Armed Polite Society

I had 'em all, from the first red LED press the button to bing up the display (Texas Instruments?) through Casio calculator watches and one that picked up the time signals from Fort Collins and re-set itself.

I'm with hawkmoon now.  The fewer gewgaws the better, with big numbers and hands, and that's it.  I had a Humvee watch like the standard military ones for many years which finally gave up the ghost.  Could tell the time without looking directly at it.

Went a-looking, found a nice simple replacement for less than $10,which did fine.  The only problem was there were no instructions as to how to use the tiny stopwatch on the face.  Was I surprised when I looked at it with a magnifying glass and it turned out the "stopwatch" was only a printed-on fake !  !  !

I was highly amused, not outraged, but of course the adage about getting what you paid for crossed my mind every time.   

She is haunted by the fact they seemed normal

A former CNN reporter took to social media Sunday to talk about how she is  'haunted' by a dinner with several Donald Trump supporters who, at first glance, seemed 'normal.'

'All were well-educated and successful in careers,' Michelle Kosinski recalled of the recent dinner party that she described on X.

'They seemed great! On the surface. For like an hour ' the one-time NBC News correspondent continued, categorizing the Trump-leaning guests as 'closeted.'

'But slowly, over a few drinks, they began to let slip their true MAGA natures.'

The 50-year-old who served as CNN's White House Correspondent until 2020 went on to add how  she was surprised by the revelation - marveling at how a 'normal' a group of people could support a politician she does not approve of.

The horror!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13389955/Ex-CNN-reporter-dinner-trump-supporters.html

Mother nature wakes up grumpy in spring.

Scary in OK and northeast  of there.  I guess that's why they call it tornado alley.

Mid-CO east slope: high wind warnings the past couple of days... today, 40 mph gusts from the west, some rain and or snow possible, high 60°.

In other words:  everything.

Hoping for the best for you.

Mother nature wakes up grumpy in spring.

Suspicious Observers has been saying there were people looking into connections between more extreme weather and earthquakes connected to solar storms.  The thought is that sunspots and coronal mass ejections, even though they are deflected by the Earth's magnetic field, will inject energy into the atmosphere and/or the Earth.  I think he was relating it to our weakening magnetic field as well.   Interesting thought. 

AstraZeneca admits its Covid vaccine can cause rare side effect in court documents for first time
https://www.yahoo.com/news/astrazeneca-admits-first-time-covid-180000780.html

AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its Covid vaccine can cause a rare side effect, in an apparent about-turn that could pave the way for a multi-million pound legal payout.

The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in a class action over claims that its vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, caused death and serious injury in dozens of cases.

AstraZeneca admits its COVID vaccine can cause deadly blood clots
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/30/astrazeneca-admits-its-covid-vaccine-can-cause-dea/

Despite contesting the allegations, AstraZeneca conceded in the document that its vaccine could cause TTS, albeit in rare cases. The condition, formerly known as vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia, has been a recognized but rare side effect of the vaccine.

The legal admission marks the first instance AstraZeneca has openly recognized the potential for its vaccine to cause the serious side effect in court following two years of acknowledgment in a medical context. The implications could pave the way for individual compensation claims, altering the landscape for those affected and their families.

Seems to me that just about every claim made by the Govt and Big Pharma as the vaccine was rolled out has been proven false.  I am wondering if/when we will hear an admission that the vaccine is completely ineffective against COVID. 

The shitty books and idiotic assignments handed down in the “traditional English curriculum” that universally sucks across schools is purposefully designed by the school systems to ensure most students hate it.

. . . some of the "classics" we had to read?  Holy *expletive deleted*ck. I LOVE to read, and some of those books made me HATE reading.

I can relate - this has been a problem with reading/English classes for a LONG time.

Last year I followed the English course prescribed for my two sons, who are in college. The required reading seemed to have been selected for the sole purpose of turning the hearts of young people against books.

In elementary school, one of the books we read was Uncle Tom's Cabin. The teacher was rather upset when a student (not me . . . this time) asked the teacher an unexpected question: How we could go about starting a Simon Legree fan club?

We also read George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. Today, both would probably be presented as a blueprint for the future rather than as cautionary tales.