{"id":24382,"date":"2023-06-21T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=24382"},"modified":"2023-06-21T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:40:24","slug":"summer-solstice-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/21\/summer-solstice-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first official day of the most important time of the year.  The summer, when there is the least amount of snow in New England.  Currently hippies are ululating and prancing around Stonehenge and reminding us why druids practiced human sacrifice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QxgYrxzxj5\">https:\/\/t.co\/QxgYrxzxj5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; orionscoldfire (@orionscoldfire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orionscoldfire\/status\/1671602579443163136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today is the longest day of the year and the first official day of summer.\u00a0 Regular readers know that I have an inordinate attachment to summer.\u00a0 This probably developed when I was a child and despised school as a form of imprisonment.\u00a0 This week has been unpleasantly crowded with commitments that have kept me from writing and performing my other blog duties.\u00a0 Well, it can\u2019t be helped.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the news today has to do with the submarine that has disappeared during a trip to the Titanic wreck site on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 From what I\u2019ve read, the guy who runs the company that brings sight-seers to the Titanic was piloting the sub.\u00a0 Opinions about whether the trip was a senseless death trap or a brave adventure seems about evenly split.\u00a0 As someone very familiar with pressure vessel design, I wonder if carbon fiber as a structural material is well understood.\u00a0 Materials like stainless steel and other alloys have been tested for decades to understand their reaction to pressure, temperature, corrosion and other factors.\u00a0 I guess this situation will probably bring to light the details of this company\u2019s policies with respect to design and risk.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the news, Hunter Biden and Donald Trump and their comparative treatment at the hands of the Justice Department is providing supplementary examples of what a two-tier justice system means in practical terms.\u00a0 We\u2019re all going to learn over the course of the next year and a half whether the awakening of the American public to the realities of who runs this country makes any difference at all in how those in charge behave.\u00a0 We may find that they now have nothing to fear from us at all.<\/p>\n<p>On the Ukraine front, the summer offensive by the Ukrainians has been ongoing for about three weeks.\u00a0 It\u2019s not completely clear whether the operations are probing attacks or some kind of multiple axis maneuvering.\u00a0 At this point, the Ukrainians have lost about 20 \u2013 30% of the tanks and armored vehicles that the West provided them since December.\u00a0 This is due to the extensive minefields that the Russians have laid out in front of the defensive lines that they built.\u00a0 Maybe there will be a successful penetration of those Russian lines in the near future but so far it doesn\u2019t look promising.\u00a0 There\u2019s a NATO meeting coming up in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 11<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Speculation is that the Ukrainians have until that meeting to show that they can use the equipment and training that the West has given them to make significant progress against the Russians on the battle front.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see how that turns out.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the economy, prices continue to soar on just about everything and companies report lower earnings.\u00a0 Of course, \u201cno recession in sight.\u201d\u00a0 But that may be just the new way the economy is reported.\u00a0 Basically, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ll see how that goes in the fall when the election is in high gear.\u00a0 Once again, maybe our masters no longer care what we think or say.<\/p>\n<p>On the home front, Camera Girl continues to stuff me with splendiferous foods whenever I return from the various annoying errands, I\u2019ve been assigned this week.\u00a0 Tonight, is eggplant stuffed with sausage and rice.\u00a0 I guess I shouldn\u2019t complain about living in bondage if it includes good food.\u00a0 But of course, in Biden\u2019s America the sausage will be replaced with crickets.\u00a0 So, there is that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first official day of the most important time of the year. 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