Today is Mickey's birthday. Certainly one of the greatest ball players of all time, he died very young - at only 64 years old.
Today is also my birthday - my 70th - and although the quote about 'living this long' is his, but it might as well be mine also.
I never in my wildest dreams would have pictured myself alive and still active at this advanced age. Juss' sayin'...
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A little creative cropping in front of the Titanic Museum in Belfast.
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A federal judge Thursday overturned California’s three-decade-old
ban on assault weapons, finding it has no equivalent in early American history and is therefore unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, of San Diego, found that modern semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15 are common household items used for self-defense by millions of law-abiding citizens in the U.S. and that those citizens may not have their 2nd Amendment rights abridged by the state simply because others may misuse the same weapons in mass shootings and other deadly violence.
“Guns and ammunition in the hands of criminals, tyrants and terrorists are dangerous; guns in the hands of law-abiding responsible citizens are necessary,” Benitez wrote. “To give full life to the core right of self-defense, every law-abiding responsible individual citizen has a constitutionally protected right to keep and bear firearms commonly owned and kept for lawful purposes.”
People think they're doing some kinda good when they make memes like this one. Only problem is, the 'facts' in this one are off by just a wee little bit. It's not 100 million yeras ago - it's 100 million light years ago.
A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light zips through interstellar space at 186,000 miles per second and 5.88 trillion miles per year, so it's just a little bit farther back in time, don'tcha think there, Memeboy?
That also points to the idea that there is no beginning and no end to time itself, but that's a conversation best left for another day.
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It's amazing how long it took him to tie these two issues together, if ya think about it. Biden used a primetime Oval Office address last night to argue U.S. support for Israel and Ukraine in their respective wars is vital to American national security, drawing parallels between the two conflicts ahead of a request for congressional aid.
“Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they share this in common: They both want to annihilate a neighboring democracy,” Biden said, while adding that countries like Iran back both the U.S.-designated terrorist group and the Kremlin. “I know these conflicts can seem far away and it’s natural to ask, why does this matter to America?” he added, although he never successfully answered his own question.
Joe hasta look both tough and generous to the country in light of the pending election, and to that end, there is no amount of your money that he is unwilling to throw in to the wind for a vote or two.
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doesn't make sense. I say almost, because I have no way of
proving or dis-proving the claim. Any one of you molecular
physicists out there have an answer for us?
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If you've never owned a cat, you won't get this...
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Six weeks before Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel, a deputy political advisor in the group did an interview with a Lebanese news outlet. Tucked into it was a specific warning. “We are preparing for an all-out war,” Salih al-Arouri (the guy in the middle of this US most-wanted poster) said of Hamas. “We are closely discussing the prospects of this war with all relevant parties.”
At the time, his statements were couched as a caution. Israel had plans including targeted killings of leaders of the Palestinian resistance group that controls Gaza, he said. If it followed through, Arouri warned, “a regional war” would ensue. And here they are now...
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ya gotta do that loose-brain head move thing...
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And you people think I'm the one making this shit up...
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The galaxy meme is exactly correct, sorry. "Light-year" is a measure of distance. "Year" is a measure of time. Your statement "it's 100 million light years ago" is non-sensical.
ReplyDeleteYour comment that "there is no beginning and no end to time itself" is not quite accurate. There is no beginning to God, but He did invent and create time. We call the start of it The Big Bang Theory. Theory, of course, because we have no real way of proving it. Time as we know it is linear and is called Kronos time. Time in Heaven is completely different and is called Kairos time. It does not work the same way as here on earth or in the physical universe.
ReplyDeleteThe light year meme is, of course, completely right. As is the water one (though that one needs some qualifications to be sure). And, pray tell, how does a higher tolerance for ethanol translate into a higher liklihood of drinking "too much". Complete nonsequiteur. A higher tolerance means it takes more to produce a given effect. In other words, "too much" is a larger number for the blue-eyed than it is for, say, an Asian.
ReplyDeleteI know my tendency to suffer greatly from hangovers has always curtailed my drinking except for the few times I've had to remind myself why I don't drink to excess....
ReplyDeleteOxygen atoms are made in stars and released after they go all explody. So all the oxygen in and on and over the Earth was made way before our solar system started forming.
ReplyDeleteSo are all the other atoms. Made in the early history of this universe.
Kind of weird to think, no?
But the gold, platinum and other heavy metals (including uranium) are only formed when two neutron stars collide and go 'splodey, forming a black hole (called a hypernova). "We are starstuff. Billion year old carbon."
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