Trump to host Ramadan dinner
President Donald Trump said last month “Ramadan reminds us of the richness Muslims add to the religious tapestry of American life.”
Jun 022018
Jun 022018
Everything you need to know:
Includes both “metric” and “landed men on the Moon” units.
Jun 012018
Consider this as a metaphor for INSERT POLITICAL REFERENCE HERE.
Jun 012018
Have you recently committed a violent crime? Are you looking at jail time? Are you looking for an innovative way of weaseling out of facing the consequences of your actions? Britain may have the answer!
Lesbian mum who viciously beat bride walks free after telling court she has high levels of “male hormones”
May 302018
I’m not a fan of sportsball, so I don’t watch it on TV. I *certainly* don’t take the time to go to a stadium to watch it, and obviously don’t spend the exorbitant sums required to do so. But those who have the interest… fine, great, go for it. but what I just don’t get: spending the money to go see sportsball, but not actually watching sportsball once you get there. Seems to kinda miss the point. But maybe I’m old fashioned.
May 302018
Box art of Fantastic Plastic’s 1/144 Rocinante model has been released. The kit will be released soon, I gather. Sign up and get in on the list before the only ones that are available are on eBay…
May 292018
“Rosanne” was the biggest success of the last broadcast TV season… and ABC has decided that they don’t want any more of it.
‘Roseanne’ Canceled at ABC Following Racist Tweet
Early Tuesday, star, head writer and exec producer Barr attacked Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, in a since-deleted tweet in which she said “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” Barr subsequently apologized: “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me — my joke was in bad taste.”
And due to that bad joke, everyone who works on the show is now unemployed again.
But wait! There’s more!
‘Roseanne’ Reruns Pulled From Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT After Racist Tweet
Stuffing the *previous* seasons of the show down the memory hole because of a bad joke.
May 292018
A piece of 1960’s aerospace concept art depicting a sizable (50 to 100 crew) space station equipped with three modules at the ends of arms, intended for artificial gravity via centrifugal force. Presumably the conical structural at the left would contain the nuclear reactor, shielding and radiations; presumably the modules on the hub at the far left would be non-rotating to aid spacecraft docking. Unclear what the source is… but I’d bet on either North American Aviation or Lockheed.
I have uploaded righ-rez scans of both sides of this B&W photo glossy to the 2018-05 APR Extras folder on Dropbox for APR Patrons at the $4 level and up. If you are interested in these images and a great many other “extras” and monthly aerospace history rewards, please sign up for the APR Patreon. What else are you going to spend $4 a month on?
May 282018
This is less-than-spectacular news…
USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor closed indefinitely
There is some structural damage. This doesn’t seem to be the result of any one accident or incident, but the result of simply being a nearly 60-year-old floating structure. As such, it seems to me that if need be an all-new one, built to the same design but using more advanced materials, could be manufactured and simply swapped for the old one with relatively minimal headache. But then what to do with the old one? I think that a good case can be made for stripping it of Useful And Important Stuff, plaques and whatnot, and moving them to the replacement memorial, and then moving the old memorial out to sea, calmly sink it and turn it into the basis of a new coral reef for the critters.
May 282018
A few news items of interest:
Poland wants permanent US military base, willing to pay $2 billion for it
Russia is opposed to a US military base in Poland for reasons that are at best unclear. Off the top of my head, only two reasons would exist:
- Russia is afraid that Poland, with US military assistance, is going to invade Russia. Perhaps the beginnings of a worldwide Polish empire, with Russia as its footstool?
- Russia is afraid that a US military presence in Poland will be detrimental to Russias plans on invading and conquering Poland
One of those ideas seems more likely to me than the other.
If Russia neither fears Poland nor plans on conquering Poland, then their best course of action would be to shrug off the US military presence and spend not a single ruble on countering it.
And…
China’s navy ‘warned off’ US warships that sailed through disputed South China Sea
Far as I know, the only parties who dispute that the South China Sea is international waters is China.