MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 09:43 AM

Have yourself a microscopic Christmas
Let your heart beat on
From now on our virus will go out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Respect blacks and gays
From now on Christmas is just a click away
Here we are as in olden days
Like pandemic golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Are all far from us, once more
Through the years we all will be together
If vac-cines allow
Hang the Donald Trump upon the highest bough
And have yourself a merry little Christmas
Have yourself a little tiny Christmas
So have yourself a merry little tiny itty bitty Christmas now

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 10:05 AM

You losed Amos' poetry upon the world again??????

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 12:43 PM

You can still read everything in the original MOAB - you just have to get there via a search and read it one post at a time. So do a search on Amos (and Amos as a guest, because we could post in there that way also until recently) and figure out which posts are poetry. It took a while to hide them (he told me which, so I should see if I still have that list).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 05:15 PM

E book Mudcat addendums (only a nickel) will include the best of Maggie, Little Hawk/Chongo, Richard Fielding, Bill D, Spaw, BWL, Cat Laughing, Rapaire and chief musicologist and crypto fascist Joe Offer. :^/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 07:23 AM

My old posts do not even appear in the 'worst of' section but instead are in a separate not ready for prime time catagory called 'sarcasm satire and sacriledge'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 01:55 PM

I want to go outside but the AQI hovers near the "Hazardous" level. I wish to thank California.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 06:57 PM

It just gets weirder and weirder....

We have two tropical storms, both predicted to become hurricanes, in The Gulf of Mexico for the first time in history. If that's not enough, current forecasts have them both making landfall on the Louisiana coast in the same spot 24 hours apart.

In any other year, that asteroid that's headed for Earth the day before Election Day wouldn't concern me at all....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 09:42 PM

I went outside and took a short walk around the yard. I don't think I've ever seen so many grasshoppers in such a small area in my life!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 10:17 PM

Uh oh. Is this the August catastrophe or has the September catastrophe arrived early?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 08:41 AM

astroid? its hardly bigger than me.
Prepare for Harvey like rain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 09:37 AM

The CA fires are said to equal the size of RI.
I've been to Rhode Island and its huge.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 09:51 AM

Two hurricanes possibly slamming into the Gulf Coast soon, but it won't deter the windbags on the east coast (the Hatch Act isn't sparing the federal White House staff from party politics this week). Knocking the GOP off of the front page would be nice, but they're like the worst grass burs, once they're stuck on clothing or skin nothing is very effective against them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 11:59 AM

Mom!

The word "holdup" makes perfect sense when describing the robbery of a stagecoach. If a stagecoach is moving from one place to another, its progress needs to be held up for a robbery to occur.

But why are bank robberies also called "holdups"? Banks don't move. They aren't going anywhere.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 01:34 PM

Back to 14 days of quarantine - in the house away from everyone.

I've had to bypass the Hatch Act with nuance regarding yard signs
like a Halloween picture of Trump attacked by torches and pitchforks.

Mike Lindell of 'my pillow' isn't selling pillows like he used to so he now sells Oleandrin drops to put on your pillow for a magic 'Trump Approved' Covid cure. I bet he would do better selling My Dildo.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Aug 20 - 07:15 PM

Hi, Mom! I'm cooking dinner! We're having sausage made from Italians and unexploded shells in a tomato sauce with things in it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 20 - 07:57 PM

I made Chicken a la King with Trump sauce and China Flu id rice.

Trump sauce is made with fictious ingredients and stolen money.
China Flu id rice is just cooked rice in a blender with soy.
The Pandemic version is made the same but you don't cook the chicken.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 08:06 AM

We also enjoyed a sausage made from that nasty kid who lived next door: bratworst, we called it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 10:01 AM

Stay safe, Don. Are you having symptoms or were just in the proximity of someone with COVID?

Thinking about a foray out for fresh vegetables, but it's late enough now the stores will have regular shoppers, not just sleepy seniors who had to arrive at the crack of dawn for Senior Shopping.

Maybe tomorrow. There is still stuff in the freezer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 10:49 AM

I tried bratwurst for the 1st time ever Sunday. I don't like it.
There is only a typical morning cough but there is distancing going on because my wife with no discussion went to support her recently widowed oldest sister in rural Oregon, which is in her character regarding family. My only good memory of the deceased was during a family photo when he laughed at my joke that 'extraneous DNA' always stand in the back row. After 20 years the joke still works.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 01:50 PM

There are many varieties of bratwurst using different mixes of meats and seasonings. I'm partial to smoky beef brats.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 05:57 PM

Yes, Donuel, I noticed that post
reporting that you had 'the cough.'
You are doing well to be prudent about it.

As to Rhode Island:
I've been to Rhode Island,
and a lot of it is ocean water.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 06:45 PM

Its a good place to go submarine spotting, highway race, raise chickens and probably smuggle. *The pandemic is the main thing, the fire is the second and coming in third is the hurricane. Fourth is the open season for police shooting black people. The long standing crisis is the coup against democracy.

*in order of lethality

deadly bratwurst is #1354 on the lethal list.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 09:07 PM

Funny you should mention submarines around Rhode Island,
because that reminds me of something else actually.
My brief acquaintance with Rhode Island,
especially the closer you get to the shore and the Long Island Sound,
is that there is more to it than
Newport and those impossible mansions rising seemingly out of the water's edge.

In places like Greater Providence, with its many suburbs,
or Pawtucket to the north and east,
there are whole enclaves of people who are
Italian-Americans by way of New York and New Jersey,
and submarines to them are sandwiches,
often very peppery spicy ones.
Don't even get them started on pizzas ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 09:08 PM

... and I just remembered ChanteyLass,
the Mudcatter who lives in Rhode Island.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 09:40 PM

I thought ChanteyLass lived in New Mexico. I'm probably thinking of someone else.

My niece married into a well-to-do Boston family (a house in Cambridge/Harvard Square, etc.) and they have a beach place in Rhode Island. I poked around on Google maps. It's in the realm of "just a house" a block or two from the beach, but I'm sure even those don't go for a song. Every one of them seems to be built large with plenty of bedrooms for family visiting in the summer.

Don mentioned a cough before, I was hoping it was a passing thing and there are no symptoms now? Anyway, you don't need to discuss it in the open thread, but stay well, my friend!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 09:58 AM

Thanks to California we've been coughing AND staying inside the shelter of the HVAC filters wherever we can. This is the first day in a week that the AQI is "healthy."

In the last week I've given away three human skulls, two matching mandibles, and two human femurs, and a boatload of trophies for head-bowling, bone-baseball, and the other sports the Legion has engaged in over the years.

I knew only the owner of one of the skulls in his pre-skull days, a noxious old f*rt named Samworthy. He's the one who started the rout at the Battle of Tinymatters, where General Sothoth burned all the crops so they wouldn't fall into the hands of the German Army. That was in Idaho in 1967.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 02:06 PM

Our air quality is about to shift to wet and blowy, a one-two hurricane punch. We're usually on the fringes of where the weather hits, so I'm hoping that trend continues.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 03:23 PM

No irritation or infection. I started smoking last week so my cillia are pissed off. Quitting again is in order when in home quaranine is over. Maybe I'll write a Film Noire story about the hunting down of the Post Master General.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 05:25 PM

I mentioned the pilot wave phenomenon regarding quantum strangenss that traces a future course and motion - the total opposite of the wake behind a boat.
pilot waves you can see pushing a particle.

Another view over time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC0ygr08tE
If you will, we are a surfing in an ocean of time.

ABSTRACT

The investigation of dynamical systems has revealed a deep-rooted difference between waves and objects regarding temporal reversibility and particlelike objects. In nondissipative chaos, the dynamic of waves always remains time reversible, unlike that of particles. Here, we explore the dynamics of a wave-particle entity. It consists in a drop bouncing on a vibrated liquid bath, self-propelled and piloted by the surface waves it generates. This walker, in which there is an information exchange between the particle and the wave, can be analyzed in terms of a Turing machine with waves as the information repository. The experiments reveal that in this system, the drop can read information backwards while erasing it. The drop can thus backtrack on its previous trajectory. A transient temporal reversibility, restricted to the drop motion, is obtained in spite of the system being both dissipative and chaotic.


https://www.quantamagazine.org/fluid-experiments-support-deterministic-pilot-wave-quantum-theory-20140624/

With a little imagination you may see why I believe in a 3D model of time on a quantum scale.

Since I was 14 I always wanted know why the 2 slit experiment suggested a particle wave at 2 places at once. I'm glad to 'SEE' a clear cut answer. This news is 10 years old in the visual experiment and the de Broglio theory is 100 years old, so its not like gravity waves being discovered.

I have even done this in my kitchen. Just like this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 05:59 PM

I kinda already knew that life/reality is both random and partially deterministic. I've even noticed the tiny time loops by whatever name want to call it. It's not all deja vu. Its not all deja vu.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 09:22 AM

kids say the darndest things
adults flaunt their collected bias'
seniors have no audience for wisdom
and the living speak for the dead
but there are a special few who listen

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 08:05 PM

Rapparee, are the grasshoppers still around?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 09:58 PM

Yes. One attacked me today. He won't hop again in grass or anywhere else.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Aug 20 - 09:04 AM

I was in the 1956 Colorado grasshopper plague. The biggest danger was driving on slick grasshopper guts right off the road

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Aug 20 - 09:13 AM

The smell of dead grasshoppers and crickets is distinctive. We had a couple of really bad years in Central Texas back in the early 1980s and the municipality would spray at night. You'd go to a store and walk past piles of dead bugs.

We almost had a dead squirrel yesterday. The girls are beginning to coordinate their routine and they were within a whisker of catching one reckless squirrel that didn't decide it would be smartest to stay up the tree. Dead squirrels stink also, though when I find those things I toss them into the creek for the turtles and fish or bury them in the compost pile.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 20 - 09:47 PM

I counted 12 grasshoppers on a 10 x 10 slab of concrete this afternoon.
Tomorrow around 10 a.m. MDT I shall engage in chemical warfare, doing my best to avoid bees, etc. I do not care how many box elder bugs also bite the dust. DEATH TO GRASSHOPPERS (since I can't use live bait.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 20 - 07:58 AM

If you allow the natural world in you begin to see how the natural world treats you differently as if latent ancient DNA expresses knowledge that allows an interplay within and outside you. You see differently as though even the organization of a grasshopper cycle is more than the sum of its parts. The parts consist of a squad and multiple squads form a brigade that transforms plant life into flying protein packaged in chitin that need not go to waste. You can almost see their ancient contribution to a biome which is now extinct but was very much in harmony in their day. They were the food to new giant avian species in variations beyond belief millions of years ago
"Now you know the rest of the story"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 20 - 06:40 PM

They're also edible by humans. I've even eaten roasted grasshoppers. At the moment they are doing me more damage than I will do them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 01:11 AM

I think taking out a lot of box elder bugs is also a worthwhile enterprise. I set up a mosquito trap this afternoon; it's passive, a bucket of water with some floating vegetation (weeds pulled today) that will rot and make the stagnant water all the more inviting to mosquitoes. Whose eggs will not survive the Bacillus thuringiensis israelii (mosquito dunk) in the water.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 06:20 AM

Do you hear the grasshopper ?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 07:19 AM

The western and mid western right wing militias are now in competition with each other. Some ride in pick up truck beds shooting mace and paintball guns into demonstrators. Some show up with live ammo. They are defending themselves and Trump, their excuser and chief.
Escalation will culminate in intensifying a fear of going to the polls. Militas are correct in assuming they have most police on their side. The use of the term civil war is discouraged and it is said that we are a country at war with itself. More blood may be shed as the election draws closer and Trump throws more troops into Portland and Chicago. It maybe won't be as bad as I think but it could make Trump President for four more years as more nazi like folk heros are created and memorialized while ignoring the dead mad crazy democrats and blacks. At least strategists like Steve Miller, McConnel, Bannon and Trump probably hope so.

Yesterday I watched from my parked car as a policeman in a cruiser detained an apparant exhausted vagrant and homeless black man and called for back up of two more police vehicles. There was no search or abuse that I witnessed but I did not not approach or obstruct the police and left early. There was simply the appearance and fear by the police. Even a firetruck showed up but soon left the scene. I feel like things are on a hair trigger. Perhaps it was just a humanitarian call to help the black man? If you didn't know, the police can now call paramedics to administer 500 mg of Ketamine to suspects. It has been fatal to small people but only renders larger people unconscious.
Things are moving just slow enough that Americans are getting used to it. It remains that Trump is the only one calling balls and strikes be it about violence or the pandemic. I guess I don't trust Trump to be Umpire and Chief.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 03:07 PM

1351

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 03:14 PM

Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act of { 1351 },
defining treason in English law. It is currently one of the earliest statues still in force under English law. ...
April 8 – Hundred Years' War: At the Battle of Taillebourg the French are defeated by the English.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 06:10 PM

1352: The Black Death is slowly dying out in England and Europe. Flagellants discover that it really hurts!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Sep 20 - 12:48 PM

I read this morning in The New York Times that some basic and inexpensive steroids are helping people who had severe cases of COVID-19 recover. Not recommended for mild cases. Now lets see what kind of BS Trump calls on behalf of Prednisone and it's family of magic bullets (but you have to be careful with them and taper off - that's the part that requires patience of patients.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Sep 20 - 10:31 PM

Prednisone and similar drugs can send blood sugars through the roof -- and beyond. If you're diabetic, be very, very careful.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 20 - 05:01 PM

Go BIG 10 or go home

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Sep 20 - 02:42 PM

Big 10 what?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 20 - 04:47 PM

I see. One third of the college football players who contracted Covid 19 suffered inflamation of the heart muscle as well as other organs.
Sometimes the inflamation goes away on its own. The head coach of Penn State U. was willing to err on the side of caution and stop the school's seasonal games.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Sep 20 - 09:23 PM

Oh. Football. I see.