Disney’s *incredibly* expensive “Galactic Starcruiser” hotel-experience-thing is closing down for good.
Disney’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Is Closing
Six large? Yeah, naw, I’m good.
May 182023
May 182023
If this doesn’t put a smile on your face… you and I are not the same.
Ex-Biden Nuclear Official Sam Brinton Arrested As ‘Fugitive From Justice’
Now looking for similar headlines with names such as “Swalwell,” “Schiff,” “Biden,” “Pelosi,” And “No, that other Biden.”
May 172023
Supreme Court ‘transparency’ charity director panics over IRS donor leak: ‘I just f***ed up’
Short from: someone who demands that *other* people be transparent freaks out when *he* becomes transparent.
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In other news… when is Adam Schiff going to face consequences? Any day now, surely. Right?
May 172023
I know, I’m shocked too. It was well made, well acted and actually entertaining and *funny.* Not being a D&D aficionado, I don’t know if they did the lore justice, but I found it an adequately good movie. Certainly vastly better than the flick twenty-some years ago, and not as gawd-awful as the producers had promised it would be. Yeah, there’s some The Message casting going on, but that’s hard to get away from these days.
May 162023
1: A Remington Rand Printing Calculator showed up today. I need it solely for the number keys. Damn thing weighs a ton. Not sure what I’ll do with it after… It’s not something I have a particular use for, nor am I likely going to be able to restore it properly.
2: I’ve figured out the “video camera:” it’s a Japanese “Monolux” telescope with a box wrapped around it. Some comparison shots between the prop and two copies of the scope I found on ebay:
The size is about right, the shape is dead on, the details are right, the colors are, within limits, correct. The “box” might have been an actual product, but it’s simple enough, and the seams look crappy enough, that making it from scratch seems fully warranted.
May 162023
A song from five years ago is now made relevant again by this news about the “Trump-Russia Collusion” narrative falling apart even more:
Special counsel John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe
As the kids say, it’s a “banger.”
It was produced by the same folks responsible for the Alex Jones “Gay Frogs” remix:
May 152023
Whenever there’s an “incident,” no matter how horrifying, that can be used for political purposes, it *will* be used for political purposes. But sometimes those attempting to do so go about it in such a brazen and dishonest, yet bumblingly incompetent, manner that you just have to sit up and take notice.
For instance, the mass shooting in Allen, Texas. One of the first witnesses to dash before the cameras was one Fredd Steven Spainhouer, who said he rushed to render aid to the wounded, performing CPR on three of them.
He used this soapbox the argue against civil rights by way of disarming citizens:
He seemed to be out in front of cameras rather a lot. Turns out there’s a reason for that: he’s a Texas State Democrat Party Executive Committee member. It was an opportunity to not just tell his story, but to spin a political narrative. But there’s a problem, one the Allen Police Department has gone public with: he’s lying.
His history is not exactly an exemplary one. He fits in with the Dems just right, I guess.
Police Say Democrat Activist Lied About Statements in Mass Shooting
He has also been indicted for tampering with government records, and terminated as a law enforcement officer.
May 132023
Stratolaunch Successfully Completes Separation Test of Talon-A Vehicle
Stratolaunch LLC announces it has successfully completed a separation release test of the Talon-A separation test vehicle, TA-0. The flight was the eleventh for the company’s launch platform Roc and the second time the team has conducted flight operations in Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Western Range off California’s central coast.
May 132023
The former Marine facing a show trial for restraining a subway loonie has a GiveSendGo to fund his defense. It’s currently more than $1.3 million which tends to make one think that there are a lot of people on his side.
Daniel Penny’s Legal Defense Fund
May 132023
Strange New Worlds’ Upgraded Tech Has a Canon Explanation
As readers of this blog are doubtless aware, I am unimpressed with Kelvin-timeline Trek and *especially* “Discovery” Trek. STD sucks on a whole multitude of levels, from bad writing and terrible characters, terrible politics and worse ideology; not a lot can fix that. But one thing that the article above *can* deal with is the fact that STD simply doesn’t fit canon-wise with TOS. And what is that explanation? Time travel. There has been a *lot* of time travel in Trek over the years. And Trek has demonstrated that changing the timeline is possible; the universe does not necessarily reset to some special chosen track.
So why does STD not fit with TOS? Because time travelers have mucked up the timeline and have, like in the Star trek: Lens Flare movies made post 2009, created offshoot timelines where things are different. And of course, if the relatively tiny groups of people followed int he shows and movies encounter time travel as often as they do, it’s reasonable to assume that the whole galaxy is filled with people and races constantly mucking up the timeline, unseen by Starfleet.
This seems like a compromise that trek fans should be able to accept: TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY were one timeline… one that got diverted for 2009 and again for STD. They are different canon. I’ve been saying *that* for a while, but here’s a fair in-universe explanation for it.