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Send the Gazans into the safety of the tunnels along with some Egyptian currency. Allow them to cross the border, when done, blow the tunnels. A large number of “Gazans” are Egyptians, like “Palistinian leader” Yashir Arafat.

An aside....Based on this sounds like its a good idea to avoid bear meat, especially raw or undercooked. (Given bears propensity to eat less than marginal rotting dead things...)

Bear Meat Dinner Leads to Brain Worms for Family

(CBS NEWS May 24, 2024)

A family meal turned into a health scare after several members were infected with brain worms from undercooked bear meat. According to the CDC, a 29-year-old Minnesota man was hospitalized multiple times in July 2022 after consuming kabobs made from black bear meat at a family gathering in South Dakota.

The bear meat, harvested in northern Saskatchewan, had been frozen for over a month but was initially served rare. Despite being recooked, five family members, including a 12-year-old girl, were diagnosed with trichinellosis, a rare roundworm infection.

Brain worms made national news earlier this year when presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that he had contracted a parasitic worm years ago, which had “ate a portion" of his brain, leading to potential cognitive issues.

Symptoms of a brain worm infection can include nausea, vomiting, headaches, and seizures, according to Dr. Céline Gounder on "CBS Mornings". However, some individuals who contract the worms may remain undetected with no symptoms.

Note the classical reference from Greek Myth in the picture of Orpheus and the Maenads!

Maenads

Snip....."In Greek mythology, maenads (/ˈmiːnædz/; Ancient Greek: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name, which comes from μαίνομαι (to rave),[1] literally translates as 'raving ones'. Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae /ˈbækiː/, or Bacchantes /ˈbækənts, bəˈkænts, -ˈkɑːnts/ in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox skin.

Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a combination of dancing and intoxication.[2] During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped with a pine cone. They would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads or wear a bull helmet in honor of their god, and often handle or wear snakes.[3]

These women were mythologized as the "mad women" who were nurses of Dionysus in Nysa. Lycurgus "chased the Nurses of the frenzied Dionysus through the holy hills of Nysa, and the sacred implements dropped to the ground from the hands of one and all, as the murderous Lycurgus struck them down with his ox-goad".[4] They went into the mountains at night and practised strange rites.[5] "

More at link....

Wow, some impressive research on your part Bob! Thanks and Kudos!

Adding to your insightful analysis this link to Deutsh Welle:

Nauseda; As an independent, he supports issues across the political spectrum

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"Nauseda's views on the economy are actually left wing and he advocates a welfare state. But when it comes to morality, he is more to the right," said Vilpisauskas. Catholic and anti-LGBTQ

Nauseda holds conservative Catholic views on abortion and LGBTQ+ issues. When representatives of the coalition parties introduced a bill on same-sex partnerships to parliament a few years ago, they met with protest from parts of the population. Nauseda supported the opponents, albeit cautiously.

Critics have said Nauseda has kept that issue off the agenda for many years. "If it comes up again, Nauseda will seek a compromise, but we can't expect him to make any concessions," said Bielinis.

Polls predict that the ruling alliance of conservatives and liberals will be defeated in parliamentary elections this fall, with a new coalition of social democrats and the conservative-green Farmers and Greens Union taking power.

Observers believe Nauseda will more easily find common ground with these lawmakers on economic and social issues. Unlike most European social democratic parties, Lithuanian social democrats and farmers are quite conservative in their views on morality. Warsaw is closer than Brussels

In Lithuania, the prime minister administers domestic policy, while the president deals with foreign affairs. Both politicians and the public largely agree that Russian President Vladimir Putin and China are enemies, that the United States is the country's most important ally and that NATO membership guarantees security. Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia eight years later, support for Kyiv has been a cross-party consensus issue in Lithuanian politics." ... snip

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If he were here he would probably be a Moderate Republican who supports social services under investigation by the FBI for his "Hateful LGBT views as a radical Catholic Nationalist" or something along these lines. (If you find those Geo. Soros links post them!!)

Yep, over the gate and In!

And Thank You Ransom!

(And on this Memorial Day, thanks also to everyone who has served in our Military!)

TO LINK BACK TO THE Q TRUST TRUMP 05/06/2024 THREAD
CLICK ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY PICTURE

ALWAYS REMEMBER THEIR SACRIFICE

M.Mom, I think we are at about the same maturity point in our gardens; I have a Gold nugget tomato that is putting out flowers.

Alliums;

Like yours, the Garlic poked up really early this year. Three leaf wrappers at the bottom have died and dried. Another 2 and I will check to see if its time to harvest.

As an experiment I planted shallots bought at the grocery store. They might be Dutch or French red shallots. Along with the Shallots I pulled up most of the multiplier (potato) onions today and they are drying on the back porch.

Walking onions bought last year have set bub-lets which I am going to remove and replant. They apparently cannot really be stored. Sounds like they are best used as green onions. I think I will companion plant them around the Tomato plants along with some Basil and marigolds. A picture of the Walking onions and Romain Lettuce (Like you!)

(For anyone reading, you tube info on walking onions.)

Walking Onions Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy

I have leeks seedlings in pots. They need to go outdoors and be secured with chicken wire over the pots till they are pencil sized then trench plant and wait for winter!

Once I pull up the garlic I may replant with some 45 day bush green beans. Last years wall of climbing beans were decimated by Japanese beetles and Green June bugs so I want something I can cover with an insect barrier.

I have decided that given the size of my garden...small...I am going with soaker hoses rather than an irrigation system. Easier to move and store. (If I had room and rows with a 50' run I would use something like 1/2" irrigation!)

Sounds like you have plenty of room if you are planting nursery stock! Hope it produces lots of Fruit (sand plums?) I will let you know how the potatoes work out.

Good morning Diana! Its always nice to get to the point when you can step back, water, and watch everything unfold!

Pictures from this year's garde...I have been fortunate with cool weather this year (so far...).

Front: Garlic and multiplier onions on the right, a small raised bed with carrots growing on the left. (Container soil was sifted ans screened to remove debris and rocks before planting the carrots.) Under cover....almost mature Rutabagas. (You can slice them thin and use as vegetable noodles, or mash with potatoes for au gratin, or just vegetable mash.) This shows my indeterminate tomato varieties, mortgage lifter, hillbilly, black from Tula under their fence post / blue painted conduit support. .

Rutabagas, turnips, beets in first three rows, tomatoes and peppers in the last 2 rows.

Picture of Baker Creek Hida Beni Red turnips (or, one may be a Nagasaki Aku Kabu.) Shred or sliver radishes and carrots and use as a relish in oriental dishes. (Or on your Ramen Noodles!)

Last year someone...Mom with hope or MetMom shared that she grew her potatoes in bottomless pots. This year I did this when I planted German Butterball potatoes and a few Clancy potatoes (not seed) from last year and getting good growth. ( Thank you for the suggestion!) Great looking and I hope that I did not over fertilize and can actually grow some potatoes. (Hopfully the weather stays cool for the next few weeks!

In the front of the photo under the white wire Dollar Store baskets (also someone's suggestion!) I planted some Baker Creek Caro-gold sweet potato slips, also in bottomless pots. It gets hot here so I hope they do well. I will train the vines on the fence and see what I can grow in their shade.

"Born to a prosperous farmer in Prek Sbauv, French Cambodia, Pol Pot was educated at some of Cambodia's most elite schools. While in Paris during the 1940s, he joined the French Communist Party. Returning to Cambodia in 1953, he involved himself in the Khmer Viet Minh organisation and its guerrilla war against King Norodom Sihanouk's newly independent government. Following the Khmer Viet Minh's 1954 retreat into North Vietnam, Pol Pot returned to Phnom Penh, working as a teacher while remaining a central member of Cambodia's Marxist–Leninist movement."

"Mao was the son of a prosperous peasant in Shaoshan, Hunan. He supported Chinese nationalism and had an anti-imperialist outlook early in his life, and was particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and the May Fourth Movement of 1919. He later adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University as a librarian."

Hồ Chí Minh (胡志明) was born as Nguyễn Sinh Cung (阮生恭)[3][e][4] in 1890 in the village of Làng Chùa or Hoàng Trù in Kim Liên commune, Nam Đàn district, Nghệ An province, in Central Vietnam which was then a French protectorate. Although 1890 is generally accepted as his birth year, at various times he used four other birth years:[13] 1891,[14] 1892,[j] 1894[k] and 1895.[15] He lived in his father Nguyễn Sinh Sắc's village of Làng Sen in Kim Liên until 1895 when his father sent him to Huế for study. .... His father was a Confucian scholar and teacher and later an imperial magistrate in the small remote district of Binh Khe (Qui Nhơn).

All of these guys came from middle class back grounds and were academics, or had exposure to university education. (Like Bill Ayers and John Kerry.)

See previous comment about him thinking that this was a home invasion. They wanted to maintain the element of surprise, so that he would not know who was at the door.

Global warming? No, agreed. Sounds like vulcanism is the cause in this instance, although the volcano's location under the ice would make it hard to verify.

North Africa swings between Desert and Green Savannah in a 40,000 year cycle that has more to do with precession of the equinoxes. There are regular processes that get deliberately overlooked because some groups promote global warming to attract people to their side.

Which is true if when dealing with a free floating iceberg. It is not true regarding glacial ice that is not yet free floating (an iceberg.) Volumes of glacial ice currently moving across land that enter the sea will melt and eventually increase sea levels.

Lets hope that DC returns to a muddy marsh and produces something useful, like oysters or mussels.

Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier

snip..."The researchers first noted the volcanic activity in 2007 and verified its existence again in 2014.

It remains unclear how the newly discovered activity affects knowledge about the glacier, because researchers don't yet know how volcanic heat is distributed along the bottom of the ice sheet. However, researchers do know that the heat from the volcano is producing melting beneath the ice sheet. This meltwater is leaking across the grounding line where the ice shelf meets the ocean.

The heat source, Loose and team note, is about half that of the active volcano Grímsvötn, in Iceland.

While the effects of volcanic heat on the Antarctic ice sheets is an active topic of research, this study provides the first geochemical evidence of a contemporary volcanic heat source, emphasizing the need to detect and understand volcanism, including in models of ice-sheet behavior. The greater understanding of volcanism could alter scientists' perception of the mechanics of ice-sheet loss, including in the areas where the glaciers meet the sea.

"Our finding of a substantial heat source beneath a major WAIS glacier highlights the need to understand subglacial volcanism, its interaction with the marine margins and its potential role in the future stability of the WAIS,” they write in the Nature Communications article.

They also note that volcanic activity could be increasing the rate of collapse of the Thwaites Glacier, which is adjacent to the Pine Island Glacier.

A complete collapse of the Thwaites Glacier could significantly affect global sea levels, according to scientists. The Thwaites already drains an area roughly the size of the state of Florida, accounting for about 4 percent of global sea level rise -- an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s."

RESULT: Ice erosion underneath means its thinner, floats more, and is no longer hung up on rocks on the ocean bottom. In addition, volcano created warm water underneath makes the glacier "Slidey" and causes it to go faster. Not climate change and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Leftist students engaging in pre-revolutionary Maoist Stress Sessions to ramp up the chaos. The left eating its own. Crap we will have to deal with someday.

Leftist students engaging in pre-revolutionary Maoist Stress Sessions to ramp up the chaos. The left eating its own.

Should have just relocated the homeless Gazans into these “Escape” tunnels along with some Egyptian currency and sent them to safety at the other end. Once they were all safe on the other side they need to blow them up to prevent the evil IDF from chasing them! (A kind of reverse exodus...)

A county or too north of you! Hope you got to see them

Like a giant purple mushroom.

What? U.S. Intelligence services have not been offering this information all along???

Sounds like the leftist Biden/Obama Bureaucratic State is actually protecting criminal Hamas leadership that is responsible for Kidnapping, Murder, and Rape of U.S. and Israeli citizens.

One of the things that criminals do is cut real olive oil with sunflower oil and add some chlorophyll to darken it to make it look like EVOO. Here is an article that discusses adulterated EVOO and listings of real Olive Oil brands:

Which Olive Oil to Buy? Olive Oil Fraud Is Confusing Learn Which are Real