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A Brexit snippet from the Guardian:
I've seen videos of huskies jumping up and down on people and other stuff. Maybe I'll get me a husky in case I go into cardiac arrest
This dog is trying to save a life. Meanwhile, my dog just tried to hide the remains of his latest hunting expedition under my bed
Mine is a Dachshund-Rottweiler mix. Yes, I know that's weird. Wasn't my idea, as he was a rescue, but I'm told this was a planned...union. Anyway, he's cute as can be, but he has killer instincts. I had to pull him out of a groundhog hole full of water while we were walking today, and he has killed mice that my cat was toying with, much to the cat's disgust.
His more unsavory habits include hauling his kills inside (after hiding them in the mulch for days), and hiding his treats in my bed. He once hid a piece of chicken under my pillow, and my bed smelled like a KFC. At least he has not yet managed to hide his kills in my bed.
U...r...g...!!
Fortunately, he's short enough that I can avoid them.
Usually.
Gee... thanks so much for completing the picture...
My cat jumped off his tower right in front of me while I was walking. He's trying to kill me. But that just goes to show how smart he is by trying to kill the can opener
I'm trying to imagine the scene...
It would pretty much have to be sandy. Someone had to supply the ladder for the Doxie, whether male or female.
His evil overcame his hunger :D
I'm told the mama was the Rottie, but yeah, that is one determined dachshund daddy.
Got any pictures of him?
Nice. Good looking pup! (not as cute as my Waldo, my avatar)
Haaha, cannot picture the two.
It's the ears.
He's pretty cute!
And Trout - thanks. I think he's adorable, and he has a sweet personality. Unless you happen to be a rabbit or mouse, and then he's a murderer.
From Reuters :
Meanwhile, elsewhere, speculation about Mattis isn't on whether he'll be expelled from the Trump Administration, but when .
So I kinda sorta wonder how effective his reassurances to South Korea may be...
Well, Trump's sole reason for hiring 'Mad Dog Mattis' was his cool nickname. Perhaps he's getting tired of it!
... and he doesn't kowtow...
Pretty close to the same reason Truman had to fire Gen. MacArthur.
Oh dear...
This is worrisome...
I'm agreeing with Dean... again!
I’ve seen several articles about WWJD regarding the immigration problem and it reminded me of this.
I like that
Heaven also doesn't let innocent babies in. God gives them leukemia and sends them to hell instead.
well that explains a few things concerning belief systems with a few of the posters on NT
Find the black dots. I truly don't understand how they only pop up in certain locations, when all of the line intersections are identical.
It's an optical illusion, isn't it?
Yes, but there is no difference I can see from an intersection that will not produce a black dot and one that will.
Actually I get it now. I put the image into CAD so I could zoom into it, and the black dots are part of the image. The illusion is that the brain makes the dots that you are not staring at fade away.
Ah. I wondered what you were talking about
Yup. It works.
The black dots that I'm staring at DO fade away.
Does it have something to do with the blind spot in the center of our retina? Because it's always the intersections that are slightly away from the center of my gaze that show black dots.
No, no, no, no....
They actually do vanish. It's magic!
Lol can't do it due to a couple of black floaties that I always see anyway.
That bright orange star I was talking about in the other discussion? It might be that meteor that's passing near Earth
And it might be Mars.
My wife says Saturn is particularly bright at the moment.
That means she wants some action!
Lenny, usually when they want some action, ladies notice the Moon. Not infallible, but usually a pretty good indicator.
Good historical article: The American Revolution Was Just One Battlefront in a Huge World War
Very good article, Bob. I highly recommend a book titled George Washington's War by Robert Leckie. Not only does it go into the larger issues creating events (ie. French and Spanish antagonism to England and their desire to use the American colonists to fight a war with England without actually fighting a war with England, but also the residual mistrust of the New England leaders for the French deriving from the French and Indian War); but also shows the personal history and the personalities of the various leaders and how that effected the outcome. Very interesting history. Looks like one is left on Amazon.
The Message Boards were a great idea.
Dear Friend TTGA: I concur.
Its a super idea.
Peace and Abundant Blessings Always.
E.
Damn! That sounds complicated
A happy environmental story... for a change...
Belize praised for 'visionary' steps to save coral reef
From Autoblog :
Just don't get in my way when I want to do 80 on I-40
Or the I-10. It is bad enough when people do a little under 70 in the left lane. We have 3 lanes and as it is now, and we have trucks that stay in the middle because there are to many entrances and exits.
A convoy going slow would be a traffic headache.
I am not happy unless I go at least 85.
Hate to say butt, been over a hundred once or twice. I use to fly doing 95.
I think the photo is misleading. The trucks are too far apart.
The value in these road-trains is to have the followers very, very close to the leader. The "drafting" effect is much more powerful for semi-trailers than for NASCAR racers. With no drivers, the risk of having only a few feet between vehicles is material only.
I very much doubt that the intent is to go slow...
I've been a passenger in a car doing 110. I survived. Even the marriage survived
Going the speed limit is slow for me.
I do understand the drafting thing though. My grandfather use to do it when pulling a trailer.
Economic reality, just in case anyone on NT still bothers with facts
:
2019 Chevrolet Volt: The Overlooked ‘Electric’ Wants You to Plug In More Often
... By adding a 7.2 kilowatt charging system, the 2019 Volt’s charge time drops to 2.3 hours when plugged into a 240-volt hookup — the type you see at public charging stations everywhere. ...
“It effectively extends the vehicle’s all-electric driving range, while providing about twice the range for the money when plugging in at public facilities that charge by the hour,” said Jesse Ortega, chief engineer of Chevrolet’s electric vehicle division, in a statement.
...
New discovery with the NT Publisher! It can handle image URLs much better than I had thought.
You can paste an image URL directly, as "Article Image" on any "Create as ..." page. Don't do this with really big files - it may work but it takes a long time...
You can also paste an URL when you use the (very poorly named) "Embed Local Media" button:
.
It opens a first Dialog Box, also named "Embed Local Media", but this time accurately, because this is where you'll find images that have been previously posted to NT. Or rather... you probably won't find anything, because the images are there in order of their posting, which makes actually finding anything pretty much impossible.
No matter! We want to post a new image we just found somewhere on the Interwebs...
In the "Embed Local Media" box, click on the "Upload an Image" tab, and then on the "Select an Image to Upload and Insert" button. This opens a dialog box to your computer... BUT!
You can enter an URL into the "File Name" text field! ... ... Very, very cool!
The easiest way to do this is to Copy the URL from wherever you found it, and then Paste it here.
Shazaam!!
You can of course place the image center, left, right... resize it... just as you can with an uploaded image.
Porsche sets new world record Nürburgring time. The previous record stood for 35 years.
That is... amazing!
You can only glimpse the fences and trees flying by, because you can't take your eye off the track ahead.
When there's an abrupt descent, you think the car will go airborne.
Amazing!
So basically... Kim just lied through his teeth (gosh! who could have ever imagined that he might do that??) ... and Trump believed him.
Next up, a meeting with Vladimir Putin. What could possibly go wrong?
From Reuters :
Give me your tired, your poor...
I've been an avid SF reader since childhood. When Ellison exploded onto the scene, I tried several of his works... but never really liked them.
His arrival was clearly a watershed, though. In the "history of SF", there is very clearly a "before Ellison" and an "after Ellison". Before him, SF was John W Campbell's domain. Adventure and hard science.
Ellison blew the doors off. N K Jemisin would never have happened without Ellison.
So... Hail and Farewell, Harlan!
Dean Baker loves to hate the Washington Post . Hey, With Robert Samuelson writing about economics, what's not to hate??
Meh!
Just toss any old BS out there. Nobody will ever notice...
Porsche has ripped the Nürburgring lap record to shreds
919 Hybrid Evo sets a scarcely believable 5m19s lap. Watch the sensational on-board video here
This is big. Porsche has not only broken the Nürburgring all-time lap record, but smashed it into pieces.
Porsche already held the record, courtesy of Stefan Bellof’s scintillating 6m11.13s qualifying lap from a sports car race in 1983.
But its 919 Hybrid Evo has just taken 52 seconds out of Bellof’s 35-year-old lap time, setting a scarcely believable 5m19.546. Behind the wheel was Timo Bernhard, a Le Mans winner with Porsche and a multiple winner at the ‘Ring. He was a natural choice for such a committed record attempt.
“It’s probably the most challenging track on Earth,” said Timo afterwards. “We showed today you can drive a car like this here properly. It was not a walk in the park, certainly not. it was quite exciting but exhausting, too. I wanted to keep focused and treat it like qualifying or a race weekend. The speed of the car is so high, there’s no run off, no room for mistakes. We achieved what we wanted to achieve today.”
The Evo is Porsche’s retired Le Mans winner, freed of all World Endurance Championship restrictions. It’s turned up to around 1200bhp and has 50 per cent more downforce than the 2017 LMP1 car it’s based upon, and it deploys active aero and clever torque vectoring. Stuff Porsche would have loved to have fitted during its racing career if pesky rules hadn’t got in the way.
The Evo has past form, setting a lap record at Spa earlier in the year to establish itself as quicker than a Formula 1 car. While Porsche’s ‘919 Tribute’ tour intends to take in a few lap records, surely none are more iconic than the Nordschleife.
We’re used to seeing lap records tumble at the Nürburgring, but in specific, occasionally convoluted classes, as road cars battle for some extra marketing cachet. No one has publicly attempted to beat Bellof’s outright time until now. And it was all done within an hour or so of the track opening at 8am this morning.
“We’d love to have started earlier, but the track wouldn’t let us because of noise,” a team insider told us. Optimum conditions were an ambient temperature below 20degC, so it was a race against time as the ‘Ring bakes in the same heatwave affecting the UK.
Take a glimpse at the video above to see just how quick it was. And given it’s so short, you’ve probably got time to watch it twice before you have to get back to work. So once you’ve seen a lap through the windscreen, watch again but focused on the inset of Timo, and the sheer forces his body’s up against. Surely no one can go quicker?
This week will be Independence Day on July 4th for us in the USA.
The late President JFK challenged us thus.
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country".
On a day when we honor those who put it all on the line, that we may live in freedom I raise this question to all in our community, where ever we reside.
When we celebrate freedom, what can we do for the nation in which we live to support it?
Further, what can we do be there for those who made enormous sacrifice for us as a nation, and may now need a hand from us?
We look forward to your ideas on these questions.
Peace, Abundant Blessings, and the Freedom to Enjoy Them and More.
Enoch.
A Japanese "space launch" startup drew a crowd for its second test launch
... which reminded me of this:
... which led to Von Braun being given a free hand... and the successful launch of Explorer 1 just three months later.
Space launches were big news back then...
Rules that need to go:
no value
off topic
sweeping generalizations
Free speech is definitely out of the question here at Newsnowflakes, but can we get to something that kind of remotely resembles free speech a little bit? Maybe??
Oscar Wilde, letter to The Daily Chronicle, 1897
My sister must have read over a hundred Nancy Drew books. I didn't, of course, because they were for girls!
There's a nice article for Nancy Drew fans in the Smithsonian Magazine.
The winning photos from the 2018 Audubon Photography Awards are here.
Stunningly beautiful photos.
Two Tens for a Five
I showed my son the "Who's On First" video a few years ago, after a Little League game. Nothing like a belly laugh from your kid when they're at the age where they think nobody born before 2000 could possibly be funny.
Pruitt knows he can do whatever he pleases, because he has the absolute support of the President.
Pruitt has the absolute support of the President because his EPA is undoing everything that Obama's EPA did.
That's the Trump agenda, after all...
Baidu will launch its autonomous buses in Japan next year
The tech company announced at its annual developers conference that it has ramped up manufacturing, Bloomberg reports . It will be rolling the buses out in Japan in partnership with SB Drive , an autonomous public-transportation subsidiary of Softbank.
Baidu, China’s answer to Google, is working with Chinese bus-maker King Long to build the buses, called Apolong, and its already made 100 of them, Bloomberg says . The buses can seat 14 passengers, but there’s no driver’s seat or steering wheel, according to the BBC . Apolong will come with level 4 autonomous driving capabilities, which do not require a driver within a specific geographic area, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The company also announced updates to its self-driving platform, called Apollo . Those updates include facial recognition that would detect a tired driver, for example, and would enable valet parking, Engadget reports. Also announced yesterday, Baidu plans to incorporate a safety model as well as cameras and computer vision software from Mobileye, a subsidiary of Intel, according to an Intel press release.
O-o-o-o-p-s......
More bad news for Brexiteers, from The Guardian :
From Abigail Adams (1776), via Brad DeLong :
Spam ... from the NYT :
Spam — the canned meat, not the unwanted email — might deserve more respect.
On this day in 1937, Hormel Foods introduced the mix of pork shoulder and ham, whose name is derived from “spiced ham.” (No, it doesn’t stand for “Something Posing As Meat.”) Since then, Spam has been a muse for poets, comedians and chefs, and it helped win World War II.
Wallace Kirkland/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
The Times’s obituary for Jay Hormel, Spam’s creator, said he was the first to successfully can ham. Cooking the meat inside the can produced a natural gelatin, increased shelf life and made it useful in battle. President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote a letter praising Spam, and the former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev said his country couldn’t have fed its troops without it.
Hawaii embraced Spam during the war, too, and the affection never ceased. The state consumes the most in America, with seven million cans a year, or five cans per person.
“In all of its high-sodium, gravy-drenched glory, Spam has, in every sense, found its way into my heart,” the chef Anthony Bourdain, who died last month, said during a visit to Hawaii for his show “No Reservations.” “I get it now. I feel inducted into the Church of True Knowledge.”
Spam & eggs is a good change-of-pace for breakfast.
Now you have me thinking of my favorite weekend breakfast served in town. Small town, and the restaurant during early hours is shared with local farmers, firemen, police, EMTs etc.
Three pieces of good old fashioned white toast covered in freshly made creamed chipped beef (SOS can work too, but not as good), cover that with thee eggs easy over. Add a pile of black pepper and drench in tabasco sauce.
Very tasty.
Oh forgot, a least 2 cops of freshly brewed black coffee.
Yes, I can make it at home, but sometimes it is good to sit and be served.
I decided to watch some television this weekend as it has been raining.
I watched several of those murder shows where they narrate a murder that has happened.
Two of the three or four I watched happened in my state.
When are you moving away?
From the LA Times :
Voter approval of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of Brexit negotiations has fallen to 29 percent, the lowest level since the poll began in November 2016, according to the ORB International pollster.
Approval of the government’s handling of Brexit talks rose as high as 55 percent in the first half of 2017, but has since fallen.
According to the poll of around 2,000 adults, 56 percent of voters were not confident May would get the right deal while 26 percent thought she would get the right deal and the rest didn’t know.
“May has lost her Brexit minister (David Davis) but she is also increasingly losing the confidence of voters,” said Johnny Heald, managing director of ORB International.
The incredible thing is that there are still 26% who think she'll get the right deal.
Ok... so atheists can sometimes be kinda insufferable... This is still a bit harsh...
Funny how some of the poorest, most destitute areas of the world are hell bent on insisting that a god who does nothing to make their existence better must be observed and celebrated.
Yes... hilarious...
BIG f-ing icecubes...
From The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy :
It would be nice if we moved to a flat tax rate that way everything would be fair and all tax cuts would be equal.
Several articles today relay Trump's scolding of America's NATO allies. Let's look at the facts :
So...America's military spending is one-third of the world total . For it's enemies to be spending more would require that almost all the runners-up be allied against the US. Ummm........... no. Not so much.
- Second is China, at something more than a third of America's spending.
- Third is Saudi Arabia (betcha didn't know that!), an ally. I mean... Saudi Arabia is an ally, right? I mean... we sell them all sorts of ultra-modern weaponry... We wouldn't do that if we weren't totally confident... right??
- Fourth is Russia. A hostile power. Umm... We agree, right? Russia is hostile, right?
- Fifth is India. Neutral.
- Sixth is France. An ally .
- Seventh is the UK. An ally .
- Eighth is Japan. An ally .
- Ninth is Germany. An ally .
- Tenth is South Korea. An ally .
- Eleventh is Brazil. Somewhere between neutral and ally.
- Twelfth is Italy. An ally .
- Thirteenth is Australia. An ally .
- Fourteenth is Canada. An ally .
- Fifteenth is Turkey. An ally... for the moment...
So...
- The US alone spends more than Russia and China combined.
- France and the UK combined spend 150% as much as Russia.
- America's NATO allies on this chart (which doesn't include all the smaller members) spend over three times as much as Russia.
Personally, I would like to see America's allies tell America to... fuck off.
"Personally, I would like to see America's allies tell America to... fuck off."
So would I there's too many American graves in Normandy.
Have you been to Colleville-sur-Mer, Dean? I've visited the US cemetery there, above Omaha Beach, several times.
It is very impressive. It's hard to breathe.