Archive of entries posted on 26th June 2019

Wednesday Night Open Thread

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We’re coming up on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. Those of us who remember the flight were probably young enough to not think about all the navigational hurdles that are involved in a flight to the moon. But, as I grew older, and the more I learned about the peculiarities of space travel, the more amazing it is to me that they actually accomplished the feat of landing on the moon and getting back.


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What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.

Who wants to start?

Pick a Side

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“Experts” are warning that President Trump’s “erratic policy moves put national security at risk“.

I think they’re upset because it’s not America’s.

Of Course Not. You Don’t Have Four Canine Teeth in Your Mouth to Chew Cud

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[Is Meat Bad for You? Is Meat Unhealthy?] (Viewer #3,974,511)

Link of the Day: If They Were Honest…

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[High Praise! to Genesius Times]

Dem debate to be live auction; candidates to bid for votes with other people’s money

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Words to the Wise Guys

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[Based on actual quotes from Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.]

“Any attack by Iran
“On anything American
“Will be met” Trump wrote, as a matter of course
“With great and overwhelming force.”

“In some areas,” (it deserved reiteration)
“Overwhelming will mean obliteration.”
Then, in a political version of “Yo Mama”
He added “No more John Kerry & Obama!”

“Iran leadership doesn’t understand
“The power of words” (which he has well in hand)
“The words ‘nice’ or ‘compassion’ —
“They never have” he added, in Trumpian fashion.

“Sadly, the thing they do understand
“Is Strength and Power” (also at his command);
“The USA is by far” (where its flag is unfurled)
“The most powerful Military Force in the world.”

“With 1.5 Trillion Dollars invested”
(On an array of weapons proven and tested)
“Over the last two years,” he added, “alone”!
And with that, he dropped the pen and the phone.

Trump Truths: TrumpCare

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If Trump were to have a socialized medicine plan, it would cover treatment for whatever disease it is that causes liberals to consider socialism a good idea.

This Explains a Lot

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[High Praise! to The View From North Central Idaho]

Bombshell New Climate Change Study Disproving Connection Between Human Activity and Global Temperature Burned At Stake By AOC

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The science if settled… 451 °F IS the temperature at which book paper burns.

WASHINGTON (AP) – In an unusual procedural move, a bombshell climate change study – which completely disproved the connection between human activity and global temperature – was sentenced to death, tied to a stake, and lit on fire by Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

Upon being presented with the report – titled “You Idiots! You Probably Think Prehistoric Man Ended the Ice Age by Hunting Woolly Mammoths to Extinction, Too, Don’t You?” – during an otherwise uneventful hearing designed to bring the Green New Deal back to the House floor for another vote, Ocasio-Cortez appeared to grow increasingly agitated before suddenly reaching under her chair to obtain a robe, a powdered wig, and a pair of smart-girl glasses, all of which she quickly donned.

“Nobody expects the socialist inquisition!” cried Ocasio-Cortez to puzzled looks from her fellow elected officials, “Now, um… you so-called ‘report’ – you are accused of heresy on three counts – heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action – *four* counts. Do you confess?”

The silence was broken only by the deafening roar of a pin dropping.

And Steve Scalise whispering to Kevin McCarthy “I didn’t know she knew Monty Python,” and McCarthy’s return whisper “She doesn’t.”

“Right!” AOC shouted. “Your silence condemns you! Off with your head!”

After being informed by a puzzled and hesitant House Sergeant-at-Arms that the report actually had no head to be off with, Ocasio-Cortez slumped in her seat, looking defeated.

Until fellow Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib pointed out that heads are not required for burning at the stake, just flammability, of which, in sufficient degree, the report was decidedly in possession.

Ocasio-Cortez then pulled a stake, firewood, and rope from beneath her chair, secured the report, and ignited the wood.

Minority Leader McCarthy’s objections were ignored by Speaker Pelosi, who was focused on tossing her gavel into the air and counting how many full turns she could get out of it before it came down again and she caught it. “Four”, if you’re wondering.

Just as quickly as the pyre was ignited, however, it was extinguished after it turned out that the carbon offset certificates AOC bought for the event were only good for torching “climate denial” reports and could only be re-lit once certificates covering “climate heresy” were obtained.

When asked later if House rules actually allowed the burning of documents that one disagrees with, Speaker Pelosi said, “You know, the House has a lot of rules, it’s hard to keep track of them all. I know there’s still one on the books forbidding cat-juggling on the House Floor. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It was the 70s – a LOT of things seemed like a good idea back then. We almost made ‘The Hustle’ America’s official dance. Anyway, as far as I know, heretical inanimate object immolation is still one of those gray areas.”

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Straight Line of the Day: That’s Different… The Next Thing NASA Plans to Put Into Space…

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Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

That’s different… The next thing NASA plans to put into space…

The Illustrated Frank J: Bern E Sanders… Super Genius…

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About BBCode

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We’ll get back to the funneh in a bit. First, some tech geek stuff.

We’ve had questions and discussions from time to time in comments about how to do certain formatting things. Somebody wants to include an image, or a video, or maybe just format some text.

If you know HTML, then you don’t really have many questions, apart from “Is this tag or that tag supported?” But, we use a thing called BBCode to allow for certain HTML functionality to be implemented, including some HTML tags that aren’t generally supported by WordPress.

Now, you may want to know why tags aren’t allowed. Well, it’s actually a security issue. It’s possible to use tags to include stuff we don’t want, from redirection to other sites, to full-on defacement of the site. Some tags are obvious, such as the <SCRIPT> tag, but what about other tags? Turns out some really smart jackasses have figured out how to do stuff like that in ways you wouldn’t think about.

The solution is to use an alternate tag system. And that’s where BBCode comes in. It’s an alternative tag system that allows comments to include some HTML. It supports some of the same HTML tags supported by WordPress, but it also allows some more.

Bold: [b]bold[/b]
Bold: bold

Italics: [i]italics[/i]
Italics: italics

Underline: [u]underline[/u]
Underline: underline

URL: [url]https://wordpress.org/[/url]
URL: https://wordpress.org/

Image: [img]https://s.w.org/style/images/codeispoetry.png[/img]
Image:

Image: [img=Code is Poetry]https://s.w.org/style/images/codeispoetry.png[/img]
Image: Code is Poetry

Quote: [quote]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit,[/quote]
Quote:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit,

Quote: [quote=NAME]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/quote]
Quote:

NAME wrote:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Quote: [quote=”NAME”]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/quote]
Quote:

”NAME” wrote:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Quote: [quote author=NAME]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/quote]
Quote:

NAME wrote:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Quote: [quote author=”NAME”]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet[/quote]
Quote:

NAME wrote:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

Color: [color=”ff0000″]hex red[/color]
Color: hex red

Color: [color=#ff0000]hex red again[/color]
Color: hex red again

Strikeout: [s]striked this out[/s]
Strikeout: striked this out

Center Text: [center]center me[/center]
Center Text:

center me

Computer code: [code]function HelloWorld($greet = ‘World’) { return ‘Hello ‘.$greet } [/code]
Computer code: function HelloWorld($greet = 'World') { return 'Hello '.$greet }

Font size: [size=10]10px font size[/size]
Font size: 10px font size

Ordered lists: [ol][li]Item one[/li][li]Item two[/li][/ol]
Ordered lists:

  1. Item one
    2. [li]Item two[/li]

Unordered lists: [ul][li]Item one[/li][li]Item two[/li][/ul]
Unordered lists:

  • Item one
    • [li]Item two[/li]

Named Spoiler: [spoiler=two plus two]four[/spoiler]
Named Spoiler:

Spoiler for two plus two
four

Unnamed Spoiler: [spoiler]Boo![/spoiler]
Unnamed Spoiler:

Spoiler:
Boo!

So, if you were wanting to use any of the stuff listed above, now you know that you can. Whether or not you should is a totally different question.

Oh, and there may be some others that work. There’s also something called WordPress Shortcode, which is similar. Maybe I’ll talk about those some day. But these are the BBCode items that work here. And, you can probably use them on other places, not just WordPress blogs.

Okay, that’s all. There’ll be some funny stuff posted soon, I’m sure.

Random Thoughts: NICU and Student Debt

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Juneteenth probably should be a federal holiday. Could replace another; never really understood what Labor Day is.
Speaking practically, though, we need more holidays in the first half of the year. That’s a big holiday barren wasteland.
And give Harriet Tubman her $20. I dare say, she deserves it more than anybody. This is supposed to be the land of the free, and that’s what she fought for it in the most oppressive of conditions.

I’ve lost of track of who we’re supposed to be surprised by when we see them act like a mindless partisan hack.

Everyone wants to murder the goose that lays the golden eggs because it squawks too much or something.

They should issue every American a badge. That way if bad things go down while you’re in another country, you can just pull out a gun and if anyone looks at you funny, you hold up your badge and say, “It’s okay; I’m an American.”

Paid off the NICU bill. The baby is officially ours now!
I remember when Winchester was in the NICU and for a moment thought about how this was really going to hit our savings. And then I realized how stupid that thought was because what in the world was I saving for more important than this?
There’s a train of thought that things like health care are so important that we shouldn’t have to pay for them, but I’m not sure that’s wise. It’s probably good to directly pay for the important things. It’s a blessing of the money we make in this modern world.
I mean, how many people in the past wish they had the option to pay money to keep their children from dying? That’s not something to take for granted.

The left are really condemning themselves arguing that Obama was running a concentration camp but they didn’t feel like mentioning it until now.

“But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.” 2 Timothy 2:23

Maybe the modern left is so bad it makes Biden wistful for segregationists.

Killing people in response to a drone being destroyed does seem disproportional. I’m not sure what you do, though. Maybe break into the homes of all the leaders and smash their stereo systems.

“How many people will this kill?”
“150, sir.”
“How much did that drone cost?”
“$240 million.”
*Trump does some quick math, counting on his fingers*
“That’s only worth killing a eighty people over. Call it off!”

Maybe you should reexamine your universal health care system when it’s constantly ordering the death of people’s kids.

There are a number of things missing in Breath of the Wild that I’d like them to include in its sequel.
1. Fishing pole
That is all.

Soon.

I feel like I’m in crazy town. The problem is that college costs have skyrocketed versus inflation due to government interference in loans, and the solution people are proposing is to have the government pay off those loans, giving colleges even less incentive to cut costs.
There would be no student debt crisis if colleges hadn’t been fueled into an inflation of costs. If you’re talking about loans and nothing about making colleges reduce costs, despite all you posturing about caring about students, you are a bad person and making things worse.

I don’t care for my wife’s new policy that giant wolf spiders are to placed outside alive since there is only one person in the house thought qualified to wrangle giant spiders.

If you ask, Kamala Harris is legally required to tell you she’s a cop.

Pretty much everyone who opposes abortion opposes it for the extremely obvious reasons. If you feel the need to pretend they’re not sincere, then it’s your viewpoint that isn’t on solid footing.

The only way I’ll be for forgiving students loans is if it’s the colleges paying back the money.

I am a wise Gen Xer, and have seen many things in my four decades on this earth. Please listen attentively as I lecture you.

AOC is very stupid, but she is a politician and thus also very dishonest. But since she’s so stupid, she’s dishonest in a very transparent way. She’s the Jussie Smollett of politics.

In fairness, it seems like there’s few criticisms of her that don’t also apply to Trump.

Women soccer players should earn the same as male soccer players: nothing. Why would we pay people to play soccer?

If There Were a Nobel Prize for Futile Gestures, the Only Thing that Might Beat This Is Resisting the Borg

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In Germany, climate protesters stormed a coal mine.

Sheesh! Europeans!… What’d they do? Throw milkshakes at it?

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