I don't remember in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, the thousands of homeless on the streets, the feces and urine running down the storm drains(where are the environmentalists?). Do you have any idea of the regulations on storm drains in CA?

The odor was different then and no flies.

We didn't have 50-70 K kids die each year from overdose. Ten years of Vietnam was only 50 K.

75% of black teenage males in CA TODAY, can not read or write. Think about that. I don't believe southern Appalachia was ever that bad.

I consider our society by the change I've experience with it.

 

When you try to get between two very large animals that are having a 'Dispute' , what could possibly go wrong!

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trainer-s...hant-attack-195000660.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews
Of course it was the elephants fault.
Max.

 

Food for thought:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/dini...0190625-sz75bpxfkvhjnkrcqtifnbapgq-story.html

... it was a great day for Mexican restaurants and chefs. Pujol, Enrique Olvera’s acclaimed Mexico City restaurant, is the highest ranked place in North America

 

Even more food for thought:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190617164629.htm

... on average, nearly half of the body's energy is used by the brain during early childhood.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-cheat-open-book-n1021181?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Ten Philadelphia police recruits resigned last week after they tried to cheat on an open-book exam, a department spokesman said Monday.

 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...ted-fellow-seals-to-dime-out-eddie-gallagher/

https://apnews.com/3d010c83ad5a4468a298884c41990d61

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A witness who dropped stunning testimony at the war crimes trial of a decorated Navy SEAL by telling the court he had killed an Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017 — not his accused platoon chief — could now face charges of perjury, according to the Navy.

The Navy’s legal adviser to the commander overseeing the court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher notified the witness’s lawyer, Brian Ferguson, in an email late Tuesday that the testimony Corey Scott gave last week could be used against him if he lied on the stand or gave a false statement.

Capt. Donald King said in the email that Scott’s testimony directly contradicted “previous official statements — thus exposing him to prosecution — I feel compelled to ensure you understand this.”

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...y-investigating-a-seal-for-telling-the-truth/

Internal messages provided to Navy Times raise questions about how the military is handling the confession uttered by a Navy SEAL last week that he, not Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, killed a wounded Islamic State prisoner of war in 2017.

At issue is whether military authorities will go after Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott for claiming that he plugged the breathing tube of the Islamic State militant outside Mosul so that the enemy fighter wouldn’t be tortured to death later by Iraqi security forces — even if that was the truth.

Scott’s bombshell testimony undercut the Navy’s premeditated murder charge against Gallagher, 40, which hinged on witnesses confirming that he stabbed to death the detainee.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...eals-confessed-killer-unlikely-to-be-charged/

In a dramatic moment during his Thursday testimony, Scott told a packed courtroom at Naval Base San Diego that the man on trial for premeditated murder, Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, the enlisted boss of Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7 during a deployment to Iraq two years ago, might’ve stabbed the detainee but he didn’t kill him.

To prevent Iraqi security forces from torturing the boy to death, Scott said, he blocked the seriously wounded teenager’s breathing tube and let him die. He was the killer, not Gallagher.

“I knew he was going to die anyway, and I wanted to save him from waking up to whatever would happen to him,” Scott said in his sworn testimony.

 

Tribalism has been the bane of humanity since the beginning of time. Nothing new under the sun.

A must read, not heavy in the least and very thought provoking.
https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens/
Max.

 

What an awful story about Scott

Yes, war sucks.

https://taskandpurpose.com/navy-seal-shooting-north-tower

NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO — A Navy SEAL sniper on Wednesday contradicted earlier testimony of fellow SEALs who claimed he had fired warning shots to scare away civilian non-combatants before Chief Eddie Gallagher shot them during their 2017 deployment to Mosul, and said he would not want to deploy again with one of the prosecution's star witnesses.

Special Operator 1st Class Joshua Graffam originally invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege before Navy Judge Capt. Aaron Rugh gave him immunity in order to compel his testimony.
...
Later that day, after the mission, Graffam said he spoke with Dille about the shooting and they disagreed about the circumstances. Dille, he said, believed the man was a noncombatant.

"I, on the other hand, was confident that the right shot was taken," Graffam said, although he said later under cross-examination that the man was unarmed. Dille previously testified that the SEALs were authorized to shoot unarmed personnel if they first received signals intelligence or other targeting information.

 

That's essentially what I've been preaching for nearly three decades -- what I call The Cash Register Syndrome. Take away the need to think, and you end up taking away the ability to think. We are victims of our own technological success.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/26/us/google-maps-detour-colorado-trnd/index.html?no-st=1561671662

(CNN)Technology isn't always foolproof, as about 100 Colorado drivers learned when Google Maps offered them a supposedly quick way out of a traffic jam.

A crash on Peña Boulevard, a road leading to Denver International Airport, prompted the app to take drivers on a detour on Sunday.

 

https://www.apnews.com/12556818033a470d823168a37f57ed6c

https://spacecenter.org/restoring-apollo-mission-control-center/

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48527308​

The final total was 550,000 - more than a half a million problems to fix.
What you might call chaotic cabling has been the curse of this project - and it's still dangling over the whole enterprise.
They have had to put in "many hundreds of kilometres of new cables", Mr Dorn says, to replace what was originally installed.

 

Another violent crazy roams the streets of Portland.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...-voodoo-donuts-in-apparent-random-attack.html

A Portland man was arrested and quickly released from jail after he allegedly punched a woman in an alley near Voodoo Donuts on Monday, court records say.

Daniel Bertrand, 25, was seen on video standing in Ankeny Alley. A woman walked by him and stopped to talk to some people standing across the path from Bertrand. Bertrand swung his arms a few times, then punched the woman twice. The video then showed him walking away, glancing over his shoulder.

KGW news tweeted the video of the assault and said the woman was reported to have a broken eye socket. The station reported that she is recovering from a concussion as well, and that she said the attack was random.

It's summer so here we go again.

Please let it end...

 

Another violent crazy roams the streets of Portland.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...-voodoo-donuts-in-apparent-random-attack.html

He's a transient that's been arrested 18 times previously and has been judged mentally ill by a court. He puts a woman in the hospital in an unprovoked, random attack. Yet he is charged with just a misdemeanor and released on his own recognizance. Next thing we'll see is the woman charged and jailed without bail for felony insensitivity toward at-risk person.

 

He's a transient that's been arrested 18 times previously and has been judged mentally ill by a court. He puts a woman in the hospital in an unprovoked, random attack. Yet he is charged with just a misdemeanor and released on his own recognizance. Next thing we'll see is the woman charged and jailed without bail for felony insensitivity toward at-risk person.

1st - degree assault must involve tanks and missiles for the homeless crazies. This guy is likely to kill someone in the near future unless he is confined.

So happy we have an independent police force from Portland and the county.

 

https://gambler500.com/

Loser 500.

 

Thomas Sowell still kicking.

1. Knowledge. “The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.”

 

“Everyone looks at a bird and wants to say it tastes like chicken, but wild goose is a red meat. … The best cheeseburgers I’ve ever eaten were with goose meat.”

https://denverite.com/2019/06/27/de...families/?mc_cid=f0ca5c07bb&mc_eid=b9bb4b1827

 

“Everyone looks at a bird and wants to say it tastes like chicken, but wild goose is a red meat. … The best cheeseburgers I’ve ever eaten were with goose meat.”

https://denverite.com/2019/06/27/de...families/?mc_cid=f0ca5c07bb&mc_eid=b9bb4b1827

Goose “management” has long been part of the parks department’s strategy to quell the population

Cull, dammit! The word is cull!

I hate journalists.

 

US Caravan arrives in Canada, another program recently on the apparent rip off of drugs in the US.
They are here mainly for Insulin.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/insulin-prices-united-states-canada-caravan-1.5195399
Ironically Sir Fredrick Banting, the discoverer of Insulin, sold the patent for $1.00 because he thought that everyone who needed it should be able to afford it.!
Max.

 

US Caravan arrives in Canada, another program recently on the apparent rip off of drugs in the US.
They are here mainly for Insulin.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/insulin-prices-united-states-canada-caravan-1.5195399
Ironically Sir Fredrick Banting, the discoverer of Insulin, sold the patent for $1.00 because he thought that everyone who needed it should be able to afford it.!
Max.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/type-1-diabetes-insulin-costs-1.5079939