I love Weird Al.
Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s Friday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
I love Weird Al.
Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s Friday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
Yep, you read that right.
I promise all you Yang-ees an income of $1,000 a month if you vote for me for Zenator of your cash-cow state.
If I can consolidate enough states through this giveaway, there’ll be only me in the Senate and some six other grey dudes. With AOC as bartender. How awesome is that?
Pretty awesome, if the Senate has a dancing roof with a bar.
Or a dancing bar with a roof.
I assume they do.
Representatives are constitutionally bound to do this stuff for Senators, I imagine.
I don’t know for sure, because I’ve missed all the orientation classes through not being invited. Plus “orientation” and “class” both sound racist and oppressive.
But Zen-ator doesn’t. And I’m not aiming higher. FrankJ has kids to support.
Oh. {sigh}.
Back to the subject (which is, for the sake of argument — you):
This windfall of $1,000 cash money to you depends, of course, on Congressional appropriation.
From you!!
I’m a Republican. I’m a winner. You listen to what I say. That’s what you’re doing right now. What I say is important because I’m on the winning side.
Some people disagree with me, but I don’t care what they have to say. You saw the election? People who disagree with me – the left – are losers. People heard what they had to say and they hated it.
People hate losers.
“I get to keep talking. I’m a winner. “
These losers think they have a freedom of speech to keep talking their loser talk. That’s stupid. My time is valuable. You know how much my time costs? It’s more than you can afford. I shouldn’t waste it on loser talk that’s already rejected. The American people think their ideas are dumb, so they should have to shut up. I get to keep talking. I’m a winner.
For example, some people want to argue whether we should be warring. That’s loser talk, No more of that. We all decided war is fun and cool, so shut up about it. What you can argue is who we kill next. That’s winner talk. That’s freedom of speech that should be allowed.
So am I saying that losers should be punished for saying loser speech. Yes I am. They should be beaten with winner sticks wielded by winners like me until they shut up. That’s right, losers: I don’t have time to listen to you. I only have time to hit with you sticks. Rocks, too.
Now we only use winner talk. We talk about cutting taxes and killing bad people. You want to talk about something else, you’re a loser and I have my stick. I’m a winner. I get to talk.
…Well, I don’t have anything to say right now. When I do, though, you listen. I’m a winner.
Frank J. is a syndicated columnist whose columns appear worldwide on IMAO.us and is the author of such books as “‘You’re a Failure’ and Other Reasons Your Parents Never Loved You” and “I Swear to God I’ll Kill the @%#$& Bastard Who Moved My Cheese!”
So, what is an anti-endorsement, anyway? . . .
Un-herd of in the liberal press? No. . . .
Please notice how the headline tries to blur whether it’s referring to the nation or just the publication “The Nation.”
The Nation Calls for Joe Biden to “Withdraw From The Race” in Stunning “Anti-Endorsement” Column
Mediaite / Nov. 7, 2019 / Charlie Nash“Biden’s long record of poor judgment,” ranging from the Iraq War to Wall Street, “renders him an even weaker opponent for a president whose reelection poses a clear and present danger to America’s survival as a constitutional republic.”
“Stumbling through the primaries, Biden’s zombie campaign crowds out worthier challengers, handing Trump a free pass on the very issues that should be his Achilles’ heel,” the magazine explained, adding, “The Nation therefore calls on Biden to put service to country above personal ambition and withdraw from the race.”
“ . . . It may still be unclear which Democrat is best positioned to beat Donald Trump, but we know one thing: The answer is not Joe Biden.”
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Joe Biden: endlessly spinning, and at a loss . . . but with the best of intentions.
Holy cow, that diet must be working! They’ve just discovered that protons are 4% smaller than they thought!
New Measurement Yields Smaller Proton Radius
Science Daily | November 6, 2019Using the first new method in half a century for measuring the size of the proton via electron scattering, the PRad collaboration has produced a new value for the proton’s radius in an experiment conducted at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
[The go-to facility when you absolutely, positively have to accelerate either Thomas Jefferson or a National.]
The result, recently published in the journal Nature, is one of the most precise measured from electron-scattering experiments. The new value for the proton radius that was obtained is 0.831 femtometers, which is smaller than the previous electron-scattering value of 0.88 femtometers and is in agreement with recent muonic atomic spectroscopy results.
[So, they’ve got that going for them.]
“We are happy that years of hard work of our collaboration is coming to an end with a good result that will help critically toward solution of the so-called proton radius puzzle,” says Ashot Gasparian, a professor at North Carolina A&T State University and the experiment’s spokesperson.
[. . . who, it turned out, has the most common-sounding name on the team.]
The collaboration instituted three new techniques to improve the precision of the new measurement. The first was implementation of a new type of windowless target system, which was funded by a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant and was largely developed, fabricated and operated by Jefferson Lab’s Target group.
The windowless target flowed refrigerated hydrogen gas directly into the stream of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility’s 1.1 and 2.2 GeV accelerated electrons and allowed scattered electrons to move nearly unimpeded into the detectors.
“When we say windowless, we are saying that the tube is open to the vacuum of the accelerator. Which seems like a window — but in electron-scattering, a window is a metal cover on the end of the tube, and those have been removed,” says Dipangkar Dutta, an experiment co-spokesperson and a professor at Mississippi State University.
. . .
“The region that we explored is at such a forward angle and at such small four-momentum transfer squared that it has never been reached before in electron-proton scattering,” adds Mahbub Khandaker, an experiment co-spokesperson and a professor at Idaho State University.
. . .
Further, this result also sheds new light on conjecture of a new force of nature that was proposed when the proton radius puzzle first surfaced.
“When the initial proton radius puzzle came out in 2010, there was hope in the community that maybe we have found a fifth force of nature, that this force acts differently between electrons and muons,” says Dutta. “But the PRad experiment seems to shut the door on that possibility.”
Darn it.
Work begins on Life of Brian:
Half a year and a few days after we last played Python Live at City Center in New York, the Pythons reassemble at 22 Park Square East for the first day of a two-month writing period on our new film. A fine, sunny day, a good day to take resolutions and make plans.
John suggests straightaway that at some point during this writing period we all go abroad to the sun for a week or ten days (to ‘really break the back of the film’). This is shelved. As Terry J says, ‘Let’s all see if we like each other at the end of the day.’ But we make plans for the next year — writing until Christmas, rewriting throughout March and filming delayed until September/October 1977. There follows some good chat and exchange of ideas about the story and how to treat it. JC now thinks the film should be called “Monty Python’s Life of Christ.”
At lunchtime, TG leaves to complete filming of the Jabberwocky monster in Pembroke. . . . John’s passed his driving test and now has a car of his own — ‘A very old Rolls-Royce,’ he tells me, unable to stifle a trace of embarrassment.
— Michael Palin, Diaries 1969 – 1979: The Python Years
So, who was the leader of the Gunpoweder Plot? You know, the whole thing to blow up Parliament back in 1605? Where the whole Guy Fawkes thing came from?
If you said Guy Fawkes, you missed it. It was Robert Catesby.
Who?
Yep. You probably never heard of him.
Okay, some of you have. But most of you haven’t.
I didn’t find a video on Robert Catesby that I liked, but I found this one that mentioned him, including his death, which happened on November 8, 1605.