They may be brothers in uniform and service, but when the skates go on, the gloves come off. A pair of brawls broke out during Sunday’s charity hockey game between the FDNY and NYPD at UBS Arena, as New York City’s first responders renewed their rivalry on the ice.
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Did you know that 2,266 years ago today, a Greek astronomer accidentally sparked a revolution in human thought? It was March 30, 240 BC - a date we pinpoint with modern astrophysics - when Aristarchus of Samos looked up and witnessed a solar eclipse.
In the ancient world, the sky was the realm of the gods. Thunder was Zeus, the sunset was Helios’s chariot, and an eclipse? That was usually a bad omen. But Aristarchus didn’t see an omen. He saw geometry.
While others were looking for signs from Mount Olympus, Aristarchus was doing the math. By observing the eclipse, he began calculating the relative sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon. But here is where it gets wild: the logical conclusion of his work led him to a dangerous, heretical idea.
He proposed that the Earth was not the center of everything.
Aristarchus suggested that the Earth moved. He theorized that it rotated on its axis and orbited a stationary Sun—a full 1,800 years before Copernicus was even born.
It was too radical for his time. Critics argued, “If the Earth moved, we would feel it, and the stars would shift.” The idea was silenced, buried under the authority of Aristotle and Ptolemy for nearly two millennia. But on that March morning in 240 BC, Aristarchus looked at the shadow of the Moon crossing the Sun and saw a universe governed by laws, not whims.
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One of the pics I saw yesterday that I'd never share here was Hanoi Jane and that red-headed cunt who destroyed her own comedy career with a chopped off head. Fuck both of them. As for Bono - I wonder where they found him, 'cause from what I understand they fuckin' hate him in Ireland for something he said or did recently. Probably in LA. Fuck him too. Why would we ever give a fuck what any of these celebrity types have to say or think? I can't say that enough. Fuck 'em all...
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This was a front page article in a British tabloid paper - the biggest in the country - yesterday. Front page. Ya know, ya think it seems silly to mix it in with all the death and destruction and wars and protests and lawlessness and hatred and fighting and bigotry we see every day, but maybe - just maybe - they have it right and we have it wrong. Their point is probably something about a balance in everything. Not all doom and gloom and misery and anger like our news media focuses on. Silly is good. Maybe that's why you stop by this blog once in a while, huh?
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That's that whole 'siesta' thing where they shut everything down for a coupla hours in the
middle of the afternoon. It's probably also why they eat dinner as late as they do.
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The best thing to do with Michael O'Leary is shoot him twice and possibly thrice. One of the greatest con-men ever.
ReplyDeleteThe hockey brawl reminds me when the NYC cops and firefighters went at it on ground zero,I knew then,America was back!
ReplyDeleteOver the target today Joe!
ReplyDeleteJpaul
I, also, can't agree with Michael O'Leary; shootin's to good fer 'em.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Celebrities and their opinions:
ReplyDelete[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
Robert A. Heinlein
Are hockey fights like wrestling? You know...fake?
ReplyDelete$4.30 for premium gas in my country, I walk to places close to me (the pub being one of those places). Exercise is good for you.
ReplyDeleteI'm the only one in my senior park that walks to the mailbox.
Delete$4.30 for gas... If that's $4.30 per barrel, it's cheap. If it's $4.30 per teaspoon, it's pretty damn expensive. $4.30 per gallon, eh, higher than I'm used to under Trump, but what I expected under Biden.
DeleteJazz was bashed because BLACKS liked it. They also tied it to the recently "banned" cannabis and greater use by blacks. Just part of the LIES of "Refer Madness."
ReplyDeleteWe will be walking a lot more in this country in the near future. In the US gas went up 33% in the last 4 weeks.
ReplyDeleteAlso Europe planned and developed their cities for walking and public transportation. Our cities are built for driving and with the exception of a few urban areas (NY, Chicago) we have no public transportation
The UK recently sentenced a rape victim to 17 years in prison for killing the rapist while he was mid thrust. The UK isn't a country. It's an insane asylum with nukes.
ReplyDeleteRegular gas in the UK is running around $9 per imperial gallon so $7.50 for your puny gallons. Give thanks for your cheap petrol :)
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