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Sunday, July 06, 2025

Two weeks into Tesla's invite-only ride-hailing service, CEO Elon Musk's die-hard fans are amazed, but it's not clear anyone else is.


There is no more precious landmark in Newtown that its flagpole. Anyone who doubts this only has to review the furor which surrounded the recent attempt of the Department of Transportation to remove it from the intersection where it has stood for over 130 years.


India's government has notified the World Trade Organization of its proposal to impose retaliatory duties on imports from the United States.


Saturday, July 05, 2025

Elon Musk on Saturday said he had launched a new US political party to challenge what the tech billionaire described as the country's "one-party system".


Nearly 40 states have reported at least one measles case so far this year, but Texas still has the highest outbreak numbers with over 700 cases.


Comments

The flagpole ...

townsquare.media

Yeah, the flagpole is smack dab in the middle of an intersection of a state highway and a local road.



But all vehicles approaching that intersection have full stop dicta.


Yeah, not the easiest intersection to maneuver, but, considering the history ...


www.wired.com

... A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk's xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the gas turbines that power the company's Grok chatbot. The permit comes amid widespread community opposition and a looming lawsuit alleging the company violated the Clean Air Act.

The Shelby County Health Department released an air permit for the xAI project Wednesday, after receiving hundreds of public comments. The news was first reported by the Daily Memphian.

In June, the Memphis Chamber of Commerce announced that xAI had chosen a site in Memphis to build its new supercomputer. The company's website boasts that it was able to build the supercomputer, Colossus, in just 122 days. That speed was due in part to the mobile gas turbines the company quickly began installing at the campus, the site of a former manufacturing facility. ...


Noem addresses concerns over federal government's warnings
www.nbcnews.com

... Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem addressed concerns over whether the federal government did enough to warn Texans about the deadly floods.

When asked by a reporter " who identified himself as a resident of Kerrville "if the federal government's foresight around the storm was a "failure," Noem said at a press conference alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that "everybody knows that the weather is extremely difficult to predict." ...


Danny O'Keefe - Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues (1972)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

... and genius.com rises to the occasion, once again ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Everybody's gone away
I believe they're gone to stay
There's not a soul I know around
Everybody's leavin' town

[Verse 2]
Some caught a freight, some caught a plane
Find the sunshine, leave the rain
They said this town will waste your time
I guess they're right, it's wastin' mine

[Chorus]
Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Charlie's got the blues

[Verse 3]
Ya know my heart keeps tellin' me
You're not a kid at thirty-three
Ya play around ya lose your wife
Ya play too long you lose your life

[Verse 4]
I got my pills to ease the pain
Can't find a thing to ease the rain
I'd love to try and settle down
But everybody's leavin' town

[Chorus]
Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Charlie's got the blues
...


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