Wait, that is what I look like most of the time. Can’t imagine why.
Before or after coffee?
Mt mother told me I was a very solemn baby. Not grumpy, but not smiley either. Don’t know what that meant. Maybe I knew there was a Depression, which was no laughing matter. 🙂
Maybe this little one knows that Joe Biden is POTUS. That’s certainly the face I get now when I think about everything Joe has screwed up.
Cross-posting this from an earlier thread. Law Professor Steven Calabresi on why the “hush money” prosecution was unconstitutional. He points out also that the entire campaign finance law has produced very negative results.
That hopper is big, I probably wouldn’t want it covering all of my palm and then some, but it doesn’t hit my horror buttons like a swarm of lubber nymphs, all waxy black with neon-yellow piping advertising “I am poisonous! Guess what else I might do.”
Clearly, cats can get reincarnated as humans.
Is that a step up or a step down? I’m sure there are advocates for both sides. 😀
Oligonicella, T. cristata looks like it could do kickboxing. Have you ever measured the thrust generated by those legs?
Philip Sells – No. Others have (on other species) and it’s significant. It’s also not solely muscle. Many leaping Orthoptera have catch mechanisms build into the ‘knee’ so they crank the leg into cocked and a small movement releases the spring. If you’ve ever seen a grasshopper walking and its legs go from extended to folded up step by step, that’s what it’s doing.
My deal was taxonomy, both in the structure of the organism and (in my favorite case, mantids) showing that the structures of their egg cases (ootheca) can be a significant determinant in that taxonomy. Pretty freakin’ esoteric, eh?
And general mantid coolness.
Sunday Open Thread – Weapons systems to come ….
The Race for Next Generation Bombers – Stealth, Drones & the B-21, H-20 & PAK DA programs – Perun
00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:00:54 — What Am I Talking About?
00:01:32 — History
00:11:12 — Modern And Future Roles
00:16:53 — The Three Bomber Fleets
00:23:09 — Next Generation Features
00:28:03 — The United States
00:36:03 — China
00:38:58 — Russia
00:46:34 — Bomb Trucks And Force Design
00:50:54 — The US Future Fleet
00:54:53 — The Chinese Future Fleet
00:55:57 — The Russian Future Fleet
01:01:02 — Potential For Future Growth?
01:02:46 — Channel Update
Just another open-thread comment.
At “Real Clear Politics,” Peter Berkowitz has written a review of Nellie Bowles’s book “Morning after the revolution: dispatches from the wrong side of history” (https://tinyurl.com/4endnv26).
I wouldin’t pay good money for the book, but I plan to order it through interlibrary loan. Regular readers of Neo’s blog know that one of her themes has been the difficulty and rarity of a person’s political change. For obvious reasons, people resist apostasy and conversion. This book tells Nellie Bowles’s story.
As a sample, here are two paragraphs from Berkowitz’s review:
“Eventually, Bowles was canceled by a ‘close friend’ who declared her a racist for declining to join the ritual denunciation and banishment of a young colleague whose ‘violation’ didn’t seem ‘so bad’ to Bowles. This ‘was the true end of my time in the movement,’ she writes. ‘Reporting on the wrong topics had gotten me close. But it was resisting a cancellation that did me in.’
In 2021, Bowles resigned from the Times and married Weiss, who had resigned from the newspaper the previous year. Today, Bowles is a reporter and head of strategy for The Free Press, which she co-founded with Weiss. The flourishing media company – dedicated to ‘honesty, doggedness, and fierce independence’ – has given new life to the notion that the task of journalism in a free society is to report the full story. The Free Press also gives exuberant expression to the traditional American belief that dedication to individual freedom, equality under law, and toleration of diverse opinion does not represent a partisan outlook but rather reflects the spirit of a nation that enables individuals of many different backgrounds and beliefs to live together peacefully, disagree productively, and cooperate fruitfully.”
Well good luck with that.
Seriously.
“In a post on X, committee members justified their request by suggesting they believe the records may uncover wrongdoing from Fauci and his team, specifically that he used a backchannel to hide information from Freedom of Information Act requests.”
Faucet is a mass murdering war criminal. Hiding communications is evidence of a guilty mind.
Thanks spell check, I have a new name for that a-hole, Faucet.
robinet mélangeur A mixer tap. Now also gain of function war crime.
A little positive news in the dystopian America.
Small donor donations to President Trump is now at $70 million in the last few days with 30% coming from people who have never donated before, according to Trump’s son.
Add large donors and the number is over $200 million.
Critics, and that includes acquaintances point out some of that will be used for legal expenses and my response is that’s fine with me– since these expenses have only occurred because he’s running for President.
If I remember correctly, Hillary’s campaign spent $1 billion running for president in 2016, which was dwarfed by the 2020 election.
From Open Secrets:
“The hotly contested presidential election — both sides called it the most important race in history — was the catalyst for an influx of donations. Biden’s campaign became the first to raise over $1 billion from donors. Biden’s cash advantage over Trump helped him pepper swing states with far more campaign ads. Biden also received more help from super PACs and “dark money” groups.
Trump’s campaign raised $774 million. Trump raised over half of his money from small donors giving $200 or less, a stunning figure no other presidential candidate has matched. Trump continued raising money long after news outlets called the race for Biden, racking up campaign cash he could use to influence the future of the GOP.
While the presidential election drew a record $5.7 billion, congressional races saw a stunning $8.7 billion…”
Get out your checkbooks folks. Sadly this is just the beginning and the cheapest way possible to save the Republic.
0:00 Biden’s decision
0:44 Who made up this red line?
2:29 Remaining restrictions for Ukraine
4:14 Kharkiv offensive
6:48 Removes asymmetric advantage
7:43 The taboo has been broken
9:21 Russian own goal
Thanks to om for all the video and podcast info about the Ukraine war.
Since 10/7/23 it has disappeared from the news except for the wrangling over money. Still very important.
Too bad the Climate Cult won’t allow Biden to take oil prices down to $40/bbl. or less. Economic warfare helps if you are willing to use it. 🙂
This video explains a lot about the chest less men who are running our defense policy. They don’t want to escalate the war, so put limits on weapons and how they can be used. 🙁
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Wait, that is what I look like most of the time. Can’t imagine why.
Before or after coffee?
Mt mother told me I was a very solemn baby. Not grumpy, but not smiley either. Don’t know what that meant. Maybe I knew there was a Depression, which was no laughing matter. 🙂
Maybe this little one knows that Joe Biden is POTUS. That’s certainly the face I get now when I think about everything Joe has screwed up.
Cross-posting this from an earlier thread. Law Professor Steven Calabresi on why the “hush money” prosecution was unconstitutional. He points out also that the entire campaign finance law has produced very negative results.
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/01/president-donald-trumps-manhattan-convictions-are-unconstitutional/
This is an opportunity to deal the donks a massive crippling blow that no doubt the GOP will avoid because “that’s not who we are”.
Why don’t I have arms and legs!?
Call me crazy (many do) but I see a resemblance to Greta Thunberg.
phenomenal
ABBA – Money, Money, Money. Piano arrangement by Dasha Shpringer. Piano cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeNwWmxgYqE
Neo is spending too much time on YouTube. Why show us this?
OK, one more. Anything more dramatic than Rachmaninoff?
Rachmaninoff – Prelude op.3 n.2. Classical piano music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_hhW2NdUsc
huxley – LOL
Reminds me of a Tok where a young boy is being shown his new, swaddled sister.
“What do you think of her?”
“She doesn’t have any arms.”
huxley – Responding to the insect query — Yes, my first guess. Wohoo!
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By they way neo, thanks for that insect post. It was great fun.
And… Just because they bother huxley – world’s largest grasshopper Tropidacris cristata.
Oligonicella:
That hopper is big, I probably wouldn’t want it covering all of my palm and then some, but it doesn’t hit my horror buttons like a swarm of lubber nymphs, all waxy black with neon-yellow piping advertising “I am poisonous! Guess what else I might do.”
Clearly, cats can get reincarnated as humans.
Is that a step up or a step down? I’m sure there are advocates for both sides. 😀
Oligonicella, T. cristata looks like it could do kickboxing. Have you ever measured the thrust generated by those legs?
Philip Sells – No. Others have (on other species) and it’s significant. It’s also not solely muscle. Many leaping Orthoptera have catch mechanisms build into the ‘knee’ so they crank the leg into cocked and a small movement releases the spring. If you’ve ever seen a grasshopper walking and its legs go from extended to folded up step by step, that’s what it’s doing.
My deal was taxonomy, both in the structure of the organism and (in my favorite case, mantids) showing that the structures of their egg cases (ootheca) can be a significant determinant in that taxonomy. Pretty freakin’ esoteric, eh?
And general mantid coolness.
Sunday Open Thread – Weapons systems to come ….
The Race for Next Generation Bombers – Stealth, Drones & the B-21, H-20 & PAK DA programs – Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ded2b3uJbc
Just another open-thread comment.
At “Real Clear Politics,” Peter Berkowitz has written a review of Nellie Bowles’s book “Morning after the revolution: dispatches from the wrong side of history” (https://tinyurl.com/4endnv26).
I wouldin’t pay good money for the book, but I plan to order it through interlibrary loan. Regular readers of Neo’s blog know that one of her themes has been the difficulty and rarity of a person’s political change. For obvious reasons, people resist apostasy and conversion. This book tells Nellie Bowles’s story.
As a sample, here are two paragraphs from Berkowitz’s review:
“Eventually, Bowles was canceled by a ‘close friend’ who declared her a racist for declining to join the ritual denunciation and banishment of a young colleague whose ‘violation’ didn’t seem ‘so bad’ to Bowles. This ‘was the true end of my time in the movement,’ she writes. ‘Reporting on the wrong topics had gotten me close. But it was resisting a cancellation that did me in.’
In 2021, Bowles resigned from the Times and married Weiss, who had resigned from the newspaper the previous year. Today, Bowles is a reporter and head of strategy for The Free Press, which she co-founded with Weiss. The flourishing media company – dedicated to ‘honesty, doggedness, and fierce independence’ – has given new life to the notion that the task of journalism in a free society is to report the full story. The Free Press also gives exuberant expression to the traditional American belief that dedication to individual freedom, equality under law, and toleration of diverse opinion does not represent a partisan outlook but rather reflects the spirit of a nation that enables individuals of many different backgrounds and beliefs to live together peacefully, disagree productively, and cooperate fruitfully.”
Well good luck with that.
Seriously.
“In a post on X, committee members justified their request by suggesting they believe the records may uncover wrongdoing from Fauci and his team, specifically that he used a backchannel to hide information from Freedom of Information Act requests.”
Faucet is a mass murdering war criminal. Hiding communications is evidence of a guilty mind.
Thanks spell check, I have a new name for that a-hole, Faucet.
robinet mélangeur A mixer tap. Now also gain of function war crime.
A little positive news in the dystopian America.
Small donor donations to President Trump is now at $70 million in the last few days with 30% coming from people who have never donated before, according to Trump’s son.
Add large donors and the number is over $200 million.
Critics, and that includes acquaintances point out some of that will be used for legal expenses and my response is that’s fine with me– since these expenses have only occurred because he’s running for President.
If I remember correctly, Hillary’s campaign spent $1 billion running for president in 2016, which was dwarfed by the 2020 election.
From Open Secrets:
Get out your checkbooks folks. Sadly this is just the beginning and the cheapest way possible to save the Republic.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/02/2020-cycle-cost-14p4-billion-doubling-16/
Sunday Open Thread – Russian war on Ukraine
US weapons will give Russia significant problems – Anders Puck Nielsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWlmEkF0Bs
Thanks to om for all the video and podcast info about the Ukraine war.
Since 10/7/23 it has disappeared from the news except for the wrangling over money. Still very important.
Too bad the Climate Cult won’t allow Biden to take oil prices down to $40/bbl. or less. Economic warfare helps if you are willing to use it. 🙂
This video explains a lot about the chest less men who are running our defense policy. They don’t want to escalate the war, so put limits on weapons and how they can be used. 🙁