My old behind has been doing a lot of reminiscing this week. I guess it is just more proof that I am really getting old, or that I have arrived.

When I saw this video again today, tears actually came to my eyes. I spent the majority of my childhood on the Chesapeake Bay and the St. Mary's river. It is heartbreaking to think that those simple joys of childhood that we experienced as children, will never be known to our future generations.

What are we willing to stand up for? We seem to not value anything or love anything any more.

Quote:More than three decades after the Clean Water Act was supposed to make America’s waters clean enough for swimming and fishing, two iconic waterways — the great coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay — remained in perilous condition. (Aired 2009) This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate. In this 2009 documentary, FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith examines why it’s so hard to keep our waters clean. Through interviews with scientists, environmental activists, corporate executives and average citizens impacted by the burgeoning pollution problem, Smith reveals that a growing environmental threat came not from the giant industrial polluters of old, but from chemicals in consumers' face creams, deodorants, prescription medicines and household cleaners that found their way into sewers, storm drains and eventually into America's waterways and drinking water.

When I look at the effect that we have had as a species on the tiny planet that we share with all life, I can only hope and pray that all that life does not wake up and seek revenge.

You can find many folk talking about AI and the potential danger we face if AI ever turns on its creator. That would a kiss on the cheek compared to the kind of trouble we would be in, if the other lifeforms on this planet decided to work together seeking revenge on its lazy ass, corrupt, greedy, and selfish caregivers.

Lately I have begun to think that the mosquitoes are in on the deal.

Just an observation. How come "men dressed as women" or "cross dressing males" is used by MSM sources (the few that reported it) and they are not identified as Drag Queens or Transgender females when sick criminal and sex offence crap with children is the topic of a news story?

Kids. Drugs. 6 drag queens. Sex toys. A dead body. A story sure to be memory holed.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/2...ed-n559272

Quote:The picture is pretty clear: a pedophilic sex ring having a drug-fueled party and things go horribly wrong–as if everything in that sentence isn’t horribly wrong–and it all takes place in a Boston public housing complex.

Quote:“The apartment was in extremely unsanitary conditions. Approximately 6 adults, who appeared to be males, were seen in the apartment,” they wrote, saying they subsequently found “four children in the back bedroom being hidden by an adult male from first responders.”





Flaherty, Public Safety chairman on the council, told the Herald Monday night the dead body found on the floor was “from an apparent overdose” and that “a man wearing a wig claiming to be the father” of the kids was found in a back bedroom.


Multiple sources tell the Herald some of the adults were dressed as women when first responders arrived at the scene.

State Sen. Nick Collins, a South Boston Democrat, praised the police, firefighters and EMTs who rushed to help.

“Our first responders should be commended for following through and fulfilling their duty as mandatory reporters,” Collins said, citing how they are legally bound to report children in potential danger. “No child should be exposed to what these children were allegedly exposed to.”

Council President Ed Flynn, also a Southie pol, ripped the “inhumane and horrific” discovery at a Boston Housing Authority (BHA) unit.

Quote:At least four children and the corpse of a transgender individual were discovered Saturday in a South Boston apartment that was in a state of squalor, authorities said.

Members with Boston Fire Department found the children hidden in the back of an Old Colony Avenue apartment that was filled with "alcohol, drugs, and sex toys," according to a report citing city officials.

Fire officials arrived at the residence following an emergency call that an adult had gone into cardiac arrest, and, when they arrived, emergency responders performed CPR on the transgender individual, who then died due to an apparent overdose, the report noted.

At least six men were in the apartment, and several were reportedly dressed as women.

The children were in a back room, and "a man wearing a wig claiming to be the father," an at-large city councilor said.

"This is sickening," he added. "I was informed by people at the scene that there were drugs, alcohol, sex toys all around the apartment as well as a dead body on the floor."

An incident report from fire officials described the scene at the housing project as extremely unsanitary, the report noted.

"The apartment was in extreme unsanitary conditions. Approximately 6 adults, who appeared to be males, were seen in the apartment," the incident report read. "Ladder 18 found 4 children in the back bedroom being hidden by an adult male from first responders. The children ranged in ages from 5-10."

"All the adults parties were being uncooperative and did not provide helpful information. All adults present denied having children inside the apartment," it added.

Oh yeah, I was just talking about Idiocracy... here is another good example. Portland is suing all the fossil fuel companies because they experienced a heat wave in 2021. What is even more scary and idiotic in this article is that this type of lawsuit has already happened 35 times before this one.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ore...-rcna90707

Oregon county sues fossil fuel companies, alleging they caused deadly 2021 heat wave in Northwest

Quote:An Oregon county filed a lawsuit Thursday that blames fossil fuel companies and industry boosters for the deadly 2021 heat wave that killed hundreds of people in the Pacific Northwest.


The lawsuit from Multnomah County, which contains Portland and its suburbs, says the heat dome was not a natural event but "a direct and foreseeable consequence" of oil companies' actions to sell as many fossil fuel products as possible for decades and to "lie" about the harms of those products.

Sixty-nine people died because of the heat dome event, which sent temperatures soaring across the Pacific Northwest for several weeks, according to the suit filed in a circuit court. During the most intense three-day period of heat, temperatures in Multnomah County hit highs of 108, 112, and 116 degrees.
The lawsuit lists 17 defendants, including Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron and the Western States Petroleum Association.

This lawsuit is the 36th time a municipality has sued fossil fuel companies for alleged harms resulting from climate change, according to the Center for Climate Integrity, an advocacy group that supports such lawsuits. This claim is the first tied to the 2021 heat dome and one of the first to sue over a specific event worsened by climate change.

The June 2021 heat wave was “virtually impossible" if not for the impacts of climate change, according to climate experts. A peer-reviewed study found the event was at least 150 times less likely if global temperatures had not warmed so much because of human activity.

Clown World... It is an adequate description. Somehow around 2012, we woke up in the Clown World universe where sanity and sense do not exist. The native inhabitants of Clown World are actually convinced that their Clown World is normal and must do all they can to further promote more Clown in the World.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...acher.html

Quote:Children identifying as cats are wearing ‘tails and ears’ in class, Britain’s toughest headteacher has warned.

Katharine Birbalsingh cautioned that adult authority ‘is long gone’ as more children are being allowed to identify as animals in school.

It comes after a 13-year-old girl was branded ‘despicable’ by her teacher for rejecting her classmate’s claim that she ‘identified’ as a cat.

The ‘tiger headmistress’ and founder of the Michaela Community free school in Wembley, London, made the comments during a speech at NatCon last month.

Dubbed Britain’s strictest head, she warned that parents have ‘no idea just how bad things are in schools’.

She said: ‘Do you know that some kids identify as “furries”?

‘There are kids right now, in some schools, with tails and ears pinned to their heads and bottoms.

‘This isn’t fancy dress, they identify as cats, you see. Kids aren’t allowed to wear trainers to school but they are allowed to wear ears and tails because that’s their chosen identity.

‘That’s how they feel they belong. Adult authority is long gone.’

Quote:Schools are allowing children to identify as cats, horses and dinosaurs - and teachers are 'failing to question them', it was claimed today.


There was widespread outrage earlier this week when a 13-year-old girl was branded 'despicable' by her teacher for rejecting her classmate's claim that she identified as a cat.

Now further stories are emerging of pupils who identify as animals with very human characteristics - often known as 'furries'.

At a state secondary school in Wales, one student is said to 'meow' when asked questions by a teacher, rather than answering in English, the Telegraph reports.

In other schools, one apparently insists on being addressed as a dinosaur, one claims to identify as a horse while another is said to wear a cape and demands to be acknowledged as a moon.

How much time do you think you or I would get for taking millions in bribes and tax evasion? IRS Whistleblowers testify to congress (yes, not some CNN or MSDNC anonymous BS sources close to knowing something maybe).


Rotten corruption to the core.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/irs-whistl...tax-fraud/

Biden DOJ ran interference for first son Hunter in tax fraud probe, IRS whistleblowers say in bombshell testimony


'I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,'

Quote:*According to the second whistleblower, who has remained anonymous, the investigation covered the years 2014 through 2019, during which Hunter and his “associates” received approximately $17.3 million from Ukraine, Romania and China — with the first son alone scooping $8.3 million.

*Investigators pressed for felony charges against Hunter for ducking $2.2 million in tax payments — rather than misdemeanors announced Tuesday as part of a probation-only plea deal.

Quote: Two IRS whistleblowers told Congress in closed-door testimony released Thursday that the Justice Department waged a coverup in the tax fraud investigation of first son Hunter Biden — revealing stunning details of alleged interference and new evidence indicating President Biden was involved in his son’s foreign dealings.

*The Hunter Biden probe was opened in November 2018 off the back of an investigation the IRS was conducting of a “foreign-based amateur online pornography platform,” according to whistleblower Gary Shapley.

*Delaware US Attorney David Weiss sought to bring federal charges against Hunter, 53, in the Central District of California and in Washington, DC, last year and was denied both times by Biden-appointed US attorneys Martin Estrada and Matthew Graves, respectively

*Investigators pressed for felony charges against Hunter for ducking $2.2 million in tax payments — rather than misdemeanors announced Tuesday as part of a probation-only plea deal.

*Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf discouraged investigators from pursuing lines of questioning related to Joe Biden, saying at one point that there was “no specific criminality,” according to Shapley.


The revelation that Biden appointees blocked charges against his son is politically explosive because Attorney General Merrick Garland testified under oath to Congress earlier this year that Weiss was empowered to bring charges outside of Delaware. Intentionally misleading Congress is a crime.

Shapley, who sat for a six-hour deposition with the committee on May 26, took over the Hunter Biden case in January 2020 and said that investigators had turned up fresh evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s overseas income.


Wolf “stated that she would not have seen it because, for a variety of reasons, prosecutors decided to keep it from the investigators. This decision is unprecedented in my experience,” Shapley said while recalling a meeting involving investigators and FBI computer analysts in October 2020.



“Investigators assigned to this investigation were obstructed from seeing all the available evidence,” Shapley said. “It is unknown if all the evidence in the laptop was reviewed by agents or by prosecutors. Based on guidance provided by the prosecutors on a recurring basis to not look into anything related to President Biden, there is no way of knowing if evidence of other criminal activity existed concerning Hunter Biden or President Biden.”

Another investigative dispute erupted in December 2020 over the question of whether to search Hunter Biden’s Northern Virginia storage unit, with Shapley saying the IRS had “prepared an affidavit in support of a search warrant for the unit, but … Wolf once again objected.”

On Dec. 14, Weiss — Wolf’s boss — told Shapley that “that if the storage unit wasn’t accessed for 30 days we could execute a search warrant on it.

“No sooner had we gotten off the call then we heard AUSA Wolf had simply reached out to Hunter Biden’s defense counsel and told him about the storage unit, once again ruining our chance to get to evidence before being destroyed, manipulated, or concealed,” he testified.

My heart goes out to these families.

Quote:A debris field was discovered on the sea floor near the Titanic wreckage during the search for the missing OceanGate Titan submersible, according to an announcement from the US Coast Guard on Thursday. Officials said a remotely operated vehicle piloted by a crew aboard the Horizon Arctic support vessel found the debris within a search area near the Titanic. The Coast Guard said “experts within the unified command” are evaluating the latest information. During an interview with WFLA Now’s J.B. Biunno, Retired US Navy Submariner Mark Martin, citing sources with knowledge of the recovery effort, said pieces of the submersible’s tail and its landing platform have been discovered.

Quote:We wanted to do something special for this double July-August issue of The New Republic, but we weren’t sure what; then it hit us that summer is movie season, so why not combine that fact with this magazine’s great passion and come up with a list of history’s best political movies? (TNR, by the way, is no stranger to motion pictures. For decades, the magazine published the work of famed twentieth-century critic Stanley Kauffmann, and we continue to run trenchant film analysis today.)

It was that germ of an idea that led us to reach out to J. Hoberman, one of the leading film critics of the last half-century, to curate this project. Hoberman changed it from “best” to “most significant” and led us in assembling a list of around 130 critics to whom we wrote, asking them to participate. We were pleased that 79 wrote back with their lists. On the following pages, see what they came up with, as well as Hoberman’s overview essay, and some movies that we at TNR thought deserved a mention. Discuss away—and cast your own votes at our readers’ poll here.

The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time

This explains my entire life . I was always defiant and never trusted authority. It's like they listed everything a teen goes through as a genetic defect. 

 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-023-00448-z

Something different - The Sound of Ancient Languages. You Haven't Seen Anything Like This Before!



Timetable:
0:00 Old Norse
0:24 Mayan Language
0:54 Latin
1:30 Middle Chinese
1:58 Old English
2:27 Old Japanese
2:57 Old Church Slavonic
3:27 Proto-Celtic Language
3:56 Middle Egyptian
4:27 Ryukyuan Language
4:57 Ancient Greek
5:30 Phoenician Language
5:54 Hittite Language
6:24 Quechua
6:54 Akkadian Language