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Rusty passed his test.

Even though Rusty had been running around the house for an hour, he didn’t mess anything up.  He passed his test.  Rusty won’t be quarantined in the solarium any longer. 

Rusty is really curious and eager to explore, but he wants to be a good dog.  Sparky remains a whimsical slick weasel or tunnel piglet.

Corruption hates Trump.

NYT:  JPMorgan Admits It Shut Trump’s Accounts

NYT:  JPMorgan Admits It Shut Trump’s Accounts

In a response to a lawsuit filed last month by Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization, JPMorgan, the nation’s largest bank, said for the first time late Friday that it cut off more than 50 Trump accounts in February 2021, shortly after Mr. Trump’s first term ended.

Let that sink in.  A month after a president leaves office, The nation’s largest bank attempts to financially cripple him.  JPMorgan provided no explanation, so it’s not known who told them to freeze the accounts.

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Star Fleet Academy probably won’t last.

Star Trek:  Star Fleet Academy should lean into that premise.

Star Trek technology was always based on dilithium crystals as a power source.  The Burn, was a catastrophic event in which all the dilithium crystals became inert.  All star ships that were deployed lost power, resulting in the deaths of a vast number of Star Fleet personnel.

Star Fleet personnel were always the best of the best, because in a post-scarcity society, people could pursue any career or endeavor that appealed to them.  After The Burn, the best of the best were gone, and their courageous and competent genes were gone too.

A hundred years after The Burn, when Star Fleet is ready to reestablish Star Fleet Academy, all they have left are these theater kids.   

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What do blue states want?

ICE arrests in Minnesota surge include numerous convicted child rapists, killers

Governor Walz needs to explain why he is fighting so hard to keep violent foreign criminals walking free in Minnesota.  ICE released a list of some of the worst criminals that have been picked up in Minnesota. 

Of these 18 people, a dozen are killers, while 5 have raped, sodomized or sexually assaulted children.  They have all been tried, convicted and have deportation orders.

If Governor Walz worked with ICE, foreign criminals could be picked up in a safer and more orderly manner.  Instead, blue states and cities actively oppose federal immigration enforcement, resulting in these chaotic confrontations in order to keep citizens in danger. 

It makes no sense.

First Electric Christmas Tree

The First Electric Christmas Tree Lights

from the Detroit Post and Tribune (1882)

Johnson’s glowing Christmas tree was visible through his home’s windows, and caused a stream of people to pass by his house, intrigued by this new use of electricity.

[It was described in an article by William Augustus Croffut, a Michigan newspaper reporter.]

“Last evening I walked over beyond Fifth Avenue and called at the residence of Edward H. Johnson, vice-president of Edison’s electric company. There, at the rear of the beautiful parlors, was a large Christmas tree, presenting a most picturesque and uncanny aspect. It was brilliantly lighted with many colored globes about as large as an English walnut and was turning some six times a minute on a little pine box. There were eighty lights in all encased in these dainty glass eggs, and about equally divided between white, red and blue. As the tree turned, the colors alternated, all the lamps going out and being relit at every revolution. The result was a continuous twinkling of dancing colors, red, white and blue, all evening.

I need not tell you that the scintillating evergreen was a pretty sight – one can hardly imagine anything prettier. The ceiling was crossed obliquely with two wires on which hung 28 more of the tiny lights; and all the lights and the fantastic tree itself with its starry fruit were kept going by the slight electric current brought from the main office on a filmy wire. The tree was kept revolving by a little hidden crank below the floor which was turned by electricity. It was a superb exhibition.”

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