On Friday, October 11, 2024, Trump unveiled his plans to “rescue” a Colorado city from the grip of foreign criminal gangs. Dubbed “Operation Aurora,” it entails sending in “elite squads of ICE, Border Patrol and federal law enforcement officers to arrest and deport ever[...]
Archive for October, 2024
October 11th, 2024 - 2:03 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Mt. Rainier is shrinking
The Cascade volcano’s true summit is a rocky point 14,399.6 feet above sea level. For decades, though, an ice hump on the crater rim poked 22 feet higher into the sky, and everyone thought Mt. Rainier’s elevation was 14,410 feet (or 14,411, after someone added a foot). But Earth is warmi[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 5:36 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake is incompetent
In late August, I wrote (here) that Kari Lake won’t be a U.S. Senator. Now, weeks away from the election, after she debated Rep. Ruben Gallego, her Democratic opponent, I’m confident she’ll take a shellacking. Lake blew the debate, refusing to admit she lost Arizona’s 2022 go[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 4:50 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Border wall
Although Trump lies about immigrants, wildly exaggerates migrant crime (U.S. citizens are twice as crime-prone), and has made immigration his 2024 campaign issue (see story here), his border wall (photo below) may come in handy when climate change — which Republicans insist is a hoax — d[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 1:43 am § in Science
U.W. professor wins Nobel Prize
Prof. David Baker, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, shared the 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize with two other scientists “for their use of artificial intelligence in predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences.” Their work may enable humas to “design[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 1:17 am § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Jews, News Media, Politics, Racism, Republicans
How the Middle East could cost Harris the election
Grossly simplified, the Middle East conflict boils down to two peoples living in the same space. As you know, the latest stage of the conflict began Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, massacred over 1,100 people, and took about 250 hostages. Israel responded with a m[...]
Fake hurricane photos
In the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton, we are reminded of two things: (1) Anybody can post anything on the internet, and (2) Republicans will believe it. NBC News reports (here) that Amy Kremer, a Republican National Committee member from Georgia, posted the photo at left on Oct. 3 with the ca[...]
October 9th, 2024 - 7:33 pm § in Misc.
The city where liberal policies failed
IN 2020, 74% of Portland, Oregon’s voters approved decriminalizing drugs. Since then the city has been plagued by drug use, homeless camps, violent protests, and a spike in murders. The tourists are gone, businesses have closed, and thousands of residents have left for greener pastures. “[...]
Will the Supreme Court base decisions on the Bible?
“A group of religious conservatives listed nearly a dozen Bible passages in an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court” on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, in a case involving gender-affirming health care bans, Huffington Post reported (here). The Christian Bible is the world’s most p[...]
When photos are deceptive
Those people wearing “Auto Workers for Trump” t-shirts in the photo below? They’re Trump supporters who attended a Detroit campaign rally on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, where J.D. Vance was the featured speaker. They were “stationed in a featured spot” behind Vance as he [...]