THE SPHINX–KRAKATOA WEST OF JAVA
THIS WOULD BE PROGRESS.
https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/09/07/alzheimers-cure-monday-n2682483
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This lawyer is asking the President to break the law.
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She wouldn’t stand up for straight white women. Go sell some Bud Light.
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Fix it. How did supposedly educated people let this happen ???? They get their cut.
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Trump is the only guy who is his own man. The rest depend on favors and other peoples money.
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Go ICE.
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Build them a mosque at the WTC Memorial.
Is anyone surprised ?
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The Volcano Editor: This was a big bang, LL.
The Close My Ears Cat: It sure was, this is my last volcano article.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/krakatoa-stifled-sea-level-rise-decades
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/science/krakatoa-eruption-environmental-impact
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Whoa!!!
https://genesiustimes.com/trump-officially-renames-grand-canyon-grand-kamala/
https://www.thejakartapost.com/
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Progressive is next.
https://babylonbee.com/news/billie-eilish-introduces-new-fragrance-socialism-on-sale-now-for-72000
Astronomy Picture of the Day
LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Merga
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
Explanation: What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs mid-stride (but some may see a squirrel instead). The featured image shows LDN 1295, also called the Giraffe Nebula, in the constellation of the mythical queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia). It is an object in the Lynds Catalogue of Dark Nebulas, compiled in 1962 by American astronomer Beverly Lynds, a pioneer for women in astronomy and astrophysics. Dark nebulas are interstellar clouds of dust and gas that block the visible light of the stars behind them. These nebulas are often faint and challenging targets for astrophotographers. Why do we see animal shapes and faces in nebulas, clouds, and pretty much everywhere? It is due to pareidolia, our tendency to look for familiar patterns. Pareidolia may provide animals with an evolutionary advantage, for example in identifying (and avoiding) predators.
Tomorrow’s picture: freewheeling
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Fun Facts: Food & Drinks Part 7
There are pink bananas that exist called Musa velutina, and they peel themselves when ripe. They’re often grown as ornamental, but have soft, sweet flesh and can be eaten. The seeds however are quite hard and can chip a tooth.
There are 3D printers that can print your dinner. The Foodini Food Printer makes everything from pizza to burgers to chocolate using fresh ingredients.
A free kitchen, operated by volunteers in India at the Golden Temple in the Indian city of Amritsar, serves 100,000 hot meals a day and has been doing so for over three hundred years.
We have the ability to eat an entire bag of chips without really noticing, because the chips have a vanishing caloric density. What that means is that it tricks our tongue and brain into thinking that we haven’t actually eaten anything.
Marigolds and other plants that contain the pigment Xanthophyll are added to chicken feed to make their egg yolks appear more orange.
Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom
Never follow someone else’s path. Unless you are lost in the woods, then by all means, follow them.
Ellen Degeneres
I am glad she followed someone’s path to England’s bucolic Cotswold district. I hope all her Liberal followers follow her path to England.
-Sheila Tolley-
THE SPHINX—CALDERA
MANY HEROES.
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Are Michigan Jews waking up ????? What does it take, a ton of bricks ?????
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/09/03/michigan-jews-turn-against-el-sayed-n4956863
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More new jobs.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/09/04/boom-us-adds-162000-jobs-in-august-n3818685
Take hers.
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Be patient.
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Jesus Christ!!!!!!
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The problem is personnel in the service.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-secret-service-white-house/2026/09/03/id/1268279/
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Funny.
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Good news.
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The Volcano Editor: Do you know about calderas, LL ?
The Reading Cat: Just what I have read. The Pompeii volcano attracted a lot of comments. If this happened, it would be even worse.
That would be a mess.
You can’t escape.
https://theonion.com/u-s-lobbying-against-global-plastic-limits/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/
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Ole Tuck.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Witness XZ Andromedae Wink
Video Credit: Ogetay Kayali (MTU, Starfront Observatories)
Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
Explanation: Is this star winking at us? The central object in today’s animation is not one but two stars. XZ Andromedae, indicated by the bold lines, is an Algol-type eclipsing binary with a nearly edge-on orbit from Earth’s perspective. The bottom light curve shows the amount of light from the system dim and brighten as the cooler star eclipses its hotter, brighter companion. Analysis of several XZ Andromedae light curves indicates there may be two other stars orbiting the system. This particular light curve was created with Citizen Astronomy, an open-source software for differential photometry. The software takes the difference in brightness between a target and comparison star and traces its behavior over time. This technique reduces most variations from the instrument and Earth’s atmosphere. In addition to eclipsing binaries, this analysis is useful for studying transiting exoplanets, accreting black holes, supernovae, and many more time-varying astronomical phenomena. Astrophotographers: try it out on your own data!
Tomorrow’s picture: open space
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