This is the only state that contains one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. It is the only state that contains all four N. American deserts. The world’s largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest stretches across this state. The country’s largest and second-largest manmade lakes are here. This is where you’ll find the southernmost ski resort and the southernmost mile-high city in America. The longest unbroken stretch of Route 66 is here.
Billy the Kid killed his first man here and the most famous gunfight in the Old West took place a little further south in a vacant lot behind the O.K. Corral. When NASA was preparing to land on the moon, this is where they trained. All of New England, plus the state of Pennsylvania could fit inside the state’s borders. There are more wilderness areas in this state than in the entire Midwest. There is only one place in the country where the U.S. Post Office still delivers mail by mule and it is here. This is where you’ll find the world’s largest solar telescope, the deepest dam, and the best-preserved meteor crater. I
Welcome to Arizona.
The Arizona Corner
It’s mating season for tarantulas so these eight-legged creatures will be on the prowl for a mate over the next month. We don’t see them on top of the Mogollon Rim, but once off it, they scuttle across the road now and again.
Dancing with the Devil? (because it’s the sermonette)
Devil’s Bridge, near Sedona, AZ, and about an hour’s drive from the White Wolf Mine.
The Valley of Souls (Bolivia – not Arizona)
Atonement for being White is Required
(h/t Lid) A white hospital executive in Maine has been found saying that white people need to be made uncomfortable and that they deserve a lesser level of attention so that they will “atone” for the crime of being born white.
Ryan Polly (pictured right) is a vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at MaineHealth, which has more than a dozen healthcare locations across the southern part of the state.
But Polly, who calls himself a “minister” for the anti-racism group “One Spirit,” says that white people must be mistreated in all parts of society. And he had a “prayer” for whites.
“As the head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at a major health system, I frequently think about my role as a White person first and as a diversity leader second. I think about the responsibility I have to continue the deep internal work of… understanding my own racist narrative and biases,” Polly continued. “I think about the privilege my Whiteness affords me and the choices Whiteness allows me to have… My Whiteness keeps me and my family safe.”
He went on to say that all whites live a “life of whiteness” and are racists. (more at the Daily Mail)
Ryan Polly strikes me as a deeply disturbed human being who needs psychiatric help (needs to have his bolt re-threaded) at MaineHealth where he works. OneSpirit is an adjunct to Harvard University. That should not surprise any of this blog’s readers.
Climate Change on Neptune?
It’s almost as if humans don’t matter. Hard to accept.
more here… For the first time in nearly three decades of observations, clouds seen on Neptune have all but vanished. Images from 1994 to 2022 of the big blue planet captured from Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island through the lens of W. M. Keck Observatory, along with views from space via NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show clouds are nearly gone with the exception of the south pole.
Flight
“Major cities such as New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles punished investment firms with high tax rates and a lack of business-friendly policies that only sparked an exodus during Covid.
Progressive city leaders in these metro areas also implemented failed social justice reforms that unleashed a crime wave and exacerbated the exodus.
Many of these firms fled to Florida, Texas, and other Sun Belt states.
From 1Q20 through the end of 1Q23, Bloomberg data shows more than 370 investment firms — or about 2.5% of the US total — with $2.7 trillion assets under management — moved their offices to a new state.
“The vast majority of the migration was out of high-cost-of-living locales in the Northeast and on the West Coast and into Florida, Texas, and other Sun Belt refuges,” Bloomberg said.”
Identify the Aircraft and its iconic designer
The Baby
Sopwith Baby was a British single-seat tractor seaplane used by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) from 1915.
The Baby (also known as the Admiralty 8200 Type) was a development of the two-seat Sopwith Schneider. Although the Schneider had won the Schneider trophy in 1914, the RNAS did not place a formal order until January 1915. Sopwith’s initial production version of the Baby differed little from the Schneider Trophy winner.
h/t Frank
History Repeats
Identify the Aircraft:
Fokker M.2 with Anthony Fokker
Absolutely.
Cities need business to generate revenue and thrive…the never-ending circle of commerce…or so we thought. Seems even those traditional foundational rules are being rewritten by the deranged twisted minds of the petty asinine new guard. Yet how can cities survive when revenue streams leave? Can’t they see this isn’t sustainable? Oh wait, they’re relying on “free” printed money under the guise of Inflation Reduction enacted by people dumber than them. Yeah, that’ll work.
Polly was clearly razzed a little too much as a kid to turn out that warped and is now peomulgating his “hate spirit” revenge.
Careful on the AZ accolades, might cause some folks from California to move there looking for the good life. Interesting facts nonetheless…and the Devils Bridge is stunning (how did they get that picture?)
The picture – you can drive to the area and then just walk out. It’s a desirable place for photographers for obvious reasons. There are MANY very scenic spots in that area. Most of the homes in Sedona are never lived in – fifth or sixth homes for the idle rich. And yet the traffic endures in town.
The woke are simply too much smarter than everyone else. The party on borrowed money will last forever because they’re special and harness bulls like you and I pay our taxes to pay for their rigged elections and their folly.
Since it’s Sunday we can pray for our enemies, not that they are listening when God tries to get their attention…but you never know.
For their sake, I hope at least a few see the light, like Paul who was struck off his horse.
in re cities:
if I weren’t the paranoid I am, I would think that this is all a part of some greater plan.
Trash American cities and America falls…nah, couldn’t be that, right? Those mayors and DA’s doing the deed must have been promised immunity to the resultant destruction…no rational person would intentionally kill the golden goose they rely for life. They’re on the same wacko team as the juvenile “I hate myself for being born white” Polly.
I’m not sure these people are rational. Having a high IQ (adequate to graduate law school for example) doesn’t mean a person isn’t whacko.
As to Polly, it’s not clear to me that he hates himself for being white. But I’m pretty sure he hates YOU for being white. 😉
I heard someone on Bill Whittle say, this isn’t a war between Conservatives and Leftists, or Globalists and Nationalists, but Urbanites and Rural Areas.
I think habitation density dominates the expense of enforcing harmful policy. I think the second largest enforcement cost factor is ground which is expensive to cross, like oceans or steep mountains. The only reason those British traitors in Boston got away with it was because the ocean made taxing the colonists cost more than it brought in. If you invent a new form of friction for taxation, a corresponding amount of freedom will immediately appear. Humans need to settle Mars because it is harder to tax them there.
Perhaps our salvation is our enemies are just as f**ked up.
Heh-heh. Polly doesn’t want to be a cracker. Très chic.
Groan…
My close friends say of me that I’ve never met a pun I didn’t like – this one, however, ranks* First Class.
A Pro-Level groaner.
I think Polly 2-Spirit looks in the mirror and envisions himself as a black cotton picking slave…you know he’s a sensitive sort demanding we all visit his psychosis.
I second LL, these people need a mental institution not an influence platform.
Do we have enough sane people to even run a mental institution. These days it would literally be the lunatics running the asylum.
No, certainly not in the numbers needed as those jobs have morphed into HR Director’s (aka “Personnel”), which are staffed with Pop-Psyche majors and are tied directly to Executive teams, bending their ear with the newest fad Bravo Sierra.
According to the liberal left Poly doctrine that would make Jesus Christ a white racist! There isn’t a tap and die set in the world that can rethread that bolt.
Polly hasn’t resigned for equity yet? How awfully white of him.
Haha
Driving on a long straight, level highway in Arizona not unusual to see a dark bump on the highway ahead of you. As you approach, the dark bump gets a little larger. Then as you approach the spot you determine it’s a living thing….Tarantula…and pull the steering wheel to avoid it. In one stretch spouse and I counted 7 of ’em looking for love, I suppose.
Arizona drivers must love ’em as I never noticed any that were converted into small speed bumps.
We have a few in Central Texas, but never seen ’em on the highways. Might see one parading through the yard or on the porch occasionally. They just go about their business and disappear.
Cletus Valvecore
I once encountered tarantulas on the highway, so many it was impossible to avoid all of them.
Later, I found parts/pieces of them in the fender wells of my truck.
Assets moving out of high tax cities and states shows there are many ways to vote your wallet. Dominion voting machines can’t alter that.
On the surface we can snicker at these investment companies now owning or holding paper on millions of square feet of vacant office space. Dive deeper and you see the investment firms handle other people’s assets like pension funds for millions of ordinary people.
Based on what that Ryan Polly is espousing, his whiteness should not protect him from anything.
You all be safe and God bless.
Actually, that it should be held against him.
He’s taking a black person’s slot and it should be taken from him and given to one.
There are deserts in Oregon and Washington, too. Along with rain forests. And too many west-coast liberals, conveniently located on the west coast and not in the deserts.
As to spiders, Dad would willingly tell the tale of letting the tumbleweeds pile up on the chain-link fence around the housing at Holloman AFB in NM and during the middle of the spider migrations, setting said tumbleweeds and the spiders inside aflame. With the base FD approval. Seems everyone hated both tumbleweeds and spiders.
Love the closing infographic, so true.
Imagine Arizona as a vast refugee asylum camp. Millions of refugees, all living in Arizona and getting benefits.
Can’t afford it. Problem. Solution? Bus ’em to Chicago, NYC and beyond.
Wide ranging today! And yes, Arizona IS an interesting state for many reasons!
Fort Chafee Arkansas 1990, TAB exercise. There is dirt that is two inches of talcum powder and we can’t get ground for our electronics for 24 hrs. Finally, late at night the power pro guys turn on the lights and the ground is moving with thousands of arachnids. I’ve never seen city boys move so fast!
To paraphrase a line from Forbidden Planet, “The Lord Sure Made Some Beautiful Places”. “Valley of the Souls” is eerie, but beautiful.
Polly doesn’t just need his bolt rethreaded, he needs a few Heli-Coils!
So why doesn’t whitey mcwhiteface move from the whitest of states to Mississippi. There he can fully remove his privilege.
If Neptune is a gas planet, how can it ever be cloudless?
Cities plan to be funded by federal emergency orders. Because of their importance, the whole country will be given the ‘opportunity’ to fund them. Of course since the productive people and businesses that made them important have all left, means we’ll be funding urban reservations for perpetuity.
No, not Mississippi. Haiti will do nicely. Or Liberia. Maybe they will eat him.