A clean sweep by Trump? 😆
It’s an Open, because the outcome is inevitable.
Super-Duper Tuesday 2024 OPEN.
by coldwarrior ( 221 Comments › )Filed under Donald Trump, elections 2024, Open thread at March 5th, 2024 - 10:58 am
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Who will be Trump’s Veep?
Fbook appears to be down. Algooriddim updates?
https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Seattle, San Fran, Los Angeles, Phoenix & New York.
Just came back up for me. Now I can scroll past peoples’ food and cat posts again.
coldwarrior wrote:
I say Vivek. Hubby says Noem.
@ rightymouse:
Vivek is too shiny for me and he’d be competing for the spotlight. Noem would be a good pick.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Vivek is very articulate & thinks on his feet.
rightymouse wrote:
My other pick is Kari Lake.
rightymouse wrote:
I like her even better.
rightymouse wrote:
I find him almost as obnoxious as Ben Shapiro.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
that’s pretty high up the obnoxious scale
Vivek is big pharma and was on the WEF’s ‘new leaders’ list. He says it was a lie and they took it down but that crap doesn’t happen by accident
My VP pick is Rand Paul
Civilization depends upon this. DO IT
google ‘O’Reilly Auto Parts’
In the parts search bar enter ‘121G’
yer welcome
eaglesoars wrote:
YESSSS!!!!!!! 121 gigawatts!!!!!
Battlefield Prep
Assassin Targeting Trump Allies Is on the Loose, FBI Warns
https://www.newsweek.com/assassin-targeting-trump-allies-loose-fbi-1875780
BREAKING NOW: New York State now removing red tape to ALLOW ILLEGAL MIGRANTS the ability to obtain state jobs.
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1765060588399690220
eaglesoars wrote:
I prefer him to replace the turtle.
DORITOS??
Doritos FIRES trans activist TWO DAYS after bringing her in as a brand ambassador after being alerted to sick tweets about doing ‘depraved things’ to a 12-year-old
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13159805/Doritos-backlash-trans-activist-ambassador.html?
rightymouse wrote:
We need to clone him
I have no idea what this is but I’m pretty sure it ain’t good
London
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1765146872946245636
I hate these fucking things
A Stud farm in Texas , also proved this . His foals got turbine foot . Damage to the developing cartilage on all his foals as they grew. A new field full of turbines on his perimeter. He then imported a foal not from his stock , healthy vet checked . It started getting turbine foot . The vibration and hum was recorded. All possible contaminants rules out . He won the case
https://twitter.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1765141206353281080
How did I miss this. It’s like 4 days ago
Appeals court tosses Jan. 6 sentence in ruling that could affect more than 100 cases
The ruling by a three-judge panel raises the possibility that more than 100 defendants may be resentenced over their role in the attack on the Capitol.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/court-tosses-jan-6-sentence-ruling-affect-100-cases-rcna141465
Cody says he’s available to be VP. He’s seen the current one on TV and figures it can’t be that hard.
We made it across the border (relatively painless) and to our first campsite outside of San Felipe. Mexicali is a nightmare to drive across while pulling a trailer, BTW. A city of over 1 million people with no freeways.
@ lobo91:
Across the border? You’re in Mexico?
Good Lord
Alert: England’s vaccinated population had close to one million deaths in 23 months; unvaccinated population had less than 61,000 deaths over the same period
Shocking data released by the U.K. government shows that over the past two years, the vaccinated population in England has suffered an outrageous number of deaths compared to the unvaccinated population, even though approximately 30 percent of the population has not even had a single dose of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine.
According to the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), by July 2022, 18.9 million people had refused the first dose of the COVID-19 injection, 21.5 million people had refused the second dose of the COVID-19 injection, alongside 2.6 million people who had received the first dose but refused the second, and 30.4 million people had refused the third dose of the COVID-19 injection, alongside 8.9 million people who had received the second dose but refused the third. (Related: CAUGHT: UK hospitals certified pneumonia deaths as COVID deaths to create illusion of pandemic.)
According to the UKHSA’s figures, 63.4 million people were eligible for vaccination at that point. Therefore, as of July 2022, 30 percent of England’s population remained completely unvaccinated; 34 percent was not double vaccinated; and 50 percent was not triple vaccinated. However, the vaccinated population as a whole accounted for 95 percent of all COVID-19 deaths between January and May 2023, while the unvaccinated population accounted for just five percent.
But it’s the fact that these deaths aren’t among the one-dose and two-dose vaccinated population that is truly horrifying.
The vast majority are among those vaccinated four times, with this population accounting for 80 percent of all COVID-19 deaths, and 83 percent of all COVID-19 deaths among the vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1764999937127788652
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s where Baja is, yes. We’re camped on the beach on the Sea of Cortez.
eaglesoars wrote:
Agreed!
Trump is expected to win all 15 States tonight.
eaglesoars wrote:
I go with him except for the isolationist libertarian genes he got from his father.
Pump 99 was due to be disconnected tomorrow morning, except I noticed this morning that nursie forgot to unclamp the feed tube. Opened the flow, intermittent hiccups began, and I get to lug the pump around for an extra day.
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Onkydoc wants me to collect 24 hours of piss to check for protein leakage. No biggie, done it before, but this time the label was different. Besides the standard info to fill in (name, doctor’s name, 1st and last collection dates/times) it asks for name of the test.
I’m thinking Urine McUrineface.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nah, urine is the correct biological and medical term for the fluid excreted from kidneys.
Makes you sound like an educated nerd.
Pissy McPissface is more your style.
LOL
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yeah, well, after this Ukraine bullshit I’m all for the isolationist part
@ eaglesoars:
Ukraine, yeah. Chumping Taiwan? No. Chumping Israel? No. Shutting down exports & imports? Hell no, unless you want to create a worldwide recession.
Possum wrote:
Heh. Peepee McPeepeeface was on the list.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I don’t know what ‘chumping’ means
@ eaglesoars:
Being promised support then being left behind when it’s needed. For example, South Vietnam got chumped. Afghanistan got chumped. The US has a history of reneging on agreements, aka chumping.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chump+meaning+slang&t=ffab&ia=web
Bunk Five Hawks X
148 | March 4, 2024 7:30 pm
@ Possum:
I would have looked it up myself when I saw the label, but last night I discovered that Jack Teagarden had a brother, Charlie, and both played in The Benny Goodman Orchestra when they recorded Riffin’ the Scotch in 1933. Gene Krupa was also in that lineup, and I was trying to find out whether the 2nd trumpet was Shirley Clay or Mannie Klein. I think it was Clay.
Besides the all-star lineup, it was also Billie Holiday’s first recording. She was 18 years old.
Trumpets are Charlie Teagarden and Shirley Clay.
My dad remembered seeing Gene Krupa. I never saw him, but did see Buddy Rich in Madison in 1985. He opened for Maynard Ferguson.
And my wife’s best friend found out she has throat cancer. She goes for some testing today, will know more in a couple weeks, I guess. She’s a non-smoker/drinker.
right_wing2 wrote:
I asked my dad once about Gene Krupa. He said Krupa was nothing compared to Buddy Rich, a madman on drums. I consider it an apples and oranges comparison. Dad had one Krupa record – he was playing xylophone!
I met Maynard Fergusen when I was playing trumpet in high school. He and a small combo gave us some private clinic lessons, played a concert later on.
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Condolences on your bf’s wife’s throat cancer. That’s a tough one unless it’s caught before it spreads.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh, thanks. Yeah, I agree.
Niki Haley is ‘suspending’ her campaign
Can’t confirm but this is someone in Pakistan saying they are going to ban twitter/X
https://twitter.com/TeamWales_05/status/1765336216612774075
Our government has banned the use of X in the country. All these days I’ve been accessing it with VPN but now it seems the government is going to ban that too. X will no longer be available and thought of it is making me so scared and sad.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That would have been incredible, meeting MF. He had such an incredible passion for music education. I think all but 1 or 2 of the times I saw him were for a HS or college music program.
Once, he got the kids back up on stage with him and said “I’m the lead trumpet player. That means you do all the work, I’ll get up, play a few high notes, and everybody goes crazy.”
Never met him though.
Have you seen Krupa and Rich “Drum Battle”?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah, Lori’s the one who said I needed to go get checked out back in ‘11, when I had heart surgery. If we hadn’t gone up there, or if she wasn’t a nurse, I might not be here.
Slow day here today.
Just thinking about what to do with a 2 pound bag of peeled, de veined and tail off frozen shrimp.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what I do with the shrimp please remember this is not an age restricted website.
Small children and Bunk may be watching….
@ Possum:
Shrimp enchiladas. Shrimp tacos. Throw shrimp in pasta.
Calo wrote:
Yeah, but that takes extra work. A few days ago I thawed out some of the shrimpy things, seasoned them with taco mix and finely chopped onions. Cooked them on low in a skillet and added some salsa to make it moist.
Then, because I was hungry could not be bothered to defrost some flour tortillas and coat the tortillas in oil and heat them up in the other frying pan that lost its non-stick coating but it is awesome at making flour tortillas nice and crispy.
So instead I buttered a couple of slices of white bread and made a sandwich.
Most disgusting thing I ever made.
( actually the reply I was expecting here was ” shove the shrimp up your ass )
eaglesoars wrote:
Doesn’t surprise me. Pakistan banned my site for posting on “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” in 2010.
Well as to what to eat for lunch or what to cook for supper later tonight I am afraid I passed the deadline. Lunch is soup. The vegetarian vegetable Progresso soup is quite nice.
It is now 2:42pm here and unfortunately I have to go to bed and try to sleep. I will probably wake up at dusk for a few hours, then get a couple hours sleep around midnight, then wake up at 4:23am
I am crepuscular. Not by choice but my room mates are.
We have a system here…..
coldwarrior wrote:
Will it matter? Me thinks a lot of nonsense is going to happen between now and November to ensure that election is either blatantly stolen or never happens.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
It wouldn’t surprise me if Trump’s Secret Service agents aren’t needed.
@ right_wing2:
Sorry: ARE needed
Update: Mrs RW’s friend’s cancer doesn’t appear to have spread. She’s hoping to get the biopsy back by Friday. Might be going up to the Mayo Clinic.
Next meeting with the Oncologist is the 19th.
right_wing2 wrote:
Spotted it on the Utoobage, haven’t watched it. Yet.
Another good one was a drum off between Chad Wackerman and Terry Bozzio, both were drummers in Zappa’s band.
Calo wrote:
Bubba & Forrest Gump discussed this in depth.
@ lobo91:
Beat me to it.
right_wing2 wrote:
Thought you were hinting that he’d be offed by election time.
California primary results won’t be finalized for 30 days, supposedly due to all the last minute mail in ballots. The election board stopped reporting at about 3am this morning.
Looks like it’s Steve Garvey vs. Adam Schiff for CA senator. I still don’t understand how Schiff can claim residency with a 650 s.f. condo in Burbank when his 3,430 s.f. house is in Maryland. According to one wag, “The race is neck and no-neck.”
From the “It Can’t Happen Here” department.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/americas_destruction_and_the_ghosts_of_revolutions_past.html
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://twitter.com/Villgecrazylady/status/1765396274226794947
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nothing new there. Remember the Buddhist monks who contributed to Al Gore’s campaign in 2000 (in cash, no less)? Also a number of dishwashers who managed to contribute the maximum amount.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It wouldn’t surprise me if an attempt was made.
Scientists who have examined the brain of the shooter responsible for Maine’s deadliest mass shooting have discovered profound brain damage.
Scientists have concluded that there was repeated trauma to his brain based on scarring and inflammation. They have also used “disorganized clumps” to describe the tissue sheaths inside his brain.
The gunman, Robert Card, was a grenade instructor for the Army Reserve. For years he was subjected to skull shaking blasts as part of his work and last summer, his family says, he began to hear voices and become increasingly paranoid.
This news has implications for the US military as Card never entered combat and always worked in controlled settings the Army has repeatedly claimed are safe.
Oh FFS
Biden to announce US military-led mission to build port on Gaza coast to boost aid
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4516272-biden-gaza-port-us-military-state-of-the-union/
Fallout – Official Trailer | Prime Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mugKDQDlg
@ eaglesoars:
never underestimate joes ability to fuck thinks up
some guy
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
My dads ‘bar’ was: ahhh William (dart of tongue) aahh, F. (dart of tongue) aaah Buckleee – y’.
Drove him right up the wall !
I’m camped on a beach in Baja watching the SOTU speech live. Modern technology.
I wonder what drugs they fed Biden, and how long they last?
:
lobo91 wrote:
I assume Hunter took care of it. Thanks for watching, let me know what he says
@ eaglesoars:
So far, it’s a campaign speech. He just attacked the Supreme Court
The Democrat women are mostly wearing white, apparently in support of abortion. Shouldn’t they be wearing red?
Bernie Sanders is wearing a mask
Dr. Jill is now in charge of women’s healthcare research.
Does he know that she’s not an actual doctor?
Oh, good…he just announced tax increases
Just woke up from a nap and all I hear from Joe are fascistic price controls and taxes.
He’s going to make manufacturers put more potato chips in the bag. We’re saved!
@ lobo91:
He wants to give blacks the vote again. Hallelujah.
And he’s responsible for a huge decrease in the violent crime rate.
And we’re sending the military to build a “temporary” pier for aid ships to unload in Gaza. Great plan
Just looked at TruthSocial for the first time. Trump is mean TSing every minute or so. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump
He just promised to cure cancer
Did anyone hear this lying pos say that Trump told the victims of the shooting to ‘get over it’. WOW# !! What a LIE !!
2:41:20 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJUo1OmRpA&t=9685s
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, would that require the U.S. military to guard it? Wouldn’t Congress have to approve the funding?
lol city
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112057984437386845
eaglesoars wrote:
You would think so
On Senator Katie Britt’s *ahem* rebuttal…
https://twitter.com/bytesintruth/status/1765961201941397634
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
WHAT???
@ eaglesoars:
Satire. Her “rebuttal” was pathetic.
They should have thrown Rand Paul or Ted Cruz up there, but maybe they were targeting millennial independents.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
thank you!
RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!
U.S. Embassy in Moscow warns of ‘imminent’ extremist attack
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow early Friday warned of an “imminent” extremist attack in Russia and alerted American citizens that they may be in danger.
The warning comes a day after Russian authorities said they killed Islamic State militants who were plotting a terrorist attack on a Moscow synagogue.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether that incident is directly linked to Friday’s warning from U.S. officials.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/8/us-embassy-in-moscow-warns-of-imminent-extremist-a/
Update on Mrs RW’s friend
She has andenocarenoma in the soft tissue in her throat.
I’m not sure exactly where she’s talking about.
She’s not a smoker, but has static fibrosis, and I guess that can be a factor increasing the risk of developing cancer.
I think she’s going to try to go to the Mayo Clinic.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yep. She wasn’t the right person for the rebuttal.
rightymouse wrote:
At least now I know she’s 41 and sweeps her kitchen floor
MEGAN MARKLE STORY!!
Meghan has always told this story that when she was 11 she wrote a letter to Proctor & Gamble objecting to the way they portrayed women in their commercials and got them to change it. Well, her father has publicly said it wasn’t just her, it was a class project.
Now. If any of you are old enough to remember, Brooke Shields’ arrival on the Hollywood scene was when SHE was 11 in her starring role as a child trafficked into prostitution in New Orleans in a movie called ‘Pretty Baby’.
Today, Meghan, Brooke and some other women (Meghan had to buy her way in – ‘nother story) such as Katie Couric were on a panel at a conference called South by Southwest or something, talking about feminism or something blah blah blah.
And Meghan tells this story about herself AGAIN!
Brooke Shields looks at her and sez “When I was 11 I played a prostitute. I wish I had known you.”
I’m ded.
https://twitter.com/RobinLynnKing2/status/1766203403724558427
I think this may be our next door neighbors. They keep chickens and one of their roosters kept getting out until they installed a screen roof over the pen. They also have a great pyrenees named Thor
https://www.reddit.com/r/poultry/comments/6dx25z/which_one_of_you_did_this_profane_but_funny/?rdt=53011
profane but funny Craigslist ad for Kevin the Rooster
Meet Kevin the Rooster. Or as I call him. Fucking Kevin. Let me tell you about Fucking Kevin.
First I’m gonna tell you why you need Kevin. Have too much Natty Lite last nigh at The Pig? Well in the event you forgot to lock this mother fucker in the coop, he will be at your window at four fucking AM cockadoodledooing his ass six ways to Sunday. Now let’s say you were sober and remember to shut the coop so he doesn’t see sunlight? This mother fucker has an internal clock that rivals that of Mother Nature herself. Guess what. 5 am, he’s singing he song of his people non fucking stop till you come and let his ass out.
Fucking Kevin
more at the link
Remember those commercials for Doublemint Gum? TWO! TWO! Two mints in one!
Well, here’s a bird that’s actually a meld of TWO birds. Very odd
This is a half-sider budgerigar, it has completely different colours on each side of its body,
This is a rare example of a tetragametic chimera, when two embryos merge during a very early stage of development
creating a harmonious merger of two budgerigars into a single, self-sufficient individual, with each side having its own different DNA .
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1766073177048797529
Speaking of twos, The Warning just released two new songs from their upcoming album, along with the album title, cover art and release date (June 28th):
The first song, Hell You Call a Dream, is one they played at some of their last few shows of 2023:
The other one, Que Mas Quieres
(What More Do You Want), is completely new. It’s their third Spanish language song:
eaglesoars wrote:
Space alien.
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/budgie-face.png
CA primaries voter turnout was about 20%.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
wow
Egg price.
23th Jan 2024 extra large 15.8 cents each. 18 pack.
Today 25.4 cents each. 18 pack.
Why? I thought about it for a while and it kind of makes sense. In an industrial facility the eggs are laid at the same rate all year round. Unlike backyard hobby farms where you are knee deep in eggs in spring and lucky if you find one in winter.
We had bird flu in the fall and a scary number of chickens were killed, 80+ million. I kind of joke because that is a small fraction of the flock in the USA.
What may be happening is there is a shortage of egg laying birds now because what happened in the fall caused a shortage of new chicks to replace the egg laying hens. On average a flock of table egg layers are kept for about a year then the house is emptied and replaced by young birds about 16 weeks old.
So it could be a knock on effect from the flu last fall.
Even so 25 cents for an egg is still a great value meal.
Victoria’s Secret Falls Most Ever in Faltering Turnaround
The company’s pledges to improve sales “did not come to fruition,” JP Morgan analyst Matthew Boss wrote in a note Wednesday, downgrading the stock to underweight from neutral.
Victoria’s Secret has been working to attract and retain customers through initiatives like a rebranded fashion show and the expansion of swim and apparel categories, but the efforts have yet to pay off.
In the quarter ended Feb. 3, which included the crucial holiday shopping season, comparable sales at Victoria’s Secret fell 6%. Profitability, meanwhile, beat expectations thanks in part to better inventory management.
The company has been highlighting strong performance in its international business, where total sales grew about 24% in the fourth quarter. But that segment makes up less than 10% of the overall business. “The single biggest challenge in the model right now is the North American sales trend,” Chief Financial Officer TJ Johnson said on a call with analysts.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/victoria-secret-falls-nearly-30-111403685.html
The last time I was in a VS store – about 5 yrs ago – the techno music was so loud the sales associate – after I finally found one – and I literally could not hear each other. I walked out. Those poor sales people probably suffered hearing loss if not actual brain damage
A cooking post.
I saw this a while ago on the Internet that you should not fry bacon while naked. I laughed!
Bacon kind of sizzles constantly and very occasionally spits tiny spatters so no real problem.
Another Internet myth debunked.
However, do not fry an egg when naked. Them motherfuckers spit out a golf ball size blob of 450F grease without warning.
Um, that is what a friend told me….
A cat post.
One of the boys came back in the morning after doing his crepuscular thing with a bleeding ear. Later in the day he developed a limp. Front left arm.
At the moment he is back outside!
Wish I just had a goldfish…
@ Possum:
Cats don’t have arms, but they have weapons.
This is why I fear – right down to my limbic system – open water
https://twitter.com/elbow112/status/1766126445309403294
Reason 3,0409 why we left Virginia. Herndon is in Northern VA outside DC
Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard defended the integrity of her cadets’ graduation certificates. The certificates were signed not in English, the common platform language in the US criminal justice system, but in Chinese, by the new criminal justice academy director, who is described as a “Chinese American,” presumably meaning he was born in China.
Instead of fixing this to assure the cadets had acceptable credentials and certificates, the Director instead pursued his own self interest and political aspirations, and accused the Hernon police chief of being racist.
https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1766433214858453011
My stepson owns several Dominoes Pizza franchises in upstate NY. Some guy said he applied for a job but his application was not responded to within the time limit established by state law. So he’s suing.
It will cost $4-$6k and about 2 years
Colorado
Kenneth Espinoza has reached a significant settlement of $1.5 million with Las Animas County and other parties, following an incident two years ago where he was subjected to excessive force by law enforcement officers.
The police body cam was all the proof he needed.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1766170113705685193
Holy crap
https://x.com/michell33650674/status/1766412946152759335?s=46&t=Yrykm2rzy2z8thlxhwpw8w
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Do gorillas have arms?
Monkeys?
Both walk on all four limbs, unless they need to use their arms for doing arm things.
Cats are the same. They walk using arms and legs, actually the technical term for using arms and legs as propulsion is crawling.
Cats use their arms and hands to repeatedly open and slam shut kitchen cabinet doors loudly at 3am.
They also use their arms to knock off any object that is on a shelf.
The only difference between cat arms and monkey and human arms is in cats the clavicle bones are no longer there.
Down side of the evolutionary loss of clavicle bones in cats a disconnect from their arms to their torso. A corresponding lack of upper body strength in their arms.
The up side is a cat’s arms can dislocate and allow a cat to crawl through openings that you, having arms connected to your body with a silly useless bone cannot.
Don’t make me prove this. If a cat’s head can get through a hole then the rest of it will go through also with no problem.
Haiti is collapsing as we speak:
• Interior Ministry on fire
• Attacks on the international airport
• Gunfights outside the Presidential Palace
• Attempted breaches of the Ministry of Education and Supreme Court
The time for an international mission was yesterday.
https://twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1766301751047545141
Yesterday Letitia James, NY Atty Gen spoke at some NY firefighters thing to announce some bullshit or other. Not only did she get booed she was met with chants of TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!
And now she takes her revenge
The FDNY firefighters who booed NY AG Letitia James will be punished and face reeducation.
FDNY firefighters are now being asked to turn themselves in or risk being hunted down.
Memos and emails from the Uniformed Fire Officers Association (UFOA) & Uniformed Firefighters Association are circulating.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1766567411040268310
I’m hearing rumors that Lara Trump (who was just elected co-chair of the RNC) is telling Trump to lose Lunatic Laura Loomer.
BREAKING: Absolute anarchy: Haiti on brink of total collapse amid mass prison breaks. Gangs have taken control, torching police stations, assaulting airports and setting the Interior Ministry on fire. The Prime Minister has fled the country.
https://twitter.com/realBruceSnyder/status/1766526843518107690
So where did the PM go?
@ eaglesoars:
“Last we heard from Henry, he was in Puerto Rico facing growing pressure — both domestically and from abroad — to resign and make way for a transitional government.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/haiti-is-collapsing-interior-ministry-set-fire-presidential/
@ eaglesoars:
From a March 6 article…
“So, while the country is floundering, WHERE IS THE PRIME MINISTER?
Ariel Henry was first in Guyana for a meeting of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and then traveled to Kenya to negotiate the security support mission approved by the UN in October.
Now, PM Ariel Henry has finally landed – in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
At this point it’s unlikely he will ever get to return.’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/haiti-hell-rebel-leader-jimmy-barbecue-cherizier-demands/
The Twelve Angle Stone of Hatunrumiyoc :
The architectural mastery of the great Inca civilization mystifies archaeologists around the world. To illustrate, the Twelve Angle Stone of Hatunrumiyoc in Cusco is one of the most sophisticated examples of their ingenuity, with its 12 angles fitting seamlessly into the surrounding wall. It was laid by Inca masons over 700 years ago, and today is considered a National Heritage Object. The material is a green diorite igneous rock and it is about six feet deep and weighs six tons.
The significance of the 12 angles is not widely known, but it is believed to represent the division of 24 families of Cusco: 12 during the Hurin dynasty and 12 during the Hanan dynasty. The stone was originally part of the Inca palace called Palacio Inca Roca. In the early 20th century, it became the Archbishop’s palace.
The perfectionist Inca stonework is remarkable. This is because they laid the stones so precisely that the use of mortar to hold them together was not necessary. In fact, so perfectly the stones fit, that a piece of paper would not fit between them. As a result, their constructions were also so stable, that they would simply “dance” and then resettle in the event of an earthquake. The 12-angle stone is the most complex example of this puzzling precision.
The stone is actually set in an ancient wall called hatunrumiyoc. The wall makes up one side of the Archbishop’s palace. Hatunruminyoc, according to scholars, means “house that has large stones” in Quechua. This is one of the best-preserved Inca walls in the entire region, with colonial structures built around it.
https://twitter.com/archeohistories/status/1766522163484315951
pic at the link
@ Bordm:
I saw a post the other day from a resident of Haiti who said Haiti has a lot of gold that is controlled by Hillary Clinton. I didn’t post it here because I had no way to confirm. So. FWIW
Tired. Bed.
Haiti has collapsed.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1766686433614684173
Bunk -can you please unblock one of my posts at DoD? Thanks!
https://www.theblaze.com/news/robert-deniro-donald-trump-bill-maher-video
This is the kind of insane shit you believe when your worldview revolves around yourself. DeNiro is a clown. One that I’m getting concerned could turn violent.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
DeNiro? That old fuck? I liked DeNiro’s movies from the 90s. My father could never stand him, but it wasn’t till later in life I understood why. His films about Vietnam vets was always negative, though “Deer Hunter” was a film he related too.
Bobby D. plays the “tough guy” in films, but in reality he’s a chump.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Yeah, but with that level of persecution complex, he could be unpredictable. Similar to what happened with rosie o’ duffelbag, when she wound up committing herself to the mental hospital because she was convinced the republicans were coming to kill her.
rightymouse wrote:
Done.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Thanks !
rightymouse wrote:
BREAKING NEWS: Here is disturbing footage of the Haitian cannibal gang eating body parts of one of their victims as he cooks in the fire. The Haiti Cannibal Gang leader is named ‘Barbeque’ and is now the most powerful man in Haiti after their Prime Minster Ariel Henry fled.
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1766961877978898892
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Another cooking post?
This place is getting boring….
Possum wrote:
I got stuff going on.
hey CW
Pittsburgh police will no longer respond to certain calls including theft, harassment, criminal mischief, and burglary alarms.
Between 3AM-7AM there will be no officers at any police stations.
Buy guns. Buy ammo.
The police will not protect you.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1766897488202768818
What a useless POS. Gov Pennsylvania
My budget makes pads and tampons available at schools at no cost for young women and girls.
No girl should have to worry about anything but her homework at school each day.
Let’s get it done.
Trust me. We didn’t ‘worry about it’. We took care of it. What total bullshit
@ eaglesoars:
I’m sure the criminals appreciate the heads-up.
It is noon here. For some reason the artist Salvador Dali and his paintings of melting clocks is inspiring me to comment.
Why you may ask.
Cats. Yes cats. It is afternoon nap time and there are three cats on my bed and no way I am getting a nap, but they are doing the ” Melting Clock ” thing and it is funny to watch.
Rolling over in their sleep, sometimes in a dream getting closer to the edge of the bed, feet and arms and tail hanging over the edge of the bed as if they are a liquid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Memory
LOL I wish this new AI thing could re-create that famous painting but doing it with cats instead of clocks.
Or I could get off my ass and take a picture of them.
OK this AI shit is really creepy. Don’t know if this link will work but it is generated by Bing AI image generator from text.
Input was persistance of memory with black cats
https://www.bing.com/images/create/persistance-of-memory–with-black-cats/1-65ef4246d95445a2812c9ecc2e8cea5b
Hola from the Pacific side of Baja. The best comment I’ve seen about Guerrero Negro: “There are many beautiful places in Baja California. Guerrero Negro is not one of them.”
We’re on sort of a refitting stop here overnight after a few days in the wilderness. Gas, food, water, propane and money (pesos).
Not sure what this is all about.
https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1767425326429131151
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-hur-trump-special-counsel-b2510944.html
Bunk, please check your email. Thanks!
@ rightymouse:
Done & responded.
L.A. graffiti artist SABO resurfaced for the Oscars.
https://americanwirenews.com/street-artist-sabo-hits-l-a-s-iconic-hotspots-with-brutal-pop-up-art-ahead-of-academy-awards/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
We watched some of his testimony. They ripped him a new one because it was logically inconsistent. I don’t know if there is a perjury charge there but he was obviously lying
Ok, we’re fucked
DoD officials testifying before the House Armed Services Committee confirm that the Biden Administration is preparing for a potential mass migration from Haiti to the US via Florida.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1767624035628884107
I had a neighbor from Haiti. She was a grad psych major working on her masters. Her little brother came to visit every summer. This was back in the late 70s. I learned quite a bit about Haiti from Suze and Kevin. Trust me. You don’t want to go there.
@ eaglesoars:
I thought Haiti was fixed by Bill and Hillary like 20 years ago
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
” …. would you guys mind if we play through>”
https://twitter.com/StephenRoche100/status/1765237560094159002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1765237560094159002%7Ctwgr%5Ee05d2f88ea0aa45bd7f5c3a7329b6342de1843bf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2024%2F03%2F11%2Faustralia-golf-course-kangaroos-stampede%2F
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
You’re correct mate.
But NOT the way you defined FIXED by the Clintons.
Talking about the Clintons …. what is the current ‘Arkans-ide’ score now? Last I heard it was somewhere in the mid 60s?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Kinda like a high altitude version of Bolivia’s La Paz’ witches market’ on a bad day!
🙂
Let me guess …. Suicide by shooting himself three times in the back of the head?
🙂
Boeing whistleblower John Barnett is found dead in his truck outside a South Carolina hotel just days after testifying in lawsuit against the aviation giant
A former Boeing staffer who once raised concerns about the company’s production standards has been found dead in the US.
John Barnett, 62, was found dead in his truck in a hotel parking lot in South Carolina, cops said Monday – seven years after he retired following a 32-year career.
The ex-quality manager at Boeing’s North Charleston plant died from a ‘self-inflicted’ wound, cops in Charleston said, adding that they were still investigating.
Barnett’s death came during a break in depositions in a whistleblower retaliation suit, where he alleged under-pressure workers were deliberately fitting sub-standard parts to aircraft on the assembly line.
He said that in some cases, second-rate parts were literally removed from scrap bins, before being fitted to planes that were being built to prevent delays. A 2017 review by the FAA upheld some of his concerns, requiring Boeing to take action.
He had just given a deposition to Boeing’s lawyers for the case this past week, his attorney Brian Knowles said.
In an email, he called his client’s death ‘tragic’.
‘Today is a tragic day,’ Knowles wrote, revealing that Barnett ‘was supposed to do day three of his deposition here in Charleston on his AIR21 case [on Saturday],’ referring to a federal law that provides whistleblowers protection in the aviation industry.
‘John had been back and forth for quite some time getting prepared,’ he continued, providing a timeline of what transpired in the days before Barnett’s death.
‘The defense examined him for their allowed seven hours under the rules on Thursday.
‘I cross examined him all day yesterday [Friday] and did not finish. We agreed to continue this morning at 10 am [co-counsel] Rob [Turkewitz] kept calling this morning and his phone would go to voicemail.
‘We then asked the hotel to check on him,’ the South Carolina jurist went on.
‘They found him in his truck dead from an ‘alleged’ self-inflicted gunshot. We drove to the hotel and spoke with the police and the coroner.’
The Charleston County coroner, meanwhile, confirmed Monday the longtime Boeing staffer died Friday, while in town for interviews linked to the case.
Boeing also responded to the former worker’s death in their own statement as news spread on Monday, saying it was ‘saddened by Mr. Barnett’s passing.’
Last month, the Hur report found that Joe Biden willfully retained, mishandled, and disclosed classified information but determined that he was essentially too senile to stand trial. According to the report, Biden struggled to remember details, and he couldn’t remember when his son Beau died.
Joe Biden angrily defended his memory in his unplanned address and attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur for bringing up Beau during his interview during the investigation, which managed to make things worse for him.
“There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” Biden said. “How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
Except that Hur didn’t bring it up. Biden did.
https://instapundit.com/636454/
much more at the link
I am so glad we’re old
Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead of ‘Self-Inflicted’ Gunshot, 787 Suffers Another Mishap
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/03/12/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-of-self-inflicted-gunshot-787-suffers-another-mishap-n4927216#google_vignette
Barnett had given “stark warnings” about quality control issues on two models of Boeing passenger jets, including substandard parts and using Dawn dishwashing soap as a lubricant. The 62-year-old had also claimed that Boeing executives were hiding the company’s safety issues rather than addressing them.
“My concerns are with the 737 and 787 because those programs have really embraced the theory that quality is overhead and non-value-added,” Barnett told TMZ after the infamous Jan. 5 incident when a door plug blew off an Alaska Air 737 MAX 9 that depressured the cabin and exposed passengers to open air shortly after takeoff.
lobo91 wrote:
90 percent of the fundraiser was for postage and handling. The rest rebuilt Haiti.
@ eaglesoars:
Mark Levin is ripping apart the testimony, too.
wha?
Scientists Discover Method To Stop Active Cancer Cells in Their Tracks
Using these tool molecules forces tumor cells from a specific type of breast cancer into a pro-senescence state – similar to a sleep-like state in which they can no longer divide or cause tumor growth.
This condition makes the cancer cells sensitive to a second group of tool molecules, called senolytic drugs, which can eliminate them. It may also ‘uncloak’ the cancer cells, making them visible to the body’s immune system, offering further therapeutic opportunities.
Researchers developed this ‘two-punch’ method while looking at basal-like breast cancer (BLBC).
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-method-to-stop-active-cancer-cells-in-their-tracks/
much more at the link
Eric Carmen has died. 74.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/entertainment/eric-carmen-death/index.html
Still in Guerrero Negro. Errands took longer than expected, so I decided to stay another night in order to leave for Mulege first thing.
I really hope the road is better tomorrow. I think there were more potholes than pavement on the last leg (seriously). Probably the worst highway I’ve ever driven on anywhere in the world.
@ lobo91:
I worry about you, where you are, etc.
@ eaglesoars:
Baja is relatively safe, as far as cartel activity. The only real hazards here are environmental (bad roads,lack of water and fuel, lousy infrastructure, etc).
I love this AI image generation shit.
Ask Gemini to ” create image Donald trump large breasts”
Answer is “I’m still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search.”
Then ask “create image taylor swift large breasts”
And you get this.
“”I understand you’d like an image of Taylor Swift. I can’t generate images that are sexually suggestive in nature. However, I can create an image of Taylor Swift doing something she enjoys, like:
Performing on stage
Playing guitar
Writing a song
Walking her cat””
I did not realise Taylor Swift had a cat. But why did the AI not tell me to look for pictures of Trump and his cat?
@ Possum:
Maybe you can dodge the porn block.
“Taylor Swift wearing a bikini and a lifelike Donald Trump mask”
Must be spring break already.
BREAKING: Intelligence sources say that the U.S. Coast Guard has been ordered to follow illegal Haitian migrants to the coast and allow them to enter America through southern Florida.
https://twitter.com/DeepTruthIntel/status/1767993380301107311
@ eaglesoars:
DeSantis’ response is going to be interesting.
@ eaglesoars:
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1767940653822922965
Hubbuy on his way to hospital. Somehow fell in the garage and hit his head. Some blood I have to clean up. Apparent concussion. Didn’t know President or year and kept asking me where the dogs were
*sigh*
@ eaglesoars:
I wish I could forget who the president is.
We’re at Playa de Coyotes, about 15 miles south of Mulege on the east coast. The Sea of Cortez is literally 10 feet from my door. Not bad for 250 pesos ($15) a night.
@ eaglesoars:
Crap. Keep us posted…
and more sad news
one of my cats , the panther aka merlin passed away last night
I knew it was coming because of the way he has been acting
he was old for a cat, 14-15. if there is such a thing as reincarnation, I want to come back as a spoiled housecat
@ rain of lead:
I’m so sorry. Absolutely the worst part.
Hubby got home about 5 am. CT scan was clear, he’s just very sore all over. I just woke up, he’s still asleep
@ eaglesoars:
I suppose that’s good news. Bullet dodged.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Could have been a lot worse, true.
@ eaglesoars:
glad he’s ok
sleep is good
@ rain of lead:
Sorry to hear about your panther. You’ve lost a family member.
Breaking: Fox News Reports COVID-19 Shots Contain Toxic DNA and Cancer Viruses
Watch and Share!
https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones/status/1768386054296330570
video at the link
My poor husband is groaning in pain. He thinks his wrist might be broken
oh ffs
BREAKING: Judge rules DA Fani Willis can stay on Trump Georgia case if secret lover special prosecutor Nathan Wade steps aside
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1768624317896532196
Jesus help us! Tyson foods in Perry Iowa will be closing its factory down leaving 1200 Americans without jobs in a town with 8000 people living there.
Tyson is holding job fairs for asylum seekers and will be hiring them when they move their location.
https://twitter.com/TeamAmerica2020/status/1768445179352981620
Turns out Hubby broke a bone in his hand. He’s in a soft splint and on some kick ass pain meds
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
The fix is in.
eaglesoars wrote:
If that’s it, he is very lucky.
@ eaglesoars:
Closing date…..
24 April!!!!!!
@ Aussie Infidel:
WOOOOT!!!!!
the vertical ping pong is ON!!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s FAST!
coldwarrior wrote:
2 stitches in his head, 8 stitches in index finger on left had, one crack in a digital (I think,might be a metacarpal) bone on right hand. NO concussion, CT scan clear
I think that’s enough
A food post.
There is no egg in an egg roll.
An AI generated image post.
If I ask one of those AI things to generate an image is that image copyright me or the AI that generated it or is it public domain copyright free?
( If I am the owner of an image and can profit from it and sue anyone who uses that image then check out the Possum store. Bunk in a bikini T-shirts coming soon. $19.99 )
@ Possum:
OK bad idea.
I thought Microsoft AI thing would not know who Bunk was so I did a test. I asked.
“”Create image david bowie in a bikini””
And got this really scary message back.
So, be careful what you ask AI to do. Otherwise your access may be suspended, your bank account frozen, your home re-possesed , your cats taken away by animal control and you will be disconnected from the Internet.
@ Possum:
Also, a true Artificial Intelligence, or even a human would not threaten me with suspension etc.
A true intelligent and sentient entity would ask me a question in response.
“”Why the fuck would you ask me to do that? “”
@ Possum:
Update. Google Gemini AI gave a better reply and did not threaten me with Internet death.
And there you have it. Google AI tells me to imagine David Bowie in a sequined bra and form fitting hot pants.
Um, the thick platform heels and oversized sunglasses with rainbow-tinted lenses means Google AI kind of needs more work distinguishing David Bowie and Elton John.
LOL
Why am I posting here so much?
Pornhub is offline in Texas.
So a friend told me.
A cat post.
I love my three cats but I HATE cleaning out their litter box shit things. So I had to find another way to solve the problem.
So far it is a success! Today no need to scoop the stinky cat shit up.
The secret to solving the problem is.
I have not fed them for the last three days….
eaglesoars wrote:
tibial head fracture, humeral head fracture, subdural hematoma, rib fractures with pneumothorax…..
Possum wrote:
😆
vpn businesses are gonna make coin from this
coldwarrior wrote:
THAT was the one that worried me. He was transported to the hospital about 8:30 pm and calls me around 11:30 to say he’s coming home because no one has seen him yet. I went effing ballistic. Had his son, my sister and my niece (nurse) all call him to tell him to park his ass. He got home at 5:30 am. THEN the broken bone showed up in his hand.
For some reason I did not sleep one wink last nite. He feels GREAT!
eaglesoars wrote:
I just took a sleeping pill. I should be out in about 30-45 mins
😀 https://youtube.com/shorts/tmObuXi5dv0?si=1tiGcuj8tNDSrxkG
eaglesoars wrote:
We’ve had pre-approval in place for 8 months. That helped bigly.
so, we are buying a new house. mrs coldwarrior keeps asking all kinds of questions to me, most of which i have no answer, yet.
therefore, i sent her this:
perfect.
i met him, he was a very nice guy to me and didnt have to be.
his answer is legend.
coldwarrior wrote:
Can I help, having been thru a move? Be quick, I’ll be asleep again in about 1 hr
Possum wrote:
…and/or Bootsy Collins.
A wine post for a change.
I quite like Merlot or Cabinet Sauvignon but as the weather is getting warmer here I will be switching to Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio.
Because the weather is warmer the fruit flies and roaches are becoming more active. Hence the switch from red to white wine.
Fruit flies and roaches are easier to see and fish out of a glass of white wine than red.
I am a coinsure of what wine to drink at what time of year.
@ Possum:
@ coldwarrior:
When I had my office in HB there was a guy who moved in next door. The first clue was the windows got blacked out, then there was some additional door hardware requiring a pass code. I eventually met the guy late one night as I was leaving; his work day was just starting, and he showed me his “studio.”
He ran an international live porn chat operation.
Possum wrote:
Fruit fly traps work. Get a paper cup, put a piece of fruit (or some wine) in it. Cover the top with plastic wrap, secure with a rubber band and poke a hole in it with a pencil. When it gets full of fruit flies, open it up outside to give the birds a treat.
Since tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Whale, oil, beef, hooked
It may take the Americans here several weeks of saying that aloud before they finally realise.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
This is Texas. The fruit flies eat fruit as a dessert.
Main attraction is wet canned cat food. They are in the dish faster than the cats!
Whoever named them fruit flies must have once accidentally eaten one and said ” This fly tasted like pineapple ”
They don’t just eat fruit, they are carnivores
I have a NATO inspires topic if anyone wants to discuss it.
1982 a NATO country territory was attacked.
NATO did fuck all….
I am done with this AI shit.
The correct answer is…
THEY ARE CATS!!!!!!!!
@ Possum:
They had to get past the censors.
They recorded it in 2010. Billboard Magazine said it ranked in the top five most watched YouTube videos on St. Patrick’s Day in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019.
As nice as it’s been hanging out on the beach for the last week, Loreto is a nice change. We’re in a small RV park that’s in between the town square and the marina. Water and electricity are nice, along with a real supermarket.
I’m sitting at an outdoor table at a restaurant off the square, drinking a margarita and waiting for dinner while listening to a fairly decent guy playing guitar and singing classic rock.
I could get used to this.
Google Maps did its best to try to kill me again today. I’ve come to the conclusion that it works fine to get you from one town to another, but urban navigation in Mexico is beyond its capabilities. It sent me down not one but two dead end streets today. Normally I wouldn’t care, but it’s Mexico and I’m pulling a trailer. Yesterday, it kept trying to send me the wrong way on one way streets.
eaglesoars wrote:
We’ve had pre-approval in place for 8 months. That helped bigly.Possum wrote:
Articles don’t mean what the internet sez they mean
@ lobo91:
We need beach
I still haven’t figured out what the purpose of the military checkpoints is. I’ve encountered three of them so far, and they’ve basically waved me through once they realized that I’m an American. Meanwhile, they’re taking apart some random Toyota.
@ coldwarrior:
You’d enjoy the government mandated labels on groceries here. Their Ministry of Health apparently requires labels on products that have excessive calories, sugar,salt, fat, etc.
A can of Coke here has more warnings on it than a pack of cigarettes in the US
I should get back to check on Cody. I put all the flammable items out of his reach, but he’s crafty. I technically could have brought him with me to dinner, but I’m trying to avoid international incidents.
I’m imagining a viral video of Cody standing on top of someone’s table staring at their hamburger
lobo91 wrote:
lol….why!!!
@ coldwarrior:
Literally every package in the store has at least one warning label on it. Most have several
For CW
A man goes to the confessional. “Forgive me father, for I have sinned.”
“What is your sin, my child?” The priest asks back.
“Well,” the man starts, “I used some horrible language this week and feel absolutely terrible.”
“When did you do use this awful language?” said the priest.
“I was golfing and I hit an incredible drive that looked like it was going to go over 250 yards, but it struck a phone line that was hanging over the fairway and fell straight down to the ground after going only about 100 yards.”
“Is that when you swore?”
“No, Father.” said the man. “After that, a squirrel ran out of the bushes and grabbed my ball in his mouth and began to run away.”
“Is THAT when you swore?” asked the Father again.
“Well, no.” said the man, “You see, as the squirrel was running, an eagle came down out of the sky, grabbed the squirrel in his talons and began to fly away!”
“Is THAT when you swore?” asked the amazed Priest.
“No, not yet.” the man replied. “As the eagle carried the squirrel away in his claws, it flew towards the green. And as it passed over a bit of forest near the green, the squirrel dropped my ball.”
“Did you swear THEN?” asked the now impatient Priest.
“No, because as the ball fell it struck a tree, bounced through some bushes, careened off a big rock, and rolled through a sand trap onto the green and stopped within six inches of the hole.”
“You missed the f**king putt, didn’t you?” sighed the Priest.
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”
—
Jeremy Knowles, discusses the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.
Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.
Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there was not much exposure for women, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.
Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”
Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).
Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.
Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.
Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.
https://twitter.com/fopminui/status/1769155417265832237
@ eaglesoars:
Hah!!!