Great video. I wonder how he gets the camera positioned properly, if the bug position is somewhat random. The weevils seem to be not very air worthy.
_______
A new Chris Rock stand-up comedy special showed up on Netflix. “Selective Outrage.” Very profane and something to offend everyone. It has a fair amount of conservative ideas in it although he throws a few bones to the left. Or does he? Some of those have a twist near the end. I enjoyed it.
He talks at some length about being divorced and dating again. “I like dating women my own age. Which is about 10 or 15 years younger than my actual age”
And he lays into Will and Jada Smith.
A friend sent me this link to a Frank Lloyd Wright home tour a couple days ago. She had lived in Carmel briefly.
The selection of Mr. Wright as the architect was inspired by the famous “falling water” house. The owner/client appears to have been a wealthy artist and a fan of communism. She tangled with Wright over issues such as an extra door that “contaminated” the exterior style and a garbage can. And yes, it seems to be a requirement that the roof leaks.
All that vigorous activity, done with hydraulics – is that right? Not muscle?
Just another open-thread comment about something I read.
Heather MacDonald has used the appointment of NYU’s new president as an excuse to launch an eloquent rant on the feminization of the American university (https://tinyurl.com/4ps8juse). For me, this has become a hobbyhorse.
Of course, if this had been written by a man, he’d never work again, and his voice would be as limited as that of an ex-smoker with a mechanical voice box. Thankfully, Heather MacDonald is still female, although maybe the Woke mob will soon deny it. Next on their agenda: forced transgenderism.
Neo: Thank you for more insects. Still a great love in my life. You might be able to ascertain that by my moniker (and password).
TommyJay: Back when I was seriously into entomology (600 species of mantid out of around 2000), I did a lot of photography. The best way I found was to chill the insect then wait for it to ‘come around’. Lots of wasted shots, of course.
Jamie: Not hydraulics, that’s for arachnids and only half way. In insects, it’s all muscles and springs. For flight, two sets of muscles flex dorso-ventrally and then laterally. This squeezes the thorax which applies leverage to the wing anchors. Takes two forms: Odonata (dragon/damselflies) and the rest. The rest flex the entire thorax flapping both wings together – think butterfly. The Odonata flex front and back portions separately, flapping their wings like you’d imitate walking with your fingers. One of the reasons some believe flight evolved twice.
The springs I mentioned are for jumping. The muscles torque the leg and it locks, then when released – ‘pop’. That’s grasshoppers and crickets anyway. That’s why when you watch hoppers walk, the rear leg usually stays locked, looking like it’s taking baby steps. When they walk with longer extensions, they have to cock first.
In spiders, hydraulics ‘push’ the leg out and muscles pull it back. This makes the renown athletes – the jumping spiders – even more ‘cool’ because they basically jump with pistons. Cool side note, they focus with hydraulics too.
Some of my info may be slightly out of date.
Hello Neo,
Thought your crew might be interested in this.
I took it as a parody at first. Never heard of such a school at USC. And I cannot even begin to imagine what the so-called liberal subject would be feeling in the supposed research described below.
Is there a new site to add to The Onion, and the Babylon Bee?
“Prior research has shown liberals and conservatives rely on different moral foundations and react differently to violations of morals. The authors say their study is the first to indicate that political orientation influences where and how violations of specific moral concerns — including care, fairness, purity, loyalty and authority — are felt in the body. For example, liberals feel violations of purity in their crotch area, chest and slightly in their heads while conservatives feel these violations almost exclusively — and very strongly — in their heads.“
Well, that ‘splains quite a lot about the moral dynamics of the social progressive.
The first sensation any good liberal experiences when the prospect of a threat to transcendence, Godliness and purity are suggested, is a pronounced tingling in the crotch area. Was Chris Matthews part of this study?
Even accounting for my exaggeration, it has to be a joke.
Oligonicella:
Your reply to Jamie was much better than mine:
“Bugs use muscles.
Mussels use muscles.
Star fish use hydraulics.”
But I missed the spiders!
Here is the link to Digital Dragonflies for beautiful photos of dragonflies from Texas. They net them, cool them, scan them on a flat bed scanner (with spacers,and such so they are not harmed), and then let them go when they have warmed up.
tldr: That’s a Bush Republican NeverTrumper acknowledging that his side was largely wrong on COVID. You might read it and think he’s trying to be reasonable, though with remarkably little contrition about being wrong, but there’s one thing that gives the game away. He flatly states that normal people absolutely don’t need to know whether COVID came from a wet market or a lab leak. Only, he writes, do the experts need to know that so they can better investigate and deal with the virus.
Why? Well obviously because the public is not supposed to have ANY role in decision-making. They’re just supposed to follow whatever the experts say. And he makes this argument WHILE ADMITTING THE EXPERTS WERE NOT ONLY WRONG BUT ACTIVELY SUPPRESSED OTHER OPINIONS.
This is a college-educated, white-collar professional who not only believes but openly admits that even if the experts are Colonel Klink, we should all just be happy being Sgt. Shultz. (That’s a Hogan’s Heroes reference for you young’uns)
Mike
Cornflour–
I read MacDonald’s article last night. I wish she’d say more about the way in which feminization is turbocharged by CRT. One particular BIPOC damsel in distress is a visiting prof at Southern Illinois University: She “is advocating for universities to provide bereavement leave to allow black faculty time to grieve and process trauma following triggering racist news and experiences. . . . She said universities should fund counseling for black faculty to work through ‘racial battle fatigue,’ or RBF, a term that refers to ‘the psychological and physiological consequences of experiencing racism.’ Racial battle fatigue can cause anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts as well as elevated heart rate, tension headaches, and stomach ulcers, according to Jones. ‘Free counseling services, by culturally competent counselors familiar with identifying and addressing RBF, should be available at all times, not just when our trauma has been televised,’ she wrote.”
According to Jones’ research profile, which you can read in full at the link, her work “is grounded in Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism . . . . She also uses counterstorytelling, hip-hop, and poetry in her research.”
Just what “counterstorytelling” might be, I have no idea. But I’d settle for a bit of “free counseling” after reading about this little hothouse violet– who doubtless whimpers about her need for “bereavement leave” whenever SIU expects her to do some actual work.
Oligonicella:
Well I was a bit mistaken about catch and release; some of the dragonfiles are kept as specimens (they are biologists after all). 🙂
Information warfare:
There is no Place in Hell for russian War Criminals – Ukraine War Update – Ukraine Matters
Summary execution of Ukrainian POW, video blurred in the link.
Here you go Bunge. Bleat from your bunker.
Yesterday afternoon I went to a nearby university to see a play; “The Importance of Being Ernest,” by Oscar Wilde.
In reading the program I pointed out to my wife that the top faculty / dept. heads of the theater dept – formerly mostly males – were now ALL females.
The former male top dogs were now listed as theater faculty or part-time faculty.
I have been seeing shows there for at least 10 years so I am familiar with the names of those that formerly were the dept. heads, which is why it caught my attention.
My wife said that maybe they voluntarily stepped down and/or semi-retired; I though otherwise.
Commentator, Cornflour, @ 12:18 prompted me to write my comment.
Speaking of insects; there is no way that insects are not some form of alien species that arrived on earth from who-knows-where.
I posted this yesterday in the ‘masked man’ thread but I thought I would put it here also because it is really good piece on the totalitarian security state that was (is) California during lockdown.
First they came for the unvaxxed,
but I was vaxxed, so what did I care?
Then they came for MAGA,
but I’m not MAGA, tough for them…
etc…
Don’t know whether Neo would compare speed skating to classical ballet, but 1) it is graceful in its own way; and 2) it requires considerable muscle. As of yesterday, the world speed skating champion is an 18-year-old from Wisconsin named Jordan Stolz, who won the men’s 500 m, 1000 m, and 1500 m races– which took place in the Netherlands, the longstanding nursery of speed skaters.
Because speed skaters race in pairs, you have to watch to the end of the video to see Stolz being awarded first place. Note that he carries the Stars and Stripes around his shoulders after his win.
The praying mantes are beautiful – they look like ballerinas in their tutus with long legs extended. And the others beetles and flies could be funny characters in an insect ballet. A perfect follow up to your piece on Plisetskaya.
A pro-Antifa website identifies one of the terrorists arrested for violence at the Atlanta police training center is a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
They’ve taken the work Jonathan Haidt has publicized on conservative vs liberal moral value systems and added a layer of body feeling questions.
Just for huxley: here is Radio-Canada Sports video of Stolz’s patinage de vitesse, with a French voiceover:
PA+Cat:
Nice of you to think of me and my current obsession…
I still can’t hear French well without a transcript. It’s like that “Far Side” cartoon of what a dog hears when a human speaks: “Blah blah, Ginger, blah blah blah. Ginger, blah, blah….” Only a touch more informative.
Fortunately, with the miracle of modern computer speech recognition, I can click the Show Transcript button on a YouTube and see the French words nicely separated, reasonably translated and printed before me with the current line bolded. I’ve got enough vocabulary to generally get the gist.
This is the Golden Age for self-learning languages. There are YouTube videos on using YouTube videos to learn languages.
Oligonicella;
In the sequence showing the Hover fly (flying) you can see the haltares beating 180 degrees out of phase with the wings. Very good camera angle.
Oops not, “reasonably translated.”
That only happens if I copy/paste the transcript into Google Translate. Which I have no compunctions about doing, if I’m wondering.
Serious language folks complain about Google Translate. The computer voice is bland and mechanical, the translations often lack contextual awareness.
For instance French is strongly (and confusingly) gendered and some pronouns aren’t. So if a pronoun in the current sentence refers to something feminine in the previous sentence, it will be translated as “he/him/his.”
When will the Trans Pronouns Jihad go after France and Google is what I want to know.
So OK, Google Translate ain’t perfect but it is such a huge advance over bilingual dictionaries and language lab recordings.
But back to insects:
Why God Has an Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
The Economist, The Economist March 19, 2015
Why God Has an Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
“AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles.” That was the reply of J.B.S. Haldane, a British scientific polymath of the early 20th century, when he was asked if there were anything that could be concluded about God from the study of natural history. There are 380,000 catalogued species of beetle, making them the most species-rich group of insects—and insects are the most species-rich group of animals. But why there are so many has been a mystery.”
It’s late, but it looks like the open thread is the best place for the latest Biden gaffe: JoJo “appeared to suffer a mental lapse Monday while addressing the 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. His cognitive difficulties began when he went off-script to describe the emergency response to his two life-threatening brain aneurysms in February of 1988. . . . The IAFF audience sat in stunned silence as Biden added that doctors ‘had to take the top of my head off a couple times to see if I had a brain.’ Chuckling, Biden then told the fire fighters ‘all kidding aside, what happened was, I [sic] was a snowstorm and I had a cranial aneurysm and had to be operated on immediately.'”
OK, OK, but testing Decent Joe for competence—of any type—would be “ridiculous”….
…So declaims Dr. Jill—and she’s a doctor so she should now…. right?
(Actually, she probably doesn’t realize just how right she is…)
“Jill Biden Says Testing President’s Mental Fitness ‘Ridiculous’;
“Would ‘never even discuss something like that,’ she tells CNN”— https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-05/jill-biden-says-testing-president-s-mental-fitness-ridiculous
In fact, taking a step back and looking at the broad picture, I’m pretty sure we’re looking at a Biden-Fetterman ticket in 2024, this for several reasons:
– The way things are going, the Democrats could nominate a turnip and a rutabaga and they’d still win.
– They’d capture the “challenged” sector of the electorate, which at this point is probably well over 60%-70% of the country.
– It would definitely appeal to that oh-so-special “Biden” sense of humor…
File under: Biden-Fetterman: the leaders America wants and needs!
om: That’s because the Diptera (flies) have evolved from four winged to two. The haltares are no longer wings but something more like gyroscopes, explaining their incredible flight gymnastics.
An interesting twist is that the Strepsiptera (twisted wing parasites) evolved their haltares from the front wings.
This is a nice piece from Shapiro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh09Cyuo4cU
Great video. I wonder how he gets the camera positioned properly, if the bug position is somewhat random. The weevils seem to be not very air worthy.
_______
A new Chris Rock stand-up comedy special showed up on Netflix. “Selective Outrage.” Very profane and something to offend everyone. It has a fair amount of conservative ideas in it although he throws a few bones to the left. Or does he? Some of those have a twist near the end. I enjoyed it.
He talks at some length about being divorced and dating again. “I like dating women my own age. Which is about 10 or 15 years younger than my actual age”
And he lays into Will and Jada Smith.
A friend sent me this link to a Frank Lloyd Wright home tour a couple days ago. She had lived in Carmel briefly.
A Curated Tour of the Mrs. Clinton Walker House
The selection of Mr. Wright as the architect was inspired by the famous “falling water” house. The owner/client appears to have been a wealthy artist and a fan of communism. She tangled with Wright over issues such as an extra door that “contaminated” the exterior style and a garbage can. And yes, it seems to be a requirement that the roof leaks.
All that vigorous activity, done with hydraulics – is that right? Not muscle?
Just another open-thread comment about something I read.
Heather MacDonald has used the appointment of NYU’s new president as an excuse to launch an eloquent rant on the feminization of the American university (https://tinyurl.com/4ps8juse). For me, this has become a hobbyhorse.
Of course, if this had been written by a man, he’d never work again, and his voice would be as limited as that of an ex-smoker with a mechanical voice box. Thankfully, Heather MacDonald is still female, although maybe the Woke mob will soon deny it. Next on their agenda: forced transgenderism.
Neo: Thank you for more insects. Still a great love in my life. You might be able to ascertain that by my moniker (and password).
TommyJay: Back when I was seriously into entomology (600 species of mantid out of around 2000), I did a lot of photography. The best way I found was to chill the insect then wait for it to ‘come around’. Lots of wasted shots, of course.
Jamie: Not hydraulics, that’s for arachnids and only half way. In insects, it’s all muscles and springs. For flight, two sets of muscles flex dorso-ventrally and then laterally. This squeezes the thorax which applies leverage to the wing anchors. Takes two forms: Odonata (dragon/damselflies) and the rest. The rest flex the entire thorax flapping both wings together – think butterfly. The Odonata flex front and back portions separately, flapping their wings like you’d imitate walking with your fingers. One of the reasons some believe flight evolved twice.
The springs I mentioned are for jumping. The muscles torque the leg and it locks, then when released – ‘pop’. That’s grasshoppers and crickets anyway. That’s why when you watch hoppers walk, the rear leg usually stays locked, looking like it’s taking baby steps. When they walk with longer extensions, they have to cock first.
In spiders, hydraulics ‘push’ the leg out and muscles pull it back. This makes the renown athletes – the jumping spiders – even more ‘cool’ because they basically jump with pistons. Cool side note, they focus with hydraulics too.
Some of my info may be slightly out of date.
Hello Neo,
Thought your crew might be interested in this.
I took it as a parody at first. Never heard of such a school at USC. And I cannot even begin to imagine what the so-called liberal subject would be feeling in the supposed research described below.
Is there a new site to add to The Onion, and the Babylon Bee?
Well, that ‘splains quite a lot about the moral dynamics of the social progressive.
The first sensation any good liberal experiences when the prospect of a threat to transcendence, Godliness and purity are suggested, is a pronounced tingling in the crotch area. Was Chris Matthews part of this study?
https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3146/how-does-your-body-respond-to-feelings-of-moral-outrage-depends/
Even accounting for my exaggeration, it has to be a joke.
Oligonicella:
Your reply to Jamie was much better than mine:
“Bugs use muscles.
Mussels use muscles.
Star fish use hydraulics.”
But I missed the spiders!
Here is the link to Digital Dragonflies for beautiful photos of dragonflies from Texas. They net them, cool them, scan them on a flat bed scanner (with spacers,and such so they are not harmed), and then let them go when they have warmed up.
https://agrilife.org/dragonfly/dragonfly-catalog/aeshnidae/
DNW, et al:
You may find these old pieces, from the erstwhile Dr. Sanity, of interest if you are not familiar with them.
Psychiatry 101- Defense Mechanisms
https://drsanity.blogspot.com/2004/08/psychiatry-101-defense-mechanisms.html
SHAME, THE ARAB PSYCHE, AND ISLAM
https://drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/08/shame-arab-psyche-and-islam.html
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS A ‘SHAME’ CULTURE ?
https://drsanity.blogspot.com/2009/03/democratic-party-as-shame-culture.html
They explain a lot about the behavior of liberals.
I miss Dr. Sanity. (No knock on Neo, mind you)
🙁
Here’s another reminder of what we’re up against, politically and culturally.
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-experts-were-wrong-on-covid/
tldr: That’s a Bush Republican NeverTrumper acknowledging that his side was largely wrong on COVID. You might read it and think he’s trying to be reasonable, though with remarkably little contrition about being wrong, but there’s one thing that gives the game away. He flatly states that normal people absolutely don’t need to know whether COVID came from a wet market or a lab leak. Only, he writes, do the experts need to know that so they can better investigate and deal with the virus.
Why? Well obviously because the public is not supposed to have ANY role in decision-making. They’re just supposed to follow whatever the experts say. And he makes this argument WHILE ADMITTING THE EXPERTS WERE NOT ONLY WRONG BUT ACTIVELY SUPPRESSED OTHER OPINIONS.
This is a college-educated, white-collar professional who not only believes but openly admits that even if the experts are Colonel Klink, we should all just be happy being Sgt. Shultz. (That’s a Hogan’s Heroes reference for you young’uns)
Mike
Cornflour–
I read MacDonald’s article last night. I wish she’d say more about the way in which feminization is turbocharged by CRT. One particular BIPOC damsel in distress is a visiting prof at Southern Illinois University: She “is advocating for universities to provide bereavement leave to allow black faculty time to grieve and process trauma following triggering racist news and experiences. . . . She said universities should fund counseling for black faculty to work through ‘racial battle fatigue,’ or RBF, a term that refers to ‘the psychological and physiological consequences of experiencing racism.’ Racial battle fatigue can cause anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts as well as elevated heart rate, tension headaches, and stomach ulcers, according to Jones. ‘Free counseling services, by culturally competent counselors familiar with identifying and addressing RBF, should be available at all times, not just when our trauma has been televised,’ she wrote.”
According to Jones’ research profile, which you can read in full at the link, her work “is grounded in Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism . . . . She also uses counterstorytelling, hip-hop, and poetry in her research.”
https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/illinois-professor-angel-jones-urges-bereavement-for-black-educators-to-process-racism-trauma/
Just what “counterstorytelling” might be, I have no idea. But I’d settle for a bit of “free counseling” after reading about this little hothouse violet– who doubtless whimpers about her need for “bereavement leave” whenever SIU expects her to do some actual work.
Oligonicella:
Well I was a bit mistaken about catch and release; some of the dragonfiles are kept as specimens (they are biologists after all). 🙂
Information warfare:
There is no Place in Hell for russian War Criminals – Ukraine War Update – Ukraine Matters
https://youtu.be/4VRAz5_EAx4
Summary execution of Ukrainian POW, video blurred in the link.
Here you go Bunge. Bleat from your bunker.
Yesterday afternoon I went to a nearby university to see a play; “The Importance of Being Ernest,” by Oscar Wilde.
In reading the program I pointed out to my wife that the top faculty / dept. heads of the theater dept – formerly mostly males – were now ALL females.
The former male top dogs were now listed as theater faculty or part-time faculty.
I have been seeing shows there for at least 10 years so I am familiar with the names of those that formerly were the dept. heads, which is why it caught my attention.
My wife said that maybe they voluntarily stepped down and/or semi-retired; I though otherwise.
Commentator, Cornflour, @ 12:18 prompted me to write my comment.
Speaking of insects; there is no way that insects are not some form of alien species that arrived on earth from who-knows-where.
I posted this yesterday in the ‘masked man’ thread but I thought I would put it here also because it is really good piece on the totalitarian security state that was (is) California during lockdown.
https://davidzweig.substack.com/p/when-a-renegade-church-and-a-zealous
We’ve seen his sort of thing before:
(Washington) AG pushes state level ‘Ministry of Truth’ critics say could jail conservatives who express mainstream views
First they came for the unvaxxed,
but I was vaxxed, so what did I care?
Then they came for MAGA,
but I’m not MAGA, tough for them…
etc…
Don’t know whether Neo would compare speed skating to classical ballet, but 1) it is graceful in its own way; and 2) it requires considerable muscle. As of yesterday, the world speed skating champion is an 18-year-old from Wisconsin named Jordan Stolz, who won the men’s 500 m, 1000 m, and 1500 m races– which took place in the Netherlands, the longstanding nursery of speed skaters.
Just for huxley: here is Radio-Canada Sports video of Stolz’s patinage de vitesse, with a French voiceover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGkGoEBwBEw&ab_channel=Radio-CanadaSports
For Neo’s Anglophone commenters, here is NBC Sports video of Stolz’s third (1500 m) race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ml2_WTcDe4&t=175s&ab_channel=NBCSports
Because speed skaters race in pairs, you have to watch to the end of the video to see Stolz being awarded first place. Note that he carries the Stars and Stripes around his shoulders after his win.
The praying mantes are beautiful – they look like ballerinas in their tutus with long legs extended. And the others beetles and flies could be funny characters in an insect ballet. A perfect follow up to your piece on Plisetskaya.
A pro-Antifa website identifies one of the terrorists arrested for violence at the Atlanta police training center is a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/06/georgia-bureau-of-investigation-charges-23-antifa-agitators-with-domestic-terrorism-following-violent-clash-with-police-in-atlanta/
DNW:
The school and article are legit — not jokes.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797619895284
They’ve taken the work Jonathan Haidt has publicized on conservative vs liberal moral value systems and added a layer of body feeling questions.
Just for huxley: here is Radio-Canada Sports video of Stolz’s patinage de vitesse, with a French voiceover:
PA+Cat:
Nice of you to think of me and my current obsession…
I still can’t hear French well without a transcript. It’s like that “Far Side” cartoon of what a dog hears when a human speaks: “Blah blah, Ginger, blah blah blah. Ginger, blah, blah….” Only a touch more informative.
Fortunately, with the miracle of modern computer speech recognition, I can click the Show Transcript button on a YouTube and see the French words nicely separated, reasonably translated and printed before me with the current line bolded. I’ve got enough vocabulary to generally get the gist.
This is the Golden Age for self-learning languages. There are YouTube videos on using YouTube videos to learn languages.
Oligonicella;
In the sequence showing the Hover fly (flying) you can see the haltares beating 180 degrees out of phase with the wings. Very good camera angle.
Oops not, “reasonably translated.”
That only happens if I copy/paste the transcript into Google Translate. Which I have no compunctions about doing, if I’m wondering.
Serious language folks complain about Google Translate. The computer voice is bland and mechanical, the translations often lack contextual awareness.
For instance French is strongly (and confusingly) gendered and some pronouns aren’t. So if a pronoun in the current sentence refers to something feminine in the previous sentence, it will be translated as “he/him/his.”
When will the Trans Pronouns Jihad go after France and Google is what I want to know.
So OK, Google Translate ain’t perfect but it is such a huge advance over bilingual dictionaries and language lab recordings.
But back to insects:
Why God Has an Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
The Economist, The Economist March 19, 2015
Why God Has an Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
“AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles.” That was the reply of J.B.S. Haldane, a British scientific polymath of the early 20th century, when he was asked if there were anything that could be concluded about God from the study of natural history. There are 380,000 catalogued species of beetle, making them the most species-rich group of insects—and insects are the most species-rich group of animals. But why there are so many has been a mystery.”
full article at:
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2015/03/18/beetlemania
link to quote from:
https://www.realclearscience.com/2015/03/19/why_god_has_an_inordinate_fondness_for_beetles_263850.html#!
Doesn’t mention BeeGees.
It’s late, but it looks like the open thread is the best place for the latest Biden gaffe: JoJo “appeared to suffer a mental lapse Monday while addressing the 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. His cognitive difficulties began when he went off-script to describe the emergency response to his two life-threatening brain aneurysms in February of 1988. . . . The IAFF audience sat in stunned silence as Biden added that doctors ‘had to take the top of my head off a couple times to see if I had a brain.’ Chuckling, Biden then told the fire fighters ‘all kidding aside, what happened was, I [sic] was a snowstorm and I had a cranial aneurysm and had to be operated on immediately.'”
https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/06/joe-biden-tells-fire-fighter-union-after-brain-aneurysm-docs-had-to-take-the-top-of-my-head-off-a-couple-times-to-see-if-i-had-a-brain/
Just think: if The Wizard of Oz is ever redone, Brandon can try out for Ray Bolger’s role as the Scarecrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg66kwRnOpw&ab_channel=mwa1928
OK, OK, but testing Decent Joe for competence—of any type—would be “ridiculous”….
…So declaims Dr. Jill—and she’s a doctor so she should now…. right?
(Actually, she probably doesn’t realize just how right she is…)
“Jill Biden Says Testing President’s Mental Fitness ‘Ridiculous’;
“Would ‘never even discuss something like that,’ she tells CNN”—
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-05/jill-biden-says-testing-president-s-mental-fitness-ridiculous
In fact, taking a step back and looking at the broad picture, I’m pretty sure we’re looking at a Biden-Fetterman ticket in 2024, this for several reasons:
– The way things are going, the Democrats could nominate a turnip and a rutabaga and they’d still win.
– They’d capture the “challenged” sector of the electorate, which at this point is probably well over 60%-70% of the country.
– It would definitely appeal to that oh-so-special “Biden” sense of humor…
File under: Biden-Fetterman: the leaders America wants and needs!
om: That’s because the Diptera (flies) have evolved from four winged to two. The haltares are no longer wings but something more like gyroscopes, explaining their incredible flight gymnastics.
An interesting twist is that the Strepsiptera (twisted wing parasites) evolved their haltares from the front wings.
Life be wonderfully convoluted.
And whaddaya know!
Joe Rogan says the quiet part out load.
That is, the part Dr. Jill also knows but would very much like to conceal….
(Actually, the part everyone knows…)
“Joe Rogan: Biden Mentally ‘Gone’ “—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-rogan-podcaster-joe-biden/2023/03/07/id/1111374/