Some people are fine. And some… some people just plain suck.
Oct 252022
Oct 242022
‘Nation’s Report Card’ says math and reading scores plummeted during the pandemic, showing Covid’s devastating toll on students
Covid should not get all the blame. There is blame enough to share with the politicians and bureaucrats.
And on the subject of getting dumber:
Dallas shooter was attending birth at hospital
A guy shot and murdered two nurses. That’s bad enough, but where this goes from a news story about “crazy” and “crime” to one about “stupidity” is this:
Nestor Hernandez was granted leave to be with his “significant other” at Methodist Dallas Medical Center during her delivery Saturday, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez. She said he’d been sentenced to prison for aggravated robbery and was released on parole last October, but did not provide additional details on the circumstances of the shooting.
According to THIS STORY, in 2015 he assaulted, injured and robbed a woman, leading to a meager 8-year sentence. that means he should still be in prison, not to be released until 2023 sometime. But someone thought this absolute *winner* should be allowed out and about, and he was released on parole in October (presumably 2021, since it says “last” October). Had he still been in prison, not only would these two nurses still be alive, but there would have been no birth to attend to. Now the state will be saddled with this guys offspring, with every likelihood that the kid will end up just as bad.
Hey, here’s a thought: keep criminals locked up. Especially violent ones And more especially the ones with tattoos that proudly proclaim “I will never be a benefit to society.”
Oct 242022
Posting delayed due to “issues.”
Bad day for someone… but not as bad as it could have been. And probably not as bad as he had set out to make it for someone else. Interesting how cleanly the vertical stabilizer came off.
UPDATE: This incident seems to have occurred in June, well inside Russia, after hitting a power line (note that the vertical stabilizer seems to have been cleanly sliced off).
Oct 242022
Posting delayed due to “issues…”
This seems unwise on many, many levels.
Oct 242022
Been unable to log in to post for more than a day this time. I was told that “‘mysql-tmp’ directory was full in server end.” That means that the server is running out of storage space, yes?
Really rather tired of this…
Oct 222022
There are two things wrong with this video. First, it shows vast numbers of people willingly engaged in watching paint dry as a sport. Second… welll…
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Oct 212022
After months and years of posts about massive failures of various kinds… here’s a video about an attempt at a long-distance car jump. Guess how it turns out.
Oct 202022
Stacey Abrams, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate trying again, has an interesting solution to the economic crisis: kill the children. They cost money, you see. If you didn’t have your kids, you could better afford gas and food and rent and such. Says so at about 4:23:
This is the person that the knavish dullards behind “Star Trek Discovery” chose to portray as the President of Earth. Ironic given that she is basically advocating for human – or at least Western – extinction. It seems more likely to me by far that she is working for outside forces – whether China, Klingons or the Chaos Gods – to depopulate at least the United States, to clear it out with minimal fuss so it can be colonized by someone else.
Oct 202022
Seems unlikely, but…
Deranged Putin has ALREADY tried to detonate nuclear bomb but was scuppered in last-minute ‘sabotage’, insider claims
The article seems distinctly lean on actual details and evidence. Claim is made that *two* attempts to test nuclear weapons – including an underwater test in the Barents Sea – were aborted due to emergencies of some kind, actually caused by people somewhere in the chain realizing that the whole idea was nuts. How the quoted “expert” would know this is unclear.
I can see Putin deciding to set off nukes as a show of force. I can see his own people sabotaging the effort, because they don’t want their families to be evaporated. But while such events are plausible, I’d need evidence before I believed they actually happened. And the thing is, incidents like this will almost certainly never have adequate evidence… until an actual bomb actually goes off.
In any event, I’m glad that some time back I got me a functional radiation detector.
Oct 202022
Dramatic Scene as Jakarta Mosque’s Dome Collapses in Fire
Looks like it was a sizable structure. Apparently being repaired when it caught fire. Notre Dame and the Big Butter Jesus feel yer pain, fellers.