1, 4, 0 (I’m a vegetarian.) As a side rant, I’m annoyed at how coffee beans are being sold. It’s now light, medium, dark roast, whereas 20 years ago there were finer distinctions: light, city, full city, Vienna, French, Italian. But these days I guess that’s too complicated for the average American. I prefer Vienna roast but few companies offer it. La Colombe’s Corsica blend is pretty close, so that’s what I’ve been buying.

(Don’t take any of the above to indicate any support whatsoever for Rand Paul’s attempted show trial)

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Ancient mammoth remains and a Nazi shipwreck: Europe’s shrinking rivers reveal past relics https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/climate/shrinking-rivers-reveal-past-relics-in-europe?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc&recs_exp=up-next-article-end&tenant_id=related.en

I am going to take up yelling at clouds. Thank you, Steve.

Oddly, and off topic, I didn’t know who he was yesterday but this is the second reference to him I’ve seen today. He broke with Mamdani over the release of names and addresses of everyone subject to pied a terre taxes in NY (which includes him). His line “He took what was a good source of revenue and turned it into a wanted poster”.

LOL

Thanks

@Axtremus I cannot even imagine trying to write up the budget sheet for $400 million.... yikes!

The Trump administration has dropped its case against a former Olympic canoeist charged in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, acknowledging their allegations against David “Davey” Hearn don’t hold water. In a filing Friday afternoon, a supervisor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which is headed by Jeanine Pirro, wrote that officials obtained information that undermined “the evidentiary basis for the indictment” against Hearn. Prosecutors said that after the indictment came down on July 2, the Interior Department provided additional documents to the U.S. Attorney’s Office “indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings.” DOJ said it “first became aware of information showing that the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism” after reviewing more documents. “Had [the Interior Department] been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment,” the filing said. DOJ said when it presented the case to a grand jury, it was “not in possession of any information from DOI indicating that any damage to the Reflecting Pool was caused by anything other than the actions of the defendant and other vandals who damaged the pool’s lining.” The Justice Department filing said that based on its review of evidence, “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-drops-reflecting-pool-case-blaming-damage-botched-rcna590303

For the preppers: https://waterbob.com/

@wtg OMG I forgot all about that!!!

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Republican Sen. John Cornyn continues to block Todd Blanche's path to confirmation as attorney general, saying Thursday morning that there were "new complications." Cornyn is demanding the Department of Justice put in writing that the nearly $1.8 billion so-called "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is officially dead, and that the scope of President Donald Trump's immunity deal with the IRS be narrowed. "I know that Todd Blanch understands it, but I think he's probably getting some pushback from the White House, and that's making things more complicated than there needs to be," Cornyn told ABC News. https://abcnews.com/Politics/gops-cornyn-continues-block-todd-blanche-attorney-general/story?id=135228494 Too bad it took getting primaried for him to develop a spine....