From the most trustworthiest news site on the internet:
‘Rise Of Skywalker’ To Introduce First Lesbian AT-AT
I can’t wait for the Snopes takedown of this…
Dec 132019
Dec 132019
The Ford Nucleon was the most audacious and least realistic concept car of all time: an automobile with a nuclear reactor. What more needs to be said? Well, other than “here’s a nifty bit of concept art.”
Note that this illustration is from 1956, while the Nucleon is generally described as dating from 1957. This is therefore almost certainly an early illustration, before the final-ish design was settled upon. The more widely known illustrations of the Nucleon depict a distinctly different roof to the passenger cabin.
Dec 122019
All evidence points to this being a real game:
From the link where you can pre-order the game:
Become Jesus Christ, the famous man on Earth – in this highly realistic simulation game. Pray like Him for getting superpower, perform famous miracles like Him from Bible like casting demons, healing and feeding people, resurrection and more in “I am Jesus Christ”.
Heh.
Yes, the company does seem to be for real; their Steam page lists quite a sizable number of games. Whether they are any good, I can’t say; they seem to be rather… uh, niche interest sort of games. “Thief Simulator,” “Plane Mechanic Simulator,” “Cooking Simulator,” “Ultimate Fishing Simulator,” “House Flipper,” so on. Sounds about like the “Progressive Park” of video games, but to each their own. That said, there are some good comments on YouTube:
Dec 122019
Boris Johnson on course for huge win in UK election, exit poll suggests
The exit poll, conducted for the UK’s main broadcasters, predicted the Conservatives would win 368 seats, well ahead of Labour’s 191.
Snerk.
If confirmed by the official counts in the next few hours, those numbers represent the best results for the Conservatives since Margaret Thatcher’s win in 1987 — and the worst Labour result in more than 80 years.
Ha.
This is of course early, but it looks like the British people might actually be interested in Britain remaining a sovereign nation. Who knew?
Dec 122019
Russia’s Accident-Plagued Aircraft Carrier Is On Fire
The Admiral Kuznetsov, which caught fire in 2009, and which had it’s floating dry dock sink underneath it right at a year ago, is on fire again.
I always thought that “Admiral Kuznetsov” translated into “Admiral Kuznetsov,” but maybe it actually means “Swamp Castle.”
Dec 122019
Three die as marauding Pakistan lawyers rampage through cardiac hospital
Three heart patients died after a mob of lawyers rampaged through a Lahore hospital in a dispute with doctors.
Up to 200 lawyers wearing traditional black suits stormed the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), smashing windows, doors and equipment and setting a police van ablaze.
That really seems like the sort of thing I’d expect less out of reality and more out of… what? A Mel Brooks movie? Zucker Brothers?
Lahore government official Kamran Ali told Reuters the lawyers were enraged by an earlier incident where doctors allegedly beat a lawyer at the hospital over his refusal to get in a queue of patients.
Huh. At no point here do the lawyers come off well.
Especially given that patients died, one hopes that these lawyers not only get disbarred but also perma-banned from getting any professional medical care in the future.
Dec 112019
I use Firefox as a browser. Now and then I go to my Disqus admin page to check on comments on the blog. Tonight I saw a comment I felt like responding to… and when I clicked the direct link to that comment, the Firefox security system went buggo and warned me that it wouldn’t link to Up-Ship.com because the site would try to steal my passwords and such. As you might imagine, this is not something I need to see. I went to the comment through a roundabout means… the main site, then the link to the blog, then the specific post. Everything went fine. Huh. So back to the Disqus admin page; further attempts to link straight to the comment all met with failure and warnings. But… clicking on *any* other comment? Went straight there, absolutely no hint of trouble. So what was in that one comment? Was there a link to something horrible? An attached file of doom? Nope. A single sentence stating that A_ex Jo_es was right. That’s it. It seems that that collection of words triggers Firefox. Which makes me wonder about what will happen with this *post.* Which… on second thought, I’m’a gonna do some slight self-censoring in both the post title and the body of the text because I don’t need people getting scared away from the blog, but I still think the incident was worthy of note.
Dec 112019
Jersey City shooting suspects were lovers who lived in a van
So, these two lovely folks decided it was a perfectly cromulent exercise to go and shoot up a Jewish grocery store. They killed three, including a cop, before they caught some bullets themselves. Additionally, they’d apparently previously killed an Uber driver. And who were they? What made them decide to go kill them some Jews?
David Anderson was described by law enforcement sources on Wednesday as a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelites, and he introduced girlfriend and accomplice Francine Graham to their beliefs,
These are people who believe that black folk are the true Hebrews, and that all the other Jews are just evil white colonist cultural appropriators. If you think you’ve heard of the Black Hebrew Israelities before… congrats! You almost certainly have. You could have heard of them many places, but one standout is that these jackholes were the ones standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in January of this year. Their loud, insane, inane racist shriekings are what set off the Covington Blood Libel. Note that even at this late date, the New York Post article *still* lays some of the blame at the feet of the Covington kids while letting the aggressor who banged a drum in a little kids ear entirely off the hook and portrays him as a hero rather than a minor villain.
The Black Hebrew Israelites, who are not a part of mainstream Judaism, believe that white people are agents of Satan, Jews are liars and false worshippers of God, and black people are the true “chosen people” of the Bible, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists various branches of the movement among the country’s black nationalist hate groups, most of which it says are “strongly anti-white and anti-Semitic.”
You know you’re special when the SPLC decides that your anti-white rhetoric and beliefs might be a bit beyond the pale.
Once again it should prove interesting and entertaining to see how this terrorist action compares in the media to others with reversed color values.
Dec 112019
“Antlers” is a Guillermo del Toro produced horror movie set in Oregon featuring a Wendigo causing a ruckus. A good basis for a horror flick, but the Wendigo is from Algonquin mythology… east coast of Canada rather than west coast. Kinda like having leprechauns in Albania, I suppose. The Wendigo was a creature of the cold, driven by greed and a need to consume human flesh; humans could become Wendigos by either being in close contact with them, being too greedy or resorting to cannibalism. This is the sort of supernatural monster that very likely has a real-world basis, either in the form of psychopaths who have some compulsion to eat people, or schmoes who, like the Donner party, felt forced to eat people to survive. Consequently, this is a monster movie that could be supernatural, or simply feature regular humans who are plain buggo and wear wacky costumes and do horrible things. Except the very last little bit of the trailer seems to show something…
I always assumed the “Wendol” from Michael Crichtons “Eaters of the Dead” (movie version: “The 13th Warrior”) were based in part on the Wendigo
Dec 102019
Honestly, I didn’t see this coming:
Animal Rescuers Worried After Pigeons Are Found Wearing Tiny Cowboy Hats
PIGEONS IN HATS? Bobby Lee of Las Vegas recently spotted pigeons in his neighborhood wearing tiny hats and the video is going viral on Facebook.Is it funny or a case of animal cruelty? A local pigeon rescue group is now looking for the pigeons. Original post >> https://bit.ly/2Prrpe3
Posted by KTNV Channel 13 Action News on Saturday, December 7, 2019
https://www.fox29.com/news/someone-is-putting-tiny-cowboy-hats-on-pigeons-in-las-vegas-as-animal-rescue-works-to-remove-them?fbclid=IwAR3_RHcHBkSHMDmffr9suosHnlJz4HO41tJzvTk37E8Do4-ASk6MNTtImeg
Posted by Lofty Hopes – A Pigeon Positive Movement on Monday, December 9, 2019
Yes, I suppose strictly speaking this is animal cruelty… but come on… that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.
Tiny Cowboy Hat Wearing Pigeon Near Trop & Maryland
The Vegas cowboy pigeons are real.🎥: @kassandraqueenn/twitter
Posted by Las Vegas Locally on Monday, December 9, 2019