A cacaphony of consonants

I want you to know what a STRUGGLE it is for me NOT to share those gelatine mould salad pictures.

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Lots of fussing about $6(?) trillion missing from the Pentagon. "They need to find it!" say concerned folks.
Look in orbit, sez I.

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If I can emotionally extort someone for it, then it's a RIGHT!


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When the arm-flailing over "MEDICAID cuts" begin, here's the skinny: the "cuts" are reductions in INCREASES.
There are still increases in the budget, just not quite as many.
It is still a large net gain.

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"This Island Earth".
The Monitor played the reporter in "The Thing".

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The most hateful thing about Boomers is all the old people adverts they have spawned.


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In Biblical arguments, the text is the thing. Your opinion matters not a whit.Here is the issue:
Many people SEEM to think that the Bible is Somehow Different from other books, in that "because spiritual", the rules of grammar, usage, comprehension and logic become squishy, and do not apply, as they do in reading the encyclopaedia or Upton Sinclair. Also, the "living document" business need not apply. Just as Webster's dictionary "fixed" the language, standardised it at a set point in time, so the Bible is set. The words and thoughts mean what they meant WHEN WRITTEN; they mean what they meant to the then-current audience. This means we must apply ourselves a tad to understand the (historical) context in which it was written. Ezekiel was not writing to 21st century Americans about a UFO sighting by the river Chebar. He was writing to Jewish exiles in Babylon, using imagery well understood by his audience.

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How exactly do you get "vworp-vworp" from the TARDIS matrialisation sound?


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Farewell, you moon-faced assassin of joy, you.

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STILL better than Mitch.


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I really, really HATE this design.
Mash-ups are one thing, but someone just swallowed a lot of sci-fi, then threw up on a shirt.





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Yet another in the endless string of annoyances...
"Put the petal to the metal.".


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Have a lovely rest of the week!

 

Post-prandial palaver

And the hilarious bit is, the John Birchers were right!

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Once again it comes down not to can I, but should I?
(I'm going to let you guess.)

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The biggest result of withdrawing from the Paris Accords will be that we won't subsidise China, India, and other signatories for doing nothing.

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Penguins are melting, so that they look like black-and-white cookies with beaks.

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Saw a bit of David Jeremiah shilling posthumously for Tim LaHaye and the "Left Behind" series.
This paragon of biblical scholarship spent the time preaching about "The Rapture", a doctrine that did not exist until the 1800s. If Paul nor Peter nor John did not write of it (much less Jesus preaching about it) it is...suspect.
They DID teach of the Resurrection just prior to the day of judgment. I'll bank on THAT one.

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“There are three intolerable things in life—cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women." -- Orson Welles


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I suspect that people might have happier lives if they did not hope for or expect the worst for others.


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I mourn the loss of restaurants-gone-by. Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour Restaurants. Howard Johnson's. Shakey's Pizza (One exists in Auburn, AL).
The original Charcoal Grill in Dillon, SC. DeEtte's Kitchen in Dillon.
I HUNGER!

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Drove by a restaurant in Cary, NC this weekend, hight "Greek Fiesta".
The name is what's off-putting. It sounds like Greek-Mexican fusion. I hate fusion.
I am a food segregationist.


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From a year ago. The feelz, they are the same.
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I miss old Superman. Comics Code Superman. The bank robbers dump Jimmy Olson down a well, and the signal watch goes zee-zee-zee Superman.
Funny book Superman, the ones I read as a kid. Escapist fare, not gritty in-your-face mean streets of Metropolis Superman. Multi-colored Kryptonite Superman. Bizarro, Mister Myxzptlk, and Kandor-in-a-can Superman.
Pre-retconning Superman. Lois Lane, Perry White, newspaper biz Superman. "Really, glasses are your disguise?" Superman.
I miss fun Superman.

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Done with every group complaining about how bad it all is, and how "X" must be done to placate them.
I wanna know when MY group is gonna be addressed seriously, and no longer be made fun of!



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Have a lovely weekend!