A park in Chico, the city where Gerard lived after the Paradise fire:
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Open thread 5/8/24 — 23 Comments
The picture shows that the grass is well on their way to define why California is called the Golden State. Some people believe the motto has to do with Sutter’s Mill and the Gold Rush. No, it’s because every bit of grass not watered regularly turns a ripe golden brown from April to December.
I lived in the SF Bay area for more than a decade and noticed the reversal of the seasons, compared to east of the Mississippi. Everything on the Peninsula was green in the winter, and golden brown in the summer.
An inspiring speech from Argentina’s Javier Milei.
…An inspiring speech from Argentina’s Javier Milei.
Indeed.
Suspend the citizenship requirement for VP. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Ha, ha budhaha. We live in Monterey for a few years, and of course if you ventured a very few miles from the coast, the hills were brown most of the year. But, the native residents corrected us, they were not brown they were golden. Either way, they were prime fuel for fire.
This year has been strange. My daughter’s property near Placerville, has the lushest grass I have ever seen up there. She sent pictures of her neighbor’s sheep providing gratuitous mowing, as well as a herd of deer. Unusual to see deer in numbers on the property.
Ironically, a blessedly wet winter provides a lot of fuel for summer fires.
Power Line blog is on a roll today (see also Kate @ May 8, 2024 at 11:03 am) – Biden indicts himself:
Tobin reasonably concludes that Biden’s actions speak louder than his words. I would add that his words seek to provide cover for his actions. In short, Biden’s condemnation of those who downplayed evil in the face of what “they” knew was happening indicts himself.
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Beautiful park.
Article from ” Decision Magazine” written by a UK barrister ,who defends Christians in the UK from speech laws and such. Warning about what is coming and encouraging Christians to stand strong. https://decisionmagazine.com/be-unashamed-of-christ/
New College, Transgender, and a Jewish woman saves former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard’s son. Small wonder that The New Neo represents the extent of my socializing…
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Jon baker;
It’s a very beautiful park and a very large one. In fact, it’s “the third largest municipal park in California and is one of the largest city parks in the United States.” Most of it is undeveloped and unpaved.
Big Chico Creek enters the park from the east within Iron Canyon, a deep, thin channel characterized by large boulders of basalt, and tall, steep cliffs. Iron Canyon is situated in a larger canyon called Chico Canyon. Chico Canyon is a bowl-shaped canyon with flat mesas on each side. Downstream, the creek exits Iron Canyon and begins to widen at the floor of the relatively flat bottom of Chico Canyon. As the creek leaves the foothills it begins to meander on the floor of the Sacramento Valley. West of 5-Mile Recreation Area, the creek enters more urban parts of the park. The park begins to thin as it stretches into the heart of Chico. By its westernmost point, the park encompasses just the banks of the creek. The western boundary is at the Esplanade road.
The geology of the park varies as the park travels from the Central Valley floor, to the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. The geology of the park is mainly volcanic due to the Cascades being a volcanic range. Big Chico Creek exposes many layers of geologic history of Northern California.
See the photos there.
Richard F Cook
The browser will not work on newer android versions. There’s a note at the play store.
🙂 If I use my phone more than 0-minutes a week it is usually w/ a Doctor’s office or my brother (text message about once a month), so I often forget that many people use Android.
I downloaded the Windows Installer (.exe) from the Epic’s site—the desktop version, which works great.
Thanks for the update on Android systems tho. Yeah, I build my own desktop PCs, but still haven’t figured out how to import favorites to the phone or to even maneuver much around the internet at all on it—the smartphone is just too smart for me, even after a year of using one…
UPDATE: just checked the Epic browser on my smartphone and it said Epic was made for older versions, so my T-Mobile Samsung 5G is up to date – thanks again, Mr. Richard, for pointing that out!
Those of us who knew Gerard from his valuable work on line and in print miss his insight and observation; good friends, even ones we’ve not met, leave a space in their absence.
Republican Party took a huge gamble by selecting Trump as its 2024 Presidential candidate, but Trump and his MAGA mob didn’t give it much choice. Trump loses, and we’re looking at the possibility of Biden for four more years—followed by Harris for another four to eight years.
Meanwhile, Trump dallies on his VP selection—terrible mistake, IMHO. Have already stated here that Tim Scott should be selected as VP. Scott could be making a clear case for the Trump/Scott ticket over the Biden/Harris ticket whilst Trump is tied up in courts.
Donald Trump’s dominance in the 2024 Republican primaries is still being hampered by Nikki Haley’s ongoing and potentially significant support.
On Tuesday, the presumptive 2024 Republican candidate continued his successful primary season with a resounding victory in Indiana, winning more than 78 percent of the vote.
However, Haley, Trump’s last remaining Republican rival who dropped out of the race in March, still managed to achieve 21.7 percent of the vote, amounting to more than 128,000 votes. It’s the latest sign that a sizable portion of the GOP’s base still does not want to support the MAGA former president.
Republicans just can’t stop making mistake after mistake…
Re: New College, Transgender, and the KKK Grand Wizard’s Son, Oh My!
Karmi:
That’s my alma mater yer talkin’ about!
The interesting thing about the story is that New College, a very progressive semi-experimental college, accepted Black when Black’s main claim to fame was being the nationally known son of the KKK Grand Wizard who runs the infamous Stormfront white supremacy site. Black started the kiddie section of Stormfront.
I can’t tell from the article whether Black was already backing away from the KKK when Black applied to New College. Otherwise it’s hard to understand why Black would apply to New College and why New College would accept Black.
New College in my day was wacky enough that it might have accepted a Stormfront student, though I tend to doubt it.
The article says that Black flew under the radar for a few years before being publicly outed as KKK. Then Black blends into the progressive New College culture, emerges as trans and eventually marries Black’s biological male friend.
Happy ending, I guess.
Trigger Warning: Black likes their pronouns plural.
And what could be a more reliable source for information on Trump than Newsweak?
Regarding the Indiana primary results, “It’s the latest sign that a sizable portion of the GOP’s base still does not want to support the MAGA former president.”
Or are they the segment that’s reluctant to support Trump because of the easy access and unified hostility from the State Propaganda Media machine?
I’m quite certain it is the latter, based upon my encounters with the reluctant RS. YMMV.
Sorry, huxley, I’ll speak no more on the subject. 😉
FOAF, it was a negative story on Trump, so “Newsweak” wasn’t only one carrying it. Still, maybe Trump should apologize privately to Haley and ask her to help. VP? I doubt she’d want it.
T J, I am not part of GOP base (am NPA), and can’t stand Biden or the DEMs; however, after seeing what a terrible leader Trump was the last time—great business/sales man, but terrible leadership ability—I am was reluctant to vote for him.
Only the recent House move by Johnson passing the bill to aid Ukraine (and Trump’s silence during the process), the maddening antisemitic activity on college campuses, and Biden cutting off ammo to Israel has moved me to settle on voting for Trump – tho will say to myself that I’m voting against Biden & Democrats…
sdferr – if you don’t have access to this, you need to pick up a copy of the WSJ today.
I met somebody from Cal State Chico once. I had never heard of the town or the college, so I wondered if he meant the better-known California state men’s facility in Chino.
Those hills recall the finale of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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The picture shows that the grass is well on their way to define why California is called the Golden State. Some people believe the motto has to do with Sutter’s Mill and the Gold Rush. No, it’s because every bit of grass not watered regularly turns a ripe golden brown from April to December.
I lived in the SF Bay area for more than a decade and noticed the reversal of the seasons, compared to east of the Mississippi. Everything on the Peninsula was green in the winter, and golden brown in the summer.
An inspiring speech from Argentina’s Javier Milei.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/will-argentina-save-the-west.php
I imagine most here are already well aware of this.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-800454
Good country, know it well. He chose well.
…An inspiring speech from Argentina’s Javier Milei.
Indeed.
Suspend the citizenship requirement for VP. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Ha, ha budhaha. We live in Monterey for a few years, and of course if you ventured a very few miles from the coast, the hills were brown most of the year. But, the native residents corrected us, they were not brown they were golden. Either way, they were prime fuel for fire.
This year has been strange. My daughter’s property near Placerville, has the lushest grass I have ever seen up there. She sent pictures of her neighbor’s sheep providing gratuitous mowing, as well as a herd of deer. Unusual to see deer in numbers on the property.
Ironically, a blessedly wet winter provides a lot of fuel for summer fires.
Power Line blog is on a roll today (see also Kate @ May 8, 2024 at 11:03 am) – Biden indicts himself:
That Power Line article also points to this one by Tobin: Biden’s double game on Hamas should fool no one
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Seems great in early tests. Free VPN works w/ a selection of 7 countries. Power Line blog couldn’t get past a “Verify you are human” test—it just spins back, but maybe there is a setting for that.
When I want real privacy (rarely) I go with Tails on a USB…
Beautiful park.
Article from ” Decision Magazine” written by a UK barrister ,who defends Christians in the UK from speech laws and such. Warning about what is coming and encouraging Christians to stand strong. https://decisionmagazine.com/be-unashamed-of-christ/
New College, Transgender, and a Jewish woman saves former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard’s son. Small wonder that The New Neo represents the extent of my socializing…
Former Ku Klux Klan poster boy reveals new trans identity: Explosive memoir details how son of KKK Grand Wizard escaped white supremacy cult and embraced ‘gender confusion’
Karmi
The browser will not work on newer android versions. There’s a note at the play store.
Jon baker;
It’s a very beautiful park and a very large one. In fact, it’s “the third largest municipal park in California and is one of the largest city parks in the United States.” Most of it is undeveloped and unpaved.
See the photos there.
Richard F Cook
🙂 If I use my phone more than 0-minutes a week it is usually w/ a Doctor’s office or my brother (text message about once a month), so I often forget that many people use Android.
I downloaded the Windows Installer (.exe) from the Epic’s site—the desktop version, which works great.
Thanks for the update on Android systems tho. Yeah, I build my own desktop PCs, but still haven’t figured out how to import favorites to the phone or to even maneuver much around the internet at all on it—the smartphone is just too smart for me, even after a year of using one…
UPDATE: just checked the Epic browser on my smartphone and it said Epic was made for older versions, so my T-Mobile Samsung 5G is up to date – thanks again, Mr. Richard, for pointing that out!
Those of us who knew Gerard from his valuable work on line and in print miss his insight and observation; good friends, even ones we’ve not met, leave a space in their absence.
Republican Party took a huge gamble by selecting Trump as its 2024 Presidential candidate, but Trump and his MAGA mob didn’t give it much choice. Trump loses, and we’re looking at the possibility of Biden for four more years—followed by Harris for another four to eight years.
Meanwhile, Trump dallies on his VP selection—terrible mistake, IMHO. Have already stated here that Tim Scott should be selected as VP. Scott could be making a clear case for the Trump/Scott ticket over the Biden/Harris ticket whilst Trump is tied up in courts.
Donald Trump Has a GOP Base Problem
Republicans just can’t stop making mistake after mistake…
Re: New College, Transgender, and the KKK Grand Wizard’s Son, Oh My!
Karmi:
That’s my alma mater yer talkin’ about!
The interesting thing about the story is that New College, a very progressive semi-experimental college, accepted Black when Black’s main claim to fame was being the nationally known son of the KKK Grand Wizard who runs the infamous Stormfront white supremacy site. Black started the kiddie section of Stormfront.
I can’t tell from the article whether Black was already backing away from the KKK when Black applied to New College. Otherwise it’s hard to understand why Black would apply to New College and why New College would accept Black.
New College in my day was wacky enough that it might have accepted a Stormfront student, though I tend to doubt it.
The article says that Black flew under the radar for a few years before being publicly outed as KKK. Then Black blends into the progressive New College culture, emerges as trans and eventually marries Black’s biological male friend.
Happy ending, I guess.
Trigger Warning: Black likes their pronouns plural.
And what could be a more reliable source for information on Trump than Newsweak?
Regarding the Indiana primary results, “It’s the latest sign that a sizable portion of the GOP’s base still does not want to support the MAGA former president.”
Or are they the segment that’s reluctant to support Trump because of the easy access and unified hostility from the State Propaganda Media machine?
I’m quite certain it is the latter, based upon my encounters with the reluctant RS. YMMV.
Sorry, huxley, I’ll speak no more on the subject. 😉
FOAF, it was a negative story on Trump, so “Newsweak” wasn’t only one carrying it. Still, maybe Trump should apologize privately to Haley and ask her to help. VP? I doubt she’d want it.
T J, I am not part of GOP base (am NPA), and can’t stand Biden or the DEMs; however, after seeing what a terrible leader Trump was the last time—great business/sales man, but terrible leadership ability—I
amwas reluctant to vote for him.Only the recent House move by Johnson passing the bill to aid Ukraine (and Trump’s silence during the process), the maddening antisemitic activity on college campuses, and Biden cutting off ammo to Israel has moved me to settle on voting for Trump – tho will say to myself that I’m voting against Biden & Democrats…
sdferr – if you don’t have access to this, you need to pick up a copy of the WSJ today.
https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/baltimore-orioles-david-rubenstein-3cdeb405?st=61puxgdu2dr15xu&reflink=article_copyURL_share
I met somebody from Cal State Chico once. I had never heard of the town or the college, so I wondered if he meant the better-known California state men’s facility in Chino.
Those hills recall the finale of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.