More Guerrilla action

A cabin in Slovenia

Looks exposed.

Angry mop head

It might bite

They're orange, so they're harder to lose in the weeds

Outdoor Edge WL-6 Wild Lite Game Processing Knife Set (6-Piece)

The quality of this sculpture always amazes me for being 4500 years old.

Diorite statue of pharaoh Khafra enthroned with wings of falcon god Horus wrapped around his head, from his valley temple near the Great Sphinx, Giza. Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, ca. 2570 BC. 

Sundance was right: Canadian Trade Reversal Now Seems Increasingly Likely – Nervous Freeland/Trudeau Trying to Position for Political Face Saving…

Trudeau shouldn't have so publicly disrespected Trump.  There are consequences when the US President enjoys crushing his enemies, driving them before him, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

You can bet other world leaders, and especially the Communist Chinese, are watching this play out very carefully.  I wonder what the words are for "oh chit.." are in Mandarin?

The pertinent part of Sundance's latest analysis:

Team Trump has positioned this perfectly. By using NAFTA section 2202, to construct a modification of the original 1993 agreement, Lighthizer is intending to send a 90-day notification letter to congress informing them the U.S. and Mexico have agreed to modifications of their bilateral trade agreement.

This approach allowed Trump/Lighthizer to position Canada with a take it or leave it option.  If Canada didn’t accept, Lighthizer files a simultaneous section 2205 notification withdrawing the U.S. from a NAFTA partnership with Canada.  If Canada did accept Lighthizer adds them to the 2202 (modification) notification.

A 2205 withdrawal meant Canada and the U.S. would need to enter a bilateral trade deal entirely separate from the U.S-Mexico deal.  President Trump already publicly said what the terms of that bilateral would entail.  In the interim he would initiate a 25% tariff on Canadian made automobiles (massive leverage).

However, in order for Canada to accept or join, via 2202 modification, they would need to agree to the modification terms.  For Canada they would have to: drop their protectionist tariffs on the dairy sector, open their telecommunications and banking sectors and eliminate the subsidies on aeronautics and soft-wood Lumber sectors.   In essence open their economy to fair market competition and agree to intellectual property protections.

Canada had to choose between taking on Trump individually, a NAFTA withdrawal, or accepting the terms of modification.  The prism for Canadian decision-making is entirely about politics.  Justin and Chrystia have to make a political decision, or change their perspective and look at the economics.  Incredibly, it now appears Canada is going to accept the modification route.

The Canadian electorate will not return Trudeau to power. That's my prediction - bank on it.

Chrystia and Justin appear to be polishing up their knees, to properly bend the knee.  The children are being taught by the master, although it remains to be seen if they are capable of learning their lesson.

I have to say, that although the Canadians are our allies and brothers and sisters, Trudeau is not, and Castro's spawn is not worthy of respect. After Obama's humiliating groveling and bowing to all and sundry overseas, it's simply great to have a President that takes no chit, and makes those who give him grief pay and pay again.  

Hahahaha!

My wife is Catholic and I've been to plenty of masses with her, so I get this.

I love these guerrilla tactics.

Meteor lights up the sky in Perth, Australia

Literal insanity, beyond even banning plastic straws.

Banning straws was just the warning, the tocsin, the red flag, about where our political class was planning to go.  

Via Instapundit:

● Shot: California assembly passes bill mandating 100 percent clean electricity. “California’s assembly has voted to move the state’s electricity completely off fossil fuels. The state assembly on Tuesday passed S.B. 100, a proposal to transition California to 100 percent emissions-free electricity sources by 2045. Amid heavy lobbying from environmentalists and other groups, the bill passed, 43 to 32.”

—CBS News, yesterday.

● Chaser: ‘Green’ California Is More Reliant On Foreign Oil Than Ever Before: “California’s biggest source of crude oil imports is now Saudi Arabia with more than 98 million barrels in 2017.”

—The Daily Caller, yesterday.

A clear path to the creation of a new Venezuela out of a heretofore successful state has been established.

Unbelievable stupidity, if not outright evil.  Even illegal aliens here should see this, and being a naturally practical people, vote accordingly, or at least one would think so.

Next, they'll outright ban the internal combustion engine.

This green energy plan is so devoid of logic and sense that Governor Moonbeam might actually refuse to sign it.  We'll see.

I don't know if this is true, but it should be.

Charlie Brown grows up

I need one for my yard

California could go a long way back toward fiscal sanity just by following this simple trick.

A hawk with Heterochromia iridum, or two different colored eyes

It can manifest in three different ways: sectoral heterochromia where one part of the iris is a different color from the rest; central heterochromia where a ring of different color surrounds the pupil; and complete heterochromia which is what this hawk displays.

Swimming hole of dreams