One positive GOP achievement: defeating the Dems in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for the third year in a row: “Republicans crushed Democrats by a score of 16-6 Wednesday night at the annual Congressional Baseball Game to deal the Dems their third straight defeat in the charity game.”
Picture says it’s the coast of Maine. Maine and NH are, to me, beautiful but only for about 6 weeks from July 1 to mid August. Springtime is first mud season, then black flies. Then the 6 weeks of nice summer. By mid August the cold Canadian air starts to make it’s presence know so you know “winter is coming”; to borrow a phrase from GoT.
physicsguy:
The old joke is, “There are two seasons, winter and the Fourth of July. “
Neo and physicsguy. We have friends who live up there close to the coast. “Global warming, why is that a problem?”
Something to be aware of: Entire European banking system will be taken down in 48 hours.
Hacker groups issue warning.
I think that photo is Two Lights Park in Cape Elizabeth. It’s right next to the big famous lighthouse that’s in most every picture ever taken in Maine.
I like the joke.
A Maine story —
Steph Curry’s roommate and teammate at Davidson and now business partner after getting his graduate work at Stanford is Bryant Barr. Bryant was one of the very few (perhaps only?) DI players from the state of Maine. He was pale. Very, very pale. Some DC student wag gave him the nickname “White Lobster”. One of the all-time perfect nicknames. Another student got a very elaborate white lobster costume made and wore it to all the games to honor Barr.
[The love b/w players and students has always been amazing. With no athletic dorm the guys live like regular kids. And Curry and his friends volunteered to help the freshmen move in. One wrote about how cool it was for his mom and dad to do a double take when they realized one of the students helping him move in by hauling his mini-fridge up the stairs was the baby-faced All-American who’d been celebrated by the sports world just a few months before.]
When Davidson won the first two rounds of the NCAA in 2008 with wins over Gonzaga and Georgetown, the trustees of the college paid all expenses from their own pockets for every student to bus to Detroit for the game vs Big Ten champ Wisconsin. After the big win over the Badgers, they continued to pay for the hotel, etc. to stay for the nailbiter 2 days later against natl champ, Kansas which went down to the last shot at the buzzer. I was there at Ford Field with my boys. Unfortunately, I have no memory of seeing the White Lobster in the student section (or next to LeBron who was so fascinated by the Steph phenomenon that he travelled to Detroit to watch). But I assume he was there because his absence would have been noteworthy.
Bryant did have a huge moment there in Detroit. Our guys ran a special fast break play where our center sprinted down the court after a made basket to beat the Big Ten MVP for a layup while the Wisc guards were focused on stopping Steph who was racing to the right corner. WI coach Bo Ryan was screaming for better transition defense which was his coaching foundation (giving up a fast break layup after a score is just unacceptbale). After the next WI bucket, our center sprinted again. Their guards chose to defend him and Steph. A sub off the bench, Bryant was left wide open for a 3 on the left side and nailed it. Coach Ryan lost his mind, stamping and raging as he called timeout. It was a huge bucket for Maine’s White Lobster and a key momentum builder in the game.
That’s all I know about Maine, but it’s a very fond memory.
Barr was a double major in math and philosophy. Smart guy. Great guy. And a pretty decent hoops player.
The photo reminded me of the northern Great Lakes, with its shale formations and vegetation. I knew it was in the north. The water looks more lake-like than ocean-like in the photo.
Serpentza, a very knowledgeable western blogger about China with a lot of connections, reports on some of the crazy things currently going on in China, especially things that deal with China’s supposed great accomplishments on the environmental front, news that usually never gets out of very tightly controlled China–
I had a friend in grad school from Machias, a small town Down East that, as my friend said, nobody has ever heard of unless they’re from it. He introduced me to “Bert and I,” a series of humorous stories told by Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan, first recorded in the 1960s. The title characters are two fishermen operating a motor vessel called the Bluebird out of Kennebunkport. The original “Bert and I” story recounts the collision of the Bluebird with the Bangor Packet and the two men’s rescue by a fishing smack. Like Victor Borge’s “Phonetic Punctuation” skit, half the humor in the “Bert and I” story is the human-produced sound effects. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t451Ruf4XDI&ab_channel=PissBoys
My friend from Machias had a standard answer when anyone from a certain snobbish state southwest of Maine called him a Mainiac: “Better a Mainiac than a Masshole.”
I love Cape Cod, but for some reason I have always found coastal Maine to be depressing and kind of oppressive, it’s a very different aesthetic to be sure.
Serpentza, a very knowledgeable western blogger about China …
Snow on Pine:
I follow Serpentza now and then. The other day he had a shocker on South Africa. (Serpentza himself is a South African expat.)
The rolling blackouts are worse than I realized and kick the legs out from living a modern life in SA.
It seems the ANC is a totally corrupt organization which grifts the money it takes to run the power stations, while preventing any free market alternatives.
It’s not that the ANC’s goal is to reduce SA to a failed state, but its primary aim to graft as much money as it can precludes any other result.
Cornhead: “Watch the debates. You’ll be blown away by this guy. I’ve never seen anyone this good.”
I agree. He knows the issues cold. He handles gotcha questions with aplomb. He always takes the high road on his opponents. He’s my first choice at this point.
Some 20 Secret Service agents previously in President Trumps security detail have gone before a Grand Jury in DC to testify.
TELL ME. HOW CAN THERE BE any real opposition party function GIVEN THAT EVEN PRIVACY at this level IS NOW BREECHED?!?!?!?
At the very least, this corruption of US government must be put before all of the Trump derelict Congressman for an answer.
Obviously, the Right answer is going to be loyal, private security armies for any future opposition party. I see no other way out,
remember when they had agita over having the secret service testify in the lewinsky case, pepperidge farm remembers
RE: UFOs–
I don’t know of any one working to bring information about UFOs to light who is as intelligent, as informed, as well-connected, intelligent, articulate, or as thoughtful as Christopher Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
Starting their efforts a few years ago, it appears it was Chris Mellon and Lou Elizondo who were instrumental in starting the ball rolling in generating the rising interest, attention, and action on this subject.
Here is an article about the current state of play with regard to UFOs by Chris Mellon, published just a few days ago.*
huxley–From several of the things Serpentza has said, and the videos he has made, South Africa certainly seems like a failed state, with a very high rate of unemployment, and a high crime rate, (there was one particularly striking video of a large mob of people ransacking, looting, and then setting on fire an entire large shopping mall) and a campaign of deliberate government hostility against whites–see, especially, the campaign of violence, illegal occupation, and government sanctioned land confiscation of white farmer’s land.
If I lived there, and I could, I’d get the hell out. I really feel sorry for the people who won’t flee the country of their ancestors and all they’ve built up, or who can’t flee the country.
As just one aspect of things there, there are quite a few Youtube videos about attempted carjackings and robberies in South Africa, where it is apparently fairly common for people to have high fences around their homes, and heavy, fortified automated gates securing their driveways.
You signal the heavy metal gates to open, quickly drive your car into your driveway, and quickly signal the gates to close. The videos show cars full of hijackers driving into the driveway before the slow gates can close, waving their guns around, trying to pull off a carjacking or worse.
its the real life version of the satire in robocop
If I lived [in South Africa], and I could, I’d get the hell out. I really feel sorry for the people who won’t flee the country of their ancestors and all they’ve built up, or who can’t flee the country.
Snow on Pine:
Serpentza says that everyone who could leave SA, has left. Those who couldn’t, are stuck.
I knew a San Francisco gay couple who were ready to emigrate in the 2000s, but saw the writing on that wall and moved to New Orleans instead.
South Africa is a replay of Southern Rhodesia. (Zimbabwe.) Few countries in Africa are making a success of their post-colonial periods. It’s deeply saddening, as Africa has such great possibilities. Tribalism and the resentment of the colonial days have led to a spiral back to poverty and ruin.
The are dozens of miniature South Africas in the USA. The large cities. This is the end game for democrat policies. Class warfare, race warfare, tribalism, the end of the Republic.
The are dozens of miniature South Africas in the USA.
==
There aren’t.
Few countries in Africa are making a success of their post-colonial periods.
==
Actually, the political situation in most places is dramatically improved from what was the case in 1975.
there are many jobergs, few capetowns, what does the anc have to show for 30 years of rule, preciously little,
The are dozens of miniature South Africas in the USA.
==
There aren’t.
Well, how many do you figure?
Some 20 Secret Service agents previously in President Trumps security detail have gone before a Grand Jury in DC to testify.
==
If they’re hauled in their with subpoenas, what are they supposed to do?
It seems the ANC is a totally corrupt organization which grifts the money it takes to run the power stations, while preventing any free market alternatives.
==
It’s a public utility. I think with current technology, supplying power stations can be contracted out among competing producers, but the last mile is a natural monopoly. (Not in my wheelhouse). Essentially, there is no attempt to enforce the obligation of customers to actually pay their electric bills, or no attempt to do so in geographic segments which do not favor the opposition. So, the revenue stream is pitiful and maintenance on the grid neglected. One of the more recent presidents of the electric company was subject to an assassination attempt for his efforts to repair matters and (IIRC) fled the country after his resignation.
==
If I’m not mistaken, power outages are common in Africa and no less so than in South Africa at this time. The anxiety-provoking aspect of it in South Africa is that the situation is getting progressively worse. It’s a consequence of the self-deception and absence of scruple of the ANC leadership countenanced by the ANC’s voters.
miguel cervantes, add this thread, from a former assistant US attorney with some national experience, now running for AG in Missouri:
“It seems the ANC is a totally corrupt organization which grifts the money….”
Seems to me to be similar to how the democrat machine ru(i)ns the big cities. There are similarities between how the ANC operates and the democrat leadership in the big Blue cities.
Art D. “Actually, the political situation in most places is dramatically improved from what was the case in 1975.”
You’ve been there and observed this? Or is this the view from 30,000 feet?
I’ve been in Kenya and Tanzania. What did I observe? Crumbling infrastructure, poverty, and kleptocratic governments. I have read a lot about Zimbabwe and South Africa. The picture described is somewhat worse than Kenya and Tanzania. Wha infrastructure they had from the colonial days is gradually returning to nature.
How about Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia? Civil war, internal tribal strife, and failure to thrive. West Africa I know less about, but even Nigheria with its oil wealth is under stress from Boko Harem, their Muslim jihadis who don’t want women educated. The Congo is ripped with internal violence and quarreling over their cobalt resources.
But the UN statistics say they’re doing okay? Yep, statistics never lie. 🙂
This photograph looks exactly like some of the scenes in the recent Netflix series of The Sinner, Season 4. The story is supposedly set in Maine but was filmed in Nova Scotia and the scenery is very distinctive, very appealing.
I watched with my husband and we agreed that this season was by far the best. I was only a partial fan of the first three seasons but this one was different and in a good way. Such an intricate drama in the classic sense of exploring characters, their flaws and their positive traits, and the futility of trying to escape responsibility for your own choices and mistakes. Meanwhile it’s also an absorbing who-dun-it with great acting and production values.
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One positive GOP achievement: defeating the Dems in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for the third year in a row: “Republicans crushed Democrats by a score of 16-6 Wednesday night at the annual Congressional Baseball Game to deal the Dems their third straight defeat in the charity game.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/15/republicans-beat-democrats-big-for-a-third-year-in-a-row-at-congressional-baseball-game/
Now if only they’d learn to play hardball elsewhere . . .
She sells sea shells down by the seashore.
Unseen she.
Lovely photo!
Could be my backyard, because of all the Rain we are getting here in CO. Must be getting to almost 15in since first of May.
I saw Vivek last night.
Smartest guy I’ve ever met.
Watch the debates. You’ll be blown away by this guy. I’ve never seen anyone this good.
You should be devoting more rent-free space in your head to Ann-Margret:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2iBX_wGbkU
Picture says it’s the coast of Maine. Maine and NH are, to me, beautiful but only for about 6 weeks from July 1 to mid August. Springtime is first mud season, then black flies. Then the 6 weeks of nice summer. By mid August the cold Canadian air starts to make it’s presence know so you know “winter is coming”; to borrow a phrase from GoT.
physicsguy:
The old joke is, “There are two seasons, winter and the Fourth of July. “
Neo and physicsguy. We have friends who live up there close to the coast. “Global warming, why is that a problem?”
Something to be aware of: Entire European banking system will be taken down in 48 hours.
Hacker groups issue warning.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1669108851378126851
I think that photo is Two Lights Park in Cape Elizabeth. It’s right next to the big famous lighthouse that’s in most every picture ever taken in Maine.
I like the joke.
A Maine story —
Steph Curry’s roommate and teammate at Davidson and now business partner after getting his graduate work at Stanford is Bryant Barr. Bryant was one of the very few (perhaps only?) DI players from the state of Maine. He was pale. Very, very pale. Some DC student wag gave him the nickname “White Lobster”. One of the all-time perfect nicknames. Another student got a very elaborate white lobster costume made and wore it to all the games to honor Barr.
[The love b/w players and students has always been amazing. With no athletic dorm the guys live like regular kids. And Curry and his friends volunteered to help the freshmen move in. One wrote about how cool it was for his mom and dad to do a double take when they realized one of the students helping him move in by hauling his mini-fridge up the stairs was the baby-faced All-American who’d been celebrated by the sports world just a few months before.]
When Davidson won the first two rounds of the NCAA in 2008 with wins over Gonzaga and Georgetown, the trustees of the college paid all expenses from their own pockets for every student to bus to Detroit for the game vs Big Ten champ Wisconsin. After the big win over the Badgers, they continued to pay for the hotel, etc. to stay for the nailbiter 2 days later against natl champ, Kansas which went down to the last shot at the buzzer. I was there at Ford Field with my boys. Unfortunately, I have no memory of seeing the White Lobster in the student section (or next to LeBron who was so fascinated by the Steph phenomenon that he travelled to Detroit to watch). But I assume he was there because his absence would have been noteworthy.
Bryant did have a huge moment there in Detroit. Our guys ran a special fast break play where our center sprinted down the court after a made basket to beat the Big Ten MVP for a layup while the Wisc guards were focused on stopping Steph who was racing to the right corner. WI coach Bo Ryan was screaming for better transition defense which was his coaching foundation (giving up a fast break layup after a score is just unacceptbale). After the next WI bucket, our center sprinted again. Their guards chose to defend him and Steph. A sub off the bench, Bryant was left wide open for a 3 on the left side and nailed it. Coach Ryan lost his mind, stamping and raging as he called timeout. It was a huge bucket for Maine’s White Lobster and a key momentum builder in the game.
That’s all I know about Maine, but it’s a very fond memory.
Barr was a double major in math and philosophy. Smart guy. Great guy. And a pretty decent hoops player.
The photo reminded me of the northern Great Lakes, with its shale formations and vegetation. I knew it was in the north. The water looks more lake-like than ocean-like in the photo.
Sharksauce, This ‘Cape Elizabeth’?
https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/usa/maine/portlandheadlight-cascobay.html
stan:
Love that story. Love college basketball.
cb,
That’s the one! I didn’t know about that webcam — thanks for alerting me to it!
Not just ‘EU banks’ as noted above. Lucky for us Neo’s site is ‘unhackable’ : )
Global Cyberattack Hits Multiple US Federal Government Agencies https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/just-global-cyberattack-hits-multiple-us-federal-government/
Serpentza, a very knowledgeable western blogger about China with a lot of connections, reports on some of the crazy things currently going on in China, especially things that deal with China’s supposed great accomplishments on the environmental front, news that usually never gets out of very tightly controlled China–
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8
I had a friend in grad school from Machias, a small town Down East that, as my friend said, nobody has ever heard of unless they’re from it. He introduced me to “Bert and I,” a series of humorous stories told by Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan, first recorded in the 1960s. The title characters are two fishermen operating a motor vessel called the Bluebird out of Kennebunkport. The original “Bert and I” story recounts the collision of the Bluebird with the Bangor Packet and the two men’s rescue by a fishing smack. Like Victor Borge’s “Phonetic Punctuation” skit, half the humor in the “Bert and I” story is the human-produced sound effects. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t451Ruf4XDI&ab_channel=PissBoys
My friend from Machias had a standard answer when anyone from a certain snobbish state southwest of Maine called him a Mainiac: “Better a Mainiac than a Masshole.”
But of course:
https://hannity.com/media-room/bombshell-burisma-employee-biden-bribery-scheme-whistleblower-found-dead-report/
I love Cape Cod, but for some reason I have always found coastal Maine to be depressing and kind of oppressive, it’s a very different aesthetic to be sure.
Serpentza, a very knowledgeable western blogger about China …
Snow on Pine:
I follow Serpentza now and then. The other day he had a shocker on South Africa. (Serpentza himself is a South African expat.)
–“It’s Over! South Africa is F*&$d – Failed State”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHxh_sQHH0E
The rolling blackouts are worse than I realized and kick the legs out from living a modern life in SA.
It seems the ANC is a totally corrupt organization which grifts the money it takes to run the power stations, while preventing any free market alternatives.
It’s not that the ANC’s goal is to reduce SA to a failed state, but its primary aim to graft as much money as it can precludes any other result.
Cornhead: “Watch the debates. You’ll be blown away by this guy. I’ve never seen anyone this good.”
I agree. He knows the issues cold. He handles gotcha questions with aplomb. He always takes the high road on his opponents. He’s my first choice at this point.
At frontpagemag.com, at The David Horowitz Freedom Center, Daniel Greenfield picks up on how Obama’s Weaponization has corrected the previous Lt trusted Secret Service, whose jobs are to protect the President and others. https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-doj-turned-trumps-secret-service-detail-into-informants/
Some 20 Secret Service agents previously in President Trumps security detail have gone before a Grand Jury in DC to testify.
TELL ME. HOW CAN THERE BE any real opposition party function GIVEN THAT EVEN PRIVACY at this level IS NOW BREECHED?!?!?!?
At the very least, this corruption of US government must be put before all of the Trump derelict Congressman for an answer.
Obviously, the Right answer is going to be loyal, private security armies for any future opposition party. I see no other way out,
remember when they had agita over having the secret service testify in the lewinsky case, pepperidge farm remembers
RE: UFOs–
I don’t know of any one working to bring information about UFOs to light who is as intelligent, as informed, as well-connected, intelligent, articulate, or as thoughtful as Christopher Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
Starting their efforts a few years ago, it appears it was Chris Mellon and Lou Elizondo who were instrumental in starting the ball rolling in generating the rising interest, attention, and action on this subject.
Here is an article about the current state of play with regard to UFOs by Chris Mellon, published just a few days ago.*
* See https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/03/ufo-crash-materials-intelligence-00100077
huxley–From several of the things Serpentza has said, and the videos he has made, South Africa certainly seems like a failed state, with a very high rate of unemployment, and a high crime rate, (there was one particularly striking video of a large mob of people ransacking, looting, and then setting on fire an entire large shopping mall) and a campaign of deliberate government hostility against whites–see, especially, the campaign of violence, illegal occupation, and government sanctioned land confiscation of white farmer’s land.
If I lived there, and I could, I’d get the hell out. I really feel sorry for the people who won’t flee the country of their ancestors and all they’ve built up, or who can’t flee the country.
As just one aspect of things there, there are quite a few Youtube videos about attempted carjackings and robberies in South Africa, where it is apparently fairly common for people to have high fences around their homes, and heavy, fortified automated gates securing their driveways.
You signal the heavy metal gates to open, quickly drive your car into your driveway, and quickly signal the gates to close. The videos show cars full of hijackers driving into the driveway before the slow gates can close, waving their guns around, trying to pull off a carjacking or worse.
its the real life version of the satire in robocop
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1669472439472988161?cxt=HHwWgoC90dSVlKsuAAAA
If I lived [in South Africa], and I could, I’d get the hell out. I really feel sorry for the people who won’t flee the country of their ancestors and all they’ve built up, or who can’t flee the country.
Snow on Pine:
Serpentza says that everyone who could leave SA, has left. Those who couldn’t, are stuck.
I knew a San Francisco gay couple who were ready to emigrate in the 2000s, but saw the writing on that wall and moved to New Orleans instead.
South Africa is a replay of Southern Rhodesia. (Zimbabwe.) Few countries in Africa are making a success of their post-colonial periods. It’s deeply saddening, as Africa has such great possibilities. Tribalism and the resentment of the colonial days have led to a spiral back to poverty and ruin.
Things are not looking good for RSA.
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/06/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-south-africa-circling-the-drain/
The are dozens of miniature South Africas in the USA. The large cities. This is the end game for democrat policies. Class warfare, race warfare, tribalism, the end of the Republic.
The are dozens of miniature South Africas in the USA.
==
There aren’t.
Few countries in Africa are making a success of their post-colonial periods.
==
Actually, the political situation in most places is dramatically improved from what was the case in 1975.
there are many jobergs, few capetowns, what does the anc have to show for 30 years of rule, preciously little,
https://observer.com/2014/06/all-the-presidents-muses-obama-and-prosecutorial-misconduct/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/500-million-russian-superyacht-reappears-after-months-dark
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/biden-declares-war-on-the-navajo
The are dozens of miniature South Africas in the USA.
==
There aren’t.
Well, how many do you figure?
Some 20 Secret Service agents previously in President Trumps security detail have gone before a Grand Jury in DC to testify.
==
If they’re hauled in their with subpoenas, what are they supposed to do?
It seems the ANC is a totally corrupt organization which grifts the money it takes to run the power stations, while preventing any free market alternatives.
==
It’s a public utility. I think with current technology, supplying power stations can be contracted out among competing producers, but the last mile is a natural monopoly. (Not in my wheelhouse). Essentially, there is no attempt to enforce the obligation of customers to actually pay their electric bills, or no attempt to do so in geographic segments which do not favor the opposition. So, the revenue stream is pitiful and maintenance on the grid neglected. One of the more recent presidents of the electric company was subject to an assassination attempt for his efforts to repair matters and (IIRC) fled the country after his resignation.
==
If I’m not mistaken, power outages are common in Africa and no less so than in South Africa at this time. The anxiety-provoking aspect of it in South Africa is that the situation is getting progressively worse. It’s a consequence of the self-deception and absence of scruple of the ANC leadership countenanced by the ANC’s voters.
miguel cervantes, add this thread, from a former assistant US attorney with some national experience, now running for AG in Missouri:
https://twitter.com/willscharf/status/1669333178962571264
“It seems the ANC is a totally corrupt organization which grifts the money….”
Seems to me to be similar to how the democrat machine ru(i)ns the big cities. There are similarities between how the ANC operates and the democrat leadership in the big Blue cities.
Art D. “Actually, the political situation in most places is dramatically improved from what was the case in 1975.”
You’ve been there and observed this? Or is this the view from 30,000 feet?
I’ve been in Kenya and Tanzania. What did I observe? Crumbling infrastructure, poverty, and kleptocratic governments. I have read a lot about Zimbabwe and South Africa. The picture described is somewhat worse than Kenya and Tanzania. Wha infrastructure they had from the colonial days is gradually returning to nature.
How about Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia? Civil war, internal tribal strife, and failure to thrive. West Africa I know less about, but even Nigheria with its oil wealth is under stress from Boko Harem, their Muslim jihadis who don’t want women educated. The Congo is ripped with internal violence and quarreling over their cobalt resources.
But the UN statistics say they’re doing okay? Yep, statistics never lie. 🙂
This photograph looks exactly like some of the scenes in the recent Netflix series of The Sinner, Season 4. The story is supposedly set in Maine but was filmed in Nova Scotia and the scenery is very distinctive, very appealing.
I watched with my husband and we agreed that this season was by far the best. I was only a partial fan of the first three seasons but this one was different and in a good way. Such an intricate drama in the classic sense of exploring characters, their flaws and their positive traits, and the futility of trying to escape responsibility for your own choices and mistakes. Meanwhile it’s also an absorbing who-dun-it with great acting and production values.