The New York Times excreted a video trashing the United States (shocking, I know). And as it turns out, the NYT claims a lot of things that are flawed or just plain bass ackwards. The sort of things that can be shown up by cartoon characters. So… good job, New York Times.
The second trailer for the Brad Pitt movie “Ad Astra” has come out, and it remains confusing. Specifically, the timeline. Because it certainly *looks* like Tommy Lee Jones’s character, the father of Brad Pitt’s character, seems to have been an Apollo astronaut, but now in his sons day – which would therefore seem to be *approximately* *now,* involves cities on the moon, Mars bases and tether-suspended low-altitude stations, along with 3D holographic projection technology. So… alt-history? Apollo wasn’t strangled, but instead NASA funding stayed at 4% of the Fed budget?
We have us a new Trigglypuff, being backed up by several people who are *straight* out of Clownworld central casting. Note: the language is NSFW, the intelligence is lacking, the humor is fall-down.
Whenever you see one of “the squad,” just keep in mind that *these* are their voters. Feel free to send this to your politically apathetic friends.
Fifty years ago, Apollo 11 was on the way to the moon. This was undoubtedly the greatest achevment in all human history. You would expect that it would be universally celebrated as such, especially in the country that made it happen. Prepare to be surprised.
The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. If we do not acknowledge the gender bias of the early space program, it becomes difficult to move past it. https://t.co/Mt7rVLgAaf
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 17, 2019
The culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male https://t.co/x5vQBuU4IN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 16, 2019
Now, the newspapers are not incorrect when they point out that Apollo was largely the result of a “white and male” culture. That is, after all, an incontrovertible fact, just as the defeat of Nazism and Imperial Japan and Communism and slavery were the result of “white and male” cultures, as was the development of modern agricultural methods that have permitted humanity to go from a few hundred million on the edge of starvation to many billions of well-fed people, to the extermination of smallpox and the defeat of diseases like plague and cholera and typhus, to the creation of nuclear power and global positioning systems to the spread of democratic ideals and the whole concept of universal human rights. Where they fall down is in deciding that “white and male” is a bad thing that needs to be replaced.
On the one hand… keep it up. The more the whackadoodles in the media spout patently ridiculous nonsense, the more they turn off voters who would otherwise be apathetic, thus *perhaps* ensuring success for the other side. But on the other hand, the more this dribble is repeated, the more it sinks in and helps rot the culture. It would of course be nice if Bubbles Cortez and her gaggle of racist scumbag compatriots gets themselves voted out of office due to backlash against this sort of thing… but she and her intellectually vacant ilk never should have gotten voted in in the first place.
This doesn’t look *quite* right…
This, my friends, is Utah capitalism at its finest:
There are, of course, people getting all twitchy about this. The Brigham City Police have checked him out and given him and his business model the all-clear.
This young man, in the area of 600 South 200 East, has a twist on a lemonade stand. Yep, he’s selling beer … ROOT…
Posted by Brigham City Police Department on Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Gee, that’s swell.
The charges involve at least seven homicides, many of which were recorded by the perpetrators,
All cultures are beautiful
Some of the suspects were high school students at the time of the slayings
The new normal is glorious.
You know what we need? Open borders.
Poindexter asks the question that those in charge (I’m looking at *you*, ghost of Ted Kennedy on a day pass from Niflhel) should have asked a few generations ago:
Because we’re in our civilizations decline and are not culturally allowed to openly notice it.
Back in 1989, CBS ran an “as it happened” bit on the launch of Apollo 11… many hours of uninterrupted 1969-era news coverage of the launch. And I managed to screw up programming the VCR, ending up with nothing. Grrr. Fortunately a mere thirty years later they have done it again… but this time, on YouTube. A four and a half hour chunk of wall-to-wall vintage 1969 TV, currently downloading. 2.1 gigabytes at 500 K/sec is gonna take a little bit of a while, I suppose…
With luck they’ll do the same in a few days for the landing itself.
And here are a number of photos of the many aircraft that paid my little neck of the woods a visit in order to fight the massive wildfire.
A year ago Hasbro launched their “Haslab” crowdfunding project. This is for developing – or not – toys of unusual size and cost that would be financially dangerously risky to develop without crowdfunding. Their first project was the ginormous Jabba’s Sail Barge from “Return of the Jedi;” it was successfully developed and sold to the nearly 6,000 backers for $500 a pop. They’ve come out with a new project: a 27-inch-tall Unicron from “Transformers: The Movie.” A 27-inch-tall figure toy is not that unusual; before Disney screwed the pooch on Star Wars, they were selling Darth Vader and stormtrooper toys bigger than that. But what Hasbro is doing with their Unicron figure it to make it as mind-bogglingly complex as possible. And consequently, the price is a bit much… $574.99. But if you just have to have a giant Unicron that somehow transforms between robot and planet forms, or you want to speculate on what the ebay resale value on these might be (there are a number of Sail Barges on ebay now all with Buy It Now prices of a grand and up), then here ya go. With 46 days left in the crowdfunding campaign, there are currently 920 out of 8,000 backers. Maybe you could buy two and sell one on ebay for twice the price, thus you end up with a free Unicron. Better still, buy three, sell one, send one to me.
