Half of the job of selling me on being interested in this movie was just the title: “Shadow In The Cloud.” It will have some work to do, though… explaining how at least a couple Brits end up on a B-17 fighting the Japanese. Bwuh? I do, though, have the unnerving suspicion that this might turn out to be like “Sucker Punch” where its all a dream or delusion or some such.
Trying again…
OH SNAP!
OK, one minor malfunction, but that was still the best show I’ve seen since the first dual-booster landing.
Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2020
I found that I still have my own YouTube channel. Who knew? Anyway, if you’ve ever been *desperate* to find out what I sound like, here’s your chance, where I provide scintillating commentary during the touchdown maneuver:
Some of the audience…
Here we have yet another Dem politician threatening Republicans/Trump supporters, apparently actively calling for direct violence. Will it be handwaved away as a “joke,” as so many on the left have tried to do with Swalwell’s threat to use nuclear weapons on American civilian population centers in order to strip the citizens of their Constitutional rights?
And once again we have a link between the gun grabber agenda and the Communist Chinese:
When Netflix released the cringeworthy “Cuties” to critical acclaim from the perverts on the cultural Left, a lot of people decided that they had better things to spend their money on. So now that a whole bunch of people on the right/conservative/sane side of the aisle bailed from their platform in protest and disgust, Netflix releases a movie that apparently tells an important conservative story. It’s conservative enough that the critics have decided to try to bury it.
Good job, Netflix.
The Wikipedia entry on the autobiographical book the movie is based on includes this:
Alongside his personal history, Vance raises questions such as the responsibility of his family and people for their own misfortune. Vance blames hillbilly culture and its supposed encouragement of social rot. Comparatively, he feels that economic insecurity plays a much lesser role. To lend credence to his argument, Vance regularly relies on personal experience. As a grocery store checkout cashier, he watched welfare recipients talk on cell phones although the working Vance could not afford one. His resentment of those who seemed to profit from poor behavior while he struggled, especially combined with his values of personal responsibility and tough love, is presented as a microcosm of the reason for Appalachia’s overall political swing from strong Democratic Party to strong Republican affiliations. Likewise, he recounts stories intended to showcase a lack of work ethic including the story of a man who quit after expressing dislike over his job’s hours and posted to social media about the “Obama economy”, as well as a co-worker, with a pregnant girlfriend, who would skip work.
Huh. I think it might be worth a look. The book, that is. Netflix is no longer on my TV.
Eaglemoss has released information on their “subscription” model of the Enterprise-D:
It’s big, to be sure, at more than 2 feet long. Like other Eaglemoss kits, this thing shows up a bit at a time (four kits per month), taking you a while to amass all the components to complete the full model. Each kit costs about £11 each (doubtless there’ll be a USD $ option soon enough). Which doesn’t sound too bad, until you scroll waaaaaaaay down to the bottom and click on the FAQ and they kinda shyly point out that this thing is composed of 120 separate kits. That’s 120 times £11 which is… £1320, or about $1770. Yikes. Plus it’ll take 30 months for all the bits to get to you.
This Enterprise was first announced nearly two years ago, if it sounds vaguely familiar. Note that the final product does look substantially better than the earlier-shown prototype.
This video is certainly worth paying attention to:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2020
Will BidenHarris undergo the same scrutiny as agents of the Chinese Communist Party as Trump did for Russia Collusion? Don’t bet on it.
Here’s the full speech by the Chinese professor Di Dongsheng where he describes, among other things, the belief that the ChiComs have that they have their own agents in places of power in the US government and major corporations:
Something interesting is the audience reaction. There are a number of instances of laughter as if the man said something funny… but a *lot* of those “funny” moments are “oh crap” moments for Americans reading along.
So is Biden a Chinese asset? The Chinese Communist Party certainly seems to think so. It’s important to keep that in mind when contemplating Bidens policies and choices. Take, for example, his “hell yes, we’ll take your guns” plan on how he wants to treat the American citizenry. On one hand, one might imagine that he wants to disarm the populace simply because he’s an asshole. But on the other hand… a prior Asian power contemplated war with the United States and realized that invasion of the United States would find “a rifle behind every blade of grass.” How Tojo would have loved it if FDR had disarmed the United States the way Biden wants to. Similarly: Biden wants to institute the “Green new Deal.” The GND is blatantly obviously designed to trash the US economy. Who would benefit from that? The Chinese certainly wouldn’t mind if the US because a far less successful competitor economically. The US economy going into freefall would mean the end of the US as a global military power, opening the door for Chinese conquest of Taiwan, the South China Sea, Australia, Japan… Hawaii, for all we know. Where does Biden stand on the USSF? Where does he stand on modernization of US nuclear capabilities? Where does he stand on clamping down on racists and communists in groups like BLM and Antifa who seek to trash major cities and tear the American society apart? In short… how many – if any – of Bidens policies and ideas are opposed by China, or would be troublesome to China?
Then consider his choice of Harris.
This reminds me of how Obama was Firearm Salesman of the Year eight years running (and how BidenHarris are at least Ammo Salesbeingofindeterminategender of the Year):
Some people really need to look up the “Streisand Effect.” followed by some reading up on Dunning-Kruger.
Fr @VictoriaYeage11 It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET. An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever.
— Chuck Yeager (@GenChuckYeager) December 8, 2020
2020 strikes again.
… maybe. Looks like it’s scheduled for starting Tuesday at 8 AM. We shall see.
The Russian family-friendly group “Little Big” has created a sing-alongable anthem to celebrate this most recent of years.