A View from the Beach
One day you wash up on the beach, wet and naked. Another day you wash back out. In between, the scenery changes constantly.
Friday, November 13, 2026
Beach Report 11/13/26
The tide was stupid high, so I couldn't get past the rocks between Calvert Beach and Matoaka cabins.
The beach was pretty sandy for the most part, but I did manage to spot this 1 1/8 inch Snaggletooth lower, the best of 4 teeth.
Flotsam and Jetsam - Vance Eased Off Iran Team, Huang Hung Out Dry
At Hat Hair Capt Ed says Whoa: Trump Boots Vance From Iran War "This morning, Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that he had a new assignment for his vice president, which has more to do with vice than with being president. Trump has tasked Vance to put his "complete and total attention" on corruption in Democrat-run states, which Trump insists is a much higher priority than negotiating with Iran. In fact, Trump declared in the same post that we don't need a deal with Iran at all..." PJM's Cathy Salgado cites Trump: No Iran Deal, Vance Off Foreign Policy to Focus on Domestic Corruption. I'm guessing this is part of Vance's (and maybe Trump's) plan to differentiate himself from Trump by 2028. At WaT Joe Curl opines Vance does not have a chance in 2028, "The vice president bailed on his boss the moment the midterms went sideways" and Vance-Hegseth rivalry hits crescendo over Iran war, GOP election losses. Rick Moran at PJM thinks Trump's Iran Strategy Could Be a War Winner if He Sticks to It, the Anaconda strategy. Keep squeezing until they can't breath.
Ben Kew @ben_kew, "JUST IN: Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of NVIDIA after reports of two extramarital affairs, including with an alleged Chinese spy." Sundance at CTH, Nvidia Board Announces Jensen Huang Resignation – Interim President/CEO Appointed, a woman. So NVidia will go out of entrepreneurial mode and into protecting market share mode. Not what we need. I'm sure the Chinese are happy how this worked out for them. Anxious anxiously whines about a Scoop: Lutnick stalled Trump's Nvidia–China chip curbs after Oval talks Ombre de Oliver looks at The Bubble of Jenson’s Huang. "Jenson’s Indiscretions With His Huang Is NOT The Big Story, NVIDIA’s finances is the big story." At Althouse, "The ouster of Huang is portentous for the alliance between the Trump administration and the so-called 'tech right,' or the leaders of Silicon Valley’s recent conservative inflection" and "The lesson in the Jensen Huang scandal... middle-aged men need to slow down with testosterone replacement therapy...", "Feel the TRT oozing..." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "The world’s going to shit. AI may destroy us or make slaves of us or turn us into desperate predatory hordes. Even before the Democrats can manage that. But in the meantime, this delightful app never fails to make me laugh my ass off." Quote Katie Miller @KatieMiller, "Miles Taylor cheated on his wife with the Secretary’s Executive Assistant while he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of Homeland Security." Quote Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA, "So will Trump give back the $25M Nvidia put into his ballroom while its CEO was dating a Chinese spy?" Brivael Le Pogam @brivael, "Prediction. Screenshot this post, we'll talk again in five years. They're going to pull it off. Jensen Huang is going to be pushed out of Nvidia. And here's what happens next. Elon hires Jensen and puts him in charge of Terafab. He's already said it publicly: hiring him would be an honor. And Terafab is the project made for him. A chip factory Musk wants to be the largest ever built, one terawatt of compute per year, from design to packaging under one roof. Terafab's challenge is to do in a few years what the industry took decades to build. There's only one man on Earth who knows every layer of that stack. They execute like absolute maniacs. Musk brings speed, capital and appetite for risk. Jensen brings thirty years of mastery of the stack: architecture, software, customers, supply chain...." zerohedge @zerohedge, "Elon please hire Jensen." Elon Musk @elonmusk, "That would be an honor." VIA @Via00Via, "Translated from Japanese, "Shocking】The story of Elon Musk getting a massive AI facility running 100,000 GPUs up and running at an absurd pace is absolutely wild lol Reporter: “How many years does it take to finish an AI facility?” Elon: “The contractors told me 18–24 months.” Reporter: “So you’re looking at a two-year wait.” Elon: “I decided to build it in six months.” Reporter: “Huh? lol” Elon: “If we wait, we’ll lose the race.” Reporter: “What about the location?” Elon: “We used an old appliance factory.” Reporter: “Did you have enough power?” Elon: “We only had 15 megawatts.” Reporter: “How much do you need?” Elon: “150 megawatts.” Reporter: “That’s ten times less than you need lol” Elon: “So we rented generators.” Reporter: “Did that solve it?” Elon: “Then we didn’t have enough cooling equipment.” Reporter: “Nothing but problems lol” Elon: “We added batteries too.” Reporter: “Just leave it to the contractors.” Elon: “I slept on-site and did the wiring myself too.” Reporter: “A global billionaire wiring cables!?” Elon: “Getting it finished is what matters.” Reporter: “You’d go that far…” As a business leader, this really hits home..." Gizmodo reports a High Ranking Republican Joins Dems To Back Nationwide Data Center Moratorium, "Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said a moratorium should be one of the priorities for Senate Republicans in the next six weeks."Fish Pic Friday - Sarah Rose Foster
Another fine Aussie fisherwoman:
Sarah Rose Foster@sarahrosefoster_ ♡ Solo Travelling Australia, 4WD Touring, Off-Grid Camping, Queensland, Weekly adventures on YouTube ↓
Thursday, November 12, 2026
ASMFC Cuts Menhaden Commercial Catch
At the Bay Journal, Commission sets lower limits on Chesapeake Bay menhaden harvest:
Facing mounting pressure to protect struggling ospreys and Maryland watermen, East Coast fishery managers reached a “compromise” to reduce the commercial menhaden harvest in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted Nov. 11 in Newport, RI, to limit industrial-scale menhaden harvest in the Bay to about 21% of the species’ total East Coast catch for the next two years. For 2027, the maximum harvest would be 27% lower than the longstanding cap. The allowable catch would be lowered again in 2028.
Overall, the move will reduce the current Bay cap of 51,000 metric tons per year to 33,847 in 2028.
The decision capped nearly two years of impassioned debate pitting conservationists and recreational anglers against employees and supporters of the Virginia industry that “reduces,” or processes, menhaden into fish meal and oil.
It's about time.
Flotsam and Jetsam - Bidens Milk-bombed in Motherland
From Althouse, "Biden, 83, was accompanied by former first lady Jill Biden to a ceremony where their son, Hunter Biden, accepted the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution for Public Discourse." ""Demonstrators and spectators gathered outside the venue during the event hosted by the College Historical Society (HIST). As Biden departed, some people stepped forward and threw objects." From "Joe Biden swarmed by protesters during surprise Dublin visit to support Hunter/Chaos broke out near the event attended by Biden and his family" (Independent). Sunny @sunnyright, "I don’t like Biden but my default policy response here is we start airstrikes immediately on the attackers." Quote Breaking911 @Breaking911, "Joe Biden was pelted with milk cartons in Dublin, Ireland, as he took cover behind an umbrella. Police wrestled with protesters while he was rushed into his SUV." Nick Arama at RedState finds Biden Revisits Infamous Debate With Delusional New Take – But Then Came a Surprising Admission. Clash Report @clashreport, "Joe Biden: If I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer, I would have resigned. I would not have gone forward because I don't think an 80-year-old man with cancer should be running. But that wasn't the case. It was a circumstance where I thought that I had the capacity, I think I did, to bring a wider array of support for the United States and our positions from around the world. I had very good relationships with all the major leaders in the world. And so I believe that, on an objective basis, I was the best-equipped person to do the job." Steve Cortes @SteveCortes, "Joe Biden now claims his 2024 presidential debate against President Trump, which forced him to drop out of the race, was not very consequential: “To me it was not very consequential. First of all I thought there would be another debate, which there wasn’t. Notwithstanding the fact that there wasn’t another debate, it didn’t disturb me because it wasn’t consequential.” Just 24 days after the “not very consequential” presidential debate, Joe Biden ended his campaign for President." Whatever lets you sleep through the night, Joe.
Also at Althouse "Asked whether pursuing the failed impeachment effort had been worth it, Mr. Massie said it 'absolutely' had been, because it provided proof that his party was still in thrall to Mr. Trump." "I'm reading "Republicans Turn Back Effort to Impeach Hegseth/The G.O.P. banded together to shelve impeachment articles against the defense secretary, sparing him from a damaging rebuke and potential ouster"." Ace adds Arkansas "Republican" Says He Might Vote to Impeach Pete Hegseth, "He talks like a tough guy -- he's trying to make his vote with the left sound #Based -- but he's a spoo-splattered cum chasm.*" A Larry vid at Hat Hair sees Progressives Turn on Jeffries After Absent Democrats Let Hegseth Impeachment Stall.
At Am Mind, Jeff Anderson tries to explain What Happened in the Midterms. PJM's Scott Pinsker claims a World Exclusive: A New Political Theory Explains the GOP’s Defeat — and How We Win Again in 2028. Sundance at CTH has a REMINDER: 14 Specific Outcomes to Anticipate, "So far, #1, #2, #3, #6, #8, #13 and #14 have been highlighted by media, and those events are currently unfolding." At Da Signal Deroy Murdock calls it A Time for Ruthlessness: Lame-Duck Session Should Finish Work of Lazy-Duck Senate. I'm not holding my breath.
Katherine Doyle @katiadoyl, "NEW: Washington gears up for a new era of congressional investigations with the White House adding 15 staff to its counsel’s office as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress." Sundance at CTH has White House Pushes Back Hard Against Threats from Incoming House Oversight Chairman Garcia. "‘The Supreme Court has held that “fiJnvestigations conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to ‘punish’ those investigated are indefensible.” Watkins United States, 354 U.S. 178, 187 (1957)." Matt Vespa at TownHall says Markwayne Mullin's Interview on Fox News Did Not Go Well. Here's Why. Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "JUST IN: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is open to PERMANENT LEGAL STATUS for DACA illegals, per politico NO. That’s AMNESTY. NOT what we voted for. We cannot give an INCH on this issue. “If we want to have an immigration reform where we can look at DACA and figure out a way that these individuals can become maybe legal permanent citizens or something like this, that’ll be up to Congress to do that. I’ll be open to talk to anything,” Mullin says." DACA is the tough case in illegal immigration. At Althouse, Trump calls in to CSPAN. Rusty Weiss at RedState, The Left's Big Veterans Day Smear of Trump Just Collapsed, and the Proof Was Right There on Screen. Hat Hair's John Sexton observes Trump Really Called This One. "On April 23 of this year, the FDA approved a new treatment which has the ability to restore hearing to a small number of children born with a genetic condition that leaves them deaf." Deaf activists protested. From Althouse, "The judiciary should not be abused to politicize a structure designed to unite our nation.... We will continue making the case for this beautiful and fitting monument...." "Said a White House spokesman, quoted in "Kennedys sue to block Trump's arch, arguing it would cast shadow on JFK's grave" (BBC). I don't know about the legal arguments but: 1. The monument is already political, and its hard to see how it can ever rise above its political origin. 2. Even if it is "designed to unite our nation," which I doubt, it's obviously not uniting us, and it's hard to see how it ever could. 3. It's not "beautiful and fitting" to me and to a lot of us Americans, and it shouldn't be built until there is far more consensus and desire for this immense thing in such a conspicuous and hallowed place." I don't care about the arch, but I do care about judges assuming too much power.Tattoo Thursday
When Kansas City Current co-owner Brittany Mahomes announced Tuesday night she was pregnant with baby No. 4, there were congratulations all around. But that also generated a conversation about a potential baby names because Brittany and her husband, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, have named their first three children after precious metals. That’s daughters Sterling and Golden, and son Bronze.
Some people believe the new baby wasn’t expected because of a social media post that Brittany Mahomes shared a view weeks ago. She got a tattoo with the names of the three kids and their birthdates.
How is a fourth name going to fit with that tattoo? That’s what some folks were wondering on social media.








