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Why does it look like whole other landscapes
Back in my long-lost youth the crew team would train early in the morning on Lake Mendota. The craft that they rowed was not one of those sleek shells, but some sort of flat-bottomed barge,. The coxswain would loudly bang out the cadence on the gunwale .(That's cox'n and gun'l). I was told that the crew would look for likely recruits among the incoming freshmen, and press them into service as the Royal Navy used to do.
Hope none of the rowers fell in. That has to be some chilly water…
Lived on Mendota near Tenney Park during the mid 90's, our sunset view was looking at the tip of Picnic Point for part of the year.
Same rowers coming by. During the winter the ice quakes and all the noise from expansions were a novel experience that I will never forget. Ice can be loud.
Ah, sunset at Tenney Park.I was there in the 1970s.
Venezuela smugglers.
I saw that article over at Instapundit about the toilet cam which is supposed to diagnose health problems by examining your stool, that they are trying to sell, reminded me of Henry IV, where Falstaff sent a bowl of his morning piss off to the doctor for his opinion.
FALSTAFF Sirrah, you giant, what says the [toilet] to my
water?
PAGE He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy
water, but, for the party that owed it, he might have
more diseases than he knew for.
I am beginning to think that these cameras everywhere are getting a little out of hand.
Diagnostic camera - a whole new meaning for "stoolie."
Turns out that Germany won't need all of those immigrants after all. There are plenty of Germans to do the jobs that are left:
https://x.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1980505709037985969
Not sure who is going to support all of the people collecting benefits. Well, they can always raise the retirement age to 80 for those lucky enough to have jobs.
"a whole new meaning for "stoolie."
You win the internet today.
Interesting poll just out about the NYC mayoral race.
Mandingo gets 62 percent of foreign born. 31 percent of native Americans. Silwa gets 12 percent of immigrants. 25 percent of those born in USA.
Mandingo gets 29 percent of Catholics. But 65 percent of "Other Religion" which includes Atheists, etc.
"Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner fended off allegations he harbors racist views after a video revealed what appears to be a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.
Why it matters: Platner drew the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as an anti-establishment outsider, but his campaign is already trying to clean up recently resurfaced Reddit posts where he espoused offensive views about Black people and sexual assault victims.
Platner’s campaign shared video with Pod Save America of him singing shirtless that exposed a skull tattoo on his chest that resembles the “Totenkopf,” a symbol used by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS)."
70% of the voters in NYC are US born. 30% are foreign born.
Do Sliwa still has a chance.
Early voting has Ben going on for weeks already here in Virginia. In Loudoun County groups teenaged girls have been greeting voters who turn up at the early voting location with pleas to protect tbem from people who want them to share rest rooms and locker rooms with biological males. For their sakes I hope it works.
Attended a conference in Lincoln and a lawyer and law professor at Kansas put up a slide about the tenets of the Constitution. But he spelled it, “tenants.”
He makes at least $2.5m at his law firm. He’s the Chairman of the Energy Group at this top 100 law firm.
I have read that when the new ballroom is finished it is going to be named "Biggest and Best Ballroom Evah."
What I was afraid of. link to a Ball Room rendering
Serves you right for getting your information from Reddit - this is showing an out-of-scale addition tacked directly on the west side of the White House, not at the end of the long extension connecting to the East Wing. Here's a picture I linked earlier .
I still can't believe they're bitching about a ballroom. Paid for by Trump and private donations.
Yancey said:
I have read that when the new ballroom is finished it is going to be named "Biggest and Best Ballroom Evah."
I asked ChatGPT about that. Chat thinks I might have got a rumor off the internet.
I heard it was going to be the One Big Beautiful Ballroom.
The Maine candidate called his tattoo a ‘Totenkopf’ so he knew it was not just a stylized skull and crossbones but a Nazi SS symbol. Someone on Twitter pointed out that the Nazi in the well-known “Are we the baddies?” meme has a silver Totenkopf on his hat. The Maine guy’s is of course dark blue, since it’s a tattoo.
I eagerly await an account of the first ball held in the ballroom.
Quick test;
Time spent staring at the periodic table
a) is
b) is not
time wasted.
The Nazis stole the totenkopf from the traditional 18th century emblem of the Prussian Hussar (light cavalry) regiments. Some other countries hussars also used similar insignia, copying the Prussians.
Its honorable associations however have been spoiled since WWII.
I made some observations to my son, about the progression Cu, Ag, Au, Pt. I naturally assumed, that this progression of similar metallic elements were positioned vertically in the periodic table, like, say, the noble gases; He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe ...
And then the winged Hussars arrived.
Another take on the same situation.
Sabaton celebrates the military exploits of Europeans. Fighting against, well, non-Europeans. So ....
We remember
In September
When the Winged Hussars arrived!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Lancers
A still existing use of the deaths head emblem, this one dates back to the 18th century also (17th Light Dragoons, later 17th Lancers, etc), inspired by those Prussian Hussars. Most other users of the emblem have dropped it.
The Polish Hussars also spent a lot of time fighting Europeans (Germans, Swedes, Romanians Hungarians etc).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kircholm
Wherin the Polish Hussars broke Swedish pike formations. Quite a feat.
Beautiful movie. The Forger (2016) John Travolta. Christopher Plummer. HBO Max. Excellent acting, great plot. Highly recommended.
What I was afraid of. link to a Ball Room rendering
That rendering is a complete falsehood, created as an anti-Trump meme. It will be significantly smaller and farther away.
People get smacked around a couple of times but I wouldn’t call it a violent movie.
Times are indeed tight...
The prof is back begging again. So sad.
Lemme see if I can sell some things I don't need here and help you two out...
"Jim at said...
I still can't believe they're bitching about a ballroom. Paid for by Trump and private donations."
It's always something.
Interesting factoid. The head of security at the Louvre is.a woman. She was appointed by the director of the Louvre, another woman.
An epitaph for a career. “Everything that Jack Smith did as a deranged prosecutor helped President Trump win the presidency.”
The assertion feels true to me. YMMV
Today is my mother’s birthday. Wavel Thomas (yes, “Wavel”) was one of 9 children who grew up in hillbilly southern Indiana. Grandpa was a subsistence farmer and bootlegger. Mom grew up without electricity or running water. She was driving a tractor and plowing fields by the time she was 14. Hard work and devotion to duty were the hallmarks of her life. She raised four kids and worked full time in factories until she was 63, when the factory closed and moved to Japan. Mom immediately enrolled in Kankakee Community College, where she earned her LPN. She worked at nursing homes until age 82, when she was involuntarily retired. My dad suffered from Alzheimer’s the last decade of my life. Mom kept her promise to him, kept him home, and cared for him until his death. A hard, tough woman who always did her duty. I love you, Mom. I’ll see you again, When We All Get To Heaven.
The lede from an article on Axios:
Nine months into Donald Trump's presidency, young people in a Pennsylvania focus group were apathetic about the midterm elections and didn't display much enthusiasm for the Democratic Party.
Reading the deranged comments by lefty trolls on Althouse’s White House ballroom thread suggests a possible reason fr this phenomenon to me.
Happy heavenly birthday to your Mom, Shouting Thomas. She sounds like wonderful, caring woman!!
Nice post, Shouting Thomas.
Your mother's devotion made me think of What's Forever For by Michael Martin Murphey (1982).
Thank you for sharing.
Happy Birthday to Wavel- a remarkable woman…
Time spent staring at the periodic table
a) is
b) is not
time wasted.
Rumor from the front is some belief 108 and 109, heavy actinides might not be in the right place and could scramble the board. I check periodically…
Yancey Ward said...
I have read that when the new ballroom is finished it is going to be named "Biggest and Best Ballroom Evah."
I heard the first events will be in honor of “Big Balls”.
Re Hillary Balls, said the Queen. If I had them I'd be King.
“I have read that when the new ballroom is finished it is going to be named "Biggest and Best Ballroom Evah."’’
Nope, “Big Balls” is going to be the name.
Attended a conference in Lincoln and a lawyer and law professor at Kansas put up a slide about the tenets of the Constitution. But he spelled it, “tenants.”
One of my many peeves. And apparently ubiquitous,
Attended a conference in Lincoln and a lawyer and law professor at Kansas put up a slide about the tenets of the Constitution. But he spelled it, “tenants.”
Spellcheck strikes again!
I'm working with an estate attorney who repeatedly writes "statutes" for "statues" (in reference to some porcelain antiques that my late father owned). I've heard people do this verbally as well.
Shouting Thomas, what a wonderful tribute! Birthday Blessings to you and to her.
Jupiter, loved the link. I had no clue as to how close the Muslims came to conquering Europe until I read Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. The downside of a STEM education.
"I made some observations to my son, about the progression Cu, Ag, Au, Pt. I naturally assumed, that this progression of similar metallic elements were positioned vertically in the periodic table, like, say, the noble gases; He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe ..."
Close- copper, silver, and gold are in the same grouping vertically but platinum is in the preceding grouping with nickel and palladium. At one time, I had the entire table memorized along with atomic weights but since I haven't been a practicing chemist the last 14 years those details are slowly disappearing in my memory- I could still produce the right table with the transition metals in the correct order but the lanthanides and the actinides would probably be scrambled a bit- the weights, however, I can only remember those up to calcium, still.
Sabaton: Euroschlockrock at its most pretentious.
That said, huzzah for Sobieski and all the Christian defenders against Turkish Muslim aggression.
The Polish Winged Hussars were heavy cavalry; the classic hussars in non-Hapsburg militaries--French in the 1690s, Prussian and then Russian in the early 1700s--were originally Hungarian, mostly, and served as light cavalry.
Their uniforms and hair styles remained Hungarian right through Napoleon's day, though the personnel had long since ceased to be Hungarian.
Per buwaya's comment on Kircholm, Peter H. Wilson argues in his book The Thirty Years War that the Swedish forces that Gustavus Adolphus led were designed for use against Polish cavalry, not Spanish infantry, and that they were NOT the great improvement over the tercios that earlier historians have made them out to be.
Wonderful tribute, ST.
Dave. Would those be, wait for it, Lincoln Lawyers? Mmmph.
buwaya @ 11:09
You're going to have to wear your Aragon pants. You know? Plenty of ball room.
my apologies.
I thought that the Thirty Years War was about as crazy as European History could get, well, I did until recently.
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