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July 4, 2023

Sunrise — 5:04, 5:17, 5:24, 5:26.

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31 comments:

gilbar said...: so this envelope of cocaine, that they found laying on the floor of the White House library???
Was it Hunter's?
this sounds right, since he's the sort of stupid dumbf*ck that leaves things laying around.
BUT!
We can't rule out his former girlfriend (former sister inlaw)..
She's a drug addict TOO, and Also leaves stuff laying around.

Can't rule out Dr Jill, either: Though i'd Assume she's SUCH a Coke Whore that she'd hold on better.
Joe Biden? Maybe THAT'S why he's always sniffing hair.. He's trying to wake up with a snort?; 7/4/23, 7:10 PM
Owen said...: Amazing. Thanks.; 7/4/23, 7:13 PM
Original Mike said...: Beautiful.; 7/4/23, 7:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: A book too controversial to publish in today’s climate

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning; 7/4/23, 7:30 PM
farmgirl said...: Wow… a fingerprint of the day.
New. Unique.
Just when you think it can’t get any better!
:0); 7/4/23, 7:51 PM
TickTock said...: Grace upon the waters; 7/4/23, 7:58 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: ”If we’re not safe here, we’re not safe anywhere

Hint: Have you noticed how there’s no more talk of going to Canada, or New Zealand, if and when it finally turns beyond all recognition here.; 7/4/23, 8:02 PM
Narr said...: Coke in the WH?

Remember kids, only users lose drugs.; 7/4/23, 8:40 PM
Political Junkie said...: Rewatched American Sniper this morning. Get choked up when the citizens, in various parts of Texas, line the roads to honor Chris Kyle.; 7/4/23, 8:59 PM
Canadian Bumblepuppy said...: Hope all American readers had a nice Independence Day.; 7/4/23, 9:40 PM
Caroline said...: So much movement on just a few moments. As always, a beautiful reminder that we are connoisseurs, not creators.; 7/4/23, 9:54 PM
gadfly said...: I see that the UK is backing out of a $100 billion commitment to climate change, upsetting the Gabonese Republic in East Africa (about the size of Colorado) which was supposed to be paid from the climate fund for having maintained deforestation below 0.1% over 5 decades (which really robs the earth of 100m tonnes of life-giving CO2 annually).

The problem is that over time, maps show that at least 20% of its rainforests, which occupy 81% of Gabon's land have been degraded over time and only the Gabonese are at fault. Okuome hardwoods have likely been harvested for making veneer plywood.; 7/4/23, 11:10 PM
gadfly said...: gilbar: There were no Biden family members in the Whitehouse when the cocaine was found in the West Wing which, of course, is not where the family lives.

Unsurprisingly, Beau Biden's widow Hallie now lives in Annapolis and no one knows for sure, not even gilbar, that she ever used crack.; 7/4/23, 11:36 PM
Mr. Forward said...: If only there was a simple drug test to shut down these scurrilous rumors.; 7/5/23, 1:00 AM
Jaq said...: Interesting that once a trans person becomes a mass shooter, their identity changes in the press to "cross-dressing." I am not at all convinced that transitioning leads to violence, but the constant attempts at mind control in the press are a subject of interest of mine. But they aren't doing this to you about anything else.; 7/5/23, 4:17 AM
Jaq said...: If anydody actually does blow up the Zapro Nuclear Power Plant, we will know who it was by the wind direction the day it happens.; 7/5/23, 4:50 AM
Jaq said...: BTW, there is a dam upstream of Kiev, and in the impoundment is a great deal of radioactive silt leftover from Chernobyl. If Russia really wanted to create a huge problem for the Ukrainians in the area of radiation leakage, that would be the target. My suggestion? Let's demilitarize the whole shebang. It's not a good place to fight a war and we could sleep better knowing that we had stepped back from WW3.; 7/5/23, 4:55 AM
tim maguire said...: Lem the misspeller said...Have you noticed how there’s no more talk of going to Canada,

I’d like to think it’s because they looked up Canada’s immigration laws and realized Canada doesn’t want them, but probably not.; 7/5/23, 6:11 AM
Scott Patton said...: Charlie Brown waiting for the sunrise. What will he see?
50 years ago today. Via twitter.; 7/5/23, 6:16 AM
MadTownGuy said...: I still get emails from the NYT due to avtrial subscription some time ago. In ghis one, it's revealed that Affirmative Action isn't just about race, but about class:

"The Morning: Social Class Is Not Just About Race

Colleges’ blind spot
The University of Virginia, one of the country’s top public universities, enrolls a strikingly affluent group of students: Less than 15 percent of recent undergraduates at UVA have come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for Pell Grants, the largest federal financial aid program.

The same is true at some other public universities, including Auburn, Georgia Tech and William & Mary. It is also true at a larger group of elite private colleges, including Bates, Brown, Georgetown, Oberlin, Tulane and Wake Forest. The skew is so extreme at some colleges that more undergraduates come from the top 1 percent of the income distribution than from the entire bottom 60 percent, one academic study found.

It’s worth remembering that this pattern has existed despite affirmative action. Nearly every college with an affluent enrollment has historically used race-based admissions policies. Those policies often succeeded at producing racial diversity without producing as much economic diversity.

After the Supreme Court decision last week banning race-based affirmative action, much of the commentary has focused on how admissions officers might use economic data, like household income or wealth, to ensure continued racial diversity. And whether they figure out how to do so is important (as I’ve previously covered).

But racial diversity is not the only form of diversity that matters. Economic diversity matters for its own sake: The dearth of lower-income students at many elite colleges is a sign that educational opportunity has been constrained for Americans of all races. To put it another way, economic factors like household wealth are not valuable merely because they are a potential proxy for race; they are also a telling measure of disadvantage in their own right.

The F&M model
Creating more economically diverse selective campuses is both difficult and possible.

It is difficult because nearly every aspect of the admissions system favors affluent applicants. They attend better high schools. They receive help on their essays from their highly educated parents. They know how to work the system by choosing character-building extracurricular activities and taking standardized tests multiple times. In many cases — if the applicants are athletes or the children of alumni, donors or faculty members — they benefit from their own version of affirmative action.

Nonetheless, some colleges have recently shown that it is possible to enroll and graduate more middle- and low-income students.

These newly diverse colleges include several with multibillion-dollar endowments (like Amherst, Harvard, Princeton, Swarthmore and Yale). The list also includes colleges with fewer resources — like Franklin & Marshall, Macalaster, Vassar and Wooster — which have had to make tough choices to find the money to increase their scholarship budgets. Crucially, these campuses have not sacrificed one form of diversity for another: They also tend to be racially diverse."

Lots more in the email. Here's how the author summarizes:

"But many of the people who run elite colleges have had their own blind spot in recent decades. They have often excluded class from their definition of diversity. They enrolled students of every race and religion, from every continent and U.S. region, without worrying much about the economic privilege that many of those students shared.

Now that colleges are legally required to change their approach, they have a new opportunity to broaden their definition of diversity."; 7/5/23, 7:31 AM
gilbar said...: remember that mass shooting in Philly> The one that SUDDENLY STOPPED Being news?
https://nypost.com/2023/07/04/kimbrady-carriker-ided-as-philadelphia-gunman-accused-of-killing-5/
Gunman arrested for Philadelphia mass shooting that left 5 dead is BLM activist who wore women’s clothes
On his Facebook page, Carriker posted two pictures of himself wearing a bra, a women’s top and earrings with his hair braided long in March, three months before the alleged shooting.

He also regularly posts about supporting Black Lives Matter

I wonder if she had a manifesto? We will NEVER Know; 7/5/23, 7:39 AM
iowan2 said...: gilbar: There were no Biden family members in the Whitehouse when the cocaine was found in the West Wing

Gee, Gadfly, the the story said found, not left. (C- in effort)

To be fair, there is conflicting stories of "fact" to accusations and defenses are both premature.
However, if the accusations are true....(leftist standard of guilt) Hunter is not, nor has been clean.; 7/5/23, 7:40 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Day 5 and the Pride flag is still waving. If she makes it two more days she gets her More Woke Than You merit badge. I'm retiring her number if she makes it to the end of the month.; 7/5/23, 7:49 AM
Jersey Fled said...: "There were no Biden family members in the Whitehouse when the cocaine was found in the West Wing"

Did anyone check Camp David?; 7/5/23, 7:53 AM
gilbar said...: https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ukrainian-forces-are-using-internationally-banned-scatter-mines
The anti-personnel weapons are internationally banned, including by Kiev, because of their devastating impact on civilians.
HRW reports uncovered several instances where Ukraine used anti-personnel scatter mines

Also..
Biden administration could soon approve sending controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine
the US had been reluctant to provide them because of the risk they could pose to civilians, and because some key US allies, including the UK, France and Germany, are signatories to a ban on cluster munitions – weapons that scatter “bomblets” across large areas that can fail to explode on impact and can pose a long-term risk to anyone who encounters them, similar to landmines.

However.. these rules are for THEM.. NOT US; 7/5/23, 8:09 AM
lonejustice said...: The cloud reflections in the lake on photos 1 and 2 almost look like moss.; 7/5/23, 9:17 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Lots of fireworks around the neighborhood last night. King County banned fireworks in the unincorporated areas. Didn't stop our neighbors from setting off fireworks. There was a fireworks stand located on Snoqualmie Parkway, about 3 miles away.

Our dog doesn't mind the fireworks noise. It's not all that loud, and the sound is low-frequency booms, not high-frequency squeals. She hates the high-frequency squeals and will cower and shiver after hearing those sounds.; 7/5/23, 9:30 AM
Rusty said...: gadfly said...
"I see that the UK is backing out of a $100 billion commitment to climate change, upsetting the Gabonese Republic in East Africa (about the size of Colorado) which was supposed to be paid from the climate fund for having maintained deforestation below 0.1% over 5 decades (which really robs the earth of 100m tonnes of life-giving CO2 annually).

The problem is that over time, maps show that at least 20% of its rainforests, which occupy 81% of Gabon's land have been degraded over time and only the Gabonese are at fault. Okuome hardwoods have likely been harvested for making veneer plywood."

Nothing in the world is stopping you from opening your wallet and donating your money. maybe get your like minded friends on board. C'mon. Put your money where your virtue is.; 7/5/23, 10:59 AM
Rusty said...: gadfly said...
"I see that the UK is backing out of a $100 billion commitment to climate change, upsetting the Gabonese Republic in East Africa (about the size of Colorado) which was supposed to be paid from the climate fund for having maintained deforestation below 0.1% over 5 decades (which really robs the earth of 100m tonnes of life-giving CO2 annually).

The problem is that over time, maps show that at least 20% of its rainforests, which occupy 81% of Gabon's land have been degraded over time and only the Gabonese are at fault. Okuome hardwoods have likely been harvested for making veneer plywood."

Nothing in the world is stopping you from opening your wallet and donating your money. maybe get your like minded friends on board. C'mon. Put your money where your virtue is.

And. Just because they found all those bodies under John Wayne Gacie's house doesn't mean he put them there.; 7/5/23, 11:02 AM
Narr said...: Last night was the most active July 4 we've had in many years. Lots and lots of fireworks all around, starting early and going late.

Our dog has never been fearful of them as long as they aren't too close. He's also getting deaf, so the noise was no biggie.; 7/5/23, 11:21 AM
Dr Weevil said...: gilbar (8:09am) quotes Zero Hedge (!) as his authority for an allegation about cluster munitions that is demonstrably false, that he could have checked, as I just did, in two minutes with a simple and obvious web-search.

The fact is that neither Ukraine nor the US signed the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Don't believe me? You can check Wikipedia ('Convention on Cluster Munitions') or get it straight from the horse's mouth (clusterconvention.org). Both have convenient maps, on which you notice that non-signers include just about every country neighboring Russia, China, or North Korea. (The only exceptions are Norway, Afghanistan, and Laos, whose borders with Russia or China are short and far from any vulnerable area, plus Lithuania - what were they thinking?)

All these countries were quite right not to sign, since Russia and China and North Korea haven't signed, and Russia has been using cluster munitions on civilians as well as soldiers, while Ukraine only uses them on military targets.

For an example of Russian use of cluster munitions on civilians, see "Kramatorsk railway station attack" on Wikipedia: 63 civilians slaughtered and 150 wounded trying to flee from Russian bombing. As for gilbar's crocodile tears about future civilian victims, I've never seen any hint that he gives a Damn about the Ukrainian civilians (mostly farmers plowing their fields) blown up every week by land-mines left behind by retreating Russians.

Thomas C. Theiner, whom I have recommended before for his Ukraine coverage, put it well last October (link):

"russia fired 1000s of cluster munition rockets at Ukrainian cities; so if Ukraine now fires M26 rockets at russian troops - russian propagandists need to shut up.

And russia (like the US, Ukraine, Greece, Turkey) never signed the cluster munitions convention - so the use of / all kinds of cluster munitions is legally ok."

Russian propagandists especially need to shut up if they repeat easily-proven bald-faced lies about Russia and Ukraine, as Zero Hedge and gilbar did in this case.; 7/5/23, 11:30 AM