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  Roam the world for unusual images of places that tempt curiosity  Visit places you may have encountered once and wish to return to  These visions are the effort of uncommon people   places   or times  Click here to see

                                                     Safe but sanguine Photo credit   Chris Mistretta  

 People infected by caronavirous may not produce sufficient antibodies to be classified as virus infected  Vaccination would be less effective in individuals without sufficient antibodies  T cell identification is a complex process that isn't always used to determine Covid-19 infection  Read further at National Geographic     For further reading on how virus' initiate successful infection Article  By Carrie Arnold PUBLISHED August 7, 2020

 Putin does not take the ideas of Russian youth seriously, because serious means change to an autocratic government   " Adopting his usual sarcastically condescending persona..." source   www.chathamhouse.org

Text from Youtube "The Offering is an award-winning short animated film created in almost two years by a group of very dedicated Cogswell College (www.cogswell.edu) students. Since it's completion in 2010, The Offering has screened at over thirty international film festivals and been proclaimed as an amazing piece of art and cinema. The Offering's production value is so high and comparable to Hollywood films that it has never had to enter a student film festival to garner wins. Since it's completion nearly every Alumni that worked on the film is employed in their area of expertise." An incredible effort most appreciated by anyone who has used the human form to render art blogger

This is what's left of our mini van.  See above or this link - yes I am a dreamer. Everything is getting smaller even government  Way to go Donny@great again

Simple Smile 07 23 20 Charles Mistretta I called my brother on the phone We talked of this and that It didn't really matter The idea was just the chat He called me back on Facetime without a face to share What made him hide remains a question That I did not dare Talk was done, it was fun Time to go again  Then in an instant he appeared Grown old before my eyes No ghost was he, a shy apparition Just a smile and piercing eyes Gone again until next time We send a simple smile A poem my brother John and I collaborated on. We sent it back and for.  He suggested I put it to music. I will do that when the muse comes again.  The picture below reminds me of him because he sculpts.  I use posing software.  Maybe he will take some clay and do this one.  No one knows.

"Gorg Schartz eats some bade beetle grubs, and the art of dance is born." The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 Some people didn't get it.  They wrote the publisher and demanded that the comic be removed.  In the sixties a lot of people ate bad grubs.  Some of them are still here and I'm sure they enjoyed The Far Side.  Everyday normal straight people loved it to! Provider  newyorker.com   by By Sarah Larso n July 25, 2020

This 16th century group is wearing inadequate masks and hardly social distancing  They are no longer here  We are here in a pandemic that only a few countries like Vietnam have   for the most part   successfully controlled  They are diligent and determine to protect their population   The corona virus needs a host to live  It will die if left alone   Do not invite it into your life Inadequate mask and hardly social distancing Link source www.aljazeera.com

Are we the intruders in our own world  past and present

As a result of a significant decrease in Europe's population...  "People from all walks of life read about the ancient past, studying books in the hope of recreating Cicero’s ideal of a civic regeneration through education." "It was this atmosphere of social and economic mobility, literacy and widespread participation in government that led to (a) the Florentine Renaissance." Source: www.politico.com

Two balls sitting on a park lawn under the shade of an oak tree   One is green the other is red  They are inflated and ready for game  Won't anyone play with us  The statue in the background was there since the park's beginning and demanded that the balls be removed because they were trespassing  The park manager kicked both balls out of the park  One was run over by a car and the other was now the property of a happy child 

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A squawking parrot or chanting moms it makes no difference today in the midst of the political and personal health turmoil   Do what what works, but does it  The pet still begs for food in a voice so loud the whole neighborhood knows it's feeding time  People beg for justice and fair play and they gather in city after city seeking resolution but they are getting only retribution  The water gun is a temporary fix for an obnoxious bird  Tear gas never works when people feel their freedoms are diminishing 

A startling talk by Dr. Carrie Madej that shows that fringe science is being made real in our time.  If successful this will alter the course of human evolution for countless generations without a return to genetic normality. Picture:  Character Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) from the series 'Fringe.'

We move down the same path

The brain is like a frog in your back yard    He is probably still there because his nature knows how to survive the elements    We can practice resilience from this short Wall Street Journal article    Enjoy simple mental maintenance for a few minutes of reading  The frog can't read   He naturally knows what to cling to

Opinion: We as a country would rather fight the odds of contracting a non lethal form of Covid-19 than use confirmed methods for eliminating the virus in the US. “The countries that have succeeded have been the ones that have had real political and public will unite...” Sources:  The New York Times, Census Bureau   Kennedy Elliott, NGM Staff   www.nationalgeographic.com

The mouse a hand held device that you move to computer resources: data, code, pictures, music, games... anything you find worthwhile in a machine that uses logic invented by Claude Elwood Shannon.  The mind of discovery does not fit in a box unless the box is a maze with some place to go.  This Scientific American article describes a man who is no stranger to anyone who fits his description.  Source:  Jimmy SoniRob Goodman  www.getpocket.com

Americans believe the police are protecting themselves from presidential angst - the loss of their jobs  Do Russians believe the same way about their leader   By now they must see the propaganda on the wall ( which is no longer there )  How long will a lifetime of control last for Mr. Putin   How long can authoritarianism last for any country Some of the above is obviously not true - read the disclaimer at the top of this page  Of course some will take it as it is written because they want to make it so Sources:   wikipedia.com  theguardian.com    Adapted from Jennifer Mercieca’s just published book about Trump’s rhetoric: Demagogue For President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump , Texas A&M University Press and reprinted with permission by the guardian

A flag represents the beliefs and values of the people who display it .   Recently in another country were the confederate flag was flown the people are changing their minds about it's traditions and values washingtonpost.com   By Terrence McCoy July 11, 2020 at 4:11 p.m. EDT

Laugh a little Johnny Carson Show   Rodney Dangerfield

If the banal bothers you  It won't be found here Just gnashing and dashing The fruits malcontent A lifetime in perilous jaded rent For memories and feelings with earnings ill spent I can find the root of my problems, but the tree still grows And those who find shade with me also know The fruit is bitter The shade does more good Than feed an appetite  That never was good Source Daz3d artist unknown

John Bolton suggests that Putin can play Trump like a fiddle . The truth is that under the forty-fifth U.S. president, the bilateral relationship with Russia is now as bad as at any time since the early 1980s.  By Dmitry Trenin June 26, 2020  .themoscowtimes.com "The issue of transfer of power is relevant for Russia… The stability of the state structure and the prospects for the country’s development ultimately depend on the strength of political institutions, on the trust of people in them and on the influx of new forces into politics . Otherwise — inertia, stagnation and political apathy. We know from recent history what dangers they pose.” --  Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev A view presented as others see us.  Bolten's book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, is seen as a premeditated vehicle intended to make him rich - the opinion of the Moscow Times.  Is chaos a wa...

Illustration by Maurice Sendak for ‘Nutcracker’ by E.T.A. Hoffmann . Charm and good looks don't fool everything

Putin Considering Not Running Trump for Reëlection Trumps poor performance at the polls gives communist lead pause to support a political looser      In his own country D.T. would have been resigned to a lessor post     In fact there is talk in the F.S.B. community for plans to do just that should their supreme commander give it the DA! Satire from The Borowitz Report with comments by this humble blogger  published by  www.newyorker.com

Journalist and activist depend on encryption to message the world   Recent developments in the Trump administration would remove that protection https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgx5z3/inside-the-plot-to-kill-the-open-technology-fund source  https://www.vice.com/en_us/contributor/david-gilbert Это так же интересно, как раздор в демократии. У нас есть выбор, чтобы сменить руководство.

THE DAY DEMOCRACY DIED - by Founders Sing with Don McLean & Founding Fathers - YouTube

The eerie feeling of eating alone in a public restaurant  You might as well eat at home  The upside  the servers are attentive and upbeat  The food is usually good  There is plenty of time to serve and be served  while the pandemic unfairly rages around you  The real Twilight Zone that isn't showing for your amusement Link source   Wiki.com

Suppression of citizen outrage is found in cities around the US   This historically temporary state of popular rebellion centralizes retaliation instead of reform  Only time and the will to repair damage done by a few will emerge beyond the tear gas and other weapons of personal assault on the freedom to assemble and to report current social conditions Source: https://youtu.be/dnxMt6wq5Ls     www.bellingcat.com

Why is South Korea the UK and China more efficiently organized to fight the Corona Virus Who gets the message to stay safe and how to avoid infection is one of the critical factors in the growth of infection   Poverty is an unavoidable situation that limits the ability for self help   The capable must reach out to all to insure universal health   This is an obvious statement but is a larger problem to deal with than we are currently prepared for at the moment   The discovery of an effective vaccine is the waiting answer  when it is made available globally Source:  www.ft.com/   my comments come from publically published articles

Will the electoral college skew votes   Why would it change the popular vote   What justifies altering the will of the people   In order for President Trump to win   a significant deviation from the electorate choice would have to be favored   Is Biden any better than Hilary as the next person to run our country Sources: US Census Bureau; MIT Election and Data Science Lab; 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study; US Bureau of Economic Analysis; American National Election Studies; 270towin.com; Gallup; FiveThirtyEight; YouGov Forecast by The Economist with Andrew Gelman and Merlin Heidemanns, Columbia University

Blending in by shape and not color    Female Monarch The fisher bird drys its wings   Cormorant Blogger shots

"...the site of one of the country’s worst episodes of racial violence in 1921, angered the city’s black residents." Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times

If you blog   the way to raise your hits is to provide provocative information   This can be either a religious topic   something of a sexual nature  and if you persist a political topic now worn thin  These models are not real  They are software posing characters   None of this type of software initially displays people with clothes   Even Disney artist started with a bare Snow White   Characters can be positioned in any pose  The male kneeling shows his finger pushed through his temple .. oops   Make of it what you will and let your common sense take you to never never land if you wish  or just enjoy a moment of imagination  that's all there is Posing and comments belong to the blogger

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A neighbor's VW runs on physics not on code  A clean machine to be sure These inexpensive bugs ran without bugs, only oil, air, and gasoline  Yes they required maintenance when something was broken not merely a possible diagnostic prediction  This owner's other car is a new Corvette  Someone who obviously appreciates the best of both worlds  Das Volksauto für Menschen, die es sich leisten können

"As COVID-19 spread from Asia to the Middle East to Europe, why was the U.S. caught so unprepared Despite repeated warnings of a potent contagion headed our way  America’s leaders failed to prepare and protect us  Why and who is accountable?" The Virus: What Went Wrong?   is now streaming on pbs.org/frontline , the PBS Video App and YouTube .

These statistics are a refection of individual choices made in a democracy that ignores safety, either by the electorate or those who choose to feel invincible Personal experience finds small businesses not policing social distancing   Lack of ongoing managed testing is not permission to congregate with others   As cruel as this situation is the outcomes are not a way of life we can continue safely  Do something governor Ron DeSantis Rapid increases in coronavirus cases are still part of "the first wave," according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who said states must continue to follow safety standards or risk further outbreaks. Despite record highs of new infections, the governors of Florida, Arizona, and Texas say they’re not considering another shutdown. The Wall Street Journal Link source  Bloomberg.com    By Danielle Moran June 17, 2020, 10:35 AM EDT

 Centuries before recorded history the evidence of burial rites gives science the idea that early man believed in an afterlife   From a book by Until the End of Time by Brian Greene   DelanceyPlace.com

The steroid dexamethasone was given to thousands of people critically ill with corona virus in a randomized, controlled trial. Credit: Dr P. Marazzi/Science Photo Library An inexpensive and commonly used steroid can save the lives of people seriously ill with COVID-19, a randomized, controlled clinical trial in the United Kingdom has found. The drug, called dexamethasone, is the first shown to reduce deaths from the coronavirus that has killed more than 430,000 people globally. In the trial, it cut deaths by about one-third in patients who were on ventilators because of coronavirus infection. Photo credit : Dr P. Marazzi/Science Photo Library   www.nature.com ...