If he continues like this, then it's going to be a LONG 4 years!
Friday, February 10, 2017
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
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Saturday, February 4, 2017
duterte
New Pentagon chief an instant hit in Japan, South Korea
... and piss on duterte, and putin.
Philippines' Duterte to U.S. over aid: 'Bye-bye America'
... and piss on duterte, and putin.
Philippines' Duterte to U.S. over aid: 'Bye-bye America'
"In picking Mattis, 66, to lead the Pentagon, Trump seemed enamored of the general's popular nickname, "Mad Dog," as if this served as a warning to the world not to mess with America.
Mattis, however, insists that the nickname was a media invention that he does not embrace. He certainly came across as anything but "mad" or rabid on his visits to Japan and South Korea. He was a picture of sober restraint at his several public appearances, including a news conference Saturday in Tokyo." https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-chief-instant-hit-japan-south-korea-184417620--politics.html
reality
welcome to the newest TV reality show:
- tweets
- executive orders
- cabinet
- protests
- immigration
- economy
- abortion
- supreme court nominee
- Russia
- Iran
- Australia
- Korea
- congressional theatrics
- media bias
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Signal Knob hike, Strasburg VA
The Signal Knob hike in the George Washington National Forest has spectacular views of Strausburg VA. in the Shenandoah Valley, as well as Buzzard Rock in Fort Valley to the east. Signal Knob, at 2,106ft, gets its name as both Confederate and Union troops used it as a lookout during the Civil War. The Confederate Signal Corps controlled the outlook from 1862 until August 14, 1864, when Union troops defeated the 61st Georgia Volunteer Infantry and took control of the peak.
| Length | Difficulty | Streams | Views | Solitude | Camping |
| 9.9 mls |  |  |  |  | |
| Hiking Time: Elev. Gain: | 5.0 hours plus a half hour for lunch 2,680 ft with two different ascents | ||||
Friday, January 27, 2017
SkyLive
cool!
TheSkyLive: The Solar System at your Fingertips
- Find key information, position data and sky charts for Planets, Asteroids, Comets, Interplanetary Probes.
- Use the Observing Guide to plan observations of the Solar System objects visible tonight from your location.
- Create accurate and interactive maps of the sky visible from any location up to the year 2035 using our Online Planetarium.
- Discover our 3D Solar System Simulator
TheSkyLive: The Solar System at your Fingertips
Because of its size, only stars in our Milky Way galaxy can be seen with the naked eye. Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way, is 2.2 million light years away. If you can locate it in the night sky, then it appears to be faint and relatively dim.
Because of their distances in our own galaxy, stars appear to be fixed. Alpha Centauri, the closest star to us, is 4.37 light years, or 25.689 trillion (25,689,044,169,700) miles, from us, making the 93 million miles from us to the sun look like a walk in the park.
Because we are moving, spinning and rotating around the sun, the position of the stars relative to us changes.
The moon, planets in our solar system and satellites, and asteroids and comets when they enter our solar system, because they are relatively close to us and moving, move across the night sky relative to the relatively-fixed stars.
With TheLiveSky you can track the planets and other celestial and man-made objects (satellites) from your location.
Because of their distances in our own galaxy, stars appear to be fixed. Alpha Centauri, the closest star to us, is 4.37 light years, or 25.689 trillion (25,689,044,169,700) miles, from us, making the 93 million miles from us to the sun look like a walk in the park.
Because we are moving, spinning and rotating around the sun, the position of the stars relative to us changes.
The moon, planets in our solar system and satellites, and asteroids and comets when they enter our solar system, because they are relatively close to us and moving, move across the night sky relative to the relatively-fixed stars.
With TheLiveSky you can track the planets and other celestial and man-made objects (satellites) from your location.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
psychoanalyzing trump
"Who, really, is Donald Trump? What’s behind the actor’s mask? I can discern little more than narcissistic motivations and a complementary personal narrative about winning at any cost. It is as if Trump has invested so much of himself in developing and refining his socially dominant role that he has nothing left over to create a meaningful story for his life, or for the nation. It is always Donald Trump playing Donald Trump, fighting to win, but never knowing why."
Monday, January 23, 2017
trump's first executive order
Mount Trumpmore
a congress with some guts could trump trump...
nah--congress doesn't have any guts.
guts
does congress have the guts to trump trump?
Six ways Congress can curb a runaway president
I doubt it.
Face it--our two party system of government is broken.
Six ways Congress can curb a runaway president
I doubt it.
Face it--our two party system of government is broken.
It needs to be fixed.
Sunday, January 22, 2017
dishonest media
who is disliked more: trump or the media?
as it turns out, a September 2016 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that more people have a favorable opinion of Trump and Clinton than people have of the media.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/22/voters-hate-trump-hillary-not-much-hate-media/
"why?" you ask.
because of media "reports" like this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/09/29/media-hype-aside-clinton-still-has-the-edge-in-this-race/
dishonest media.
as it turns out, a September 2016 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that more people have a favorable opinion of Trump and Clinton than people have of the media.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/22/voters-hate-trump-hillary-not-much-hate-media/
"why?" you ask.
because of media "reports" like this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/09/29/media-hype-aside-clinton-still-has-the-edge-in-this-race/
dishonest media.
Friday, January 20, 2017
our two party system of government is broken
In an excellent article National Public Radio gathered together dozens of statistics to show how the nation that Trump inherits (and the rest of the world) has changed over time.
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/19/510491692/the-america-donald-trump-is-inheriting-by-the-numbers
Here's one that struck me:
Party identification
Party ID can hop around from month to month and year to year, but one recent trend is clear: Increasingly, Americans have decided to identify as independents, leaving the major parties behind.(Sources: 1, 2)36% D, 33% I, 30% R(January 2009)25% D, 44% I, 28% R(January 2017)
Notwithstanding the fact that the percentages don't add up to 100% (2009 = 99%; 2017 = 97%):
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/19/510491692/the-america-donald-trump-is-inheriting-by-the-numbers
Here's one that struck me:
Party identification
Party ID can hop around from month to month and year to year, but one recent trend is clear: Increasingly, Americans have decided to identify as independents, leaving the major parties behind.(Sources: 1, 2)36% D, 33% I, 30% R(January 2009)25% D, 44% I, 28% R(January 2017)
Notwithstanding the fact that the percentages don't add up to 100% (2009 = 99%; 2017 = 97%):
- 11% fewer Americans identify themselves as democrats in 2017 as in 2009
- 11% more Americans identify themselves as independents
- 2% fewer Americans identify themselves as republicans
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
God's Providence
"Catholic theology
In Acts 17 Paul says, "[I]t is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.... In him we live and move and have our being,..." Augustine of Hippo is perhaps most famously associated with the doctrine of Divine Providence in the Latin West. Augustine held that since God's governance takes place in the universe comprising a vast multitude of relatively independent individuals differing in nature, function, and end, this implies the continuous control and unifying governance of a single supreme Being.
However, Christian teaching on providence in the high Middle Ages was most fully developed by Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica. The concept of providence as care exercised by God over the universe, his foresight and care for its future is extensively developed and explained both by Aquinas himself and modern Thomists. One of the foremost modern Thomists, Dominican father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, wrote a study of providence entitled "Providence: God's loving care for man and the need for confidence in Almighty God." In it, he presents and solves, according to Catholic doctrine, the most difficult issues as related to providence."
Sunday, January 15, 2017
the Ununited States of Bickering
Bickerer-in-chief
Bickerer-du-jour
former Bickerer-in-chief
Madam Bickerer
attack dog
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attack dog
attack dog
attack dog
hatchet man
and many, many other republicans and democrats
It's time to put an end to our two party system of government.
Friday, January 13, 2017
the urbanization of northern Virginia
- Painsville (formerly Gainesville)
- Assburn (aka Ashburn)
- Wouldn'tlive (formerly Woodbridge)
- runaway development
- hideous traffic
- air, noise and other pollution
- lack of public facilities (parks, etc.)
- crime
Lowdown County (formerly Loudoun County) and No Prince County (formerly Prince William County) know how to ruin a good thing.
This is how it started: The Audacious Plan to Turn a Sprawling DC Suburb Into a Big City | Washingtonian
Forget the hype. The fact is that developers, and their local government co-conspirators, have ruined northern Virginia.
Forget the hype. The fact is that developers, and their local government co-conspirators, have ruined northern Virginia.
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Saturday, January 7, 2017
grateful
a grateful nation honors those who gave the last full measure of their devotion to their country and its citizens.
Thursday, January 5, 2017
balls
The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.
The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.
The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.
The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.
The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS. And....
The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.
THE AMAZING CONCLUSION: The higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. There must be a ton of people in Washington playing marbles!
The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.
The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.
The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.
The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS. And....
The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.
THE AMAZING CONCLUSION: The higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. There must be a ton of people in Washington playing marbles!
correction: not "marbles"--beebees!
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
corruption
"House Republicans on Monday voted to eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent body created in 2008 to investigate allegations of misconduct by lawmakers after several bribery and corruption scandals sent members to prison."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a349ef57fb6b4b4f82809b3c7b0d4c68/house-gop-votes-gut-independent-ethics-office
Small wonder that politicians are viewed with such disdain. We have the best government that money can buy!
Sunday, January 1, 2017
poll
In a Moscow "man-on-the-street" poll this woman was just asked:
"What do you think of Vladimir Putin?"
https://www.justpo.st/post/36818
lol
"What do you think of Vladimir Putin?"
https://www.justpo.st/post/36818
lol
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