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William50 म्हणाले...

Saturday in the park I think it was the 4th of July.


Saturday In The Park

lonejustice म्हणाले...

Photo #3 is a keeper. You should sell this one on eBay. I would buy one for my home office.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

I saw a clip of Mandan’s speech (apparently on the wrong side of George Washington’s desk). You lefties, Althouse, you sure hate on the United States. It isn’t perfect (according to you) so it’s time to tear it all down.

Sella Turcica म्हणाले...

https://www.newsweek.com/plummeting-gas-prices-could-bring-new-economic-headaches-12135645

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

In the video of Mamdani making his speech, the drawers are facing the audience which is unusual. But that’s a partners desk with drawers on both sides. I once frequented a business run by a father and his son. They had a partners desk. It wasn’t as narrow as this desk. I always thought it was the coolest thing.

steve uhr म्हणाले...

If ever there is a time for Trump to deliver a non-partisan speech, it is tomorrow. Maybe he’ll surprise me.

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

lol steve uhr: textbook passive aggressive comment

Two-eyed Jack म्हणाले...

91,309 days since the Declaration of Independence was signed. Tomorrow will make it an even 91,310.

Mason G म्हणाले...

The partisans have been trying to kill him, but gosh- it would be so nice if he was inclusive, don't you think?

Mason G म्हणाले...

I'd like to see his speech addressed to Americans who support the country and its ideals. I know this would leave out most of the left, but that's on them.

Maybe if they could ever get over their hate...

Gospace म्हणाले...

Oil prices going up! Bad news!
Oil prices going down! Bad news!
Any change in anything anywhere while Trump is POTUS! Bad news.

narciso म्हणाले...

Wonderful views lame comments

Mason G म्हणाले...

Escalators in NY are now being turned off to "conserve energy"

Welcome to the 3rd world

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2072891768857629114/photo/1

Big Mike म्हणाले...

@Mason G, did you ever notice how “being inclusive” seems to mean “accept our extreme left positions and embrace our bogus policies”?

Mason G म्हणाले...

It sure seems to.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

@Eva Marie, you spurred me to do some research. We’re both wrong, but you’re more right than I am. If the desk Mamdani used, then it’s not a true partner’s desk because the drawers in front are fake. Soo learned something. Thank you.

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

hey, what lame comments?

Big Mike म्हणाले...

If the desk used really was Washington’s desk …

Typo fixed.

Two-eyed Jack म्हणाले...

"Any change in anything anywhere while Trump is POTUS! Bad news."

Letting things stay the same is also a growing problem. Bad news!

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

That’s a pretty shoddy trick to pull on your partner.

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

Right away you’d know (if you got the fake drawer side) your partnership wasn’t going to go smoothly.

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

Kind of a subliminal message from Mamdani, maybe.

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

Those commies are sneaky bastards.

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

Damn narciso, these are brilliant comments.

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

If I do say so myself.

Deep State Reformer म्हणाले...

Tucker is quite foolish. Look at George Wallace, Ralph Nader, or Ross Perot and their attempts at new political party and how hard it is to start and ma8ntain it. He should try to follow the DSA infiltrationist model only on the Republican side. Third party stuff is just a waste of time as history shows. I thought he was smarter than this.

Jamie म्हणाले...

"I thought he was smarter than this."

To be fair, he always said he wasn't.

Still disappointing, though.

Aggie म्हणाले...

When I saw Mamdani seated at the desk, and understood it to be the desk of George Washington, I was struck by the same feeling as when I saw Obama with his feet casually propped up on the top of the Resolute desk, in the Oval Office: That the man had no respect for the history that the furniture embodied, and was perfectly comfortable in signalling his contempt for it in order to display his authority.

Why did Mamdani need the desk? He would have been better at a podium, with his minions around him. No - he wanted the desk as a prop to display the same sentiments, for the same reasons.

Jamie म्हणाले...

"he wanted the desk as a prop to display the same sentiments, for the same reasons."

I am reminded of the Sherlock scene in which the evil Swedish guy, or whoever he is, whips it out and pees in the fireplace at 221b, because he knows British people aren't going to stop him.

The question is, do Americans still have that je ne sais quois that Britain seems to have tragically lost in the world wars, or not?

Jamie म्हणाले...

I'm hoping Canada can survive their Round of 16 match tomorrow - we're in Ottawa today and tomorrow, and it would be SO LIT if they do! We know it's unlikely, but they do seem to have the bit between their teeth up here.

Michael Fitzgerald म्हणाले...

Tonight, in honor of our ancestors and forefathers who fought for America's independence and for the liberty of all people around the world, I'm going to be watching the finest, most accurate, sincere, and heartfelt war movie ever made, a 1945 film directed by William Wellman and starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum, The Story of GI Joe.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ म्हणाले...

Being US president should not be a primary opportunity for personal enrichment.

Americans’ dissatisfaction with a two tier system of justice will only grow in the face of Trump’s latest billions.

In the midterms and 2028, voters will demand leaders who do not consider themselves above the law.

Jamie म्हणाले...

Maybe I've been misreading all this time - is IEE a parody account?

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
"Whenever I vowed to arrest bad guys, the pushback was always "you can't do that! There's no room in the jails!"

Communists close the jails, then they can use the "not enough jails" excuse to never enforce the law, as your city erodes.

See their little commie magic trick?

This is how you sneakily eliminate the laws that hold society together...you don't need legislature, you don't need to erase the laws, you just render them moot by making it practically impossible to ever enforce."

Rt41Rebel म्हणाले...

Trump wore a purple tie for his speech tonight. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in a purple tie, so I knew it signified something. Red + Blue = Purple.

Gospace म्हणाले...

It was mentioned in comments here the other day (or maybe yesterday) how the Catholic Church ban on cousin marriages helped break up the clan system in Scotland, aiding the Scots in modernizing. It did much more then that. France was more or less a collection of baronies. With princes here and princes there running their own little fiefdoms. The nan on cousin marriages forced them to merge and merge again and France became France, a nation, not a collection of French speaking regions.

And in the same manner, Germany became Germany. England became England in an entirely different manner. Being an island aided them in that.

But the ban wasn't just 1st cousin marriages. At one point it extended out to 6th cousin. Now banning 1st cousin marriages meant the powerful and well to do, if they wanted to marry other powerful well to do people would have to search for a spouse the next village over. The more numerous poor and lower class, for at least a short while, could stay local. But suddenly this meant all your kin and spouses kin weren't next door. Two village over- in any direction. Because of your spouse wasn't an only child, few were, maybe her siblings married someone the next town further away. And 2 or 3 generations of this, you have traceable kinfolk spread everywhere. But, that's not the real kicker. At one point, the ban extended out to 6th cousins! So pretty soon, you have kin throughout the whole of a nation.

Interestingly, 18 US states allow 1st cousin marriages, though it is relatively rare since there's a stigma to it here that doesn't exist in other cultures. KY and Nevada ban 2nd cousin marriages, and are among the 6 states that ban 1st cousin 1X removed marriages.

DNA, of course, existed back then, but no one knew about it. Now if you wanted to do this scientifically, well, a 2nd cousin can share anywhere from 46 cM and 515 cM. cM meaning centimorgans, the units used for DNA measurement. Of the people I've matched and traced as 2nd cousins, the shared DNA goes from 139-206cM. Since it's the amount you share that determines the chance of some sort of genetic anomaly happening, pick a number, and anyone sharing more than that- can't get married. Oh, in that 139-206 range I have for 2nd cousins who've tested, I have a 3rd cousin and a 2nd 1X removed cousin, more distant matches. Off the top of my head, a think the nice round number of 100cM should cover it, though a case could be made going all the way down to 46, the minimum 2nd cousins can share.

I was never in danger of marrying a 2nd cousin, though I've more then 12. I've never met any of them. Not even the one who graduated from my HS the year before me. I have to go back to the 6th generation above me to find a cousin marriage in any line. After that the numbers increase. Rapidly. There just weren't that many people around in the early to mid 1700s, and they didn't move around a lot yet.

But yes, I think pre-marital DNA testing should be done, for health reasons and ban on too close a relationship. As well as post-birth DNA testing. If the latter shows the presumptive father isn't the father... well, there should be consequences for the mother. And the actual father.

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

D.C. Circuit Court of appeals has ordered the Trump signature over Lake Mendota to be removed immediately.

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

Sign at Costco said.
"For Sanitation Purposes : Please allow your Food Court Staff to assist with issuing FIFA cups."

People were taking them as souvenirs?

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

Happy Birthday USA!

If you want to celebrate with alcohol -- after the fireworks, not before the fireworks -- my suggestion is that you ignore the Communists, and ignore the Capitalists. Yeah, that's right. Ignore the government. Ignore the ad campaigns. Listen to the psychopath.

Ah, shit. That's the wrong link. Damn internet. Here you go. Listen to the psychopath!

wendybar म्हणाले...

Happy 250th Birthday to America. My small town celebrated THEIR 250th birthday in 2018!!!

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

1776 is up on youtube, free all day today. I've never seen it. So I'm giving it a shot. It's a musical.

I was thinking Al Pacino was in it. But that's a different movie. This is a bunch of no-names. Pretty high rating at IMDB.

Jersey Fled म्हणाले...

My wife and I learned a few years ago the our grandparents came from villages in Italy that were only a few miles apart. And we went to the same grammar school. I was in the Safety Patrol and crossed her twice a day when I was in 6th grade and she was in 4th. And we went to the same high school.

Are we cousins? (Shocked look on face)

wendybar म्हणाले...

Jersey Fled
That is a cute story!! Thanks for sharing. Too late to worry about it now!! Happy 4th!!

William50 म्हणाले...

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Being US president should not be a primary opportunity for personal enrichment.
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Someone should have told the Biden family.

Aggie म्हणाले...

I note the absence of any commentary that these stories of Trump family enrichment have been reported directly from the financial data that they themselves submitted, transparently, within the Federal system designed for just that. As opposed to say, some light investigative scrutiny that uncovered it by FOIA detective work or insider leaking, concerning '10% for the Big Guy' types of evidence. Or appointments to executive boards for family members having nothing to offer except family connections and a bad lifestyle. Or stupidly confessed phone calls, threatening corrupt withholding of government foreign aid, if investigations into personal malfeasance aren't stopped in their tracks.

Is Trump still turning his salary back to the Treasury?

Big Mike म्हणाले...

“Someone should have told the Biden family.”

They wouldn’t have listened to a dog-faced pony soldier like you.

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

Are we cousins? (Shocked look on face)

The exponential arithmetic of sexual reproduction strongly suggests that you are. I was into genealogy quite enthusiastically for a time, and one of the first interesting facts I discovered was that my maternal grandparents (both of founding-stock colonial New England ancestry) were cousins several times over, most closely 6th cousins. The next interesting thing I discovered was that they were also cousins at a similar distance to dozens of our Presidents and other famous Americans who shared the same origins.

Given the gaps in the written records, it is plausible that my family has many more such connections that will forever remain unknown. But once you go back a dozen generations in some small locality, there are thousands of names in your family tree, and everyone has a good chance to be related to everyone else. Go back 20 generations, or about 500 years, and there are a million people in your family tree, and you are practically certain to be related to everyone else with the same roots. Go back a thousand years, or about 40 generations, and there are trillions of names in the family tree. More than the number of people who were alive at the time worldwide. More than the number of people who ever lived. There is no doubt that every one of us is descended from cousin marriages many times over.

One of the most interesting articles I ever read, back in the days when The Atlantic magazine contained more thoughtful general-interest stories than shrieking leftist idiocy, was an article called "The Royal We" by one Steve Olson. Using the mathematics of genealogy I described above, and what we know of human migration, he showed pretty convincingly that everyone except full-blood Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and Pacific Islanders is undoubtedly a descendant of Confucius and Nefertiti, and everyone with any European blood at all is sure to be a descendant of Charlemagne, Muhammad, and probably the prolific King Edward III of England.

More generally, for any defined locality where there has been continuous human habitation for more than 500 years or so, everyone alive today who has ancestors from that time and place is plausibly descended from everyone who was alive there and then and still has living descendants today. And conversely, everyone who was alive there and then (and still has any living descendants today) is an ancestor of everyone who is now alive and has roots in the same time and place. This is the case for colonial New England, medieval England, Dark Ages Europe, and in remote antiquity, the entire Eurasian land mass. One has to go back 10,000 years or so to encompass all the Polynesians, and some 20,000 years to include the Native Americans, and as much as 60,000 years to get to the Tasmanian Aborigines, but there was a time and place in history when everyone on earth who left living descendants is the ancestor of every single one of us.

Carrying the arithmetic back even further, you eventually get to Y-chromosome Adam and mitochondrial Eve, the last common paternal and maternal ancestors of us all, who lived in Africa some 200-300,000 years ago and 100-200,000 years ago, respectively.

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

(10:58, cont'd.)

Olson wrote another article for the Atlantic in 2007 called "Who's Your Daddy", exploring the fact that in any DNA study involving 20 or more related people, at least one of them is likely to have genetic paternity differing from the "official" father, and once you get to groups of 30 or 40 people, including putative multi-generational father-to-son lines of descent, these "non-paternity events" are practically universal. So while I am descended from multiple Mayflower passengers in the official documents, one or more of the lines of descent is likely to have been interrupted by an act of unfaithfulness by a remote grandmother, or more charitably, she may have been raped by some man who was not her husband, and chose to conceal it. But not to worry. As noted above, it is likely that I am related to the same Mayflower passenger by several other lines of descent for which documentation is lacking, as are you, dear reader, if you have any colonial New England ancestry at all.

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

there was a time and place in history when everyone on earth who left living descendants is the ancestor of every single one of us.

This should correctly read, "... there was a time in prehistory when everyone on earth who left living descendants is the ancestor of every single one of us."

the last common paternal and maternal ancestors of us all, who lived in Africa some 200-300,000 years ago and 100-200,000 years ago, respectively

The fact that genetic studies show that mitochondrial Eve lived quite a bit later than Y-DNA Adam is evidence that polygyny is the rule rather than the exception in human evolution. The vast majority of our remote grandmothers were plural "sister-wives" at best, or concubines, harem girls, sex slaves, or victims of random rapes at worst. The vast majority of our remote great-uncles were childless "incels" who were forcibly prevented from reproducing by the physical strength or political power of a handful of men who had sex and children with numerous women.

If civilization ever collapses, human nature and the effects of testosterone will ensure that these conditions speedily return. Naive leftist women who vote for politicians promising unfettered Muslim immigration are voting for their great-granddaughters to be raped many times in their lives, after having their clitorises carved out. They are voting for women to live a life of drudgery, isolation, and sex slavery in purdah behind a veil or burqa.

Aggie म्हणाले...

I got a printout from the Mormon genealogists that told me that Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are first cousins (many times removed), that Robert Treat Paine and Sam Adams are second cousins, and that George Washington and James Wilson are third cousins. Keep going, and you get to Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Harrison, John Hancock, even Winston Churchill and Charles Dickens. Exponential growth in reverse, baby. I had no idea I was so famous.

Lazarus म्हणाले...

The New England Puritans were a small group who kept excellent records (as were the French Canadians). About 20,000 people arrived from England from 1630 to 1640, before the English Civil War cut the flow. If you are related to one of them, you are related to all of them. Something similar is true of the First Families of Virginia, though Virginians as a whole weren't quite as compact and well-documented a group.

It's not certain that Queen Victoria actually was a decendant of George III (the hemophilia gene had to come from somewhere), but Elizabeth II and Charles III were descended from him by other lines. When a family is inbred enough, things even out.

Narr म्हणाले...

I'm a firm believer in the distant cousinhood of all mankind, but it's clear that what divides us is far deeper and more important than what we share.

Narr म्हणाले...

The prohibition on cousin marriage did not apply to the Habsburgs, where uncles married nieces frequently. IIRC they always had to get a waiver from the Church for that pharaonic practice, and the Church always came through.

Narr म्हणाले...

I haven't seen any discussion of Charles (turd of the name) becoming 'defender of the faiths.'

I think he's ripe for the axman myself. What do you think?.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...
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Saint Croix म्हणाले...

there was a time in prehistory when everyone on earth who left living descendants is the ancestor of every single one of us."

When I was in fourth grade, I bet a black guy that we were related.

He was laughing. "We are not related."

"Yes we are. I'll bet you a quarter."

"You're saying that you and me are in the same family?"

"That's right."

And after some haggling about our terms, we made our quarter bet.

"Okay," I said. "You're related to Adam and Eve. Right?"

I was confident. This is the South.

"Yeah," he said.

"I'm related to Adam and Eve," I said.

And he laughed. And I got my quarter.

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

Years later, I'm on the streets of New Orleans. It's Mardi Gras, and I've been drinking. And this black guy comes up to me on the street. And after a little back and forth, this guy tells me that my shoes are nice.

"Thanks," I said.

"I know where you got your shoes."

"What?" I said.

"I know where you got your shoes."

I looked down at my feet. I looked at him. "You do not know where I got my shoes."

"I'll bet you $10, I know where you got your shoes."

"I'm not betting."

"Okay, okay. I'll bet you a dollar. You can afford a dollar, right? I know where you got your shoes."

"You're going to tell me where I got my shoes? All right. One dollar. It's a bet."

"You got your shoes on your feet, on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, Louisiana."

He made me laugh. And I gave him a dollar. It was like an echo of my past (with inflation).

That was the South for me, growing up. Tom Sawyer shit, all the time.

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