Another hummer-on-nest

 

Another of the hummingbird. Kind of washed out, but you can see her (huff) panting (puff) after flying back to the nest. Or maybe they're just breathing like that all the time?

Anna's Hummingbird on the nest, 27 January 2025

 

Who is Running This Dangerous Circus?

"On Sunday [11 August 2024], U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that he had ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to accelerate its deployment to the Middle East, leaving the Indo-Pacific empty of carriers." -- ForeignPolicy.com  

So . . .  Lloyd Austin is now the commander-in-chief of United States armed forces?  Does the buck start and stop with him?  If it's not him, then who is giving the orders, pulling the strings, pressing the buttons? -- Joe?  Jill?  Barack?  Kamala? 

One Month Since Biden Faced Trump on Debate Stage

 

Something happened on June 27 when the not-so-irresistible force of the mental power of "President Joe Biden" encountered the old immovable object of former President Donald Trump. 

The result seems to be that the Democrat Party is calling for a new golf cart. With a bigger, faster engine. Expecting different results.

Sad part is 50% of voters (plus or minus) are about as mentally acute as the "driver" shown above. 

And Now They Tried To Kill Him

 

They tried to silence Donald Trump.

They tried to smear him and bankrupt him.

They tried to throw him in prison. 

Now they have tried to kill him. 

Image via Citizen Free Press on X.

AI To Cover Paris Summer Games

 From LetsRun. Com:

Good news: NBC will no longer broadcast Olympics as ‘plausibly live’ (tape-delayed) for Paris Games this summer They historically have held all of the big events for their evening live show but now will not do that. Also they will use "AI to allow fans to create personalized highlights packages, by picking in advance some favorite sports and the type of action they would like to see. AI will then deliver those specific highlights, narrated by an AI-generated model of Michaels’ voice — eerily realistic during a demonstration given on Wednesday."

So you can pick the events you want and listen to the inane commentary of their DEI hires using the voice of Al Michaels (still alive at 79 years old). Here's the link to the story.

Might be worth watching the boxing if they could bring back the voice and spirit of Howard Cosell (d. 1995).

Independence Day, Independence Declaration

 It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but because it was proposed to establish a nation on new principles, that July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history. ... About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

Calvin Coolidge, Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence