(0620) Seems bleah out there, although it was a lively, fiery red and dark cloud dawn earlier … now billowing over into low, poisoned, Gates cloud cover now. Have a wunnerful Monday.
5. Steve at 1344
- Navy SEAL Team 6 Rescues Downed US Airman From Deep Behind Enemy Lines in Bold Mission — The Same Unit That Killed Osama bin Laden
- President Trump Reveals Details on Negotiations with Iran to Fox News’s Trey Yingst After His Explosive Truth Social Post – Also Says US Sent Guns to Iranian Protesters
- Serbian President Vučić Says Explosives Were Found Near a Pipeline Carrying Gas From Russia to Serbia and Hungary
- US Special Forces Insane Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran
- More.
4. Why indeed

3. Andy at 1344
I’m hurt. I want to be the smartest thing in my house, that’s why I won’t have smart meters. Now they tell me that a grain of rice can be smart! | https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-strange-property-of-rice-and-turn-it-into-a-smart-material/ | Smart things have a mind of their own, what has my jar of rice got in store for me?
2. Shan’t add to this

1. DAD at 1344
a) Artemis II’s crew sent a heartfelt Easter message to the world as they approached the moon Sunday — a remarkable echo of a Christmas address given by the mission’s closest cousin in space history, Apollo 8. (JH: Wonderful theatre. Do not wish to tread on sacred cows or shibboleths but the re-run of 1969 … well, the time had come, in their eyes, to head off Elon.)
b) USA. Figures reported by the National Catholic Register and several diocesan sources reveal a dramatic increase in the number of adults preparing to join the Catholic Church. (JH: Please see Mon 6.)
c) Rémi Brague: “The Problem of Malsi is that it is a Legislation”. Rémi Brague chooses his words with care, so that his observations about Islam seem understated, and his conclusions mild. But if you pay careful attention, you’ll notice…. (JH: Please see Mon 8.)
d) Why Gulf Won’t Attack Iran! Here’s Why Gulf Nations Are IGNORING Iran Attacks.
Andy, You are the smartest thing in the house. SMART meters are as smart as politicians are honourable gentlemen. It is just a marketing gimmick. Add something technical call them SMART. Punters will believe anything they read and they will then spend money on them.
I don’t see how a grain of rice can be smart unless you class biological changes such as growth and transformation to be smart. Although it is almost certainly smarter than our politicians.
Your last comment made me think that indeed Stürmer has a brain of rice.
I got up a bit late today to a clear blue sky and bright sunlight streaming through the window. Half way through my coffee, when my eyes began to focus I noticed tramlines f white crisscrossing the azure sky.
They say that if you stand in the street and look upwards others will also look up. When the sky is like that I stop and stare for a moment in the hope that some who look may also notice.