedly was subdued with a stun gun.
The incident, which was captured on a cellphone video taken by Ms. Cooke, has prompted a spirited debate on social media sites. Ms. Cooke, a SUNY Canton criminal justice major who graduated Saturday, claims she was wrongfully assaulted and has threatened to file a lawsuit.
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Citing the recent Supreme Court decision Rodriguez v. United States, Mr. Su said it is unconstitutional for police to detain a person after a traffic stop to allow time for a trained dog to arrive for further investigation.
However, he said, the situation can be different near a border.
Border Patrol has the authority to set up checkpoints within 100 miles of an international border. Within this area, which includes the entire north country and most of New York state, agents have more leeway when conducting secondary vehicle inspections.
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Jade Helm 15
Why Operation Jade Helm 15 is freaking out the Internet – and why it shouldn’t be
so when the news says there is nothing to worry about, do you want to believe them? do you think the nazi press would have pre announced the invasion of poland, detailed the rippentrop pact, and laid out the plans for the future?
Elite service members from four branches of the U.S. military will launch an operation this summer in which they will operate covertly among the U.S. public and travel from state to state in military aircraft. Texas, Utah and a section of southern California are labeled as hostile territory, and New Mexico isn’t much friendlier.
explain this!!!! the soldiers will be able to wander around syria undetected? (and this is practice?)
“The nature of warfare is always changing and U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s mission is to make certain the Army’s various Special Operations Forces are trained, equipped and organized to successfully conduct worldwide special operations in support of our nation’s interests,” Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria
oh… well… now i feel better… nothing like having 20,000 undercover soldiers wandering around africa blending in…
its interesting they try to use other innocuous training to say this training is the same… thats like saying a robbery in real life is the same as one in a movie and so the movie turned out well so real life is the same…
its interesting how much effort is going into trying to cover this and make it ok that they are doing this among civilians and that they are using local police forces, who will not be shipped out overseas.
Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory
The Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory is based on a planned United States military training exercise that is scheduled to take place over multiple states in the US from July 15 through September 15, 2015. The exercise raised conspiracy theories, and has become the focus of speculation by right-wing commentators and politicians about the prospect of martial law, claims referred to by The New York Times as “travers[ing] the outer edges of political paranoia.”
this from the same people who said Holodomor didnt happen and got a pulitzer for lying about it…
The Holodomor
was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5—7.5 million Ukrainians, with millions more counted in demographic estimates. It was part of the wider disaster, the Soviet famine of 1932—33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country.
i have noticed grand changes to history in Wiki now..
the highlander school was not shut down because of communist subversion like the FBI website says, its was shut down as a response to the civil rights movement
now, holodomor was not purposeful, with the US buying the grain from Stalin, it was really just part of another famine..
Stalinization is proceeding and history is being rewritten
when the Ukraine was taken over, what was russia doing and claiming about the military near there?
Russia holds huge military exercises near Ukraine border
Russia Expands Military Exercises To 80,000 Troops
when looking outside the glass house, huffington post comments on it, when its inside, they work for the state, as all socialists believe the press is a arm of the state, and not the pillar of a free society.
Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces To Hold Major Exercise This Month / The forces responsible for Russia’s strategic nuclear arsenal will conduct major exercises this month involving more than 4,000 soldiers, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of rising tension with NATO over the Ukraine crisis.
Russia Starts Military Exercises Near Ukraine
Putin Orders Surprise Military Exercises
The world knows that military exercises are how you move vast amounts of material, which would signal a war and things getting into position, without having to argue why your moving the equipment…
March 2, 1943
“In Szczebrzeszyn it was announced by the Germans that all traffic on the highway to Zwierzyniec will stop for three days because of military exercises in the nearby forest. People are now fearing new arrests and deportations to Germany.”
even hitler used them that way…
prior to war from germany:
a new phase began for the Hitler Youth with increased emphasis on paramilitary training in direct association with the Wehrmacht (Army), Luftwaffe (Air Force) and Navy. In 1937, a Hitler Youth rifle school was then established. About 1.5 million boys were trained in rifle shooting and military field exercises over the next few years with over 50,000 boys earning a marksmanship medal that required near perfect shooting at a distance of 50 meters (164 feet).
pecial Hitler Youth paramilitary formations for boys eventually included: the Flieger-HJ in which aviation enthusiasts built gliders, participated in annual glider flying competitions, visited Luftwaffe facilities and went for rides in fighters and bombers; the Motor-HJ for boys 16 and older in which they acquired their driver’s license and learned to ride motorcycles; and the Marine-HJ in which they obtained sailing certificates, learned river navigation, and participated in naval exercises aboard German training ships.
a few years later those same people would be the soldiers that invaded poland, ukraine, hungary, etc..
How about a post listing favorite botanical gardens?
ok…
The NY botanical gardens… fav spots, rose garden and another small area near there that is enclosed and has a small pool… then another area outside in between the park and the city that residents who grew up in the area know how to get to… i dont even know if its still there. japanese people threw coy into the lake then they fished them out and sold them to local pet shops.
and Brooklyn Botanical garden WAS a favorite with the Sakura festival. however, the japonophiles into manga, and hakama, etc… now show up all dressed up like a comic con convention, and the crowd is big, and they charge a lot more money than they used to when it was more reserved.
if you want a better cherry blosom festical, you can go up north to the pepsi company… there they have cherry blossoms and the japanese come by with bento, carboard, tape and its a lot more like the festivals in japan themselves… (especially the one in hiroshima). you can also tour the grounds and see a Rodin, and others (i am always amazed that no one has driven in, grabbed the rodin and not run)
i am sending some flower pics to neo…
maybe she will put them up, but i doubt it.
but nothing ventured nothing gained.
I just remember why I am so moved by hills full of rhododendron. I can remember the description of them in the book Rebecca. When I finally saw the movie, I wondered whether the first trip to Manderlay would show them, and I was very impressed that it did.
expat:
I loved that book and movie when I was growing up.
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