Comments on: Open thread 7/29/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814305 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:46:15 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814305 Back in the 70’s there was a big Florida surf contingent here. One of my best friends grew up surfing on Miami Beach.

Molly Brown:

It’s long given me satisfaction that Florida surfer kid, Kelly Slater of Cocoa Beach, made it to Hawaii and won the Pipeline Masters by age 20, and has become definitively the top professional surfer in history.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814297 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:41:33 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814297 Good to know Hawaii and the upper Left Coast were not swamped by a tsunami. Better to have warnings which turn out to be unnecessary than to suffer a disaster with many deaths. It hasn’t happened (in recorded history), but it could.

]]> By: ST https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814291 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:13:04 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814291 ICYMI – The Sydney Sweeney American Eagle Commercial – Video

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/07/icymi-sydney-sweeney-american-eagle.html

]]> By: Molly Brown https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814285 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:50:18 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814285 AND… another false alarm!
Huxley,
Ha! Back when you were a kid dreaming about Oahu only surfers knew about the North Shore! It’s still wonderful here, even though we’ve been discovered and the traffic is horrible.*
Back in the 70’s there was a big Florida surf contingent here. One of my best friends grew up surfing on Miami Beach.
*Nothing AI can do could possibly be as bad as what social media did to ‘secret spots’.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814282 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:59:14 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814282 So now I’m reading Heinlein’s “Glory Road” in French. It looked like comparatively easy reading and I loved it when I was a kid.

But good grief, French translators for American paperbacks go so easily out of their depth when it comes to American slang:
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Heinlein: …we dug cool sounds in stereo…
French: …nous gravions en stéréo des sons vides d’émotion…
Literal: …we recorded in stereo sounds devoid of emotion…
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Mm-yeah.

“Glory Road” is 60s Heinlein, when he was sort of a libertarian curmudgeon who hung out with hippies.

Heck, he helped create the hippies.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814279 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:41:42 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814279 Molly Brown;

I get so jealous when I read your Hawaii comments! I’ve been to the Big Island three times. But I’ve dreamed about O‘ahu since I was a surfer kid in Florida.

]]> By: Molly Brown https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814274 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:07:39 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814274 Husband watching the surf cam at Pipeline…

]]> By: Molly Brown https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814273 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:54:50 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814273 Been through several of these tsunami watches. None have amounted to much so I’m not panicking. But it could, and someday it will. Which is why we didn’t buy at the beach.
Filling the bathtub and divers containers just in case.
My house is on a bluff above the ocean, 450′ so we are are evacuation central for friends at the beach and we usually host the watch party.
If it does hit we will most likely be stranded as our main road, Kamehameha Hwy runs right along the shoreline.
Racing through the laundry before the power goes out.
21 minutes and counting!

]]> By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814263 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:38:06 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814263 FIRST tsunami photo and video I’ve found show flooding of coastal Kamchatka. https://instapundit.com/735162/#comment-6744919122

MORE at the Guardian, including CC in a Hawaii ordering all boats and ships to sea.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/30/tsunami-alert-pacific-islands-japan-russia-magnitude-8-earthquake-follow-live-updates

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/29/open-thread-7-29-2025/#comment-2814260 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:29:40 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143067#comment-2814260 @ sdferr and @ Kate,
This legal analysis by Hans von Spakovsky, in a Heritage Signal essay,
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/23/prosecuting-the-russia-trump-collusion-hoax
goes through some of the possible laws that might have been broken by the “Russia-gaters”.

In the end he does not come down with any really positive expectations, so I ended up thinking the chances of a really interesting set of court battles is going to be slimmer than I thought previously.
Others’ comments related to “the process is the punishment” may still apply, however, if the DOJ finally decides they just might win a conviction.

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