If history was taught like this, I would have paid attention.
The Youtube channel, Flappr, covers real history with sarcasm and a 1950’s aesthetic. The archival film is excellent, but the humor occasionally goes too far.
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Sparkidemus is an homage to the pharisee, Nicodemus.
Peggy Noonan was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, and then was an insightful commentator until she got Trump Derangement Syndrome. After the 2024 RNC Convention, she can’t quite come around.
Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the first person of notoriety to predict that Trump would win the 2016 presidential election. This was very early on, when there were 16 people in the Republican primary. Adams was careful not to endorse Trump, he just recognized that Trump had a gift for persuasion.
NBC News: Secret Service is appalled.
Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service’s chief of communication, said in the statement: “We stand united against any attempt to discredit our personnel and their invaluable contributions to our mission and are appalled by the disparaging and disgusting comments against any of our personnel.”
The Secret Service doesn’t get to be appalled after their appalling inability to keep Trump safe.
ABC News: Secret Service Director Interview
This post won’t be relevant for long, but Trump was shot 3 days ago and this is the first interview of the Director of the Secret Service. Even in her own words, Kimberly Cheatle sound unfit for duty.
My brother got me watching The Chosen. After a few episodes, Sparky wanted to dress up as a pharisee. Being a godless heathen, Sparky doesn’t know that most of the pharisees are jerks. We compromised by letting him cosplay as Sparkidemus as an homage to Nicodemus.
There Will Always Be Vulnerabilities
This article was written by an veteran police officer who has been writing about law enforcement for many years. He describes working with the Secret Service in the manner that you’d expect.
From my position I could see other teams similarly situated on rooftops, but so numerous were the nearby buildings that there weren’t enough counter-sniper teams to post one on all of them. I was told, however, that any position overlooking the landing zone would be guarded by at least one Secret Service agent, most of them accompanied by an LAPD officer.
I’ve read a couple of books by Ronald Kessler about the Secret Service. It’s difficult to understand why security was so lax for Trump’s rally.
Spent the weekend at Punderson State Park campground. It was a short trip, with most of the party going to a graduation party, so not much use of the park facilities.
Sparky had to be put in the camper a few times, and watch the fun from the window. He doesn’t like the term, “over-stimulated” because it makes him sound like a spaz. Sparky can be enthusiastic when he sees other dogs. Also, a female dog in our party was kind of rapey, so they’d mix it up. Sparky is never a threat or vicious, but the barking and leash-pulling doesn’t reflect well on either of us.
There were many tent campers in RV spaces. Since tents aren’t pitched on the asphalt for an RV, the occupants feel that any grass is fair game. When I arrived, there was a tent pitched two feet from my camper.
I don’t know what the protocol is or should be, but maybe pitch the tent behind where the RV would be. The tent campers probably arrived mid-week, so the park seemed like their domain. One tent was pitched 10 feet from the door to the restroom.
My neighbors asked if I wanted them to move their tent. It was a pretty elaborate tent, so asking was a nice gesture, but I’m not going to press my land rights. Someone else may have. I did leave my air conditioning on all the time and hope my water pump was irritating to them. That’s passive-aggressive, and I’m not proud of that, but there we are.
One consolation is that it was wicked hot.