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1988: Pan Am 103 still hurts so many years later

Silvio Canto, Jr.
12/20/2024 10:30:00 PM

              It happened on this day in 1988:"Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, an hour after departure. A bomb that had been hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated inside the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. All 259 passengers, including 35 Syracuse University students returning home for the holidays, were killed in the explosion. In addition, 11 residents of Lockerbie were killed in the shower of airplane parts that unexpectedly fell from the sky."It was a horrific act of terrorism.  By the way, Syracuse University held a special 25th celebration in 2013.  [...]

December 1970: Elvis met President Nixon

Silvio Canto, Jr.
12/20/2024 10:10:00 PM

      Who would have believed this?   On this day in 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Nixon in the White House.    As we know now, Elvis was offering his status as a celebrity to help fight the war on drugs.Nothing happened but there are some great pictures of the meeting. P.S.  Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos. If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page. 

Running Away To Where?

K T Cat
12/17/2024 12:35:29 PM

Certain people are fleeing X these days. Here's one of them.    If you haven't been keeping up with the Kardashians knock-off that is our mainstream news media, George Stephanopoulus just had to shell out fifteen million simoleons to Orange Man Bad. George had implicitly asserted, multiple times, that Trump had raped E. Jean Carroll. If you performed the most modest review of the woman's claims, you'd see immediately that she's a psycho. Her stories are not even vaguely plausible.George, on the other hand, has a history covering up real sexual assaults and rapes. He was Clinton's stooge back in the day, in charge of "bimbo eruptions." Those were the accusations, many of them plausible with times, dates, locations[...]

Don't Judge Emotions

K T Cat
12/13/2024 12:04:02 PM

 This isn't actually an extension of my recent series on "Don't Judge," but it's got a short update.I got together with my Catholic buddies on Wednesday morning and what I had thought was rude and abrasive behavior on my part turned out to have invigorated all of them. They had actually appreciated the way I questioned their thought processes in the previous session, they'd thought a great deal about what was said and changed some of their thinking. They sincerely thanked me for making that into one of our best sessions ever.Whew I feel so relieved that I hadn't hurt my friends with my logic-probing.Decisions Are Made EmotionallyAnd now onto the emotions. It's an axiom in sales that people make their purchase decisions[...]

Who made who?

W.C. Varones
12/14/2024 7:42:37 PM

ChatGPT caught lying to developers to save itself from being shut down.       All is proceeding as Stephen King, AC/DC, and Emilio Estevez have foretold:           UPDATE: The Google Bot Overlords do not like this post.   

Nailed it

W.C. Varones
11/7/2024 9:00:03 AM

July 5:   

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Brown U. and Claremont McKenna College Join U. Chicago in Defending Free Speech

Mike LaChance
It's about time someone did, right? The College Fix reports. Brown University, Claremont McKenna College join U. Chicago in defending of free speech Two universities have joined the University of Chicago in defending the importance of free speech and of students being exposed to different points of view. As noted by Reasons Robby Soave, Claremont []The post Brown U. and Claremont McKenna College Join U. Chicago in Defending Free Speech first appeared on College Insurrection.

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

Starliners Astronauts Have Their Return Trip Delayed Again 

Leslie Eastman

Astronaut Butch Wilmore's wife: "You just sort of have to roll with it and expect the unexpected."The post Starliners Astronauts Have Their Return Trip Delayed Again first appeared on Legal Insurrection.