Thursday Tidings

On a warm sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has a double standard about foreign influence.

From FrontpageMag, a coronavirus nightmare story that needs to be heard.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, former President Trump should not join the Republican debates.

From The Washington Free Beacon, when Democrats were cool with alleging that elections were "stolen".

From the Washington Examiner, Georgia state Senator Colton Moore (R) requests an emergency session of the state's legislature to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

From The Federalist, the North Carolina Assembly overrides Governor Roy Cooper's (D) veto of bills that protect children from mutilation.

From American Thinker, a year after the raid on Trump's house at Mar-a-Lago, the MAGA movement refuses to be silenced.

From MRCTV, the Fulton County, Georgia clerk who leaked the Trump indictment has her "mistakes were made" moment.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC gives an anti-Semite who opposes Florida's history standards on slavery a party change.

From Canada Free Press, Trump is not a mafia don, President Biden is.

From TeleSUR, elections in Ecuador start with votes from prisoners.

From TCW Defending Freedom, cancel the writings of English author C.K. Chesterton, and "you cancel all of history".

From VRT NWS, a missing dog from Herentals, Belgium is found after a month-long search.

From The Brussels Times, if you're in Brussels this coming September, drink up.

From the NL Times, two companies that make and sell the Stint electric cargo bike, and an executive from each, will be prosecuted after an accident in Oss, Netherlands left four children dead.

From Dutch News, the Dutch CPB warns that without action, more children in the Netherlands will grow up in poverty.

From Deutsche Welle, teaching German students about the Nazis and the Holocaust.

From Voice Of Europe, despite protests from local residents, German authorities continue to install shelters for migrants in the villages of Uphal and Nordenau.  (While the article spells the first place's name "Uphal", its name might really be "Upahl".)

From ReMix, more German retirees are buying homes around Lake Balaton in Portugal.  (In 2000, I was on a tour that visited a winery on Lake Balaton.  If you read Hungarian, read the story at SONLINE.)

From the CPH Post, an Irish businessman founds and runs a company in Copenhagen, Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda submits a bill to the Sejm to improve Poland's ability to fight against external threats.  (The Sejm is Poland's national legislature, which name is pronounced like the English word "same".)

From Radio Prague, former Czech President Miloš Zeman calls out Ukrainian men accused of rape while in the Czech Republic.

From The Slovak Spectator, more palm trees grow in Slovakia.

From EuroNews, the French government sends an elite police unit to the city of Marseilles to tackle a deadly wave of drugs-related crime.

From Balkan Insight, according to ethnic Albanian film producer Gani Veseli, a Serbian court's ban on his films amounts to "censorship".  (Although he is ethnically Albania, his last name resembles the Polish word wesoły, which means "happy", and thus could have Slavic origins.)

From The North Africa Post, how China's economic malaise could impact African countries.

From The New Arab, human smuggling networks in Morocco use jet skis to bring migrants to Spain.

From Iran Press Watch, Iranian authorities arrest a 90-year-old Baha'i man who once spent 10 years in prison, and seek to target 180 other Baha'is.

From Palestinian Media Watch, summer camps run by the group Fatah train Palestinian teenagers to be soldiers.

From News18, the Taliban ban political parties in Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran's plan to turn the West Bank into a base for terror against Israel.

From The Stream, Christianity, correctly understood, is not a suicide cult.

From The Daily Signal, Biden wrongly prioritizes Ukraine and illegal aliens over Hawaiians victimized by the wildfire on Maui.

From The American Conservative, the lines keep getting crossed.

From The Western Journal, some people on Maui would like Biden to not visit the island.

From BizPac Review, an interesting new detail emerges about a woman who pointed a gun at cars, drivers, and her own head before being hit by a police car.

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter James Comer (R-KY) seeks records of Biden using a pseudonym while he was vice president.

From the Daily Caller, Biden refuses to answer questions about his upcoming trip to Maui.

From the New York Post, actor Alec Baldwin gets into a feud with Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) over his family's charity getting a booth at the Great New York State Fair.

From Breitbart, American First Legal launches a multi-state investigation into possible collusion between Democrat attorneys general and a left-wing organization to censor Americans.

From Newsmax, according to podcaster Joe Rogan, some Democrats are releasing information about Biden in an effort to have a different candidate in 2024.

And from the Genesius Times, Trump is indicted yet again, this time for leaving a toilet seat up after relieving himself.

Wednesday Whatnot

On a warm mostly cloudy Wednesday, now that I've some time to get back to my normal routine, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the entire police force of Goodhue, Minnesota decides to resign.

From FrontpageMag, the movie Barbie is a feminist nightmare for girls everywhere.

From Townhall, the White House admits that the "Inflation Reduction Act" was really a handout to climate activists.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration raised concerns that aid to the Palestinians would help Hamas, but went through with it anyway.

From the Washington Examiner, a convicted burglar escapes from a transport van in my neck of the woods.

From The Federalist, putting the charges in the Georgia indictment of former President Trump and 18 others into six "buckets".

From American Thinker, former Speaker Gingrich (R-GA) gives a stark warning about Trump's indictments.

From MRCTV, the left tries to make everything gay.

From NewsBusters, a federal court rules that rules that Washington, D.C. police wrongly arrested two pro-life advocates for sidewalk art.

From Canada Free Press, open-borders advocates are the real threat to democracy.

From CBC News, a family flees from Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada, "driving through embers".

From Global News, a 10-year-old boy from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada swims 15 kilometers to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society.  (He thus earns this blog's "badass" label, which does not discriminate by sex, age, race, ethnicity, or even species.  Yours truly, on the other hand, might be able to swim about 15 meters.)

From CTV News, the Canadian government will respond to the findings of the "freedom convoy" commission.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan National Assembly will appoint new members to the country's National Electoral Council.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how the U.K.'s National Service once turned boys into men, as told by one of its veterans.

From Snouts in the Trough, would you like some ice with your boiling earth?

From the Express, human smugglers tell illegal migrants to "ignore" drownings in the English Channel and "rumours" of a U.K. government crackdown.

From the Evening Standard, what is the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland report, and why is it controversial?

From the (U.K.) Independent, inflation in the U.K. drops, but a recession looms ahead.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's Garda Headquarters defends its decision to station officers at ATMs.

From the Irish Examiner, a woman in Ennis, Ireland is sentenced to 13 months in jail for stealing €873 worth of goods from a Penneys store.  (My tour group stayed in Ennis during my trip to Ireland in 1997.  As far as I know, none of us stole anything from any stores.)

From EuroNews, the German Cabinet approves a bill to allow small amounts of cannabis for recreational use.

From Voice Of Europe, Germany is now hosting 395,655 Afghan refugees.

From ReMix, a conflict is feared in the Czech Republic between its Roma minority and Ukrainian refugees.

From Balkan Insight, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Mayor Benjamina Karić demands the resignation of people promoting the Serbian film The Heroes of Halyard from her city's film festival.

From The North Africa Post, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Malian interim President Assimi Goita discuss the crisis in Niger.

From The New Arab, 27 people are killed and 106 others wounded in clashes between armed groups in Tripoli, Libya.

From British Asian Christian Association, after a Christian is accused of blasphemy, hundreds of homes inhabited by Christians and several churches are destroyed in Jaranwala, Punjab, Pakistan.

From OpIndia, Islamists in India use WhatsApp to coordinate attacks on Hindu-Muslim couples.

From Gatestone Institute, Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointment of David Weiss as special counsel is illegal.

From The Stream, a whack-a-mole game cannot be used against heresy.

From The Daily Signal, Washington, D.C. might finally pay for its blatant double standards involving the group Black Lives Matter.

From The Western Journal, President Biden's lie about a "bridge collapse" in Pittsburgh draw a backlash, but says the worst about his party.

From BizPac Review, more on Biden's "bridge collapse" lie.

From The Daily Wire, a firm run by left-wing billionaire George Soros was a major investor in an electric bus company that went bankrupt.

From the Daily Caller, will American self-described "social democrats" ever accept Sweden's levels of taxation?

From the New York Post, videos might show the start of the wildfire on Maui.

From Breitbart, migrants allegedly attack a candidate from the German party AfD.

From Newsmax, Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who indicted Trump and 18 others, wants their trial to take place this coming March.

And from The Babylon Bee, a new Christian dating app simply tells you to go to church and find a godly spouse there.

I'm Back

I spent just about all of yesterday driving back from a temporary undisclosed location in northeastern Indiana.  Let me say that both West Virginia and Pennsylvania can take their single-lane road constructions and merges, which turn interstate highways into parking lots, and [bleepity-bleep] them.  Even so, I was able to make it back home well before my normal bedtime.  Thus, both yesterday evening and this morning, I have undertaken post-travel chores such as laundry.  (The place I stayed at in Wisconsin had only coin laundry, which would have required using more quarters than I normally have, with no change machine.)  I have some other things to do, so I expect to resume my normal blogging tomorrow.  See youz then.

Big Foot Goes Through The Territory Of Big Foot

Today I left my undisclosed location in Wisconsin and have arrived at a temporary location in northeastern Indiana.  I would have liked to have reached Ohio, but traffic around the Chicago area was a pain in the [bleep].  On the way along U.S. 14, just south of where it enters Illinois from Wisconsin, is an inn and restaurant that I just had to visit.  As you can see from the vehicle on the left, the place even has a catering service.  And yes, the brunch was delicious.

Saturday Stories

On a warm sunny Saturday in Wisconsin, as I prepare for the journey homeward, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the investigation of First Son Hunter Biden is a joke.

From Townhall, Border Patrol agents find weapons suspected to belong to Mexican drug cartels, on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's latest senior moment.  (The article has links to his previous ones.)

From the Washington Examiner, what the bankruptcy of the electric bus maker Proterra says about the future of electric vehicles for mass transit.

From The Federalist, what the country-folk song Rich Men North Of Richmond shows a glimpse of the lives of Americans left behind.

From American Thinker, what really happened during the Capitol riot?

From NewsBusters, wokeness is still very much alive and crushing free speech.

From Canada Free Press, "you were warned" about things happening today.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when will all these "do-gooding" rock stars practice what they preach?

From Snouts in the Trough, give a man a stick, and pretty soon he'll beat you with it.

From EuroNews, English and French forces launch a rescue operation in the English Channel after a migrant boat collapses.

From Voice Of Europe, according to the European statistics office Eurostat, Germany has taken in the most Ukrainian refugees.

From The New Arab, Two Tunisians, including a baby, are killed when a migrant boat sinks in the Mediterranean.

From ETV Bharat, three young Muslims in Porbandar, Gujarat, India attempt suicide after a cleric allegedly threatened to "expel" them from Islam.  (The country called "India" by the outside world calls itself "Bharat".)

From Gatestone Institute, is the Biden administration abandoning Israel for the mullahs of Iran?

From The Stream, a review of the book Running into the Fire by Terri Hasdorff.

From The Daily Signal, the dilemma for pro-lifers and "the politics of prudence".

From The American Conservative, dealing with abortion by the democratic process.  (To my disappointment, TAC has started requiring readers to subscribe in order to read some of its articles.)

From BizPac Review, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) gets called out for hypocrisy after trying to get the DOJ to go after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

From The Daily Wire, right-wing commentator Michael Knowles interviews a "trans widow".

From the Daily Caller, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) says that he would be open to pardoning the aforementioned Hunter Biden.

From the New York Post, six countries on the U.N. Security Council demand that Russia return territory it took from Georgia when it invaded in 2008.

From Breitbart, Biden seeks $800 million for fighting the import of fentanyl, but $24 billion more for Ukraine.

From Newsmax, Russia accuses Ukraine of "terrorism" for an attempted attack on the Crimean Bridge which spans the Kerch Strait.  (Which modern war has not involved any attacks on bridges?)

And from SFGate, a former engineer makes and sells rare gourmet donuts in Union City, California.

Friday Fuss

I now interrupt my travelogue to return to some regular blogging, as in linking stories "for you approval", to steal Ron Serling's phrase, or as the facts might dictate, for your disapproval.  Thus, on a warm partly sunny Friday somewhere in Wisconsin, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a special counsel for First Son Hunter Biden.

From FrontpageMag, where is former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's indictment on the same charges as former President Trump?

From Townhall, Hunter Biden will go on trial.

From The Washington Free Beacon, six books which all young journalists should read.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden regrets lying about the "Inflation Reduction Act".

From The Federalist, the FBI targets traditional Catholics because they refuse to accept leftist morality.

From American Thinker, were empires really all that bad?

From MRCTV, a Native American group demands that the Washington Commanders change their name back to the Redskins.

From NewsBusters, Special Counsel Jack Smith thinks that he is allowed to leak evidence, but Trump is not.

From Canada Free Press, the movie Sound of Freedom is "an alarm bell for all of God's children".

From TeleSUR, President Nicolas Maduro asks Venezuela's military to keep their guard up.

From TCW Defending Freedom, don't be so dim as to tinker with sunlight.

From EuroNews, consuming olive oil could reduce your chances of dying from dementia.

From Voice Of Europe, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismisses all of Ukraine's regional commanders.

From ReMix, the world has moved too far leftward, claims the singer known as Johnny Rotten.  (If you read German, read the story at Welt.)

From Balkan Insight, Bosnian authorities will investigate people who express support online for a shooter who livestreamed himself while committing his crimes in Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The New Arab, Jordanian satirist Ahmad Hassan al-Zoubi is sentenced to a year in prison over a post made on Facebook.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Gatestone Institute, India and the Middle East undergo a massive transformation.

From The Stream, how the feminist movement drew ideas from the occult.

From The Daily Signal, a rabbi in Beverly Hills, California defends his right to hold Jewish services in his home after the city tries to stop him.  (What are this "freedom of religion" and this "right to peaceable assemble" you speak of?)

From The American Conservative, if you want to reduce harm from drugs, try abstaining from them.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly defends Trump's "fat pig" jab at presidential candidate and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R).  (In my opinion, while not as heavy as Christie, Trump could stand to lose a few himself.)

From The Daily Wire, more on the aforementioned special counsel assigned to investigate Hunter Biden.

From the Daily Caller, the judge in charge of Trump's trial on charges related to the Capitol riot adopts his protective order proposal, with some restrictions.

From Breitbart, Republicans (figuratively) rip Biden for tying domestic disaster relief to more funding for Ukraine.

From Newsmax, at the Iowa State Fair, former Vice President Pence faces questions from hostile Trump supporters.

And from the New York Post and the "I'm not dead yet" department, an animal species thought to have gone extinct 3 million years ago makes its modern appearance.

Devil's Lake State Park

Earlier today, I spent several hours in Devil's Lake State Park, the north end of which is about three miles south of Baraboo, Wisconsin, and which is built around its namesake lake.  There were several places within the park to which I wanted to hike.  These hikes began, as noted a few posts ago, by going uphill.  My first destination is officially known as Elephant Rock, but on GoogleMaps, it's called Bison Rock.  I started from a parking lot at the north end of the lake on the East Bluff Trail, and eventually hiked up to this group of rocks.

The Mid-Continent Railway Museum - Part 2

Here are more of the rolling stock seen at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum near North Freedom, Wisconsin.  This is the Kewanee, Green Bay & Western locomotive number 49, which has a 2-8-0 configuration, and its coal tender.

The Mid-Continent Railway Museum - Part 1

Today I visited the Mid-Continent Railway Museum, which is just west of North Freedom, Wisconsin.  I took so many pictures that I decided to divide my report into two posts.  The museum includes North Freedom's railroad station.

Return To Effigy Mounds National Monument

During my archaeological tour of 2014, our group made a brief stop at Effigy Mounds National Monument, about six miles north of Marquette, Iowa.  The only mounds in the park which we saw back then were this group of three near the visitor center, which are shown again in this photo, taken today.