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Mid-Morning Open Thread – Mars Video and Parliament Shooting

by TaMara|  March 22, 201711:12 am| 27 Comments

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This is just stunning:

A FICTIVE FLIGHT ABOVE REAL MARS from Jan Fröjdman on Vimeo.

More on the project here.

In other news, I just had fiber optics installed (1 GBps) yesterday – it’s a city owned project 6 years in the making. $50 a month (for life, supposedly). Comcast is running scared and dropping their prices, but still couldn’t get rid of them fast enough.

ETA: While I was typing this, looks like there was a shooting in London at the Parliament.

Follow here (for some reason it won’t allow me to embed twitter live feed anymore – Alain?)

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  1. 1.

    SenyorDave

    March 22, 2017 at 11:19 am

    Democrats have to push hard on Trump breaking his promise not to touch Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Create a narrative and keep hammering. The Republicans realized years ago that a lot of people are stupid and need catch phrases to pay attention (Gingrich’s contract for America, make America great again – they are idiotic but they work). Tag Trump as a serial liar and keep repeating it.

  2. 2.

    satby

    March 22, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Horrible happenings in London, looks like several casualties on that bridge.

  3. 3.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 11:20 am

    @satby:

    I HATE that my first response is, this will help Trump.

  4. 4.

    CaseyL

    March 22, 2017 at 11:22 am

    @zhena gogolia: Depends on who the assailant was and their motive, if they had one. So far I haven’t heard anything about that, only that police shot him dead.

  5. 5.

    tobie

    March 22, 2017 at 11:26 am

    @zhena gogolia: I hate that my first response is to wonder whether Putin had a hand in this.

  6. 6.

    germy

    March 22, 2017 at 11:28 am

    @tobie: What doesn’t he have a hand in?

  7. 7.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2017 at 11:31 am

    Guardian: What we know so far

    There have been two serious incidents near the British parliament.
    A police officer has been stabbed in the Houses of Parliament in central London, Commons Leader David Lidington has said.
    The alleged assailant was shot by armed police following a “serious” incident.
    There are further reports of a car driving into a number of people on Westminster Bridge, before driving into the railings of the Palace of Westminster.
    According to reports as many as 12 people could have been involved. People are being treated at the scene.
    Westminster is currently in lockdown with MPs told to remain in the main chamber or in their offices.
    Scotland Yard said it was called to a firearms incident on Westminster Bridge amid reports of several people injured.
    Transport for London said Westminster underground station has been shut at the police’s request.

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    March 22, 2017 at 11:33 am

    @zhena gogolia: You can bet your boots that was Trump’s first thought — saw on Twitter that he was crowing about “big news” from London to WH reporters.

  9. 9.

    Oatler.

    March 22, 2017 at 11:35 am

    @zhena gogolia: A “bobby-involved shooting”?

  10. 10.

    germy

    March 22, 2017 at 11:35 am

    Our Secretary Of State didn’t even want the job:

    “I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job.” He paused to let that sink in.

    A beat or two passed before an aide piped up to ask him why he said yes.

    “My wife told me I’m supposed to do this.”

    After watching the contortions of my face as I tried to figure out what to say next, he humbly explained that he had never met the president before the election. As president-elect, Trump wanted to have a conversation with Tillerson “about the world” given what he gleaned from the complex global issues he dealt with as CEO of Exxon Mobil.

    “When he asked me at the end of that conversation to be secretary of state, I was stunned.”

    When Tillerson got home and told his wife, Renda St. Clair, she shook her finger in his face and said, “I told you God’s not through with you.”

    With a half-worn smile, he said, “I was supposed to retire in March, this month. I was going to go to the ranch to be with my grandkids.”

  11. 11.

    germy

    March 22, 2017 at 11:36 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    You can bet your boots that was Trump’s first thought

    He’s just waiting, waiting for a thrill shiver; an attack he can blame on the negligence of his opponents.

  12. 12.

    Mike J

    March 22, 2017 at 11:39 am

    @zhena gogolia:

    A police officer has been stabbed

    Imagine the death toll if the Brits had semi-automatic large capacity magazine FREEDOM.

  13. 13.

    SenyorDave

    March 22, 2017 at 11:39 am

    @germy: He’s just waiting, waiting for a thrill shiver; an attack he can blame on the negligence of his opponents.

    I thought the UK was on Trump’s good list.

  14. 14.

    germy

    March 22, 2017 at 11:40 am

    @SenyorDave: Nobody but ivankka is on his “good” list.

  15. 15.

    Garm

    March 22, 2017 at 11:43 am

    NextLight is amazing. Kind of frustrating it took so long to get it (I got it a couple months ago). The redirect to Clover Basin killed the whole project plan.

  16. 16.

    germy

    March 22, 2017 at 11:46 am

    Multiple sources claim that the former fashion model — who’s currently living 200 miles away from Washington, D.C., in NYC’s Trump Tower while Barron finishes the school year — refuses to share a bed with Donald even on the rare occasions when they sleep in the same city. “They have separate bedrooms,” says another Trump insider. “They never spend the night together — ever.” (A third source says the couple do sleep in the same room but keep separate beds: “It’s very ‘royal’ of them!”)

    USWeekly

  17. 17.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 22, 2017 at 11:51 am

    @germy: stars, they’re just like us.

  18. 18.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 22, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    Fictive? Is that a word, shouldn’t it be fictitious.

  19. 19.

    Luthe

    March 22, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    @germy: What, are they in a Fifties TV show?

  20. 20.

    lgerard

    March 22, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    So trumpp is following through on his promise to create jobs

    The week before the Women’s March on Jan. 21 in cities across the United States, protesters who were making signs helped fuel increased sales of poster boards by 33 percent and foam boards by 42 percent compared with the same week last year, the consumer research group NPD reported recently. Poster and foam board sales from Jan. 15 to 21 totaled $4.1 million.

    Sales of the materials used to make the messages on the posters also increased that week: Specialty markers were up by 24 percent; permanent markers, 12 percent; glue, 27 percent; and scissors, 6 percent.

  21. 21.

    TaMara (HFG)

    March 22, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Merriam definition

    Definition of fictive
    1: not genuine : feigned
    2: of, relating to, or capable of imaginative creation
    3: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of fiction : fictional

  22. 22.

    Jay C

    March 22, 2017 at 1:12 pm

    @Luthe:

    What, are they in a Fifties TV show?

    Yeah: The Twilight Zone

  23. 23.

    BillCinSD

    March 22, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: yes fictive is a word. It has several meanings including of, relating to, or created by imaginative invention.

  24. 24.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 22, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    @BillCinSD: Thanks, I learned something new.

  25. 25.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 22, 2017 at 2:22 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): What I said in #24.

  26. 26.

    TaMara (HFG)

    March 22, 2017 at 3:37 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: You actually asked if it was a word…I answered. ???

  27. 27.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 22, 2017 at 5:34 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): And I thanked you. I saw your comment after BillCinSD’s comment and I was too lazy to retype.

    Thanks, I learned something I did not know.

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