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Open thread 3/19/2025 — 14 Comments

  1. Wow I loved that video. On the east coast around the north of England you can have hours of harmless fun rock hounding and finding fossils. It is staggering to think of the millions upon millions of years all this has taken.

  2. Ammonites are not one of anchient tribes of the Old Testament. Nor are Trilobites, nor other things from the Late Devouring period (ref. “We’re All Bozos On This Bus” Fireside Theater).

  3. signs and wonders, of course our perspective is often pitifully narrow, as to what happened when,

    this comes across painfully clear with regards to the latest document drop,

  4. Does anyone have a link to the actual text of Roberts statement on impeachment of district judges? All I have been able to find are excerpts by the leftist media. If you have one, please post it here.

  5. SCOTUSblog says it came from the Supreme Court’s Public Information Office but the release does not appear on their website, they have nothing later than January.

    No legacy media report is saying to whom it was released or in what manner or has a link to the original. No attempt at basic journalism, just acting as megaphones.

    I’m not aware of any similar statements by Roberts when Dems called for the impeachment of judges who rule the “wrong” way:

    The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.

    Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.

    I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.

    9:32 AM · Jul 1, 2024

  6. It occurred to me that the long, ongoing disruption of shipping in the Red Sea is another sign of the decline of the Western Europeans. Red Sea shipping effects the Europeans more than it does the US.
    Can you imagine 75 years ago the Europeans not having already taken a more aggressive approach to the Houthis disrupting Red Sea traffic?

  7. as one recalls from the O’Brien series, there was one offering that was set in the Red Sea, this is set in the era that the Turks had conquered the Peninsula

    this was the reason for the Royal Navy if fact Aden was the coaling station for the Navy, between Bombay and Cairo, as the Brits retreated from the former spot, in 1967, as they had done with India some 20 years later,

    now the Yam have deep grievances with the Kingdom, the 1934 brief skirmish that stole four provinces in their north, which in retrospect, they might want to give back, one of them being Asir, but their gripes with the Jews is harder to understand, except for the influence of the Iranian regime,

  8. It is not too early to start donating to Republicans’ House races. I just got an email from the Republican campaign committee and they list these key swing districts. Good races to focus your hard-earned money

    “The Democrats on the NRCC’s target list include Reps. Josh Harder (9th District), Adam Gray (13th), George Whitesides (27th), Derek Tran (45th), and Dave Min (47th) of California; Darren Soto (9th) and Jared Moskowitz (23rd) of Florida; Frank Mrvan (1st) of Indiana, Jared Golden (2nd) of Maine; Kristen McDonald Rivet (8th) of Michigan; Don Davis (1st) of North Carolina; Chris Pappas (1st) of New Hampshire; Nellie Pou (9th) of New Jersey; and Gabe Vasquez (2nd) of New Mexico.”

  9. …the Late Devouring period (ref. “We’re All Bozos On This Bus”

    om:

    Nice to see you get down with the Firesign side of yourself!

    Their output got thinner after Bozos, but still had some superb peaks

    “The Giant Rat of Sumatra” (1974)
    “Everything You Know is Wrong” (1974)
    “Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death” (1998)
    “The Bride of Firesign” (2001)

    I’m a richer man for having known the Firesign Theatre. Only David Ossman and Philip Proctor remain.

    RIP Phil Austin and Peter Bergman

  10. Scott Bessent on the All In podcast. Secretary Bessent explains some of the problems facing us and the goals the administration has to address the debt, rein in the deficit and grow the economy.

    Two intractable barriers to success that are outside the administration’s control– the long term nature of moving an economy or the ‘four year problem’ and Congress’ parochial nature of ‘bringing home the bacon’ running counter to the goal of reducing the deficit.

    Will the administration succeed, given the evil forces allied against them? Pray for their protection.

    Scott Bessent | All-In in DC!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSma9suyp24

  11. As almost everyone knows, the Navajo Code Talkers were a group of WWII Marines who provided secure communications by the simple expedient of transmitting and receiving orders in their own language. This procedure was much faster than conventional encryption / decryption methods, and the Navajo language was apparently so little-known and so complex that the Japanese were never able to read such messages.

    Someone at the Department of Defense (or more likely some set of someones) apparently interpreted President Trump’s executive order on DEI as meaning that it would be improper to refer to the Navajo Code Talkers as…Navajos, and at least 10 articles mentioning the Code Talkers have been removed from DoD websites.

    Malicious compliance, arrant stupidity, robotic bureaucratic behavior..or all three.., but in any case I think it is really, really bad.

    More here:
    https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/73544.html

  12. @David Foster:the simple expedient of transmitting and receiving orders in their own language

    Not quite true, they did not just speak to each other in Navajo. They used a non-standard, allusive and sort of “inside-jokey” Navajo that they made up, partly because of security and partly because Navajo didn’t have words for things like submarines. They’d use Navajo words to stand for numbers and letters to pass encrypted English messages.

    The Japanese actually captured a Navajo who was himself unable to understand the code talkers, having never been trained in code talk.

    When a Navajo code talker received a message, what he heard was a string of seemingly unrelated Navajo words. The code talker first had to translate each Navajo word into its English equivalent. Then he used only the first letter of the English equivalent in spelling an English word. Thus, the Navajo words “wol-la-chee” (ant), “be-la-sana” (apple) and “tse-nill” (axe) all stood for the letter “a.” One way to say the word “Navy” in Navajo code would be “tsah (needle) wol-la-chee (ant) ah-keh-di- glini (victor) tsah-ah-dzoh (yucca).”

    It was also not just Navajo, and not just World War II. Other native languages were used starting in WWI. Other nations with obscure languages have done the same.

  13. “Wow I loved that video. On the east coast around the north of England you can have hours of harmless fun rock hounding and finding fossils. It is staggering to think of the millions upon millions of years all this has taken.” @ David Clayton

    • 100% recognize the effort.

    • Look forward to more insights about the UK – on any topic.

    • Understanding that you do not necessarily speak for all England/ Wales/ Scotland/ N. Ireland citizens.

  14. … or Clayton is just up to the old troll trick of trying to appear “one of the guys”

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