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August 2024
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So, in the news lately - Kamala Harris takes over the candidacy for Biden - finally, the right move, and then - an even better move making Tim Walz her running mate.
Good news for a change, they both seem nice, and what a change in focus from the Trump/Biden shitshow it was the past few months. And - the news that JD Vance is Trump's running mate?
Well, never a better contrast in choices.
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Other news of the world, the fact that Disney is trying to use a loophole - because a former customer once signed up for Disney+ they can't be sued for poisoning one of the customers (anaphylactic shock, waiter assured customer the food was allergen free, it wasn't, customer died) - which goes to prove quite literally what an evil company Disney has become.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/15/disney-wrongful-death-lawsuit-dismissal
And then there was the Elon Musk/Trump interview on "X", which - well, I've never been fans of either of them. For a time it seemed with the electric car and such he was possibly brilliant, but - the company he keeps, his views, he's easily every bit as evil as Trump.
Then there was the article quoting the UN stating that Canada's foreign worker policy is no better than Slave Labour. Of course, I've known this for a while, as have many others, but having it said out loud by a body that has some clout with Trudeau might mean a long overdue reflection and revamping of it.
Link: CBC on UN report
And that's the news that I've been following, the rest, well, it comes and goes. It finally seems that capitalism is in it's final death throws, the world is heating up and - for the moment that's all. I've started looking forward to the US election...
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More news, ridiculous, that Trump is now more popular in Alberta than he is in the US, and, sorry Alberta, but this can be no surprise, that Barron Trump's nanny has spoken to the press and revealed that while in school he tortured and killed animals as well as assaulted various classmates. So the apple never falls far from the tree...
Day Off, Panning, Arrowhead
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Thursday off, South to Explore a few new roads. The Oscar-Bear FSR, behind Ymir, metamorphic shales, basalts, to about 10 KM where it gets too overgrown to continue. Probably it got overgrown at 5 KM, but I never let that stop me...
Then, to the Penne-D'oreille & Beaver Valley, pan for gold, look for sapphires. Nada. Although they're there I'm sure it was not a day to be south.
Done at around 2:00 PM, too early to find parking in town, so head on up to Balfour, where I spend a couple of hours looking for arrowheads. One find, a very old red jasper point, broken and reworked into a scraper, some other debitage, and a great view of the Balfour Eagle, now moved on by the lost of his/her nest...
Balfour eagle...
Finally, the payoff of the day:
Red jasper, the tip broken off and then refashioned into a scraper. Judging by the wear on the edges a few thousand years old...
Impossible Color
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This, on the idea that there we can somehow apprehend in our mind's eye colours that have no corollary in the real world.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color
Note that if you do the exercises you might be able to see them as well...
Cerutti Mastadon & Giant Armadillos
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Forever pushing back the timeline of humans in the Americas, a couple of articles that seem to substantiate the presence of humans or homo-??? well outside the conventional timelines. There are actually an awful lot more, but you can do your own research.
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