NASA Video of Jupiter

http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2015/oct/14/jupiter-in-ultra-high-definition-nasa-video

Brando on Acting

http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2015/oct/13/listen-to-me-marlon-clip-marlon-brando-documentary-video

Stupid Crook News: If you drink and drive, don't crash into POlice car!

Yes, that sentence above warranted an exclamation point, methinks, because crashing into police car when drunk has to make you 1 of the stupider crooks who has ever lived.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/police-man-arrested-dui-charges-after-crashing-bac/nnzpP/

Shocking: Not getting vaccinated leads to measles outbreak

Back here on planet Earth with rational people, we understand vaccinations have helped almost eradicate diseases that have literally plagued the human race for centuries.

God damn it, it seems as evident as 1 + 1 equals 2 in a Euclidean numbering system, that which we commonly use.

So to those who oppose vaccinations, sit down and STFU!

[A case of measles has been linked to a megachurch in northern Tarrant County where a congregant recently traveled overseas.

Eagle Mountain International Church, about 50 miles northwest of Dallas, released a statement Tuesday that said a visitor attended a service who had been overseas and was exposed to measles.

“Therefore the congregation, staff at Kenneth Copeland Ministries and the daycare center on the property were exposed through that contact,” the statement said.]
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/08/measles-case-in-tarrant-county-tracked-back-to-megachurch-beside-eagle-mountain-lake.html/

[A Texas megachurch connected to a pastor who has openly questioned the benefits of modern medicine has been forced to host vaccination clinics after 21 members of the congregation contracted measles.

The outbreak started when a person who contracted measles overseas visited Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, located about 20 miles north of Fort Worth, Texas.

Officials with area health departments said those affected by the outbreak range in age from 4-months to 44-years-old.]  Emphasis added to show these people as batshit crazy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2403743/Measles-outbreak-Texas-megachurch-run-vaccine-denying-preacher-Kenneth-Copeland.html

[An outbreak of the measles at Kenneth Copeland's Texas megachurch has gotten some attention because (1) measles is something children are generally vaccinated for, these days and (2) Kenneth Copeland is, of course, an anti-vaccine crackpot. In what seems to be yet another bitterly ironic attempt by God to teach noisy religious fundamentalists what-for, the church has thus become the epicenter of a small but worrisome outbreak that has so far infected 10 and resulted in the Departmentof State Health Services issuing an alert spanning North Texas.]  (Italics inserted instuctiong in irony)
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/26/1234055/-Anti-vaccine-megachurch-hit-with-measles-epidemic-now-offering-free-vaccinations

Look, people with medical training who have done seiouis studies on vaccine autism links have found no links:

A 2013 CDC study[PDF - 204 KB] added to the research showing that vaccines do not cause ASD. The study looked at the number of antigens (substances in vaccines that cause the body’s immune system to produce disease-fighting antibodies) from vaccines during the first two years of life. The results showed that the total amount of antigen from vaccines received was the same between children with ASD and those that did not have ASD.  

Vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. 

One vaccine ingredient that has been studied specifically is thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used to prevent contamination of multidose vials of vaccines. Research shows that thimerosal does not cause ASD. In fact, a 2004 scientific review by the IOM concluded that "the evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal–containing vaccines and autism." Since 2003, there have been nine CDC-funded or conducted studies[PDF - 316 KB] that have found no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and ASD, as well as no link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and ASD in children.] 

From my uninformed view even though more children have received diagnoses of autism, perhaps these numbers of affected children have just seemed to arrive as vaccinations increased; this does not prove causation.Perhaps past had same numbers but we saw some as geniuses, some dunces, some just slow, and others weirdos.

[Instead {Nurses’ Study shows autism rates double with exposure to high levels of fine-particulate air pollution during pregnancy; strongest link in third trimester
December 18, 2014 

Nurses’ Study shows autism rates double with exposure to high levels of fine-particulate air pollution during pregnancy; strongest link in third trimester. 

December 18, 2014]  https://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/largest-ever-study-autism-pollution-shows-strong-link-during-pregnancy

So instead of supporting industries spweing petro-chemical pollutants  our societies should make more use of reuseable energy so as not to poison our children, companies like those of the Kochs:

The volume of Koch Industries' toxic output is staggering. According to the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Political Economy Research Institute, only three companies rank among the top 30 polluters of America's air, water and climate: ExxonMobil, American Electric Power and Koch Industries. Thanks in part to its 2005 purchase of paper-mill giant Georgia-Pacific, Koch Industries dumps more pollutants into the nation's waterways than General Electric and International Paper combined. The company ranks 13th in the nation for toxic air pollution. Koch's climate pollution, meanwhile, outpaces oil giants including Valero, Chevron and Shell. Across its businesses, Koch generates 24 million metric tons of greenhouse gases a year. (Emphasis added.)

Gators Win! Gators Win! Gators Win!

Gators Win!  Gators Win!  Gators Win!

[COLUMBIA, Mo. — Like the pick-six he had earlier in the night, Florida cornerback Jalen Tabor firmly grasped the enormity of the upcoming visit to LSU and ran with it.

After the Gators' clinical 21-3 win at Missouri, Tabor weighed in on the heavyweight matchup set for 7 Saturday night on ESPN.

The clash between the No. 6 Tigers (5-0, 3-0 SEC) and No. 8 Gators (6-0, 4-0) has everything a player, coach, fan or TV executive could want in a mid-October college football game.]

  

(Pic from previous game 'gainst Kentucky used 'cause I like it.)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-pictures-florida-gators-vs-kentucky-wildcats-20150918-photogallery.html

Dick Cheney Has Lost His Damn Mind

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney lost his mind: "Colin Powell's former chief of staff says insanity is the only explanation for Cheney's paranoid stance against the nuclear deal with Iran."..               

Saturday Night Live: Tackling tough questions so we don't have to

[“Preventing dangerous people from getting guns is very possible. We have common-sense solutions. We can toughen background checks and stop the sale of firearms to folks who have a violent history or history of mental illness,” the actress {Amy Schumer} said in August. 
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/snl-takes-aim-gun-debate-parody-ad-featuring-amy-schumer

See Justin's "Bieber"

Just kidding.  Blurred photo assaulted me from some Inside Edition type show and saw more than ever cared to see of Justin.  Jeezus, can't we give me and he some damn privacy?

Howzabout celebrating perhaps greatest achievement of the human race, landing men on the moon, instead?

CNN ran a story with link to archive of NASA Apollo images: "....The images themselves aren't new, but they were shared en masse recently on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account.

The archive is maintained by space enthusiast Kipp Teague and includes Apollo-related digital images released into the public domain by NASA. It contains more than 12,000 photos."

And oh my dear Lord I find these stunningly beautiful.

(Well, obviously copying from a Flickr acct, even with attribution failed.  So, let's go to NASA, w/out detracting from yeoman work done by Mr. Teague.

Famous photo from Apollo 8

This and following from Information Week

View of Suez Canal and Nile Delta.

Now don't you feel bad for wanting to see Justin's "Bieber?"

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And this one shows the freaking earth from the moon, and don't all the problems of the world look so small and insignificant?
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Apollo 11:
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Mammoth Home Run

Although still trying to not say name of my favorite team out of rank superstition, this video shows atruly epic home run.  Kid who hit it, Kyle Schwarber, just came up to majors this year.

Sometimes, rookies just don't know they should lose to a superior on paper team like the talented St; Louis Cardinals.

Sometimes.


(Let's try this again.)

OK, since MLB having a snit, you can go to this link and see dinger:
 http://network.yardbarker.com/mlb/article_external/kyle_schwarbers_mammoth_homer_gives_cubs_3_0_lead_on_pirates/19679119

Republicans I Support: End JEB! 2016

They gots my hopes and moral support: End JEB! 2016!

NASA Finds New Winter Vacation Paradise: Planet Pluto

"‘It’s gorgeous': NASA discovers frozen water and blue skies on Pluto."


[Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Thursday from NASA’s unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July.


Never before has Pluto — a resident of the distant Kuiper Belt, a frigid region of the solar system beyond Neptune that is home to many comets and asteroids — been observed in such detail.


“Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It’s gorgeous,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.]

My Favorite X-Man: Remy LeBeau, aka Gambit

Still my fave morally conflicted comic character, even if played by Channing Tatum.


http://screenrant.com/10-facts-you-need-to-know-about-gambit/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_672697

I'm Baaaack Blogging

Took a while to get "new" refurbished Dell and work around the logon process here at Island Hell.


Got a Dell 8500 with 2.53 gig processor and 4 megabits of ram and runs noticeably faster than last Dell, which ended up not liking having a screwdriver spilled on it.  Musta been the Orange Juice.


Highly recommend TigerDirect.com where I bought machine from, as well as 40 " TV for cheap last year.  Way cheaper than Wal-Mart.


Peace, ladies and germs.

Our friends, Saudi Arabian Monarchy

What an almost criminal act and a travesty the Saudis got named to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights!

They enforce medieval sharia law, torture, and absolute repression of women. Dammit, I can't even type the words, so let me quote law professor Jonathan Turley:

The elevation of Saudi Arabia (in what appears now a secret deal with England) in 2013 to the United Nations Human Rights Council was to say the least controversial. After all, the Kingdom denies basic rights to women, bars basic religious freedom for non-Muslim (including the construction of any church in the Kingdom), engages in torture, and applies a medieval Sharia law that imposes grotesque and draconian punishments. It is widely viewed as the appropriate target (not a member) of the Council. Saudi Arabia has not wasted time in obstructing human rights measures. This week for example the Kingdom blocked plans for an international inquiry into human rights violations by all parties in the war in Yemen despite massive death counts among civilians in the last six months. It also announced at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that it will opposed any and all protections for gay people as anti-Islamic.http://jonathanturley.org/2015/10/02/saudi-2/#more-93681

It boggles the mind and absolutely buggers the imagination; makes me want to puke.  Dipwads!

Pouring Perfect Pint

Top ten Guiness Facts

Another Miracle: Gators win!

Gators make miraculous last second comeback, winning 28-27!
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Gators Win!

(Lord giveth; He taketh away, giving the state of FL 3 losses on Sunday, with a particularly rancid game. Seems He taketh A great deal but must work little gifts Given.)

Miracles: I respect NY Yankees and adore a pope

Stories on the passing of Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra stressed his life of service as most important and noted Mr, Berra won 10 -World Series Championship rings.  'Though those important to sports fans, his accomplishments as a man much more outstanding.

Still, 10 rings quite a sports feat.  For over a century, rich white teart m owners screwed their fans and players alike yet still to win a title so they could brag about it at country clubs.  All teams try to buy titles by locking up players.

Still, getting the right guys seems more an art than science.  Even a hater like myself has to recognize.

Then comes Pope Frank to Notre America, preaching peace, acceptance, and solving seemingly intractable problems like climate change

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Trump Insult Generator, fun for the whole family!

El hombre del pelóquin (The man with the toupee)

Fo, Fo', Fo'!

Moses Malone played on 82-83 Philadelphia 776ers, perhaps best team ever.

RIP!

Donald Trump: Making America racist again

Better not tell El Hijo del Pelequin that we have  a new Hispanic

Spiderman.