HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND

Judge Moxila Upadhyaya yesterday warned Donald Trump:

“It is a crime to try to influence a juror or to threaten or attempt to bribe a witness or any other person who may have information about your case, or to retaliate against anyone for providing information about your case to the prosecution, or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice. Do you understand these warnings and consequences, sir?”

"Yes," Trump replied.

So what does Trump do?

Jack Smith's prosecutors retaliated by seeking a protective order against Trump. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan gave Trump until 5PM to respond. How dumb can be get? He can theoretically be held in jail just for this. Of course he won't be, but could.

The U.S. Women National Team made the Round of 16 in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, but is no longer the favorite to win the whole thing. Next, Sweden. U.S. should win, as they are given -175 odds to make it to the next round, or 64%. Will be on your regular Fox channel at 5 AM EDT (11PM Hawaii time).

I don't follow NFL Preseason games, but these started on Thursday with the Jets at Browns, with a full schedule next weekend, again beginning Thursday, but how to watch these games is complicated. Who won on Thursday? Who cares?

There are some rule changes, but nothing monumental. Super Bowl LVII will be held in Las Vegas, with two telecasts, the usual CBS Sports version, and a new parallel Nickelodeon kids and family-centric broadcast.

I offer four videos you might want to watch from America's Got Talent this week. I hate those animal acts, but Noodle and Bun were different.

Sophia Vergara gave a Golden Buzzer to Brazilian singer Gabriel Henrique. A male version of Whitney Houston?

The most amazing person I've seen on this program, and perhaps ever, 25-year old Zion Clark, with no legs (called the Caudal Regression Syndrome) to a mother in prison and no father, spent a lifetime in foster homes, which gave up on him. But he found himself through wrestling, going on to Kent State to become an All-American and Guinness World Record Holder, plus the subject of an EMMY Award winning Netflix documentary, Zion (this is the whole show, little more than 10 minutes long, Rotten Tomatoes score of 85). Has a goal of winning a gold medal in the Paris Olympics next year. Sure, unstoppable determination, but I was most impressed with his gentle, optimistic attitude.

America's Got Talent ended with a comedic spoof that fooled everyone, me included. She initially got four X's and was buzzed out. 50-year old female comedienne, Krista Komondor, played a hopeless Texas singer Sunny Chatum, armed with a ukulele. This you got to watch.

I have a flower that has annually bloomed now for 40 years. You can read the entire story of the African Blood Lily here. The following photos are Day 1 and 2 of this current blooming, plus three more pots on my lanai with what looks like 17 more flowers.

Khanun developed on July 27 west of Guam, reached Category 4 strength at the beginning of August, blew by Naha, headed for China, then made almost a U-turn, and rolled over northern Okinawa, then turned north toward Kagoshima, Japan. While now only at 40 MPH, strengthening is occurring, and Khanum is now projected to skim the western side of Kyushu and Head toward South Korea.

Hurricane Dora is now a Category 4 at 140 MPH and increasing in strength. Luckily, she is far enough south of Hawaii that we will not be affected much, if at all. However, Dora will continue to move west and become a typhoon for the Orient.

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

OSAKA EXPO: Day One

Well, the day finally came for us to go to the Osaka Expo. We were told ahead of time that the long walks would be fearful, giant lines will need to be tolerated just to get into the Expo, with those ocean breezes, it would really be cold, and so forth. Maybe it was pure luck, but we avoided all the above warnings We had a grand day, and are looking forward to Sunday, our second day at the Expo. So come along for an enjoyable ride. Our hotel is adjacent to the Tennoji Station, a very large one with several lines. We upgraded our Suica card and caught the Misosuji red line towards Umeda. Transferred to the Chuo green line at the Hommachi Station. This Osaka Metro train took us to the Yumeshima Station at the Expo site. It was a very large mob leaving the train and heading to the entrance. Took only a few minutes to get to the entrance. This mob was multiplied by at least a factor of ten of those already waiting to enter. However...

WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO A JAPANESE HIGH TECH TOILET

Did you know that Oktoberfest in Germany is mostly in September? The very first day of Oktoberfest 2021 was supposed to be today, September 18, extending into October 3. Well, as in 2020, Oktoberfest was cancelled. So why is it called by that month when it is held mostly in September? The first celebration in 1810 was in October. Did you also know that Oktoberfest is held only in Munich? These days seven million drink more than a liter ( about three typical cans ) of beer each, costing around $11. Except for my wife and I when we followed the crowd to board the S-Bahn to the fairgrounds near Old Town. It was drizzling a bit. We bought a large pretzel outside of a typical barn where beer is served. We did not know that you needed to get this inside the hall. So no one came to serve us beer. After a while we decided to have lunch, and the restaurant we settled on only served wine. Thus, we might have been the ...

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