Here’s your slightly obsolete word of the day:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/blithering?s=t
Example:
Joe Biden on China’s human rights violations and genocide against the Uighurs: “culturally there are different norms”
Shameful. pic.twitter.com/kTtXvTIsK6
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 17, 2021
All sales are final.
He’s been fighting lung cancer for a while. Get ready for a tidal wave of gloating by The Worst People In The World.
UPDATE: As Expected.
Some actual wisdom:
Keep in mind, their hatred of Rush is really a hatred of you. Their celebration of his death is the hatred of the ideas he shared with millions of people. They hate you as much as they hate him, and that hate stems from an ignorance they have no desire to cure.
— Brandon Morse (beep/boop) (@TheBrandonMorse) February 17, 2021
The trailer below is all there is, all that there is planned to be, created as an art project by one guy. Compare to the dreck pumped out by Hollywood.
A similarly-themed short film the guy produced a littler earlier. Maybe cosmic horror…maybe shrooms.
I saw a few of these weeks/months ago at local WalMarts and Targets and the like and didn’t buy them because… well, why would I? Sigh…
A masterclass in elocution by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki:
I gotta admit this was the best laugh I had all day.
Difficulty: stuff’s in Finland.
I was directed to an online auction of space replicas. The first items were things like 1/72 scale Space Shuttles and 1/72 scale Saturn V’s and Atlases and Redstones… nice enough, but nothing out of the ordinary.
BUT THEN…
And…
And…
And…
And…
And…
And not last and certainly not least:
Gimme gimme gimme gimme…
Where would I put a 1/10 scale Saturn V if I had one? I have no friggen’ clue.
The auction appears to be a bankruptcy auction:
Online bankruptcy auction under the authority of trustee Mr. M.W. Schüller of Lexington Advocaten in Hoofddorp concerning the inventory originating from the bankruptcy of John Nurnimen Events B.V. at Schiphol. The goods are located in Finland.
“John Nurnimen Events” still has a functioning website, but was declared bankrupt in the Netherlands, so I’m a bit confounded as to what’s going on here. On one hand I’m saddened that such a collection of awesomeness was apparently not a profitable enterprise; on the other hand… it’s Finland. I’m unclear that that would be the best place for such a thing. The specific website for the “NASA – A Human Adventure” traveling exhibition is offline, though it’s archived.
Opening bids on all these things are 100 Euro each. I have no idea what they’ll go for, though I imagine shipping costs could be a bit spendy.
A followup to yesterday:
The environment will often talk to you and give you hints, subtle or otherwise, that something explosive is coming. (Feel free to interpret this in a political context). In this case, the buildup of a static charge on a mountain can often be heard in the rocks just before a lightning strike. Disregard at your peril.
It is time for the media to REEEEEEE at full volume:
Apparently it’s only just kinda sorta working, and then in a very limited way on a fraction of the platforms. But one presumes that it will get up to speed as time goes by. You don’t get assassinated and then get right up and run a marathon, after all.
I found this hyperventilatory piece particularly entertaining:
A “radical re-write of the Constitution?” Whatever could this extremist want?
Meckler went on to found Citizens for Self-Governance (CSG), now the Convention of States Foundation, a right-wing nonprofit that manages the Convention of States project, with the Koch-connected Eric O’Keefe. Convention of States (COS) wants to hold an Article V convention of the states to amend the U.S. constitution to severely restrict the power of the federal government.
Oh, Noes! Restricting the power of the federal government? What a shocking and wholly unAmerican concept!!!
According to the COS website, they want to amend the Constitution to:
Regardless of how likely you think they are to get their way, their goals are wholly reasonable to at least discus.
If you find yourself in this situation… find yourself *away* from it lickety damn split. You’re asking to be used as a lightning rod.
Bonus rounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYq41HtUWWs
