One of my nieces is a teacher and though her Social Media postings I found out that her school and many others are going to close Monday for “security reasons.”

According to Space.com “The maximum duration of totality for this eclipse will be 2 minutes and 40 seconds.” That is all. People are behaving like the seas will rise, mountains will fall, satellites will come crashing down to the Earth while we are covered in darkness for ages.  We are gonna shut down schools for safety reasons because there will be a grand total of  minutes and 40 seconds of darkness.  That is not even enough amount for a decent necking and a reach for second base!

And these are schools we are talking about! Center of alleged knowledge!

And then the hysteria about the eyeballs falling off the eyes, cooked from the eclipse. In 1970 there was an annular eclipse and it was very nicely seen in Venezuela. It was a school day and we actually were at school learning our stuff. We were told to bring welder mask’s glass or welding goggles to watch the eclipse. Of course, most everybody did not have access to those items, but not to fret, the school provided pieces of dark film to each class to be shared among the students. When the time for the eclipse approached, we were herded to the huge parking lot which had been watered and was now covered in puddles. The Brothers came out on the P.A. and told us that we were to look at the eclipse though the film and into the puddles… and it worked!  Hell some of us even look without the film and it was bright but we did not go blind or burned retinas. Maybe a ghost of the eclipse if we closed our eyes and that was it.

The eclipse was like any other eclipse: short and a let down after having endured pretty much the same hysteria we are seeing today was being told back then. When I got home, mom told me that the chickens we used to keep, went to their perches to sleep and then freaked out a bit when the sun came out again so fast. But other than that, cats, dogs and neighbors were pretty much the same.

You figure that 47 years later, we would have progressed a bit about eclipse B.B. but apparently not.

I went to Wal-Mart on Sunday night for some critical toddler supplies.  I was checking out when the cashier and I had a little encounter.

Wal-Mart Cashier: “Do you have glasses for the eclipse?” *Points to eclipse glasses*

Me: “I have everything I need.  Glasses, stone basin, cold iron knife.”

Wal-Mart Cashier: “What?”

Me: (Completely deadpan) “You know.  For the human sacrifice, to summon the Elder Gods and hasten the apocalypse.”

Wal-Mart Cashier: “Excuse me.”

Me: (A little louder) “All praise the Dark Ones.”

Wal-Mart Cashier: *Hands me receipt*

Me: “Thank you.”

Wal-Mart Cashier: (To my back) “He needs to find Jesus.”

Wherever the path of the eclipse, hotels, motels, camping places and whatever free space is being occupied by people going batshit about it. I have family in Middle Tennessee and they say that the last time they had these many assholes from out-of-town, they were wearing blue uniforms.

Seventy-five years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface. Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, led a search team, assisted by historians from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) in Washington, D.C., to accomplish what past searches had failed to do – find Indianapolis, considered the last great naval tragedy of World War II.
“To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling,” said Allen in a statement provided to USNI News on Saturday.
“As Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the crew for their courage, persistence and sacrifice in the face of horrendous circumstances. While our search for the rest of the wreckage will continue, I hope everyone connected to this historic ship will feel some measure of closure at this discovery so long in coming.”

Billionaire Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea – USNI News

Nothing I can say will ever beat one of the best movie speeches ever written. Words by John Millius and delivered by Robert Shaw.

In a way, welcome home.

“All of the Department’s bank investigations conducted as part of Operation Chokepoint are now over, the initiative is no longer in effect, and it will not be undertaken again,” Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said in the Aug. 16-dated letter, calling it a “misguided initiative” from the prior administration.

Source: Trump DOJ ends Holder-era ‘Operation Choke Point’ | Fox News

About time!

Hat tip GeorgiaCarry.Org‏