The Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire yesterday evening, and has massive damage.
Reports, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
The loss is just incredible, not only in terms of the damage to the cathedral itself, but to the artifacts that were in there.
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I don’t care what religion you are, this is a great loss for ALL of us… I truly hope they will rebuild it, but I know I won’t see it done in my lifetime. 🙁
I know most of y’all aren’t golfers, so you can ignore this post. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s a good rifle range spoiled and all that… Sigh… 🙂
Tiger Woods won his 5th Masters tournament, and 15th major tournament yesterday. He won the 1st Masters 22 years ago, and his 4th 14 years ago! In between he’s had four back surgeries, at least one knee surgery, and basically spent three years out of the game.
Many said he was done, and would never win again, much less win a major again.
His work ethic, getting his head straightened out, and hours and hours of practice had those naysayers eating their words yesterday.
Article HERE. And the Masters website also has some great pics and a couple of stories, but you’ll have to look it up, since they prohibit links directly to them.
If nothing else, this once again proves the old adage, Old age and cunning (and local course knowledge) will overcome youth and skill every time. 🙂
No words needed…
First up-
Members of Congress allegedly sexually harassed night shift custodial staff while they cleaned their offices. Sexual harassment prevention training went off the rails. And the Architect of the Capitol has no unified system for effectively tracking complaints and resolutions of sexual harassment cases.
Full article, HERE at Roll Call. And even worse, apparently some departments refused to cooperate with the investigation. I’m reminded of the statement, ‘Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.’ Sigh…
And it appears that Bridezilla is alive and well… again, still???
One angry bride claims one of her bridesmaids owes her a $30,000 “do-over” for the big day, alleging that the “hugely pregnant” friend stole the show with her “electric personality” and “tall, incredibly attractive” husband.
Full article, HERE. My question is, if you ‘knew’ she was pregnant and had a great looking hubby, why the hell did you make her a bridesmaid or even make her part of the wedding party? D’oh!!! Sigh…
And in the karma bites category, we have AOC getting slapped down yet again…
Suck It Up, Cupcake: Ocasio-Cortez Was Triggered By The NY Post’s Response To Ihan Omar’s 9/11 Remarks
Full article, HERE… She DESERVES to have that rubbed in her face, along with Omar and they other one, Talib… 3000 people died that day, due to radical muslim extremists. NOT somebody did something… @#$#%$!
In honor of the last Doolittle Raider’s passing…
This one is only 9 minutes of official film.
This one is one of the newsreels that was shown in theaters.
And this is a write up of the raid, HERE from Eyewitness to History.
An amazing piece of history, considered by many military historians as the ‘start’ of Japan’s fall, since the Japanese did not believe anyone could ever bomb Japan. This sent the Japanese military into a scheme to retaliate and sink all carriers, which culminated in the Battle of Midway, where they lost four carriers to our one.
The last Doolittle Raider has passed away.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole, the last surviving member of World War II’s Doolittle Raiders, died Tuesday in Texas at the age of 103.
The president of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association told The Air Force Times that Cole died in San Antonio on Tuesday morning with his son and daughter by his side.
Full article, HERE. Another article, HERE from Air Force Times.
A window on one of the first successes of WWII against Japan is now closed. They were all volunteers, and none of them considered that they had done anything ‘special’. They just did their jobs.
Hand Salute!
Ready, Two.
This article in American Thinker is worth the read…
We and the Left are now two nations within one country. This is undeniable. We are now so different that we cannot even agree on what a country is, or on the merits of a country having a border. The number of people who still say, “I just don’t care about politics” dwindles. It is still possible to hate both sides — but it is getting hard to be indifferent and still be breathing.
Full article, HERE.
Troubled times are ahead, and I really don’t think the left realizes the potential harm they are doing by refusing to negotiate on anything…
I pray this doesn’t go further downhill, but I’m about to the point that I’m honestly afraid for America continuing as a sovereign nation in my lifetime.
PP (paramedic daughter) is getting royally screwed over by workman’s comp in northern California for an on the job injury.
Between the misdiagnosis of her foot issue (she walked around on a broken foot for three months), the lack of updating when the doctor FINALLY admitted that (never updated WC record of diagnosis), diagnosis of lower back pain as ‘strained’, and now WC refusal for MRI to try to determine further extent of injuries including why she has circulation issues in the foot, reduction of the physical therapy, cutting of pain meds, and her finally getting her own appointment for an ortho consult for her back (also denied by WC), she’s looking for a lawyer to talk to.
So if any of you folks on the left coast know a GOOD workman’s comp lawyer around Sacramento, or an investigative reporter that’s interested in a story about how paramedics get treated by the system, let me know and I’ll pass it along.
If I could afford it, I’d have already paid for the best damn lawyers I could find, but I simply can’t do that. She just wants to get fixed and get back to work. She’s frustrated, bored, and tired of hurting every damn day.
Thanks in advance for any information.
First up, Alma Boykin with the fifth book in her Empire series, Miners and Empire.
As always, click on the cover to get it
The blurb-
Aedelbert Starken shapes stone, not magic. Or so he thinks.
The town of Garmouth depends on the mines for life. Aedelbert comes to the city with his partner Caedda Quaedel in order to build three new smelters for the ore. Aedelbert and Caedda, master stone-cutters, just want to work, collect their wages, and move to the next job. Nothing more or less.
To their chagrin, building smelters and training an apprentice pose the least of their problems. A noble with a grudge threatens the mines and the city, leading to a race between the men of Garmouth and the mines, the noble, and the forces of ice and water.
Aedelbert wants nothing to do with any of it. The Scavenger, however, has other ideas. And what He gives, He can also reclaim…
67,000 words.
I was a beta reader, and it’s GOOD! You won’t go wrong with this one.
Next up, Chris Kennedy, Rob Hampson, and Sandra Medlock’s Do No Harm. It’s the 9th book in the Omega War series.
The blurb-
When Todd’s critically damaged ship dropped out of hyperspace near the Human colony world of Azure, he had no memory of his past. He didn’t know who he was, or even what he was, and the Humans didn’t either. That didn’t stop the colonists of Azure—they took him in, anyway…even though they didn’t understand how he could do some of the things he could do.
Todd and his descendants consider themselves Human—eight armed and water-breathing—but Human, nonetheless. After seventy years living among Humans, Todd’s descendants are going back out into the Union to make their mark—from fifteen-year-old Verne, who’s a little short to be a mercenary, to Harryhausen, who wants to be the most famous PI in the galaxy. Eventually they learn that the rest of the Galactic Union knows them as Wrogul, intelligent octopus-like beings known for science and the ability to perform surgery like no other race can.
These Wrogul do more than just practice medicine, but they still intend to do no harm. Unfortunately, the Humans, whether they have two arms or eight, have powerful enemies… and the Wrogul may have no choice.
This one should be interesting, and I mean that in a good way! 🙂
Today, at 0000Z, the GPS constellation will roll over as it resets the week number back to all zeros…
Thus, the WN parameter in the GPS navigation message “rolls over” to zero every 1024 weeks starting from 0000Z January 6, 1980. The next WN rollover will occur April 6, 2019. The IS-GPS-200H interface specification identifies both the ten bit WN parameter and the WN rollover events. A GPS device that conforms to the latest IS-GPS-200 and provides UTC should not be adversely affected.
DHS bulletin is HERE.
So if your GPS suddenly thinks you’re in New Mexico, or Virginia, hopefully it will fix itself after a bit…
YMMV and Location… may vary… Just sayin’ 🙂