America and Ancient Rome

 

WE, The People's House

The US House of Representatives is under the control of the Republicans by a slim margin of only 4 votes.  Instead of coming together as a party and showing unity, the Republicans have decided to show their asses to the American Public by not coming together and continuing to fight each other in public.  

The reason for this has not been fully explained but it just goes to show that the Republicans do not have the "BALLS" to manage the House, let alone the Presidency.

Trump is facing 91 indictments and even if he wins the GOP nomination, he will lose the Presidential election again...  because people will vote against him not caring that putting Biden into office a second time would be disastrous.

HOWEVER, looking at the lack of leadership that the Republicans are showing in the House, I am not sure if I would vote for any of them either.

What's worse is that the rest of the world can SMELL our WEAKNESS and will continue to take advantage of that until we are all forced to speak Mandarin.

The USA is not the same country that won WWII but continues to be the declining country that lost in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. 

Our values have crumbled, our greatness has been diminished and all we seem to be able to do when in power is argue among ourselves.

We are pitiful.
 

Somewhat Political

 

FIVE-THOUSAND-Year-Old Wine in Egyptian Tomb

Why would you want to drink boggy old sarcophagus juice when there are more palatable tomb beverages to hand?

In the tomb of the First Dynasty Egyptian queen Meret-Neith, archaeologists have uncovered a wealth of grave goods that includes hundreds of large wine jars – some of which still sealed. These funereal riches, they say, bolster the case that she was a person of great significance, maybe even Egypt's first female pharaoh.

Meret-Neith lived some 5,000 years ago, serving as queen of Egypt some time around 2950 BCE. She was, at the very least, queen-consort and regent. She may have been a ruler in her own right – a pharaoh – but archaeologists have been unable to determine her position with certainty. The first queen known to assume the full royal titulary was Sobekneferu, a millennium later.

There is certainly evidence of Meret-Neith's importance in her tomb, at the royal necropolis of Abydos. She was buried amid the final resting places of male pharaohs, and her own tomb was of comparable size and richness. She was likely the most powerful woman of her time.  READ MORE...

Enjoying Today

Each year in February, the sun's angle is such that Horsetail Falls waterfall lights up like fire. Yosemite, USA

Houseboat

Panda, scared after the earthquake in Japan, embraced the leg of a
policeman.

Kalapana, Hawaii where the sea meets the lava.

Beijing Airport by night.

Two year-old Chimpanzee feeding  milk to "Aorn", a small tiger 60 days old.

Ducks tend to continue throughout life to be seen in birth order,
whether or not by their mother.

Highway in Japan with snow more than 10 meters high.
Unbelievable.

Spectacular rice fields in China.

Austria's Green Lake is a beautiful park in winter. The snow melts in summer and creates a very clear lake.

Undersea tunnel linking Sweden and Denmark.

The world's highest swimming pool is located in the skyscraper Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

Amazing lightning storm over the Grand Canyon.

Baby chameleons.

Beautiful image of a panda bear helping another.



"The Road to Heaven", a place in

Ireland where every two years the stars align with the road.

World's Largest Swimming Pool in San Alfonso, Chile. More than 1,000 yards long.

Crystal Palace. Madrid.

''Heaven's Gate", Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain, China .

The Northern Lights, Alaska.

The white owl Spectacular.

The famous'' Rosa Moss Bridges", Ireland.

Eiffel Tower. Romantic and beautiful Paris, France.

Road to Hana, Maui, Hawaii.

Restaurant hanging, Belgium.

Sea otters hold hands while they sleep in case the current changes, so they awaken together.

There are animals with more sensitivity than many people.

Fireman giving drink to a baby Koala in Australia fires.

Amazing view of Manhattan, New York from above.

Frozen bubbles in the Canadian Rockies, Canada.

 

View of the semi-submerged cataract, Hawaii.

Northern lights over the Rocky Mountains in Canada

 

This dog saved her puppies from a fire at home and put them safely in one of the fire trucks

Infinite Cave, Vietnam

"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." -- Lao Tzu


Life does have an expiration date…


Take the time to enjoy each and every day!

Israel Goes to War With Hamas

By now, everyone should know that Hamas attacked Israel just outside of the Gaza strip.  The attack was brutal, as the elderly, women, and children were killed and hostages were taken for whatever reason...  we can only speculate.

Israel as they have always done retaliated, and the Arab world went berserk because the Jews fought back. 

I am reminded of the movie FIRST BLOOD where the main character did nothing wrong until the other side drew his blood first.  Then, he paid them back unmercifully.

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord...  is from the Bible and one would think that the Jews would honor those words, but they do not.  And, if I was in their shoes, I would not either.

If someone hit you, then you have a fundamental right to FIGHT BACK and do so in such a way that they never attack you again.

The Arabs have asked for a DAY OF RAGE and if that's what they want let them have it...  but, they must remember that no matter how angry you are, women, children, and the elderly are off limits.

It is my hope that Israel kills every single person who is a member of Hamas and every single member of Hezbollah who says they will fight alongside of Hamas.  The world, outside of the middle east, China, and Russia is solidly in support of Israel.

If this develops into a world war, then a world war it shall be and a war the likes of which no one alive today has ever seen.  It will be a war where those who do not have the resources will feel the full weight of those who have the resources...  it will be a war of WILLS and when Americans think their rights are being taken away, have the will of an immovable object meeting an irresistible force.

Cat Attacks Birds

 

Reshaping The Global Order

At the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on August 24, 2023, the bloc’s five members — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — announced the invitation of six new countries — Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Effective January 1, 2024, BRICS countries will represent almost half the world’s population.

While BRICS has struggled to make concrete achievements, the momentum may now be shifting. This expansion would have the BRICS overtake the G7 in total gross domestic product, with BRICS economies growing at higher demographic and economic rates than G7 members.

The BRICS expansion could help reduce tensions among the BRICS’s Middle Eastern countries, but could also provoke the United States and NATO, given the admission of Iran and the current membership of Russia and China.

A growing number of countries have expressed interest in joining the BRICS group. Yet there are internal disagreements about how the group should move forward. China and Russia have pushed for a quick expansion of BRICS to strengthen their geopolitical influence, while India has expressed concern about admitting many new members too quickly.

India’s concern has much to do with its historic, bitter border disputes with China, as well as the current strength of India’s bilateral relationship with the United States. India’s contribution in keeping BRICS from becoming outwardly anti-Western only strengthens the country’s geopolitical importance for the United States – US President Joe Biden quite literally pulled out the red carpet for India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his June 2023 visit to the White House.  READ MORE...

China's Undersea Tunnel

 

Bye Bye to EVs

 

New Section of Universe Discovered

Astronomers may have detected a dozen large objects lurking beyond the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, suggesting there could be another equally massive, "second Kuiper Belt" hiding beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Researchers may have detected a dozen new, large objects beyond the Kuiper Belt, which suggests that there is lots more stuff in the solar system than we realized. It could even hint that there is a "second Kuiper Belt" further out toward the edge of our stellar neighborhood, Science.org reported.

The sun's influence reaches much further out into space than the eight planets that orbit around it. Beyond Neptune, the solar system stretches out to around 100 astronomical units (AU), which is 100 times the distance between Earth and the sun. For context, the most distant planet from the sun, Neptune, is roughly 30 AU from our home star.

Beyond the edge of the solar system, or heliopause, lies the Oort Cloud — a reservoir of comets and asteroids that are loosely contained by the sun's gravity — that stretches to at least 1,000 AU from the sun, and likely even further.

But a majority of the largest known asteroids, comets and other large objects that lie beyond Neptune's orbit are contained within the Kuiper Belt, which stretches between 30 and 50 AU from the sun. 

Famous residents of the Kuiper Belt include the dwarf planet Pluto and the double-lobed object Arrokoth — the most distant object visited by a spacecraft. Planet Nine, if it exists, would also lurk somewhere within the Kuiper Belt. 

Until now, very few massive objects in the solar system have been found beyond the Kuiper Belt.  READ MORE...

Beware...

 

Friday the 13th

Origin story. It's hard to know exactly when Friday the 13th became thought of as unlucky, but it likely comes from the Christian religion. For example, in the Bible, Judas—a person who is said to have betrayed Jesus—was the 13th guest at the Last Supper. Also in the Bible, many unfortunate things happened on Fridays.

Bad luck surrounding Friday the 13th is believed to come from Friday being the day of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.


On their own, both the day and the number have been considered unlucky throughout history.


It is said never to begin trips by boat on Fridays, or the weekday of Christ's death, and some say never to begin any trip on the day. Winston Churchill despised traveling on Fridays, and if he did, he carried a lucky walking stick. The poet George Gordon Byron believed Fridays unlucky, but once chose to travel on a Friday anyway. He died soon after … on a Friday.

For me, Friday the 13th has always been just another day in the life, not particularly good and not particularly bad.  But what really amazes me most of all is the fact that so many people are superstitious.

The concept of superstition began as the Greek word deisidaimonia (δεισιδαιμνοία), which in the 4th century bce had the positive meaning 'scrupulous in religious matters'; but a century later it had acquired a more negative meaning, inching it closer to our modern understanding of superstition.


SUPERSTITION Definition -  excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings. a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief

Now all of a sudden, we are looking at the supernatural...  ghosts, goblins, spirits, etc.  Who in their right mind would ever believe in the supernatural...?

On the other hand, isn't God perceived as some sort of supernatural being the created everything.   I mean, to create the world in which we live, that person has got to be some sort of a superhuman person, if in fact, God is human at all.  It is said that he made man in his image...  but that is not evidence that he himself is human.  How would such a human get such an ability?

When Jesus arose from the dead, he was in a spirit form...  which relates back to the supernatural and the definition of superstition.

IS ALL OF THIS A COINCIDENCE?

Owl

 

CERN's New Particle Collider

Preparations for a massive new particle smasher near Geneva are picking up speed. But the European-led project, which hopes to answer some of the biggest questions in physics, faces many obstacles, including competition from China.

In 2012 scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) achieved a key breakthrough when they detected the elusive Higgs boson, an elementary particle that gives mass to all the others. This followed decades of work using accelerators such as the famed Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle collider located north of Geneva.

Yet many fundamental questions about the universe remain unanswered: What constitutes dark matter? Why is our universe filled with matter and not antimatter? Or why do the masses of elementary particles differ so much?

The search for answers to these and other big physics questions requires another “leap to higher energies and intensities”, says CERN. The organisation wants to build a more powerful and precise successor to the LHC, which was conceived in the early 1980s and will complete its mission in 2040.

“We build these machines to explore the nature of the universe. It’s about going out into the unknown and exploring further,” says Mike Lamont, CERN’s director of accelerators and technology.

And so, following requests by the global physics community, plans for the so-called Future Circular Collider (FCC) have been taking shape over the past ten years.  READ MORE...

Modern Construction

 

Focus on Yourself

 

Humanoid Robots in Warehouses

Humanoid robots are on their way to warehouses as companies start to move beyond the disembodied arms, moving trays and other machines aimed at speeding up logistics operations.


Agility Robotics, Figure AI and Boston Dynamics are among companies designing robots more closely modeled on human beings for use in distribution centers. The new machines are being engineered with the ability to walk around warehouses, reach items high on shelves, crouch to put things down and pick up and move boxes, defying some of the physical limits on automation in the industrial world.

The robot developers say their devices will help warehouse operators mitigate labor shortfalls and eliminate the need to redesign warehouses to match the capabilities of machines.

Logistics operators have been adding automation to their warehouses for years to speed up the stacking and retrieving of goods and to take some of the most burdensome, repetitive tasks off workers. Many of the devices are designed to work in concert with employees by taking on tasks such as hauling heavy goods or bringing totes of items directly to workers.  READ MORE...

Somewhat Political

 

Interesting Development

Our current demographics:

Whites            60%

Blacks             12%

Hispanics        19%

Asian                6%

Other                3%

Hispanics basically include all Spanish speaking peoples

The Blacks currently have it out for the whites as a result of slavery and consider all whites because of their 60% demographic to be WHITE SUPREMACISTS...

While many white argue against that generalize description, there are many others that want to bend over backwards to appease the black population in the USA...

I cannot say if that is right or wrong, justified or not justified because I personally had nothing to do with slavery and I resent being pulled into that kind of debate simply because I am white.

HOWEVER,

Blacks are now facing a more serious problem and that is all the brown people that are illegally crossing the border.

These brown people are taking over the towns and cities that the blacks used to control.  They are getting housing or being put up in hotels to get them off the streets.

Currently, Hispanics outnumber the blacks by only 6%...  but, as their numbers continue to increase, this percentage could increase to as high as a 10% discrepancy.

With these numbers the brown with overcome the blacks by sheer numbers...

If there are browns that enter illegally with ties to the Mexican Drug Cartel, they will begin to take control of drug sales away from the blacks.

Those browns who are not associated with the Cartels, are coming here to work and will be taking jobs away from the blacks because they will be willing to work for less money.

Also, all the so-called white supremacists will have no choice but to cater to the browns because of their numbers, further pissing off the blacks...

The Democrats opened the borders to gain extra votes from the Republicans and did not count on nor did they expect that this outcome would result.  White Supremacy will be saved by illegal browns entering the country...

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT???