On the other hand NatGeo says of the American Crocodile:

I pose that question because we now know that great whites in the Pacific do migrate from California to Hawaii and back, and yet scientists haven't been able to determine exactly why they're doing this and can thus far only postulate.

Some have surmised that great whites travel to Hawaii to mate and whelp ,even though we actually know very little about the mating habits of this species, while others believe that the sharks are actually following the great schools of yellowfin and Bluefin tuna as they conduct their own trans-Pacific migrations.

You might enjoy taking a look at this Ocearch website, in which they track the migratory patterns of select great whites which have been tagged by researchers in order to compile data for study.

One such shark, a large female nicknamed "Katherine," has been tracked on her meandering sojourn between the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and the Gulf of Mexico; you can see where she's been over the last three years by scrolling down the list of sharks on the left of the Ocearch website and then clicking on her name. As of June 8, she was about 100 miles off Daytona Beach. In early February, she was off of Nova Scotia. She last transited the Florida Keys back in May and August of 2014, while on her way to and from the Gulf.

its associated with the dam .  You know, the third largest freshwater spring in North America.  I often get tiny fish there to feed my big fish.  Free fish food is a perk of having a family member in the office.

AND did you catch the new extended trailer of WESTWORLD?

Not saying the Lanisters don't deserve a lot of grief, just that the High Sparrow does not seem to limit his cruelty to the Lanisters; he is an equal opportunity abuser.

YMMV

I am also getting a little tired of the cavalry riding in at the last minute to save the day, a little too Mighty Mouse to me.  Gotta say I have lost track of how many times a battle was lost till riders on horse back charged at the last second and turned the tide.  Maybe it is my military experience but that seldom happens in real life.

I do expect we will start seeing actual campaign staffing in various states. And a more concerted effort to court and reassure donors.

The Trump campaign at present is, as Marshall notes, a product of "epic disorganization," with only $2.4 million cash on hand and only 30 field staff in place across the entire country. This is the best effort to be had from a guy who repeatedly claims to be worth $10 billion and has promised to self-fund the entire thing?

"Trump may be stingy. He may be saying that the RNC should take responsibility for fundraising, which is something it's clearly not capable of doing. (The RNC has massive fundraising capacity but it can't simply take on singlehanded what the candidate was expected to raise.) But as big a disaster as Trump's campaign is at the moment he stands a real shot at being the next president of the United States. It is simply not credible that he is standing on principle in not giving his campaign any more money at such a critical moment when his bid is being so deeply damaged.

"The only credible answer is that it is difficult or perhaps even impossible for him to produce these comparatively small sums. If that's true, his claim to be worth billions of dollars must either be a pure sham and a fraud or some artful concoction of extreme leverage and accounting gimmickry, which makes it impossible to come up with actual cash. It's true that he's already loaned his campaign over $40 million, which at least suggests a substantial amount of liquid assets to draw on. But we've never really known where that money came from or whether it needs to be repaid to some other party. Indeed, Trump's unwillingness to give up his right to be repaid, essentially reimbursed for the primary campaign, by GOP high rollers has always been a telling but largely ignored detail."

Trump is increasingly beset from all sides, not only getting royally hammered on an hourly basis by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats but also being chastised daily by prominent (and apparently, increasingly desperate) members of his own party -- and yet, his campaign is paralyzed and incapable of responding to the challenge save for Trump's own bigoted and juvenile tweets.

Marshall has concluded that far from being a multi-billionaire, Trump is effectively broke. Mrs. Clinton's campaign is effectively going for the jugular early, betting that by the time he and the GOP finally get their acts together and work in concert rather than crossed purposes, this election may already very well be decided.

I'm sure you've heard me discuss the occasional blizzards we get on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, the two mountains which dominate our island skyline and comprise its bulk. (Mauna Loa is the largest single mountain on earth by volume, and accounts for nearly two-thirds of our island's surface area.) At nearly 14,000' high at their summits, it's not uncommon to see snow flurries up there, even in mid-summer.

Our island is one of the few places on earth where one can experience 11 of the 13 climate zones, from Tropical to Alpine-Tundra. (We lack only the Arctic and Saharan zones.) And Hilo Bay is one of the few places where you can actually see all those zones at once.

Personally, while I find Kona to be pretty, it's also much too hot and barren for my tastes to actually consider living there. I much prefer Hilo's cooler humid climate. I'm so glad we have our own airport here, because it's otherwise a 90-min. trek to the recently renamed Ellison Onizuka International Airport at Keahole on the west side of the island. (Onizuka, who was from Kona, was one of the seven astronauts who were killed in the 1986 Challenger disaster.)

And when the military is conducting training exercises in Pohakuloa and they close off the Saddle Road, it's an over 2-hour trip to Kona Airport through Waimea. We've occasionally had to pick up relatives who are arriving over there, and it's easily a half-day's journey round trip.

And here is a list of unsuccessful attacks.

And yes I have heard the argument that we are just collateral victims.  But reading Osama bin Ladin's  comments to Peter Arnett...see comment #32...

So, the driving-away jihad against the US does not stop with its withdrawal from the Arabian peninsula, but rather it must desist from aggressive intervention against Muslims in the whole world.

And after noting all the calls for death and destruction of the west I am convinced that "at war with the west" is exactly what we have here. And as silly as we may find their plans to establish a Caliphate over the world I am reminded that North Vietnam won, albeit with help from our own Left, pacifists, fellow travelers and some very misguided people.

There is every reason to believe that this will, in the radicals view,happen again.

Your point on "don't stir them up" has been made  over and over with the result is they keep winning and winning.

And if all the "moderate" Muslims were truly moderate and there is only a thousand radicals you would think the moderates would get them under control.

Unfortunately there are many thousands and the moderates have yet to do much beyond the odd condemnation of the latest attacks. And you can note that the brother Islamic theocracies are not accepting refugees...and the radicals see them as troops to be used when they can. That's Trump's point and he is right.

Beyond that, here is what Muslims in America have to say about extremism as found by the very mainline Pew Research group.

"A significant minority (21%) of Muslim Americans say there is a great deal (6%) or a fair amount (15%) of support for extremism in the Muslim American community.

That's 1 in 5.

When I was a high school senior in Southern California in the fall of 1978, my mother was actively campaigning against the Briggs Amendment, which not only would have stripped LGBT citizens of any right to work in public schools, but would have also rendered any attempt by straight public school personnel to shield gay men and lesbians from public discovery a terminating offense.

While we may not have any laws currently on the books which explicitly classify homosexual behavior as a criminal offense, we need only look to that San Francisco jury which let Dan White off on a lesser charge of manslaughter in May 1979 for the murders of Supervisor Harvey Milk and gay-friendly Mayor George Moscone, to note only how recently LGBT lives were considered by our own society to be of inherently lesser value.

So, it's not as though our own comparable enlightenment on the subject of LGBT rights is really all that much further advanced or any more longstanding than other places in the world. We've one helluva long way to go ourselves, before we start labeling other countries or cultures as morally inferior to our own.