Last week I listened to the book, Saving Simon by Jon Katz. The story centers on the rescue of a donkey, and ultimately other animals. All that he has to share regarding society at large, the rescue community and most importantly compassion made it a great listen. Our last dog (our grandson is seriously allergic to dogs, so we are now unable to have one) was a rescue and the BEST dog we ever known–though our kids were adults, they share that assessment. I learned a lot from Bernie about love and trust and suffering well. I will always be thankful for the grace of having him for 10 years.
Ran across a YouTube video of a black high school teacher, crying —he said he broke down in class—because he discovered that the 17-18 year old black Seniors in his class could neither read nor write.
Couldn’t do a simple two paragraph test, even when he gave them the answers ahead of time, couldn’t deal with a sentence consisting of exactly four words.
P.S. This looks like a failure at every level—parents, school, teachers, and the students themselves-they also have some responsibility here as well.
Depends on how you look at it.
I’m pretty certain the Teachers Unions are making out like bandits!
OK, so some of that will go towards kickbacks to Democratic Party ops.
PLUS, they get to create another severe coast-to-coast CRISIS!!!
Win-win-win, as they say…
Rufo and Lomez interview Paul Gottfried (1:03:05) “The Left Isn’t Communist Anymore — It’s Something Far More Dangerous”: https://youtu.be/PJy5tcOV-iY
What a wonderful salvation.
I have had dogs almost my entire life. The human-dog relationship is 20,000 or more years old. There are a few dogs, like bull terriers, that will attack humans, just as there are a (blessedly few) human dog abusers. But it is a wondrous inter-species relationship. My father fell asleep while smoking when I was a kid, the couch and carpet were smoldering, ignited by the fallen cigarette, and our dog, an Irish setter of the old variety (before the breed was ruined by beauticians who bred for looks, not performance) woke him up, saved us all.
Snow on Pine:
I watched the video. My initial reaction was: This is the first time he noticed this?? (The video and article don’t give any context. Maybe he was a new teacher in a second career and was literally on the first day of the job?)
I have enjoyed sharing my life with some very fine dogs. I really loved my Brittanys one raised from a seven week old pup and he was a trophy field trial dog and great hunting companion we shot a lot of quail, dove and some pheasant. When I would start loading my truck he would run out and sit on the passenger side with a lot of patience because he knew we were going have a lot of fun. That was over 20 years ago and he lasted over ten years before I lost him.
Six years ago I found out about an old female Brittany up in the Dakotas who had outlived her useful life and need saving. She had been used hunting too hard and too long and she had also had over 70 puppies in her ten years of life. I took her in and gave her a few more years as our house dog. Within six months I found out her running buddy up North also needed a home, she had a few more years left in her but she was past her prime so I got her too. We were the forever home for those two nice old gals and it was sad when they moved on but I am glad that we gave them some more nice years.
In my 80’s I am too old to start a new dog or take on another dog but I do like dogs a lot. My son in his 50’s is kind of a dog whisperer and he has saved a number of dogs over the last 30 years. One was a dog called the ‘Franken Dog’ and he was part doberman and part great dane with some German shepherd mixed in. That was a real ugly dog and I son nursed him back into good health and took care of him the rest of his years. My son has also had Shepherds, a Husky that lived to be 15 years old and other not so pretty dogs that with love and care turned out to be great family dogs helping him raise his daughter who is now 13 years old and feeds two large, friendly, kind of not so pretty large older dogs. Good things happen when dogs are given kindness, care and love and they do repay that many times over.
Folk do need caution with the various breeds of dogs and my daughter who is in her late 40’s has had some good dogs including a boxer she cared for through several extra years of life. My daughter did have a college dog she found on the streets of Austin in her younger years and it was mostly Chow and he had become very protective of my daughter, so much that when my granddaughter was born 24 years ago the Chow dog was a bit snappy and did not care for an additional person so I helped to find a good forever home for that dog and he lived out a lot more years with an older couple with no kids in the home.
Dogs, to me, are special creatures and their intelligence and love is impressive and I am rather sure they do go on to heaven when there time with us is over, so there’s that.
I noticed that, during his tearful speech, this high school teacher said something like, “if these students went to college, and he hoped they did.”
Think about his statement.
How well did he expect his essentially illiterate students are going to do in some college?
Or, is the expectation that they will all just be passed through the college or university system just as they have been passed through K-12—again, learning essentially nothing–and that they will very likely graduate—still basically illiterate—and be presented with a college diploma at graduation.
And, then, what?
A DEI job where they can just coast along, never actually working and—hopefully, not doing anything which will get somebody killed or injured, or cause some building to collapse–and just collect a paycheck?
P.S. And speaking of DEI–how many DEI Doctors, Surgeons, Pharmacists, Airplane Pilots, Ship’s Captains, Military officers, Lawyers, Architects, and Scientists have been graduated, now occupy responsible, professional positions, and are now seeded throughout our country?
Now, that’s a scary thought!
Started testing “Distillate” concentrates today at the Green Dragon dispensary. For me, it’s still hard to beat flower or pre-rolls – gummies, edibles, and waxes all look too expensive.
Picked up two Sativa Distillate Syringes at 92.8% THC and one Indica Distillate Syringe at just 91.6% THC ( 😉 ). As a new Green Dragon customer I got 50% off, so two Sativa and one Indica came to $60 total.
I put a few pinhead-sized drops on a white cheddar Cheez-It and sandwiched it with another one. They warned me it takes a long time to kick in and not to take more after an hour or two. They say the Indica is great for sleep, but I actually took a solid nap on the Sativa. It even handled a shower, and right now I have zero ‘pain’.
Recently had three skin-cancer spots removed with Mohs surgery (usually 3-8 a year). The doctors basically told me to take Tylenol or Ibuprofen for the pain, but I don’t use those unless a doctor specifically prescribes them (like they did 7+- months ago for 14 extractions). Years ago they warned me about both of those meds…I dunno.
Apparently this distillate can also be smoked (vaped??) for quicker ‘pain’ relief – I’m looking into that now.
AI Overview:
• Your Syringes: At $20 a gram (with your 50% discount), you are paying about $0.02 per milligram of pure THC.
• Loose Flower: A typical $20 eighth of bud breaks down to about $0.03 per milligram of THC.
• Pre-Rolls: Buying pre-made joints usually breaks down to a much higher cost of $0.04 or more per milligram of THC.
Medicare & QMB don’t pay for it so I am searching for the lowest prices to control my ‘pains’…
At the major government think tank I did research at, you soon became aware of who–regardless of their official title and position–knew what they were talking about, who really had the knowledge or information that you needed, and who didn’t, who would actually help you, and who wouldn’t–and you worked around the deadwood.
With what I expect the volume of DEI graduates might be, I don’t know if that approach will really be feasible.
Re: Dog video
The algo sends animal videos to me too.
It is amazing how quickly dogs in trouble can recover with safety, food, water, medical attention if necessary, and love. Often more quickly than people.
It seems our big brains with language can be a problem in allowing us to dwell upon past pain much longer than necessary.
There are a ton of AI animal YouTubes out there, but you can trust GeoBeats.
More sad news
MELBOURNE, Australia — Rookie professional golfer Jessica Bang of Australia died in a hospital in Thailand on Thursday at the age of 18, the WPGA Tour of Australasia said.
Bang collapsed on Aug. 1 as she was preparing in Thailand for a tournament and was transported to a hospital in Bangkok, where she underwent emergency brain surgery.
Re: Arday’s death
Some will blame the right, no doubt.
But this is one of the less visible results of DEI and current academia. Minority people can be crutched to positions they can’t handle, fail, then have to live with failure.
Or choose not to live with failure, as I suspect in Arday’s case.
It’s a kind of pitiless cruelty committed by those impressed by their own good intentions.
Sure, Arday had his own agency, but his career as a liar should never have been allowed to get this far.
Life is full of failure, the job we didn’t get, the promotion we didn’t get, the championship we didn’t get, and so on.
The best laid plans of mice and men…
Yes, there were posts on that X thread blaming the right wing and “white supremacy” for Arday’s death. It’s a tragic end. His lies led to his downfall, but the people who enabled his rise are also partly responsible.
Barry Meislin, after reading several stories about Magione’s plea and its consequences, I think he may have decided he’d rather spend the many years in prison in a federal penitentiary rather than a NY State prison.
But will Luigi’s fangirls still love him when he’s old, been put away?
‘Pretty soon, I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States… we have the blockade… no ships get through unless we want them to,’ Trump declared at a Garden City rally.
To the dog-lovers on this thread:
At the rate we’re going politically, that will soon be no more acceptable than Zionism.
Thank you for finding and sharing that heart-warming story about the dog Roxy.
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Last week I listened to the book, Saving Simon by Jon Katz. The story centers on the rescue of a donkey, and ultimately other animals. All that he has to share regarding society at large, the rescue community and most importantly compassion made it a great listen. Our last dog (our grandson is seriously allergic to dogs, so we are now unable to have one) was a rescue and the BEST dog we ever known–though our kids were adults, they share that assessment. I learned a lot from Bernie about love and trust and suffering well. I will always be thankful for the grace of having him for 10 years.
Ran across a YouTube video of a black high school teacher, crying —he said he broke down in class—because he discovered that the 17-18 year old black Seniors in his class could neither read nor write.
Couldn’t do a simple two paragraph test, even when he gave them the answers ahead of time, couldn’t deal with a sentence consisting of exactly four words.
P.S. This looks like a failure at every level—parents, school, teachers, and the students themselves-they also have some responsibility here as well.
Here’s one of the videos of this black teacher at
https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/13/teacher-in-texas-cries-on-video-over-students-unable-to-write/
Failure?
Depends on how you look at it.
I’m pretty certain the Teachers Unions are making out like bandits!
OK, so some of that will go towards kickbacks to Democratic Party ops.
PLUS, they get to create another severe coast-to-coast CRISIS!!!
Win-win-win, as they say…
Rufo and Lomez interview Paul Gottfried (1:03:05) “The Left Isn’t Communist Anymore — It’s Something Far More Dangerous”: https://youtu.be/PJy5tcOV-iY
What a wonderful salvation.
I have had dogs almost my entire life. The human-dog relationship is 20,000 or more years old. There are a few dogs, like bull terriers, that will attack humans, just as there are a (blessedly few) human dog abusers. But it is a wondrous inter-species relationship. My father fell asleep while smoking when I was a kid, the couch and carpet were smoldering, ignited by the fallen cigarette, and our dog, an Irish setter of the old variety (before the breed was ruined by beauticians who bred for looks, not performance) woke him up, saved us all.
Snow on Pine:
I watched the video. My initial reaction was: This is the first time he noticed this?? (The video and article don’t give any context. Maybe he was a new teacher in a second career and was literally on the first day of the job?)
I have enjoyed sharing my life with some very fine dogs. I really loved my Brittanys one raised from a seven week old pup and he was a trophy field trial dog and great hunting companion we shot a lot of quail, dove and some pheasant. When I would start loading my truck he would run out and sit on the passenger side with a lot of patience because he knew we were going have a lot of fun. That was over 20 years ago and he lasted over ten years before I lost him.
Six years ago I found out about an old female Brittany up in the Dakotas who had outlived her useful life and need saving. She had been used hunting too hard and too long and she had also had over 70 puppies in her ten years of life. I took her in and gave her a few more years as our house dog. Within six months I found out her running buddy up North also needed a home, she had a few more years left in her but she was past her prime so I got her too. We were the forever home for those two nice old gals and it was sad when they moved on but I am glad that we gave them some more nice years.
In my 80’s I am too old to start a new dog or take on another dog but I do like dogs a lot. My son in his 50’s is kind of a dog whisperer and he has saved a number of dogs over the last 30 years. One was a dog called the ‘Franken Dog’ and he was part doberman and part great dane with some German shepherd mixed in. That was a real ugly dog and I son nursed him back into good health and took care of him the rest of his years. My son has also had Shepherds, a Husky that lived to be 15 years old and other not so pretty dogs that with love and care turned out to be great family dogs helping him raise his daughter who is now 13 years old and feeds two large, friendly, kind of not so pretty large older dogs. Good things happen when dogs are given kindness, care and love and they do repay that many times over.
Folk do need caution with the various breeds of dogs and my daughter who is in her late 40’s has had some good dogs including a boxer she cared for through several extra years of life. My daughter did have a college dog she found on the streets of Austin in her younger years and it was mostly Chow and he had become very protective of my daughter, so much that when my granddaughter was born 24 years ago the Chow dog was a bit snappy and did not care for an additional person so I helped to find a good forever home for that dog and he lived out a lot more years with an older couple with no kids in the home.
Dogs, to me, are special creatures and their intelligence and love is impressive and I am rather sure they do go on to heaven when there time with us is over, so there’s that.
I noticed that, during his tearful speech, this high school teacher said something like, “if these students went to college, and he hoped they did.”
Think about his statement.
How well did he expect his essentially illiterate students are going to do in some college?
Or, is the expectation that they will all just be passed through the college or university system just as they have been passed through K-12—again, learning essentially nothing–and that they will very likely graduate—still basically illiterate—and be presented with a college diploma at graduation.
And, then, what?
A DEI job where they can just coast along, never actually working and—hopefully, not doing anything which will get somebody killed or injured, or cause some building to collapse–and just collect a paycheck?
P.S. And speaking of DEI–how many DEI Doctors, Surgeons, Pharmacists, Airplane Pilots, Ship’s Captains, Military officers, Lawyers, Architects, and Scientists have been graduated, now occupy responsible, professional positions, and are now seeded throughout our country?
Now, that’s a scary thought!
Started testing “Distillate” concentrates today at the Green Dragon dispensary. For me, it’s still hard to beat flower or pre-rolls – gummies, edibles, and waxes all look too expensive.
Picked up two Sativa Distillate Syringes at 92.8% THC and one Indica Distillate Syringe at just 91.6% THC ( 😉 ). As a new Green Dragon customer I got 50% off, so two Sativa and one Indica came to $60 total.
I put a few pinhead-sized drops on a white cheddar Cheez-It and sandwiched it with another one. They warned me it takes a long time to kick in and not to take more after an hour or two. They say the Indica is great for sleep, but I actually took a solid nap on the Sativa. It even handled a shower, and right now I have zero ‘pain’.
Recently had three skin-cancer spots removed with Mohs surgery (usually 3-8 a year). The doctors basically told me to take Tylenol or Ibuprofen for the pain, but I don’t use those unless a doctor specifically prescribes them (like they did 7+- months ago for 14 extractions). Years ago they warned me about both of those meds…I dunno.
Apparently this distillate can also be smoked (vaped??) for quicker ‘pain’ relief – I’m looking into that now.
AI Overview:
Medicare & QMB don’t pay for it so I am searching for the lowest prices to control my ‘pains’…
At the major government think tank I did research at, you soon became aware of who–regardless of their official title and position–knew what they were talking about, who really had the knowledge or information that you needed, and who didn’t, who would actually help you, and who wouldn’t–and you worked around the deadwood.
With what I expect the volume of DEI graduates might be, I don’t know if that approach will really be feasible.
Re: Dog video
The algo sends animal videos to me too.
It is amazing how quickly dogs in trouble can recover with safety, food, water, medical attention if necessary, and love. Often more quickly than people.
It seems our big brains with language can be a problem in allowing us to dwell upon past pain much longer than necessary.
There are a ton of AI animal YouTubes out there, but you can trust GeoBeats.
This, coming from Psaki, is pretty rich…
“Jen Psaki slams Karoline Leavitt as a liar, claims ex-press secretary turned White House briefing room into ‘safe space’”—
https://nypost.com/2026/08/14/media/jen-psaki-slams-karoline-leavitt-as-a-liar/
Apparently Jason Arday has been found deceased it says here: https://x.com/i/trending/2088345787046699137
More sad news
MELBOURNE, Australia — Rookie professional golfer Jessica Bang of Australia died in a hospital in Thailand on Thursday at the age of 18, the WPGA Tour of Australasia said.
Bang collapsed on Aug. 1 as she was preparing in Thailand for a tournament and was transported to a hospital in Bangkok, where she underwent emergency brain surgery.
Re: Arday’s death
Some will blame the right, no doubt.
But this is one of the less visible results of DEI and current academia. Minority people can be crutched to positions they can’t handle, fail, then have to live with failure.
Or choose not to live with failure, as I suspect in Arday’s case.
It’s a kind of pitiless cruelty committed by those impressed by their own good intentions.
Sure, Arday had his own agency, but his career as a liar should never have been allowed to get this far.
Life is full of failure, the job we didn’t get, the promotion we didn’t get, the championship we didn’t get, and so on.
The best laid plans of mice and men…
Yes, there were posts on that X thread blaming the right wing and “white supremacy” for Arday’s death. It’s a tragic end. His lies led to his downfall, but the people who enabled his rise are also partly responsible.
I have written this post on Arday’s death.
Another surprise, given all the coverage and bizarre speculation:
“Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges, admits killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Thompson”—
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/luigi-mangione-pleads-guilty-federal-charges-admits-killing-unitedhealthcare-ceo
Barry Meislin, after reading several stories about Magione’s plea and its consequences, I think he may have decided he’d rather spend the many years in prison in a federal penitentiary rather than a NY State prison.
But will Luigi’s fangirls still love him when he’s old, been put away?
Trump delivers Iran a gut punch with new declaration he’s making the Strait of Hormuz a US territory
To the dog-lovers on this thread:
At the rate we’re going politically, that will soon be no more acceptable than Zionism.
Thank you for finding and sharing that heart-warming story about the dog Roxy.