http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/07/08/watson_dawkins.html

That was a fun month

That thing two day ago, where I was saying it seemed like The Weird & Spanky Celebrity Sex Crisis of 2017 was probably over?

Minor error in the arithmetic calculation. Coulda happened to anyone, but that time it happened to me. I'm ashamed, but I'm not tore up about it or anything, 'cause sometimes mistakes just creep into the spreadsheet, and there's no reason you should have to disassemble your entire cosmology over a trifle.

Anyway, that's the past.

What important is that the crisis is *definitely* over now, the morning of December 12, 2017...

...Election day in Alabama.

So let's all just get back to the business of building a truly united United States of America through pluralist participation in matters of policy and governance. E Plurbis Unum, Babycakes.

President Donald Trump is sending astronauts back to the Moon -

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-space-policy-directive-calls-for-human-expansion-across-solar-system

"Coulda happened to anyone, but that time it happened to me."

It's been happening to you a lot of late Crid. Is this the fifth or sixth time you predicted it was over? I don't think the Alabama election it going to stop it. This was never about Moore. He was a meetooism that slipped in. I'm not sure when the war between the Clintonistas and the Sanderistas will end. But my guess is closer to the next primary season.

I dunno if the US can get much past the ISS in the near future.

NASA has no heavy lift capacity. The Navy can't drive ships safely. The Air Force will be selecting enlisted personnel to fly aircraft because they can't retain pilots. The Army graduated a Commie from their academy, and the Marines don't have enough landing ships to practice landings.

Maybe the private spacers will be able to take up the heavy lift challenge, but it'll still be by way of government contract.

I'm not sure when the war between the Clintonistas and the Sanderistas will end. But my guess is closer to the next primary season.

In which case, we're looking at ummm, August 2020 or so, whenever the Dems hold their convention.

"This was never about Moore."

Don't forget the root cause: no matter what the outcome, it's an own goal kicked by the GOP establishment. Mitch McConnell's PAC spent millions to knock the best "name" candidate, Mo Brooks, out of the primary. They spent almost nothing opposing Moore, because they figured that would be a walkover. If Brooks was on the ballot today, he'd defeat Doug Jones easily, and few people outside of Alabama would even be aware that there was an election taking place.

Here's a factor for armchair analysts to consider today. I vote in Huntsville, which is the second-most populated metro area in the state (behind Birmingham). The city and county have on the ballot today several referendums (referenda?) to renew some property taxes. There's been very little discussion of these by the city or county governments; it wasn't known until about two weeks ago that these were going to be on the ballot. The taxes don't expire until 2020, so why are the on a special-election ballot, when we have primaries for the 2018 elections coming up in about six months? I've heard several people who are of the opinion that the city and county are trying to pull a fast one here. If people who otherwise would not bother to vote turn out to vote against the taxes, it can be reasonably assumed that the majority of such are going to be Moore voters. We'll see.

Father, who says he's a local peanut farmer in Wicksburg, outside Roy Moore rally talks about losing his gay daughter at age of 23 to suicide. "I was anti-gay myself. I said bad things to my daughter, which I regret."

https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/940366306016223232

> Is this the fifth or sixth time

These are just the incidentals.

What's important is that you take everything I say as seriously as possible, and in consideration of the tightest scope of interpretation, with the least imaginable exploration of shades of meaning or irony, and with no reflection on other sources of information or schools of thought that are in shared public consciousness at the moment. Your entire concentration should be brought to the precise wordings which I present. Here.

Because the things I say are THAT important. To you.

Here it is, boys, the Presidency of your dreams!

People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.

Pass me a Diet Coke, covfefe... Melania sleeps with that guy.

No air support without ground support.

https://strategypage.com/military_photos/2017121123147.aspx

I think that this professor of engineering has come up before. But if this shit takes root in engineering - and Purdue ia top school for engineering - we'll be well and truly fucked.

“We need these other ways of knowing to critique rigor, and to find a place to start to build a community for inclusive and holistic engineering education,” she concludes.

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10257

Bubbly McBoozehound demonstrates why airlines and airports need to stop serving alcohol.

This is why we can't have nice things!

#MeToo but only if you're the "right" sort of people.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/10/dont-let-alt-right-coopt-metoo-agenda?CMP=share_btn_fb

This is the other consequence of eliminating freedom of association. The cost of restoring it always appears too high. Most Southerners before the Civil War understood that slavery was untenable, but the cost of ending it was worse. That’s what’s facing the guardians of our custodial state. They know the regime cooked up to address blacks in the 1960’s can only lead to tyranny, but unraveling it offers near term costs that seem more frightening than whatever comes at some later date. Things will just have to run their course.

It will not end well.

http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=12275

The Guardian asks a question about the AGU meeting in New Orleans that caught our lovely blog hostess' attention yesterday (the Safe AGU post).

This weekend, 25,000 Earth, Sun, and planetary scientists from across the US and abroad flew to New Orleans for the annual American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting. These scientists study the impact global warming is having on Earth. Unfortunately, their air travel to and from the meeting will contribute to that warming by emitting around 30,000 tonnes of CO2.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/11/climate-scientists-emit-30000-tonnes-c02

You were trying to be funny Crid? Well, that failed. You've gotten so emotional about these things you can't tell what is going on. Kinda sound like a tweaker. You get this tunnel vision going and start obsessing over irrelevant details. Just like your Trump soda comment.

There isn't any connection between Weinstein and Moore. Different states, different jobs. They just happened around the same time. Weinstein et al is a Democrat civil war over who will control the party. I'm betting it dies down in mid 2018. If only because they run out of people they are willing to burn. Moore is a Republican civil war thing. There the northern Republicans and the southern Republicans got into a fight and Mr Moron was the only one left standing because no one bothered to shoot at him. The northern Republicans are still mad because they didn't get their way. And from what I can tell the southern Republicans think he is better than the alternatives they currently have. Also he isn't going to be in there that long, right? So they will just replace him with someone decent next cycle around.

IRA, some of that is already in the engineering schools. Being a girl can get you a letter grade or so in support. Mainly because the departments are scared of getting sued because few sane women want into those fields. But the hard limit is still reality. At the end of the day does it work or does it break. And to 'comfort' you a bit more, we graduate a lot of incompetent engineers already. I don't think this is putting a significantly larger number of idiots out in the field. As I said above reality acts as the limiter. Does the flash light glow or does it break. No one cares if the person who designed or built it was intersectionalized or a bigot. Just if it works or not.

In related news, some elderly mountain men in rural Georgia were arrested by State Police today for sexually assaulting actor Ned Beatty back in 1971.

#MeToo #Deliverance

In the meantime, Ol' Pee Pee Face just keeps going lower and lower.

Chelsea Handler Called Pro-Life White House Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders a “Whore.” Now She Has a New Insult

So Trump watches TV "sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back."

How exactly do you "marinate in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news" with the volume muted?

Remember when the New York Times reported actual news?

This Is the publisher of the Pentagon Papers? The country's newspaper of record?

I suspect that the volume is muted because there is other work going on in the room and the TV is not the main focus.

Hell, Obama never knew what was going on until the news media reported it, but Trump watches TV, so that proves he's an awful president.

Regardless of their party identification, women are more supportive of an activist government -

https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/940505327556091904/photo/1

Looney, looney, looney . . .

North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un 'Controls the Nature,' State-Run Newspaper Claims

Keeping an eye on the news while I work. Turnout is reported heavy across much of the state. Exit polls are all over the place, so I'm ignoring them. Slight possibility that, if the race is close, write-in votes might prevent either candidate from receiving a majority. Won't that be fun. A number of voters in Tuscaloosa are reported to have cast write-in votes for University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban. I got nothing'.

> Because we all know that watching just the right
> television shows, and having just the right
> feelings about them, it what will make America
> great again.

#FakeNews

Another false story, this time in the Failing @nytimes, that I watch 4-8 hours of television a day - Wrong! Also, I seldom, if ever, watch CNN or MSNBC, both of which I consider Fake News. I never watch Don Lemon, who I once called the “dumbest man on television!” Bad Reporting.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/940223974985871360

Difficult to imagine someone becoming President by spending that much time in front of the television - should be obvious on its face that it's #FakeNews

HIstory lesson: Why you shouldn't put a picture of a bald man on the front page of a newspaper.

> How exactly do you "marinate
> in the no-holds-barred wars of
> cable news" with the volume muted?

Closed-captions. Required by law (even of some internet distributors, IIUC... BUt certainly all broadcast/cable outlets. Costs gazillions).

Closed-captions. Required by law (even of some internet distributors, IIUC... BUt certainly all broadcast/cable outlets. Costs gazillions). ~ Crid at December 12, 2017 3:51 PM

So the reports are fake, Trump does read!

Never for pleasure.

> #FakeNews
>
> Another false story

What's it like? What's it like, at this point in human history, to watch the kind of TV shows which turn a profit by convincing you that you have new insights about the human condition?

"Fake news"? Really? Did you truly grow old enough to vote, to drive, or even to carry a library card or a Guppy certification from swimming classes at the local Boys Club without understanding the some people would present descriptions of your world without attempting persuasion?

Really? That's where you were at in 2015, 2007, or 1963?

WHILE attempting persuasion. Sorry I'm in an airport, an everything's rude and distracting.

Moore leads Jones by about 5,000 votes, with 85% of precincts reporting. 15,000 write-ins.

> What's it like?

Awesome to watch the MSM self destruct:

https://www.themaven.net/mishtalk/politics/cnn-blows-it-again-yes-today-9t9vcO6lLk-fAmXMG7wMow

Just landed, they say it's Jones

Yep, it's real.

Now, Snoopy, is there something you wanted to share with the group?

Your gleaming, salty tears

https://mobile.twitter.com/franklinleonard/status/940785519214051328

Gleaming, salty tears set to Roy Orbison

Still good