Archive of entries posted on August 2021

Tuesday Night Open Thread: UFOs

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A lot of people don’t know a lot about UFOs, including me, so I’ll keep this short.

A lot of people know too much about UFOs, but what happens to them?

Literalists like me claim that anything in the sky which is unknown and is flying and is an object is an Unknown Flying Object. But it doesn’t mean it came from beyond our solar system.

The government . . .

. . . has released some non-committal report, and called them by some other name which starts with “A” for “Anomalous” or something like that. But I can’t find it by googling UFOs, so it may not exist.

The thought that we’d be noticed by advanced beings is mind-boggling. The thought that we wouldn’t be noticed by advanced beings is mind-boggling. So I prefer to split the difference, and assume that the thought of a candy bar with chocolate, caramel, peanuts, and nugat in the same bite would be mind-boggling to these aliens.

It need not be like it’s shown in “War of the Worlds.” It could be “The Cold War of the Worlds,” or “Waning of the Cold War of the Worlds,” followed by the “Collapse of the Communist Empire of the Worlds.” Wouldn’t that be nice?

Meh. That happened here, and nothing good came of it for very long.

Aliens are still streaming across our borders. The guy with the funny hair, above, was right.

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

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Bling It!

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North Korea Wants Sanctions Eased on Metal, Fuel and ‘”Liquor and Suits” To Restart US Talks
The Guardian | 03 Aug 2021

North Korea wants a raft of international sanctions eased – including on imports of luxury items such as high-class liquors and suits – before it will restart denuclearisation talks with the United States, South Korean lawmakers have said.

Women go crazy ’bout a sharp-dressed maniac.

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Straight Line of the Day: So What Happened To The Missing Mars Rock?

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NASA Can’t Find the Mars Rock Sample That the Perseverance Rover Drilled — It Mysteriously Disappeared
The Business Insider via MSN | 09 Aug 2021 | Morgan McFall-Johnsen

NASA has spent nine years and about $2 billion in its quest to drill and store samples of Martian rocks. The Perseverance rover was poised to finally make that happen for the first time on Friday.

The rover picked a rock in an ancient Mars lake bed that could have once held alien life, and attempted to drill. But then something strange happened: The sample seems to have vanished without a trace….

…To figure out what happened, NASA is instructing Perseverance to take close-up pictures of the bore hole it made.

Straight Line of the Day: So what happened to the missing Mars rock?

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Test: Possibly new Contest

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We have the Babesleaga set to resume shortly so I wanted to test the waters for a new contest. A head to head, single elimination tournament of the best song of all time. While that certainly takes in a lot of ground I want to work off the Rolling Stone’s list to start but if anyone suggest a better source or list I will listen to suggestions.

So here is a test contest. It is the 99 and 100 listed songs so wouldn’t be in the contest but go and vote so I can see if this something I might add to our regular postings.

Thanks.

100

VS

99

Polling will close on Monday August 16th.

This poll is no longer accepting votes

Which do you prefer?
Vote

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Sounds Like a Self-Correcting Problem

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Utah Authorities Concerned About People Hammocking Atop Power Line
newsbreak.com | 8/4/21

Authorities in Utah are sounding the alarm about a weird and worrisome trend wherein people hammock atop power lines.

The Weber County Sheriff’s Office made note of the unnerving fad in a Facebook post last week, explaining that they have seen a troubling increase in thrill-seekers attempting to pull off the far-from-relaxing feat.

The department shared a photo showing two such individuals ascending a power line tower with one of the climbers having already reached a rather nerve-wracking height.

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Have They Considered Having Her Do Something Competent on the Border?

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Democrat Women Gather in D.C. to Discuss Kamala Harris Media Crisis
Breitbart.com | 8/5/2021 | Charlie Spierling

A group of Democrat women political strategists gathered for a dinner in Washington, D.C., in July, to discuss Vice President Kamala Harris’ media “crisis,” according to a report.
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No one from Harris’ office was present for the dinner but “Harris confidant Minyon Moore” attended, according to the report.

She literally has a Minyon? Surreal.

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