Nine minutes on the water crisis surrounding the Colorado River…
What he says makes a lot of sense…
And this one isn’t going to be easy to solve, or quickly solved. I think he’s right and they will end up at SCOTUS before it’s finally ‘fixed’.
Will that be before or after the Colorado goes dry? I don’t know…
h/t Tom R.
Sometimes I wonder about our education system…
Even in Texas…
Cars are a ‘signifier of status’ and ‘power,’ professor says
A transportation professor at Texas A&M University said that “car culture” and “toxic masculinity” are intertwined.
Professor Tara Goddard teaches urban planning and landscape architecture at TAMU.
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Goddard cited Cornell University philosopher Kate Mann’s views on toxic masculinity and misogyny to define how she uses the word. Mann, according to Goddard, views statements such as “men should be the provider” and “men should be strong” as forms of toxic masculinity.
She also cited Virginia Tech professor Cara Daggett’s research on “petro-masculinity.”
Full article, HERE at the College Fix.
I note that she ‘teaches’ urban planning… I can’t help but wonder how she expects the food to get from the farm/ranch to her ‘urban’ location, or how people are supposed to work the farm/ranch.
I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve seen plenty of young ladies driving big trucks, hauling horses, and doing rodeo by themselves. And I’ve also seen a few ‘little old ladies’ driving F-350s/Chevy 3500 covered in mud to the grocery store around here…
But it’s always ‘our’ (read males) fault that we like trucks… Sigh…
h/t Stretch
NYC spent almost $1M on robots to patrol the subway…
This week, the New York Police Department rolled out several robots to patrol Times Square and the city’s subway system to fight crime.
According to the New York Post, this includes two “Digi-dogs,” which cost nearly $750,000. Another egg-shaped robot can patrol the subway system to detect people in the subway during restricted hours and “is equipped with more than a dozen microphones and a 360-degree HD camera, as well as sonar and lidar sensors,” as well as a license plate reader.
Full article, HERE.
Anybody want to bet how long it will be before they are ‘tagged’, damaged, or destroyed?
If you follow the twitter links, there are already comments on how to ‘kill’ the dogs by pulling the batteries…
Sigh…
Sometimes you just gotta have fun… Navy style…
Early 2000s during an airpower demonstration at sea!
The F-18 driver was a former Blue Angel, so he knew what he was doing (and probably laughing his ass off as people realized he was inverted)…
In other news, so much for the Xiden administration NOT knowing about the raid on Mar a Lago…
/1 🚨THREAD — records obtained from our investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Mar-a-Lago raid further confirm that the FBI obtained access to these records through a “special access request” from the Biden White House on behalf of the DOJ.https://t.co/JapM7ZFq4k pic.twitter.com/O9fne5qRD1
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
And another one… Not only was the Afghan withdrawal report an absolute cluster they tried to blame on Trump, which was refuted by numerous boots on the ground and people who were in the know, the Pentagon leaks have shown how the ‘sausage’ is made, and it’s not pretty, nor, obviously, secure…
But Kirby is out there spouting the usual BS…
White House National Security spokesman John Kirby warned against sharing leaked documents, while still refusing to confirm their authenticity…
“Again, without confirming the validity of the documents, this is information that has no business in the public domain,” he told the press in a Monday briefing. “It has no business — if you don’t mind me saying — on the front pages of newspapers or on television. It is not intended for public consumption, and it should not be out there.
Full article, HERE at PJ Media.
And Larry, over at Virtual Mirage has an update on the Jan 6 mess. At least FORTY 4 0 undercover operatives were involved just from the FBI, and no telling how many more from other agencies… HERE.
And they got shirts made??? Really???
Sigh…
When one gets a shout out…
Especially when you’re one of the ‘and more’ authors!
Thanks Les!!!
Oh yeah, you can preorder, HERE!
Is a quick way to get this country in DEEP trouble…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-NY) demands that President Joe Biden ignore a Texas judge’s ruling to halt the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
“I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling,” AOC said on CNN, adding that “deeply partisan” judges have “engaged in unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts,” calling the ruling “unfounded.”
Full article, HERE from Townhall.
Soooo… What happens when ‘we’ start making those same decisions of what to obey and what to ignore?
Then who’s fault is it? Of course, it will be ‘our’ fault… sigh…
Rules for thee, and not for me seems to be the way this administration is treating not only judicial decisions, but damned near everything else!
Grrr…
There, I SAID that dirty word… At least in some quarters… Sigh
He is risen!!!
Happy Easter to all, and remember it is more than Easter eggs and chocolate rabbits…
Now go spend time with your loved ones!
And the obligatory cute pic…
And I truly hope you remember where you hid ALL the eggs… 😉
67 years ago, there was a different feeling toward Christianity. Good Friday, 1956, NYC.
This is one Victor Davis Hanson column you really need to read.
The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.
It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.
The American people want affordable power and fuel and energy autonomy. They do not want a Green New Deal that results in dependence on the Middle East.
They want fiscal sobriety, not a permanent stagflationary economy marked by bank failures, soaring interest rates, crony capitalism, and subsidies for those who choose not to work.
Full article, HERE.
We are getting closer and closer to the edge of ‘something’… And I’m frankly afraid of what that may be…
As we celebrate this holy week, with the Jews celebrating the feast of Passover, and Christians celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, christianity in any form is under attack from all sides.
I found THIS article to be an interesting read for the comparisons and, again, things to think about…
We need to be pulling together to pull this country out of the doldrums and problems rather than playing partisan politics, word games, and letting the loudest screamers get their way…
Is ALIVE!!! Finally…
Click on the cover for the Amazon link!
The blurb-
Things are never what they seem, and on the other side of this cover, what you know isn’t so!
Plunge into eight tales of that will feel familiar, only to careen through more twists than a country road at night, and stranger turns: From noir private eyes, to Fae battles, to the cookies of the dark side, you’ll find a surprise in every story!
Caliborne’s Curse Monalisa Foster
Late Night Drive Ethan Whisnand
Plaza of Pain Tom Rogneby
The Luck Breaker Rhiain O’Connell
The Chosen One Cedar Sanderson
Dog Saves Man Christopher Markman
Demons and Dishes Dorothy Grant
Nick Slade-Private Eye JL Curtis
Thanks to the usual suspects, and Jesse Baggett for the cover art! She is a local artist who does ‘whimsical’ paintings of animals. HERE is a link to her work!
T-Rex had lips???
Theropod dinosaurs such as the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex have long been portrayed with their teeth fully visible, similar to extant crocodilians. This pattern of portrayal largely had to do with relatedness between dinosaurs and crocodilians and the relationship between tooth and jaw size.
Full article HERE from Science magazine…
And every little six year old boy in the world (and those who remember being six) are going NOOOOOooooo… Teef, they has big teef!!!
Sigh… Sometimes science does destroy our dreams… LOL
And this one from Norway is even more interesting! Some scientists decided to take a look at the farmland around the Jell Mound in southern Norway to see if anything else was there.
(Jellhaugen is the second largest burial mound in Norway and among the largest in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. It has a diameter of 85 metres and a height of around 9 metres. It’s difficult to know exactly how old it is, but has been dated to around 1,500 years ago.)
What they found was completely unexpected!!!
The Late Nordic Iron Age (AD 550–1050) was characterised by significant change in political, military, judicial and religious structures across Scandinavia, most clearly manifested in the appearance of high-status ‘central places’ in the landscape. Recent ground-penetrating radar surveys at Gjellestad in Norway have revealed a site comprising several large burial mounds—one of which contains a ship burial—in addition to a possible cult house and a feasting hall. This combination of features suggests that Gjellestad was part of a hitherto unknown central place on the eastern shores of the Oslofjord. If correct, the authors’ interpretations demonstrate that the layouts of these sites were formulaic, and that central places may be more common than previously thought.
Full article, HERE from Cambridge University Press.
So we keep learning as technology allows more and more ways to ‘examine’ previously unknown locations…