This week actor William Shatner became the oldest person in space at the age of 90. Captain Kirk has gone really high into the sky, floated for 3 minutes and then fell back to Earth. So to say he’s gone to “Space” is a bit of a stretch. Really what he did was go to an outer atmosphere of Earth.
Space Tourism is like a thing now. It costs anywhere between $250,000 (Virgin Galactic) to $28 million on (Blue Origin) to fly 66.5 miles into the air. Average length of this expensive joyride? That would be approximately 11 minutes. So you see why I think it’s ridiculous.
The ecological expense is even greater. The amount of Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen and other materials consumed could be used on Earth for real things of worth.
In a world that is beset by the pains of what we have done to our ecosystem (Fires, floods, tornadoes, destructive hurricanes and pandemics) seeing rich people eject themselves into the air inside a penis shaped rocket kind of leaves me with WTF!
Every one of these rich people who are paying ridiculous amounts of money to go into our atmosphere could be funding schools, science programs, food programs for the poor and millions of other need programs. Instead, they spend millions to shout ‘cool’ and ‘wee’ because they took a thrill ride at G-force.
Can someone please explain why these idiots get to pay no taxes and I have to pay 29% payroll, 8% local and state sales tax on almost everything I purchase? Anyone?
It’s been 58 years since Michael Myers murdered his sister Judith. He would be 64 years old now. He is also apparently still killing young folks for some reason only he knows.
I’m 56 years old and tired all of the time. How he has the energy to be a mass killer at 64 is just freaky.
The first two Halloween Movies were awesome. The story was awesome and so was Jamie Lee Curtis vs. The Masked Brother. I will also go as far to say that Halloween H20 was also an amazing addition to the story of Michael Myers. The writers followed the previous story line arch to bring Michael Myers back again.
To me every other Michael Myers “Halloween” Movie sucked. Halloween 5 tried to accomplish what they did with Halloween H20 but failed miserable.
Let me first address the fact that Michael Myers would be 64 years old. We get this from the story line. He was 6 years old when, dressed as a clown, he murdered his older sister Judith.
She died at the age of 17. So the math says he’s 64 in 2021.
I’m not a fan of endless spinoffs of movies or TV shows. The above mentioned movies made sense to me. It followed a story line. H20 was cleaver because Laurie changed her name and started a new life. She got married and had a son. Laurie was attacked by her brother Michael when she was 17, just like their sister Judy. In H20, her son is attacked making the 17th year significant and thus tying the 3 movies together.
The end of H20 ended the story of Michael Myers for me. Laurie ended it with an ax. The Halloween movies continued and each and every time they come out it leaves me feeling…this is dumb.
I know people love Horror movies but where is the originality? To pay for extreme graphic violence seems a bit lazy to me.
Halloween to me will always be just a trilogy. Others, will disagree with me on that point and that’s cool.
I will watch my trilogy and think about how scary these movies are because Michael doesn’t utter one word of dialogue. He just is menacing…period.
If for some reason I see a Halloween moves shot after H20 I will wonder…How did Michael get his head back on?
Perhaps it’s the same way Leslie from General Hospital got hers.
I’ve had many conversations with friends about the “mask/No mask” mandates. All I could do was shake my head at the No Maskers. When the Vaccines seemed to be working and the vice grip of local and state governments were easing slowly about wearing masks, I still wore mine. Why? Because my Mother didn’t raise and idiot.
The Covid was still out there. The unknown of what it would do next was ever present. I still wore my mask to the grocery store and to get gas. Basically I wore it anywhere there were people, inside or outside. Did I think it would 100% protect me from contracting Covid? No, but I knew that I had to take every precaution for myself and my family. How hard is it to wear a mask to mitigate transition. I can tell you…it’s not difficult at all!!!!
Fast forward, we now know that we still need the masks. We still need to practice caution and social distancing when possible. However, a large group of anti-Vaxx/anti-Mask people are pushing conspiracies and lunacy as the reasons why they won’t get vaccinated. In the face of factual evidence that 95% of all new Covid patients are Un-Vaccinated. And yes, they are dying every day.
How do I have sympathy for people who could have mitigated their catching Covid? How do I care for someone who puts their children in harms way intentionally out of some misguided ridiculous nuttery? They do not believe in masking up and this could cause their children to be ravaged by Covid.
How do people become so arrogant and prideful that they are willing to die to make a point? Recently 3 anti-mask, anti-vaccine, conspiracy hounds who host radio shows have DIED from Covid. A revered Cardinal who preached to his followers against the vaccine is now on a ventilator.
Arrogance will kill you. You don’t know better than those who spent their lives studying infectious disease because you read something on reddit or twitter while taking your morning dump.
Arrogance will kill others. Texas Govenor Abbott who had gotten a booster shot before it was authorized and then after contracting Covid took Regeneron while only asymptomatic shows that he just became afraid of Covid. That little treatment he took isn’t available to all because it’s wicked expensive. There Abbott stood arrogant and defiant until Covid came for him. Now he wants medicine and prayers. Can you imagine the anger of parents who children are flooding Texas ICUs? Where is the Regeneron to save their babies?
America should be better than this but apparently they are not. Get it together. Practice those Christian ways you are all ways proselytizing. Save our children, and each other. To wear a mask is the least you can do for your neighbor.
Don’t let arrogance and pride kill you or someone you love.
So…here we are again. Covid-19 Delta variant is racing through the unvaccinated in America. That’s not to say they are the only ones getting Covid. Twenty-five percent of Vaccinated Americans are testing positive for the disease that has killed 610,000 Americans in 17 months. However, thanks to the vaccine they aren’t dying. The deaths average to about 35,882 dead Americans a MONTH.
When all the restrictions were lifted in my State I had to laugh at the shear stupidity of the thinking that because some are vaccinated the disease would just whittle away into the background. See, I’ve seen how selfish and stupid my fellow citizens can be over the last 17 months. I still wore my mask when out and about. I did stop wearing my mask to mow the lawn but food shopping or being out in the front of my house where people could walk by I always wear it as a “chin-diaper” in case of quick need for it. Now the Snowflake red hates who fueled the first push of the disease are at it again. They don’t want to wear the masks. It’s a violation of their freedoms. It’s their body, their choice (someone should remind them of this little catch phrase when Roe v Wade is hot topic again). Anyway, the Snowflakes are okay with dying. Fox News Dude Brian Kilmead said as much on his talk show when he said, “it’s their choice”. Is that a version of Assisted Suicide because that too is illegal, just wanted to point this out.
Masks have been proven to help mitigate the catching of Covid. Alternately, arrogance and ignorance does nothing to mitigate Covid. While the red hats are still cheering on their failed and despicable ex-President who leads them like lemmings to their death, they get sick. Some of them die or have limbs amputated or even end up on a ventilator for weeks or months follow by massive rehab. Trump could care less about you. If he did he would try to save you from bad choices like not getting vaccinated and bellowing how he survived Covid like a miracle. A $600,00 medial miracle. It’s weird to me that the savior of red hats doesn’t want to save his voters.
Get vaccinated people!
Moving on to the other group of Snowflakes…
This week began another investigation into the 1/6 Domestic Terrorist Insurgency on the Capitol. See the red hats believe this was not a Terror Attack on America. I can only guess the reason is that it was lead and carried out by mostly white men. Being angry your candidate lost the election isn’t really a reason to violate the Constitution and so, so many laws.
You can’t call peaceful protesters Snowflake Libtards when you violate the very fabric of the freedoms afforded to you through our laws and Constitution. You are the SNOWFLAKES. You are the weak ineffectual that plague our America. Many brave men and women have fought for our freedom. Many more died for the very idea that you can’t storm the Capitol because you got your feeling hurt. The real problem with this snowflake driven demographic is they don’t know the difference between privileged and rights. They only believe they have the right to be privileged.
Here is an example. During the BLM Matters protests how many Capitol Buildings were stormed? None.
How many Capitol Buildings in America were breached by red hats with hurt feelings? Three!!! (Oregon, Michigan and Washington, D.C.).
Yet, the red hats demonize BLM. Why? Well they’ve come up with a zillion excuses of why brown people in America should not be equal but they are all based in their reality that some people just shouldn’t have the same privileges as others. You know, like, voting.
If you follow Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Jordan, the lunatic Mr. Graham you might want to check your “Blue Lives Matter” flag at the door. They believe those Snowflakes that destroyed and defecated in the Capitol Building “Tourists”, “Misunderstood Patriots” and a host of other ridiculousness.They are nothing but misogynistic domestic TERRORISTS. It’s time to hold the likes of Josh Hawley, Mo Brooks, and the band of idiots who believe that destroying America is more important that seeing it shine accountable. They are in fact traitors. No matter what spin the red hats or “Republicans” put on this 1/6 hearing, these people are not patriots, they are not supporters of our Police. They are in fact, home grown Terrorists.
It’s time to bring sanity back to America, if only to try and save our Constitution, Freedom and lives! Lock up them up! Lock them up! No seriously…throw those traitors in jail!
Recently the Township added a Veterans Memorial to a busy intersection of the town. This Memorial has been in the works for about 8 years. Finally, they finished construction. It’s nice. I thought it would be more polished but perhaps they were going for a simple garden as tribute. It’s not for me to question their art.
This is just me being me.
So here is a distant view of the Veteran Memorial Garden.
The “Park” portion of the Memorial is surrounded by the flags of our Armed Forces with the Stars and Bars situated in the middle behind the wall. I know what you are thinking…nothing weird about that.
The weird for me came from the fact I forgot the last President added a branch to our Armed Forces. It’s called Space Force. Yes, I made fun of the name Mr. Trump gave to this newly launched branch of our Military. Mostly, I was mocking the fact that Mr. Trump, lacking any form of creative ability stole most of the look and “name” of the branch from Movies (Spaceballs or maybe Star Wars (the force). He also, stole most of the look of the show Star Trek for their Flag and Iconography.
Now, every time this flag waves in the breeze all I can think of is…Star Trek 2.0.
If the naming and the development of the logo was left to the people who know such things I wouldn’t feel the need to laugh and mock this branch of the Military. I’m not even sure what they do? Does anyone know?
On their website they are the USSF. They work under the Department of the Air Force. So does this make them a sub-Department of the Military? They are lead (kind of) by a Four Star General called Chief of Space Operations (CSO). But this Four Star General reports to the head of the Air Force. But…the CSO gets to be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, so that’s cool.
Only Donald J. Trump, could make something as simple as a new branch of government weird.
As they advertise on their recruitment page…
“MAYBEYOUR PURPOSE ON THIS PLANET ISN’T ON THIS PLANET”
Anyway, I just don’t know how this new branch of the Military makes me feel. My family has a long tradition of service in the Armed Forces. Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force…and the one cousin who was a Captain in the Coast Guard. Perhaps the USSF will grow on me. Yes, I said USSF because I refused to call them Space Force, sorry, not sorry.
I was a Republican for 37 years. On January 6, 2020, Trumpians lead by a band of cowards tried to over throw our election system by over throwing our seat of government. This my friends is TREASON!
I am no longer a Republican. I do not support any attack on America, home grown or otherwise. The last 15 years had begun to looks horrible. It was all brought to us by the Republicans. After 9/11 we entered into wars that were not properly thought out. It was a misguided attempt to right the wrong done to America on that frighting day of terror. In the end, we are still ensconced in the multi-front war. Many years went by before we learned the truth about the lies being fed to Americans. What we also learned was that many people made huge amounts of money on the deaths of American Soldiers who thought they were defending America. It was always about the money. Vietnam 2.0 had happened.
Now with the help of social media and a deranged civilian in office we faced incredible circumstances. We face the first pandemic of the 21st Century. Trump’s handling of the Covid19 Virus was a colossal failure. Instead of having leadership from the arrogant Republican party. The party in charge. We all weathered the storm of conspiracy theories while hundreds of thousands of American’s died. That number today stands at 604,000+ today. Trump and his Republican party fueled disinformation. They fueled crazy ideas of injecting bleach, swallowing UV Light and most importantly…masks are for scared weak Americans. The Unvaccinated make up the largest portion of Americans these days of contracting and dying of Covid19.
Republicans spent their last 8 years of power doing nothing but blocking any legislation, court stacking, and taking days off. They lost their majorities in the House and Senate in 2020. What they offered was, “we’ve got a plan to repeal and replace ACA’. No one has ever seen it. Former “Dictator Lover” President Trump constantly for 4 years told us all the plans the Republicans had for their majority. Not details, just plans. All they did was stack the Courts with incompetent jurists.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon Republican from Georgia spent the first several weeks in office trying to adjourn the House so no work would get done. Color me, Not Surprised!
The Democrats for all of their flaws at least got American People money during one of the worst things in American History. No Senate Republican voted for this relief. Oddly, many took credit for it’s passage (over party lines) even though they voted AGAINST it. Way to go losers.
Now, when we need to fix America the Republicans vow to destroy any bill proposed. This comes directly from Senate Minority Millionaire Mitch McConnell.
So in essence he says, America can become a third world country and he’s cool with that. His acolytes will follow him chanting “Lock Her Up” while our infrastructure crumbles. This is the vision of the 21st Century Republican Party. As long as the Rich are taken care of then America is doing great. They offer no real solutions for…well…any of America’s problems. They do however have lots of ideas and implementation on destroying Democracy and America. Just call everything Socialism and the acolytes will lose their minds.
It’s really time to stand up and say…Enough with following weak minded fools. Think about the Revolutionary War…What if George Washington biggest contribution was complaining about “Wokeness”? It’s not a real thing. What Republican’s call “woke” is just people tired of Stupid People being in charge and they disagree with the stupidity.
We need Infrastructure Legislation now! Ask anyone in Rural America if living with broken bridges, condemned roads and spotty internet/cell service is awesome. I guarantee you they would say…NO!
My wife and I are both vaccinated. When they started becoming available in our plague invaded area we moved heaven and earth to get ours.
That was 2 months ago and we still are in the Bubble. It’s different when you are vaccinated but your baby isn’t. We don’t like to take him out into public. You know, cause those lunatics that think Covid is a hoax, are out there contracting and spreading the disease because they are also…anti Mask and hugely Anti-Vaxx.
The world around us is opening up with more and more (sane) people getting vaccinated. But when does the fear that we’ve lived with for over 15 months end? We have a baby who was born a week before the Governor of our state shut everything down. He doesn’t know crowds of people exist. Our bubble for most of Covid was us and my In Laws. That was it. Then as things got better and vaccinations became wider spread we added 3 more people.
I still don’t feel like I can give up my masks either. Some vaccinated people have given them up but my concern for others and spreading a disease that probably won’t effect me is just too much.
Post Covid will come eventually but when does it feel right again to embrace the idea of seeing people outside our Covid Bubble?
It’s in the record book now. I received my first Covid Vaccination. I’m so relieved to have gotten it. I go back in several weeks for the second. Thankfully after Easter.
More of my family got vaccinated over the weekend as vaccine became available in our area. It’s a tremendous relief for all of us. To be able to see each other in person and maybe even hug each other is the Hope we’ve been searching for since last year.
I had mild side effects from the Moderna vaccine. My arm hurt for 3 days (this happened with my tetanus shot too). I had some dizziness on Friday night but by the morning when I woke up all was good. Well, except my ouchie arm, lol.
The only downside of getting the Vaccine is stopping my RA Meds for 2 weeks. I’m hoping no major flares. So fingers crossed!
My hope is that with more people getting vaccinated there will be more protection for those who take this deadly disease seriously. It’s so sad that 534,000 Americans are now gone from just this one disease. I know that some people can’t get vaccinated do to medical concerns and religious concerns. I just want everyone to be safe and stay as healthy as they can.
Today I’m going to receive my first Covid Vaccination. I’m so relieved to be finally getting it. I’m immune compromised. That means I’m susceptible to all germs on a regular basis. Every year I get my flu shot for this very reason. This year has been terrifying for me and my family. We had a baby during the lockdowns. It’s just been very stressful and mostly depressing. I had to continue working during this period because of what I do for a living. That made it even harder. We had our share of Covid Scares but came out unscathed and negative, thankfully!
528,000 Americans aren’t as lucky as I’ve been. Dying alone with only doctors and nurses by their sides. Only recently have family members been let in to say goodbye. My friend had to wear a suit reminiscent of a deep sea diving suit to hold her dying father’s hand for the last time. It still makes me cry to think about that.
Today I take that step to keep safe. I feel on the verge of relief. Yes, I will continue to wear my mask in public. You see, I understand that even with the vaccine it doesn’t mean I can’t transmit the virus to someone who isn’t vaccinated. Oh, and I’m not an a-hole selfish prick!
More of my family can now get the vaccine too and that also is a great relief.
Mr. Trump would like to have the credit for the vaccine and the saving American Lives. I can’t give that to him. Once the virus hit and we realized that America wasn’t inescapable and could contract it no matter how many thoughts and prayers that were thrown at it. Mr. Trump could have cut the number of Americans who died during the early days of the pandemic. He could have initiated mask mandates for the entire country.  What we got was hypothesis of injecting oneself with bleach….WTH!?! Scientist became the enemies of the State. Instead, Trump and his band of idiots decided to follow the guidance of Fox News Entertainment Anchors. This is his legacy.
He could have been the hero of America while President but he is incapable of putting anyone or anything above his own wants and needs.
Even after he contracted the disease he thought his Machismo-eque manner was what the Country needed. The image of a strong and strapping man (who gasped for breath) leading us all by example. That example was, have a super spreader event with no masks or safety where we infect each other and where at least 2 high profile Republicans died from Covid. That example where we saw President Trump getting a very expensive and experimental treatment that the average American would never experience. Having free healthcare, Mr. Trump forgot that most Americans who suffered through the worst of Covid are now straddled with thousands of dollars in medical bills and in some cases too ill to work.
I’m happy and relieved to be getting this vaccine because I believe in the validity of vaccinations.
I’m happy that Joe Biden is President and that he surrounds himself with quality people who can actually problem solve and not just devise ways to bilk the American taxpayers out of millions of dollars. For the first time in a year I have HOPE.
The View Through My Cracked Window 