Ah, the music of a Chicago typewriter on Valentine's Day.
He was trying to say "Obama" and started without the "O", caught himself, and went on correctly.
I have no idea how "shills" behave and you are just deflecting with name-calling again. In fact, considering no "shill" has ever been exposed and identified, I wonder whether you have only picked the term to derogate those you cannot stand.
Hah! The people who anoint themselves with being "awakened" and how they refer to the sleeping "normies." You don't see the irony in your objection.
I'm not the only one who denounces the crazy manhunt for bedbugs that sometimes emerges here.
No, I don't even remotely have arguments "against basically everything going on." I wouldn't have time in the day to breathe, if that were true. I have arguments against poor thinking and fantasy (which, for you, might seem like everything going on). I frequent this site to get news and insight I would get nowhere else. I pitch in to clear out the wooly thinking that contaminates the good thinking. And sometimes I have specific expertise or experience to pit against appalling ignorance. According to Socrates, I should take pride in the number of debates that end with my critic calling me names.
Hmm. Does this also synchronize with the donor abandonment of Nikki Haley? Plan A is a failure; move on to Plan B?
I'm sorry, but this is one point where the founding fathers let their idealism exceed their realism. For one thing, our freedoms include most especially the freedom of conscience and the freedom of association. For another, there will always arise points of severe division (e.g., abortion). It is inevitable that "parties" will arise to embody either an issue or an ideological combination of issues.
My union had no "parties" and long suffered under a dictatorial underling. Everyone was resigned to their fate. But when I jumped into the situation, I realized we needed to have party politics to organize and give voice to the resistance. And so we began, with a party label ("Dedicated Unionists") and a publication for the distribution of propaganda. The "establishment" were like a deer in the headlghts. They had never seen the like. Instead of lobbying the cronies of the union council, we ignored the hundred-odd members in the council and concentrated on the thousands of rank-and-file members. The establishment fought back with lies and innuendo. We countered with access to union tax and income documents that had been held secret from the membership. It went back and forth for 5 years and cost several thousand dollars, but it did culminate in firing the tyrant under circumstances where there would be no comeback (the members said they would join a decertification campaign if that was attempted). To me, it was all a small-scale experiment in proving that corruption could be expelled. Partisanship is how political change is made (MAGA!).
Hoping that there will be no "parties" is like hoping there will be no thumbs.
And how do you tell the difference? At what point does a "detached" earlobe become an "attached" earlobe? Does it ever occur to you that the human body has a remarkable range of presentation? Maybe it is only your problem in trying to categorize an earlobe that is at the boundary of what you imagine to be the two cases.
No "normie argument." I am personal testimony to the effect. My eyes are more deeply seated than Biden's. All you can see of my eyelids are the lashes. What do I have to do? Appear before you in person before you accept what I say? Why don't you just make your fantasy complete and declare I am a liar?
Eye color depends a lot on lighting. Are my eyes green or grey? I have never been able to tell. These photos credit blue, but some parts of the shaded iris look brown. They may look blue in white light, and brown in yellowish light. Which photos are the "correct" ones?
Ever had loss of full control of your hand, and had to default to the other? A lot of people are ambidextrous---enough so that we have a word for it. I once taught myself to write legibly with my left hand. But it's not like right-handed people have no use for their left hand. Plenty of things to do with the left hand that do not require dexterity.
The photograph referenced above has poor resolution. With good resolution, the individual hairs in his eyebrows would be discernible. As it is, they are all blurred together. This means that any skin pores would also be blurred together with smooth skin. You need to account for the quality of the photograph before drawing conclusions about it.
Good for you. I've spent a lifetime looking at my own face in the mirror, and it changes...it changes.
Oh, bother. My eyes are that far back. You have to consider that the eye is cushioned by a layer of fat behind it. If the fat is shrunk or depleted with age, the eye will recede.
The iris is not black; it is blue. But it is in shadow. The pupil will always be black and when it is enlarged due to low light level, or dilated by drugs, it will make the pupil-iris combination look black.
You can't tell by this photo. These irises are in shadow and the color of irises depends a lot on the light in which they are viewed. They both look like they could be blue.
Or getting old if the skull has deep sockets and the skin above the lid has grown out and covers the upper lid. I have this going on with my eyes.
It's called radio. LIke when they were communicating with the astronauts. Or with the lunar probes that preceded them in the Apollo program. A ground controller at the Cape sent the signal for the camera to tilt up. He was watching the video feed.
I challenge you to substantiate any of your claims about easy money or a popular consensus. And by what conceit do you evaluate that as a "more rudimentary" period of time? It was the most monumental achievement in history, by talented and determined people who were totally focused on what had to be done. We should be ashamed that they did so much with what we are pleased today to consider so little. For them, it made the day. They put the "greatest" in Greatest Generation.
Who wants to? Somebody has to cough up the dough and plan for mounting such an expedition. People seem to have more plans for their latest X-Box than for returning to the Moon.
I should point out that, for Apollo, they did send the probes and landers first. Lunar Orbiter. Ranger. Surveyor. If you don't know these important and simple facts, you may be undereducated on the history of what happened.
Ever been to Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho? Very sobering terrain, from horizon to horizon. I visited it in the summer of 1969 or 1970 (hazy memory) and haven't returned for a second look. Gee, that is as long as we haven't returned to the Moon. Is it more important to return to the Moon, than it is to return to Craters of the Moon?
Because you don't "know for a fact." You simply don't know, you have an unanswered question, and you fill it in with imagination. That's not a path to knowledge.
I guess you never heard of the concept of remote control. The camera was tilted on command from the people on Earth monitoring the mission.
Good insight. Gold star. For those who understand what it took to go, there are no mysteries. But for those who are painfully ignorant of the science and engineering of how we went, it all seems mysterious. And it really is an object lesson in how "common sense" is a bogus concept when you really need to understand with uncommon sense.
It's painful to watch so much paranoid delusion. The answer to the question is exceedingly simple, but you don't want to hear it. Nobody in power wanted to go back. After the first few landings, the public became bored and tuned it out. Congress cut the space budget to a fraction of the Apollo level (it was a national crash program) and decided to continue with a Space Shuttle, planetary probes, a Space Station, and orbital telescopes. The Moon was a political dead letter. Everyone was oohing and ahhing over stunning pictures from the Hubble telescope.
Meanwhile other rocket technology was being developed by private industry, just fine. But who had the money to return? No one. All the moaners and the groaners have been silent up to this point---but right on time to complain that somebody else is not providing them the entertainment they think they rightly deserve. Therefore, it must be an evil plot that is preventing it.
The only thing that has prevented it is people sitting on their collective asses, waiting for their entitlement. They should look in the mirror and ask "What have I ever done to return us to the Moon."
As a former Boeing employee, I find this saddening on two counts. First, there is the loss of a courageous and upright person. Second, there is the shadow of murderous coercion over all the employees of Boeing, not to tell the truth about any problem with product safety or reliability. Boeing lost a lot in its merger with McDonnell-Douglas, but such a shadow will mean it has no right to claim the honor that once went with the name.