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  • Here’s What’s Problematic…

    Here’s What’s Problematic…

    Here’s What’s Problematic With Each Of The NFL’s 32 Team Names

    Amid calls for justice, NFL teams are taking bold steps to change their team names and end racism. This has caused controversy since everyone is racist. Are you confused? Never fear! We at The Babylon Bee are here to educate you. We believe that all 32 teams were built by a system of whiteness that must be dismantled, one team name at a time. 

    We MUST do better. Here is why every NFL team name is very problematic:

    Arizona Cardinals – Too religious.

    Atlanta Falcons – Celebrates one of the cheapest Smash Bros. characters, who is a smug little punk only jerks choose.

    Baltimore Ravens – Named after the Disney Channel show That’s So Ravenwithout the POC protagonist’s permission.

    Buffalo Bills – Bills are an evil byproduct of capitalism.

    Carolina Panthers – The panther was appropriated wholesale from Wakandan culture.

    Chicago Bears – Murderous bears should never be celebrated.

    Cincinnati Bengals – It just sounds racist. We’re looking into it.

    Cleveland Browns – Brown what? Are you talking about skin color again? Sounds like white fragility.

    Dallas Cowboys – A mutant half boy, half cow is tragic and shouldn’t be used as a mascot.

    Denver Broncos – Horses have been subjugated and enslaved for millennia.

    Detroit Lions – Lions are not vegans.

    Green Bay Packers – Glorifies butcherous meat packers. Meat causes global warming. Gross.

    Houston Texans – Celebrates the most racist state in the Union.

    Indianapolis Colts – This name glorifies guns.

    Jacksonville Jaguars – Jaguars are driven by evil rich billionaires as they run over poor people.

    Kansas City Chiefs – We suggest switching to Kansas City Wise Indigenous Tribal Elders.

    Las Vegas Raiders – Celebrates The Raiders of the Lost Ark, which featured prominent Nazi imagery.

    Los Angeles Chargers – We don’t think anyone who has faced down a line of charging riot police would find this name the least bit funny.

    Los Angeles Rams – Dodge Rams contribute heavily to the climate crisis.

    Miami Dolphins – Painful reminder that Sea World still exists.

    Minnesota Vikings – Associated with patriarchy-dominated Norse mythology.

    New England Patriots – REEEEEEEEEEEE

    See Also: Who Shall I blame today?

    New Orleans Saints – Goes against the constitutional principle of separation of church and sports.

    New York Giants – They prefer the term “persons of height.” 

    New York Jets – The burning of jet fuel contributes to global warming.

    Philadelphia Eagles – Eagles are a well-known Nazi symbol.

    Pittsburgh Steelers – Steel contributes to global warming.

    San Francisco 49ers– The gold miner mascot hearkens back to manifest destiny and the destruction of Mother Earth

    Seattle Seahawks – Birds are unable to give consent to have their name used as mascots.

    Tampa Bay Buccaneers – This one’s actually OK because they were probably just stealing bread to feed their families.

    Tennessee Titans – Reinforces the harmful idea of power structures and male-dominated hierarchies.

    Washington Redskins – Nothing wrong with this one as far as we can tell.

    We hope this informative list is a wake-up call to the NFL. If we continue to work on ourselves, we can help the NFL become more inclusive! Within 20 years, we may get them to put down the ball and kick it around as the ancient Aztecs intended us to. 

  • QUIZ: Baby, You Can Drive My Car

    QUIZ: Baby, You Can Drive My Car

    Cars have provided many musicians with inspiration. This isn’t a music quiz, but it is based around songs that mention different makes of car.

    Play the Quiz Here

    Click and Find Out if You are Smarter than the Average Gearhead

    Source: funtrivia.com

  • Creepy yet Accurate

    Yesterday I went to town lookin like this

    it worked out rather well, social distancing wasn’t a problem.

    I did have one concern, seeing people on their phones while going about my business, since this state is an open carry state and my constant companion is a sidearm

    I did wonder how many of the mask nutters were trying to dial 911

    no one said anything to me

    GOOD

    am I looking for trouble….of course not

    I will MOCK our resting bitchface governor at every oppportunity given

    I’ve never viewed clowns as creepy or scary

    just cartoonish

    seeing this guy, hearing his words

    it’s creepy how so many are afraid of living their life, being influenced by the desires of others

    no Idea who that guy is for speaking out and speaking up

    I view him as a Patriot. His talents an skill sets are different than ours

    that too is a good thing

    this site’s very name exemplifies such people

    and in conclusion August 4th is our primary and since there’s no DICTATES on mask configuration, I was thinking 2 possibles

    what they gonna do, ask me to remove it?

    that would be against the very premise of using the mask for greater good

    Comrade

  • Welcome to Wednesday Conversation

    Welcome to Wednesday Conversation

    Time for punnies! Yes, it is a neologism.

    The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. 
    He acquired his size from too much pi. 

  • Trout fishing in warm weather

    Trout fishing in warm weather

    With the northeast in the midst of a heatwave, the New York state department of environmental conservation has issued some guidelines on warm weather trout fishing.

    “Heat-stressed fish in streams often seek pockets of cold water created by upwelling groundwater, small feeder streams, or water released from deep reservoirs. These refuges allow trout to avoid or recover from potentially fatal levels of heat stress,” DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said.

    “To protect these fish, DEC encourages anglers to avoid catch and release for trout and not disturb trout during hot days.”

    Anglers can help protect New York’s trout population by taking the following precautions:

    • Avoid catch and release fishing for heat-stressed trout. Trout already weakened by heat stress are at risk of death no matter how carefully they are handled;
    • Don’t disturb trout where they have gathered in unusually high numbers. It is likely these fish are recovering from heat stress in a pocket of cold water;
    • Fish early. Stream temperatures are at their coolest in the early morning; and
    • Be prepared with a backup plan. Have an alternate fishing plan ready in case water temperatures are too high at the intended destination. Consider fishing a water body that is less prone to heat stress or fishing for a more heat-tolerant species like smallmouth bass.
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized

    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized. The 87 year old is being treated for an infection at Johns Hopkins medical center.

    https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1283152635370119169?s=20

    RBG was taken in after having a fever and chills Monday night. Earlier in the day she underwent an endoscopic procedure to clean out a bile duct stent that had been placed last August. She remains at John Hopkins where she will stay for the next few days to receive antibiotic treatments.

  • The View from Here

    The View from Here

    Featured image: Selkirk Shores state park, Pulaski NY. Selkirk is on the eastern end of lake Ontario.

    It seems the Love Gov is more interested in bad art than he was of the lives of NYS nursing home residents. Andy Cuomo just released a god-awful poster commemorating the state’s coronavirus response.

    https://twitter.com/NickReisman/status/1282717828395737089?s=20

    Not for nothing, but if New York was an independent country, it would have the 5th highest infection rate and the 6th highest death toll in the world. Doesn’t seem like something one would want to commemorate.

    Jeffery Epstein’s alleged procurer Ghislane Maxwell was denied bail at a hearing today. After her not guilty plea, Judge Alison Nathan said the British socialite posed too great of a flight risk to be allowed to leave. She will remain in jail until her July 2021 trial.

    Rumor has it she’s singing like a bird. Hopefully she doesn’t kill herself like her partner in crime. I really want to see some people perp walked over this.

    Great Britain announced today that Chinese tech giant Huawei would not be part of the country’s 5G networks. The US has been pressuring the UK to exclude the company on security issues.

    https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1283064982150709249?s=20

    There are a couple of notes on the WuFlu front. First, out of New York, a diverse group of medical professionals are calling into question the results of a study that purported to absolve the state of responsibility for the 6,000 plus nursing home deaths in that state.

    “I think they got a lot of political pushback and so their response was, ‘This isn’t a problem. Don’t worry about it,’” said Rupak Shivakoti, an epidemiologist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

    “It seems like the Department of Health is trying to justify what was an untenable policy,” added Charlene Harrington, a professor emerita of nursing and sociology at the University of California at San Francisco.

    The governor and the health department need to sack up and admit the policy was an abject disaster.

    Next up is a story out of Florida. A local news outlet found multiple instances of health clinics reporting a 100% positive test rate. From Fox35Orlando:

    Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive. . .

    The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.

    This isn’t just a Florida issue. There are anecdotal reports of widespread discrepancies in testing results. From people scheduled to test, and not actually testing but getting notified they were covid positive to tests being processed without actually swabbing someone coming back positive.

    See also: Feds Execute Child Murderer

    Officer Cameron Maciejewski of the Sterling Heights Michigan PD is being hailed as a hero today. As Maciejewski pulled up to a home around 10:45 p.m. last Thursday as the panicked family rushed to him carrying the 3-week-old child, who was not breathing, according to the Sterling Heights Police Department. Dashcam footage released by the department shows  Maciejewski taking the baby in his arms and, while remaining calm, performed back thrusts on the child and clearing her airway. “Yep, there you go … She’s got a pulse and she’s breathing, OK?” he said, assuring the distraught family members that the baby would make it.

    https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1283092643338244102?s=20

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  • Of Mountain Men and Map Makers

    Of Mountain Men and Map Makers

    Editors note: This marks the first installment of this series by Walt Mow. It will continue every Tuesday afternoon until completion.

    It is estimated that there were only about 3,000 mountain men and trappers at the peak of the fur trade.  Some would become legends in their own time, others would be recognized later. That some were anti-social outcasts from society only added to the myths, tall tales and downright prevarications that are part and parcel of “The Mountain Men”.

    Here are a few of these intrepid souls, some of their adventures and their contributions to the knowledge of what was an unexplored wilderness.

    George Drouillard by Michael Haynes

    George Drouillard, born in 1773 in present day Windsor, Ontario Canada, of mixed blood.  Educated to read and write, he also acquired the native skills of his Shawnee mother’s people.  With an ear for languages and skilled in the sign language of the tribes plus a native knack for Cartography, at age 28 he was hired to accompany the Corps of Discovery on its historic expedition.  After completion of the expedition, he would accompany Manuel Lisa into the upper Missouri River in 1807. His failure to return from an 1810 trapping trip in the Three Forks region prompted a search. The party would find his beheaded remains scattered about in a ceremonial manner.  The scene indicated Drouillard had killed several of his Indian attackers before being overcome by superior numbers at approximate age 37.

    See Related: George Washington

    John Colter

    John Colter was born in 1774 according to his family and moved to present day Kentucky in 1780.  Here he would acquire the skills of the frontier and may have served as a ranger under Simon Kenton.  Meriwether Lewis would hire Colter October 15, 1803 to accompany the Corps of Discovery to the west coast.  Trusted and allowed great leeway, Colter more than delivered when asked to attend any task. On the return journey, Colter requested an early release from the Corps in order to accompany two trappers back to the upper Missouri.  The party would dissolve and Colter would travel alone through much of what are now Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons area of present day Wyoming. In 1808 he would join up with John Potts in a trading operation dealing with tribes in the area.  Colter would be wounded in an altercation with members of the Blackfeet. The following year, he and Potts were again in Blackfeet country when they were again accosted by warriors of the Blackfeet tribe. Potts would be killed and his body dismembered while Colter already stripped naked was advised to run.  It would be a run for his very life. Hiding in a beaver lodge, he would escape from his pursuers. He then walked 11 days to a trading post on the Little Big Horn. He abandoned the wilderness and returned to St. Louis, it is unclear just when he died with one source placing the date as May 7, 1812 and another dating it November 22, 1813 making him 38 or 39 at the time of his death.

  • Mariana Ocean Trench

    Mariana Ocean Trench

    Science has never been a “thing” for me; however, I was compelled to do some research. We can thank an app and a book. One evening I was playing an app. Finishing the puzzle required that I answer the question, “What is the deepest ocean trench?”. As if I even knew what such a thing was! Lo and behold, the next evening the very same name/subject occurred in something I was reading. Obviously, there was a message there. You all are about to receive said message, which is a brief thread on ocean trenches and specifically the Mariana Trench.

    What is an “Ocean Trench”? 

    The National Geographic’s definition says, 

    Ocean trenches are long, narrow depressions on the seafloor. These chasms are the deepest parts of the ocean—and some of the deepest natural spots on Earth. 

    GRAPHIC BY CHRIS HUH, COURTESY WIKIMEDIA. PUBLIC DOMAIN.

    How is an “Ocean Trench” formed?

    Subduction Zones

    When the leading edge of a dense tectonic plate meets the leading edge of a less-dense plate, the denser plate bends downward. This place where the denser plate subducts is called a subduction zone. 

    Oceanic subduction zones almost always feature a small hill preceding the ocean trench itself. This hill, called the outer trench swell, marks the region where the subducting plate begins to buckle and fall beneath the more buoyant plate.

    Some ocean trenches are formed by subduction between a plate carrying continental crust and a plate carrying oceanic crust. Continental crust is always much more buoyant than oceanic crust, and oceanic crust will always subduct. 

    For more information on Ocean Trenches, you can go to, 

    National Geographic: RESOURCE LIBRARY | ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRY Ocean trench

    It is very in-depth.

    Now, moving on to what caused The Mariana Trench. There were a couple of sources of available. Having been raised with a full set of the Encyclopedia Britannica

    I decided to use their information. 

    Mariana Trench

    May 22, 2020

    Mariana Trench, also called Marianas Trench, deep-sea trench in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean, the deepest such trench known on Earth, located mostly east as well as south of the Mariana Islands. It is part of the western Pacific system of oceanic trenches coinciding with subduction zones—points where two adjacent tectonic plates collide, one being forced below the other. An arcing depression, the Mariana Trench stretches for more than 1,580 miles (2,540 km) with a mean width of 43 miles (69 km). The greatest depths are reached in Challenger Deep, a smaller steep-walled valley on the floor of the main trench southwest of Guam. The Mariana Trench, which is situated within the territories of the U.S. dependencies of the Northern Mariana Islandsand Guam, was designated a U.S. national monument in 2009.

    Mariana Arc Cross section of the Mariana Arc showing the Mariana Trench. The diagram was generated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration following the 2004 Pacific Ring of Fire expedition.Dr. Robert W. Embley—PMEL/NOAA

    Measuring the greatest depths in the Mariana Trench is an exceedingly difficult task, given the technical challenges of delivering instrumentation to such a remote location and then obtaining accurate readings. The first attempt was made in 1875 during the Challenger Expedition (1872–76), when a sounding of 26,850 feet (8,184 metres) was obtained near the southern end of the trench. In 1899 Nero Deep (31,693 feet [9,660 metres]) was discovered southeast of Guam. That sounding was not exceeded until a 32,197-foot (9,813-metre) hole was found in the vicinity 30 years later. In 1957, during the International Geophysical Year, the Soviet research ship Vityaz sounded a new world record depth of 36,056 feet (10,990 metres) in Challenger Deep. That value was later increased to 36,201 feet (11,034 metres). Since then several measurements of the Challenger Deep have been made, using increasingly sophisticated electronic equipment. Notable among these is the depth of 35,840 feet (10,924 metres) reported by a Japanese expedition in 1984 and one of 36,070 feet (10,994 metres) obtained by a U.S. research team in 2011. In addition, another deep hole—originally called HMRG Deep (for Hawaii Mapping Research Group, the discoverers of the location) and later renamed Sirena Deep—is situated south of Guam and east of Challenger Deep. First encountered in 1997, its depth has been reported variously as 34,911 and 35,463 feet (10,641 and 10,809 metres).

    Britannica: Mariana Trench/trench, Pacific Ocean