Further update on Dad. He’s feeling pretty good 4 days after surgery. If not for the insurance company, that has to approve his transfer to a skilled nursing facility for him to start rehab, he’d be there as they’ve ready to receive him anytime.
I personally called them today and told them to expedite the approval as they said the ‘normal’ timeframe was 14 DAYS!!
Hopefully we’ll have good new in 24-72 hours……maybe.
Success! NYC’s Drug Paraphernalia Machine Cleaned Out in One Night.
If it were a Broadway show, it would have received rave reviews. “A Hit!” “NYC Scores Big in New Debut! “Boffo!” “A Must-See!” “Five Stars and Two Thumbs Up!” “All of Gotham Is Talking!”
Alas, we aren’t talking about the latest play or musical to grace the Great White Way. Nope. We’re talking about the machine that dispenses free drug paraphernalia to users in New York City. But to be fair, it was received extremely well by the target demographic. The machine in question was installed on Monday in Brownsville, Brooklyn. It offers crack pipes, drug test strips, condoms, and Narcan. And lip balm. Patrons can also get tampons and gum.
By 1:00 P.M. Tuesday, a drug prevention program worker was hard at work restocking it. That same worker suspected that it might need to be restocked at least twice a day. For the most part, users were happy with the new amenity. Evelyn Williams told the New York Post, “Yes, I love it. They put it in yesterday, and it’s empty already.” She added, “We have a lot of addicts and heroin users over here. They should re-stock it immediately!” Another man rode by on a bike, gave a thumbs up, and said simply, “Yeah!”
Not everyone was impressed. The paper reported that 56-year-old Minoshi Calpe groused that the crack pipes were not quite up to her standards. She said she preferred the Pyrex pipes, and that the ones in the vending machine had no resale value since they were already available for free. She stated, “The crack pipes are a little too thin now. And every time I pull on [the newer ones], it was burning my lips. I was like, ‘Hell, no! I like my lips too much for this.’”
The machines cost around $11,000 without the contents. In the future, the city may also offer syringes for injection drugs. Charming.
The people in charge of the cluster-**** that has become New York City will undoubtedly tout this as an act of compassion. Actually, this is an act designed to help bureaucrats launder money through the system. And it has the added bonus of increasing poverty, death, and disease. And it should also contribute to the number of citizens getting accosted and assaulted on the streets and pushed onto subway tracks.
I know that Mayor Eric Adams recently gave a speech touting the values of patriotism. It was a nice speech from someone who may view himself as center-left. But a good speech is not going to help a city that is so complicit in its own demolition. If Adams wants to say anything, he should start with admitting that New York City has a left-wing problem. That is, as after all, the first step to recovery.
Well, Dad is progressing well. PT already had him out of bed and eating lunch while sitting in one of those lounge type chairs. Took two aids to get him back into bed, but already one day out of surgery and he’s doing as well as the therapy staff there has seen other people progress, so all’s for the good.
We thank everyone for their kind thoughts and prayers.
Jet fighters chase small plane in Washington area before it crashes in Virginia
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – U.S. officials scrambled jet fighters in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft that violated airspace in the Washington D.C. area and later crashed into mountainous terrain in southwest Virginia, officials said.
The jet fighters prompted a sonic boom over the U.S. capital, causing consternation among people in Washington area, in an attempt to catch up with the errant Cessna Citation, officials said.
A U.S. official said the jet fighters did not cause the crash.
A separate source familiar with the matter said the Cessna was believed to be on autopilot and did not respond to authorities.
The crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT), the FAA said.
According to the flight-tracking website Flight Aware, the plane appeared to reach the New York area and made nearly a 180-degree turn, with the flight ending in Virginia.
Air National Guard F-16s were deployed from Joint Base Andrews, ABC News reported, citing an unnamed U.S. official. At least one military pilot saw that the Cessna pilot had passed out, ABC reported.
While rare, incidents involving unresponsive pilots are not unprecedented. Golfer Payne Stewart died in 1999 along with four others after the aircraft he was in streaked across thousands of miles with the pilot and passengers unresponsive. The plane eventually crashed in South Dakota with no survivors.
Similarly, a small U.S. private plane with an unresponsive pilot crashed off the east coast of Jamaica in 2014 after veering far off its course toward southwest Florida and triggering a U.S. security alert that prompted a fighter jet escort.
On Sunday, the sonic boom caused consternation among many people in the Washington area who took to Twitter to report hearing a loud noise that shook the ground and walls. Several residents said they heard the noise as far away as northern Virginia and Maryland.
FYI:
Dad went through surgery like a champ
Originally scheduled for yesterday, but a major, multiple fatality, multiple injury accident had higher priority.
Modern anesthesia has progressed so much in the past few years that it has really surprised me, and while still a non-zero danger event is tolerated well by the elderly.
Now that he’s awake, he’s not so much of a happy camper, but as Chief Dan George put it: “That is the way things are.”
The long haul now begins as Dad & I get to find out just what’s involved in recovery and rehab from a hip replacement.
Sorry for the lack of posting.
Dad’s in the hospital after falling down and breaking a hip.
Surgery is scheduled for the morning
So, except for some automatic updates, posting will be light for a few days.
Extreme cold in Antarctica is coming earlier than expected this year
Apparently there are too many measuring stations from different nations in Antarctica, so that fraud in the sense of climate madness is not possible. Since the beginning of May, temperatures of down to minus 76.4 degrees Celsius have been measured at the Vostok research station. However, the current season in the southern hemisphere is still autumn. Low temperatures are unusual for this time of year. The norm for the location in May is -61 to -64 degrees Celsius.
Climate fanatics might consider it a success. Because they stick to the ground in European cities, are temperatures dropping at the South Pole? Hardly likely. However, it is a proven fact that the temperatures in the Antarctic in 2023 will be significantly lower than the ten-year average. Between 2005 and 2015, temperatures between minus 61 and minus 64 degrees Celsius were measured for the month of May.
Lowest temperatures are usually measured in Vostok when the northern hemisphere has its hottest summer – i.e. July, August and sometimes September. The fact that the Antarctic winter broke out in May with such temperatures is considered a special feature. The Russian measuring station was set up in 1957 at a distance of 1,300 kilometers from the South Pole at an altitude of 3,500 meters. The previous minus temperature record is said to have been reached on July 28, 1997 with minus 91 degrees Celsius (Wikipedia speaks of “unconfirmed”, July 21, 1983 with minus 89.2 degrees Celsius is confirmed). The warmest day in recorded history was January 5, 1974 with “only” minus 14 degrees Celsius.
Of course, spot temperature records are due to “weather” and not the “climate” that is supposed to be warming and from which we are all meant to die unless we regress to a pre-industrial age in trees and in caves. At least that is the plan of the climate apocalypticists – although many of them also dream of a depopulation of the earth.
As early as 2021, scientists reported the “ coldest winter season in more than 60 years ” in Antarctica. After a trend has been emerging since 2021, one could cautiously speak of “climate” here. It would be time for politicians to come to their senses and stop destroying the wealth of western countries and citing some fictitious climate targets as the reason for doing so.
This article on Eike Klima Energie also shows with clear tables that no global warming has been detectable in the Antarctic for at least 40 years. Rather, a cooling can be detected at the German Arctic station. Conclusion there: The winters are getting colder at the South Pole. The current measurements seem to confirm this theory.
Herd of Cows aid North Carolina police pursuit, leading them ‘directly’ to suspect
Police said the cows appeared to be opposed to suspected criminals loitering in their pasture
North Carolina police officers made an arrest with the help of a herd of cows who were happy to narc on the suspect hiding in their pasture.
The Town of Boone Police Department said the suspect, later identified as Joshua Minton, 34, fled from officers during a traffic stop on Tuesday and led the officers and Watauga County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a pursuit. He abandoned his vehicle in the Deep Gap area and ran into an undeveloped area.
Because of the suspect’s “fast and reckless driving,” officers were not immediately close enough to see where he ran to, according to police.
Officers began searching the area for the man and received some unexpected assistance from cows willing to reveal the suspect’s whereabouts.
“Apparently cows do not want suspected criminals loitering in their pasture and quickly assisted our officers by leading them directly to where the suspect was hiding,” police said in a press release. “The cows communicated with the officers as best they could and finally just had the officers follow them to the suspect’s location.”
Minton was apprehended and charged with one count of felony fleeing and eluding arrest with a motor vehicle, driving with a license revoked, and disorderly conduct. He received a $20,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court on June 28, in Watauga County.
The police department thanked the cows for their assistance in finding Minton.
“In addition to thanking our officers and deputies for putting themselves in harm’s way; obviously, we want to express our gratitude to the cows for their assistance,” police said. “This opens up all kinds of questions as to the bovines’ role in crime fighting. Honestly, it is something that we have not considered before now.”
Building on the moon: NASA awards Texas company $57 million for lunar construction system
Project Olympus just got a significant cash infusion
Artist’s illustration of lunar infrastructure built by ICON’s Project Olympus construction system, along with a SpaceX Starship in the background. (Image credit: ICON)
The Pentagon is moving ahead with new military jetpack prototypes
The Defense Department’s chief tech visionaries are once again attempting to make the U.S. military’s dream of jetpack-equipped infantry troops a reality through a pair of fresh contracts, Task & Purpose has learned.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected “several” small companies to receive Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding awards “to build flight test prototypes” for the agency’s Portable Personal Air Mobility System program, a DARPA spokesman said.
Details regarding the contracts were not immediately available, but Phase II SBIR program funding “generally” consists of $750,000 for two years, according to information on the program’s website.
“DARPA is currently working with the small companies to finalize contracting details and award contracts, so at this time we can’t discuss the specifics,” the DARPA spokesman said.
DARPA officially announced in March 2021 that the agency’s small business programs office was looking for proposals “for cost of up to $225,000 for a 6-month period of performance” regarding the “feasibility” of the Portable Personal Air Mobility System that could reach ranges of “at least” 5 kilometers on the battlefield for a single operator.
“Some examples of technologies of interest include jetpacks, powered glides, powered swimsuits, and powered parafoils which could leverage emerging electric propulsion technologies, hydrogen fuel cells or conventional heavy propulsion systems,” DARPA wrote in its initial notice.
Prospective platforms “could serve a variety of military missions, enabling cost-effective mission utility and agility in areas such as personnel logistics, urban augmented combat, [combat search and rescue], Maritime interdiction and SOF Infil/Exfil,” DARPA wrote. “Systems may be air deployed to allow for Infil to hostile territory, or ground deployed to allow for greater off-road mobility without the use of existing Vertical Takeoff & Landing aircraft such as helicopters and CV-22 [Osprey tiltrotor aircraft].”
Well, the power outage we just had precipitated the bi weekly running of the backup generator that was going to happen Monday
The titanic in comparison to a modern cruise ship pic.twitter.com/MhgO2KAS9D
— A SLICE OF HISTORY (@asIiceofhistory) August 28, 2022
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I think his parents wanted to combine Elisha and Elijah and the hospital got the letters mixed up on his birth certificate, and by then it’s too late to do much about it.
Swimming-FINA votes to restrict transgender participation in elite women’s competition.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Swimming’s world governing body FINA on Sunday voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women’s competitions and create a working group to establish an “open” category for them in some events as part of its new policy.
Transgender rights has become a major talking point as sports seek to balance inclusivity while ensuring there is no unfair advantage.
The debate intensified after University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender NCAA champion in Division I history after winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle earlier this year.
Thomas has expressed a desire to compete for a place at the Olympics but the new FINA rule would block her participation.
FINA’s decision, the strictest by any Olympic sports body, was made during its extraordinary general congress after members heard a report from a transgender task force comprising leading medical, legal and sports figures.
Which predator do whitetail deer fear the most?
I suspect this reaction depends a lot on the area and the past hunting pressure. Yes, man is the most lethal predator on the planet, but different experiences can mean different reactions in prey species.
When Dad & I were living in Kentucky, we had a literal herd – often up to 21 deer – that moved back and forth across the properties, inside the city limits, and often stayed and grazed right outside the back door. Dad could sit on the back porch and the newer fawns would often play around within feet of him, only being warned by their does if they got to close for their liking, and Dad quite often talked to them, giving them ‘lectures’ about the coyotes we had pass by from time to time. Sometimes they actually seemed to pay attention to him.
The Fake-Meat Revolution Has Stalled
Consumer trends suggest a meatless near future is increasingly unlikely.
Recent reports suggest there’s a growing realization among consumers, industry, investors, and others that overheated predictions of a meatless future—one in which steaks, bacon, chicken nuggets, and other foods made from dead animals will be supplanted by plant-based imitations of meat dishes and lab-grown meats made from animal cells (the latter of which is still exceedingly rare)—may have been based on wishful thinking.
As Food Dive reported this week, sales of imitation meat products are faltering. The website cites remarks and earning reports from Beyond Meat—a leader in the plant-based sector that counts among its fans none other than me—that combine a bleak present reality of “negative growth and high net losses” with fears over whether this market downturn could be permanent.
And Now For Something Completely Different
(and BTW, that number for the U.S. is about 1/2 of what we actually have)
How to wash a cat:
Thoroughly clean toilet and add desired amount of shampoo, leaving both lids open
Find, catch, and soothe the cat while you carry him to the bathroom
In one fluid motion, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids (you may need to stand on them to prevent escape. Make sure you don’t get any part of your body close to the edge because your cat may try to grab on to anything in reach)
The cat will self-agitate which will create ample suds. Do not worry about the sounds the cat is making- he is actually enjoying this
When you think your cat is clean, flush the toilet four or five times to provide a power rinse
Have someone open the front door and make sure no humans or animals are in the way
Stand back and quickly open the toilet lids. Your now clean cat will rocket out of the toilet and out the front door, drying itself in the process
Sincerely, The Dog
A Mexican Drug Cartel modifies a drone into a bomber.
This is unbelievable!
Mexican drug cartel uses drone equipped with mini bombs to attack the camp of an other drug cartel (to destroy the drug storage). pic.twitter.com/T9U4yH1IoM
— Info Warrior – 1821 (@InfoWarriorNews) January 13, 2022