So true
Tuesday is kind of a strange day. It's like February. It's not the fresh new beginning, nor is it the halfway point. It's just a hurdle we have to get over.
To rightwing militias, conquistadors are a big deal, apparently. Protesters in Albuquerque were pulling down a statue of Juan de Onate when one of them was shot. In one of those colorful incidents from New Mexico's history, Onate had a foot cut off twenty-four indigenous warriors after the killing of his nephew.
As that image came down, another re-emerged, literally. A granite statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be from the fourteenth century was found in a river near Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The experts will clean off the moss and try to determine who put it there and why, and especially why the face appears to have been deliberately damaged. The article in the Guardian also contains my Sentence of the Day: "A search for a 1.5 meter crocodile spotted in the Pisuerga River in the Castilla y Leon region was last week abandoned amid growing suspicions that the elusive creature was in fact an otter."
Countries are constantly closing their embassies and consular offices to dramatize unhappiness over something or other. Only North Korea would demolish one and then act all surprised. After the destruction of its "liaison office" in Kaesong, near the South Korean border, state media said it was "tragically ruined with a terrific explosion." With the DRNK you can never be sure if it's some kind of Reichstag fire ploy or a gas leak. I guess we'll find out if troops goose-step back into the demilitarized zones.
In other Asian border news, the most violent clash since 1967 left twenty Indian soldiers dead in Ladakh, a region in the Himalayas claimed by China. China is always looking for more land and is willing to create more, if necessary. It also bullies tiny countries like the Solomon Islands to cut ties with Taiwan and sign on with the "One China" policy, which doesn't sound good for Taiwan. This might be a good time to remind them that the "One Child" policy was a disaster, but that would take a smarter, braver secretary of state than Mike Pompeo.
And a much smarter, less self-obsessed president than BunkerBitch. He's like a kid before Christmas counting the hours until the big Tulsa virus-fest. Still stewing about the empty-chair inaugural, Trump insists that a million people ordered tickets for the BOK Center, which holds just under 20,000. (Tulsa itself has a population of 400,000.) But if the maskless multitude sit on each other's shoulders and hang from the ceiling, how awesome will that be? Oklahoma reported a record spike in covid cases this week, or as Mike Pence says, "the curve is flattening." If they would just stop that gosh-darn testing, Mr. Vice President, pardon my French.
Trump is so excited, he's stuttering, and not in a Biden way that he and his toadies can mock. Last week he wanted us all to know "THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER!!!" Today he re-tweeted his own insight, adding, "So true!" So what? If Donzo is relying on Nixon's "silent majority," he should get behind voting by mail, since most of them are over eighty. Anyway, it brightened our day with mocking laughter.
Elsewhere on Twitter the Detectives' Endowment Association, representing 20,000 New York City police detectives, sent out an URGENT SAFETY MESSAGE: "Tonight, three of our fellow officers were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan." The Police Benevolent Association (whose president is actually named Lynch, I wanted to get that out) was more incendiary: "When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level. We cannot afford to let our guard down for even a moment." On closer investigation it turned out someone did not properly clean a piece of shake-making equipment. Clearly repairing relations between police and citizens has a long road ahead. More to the point, is this how the NYPD investigates crimes? Shoot first and apologize later, when it turns out the man riddled with bullets was reaching for his wallet? (Yes. It is.)
Coincidentally, the Washington Post has a lengthy analysis of police using social media to discredit and encourage violence against peaceful protesters, including that damned elusive Antifa. A long, long road ahead.
One black man hanging from a tree might be suicide; two looks like a murderous trend. Malcolm Harsch's body was found near the library in Victorville. There are far easier ways to kill yourself. This just stinks to heaven.
Professor Christopher Conselice at the University of Nottingham has done all the cosmic calculations you could want and says there are at least "36 active civilizations in our Galaxy." Funny thing is, the others say only thirty-five.
To rightwing militias, conquistadors are a big deal, apparently. Protesters in Albuquerque were pulling down a statue of Juan de Onate when one of them was shot. In one of those colorful incidents from New Mexico's history, Onate had a foot cut off twenty-four indigenous warriors after the killing of his nephew.
As that image came down, another re-emerged, literally. A granite statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be from the fourteenth century was found in a river near Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The experts will clean off the moss and try to determine who put it there and why, and especially why the face appears to have been deliberately damaged. The article in the Guardian also contains my Sentence of the Day: "A search for a 1.5 meter crocodile spotted in the Pisuerga River in the Castilla y Leon region was last week abandoned amid growing suspicions that the elusive creature was in fact an otter."
Countries are constantly closing their embassies and consular offices to dramatize unhappiness over something or other. Only North Korea would demolish one and then act all surprised. After the destruction of its "liaison office" in Kaesong, near the South Korean border, state media said it was "tragically ruined with a terrific explosion." With the DRNK you can never be sure if it's some kind of Reichstag fire ploy or a gas leak. I guess we'll find out if troops goose-step back into the demilitarized zones.
In other Asian border news, the most violent clash since 1967 left twenty Indian soldiers dead in Ladakh, a region in the Himalayas claimed by China. China is always looking for more land and is willing to create more, if necessary. It also bullies tiny countries like the Solomon Islands to cut ties with Taiwan and sign on with the "One China" policy, which doesn't sound good for Taiwan. This might be a good time to remind them that the "One Child" policy was a disaster, but that would take a smarter, braver secretary of state than Mike Pompeo.
And a much smarter, less self-obsessed president than BunkerBitch. He's like a kid before Christmas counting the hours until the big Tulsa virus-fest. Still stewing about the empty-chair inaugural, Trump insists that a million people ordered tickets for the BOK Center, which holds just under 20,000. (Tulsa itself has a population of 400,000.) But if the maskless multitude sit on each other's shoulders and hang from the ceiling, how awesome will that be? Oklahoma reported a record spike in covid cases this week, or as Mike Pence says, "the curve is flattening." If they would just stop that gosh-darn testing, Mr. Vice President, pardon my French.
Trump is so excited, he's stuttering, and not in a Biden way that he and his toadies can mock. Last week he wanted us all to know "THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER!!!" Today he re-tweeted his own insight, adding, "So true!" So what? If Donzo is relying on Nixon's "silent majority," he should get behind voting by mail, since most of them are over eighty. Anyway, it brightened our day with mocking laughter.
Elsewhere on Twitter the Detectives' Endowment Association, representing 20,000 New York City police detectives, sent out an URGENT SAFETY MESSAGE: "Tonight, three of our fellow officers were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan." The Police Benevolent Association (whose president is actually named Lynch, I wanted to get that out) was more incendiary: "When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level. We cannot afford to let our guard down for even a moment." On closer investigation it turned out someone did not properly clean a piece of shake-making equipment. Clearly repairing relations between police and citizens has a long road ahead. More to the point, is this how the NYPD investigates crimes? Shoot first and apologize later, when it turns out the man riddled with bullets was reaching for his wallet? (Yes. It is.)
Coincidentally, the Washington Post has a lengthy analysis of police using social media to discredit and encourage violence against peaceful protesters, including that damned elusive Antifa. A long, long road ahead.
One black man hanging from a tree might be suicide; two looks like a murderous trend. Malcolm Harsch's body was found near the library in Victorville. There are far easier ways to kill yourself. This just stinks to heaven.
Professor Christopher Conselice at the University of Nottingham has done all the cosmic calculations you could want and says there are at least "36 active civilizations in our Galaxy." Funny thing is, the others say only thirty-five.
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