Wednesday Night Open Thread

This week is the 50th anniversary of the flight of Apollo 11. That’s kind of a big deal with me. I was a fan the space program during the 1960s. Yeah, I enjoyed the TV shows with Mr. Spock, Will Robinson and the Robot, and other spacemen, but there were real live spacemen on TV, too. And when I ran across a video of sections of real-time coverage from ABC, I enjoyed it. All six hours of it.

I shared the launch and TLI a couple of days ago. And now here’s the landing and walk. Yeah, these are long videos, and I’m certainly not expecting you’ll watch them this late at night, but you might want to bookmark them and come back to them later. That’s what I did.


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So, what’s on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.

Who wants to start?

It’s His Go-to Solution

Power outages struck much of Manhattan for five hours Saturday evening, plunging subway stations, Broadway theaters, and skyscrapers into darkness.

That’s OK. I’m sure de Blasio will be able to prevent this from happening again by figuring out who wasn’t being taxed enough.

I’m Sure Frank Still Gets “Hey! You’re the Nuke the Moon Guy!”


[The First Guy To Ever Be A Toxic Fan] (Viewer #261,344)

I’m still waiting for someone to make a t-shirt of me.

Link of the Day: Seriously, C3P0’s Right Leg Is Silver From the Knee Down

[High Praise! to Mental Floss]

10 Examples of the Mandela Effect

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[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Trump Truths: Stylish

To assuage easily-offended liberals, President Trump announced that the new Mexican border wall will be “purely decorative”. Fortunately, spikes, electricity, and alligator moats are quite trendy this year.

Let’s Try Something Else That Fails Every Time It’s Been Tried

[High Praise! to blarg]

When lefties tell me that socialism isn’t working because it hasn’t been properly implemented, I tell them if that’s the case, the risk is too high. If we get socialism wrong we get Venezuela, Cuba, USSR, China, and Nazi Germany. If we get Capitalism wrong, we get the strongest economy in the world, the most prosperous society history has ever seen, and the most free society ever governed.

I’d rather risk Capitalism.

AOC Proposes Radical New Green Energy Program: Shoveling Money Directly Into a Furnace

Possibly AOC’s best green energy idea since the Recursive Power Strip

WASHINGTON, DC (AP) – Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a press conference at which she proposed a “radical new green energy program”. Calling it the “ultimate renewable,” Ocasio-Cortez proposed that freshly-printed $1 bills be shoveled directly into furnaces to provide American with cheap, plentiful electricity.

The Representative from New York’s 14th district discussed the origin and benefits of her proposal.

“I was sitting there writing a bill to fund, like, a huge new green energy program,” said Ocasio-Cortez, “when I realized how wasteful it was. We give money to people and they turn it into, um, like, wind panels and solar turbines or whatever, and then we get electricity. Then it occurred to me – what if there were a way to turn money directly into energy? It’d be so much more efficient! I don’t know why no one else ever thought of that!”

“It’s a very green idea,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Like, money is made out of paper, which comes from trees, and trees are a renewable resource, just like sunlight and batteries! And what with all these coal plants shutting down because, like, we’re almost out of coal now, I thought maybe they could burn something else instead of coal – like money. Or we could just look into planting more coal trees. I don’t know why no one else ever thought of that.”

“Anyway, so we can just shovel in one dollar bills, which would be like – bonus! – an amazing green job in itself,” continued the freshman Congresswoman. “I guess we could put other bills in there, too, like $20s, but I think those cost 20 times as much to make, which is weird, because they’re the same size. I think it’s because Jackson’s head is so much bigger than Washington’s.”

“The sad part,” concluded Ocasio-Cortez, “is that, like, even though this is a genius idea – I don’t know why no one else ever thought of it – I don’t think Trump will sign it, because I wrote it, and Trump hates colored people of color.”

On his Twitter account, President Trump did, indeed, threaten to veto the bill if it made it to his desk, although he also complimented it, saying “this takes money and turns it into smoke and ash. Biggest return on investment I’ve ever seen from a Democrat bill.”

[IMAO Ace Reporter Frank J. contributed to this story]

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Straight Line of the Day: Didn’t See That One Coming… In the Next James Bond Movie, 007 Will Be Played by…

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

Didn’t see that one coming… in the next James Bond movie, 007 will be played by

The Illustrated Frank J: More of a Cult, Really

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Random Thoughts: Political Divide and Trump

For the Nintendo Switch Lite, if it’s handheld only, is it really a “Switch”? What’s it switch into?

Can you vehemently oppose Trump without becoming worse than him? The evidence keeps point to “No.”

Everyone should just lackadaisically oppose Trump like me, the smartest, most reasonable man on the internet.

The only thing Jim Hopper did wrong was not shoot even more Commies. #FatRambo

For you youngins, Commies were the Nazis of the 80s.

Both political parties are falling apart and it’s great. How do we keep that going?

How come you can make like hundreds of different cheeses out of cow’s milk but only the one out of goat’s milk and it can barely hold itself together? What’s wrong with goats?

So who is the best Stranger Things character? It’s Dustin, right?

Some people get upset if they have a child with Down syndrome because it’s not what they’re expecting, but let me tell you: No child is going to be what you’re expecting. They’ll all be much more than that. No person is small enough to fit in your imagination.

The Lion King remake does seem like the most pointless of the live action remakes (which are all already kind of pointless) since it’s not really live action, but just an inferior type of animation for telling the story.

My 3yo is becoming so bossy. Whatever happened to that #BanBossy campaign where they tried to teach little girls to stop being so bossy?

Man, just stepped outside for a minute. Thank you air conditioning. #Blessings

It may be out of fashion, but I still blame all our societal problems on hippies.

So is there like “progressive privilege” where if you think you have the right politics, you feel like you can get away with any behavior?

The “AR” in “AR-15” stands for “AR-15 Rifle.”

With the way Trump has completely torn apart both parties, is he the worst president ever or the greatest president ever?

Little more than halfway through The Brothers Karamazov now. Plot-wise… it’s a little meandering.

The Democrats tearing each other apart, calling each other racist, has to be one of the most delightful things I’ve seen in politics in ages. It’s like all the angels in Heaven are smiling down upon us.

I don’t know why Shakespeare is considered so great. I read through one of his “comedies” — A Midsummer Night’s Dream — and I only laughed out loud twice. I literally laughed more times watching The Hangover.
Maybe Shakespeare is good at some things, but I really doubt he could have gotten hired to write for something like 30 Rock.

The “AR” stands for “Aramalite” which is German for “assault rifle.”

What would happen if Armalite made an AR-16? Society would collapse!

My 3yo kept begging me to play Mario with her, and I am not made of stone.

Scientists theorize that an AR-27 would be dangerous enough to destroy the whole universe.

Believing there are experts who can confirm what the correct politics are is a childishness on the level of believing in a tooth fairy.

So are really the only two choices people crammed into horrible detention centers or open borders?

Personally, I’m fine with tons more people coming here, but it’s like with people coming to Texas from California: Remember why you left.

Funny how The Brothers Karamazov talks a little bit about the folly of equating and Christianity and socialism. Eh, nothing new under the sun.

Man at supermarket was apologizing for his kids’ behavior (which I didn’t care about). Found out they’re his grandkids whom he had gotten out of a shelter in another state. Wish I gave him more words of encouragement; hardly a greater good you can do than give kids a good home.
It’s tough being a Christian and an introvert. You want to lift people’s spirits up, but you’re not very good at it.

I hate to say it, but my 3yo’s drawing of our family is a wee bit creepy.

Didn’t help that when she handed it to me, she whispered, “Seven days.”

*Democrats tear each other apart, calling each other racist*
MOST REPUBLICANS: *sit back laughing*
TRUMP: “No one is paying attention to me!”

Instead of apologizing for his tweets, Trump will just wait until everyone’s forgotten about it because he’s done something even worse.

So it’s over halfway through The Brothers Karamazov that you finally get plot stuff happening, most of the book so far just being setup (though it does kind of warn you about that).
My opinion so far is that Dimitri and Grushenka are perfect for each other as they both cray cray.

Funny how The Good Place started specifically saying it’s not the Christian version of Heaven, but after 3 seasons it stumbles on to why you need Jesus.
“It’s impossible for anyone to earn their way into the Good Place!”
*Jesus appears*
“Exactly. But maybe there’s another way.”

Maybe the House of Representatives can pass another resolution broadly condemning hate and bigotry without specifically naming anyone.

In case you didn’t know, I write for The Babylon Bee. If you see an article from them that makes you say “Man, they’ve sure gotten political. I miss the old Babylon Bee,” I wrote that!

We’re not getting rid of anyone here in America — the racists, the commies, the trolls — and we’re just all going to have to learn to live together. We’re going to keep moving into the future, and it’s no man left behind.

Re: this article, I’ve noticed that while you see a lot of criticism of Christians, you see little criticism of Jesus. That tells me people don’t look at his words very deeply, because if you’re not a Christian, you disagree with him on some big things.
Jesus had a lot of haters in his day, but now we act like everybody’s cool with him. But they ain’t.

This impeachment stuff is starting to be like when they kept teasing that Niles and Daphne were going to get together in Fraiser. I don’t what season finale they’re saving that for.

There are lots of bad racists out there, but part of the problem is the left doesn’t have any language left to describe them that they didn’t already use up on Mitt Romney.

New World Order

The New York Post reports, “Political drama is not selling books like it used to

Yup. Why buy the cow when you can watch Trump milk Twitter for free?