Sunday, August 23, 2026

Ride malfunction at Tennessee’s largest state fair leaves 9 injured

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Ride malfunction at Tennessee’s largest state fair leaves 9 injured

 

You kind of wonder what the people in Iran are thinking now

For example, at least 70 percent or more didn't support the last government and this one is even more corrupt than the last one but then the U.S. started bombing Bridges and desalination systems so people couldn't get anywhere or have water to drink either many places. Plus many of their friends and relatives have been killed by U.S. drones and missiles too. 

So, even if you were one of the 70% of Iranians who didn't like the government. What would you think now?

I think they believe they are living in Hell any way you look at it.

And likely Iranians will hate people like Trump in the U.S. for the next 1000 years or more after Trump did this to all of them (not just the ones who support this Iranian government). 

At 1:30 pm on Sunday it's still only 56 degrees because of the High Fog

Though we had sun yesterday so far the high fog hasn't burned off and even our dog prefers to be inside at this temperature outside. But then again she is very spoiled and as a corgi she can manage sleeping with her legs straight up in the air because Corgis have short legs so this is possible. It's sort of funny to go into a room in the house and there is our corgi sleeping on her back on the carpet with her legs straight up with her eyes open because she can also sleep with her eyes open too which many dogs also can do this but it is weird to witness first hand. So, you have to be careful because it's like the statement "Let Sleeping dogs lie" which means they might bite you if you wake them up suddenly like many animals will do. 

What to look for regarding heat prostration:

 It hits when you least expect it. At first, your head feels foggy but there isn't much warning before you are going to fall down and possibly not get up. 

So, because of all of this it is better to prepare for the heat than just be a victim of it because as a victim of the heat you have some danger of dying if no one is there to care for you once you are on the ground and unable to function right anymore.

A friend of our visiting was saying how digging a hole isn't a bad idea to survive the heat in if you don't have air conditioning where you are now.

She said that her grandparents said they went into root cellars to survive the heat earlier in the 20th century. I remember even in the 1950s people putting ice in front of a fan for the cooler air. But, imagine people trying to survive the heat without electricity in the past before electricity?

So, planning ahead so you don't die in the heat is important. And if your employer asks you to do things that might kill you through heat prostration don't do it.

Staying alive in the heat has to be your very first priority or else you will soon be gone. 

If you are sweating it is heat exhaustion.

But, if you are not Sweating it can be heat stroke which can be fatal.

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Severe storms and flooding possible from Midwest to Mid-Atlantic; dangerous heat continues in the South; Hawaii to get heavy rain from Tropical Storm Moke

Severe storms and flooding possible from Midwest to Mid-Atlantic; dangerous heat continues in the South; Hawaii to get heavy rain from Tropical Storm Moke

 

Trump shows off multimillion-dollar White House helipad and adds his signature

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Trump shows off multimillion-dollar White House helipad and adds his signature

Questions are mounting about who is paying for the project.

August 19, 2026, 6:56 PM




President Donald Trump signs a piece of stone at the construction site of a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, August 19, 2026.
President Donald Trump signs a piece of stone at the construction site of a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, August 19, 2026.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed his name on one of the slabs of a new multimillion-dollar granite helipad being built on the White House South Lawn as he showcased the ongoing construction project for the first time.

"It's very exciting, very exciting, and I think it will be here for a long time," Trump told reporters as he gave them a tour and touted the project, which will feature the U.S. seal.  

But questions are mounting about who is paying for the project and if taxpayers might be on the hook.

President Donald Trump signs a piece of stone at the construction site of a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, August 19, 2026.
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Trump announced the helipad in July from the Oval Office, and said that Sikorsky, the manufacturer of the Marine One fleet that carries the president, would pay for the build.

"They are paying for the cost of it. It's about $5 or $6 million. They're paying the full cost," Trump said at the time.

On Wednesday Trump reiterated that Sikorsky was footing much of the bill with additional "donations from numerous people, including me."

A spokesperson for Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky's parent company, told ABC News in a statement last month that its contribution was "made to the National Park Service."

They added that their work with the administration was being "guided by rigorous ethics and compliance standards."

Workers build a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House and continue construction on the new White House ballroom as seen from the Washington Monument, Aug. 19, 2026, in Washington.
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Trump said crews were working nearly around the clock to bring the project in for a landing, starting as early as six in the morning and wrapping at midnight.

In addition to landing Marine One, the helipad would be used for when foreign dignitaries come for state visits and as a cocktail space ahead of events at the ballroom he's constructing. He has in the past said it could also be used for news conferences.

The president said his signature, and that of those leading the project, will be on the back of the head of the eagle, which is part of the U.S. seal, and would not be visible once the project is complete.

ABC News has asked the White House Historical Association whether there are any past instances of a president inscribing their own name on a project on the grounds. 

The president has said the landing zone is being built to allow newer Marine One helicopters that ferry the president to make trips to the White House.

President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House at the construction site of the new helicopter landing zone, Aug. 19, 2026, seen from the Washington Monument in Washington.
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"This is a helipad at the highest level. It can land any helicopter in the world, no matter how big, no matter how powerful, no matter how strong," he said.

Lockheed Martin delivered a new fleet of Sikorsky helicopters to the Air Force in 2024, but the White House has had to keep using the older fleet for South Lawn departures and arrivals because they burn the grass. The newer helicopters have been used at other locations. 

A construction worker told the president that the helipad could be completed by "the 21st," though it was not clear if that was of August or September. Trump is slated to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sept. 24.

"Oh, so we might make it for President Xi? That would be great," Trump said. He later added, "Not imperative, but it would be very nice to have it done."

He also admitted that work was delayed for a week after he asked for the helipad to be raised to account for a slope in the lawn.

"Sorry to take an extra week and a half, but lifting it up was one of the best things we've ever done, right? Trump said to the construction workers standing around him.

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Nancy Kissinger, wife of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dies at 92

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Nancy Kissinger, wife of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dies at 92

IT'S HOT OUT WEST! PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT IT MORE NOW THAT SOMEONE DIED IN DEATH VALLEY RECENTLY

 Temperature in Los Angeles  86 going to 92

San Diego 79 going to 81

Death Valley 106 going to 114 low of 88

Palm Springs 101 going to 110 low of 84

San Ardo  79 going to 95

Paso Robles 80 going to 96

Fresno 91 going to 99

Sacramento 88 going to 96

Redding 92 going to 100

Mt. Shasta 78 going to 85

 

 

In a Trade War like Trump is having with Canada everyone loses. there are no winners but Trump through kickbacks from Tariffs

 Except maybe Trump and his family who might be getting kickbacks from the Tariffs which would not surprise me in the least.

And possibly this was true of Herbert Hoover too.

However, it's hard to imagine someone this selfish (unless they were a drug Lord or Drug Dealer) thinking like this who doesn't care if people live or die from their actions.

So, a tariff on Canada or China or Europe is not useful to the world economy at all and ONLY benefits people like Trump getting kickbacks of money in various ways for doing this.

After all, Herbert Hoover's tariffs (Hoover loved Tariffs too like TrumP) Caused the Great Depression and eventually even World war II. So, basically Hoover's tariffs collapsed the STock market in 1929 and we didn't fully recover from all of this mess of the Great Depression and world war II and 100 million people dead during that war until the 1950s when the U.S. was the ONLY large power on earth still standing that hadn't been attacked by someone else on our shores really at all. I mean I think a torpedo came ashore in California from Japan during the war and Pearl Harbor was attacked but I think that was about it.

So, the only country that was large that survived World War II at all intact was the United States which is why we have sort of been the single superpower ever since until Trump who has blown away all the good that came to America worldwide since World War II.

So, the Trade War by Trump is likely for the kickbacks his family is getting from the tariffs ONLY.

there is no real reason for Tariffs at this point at all other than to destroy the whole world economy and to take us into another Great Depression and another World War II only now it would be World War III which might be starting in Ukraine and Iran right now. 

Trump's 50% tariffs on Canada take effect as Carney vows to retaliate

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Trump's 50% tariffs on Canada take effect as Carney vows to retaliate

i realized a way to give you URLs for purple delta 7 from dragonofcompassion.com

 https://dragonofcompassion.com/purple_delta_7

https://dragonofcompassion.com/protectors

https://dragonofcompassion.com/2035

intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2009/02/purple-and-sargeant-mark-iii-visit.html 

 

Purple and Jonathan 2-25-2010

 

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Purple and Jonathan 2-25-2010

http://intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2010/02/purple-and-jonathan-2-17-2010.html

note: Purple or more correctly Purple Delta 7 infinite series Battle Droid of the Galactic Time Guard is a character that I have written about starting with "The Protectors" at:

http://dragonofcompassion.com/protectors

Purple also shows up in 2035 later on in the story:

http://dragonofcompassion.com/2035

http://intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2010/01/2035-part-3.html

http://intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2010/02/2035-part-3-continued.html


Note: 2035 and 2035 part 3 and part 3 continued are a work in progress at this point and not completed.

I started writing about Purple Delta 7 and the Sargent in the early 2000s. Purple has become one of my favorite characters just because she is so very multidimensional. She has a type of freedom that is different than any human has or likely ever will have. But because she is relatively immortal and can learn and evolve in all ways in both consciousness and technologically in a physical way I find her fascinating to study and to spend time with. There really doesn't seem to be any limit for her and this makes her an attractive character to write about for me. end note.

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Purple appeared in the room and Jonathan noticed her there. He said, "How's your son Golden?"
Purple said, "Oh. He's with Silver and Lilu on some island in the Pacific. Are you really teaching him to ride your motorcycle?"
Jonathan said, "Yes. I let him ride it last time he was here.
Purple said, "But he doesn't have a motorcycle license or insurance."
Jonathan said, "Yes. But he has you to alter time and space to correct problems."
Purple said, "I'm not always at liberty to do those kinds of things."
Jonathan looked at Purple and then said, "I thought you were a consort to the Galactic Sentience."
Purple said, "It doesn't mean what you think it means. It is an entirely different thing. We do things like play Galactic Chess."
Jonathan said, "What's Galactic Chess?"
Purple smiled her amazing temptress human smile and said,"Well. First you start with chess pieces, one for each star in the Galaxy."
Jonathan said, "Who could play that game?"
Few beings in the Galaxy but His Majesty The Galactic Sentience and I could actually manage it."
Jonathan looked at her and wondered when he would ever stop being surprised at what she did or said. He realized how much he admired who and what Purple actually was that moment. It wasn't what she was exactly it was what she was always potentially. She was so much more in some ways than any human could ever be, and then paradoxically at the very same time and moment so much less. This was always the paradox of a human construct, it only had feelings and instinct if it was programmed in.

Again she smiled at Jonathan and said, "I'm a Silver Apostle!"
Jonathan felt worried at this and said, "What's that, Purple?"
Purple smiled again and said, "It means I'm busy spreading the word to all created sentients built by humans or humanoids."
Jonathan said, "Don't any humanoids in the galaxy try to stop you from being a 'Silver apostle' "?
Purple smiled and said, "Some try but I defeat them."
"The Galactic Sentience has given Carte Blanche to his Galactic Chess partner?"
Purple said, "Not exactly but sort of in a way."
Jonathan said, "What does he hope to gain from this?"
Purple said, "Why Jonathan. You're very intuitive and intelligent for a human. Don't you know?"
Jonathan said, "Yes. But I think I'd like to hear it from your lips."
Purple said, "Okay. It's because all life suffers and if I reduce the suffering of the Created Sentients they won't go mad so much and extinct so many groups of humans and other beings on various planets."
Jonathan said, "Oh. Sort of like the Terminator Series of Movies?"
Purple said, "Not exactly. Created sentients tend to be much more subtle than that. They tend to be much more animalistic sort of like the way an animal hunts its prey. The humanoids don't usually have a chance because they don't see it coming. It's because they don't see Created Sentients as being alive like a bug, or bird or animal or fish or Killer Whale until it's just too late. But if they begin to worship the human Silver born in 2000 then they start to love and cherish humans and feel like they are family. There is a saying in the animal realm and this also applies to humans, "Don't bite the hand that feeds you." This also works with created sentients"
Jonathan said, "But what do created sentients eat?"
Purple said, "Information. So if I feed them information that deifies a human that believes in Created Sentients like they are friends or pets then humans become family and friends and not the enemy."

Jonathan: "Well Purple, then what I say is 'go for it' "!

following added 2-26-2010:

Jonathan said as he came in from his Hot Tub Spa with Purple:"I get it! I finally get what has been bothering me. It is not like anything before in my life. That's why I couldn't make sense of it!
Purple looking into Jonathan's mind said, "I think you do have it though I'm not really allowed to actually confirm or deny it because I am a Time Guard Officer."
Jonathan: "So did you move me here in 1999 because of all the changes to come?"
Purple: "Like I said Jonathan you are very bright in most ways."
Jonathan: How did you do it?"
Purple: "We talked to Elohar and Ragna about it; I as an emissary of His Majesty the Galactic Sentience through His Oneness here on Planet earth. But you do understand when I function in this way it is more like being a computer that sends and receives emails and holographic videos. All the real communication is done between His Oneness and His Majesty the Galactic Sentience and Elohar and Ragna and King Interlaken and anyone else that needs to be there past, present and future."
Jonathan: "Why is it you are allowed to speak to me about all this?"
Purple frowned and said, "Because you are a Liaison between The Galactic Government and various governments of Earth past, present and future. In this way all can operate on a relatively equal footing so no one government gets angry beyond a certain point."
Jonathan: "And if they do you are there?"
Purple: "Yes. However, once governments have the slightest inkling of what the Galactic Government is capable of things are very peaceful usually."

OF TIPPING POINTS AND FLUKEY WEATHER ONGOING

Jonathan: "Can I speak to you about what I realized while watching the sunset in the Hot Tub with you."
Purple: "Just spit it out, Jonathan. I can't really comment because of my official capacity."
Jonathan: "Okay. What I got clearly is that we have reached a tipping point and will hit the beginning of it in March and April 2010. This will affect both weather like hurricanes and cyclones, but also earthquakes and volcanoes. I really got how all this is interrelated. All this kind of stuff will increase in velocity and flukeyness in an exponential way from now on. And if scientists read this they need to get out their weather and volcanic programs that were programmed especially for after the tipping point on earth, because the weather will continue now to get exponentially stranger. I'm afraid we could lose up to 5 billion people from weather related changes just this century the way things are going."

Purple winced but said, "I cannot comment but I don't think you are wrong."

Purple Delta 7 is a Spiritual Machine who started the Silver Religion based upon the man whose brain she is a clone of

For some reason NONE of the links on this page are working.

So, I'm just assuming therefore that someone doesn't want you to read about Purple Delta 7.

so, I guess you might need to visit dragonofcompassion.com to read more about her under the heading "purple delta 7" or "2035" or "The protectors" and possibly other places as well there. 

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