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So, in the news lately - Kamala Harris takes over the candidacy for Biden - finally, the right move, and then - an even better move making Tim Walz her running mate.
Good news for a change, they both seem nice, and what a change in focus from the Trump/Biden shitshow it was the past few months. And - the news that JD Vance is Trump's running mate?
Well, never a better contrast in choices.
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Other news of the world, the fact that Disney is trying to use a loophole - because a former customer once signed up for Disney+ they can't be sued for poisoning one of the customers (anaphylactic shock, waiter assured customer the food was allergen free, it wasn't, customer died) - which goes to prove quite literally what an evil company Disney has become.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/15/disney-wrongful-death-lawsuit-dismissal
And then there was the Elon Musk/Trump interview on "X", which - well, I've never been fans of either of them. For a time it seemed with the electric car and such he was possibly brilliant, but - the company he keeps, his views, he's easily every bit as evil as Trump.
Then there was the article quoting the UN stating that Canada's foreign worker policy is no better than Slave Labour. Of course, I've known this for a while, as have many others, but having it said out loud by a body that has some clout with Trudeau might mean a long overdue reflection and revamping of it.
Link: CBC on UN report
And that's the news that I've been following, the rest, well, it comes and goes. It finally seems that capitalism is in it's final death throws, the world is heating up and - for the moment that's all. I've started looking forward to the US election...
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More news, ridiculous, that Trump is now more popular in Alberta than he is in the US, and, sorry Alberta, but this can be no surprise, that Barron Trump's nanny has spoken to the press and revealed that while in school he tortured and killed animals as well as assaulted various classmates. So the apple never falls far from the tree...
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Thursday off, South to Explore a few new roads. The Oscar-Bear FSR, behind Ymir, metamorphic shales, basalts, to about 10 KM where it gets too overgrown to continue. Probably it got overgrown at 5 KM, but I never let that stop me...
Then, to the Penne-D'oreille & Beaver Valley, pan for gold, look for sapphires. Nada. Although they're there I'm sure it was not a day to be south.
Done at around 2:00 PM, too early to find parking in town, so head on up to Balfour, where I spend a couple of hours looking for arrowheads. One find, a very old red jasper point, broken and reworked into a scraper, some other debitage, and a great view of the Balfour Eagle, now moved on by the lost of his/her nest...
Balfour eagle...
Finally, the payoff of the day:
Red jasper, the tip broken off and then refashioned into a scraper. Judging by the wear on the edges a few thousand years old...
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Forever pushing back the timeline of humans in the Americas, a couple of articles that seem to substantiate the presence of humans or homo-??? well outside the conventional timelines. There are actually an awful lot more, but you can do your own research.
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Trying to overcome my (entirely reasonable) fear of driving in my son's car.
Today, up to Woodbury to collect some garnets, a few larger ones, time to start doing things with them.
And a walk along the lake at Balfour, looking for arrowheads. An hour, a few bits of debitage, then this:
It was actually point in to the gravel, a black obelisk, tough to spot. And unremarkable when I laid it out on the gravel.
very old and worn, knapped on both sides, a tough black rock. Noteworthy it's a thick piece of stone, and spirals slightly, perhaps not so suited for an arrowhead but more an aul or drill. Nonetheless, a great find and I'm quite pleased.
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And I was a little excited, my son having left me his car for a month, to finally get out and do some exploring.
On google maps I noticed Blaze Creek FSR, which leads off and through many switchbacks eventually comes to the west shore on the east arm of Kootenay Lake.
I'd tried it years before, failed, the road was closed off, deactivated, and so I hoped that somehow it had been reactivated.
A long drive to no results. Still closed off, and so exploring a few other places I've explored countless times before, I'm going to need a few days off in a row, time to gather up my pack and walk into the woods, it's the only way. Find new horizons, new treasures, this summer so far has been a bust but it's all there, there are too many signs and wonders.