Unseen

The first sentence if my prior post was a run on disaster, so I thank you—especially Enco—for giving it the intended reading not the literal meaning opposite to my intention.

To wit:

Not many of the people who are asking for the normal rules of warfare to be adhered to by Israel in Gaza so as to stop what seems to be a genocidal campaign are not…[Read more]

@Reg

Not many of the people who are asking for the normal rules of warfare to be adhered to by Israel in Gaza so as to stop what seems to be a genocidal campaign are not pro-Hamas. They are not pro-rape or pro-torture. Don’t be absurd.

Israel has become a right-wing authoritarian country which keeps friendlier company with other authoritarian…[Read more]

Trump’s lies are not ordinary lies. He lies like Big Brother in 1984. “Don’t believe your lying eyes.” He does not lie to deceive. His lies are a loyalty test.

A guy I used to count as a friend (we were both photographers) is a MAGAhead now. He’s actually a successful attorney, so he’s no idiot. Still, he will not concede that Trump ever…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
That is possible, although Religious and Crunchy people, both Left and Right, have messed up the word by calling perfectly natural things in the Natural Universe “unnatural”, e.g. “unnatural food” or “unnatural acts.”

If something happens or manages to exist or to be manufactured, it satisfies the laws of nature and is …[Read more]

WHAT IS IT WITH TRUMP AND GOLF?

Putin never loses at Judo, Kim. who also plays golf, gets holes in one all the time, and Trump has a mysterious talent for winning golf tournaments which are never covered by the sports press, with mysteriously anonymous opponents, and on his own golf coursess.

Would you trust this man with the country’s…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

Would they buy a Honda or Peugeot if it was made in Mississippi or Kentucky?

@Reg

On the matter of gravity stretching space, the example is often given of a heavy ball on an elastic surface like a trampoline. That’s fallacious. It is at best a faulty analogy and here’s what’s wrong with it.

That example envisions a three-dimensional object, the ball, on a two-dimensional surface, which is easy to visualize. However, a…[Read more]

“Super” means either “over” or “above.” “Sub” means either “under” or “below.” However, even over, above, under, and below are ambiguous themselves, having different meanings in different contexts.

Context is everything in language.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
If The Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago, and the radius of the known Universe is around 46 Billion Light Years, wouldn’t the matter at the edge of that radius had to have travelled from The Big Bang at faster than the speed of light if the matter at the radius came from The Big Bang, an obvious violation o…

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unapologetic wrote:
In the article about the boycott of US goods, they show this photo, saying that US products are turned upside-down in protest: This is standard practice for Hienz. They even print their label upside-down with extra wide caps. Hienz bottles have been upside-down in my local (Pennsylvania) store for years.

Genius of Heinz’s…[Read more]

Now that The Orange One is in office, he just doesn’t give a fuck. Honor fallen soldiers? Not when the golf course is beckoning. (BTW, he seems to think that everyone plays golf.)

@PopeBeanie

There are other ways.

He might withdraw days before the middle of his term, continuing to rule through his veep and then seek a second term again in the next election, which I think may be perfectly legal.

He might elect a proxy (Don Jr.?) to stand in for him while he rather blatantly is the true President, also probably…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
The tariff thing might be a way to gain control of taxation from congress for king tRump. Add tariffs as a tax, cause recession so billionares can buy up stocks, then be the hero calling for sweeping income tax reductions, stock market bounces back. Rich get richer.

There’s a strong argument that the new oligarchy can treat this…[Read more]

While the judge did the right thing in dismissing charges with prejudice, I’m sure prosecutors holding charges in abeyance to extort someone’s cooperation is pretty much standard practice, though I suspect most often it’s done to get an underling to rat on a more important target.

A psychiatrist explains why Trump wanting a third term (and by extenstion of his logic, to never leave office) was inevitable from the start. And, amazingly, it has nothing to do with facing prison after leaving office.