But How Big Is It In Dollar Bills?

So there’s an asteroid passing relatively close to Earth soon. Guess how big it is.

Asteroid Bigger Than Manhattan Skyscraper To Pass Earth This Week
A massive asteroid the size of a Manhattan skyscraper is on course to pass the Earth on Thursday, according to NASA’s asteroid tracker.

The asteroid, which NASA categorizes under “bridge-size,” has been named 2020 DB5. Though it shares its name with a famed Aston Martin Bond car, this celestial object is significantly bigger than any motor vehicle.

Bigger than a skyscraper. Bridge-size. Bigger than a motor vehicle. And just because none of those are obscure enough…

It would take 100 giraffes, which average a height of 16 feet tall, stacked on top of each other to reach the size of this behemoth.

Whoa! A hundred giraffes. Must be a real planet-killer.

I wish reporters could master a standard system of measurement, like inches/feet/yards/miles; or even the metric system.

Apparently this puppy is actually around 1,600 feet long. Which still doesn’t tell us much without at the minor axis dimension.

Now, mass — which would actually be useful — doesn’t even get a mention

 

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There Is No God But WEF And Schwab Is Its Prophet

Thou shalt own nothing and like it, eat crickets, and stay in your hive.

WEF Calls for AI to Rewrite Bible, Create ‘Religions That Are Actually Correct’
A top official with the World Economic Forum (WEF) has called for religious scripture to be “rewritten” by artificial intelligence (AI) to create a globalized “new Bible.”

Yuval Noah Harari, the senior advisor to the WEF and its chairman Klaus Schwab, argues that using AI to replace scriptures will create unified “religions that are actually correct.”

Yeah, I think we can guess what their idea of “correct” is.

(Hat tip to Wisco Dave)

 

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Advice

And if you ask while I’m drinking, you’re gonna try to build a swimming pool on a mountaintop in Turkey, knock the site off the air, the Turkish commander will try to kill you, you’ll cause a minor international incident, be passed over for promotion (again), and RIF’d out of the Air Farce.

Most of 40 years and I’m still proud of that one.

(Yeah, I’ve been on Cheezburger again. I do that when I’ve spent too long looking at news.)

 

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TZP Column: Fun With A Constitutional Convention


PRK GOV. NEWSCUM WANTS A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
The purpose of which would be to gut the Second Amendment, of course. On paper, anyway. I figure this is really just a PR stunt for the Presidential run that many folks think he’s planning. He should get out of Kalifornia and meet real people more often; I don’t think this would go as he wishes.
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Should Newscum somehow manage to call a Constitutional Convention, I swear to G-d that I will push for my Articles of Individuals to be adopted. With zero success, I’ve no doubt. My fallback will then be my 9/10th improvements and the “general Welfare abuse capital punishment clause.
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TZP Column Might Makes… Constitutional Authority?

TL;DR: A federal judges thinks you should only have rights that government isn’t YET strong enough to take away.


WA “ASSAULT WEAPON” BAN: A DANGEROUS TAKE ON THE DERIVATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
Yesterday, June 6, 2023, federal judge Robert J. Bryan issued a ruling denying a preliminary injunction against Washington’s “assault weapon” ban. In my not so humble opinion, this proves that it is high time for the elderly –88 years old — Bryan to retire.

Reading his decision, a couple of points jumped out at me. I’ll begin with one that would almost be funny if the topic, victim disarmament, weren’t so serious.
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FIVE Books. In His Entire Life.

And, sadly, this might be “normal.” Now. I’ve read several times more books that were autographed to me personally by the authors; usually gifts.

What Passes for Exceptional
I want to give this guy props for trying, but more importantly, I want more people to be aware, that he is EXCEPTIONAL, not average. He’s TRYING.

-sigh- I’d already read considerably more than five books before I ever started school. By now? I couldn’t tell you even to the nearest thousand. I’ve written more than five books; from fiction to crafts to tech manuals. And eye the words so far out of his vocabulary that he had to look them up. Thalidomide? I knew that one in my teens.

And that’s just bound books, or their electronic editions. I’m not counting hundreds-to-thousands pages bills, or court decisions, or research papers, magazine articles, and the like. Just books.

Back in the ’80s ( and roughly the age of our illiterate hero above), I was stationed in New Mexico. I got orders for Turkey, and had some books to unload that I couldn’t take with me. A girl in El Paso expressed an interest, so I told her I’d bring them down. It was hilarious.

She was about twenty and living with her parents. I knocked at the door and her mother answered, to find me standing there with a couple of big brown grocery sacks (remember those?) full of paperbacks. She expressed amazement, called her daughter, and told me to come in. I handed off the bags to W—-, but said I had to go back to my truck.

I came back with a couple more sacks. Mom’s eyes bugged out, and W—- said something about not expecting so many. I just said I’d be back, and went out to my truck again.

In the end, I left approximately 1,500 books with her. Those were just the ones I’d accumulated in my two years in New Mexico. The book stores in town loved me.

A few years later, leaving Georgia for Greece, I did it again. There, I’d been recycling more of my reading material through a used bookstore/exchange. They’d give you credit of one book for each two books you turned in (basically, there were some restrictions on age, condition, genre…). My store credit card wasn’t going to do me any good in Greece, so I gave it a teen girl in town.

It had around 300 books credit on it. Meaning I’d turned in 600 that I’d read. And believe me, not all the books I’d bought in the sorta two years I’d lived there (interrupted by my Desert Shield/Desert Storm deployment) got turned in for credit. I hung on to plenty.

Over the years, I’ve read thousands of fiction, history, law, physics, chemistry, construction, brewing and distillation, cooking, electronics, computer, prospecting and mining, astronomy, cosmology, electrical systems, plumbing, pottery, firearms, solar power systems… and Bog only knows what else… books. And written a lot of material on many of those topics.

So I hate it when I get into an Internet argument with some under-educated clown who’s managed five books in his life, who tells me he knows more because he saw in in a easy book with small words.

 

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