Archive for 2023

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Eagle vs Shark vs Fisherman — Guess Who Wins! “This week we have and air-sea-land battle to rival the invasion of Okinawa, how not to park a Maserati, and what happens when California Man tries that in a small town.”

LIVE IN THE BUBBLE, WALLOW IN TROUBLE: Your Jawdroppingly Insane Lack of Self-Awareness of the Year.  Variety writes a speculation story of interest to maybe 12 people in the media industry bubble, reporting that Jeff Zucker, formerly Top Dog at CNN may buy the network. Zucker flips out and says though a flack: “It is stunning to read a piece that is so patently and aggressively false.”

Hello, this is Jeff Zucker of CNN talking this smack. “Patently and aggressively false“? I suppose he ought to know. This is from the same rapacious douchenozzle who brought you (or at least people stuck in an airport) the following “facts”:
*”There’s a dossier proving Trump got peed on by Russian Hooker.”
*”COVID will kill us all unless every human on Earth is vaccinated.”
*Contributor Donna Brazile passed the questions for a CNN-sponsored debate to the Clinton campaign.”
*Caved to Erodogan by not televising the pro-Democracy riots in Turkey.
*”That Covington Kid was a Racist.”
*”Hunter Biden’s laptop was a fake, just Russian disinformation.
Cheese was right. “This some shameless shit.”
Most Trusted Name in News, amiright?

THE GLOBAL BABY BUST: Suggestions for solving the fertility crisis.

Forget carbon dioxide, nuclear war, bioengineered plagues, or rogue asteroids.

Depopulation is one of the most pressing existential threats to our civilization.

Fertility rates are in free-fall throughout the developed world. With current trends, our planet will become a global granny state – old, tired, and grey, with the shrinking population being crushed under a top-heavy demographic pyramid that diverts an increasing fraction of resources to the elderly. An older populace will be less innovative, creative, and energetic, meaning that culture, science, and technology will stagnate.

And it gets worse from there.

SPLITTING HAIRS ABOUT GOD: Did you know that every human being has on average around 100,000 hairs on his or her head? I didn’t either until just recently, but that fact prompted me on HillFaith to comb through a challenging succession of if-thens. Why? Because, hey, it’s Friday and I am betting you’ve never considered this aspect of the debate about the nature of God. Gives you something to think about while cutting your grass tomorrow.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: A Giant Planet Seems to Be Lurking Unseen in Our Solar System.

When we look at really distant objects, such as dwarf planets beyond Pluto, we find their orbits are a little unexpected. They move on very large elliptical (oval-shaped) orbits, are grouped together, and exist on an incline compared to the rest of the Solar System.

When astronomers use a computer to model what gravitational forces are needed for these objects to move like this, they find that a planet at least ten times the mass of Earth would have been required to cause this.

It is super-exciting stuff! But then the question is: where is this planet?

The problem we have now is trying to confirm if these predictions and models are correct. The only way to do that is to find Planet Nine, which is definitely easier said than done.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered the ninth planet in 1930 and named it Pluto. Wherever Planet 10 is to be found, it might require traveling through the 8th dimension to get there.

X-RATED PUBLIC LIBRARIES: American Accountability Foundation (AAF) issues an investigative memorandum on what it found in a deep dive into the people and propaganda behind the once-credible American Library Association (ALA). Just for starters, check this out:

“Starting from their leadership, AAF’s report reveals a clear woke agenda. ALA’s president, Emily Drabinski, described herself as a ‘Marxist lesbian.’ She believes in ‘collective power,’ that ‘The problem is profit,’ and specified in one interview that bringing ‘awareness to LGBTQ+ library issues’ is a main focus of her agenda.”

KRUISER: Climate Crazies Have Discovered That Summertime Is Hot. “The summer of 2023 in the northern hemisphere is a little toastier than usual so — PRESTO! — weather is climate again. It’s easy to make things up when you’re on the side of the political aisle that has decided that words have no meanings and absolute truths are for suckers.”

DELAY: Launch of heavyweight commercial communications satellite reset for Friday night. “The unique choreography of a Falcon Heavy launch—with three rockets in controlled flight simultaneously—is becoming a familiar sight on Florida’s Space Coast. This will be SpaceX’s seventh Falcon Heavy launch and the third of five planned this year. It’ll be SpaceX’s 50th Falcon rocket launch in 2023—or 51st launch if you count the test flight of the Starship mega-rocket from Texas in April.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: SIUE officials must pay $80,000 and take free speech class to settle lawsuit. “ADF’s victory on behalf of Maggie DeJong came a little over a year after the art therapy student sued her university after it issued ‘no-contact orders’ against her and asked her peers to report her for ‘harmful rhetoric.'”