Kosh's Shadow 9/17/2025 5:13:37 PM

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Ireland wants the UN to throw out the US and Israel

GREAT IDEA - let that be brought up before the UNSC, US abstains, and when it passes - NO US money to the UN; UN staff lose visas, Iran and other countries that do not have relations with the US lose their diplomatic immunity.

Ireland can pay to move the UN there. 

JCM 9/18/2025 6:53:17 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

I'm in US pays a quarter of the UN budget. We should leave. PNG all the UN diplomats, detain a few until they pay all their parking tickets and bills. The demolish the UN buildings.

JCM 9/18/2025 7:58:26 AM

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Questions remain after 5 officers shot, 3 fatally, while serving warrant in York County, Pa.

Authorities have not yet released the identities of the three officers who were killed.

Officials said police killed the shooter and that there is not any threat to the community.

The two injured officers were in critical but stable condition at York Hospital, authorities said.

JCM 9/18/2025 8:05:54 AM

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Reply to JCM in 3:

Man who killed 3 officers in York County was camouflaged, shooting from cornfield: report

Occasional Reader 9/18/2025 8:24:49 AM

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Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez seems to wish Spain had nuclear weapons… so he could use them on Israel.

Occasional Reader 9/18/2025 8:25:54 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

Horrible.

and I still haven’t seen any clarification of why the Mexican consulate felt the urge to send out a warning about this. 

JCM 9/18/2025 8:32:00 AM

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Let's have some fun at the expenses of the ACLU.

ACLU Responds to Trump Administration Move Censoring Jimmy Kimmel

Christopher Anders, director of the Democracy and Technology Division at the American Civil Liberties Union, said:

“Jimmy Kimmel is the latest target of the Trump administration’s unconstitutional plan to silence its critics and control what the American people watch and read..."

It wasn't Trump it was the owners of the station and program Nexstar Media Group. Where was ACLU when Trump was banned on Twitter? Where were they when the Standford virologists questioned COVID and got banned on YouTube, Facebook etc...

ACLU has forgetten what the First Amendment does and displays their blatant hypocrisy.

JCM 9/18/2025 8:40:43 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 5:

Seems Spain has not lost all the Fascism of the Franco era.

Kosh's Shadow 9/18/2025 9:38:56 AM

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In #8 JCM said: Seems Spain has not lost all the Fascism of the Franco era.

Or the Spanish Inquisition. I suggest he take all the "Palestinians" and turn Spain back into Muslim Andalusia.

Occasional Reader 9/18/2025 9:55:55 AM

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Reply to JCM in 7:

Every single  word in the bame of the  ACLU is misleading.

Kosh's Shadow 9/18/2025 10:25:54 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

The ACLU is no longer the free speech absolutists they were back years ago when they supported Nazis marching in Skokie, iirc.

Today, they probably wouldn't support the Nazis but would support Hamas supporters, who are more numerous and more threatening to Jews.

JCM 9/18/2025 10:45:29 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

Yup... 

Kosh's Shadow 9/18/2025 10:49:52 AM

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JCM 9/18/2025 12:14:58 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 13:

Cool Intergalactic visitors! I love all the headlines that the trajectory can "only" be controlled by an intelligence.

They bring a book; "To Serve Man". 

To bad we don't have the tech to quickly assembly a probe and the drive systems to check it out.

Kosh's Shadow 9/18/2025 12:48:36 PM

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In #14 JCM said: To bad we don't have the tech to quickly assembly a probe and the drive systems to check it out.

It is actually going to be close enough to some existing probes to get better pictures and data.

Although we can't currently send a probe to invstigate it close-up

JCM 9/18/2025 12:52:09 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 15:

I am amazed how much can be learned from spectroscopy and other EM analysis. Probes we have out there are heavy on that type of instrumentation. As cool as pictures are, visible light gives us limited information.

Kosh's Shadow 9/18/2025 1:32:41 PM

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Reply to JCM in 16:

Spectra, both atomic and molecular, give us a lot of information about the materials present.

Visible light is a tiny part of the EM spectrum

JCM 9/18/2025 1:37:55 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 17:

I got to play with spectroscopy in my Qualitative Chemistry course. We given unknow samples and cut loose in the lab to figure it what it was. Spectrographs were part of the equipment we had access to use.
Fun class.

JCM 9/18/2025 3:26:47 PM

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How does stupid crap like this gets any attention is beyond me.

Can Giant Airbags Make Plane Crashes Survivable? Two Engineers Think So

Kosh's Shadow 9/18/2025 3:41:34 PM

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In #19 JCM said: How does stupid crap like this gets any attention is beyond me. Can Giant Airbags Make Plane Crashes Survivable? Two Engineers Think So

Giant airbags like the Hindenberg? It would take ones that big. And fuel tanks that don't leak onto hot engines or the bags burn up.