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Did they bring back the dire wolf?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/science/colossal-dire-wolf-deextinction.html
Why, a duck.
Why no, it's a goose.
Doge v. Deep state in summary
One man's waste is another man's treasure
Speaking of Wolfs; Trump is Pulp Fiction's Mr. Wolf; "I solve problems."
According to the internet, anybody can call the White House and as we heard earlier, some countries leaders are calling The Wolf.
One of the more boneheaded species introduction to New Zealand was the Canada Goose. The first time I saw some I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
To continue last night's discussion of race-blind casting, here is a counterexample:
The Chosen is a multi-season drama series about Jesus's ministry, as seen by his apostles and other followers - the people "chosen" by him to help in the ministry.
The showrunner is Dallas Jenkins, one of the whitest men on earth. In spite of (or maybe because of) that heritage, he made a decision early on that there would not be a blue-eyed blond Jesus. He also decided that Christianity's roots in Judaism would be made prominent in the show. So Jesus and all the other Jewish characters are played by swarthy types. Jesus is an Arab-American actor. Peter is an actual Israeli Sephardic guy. There are Hispanics, Persians, Indian Subcontinental types, dark Greeks, Armenians - basically anyone who can fail the paper-bag test. And to solve the foreign-language problem, they all use Middle Eastern accents (with varying degrees of success). And all the Jewish festivals mentioned in the Gospels are shown and described in great detail.
And I do understand the opposite approach - make Jesus look like the audience, so they feel closer to him. Been done for 2000 years in various media. Once in a while it's important to show things as they actually were, though.
Don't worry - there are lots of roles for non-brown actors. The Romans are played by whities. Some supporting characters from African regions (e.g. Simon of Cyrene) are played by blacks. Extras are recruited from the fanbase and are a whole rainbow coalition. Palestine then as now was a strategic crossroads (pun intended) fought over by polyglot empires, so that casting diversity is explained by the historic diversity of people passing through the region (see, e.g., Acts, where the apostles speak in tongues to an audience from a dozen countries).
The Chosen has a lot of flaws, but casting is not one of them. Definitely approaches it better than the BBC.
JSM
I'm still giggling over an InstaPundit retweet of a Larry Correia tweet I read 10 minutes ago:
"Ten minutes after the dire wolf return story broke:
Unscrupulous breeder: 'Hear me out. DIREDOODLES.' "
For decades, Trump delt with Construction Unions and the... let's call them unsavory people that have influence over the Unions in NYC; The set of skills needed to attempt what is currently under way, worldwide. We couldn't be in better small hands.
Is that goose lost? Isn’t he supposed to be in South America by now?
Reuters: "US Supreme Court backs Trump on deportations under 1798 law".
The US Constitution was officially ratified on June 21, 1788. The fact that the administration is standing on a law from the time the US was founded, I see it as a compliment and not at all a detriment to US policy.
Is that goose lost? Isn’t he supposed to be in South America by now?
Long flights are out. Canada goose are now environmentalists.
SCOTUS weighs in again tonight, temporary reprieve for Trump. Move to Texas venue may help. But it continues to appear to me that a coalition is forming to handcuff Trump on these deportation issues.
The Obama’s Love on Rocks. Rumors Swirling.
Joe Rogan had the guy that brought back the Dire Wolf. Just watched a clip of it.
Viaduct? Why a no chicken?
@Lem, so far the remains of more than 3600 Dire Wolves have been recovered from the La Brea tar pits, more Han enough to clearly establish their morphology and DNA.
And they aren’t wolves at all. The largest known member of the dog family that ever lived is actuallly a type of jackel.
If only speech waves were like water waves, Water waves can pass right through each other and continue on their way and right in the center of the second picture today is an example of that. I mean the place where you see an X made by waves oassing through. Speech waves don't do that - they intercept angrily and rear up and turn into shouting and it's getting worse. But I still hope that we can get the left to forgive Trump for being right about the border, the economy and all the rest. I believe there aren't many real leftists left - just a tiny little center with an enormous orbit of influence, a huge shadow hand reaching for us all. Everyone else wants to go home after the party after the game.
RIP Clem Burke, the drummer for Blondie. He worked on projects with the Eurythmics, Bob Dylan, and others.
All you have to do, is read some of the Progressives ramblings on the comment section here....
"Amazingly this is the hill the Democrats have chosen to die on. A large heap of negative fiction, libel, slander, and idiocy. The truth was the first victim of the 2024 election. Worse, these lies do serve a purpose. They whip up the weak-minded’s emotions, causing them to do irrational things like keying Teslas, setting fires to dealerships, or assassination attempts. All this from a political party that hid the mental infirmity of the President from the American people. It was wrong of us to expect more.
Worst of all, there will be people who will always cling to such lies. They give them purpose. They justify hate. Even when confronted with facts and reality, fools will always hold their lies dear. I say, let it define them."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/the_hill_of_lies.html
𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮
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The only thing between the United States and its first Black female governor is a liberal white woman who preaches the importance of DEI.
This so perfectly tracks.
https://x.com/txsalth2o/status/1909248774880239618
Looks like 1929 is not repeating.
Dave Begley said...
“Looks like 1929 is not repeating.”
My wife has some of their jewelry.
wendybar - In typical fashion, the rightest American Thinker accuses but offers no proof that dyed-in-the-wool Constitutionists are no right about the illegal activities being imposed by our new authortarian government. 60 Minites demonstrates, for example, that few if any of the 238 so-called gang members should have been rounded up for prison in the hell-hole El Salvatorian lock-up. By far most were law abiders with valid paperwork.
As for Elmo, his illegals, according to deparmental employees sacked, were taking over important functions claiming for example that Social Security is paying 150 year old dead people.
But we can spend seven percent more to run a government that has had hundreds of thousands fired without demonstratable cause not even providing reasons for sacking, But The Don will get his billion dollar military parade ruining D.C. streets.
60 Minutes? No wonder you couldn’t figure out why the Trump Administration couldn’t get the El Salvadoran gang member, wanted by El Salvador, back from El Salvador.
Grass is showing alarming signs of life after 4 days of rain. The scythe has been peened to a new sharp edge, a couple cuts made across the lawn to test it. This morning it's 23 degrees and frosty. Frost kills scythe edges.
Clem Burke was one helluva drummer! RIP.
gadfly said...
“…dyed-in-the-wool Constitutionalists are not right about the illegal activities being imposed by our new authoritarian government.”
Gadfly - you misspelled “constipationists”.
What was notable about the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion in the illegal immigrant case is how the judiciary simultaneously road-blocked the Trump administration from grabbing illegals and mailing them around the world, while it squashed the liberal practice of judge-shopping for the worst TDS offenders in robes.
First the court was unanimous in agreeing that all of these actions are subject to judicial review. Then the Court convincingly argued that these should be habeas actions, and resolved in the venue where the prisoners are held. And so the Court overruled Boasberg, who seems like a real piece of work. He's still trying to hold the government lawyers in contempt of court even after his temporary restraining order was vacated by the Supremes.
What I like about that opinion is how it sounds so moderate, fair, and wise. And short!
The dissent takes the weird position that the Supreme Court didn't have jurisdiction to hear the case(!) and apparently believes that any federal district judge can issue a restraining order without judicial review(!!)
I get the liberal worry of an executive who is acting without any oversight. But why would you then conclude that it's perfectly fine for an unelected judge to act without any oversight? Stupid. And it's particularly stupid when the Democrats have just come off an unsavory and undemocratic attempt to arrest, prosecute and convict Trump for made up felonies that were obviously bogus. The American people spanked the judiciary hard last November. It's crazy that the liberal Supremes are oblivious to the danger of law-fare masquerading as justice.
I like how the moderates sidestep a "constitutional crisis," spank another out of control TDS fanatic, and put some brakes on a program to export millions of people willy-nilly. I am on board with this habeas idea. Excellent opinion, silent majority.
Yes, we found out that Clem Burke, the drummer for Blondie, passed away the other day. And yesterday, I was watching the bassist for Blondie in a documentary about Rudolf Steiner. Gary Lachman, the bassist, has written a score of books about the esoteric tradition and the "occult." Weird coincidence. Woo-woo. New Age-y.
Law-abiding MS-13 gang-bangers here to build up America? They are refugees from foreign ... gang violence?
I don't think so. In any case, don't we have enough American gang members already?
Caroline said...
"Is that goose lost? Isn’t he supposed to be in South America by now?"
As long as there is open water and something for them to eat they'll stick around all winter. Their down is very dense and especially thick on their bellies.
RE; the shotgun incident a couple of Sundays ago. He reloaded a triple drop of powder.
There is a Russia island in the Arctic Ocean which was the last sanctuary of the wooly mammoth, well it was until humans showed up with atlatls and barbecue sauce, they survived their until about 10K years ago. I think that this might be a good place still to populate with these creatures.
I have always thought that dire wolves were pretty cool, and I have never seen an episode of Game of Thrones, but from what I have read, I don't think that they would be the kinds of animals that humans would want wandering around, until many generations of domestication, anyway.
Anybody know where Burkina Faso is?
Your government spent $229,000 there to market organic shea butter.
JANUARY 2025 DOW JONES 43790. TRUMP APRIL 8 2025. DOW 37940. Is this trumps 7th bankruptcy. You trumpers bought a dud!
DARK BRANDON gave this orange perk a dynamic market and within less than 3 months he's fund that up and beat people's retirement into the ground.WITH TODAY now lost going g on 5000 points WTF. Remember when C Congress used to 0play they sold their weak ass souls!7
Some supporting characters from African regions (e.g. Simon of Cyrene) are played by blacks. /i>
Ridiculous. Simon was predominantly Greek, looked Greek, and would have spoken Greek. Even his name is originally Greek.
What was called "Cyrenaica" in Biblical times is now coastal northeastern Libya. The people who lived there in those days were of Berber stock with a large influx of Greek settlers, and smaller contributions from Carthaginians, Romans, Egyptians and Persians.
In fact, the undiluted indigenous Berbers from the days before the Muslim conquest were originally Western Eurasians closely related to Greeks and Persians and other Indo-Europeans, who back-migrated into northern Africa after the last Ice Age some 10k-12k years ago, and would have demonstrated plenty of blue or green eyes and red or blond or brown hair.
Italics begone
Begone I say
That's better.
"He reloaded a triple drop of powder. "
Whenever I shoot reloads, I always hold the rounds up by my ear and shake them, to make sure they're consistent with others. Triple charge ! I'm surprised there was room for the wad. Must've been magnum shells.
Aggie.
No. He was shooting 20 Ga. 2 3/4 target, (supposedly), loads.
I have a bright halogen lamp placed behind my loader on the level of the base so I can see how much powder is dropped. I also don't have any distractions while I'm loading.
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