Random Thought

There's been ethnic conflicts all over the place in recent times in asia on all sides so it's not really surprising. More due to religion/resources than actually minorities. It just happens to coincide.

Yeah, well, it's the one Iran showed off. But they did a better job than this photoshopping from a fisheye picture source.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/is-this-proof-that-the-us-air-force-can-aerially-refuel-1702048915
Just by a glance there's about 7 things that are wrong without counting the photoshopping. Regardless it's a fake by some noob layman.

Brightest Galaxy found!
http://www.space.com/29463-brightest-galaxy-in-universe-found.html
WISE J224607.57-052635.0 There you got the coordinates to hunt it down.
It's from 12.5 billion years ago as bright as 300 triillion stars and a huge blackhole. Must be quite a lot of fire works from mergers back then.

So basically they're saying they're not quite sure how that black hole got so huge but that it's huge.
It's also interesting that all galaxies have black holes at their hearts.Wonder what that means.

Wet and dank today.We had a thunder and lightning show yesterday night.So glad it happened after I went to bed though.I always fear what would happen if it happened when I was watching one of my
DVDs.

I was going to mow the lawn today but doesn't look like I'll get the chance,at least not yet,still cloudy.
It also rained and hailed some more earlier in the day.Well,we do need the rain.

Hopefully I'll still be able to help our neighbors across the street mow his father's back yard tommorrow.

That reminds me I don't want to receive a ticket for a "well grown" lawn like some people I know.

BUG WAR!

The ant invasion, the cockroach tide, the mosquito swarm etc.... now joined by a new unknown bug species! While on patrol the glorious mobile infantry found an advance scout from an unknown bug species hidden under the table woods. So far it's determined to be a transparent caterpillar like stealth scout. Shots against it abdomen have no effects. It's recommended to use shotguns instead and armor piercing for its armored head. It has touch jaws that have no trouble severing a man's head. It moves slow but don't be mistaken it's extremely fast at striking. It has a dangerous swirling tackle attack. It can spit silk thread to catch its prey; cross cliff and valleys or climb mountains. The Air Marshal already announced to send a fleet to planet Table in anticipation of an invasion.
*Want to know?

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There's an interesting publication in nature about the first tools created by unknown huminin species before humans by nearly a (0.7) million years.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7552/full/521294a.html

IS has conquered half of Syria. It looks like this time it's going to be Assad's downfall for real as he has lost nearly all the oil. IS is also advertising/defending women slavery...warped minds.
Looks like there is not much to be expected from the iraquis. They just want us to step in.

New Zealand has started a campaign for finding a new national flag! I don;t think it's a good idea other than getting rid of the Union Jack.

Btw. the lcars community is back at
http://www.nu-lcarsc.com

Well it will be interesting to see what they come with in NZ to replace the Union Jack.Canada did that in the '60s,which is why they have the Maple Leaf now.

The Japanese have sent 40 officers and men to participant with the U.S. and Australia in the latest
defense manuevers.

Looks like the PM of Iraq is trying to look tough by starting an operation to retake Ramadi.

Speaking of lawns,I just mowed my neighbors as they're selling it.

http://www.nzflag.com/
Well, the ideas are wide ranging but imho unless you got something historically old anything will be wrong in someone's mind. If not now then in the future. NZ british faction's propaganda is that the flag is historic old even if it's not even a century old. Heh.

Japan has a long way to go. There's still lots of resistance from the populace. If a single soldier dies for any reason it will be Abe policy's donwfall.

The UN has taken the first step against IS regarding protecting archaeological sites. It's a long way before a decision on "crimes against humanity" will be made. Many members don't have interest to support any moves along CaH. Besides destruction of cultural/historic goods is not part of CaH definition yet.
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/un-islamic-state-commiting-genocide-and-crimes-against-humanity
http://www.crimesofwar.org/a-z-guide/crimes-against-humanity/
Meanwhile, IS is promoting sex tourism...

http://mattiasalmloef.com/?m=201410
You can no longer tweet racial slurs against jews!
and more...
PS: Some famous news site are heavily tracked and surveilled. Note the load time.

The Kurds seem to be the only one making any headway against ISIS.They've taken some more
territory in Syria now and are threatening a major city that ISIS uses for its illegal trade.

I got the privilege(?) of filling out a poll(they call it political census) sent out by the GOP.
One of the questions listed a number of topics and you had to choose which party did a better job
on it the Republican or Democratic or else you had the option of No Opinion.

Now that I got the complete first Season of Sailor Moon I can relax a bit.My last order was for
the new Rozen Maiden.After that,in June some time I plan on ordering Cat's Eye
Season 1.

They hardly count as they still have no country. They will stay being a pawn and hardly have a future.
Similarly our trying to turn asian countries against china is inconsequential. It's at least twenty (40) years too late.

I don't consider that a privilege. You definitely have been psychologically tested in some way. Recently I got a questionnaire from the county about my area in order for them to determine community improvement. I have no doubt regardless of the result they will do it. They just need a legal excuse.

*listens to "Derringer"*

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Anyway, an independent group has published their investigation into the fake satellite image supplied by russia in the MH370 aircraft shooting. Heh.. As if all the photoshopping people posted in replies right after publication wasn't an indication already.
NATO is gathering for another major exercise in the Ukraine. Putin is getting more stress. Russian subs appear more and more making the swedes nervous. Hopefully, he won't resort to more.

In the past few weeks more and more medial reports appeared showing German doctors performing the most medical operations in the world. Roughly 3.5x more than the average (knee-, heart artery OP). And most of them are completely unnecessary. According to data the 3x rise in operations happened within 20 years. It's undoubtedly a healthcare/law issue.

Watched the Custer episode on Bill O'Reilly's Legends And Lies yesterday.And speaking of
ahistorical,this series is so full of crap and b.s. it's hard to tell where to start.I mean it's fun viewing
and there is just enough truth to get you interested but if you're a serious history student...

For example in the Billy the Kid episode O'Reilly had to ruin it by including an epilog featuring the long
disproven claim of "Brushy" Bill.

Back to the Custer one,a lot of facts were either distorted or not even included.For example they didn't even talk about Custer's Crow Scouts or other Indian allies.Nor did they mention that it was
a reconnaissance in force ordered by General Terry as part of an overall plan to pacify the Sioux and
Cheyenne.
So it wasn't like he went off on his own seeking glory the way the show tries to show.

The miracle of course is that FNC gave the series a green light for Season 2.

Reading The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick. It's 312 pages plus notes detailing in exhaustive
detail Custer's Last Stand and the Battle of Little Bighorn. It includes testimony from officers,men,
Crow and Arikara scouts and Lakota and Cheyenne hostiles. A great remedy for Legends And Lies.

I've also read some of the reviews of the companion book for Legends And Lies at Amazon
and another book review site.Interesting two of them mentioned that apparently O'Reilly and his
co-writer got some if not all the photos in the book completely wrong!

Sorry about the rambling but it gets in my craw when people get some as important as history so
wrong.Especially when like Custer's Last Stand there are literally libraries worth of books on the subject that can be read and researched for the facts.

It looks like now Josh Duggar not only molested his sisters but there's also a charge of possible rape.

The tragedy involving the cruise ship in China gets worse.They finally righted the ship and expect to find more bodies.

The stupidity of some people is amazing:after warning after warning about notstanding too near
the buffalo,two people in the last several months have been hospitalized because they got too close.
The latest was a 62 year old Aussie.

And finally...The Boston Public Library lost two valuable works of art in the past year,one was a Rembrandt and the other a Durer.It turns out they were both mislabeled and still in the print stacks.

They probably didn't look at the pictures nor did they actually write 90% of the book. How many Ghost writers won the Pulitzer prize?

It's a wonder the Rembrandt/Durer didn't get thrown away like some (two)thousand year old scripts at some monastery.

Hmm, so Germany paid 130 millions for the G7 summit. Nice price tag!
Surprisingly, the Kurd's party in turkey got a boost from turkish voters. I guess the rebels figured they could never overcome the 10% border by themselves.

People are complaining about nuclear disarming talks at the UN. No wonder after years of revamping/modernizing on all sides. Soooo up to date.

After closing schools on friday SKorea is crippled by another surge of MERS infectees. Looks like this is going to be some time longer. This time of years is bad as people can't keep their homes close due to the summer heat.

Airbus has unveiled their idea for a SpaceX ship!
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/06/airbus-unveils-adeline-its-clever-answer-to-spacexs-reusable-rockets/
Looks like a Scifi idea from a WWII alternate world.

While South Korea reported the 6th MERS victim to die.He was 80.

Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush today who is definitely not jumping out of any planes today or in the near future!
I guess that's George's thing.

The Wallstreet Journal had a front page pic of the G-7 leaders walking and having a good time in an Alpine meadow.If the entire G-7 Summit could go that easily.

It's been damnably hot here for the Pacific Northwest.Usually it should be no warmer than 75-80
but it's gotten in the 90s.In fact Spokane beat the record temp of 91 that was established back in
1931,it got up to 96.

Defiance finally returns to SYFY on Friday.Been waiting for Season 3 for a long time now.
They're supposed to introduce some new characters including some new aliens.

That's pretty much normal in TX.

Defiance wasn't so good, although, the story arc was interesting but too slow to develop imho. I dunno about this new season....


Airbus finally came forward with the details of the A400M crash. It appears, while installing the engine software an important data-reference file was deleted. The quality management in spain seem to be the lowest in developed countries.

Fighting in the Ukraine has been rising since last week again. Obviously due to the NATO exercise...And other Putin issues like the loomming economic failure of the stealth fighter
China on the other side is on track for mass production of its stealth fighter next year. Heh, my prediction were on mark again unlike those political lies analysts.

Master of Orion is going to get a refresh/reboot.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/master-of-orion-the-original-4x-sci-fi-masterpiece-is-being-rebooted/

Surprisingly, there are large scale war in Spore
http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Fiction:Taberon_War
comparable to Eve online
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5356498/eve-online-battle-sees-200000-dollars-worth-of-spaceships-destroyed
Then again I witnessed large scale battle with thousands of players (100 million ships on my faction's side) a decade ago in Warring Factions. Actually, there have been even larger battles but it's pseudo 3D on 2D web page.
On a side note some funny fact that could happen in the real world
http://mashable.com/2013/01/28/eve-online-asakai/

I rather enjoy Defiance myself. For me the whole thing is about the Nolan/ Irisa father/ daughter
relationship. They make a good tag team (at least IMHO).Of course the fact that she's his adopted daughter and she's an alien makes it more interesting.

So it seems the NAACP in Spokane has an interesting problem with its current president.It turns out her
biological parents have outed her as being white though her mother admits they have a bit of
American Indian as well.This after she claims she's been racially harassed.

And now the talk is that the Arizona Coyotes and the city of Glendale,Arizona are in a snit over the
lease of the current stadium.One solution would be to move the team back to its old arena in
Phoenix.Though there are plenty of hockey fans,including in Seattle that wouldn't mind the team
relocating.

The whole Dolezal affair has gotten to the point that everyone around the world seems now to be talking about it.Really it's all up to the local NAACP in Spokane as to what should be done with her.

So Sea Hares are now rife all over Southern California.They're basically sea slugs with atennae that look like bunny ears.They're said to be harmless,it's just that they happen to be large and purple.Fortunately they don't eat people or they'd be Purple People Eaters!
(And see what I did there: I manage to reference both the Beatles' Yellow Submarine and the
best Minnesota Vikings defensive line of all time ever at the same time! )

I guess it makes sense that since Dolezal is from Spokane that there's been more about her in
the local media this week.
The surprising thing is how the national media has taken and run with it.

Apparently scientists in the Serengeti have planted cameras in order to allow wildlife to take 'selfies'.


I have an Aunt in Seattle area who will be 99 on Friday.My cousins over there are going to have
a big bash for her at the retirement home she's at.
She and my dad are the only ones left in their family now.

I'm seeing news about Dolezal overseas, too. But nobody cares anyway...

It appears those cameras are forbidden in Europe because of "wasting" the environment or so, whatever. It's a crime! Apropos the french minister say Nutella chocolate is destroying the environment because it gives incentive to destroy land for grown palm (oil). Frankly, that's a minor problem compared to soya and other (sugar) plants. Since she forgot to mention those I guess it's all about targeting Nutella and rallying the dump public.

Apropos retro
Seen any new news about the UFO movie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series)
It's been 6 years since the announcement and 2 years past the screening time.
Did they get discouraged because of V?

Will we ever see the reboot?

I think that the shooting in Charleston finally drove Dolezal off the front pages overwhere else.

Didn't know there was a UFO movie in the works. That be if they did do it. Even though
today the series could be considered pretty much low budget (those wigs the female characters
wore for example) it still was pretty to watch.Plus some consider it the prequel to Space:1999
another series that ought to get it's own movie(and needs more love).

Yep, it was announced in 2009 and schedule for 2013. Read on
http://www.shadowlocked.com/20101024833/interviews/exclusive-interview-with-matthew-gratzner-on-the-ufo-movie.html
http://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/10/5/spaceships-that-were-almost-other-spaceships-3-the-eagle-tra.html
I don't mind it being old or looking. The story was good and the actors were, too. Imho some cheap productions these days look worse. Or look good but brainless. *shrugs* Too bad it ended unsatisfying.

I wonder what will happen after the Charleston shooting in terms of new laws or old getting changed.


I also found out about another major information loss at wikipedia. Obviously some delete nazis/censorship editors have deleted pages due to being "irrelevant" and such excuses as needing being cited by another source first aside from the original source it comes from... Now the original information are complete gone from the net and unrecoverable. There are also more elaborate censorship going on like move to another article, splitting it further until it's all gone and nowhere to be found. As an example try finding any information about the dozen's infamous massacres in Australia. The history listing is completely cleaned off of any mentioning. If you find one or two it was probably fixed by a certain good editor.

The russian (= putin lackeys) say they got things in order despite sanctions and that they actually profit from it...as foreign companies retreat russian corporation fill in the places. I doubt they can hold on to it for long after all they need the goods from us.
Meanwhile on the trade exchange everyone sees is break down of the russian industry. In any case the losses are now 3-digits of billions. Looks like my predicted was right on again +- a few months more and we will see.

Looks like it will be a grexit. After all, plans have been made and lots of leevay already given there's just no space for anything more. It all depends on the Greeks to accept it or leave. Despite everything Greece's economy won't impact much on the EU. In the past the most they did was import/export mostly of the scheme: exporting and re-importing at higher prices. Now that is all in chinese hands. Their industry was more or less all governmental and for their military only. The rest is just agrarian products.

Anyway, Microsoft won't update Explorer weaknesses...so new.
There's rumor AMD will break up. Now that would be bad for us consumers.

AD:The Bible Continues had it's Season finale yesterday.
Overall I think it deserves at least a B.It was entertaining enough despite the fact that it didn't get much of anything right from the story perspective.Though if you treat it has Biblical fanfic,not bad.
They should get kudos for the way they replicated 1st Century AD Palestine,but especially Jerusalem and the Temple.
Of the main characters I'm still a bit disappointed that Peter wasn't played by a taller actor,though the one who did play him certainly showed the leadership ability as well as Peter's indecisiveness.
I also have a quibble with the James character.Mainly that he was played as being Jesus' older
halfbrother,when in reality I think he was actually his younger full brother(at least from
the povof family and friends).Then again I don't believe in the perpetual virginity of Mary,from what
I read in the Gospels I'm pretty sure that she and Joseph and sex like a normal couple after Jesus was born.That's the only nit I have on that character othewise I thought he was portrayed pretty well.
The angels were the interesting part of the series.
I think the fact that they were portrayed in a militaristic manner had a lot of Biblical backing to it.
After all Revelation describes war between Michael and Satan.
All in all not not too bad.

CNN is going to air a documentary on Glen Campbell Sunday called:Rhinestone Cowboy.
It looks to be sadly bittersweet as it documents his struggle with alzheimers.In one scene in the trailer it shows him watching a younger version of himself singing Rhinestone Cowboy and he asks his
daughter:"Who is that man singing?"

Also CNN had a little fun with Fox News Channel by showing a clip from Fox And Friends where one of the co-hosts was trying to throw an axe but it missed the target and hit one of the drummers
a glancing blow on the elbow instead.After which they had montage of FAF's grreatest bloopers.
Well considering FNC does the same to CNN all the time...

According to the paper evidence found in Mars Istok crater seems to suggest there was water there as recently as 1 million years ago.

I kind of understand why CNN had done that part. AFAIK alzheimer/dementia is increasing these days either because of genes or other modern influences. It will increase in importance in the future.

Btw. many veterinarians are complaining about their animals suffering from civilization sicknesses. Due to climate problems and other envirnomental problems it won't be long before our cities and buildings will be designed to be more green, literally.

Brazil town flying the Confederate flag
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33245800


4k TV isn't mainstream yet and many are already working on 8K and more. It's not like I don't like it but I don't see much uses right now. It's not like we got Enterprise-bridges to fill, although, that would be exciting for some fans.
AMD is coming with graphic chips with HBM (memory in 3D stacked design). It appears that's not good enough yet for 4K. *shrugs*