Send Money!

Canada has a Receiver General whose chief purpose is to receive money.  I'm told that one of the first banks in the USA started by putting out a sign, "Deposits Accepted".  This joker has the right idea, offering to protect people from bad thoughts.

Old Mice Gain Muscle and Lose Fat When ATB Receptor Is Prompted. Humans Have Similar Pathway.

Maybe not too good to be true:  Brown fat in mice has a lot of ATB sensors which when prompted, signal a burn off to the brown fat.   Muscle tissue has some of the same receptors.  When those ones are signaled, more muscle tissue is laid down.  This is a "two-fer" made in heaven if it safely works on seniors who could lose fat and bulk up muscle at the same time.  The net result in the mice was a slight loss of weight and a younger figure.  The mice burned almost 50% more oxygen and the healthy changes were in place after just four weeks. The conclusion, of course, is that more research is needed. Research by Prof. Dr. Alexander Pfeifer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Hospital Bonn summarized at Science Daily.

Three Gorges Dam End of Life Approaching; UPDATE

This photo published in Epoch Times shows Three Gorges dam appears to have deformed in the last ten years.  China at first said the photo was deformed by digital processing.  Another party said the dam is built of blocks linked to each other, not massively anchored to bed rock and the movement is plausible.  Chinese academia thinks the dam should expect a 50 year life time.   Twenty million people live downstream.  Best case may be another 40 years.

UPDATE: I leave this image up but it's wrong. The image below I was able to verify however.

UPDATE:   When did this start?  Google Earth shows a computer generated picture of the dam, not the real dam.

Covid Suits Democrats. Good Change Will Come In Second In November.

Covid suits Democrats.
-Covid can hide a Demented Biden from the public and protect him from Trump with a Zoom type debate.
-Covid gives cover to suppressing Trump's mass rallies and demonizing them if it can't suppress them.
-Covid covers having no convention at all to keep disaffected Bernie followers off the air and to hide defective Biden from voters.
-Covid isolation measures keep voters from free and open exchanges outside the curated news stage.
-Covid gives cover for the coup de grace of mail in voting to save lives.  This disaster favours the party most prepared to cheat as the distribution, storage and collection of votes falls outside bipartisan supervision.
-Covid hype that is used to keep some states shut down will continue to damage the economy and money troubles move votes away from the party in power. Thus, democrat run states will be last to open.

This sad tally comes from The Conservative Tree House.
I've rarely felt less hope for the United States of America.
Changes to make America more dynamic, safer, just and profitable for its people are also on the move.
Looks like they will place second.

Aggressive China Has Disputes With 18 Bordering Countries.

See map.  As noted, this doesn't include troubles inside the conquered territories.  This is reported in Indiatvnews.com

Black Lives Matter Outrage Mostly Comes Not From Black Lives.

A Pew report finds scarcely one person in six is black at those BLM rallies and protests.
Five out of six are not Republicans.
The tan bars show the % of the general census each BLM group stems from.

Those Strzok Notes: Obama and Biden Doing Dirty

And a plausible transcript (Conservative Tree House).

Where do migrants with inventions to their credit go? From China (and Canada, India, France the UK and Germany) to the United States. Overwhelmingly.

Understanding Lockdown In Your Area

Why didn't I think of that? Father's Day GIF gem

I'm having trouble reading the news

BLM protesting the bump on the log in the hole at the bottom of the sea. See FBI chart.

Best explanation of the chart: The shooting death of a black man by a white police officer is NOT what drives BLM.

Exquisite detail. If Tolkien built model railroad scenery, this is how he would have done it.

This video is called "A Scenic Overhaul - Yorkshire Dales Model Railway"  I watched the grass grow and the road age with my jaw dropped.  I want to live in such a world, a sweeter one than this.

Genius solution: How to hug your embarrassed pre-teens in public.

Easy when they are little.
Takes a touch of genius
to carry it into middle school.

A friend's boys had reached a certain age. When Mom gave them a hug as she dropped them off to school, they were so embarrassed.  Her brilliant and simple solution was to tell them, "I need the hug.  Tell them your Mom needs it".   It worked and they hug her to this day as grown ups.
   

What's wrong with this picture? 001

This photo is a charmer and it is posed to look accidental.  I see only one cat has had a chance to take a lick.  That means the camera was at the ready.  The milk puddle doesn't look like any spill I ever made with far flung tiny drops in some direction.  Instead, it has neat boundaries as if carefully poured onto the floor.  The bright yellow mug is bone dry!  It was laid on its side to complete the composition.  Yet, I love the picture and the four creatures are doing something that comes naturally.  They aren't trying to lie to me.  But the photographer is deliberately making one thing look like another thing.

Government Isn't Big Enough! Doxxers, BLM, AntiFa and the Twitter Mobs are the Wild West, Beyond the Remit of Law.

Cheap social media create mobs that live outside the remit of Law and Order.   Congress and Parliament are not designed to rule these powerful flash alliances.   Congress and Parliament's response is measured in days and months while the challenges form up on the scale of hours and days.  The alliances occur within political parties and corporations and restaurant staffs and newsroom people.  They are becoming the first line of influence and power in our societies.  And they are the wild wild west that cowboy flicks told tales about.   The closest we have to a sheriff is Donald Trump.      Money always go where it gets the biggest result and these extra-judicial alliances are gaining wealth and the power to redistribute wealth.

Red China has made progress bringing this under control with millions of cameras, social scores for every individual.  These scores determine whether you can buy a plane or bus ticket even.  Closer to home, we have people in power who are falling in love with the prospect of doing the same, starting with instructions on how everyone should breathe and where they should walk, contact tracing software and who they should associate with in a time of Covid.   The CCP or Wuhan flu has motivated men and women who should love freedom but prefer power.

Grief is looking forward

Grieving isn't looking back, it's looking forward fruitlessly.
Being alive is being ready for what's next.

When someone you love isn't there anymore, the readiness to meet them is still there.
It's like a train that comes off its track.
The wreck goes on and on forward with the momentum of expectation
and meets nothing until, in time, the momentum subsides..

Did I hear that right? Black Americans Owe White Americans?

Compare the wealth of Black Americans who were brought to the US as slaves to the wealth of Black Africans who stayed behind and were not.      The amount those men and women lost by coming to America should be the reparations they are owed, plus some damages.  Except it's the other way around.  Black Americans would owe White Americans.

Thought developed by Dilbert's inventor, Scott Adams.

Of course there were millions of white slaves too, enslaved by North African Muslims in previous centuries.   These don't qualify for reparations because BLAME.  (Black Lives All Matter - Exclusively.)

Ikea jokes write themselves