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Kinda disappointing here. We were in the partial zone for (?) half an hour, and it's overcast. Glancing periodically at the sky for a half-second at a time (didn't have the special glasses), I noticed a crescent sun, showing its sliver on the left, and the crescent shifted to the bottom. It got a little dim, but if no one knew better, they'd have reasonably attributed it to the clouds. Researchers are interested in how animals will react, because there are few data. The three prevalent crepuscular critters here (active at dawn & dusk) are squirrels, mosquitoes, and cats. I saw no cats, saw one squirrel heading up a tree, and surprisingly wasn't eaten by mosquitoes -- this will come this evening. Cat T-B. (100% indoors) slept through the whole thing. During the last eclipse in 2017 or whenever, I was driving. It got darker than usual, and what light there was had a strange, intense glow to it. Next eclipse is supposed to be in 20 years...

True. Some time back, I saw a construction vehicle crushing a Prius. That was satisfying.

Anything remarkable or unremarkable to note about the total solar eclipse on 8 April 2024, post here.

Maps show where trillions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. this spring Trillions of periodical cicadas will emerge from the ground this spring, bringing with them their loud buzzing and molted exoskeletons. Here's where you will be able to see cicadas in the U.S. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/maps-show-where-trillions-cicadas-150715126.html

Guy Destroys Car As It Gets Repossessed Car repossessions famously can be rather unpredictable. While some people just hand over the keys and admit defeat after they stop paying for a vehicle, others fly into a rage and genuinely believe the ride they don't technically own is being stolen. Then there's this car repo video where the guy just destroys the Pontiac Vibe tow truck drivers have been hunting down apparently for quite some time. The guy who does grab this long overdue, bank-owned hatchback is incredibly relaxed as he rolls in to get his tow boom in place under the front tires of the little Pontiac. But after he gets the thing in the air, it's obvious the "owner" is still inside and he's not going to give up without a fight. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/autos/guy-destroys-car-gets-repossessed-150000329.html

"Whoop de whoop; scoop de poop" -- Kanye West ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A United flight had to divert because a dog pooped in the aisle, and staff spent 2 hours cleaning it up A United Airlines flight had to divert because a dog pooped in the aisle of the plane, the airline confirmed to Business Insider. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-flight-had-divert-because-131103212.html

Leftists ==> CONSEQUENCES

Let us know how you choose to proceed, and how things work out. This thread may be helpful to others.

If it's for visa pickup, it would seem to be her address. If services are unreliable, see if she can pick it up at the consulate, which some people do.

Addendum: There's nothing in life quite like having to triumph over a consulate. It will be interesting to hear your analysis of your own emotional state (if you wish to provide it) as you begin to recover.

Such wonderful news! Your feeling is very natural. Your words describe exactly how I felt after overcoming our own hosing in Guayaquil. If it's consolation to you, I later found it a relief, in comparison, to deal with USCIS again. With her visa, you'll have far less to face in the future.

Yellow star? Biden plans to soecially (sic) label goods produced by Jewish settlements in West Bank Has Joe Biden and his administration gone completely Nazi? In his quest to punish Israel for attempting to defeat Hamas, his administration has cooked up this vile act redolent of the Third Reich, according to The Financial Times: [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/yellow_star_biden_plans_to_label_goods_produced_by_jewish_settlements_in_west_bank.html

This easy-reading piece is absolutely fascinating. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Video: The migrants, up close By random chance, I discovered a 32-minute YouTube video by a videographer named Nick Shirley titled, "I Lived with Migrants in NYC for 24hrs." It was two weeks old, but what an amazing revelation it was, a very fine example of what good long-form journalism used to be. Shirley, who speaks Spanish (and captions his videos in English well), has a talent for connecting to the illegal migrants and those in contact with them, and they open up and explain what they're doing, where they're going, and why. Sure, it's a lot of information we already knew, but seeing it through the eyes of particular people helps one to grasp the big picture better than individual data points. [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/video_the_migrants_up_close.html

I agree with this 100%; after reading the whole thing, what do you think? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Israel Is Risking Losing This War By Caring What People Who Hate It Think [...] The problem is not that Netanyahu has been too harsh, as our idiot president claims. It's that Netanyahu has been too gentle (Yes, I understand a war cabinet is leading Israel, but he is still the face of it.). And too slow. Joe Biden has betrayed every ally America has had, from South Vietnam to Afghanistan and Bibi somehow imagined that creep would not sell-out Israel? Speed was of the essence. Why was Rafah not glass months ago? Netanyahu waited, and that gave Biden the time to sell out Israel. Restraining was a mistake. The fact is that Israel has, to a far too great extent, tried to fight this war on terms that would satisfy its leftist enemies in the United States and other anti-Semites around the world. That was an error from the beginning. Israel's strategy should have focused on victory, not on trying to mollify its critics. They will cry no matter what. Let them cry over defeated terrorists. Do you know what mollifies critics most effectively? Winning. Israel should've done that, and fast. But it didn't. Despite the courage and skill of the IDF, who are a credit to their great nation, Israel's leadership chose to fight this war and is still fighting this war in a manner that allows others who do not have Israel's best interest at heart to dictate its strategic and tactical prerogatives. That is a grave error. That is putting Israel in danger. [...] https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/04/08/israel-is-risking-losing-this-war-by-caring-what-people-who-hate-it-think-n2637467

Harvard Hires 24/7 Security to Protect 'Anti-Israel' Wall Harvard University employed around-the-clock security guards to monitor and protect an anti-Israel wall created by pro-Palestine students. The "apartheid wall" features various artwork and quotes showing their support for Palestine and their distaste for Israel. One of the quotes is from the leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. Another is from the former spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ghassan Kanafani— which is a communist Palestinian terrorist organization infamous for hijacking aircraft and mass murder. [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/04/06/harvard-hires-247-security-to-protect-anti-israel-wall-n2637454

Yes, It Has Come to This: They're Screaming 'Death to America' In Dearborn [...] Dearborn's International Al-Quds Day rally was streamed live on the Facebook page of the Arabic-English news site Dearborn.org. It seems to have been taken down from Facebook, but video of the entire rally is still available as of Sunday afternoon at Dearborn.org. Around the 40-minute mark of that video, as the crowd screams "Free, Free Palestine" and the genocidal "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free," an activist named Tarek Bazzi came to the podium. What he said should be a matter of grave concern to Old Joe, Merrick Garland, and the FBI [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/04/07/yes-it-has-come-to-this-theyre-screaming-death-to-america-in-dearborn-n4927974

Trump Campaign Fundraiser Crushes Biden's... And It Wasn't Even Close The Biden campaign has been touting its fundraising advantage over Trump for months, insisting that Trump's "low-energy" campaign can't compete with them and that their fundraising advantage is even more important than Trump's current advantage in the polls. Last week, the Biden campaign hosted a mega fundraiser featuring Hollywood celebrities and three presidents (Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton), bringing in a reported $26 million from large donors who were willing to shell out big money. Well, on Saturday the Trump campaign destroyed this narrative after hosting a huge fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida, that brought in a huge $50.5 million, nearly double what Joe Biden's star-studded fundraiser in New York City was able to pull in. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/04/07/trump-campaign-fundraiser-crushes-bidens-and-it-wasnt-even-close-n4927968

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Biden Admin Okayed Geoengineering Test in San Francisco Bay What could possibly go wrong when the government allows aerosolized materials to be sprayed into the atmosphere to help combat 'climate change'? Well, we guess we'll find out because it happened quietly in the San Francisco Bay area, with the blessing of the Biden administration: [...] https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/04/07/san-francisco-spraying-sodium-chloride-to-combat-global-warming-n2394816

Wow. I tend to agree with what the author thinks will happen. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Will Joe Biden Be on the Ballot in Ohio? The Democrats have invested plenty of time, energy, and money trying to keep Donald Trump off of the ballot this November, hopefully by landing him in prison. But perhaps they should have spent a bit more time making sure that their own candidate will be on the ballot. Joe Biden's campaign is now facing a technical error that would render him ineligible to be on the ballot in the key swing state of Ohio. It's an unlikely scenario, but [...] https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/04/07/will-joe-biden-be-on-the-ballot-in-ohio-n3786065

Jonathan Turley again makes sense. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Democrats cry foul as anti-free speech allies turn against them [...] after years of Raskin encouraging the censorship of others, the mob finally came for him. The yawning response of the university was not unlike his own past response to journalists, professors and dissents who have come before his committee. [...] https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4578005-democrats-cry-foul-as-anti-free-speech-allies-turn-against-them/

They're in the 4 states mentioned in the original article. There are so many 99 Cents stores around, I thought they were national. Guess their shutdown won't hurt as many people, then. They ceased to be a destination for me, but I was always willing to pop in when near one. Now, I'll have to time the always-uncertain shutdown process to still have a selection of items but at a decent percentage discount.

Fauci was the face of the horse-poop, but word is that Birx was really the one behind it all.

Cheating on Alexandria Occasional-Cortex! Reported!!!!!

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