Coachella has come and gone. Aftershock is still a ways away. Warped Tour has just swept through town, pulling in big crowds, standing room only. The World Surfing League (WSL) is chugging along in Surf City, USA (Huntington Beach, Orange County). So Fairy Peril's brainchild is hogging all the limelight. Who? Pariss Fariss? The guy who tried to beat up Dave Navarro and ruined the chances of a comeback for the band. Lollapalooza has begun, and Friday night's lineup is something: Is there a crossover in the fanbases of old Korn and new Olivia Rodrigo? (Is she a stripper, or does she just dance that way?) Does Sabrina Carpenter rap to rival and potentially outshine A$AP Rocky? There are 170 acts on nine stages over four days. CBS News Chicago
(Answers in Genesis) May 9, 2025: Where are the ancient ruins of North America (USA)? In Europe, they’re everywhere — castles, cathedrals, medieval cities. But in the USA, the historical attractions are all post-European arrivals. (They are all over Mexico, so let's call that part of pre-Hispanic North America "Mesoamerica" to make it seem far away and foreign).
In this video, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson uncovers some surprising new discoveries about the ancient civilizations here in what is now the USA.
Dr. Jeanson’s book, They Had Names, is available at GetAnswers.org/new-discoveries-ancient-america
Today, Cahokia (earthworks, pyramids, mounds), Illinois, is considered the largest and most complex archeological site north of the great pre-Columbus cities in neighboring Mexico, just across the Gulf of America Mexico in places like the Yucatan Peninsula.
They Had Names: Tracing the History of the North American Indigenous People
Long before the Occupiers "Pilgrims" stormed landed at Cape Cod, what was happening in North America? Who was here? What civilizations rose and fell?
For years, the answers to these questions have been shrouded in mystery. At the time of European contact, a diverse world of Native America (indigenous, First Nations, "Indian") peoples thrived across this continent.
Who took the peaks off these pyramids?
What was their backstory? Who were the ancestors of the Sioux? Where did the Navajo come from? What about the Apache, the Comanche, the Cherokee?
They Had Names is the result of a multi-year deep dive into genetics, indigenous histories, archeology, and linguistics — an ambitious quest to uncover answers to these questions. More
ABOUT: Answers in Genesis is an apologetics (religion-defending) ministry dedicated to getting Christians to be defensive about their beliefs, faith, religion, and proclaim the good news of [Nordic] Jesus Christ effectively.
On its YouTube channel, find answers to pressing questions about key issues like creation, evolution, science, the age of the earth, and social issues. AIG desires to train believers to believe and develop a worldview based on the Bible and expose the bankruptcy of evolutionary ideas and their implications.
Hear from top teachers like Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson, Ken Ham, Bryan Osborne, Dr. Georgia Purdom, Dr. Tim Chaffey, Dr. Gabriela Haynes, Dr. Terry Mortenson, and more.
Help AIG continue to push the gospel to the world: https://AnswersinGenesis.org/give. Transcript
Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson, Answers in Genesis, May 9, 2025; Xochitl, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
May the Force (of the Fourth) be with you. And also with you. The Dharma of Star Wars is a well-known thing, how Buddhism influenced the creation of the movie in general. Dr. Hartmann fills in more detail, getting at the importance of karma (doing) over trying. There's no trying. Do or not do. The Dalai Lama would agree with Yoda on that much, or at least on the way he says it.
How Buddhism influenced Star Wars (with Professor Kate Hartmann)
This special edition of the show is a discussion, asking What influenced George Lucas when creating Star Wars, including Buddhism, famous mythologist Joseph Campbell, Taoism, and Shinto (the indigenous kami-monster religion of Japan).
and how these influences have transcended Lucas, becoming an inherent part of the film franchise, TV shows, books, and other Star Wars content.
Also discussed are how certain characters personify those influences and
how one line of dialogue that never made any sense to Host Joey has a lot of meaning and actually makes a lot of sense if we factor in all of these influences.
Plus, there's a surprise question for Dr. Hartmann.
REFERENCES
The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Dr. Kate Hartman website: buddhiststudiesonline.com, Twitter @kateahart, Instagram @kateahart. Listen to her podcast Buddhist Studies Online, Instagram @buddhiststudiesonline
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Joey, Krypton To Alderaan, Dr. Hartmann (U of Wyoming), Nov. 17, 2021; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Where do Elon Musk's engineers and inventors steal their ideas, India circa 1990? (rense.com)
Regime Change! We've had it with both of them.
Is there a connection between human turmoil and weather chaos? Do we inadvertently impact our environment, stirring storms, droughts, plagues, and famines by our collective karma ("mass actions," such as group meditation or group prayer or rioting or demonstrating or going to see the Greek play Lysistrata)? Of course, the powers-that-be launch and manipulate many of these things, but we may also be having an impact without realizing it. We and our environment are not two separate things but are interdependent. A peaceful uprising might lead to peace in the skies, seas, and shaky grounds. The Buddha's Agganna Sutta certainly suggests we are always interacting and interdepending inside and out. Protests to continue: handsoff2025.com. Occupy.com is not real news.
South and Midwest brace for more historic rains, flooding
(NBC News) April 4, 2025: The South and Midwest brace for more historic rains and severe flooding in a deadly multiday storm system. The 36-hour period from Friday evening into Sunday morning will be the most dangerous, as an additional 6 to 12 inches of rain will fall over already drenched areas. NBC News’ Kathy Park reports. #flood#extremeweather#midwest
WARNING: Needlessly vulgar sexual references that, though funny, are repulsive and disturbing!
Tim Walz was an utter calamity in the debate
(Link Lauren) Oct. 1, 2024 JD Vance decisively beat (whooped, slammed, destroyed) Tim Walz in the vice presidential debate on CBS tonight.  #jdvance #timwalz
Conservative Americans hate Haitians no matter how hard they work, treating them like slaves.
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Mounted border guard not whipping Haitian
Will the Haitian-Americans of Springfield be vindicated and apologized to or further maligned and lied about? They're not Americans! Who's to say? If an official allowed them in with acceptable paperwork then they are here legally and are, in a sense, Americans. Maybe it's only a temporary status but it is a status nonetheless. Will weird couch humping come up or Vance's history of crossdressing at Yale U come up? One would think he would take this opportunity to dispute it. Viewers are here to see a blood sport, a personal savaging of one another after months of buildup as the two name-call and talk about one another without ever having met. They were both in Congress and the military and the Midwest and Washington, one would think they would have met. Not so small world after all. One this is certain (if anything is because a comet may strike, a mass coronal ejection, a personal exhaustion of karma, a well-deserved military attack, a cyber strike, or the gods/devas may just bump into the switch and shut off the samsara simulation mid-game): One man will lose and we'll never hear from him again, and the other will become vice president, and we'll never hear from him again. Just ask Kosta; it's his joke:
VP Debate: Tim Walz and JD Vance’s biggest moments and misses
(The Daily Show) Oct. 1, 2024: Michael Kosta goes live after the first and only vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance. The stakes are as low as possible: one of these men will lose and we’ll never hear from them again, and one will win, become vice president, and we'll never hear from them again. #DailyShow #TimWalz #JDVance #Debate
WATCH LIVE: 2024 Vice Presidential Debate: Vance vs. Walz, hosted by CBS News (NBC News NOW)
(NOWNBC News) NBC News NOW is live, reporting breaking news and developing stories in real time. It is on the scene, covering the most important stories of the day and taking deep dives on issues cared about. Follow moment-by-moment updates on Live Blog: nbcnews.com/politics/2024... #JDVance #Debate #TimWalz
I'm so proud of my curry lover.
Sen. JD Vance won on style if not substance, keeping his cool, presenting meaningful answers in a down-home Midwestern style one would have thought was Tim Walz' specialty. CBS hosts seemed fair, attacking them both and keeping on them. But Walz looked terrible, grimaced, never smiled, looked away, staring at Vance, was nervous and amped up and scared. Trump beat Biden, Harris beat Trump, and now Vance beat Walz. One might disagree with everything Trump stands for. He's a horrible candidate and was an unbearable president, but Vance is nice, not weird, and not deserving of the criticism he has been receiving.
I got hairy legs, and Harris has hairy Walz. You know what I mean! - G-Joe Biden
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I tried. I'm a coach, not a player.
Vance sounded honest, had obviously prepared, and made an excellent presentation. Walz may be a better guy, more down-home, but he did not come across nearly as well. Because Harris' style is much easier to swallow, in spite of her gaffes, vacuity, and changeableness, it seems a better idea to vote Harris Walz (or Hairy 'alls), but if one could elect Vance independent of Trump, that does not seem like the worst thing.
Finally, it happened. I look better in comparison.
We cannot help but feel Vance has a future despite all the embarrassments and missteps so far. Walz needs polish or to be brought back to himself. Where's the guy who appeared at rallies and did such a great job? One would think Vance was a regal Nazi, all image and rugged, whereas Walz was a grunt, foot soldier, "old guy" as he kept calling himself. He's the same age as youthful Harris and much younger than actual old man Trump. Back to the drawing board, or send Walz to Yale for a little refinement. Democrats win, individual candidates not so much. Republicans may have a better position on some things -- if only it weren't for Project 2025, their stand on women, and if Harris loses, it has to be due to the Democrats not opening up the race to others. We were forced to go from a senile war maniac to a goofy cackler, while being threatened by an egomaniac and an odd bird who came out of nowhere to both impress and scare us.
It's sad that, according to the mainstream media, this is coming down to gender, men going red as women swing blue. Yay, blue! But blue isn't what it used to be. Now it's the war party. Now it's the mainstream. Now it's backed by the CIA and Pentagon and old-school Republicans. One has to wonder. What does analyst Jimmy Dore have to say?
I just thought, I take his policies, why not style?
From camo hats to libertarian rhetoric, the Kamala Devi Harris campaign is staking its claim to symbols of conservative identity.
Why it matters: The appeals aim to convey that Democrats are not trying to undo a conservative way of life and that red and blue Americas are not immutably divided by culture. [There's purple.]
REAL, ugh, gun control from, ugh, heart, Kama.
Driving the news: At this month's debate, VP Harris surprised many by saying that she is a gun owner [and later telling a famous Black lady on TV that she will kill anybody who comes uninvited into her house, presumably while Doug cowers in the closet or in the safe room], and in an interview with Oprah this week [in which Kamala showed off her cooking skills with another warped word salad] said, "If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot."
Even as she advocates for gun control measures, Kamala used the comments to signal not only that she won't support confiscating guns, but that she has a personal stake in the Second Amendment [and so is inclined to preserve her right to own and use her little metallic friend Shooty].
We will mandate warning labels on all firearms!
Zoom out: The comments follow a pattern of Canadian-Californian Harris and Midwestern Walz claiming rhetorical turf that has long been held by Republicans.
Harris' campaign launch video was centered around "freedom," a pervasive conservative rallying cry for resisting liberal policies on taxation, gun control and... More
Once upon a time there was a book called Hillbilly Elegy. It's not clear if Tim Walz ever read it, but he didn't need to. He lived it, unlike the author, not-so-good-old-boy, name-changing, high-powered capitalist, Yale-educated, pseudo-redneck JD Vance. On Night 3 of the DNC 2024, Walz made mincemeat out the MAGA movement and its titular head DJ and his flunky JD. This excellent choice for a running mate does present one problem: as humble and supportive as he is, he is clearly outshining the Shiny One, VP K. Devi Harris. Does she have any chance of presenting a speech anywhere as well as T. Walz, B. Clinton, B.S. Obama, Michael/Michelle Obama, Cat Lady Oprah, Genocide Joe, or AOC? Not blooming likely. Tim is a natural, the real thing.
VP candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at DNC: full speech
(FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth) Aug. 21, 2024: Tim Walz formally accepted the Democrat party's nomination for vice president at the DNC. Here's his full speech.
So what if I wear eye makeup and lady's clothes? My wife accepts me! And I look good!
"JD [Jane Doe?] Vance" has gone through many changes in name and identity: transvestite
My Indian wife Usha Vance can't wait to get to the White House and call PM Narendra Modi
We live in a very openminded neighborhood with lots of gay flags for the LGBTQIA+ movement
I know I look good. This eyeliner brings out my eyes, and my beard makes me look manly
Usha married a Honky, but a rich Honky, so Indians will accept it. He should grow beard.
We eat beans, not beings, because it is the Hindu and compassionate thing to do like Jesus
Get off our backs! I passed muster with Don Jon Trump; that should be enough!
Deep down, I'm a hillbilly from Redneckville, who is a venture capitalist who went to Yale.
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Ukraine's Vlad Zelenski is LGBTQIA+
We envision DJ Trump dying and leaving the MAGA legacy to JD Vance, who writes another hit book, this one called Redneck Soliloquy. Having led a civil war-engendering revolution after losing to Harris-Balz campaign. the US of A gets Pres. JD, who attempts to install Usha, 58, 38, as his VP with the help of PM Modi and Indian forces, including multimillionaire Vivek Ramaswamy and also-ran Hirsch, so that this country always has an Indian in the White House from now on -- Kamala, Nikki Haley, somebody. JD is a vegetarian from Ohio? Great. Have you met Hope, Timmy's Midwest vegetarian daughter? Has a transsexual "friend"? How close? Wears eye makeup? Looking good, very Indianesque like Lord Krishna and all Indian babies. Had gay thoughts at Yale University? Or was just a 100% heterosexual man in a wig and ladieswear like Ukrainian PM Vladimir Zelinski? PM Vlad was proudly LGBTQ, so what about JD?
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