ADDED: In the pre-dawn of Thursday — 5:44 a.m., raining — I'm regretting putting the word "out" twice in the post title. That's awkward. But I had "out" on my mind, as you can hear in the third video. I'm saying that when a batter comes to the plate — home plate – he is trying to leave home, and thus to go out, out to the bases, to make a journey around the bases and ultimately to go home. I think of George Carlin:
I appreciate the point made in the comments, that "out" got its name as a consequence of the idea of "in" that's behind "inning." The team comes in from the defensive positions in the field, so to be on the offensive is to be "in," so when a batter loses that opportunity, he's out. But can you not appreciate my point. The batter is at home, and he's trying to go out. If he can't go out, he's in.
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Those are powerful long strides. Good for you.
Another point of view about Renoir
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Nah, "out" means "you're outta here" {extravagant arm motion}.
Christopher reichs the tourist reviews some old beats frrom other tales like the devils banker a little like my novel in progress (except the villain is qatari not saudi)
What kind of flower is the middle one
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/king-charles-has-looted-every-faith?
https://notthebee.com/article/senate-democrats-block-stop-insider-trading-act
narciso - looks like a sumac. Not a flower.
https://x.com/warDaniel47/status/2104910540082422256
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2104984896095785371
They call it an "inning," so when you lose the right to be part of the inning, that means you're "out." Logical terminology.
narcisco @ 8:28: Maybe she’s talking about Islam. Very bold.
Robert Marshall... I had never heard this insightful nitty-gritty about a sport I love. Thank you.
Does ai confirm? : Etymology: The term "inning" traces back to being "in" (having a turn at bat) versus being "out" (playing in the field).
Dems just voted against VOTER ID & Voted against ending insider trading in congress.
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🚨 BREAKING: In a MAJOR mask-off moment, Senate Democrats just REJECTED legislation that would've required photo voter ID and banned stock trading for members of Congress, 53-47
100% OF DEMOCRATS VOTED "NAY"
LET THAT SINK IN. Democrats just voted for VOTER FRAUD and INSIDER TRADING 🤯
Same bill passed the House. In the Senate, it needed 60 votes to advance — but couldn't get there because of Dems
These people do not want what's best for America. VOTE RED IN NOVEMBER 🇺🇸
Peachy - I left you some tips for observing the Andromeda galaxy.
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The democrats are terrified of secure elections.
"Canadian Media Report Mark Carney Likely to Accept Nobel Prize Award,"
Jeez. What has he done for peace?
I didn't see that - Original Mike. Thanks for pointing it out, and thanks for the stargazing hints.
Before all that - carving out time to find dark sky..tops the to-do list. Most dark sky around here is south and west of my location. In the mountains.
Utah has some dark sky. The pan handle of Oklahoma has really good dark sky.
Black Mesa State Park in OK. So dark at night, you cannot see your hand in front of your face.
Don't exaggerate the need for deep darkness. Andromeda is big and bright enough that mediocre skies will do, though it will look better the darker the sky. I do advise against driving west of the city and then trying to look back to the east through the city's light dome. But that direction advice is for fall evenings. Andromeda can also be found to the west, or even straight up, depending on the hour and the date. Do some homework with an astronomy app before you go out to know which direction you'll be looking. And take binoculars. Can't stress that enough.
Here's a zoomable light pollution map.
Red Sox are out. It's a miracle they even made the playoffs. No stars and their best players out with injuries for big chunks of the season.
Mike's light pollution map has a strange bright spot at Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. If you've been there, it's a very dark place with thick trees, brush, and pitch-black lava. Very little visible light. I wonder if it's infrared from the hot crater.
I think the lake is haunted.
I don't know what to make of the Kilauea spot. It's unusually symmetric, which suggests it's not human-made, but it's also very bright. Those are terrible skies if the map is to be believed. Perhaps it was actively erupting when the data for the map was collected. It's weird.
NBC News: “Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says”
Did the drug company water down the poison so they could charge the state multiple doses? I mean that’s what illegal drug dealers do? Am I right?
Or perhaps it *is* infrared and should have been corrected for. Interesting theory.
Over the years, I've had half a dozen dogs put down in my living room. Not a single one suffered, nor did the process fail or delay in any way. It was simply going to sleep and not waking up. What's the problem here? Oh yeah, it's the government.
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New York City's first lady is currently at an Islamic retreat run by a group that has called for abolishing Israel and prayed to Allah to "cleanse Palestine" of its Jewish "oppressors"
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The Christa Pike story is even worse than what Lem wrote above. First, just one hour before her scheduled execution the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit stayed her execution “pending further review.”
Then the US Supreme Court basically came right back and in legalese says “proceed with the execution.”
Already that’s added an unnecessary layer of psychological pain. She had mentally prepared herself to die, then a reprieve, then hustled back into the death chamber.
And then the State of Tennessee botched the execution and after two syringes of (supposedly)lethal drugs she’s still alive and the death warrant has expired. Shit show to end all shit shows.
Boy the NYT, MSNOW and CNN sure covered themselves with glory reporting on the flight “diverted by a dispute” by pilots. This confirms my suspicions that the new red-green alliance in which Democrats are aligned with Hamas has also shifted the DNC-Media to start sympathizing with Jihad the same way they sympathize with Commies who vote D. Their first reflex is to minimize and ignore the terrorist angle.
You might recall a similar Corporate Media pose in 2012 when Romney made note of the fact Obama would not call terrorism what it was. Benghazi was “a riot over a video” and all that. Big Media (largely embodied by Candy Crowley) immediately stepped in to lie in the middle of the televised debate and claim (falsely with no evidence) that Obama had called Benghazi terrorism. But we all knew. In fact a running gag was that within moments of any suspicious incident the administration and Corporate Media (I know it’s repetitive) would rush to say “it’s NOT terrorism” often admitting that they didn’t know what it was. But they “knew” it wasn’t “that.”
Maybe the light detectors for that map also pick up heat? I'd guess Kilauea is hot even if it's not erupting. There's also a huge bright area in that light map in northern Alaska in the area of Prudhoe Bay that makes it look like a major urban center.
Crunch, crunch, crunch. Lap, lap, lap.
Thoughts on the botched attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee:
1. Did she get her request of an all-female execution team? If so, it kind of reminds me of the much ballyhooed "first all-female spacewalk" where one of the women allowed a tool to drift off into space.
2. Incompetence or possible sabotage? Maybe pentobarbital that had been sitting on the shelf for too long?
3. Does the State of Tennessee get another bite at the apple after Pike's failed execution? And despite the fact that she committed a particularly heinous murder 32 years ago, should they?
4. A religious person might look at the botched execution and think that maybe her survival against the odds was God's will?
Update on The Handmaid’s Tale progress.
"There's also a huge bright area in that light map in northern Alaska in the area of Prudhoe Bay that makes it look like a major urban center."
I assume that's the oil infrastructure.
Trump getting South Korea to support and fund a gas pipeline is huge in Alaska. The oil field in Prudhoe Bay is nearly played out without access to ANWR. However, there is plenty of gas but no way to export at commercial scale, thanks to Democrats demonizing and blocking of pipelines. A pipeline for gas, laid next to the existing oil pipeline, would be an economic boom for Alaska and lower LNG for the world, which is why South Korea would support it.
Donald Trump says South Korea will invest $200bn in US energy projects ~ Bloomberg News
𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘮
"𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴" is doing a lot of work here. South Korea says the Alaska LNG project remains subject to commercial and legal review, while the nuclear projects still require further site and commercial decisions. Only the Texas gas plant has been selected as the first project.
So the $200 billion headline should not be confused with $200 billion committed to construction. The package combines one selected project, projects still under development, and an Alaska project whose commercial viability remains uncertain. Given the timing before the midterms, skepticism about the political presentation is reasonable.
Another Foxconn-style lesson: don’t confuse a politically promoted investment pledge with money actually invested and jobs actually created.
O Mike.
I will do my best! If you look at google earth or other earth images of the Denver metro front range - you will see how bad the light pollution is.
I think there is a dark sky are near Westcliffe? the Sangre de Cristo sit to the west with a nice valley to the east.
IEE tries to spin, but while he can conveniently forget that Bloomberg and Democrats opposed domestic oil and gas development over the past decade and continue to oppose such growth, I won’t.
“𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵”.is admirable. Remembering the rest of the record would be useful too. Democrats have certainly opposed some new oil and gas development, particularly on federal lands. But
“𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵” is a rather broad brush when U.S. crude production reached an all-time annual record in 2024. Apparently the oil kept flowing despite the alleged ban.
IEE spins again by inserting words into my comments that I never made. I never said anything about “ban”. They blocked growth. Sure, things continued to flow, but they didn’t grow. The Green New Deal spent billions on failed new energy projects, while one of Biden’s first acts was cancelling Pipeline XL project. Biden also halted lease sales in the Gulf.
Remember that both AOC and Newsom are setting up to run as President as Democrats, and both have worked hard to destroy the US domestic energy system, with Newsom heading up California closing two refineries that have driven up diesel prices, and AOC wanting more green new deals.
"I think there is a dark sky are near Westcliffe?"
Well, maybe. But from there it looks like you're looking back through all that light pollution to the northeast, which in the fall is where Andromeda is. When I drive an hour plus out of Madison, which is not a very large city, and then look back in the direction of the city the skies are bad. I turn around and look away from the city and the skies are good.
I'd consider driving east out onto the plains.
Hanging doesn't have the same level of complexity.
But perhaps we should send Christa Pike to Canada. They seem to be experts at medical executions.
I saw one game at Fenway this year, and it was the Yankees and the Sox were last place in the American League, flirting with the worst record in baseball, and then they swept the Yankees and went on an unbelievable tear. They were playing with house money, so losing to the team I hate the most was not as gut wrenching as I thought it would be.
If the Democrats hadn’t killed Keystone XL things would look different, and it must be obvious by now that overcapacity in refineries is a national security issue. We should be getting our oil in North America and let the Europeans worry about Hormuz.
The nuclear issue is as much of a canard as drug running was in Venezuela.
To be clear, we need extra refinery capacity even if it eats into profits, just in time and resilience aren’t that compatible.
I understand the resilience argument: strategic spare capacity can have value even if it reduces private-sector profits. But that still doesn’t establish that reopening these refineries or building new ones is the right way to buy that insurance.
A new refinery is a multibillion-dollar, multi-year investment. By the time it comes online, today’s war-driven margins may be gone. If the government believes the strategic value justifies absorbing those costs, that’s a legitimate policy debate. But it isn’t evidence that the projects make economic sense on their own.
Korea to Trump: We aren’t funding your Alaska pipeline, yet ~ Politico
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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵, 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 24 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦’𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘺 𝘖𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.
“𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦,” 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘦𝘯. 𝘋𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘞𝘦𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦. “𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦, 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳.”
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮: 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸.
𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘓𝘦𝘦 𝘑𝘢𝘦 𝘔𝘺𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭.
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘓𝘕𝘎 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 1) 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 2) 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢,” 𝘓𝘦𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘟 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
Korea didn't say the pipeline still under review, that's Politico inserting those words. South Korea simply provided the conditions that were agreed.
Sure, if you think the US agreeing to fund highspeed rail in California means Newsom can continue to spend billions without actually laying rail. Then you might think South Korea agreeing to a pipeline means they've already written a check without engineering being performed. That's not how business works, unless you are a corrupt Democrat or funded mouthpiece for them.
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