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Lots of wintering in at lower altitudes and summering at higher. Finding shade and breeze. Staying out of the noonday sun.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/10/2023 12:27 Comments ||
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Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
07/10/2023 13:43 Comments ||
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My understanding is, you could tell the mad dogs from the Englishmen because it was the Englishmen who were drooling.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/10/2023 13:53 Comments ||
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I was in the heat in diect sunlight on concrete in direct sun in Merietta framing a house. No one out there was crazy or in a bad mood, just another excuse for the crazy people to do crazy shit.
Posted by: Chris ||
07/10/2023 14:13 Comments ||
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hmmm what? No time, heading to the pool. Peace.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
07/10/2023 17:57 Comments ||
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[Epoch Times] The Supreme Court’s recently concluded term represented the second year of a sharp change in course.
After the court pointedly refused to intervene in the irregularity-plagued 2020 election and refused to curb the worst pandemic-era restrictions on personal freedoms, former President Donald Trump’s conservative, pro-Constitution appointees—Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—have begun steering the court back toward what the founders had envisioned.
The court made momentous strides in restoring constitutional order, returning the regulation of abortion to the states, safeguarding the right to bear arms in public for self-defense, and limiting the government’s ideology-driven war on carbon dioxide emissions. The link follows with a nice summary of recent court decisions. But wait! There's more!
In 2003, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor had predicted that the race-focused policy would exhale its last breath by 2028. "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary," she wrote, adding that "all governmental use of race must have a logical end point." In the end, the demise of the race-conscious policy came five years ahead of schedule.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Kosyrev
[RIA] What about Karl Marx? Today's ideologists of our neighbor do not help the outside world to appreciate the meaning of their efforts, inventing completely mysterious formulations like "second integration". After all, you still need to know that there was the first integration ... And why and with what? Marxism with traditional Chinese culture.
But when in Beijing they say that this very integration explains "why China is China", and explains it to the whole world, then it's worth thinking about. In the end, this country went from a grandiose socio-economic catastrophe (60s and 70s) to the current fulfillment of the Soviet dream - "to catch up and overtake America" before our eyes. They caught up and surpassed in many key indicators, became one of the two superpowers of the world that are approximately equal in terms of the totality of factors. And how did the Chinese do it?
It is clear that they themselves are constantly pondering this experience of theirs, and today they gently offer it for study around the world. In our case, we are talking about the published research report of the Xinhua News Agency on the work being carried out by the ruling Communist Party on that same “second integration”. It is clear that the agency simplifies the ideological discussion and adapts it to the understanding of a relatively simple foreigner. But even this he does with moderate success, so a translator is needed here.
So our question is: how did China manage to get this rise to the top from a hopeless depth? Xinhua's answer (in free translation): and this is because our civilization is five thousand years old, we have accumulated a lot of useful experience about what to do and what not to do in the event of a disaster. In particular, do not completely destroy your past. It must be integrated with the present and with the previous past in the form of a useful lesson, just as it happened with Marxism in our country.
So, the "first integration" of Marxism with the sad reality. The end of the 1970s, when, after the death of Mao Zedong , they began to try to do something with the unfortunate country, which then produced about the same GDP as the small and escaped Marxism Taiwan.
And look: it seems that then there was no more striking failure of the ideology of Marx and the practice of his followers in the world ( the USSR was still holding on). The idea of a classless society is in ruins, and the country, to put it mildly, is tired of the class struggle. The idea of abandoning private property and building the economy on the principles of not personal interest, but commands from above - and there is nothing to say. Well, let's not forget about culture with a corresponding revolution in it.
What they did in exactly the same situation in the late USSR - early Russia : they threw Marx and everyone else to the sidelines of the political mainstream, pushed back the eternally ruling CPSU , played with the ideas of banning the corresponding ideology. What the Chinese did: in words they kept everything unchanged, including the memory of the person who planted his version of Marxism, that is, Mao Zedong. But in fact, they created - in the form of an experiment and step by step - a completely capitalist economy with elements of state capitalism and social solidarity. "First integration" is a verbal reduction of the frenzied idealism of Marx, Mao and others to the created reality: the classics were right in some ways, wrong in some ways, we have our own peculiarities, and so on.
And here is five thousand years of civilization development: for example, there was a very real person named Kun, he is also Confucius . Well formulated Chinese ideas about the state and the nation as a family, where everyone has mutual obligations. He is now a god, and there are statues of him in the temples. Occasionally you can see statues and Christ there - there was also a man, he taught many, including someone in China, good things. But when the Jesuits arrived in this country in the 16th century, they were very surprised: the locals eagerly assimilate Christian wisdom, but they react strangely to calls to abandon all previous beliefs: what are you talking about, so that we lose the old wisdom for the sake of the new one? For what?
And now the first and second integration of Marx with modernity is the process of respectfully placing new statues (Marx, Mao, Deng Xiaoping) in the same temple. And with features. Xinhua tells us: the world is not an object to be conquered, like the Westerners, our ancient wisdom of harmonious relations between people is also applied to relations between peoples and countries, so in foreign policy we are also the heirs of all five thousand years of experience.
#1
Will they be replacing the entire animal pantheon with Commie Charlatans? It is going to be terribly traumatic for some kid enjoying beef and broccoli with his folks to someday look down at the diagram and discover that he was born in the year of the rat AOC.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/10/2023 6:21 Comments ||
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The las paragraph is a masterpiece of misleading gobbledygook...
Xinhua tells us: the world is not an object to be conquered, like the Westerners,
Says the Chinese Empire... Westerners play chess and Chinese play Go where the objective is to control the most territory while paying for no more soldiers than necessary -- a different mindset.
"...our ancient wisdom of harmonious relations between people is also applied to relations between peoples and countries,"
See the Imperial China section on (Wiki)Suzerainty where all diplomats were required to kowtow, or ritually prostrate, themselves to the almighty Chinese Emperor. China's neighbors were *cough* expected to provide regular tribute as well. The Wiki says the tributary states were otherwise 'independent' (Hah! In the same way as a shopkeeper who pays 'protection money' is independent of the local Mafia don.)
"...so in foreign policy we are also the heirs of all five thousand years of experience."
The First thing I can agree with! The Chinese bureaucracy has thousands of years of institutional memory on how to manipulate foreigners, or barbarians when they speak honestly.
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/\ The First thing I can agree with! The Chinese bureaucracy has thousands of years of institutional memory on how to manipulate foreigners, or barbarians when they speak honestly.
YES! The historical headstart, a finely honed way of thinking.
#5
Sounds like what the Chicoms would say for external consumption...what they want the simpletons and the foreigners (one and the same to them) to believe. Somebody on Rantburg once said, "Pay no attention to what they say. Watch what they do."
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
07/10/2023 13:54 Comments ||
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BLUF:
[Federalist] Trump’s co-defendant is Waltine "Walt" Nauta, a Navy valet who served in Trump’s White House and who remained a personal aide to Trump after he left office. Several weeks ago, Nauta’s lawyer, a distinguished, highly-regarded Washington attorney named Stanley Woodward, leveled accusations against senior members of the Department of Justice, including DOJ Counterintelligence Chief Jay Bratt, who is now a part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team of prosecutors. According to news reports, Woodward claimed in a sealed letter to D.C. District Chief Judge James Boasberg that, in a meeting to discuss Nauta’s case, Bratt indicated that Woodward’s application to be a D.C. Superior Court judge could be impacted if he could not get Nauta to testify against Trump.
[WND] The Titan's submersible's CEO, Stockton Rush, RIP, once declared that he didn't "hire '50-year-old white guys' with military experience to captain his vessels because they weren't 'inspirational.' Mr. Rush, 61, added that ... 'anybody can drive the sub' with a $30 video game controller."
"Speaking to CBS News in November," RT reported, "Rush explained that the vessel was entirely controlled with a generic Bluetooth video game controller, which online sleuths discovered had a dismal reputation for reliability." So much for the need to build redundancy into such a system.
The vessel reached its destination ... in bits, having imploded on June 18: "Wreckage of the Titan submersible was located on the ocean floor approximately 500 meters off the bow of the Titanic," said the Coast Guard, which has "convened a Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) into the loss of the Titan submersible and the five people on board."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Epoch Times] The Supreme Court’s recently concluded term represented the second year of a sharp change in course.
