@doctor-phibes said in "I was recently exposed to current popular music": @horace said in "I was recently exposed to current popular music": @axtremus said in "I was recently exposed to current popular music": A triangle is an acoustic instrument. I drew a triangle on a sheet of paper and whacked it with the pencil. Sure enough, it made a pencil whacking sound. Ax, you are correct. Your claim checks out. What a couple of squares. They'd also work, too, I think. Ax, can you confirm this?

They had a cutting edge technological civilization more than 100 years ago. Then, Obama became a community organizer. Then they became the murder capital of the country. That all checks out.

Excerpts from CNN: "A grave and specific ISIS terror threat is hanging over the frantic endgame of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan with time fast running out to rescue up to 1,500 Americans and the fate of fleeing Afghans looking darker by the hour. President Joe Biden is so far sticking to his Tuesday deadline for the final exit from a 20-year war in Afghanistan . . . But in an alarming sign of the deteriorating security environment, US diplomats in Kabul early Thursday local time suddenly warned American citizens to "immediately" leave several gates into the airport, citing security threats. The warning came hours after a US defense official had told CNN that officials were alarmed by a "very specific threat stream" about the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, which planned to attack crowds outside the airfield. US troops were already in a deeply vulnerable position on the airport, the last piece of Afghanistan they now control . . . But the added threat from ISIS-K makes the situation even worse. ISIS-K's ranks are believed to have been swelled by escapees from Afghan prisons and potentially a number of hardened fighters from Syria. "It's hard to overstate the complexity and the danger of this effort," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. "We're operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the Taliban with the very real possibility of an ISIS attack." ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Thank you, Captain Obvious.

One of them is getting “only” 6 years since he’s cooperating against the other jackasses. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/1st-sentence-to-be-handed-down-in-michigan-govs-kidnap-plot-08-25-2021?fbclid=IwAR2ej-TIWLdX7sO2vWtFbukHY3BLMrm7QmrUo0XyH4BogSolyqqvKxVEYLA

@jolly said in Effect of Delta variant on vaccination rates: That's fear. Mostly. I do know a few people that said they were going to wait until July-August to give the vaccines 6 months or so in widespread distribution just to see if there were any negative reactions before getting vaccinated. I’m sure you also saw a big increase with kids 12-16 going back to school in August.

Nobody likes a funny governor.

I thought the Harris podcast and oddly enough, the CBS Sunday Morning CBS Sunday Morning segment were two of the better pieces done on the subject.

At least the wind turbines chopped up enough birds, that there's plenty of insects left for the birds who remain. See, there's a silver lining for every dark cloud!

Maybe just a bust for your office... [image: 15867935_2.jpg?v=8CFF952347CFC10]

I’ve seen that look in a Dr. Seuss piece. Still wish Trey would jump back in.

In fairness to Jobs the stock was overly sold when he was dying because people were worried they’d lose their magic without him. Part of Cook’s bump was recovering from too much pessimism.

Obama nominee from Detroit.

@aqua-letifer said in Her Majesty has had enough: @ivorythumper said in Her Majesty has had enough: @horace said in Her Majesty has had enough: @friday said in Her Majesty has had enough: Megan Markle has a lot to teach the Queen about the lived experience of an American person of color. The Queen has a lot to teach Meghan Markle about plain decency and manners. I know you didn't mean it this way, but your words make me feel as if Meghan is expected to "act white". Meghan is NOT white. She is a beautiful and courageous person of color and her life experience in white supremacist America should be a source of inspiration even to the Queen of England. If the Queen cannot accept that, then the Queen is bankrupt in her very soul, and should engage in sensitivity training. What have you done with Horace? He's gone full-on Lincoln Osiris with the SJW stuff. Everybody knows you never go full SJW. NEVER go full SJW.

@lufins-dad Well, that's embarrassing.

Don't know why they want to keep them out of Alabama. Lot of smart rednecks in that facility...And they're handy with rockets...

Lock 'im up...

No Irishman is sober enough to care.

@george-k said in HBO Broadcasts Conspiracy Theories: otes 30 minutes near the very end of his series to relitigating arguments that have been debunked a thousand times. Specifically, he presents about a dozen conspiracy theorists and members of Gage’s group, including Gage himself, in a back-and-forth with three credible scientists who investigated the 9/11 attacks in a teach the controversy–style format that presents the truth behind 9/11 as an open debate between two equally valid sides. In terms of conveying facts, this is a bit like presenting COVID-19 vaccine skeptics in a debate alongside Anthony Fauci, or Holocaust deniers alongside the Simon Wiesenthal Center, or a clique of climate change skeptics alongside the authors of the United Nations IPCC report. I met the A&E for 9/11 Truth folks at the AIA convention a few years ago. They focus on the collapse of WTC 7, calling it a controlled demolition. The video looks nothing like a controlled demo. They also ignore that at 800 deg F steel starts to lose 10% of its bearing strength, and typical office fires get up around 1500 - 1750 deg F, so even with spray on fire proofing, if its not a complete seal that the collapse will occur and the building will start pancaking. Which is exactly what it looked like. And they claim 3000+ members out of probably 600,000 registered architects and structural engineers in America. They're nuts.