Lots of humans in the videos, since the packed-snow area was pretty small
The week begins well with the holdover of the “Happy Home” influences from the end of last week. However those dissipate by Wednesday when coincidentally (I think not!) we get to suffer through the latest installment of MERCURY RETROGRADE! Expect some sort of destructive event to befall your home Thursday night (assuming you’re in the correct time zone, adjust between Thursday and Friday otherwise). It kinda sucks for Aries, but being a sheep kind of sucks in general, so you really should have picked a better birthday. Things (especially your love life) will get significantly better for you on Friday when Venus comes by for a visit. Make the most out of that. Until then, Pisces will be remarkably stable, but will dip into negative territory when Venus transits over to Aries.
Last week we had no majors drawn, and it was a pretty mellow week. This week OTOH…
Aries: Page of Coins reversed – Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavorable news.
Taurus: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, repose, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Gemini: 9 of Wands – Strength in opposition, successful obstruction, persisting through setbacks.
Cancer: The High Priestess reversed – Passion, ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.
Leo: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety, sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies, self-confidence, will. Generally the more positive side of these thigs.
Virgo: The Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
Libra: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Scorpio: The Tower – Sucks to be you.
Sagittarius: The Sun reversed – Pretty darn good.
Capricorn: 2 of Swords – Balance in a state of tension, reduced perception and judgement,
Aquarius: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, the clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Pisces: The Devil reversed – Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
KK’s getting laid, y’all!
Fair tradeoff
I don’t like the sound of that, yikes.
Sagittarius: The Sun reversed – Pretty darn good.
*looks over shoulder nervously*
* High fives.
😞
Cancer: The High Priestess reversed – Passion, ardor, conceit, surface knowledge
no advertising today, no advertising yesterday, and on advertising tomorrow – Elon Musk
Gemini: 9 of Wands – Strength in opposition, successful obstruction, persisting through setbacks.
Skeeter, Melvin, and Bubba, answered and said to the king, O Biden, we ain’t skeert to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, Trump whom we serve is able to pardon us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand. But anyhoo, I grant yet, O Biden, that we ain’t gwine serve thy gods, nor worship the Biden Bucks which thou hast set up. Then was Robinette the Lesser full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against these Sixers of Januar: therefore he spake, and commanded that DOJ should turn the furnace up to eleven; and he commanded the most powerful assistant attorneys in all the District to indict them and to cast them into Leavenworth. – King Trump Version
To R C Dean: thanks for the Barsoom link last night. Great article!
Seconded. Did a much better job of crystallizing several different thoughts I’d been having.
Thirded. That was a very good article. I already copied one piece that will posted at my job this week.
Fourthed.
It reflected back to me many of my own (mostly-inchoate) thoughts that I’ve been having for the last 20 years or so about what the nature of our reality is, and whether or not we really “know” anything at all. I’ve largely come down on the side of the pessimists on this one. We don’t know jack, but we’re constantly being fed a firehose of bullshit from some entity or other that presumes to tell us what they think we should “know.”
And it’s been upping the pressure on the firehose since the 2010s.
De nada. I started SubStacking with the invaluable Bad Cattitude. That site came up on my suggestions a few weeks ago. There is a lot of first rate content there. I’m a paid subscriber to Bad Cattitude, and I’m thinking I should add a few more paid subscriptions. That’s a model I want to see succeed, so I should invest in it.
Scorpio: The Tower – Sucks to be you.
Yup.
Cancer: The High Priestess reversed – Passion, ardor, conceit, surface knowledge
I’m trying to apply this one to the stressors of the forthcoming week, and not having much luck. But I’m not liking that ‘surface knowledge’ thing very much…
Knowledge of Microsoft Surface?
My only knowledge of Microsoft Surfaces is that I don’t allow those pieces of shit in any of my client environments.
Sounds about right for a week long training session at work.
Happy Trains Visibility Day! Keep your eyes open at those intersections!
Train visibility! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInDH2FeXaM
Back from when the Onion was funny.
More train visibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukijwuUISDs
Troll level: master
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1774464602065322294
Fantastic!
He’s just trans-fat.
Transfats are banned. Smacks of transphobia to me.
Muh respeck
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig blasted former President Trump for his attacks on judges in his legal cases, arguing that nothing would change because those in power haven’t really “addressed it.”
“We all have to understand that from the first time the former president began his attacks, vicious attacks on the federal courts and the state courts and their individual judges, his objective was to delegitimize those courts,” Luttig said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline White House.”
I’d say the courts have done an extremely effective job of delegitimizing themselves.
That’s the thing. Like the article that was posted last night on how they turned on internet freedom….the entire premise by which the left currently operates by is that people are too stupid to make their own aka the right decisions that the powers that be want.
It can’t be that the courts are doing dumb shit. It’s all just the cult of Trump.
And so Trump’s free speech must be smothered with gag orders. To protect democracy.
+1 nudge
libertariansMerry Transgender Visibility Day to all!
He is
risentransitioned.Bravo.
I transitioned, but not with any of this whacky gender shit. I became a Three Eyed Firster.
I’m not sure what’s more gay.
He does seem to be leading a semi-charmed life.
Like Shannon Doherty when she got her cancer diagnosis ?
Luttig reiterated Friday his belief that Trump’s constant barbs against the Biden administration and judges have likely convinced others that the system is failing, calling it a “tragedy.”
“And they will cast their votes in favor of Donald Trump in November, on the basis that our
institutions of law and democracy are no longer functioning. That’s the tragedy,” he told host Nicolle Wallace, echoing comments he made in a thread on X, formerly known as Twitter. “That’s the tragedy that the nation faces. Right now.”
Yeah, Luttig, we get it. The big bad wolf is right outside the door.
Is the tragedy that our institutions of law and democracy are no longer functioning, or that people are realizing it?
Exactly. They are whining because they have pissed away their credibility. Like the divine right of kings they are entitled to that respect and credibility regardless of their behavior.
@Taurus: “Inertia, idleness, repose, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.” Hopefully I reverse the (previously) reversed Knight of Coins. No elem this week. On Tuesday I meet in-person with BCforward with my remote test grading gig. $18/hr, tightly regimented remote work. 8am-4pm Mon-Fri. Should be 8-week work unless I decide to take on other projects. That will be discussed, among other things.
re: OMWCs emoji trouble & SDF and “Offend no one, ever” garbage: I am not surprised. I don’t know any true ‘Tipping Point’ moment, but I could come up with one from my 90s elem and further experience. At my current after-school elem daycare gig, there is absolutely nothing stopping children from fucking off and not growing up. Children are to never experience disagreement, let alone conflict. It would harm them! Them nasty syllables are so deleterious!
One of many examples: At my school, it’s an apparent sin to say “balls.” Even if talking about soccer or basketball on the playground and in the gym. I’ve had a 5th grader change pronouns on me. She was ignored by me. (She actually got in ‘trouble’ for that. Indiana has a law to stop kids from changing their name/’pronouns’ w/o some parent/etc saying it was legit. (That’s certainly better than admin ‘having’ to follow the naming dictates of single-digit-aged kids.
My sample size is remarkably small. Indiana is pretty safely not-Blue, but Carmel schools are still dug into it.
Page of Coins reversed – Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavorable news.
Nope, nah, not likely, not me at all; nothing unusual.
Oxy has been working this issue but the article is pretty good on the failures of the US military over Da VID.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/03/25/the_institution_or_the_constitution_1020522.html
“Yet, this article will not impugn the honor nor question the good-faith efforts of decision makers who fought valiantly to keep subordinates healthy.”
Fuck. Off. The people pushing mandatory vaxes and other inhuman “anti-COVID” measures were either fools or political ticket-punchers. Their honor should be impugned, and their efforts should be ridiculed.
You mean the leadership that IGNORED what happened on the USS Theodore Roosevelt – a fucking petri dish on a human scale.
Mengele just needed better legal memos before starting his work.
The whole of the government straight up excused away established law and regulation when it came to COVID.
I generally agree with you but am more in the camp of- DA VID enabled the government to OPENLY excuse away established law and regulation.
that was the purpose of the Cootie hysteria. Every year some shit like that comes out of china. In the past it has always been dealt with by warnings and wrinkled brow concern.
This time they deliberately fanned the flames of fear to see what they could get away with. fuck them and everyone involved, including the cowards that caved over it.
Remember Meal Team 6 out in Texas? Tell me a bunch of fat fuck thugs with machine guns and an MRAP storming a bar with a few old unarmed fuckers sitting around getting drunk, threatening them with being shot or arrest did not know that what they were doing is a crime and violation of their oaths. They knew exactly what they were doing and got off on it. My regret is that they weren’t shot dead on arrival.
I too remember the original SARS scare.
In San Francisco a man was shot for not wearing a mask during the Spanish Flu hysteria.
Afterwards we found lockdowns and masks etc. made no difference whatsoever in the spread or death rate. Since then truckloads of studies show exactly that.
These measures were resurrected not for health reasons….we have known for over 100 years they dont work.
This most recent one was about forcing people to bend the knee, nothing else.
Emigration, flight? We ain’t going anywhere. I’ll take the “assured success” part, though.
For Easter Brunch I made a veal cordon bleu. Basically just dusted veal cutlets with fresh cracked pepper, layered on ham and cheese, rolled it up and secured with skewers. Some of them did dry out, so there’s room for improvement in the recipe, but flavor wise it worked.
Okay, the veal was in no way cheap compared to chicken (or on its own) but it’s a holiday.
Traditional Polish soup with various sausages, bacon and eggs, plus wifey made some killer crepes. The neighbors came over and brought some stew. We all had mimosas. It was good.
👍
Steak for Dad and me, along with making blueberry muffins instead of Pillsbury cylinder biscuits.
The place I went had both a baking sheet of deviled eggs and a large container of homemade beet pickled eggs, on top of more standard fair (and all sorts of specialty breads/desserts).
That sounds really good.
It was pretty good. The best part was it was dead simple to make, since the cutlets came thin enough to roll as-is.
Tuscan-inspired country ribs (with a reduction sauce that was *chef’s kiss*), mushroom risotto and asparagus.
Aquarius: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, the clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
This is a hot mess, but so am I. I wonder what this has to do with the eclipse. Is mercury in retrograde?
Sagittarius: The Sun reversed – Pretty darn good.
I’ll take it.
“Leo: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety, sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies, self-confidence, will. Generally the more positive side of these things.”
I’m hoping “Generally” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
I would have thought a solar eclipse would be an astrological event. Are they just, como se dice, “too local’?
That’s next week.
At the moment, whatever this upper respiratory ick is that’s been plaguing me the past few days, it’s been reduced to a mildly stuffy nose, possibly thanks to some very old pseudoephedrine found stashed in a corner of the bathroom cupboard (and perhaps even procured before one had to submit a blood, urine, and stool sample and submit to a body cavity search to acquire it. 😒)
I played https://squaredle.com 03/31:
62/62 words (+6 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 18% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 7 🙄
In regards to Common Tater’s link this morning about rhe British Museum, the burning question is if they had a Lickalotapus on display.
And KK’s poet story really puts down the gaslighting about cell phones constantly monitoring us.
Have we talked about how all the black rappers…like all of them are super gay?
As our resident expert on super-gayitude, do tell.
Puff Daddy was apparently extorting rappers with sex tapes featuring himself. To get ahead, he’d “make” them do things. Gay things. And then use it for his spank bank and as blackmail for the future.
Fish sticks?
So Epstein got the royals, the banksters, and the various east coast mega elites while Diddy Daddy got the west coast Hollywood pervert types along with the music industry weirdos. Sounds plausible actually, he’s a manufactured item…sure as shit wasn’t his talent that got him to where he got.
Haven’t seen many people connect it to the government, but nothing would shock me. It comes not too long after the whole gangster rap/CIA psyops shit.
He got away with this kind of shit under media scrutiny for over 30 years and in the continental US no less, seems like there’d have to be some government involvement. Maybe he eventually filmed the wrong people though or went over his head in trying to blackmail the wrong person and the feds decided to cut their losses. Apparently there have been rumors involving his behavior for decades.
A number of rappers have “hinted” at him being gay in the past. You’d normally just take that as childish bullshit beneath the dignity of a Firster to even address. But now it’s like…how many of these guys were sucking cock on the downlow?
As I understand it, going back to the 90’s Tupac was calling out Puff Daddy for being gay.
Acts masculine as hell but likes a dick bouncing off his tonsils-he’s the Rob Halford minus the talent of rappers.
And the least super gay rapper, Eazy mutherfuckin’ -E, died of AIDS. It’s a conspiracy by God!
The University of Wisconsin has compiled their list of self-reported “excessive drinking” (following standards evidently cooked up by the Women’s Temperance Union).
Down in Florida Man country, the king of the bingers live in the Keys, where there is nothing to do except drink and fish. Surprisingly, the two college towns finished in the middle of the pack.
Original “study” here. How did your region do?
Better than you
For years, scores of journalists — and others — have quietly stuffed everything from engraved whiskey tumblers to wine glasses to pretty much anything with the Air Force One insignia on it into their bag before stepping off the plane.
“On my first flight, the person next to me was like, ‘You should take that glass,’” one current White House reporter told West Wing Playbook. “They were like: ‘Everyone does it.’”
And they do.
It’s the Air Force. They won’t miss it.
There’s always Something Better..
Besides, it’s the White House… they can just write it off!
Write it off? More like claim there were x1000 times worth of items stolen so they can fund black projects
“You don’t know what a write off is, do you?”
“Do you ?”
“No, I don’t.”
“But THEY do, Jerry. And they’re the ones writing it off!”
Something Better
Nothing better than having a bunch of oppurtunistic thieves who think theft is all good because everybody does it feeding the American public information is there?
Yeah….shopping cart theory.
Everyone doing it has nothing to do with what I decide to do.
Should be using paper plates and plastic cups.
Or, they can fly commercial and catch up to the President in the usual way.
This backslapping sycophancy makes me ill.
So going on for decades and everyone involved is ok with it? I’d ask why the stolen items aren’t simply offered for sale, but that’s not how bribery work.
Easter After Dark.
https://archive.is/LdHOP/eb50f9432fd34a9c57d47cea28f461ca36eab449.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/ayi9P/7cea75cd8c8d76af4c451c0a4c8e897684fcd3d3.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/CgXAz/322b6db101c8a76fb74635da0e802cd1332d18d7.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/hft5Y/c6aa6cae5758dc674713edd85946aabc1ebe5dd0.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/7yNVn/3ee2a7b6103a862a0eebde0e965c09acee8ad00c.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.is/rQltD/b9fbc3ce58ca94e96931ba8b0f08244872049a2e.webp
NSFW.
Sorry Im late- been with the family all day. Looks like I have a pretty full plate.
Virgo: The Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
File this under HOLY SHIT!
TL;DR – open source development was compromised by a long-game hacker (he became a trusted contributor and then exploited his access).
Fortunately, it was not widely distributed – e.g. AFAIK, it did not make it into in any stable releases, enterprise, or LTS distros. The only ones I’m aware of that had the code with the exploit installed were Fedora Rawhide (testing/distro developement), Fedora 40 (beta release, testing repositories enabled), and Debian Sid (testing/development). It still points to a weakness in the open source development model. It was a pretty subtle long game exploit too. Whoever did it made one mistake in that the first version caused some code profilers to crash so people started looking at it; they promptly pushed an update with the exploit still there but the bugs fixed, but at least one person was dedicated enough to track down what was causing the performance and crash issues on the profiler and eventually tracked down the exploit. Could have been a lot worse if the original exploit release had been clean.
i.e., no, it did NOT make it into Redhat. And only the Debian testing/development branch. Wonder if that’s the quality of all arstechnica reporting. Nevermind, I know the answer.
A coronal mass ejection is going to fuck us up sometime soon. Potential big reason why so many elites are building underground bunkers.
You know who else had a mass ejection and fucked people over?
Chris Christie?
Ron Jeremy?
Genghis Khan?
Is that before or after the magnetic poles flip?
If you’d watch the fucking video, you’d know.
A lot of times, it’s easier and quicker to read the points the people are trying to make rather than having to sit through a video.
And sometimes, it’s hard to summarize certain subjects in a convincing manner. Sun goes boom. Poles flip. Massive chaos and the next age of Earth begins. Far bigger threat than climate change at the least. Major event happens every 12,000 years and we’re just about due.
Yeah, I’m not nearly as likely to trudge through someone’s video as I am to read something written down, like people do in actual civilizations.
My standard statement is that I can read a lot faster than most people can speak.
People can read the Adam and Eve Story. Classified by the CIA for decades and a history of cataclysms on Earth.
God willing, if that happens I can stop worrying about my 401K.
You can probably stop worrying about it now.
2.5 hours of four people talking to each other? Pass. I could read the transcript faster.
Cool. I’ve subscribed to Nerdrotic, so I’ll watch it when I get off work.
Probably pass out and have to finish it in the morning. Just like Thursday nights.
Ham* in the oven, getting ready for dinner. Sweet potato, chard, and potatoe salad as sides
*just regular ham, not Wham
Just did burgers for me & Jugsy on the grill with brauts. Mac & Cheese and I collard up some greens.
We had ham at my mom’s house for lunch today. She got it from a local butcher and it was by far the best ham I’ve had in a long time.
Ours: https://www.hillmeat.com/
Very tasty. I think they’ve become my favorite pork producer.
Cool. Here’s the one out by me.
https://earlsmeats.com/
I did make a cream of asparagus and mushroom soup and some deviled AIGS that I took to Tres Sr’s literal Palatial Estate™.
Honestly, its like a 4X-wide.
We made beef stroganoff. Is yummy.
Hamburger helper?
If you use real butter instead of margarine, and cream instead of milk….whole new level.
Oh, and add mushrooms.
Stroganoff from scratch. It made way, way more than I thought so I have leftovers all week. I used cut up steak instead of hamburger meat.
Got invited out to a friend’s family gathering, we are like the adopted step children but no one seems to notice. About a 5 family spread and we were advised not to bring anything. Too much great food and then a care package to take home. Many of the attendees have a serious weight problem, easy to understand. Fortunately the youngest generation hasn’t fallen prey to their parents’ excesses, at least not just yet.
Lifetime good friends are hard to find in today’s world of nomads.
Watching a video of some guys repairing a 1970s truck. When they first lifted the hood my mind went “Is the engine missing?”
There was just so much room around it that the engine took up maybe 1/3rd the volume of the compartment.
In-line sixes, you could actually stand in the engine compartment with them*
*For some models, and if you were sufficiently, umm, trim.
Yes, it is an inline six.
lol – Later in the video one of the guys does actually stand in the engine compartment to change parts inside a distributer.
Reminisces about the ’66 Mustang 6. Came out of Wisconsin, no AC and easy to change plugs and 20 MPG.
Mrs. Dean and I are watching Shogun. We’re recording it (to skip the commercials) and are a couple of eps behind. I gotta say, I’m really enjoying it. Very well done. As I have noted, I am not burdened by memories of the book (which I read long ago) or the first miniseries (which I watched), due to that was a long time ago.
Why don’t you just read the book? It’s a lot faster.
“(which I read long ago)”
He’s being a prick about people not wanting to watch the talking heads.
There’s a difference between narrative and opinion.
thanks for the input. I have not decided if I am going to watch it yet.
Everyone I know who is watching it recommends it.
I’m afraid it will annoy me with its desire to be somewhat historically accurate, while consciously making modern changes for popular appeal. Seems to me it should have done one or the other.
I did enjoy the book and liked the first one well enough.
I have spent my Easter Sunday on computer issues. My >10yo WD external hard drive about shat the bed, so Husband went and got another one just in case that was a dress rehearsal.
So, now, the question of my WD MyCloud. I just tossed it. It wasn’t going to give me what I need since WD went and fucking bricked it, and I found an old USB SSD in my important papers and repurposed that. I’ll just rip my movies onto it and plug it directly into my TV. Nobody else cares about my movies and I don’t need them accessible on my phone.
Lastly, I found an old Bluetooth JBL speaker and paired it to my computer and it’s lovely. MUCH better than my old cheapie speakers. Nice bass thump for a small thing. Blast “Subdivisions” and “Reelin’ in the Years.” *squints looking for MikeS*
The best Steely Dan.
There are Steely Dan albums where every song is better than that overplayed tripe.
If you could play piano instead of just stare at one you would appreciate the strong accompaniment.
I’ll have you know I can play ‘Ode to Joy’ with my eyes closed, or I could at one time. It’s been a while.
+1 falling droog
Wendy Carlos – March From A Clockwork Orange
Was Wendy Walter when written?
Did you salvage those fun hard drive magnets?
So because I had nothing better to do this evening after grilling some lamb, I read the WaPo’s article on Kim Mulkey (archive link to avoid paywall). It didn’t come off as a hit piece, but I can see why Mulkey thought that it might.
Personally, I think Mulkey and LSU are reveling in the role of heel, since women’s hoops, like most women’s sports, is a slow, boring, ungainly version of a far superior product played by men — and anything to bring in the eyeballs is a good thing. Between her and the Reese chick who wears false eyelashes the size of tarantulas on the court, they get a few extra people to tune in to the sideshow. Mulkey is the Meagan Rapinoe of the hardwood.
I got to “at what cost” and tuned out.
Biden gives a 50-minute speech in the Senate in 1995.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UoCf6NU3uY
He sure likes the sound of his own voice, almost most as much he likes saying “um” and “ah”.
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After attacking Republicans for wanting to freeze or possibly sunset many entitlement programs, a 1995 speech of then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) touting his attempt to do the same has been unearthed.
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That was shortly after he went to the Hair Club for men. His plugs were just filling in nicely.
“I’m not only the President, I’m also a client”
If he could clearly articulate what changed and why, I would not call him a hypocrite or a waffler. But he can’t articulate what kind of jello he wants for lunch, let alone what his road to Damascus moment was.
Short version: Bernie Sanders reminds Joe Biden of his 1995 speech-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X3UiSvgle0
VAGINA FIRSTATA
VAGINA FIRSTATA!
Seems you people don’t even know a basic fact like you should eat boiled eggs and lamb on Easter.
People usually talk about the zenith of culture, but I like to consider the zenith of comedy. Of Course, Blazing Saddles couldn’t be made today, but neither could what consider the zenith of comedy. It only took 11 years for society to fall.
Happy Monday morning!
Get out there and ruin someone else’s day.
😉🌄☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JCO92__Zn-8
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean!
No more lollygagging about for me. Stuffy nose or not, it’s time to get back to work! 🤧
Morning.
Good morning, U. How are you today?
I’m not convinced I got any sleep, and I just got the trash to the curb.
I got some sleep, but not enough, so I’m hoping the old pseudoephedrine and the usual caffeine will get me through the day.
We’ll see if Alaska Airlines can ruin my day today.
Sure hope not! Safe travels!
Mornion’, reprobates! I hope everyone had a good holiday. As my first order of business in retirement, I decided to lower the quality of a local church choir by joining the tenor section. I survived the Easter gauntlet (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil (Saturday)) with minimal damage to my voice. Time to start planting things soon, although the forecast ain’t looking good this week.
Good morning, ‘patzie! 😃 From what I’ve been told, peas (Sugar Snap peas! Yum!) would be safe to start outside right now. For other stuff, maybe start ’em inside? 4(20) would know!
(And just curious – did you also sing on Sunday?)
Nah, my voice needed a break. I took an unscheduled four-year break from singing after something happened in 2020, not to mention that my abdominal myscles are not fully recovered from hernia surgery, so I needed a rest.
I commend you for your willingness to join the choir. You could be doing other things, but you chose dull choir practice and occasional stage fright, and the sometimes horror of getting tickled in the middle of a serious and meaningful song.
the sometimes horror of getting tickled in the middle of a serious and meaningful song
Not as much of a horror as you might think. Some of the ladies are quite attractive to 70-year-old me.
I meant, “get a case of t giggles”, but being tickled by the ladies can be distracting, too.
Intriguing analysis on Flight 93:
https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/the-missing-facts-in-united-93
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There are several puzzling facts that the film “United 93” does not even attempt to address. The first is the fact that Flight 93 left a debris trail extending over 8 miles long. This is not consistent with a plane “brought down” by passengers within — but it IS consistent with a plane that was shot down.
Several witnesses reported seeing a military plane trailing United 93 shortly before the crash (consistent with the U.S. F-16 interceptor jets used to prevent this exact type of situation). Human remains of the passengers ended up MILES from Flight 93’s crash site. Official sources tried to claim these things occurred since it was a windy day, and that debris might have been scattered by this wind — but a published photo of the final impact site clearly show a tall column of smoke rising from the wreckage straight into the air, an obvious refutation of the claim that there was enough wind that day to drag heavy debris and human remains.
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Connect the dots, people. The government lies whenever it thinks it can get away with it.
One of the perks of working for NSA is finding out what really happened on 9/11.
You can’t have ordinary citizens taking out terrorist hijackers and rescuing themselves. What kind of message would that send?
Hi, Derpy.
Meh. Not sure what he means by “the lie that is 9-11”. The truth of 9-11 is that two very tall buildings were struck by fully fueled commercial jetliners and subsequently collapsed, killing about 3000 people and leaving a giant pile of toxic rubble in the heart of NYC, and a third plane struck the Pentagon with a somewhat smaller impact. The people who perpetrated this are (were?) evil murderers, whoever they were.
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The truth of 9-11 is that two very tall buildings were struck by fully fueled commercial jetliners and subsequently collapsed, killing about 3000 people and leaving a giant pile of toxic rubble in the heart of NYC, and a third plane struck the Pentagon with a somewhat smaller impact. The people who perpetrated this are (were?) evil murderers, whoever they were.
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I agree with all that.
WooHoo! The rain isn’t expected until tomorrow now. If my replacement parts for the 3D printer arrive on time, I can get my printing done today.
April Fool’s
The best analysis of JFK’s death:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Error
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Donahue first became interested in the story of the assassination of John F. Kennedy after participating in a re-creation of the shooting as one of eleven invited marksmen and sharpshooters.[2] He demonstrated that it would have been possible for Lee Harvey Oswald to have fired three shots in the time specified by the Warren Commission, and was the only one of the eleven to better the 5.6-second window. However, the experience highlighted to Donahue other concerns regarding the Warren report — in particular, the fact that the testimony of ballistics experts seemed to have been completely omitted from the Commission’s evidence gathering.[4]
Conducting his own investigation, Donahue eventually decided that the bullet that struck Kennedy in the head had in fact been fired by United States Secret Service Special Agent George Warren Hickey Jr. (March 24, 1923 – February 25, 2005) from an AR-15 rifle carried in the car immediately following the President’s vehicle. The proposed series of events is as follows: After the first shot (which hit the street) was fired, Hickey turns completely around and looks toward Oswald, who is on the sixth floor of the school book depository building. His turned head is documented in an AP photograph by James Altgens. Hickey reaches for the AR-15 under the seat, releases the safety and begins to lift the gun. The second shot is fired by Oswald, hitting the president and Texas Governor John Connally. The president’s car and the follow-up car containing Hickey suddenly sped up. This is attested to by Secret Service agent Clint Hill. Hickey, who is unstable because he is standing on the cushion of the seat, rather than the floor of the car, begins to fall back due to the acceleration of the vehicle, pulling the trigger of the AR-15. The gun is pointed toward Kennedy at that instant, and the bullet strikes him squarely in the back of the head.
In parallel, he believes Oswald’s second shot through Kennedy’s neck may have already critically wounded the president before the third shot was fired.[5]
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This explains why the autopsy of JFK was conducted hastily under Secret Service supervision and why the results of investigation were classified for 75 years until the Freedom of Information Act and other laws were passed.
Good morning! I hate getting behind on glibbing.
Be patient, my little zilthraki. Links are forthcoming.