I am watching Moscow on the Hudson.
Robin Williams was a gifted actor. I rank any actor that can steal a scene with a nuanced facial gesture or small physical movement as the greatest actors.

For example, the raised eyebrow and hint of a smile by DeNiro in a scene from Goodfellas where he contemplates killing someone. Chilling.

But I digress.
Any MAGA or associated republicans should watch this movie and consider it a very badly needed history lesson.
When it comes to Russia the past really is prologue.

Food for Thought
One bad actor who identifies as a dem is equal to 100,000 MAGA supporters at least.
Like when Israel before the war would release 2,000 Hamas prisoners for the corpse of one Israeli soldier.

Those protestors are an excruciating pain in the ***.
They may turn out to be the would coulda shouda bunch that destroys the country.
If you break it you buy it.

About the code that a lot of ignoramuses love to spout but don't really understand.

1. stop the occupation - that is not about gaza and west bank...it is to most college idiots but when a true political activist from the middle east or here says it they are actually saying that Israel is an illegitimate country founded on land owned Soley by the people that call themselves palestinian. in other words the jews are occupying arab land and can live there only with the palestinians permission...get it ?

2. Israel is an apartheid country - very similar to the above. it means that the Palestinians are not allowed to come into Israel by the many many millions from everywhere and anywhere and take over Israel....that is called the Palestinian right of return with emphasis on right,,,if you want more on that go to the excellent Wikipedia article - Palestinian right of return , they took the terms from the jewish right of return and use it for themselves....

3. From the river to the sea - those cute college morons love this little ditty the most...they love to parrot it...Again it means that the entire region is owned only by the "Palestinians," ONLY and the land called Israel is on the land the British called Palestine and illegally given to the jews...The Palestinians also call that event the holocaust.

While the vast majority of the arab countries now support the 2 states that the UN tried to create neither the west bank or Gaza supports peace without the right of return where approximately 5 million Palestinians will be able to go into Israel and either forcefully destroy it from within or take it over politically over a decade.
That is why honest observers see the tension from Jordan and Egypt and Arab Emerites and Saudi Arabia with the Palestinians. Those countries want the UN partition in place basically. their feelings toward the Palestinians range from anger to antipathy to disgust and disapproval. They consider the Palestinians to be troublemakers and unreasonable and refusing to understand reality.

October 7 happened because Israel and Saudi Arabia and the United States were trying to formulate a 2 country solution and making great progress and also formalizing Saudi Arabia's formal recognition of Israel,,It already exists informally.

You have to understand the seething hatred toward Israel unabated since 1947 and the refusal to accept reality that caused deep deep alarm at what the US and Israel and Saudi Arabia were working towards..so the Palestinians with the support of Iran started a war.

John Fetterman was on Bill Maher. I didn’t watch it yet. I think that Fetterman is becoming a representative of a certain type of democrat of which I am a member. I call myself a Fetterman democrat.


We need him as he is an antidote to the squad and he is an independent thinker. I think he is great!!

October 7 happened because Hamas is a puppet of Iran and Iran is an ally of Russia and Russia's war aims in Ukraine cannot be met without aid from China and Iran

If you are pro-Ukraine you are pro-Israel and vice versa

Speaker Johnson, judging by his six month delay of aid to Ukrain and Israel, was pro-Russia, pro-Iran, and Pro-China, but is now coming around to his Christian Zionist roots

politics makes strange bedfellows

There is no longer - not that there ever was - any excuse for supporting Trump. It doesn't matter what you think of Biden, the Democractic party, liberalism, etc. None of it matters. If you support Trump, you are a traitor to the very idea of what it means to be an American. Trump is anti-freedom, anti-military, anti-justice, anti-accountability, anti-democracy, anti-woman, anti-minority, anti-everything that once made this country a shining city on the hill. And since virtually the entire GOP supports Trump, if you are voting for ANY rethuglican, the same applies.

Posted by DougOut on 6/9/2024 4:17:00 PM (view original):

CONFIRMED: 'Journalist' Killed by IDF Held 3 Israeli Hostages in His Home, Wrote for US-Based Nonprofit

Truth. Israel come hell or high water is not going to be deterred from its sacred obligation right now to kill off the Gaza fighters. And destroy all tunnels.
There has not been one critic and not one military analyst who has said that civilian deaths can be avoided.

Gaza got itself into this mess and they can very easily get itself out of it. The fighters want civilians killed for the propaganda machine.

Beings there was an actual post (no memes) I took the time to read your post Doug.

Good stuff. Seriously.
You should give this more often.

Now, how does the Maga nuts attitude mesh with this??
They think our Country is anything but a "shiny city on a hill" inspiring all us citizens............they think the Country is a sh*thole and a mess that needs the great Messiah to make great again.............as IF it isn't now...............and especially as if their Great Messiah was anything but the transparent conman that he is.

It's a repeat of the 7th Cavalry following the Great Yellow Hair (another infamous braggart and liar!) off the cliff and over the edge of reality to..........
Doom.

Except on much much bigger terms.
IF Trump gets in and fails (again!!) it will likely mean the beginning of the end for us all.
Read your History Tomes Doug. You just proved you can (get it).

It has been said that 2024 will be a battle for the soul of the nation and so correct that is.
But it also comes down to a contest between one who appeals to the base instincts and savagery of the human animal vs one who tries to appeal to the better angels.
Time will tell.

Be wise be fair be sure be there.

Gargantuan news stories coming over the next 31days.

First - the Supreme ( the term being used ironically these days ) Court will be issuing 2 blockbuster actioned packed decisions.
One is the presidential immunity. After a battle Royale we will find out if a president of the United States can jail and assassinate people for personal reasons and be immune. In today’s country that takes the finest legal minds in the land to ponder over because they know how to understand the constitution oh so well.

Second - the abortion pill. Will that and other contraceptives be subject to illegality by the states just like abortion. So what will the conservative vanguards of freedom do with this one.

Decisions usually come down on Mondays so this morning we could get them.

July 11 is sentencing day for Trump. God help the judge and his family no matter what he does.

It is conceivable that Trump could be placed in the same VIP solitary cell occupied by his loyal cohort Alan Weisselberg. It is in a special are away from other inmates. If Weisselberg is still there they could be down the hall from each other. For real. Not making this up.

My understanding is that home confinement is not permitted under New York law.

STUFF THAT IS REALLY AMAZING IF YOU ARE CURIOUS ABOUT SCIENCE

My news homepage has cutting edge science stories and i get feeds from online magazines like Mashable.
The new telescopes like Webb are so advanced that they use an infrared system that helps them to be able to analyze atmospheres on exoplanets so many light years away that your brain can explode from trying to process it. it has to do with spectrographs and spectrums of light when the planet passes in front of its sun....from the colors shown by the spectrum they analyze the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

This is now happening and it was what a lot of people were salivating over to see what would be learned.

It is now reported that an exoplanet has been located in the goldilocks zone of habitability from its star. it is i think 1.5 times the size of earth.
It has been determined that it has a lot of quality H2O and here is the unbelievable finding - it has an atmosphere containing the chemicals that microbes send into the atmosphere....This is very important..THAT IS LIFE....they will continue to analyze this planet and who knows what else can be discovered..

We now have this science and it is just beginning world wide. There are a few other giant advanced telescopes...it is just a matter of time i hope before an industrial atmosphere is found.on a planet..This is the stuff.

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At least I open -your - posts but I am assuming 999999.999999% that your little article here is from a pseudo science quack and not a real life respected accredited scientis or engineer. So I see it but I ignore it.

Sorry. I insist upon living in a reality based world and those type of posts are always stuff from quacks.

Dr. Jason Lisle

Dr. Jason Lisle graduated summa cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University where he double-majored in physics and astronomy and minored in mathematics. He received his master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Dr. Lisle has done extensive research in solar astrophysics at JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. His doctoral dissertation “Probing the Dynamics of Solar Supergranulation and Its Interaction with Magnetism” explored the nature of solar subsurface weather, convection, large-scale solar flows, and near-surface magnetism. Dr. Lisle’s scientific discoveries include the following: the detection of polar alignment of supergranulation, the cause of the large-scale disk convergence anomaly seen in correlation tracking of solar Doppler data, the detection of solar giant cell boundaries, and the cause of the “wavelike” characteristics seen in solar power spectra.

Dr. Lisle has also made contributions in the field of general relativity, having developed a novel technique for computing trajectories in the Schwarzschild metric with subsequent application in other metrics.

In addition to secular research, Dr. Lisle has written articles (and is also a reviewer) for the Answers in Genesis website, the Creation magazine and Answers magazine, as well as in-depth articles for the Journal of Creation (formerly TJ). He has been a reviewer/technical consultant for several books on the topic of creation astronomy; these include Refuting Compromise (by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati), Universe by Design (by Dr. Danny Faulkner), and Dismantling the Big Bang (by Dr. John Hartnett and Alex Williams). Dr. Lisle is a member of the Creation Research Society.

DR. Danny Faulkner

Dr. Danny Faulkner holds an MS in physics from Clemson University, an MA and a PhD in astronomy from Indiana University, and he taught at the University of South Carolina—Lancaster for over 26 years. He has published over 100 papers in various journals.


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APPOINTMENTS

• 1994-1997 Cambridge University, Assistant Director of Research
• 1997-present Bristol University, Professor of Engineering Design
• 2021 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge University

AWARDS

• 2021 Fellowship, Clare Hall College, Cambridge University
• 2021 Designer of the transmission for Team GB bikes, Tokyo Olympics
• 2019 IMechE James Clayton Prize
• (Biggest contribution to mechanical engineering science in UK)
• 2019 Designer of the SA deployment mechanism, ESA’s Metop C satellite
• 2017 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition – Olympic bike design
• 2017 IEOM Global Engineering Education Award
• 2009 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition – Biomimetics design
• 2008 Wessex Institute Scientific Medal (for bio-inspired design)
• 2002 Designer of the SA deployment mechanism, ESA’s ENVISAT satellite
• 1997 Turner’s Bronze Medal (for spacecraft design)
• 1993 Turner’s Gold Medal (for spacecraft design)
• (Presented by Prof R. N. Franklin, Vice Chancellor of City University)
• 1993 UK Mitutoyo Design Prize (for spacecraft design)
• 1986 UK Design Council Molins Prize (for mechanisms design)
• (Presented by Peter Morrison, Minister of State for Trade & Industry)
• 1985 UK IMechE Queen’s Silver Jubilee Prize

PAPER PRIZES

• 2013 Journal of Lean Six Sigma: Literati Award for Excellence
• 2012 Journal of Smart Materials & Structures: Featured Paper
• 2010 Journal of Lean Six Sigma: Best Paper Prize
• 2002 Process Engineering Prize (IMechE)
• 2001 Water Arbitration Prize (IMechE)

APPOINTMENTS & FELLOWSHIPS

• 2019 External Examiner (Engineering) at Cambridge University
• 2018 Orator for the honorary doctorate for John Deer at Bristol University
• 2011 Orator for the honorary doctorate for Ben Morris at Bristol University
• 2010 Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bristol University
• 2007 Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bristol University
• 2004 Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bristol University
• 2003 Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• 2007 External Examiner (Engineering) at Tokyo University
• 1995 Bye-Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge University