Brazil: Fire vs. History

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Sep 022018
 

This is the sort of thing you just don’t like to see:

Massive fire tears through Rio’s 200-year old National Museum

Twenty million items in the museum collection… and it’s a total loss. It’s the rough equivalent of the Smithsonian being reduced to ash.

If it turns out that some arsonist started this… hoo boy, not enough years in the calendar for a just sentence. if it turns out to be accidental… there is *still* room for a raft of trials. It seems the museum had been left in a bad way for some years, and didn’t even have a decent fire suppression system installed. If you have the funds to hold an Olympics, you have the funds to properly care for your national museums.

 Posted by at 11:19 pm

So it has come to this

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Sep 022018
 

I took this photo about a year ago in an antique store in Salt Lake city. Always meant to post it but… meh. You know how it is… time flies when you’re rolling in cash, wallowing in success, fighting off hordes of frenzied female groupies and dealing with the ravages of self delusion.

Anyway, take a gander at what the decline in reason has accomplished:

Ugh.

 Posted by at 7:43 pm

Pretty sure there was supposed to be a lake there…

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Sep 022018
 

So I recently came back from traveling. For the first time in some years I flew, and while the security theater certainly seemed to be better and more smoothly run than i remember from times past, the seating has only gotten worse. On the modern 737 I took on a few legs, they’d even gone to the bother of cutting the drink & food tray in half because there was simply no chance in hell of opening up the full size tray. Feh.

Anyway, as might be expected I took a number of photos throughout the exercise. Since they were taken with my cel phone, as might be expected they’re not the greatest. But they might be of interest.

The photos below are from shortly after liftoff from Salt Lake International. The flight path took us over the Great Salt Lake… which seems to have become little more than a meandering stream through the desert. Behold:

In the photos below, the slightly redder area to the left is Antelope Island. The lighter tan region *should* be a lake.

 Posted by at 2:40 pm

Sigh. SJWs on the Moon.

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Sep 012018
 

‘First Man’ Director Damien Chazelle Defends Omitting American Flag Planted on the Moon

“First Man,” the forthcoming biopic about Neil Armstrong, *had* looked like a good movie. But even though it covers Armstrong walking on the Moon, the director and the actor portraying Armstrong felt that showing the American flag being planted on the Moon was somehow inappropriate.

The director once posted this to Twitter:

 

The director is a loon.

Hollywood is all about the dollar. So even though the place is swarming with leftists, you’d *think* at some point they’d get it through their skulls that offending half the potential audience is a bad idea. In this case, the movie is almost certain to have a potential audience that’s mostly American… I can’t see the Chinese market being all that excited to see a flick about an American historical figure. Or the Europeans for that matter. It *should* do well in the US… but not if it sets out to annoy not just half the American market, but the half of the market that was probably going to be most interested in this movie. Because it certainly seems to me that a movie about an American war and space hero would probably appeal more to people who actually feel positively about American patriotism than those who don’t.

“First Man” opens October 12. I expect I’ll have other plans that day.

UPDATE:

Possible hint as to what Buzz Aldrin thinks about this.

 Posted by at 6:56 pm
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