Fantastic woman.
At Editorials Fashion Trends, "GABRIELLE CAUNESIL BY CAMERON MACKIE."
She's also on Instagram (here and here).
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Jennifer Delacruz's Continued Heatwave Forecast
Wasn't able to get this posted last night before bedtime.
More super hot and humid weather today. Dangerous conditions, in fact.
Here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
More super hot and humid weather today. Dangerous conditions, in fact.
Here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
BlinkOne Coffee Canister
A really cool unit.
At Amazon, BlinkOne Coffee Canister: Airtight Coffee Bean Container Storage with Magnetic Scoop (18 oz).
Also, DARK COSTA RICAN 'TARRAZU' Whole Bean Coffee - 5 LB Bulk Bag - Volcanic Soil - Single Origin Grown - Dark 'French Roasted' - Full & Well-Balanced Smooth Body - Stone Street Coffee.
BONUS: Victor Cha, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future.
At Amazon, BlinkOne Coffee Canister: Airtight Coffee Bean Container Storage with Magnetic Scoop (18 oz).
Also, DARK COSTA RICAN 'TARRAZU' Whole Bean Coffee - 5 LB Bulk Bag - Volcanic Soil - Single Origin Grown - Dark 'French Roasted' - Full & Well-Balanced Smooth Body - Stone Street Coffee.
BONUS: Victor Cha, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future.
Doesn't Kim Jong Un Understand 'Suicidal'?
If Kim wants to play gamesmanship, I think the U.S. should show him who's boss.
At the Asia Times, "North Korea: Doesn’t Kim Jong Un understand ‘suicidal’?":
And at Politico, "Trump threatens to 'stop all trade' with any country doing business with North Korea."
At the Asia Times, "North Korea: Doesn’t Kim Jong Un understand ‘suicidal’?":
American officials and commentators often say it will be “suicide” if Kim Jong Un tries something. That something is usually unclear but at the rate Kim is launching missiles he appears to think he’s got plenty of leeway before he does something suicidal.Still more.
The North Koreans wouldn’t be the first to miscalculate what suicidal is.
It was suicidal for the Japanese to attack the Americans and British in 1941, in retrospect, at least. But at the time, it seemed like a reasonable idea.
It was suicidal for Hitler to attack Russia, especially when over half the German invasion force’s transport was horse-drawn. But at the time it didn’t seem so.
The United States invading Iraq without a plan for what to do once Baghdad was captured? It might not have been suicidal, but was at least the equivalent of jumping off a three-story building onto an asphalt parking lot, repeatedly.
So consider things from Kim’s perspective as he looks over the last 30 years. No matter what he and his father and grandfather did they’ve never been painfully punished.
At various times, the Americans, Japanese, South Koreans and others have given the Kim’s food, money, oil, and atomic reactors – all in exchange for a promise to talk or behave better. Keeping the promises was optional.
And when the Kim regime has acted out – blowing up the South Korean cabinet in Rangoon, torpedoing a South Korean Navy ship, kidnapping Japanese citizens, launching missiles, building and testing nuclear weapons, poisoning a half-brother in broad daylight in a crowded airport terminal?
Why … nothing much happened.
After the South Korean vessel was sunk the Americans even pressured Seoul to do nothing. And China helpfully insisted at the UN that it was unclear who fired the torpedo.
China – the one country that can economically “turn off” North Korea – has kept the Kim’s afloat, protected them politically, and helped with their nuclear and missile programs.
This continues and includes pressuring South Korea over its THAAD missile defense system and strong-arming South Korean companies operating in China. But it’s not just Beijing.
The Kim regime maintains a gulag that a Korean Solzhenitsyn will someday write about. Yet 164 nations have diplomatic relations with North Korea.
And a number of them accept North Korean “forced” labor and allow the regime’s licit and illicit money making operations to continue.
The United States has had a curious approach towards North Korea. It maintains military forces on the peninsular and is committed to defending South Korea – while often displaying naivety and incompetence on the diplomatic front...
And at Politico, "Trump threatens to 'stop all trade' with any country doing business with North Korea."
Hurricane Harvey's a Wake-up for Los Angeles
I mentioned to my wife that we don't get that kind of Texas flooding in Southern California (thank goodness), but I fear a catastrophic earthquake. We're due for a big one, if not "The Big One."
Remember the freeway that pancaked in Oakland during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989? And the Bay Bridge snapped in half? Plus, all the other devastation? That's my worst fear.
In Los Angeles, we had the 1994 Northridge 'quake. I lived in Santa Barbara at the time and the temblor literally picked up my apartment and smashed it back down. I was already awake, at about 5:00am. All the streetlights and floodlights at the apartment complex went out. Power was out all together until the early afternoon. There were now mobile phones so you weren't checking everything out on your device.
Anyway, here's the Los Angeles Times, "Houston offers a grim vision of Los Angeles after catastrophic earthquake":
Remember the freeway that pancaked in Oakland during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989? And the Bay Bridge snapped in half? Plus, all the other devastation? That's my worst fear.
In Los Angeles, we had the 1994 Northridge 'quake. I lived in Santa Barbara at the time and the temblor literally picked up my apartment and smashed it back down. I was already awake, at about 5:00am. All the streetlights and floodlights at the apartment complex went out. Power was out all together until the early afternoon. There were now mobile phones so you weren't checking everything out on your device.
Anyway, here's the Los Angeles Times, "Houston offers a grim vision of Los Angeles after catastrophic earthquake":
For years, scientists have drawn up terrifying scenarios of widespread destruction and chaos that would come to Southern California when a catastrophic earthquake hits.More.
Their efforts to warn the public may get an unlikely boost from the unprecedented disaster unfolding in Houston, where Tropical Storm Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain across Texas and brought America’s fourth-largest city to its knees.
While epic flooding is different from a powerful temblor, both natural disasters fundamentally alter daily life for months or years.
In recent years, officials have drawn up detailed scenarios of what would happen if a huge quake struck this region, part of a larger campaign to better prepare.
The last two big earthquakes to hit Los Angeles — the 1971 Sylmar quake and 1994 Northridge quake — caused destruction and loss of life. But the worst damage was concentrated in relatively small areas and did not fundamentally bring daily life across all of Southern California to a halt.
Experts have long warned that a significantly larger quake will eventually strike and that the toll will be far greater...
Saturday, September 2, 2017
La Tuna Canyon Fire Torches More Than 5,000 Acres (VIDEO)
Well, it's been awful hot out.
It'd be a living hell to be caught in this inferno.
At LAT, "Three homes burned as wildfire torches more than 5,000 acres":
It'd be a living hell to be caught in this inferno.
At LAT, "Three homes burned as wildfire torches more than 5,000 acres":
ICYMI: Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
*BUMPED.*
My earlier entry is here.
And at Amazon, Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae.
[ADDED: I'm going to start in on this one now, as I just finished The First Man in Rome this morning.]
My earlier entry is here.
And at Amazon, Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae.
[ADDED: I'm going to start in on this one now, as I just finished The First Man in Rome this morning.]
Today's Deals
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, New deals. Every day. Shop our Deal of the Day, Lightning Deals and more daily deals and limited-time sales.
And, AmazonBasics AA Performance Alkaline Batteries (48 Count) - Packaging May Vary - #1 Best Seller in AA Batteries.
More, PURELL Sanitizing Hand Wipes - Individually Single Wrapped (300 Count).
And, Hershey's 36ct. Plus 1 Bonus Bar (37 Bars Total).
Even more, Mountain House Just In Case...Breakfast Bucket.
And, Liberty Imports Sport Archery Set With Target and Stand.
Here, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters), White.
Plus, Giro Revel Bike Helmet - White/Silver.
Also, LG 60" Super UHD 4K HDR Smart LED TV 2017 Model (60UJ7700) with 2x 6ft High Speed HDMI Cable Black, Transformer Tap USB w/ 6-Outlet Wall Adapter and 2 Ports & Screen Cleaner for LED TVs.
BONUS: Michael Burleigh, Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II.
At Amazon, New deals. Every day. Shop our Deal of the Day, Lightning Deals and more daily deals and limited-time sales.
And, AmazonBasics AA Performance Alkaline Batteries (48 Count) - Packaging May Vary - #1 Best Seller in AA Batteries.
More, PURELL Sanitizing Hand Wipes - Individually Single Wrapped (300 Count).
And, Hershey's 36ct. Plus 1 Bonus Bar (37 Bars Total).
Even more, Mountain House Just In Case...Breakfast Bucket.
And, Liberty Imports Sport Archery Set With Target and Stand.
Here, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters), White.
Plus, Giro Revel Bike Helmet - White/Silver.
Also, LG 60" Super UHD 4K HDR Smart LED TV 2017 Model (60UJ7700) with 2x 6ft High Speed HDMI Cable Black, Transformer Tap USB w/ 6-Outlet Wall Adapter and 2 Ports & Screen Cleaner for LED TVs.
BONUS: Michael Burleigh, Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II.
I've Finished The First Man in Rome
I mentioned earlier that it'd probably take two weeks to read the book if I buckled down and plowed through close to 100 pages a day. That wasn't in the cards, but this week I did focus on this one exclusively (except for my teaching prep) and was able to knock it down.
Here's my earlier entry, "Colleen McCullough's 'Masters of Rome' Series."
And see, "Colleen McCullough, The Grass Crown."
And at Amazon, the "Masters of Rome."
Here's my earlier entry, "Colleen McCullough's 'Masters of Rome' Series."
And see, "Colleen McCullough, The Grass Crown."
And at Amazon, the "Masters of Rome."
Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan
See Austin Bay, at Instapundit, and a bunch of links, "IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM: My latest NY Observer essay: After North Korea’s latest missile test, Trump puts “all options on the table”."
And on Afghanistan, "MEANWHILE, BACK IN AFGHANISTAN: The place is a mess. But what the Trump team proposes to do makes a lot more sense than the feckless policies of the feckless Obama. (Another recent Observer essay.)"
And on Afghanistan, "MEANWHILE, BACK IN AFGHANISTAN: The place is a mess. But what the Trump team proposes to do makes a lot more sense than the feckless policies of the feckless Obama. (Another recent Observer essay.)"
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