But first, tidbits about Juneteenth ( today is a national holiday, and tomorrow will be the first day of summer ) and the Israel-Iran War. Time  magazine agrees with my  Tuesday posting  that, Juneteenth or not,  the struggle for civil rights still continues . President Donald Trump has said his decision to join Israel on strikes against Iran will wait for two weeks. He  says Iran needs some time to decide for itself if it really wants to be decimated .  Fat chance that they will agree to stop trying to become a nuclear power.  And, by the way, there are now nine of them:  US, Russia, China, France, UK, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea. The Gerald Ford Task Force has not left Norfolk, Virginia yet, and will probably arrive in the Mediterranean in just about two weeks. Trump seems to be facing some MAGA backlash.  Important elements don't want to join a foreign war.  Yet, most probably would also like to see Iran drop their nuclear...

Some real science:   August was   earth’s hottest on record . June and July also broke records.  More so,  summer of 2023 was Planet Earth's hottest by a large amount . This is science Wednesday, and flying saucers are considered to be so far from reality to NASA SETI researchers, that this posting today might reduce my credibility with them.  But, after all,  NASA did finally create a position for UFO Czar , so maybe this would be a good time to assess where we are with unidentified flying objects ( UFOs ), now re-termed UAP for unidentified anomalous ( or aerial ) phenomenon. Some history about  czars : Czar Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 and that was the final one, although they later had Stalin, and now Putin, so the authoritarian nature of their leadership has not changed at all. President Woodrow Wilson selected Bernard Baruch to head the War Industries Board during World War I, only a year after Nicholas went.  Thus, Baruch was the War ...