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WTOP bills itself as Washington’s Top News.

They decided to do a story on one of the major figures of the Space Race and Apollo missions, Wernher von Braun.

It went to hell in a woke basket.

2019 is remarkably stupid.  And so is the staff at WTOP.

I think it is a time for a little bit of history from MIT and UC Santa Cruz professor,  Tom Lehrer.

Von Braun was the director of Marshall Space Flight Center, which is practically my back yard, and is also the namesake of the convention center in Huntsville.

Since we most likely not made it to space without von Braun, and defiantly not beaten to Soviets to the moon if they got him, much of our accomplishments in the space race relied on a surrendered ex-Nazi who handed over all of his research to the US in Operation Paperclip.

But woke being woke, America’s space program is fruit of the poisions Nazi tree.

I’m glad I will get to experience the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing this year because by the 60th anniversary, the space race is going to be memory holed and any mention of the early days of NASA will be decried as racist as the Betsy Ross flag.

The New York Daily News is a very Left wing paper.

Remember they are the ones that published multiple front page images of the NRA president as a terrorist or blaming terrorist attacks on the NRA.

Well, today is the 50th Anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.

This was the Tweet they sent out:

I didn’t know it was possible to get so much wrong in 140 characters while trying to be factual.

At least the moon landing conspiracy theorists get the name of the astronaut right.

Then it dawned on me.

The moon landing is one of the most heavily documented events in modern American history.  There are more books and documentaries about it than I can count.  Still, some New York Daily News staffer decides to shoot a Tweet from the hip and bumblefucks it.

So out there is some millennial staffer who, literally, everything he knows is wrong.  Just factually wrong.  And he thinks it’s right.  Right enough to send his wrongness out into the world unchecked.

Then there was this from a couple of days ago.  A millennial writer had a breakdown because her editor told her that hamster was spelled “hamster” and not “hampster” and the writer believed that her work was perfect without editing and that her way of spelling wasn’t wrong, just “creative.”

If you want to know why Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is why she is the way she is.  Why millennials love socialism and believe President Trump is literally the second coming of Hitler and detention centers are actual Nazi concentration camps.  Why politics has become so ridiculously stupid.

This is why.

We have a generation of kids who every thing they know is wrong.  Factually inaccurate wrong.

And they think they are right enough to publish their wrongness with authority.

The good news is that I have come up with a plan to fix our nation.

Knowing the millennials’ propensity for wrongness, we just need to spend the next year-and-a-half convincing the internet that election day for everyone born after 1989 is the second Tuesday following the second Monday in November, like how in college upperclassman registration is on a different day than freshman registration.

I figure with a concerted effort on social media, we can right this ship easy in 2020.

Rest assured that does not happen. If gators were affected for what drugs are dropped in the water, South Florida would have had an issue with gators doing 75 mph down the Palmetto Expressway. Do you know how many bales of coke have been dropped in the Everglades? I rest my case.

This is an interesting example of why lynchings, as satisfactory as they can be, end up creating more problems than solutions. South Dakota’s Supreme Court vacated the initial verdict of three individuals involved in murder and the State had already lined up two of them as prosecution witness to go after the rest of the gang.

But the mob got the freed Indians, lynched them and now the prosecution has no case to pursue against the rest: They get to go free. And I reckon with the eyes of the governor and the State Supreme Court, probably pissed off at the blatant disregard for their decision  indeed they went away. Crime went unpunished.

Bravo.

Already bought the missus her B-Day gift and although early, she has it already. I have to say same day delivery free was a nice touch. I think in total I saved 50%.

And for me:

We have the Gen 1 and it is reaching its capacity,. Allegedly this one will buffer movies and apps better and for $15, it tipped the scales .
And before you scream privacy, yes, I will disable the microphone my way, physically. A hot needle and Gorilla Crazy Glue should do the trick nicely. You can bypass software limitations but mechanical destruction its a bit more difficult to overcome.

With all the bitching around and moaning about recasting old characters along politically correct lines and racial themes, I figured Hollywood should even out things by recasting white people for the remake of black movies or the main character is black.

Here a short list of suggestions.

Mandingo: Chris Hemsworth
Roots: Colin Farrel as Kenny ” Kunter” Kent and the Irish Slavery story.
Cleopatra Jones: Christina Hendricks
Shaft: Robert Downey Jr.
Malcom X: Kenau Reeves
Superfly: Adam Sandler
Coming To America: Steve Buscemi
The Color Purple: Britney Spears
Ray: John Cusack
Waiting to Exhale: The Cast of Steel Magnolias.
Sister Act: Sally Fields (and you know why)
Purple Rain: Vanilla Ice
In The Heat Of The Night: Gary Oldman as Mr. Tibbs.
Beverly Hills Cop: David Spade.
Black Panther: Jason Statham. (Mark T.)

Just  thought. You can add your own re-casting ideas in the comments.

There is so much stupid and ignorance concentrated in this tweet, I can’t process it without a welding mask.

Sorry, but GOA has an impressive batting record in Congress like mine at the plate: Big fat zero. If you don’t know this, you have been ignoring what’s have been going in congress for the past decades. Allow me to quote from their Wiki page:

Gun Owners of America was founded in 1975 by the NRA board member and California state senator H. L. Richardson when legislation to ban all handguns was introduced in California.[8] Richardson continues to serve as the chairman of Gun Owners of America. Richardson also founded Gun Owners of California, which deals specifically with gun ownership rights in California.[9] GOA’s current executive director as of 2018 is Erich Pratt, son of the previous director Larry Pratt, who also hosts GOA’s audio webcast, Live Fire.

So how’s California doing on gun rights? So not very effective, are they?

The National Association for Gun Rights has been from the get-go what appears to be a suspicious fundraising tool for a noble cause: Dudley Brown’s pockets. They talk a tough talk, but they are worse that GOA just because they actually fucked up favorable legislation the few times they have intervened. I do believe there is still a “shoot on sight” in Colorado after NAGR screwed up the loosening of the Magazine Cap limit law in the state.

Pink Pistols as fantastic as they are and have my support, they are not a Lobby group, nor they have the numbers.

And please notice that the author fails to mention the Second Amendment Foundation who actually goes to court and gets bloodied fighting Second Amendment cases. But lawyers in bow ties do not look tactical and must be laughed and ignored.

Now, none of this is new. This is on the record for many years now but we have Gun Culture 3.0 that only gets information via memes and tweets forsaking any depth and accepting it as if they were the tablets brought down from the mountain by Gaston Glock.

We are seriously screwed..