Shut Your Whore Mouth, I am Too A Planet! (CBD)

So....We have planets, dwarf planets, Both with and without moons (up until now), asteroids, and probably some other stuff. And did anyone know that Pluto has three companions? Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. But until recently, Makemake was the odd dwarf out; no moon! Until Tuesday.

Payback for all of the taunting! Makemake, the dwarf planet, has a moon!

The four dwarves are in the Kuiper Belt, which is beyond Neptune, and a long way from Moria.

"Makemake was the odd one out," said Alex Parker, a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. "Makemake was the only one that didn't have a moon."
Michael E. Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology who led the team that discovered Haumea, Makemake and Eris, and the moons of Haumea and Eris, had looked for moons around Makemake, too. He did not find any, but that was not necessarily the end of the story. "I've always been suspicious in the back of my mind," he said.

Who knew that moons could be sneaky little bastards?

Supposedly there is mithril to be mined on Makemake's moon, but the orc situation will be a huge problem.

Open thread.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 11:44 AM

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1 Yay! Moon!

Posted by: EC at May 01, 2016 11:45 AM (j8YpL)

2 ERIS GOTS MOONS!!!

Nyah, nya-nya-nyah-nyah!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 11:47 AM (dxOfa)

3 Where's the love for Uranus?

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 11:49 AM (e3bId)

4 Fine, all fine, but where the hell is SMOD? And will it get here after dinner and cigars, but before work Monday? Because that would be as good as I could ask for.

Posted by: PabloD at May 01, 2016 11:50 AM (GP2ST)

5 Make Make?

Is that like Moony McMoonface?

Posted by: fluffy at May 01, 2016 11:52 AM (2hcmo)

6 I still hope they call some planetoid Yuggoth. I was hoping that some particular feature of Pluto would be called something Lovecraftian, and the red area would be wonderful known as the "plains of Yuggoth" or Planum Yuggothi to latinicize them

We should have a planet named Plata Yvyguy, too. Follow it and find the treasure.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 11:57 AM (dxOfa)

7 Pronounced Mah-kay-mah-kay:

In July 2008, in accordance with IAU rules for classical Kuiper belt objects, 2005 FY9 was given the name of a creator deity. The name of Makemake, the creator of humanity and god of fertility in the mythos of the Rapa Nui, the native people of Easter Island, was chosen in part to preserve the object's connection with Easter. (via wiki)

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at May 01, 2016 11:58 AM (rlfds)

8 Makemake's Moon is really a Chinese food place in Detroit? Who knew?

[I auto-denounce myself]

Posted by: The Pope of Sandwich Villiage at May 01, 2016 11:59 AM (CUk0C)

9 Makemake me a sammichsammich toots.

Posted by: Bruce at May 01, 2016 12:02 PM (8ikIW)

10 So awesome. I wish we'd send a probe out to one of those planets. I wouldn't live to see it get there, but it would be cool nonetheless.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 01, 2016 12:04 PM (4ErVI)

11 A while back, there was a weekly astronomy thread. I forgot who ran it, but one time there was a thread devoted to telescopes and binoculars to buy. I had saved it as a bookmark, and after my computer crashed last year I lost that bookmark. Is there a way to find it again?

Posted by: Bruce at May 01, 2016 12:04 PM (8ikIW)

12 WTF? Who names a planet "Makemake"?

Why not just name it "Planet McPlanetface"?

Posted by: chemjeff at May 01, 2016 12:08 PM (uAvJJ)

13 Never mind, I found it.

Posted by: Bruce at May 01, 2016 12:08 PM (8ikIW)

14 That spells MOON.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 12:10 PM (k4M/B)

15 12 just wait until dumbfuck is out of office and they start naming shit after him.

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 12:12 PM (e3bId)

16 7
Pronounced Mah-kay-mah-kay:

In July 2008, in accordance with IAU rules for classical Kuiper belt
objects, 2005 FY9 was given the name of a creator deity. The name of
Makemake, the creator of humanity and god of fertility in the mythos of
the Rapa Nui, the native people of Easter Island, was chosen in part to
preserve the object's connection with Easter. (via wiki)

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at May 01, 2016 11:58 AM (rlfds)

Good stuff!

Posted by: Sixkiller at May 01, 2016 12:12 PM (pcyHg)

17
Pronounced Mah-kay-mah-kay:

Digga digga bowlful. Oceans of energy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 12:13 PM (k4M/B)

18 Are we talking astronomy here or Tolkien?

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 12:13 PM (vvmPQ)

19 Pronounced Mah-kay-mah-kay:

My goodness. What CAN'T the Scots do?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 12:13 PM (dxOfa)

20 Make Make ? You're kidding, right? Who named that - a two year old? "Mommy - I make make on the potty!"

Posted by: grammie winger at May 01, 2016 12:14 PM (dFi94)

21 Location, location, location.

Posted by: eman at May 01, 2016 12:15 PM (MQEz6)

22 11 A while back, there was a weekly astronomy thread. I forgot who ran it, but one time there was a thread devoted to telescopes and binoculars to buy. I had saved it as a bookmark, and after my computer crashed last year I lost that bookmark. Is there a way to find it again?
Posted by: Bruce at May 01, 2016 12:04 PM (8ikIW)
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It was CAC before meatballdom..

Posted by: BunkerinTheBurbs at May 01, 2016 12:16 PM (7TOkf)

23 8 Makemake's Moon is really a Chinese food place in Detroit? Who knew?

[I auto-denounce myself]
Posted by: The Pope of Sandwich Villiage at May 01, 2016 11:59 AM (CUk0C)

You been in orbit four-owa! You go now!

Posted by: Josephistan at May 01, 2016 12:16 PM (7qAYi)

24 11
A while back, there was a weekly astronomy thread. I forgot who ran it,
but one time there was a thread devoted to telescopes and binoculars to
buy. I had saved it as a bookmark, and after my computer crashed last
year I lost that bookmark. Is there a way to find it again?

Posted by: Bruce at May 01, 2016 12:04 PM (8ikIW)

That was a CAC thread and here it is.
http://tinyurl.com/hmzcsgc

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 12:16 PM (vvmPQ)

25 Is it for sale?

Posted by: eman at May 01, 2016 12:17 PM (MQEz6)

26 AOSHQ: a smart ~~military~~ science blog.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 12:18 PM (Nwg0u)

27 As the ultimate and final arbiter of all things Science! it's not a planet unless I say it is a planet. I'll Tweet my analysis after I decide.

Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson at May 01, 2016 12:19 PM (1BQGO)

28 That's no moon.

Posted by: Obi deGrasse Kenobi at May 01, 2016 12:20 PM (q+Eru)

29 Disney would have paid good money to name Plluto's moons Mickey, Minnie and Donald.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 01, 2016 12:20 PM (8ZskC)

30 The astronomy threads were awesome. I would totally go for bringing those back. Thank you CBD!

The probe I'd send would go to Sedna. Because that one is a visitor from out where Planet Nine is supposed to be orbiting. We can see it now only because it's coming toward perihelion, which means "as close as it's ever going to get".

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 01, 2016 12:20 PM (6FqZa)

31 First we need to send a probe to Uranus!

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 12:21 PM (e3bId)

32 god of fertility in the mythos of the Rapa Nui,

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It's rapey Tuesday already? Where does the time go?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 12:21 PM (Nwg0u)

33 In general science news a marten chewed through some wires at the Large Hadron Collider last week and shut it down. It's a type of weasel.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 01, 2016 12:22 PM (6FqZa)

34 The link is borkedborked.

Posted by: clicky no worky at May 01, 2016 12:22 PM (q+Eru)

35 Planets are but a passing phase in the journey of mankind. Whether or not this is planet, moon or large asteroid or not is irrelevant. Mankind should be reaching for the stars.

Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson at May 01, 2016 12:23 PM (1BQGO)

36 Idiots get all excited until I go out and clean the lens...

Posted by: CalTech Janitor at May 01, 2016 12:23 PM (RrDm2)

37 33 we've not heard from a cousin in a while and fear the worst.

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 12:23 PM (e3bId)

38 Where's the love for Uranus?
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try the Folsom Street Fair up in Frisco...

zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 01, 2016 12:24 PM (WhYLb)

39 Oh, the link is in the picture, and the red-underlined text is just a clever distraction to befuddle the proles.

Posted by: well-played at May 01, 2016 12:24 PM (q+Eru)

40 2 ERIS GOTS MOONS!!!

Nyah, nya-nya-nyah-nyah!
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 11:47 AM (dxOfa)
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I think that is an established fact, sir.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 12:25 PM (jR7Wy)

41 Space? But is it SAFE space?

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at May 01, 2016 12:25 PM (T/5A0)

42 in case you're new here, the link in #38 is NSFW...

or much of anywhere else, for that matter.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 01, 2016 12:26 PM (WhYLb)

43 It's not safe, it's the final frontier.

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 12:26 PM (e3bId)

44 Open thread. So, I was having fun on Twitter earlier mocking the NYT journo who wrote a mean girl attack piece on Melania Trump in GQ.

One of the first things she said is that her accent is Transylvanian.

LOL

Posted by: @votermom at May 01, 2016 12:26 PM (nbrY/)

45 What the heck kind of name is "makemake"? Did they run out of Roman gods and titans or is this just some BS multicultural crap?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:26 PM (39g3+)

46 And even asteroids have their own moons. Behold Asteroid 2004 BL86:

http://www.space.com/28438-asteroid-2004-bl86-moon-sharp-video.html

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 12:27 PM (jR7Wy)

47 A failed suicide by cop attempt just a little bit ago.

http://tinyurl.com/gsxnryu

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 01, 2016 12:27 PM (ptqRm)

48 That's no moon...

Posted by: Ben Kenobi at May 01, 2016 12:27 PM (6eVVe)

49 One of the first things she said is that her accent is Transylvanian.

She's Slovenian, not Romanian, whatta maroon.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:27 PM (39g3+)

50 45 I think somebody's three year old was visiting the planet naming office that day.

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 12:28 PM (e3bId)

51 try the Folsom Street Fair up in Frisco...

zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php

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I call it Wholesome Folsom.

- Barney Frank

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 12:28 PM (Nwg0u)

52 Thanks for the binocular thread help.

Posted by: Bruce at May 01, 2016 12:29 PM (8ikIW)

53 As much as I appreciate Zombie and the work done as a blogger and photojournalist, I just will not check out those Folsom essays. I've seen far too much in my life already that cannot be unseen.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:30 PM (39g3+)

54
pfffft.

Yet more evidence that the NYTimes will print anything.

But I have to say, this game of hide the hyperlink is interesting. I, myself, was confused by it, but then, I am easily confused. That's why I never read the annual book from the Social Security Administration that tells me all the wonderful options available for which I might qualify for only a slight fee leaving me with the agonizing choice of more benefits or food or winter heat. It's a conundrum.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 01, 2016 12:30 PM (vA2bp)

55 52 I live in an area with a lot of light pollution but sometimes when there is a full moon I will take my spotting scope onto the deck for a look. Pretty neat.

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 12:31 PM (e3bId)

56 It's not safe, it's the final frontier.

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To timidly go where the SJW diversity enforcers have gone before!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 12:31 PM (Nwg0u)

57 Lots of doublestuff in Hawaiian: Likelike, mahimahi, etc.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 12:31 PM (jR7Wy)

58 "Lots of doublestuff in Hawaiian: Likelike, mahimahi, etc. "

SpamSpam?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 01, 2016 12:32 PM (ptqRm)

59 As much as I appreciate Zombie and the work done as a blogger and photojournalist, I just will not check out those Folsom essays. I've seen far too much in my life already that cannot be unseen.

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Wise choice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 12:32 PM (Nwg0u)

60 49 One of the first things she said is that her accent is Transylvanian.

She's Slovenian, not Romanian, whatta maroon.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:27 PM (39g3+)

Lefties need to stock up on garlic, she's obviously a vampire!
Since crucifixes & holy water won't work when used by the godless, pretty sure.

Posted by: @votermom at May 01, 2016 12:33 PM (nbrY/)

61 One of the first things she said is that her accent is Transylvanian
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as opposed to Cis-Sylvanian, you H8r?

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 01, 2016 12:33 PM (WhYLb)

62 45 What the heck kind of name is "makemake"? Did they run out of Roman gods and titans or is this just some BS multicultural crap?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:26 PM (39g3+)
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The amount of moons in our own solar system is staggering and I bet they are indeed running out of names from Classical mythology.

Sedna, for instance, is Inuit. She is, suitably for a planet on the edge of the solar system, a goddess of the underworld and the inky depths of the ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_naming_conventions

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 12:36 PM (jR7Wy)

63 Lefties need to stock up on garlic, she's obviously a vampire!
Since crucifixes & holy water won't work when used by the godless, pretty sure.

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What a dilemma for an SJW! Either submit to a Trump vampire or touch a crucifix.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 12:36 PM (Nwg0u)

64 We named a planet after Obama and it appears to have crashed into the sun.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 01, 2016 12:37 PM (4ErVI)

65 That was a fun twist in Life Unworthy I used: silver is lethal to werewolves... but only if they are used by someone with pure motives.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:37 PM (39g3+)

66 CAC Attack!

Oh wait...

Meh, I guess I don't really care. Planet/no planet, piece of space rock out there somewhere or not, I can't see the need to label such things.

Wake me when we find the hot sexy red-headed space nymphos looking to repopulate their planet, by importing middle aged men from Earth.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2016 12:37 PM (Dj0WE)

67 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 12:36 PM (Nwg0u)
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BWahaha! Burned by the cross or drained by the Trumpire!

I would choose exsanguination, FWIW.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 12:38 PM (jR7Wy)

68 Blue Makemake,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 12:38 PM (Nwg0u)

69
The hamplanet TrigglyPuff has a moon, too, but none dare look for it...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 12:38 PM (BK3ZS)

70 One of the first things she said is that her accent is Transylvanian.

She's Slovenian, not Romanian, whatta maroon.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:27 PM (39g3+)

Yeah, but those are all kinds of Polacks, right?

Posted by: Christopher from The Sopranos at May 01, 2016 12:39 PM (7qAYi)

71 Astronomy, like cardiology, would be much simpler if the parts in question came pre-labelled.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 01, 2016 12:40 PM (mvenn)

72 52 Thanks for the binocular thread help.
Posted by: Bruce at May 01, 2016 12:29 PM (8ikIW)
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I got the CAC-recommended Pentax ones for my husband a couple of years ago.
He really LOVES them.
I like them too because they are incredibly light.

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at May 01, 2016 12:40 PM (T/5A0)

73 So there's a 75th anniversary Captain America thing coming up next year, lots of comics and stuff. I wonder if they're going to have some hack writer do a story where Captain America repudiates America as a slave-owning racist hatefest of a nation and goes by First Avenger like he is in films released outside the USA?

Notice how rarely he's called anything but "Steve" or "Captain" in the movies. Not only are the jackwagons in charge of Marvel really uncomfortable with anything traditional in comics (like costumes, code names, secret identities, doing good and not murdering people etc) but they want to avoid that "A" word at all costs. Icky stuff, best not to say it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:40 PM (39g3+)

74 Sure the Kuiper Belt is 'out there' and exotic and all, but for the real exotica you have to see the Oort Cloud.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 01, 2016 12:41 PM (vA2bp)

75 yeah for Pluto......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 01, 2016 12:42 PM (0O7c5)

76 Lefties need to stock up on garlic, she's obviously a vampire!
Since crucifixes & holy water won't work when used by the godless, pretty sure.
Posted by: @votermom at May 01, 2016 12:33 PM (nbrY/)

Lefties, vampires & muslims
:tears envelope open:
"Who are three people who can't stand the sight of a Cross?

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at May 01, 2016 12:42 PM (7qAYi)

77 Yeah, but those are all kinds of Polacks, right?

I oughta slap the shit outta you.

Posted by: Tony Soprano at May 01, 2016 12:43 PM (39g3+)

78
Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson at May 01, 2016 12:23 PM (1BQGO)

What are your thoughts in your cousin Mike's musings on "lazarus puthy"? Has that a moon nearby, too?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 12:43 PM (BK3ZS)

79 So there's a 75th anniversary Captain America thing coming up next year, lots of comics and stuff. I wonder if they're going to have some hack writer do a story where Captain America repudiates America as a slave-owning racist hatefest of a nation and goes by First Avenger like he is in films released outside the USA?

Been there, done that.
http://tinyurl.com/7jmxhfa

Posted by: Josephistan at May 01, 2016 12:45 PM (7qAYi)

80 BWahaha! Burned by the cross or drained by the Trumpire!

I would choose exsanguination, FWIW.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 12:38 PM (jR7Wy)

To be fair, how many Morons would object to Melania sinking her teeth into their neck, hmmm?

Posted by: @votermom at May 01, 2016 12:45 PM (nbrY/)

81 But is Makemake enclosed by a giant alien megastructure?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 12:45 PM (k4M/B)

82 They should name planets after gods in fictional stories, like Arioch and Gruumsh.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:46 PM (39g3+)

83 Been there, done that.

During the Nixon years, Cap abandoned the outfit and became "Nomad" too because he was so bummed by America. Douchebags writing.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:47 PM (39g3+)

84
Digga digga bowlful. Oceans of energy

New Kelloggs Puffa-Puffa Rice!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 12:47 PM (BK3ZS)

85
Waiting for the ultimate AoSHQ takeover and the naming of a 'sploded dwarf planet Kaboom

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 12:49 PM (BK3ZS)

86 The various stories around Sedna should prove the Inuit are just as whacked as any other primitive folk.

She became so ravenous she attacked her parents, so Daddy sailed his kayak far out to sea and tried to dump her. To do so he had to cut her fingers off and those fingers became the seals and walruses Or that other story where she can't be satisfied by all the men her father brings, so she marries a dog...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_%28mythology%29

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 12:49 PM (0Ef//)

87
During the Nixon years, Cap abandoned the outfit and became "Nomad" too because he was so bummed by America. Douchebags writing.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:47 PM (39g3+)

I think he did something similar during Reagan's years. And during Bush 42 they had the whole Civil War & Cap was killed off.

Posted by: Josephistan at May 01, 2016 12:50 PM (7qAYi)

88
Watched an old movie, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, where 2 American nazi spies met at an American soda fountain. One ordered a chocolate soda and the other a pineapple soda. I think I have tried both. Paul Muni was a nazi spy. Ed G. Robinson was a g-man. It was a decent movie and based on a true story.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 01, 2016 12:51 PM (iQIUe)

89 Moony McMoonbutt is a safespace along the final frontier. Get it right, morons.

Posted by: Fritz at May 01, 2016 12:52 PM (f40FU)

90
I think he did something similar during Reagan's years. And during Bush 42 they had the whole Civil War & Cap was killed off.
Posted by: Josephistan

But he rose from the dead and became Barack.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 12:53 PM (k4M/B)

91 I think we should rename Washington DC as Niflheim.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 12:54 PM (0Ef//)

92
Whore Mouth and Beejer would also be a good planet / moon naming combination.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 12:54 PM (BK3ZS)

93 It's tough to be a Commie when your next meal is just an EBT reload away.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 12:54 PM (JBggj)

94 I always preferred Lord Dunsany's pantheon. Dorozhand, Ood, Alhireth-Hotep...when you read one of his stories you feel like the gods are gathered together in some backroom of discarded divinities just waiting for some unwitting hipster to invoke them.

And my are there a lot of fictional deities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deities_in_fiction

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 12:54 PM (jR7Wy)

95
91 I think we should rename Washington DC as Niflheim.

Seconded!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 12:55 PM (BK3ZS)

96 I stopped reading Marvel comics about the time they had Captain America beat up Tea Party protesters claiming they were all hateful racists. I'd abandoned DC earlier.

These days I can't afford 4 bucks for a 20 page magazine so I don't read any of them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 12:55 PM (39g3+)

97 Paul Muni was a nazi spy. Ed G. Robinson was a g-man. It was a decent movie and based on a true story.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 01, 2016 12:51 PM (iQIUe)
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Both actors are Jewish, right?

I would suspect anybody who orders a pineapple soda. Commie!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 12:56 PM (jR7Wy)

98 I live in an area with a lot of light pollution but sometimes when there is a full moon I will take my spotting scope onto the deck for a look. Pretty neat.
Posted by: Weasel

Is that an invitation to turn this into a gun thread?

Posted by: Oedipus at May 01, 2016 12:56 PM (CXLVd)

99 89
Moony McMoonbutt is a safespace along the final frontier. Get it right, morons.

Posted by: Fritz at May 01, 2016 12:52 PM (f40FU)

There is an interesting article in this month's Smithsonian magazine regarding Star Trek. It turns out Star Trek was intended to be a "space going" Western.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 12:57 PM (vvmPQ)

100
It turns out Star Trek was intended to be a "space going" Western.

With Captain Seth Adams and Doctor Charlie Wooster.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 12:59 PM (k4M/B)

101
this month's Smithsonian magazine regarding Star Trek. It turns out Star Trek was intended to be a "space going" Western

I can buy that, sorta, for the original series.

Everything after that was Meddlesome Emo Holodeck-Escapist Galactic Bureaucrats in Space.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 01:00 PM (BK3ZS)

102 It turns out Star Trek was intended to be a "space going" Western.

Odd, since it played out as Twilight Zone crossed with a WW2 submarine drama. That's how I'd have pitched it to the studio.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 01:00 PM (39g3+)

103 It turns out Star Trek was intended to be a "space going" Western.
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Well, Matt Dillon was a US marshal. I guess that makes Spock Festus.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 01:00 PM (JBggj)

104 So the Smithsonian is going to rehang their Enterprise model again and needs to drum up interest?

Among fans of the series, that fact has always been known.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:02 PM (0Ef//)

105 Odd, since it played out as Twilight Zone crossed with a WW2 submarine drama. That's how I'd have pitched it to the studio.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 01:00 PM (39g3+)
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"Balance of Terror" is one of my favorite submarine movies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:03 PM (jR7Wy)

106
You know how you come across an obit and think, shit! I didnt know that guy died! Anyway, saw that Kenneth Mitchell died last Nov. He was the actor who always played Henry 8th. I think of him as a big, fat, creepy guy. In real life he was tall, good looking, not fat, could sing well, and did a lot of musical stage. Married to the same woman for 50 plus years, and an artist and calligrapher. He was well into his 80s when he died so, it seems that he had a long and fruitful life.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 01, 2016 01:03 PM (iQIUe)

107 Geez, are we gonna start naming pea gravel in the Belt?

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 01, 2016 01:04 PM (FtrY1)

108
"Balance of Terror" is one of my favorite submarine movies.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage

It's "The Enemy Below" in space.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 01:04 PM (k4M/B)

109 101 I can buy that, sorta, for the original series.

Everything after that was Meddlesome Emo Holodeck-Escapist Galactic Bureaucrats in Space.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 01:00 PM (BK3ZS)

They were talking about the original series and that was a direct quote from Gene Roddenberry. He also left the series after season 3 because Lucille Ball had to sell Desilu studios Paramount and they did everything they could do to kill the series.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 01:05 PM (vvmPQ)

110 "Balance of Terror" was first appearance of the Romulans who were *gasp* warlike Vulcans. Also the cloaking device and a primitive photon torpedo. Plus firmly established things like the Earth-Romulan War of almost a century prior was fought with nuclear weapons and no view-screens.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:06 PM (0Ef//)

111 What you mean 'we,' kemosabe?

Posted by: Spock the Trusty Scout at May 01, 2016 01:06 PM (f40FU)

112 Malia to attend Harvaaaaard!

What a crock

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 01, 2016 01:07 PM (Ozsfq)

113
I like the one where she is mowing the lawn. She def. looks like her great grannie:

https://goo.gl/A229X6

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 01, 2016 01:07 PM (iQIUe)

114 It turns out Star Trek was intended to be a "space going" Western.

I've heard that before, but I read somewhere recently that that was more how Gene Roddenberry pitched it to the TV network in order to get them to sign on, but not really what he was actually going to do or did.

Posted by: who knows at May 01, 2016 01:07 PM (q+Eru)

115 The best rendition of the young Henry VIII that I recall is Robert Shaw's characterization in the movie version of "A Man For All Seasons".

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 01:08 PM (JBggj)

116
112 Malia to attend Harvaaaaard!

What a crock

Well, we can look forward to reading her argle-bargle senior thesis and discovering that the apple did not fall far from the tree.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 01:08 PM (BK3ZS)

117 Malia to attend Harvaaaaard!

Its who you know.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 01:08 PM (39g3+)

118 Well, Matt Dillon was a US marshal. I guess that makes Spock Festus.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 01:00 PM (JBggj)

Spock was Flint McCullough.

Posted by: Geeky McGeekerson at May 01, 2016 01:09 PM (cmE8J)

119 114 I've heard that before, but I read somewhere
recently that that was more how Gene Roddenberry pitched it to the TV
network in order to get them to sign on, but not really what he was
actually going to do or did.

Posted by: who knows at May 01, 2016 01:07 PM (q+Eru)

Here he plainly stated that that was what he intended.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 01:09 PM (vvmPQ)

120 It's "The Enemy Below"

That's what I call my Little Jenner

Posted by: Caitlin Jenner at May 01, 2016 01:10 PM (7qAYi)

121 Gunsmoke was created as a hard boiled detective series in the old west. If you hear the first radio pilot, it really sounds like one too, with Matt Dillon doing a voiceover like the Phillip Marlowe radio show.

Thankfully they turned it into something different and far better. That radio series is simply amazing.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 01:11 PM (39g3+)

122 I made a serious mistake. I created a Pandora link to the Burt Bacharach channel.

Astrud Gilberto ... that is all.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 01:12 PM (JBggj)

123
115 The best rendition of the young Henry VIII that I recall is Robert Shaw's characterization in the movie version of "A Man For All Seasons".

I agree. Excellent movie and cast. The behavior of the troup of fawning courtiers with Henry was amusing.

Sir Thomas More: "Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 01:12 PM (BK3ZS)

124 Harvard has always been a playground for the lazy loinfruit the of the idiot elite. Teddy Roosevelt horrified his classmates by actually studying instead of earning a proper Gentleman's C.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:12 PM (jR7Wy)

125 Malia's Harvard transcripts have already been recorded.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 01:13 PM (k4M/B)

126 112: Makes sense, they'll take anyone with enough money, i.e. her dimwitted daddy. Malia is probably right at the average smarts level for paying that kind of $$$$ to go to Haaarvaard as an undergrad.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 01, 2016 01:13 PM (wYRTH)

127 Gene Roddenberry's original outline for Star Trek has the following written in it:

The format is "Wagon Train to the Stars" - built around characters who travel to other worlds and meet the jeopardy and adventure which become our stories.

pg. 23 The Making of Star Trek: What it is - how it happened - how it works!. Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry. First Printing 1968. Ballantine Books.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:14 PM (0Ef//)

128 98 I live in an area with a lot of light pollution but sometimes when there is a full moon I will take my spotting scope onto the deck for a look. Pretty neat.
Posted by: Weasel

Is that an invitation to turn this into a gun thread?
Posted by: Oedipus at May 01, 2016 12:56 PM (CXLVd)
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Why, yes! Actually, I really should be downstairs prepping brass.

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 01:16 PM (e3bId)

129 Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:06 PM (0Ef//)
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I can see now that I'll have to see it again. Just a great episode. I love the reactions on the bridge to the reveal of Romulans as... Vulcans.

A good Next Gen episode was "Drumhead" with a crewmember being under suspicion for the crime of being a quarter Romulan (didn't he try to pass as part Vulcan?).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:16 PM (jR7Wy)

130 The Star Trek TOS episode "Arena" shows Kirk reacting as a common-sense leader who knows weakness begets attack and can tell the difference between justice and vengence. Spock is the pacifist who wants to talk.

Kirk is in fucking command, yo.

The lesson Kirk learns in the end is fine...when your civilization has magic-level technology.

Posted by: eman at May 01, 2016 01:16 PM (MQEz6)

131
119 114 I've heard that before, but I read somewhere
recently that that was more how Gene Roddenberry pitched it to the TV network in order to get them to sign on, but not really what he was actually going to do or did.

Roddenberry wrote many early "Have Gun, Will Travel" episodes. Give them a listen on their podcast - they are interesting. BTW, avoid the podcast where the pussified poster removed the ads, particularly those for cigarettes, because he has a mangina.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 01:17 PM (BK3ZS)

132 >>> Harvard has always been a playground for the lazy loinfruit the of the idiot elite.

It was a theological school on the frontier, once upon a time.

Posted by: fluffy at May 01, 2016 01:17 PM (2hcmo)

133 Recently read Wm Shatner's Memoir. About what you would expect.

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 01:17 PM (e3bId)

134 I agree. Excellent movie and cast. The behavior of the troup of fawning courtiers with Henry was amusing.

Sir Thomas More: "Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?"

=================

And 240+ years later ...

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 01:19 PM (JBggj)

135 A good Next Gen episode was "Drumhead" with a crewmember being under suspicion for the crime of being a quarter Romulan (didn't he try to pass as part Vulcan?).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:16 PM (jR7Wy)

I'm still amazed that there was a Next Gen episode about evil space retards.

Posted by: Josephistan at May 01, 2016 01:19 PM (7qAYi)

136 It was a theological school on the frontier, once upon a time.
Posted by: fluffy at May 01, 2016 01:17 PM (2hcmo)
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Wow, did not know that.

Did they have hangin's?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:19 PM (jR7Wy)

137 In more good news from socialite paradise Venezuela , President Maduro has just ordered a 30% in crease in the minimum wage. Which is kind of strange because they just had a 25% increase about two months ago. Maybe the alleged drought that is causing the power outages has something to do with it.

Posted by: Ripley at May 01, 2016 01:20 PM (1BQGO)

138 But the pitch was also a Trojan horse.

He decided to make it appear on the outside to be nothing more than safe, acceptable adventure stuff.. But like a Trojan horse, the series idea would conceal a few surprises.

pg 21. ibid

All Hail Eris, don't ever recall seeing "Drumhead" as my interest in TNG was very mediocre.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:20 PM (0Ef//)

139 137 We should be taking notes on Venezuela.

Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2016 01:21 PM (e3bId)

140
129 Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:06 PM (0Ef//)
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I can see now that I'll have to see it again. Just a great episode. I love the reactions on the bridge to the reveal of Romulans as... Vulcans.

A good Next Gen episode was "Drumhead" with a crewmember being under suspicion for the crime of being a quarter Romulan (didn't he try to pass as part Vulcan?).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:16 PM (jR7Wy)

The Romulan commander is no stick-figure. He does not like this mission and thinks it is bullshit, but he does his duty.

Posted by: eman at May 01, 2016 01:21 PM (MQEz6)

141 Everything after that was Meddlesome Emo Holodeck-Escapist Galactic Bureaucrats in Space.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 01:00 PM (BK3ZS)

Have you seen Star Wreck, In the Pirkinning?

the fact that it is in Finnish makes all the difference.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 01:22 PM (dxOfa)

142 All Hail Eris, don't ever recall seeing "Drumhead" as my interest in TNG was very mediocre.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:20 PM (0Ef//)
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Anna, I haven't seen it in years, so it may not be all that good. I just remember liking it because finally, there was conflict in the Next Gen universe. Dicks in spa-a-a-ce!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:22 PM (jR7Wy)

143 I admire everyone's restraint not to mention the true Space Western.

As in, "Firefly" vs "Star Trek".

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 01:24 PM (JBggj)

144 Malia at Harvard. One of the reasons the elite schools are elite is that they theoretically allow talented kids to network with the kids of the powerful.
Pretty sure all the Ivy league schools were send in her acceptance letters regardless of her scores transcript etcetera.
Malia isn't a customer, she's part of the product.

Posted by: @votermom at May 01, 2016 01:24 PM (nbrY/)

145
The Duke of Norfolk: Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship!

Sir Thomas More: And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?

-- A Man for All Seasons

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 01:24 PM (BK3ZS)

146 Malia to attend Harvaaaaard!

******

Probably got the highly prized Pediatric Cardiology fast-track scholarship.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 01, 2016 01:24 PM (mvenn)

147 Finally finished my April wrap up.

Go see if you missed any book posts etc.

Link in nic

Posted by: @votermom at May 01, 2016 01:26 PM (nbrY/)

148 Does anybody here think Malia will actually pay tuition??

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 01, 2016 01:26 PM (mvenn)

149 I grew up watching Star Trek, TOS. I've seen every episode about eleventy times.

The Next Generation? I really can't bear to watch those shows anymore. I can't stand Riker, Wesley, Picard and all the rest. I do like to look at Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), but actually, who cares?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 01, 2016 01:27 PM (+1T7c)

150 146 Malia to attend Harvaaaaard!

Probably got the highly prized Pediatric Cardiology fast-track scholarship.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 01, 2016 01:24 PM (mvenn)

If we are lucky, this young lady will do well and in the end declare her Father's policies aand behavior bankrupt.

Wannabuyawatch?

Posted by: eman at May 01, 2016 01:28 PM (MQEz6)

151
Does anybody here think Malia will actually pay tuition??
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon

Will she actually pay attention?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 01:29 PM (k4M/B)

152 >>> Did they have hangin's?

Maybe. They definitely had stocks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War

Posted by: fluffy at May 01, 2016 01:31 PM (2hcmo)

153 Why didn't Malaria choose Howard?

Posted by: donna at May 01, 2016 01:31 PM (O2RFr)

154 Thomas More's daughter Margaret bribed an official for the purpose of acquiring her father's head. When she died, she was allegedly buried with More's head held in her arms. The head was later removed and placed in an alcove in her tomb. St. Thomas More's body is buried in St. Peter ad Vincula Chapel in the Tower of London.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 01:31 PM (JBggj)

155 7
In July 2008, in accordance with IAU rules for classical Kuiper belt objects, 2005 FY9 was given the name of a creator deity. The name of Makemake, the creator of humanity and god of fertility in the mythos of the Rapa Nui, the native people of Easter Island, was chosen in part to preserve the object's connection with Easter. (via wiki)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at May 01, 2016 11:58 AM (rlfds)

Yes, they've pretty much run out of the traditional Greek and Roman names. I can't remember the name, but my favorite was one that was named for an Eskimo goddess who lived in a cave at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. That is certainly appropriate for such cold, dark, and remote objects.

Posted by: rickl at May 01, 2016 01:32 PM (sdi6R)

156
The Next Generation? I really can't bear to watch those shows anymore. I can't stand Riker, Wesley, Picard and all the rest. I do like to look at Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), but actually, who cares?

Between the holodeck escapist nonsense, the rampant use of time travel (equally escapist) and the "let's reroute our powerful technology within the ship's systems to create another deus ex machina moment", I had enough.

The last particularly galled me. Systems are built to do their job, not as interlocking Legos Pieces that you can channel and pipe however the f*ck you want. Exhibit A: the Challenger disaster.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2016 01:33 PM (BK3ZS)

157 That is certainly appropriate for such cold, dark, and remote objects.
Posted by: rickl at May 01, 2016 01:32 PM (sdi6R)
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(insert Obama joke here)

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:34 PM (jR7Wy)

158 When Malwhatever gets to Harvard she can find her Dad's favorite spots for taking naps, sparking fatties, and blowing the faculty.

Posted by: eman at May 01, 2016 01:34 PM (MQEz6)

159 Did they pick a Rapa Nui god because no one worships it anymore?

Posted by: @votermom at May 01, 2016 01:35 PM (nbrY/)

160 *pulls off shelf Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda. 1996 Pocket Books*

"The Drumhead" was written by Jeri Taylor. And it aired in TNG Season 4. There had been an explosion in -D's dilithium chamber. Simon Tarses is found to have falsified his Starfleet application to conceal that his grandfather is Romulan.

The synopsis makes the episode sound *ugh*

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:35 PM (0Ef//)

161 148 Does anybody here think Malia will actually pay tuition??
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 01, 2016 01:26 PM (mvenn)

Harvard will get paid in donor money, and maybe govt grants.

Posted by: @votermom at May 01, 2016 01:36 PM (nbrY/)

162 Does anybody here think Malia will actually pay tuition??

No, but she'll pay for a map. Because Dad sure can't help her find the classrooms.

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2016 01:37 PM (ZxmMG)

163 I will cop to enjoying seeing Data at the poker table with the Nawlins gambler and the Ind, uh, Native American ("...pale...face!").

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:37 PM (jR7Wy)

164 If we are lucky, this young lady will do well and in the end declare her Father's policies aand behavior bankrupt.

Its happened before. Of course that kind of rebel gets ignored.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 01:38 PM (39g3+)

165 The synopsis makes the episode sound *ugh*
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The dreaded NG "A Story/B Story".

Ehhh, I'll rewatch it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at May 01, 2016 01:39 PM (jR7Wy)

166 "55 52 I live in an area with a lot of light pollution but sometimes when there is a full moon I will take my spotting scope onto the deck for a look. Pretty neat."

Actually if you want to see anything BUT the moon, like perhaps planets, wait until the days around "new" moon, when the sky will be darker. And get a pair of giant binos (20x80 or 25x100) and mount them on a heavy-duty tripod.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 01, 2016 01:39 PM (ykw8a)

167 35 Planets are but a passing phase in the journey of mankind. Whether or not this is planet, moon or large asteroid or not is irrelevant. Mankind should be reaching for the stars.
Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson at May 01, 2016 12:23 PM (1BQGO)

But we should land on them at night, so we don't burn up.

Posted by: rickl at May 01, 2016 01:40 PM (sdi6R)

168 >>>(insert Obama joke here)<<<

I never realized that Larry Wilmore was so pathetically unfunny, but that WHCD? Wow. Embarrassing.

Posted by: Fritz at May 01, 2016 01:41 PM (f40FU)

169 Over Christmas, I tried to get my kids interested in watching 'Trouble With Tribbles' with me. I pitched it to them as an iconic episode and the farm jokes were great. No deal. Sigh. Maybe 10-20 years from now, one of them will discover some of the more humorous episodes and remember that's why the old nerd thought it was important. Oh well, they had a VeggieTales VCR tapes marathon instead and had a midnight singalong to 'Silly Songs' they remembered.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 01, 2016 01:41 PM (MIKMs)

170 All Hail Eris, the synopsis fails to mention if anyone was ever found responsible for the explosion. I would think that would be a major point to resolve in the story.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 01:41 PM (0Ef//)

171 large asteroid or not is irrelevant. Mankind should be reaching for the stars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson at May 01, 2016 12:23 PM (1BQGO)

Hey Neil. As far as I'm concerned You're a large Hemorrhoid

Posted by: donna at May 01, 2016 01:42 PM (O2RFr)

172 "Makemake was the odd one out,"
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Triger! Trigger! Trigger!
*flaps arm flags*
I'm offended!

Posted by: Odd One at May 01, 2016 01:45 PM (ANVXm)

173 "139 137 We should be taking notes on Venezuela."

Barky just sent Maduro some tips:

1. Work on the Mussolini jaw-upthrust. See my pictures on the cover of Time and NewsWeek. That's the ticket.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 01, 2016 01:48 PM (ykw8a)

174 We wanted to get blown by King Putt in his college days, but he never was enrolled here.

Posted by: Columbia Faculty at May 01, 2016 01:51 PM (89T5c)

175 Makimaki.

Jack Soo - "Mushi mushi."

Posted by: Corona at May 01, 2016 01:52 PM (ragzU)

176 Sedna. That's the one I was thinking about, named for an Eskimo goddess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna

The term "AU" is very simple. It stands for "astronomical unit" and is defined as Earth's average distance from the Sun. So an object at 100 AU means that it is 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth is.

By comparison, Pluto is 49.3 AU at its farthest.

Posted by: rickl at May 01, 2016 01:54 PM (sdi6R)

177 And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band your in starts playing a different tune
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 01:56 PM (PFZvJ)

178 The Science is Settled. Planetary Deniers must be Silenced!

Okay...the science is unsettled. Feel free to talk.

Oh, wait--the Science is Settled again! Stop Talking Or Else!

Hey--anybody want to buy some Cosmo Credits and Orbital Offsets?

Posted by: Al Gore, Climate $haria Imam at May 01, 2016 01:56 PM (Ndje9)

179 There's no dark side of the moon, really
Its all dark, isn't it?

Posted by: Old Codger in the background at May 01, 2016 01:57 PM (39g3+)

180 1. Work on the Mussolini jaw-upthrust. See my pictures on the cover of Time and NewsWeek. That's the ticket.
===========

Yeah, that infamous photo of Barry's skinny leg and his foot atop the HMS Resolute desk was pretty weak.

So are TIME and Newsweek still on the block? $1 a piece + debt?

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 01:58 PM (JBggj)

181 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 02:00 PM (0Ef//)

182 Moon river is wider than a mile

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 02:02 PM (PFZvJ)

183 Blue Moon of Kentucky

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 02:03 PM (JBggj)

184 Moon Zero Two

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 01, 2016 02:08 PM (k4M/B)

185 OK fine, fer sure fer sure

Posted by: Moon Unit Zappa at May 01, 2016 02:08 PM (39g3+)

186 Either everyone's listening to Bill Monroe singing "Blue Moon of Kentucky" or I killed the thread.

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 02:08 PM (JBggj)

187 Alternate Blue Moon

https://youtu.be/gwpbP9UeLMc

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 02:10 PM (39g3+)

188 Moonraker ... best Bond film?

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 02:11 PM (JBggj)

189 Dark side of the moon? Isn't that racist? Shouldn't that be the disadvantaged side of the moon?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 02:11 PM (Nwg0u)

190 Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawn light smiles on your leaving, my contentment.

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 02:12 PM (PFZvJ)

191
Syria's funniest terrorists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcEhVs2tzjg

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 01, 2016 02:12 PM (iQIUe)

192 Direct hits on ISIS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwTkbZnVdg

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 01, 2016 02:12 PM (iQIUe)

193 Or perhaps there will be a new moon on Monday?

https://youtu.be/V9eMZ__YUYg

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 02:12 PM (0Ef//)

194 The White House Correspondents Dinner is a reveal of some key sources of our national decline.

It won't get reported, but the audience -- especially Blacks in attendance -- were visibly cringing their way through a very unfunny performance, well before Wilmore dropped the N Bomb.

If you do the timeline, when he finally acceded to taking out bin Laden, Obama wanted it to happen just before the 2011 WHCD but weather conditions pushed it to the next day.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 01, 2016 02:13 PM (r1fLd)

195 If you go to Makemake, the song on your space stereo should be Louie Louie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 02:16 PM (Nwg0u)

196 Moons over mi-hammy.

Posted by: Denny's at May 01, 2016 02:17 PM (kTF2Z)

197
Michael Brown was gunned down in Ferguson Missouri by racist white police while holding his hands up and chanting "don't shoot".

There is NO way he's working in California at some scientific technology institute.

I rate this post: Fourteen Pinnocchios

Posted by: Media Fact Checker at May 01, 2016 02:18 PM (Qj6zv)

198 What planet does Moony McMoon travel around.

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 02:18 PM (PFZvJ)

199 President Obama praised the media for how "we've always shared the same goal," saying "I've always appreciated the role that you have all played as equal partners in reaching these goals..."

Yes, we know, they've not been objective, critical adversaries of the powerful or reporters of the facts. They've been partners in promoting leftist ideology.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 02:19 PM (39g3+)

200 What planet does Moony McMoon travel around.

What a retard. I've been watching this shit for millions of years. Your tiny little blue marble orbits around me and that annoying yellow flame does the same while keeping us warm.

Posted by: Moony McMoon at May 01, 2016 02:22 PM (ZxmMG)

201 Actually, can you imagine trying to figure out astronomy and gravity if you were raised in the Sea of Tranquility? The freaking Earth just hovers there, day after day, year after year.

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2016 02:26 PM (ZxmMG)

202 Recently read Wm Shatner's Memoir.

-
I watched Judgment at Nuremberg the other night. Small roles were filled by the Shat, Colonel Klink, and Major Hochstetter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2016 02:26 PM (Nwg0u)

203 The Dark Side of the Sun is a very early Pratchett novel.

I always thought it was the negative image of Dune:
Ocean Planet. Unwilling undisputed hereditary ruler. Captialist, not religious. Industry of harvesting pearls from giant floating bivalves used in life-extension, not mind expansion. Underclass are actual aliens, not nomads. A proven mathematical pre-cognition, not mystical manipulation of the present to achieve a desired future. Shadowy interstellar society trying to mold the future, instead of clamping down on the present. Interstellar travel by aliens who think that way, not modified humans with technology.

All set in motion by something exposed in the final reveal: which is a massive spoiler.

Sorry, this should go in the book thread

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 02:27 PM (dxOfa)

204 We have planets, dwarf planets,

I believe the current accepted name is "little planets", though I still call them "midget worlds".

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 01, 2016 02:27 PM (zc3Db)

205
I believe the current accepted name is "little planets", though I still call them "midget worlds".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 01, 2016 02:27 PM (zc3Db)

Warning to you, you are verging on micro-gravitation.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 02:29 PM (dxOfa)

206 "Fly Me To The Moon" - Ana Caram

Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2016 02:31 PM (JBggj)

207 Warning to you, you are verging on micro-gravitation.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 02:29 PM (dxOfa)

I can feel myself starting to levitate ... which would be a real problem if the PC police accuse me of being a~~witch~~ warlock.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 01, 2016 02:33 PM (zc3Db)

208 ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 01, 2016 02:27 PM (zc3Db)

Ugh, a local talk radio station had a "little person" on last week. I was channel surfing heard "it is OK to call us Little People, but Midget is an offensive term" and went to the next station in disgust, was not in any mood to listen more and see if there was any rationale why condescending little person was better than historical factual term midget.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 01, 2016 02:36 PM (wYRTH)

209 My boss and I were discussing this recently.

When we went to school, we could memorize all the planets and the number of their moons, if not all of their names.

Mercury (0 moons)
Venus (0 moons)
Earth (1 moon)
Mars (2 moons)
The asteroid belt (thousands were known to exist, none of which had moons)
Jupiter (12 moons)
Saturn (9 moons at first--I remember the discovery of the 10th moon in 1967)
Uranus (5 moons)
Neptune (2 moons)
Pluto (0 moons)
And Pluto was the farthest object in the solar system, apart from a couple hundred known comets.

Now try to memorize this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size

Today, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have about 40 or so moons, Pluto has 5, there are hundreds of thousands of asteroids, dozens of which are known to have moons, and let's not even go into trans-Neptunian and Kuiper Belt objects.

Posted by: rickl at May 01, 2016 02:39 PM (sdi6R)

210 Posted by: PaleRider at May 01, 2016 02:36 PM (wYRTH)

Heh. I can't see what the attraction to "little person" would be, either. I seem to remember that people used to use the term "little person" as an endearment for children.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 01, 2016 02:40 PM (zc3Db)

211 I'm on the makemake.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 01, 2016 02:41 PM (Dwehj)

212 Them's ain't babies, them's is fidgets!

Posted by: Stymie at May 01, 2016 02:43 PM (Dwehj)

213 It does seem like "little person" is particularly condescending and demeaning, whereas Dwarf suggests badass and midget makes me think of a circus.

I'd want to be called a Dwarf, even though that's a more technical term for a type of smaller human. I just think of a cross between a viking and wolverine.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 01, 2016 02:44 PM (39g3+)

214 "trans-Neptunian"

What are they transitioning to?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2016 02:45 PM (0Ef//)

215 Speaking of the heavens ...

. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94

... God would have taken him sooner, but wanted him to suffer

Posted by: Harold Stassen at May 01, 2016 02:50 PM (e8kgV)

216 Elect me, and I will build lots more moons around that dwarf planet and Make Makemake Great Again!

Posted by: D. Trump at May 01, 2016 02:51 PM (H9MG5)

217 213: I'm not up on the medical terms but I think some "little people" have dwarfism but others are just genetically tiny w/o bone or joint issues. I suppose if one thinks circus attraction with midget that might be a negative association.

Still IMO they are not "little people" they are people people who happen to either be midgets or dwarves. I'm not living it but to me it just feels like "little people or little person" ought to be the offensive term.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 01, 2016 02:51 PM (wYRTH)

218 And you get a moon! And YOU get a moon! And you, and you and you! Everybody gets a moon!!!

Posted by: Oprah at May 01, 2016 02:59 PM (B/K3m)

219 Time for.....

"That's no moon"

....again.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:01 PM (9ym/8)

220 Neon Moon - Brooks and Dunn. If you lose your one and only, there's always room here for the lonely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3sDGzx9y9I

Posted by: grammie winger at May 01, 2016 03:01 PM (dFi94)

221 One of these days CharlieBrownsDildo,
Pow right to the moon.

Posted by: Things you never heard on broadcast TV at May 01, 2016 03:02 PM (DL2i+)

222 So...... How long before that "moon" becomes fully operational?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 01, 2016 03:02 PM (kP16F)

223 'Little People' means leprechauns to me.

Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2016 03:04 PM (ZxmMG)

224 Just when is the flag coming back from Makmake?

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at May 01, 2016 03:04 PM (Dwehj)

225 223: I wonder if that was Sean Connery's first movie?

Posted by: PaleRider at May 01, 2016 03:05 PM (wYRTH)

226 I almost suspected this story was BS. "MakeMake?" Who names a planet that?

Nah, checked link. Crazy, but real, bullshit.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:05 PM (9ym/8)

227 That's not a moon. It's a lens flare.

Posted by: J. J. Abrams at May 01, 2016 03:06 PM (2oWD2)

228 @209

Pluto has no moons? I thought it had at least five!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 01, 2016 03:07 PM (kP16F)

229 Do we know if the Makemakians are social justice aliens?

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at May 01, 2016 03:07 PM (Dwehj)

230 I almost suspected this story was BS. "MakeMake?" Who names a planet that?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:05 PM (9ym/

I did.

Posted by: Dr. Robert Roberts at May 01, 2016 03:07 PM (zc3Db)

231 Anyone remember MoonMakeMaker?

Posted by: Roger Moore at May 01, 2016 03:08 PM (ZxmMG)

232 And what about interstellar white privilege?

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at May 01, 2016 03:10 PM (Dwehj)

233 has my song "Short People" been suggested?

Posted by: Randy Newman at May 01, 2016 03:11 PM (M9VIA)

234 " Anyone remember MoonMakeMaker?"

Like the worst Bond movie ever? Yeah, remember.

Right after and right before some pretty good ones. Strange.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:12 PM (9ym/8)

235 228 @209

Pluto has no moons? I thought it had at least five!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 01, 2016 03:07 PM (kP16F)

You must be a Millennial. Back in my day it didn't have any.

We wore onions on our belts, as was the fashion at the time.

Posted by: rickl at May 01, 2016 03:14 PM (sdi6R)

236 I think I have to make make a doody. BRB.

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at May 01, 2016 03:14 PM (Dwehj)

237 There are no little people. Only little jobs.

(That need tiny little hands. I denounce myself as a thought criminal!)

Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2016 03:14 PM (dxOfa)

238 "That need tiny little hands. I denounce myself as a thought criminal!"

Makes your "thing" look bigger.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:15 PM (9ym/8)

239 I guess everybody's waiting on a gun thread.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:19 PM (9ym/8)

240 Always wanted to see Breach (2007) the story of the worst case of a FBI agent espionage and thinking that at the ending it should be Hillery

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 03:19 PM (PFZvJ)

241 Okay, don't make me come over there, with all the small hands talk!

Posted by: Donald Trump at May 01, 2016 03:19 PM (+1T7c)

242 I just finished watching it

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 03:19 PM (PFZvJ)

243 Just think...somewhere far out there in the cold and desolate reaches of the cosmos is Zombie Uncle Ted Kennedy, ensconced and adrift in a frozen Oldsmobile.

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at May 01, 2016 03:20 PM (Dwehj)

244 A gun thread would be nice.

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 03:20 PM (PFZvJ)

245 Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 03:19 PM (PFZvJ)

Unfortunately, the movie blew chunks.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 01, 2016 03:21 PM (zc3Db)

246 >>>Just think...somewhere far out there in the cold and
desolate reaches of the cosmos is Zombie Uncle Ted Kennedy, ensconced
and adrift in a frozen Oldsmobile.

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at May 01, 2016 03:20 PM (Dwehj)<<<

Errah, and I'll be drinking some MakeMakers Mark.

Posted by: zombie Ted Kennedy at May 01, 2016 03:22 PM (H9MG5)

247 "Errah, and I'll be drinking some MakeMakers Mark. "

Share up, you lush. Lest I'm gonna make short work of the distributor on your Olds.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:24 PM (9ym/8)

248 Not that great,but as I said I was pictuing Hillery getting jacked up at the end.

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 03:24 PM (PFZvJ)

249 >>>Share up, you lush. Lest I'm gonna make short work of the distributor on your Olds.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:24 PM (9ym/

<<<

**pours some Makemakers Mark through usb**
Errah... maybe after a few drinks we can go out for "sandwiches".

Posted by: zombie Ted Kennedy at May 01, 2016 03:27 PM (H9MG5)

250 We should be taking notes on Venezuela.

Posted by: Weasel
****

One thing Hugo did was to give the poor all the goodies which turned them into a second army. They became the muscle behind putting down the resistance.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 01, 2016 03:30 PM (hVdx9)

251 >>>Just think...somewhere far out there in the cold and desolate reaches of the cosmos is Zombie Uncle Ted Kennedy, ensconced and adrift in a frozen Oldsmobile. <<<

He's been jamming Radar Rider on his 8-track for 7 years.

Posted by: Fritz at May 01, 2016 03:30 PM (f40FU)

252 Y'all are making me feel far less than classy over the bottle of Henry's Hard Orange Soda I'm currently drinking.

Posted by: Lauren at May 01, 2016 03:30 PM (u41CN)

253 They are not three fifths of a planet.

Posted by: Michael Brown at May 01, 2016 03:31 PM (4m41+)

254 "Errah... maybe after a few drinks we can go out for "sandwiches". "

I ain't gonna ride shit with you.

Clyde, scrap the Olds.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:32 PM (9ym/8)

255 "I'm not living it but to me it just feels like "little people or little person" ought to be the offensive term."

Yeah it's ridiculous. My oldest son has pituitary dwarfism. He's, medically speaking, a dwarf. Not a "little person".

Posted by: Lauren at May 01, 2016 03:33 PM (u41CN)

256 Since this is open thread, I just want to let people know I have had 6 years of posts removed from NRO because some SafeSpace asshat named Demosthenes complained I used the word "bullshit" in a post. Anyone know how to get in direct contact with the moderators and/or editors over there?

Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 03:33 PM (8m82d)

257 Wow, the make believe media has quite the load to wipe off their chins with the praise they heaped on zippy's White House Correspondence Dinner performance.
One sycophant had the nerve to claim the zipster has a great sense of comedic timing. Really? It was pathetic.

Posted by: Hadoop at May 01, 2016 03:36 PM (2X7pN)

258 217---Still IMO they are not "little people" they are people people who happen to either be midgets or dwarves. I'm not living it but to me it just feels like "little people or little person" ought to be the offensive term.
Posted by: PaleRider at May 01, 2016 02:51 PM (wYRTH)
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Seems so to me too.
Likewise with the PC term "disabled," used in preference to the old term "handicapped."

My aunt, who lost an arm to cancer, is NOT "disabled."
She is able to do just about everything she did before.
She is handicapped in certain activities though, i.e., she's physically less competent at them.

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at May 01, 2016 03:38 PM (T/5A0)

259 256 Since this is open thread, I just want to let people know I have had 6 years of posts removed from NRO because some SafeSpace asshat named Demosthenes complained I used the word "bullshit" in a post. Anyone know how to get in direct contact with the moderators and/or editors over there?
Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 03:33 PM (8m82d)

I'm sorry to hear that, but I don't particularly give a damn about NRO any more. Maybe someone else might be able to help.

Posted by: rickl at May 01, 2016 03:39 PM (sdi6R)

260 So that little blur with the arrow pointing at it is a moon? I can barely makemake it out.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 01, 2016 03:39 PM (mvenn)

261 "Yeah it's ridiculous. My oldest son has pituitary dwarfism. He's, medically speaking, a dwarf. Not a "little person"."

Lauren, I didn't know. I'm sure he'll kick assess and takes names though. People like that generally do.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:39 PM (9ym/8)

262 The following is sobering, especially as the Dems look to nominate Hillary, who's in a race with Bernie over who can be crazier on economic issues:

"John Thornton, the former president of Goldman Sachs, who likes to take the long view, says he's feeling uneasy about the global economy right now and thinks we're living on borrowed time.

"After the events of 2008, really since then, the central banks either collectively or individually have tried to implement policies which would, in effect, buy time for individual governments to take the actions they should take to put their houses in order," Thornton says.

"By and large, the governments have not done that. So I feel as though we're sitting in 2016 with many of the same problems that we've had for the last eight or 10 years, they haven't been addressed very forcefully, we're living on borrowed time. And sooner or later, that ends in tears. I'm generally, sort of, uneasy with where things are. And I think by and large, if things don't make common sense, sooner or later, they come home to roost," he says.

No shit.

Meanwhile Obama thinks that no leader in the history of mankind has done a better job of righting a major economy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 01, 2016 03:41 PM (r1fLd)

263 "I can barely makemake it out."

Can you see NookNook in the distance?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:42 PM (9ym/8)

264 I hear you rickl. But the whole idea of wiping out 6 years worth of posts, most of them pretty brilliant, IMHO, is really beyond the pale.

Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 03:42 PM (8m82d)

265 *Pulls down pants*

*Moons everyone*

Posted by: Guy who doesn't know how to do puns at May 01, 2016 03:43 PM (kTF2Z)

266 "No shit. "

We're probably all boned.

*looks through canisters at ranch*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:44 PM (9ym/8)

267 "Guy who doesn't know how to do puns"

Puns are easy. Get thee to a Punnery.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 01, 2016 03:45 PM (9ym/8)

268 "sure he'll kick assess and takes names though. People like that generally do.
"

Oh yeah, he's a definitely a fireball. With treatment we're hopeful he'll get to 5'5"-5'6" ish Still short, obviously, but not the under 5' he'd be without treatment. I think there's animosity towards the pituitary kids among the "small people" community since they can attain some growth, but we stay out of all that nonsense.

Posted by: Lauren at May 01, 2016 03:45 PM (u41CN)

269 I hear you rickl. But the whole idea of wiping out 6 years worth of posts, most of them pretty brilliant, IMHO, is really beyond the pale.

Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 03:42 PM (8m82d)

Ain't that the truth. It's total bullshit.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 01, 2016 03:46 PM (zc3Db)

270 Tanurur, I've had the same thing happen to me at several sites over the years. Best thing to do is say goodbye to your posts forever, consider them practice for better posts in the future.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 01, 2016 03:47 PM (2cS/G)

271 Nood food

Posted by: Guy who doesn't know how to do puns at May 01, 2016 03:48 PM (kTF2Z)

272 264 I hear you rickl. But the whole idea of wiping out 6 years worth of posts, most of them pretty brilliant, IMHO, is really beyond the pale.
Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 03:42 PM (8m82d)

Yes, it sure is. But it gives an insight to the Uniparty and its intention of controlling all thought, and it ain't pretty.

Posted by: rickl at May 01, 2016 03:50 PM (sdi6R)

273 Wiping out 6 years of posts?
Wait till you see what the leftists do

Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 04:03 PM (PFZvJ)

274 What cheeses me off is that I am actually a professional historian, and publish my stuff for money. I offer free education and opinion based on actual knowledge, and some asshat gets offended by the fact I call bullshit on his assertion that the Supreme Court cannot change the meaning of the First and Second amendments and they flush all that away. This whole "Never Trump" mentality has really destroyed a once fine institution and turned it into another tribal warzone full of narrow minded zealots.

Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 04:03 PM (8m82d)

275 273 Wiping out 6 years of posts?
Wait till you see what the leftists do
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2016 04:03 PM (PFZvJ)

I have no intention of seeing what the leftists do. I reside in Hungary, and really have no plans to come back to the USA anytime soon. I feel like I have a lot more intellectual freedom here, although the money is crap.

Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 04:05 PM (8m82d)

276 274 This whole "Never Trump" mentality has really
destroyed a once fine institution and turned it into another tribal
warzone full of narrow minded zealots.

Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 04:03 PM (8m82d)

NRO went to shit long before Trump ever showed his ugly mugs. I quit going there long ago.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 04:09 PM (vvmPQ)

277 NRO just got told their censoring was bullshit. 2 funi

Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2016 04:12 PM (ZzuMP)

278 Posted by: Lauren at May 01, 2016 04:10 PM (3y414)

Ah, kinda like mock apple pie.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 04:13 PM (vvmPQ)

279 Here is the post that got me banned from National Review. It isn't even as good as the Steyn bit about the fruit cordial, but really?

Bullshit. The way the Supreme Court works these days is that they can decide that the constitution means whatever 5 of the justices say it means. With 6 activist progressives on the court, the first amendment will be read as meaning that speech critical of Hillary Clinton can be censored (Citizen's United), that there are hate speech exceptions to the first amendment, and which are the categories that we deem fall under hate speech and which do not. The second amendment doesn't really mean that there is a right of the people to keep and bear arms, but only government approved bodies. I suspect you actually know all this, so your simpleton's response is pretty feeble.

Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 04:15 PM (8m82d)

280 279 Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 04:15 PM (8m82d)

I thought SCOTUS struck down the hate speech laws??

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 04:22 PM (vvmPQ)

281 I have had 6 years of posts removed from NRO

That was the sort of crap that gave Jarelhs Chonson a tingle. Regulars who'd given his site almost all its content suddenly found their material [deleted] when they fell out of his good graces.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 01, 2016 04:24 PM (6FqZa)

282 280 279 Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 04:15 PM (8m82d)

I thought SCOTUS struck down the hate speech laws??
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 01, 2016 04:22 PM (vvmPQ)

My point was that with a 6-3 progressive majority, they could do whatever they want. If Hillary Clinton gets in the White House, she will replace the Scalia seat for sure, Ginsburg will probably retire or be carried out in a pine box, and possible Kennedy as well. That would leave Thomas, Alito and sometimes Roberts who even try to moor their opinions in the plain words of the Constitution.

Posted by: tanarur at May 01, 2016 04:27 PM (8m82d)

283 Petty men with petty power while away their petty hours.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 01, 2016 04:27 PM (T/cxb)

284 That is certainly appropriate for such cold, dark, and remote objects.
Leave my wife out of it!

Posted by: president o'bumbles at May 01, 2016 04:27 PM (f4AGl)

285 About SCOTUS and the 1st amendment:

One of the things that makes us Americans and not Europeans has been our commitment to civil liberties, including the right to free speech.

There's a pernicious movement afoot to read the 14th Amendment right to "liberty" to override things in the Bill of Rights such as the right to free speech. You see, you can't have "liberty" if someone offends you with their speech. This current phase of progressivism is being played out at a college or university near you.

Progs want this to reach SCOTUS someday.

The likes of Obama loves them the 14th Amendment. The rest of the Constitution, not so much.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 01, 2016 04:41 PM (r1fLd)

286 Big Mithril is ripping me off!

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at May 01, 2016 04:43 PM (PMt3y)

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