Ivanhoe

https://www.jns.org/the-biden-administrations-war-against-the-government-of-israel/

Walmart has the DVD online for 12 bucks, but $74.63/lb seems a bit pricy;

https://www.theburkean.ie/uncategorized/2024/04/06/antifa-battered-in-coolock-their-phones-seized-by-nationalists-apparently-revealing-seedy-links-between-media-ngos-and-far-left

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/the-notion-that-palestinian-voices-are-silenced-a-claim-i-hear-frequently-on-campus-is-an-inversion-of-reality/

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/new-documentary-asserts-deborah-birx-was-real-culprit-behind-disastrous-covid-lockdowns/

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ucla-med-school-forces-students-attend-hamas-supporters-lecture-housing-injustice

Yeah, I felt the temp drop (TBH, though, it was accompanied by wind). Amusing psychological observation; before totality, partial eclipse was like "Yeah!" but after totality, partial eclipse was like "Ho, hum."

Texas Zephyr, Colorado & Southern Railway, Quanah, Texas 1958;

Totality turned out to be great in my AO. No dogs howling, people turning into zombies, etc. Haven't heard a single siren all day. I'm guessing the po-po shut down most of the roads in my little hamlet. Sadly, my lame attempts at handheld photography were a total bust. Note to self; in 2099, use tripod, UV filter, and polarizer.

At roughly 2/3 totality in my AO, pretty mundane overall. No inklings of a horror movie scenario. I'm beginning to think that spending my retirement on an RPD and 10k linked rounds wasn't a good investment.

Ethiopia is right next to China on the Human Freedom Index; https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2023-12/human-freedom-index-2023-full-revised.pdf https://www.statista.com/statistics/1165973/overall-score-of-ethiopia-on-the-economic-freedom-index/ Seems like the tired old routine of keeping poor people poor.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/07/us-news/massive-container-ship-loses-power-near-nycs-verrazzano-bridge-days-after-baltimore-key-bridge-disaster/ In response to the power failure, three tug boats that were escorting the APL Qingdao guided the vessel until it regained propulsion a short time later. How's that saying go? Once is chance, twice is coincidence, ... I did stumble across mention of a big difference between the two bridges. The VNB has built-up islands around its towers, so less likely that a runaway ship would drop a tower. The other thing about the VNB situation is that there were tugs on duty, and more came to help.

I'm pretty sure the real cause was Lizzo tripping and falling.

Short SC.1;

Buccaneers are cool.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/29/how-sweden-proved-the-world-wrong-about-lockdown/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jocd.14521

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9012513/pdf/main.pdf

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/04/06/so-the-left-is-now-defending-joe-bidens-showering-with-his-daughter-n4927962

USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) in drydock, 2022;