We will get to the music shortly. First we honor our second member of the Order of the Golden Emu.
Oppo
Now I realize that there is some controversy but the ruling of the Court Jester is final. So let it be written, so let it be done.
So with that finished who will guess tonight’s connection? On to the music!
“Now is ze time on Sprockets vhen ve dance!”
Alford Doctrine: Guilty plea whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence, but admits that sufficient evidence exists to convict.
(To the tune of “Uncle Albert” by Paul McCartney)
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We’re so sorry
Uncle Alford
We’re so sorry if we caused you mental strain
We’re so sorry
Uncle Alford
But there’s no one left to vote who still believes you’re going to reign . . .
We’re so sorry
Uncle Alford
But you haven’t done a bloody thing in D.C.
We’re so sorry
Uncle Alford
But the middle’s such a muddle, and they’re so easily drawn, you see . . .
Kamala, palsy
Notified me
He doesn’t have a clue and he is often out at sea
I had another look
At his instability
And a muttered lie
(Muttered lie?)
“Hunter never took a dime from the Moscow mayor’s wife”
Hands Across Her Shoulders
(Shoulders)
Hands Around Her Waist
.
Hands Across Her Shoulders
(Shoulders)
Social Distaste . . .
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And now, turning the dial, a Marvin Gaye song:
“Oh, MRSA, MRSA me
Things ain’t what they used to be
Where did all the blue states go? . . . “
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… the theory went that while the GOP may lose power to Democrats for a time, the sheer unworkability of Democratic policies, especially if allowed to be implemented via legislation, would actually give Republicans a better chance of taking back over rather quickly. However, what if Democrats could implement structural changes to the American political system that would ensure their power not just over the next term, but forever? In his eye-opening Washington Post op-ed last month titled, “A vote for Biden is a vote for a one-party state,” columnist Marc Thiessen lays out how Democrats likely plan to “use their unchecked power not just to ram through their agenda, but also to pack the courts, pack the Senate, pack the House and pack the electoral college.” It’s a great, if horrifying read, and it’ll make you consider your vote carefully even if you hate everything about Donald Trump the person and think Joe Biden’s a nice guy.
It’s an all-too-possible dystopian universe that would change America permanently forever, and it all starts with the filibuster. Rid the Senate of that, and aside from the valid issues about changing the collegial, deliberative body into a de facto version of the majority-rule House, Democrats will not only be able to easily pass every single bill the left could conceive of, from climate change to gun control (confiscation?) to immigration to sky-high taxes, they’ll also be able to set the Supreme Court at, say, 13 justices (15? 17?), then proceed to install four Marxists to help Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer deem it all “Constitutional.”
But it wouldn’t stop there, not by a long shot. Simply making Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. states would ensure four new Democratic senators, thus making it virtually impossible for the GOP to hold a Senate majority ever again. Not to mention the countless illegal immigrants they want to make citizens and the hordes of third world immigrants they want to bring and make citizens, all to solidify their base. And it could all be done, absent the filibuster, by simple majorities in both the House and the Senate. Why work with Republicans on anything when you can pass everything yourself?
— Townhall.com | October 3, 2020 | Scott Morefield
Takeaway: perhaps some sort of investment in gold might not be such a bad call.
There’s Too Much Gold in the Universe. No One Knows Where It Came From.
Live Science| 01 October 2020 | Rafi Letzter
Gold is an element, which means you can’t make it through ordinary chemical reactions — though alchemists tried for centuries.
To make the sparkly metal, you have to bind 79 protons and 118 neutrons together to form a single atomic nucleus.
That’s an intense nuclear fusion reaction.
But such intense fusion doesn’t happen frequently enough, at least not nearby, to make the giant trove of gold we find on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
And a new study has found the most commonly-theorized origin of gold — collisions between neutron stars — can’t explain gold’s abundance either.
So where’s the gold coming from?
There are some other possibilities, including supernovas so intense they turn a star inside out.
Unfortunately, even such strange phenomena can’t explain how blinged out the local universe is, the new study finds.
Neutron star collisions build gold by briefly smashing protons and neutrons together into atomic nuclei, then spewing those newly-bound heavy nuclei across space.
Regular supernovas can’t explain the universe’s gold because stars massive enough to fuse gold before they die — which are rare — become black holes when they explode, said Chiaki Kobayashi, an astrophysicist at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.
And, in a regular supernova, that gold gets sucked into the black hole.
During a magneto-rotational supernova, a dying star spins fast and is wracked by such strong magnetic fields that it turns itself inside out as it explodes.
As it dies, the star shoots white-hot jets of matter into space. And because the star has been turned inside out, its jets are chock full of gold nuclei.
Stars that fuse gold at all are rare. Stars that fuse gold then spew it into space like this are even rarer.
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But gold remains an enigma.
Something out there that scientists don’t know about must be making gold, Kobayashi said.
Or it’s possible neutron star collisions make way more gold than existing models suggest.
In either case, astrophysicists still have a lot of work to do before they can explain where all that fancy bling came from.
Wait. How closely related is this gold scientist to the Kobayashi Maru test?
Straight Line of the Day: A collectible or memorabilia regret of yours is
To show where I’m going with this:
I saw the original “Bat Boy Escapes!” cover on the National Enquirer at the supermarket. I instantly recognized its awesomeness. I bought it. I asked my dad (the skilled craftsman) to frame it. He threw it out because it was stupid.
Me: “Why – – – – ?”
