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• New Zoo for Sacramento. Why?

  September 3, 2023

  Not shown (in an image of my daughters chalk drawing for Chalk It Up To Sacramento 2023, is a sign suggesting that the Sacramento Zoo be moved to Elk Grove. Qui bono? Why would anyone want to move the zoo at all? Does someone feel that the zoo needs to get bigger and bigger? The…

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• Tri-colored Black Birds, Triticale, and Extinction by the State of California

  August 22, 2023

  Tri-colored Black Birds were a minority population for as far back as I have been a birder.

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• From the Wall Street Journal 2023 01 08

  January 9, 2023

  The White House Covid Censorship Machine Newly released emails show how officials coerce social-media companies to toe the government line. By Jenin Younes and Aaron Kheriaty Jan. 8, 2023 5:23 pm ET Newly released documents show that the White House has played a major role in censoring Americans ...

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• Saboteurs

  January 4, 2023

  Closely Watched Trains (1966) as a film about partisan saboteurs of trains operated by Germans during World War II. An old-timer inserts a 5 franc coin into an oil cap to impede the flow of oil to a critical part of the drive mechanism. When the damaged engine comes in for repairs, he removes the...

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• Congress Drones On

  January 4, 2023

  HEADLINE - WSJ: U.S. Should Give Ukraine Armed Drones, Senators Urge Biden Administration Gray Eagle drones could ‘drive the strategic course of the war in Ukraine’s favor’ and counter Russia’s use of Iranian drones The MQ-1C Gray Eagles, made by General Atomics, can hold up to four Hellfire Miss...

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• Review od The Fabelmans

  January 4, 2023

  Watching The Fabelmans today, I had this odd feeling about the actor who played the father. He seemed very familiar, but I could not quite place him. It was Paul Dano, who famously played the evangelical preacher in There Will Be Blood. By calling the film The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg was able...

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• The Big Guy’s Back Door Tesla Subsidy

  January 3, 2023

  The Big Guy's Back Door Tesla Subsidy [EPA finds a convoluted way to expand ethanol subsidies to boost EVs.] By The Editorial Board of Wall Street Journal Dec. 29, 2022 Tesla’s stock market value has plunged by some $850 billion this year amid investor worries over Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover an...

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• Thomas Kinkade et al.

  December 30, 2022

  Thomas Kinkade's early works were quite good. He was, after all quite skilled at his craft. His family donated much of his early pieces to the Crocker. The Crocker has no idea what to do with them. Many artists fall into this trap.                                                                  ...

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• Is the United States of America “Chinatown”?

  July 8, 2022

  By "Chinatown" I refer to the film of the same name.  Not-with-standing complaints that the title of the film is in some manor "racist", the film depicts a police department that tries to do its job, but cannot understand what is going on in this sub-section of Los Angeles (in which many live who...

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